Robert Scott calls out Arne Duncan

Arne Duncan, the Secretary of the Department of Education, made a foolish statement this week when he said the following


Texas’s school system “has really struggle" and he went on to say “I feel very, very badly for the children there.”
Robert Scott calls out Arne Duncan (with good reason) | Opinion Blog | dallasnews.com

The Jobs President

From Investors Business Daily interview with Bernie Marcus co-founder of Home Depot:

IBD: If you could sit down with Obama and talk to him about job creation, what would you say?
Marcus: I'm not sure Obama would understand anything that I'd say, because he's never really worked a day outside the political or legal area.

I think he is absolutely right. We spent 1 trillion dollars on a stimulus that failed. This President has surrounded himself with people who know nothing about job creation.
The unemployment numbers out this week show a decrease in the rate to 9.1%, while adding only 117K jobs. Keep in mind that 200K jobs a month are needed to make any significant changes to the unemployment rate. The response from the White House "Things are going to get better," Obama said.

We shall see Mr. President, we shall see.

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Earlier this week:
“I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News.

Today we had the chief actuary of Social Security telling Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp that the decision whether or not to withhold checks comes from the treasury.



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Debt Ceiling Shenanigans

As most of you know, there is a lot going on in Washington. I am sure you have all read and heard about the debt ceiling negotiations, but I am not sure how many people know what is meant when the words "Debt Ceiling" are thrown around.

The debt ceiling refers to the amount of debt the federal government can legally borrow, which currently stands at $14.3 trillion. At this moment we are pretty close to hitting the limit. The politics are getting nasty with Barry's Administration predicting chaos in the world markets if the deal is not done by August 2 (the other deadline was in May. It passed with no chaos). My personal opinion is more in line with Republicans (surprise surprise). I am okay with raising the debt ceiling, but only if we can have substantial cuts or/and a balanced budget resolution (like most states).
Now for the hypocrisy:
- Barry thinks it is wrong for Republicans to not raise the debt limit and that they are playing politics with the matter. Well that sounds all well and good until you read the following quote:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure,” he said on March 16, 2006. “Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership . Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”

This quote is from Barry when he was a Senator and Bush was the President. His press secretary has since stated that he voted that way because he knew the outcome wasn't in doubt.

Barry now wants to raise taxes on the rich in this country as part of any deal with Republicans. Well this leads to more false hoods perpetuated by the Democrats and Barry.

-Top 5% of wage earners pay 59% of taxes (Tax Foundation). This debunks the lefts ridiculous argument of not paying their fair share.
And as for raising taxes in a tough economy:
"First of all, he’s right. Normally, you don’t raise taxes in a recession, which is why we haven’t and why we’ve instead cut taxes. So I guess what I’d say to Scott is – his economics are right. You don’t raise taxes in a recession. We haven’t raised taxes in a recession.” (Interview with Chuck Todd Aug. 2009)

With the unemployment rate at 9.2%, this administration should quit with the shenanigans and get a deal done.

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Bump in the Road

This is the new add by Mitt Romney. I am not supporting anyone at this time, but I thought this was a very creative ad.

Enjoy.







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Unemployment Up9.1%

Unexpected (again).



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Civility and the Left

Just after the Arizona shootings, Barry called for all Americans to be more civil. Although I know what the word means, I am not sure the left does. Merriam-Webster defines the word as: civilized conduct; polite conduct or expression. Well in the clip below we hear DC Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (non voting) comparing shutting down the government to bombing innocent civilians? WTH?






As always with those on the left, do as I say, not as I do.

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Barry on War

Well well well...what do we have here. Barry in the clip that follows says we can't impose a military solution on a civil war. I hope that someone at the RNC is keeping tabs on this. These will be more than just soundbites a year from now.



Here we have Sen. Obama saying pretty much the same thing.




Before he was President and even after he became President he was against intervention of another country's civil war. So why we are now dropping bombs on Libya, I have no idea (according to Barry he wouldn't intervene). I hope people see the hypocrisy of the left.

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Barry and Priorities

Unless you have been under a rock for the past few weeks, you know that there is a lot going on in the world. Unfortunatley for our President he is unaware. There are a few items that should have had the President's full attention, but he was more concerned about other things. Below is a list of what he should have been focused on:

His focus: NCAA brackets
Our focus: The people of Japan, the fear of a nuclear meltdown,the Libyan people

His focus: Women's History Month, fair pay, gender inequality
Our focus: Japanese earthquake

His focus:Scott Walker, the state of Wisconsin, teachers unions
Our focus:Getting a balanced budget

His focus: Headed to Brazil to talk about free trade
Our focus: WTF we are dropping bombs in Libya? Why? Are we going to war?

His focus:Another round of golf
Our focus: (hint 3 letter word) JOBS!

I could go on and on, but you get the point. We have a President who won a popularity contest, and he demonstrates this by not leading, but by hiding.

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NPR: Fair and Balanced

NPR has been posing as a "fair news organization" for quite sometime. After the firing of Juan Williams, I thought the nation as a whole saw them for who they really are: a liberal organization. You will hear claims of how fair they have been throughout their history, but I would take issue with that. I was glad to see this video that tells the story of their funding and they even mention Juan Williams. Enjoy!

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The Heritage Foundation does a great job of explaining collective bargaining. My question has always been to my liberal friends: You guys say we have to have unions to keep an eye on the greedy corporations, but why do we have so many unions in the public sector?

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Ted Williams

I am happy that this guy is getting his life back together.