Conservative Rumblings

Creigh Deeds, the disastrous and incompetent Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia, is about to receive a good thumping at the polls if pre-election numbers are any indication. Obama and his team have expressed “frustration” with how the Deeds campaign has been run, and are basically turning their backs on the whole Deeds crew.

Deeds, however, is undeterred.

Democrats and the president have turned their backs on Virginia’s gubernatorial election next week because candidate Creigh Deeds has been all but written off, but Deeds isn’t giving up.

“Four days — four days, that’s all we’re asking,” Deeds said at a rally Friday.

Deeds needs a miracle to win. Polls in the last 24 hours show his position hasn’t budged — he has been down by a double-digit percentage for the past several weeks.

“I know the polls don’t look good, but if I got discouraged every time, I’d probably be shoveling manure,” he said.

Obama insiders began complaining about the Deeds campaign more than a month ago. The president has no plans to return to Virginia to campaign.

Barring a disastrous turn of events for Republicans, Bob McDonnell is expected to be elected the next governor of Virginia.

What’s funny is that earlier, when Deeds was leading in the polls, Obama was stumping for him, running rallies for him and trying to use his “star power” to get the tax-obsessed Deeds into office. If he WERE to be elected, you can be sure Obama’s marketing team would take credit and claim it was an ‘affirmation of Obama’s plan for America’ or something similarly insane.

My question is that if he’s NOT elected, will Obama’s team claim it’s a ‘protest to Obama’s plan for America?’ Somehow I seriously doubt it.

You have to love the hypocrisy from this administration. If things go well, it’s all due to Obama. If things go bad, it’s all someone else’s fault (the best is when the market goes up it’s due to the Obama administration’s policies but when it goes down, it’s due to Bush. Of course, that isn’t even plausible at this point but the 5% of people in this country who are radically liberal believe it and screech about it on all the cable networks).

Hilarious. I’m surprised MSNBC didn’t make a bigger grab for the bottom spot, cause with Maddow and Olbermann making obscene sexual references every night while trying to undercut a grassroots movement (while giggling like 12 year olds), you would think they’d drop further.

CNN’s pathetic coverage apparently has them beat.

CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising.

The official monthly numbers will be finalized at 4 p.m. Monday and will include results from Friday. CNN executives conceded that will not change the competitive standing for the month. CNN will still be last in prime time.

That means CNN’s programs were behind not only Fox News and MSNBC, but even its own sister network HLN (formerly Headline News.) Three of its four shows between 7 and 11 p.m. finished fourth and last among the cable news networks. That was the first time CNN had finished that poorly with its prime-time shows.

I’m going to put my money on Wolf “Where am I?” Blitzer and Campbell “Everyone is a Racist” Brown as having a large part to do with this.

Couldn’t even muster a simple majority.

This vote was sort of a test bubble for the main healthcare bill, but it was also an attempt by the Dems to pull a deficit killing section of the bill out of the main bill. This would allow them to still claim that the bill was “deficit neutral,” even though this provision is going to cost $247 billion and WAS a part of the main bill.

WASHINGTON — Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years.

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, needed 60 votes to proceed. He won only 47. And he could not blame Republicans. A dozen Democrats and one independent crossed party lines and voted with Republicans on the 53 to 47 roll call.

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By addressing doctors’ fees in a separate bill, Senate Democrats could hold down the cost of the broader health legislation, keeping it within the limits set by President Obama. House Democrats are considering a similar tactic. Republicans said it was a transparent ploy to hide the cost of a health care overhaul.

Basically, it was a bunch of slick smoke and mirrors…and it failed spectacularly.

Democrats physically lock Republicans out of meeting room because they don’t want to take a vote on Countrywide Mortgage’s corruption.

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.

Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.

For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained empty.

Change We Can Believe In.

After promising to let the Russians inspect our nukes last week, now Obama wants to make sure the commies in China don’t feel left out, so we’re going to loosen up our restrictions on missile exporting so that they can buy our components.

So Russia gets to steal our nuke technology we’ve protected for 60 years and China gets to buy our missile parts we’ve protected for, well, about the same amount of time. This has EPIC WIN written all over it.

Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department — a move critics say will loosen export controls and potentially benefit Chinese missile development.

The president issued a little-noticed “presidential determination” Sept. 29 that delegated authority for determining whether missile and space exports should be approved for China to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.

More:

Edward Timperlake, a Pentagon technology-security official during the George W. Bush administration, said he agrees that the new policy likely will loosen export controls on dual-use technology that could be used to boost China’s large-scale missile program.

China’s military recently displayed new long-range and cruise missiles during a military parade in Beijing marking the 60th anniversary of communist rule.

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Mr. Timperlake said the new policy is “greenlighting engagement with China in very bad areas that will negatively impact United States’ national security.”

More sacrificing of our national security to promote “transnationalism” and “extend the open hand” to tyrants. Obama’s complete and utter ineptitude when it comes to national security is only matched by his ignorance of the Constitution.

Yes, I am a prophet. Remember back, oh, two days ago when I said Russia was dangerous? Well…case in point.

Russia is weighing changes to its military doctrine that would allow for a “preventive” nuclear strike against its enemies — even those armed only with conventional weapons. The news comes just as American diplomats are trying to get Russia to cut down its nuclear stockpile, and put the squeeze on Iran’s suspect nuclear program.

In an interview published today in Izvestia, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Kremlin’s security council, said the new doctrine offers “different options to allow the use of nuclear weapons, depending on a certain situation and intentions of a would-be enemy. In critical national security situations, one should also not exclude a preventive nuclear strike against the aggressor.”

Emphasis added. Now Russia is threatening to nuke aggressors preemptively, after invading a country last year and refusing to levy sanctions on Iran this year. How’s that reset button working for you, Mr. Obama? Seems to me that you reset Russia to the 1950s.

Just when I think there’s nothing else the Obama administration can do to jeopardize our national security, they find another way to endanger our safety. In this case, they are allowing Russians (i.e. those guys like Putin who are trying to restart the Soviet Empire) to have access to our nuclear weapons. Yes…Russia…will be able to count and inspect OUR nuclear weapons. I can’t believe it either…read on.

Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads.

The plan, which Fox News has learned was agreed to in principle during negotiations, would constitute the most intrusive weapons inspection program the U.S. has ever accepted.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said publicly Tuesday that the two nations have made “considerable” progress toward reaching agreement on a new strategic arms treaty.

The 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires in December and negotiators have been racing to reach agreement on a successor.

Clinton said the U.S. would be as transparent as possible.

“We want to ensure that every question that the Russian military or Russian government asks is answered,” she said, calling missile defense “another area for deep cooperation between our countries.”

Once again, our government has gone above and beyond in their efforts to destroy America. It’s actually impressive how much of our national security they are willing to just fire down the gutter in an effort to promote the disgusting theory of trans-nationalism. Why do WE have to be transparent? Why are WE required to give up all info of our nukes while everyone else hordes and hides behind their piles of warheads? What, do we expect every other nuclear power in the world to say, “Oh, look, the U.S. is being all gracious by letting people look at their nukes and talking about disarmament, we should be too?” No, they are going to laugh at us for being stupid, just like China and India are laughing at us about the Cap and Tax bill because it’s just going to let them pollute even more and produce even more.

No one is going to get rid of their nukes, even if we get rid of ours. Right now, we have mutually assured destruction on the planet. If any country in the world fires nukes, everyone else fires nukes and everyone on the planet dies. Simple fact. However, if we reduced the amount of nuclear weapons in the world by, say, 90%, there would not be enough left to destroy the whole world, and thus it would open the door for people to start nuking each other without risking the apocalypse.

I love The Hilldabeast’s main point there…’we want to make sure all the questions the Russians have are answered.’

WHO CARES WHAT QUESTIONS RUSSIA WANTS ANSWERED?!?!? Seriously. Russia is NOT an ally. They are refusing to help us on the Iran issue and our ridiculously short memories seem to forget they attacked a sovereign nation just a year ago. Russia needs to be held at arm’s length while we stare at them grimly across the table, safeties off on our weapons. Putin is a loose cannon, and their government has been yanking the cord of the old Soviet Empire like an old lawnmower, trying to see if they can get her to fire up and motor along.

This will be the SECOND time in recent history we’ve acquiesced to Russian demands, the first being the dismantling of our missile shield. What have we gotten in return? Pushback on fighting Iran. Russia is dangerous…just ask Georgia.

Why are we conceding point after point to this aggressive and potentially extremely violent nation? Personally, I think Obama is just this ridiculously naive and inexperienced. He’s an appeaser through and through.

He’s looking more like Neville Chamberlain every day…and we see how well THAT worked out for Europe after he tried to “appease” this guy named “Hitler.” That guy, he of the small mustache and angry salutes, took all the appeasement from Chamberlain and then laid siege to the world. You can’t appease madmen, and you can’t appease tyrants. Any attempt to do so is foolhardy, naïve and dangerous.

If this is what a “reset” of our relations with Russia constitutes (i.e. giving ground on every issue and allowing them to walk all over us), I pray to God we don’t ever try to “reset” relations with Cuba or North Korea or Iran or Al Qaeda. We’ll be establishing embassies for them in D.C. and giving them Congressional representatives for chrissakes.

“Sure, we’ll take some bailout money!”

“Wait…but now you want to regulate our salaries? Not cool!!!”

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s pay czar is planning to clamp down on compensation at firms receiving large sums of government aid by cutting annual cash salaries for many of the top employees under his authority, according to people familiar with the matter.
Instead of awarding large cash salaries, Kenneth Feinberg is planning to shift a chunk of an employee’s annual salary into stock that cannot be accessed for several years, these people said. Such a move, the most intrusive yet into corporate compensation, would mark the government’s first effort to curb the take-home pay of everyone from auto executives to financial traders.

Feinberg is expected to issue by mid-October his determination on compensation packages for 175 of the most-highly compensated executives and employees at the seven firms he oversees. The companies are: American International Group Inc., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., General Motors Co., GMAC Financial Services Inc., Chrysler LLC and Chrysler Financial.

This is why every company that took bailout dollars is doomed. Every. Single. One.

The Federal government (and Obama’s gang in particular) are licking their chops like wolves in a henhouse right now, because they are prepared to launch a full-scale assault on every single one of these firms. If they have taken Federal money, the Federal government owns them. It’s Chicago politics; these companies shouldn’t be surprised that the government is not only demanding a seat at the table but claiming they own the table, the office and the everything else down to the water cooler and Dilbert calendar in the break room.

What’s unfortunate is pretty soon the White House is going to get bored regulating salaries JUST at the companies that took bailout money.

Cue cussing and spitting from the Far Left at this.

Obama is not considering the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the White House said Monday.

“I don’t think we have the option to leave. That’s quite clear,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in his daily briefing with reporters, two days after eight U.S. troops and two Afghan soldiers were killed during a firefight in a remote region of the country.

The debate over whether to send as many as 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan is a major element of a strategy overhaul that senior administration policy advisers will consider this week as they gather for top-level meetings on the direction of the war.

Obama has invited a bipartisan group of congressional leaders to the White House on Tuesday to confer about the war. He said the administration would brief leaders from both parties and key committee chairmen and would seek their opinions.

“They’re an important part of this and the president wants to hear from them,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs, describing the president as “deeply saddened” over Saturday’s casualties, said Obama does not envision deploying more troops to outposts like the ones that were attacked over weekend. He said the administration is considering shifting troops to more populated areas instead.

Now, the problem with this is that Obama’s complete and utter lack of foreign policy experience is leading to him making some serious mistakes here. He’s refusing to pull troops out, but also refusing to send more in that are necessary to ensure our victory. On top of that, while he’s hemming and hawing and trying to decide what to do while ignoring and berating Gen. McChrystal, American soldiers are dying! He needs to make a decision one way or the other! If he’s not pulling out, more troops need to go.

Because, what of the troops already there? Obama won’t withdraw and won’t reinforce, are they to fight a Vietnam-esque war of attrition until The Big Zero leaves office and we replace him with someone that has at least half a brain when it comes to foreign policy issues?

This is a terrible situation, and Obama’s inability to make a decision is costing good Americans their lives. Bush saw in 2007 that Iraq was headed to a bad place, and he made the extraordinarily gutsy call for the “troop surge,” and it worked. If he had waited three months before doing it, the results may have been drastically different.

Maybe all those “present” votes by Obama in the Illinois Senate really SHOULD have been taken into account. As Rudy Guiliani said last year at the Republican Convention, “Nearly 130 times, he couldn’t make a decision. He couldn’t figure out whether to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ It was too tough. He voted — he voted ‘present.’”

As Rudy said, for President of the United States…it’s not good enough to be ‘present.’ You have to make a decision.

Unbelievable. This administration is continuing to massacre our economy as unemployment rises to 9.8% and STILL proclaiming that they are “helping” it. Now, Joey Biden claims that they are ‘still confident it will recover.’

COME ON! This is getting spectacularly stupid. People need to sit up and take notice; literally, every month the numbers are worse than projections, worse than the White House’s estimates…and they just say, Oh, NEXT month it’ll be ok. Just bear with us ONE more month.

Back in February, we were told it was a life or death thing that we had to pass the porkulus package in the next 24 hours or the country was doomed. This is almost a carbon copy of the report I gave in July. Things are STILL getting worse, and NO one in this administration cares. In fact, as some of my Twitter friends have been mentioning today, many think this is actually what they intended. The more crippled the economy is, the more idiots will cry out for government intervention. Obama and his czars are more than willing to answer that call.

The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September as employers cut far more jobs than expected, evidence that the longest recession since the 1930s is still inflicting widespread pain.

The official jobless rate stopped short of topping 10 percent only because the Labor Department doesn’t count people who have given up looking for work or settled for part-time jobs.

More than a half-million unemployed people gave up looking for work last month. If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given up looking for new jobs are included, the unemployment rate rose to 17 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994.

The Labor Department said Friday that the economy lost a net total of 263,000 jobs last month, up from a downwardly revised 201,000 in August. That’s above Wall Street economists’ expectations of 180,000 job losses, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.

The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in August, matching expectations.

All told, 15.1 million Americans are now out of work, the department said. And more than 7.1 million jobs have been eliminated since the recession began in December 2007.

How long is it going to take for people to realize the president, the vice-president has no idea what they are doing. The economy is NOT recovering and their so-called “plan” is NOT HELPING…government intervention rarely does.