One of Obama’s ‘best economists around’ his chief economic advisor Lawrence Summers FELL ASLEEP during yesterday’s fiscal responsibility summit. Yes, I said FELL ASLEEP at the summit that Barry himself hosted.

The new era of change indeed. Here’s also some hilarious but common sense quips about Barry’s attack on those real leaders who are not taking the porkulus blindfolded while OINK!ing to the One with delight (via Political Crave).

Obama also stated that just because a few GOP Governors don’t like 2% of the bill doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t do what is right for the American People. WELL, I GOT A QUESTION OR THREE:

• Would you suggest that I not meet with someone who hits me in the face 2 out of every 100 times I come face to face with them?
• Should I do business with a bank who short changes me $2 out of every $100 of my money?
• Should I drink a glass of water that has only 2% arsenic in it?

You inherit a few trillion in debt and the path to being fiscal responsibly to cut that debt in half is to propose spending another $2 trillion not even 30 days into office. Hmmmmm….And everyone gets a unicorn by 2012 too!  (Image source – www.obamacorn.com)

Via Black & Right, Bob brings up an excellent point that since the stimulus porkulus was sold on the false premise that most *cough*12%*cough* of the money was going toward infrastructure projects that would create jobs, why are there no funds specifically for repairing the still-existing Katrina damage. 

I’m sure we all remember the pummeling President George W. Bush received over the federal response to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It was ugly. Even Barack Obama bashed President Bush on the subject. One would think President Obama’s stimulus plan would pour money into New Orleans’ levees in need.  Think again, and no Democrat is saying anything about it…

Whaaaaaaaaat, Democrats aren’t able to play the race card so then we don’t get to hear any rumblings about not helping out New Orleans. Good job, libs, on keeping with being the only party that supposedly  ”helps minorities.”

Oh, no worries, Obama – I’ll be sure to give you AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLL the credit you so right;y deserve for sending us into a debt blackhole we may not see our way out of except through massive tax hikes. Cheerio! (I figured I should start talking British since we’re all socialists now. Maybe I can get linguistic lessons from Madonna).

Obama’s stance prior to the stimulus porkulus vote  (Also, try to just bypass the fact that in his quote he’s getting an F- in economic history when he makes the argument with the 90s Japan debate point – and, uh, I thought this guy went to Harvard):

Obama defended the role of government in the recovery process, saying that “with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life.”  “I think that what I’ve said is what other economists have said across the political spectrum, which is that if you delay acting on an economy of this severity, then you potentially create a negative spiral that becomes much more difficult for us to get out of.” He compared the situation to that of Japan in the 1990s, saying the Japanese, failing to act quickly enough, suffered a “lost decade.”  “This is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill recession.”

Now Obama change in tune this week after signing away our future earnings:

Things are not as bad now as they were in the 1930s or even the early ’80s when, Obama reminded us, he was still in college. Young people — by which he did not seem to mean the columnists aboard — are simply unfamiliar with hardship, he said.  “So for a huge number of people out there, they’re just not accustomed to seeing a bad economy with really high unemployment and very bearish markets. . . . What we’re going through now is nothing compared to what our grandparents went through during the Great Depression.”

There, there, there…now everything is okay.

Oh, but wait a minute, Barry – I thought on the campaign trail it was that this was “the worst time in the U.S.’ economic history since the Great Depression.” Pleeeeeeeease – that was just “campaign rhetoric.” No shit sherlock.

Most conservatives out there already knew this was a recession but that it was not on the verge of needing $1 trillion shot of govt. pork straight to the heart. My husband would constantly comment “If we’re in such a depression, how come I still have to wait an hour to get seated at any restaurant on a Thursday night?”  Ain’t that the truuuuuuuuuuf! 

But here’s what is going to happen to our economy now that we’re full of pork and having to PAY for it the rest of our lives (and our children, and probably grandchildren). I’ve illustrated it with as a heart getting clogged with more and more cholesterol.  Hmmmm – PORK it’s what for dinner for the next 25 years!

 I’m not saying there were not huge issues of credit and capital malpractice that needed to be fixed. But coercing, with fear tactics, support for the passage of a bill which will double our national debt only to provide a miniscule percentage of job growth makes you a manipulative politician praying onto people’s fears of the unknown, not a leader of the new bipartisan era. On the flipside, buying blindly into this politician’s facade makes you equally as guilty and possibly insane.

Click here to check out citizens speaking something our government lacks – common sense.

Then clips to the realists from today will be plastered on the front pages of the dailies, debating why the administration and Congress just didn’t listen to the public’s voice. If you’ve got the stomach for it, here’s video of the worst spending plan in history going into law. OINK! OINK! OINK!

Uhhh….shudders.  Quick question: It is ironic at all that I had planned on fixing PORK chops for dinner tonight???   Perhaps I am psychic after all…hmmmm.

Funny how quickly things didn’t go according to plan.  How much you want to bet it is Bush’s fault TOO that Obama doesn’t know how to keep his own campaign promises.

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As some of you may not know, I’m a native of Peoria, IL.  Yesterday our Prophet President (saaaaave me, Obama, saaaaaaaaaave me!) made a stop at the Caterpillar plant to help close the deal on the U.S.Stinker knows as the porkulus. Now growing up in Peoria, you soon realize that literally everyone and their dad AND uncle works for Caterpillar. So the company’s dealings are a pretty big deal in P-town and people take it seriously.  Outside of my grandfather, I think my family is like one of 20 that doesn’t have a direction connection to the company. 

So here’s the scoop (via Black & Right). Obama gets up and gives his speech to the factory works…no worries, the preacher voice was in tow. Here’s what he says -

President Obama today repeated the claim we asked about yesterday at the press briefing that Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., “said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” Caterpillar announced 22,000 layoffs last month.

And theeeeeeeeen, cue the CEO of Caterpillar.

Well, apparently, Obama IS the only one who thinks so. Oooops – that’s a fucking understatement.  What an embarrassment – but during the circus start of this administration I’m not really surprised.

Oh, where are you going, folks? Where aaaaaaare you going? I didn’t say the fun stopped. Oh no.

Turns out Obama also tried to invoke some bipartisanship play some bully politics with the freshman Congressman Aaron Schock  (who represents the Peoria district). I guess things didn’t go according to plan (via HotAir).  During Obama’s grandstanding in Peoria, the President said the following:

“Aaron’s still trying to make up his mind about our recover package,” Obama said to the employees in the crowd. “And so we know that all of you are going to talk to him after our event, because he’s a very talented young man.  I’ve got great confidence in him to do the right thing for the people of Peoria.”

Congressman Schock showed his “appreciation” today on the House floor.

Today Rep. Schock said on the House floor that “I found it very interesting that after the president finished his speech and I stayed around, not one employee at that facility approached me and asked me to vote for this bill.”  In fact, said Schock, “I have received over 1,400 phone calls, e-mails and letters from employees alone asking me to oppose this legislation.”  Why!? Because, Schock said, “They know that this bill is not stimulus. They know that this bill will not do anything to create long-term, sustained economic growth. This bill is too big to get it wrong.”

There’s more in the video. Classic. P-town is calling out the President! Represent! (Okay, I’m officially a dork.)

Okay, so Obama has been going out to the folks (imagine me saying “TO THE FOLKS” in my best preacher voice) to spread the fear about what would happen if the stimulus wouldn’t get passed. Ignore the fact that the economy would work itself out on its own after cutting back some or that tax cuts would do the economy wonders. Don’t think about those realistic scenarios. We need to get back to speaking in vague, . Plus, people need their free shit now, Obama! I mean we’ve got promises to keep, remember???

So Obama got the revival started up again in Florida (via Michelle Malkin). The first is Julio – college student, works at McDonalds, communications major with very odd speaking voice that plans to make it in radio (self-delusional doesn’t even begin to describe it). When Obama asks if Julio has healthcare, Julio somehow forgets that paying tuition at college gives him healthcare already. But the govt. is going to give him unnecessary assistance, so, Praise Obama!!! Oh, and Julio forgets that he is not the ONLY college student who works while going to school to pay the bills like rent, food, beer. Somehow millions of other college students can survive, but Julio needs the Messiah to come down and saaaaaaaaaave him from this terrible situation. You know that “terrible” situation where he has the opportunity to actually work AND go to college. I mean, it’s soooooo unfair. The government should have just automatically made him a millionaire on his 18th birthday. Good grief.

Anydelusion, here’s my shoutout to Julio – I worked three jobs and went to school full-time during my college years. And the only handout I ever got was a student loan, which I’m currently paying back now with interest. I didn’t need a free lunch at the expense of someone else’s income through taxes.

Now, the revival keeps going, folks. Can’t stop the Kool-Aid flowing euphoria because Henrietta needs a house. I mean it’s everybody’s right to have a house in the U.S., right? Ummm, WRONG. It is not a constitutional right to own a home in the U.S. You have to earn it – through keeping good credit, through earning income, through going to school (and doing well in school) so that you can gain employment to earn that income. I know, such hard mandates that every other citizen can abide by except poor Henrietta – I’m sure it’s just that she is a “victim” of choices SHE has made in her life.

Here’s my counter to these stupid people. When my company lays me off because they have that much more to collect in taxes to buy Henrietta a home or handout Julio double the amount of healthcare, does that mean I can come crash out Henrietta’s place? Can Julio pay for my healthcare since I won’t have insurance anymore (being unemployed) and he’ll have two times more than me (from his school & the govt.)?

People should think twice before just turning to government blindly for handouts because the money has to come from somewhere – taxes from your friend, family member, boss or neighbor. If it’s a crime for you to steal money from them, why support the government doing the dirty work then?

I’m not saying I don’t feel for these people. Life sucks. It’s hard and we work hard for what in the end seems so little. But that’s life – it’s not fair. But that doesn’t mean we should force the government to take money from hard-working citizens because you or I cannot face adversity in our lives. What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. So pick yourself up and keep working toward that better tomorrow. It may be cheesy, but guess what it’s true. You’ll get there, but it just takes times. Some of the greatest successes in history happened only AFTER the greatest failures.

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” ~ Henry Ford

It’s like I work in marketing so if I sense that people are catching on to the fact I cannot do my job effectively, as I promised when they hired me, then I’m going to stop trying to work harder getting the job done. I’m now going to spend more time in my boss’ office kissing ass and throwing up smoke and mirrors to convince her I’m doing a good job or what is “necessary” for our dept. to be successful in the company. Ed at HotAir.com has the scoop.

During the campaign, critics and opponents noted that the only real track record Obama had built in thirteen years of politics was campaigning for something else.  Three weeks into his new administration, he’s found governing to be difficult, especially when trying to shove a partisan porkfest down the throats of an increasingly skeptical public.  Time to go back to campaign mode!  It apparently beats pulling the bill back for a chance to offer Republicans some input to get a bill that would generate easy support and passage.

I can’t get over this. Scratch that – YES We Can! We can believe that our president would do this because he is an inexperienced political leader who’s main experience has been campaigning and not standing up to make decisions in the name of bipartisanship. I’m growing tired of these speeches. It seems more like a pathetic attempt to try and convince people you’re doing the right thing instead going back to work with Congress to actually DO the right thing.

And since we’re talking about campaigning, let’s take a minute to remember what our president promised:

SCHIEFFER: But you’re going to have to cut some of these programs, certainly.

OBAMA: Absolutely. So let me get to that. What I want to emphasize, though, is that I have been a strong proponent of pay-as- you-go. Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches…We need to eliminate a whole host of programs that don’t work. And I want to go through the federal budget line by line, page by page, programs that don’t work, we should cut. Programs that we need, we should make them work better.

You read that right – “pay as you go” “programs that don’t work, we should cut.” Umm – can someone explain to me how the proposed porkulus is “pay as you go” or how $160 million for “volunteers” at the Corp. for National and Community Service is “a program we need” OR why are we giving $850 million for Amtrak, a failing program???  I thought if programs don’t work under President Obama we would cut them, not reward bad management with $850 million of taxpayer’s money during a time when they may need it. But why am I getting caught up in facts and stuff – we’ve got mortgages and gas bills to pay, right:

UPDATE: Press conference just got done – big surprise no real questions were answered, just the same old talking points. Like why can no top ranking Democrat or the President answer how do can you justify spending $600,000 per job created with this bill? Or what measures will be put in place to make sure the stimulus is actually creating jobs? Will there be incremental measurements that will make Congress retreat on the bill’s spending if jobs are not being created at the rate originally projected?

Honestly, if you’re going to spend so much time supposedly answering the questions of the American people, then get around to actually answering the questions folks have. Otherwise, you’re just putting on a charade, insulting everyone’s intelligence and wasting people’s time. Hope ‘n Change!