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More “saved or created” jobs nonsense

Not content with his current track record of economic ignorance, B.O. wants to proverbially open his mouth and remove all doubt.  From the AP:

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.
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About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved.
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But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.

“If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,” HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.

Just in case you’re actually ignorant enough to believe the “saved or created” jobs nonsense, let’s try a little analogy:

Let’s say you have a job.  If you’re a liberal, that may be hard to fathom, but work with me here, m’kay?  Now, let’s say someone gave me, a man on the street, a $100 bill.  I walk into your place of employment and give you the $100.  According to the federal government, I just “saved” your job.  You weren’t in danger of losing your job at the time I gave you the $100 raise.  But hey, I just gave you money for a small raise, so I must have “saved” your job, right?

I do wonder, though, how many of the great unwashed are buying this “saved or created” nonsense.

November 5, 2009 Posted by | big government, economic ignorance, Obama | 1 Comment

Obama skips watching election results to take in HBO documentary about…himself

When B.O. spokestool Robert Gibbs told the press corps that Uhhhhh-bama wasn’t watching the results of his party crashing and burning in Tuesdays elections, many thought that Gibbsy was being disingenuous.

Turns out, Gibbsy was correct.  B.O. was too busy watching a fawning HBO documentary on his favorite subject: himself.  From Newsbusters:

During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

On Tuesday night the White House had worked to downplay the Democratic gubernatorial defeats by claiming the President did not watch the election returns. Apparently Gibbs thought it would look better if the commander in chief was watching a self-indulgent fawning documentary about himself. Interestingly, Obama apparently previewed the HBO special a few days earlier, as Gibbs himself explained to the blog Talking Points Memo: “White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama has already seen ‘By the People’…Gibbs told TPMDC Obama’s review: ‘Thumbs up!’”

As Newsbusters commenter vrwc13 points out, dude meets all of the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  Friggin’ wonderful.

November 4, 2009 Posted by | Obama, shameful | 2 Comments

LA Times front page: Hey, Dems won two races! Oh, yeah, and in other news, Republicans won a couple, too.

Seriously…why do they even pretend anymore?

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Nope…no liberal media bias!

November 4, 2009 Posted by | California, media bias | Leave a Comment

2009 election results

I was 2-of-3 in my predictions yesterday.  I got VA and NY-23 correct, but I got NJ wrong.  I’m thrilled that the people of NJ decided to stop their insanity (continuously electing Democrats while their economy tanked and taxes skyrocketed) and try something different.

The left and right will spin these results to their liking, but here’s my takeaway for the evening:

VA:  This is still a center-right state.  Dems win in VA by pretending not to be liberal.  All Creigh Deeds had to run with last night was “Don’t vote for McDonnell, because he wrote something I find objectionable when he was in college!”  Oddly enough, no one in the MSM seemed that concerned about what Barry or Shelly O wrote in college, but I digress.  The fact is that B.O. just isn’t that popular in VA these days.  That may explain why he stayed away from the campaign trail there.

NJ:  This is still a deep blue state.  Granted, the governor-elect Chris Christie didn’t have to pretend to be a moderate or a RINO to win, as he ran on conservative principles.  But with taxes so ludicrously high and the economy there in dire straits, the people of NJ didn’t trust or like Jon Corzine.  Corzine even called in B.O. to run his campaign, and it didn’t work.  (Sidebar: Some on the left say that Deeds lost VA because, in part, he didn’t embrace Uhhhhh-bama.  That dog won’t hunt, because Corzine did embrace B.O., and he still lost by about 4%…in a dark blue state.)  Christie will have to contend with a predominantly Democrat legislature, but let them go on record opposing tax cuts and tax reform.

NY-23:  Michelle Malkin has a great summary at her blog that best reflects my view.  Sure, it would have been awesome for Hoffman to win.  And it looks like Scuzzieblahblah’s defection tilted the election to the Democrat Bill Owens.  However, hopefully the GOP learned a valuable lesson here: instead of allowing a bunch of senile old dudes to pick the party’s nominee in a pizzeria and then pumping a cool mill into the leftist’s campaign, how’s about allowing a primary and then stay the heck out while the people of that district pick their winner (see FL in Senate 2010 race)!  It is highly unlikely that Scuzzie would have gotten a second look in the district were she on a primary ballot, and her endorsement would have instead had two effects: jack and squat.  We accept RINOs where we know that we absolutely MUST (see the Maine sisters in the Senate), but we won’t accept pro-abortion, pro-ACORN, pro-gay marriage, pro-union ”Republicans” in cherry red districts.

Anywho, does this 2-of-3 Republican evening spell doom for the Dems next year?  Hard to say, since 12 months is a political eternity.  However, it certainly means that taking a snapshot of today, things are not looking good for them at all.

November 4, 2009 Posted by | conservatism, polls | 3 Comments

2009 election

Three races are happening today: NJ gov, VA gov, special NY-23 House.  Predictions follow.

VA gov: Republican Bob McDonnell will destroy Democrat Creigh Deeds.  Every poll has McD up by double digits.  Prediction: Unless every single poll is wrong, this one is a done deal, and McD cruises.

NJ gov: Every major poll lately has Republican Chris Christie leading unpopular incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine, although nearly all of them are within the margin of error.  There is an independent running in the race, although experts disagree from whom Daggett is siphoning votes.  Predicition: Corzine will eke out a victory for two reasons: (1) NJ is so hopelessly blue (and stupid) that they’ll even vote for a man they detest because he’s not Republican; and (2) ACORN has been on the ground in NJ.  Nuff said.  Don’t be surprised to see an Al Franken kind of theft victory.

NY-23: The RINO suspended her campaign, though her name remains on the ballot.  She has endorsed the Democrat, Bill Owens.  Most polls have the Conservative Party nominee, Doug Hoffman, ahead, though most have that lead within the margin of error.  As with NJ, “experts” disagree on the extent of damage done by a split ticket.  Keep in mind that whomever wins this race will have to defend his seat next year in the midterms.  Prediction: I think Owens squeaks out a win, making the Dems 2-of-3 on the night, and subjecting us to massive spin of how the Dems really aren’t unpopular at all.

Now, let’s say I’m wrong about NJ and/or NY-23, and the right claims those wins.  Will the MSM read anything into Republican wins?  Um…no.  They’re already sandbagging the results ahead of time in case it happens.  Excerpt:

For Republicans, an election win of any size Tuesday would be a blessing. But victories in Virginia, New Jersey or elsewhere won’t erase enormous obstacles the party faces heading into a 2010 midterm election year when control of Congress and statehouses from coast to coast will be up for grabs.

See?  The right has “enormous obstacles” heading into the midterms next year.  Nothing to see here tonight, right?  Wonders Ace:

Imagine if the Democrats were clearly ahead in these races. Try to imagine the AP’s “analysis” reading: Victories in these races do not prove Obama’s popularity or ability to swing races, and do nothing to erase the enormous obstacles he faces in passing health care reform or cap and trade legislation.

You would never see that. If that were the case, it would, in fact, be a referendum on Obama, about how wicked-awesome he is.

More:

So even if political winds start blowing harder behind them and even if they can capitalize on Democratic missteps, Republicans still will have a long way to go over the next year because of their party’s own fundamental problems — divisions over the path forward, the lack of a national leader and a shrinking base in a changing nation.

Ace notes that you don’t see this commentary on the current state of the Democrat Party:

The Democrats, which control both Houses of Congress by large, unbreakable majorities, are unable to agree among themselves on cap and trade, card check, and Pelsoi care.

And they have a national leader. Or Presenter, maybe.

Do they have no divisions over the path forward?

There’s more at Ace’s site, but you get the drift: Dems are not divided, Republicans are, the Dems don’t need to unify to get actual legislation passed that The One wants passed, yet the GOP is the dysfunctional party, etc.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

November 3, 2009 Posted by | media bias, polls | 3 Comments

Obama administration to ensure that the innocent and most vulnerable get swine flu vaccines first

And by “innocent and most vulnerable”, I’m naturally referring to…Gitmo detainees.  No, I’m not lying.  Excerpt:

“As long as Americans must wait to receive the vaccine, the detainees in Guantanamo Bay should not be given preferential treatment to receive the H1N1 vaccination,” Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) wrote in a letter to Secretary of the Army John McHugh on Friday.Pence, too, shared Stupak’s concerns, but he also used his interview Friday to take a shot at Democrats — and their handling of other healthcare crises — in particular.

“I think this is exactly the kind of misadministration of healthcare, this and other aspects of the way this government is responding to the H1N1 virus, that ought to give the American people great pause about this massive government-run insurance plan that’s been unveiled this week by House Democrats,” Pence said.

Nice to see that B.O. has his priorities straight.  I mean, in light of a vaccine shortage that has resulted in rationing (but that would never happen under nationalized medicine, right?), why should a snot-nosed little kindergartener in America get preferential treatment over a misunderstood bloodthirsty camelhumping jihadist, right?

Hey, I’ve got an awesome idea!  Since the feds are doing such a bang-up job with swine flu vaccine shortages, how about we let them run 1/6th of our nation’s economy?  What could go wrong?

November 2, 2009 Posted by | Cuba, health care, Obama, swine flu | 4 Comments

After dropping out, Scozzafava endorses the Democrat for NY-23

Details here.

Well, well, well.  You know, those “crazy conservatives” may have been onto something when they said she was a RINO, huh?  I wonder if the former Carpetbagger Speaker of the House from GA who told us that “local leaders know better” is eating a plate of crow right now?  Yeah, Newt, those local leaders know so much about their local politics that they picked a candidate who is left of most Democrats and wound up endorsing the Democrat.  But what do we “outsiders” know, right?

By the way, her campaign manager is supporting the conservative, Doug Hoffman.

November 1, 2009 Posted by | New York, Newt Gingrich | 2 Comments

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