Withholder in Chief by Maureen Dowd

The following is taken from an Op-ed entitled 'Witholder in Chief' on August 9 written by Maureen Dowd, a professed liberal:

"As America reels from the latest humiliating blows on the economy and in Afghanistan. The politician who came across as a redeemer in 2008 is now in need of redemption himself…

"Faced with a country keening for reassurance and reinvention, Obama seems at a loss. Regarding his political skills, he turns out to be the odd case of a pragmatist who can’t learn from his mistakes and adapt…

"After failing to interrupt his Camp David weekend to buck up the country on one of its worst days in history[In Afghanistan], he tacked on his condolences for the soldiers’ families to his economic pep talk, in what had to be the most inept oratorical segue of his presidency…

"His withholding and reactive nature has made him seem strangely irrelevant in Washington, trapped by his own temperament. He doesn’t lead, and he doesn’t understand why we don’t feel led..."

Thought for the day

"Chicago style thug politics may fit well into Obama's world but it has no place in America." by Roger Stockton

quote of the day

I saw this on a bumper sticker.

I'll keep my guns, freedom and money...
You can keep the "Change"

quote of the day

Remember, when Ronald Reagan was president

We also had Bob Hope and Johnny Cash still with us...

Now we have Obama, but no Hope and no Cash!!!!!

Global Warming is political suicide

From an article entitled: Obama Backing Off Global Warming Agenda

President Obama has not stood up for "bold action" on global warming because he recognizes that it is political suicide to do so.

The scientific case for man-made climate fears has collapsed. The Arctic has rebounded in recent years; the Antarctic sea ice extent has been at or near record extent in past few summers; polar bears appear to be thriving; sea level is not showing acceleration and may be dropping; Mount Kilimanjaro melt fears are being made a mockery by gains in snow cover; global temperatures have been holding steady for a decade or more; scandals continue to rock the climate fear movement; and scientists continue to dissent at a rapid pace. (Visit ClimateDepot.com for the statistics on these facts.)

Shovel ready jobs

Here is what Obama said about shovel ready jobs.

My thoughts on Pres. Obama's shovel ready jobs.

Shovel ready jobs do not create sustained and lasting jobs. Once the job of building a bridge is done the job is done and gone. The worker is now out of a job. What needs to be done is create an atmosphere for businesses who can hire people whose job will continue on and on and on. The only time that job will be done is if the person leaves to find a better job or the business goes under. The way to create these jobs that go on and on is to decrease the amount of regulation on business. Another way is to stop creating uncertainty. The government has its hand in too many pies. It needs to do only the things it was meant to do, military and Keep us safe.

Comment from National Tea Party Alert .com

Tea Party 1, President Obama 0

Barack Obama held a campaign event town hall meeting Monday night in Iowa (coincidentally the site of the Iowa Straw Poll) where he came face to face with the type of criticism Mr. Hopenchange largely avoided during his 2008 coronation campaign:

US President Barack Obama went head-to-head with a prominent conservative Tea Party activist, in a microcosm of a political clash that will play out in the 2012 election.

Ryan Rhodes, a leader of the group in Iowa, took on Obama during an open-air town hall meeting, which marked a moment of new intensity in the president's campaign for a second term.

Rhodes shouted out that the president's calls for more civility in politics had little chance of coming to pass after "your vice president is calling people like me, a Tea Party member, a 'terrorist.'"

We can't help but be reminded of the countless calls fro civility from the left in this country immediately follwoing the tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabriele Giffords this January. of course, these declarative statements were in sharp contrast to this comment from President Civility himself:

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”

Are we the only ones who remember Barack Obama's promises to be the first post-partisan president?