Gallup: Obama approval hits new lows on economy, health care, deficit

His economic polling will rebound over time but I’m not so sure about the other two. [...] Read the rest »

Sarah Palin’s Hand Notes

This is huge. Forget Watergate, Forget Bill Clinton, forget any political scandal, because those are all small beans. The MSM is going nuts over the biggest political scandal of our, or anyone’s…

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NOW president pretty upset about shockingly violent Tim Tebow ad

Just a follow-up to Ed’s post last night about the disingenuous idiocy some pro-choicers are willing to push to try to discredit Tebow. [...] Read the rest »

Holy Schidt! Al Gort Gets Me & Dana This Time!

Over the weekend the MD-DC area got 20 to 30 inches. Just being 2 miles into PA from MD, we got 24 inches. Now they are calling for 10 to 20 inches more Tuesday night into Wednesday.

(I added stimulus because snow removal creates jobs. 2010 election if it isn’t done right, politicians lose, And Hawai’i because I’d rather be there)

Video: The media’s got a fee-vah and the only prescription is more Palin crib notes

Via Media Blog, Breitbart, and Think Progress, a smattering of “insight” on the greatest political scandal of modern times: Sarah Palin’s crib notes. [...] Read the rest »

Hugh Hewitt: Allen West and Alex Berenson

Colonel Allen West is running for Congress in Florida’s 22nd and will be my guest today.As will be Alex Berenson, whose new thriller The Midnight House, hit stores and Amazon.com this week. And I’ll be playing the tape…

Meghan McCain Blasts Tom Tancredo’s ‘Innate Racism’

On “The View” today, Meghan McCain called out Tom Tancredo for his shocking dog whistle racism speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

McCain: Congressman Tancredo went on TV and he was the first opening speaker and he said, ‘People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.’ And then he went on to say that people at the convention should have to pass literacy tests in order to be able to vote in this country, which is the same thing that happened in the 50’s to prevent African Americans from voting. It’s innate racism and I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement. And I’m sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English.

The Obama Touch Continues

I doubt Peyton Manning appreciates Obama having picked the Colts to win.

Compliments of RMartin.

Those “saved or created” jobs on the block again

Barack Obama has tried to take credit for saving or creating two million jobs through the intervention of Porkulus last year.  Most of the jobs “saved” came from block grants given to states, which used the money to paper over budget gaps instead of rationally examining bloated budgets and looking for opportunities to make cuts.  States declared that they saved positions in law enforcement and education with their Porkulus money that were never at risk in the first place rather than the untouched bureaucracies that should have first come under the knife. [...] Read the rest »

Breaking: Rep. John Murtha passes away

Via WJAC:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A spokesman said Democratic Rep. John P. Murtha died Monday at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va.

Murtha had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. At his bedside was his family.

Murtha, 77, was chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.

The 19-term Democrat was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in Congress. He most recently led the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense spending.

Murtha was a representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District since 1974. This past Saturday, Murtha became Pennsylvania’s longest serving member of Congress.

Murtha was a retired Marine Corps officer and the first combat veteran of the Vietnam War elected to Congress.

The AP, surprisingly, has a pretty detailed description of Murtha’s political life in Congress, including his ethical scandals, unfair Haditha accusations and the fact that he was a master ‘bring home the bacon’ politico for his state. WaPo’s The Fix blog has a write-up on what will happen with Murtha’s seat going forward:

According to state law, the governor has ten days once the vacancy is officially declared to decide on the date for the special election, which can come no sooner than 60 days following that proclamation.

That likely means the special election will be held on May 18, which is the date already set for federal primaries around the state. (Special elections costs the state huge sums of money and it’s likely that Gov. Ed Rendell will choose to go with an already established election day to save some cash.)

I’ll reserve any political commentary I have about Murtha for another day. May he RIP, and his family and friends find comfort and peace in their memories of him.

Open Thread

It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt

It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt A lot of people are very upset about the rapidly increasing U.S. national debt these days and they are demanding a solution. What…

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John Murtha dead at 77

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Murtha dead at 77

There was no shortage of things to criticize — search our archives for “pork,” “Abscam,” “ethics,” or “Haditha,” for starters — but there’s also no need to kick the coffin while friends and family were grieving. [...] Read the rest »

Democrat-Led Congress Losing Support among Democrats

Gallup’s latest numbers on congressional approval (because we love polls):

PRINCETON, NJ — Congress’ job approval rating from Americans fell six points in the past month, from 24% to 18% — the lowest reading in more than a year. Nearly 8 in 10 (78%) now disapprove.

This decline in congressional approval is largely explained by a sharp drop in approval among rank-and-file Democrats, from 45% in January to 30% today. The slight changes in approval among Republicans and independents are not statistically significant.

In a related finding, among ideological groups, approval of Congress is down mainly among liberals (from 40% in January to 24% today). Support from moderates was already fairly low, at 28%, and is now 21%. There has been no change in approval among conservatives, at 14%.

Image: Gallup

Just how many of the Democrats/liberals who now despise the Democrat-led congress do so because they haven’t gotten enough hand-outs in the form of ObamaCare and more Cash-for-Clunkers-type programs isn’t clear from the polling. Or, maybe it’s just another dimension of buyer’s remorse, moving beyond Obama to focus on Capitol Hill.

Bureaucrats Live Large as Collapse Impends

Here’s another indication as to just where all the money is going as our liberal kakistocracy spends us into inevitable economic collapse:

The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs [and that was back in early December] in the private sector.

That was back in December. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, payroll employment has now fallen by 8.4 million since the economic crisis Obama has been milking began.

Not outraged yet? Try this:

When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.

The trend to six-figure salaries is occurring throughout the federal government, in agencies big and small, high-tech and low-tech. The primary cause: substantial pay raises and new salary rules. …

The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker’s pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.

It won’t stop until we stop it — or until the entire house of cards collapses like Zimbabwe.

Mark Stein comments on our rulers’ unsustainable spending:

Testifying to the House Budget Committee, Director Elmendorf attempted to pull back from the wilder shores of “unsustainable”: “I think most observers expect that the government will act, that the unsustainability will be resolved through action, not through witnessing some collapse down the road,” he said. “If literally nothing is done, then eventually something very, very bad happens. But I think the widespread view is that you and your colleagues will take action.”

Dream on, you kinky fantasist. The one thing that can be guaranteed is that a political class led by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, a handful of reach-across-the-aisle Republican accommodationists, and an economically illiterate narcissist in the Oval Office is never going to rein in unsustainable spending in any meaningful sense. That leaves Director Elmendorf’s alternative scenario. What was it again? Oh, yeah: “Some collapse down the road.” …

It’s not the “debt” or the “deficit,” it’s the spending. And the only way to reduce that is with fewer government agencies, fewer government programs, fewer government employees, lower government salaries.

Instead, all four are rocketing up: We are incentivizing unsustainability, and, when it comes to “some collapse down the road,” you’ll be surprised how short that road is.

If we don’t get the keys to the liquor cabinet away from our drunken kakistocracy, it will literally destroy America within the next decade.

On tips from Edward and Lyle. Hat tip: Death by 1000 Paper Cuts.