GOP: Senate Healthcare Bill 'Preposterous' Plan Threatening Medicare

""Well, I don't know what's more preposterous: saying that this plan 'saves Medicare' or thinking that people will actually believe you," Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said of [Sen. Harry] Reid's oft-made statement." [Newsmax]

Taking the private jet to Copenhagen

"Any celebrity flying the green flag needs glittering eco-credentials. But how do they justify the fleet of customised planes, the luxury homes and the posse of servants?" [Times On-Line]

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation

"A week after my colleague James Delingpole , on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic coverage, one hugely relevant point about these thousands of documents has largely been missed.

The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)." [U.K. Telegraph]

Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage

"Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama's explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit." [Washington Times]

Solving Whose Problem?

"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems-- of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two." [Thomas Sowell]

Climategate: Not Just Any Old Academics

Those exposed for fudging data, destroying records, refusing to share data were not just any old academics..... they were "scientists" at the heart of the climate study/global warming movement .... leaders and suppliers of data to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They were the people whose word was taken as gospel and upon which governments worldwide have been making draconian environmental law decisions!!!! For example: The creator of the "hockey stick" world temperature graph, Dr. Michael Mann, is one of those whose e-mails reveal the deceptions.

The Skeptics Are Vindicated

What has emerged ".... is that (a) the scientists have been manipulating the raw temperature figures to show a relentlessly rising global warming trend; (b) they have consistently refused outsiders access to the raw data; (c) the scientists have been trying to avoid freedom of information requests; and (d) they have been discussing ways to prevent papers by dissenting scientists being published in learned journals." [Real Clear Politics]

Why OBAMA is destroying our country

In 1966 Cloward and Piven proposed a methodology for reaching the left's Nirvana.... destruction of the Capitalist system and its replacement by Socialism. Their strategy called for "overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, using community organizations like ACORN, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse." This is PRECISELY what OBAMA and his minions of left-wingers are doing. The "economic crisis" has been intentionally created, as has the "health-care crisis", the "poverty crisis", the "employment crisis", the "mortgage crisis", the "housing crisis", the "banking crisis"........ ALL of these have been intentionally created by the left in order to collapse our free enterprise system ..... thus allowing government to step in and "save us".

VOILA ! ...... Capitalism is dead ... the STATE controls EVERYTHING

The Raw Weather Data Was Discarded In The 80's

"SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. ....... The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible. ..... Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity." [U.K. TIMES ON LINE]

ObamaCare’s Cost Could Top $6 Trillion

"Congressional Democrats are using several budget gimmicks to disguise the cost of their health care overhaul, claiming the House and Senate bills would cost only (!) about $1 trillion over 10 years. Now that critics have begun to correct for those budget gimmicks, supporters of ObamaCare are firing back." [CATO]

Political Litmus Test for Future Teachers at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

"All signs are that the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is planning to enforce a political litmus test for future teachers. The university's College of Education and Human Development intends to mandate certain beliefs and values—"dispositions"—for future teachers. Yet that is not enough. It even intends to redesign its admissions process so that it screens out people with the wrong beliefs and values-those who it judges will not be able to be brought around to the correct beliefs and values of "cultural competence" even after remedial training." [F.I.R.E]

White House Science Czar Involved in Climategate

"You haven’t heard it from America’s mainstream media yet – even Fox News hasn’t covered it – but the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap, which is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of modern science." [Newsmax]

Is insuring the uninsured a moral imperative?

"Charles Krauthammer explains why the Senate and House health care reform bills should be "killed" and why Congress should opt instead for "targeted measures that attack the inefficiencies of the current system one by one -- tort reform, interstate purchasing and taxing employee benefits." " [Power Line]

Justice Dept. Says Acorn Can Be Paid

"The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group." [NYT]

Republican blasts ACORN reprieve

UNPRECEDENTED !!!!

".... the president thinks he should get "special credit" for thinking that his actions are unprecedented. "I think that tells us more about him than really anything else about how he runs the White House." " [American Thinker]

SEIU THUGS FINALLY CHARGED

Initial videos showed these thugs beating the street vendor to be wearing SEIU (Service Employees International Union) purple tee-shirts.

It took three months after last August's town hall meeting for the county prosecutor to get around to filing charges, even though police were witnesses AND arrested the perps on the spot. Keith Gladney [brother of victim] also claims investigators failed to contact his brother Kenneth [the victim] or interview the witnesses to his alleged beating during the three month investigation.

Who says we're not entering a new world of "thugocracy" and dominance by the SEIU ?

UNINVITED COUPLE CRASHES WHITE HOUSE DINNER

"A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia appear to have crashed the White House's state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with no invitation to mingle with the likes of Vice President Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel." [Washington Post]

Crasher with Vice President !!

Obama Vs. the Private Sector: The Hostility Towards Capitalism and Business Graphed From 1900-2009

"... from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security—432 cabinet members in all." [Left Coast Rebel]

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents

"In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. ..... Bush spent $1.8 trillion in 2001, according to government budget figures that have been adjusted for inflation based on 2000 dollars. Using the same formula, former President Bill Clinton spent $1.6 trillion in 1993. " [Fox News]

Cass Sunstein: Censor Hannity, right-wing rumors

"Websites should be obliged to remove "false rumors" while libel laws should be altered to make it easier to sue for spreading such "rumors," argued Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar." [WND]

Sunstein sounds like Obama's Reichsminister for Propaganda and National Enlightenment, a title previously held by Joseph Goebbels.

Hiding evidence of global cooling

Junk science exposed among climate-change believers

"It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims. " [Washington Times]

AP devotes 52 times as much manpower looking for Sarah Palin faults as to health care

"An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate Obama health-care bills. James Taranto compares this to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week that “fact checked” Sarah Palin’s new book: " [National Review]

Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government

And it is the NEW YORK TIMES admitting that this NEW DEBT being incurred by the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION adnits that "Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal. ..... In concrete terms, an additional $500 billion a year in interest expense would total more than the combined federal budgets this year for education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." [NEW YORK TIMES]

Oh to be an illegal alien under Obamacare...

"Under Leader Reid's amendment, in the year 2019 about 16 million U.S. citizens would be uninsured and be forced to pay a penalty tax of almost $800 per year. About eight million illegal aliens would be uninsured and would owe no penalty tax. Both groups would get their health care through a combination of out-of-pocket spending and use of uncompensated care in emergency rooms and free health clinics." [American Thinker]

Patient trapped in 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along

"A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.

Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.

He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said." [Mail On-line]

Her Vote Bought for $300 MILLION !!!!!!!!!

Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) sold her vote for $300 Million worth of aid to Louisiana !! This is the UNCONSCIONABLE sort of dealing that goes on in our halls of Congress. We citizens have a way to deal with this:

VOTE THE BUMS OUT !!!!

Obama bungle produces 'worst U.S.-Japan summit in history'

"A magazine in Tokyo is reporting that President Obama's summit with Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama was a frosty disaster, precipitated by incompetence on both sides and an entirely avoidable diplomatic slight to the Japanese side by Obama. The visit was abruptly re-scheduled, seriously inconveniencing the Emperor of Japan, as well as the Prime Minister, whose intricate schedules require meticulous planning and coordination.

Either President Obama wants to anger America's traditional allies, as he is doing with the British, or he is simply a self-involved fool who can't imagine others aren't thrilled with everything he does. Considering his botched bow, I am going with the second hypothesis, for the moment. The bow made him appear to be a sophomoric bumpkin." [American Thinker]

Obamanomics 101

No cheers for capitalism.

Religious Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience if Laws Don’t Respect Faith

"A formidable coalition of 150 Catholic, Orthodox and evangelical leaders are calling on Christians in a new manifesto to reject secular authority – and even engage in civil disobedience – if laws force them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and other ideas that betray their religious beliefs." [Newsmax]

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?

"If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)" [James Delingpole]

OBAMACARE = BIG STATE TAX HIKES

"Anxious to avoid raising taxes too much to pay for their health care proposals, the Obama Administration and its Congressional allies hit on a great new idea: Make the states raise their taxes to fund the program instead." [Dick Morris]

NOW ..... YOU WILL BLAME THE STATES FOR THE FED'S NEW HEALTH CARE TAXES !!!!!

Harry Reid Buys another Senator with $100 MILLION of OUR MONEY

"What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.” [ABC]

ONLY ONE STATE - LOUISIANA - QUALIFIES ...... REID BOUGHT LANDRIEU's VOTE

Doctor shortage

"Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just won’t be there” for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is “already a catastrophic crisis,” Stubbs noted that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama’s proposals are enacted." [Dick Morris]

GAO Says More Than 50,000 Jobs Claimed From Stimulus Projects That Have Spent No Money

"More than 50,000 jobs, or one out of every 10 jobs the White House says were "saved or created" by their economic stimulus plan, came from projects that reported spending no money yet, according to a government report obtained by ABC News." [ABC News]

Why the Left Fears Sarah

"Have you ever seen so much hatred for, and vitriolic criticism of, someone who had only a brief stint on the national political stage? More than a year after the presidential election in which Sarah Palin, as the GOP nominee for Vice-President, campaigned for about three months, she is still being pilloried by the left-wing loons as though she had been elected and were actively engaged in dismantling the liberal establishment." [American Thinker]

Highest DISapproval/Approval Difference

Gore's presentation on climate change draws 800 as 200 protestors gather outside

"The former vice president spoke on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater to a crowd of about 800. More than 200 protesters gathered across the street from the event, and their boos and chants could be heard inside the amphitheater as Gore began his presentation." [Palm Beach Post]

Tea Parties: Misunderstood and Vastly Underrated

Here's a pix of a Tea Party rally that Clipper & spouse attended in Orlando two nights ago. We had about 3-4,000 folks there from all over central Florida ........ read this to get a flavor of what we experience when we attend these rallies .....

How low will he go? Obama gives Japan's Emperor Akihito a wow bow

There goes the vote of everyone over 75, and that of many of their sons and daughters ! Is our Commander-In-Chief doing this to cover his ass for his faux-pas with the Saudi royals or his he really so lacking in pride in America that he thinks it serves us well to grovel?

The last time an American military man bowed his head this low to a Japanese official, he had it cut off !! But I suppose only real Americans know that.

Also read

Obama's botched bow

Obama urges Congress to put off Fort Hood probe

So HE can control "the facts" ?

"President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead." [AP]

Fact-Check This

"The Associated Press got an advance copy of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, and assigned eleven reporters, apparently, to try to find errors in it. The eleven collaborated on an article titled "FACT CHECK: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts." In fact, though, the AP's catalogue of alleged errors--six in total--is thin at best." [Power Line]

Here It Is… Team Obama Unveils Comprehensive Immigration Strategy

"Though it would seem unlikely that our President would introduce a controversial immigration reform strategy on the cusp of a healthcare decision in the Senate, he did indeed do that today. ...... The plan calls for a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal aliens already in the US." [Gateway Pundit]

Militant extremism alert in Minnesota

"Sometimes it seems that the Twin Cities metropolitan area is a central front in the struggle against the phenomenon renamed "militant extremism" in the Age of Obama. Minneapolis seems to have proved a fertile source of funds for "militant extremists" who have set up shop in Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. Minneapolis was also the site of the production brought to us by the flying imams." [Power Line]

Obama’s October Deficit LARGER Than Bush Deficit For ENTIRE YEAR of 2007

"Team Obama was off on their October budget predictions by nearly $20 billion. The deficit for the first month of the 2010 fiscal year reached $176 billion. (It must be Bush’s fault, right?)" [Gateway Pundit]

Obama’s FCC, liberal churches, and the “media justice” mob

"The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on “hate speech” over cable TV and right-leaning talk radio airwaves. President Obama’s speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige." [Michelle Malkin]

How U.N. redefined 'pandemic' to heighten alarm over H1N1

"In light of a perceived swine flu outbreak, the World Health Organization raised its influenza pandemic alert to its second highest level in May – but evidence reveals the agency may have made it easier to classify the flu outbreak as a pandemic by changing its definition to omit "enormous numbers of deaths and illness" just prior to making its declaration." [WND]

A Salute to a Brave and Modest Nation

"It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance." [UK Sunday Telegraph]

Dems Turned Away 11 Votes That Would Have Required Congress to Enroll in Pelosicare

"More than 200 amendments were rejected by the House Rules Committee ahead of Saturday’s vote on the Democrats’ health care bill, including 11 that would have required members of Congress and other government officials to be enrolled in the same federal insurance plan proposed for the American people." [Gateway Pundit]

Great Moments in "Psychologically Disturbed" Gunmen Committing Mass Murder

A satire of the media's coverage of the Ft. Hood terrorist attack

"When John Wilkes Booth opened fire on President Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre in April 1865, the media was puzzled. “True, the actor was outspoken in his Confederate sympathies and viewed himself as a Southerner,” said someone who knew him, “but that was no reason he might want Lincoln to be dead.” The day before he went on his shooting spree, Booth hoisted a big Confederate flag outside his hotel room. After he leaped onto the stage he shouted, "Thus ever to tyrants!" the motto of the rebel state of Virginia." [Rubin Reports]

Hoekstra: White House Blocking Investigation of Fort Hood Massacre

"Rep. Hoekstra charged in a statement on Monday that the Obama administration was withholding information and demanded that the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency and the Director of National Intelligence preserve documents relating to the incident for use in any future investigation." [NewsMax]

To Hell with the Constitution?

"Much has been made recently of the unconstitutionality of federal health care reform, especially a government-run system (the "public option") that could devolve into a "single-payer" system. The main objection is that the federal government has no authority to operate a health care system. Indeed, the 9th and 10th Amendments forbid it, according to Larrey Anderson of American Thinker." [American Thinker]

Ignoring Infiltration

World War II was not a war of infiltration -- but ours manifestly is. Eventually, after another dozen, or hundred, or ten thousand murders, we will fully wake up to that fact.

Until then, the Fort Hood massacre stands as only one more signpost on the road to the next catastrophe. [American Thinker]

Going Muslim'

"Going postal" is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker--archetypically a postal worker--"snaps" and guns down his colleagues.

The difference between "going postal," in the conventional sense, and "going Muslim," in the sense that I suggest, is that there would not necessarily be a psychological "snapping" point in the case of the imminently violent Muslim; instead, there could be a calculated discarding of camouflage--the camouflage of integration--in an act of revelatory catharsis. In spite of suggestions by some who know him that he had a history of "harassment" as a Muslim in the army, Maj. Hasan did not "snap" in the "postal" manner. [Tunku Varadarajan - Forbes]

FT. HOOD ATTACK WAS TERRORISM

"In his nationally televised remarks following the horrendous killings at Ft. Hood, President Obama never mentioned the T word. The attack was an act “of violence.” No mention of terrorism.

The dividing line, of course, between a terrorist and a psychopathic killer is political motivation. His statements right before opening fire would indicate that Hasan was motivated by fanaticism and a commitment to Islamic fascism, even though President Obama bends over backwards to avoid saying so." [Dick Morris]

ABC: FBI knew Hasan tried to contact Al-Qaeda

"Would it normally be considered a national-security problem if a high-ranking military officer had tried to contact an enemy of the United States during wartime? ABC News reports that the FBI knew that Major Nidal Hasan had attempted to contact al-Qaeda and its associates months before Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, killing 13 people. Did the FBI tell the Army about it? " [Hot Air/ABC]

Memo to ABC: There's a Reason He's Not Called Smith

".... this well paid U.S. Army Major held some beliefs strangely coincident with the very people that most U.S. Army Majors are fighting against. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer the idea that sympathy with the enemy is called "treason" rather than the modern touchy feely idea that it is simply a "healthy diversity." [American Thinker]

Newly Elected NY Congressman Breaks FOUR Campaign Promises in First Hour

"Owens indicated in a press release released shortly afterwards that he was now in favor of the the "Affordable Healthcare for America Act" bill in direct contrast to his earlier position during the election campaign." [The Gouverneur Times]

President condemns jihadi recruiting in Minnesota

"Finally, a strong condemnation of jihadi recruits targeting Muslim youths in Minnesota from the president." [Michelle Malkin]

Health Care Vote Map

Take a look at this map showing the House Districts across the U.S. whose Representatives voted for the Health Care Bill.

The Light Red and the Light Blue indicate those Representatives votong AGAINST the bill. One can easily see the influence of at least two constituancies..... the large metropolitan regions, and the hispanic regions.

Obama Gives Shout Out to 'Congressional Medal of Honor Winner' Who Isn't

Man cited by Obama as a Medal of Honor recipient, was not ! Of course, Obama has made no apology for the error ...... he can't blame Bush for this one!

Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

"President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships." [NBC Chicago]

“He was a typical fundamentalist Muslim”

“So many time I talked with him,” said Akhter, a community leader who is sort of like a mosque gadfly, challenging congregants to reject literal, rigid interpretations of Islam. “I was trying to modernize him. I tried my best. He used to hate America as a whole. He was more anti-American than American.”

Despite all the conversations, Akther said, “I couldn’t get through to him. He was a typical fundamentalist Muslim.” [The Daily Beast]

Fort Hood shooting: inside story of how massacre on military base happened

The time line of the TERRORIST attack in Ft. Hood.

Indiana Republican BLASTS Pelosi

Muslim radicals call Hasan 'Officer and a Gentleman'

"A website run by radical Muslims today honored Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas, as an "Officer and a Gentleman," saying his actions should not be denounced." [WND]

Hispanic Boycott Results

Senate blocks census US-citizenship question

"Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen." [AP]

Senate panel approves Democratic climate bill

"Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ignored a Republican boycott and used their majority to approve the legislation that would require U.S. industry to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020, from 2005 levels." [Reuters]

Speaker Pelosi’s Government-Run Health Plan Will Require a Monthly Abortion Premium

"On line 17, p. 110, section 222 under “Abortions for which Public Funding is Allowed” the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run plan. The Speaker’s plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions.

What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan. It’s right there on line 16, page 96, section 213, under “Insurance Rating Rules.” The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account - and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services." [GOP Leader blog]

Here is How Democrats SNEAKING ABORTION FUNDING into Health Care

Incredible lies to the public....... Congressman Hoyer admits they intend to sneak the abortion funding amendment into the bill as a "bill", not as a "managers amendment" ! This is EXACTLY the sort of chicanery to fool the American public which we are beginning to rebel against.

Gibbs: Obama 'not watching returns'

If this is not an example of the Obama Administration's dissembling, shucking and jiving, and thinking they can take us as idiots ...... I don't know what is! Obama and Biden spent hours and days traveling around Virginia, New Jersey and New York to huckster their chosen candidates and now they want us to believe that as the election returns on these three come in, Obama is paying no attention - that "He's not watching returns,"..... no wonder Obama continues to lose the respect of Americans, his minions cannot even lie with credibility!

STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job

"President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there." [AP]

The Worst Bill Ever

Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all.

"Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.

In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics." [Wall Street Journal]

The Flying Imams Win

"The case of the flying imams who were removed in November 2006 from a USAirways flight in Minneapolis for questioning by law enforcement authorities concluded in the Minnesota federal district court before Judge Ann Montgomery. The parties arrived at a settlement of the case on October 20 in a court-supervised conference. The amounts paid by the defendants remain confidential." [Weekly Standard]

See also the related USA Today article:

‘Flying imams’ settlement carries costs for air safety

The emerging consensus on Obama, the commander-in-chief

"These people, who follow the war for a living, who spend their days in military circles both here and in Afghanistan, have no idea if President Obama is committed to this effort. They have no idea if he is willing to stick by his decisions, explain the war to the American people and persevere through good times and bad." [Power Line]

Obama's Approval Index is in steady decline

Rasmussen Reports charts the decline in President Obama's approval index--the difference between those likely voters who strongly approve and who strongly disapprove of his performance--from his inauguration to the present, on a monthly basis. What is striking is how stable the electorate's views of Obama have been. There isn't a lot of volatility or noise; the approval index has declined in steps as basic facts about the Obama administration have become evident:

Bush-Era Leaks Were Dangerous After All

"Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday invoked the state secrets privilege in connection with a case titled Shubert, et al. v. Barack Obama, et al.. ...... commentators have noted that this is one more instance where the Obama administration, now that it is in possession of the facts and charged with responsibility for the nation's security, has acted in full concert with much-reviled policies of the Bush administration." [Power Line]

Undiplomatic Diplomacy - Hillary Bash's U.S. Abroad

"Isn't a diplomat supposed to be--you know--diplomatic? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn't seem to think so. On her current visit to Pakistan, she managed to insult both her own government and Pakistan's in the space of a few minutes." [Power Line]

No class, bad memory

"Hillary Clinton continued her farcical visit to Pakistan today by blaming Obama's failure to make any progress with respect to Israeli-Palestinian relations on George W. Bush." [Power Line]

OPT-OUT is the Solution

"I love the idea of an OPT-OUT option proposed in the health insurance legislation pending in Congress. In fact, I want to congratulate Harry Reid and the rest of our Representatives and Senators for devising this concept. To completely embrace the idea, I have one small caveat: the OPT-OUT concept must apply to all federal programs. It must further apply to virtually everything and anything the federal government involves itself in." [American Thinker]