Can We Quote You On That, Professor Cornelius Hussein Genius?

Jeff Carter has a pretty awesome 'top 10' sort of list of some of Barry's most memorable speechifications in this column. Read 'em all via the link:

“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”

“I’ve now been in 57 states I think one left to go.”

“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today.”

“What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about. It it it would cost about the same as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to. It. It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”

“Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”

“It was interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.”

“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”

Soros-Funded Media Matters Outs Self

Well, the fig leaf is gone. Media Matters, the liberal hatchet job outfit funded by George Soros meant to expose "conservative media bias" had previously tried to pass themselves off as a 'watchdog' and 'non-partisan'.

Bzzzzzt!

Game over. In an email that seems to have been accidentally copied to the 'wrong' people, the zipper comes down, the mask comes off, the fig leaf falls to the ground:

We are hoping for a big media splash, but – more importantly – we’re hoping that allies will be able to leverage it to gain favorable coverage.

Thanks for playing, George has some fantastic parting gifts, but MM has not been tainted beyond all usefulness as they've exposed themselves of being aligned with leftists in Congress...Democrats. I, for one, will be on the lookout for any use of their 'work' in the local news to ensure that they are not portrayed as non-partisan or independent. Non-partisan/independent groups do not have "allies" who will "leverage" their 'work' in manipulating media reports.

Awesome stuff from Malkin.

Guess Who's Reaping The Rewards Of Obama's Axing Of XL?

I'm sure you'll be completely shocked at who stands to benefit from Obama axing a project designed to move oil from Canada and North Dakota to processing facilities down south. Wait until you see who Obama has enriched by this decision...

(IBD) Keystone XL was designed to transport oil from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico. It apparently also would have enabled oil producers in the booming oil fields of North Dakota to ship their product to Gulf refineries more cheaply.

Keystone XL would help to advance further development of the oilfields in the Bakken Shale formation, which has led to an economic boom in North Dakota...

Now Bakken producers say they'll be dependent on railway tank cars — Buffett's railway tank cars.

Many of the rail shipments from the Bakken fields are being handled by Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co., which has more than 1,000 miles of track in the region.

Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, has agreed to buy BNSF in a deal valuing the railroad at $34 billion. Berkshire already owns 22% of Burlington Northern...

That's right...liberal buddy and prop for Obama's demagoguery*, Warren Buffet, stands to gain handsomely from Obama's decision not to give the go-ahead to Keystone XL. Enriching the rich at the expense of thousands of (union) construction jobs and further protection from having to buy oil from terrorists.

Did we mention that Buffet's company still owes the government a billion in taxes?

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*Obama's Big Six State of the Union Tax Myths

• "We need to change our tax code so that people like me, and an awful lot of members of Congress, pay our fair share of taxes."

...As a result, the richest 1% today accounts for 36% of all income taxes paid, while nearly half of taxpayers owe nothing at all, or get cash back. If that isn't fair, Obama owes it to the country to describe just what sort of distribution would be fair.

• "Right now, because of loopholes and shelters in the tax code, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle-class households."

Even Obama's own Treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, couldn't back up this claim when asked about it by reporters...

• "Right now, we're poised to spend nearly $1 trillion more on what was supposed to be a temporary tax break for the wealthiest 2% of Americans."

The fact is that tax payments by the rich went up during the Bush years, despite the intervening tax cut...

• "Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas."

...The real problem isn't some alleged unfair tax break for unpatriotic companies; it's that the U.S. has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, which drives companies to shift operations abroad.

• "We've subsidized oil companies for a century. ... It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable."

What Obama is talking about are basic tax credits and deductions available to every other industry...Targeting oil companies for special punishment just because Obama and his environmentalist cronies don't like them is the very definition of unfairness.

How About This?

How about the GOP implement this in the spirit of 'keep it simple, stupid':

Any time Obama in the next 9 months says anything along the lines of 'do-nothing Congress' or 'gridlock' or anything like that, in any place except Washington, DC, he should be asked how they're supposed to be working with him when he's in Wherever instead of Washington where they are?

Are You Still Paying Attention To The MSM?

All I've heard on the news since Tuesday is that the GOP challengers should stop focusing on the economy because it's doing so well and people are more optimistic (yea, 30% up from 22%, par-tay!).

I laugh when I hear this.

News out today: New-home purchases fall, 2011 worst ever for sales

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans bought new homes in December. The decline made 2011 the worst year for new-home sales on records dating back nearly half a century.

The Commerce Department said Thursday new-home sales fell 2.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000. The pace is less than half the 700,000 that economists say must be sold in a healthy economy.

Obama's rockin' that economic message!

And that tax message...oh wait...his White House staffers apparently owe $800,000 in back taxes! Oops!

editoriaLIES

Kind of funny (not 'funny ha-ha') that on the same day Rex ran a column complaining about those darn lying political groups misinforming the public the Times Union ran an editorial misinforming the public (aka 'lying') about the Keystone XL pipeline. I think we know who you need to punch, Rex, and you don't even need to leave the office. Get out the abacus, cuz the lies fly in this one:

THE ISSUE:

The President rejects a massive oil pipeline.

THE REALITY:

He had no choice.

Of course he did. Lie #1.

The truth is that if anyone is to blame for the fate of the project -- which still could win presidential approval, albeit under more responsible circumstances -- it's the Republicans in Congress.

"The truth is"? That's a good one. It's also a lie. Obama could easily have given the OK that his underlings have already given after an exhaustive 3 year review. Lie #2.

Mr. Obama had no choice but to reject a plan thrust upon him last month during an unrelated debate on tax cuts.

Lie #3, it's been in review for 3 years.

Lie #4, the environmental impact statement came out in August, which is when the GOP, unions, and others began pushing for its approval since there was no major impact cited. One issue in one state was to be dealt with in revisions to the routing. It was not "thrust upon him last month" unless you want to argue that he ignored it for 5 months before being confronted with it again.

more evidence, supposedly, of Mr. Obama's inability or unwillingness to create jobs. Never mind that supporters of Keystone XL are suspected of wildly exaggerating how many workers it would employ.

See this *points at insane grin on face that may be indigestion or insanity*? That's me when I see the liberal media daring to complain about "wildly exaggerating" jobs in the same breath as "Obama", master of "jobs saved or created" and citing the completely unsubstantiated millions of jobs that were "saved or created" by the porkulus, many of which were temporary and cost on the order of $250,000 each. Hypocrites, much?

The GOP strategy backfired. It was apparent that the environmental review of a project of this magnitude could not be completed in anywhere close to the 60 days that the Republicans had demanded.

Ummm...the environmental review is DONE (see link above). There was no requirement for another review - all Obama had to do was agree with the comprehensive/exhaustive one already done...5 months ago...and side with his union buddies over his green buddies. Lie #5.

Mr. Obama's decision Wednesday doesn't preclude further review. But it will require the Keystone XL project's more sincere advocates to abandon partisanship and seriously embrace science.

Lie #6. Doesn't embrace science? Are you kidding? They're going to spend $7 billion on a pipeline they spent years designing and shepherding through reviews without meeting the "science" standards of liberal newspaper editors? This is exactly what is wrong with central planning elitists like the TU editorial staff that think they could do a better job with more "science" than a giant corporation employing (presumably) hundreds of engineers and scientists on multi-billion dollar projects.

Lie #7. Partisanship? The GOP supported it. Leftist unions supported it. The sometimes left-sometimes right Chamber of Commerce supported it. The only ones acting in a partisan manner are Obama and the media defending him for killing a project that had already been reviewed and was ready for conditional approval. All the bipartisanship appears to be on the 'support' side.

Really pathetic stuff.

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Rep. Barton apparently gave an Obama surrogate a righteous beatdown over their delay and obfuscation of the facts:

“Our concern at this point, sir, is that we did not have time to do the analysis,” said Jones, who heads the Bureau of Oceans and International Environment and Scientific Affairs...

But Barton, who had already pointed out that the administration had 40 months to examine every aspect of the project, rejected the answer, interrupting Jones.

“Well, we fought and won World War II in less time than it’s taken so far to evaluate this project,” Barton said. “I mean, with all due respect, it is an insult to the American people to say that you need more time.

“There are 10 other agencies that have reviewed this project and – correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that the Corps of Engineers approved it, the Department of Agriculture approved it, the Department of Interior approved it, the Department of Transportation approved it, the Environmental Protection Agency – believe it or not – approved it, the Defense Department approved it; the Justice Department approved it, the Homeland Security Department approved it and the Department of Commerce approved it. Only the State Department, which I believe, by law is required to look at the International implications since its trans-Canada -- only the State Department did not approve it.”

Do you need to be told who to punch, Rex?

Anybody

Anybody recall seeing a "How long does it take millionaire Obama to make your pay?"

Right.

Wanna Bet?

So I see Obama will be calling for "tax equality".

Interesting.

Will he call for lowering taxes on the rich to be closer to other people, or maybe eliminating them like 50% of American workers?

Will he call for raising taxes on the 50% of American workers that don't pay taxes? After all, is it fair that half of workers don't pay tax and the other half do?

Will he call for a flat tax, the ultimate tax equality?

Wanna bet he'll call for anything except more taxes on those that already pay more taxes?

Nah. Didn't think you would.

If

Spotted amongst the handful of pro-abortion protesters that showed up to counter the massive annual pro-life march in DC (ludicrously, CBS's local news only covered this handful and completely ignored the thousands of pro-lifers marching as if they didn't exist...which is what they wish, of course):

Now if the tables were turned, how easy would it be to right the script for flailing liberal talking heads, editorials, and mainstream news headlines if they were as pro-life as they were pro-abort? Answer? Extraordinarily easy:

So if you keep your baby you're not a good woman??? How radical and out of touch is that? How utterly neo-Malthusian. What a brave new world.

Despicable Occupiers Booted From Desecrated Churches

Remember when a pastor's laptop went missing after he took in those noble People Of The Year? Now look what they've done to his church (and others) to get them booted:

In Brooklyn, at another church housing OWS protesters, an occupier urinated on a cross, according to Rabbi Chaim Gruber, who has angrily abandoned the OWS movement.

In a letter last week to OWS obtained by The Post, the rabbi fumed, “The Park Slope church housing occupiers was desecrated when an occupier peed inside the building and the pee came into contact with a cross.”...

At West Park, Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal font’s 800-pound base. Holy water — straight from the River Jordan — had been poured from the missing basin insert into the base’s bowl...

The artifact vanished just three weeks after a $2,400 Apple MacBook vanished from Brashear’s office. He told the occupiers that even when the 100-year-old Upper West Side church extended help to addicts during the 1980s drug scourge, no visitors touched its $12,500 sacramental instrument.

“Not even crackheads messed with that,” he said.

The pastor and a worshipper finally found the missing basin tossed into a small room connected to the church. The lid is still missing. The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church.

Do the Democrats still "stand with" these people?

Press Inserts Lie Into Romney Story

Mitt Romney Reveals His Tax Records, Paid $3M in Taxes in 2010

The only information that Romney had revealed up to today was that he paid a 15 percent effective tax rate in 2010, well below what middle-income Americans pay.

100% horsesh** as pointed out by numerous sources.



Reuters apparently is also lying about it, while USA Today tells the truth.

Obama's 2012 Campaign Slogan Released

Just in time for his last State of the Union address, Obama has released his 2012 campaign slogan:

VOTE OBAMA
PUTTING DRUNKEN SAILORS TO SHAME SINCE 2009!

A THOUSAND Days (And Counting)

Congratulations to President Obama and the Democrats in the Senate. Today marks ONE THOUSAND DAYS since they last bothered to submit a budget. Despite:

8+% unemployment

trillion dollar deficits year in and year out

"We can't wait!"

the nation's loss of its perfect credit rating

record number of Americans on food stamps...

despite these, the Democrats and Obama have not found time for the past THOUSAND DAYS to sit down and actually put together a budget for our federal government, choosing instead to spout off to a sym(pathetic) press about the 'do-nothing GOP' and "extremists" that are worried about our nation's financial situation.

Say, how about another "stimulus" or a few cowboy poems?

No, instead Obama will mark the occasion by giving a speech blaming the GOP for our economic problems. And the media will soil their underthings with joy at his words.

I'm not a fan of disrupting the President's speech, but maybe before he starts a chant of "Where's your buuuuuuudgeeeeet, where's your buuuuuuuudgeeeeeet?" from the fiscally sane members? That would be sweet. Maybe just do it while he enters the chamber...extra points if you get a peanut up his uptilted nose.

As Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., points out, going budget-less for so long has devastated our economy as Democrats have spent "$9.4 trillion and added $4.1 trillion to the national debt," plus over $1 trillion in deficits...

A budget, according to the president 1,000 days ago, is necessary "to lay a new foundation for growth." He praised Reid's 2009 budget for its massive new spending, like "new investments in renewable energy that will create millions of jobs and new industries, new investments in health care that will cut costs for families and businesses, and new savings that will bring down our deficit."

Since Obama gave those assurances, the jobs haven't materialized, health insurance premiums have risen significantly in expectation of ObamaCare and the deficit has skyrocketed. (link)

Hollywood Made Him Do It And The Media Said Naught

I can't even think of an adjective strong enough to describe the level of hypocrisy on display by the left in America whose heads explode when a lone, deranged person shoots a Democrat because maybe (but of course not really) Sarah Palin provoked them, but when someone comes out and admits that a Hollywood leftwing movie prompted them to kill American servicemen, well...*YAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNNN* from the left:

The mainstream media will spend ten days losing their ever-loving minds blaming a Sarah Palin campaign map a killer never saw for that killer’s actions, but this news about a confessed terrorist admitting that a clip from Brian De Palma’s “Redacted” “prompted” him to murder two American airmen gets buried at the bottom of a Salt Lake City newspaper article:

[Arid] Uka gave a teary confession as his Frankfurt state court trial opened in August, saying that the night before the attack he had seen a video on Facebook that purported to show American soldiers raping a teenage Muslim girl. It turned out to be a scene from the 2007 Brian De Palma anti-war film “Redacted,” taken out of context.

Uka told the court the video prompted him to do anything possible to prevent American soldiers from going to Afghanistan. Under German law, the court is still required to hear all evidence in the case, even though Uka has confessed.

The defendant had already killed two U.S. airmen when he turned his pistol on Brewer, a 23-year-old from Gray, Tennessee, who was on the bus waiting with others to be taken to nearby Ramstein Air Base to fly to Afghanistan.

Did You Know

Did you know just how bad the Daley resignation is for Obama? This is the guy he replaced him with:

Jacob Lew, former budget director and Hillary Clinton loyalist, wasn't Obama's first choice to replace Bill Daley, who resigned abruptly as chief of staff...

"My sense is, as someone who has generally been familiar with these trends, the problems in the financial industry preceded deregulation," Lew answered. "I don't believe deregulation was the proximate cause." He blamed "leveraging" instead.

Did we mention he was a Citibank exec?

Did you know who he replaced Lew with at OMB?

Further undercutting Obama's attacks on Romney's background is his appointment of Jeffrey Zients to replace Lew as new acting director of the Office of Management and Budget. Zients and Romney are both alumni of Bain & Co., the Boston-based venture capital firm Romney helped found. The White House conveniently left this part of Zient's resume out of his official bio.

Did you know that Romney doesn't pay less taxes than a secretary?

As CNN put it in the first paragraph of its story, Romney's 15% tax rate means "the multimillionaire pays a smaller percentage of taxes on his income than many middle-income Americans."...

First, it's simply false that Romney's tax rate is lower than "many middle-income Americans." The middle 20% of income earners pay taxes at an average rate of just 2.3%. The next highest 20% pay at an average rate of only 6.1%.

Even when you include payroll taxes, the effective rate for families in the middle of the income spectrum is less than 13%, according to data from the Tax Policy Center.

IRS data, meanwhile, show that families with incomes of between $50,000 and $100,000 paid an average 8.9% in income taxes, while those earning between $100,000 and $200,000 paid an average 12.7%.

IBD also explains the double-taxation of capital gains. Basically, what if your employer was taxed on your salary (not their profits) before they paid you, and then you were taxed on them again. Then the press could talk apples to apples.

Romney pays less than a secretary? Nope, Romney pays more than 97% of taxpayers. Media fail.

Meet The New Tone, Same As The Old Tone

Very quick refresher on the "old tone" caused by 'conservatives':
Howard Dean intimating that Bush may have been in on 9-11 attacks.


NY's own Charlie Rangel compared fighting terrorists in Iraq to the Holocaust.

Which differs markedly from the "new tone" (now below the fold due to length):

That's The Best He Could Do?

"They rushed me!"

That's the best reason Obama could come up with for choking off yet another source of North American (aka non-terrorism affiliated) oil? This is the same guy that had to "sleep on it" on whether not to implement a planned raid to kill bin laden.

Fresh off his taking a year to listen to his generals on Afghanistan (only to go against their advice) and appointing committee after committee to propose reforms to get the economy going (only to ignore their advice), Obama now claims that he had to stop an oil pipeline and the thousands of jobs associated with getting some North American fuel flowing in our system.

Pathetic. Just pathetic.

President Obama announced Wednesday that he will deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, blaming Republicans for imposing a "rushed and arbitrary deadline" which he said did not give officials enough time...

For three years, the State Department has been reviewing the initial proposal to run a pipeline from Canada down to Texas through a sensitive Nebraska aquifer -- authority it has because of the transnational path the route takes.

King of failing to **it or get off the pot.

Mind you, this is the same jerk running around screaming about how he has to ignore Congress and the Constitution because JOBS JOBS JOBS WE CAN'T WAIT!!!! JOBS JOBS JOBS!

Did You Know

Did you know this?

The claim that America disproportionately executes blacks is a falsehood, disseminated on virtually every Left-wing website from the ACLU to all the anti-death penalty sites. The only way it can be regarded as true is if the disproportion is in relation to the entire population of the country: Blacks make up about 12% of the population and since 1976 have been about 35% of those executed for murder. But this is a statistic that tells no truth because it is meaningless in terms of determining alleged racial bias.

This is very easy to prove. Males make up about 50% of the American population but make up about 99% of those executed. Is the American justice system wildly anti-male?...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-death penalty organization, between 1976 and January 2012, 441 blacks (35% of the total) and 717 whites (55% of the total) were executed. Given that blacks committed more than half the murders during that time (52% vs. 46% by whites), if we are to assess racial bias based on proportionality of murderers executed, the system is biased against whites, not blacks.

Because this fact is both obvious and irrefutable, virtually none of the anti-death penalty sites note it. Instead they focus on the race of murder victims and even the race of prosecutors – in other words, the race of just about everyone except those convicted of murder.

And did you know that at the giant memorial just completed for the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., whose entire struggle he himself called a Christian cause, there is not a single overt mention of his religiosity, that in fact quotes were edited to remove mention of his faith?

"I want it to be known throughout Montgomery and throughout this nation that we are Christian people," King said. "We believe in the Christian religion. We believe in the teachings of Jesus. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest."

King, a Baptist minister and American patriot whose organization would be called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, wanted the nation to know that the civil rights movement was rooted in fidelity to Judeo-Christian morality and to America's founding documents...

The words "God," "Jesus" and "Lord" -- ever-present in King's speeches and sermons -- are carved nowhere in the stones of the memorial dedicated in his name.

King's name is repeatedly carved into the memorial. But none of these carvings refer to him as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In all cases, he is called simply "Martin Luther King Jr."...

"This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with," King said. "With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope"

On the right side of the granite statue of King at the memorial, the last half of this last sentence is carved in stone: "Out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope." The first half of the sentence -- "With this faith, we will be able to hew" -- is missing...

The Rev. Martin Luther King was a Christian clergyman who became an American hero by standing up for the God-given rights our nation was founded to protect. It is a shame the name of God cannot be found at his memorial.

No, No, No, No, NO!

Time to Purge the Republican Party

ENOUGH already.

But what the Republican Party does need is a housecleaning. Call it a purge, if you must. But do it.

That's what the Democrats did after their shocking defeat in 2004. John Kerry was a flip-flopper, a wishy-washy liberal who made liberals squeamish. So they responded by moving to the left, bringing in Nancy Pelosi to run the House and the anti-Kerry, Howard Dean, to run the Democratic National Committee. The result was a Democratic victory in 2006 in the House, and the victory of the most far-left candidate in American history, Barack Obama, in 2008...

More Democratic rule is the highway to hell; more Paper Republican rule is the slow road to the same destination. It's time for the Republican Party to present a true conservative alternative. Anything else is suicide by inches.

No, no, no and a thousand times NO!

1) People are stupid.

2) America may lean conservative, but it is NOT 'solid' or 'far-right' conservative or whatever you want to call it. America is moderately conservative.

3) Lies are effective (see #1).

What true believers like this want us to believe that is that the GOP should go as hard right as the Democrats went hard left and reap the rewards from a 'conservative' electorate now and forever amen hallelujah.

Fail. Fail, fail, and fail.

Democrats did not have success by going hard left. Democrats had success by going hard left but lying about it at every turn, acting like moderates. Obama did not run as a socialist. The Democrats did not run as socialists in 2006, they ran as moderates that would rein in the 'hard right Bush' (he wasn't, again, they LIED) and stop the Iraq War (again, lies). And it worked.

The problem with implementing this in mirror image is that conservatives WILL NOT LIE the way liberals will. A staunchly pro-life Republican is not going to tell a debate moderator that abortion is "above my pay grade" and then promptly ramp up abortion funding, they're going to say it's wrong and follow through on that. And lose. They're not going to smile and bullshit America, telling them to their face that they're going to increase services, give everyone more everything, and do it all WHILE CUTTING SPENDING!!! No, a conservative is going to say, you know what, we can't afford it all, we're going to have to do some cutting and then do it.

Alternative 1: Find a conservative that will lie and poison the well for years.

Alternative 2: Find someone that is conservative on enough issues to please enough conservatives and moderate enough on enough issues to attract moderates.

Alternative 3: FAIL.

Bush and his "compassionate conservatism" came across as moderate enough on enough issues. Reagan came across as moderate enough. Clinton lied about how liberal he was and was only reined in by Newt and a GOP Congress after 2 disastrous years. Obama, well, no one has ever lied like Obama.

Time to grow up, conservatives.

Right Wing Making Me Uneasy

I have to say, now that (sorry, it's true) Romney is looking pretty inevitable, I'm dismayed and disturbed by the reactions of the true-believer right wing. It's not often I say that, and I'm not talking about cuckoo right, but your run-of-the-mill rightweb right.

Their attacks on Romney are starting to go too far.

Their claims that Romney is unelectable/guarantees Obama's re-election are childish, moronic, and downright stupid in light of Romney's excellent polling vs. Obama as opposed to the other candidates they prefer who "have a better chance" against Obama. Not to mention whomever this phantom stranger they're expecting to gallup in during the last act and claim the nomination and the hearts of 70% of America doesn't seem to even have a horse or know they're supposed to be doing that.

I really think this needs to start stopping. Certainly if Romney crushes in Newt's backyard in SC it has to stop. There is one goal in this election and one goal only - stopping Obama and his radical destruction of America. He has successfully quashed economic recovery for three years, America cannot stand much more of it.

Is Romney the ideal candidate? No, probably not. But he's not a bad candidate. Rick Perry is a bad candidate. Would Rick Perry make a bad president? Maybe not, but we'll never know because he's a bad candidate. He's Algore bad, he would likely lose as an incumbent VEEP, he's that bad. Gingrich was a good candidate for like a month, sandwiched between being an abysmal, Trump-level ball of confusion and his current state of flailing away for not getting his way. I read one column today ludicrously claiming that the GOP would be better off running Huntsman than Romney. Seriously? That's what I mean, they're losing their minds they are so distraught that some tall, dark, and handsome challenger has not arrived to sweep them off their feet to conservative wonderland.

It's not like America is new. Things take time. It took Obama years to cripple us to the point of causing a credit downgrade. Even if we put in conservative presidents for a decade it's not like the deficit is going away any time soon, your vote in 2012 is not taking the yoke off your grandkids' backs.

If there is a scale it might go like this:

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Obama (O) is like this:

[-O--------|----------]

The magic man (M) these people seem to want would be like this:

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Ain't going to happen.

Is it really that bad, for a start to use Romney (R) to get us here:

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Hell, McCain toyed with running with JOE LIEBERMAN! Romney is unlikely to do anything so stupid, his veep (V) will be more likely:

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and we can start moving that lever. For crying out loud, we need to get the left end out of the depths first and get it level before we can worry about tipping it right. These people that think we can just go from a radically leftist socialist president to a far-right one are kidding themselves and need to spend more time talking to people outside their bubble...because Superman isn't coming, but maybe, for right now, Mormonman is enough.

As for the left in America, especially the press, gloating over the infighting and thinking it means the GOP is doomed? I guess you've forgotten that all the way until the Democratic nominating convention there was impassioned cries by Clinton supporters to rig things to get her the nod and it wasn't until basically the day of that she put that party division to rest by supporting the Won.

Picking Up

Boy, things are starting to look better and better!

"Companies have spent the last several years being very cautious about their hiring, but now with the baby boomers retiring, they realize they have to fill their pipeline," said John Challenger, chief executive of the firm. "They just can't afford to wait any longer."

The need even includes slots for liberal-arts majors "who've done well in school, especially for sales and marketing and relationship-oriented jobs and various other functions in companies where they need entry-level people," Challenger said.

Accounting graduates will see average starting salary offers increase 5.4 percent to $46,188, according to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Average starting salary offers for business-management majors are up 3.9 percent to $40,976 and 5.3 percent for economics/finance graduates to $45,058.

Nearly 38 percent of the association's survey respondents said they expected to hire more new college graduates for full-time, entry-level positions this fall compared with last fall.

Ron Butler, a partner in the Phoenix office of Ernst and Young in charge of recruiting, said the accounting giant has increased hiring 100 percent during the past three years.

Well, that's great news...Oh, wait. Yeah, sorry...that was 2006...a couple of year out of the Clinton/9-11 recession after Bush and the GOP cut taxes.

This year's 1.4 million college graduates are entering the best job market since 2001 as employers are ready to hire 14.5 percent more graduates than in 2005, according to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, an outplacement firm based in Chicago.

With much of the United States, including Arizona, hovering at full employment, newly minted grads can basically pick their employer and bargain for higher salaries as well as signing bonuses, especially if they have business, science or computer-related degrees.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled 8+% Obama unemployment levels he blames on the people that have actually passed budgets and jobs bills and only took over after things were 2 years in the toilet.