Mere weeks after the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, downgraded our country’s credit rating from AAA to AA , Obama’s Justice Department, led by Attorney General Eric Holder, is investigating whether S&P improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis.

According to anonymous sources, the investigation began before the credit rating downgrade (They probably knew what was coming).  However, this investigation will probably throw more logs onto the fire, of the attempt by the administration and their Democratic shills to burn S&P at the stake.

AG Eric Holder’s Justice Department has been looking into claims in which the company’s analysts wanted to award lower ratings on mortgage bonds but may have been overruled by other S.& P. business managers. If the government can come up with enough evidence to support such a case, it is likely to be tried in a civil court.

Ed Sweeney, a spokesman for S.& P., responded in an e-mail:

S.& P  has received several requests from different government agencies over the last few years. We continue to cooperate with these requests. We do not prevent such agencies from speaking with current or former employees. S.& P. is a subsidiary of the McGraw-Hill Companies, a company currently under pressure from some investors and has been considering whether to spin off businesses or make other strategic changes this summer.

Those ubiquitous anonymous sources claim the investigation had picked up steam early this summer, well before S&P dropped the hammer. Now members of Congress are investigating why S.& P. removed the nation’s AAA rating, which is highly important to financial markets.

Representatives of the Justice Department and the S.E.C., refuse to comment on the investigation, per usual.

Meanwhile, AG Holder’s boss, President Barack Hussein Obama, finished up the most boring bus (and hypocritical) tour in American History yesterday, in preparation for a 10 day family vacation at Martha’s Vineyard.

Most of us wll be lucky to make it to the apartment pool before Labor Day.  But, I digress…

From abcnews.go.com:

At his rural economic forum in Iowa Tuesday, President Obama exhorted the need to boost the manufacturing and export of U.S. cars and trucks to create jobs.

“We’ve got folks in America driving Kias and Hyundais. I want to see folks in Korea driving Fords and Chryslers and Chevys,” Obama said, drawing applause.

“I want to sell goods all over the world that are stamped with three words: ‘Made in America.'”

But it turns out the president’s new custom motor coach comes stamped with a brand that’s located someplace else: Canada.

The $1.1 million jet-black rumbling bus that has been carrying Obama through the Midwest this week was designed in part by Prevost, a motor coach manufacturer based in Quebec. The New York Post was first to report this, and Provost officials confirmed this fact to ABC News.

By the way, Scooter, why are those buses painted black?  Are you allergic to Red, White, and Blue?  I’m surprised you didn’t have pictures of Marx, Mao, and Alinsky painted on them.

One of the groups who have been his long-time allies are less than impressed.

Per Byron York at washingtonexaminer.com:

During a sometimes-raucous session of what’s being called the “For the People” Jobs Initiative tour, a key member of the Congressional Black Caucus told an audience in Detroit Tuesday that the CBC doesn’t put pressure on President Obama because he is loved by black voters. But at the same time, Rep. Maxine Waters said, members of the CBC are becoming increasingly tired and frustrated by Obama’s performance on the issue of jobs. Even as she expressed support for the president, Waters virtually invited the crowd to “unleash us” to pressure Obama for action.

“We don’t put pressure on the president,” Waters told the audience at Wayne County Community College. “Let me tell you why. We don’t put pressure on the president because ya’ll love the president. You love the president. You’re very proud to have a black man — first time in the history of the United States of America. If we go after the president too hard, you’re going after us.”

The problem, Waters said, is that Obama is not paying enough attention to the problems of some black Americans. The unemployment rate for African-Americans nationally is a little over 16 percent, and almost twice that in Detroit. And yet, Waters said, the president is on a jobs-promotion trip through the Midwest that does not include any stops in black communities. “The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president too,” Waters said. “We’re supportive of the president, but we’re getting tired, y’all. We’re getting tired. And so, what we want to do is, we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he’s prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is. We don’t know why on this trip that he’s in the United States now, he’s not in any black community. We don’t know that.”

As she discussed her dilemma — frustrated with the president but hesitant to criticize him lest black supporters turn on her — Waters asked the crowd for its permission to have a “conversation” with the president. “When you tell us it’s alright and you unleash us and you tell us you’re ready for us to have this conversation, we’re ready to have the conversation,” she said. Some members of the crowd immediately voiced their approval.

“All I’m saying to you is, we’re politicians,” Waters continued. “We’re elected officials. We are trying to do the right thing and the best thing. When you let us know it is time to let go, we’ll let go.”

“Let go!” some in the audience yelled.

If “the community” is searching for a Black leader to admire, I can think of three right off the top of my head:  Lt. Col. (and Congressman) Allen West, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, and Anti-Abortion Activist and MLK, Jr.’s niece, Alveda King.

A penchant for petulance, revenge, and hypocrisy are not qualities to be admired in a “leader”.

Yesterday, during President Barack Hussein Obama’s Magical Misery Tour stop in Iowa, his command to get in people’s faces was carried out.

Unfortunately for Obama, it was his face that was gotten into.

If you will, Gentle Reader, allow me to lay out a timeline for you first, before I reveal the incident of which I speak.

We start with an incident reported by that phenomenal Conservative, Michelle Malkin, on September 18, 2008:

Barack Obama sharpened his attacks on John McCain and mocked the Republican’s recent calls for reform in two stops in Nevada on Wednesday after days of listening to nervous supporters fret about the Democrat’s chances of taking the White House.

…The feistier, more sarcastic tone came as worried Democrats urged Obama to get tougher and show more passion. Obama has tried to assure donors and voters that he’s been schooled by Chicago politics.

“I’m skinny but I’m tough,” he says…

…In Elko, Obama tried to anticipate his critics and called on the crowd of about 1,500 to sharpen their elbows, too.

“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face,” he said.

Fast forward to August 1st, 2011, in an article posted by politico.com, updated 8/2/11:

Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit, according to several sources in the room.

Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting.

“We have negotiated with terrorists,” an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. “This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.”

Biden, driven by his Democratic allies’ misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: “They have acted like terrorists.”

Biden’s office initially declined to comment about what the vice president said inside the closed-door session, but after POLITICO published the remarks, spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said: “The word was used by several members of Congress. The vice president does not believe it’s an appropriate term in political discourse.”

And that, Gentle Reader, brings us to yesterday, August 15, 2011, and the petulant President of the United States.  Here is a video of the “discussion”:

Last night, Senior Chief White House Correspondent for Fox News, Ed Henry, filed the following report, posted on gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com:

DECORAH, Iowa – President Obama got into a heated back and forth with a Tea Party activist who demanded to know at the end of a town hall meeting here whether or not Vice President Biden had called members of the Tea Party “terrorists” during the debt ceiling debate.

In public, Obama did not directly answer the question from Tea Party activist Ryan Rhodes about Biden. But Obama fired back that he knows better than anyone what it’s like to be slammed for his political views and was not about to accept a lecture on the topic.

“As someone who’s been called a socialist, not born here, taking away freedoms for providing health care, I’m all for lowering the rhetoric,” Obama said.

Obama did say he would discuss the matter further with Rhodes, founder of the Iowa Tea Party, after the event. And the duo was spotted in an animated conversation a few moments later.

In an interview later with Fox News, Rhodes claimed that the President insisted that Biden had not made the original comment.

“He just denied it, he said the Vice President didn’t make any of those assertions,” said Rhodes. “He doesn’t want to even admit what was on TV nationally — all over the place — then how can you have a conversation?”

Rhodes added that Obama brushed him aside. “Then he said ‘we can’t have a conversation because you’re saying I called you a terrorist,’” recalled Rhodes. “The fact is it demonstrates the deep divide that he is unwilling to negotiate without going after the other side, the whole day was about going after republicans and talking about how unreasonable they are.”

The private conversation between Rhodes and Obama was partially picked up by a TV camera but the audio was a little tough to make out. But Obama in general did seem to be saying the incident with Biden was misconstrued and that if Rhodes wanted to insist that the word “terrorist” was used then they were never going to see eye to eye.

The incident stems from a private meeting Biden attended at the height of the debt ceiling debate with House Democrats who were angry that Republicans were not meeting the President halfway. One lawmakers, Rep. Mike Doyle D-Pa.), went so far as to say that Republicans affiliated with the Tea Party had behaved like “terrorists” during the debate.

Some Democrats familiar with the meeting said at the time that Biden had appeared to agree with the sentiment expressed by Doyle and others as a way of moving the conversation along and convincing Democrats to support the final compromise. But Biden himself denied to CBS News that he had uttered the word “terrorist” in the meeting in the context of the Tea Party.

Here in Iowa, some people in the Iowa crowd here seemed to be unhappy with Rhodes. One woman was overheard confronting him by saying, “That was extraordinarily rude” to the President.

A second woman who did not want to be identified by name said she felt the exchange was “over the top aggressive.”

But Rhodes was not backing down. “I said my piece,” he said.

So, Gentle Reader, the moral of this story, which, evidently was not contained in the writings of Saul Alinsky, whose teachings in the book, Rules for Radicals, were embraced by a young Barack Obama:

Be careful what you ask for.  You just might get it.

…or…

It’s all on the wheel.  What goes around…comes around.

Tomorrow, the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) is going to step down off of the Throne of The Regime and embark on a bus tour of the Midwest, visiting the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.

Wow. A bus tour of the Midwest! How unique! Where did the president’s people come up with that idea?

Oh, wait…

 

Obama will be speaking at a townhall meeting in Cannon Falls, Minnesota on Monday before heading to Decorah, Iowa.

He will preside over a rural economic forum in Peosta, Iowa, on Tuesday, and on Wednesday he will hold town hall meetings in Atkinson and Alpha, Illinois before returning to Washington.

And, if you think the ” average American supporters” seen on camera attending these “forums” will not be hand-picked, I have a bridge over the Mississippi River to sell ya.

Look for the Union Label…

In 2008, he won all 3 states, which contribute 36 of the 270 Electoral votes required to win the presidency.

You’ll notice that he’s not touring Dixie.

Speaking of Dixie, Obama compared himself to a historical figure who was tragically gunned down in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

Per Keith Koffler, of whitehousedossier.com:

At a small, exclusive New York City fundraiser Thursday night featuring the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Obama compared himself and his agenda to that of Martin Luther King Jr.:

And now that King has his own memorial on the Mall I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times. There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But it doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction. And it takes time. And it’s hard work. And there are frustrations.

And, just like the great historical figure and unparalleled leader that he is, Obama spent yesterday working feverishly to make this country a better place for all of us….errr…ahhhh…maybe not.

Also, per Mr. Koffler:

President Obama went golfing today [yesterday], heading out for the 18th time this year and for the 76th time in his presidency, but for only the first time in seven weeks, having somehow not gotten a round in FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF JULY.

Obama had not been golfing since going twice on the weekend of June 25, the last of an incredible 13 weekends in a row that he had made it out on the links. It seems with the debt ceiling showdown and other matters, Obama actually HAD TO WORK WEEKENDS, causing him to miss some golf.

He will certainly make up for lost time starting Thursday, when he leaves for a ten day vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. He’s out today at the Andrews Air Force Base course with one of his usual posse, White House trip director Marvin Nicholson, as well as Marvin’s lucky brother Walter and someone named Grant Campbell.

But, first, he has his Petulant Presidential Propaganda Tour to complete.

It’s interesting that one of the states that he’s visiting is Iowa, the site of yesterday’s Republican Presidential Candidate Straw Poll,  won by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.

During her victory speech, Bachmann stressed faith and her Iowa roots (she was born in Waterloo) as well as her opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage. The crowd cheered when she declared:

We are going to make Barack Obama a one-term president.

Bachmann, riding high since entering the race earlier this summer, had hoped that a strong finish would give her even more momentum just as Perry looks to infringe on her base of tea party and evangelical support.  She invoked God and faith as she stressed what she called her conservative values, saying:

In Iowa, we are social conservatives and we will never be ashamed of being social conservatives.

Coming in second was perennial Presidential Candidate Ron Paul, followed by former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, in third place.

The straw poll is basically nothing but a popularity contest and a test of the organizational strength of each candidate.

Tickets to participate and vote in the event cost $30, although some campaigns picked up the tab for the tickets they distributed to their backers.

In the past, poor showings has forced some candidates, mostly those who are not well-known and are struggling to raise money, to abandon their campaigns.

The Iowa straw poll has a hit and miss record of predicting the outcome of the upcoming precinct caucuses.

That’s okay.  At the rate Obama’s job approval polls are dropping, the “Rent is Too D!@n High” Candidate Could Probably Run and Beat Him.

 

Every Saturday, the President of these United States (yes, Scooter, all 57 of them) Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmm) gives a Weekly Address.  Let’s look at today’s, shall we?

On Thursday, I visited a new, high-tech factory in Michigan where workers are helping America lead the way in a growing clean energy industry.

Where each job cost 2 million dollars to create.

They were proud of their work, and they should be. They’re not just showing us a path out of the worst recession in generations – they’re proving that this is still a country where we make things; where new ideas take root and grow; where the best universities, most creative entrepreneurs, and most dynamic businesses in the world call home. They’re proving that even in difficult times, there’s not a country on Earth that wouldn’t trade places with us.

Did that hurt to say, Mr. President?

That doesn’t mean we don’t face some very tough economic challenges. Many Americans are hurting badly right now. Many have been unemployed for too long. Putting these men and women back to work, and growing wages for everyone, has got to be our top priority.

Like the “yutes” outside your palace window, in Washington, D.C., 50% of whom, it has just been announced, are unemployed.

But lately, the response from Washington has been partisanship and gridlock that’s only undermined public confidence and hindered our efforts to grow the economy.

Huh.  Is that a fact?  According to a statement issued by Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Survey Director Richard Curtin, unemployment at 9.1 percent of the workforce, low wage rises, and the protracted debate in Congress over raising the U.S. government debt ceiling spooked consumers.

The preliminary August reading on the consumer sentiment index fell to 54.9 in early August, down from 63.7 in July, and the index has fallen for three straight months in the survey released Thursday.

So while there’s nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics, and that’s what we’ve got to fix. Because we know there are things Congress can do, right now, to get more money back in your pockets, get this economy growing faster, and get our friends and neighbors back to work.

You mean like not end President Bush’s Tax Cuts, as you’ve been desperately trying to accomplish, Scooter?

The payroll tax cut that put $1,000 back in the average family’s pocket this year? Let’s extend it. Construction workers who’ve been jobless since the housing boom went bust? Let’s put them back to work rebuilding America. Let’s cut red tape in the patent process so entrepreneurs can get good ideas to market more quickly. Let’s finish trade deals so we can sell more American-made goods around the world. Let’s connect the hundreds of thousands of brave Americans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan to businesses that need their incredible skills and talents.

And let’s quit punishing America’s small business owners…y’know…the ones who drive America’s economy?… with egregious taxes and regulations.  Okey Dokey, Scooter?

These are all things we can do right now. So let’s do them. And over the coming weeks, I’ll put forward more proposals to help our businesses hire and create jobs, and won’t stop until every American who wants a job can find one.

Yeah, right.  Let’s start with finding a competent individual  who can actually handle  your job, shall we?

But we can no longer let partisan brinksmanship get in our way – the idea that making it through the next election is more important than making things right. That’s what’s holding us back – the fact that some in Congress would rather see their opponents lose than see America win.

You mean, like your DNC Chair Debbie Wassmerman Schultz, who, while at the Iowa Stater Fair, said about Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Republican Presidential Candidates:

It’s just another example of the utter lack of commitment to maintaining Social Security and making sure that safety net is there for seniors.

Republican candidates should be more committed to figuring out how to promote the long-term security of Social Security and Medicare rather than dreaming up new ways to get rid of them.

If he’s got to come to Florida and that’s what he campaigns on, he’s going to be sent back across the state line.

You mean cheesy scare tactics like that one, Scooter?

So you’ve got a right to be frustrated. I am. Because you deserve better. And I don’t think it’s too much for you to expect that the people you send to this town start delivering.

We do deserve better, Scooter.  And Americans are going to take matters in their own hands in November of 2012.

Members of Congress are at home in their districts right now. And if you agree with me – whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican or not much of a fan of either – let them know.

We already have, time and time again.  Hence, the previous statement.  We’re fed up.…Or, haven’t you noticed that you’re sitting at 40% approval?

If you’ve had it with gridlock, and you want them to pass stalled bills that will help our economy right now – let them know.

Count on it. ..and make a reservation with “Two Men and a Truck” for January 2013.

If you refuse to settle for a politics where scoring points is more important than solving problems; if you believe it’s time to put country before party and the interests of our children before our own – let them know.

You mean like the 11th Circuit Court, who ruled yesterday that the Individual Mandate, in your Socialist National Healthcare Law,  forcing all Americans to buy Health Insurance, was unconstitutional?

They sent a shot across your bow, didn’t they, Scooter?

And maybe they’ll get back to Washington ready to compromise, ready to create jobs, ready to get our fiscal house in order – ready to do what you sent them to do.

Translation:   Please make those wascally Wepublicans shut up, get in line, and pass everything that I and my noble Democratic minions want them to.

Yes, we’ve still got a long way to go to get to where we need to be. We didn’t get into this mess overnight, and it’s going to take time to get out of it. That’s a hard truth – but it’s no excuse for inaction. After all, America voted for divided government, not dysfunctional government, and we’ve got work to do. And when we come together and find common ground, there’s no stopping this country. There’s no stopping our people. There’s no holding us back. And there is every reason to believe we’ll get through this storm to a brighter day.

…And maybe, someday…we’ll actually see a budget out of our minions in Congress…or some actual America-loving leadership from you, Scooter.

Although, I’m not going to hold my breath waiting.

Thanks for listening, and have a nice weekend.

It’ll be spent at home, Scooter.  Americans can’t afford to go out anywhere. 

Have a nice 10 day vay-cay at Martha’s Vineyard, and have some ice cream on behalf of us peons.

Last night, on Fox News, a debate, sponsored by the news channel, the Iowa Republican Party, and the Washington Examiner, was held featuring eight Republican Candidates for that party’s Presidential Nomination.

Unfortunately, after the debate was over, it left a lot of Conservative Americans saying:

Are these people all we have?

Allow me to summarize the evening’s excitement (and I use that term loosely):

Former Minnesota Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota Representative Michele Bachman continued their personal battle during the debate, sounding eerily similar to Tony DiNozzo and Kate Todd in the early days of the TV Series NCIS:

Did not…did too…did not….did too…did not…did too…

Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and Texas Representative and professional Pat Paulsen Impersonator (without the humor) Ron Paul went back and forth over Iran and nuclear weapons.

Grizzled Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, when asked about the meltdown of his campaign and his campaign staff heading for the hills, complained to the moderators about their “gotcha” questions.

Former Godfather’s Pizza C.E.O. Herman Cain continued to attempt to position himself as America’s solution to the Obama Economy:

It is clear from the discussion tonight that America needs a leader and a uniter. I represent growth. All the issues that we talk about, if we don’t get this economic engine moving by putting fuel in the engine, all of the rest of it won’t matter.

Jon Huntsman, making his presidential debate debut, admitted he had not offered an economic plan but cited his economic record as governor of Utah as evidence of what he would accomplish as president. He also defended his service as ambassador to China under Obama.

Basically, this goober spent the whole debate trying to convince everyone he was a Republican and not a Liberal Democrat.

He failed.

By now you’re probably saying:  But, KJ, what about the GOP Elite and Main Stream Media anointed front-runner, Mitt “The Legacy” Romney?

Basically, it appeared that Romney’s handlers advised him to “hold his own” during the debate, as evidenced by Mittens making such daring statements as this one, in which he replied to Obama’s Economic record:

If you spend your life in the private sector, you understand what President Obama has done is the complete opposite of what needs to be done.

Gee, Mittens…ya think? And, by the way, you’re a second generation politician.

Pawlenty (T-Paw) came after Mittens, in an attempt to call him accountable for the health care program he signed into law in Massachusetts, which is seen by the majority of Americans as the forerunner to Obamacare:

Obamacare was patterned after Mitt’s plan in Massachusetts, and for Mitt or anyone else to say they’re not essentially the same plan, it just isn’t credible. And that’s why I called it Obamneycare and I think that’s a fair label.

T-Paw also jumped on Romney’s record on spending and judicial appointments as governor.

Romney shot back by joking that he liked Pawlenty’s answer in the last debate better, eliciting a few laughs.  Romney then, once again, stood behind his government-run health care program, acknowledging there are similarities but also differences, using a states-rights argument.

We put together a plan that was right for Massachusetts. The president took the power of the people and the states away from them and put in place a one-size-fits-all plan.

Romney added that he would grant all 50 states a waiver from that law if he is elected.

Two of the biggest laughs of the night, albeit unintentional, came from the Republican Isolationist candidate, Ron Paul, who proclaimed:

It’s about time we talk to Cuba.

The elder statesman and Ob/Gyn also claimed the United States had created the hostile relations between it and Iran.

A short while later, he was seen sitting in a corner, underwear on top of his head, saying:

I like cheese.

Just kidding – A tip of the Jesters Hat to my buddy, Bishop.

Almost an hour into the debate Santorum raised his hand and said:

I haven’t gotten to say a lot.

Y’know, Rick, there may have been a reason for that.

Meanwhile, the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is presumed to announce that he is jumping into the fray on Saturday.  The 61-year-old Perry is the longest-serving chief executive of the state in its history and has held elected office for almost 27 years.

As, I reported in my two posts, Rick Perry: The Eyes of Texas (and Everybody Else) are Upon Him and Rick Perry:  Governing Deep in the Heart of Texas, this cowboy measures up to the three-legged stool known as Reagan Conservatism.

Whether he has the charisma to win the Presidency is another thing entirely.

Then again, he may not be the last Republican Candidate to declare his/her intentions…

Know what I mean, Vern?

As President Barack Hussein Obama’s Ship of State sinks faster than the Titanic, his friends in Hollywood are trying to help him bail…and they’re not being very subtle about it.

And Obama’s people are responding in kind.

The movie studio producing an epic about the U.S. special forces raid that killed muslim mass murderer Osama bin Laden is getting help from the Pentagon, but, don’t worry, gentle reader, the Administration proclaimed on Wednesday that no classified information has been leaked.

Per weeklystandard.com:

Sony Pictures, the company distributing next year’s film, hosted a fundraiser for Barack Obama on their studio’s premises in California last April. So far, Sony is the only major studio to hold a political fundraiser this cycle. According to Deadline Hollywood, Sony will release the bin Laden movie, directed by Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, on October 12, 2012–less than a month before the presidential election.

“The eyebrow does go up when you see the release date,” says Douglas Urbanski, a Hollywood producer and conservative radio talk show host. Urbanski said he believes Bigelow’s movie will be straightforward and apolitical, much like her 2009 war film The Hurt Locker (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture). But Sony’s decision to release the bin Laden movie just weeks before the election, he says, is most likely “very, very deliberate.”

Urbanski was a producer for The Contender, a 2000 political thriller with a plot that sympathized with a sex scandal-plagued Democrat and demonized a conservative Republican member of Congress. The movie was released on October 13, 2000. “It was without a doubt a deliberate attempt to influence the election,” says Urbanski.

The movie, featuring the only good thing that has happened under Obama’s watch, will hit America’s movie screens in October 2012, in a blatant attempt to influence American voters.

Was Dan Rather a consultant on this film?

The chairman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King (R), called Tuesday for an investigation into contacts between the administration and the filmmakers. King wants to know whether special operations methods had been compromised.

According to White House spokesman Jay “Jaybird” Carney in a recent press briefing:

The claims are ridiculous.

We do not discuss classified information. And I would hope that as we face the continued threat from terrorism, the House Committee on Homeland Security would have more important topics to discuss than a movie.

“Shut up,” he explained.

Per Pentagon spokesman, U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Dave Lapan, the Defense Department is cooperating with filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal as they work on a motion picture about the raid that killed bin Laden.

The two, who worked together on the Oscar-winning Iraq war movie “The Hurt Locker,” had been developing the bin Laden film even before the al Qaeda leader was killed in May in a raid on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.

In a statement, the pair said their movie covered a period of three different U.S. administrations that searched for bin Laden, including those of Presidents Clinton and Bush:

This was an American triumph, both heroic and non-partisan, and there is no basis to suggest that our film will represent this enormous victory otherwise.

After a New York Times column saying the film was timed to give Obama a “home-stretch boost” in his re-election bid was published, King has called for an investigation into the claim that Bigelow had been given “top-level access to the most classified mission in history.”

Lt. Col. Lapan responded, saying that the Defense Department is “providing assistance with script research, which is something we commonly do for established filmmakers.” Lapan said the Pentagon attempts to help filmmakers and authors but “we do not discuss classified information.”

According to Carney, the information provided to the filmmakers “has been focused on the president’s role”:

There is no difference in the information that we’ve given to anybody who’s working on this topic from what we gave to those of you in this room who worked on it in the days and weeks after the raid itself.”

Sure, Jaybird.  Now about the timing of the release…

As of yesterday, gallup.com reported that Obama has tied his all-time low for job approval, sitting at 40%.

And, on a day that saw the Stock Market dropping (again) over 500 points , a Reuters/Ipsos poll was released, with results showing that

73% of Americans believe the United States is “off on the wrong track,” and just one in five, 21 percent, think the country is headed in the right direction.

The survey found that 47 percent believe “the worst is yet to come” in the U.S. economy, an increase of 13 percentage points from a year ago when this question was last raised.

This is the highest measure since March 2009, when concern peaked at 57 percent, at the height of the recession.

There is some good news for Obama and his handlers, though:

Eighty percent of Muslim Americans approve of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president, according to a newly released survey conducted by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, a partnership between Gallup and the Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi.

Unfortunately for our petulant president, the Muslim population of the United States (yes, Scooter, all 57 of them) currently stands at a mere 1.5 per cent.

As for the majority of Americans, well…we’re convinced that he stinks on ice…and no movie produced by a bunch of  Liberal sycophants in Hollyweird is going to convince us otherwise.

The world seems to be becoming more and more chaotic as flash mobs have sprung up from nowhere, rioting, attacking people and property, seemingly in response to the harsh worldwide economic situation.

In London, they’re recovering from three nights of rioting where hundreds of people rampaged through the streets, leaving several local neighborhoods destroyed. One man is dead, dozens injured and arrested, with the protests spreading to parts of Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol.

In Great Britain, in late June, half the public schools in Britain where closed down due to a massive protest over public pensions cuts, including three major teachers’ unions, customs and immigration officers, and air traffic controllers. 750,000 people took part in the protest.

According to the press in London, unrest among the urban poor has been brewing for years, in neighborhoods like Tottenham, where the riots started.

However, just like the recent flash mob in Wisconsin, the press covered it up. According to one citizen of “Londonistan”:

There was not a word in the press about our protests. Last night (Saturday) a bit of rioting and looting and now look around you.

In response, Prime Minister David Cameron has doubled the amount of police officers in the streets and instituted curfews for young adults.

His conservative government is under fire for spending cuts to social programs in order to help reduce the country’s debt. Among those hit the hardest are large numbers of minority youths who have been at the forefront of the unrest.

And spending cuts cause people to lose their ethics, morals, and their very minds?

In Israel, 250,000 people participated in protests in Tel Aviv on Saturday over the rising cost of living. Demonstrations actually began last month when a few people set up tents in an expensive part of Tel Aviv to protest rising property prices.

According to Reuters, the protesters want the following:

Increase personal tax brackets for top earners

Enshrine the right to housing in the law; introduce rent controls; boost mortgage relief

Stop further privatization of things such as health facilities

Provide free education for all from the age of three months

Raise the minimum wage to 50 percent of the average wage

In the Mediterannean countries of Spain, Greece, and Portugal,there have been protests in reaction to government austerity programs and horrible economic conditions.

Riots started in Greece last June over the country’s parliament’s vote to approve severe cutbacks in government spending.

Dozens of people were hurt and businesses were destroyed as police battled rioters with tear gas and night sticks.

Greek lawmakers made the decision to make the spending cuts so Greece would be able to receive more bailout money from the International Monetary Fund and European Union.

The protests in Spain occurred when thousands of people turned out in late May to protest the country’s 21 percent unemployment rate.

They were also protesting against government corruption and austerity measures to reign in the country’s debt. Hundreds of people set up tents in a Madrid square and spent a week there in protest.

Last March, Portugal saw massive strikes and protests over government spending cuts. At least 200,000 people protested in Lisbon.

In the Phillipines,in May, thousands marched for higher pay. They wanted better wages in order to cope with rising inflation and higher oil prices.

The government has held job fairs in a meek response to the situation.

In Communist China, around 1,000 cab drivers in eastern China stopped traffic and protested on Aug. 1 over rising fuel costs.

China is experiencing surging inflation, with food prices recently increasing 12 percent.

In June, there were reports of thousands of workers fighting for three days with police in the capital city of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, during a protest of declining living standards.

The protests actually began in February,in an attempt to copy the Arab Spring uprising. At the time, calls through Chinese social networks were sent out for an uprising in several local cities.

According to published reports, the turnout was small in comparison to the enormous police presence and there were actually more fights between reporters and officials than demonstrators.

In Syria,starting with the Arab Spring, protests and riots against President Bashar al-Assad have been going on for five months.

Again, according to published reports, at least 1,600 people have been killed by the Syrian Government.

This is nothing new in Syria. In 1982 then-president Hafez al Assad, the father of Bashar al-Assad, sent troops into the Syrian town of Hama, slaughtering between 10 – 40,000 citizens.

Under siege by calls by Syria’s Arab neighbors as well as the United States, Assad says he has no intention of giving up his post as president.

And, before you reach the false assumption that this sort of Flash Mob Violence will not occur her, in the greatest country on Earth, allow me to draw your attention to this post from csmonitor.com:

State police are roaming the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee, looking for teenage troublemakers. Philadelphia is stepping up enforcement of a curfew for teens in the Center City business district. Chicago police have beefed up patrols along the city’s “Miracle Mile” district in response to recent teenage “flash robs,” some which police say were orchestrated via social media.

What connects the three city crackdowns are teen-perpetrated crimes that are part opportunistic, part thrill-seeking, and, some residents fear, part racially motivated: dozens of black teenagers collectively targeting, and attacking, white people they don’t even know. Resentment fueled by dogged segregation, poor unemployment opportunities for young black men, and historic inequalities may all be playing into an atmosphere of racial discontent, sociologists say.

“[Mob violence] certainly doesn’t seem to be a national problem, but [police are indicating] there’s now reason to believe that it could potentially emerge as a problem,” says Sean Varano, a criminologist at Roger Williams University, in Bristol, R.I.

On Monday, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said he would add street patrols and start enforcing a 9 p.m. weekend curfew for 13- to 18-year-olds for the Center City arts and shopping area. He took the step after a series of incidents over the past two years, including two in the past two weeks, in which black teens beat up on their victims, who were primarily white.

In a message Monday to the mob suspects, Mayor Nutter, Philadelphia’s third black mayor, said, “You have damaged your own race.”

“These are majority African-American youths and they need to be called on it,” the head of Philadelphia’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, J. Whyatt Mondesire, told the Washington Times.

So, the question I have, is: 

Are all these supposed Flash Mob Riots occurring spontaneously because of poor economic conditions, or, is all of this occurring as a result of behind-the-scenes forces using the downtrodden to implement their nefarious (be they secular or religious) plans?

Stay tuned and stay vigilant.

Yesterday, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) give his first public comment about Standard & Poor’s downgrade of U.S. debt to AA-plus from AAA. When Obama began his speech, the stock market was struggling, with investors looking for a sign of hope, at -320.

Evidently, Wall Street was not impressed with the president’s pontification (or as Rush Limbaugh dubbed him, Debt Man Talking). Stocks immediately strated sinking like the Titanic, ending the day at – 634.

According to reuters.com, Obama tried to achieve the following points with his speech, which (of course) was delivered 40 minutes late:

* Reassurance. Obama wanted to underscore to Americans that the United States remains the economic envy of the world despite the credit downgrade and will work its way through its fiscal problems.

“Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be AAA country,” he said.

* Persuasion. Obama sought to use the S&P downgrade to his advantage in a long-running dispute with congressional Republicans over how best to stem Washington’s red ink.

Republicans want only spending cuts, a position Obama’s Democrats believe is unreasonable given the pressing need to maintain spending for the social safety net.

While a joint bipartisan congressional committee will chart a way forward on reducing deficits by late November, Obama made clear where he stands: he wants to increase taxes on wealthier Americans and an end to some corporate tax loopholes to ease the pain of spending cuts.

* Influence. Obama said he would lay out a specific vision for deficit reduction to help the congressional committee.

That was considered the big news from his remarks because, technically, the recent deal on deficit reduction puts the next phase in the process in the hands of lawmakers in Congress.

No, Reuters.   Just as your Personal Credit Rating depends on the wisdom and credibility of the one writing the checks in your house, so does America’s Credit Rating depend on the wisdom and credibility of the individual writing the checks in the White House.

And, as the Stock Market showed yesterday, Scooter does not measure up in either of those categories.

Here’s a question, though, gentle reader. Why did the president go golfing at Camp David this weekend, instead of dealing with this historically horrible Downgrade? 

I mean, after all, he doesn’t have any friends or mentors who might profit from a downgrade of America’s Credit Rating, does he?

Yep.  He sure does.

Per dailymail.co.uk:

A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA credit rating.

Now questions are being asked of whether the trader had inside information before placing the $850million bet in the futures market, or if the bet happened at all.

There were mounting rumours that investor George Soros, 80, famously known as ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’, could be involved.

The link has been made to Mr Soros in part because he has been tied to President Obama’s administration since 2008, reported The Examiner.

He also recently stopped managing money for outside investors, meaning he is under less scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commision.

But the mystery bet could easily have been made by another trader with similar resources, despite Mr Soros’s links with the Obama administration.

The bet also raises questions of whether President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner knew that a downgrade was on the cards.

Mr Geithner said in April there was ‘no risk’ of a downgrade – but the government now appears annoyed, not surprised, by last week’s decision.

He has since slammed S&P for showing ‘terrible judgment’ in their decision and a ‘stunning lack of knowledge’ of U.S. fiscal budget maths.

Hmmm.

On  the heels of Obama’s miserable performance, Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin published a Facebook post yesterday, titled, Conquering the Storm, in which she blasted our anti-American President, in a way in which only the Arctic Fox could.  I’ll end my post today, quoting her eloquence, with the words by which she ended hers:

Be wary of the efforts President Obama makes to “fix” the debt problem. The more he tries to “fix” things, the worse they get because his “solutions” always involve spending more, taxing more, growing government, and increasing debt. This debt problem is the greatest challenge facing our country today. Obviously, President Obama doesn’t have a plan or even a notion of how to deal with it. His press conference today was just a rehash of his old talking points and finger-pointing. That’s why he can’t be re-elected in 2012.

Our economic news is disheartening and the task before us can seem daunting, but we must not lose our sense of optimism. People look around today and may see only the negative. They see a culture and a nation in decline, but that’s not who we are! America must regain its optimistic pioneering spirit again. Our founders declared that “we were born the heirs of freedom.” We are the heirs of those who froze with Washington at Valley Forge, who held the line at Gettysburg, who freed the slaves, carved a nation out of the wilderness, and allowed reward for work ethic. We are the sons and daughters of that Greatest Generation who stormed the beaches of Normandy, raised the flag at Iwo Jima, and made America the strongest and most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. By God, we will not squander what has been given us!

Our destiny is still in our own hands if we pick ourselves up and act responsibly and quickly. We must all get involved. Concerned Americans must seek truth, work harder than ever, and be willing to sacrifice today to ensure freedom tomorrow. Please get engaged in 2012 electoral politics and support experienced, vetted, pro-free market fiscal conservatives who will dedicate all to preserving our Republic and protecting our Constitution.

– Sarah Palin