So I saw this little baby in the New York Times today, and it is nothing short of the death knell for the Obama Presidency. There are 21 Democrats and 2 Independents up for reelection in the Senate in 2012. Both independents caucus with the Democrats. Of those 23, no fewer than 20 are opposing the President’s long awaited, and by the way still not submitted, American Jobs Bill. It is no secret to anyone with a functioning brain cell that this entire piece of Kabuki Theater which is masquerading as an economic agenda item is nothing more than a campaign ploy. As a matter of fact, the DNC rushed a 2012 campaign ad to T.V. even before the bill itself was submitted for perusal.
The strategy was to look like this. It was going to pit our brave Dear Leader against an obstructionist House controlled by evil Republicans who are out to ruin the lives of everyone not earning over $250,000 per year. This is the only campaign strategy left for the Hopety Change bunch, since their record is the only thing which can be construed as shovel ready. When an incumbent needs the conversation to be anything but what he has been doing for the past 4 years, attacking someone else and fixing blame is all that is left. That means that an Obama Campaign which began in earnest this past week will be treating us all to some of the most impressive straw man arguments, ad hominem attacks, and feats of logical gymnastics worthy of gold medal consideration. The country has limited patience for everything being George W. Bush’s fault anymore, that meme is old and busted. That doesn’t leave much, as the Republicans actually control precious little on a National level. Enter the Jobs bill which proposes taking $447 Billion and lighting it on fire. Obama assured us over and over again that there was nothing in it which anyone could possibly object to. He admonished Congress to, “pass the bill,” no fewer than 125 times in the last 6 days. He assured us that it was already paid for. Something funny happened on the way to Congress with the bill though. It still hasn’t made it there. Why, you may ask? Well, it was never designed to be passed anyhow. It is designed to never pass, and to be used as a wedge issue during the upcoming election.
The problem for the Bamster however is with the folks in his own party.
WASHINGTON — President Obama anticipated Republican resistance to his jobs program, but he is now meeting increasing pushback from his own party. Many Congressional Democrats, smarting from the fallout over the 2009 stimulus bill, say there is little chance they will be able to support the bill as a single entity, citing an array of elements they cannot abide.
“I think the American people are very skeptical of big pieces of legislation,” Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, said in an interview Wednesday, joining a growing chorus of Democrats who prefer an à la carte version of the bill despite White House resistance to that approach. “For that reason alone I think we should break it up.”
Later on in the article we get to the heart of the matter.
There are also Democrats, some of them senators up for election in 2012, who oppose the bill simply for its mental connection to the stimulus bill, which laid at least part of the foundation for the Republican takeover of the House in 2010.“I have serious questions about the level of spending that President Obama proposed,” said Senator Joe Manchin III, a Democrat from West Virginia, in a statement issued right after Mr. Obama spoke to a joint session of Congress last week.
A campaign strategy of me against the evil obstructionist Republicans only works if you have the support of your own party. The message being given to President Obama right now is that the members of his party are not willing to sacrifice them selves for the greater glory of Dear Leader again. Many of the Democrat Senators elected in 2006 ran as conservative Democrats. They, to date, have governed as Socialists, and their constituency is hopping mad. They ignored the voters during the tumultuous town hall meetings of 2009, and they saw the effect of that bit of genius played out during the elections of 2010. This bunch of Senators did not have to face voters in 2010, but they watched 7 of 16 lose their seats, What New York 9 told them, and told them loudly, is that Americans have had enough of the great experiment with Communism to start this decade. The Senatorial Democrats have just removed the only strategy President Obama had with which to campaign on. His soaring rhetoric, as of now have become the death gasp rattlings of the bad guys in monster movies. He has greatly damaged the Democrat Party for years to come. It will be decades hopefully, before anyone falls for the fiscally conservative Democrat ploy again.
The last President to overtly lose the support of his party in Congress was Jimmy Carter, a fitting tribute don’t you think. He has given us the same exact policies as Carter, and we have reaped the same exact results as Carter. When will we learn? Hopefully we have conducted our last experiment with leftist ideology, it has damn near bankrupted us this time around.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Get ready for many more “flash mobs.”
It’s their new mobilization effort.
Do You Love Me?
—with apologies to the Contours and “Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance?)“
You broke my heart
Because you said
I took too much time off
But now I’ve got a new jobs bill
And I’ve got no time for golf
Do you love me? (Help me pass the bill)
Do you love me? (Oh, I hope you will)
Do you love me? (Oh, show you do)
Now that I’ve got a bill
Watch me pretend to (Work, work)
I’m not accustomed to (Work, work)
You gotta help me to (Work, work)
Everybody be civil now (Work)
I’ll get high-speed rail (I’ll get high-speed rail)
And I’ll fund some green jobs (fund green jobs)
And I’ll continue to fail (continue to fail)
To condemn flash mobs (to condemn flash mobs)
Tell me (tell me)
Tell me
Do you love me? (Help me pass the bill)
Do you love me? (Oh, I hope you will)
Do you love me? (Oh, show you do)
Now that I’ve got a bill
Yes I’m pretending to (Work, work)
I’m not accustomed to (Work, work)
You gotta help me to (Work, work)
Everybody be civil now (Work)
(Work, work)
I can fake it, fake it baby (Work, work)
Election? Gonna take it, baby (Work, work)
Who said I was lazy? (Work)
I’ll get high-speed rail (I’ll get high-speed rail)
And I’ll fund some green jobs (fund green jobs)
And I’ll continue to fail (continue to fail)
To condemn flash mobs (to condemn flash mobs)
Tell me (tell me)
Tell me
Do you love me? (Help me pass the bill)
Do you love me? (Oh, I hope you will)
Do you love me? (Oh, show you do)
Now that I’ve got a bill
(Now, now, now)
(Work, work)
Watch me pretend to (Work, work)
I’m not accustomed to (Work, work)
Everybody be civil now (Work)
(Work, work)
I can fake it, fake it baby (Work, work)
Election? Gonna take it, baby (Work, work)
Who said I was lazy? (Work)
Note to Obungler: Last I heard the actual bill hadn’t been written, much less submitted to congress, and thankfully, it’s DOA in the House anyway, and most likely in the Senate. What a dolt!
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
It’s worse yet than blind incompetence. This was the cornerstone of his entire reelection strategy. His proposal was something he knew the GOP would never go for, and is only a rehash of the same crap he has been slinging since 2007. His plan was to run against the do nothing GOP House and repeat a Truman defeats Dewey moment. Boehner and the rest of the House very meekly came out the next day and made mousy statements of there might be a few things where we can meet middle ground here, knowing full well that this will never happen. In the meantime, his own party in the Senate, and many in the House have completely undercut his entire strategy by saying no way. It’s not just the 20 or so up for reelection in 012 any more either. Now you can add some other Dems to the list as well. The entire Democrat Contingent in Washington might just have well whispered in his ear, GET OUT. New York 9 started the greatest political defection since the Tunguska Blast of 1809, (Ghostbusters reference, in case I got it wrong.)
Hey, I got the answer to all of our problems… We just have Obama arrested on Stalking Charges…
Flyovercountry wrote:
You didn’t…
@ Flyovercountry:
Hey, that avatar is a new look. When BO-hole’s congressional base is crumbling, the lapdog press won’t be far behind. That will be the end.
@ huckfunn:
An I have no idea how it happened either. Fun though!
What’re those things on either side of his head?
waldensianspirit wrote:
Mussel shells.
doriangrey wrote:
I’ve forwarded yer post to ATTAAAAACKKK-ACK-ACK-WAAAATCH.
Liberal group files ethics complaint against Darrell Issa
doriangrey wrote:
Alan Parsons & Shpongle -- Return to Tunguska
w/ David Gilmour on guitar
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Ah, they’ll become the fashion rage!
Flyovercountry wrote:
It could be related to a recent email event. Same thing happened to me several weeks ago. My avatar got changed to one of those squiggly things. I had to change my Word Press password.
waldensianspirit wrote:
We need a law that says if you file an ethics complaint that turns out to be false and or frivolous, that the individual or individuals that filed that ethics complaint go to jail.
Book: Women in Obama White House felt excluded and ignored via drudge
@ waldensianspirit:
Even VJ and Moo-chelle?
doriangrey wrote:
No Kidding. this kind of bs was what forced Governor Palin to resign, and will probably end up costing her a fair shot at the White House. All of the charges turned out to be bull, and she’s not the only one either. Delay, Gingrich, and any other Right of Center person who dared to stand in the way of the Communists. If Issa is cleared, the people who filed the complaint should do a year in prison for each dollar spent in investigating this nonsense.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I can hear AND visualize him singing that, lol. Plum perfect.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
The dolts are the idiots that agree with him. My morning talk radio people even agreed. After listing their top 10 reasons why being broke is good they were all like “who wouldn’t pass a job’s bill?”.
Dumbasses.
Ok so I flipped to another station… next morning talk radio peeps were talking about the Sarah Palin “affair” (before she was married) and dude said “Well, she just lost the tea party vote because she’s been with a black man”.
I’m sure Hermain Cain and Allen West are pissed Sarah Palin has been with a black man, so I guess there’s 2 votes lost already.
/
Of course the next step was to hook up the ipod.
@ doriangrey:
No doubt. AND they pay all costs associated.
If this is what passes for scientists these days, it no damned wonder we haven’t gone back to the moon.
a) Such a planet would be in orbit around either one or the other star not orbiting both. Even the closest binary stars orbit each other about a quarter of a light year apart, that’s about 100 times greater distance than the furthest plant orbiting a star orbits it’s star.
b) slightly under on half of the planets solar year would be spent in-between both stars, the more distant star would rise and during the half of the year that the planet was in-between both stars and slow cross the horizon from east to west, or west to east. During the half a year that the planet was in-between both stars it would have a day star, the star the planet orbited, and a night star, the star orbiting it primary star. The planet environmental temperature would depend on how close it was to it’s primary star, and how much solar radiation it received from it’s secondary star during it’s in-between phase.
waldensianspirit wrote:
If I was woman, I’d think that was a good thing.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
pimf
@ doriangrey:
But, they saw it on Star Trek, so it must be true!
Job plan well received ? Are they serious ?
@ doriangrey:
Two suns? Imagine the gore-bull warming we’d have then. Kazillions would be incinerated!
Guggi wrote:
You gotta understand. To the libturds at the New York Slimes, the “public” consists of the upper west side of Manhattan.
I’m going to sue the Travel Channel for false advertising. They’re showing a program about Sasquatch, and not once have they shown Moo-chelle Obungler.
@ doriangrey:
Nope – the reports quote the spokesman as saying the stars eclipse each other but the planet eclipses them serially. it has to be orbiting both. Or at least that’s what the boys at Carnegie Mellon say. The paper is to appear in Science.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
@ Guggi:
Shocking! who would have predicted it, but everyone here at the Blogmocracy?
@ Guggi:
That Popular Uprising!
doriangrey wrote:
What a quaint idea! Because 125 times in 6 days is certainly stalking!
If someone called you that many times in 6 days they would have an iron clad cause!
Rodan wrote:
A good article here
Evening all
waldensianspirit wrote:
No wonder Hillary is done with him…..the floor is literally crumbling beneath his feet. Love it.
He is so much worse than Carter…..that there says something.
Rodan wrote:
McCains heroes.
Guggi wrote:
Abbas is quoted today as saying they are going for full statehood at the in because that is what Obama clalled for last year. Words have consequences just like elections
@ Nevergiveup:
How do good sir?
@ Nevergiveup:
Personally, I don’t think that Obama favors a two stste
strategy as the ultimate solution.
I am convinced that he would like to see Israel just
disapper
Nevergiveup wrote:
Obama owns this so-called ‘Arab Spring’!
Working out so well isn’t it?///////
Bho whatever he touches turns to evil or dust.
Dems are running away from him…in fact most everyone is running away from him…except for the select blooming idiots.
@ Nevergiveup:
From the link above:
@ Nevergiveup:
On FOX today they (paleos) were talking about how Obama has failed them and they were going to have to take matters into their own hands.
Give me a break. He’s a cheerleader for their genocidal cause.
@ Nevergiveup:
Can we just never speak of him again once he’s out of office?
Have a national shunning?
@ RIX:
The two-state is the first-step to that.
@ Guggi:
With obama at the helm I am not surprised we lost control of the board. The man probably can’t even play checkers much less chess.
I’m in this pretty filthy comfort inn that some civilian organization put me in. I’m getting paid to do some dentistry for the army. All,and I mean all, the military hotels I ‘ve been in have been pretty spotless. My skin is crawling
m wrote:
No kidding!!! And they want more!
bho has disgraced us around the world.
@ Guggi:
How in the world did he corner Abbas?
@ m:
That’s a misdirection, like the Dems saying that they
are afraid to run aginst Huntsman.
The Palis know that BHO is their homie & the Dems would
love to run against Huntsman.
Bumr50 wrote:
I second that motion!
Bumr50 wrote:
Sounds like a plan to me
@ Nevergiveup:
Ooooh. Good thing you don’t carry around a black light. You’d never get to sleep.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Eek! Sorry to hear that!
@ Nevergiveup:
I stayed in a Comfort Inn in Fondulac Wisconsin.
The place was filthy & there were some serious crtters
scurrying around.
m wrote:
The thought crossed my mind
No one has even introduced it in the House yet, which has led to one of the funniest moments of the week, when Louis Gohmert of Texas went ahead and introduced his two-page bill cutting the corporate income tax by 35% and stole Obama’s bill title, calling it the “American Jobs Act.”
Reid’s too busy amending a badly needed FAA bill to include shit for bike trails to PASS THE BILL NOW!
Nevergiveup wrote:
If his name is ever mentioned we could say, “I’m sorry I don’t understand the question!”
RIX wrote:
I might sleep in my car and just shower here in the am
Nevergiveup wrote:
It’s that bad? You might be safer in the car!
@ Nevergiveup:
I stayed at the Admiral Benbow in Tampa once.
‘That’s where United put us when they had a mechanical
problem.
In the lounge I was propositioned by a Vietnamese
hooker & the rooms had vibrating beds.
I slept on top of the covers with my clothes
on.
Dinner, see ya
@ Nevergiveup:
Hey there!
@ Nevergiveup:
That sucks!
@ Carolina Girl:
The Obama Regime is collapsing.
@ Nevergiveup:
Contact the hotel chain- you might get some kind of compensation out of it.
Rodan wrote:
Isn’t it a beautiful thing.
The bad thing is he will do more damage as he gets more desperate.
@ m:
He viewed Arabs as his peeps.
Speaking of jokes, isn’t there supposed to be some kind of national proggie protest this weekend? Poor people were supposed to get a tent and camp out to show how the rich are raping the middle class (I get my buzz words mixed up now and then…)
Bumr50 wrote:
Rodan wrote:
Yep and he would stand by them.
He has never said he would stand up for the U.S. possibly people finally getting the clue bat upside their head and realising he is anti-American? I do hope so.
mfhorn wrote:
What I want to get out of it is disease free. At least I am not paying for the room. There is a double tree next door. We’ll see
@ Lily:
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I hope the whole Progressive movement collapses.
This information must be pretty disheartening for the progressives. It is allowing us to actually show people what they are all about. They have nothing left but all out war now. Someone postulated that the progressives are actually considering things as drastic as suspending the constitution and delaying the elections because of a disaster they are trying to think up. Anyone heard anything like this?
Rodan wrote:
So do I. People, average people are getting fed up with their crap!
@ Lily:
He’s on their side.
@ Lily:
They are Elitists and seek to dictate how to live.
RIX wrote:
I’m not a street walker but I did stay at a Comfort Inn last night.
Nevergiveup wrote:
You know what …. I would go to the Double Tree even if it is out of my pocket…but look at the room first before committing!
Nevergiveup wrote:
At least you’re not a Marine. Marines would be sleeping in their trucks.
My wife had a bad experience with Days Inn earlier this year. After that I think I have finally convinced her that being frugal is fine, but we CAN afford a good hotel.
Rodan wrote:
Oh indeed he is…and it isn’t excatly working out too well for him in fly-over country.
Liberty and Prosperity. If our leaders/politicians are not trying to increase our liberty and prosperity, then they are against us.
Econo-Lodge?
If Obama wants jobs, why not repeal the Federal corporate income tax in its entirety? That would be less expensive than his proposed “jobs” bill.
Rodan wrote:
Need to push them to the fringe! Most people I know are sick of being told by gov what we can and cannot do, as far as light bulbs, and food. Get a life…and stay out of ours!!!
@ Lily:
They need to get put in their place.
randian wrote:
And probably set off an economic boom the likes of which this planet has never seen. You’re making too much sense, where did you come from anyway?
Rodan wrote:
Oh indeed. Like put them in country they so love, which isn’t ours.
Like Saudi….they should love it there or Egypt since it is in the ‘Arab Spring’ mode right now!
@ Lily:
Amen Lily!
@ gulfloafer:
That’s why it will not happen!
@ father_of_10:
The last time I was in a Comfort Inn it was in Toledo, Ohio. Work put us up there.
Toledo is a hellhole as it is, but this particular Comfort Inn, aside from being stinky, stainy, and buggy was across the road from –
- a prison
- a horse track
- a nudie bar.
I moved my car right underneath the window.
@ Rodan:
What’s up old man? How’s Fla treating you?
Lily wrote:
I agree. He might just throw Israel to the wolves to get “even” for NY9.
livefreeor die wrote:
He does stab anyone or company or country in the back that doesn’t ‘love him’ or agree with him. He will throw a huge tantram that a 2 year old would envy. I do not under estimate him at all when it comes to hurting our country or another country.
@ Guggi:
@ Rodan:
Guess I don’t have to repeat the lyrics to the Muslim National Anthem!
Nite all! Hope you have a good evening!!!
Nevergiveup wrote:
The “Del Monte Hotel” in the naval post-graduate school in Monterey CA is really nice. Clean, antique rooms.
Rodan wrote:
Be optimistic my friend. The Sun is still the best disinfectant and we’re beginning to see it work it’s magic. The poltical winds aren’t just changing it’s becoming a tempest. The classical liberals of yore and todays conservatives are now very much the same. One word … cycles. Keep your house.
Anyone else watching Boise St. v. Toledo?
If anyone is watching Europe and the debt problems, here’s a neat graphic from Reuters which shows how much comparative debt is held by other European countries.
http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/11/07/EZ_BNKEXP0711_SB.html
Bumr50 wrote:
I don’t think we get that one!
@ father_of_10:
All out Chaos if this happens. There is no way in Hell Americans would go for this, No Way.
Shit! Plane crashed into grand stands in Reno!
In other news, selrahC is still a douche.
@ gulfloafer:
Dooing good! We have the dry heat now, little humidity.
New Thread.
father_of_10 wrote:
I’ve heard this bandied about a few times here and there, but don’t consider it a likely scenario. Next time you hear it, ask the person, “If the Constitution of the United States of America is “suspended”, under what legitimate authority would the Federal government be acting?”
Bumr50 wrote:
Go Boise!
One of my kids go there.
@ Lily:
I read he spammed the inboxes of the reporters too.
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