A Tale of Government Greed That Could Shape November Elections

What went wrong?

The debates go on; is the recession Bush’s fault or Obama’s? More stimulus or less? Repeal Bush Tax cuts or keep them?

All this makes great fodder for talk shows and columnists everywhere, but it doesn’t really make the case for a fiscal conservative revolution in November.

Sure, pundits like me believe that  the democrats are losing the economic argument and more significantly, there is nothing coming down the pipe in the next two months to change things; other than change for the worse.

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This wasn’t a serious recession until Obama got his hands on it!

"Hey, I inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, give me a break!"

On Monday I wrote a piece about my visit with my left leaning pal Otis called “Sorry Otis; The Obama Stimulus made things worse…”, in which I continued the kitchen table debate we had last Thursday.

The debate over whether or not the stimulus helped or not ended abruptly when I brought up Obama’s executive order that directed all stimulus jobs go to union workers only.

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Sorry Otis; The Obama Stimulus made things worse…

Me and my old buddy Otis

On Thursday afternoon, me, Otis, and our good friend Jimmy played a little golf. It was great fun and followed by an evening of food and adult beverages at Jimmy’s house.

Several of you know Otis because of the left wing nutjob comments he makes on my facebook page. Although I’ve know Otis for decades, I didn’t discover his left leaning tendencies until a year ago (Kicking off Summer with Jimmy and Otis).

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Talk About Being Off Message: Tim Geithner Praises Bush with Saving the US Economy!

"Bush saved us from an even worse recession"

After years of blaming Bush for the current mega-recession, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner actually praised George W. Bush for putting Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship.

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CNN: Critics say Obama’s message becoming ‘incoherent’

This presidency is in a deep death spiral — even notoriously liberal CNN is throwing Obama under the bus.

Question: Can the country survive 29 more months without a competent president?

Dave

Washington (CNN) — President Obama’s comments on a plan to build an Islamic center in the shadow of ground zero are not only giving opponents an opportunity to attack him but also reveal a messaging problem from the White House, a communications expert said.

“The danger here is an incoherent presidency,” said David Morey, vice chairman of the Core Strategy Group, who provided communications advice to Obama’s 2008 campaign. “Simpler is better, and rising above these issues and leading by controlling the dialogue is what the presidency is all about. So I think that’s the job they have to do more effectively as they have in the past [in the campaign].”

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Economic Apocalypse January 1, 2011: Obama’s Big Tax Day

Coming January 1, 2011!

As I’ve pointed out several times, economic prosperity comes from one source — private sector business growth.

Private sector businesses depend on capital for expansion, and private capital does not come from the government, the poor, the middle, class, or government union workers.

Private capital comes from one place — the so-called rich, the democrats favorite whipping boy.

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Marriage and My Career

Our 30th Anniversary Weekend

Today is a very special day — it’s my 30th wedding anniversary. Susan and I were married in a beautiful, but simple, service in the West Acton Baptist Church on August 16, 1980 at 2:30 PM.

Like most, we married for love and needless to say, it is a love that has endured.

We also discovered pretty quickly that we were more than romantic partners, we were economic partners in pursuit of my career and our mutual wellbeing.

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Michelle Obama and Celebrity Apprentice Omarosa — Separated at Birth?

Separated at Birth?

As first lady Michelle Obama returns from her lavish Spanish soirée at taxpayer’s expense, pundits on the left and the right are sounding off about this flagrant act of elitism.

The New York Post led with the story “Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacation;” this is not exactly the kind of change we hoped for!

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Another Tipping Point: A Very Bad Week for Obamanomics

Bad Week?

A few weeks ago I wrote a story about how the national tide had turned against labor unions (Has America Hit The Anti Labor Union Tipping Point?)

The term Tipping Point comes from the book of the same name and it refers to the phenomena whereby little things snowball into irreversible “mega-trends.”

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UPDATE: Ryan Rips Krugman: ‘Intellectually Lazy’ and ‘Bizarre’ Attack…

DJH: Yesterday, I did a story in response to Paul Krugman’s hatchet job on Senator Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future” in the New York Times called: It’s Time To Tax the Poor (and the Middle Class).

Well, today Ryan fired back and put the highly pompous Krugman in his place! Here is the story in it’s entirety from The Weekly Standard (remember back in the olden days when the New York Times could just make up the news and people bought it without question — those days are gone!)

Dave

Ryan Rips Krugman: ‘Intellectually Lazy’ and ‘Bizarre’ Attack

BY John McCormack
August 9, 2010 7:30 PM

Talking late this afternoon with THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Republican congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin blasted New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his “intellectualy lazy” attack on Ryan’s fiscal “Roadmap.” In his Friday column, Krugman called Ryan a “charlatan” and his plan to reform the welfare state and eliminate the debt a “fraud” that is “drenched in flimflam sauce.” Ryan responded to Krugman in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over the weekend, and elaborated on his criticisms of Krugman this afternooon.

“I realize he’s a columnist and not a journalist, yet he could have easily tried to have verified his claims with a phone call or an email,” Ryan said of Krugman. “Instead he went with his confusion and chose to impugn motives,” said Ryan, “which strikes me as a very intellectually lazy exercise or style.”

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