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POPS Waivers Jump from 222 to 729 Covering 2.2 Million Employees ...The list includes the usual assortment of union locals and businesses. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to suggest that OCIIO was asked to hold this development until after the SOTU. Indeed the latest waiver approved in the list is from December 30th. There is an addendum at the bottom of the page noting that four states–Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee–have applied for waivers covering another 93,000 people. waivers jump from 222 to 729 covering 2.2 million employees more... http://hotair.com/
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POPSThe Most Offensive Line In The State Of The Union In other words, from a purely economic point of view, slavery is exactly like as if every day you worked, and every day you were paid at the end of the day, but also every day a thief set upon you and took your money. As George Harrison said of the Taxman: “You’re working for no one but me.” And Obama thinks that is a good thing. An income tax is barely tolerable in a free society. It is arguably a necessary evil, but it is definitely an evil. A government that fails to recognize that this is your money it is taking, is intolerable. After all, our president thinks that when you keep the fruits of your labor, that this is federal spending. And that should bother any person who believes in individual liberty. Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing http://patterico.com
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POPSRenowned Investor Marc Faber on Obama: "He’s Dishonest… Foreigners Laugh at Him.” (Video) Faber Sees 10% Retreat in S&P 500 Index, Saying U.S. Stocks Are Overbought Marc Faber, who told investors to buy U.S. stocks in March 2009 before the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index began to rally, said the gauge may drop 10 percent because too many investors are bullish. “A correction is coming,” Faber said in an interview from Zurich with Carol Massar and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” “Equities in the U.S. will go down less than emerging markets.” He predicts a drop of as much as 30 percent for equities in developing countries. http://www.bloomberg.com Bloogberg's "Street Smart" video Faber Expects 10% Drop in S&P 500, Says Stocks Expensive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67hHDfDwL-E
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POPSPaul Ryan’s Response to Obama’s State Of The Union The stupid “prom date” atmosphere was there, with Democrats and Republicans sitting together, and not worrying about “getting cooties.” We even have a blame Bush moment. Here’s the full 63 minute video of the full speech, if you insist on torturing yourself by watching it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZdEmjtF6HE Paul Ryan's Response to SOTU Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PUcCC7t2K1M more... Lisa Murkowski on sitting with Dems during SOTU: “There are no cooties” Rand Paul also gave a response to Obama’s flat State of the Union Video: Michele Bachmann Tea Party Response to Obama’s State of the Union Herman Cain responds to Obama’s State of the Union Opposition to ObamaCARE hits record high http://www.fireandreamitchell.com
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POPS$ame Old, $ame Old… Obama Will Call For More $pending in SOTU AddreSS 
President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the speech said. Mr. Obama will argue that the U.S., even while trying to reduce its budget deficit, must make targeted investments to foster job growth and boost U.S. competitiveness in the world economy. The new spending could include initiatives aimed at building the renewable-energy sector—which received billions of dollars in stimulus funding—and rebuilding roads to improve transportation, people familiar with the matter said. Money to restructure the No Child Left Behind law’s testing mandates and institute more competitive grants also could be included. While proposing new spending, Mr. Obama also will lay out significant budget cuts elsewhere, people familiar with the plans say, though they will likely ...
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POPSWhat The Heck is This Blithering Idiot Talking About? * Voted "yea" March 18, 2008 on the $3.1 trillion in fiscal outlays with a projected $400 billion budget deficit (only 2 Republicans voted "yea", and not one Republican in the House voted for it after the conference committee) * Biden, Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary Clinton voted "yea" as well * Voted "yea" October 1, 2008 for the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) along with Biden and Clinton * Pushed through and signed into law the $787 billion stimulus bill boondoggle in February 2009 * Signed into law $410 billion of additional spending in the 2009 budget in March 2009 Thus, how does he blame Bush when he either voted for (along party lines no less) or signed into law every single gosh-darned penny that is now the record $1.4 trillion deficit, with a projected 2010 deficit of $1.35 trillion? And with a straight face no less? And where is the MSM on this? Just to put that into perspective, this is where we are at:
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POPSCavalcade Of Links: Super Bowl XLIV Edition The Camp of the Saints seemed smitten with the timeless beauty of Jean Simmons. The Other McCain expressed concern that I may be developing a disorder that never discussed in polite society: Blogger Mood Disorder. When a guy meets a gal for the very first time, what kind of hat does he wear ? Like the hat placed atop the head of Frosty The Snowman, it was a magical. Left Coast Rebel suggests a bottle of Guzzler’s Gin may have been on Pelosi’s bar tab. The Pirate’s Cove , everyone’s matey, linked to us in his “Sorta Blogless Sunday Pin Up”. Director Blue dipped into the Wayback Machine to link to a post about Dom DeLuise. The blogprof joined me in noting that Chris Matthews has journeyed into the abyss of insanity. The Frugal Café noted that stupid is indeed as stupid does. Legal Insurrection honored us with the “Post of the Day” for The Demon Sheep Doesn’t Wear Prada. http://bit.ly/d0FDFx
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POPSObama Budget: Shows He LIED About Drilling For Oil In SOTU Sadly like most of the promises coming from this President this pledge came with an expiration date. Only this expiration had a short window, only five days. When President Obama sent out his budget, it showed a decline in revenue from oil land leases, meaning he planned to be more restrictive in allowing off-shore-drilling than before. ..... more Obama Administration has NO intention of opening up New Areas for Offshore Drilling http://bit.ly/8ZE2TE
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POPSPolitical Futures e couldn't resist more banker baiting, and he promised that he's determined to see tax rates rise for millions of Americans next year when the Bush rates are set to expire. He also pushed more exports while saying he'll raise taxes on some of our biggest exporters, otherwise known as multinationals that 'ship our jobs overseas.' Mr. Obama believes he can conjure jobs and a durable expansion from the private sector while waging political war on its animal spirits. It can't be done. This reflects a larger problem, which is his belief that economic growth springs mainly from the genius of government." --The Wall Street Journal Staying the Course - WSJ.com http://bit.ly/d2tl5R
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POPSObama’s Getting Angry And Desperate… And It’s Showing * The American public (by innuendo) for his rapid decline in the polls He has threatened to use “Executive Orders” to bypass Congress if they don’t advance his agenda. Yes, those were warning sirens you heard in your head. Heed them. Forget about whether or not Obama can legally do this. He will do it if he feels it’s the only way to accomplish his goals, and then he’ll challenge us to undo the damage. Bet on it. With his personal failure obvious to everyone but himself, Obama has adopted the Saul Alinsky ”Rules for Radicals” philosophy of “Step on the gas” in pushing forward before we have a chance to get rid of him legally (sobering thought: We have three more years of this sentence with Obama. So how does that “Hope” and “Change” look to you now? A year later, much of that public has awakened from their stupor to realize just what America would be like under Obama’s dream/nightmare. Gradually, America woke to find an extreme radical
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POPSSOTU Address Notches 4th Lowest Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score Since FDR -- 'Professor' Obama? However, a Smart Politics analysis of nearly 70 oral State of the Union Addresses since the mid-1930s finds the text of Obama's speech on Wednesday evening to have one of the lowest scores on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test ever recorded by a U.S. President. The Flesch-Kincaid test is designed to assess the readability level of written text, with a formula that translates the score to a U.S. grade level. Longer sentences and sentences utilizing words with more syllables produce higher scores. Shorter sentences and sentences incorporating more monosyllabic words yield lower scores. Obama's Flesch-Kincaid grade level score of 8.8 for his first State of the Union Address was the fourth lowest score since FDR's first Address in 1934. What this means is that Obama wrote and delivered a speech that incorporated shorter sentences, with those sentences containing shorter words, than nearly every such Presidential Address in the modern era.
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POPSLexington And Concord Revisited - The Brown Upset and What It Means You can expect to see this president trash talking quite outrageously when it comes to this years' State of the Union speech, due out January 27th. I could almost write a critique of the coming speech in advance. Obama will blame George W. Bush, of course. That tired tune still resonates with the true believers although recent numbers suggest that it isn't anything like the hit song it was a year ago. He will blame 'obstructionists' the Republicans and 'the old politics as usual' for his mishaps. And expect him to do the class war dance, blaming 'the banks', 'Wall Street' 'big insurers' and 'the special interests' for everything he can't lay at Bush's feet. I wouldn't even be surprised to hear him make a call for fiscal responsibility...after he and the Democrats quadrupled the nation's debt like an out-of control teen at the mall armed with daddy's credit card.
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POPSRasmussen: Americans Not Buying What Obama Was Selling At SOTU On the spending freeze: Regarding another initiative detailed in the speech on Wednesday night, just nine percent (9%) of voters believe the president’s proposed freeze on discretionary spending will have a big impact on the deficit. (http://bit.ly/9w6CTH) The numbers get worse why party affiliation is taken into account. On all questions, only Democrats believe what Obama was selling and even then by small margins. The majority of Republicans and Independents simply were not buying any of it. The only silver lining for Obama is that Democrats opinion of Obama increased after the State of the Union address. There was no change for Republicans and Independents. The problem for Obama is that he is using very old Chicago style politics in a very new political era. Many voters on the right and in the middle have become much more active. They are now following political news much more closely than before.
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POPSObama Would 'Rather Be Really Good One-Term President' Capping student federal loan payments to 10 percent of the student's income above a basic living allowance. Requiring all employers to give workers an option of automatic workplace direct-deposit IRAs Expanding tax credits to match retirement savings by expanding and simplifying the Saver's Credit to match 50 percent of the first $1,000 of contributions by families earning up to $65,000 and providing a partial credit to families earning up to $85,000 Expanding support for families balancing work with caring for elderly relatives with a $102.5 million Caregiver Initiative. I am not sure imposing new requirements on employers is a great idea with the unemployment rate climbing and jobs foremost on voters' minds. Increasing child and dependent care tax credits are only beneficial if people actually have jobs to go to. Nevertheless, there is no better way to silence the plebes than sending baskets of gold to be divided among them http://rubyslippersblog.blogspot.com
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POPS He Who Shall Not Be Named As this administration brings us closer to hell, the 2010 mid-term elections are a way for the Kool-Aid drinkers to repent for their transgressions and make this beanpole president-in-training a one-termer. Read more: http://nosheepleshere.blogspot.com/2010/01/he-who-shall-not-be-named.html#ixzz0e6ksDape
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POPSPole Vault or Parachute? I Kinda' Like The Pole Vault Option You’ve got to hand it to nutty Nancy Pelosi. In all her wacky wickedness, the old gal just doesn’t give up on government-run health care. She comes off more and more as the evil Energizer Bunny. Cram ObamaCare down Americans’ throats? With pleasure, my pretty, with my trusty jumbo turkey baster… And if THAT doesn’t work? “We’ll pole vault in, we’ll climb fences, we’ll parachute in…” She manically describes espionage infiltration that befits Jack Bauer of 24, and the enemy is, well, us. Not the Russian Mafia or South American drug lords or power-hungry terrorists using biological warfare to destroy CTU and to take our country hostage. Pelosi’s enemy that is slowing her down on ramming through ObamaCare is the American people. Mainstreet America vs. the Democrat White House. She’s a statist loon who haughtily ignores what the majority of Americans want on health care, but admit it… SanFranNan’s got a lot of crazy spunk. Pelosi’s fiercely tenacious ...
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POPS OUCH.... Obama's one true SOTU statement: "We face a deficit of trust." He forgot, "We also face a surplus of talk -- and of government." • Randy Barnett -- a Professor of Law at Georgetown, writing at Politico -- blistered the President's speech: "In the history of the State of the Union has any President ever called out the Supreme Court by name, and egged on the Congress to jeer a Supreme Court decision, while the Justices were seated politely before him surrounded by hundreds Congressmen? To call upon the Congress to countermand (somehow) by statute a constitutional decision, indeed a decision applying the First Amendment? ...this was a truly shocking lack of decorum and disrespect towards the Supreme Court for which an apology is in order. A new tone indeed." • Bradley Smith, a Professor of Law at Capital University, leveled withering criticism at the President's behavior: "... statement is false. The Court held that , which prohibits all .....
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POPS Ah, Excuse Me, Mr. President, $$$! The good Lord knows that, huh, ….sorry, Mr. President, I was referring to GOD in heaven, creator of heaven and earth and not your MessiahMess " sorry to have confused you, sir… anyway, Mr. President, you have shrunk the private sector job market so substantially during your first year that maybe taxpayer funded jobs are the only jobs anyone can find. Which the good Lord, sorry, Him again, not you … knows pays good !!!! Enough already about you creating or saving all those GOVERNMENT (taxpayer funded) jobs, Mr. President, let us get back to your proposal to freeze government spending. Let me see if I can explain this in terms the regular folks might understand. Your proposal, Mr. President, is much like the wife who wasn’t satisfied with the 40 dresses and 40 pairs of shoes she bought in 2008, so last year she bought 50 dresses and 50 pairs of shoes. Now her closet is overflowing, the credit cards are beyond maxed out, and the husband is more than a little miffed.
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POPS About Last Night OK, some right reax. NRO: Obie misrepresents the Citizens United decision. It’s HotAir’s Obamateurism of the Day. Turns out the decision doesn’t give the farm away to foreign corporations. Hannity and Palin think it will be a “huge takeaway moment.” I dunno, I kinda doubt it. People have been letting him get away with misrepresenatations for a couple of years now. I think the huge takeaway is going to be the continued flailing and inability to accomplish anything. HotAir has AP’s 10 Whoppers and then adds the ones AP missed. Gateway lifts the rock on the SOTU job claims, finds “crony capitalism.” $100 m for 15 jobs and a Dem donor’s company. Sorry, I missed that when I was busy mocking all the public sector hack jobs he saved. Hyscience dozed off, but saw enough to rate an A on chutzpah and Fs on non-partisanship and substance. Gerson, WaPo, scathingly: President Obama’s primary problem is not rhetorical " though, about an hour into the State of The Union
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POPSObama Owes the High Court an Apology I guess this is where he gets his "audacity"? He can say whatever....and so his claims remain unchecked by the vast majority of his national audience. The attack was beyond rudeness in a SOTU message and arguable in it's content.
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POPSSupreme Court Historian: After Insult Won’t Be Surprised If Supreme Court Doesn’t Attend Next Year’s SOTU from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper It has also raised eyebrows among legal commentators. At Legal Times, Tony Mauro headlined one blog post “Supreme Court Turns Out for Tongue-Lashing at State of the Union.” The way the president deviated from the prepared text indicated he may have tried to soften his remarks as he made them. He added “with all due deference to separation of powers” and replaced his desire that Democrats and Republicans “pass a bill that helps to right this wrong” with one for lawmakers to “pass a bill that helps to correct some of these problems." Listening to the speech Justice Samuel Alito could be seen mouthing the words “that’s not true.” “I think Alito’s correct,” Powe told ABC News. “They weren’t overthrowing 100 years’ worth of history. They were overthrowing 20 years’ worth.” Supreme Court Historian: from ABC Jake Tapper http://bit.ly/d79mup
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POPSMister Speaker ..... Mark Steyn As to the content, I think there are several broad stylistic problems that, cumulatively, lead to a bigger one, identified by (of all people) The New York Times's Bob Herbert: Mr Obama is in danger of being perceived as someone whose rhetoric, however skillful, cannot always be trusted. Why is that? Well, look at the SOTU opening. It's eloquent, but in a cheesily generic way, as if one of his speechwriters was sent over to Barnes & Noble to pick up a copy of State of the Unions for Dummies: They have done so during periods of prosperity and tranquility. And they have done so in the midst of war and depression; at moments of great strife and great struggle. It’s tempting to look back on these moments and assume that our progress was inevitable " that America was always destined to succeed. But when the Union was turned back at Bull Run and the Allies first landed at Omaha Beach, victory was very much in doubt.
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POPSObama Bombs On SOTU There is no way to sell the stimulus crap, but he is wasting time trying. He is angry, frustrated and defensive. Update: Obama asked how long should we wait to address issues? Simple answer: until you are out of office. And since when is Communist China the model for America’s free market??? Disaster. Update: The man is a dupe " there is no overwhelming evidence on of global warming. He is going to look an idiot as the global warming con becomes exposed over this year. Update: LJStrata and DJStrata noticed a lot of dems (the First Lady included) wore purple, supposedly to signal their allegiance to independents? How lame. Update: Speaking of fixing our education system and strengthening math skills, did anyone catch the fact that the average savings on mortgage payments was $1500, which I think is close to the average monthly payment. So how is it the the average savings would mean now payments???? Math skills and liberalism don’t mix.
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POPSNot Just A Status Quo-Overturning Political Insurgent * If Obama says “Bipartisan” or “Bipartisanship,” the back section of the bar yells “Yes,” while the front section yells “No.” Whichever side is louder should take a drink. Or take a drink after you lock arms with a person next to you (like a romantic toast). * Every time the camera shows the Supreme Court justices not standing, take a drink and then recite your Miranda rights. * If the camera shows Joe Wilson, yell “You lie” and then take a drink. If Joe Wilson yells “You lie,” finish everything in your glass. Treach says these are just “some” of the rules, but doesn’t say what the others are. I guess that means you can make up your own. Here’s one. The first time he says “responsibility,” start a chugging ”wave” that goes around the room stadium-style. See how long you can keep it going. It stops when he says “prior administration” or “inherited.” Also, everytime he says “anger,” jut your jaw and defiantly knock back .....
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POPS Awaiting the Soros-Obama SOTU The State of the ‘Re-making America’ Revolution While most voters now regret their willingness to let the experience factor go by the wayside in the last presidential election, Soros knew that the nearly complete inexperience of his own candidate would be his best friend. Soros has brought about his “velvet revolutions” using not experienced political power-brokers, but by financing NGOs (non-governmental organizations). So, for Soros’ purpose of ushering in a global government with oligarchs like him in charge to replace American supremacy, Barack Obama’s campaign “charisma” was the vital ingredient. His lack of experience meant, also, that Obama would be forced to rely on the various socialist think tanks and NGOs that Soros has been funding and guiding for two decades now. Over the past year, the Soros-Obama revolution has made some amazing progress. Obama’s blitzkrieg of “change” has required so much scrutiny to every tree that the big-picture ......
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POPSState of the Union Cards Bingo Game A one of a kind political game from Irregular Times - it's State of the Union Bingo, with a grid that contains a number of common political phrases and current policy cliches that President Obama is likely to utter. Get 5 in a straight line (free space in the center), and you win! Great for group viewings of the SOTU Address.
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POPSWe have nothing to fear...but these bozos Taken as a whole, these stories nicely define the current state of Republicans when it comes to popularity. Having kowtowed to the Neocon brand of fascism for over two decades, they are finally being seen as the belching bozos they are. The majority of Americans are clearly suffering not only from "coulrophobia," but from "scatophobia," the fear of fecal matter, as well. This explains the low turnout in the Republican primaries.
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