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Blogger going on two month hiatus

Have to get in the books.  Be back in late November after the test ... and the ass kicking on November 2nd. It should really get interesting then.

Another new low: Presidential Approval Index at -23

After two prior occasions of reaching -22, The One has broken that barrier and reached a new low at -23.

 

And that's no easy task.  From Rasmussen Reports: 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-seven percent (47%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -23 (see trends).

That’s the highest level of Strong Disapproval and the lowest Approval Index daily rating yet recorded for this president.  

George Bush left office with a rating of -30, and that was after 8 years, two unpopular wars and a complete demonization by the media. Obama is at -23 in under 2 years with a media that has kissed his proverbial ass.  Should the economy continue to tank and if he maintains the course of his far-left agenda - one that has raised deficits at the expense of jobs - he will shatter Bush's lack of popularity.

Obama screws up history again. Gets quote on new Oval Office rug wrong.

 Somehow it must be Bush's fault.  You can't make this stuff up:

A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige.

President Obama's new presidential rug seemed beyond reproach, with quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. woven along its curved edge.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." According media reports, this quote keeping Obama company on his wheat-colored carpet is from King.

Except it's not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that his grandfather commanded the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington.

For the record, Theodore Parker is your man, President Obama...

Seriously, can you imagine the national uproar from the media if George Bush had done something this stupid?

Photo ops gone bad

Drudge posted this today showing our president in "mom jeans on daughter's bike" - as Michelle Malkin titled it - and comedically contrasted it to a much more masculine pic of former Russian President Vladmir Putin:

That is a pretty lame pic of the POTUS and one has to wonder who the hell wears jeans on a bicycle anyway?  Malkin took the Drudge contrast even further with this pic of the previous POTUS looking a tad bit more masculine:

That got me thinking, so I took a trip down memory lane and uncovered these beauties via a Bing image search:

  

 

Barack Obama's Amerca, err, America

Some of the local SEIU members showed up at Al Sharpton's counter rally on Saturday and were proudly displaying this banner:

 
If only that had been a teacher's union.  Oh well, I guess the SEIU version of the American Dream doesn't include a quality education.

CNN assigns the B-Team to work the Beck rally

At least in the studio anyway.  How else do you explain this:

 

They just didn't screw up once with that graphic either ... they screwed up three times: 1) That is not Palin; 2) That is not how you spell "Sarah"; and 3) "Sara" Palin is not a "former presidential candidate" and neither is "Sarah" Palin.

The last one might be a Freudian slip and wishful thinking on their part.  Former presidential candidate is probably a little easier on the ears to the CNN crowd than say, President Palin.

A tale of two rallies

There's the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally from yesterday:

And Barack Obama's Inauguration in 2009:

Care to guess which group practices personal responsibility?  It's the one that consisted of courteous and responsible individuals who cleaned up after themselves and did not leave a mess for someone else to pick up.  NewsBusters takes it a step further:

The Left in our nation is always depicted by media sycophants as concerned with the environment.

By contrast, these same people always paint a picture of the Right being exclusively focused on profits with total disregard for nature and ecology.

What do these two videos say about this "conventional wisdom," and will Obama-loving media members in the post-rally coverage of this event point out to readers and viewers just how clean our National Mall was left by these awful, greedy, right-wing extremists?

Not a chance in hell.

Hop aboard the SS Recovery Summer!

 

Liberals take notice

THIS is what unchecked liberalism gets you:

 

That's a whole lot of unhappy, freedom-loving patriots getting together at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally to send the following message to the arrogant, elitist left: you do not know what's best for us and it's time for a change. 

So consider yesterday's gathering of half a million concerned citizens an omen of what's to come November 2nd.  Elections do have consequences.

Poll: Bush during Katrina was way better than Obama during spill

 

Remember the outrage directed directly at GW Bush during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? With the help of the mainstream media, Bush was painted as both a moron in over his head and an elitist who could care less about the people of the Gulf region, especially all the black people.

There wasn't a more unpopular man in the country at the time.  Of course, the majority of the hatred was generated from myths - that were later proven to be false - propagandized from a hate-filled, far-left leaning media bias that pounced on a golden opportunity.  And it worked.

But oh what a difference a few years - and another federal response to a regional disaster - make. In light of the Gulf oil spill, Public Policy Polling uncovered an admiration for Bush's response to Katrina in comparison to that of Obama's for the spill:

Louisianans are feeling more and more that George W. Bush's leadership on Katrina was better than Obama's on the spill. 54% think Bush did the superior job of helping the state through a crisis to 33% who pick Obama. That 21 point margin represents a widening since PPP asked the same question in June and found Bush ahead by a 15 point margin. Bush beats Obama 87-2 on that score with Republicans and 42-30 with independents, while Obama has just a 65-24 advantage with Democrats.

Of course, there is no way in hell this poll will be reported anywhere but in conservative circles but expect to hear about it during presidential debates in 2012, when the right crushes Obama on his incompetence and failure to lead. 

Karma, as always, is a funny thing.

A political interview for the ages

This is simply classic and shows the risks of live television.  It also shows the risks associated with not screening your guests.  A Providence, RI station decided to start a "Coffee Hour wit the Candidates" segment where they get to know the candidates running for local office and boy did they get to know this guy:

The response from the segment's host is priceless as she attempts to balance professionalism and her shock of what's occurring to her on live TV, without busting up in hysterics and/or tears.  It was nice work on her end.

But this is just another example of what a disgusted electorate does to initiate its own change in a sour political climate.  So add Providence Mayoral candidate Chris Farley, err, Chris Young to the list of the Alvin Greene's and the Basil Marceaux's of the world, all attempting to make it a better place.

Godspeed boys.

Cash for Clunkers: more of a failure than previously thought

 

The Cash for Clunkers program turned out to be a complete waste of taxpayer money as it failed to create demand and simply moved it forward, creating a void in auto sales down the road when people would have normally purchased their vehicle as planned.  It also destroyed thousands of perfectly good cars, reducing the used car inventory available to the public for purchase.

As anyone who has taken a basic economic course will tell you, when you reduce the supply of something, its price goes up.  And wouldn't you know it, the prices of used cars have skyrocketed since the passing of the C for C program.  Edmunds has the dirt:

Car buyers on average paid $1,800 more for a used vehicle in July than they paid a year ago at this time, according to Edmunds.com data. That's a 10.3 percent increase, bringing the average cost of a 3-year-old vehicle to $19,248. The price of a Cadillac Escalade spiked nearly 36 percent. "A lack of confidence in the economy is driving more people to used cars, putting upward pricing pressure on a limited supply of vehicles," said Joe Spina, a senior analyst for Edmunds.

There's a tricky aspect to this analysis, because last summer was marked by a used-car buying frenzy spawned by the Cash for Clunkers program. Spina said the effects of that program are hard to isolate precisely. "So many economic factors affect automobile sales and prices. It's believed that the program delayed purchases prior to the program and also pulled sales forward while in place," he said. "The program also eliminated inventory of older vehicles that were traded and then scrapped."

So the economic brainiacs at the White House created a program that cost taxpayers $3 billion - or $24,000 per car sold - and in doing so, raised the prices of used vehicles close to $2000 on average for the middle class.  Absolute brilliance.

This is classic liberal policy though: Come up with an idea that looks like it’s helping the people, even though it’s hurting them, and keep them trapped in the lower to middle class so that they continue to vote for the Democrats who are “helping” them. Just look how well it's worked in Detroit.

Wake up people.

Obama dips to 39% approval among dudes

 

And the hits keep on coming for the O-Bots:

President Barack Obama’s job approval rating among American men has fallen to a record low, hitting 39 percent in the week of Aug. 16-22, according to the Gallup Poll.

The week of Aug. 16-22 also marked the first time Obama’s average weekly approval rating dropped below 40 percent for either gender. His approval rating among American women was 46 percent for the week.

When Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, his job approval rating was 64 percent among men and 69 percent among women, according to Gallup. That was the highest his approval ever hit with men. 

Sorry to bring this up my liberal loon friends, but that is GW Bush territory.  Every week we’re getting a “new low” for an Obama approval metric, as well as new lows for various economic indicators.  Think they would do anything differently if given the chance … like focus on the freaking economy instead of a year on healthcare and a trillion dollar stimulus waste of money?

No, me neither.

A very uncomfortable thought

From ExurbanLeague:

Imagine yourself on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001.

As you sat there in shock, what if someone had told you that in 10 years, the World Trade Center would still be a crater. However, just off of Ground Zero, a gigantic, 13-story mosque would be erected. A mosque endorsed by President Barack Hussein Obama.

You would have thought we had lost a war, wouldn't you?

Yup. Exactly.

Recovery Bummer, err, Summer continues along

 

More good news from the housing market to back up the White House’s “Recovery Summer” meme:

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes dropped more steeply than expected in July to their lowest pace in 15 years, an industry group said Tuesday, implying further loss of momentum in the economic recovery.

The National Association of Realtors said sales dropped a record 27.2 percent from June to an annual rate of 3.83 million units, the lowest level since May 1995. June's sales pace was revised down to a 5.26 million-unit pace.

The record drop in existing U.S. home sales in July showed that the country must still do more to improve the economy, White House spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday.

Yeah, ya think? After the failed stimulus prediction of unemployment being capped at 8% after its passage, you would think the boys on Pennsylvania Avenue would stay out of the prediction business.  No such luck though, and they’re looking clueless once again.