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There is a meme going around that President Obama is the most frugal President in years – Ha!

Many of the major lefty oriented blogs are touting this – I think to deflect the actual spending orgy that the Obama Administration has actually done.  Does anyone not believe that their normal whipping boy – President Bush (hey, isn’t EVERY thing his fault?) is responsible.  The problem, as it always is, is in the definition of words and MarketWatch has decided to do just that to save their Obamessiah:

Obama spending binge never happened

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.

As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.”

Almost everyone believes that ObaMarket Watch Obama Spending Infographic - smallma has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.

But it didn’t happen…

Really?  That almost $5 Trillion in debt spending over the last three years didn’t happen??  You just KNEW that any claim like this was going to be challenged and vetted just like Dan Rather was when he was trying to smear then President Bush (and look what happened to Rather).  Political Math decided that he had had enough of the Left’s nonsense and “Rathered” (or fisked) them and created a really great infographic on this (full image after the jump).  The important part is the definition of WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA BECOMES RESPONSIBLE.  Some data points from the Political Math post:

There’s a lot of info there and you do need to go and read it.  Do so.

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Fake Spy gets Book and Movie Deal, And Real Spies just Get Dead?

When CIA Desk-Jockey Valerie Plame was “outed”  [*] the left went postal for years on the incompetence of the Bush Administration, then wasted millions on an investigation that was more a sound bite machine for Democrat friendly talking-heads than an effort to find justice for a pencil pusher with a disgraced husband.   Despite the … Read more

From the “Dragging him over the line” notebook – well, he’s got this Education point right.

In 2008, I was not the most thrilled to have John McCain to be the Republican nominee, at least until I was able to say “Yeah, I voted for Sarah Palin and the old white guy”.  At that time, however, I had a bad premonition about what an Obama Presidency would bring (yeah, I pretty much had it right as the future-now-history shows).  This time, it is Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee and once again, it’s back to “drag that candidate over the line” as the excitement for me for his candidacy just isn’t there.  It is back to the “vote against the other guy”, for if Obama is given a second term, the America that the Founders envisioned with respect to limited government and an emphasis on individual freedom may well be never seen again.

However, this from a speech that Romney gave today gave me a little smile:

First, I will expand parental choice in an unprecedented way.  Too many of our kids are trapped in schools that are failing or simply don’t meet their needs.  And for too long, we’ve merely talked about the virtues of school choice.

As President, I will give the parents of every low-income and special needs student the chance to choose where their child goes to school.  For the first time in history, federal education funds will be linked to a student, so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school, or to a private school, where permitted.  And I will make that choice meaningful by ensuring there are sufficient options to exercise it.

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Blogosphere Line of the Day!

Once again, NJ Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) has exceeded expections.  Since his campaign (and subsequent elevation to Governor), his YouTubes have become Internet sensations.  Now I’m betting that as a surrogate for Mitt Romney, he will continue to keep Obama “in the dark room”; “This is a guy who literally is walking around in a … Read more

You KNOW what my first thought was when I saw this photo:

Thought: so, when do we see a reporter climbing INTO a pot to mock Obama’s EATING of a dog?  If this Seattle based reporter wants to much to make fun of an old, old story of Romney’s Seamus the dog, let’s see her, in the vaunted spirit of bipartisanship that I keep hearing from Democrats … Read more

And so it begins – resisting religious tyranny

Obama - shows more deference to Islam in Afghanistan than to First Amendment freedom for religion here in the USAlthough the political conversation over the last week or so has been Obama’s personal redefinition of what traditional marriage is, let’s not forget that he and HHS Secretary Sebelius decided that they were after yet another “First” – the First Administration that felt they had the authority to redefine what a religious organization is or could be.  Function as a house of worship (for now)?  “There was an exception for that!” with respect for the supremacy of the Right to Conscience – although the HHS mandate required that all health plans for employees provided for abortions, abortifacients, sterilizations, and birth control.

But if you are a religious outreach or ministry of some type (e.g., halfway house, hospital, educational, soup kitchen – anything that demonstrated a caring for the poor, the downtrodden, or the needy), even if connected to a House of Worship, Obama and Sebelius decided that they could decide that you were NOT a religious organization for their means.

As the cartoon shows (sent by Grok friend Karen a bit ago), we see exactly what Obama thinks of the First Amendment:

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Obama – really pandering

I think this, by Rameriz, says it better than this earlier one; this requires no “evolvement” I guess it is true, what they say about some politicians…. (H/T: Hot Air)

2012 Presidential Campaign: Buddy has the right idea – will Paul or Johnson?

We interviewed Buddy Roemer a lot during this primary season; he was a hoot to talk to and did have some interesting ideas.  But given that he is the former Governor of LA as well as one of its former Congressman (and building a billion dollar bank is no small feat), I always scratched my head wondering why he didn’t get even a wee bit more traction in the Republican field.  Then he decided to switch to that online “Party”, Americans Elect, and he kinda dropped off the radar screen.  But apparently, he kept us on his email list (emphasis mine):

Roemer Refuses to Play Spoiler

Baton Rouge, LA – Governor Buddy Roemer issued the following statement in regard to speculation of him being a “spoiler” for Governor Romney and/or President Obama:

…I run to win. I am not a single-issue candidate or someone who is merely trying to make a statement. I am not Ralph Nader. I am a former Governor of a corrupt state that I helped clean up; I am former four-term Congressman who worked closely with President Reagan to help our country; and for the last twenty years I have been a successful businessman creating jobs.

I am currently polling at 7% in the most recent national survey and I am confident once I receive the Americans Elect nomination that I can attain 15% standing which will then qualify me to participate in the national debates this fall. Obama, Romney and Roemer. Again, I run to win.

If, during the last month of the campaign I discover I have no realistic chance of winning, I will ask my supporters to vote their conscience or for their second choice so the issue of spoiler can be dropped once and for all.

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Data Point – Long term unemployment

President Obama has blamed his predecessor, President Bush, for three and a half years on the economy “we inherited”.  Thoughts: I don’t remember President Reagan complaining suchly about his predecessor, President Jimmy Carter And for such a brilliant man (Punahoe, Columbia, Harvard), is this an admission that he is not a sufficiently good enough manager … Read more

The Coming War…Blood for Nothing.

No, I am not talking about the presidential campaign, though that will be similar to a war.  I am referring to what Mr. Obama will do if he feels he has to to get re-elected. Hold on to your peacenik badges lefties, because that hope and change you’ve been clinging to will take another hit … Read more

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