Video: The Keynesian Twilight Zone Starring Barack Obama

Yesterday, I called Obama’s jobs plan, a laughingstock,  but it’s so bizarre that he’s trying to take us down this road, again, Twilight Zone fits the bill, too:

Via MN Majority:

President Obama’s latest jobs speech was like watching the rerun of a bad horror movie. He repeatedly repackages his failed Keynesian economic policies into the next “big” jobs program. In response, our economy crumbles around us. President Obama is clearly trapped in the Keynesian Twilight Zone.

Even some Democrats are rejecting it outright.

Jim Webb says it’s “terrible”

“Terrible,” Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) told POLITICO when asked about the president’s ideas for how to pay for the $450 billion price tag. “We shouldn’t increase taxes on ordinary income. … There are other ways to get there.”

The Politico reports that Mary Landrieu, who probably hasn’t forgiven Obama for decimating  drilling jobs in her state, had the temerity to wonder aloud the same thing cynical Republicans have been saying about S.O.B (Save Obama’s Bill):

“That offset is not going to fly, and he should know that,” said Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu from the energy-producing Louisiana, referring to Obama’s elimination of oil and gas subsidies. “Maybe it’s just for his election, which I hope isn’t the case.”

Another Dem making sense:

“I think the best jobs bill that can be passed is a comprehensive long-term deficit-reduction plan,” said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), discussing proposals to slash the debt by $4 trillion by overhauling entitlement programs and raising revenue through tax reforms. “That’s better than everything else the president is talking about — combined.”

The Politico goes on to say, those are just the moderates. Congressional progs are having problems with it too.

Ace thinks Obama has finally reached a tipping point with libs and media – they’re no longer protecting Their Messiah:

But at some point, comes a tipping point, where you get license to say what you really think; you could keep suppressing that, but now you’ve got a justification to cut loose.

Dems in Congress must be trying to figure out how to escape this albatross around their necks. If the jobs bill is a big loser with the public, they are going to be hard pressed to vote for it if they want to keep their jobs. As many Democrats found out in November, 2010, the voters may express their outrage at their fiscal insanity by voting them out of office.

Meanwhile, Obama has taken his “Pass the bill” act on the road to universities where the cult of Obama remains strong, and coeds still scream, “We love you!”:

Speaking before a crowd at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. today, President Obama told the crowd, “If you love me then you gotta help me pass this bill.”

Cringeworthy video via Beltway Confidential:

 

MORE:

The Other McCain: Democrats Discover the SCOAMF Factor:

Paul Krugman and the rest of the neo-Keynesian cargo cult continue to insist that what could not be accomplished with $800 billion in deficit-spending stimulus might yet somehow be accomplished by larger interventions. Obama meanwhile argues that another half-trillion will do the trick. So the man who would cause the planet to heal and the oceans to recede (and pay Peggy Joseph’s mortgage) is now running around the country attempting to hypnotize the masses with his voodoo incantation: “Pass this bill! Pass this bill! Pass this bill!”

A verdict has been rendered, and liberal denials cannot reverse it.

Like the Invisible Hand writing “Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin,” or the raven perched on the bust of Pallas croaking “Nevermore,” the verdict of September 13th is both certain and final:

This is your moment. This is your time. This is your SCOAMF.

UPDATE:

RE the “if you love me…” video:

RS McCain was reminded of  a biblical passage:

Having spent two decades in the pews of Reverend Wright’s church listening to the Hate America Gospel, President Zero is perhaps not familiar with the actual Bible. He therefore may not catch the near-sacrilegious resemblance between his sermon in Raleigh and Christ’s charge to His disciples: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”

Everyone raised as a Christian will, however, recognize the hint of blasphemy in this spontaneous expression of Obama’s fundmental narcissism, and the cultic implications in the shouted adoration from his liberal flock. It’s a wonder they didn’t cover his path to Raleigh with palm fronds, or bring the blind and deaf to the rally, hoping to be healed by touching his garments. And I don’t doubt many talk-radio hosts will make the most of all that, as well they should.

When I heard it, perhaps because of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 a few days ago, I was reminded of W.

Someone from the crowd yelled something, and the President quickly responded.; “I hear you!” In Obama’s case, he yelled,  “I love you, too!” Where the former Commander in Chief had said, ” and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”, the Narcessist in Chief said, “If you love me then you gotta help me pass this bill.”

See? They both involved their audience to help them achieve their goal…

The former President meant, together we’ll defeat our enemies – the terrorists. The present President means almost the same thing with a minor difference:  together we will defeat our enemies – the tea party terrorists.

Hat tip: iOWNTHEWORLD for Twilight Zone video.

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In Interview Paul Krugman Says He has Regular Contact With White House, Bush WH Was “Evil and Stupid” – Obama WH “Good Guys and Smart”

Krugman laments that those good, smart guys in the Obama White House aren’t forceful enough. (after all, Obama could go over the heads of Congress and pass everything by executive fiat.)

He says he’s trying to make this Communist “progressive” moment in American history  a success.

This very special interview was conducted on September 3rd, and is brought to you courtesy of The Blaze:

#AttackWatch is a Hit on Twitter (With Updates)

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TOO FUNNY.

President Thin Skin has revamped his old and patently dishonest “Fight the Smears” Website  under a new name, “Attack Watch”.  With a hip and slightly spooky black, white and red motif, it aims to correct the terrible, awful things people say about the Dear Leader. He doesn’t want to take away your guns,  he really *hearts* Israel, just listen to what world leaders say! He’s deported more Mexicans than anybody, ever! He’s created (or *ahem* saved) eleventy million jobs! etc! etc!

The Obama campaign is launching a new website to handle misinformation against President Obama.

In an email, Obama’s reelection campaign manager, Jim Messina, announced the formation of AttackWatch.com.

“Forming the first line of defense against a barrage of misinformation won’t be easy,” Messina wrote in a fundraising email to campaign supporters. “Our success will depend on a team of researchers and writers to stay on the lookout for false claims about the President and his record, bring you the facts, and hold our opposition accountable.”

As an example, Messina mentioned a claim by presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) that Obama was president when the Troubled Asset Relief Program was passed into law.

Messina said the site will be running from now through November 2012.

Jim f’n Messina!

Jim “Punch back twice as hard” Messina:

Messina’s name came up in this  Patterico report on  the Obama Administration’s responses to the  town halls and Tea Party protests of 2009:

“Somewhere between August 2nd and August 6th a strategy was devised that put all tools at the [Obama] administration’s disposal in line and firing at the protesters. August 4th seems to be an important day in the roll out of this strategy. The White House famously posted a new aggressive offensive on their blog calling out what they described as “mis-information” about the proposed bill and directed true-believers to report any sources of these “lies” to a special e-mail address: flag@whitehouse.gov. Also on the 4th, an organization called Health Care for America Now (HCAN) released a document that became a blueprint for intimidation and, ultimately, violence under the guise of confronting the tea party protesters at these town hall meetings.

HCAN is an organization funded by various unions, most significantly SEIU, whose main purpose is to promote and push the effort for government-provided, universal health care. (To understand the SEIU’s reasons for pushing for this government health care, read this post.) The National Field Director for HCAN is Margarida Jorge. Margarida Jorge used to work for the SEIU as an organizing director.”

HCAN and Jorge issued detailed instructions (set forth at the BigGovernment link) on how to organize health care support and to limit protesters’ ability to gain media attention and ask questions at last summer’s Congressional health care events. The DNC, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and leftist blogs joined HCAN in criticizing the Tea Party protesters as “angry mobs” and calling for liberals to push back.

White House involvement became clear when, on August 6 as David Axelrod and Jim Messina talked to Senators about how to handle health care meetings with constituents, Messina promised: ”If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard.” Thus:

“Two days after the instructions on how to manage and control protestors at town hall meetings were released by Margarida Jorge at HCAN, one day after the Speaker of the House likened protestors to Nazis and mere hours after President Obama’s top political advisors assured Congressional Democrats that “If you get hit, we will punch them back twice as hard”, Kenneth Gladney lay beaten and bloody on the ground outside Rep. Russ Carnahan’s Town Hall meeting.”

Now we have Messina in charge of “Attack Watch”, but who’s going to be doing the attacking?

Conservative Twitter users are having a blast tonight, as @AttackWatch debuts on Twitter:

DLoesch: So glad #attackwatch is here to dispel those unfounded attacks involving Solyndra, Gibson, Fast and Furious, Gulf moratorium, NBPP, etc.

Paceset9999RT @TimGamble: #Attackwatch The head of Obama’s Jobs council, Jeffrey Immelt, is sending lots of jobs to China.Please stop him. @attackwatch

blogho Dear #attackwatch There are several former Dems who are in my tea party group. Is there a reward for turning them in?

keder Hey @AttackWatch, I heard GE’s Jeff Immelt flies in a cororate jet. Get him! #attackwatch

ctsa How 1930′s Germany of you Barry. #AttackWatch

MrsD55 Dear #attackwatch, Somebody made a Barack Obama joke the other day.

MrsD55 Dear #attackwatch, I heard that Vann Jones said, “F*** it, I’m buying some gold.”

MikeShawTV #attackwatch – When you care to narc on the very best

thomasa56 Hey, #Attackwatch I saw someone making Obama look bad. His name was Barack Obama.

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And so on. There are too many too keep up.

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SEE ALSO:

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Dana Loesch, Big Journalism: New Presidential Watch Site Collects “Smears and Spin”

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Instapundit: “Haven’t they tried this before?“

Michelle Malkin:Obama launches another snitch police squad

iOWNTHEWORLD: Attack and Watch

Ushanka.us: We’re Going To Be Famous!

Ann Barnhardt: Please! Please turn me in at AttackWatch.com!!!

Gateway Pundit: Obama Campaign Revs Up – Goon Squad Snitch Police Reinstated

Datechguy’s Blog: Can you say: “Desperation”:

You’ve got to give them credit for chutzpah. Most totalitarians pay you to report opposition to the state, these guys ask you for your money instead.

Mark Steyn at The Corner: Attack of the AttackWatch!

Jonah, re the President urging his supporters to report dissenters to ThinSkinWatch.com, I was flattered to discover via  a reader that I am the only sinister foreigner to be honored with my own page of Presidential smears at TouchyAndInsecure.com. You can find it here – http://www.attackwatch.com/tag/mark-steyn/ .

AoSHQ: Oh No: Washington Post Headline, “Attack Watch, new Obama campaign site to ‘fight smears,’ becomes laughing stock of the Internet”

UPDATE:

The Hill: Pro-Obama hashtag backfires on Twitter:

The hashtag was already in heavy rotation by Twitter users by Wednesday morning, but many users are conservatives such as columnist Michelle Malkin, who offered upher own daily column as an example of an Obama “attack.”The website is meant to be “the first line of defense against a barrage of misinformation,” according to an email from Obama’s campaign manager announcing the launch on Tuesday.

UPDATE II:

LOL -

For more information, visit http://twitter.com/misfitpolitics.

UPDATE III:

More MSM coverage:

AoSHQ: Oh No: Washington Post Headline, “Attack Watch, new Obama campaign site to ‘fight smears,’ becomes laughing stock of the Internet”CBS News Political Hotsheet: Conservatives mock Obama’s “AttackWatch.com”

 

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If any of you morons figured out what the lava joke was about, let me know. I didn’t get it, either.

Soros, and AFSCME Funded Group Files Ethics Complaint Against Darrell Issa As He Probes Gunwalker Plot

American Family Voices is a liberal advocacy group that conducts media campaigns charging Republicans with wrongdoing. It’s funded by unions, (mostly AFSCME), and George Soros.
The group filed an ethics complaint against Darrelll Issa  with the House Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) on Tuesday.

The Hill reports:

The five-page complaint, which was obtained by The Hill, accuses Issa of using his position as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to add to his multimillion-dollar fortune.

An Issa spokesman on Monday said the allegations have absolutely no merit and are part of a smear campaign spearheaded by the White House.

The complaint alleges that Issa pressured the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to halt an investigation of Goldman Sachs shortly after he bought a huge stake in one of Goldman’s high-yield mutual funds.

It also claims Issa used his authority to improperly defend Merrill Lynch, a firm with “which he has a significant financial interest,” the document states.

“In fact and in appearance, Rep. Issa has repeatedly — and impermissibly — used his public position to promote his private financial interests,” Mike Lux, president of American Family Voices, wrote in a letter to former Reps. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) and David Skaggs (D-Colo.), co-chairmen of the OCE.

A spokesman for Issa said the complaint is part of an effort orchestrated by the White House to discredit its critics.

“This complaint is entirely without merit. The White House has used an assortment of outside progressive groups in an effort to attack Oversight and Chairman Issa directly.  This is just their latest salvo in an ongoing effort to obstruct oversight,” said Frederick Hill, Issa’s spokesman.

Just yesterday,Issa told Laura Ingraham that Holder is so ‘inept he is dangerous’.

The Hill reported:

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said that Attorney General Eric Holder is so “inept that he is dangerous to have as the Attorney General” and that President Obama should consider removing him from office.

Issa made the comments on the Laura Ingraham show while commenting about the controversial “Fast and Furious” gun-tracking program.

In case you’re keeping score, there is a Soros connection to Fast and Furious. (Of course there’s a Soros connection to practically everything on the left.)

CBS News and the Los Angeles Times have  reported that Dan Restrepo and two other officials, were in on ATF memos from the Gunwalker operation known as “Fast and Furious.”

Restrepo, the National Security Council’s top man for Latin America, was also one of the figures behind the  U.S.’s deplorable  Honduras policy in 2009. Hiding behind the curtain at that time too,  was  “the Puppetmaster”.

Prior to moving to the National Security Council,  Restrepo was the director of the Americas Project at the Center for American Progress (CAP), the Soros funded liberal think tank, whose President and Chief Executive Officer is John Podesta…

Now Darrell Issa himself, is charging that this ethics complaint is being orchestrated by the White House.

Issa is obviously over the target.

RELATED:

Katie Pavlich, Townhall: Napolitano, FBI Give Non-Answers to Questions Surrounding Operation Fast and Furious

Senate hearing brings out more shocking ignorance of high ranking public officials. Nobody knows nothing!:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitiano and FBI Director Robert Mueller denied knowing anything about the operation until Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed with guns from the program and avoided getting into details about their involvement by referring the case to the Inspector General in the Justice Department and citing an “on-going investigation” when asked by Arizona Senator John McCain recently on Capitol Hill. On top of Newell’s testimony, President Obama called for a complete review of current gun control policies in April 2009.

Watch video of testimonies at link.

MORE:

As Dems look the other way on Fast and Furious, they are trying to pressure Issa to investigate Fox News.. I sh*t you not:

The Hill: Dem lawmakers press Issa to probe News Corp.’s alleged hacking:

A group of eight Democrats blasted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) for not pursuing allegations that News Corp. may have hacked phones belonging to family members of victims killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

PATHETIC.

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Dear Paul Krugman: Examples Please

In Paul Krugman’s lame follow-up  to his despicable and now infamous 9/11 column, he writes:

The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq.

It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

Since comments are once again turned off, I’ll use this space to beg the question: Can we please see some examples of this intimidation – these accusations of treason from the Bushies – any of them – Rumsfeld, Rove, Cheney, any Bush Republicans in the wake of 9/11?

The reason I ask is because  while I distinctly remember the howls of outrage from Democrats that their patriotism was being questioned, I don’t remember any  Republicans in power actually doing it. Who is he talking about? Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh? Ann Coulter doesn’t speak for the Republican party, and she certainly didn’t speak for the Bush administration. Limbaugh may call himself  “the titular head of the Republican party”, but obviously, he speaks for himself, too. The Democrats’ howls of outrage were directed at the Republican party.  I’d like to see some examples of this “terrible” intimidation of which they speak.

Krugman linked to Greg Sargent, who was able to dredge up a few examples of what could be deemed “political exploitation” of 9/11 by Bushies:

Here’s Karl Rove in the runup to the 2002 midterm elections (via Nexis):

President Bush’s top political adviser said today that Republicans will make the president’s handling of the war on terrorism the centerpiece of their strategy to win back the Senate and keep control of the House in this year’s midterm elections.

“We can go to the country on this issue because they trust the Republican Party to do a better job of protecting and strengthening America’s military might and thereby protecting America,” Karl Rove said at the Republican National Committee meeting here.

Here’s Rudy Giuliani, at the 2004 Republican National Convention (via Nexis):

I looked up and seeing the flames of hell emanating from those buildings and realizing that what I was actually seeing was a human being on the 101st, 102nd floor that was jumping out of the building, I stood there; it probably took five or six seconds. It seemed to me that it took 20 or 30 minutes. And I was stunned. And I realized in that moment and that instant, I realized we were facing something that we had never, ever faced before…At the time, we believed that we would be attacked many more times that day and in the days that followed. Without really thinking, based on just emotion, spontaneous, I grabbed the arm of then-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and I said to him, ‘’Bernie, thank God George Bush is our president.’’ I say it again tonight, I say it again tonight: thank God that George Bush is our president.

Here’s top McCain adviser Charlie Black, during the 2008 campaign:

A top adviser to Sen. John McCain said that a terrorist attack in the United States would be a political benefit to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a comment that was immediately disputed by the candidate and denounced by his Democratic rival.

Charles R. Black Jr., one of McCain’s most senior political advisers, said in an interview with Fortune magazine that a fresh terrorist attack “certainly would be a big advantage to him.”

So we have Karl Rove, (the Architect)  noting the obvious, and Giuliani’s honest recounting of what he (and  a whole lot of people) were thinking on 9/11. What McCain’s adviser said in 2008 was certainly crude, but I thought we were talking about the period of time immediately following 9/11 when this atmosphere of intimidation and gross political exploitation was so palpable.

And I, of course,  could cite Democrat operatives saying  equally crude things, such as: Obama needs event ‘similar’ to OKC to ‘reconnect’ with voters. Nowhere will we find Republicans scheming with Hollywood to release a movie in October 2004, positioning the “gutsy” President as the hero of 9/11. Now that would be some political exploitation worth mentioning!

Given how the Democrat Media complex  really knows how to play up the missteps of Republicans, you would think Google with be rife with examples of Bushies accusing the Krugmans of the world of treason.

I can certainly  cite for you examples  of the Obami accusing Republicans and/or the Tea Party of treason, terrorism, (or worse).

Democrats have verbally maligned their opposition in the most shockingly abusive terms imaginable, and much of it has come from Democrats in Congress and in the Obama administration. Yes, they have literally questioned Republicans’ patriotism in very overt, stark, impossible to misread terms.

Within hours of the tragic Tucson shooting in which nine people were shot, six fatal, last January, Paul Krugman himself, leaped to the outrageous conclusion that the shooter had to be a Tea Partier. He blamed conservatives for the attack that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, accusing them of fomenting “a climate of hate.” I can’t think of a more shameful way to exploit a tragedy than to immediately, and without any evidence what-so-ever,  blame  political opponents for it. You could even call it an attempt to “intimidate” the opposition into silence.

Of course,  the Democrats were, as usual, wrong. The gunman turned out not to be a conservative Tea Party supporter. His writings and obsessions indicated if anything, the deranged, disordered mind of a left-wing lunatic.

I’d love to see some similar examples of unhinged venom and hatred against the opposition from Republicans during the Bush era.

But I’m not going to hold my breath. Because it didn’t happen.

As James Taranto noted in 2004:

Surely it is fair for any politician to take issue with his opponent’s official acts. And if those acts were motivated by something other than antipathy toward America–as any fair-minded observer must presume they were–they could have been defended on their merits. Instead, Democrats themselves raised the issue of patriotism by defensively denying that they lacked it. A cardinal rule of political communication is never to repeat an accusation in the course of denying it (“I am not a crook”). These candidates “repeated” a charge no one had even made.

The Democrats doth protested too much.

Obama’s Jobs Plan is a Laughingstock

 I was tempted to say Obama himself has become a laughingstock, but frankly, Christian charity prevented me from doing so.

Late night comedians are no longer holding back, however,  as Ace notes: Turns Out, Obama Is Sort of Mock-Worthy:

I don’t watch any of the late-night talk show hosts, so I didn’t know that they actually are making fun of Obama (or rather, his SCOAMF on the economy/jobs front). Even bitter old lefty Letterman.

Leno has a good one:

 Leno: The NFL season kicks off Thursday night right here on NBC. We are all very excited. The game will be on right after the season finale of President Obama.

More jokes at the link.

This isn’t actually a joke, but it sure is funny: Dems Face Catastrophe in NY and Nevada Races as Unpopular Obama Becomes Drag on Party.

Things aren’t going very well for the Obama White House….

The truth is, his jobs plan has been met with derision and snickers since the night it was announced, as Michael Barone reminds us:

What is there to say about Barack Obama’s speech to Congress Thursday night and the so-called American Jobs Act he said Congress must pass? Several thoughts occur, all starting with P.

Projection. That’s psychologist-speak term for projecting your own faults on others. “This isn’t political grandstanding,” Obama told members of Congress, as Republicans snickered (but thankfully resisted the temptation to shout, “You lie!”). “This isn’t class warfare.”

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Obama is like the guy in the bar who says, “I’ll stand drinks for everyone in the house,” and then adds, “Those guys over there are going to pay for them.”

What’s fascinating here is that once again the supposedly pragmatic and sometimes professorial president is not making use of the first class professionals in the Office of Management and Budget to come up with specifics, but is leaving that to members of Congress, maybe in a midnight marathon session with deadlines pending. Same as on the stimulus package and Obamacare.

Pathetic promises. Perhaps he hoped people wouldn’t notice, but Obama did put in two words — “faster trains” — as a plug for his pet project of high-speed rail. Liberal blogger Kevin Drum calls California’s HSR project, the largest in the nation, “a fantastic boondoggle,” likely to cost three or four times estimates and with ridership estimates that are “fantasies.” “We have way better uses for this dough,” Drum concludes.

Even Obama’s Supporters Laugh When He Says His Latest Stimulus Plan Is “Fully Paid For.”

Wow. Not even Obama’s supporters take him seriously.
From his speech today as posted at the White House website:

And the American Jobs Act is not going to add to the debt — it’s fully paid for. I want to repeat that. It is fully paid for. (Laughter.)

It’s not a good sign when members of his own party are skeptical…

This is even a worse sign from Obama’s old stomping grounds, Hawaii News Daily: The Obama Jobs Plan: 10 Reasons Why It Is A Bad Joke. 

Marc Faber, editor of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report also says  Obama’s Jobs Plan is ‘a Complete Joke’

President Barack Obama’s recently unveiled $447 billion job-creating bill is “a complete joke” and won’t work because the economy needs less spending not more, says Marc Faber, editor of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report.

The package is “another complete failure of Keynesian economics and corrupt interventions,” Faber tells CNBC.com.

“This all amid talk of deficit reductions,” Faber says, adding the package is a “complete joke.”

White House reporter, Keith Koffler is also laughing: White House Jobs Plan Paid for by Raising Taxes:

That Jack Lew. He’s so funny. Especially for a budget guy. He stood up in the briefing room and said President Obama wants to pay for his $447 billion “jobs” package by raising income taxes.

This was the funniest thing I had heard in Washington since Jody Powell announced that Jimmy Carter had been attacked by a rabbit.

Here’s what Lew said today during the White House briefing. He suggested the Republicans might pass this. And no – I can hear you thinking over here – this is not one of my damn satire pieces.

If you haven’t yet heard the one about the new taxes, and increased spending, and how Republicans get blamed when things don’t work out as planned, read on. It’s an oldie but goodie.

Doug Ross quips: Gee, those new taxes should really jump-start hiring!

Also hilarious – Obama’s promises to cut red tape and create jobs while his Latest EPA Rules Kill Another 500 Jobs. (Okay, I’m kidding that’s not funny, at all.)

El Rushbo calls Obama The Most Petulant,Childish,Angry,Divisive President In History.

Michelle Malkin has taken to calling Obama, “President Rerun”.

President Rerun will be quite busy this week, rehashing his warmed-over porkulus plan across the country.

Nora O’Donnell asked WH spokesman, Jay carney about that: why all the campaigning, already? The White House press corp laughed in Jay Carney’s face when he said Obama’s “campaigning for growth and jobs” not reelection…

James Lileks noted the obvious – How much more fail is necessary to convince Dems their Keynesian plans don’t work:

A half-century experiment in draping steam­ship anchors around the necks of the productive class and expecting them to run a four-minute mile has ended in failure. The confiscation of rights and property, the moral impoverishment of generations caused by the state’s usurpation of parental obligations, the elevation of a credentialed elite that believes academia’s fashions are a worthy substitute for knowledge of history and human nature, and above all the faith in a weightless cipher whose oratorical panache now consists of looking from one teleprompter screen to the other with the enthusiasm of a man watching someone else’s kids play tennis–it’s over, whether you believe in it or not. It cannot be sustained without reducing everyone to penurious equality, crippling the power of the United States, and subsuming the economy to a no-growth future that rations energy.

Doug Powers reported: Obama Sends ‘American Jobs Act’ to Congress, and I Think He Wants Them to Pass It:

Conceptually it’s not a bad Hail Mary attempt for a desperate administration: Propose a bill that looks pretty much like all the other stuff that didn’t work so you know that the opposition would never commit political suicide by passing, and then when it doesn’t pass, blame the opposition for the mess that already existed anyway. Sadly, many voters will actually believe that (the P.T. Barnum factor is a constant).

That’s the question, isn’t it? How many people  actually take his jobs plan seriously? I sure hope Congress doesn’t.

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Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst #73: Muslim consultants LIED to Park Service

It’s time for an update on the Flight 93 Memorial which I  opposed for three+ years by participating in Alec Rawls’ many blogbursts raising awareness about the profoundly inappropriate design.  I’m sorry to report that it still sucks after all these years.

Here’s a video he put together in 2008 to help people visualize the many Islamic symbols present in the design:

John Hinderaker revisited the controversy at Powerline: 

Rawls and his colleagues have elaborate explanations of how the elements of the memorial constitute a tribute to triumphant Islam. They have taken out newspaper ads to rally opposition against the still-uncompleted project; you can see the ad here. Are they right? As to the details of their claims, I am not sure. It is hard to believe that the architect who designed the memorial is a fifth columnist who deliberately encoded an elaborate pro-Muslim extremism theme into his design, and that the Park Service fell for it.

More fundamentally, though, I think they are right. There is no question that the original design, which survives more or less intact in the current iteration, is built around the central symbol of Islam. Some on the jury, in a spirit of reconciliation, thought this was a good thing. I think it is an absurdity–much as if the Pearl Harbor memorial were to feature a rising sun, or the Norman American Cemetery were laid out in the shape of a swastika.

As Hinderaker notes, the memorial is not yet complete, and the portions that have been built so far are non-controversial. There is still time to stop the insanity.

Rawls’ most recent blogburst: Muslim consultants LIED to Park Service below the fold:

Video: Martin Short Sings “Bastard in the Sand”

I don’t know how I missed this when it came out last May in the wake of the killing of Osama Bin Laden: “Bastard in the Sand,” a parody set to the tune of Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind.” But I’m glad I finally got to watch it.

Newsbusters reposted the video for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. A very fitting tribute to the man, I think:

Lyrics:

Goodbye, Al Qaeda’s Rose
Your beard never seemed too clean to me
So I’m glad they washed you off
Before they dumped you in the sea.

In the afterlife
Six dozen virgins sure sounded swell
So it must’ve burned your ass
When you ended up in hell.

It seems to me you lived your life
Like a bastard in the sand
Never knowing when the U.S. Navy SEALs would land
They caught you by surprise inside your secret base
Could’ve shot you anywhere
But why not in the face?

Goodbye, Al Qaeda’s Rose
To the world you were mad
And to your kids and 22 wives
You were also a deadbeat dad.

Multi-million dollar bounty
Placed on your head
You were wanted ‘dead or alive’
But in the end we went with ‘dead’.

Hat tip: iOWNTHEWORLD

Linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, thanks!

Another Thing We Can Thank The First Amendment For

Paul Krugman.

No.  Seriously.

I really am thankful that the First Amendment protects the vile nonsense that he spews.  Not because I enjoy him proving with each column the utter meaninglessness of being a Nobel Prize Winner, but because it makes him feel secure in revealing who he is, namely a slimy little toad who thinks nothing of disparaging men whose boots he isn’t fit to lick, let alone fill.

Krugman eagerly attacks men who stepped up to lead when it was required of them.  Bush never complained about “inheriting” Bin Laden from his predecessor.  Giuliani never whined about the “bad luck” that befell his city on that sunny autumn morning.  Instead, Giuliani went to help coordinate the response to the attack, and he himself was temporarily trapped at the command center.  Bush went to Ground Zero for those of us who couldn’t go ourselves, and personally carried the thanks of a grateful nation to those whose profound sadness and mourning we all carried on that day.  And then he put the resolve of a wounded nation into words, and directed it in a fashion that took the fight to those who thought they humbled us on that day.

Paul Krugman doesn’t live in the same world as the rest of America.  Every word he types, every “nuance” that he utters in the service of a worldview that misplaces its hope and drips contempt for anyone who believes not in the justice of redistribution and Keynesian economics, but in the power of the individual, and the government that would respect it, rather than restrain it, and every fantasy to empower the government he would worship tells us all that we need to know about him.  And that’s a good thing.

In a world where such a small person can lash out at people who can’t help but to be better than him, we can all count ourselves lucky that he and others like him not only reveal their true character, but their tragic lack of understanding.  It is good that such would-be tyrants, and others like him can show themselves without any modicum of self-reflection or shame, because then we are all put on notice of exactly who they are, and that all of us can fulfill one of the many duties we each have as citizens, and keep such people from gaining any more power than they already have by challenging all of the false assumptions and conclusions foisted upon us by people who let their jealousies blind them to the nature of evil, and the ability to discern what it is.  I thank God for the wisdom he gave to the Framers who made such that we had such freedoms, knowing full well the capacity for their abuse, and I thank the generations of men and women who made sacrifices to defend the flag that waves over all our heads today, and the guarantees we enjoy because of it.  And I thank God for those who looked upon the dust and rubble that settled over lower Manhattan on that day and put their lives on the line to make sure that Krugman, Bloomberg, and others could continue to show their contempt for the things that continue to make this country great.

Cross-posted at Taxes, Stupidity and Death.

UPDATE (Nice Deb):

Thanks, Biw, I was away this weekend, and I’m just now getting caught up.

Over at Big Government and Ace of Spades HQ, special attention has been paid to the weaselly last words of Krugman’s column:

“I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.”

Larry O’Conner says:

If by “obvious reasons” he actually means “Because even the left-leaning readers of the New York Times will find this post inappropriate and tasteless and I can’t handle the shit-storm that will inevitably hit this page if I allow comments,” then yes, we understand. But here at Big Journalism we have no such concern.

Ace:

If al-Krugman won’t open his comments, why, I guess we should just open ours. Let ‘er rip, morons.

My own feelings:

The hard left will forever be enraged that 9/11 happened during a Republican’s watch, and they will never forgive the Republicans who were in charge because they showed strength and character when it was needed most. They deeply resent the fact that Republicans benefited politically from 9/11 because they see everything as an opportunity to politically game events to their advantage. Everything is about power with these people. Everything.

The hurt  feelings of these disgruntled vermin persist to this day, which is why some of them loathe  the idea of memorializing 9/11.

Linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy,  and Doug Ross in Larwyn’s links, thanks!

Your Sunday Hymn for 9/11 10th Anniversary: “People of Hope”

“People of Hope” is a commemorative song for 9/11, written from a Christian perspective.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 explains that we do not grieve as people who have no hope. The words and music for the original song were composed by Dr. Norm Wick and sung by Jay Samples just days after the September 11 attack in 2001, and this video was produced in observance of the 10th anniversary.

DVD and music are available at www.psalm96music.com.

Another 10th Anniversary 9/11 Memorial  song by Jayme Lewis, sung by Phil Krieger dedicated to the victims of 9/11 and the brave rescue workers who gave their lives on that day:

SEE ALSO:

A photo essay by El Marco: Remembering and Understanding 9/11

Video: Paul Ryan Reacts to President Obama’s Jobs Plan

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) shared his thoughts on President Obama’s plans for job growth, with Joe Kernen on Fox News’ Squawk Box, Friday. His response to Obama’s speech gives you a pretty good idea how the Republicans are going to go forward.

While Ryan notes that temporary tax rebates and stimulus will not work and will result in a debt hangover, he does see the opportunity to work with the President on issues in which they share common ground, like tax reform that includes closing tax loopholes. (Something Dems want you to believe the Republicans don’t want.)

It sounds like Republicans are not interested in the increased spending part of the plan, but I don’t know how Obama will be able to demagogue that to his advantage. Most Americans aren’t interested in another stimulus, either.

Saturday Movie Matinee

God Bless America Tribute from Herman Cain (Libs hate it so it must be good):

Sarah Palin appeared on Megyn Kelly’s Fox Show, Friday afternoon to give her thoughts on Obama’s Jobs Speech:

Via Barnhardt: Swiss MP Oskar Freysinger – Have We Gone MAD?!

See youtube page for transcript.

Ford’s anti-Bailout commercial, via Breitbart TV:“I wasn’t going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government.”

I need to check in on the always brilliant Lee Doren more often. Love love love his stuff…Must get his 99¢ ebook for my college kids: Please Enroll Responsibly.

Here he is explaining why Dr. Evil Has Nothing on Maxine Waters:

Steven Crowder recently appeared on Fox news to talk about Marriage Myths:

PJTV:  Trifecta’s Job Plan:

Rush Limbaugh: ‘There’s No Question’ That Fast And Furious Was ‘A Means For Obama To Get Back At The Second Amendment

Thanks Media Matters!

Hat tip:Brian B. for many of these.

Video: Boehner and Biden Talk Golf Before Obama’s Jobs Speech

As Fox News’ Martha Maccallum put it, what follows is an “unguarded moment” between the Vice President and the Speaker before Obama entered the room for his farcical jobs speech, Thursday night.

Eh –kinda cute.

See also:

Breitbart TV: ‘I’m One of Those Barbarians’; Boehner Greeting Biden Caught on Live Mic 

 

Breaking On Fox News: New Documents Suggest FBI Cover-up of Third ‘Fast and Furious’ Gun Found at Brian Terry’s Murder Scene (Video Added)

Even Fox News is still characterizing Fast and Furious as a “botched” gunwalking operation. There was nothing botched about it. The guns walked just as Obama’s honchos in the ATF and DOJ had planned.  The high powered weapons walked right into the hands of criminal gangs on both sides of the border.

Fox News today, is reporting on a new F &F link to the shooting death of border patrol agent, Brian Terry.

New emails suggest a cover-up of a third gun found at the crime scene which was secured by a member of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Willim La Jeunesse has the exclusive:

A third gun linked to “Operation Fast and Furious” was found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, new documents obtained exclusively by Fox News suggest, contradicting earlier assertions by federal agencies that police found only two weapons tied to the federal government’s now infamous gun interdiction scandal.

Sources say emails support their contention that the FBI concealed evidence to protect a confidential informant. Sources close to the Terry case say the FBI informant works inside a major Mexican cartel and provided the money to obtain the weapons used to kill Terry.

Unlike the two AK-style assault weapons found at the scene, the third weapon could more easily be linked to the informant. To prevent that from happening, sources say, the third gun “disappeared.”

In addition to the emails obtained by Fox News, an audio recording from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent investigating the Terry case seems to confirm the existence of a third weapon. In that conversation, the agent refers to an “SKS assault rifle out of Texas” found at the Terry murder scene south of Tucson.

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Asked about the content of the emails, a former federal prosecutor who viewed them expressed shock.

“I have never seen anything like this. I can see the FBI may have an informant involved but I can’t see them tampering with evidence. If this is all accurate, I’m stunned,” the former prosecutor said.

“This information confirms what our sources were saying all along — that the FBI was covering up the true circumstances of the murder of Brian Terry,” added Mike Vanderboegh, an authority on the Fast and Furious investigation who runs a whistleblower website called Sipsey Street.

“It also confirms that the FBI was at least as culpable, and perhaps more culpable, than the ATF in the Fast and Furious scandal, and that there was some guiding hand above both these agencies (and the other agencies involved) coordinating the larger operation,” Vanderboegh said.

Asked about the new evidence, Terry family attorney Pat McGroder said, “The family wants answers. They’d like to put this to rest and put closure to exactly what happened to Brian.”

UPDATE:

Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars, (mentioned in the La Jeunesse piece, above) says  “this FOX exclusive blows the Terry murder cover-up to pieces, and the Gunwalker Plot cover-up with it.”

His friend, a long-time observer of federal scandals in Northern Virginia reacts:

Let’s be clear: serious felonies have been committed if these allegations are confirmed. Obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence, and making false official statements are only the most prominent charges that would seem to apply. Given that this crime scene involved the murder of a federal law enforcement officer, even more serious charges might be brought if the right legal talent was applied to exacting some modicum of accountability, as opposed to aiding and abetting the continuing cover up which is where the smartest and most cunning attorneys in DOJ are normally assigned. (Yes, Mr. Margolis, this flattery applies to you, in spades.)

A parting thought: do wholesale numbers of bureaucratic hacks in DOJ need to go back to Stupid School? That certainly appears to be the case, because if there’s one truism that Versailles on the Potomac has proven in the last 50 years, it’s that the cover up is often more deadly to careers and reputations than the original crime.

Sad to reflect that the future of our grand Republic could well depend on the degree of arrogance and stupidity that can be attached to the arses of a number of highly-placed donkeys at Main Justice and the Hoover Building (not to mention 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue).

Oh, and add to that slim reed, the degree to which Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, might be willing to place the pursuit of justice for the Terry family ahead of partisan political interests. (BTW — I’m not holding my breath.)

RELATED:

Gateway Pundit: Weapons From Failed ATF ‘Fast & Furious’ Program Found a Violent Crime Scene in Maricopa County

(I guess you could call the Obama administration’s gunwalking scheme “botched” or “failed” in the sense that agents on the ground resisted, and blew the whistle on what was going on.)

Sipsey Street Irregulars: CBS: ATF investigation expands to White House staffers.

 Link.

Today, the Congressional investigation into ATF’s Fast and Furious scandal officially expanded to include White House staffers. In a letter to President Obama’s National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) asked for records involving three current and former White House staffers.

The staffers are: Kevin O’Reilly, former Director of North American Affairs, National Security Council; Dan Restrepo, Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council; and Greg Gatjanis, Director for Terrorist Finance and Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism Policy, National Security Council.

SEE ALSO:

The Latest On Gunwalker: Remember the name, Dan Restrepo

Linked by Ace of Spades HQ in Headlines, and Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, and Public Secrets, thanks!

(I notice no morons have commented, yet.)

PREVIOUSLY:

The 2012 Kabuki Dance Begins With Obama’s Jobs Speech

First act:

The set-up.

As explained by Charles Krauthammer:

Obama invites Trumka and Obama’s “pet CEO”, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, to sit in the First Lady’s box.

John Boehner invites businessmen who have been screwed over by the Obama administration’s policies to sit in The Speakers’ Box..

Republicans hold their cards close to their chests - No formal response is planned by Republicans after Obama’s jobs speech.

Second Act:

The speech.

It  is, as expected, a cynical hodgepodge of retreads with $450 billion in new spending, which the President knows has no chance of passing.

Obama promises; “Everything in this bill will be paid for. Everything.”

An AP Fact Check begs to differ about that, (and other Obama assertions.)

Third Act:

Reactions from the right:

Charles Krauthammer, again. (plus Fox News Allstars):

@hughhewitt: #ObamaSpeech “The speech was a joke, and the man who gave it is perilously close to becoming one as well.”

@guypbenson: That was a shallow, callow campaign speech masquerading as something important. Truly awful

Michelle Malkin: Reuse, recycle, rehash.

Melissa Clouthier:

President Obama gave a rousing speech. The b.s. deserves bullet points — it will be easier:

• $450 billion paid for by …well, that plan is to come
• pass it! even though there’s no bill to read, let alone pass
• URGENCY — even though the speech could wait until after vacations, and after the two years the Dems had a supermajority
• Dems love it! — they believe they just threw the burden onto the Republicans hoping everyone will forget they’ve been in charge
• the plan is Stimulus II — a last-ditch effort by Dems to infuse money into the economy with hopes it will be enough to bump down unemployment rates in time for the election
• it was a political, not a policy, speech and President Obama plans to stump it “everywhere”
• a little perspective

A symposium at Big Government features  enthusiastic thumbs downs from all participating bloggers.

Samples:

Andrew Breitbart:

The sometimes quasi-conciliatory tone in his speech contradicts his and Big Labor’s Labor Day declaration of ‘war’ against GOP ‘barbarians’ and ’sons of bitches’. Looking to get mommy and daddy (Congress) to open up its checkbook again will cause some behavioral modification. His presidency is effectively over. But that doesn’t mean the press can’t go full-court press to pretend otherwise as it goes to hyperdrive trying to turn the country’s ire on the Republicans.

John Nolte, EIC, BigHollywood:

This speech was an unmitigated disaster. To paraphrase “Animal House, ” angry, desperate and patronizing is no way to go through life. Welcome to “Stimulus 2: Electric Fail-a-too.” Furthermore, it’s a shame it took the President nearly three years into his term to figure out taxes and regulations hurt job growth. Who knew! I’m glad that after frittering away 30 months on boondoggles like ObamaCare and all those vacations, that he’s finally got some energy towards, you know, the economy — but no one trusts this president anymore. He’s feckless, incompetent and adrift. This is a man who got everything he wanted passed for full two years and in turn put us in this position. More of the same is not the answer, nor is talking down to everyone when the pile of rubble you’re hollering from is your own doing.

Dana Loesh, EIC, BigJournalism:

He called a joint session of congress to rehash his Stimulus 2009 speech. The admin proposed to seize capital from job creators to pay for the reduction of private sector jobs and the increase of public sector jobs. He proposed nothing short of a game of cups. Every job mentioned tonight was a union job. Richard Trumka, who was a guest of honor while earlier 500 of his members took six hostages in Washington, told the President today on TV that he better “go to the mat” for them. Obama did.

Via Hot Air:

How excited are economists? This excited:

[E]conomists on both ends of the political spectrum say infrastructure improvements might not make much of a splash in the short-term.

“It’s not good stimulus,” said Alice Rivlin, a Democratic member of the president’s Debt Commission and former head of the Office of Management and Budget.

“It doesn’t come online fast enough. If you’re really talking about things that will create jobs quickly, you need to rely on either direct government hiring in the manner of things done in the Great Depression, or demand-side things that will get more money spent by wage earners,” she said.

Alan Viard, an economist with the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said infrastructure spending can be “reasonably powerful” but cautioned additional funding might not be the most effective way to spend the taxpayers’ dime.

John Hinderaker from Powerline:

I don’t think Obama even understands why his first stimulus program failed. There is no evidence that he has progressed beyond his mindless “spending equals stimulus” mantra. The man has not the most elementary grasp of economics. He is like a medieval doctor who continues to bleed a dying patient, convinced that he is applying the right remedy, and if he just draws a little more blood the patient will recover. Or, to transition to a different metaphor, he is like a dog who can whistle but only knows one tune; so, no matter what the occasion, the tune he knows is the one you will hear.

Herman Cain’s entire reaction:

We waited 30 months for this?

I could continue, but you get the idea. The speech was crap.

If you’re still not convinced, this should seal the deal: Maxine Waters Is Happy With His “Big Plan”…

“I think he got it right,” the California Democrat said on a CBS News webcast shortly after Obama finished his address to Congress.

Fourth Act:

Top Republicans play nice, pretend to be intrigued …

John Boehner:

“The proposals the President outlined tonight merit consideration. We hope he gives serious consideration to our ideas as well.  It’s my hope that we can work together to end the uncertainty facing families and small businesses, and create a better environment for long-term economic growth and private-sector job creation.”

Eric Cantor:

While we disagree on how we should grow America’s economy, I do not question the President’s motives or his commitment to our country. Plain and simple, my point is that good people can disagree. We need to focus on areas where there is common agreement – to do what the people sent us to Washington to do, which is to grow this economy and create jobs.
There are certainly goals that the President outlined tonight, that Republicans can work with him on. Good people can disagree; we should move quickly to pass the areas where there is common agreement, so that we can grow this economy and create jobs.

The strategy being, to show a willingness to work and cooperate with Obama to get something done, even though they know most of his policies are worse than useless.

Act Five:

To be continued.