Stimulus junior... the sequel

Obama sends jobs bill to Congress, urges "no games, no politics, no delays"

President Obama is sending this $447 billion jobs bill to Congress today, with a forceful message to Republicans to put politics aside.


"The only thing that's stopping it is politics," Mr. Obama said from the White House Rose Garden on Monday. "We can't afford these same political games... Let's get something done. Let's put this country back to work."


Not really. The only thing stopping it is the new approach is the old approach. Left overs reheated. If tax increases didn't pass when Democrats were in control of both Houses how in the hell are they going to pass now? He called a joint Secession of Congress, something usually reserved for the upmost urgent undertakings, to perform a campaign stump speech. He gave the speech  knowing it wouldn't pass. That was the plan. To use this as campaign fodder against the Republicans...you know...the party of no. Those damn obstructionist Republicans! A dime to a dollar excerpts of the Jobs Act speech are going to show up in the Messiah's campaign ads.

Check out this photo. 

Remember... we have to PASS IT NOW

Screw reading  it.

That is the Jobs Act Bill he is holding in his hand. In his haste to produce it the ink is still wet from the Xerox machine. That big paper clip holding it all together...just gives it that special something. I don't know, maybe its me, but for something costing $447 billion it looks more like he dug it out of the dumpster at Wal-Mart then a serious proposal.

Stimulus one, cost us with the add on, a trillion dollars. As an inducement to pass the bill he promised unemployment would never go above 8%. Instead it went from about 7% at the time of the promise to the current 9.1%. So for a trillion bucks we bought ourselves an additional 2.1% of unemployment! Now he wants to pass Stimulus Junior expecting different results.

Billions of stimulus money was spent on green companies. This is only the first shoe to drop.

Thought I'd throw in a little pictorial.

This is Solyndra. His poster child for green companies. I love the sun shining down on the "O".

This is the Messiah giving a little speech at Solyndra

singing the praises of green energy, supposedly getting us away from our dependence on oil

This was the end result after a few short years. Bankruptcy, $535 million misspent, not to mention a congressional investigation regarding favors granted for campaign contributions.

Think about it. He touts jobs on one hand while his henchman are out destroying   jobs at Boeing and Gibson with the other.

But the MSM and most of the public can't see beyond the nose on their face.

I guess they think:

Who could condemn the exalted one.

He is the light and the salvation

Most megalomaniacal line ever uttered by a president

Job growth in August 0.

You would have thought when Kennedy's seat went Republican the Democrats would have learned something.  Now another wake up call. Bob Turner a Republican is now expected to win in New York; Weiner's old congressional seat — a seat that has been occupied by a Democrat since the Harding administration! 

 You're right Mr Obama.

The tide is starting to turn.

Update:

Turner won.

Stimulus junior... the sequel

Man in the Red Bandanna

 I greet each anniversary of 911 with conflicting emotions. They range from sorrow, to compassion, love, sympathy, to hatred, and the sweet taste of revenge, not to mention tears.

I'm trying to post the most fitting tribute for the 10th anniversary of 911. I'm also supposed to be getting ready to go to church. I have tears in my eyes as I write this and in some strange way it feels good. The reason, of all the heroic stories of 911, and there are many, none has gotten me quite so choked up as this one.

People say they will always remember where they were and what they were doing that fateful day.  It is seared in my memory. This year, the 10th anniversary, I finally got the chance to say I remember where I was and what I was doing when I learned Osama Bin Laden was dead.


A special thanks to my friend Jean Sweet for the heads up.


To the Navy Seals.
There are no words good enough.




On that horrific day I couldn't help wondering...How could God let something like this happen?




Where was God?

He was there

Man in the Red Bandanna

Where the Real green goes for green companies

After digesting this story I came to the conclusion there's more going on here then the perpetual ineptness and stupidity.

Solyndra Investigation Begins Critical Look at Federally Funded Green Ventures

The solar energy firm Solyndra was once the poster child of the Obama administration's efforts to create green jobs. Now, it's the target of both criminal and congressional investigations.

"Because there's so much concern about where the money went, how it was spent, and is there fraud and abuse," said Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., chairman of a House subcommittee investigating Solyndra.

And Ronnie Greene of the Center for Public Integrity notes that Solyndra was key in the Obama administration's efforts to promote alternative energy.

"It really was in a lot of ways the flagship because it was the first energy loan guarantee by the administration and it was announced with great fanfare back in 2009," he said.

Solyndra got a $535 million loan from the federal government, the first in tens of billions of dollars in loans to green companies, which President Obama personally touted in a visit to the company last year.

Where the Real green goes for green companies

But earlier this week, the FBI and the inspector general of the Energy Department raided the company's offices.

An outside investigation of the loan to Solyndra found that earlier this year, the company asked the federal government for more time to repay the loan, which resulted in a very unusual arrangement.

"As part of that agreement," Greene said, "the Department of Energy was allowed to sit in on board meetings of Solyndra incorporated."

That suggests to Greene and others that the administration should have had some sense that the company, along with taxpayers' money, was in jeopardy.

"These are the key months in which Solyndra's fortunes really failed," Greene said. "They really fell down, so it's important to hear from DOE on what did you see, what did you hear, did that raise alarm bells with you?"

The founder and other executives of the company contributed and raised large amounts of money for Obama. And they were cozy enough to visit the White House often.

"It appears to be at least 20 times," said Stearns. "So what were they doing at the White House?"

If the White House was objective about the company, he asks, why was it so intimately involved with the company's executives? And why, Stearns and a congressional committee want to know, are hedge funds first in line to get their money back before the taxpayers?

"It's a very unusual arrangement," Stearns said. "I think the Department of Energy has to tell us how they could do this and whether it is, shall we say, breaking the law."

A House committee has subpoenaed the chief executive officer of the company to testify next week. The investigation of Solyndra along with tens of billions of dollars in loans to other green ventures is only beginning.

Where the Real green goes for green companies

Pass it right away

If he said it once he must have said it 10 times.

Anyone sense desperation on his part?




Pass what?
He never really elaborated on what it is. 

Obama's report card so far has amounted to a large number of exalted speeches backed up by little substance and unfilled promises. His American Jobs Act speech seems to be heading down the same road.

As usual he talks a great game but he consistently lacks substance and the follow through.

My friends that is what always pisses me off about his speeches. They sound great, much better then Bush, and many people want to follow the Pied Piper, but what really sickens me is so many people buy into it and never follow up to see if he does anything he says he is going to do.

 Expect me to praise Obama? Of course not. But even I expected more then this.  This speech was supposed to be tantamount to Moses coming down Mt. Sinai with the twin tablets. However, the "new" ideology was nothing more then left over's from the campaign rhetoric during the Darth Vader- Black Bus tour.  He laid out no specifics. This is the brother of... if you want to find out what's in it you have to vote for it. 

 Want to know where the money's coming from?

Tune in next week for another episode of…

As The Debt Increases 

Pass it right away

Baraigula the Mad

Ed Kilbane

Senior National Correspondent

Hemingway Report

This graphic is similar to Pelosi's take on the healthcare bill.

 By that I mean you have to click it to find out what's in it.

Party guests from left to right:

Tim Geithner,  John Kerry,  KSM,  Oprah,  Nancy Pelosi,  Joe Biden,  Axelrod, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Party Crashers #1, Rahm Emanuel, Eric Holder, Party Crashers #2, Harry Reid ,John Edwards, Bluto, Andy Stern, Bill Clinton (and probably Monica) Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Barney Frank, Kevin Jennings.

Statues left to right: Che Guevara, Saul Alinsky, Obama, Chairman Mao, Lenin

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Baraigula the Mad