Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Cash Furnace: How the Obama Democrats Stole Your Money

When the final obituary of Obama's failed "stimulus" program is written, stories like this one will be among the least offensive.

Three stainless-steel trash cans with motion-activated sensor lids: $314.93 each. A 500-lb capacity ottoman for the cafeteria: $469. Mahogany-finished conference room table: $3,000. The line items sound extravagant enough on their own. When you learn that they were to makeover a Detroit city office that handles the federal money for feeding and clothing the poor, and the credenzas and sofas and such came out of that money, it's time to get livid.

The Detroit Free Press blew the lid off this misspending and waste after it used a Freedom of Information Act request to get a copy of the receipt for the pricey office furniture that was delivered to Detroit's Human Services Department. You can look at the entire receipt here (PDF).

The $210,000 used to buy the office furniture came directly a $1.2 million grant that was specifically supposed to cover the salaries and administrative costs of hiring employees for food and clothing banks... this same Human Services Department, saying they were short on funds, didn't open a high-demand warming center for homeless people until late this winter. Employees were amazed to see the new furniture arrive, considering their wages had been cut 10% last year...

Isn't a huge, centralized, unaccountable administrative state awesome?

Faceless bureaucrats are using your hard-earned money to reward friends, enrich themselves, and punish enemies.

This wasn't a "stimulus" -- it was wealth redistribution, plain and simple. Legalized theft.

This country's founders knew that the federal government must be small, accountable and highly limited in its powers. And every day we see more evidence that the Framers were geniuses.



Hat tip: Trending Right.

Figures: Russian Postal Service Issues Commemorative Obama Stamp

For a guy who was mentored by the likes of Frank Marshall Davis, this report can't really come as much of a surprise.

Russia’s Post Office has issued a collection of stamps and envelopes to mark the 50th jubilee of the US President Barack Obama.

The US leader is celebrating his birthday on the 4th of August.

...Russia`s Post Office also presented the US leader with a postmark featuring his portrait. Mr. Obama liked the gift, stamped several envelopes and then signed one of them with dedication to the museum of the Russian Post Office.

I'm holding out for the "Bowing to World Leaders" collection.


Related: What Barack Obama Hid From His Readers


Hat tips: Drudge Report and R.L.

Survey says: Obamacare will force huge percentage of small businesses to drop or slash health benefits

Consider this just another on-ramp to single-payer:

One-fifth of small business owners who offer health insurance to their workers expect to significantly change their benefits package the next time they renew their health plan as a result of federal health reform, according to a new survey.

About 12% of small business owners say their health plans are or will be likely to be cut because of federal health reform.

...Moreover, an “overwhelming majority” or small business owners do not expect the federal health reform law to reduce costs or their regulatory burden, according to a new National Federation of Independent Business survey marking the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010.

Likely changes to plans would include a decrease in benefits, an increase in employee cost-share, or both, according to the survey. Employers who even slightly alter their benefits packages to reduce costs will likely be exposed to more regulations and cost increases in the future under the health reform law’s provisions, the NFIP said.

...The survey found that nearly two-thirds of owners agree that the law will cause health insurance premium increases, without improving care.

That's the genius of Soviet-style central planning, folks. Having bankrupted Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid -- and having stolen trillions for failed "stimulus" programs -- Obamacare could help the hard left Democrat Party put the final nail in the coffin of this republic.

Oh, and dude: if you liked your health plan, you most definitely will not be able to keep it.

2012 is coming.


A veritable cornucopia of pictures designed to entertain and frighten

At least insofar as a hardened Internet jockey like yourself can be entertained and frightened:

• Spotted at Legal Insurrection:


Points & Figures states that "this chart says it all":


• At DefenseTech, 'Special Operators’ Holographic Maps':


• Finally, via Sundries Shack, we learn of the theory of Nemesis and possible new evidence that refutes its existence.

Go ye therefore hence and suckle at the teat of sundry wisdom.


Real Debt of Genius: Rating Agencies Warn U.S. of Impending Downgrades

Our hapless RINO leadership deserves a share of the blame for this report. In short, the rating agency Fitch suggested that the U.S. may lose its AAA status by the end of August.

The rating agency wants to see a credible plan to reduce the budget deficit... Fitch expects to conclude its review of the U.S. sovereign rating by the end of August. As the debt deal currently stands, it is possible the U.S. debt rating could be downgraded at that time, Fitch said.

Moody's also warned the U.S. that it needs to get its house in order.

Moody’s Investors Service said the U.S. credit rating may be downgraded for the first time on concern that fiscal discipline may ease, further debt reduction measures won’t be adopted and the economy may weaken...

...JPMorgan Chase & Co. estimated that a downgrade would raise the nation’s borrowing costs by $100 billion a year. It could also hurt the rest of the U.S. economy by increasing the cost of mortgages, auto loans and other types of lending tied to the interest rates paid on Treasuries...

...Standard & Poor’s put the U.S. government on notice on April 18 that it risks losing its AAA rating unless lawmakers agree on a plan by 2013 to reduce budget deficits and the national debt. Fitch Ratings said today the U.S. is under a review as the nation’s debt burden increases at a pace that isn’t consistent with an AAA sovereign credit rating.

Good work, Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell. Your feckless leadership:

• allowed the nearly one-trillion dollar Stimulus -- originally sold as a one-time "emergency" spending push -- to remain in the baseline budget without so much as a whimper

• didn't even force President Obama to produce a real budget

• didn't force the Democrat-controlled Senate to produce a real budget

• and undermined the wildly popular Cut, Cap and Balance plan from the very outset with the idiotic, stillborn McConnell and Boehner 1.0 plans

In effect, they drove a hard bargain -- with themselves.

Idiocy.

How does "House Speaker West" and "Senate Majority Leader Rubio" sound to you?


Larwyn's Linx: We The Stupid

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Nation

We The Stupid: Barnhardt
The collapse of America's middle class: Spengler
It’s a Deal! — Instant Analysis: ConAlley

Free “Medical” Marijuana in Exchange for Votes: MB
Will DOJ Shoot Down South Carolina’s New Voter ID Law?: Tatler
Giffords Returns for Debt Plan Vote: Roll Call

IL budget deficit is worst of the worst: RWN
Budget Deal Doesn't Cut Spending: Cato
The Union Job Security Act: Endless Road Construction: RWN

Economy

Ceiling Our Fate?: Blumer
Economy on the Brink of Double Dip Recession: Dossier
ObamaCare Buys Your Birth Control: It’s Science!: MagNote

'Great Recession' Far Worse Than We're Being Told: CWD
Liberals force a devilish choice: Foundry
Holder Launches Witch Hunt Against Biased Banks: IBD

Gunrunner

Enemy of the State: A.W.R. Hawkins
Fast & Furious Response: Promotions All Around!: Arms
NY Times Spins Fast & Furious: RWN

Climate & Energy

Center for (Reversing) American Progress drones while Obama drives up gas prices: Exam
Ten year NASA study: There is no global warming!: TAB
UK Faces Anti-Green Backlash As Energy Prices Rise: WUWT

Media

Fahrenheit 8/1/11: Driscoll
Sherrod Brown Interview Typifies Weak Media Coverage, Dems’ False Talking Points: BizzyBlog
The Winner of the Power Line Prize Is...: Power Line

Comics In Search of a Punchline: Mudville
What You Mean ‘We,’ Kemosabe?: Driscoll
July 2011 "Unexpectedly" Compilation: PunditPress

Norah O'Donnell Goes After Jay Carney With Tough Questions: Ace
‘Wait, Does That Mean Obama Won the Terrorist Vote?’: Driscoll
Obama partying today with millionaires and billionaires: GWP

The Star-Ledger editorial page called me a "lunatic!": WyBlog
Is Gov. Steve Beshear (D, KY) extorting campaign contributions?: RS
ACORN Thugs Stink Up the Wrong Bank: Vadum

World

How a Newspaper in Norway Has Transformed Me into a ‘Pro-Terrorist’ Criminal: BRubin
Getting Bin Laden: New Yorker
Rape on the Steps of Parliament: GoV

Norway 2008: A Paradigm for Anti-Semitism: GoV
Sign of the Times: Illegals Moving Back to Mexico To Take Advantage of Mexico's Low 4.9% Unemployment: Ace
China’s Aircraft Carrier Powering Up: DefTech

Sci-Tech

Twitter Takes Extra Measures To Protect Its Confidential Documents: Crunch
NTP Wins Court Ruling on 7 Patents From Apple, AT&T Cases: Bloomberg
Honda Civic No Longer Recommended by Consumer Reports: CNBC

Cornucopia

Default, Dear Brutus, Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves: IowaHawk
The Ruins of Detroit: Denver Post
Inmate Ran $1 Million Credit Card Scam Using Cell Phone & Secret Shoppers: Consumerist

Image: Giffords Returns for Debt Plan Vote
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Allen West for Congress

QOTD: "I keep hearing my Democrat colleagues speak of “compromise,” This hypocrisy is laughable. Where was the compromise from Democrats with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill, or Cap and Trade?

Enough with the rhetorical demagoguery from liberal progressives about oil subsidies (I believe we need to cut the corporate/business tax rate to 20% from 35% and eliminate subsidies and loopholes), on taxing the rich and “shared sacrifice” (the top 1% of taxpayers pay 34% taxes, top 5% taxpayers pay 57% of taxes, top 25% taxpayers pay 86% of federal taxes… move to a flat personal income tax of 13-15% and eliminate loopholes), and no more about corporate jets (this is only about a $300 million in savings per year, and the Democrats fail to remember, it was President Obama who added this tax loophole into his stimulus bill).

Revenues come from tax code reform, not tax increases!" --Rep. Allen West

Monday, August 01, 2011

Grim milestone: Barack Obama surpasses Jimmy Carter again, this time when it comes to America's pessimism about the future

Nothing says "change" like this headline: "Americans’ Economic Pessimism Grows, With Gloom ‘Pervasive’:

[A] CBS/New York Times poll from June ... showed that over the last year, more Americans have come to believe the current economic downturn is part of a long-term permanent decline and that the economy will never fully recover. In October 2010, 28% of respondents agreed with that statement, versus 39% last month...

..."Americans are so pessimistic about the economy now ... . And the level of public pessimism is actually higher than the deep 1981-82 recession overall," due to grim personal outlooks on a number of issues like jobs, retirement and health care, says Karlyn Bowman, a senior fellow at AEI who co-authored the report...

Mark Levin has said for years that "liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."

You would think after a pair like Carter and Obama, Americans would have learned their lesson. Electing leftists to high office is somewhat akin to giving a 16-year old boy a fifth of Cuervo and the keys to the Ferrari.

That is: many scenarios can play out -- and every single one of them is catastrophic.


Chart: Zero Hedge.

Lean Forward, Said the Urologist [Dan from New York]

Dan from New York:

In case you hadn’t heard, NBC has reached down into the bottom of the barrel and come up with Al Sharpton to take over Cenk Uygur’s slot on MSNBC. Brilliant casting. In Sharpton, they found the one man on earth who couldn’t fill Uygur’s shoes.

This video, courtesy of Breitbart TV, tells you all you need to know.

Dan, I think the official branding at MSNBC is actually this:

Which is a perfect image to represent Sharpton, otherwise known as "The Democrats' David Duke."


California discovers innovative new way to destroy small business

Rumor has it that the fastest-growing business in California is organized crime, thanks to legislative strangulation like this:

Many Californians ignore the "use tax" - the equivalent of sales tax but remitted by state residents for products bought from out-of-state retailers that did not collect sales tax...

...[A new state effort to collect use taxes has] prompted an outcry from small businesses [thanks to] the "qualified purchaser program," enacted by legislators in 2009 and in effect since last year. It calls for California to contact service businesses that have more than $100,000 in annual gross revenue, registering them for a program in which they have to fill out a new form detailing their use-tax obligations...

About 500,000 businesses, from chiropractors to dental offices to tax preparers, got the notice. But some were actually pretty small concerns; a landscaper whose supply costs are part of that $100,000 in revenue might only net about $20,000, for instance. Many were confused by the new regulation, and dismayed by the costs of filling out the form.

Diane Amble, owner of Smog Queen, a San Francisco test-only smog shop, got the notice in the mail a few months ago... "The letter said, 'Here is your account number, fill this form in and pay your use tax or we will estimate what you owe,' " she said. "I tried to call (the Franchise Tax Board) but they're incommunicado; you can't get ahold of them. This is ridiculous. We buy supplies once in a blue moon and everything we buy is from California; I try to do that to support the state. This is a shotgun approach to try to make money off the backs of small businesses."

Not to worry, California residents. You can count on a burgeoning black market to take care of most of your needs "under the table".

Which is, of course, one of the distinguishing characteristics of a Third World country.


Larwyn's Linx: See, We Told You So

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Nation

See, We Told You So: RS
Deal update: $2.4T in cuts and ceiling hikes-both in two parts: Hot Air
The Deal: Where They Won And Where They Lost: Garrett

The end of Harry Reid as we know it: LI
Senator McConnell: The Shrewd Adult in the Room: Tatler
Debt Deal Emerging With Rightward Tilt: Roll Call

Obama's Racial Spoils System: AT
The Corrosive Effects of Massive Debt: Boyz
Not Playing the Fool: RS

Economy

PIMCO: Boehner and Reid "deal" fails to avoid downgrade: RWN
The poor are not poor because the rich are rich: Parker
U.S. Sues UBS for $900M, Charging Mortgage Fraud: AllGov

Filed Under Exponential: ZH
Detroit institutes municipal ObamaCare: rationing for the "healthy": RWN
No Matter How You Feel About Tonight’s Deal…: iOTW

D.C. tops nation in drug, alcohol abuse: Exam
Another D.C. Political Corruption Scandal Swept Under The Rug: JW
Cleveland Police: 4 Shot After George Clinton Concert: MyWay

Climate & Energy

Agenda 21 Update: Family Farms Are Under Attack: Blaze
Cooling-Off Period: Exurban
Our Electricity Future (a bleak version): Boyz

Media

Blame the Jews and Republicans: AT
Every advantage is unfair: BS Footprint
NYT's Thomas Friedman Proves Rubio's Point: GOP 'Being Led Around By Extremist Tea Party': NB

Oh Mope-rah, You Hack: Second City Cop
Oops! Jennifer Rubin Goofs, Again: Riehl
America Abandons Obama: Times

Republican Study Committee – Spending 101 – How to Stop the Explosion of Debt: GWP
Matt Yglesias is a Race-Baiting Jackass: VS
Basic Economics for Financial Journalists and Other Dummies: Cato

World

Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism?: CityJournal
Summer Camp? Antisemitic Indoctrination Training Center: Atlas
Farrakhan got $8 million from Gaddafi: AT

Ramadan Massacre: Videos Show Horror of Syria's Deadliest Day: Atlantic
Pro-Sharia Group Marches in Londonistan: TAB
Florida: Muslim woman’s jail photo initially allows fully covered face: Creeping

Obama Has Top JCS Chairman Tell Troops in Afghanistan They May Not Get Paid: GWP
Top Syrian Generals Defect – Announce Formation of Free Syrian Army to Fight Assad: GWP
What SlutWalk Looks Like in New Delhi: Atlantic

Sci-Tech

Here’s How U.S. Spies Will Find You Through Your Pics: Wired
It Took Spotify Two Weeks To Get Sued: Atlantic
Adobe dives into HTML with new Edge software: CNet

Cornucopia

Fake Moon Landings Revealed!: Stuffucanuse
Help Wanted: Fetch My Flying Monkeys (NSFW)
Zodiac: AV Club

Republicans: On A Train Bound For Nowhere: MOTUS
This Week in Automotivators: RWN
Happy 99th Birthday, Milton Friedman!: Reason

Image: Via Ace o' Spades
Sponsored by: The Shark Tank Endorses Karen Harrington to Defeat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

QOTD: "What we know about the pending deal is that the Democrats and Republicans are agreeing to a Deficit Commission. Despite the media spin — and the spin of some Republican sycophants — the deficit commission, which will be a super committee of the Congress, will have the power to come up with new tax revenue.

And if the Congress rejects the Commission’s demands for new tax revenue, there will be a trigger that cuts both medicare funding and defense funding.

Except, the defense funding cuts will be much more massive than the medicare cuts. And the GOP, in addition to seeing defense cut, would be hacking off seniors right before an election." --Erick Erickson

Sunday, July 31, 2011

"54 MPG Never Looked So Good!"

Hey, we gots to pay the bills!


And now, a word from our sponsor, Government Motors


Because what could go wrong with the huge, out-of-control, centralized, authoritarian, federal government mandating an arbitrary 54.5 miles-per-gallon?


Lede of the Day: Stanley B. Greenberg Self-Beclownment Edition

If Stanley B. Greenberg ever decides to leave the "center-left political" polling business (if that is a real business), I think he has a future on the comedy circuit with one-liners like this one:

Barack Obama can’t catch a break from the American public on the economy, even though he prevented a depression and saved global capitalism.

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHhAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHA AHHAHAH (***cough***) AHAHAHHAHAHAH AH AHA HA HAHA HA HA AHA HA HA AH AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA (***wheeze***) AHAH AHA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA (***owww***) HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH AHHA HA HA AHHAHAHAH (***sh--***) OWWWW HA OWWW...

Ow. Ow. I think I just wrenched my clavicle.

Greenberg is a hilarious kook of a propagandist. Obama, in fact, helped cause the housing meltdown as an agitator for ACORN, which harassed banks into issuing subprime loans.

Obama blew trillions of borrowed dollars on 'shovel-ready projects', only to admit later that there was no such thing.

The Obama administration was also held in Contempt of Court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, one of many steps the president has taken to destroy the domestic energy industry.

Obama also bludgeoned a wildly unpopular "health care reform" bill through Congress -- thousands of pages of legislation that no one had a chance to read or understand -- which is frightening business owners around the country and crushing hiring.

Obama also told a major aerospace manufacturer that they could not locate a billion-dollar manufacturing facility in a right-to-work state, an unprecedented act by a president completely dependent on unions for campaign donations.

And, most recently, Obama set the nation on a course of a downgrade from its once-unchallenged AAA credit rating by borrowing 40 cents of every dollar the federal government spends.

Stanley Greenberg has a future at Second City.


Moody’s: Boehner and Reid plans both completely fail to avoid downgrade

Gee, this is unexpected:

Moody’s, best known for “Subprime is AAA,” is belatedly coming to the realization that a country running serial deficits of 10% of GDP is not a AAA credit.

Well, admitting you have a problem is the first step. And today, Moody’s is admitting what we’ve been telling you for some time, that the debt ceiling charade is a farce and the real problem is the debt itself.

President Subprime McTrainingWheels could not be reached for comment.

And, gee, who could've predicted such a turn of events?

House Speaker John Boehner had two nuclear weapons at his disposal. And he chose to use neither. He had the debt ceiling and a threat of a downgrade by the rating agencies.

Cut, Cap & Balance addressed both issues.

If Republicans had united behind CCB, they could have forced a vote in the Senate -- by putting massive pressure on the 20 Democrats who had earlier pledged to support a Balanced Budget Amendment -- and send it to the President's desk.

Boehner could then tell the American people: there's only one plan that addresses the deficit and prevents a downgrade.

And let Obama deal with the fallout of a veto -- if he has the guts.

Instead, we submit a plan that still results in downgrade and default.

Idiocy. Sheer, unmitigated idiocy.

We need to elect a boatload more conservatives in 2012, politically eradicate the RINOs, and jam true conservatives into leadership positions.

Because all of these pantywaists -- put together -- don't have the cojones of Michele Bachmann.

They're wimps who are selling out the American people -- just a tad bit slower than the Marxist, Democrat Left. We're headed for fiscal apocalypse and these feckless RINOs won't even put up a fight.


Larwyn's Linx: A Deal No Republican Can Support

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Nation

A Deal No Republican Can Support: RS
Saturday Night Backroom Deals: Malkin
Major Obama Donors Reap Profits From His Policies: Riehl

The Devil’s In The Debt Ceiling Details: RWN
What does Obama want?: Greenroom
MS NAACP leader sent to prison for voter fraud: DC

The Man With No Plan Accuses House GOP of Irresponsibility: RSM
Losers All Around in Debt Limit Debate: PJM
Primarily Bolton: Atlas

Economy

A Tale of Two Signs: "Hiring Now!" or "Going Out of Business"?: HE
Bush vs Obama: Facts And Observations: ZH
White House Chart on debt--Bush's fault: VR

Official Lies: 1Q GDP Revised Down to 0.4% From 1.9%: RWN
“Raising the Debt Ceiling” For Dummies: NoisyRoom
Europe Declares War on American Ratings Agencies: PJM

Gunrunner

Obama and the Drug Cartels: AT
The Associated Press Covers Gunwalker: Power Line

Climate & Energy

Enviro-kooks baffled: Gulf Coast wildlife is thriving after oil spill: IHTM
The First Church of The Blessed Evaporator: Primordial Slack
CT's new, short-lived, all-time high temperature record corrected: WUWT

Media

Media, Democrats, and the President in Lockstep with 'Tea Party as Terrorists' Message: NB
Barney Frank: Why didn’t the Republicans fix (fill in the blank) when they had control?: Constitution Alley
Bill Maher Makes His Own ‘It Gets Better’ Spot To Sell Americans on Socialism: Mediaite

Saturday Roundup & Debt Ceiling Collision Warning System Test: Malkin
J.P.'s Moment of Common Sense: JPA
Jon Stewart on Allen West: "Quick, Robin! To the Bats*** Mobile!": DailyPulp

President Fussbudget Uses Awesome Power of Weekly Address That Nobody Watches to Plead for Reelection: Ace
Jennifer Rubin Is An A**hole: Riehl
Client #9 Lectures the Tea Party: Glob

World

The Post-American World: Driscoll
Meanwhile The Global Economy...: ZH
Abbas ‘feels he’s above the law,’ charges Dahlan: JPost

Thanks Barack Obama: Mexico’s Unemployment Rate 4.9% … United States 9.2%: ScaredMonkeys
Harvard Instructor May Face Removal Over Anti-Muslim Op-Ed: Atlantic

Sci-Tech

Anonymous Claims Network Breach of FBI Security Contractor ManTech: eWeek
Internet Explorer Users are More Stupid Than Others: Study: IBTimes
iPhone 5 to launch in early September, report says: CNet

Cornucopia

The Great Debt Ceiling Debate: Havoc
Porsche's Top 10 Pop Culture Moments: Complex
In Post-Obamageddon “Bankrupttown”, Final Debt Debates to be Settled in “Dunderdome” : Doswell

Image: iOwnTheWorld
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Please Support the Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "In the most recent of numerous scandals to rock the District of Columbia’s famously corrupt government, a councilman charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for youth programs has been let off the hook by the city’s attorney general and won’t be federally charged because the area’s U.S. attorney is a college fraternity brother.

It marks the latest in a never-ending tale of the crooked officials who run D.C. and seldom face consequences. In this case D.C. Councilman Harry Thomas, who has represented Ward 5 since 2007, “diverted” more than $300,000 in public funds intended for children’s sports and spent it on personal travel and a luxury car." --JudicialWatch

Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Top 150 Conservative Websites -- 3Q11

Using Alexa's traffic rankings, the following represents a tabular view of the top 150 conservatively focused news and blog sites. Each column can be sorted by clicking the column header. And just click on the site-name to open a new window and visit the website. And, yes, I know that some of these sites are truly left-leaning (e.g., Politico). That said, conservatives often cite and reference them, so I've included them for purposes of completeness.


Rank Website Alexa Rank
1wsj.com212
2politico.com977
3realclearpolitics.com1473
4theblaze.com2177
5zerohedge.com2610
6hotair.com3624
7freerepublic.com3990
8thehill.com4016
9dailycaller.com4025
10consumerist.com4316
11nationaljournal.com4417
12mediaite.com4566
13foreignpolicy.com4577
14townhall.com5009
15nationalreview.com5049
16pajamasmedia.com (instapundit, etc.)6209
17military.com6548
18investors.com7179
19biggovernment.com7297
20rushlimbaugh.com7692
21cnsnews.com8293
22theatlanticwire.com8504
23washingtonexaminer.com8808
24reason.com9743
25newsbusters.org10432
26mises.org10631
27americanthinker.com10845
28ace.mu.nu (confederateyankee, jawa, etc.)11366
29redstate.com12344
30humanevents.com13778
31weeklystandard.com14009
32cbn.com14618
33michellemalkin.com14944
34wattsupwiththat.com18116
35blog.heritage.org19699
36spectator.org22354
37globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com22993
38stratfor.com23741
39bigjournalism.com25055
40powerlineblog.com26981
41thenewamerican.com28192
42commentarymagazine.com31775
43realclearmarkets.com32816
44atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com34096
45jihadwatch.org34970
46rollcall.com36098
47althouse.blogspot.com39026
48gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com39165
49whitehousedossier.com39605
50thegatewaypundit.com41540
51therightscoop.com42042
52blogs.dailymail.com43262
53lifenews.com45063
54memeorandum.com47844
55volokh.com48263
56boortz.com48388
57freedomworks.org48679
58anncoulter.com50047
59weaselzippers.us50054
60marklevinshow.com50422
61rightpundits.com56414
62bigpeace.com57471
63defensetech.org64262
64hannity.com65581
65numbersusa.com66681
66outsidethebeltway.com67034
67firstthings.com67626
68theothermccain.com68199
69rightwingnews.com68286
70danielpipes.org71001
71armytimes.com71589
72wizbangblog.com79629
73ihatethemedia.com82606
74redcounty.com82656
75newsrealblog.com83613
76borderlandbeat.com83752
77patterico.com85333
78climateaudit.org86410
79conservatives4palin.com86446
80patdollard.com90959
81city-journal.org91140
82sayanythingblog.com94268
83the-american-interest.com96954
84linkiest.com97143
85uncoverage.net97865
86jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com98843
87cato-at-liberty.org100270
88legalinsurrection.blogspot.com101880
89viralfootage.com104866
90iowntheworld.com105312
91moonbattery.com105505
92directorblue.blogspot.com105844
93hughhewitt.com105996
94mrc.org109780
95memri.org126142
96lonelyconservative.com127062
97gatesofvienna.blogspot.com132153
98ricochet.com138329
99legalinsurrection.com140849
100steynonline.com141345
101bobmccarty.com150730
102aei.org153693
103yidwithlid.blogspot.com156096
104cafehayek.com159727
105thepeoplescube.com164308
106scaredmonkeys.com164669
107proteinwisdom.com169099
108iowahawk.typepad.com169738
109hillbuzz.org171869
110blackfive.net172848
111floppingaces.net179972
112allamericanblogger.com184949
113radicalislam.org185979
114polipundit.com195093
115varight.com198082
116smalldeadanimals.com198816
117americanpowerblog.blogspot.com200578
118verumserum.com200816
119judicialwatch.org202792
120allgov.com217439
121noquarterusa.net217756
122bostonreview.net223043
123imao.us226032
124creepingsharia.wordpress.com230142
125riehlworldview.com236692
126sultanknish.blogspot.com237703
127zombietime.com253740
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Journolist Lives: The Democrat-Media Complex's Hostage Meme

Somehow I was left off the talking-points distribution list:

• Huffington Post: How Extremists Have Taken America Hostage

• News-Star: Sen. Mary Landrieu: Republicans in the House "holding the U.S. economy hostage"

• Los Angeles Times: Government: Trading the debt ceiling for another hostage

• The Nation: Economic Hostage-Takers Have Infiltrated the House GOP Caucus

• Tehran Times: Paul Krugman: 'Republicans have, in effect, taken America hostage'

• The Hill: Sen. John Kerry: GOP is "prepared to hold the nation's entire economy hostage"

• Bloomberg: Jonathan Alter: "Republicans want to hold the system hostage"

• Detroit News: Rep. John Dingell: GOP "is holding the U.S. economy hostage to its ideological agenda"

• NJ.com: GOP holding Congress hostage to advance [a] reverse Robin Hood economic agenda

• Politico: Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.: "No other president has been... held hostage... over [a] debt vote"

• Al Arabiya: Hostage takers in America’s Congress

• W. Hartford: Rep. John Larson: "Republicans have taken our economy hostage"

• Van Jones: Americans don’t bow down to "hostage taking tactics"

• Bill Knight: Needy held hostage by the party of the rich

• White House Press Secretary Jay Carney: [Is it] "plausible to hold the American economy hostage to a two-thirds vote...?"

• White House Press Secretary Jay Carney: "What is not okay is to do this whole debate again by holding another extension of the debt ceiling hostage..."

• White House Press Secretary Jay Carney: "...essentially hold the American economy hostage to a two-thirds vote to amend the Constitution"


Hat tip: EIB Network. Linked by: Michelle Malkin and Ed Driscoll. Thanks!

Larwyn's Linx: I Won in an Historic Landslide and All I Got...

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Nation

I Won in an Historic Landslide and All I Got...: AT
Senate quickly tables Boehner debt plan: Ace
Tea Party, Fix Your Gaze On 2012: IBD

Obama's Ineptitude: AT
Man with no plan demands deal by Tuesday: RWN
Brown Says He’d Support the Reid Debt Plan: Malkin

Obama and Marxists March in Unison on Immigration: NoisyRm
Schumer, Lindsey Graham working on amnesty bill: VS
Pelosi declines endorsement of 14th Amendment solution: Hill

Economy

Obamaconomy: Ace
Moody's: US won't default on 8/2; White House hardest hit: VS
What Expansion?: IBD

White House Prods Rating Agencies to Endorse Reid Plan: WSPit
Steve Wynn Is Right: AmSpec
Gil Cedillo, California’s Socialist Immigration “Czar”: IBD

Gunrunner

Gunwalker: One Step Closer to the Oval Office: PJM
Still Fast, Getting Furiouser: NRO
Emails to White House didn't mention gun sting: LAT

Climate & Energy

A Big Welcome To EPA Motors: IBD
Mandated Mischief: Obama’s 54.5 MPG Standard: PJM
Polar Bear Champion Charles Monnett Accused of Scientific Misconduct: RWN

Media

Civility: A List of 'the GOP is Insane/Terrorists/Extremists' over the Debt Ceiling Articles: PunditPress
End This Crisis: NRO
NYTimes poll-graph on debt crisis: public rejects extreme partisan solutions, but false premise skews results: Tatler

Politico Op-Ed: TEA Partiers Are Terrorists: RWN
Peggy Noonan: Obama's Not A Revolutionary, He's Just A Loser: Ace
Krauthammer Scolds Margaret Carlson for Saying Tea Party 'Strapped Explosives to the Capitol': NB

World

Turkey's Military Leaders All Resign En Masse: TAB
Flee to Mars if America commits worst error since 1931: Telegraph
Libya, Syria (and Beyond) LiveBlog: The Opposition's Military Commander is Assassinated: EAWorld

Debunking 6 Myths About Anders Breivik: Knish
Abdo (and other threats): Mudville
Pentagon’s Craziest PowerPoint Slide Revealed: Wired

Obama and the Drug Cartels: AT
Muslim school loses zoning decision, terror-linked CAIR asks DOJ to step in: Creeping
NJ: Muslims attack, threaten cops, get $50,000 settlement: Creeping

Sci-Tech

How to avoid becoming a Twitter pest : Helium
Obama takes to Twitter in debt ceiling debate, but loses almost 37,000 followers: Post
Apple Has More Cash Than The U.S. Government: OTB

Cornucopia

Photoshop Contest: One Does Not Simply Mock Into Mordor: RS
Jamie 'Mistress of Disaster' Gorelick receives award from Natl. Assocation of Women Lawyers: RP&EL Alert
Visualization of U.S. Debt: Kleptocracy

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QOTD: ...let's not forget how serious our fiscal problems are. Federal outlays now make up a quarter of the total national output. Federal spending is up 46% in the last decade while the economy has grown by just 14% (inflation adjusted dollars). In other words, government is growing over 3.5 times faster than our ability to sustain it.

...Given the situation, are we to believe that that a cut amounting to less than 1% of the federal budget is the best we can do? If so, then we better snap a few pictures of America, because it won't be around much longer. --Joseph Ashby

Friday, July 29, 2011

John 'Forrest Gump' Boehner Gets Played Again

Using every arm-twisting, committee appointment, and earmark bribe in the book, John Boehner was able to slam his ridiculous faux debt-ceiling bill through the House, 218-210 a few minutes ago.

Let me be the first to predict what will now happen.


It will go to the Senate, where it will be rejected, rewritten, revamped and -- in general -- shredded by Chuck Schumer's mannequin, Harry Reid. In other words, it will become an even more pathetic "deficit reduction" vehicle than it was to begin with.

Then, with only hours to spare, it will be sent back to the House, whereupon the media and the Democrats -- but I repeat myself -- will predict total economic calamity should it not pass.

Boehner, the consummate Beltway insider, will panic, cry, and force it through the House, echoing the same predictions of complete economic collapse of Timothy Geithner. It will enforce no cuts, it will command no deficit reduction measures, and it will also grant Barack Obama unconditional permission to borrow another trillion dollars (or two) from our kids and grandkids.

And it will tiptoe this country right to the edge of fiscal collapse.

It's a game of hot potato, and Gump will have been handed the scalding hot potato with no time to spare.

Instead of hammering Cut, Cap & Balance through the House and Senate, the feckless GOP leadership will have folded like a deck-chair in a typhoon.

The imperative for 2012 could not be more clear: replace every RINO with conservatives in the primaries. Then obliterate the Marxist pod-people that have subsumed the husk of the once-proud Democrat Party. We have no alternative if we are to save this Republic.