Today’s headlines indicate that the Democrat political machine is desperate and flailing about as their support in the nation crumbles. Finally, after 2+ years of arrogant denial they are realizing they are not the darling of voters, nor are they the clever Svengalis of political leadership. At best they are naive and bumbling. At worst they are crooked and bumbling. Whatever, they are bumbling about like mad today.

The point is the left is nowhere near as smart and gifted as they tell themselves, and it is beginning to show. I would say neither party is as clever as they think when they have the audacity to dictate to this great nation what is right or wrong. My view is we should trust the general goodness and capacity of the people first, and don’t obsess or twist our society around a few screw ups or truly evil exceptions. We have laws and punishments to handle clearly out of bounds behavior. We don’t need to try and ratchet down the spectrum of allowable acts, deeds and words to some mythical purity created from political party think tanks. Morality and politics divorced a long time ago.

But I digress. The first act of trying to be purer than the other poor sobs is  to throw out baseless or twisted attacks – to smear the other side. One of the more desperate moves on the part of this imploding administration (which now faces two serious scandals: one involving gun running and one involving crony capitalism) has been the launch of a thin skinned website called Attackwatch. Supposedly it is an attempt to gain the high ground after months of bad mouthing its political opponents. It reeks of whiny impotence. It is not presidential nor being taken seriously. And it is going over like the proverbial led balloon.

The timing could not be worse, though, as a ridiculous smear campaign is launched against Sarah Palin:

In the book, which will be published on September 20^th, McGinniss claims Sarah had a steamy … hookup with basketball stud GLEN RICE less than a year before she eloped with her husband Todd.

So, you’re wondering where is the big news about a premarital romantic fling? Especially from the ‘free love’ left who fawn at the feet of Jane Fonda and other icons of feminine reserve? Well, we all knew the race card was going to be played, and it would be really pathetic. But this time around it seems to be completely incoherent – a sure sign this is a coordinated hit job out of the whiz kids in DC:

A publishing source told The ENQUIRER that McGinniss claims Sarah had a “fetish” for black men at the time and he quotes a friend as saying Sarah had “hauled (Rice’s) ass down.”

Ahhh. She had a romantic fling with a black guy! ….

OK, I still don’t get why this is ‘stop the presses’ news. Is the left now revisiting its racist roots, when it was the Democrats who resisted racial unity, fought against racial equity and went to war with a GOP president over slavery? Are they trying to ignite some mythical rejection of ‘Sarah the White’ because she dated a black guy (and married an descendent of Eskimos)? Are they really this childish and bitter?

Pathetic. You could not create a clearer juxtaposition of left wing madness than these two stories. The above ‘book’ was written by a left wing stalker/writer McGinniss, and is apparently filled with anonymous claims running from adultery to drug use. In essence, now liberal fantasies about their opponents are hard news. This will create a huge backlash of support for Main Street Mother and Wife Sarah Palin. And it will deem burning in hell for the purveyors of this disgusting smear campaign a light sentence. The left never understood going gutter with Palin is a sure sign of depravity and a signal to reject the offending lick-spittle-mad lefty.

No word yet if there are shady real estate deals like the Obama’s received with convicted felon Tony Rezko, or any attempts to seat cronies like Valerie Jarret into newly vacant senate seat. Nor are there and other criminal conspiracies like shoveling tax payer money to donors and failed green business ideas, or letting gun runs amok on the streets of Mexico so they can follow the trail of dead and injured to already known drug cartels.

Nope, nothing like what is being seen discovered on the left. But man, you know, a white women dating a black guy is so ….

1950’s stupid crap. Folks, the left is not only stuck on stupid, they are stuck in the last century mentally and emotionally. They are still chasing long dead racists, still fighting long gone labor issues, still looking for long won sexual equality (and I means between the sexes, and not between sex acts). They are devoid of experience, insight and even the simple ability to keep up with current times.

The left is completely collapsing before our eyes – and boy are they going down UUUUGLEEE.

Update: Ed Morrissey labels Attackwatch – ‘petty’. I think he is being too kind.

Tags: Attackwatch, Green Jobs, Gunrunner, Obama

In 2008 Democrats blew into DC ready to show the world how their visions of heavy handed and bloated government can solve any and all problems. After all, at the core of all their positions and planks squats their benevolent God “Government”. Can’t buy a home, the liberals will make home values worthless so anyone can. Can’t get health insurance? Liberals will make health services so poor and limited anyone can get crappy insurance from the government. Can’t find a job? Government will keep pulling money out of the job-creating private sector and wasting it on stupid projects, and instead give you unemployment for life (the deadest of dead ends).

That is what President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid brought us. And then the American voter started kicking them out of power. First in small but dramatic fashion in the Governor races in VA and NJ in 2009, then in the MA Senate special election in January 2010, and then in a historic blowout that dumped Democrats all up and down the local, state and federal tiers of government in November 2010.

If anyone believed that tide of anger has subsided, the two special elections held yesterday prove the anti-government fervor outside the beltway is still red hot and toxic to Donkeys of all stripes:

The Democratic Party’s rare lossof a congressional seat in its urban heartland Tuesday, accompanied by a blowout defeat in a Nevada special election, marked the latest in a string of demoralizing setbacks that threatened to deepen the party’s crisis of confidence and raise concerns about President Barack Obama’s political fortunes.

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Even before the polls closed, the recriminations – something short of panic, and considerably more than mere grumbling – had begun. On a high-level campaign conference call Tuesday afternoon, Democratic donors and strategists commiserated over their disappointment in Obama. A source on the call described the mood as “awful.”

“People feel betrayed, disappointed, furious, disgusted, hopeless,” said the source.

If the Dems are feeling a bit shell shocked (finally, most people would have clued in well before now) the independents are feeling empowered and justified. They know now that once they, as a voting block, tip one way or the other both parties have to listen – even the winners. The mistake the Dems made after the 2008 election was not listening, thus all their deadly mistakes. The vote for change in 2008 was not FOR liberal nonsense. It was for a low-profile approach to our nation’s security problems. An itch that was not scratched one iota by team Obama, who has expanded our war on terrorism into Libya, and backed rebels who are (compared to US standards) no better than the old Qadaffi regime.

But much wore is yet to come. The Dems are now facing a major scandal involving lining the pockets of their contributors with hard earned tax payer money:

Newly uncovered emails show the White House closely monitored the Energy Department’s deliberations over a $535 million government loan to Solyndra, the politically-connected solar energy firm that recently went bankrupt and is now the subject of a criminal investigation.

The company’s solar panel factory was heralded as a centerpiece of the president’s green energy plan — billed as a way to jump start a promising new industry.

All other industries in America have been decimated under liberal mismanagement, with the one exception of the mythical ‘green’ jobs (who are close cousins to those ‘shovel ready’ infrastructure jobs we heard so much about). That is because this industry was handed billions in tax payer money – in this case to a major democrat money man who makes all those silly conspiracy theories about the GOP being the party of rich patrons a sad joke. The White House applied obvious and clear pressure on the selection process – just by being their constantly watching. I can tell you from first hand experience, when congressional or white house reps show up, the bureaucrats start groveling and genuflecting and looking for any window to show they can obtain the goods – which of course can lead to lucrative and ego bloating promotions.

So remember that when you read these other bits of damning evidence of White House ‘monitoring’:

… the Obama administration was keenly monitoring the progress of the loan, even as analysts were voicing serious concerns about the risk involved. “This deal is NOT ready for prime time,” one White House budget analyst wrote in a March 10, 2009 email, nine days before the administration formally announced the loan.

So the White House even had pockets of concern, over ridden by higher ups who pushed to keep the calendar for the President’s photo ops. Think this WH staffer is going commit perjury over this?

“If you guys think this is a bad idea, I need to unwind the W[est] W[ing] QUICKLY,” wrote Ronald A. Klain, who was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, in another email sent March 7, 2009. The “West Wing” is the portion of the White House complex that holds the offices of the president and his top staffers. Klain declined comment to ABC News.

No one will raise a single objection when the desire to make it happen (usually at any cost) has been made clear form on high. Klain is going to be an interesting character in this drama, with his name out here in the open. The email indicates clear and rapid communication channels between the clearly dodgy ‘selection’ process and what benefits the selectees would get (and these guys got the best of the best of the best deal).

Also note the dates – just prior to the big announcement. It seems political cronies won out over due process and fairness. So now the US Taxpayer has to bail these liberal cronies out of their financial hole. No one is bailing out Main Street, they just keep robbing us blind and pretending to play God.

Time to end this nonsense and shrink government down to the BARE MINIMUM.

Kill this bill now!

Actually, no need. The thing is so screwy it is DOA anyway. Check out this liberal pretzel logic:

President Barack Obama on Monday proposed paying for his jobs plan by eliminating $467 billion in tax breaks for wealthier Americans and corporations, meeting immediate resistance from Republicans in Congress.

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A limit on itemized deductions and certain exemptions on individuals who earn over $200,000 and families who earn over $250,000, which would raise roughly $400 billion over 10 years.

So, Obama plans to take money from Main Street through higher taxes and by defining millionaires and billionaires as any family making $250K a year (which usually means families at their peak income generating mode preparing kids for college and themselves for retirement – without government handouts as much as possible). What moron thought this one up?

Our economy is stagnating because consumers are not buying goods, homes, etc. In fact they need better paying jobs.

But what does this president do? I pulls even MORE money out of the private sector – both at the consumer point AND the small business point – and decides delayed jobs involving shovels is the answer? I know the saying is we learn everything we need to know in Kindergarten, but really! We saw this government trickle down crap with the Stimulus bill, which only captured investment and spending money and let it wander through the bowels of the bloated federal bureaucracy before it came trickling out years later.

I have a better proposal – pull the cancer of government off the back of the consumers and businesses. Leave more money in the hands of Main Street so our economy can jump start itself. Lower taxes, cut government spending down to the bare minimum and gut all the wasteful regulations and paper work.

This has to be the lamest of lame big government ideas EVAH!

Update: And the American voter KNOWS this is lame:

These undecided voters, who could determine whether Obama wins re-election next year, believe Republicans are more serious about reducing budget deficits and more aligned with them ideologically, according to the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way.

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Half of those surveyed said reducing the deficit or scaling back regulations would be the most effective way to create jobs, while only 16 percent said that increased spending on construction and innovation would be the best approach.

Well, duh. We’ve seen the government innovate, invest and create jobs – and it ain’t pretty.

Lots of interesting reactions to the GOP debate and its focus on Social Security. At Hot Air Allahpundit wonders why anyone would even broach the subject:

Remind me again, then: Why are we obsessing over Social Security when it’s universally understood among politicos that Medicare is a much bigger/more immediate problem?

I sense a lot of impotent political wincing going on. But I think everyone should look at this differently.

At least the GOP side is HAVING the needed debate on the solvency of Social Security, and we can decide who is just kicking this ticking time bomb down the road instead of dealing with it. Now is a time to fix Social Security without lots of pain and suffering (what liberal likes to call ‘sacrifice’).

We need political leaders willing and able to take on tough subjects and broken sacred cows. There are a lot of broken sacred cows in our dysfunctional and bankrupt government. None of them alone will right our government and its spending problems. That is the right approach – not the easy approach. If not now, when? Let the debate happen, and let America see people willing to bring change we can rely on.

Tags: GOP Debate, Rick Perry, Social Security

No words can convey the importance and impact of 9-11 on this nation and on the world. A sleeping giant was once more called to wake and to take down the forces of darkness. On this day we remember those who died and those who became heroes, during that tragic wake up call.

But we should also remember all those who heeded the call of 9-11. Our son is now a Corporal in the United States Marine Corp. He was going to turn 12 years old on 9/13/01, now he trains to go  into harms way and protect this nation by protecting the freedoms of others on the other side of the world.

. He and his school mates have enlisted in the US Armed Forces in amazing numbers. Number more like those of his grandfather’s generation who fought in World War II. Much more than my generation of the 60’s and 70’s and our naive and  inane war protests. These wonderful children of 9-11 who have stepped forward to take their turn as America’s guardians also are due honor and respect from all of us who live peacefully in the embrace of this nation’s freedoms.

On this day, we remember that it is our nation’s greatness that sets us apart, and sadly makes us enemies of those dark forces which to this day would shackle and enslave humanity for twisted and narrow purpose. It seems strange to think that the world is still rocked by narrow minds who cannot tolerate differences of views, but 9-11 was just such evil lashing out at the Golden City on the hill. Only in America has the coexistence of diversity truly been achieved. So on 9-11 we remember the price we pay to have these freedoms, and why we must ensure they are universal to all humanity – else we find ourselves once again the target of a growing cancer of envious evil.

[note: all the pictures have links worth a follow]

Tags: 9-11 Anniversary, al-Qaeda, Freedom, Twin Towers

President Obama has missed his window of opportunity – big time. He has had many chances to salvage his presidency over the last 2+ years, and he ignored and missed all of them. The last opportunity he blew was when the nation’s voters sent him a massive GOP freshman class to the House of Representatives to allow him one last chance to prove all the rhetoric he spouted about leadership and bridging the partisan divide.

And boy, did he blow that opportunity. He never took the opportunity to lead in a bipartisan manner, instead it was all petulance, all the time. There was a small ray of hope when the Bush tax cuts were extended in  quasi bipartisan fashion in the lame duck, Democrat led Congress in 2010. But after that, Obama fell into full throated, liberal, partisan demagoguery instead of bipartisan leadership. He flailed away on the remainder of the 2011 budget (which ends this month). He won lots of concessions and the GOP was left with no substantial cuts (there couldn’t be, since the budget was only for a couple of months), but Obama failed to head the message of 2010. He failed to move to the center, play nice with others, and stop spending like a drunken sailor.

Same thing happened on the debt ceiling debate. The GOP walked away with no real fixes and more empty promises of future adult and fiscally responsible behavior out of dysfunctional DC.  But that was not what the voters wanted, and Obama’s immediate return to massive spending (consuming a good chunk of the new limit in a mater of weeks) left voters realizing 2010 was not going to shift the mindset of DC. That was when all hope ended for positive change.

So now the President is going to give another speech promoting more impotent and useless government efforts to avoid the obvious steps to putting our economy right (i.e, tax cuts, rolling back bureaucratic red tape, real spending cuts). Not surprisingly, it looks like no one is going to tune in. It’s so bad even the GOP is not bothering to rebut what is clearly a rehash of failed liberal fantasies. Keynesian economics is dead and buried. The nation gets it, so the GOP does not even have to bother repeating it. Best to get on with some football!

We know what will happen. Obama is going to whine about lack of action in Congress, while a pile of House bills lay languishing in the Senate under veto threats from a petulant and inexperienced President. Why should anyone care about another political speech that will do nothing, as unemployment continues to rise back up again? Why even waste our precious time? Why even lift a finger to push the remote?

Obama is now the lamest of ducks. He cried ‘Wolf!’so many times, and made so many sweeping and empty promises he never kept, that his credibility is completely shot. No one except he and his WH groupies believe a thing the TOTUS (Teleprompter of The United States) spews any more. It was once thought to be a message from heaven on how to right the country. Now we know TOTUS is just a bad B-Movie script from the 1950’s being replayed via the POTUS’ lips, with no basis in reality.

So instead of dialing into a bad rerun, now we await the next President of these United States to show up.

Update: Apparently the Washington Post gets it:

With the unemployment rate locked in above 9 percent, voters are weary of words. Another high-profile speech is likely to underscore how little has changed since Obama said in his first joint-session address, a month after taking office, “Now is the time to jump-start job creation.”

“Underscore”?  More like “cement”.

Tags: Football, Jobs Speech, Keynesian Economics, President Obama, TOTUS

This was my (apparently) prescient comments from April 30th, 2009 as the liberal stimulus bill began its death spiral, taking the Democrat coalition with it as it later augered into epic failure:

… the real political force in this country is moving along with the incredible and unstoppable momentum. The real political force is the economic train wreck which is still tearing its way through the very core of this country …

Liberals from DC to the halls of the dying media outlets are trying to claim there are glimmers of hope. They are deluding themselves of course. The economy is shrinking, which means revenues to the government are crashing, which means we are also piling up debt at record levels.

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This country will continue to bleed red ink at never before seen rates, and the economy will not be responding. The stimulus bill, has I have noted over and over, is not getting the money into the economy to generate jobs.

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I suspect the bleak state of the sluggish federal government’s liberal experiment on socialistic spending is heading for spectacular failure. The DC liberals actually do believe the fantasy that government spending can turn around an ailing economy, that racking up massive debt doesn’t drain the capitol out of the markets, and that raising taxes on businesses doesn’t cut jobs. I mean, they really did believe this fantasy!

Which is why these new poll numbers are not much of a surprise, and actually very much anti-climactic:

More than 60 percent of those surveyed say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the economy and, what has become issue No. 1, the stagnant jobs situation. Just 43 percent now approve of the job he is doing overall, a new career low; 53 percent disapprove, a new high.

These latest numbers reflect what happens when lofty (and at times surreal) rhetoric is followed by failure. Americans do require results from their leaders, and President Obama and his liberal allies are not immune from this minimal expectation. They can whine, complain, point fingers, get angry and threaten their fellow citizens all day long – this is still their mess. Their mistake.

Their defeat. This fall from credibility is just beginning. There is no way to stop or deflect the coming storm of backlash that will arrive with great force in 2012. Just like there was no way to deflect the last round in 2010. Democrats and liberals are just now beginning to wake up to what they did to themselves:

From the debt ceiling fiasco to the recent rescheduling of a jobs speech at the behest of Speaker Boehner, it has not been a good summer for President Obama. Like Chinese water torture, Gallup’s daily tracking poll has shown a steady and unrelenting drip of bad news. He has been in and out of the high 30s for his approval, and in the low to mid-50s for his disapproval.

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Obama has ruined the Democratic Party. The 2010 wipeout was an electoral catastrophe so bad you’d have to go back to 1894 to find comparable losses. From 2008 to 2010, according to Gallup, the fastest growing demographic party label was former Democrat. Obama took over the party in 2008 with 36 percent of Americans considering themselves Democrats. Within just two years, that number had dropped to 31 percent, which tied a 22-year low.

More late lamenting here:

We were told, as I recall, that Barack Obama had to seek a debt deal with the Republicans to please independent voters. Well, the independent voters are speaking, and they don’t appear to be especially appeased.

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Americans disapprove of the deal by 46 to 39 percent. Democrats support it 58-28. Republicans oppose it 26-64. Independents oppose it 33-50. A second question asked of respondents: Was the deal a step forward or backward or neither with respect to “addressing the federal debt situation?” Democrats lined up 30-14-50. Republicans, 15-28-52. Independents, 16-25-50.

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The White House strategy failed, and it failed pretty spectacularly. It reminds me that I’m hard pressed to think of a White House strategy that hasn’t failed in the last several months.

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Watching this White House over these last several weeks has been like watching a time-lapse video of an apple rotting.

Note that both of these moaning articles came well before the latest round of bad poll numbers. No one is supporting this President. He lashed his future to a certain-to-fail liberal fantasy of government trickle down economics. And now he is going to pay the ultimate price for this horrible decision. As I noted back in the late spring of 2009, Obama’s fate was set in February 2009 when he naively followed Pelosi and Reid and their siren song about ‘shovel-ready’ jobs emanating from the bloated federal bureaucracy.

That set up this administration’s unavoidable fate, to be finalized November 2012

Tags: Economy, Jobs, Obama Approval

The postal service has a warm and special place in our social history. From the Pony Express of the wild west to the diligent and unfailing service of the last century, the only means of affordable, long range communication was the US Postal Service (USPS). Heck, it even came to the rescue of Santa Claus one year. But ever since the internet came alive around 1990, and with the arrival  of modernized and commercial package shipping companies like Fedex and UPS and the like, the role of the United States Postal Service has dwindled.

As long as it was a federal government-run entity, The USPS was doomed to failure when faced with such private sector competition. That is because the federal government is obsessed with process, not product. I have been a contractor to the federal government my entire career, and I am successful because I can help them produce something worthwhile despite the fact the government only considers success when process is followed, not when something that works is produced or a value-added service is performed. Following the endless reams of government process is now the focus of the bureaucracy, all else is secondary and can be sacrificed.

That is why government wastes so much money. It’s obsession is process, not winning over the most clients or customers. The inability to provide for innovation (actually to even get permission to innovate) is why the USPS was doomed. Instead of sparking their workforce to compete, they pay them to sit around and do nothing:

Where else could you get paid a decent salary for sitting in an empty room, doing absolutely nothing?

Standby time cost the Postal Service about $30.9 million in 2009, the equivalent of some 1.2 million hours. The semi-independent government agency paid out $22 million in 2010 in standby time, according to the Office of Inspector General.

So, while the post office idles its people in a lame move to avoid layoffs, the private sector uses incentives to constantly evolve and stay current.   And so this news story is no surprise at all:

The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month and may have to shut down entirely this winter unless Congress takes emergency action to stabilize its finances.

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In recent weeks, Mr. Donahoe has been pushing a series of painful cost-cutting measures to erase the agency’s deficit, which will reach $9.2 billion this fiscal year.

By the way, $9.2 billion is almost 2/3rds of the NASA annual budget and would have easily covered the cost of replacing our aging shuttles with the new Orion crew vehicle – and then some. That’s right, the waste in USPS alone would have continued our leadership in human space exploration.

At the same time, decades of contractual promises made to unionized workers, including no-layoff clauses, are increasing the post office’s costs. Labor represents 80 percent of the agency’s expenses, compared with 53 percent at United Parcel Service and 32 percent at FedEx, its two biggest private competitors.

The USPS has become obsolete. It now exists on the bottom-feeding and wasteful bulk mail advertising that swamps our mail boxes, and which heads straight for the paper recycling bins unread. It is a huge economical and ecological waste. Internet technologies make communication easy, cheap and instantaneous. Fedex, UPS and the others own parcel shipping. As I wrote last fall, the best thing now for USPS is for its resources to be auctioned off to the commercial sector, where its workers can become more than a cog in the government machine. The privatization of the USPS would bring much needed revenues INTO the government, instead of this dying institution being a mammoth money sink.

I have warm and nostalgic memories of the USPS at its pinnacle. Bur like the 8 track tape, even the most successful and important runs in history come to an end (and no, the 8 track tape was not an important run – I was thinking more like Greece or Rom).

How the two parties address this challenge is going to be indicative of their futures as well. This is a prime example of government waste that can be eliminated in a controlled and humane manner. I would wager 30-40% of the government is in similar shape – too caught up with process and thus completely failing in their mission. I work for these kinds of programs all the time, trying my best to get them out of the ditch and back on the road. It is becoming harder and harder each year, despite the ease of leveraging new, affordable and proven technologies. Process first, then results if there is time.

One party is going to try and fix the USPS, pretend time does not march on to the future and evolution does not occur. And the other party will be demanding we put our limited resources into yet-to-be-discovered ideas and approaches, which continuously spring from Main Street when Wall Street and DC get out of the way.. One party is right and one is wrong. One has a political future, and one is going the way of the Dodo bird and USPS.

Update: More good discussion over at Hot Air, especially on the union stranglehold and lethargic government oversight.

Tags: Bankrupt, Obsolete, USPS

I am not sure what to make of this news, because it signals that the White House may have a hidden core of sanity hidden some place within its extensive liberal fantasy land:

In a statement Friday, Obama said he had ordered Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposal, in part because of the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty for businesses at a time of rampant uncertainty about an unsteady economy.

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The withdrawal of the proposed EPA rule comes two days after the White House identified seven such regulations that it said would cost private business at least $1 billion each. The proposed smog standard was estimated to cost anywhere between $19 billion and $90 billion, depending on how strict it would be.

OK, so why now all the concern about business impacts regarding the green madness that has infected the liberal left? I mean they did not care about outlawing CO2 and raising energy prices across the board before this? I have never seen an iota of concern or even assistance to businesses when it came to the liberal agenda. It has been over 2 years of “damn the economy, full speed ahead!”

So hwy now? The regulations in question are a Green Kool-Aid Drinker’s dream come true:

Factories, hospitals, universities, power plants and even churches are in the cross hairs of hyperaggressive regulators at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations.

Seven proposed rules pending before the agency are poised to inflict more than $125 billion in costs on the U.S. economy annually, according to EPA’s own estimates.

Trust me when I say the EPA’s damage assessment to our economy was in all likelihood ridiculously optimistic. So why the sacrificial lamb? Probably because of this::

“While these costs are significant, they are small compared to the potential costs from the EPA’s impending global warming regulations,” said Pat Michaels of the Cato Institute.

The left is now in full desperation mode as they realize they have only a very small window to try and sneak as much of their agenda past the American people before they are toast in 2012. Watch this to be the carrot to the GOP so they can apply the big stick of global warming nonsense in the up coming proposals.

This group in the White House appears to be that naive about DC politics, that they think giving on this will earn them something in return later. Not right now. Not with all their political capital gone and the credibility in the tank. Is there such a thing as a Phyrric Surrender???

Tags: EPA Smog Regulations, Obama, White House, Withdraw

We are small business owners who would love to grow our company and prepare for our Golden Years. We should be on the verge of a growth period as we have obtained critical mass in terms of engineering resources, corporate infrastructure, unique skills that are in high demand and a reasonably good cash flow outlook.

But we also face huge unknowns which has us hesitating. How much will health care cost us (we operate on thin margins)? How much will regulation cost us (as we grow, we encounter more and more useless paperwork, diverting our income to low end clerical jobs that don’t help us grow and expand)? What will our tax burden be? Will we be paying extra for breathing CO2?

Obama and the ‘know-nothing-about-business’ liberals have royally screwed up. I gave up doing shovel related jobs 3 decades ago. I would rather be blazing a trail of innovative system-enterprise solutions that enable humankind to explore the outer reaches of the cosmos (or just the wealth of natural resources in our solar system). So we wait until 2012. As do businesses large and small across the country. Because the liberals are so ignorant of what makes this country’s economy work, they have stood in the way of obvious stimulus tools (lower taxes, less regulation and budget cuts to lower the deficits and debt) and have remained on their drunken spending spree (more Obamacare, though it does NOT cut costs or increase services, more taxes everywhere, and kneeling at the alter of Global Warming  – which is now not a science but a religion devoid of any scientific proof).

So we got ZERO job growth in August (note: we did add jobs, the lazy news media is wrong in this regard). Of course this came ‘unexpectedly’ for those who follow in the liberal fantasy world. The truth is we actually have marginally more people employed in the workforce this month (36,000), but we also have a lot more people moving back into the job hunt (366,000), expanding the over all work force towards its normal levels. Since 366,000 more unemployed returned to the state where the federal government counts them as unemployed (which simply means the government’s numbers are incredibly inaccurate) it means those 36,000 new employed people did not move the unemployment rate at all. However, the broader measurement of unemployment (U6) went from 16.1 to 16.2%.

I was going to update my charts that show how to calculate the actual U3 and U6 numbers, but apparently in upgrading to my new computer I left some files behind on the back up server. So I will update this post once I have retrieved them. But it is obvious just from eye balling these numbers the actual unemployment rate (U3) is still over 10.5%, adjusted for a normal workforce size given our current population. Same with U6 – it is probably still over 17%.

It is rapidly becoming clear this President and his left-drunk party are incapable of getting past their sad ideological fantasies and dealing with our real world problems. There are reasons community organizers don’t run businesses or anything dangerous, serious or a risk to human life. I don’t know about you, but I would not let a community organizer run a medical device company, a civil engineering company, an aerospace company, or a hospital, etc. Why we thought he could run a country that has led the globe in all these areas and many others is beyond me.

The President and his party of dreamers are not capable of charting a path out of our current problems. They look to the source of our problems (government incompetence and greed) as the salvation. We need people who will trim the government back and unleash Main Street to do what it has done best for over 200 years. Government is the problem that needs reigning in and fixing what is only essential. Until the left wakes up to this fact of life, they are useless.

Update: Hot Air, as expected, is having a good discussion of this economic fail.

Tags: Liberal Democrat Policies, Obamacare, Unemployment Rates