Yesterday, United States President Barack Hussein Obama presented Richard Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, as the new  head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Per its former Obama-appointed leader and professional academician, Elizabeth Warren, in an article posted on the Bureau’s website, consumerfinance.gov:

One year ago, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which created this new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB). This law establishes a single point of accountability to assure that markets for consumer financial products work for American consumers and for responsible providers of those products. On July 21, the CFPB starts this work, and it will be a cop on the beat to enforce the laws on credit cards, mortgages, student loans, prepaid cards, and other kinds of financial products and services.

…The consumer bureau’s statutory obligations are designed to make markets for consumer financial products and services work in a fair, transparent, and competitive manner. This means, in part, creating a level playing field where all providers of consumer financial products and services are subject to meaningful oversight to ensure that they play by the rules. It also means creating a level playing field where both parties to the transaction – the customer and the lender – can understand the terms of the deal, where the price and the risk of products are made clear, and where direct comparisons can be made from one product to another.

Karl Marx would be so proud.

Mrs. Warren got booted out on her thesis when Obama declined to appoint her, a Harvard law professor, to a permanent position as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency she helped create to be a watchdog over mortgages, credit cards and other financial tools.

Warren, slighty to the left of Vladimir Lenin, would never have have passed her Senate confirmation hearings.

Yesterday, Professor Warren announced that she wants to get some rest and take a break from politics before deciding whether to run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts:

Massachusetts does beckon in the sense that it’s my home and I need to go home.

And when I go home, I’ll do more thinking then. But I need to do that thinking not from Washington.

Warren would have to win the race for the Democratic nomination in order to take on incumbent GOP Sen. Scott Brown.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer has weighed in about the new appointment.  Per Cramer:

[Banks] were thrilled because they feared the unflappable Warren, who had frequently expressed contempt and anger about the banks and their executives, would decimate bank earnings and serve as a nationally appointed nemesis of the financial industry.

But any the relief the banks are feeling right now is premature, according to the “Mad Money” host.  His record as Ohio AG shows that Cordray, took aim at the national banks and has been a big supporter of the rights of borrowers against the lenders.

Cramer said:

I think that Cordray will be both for cuts in both interest and principal, something that will annihilate the banks’ meager earning and stand the whole mortgage business on its ear.

Cramer went on to say that bank investors shouldn’t be so quick to come out of the fallout shelter, because Cordray’s going to be the defaulting borrower’s best friend.

The other little tidbit that’s traveling under the radar is the fact that Cordray, 52, is known as an ally of Elizabeth Warren. In fact, he has been working with her as director of enforcement for the agency.

Per Warren:

He will make a stellar director.

Uh oh.

Republicans fought tooth and nail against the creation of the bureau last year and since then, they have been trying to place all the restrictions on the agency that they possibly can.

In May, all of the Republicans in the Senate signed a letter to Obama threatening to withhold their support for any nominee to the position if the White House didn’t make significant changes to the agency.

Among the changes they suggested would be to replace a single director with a board and to make the bureau’s finances subject to congressional approval.

Imagine that…a system of checks and balances. Now, where have I heard of that before?

Anyway, Obama’s introduction of Cordray as the head of the Financial Section of the Politboro…err…I mean the CFPB, was not received as enthusiastically as the president thought that it would be.

From realclearpolitics.com:

“Back in the 80’s, Richard was also a five-time Jeopardy champion and a semi-finalist in the Tournament of Champions. Not too shabby,” President Obama said as he announced the nomination of Richard Cordray to run the consumer bureau on Monday.

“That’s why all his confirmation — all the answers at his confirmation hearings will be in a form of a question,” Obama said to silence.

“That’s a joke,” he reminded the audience.

So’s your presidency, Scooter.  That’s why no one is laughing.

Hey, has anybody heard how Rick Santorum is doing in his quest to become the Republican Nominee for President? No?

What was Newt Gingrich up to this weekend? You don’t know?

Say…How about that Human Dynamo Tim Paw…Zzzzzz…excuse me…I nodded off.

But, there is some excitement in the Republican Sphere.  Stephen Bannon’s movie about Sarah Palin, The Undefeated, opened in 10 theaters this weekend, averaging between $5,000 – $7,500 per screen.

Per the Hollywood Reporter:

We didn’t put a nickel of P&A into this and the distributor had the movie for only three weeks. To describe this as anything but a hit is inaccurate,” director-writer Stephen Bannon told The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday.

“We took out only one ad, which is what AMC required of us. We did a high-risk thing. I wanted to see how we could open on word-of-mouth and social media,” said Bannon.

Bannon also said the numbers are misleading, given the small theaters where Undefeated played.

“This is a documentary opening against Harry Potter on the toughest weekend of the year. We had small numbers but only in small theaters. In bigger markets, like Orange County, we’ll do $12,000 per screen,” Bannon said.

“One theater had, like, 95 seats. Most places upgraded us to a bigger screen because of demand. Where we had the capacity, we did more than $10,000 per screen,” he said.

Bannon also said audiences reacted much in the same way they did at the premiere in Pella, Iowa a few weeks ago: with standing ovations. He said he intends on putting video of the positive response online.

“The combination of passionate audience response, sustained standing ovations and in-theater Twittering convinces us that this is a special film that will have incredible word-of-mouth,” said Glenn Bracken Evans, co-founder of Victory Film Group, which financed the film with its partners.

ARC Entertainment and Cinedigm, which helped get the film into theaters, opened the film in Palin strongholds—Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Phoenix, Orlando, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Orange, Calif.

ARC said theaters in larger markets enjoyed per screen averages of nearly $10,000 on Saturday night. The theater in Phoenix played Undefeated on two screens at one point because of demand.

Bannon said details of a wider release will be announced Monday.

“We expect word-of-mouth to keep ticket sales strong and we will definitely expand the film to a wider national audience,” said ARC CEO Trevor Drinkwater.

Bannon also said independent filmmakers can learn something from the way Undefeated got a quick and inexpensive release that included efficiently marketing the movie to its target audience.

“Harry Potter is historic, and in our little way, we are too,” Bannon said. “We’re a template for independent film releases.”

Lord Voldemort’s vendetta against Harry Potter pales in comparison to the Main Stream Media, the Elite of both political parties, and “Fiscal Conservatives”‘ (i.e., Moderates, Libertarians, or incognito Liberals) hatred of Sarah Palin.

Check out this movie review from theweek.com:

No one was expecting a Tea Party Citizen Kane from conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon, but all the same, critics (who’ve, so far, given the movie a 0 percent favorability rating on Rotten Tomatoes) are deriding the film, not just for being pro-Palin propaganda, but for being “bad propaganda.” How foul is it?

It’s amateurishly bad: The Palin documentary “makes no pretense of being anything more than a full-length commercial endorsement of her character and accomplishments,” says Robert Levin at The Atlantic. It’s just too bad the director, conservative Stephen Bannon, isn’t a better filmmaker. He beats every talking point to a pulp, “with earsplitting soundtrack flourishes, aggressive montage, and an overall state of high anxiety.” The film’s biggest problem isn’t its “hagiographic leanings.” It’s the “simple fact that its director needs to go back to film school.”

“Sarah Palin’s The Undefeated: Bad propaganda, worse filmmaking”

And quite boring: “The first hour of The Undefeated, scrupulously attentive to Palin’s rise through state politics, is pretty rough going, a turgid primer in Alaska’s pipeline management and oil, gas and, yes, milk subsidies,” says Richard Corliss at TIME. What could have been a compelling film about Palin’s place in the political landscape, and the establishment’s handling of her, is marred by Bannon’s clumsy, yawn-inducing attempt at propaganda. The movie might lead “even the most ardent conservatives to emulate their idol’s tenure as governor and walk out halfway through.”

“The Undefeated: Her holiness Sarah Palin”

And very thin on new material: This film is little more than “a string of encomiums against a backdrop of frantically edited archival material,” says Todd McCarthy at The Hollywood Reporter. Palin wasn’t even interviewed for the documentary, though some excerpts from her audio book are featured. There’s no worthwhile analysis here, “nothing about her personal life, international inexperience or interview gaffes.” It’s essentially a redundant, two-hour film “stitched together with a thousand sound bites” and a grating musical score.

At the same time, these clowns probably consider Janeane Garafalo, a gorgeous woman and a great actress…and Lady Gaga,the epitome of class and refinement.

I find it both fascinating and disgusting at the same time to watch the Progressive Leaders and all of their sycophants and unwitting dupes, on both sides of the aisle, as they attack Sarah Palin and everything that she stands for with a fervor and unceasing rage that makes Lord Voldemort seem like Deepak Chopra in comparison.

Sarah Palin is receiving more attention than all of the Republican Presidential Nominees, including the Legacy, Mitt Romney, combined.

And she’s not even running…yet.

As of July13th, 2011, President Barack Hussein Obama’s approval rating stood at 42%, per gallup.com, not exactly a Conservative polling organization.

Thoughout his reign as the Leader of the Far Left, masquerading as a Moderate President of the United States, Obama has shown himself to be out of touch with average American thought.

Let’s review a few examples:

He started out his presidency by giving a speech at the University of Cairo, on June 4th, 2009,  an attempt to reach out to the Muslim World, the same people who danced in the streets when 3,000 Americans were massacred on September 1st, 2001.  He said:

…There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground. As the Holy Koran tells us, “Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.” (Applause.) That is what I will try to do today — to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart

Now part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I’m a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.

As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities — (applause) — it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. (Applause.)

I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote, “The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.” And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, they have served in our government, they have stood for civil rights, they have started businesses, they have taught at our universities, they’ve excelled in our sports arenas, they’ve won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers — Thomas Jefferson — kept in his personal library. (Applause.)

This was only the beginning of a worldwide apology tour, where he made a very public show of apologizing for our country’s transgressions to every two-bit, tinhorn despot around the globe.

Beginning with the passage of Obamacare, by him and his Congressional minions, holding clandestine meetings, both on Christmas, and in the dark of night, Obama has shown the propensity to do whatever he wants to, in order to further his personal agenda, regardless of the wishes of the people whom he is supposed to be serving.

The day after this Gallup Presidential Job Approval Poll closed, Obama, flailing mightily in a situation of his own making, the Debt Ceiling/Budget Battle, announced in a morning press conference, that 80% of Americans wanted their taxes increased.

Of course, he had no corroborating evidence to back that claim up.  He just pulled it out of thin air (or a darker region).

And his supporters wonder why his approval polls numbers are sinking faster than Lady Gaga’s record sales.

Former (Thank you, Lord!) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said the other day that Obama was just like the Biblical Hero, Job, because of the patience he’s shown during the Debt Ceiling/Budget battle.

San Fran Nan has lost her mind…what little there was.

Job was a great man, a hard worker who was

blameless and upright, one who feared God andturned away from evil.

Tell ya what, Nan, read up about Haman in the Book of Esther, and get back to me.

Congressional nutjob Sheila Jackson Lee then proclaimed that she had it all figured out:

Obama is failing because we’re all Raaaciiists!

What makes it difficult is we have leadership in the other body that is Republican that says their main job is to defeat President Obama in 2012.

Hallelujah! Amen.

Why is there such a devastating attitude from our friends on the other side of the aisle?

Because the American people can’t stand him, you idiot!

I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president…has received the kind of attacks and disagreements and inability to work. Only this one. Read between the lines.

Waitasec. What about Booosh?

What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statutes and the 14th amendment.

Jackson Lee, D-Texas, also brought up the contentious debate over the Affordable Care Act as an example of lawmakers being disrespectful to the president, noting that she had

…never seen the level of [disrespect] depicting of the president of the United States by Americans as I had during that debate.

I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness of this president. Why is he different? In my community that is the question we raise. In the minority community that is a question being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully?

Why is he treating the American people so disrespectfully?

He is no different than any other president that has served, and I beg this House and I beg this Congress to treat him with the dignity that that office deserves. Get on with our work. Get on with solving the problems of the American people – a diversely, multicultural nation.

Sheila-baby, you need to understand something about average Americans’ problem with Barack Hussein Obama:

IT’S NOT THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN.  IT’S THE CONTENT OF HIS CHARACTER.

Yesterday, the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, held a press conference on the state of the Debt Ceiling/Battle of the Budget meetings currently taking place between him and Congressional Leaders, which are presently making all the progress of a rock.

To say that the president is a master of prevarication is like saying that Albert Pujols is a fairly good baseball player.

Here is a partial transcript of the press conference, with the, err, exaggerations, highlighted:

All the congressional leaders have reiterated the desire to make sure that the United States does not default on our obligations, and that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved. That is a good thing. I think we should not even be this close to a deadline on this issue; this should have been taken care of earlier.

After all, he’s taking August off for Ramadan.

…These are obligations that the United States has taken on in the past. (Boooosh!)  Congress has run up the credit card, and we now have an obligation to pay our bills. If we do not, it could have a whole set of adverse consequences. We could end up with a situation, for example, where interest rates rise for everybody all throughout the country, effectively a tax increase on everybody, because suddenly whether you’re using your credit or you’re trying to get a loan for a car or a student loan, businesses that are trying to make payroll, all of them could end up being impacted as a consequence of a default.

Oooooh….scary.

Now, what is important is that even as we raise the debt ceiling, we also solve the problem of underlying debt and deficits. I’m glad that congressional leaders don’t want to default, but I think the American people expect more than that. They expect that we actually try to solve this problem, we get our fiscal house in order.

Heck…we expected you to do that 2 and 1/2 years ago…and we got a tanking economy and Obamacare, instead.

And so during the course of these discussions with congressional leaders, what I’ve tried to emphasize is we have a unique opportunity to do something big. We have a chance to stabilize America’s finances for a decade, for 15 years, or 20 years, if we’re wiling to seize the moment.

Our great-grandchildren are already going to be paying for your brilliant economic strategy, Scooter.  Why don’t you quit while you’re ahead?

…It also requires cuts in defense spending, and I’ve said that in addition to the $400 billion that we’ve already cut from defense spending, we’re willing to look for hundreds of billions more.

But, how will you pay for all of the “How to Accept Homosexuals in the Military” Training?

It would require us taking on health care spending. And that includes looking at Medicare and finding ways that we can stabilize the system so that it is available not just for this generation but for future generations.

I have a better idea.  Repeal Obamacare.

And it would require revenues. It would require, even as we’re asking the person who needs a student loan or the senior citizen or people — veterans who are trying to get by on a disability check — even as we’re trying to make sure that all those programs are affordable, we’re also saying to folks like myself that can afford it that we are able and willing to do a little bit more; that millionaires and billionaires can afford to do a little bit more; that we can close corporate loopholes so that oil companies aren’t getting unnecessary tax breaks or that corporate jet owners aren’t getting unnecessary tax breaks.

Again with the corporate jets.  Were you frightened as a baby by a jet flying too close over your head?

If we take that approach, then I am confident that we can not only impress the financial markets, but more importantly, we can actually impress the American people that this town can actually get something done once in a while.

Not a chance in you-know-where.

Now, let me acknowledge what everybody understands: It is hard to do a big package. My Republican friends have said that they’re not willing to do revenues and they have repeated that on several occasions.

My hope, though, is that they’re listening not just to lobbyists or special interests here in Washington, but they’re also listening to the American people. Because it turns out poll after poll, many done by your organizations, show that it’s not just Democrats who think we need to take a balanced approach; it’s Republicans as well.

If they are not, just like you, they’re going to be out on their keisters, come January of 2013.

The clear majority of Republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues. That’s not just Democrats; that’s the majority of Republicans. You’ve got a whole slew of Republican officials from previous administrations. You’ve got a bipartisan commission that has said that we need revenues.

So this is not just a Democratic understanding;  (you hope) this is an understanding that I think the American people hold that we should not be asking sacrifices from middle-class folks who are working hard every day, from the most vulnerable in our society — we should not be asking them to make sacrifices if we’re not asking the most fortunate in our society to make some sacrifices as well.

…The fallback position, the third option and I think the least attractive option, is one in which we raise the debt ceiling but we don’t make any progress on deficit and debt. Because if we take that approach, this issue is going to continue to plague us for months and years to come. And I think it’s important for the American people that everybody in this town set politics aside, that everybody in this town set our individual interests aside, and we try to do some tough stuff. And I’ve already taken some heat from my party for being willing to compromise. My expectation and hope is, is that everybody, in the coming days, is going to be willing to compromise.

…The bottom line is that this is not an issue of salesmanship to the American people; the American people are sold. The American people are sold. I just want to repeat this. The whole —

Chuck Todd, NBC News – You don’t think the whole debate would have been different? You had Republican support on it.

Obama: Chuck —

Chuck Todd: Tom Coburn, the Republican senator, signed onto it.

Obama: Chuck, you have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem. The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically into various positions because they boxed themselves in with previous statements.

To quote Rep. Tom Wilson, YOU LIE!

Per rasmussenreports.com:

Just 34% think a tax hike should be included in any legislation to raise the debt ceiling. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 55% disagree and say it should not.

…Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Democrats want a tax hike in the deal while 82% of Republicans do not. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 35% favor a tax hike and 51% are opposed.

Americans who earn more than $75,000 a year are evenly divided as to whether a tax hike should be included in the debt ceiling deal. Those who earn less are opposed to including tax hikes.

Voters remain very concerned about the debt ceiling issue. Sixty-nine percent (69%) believe that it would be bad for the economy if a failure to raise the debt ceiling led to government defaults. Only 6% believe it would be good for theeconomy. Fourteen percent (14%) believe it would have no impact and 11% are notsure. These figures are little changed from a few weeks ago.

Mr. President, you are out of touch with the American people.  No sane American wants their taxes increased. 

This is not Russia.  You are not Lenin.  We are not your Proletariat.

We are Americans!

As I reported yesterday, right before President Barack Hussein Obama took his ball and went home, walking out of the Debt Ceiling/Budget Meeting with Congressional Leaders on Wednesday, he warned Congressman Eric Cantor:

Eric, don’t call my bluff.

Obama told Cantor that he would take his case “to the American people.” Obama also told Cantor that no other president — not Ronald Reagan, the president said — would sit through such negotiations.

So, today, at 10 a.m. Central, (actually about 30 to 45 minutes later, Obama Standard Time) Obama is holding a Press Conference.

Remember, reporters, no shouting.  He’s sensitive.

Obama is going to be pleading his case to the American people as to why it’s imperative that he is allowed to order the raising of America’s Debt Ceiling.

The president has a huge problem, per thehill.com:

Only 27 percent of likely voters favor raising the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, while 62 percent oppose it, according to an exclusive poll for The Hill.

The poll found solid opposition from Republicans and also from independent voters, who are critical to President Obama’s re-election in 2012.

Barry…you got some ‘splainin’ to do!

This is not the first Hot Button Issue that the president has been on the opposite side from the overwhelming majority of the American people.  For instance:

1.  The Stimulus Bill – Even before it was signed into law by Obama, per rasmussenreports.com, 60% of Americans said that the  Stimulus Plan was what the Democrats wanted, and was not bipartisan.

Of course,  Obama went ahead and signed it into law…and it turned out to help America’s economy about as much as a screen door helps a submarine.

2.  Obamacare – On 3/22/10, before the passage of the Obamanation known as the National Healthcare Law, a poll was released by CNN/Opinion Research, in which the following question was asked:

As you may know, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are trying to pass finallegislation that would make major changes in the country’s health care system. Based on what you have read or heard about that legislation, do you generally favor it or generally oppose it?

Mar 19-21, 2010

Favor 39%

Oppose 59%

No opinion 2%

Obama signed the Bill into Law on march 22, 2010.  It will eventually wind up before the United Supreme Court, which will decide its Constitutionality.

3.  The Auto Bailouts – Back in 2008, Chrysler, Ford, and GM were seeking a total of $34 billion in federal loans to buy them time to restructure and stave off bankruptcy, which they said would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. They presented recovery plans to Congress.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, from December 3rd of 2008,  found that 61 percent were against the loans, while 36 percent supported them. The poll also found 53 percent who said they don’t believe that aiding the automakers would help the broader economy at the time.

The support for the automakers was damaged, in part because of withering criticism of auto executives, who flew private jets to Washington to ask for money.

Of course, GM and Chrysler were bailed out, using our money.

ABC’s Jake Tapper reported on his blog, on June 3rd, 2011:

President Obama today will again herald the recovery of the U.S. auto industry and the success of the $80 billion financial bailout his administration sponsored for GM and Chrysler.

“If any of the Republicans running for president now had been president in 2009, auto workers wouldn’t be on the assembly line today, they’d be on the unemployment line,” White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said this morning on MSNBC.

But saving the auto companies from bankruptcy, and preserving thousands of American jobs, has cost taxpayers at least $14 billion, according to several estimates by government agencies and independent groups.

To put it in perspective, $14 billion is double the annual budget of the Transportation Security Administration, or roughly two months of operating expenses for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, based on 2010 figures.

Rasmussenreports.com conducted a poll on October 20, 2010, right before the political massacre known as the Midterm Election:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most Likely Voters think their representative in Congress does not deserve reelection if he or she voted for the national health care law, the auto bailouts or the $787-billion economic stimulus plan. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Those votes also appear to be driving factors in the GOP’s consistent lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot. Most strong supporters of President Obama believe those who voted for the measures should be reelected. Even more of those who Strongly Oppose the president disagree.

Forty-three percent (43%) of all Likely Voters say someone who voted for the health care law deserves to be reelected. Fifty percent (50%) oppose their reelection.

Thirty-six percent (36%) say if their local representative voted for the taxpayer bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler, he or she deserves to be returned to Congress. Fifty-three percent (53%) say that person does not deserve reelection.

Similarly, 41% say their representative in Congress should be reelected if he or she voted for the stimulus plan. But 50% don’t see it that way and say the individual should not be reelected.

And we all remember how the Midterms turned out.

So, the Question of the Day, is:

Why should we listen to you, Mr. President?

PAY ATTENTION, SCOOTER!…ON SECOND THOUGHT…DON’T.

 

 

 

Perhaps we news junkies should have had an inkling about what kind of a day President Barack Hussein Obama was going to have yesterday, when his Press Secretary, Jay Carney, scolded the reporters assembled for the daily press briefing over the time-honored practice of shouting their questions to the president.

Obama does not like the practice and has gone so far as covering his disdain for it by only allowing stills of his appearances at the press briefings, instead of live cameras, because they might capture Obama being the petulant snob that he is.

Carney explained why they only allowed still cameras in yesterday’s briefing:

People shouted questions at him. The purpose of the meeting is not to create a circus, but to negotiate, so today we’re doing stills only.

So, there!  Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.

Then, our petulant president got upset at the 2:45 p.m. meeting he held with Congressional leaders yesterday, and abruptly walked out of the meeting, according to politico.com.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told reporters in the Capitol after the meeting:

He shoved back and said ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ and walked out.

Obama’s First Presidential Temper Tantrum (TM) comes on the heels of an announcement by Moody’s rating agency warning that American debt could be downgraded.

The president had a hissy fit when Cantor said the two sides were too far apart to get a deal that could pass the House by the Treasury Department’s Aug. 2 deadlineand that he would consider moving a short-term debt-limit increase alongside smaller spending cuts.  At that point, the former collegiate  guest lecturer, who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, began to lecture him.

Scooter upon telling the Congressman that he would take his case “to the American people” and that no other president, including Ronald Reagan,  would sit through such negotiations.

The president warned Cantor:

Eric, don’t call my bluff.

Of course, Scooter’s playmates say that Cantor got the indicent all wrong.  The Democrats said that Obama was “impassioned” but claim he didn’t exactly storm out of the room.

According to one of Obama’s minions:

Cantor’s account of tonight’s meeting is completely overblown. For someone who knows how to walk out of a meeting, you’d think he’d know it when he saw it. Cantor rudely interrupted the president three times to advocate for short-term debt ceiling increases while the president was wrapping the meeting. This is just more juvenile behavior from him and Boehner needs to rein him in, and let the grown-ups get to work.

So, there, again!  Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.

As he stormed out of the room, heading upstairs to Mama, Scooter said that

…”this confirms the totality of what the American people already believe” about Washington, according to a Democratic official familiar with the negotiations, and that officials are “too focused on positioning and political posturing” to make difficult choices.

The striking difference between what Rep. Cantor related about the presidential Temper Tantrum and Scooter’s account of the incident, is the fact that Cantor spoke directly to reporters about the president.  Obama’s minions told the story, trying to cover for Obama’s decidedly un-presidential actions.

Cantor went on to accuse the president and his Congressional minions of increasingly low-balling, over the last several days, the savings that could be achieved from proposals discussed by Vice President Joe Biden’s working group on deficit reduction.  According to Cantor, the group has not yet identified enough cuts to win House passage of a $2.5 trillion debt-limit increase, the size the president says is needed to get through the 2012 election.

Obama ordered Cantor that he would either have to agree to tax increases or give up on his demand that the debt hike be matched dollar-to-dollar to the cuts — that is, $2.5 trillion in deficit-reduction over 10 years in exchange for a $2.5 trillion hike in the debt ceiling.

Cantor said that when they return to the White House this afternoon, they are supposed discuss savings from health care programs, budget caps and options for raising revenue.  The president gave additional orders to the participants, according to the Congressman:

Then he said we also ought to get in the mode here, because we’re going to have to decide by Friday which way we’re going. He said really we ought to all start to think about things we can do rather than things we can’t.

Cantor said that he would be willing to take incremental steps to help solve the debt ceiling-increase issue.

However,  Obama said he wouldn’t do the debt-limit increase incrementally and that he would veto a short-term bill.

According to Cantor:

That’s when he got very agitated.

An anonymous [Democratic] witness said:

Obama lit him up. Cantor sat in stunned silence. “It was incredible. If the public saw Obama he would win in a landslide.”

Because, as we all know, American’s just loove a president who acts like a schoolyard bully when he can’t get his way...NOT.

Per Cantor:

I’m trying to represent where the votes are in the House. and we’ve always said the votes in the House are consistent with the principles that the speaker’s laid out that we’ve been operating on.  It is dollar-for-dollar match, it is the no tax increase and it is this other subject that we are discussing tomorrow the enforcement mechanisms … I understand why he’s frustrated. But again, we’re trying to get this thing done, and that’s why I was a little taken aback.

Obama has stated that he wants an assessment on Friday of where the process stands .

Obama is watching the calender, and has given a deadline of August 2nd for a decision to be rendered.

It just so happens that August 1st is the start of Ramadan, the Muslim Holy Days, during which the devout are not allowed to work.

Not to mention the fact that he and his family are heading up to Martha’s Vineyard in August for an extended vacation.

That’s our boy Scooter…always putting the welfare of America first.

**snort**

Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, former owner of the NBC networks, lectured America’s Businessmen at a jobs summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday that businesses needed to take the lead on job creation.

Immelt’s lecture came at a conference filled with comments about all the government red tape and unneeded regulations that were preventing them from hiring Americans.

While Immelt was forced to admit that there needed to be some policy changes by Congress and the Obama administration, he fired back at those assembled, saying that the responsibility for hiring lay with businesses:

The people who are part of the business sector, the people in this room, have got to stop complaining about government and get some action underway.There’s no excuse today for lack of leadership. The truth is we all need to be part of the solution.

Immelt just happens to be the chairman of President Barack Hussein Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. According to him, the council has made a number of recommendations for changes in government policies that are supposed to help create jobs, such as the executive order announced Monday asking independent agencies to rid their books of old and outdated regulations.

Immelt told the Chamber Meeting that he is committed to working with Obama on other moves that can help hiring, and that he expects to have proposals by the end of the year that should help to create up to 1 million jobs.

However, after announcing how much he and the president truly care about America’s business owners, Immelt then scolded those assembled, lecturing them that it’s important that businesses take action — like taking some risks, and thinking about bringing back jobs that had been moved overseas.

Immelt said that if companies would examine the changing economics of some of those jobs, they would find it is beneficial to bring jobs back home, boasting that GE is in the process of moving some jobs back to Kentucky and Michigan.

Why did you move those jobs in the first place, Jeffrey? Too much Corporate Tax, even for you, Huh?

According to the president’s personal adviser, arguing between business groups and the government isn’t in the best interest of the nation’s economy:

We can’t always be fighting. We need to act, and the private sector can do more.

In other words:

SHUT UP AND EAT YOUR PEAS!

Questions have been raised concerning Immelt being appointed by Obama to head this influential Committee. Those questions concern whether or not the head of GE is using the position to “shill” for GE’s expansive business interests. Tory Newmeyer, in an article posted on fortune.cnn.com, on July 6, 2011, explains how those concerns are well-founded:

The charge from labor-friendly liberals and free-market conservatives has been the same: the appointment represents pure crony capitalism. The leaders of the largest U.S. multinationals are hardly the best suited to give advice on domestic job creation, the line goes, when they spent the last decade eliminating 2.9 million jobs at home and adding 2.4 million overseas. And in particular, the chief of GE, No. 6 on the Fortune 500, shouldn’t be charged with heading that effort, considering the company’s sprawling lobbying agenda in Washington.

The company spent more than $39 million on lobbying efforts last year alone, making it the third-biggest spender in the city, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And its advocacy reaches into just about every conceivable policy debate, from the narrow — the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act — to the sweeping, including the fights over health care and financial reform and a multibillion-dollar battle with Pratt & Whitney over a military jet engine.

Immelt himself has made clear that his part-time, volunteer work for the council won’t distract him from his day job. “This is my passion, I’m committed,” he told analysts on an earnings call in January. But he’s been more equivocal about how GE’s interests would inform his participation on the panel, officially known as the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

At a shareholder meeting in April, Immelt was confronted by an activist from a right-wing group behind an online campaign urging GE to fire him for cozying up to the Obama administration. David Ridenour, a vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, asked Immelt to explain whether he is representing shareholders or the broader American public on the council. The GE (GE) chief responded that he is representing his “best judgment, and frequently because of my point of reference, they’ll be associated with GE, but not all the time.” And he demurred on whether he’d oppose a council recommendation that hurts his shareholders. “I just don’t want to give this kind of black and white philosophy,” he said.

GE provides for Immelt’s travel to and from jobs council activities, company spokesman Andrew Williams says, noting that Immelt uses the trips to conduct company business. After a meeting in Durham, North Carolina last month, for example, Immelt visited a GE plant that assembles jet engines. And while Treasury provides most of the staff for the council’s work, GE has detailed one person to work on council business with Immelt.

Of course, Monday’s chamber meeting came on the heels of a truly horrendous monthly jobs report, which showed that only 18,000 Americans were hired nationally in June, raising America’s unemployment figures to 9.2 per cent, causing Immelt to proclaim:

We have a lot of work to do.

Ya think, DiNozzo?

Earlier in the meeting, Chamber President and CEO Thomas Donohue laid out his group’s broad plans to improve hiring, with the bulk of the Chamber’s focus on changes in government policies. Donohue called for the passage of pending free trade agreements, reform of visa rules to allow companies to hire skilled workers and recent graduates from overseas and to boost spending by foreign visitors. He also called for easier permitting of new projects and reform of government regulations.

Donohue said:

Can you blame these businesses? They don’t know what’s going to hit them next, and that’s what worries them the most.

Their employees aren’t too happy about Obama’s Economy, either.

President Barack Hussein Obama, earlier this afternoon, proclaimed, in a grieved voice, that he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.

Obama told CBS Evening News Anchor Scott Pelley:

I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it

Obama has been predicting an economic Armageddon for the last several weeks in a desperate attempt to force Republicans to raise the Debt Ceiling and roll over in the Budget Battle, like a bunch of good little squishes.

The deadline given to Republicans by Obama for compliance with his royal decree is August 2nd, coincidentally (?) coinciding with the beginning of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.:

Per holidays.net:

Observed by more than one billion Muslims around the world, Ramadan is a time for spiritual purification achieved through fasting, self-sacrifice and prayers.

Celebrated during the ninth month of Islamic calendar, the fast is observed each day from sunrise to sunset. Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five Pillars of Islam. The Islamic belief that requires that Muslims perform five central duties in order to strengthen their faith. While Islam has two major sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, all Muslims aim to realize these five pillars in their lifetime.

Ramadan concludes with a 3-day festival known as “Eid” or “Eid ul-Fitr,” which literally means “the feast of the breaking/to break the fast.” The holiday marks the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and is a culmination of the month-long struggle towards a higher spiritual state.

*Update Ramadan 2011: According to Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) Ramadan 1432 in North America, begins on the evening of Sunday, July 31, 2011, so that the first day of fasting would be Monday, August 1, 2011. Also According to Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) Eid-al-Fitr in North America is on Tuesday, August 30, 2011.

Obama told Pelley during an interview that will air Tuesday evening on the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley:

This is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out.

Obama’s statements were in reply to what Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in remarks earlier today on the Senate floor:

After years of discussions and months of negotiations, I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is probably unattainable.

The president has presented us with three choices: smoke and mirrors, tax hikes, or default. Republicans choose none of the above. I had hoped to do good, but I refuse to do harm. So Republicans will choose a path that actually reflects the will of the people, which is to do the responsible thing and ensure that the government doesn’t default on its obligations.

Obama has repeate over and over again that he wants a deal that would allow the U.S. to avoid confronting the issue again until after the 2012 elections and vowed on Monday that he would “not sign a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day extension”:

This the United States of America and, you know, we don’t manage our affairs in three-month increments. You know, we don’t risk U.S. default on our obligations because we can’t put politics aside.

Well, just when we thought that McConnell had grown a spine and was edging toward fiscal reponsibility and, perhaps even, **gasp**, Conservatism, he came forth with this bright idea later this afternoon:

From townhall.com, a senior Republican aide explains Senator Mitch McConnel’s brilliant plan:

“Sen. McConnell has been in talks with Obama and Democrats. We wanted to do something serious and big. Yesterday, he asked point blank how much the Biden-led deal would actually cut from next year’s budget. The answer he received was $2 Billion, and it’s all smoke and mirrors. In exchange, [Democrats] want $1 Trillion in tax hikes. It’s not the kind of deal we’re at all interested in. We won’t accept guaranteed tax hikes in exchange for fantasy future spending cuts. It’s not going to happen. We’re going to fight like hell to do what we’ve said we want: Real spending cuts and caps, a vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment, and real entitlement reform. So this plan is a fallback option if all else fails. It’s modeled after the Congressional Review Act of the 1990s — which establishes expedited procedures by which Congress can disapprove executive agencies’ rules by way of a resolution of disapproval.”

Townhall’s Guy Benson explains further:

Republicans in Congress would agree to vote on legislation authorizing the president to propose three separate incremental debt ceiling increases, spaced over the remainder of his term. He would be required to couple each request with a corresponding set of spending cuts that exceed the dollar amount of his sought-after debt limit hike. These cuts would be of his choosing alone. The first pair of requests would come prior to the August 2 deadline. It would be for roughly $700 Billion. The next requests, for $900 Billion, would come in the fall, and the final tranche (also for $900 Billion) would be scheduled for summer of 2012 — in the thick of the campaign cycle.

In other words, McConnell’s plan is:  Let’s give Nero a match. Who cares if he burns down Rome, we won’t be held responsible.

Did the G.O.P. Elite not learn anything at all from the Mid-term Elections?

Yesterday, on NBC’s Meet The Press, moderated by Obama sycophant David Gregory, Treasury Secretary Turbo Tax Tim Geithner pronounced that many Americans will face hard times for a long time to come.

According to this rocket scientist, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) rescued the United States from a second Great Depression and will keep working to strengthen the economy. However, Obama’s stooge says that it will be some time before many people feel like the country is recovering.

Geithner, during his thoughtful analysis, told Gregory that it’s a very tough economy.

Gee, DiNozzo.  Ya think?

Obama’s Treasury Secretary said that for a lot of people

…it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come.

Now, you can pick your jaw up off the floor.

Speaking of Geithner’s messiah, Obama met with House Speaker, Cryin’ John Boehner, and other Congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle, yesterday, about raising the Debt Ceiling and the Battle of the Budget currently being debated in Congress.  The meeting lasted 75 minutes.

There was not any sort of agreement reached over how far the parties should go in cutting the deficit over the next decade or whether tax cuts and entitlement reductions should be a part of any deal. Congressional leaders will return to the White House today to continue talks, administration officials announced, with Obama holding a morning news conference before they do.

Oh, joy and rapture. If it’s the same ol’ garbage, like Obama slung around in Friday’s press conference in reaction to the horrendous Monthly Jobs Report, he can keep it to himself.

Yesterday, both sides accomplished nothing by digging in deeper into their held positions, leaving America with a history-making default, deadlocked talks, and a tanking economy brought about by a clueless, socialist White House.

Boehner announced on Saturday that the Republicans would not support the larger deficit-cutting plan Obama has proposed because it includes tax increases.

During yesterday’s meeting, Obama supposedly asked Republican leaders

If not now, when?

Well, Mr. President, if you are continuing with your plans to hasten America’s destruction through taxing those whose make our economic engine run, namely America’s business leaders and hard-working average Americans, Boehner’s reply should have been:

When Hell freezes over, Scooter.

Obama and the Democratats have responded to the impasse by whining and warning that, unless a deal is reached within two weeks, to give Congress time to approve it, the United States would default on its fiscal obligations for the first time.

When he was asked if they could reach a deal in the next 10 days, Obama, flanked by hiscongressional Democratic flunkies in the Cabinet Room before the meeting, said simply:

We need to.

…or I won’t be re-elected. (I added that.)

According to an anonymous Democratic sycophant…err…official, Obama pushed for his larger plan throughout the meeting. He reminded Boehner that the speaker had admitted that a smaller deal could be just as difficult to push through Congress as a large one, and he challenged Republicans to return to the White House on Monday with a plan to secure the 218 votes needed for a measure to pass the House. Then, like the petulant guest lecturer that he is, Scooter chastised the Republicans telling them to expect to meet daily until a deal is reached.

According to a senior administration official:

The president pushed to do something real and not just kick the can down the road. He said he was ready, willing and able to make the hard choices and hoped they would join him.

If he can have things his way.

On the Republican’s part, they suggested that a “contingency plan” is in the works to raise the debt ceiling if the gulf between the parties could not be bridged.

However, Obama wants no part of baby steps, saying that now is the moment to address the underlying causes of fiscal imbalance.

…so, I can brag about it during my re-election campaign. (I added that, too.)

Obama’s Obama’s slavish sycophants at washingtonpost.com are worried:

After weeks of debate, Obama may have a tenuous hold on the political high ground as he takes on a more visible role, urging party leaders to set aside ideology to trim an estimated $4 trillion from the deficit over the next decade.

Obama’s political strategy since his party loss the midterm elections has been to portray himself as a reasonable man in partisan Washington, at times angering Republicans and Democrats in doing so.

His proposal, which he has said would bring certainty to an economy constrained by anxiety over the nation’s fiscal condition, would involve spending cuts to agency budgets, including the Pentagon’s; ending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans; and changing entitlement programs in ways his party has traditionally opposed.

Obama’s political advantage may fade quickly, though, if a deal cannot be reached before Aug. 2, the date the administration says the nation will begin to default on its obligations unless the borrowing limit is raised. Polls show that most Americans believe he has managed the economy poorly, and the unemployment rate’s jump to 9.2 percent in June has raised alarms within a White House looking toward reelection in 2012.

And after all, that’s what’s most important to Obama and the Democratic Party, right now.

Not the  citizens, nor the country, that they have sworn to protect, from enemies foreign and domestic.

Yesterday, I dissected President Barack Hussein Obama’s Press Conference in reaction to June’s horrible Monthly Jobs Report.  Obama spoke the same ol’ empty platitudes.

Someone else has had enough of those empty platitudes:  Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin released the following note on Facebook yesterday, titled, The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders.

No dissection needed:

Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that clock have nearly exploded during his administration. Yesterday’s terrible job numbers should not be a surprise because it all goes back to our debt. Our dangerously unsustainable debt is wiping out our jobs, crippling our economic growth, and jeopardizing our position in the global economy as the leader of the free world.

As a governor, I had to deal with facts, even unpleasant ones. I dealt with the world as it is, not as I wished it to be. The “elite” political class in this country with their heads in the sand had better face some unpleasant facts about the world as it is. They’ve run out of money and no amount of accounting gimmicks or happy talk will change this reality. Those of us who live in the real world could see this day coming.

Back in January 2009, as governor of Alaska, I announced: “We also have to be mindful about the effect of the stimulus package on the national debt and the future economic health of the country. We won’t achieve long-term stability if we continue borrowing massive sums from foreign countries and remain dependent on foreign sources of oil and gas.” Then I urged President Obama to veto the stimulus bill because it was loaded with absolutely useless pork and unfunded mandates. Everyone knows my early and vocal opposition to that mother of all unfunded mandates known as Obamacare starting back in August 2009, and many recall my objections to the Federal Reserves’ inflationary games with our currency known as QE2 from November 2010. It’s a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add.

The same “experts” who got us into this mess are now telling us that the only way out of our debt crisis is to “increase revenue,” but not by creating more jobs and therefore a larger tax base; no, they want to “increase revenue” by raising taxes on job creators who are taxed enough already! As Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s where we are now. Hard working taxpayers have been big government’s Sugar Daddy for far too long, and now we’re out of sugar. We don’t want big government, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it.

This debt ceiling debate is the perfect time to do what must be done. We must cut. Yes, I’m for a balanced budget amendment and for enforceable spending caps. But first and foremost we must cut spending, not “strike a deal” that allows politicians to raise more debt! See, Washington is addicted to OPM – Other People’s Money. And like any junkie, they will lie, steal, and cheat to fund their addiction. We must cut them off and cut government down to size.

To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We’ve been slowly going broke for years, but now it’s happening all at once as the world’s capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we’ll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone’s door anymore. And we don’t have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We’ll be Greece before these D.C. politicians’ false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.

We can’t close our $1.5 trillion deficit overnight, but we must get as close as we can as soon as we can. Little nibbles here and there over 10 years (spun to sound like they’re huge budget cuts) aren’t anywhere near enough. I know from experience that cutting government spending isn’t easy. As governor, I made the largest veto cuts in my state’s history, and I didn’t make many friends doing it. But we will never recover, we will never get free of devastating debt, unless we make tough choices now. We don’t hear talk like this from leaders in D.C. or from those running for office because they say what they think we want to hear rather than what must be said.

We are in desperate need of real leadership, but President Obama’s solution to everything is to grow government by borrowing more money, spending more money, printing more money, and taxing our job creators. He once said that he “believes in American Exceptionalism…just as the Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism.” Well, the path he has us on will make us just as “exceptional” as Greece – debt crisis, stagnation, permanent high unemployment, and all.

As we approach 2012, there are important lessons we can learn from all of this. First, we should never entrust the White House to a far-left ideologue who has no appreciation or even understanding of the free market and limited government principles that made this country economically strong. Second, the office of the presidency is too important for on-the-job training. It requires a strong chief executive who has been entrusted with real authority in the past and has achieved a proven track record of positive measurable accomplishments. Leaders are expected to give good speeches, but leadership is so much more than oratory. Real leadership requires deeds even more than words. It means taking on the problems no one else wants to tackle. It means providing vision and guidance, inspiring people to action, bringing everyone to the table, and with a servant’s heart dedicating oneself to striking agreements that keep faith with our Constitution and with the ordinary citizens who entrusted you with power. It means bucking the status quo, fighting the corrupt powers that be, serving the common good, and leaving the country better than you found it. Most of us don’t see a lot of that real leadership in D.C., and it’s profoundly disappointing.

But let me tell you where real hope lies. It’s not the hopey-changey stuff we heard about in 2008. Real hope comes from realizing how God has blessed our exceptional nation, and then doing something about it. We have been blessed with natural resources, hardworking entrepreneurs, and a Constitution that preserves the greatest form of government ever devised by man. If we develop those natural resources, allow our entrepreneurs to keep and invest more of what they earn, and adhere to the time-tested truths of our Constitution, we will prosper and endure.

But first and foremost we must tackle our debt. We don’t have the luxury of playing politics as usual. We need real leaders who will put aside their own political self-interest to do what is right for the nation. And if they don’t emerge… well, America has a do-over in November 2012.

Hanging out on Conservative websites, I’ve watched Gov. Palin’s detractors camouflage their disdain for her by suggesting that she would make a great Energy Secretary under someone like Mitt Romney.

Pshaw.  Romney would make an adequate Financial Adviser under President Palin.

Or they downright insist (while holding their breath until they turn blue and jumping up and down), that SHE’S NOT RUNNING!

What these amateur political pundits fail to comprehend (even though they’ve been told over and over again) is that it is in Gov. Palin’s best interests not to declare if she’s running or not, until after July 27th, even if she wants to.

Y’see, that’s the final day for ethics complaints to be brought against her for any of her actions as Governor of Alaska.  Democratic operatives, and any of the other assorted fruitcakes, cannot file frivolous lawsuits against her in Alaska for the time she spent in office as Governor after July 27th, 2011.  After that, well…

GAME ON!