This Sunday will complete 90 days since President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) told Congress that he had sent U.S. troops to Libya, in what his bureaucrats labeled a Kinetic Military Action, in order to help enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, designed to protect the rebels fighting Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s government.

Yesterday, House Speaker John A. Boehner warned President Obama  that, unless he seeks authorization from Congress for the ongoing military action in Libya, he will be in violation of the War Powers Resolution.

Boehner sent an official letter to Obama yesterday afternoon demanding that the president provide a clear justification by Friday for sending our troops to Libya.

The letter reads:

The Constitution requires the president to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed,’ and one of those laws is the War Powers Resolution, which requires an approving action by Congress or withdrawal within 90 days from the notification of a military operation.

The House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution two weeks ago, urging Obama to provide detailed information on our actions in Libya. At the time, Boehner hinted that Congress might cut off funding for the deployment if the administration didn’t comply.

The time for the Obama White House to comply with the nonbinding resolution runs out on Friday.

According to Obama and his Administration, they have already complied with the law by alerting Congress to the initial deployment, and, through their testimony at more than 10 hearings and providing 30 follow-up briefings about the pace and extent of U.S. troops’ commitment.

The catch is, the administration has never sought approval from Congress.

White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said Tuesday evening:

We are in the final stages of preparing extensive information for the House and Senate that will address a whole host of issues about our ongoing efforts in Libya.

He added that the White House will also present its legal analysis of the War Powers Resolution.

What is the War Powers Resolution?

In 1970 the House of Representatives passed by a vote of 289 to 39 a bill recognizing that the president “in certain extraordinary and emergency circumstances has the authority to defend the United States and its citizens without specific prior authorization by the Congress.” Instead of trying to define the precise conditions under which presidents may use military force, the House preferred to rely on procedural safeguards. The bill required the president, “whenever feasible,” to consult with Congress before sending American forces into armed conflict. He was also to report (1) the circumstances necessitating the action; (2) the constitutional, legislative, and treaty provisions authorizing the action, together with his reasons for not seeking specific prior congressional authorization; and (3) the estimated scope of activities. The Senate did not act on this measure.

…Senators, regarding the House bill as too favorable to presidential power, decided to spell out the conditions under which presidents could act alone without Congress. Armed force could be used in three situations:

To repel an armed attack on the United States, or its territories and possessions, to retaliate in the event of such an attack, and to prevent the direct and imminent threat of such an attack.

To repel an armed attack against U.S. armed forces located outside the United States, or its territories and possessions, and prevent the direct and imminent threat of such an attack.

To rescue endangered American citizens and nationals in foreign countries or at sea.

The two houses settled on a compromise measure. Instead of the 120-day House limit and the thirty-day Senate limit, the final bill allowed the president to use military force for up to sixty days, with an additional thirty days to permit disengagement. The bill directed the president “in every possible instance” to consult with lawmakers, and required the president to report to Congress within forty-eight hours. At any time during military operations, Congress could pass a concurrent resolution directing that U.S. troops be removed.

Here is an excerpt from the final bill:

Sec. 2. (a) It is the purpose of this joint resolution to fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the president will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and to the continued use of such forces in hostilities or in such situations.

(b) Under article I, section 8, of the Constitution, it is specifically provided that the Congress shall have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution, not only its own powers but also all other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

(c) The constitutional powers of the president as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.e Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but makes the president commander-in-chief. Those dual roles have caused tension throughout the nation’s history.

The resolution is due to be considered in the Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday.

To this point in America’s history, Congress has been unwilling to challenge America’s CIC, the president, with legislative restrictions, limiting an undeclared war.

Additionally, courts will not back Congress up in such a matter unless our representatives have exercised the powers available to them.

Because of this malaise of responsibility by Congress, presidents have been able to initiate and conduct wars whenever and wherever they like.

That’s fine and dandy, if you have someone of character and integrity sitting in the Oval Office. Unfortunately…

In this case, our leadership must return to our Founders’ system of checks and balances, which is set up to facilitate each branch’s ability to fight off Constitutional violations from other branches, with the power to initiate war securely vested in Congress.

This president is launching Drone Attacks in Yemen, even as I write this post. That’s our fourth theater of war, under a man whose bureaucrats renamed Terrorist Acts, Man-caused Disasters.

Please excuse me if I don’t feel comfortable in his ability to effectively prosecute a war.

Using the Republican Candidates’ Debate on CNN last night as a launching platform, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann began her campaign for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

Bachmann, a Tea Party favorite, is the first female contender to throw her hat into the ring.

Rep. Michele Bachmann is not some demure little flower.   She made this statement within a fundraising letter, sent out within one hour of her announcement:

We cannot risk giving President Obama four more years to dismantle our nation. We must act now. That’s why I’ve made the decision to get in this race.

According to her official biography at bachmann.house.gov:

Elected in 2006, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. From the beginning, Congresswoman Bachmann has demonstrated bold reform, pushing to fix Washington’s broken ways. Every day she puts her constitutional conservative values to work as she represents the people of Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District, a district which contains parts of six counties, stretching from Stillwater past St. Cloud, including suburbs of the Twin Cities.

Congresswoman Bachmann is a leading advocate for tax reform, a staunch opponent of wasteful government spending, and a strong proponent of adherence to the Constitution, as intended by the Founding Fathers.

…Prior to serving in the U.S. Congress, Bachmann served in the Minnesota State Senate. She was elected to the Minnesota State Senate in 2000 where she championed the Taxpayers Bill of Rights. Before that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney, working on hundreds of civil and criminal cases.

…Congresswoman Bachmann also led the charge on education issues in Minnesota calling for the abolishment of Goals 2000 and the Profiles of Learning in its school. She recognized the need for quality schools and subsequently started a charter school for at-risk kids in Minnesota.

Congresswoman Bachmann sits on the Financial Services Committee (FSC) and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The FSC is tasked with oversight of numerous financial sectors including housing, real estate and banking.

…Serving on the Intelligence Committee was a welcomed opportunity for Congresswoman Bachmann as she has consistently advocated peace through strength to ensure America’s national security. As a mother of five children and 23 foster children, she has a deep appreciation for that portion of the Oath of Office in which members of Congress vow to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

In July 2010 Congresswoman Bachmann hosted the first Tea Party Caucus meeting because she saw the need for Tea Partiers to have a listening ear in Congress. She is seen as a champion of Tea Party values including the call for lower taxes, renewed focus on the Constitution and the need to shrink the size of government.

Congresswoman Bachmann is a graduate of Anoka High School and Winona State University. She received her J.D. at the O.W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University and an L.L.M. in Tax Law at the College of William and Mary. She has been married to Marcus for more than thirty years and they live in Stillwater where they own a small business mental health care practice that employs nearly fifty people. The Bachmanns have five children, Lucas, Harrison, Elisa, Caroline, and Sophia. In addition, the Bachmanns have opened their home to 23 foster children, which has inspired Congresswoman Bachmann to become one of Congress’ leading advocates for foster and adopted children, earning her bipartisan praise for her efforts.

Bachmann brings the qualities of high energy, charisma and proven fundraising ability to the Republican Primaries. She does not back down from her beliefs and backs them up with a quick wit and biting commentary., as MSNBC’s Chris Matthews found out on the night of November 2nd, 2010:

As I have been profiling the Republican Candidates, I have been reviewing what they stand for by stacking them up to the infallible measurement of the three-legged stool of Reagan Conservatism.

How does Rep. Michele Bachman measure up?

1.  Fiscal Conservatism – From her own biography, quoted above:

Congresswoman Bachmann is a leading advocate for tax reform, a staunch opponent of wasteful government spending, and a strong proponent of adherence to the Constitution, as intended by the Founding Fathers.

Fiscal Conservativism – Check!

2.  Social Conservatism – On the second Monday in April, Bachmann spoke to a crowd of around 200 during a visit to the University of Iowa.

Bachmann told the crowd that marriage between a man and a woman is a foundation block for a strong America, but marriage has been under attack. She also noted the financial implications of pregnancies to unwed mothers, through welfare and other government spending. She said:

Social conservatism is fiscal conservatism. “You can’t separate” the two.

Social Conservativism – Check!

3.  National Defense – On May 4th, she issued the following stateconcerning Defense Spending on her website, bachmann.house.gov:

Our government is in a fiscal crisis. As debt skyrockets, the spending decisions before us in the coming months and years will have a deep impact on the future of our nation. Lawmakers and the American public must debate the merits and faults of each category of spending. But, as we work to reverse the tide of deficit spending, I urge that we exercise great caution before anyone takes a scalpel to the defense budget.

Adequate funding is critical for our military, intelligence, and security agencies to fulfill their Constitutional duty to provide for the common defense. This is not a partisan issue and must not be a political one either. While the numbers are negotiable, and specific programs should be fully vetted, the underlying responsibility is undeniable. Defense funding deserves a high place in the priorities of this, and any, Congress.

National Defense – Check!

Per reporter Brian Bakst, of the Associated Press, in an article published in the Houston Chronicle:

Her popularity with tea party activists and her credentials as a social conservative make her a credible threat to other candidates courting conservatives who make up the core of the Republican Party.  Her impact may be felt most in Iowa, the first stop in the nomination battle and where Christian evangelicals dominate.

While she hasn’t built the broad campaign infrastructure of some GOP rivals, she has gradually patched together a blend of tested and fresh-but-determined advisers. She’s also shown an ability to raise money from a network of small-dollar donors, including $13.5 million she put toward the nation’s most expensive House race of 2010.

While Bachman is a staunch Reagan Conservative and a leader of of the new Conservaitve Vanguard of the GOP, does she have enough national support and name recognition to garner the party’s Presidential Nomination?

As this time, that seems to be a daunting task for this firebrand.

However, her efforts should be fun to watch.

17% of citizens in these United States remain reliant upon our Federal Government to provide food for their families.  Unemployment remains at an unacceptable level.  And all the economic soothsayers are predicting double-digit inflation in our very near future.

Job growth in May was almost non-existent while unemployment rose again to 9.1 percent. Manufacturers cut 5,000 jobs last month, making those the first job losses in that industry in seven months.

The captain of this sinking Ship of State, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) will be visiting Durham, N.C., today for a brainstorming session with his jobs council on how Washington can encourage private-sector hiring. Council members and administration officials will also be hearing from businesses in the region.

Here’s an idea, Scooter:  Don’t raises taxes on hard-working Americans. And while you’re at it, drop the Corporate Tax Rate, so American Corporations will stay in America. (Novel idea, I know.)

Obama announced an effort last Wednesday by the private sector, colleges and the National Association of Manufacturers to help half a million community college students become trained and certified for manufacturing jobs. They would get a credential guaranteeing that they are skilled.

During his Weekly Address Saturday, Obama said:

We’ve just come through the worst recession since the Great Depression, and while our economy as a whole has been growing and adding private sector jobs, too many folks are still struggling to get back on their feet. I wish I could tell you there was a quick fix to our economic problems. But the truth is, we didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we won’t get out of it overnight. It’s going to take time.

Excuse me, Mr. President.  How can we have come through the Recession and still not be out of it, yet?

Back to his Weekly Address:

The good news is, when it comes to job-creation and economic growth, there are certain things we know we can do. Now, government is not – and should not be – the main engine of job-creation in this country. That’s the role of the private sector. But one thing government can do is partner with the private sector to make sure that every worker has the necessary skills for the jobs they’re applying for.

On Wednesday, I announced commitments by the private sector, colleges, and the National Association of Manufacturers that will make it possible for 500,000 community college students to get a manufacturing credential that has the industry’s stamp of approval. If you’re a company that’s hiring, you’ll know that anyone who has this degree has the skills you’re looking for. If you’re a student considering community college, you’ll know that your diploma will give you a leg up in the job market.

…We know that more and more jobs are being created in the clean energy sector, so we’re investing in wind power, solar power, and biofuels that will make us less dependent on foreign oil and clean up our planet for our children. These are steps we know will make a difference in people’s lives – not just twenty years from now, or ten years from now, but now, and in the months to come.

According to the president, all of these proposed feel-good initiatives, such as providing students with a quality education and investing in new jobs in the clean energy sector, will aid economic growth.

Not to mention lining the pockets of all of his friends, such as Jeffrey Immelt, whose company, General Electric, has invested heavily in the unfulfilled promise of a clean (green) energy-driven economy.

So, while America is in the process of circling down the basin of an economic porcelain receptacle, wouldn’t you think that our elected representatives in the hallowed halls of Congress would be doing everything that they could to save the livelihoods and homes of their constituents?

Au contraire, mon frere.

The men and women that we, the American citizens, elected to conduct business on our behalf in our nation’s capitol, have spent the last week, not worried about the fate of the shining city on a hill, but, instead, worried about the professional fate of a pervert.

Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Obama’s new Sexting Czar (I kid), announced Saturday that he was entering professional treatment at an undisclosed location and requested a leave of absence from Congress.

His emergency trip to Rehab comes amid calls from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, and Democratic Party Lead Debbie Wasserman Schultz that Weiner must resign.

Other Democrats, such as Charlie Rangel and Chuckie Schumer, are vaguely supportive of Weiner. Republicans, for the most part, are sitting back and allowing this soap opera to play out, with visions of electoral ad campaigns dancing in their heads.

Meanwhile, President Obama assures us that everything is going to be alright.  Trust him:

…In the end, the folks I hear from in letters or meet when I travel across the country – they aren’t asking for much. They’re just looking for a job that covers their bills. They’re just looking for a little financial security. They want to know that if they work hard and live within their means, everything will be all right. They’ll be able to get ahead, and give their kids a better life. That’s the dream each of us has for ourselves and our families. And so long as I have the privilege of serving as President, I’ll keep fighting to put that dream within reach for all Americans.

Our leadership in Washington continues to supply us with bread and circuses, while American families are being buried by the overflowing mountain of bills on their coffee tables.

How can they handle the serious business of dealing with our country’s tanking  economy when they can’t even handle what to do about a pervert?

In my preparation for writing today’s blog, I read an article by The Washington Post, linked to on yahoo.com.  In it, two Post writers  (trying their best to be Woodward and Bernstein) were desperately looking for something, anything, among over 13,000 e-mails written to and from during by Sarah Palin during her time as Alaska Governor, that they could denigrate and humiliate her with.

These so-called reporters for the Washington Post, and all the other Liberal Democrat Party shills in the sycophantic Main Stream Media, haven’t found a blessed thing.

So, they’re trying to make something out of nothing. 

For instance, in a didactic tone, they relayed the contents of one of the e-mails, in the following manner:

Other e-mails make clear that Palin relied on her husband, Todd Palin, for advice on policy issues. In a March 2008 e-mail, for instance, the governor makes clear that he also weighed in on how to deal with Alaska’s burgeoning wolf population, a topic of debate at the time among officials and environmental experts.

The governor told her fish and game commissioner in blunt terms that she opposed using state helicopters to hunt wolves and preferred paying private hunters.

“We have to act quickly on this as predators are acting quickly and rural families face ridiculous situation of being forced to import more beef instead of feeding their families our healthy staple of alaskan game. Nonsense. Unacceptable – and not on my watch,” she said.

Her source of information? “Todd interviewed buddies who live out there… Some confirmation that state intervention isn’t first choice w/the locals,” Palin said.”We need to incentivize here,” including providing money for trappers.

How dare she rely on her husband.  Why…it’s almost like they love and trust each other’s judgement!

These intrepid journalists go on to write about their most egregious find among the e-mails yet. Check this out:

The e-mails also reveal Palin’s sensitivity to the way she was portrayed in the media, even at a time when the coverage came mainly from local outlets in Alaska. Palin’s contentious relationship with the national news media has become a major theme of her political persona in the years since the end of the 2008 campaign.

In 2008, for instance, one of Palin’s press aides sent her an essay about Jane Swift, the onetime governor of Massachusetts, who raised young children while in office. Palin responded with a barb about a recent column from a writer at the Anchorage Daily News.

“Pls remind Julia Omalley that ‘they’ said the same thing throughout my career- ‘too young,’ ‘pregnant,’ ‘kids’…’She won’t be able to do it,’ ” Palin wrote. “This coming from good ol’ boys who don’t like change…And so far along in my career we’ve proved them wrong at each turn.”

In another e-mail from 2008, an aide asks about a tanning bed at Palin’s house. A Web site, he said, was implying that the state had paid for it–which had set off a flood of calls from other media.

“The old used tanning bed that my girls have used a handful of times in Juneau?,” Palin wrote back. “Yes, we paid for it ourselves.”

Oh, the horrors.  They bought a …GASP!…Tanning Bed.  Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services will be knocking on her door anytime now.

This is reporting?

Meanwhile, up in the Northeast Corridor, on the other side of the country, and the other side of the aisle, Police are looking into “direct online communications” between New York Representative and adulterous exhibitionist Anthony Weiner and a 17-year-old girl. Authorities are also looking for any other young women who may be involved.

According to Weiner spokeswoman Risa Hellero on Friday night, Weiner’s interactions with the Delaware girl

were neither explicit nor indecent.

Of course not. He was just tweeting her because they’re both huge Lady Gaga fans.

Per Fox News:

Sources close to the student said the girl followed Weiner on Twitter after seeing him speak during a school trip to Washington on April 1. Weiner, after signing on to follow the girl’s Twitter feed, direct-messaged the girl on April 13, the sources said, though it is not clear what other communication the two may have had between or after those dates. Weiner no longer follows the girl on Twitter.

…Now that he’s caught.

Hey, no worries for Weiner, though.

House Democratic leader San Fran Nan Pelosi says the decision over whether the perverted Weiner should resign or not, should be up to the congressman and his New York constituents.

The former Speaker of the House (Thank you, Lord.) said in San Francisco that she believes the decision should be made by “the individual member” (Poor choice of words, Nancy) and the people in his district.

Okay.  Let’s compare situations:

On the one hand, we have a Former Governor of Alaska and former Vice-Presidential candidate, who has been the subject of the biggest witch hunt by both the Democrat and Republican Elite Establishment and their willing accomplices in the Main Stream Media that this country has ever seen, and the results are: 

Sarah Palin is exactly who she says that she is.

On the other hand, we have this New York Congressman, who, all over the cable news channels, has shown himself to be one of the most obnoxious jerks on Capitol Hill.

He gets caught exposing his shortcomings to several women, while married, through the electronic practice, fovored by schoolkids, of sexting. And,if that was not perverted enough, it now appears that he was communicating with at least one underage girl.

But, that’s okay.  His political superior, the ladies (and I’m being generous) on The View, and Liberal pinheads everywhere say that it’s not up to them to judge and his personal behavior has nothing to do with how he represents his constituency.

Goose…Gander.  Hypocrisy…thy name is Liberal.

KJ UPDATE 1:26 P.M. CENTRAL:  It looks like Weiner’s underage friendship has touched a nerve with the Democrat leadership.  CNN reports:

New York (CNN) – Three weighty Democratic voices – including Nancy Pelosi – on Saturday called for the resignation of embattled U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, who has been under fire after admitting to inappropriate communications with women online.

The House Minority Leader, and the chairmen of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in separate statements called for Weiner to step down.

…And the hypocrisy continues…

Today, over 24,000 e-mails, to and from Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, will be released to the public.  Eager to try to denigrate and embarrass Governor Palin, in an effort to derail a possible presidential campaign, the two most famous newspapers in America came up with what they thought was a great idea:

At 10:56 a. m. Eastern on Thursday, June 9th, 2011, that bastion of journalism, washingtonpost.com, published the following missive to its loyal readers and moonbats everywhere:

Help Analyze the Palin E-mails

Here’s how to participate:  Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska’s governor will be released Friday . We’ll be posting them here, and are inviting you to comment on the most interesting or most noteworthy sections. Please include page numbers and, where possible, a direct excerpt. We’ll share your comments with our reporters and may use facts or related material you suggest to annotate the documents displayed on The Post site. We may contact you for further details, by way of your registered e-mail with the Post, unless you specify otherwise in the comments.

Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska’s governor will be released Friday. That’s a lot of e-mail for us to review so we’re looking for some help from Fix readers to analyze, contextualize, and research those e-mails right alongside Post reporters over the days following the release.

We are limiting this to just 100 spots for people who will work collaboratively in small teams to surface the most important information from the e-mails. Participants can join from anywhere with a computer and an Internet connection.

If you need inspiration before getting started, take a look at what to expect from the e-mail drop. For micro-updates as tomorrow unfolds, check out our new Twitter feed.

After some unexpected blowback, the Washington Post updated their blog, writing the following:

UPDATE: We have had a strong response to our crowdsourcing call-out on the Palin e-mails. We’ve reconsidered our approach and now would like to invite comments and annotations from any interested readers.

Their readers did not quite respond in the manner in which the Washington Post thought that they would. It seems that Palin Derangement Syndrome only goes so far and then that still, small voice that tells you the difference between right and wrong takes over.  Here are some examples of reader feedback they’ve received:

Y’all liberals sure do go to a lot of trouble to try and smear someone you consistantly say is an idiot.

Why are y’all so afraid of Sarah Palin?

So we’re going to spend our valuable time (in my case – $370/hr consulting fee) doing WAPO’s job, for no monetary return? Why? I’m way left, have no patience with moron Palin, but I wonder why you think we’ll all work for you for neither credit nor money.

Rake your own muck. Disgusting that you call on readers to join in your festivities.

Couldn’t agree more. Someone should gather WaPo and NYT staff/exec emails and give them some of their own medicine. Just the start/continuation of the lib/Obama smear campaigns that have been ongoing since the purposeful demonizing of Bush the jr.

What an obvious descent into National Inquirer/Star level urinalism.

Yes.  That’s right.  The New York Times lowered themselves to the same tabloid level as the Washington Post.  At 1:56 p.m. yesterday, nytimes.com posted the following:

Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records

On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails, which we will be posting on NYtimes.com starting on Friday afternoon.

We’re asking readers to help us identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight. Interested users can fill out a simple form to describe the nature of the e-mail, and provide a name and e-mail address so we’ll know who should get the credit. Join us here on Friday afternoon and into the weekend to participate.

Here are some of the responses that the NY Times received:

Don’t you folks get paid to do this work yourself?

Awesome! The NYT wants non-journalists to do their homework for them!

Jesus, is this what it’s come to? E-lynch mobs combing through data to use to as “gotcha” material?

Yeah, right, people will look for “interesting and newsworthy” emails. Yeah, and Dems are following Obamas plea for civility.

More like the Hatefest begins Fri afternoon, so Dems come early and come often, so our readers can feel better about themselves, after the Weiner debacle.

We will even give credit to the most snarky, snide, sarcastic person…so don’t be shy. We have a terrible President and even worse economy, so we need to divide and distract immediately.

I don’t remember the NY Times asking the public to go through then Senator Obama’s emails to find newsworthy materials…

I don’t recall you soliciting help from people to review the 2,000 page healthcare bill…nor did you do it yourselves.

Now, these two prestigious news organizations face a two-fold problem:  First, the majority of their readers and the America public have recognized this tactic for what it is:  “gotcha” journalism, and have responded to the newspapers appropriately.  Secondly, if there proves to be nothing out of the ordinary as pertains to the day-to-day business of running the largest state in America as a result of their reading of the 24,000 e-mails, the Post and the Times are going to look like bigger sleazeballs than Anthony Weiner.

Sho’ ’nuff hate it for them.

If you or I accumulate massive amounts of debt which we cannot pay back, it invariably leads to a declaration of bankruptcy.

In the case of the Obama Administration, when a Liberal-led Federal Government accumulates massive amounts of debt which will take generations to pay off, it is called an economic policy.

Per USAtoday.com:

The government added $5.3 trillion in new financial obligations in 2010, largely for retirement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. That brings to a record $61.6 trillion the total of financial promises not paid for.

This gap between spending commitments and revenue last year equals more than one-third of the nation’s gross domestic product.

Medicare alone took on $1.8 trillion in new liabilities, more than the record deficit prompting heated debate between Congress and the White House over lifting the debt ceiling.

Social Security added $1.4 trillion in obligations, partly reflecting longer life expectancies. Federal and military retirement programs added more to the financial hole, too.

…The $61.6 trillion in unfunded obligations amounts to $527,000 per household. That’s more than five times what Americans have borrowed for everything else — mortgages, car loans and other debt. It reflects the challenge as the number of retirees soars over the next 20 years and seniors try to collect on those spending promises.

According to accountant Sheila Weinberg, founder of the Institute for Truth in Accounting, a Chicago-based group that advocates better financial reporting, these figures are only the tip of the iceberg:

The (federal) debt only tells us what the government owes to the public. It doesn’t take into account what’s owed to seniors, veterans and retired employees. Without accurate accounting, we can’t make good decisions.

Meanwhile, as The Regime leads us deeper and deeper into debt, Unemployment remains at 9.1. and one-sixth of our citizens remain on SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.

So, what’s the Administration doing about America’s Economic Crisis?

Well, first, its Chief Economic Adviser is getting the heck out of Dodge.

Per politico.com:

Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, plans to return to teaching economics at the University of Chicago this fall, the White House announced Monday night.

Goolsbee has been on leave for four years from the university’s Booth School of Business and could have lost his tenured position at Chicago, where he was a professor for 14 years before joining the administration, if he did not return, an official said.

Goolsbee, one of Obama’s longest serving aides, was an economic adviser on the 2004 Senate campaign, and the senior economic adviser on the 2008 presidential campaign.He was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers when Obama became president, and was made chairman when Christina Romer resigned last September to return to the University of California at Berkeley.

“Since I first ran for the U.S. Senate, Austan has been a close friend and one of my most trusted advisers,” President Barack Obama said in the White House’s announcement. “Over the past several years, he has helped steer our country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and although there is still much work ahead, his insights and counsel have helped lead us toward an economy that is growing and creating millions of jobs. He is one of America’s great economic thinkers.”

Goolsbee’s departure once again puts the president’s economic team in flux. National Economic Council chairman Larry Summers left the administration at the beginning of the year, replaced by Gene Sperling, who served in that job under President Bill Clinton. Jared Bernstein, Vice President Biden’s chief economic adviser, left last month.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is the only senior official remaining from the economic team that inherited a financial crisis and recession when Obama took office.

But, what about the President of these United States, Barack Hussein Obama, you ask?  Surely, he is in the process of taking austere measures to get his disastrous Economic Policies under control…isn’t he?

Nope…and don’t call me Shirley.

While average Americans, such as my bride and myself, were eating Cheesy Hashbrowns Hamburger Helper and Hot Dogs on TV trays while watching a NCIS rerun, the Obamas were graciously hosting a state dinner for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, featuring a menu of:

White House Honey Gastrique

Tuna Tartare with Rye Crisps

Pickled Young Carrots and Mustard Oil

Spring Pea Salad

Shaved Ham and Ginger Snaps

Petite Filet

With Maryland Crab Ravioli

Wild Ramp Puree

Apple Strudel

Golden Raisins and Topfen

What the heck is Topfen?

Y’know…at the rate that this educated-beyond-his-intelligence, imperious, golf-playing, gum-smacking buffoon keeps obliviously running our nation into the ground, I fully expect him, one day soon, to respond to an economic question at one of his almost non-existent press conferences by answering:

Let them eat arugula!

I remember the first time that I really paid attention to Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY).

He was in a shouting match with Fox News Anchor Megyhn Kelly and was acting like a totally obnoxious jerk.

As  I later found out…he wasn’t acting.

Yesterday, after a week of denying showing off his shortcomings while engaged in a practice that schoolkids call “sexting”, and posting a lewd picture of himself on Twitter, Weiner broke down in a press conference, admitting most of what he did, and asking for forgiveness.

However, he refused to resign from the House of Representatives.

From behind a podium at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, Weiner made the following statement:

Last Friday night I tweeted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted it to Twitter, I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Weiner then apologized to the Seattle student whom he sent the tweet to.

Conservative reporter and web mogul Andrew Breitbart had gotten hold of new photographs of Weiner in all his glory (can I say that?), forcing the Congressman into a hastily-prepared press conference.

According to Weiner:

To be clear, the picture was of me and I sent it. I am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife, Huma, and our family, andmy constituents, my friends, supporters and staff.

The Democrat Congressman from New York came under national scrutiny last week for a dirty photo sent from his Twitter account of a man in grey underwear to a 21-year-old woman.

Before delivering his mea culpa yesterday, the juvenile congressman had told anyone who would listen that it was not him who sent that photo. Weiner claimed that he had been hacked.

Hardly the word that I would have used, considering the image in the photo…

Weiner had immediately got himself a lawyer to advise him on what legal action should be taken. According to his spokesman Dave Arnold, the congressman’s “accounts were obviously hacked.”

Again, an uncomfortable term to use in this situation.

The “crotch” photo was first reported Saturday by Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com.

Before Weiner even took the podium, Breitbart was behind it, answering the media’s questions per their request.

Anonymous sources claim that Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, wanted to stand by her husband at the press conference, but Weiner would not allow her to attend, proclaiming to her

it’s my responsibility. I’ll deal with it.

Weiner also said that

over the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

He went on to say that he

exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years.

Per the disgraced Congressman, “most” of the flirtatious electronic messaging took place before his marriage, but he was forced to admit that some took place afterward.

According to Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old single mother from Texas, Weiner was eager to

hear about if I wanted him or thought he was attractive.

Which is this idiot? A United States Congressman or a Middle Schooler?

Weiner told everyone gathered that:

I’m not resigning, and I’m going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband, too.

Uh Huh. Gimme that ol’ time contrition.

Keeping his job may not be up to Rep. Weiner. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi immediately called for an ethics committee investigation to see if House rules were broken. Weiner’s office then released a statement saying I welcome and will fully cooperate with an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.

When reporters asked him if he would split from his wife, Weiner said he loved wife Abedin very much and that they would not split.

That may not be his option, either.

After his press conference, Congressman Weiner appropriately snuck out of the hotel via the back door, followed by photographers.

Regardless of Weiner’s reprehensible actions, Liberal talking heads on all the cable and broadcast news programs are still vainly attempting to defend this pervert, blaming his actions on the pressures of the office, and attempting all manner of moral equivalency arguments in Weiner’s defense.

Check out Baba Wawa, Joyless Behar, and the rest of the hens on ABC’s The View:

BARBARA WALTERS: Anthony Weiner, whom I also know, has a problem. He can be very sarcastic and very sardonic and, you know, there are a lot of times you wish he would not say it. He is a good congressman. He has been an effective congressman. If Sarah Palin can still ride around on her bus and be considered as a possible president, this man can override this, stay in congress and just hope that there’s another scandal that’ll take him off.

JOY BEHAR: Wait a minute. Let me defend Sarah. Let me defend Sarah.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: A scandal that’s going to take us off in a second is they’re going to black us out. We’re done.

BEHAR: Let me defend Sarah for 30 seconds. The woman has no sex scandal in her dossier, in her arsenal. This is a completely different thing from Sarah Palin, and I want to defend her here.

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: I’m taking my pulse.

I think  Mark Twin put it best, when he quipped:

Man is the only animal that blushes…or has a need to.