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The Govs Go To Washington

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, left, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wait for President Barack Obama to speak to the members of the National Governors Association, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington.

 

GOP Governors press Obama on mandates

 

.... Jindal said he went into the meeting convinced that a conservative president is needed in the White House, and left even more convinced....

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“In South Carolina we can’t pass our own bills without [Obama] getting in the way. We pass illegal immigration reform, he stops it. We pass voter ID, he stops it. We get Boeing in, he stops it,” Haley said. “This president is trying to handle the entire country and he’s failing.”

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“Eleven out of fifteen states that have been ranked as the most business-friendly states in America by CNBC are governed by Republican governors. Seven out of 10 states that have the lowest unemployment rates in America are governed by Republican governors,” McDonnell said.

“If you want to see what a Republican president is going to do, look at what Republican governors are doing today,” he said.

 

 

 

Gubernatorial Elections in 2012:

 

P.S. West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin met with Obama's Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske (Who knew? ).  Not exactly what you would call an honor.

 

 

Obama - Volt 2012

 

Obama to Replace Biden on the 2012 Ticket

with…the Chevy Volt

.... For an Obama campaign that has the real potential to go down in flames, why not have a running mate with (at least) six fires under its fan belt?

And keeping with the Obama Administration’s incessant obfuscations and outright distortions – about GM and all things -  they covered up for half a year [the] one Volt fire to which they’ll cop.  And have ignored entirely the (at least) five additional Volt fires.

Obama has been a Crony Socialist nightmare – including with all sorts of born-to-be-bankrupt green non-energy “energy” joints like  Solyndra, Fisker, Beacon Power, Ener1, Energy Conversion Devices, Genesis Solar Project, (and on, and on, and…).

What better way to epitomize this on the Obama ticket than with GM and the Volt?

 

Read it all at the PJ Tatler.

 

 

GAS PRICES AREN'T RISING, THE DOLLAR IS FALLING

 

CAVUTO Explains

(why Nancy Pelosi was wrong, and Bill O'Reilly is wrong):

 

Enough.

This whole, blame the evil oil companies for this gas spiral. 

Enough.

People who know better

sounding like they have brains made out of butter.

 

 

I've heard the prattling on,

now time for some basic facts to sink in.

 Gas prices aren't rising.

 The dollar is falling.

 

Let me explain that.

Oil is priced in dollars.

 Dollars are getting cheaper.

It takes more of them to buy oil.

 

 

So oil gets more expensive.

Gas gets more expensive.

 

Traders can gun that. 

Some can try and capitalize on that.

Make bets on that.

 But that….is that.

 

Finite product. Priced in tumbling currency.

Bad combination.

Worse mess.

 

And a volatile mess at that.

And a mess whose price is driven by fears in markets,

more than manipulators in markets.

And certainly more than the oil companies

some think control the markets.

I hate to burst your Oliver Stone bubble, but they do not.

 They make a lot of money when prices are high.

But I remember a time in the 1980s

when they were losing a ton of money

when prices were not high.

 

Back then we had a lot more oil,

and a lot less demand.

Now we have a lot less oil,

and a lot more demand.

 

And the slightest uptick in the economy,

all you need is a slight uptick in demand and you've got trouble.

 Because this thing ain't priced for perfection.

This supply and demand equation is priced for our ruin.

Because we've not more aggressively sought out more oil here,

we're vulnerable to getting more oil from over there.

Which is why the Chinese are more than happy

to take from Canada,

the oil we don't want from Canada.

 

  Canadian PM Stephen Harper in China, February 8, 2012 (Getty Images)

 

The president says he's expanded production. He has.

But not nearly enough, which he knows.

What he's blocked far exceeds what he's allowed.

 

And now,

allowing for even a slightly improving economy,

the odds are more than slightly growing

for a serious energy problem....

 

 

252 Days Until the Presidential Election.

One of the great divides

Jimmie at Sundries Shack ~ by way of Larwyn's Linx:

.... One of the great divides between progressives and conservatives is how they view the relationship between church and government. Progressives believe that the supposed Wall of Separation exists to prevent the government from becoming overrun by faith and morality and other icky bits of religious belief....

Conservatives believe differently. We know that if everyone is allowed — and even encouraged — to pursue their own religious believes with as much vigor as they desire, there is no chance that any one religion will amass enough power to run our government. It is only when government intrudes upon the church instead of protecting the free expression of religion that the balance changes and favored religions gain advantage over those that do not have the regard of powerful government officials. That is how you get a national religion or, as we’ve seen in the United States lately, a national push to drive religion from the public square....

 

 

More Obama "Fairness"

 

Obama to cut healthcare benefits

for active duty and retired US military

 

... the plan calls for increases between 30 percent to 78 percent in Tricare annual premiums for the first year. After that, the plan will impose five-year increases ranging from 94 percent to 345 percent ...

 

Bill Gertz (yes, that Bill Gertz) at The Washington Free Beacon:

 

The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched.

The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges.

The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention.

The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon’s $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017.

Many in Congress are opposing the proposed changes, which would require the passage of new legislation before being put in place.

“We shouldn’t ask our military to pay our bills when we aren’t willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “We can’t keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more.”

Administration officials told Congress that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in Tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

“When they talked to us, they did mention the option of healthcare exchanges under Obamacare. So it’s in their mind,” said a congressional aide involved in the issue....

.... The administration is asking troops to get by without the equipment and force levels needed for global missions. “And now they are going to them again and asking them to pay more for their health care when you’ve held the civilian workforce at DoD and across the federal government virtually harmless in all of these cuts. And it just doesn’t seem fair,” [a Congressional] aide said....

... The massive increases beginning next year appear timed to avoid upsetting military voters in a presidential election year, critics of the plan say....

Bastard Media rigs polls

National Republican Trust, by way of ISRAPUNDIT:

The Associated Press is rigging polls again and is not disclosing the startling fact that its polling firm, GFK, has been granted federal government contracts since Obama has been in office. This is not a major surprise to our readers because we have come to expect very liberal bias from the so-called mainstream media, but this goes beyond business as usual and well into the area of inventing favorable news for Obama to help create the impression that his reelection is inevitable.

This week the AP again reported that their polling firm had determined that Obama would beat any of the Republican candidates but we looked at the raw polling data and once again, the AP and GFK had cooked the numbers by sampling ten percent more Democrat/Democrat leaning than Republicans....

 

 

Newt is "cheerful" about green energy

Newt for President.

 

.... Obama’s U.S. attorney in North Dakota filed a lawsuit against the oil companies based on eight migratory birds.  Now, wind kills about 33,000 birds a year.  So wind turbines, they are substantially more dangerous for birds.  But wind is green, so it is good; so therefore, it really didn’t kill the birds because if it killed the birds, that will be bad, but it can’t be bad because it is good.

 

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 And by the way, I am pro-research into algae.  I am a very pro-science guy.  I knew a guy in Texas A&M who is working on algae.  And I think somewhere down the road algae may well be a useful asset, but it is a little bit like Solyndra.  The president keeps finding these things, which would work someday if only they worked, but they don’t work, but they should work if only they worked, you'd really feel much better about them working. He doesn't want the things that do work because those things make you feel bad, so we can’t do the things that do work, because he wants to do the things that don’t work."

 

 

"the moment every sane person knew had to come"

 

 

 

Here Comes Obama's 3AM Phone Call

by James Lewis at American Thinker

In the next 60 days Obama's presidential career will finally meet that concrete wall of reality.  He will either fail or survive.  Trouble is, he might take many innocent people with him if he fails.

So far, the most hyped-up and unqualified president in US history has shown no capacity at all to act, in the face of a do-or-die challenge.  This is the ultimate test of character, the one that John F. Kennedy met well enough in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.  This is the test that Jimmy Carter failed so miserably that Ronald Reagan beat him handily in the following election.  This is the same test of reality that every single Democratic Administration has tried to avoid; it's the reason why Bill Clinton refused to do anything about Osama Bin Laden when he had four separate chances to take him out.

This time, abject apologies to ranting Pakistani mobs will not make a smidgen of difference.  Even Axelrod's disinformation campaigns can't save Obama now, because that 3 am phone call is almost sure to come by April Fool's Day of 2012, when the real fool will stand revealed to the world.

On or about April 1 of 2012, that 3 AM phone call will reach the White House. We know what it will be -- which is itself a sign of stunning incompetence in this White House.  None of this information should ever be public.  Ever.

But this administration has chosen its Secretary of Defense to publicly leak the most closely guarded secret of Israel's back-against-the-wall defense against Iranian nuclear weapons.

Such public leaks amount to near treason in time of war. Imagine if someone leaked General Eisenhower's plans for the D-Day invasion in June of 1944. FDR would have fired them instantly, or if they were foreigners he would have felt justified to have them killed. Hundreds of thousands of American and Allied lives were at stake on D Day. In Israel today, hundreds of thousands of Jewish lives are at stake. Don't expect countries fighting for their national survival to act any differently.

The Israelis have now publicly retaliated against the Panetta leak.  They have accused General Dempsey, our top general, of publicly taking the Iranian side in the confrontation. But General Dempsey is not the target. The General knows better.  The real target is his boss in the White House.

This is the moment every sane person knew had to come...

 

New national campaign: 'Typical White Persons' for Ron Paul

 

 

 

That was then. This is now:

Obama Plays Race Card, Calls on Churches to Support Campaign

 

Imagine if Paul campaign launched ‘Whites for Ron Paul’

.... Not only is Obama playing the race card in an attempt to pressure black Americans into voting for him, he is also violating the separation between church and state. 

In the video promo for the campaign, Obama urges black people to pressure churches into supporting his administration by getting his message out via “the faith community”. He also calls on voters to become “congregation captains”.

Again, imagine what the reaction would be any of the Republican candidates launched a ‘Whites for Romney’, ‘Whites for Santorum’ or ‘Whites for Gingrich’ campaign. There would be non-stop uproar. But Obama does the equivalent and gets a free pass.....

 

 

 

Oops. It's a power thing

Barack Obama, speaking to his campaign staff days after Hillary Clinton conceded the Democratic nomination to him, June 6, 2008:

Collectively  all of you, most of you whom are, I'm not sure, of drinking age, you've created the best political organization in America, and probably the best political organization that we've seen in the last 30, 40 years. That's a pretty big deal....We don't have a choice. Now, If we screw this up, and all those people who really need help, they not going to get help. Those of you who care about global warming, I don't care what John McCain says, he's not going to push that agenda hard. Those of you who care about Darfur, I guarantee you, they're not going to spend any political capital on that. Those of you who are concerned about education, there will be a bunch of lip service, and then more of the same. Those of you who are concerned that there's a sense of fairness in our economy, it will be less fair. So, now everybody's counting on you, not just me. But what a magnificent position to be in: the whole country is counting on you to change it for the better... Here you are five months away from changing the country." 

-- cited at TechPresident: The Obama Disconnect

 

 

The Community Organizer’s Collectivist Vision

by KEITH KOFFLER on FEBRUARY 25, 2012, 4:28 PM

I want you to take a look at something President Obama said during a fundraiser last week in SanFrancisco. It’s been gaining some notice as a vision for America that is not historically recognizable.

Because in the United States of America, we are greater together than we are on our own  (Applause). We’re better off when we keep that basic American promise that if you work hard, you can do well — you can raise a family, you can own a home, send your kids to college, put a little away for retirement — and that that promise is open to everybody.  If you’re born into tough circumstances, we’re going to give you ladders to climb up into that middle class.  And if you’re in that middle class, then we’re going to make sure that you’ve got the tools to, even in a changing world, have some security and some stability in your life. That’s what we’re fighting for.  That’s the choice in this election.

 

Actually, this is not a vision for America. This is a vision for the Soviet Union....