Formerly "Political Digest." (I decided to change the name when I saw there were too many "political
digests" around. Some folks thought I was copying others when my readers
and I were compiling this one. "SitRep" is military speak for "Situation
Report.") Bringing you news and information the MSM is too busy covering
American Idol, celebrity affairs and sensational missing person cases to cover.
Please forward to friends who need to be informed.
Advice
for my Granddaughter: For When I'm Gone
All
royalties go to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
Happy Labor Day: The McJob recovery. By Ed Morrissey
Excerpt: Eight years ago, when John Kerry tried to defeat
the incumbent George W. Bush, he accused Bush of leading a “jobless recovery.” When
the economy started creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, Kerry and the
Democrats then claimed that Bush was creating mostly “McJobs,” low-wage
positions rather than higher-paying jobs for people with significant skills. The
nominal median income level rose in 2004, though, as jobs were created, and
Bush ended up narrowly winning re-election.
Jobs report to nip at
convention's heels
Excerpt: Ten hours after
President Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for
reelection, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will toss a stink bomb into his
post-convention party. The August jobs numbers are due out Friday morning, just
as Obama will be seeking to capitalize on his convention momentum. The timing
guarantees that Obama’s post-Charlotte, N.C. , campaign
swing to New Hampshire , Iowa
and Florida
will battle for headlines with the barometer of economic recovery.
See the Liberals
Song. Satire. Bob
Obama
Surrogate Richardson
Excerpt: "The president is not running overseas, but
everywhere you go, all around the world-- and I travel a lot -- the
international community wants to see this president reelected. obviously, we've
got to do it here," said Richardson .
(Well that settles it. Apparently Governor Richardson believes that it doesn't
matter if the American people don't want a president to be reelected. Just as
long as the rest of the world, including those who hate this country, want
Obama reelected, then it's our duty to abide by their wishes. --Masterguns)
They Have to Decide if They Want to be Liberal — or
Unhinged. By Bernard Goldberg
Excerpt: First, there’s Old Reliable, Chris Matthews, the
man who never lets you down when it comes to giving liberals a bad name. During
the GOP National Convention he suggested that when Republicans link Barack
Obama to Chicago
politics – (wait for it!) — they’re being racist.
Quote from The Patriot Post
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like
you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the
business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine
for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them."
--American writer H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Excerpt: With Americans, on average, worth less and earning
less than when he was inaugurated, Barack Obama is requesting a second term by
promising, or perhaps threatening, that prosperity is just around the corner if
he can practice four more years of trickle-down government. This is dubious
policy, scattering borrowed money in the hope that this will fill consumers and
investors with confidence. But recently Obama revealed remarkable ambitions for
it when speaking in Pueblo ,
Colo.
Debt to reach $16
trillion in time to crash Democrats’ convention
Excerpt: Just as Democrats are
gaveling in their convention Tuesday, the federal government likely
will announce another dubious milestone — $16 trillion in total federal debt.
(Bankrupt your Grandkids? Yes, we can! ~Bob.)
Obama Administration
Passed Secret Message to Iran :
U.S. Won’t Support Strike
Against Iran
Excerpt: The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot published a
startling report Monday detailing a message it says was conveyed by the Obama
administration – via two European countries – to Iranian officials. This would
be hard to verify (over here) but speaks volumes about our support
(or lack of it) of Israel
if true. (There as a time when this would have been impossible to believe. Now?
Who knows? ~Bob.)
Excerpt: This election year, millions of Americans will
donate to the political candidates and initiatives of their choice at the
local, state, and federal levels. But for unionized workers, union dues come
out of their paychecks and go to political causes—and they aren't consulted on
where that money will go. In July, The Wall Street Journal's Tom
McGinty and Brody Mullins published an eye-opening report that "Organized labor spends about four
times as much on politics and lobbying as generally thought."
With landmark
lawsuit, Barack Obama pushed banks to give subprime loans to Chicago’s
African-Americans. By Neil Munro
Excerpt: President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor
to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186
African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit
against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices. As
few as 19 of those 186 clients still own homes with clean credit ratings,
following a decade in which Obama and other progressives pushed banks to
provide mortgages to poor African Americans. (Tough for them, but since when do
liberals care about results. Especially if being for the right things helps
politically. ~Bob.)
Seven Devastating Economic Facts Affecting Black Americans.
By Wynton Hall
Excerpt: The Obama economy has
been brutal on all Americans, but especially so on black Americans. Consider
the following seven economic facts: … Whether these depressing statistics
will affect President Obama’s support among African American voters in November
remains to be seen. However, a recent NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found that Mitt
Romney receives zero percent support among black voters.
Tweet from @ConanOBrien:
Overheard some conservative Latino kids in a pool playing
“Marco Rubio.”
National Empty Chair Day
Fun pics. ~Bob.
Excerpt: I’m a bad person. I know it’s not nice to take joy
in the misery of others, but I can’t help but smile when I see a story about
bad news in France .
In my defense, this is not because
of hostility to French people, who have always been friendly to me. Instead, France has become the global symbol of statism
(particularly since Sweden has been
moving in the right direction). The French, for instance, are
increasingly infamous for class-warfare tax
policy and onerous levels of
intervention.
Excerpt: Harrisburg , Pa. , leads the nation in
a dubious distinction: It has the most debt per capita of any U.S. city. The
town's 50,000 citizens are on the hook for $1.5 billion.
(Hint: Not run by Republicans. ~Bob.)
Two U.S. consulate employees wounded in Pakistan
Excerpt: Two Americans working for the U.S. consulate were wounded on Monday in a
bomb attack on their vehicle in the Pakistani city of Peshawar , the American embassy said. The
blast also wounded two Pakistani employees of the consulate, the embassy
in Islamabad said
in a statement.
Gibbs: Yeah, probably
best not to expect ’08 levels of enthusiasm. By Erika Johnsen
Except: The enthusiasm gap is indeed already rearing it’s
ugly head, and not in favor of Obama, either. ….But don’t worry, because Team
Obama is assuring us that they’re still going to find enough enthusiastic DNC
convention-goers to manage to completely fill up the gigantic football stadium to which President
Obama was forced to confine his magnanimosity, ’cause otherwise… well, that
would just be embarrassing. For weeks, Democrats have been concerned about
filling Bank of America Stadium, home to the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. They
feared a devastating image of an enthusiasm gap if Obama spoke to empty upper
decks at the venue. (Wonder if the cost to bus all those “folks” in and feed
them will equal the cost of taking the sand back to Myrtle Beach . --Barb.)
Me So
Confused...Everything That Should Be Down Is Up, What Should Be Up Is Down, But
The Guy Who Did It Deserves Re-Election? The Blog Of Michael P. Borgia
Excerpt: In one spurt of less than three months, the
Code of Federal Regulations grew from 53,630 pages on September 10, 2011; to
75,770 pages on December 3, 2011. For the first time in our nation's history,
we now must spend more than 120 million man hours just to comply with the
contents of the code. That's nearly double what it took just one year ago. The
amount of non productive energy wasted is however considered by our brilliant
young president to be a good thing….
Terrorists Plotted to
Attack Indian Nuke Plants
Excerpt: The Indian government has arrested more than a
dozen terrorists in a sting operation from groups planning attacks on nuclear
facilities.
Greedy Jew: Manhattan , NY - Brooklyn Orthodox
Woman Tracks Down Pickpocketer, Nabs Thief Redhanded
Excerpt: “As we were waiting, she said to me ‘you have your
stuff back, this is just a waste of time’”, recalled Mrs. Wohlhendler. “Then
she took another tack saying, ‘I am Muslim, you are Jewish. You are all greedy,
why can’t you just let it go?’” Upon their arrival, police immediately found
inconsistencies in the suspect’s story, who first insisted that she hadn’t used
the credit card, but store surveillance tapes indicated otherwise. (Why, in
Obama's America ,
would a Muslim think a Jew wanting to keep her own money was greedy? ~Bob.)
Excerpt: This was the last active synagogue in Egypt . The
Egyptian authorities’ excuse for the shut-down, effectively outlawing High
Holiday services in the country, were “security” reasons. (Obama's Arab Spring
friends, taking care of The Jewish Question. ~Bob.)
Obama- sand sculpture Mount Rushmore imitation
Excerpt: At the Democratic National Convention (DNC)
in Charlotte , they will have pictures of
such American icons as the Statue of Liberty and Mount
Rushmore . Apparently President Obama has such a high opinion of
himself that there is also a sand sculpture of him, erected at the DNC at the
EpiCentre entertainment complex, seemingly in imitation of Mount
Rushmore . It consists of 15 tons of sand trucked in from Myrtle Beach , South
Carolina
Democrats Air
Frustration With Obama’s ‘Cockiness’
Excerpt: Kantor's piece carries a long-running theme that
Obama easily -- perhaps even uncontrollably -- rates and ranks others around
him. ….Even his own staff are subject to criticism: “I think that I’m a better
speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his
political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New
Yorker. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy
directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better
political director than my political director.”
New
N.C. poll gives Romney small lead in presidential race. By Jim Morrill
Excerpt: Republican Mitt Romney appears to have gotten
his bounce from his party’s national convention – at least in the state hosting
the Democratic convention, according to a poll released Sunday. The new Elon
University/Charlotte Observer Poll shows the GOP presidential candidate leading
President Barack Obama 47 percent to 43 percent in North Carolina .
Excerpt: Less than a dozen delegates showed up for a mimosa
brunch and shopping event that was planned for 150 guests at The Hotel Concord
Sunday. For the past year, Stacie Jacobs has been working with nearly 20 local
businesses that will help cater to hundreds of visiting delegates staying in Cabarrus County
DNC security rules
trigger free speech worries
Excerpt: Starting Saturday, someone walking through
Charlotte's central business district could run afoul of the law by carrying
water bottles, hair spray, socks or magic markers under sweeping security rules
enacted ahead of the Democratic National Convention….The special rules that
went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday could also bar anyone other than
government employees from carrying handbags and backpacks or possessing soda
cans, drink coolers, scarves, bike helmets, baby strollers or pets not
specifically permitted as service animals….Somewhat counter-intuitively,
handguns and rifles are not included in the long list of potential weapons
banned by the city.
Excerpt: President Barack Obama is partly blaming his family
and children for his inability to lessen Washington ’s partisanship and gridlock
during his first term. On CNN’s “State of the Union ”
Sunday show, Jessica Yellin said she interviewed Obama for a forthcoming documentary
and asked him why he did not do more outreach to Republicans in the beginning
of his term to bridge the divides Obama often rails against. Yellin said
Obama told her one of the reasons he did not was because he wanted to spend
more time at home with his kids and family.
Excerpt: The U.S.
military has suspended training of some Afghan forces while the Americans
review the process of vetting new recruits following a spike in deadly attacks
on international troops last month, officials said Sunday. There have been 34
attacks by Afghan police or soldiers on their international allies so far this
year — at least 12 in August alone. The members of the Afghan security forces
have killed 45 international troops, putting intense strain on the
relationship.
Excerpt: The Obama administration doesn't trust the Israelis
to wait until after the November elections before attacking Iran . And should Israel
attack Iran soon,
the administration doesn't want to give the impression that they prepared "something together with the Israelis
against Iran ."
As if to teach Israel a
lesson, the U.S. is
sending Patriot anti-missile systems to Israel but has decided not to send crews to operate them. And instead of sending
two Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense warships for Israel as
previously agreed, the Obama administration is sending only one.
Excerpt: On August 16, Rimsha Masih, a developmentally
disabled 14-year-old Christian girl in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan, was
arrested for blasphemy, accused of burning papers containing verses from the
Quran. The case drew worldwide outrage, as governments and human rights groups
demanded that she be released. Even Muslim groups demanded leniency. Suddenly
the case has taken a new bizarre twist, as Imam Khalid Jadoon, the Muslim
cleric who had originally accused Rimsha of blasphemy, has himself been accused
of manufacturing evidence.
MSNBC Host Loses Cool
Excerpt: ‘MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry became visibly
upset over business owners calling themselves "risk takers" and began
screaming on air.’ (Video)
Stephanopoulos: No Bias In Media
Excerpt: MRCTV's Joe Schoffstall ran into "Good
Morning America" host George Stephanopoulos at the Republican National
Convention in Tampa , Florida
Excerpt: This morning, the Obama Store 2012 sent out an
email just in time for the Democratic National Convention: all gear is 25% off
on all purchases more than $10 or more! Is this just a last-minute attempt to
reap dollars off of those too stingy to buy Obama gear at full price? Or is this
the sign of a campaign desperate to rake in the cash before they go completely
out of business? (I wonder if the price of entry to win dinner with BO has
dropped from $3? ~Bob.)
VP Says It’s Too Hot
Outside To Explain How Americans Are Better Off
Excerpt: Looks like the “Are you better off” question is
making some Team Obama take notice. In Detroit
today, Vice President Biden stated that Americans were better off now. He said
he’d go into detail why, but it… oh just watch:
Excerpt: Blaming a disliked minority — rich business folks —
has morphed into a predictable strategy for President Obama’s Democrats,
stripped of incumbent success. But all the talk of “one percent” versus “the
ninety nine percent” misses new splits developing within both the
upper and middle classes.
Photo: Dems To Use Trick Photography To Fill Convention
Hall? By John Nolte
Excerpt: There's no question that, like most failed
incumbents, Obama has an enthusiasm gap to deal with this year. Long before
Clint Eastwood forever branded Obama an "empty chair," the President
has been plagued by the disturbing optics of a one-time political rock star no
longer able to pack a house. …And from the looks of Klein's photo, if the
people won't come to see The One, The One will simply lower the oceans, heal
the planet, and manufacture his own adoring multitudes.
Media Ignores Ryan Crowd For A Few Pro-Obama Protesters.
By Dana Loesch
Excerpt: Breitbart News's Joel Pollak reports from
a Paul Ryan event in North Carolina that media is
virtually ignoring the thousands attending the event in favor of a
few pro-Obama protesters:….There's certainly no harm in covering both sides of
the event, but the media's picture-proven preference for the few protesters over
the thousands waiting in line (and thousands more turned away from lack
of accommodation, Pollak remarks) is biased. The suggestion that the
presence of a few protesters is equal to that of the thousands there to see
Ryan is misleading.
Excerpt:
A U-Haul truck
loaded with equipment for a Monday event featuring Vice President Joe Biden was
stolen in Detroit Detroit
Excerpt: In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic,
the Denver public
schools system are adding a fourth ‘r’ to the curriculum: rebellion…. In order
to achieve a coveted “distinguished” rating, teachers at each grade level must
show that they “encourage” students to “challenge and question the dominant
culture” and “take social action to change/improve society or work for social
justice.” The new DPS teacher assessment system, called LEAP (Leading Effective
Academic Practice), stems from state legislation passed in 2010 and is
overwhelmingly funded by a $10M grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation.
The best anti-Obama
video ever made הסרטון הטוב ביותר נגד אובמה
Jewish Task Force.
The philosophy of Obama’s speechwriters: "Thank
goodness for cut and paste." By Billy Hollis
Excerpt: Of course, politicians routinely repeat their stump
speeches, so you could generate a video with repeated mantras for almost anyone
in office. But this many, four years apart?
‘In Their Faces’:
Republicans Borrow Page fm Obama’s Book, Will Stage Counter Convention in NC.
By Joel B. Pollak
By: Curt http://floppingaces.net/most_wanted/in-their-faces-republicans-borrow-page-fm-obamas-book-will-stage-counter-convention-in-nc/
Excerpt: In 2008, an aggressive candidate Barack Obama told supporters to “argue with them, get in their
faces.” In 2012, Republicans are taking a page from Obama’s book, holding a
“counter-convention” outside the Democratic National Convention at the Time
Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte , NC
Excerpt: Everyone knows that Barack Obama has a skin issue.
Liberals pretend that it’s skin color. The real issue, though, concerns
thickness, not color.
Pro-Obama Racism
in L.A.
Excerpt: The pro-Obama left is on a frantic hunt for “dog
whistle” racism on the part of Republicans — an absurd exercise in amateur
mind-reading which they feel compelled to do in the absence of any actual
Republican racism. While the debate rages as to whether this is just
psychological projection by the race-obsessed left, no one seems to notice the
blunt in-your-face unequivocal racism expressed by some of Obama’s very own
supporters. “Once you go black, you never go back! Obama 2012,” accompanied by
a classic Obama “Hope” portrait.
Excerpt: The Islamic Society of
North America (ISNA), which bills itself as “the largest Islamic umbrella
organization in North America,” is meeting in Washington , D.C.
Excerpt: Harris-Perry’s folk-Marxist freakout isn’t that surprising – while the
polls are still close, there does seem to be plenty of flopsweat on the left
right now. ….But consider the venue: MSNBC, and the history wrapped up in that
network’s call sign. Microsoft was, of course, formed by Bill Gates after he
dropped out of Harvard in the mid-‘70s, when the idea of a personal computer
still seemed like something out of Star Trek or 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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