Return of Obama Porkulus … $205,075 to ‘Translocate’ a Bush from Path in San Francisco of of Stimulus Project

Just when you thought you had heard the last of Obama failed $787 billion stimulus … we have return of Porkulus. Can you imagine, $205,075 to translocate one single bush in San Francisco. I guess the Democrats would say, it’s all Bush’s fault.

The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009.

“In October 2009, an ecologist identified a plant growing in a concrete-bound median strip along Doyle Drive in the Presidio as Arctostaphylos franciscana,” the U.S. Department of Interior reported in the Aug. 10, 2010 edition of the Federal Register. “The plant’s location was directly in the footprint of a roadway improvement project designed to upgrade the seismic and structural integrity of the south access to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Even RINO’s are Dissatisfied with Obama … Senator Olympia Snowe (ME-R) Gives Obama an ‘F’

A note to President Barack Obama, when RINO Senator from Maine Olympia Snowe Gives Obama an ‘F’, you have a real problem … Snowe said that if she had to grade the President on his willingness to work with Republicans, he would “be close to failing on that point.” Close Olympia? No, I think it is safe to say that he is failing. With a continued failing economy, poor job growth, record number of people on food stamps, unemployment above 8%, gas prices at near record highs and a record federal debt, it is safe to say Obama has been a failure.

If there were ever a Republican for President Obama to work with, it was Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. She was one of just three Republicans in the entire Congress to vote for his economic stimulus plan in 2009 and even tried to work with him on health care, but in an interview with ABC’s Senior Political Correspondent Jonathan Karl, Snowe makes a remarkable revelation:  She hasn’t had a face-to-face meeting with President Obama in nearly two years.

Snowe said that if she had to grade the President on his willingness to work with Republicans, he would “be close to failing on that point.”  In fact, Snowe, who was first elected to Congress in 1978, claims that her meetings with President Obama have been less frequent than with any other President.

Snowe stated that there is no leadership and it is no longer about policy, it is only about politics and reelection in Washington, DC these days. Olympia Snowe earlier this year announced that she will not be seeking reelection in 2012.

Although I have to take exception with Snowe’s that she believes that she is a traditional Republican …  “I represent what I think is a traditional Republican… a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.” How could a Republican who believes in these ideals embrace or even discuss any of Obama’s  big government, globalism and loss of liberty positions?

Obama Stimulus … Part of $11M Stimulus Grant for Detroit Low Income Job Seekers Helped Just Two Individuals

Barack Obama’s stimulus plan is brought to you today by the #2 …

More from the files of the failed Barack Obama $787 billion stimulus … $11 million grant was supposed to help 400 low income job seekers in Detroit, MI ... the end result, it helped just 2 people. Isn’t this just a perfect example and a microcosm of the failed Obama stimulus and wasted tax payer dollars?

Part of an $11 million grant intended to provide business attire to 400 low-income job-seekers instead helped only two people, an audit of the city’s Department of Human Services has found.

The audit, conducted by the city’s auditor general for the period from July 2009 to September 2011, found the department failed to control the operations and finances of a boutique that was to provide the clothes.

The department did not safeguard grant funds or create an inventory for the clothing, the audit found.

Among the most telling findings, which will be discussed today during a City Council committee meeting, is that a third-party contractor advanced $148,000 to a downtown Detroit clothing store and opened an account, but did not include the city on the account.

As we are reminded at Michelle Malkin, Obama but VP Joe Biden in control of being responsible of implementing the Obama stimulus. Great job Joe!

“You guys know that when the president gave me the responsibility of dealing with and implementing this recovery act, he called me Sheriff Joe. Well, I’ve still got my badge on.” – Joe Biden, April 6, 2010.

And to make matters worse, if possible, as pointed out by the Ace of Spades who made up this plan? Forget the fact that only two people were helped, if 400 had been as initially thought that would have been $27,500 per person. Who dreamed this up and worse, who said, great idea … give them money, that’s money well spent!

This is what happens when government spends other people’s money. What a waste. There best be a GOP ad being developed this very second putting all of the wasted stimulus projects in a politcal ad reminding America just how much of a colossal waste it was and that they will be paying for this Obama gaffe for generations to come. Remember that in the 2012 election.

USA Today/Gallup Poll: A Majority of Americans Say Obama’s Presidency Has Been a Failure and Far Too Liberal

From USA Today comes a USA Today/Gallup poll that shows that a majority of Americans believe that Barack Obama’s Presidency has been a failure and that he is too liberal. America, if you think he is too liberal now, imagine what Obama will be like if he wins a second term and has nothing like reelection to stand in the way of his agenda?

Dissatisfaction with Obama’s economic leadership “has continued to be a weight on his shoulders even as people are becoming a bit more optimistic,” says Charles Franklin, a political scientist and director of a polling project at Marquette Law School in Milwaukee. “He still has a case to make to the public that their optimism for the future is the way they should judge him, rather than the slowness of the recovery that we’ve been experiencing.”

On Obama: Americans are more likely to say his presidency has been a failure than a success, 50%-44%. His favorable rating is 50%, higher than the GOP presidential contenders but lower than every nominee in the past five presidential contests at this point except Republican Bob Dole, who lost in 1996. A 51% majority say Obama is too liberal, and Americans are inclined to say they disagree with him on the issues that matter most to them. On the positive side, 58% say he has the personality and leadership qualities a president should have.

I guess these folks would be considered racists and clinging to their Bibles and guns by the MSM and Team Obama.

Barack Obama: The Not So “SHOVEL READY” Preisident … Attends Groundbreaking Event for Smithsonian African American History Museum, Only Barack Not Provided a Shovel…

More from the not so shovel ready President … or as they say, NO SHOVEL FOR YOU!

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended a ceremony for the groundbreaking for the first national museum dedicated exclusively to African-American history and culture. However, a funny thing happened on the way to the goring breaking, Obama had no shovel. How ironic seeing that following the failed $878 billion stimulus bill, the President was forced to admit that there were no “shovel ready” projects.

Its hard to pick up a shovel by hand when you have a golf club in them all the time

It was a rather odd sight: as an array of museum officials, including former first lady Laura Bush, took up shovels at the groundbreaking for the first national museum dedicated exclusively to African-American history and culture, the nation’s first black president sat watching, no shovel in hand.

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended the ceremony Wednesday for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and he delivered remarks.

When he finished and returned to his seat, a call was put out for groundbreakers to gather at the front of the stage. Obama then stood, buttoned his jacket and prepared to join in. But an official whispered something to him and he sat back down as museum officials and members of the museum’s advisory council, including the former first lady, picked up shovels for the ceremonial turning of the dirt. The Obamas remained on stage.

Protocol does not seem to have played a role. Turns out, presidents throughout history have wielded shovels for groundbreakings.

Or is it as Weasel Zippers states regarding Obama’s lack of a shovel, Kings don’t use shovels, they are only for commoners? As Fox News Charles Krautheimer has stated in the past, would Obama really know about shovel ready attending Harvard Law School? Since Obama has no idea what a shovel is, what amazing imagery of Obama without a shovel.