Gallup: America to Obama: Go Sell Crazy Somewhere Else...

...we're all stocked up here.

Yesterday, Gallup ran this incredible story: "GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot" Just makes you feel all warm inside. That's because these polls always tend to underestimate Republican strength, it's just a fact of life. If it is the case here, the real numbers maybe closer to 55-35%. Couldn't happen to a nastier administration, either. It seems Obama's new mantra is: "I will not rest until all Americans submit to Sharia and are subsisting on government cheese."

Obama Declares War on the Economy: Hilarity Ensues

Obama Calls for 'Full-Scale Attack' to Revive Struggling Economy

According to Foxnews.com: "President Obama called Monday for a "full-scale attack" to revive the struggling economy as Congress returns from recess with lawmakers fixated on the November election."

Investors head for the hills:

I Totally REFUDIATE Oba-Marxim

Just wanted to go on record, making it clear that the Left is not going to "Dan Quayle" Sara Palin. Aren't there 57 states anyway?

Bombshell Inspector General's Report on Dealership Closures

HT: HotAir. From the report (page 31):

"....at a time when the country was experiencing the worst economic downturn in generations and the Government was asking its taxpayers to support a $787 billion stimulus package designed to preserve jobs, Treasury made a series of decision that may have substantially contributed to the accelerated shuttering of thousands of small businesses and thereby potentially adding tens of thousands of workers to the already lengthy unemployment rolls — all based on a theory and without sufficient consideration of the decisions’ broader economic impact."

Obama Channels Captain Queeg: Enemies at Every Turn

"Ah, but the strawberries! That's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist! And I'd have produced that key if they hadn't pulled Caine out of action! I-I-I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer and!......

Such was the riveting climax of the court martial scene which sunk the paranoid Captain and freed Lieutenant Steve Maryk from charges of mutiny.

President Obama seems to be having his own Captain Queeg moment, or rather a Queeg-like paranoia. Yesterday, he visited Racine, Wisconsin home to 14% unemployment 19 months into his presidency.

Yet, just like the like incompetent paranoid in The Caine Mutiny, he continues to blame the Republicans for his failure. A party which holds super MINORITIES in both houses of Congress and are impotent to stop any of his initiatives.

Yesterday he said: “I just want everyone to remember — we’ve tried the other side’s theories,”

Well, Mr. President, now we've tried your neo-Keynsian theories and found them wanting.

Your performance as FDR II is an enormous failure. Your presidency has ushered in a new normal of 10-plus percent unemployment as far as the eye can see. You've created an environment where, in the Vice President's words: "we will never make up the 8 million jobs lost." And where the Treasury Secretary told the world: don't look to the US for economic leadership, telling the BBC that the world "cannot depend as much on the US as it has in the past."

Yeah, well maybe that's because the USA's citizens can't depend on it's government to support free markets, resource development and growth anymore.

It's Obama's economy, he owns it lock-stock and smokeless barrel.

The man has FAILURE written all over him.

Obama's Waterloo

It is, perhaps, fitting that it was on this day, June 18 in 1815, that Napoleon met his Waterloo. For, 195 year later, to the day, it seems that Barack Hussein Obama (Milhous to those who know him), is meeting his own Waterloo, this time in the actual water of the Gulf of Mexico. The metaphor is so neat, it's almost trite, but I submit it anyway. It's also fitting that Napoleon lost the battle largely because he had to wait for the field to dry, it was too muddy to advance on.

So too, is today the beginning of the end for Milhous, since this is the first time in Rasmussen's survey of Obama's approval that the totality of likely voters approving of the president is only 41%. Reading the poll a different way, 58%, nearly 6 in 10, disapprove of his performance.

Technical stock analysts would consider this drop important because it penetrates a major resistance point, from here the bottom's the limit. Couldn't happen to a nicer, strike that, nastier guy.

Thomas Friedman, buffoon

In the New York Times, Thomas Friedman talks about the gossip at Davos, which is the use of the words U.S. and political instability in the same breath. He goes on to bemoan our poor, embattled, yet enormously gifted president, who seems unable to right the sailing ship America, which is foundering. Completely ignored is the fact that our president's program are completely at odds with the wishes of the American people and history of the American experiences.

Thomas Friedman is, quite obviously, an enormous fool. Obama is the cause of the instability, not the victim. It is incredible how "intellectuals" can become blind to simple truths. The American people are four-square against centralized control and planning since well before 1776. It's in our DNA, encoded right there next to our unwillingness to trust intellectuals and silver tongued orators selling all manner of tonics and snake oil from the back of their "progressive" travelling circus.

Since stability is a desirable goal, how about relegating the government to its proper role: building bridges, tunnels and railways and facilitating, not impeding commerce. We don't need a bunch of geniuses designing a Marshall Plan unless it's to save the decayed inner cities and forgotten poor from ill-conceived liberal fixes. Our gifted, young president should focus on Detroit first. My brother had a term for guys like this which he would pronounce in rising cadence and pitch: "jerk o--."

Smells like tyranny to me

Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that millions of our fellow citizens, especially the poor and less educated are paying dearly for the Obama administration’s academic exercise to rehabilitate Keynesianism.

Keynes is the father of “demand-side” stimulus theory which was first tried during the Great Depression as FDR’s “new Deal.” But, in 2004, UCLA economists Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian concluded that rather than help the economy, “FDR’s policies prolonged the misery by 7 years.*”

While the Obama administration spends recklessly on wasteful boondoggles, private investment is, quite obviously, being crowded out and jobs are continuing to be shed.

According to the Washington Times:

“The number of people with a job fell by 589,000 in December. On top of that job loss, the number of people no longer in the labor force grew by an astounding 843,000 from November to December.”

Since February, when the stimulus package was passed, the number of people not in the labor force has grown by 3.2 million. The number for December represents 26 percent of the entire increase. This is important because these millions of people are not included in the official unemployment rate. The crisis of unemployed Americans getting discouraged and giving up looking for work is ballooning. Of course, they have good reasons to be discouraged. Since February [2009], the total number of jobs has fallen by 4 million."

Me-thinks a tyrant is loose in the land.

*In an interview, Ohanian said:


"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump…We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies."





Also see: For Obama, a Very Good Crisis

Harold Ford Jr., the Next Republican Senator from New York

Writing in the New York Times today, former Tennessee conregessman Harold Ford Jr. lays out a 4-point plan that any rational being could get behind:

1. "First, cut taxes for businesses — big and small...America’s primary job-creating machine — the private sector — needs to be rejuvenated."


2. "Second, we should pass a more focused health reform bill that restructures current health care costs before spending more..."


3. "Third, we should reform our immigration policy to ensure that those who contribute to our economy, especially foreign math and science graduates of American universities, have a clear path to citizenship." (Absolutely, we must move to a more merit-based immigration system.)


4. "Finally, we need to address budget deficits now rather than waiting for some ideal future economic situation."

Harold Ford Jr. is completely in touch with what American voters want, but is completely out-of-touch with his uber-leftist Decmocratic Party.

Mr. Ford, come to where you ideas would be cheered -- become a Republican.

No, Bobo. You're the joke.

David Brooks, the New York Times token conservative proclaimed Sarah Palin a "joke" during the round table discussion on This Week with George Stephanapoulos today.

David Brooks wrote a book called Bobos in Paradise, which sold something like 30,000 copies (a paltry amount compared to the hundreds of thousands sold by Beck, Levin, O'Reilly and (soon enough) ex-Governor Palin, herself. No one cares what he thinks except for his coterie of elitists in New York and the capital Beltway. Not only did it sell practically zero copies, bu the term also failed to catch on in the vernacular.

Though he wrote for the National Review and continues to write for the New York Times, he does not represent conservatives, in the least.

He reminds me of the very smart, but socially inept outsiders in High School. To think he is what passes as conservative in the lame stream media is in itself lame.

David Brooks and Gwen Ifill on Sarah Palin

David Brooks and Gwen Ifill on Sarah Palin

FW: Great News from Senator Jim DeMint on Honduras

From Senator DeMint's Blog:

November 5, 2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint

(R-South Carolina), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations

Committee, announced he has secured a commitment from the Obama

administration to recognize the Honduran elections on November 29th,

regardless of whether former President Manuel Zelaya is returned to

office and regardless of whether the vote on reinstatement takes place

before or after November 29th. Given this commitment, which Senator

DeMint has requested for months, he will lift objections on the

nominations of Arturo Valenzuela to be Assistant Secretary of Western

Hemisphere Affairs and Thomas Shannon to be U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.

"I am happy to report the Obama Administration has finally reversed

its misguided Honduran policy and will fully recognize the November

29th elections," said Senator DeMint. "Secretary Clinton and Assistant

Secretary Shannon have assured me that the U.S. will recognize the

outcome of the Honduran elections regardless of whether Manuel Zelaya

is reinstated. I take our administration at their word that they will

now side with the Honduran people and end their focus on the disgraced

Zelaya."

Throughout this crisis, Jim DeMint as well as Senators Tom Coburn

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRGCkac8FlU, John Cornyn, Jeff

Sessions, John Thune, Saxby Chambliss, John Ensign, Mel Martinez

<http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=JimsJournal.Deta

il&Blog_ID=5b0b894a-c963-37f0-45ba-00b84fbf89c4, Jon Kyl, Kit Bond,

Mitch McConnell, David Vitter, Jim Inhofe and other Republicans have

been stalwart in opposing the restitution of Mel Zelaya who had been

clearly operating in an effort to sunder the constitution of that

wonderful little country.

Letter to Clinton on Honduras:

http://demint.senate.gov/public/_files/2009-07-08_Letter_to_Clinton_on

_Honduras.pdf

Link to Jim DeMint's Blog:

http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=JimsJournal.BlogH

ome&Issue_id=71b2cbd4-5300-4f12-aaf4-4db61116b34c

Senator DeMint's WSJ Opinion piece:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703298004574459762462353766.html

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Zelaya Tries to Pull a Fast One in Honduras (through AFP)

Update, October 15, 8:30am EDT.

According to Laprensahn.com, president Micheletti confirmed late last night that "there is no agreement" with deposed president Mel Zelaya regarding his return.

October 14, 11:30 pm. Lucianne.com has linked a story from Agence France Presse, which seems to indicate that the Micheletti government has given in on point # 6 referring to the framework created in Costa Rica for a resolution of the situation in Honduras.

However, a statement from pro-Michiletti media (reported less than an hour ago) indicated the following:

"We understand that a group representing Zelaya has agreed to submit to a determination by (Honduras') Congress whether Zelaya may return to power or not."

AFP has interpreted it this way: "Honduran negotiators reached agreement on Wednesday on a plan to restore President Manuel Zelaya to office and end a political crisis triggered by his ouster in a June coup."

So, there seems to be no "agreement," because that would infer two parties reaching an accord and the phony "agreement" is only an offer to submit to Congress' will, not to restore Zelaya. Still, nevertheless, we don't know whether mal Mel has lined up the votes or plans to detain his foes, who knows? It's the wild west down there now. This is likely Zelaya misinformation.

From Yahoo.com (Latin America)
"Tengo entendido que el grupo de Zelaya está pidiendo que sea el Congreso el que determine si puede regresar o no" al poder, indicó Micheletti a periodistas, al aclarar que, en todo caso, "eso es un asunto legal"."

AFP puts it this way:
"Honduran negotiators reached agreement on Wednesday on a plan to restore President Manuel Zelaya to office and end a political crisis triggered by his ouster in a June coup.

""We have agreed in a document on point number six, which relates to the restitution of the powers of state to where they were before June 28, 2009," Victor Meza, Zelaya's representative, told a news conference.

"Restoring the state to the situation before the coup would imply Zelaya's return to office, something that had been opposed by Robert Micheletti, the head of the coup-backed interim government.

"Micheletti and Zelaya must now ratify the agreement reached by their representatives in talks Tegucigalpa."

My earlier posts on the subject:

• Thousands of Hondurans march to protest the return...
• Obama May Foment Civil War in Honduras to Please Chavez
• Honduran President Micheletti Continues to Defy Obama/Chavez
• Honduran President Micheletti to Clinton: Nuts
• Letter to Barack Obama

An interesting side note, all local Websites have been inaccessible for the last 30 minutes or so.

Update: BBC admits to confusion on early reports from Zelaya's camp

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A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations: Towards a New Revolution

Every time I turn on the news, I wonder how bad it can get. In fact, the new administration and Congress is so imperial, so indifferent to ordinary Americans, so disdainful, so awful, it makes me want to turn away, to take up painting seascapes in Baja California, armed to the teeth, of course. Sort of like Sara Conner in the early Terminator movies.

As attractive as that prospect is (and Sarah Conner, for that matter), this would be the coward’s way out.

Yet the fact remains: the country is not being run for, by, or of the People. In fact, the evidence shows that this government is doing it to the People.

Here’s a partial list of the long train of abuses and usurpations of this most contemptible government.

John Kerry and the slow kids in the global warming/climate change movements are positively giddy that the economy contracted.

“Let me emphasize something very strongly as we begin this discussion. The United States has already this year alone achieved a 6 percent reduction in emissions simply because of the downturn in the economy, so we are effectively saying we need to go another 14 percent.”


The druids in this Administration, led by the pathetic Ken Salazar, with his western affectations, continues to place our energy resources out of reach. Remember folks, cheap energy would make our goods (manufactured goods, that is) very competitive in the world economy.

The faux cowboy, Salazar, continues to trot out ancient myths such as: "We sit on 3% of the world's oil reserves,” which completely ignores 1.5 trillion barrels of oil locked up in shale deposits in the “17 oil-shale zones in the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance Basin, which is located in northwestern Colorado.” These are estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey.*

Barron’s lays out this useless idiot in green lavender.

And, oil shale isn’t the only thing this poser is obstructing. He's also slowing "proposed lease sales in Cook Inlet, in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, and in the North Aleutian Basin north of the Alaska Peninsula on the edge of Bristol Bay. It does not affect several billion dollars worth of leases already issued off Alaska's coast."

More from the Anchorage Daily News: "That means means more extensive consideration for areas of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts that were off-limits to drilling until last summer, when record energy prices led Bush to lift a ban on offshore drilling. In the face of crippling gasoline prices, Congress followed suit by allowing a drilling moratorium to lapse."

We now have 8 months of evidence that the petrified remains of Keynesianism, dusted off from 1932 and re-animated as the Obama Porkulus/Stimulus plan is failing miserably. This was predicted four years earlier by a pair of economists at UCLA, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian warned of the damage an ill-conceived stimulus could do to the economy. In their study of the Great Depression, they concluded that FDR’s policies prolonged the misery by 7 years.*


"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery , and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump," said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA's Department of Economics. "We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies."(emphasis mine)

The Congress and the President show an almost imperial disdain for the American middle class. The President and the First Lady jet off to New York for a date night at enormous expense. The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Democrat Charlie Rangel, is knee deep in a putrid swamp of ethics violations. Our very own Marie Antoinette, Nancy Pelosi is cheerleader of a headlong shift towards Marxism, a confiscation of property, and redistribution while crushing the spirit of America’s entrepreneurial class.

*Not all of that shale oil can be extracted using current technology. Experts tell me that today's drillers might be able to get at 500 billion to 700 billion barrels. Still, when you consider that Saudi Arabia's known reserves are an estimated 250 billion barrels, that is a lot of black gold.

More to Come

For Obama, a Very Good Crisis

President Obama is planning a major address on Monday to mark the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, to take credit for “taking us back from the brink.”

Well, a speech seems appropriate, since next week marks another anniversary, that's the week, a year ago, that the president's political fortunes changed for the better. One year ago today, Lehman Brothers collapsed, which set off a week of financial bloodletting on Wall Street. Within a month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped almost 3,000 points from 11,421.99 on September 12 to 8,451.19 on October 10. By the end of the year some 40% of the world's wealth had vanished, according to Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of the Blackstone Group.

Coincidentally, on September 8, 2008, after the Republican Convention (and the Sarah Palin bounce) the Real Clear Politics average of polls had the hapless McCain beating Obama 48.3% to 45.4%. But, when Lehman Brothers failed, all bets were off. By September 17, both candidates were neck and neck at 45.7% apiece and the rest, as they say, is history.

But the crisis didn't end there. On the day the president was elected, the Dow Jones dropped 486 points, not exactly a ringing endorsement. By the end of that week it closed at 8,497, down 1,128 points.

Then there was the “stimulus bill” which was passed in February, that triggered another bear market. The day it was announced that Republican Senators Collins, Snowe and Specter would support the stimulus, the Dow began dropping from 8,280 on February 6 to 6,547 on March 9. That’s a loss of 1,743 points in a month. It also happened to be 3,078 points lower than the day the president was elected. That says the markets didn’t believe the stimulus would work.

Maybe that’s because four years earlier, a pair of economists at UCLA, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian warned of the damage an ill-conceived stimulus could do to the economy. In their study of the Great Depression, they concluded that FDR’s policies prolonged the misery by 7 years.*

But, that’s exactly the policy President Obama instituted. Now, the world is wondering whether we are actually bankrupt. And, we are forced to beg China to continue financing of our exploding debt.

To put the gears in motion, someone, we know not who, drove up the price of gas to over $4.00 a gallon. Could it have been George Soros (who also had a very good crisis) or Iran even? And, the collapse of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that pair of Democrat slush funds hastened the demise of Lehman and company. It was especially convenient that this all happened under a Republican president.

Indeed, 2008 was a year full of magic for Mr. Obama, but the crystallizing moment happened one year today, no wonder President Obama wants to give a speech, that's how he celebrates.

*In an interview, Ohanian said:

"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump…We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies."

Dear Mr. President: Your Economy is Killing Us

Yesterday, with the nerve of a Soviet apparatchik announcing a phantom bumper crop, your administration took credit for 1 million jobs saved or created since the stimulus package was enacted.

And, Apparently you’re planning a major address on Monday to mark the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers Collapse, probably to take credit for “taking us back from the brink.”

Well, we’re just tickled for you. It seems you're having a great crisis. But, while you’re creating phantom jobs or jobs in the public sector, to paraphrase Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, the rest of us are dyin’ out here.

Unemployment is at a 26-year high. And, excuse me if I wonder that some people are not being counted anymore because their benefits have run out. And if you count workers marginally attached to the workforce (that pesky U6 number), the unemployment rate is actually 16.8%. That’s almost 26 million people.

Of course, this is not ALL your fault. In fact, you’re quick to blame the last administration, which deserves its share. But there’s plenty of blame to go around. I seem to remember you calling the economy a disaster as early as 2007. Sure, a lot of the other Democratic candidates did as well, but negative jawboning like that doesn’t create confidence.

Also in 2008, somebody, we don’t know who, drove up the price of gas to over $4.00 a gallon. Could it have been George Soros and some oil sheiks? Of course this is pure speculation. It’s just so coincidental that in a presidential election year, the price of oil hits stratospheric heights. Oh, and the collapse of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that pair of Democrat slush funds didn’t help us one bit.

But, the financial crisis really, really helped you. In fact, the collapse of Lehman Brothers one year ago today was a good day for you, no wonder you want to celebrate. On September 9, 2008, the Real Clear Politics average of polls had McCain beating you 48.3% to 45.4%. But, then Lehman Brothers failed on September 11, 2008 and within a week, you were neck and neck at 45.7% apiece. Odd.

And, by the way, on the day you were elected, the Dow Jones dropped 486 points, not exactly a ringing endorsement. By the end of that week it closed at 8,497, down 1,128 points. Maybe it was the fear that you would install anti-capitalists in your cabinet?

Then there was the “stimulus bill” which was passed in February. Remarkably, another thing happened in February. A mini bear market started. The day it was announced that Collins, Snowe and Specter would support the stimulus, the Dow began dropping from 8,280 on February 6 to 6,547 on March 9. That’s a loss of 1,743 points in a month. Oh, it was also 3,078 points lower than the day you were elected. That says the markets didn’t believe your stimulus would work.

Maybe that’s because four years earlier, a pair of economists at UCLA, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian warned of the damage an ill-conceived stimulus could do to the economy. In their study of the Great Depression, they concluded that FDR’s policies prolonged the misery by 7 long years. Ohanian said:

"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump…We found that a relapse isn't likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies."

But, that’s exactly what you instituted. Now, the world is wondering whether we are actually bankrupt. And, China has us by the short hairs with respect to financing of our exploding debt.

FDR had years to diddle about with the economy. No one was ever a serious challenger to him, the people knew he was “trying.” Of course, the big difference now is that the nation is way better educated and many of us have access to the Internet, 24 hours a day.

So, with 16.8% of the population with a lot of time on our hands you don’t have the benefit of the doubt. Many of us have blogs and you still haven’t silenced talk radio or Fox. So, while our grandparents were very patient and believed in FDR for many years, and idolized the man to his death, we’re a lot more critical. Don't expect us to cheer. In fact, the Tea Parties this Saturday should demonstrate that. I hope you’re watching.

Our Petulant President

The problem with the healthcare debate is that it’s really not even about healthcare anymore.

It has evolved. What was once a debate about the Utopian goal of covering millions more people with better care at less cost---a quixotic errand if there ever was one---has given way to the real show: will Obama crack if he fails? The healthcare debate has evolved into a test of wills between a petulant child trying to get his way long after his exasperated parents have said NO.

Our young narcissist-in-chief gave a good speech last night, but no less was expected. He gives good speeches. He knows it. He told the Senate Majority Leader as much: “Harry, I’ve got a gift.” What a conceited boy.

What was about healthcare has become about his “parents,” the American people, teaching him a lesson in humility. As too lenient parents, we have suffered a long train of abuses from this gifted child. He has grabbed the reins of power and jerked the wagon hard left, farther than we were prepared to go.

So the real story is not healthcare. It’s about the monstrously bloated stimulus package which had to be passed in the twinkling of an eye, only to sit on the president’s desk while he caroused in Chicago for three days over the President’s Day holiday.

It’s about taking over Chrysler and GM through bailouts in order to serve the interests of the UAW. A gambit that has cost the American taxpayer some $80 billion of which we are expected to receive as little as $40 billion in return.

It’s about providing a massive giveaway of $100 billion to the teachers unions (his other core constituency) when only 38% of people believe in increasing spending to public schools.

It’s about a feckless strategy in Afghanistan. After the deadliest month there, what are our goals?

It’s about being rolled by Washington politicos and petty tyrants.

It’s about backing a Chavez-clone in Honduras.

It’s about not prosecuting the New Black Panther thugs who intimidated voters last November.

It’s about CIA witch hunts, which no thinking person believes makes us safer in the least.

It’s about surrounding himself with all manner of unsavory characters, to whom no decent person would give the time of day: Bill Ayers, Reverent Wright and the latest roustabout, Van Jones.

It’s about Czar-mania in the White House, 30-plus and counting with no disclosure of pay or activities let alone scrutiny.

It’s also about the president promising transparency and accountability then withholding White House visitor logs.

And, it even reaches back to the campaign when candidate Obama blocked access to school records at Occidental College, Harvard and Columbia Universities and even during his private school days at Punahou School in Honolulu. Oh, and the fact that he claims his scheduling records during his State Senate years are lost. But, admittedly this totters on moonbat territory, so I will leave it there.

Finally, it’s about unsustainable deficits as far as the eye can see, way after he’s retired to Hyde Park and his lucrative book deals and we’re left to clean up the mess.

Similar to the way a spoiled boy might scream and pout for candy at the check-out counter, creating an embarrassing scene, our president refuses to compromise on healthcare. It must be his way or the highway. Oh, he’ll throw a bone to the Republicans, promising to "study" the idea of Tort Reform, but no more. He (and his party) control the government, so it’s time for a hard left turn.

We have allowed our young, attractive and charismatic president to turn into a pre-adolescent monster and we’re putting our foot down. It’s not about healthcare, it’s about handing him a loss and seeing if he loses it.