Despite Spending Bill "Success"; Obama Poll Numbers Continue Downward Spiral

Sorry, is this a dig? I meant it to be a dig. My bad. So sorry Mr. President. Just reporting the facts, sir.

From RasmussenReports.com:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval Index for Saturday shows that 37% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing as President. Twenty-three percent (23%) of voters Strongly Disapprove to give Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +14 (see trends).

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve.

Hmmm. Maybe because only 37% of Americans support the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Spending "stimulus" Generational Theft Act of 2009?

It's amazing how the bipartisan-party-of-hope-and-change with astronomical opening day support has slipped so far in just over two weeks.

Play ball!

The Nelson/Collins "Amendment" to CRAAP Spending "stimulus" Bill; Slightly Less Expensive CRAAP You Can Believe In

This is the garbage they settled on? 3 "Republican" Senators sold their souls to Liberal totalitarianism over this? 3 "Republican" Senators mortgaged our future over this?

Here's what they saved. Here is the Great Compromise!

$108,084,500,000. That's $108 Billion or roughly 12% of the original Senate version of the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Spending Bill of 2009.

Just last week, Sen Ben Nelson (D-NE) had this to say: "We need to sit down and see who owns these projects. We need to keep (the bill's cost in check) and see if we cant change around what's underneath that to create more jobs."

Yet in this CRAAP "compromise" with the sell-out Collins (and Snowe and Specter), they didn't eliminate anything that won't actually create any new jobs, they just lowered some numbers here and there.

Sen. Collins tries to defend herself and save face to Fox News. She said if the CRAAP returns from Senate/House conference with the same about of garbage she will vote against it. Huh? Why did you vote for it this time then?

By Democrat Logic and Democrat Math (I know, oxymoronic, right!) the exaggerated cost of this CRAAP is necessary to create the jobs and bring us out the "natural catastrophe" fire and brimstone cataclysmic Armageddon economy that we'll face without it.

So by that logic, won't this actually create fewer jobs? I thought they were going to take out the CRAAP of the bill which was not going to create jobs.

They didn't take anything out, they are just paying less.

By Obama-rithmatic, then, they are creating 12% fewer jobs.

This equates to roughly 500,000 fewer jobs in Obamanomics. And about 140,000 fewer jobs using the CBO estimates.

End result? We're spending $800 Billion - $1 Trillion to create somwhere between 1 million and 3.5 million jobs, despite no guarantee from anyone that a single job will be created and that our Vice President reminded us we have a 30% of complete failure.

Or between $230,000/job in Obamanomics or more than $500,000/job using the CBO's estimates.

This is beyond astounding, beyond outrageous.

This is "shameful" and "irresponsible", Mr. President.

It is, very much, an abomination.

Welcome to ObamaNation, America. This is the change you asked for.

Michelle Malkin has more.

"Stimulus" CRAAP Will Most Likely Pass, Senators Snowe, Collins and Specter Sell Souls To Liberals

As expected, traitorous "Republican" Senators Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Arlen Specter sold out to Liberals and their Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) "stimulus".

What's more frightening than anything else we've discussed during the past couple weeks is that the $800 Billion or $900 Billion or whatever raises the bar of future legislation.

Besides being questionably effective -- the CBO reported this week that the package will actually hurt the economy more than if Obama and Pelosi did nothing! -- this bill sets a new standard of spending for Liberals to fall back on in weeks, months and years to come.

Don't fool yourself; this is only the beginning of wild, radical spending on pork, payback to voting blocks and an effort to change American Democracy into a Socialist, totalitarian regime.

Just watch. Wait. And See.

Via Breitbart:

WASHINGTON (AP) - With job losses soaring nationwide, Senate Democrats reached agreement with a small group of Republicans Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama's plan for combatting the worst recession in decades.

"The American people want us to work together. They don't want to see us dividing along partisan lines on the most serious crisis confronting our country," said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, one of three Republican moderates who broke ranks and pledged their votes for the bill.

In addition to Collins, Republican Sens. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Olympia Snowe of Maine pledged to vote for the legislation.

Whatever the price tag, the compromise marked a victory for the new president, who has veered between calls for bipartisanship and increasingly strong criticism of Republicans in recent days. And it indicated that Democratic leaders remain on track to deliver a bill to the White House by the end of next week.

Yeah, right bipartisan. Thanks again Olympia, Susan and Arlen. 3 Republican votes out of both houses of congress, less than 2% of Republicans, will, in fact provide Democrats with talking point fodder will they will, in fact, claim "bipartisan" support.

Sen. Feinsten Questions Stimulus: "I reserve the right at the end of the day to vote against a package that does put those jobs out there.”

Thank goodness this Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Act is imploding from within.

Let's hope Senator Feinstein and other Democrats see the error of their ways and start over. Although, we completely disgree with Ms. Feinstein on tax cuts, anyone speaking out against the CRAAP is okay by us!

From KTVU:

WASHINGTON -- Convinced tax cuts will not stimulate the nation’s economy, Sen. Dianne Feinstein spoke out Friday against President Barack Obama's economic recovery package.

“I’m going increasingly concerned about the bill as to whether it is really going to be a stimulus,” she told fellow Senators during a debate of the bill. Feinstein then roiled through a litany of California’s financial woes.

“I come from a state which has more people unemployed today than the population of over a dozen states,” she said. “A state where the bread lines are growing, Where the need for assistance is growing. Where the state has a huge deficit. Where counties are unable to fund their operating maintenance. Where all capital projects have stopped and where the state now furloughs employees.”

“I think as we dither, Rome burns.”

Feinstein said her issue with the bill is the tax cuts included. “What in my view a stimulus is, is not candidly speaking a tax package,” she said. “I do not believe in this economy tax cuts are simulative… I worry
about this economy. The point of this package is to get jobs out to the people. So I reserve the right at the end of the day to vote against a package that does put those jobs out there.” . While Feinstein spoke out against the package, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada was trying to rally support for it.

Krauthammer: "Obama Age Begins With Perhaps Greatest Frenzy Of Old Politics"; "Thought the Awakening Would Take 6 Months. It Took 2 1/2 Weeks"

This is priceless. The Obama Presidency in a nut shell.

From The Washington Post (bold is mine)

The Fierce Urgency of Pork
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, February 6, 2009; A17

"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."
-- President Obama, Feb. 4.

Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.

And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high position. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn't understand the payroll tax provisions in his 1040. Followed by Tom Daschle, who had to fall on his sword according to the new Washington rule that no Cabinet can have more than one tax delinquent.

The Daschle affair was more serious because his offense involved more than taxes. As Michael Kinsley once observed, in Washington the real scandal isn't what's illegal, but what's legal. Not paying taxes is one thing. But what made this case intolerable was the perfectly legal dealings that amassed Daschle $5.2 million in just two years.

He'd been getting $1 million per year from a law firm. But he's not a lawyer, nor a registered lobbyist. You don't get paid this kind of money to instruct partners on the Senate markup process. You get it for picking up the phone and peddling influence.

At least Tim Geithner, the tax-challenged Treasury secretary, had been working for years as a humble international civil servant earning non-stratospheric wages. Daschle, who had made another cool million a year (plus chauffeur and Caddy) for unspecified services to a pal's private equity firm, represented everything Obama said he'd come to Washington to upend.

And yet more damaging to Obama's image than all the hypocrisies in the appointment process is his signature bill: the stimulus package. He inexplicably delegated the writing to Nancy Pelosi and the barons of the House. The product, which inevitably carries Obama's name, was not just bad, not just flawed, but a legislative abomination.

It's not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It's not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for new construction for Milwaukee Public Schools, which, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, have shrinking enrollment, 15 vacant schools and, quite logically, no plans for new construction.

It's the essential fraud of rushing through a bill in which the normal rules (committee hearings, finding revenue to pay for the programs) are suspended on the grounds that a national emergency requires an immediate job-creating stimulus -- and then throwing into it hundreds of billions that have nothing to do with stimulus, that Congress's own budget office says won't be spent until 2011 and beyond, and that are little more than the back-scratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism that Obama came to Washington to abolish.

He said.

Not just to abolish but to create something new -- a new politics where the moneyed pork-barreling and corrupt logrolling of the past would give way to a bottom-up, grass-roots participatory democracy. That is what made Obama so dazzling and new. Turns out the "fierce urgency of now" includes $150 million for livestock (and honeybee and farm-raised fish) insurance.

The Age of Obama begins with perhaps the greatest frenzy of old-politics influence peddling ever seen in Washington. By the time the stimulus bill reached the Senate, reports the Wall Street Journal, pharmaceutical and high-tech companies were lobbying furiously for a new plan to repatriate overseas profits that would yield major tax savings. California wine growers and Florida citrus producers were fighting to change a single phrase in one provision. Substituting "planted" for "ready to market" would mean a windfall garnered from a new "bonus depreciation" incentive.

After Obama's miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be seen as a fairy tale that all presidents tell -- and that this president told better than anyone.

I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks.

letters@charleskrauthammer.com

The Sky Is Falling! President Armageddon Continues Politics of Fear Over Hope, Blames Congress, Calls Them "Irresponsible"

"...if we drag our feet and fail to act, this crisis will turn into a catastrophe. We'll continue to get devastating job reports like today's—month after month, year after year." -- President Obama 2/6/09

Source Breitbart

Obama signed an executive order today create an outside panel of experts to help steer the economy out of a tailspin. Great, more buereaucracy, more cooks in the kitchen. But anyway...

President Armageddon continued his doom and gloom fear mongering in an effort to pass the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) "stimulus". Today he has introduced a new strategy, blaming Congress for being "irresponsible", while he continues to vote "present".

"These numbers demand action. It is inexcusable and irresponsible to get bogged down in distraction and delay while millions of Americans are being put out of work. It is time for Congress to act," Obama said bluntly.

"The American people did not choose more of the same," Obama said. "They did not send us to Washington to get stuck in partisan posturing, or to turn back to the same tried and failed approaches that were rejected in the last election. They sent us here with a mandate for change, and the expectation that we would act."

He's still campaigning! Not leading!

Yesterday, in a Washington Post opinion, President Chicken Little said:

"By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression."

Well, the numbers are out and while certainly far from good news, they confirm that President Apocalypto needs to tone down the rhetoric just a tad.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Recession-battered employers eliminated 598,000 jobs in January, the most since the end of 1974, and
catapulted the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent.

With cost-cutting employers in no mood to hire, the unemployment rate bolted to 7.6 percent in January, the highest since September 1992.

Factories slashed 207,000 jobs in January, the largest one-month drop since October 1982.

Charles Krauthammer writes in today's Washington Post:

"Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill."

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

Lindsey Graham Finally Makes Sense; Articulates What The Real Stimulus Should Be; This Is Exactly What We Are Talking About; Tax Cuts Vs Spending

Another Republican Conservative's Balls Have Just Dropped.

Maddow DARES To Criticize Ronald Reagan? MSNBC And Rachel Maddow Are Hateful, Vile, Disgusting UnAmerican Slime The Liberal Media Has Crossed The Line

All Americans, not just Conservatives must watch this. She must be silenced. This is hurtful to America. Seriously.

WARNING: "Sick Bag" required.

Pun (Unintentionally) Intended: Rachel Maddow truly is a "Sick Bag".



Rachel Maddow. The anger you incite in Americans is perverse, arrogant, wrong and hateful.

You and anyone who watches your vile show or listens to your amateurish radio show can all pack up your things and move the hell out of America!

You clearly want Socialism, Communism, and Totalitarianism. Then take your vile pig face and pack up your sh*t and move to Europe. Move to Afghanistan. Move to China. Move to Soviet Russia. Move anywhere where you will be silenced by vicious, violent, anti-Woman radical Socialist who you so endear.

F*** You Rachel Maddow! You are more vile and disgusting and unpatriotic than Chris Matthews could ever hope to be!

Who the hell do you think you are, Rachel Maddow! You are NO ONE! You are not even a speck on the historical radar. How dare you!

Pork 2.0: Stimulus in A Nut Shell! 50 Reasons To Reject The Economic and Recovery (CRAAP) Act

We've commented on much of this already, but here is the Congressional Radical Anti-America Pork (CRAAP) in a nutshell.

And it stinks. It stinks like a pig. It sticks like a pig stuck in a "fish barrier".

From National Review (comments by us):

VARIOUS LEFT-WINGERY:

1. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts

Gimme a break. It's Payback.

2. $380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program

This is Congress-speak for socialized medicine/national healthcare; not to mention the abortion debate. Choice comes prior to conception people!

3. $300 million for grants to combat violence against women

Not a bad program, everyone is against violence in any form, but not "stimulus"!

4. $2 billion for federal child care block grants

The Federal Government should not be in the business of child care.

5. $6 billion for university building projects

Don't they have billions and billions of dollars in endowments for this stuff?

6. $15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships

Again, no one is against student loans, but not "timely, targeted, and temporary" stimulus.

7. $4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion to provide “youth” summer jobs for people up to the age of 24

Hitler youth. 'Nuff said.

8. $1 billion for community development block grants

Stimulus for buying votes; nothing for economy or job creation.

9. $4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”

ACORN. 'Nuff said.

10. $650 million for digital TV coupons, including $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”

See related.

POORLY DESIGNED TAX RELIEF:
11. $15 billion for business-loss carry-backs

12. $145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits

Not sure what this is, but it sounds like Socialisam

13. $83 billion for the earned income credit

DEFINITELY more welfare.

STIMULUS FOR THE GOVERNMENT:

14. $150 million for the Smithsonian

Again, cute and nice, but not stimulus.

15. $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters

Can we get a Commerce Secretary first?

16. $500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities

aka Socialized Medicine/National Health Care

17. $44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters

Department of Agriculture? Is that important?

18. $350 million for Agriculture Department computers

Why the departmental-ism? What about the Interior?

19. $88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building next year

What?

20. $448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters

Can't argue with the cause, but $Half a $Billion?

21. $600 million to convert federal auto fleet to hybrids

Appeasement to the radical, leftist, "green", environmental, hypocritical liars.

22. $450 million for National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Didn't Obama say he wants to curb NASA spending? Oh, right this is the "climate change" aspect of NASA.

23. $600 million for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

More bogus Al Gore funding.

24. $1 billion for the Census Bureau

This one is big. This is the one that wants to ensure "accurate census counts of minorities".

Our translation: Let's make sure we know where all the blacks and hispanics and illegal immigrants live so we can get ACORN to register them to VOTE FOR SOCIALISM "CHANGE".

INCOME TRANSFERS:
25. $89 billion for Medicaid

Socialized Medicine/National Healthcare.

26. $30 billion for COBRA insurance extension

Socialized Medicen/National Healthcare.

27. $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits

The more we make them reliant on the government, the more socialist, communist, and totalitarian we get and that's exactly what we want. Let the people shirk all personal responsibility and become beholden to the socialist government and we will rule them for decades. Just saying.

28. $20 billion for food stamps

The more we make them reliant on the government, the more socialist, communist, and totalitarian we get and that's exactly what we want. Let the people shirk all personal responsibility and become beholden to the socialist government and we will rule them for decades. Just saying.

PURE PORK:
29. $4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Whatever.

30. $850 million for Amtrak

Complete and utter business failure. Never has made money, never will. Privatize the rails, and maybe we have a chance.

31. $87 million for a polar icebreaking ship

Radical environmentalist payback.

32. $1.7 billion for the National Park System

Radical environmentalist payback.

33. $55 million for Historic Preservation Fund

???
34. $7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”

Convert the Bible Belt into government-dependant Liberals through ACORN-like "community organizer" Totalitarian rhetoric.

35. $150 million for agricultural commodity purchases

Again with the agriculture mumbo jumbo. More vote buying!

36. $150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”

More CRAAP!

RENEWABLE WASTE:
37. $2 billion for renewable energy research

Radical Environmentalist appeasement...yawn.

38. $2 billion for a “clean-coal” power plant in Illinois

Obama want to destroy the "clean-coal" industry!

39. $6.2 billion shall be for the Weatherization Assistance Program

Uh....what?

40. $3.5 billion shall be for energy efficiency and conservation block grants

Payback for the "climate change" industry.

41. $3.4 billion shall be for the State Energy Program

Payback for the "climate change" industry.
42. $200 million shall be for state and local electric-transport projects

Payback for the "climate change" industry.
43. $300 million shall be for energy-efficient appliance rebate programs

Payback for the "climate change" industry.
44. $400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments

Payback for the "climate change" industry.
45. $1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries

Should this not be up to the battery manufacturers? Their respsonsibility? Private companies and private enterprise produce better products at a cheaper price than government ever has.

46. $1.5 billion for green technology loan guarantees

Payback for the "climate change" industry.
47. $8 billion for innovative technology loan guarantee program

48. $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects

Payback for the "climate change" industry.

49. $4.5 billion for electricity grid

Payback for the "climate change" industry.

REWARDING STATE IRRESPONSIBILITY:
50. $79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund

Senator Harry Reid Promises To "Burn The Midnight Oil" Over Stimulus Debate; Adjourns Senate at 9:04 P.M.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid adjourned the United States Senate tonight at 9:04 P.M.

You Big Tease!

From Fox News:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor said that lawmakers will be "burning the midnight oil" Thursday night to complete the stimulus bill.Reid said he is hopeful that the Senate will achieve consensus and agree to a bill "we feel good about" in the next "12 hours." He argued that if there were reports that the Senate stimulus bill was failing, the stock market may crash Friday morning.

Reid told reporters Thursday he believes he has the 60 votes to pass the existing bill being debated, and made clear that the bipartisan group does not speak for the leadership or the president.

Maybe he decided to change his mind so they can have a more partisan, more democratic debate at 10:00 A.M. tomorrow when they reconvene to discuss the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Act.

"They cannot hold the president of the United States hostage," he said. "And if they think they can rewrite this bill ... they've got another thing coming."

Maybe not. Can they just put us out of our misery and stop spewing their BIPARTISAN CRAAP!

Obama Panics Over Stimulus, Seeks Help From His Best Friend And Top Campaign Contributor -- The Media

The President is officially in full panic mode over the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) "Stimulus" bill. Clearly, public support has dropped as Americans become more familiar with the CRAAP and Obama has fired back using his secret weapon -- his old media buddies who get a "tingle running down their leg" and want to "have sex" with the President.

First, there was yesterday's media blitz which backfired as it became the "apologize for Daschle" circus.

Then, he wrote a biased, factually incorect and misleading op-ed in today Washington Post.

Tonight, in an address to House Democrats on a retreat in Williamsburg, VA (now, now, the Republicans had one as well... though both should have been cancelled in the midst of our apocalyptic, dire, doom and gloom economic crises that Obama is warning us about) Obama used the pwer of the media to arrogantly defend his policies and attempt to lie, cheat and deceive the American people.

The address to Congress was originally going to be private and untelevised, however, the Obama team cleverly changed course just yesterday to enable America to once again hear the hypocritical rantings of the President in his defense of his CRAAP.

Fox News reports:

President Obama issued Democrats a call to action on the economy Thursday night, pushing his plan for a mix of spending and tax relief while accusing some of the bill's critics of "phony arguments and petty politics."

Obama was speaking to partisan crowd of House Democrats at a retreat in Williamsburg, Va., and while praising the House for already passing his stimulus bill, he made a thinly veiled jab at Republicans for having "come to the table with the same tired arguments and worn ideas" that helped to cause the current economic crisis.

But despite taking a sometimes humorous tone with his fellow Democrats, Obama hardly failed to underscore the potentially dire consequences of inaction.

Without swift passage of his stimulus bill, Obama said, "an economy that is already in crisis will be faced with catastrophe."

Admittedly, the Republicans may be using "petty politics" but that because this CRAAP stinks! Still, the Democrats and Obama have shown NO COMPROMISE, they have been EVERY BIT MORE PARTISAN in this CRAAP debate!

Is Obama really this arrogant and naive to think Americans are really this stupid?

Sadly, we think he is...

"Doom and Gloom": The Obama Op Ed; Pass This Bill Or It's Armageddon! President Apocalypto Predicts The Worst to Save His Ass

The sky is falling! It's raining frogs! The volcanoes are erupting! The ocean's are boiling! Wait, we've heard this tone before...somewhere... this is what Obama's fear-mongering sounds like to us.

• The antichrist (beast) will come into power and sign a peace pact (covenant) with Israel for seven years (Daniel 9:27).

• This seven year period of time is known as the Tribulation. During the Tribulation, there will be terrible wars, famines, plagues, and natural disasters. God will be pouring out His wrath against sin, evil, and wickedness.

• The Tribulation will contain the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and the seven seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments.

• About halfway through the 7 years, the antichrist will break the peace covenant with Israel and make war against them. The antichrist will perform the abomination of desolation and set up an image of himself to be worshipped in the temple (Daniel 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-10).

• The second half of the Tribulation is known as the Great Tribulation and the time of Jacobâ??s trouble. At the end of the seven year Tribulation, the antichrist will launch a final attack on Jerusalem, culminating in the Battle of Armageddon. Jesus Christ will return, destroy the antichrist and his armies and cast them into the lake of fire (Revelation 19:11-21).

• Christ will then bind Satan in the Abyss for 1000 years and will rule His earthly kingdom for this 1000 years (Revelation 20:1-6).

Was the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Act mentioned in the Bible?

This does not sound like hope and change. Take is easy Mr. President. Breathe. It's gonna be okay!

From The Washington Post:
The Action Americans Need

By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression. Millions of jobs that Americans relied on just a year ago are gone; millions more of the nest eggs families worked so hard to build have vanished. People everywhere are worried about what tomorrow will bring.

Wow, that's reassuring to hear from the President. You wouldn't be trying to scare us, would you?

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives -- action that's swift, bold and wise enough for us to climb out of this crisis.

What Americans expect from Washington is for you to keep you hands out of our pockets and keep you nose out of our lives.

Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes. And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.

We're all gonna die if we don't spend money on STD research, honeybee insurance, "fish barriers" and Frisbee golf!

That's why I feel such a sense of urgency about the recovery plan before Congress. With it, we will create or save more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, provide immediate tax relief to 95 percent of American workers, ignite spending by businesses and consumers alike, and take steps to strengthen our country for years to come.

With all due respect, Mr. President, you're math is wrong and you are, completely misleading we the people.

This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, health care and education. And it's a strategy that will be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability, so Americans know where their tax dollars are going and how they are being spent.

It's a way for you to buy a voting majority and create a socialist cradle-to-grave nanny state. Just tell the truth. Besides, Americans know where their tax dollars are going -- to cover up for the lost revenue created by tax cheats like Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, etc. Not to mention I think we've all determined by now that your "transparency and accountability" promise to be a load of crap.

In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.

Oh, that's right, anybody who dares to question you or your policies is "misguided". How dare we challenge The Chosen One! And no one, not one single person has said "tax cuts alone will solve all our problems". We just don't want you mortgaging America's future to buy your re-election.

I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change. They know that we have tried it those ways for too long. And because we have, our health-care costs still rise faster than inflation. Our dependence on foreign oil still threatens our economy and our security. Our children still study in schools that put them at a disadvantage. We've seen the tragic consequences when our bridges crumble and our levees fail.

Excuse me, again, sir, but 58,343,671 MILLION AMERICANS DID NOT VOTE FOR YOUR SUPPOSED "CHANGE"! And you and your cut-and-run, pro-ACLU, anti-American security polices threaten our security!

Every day, our economy gets sicker -- and the time for a remedy that puts Americans back to work, jump-starts our economy and invests in lasting growth is now.

Now is the time to protect health insurance for the more than 8 million Americans at risk of losing their coverage and to computerize the health-care records of every American within five years, saving billions of dollars and countless lives in the process.

Enough with the health care stealth speak. We know what it is, just say it. National Health Care, Socialized Medicine... whatever you want to call it just say it and stop thinking you and Pelosi are smarter than us and we don't know what you're up to -- we see right through you, Mr. President.

Now is the time to save billions by making 2 million homes and 75 percent of federal buildings more energy-efficient, and to double our capacity to generate alternative sources of energy within three years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah! We've heard this and still think you're plan is CRAAP!

Now is the time to give our children every advantage they need to compete by upgrading 10,000 schools with state-of-the-art classrooms, libraries and labs; by training our teachers in math and science; and by bringing the dream of a college education within reach for millions of Americans.

And paying off the teacher's unions to vote for Liberals! Is that what you meant?

And now is the time to create the jobs that remake America for the 21st century by rebuilding aging roads, bridges and levees; designing a smart electrical grid; and connecting every corner of the country to the information superhighway.

These are the actions Americans expect us to take without delay. They're patient enough to know that our economic recovery will be measured in years, not months. But they have no patience for the same old partisan gridlock that stands in the way of action while our economy continues to slide.

Give us a break, Mr. President! Stop the lies! The only "old partisan gridlock" is coming from Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the Democrats and you know it!

So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

See above comments about Obama's blatant partisanship lies.

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Leon Panetta Took Money From Bailout Banks And From National Security Agencies; Will Head Intelligence And (Again) Violate Obama Ethics Reform

More change you can throw out the window. CRAAP you can believe in.

CIA Chief Nominee Leon Panetta has taken money from Bailed-out Banks (violates Obama's bogus salary cap mandate) AND taken cash from national security interests (violates Obama's BS ethics executive order)

This is transparency? This is change? Why do these Obama nominee's skeletons conveniently only come to light on the eve of their hearings? (Because the PrObama media allowed it to be so.)

Why was the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) "Stimulus" Act casually tucked under the rug and casually attempted to sneak past responsible Americans? (Pelosi and Obama thought that Americans were dumb enough to simply "accept" their CRAAP without preconditions.)



Why is Obama, who promised the most transparent and ethical administration in history continuously breaking his own policies and promises? (Because he is a liar and a power-hungry sack of CRAAP like every other politician you thought you were voting against; hope and change, hopenchangeyoucanbelievein.)



Maybe it's because he is a Radical Marxist Socialist bent on destroying America through power-hungry totalitarianism and buying of votes? (And he is.)



All this on top of the fact that Leon Panetta, like his boss, is naively unqualified to protect national security.



Another nail in the coffin from the NY Times Obama warning machine.

WASHINGTON — Leon E. Panetta, the White House nominee to take over the Central Intelligence Agency, earned more than $1 million last year serving on corporate boards, consulting and delivering speeches, including some given to imploding banks at the height of the financial crisis.

Merrill Lynch gave Mr. Panetta $56,000 for two speeches in 2008, and Wachovia paid his standard fee of $28,000 for an appearance last October, according to financial disclosure forms Mr. Panetta submitted to the Office of Government Ethics.

Both financial institutions are now owned by other banks. Mr. Panetta, who will appear Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee for his confirmation hearing, also received a $28,000 speaking fee last September from the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm that owns a number of companies doing business with the Pentagon and other national security agencies.

The finances of President Obama’s aides are under particular scrutiny after two White House nominees had to withdraw this week amid revelations that they had failed to pay income tax.

Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said Mr. Panetta had no similar tax problems and had not had to pay any back taxes since being tapped by the White House to lead the C.I.A.

“We anticipate that tomorrow’s hearing will focus on the substance of Mr. Panetta’s views about how to strengthen our intelligence gathering and keep our nation safe, as all of Mr. Panetta’s income and investments have been thoroughly reviewed by the Office of Government Ethics,” Mr. Vietor said.

Washington Post has more on the BS CRAAP CHANGE.

This truly has become a circus.

We, at the ConservativeXpress, are no longer holding back. This is an outrage.

Obama: Crisis Will Turn Into A "Catastrophe" Without Stimulus CRAAP

More doom and gloom fear mongering class warfare you can believe in.

This doesn't sound like hopenchange, this sounds like Socialist politicking designed to strike fear into the hearts and minds of the American people to push through the bogus Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) "stimulus" Act.

From Fox News:

WASHINGTON -- President Obama sought to make changes to his economic stimulus bill Wednesday to ensure it passes the Senate after warning the financial crisis will turn into a "catastrophe" if the measure isn't approved quickly.

Obama met with centrist senators at the White House Wednesday afternoon to discuss a plan to cut more than $50 billion in spending from the measure, which breached the $900 billion barrier in the Senate on Tuesday and appears to be ballooning.

Senate Approves Tax Break For New Car Buyers

Now here is some change and stimulus that actually makes sense! Tax breaks that not only encourage Americans to spend, but spend on helping out the American Auto Industry. See how this works, now? Better than the $800 Billion, er, $900 Billion, er $1.2 Trillion Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Act.

Bravo Sen. Mikulski!

WASHINGTON -

The Senate voted yesterday to give a tax break to new-car buyers, setting aside bipartisan concerns over the size of an economic stimulus bill with a price tag approaching $900 billion.


The 71-to-26 vote to add the tax break came as President Obama signaled opposition to congressional attempts to insert "buy American" provisions into the legislation, saying in one of a series of television interviews that "we can't send a protectionist message."


Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, led the successful effort to help the beleaguered auto industry by allowing many car buyers to claim an income tax deduction for sales taxes paid on new autos and interest payments on car loans. "I believe we can help by getting the consumer into the showroom," she said. A couple would save an estimated $1,553 on a new $25,000 car, aides said.

The Republicans also managed to get rid of the Hollywood Tax Break CRAAP.

• Senate Republicans pushed through an amendment to remove a tax break for movie producers and blocked Democrats from adding $25 billion for highways, mass transit, and water projects to the package, insisting that additional infrastructure projects be paid for with cuts elsewhere in the bill. The Democratic amendment won 58 votes, just shy of the 60 needed under Senate budget rules.

More CRAAP "Stimulus" $2 Million For More Neon In Vegas; $500,000 For A Dog Park, $6 Million For Waterslides, $886,000 For "Frisbee" Golf

The Hall of Justice is asking for over $10,000,000. This recession is worse than we thought.

President Obama asked for "shovel ready" projects from America's mayors for "infrastructure" items to be included in the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) "Stimulus" bill.

Here some highlights of the CRAAP.

Austin, Texas Building a 36-hole "Frisbee" golf course $886,000

Jobs created: 4

Cost per job: $221,500

Boynton Beach, Fla. Development of an "eco park" with butterfly garden $4.5 million

Jobs created: 50

Cost per job: $90,000

Shreveport. LA Purchase of eight police-equipped Harley-Davidson motorcycles
$150,000

Jobs created:1

Cost per job: $150,000

Chula Vista, Calif. Construction of a dog park $500,000
Jobs created: 7

Cost per job: $71,429

From The Wall Street Journal:

Las Vegas, which by some accounts already glitters, wants $2 million for neon signs.

Boynton Beach, Fla., is looking for $4.5 million for an "eco park" featuring butterfly gardens and gopher tortoises.

And Chula Vista, Calif., would like $500,000 to create a place for dogs to run off the leash.

Among entries on Lincoln's (NE) list is a $3 million environmentally friendly clubhouse for a municipal golf course. "From a public perception standpoint, I see how it could be an issue," Mr. MacLean says. But, he says, construction would create 54 jobs.

In Randolph, Vt., Town Manager Gary Champy says federal money to fix "old and pockmarked" roads in his town would lift the mood of residents, because "they'd feel like the government was working for them." He adds: "This money isn't going to banks."

Shreveport, La., has $2.3 billion in projects ready to go. Mayor Cedric Glover's priority is repairing roads, but he's also asking $6 million for three aquatic centers with water slides, which he says would improve quality of life and create construction jobs.

And he would like the U.S. to buy Shreveport eight new Harley-Davidson motorcycles for its cops. This item would produce little local hiring, he acknowledges, but "Harley-Davidson is a great American company. Orders coming from municipalities like ours to a company like that certainly would be stimulative."

San Bernadino, Calif., wants $1.1 million for park improvements, including a skateboard ramp and two "splash-park installations."

Austin, Texas, could use $886,000 to build a 36-hole "disc golf" course, for frisbee tossing. It would be "environmentally and financially sustainable."

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More CRAAP we dug up from The United States Conference of Mayors Mainstreet Economic Recovery; Obama's so-called "shovel ready" projects.

Akron OH $490,000 Green & Yellow LED replacement in traffic signal
Jobs created: 4

Cost per job: $122,500

Akron OH Next Bus Destination signs $1,000,000

$1 Million for "Next Bus" signs? huh?

Alameda, CA $500,000 Replace windows and trim at City Hall and the Veterans Memorial Building.

Albany, NY $2 Million St. Joseph's Academy Artist's Loft Conversion - conversion of an existing vacant school into artists' loft housing and community space.

Arlington, TX $2,100,000 Hugh Smith Recreation Center Replacement
Jobs created: 4

Cost per job: $525,000

Arlington, TX $1,000,000 Skate Park Development
Jobs created: 10

Cost per job: $100,000.... for a skate park. Come on!

Athens, GA $300,000 to Purchase 10 hybrid vehicles

Bessemer, AL $750,000 Weed and Seed program for at risk youth.
Jobs created: 4

Cost per job: $187,500

Bridgeport, CT $20,000,000 Hurricane Barriers & Flood Control Gates Installation Project
Hurricane in Connecticut? $20 Million?

Burlington, VT $3,500,000 Waterfront Bike path reconstruction

Carmel, IN $2,500,000 Central Park Aquatic Center Phase II - Construction of additional water slide and wave pool.

Water parks stimulate the economy!

Chula Vista, CA $5,000,000 Open space brush clearance, citywide

Open space brush clearance? Isn't that where brush is supposed to be? In open spaces?

Dayton, OH $3,000,000 New and expanded parks and green spaces resulting from demolition of nuisance housing
What is "nuisance housing"? Loud, noisy neighbors?

Detroit, MI $350,000 Infectious disease outreach
Jobs created: 2

Cost per job: $175,000

Detroit, MI $4,000,000 Remove 40,000 dead ash and sliver maple trees
Jobs created: 5

Cost per job: $800,000.... Uh... what?!?!?

Gastonia, NC $10,000,000 Project BIG SPLASH - An acronym for "Bringing Investment to Gastonia in Support of a Project Linking Aquatics, Sports and Hospitality." Project includes an aquatics center, fitness facility, and quality meeting space.
Yeah, another water park!

Indianapolis, IN $2,000,000 Replace and reposition 200 planters. Add additional planters in key areas.
Jobs created: 10

Cost per job: $200,000

Las Vegas, NV $55,000,000 Las Vegas Historic Post Office Museum Rehabilitation

Lima, OH $10,500,000 Hall of Justice renovations
Hall of Justice? The Superfriends need a bailout now?

Pine Bluff, AR $1,400,000 City Water Park - This project involves the construction of a recreational water attraction for youth and families.
Another damn water park!

Portland, ME $2,000,000 Skateboard Park at Dougherty Field
Jobs created: 12

Cost per job: $166,667

These skate park makers are making bank!

Providence, RI $4,800,000 Roger Williams Park Zoo - Polar Bear Exhibit

San Juan, PR $5,000,000 Fishing village (La Puntilla)
Fishing village?

Obama Wises Up: Backs Down On "Buy American" Stimulus CRAAP

We too believe the "Buy American" stipulations in the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Act is lethal and toxic to the world economy.

President Obama is learning discretion. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their fellow Socialist Moonbats are tying to use the President to pass their radical socialist 40 year wish list.

We encourage the President to wake up to this exploitation and show more discretion. Stick to your promises, Mr. President. Don't let the nutjobs like Speaker Pelosi bring you down.

Why did you trust them in the first place? Grow a pair, Mr. President. Seriously.

You "trump" Congress, sir!

From Times Online:

The European Union warned the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting a planned “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war.

The EU threatened to retaliate if the US Congress went ahead with sweeping measures in its $800 billion (£554 billion) stimulus plan to restrict spending to American goods and services.

Gordon Brown was caught in the crossfire as John Bruton, the EU Ambassador to Washington, said that “history has shown us” where the closing of markets leads — a clear reference to the Depression of the 1930s, triggered by US protectionist laws.

Last night Mr Obama gave a strong signal that he would remove the most provocative passages from the Bill.

“I agree that we can’t send a protectionist message,” he said in an interview with Fox TV. “I want to see what kind of language we can work on this issue. I think it would be a mistake, though, at a time when worldwide trade is declining, for us to start sending a message that somehow we’re just looking after ourselves and not concerned with world trade.”

Don't forget, we pissed off Canada.

New Gallup Poll: Support For Great American CRAAP Act Drops Even Further, President Panics, Plans Media Blitz To Beg For Stimulus Support

President Obama is planning a full-on media blitz to lobby for support for the Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Act of 2009. Here is why.

Just last Thursday, 45% of Americans supported the CRAAP.

In a Gallup poll released today, that support has dropped to 38% as currently written.

While 75% of Americans want Congress to pass some sort of legislation, the current plan continues to lose support as Americans learn more about the CRAAP.

Nearly 80% of Americans are concerned that the CRAAP will not stimulate the economy fast enough.

Just 10% of Americans believe the CRAAP will stimulate the economy this year.

53% say the plan will not have an effect on their family's financial situation, or will actually make their financial situations worse.

So much for timely, targeted and temporary.

Proof That Obama's "Green Jobs" Plan Is A Joke That Will Hurt The Economy, Hurt The Environment

From WhiteHouse.gov On Green Jobs

• Create Millions of New Green Jobs
  
• Ensure 10 percent of Our Electricity Comes from Renewable Sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
  
• Deploy the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Energy Source – Energy Efficiency.
  
• Weatherize One Million Homes Annually.
  
• Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology.
  
• Prioritize the Construction of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline.

From WhiteHouse.gov:

Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.

From The Wall Street Journal:

The study(on cap-and-trade) concludes that the plan "will not only significantly reduce California's greenhouse gas emissions, but will also have a net positive effect on California's economic growth through 2020."

Press Secretary Roberts Gibbs On Green Jobs

QUESTION: The president again promised today that he could create a million new green jobs. Could you define in simple terms what is a green job? He keeps using that term, but nobody -- it doesn't seem like anyone really understands that that is. Right now people just keep reading, as you mentioned, jobs being lost. He keeps talking about creating...

GIBBS: Sure.

QUESTION: ... up to 4 million jobs, but 1 million that are green jobs.

GIBBS: Sure. Well...

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: Could you define that that is?

GIBBS: Sure. The president visited in this campaign a windmill manufacturer that produces -- it wouldn't even fit in this room -- turbine blades for windmills. Those are green jobs.
We went to...

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: ... jobs already -- how is he going to create a million of them? The question is, a million...

GIBBS: Well, hopefully, we're going to build more windmills.

(LAUGHTER)

Hopefully, the tax credit that -- hopefully, the tax credit that goes through Congress -- you know, I don't want to get too deep into the weeds here -- no pun intended...

(LAUGHTER)
... but each year -- at least at the end of last year -- you had tax credits for -- for wind-energy jobs.

GIBBS: There's a one-year tax credit, right? And so the -- every year in August or September, there's a huge scurry to make sure that next year's tax credit is available.

Well, if you're going to build a windmill, the size of which is going to produce energy to lower the power costs of millions of Americans, there's some lead time that's involved.

So in instituting a renewed tax credit in this economic stimulus bill to give the producers of wind energy some understanding of what's available for them to use in creating these jobs, to give them some economic certainty is important.
That's just one example. I mean, we went to Ohio -- it all -- like I said, it all blurs together -- it was probably only a couple weeks ago, a week and a half ago -- where we went to a manufacturer for the -- the turbine itself, not the blade.
You've got biofuel jobs, you've got solar projects. I think there's any number of clean energy jobs that can drive not only our path toward energy independence, but also a path toward creating jobs.

The Media On Green Jobs

Obama forms green task force

California's 'Green Jobs' Experiment Isn't Going Well

Surprisingly, Huffington Post supports "Green Jobs"

Why Obama’s ‘Green Jobs’ Plan Won’t Work It would indeed create jobs, but it would do so by killing other jobs. Is that really what Americans want?

Support For Stimulus Waning, GOP Senators Tell Sunday Talk Shows Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Act Will Fail

We are hoping that any "bipartisan" support in the Senate for the BS Pork Generational Theft "Stimulus" Act will be support in opposition to the crap sandwich behemoth passed last week by the US House. The latest from the Sunday talk shows.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go down to defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cuts.


McConnell and other Republicans suggested that the bill needed an overhaul because it doesn't pump enough into the private sector through tax cuts and allows Democrats to go on a spending spree unlikely to jolt the economy. The Republican leader also complained that Democrats had not been as bipartisan in writing the bill as Obama had said he wanted.

"I think it may be time ... for the president to kind of get a hold of these Democrats in the Senate and the House, who have rather significant majorities, and shake them a little bit and say, 'Look, let's do this the right way,'"

McConnell said. "I can't believe that the president isn't embarrassed about the products that have been produced so far."

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said he was seeing an erosion of support for the bill and suggested that lawmakers should consider beginning anew.

"When I say start from scratch, what I mean is that the basic approach of this bill, we believe, is wrong," Kyl said.

Democrats, not surprisingly, continue to use "doom and gloom" scare tactics to ensure "swift passage" of the bill. Their goal is to enact the Congressional Radical Anit-American Pork (CRAAP) Act into law before Americans really find out the truth.

"We cannot delay this," said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate Democrats' No. 2 leader. "We can't engage in the old political rhetoric of saying, 'Well, maybe it could be a little bit better here and a little bit better there.' We've got to pull together."

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., agreed that more could be done in the area of housing, though he said tapping money in the separate financial bailout fund would be a more likely way to pay for mortgage relief.

"I've talked to some Republicans on the other side of the aisle. We said to them we're open about this. Come to us with your ideas. Let's move forward," Durbin said on Fox.

Durbin added: "This is not another bill. This is not another political debate. "We are facing one of the most serious economic crises in our nation's history."

However, the NY Post and Fox News are reporting that some Democrats may vote against the CRAAP.

President Obama's stimulus plan could be in deep trouble with members of his own party in the Senate, a key Democratic lawmaker said yesterday.


"I don't even know how many Democrats will vote for it as it stands today," Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told Fox News.


Republicans appear to have the support of some Democrats, including North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad, head of the Budget Committee, and Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson.

"As it stands it would be very hard for me to vote for this package, because I don't think it is fully targeted, timely and temporary," Conrad said. "I think there is widespread dissatisfaction with the package that came over from the House."

Fox News reported Friday that Obama's Army, including moveon.org and the SEIU were running TV ads in some Republican Senator's states to put pressure on the Senators to support the CRAAP.

Net Right Nation has narrowed that list to the following:

Susan Collins (R-ME) $258,864,00
Olympia Snowe (R-ME) $258,864,00
Judd Gregg (R-NH) $267,166,000
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) $152,158,000
Charles Grassley (R-IA) $625,594,000

Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), appearing on Sean Hannity's radio show, indicated that "one, maybe two" GOP Senator's would defect to SUPPORT the "Stimulus". Thanks to Fox News, we can now narrow it down to the above suspects.

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Wait, see, hope and pray that the Senate can delay this CRAAP and write a new one. Let your voice be heard.

Contact Your Representative, Senator and The President and tell them you have had enough of their CRAAP.