Harry Reid Almost as Unfavorable as Nancy Pelosi

Now why wouldn’t Americans favor the two Socialist Progressive Democrats that gave them a failed $862 billion stimulus, $1 trillion plus ObamaCare and financial reform that doesn’t cover Freddie & Fannie? Why wouldn’t Americans favor these two outstanding leaders who have doubled the unemployment rate and tripled the budget deficit in 2009. I just can’t figure out why Americans dislike these two libtards. Maybe it was how they ran the most open, most honest and most ethical Congress in history?

Rasmussen reports:

In addition to becoming competitive in his bid for reelection in Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now nearly tied with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when it comes to unpopularity among voters nationwide.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters across the country finds that 56% have at least a somewhat unfavorable opinion of Reid, while 59% feel the same way about Pelosi.

The good news for Reid that these figures include 47% with a Very Unfavorable opinion of Pelosi, while just 38% hold a Very Unfavorable opinion of him.

Twenty-six percent (26%) have a favorable opinion of the Nevada Democrat, but that includes just five percent (5%) with a Very Favorable view. Thirty-four percent (34%) regard the San Francisco congresswoman favorably, with 13% Very Favorable toward her.

Still, 19% don’t know enough about Reid to venture any kind of opinion about him, while only seven percent (7%) have no opinion of Pelosi.

Neither Democratic congressional leader has been particularly popular since the current session of Congress began early last year, but Pelosi has been the better-known and least popular of the duo for most of that time. Pelosi’s unfavorables have ranged from 52% to 64% in that time period, while Reid’s generally remained in the 40s last year but have been consistently in the 50s since then.

But then the majority of voters nationwide believe the Democratic congressional agenda is extreme, while a plurality describes the Republican agenda as mainstream.

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Center for Responsive Politics: “Government Agencies spent $100 million lobbying the Government for YOUR Money

According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, governments and government agencies have spent just over $100 million lobbying Washington since the beginning of 2009 with 92% of government union money going to Democrats. Government agencies lobbying the government to get YOUR money so they can put YOUR money into the coffers of Democrats. This is what Obama likes to call the “status quo” or “the same tired politics of Washington” that he was going to ‘change.’

Government employee unions — through their employees and political action committees — have contributed more money to congressional candidates this election than all the PACs, executives and employees of the entire oil industry, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Because 92 percent of public-employee union money goes to Democrats, President Obama’s party has raised more money from these unions this cycle than Republicans have raised from Wall Street.

Now the American taxpayers can understand why Obama has “saved or created” all those federal jobs for the unions. Obama has increased the size of government for this reason… more money for unions to give to Democrats. It’s a win-win for Obama.

Obama and the Democrats passed their $862 billion stimulus (CBO revised number) in 2009. It failed because it did the opposite of what it was claimed to do. Billions of dollars were skimmed out of the stimulus to prop up teachers, firefighters and police officer unions as a payback for helping elect Obama. Now that the money has dried up, these same unionized groups are going to be affected with job cuts.

In comes Super Obama to the rescue. He will spend more taxpayer money than a speeding train. His only kryptonite is when all YOUR money is spent.

Obama’s proposed $50 billion aid package for local and state governments is yet another instance of Obama’s reform talk evaporating in the light of concrete proposals and real dollar amounts. Whatever the supposed virtues of this huge handout to profligate politicians and bloated bureaucracies, it is, objectively, a proposed $50 billion transfer of wealth from ordinary taxpayers to a politically connected special interest that overwhelmingly and aggressively favors the party in power.

Public employee unions’ political activism and Democratic partisanship have been well documented. The PAC of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees had, through the end of April, already spent $10.2 million this election cycle, between contributions to candidates and independent expenditures. That’s three times as much as the PAC spending of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Wells Fargo combined.

The American Federation of Teachers has also spent more this election — $7.1 million — than any business PAC.

Public employee union PACs are nearly uniformly Democratic. AFSCME has given 99.5 percent of its contributions this election to Democrats, which is more bipartisan than AFT, which has given 99.6 percent to Democrats. Of the top 10 public sector unions, only three have given more than 10 percent to Republicans — the firefighters (14.6 percent), rural letter carriers (24.8 percent) and postmasters (20 percent).

$50 billion? If Obama’s $862 billion dollar stimulus was such a success, why is he begging for more money? Why do Democrats continue to have to pass extensions for unemployment benefits?

It’s another example of Obama’s pay-to-play style of government. The Unions and their PAC’s give millions of dollars to Obama and the Democrats to get them and keep them elected. They expect rewards and the Democrats reward them with YOUR money. Then when the money they stole from you runs out, Obama steps in and steals more of YOUR money.

It’s a win-win for everyone except the American taxpayer.

This also explains why Obama is so upset at the Supreme Court and their ruling on the Citizens United case. Corporations will be able to give huge amounts of money to politicians, probably Republicans, and will be allowed to use their free speech rights to produces books and movies about politicians.

It’s all about keeping power and the power of money. Obama rants about his disdain for the status quo. The status quo has only gotten bigger under Obama’s administration. The change that was promise is just another Obama lie!

Good news. The Democrats want to grant collective-bargaining rights to these unions. More union workers=more campaing contributions to Democrats. Obama does love his unions.

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But the Stimulus is working: White House Admits Unemployment will remain high for the rest of the Year.

The stimulus is working. The stimulus has ‘saved or created.’ The stimulus is working as it was intended. The stimulus will keep unemployment below 8%. The stimulus will CREATE 3.5 million jobs. What do all these claims have in common? They’re all LIES!

Job Loss is UN-AMERICAN when he was candidate Obama. As President, Obama passed a stimulus that was supposed to put Americans back to work. Instead, the U.S. has lost 4 million since Obama’s stimulus was signed into law. That is UN-AMERICAN.

Want better news? Three of Obama’s economic advisers admitted that the unemployment forecast will not change in 2010.

Bloomberg.com reports:

 U.S. employers won’t hire enough workers this year to lower the jobless rate much below the level of 9.7 percent reached in February, three Obama administration economic officials said today.

The proportion of Americans who can’t find work is likely to “remain elevated for an extended period,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, White House budget director Peter Orszag and Christina Romer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said in a joint statement. The officials said unemployment may even rise “slightly” over the next few months as discouraged workers start job-hunting again.

“We do not expect further declines in unemployment this year,” the officials said in testimony prepared for the House Appropriations Committee. They predicted the economy would add about 100,000 jobs a month on average — not enough to bring the jobless rate down substantially.

Even as Americans continue to yell “it’s about the JOBS stupid,” Obama and his fellow Democrooks continue to pursue health care. During his State of the Union Address, Obama promised it would be about JOBS in 2010. It’s March and these corrupt, Progressive Democrats are still stuck on stupid.

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Here we go again…New round of foreclosures threatens housing market

Foreclosures continue to skyrocket, even after Obama passed his “The Home Affordable Modification Program.” It only cost taxpayers $75 BILLION and once again, it did the opposite of what Obama claimed (think stimulus). Another example of the Obama touch.

The Washington Post reports:

The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just as the real estate market has begun to stabilize.

About 5 million to 7 million properties are potentially eligible for foreclosure but have not yet been repossessed and put up for sale. Some economists project it could take nearly three years before all these homes have been put on the market and purchased by new owners. And the number of pending foreclosures could grow much bigger over the coming year as more distressed borrowers become delinquent and then, if they can’t obtain mortgage relief, wade through the foreclosure process, which often takes more than a year to complete.

People losing their jobs is the number one reason for the spike in foreclosures. Obama has neglected the economy and job market so he can push his health care takeover. Despite claiming JOBS was his number one priority in 2010, Obama is still pushing ObamaCare. This is what you call someone who is out of tune with America.

At least Obama set another record with foreclosures.

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Talk about Hypocrisy…Dems pissed at Republican Senator for blocking Unemployment Benefits due to their PayGo legislation

I want my cake....waaaa!

Democrats are f*cking nuts these days. They are spending our tax money and setting records doing it. Taxpayers are pissed and to soothe the anger, Democrats passed PayGo where for every dollar they spend, they must find a way to pay for it. That means one of two things…1) cut other entitlement programs or 2) raise taxes.

Democrats, with their drinking/smoking POTUS, all year have claimed that the Stimulus bill worked. It doesn’t matter to them that it did the exact opposite of what they claimed it would do. Unemployment rose to 10.2 % and we lost 4 million jobs. If the stimulus had worked, Democrats wouldn’t continue to pass bills to provide unemployment benefits to Americans right?

So Sen. Bunning (R-KY) is delaying (not a filibuster as reported by the left and alphabet-media) the unemployment benefits wanted by Democrats. Wanna know whose benefits? The Dems want to pass a $10 billion unemployment benefits package for 2,000 FEDERAL employees. Yes, this is not for the blue-collar workers of America. It’s strictly for federal employees, most of whom are unionized. Typical Democrats.

Sen. Bunning wants to follow the law passed by these same Democrats. Democrats want to break this law, which they passed, thus making them typical crooks and hypocrites. How dare a Senator protest a group breaking their own PayGo law?

NPR reports:

On the floor of the Senate, Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky just defended the position he’s taken that has delayed an extension of jobless benefits for the nation’s unemployed and has forced the furlough of about 2,000 federal workers.

Saying that he has blocked votes on the legislation to underscore his opposition to the ongoing growth in federal debt, Bunning read a letter from “Robert in Louisville,” who told the senator that even though he hasn’t been working regularly in the past two years he supports what Bunning is doing.

“This country is sooner or later going to implode because of the massive amount of debt run up over the past 40 or 50 years,” Robert wrote, according to Bunning.

Democrats want to have the cake and eat it to. Their passing of the PayGo law was nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Everything the Dems have done the past year has been smoke and mirrors. This proves that their ‘concerns’ about the deficit is nothing more than political theatre.

The Associated Press reports:

“Bunning said again Tuesday that he opposed the extension because it would add $10 billion to the budget deficit, and he attacked Democrats for abandoning promises to pay for legislation instead of contributing to a budget deficits projected to hit almost $1.6 trillion this year. Bunning proposes to pay for the extension with unspent money from last year’s massive economic recovery package, but (Senate Majority Leader Harry) Reid, R-Nev., objected.”

This stunt being pulled by the Democrats is why Americans are pissed. We are tired of politicians paying us lip-service and then going against their promises. Democrats passed PayGo and promised to reel in their record spending. This goes against their own passed law and I hope others stand up against corrupt politicians….in both parties.

NOTE:

Also to those idiots on the left, please learn what a filibuster is. You can trick most members of your party with screaming “filibuster” but the educated know your tricks.

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Under Obama, American reliance on government at all-time high

The progressive wet-dream is coming true. Their goal of making Americans depend upon the government is happening. This is a real achievement of Obama, and his progressive loons.

The Washington Times reports:

The so-called “Great Recession” has left Americans depending on the government dole like never before.

Without record levels of welfare, unemployment and other government benefits as well as tax cuts last year, the income of U.S. households would have plunged by an astonishing $723 billion — more than four times the record $167 billion drop reported last month by the Commerce Department.

Moreover, for the first time since the Great Depression, Americans took more aid from the government than they paid in taxes.

Do you Obama followers want to continue to the myth that Obama’s stimulus worked? Before the election, Obama told Joe the Plummer that he would ‘spread the wealth’ and he has…to those that got him elected. The status quo continues for the working man while Obama’s progressive ideas, and policies, reward the unproductive in society.

What has happened under Obama? Higher everything. Unemployment, poverty, welfare, foreclosures and bankruptcies all are up while jobs creation is nonexistent. I think progressives have a different definition for success.

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Flip-flopping Democrats Pass PAY-GO and now want to bypass PAY-GO

The new Party symbol for Democrats

John Kerry was made a political laughing stock for proclaiming he was for it before he was against it…or something like that. Democrats are flip-floppers just like Kerry and their leader, Obama, is worse. To prove that they are serious about deficit spending, Democrats passed the Pay-go law that forces them to pay for their spending by cutting the budget or raising taxes. Except now the Democrats want to bypass their own law for Obama’s latest jobs creation scheme.

The Hill reports:

The ink is barely dry on the pay-as-you-go law, and Democrats are seeking to bypass it to enact parts of their job-creation agenda.

 Democratic leaders said extensions of unemployment insurance and COBRA healthcare benefits should be emergency spending that isn’t subject to the pay-as-you-go statute, which requires new non-discretionary spending to be offset with spending cuts or tax increases.

With current extensions of unemployment and COBRA benefits set to expire at the end of the month and the jobless rate still near 10 percent, Democratic lawmakers want to pass the extensions quickly, without having to find offsets for the costs.

 This year, facing record deficits and a debt that has exceeded $12 trillion, Democrats touted the new pay-go requirements as a necessary step to get spending under wraps. President Barack Obama signed the pay-go bill into law on Feb. 12 and Democrats are ready to waive those requirements to help get the economy going.

Flip-flopping liars! Democrats want more spending and more liberal entitlement programs to keep their voters happy. Then they attempt to link this spending to job creation and getting the economy going. Hello…these idiots passed a $862 billion dollar stimulus package that promised to create jobs and “jolt” the economy. It failed since unemployment hit 10.2 percent and we actually lost 4 million + jobs.

Now these record-setting spenders want to bypass their own law to spend more? Give me a break. The taxpayers are sick and tired of all this spending. We are forced to tighten our belts while the Democrats spend trillions. Like Obama, Democrats say one thing and do the exact opposite.

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The Politically Incorrect News: Sunday Edition 1/3/10

Politically Incorrect News for the Politically Incorrect Reader

It’s a new year, so its time to be even more politically incorrect in 2010. Here are a few items you may or may not have read…

Item #1- Top Obama official warned by Saudi official about underwear bombs in October. What did the Obama administration do with this information? Nothing…unless you count issuing a terrorists a visa as doing something. This FAILURE almost cost 300 people their lives in Detroit. Obama gets a big “F” for his report card on fighting terrorism. Cheney was right!

Item #2- Obama loves those presidential records: Obama Loses More Jobs in One Year than any other President in Modern History. Even with the $787 billion stimulus package that Obama signed in February, more than 4 million jobs have been lost in 2009, the worst year for job losses since World War II. The jobless rate that advisers projected would peak at 8% has topped 10%. MAJOR FAILURE!!!

Item #3- Another record for Obama: Over 20 million people collected unemployment checks in 2009. How about those ‘saved or created’ jobs? Obama in one word…FAILURE!

Item #4- More great news for us taxpayers: U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Freddie & Fannie fiasco. Thank Barney Fwank and all the other Democrats who loved Fannie/Freddie so much they are going to back them up for another 3 years…at the taxpayer’s expense. They decided to do this on Christmas Day, while everyone celebrated with their families. Gotta love the transparency.

Item #5- Can Obama appoint anyone who doesn’t have issues? Obama’s TSA appointee, Erroll Southers, lied to Congress. Seems someone has a problem with accessing records for personal use and lying about it. Just someone only Obama could love. Obama can’t even vet his appointees. Can someone explain how he will keep us safe from terrorists?

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Dems New “Jobs” Bill to cost another $300 BILLION

Let me be clear...Its all about jobs

What do you do when your first $787 billion dollar jobs bill fails? If you’re a Democrat, you ask for a second jobs bill and smile while claiming that it will only cost taxpayers $300 billion this go-round. If $787 billion didn’t do the job it was promised to do, what will a wimpy $300 billion do? That’s right, pay the unions.

The Hill reports:

The cost of a new jobs bill Democrats hope to move early next year runs to nearly $300 billion when major proposals under serious consideration are added up.

Lawmakers are calling for extending aid to the unemployed, infrastructure spending, a hiring tax credit and increased small business loans.

A number of the jobs proposals backed by Democrats make up a $230 billion package proposed by Mark Zandi of Moody’s Economy.com, who made a presentation to Senate Democrats Wednesday. The provisions supported by Zandi along with new spending on infrastructure, a favored approach of top House Democrats, would cost between $291 billion and $299 billion, according to estimates by lawmakers and economists.

Aides cautioned that Democratic leaders in both chambers are just beginning to consider what will go into the bill, and that estimates based on standalone bills may not mesh with the final jobs legislation

These same Democrats, led by Obama, who have tripled the budget deficit in under one year. On top of that accomplishment, they have increased the national debt to $12 Trillion and are secretly trying to increase the debt ceiling to pay for their failed progressive policies. But the icing on the cake has to be the rise in unemployment, from 7.6%  to 10.2 %, after passing the first stimulus package. These progressives, and Obama, promised America that unemployment would not go above 8 % and it would IMMEDIATELY create jobs.

So, what do you do in light of all these accomplishments? If you’re a Progressive, you tell American to suck it up and give up another $300 billion because your party is sure to make it work the second…maybe third time. If passed, the taxpayers can expect about the same accomplishments the first stimulus produced. Unemployment will continue to rise and welfare checks will continue to be mailed out. Also expect the continued use of the phrase “saved or created” that progressives like Obama and Nancy Pelosi love to use.

On a brighter note, Obama held a jobs summit today with the same economic advisers he used to craft the first stimulus bill…none of them have any real private sector experience…but Obama said: ““I am open to every demonstrably good idea. But our resources are limited. We can’t make any ill-considered decisions.”

Our resources are limited but the party he leads wants to spend another $300 billion? We should call these the Obama bailout because that is exactly what they are orchestrating…another Obama bailout for Obama’s failed stimulus.

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