Democrat Controlled Senate Fails to Pass Extention of Unemployment Benefits

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!

The Harry Reid Democrat controlled Senate failed to pass legislation that would extend unemployment benefits. By a 57 to 41 margin Democrats fell three short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measure. It would appear the bipartisan vote went the way of the GOP as Democrat Senator Bob Nelson of Nebraska joined Republicans and voted against the legislation.

Senate Republicans and a lone Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, joined forces to filibuster the bill in a procedural vote on Thursday. Visibly frustrated, the majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said he would move on to other business next week because he saw little chance of winning over any Republican votes.

The vote was 57 to 41, with the Democrats falling three short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measure.

How difficult is it Democrats to figure out that Americans are tired of your spending and adding to the deficits? You continuously call the GOP the party of “No”; however, it was no what We the People wanted. You were provided nearly $1 trillion in a stimulus that has been a bust, you could easily use this money to offset this unemployment extension. Americans are sick and tired of you drunken sailor spending.

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has insisted that the bill not add to the deficit. Democrats argued that they had found ways to cover the entire cost of the $112 billion measure, with the exception of the $35.5 billion extension of unemployment benefits, which some Republicans said they could accept.

But some Republicans who had been negotiating with Mr. Reid said they remained opposed to tax increases in the bill, and Mr. McConnell insisted that Republicans would not support any increase in the deficit.

To dramatize the point, after blocking the Democrats’ bill, Mr. McConnell proposed a one-month extension of unemployment benefits and some other safety-net spending, to be paid for with about $10 billion in unspent money from last year’s economic stimulus program.

Legal Insurection gets in right … all Democrats had to do is pay for the legislation by offsetting one of their other bloated spending pieces of legislation. With a record federal deficit and budget, isn’t that the least that Democrats owe our children, grand children and great grand children?

International Rock Star President Barack Obama Now Seen as Incompetent and a Rank Amateur by the World

Hey Europe and the International community, how’s that Barack Obama “Hopey, Changey” stuff working out for you? It appears about the same as it is for Americans. 2012 cannot get here fast enough.

From Mort Zuckerman of US News & World Report comes this revelation regarding the “Chosen One,” Barack Hussein Obama … ‘World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur’. You mean they are finally just noticing now? Let this be a lesson to America and the World, hype does not make experience, a leader or a President. It was not to long ago that Europe was rooting for a Barack Obama victory … my how The One’s image has fallen.

The reviews of Obama’s performance have been disappointing. He has seemed uncomfortable in the role of leading other nations, and often seems to suggest there is nothing special about America’s role in the world. The global community was puzzled over the pictures of Obama bowing to some of the world’s leaders and surprised by his gratuitous criticisms of and apologies for America’s foreign policy under the previous administration of George W. Bush. One Middle East authority, Fouad Ajami, pointed out that Obama seems unaware that it is bad form and even a great moral lapse to speak ill of one’s own tribe while in the lands of others.

Barack Obama’s apology tour is hardly the show of American Presidential strength that Europe and out allies were looking for. So in the end, the World did prefer a “cowboy” after all, eh? As Newsbusters reminds us, from top to bottom, the Obama Administration are legislators, not leaders and they lack the competence for the positions they hold. It is no coincidence that Obama is “Lost in Smallness” and unable to lead … he never has, why would any one have thought he suddenly could on the grandest scale?

The end result is that a critical mass of influential people in world affairs who once held high hopes for the president have begun to wonder whether they misjudged the man. They are no longer dazzled by his rock star personality and there is a sense that there is something amateurish and even incompetent about how Obama is managing U.S. power. For example, Obama has asserted that America is not at war with the Muslim world. The problem is that parts of the Muslim world are at war with America and the West.

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Barack Obama Down to 45% Approval in Rasmussen Poll … PPP: More People Think GWB Did Better Job with Katrina than Obama with Oil Spill

How low can he go?

If Obama’s handing of his first year and a half in office was not bad enough between the economy, unemployment, record budget deficits, no job creation, continued government spending and Obamacare … now he is faced with the image that the American people have that he has no leadership skills with the BP oil spill crisis.

According to the latestRasmusseen poll, President Barack Hussein Obama is at a 45% approval and a 54% disapproval rating. Only 24% of American voters strongly approve of the jobs that  Obama is doing. How is that “Hopey, Changey” thing working out for you America?

Now comes the most damning poll for Obama in some time. For Barack Hussein Obama his entire presidency has been based on the premise that it’s George W. Bush’s fault. Obama has made it a cottage industry to blame Bush for everything while provide no leadership to issues. Enter, the Left leaning PPP poll and a doozy of an analysis and commentary on Barack Obama. Imagine this, according to Public Policy Polling, more Louisiana folks think that GWB did a better job handling Hurricane Katrina than Barack Obama has done with the BP Oil spill. OUCH, THAT’S GOING TO LEAVE A MARK!

LET US REPEAT THAT FOR PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT, MORE PEOPLE THINK GWB DID A BETTER JOB OF HANDLING HURRICANE KATRINA THAN OBAMA HAS WITH THE BP OIL SPILL.

Full polling results HERE.

Our new Louisiana poll has a lot of data points to show how unhappy voters in the state are with Barack Obama’s handling of the oil spill but one perhaps sums it up better than anything else- a majority of voters there think George W. Bush did a better job with Katrina than Obama’s done dealing with the spill.

50% of voters in the state, even including 31% of Democrats, give Bush higher marks on that question compared to 35% who pick Obama.

Overall only 32% of Louisianans approve of how Obama has handled the spill to 62% who disapprove. 34% of those polled say they approved of how Bush dealt with Katrina to 58% who disapproved.

For those polled, Obama’s actions have gone from bad to worse. Not obly has Obama shown a complete inability to lead and grasp the importance and severity of the issue, The One has made matters even worse by putting a moratorium on platform offshore drilling that is causing even further economic devastation to an area already in crisis.

One thing the oil spill has not done is created a spike of opposition to offshore drilling in Louisiana. 77% of voters still support it with only 12% against. Only 31% say the spill has made them less inclined to be in favor of drilling while 42% say it hasn’t made a difference to them and 28% say they’re now stronger in their support.

Maybe Barack Obama can go play a round of golf and think about the BP oil crisis in the Gulf some more. Look for Obama’s avergae job approval polling mumbers ar RCP to go into the red.

Another Bail Out … This Time for the Unions, $165 Billion

As if the United States is not in enough debt and the Obama Administration has not spent us into oblivion. Obama and the Democrats, the GIFT THAT KEEPS ON TAKING!

Along comes another bail out, say it isn’t so. This time the Democrat cronies at the Unions are the beneficiaries. That is correct, another $165 billion for the US tax payers. Had enough yet?

A Democratic senator is introducing legislation for a bailout of troubled union pension funds.  If passed, the bill could put another $165 billion in liabilities on the shoulders of American taxpayers.

The bill, which would put the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation behind struggling pensions
for union workers, is being introduced by Senator Bob Casey, (D-Pa.), who says it will save jobs and help people.

As FOX Business Network’s Gerri Willis reported Monday, these pensions are in bad shape; as of 2006, well before the market dropped and recession began, only 6% of these funds were doing well.

Didn’t Obama say there would be no more bail out?

Hasn’t the Obama Administration put enough burden on the shoulders of tax payers and the children and grand children for years to come? Now Democrats want to pay off their constituents with a bail out for mishandling union dues?

So the American tax payer has to bail out another mishandled union pension plan? Like putting more money in the union coffers is going to fix the problem. How come Unions don’t get the same treatment from Obama and the Democrats like the fat cats on Wall Street? What’s the difference?

From Town Hall.com … good grief, Obama and the Democrat bail outs are the gift that keeps on giving, or is it taking?

Although right now taxpayers could possibly be on the hook for $165 billion, the liability could essentially be unlimited because these pensions have to be paid out until the workers die.

Weasel Zippers says it best as only they can and basically sums up the feelings of an over-burdened country.

Of course there is no correlation to the Democrats willingness to bail out Unions and the fact that Unions have stated that they will spend $100 million in 2010 for Democrats to be reelected. None what-so-ever. Hmm, spend $100 million to get $195 billion, not a bad deal, eh?

REMEMBER NOVEMBER … YES WE THE PEOPLE CAN & YES WE WILL … Stop the Obama/Democrat Regime

REMEMBER NOVEMBER

Check out the following VIDEO, “We Will Remember” from Haley Barbour and Republican Governors Association. Talk about a powerful and effective video documenting Obama’s regime and his henchman like Reid and Pelosi’s attempts to change the United States of America into something that no one voted for.

Never has America seen such an assault on their economy, freedom and prosperity. Obama and his band of liberal Democrats looks to transform the United States into a socialist Western European country.

Do not let them … stand up and Remember in November. Make a difference.

We Will Remember from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.

As the Gateway Pundit states, Remember November so that we can return to the principles of Our Founding Fathers.

Remember November so that we can return America to its founding principles of freedom, personal responsibility and economic liberty. We Remember November so we, our children, and grandchildren can live with the freedoms our founding fathers intended.

Add your name to the list HERE.

Protein Wisdom comments on the LEFT’s reaction. To answer their question, Yes, they are that desperate. How absolutely pathetic Time magazine.

Is the Left really this desperate? Is Scherer just trying to see how far he can dupe the Left into spreading such a ridiculous meme? I would venture the majority of TEA Party participants might vaguely recognize the name “Guy Fawkes” but not immediately recall the history. And Scherer makes his case for the Republican Governors “call to violence” from focusing more on how Fawkes’ story was adapted for the graphic novel turned into movie V for Vendetta — for most TEA Party participants, that itself would be even further from their attention.

The LEFT is so hell-bent on comparing anyone who would dare oppose Obama, the Democrats and their socialist policies as terrorists. It is a tired, lame and self-defeating approach. It is quite a stretch that this video would some how allude to anti-government British terrorist Guy Fawkes. A stretch indeed.

It can explain why independents have run from Obama and the Democrat party. People are sick of being demonized because they are the voice of dissent against Barack Obama. A dissenting public might I add that represents a majority of Americans.

From Red State and I have to agree, it was the first thing I thought of as well when viewing the video, one of the best signs I have seen from Tea Parties …

Awesome. To me, it brings to mind my new favorite quote from a sign at a recent tea party rally:

“I can see November from my house.”