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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Howard Kurtz - White House rips Forbes article

Found this interesting link on the Drudge Report:

Howard Kurtz - White House rips Forbes article

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/howard-kurtz/2010/09/white_house_rips_forbes_articl.html?hpid=topnews

Typical: Obama Leaves "By their Creator" Out of Declaration of Independence at Hispanic Caucus Speec

Good grief (Obama speaking to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on September 15, 2010):
I find it most ironic that Obama, who has by his vote protected both abortion on demand and infanticide (4 times!), to invoke the unalienable right to life.
Glenn Gilbert, editor of the Oakland Press had this a few days ago: Why questions about Obama s faith, background refuse to die. Glenn quoted me in his piece:
"There is confusion about his faith because what he does does not match with what he says."
 "By his actions, he appears to be anti-Christian, and by his actions he is friendly to Muslims — the Cairo speech last year, support for the Ground Zero mosque, claiming America is a Muslim country, etc.," Kobus said. "That adds to confusion when his surrogates profess him to be a Christian. His former church run by Jeremiah Wright does not teach Christianity but rather black liberation theology that is not biblical. Also, since leaving that church he hasn't joined one since. I would guess in the end that he has great faith, but it resides in the Church of Liberalism rather than one based on Jesus Christ."
The above video just adds to the evidence. He's no Christian. He is a liberal and liberalism is his god.







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Video of Jesse Jackson: Jesus Didn’t Speak English, So US Shouldn’t Be English-Only Or Something

I'm having a hard time following whatever logic this is:
via BreitbartTV. Say amen somebody? Is he kidding? Should we thus all learn Aramaic? Biblical Hebrew? Sure would be different watching Passion of the Christ. But what does that have anything to do with speaking English in America?







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Video: Rep. Debbie Halvorson (IL-D) sends out campaign workers with "Palin=Hitler" signs

It's ironic that the same party that points their crooked finger at the GOP and the tea party as the ones hurling violent rhetoric are the same ones that use Nazi symbols to paint the opposition with. From Gateway Pundit via memeorandum: Busted… Vile Protesters With "Nazi" Signs Filmed Entering Dem Rep's Office After Rally (Video) …Update: OFA Protester ID'ed- Top Obama Campaign Worker …Update: Kinzinger Demands Apology
Vile protesters with Nazi signs were caught on film returning to Rep. Debbie Halvorson's office this week after protesting in front of Americans for Prosperity offices in Chicago.
The video:
More from Jim Hoft:
One of the protesters has been identified. She's one of Obama's Organizing for America staffers. They shipped her from Missouri to Chicago for their Hitler rally.
...Nazi protester positively identified– Anna Markowski. Here is Anna's Twitter account. She is currently working for for Barack Obama's Organizing For America… getting paid to carry Nazi signs? She was introduced at the grand opening of an Organizing for America office in St. Louis on November 4, 2009.
...Anna Markowski, the Nazi-sign protester, now works for Rep. Halvorson (D-IL)... was the Missouri Deputy Regional Field Director for Barack Obama in 2008. …And, now she's leading Nazi-sign protests. ... was not only a regional director for Obama but was also an OOS Volunteer Coordinator.
... Another one of the protesters has been identified– Julie Merz – Rep. Halvorsen's campaign manager who is depicted at the end of the video – was just recently the Deputy Director of Member Services on Ms. Pelosi's staff.
Good grief. Big Government has some pics:

How's that for decent rhetoric? Ironically, it was Pelosi herself that pointed her crooked finger at the tea party last year as using Nazi signs that lead to watering of plants (BUSTED!: "Obama As Hitler" Poster Was A Democrat/Union Plant At John Dingell Townhall! UPDATED with video interview!):
Now her staffers are carrying around Nazi signs? Brilliant! Speaking of, this happened in Illinois, and everyone hates Illinois Nazis:
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Moratorium only cost 12,000 jobs. “Let them eat cake.”

smug_obama "Let them eat cake."

This regime has many aspects about it that rub people the wrong way.  The cavalier attitude towards those affected by its misguided policy decisions might be the most acute.  Late Thursday, the regime released its analysis (PDF) of the economic effects of the deepwater drilling moratorium.  The report estimated that between 8,000 and 12,000 jobs would be impacted by the moratorium, and up to $1.8 billion in spending by the oil and gas exploration sector would be lost.  The report categorizes the effects as "not large."  "Not significant."

"Let them eat cake."

In an editorial yesterday, the New Orleans Times Picayune takes the administration to task for its indifference:


Louisiana officials and industry observers disputed some of the premises in the government's analysis, and their observations have merit. But even if the administration's figures are correct, 12,000 jobs lost is a major hit for the economy of a recovering region – and the administration shouldn't be cavalier about that.

LSU economics professor Joseph Mason, who has studied the moratorium's impact, said the government's estimate of job losses doesn't differ much from his own. The distinction, he said, is in how federal officials are framing their conclusions. In particular, Mr. Mason noted that many Gulf Coast communities are small, meaning the loss of even a few hundred jobs can be devastating.

"The administration says 'only' 12,000 jobs will be lost," Mr. Mason said. "This is almost as if they are telling a region that has been hit by disaster – both natural and manmade – time and time again that we'll 'only' wipe out a handful of their communities."

He's right, and that goes against President Obama's promise that his administration would help our region recover from this disaster.

The problem is not just that government officials were, and apparently still are, oblivious to the economic pain caused by the deepwater moratorium. The administration has not even acknowledged the damage from what local officials have characterized as a de-facto moratorium on shallow-water drilling.

Federal officials have said there's no official ban on shallow-water drilling. But 15 of 46 shallow-water rigs active when the Deepwater Horizon exploded are now idle, and four other have left the country. In addition, the federal government has granted only four permits for new drilling operations in the past four months. That many shallow-water permits were granted on any given week before the moratorium.

Industry officials said the shallow-water slowdown also is costing jobs. Shallow-water operator Hercules Offshore, for example, said it's laid off a few hundred employees. Seahawk Drilling Inc. has idled four rigs and put 150 workers on unpaid leave.


The regime's unwillingness (or apathy toward) admitting that its capricious policy of halting drilling in the gulf is having a significant economic impact, combined with the cavalier attitude towards the impacts that it does acknowledge, gives lie to the promise Obama made "heal the Gulf."  He either doesn't care, or he doesn't care to care.

It's this attitude—along with a long list of other dilletantish traits—that irks and angers so many Americans, not the least of which are the people of the Gulf Coast. They are "only" losing 12,000 jobs and $1.8 billion in economic impacts from the moratorium.

"Let them eat cake."








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