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I've never seen anything like this. It's the weirdest.
Fast-forward to 1:50 if you're in a hurry.

In, "From Audacity to Animosity," Peggy Noonan has it just about right.

Labels: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Obama Walks Out Of Press Conference, Sui Generis

Let's try this one more time. Here's the new DNC commercial (if it hasn't been pulled again).

Umm, sorry, Ds, but I don't think it's going to resonate.
"Recovery" summer? More like, slip-sliding-away summery bluster.

Labels: 13T Deficit, Bailouts, Big Choices, Democrats, Going Backwards, Moving Forward, No Summer Of Recovery, Rising Unemployment

O'Donnell: So, Mr. Greene, what did you have for breakfast this morning?
Greene: Well, umm, Jim DeMint started this recession.
O'Donnell: Oh, I see you've got your talking points. We all understand that. But let me ask you this: Do you believe there are aliens waiting to take over planet earth?
Greene: Well, umm, Jim DeMint started this recession.
O'Donnell: I see. Do you favor a tax increase on the middle class?
Greene: Well, umm, Jim DeMint started this recession.
O'Donnell: Okey dokey. And if there were one thing you could do to make this world a better place, what would it be?
Greene: Well, umm, Jim DeMint started this recession.

Labels: Alvin Green, Democrats, Lawrence ODonnell, Nonsense, Repetition

Even liberal journalists are starting to realize you can hardly argue for spending when you've got a zero balance. Logic is beginning to settle in. Indeed, to read David Brooks's column today, you'd think he was channeling Ronald Reagan.
Brooks gives concrete examples of state government dysfunction, where politicians are beholden to unions. New Jersey and California, to name a few, struggle to fund education and are forced to forgo worthwhile infrastructure projects because union pensions have them in a chokehold.
"New York City has to strain to finance its schools but must support 10,000 former cops who have retired before age 50.
California can�t afford new water projects, but state cops often receive 90 percent of their salaries when they retire at 50. The average corrections officer there makes $70,000 a year in base salary and $100,000 with overtime (California spends more on its prison system than on its schools).
States across the nation will be paralyzed for the rest of our lives because they face unfunded pension obligations that, if counted accurately, amount to $2 trillion � or $87,000 per plan participant."He concludes with this:
"Many of us would be happy to live with a bigger version of 1950s government: one that ran surpluses and was dexterous enough to tackle long-term problems as they arose. But we don�t have that government. We have an immobile government that is desperately overcommitted in all the wrong ways.
This situation, if you�ll forgive me for saying so, has been the Democratic Party�s epic failure. The party believes in the positive uses of government. But if you want the country to share that belief, you have to provide a government that is nimble, tough-minded and effective. That means occasionally standing up to the excessive demands of public employee unions. Instead of standing up to those demands, the party has become captured by the unions. Liberal activism has become paralyzed by its own special interests." By George, I think he's got it. But unions are just one problem. We've got plenty more.
Here's my "epic fail" list and I'm just getting started:
* Tax hikes: We don't want our hard-earned dollars "redistributed."
* Health care: We don't want to be forced to engage in "commerce" or pay Andy Griffith to tout it. And we don't like the government hand-picking which connected companies get to opt out of the Obamacare morass.
* Fannie and Freddie: We don't want to be the "people's" bank, lending money to poor people who can't afford a mortgage. The new FinReg law does NOTHING to stop this.
* Quantitative easing: We don't want the Fed printing more money.
* Bailouts and bonuses: We don't want to give our money to failed banks and companies so they can stay in business and put our money in their pockets.

Reagan said the Democrats spend like "drunken sailors," except the sailors spend their own money. And the drunken spending in D.C. is precisely why people are so hopping mad.
If it comes down to a choice between the Tea party and the Keg party, that's an easy call.

Labels: David Brooks, Democrats, Drunken Sailors, Keg Party, Tea Party

I thought Obama had hit rock bottom when I read Jimmy Carter's meandering op-ed piece in support of the President. It couldn't get any worse for the man, right?
Umm, yes, apparently it can. Much worse.
Jon Stewart went searingly negative on Obama and the Dems last night. Online viewers gave this 7-minute clip an 80% "thumbs up" rating. (Fast forward to 00:26 seconds).
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cIndecision 2010 - Democratic Campaign Woeswww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRally to Restore Sanity
Uh-oh.

Labels: Democrats, Jimmy Carter, Jon Stewart, Negative, Panic, Rock Bottom

"Why Dems are Going Down in November," is far and away, the best explanation I've seen yet, for why so many people are red-hot mad. It's a must-read.
Here are a few snippets:
* The health care bill. The absolute epitome of ideological, public-be-damned arrogance. A horrendous compendium of bribes, exploding bureaucracy, runaway costs, written in secret and unread by those who passed it. It includes a mandate, likely un-Constitutional, forcing people to buy health insurance or pay a fine. The same administration which originally claimed the commerce clause of the Constitution made such a fine possible is now saying that the federal government's "power to tax" justifies it. Irrelevant. 60% of Americans want this monstrosity repealed, ASAP.
* A hopelessly compromised media. Air America tanked, CNN is tanking, and ABC, NBC and CBS news programs have been shedding viewers at historically unprecedented rates-even as Fox and the Wall Street Journal prosper. Americans don't mind people in the media expressing their opinions, as long as they're characterized as opinions, but they seethe when such opinions are portrayed as "hard news." They get even angrier when certain stories are "omitted" by those same organizations, especially when Americans recognize such omissions are calculated to protect the progressive agenda. I wonder if it occurs to either Democrats or their media water-carriers that a majority [of] Americans may savor whacking both groups in November. Depressed looks on the faces of Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric? In theater circles, that's known as a "two-fer."
* The complete disconnect between the First Family and ordinary Americans. The golfing, the soirees, and the high-priced vacations have created the perception that we are living through another "let them eat cake" moment in history. On Tuesday, the president called the public schools in Washington, D.C. a "'struggling' system that doesn't measure up to the needs of first daughters, Sasha and Malia." Those would be the same public schools Congressional Democrats tossed 3,300 low-income kids back into when they killed funding for vouchers that had freed those kids from D.C.'s educational ghetto. The First Lady is hectoring Americans to eat healthier. Perhaps more Americans would if they could afford to: the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stated in their Producer Price Index that the price of food increased 2.4% for March 2010. That's the biggest increase in almost 30 years.
* "Unexceptional" America. Progressive contempt for the values and traditions which make this the greatest country on earth can no longer be disguised. An American president who "believe(s) in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism" has made it plain that this is not a great nation which needs tweaking, but a fundamentally flawed one needing a complete progressive make-over. Once one understands this basic premise, everything this administration and Democratically-controlled Congress does makes sense. All of it centers around the ridiculous premise that America owes the world an apology for any number of shortcomings, many of which can only be alleviated by government-mandated "social justice." That would be the same social justice which demanded-and still demands-that Americans manifestly unqualified to own homes be given mortgages, regardless. Unknown to the majority of Americans, this precise mindset was part of the financial "reform" bill which also requires banks to lend a certain percentage of capital to minority-owned businesses, even if it means lowering their lending standards. Apparently progressives won't be satisfied with their odious social-engineering schemes until every sector of the American economy bears a striking resemblance to the housing sector. So far, Americans support financial reform because it's been framed as "Main Street versus "Wall Street." It's not. Like every other initiative undertaken by this Congress and this administration, it's the elevation of irresponsible and dishonest Americans over those willing to accept the consequences of their own behavior.Read the entire article here.

Labels: Arnold Ahlert, Democrats, Disconnect, Health Care, Obama, Ruling Class, Why The Dems Are Going Down In November