"In Paul We Trust"

Because I probably haven't offended the Ron Paul people enough this week!



I suggest we mint a three dollar silver piece...

El Presidente - This is Your Army...

"...we are ready to march!" -Generalissimo Hoffa

Another Sticker for 2012

President In Absentia

No. "Absentia" isn't a country (otherwise, Michelle would have booked a flight there by now!), it's Latin for "the lights are on, but nobody's home". Don't bother calling the White House today. Barry's not home. He left for Camp David, to enjoy a four day weekend, to recover from his grueling ten day vacation after three rigorous days of campaigning.



Whew! Sometimes it's hard to figure how he ever squeezes in a game of golf at all!

Obama on Speech Delay: "We are Not Amused."

According to Politico, not amused at all!

It seemed like a trivial matter: On Wednesday, House Republicans forced the president to delay his speech to a joint session of Congress by one day.



Who cares? The White House cares. Very much.



“It is a big deal that the House said ‘no’ to the president from our end,” a White House source with intimate knowledge of what took place between the House and the president told me Thursday. “This confirms what we all know: They will do anything in the House to muck us up.”

Is it just me? Or do the echoes of Rahm Emanuel suggest that the word they used wasn't "muck"?

On Wednesday, the White House staff did not know exactly what President Barack Obama was going to say in his major jobs speech, but it knew exactly where and when he was going to say it.



The location would be before a joint session of Congress in the august marble-clad chamber of the House of Representatives. And the speech would be next Wednesday night, when the House returned from vacation, and there would be maximum TV viewership.

I don't know if anyone is expecting anything other than warmed over platitudes, "I feel your pain" and suggestions to spend yet more millions if not trillions of federal dollars to borrow our way to prosperity.



But, if the speech really were important or substantive, why the delays? First of all, I heard a suggestion today that Obama might try to deliver the speech in a thirty minute slot before the kick off of the NFL season. If this is true, it is quite damning on many levels.



First, it suggests that it is once more an exhibition of petty gamesmanship on Obama's part. Aside from the fact that Obama and his teleprompter very seldom can say anything in under thirty minutes, this would seem to preclude any time for a rebuttal from the Republicans. Second, How substantive or comprehensive could it be if he can spell it out in thirty minutes or less. What is he? Delivering a pizza?



And third, if he could spell it out in thirty minutes or less, are you telling me that he could not delay his ten day vacation in Martha's Vineyard for thirty freaking minutes to lay out a plan to turn the nation's economy around?



And what's the BFD, as Joe Biden would say, about addressing a joint session of Congress? If he can lay it out in thirty minutes or less, make your speech from the Oval Office and let the weight of your ideas carry the day.



And then it hit me. Why the need to address the joint session of Congress, other than to screw with the Republicans and their presidential debate? It is this:



There will be so little substance to the President's speech, that he needed a studio audience to give him standing ovations and applause to make his lackluster ideas, platitudes and spending proposals sound more impressive than they really are.



This is Obama’s M.O. His Styrofoam Greek columns writ large. Remember his speech in front of 10 Downing Street address? He wasn’t visiting any British head of state, he was just using it as a backdrop for his campaign.



This guy Obama is a world class phony and poseur. God help the United States of America.



H/T Memeorandum



Cross posted at LCR, Say Anything.

Obama's Speech Trumped By Boehner's Full (or Empty) House

It looks like President Petulant has tried his hand at petty school yard politics. Did you hear about Obama's planned "jobs address"? This wasn't urgent enough to tell the nation before he went on vacation for ten days, but all of the sudden, he wants to make an address to Congress the same day, the same time the Republicans had scheduled a candidate's debate at the Reagan Library.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has asked President Obama to address a joint-session of Congress on Thursday, Sept. 8, when it wouldn't conflict with the Republican presidential debate.



Citing logistical difficulties, Boehner requested that Obama hold his jobs address, which Obama wants to deliver next Wednesday, one day later.



The Speaker's letter made no mention of the more obvious conflict: between the president's speech, and a Republican presidential debate scheduled on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. EST. That debate is the first of the post-Labor Day political season, and the first one in which Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is set to participate.

It was a juvenile move. Strictly "bush league" (Small "B"). He wanted to upstage the Republicans on the one hand, and use Congress as a bunch of props and a backdrop to stage the glory that is Obama.

One small problem: The President has to be invited to address Congress. Apparently, the President didn't even ask Congress about the speech, but arrogantly expected that if he said "jump" the peasants would ask "How high?".



Enter the adults with a cold splash of harsh reality for President Petulant. Boehner said that there might be "parliamentary or logistical impediments" that might interfere with his speech. That's right. "Parliamentary" (wink, wink) or "logistical" (nudge, nudge) impediments". If fact, I think that Boehner could probably give Obama an iron clad guarantee that there'd be at the very least a parliamentary impediment to the President's proposed schedule.



Note to the Obama White House: This ain't bean bag.





H/T Memeorandum

"His Master's Voice"

"His Master's Voice"



The old RCA dog had nothing on Obama!

This One Was Photoshopped...

...in case you couldn't tell the difference!

Barney Holder

"I sold my bullet, Andy. And as soon as they use it, we can arrest 'em!"



At least Mayberry had Andy to back them up.

Obama's Debt Star

Apparently, you can't see the logo from the other side. The dark side...



Inspired by our own Mrs. C.

The Least Serious President in the History of the Republic™ Can Fix Social Security, No Sweat!

And, he's got a bridge he can sell you!

“Social Security is not in crisis. We’re going to have to make some modest adjustments in order to strengthen it.”

-Barack Obama



Isn't that just amazing? Who knew? This must have just happened recently. Otherwise, why didn't he implement these "modest adjustments" during the first two years of his term, while his party held both the House and Senate? But, assuming that this "Road to Damascus" revelation came to him in the last six or seven months, why hasn't he called Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in to his office to reveal to them the "modest adjustments" they need to introduce so that Obama can sign them into law and save Social Security?



Why not? Because, truth be told, the "modest adjustments" are not that modest. There is no way to reform a massive entitlement like Social Security without causing someone or a lot of someones, major pain. And those someones vote.



If there truly were just minor adjustments that would save the solvency of Social Security against the large number of Boomers about to retire in the next ten years, why not implement them as soon as possible? And why the lack of specifics? If Obama has a plan, he should spell it out! He's the leader of our country, he should lead!



It's funny. I recently heard a lib compare conservatives to "snake oil salesmen". Obama's vague, "Trust me, I'll fix it" smacks more of snake oil than statesmanship.



If he really has a plan, he should spell it out, or will he "hold Social Security hostage" until after the election. (I'm just channeling my inner liberal here!)



Cross posted at LCR.

Obama Bus Tour

Still plenty of room underneath!

President Barack Obama leaves the White House on Monday for a three-day bus trip, talking job creation at small towns across the Midwest in hopes of distancing himself from the "partisan brinksmanship" he says has poisoned the economy.

My only question is, Will he take Air Force One to meet the bus everyday, or only when it stops?

A Tale of Three Presidents

FDR: We have nothing to fear, but fear itself!



HST: The buck stops here!



BHO: You have nothing to fear. Had the buck stopped here, I would have spent it!

"Halfway There"

John Kerry's Fascination

I ran across this picture from a couple years back...



I always wondered what he was so fascinated with!

It Says "Lemon-Lime", but You Know it's Red

A lot of this being consumed tonight...

The Specter of Default

The last two weeks on the Sunday shows, the talking heads kept hammering away at the talking point, "the specter of default". I think I know what they were talking about...

How Long Does it Take to Run the Country Dangerously Into Debt?

The Other Gerber Baby

Gerber, the baby food company, is conducting a search for the new "Gerber Baby". I myself, carry a Gerber knife in my pocket most everywhere I go. And it got me to thinking, "Just what kind of baby carries a Gerber knife??"


"Step away from the binky with your hands up!"

Eat Your Peas, America!

The ad begins, "You never know when a stubborn streak will show up..."