#OccupyWallSt has given us some memorable images, but arguably none more memorable than these:

#OccupyWallSt has made a list of demands. Some are simply ridiculous but some have merit- specifically the concerns over the cost of education and money’s involvement in politics. The problem is that the numbskulls in the #OWS movement are so self-obsessed that all of their efforts are way off target. They place themselves in Zucotti Park and somewhere in UC Davis and aspire to shut down the harbor in Portland.

The question is- what can that possibly achieve?

Their concerns about costs of higher education are truly meritorious. Higher education is the biggest scam in town. Since 1988 the rising cost of higher education absolutely dwarfs the cost of living increases.

In fact, it has risen far more rapidly than the cost of medical treatment.

When my oldest son entered Boston College the tuition was $35,000 per year. When my second son graduated from BC seven years later tuition was over $50,000 per year.

That’s obscene. And for what? I thought it was robbery, but we paid it.

While #OWS wants all debts forgiven, some are definitely accumulating faster than others.

California’s public universities enacted the highest average tuition increase, 21%, of any state, the College Board finds. Steep state funding cuts to higher ed were significant factors in pushing up tuition and fees nationwide.
But even excluding California, tuition prices at such colleges rose significantly nationwide this year, an average of 7%, the College Board found. Apart from California, Arizona and Washington had the highest rates of tuition increases at public four-year campuses, 17% and 16% respectively, while Connecticut and South Carolina were lowest, at 2.5% each.

Sandy Baum, a policy analyst for the College Board, said the recession’s toll on tax revenues prompted some states to slash higher education funding. “California seems to be the leader of that” trend, she said.

Yet the study also showed that significant increases in federal grants and tax credits are shielding many students from some of the tuition pain even as unemployment is driving more people to enroll at colleges. “As the states have stepped back, the federal government to some extent compensated for the higher prices,” Baum said.

Nationally, in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities average $8,244 for this school year. With room and board, the average cost of such schools is $17,131, up 6% from last year, said the report, which is being released Wednesday.

Significant tuition increases are nothing new to UC Davis. This is from 2009:

The first tuition hike, which takes effect in January, will raise undergraduate tuition to $8,373. The second hike kicks in next fall, raising tuition to $10,302, said university spokeswoman Leslie Sepuka.

Students who live on campus could pay up to an estimated $17,200 in additional fees that include the annual cost of books and housing, according to the system’s July 2008 finance guide.

The January increase of about 15 percent is more than double the average public university tuition hike last year. On average, tuition and fees at four-year public universities nationwide increased 6.5 percent, or to $7,020, since the previous school year, according to data from College Board.

A ten year analysis of tuition increases found that UC Davis tuition increased 185%, second only to the U of Arizona at 231%.

It seems to me that if one is going to protest, one ought to protest at a venue a which a goal might be achieved. That is to say that if you need gas, you don’t go to the pharmacy. These protests should have been conducted at the home of the University Chancellor, and at the homes of the University trustees. Instead, protests put tents up on campus. The Chancellor, Linda Katehi, ordered the students and the tents removed.

In her first statement about the incident, Katehi justified the police’s action by stating that the protesters offered her “no option but to ask the police to assist in their removal.”

As criticism mounted, Katehi threw the cops under the bus, as gutless politicians and academics are wont to do. An obviously flustered Katehi scrambled to redirect the blame away from her.

In an interview this morning on KQED’s Forum, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi said she expected campus police on Friday to remove tents peacefully without interfering with students’ rally.

Katehi said that under UC policy, tents are not allowed on campus “for health and safety reasons.” She said police were asked to dismantle the encampment out of concern for the safety of the students.

“The group that set this up was not UC Davis students,” she said. “They had individuals that were not affiliated with the campus. The police were called for nothing else but a very peaceful dismantling of the equipment…They were not supposed to use force.They were not supposed to limit the students from having the rally, from congregating to express their anger and frustration.”

You can’t help but wonder if the tear gas would have come even more quickly had the students set up camp where a protest would have been effective- at Katehi’s home and the homes of the trustees.

Money in politics is another very legitimate issue, and probably the most contentious money issue in politics is insider trading. There is really not anything more painfully hypocritical in government than this. The same activities which increased the net worth of the Pelosi’s by 62% last year sent Ivan Boesky, Jeffrey Skilling and Martha Stewart to jail.

Nancy Pelosi is everything that’s wrong with government. #OWS should be camping outside her office in Washington and outside her home in San Franciso. Instead, protesters defecate on the flag and on police cars, they leave 200 pounds of feces in Santa Cruz, they stalk children on their way to school and they scream at Wall St.

They urinate on banks and hurl Molotov cocktails at banks.

Why? What did banks do that was illegal? Nothing.

It may have been immoral, but it was legal.

Banks do what politicians allow them do. There is no purpose in harassing people who are doing nothing illegal. If change is desired, then energies ought to be directed so as be effective. This is the terminal stupidity of OccupyWallSt and the reason for its failure. They’re waiting for gas at the drive-in window of CVS.

The Democrats are banking on the Occupy Wall Street Mob becoming the sacrificial lambs for the reelection of Obama; however, it is patently obvious, they are not capturing public sympathy with their bizarre messages and disgusting lifestyle. Poets rarely write of the beauty of fleas and parasites or those who carry them.

Their efforts are a but forlorn hope for this fall, reality in the form of winter and or disease will kill them, maybe literally and no one will care. The public is more than willing to concede stupidity is its’ own reward; especially, in the “rebel without a cause” syndrome of ignorance.

But be assured, the demonstrations will be reforming in late spring, these may indeed become a threat to freedom and liberty. If Democrat strategists can formulate a working, yet simple reason to riot that all the witless ones can remember, degenerates need little more incentive to gather for drugs, sex, and rock n roll; there will be Hell to pay in the streets, when the weather heats up and the police are sent in to break up the orgies of excess.

These protests have been a half wits’ interpretation of Saul Alynsky’s “Rules For Radicals” and in the haze of lunacy that passes for logic from Nancy Pelosi, it is perceived as a righteous movement and in essence an offshoot of the anti-Viet Nam protests that Pelosi and others cavorted around showing their asses during her youth. The anti-war protests essentially caused the loss of a war to an enemy that was defeated and prepared to throw in the towel. Regrettably, Pelosi and the Socialist bigots she speaks for, see this as a great victory for those who want to transform America into a Socialist State.

Back then, there was a unifying message for those willing to demonstrate and go on a rampage, it generated from a weariness of a war started by JFK. There were also underground leaders, with intelligence, coordinating a unified effort. The degenerates and unrepentant domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and his harpie wife Bernadine Dohrn, friends and neighbors of the Obama family, are examples of this underground leadership; they are not stupid, in fact, they are highly intelligent people and more importantly, they know how to lead incredibly stupid people and direct mobs. Skills and abilities, Pelosi and friends must envy. Unfortunately, for the modern day Socialist protest movement, the people who direct Obama and the leaders like Pelosi have proven themselves to be incredibly inept at leading and directing.

The Democrat Party and their leadership want these people to succeed and have the public fall in love with the nobility of the protests; unfortunately, for the public to embrace the protests, there must be a coherent message and at least a pretension of noble ideas; so far, they merely appear to be self-serving hedonists out for a lark and the possible excitement of heroic civil disobedience, if an opportunity arises.

The public is not as easily manipulated as they were in days of TV, radio, and newspapers. The MSM cannot invent a cause for the malcontents and claim them to be noble. In these modern times, there are too many like Breitbart, Fox, and independents like us, who are willing to wade through the filth and depravity to find the real story. These guys are the true heroes, they are actually protecting the liberty of our country by exposing the degenerates living in squalor and filth while they consume drugs and engage in public sex to keep the momentum alive; rather than allowing the lies and propaganda of the Democrats and their propaganda bureaus know as the MSM to sway public opinion. Otherwise, the pimps and whores of the MSM would be able to convince the public of the humiliation and degradation these saints have suffered while trying to preserve our Constitution and our way of life. In other words they would feed us lies and propaganda and we would believe a lot of it and the police would become the henchmen of corporate greed. The Dems want to develop this scenario, but there are no leaders in the Mass of Morons. Many of those interviewed and can only express hatred of the Jew and other types of bigoted nonsense.

We can rightly criticize Ayers the degenerate and his harpy wife Dohrn, but the truth is they are intelligent people, despicable pieces of human waste, but intelligent; the Sixties had many brilliant people leading the protests and in the center of the action. They knew they were leading mindless misfits, but they were able to manage and manipulate the mobs. If these people are depending on Pelosi and the idiots directing every move of Obama, they are doomed to failure and will continue to be categorized as a mindless mob.

Bloomberg thinks the mob will find leadership and become a political force to be reckoned with, he is willing to gamble his political future on that assumption, but more importantly he is sending a message to New York City and across the country that such mindless mobs are automatically a legitimate force to be taken seriously, regardless of their lack of a message.

Bloomberg and the leadership of the Democrat Party are hoping beyond common sense that the OWS Mob will congeal into an effective antithesis to the TEA Party. There is a real problem with that line of thinking, assuming Bloomberg is even capable of thought. The TEA Party had many brilliant minds forming a unified message a long time before the earliest members walked out on the sidewalk that first time. There was a unifying force, the disgust and revulsion of the corruption and profligacy of Obama and his government.

The TEA Party demonstrators were well disciplined members of mainstream America with a coherent message that resonated with Americans of the heartland; fiscal responsibility has been difficult for the propaganda writers of the MSM and the Democrat party to condemn, but they tried and they are still trying to condemn these people from the heartland who believe in the Constitution.

With quiet dignity and a dedication to the principles of the Constitution, TEA Party members gained the attention and respect from other respectable members of mainstream America. They didn’t walk around in the nude, use sex as artistic and philosophical expression, they didn’t get whacked on drugs; they presented themselves as the type of American that everyday Americans are proud to be identified with.

When spring comes and Obama has impressed America with his military adventurism by starting a new war or two and managed to get many more patriotic Americans killed because he lacks any pretense of diplomacy or leadership, look for the OWS Mob to evolve into a more effective political tool of the Democrat Party. The Democrats know they have a potential for a mindless mob, that is ready to jump into the fray and engage in mindless hedonism for the sake of Obama. Thus if the Keystone Cop types in the White House can construct a unified message and plans for the mobs, there will be Hell to pay in the streets next summer. They only want to transform America and using the mob is seen as a tool to be used in the transformation. But a word of caution to the White House, mobs throughout history have often become unruly and sometimes they turn on their handlers for unintended consequences.

The police will be busy next year; they will be dealing with the desperation and frustration of Obama trying to win reelection after four years of failure. Thus the TEA Party and the OWS Mob have arisen from the same primordial ooze and have a similar DNA, they both owe their existence to a failed presidency that has been rejected by mainstream America and the antics of an incompetent president who is desperately running around like the proverbial outhouse rat seeking to renew his lease on the White House.

Biggest poll news of the last few days is this national Rasmussen poll of 1,000 likely voters showing Perry vaulting pass Romney:

• Rick Perry 29%
• Mitt Romney 18%
• Michele Bachmann 13%
• Ron Paul 9%
• Herman Cain 6%
• Newt Gingrich 5%
• Rick Santorum 1%
• Jon Huntsman 1%
• Thaddeus McCotter 0%
• Undecided 16% [9%]

Pretty damn surprising BUT he just got into the race. Will these numbers hold up once the left and the MSM aim their cannons at him daily as they did to Palin and Bachmann? We shall see.

Perry captures 39% of the vote among GOP primary voters who say they are members of the Tea Party, with Bachmann a distant second with 21% support from this group. Perry barely leads Romney among non-Tea Party members 27% to 24%, but this marks a interesting change from the previous survey when Romney held a double-digit lead over Perry among these voters.

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of primary voters hold a favorable opinion of Perry, with 38% Very Favorable. Bachmann is viewed favorably by 71%, with 32% who share a Very Favorable regard for her.

Romney has slightly higher overall favorable rating – 77% – than Perry and Bachmann, but there’s less enthusiasm in his support. Only 21% hold a Very Favorable opinion of him.

Roughly one-in-five hold an unfavorable view of the three front-runners.

Paul, who emerged as a Cinderella of sorts from the Saturday straw poll, is viewed favorably by 43% and unfavorably by 45%. Gingrich is in a similar position with favorables of 48% and unfavorables of 43%.

For Cain, Santorum, Huntsman and McCotter, name recognition is still a problem, with at least one-in-four primary voters still not aware of them enough to venture any kind of opinion.

It’s still very early, not a whole lot of people are paying attention except for us political junkies, and as Rove said, there might be a few more candidates throwing their hats into the ring….lots will change over the next few months I’m sure.

Now, moving away from the national to some regional polls like this Ohio poll done by PPP of 792 voters. Check out their sample…44% Democrats, 34% Republicans, and 22% Independents.

Yeeeaaaah. Should I even put up the numbers?

Anyways:

• Barack Obama 48%
• Michele Bachmann 41%

• Barack Obama 45%
• Rick Perry 41%

• Barack Obama 45%
• Mitt Romney 43%

• Barack Obama 47%
• Herman Cain 39%

Among Independents

• Barack Obama 45%
• Michele Bachmann 37%

• Mitt Romney 43%
• Barack Obama 38%

• Barack Obama 40%
• Herman Cain 38%

• Rick Perry 40%
• Barack Obama 35%

And lastly check out these two polls and tell me what’s weird:

Colorado:

• Rick Perry 20%
• Mitt Romney 20%
• Michele Bachmann 12%
• Ron Paul 8%
• Herman Cain 7%
• Newt Gingrich 6%
• Tim Pawlenty 3%
• Jon Huntsman 2%
• Someone else/Undecided 11%

And North Carolina

• Rick Perry 17%
• Mitt Romney 17%
• Herman Cain 11%
• Newt Gingrich 10%
• Michele Bachmann 9%
• Ron Paul 7%
• Tim Pawlenty 2%
• Jon Huntsman 1%
• Someone else/Undecided 9%

Perry has tied Romney in Colorado! And Romney has tied Perry in North Carolina!

Twilight zone time.

Granted, these were conducted last week prior to the Ames poll so the numbers will have changed already, with Bachmann gaining ground, but still plenty weird.

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Terry McAuliffe was a legendary Clinton fund raiser. Al Gore called him “the greatest fundraiser in the universe.”

McAuliffe also had the Midas Touch. In 1998 he invested $100,000 into something called Global Crossing and within 18 months had $18 million in his pocket. In less than four years Global Crossing went bankrupt, but McAuliffe knew to cash out well ahead of that. There’s more of this sordid affair here.

McAuliffe is the person who put the White House up for auction.

According to one source, “McAuliffe’s soft money strategy was responsible for President Clinton’s 1996 scandal concerning the Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers and the White House coffees, two tactics employed to solicit huge donations from wealthy friends and patrons of the Clintons.”

McAuliffe convinced the gullible Huffington Post that he is committed to green energy and green jobs.

The former Democratic National Committee chairman and father of five has gone on a green crusade to bring renewable energy jobs and industrial dynamism to his home state. The Commonwealth of Virginia is today at a cross-roads between old and new, between colonial conventional and diverse cosmopolitan, and it shares in the suffering that all states now experience, lack of jobs.

Whenever you hear a democrat talking green, think green- as in dead Presidents. And hang on tightly to your wallet. I have also noticed that as soon as someone says the word “green” or “renewable” left wingers stop thinking.

Yes, it’s the same and he is back in China, and back in the fundraising business. This time, he promises to bring 300,000 cars to China. Made in America by Americans. Assembled in China. In that new factory which is going up behind the two gentlemen.

How exactly could this be done profitably?

McAuliffe has joined something called Greentech Automotive:

Wang is CEO, McAuliffe is Chairman. According to some accounts, Xiaolin “Charles” Wang was still with Yang Rong a.k.a. Benjamin Yeung when Greentech was founded in 2006. According to the puff-piece Wikipedia article, the founding happened 2008, and Hybrid Kinetic did never exist in Wang’s illustrious career.

and is now raising funds for that company. Greentech Automotive has been described this way:

“Greentech Automotive is the hybrid vehicle firm founded by the former CEO of Brilliance with plans to build a plant in Mississippi with funds raised through the EB-5 visa program. Not to be confused with Hybrid Kinetic Motors, the hybrid vehicle firm founded by the former Chairman of Brilliance with plans to build a plant in Alabama with funds raised through the EB-5 visa program.”

The EB-5 visa program?

Both (Greentech and Hybrid Kinetic) attracted investors via the EB-5 visa program, a scheme which the Center for Immigration Studies along with many others call either “a scam” or “investor fraud.”

Allegedly, if someone invests $500,000 in an underprivileged part of America, green cards for the “investor” and the immediate family beckon. There are a lot of Chinese who paid much more to enter the U.S. illegally, so that’s considered a great deal. Some killjoys claim the investment must be “active” and the investor must be involved in managing the company. Minor detail.

Alabama is considering throwing millions at HK Motors, to which Edmunds Automotive has said

“Pouring millions of state funds into an untried automaker headed by an entrepreneur with a question mark hanging over his head (he says he’s done nothing wrong, that the charges against him in China are politically motivated) is something that’s ought to require a heck of a lot of due diligence on the part of state officials.”

More on Yang Rong, the President of Hybrid Kinetic Motors:

“But in 2002, after feuding with a Chinese provincial governor over the location of a new factory, Yang found himself charged with unspecified economic crimes. He fled the country under a false passport for Los Angeles, where he joined his wife and four children. Most of his own personal wealth had to be abandoned in China.”

Automotive News missed the good part. The dispute was about more than a location of a plant. It was about who owns what of Brilliance, a company that became the first Chinese corporation listed at the NYSE after 50 years. According to this account in the China Auto Review, Yang “was forced out as chairman of Brilliance China and served a warrant for allegedly committing “economic crimes of embezzlement of state assets” in late 2002.” Here is one of the many lengthy court documents, in case you have the time.

Wang was Rong’s lawyer.

A legal fallout between Yang and Wang split Greentech into two entities- Greentech and HK Motors.

Now Greentech and HK Motors are competing, promising new plants and thousands of jobs for either Alabama or Mississippi.

And this is supposed to turn the city of Ordos, Mongolia into a new Detroit.

Ordos is a city built for a million people.

It stands empty today.

And Terry McAuliffe is the chief fund raiser for Greentech. This is supposed to be a green initiative, but it smells like a landfill. The Green Revolution has seen AL Gore’s net worth skyrocket to $100 million. It seems McAuliffe wants in too.

If you recall the movie “Ghostbusters” you’ll remember that slime was always green.

Liberals:

President Obama: “It’s been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we’re not even halfway there yet. When I said `change we can believe in,’ I didn’t say `change we could believe in tomorrow.’ Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we’ve got this big, messy, tough democracy.”

President Barack Obama: “So, when Congress gets back in September I want to move quickly on things that will help the economy create jobs right now. Extending the payroll tax credit to put a thousand dollars in the pocket of the average American worker. Extending unemployment insurance to help people get back on their feet. Putting construction workers back to work rebuilding America.”

WH press secretary Jay Carney: “The White House doesn’t create jobs.”

Obama: “My singular focus is the American people. Getting the unemployed back on the job.”

Chris Matthews: “If Boeing doubled its contract with Air Force planes, that would be great news in Seattle and some other areas where they’re operating. In Houston, it’s space. In the southwest of Virginia, it’s Bobby Byrd!  Jack Murtha in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Why do people have this disconnect?  They know that the government creates jobs.  Every time in our life, we know that WWII saved us economically.  All our experience locally and historically is the government creates jobs.  And then you hear Eric Cantor, with this new cant of his, this religious notion of some kind, that somehow this belief in small business means that government shouldn’t do anything. Small business is the area of the economy that does best when government spends money. What’s he talking about?  …We studied this in school, we learn it from history.”

White House press secretary Jay Carney: “Over the past weeks and months the President repeatedly called for substantial deficit reduction through both long-term entitlement changes and revenues through tax reform, with additional measures to spark jobs and strengthen our recovery.  That is why the President pushed for a grand bargain that would include all of these elements and require compromise and cooperation from all sides.”  The key word here is revenue; I don’t recall any specifics from Obama about entitlement reform, apart from him mentioning that he might look at means testing.

Christine Romer, President Obama’s first chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, on the credit downgrading of the U.S.: “[The U.S. is] pretty darn f___ed.”

Claire McCaskill: “There is a philosophical difference between Democrats and Republicans and it is pretty simple: they have voted to keep giving tax check to billionairs while they voted to convert medicare to a voucher system.  How can you be more willing topush money—public money—to the most profitable corporations and, at the same time, you are willing to dismantle medicare.”

Senate majority leader Harry Reid: “It`s been a pretty hard work period we’ve had. The last two weekends, working late. And I think the Senate deserves to be able to go home as soon as we can. If there was ever a time we need to work with our constituents, it’s now. And for me personally, I’ve been here for a long time. I have a home in Nevada that I haven’t seen in months. My pomegranate trees are, I’m told, are blossoming – there’s pomegranates on them, I have some fig trees, roses and stuff that I just haven’t seen. So I have constituents that I’m anxious to see, friends I’m eager to visit with, relatives I need to visit with. So as soon as we can complete our work, I would like to move as quick as I can to the summer recess period.”

Joe Biden to Gabby Giffords: “Now we’re both members of the `Cracked Head Club.’”  Ms. Giffords had been shot in the head in Arizona and had come to the House to vote on the compromise bill.

Former presidential candidate John Kerry: “And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.  It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?”  So, it is the news’s job and moral duty to see that some viewpoints are not given much air time.  You never hear a conservative say this.  In fact, I feature more liberals than anyone else on this Say What? column.   I want everyone to know what they say; I want liberals I know to hear what they say.

Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn.org: “It’s hard to see how we avoid a Tea-Party recession if the president who has the biggest megaphone in the country is not willing to speak clearly on the issue.”

Actor Matt Damon: “I really don’t mind paying more taxes.”

Hillary Clinton: “Like it or hate it, it is really effective.  In fact, viewership of Al-Jazeera is going up in the United States because it is real news.  You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news that is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.”
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Open letter from the patriotic millionaires: “Dear Mr President

We are writing to urge you to put our country ahead of politics.

For the fiscal health of our nation and the well-being of our fellow citizens, we ask that you increase taxes on incomes over $1,000,000.”
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Al Gore on those who do not believe in global warming: “They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: `This climate thing, it’s nonsense. . .’ Bullshit! `It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! `It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!”

California Gov. Jerry Brown: “I would say that the Republicans are gearing up to destroy the president, that the president will have to respond in a very powerful way, and the result for the country could be calamitous.”

The Adoring Obama Press:

NY Times columnist Paul Krugman:  “On one hand, there is a case to be made that the madness of the right has made America a fundamentally unsound nation. And yes, it is the madness of the right: if not for the extremism of anti-tax Republicans, we would have no trouble reaching an agreement that would ensure long-run solvency.”

Chris Matthews: “You know I’m pretty pro-Obama in many ways. I sort of like the spirit of his administration. I like the whole direction its taken in terms of responsibility and what it stands for in our country’s history”

Good Morning America had on Mellody Hobson, a regular ABC “financial contributor” and former host of her own ABC financial-advice show:  “Now they [Standard & Poor’s] come in, and they flex. As if they’ve been, you know, this bastion of, of correctness, when they’ve completely been wrong.  So now, everything that they do is suspect, in my view.”  ABC never mentions that “financial expert” Hobston was an Obama fundraiser in 2008.

Yahoo Finance economics editor Daniel Gross: “In downgrading the U.S.’s credit rating, S&P points out what has long been obvious: Washington’s inability to come to an agreement on how to close the large fiscal gaps that have emerged since the recession began is troubling. Recent events have sapped the agency’s confidence that the government can and will do what is necessary to align revenues with spending commitments. And it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that America’s credit rating was intentionally sabotaged by Congressional Republicans.  It has long been obvious to all observers — to economists, to politicians, to anti-deficit groups, to the ratings agencies — that closing fiscal gaps will require tax increases, or the closure of big tax loopholes, or significant tax reform that will raise significantly larger sums of tax revenue than the system does now. Today, taxes as a percentage of GDP are at historic lows. Marginal rates on income and investments are at historic lows. Corporate tax receipts as a percentage of GDP are at historic lows. Perhaps taxes don’t need to rise this year or next, but they do need to go up in the future.”

Liberals from the past:

FoxNews Interviewer Peter Barnes: “Is there a risk the US could lose its AAA credit rating, yes or no?”

Tim Geithner: “No risk of that”

Barack Obama, In his State of the Union address on Jan. 25, 2011: “We are poised for progress.  Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up. The economy is growing again.”

Liberals being civil:

John Kerry on the TEA party types and those who want to balance the budget: “These people have been irresponsible, and reckless and absolutest. And what we need are people who are prepared to negotiate in good faith and protect certain interests of our country. We’ve got to invest in jobs.”

Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) at a closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting, “We have negotiated with terrorists.  This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.”

Steven Rattner, “Morning Joe” economic analyst: “It’s like a form of economic terrorism. I imagine these Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying either you do it my way or we’re going blow you up, ourselves up and the whole country up with us. So you tell me how those kinds of standoffs ends.”

Michael Eric Dyson, sociologist professor: “Once having been successful at blindfolding the American public, putting a gun to the president’s head, forcing him to read into law or to sign into law this extraordinary act of, I think, unpatriotic and irrational frenzy, I think that now they are emboldened.”

Former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean: “This is a tea party problem.  They are totally unreasonable and doctrinaire and not founded in reality. I think they’ve been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it.”

Van Jones, Center for American Progress: “Any faction in America that would put a gun to the head of 310 million people and say if you don’t do it our way we will blow your dreams away, we will blow a hole in the American economy, that is un-American.”

New York Times columnist Joe Nocera: “The country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible.”

Bernie Goldberg on the Obama media complex calling TEA party members terrorists: “These are people who won’t call real terrorists, terrorists.”

Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver called the compromise legislation a “sugar-coated Satan sandwich.”

Crazy Muslims:

London Islamist Abu Waleed: “What is the nightmare on Downing Street? The nightmare on Downing Street, my dear brothers, is when the door of 10 Downing Street is kicked down by one monotheist, and the Caliph walks in and establishes the shari’a,”

Audience member: “Say: Allah Akbar.”

Audience: “Allah Akbar!”

Abu Waleed: “The nightmare on Downing Street, my dear brothers, is when one monotheist pulls a rope, and raises the banner of “There is no god but Allah” above the Big Ben. The nightmare on Downing Street is when one monotheist flies a helicopter all the way to the top of the Big Ben. He removes those numbers, and replaces them with Arabic numbers. That is the nightmare of Downing Street, my dear brothers.  As you all understand, we, as Muslims, are not those types of coconut-chocolate moderate Muslims – the ones who bow their heads down to the government. Rather, we are the ones who want to work for the sake of Allah, to establish the manifestation of Islam, and make sure that David Cameron comes on his hands and knees, and give us the jiziya – yeah, that’s right – and cover up all the women and put a niqab on their faces, including Queen Elizabeth and Kate Middleton, the whore, the fornicator.”

Liberals making sense:

NYT Op-Ed Columnist, Joe Nocera: “I wrote a column comparing the Tea Party Republicans to terrorists. The words I chose were intemperate and offensive to many, and I’ve been roundly criticized. I was a hypocrite, the critics said, for using such language when on other occasions I’ve called for a more civil politics. In the cool light of day, I agree with them. I apologize.”

China’s official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary: “The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone.  To cure its addiction to debts, the United States has to re-establish the common sense principle that one should live within its means.”

Obama: “We’ve gotta make sure that Washington lives within its means, just like families do.”

Crosstalk:

George Will: All of the people comparing the Tea Party to suicide bombers, one of whom is Steve [Rattner] here.

Christiane Amanpour: I don’t think he said that, did he?

Will: Yes.

Steve Rattner, MSNBC economic analyst and former obama administration car czar: No.

Roberts: Terrorists are suicide bombers.

Will: I can read you the transcript from the morning show.

Rattner: I was there. I was there.

Will: I understand, I was watching.
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What Rattner said on MSNBC: “You know, the problem with this is it’s like a form of economic terrorism. I imagine these Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying, ‘either you do it my way, or we’re going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up with us.’ So you tell me how those kinds of standoffs end.”

Whatever:

Hitler: “Was the teleprompter guy out of town or something?”

Conservatives:

Congressman Allen West (Fl-22) released this statement: “Happy 50th Birthday Mr. President! While surprises are for birthdays, it is no surprise to the American people that your failed economic policies – from TARP to your health care bill – have resulted in disaster for our economy. Since taking office, unemployment has remained at or near 9 percent for 28 months, America has added $3.4 trillion in debt in 29 months – the equivalent of about $4 billion per day – we have an anemic housing market with record foreclosures, and an average price of nearly $4 for a gallon of gas. Even your budget did not receive one single vote in the United States Senate – and the icing on the cake – a stock market slide of nearly 800 points in the last 5 days.  While it may be hard to hear the American people’s frustration over the pop of the champagne corks and R&B bands at your $30,000/person birthday party, the citizens of this nation are suffering under your failed leadership. The best present you can give the American people will be for you and your failed economic policies to be defeated in November of 2012.”

Charles Krauthammer on why President Obama won’t let overseas money travel back into the U.S.: “When he sees a trillion dollars over there untaxed, it gives him pain.”

Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty: “My goodness, it’s his [Obama’s] economy; he’s been president for 3 years.  He’s inept.”

Neil Cavuto, when going to commercial, after explaining to a liberal Congressman the percentage the rich pay in taxes, and have him come back with “the rich need to pay their fair share”: “I beg you to stop.”

Nicolle Wallace: “Only in Washington is a lesser increase in spending called a cut.”

Michelle Malkin: “You can’t conduct a stealth, carefully -organized campaign the way you used to anymore; if you just go on twitter anytime of the day, Mitt Romney’s habit of issuing statements about the importance policy debates of the day, hours after these things have been decided—days, weeks, months—has become a running punch line.  This is going to be a continuing chronic problem for him.”

Peggy Noonan: “[Obama] is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.”

Amilya Antonetti (a small businesswoman): “He’s not going to be known as the first Black president; he’s going to be known as the president to have a downgrade.”

Mary Katherine Hamm (tongue-in-cheek): “That stimulus [law] was super-awesome.”

Texas Governor Rick Perry, at the prayer-fest: “He’s a wise, wise God, and He’s wise enough not to be affiliated with any political party.”

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal: “It pays to be stubborn.  The press is constantly urging compromise. They root for it like it is the highest possible virtue, the sign of true maturity and achievement in life.”

From Conservative Review #190  (HTML)  (PDF)

Crossposted from The Pacific Gate Post

The developed world, and most of the struggling third world, as much as it may pretend otherwise for politically expedient reasons, is depending on an American economic turnaround. This means that the world is in fact awaiting, not for Washington to solve its debt crisis, not for a forestalling of Obama’s armageddon, not for resolutions of budget deficits, but for the resurgence of America’s unique brand of entrepreneurialism.

American entrepreneurs have always been the consummate optimists, whose innovation, creativity, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and financial diligence, have produced the most successful economic engine in history. Entrepreneurs have independently created companies, big and small, that have sustained the tests of time and market adversities, and some have gone on to become international behemoths.

Today, America is spinning and twisting under leadership that vilifies businesses and maligns corporate America. It imposes laws, and institutes structural dictates that push entrepreneurship into the realm of the nearly impossible. An administration that promotes a climate of government growth and government dependence, is promoting the destruction of the fundamental and positive core of the human spirit that makes for a dynamic society.

When government grows faster than the private sector, net productivity shrinks. Such is the trend in America. It would be a complete waste of time to look to Washington for ideas or programs that might actually be helpful to any advancement of the entrepreneurial exercise. Furthermore, let’s not look to those glad-handers, who’ve gravitated to the beltway to rub shoulders with this Administration, for any answers. The agenda is being manipulated by less than a handful of ideologues behind Obama. Everything else is showcasing and pretense for the masses, accomplishing nothing positive toward improving productivity or increasing GDP.

Not everyone is cut out to become an entrepreneur, however, the urgent need for supporting entrepreneurship is now more manifest than at any time in the past century. Far too broad a swath of the MSM has been supportively trumpeting the Obama Administration’s ideological convictions and hostility toward corporate America. Too many Americans are sliding into the slothful perception that heaping taxation on those who “have,” is an answer to deficits produced by bloated government spending.

Since America’s earliest days, entrepreneurs have disseminated enthusiasm and passion for success which has been contagious. American entrepreneurs champion the work ethic while playing by the country’s rules and laws that much of the world may not emulate, but furtively admires. I say “may not emulate” because, as we have discovered in so many other socio-political environments including China, laws and decency don’t often matter.

In high schools, colleges and universities, students should be encouraged to break new ground for themselves as new entrepreneurs, rather than to go out and “find a job.” It’s always easier and is the default to pursue the latter, but some encouragement is required to attempt the former. Educational institutions should place more emphasis on the stimulation of entrepreneurial thinking, and should allocate class time and courses to the encouragement of new entrepreneurs. You may not be able to “teach” entrepreneurialism, but you can certainly induce its discovery, and inspire its actualization.

Some entrepreneurs may be born, but entrepreneurialism is also a mindset that can be ignited and nurtured, and its required skills developed. More effort should be addressed to cultivating the perception that entrepreneurs are among the most positive contributors to a vibrant and successful society. They are critical to the economic health of America. The entrepreneurial attitude is the antithesis of the union led bureaucratic morass that has grown out of control, and clogged the wheels of progress and the financial well being of companies.

Typically the entrepreneurs who grab public attention are those who cut new trails in technology, however, any new business, in any industry, that can be formed to employ at least one person, is a step in the right direction. America has no choice but to reverse the current trend toward disaster. The Nation must enthusiastically promote entrepreneurialism and its optimistic perseverance.

The world looks forward to America’s new entrepreneurs and the energy they will inject into the world’s most consequential economy.

During the one-sided health care “debate” Nancy Pelosi found an interesting source for funding the program- cuts in Medicare.

(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said today that Congress will pay for half of the $1 trillion health care reform bill that President Obama wants enacted by “squeezing” Medicare and Medicaid to wring out what she called “waste, fraud, abuse, redundancy, obsolescence and whatever it is.”

Pelosi was asked at her weekly press briefing if she agreed with President Obama that much of the health care reform plan can be paid for by cutting Medicare and Medicaid.

“Half the bill will be paid for by squeezing excesses out of the [Medicare and Medicaid] system, and there is $500 billion dollars to do that and we’re looking for more,” Pelosi said. “That can be achieved–waste, fraud, abuse, redundancy, obsolescence, whatever it is. Squeeze it out of the system; and that means out of the providers and the rest as well.”

Of course, Pelosi had two full years to find and eliminate that waste without any interference from Republicans.

Fail.

Fast forward to April, 2011. About those cuts? That waste? That fraud? That redundancy? That obsolescence?

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent a message to House Republicans about their proposed 2012 budget that would reform entitlement spending, stating on Friday: “Hands off our Medicare.”

At a press conference with Democratic leaders outside the U.S. Capitol building, Pelosi said, “This budget, we’ve always said we will judge every initiative that comes before us as to whether it creates jobs, as it reduces the deficit, strengthens the middle class and continues the economic growth of our economy. This budget does none of the above as it ends Medicare. Hands off our Medicare! Hands off our Medicare!”

How about June?

Nah.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Sunday described negotiations to raise the debt limit as “civil and constructive,” but reiterated that any Republican proposal that cuts Medicare benefits for seniors is a “nonstarter.”

“There is a bipartisan discussion going on that is civil and constructive, and that they’ve come to some areas where they can possibly reach agreement. But nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to,” the California Democrat said.

“But I welcome this line of questioning because this is a place where we’re looking how we go forward with a sound fiscal policy to reduce the deficit,” she added, “and I could never support any arrangement that reduce benefits for Medicare.”

Democrat cuts to Medicare= Good
Republican cuts to Medicare= Bad

On July 5, Obama sought his inner Gandhi:

“I believe that right now we’ve got a unique opportunity to do something big, to tackle our deficit in a way that forces our government to live within its means, that puts our economy on a stronger footing for the future and still allows us to invest in that future,” Obama said.

So what happened to his first budget this year? Was it something big? Was it something to tackle our deficit? Was it something that would put us on stronger footing for the future? Or was it something blasted 97-0 by the Senate? So when did Obama have this epiphany? I’d say it was April 4, 2011.

Obama had this wisdom to offer:

“It’s my hope that everybody’s going to leave their ultimatums at the door, that we’ll all leave our political rhetoric at the door, and that we’re going to do what’s best for our economy and do what’s best for our people.”

Leave the political rhetoric at the door? You mean like this?

During a news conference at the White House, Obama expressed impatience with lawmakers, saying that they’re not working as hard as he does — or even as hard as his young daughters do to get their homework done.

“They don’t wait until the night before. They’re not pulling all-nighters,” Obama said at his first full-fledged question-and-answer session since March. “Congress can do the same thing. … If you know you’re going to do something, just do it.”

And more of that “leaving the political rhetoric at the door” thing:

“If everyone else is willing to take on their sacred cows and do tough things in order to achieve the goal of real deficit reduction, I think it will be hard for Republicans to stand there and say a tax break for corporate jets is sufficiently important that we’re not willing to come to the table and get a deal done,” Obama said.

It was so partisan, so crass that Mark Halperin called Obama a “dick.”

Evan Thomas had his own religious experience. Thomas’ epiphany saw him convert from referring to Obama as “sort of a god” to a “God D*mn democrat.”

For the first time in a very long time, Thomas got it right.

“Yeah, because it’s happened before – Obama has got to be President of the United States,” Thomas said. “He has to be two things. He has to make a public case of how bad is this, because he is not doing that. He’s not being honest about just how bad this is going to be — no, he was partisan. He was God [bleep] Democrat! He was just, you know – being a party guy. I applaud the energy but it wasn’t getting me anywhere. He has got to rise above that and then in private, in private – he’s got to make a deal.”

Obama said one thing well:

“A lot of people say a lot of things to satisfy their base or to get on cable news,” Obama said. “Hopefully, leaders at a certain point rise to the occasion and do the right thing for the American people. That’s what I expect to happen this time. Call me naive, but my expectation is leaders are going to lead.”

They are going to lead. They are not going to whine. They are not going to be bloody hypocrites. They are not going to play golf and then claim to do nothing but work. They are not going to campaign for re-election and claim not to leave town.

democrats are so full of crap.

UPDATE: Let’s revisit this for a second:

“It’s my hope that everybody’s going to leave their ultimatums at the door, that we’ll all leave our political rhetoric at the door…”

And no sooner had the internet ink on that dried, when

President Barack Obama says the debt ceiling should not “be used as a gun against the heads” of Americans to retain breaks for corporate jet owners or oil and gas companies.

“Gun against the head”

You just can’t make this stuff up. Which is more of why you’re an idiot to believe anything Obama says.

So you thought the economy was bad before? You ain’t seen nothin’.

After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Interior Secretary Ken Salazar unveiled the Obama policy for businesses in the US:

So the administration has embraced the violent imagery of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar who said administration officials would keep their “boot on the throat” of the energy giant to make sure the company does all it can and more to address the problems caused by its uncontrolled ocean gusher.

Holding a “boot to the throat” of business has been exactly what this administration has done. Now Barack Obama transitions from President to dictator.

And here comes the deathblow for the United States economy. Obama is ruling by edict that which he could not achieve legislatively.

WASHINGTON — In the next weeks and months, Lisa P. Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is scheduled to establish regulations on smog, mercury, carbon dioxide, mining waste and vehicle emissions that will affect every corner of the economy.

She is working under intense pressure from opponents in Congress, from powerful industries, from impatient environmentalists and from the Supreme Court, which just affirmed the agency’s duty to address global warming emissions, a project that carries profound economic implications.

Obama is proving that he has not learned from his failed stimulus, nor from his imposition of Obamacare, nor from his

knee-jerk over-regulation of banking.

Banks are less able or willing to lend than before the recession. Since the recovery started, banks have reduced money they make available through credit card lines from $3.04 trillion to $2.69 trillion and have reduced home equity credit lines from $1.33 trillion to $1.15 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Policy makers, meanwhile, are reluctant to do more to stimulate economic growth. The Federal Reserve has already pushed short-term interest rates to near zero. Two rounds of quantitative easing that including purchasing $1.425 trillion in mortgage bonds and $900 billion in Treasury debt helped to stabilize the economy but failed to spur a vigorous recovery.

He has not learned from his clumsy and obvious attempt to manhandle Boeing into obeying the demands of unions, even though unions have crippled Boeing repeatedly.

Boeing first sought to build the new plant near its existing facility in Puget Sound, but negotiations with the International Association of Machinists broke down when the union refused to agree to a long-term no-strike clause. The IAM had struck four times since 1989, costing Boeing at least $1.8 billion in revenue.

Barack Obama cannot issue new regulations fast enough, and those regulations are having a strong and negative effect on the economy:

“In fiscal year 2010, federal agencies promulgated 43 major new regulations,” the letter said. “These regulations ranged from new limits on ‘effluent’ discharges to new rules for Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations. The new limits on ‘effluent’ discharges from construction sites will cost $810.8 million annually resulting in the closure of 147 construction firms and the loss of 7,257 jobs.”

The Obama administration estimated the cost of the 43 new regulations to be approximately $28 billion — “the highest single year increase in estimated burden on record, resulting in thousands of lost jobs,” the letter said. “This new burden is on top of the $1.75 trillion estimated burden of existing regulations.”

Obama is determined to achieve his personal vision, no matter what the cost to the country.

Ms. Jackson said she intended to go forward with new, tougher air- and water-quality rules, including those that address climate change, despite Congressional efforts to override her authority and even a White House initiative to weed out overly burdensome regulations.

The first of these new rules is expected to be announced Thursday, imposing tighter restrictions on soot and smog emissions from coal-burning power plants in 31 states east of the Rockies. The regulation is expected to lead to the closing of several older plants and will require the installation of scrubbers at many of those that remain in operation. One former E.P.A. administrator, William K. Reilly, who served under the first President George Bush, is a sometime adviser to Ms. Jackson. He said she was taking fire from all sides.

Not enough fire, obviously.

Electricity costs will skyrocket, as Obama promised. Jackson is addressing climate change even though is far from a settled issue. A generation ago the same scientists were promising a new ice age.

Rep. Edward Whifield (R-KY) had this to say:

“It is unprecedented the number of major regulations this administration is putting out,” he said, “and I can’t tell you how many calls and meetings and letters I have asking, ‘Is there any way to slow E.P.A. down?’ “”What’s troubling to us, is that President Obama on the one hand is saying we have to be really careful about these regulations and consider the impact on jobs and the economy, but over at the agency they’re just going full speed ahead with minimal attention or analysis on job impact.”

Ed Lasky has characterized Obama’s actions as a “war on cheap American energy” and he is right.

Barack Obama’s EPA has been on a crusade to kill off efforts to boost America’s domestic energy supplies. We are now among the least attractive nations for energy companies seeking to explore and develop energy supplies. The American people are waking up to the man-made disaster that Barack Obama has created. Three quarters of Americans now think our oil and gas resources are under-exploited. Yet, Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are doing all they can do kill carbon and jam down our throats ruinously expensive and uneconomic green schemes that benefit their donors.

And John Hinderaker at Powerline defines the goal of Obama’s efforts:

The cornerstone belief of American liberals is that the United States is too rich and too powerful. And, if you want to make America poorer and weaker, the easiest way to do so is by preventing the development of our energy resources. Such a policy hobbles our economy and causes massive transfers of wealth from the U.S. to other countries, many of which are hostile. Liberals think this is all to the good, but pretty much every other American disagrees.

For your entertainment:

Obama promises to cut government imposed business regulations

President Obama published an article in The Wall Street Journal’s opinion column in its Tuesday edition calling for a government-wide overhaul of business regulations. Instead of giving a well choreographed and planned speech, the President wrote a declaration promising to cut unnecessary and outdated restrictions on businesses. Obama acknowledges in the piece that some of the government regulations in place have stifled growth and aided to a sluggish economy. The Administration, therefore, hopes to seek a balance with a designated review of what needs to be adjusted and removed so that the economy, and small businesses in particular, can thrive.

Obama blames everything and everyone else for the poor economy, including jet owners and ATM’s.

Businesses are pleading for relief

From rules on greenhouse gas emissions to labor agreements for construction projects, business owners and industry advocates testified on Thursday that federal agencies had imposed unworkable and excessive regulations that are eliminating American jobs and driving work overseas.

During a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, business representatives bemoaned a host of regulations the Obama administration had imposed during the past two years. Some witnesses criticized labor rules they claimed prevent companies from bidding on federal contracts. Others blasted the paperwork burdens associated with the new health care law.

But, no matter the rule in question, the complaints echoed a similar refrain — the cost and time associated with complying with federal regulations were strangling the private sector.

“If regulatory burden continues to grow we, along with all other private sector companies, will no longer be able to compete in the world market,” said Michael Fredrich, president of MCM Composites, a small Wisconsin business. “Jobs will not be created and new businesses will not be formed. You will suffocate the system that has produced everything we enjoy today. It is that simple.”

but no relief is in sight.

Obama has crushed the housing market. He has crushed the financial markets. Now he crushes the energy market.

There will be no recovery while Barack Obama is President.

There can be no recovery while Barack Obama is President.

Barack Obama is the reason there is no recovery.

Only when Barack Obama is gone will there be be a robust recovery. Obama’s boot must be lifted from all of our throats.

A slick take on the predictions on the economy by the Obama administration offers proof that the country would have been better off without the costly $850 billion stimulus package.

With the news out this morning that the unemployment rate has risen to 9.1%, it’s as good a time as any to revisit the impact of the White House’s stimulus package. According to the predictions the administration’s own economic advisers made at the time, we may have been better off doing nothing.

In January 2009, the office of the president-elect released a study to promote the then-proposed stimulus bill. Titled “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan,” it was written by economists Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein.

In it, the White House argued that with the stimulus plan, unemployment would peak around 8% by the end of 2009 and would be well below 7% today. If, on the other hand, Congress did not pass the stimulus package, it warned that unemployment would rise to about 9% in 2010 and be around 8% today. The then-Democratic-majority Congress passed the stimulus by the end of the month.

And the conclusion?

Nevertheless, the bottom line is this: Not only did the stimulus not provide the boost that was promised, but the $819 billion hole it blew in the budget only exacerbated economic uncertainty in a nation already worried about its deficit. Under the White House’s own predictions, had Congress done nothing, the economy would be better off.

The policies of this administration are consistent. If it will fail, let’s do it.

Anthony Weiner has himself in a pickle. He maintains the Weiner twitter account was hacked and he is really hacked off about the situation. One of his close followers, a twenty one year old college student is unimpressed, the Weiner photo was for her, but it was shared with the world. The new wife Huma Abedin, a beautiful exotic beauty, is undoubtably confused as well; she thought Weiner was her’s alone.

Without a doubt, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner is having a tough week. There was an erotic photo of protruding underpants sent to a Seattle co-ed’s Twitter account from Weiner’s Twitter Account. The young woman, once referred to Weiner as her “boyfriend”, follows Weiner on her Twitter Account. The offending photo appeared immediately after Weiner had tweeted about his TV appearance airing in Seattle.

Weiner maintains that he was hacked, as a congressman, the son of a lawyer, he knows it is time to call the FBI. but instead of calling the FBI, Weiner has hired a lawyer, for himself!

Weiner is saying it is “time to move on” and there is no doubt that he desperately wants to move on, but when you are the victim of a crime, you and the public want justice. Weiner claims there are bigger more important issues: health care, the deficit, the supreme court. However, the more you try to hide a crime, the more it appears centered on you. When there is a crime, you should expect a criminal investigation; unless, you meant to send a manly picture of yourself in your boxers to a young college girl you’ve been flirting with and you punched the wrong button. That’s not a crime, just the innocent actions of a pervert.

Weiner is maintaining his innocence, besides all 49 year old men send secret messages to 21 year old college students; why would anyone think Weiner was not Kosher. Weiner is known for dramatic tirades on the floor; unfortunately, no one really took the diminutive Weiner seriously.

Click here to view the embedded video.

That has all changed, Weiner has finally made an impression and headlines around the world. Weiner is shy about the publicity, he had no idea about it being blown out of proportion, he’d like it all to just disappear and it would if we relied on the MSM. Only Republicans who make fools of themselves are kept on the front pages for three or four weeks with their shirts off, but the web is fascinated with Congressman Weiner. Right or wrong, up or down, this Weiner issue isn’t going away. Thanks to the Web and the Weiner man who wanted to make a name for himself as a hard line Progressive.

He “can’t say with certitude”, as he invents new words to describe his unique predicament, if the picture is the real Weiner himself and his wife isn’t talking. Some think she might be upset or maybe doesn’t really care, it’s hard to say.

Abedin, a former politico for the Clintons, is known for being closed mouthed about delicate issues and she isn’t making an exception for Weiner. The only publication that has succeeded in getting Abedin to speak out is Vogue. She was profiled in 2007 and she gave details of her wedding dress in 2010.

She tied the knot with Wiener in September 2010; now, the question is will she split the sheets with Weiner because of the Weiner scandal.

Bill Clinton, the old horn dog was infatuated with Abedin. He officiated the ceremony and chatted up the big day more than she did. Only Bill would try to pick up a new bride, saying she looked “like a Dior model” and it is hard to marry a politician because it is, “easy to distrust them, whatever their religion”. Bill’s logic and definition of “is” didn’t always make sense; especially, when he was around good looking women and he needed his ashes hauled.

Fox has reported that the FBI has told them that if Weiner files a complaint, they could do all the tracing they need in “about five minutes,” and because true hacking is a federal crime, could put the perp behind bars “for years.” But Weiner just doesn’t want to waste the taxpayers’ dollars on an investigation. He would prefer, it seems, to waste the taxpayers’ time by lying to them through the media.

Now if you ask a cop who interrogates criminals or a martial artist who sizes up his opponent, they will tell you that Weiner is lying according to his evasions and inability to look the reporters in the eye. Sorry Weiner, your evasive answers and unwillingness to call in the FBI is self-incriminating; now, you are getting deeper and deeper in your lies and you are fooling no one.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, who served as Weiner’s political mentor, gave his protege a vote of confidence in the court of public opinion.

“I don’t know the details. But I know him to be a person of integrity and I am virtually certain he had nothing to do with this.

Anthony Weiner is no winner, he will probably end up resigning before he brings more disgrace upon himself and concentrate on keeping his wife, it looks like he is ready to bring the house of cards down on himself.