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

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.  

We Don't Need No Stinking Jobs

Actions speak louder than words and the inaction of the Obama administration is yelling 'We Don't Need No Stinking Jobs'.  In fact we still have money to spend because we can always raise more taxes. (I might be paraphrasing a little here)  Is this the new version of 'Let Them Eat Cake!'?

Once again 'The Employment Situation' monthly report for June was released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing the failure to create jobs theme has continued.

How much longer must we collectively keep being slapped in the face with obvious fallacies such as 'we must spend more to create jobs'?

I ask you this:  How many jobs have been created by raising taxes in our history?  What is more conducive to encourage a small business owner to create a new job?  Taxes, onerous regulations, mandates for health care insurance, cap-and-trade energy tax, etc.

Common sense tells us the answer to these questions but common sense and politics are often like oil and water.  When they are forcibly put together the results can be very nice but often they repel each other much like Obama and jobs.

Here is a nice video from Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers that asks 'Where Are the Jobs?'