This clip was of Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) Mars. No she is not beyond the mainstream of thought for the Democrat Party, she is in fact the Chairperson of it. Now I realize how every side in a political campaign, or even in ordinary debate feels the need to spin the message around to paint themselves in the best possible light, but then again, I am not an imbecile. To that end, here are some things I have noticed.
George Bush was brutalized in the papers every day for 8 years. There were negative stories about the economy in the news media on a daily basis. Even though the GDP averaged 3% growth, and in fact reached that number in a healthy and consistent manner, we were told repeatedly that the 5% unemployment number was somehow the worst post Depression era performance of any Administration. (Laughable even more for those of us who remember the Carter Presidency and the invention during those dark days of the misery index.) Now that unemployment has reached the Carteresque levels once again, Obama and his team are out there claiming that they have created 2.5 Million private sector jobs. I watched this happen a dozen times over the weekend and through the last couple of days, and I laughed, right up until the time I realized that for the most part, the statement went largely unchallenged by a sickeningly compliant press. For those who rely on the alphabet media for their news, private and public sector job creation over the last 28 months have not come close to keeping up with the expansion of the workforce through natural population growth. It is in fact so bad, the language of the Obama Administration had to be expanded to include the mythical category of saved jobs. This is a metric which is silly for several reasons. One, there is no real definition of a saved job, nor any way to actually measure it. I personally could claim to have saved a thousand jobs, and there would be no way to disprove it.
A President campaigning for a second term is nothing new. It is expected, but most in the past have waited to start the process until the actual campaign season during the year of election. One reason, most of the time, Presidents don’t need to worry about winning the nomination of their party. Their organization is already in place, and fundraising is not an issue. since a sitting President does not need to spend money on a primary campaign, and has a guaranteed treasure of funds which national election laws just give them, ie federal funding, every other President in our nations history actually did their jobs until the last minute. This is not so for the Narcissist in Chief. We have very real issues for which we need a chief executive to address. In case you missed it, Pimco, one of our largest creditors, has announced that we have indeed met and exceeded their limit for allowable debt. They don’t care about whatever silly number for a debt limit little Timmy Geitner is able to negotiate with congress, they are refusing to loan us another dime. Our Justice Department has been involved in treasonous activity. They have been actively arming foreign invaders in a brazen attempt to convince Americans that the Second Amendment should be repealed outright. Our economy, far from being an accomplishment which deserves a Presidential victory lap, is in flames. Federal Regulations have so choked off American businesses from even operating let alone expanding their workforces, that over half of the jobs created in the private sector over the last quarter have been added by one American corporation alone. (This is ironic in itself since jobs at McDonalds have long been derided by every single Democrat I have ever met as being somehow unworthy of actually being considered as a part of our economy.) Don’t get me wrong. I am happy that McDonalds is hiring. Entry level positions will often lead to bigger and better things for those who apply themselves appropriately. It is just that this performance is hardly the stuff of braggadocio.
The middle east is in flames, and it is that way precisely because President Obama made the specific decision to project American weakness. Kow towing to our enemies while beating up on our allies has surprisingly produced the same exact results as when Jimmy Carter tried it some 35 years ago. On President Obama’s campaign victory tour, he chirps about the Arab Spring, as though suddenly all threats for that part of the world are being swept away. It is not his failure to mention that last month 2000 Coptic Christians were slaughtered as a part of that renewal of freedom that bothers me most, it is that not a single member of the press challenged him with it during his claim that his smart diplomacy made this blessed event possible. Just like in 1979 Iran, the young democrat students have already been rounded up and imprisoned, if not out rightly executed, and Israel is faced with a very real and terrible new enemy located on her border. For those of you who believed incorrectly that the Muslim Brotherhood and the Shia Mullahs of Iran would never get along and cooperate, there are now two Iranian submarines tooling around off the coast of Egypt in the Red Sea.
Have you enjoyed your recent trips to the gas pumps. Have they been worthy of a Presidential victory lap. Get ready for a similar thing to happen with electricity prices. President Obama, while giving lip service to making America the best place to conduct business and put us in the front seat of the new green economy is attempting to do so by destroying the sector of the economy which produces more conventional forms of energy. Since the free market rewards quality and efficiency, the nifty green economy would not come about on its own. Therefore it is necessary to force us into that decision by making gas and electricity too expensive to get from conventional sources. Besides the extra costs inherent in an economic system which utilizes subsidies to promote social engineering, there is another glaring problem. Even with massive amounts of our tax dollars being poured into these various alternative forms of energy production, nothing has yet to be close to producing anywhere near what we actually need. Without returning to a 7th century lifestyle, disaster awaits us should we remain on this current path. Here is an experiment for all of the Obama supporters out there. Go the entire summer without turning on a single fan or an air conditioner, and refrain from using your car. See how that suits you. I would rather President Obama kept the promise he made during his latest SOTU Address and get busy ending the federal regulation which is creating this energy crisis rather than allowing his Administration to be creating it.
Against the express will of the American People, in what has to be the single most cynical and crooked political maneuvers ever in our nation’s history, Obamacare was passed. Its provisions don’t even kick in until mostly after the next election. Even with that fact, we were told that we had to pass the pos so quickly that it remained almost completely unread by the geniuses who voted for it. Since its passage, every single thing about it has been terrible. Even though its costs have tripled since its passage, the press is still sticking with the theme that it is a budget reducing Law. Rationing has already started, with several medications losing FDA approval due to cost. Panels have already been empowered in Medicare to circumvent treatment and medications ordered by doctors based on economic considerations. 30% of employers will be dropping their health insurance programs entirely. Every one of the Laws proponents have been granted waivers exempting them from the consequences of the Law. And, as a special bonus, we now have an armed Department of Education with some of the most thuggish collection techniques since Dutch Schultz formed the New York Restaurant Owners Association.
On the one hand I can understand the meme of the economy has turned around and Barack Obama did it. After all, they can not run on a campaign of we plan on giving you 4 more years of what we did during the last 4. But, I am not an idiot either. Perhaps it would just be better for the country if Barack Obama just got to the business of becoming one of our nation’s best former Presidents, just like the first guy who instituted the same policies as those we are running with today, Jimmy Carter.
Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
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