We Told You, It’s the Economy Stupid!

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"If there's anybody in this building that doesn't tell you they are more worried about elections today, you should absolutely slap them," Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri told reporters at the Capitol. "Of course everybody is more worried about elections. Are you kidding? It's what this place thrives on."

Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, head of the House Democrats' campaign effort, said Coakley's loss won't deter his colleagues from continuing to blame the previous administration. "President George W. Bush and House Republicans drove our economy into a ditch and tried to run away from the accident," he said. "President Obama and congressional Democrats have been focused repairing the damage to our economy."

"Whatever happens on health care, we've got to focus on jobs," said Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who said he'd still like to see health legislation passed.

Casey said the party's challenge was not the perception that it is viewed, as Bayh contended, as overly liberal.

"I don't buy the ideological positioning argument," Casey said. "People want us to be talking about the biggest problem in the country right now, jobs and the economy."

Wounded in Massachusetts, frustrated Democrats on Wednesday urged the White House to focus on jobs and the economy — not the health care overhaul that's now at risk…

"We need a jobs bill. We need short-term, focused strategies to create jobs, real fast," said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. "If the dominant message isn't about jobs and spending, we'll be making a difficult challenge exponentially more difficult."

Said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "We will move forward with their considerations in mind, but we will move forward."

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters: "That anger is now pointed at us because we're in charge. And rightly so." Gibbs said of the president: "We will have him… …focus on the economy and jobs."

[The Democratic] Congress writes the laws, so they can tax, penalize, hold your funds hostage and although they'd never use the word, "confiscate" your assets at their discretion. Marxism at it’s finest. Pravda.ru

Warren Buffett said he thinks government should be more focused on the economy than health care reform right now.

Okay so now they are saying they need to focus on the economy and jobs!!!??? That’s what they’ve been telling us all along. That’s what T.A.R.P. and all of the other stimulus crap was supposed to be…. RIGHT!? And Pelosi has the gall to say that she will keep our considerations in mind???? But will move forward????? Against the majority’s wishes??????

Other nations press is comparing the Obama Administration to Chavez’, calling it “State Capitalism” or “Pseudo-Socialism”, whereby the State (Federal Government) controls every aspect of your life and has it’s fingers in every aspect of business. The Russians say this is totally destructive to a society and they should know, they tried it… …it was called the Soviet Union.

Next on the agenda is, are you ready….

Guaranteed Retirement Accounts. The Feds need cash and they need it now. Where are they going to get it? From China? No Silly, from you of course. Re-distribution of wealth. It will be painless and unseen, because it will come out of your pay, before you ever get your pay check. It’s only $600 per year or 5% of your gross income, which ever is greater.

You people had better wake up and take your country back! It will be gone before you know it.

What’s your thoughts?

The President the Media Made

I watched the Obama train ride. I watched his speeches of the last 2 days. I watched him speak of the Constitution and ask God’s blessing for us and our country. I watched him interact with his kids. I’ve watched him roll up his sleeves and paint and talk to people from all walks of life, and I’ve decided I like Barrack Obama. He seems like a genuinely nice person and a good family man and he seems to have a sincere love for our country.

I’ve also watched the mainstream news media say what a powerful person he is going to be as president, how he is going to undo all of the wrongs. How President Obama is going to kiss our boo boos and make everything better. How he is the first African American president in our history (Duh? Like we didn’t know this already?). One of the key things that the mainstream media is missing, and something Roland S. Martin said should have woke them all up, as much as I disagree with this guy, Martin said basically that the emphasis needs to be taken off of the fact that Obama is black, but that he is the MAN that the majority found to competent to hold the Office of President. And this has been the underlying message of the civil rights movement all along. It’s not supposed to be black or white thing, or Asian or Latino or any other minority. It’s an American thing. We were all taught that the USA was the Melting Pot of the World. Roland Martin was not the only prominent black to make this statement, I heard several others make similar statements. So let’s get the race issue behind us, let’s all recognize that there will always be fringe movements within every legitimate cause, that will try to screw things up for everybody.

Now back to Obama. As I said, I believe that Barrack Obama is great guy. I think the Mainstream Media has made public expectations entirely too high for what Obama can accomplish. Wolf Blitzer said it best, when he said that they would be watching Obama’s first 100 days very closely, as though to say, okay, we got you here, now do what we’ve told everyone you will do, if not we will hold your feet to the fire. I feel much empathy for President(-Elect) Obama. He has a seemingly insurmountable task before.him. And like President Bush, he will really have very little control of the outcome, and if he does then we as a people have screwed up by allowing our government to grow so powerful that we will be serving them.

As Joe Biden so eloquently misspoke last summer, I believe he (Obama) will be tested by an international crisis or incident within his first six months of office if not sooner. And I also believe that it will be the will and resolve of the American people to guide us through what ever comes our way. So if Obama truly has America’s best interest at heart, then we should support him. We’ll know more after the first 100 days, won’t we?

Biden thinks Obama not ready to lead.

Vice Presidential Democratic nominee Joe Biden, in a recent statement stated that Obama, because of his inexperience, will be tested through a major international crisis. What is Senator Biden suggesting? Something that we've known all along, that Barrack Obama is just a silver tongued politician who has wooed a lot of fellow Americans in to believeing that he is just the change that is needed.

And where is the media outcry against Biden? If this were Sarah Palin, it would be everywhere!

Joe Biden is not comfortable with the situation he is in. He does not want to have his political career to be forever branded as the almost won, second is as good as first, much like Kennedy - Johnson. Nor does he want to be involved in an international situation gone bad that will brand him like a spring calf for all history. Which brings to mind this question, "what does Joe know, that we don't"?

Why is Obama, suddenly meeting with his foreign advisers, is something in the works. Wow, could be great for conspiracy theorists! Joe Biden has made the prediction, if something does happen at a crisis level, should Biden be charged as an accomplice, did he have prior knowledge, were there other conspirators? Or will the Democratic Congress and White House (should Obama win) blame the Republicans for something that is totally out of their control. For now only the future can tell.

Biden Statement on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=95924776&m=95924755

Biden Photo Courtesy of:
Ed Andrieski
Caption -->Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., addresses a rally at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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