Its Just a Coincidence That Barack Obama Scheduled Joint Session of Congress Speech on Same Date & Time as GOP Debate at Reagan Library … LIARS!!!

This might just be President Barack Obama’s ultimate “Lost in Smallness” moment.

After all the golfing and all the vacations, President Barack Obama picked September 7, 2011 at 8PM to give his Joint Session of Congress speech. There is just one problem, it is the same date and time that the Republicans had long planned their debate in California. But, its an honest mistake says the WH … its just a coincidence.

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As the Washington Post states … “There are no coincidences in presidential politics”.

Does Obama and his minions actually think that people believe them? Are these people capable of telling the truth about anything? Who was the fool who thought that this would be a cute idea to have Obama’s jobs speech on the same night as the GOP debate to take the thunder away from a sinking Obama? Doesn’t this just say it all about Obama, the most divisive President America has ever seen. Obama is a political creature, nothing more. He has no concept how to lead, Obama only knows how to divide.

Barack Obama, what a small, small man

And so, when the White House announced today that President Obama would deliver his much-anticipated jobs speech on Sept. 7 at 8 pm — the exact same day and time that the 2012 Republican candidates are scheduled to debate in California — the idea that the timing was purely coincidental was, well, far-fetched.

It’s clear that this White House saw an opportunity to drive a major — and direct — contrast between President Obama and his potential Republican rivals and took it.

As to whether that’s a good idea, strategists — even within the Democratic party — are divided.

Talk about no class. Wasn’t it Obama who said Washington should stop acting political and do things for the American people? His answer to his own ultimatum is to act politically? Legal Insurection has it correct, “I assume that protocol is that a President gets to give a speech to a Joint Session of Congress whenever he wants, but this is abusive and purely political”. WH Press Secretary Jay Carney actually had the audacity to say, it was just a coincidence. To borrow a phrase from was South Carolina Rep Joe Wilson …  YOU LIE!!!

“It is coincidental,” said spokesman Jay Carney at today’s press briefing. “There are a lot of factors that go into scheduling a joint session of Congress for a speech. You can never find a perfect time. … There are many channels to watch the president and to watch the debate.”

No matter when the speech winds up being … who really wants to listen to another Obama speech about jobs and what he is promising to do to create jobs? All I can say is it better be good. You request a speech in front of a Joint Session of Congress … Obama better deliver something or he is totally finished.

UPDATE I: Speaker of the House John Boehner sends letter to Obama requesting he reschedule.

UPDATE II: Obama blinks … changes the date of his all important jobs speech until September 8. Makes you wonder why he did npt make it on 9/11.

The White House just put out a statement that puts the onus for clearing Sept. 7 as a date for President Obama’s ballyhooed jobs speech on House Speaker John Boehner, and says the president will instead “welcome” the chance to speak on Sept. 8.

Barack Obama now looks even smaller than he initially did. Obama loses the game of political chicken with John Boehner. So not only does Obama play this childish game of scheduling his speech on the same day of the GOP debate, he then blinks and reschedules. What an image of strength and leadership. Barack Obama did not have to do this, so it begs the question, why did he? Obama had proclaimed that politicians needed to come together, but as reported at the NY Times, “any hopes that a kinder, gentler bipartisan Washington would surface once Congress returns after Labor Day were summarily dashed by Obama’s “coincidental” actions. However, what does one expect from a President who has been the Incredible Shrinking Job Approval President.

Barack Obama Predicted 2012 Winner Based on Flawed Analogy … short term economy and scandal

Just the other day Allan Lichtman, the man who gets the elections right, predicted that Barack Obama would win reelection in 2012. However, the premises he used were flawed to say the lest and questionable at best.

One of the conditions that Lichtman used was 5-Short term economy: Undecided, as we don’t know how things will look a year from now. Undecided? If Lichtman stated that the long term economy was a negative for Obama, how could the short term be an undecided? From the Gateway Pundit via Zero Hedge comes the following that many leading economic blogs state that the US is already in a recession … undecided on this, hardly.

While the key market moving event from last Friday may have been Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech which merely left the door open to future QE episodes, the most important event from an economic standpoint was the first GDP revision Q2, which dropped from preliminary 1.3% to a sub stall speed, in real terms, 1.0%. What is just as important is that as the following chart from Bloomberg demonstrates, the YoY change in real GDP, which is now at 1.5%, is a slam dunk indicator of recession: “Since 1948, every time the four-quarter change has fallen below 2 percent, the economy has entered a recession. It’s hard to argue against an indicator with such a long history of accuracy.”

Let alone the fact that the CBO said that there would be sluggish growth through 2012. Mr. Lichtman, when is the election take place again? You might want to revise your thinking.

Lichtman might also want to hold the phone on 9-Scandal: Obama wins because no major scandals have affected him or his administration. We mentioned it briefly in the other day’s post that “Fast & Furious” is growing legs even with the best attempts by the Obama WH and a complicit lapdog MSM to cover it up. However, this scandal has not even been touched into the deep affects of how this will impact Obama. As mentioned at the Gateway Pundit, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Greta Van Susteren last night that the House Oversight Committee is being gamed by the Obama Administration.

There is no way that a border agent gets killed by a foolish illegal immigration program like this and there will not be hell to pay. The only question is how high will this go.

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NANNY STATE: Baby Sitting Bill in California … Are These Folks Insane?

America, you know when you have a problem with an over-reaching government … When they interject themselves into date night.Talk about taking the “NANNY” state to the extreme.

So in California, parents are going to be required to provide provide workers’ compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks and paid vacation time for … babysitters? What if they are only 13 years old? What is the individual is a retired 67 year old grandmother?

Assembly Bill 889 (authored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, will require these protections for all “domestic employees,” including nannies, housekeepers and caregivers.

The bill has already passed the Assembly and is quickly moving through the Senate with blanket support from the Democrat members that control both houses of the Legislature – and without the support of a single Republican member. Assuming the bill will easily clear its last couple of legislative hurdles, AB 889 will soon be on its way to the Governor’s desk.

Under AB 889, household “employers” (aka “parents”) who hire a babysitter on a Friday night will be legally obligated to pay at least minimum wage to any sitter over the age of 18 (unless it is a family member), provide a substitute caregiver every two hours to cover rest and meal breaks, in addition to workers’ compensation coverage, overtime pay, and a meticulously calculated timecard/paycheck.

Talk about the “law of unintended consequences”, or is it intentional on the part of liberals? As stated at The Union, there is no doubt that the result of this foolishness will be to discourage individuals from hiring housekeepers, nannies and babysitters and increase the use of institutionalized care rather than allowing children or the elderly to be cared for in their homes. No Doubt at all.

WIZBANG has it right, looks like the only thing that makes sense is for couples to just stay home and nix the babysitter.  Out of control politicians have passed laws that would make it illegal for children to have lemonade stands and now this. When will they stop and better yet, when will “We the People” stand up against this nonsense?

Never Wrong Allan Lichtman’s Predicts President Obama Wins in 2012 … Wanna Bet!

From the pages of US News & World Report comes the following that “never wrong” Allan Lichtman predicts that Barack Obama will win the 2012 Presidential election. Wanna bet Sir? Or as the Lonely Conservative puts it, “there is a first time for everything”. The keys to the Lichtman prediction are as follows.

1-Party mandate: Obama loses due to 2010 loss of the House to the GOP.
2-Contest: Obama wins as there is no serious potential for a Democrat primary.
3-Incumbency: Obama wins for obvious reasons.
4-Third Party: No left wing third party will challenge Obama, so he wins this one.
5-Short term economy: Undecided, as we don’t know how things will look a year from now.
6-Long-term economy: Obama loses for obvious reasons.
7-Policy change: Obama wins for his major policy changes.
8-Social unrest: Obama wins as there is no widespread social unrest.
9-Scandal: Obama wins because no major scandals have affected him or his administration.
10-Foreign/military failure: Obama wins because there are no obvious foreign policy failures.
11-Foreign/military success: Obama wins because Osama bin Laden is dead.
12-Incumbent charisma: Obama loses because he leads from behind.
13-Challenger charisma: Obama wins because nobody great will challenge him

So Obama  has 9 wins … 3 loses and 1 undecided and thus a reelection. Not gonna happen. Let alone Lichtman’s analysis is a stretch at best. After the 2012 election, there will be one more sorry individual who hitches his wagon to Obama.

I guess we need to just forget the fact that Obama was a RCP average 43% job approval rating, 53.2% disapproval or a -10.2%.  The Rasmussen Employment index has hit the skids. We are also supposed to discount the continual downward trend of all of Obama’s polling numbers with every single demographic. Let’s not forget the
Generic Presidential Ballot that has the GOP at 48% and Obama at 40% and the Congressional Generic ballot at GOP 45% and Democrats at 36%.

At 69.3, the Employment Index is down eight points from the beginning of the year and down 14 points since last November when hiring expectations peaked.  Generally speaking, a decline in the Rasmussen Employment Index suggests the upcoming government reports on job creation will be worse than prior months.

Sorry dude, but even your analysis that gives Obama the win is flawed. Just as Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 was historic, so will be his loss in 2012. Lichtman, I do not think I would bet the house on Obama, then again, the mortgage would be underwater anyhow so what’s the difference, right? Then there is Lichtman’s flawed analysis that gives Obama the benefit of the doubt when all economic and key political issue indicators say just the opposite. So let’s review Obama’s so-called positive signs according to Lichtman:

2-Contest: Obama wins as there is no serious potential for a Democrat primary: Seriously? How many primary challenges have there ever been? We live in a different era of partisan party, Kool-aid drinking politics where both sides know that a primary challenge to an incumbent President is certain political suicide. Take this one off the list and irrelevant as even thought some in the Democrat party have asked for a primary challenge to Obama and 47% of Democrats think he should be challenged, it will never happen.

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23 Year Old Sheena Colleen Pierce Missing in Williamston, South Carolina Since August 19, 2011 (Update: Found Safe)

Its been nearly two weeks since 23 year old Sheena Colleen Pierce was last seen. Sheena Pierce wen missing on 8/19/11 when she was last seen outside her stepfather’s home on C Street in Williamston, SC. Pierce has a 5 year old daughter who relatives say, she would never leave the toddler behind without saying anything.She was last seen getting into a silver, 4 door SUV with several men. The disappearance is said to be “atypical”.

Her step father says that he received text messages since she went missing; however, the step father thinks that the messages were not from her.

MISSING: Sheena Colleen Pierce, missing from Williamston, SC Hat Tip: Williamston Police Dept

Sheena’s stepfather, Jerry Allen, said his neighbor saw Sheena get into the back seat of a silver sport utility vehicle – possibly a Kia – with a dark stripe on the hood. He said he wasn’t home but his neighbor was out cutting the grass and saw her. The neighbor said Sheena got in the middle of the back seat where a man was sitting. She’s not been seen since.

Allen said it’s out of character for Sheena to just take off and not tell anyone where she’s going. “She wouldn’t do that to her family, she wouldn’t do that to her little girl,” he said.

If any one has any information regarding the whereabouts of Sheena Colleen Pierce, please call the police at  (864) 847-7425.

UPDATE I: Police: Activity detected on missing mother’s Facebook page.

UPDATE II: According to reports, Sheena Colleen Pierce recently left her boyfriend, the father of the 5 year old girl, of 8 years and moved in with her step-father to help take care of him. He has several health issues.

Once again a girl gets into a car with multiple men and disappears. The texts coming in after the fact sound a bit hinky.

UPDATE III: Sheena Colleen Pierce shows up at stepfathers house after 2 weeks missing … WTF! She hasn’t committed and crime, what about child abandonment? I guess the parents can now say, “it is like her to run off and leave her child behind”.  Who does she think she is, Casey Anthony without the murdering of the daughter thing?

Sheena Pierce, the young mother who has been missing from Williamston for nearly two weeks, showed up on her grandfather’s doorstep in Anderson County late Tuesday night.

Police Capt. Jay Grubbs confirmed just before 11 p.m. that Pierce was at Ridgecrest Drive just outside the city limits of Williamston. Because the address is just outside police jurisdiction, deputies with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office were sent to confirm that the woman at the address was Pierce.

Hollywood Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested at White House for Protesting President Obama’s lack of Greenness

Wasn’t Daryl Hannah arrested in the movie ‘Splash’ (Video: 4:05) too?

Hollywood actress Daryl Hannah was arrested today outside the White House for taking part in an ongoing protest against the unbuilt Keystone XL oil pipeline. I guess Barack Obama is not green enough for the former Mermaid.According to accounts there were about 100 people arrested today protesting Obama’s energy policies.

“Sometimes it’s necessary to sacrifice your freedom for a greater freedom,” Hannah said in Lafayette Park before her arrest.  “And we want to be free from the horrible death and destruction that fossil fuels cause, and have a clean energy future.”

With dozens of others, Hannah sat on the sidewalk in front of the White House and refused three requests from the Park Police to move.

The group organizing the protest, Tar Sands Action, has said the Keystone pipeline — which will stretch from Canada to the Gulf — is among the most important environmental decisions that confront the president.

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Although I probably agree with little of Daryl Hannah, I will give her this … she walks the walk, unlike hypocrites like Al Gore who claim they are green, tell others that they need to be green and then gets on his Leer jet. Hannah lives, breathes and walks “green” and for that I do have to give her kudos, even though she is a little misguided.  Good for her in not being a profiteering hypocrite like the Gore’s of the world.

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President Barack Obama’s Uncle Held by (ICE) US Immigration Officials

Some stories you just can’t make up and just write themselves … Obama’s illegal immigrant uncle goes to the top of that list.

It was reported over the weekend that 67  year old Onyango Obama was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and failure to yield the right of way. Forget the fact that he was in the US illegally. Kind of makes Billy Carter look like the model relative of a politician.

President Barack Obama’s uncle was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving, told police he planned to arrange bail through the White House and was being held without bail on an immigration detainer, authorities said Monday.

Onyango Obama was arrested last week in Framingham, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Boston, after police said he made a rolling stop through a stop sign and nearly caused a cruiser to strike his sport utility vehicle.

Police said that after being booked at the police station, Obama was asked whether he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail.

“I think I will call the White House,” he stated, according to a police report filed in Framingham District Court.

Onyango Obama is currently being held by ICE and is denying that DUI charges even though his blood-alcohol was twice the legal limit.  What, an Obama spin the fact … NEVER! Just curious, what is the over/under on Obama’s uncle being deported from the US for being in the country illegally?

According to a a federal law enforcement source who spoke on condition of not being identified, Onyango Obama was not legally in the United States and has been previously ordered removed from the country. His case is now going through the immigration process, the source said.

Isn’t this special? As reported at the Gateway Pundit via Howie Carr, Obama’s illegal alien uncle has a valid driver’s license and SS number. What a metaphor for the Obama Administration and their policies on illegals. Let’s repeat that little tid bit, the liberal MSM might have missed it … the uncle of the President of the United States had a social security card. Who finds this beyond amazing that Barack Obama, a sitting US President had not one illegal relative, but two. The latter committing a federal offense in having federal a federal doc illegally. That would be grounds to deport Uncle Omar even under Obama’s policies.

The president’s 67-year-old uncle, Obama Onyango, has had a valid Massachusetts driver’s license and Social Security number since at least 1992, said Registry of Motor Vehicles spokesman Michael Verseckes.

So how did Uncle Omar get a SS numbers, the National Review attempts to explain. When Massachusetts Gov. Devall Patrick was asked for a statement he replied, “You know my stance: Illegal is illegal. We need comprehensive immigration reform.” What?

EXIT QUESTION: How many illegal alien fugitive could one US President possibly have?

CNN/ORC International Poll Has Texas Governor Rick Perry in Front … Lead Over Romney To 13 Points, 27% – 14%

Another poll and another lead for Texas Governor Rick Perry. According to a CNN/ORC International Poll of Republicans and independent voters has Texas Governor way out ahead of the GOP Presidential challengers. With 27% of the vote, Perry nearly doubles second place former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

According to a CNN/ORC International Poll of Republicans and independent voters who lean towards the GOP, Perry now sits atop the list of Republican presidential candidates, with strong support from most demographic groups.

Full poll results here (pdf)

The survey, released Monday, indicates that 27 percent of Republicans nationwide support Perry for their party’s nomination, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who’s making his second bid for the White House, at 14 percent. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin follows at ten percent, with Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani at nine percent, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who’s making his third bid for the presidency, at six percent. Every one else listed on the questionnaire registered in the low single digits.

One poll is just a poll, two is interesting, three is a trend. The CNN poll follows two other polls, Gallup and Rasmussen, that have GOP Presidential challenger Rick Perry way out ahead of his fellow Republicans. Add the Magellan poll as well.

So why has Rick Perry vaulted to the top of the GOP list? It’s not that he is just the flavor of the month, even after being attacked by Democrats and the MSM, he has shown that he has staying power. Maybe his appeal is because many Americans believe that Washington, DC should be made inconsequential. Maybe its also because Americans know that a President should have executive leadership skills, have successfully run a state and created jobs. Something that the incumbent Obama has failed to do.

Rick Perry, a successful governor of a large southern state that did not create any form of Obama-Romney care … he is Obama’s worst nightmare.