Are You Smelling What the Barack is Cooking?

We are 3 plus years into the 'Jobs' President and still NO JOBS!  If this Presidency states over and over that their focus is on jobs, does that make it true? No matter your political persuasion the stink of failure on the jobs front is way upwind of where you are.  Are you smelling what the Barack is cooking?

Let's look at the facts:

Does today's announcement that Obama is putting the Keystone pipeline on hold lend any credence to his critics that he is all talk and no bite at least when it comes to jobs? 

Building the pipeline would bring over 700,000 barrels of oil per day and directly create 20,000 truly shovel-ready jobs. The Canadian Energy Research Institute estimates that current pipeline operations and the addition of the Keystone XL pipeline would create 179,000 American jobs by 2035.

Obama's 'Pivot' To Jobs: The Deja Vu Reel (VIDEO)

Boehner: Pipeline rejection breaks Obama’s jobs promise

House Speaker John Boehner says President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to create jobs by rejecting a plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

Boehner says Republicans will keep fighting for the Keystone XL pipeline because the project is good for the U.S. economy because it would create thousands of jobs.

3 Years of Obama Job Promises

Unemployment Rate: October 2011

Forced Unionization By Rule of Law? WTF!!

Over at Cato At Liberty there is a great post about forced unionization.  It raises the Constitutional issues of equal protection in the fact that individual rights were ignored by their representative in allowing a union to start collecting dues from individuals without their consent.  In effect they are only representing a particular group and giving them de facto taxing powers.

Just one more example of blatant ignoring and trampling upon Constitutional rights.

Trampled Constitution

Here's an excerpt (please click text or picture to read entire article):

Over the past decade, more than a dozen states have forced independent contractors who are paid through Medicaid to join public-sector unions.In 2003, Illinois unionized home healthcare workers and imbued the Service Employees International Union with the right to collect compulsory fees from the workers’ paychecks. Democracy is thus being turned on its head: the elected representatives for the people of Illinois have chosen a sub-representative for some of the people and given that sub-representative a taxing power.

In so doing, they have severely impaired home healthcare workers’ First Amendment right of association and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Without limits on government’s ability to forcibly unionize people who indirectly receive government-funded compensation (an increasingly large group), more and more citizens will have to interact with their representatives through a government-designated intermediary (a union); our democracy will become even more dominated by special interests than it is now.

Remember this when you vote in November!!

Should We Settle for the GOP Nominee?

I have been through 6 national election seasons and this one is shaping up to be the most contentious (on the GOP side) and most impactful.  There seems to be a GOP debate every other week and with them another 'flavor of the week'.  Well we are now standing in front of the provervial ice cream case and have tried all the flavors.  None have impressed so far.

Should we settle for whomever makes it through the GOP gauntlet and becomes the nominee?  There are some political romantics that enjoy the gutting of the candidates during the primary campaigning because it only makes the eventual nominee tough enough to handle the inevitable dirty negative campaigning in the general election.  Does all the friendly fire produce the best candidate?  Do the best candidates even want the job?

Well the only question I can answer from the above is that the eventual GOP nominee should most definitely have our support.  Why?  While all the flavors you've been trying out don't light your world on fire it sure beats the sh#t flavored ice cream that we the American public bought when it was being sold as Rocky Road!

Bottom line is anything is better than the sh#t flavor aftertaste I have in my mouth right now.  If only we could get some butter pecan!

 Times are tough so voice your opinion now and vote in Nov '12.

Top 10 Obama 2012 Campaign Slogans

We have less than 11 months until the next general election.  In my lifetime I have never seen a more important election.  I've started my collection of potential Obama 2012 campaign slogans.  My twitter followers are getting a health dose of these right now.

Here are the top 10:

#10: For The Record, We Really Thought We Could Have

#9: Your Long National Nightmare is Not Over

#8: Don't Ask What He's Done: Ask What He Says He's Done!

#7: Isn't It Time You Were Disappointed Again?

#6: Read My Lips: No New Tax Cuts

#5: Your Friends at the SEIU Say: Vote Obama and No One Gets Hurt

#4: I Wouldn't Get Your Hopes Up

#3: Now I'm Experienced!

#2: Let Us Do the Thinking for You!

#1: It Turns Out We Actually Can't

Have fun this year but don't forget to exercise your First Amendment rights and speak up when the opportunity arises!

BHO - Math Genius and 'The Architect' Predicts

I've been reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson the last few days.  I've come to the conclusion that he was a real asshole.  As brilliant as he might have been he was just as flawed in his personal relationships.  I'm not saying he was genius but like many geniuses throughout history the enhanced ability in one area often comes diminished skills in other areas.  I'm still in love with my iPhone and iPad but I wonder what the personal cost was to the engineers and designers at Apple.

Anyway I just thought I'd state that.  Now let's get back to a non-genius, Barack Hussein Obama.  Did anyone else notice his deficiency in basic math skills.  I admit my math skills aren't the greatest but damn he just plain sucks or he just plain lies.  Here's the actual quote from National Review Online:

But last week, we had a separate vote on a part of the jobs bill that would put 400,000 teachers, firefighters and police officers back on the job, paid for by asking people who make more than $1 million to pay one-half of 1 percent in additional taxes. For somebody making $1.1 million a year, that’s an extra $500. Five hundred bucks. And with that, we could have saved 400,000 jobs.

Most people making more than $1 million, if you talk to them, they’ll say, I’m willing to pay$500 extra to help the county. They’re patriots. They believe we’re all in this thing together. But all the Republicans in the Senate said no. (Emphasis added).

 

 Great article over at Hot Air 'Trust Jake Tapper to ask the tough question' 

“As you’re watching the Solyndra and Fast and Furious controversies play out, I wonder if it gives you any pause about any of the decision-making going on in your administration,” Tapper said. “Are you worried at all about how your administration is running?”

Shorter BHO answer: “No. It’s my administration, so why would I be worried about it?”

In the not so distant past Karl Rove's nicknames were 'The Architect' by conservatives and 'Evil Genius' by liberals.  It's obvious from the nicknames that he was good at reading the American public and directed successful campaigns based upon this ability.  Well he has a new prediction for the next election.  Here's an excerpt:

Free-market champions (from Adam Smith to Friedrich Hayek to Milton Friedman) and political leaders (including Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan) argued that collectivism is inherently inefficient, unaccountable and incompatible with self-government. While collectivists such as Mr. Obama may flatter themselves as omniscient, history has shown time and again that these elites lack the knowledge and imagination required to wisely allocate resources and make countless decisions. The way to improve the general level of prosperity is through free markets.

That's why next year's election will decide more than policy differences and who is president. It is a deeper, more important clash of principles. Do we place our trust in the federal government or the people? Political debates don't get much more basic than this.

 In this age of extreme political polarization it all seems to come down to that one statement and as for me I will choose to have faith in 'We the People' every time.