President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 40,000 followers in one day

How about sitting down and working on real CHANGE instead of all this make believe posturing & Tweeting - REALLY????

Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to “keep the pressure on” lawmakers in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline."

Angry Boehner to Senate and Administration: ‘Put Something on the Table’

Speaking on the House floor just moments after House Republicans passed a newly revised debt bill, House Speaker John Boehner scolded the Senate and the Obama administration for criticizing his House bill after allegedly showing their ineptitude in being able to put their own bill on the table.

The Speaker brazenly demanded, “it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across aisle – put something on the table – tell us where you are!”"

Boston Scientific to lay off 1,200-plus - The Boston Globe

Obamacare cost jobs...surprise!!!!!! And this is just the beginning!

Yesterday’s move, a day after Boston Scientific disclosed it was investing $150 million and hiring 1,000 people in China, raised fears that the company will gradually shift more work to foreign sites with less government oversight and lower costs than the United States."

They've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - WSJ.com

It is that nobody loves Obama. This is amazing because every president has people who love him, who feel deep personal affection or connection, who have a stubborn, even beautiful refusal to let what they know are just criticisms affect their feelings of regard. At the height of Bill Clinton's troubles there were always people who'd say, 'Look, I love the guy.' They'd often be smiling—a wry smile, a shrugging smile. Nobody smiles when they talk about Mr. Obama. There were people who loved George W. Bush when he was at his most unpopular, and they meant it and would say it. But people aren't that way about Mr. Obama. He has supporters and bundlers and contributors, he has voters, he may win. But his support is grim support. And surely this has implications."

Apple Now Has More Cash Than The U.S. Government

Here's something to keep in mind as you follow this evening's congressional debate over the debt ceiling.

According to the latest daily statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance of $73.8 billion at the end of the day yesterday. Apple's last earnings report (PDF here) showed that the company had $76.2 billion in cash and marketable securities at the end of June.

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Debt vote delayed into night as GOP seeks support

WASHINGTON (AP) _ An intense endgame at hand, House Republicans waged an overtime struggle Thursday night to round up enough of their recalcitrant rank and file to pass emergency legislation to prevent a looming government default.

Pelosi's Reactionary Liberalism

OK....It took a while today...but my head just exploded.....

Nancy Pelosi on today's vote: 'What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today.'"

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism

NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed."

The American Spectat Double Standards: "Welcome Terrorists"

Today's Hypocrisy Howler...it's so hard to choose.....it's such a target rich environment of late.....

"I can only imagine the tortured, navel-gazing, years-long national discussion we'd have been subjected to if a Republican senator had held up a 'Welcome Terrorists' sign to protest Barack Obama's vote against Bush's debt ceiling hike a few years back. Happily for Al Franken, membership has its privileges."

Our Admiral Ackbar Moment — It Is A Trap

I have to wonder if it really matters. If we have voted in these people again and again that have ONLY their interest at heart - not that of anyone who voted for them ( not all on both sides...but MOST) then what is the point?
This is a sad, sad game....and the only losers are "We The People"............I will never, ever give up...but I DO have to wonder what the point is. They don't CARE WHIT about fixing problems...just about laying traps....How the hell do we combat that?

Then the Senate Democrats will send John Boehner back his own plan and dare John Boehner to kill his very own proposal. Should he try, the GOP will look as hardline and unwilling to compromise as John Boehner’s acolytes have been accusing conservatives of being this week.

In other words, John Boehner, once he sends his plan to the Senate, will yet again get played and the GOP will be forced to either accept Harry Reid’s awful changes or be blamed for causing the nation’s default — the very thing the GOP has sought to avoid."

Truthful Accounting Should Be the First Objective of Any Debt Ceiling Compromise

Amen...............

Weather will fade as the reason Washington D.C. becomes uncomfortable as debate on the nation's debt ceiling will become as unavoidable as the heat and humidity. This summer's most over-reported story naturally pits Democrats insisting on higher taxes against Republicans set on lower spending. But, before our representatives adopt either approach, they should first recognize that government accounting and budgeting is a big reason why we're in such fiscal difficulty. Any debt ceiling compromise should include a provision for more accurate government accounting and more transparent annual budgeting because we cannot improve what we do not measure...truthfully."

Would The Mainstream Media Be This Quiet If “Fast and Furious” Had Happened Under Bush?

So I'm not the only one thinking this.............

Sitting here, I wonder what the MSM would have done if they’d learned that the Bush administration had overseen the sale of 2,500 guns to “straw purchasers” who were expected to illegally transport those weapons into Mexico and get them in the hands of cartel members? Moreover, what would they have done had they learned that of those 2,500 guns, only 1,300 were ever recovered (thus leaving 1,200 in the hands of criminals throughout Mexico and along the U.S. southern border)?

In other words – if “Fast and Furious” had taken place under Bush instead of Obama, would the New York Times have reported it as quickly as they reported our phone-taps to the enemy?

You know they would have."

The Falling Price of Wisconsin Public Education

The new law, which was met with union protests unlike this generation has seen, put more power into the hands of school boards and administrators to set spending policy. That’s because spending policy was taken off the collective bargaining table, where the Wisconsin Education Association Council could manipulate the process to its own self-serving advantage. Perhaps most significantly, the new law took employee health insurance off the bargaining table, so WEAC is no longer able to pressure school boards to purchased overpriced coverage from WEA Trust, an insurance carrier established by the union."

Operation Fast and Furious Probe: Testifiers Fast on Their Feet, Republicans Furious at Evasive Answers

Now, just imagine if you will - that "Fast & Furious"...that is barely making a blip on the News Circuit...had happened under GWB's watch......

A top ATF agent repeatedly evaded intense questions on Operation Fast and Furious, otherwise known as Operation Gunwalker, and initially blamed a field agent for launching the failed investigation before finally admitting that the IRS, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement “participated in the investigation” and were “aware of the strategy.”"

Government Soliciting Contracts for Dubious CLASS Program

And we wonder why we're in debt???

Despite those concerns, Sebelius claims the law grants Health and Human Services (HHS) enough “administrative flexibility” to rework the program so it meets the law’s requirement that it be solvent over the next 75 years. The department is not expected to roll out the CLASS program details until October, but already there is doubt as to whether some of the means by which it plans to restructure the statute are beyond the department’s authority.

Why then is HHS offering to pay contractors to sell a program to the public before it has even been formed, especially when the final product may either require changes the department is not authorized to make, or fail to meet the program’s 75-year solvency requirement?"

Glenn Beck Vs. The Mob

I am reading "Demonic" right now.....even though Ann can get a little too Right for even me....she has nailed it both here and in her book! AMEN!

Of all the details surrounding the liberal mob attack on Glenn Beck​ and his family in New York's Bryant Park last Monday night, one element stands out. 'No, it won't be like that, Dad,' his daughter said when Beck questioned the wisdom of attending a free, outdoor movie showing in a New York park.

People who have never been set upon by a mob of liberals have absolutely no idea what it's like to be a publicly recognizable conservative. Even your friends will constantly be telling you: 'Oh, it will be fine. Don't worry. Nothing will happen. This place isn't like that.'"

New York Times Reader Kills Dozens in Norway - HUMAN EVENTS

The New York Times wasted no time in jumping to conclusions about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who staged two deadly attacks in Oslo last weekend, claiming in the first two paragraphs of one story that he was a 'gun-loving,' 'right-wing,' 'fundamentalist Christian,' opposed to 'multiculturalism.'

It may as well have thrown in 'Fox News-watching' and 'global warming skeptic.'"

GE moving X-ray business to China - Boston.com

Once more - GE stars in the Daily Hypocrisy Howler!

General Electric Co.’s health care unit, the world’s biggest maker of medical imaging machines, is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray business to Beijing.

“A handful’’ of top managers will move to the Chinese capital and there won’t be any job cuts, said Anne LeGrand, general manager of X-ray for GE Healthcare. The headquarters will move from Wisconsin amid a broader plan to invest about $2 billion across China, including opening six “customer innovation’’ and development centers.

The division should have “double-digit’’ growth rates as the country converts from film and analog to digital X-ray technology, LeGrand said."

Obama urged to invoke 14th Amendment as debt ceiling deadline nears

Why not - he already thinks he's King............

Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, said Wednesday that if the president is delivered a bill to raise the debt ceiling for only a short period of time, he should instead veto it and turn to the phrase in the Constitution that says the validity of the U.S. government’s debt “shall not be questioned.”"

Dem lawmaker: 'Nobody I know' has seen Reid plan - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Vote for the Reid Plan - it's better! Moody's says "It's Better"....funny....doesn't seem to exist!

A House Democrat indicated Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) might not have party members' votes locked down for his deficit proposal.

'I'm not going to commit to something that nobody I know has seen and had a chance to analyze,' Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said. 'I want to see it.'"

Three things I'm worried about this summer....

This week in the newsletter, I want try something different.

I'd like to start a dialogue about where we are going as a country, and I'd like to hear from you.

Watching the political elites in Washington and Europe this summer fail to deal effectively with current threats has convinced me that we are drifting toward three separate but mutually reinforcing catastrophes that will require our best effort to reverse."

Obama to Banks: We're Not Defaulting

While officials from the Obama Administration raised their rhetoric over the weekend about the possibility of a debt default if the debt ceiling isn't raised, they privately have been telling top executives at major U.S. banks that such an event won’t happen, FOX Business has learned."

Before you believe the nonsence eminating as fact from the Whitehouse - Reid’s Sleight of Hand to Gut the Military

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) introduced legislation to raise the debt ceiling this week. In evaluating his plans for future government spending, it becomes clear that budgeting for prudent defense is considered just another line item.

While Americans intuitively know that national security is unlike any other category of federal spending, it is often treated with inherent bias through insider budgeting methods."

Tangled Up in Washington's Red Tape

For months, Washington has focused on solving its uncontrolled addiction to spending. But while Congress and the White House use one hand to reach into your back pocket to take and spend your hard-earned dollars, they're using another hand to wreak a different kind of nefarious harm—the proliferation of regulations, rules, and red tape, all of which impose heavy costs on America."

Most Popular TV News Anchor/Host on Facebook — Glenn Beck

If you’re a popular personality on MSNBC, you’re actually not all that well “liked” on Facebook. Business Insider published a list of the 16 most popular cable news anchors Monday and not a single slot went to anyone on the progressive MSNBC."

Coal Mine Owner Ronnie Bryant Tells Feds – ‘I’m Just Quitting’

I TOLD you Atlas would begin Shrugging.....

And my only idea today is to go home. What’s the use? I see these guys—I see them with tears in their eyes—looking for work. And if there’s so much opposition to these guys making a living, I feel like there’s no need in me putting out the effort to provide work for them. So…basically what I’ve decided is not to open the mine. I’m just quitting. Thank you.”"

John Boehner - Rips up the "Blank Check"

Here’s what we got for that spending binge: a massive health care bill that most Americans never asked for,” said Boehner. “A ‘stimulus’ bill that was more effective in producing material for late-night comedians than it was in producing jobs. And a national debt that has gotten so out of hand it has sparked a crisis without precedent in my lifetime or yours.”"

Stop Job-Killing Obama Tax Hikes and Cut Government Spending, Now

It’s hard to understand why President Obama took to the airwaves tonight at prime time. He still has no plan for dealing with government overspending and overborrowing, and he gave the nation very little except a repetition of his never-ending call for tax hikes."

Dueling Speeches - Debt Ceiling

This is the Daily Caller's take on the fallacy:

Moments later, House Speaker John Boehner pushed back hard, saying it is time 'to end the spending binge in Washington.' Boehner briefly outlined his own two-step plan to raise the debt limit and set similar cuts, finishing by saying 'we're up to the task, and I hope President Obama will join us in that work.'" Obama's not going to fall for that one. Listening to people who disagree with him? Taking ideas seriously even though they're not his? What's bipartisan about that? P.S. You know why there were no American flags behind Obama? He's tired of the competition.

President Barack Obama used his televised speech to the nation Monday night to paint a lurid picture of U.S. debt default if the GOP doesn’t raise the debt ceiling enough to continue the administration’s spending until after the president completes his 2012 campaign.

Obama did not threaten to veto a short-term measure, but presented an alarming vision of a default, urged a tax increase, and then called on Americans to press their legislators to pass a debt ceiling deal that would be large enough to cover spending until 2013."

Obama’s General Motors About to Again Handsomely Reward Unions At Our Expense?

This is exactly why I'll never buy another GM vehicle.

GM had to file for bankruptcy anyway.

President Obama originally claimed we’d make money on our $50 billion. Seven months later, the Administration admitted we’d lose more than $16 billion – and dishonestly claimed the loss they had said would be a profit was “less than the(y) originally expected.”

GM last year claimed in a television ad campaign to have “repaid (their) government loan in full, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule.” Which was another total lie. They had in fact paid back only a tiny fraction thereof – and had done so so with other government TARP money."

The Budget Crisis Explained to a Nineteen-Year-Old

Excellent read! Explains the entire Circus of Debt vs. Savings vs. Tax Increase not just to this 19 year old....but to us all!

A junior in college majoring in finance asked me the other day what I thought of the negotiations coming out of Washington, D.C. I'll call him Arthur.

Not much. The premise is raise taxes now, and a future Congress will make cuts later. Trust us. Trust us. Yeah, sure. How can any Congress promise to tie the hands of a future Congress?"

Winds of Change

Yes, I feel it.....this may seal Obama's legacy more than anything. That his Administration did more to galvanize a sleeping American Electorate into the fully awake force it can be.

Do you feel it?

The tempo has changed and well understood rules no longer seem to apply to anything any longer. Just a few months ago, all we heard was the rush to spend money. TARP, Stimulus, Bailouts, Obamacare...all multi billion dollar expenses.

It's funny how the cold breath of the laws of mathematics changes everything. The laws of mathematics and economics are the liberals' hangman's noose, focusing their mind on survival of Big Government. Change is in the air, and many people now can sense that there is a seismic shift in the established order of things."

Sabotaging Conservative Victory

There's something we need to get straight before the election campaign seriously kicks off (I can't believe I'm writing that line over a year before the actual election. Something is seriously distorted in American politics): the possibility of extralegal political action on the part of the Obama administration."

White House Did Not Want GOP Response to Presidential Speech

That's the ticket! Silence the opposition when you have NOTHING of your own to offer!

The President is used to flexing his muscles and storming the public airwaves whenever he wants to sell skeptical Americans on socialist economic policies. The White House and media have before refused the GOP an opportunity to present a dissenting response, thus squelching the presentation of a balanced debate.

The GOP insisted on a response this go-round after the President’s fifth (or sixth?) press conference in as many days. CBS’s Mark Knoller reports that it was a response not wanted by the White House:"

Obama’s Prime-Time Address: A Dog Whistle to the Astroturf

Are you as tired of their "Act" as I am? I have had to bleed money for the past three years...almost lost everything we have several times and it's still not a sure bet....but these guys in DC....they think we're all stupid. They think we don't know...."Extreme" - "Hostage Taking"....who's extreme...the ones trying to put an end to this insanity or the one threatening to hold Grannies check and our military's checks hostage until he gets HIS way? This isn't whistling to his astroturf...it's more like whistling past a graveyard...

Tonight, President Barack Obama made good on his threat to Eric Cantor to take his case “to the American people.”

The people he’s counting on most, however, are not the general public, but the small core of left-wing activists planning nationwide protests at congressional offices tomorrow."

President Obama to Address the Nation Live in Prime Time Tonight on Debt Talks

President Obama will use the bully pulpit in prime time tonight and House Speaker John Boehner will give Republicans side immediately after as the two take their party’s separate cases to the American people in a high stakes and last-minute fight over the debt ceiling."

Congress Warned of Credit 'Downgrade' if War Savings Counted as Deficit Reduction

Senate Democrats' inclusion in their proposed debt package of $1 trillion in savings from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may not satisfy ratings agencies threatening a credit downgrade since the wars were expected to end with or without a debt deal."

AARP Medicare Copyment Increases

The AARP collects 4.95 percent of every dollar United HealthCare takes in from AARP members’ Medigap plan premiums. Not allowing Medigap plans to cover seniors’ Medicare copayment costs is a disincentive for AARP members to continue purchasing the supplemental coverage.

In its letter to Congress, the AARP made no mention of any financial stake it may have in the debate over changes to Medicare copayment arrangements. An AARP spokesperson refused to answer when The Daily Caller asked for a clarification about whether or not the group believed it could be financially affected by the result."

Motorcycle Assassins Strike Again?

Another Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated on July 23, making him the fourth to be killed in the past two years. The regime denies that he was connected to the nuclear program, and is accusing Israel and the U.S. of carrying out an act of terrorism. If a foreign intelligence service is the culprit, then it is the latest shot fired in a wide-ranging covert campaign to delay the day when Iran finally gets a nuclear bomb."

The Character Assassination of Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer has never supported a terrorist act. His crime in the eyes of the left is to have told the truth about Islamic fanatics beginning with the Islamic prophet who called for the extermination of the Jews and said in his farewell speech that he was called to fight until all men say that there is no God but allah."

Germany opens taboo-shattering Wagner festival

Good for them....I know Wagner's checkered past - however his music is wonderful.

Germany's 100th Wagner opera festival kicked off here Monday in an edition that will include a taboo-busting performance by an Israeli orchestra.

The annual tribute to the works of the 19th-century composer, a fervent anti-Semite who later inspired Nazi leaders, will include for the first time a concert by musicians from Israel, which maintains an unwritten Wagner ban.

On Monday afternoon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet led a parade of political and business elites mounting Bayreuth's famed Green Hill to the concert hall built in 1876."

Is Your IRA Going To Be Raided?

Guess I'm glad (?!) we had to liquidate our Retirement to survive the Recession.....along with everything else we had.....

The notion of government raiding personal retirement accounts for funds may seem extreme. Perhaps it shouldn't. Other governments have done it. Argentina did in 2008. Ireland has indicated it might. The worsening financial crisis may eventually move other countries in that direction.

Surely the US would never do so."

Afghan Insurgents Hang 8-Year-Old Boy

Insurgents in southern Afghanistan hanged an 8-year-old boy six days after they abducted him, the Afghan government said Sunday.

The boy’s captors had demanded that his father, a police officer, supply them with a police vehicle and he refused, said a statement from President Hamid Karzai’s office. The militants hanged the boy Friday in Helmand province’s Gereshk district."

Major GOP donors are anxious, even if Gov. Christie isn't

Just one perceived wink or a little nod in Iowa, the starting gate for the presidential primary, will send hopeful supporters into a frenzy.

Christie insists he isn’t running in 2012, but even jokingly threatening suicide hasn’t stopped influential Republicans from asking if he’s really serious about sitting out the race.

There’s a reason for that."

Is Obama a pathological liar?

And lately, the president has been lying so much that his pants could burst into flames at any moment.

His late-evening news conference Friday was a tour de force of flat-out, unadulterated mendacity — and we’ve gotten a first-hand insider’s view of the president’s long list of lies."

Soros Making More Cash With Congress

As the Administration’s push for alternative fuels grows stronger, Congress is set to consider H.R. 1380, which would create very generous tax credits to manufacturers who retrofit existing work vehicles to run on natural gas rather than on that terrifying global menace known as oil, and very generous subsidies to natural gas vehicle consumers: $7500 per car and a whopping $64,000 for heavy-duty trucks and 18-wheelers. It’s common knowledge in DC that Texas hedge-fund operator and natural gas-magnate T. Boone Pickens is the force behind this bi-partisan, pork-laden legislation, possibly because his natural gas empire would greatly profit from the sudden influx of billions of taxpayer dollars in the form of subsidies listed in the bill."

Bachmann: We’d Be Better Off If President’s Cabinet Had at Least Run a Lemonade Stand

Bachmann: We’d Be Better Off If President’s Cabinet Had at Least Run a Lemonade Stand"

House Republican Leaders Cave in Less Than 24 Hours

Amen.............

This is embarrassing.

On Fox News Sunday, John Boehner began the day saying that he wanted a deal that kept to the principles of “Cut, Cap, and Balance.”

He concluded Sunday by telling House Republicans that Cut, Cap, and Balance was off the table due to Senate opposition.

Twice the House GOP has staked out a position. Twice they have been shot up and beat to hell by the Democrats for daring to do so. Twice their leaders then threw in the towel on their plans. First on Paul Ryan’s plan and now this.

No wonder so many House Republicans are privately expressing so much anger at their leadership."

Marine's parents sued over sign of support in their Bossier City front yard

Anyone who moves into an area with a Homeowner's Association is insane. They are akin to 1984.

Marine's parents sued over sign of support in their Bossier City front yard | NOLA.com: "A south Bossier City homeowners association has sued to force a family to remove a front yard sign supporting their son's military service because it violated subdivision covenants.

The Times reports that the Gardens of Southgate filed the suit this month against Timothy and Jodi Burr, who have lived in the subdivision since 2006. The Burrs placed a large multicolored banner with a picture of their 20-year-old son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Corey Burr, and the phrase 'Our son defends our freedom' in January after Corey Burr was deployed to Afghanistan."

Pelosi takes a break from debt ceiling crisis and visits East Haven for DeLauro fundraiser

Bet if that was a member of the GOP - she'd be out there right now AGHAST! and vilifying them.....

Taking a “time out” from attacking the debt ceiling crisis, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi flew to Connecticut Sunday for a private political fundraiser for friend and fellow Democrat, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro."

End of the Line - Stealth Cap & Trade!FreedomWorks

Behind the scenes, while Washington and the United States focus on the debt crisis, President Obama’s EPA has been quietly implementing one of the most radical and costly policies of his administration. Ever since the failure of cap-and-trade, the administration has turned to the EPA to carry out its radical environmental agenda. Immediately after the 2010 election Obama was quoted saying “Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way.” The EPA is in the process of completing and finalizing 30 major regulations and 170 major policy rules that would impose hundreds of billions of dollars of compliance costs on the economy, killing jobs and threatening the economic recovery. Because of the disastrous affects that the EPA’s new regulations will have on the already struggling economy, many have taken to calling the administration’s aggressive stance the “EPA train wreck.”"