From The Onion's "American Voices" on Republicans blocking equal pay bill: "I think men should be compensated more for having a penis. We have to lug these things around all day. Do you know how embarrassing that is?" Ray Flora, Hydraulic Press Operator
- I've always been careful to label Pres. Obama a socialist. However, I have referred to some of his policies as socialist. There is now---what appears to be---a smoking gun or hard evidence. Many credible sources, including National Review, Human Events, NewsBusters and many others, are now reporting in 1996 Obama belonged to The New Party, a far-left, progressive, ACORN affiliated political party (the knee-pad media continue not to run this story). Evidence from ACORN Illinois establishes Obama's New Party affiliation as well as recently uncovered membership files and memos (If you recall, in 2008, Obama denied his association with ACORN. He said he only represented ACORN as an attorney)
- The New Party was established by The Democratic Socialists of America. Former members of The New Party formed The Working Families Party of New York, a far-Left political party.
- So what does this all mean? For one, it's now very clear that Pres. Obama had an association with not only far-left, progressive organizations, but also hard-core Socialist organizations (many of whom have a Marxist foundation to their core values). Also, does it surprise anyone now when Obama speaks about "fair share" and "distribution of wealth?" These are all Marxist principles to the core. Whether Pres. Obama now considers himself a Socialist, I don't think we can answer that. But the evidence---now overwhelming---proves he was at one time.
- Did you know Pres. Obama ignored D-Day again? Instead he went to a fundraiser. In fact, he's ignored this anniversary for the past 3 years. As CBS Tampa columnist Ira Pickett asked, "What could be so time consuming that he couldn't even take five minutes to address the nation...There were no emails, Tweets..." Hey, but Obama has a lot of time to play golf and raise money from his Hollywood friends. (See below)
- But there is good news. Huntsville, Alabama, held a parade for homecoming veterans. Way to go Huntsville!!!
- Did you know the anti-Walker forces lost 3 times in less than 2 years? In addition to being unable to unseat Walker this week, they tried to recall some state senators. They lost. They also tried to unseat a conservative State Supreme Court judge in a special election. Yes, they lost that one too.
- Have Democrats forgotten that the Tea Party in 2010 helped the House gain 63 seats? Or that Scott Brown won a special election in Massachusetts with Tea Party backing?
Unemployment is still looking pretty bad. In fact, the White House has a new slogan: "Hope and Change the Subject."...Leno
I believe we can all take several messages and lessons from Gov. Walker's crushing win last night.
- Conservatives won the debate and the battle (Yes, most Republicans are conservative, but conservative and Reagan Democrats came out in full force yesterday. Remember, Wisconsin is considered, by all measures, a blue state). Not only did Walker crush Mayor Tom Barrett by 53% to 46% (at one point, Walker was about 20 points ahead), Walker took all but 11 of the 72 counties in Wisconsin. Walker also won independents by a slight margin and men voted for him big time. Walker lost among women.
- Most of the reforms the public unions took Walker to task for---worked. Unemployment in the state is now down under 7% (it's 8.2% nationally). Note: 7 of 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates are governed by Republicans...PolitiFact)
- The Tea Party notches yet another victory. The Occupy Crowd (aligned with public unions) has yet to win anything.
Tiger Woods Back Again After Being Back From Being Back...The Onion's Sports Headline
- We all know every politician spends a lot of time fundraising. So do our presidents. Pres. Obama, on the other hand, has taken fundraising to extremes. It begs to ask the question: Is he our first AWOL president? I believe the data suggests he is. To date, Pres. Obama has held 147 fundraisers. In comparison, Clinton held 14 during the same time period and George W. Bush 57 in 2004. Bush 1 held 19 in 1992. Obama has made 20 fundraising trips to NYC alone attending 40 fundraisers. Just a few days ago, he attended 6 fundraisers in one day.
Orioles, We Have Enough Talent To Win Five More Games This Season...The Onion's Sports.
- I still continue to be amazed at how many Americans still fall for the Obama administration's smoke and mirrors (or 3 Card Monty as I've written about on several occasions). As of today, most polls still show this race is locked in a dead heat although the race will probably be determined by about 10% of voters. Many of these include independents. Considering the failure of the stimulus program, ObamaCare, the "shovel ready" jobs fraud, the "green jobs" fraud and, of course, the high unemployment just to name a few (check out my previous post for more on this), one can't help but ask: What the f^ck are they thinking?
- In fact, Charles Gasparino of Fox Business wrote what I've been writing about now for weeks: "...he's {Obama} is offering the same excuses, the same 'solutions' and whatever distractions he can come up with."
- And what does the Obama administration come up with to deal with these economic challenges?----the Buffet Tax rule.
- At this time in Pres. Reagan's tenure (who came in during a recession), the economy grew by 7%. At this time in Obama's presidency?---a whopping 1.9%.
- And did you know the government lowered the estimates of job gains for March and April? In other words, the numbers they were so proud of actually were not accurate.
- One more thing, the number of long-term unemployed INCREASED from 41.3% to 42.8%. Oh, and the rate of underemployment---those working part-time but want full-time jobs---also increased.
- How much of a failure has the "green revolution" been so far? In the 2000's, Spain went on a green binge. In 2009, they discovered the country destroyed 2.2 jobs in other industries for every green job created. In 2009, the Obama administration poured over a $ billion to American companies to make advanced batteries for electric vehicles. We're about half-way into a six year program and goal of producing one million electric vehicles. To date, we're produced about 50,000---meaning only 950,000 to go. WSJ. Right now, most Americans are figuring out the green revolution is not worth the cost. In the future, things might change. But now---we can't afford it.
- While the Obama campaign appears to be going off a cliff (who is the yo-yo in the Obama campaign who thought it would be a good idea to pick a fight with the Catholic Church that has over 70 million parishioners? Or who thought it would be a good idea to go after Bain Capital when so many Americans and businesses rely on capital infusion from companies like Bain? ---even many high profile democrats thought it was a bad move), Romney needs to come out swinging. As Peggy Noonan pointed out so well in her column this week, "Romney should be talking about the big things, taxing and spending, and offering a plan on both..." She's absolutely right.
- On the other hand, it's important to point out the Romney campaign has done very well in responding to Obama campaign attack ads. Unlike the McCain people, Romney's team hits back hard and immediately.
- Will Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survive his recall vote this week? Right now, he leads in polls showing he might pull this out. This would be significant considering unions have poured millions into having him removed from office. And the Occupy Wall Street misfits, felons and cowards took part in the protests. Several reasons might account for Walker's narrow lead. His economic policies appear to have worked. Although Pres. Obama won the state in 2008, he's remained clear of the state during this period instead sending surrogates like Bill Clinton (a strong sign of desperation on the part of the Obama campaign. And, if Pres. Obama's likeability is so high, why is he staying away from Wisconsin? He's staying away because he's not as well liked as the knee-pad media wants us to think, that's why).
- If you recall, during the protests last year against Walker, over $7 million damage was done to the Capitol by union protesters and occupiers after they occupied the Capitol. In addition, Wisconsin legislators left the state in protest (a bunch of cowards). This will be one recall vote to follow closely. It might have implications for the national election next November.
- As we struggle with our economy, the global economic news continues to be bad. CNBC is now reporting that the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit a 28 year low today. Spain and Greece appear to be imploding. It's so bad; the Eurozone countries are wondering if they can keep it all together. In fact, Bloomberg News is now reporting that France is putting more pressure on Germany for more help---meaning another infusion of cash---to banks, not governments. And some are predicting, once the crisis is over, retirement age in Europe will be pushed to 70, perhaps even 80 years of age.
- As the rest of the knee-pad media celebrate the 23 anniversary of Tinammen Square, The Political War Zone celebrates the anniversary of one of our Navy's greatest victories---The Battle of Midway, June, 4, 1942. Not only did we avenge Pearl Harbor, but Midway led to turning the tide of the war in the Pacific in our favor. At Midway, Japan lost four of their aircraft carriers, several cruisers and almost 250 aircraft. We lost the Yorktown, one destroyer and about 150 aircraft. We also lost 305 sailors.
- But there is some bad news for us today. At the time of Midway, the United States had almost 600 active duty ships. We now have about 285 or a fleet about the size of our fleet in WWI. And this administration's planned defense cuts will shrink our fleet by about another 60 ships.
"Pres. Obama released his new campaign slogan---'Forward.' That's a good message for Obama. He's telling voters, 'Whatever you do, don't look back at all those campaign promises I made.'" Leno
One of the most powerful words in the English language is Why. I like to ask questions beginning with Why because Why, in itself, poses many other questions. As I thought about this word this weekend, I asked myself what questions beginning with Why I would ask Pres. Obama if I had the opportunity. The following came to mind:
President Obama will begin a three state bus tour. I believe the three states are confusion, delusion and desperation...Leno
- There can be no doubt now that the Obama campaign handlers are panicking. It appears the campaign is going off a cliff. As many know by now, unemployment ticked up to 8.2%, the weakest in a year. On top of that data, only 68,000 jobs were created. Do the math. There are 50 states (unless you believe the president who said there were 57, but I'm counting the stars on our great flag). Divide 50 into 68,000 and you come up with just an average per state of just over 1,300 jobs per state. That's not bad. That's dismal.
- Those numbers were on the tail of horrible economic numbers yesterday with first-time unemployment claims bumping up AGAIN. The GNP came in at a paltry 1.9%.
- On top of all this, the stock market posted its worse day since last May.
