Part III

He's saying spend now, cut later. That is how Democrats have always avoided spending cuts, they continue to put them off and spend more and more.

Part II

He's also doubling down on his previous policies. High speed rail. Infrastructure.

Opening of the President's Jobs Speech

I suspect from the opening language that President Obama is going to push for a vote after the speech. If he does so it will be one of the most outrageous acts of pure political idiocy in history. Speaker John Boehner should walk out.

Our Apologist-in-Chief

Apologist is probably the wrong word here, since apologists attempted to use reason and logic to explain their beliefs. Our President on the other hand simply seems to try and make excuses. As Hurricane Irene makes it's rather anti-climatic landfall (and I don't mean to minimize the fact that people have died as a result of the storm) I am reminded of the President's recent speeches to explain away the economy under his watch.

Recently, President Obama has been explaining how his economic policies have actually saved the economy, it's just that we've had to deal with the "Arab Spring" (which I'm pretty sure is going to go badly in the end and Egypt is already showing signs to that end) driving up oil prices (which I'm sure wouldn't be ameliorated by the Obama administration getting out of contempt of court and allowing drilling or at least not actively trying to stop drilling) and the tsunami which hit Japan. At any given moment I'm certain the recent minor earthquake in the northeast and Hurricane Irene will be convenient excuses as well. Clearly, our current President has suffered under the great strain of incredible events (grab a mop, my sarcasm may be dripping on your floor).

So let's review the 8 years prior to see if maybe similar accidents tanked the economy by comparison. September 11, 2001, terrorists fly two planes into the Twin Towers in New York City. The only historical comparison in American history would be Pearl Harbor. In fact, after September 11, 2001, the country experienced an actual growth of economic output after having had three consecutive quarters of decline (which is probably some evidence that President Bush was horrible on domestic economic issues and more akin to Obama than Reagan).

December 24, 2004, a tsunami struck most of the countries bordering the Indian Ocean. I haven't found data on this, but I'm going to guess, given the areas affected, the Japanese tsunami actually had a greater worldwide economic impact. However, both should mainly affect imported goods and increase the desirability of exported goods from the U.S. GDP slowed from a 6.4% rate of growth to 4.6% in the first quarter of 2005.

August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast causing an estimated $81 billion in damages (or 1/10 of a "stimulus" bill) making it the costliest U.S. hurricane on record. It was quickly followed by Hurricane Rita in September, which tried to kill the rest of the Gulf Coast west of New Orleans, tacking on another $11.3 billion in estimated damages (or 1/10 of the average Obama budget deficit). In October of 2005, Hurricane Wilma, the forgotten stepchild of a season in which saw the National Hurricane Center resorting to the use of the Greek alphabet because the 26 letters we use didn't cover the number of storms, handed Florida its metaphorical hat, causing an additional $20.6 billion in damages to the United States. The most active hurricane season in recorded history finished with tropical storm Zeta, having caused over $110 billion in damages to the United States. Yet once again, the economy grew from 2005 to 2006.

So, in the space of 4 years (or one Presidential term), President George W. Bush, whose economic policies I will not defend for one second as for the most part they were just a slower version of President Obama's, presided over an incredible period of domestic disaster and terrorism, on top of global disaster. Yet somehow, despite all of this, the economy grew during the period of his presidency until 2009, which was when Democrats took control of the Congress (judge for yourself if that was coincidence). Similarly, during the majority of the Bush presidency, the unemployment rate was less than 6%, suddenly spiking in late 2008 to 2009 and achieving its current, sustained 9% + rate under the careful guidance of central economic planning. While we have seen a resumption of growth in GDP, employment has remained low. I would argue that this is a result of regulatory uncertainty and historic growth in government interference in the economy along with a continued uncertainty as to tax rates. Again, I am not a fan of President Bush's economic policies, but to make a disease comparison, he was diabetes compared to President Obama's Ebola (I'm not suggesting he is African, so insert whatever hemorrhagic fever you are comfortable with here) economy.

So President Obama's "blame Bush, blame tectonic plates, blame Islamic extremists overthrowing despotic morons, blame anybody but the empirically disprovable Keynsian statism I advocate" speeches just don't strike me as being genuine. But then I'm biased because nothing about him ever has struck me as genuine.

The Ultimate Hypocritical President

Let's take a quick peek back at one or two quotes from our esteemed President Barack Obama and see if he may be a tad hypocritical.

"The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up the national debt from 5 trillion for the first 42 presidents -- number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have 9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic." Senator Barack Obama, July 3, 2008 campaign speech.

President Obama then proceeded to tack on another $4 trillion in just 2 and 1/2 years.

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies...Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here'. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices onto the back of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." Senator Barack Obama, 2006 debate on raising the debt ceiling before he cast his vote against.

Senator Obama didn't bother to vote for the subsequent debt raises in 2007 and 2008. President Obama argued that failure to raise the debt ceiling would be a disaster that would unravel the financial system and create a worse recession than what we had just been through.

"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." Senator Barack Obama, 2007.

President Barack Obama then decided that apparently bombing Libya is not a "military attack" such that Congress needed to even be consulted. In fact, he adamantly refused to consult with Congress on the bombing campaign.

"I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law. The problem with this (Bush) administration is that it has attached signing statements to legislation in an effort to change the meaning of the legislation, to avoid enforcing certain provisions of the legislation that the President does not like, and to raise implausible or dubious constitutional objections to that legislation...it is a clear abuse of power to use such statement as a license to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end-run around provisions designed to foster accountability...No one doubts that it is appropriate to use signing statements to protect a president's constitutional prerogatives; unfortunately, the Bush Administration has gone much farther than that." Senator Barack Obama, 2007 interview with the Boston Globe.

In fairness, a signing statement is somewhat different from an executive order. However, those same criticisms are easily applicable to the myriad executive orders and actions that President Obama has taken. When President Obama could not get congressional approval of his debt commission (from a supermajority Democratic Senate), he took a note from "I Dream of Jeannie" and winked it into existence. Though the "Dream Act" failed to pass through congress (despite both houses still being under Democratic control), President Obama in the last few days has simply instructed the federal government to enact it through "prosecutorial discretion" (yet another legal term our Constitutional lawyer-in-chief apparently doesn't have a clue what its meaning is). That's just two of the numerous extra-constitutional activities the President has engaged in through actions and executive orders.

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." President Obama, inaugural oath of office, January 20, 2009.

Not only did he take the oath, he may be the only president to have ever taken it twice. Nonetheless, amongst his arguably unconstitutional actions noted above, there is one act that I believe cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny. When GM and Chrysler entered bankruptcy, the Obama administration stepped in and forced a "guided" bankruptcy which deprived creditors of their interests. Bankruptcy is provided for in the Constitution and the power is given to Congress to enact the laws relating to it. There is no provision for the President to step in and guide a bankruptcy proceeding or, in doing so, to violate the rights of creditors. This action violated Supreme Court precedent protecting creditors' interests under the 5th Amendment.

The funny part is, I realized in researching this that Senator Obama said a lot of things I agree with (though I wouldn't have said unpatriotic). It's a shame he never meant any of it.

Because Who Doesn't Understand Killing Babies?

Vice President Joe Biden told an audience at a Chinese university that he understands the Chinese one child per family policy. So he doesn't second-guess despotism, forced sterilization, forced abortions and infanticide. Apparently his only problem with the policy is that it makes state welfare programs unsustainable. I guess you can't call it pro-choice when government makes the decision.

I wonder if he'll go to Africa and talk about how mutiliation of female genitalia is understandable.

And More Reasonable Statements From Democrats

"Remember the Alamo!" apparently is to Texas what "Remember the Tea Party!" will eventually be to the left. After California Representative Maxine Water's (D. Cal.) recent showing of hatred towards the Tea Party, Representative Frederica Wilson (D. Fla.) reminded a Miami town hall not to forget who the "real enemies are", the Tea Party.

I can only hope when they pull the race card and talk about all the hatred in this country, people remember that it is the Democrats and their class warfare tactics that always truly bring up race. Speaking of which, the Shadow Democracy's favorite comedienne, Jeanine Garofolo, showed just what a bigoted piece of crap she is recently. Garofolo showed up on former sportscaster and fake Ivy leaguer, Keith Olbermann's "I've been banished to Al Gore's TV network...yes, that's right, Al Gore has a TV network" Countdown, stating that Presidential candidate Herman Cain, a black male who the Tea Party is fond of (but wait, that can't be!) is actually being paid to run for President to distract people from how racist the Republican Party is. Amazingly, this was not some elaborate joke.

So Jenny (I hope she doesn't mind if I call her that, as it is also a reference to a mule, or jackass), anyways, so Jenny thinks black people cannot think for themselves sufficient to be Republicans. Well done, Jenny. I hope Olbermann gave you a carrot and a sugar cube.