Obama Slaps Intimidation Lawsuit on South Carolina Over Illegals

www6.lexisnexis.com11/7/11

States and localities bear the brunt of the costs that illegal aliens impose on taxpayers. … State and local costs for services siphoned by illegal aliens and their anchor babies now total $391 million a year in South Carolina.

Illegal Aliens Not “Innocent Immigrants”; U.S., Dem. Party Wasting …

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Why would we want to reelect a man, Barack Obama, who would give the potential illegal alien that much more incentive to become a criminal illegal alien? Isn't it more cost-effective to the American taxpayer to advance a “no …

How Many Illegals In The US And What Is The Cost?

It’s obviously impossible to come up with exact figures because illegal aliens don’t reply to census questionnaires, but the U.S. Border Patrol Union Local 2544 in Tucson, Ariz., says the total number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. today is somewhere between 12 million and 15 million.

And basing its figures on the "Current Population Survey", which is a monthly assessment of about 50,000 households jointly conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that there are between 11.5 million to 12 million "unauthorized migrants" living in the U.S. today.

Bear Stearns (download pdf) says however that based on school enrollments, foreign remittances, border crossings, and housing permits that, "there is significant evidence that the census estimates of undocumented immigrants may be capturing as little as half of the total undocumented population", meaning that there might well be as many as 20 million illegal immigrants in the US today.

How Much Are Illegal Aliens Costing The U.S. ?

The following estimates are in billions and not millions!

Illegal aliens are said to be costing the welfare system between $14 billion and $22 billion every year – Federation for American Immigration Reform

Medicaid use by illegal aliens costs the U.S. 7.5 billion every year- Center for Immigration Studies

In 2006, illegal aliens sent an estimated $65 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin, to their families and friends – rense.com

The following information was sourced from and interview on  - Lou Dobbs Tonight

Primary and secondary school  education for illegal aliens is said to be costing $12 billion dollars a year.

Anchor (American-born children of illegal aliens) children another $27 billion a year.

The incarceration of illegal aliens – $1.2 billion a year and 28% of all federal prison inmates are reckoned to be illegal aliens.

Every single year a massive $190 billion dollars is spent on welfare and social services for illegal aliens.

It is thought that illegal aliens cause American wages to be suppressed by around $200 billion dollars per year.

The above figures are not 100% accurate of course, but they’re based on extensive research, so it’s probably safe to say that illegal immigration is costing the U.S. around $500 billion a year and $500 billion is half a trillion dollars!

And How Much Do Illegal Immigrants Pay in Taxes?

Most experts agree that many illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, but just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn’t fully tally it.

"The latest available figures indicate however that it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year and one rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year". – MSNBC

So What’s To Be Done?

Mass Deportation?

According to The National Policy Institute, the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, and you can download a free copy of the The National Policy Institute ebook entitled, deportation if you’re interested in more details.

How Much Overall Support Is There For Reducing Immigration?

What Steps Was It Recommended That The Government Take?

In 1995, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform asked the National Research Council / National Academy of Sciences to study the economic and fiscal effects of immigration.

Here are the principle findings of their extensive  analysis, published in 1997 as The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (ISBN 0-309-06356-6).

Their recommendations on Illegal Immigration were to.

Restrict the eligibility of illegal aliens for publicly-funded assistance.

Implement a nationwide system for easily verifying authorization to work (specifically, a computerized registry based on a secure
social security card).

Increase the resource for border management and interior enforcement.

Is There The Political Will To Implement Either Of The Above?

Obviously not, because in spite of a recent Pew survey (and all other polls that I’ve seen confirm it) showing that 73%of  those polled  approved of Arizona’s new immigration plan, and in spite of many other States wanting to adopt it, the Obama administration is seeking to have Arizona’s new law ruled unlawful.

The Answer To The Question

A Mexican journalist by the name of Evangelina Hernandez asked in Denver recently, "Illegal aliens pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes. What Happens to your country’s economy if 20 million people go away?".

The answer would of course be, that the U.S. would be close to $500 billion a year better off, and

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Obama Rejected Numerous Proposals to Retrieve Lost U.S. Drone …

atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com12/9/11

Apart from the obvious — Islamic Iran, China and Russia now have state-of-the-art stealth technology and we lose a killer app in the war against the enemies of freedom, the most troubling aspect of this story is that Obama had a window of opportunity to retrieve the critical intelligence gathering drone and rejected it. He left it there for the murdering mullahs. With early knowledge that the aircraft had likely remained intact, the senior U.S. official also told Fox News that …

Gay donors fuel Obama's 2012 bid – Catholic Citizens

www.catholiccitizens.org12/10/11

The left-leaning super-rich, including George Soros, see Obama as hopelessly compromised and have lost their enthusiasm for him. Some Wall Street and hedge fund executives, tired of being criticized and regulated, have …

It’s somewhat hard to believe that this conversation took place on an MSNBC panel.

And I’m somewhat stunned by it!

On Morning Joe, a consensus emerged that Barack Obama doesn’t believe he has failed America, but rather that America has failed him.

Joe Scarborough encapsulated, saying,

"Obama sees our version of democracy as a stumbling block to his greatness".

More quotes:

"He believes that the country is not commensurate with his gifts".

"He thinks this country has an 18th constitutional republic that needs significant updating".

"He sees elected leaders from across the country as a stumbling block".

"And he sees democracy as …".

"He sees this government as a stumbling block that’s getting in the way of his greatness!".

I never thought I’d say it but,

"If this was on Morning Jow, then it must be true".

Does this video signify the end of the leftist MSM’s support for Obama?

That Obama was coming from the extreme left was never in doubt because he was a member of the New Party (communist) just twelve years before he was elected.

And he didn’t quit his prominent role; the courts shut the New Party down!

Did the MSM believe that he would be less left than his past portrayed?

Who knows, but let’s hope that they now understand and continue to downgrade him.

He has to go and maybe now there is a uniformity or opinion on it!?

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Early Jobs Projections Could Haunt Obama in 2012 – NYTimes.com

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com11/4/11

Friday's tepid jobs report brings a fresh reminder of the stubborn difficulty President Obama and his team face in overcoming the argument that his administration has failed to address unemployment.

Droves Of Democrats Balking On Obama 2012 | Politicons

politicons.net11/14/11

Radioactive Obama… Politico has a piece highlighting the droves of Democrats that are refusing to back Obama in 2012. …

Just one year from the 2012 election and President Obama is in an extremely perilous political situation.

The poor economy he inherited hasn’t recovered and has most likely worsened.

Published unemployment is stuck above 9% with real unemployment being around 18.5%

Long-term unemployment is at record post-war levels.

The housing sector, where most people’s personal wealth was and is concentrated, remains mired in deep recession.

The scandals surrounding Republican-led investigations into Solyndra and Operation Fast and Furious are deepening.

Obama Had Overwhelming Majorities In Both Houses Of Congress

Although the President had overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress in his first two years, he has only two major legislative achievements to his credit:

The stimulus bill.

And Obamacare.

The stimulus bill is generally perceived as having been worse than a total failure, because it’s perceived as having been motivated more by politics than economics, and because much of the $800 billion was directed towards public service union members and liberal causes; i.e. "green energy", rather than real economic recovery.

Obamacare also remains deeply unpopular with the general public and is headed for the Supreme Court, which could well find its key provision unconstitutional next summer, just as the election gets into high gear.

The Economy And America’s Status

Budget deficits soared during the Obama years, with three trillion-dollar-plus deficits in a row.

And this has caused the national debt to swell to a level that, relative to GDP, has not been seen since the end of World War II and for the first time ever, the United States lost its AAA credit rating, which was a deep embarrassment for the country and also the administration.

Obama’s Ratings

So it shouldn’t be surprising that under these circumstances, that the President’s approval ratings have been in sharp decline, with some of his key supporting groups, including the youth and Hispanic voters to a greater or less degree abandoning him.

Obama’s Re-electability

No recent President was re-elected with unemployment above 7.8%, and that was in 1984, when unemployment was falling rapidly as a major economic boom accelerated.

So What Happened?

How did a man who three years ago won a higher percentage of both the popular and electoral vote than any Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide almost fifty years ago find himself fighting such uphill odds to keep the White House?

The answer to that seems to lie in the somewhat exceptional circumstances that existed during the 2008 election, and Barack Obama’s personality which fitted the times.

In 2008, the American electorate was thoroughly tired of both the Bush administration and the Republican Party, which had lost its majority in Congress in 2006 for the first time in twelve years.

The Republican field of presidential candidates in 2008 was a weak one, with the eventual winner, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, widely perceived as being too old for the job.

So Obama, who was only forty seven years old, seemed in contrast, like a breath of fresh air.

He seemed personable, articulate (nobody had yet focused on his TelePrompTer) and he was the first ever bi-racial candidate for a major-party nomination with any serious chance of winning.

His biggest opposition was Sen. Hillary Clinton, the first woman candidate who also had a serious chance of winning, but she was already well known to the American people, having been First Lady for eight years; and she carried a lot of baggage from her husband’s administration.

Obama, in contrast, was a blank slate and to some extent still is because of the main stream media which is still protecting him.

Obama Hid His Tracks

Obama only served a little over three years in the US Senate, where his record was thin, and he mostly voted "present” rather than take a stand on issues.

Which we can now see was because he didn’t want evidence that could later be used against him.

How Obama Won

The Obama campaign used his lack of Washington experience to the fullest, much like Herman Cain is using his now.

They cultivated an image of a new kind of president, one who would cut through the old Washington merry-go-round of partisan bickering and special-interest pandering.

He would be post-partisan, a President who would throw the special-interest moneychangers out of the temple of the nation’s capital.

Obama’s biggest advantage in the 2008 election however, was that the mainstream media, failed to reveal any of his major negatives, such as having been and active member of the New Party (communist) and promoted all of his seeming positives; simply because it so desperately wanted to see an extreme left-wing, bi-racial candidate elected.

So What Happened To Candidate Obama’s Promises?

Running for President and being President, are two entirely separate matters however, and once in the White House a new Obama emerged, one who was quite different from the post-partisan, special-interest-bashing one.

What metamorphosed, was a hyper-liberal ideologue who attended to his special interests, such as labor unions, as assiduously as any other Washington politician had ever done before.

And what’s more, an arrogance and a rigidity that had not been seen in the candidate before, became increasingly evident, and expressed itself in such things as his State of the Union speech in January 2010, wherein he publicly criticized the Supreme Court, many of whose members were sitting in front of him for one of its decisions, which was totally unprecedented behavior.

Soon Gone Was The Bi-Partisanship

"I won the election”, he bluntly told Rep. Paul Ryan when the latter tried to negotiate regarding Obamacare, and it resulted in his two major pieces of legislation passing with almost no Republican votes in either house.

The Tea Party

What happened next was a groundswell of opposition to the Obama administration’s big spending ways which quickly became known as the Tea Party, and it’s something that Obama naively or arrogantly ignored for too long.

Obama Vainly Ignored The Clear Writing On The Wall

Republican candidates did extremely well in the off-year elections of 2009, winning the governorships in both New Jersey and Virginia with control-the-spending campaigns, and even greater evidence of voters’ dissatisfaction was when Scott Brown, who was a little known Republican, won the special election to fill the Senate seat of Democratic icon Ted Kennedy in deep-blue Massachusetts in January, 2010.

Obama Has Been Slow To Learn

Obama simply made a few token political adjustments, and in November, 2010, a tidal wave election gave decisive control of the House back to the Republicans and added seven Senate seats to their column, with Republicans also winning races for governor and state legislative seats across the width and breadth of the country.

Obama did admit that he had taken a shellacking, but he seems no more willing to change his ways than before because his latest plan to stimulate the economy is little different than his first one, and it has no chance of being enacted.

Can Obama Win Reelection?

Unlikely unless:

The economy turns around.

The Republicans nominate another weak candidate, which is possible.

The Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, or avoids making a decision before the election.

Obama’s biggest problem however seems to be that he’s totally egocentric and believes that his way is the only right way.

It’s highly unlikely that he’ll change, and increasingly likely that he’ll be a one term president, which is something that he said that he’d prefer.

"I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president".

And if that comes to be, then he’ll be able to say that he was right about that too!

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U.S. credit rating facing another cut soon, Bank of America warns …

latimesblogs.latimes.com10/23/11

U.S. credit rating could suffer another downgrade before the end of the year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch warns.

US Rating Likely to be Downgraded Again: Merrill — Clearing and …

www.clearingandsettlement.com10/24/11

The United States will likely suffer the loss of its triple-A credit rating from another major rating agency by the end of this year due to concerns over the deficit, Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecasts. The trigger … Moody's Investors Service, which has a negative outlook on the United States's Aaa rating, said it is looking at several other factors, including the results of presidential elections and the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts late in 2012, to decide on the rating. …

Is the United States in for another credit downgrade by year’s end?

The US spends about 40% more every year than it collects in taxes!

Merrill Lynch just warned via Bank of America that it’s likely that either Moody’s or Fitch, or both, will move to downgrade America’s AAA rating if Congress fails to agree on a long-term plan to tame the nation’s $14.8 trillion deficit!

The Downgrade Is Likely

Merrill’s North American economist, Ethan Harris, wrote in their Friday report:

“The credit rating agencies have strongly suggested that further rating cuts are likely if Congress does not come up with a credible long-run plan to cut the deficit. Hence, we expect at least one credit downgrade in late November or early December when the super committee crashes".

Moody’s

Moody’s Investors Service hasn’t yet said what it will do if there’s no deal, but it’s already placed U.S. credit under review for a possible downgrade.

“It’s not that we’re waiting just for this committee to decide on the rating".

Steven Hess, Moody’s lead analyst for the United States, told Reuters last week.

“Failure to come up with a deal however would be negative information, but it is not decisive in our view about the rating".

The Super Commitee And The Lie!

Instead of agreeing on spending cuts or new taxes, Congress and the president appointed a bipartisan super committee to reach a deal to reduce the U.S. deficit by at least $1.2 trillion by Nov. 23.

It’s widely believed that if there’s no deal, then automatic across-the-board cuts mostly in discretionary spending will occur.

But what’s not well publicised is that:

Congress would be free to stop any or all of those reductions, if it chooses and the president agrees.

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Solyndra employees: Company suffered from mismanagement, heavy spending – Washington Post

Solyndra employees: Company suffered from mismanagement, heavy spending Washington Post The Washington Post reported earlier this month that e-mails showed that White House officials pushed federal reviewers for a decision on the Solyndra loan as they sought to schedule a press announcement with the company and Vice President Biden. … and more »

Obama's Solyndra Scandal Reeks of the Chicago Way | Just Piper

Those of us from Chicago know exactly what the Solyndra scandal smells like. And It doesn't smell fresh and green. Kudos to John Kass,. Chicago Tribune is a.

Publish Date: 09/18/2011 20:45

http://justpiper.com/2011/09/obamas-solyndra-scandal-reeks-of-the-chicago-way/

The ongoing probes into the collapse of Solyndra could spell a lot of trouble for Team Obama in 2012

Until now, and in spite of all the ongoing failures that can be attributed, at least in large part to the Obama administration, Obama until just a few weeks ago remained personally liked by a large swathe of the population.

Why Is Obama Still Personally Liked?

I personally believed Obama to be a charlatan back in October 2008 when I wrote a piece entitled, Obama And The Missing Paper Trail, but right now we’re talking about how people in general still feel about him, and not me personally, so let’s move on.

Obama has so far earned those high personal-quality ratings by avoiding any meaningful scandal, and his Cabinet and White House staff have similarly offered no reason to suspect any misdeeds.

It has in fact been one of the quietest White Houses on the scandal front in recent memory but that may be about to change.

It might have changed because of the implosion of a politically-connected green-tech firm in Northern California, called Solyndra, and the apparent disappearing act of more than $500 million in taxpayer funds.

And "Yes" Obama Was Very Much Personally Involved

In his 2009 stimulus plan, Obama both sought and received billions of dollars to subsidize a promised explosion in "green jobs" and the White House needed to demonstrate that the U.S. could quickly make use of alternative energy sources to replace the hydrocarbon-based energy that presently meets the needs of the massive U.S. economy, and Obama and his administration chose Solyndra as its poster child.

The White House fast-tracked approval for taxpayer-backed loan guarantees and the company received $535 million from the Treasury’s Federal Financing Bank to build a new manufacturing facility.

Obama later appeared at Solyndra touting his green-jobs initiative and Solyndra insisted, until at least late as this summer that their financial status was strong.

The Collapse

Suddenly and without warning Solyndra collapsed, and over one thousand employees showed up for work on August 31, only to discover that the company had shut its doors.

The company’s stock price had been falling almost continually over the previous two years because of questions about about Solyndra’s real competitiveness and financial strength.

The Money Trail And George Kaiser

When Solyndra initially applied for taxpayer subsidies, auditors at the Department of Energy were already questioning Solyndra’s viability, so why did the Obama administration fast-track Solyndra’s application?

One fairly obvious reason might be, that one of the chief investors in Solyndra was George Kaiser who was one of Obama’s campaign bundlers in 2008, and he raised between $50,000 and $1000,000 for Obama’s campaign.

The Very Low Interest Rates

Solyndra executives visited the White House more than twenty times between March 2009 and April 2011 and the company was give an interest rate from the feds at one-fourth the going rate for green-jobs projects.

And Who Got Repaid First?

The collapse of Solyndra also led to a somewhat strange arrangement for repayments to creditors.

Despite having put up $535 million in taxpayer loan guarantees, the Obama administration didn’t insist on putting taxpayers in the most senior position for creditors if Solyndra failed, but instead, Kaiser will get repaid first on a $75 million investment, before taxpayers see a dime.

Sounds Fishy?

Last week, in response to an investigation by the DOE’s Inspector General, the FBI raided Solyndra, seizing its business records, and federal agents also raided the homes of Solyndra executives and seized additional computers files.

What’s more, Congress, which had already opened an investigation into Solyndra’s loans, will undoubtedly press for access to this material for its own probe.

This Will Damage Obama Personally

ABC (a strong Obama supporter) just reported that DOE officials sat in on Solyndra’s board meetings for months before the collapse, and that despite having this unprecedented access, the Obama administration did nothing to alert Congress that Solyndra might fail, and in fact, failed to respond when Solyndra executives misrepresented the status of the company to members of Congress.

There have been several minor controversies and suggestions of impropriety in the Obama administration, such as Operation Fast and Furious in the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) office in Phoenix and the Department of Justice, but Solyndra is the first controversy that has the potential to directly stain Barack Obama himself.

The Dems lost a NY precinct today that had been in Dem hands for close to a century and yesterday it was announced that poverty is at it highest rate since the ’50s.

Update Septemeber15, 2011

* The Treasury Inspector General’s Office said Wednesday night that it too, is now investigating the loan, because it was processed by Federal Financing Bank, a government lending institution that falls under the Treasury’s control.

* “A half a billion dollars that was not supported in January under the Bush administration was then conditionally recommended in March". Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas

Rick Perry and Mitt Romney must be licking their chops right now!

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Obama to offer his own deficit reduction package (AP)

WASHINGTON – Drawing a bright line with congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama is proposing $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue as part of his long-term deficit reduction plan, according to… … The administration also identified $430 billion in savings from lower interest payment on the debt. Obama backed away from proposing sweeping changes to Medicare, following the advice of fellow Democrats that it would only give political cover to a privatization …

Publish Date: 09/19/2011 5:46

http://newsretrieval.info/?p=3613

Allan Abramson: The Debt, the Deficit and Jobs: What Obama …

www.huffingtonpost.com11/7/11

Of course we can afford the current debt, and we probably could handle another $10 trillion, but who wants to go deeper in debt when we have so much to do to revive the economy and to put people back to work?

Ready To Be Shocked?!

DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know that the US Federal Government spent $413 billion on INTEREST PAYMENTS just last year?!

Since 1988 the US congress has spent 8 trillion in interest payments alone!

According to the non-partisan CBO (Congressional Budget Office) by the year 2021 interest payments will reach 1.1 trillion dollars a year!

By the year 2046 every single dime of Federal Income Tax revenue will be spent on interest!

If congress stopped ALL spending today and made payments of one hundred million dollars a day, it would take 389 years just to pay off the debt!

When politicians talk about reducing the deficit they are not talking about reducing the DEBT!

What can you do about it.

Get people to watch this video and GET INVOLVED !!!

Because if you don’t, it might well mean the end of the greatest republic the world has ever known!

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Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank? | The Daily Capitalist

dailycapitalist.com11/30/11

Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank? By Jeff Harding, on November 29th, 2011. S&P issued new ratings for the world's 37 largest banks. Was your bank upgraded or downgraded? As a public service, I have included the entire list. Standard …

S&P: No U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade Despite Supercommittee Fail

www.huffingtonpost.com11/22/11

WASHINGTON — Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's says it will not downgrade the U.S. government's credit rating because a Congressional committee failed to come up with a plan to trim deficits by at least $1.2 trillion …

As you most likely already know, the U.S. had its AAA credit rating downgraded for the first time by S&P, which slammed the nation’s political process and said lawmakers failed to cut spending enough to reduce record deficits.

If you already know the bad news, but don’t know exactly the reasons for the downgrading then maybe watch the vid!

Aug 5, 2011 David Beers, the London-based managing director of sovereign credit ratings at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about S&P’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.

It’s a pity that David Beers stammers and says so many “ahs”, but it’s perhaps understandable because he’d never been in such a hot-seat before.

Just imagine the heat that he’s getting!

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.: White House Document Dump on Friday Points the Finger at …

shutking.blogspot.com12/3/11

In 2010, Creamer led efforts to rally the Democratic base by demonizing Republicans and making wildly optimistic predictions of victory: Big Government also reported in May that Creamer, who worked for the Obama …

DownWithTyranny!: Does Obama Have A Base Problem– And Why His …

downwithtyranny.blogspot.com11/11/11

Yesterday Benjy Sarlin at TPM reported that the White House is insisting they don't have a base problem. In America, we know very well they do– and it's the same base problem they kept as many as half the Democrats and …

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll reveals a whole crop of revelations, and among them, there are strong indications that Obama’s liberal base is starting to crumble.

You can read the ABC News/Washington Post Poll, but before you do, here are some of the most important nuggets of information.

In spite the hundreds of billions of blown stimulus dollars, and almost as many upturn promises from Joe Biden,

82% of Americans still say their job market is struggling.

90% rate the economy negatively, including half who gave it the worst rating of "poor."

Are You Better Off Today Than Jan. 20, 2009?

A slim 15% claimed to be "getting ahead financially", half what it was in 2006.

Fully 27% said they’re falling behind financially and that’s up 6% since February.

A significant majority (54%) said that they’ve been forced to change their lifestyle significantly as a result of the economic times and 60% of them are angry, which is up from 44%.

More than a third of Americans now believe that President Obama’s policies are hurting the economy, and confidence in his ability to create jobs is sharply eroding among his base.

Liberal Support

Strong support among liberal Democrats for Obama’s jobs record has plummeted from 22% from 53% which is down below a third.

African Americans

And African Americans who still believe the president’s measures helped the economy has plunged from 77% to barely half that.

Job Approval

Obama’s overall job approval on the economy slid below 40% for the first time, with 57% disapproving.

And strong dis-approvers outnumbered approvers by better than two-to-one.

The By And By

A new Mitt Romney video is aimed directly at the core of Obama’s politcal base, young Americans who volunteered for him by the tens of thousands in 2008 and powered him to victory in state after state.

The Upshot

If joblessness disillusions enough of them, then the president will be in even deeper trouble than he is now.

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World News – US on Iraq security: 'We really don't know what's going …

worldnews.msnbc.msn.com12/7/11

WASHINGTON – "We really don't know what's going to happen" with security in Iraq after the U.S. forces leave, a senior U.S. military officer said from Baghdad Wednesday morning. … Think about the amount of money that was wasted, money that could have been used here in our own country building bridges and roads and repairing and enlarging train service, How many jobs were lost while the Iraqis drained our resources based on a Hadrian lie! Now, its Obama's …

AllGov – News – Worst Examples of Taxpayer Money Wasted in Iraq …

www.allgov.com9/8/11

Kabul Bank collapsed in 2010, so it's unclear what kind of lessons Deloitte was teaching.

Filmmaker Robert Greenwald was invited to testify before Congress about his research in Iraq.

He took a short film with him, but Congress banned it!

Many in Congress would not allow it to be shown, because they wanted to protect Haliburton and KBR.

For pretty much every job that exists in the military a private contractor is hired to do the job.

Civilians earn six figure salaries while qualified soldiers sit bored and idle.

Expensive equipment is needlessly destroyed, because destruction pays!

A huge amount of money is being wasted!

Your money!

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Ron Paul | Foreign Aid to Israel | Zionism | The Daily Caller

dailycaller.com12/7/11

Photo: AP. Some conservatives see hostility toward Israel in Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's advocacy of a non-interventionist foreign policy. But in an interview published online Wednesday afternoon, the Texas …

FORBES: Ron Paul Should Be The Next President Of The United …

www.dailypaul.com12/7/11

Yes there are a few subtle differences in candidates for president and their supporters and contributors. Ron Paul's supporters worry endlessly about printing enormous amounts of new money while the other candidates' …

Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty

Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Ronney

Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee

Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman

Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan

Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich

Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum

Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman

Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) is planning to announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee on Tuesday in Iowa, and should make the announcement during a press conference in the state capital of Des Moines at 4:45 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), 4/26/2011.

And according to a source close to the congressman, Paul also intends to name the members of his campaign’s Iowa leadership team, during the scheduled press conference,

Paul will be the fifth Republican to take the needed official step toward running for president, and an exploratory committee will allow him to begin assembling his campaign infrastructure in anticipation of a formal candidacy announcement.

Paul appeared poised to enter the race for weeks, and is already scheduled to appear at the first GOP presidential primary debate in South Carolina next week.

Moreover, he also formed a "testing the waters" account earlier this month that allows him to raise funds for a potential campaign.

Paul has already made the rounds in Iowa and New Hampshire courting key activists, and he won a county straw poll in South Carolina just this month.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (R), is expected to compete with Paul for the libertarian vote, but Paul is by far the more well-known candidate in the field and should easily overshadow Johnson.

Paul last ran for president in 2008, and was placed second in the key primary state of Nevada, and it was notable that he appealed to younger voters and for his ability to raise money online with his highly successful "money bomb", which he successfully replicated for his political action committee in February 2011.

* A money bomb is a short burst of fundraising that typically spans a day or just a few hours, and is relies on viral advertising.

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