Obscure blogger compares Obama's treatment of U.S. economy to a dog

An obscure conservative blogger strayed from his prepared remarks on Tuesday to accuse President Obama of treating the economy "like a dog".

Doug Ross was in Milwaukee to speak at the Obscure Bloggers' Conference of America, which was attended by a host of industry dignitaries including Michelle Malkin's cousin, Glenn Reynold's maternal aunt, Dan Riehl's financial advisor and one of Don Surber's neighbors.

"Some powerful special interests who have dominated the agenda in Washington since the thirties really hit the jackpot with the Obama administration," Ross said, "This White House is treating the economy like a dog. It's taught the economy to roll over and play dead, for instance."

Ross isn't known to stray off prepared remarks and also took a more aggressive tone in the speech.

"They’re betting that between now and November, you’ll come down with a case of amnesia," he said. "They think you’ll forget what their agenda did to this country. They think no one's ever heard of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Post Office, Social Security, Medicare and every other giant boondoggle they've ripped off and bankrupted. These are the folks who stole from every federal 'trust fund' ever created, drove our economy into the ditch with their 'houses for everyone!' programs and then bankrupted the entire country with record-setting spending! And now they're asking you for the keys back!"

"You have unions in complete control of the Democrat agenda, using money that's supposedly not from their members' dues, somehow spending more than $150 million in the midterms alone. If I didn't know better, I'd think George Soros was (Continued on Page D-14)