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The Obama Watch
Economic Emetics
Democrats celebrate Labor Day and the double recession, while the best — Obama’s speech — is still to come.
Yesterday, while we were “celebrating” Labor Day, European stocks crashed, with most major European averages losing more than 4% and Germany losing over 5%. This follows a 2.2% drop in the U.S. on Friday following the disastrous August jobs report showing zero net new jobs created in that month. And U.S. stock index futures on Tuesday morning point to another brutal day in U.S. markets.
Meanwhile, as people fear both the Euro and the U.S. Dollar, on Monday (in international markets) gold traded over $1900 per ounce for the first time ever and the U.S. government’s 10-year note looks set to create its lowest closing yield in recent history, aiming for a rate under 2%. (If the Federal Reserve really thinks that some sort of program to push those yields even lower will somehow stimulate economic activity, one has to wonder what they’re smoking. But that’s a topic for another day.)
Politics is feeding into the international sense of economic despair: In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has staked her political future on committing Germany to saving the Euro, is paying a heavy political price with her CDU party losing badly in elections in her own home state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sunday; the CDU has now lost seats in state parliaments in six elections in a row. Unfortunately, her center-right party’s loss means gains for a more left-leaning party, the Social Democrats, along with gains for the far-left Greens, which in the long run can’t be good for Germany or the world. It’s no wonder that even on a day of widespread European stock market destruction, Germany got the worst of it.
On Wednesday night, probably while American financial markets are still open, Germany’s highest court will announce its decision in a case challenging the legality of Germany’s participation in the bailout of Greece and the Europe-wide “rescue fund.” The German magazine Der Spiegel suggests that “It is unlikely that the judges will thwart the bailout of Greece and the attempts to save the euro. But it is equally unlikely that they will just accept the status quo. Comments made by the judges so far suggest they will opt for a qualified approval of the government’s actions — a ‘Yes, but.’” Whatever comes after that “but” may have a major impact on the value of the euro and on European stocks and bonds, with inevitable ripple effects in the United States.
In particular, the degree of input into or control over future bailouts that the court gives to the Bundestag, the German equivalent of Congress, will give the markets more or less fear of even greater politicization of the process. Despite the legitimate concerns of European taxpayers over the risks being taken with their money, the markets will probably react badly if politicians are given too much influence in this situation; after all, how often have squabbling politicians actually made a situation better even when they had a good point? Europeans, like many Americans, are rightly becoming suspicious of the activities of their central banks, with the trend in Germany showing a likely increase in both transparency and politicization of the Bundesbank’s future activities. The consequences may present good object lessons for the “audit the Fed” movement in the U.S.
ON THIS SIDE of the pond, President Obama thumped his chest in front of a union crowd in Detroit, making official his election strategy of campaigning against Congress, hoping that Americans will forget that the real impetus behind the “stimulus” and Obamacare, two of the most economically damaging pieces of legislation in modern American history, came from the face staring at him in the mirror.
Meanwhile Joe “big f-ing deal” Biden used similar rhetoric at an AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati (see a theme here?), though he appears to be campaigning against a sitting governor, John Kasich, rather than against Congress. In a threat that can best be described by Republicans as “please don’t throw us in that briar patch, Br’er Biden,” our loquacious vice president told of his coming campaign involvement: “I am about to be let loose.” Is the Obama team really going to let Biden off his leash for more than a couple of hours a month? Republicans and the writers at Saturday Night Live can only hope so.
Hints of the content of Barack Obama’s upcoming “jobs speech” — more infrastructure spending and extension of certain small tax breaks — are leaking out. While they should surprise no one, the markets are already screaming “double dip recession” with oil down 15% in the past month, the S&P 500 down 10%, and copper, often considered a good leading indicator of economic activity, also down about 10%.
Speaking to the union crowd in the once-great city of Detroit, Obama apparently did not notice the irony of campaigning — and make no mistake, that’s what he was doing — in a city that has been utterly destroyed by the very unions cheering him on. The crowd was yelling “four more years” in much the same way that a masochist might plead with his dominatrix “hurt me, hurt me!” Obama’s aggressive language toward Republicans, saying “You say you’re the party of tax cuts? Show us what you got,” might have been noteworthy but for two things: House Republicans have shown they are not cowed by his bluster, and Obama followed Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa Jr., who tenderly warmed up the crowd by pledging his allegiance and muscle to our own Dear Leader:
“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war…President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.”
I’m a big fan of Jimmy Hoffa Jr. because his words require so little elaboration by me. I’ll just add this: Remember Hoffa’s words the next time a leftist pundit describes the Tea Party as violent or aggressive.
It’s also worth noting that the Washington Post’s first take on Hoffa’s remarks conveniently left out the parts emphasized above. Clearly the leftist “mainstream” media would like to avoid tying Barack Obama to people who use direct threats of violence, and they were able to whitewash Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. But a couple of hours later after Hoffa’s words swept the Internet, even the Post had to grudgingly quote Hoffa’s incendiary remarks.
Not surprisingly, Hoffa’s goons aren’t backing down. After Tea Party activists called for an apology and “urged Obama to rebuke him,” a Teamsters spokesman said “Workers didn’t start this war — the right-wing tea party zealots did. Jim Hoffa’s comments today reflect the anger of workers under attack in this country.” Again, remember this the next time you see bloody faces and broken bones at a political event, and hear some MSNBC talking head talking about violent tendencies of the Tea Party.
When you have a president and vice president whose jobs strategy is to boost the very unions that have sapped the life out of much of our manufacturing sector for decades, and to extend temporary and poorly designed tax policy such as the employee-only break in payroll taxes, it’s no wonder that the markets are vomiting all over their collective shoes.
Barack Obama’s prescription for jobs is nothing more than an economic emetic and the employment and market picture won’t improve until the nation is no longer force-fed that bitter medicine.
The best pre-answer to Barack Obama’s photo-op/speech to this weary-of-another-speech Congress has come from Congressman Joe Walsh (R-IL, not of Eagles fame), who is leaving Washington on Thursday afternoon and will be hosting a Small Business Jobs Forum in his suburban Chicago district while Obama is speaking. In other words, Walsh will be finding out from job creators what they want to do while Obama is telling the rest of Congress what the unions want done. Rep. Walsh said he’ll read the speech later. I’m not sure I’d even bother with that, but every job has its particularly unpleasant aspects and I applaud Walsh for subjecting himself even to the text version of Obama’s lecture.
Congressman Walsh emphasized in a radio interview with me on Monday that President Obama is “abusing the very notion of a joint session of Congress, doing it purely for political reasons, and I just don’t want to be a prop in his political theater.” Knowing Joe Walsh, it’s not surprising that he’s the first member of Congress to refuse to participate in Obama’s jobs kabuki. What is surprising is that, at least so far, he’s the only one.
About the Author
Ross Kaminsky is a self-employed trader and investor and is a senior fellow of the Heartland Institute. He is the host of The Ross Kaminsky Show on Denver’s NewsRadio 850 KOA at 11 AM on most Sundays. You can reach Ross by e-mail at rossputin(at)rossputin(dot)com.
Brian Mc| 9.6.11 @ 6:24AM
Yes, wouldn't it be lovely if, after the alien's speech, we could argue as to whether the chamber was half-empty or half-full...?
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.6.11 @ 10:13AM
Can we, PLEASE, get the people on our side to REMIND everyone, that, we ALREADY did the whole "Infrastructure/Construction/Shovel Ready Jobs thing.
Every time this Marxist/Muslim, Lying MFer, opens his POS Mouth, about "Construction Jobs, and Roads and Bridges", our people should throw it right back in his PUKE Face.
He already got $900 Billion, and he used it to fund his Civilian Army - The Unions.
"We need a Civilian Force, just as big, and just as WELL FINANCED, as our Military Forces."
Go look at Biden's speech, yesterday, at the Labour Day Union Rally. He called them "Our ARMY". He called them "The only CIVILIAN FORCE, capable of defeating their Political Enemies". (I'm paraphrasing.)
Pay Attention. They already, pick up the phone, and load up the buses, with their "ARMY", to go to their "ENEMY'S" homes, and Terrorize their Families. And, that was when their Leader - Herr Hussein - was polling at about 70%.
There is a Kristallnacht, coming this way. Coming, next year.
New York will BURN, like London. The Inner Cities of California, and Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, will resemble their counterparts of the late 1960's. The LEFT will not go quietly, in to the night.
But, they WILL, go.
Arm yourselves. Prepare yourselves.
The Violent Rhetoric, at that Union Rally, was said right in front of the President of the United States. The calls for VIOLENCE, against those who see our Country as a Bastion of Freedom, and Liberty, by people who believe that Intimidation, Coercion, and VIOLENCE, are the order of the day, were made right in front of ABU HUSSAIN - HAMS' Deliverer. The man who demands CIVILITY, from the rest of us.
It's coming.
It's Inevitable.
Make sure you're ready.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS!
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.6.11 @ 10:18AM
That's - ABU HUSSAIN - HAMAS' Deliverer.
Sorry. I'm just so sick of this MFer and his SCUMBAG 2nd in command, that sometimes I just get ahead of myself.
You people, who voted for this. See what you have done.
JFGalt| 9.6.11 @ 12:28PM
It worked for Hitler - why is anyone surprised that he is trying the same thing now. Just look at the response. These union members are ready to put on their jackboots and strut. Can't they see how they are being played?
Jack in Wi.| 9.6.11 @ 10:31AM
Who would in their right mind waste his time watching Obama? In fact the last 4 presidents were all boring speakers who have each been replaced by someone worse. The stock market has been held up by smoke and mirrors for years. It is just another bubble caused by the Fed and will soon pop. This whole economy is nothing but people running around in circles wondering what to do next.
Hoffa is nothing but a lawyer who got and keeps his job because of his name. Now he is trying to rally his troops with rabid and radical talk. I don't think that works anymore.
Mrs. Vito| 9.6.11 @ 11:11AM
If only Hoffa, Jr. could disappear like his father...
c. j. acworth| 9.6.11 @ 6:16PM
Now, now, none of that violent Tea-Partier talk please.
Buck Ofama| 9.6.11 @ 10:16PM
And take the muslim mulatto with him.
The Bishop| 9.6.11 @ 6:27AM
President Obama and his able assistant, Vice President Turd, have staked out their territory. No matter the bluster, the people have awakened. Bring 2012 on. And Jim Hoffa can go join his illustrious dad, whatever goalpost he may be under.
POST American| 9.6.11 @ 6:32AM
---David Rockfeller's latest stooge doing
his compliant best in these closing Gilbert
& Sullivan days of POST America and the
Globalist RED China TREASON OP.
Mike Hawk| 9.6.11 @ 6:34AM
You sound more sensible than Obama today, though neither of you says anything coherent.
Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 1:41PM
I have got some Continuing Medical Education to review. Obama is worthless and hopeless.
Mike Hawk| 9.6.11 @ 6:32AM
Nobody I know will we watching the Obama re-runs. Not even El Rushbo. Hoffa sounded more like Ernst Rahm.
Stormzeye| 9.6.11 @ 6:39AM
Excellent reference to Ernst Rohm. One can only hope for a "night of the long knives".
John Daniel| 9.6.11 @ 6:34AM
The left, at least, is zealous in the pursuit of their secular religion. We're about to hear about more stimulus - maybe this time really shovel ready - with a little tax stuff thrown in for fake similitude. If the Republicans had any backbone they would boycott this charade.
Gary B| 9.6.11 @ 7:03AM
"If the Republicans had any backbone..." That's a big "if," although credit must to go Boehner for refusing Obama's grab at a joint session. Even so, you still can't trust Republicans to do the right thing. Decade upon decade of disappointment...
Stormzeye| 9.6.11 @ 6:36AM
Clearly, this election is going to come down to a confrontation between the Tea Party Movement and Organized Labor (which consists primarily of public service unions rather than trade or craft unions). It will be an all out war with no one involved having any interest in giving the other side quarter. This will be a good thing. Thanks to the internet the voter is seeing the face of Marxist thuggery.
Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 6:54AM
What motivates the hatefulness of Democrats? After the shooting of Rep. Gifford's and murder of a Republican judge and young girl, by a Bush hating leftist, one would have thought Democrats would have moderated their violent rhetoric, but that's not the case. They're doubling down on their hate speech. How soon will they be calling for riots in the streets to subvert our democratic system to take people's minds off Barack Obama's double dip recession/depression.
Gary B| 9.6.11 @ 7:00AM
Very soon...
Mike D.| 9.6.11 @ 7:38AM
Oh, they want this in the streets, make no doubt of it. People are waking up and the leftists and their thugs are getting very nervous, and as they say in gangster novels, the jig is up. Note to chief union thug Hoffa, careful what you wish for!
Redstateboy| 9.6.11 @ 9:39AM
spot on Michael.. DWS (Debbie Washingmachine Schultz) was being grilled by Greta on FOX this morning asking her, as Chair of DNC, for a denunciation of Hoffa's violent rhetoric.. and of course - typical Liber-ul that she is - she obfiscated, re-directed, blamed others and claimed tit-for-tat.. but Would Not disavow it!!
Now............. Y'all know why I felt compelled to purchase that 20ga. Mossberger from Walmart.. cause it's come'n.
Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:22AM
Kel-Tec has come out with a 14 shot 12ga. The perfect weapon for defending yourself against zombies (Democrat/Obama voters and union thugs).
Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 1:42PM
Cool, Mike. Thanks. And Pecos. Take care, guys.
Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 2:04PM
Yep, to bad we can't get the AA-12 Combat Shotgun with 20 round drum. And it's fully automatic, can fire 20 rounds in 4 seconds.
http://www.gizmag.com/aa-12-co.....tic/11393/
(I like to post gun links and listen for exploding liberal heads.)
Pecos Pete| 9.6.11 @ 12:12PM
I kinda like 12ga slugs myself for up close and personal defense. 180gr 30-06 works pretty good at 500 yards.
JFGalt| 9.6.11 @ 12:30PM
You won't get that from her because he said what she has been dying to say.
Gary B| 9.6.11 @ 6:59AM
The DC elites have stolen all the money and cancelled out most of our freedom. I assume Obama's great idea is to steal more money and cancel more of our freedom with the creation of another government agency. I hope he doesn't characterize his ideas as "new."
Shamus| 9.6.11 @ 7:00AM
Obama is winning the War on Prosperity.
beebop| 9.6.11 @ 7:05AM
Americans hate bullys. Put a fork in this administration.
Gary B| 9.6.11 @ 7:07AM
Steve Wynn hit the nail on the head. The situation won't improve until the "wet blanket" is removed.
Mimi| 9.6.11 @ 7:18AM
What we are NOW seeing is the cries and anguish of a defeated Democratic Party , whom the Liberals have done in. Their future does not at all look bright....First the fear, now the ANGER !
Hoffa's outburst is just a sign and symptom....They are SCARED to death to lose POWER!
The American People instinctively rejected their way of doing business....we have a uniquely independent character and FREEDOM is at the TOP of that list!
The BLOW-HARDS will get worse I'm sorry to say...
We must go on our MERRY way and win this thing in Nov. 2012....The nightmare will soon be over!!!
Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 10:00AM
Exactly Mimi,
We are seeing the 2nd stage of grief. Bargaining will be next, followed by depression (after they lose in 2012 is my guess). Then maybe they will come to the last stage of acceptance but I highly doubt it.
JFGalt| 9.6.11 @ 12:32PM
Make no mistake - they are not defeated and it is not over. We are entering a dangerous phase when the violence could spill onto the streets and guess who controls the guns! This could get ugly. What we need are real statesmen to step forward and do right by Americans. I don't know if I've seen any candidates for that task yet.
Clint| 9.6.11 @ 7:22AM
Our Tea Party Spokesman, Otter from Delta House:
" We gotta take these These Sons of Hoffa Bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!
Boon: Let's do it.
Bluto: [shouting] "Let's do it"!
Clint: Bring out The "Eat Me" Float.
saleboter| 9.6.11 @ 7:28AM
Bloviater in chief
Clint| 9.6.11 @ 7:36AM
Apparently, Hoffa didn't get the memo.
"Fewer than 12 out of 100 American workers were union members last year, the smallest share in a decades-long slide.
Union membership fell in 2010 to 11.9 percent of the workforce, down from 12.3 percent in 2009, a sign that the jobless recovery and shifting political winds continued to carve away at collective bargaining.
In the private sector alone, union membership fell to 6.9 percent from 7.2 percent of employees, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That represents the lowest share since the burgeoning of the labor movement in the 1930s."
Mike D.| 9.6.11 @ 7:42AM
Unionism had a purpose historically, so did horses and wagons and butter churns. Its degenerated into a democratic fund feeding, protection racket. Nothing more. Hoffa cheering the most job killing President this country ever elected, what a brainless schill. I often how many of his union herd actually believe this BS.
Pat| 9.6.11 @ 4:21PM
Clint, the union guys really do “get it” but what choices do they have? Within a couple more years, China’s production capacity for building automobiles is estimated at 31 million cars annually. Staggering numbers, especially when you add their numbers to Korea’s and India’s. And the Chinese have their own well thought out plan for invading the American automotive market; high quality, low cost cars plus the mandatory boast to have “environmentally correct” models on sale within their soon to be built dealerships. So, what’s the UAW supposed to do - or the Teamsters or the steel makers for that matter? And the UAW’s claim that our home grown, high school dropouts can build a much better car than China’s home grown, high school dropouts sounds rather silly and tragically forlorn.
It’s not 1954 anymore and the unions know it’s all over for them - or soon will be. Only violently partisan politics can provide the high paying, low skill jobs their members demand and which they look to their union bosses to provide. And Walter Reuther hardly needed a crystal ball to see this Asian manufacturing tsunami coming, he realized decades ago it was necessary to hitch the UAW’s wagon to the Democrat’s donkey.
For a brief shining moment following WWII, working class Americans could bask in the economic glow and easy wealth gleaned from a world where Europe was an emaciated competitor devastated by war and Asia was mired in medieval economies managed by war lords – but that 1950’s Happy Days story now seems a tale set within a long ago and far away galaxy. In future years there will be no union resurgence, just a long hospital stay on political life support followed by the inevitable flat line.
benny havens| 9.6.11 @ 7:39AM
Ok, let me understand this. The Democrats took over Congress in 06 and the White House in 08. Then billions of dollars in “stimulus money” was handed over to every leftist special interest group that supported Obama during his campaign of 57 states. In four years the unemployment rate shoots up to 9%.
Now this phony wart healer parades around claiming that the Tea Party is to fault for the jobless economy. No mention that he and his Fabian socialist cohorts had anything to do with the state of the economy. So what does he do, he rallies his brain-dead strong-arm crew to “take these sons of bitches out”. These are his supporters? The old “lead-pipe unions”? And their answer to a situation that doesn’t go their way is to “bloody their faces”.
Way to go Ivy Leaguer.
Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 1:43PM
Obama is a treasonous scum bag, surrounded by traitors.
Buck Ofama| 9.6.11 @ 10:22PM
Gee, and all this time I thought he was merely an ass-kissing, bowing, apologizing, embarrassing, snail-tracked c0cksucker. Who'da thunk it?
martin j smith| 9.6.11 @ 7:40AM
I have a theory ( oh yeah another one of my gems ) ias to why Boehner even allowed for a joint session of congress for our DICTATOR to brilliant ideas that are so old that Cave people turn over in their graves.
There will be a BIG BATTLE a political war that I and probably most others have not seen as the 2012 election looms closer . In this I hope i am wrong --but hope for the best prepare for the worst--There will be violence, voter fraud and intimidation with of course no recourse from our Dept. of In-Justice and all matter of blatant smearing and tricks you have never seen before.
Since the Presidency of Obama my thinking along conspiratorial lines has been at an all time high. You know full well of the 9/11 TRUTHERS. Well I have always thought whenever the LEFT make outrageous sounding accusations I often believe it is often the opposite of what they say. But whatever. It would not surprising to me if there is a terrorist attack sometime before the 2012 elections. As I have said I hope I am wrong, but I fear that Obama is perfectly capable of arranging such an event. To those who say this is "madness" I say to them Obama and his policies have been "madness" and one must ask what is this man capable of doing in regards to his motivation and of course his goals. What are his goals ? Do you know ?
Mike D.| 9.6.11 @ 7:45AM
If the leftists nutjobs can't win and defeat is staring them in the face, they will try to bring the whole thing down violently, be assured of that.
JFGalt| 9.6.11 @ 12:35PM
I wonder when the Reichstag fire will be ignited in order to galvanize a scapegoat and swing the rest of the wellmeaning but brainless over to Dear Leader.
JP| 9.6.11 @ 7:44AM
The threat of violence now permeates much of the Progressive Left. Whether it is a 24 man SWAT Team raiding a Gibson Guitar factory (why does the DOA need its own goon squad?), or Big Labor essientially using NAZIS rhetoroc that comes right out of 1932 Weimar Germany, one wonders what Obama ultimately has up his sleeve.
Larry| 9.6.11 @ 7:59AM
I'm wondering if President Barry Hussein will make some comment about Hoffa's lack of civility.
Naaah. I must be nuts for even wondering such a thing. Barry, the would be bully boy loves to suck up to uniion leach moocher thugs.
Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 8:08AM
Obviously, not. Nor will any Democrat condemn this hate speech. Look at the moron Schultz, head of the DNC, who supported Hoffa's hate speech that calls for union thugs to "take out" or kill Tea Party members and Republicans.
Larry| 9.6.11 @ 8:34AM
What would you expect from Sgt. Schultz? She's trying to condemn Republicans for attempting to make illegal immigration illegal. (Her words, not mine.)
Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 9:21AM
Larry,
I remember. She sounds like a typical New York Democrat transplant to the South -- stupid.
ALH| 9.6.11 @ 8:05AM
I must say, the political articles I read lately, whether written by liberal columnists or conservative columnists, all have the same theme going on...Mainly "One & Done" as the philosopher Maureen Dowd so aptly phrased it. It is so different than three years ago, and this gives me hope for a change. I am looking forward to a landslide of Biblical proportions come next November!
Poppakap| 9.9.11 @ 9:37AM
Calling Maureen Dowd a philosopher is like calling Obama a leader.
Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 8:06AM
53% of Americans oppose the Obama administration. 62% oppose his handling of the economy. Creating jobs and reversing his income killing policies not hate are the only things that will help Barack Obama to stay in the White House.
Bob K.| 9.6.11 @ 8:09AM
So much for what the Job Creators want and what the Union Leaders want. They want what they always wanted. Nothing new here.
The big question that needs an answer is: What do the voters want?
We only have 14 months to figure that out.
Bob K.| 9.6.11 @ 8:45AM
Mr. Kaminsky, in his 3rd paragraph above, points out what the voters have been doing in Germany. Germany has a center-right party running the country. Is he trying to tell us something here?
Buck Ofama| 9.6.11 @ 10:24PM
>Germany has a center-right party running the country.
HAD.
WRTolkas| 9.6.11 @ 8:14AM
Over and over again, I told you this was war.
Siegfried X| 9.6.11 @ 8:16AM
The problem with boycotting is that the media make this a lose-lose situation for Republicans in Congress. If the Repubs stay for the speech, they'll be political props and have to put up with Obama lecturing and baiting them for an hour, with garbage like "Disagreeing with me is partisanship".
Yet if Republicans don't show up, then the media will talk from now until the election about the "disrespect" shown by Republicans towards the president, and more importantly, we would be told again and again that the boycott proves that the president wants a jobs bill but Republicans don't.
It is best to stay calm and remember that the best revenge is to defeat Obama in the election, and take control of the Senate.
Clinton| 9.6.11 @ 8:35AM
After he humiliated Paul Ryan I think Jim DeMint skiping the speech is doing the right thing.
Pecos Pete| 9.6.11 @ 10:02AM
I think that the Republicans who are present for the "speech" will sit on their hands while the Democrats loudly proclaim their adoration of King O.
The contrast between the losing jobs party and the building jobs party will be clear.
Teaghan| 9.6.11 @ 11:21AM
I can already see Jumpin' Nancy, up, down, up, down, up, down. Clap clap clap clap........idiots all.
Michael Tomlinson| 9.6.11 @ 11:24AM
Why waste the time and go. They should have a party and watch the Saints/Packer game. Now that would be a productive use of their time.
JFGalt| 9.6.11 @ 12:38PM
I would love to see some members stand up during the speech and walk out while laughing.
Redstateboy| 9.6.11 @ 1:59PM
or their feet up - reading a Newspaper.. some pretending to be sleeping, some texting.. lol!! anything but paying any attention to this proven liar.
RCV| 9.7.11 @ 12:57AM
I hope the GOP congressmen take your advice - as the latest polls out show, the only people in greater disfavor than the President among the public right now are Republicans in Congress. Actions like the two of you describe would be perfect -- for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
JimH| 9.6.11 @ 8:31AM
If I were really a beleiver in conspiracies I would say that Obama was the creation of the Koch brothers and the rest of the vast Right Wing Conspiracy. How else to explain the presence of someone who is so incompetant, so polarizing and so able to unite the diverse factions on the right against him. Who else could awaken middle class America and bring them together as the Tea Party?As the expression goes, if he didn’t exist he would have had to be invented.
Ross Kaminsky | 9.6.11 @ 8:40AM
One quick early-morning comment: Jobs are obviously a major -- the major -- campaign issue right now. But when it comes to my broader point of markets, don't misunderestimate the importantce of what's going on in Europe. The US has plenty of risk from over there, not so much from the stability of the Euro as from the likely failure of at least one fairly big bank, and if one bank fails the market has a way of "testing" all the others, just as what happened with Bear, Stearns arguably precipitated the run on Lehman (the difference being that the gov't arranged a deal for Bear, guaranteed to a degree by taxpayers, but did no such thing for Lehman.)
Louis Jenkins| 9.6.11 @ 8:54AM
Which one of the Hoffa boys was buried under the goal post at the old Meadows Lands stadium? Language like that will get you killed, or maimed. What happened to the kinder, more gently language that was supposed to be employed after "Gabbie" caught a round in the head? I guess that got thrown out the window. But that was all smoke and mirrors wasn't it? No, it's boiling down to a war, not with words, for words have to backed up with something more forceful. Obama said he was proud of Hoffa, therefore, there will be no retraction. Wishful thinking on our part. The opposition is suiting up, and whether there will be massive voter fraud in the next election, riots, or worse, we'd had better be prepared. Fight fire with fire.
Anthony| 9.6.11 @ 9:12AM
Oh goody!!! So the moron V.P himself, Joe Biteme, is about to be unleashed.
Here comes the Irish Al Sharpton himself, replete with his foot-in- mouth I.Q. of 30.
Hey Joe, repeat after me, "It's the Summer of Recovery"!!!!
Jobs, the three letter word"!!
" I knew Neil Kinnock,and I'm no Neil Kinnock"!!!
Siegfried X| 9.6.11 @ 9:15AM
""Obama is no longer the favorite to win re-election," said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, "
Parky Bill | 9.6.11 @ 9:22AM
A. In your interview with Walsh, did you raise the subject of his unpaid child support?
B. You were only "celebrating" Labor day? The majority of us were CELEBRATING Labor day, the 8-hour work day, the 5-day work week, health benefits, pensions, the closing of sweat shops, the end of child labor, and the other things we have thanks to the Unions.
C. Yes sir, nothing a right wing lunatic likes better than to portray himself as a victim. Fox mangles the quote, takes it out of context, ignores its own reporter when he tries to set the record straight, lies AGAIN about the quote and the word spreads all OVER the right wing boobyhatchery that Jimmy Hoffa Jr. is lusting for the blood of conservatives. Heck! Why tell the TRUTH when the LIE is just so much more FUN to TELL?
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Drunken Sailor| 9.6.11 @ 10:12AM
Fox lied huh? That's your best defense? I guess ABC got it wrong too then.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po.....y-rally-2/
I know it's tough but you have to face reality. You are the minority. Yes, in it's day the Unions did great things. But that was then, now all they care about is "What's in it for me" and use thug tactics to get their way.
If you want to convince people on this site that the quote is wrong you might want to view the video and use a source other than the liberal Media Matters. Good Luck with your agenda.
Al Adab| 9.6.11 @ 11:12AM
Gosh, I wait with baited breath the Presidential pronouncement. Surely his very words will calm the seas and this economic storm. Why should we fear? The words, "Peace, be still" shall certainly end our tumult. As for us "son's of ********", we in the words of Churchill, "await undismayed the impending assault." How long must we suffer the vacuuous campaign rhetoric without end?
POST American| 9.6.11 @ 9:39AM
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is FAKE derivatives debt.
"Understand, there's absolutely NO
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---least of all ---the USA."
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--Time to rise boys.
--------THIS REALLY IS TREASON.
1ConservativeUSA| 9.6.11 @ 11:50AM
I support Congressman Walsh and I urge other members of Congress to boycot the speech, as well. This speech does not derseve the distinction and attention of the joint Congress.
Further, once it becomes clear that the speech is nothing more than an Obama 2012 campaign event, I urge Speaker Boehner to rise, end the session, and present Obama with an invoice which seeks reimbursement of the American taxpayer.
Oldefarte| 9.6.11 @ 11:51AM
Let me emphasize Ross' quotatated speech ['......"We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They've got a war, they got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner. It's going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We're going to win that war…President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.".....'] and once again remind everyone here that.....IT'S THE GD DEMOCRATS, STUPIDS! Republicans didn't issue those words, did they? Boehner, McConnell didn't issue those words, did they? Republican congressmen have mostly been supportive and thankful for the tea party movement and their followers/members, haven't they? Does anyone here remember [or can they quote] any Republican politician hatefully smearing the tea party movement such as is quoted above? Does anyone here not realize that Hoffa, all labor unions and their membership are ALL DEMOCRATS and have been for decades? Does everyone here understand that it's the Democrativ Party [and not the Republican Party] that is/will be at war wgainst the tea party movement and some of you ardent members of same? Please begin to get your heads out of your rear-ends philosophically and politically and realize that the Republican Party is your only hope for survival and for that of this country. We all understand your dedication and support for say a longtime politician within the Republican Party who is ultra-conservative and your preferred nominee [and that is a very good thing]; but also know and understand that the tea party movement can/will only survive within the Republican Party and that the Democratic Party does not want you and will not include your political philosophy within its ranks. Its a fact that tea partyism is completely the opposite and the reversal of everthing that the Democratic Party stands for politically [and therefore your movement will never be welcomed or accepted within same]. It was Congresswoman Maxine Waters who recently that the tea party movement could simply GO TO HELL. Remember this, please!!!!!!!!!!!
Margie| 9.6.11 @ 1:14PM
Well said, as always. The true warriors know what you said is true. The war will only be won through conservatives who run in the Republican party.
These 3rd party Paul-bots and those who hate the Republican party more than they hate Obama were the cause in part of his election the first time around because they couldn't stomach voting for McCain/Palin. Not even Sarah on the ticket was good enough for them. Not even the fact that we would have, COULD have had a Republican administration rather than this DEADLY and DESTRUCTIVE Democrat Socialist admin. that we have now was enough for them to place their vote for the Republican ticket.
With the Hoffa-bots now yelling for war against our side~ and the threat of continued destruction of America as we know it~ everyone needs to remember what party it is that they HATE with everything in them~ and remember which party it is that the Hoffa-bots dwell.
THIS IS INDEED WAR.
But our fight is at the BALLOT BOX~ NOT in the streets!!
The Hoffa-bot party want to destroy the American
private sector, and replace it with UNIONS and GOVERNMENT jobs, with Obama at their helm.
The Republicans want to rebuild and restore the private sector, reduce taxes, get rid of murderous regulations, and restore American prosperity.
ANYBODY BUT OBAMA 2012.
Vote Republican.
Occam's Tool| 9.6.11 @ 1:45PM
I think all of the Republican Senators should sit out, and most of the Republican Congressman. Give him a bare Quorum---nothing more.
Clint| 9.6.11 @ 2:09PM
Tell Us All About Your Mancrush,The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain of McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Finegold, McCain-Lieberman, Gang of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003, TARP, Calling Tea Party Patriots Hobbits.....
Oldefarte| 9.6.11 @ 2:21PM
Tell [explain to] me/us about THIS then you Clitorous idiots:
'...Rush: Obama Should Condemn Hoffa's 'Direct Threat' to Tea Party Tuesday, September 6, 2011 01:15 PMBy: Amy Woods...President Barack Obama should repudiate — and the media should challenge — Teamsters President James Hoffa’s verbal attack on the tea party, Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday on his talk show. Limbaugh further accused Obama of hypocrisy.“When is Obama going to repudiate Hoffa?” Limbaugh asked. “Obama wrote it for Hoffa — Obama suggested it — Don’t you just love the irony?”
Hoffa made the verbal attack while introducing the president during a Labor Day rally in Detroit, stating, “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son-of-a-bitches out.”Limbaugh played the audio clip of Hoffa’s comments while music from “The Godfather” sounded in the background.
“Here we have James Hoffa and Barack Hussein Obama commemorating Labor Day in Detroit, a city that epitomizes the disaster brought about by” organized labor, he said, noting to the city’s 15.7-percent unemployment rate.“I hope before this is all over, Hoffa has to go hide in Italy someplace,” Limbaugh said.Instead of rebuking Hoffa’s “direct call for violence,” Obama praised the union leader.“CNN was outraged when I called Obama a Chicago thug,” Limbaugh said, countering that Hoffa’s “over-the-top attack on the tea party” drew “no media outrage, no reports on CNN.”...' Oh wait, you dispise the Limbaughs of this world also, right?????????
Oldefarte| 9.6.11 @ 2:33PM
Or perhaps this, you double-wide moronish villians invaders of the tea party patriots: '....Palin Assails Hoffa 'Thuggery' for SOB Swipe at Tea Party Tuesday, September 6, 2011 09:52 AMBy: Newsmax Wires...Sarah Palin lashed out at Teamster President James Hoffa’s “thuggery” in maligning tea partyers as “sons of bitches” as he introduced President Barack Obama at a Labor Day rally in Detroit.Hoffa called members of the conservative grouping “sons of bitches” during his intro to the president at the Motor City event. “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march,” Hoffa said.“Let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong,” he said, referring to the tea party.Palin is the first major politician to respond to Hoffa’s incendiary comment. “Please don’t be taken in by union bosses’ thuggery like Jim Hoffa represented yesterday,” the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate wrote on Facebook today.“Union bosses like this do not have your best interests at heart, What they care about is their own power and re-electing their friend Barack Obama so he will take care of them to the detriment of everyone else.”During his speech, Hoffa, son of legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975, said the tea party is engaged in a “war on workers.”“The one thing about working people is we like a good fight and you know what, they’ve got a war with us, and there is only going to be one winner and it’s going to be the workers of Michigan and America. We’re going to win that war,” Hoffa said.Obama did not reference the comments during his speech, and the White House has not commented on them.Palin’s response came after tea party leaders insisted that Obama should distance himself from Hoffa’s comments. Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer called them “dangerous” and said the president should “condemn this inappropriate and uncivil rhetoric.”In a statement, Kremer said, “Jimmy Hoffa’s remarks are inexcusable and amount to a call for violence on peaceful tea party members, which include many Teamster members."Lying attacks on the tea party movement have disturbingly increased in recent days. It is high time that elected leaders like President Obama were held accountable when their key supporters engage in harmful and divisive rhetoric," Kremer said. Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips echoed the outrage. "We need to call them out on this. There is a myth that the Tea Party is the source of the heated rhetoric," he wrote on the group's website. “That is not the case.”Hoffa himself refused to back down, telling Talking Points Memo, “They declared war on us. We're fighting back."The first leading Democrat to have a chance to condemn Hoffa’s statement punted. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was asked about the comment during “Fox and Friends” this morning.“I know you'd like to focus on language ― that's not what the American people are focused on," Wasserman Schultz said.Wasserman Schultz and Obama both called for all sides to watch their words after Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was seriously injured in an attack that killed six in January.But when “Fox and Friends” host Gretchen Carlson asked Wasserman Schultz to condemn Hoffa’s comments, the Florida Democrat turned on the tea party movement, claiming that talk at tea party rallies is often just as bad."How many times have you called out coarse language at tea party rallies on this network?" she said. "Almost never.”Then Wasserman Schultz said her official response to the question about Hoffa is: "The American people, like President Obama understands, want us to focus on working together. When I went home, my constituents asked me to come back to Washington and help continue to get this economy turned
around.”....' Again, WAKE UP AND VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wayne | 9.6.11 @ 11:59AM
And of course those dimwitted women on Fox have to condemn Walsh for insulting the sitting president. One of the sexists ladies even suggested a woman take his place, to the agreement of her comrades.
martin j smith| 9.6.11 @ 2:01PM
Wayne: FOX NEWS IS NO LONGER FAIR AND BALANCED. They want to be liked by the rest of their media buddies and they fear Obama as well.
I am currently on a FOX diet.
Oldefarte| 9.6.11 @ 2:24PM
Then you hopefully do not watch/view TV news, because, other than Fox, there is no other visual conservative outlet!!!!!
KaribooKidd| 9.6.11 @ 3:35PM
I too have given up on the main FOX network. However, FOX Business still has their heads screwed on straight. They call out the bamster and his evil minions every night. Much better to watch than the dipdunks o'reilly, hannity, and van chinsteren.
Butch| 9.6.11 @ 6:09PM
I have noticed the change, too. I think they got intimidated as a result of the Brit woman's phone hacking. Investigations, hearings were threatened, though I don't know of any phone hacking over here. Maybe there was.
Almost immediately, I noticed more conventional wisdom (i.e., liberal assumptions) in their coverage and programming.
Simon Templar| 9.6.11 @ 2:11PM
After the poser gives his speech, I would suggest the GOP response should be broadcasting the following to the nation.
Yes, indeed it is a time to choose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
Oldefarte| 9.6.11 @ 2:25PM
ST: Hopefully you'll do as many of us will, and that is to watch the Saints-Packers game on the other channel!!!!!
Pat| 9.6.11 @ 2:35PM
If your golden retriever consistently beats you at tic-tac-toe, you probably belong to the UAW and chuckle over the pro Obama political cartoons featured within the Detroit Free Press. And the “Freep”, as these journalists call their employer, had plenty to say around Labor Day – it’s unpatriotic to build plants in foreign countries was one such penetrating insight – nothing was said about unpatriotically striking plants within this country though. And the UAW is currently whipping up their high school dropouts to sally forth and strike Ford, they know better than to strike GM, a company owned by us American taxpayers – we could take immediate offense and hurry back to the Toyota showrooms.
And Obama knows there’s no better place than Detroit for generating a little undeserved hero worship – he gives a speech, everyone cheers like crazy, life is good. But us non-union, bible clutching, gun owning voters know Obama really can’t create jobs. He can take our money and give it to the folks in Detroit or Chicago or Philadelphia but he has never created permanent jobs. The good folks of Detroit and the UAW realize that as well but their unspoken message to Obama is: “take as much money as you can from taxpayers around the country and give it to us”. And despite the deafening cheers and frequent applause highlighting the Labor Day speeches, that message came through loud and clear.
Al Adab| 9.6.11 @ 6:30PM
The bailout deal for GM and Chrysler contained a no strike provision. Another but very clear insight into Leftist hypocricy; punish your enemies and reward your friends.
Rob| 9.6.11 @ 3:03PM
Father of the "flash mob" Obama, will never back down on this viscious smear meme! Evangelicals, anti-abortion folks, tea partiers and ANY white group will be mercilessly and hysterically slandered as radicals. The left has been very successful terrifying female SWPL voters with this approach. If white, college educated women refuse to support the Repub pres candidate(likely an evangelical, scriptural literalist), Obama will get his 2nd term!
Flee| 9.6.11 @ 3:39PM
DeMint has said he won't attend either. I would suggest a large contingent of Republicans should find something else to do at that time too. Hearing the same old attacks by Obama in their house is unworthy of their attention. I don't think Obama sees the irony of always coming to someone else's house and then criticizing their methods. He is like a bad mother-in-law. He wouldn't even be welcome at the holidays.
shipley130| 9.6.11 @ 3:53PM
Anyone think it's a coincidence that the world is falling apart as the liberal/progressive/communist/democrats have gained a foothold in all countries of the world?
Jeff Perren | 9.6.11 @ 4:48PM
"they got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner"
Yes, please, PLEASE start something. It might actually lead Congress to consider repealing the Wagner Act. At worst, it would damage the union thugs' credibility even further and damage Obama's election chances.
And, if it really got out of hand, we might even have the civil war this country seems to need to get back on track.
jackc| 9.6.11 @ 9:10PM
Paving, and re-paving roads.
Hoards of TSA idlers, hanging around in the name of airport security.
Handouts galore, and entitlements abound with big government.
Jobs are created by business, not by politicians eager for free ride on taxpayer donations, without any shred of accountability or responsibility.
Signs abound in directions towards illiteracy and poverty, incubated in the greed of government officials to win the elections.
Fire Obama and his henchmen with their failed policies and the creation of hopelessness.
Save America.
ahmad | 9.6.11 @ 9:36PM
course those dimwitted women on Fox have to condemn Walsh for insulting the sitting president. One of the sexists ladies even suggested a woman take his place, to the agreement of her comrades.
RCV| 9.7.11 @ 1:03AM
They have a far better political sense than you. I really do hope that conservatives in Congress take the advice of those on this board and do something petulant and boorish like boycott the session, walk out, or even better, act rudely. It will further enhance the public perception that the problem of disfunctionality in Washington stems from GOP intransigence. Bring it on guys!
Mike| 9.6.11 @ 10:25PM
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Jesse| 9.6.11 @ 10:46PM
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POST American| 9.6.11 @ 11:05PM
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