The Air is Electric: WTF? Is it something we said?

Osama is dead, and GM is alive!

So declared Joey B, our most senior foreign relations expert next to BO himself. Of course the full import of his comment depends a lot on what your definition of “dead” is:

Tunisian Salafis, raising the dead in order to fight another day.

Dateline: Occupied Kashmir. Protestors send message: "Obama! We are all OSAMA"

Of course “GM is alive” also depends on what your definition of “alive” is:

Currently on life support, thanks to Obamacare

“Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid, GM is still losing as much as $49,000 on each Volt it builds, according to estimates provided to Reuters by industry analysts and manufacturing experts.”

Butt thanks to the application of government mathemagicals to the formerly free market of auto production, GM is still able to post some pretty impressive quarterly statistics! Not as impressive as our unemployment rate, butt pretty good nevertheless.

And they’re doing it the old fashioned way: by losing a little bit on every sale and making it up in volume. At least that’s the plan. And heck, it must be working because GM’s bond ratings are nearly as good as the US Treasury’s now!

So it’s no wonder Big Guy’s government “is reluctant” to divest of its remaining 27% share of GM: they’re doing better than the Fed.

That, and the fact that – even with government accounting standards – the Fed would have to book a huge loss on their “investment” if we let GM buy back their shares. Right before the election? What do they think we are, Amateurs?

Besides, if we ever let GM get their company back, we have it on good authority they would stop making those electric albatrosses that are losing $49,000 per-car. And how would that make Big Guy look? After all, he was the first American President who vowed to put a fossil fuel industry out of business. Dropping the Volt might make him look weak, right before the election. And we can’t have that.

Obama eats fries and Free Speech dies

Butt don’t worry, if giving the Volts away doesn’t work, we’ve got another plan up our sleeve to ensure death to Big Oil and Big Coal:

The Volt is like a rolling lesson in the utter folly of command economics.  Government, at both state and federal levels, is flagrantly abusing its power to incentivize purchases, in a manner that would have anti-business liberals howling at the Moon if it were employed to push a product that doesn’t meet their ideological approval.  And it’s still not enough – GM can’t sell enough Volts to keep the factory running year-round.  What’s left?  Well, how about a nice “tax penalty” for everyone who refuses to buy a Volt?  Thanks to the John Roberts ObamaCare decision, the government can do that.

So let that serve as a further reminder: Never send an Amateur to do a pro’s job. Because things can go to hell pretty fast once you undermine all the rules designed to maintain order.

Butt don’t take my word for it:

Ask Jimmy Carter.

NOTE: Oh dear! How could I have forgotten? Lady M was keynote speaker at the Phoenix Dinner at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation 42nd Annual Legislative Conference last night.

Butt seriously, how many pictures of MO’s fabulously toned guns in a one-shouldered full length gown with a boob belt do you need to see?

And BTW, tickets still available if you’re anywhere in the vicinity of Princeton this morning! We’ve had some unexpected cancellations so you can still get a reasonably priced ticket ($2,000 -10,000) for which you’ll get to see Lady M from afar and enjoy all the juice, coffee and bagels you want. Just thought you’d like to know.

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Obama: Head of the “Class”

I’ve been feeling a little guilty about not reporting on Lady M’s sacrificin’ for the past week or so. So as I wrap up my vacation, let me at least pass on news about this campaign stop in Gainesville as originally reported by our own Blonde Gator.

Apparently MO appeared before a huge crowd at the University of Florida, and wowed them with her own two versions of ‘gator choppers:

Nice gator skin dress!

She then awed those gathered for the pep rally with tall tales of Big Guy’s respect for and loyalty to everyone:

"We know that my husband will always have our backs," she said.

Don’t worry, I’ve got your back!

On the other hand, you could just hire your own Black Water security team. Or buy your own shoulder mounted rocket launcher. I understand that the Department of Justice has some surplus stock that you may be able to get your hands on. The State Department has some available too, butt it in either case, it helps if you can prove you’re not an American Citizen.

Like her speech earlier this month at the Democratic National Convention, Obama filled her argument for the president with personal details. She cited his respect for his mother and grandmother,

Would that be the mother who dumped him on his grandmother to raise in order to “follow her heart” in Indonesia? It does take a special special kind of guy to love a mother like that. And we all know BO’s a special kind of guy.

Don’t jump to conclusions just because he was unable to show his mother the respect of being at her side when she died. He was on a book tour - for the first of his many autobiographies.

And the grandmother that MO mentioned that BO respected so much? Would that be his “typical white woman” grandmother he mentioned in his “race speech”  addressing the controversy over his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Granny D and Rev. Wright: two people who held a special place under his bus in his heart:

"I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother -- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world."

The grandma that Big Guy respected so much - would she be the same grandmother whose side he also was unable to be at when she died just 2 days before WINNING? Well, at least it wasn’t a book tour. And he was able to send a letter to be read at her funeral, hastily arranged some 13 days after her death.

"What truly made me fall in love with Barack Obama was his character," she said.

That figures. Birds of a feather and all.

Character. Class. You’ve either got ‘em or you ain’t.

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Fundamentally transforming America: You can’t do that alone

When BO told a town hall hosted by Univision yesterday:

"The most important lesson I've learned is you can't change Washington from the inside,"

he was talking about the do-nothing Congress that wouldn’t let him single-handedly complete his total make over of America by eliminating the borders and the Constitution. What he actually meant was that in order to do that (fundamentally transform the country) he needed to tell a really good story and for that, he needed the assistance of the mainstream media. Butt how is this news?

And speaking of news, If there was a medal for best MSM performance by a talking head portraying a news reporter, (and there should be) Andrea Mitchell would surely get it for this performance.

MITCHELL: Let's explain this redistribution issue because we have not authenticated this 14-year-old tape from Loyola college when Barack Obama was a state senator. So because we have not independently, at NBC News and MSNBC, authenticated it, we're not airing it.

But the basic issue is, they're accusing President Obama, as John Sununu said to me yesterday, of class warfare.

Comrade Mitchell receives her Presidential Medal of Honor for best supporting performance of Dear Leader

Because, as we all know, the alphabets always authenticate their stories, videos and documents before they run them. With certain exceptions, of course.

Anyway, the rest of Big Guy’s “You can’t change Washington from inside” comment: “You can only change it from the outside. That’s how I got elected,” speaks for itself.

As you can see from this excellent instructive video, in which David Axelrod demonstrates for rookie Savannah Guthrie how best to spin those pesky “truth gaps” that pop up so often in campaigns: this one regarding BO’s promise to make immigration reform JOB ONE in his first term.

                   

David deserves some kind of a medal too, butt I haven’t quite decided which kind yet.

One final note: I see Lady M has hit the campaign trail again. And I see she needs me so I guess my vacation is drawing to an end. I’ll be getting back to work on Monday, hopefully to eliminate all evidence of the stress of this campaign on MO’s otherwise perfectly toned body.

This dress fit much better last time out. Where did that back flap come from?

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Our official position is still “evolving”

Here are three good reasons to walk back a week old inanity that everybody knows was a lie:

1. you get caught in your lie
2. you get caught in your lie
3. you get caught in your lie

Terrorists celebrate Empty Chair Day in Benghazi

I guess our spooks (note: NOT racist - slang for “spies”) are finally getting tired of the crap spin mis-misunderstandings going on around here and they’re refusing to keep their yaps shut about it any more:

The officials provided the information to the Washington Guardian, saying they feared the Obama administration’s scant description of the episode left a misimpression that the two ex-Navy SEALs might have been responsible for the ambassador’s personal safety or become separated from him.

Needless to say this sort of loose-lipped action is unheard of in the ranks of Special Forces. If that’s not enough to make you wake up and smell the coffee I don’t know what is.

Military coup? “We do not have that phenomenon in this country.” 

 

Oh, and furthermore, about the 2 former Navy Seals killed in that spontaneous attack caused by the MOVIE? Not really part of the Ambassador's security detail after all. They just stepped into the breach to try to defend the embassy. Because that’s what  Navy Seals do. So that’s it, I guess Big Guy and Hillary and Susan Rice just all mis-misunderstood that aspect of the attack on our consulate.

It kind of makes you wonder though; what else might Big Guy have mis-misunderstood in these past years?

 

So don’t forget; coming this November – a brand new Presidential poll! Be sure to cast your vote for whether you think our current President is:

• a liar
• a fool
• all of the above

November 6, 2012: Empty Chair Day in America. Choose wisely, weedhopper.

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Howdy, Messina

What fun! Zip has a new game to play: Meme Messina. Have at MOLs, MODs and FOMs; make your own here.

Here’s mine:

Howdy Messina’s previous appearances here, here, and here.

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Tags: Jim Messina Howdy Doody

Occupy Wednesday

I’m sick of politics. I sense that you are too.

So today, I’ll let everyone else rave about Big Guy’s 2nd, 3rd, or 10th visit with America’s most ill-humored comedian (where he explained, among many other things, why it’s harder to campaign as an incumbent “You’ve got two jobs.” - in case you were worried that he’d forgotten about his first one).

And they’re all talking BO’s fundraiser at Jay-Z’s 40/40 club in Manhattan where 100 lucky 1 percenters paid $40k to hear Big Guy tell them how Lady M is just like co-host Beyoncé (voted People’s Magazine “Most Beautiful Woman” this year! Beyoncé, not Lady M, Beyonabitch!). Their will, of course, be no mention of the coarseness of the Jay-Z’s hip-hop lyrics nor the raunchiness of B’s “music” videos – except by Prof. Jacobson, that is.

The most beautiful woman in the world gets bodied for Obama

No, I don’t feel like talking about any of that.

Instead, I’d like to spend a little time on something not getting the amount of media play that it deserves. No, not the secret video of Romney made by Grandpa Carter’s progeny. And no, not the Islamists around the world torchings of all things Western either. Something more important - coverage of the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street which has nearly passed unnoticed due to lack of interest.

Butt I find it interesting…the whole concept. Here we have a grass roots mob of ne’er do wells spontaneously erupting into protest against Capitalism, Big Business and Big Banks. Interesting, because 99% of these 99 percenters have no working knowledge of what the  basic economy is let alone how it functions, no comprehension of what capitalism is, or how it works, and whose only experience with Big Banks and Big Business involves using their credit card (or Mommy’s) to buy a new iPhone.

And now, since they don’t have jobs, the bank (or Mommy) cut off their credit card, they need to get more free stuff from the government (that’s you) to supplement the lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to. They may be part of that “entitlement” group that Romney was referring too.

Well, see for yourself:

Mounted police prepare for the huge crowd of Owies at opening bell. It’s still early, they’ll be here to occupy Wall Street when they wake up.

If only the could afford a real alarm clock: BTW, nice hammer and sickle tat.

This week’s first OWS “anniversary” looked a lot like an aging rock group’s 40th reunion tour. A bit long in the tooth and definitely worse for the wear.

If the old joints can’t handle sleeping on pavement anymore, join the drive-by Owies.

Paging Kenisha: The Chicago Teachers Union called; they want you back on the picket line for their own “exploiation”

And of course, there was the usual batch of young dreamers:

Occupy your dreams

Young Skyler channels her grandma’s protest days: combat boots and all. She’s repelling the cops with her good thoughts, butt still unclear on what she’s protesting; I blame her teachers.

The Al Gore contingency had a bit more trouble drumming up support for their cause. I think it’s because they’re overdressed. Zelda (top right) brought her “free” Obamacare birth control device. Just in case.

It’s only the first anniversary of OWS, butt the Owies are showing signs of accelerated aging. In fact, they seem to be exhibiting a lot of Alzheimer-like symptoms. They don’t really remember how they got here, or why they’re here, butt they’re mad at everybody. Because they want more “stuff.”

The ones who do have their wits about them are perfectly clear however: they are seeking social justice by tearing down Big Businesses, Big Banks and Big Wall Street firms in order to clear the way for Big Government to give them all the free stuff they so richly deserve – just by virtue of living in the most prosperous country in the world.

Butt for now, they’re going to take a break: back to the drugs, sex and rock and roll that brought us together at OWS in the first place.

        

Or, in the words of Nancy Pelosi, “God bless them for their spontaneity. It’s young,

it’s spontaneous,

Weed break!

it’s focused,

What’s a focused, shameless roller-skating snake charmer gotta do to get noticed around here?

and it’s going to be effective.”

OK, I’ll take Paradise for $200, Alex

Phoenix believes Money is NOT the Answer. Right. The answer is “free stuff” i.e., other people’s money.

 

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to search out, and Occupy, the cheapest poutine in Montreal.

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Today’s political truth: There’s no room for truth in politics.

What is with these people and hidden cameras? Don’t they realize by now that, like Visa, they’re everywhere you want to be?

Approximate location of photographer capturing naked shots of Princess Kate in the house “clearly visible from the road”

Just like open mics:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Barack Obama, Nob Hill, San Francisco, April 9, 2008

and this:

"On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it's important for him [Prime Minister Vladimir Putin] to give me space." He added, "This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility."

Barack Obama, Seoul, South Korea, March 26, 2012

Butt hey! This isn’t about violating the space of our royalty. This is about Romney and his insensitive comments that prove definitively what we’ve been saying all along: he hates poor people.

This candid camera moment is actually from last May, butt we’ve been waiting for the right time to release it. Yesterday, concurrent with the announcement from Libyan officials that they gave the US three days warning prior to the attack on our embassy, was that right time. As we like to say around here, if you can’t change the facts, change the story. It was clearly time to make fun of Romney again. For speaking the truth. Which we won’t tolerate.

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax... my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives…. The president has been a disappointment. He told you he’d keep unemployment below 8 percent. Hasn’t been below eight percent since. Fifty percent of kids coming out of school can’t get a job. Fifty percent.” 

Mitt Romney, Boca Raton, FL, May 17, 2012

Odd though, because the Dems usually revel in pointing out how all of these various special interest victim classes are dependent on government, and are in their stable. It’s just that when a Republican acknowledges it, it sounds so…so hateful! So much like class warfare.

So can we stop talking about the failure of Big Guy’s Middle-East foreign relations policy of appeasement? And his gazillion dollar deficit, and his failure to create jobs, jobs jobs!, and the increasing prices of everything from gasoline to hamburgers, and the continuing weak housing market, and the ongoing decrease in manufacturing statistics and the near bankruptcy of the Social Security Disability pool…?

Because the real issue is that Romney hates little people and he thinks we’ve already got too many people dependent on government. Instead of getting out there and not building things on their own.

Julia’s life: she’s not going to get a chance to built it, somebody’s going to do that for her

Political truth of the day: There is no room for truth in politics.

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