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"Obama Fails"

Check out Obama Fails by J.R. Dunn at American Thinker.  Here's the opening (read it all):

Over the past couple of weeks, it has become apparent even to politicians and the media that the Demented Spree Act of 2009, better known perhaps as the "Obama Stimulus", has not worked, and shows no sign of ever working.

Unemployment -- the professed reason for the stimulus in the first place -- is now at 9.5% and will break 10% within the next few months. Credit remains tight and industry is still fumbling. It is clear that there are no shortcuts back to a steady prosperity, that this recession will be overcome in the exact way such disasters always have been -- by working our way out of it. The $787 billion ("real money", as Everett Dirksen would have put it), already spent, being spent, and to be spent, can be considered as so much waste paper.

The interesting thing about this is the reaction of our media and political elites -- or rather, the lack of reaction. They're behaving as if flushing away three-quarters of a trillion dollars is trivial. The failure of the greatest act of financial pump-priming in history has elicited no more than a collective shrug. Cognitive dissonance doesn't come more obtuse than this. Our great opinion leaders have stumbled over a huge pile of facts having serious bearing on O's future prospects and rather than pausing to take a look have instead gotten to their feet, brushed themselves off, and hurried away exactly as if nothing happened. The pretense appears to be that the fate of the stimulus has nothing at all to do with the rest of Obamus Maximus's policies.

 

Of course it does. The collapse of the stimulus can be taken as representative of Obama's policies, past, present, and future. The stimulus shares one major element with every other program this administration has come up with: they have all been tried before, and they have all failed.

 

First up is health care. We're constantly reminded that the U.S. is the only industrialized nation lacking a national health-care system, without anyone going on to add how lucky we are. Health care systems of the exact type promised by Daddy Obama are omnipresent all across the world, their records open for our edification and enlightenment. A close look at only the Mother Country will suffice.

    

Here's what a search on "UK NHS" a few weeks ago came up with: a maggot infestation at the Royal Children's Hospital (the staff assured parents there was nothing to worry about). A sick woman who grew so tired of lying in filth that she got up out of her hospital bed and cleaned the room herself, dragging her IV behind her (The nurses, she reported, "let her get on with it.") The two emergency medical techs arrested for letting a patient die while they stood around and cracked jokes. The fact that the UK has once again achieved the highest levels of superbug infestations in the industrialized world (over 32,000 hospital patients die of MRSA alone each year). The so-called "Mental Capacity Act", under the terms of which a patient unable to communicate is to be considered "due to die", and denied food and water, the same treatment meted out to Terry Schaivo. Across the UK, families have been rescuing aged relatives declared surplus under the terms of the act.

And that's just the beginning.  There's more on Obama's industrial policy (centralized planning and virtual takeover of major industries), as well as his foreign policy.  Read it all.

Flashback: "Bush's Economy: Unemployment Soars" to 6.4%

It's hard to believe that just six years ago we were experiencing 6.4% unemployment under President Bush as compared to today's 9.5% unemployment courtesy of Barack Obama. And back then, we had stories like this:

Bush's Economy: Unemployment Soars

WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate shot up to 6.4 percent in June, the highest level in more than nine years, in an economic slump that has added nearly a million people to jobless rolls in the past three months.

Businesses slashed 30,000 jobs in June for the fifth straight month, with cuts heavily concentrated in the nation's factories, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The 0.3 percentage point increase from May's 6.1 percent rate was the largest month-to-month rise since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. That surprised analysts, who predicted a smaller rise to 6.2 percent. The last time the overall rate was higher was in March 1994.

The poor economy and swelling unemployment could pose problems for President Bush next year in his re-election bid. But tax cuts recently passed by the Republican-controlled Congress are starting to take effect and will bolster job prospects, the administration has argued.

"Its effects will be felt by America's working families, seniors and small business owners later this month, as they begin receiving tax rebates and larger paychecks," said Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. "As this stimulus builds momentum, we expect to see more new jobs created and more out of work Americans receiving a paycheck again."

At the White House, press secretary Ari Fleischer said that while the economy experienced a "short and shallow recession, we are also an economy that is having a slow recovery."

Democrats are determined to make the economy a big issue in next year's elections. "The verdict is in: The Republicans' multi-trillion dollar failed economic policy is one the greatest disasters for working Americans in a decade," said Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

But now all is well again under President Obama!  Because 9.5% unemployment is -- well -- lookin'  good -- especially when we just spent a trillion dollars on a "stimulus" package to keep that number under 8%.  And if there's anything that's sure to create jobs, it's liberal tax-spend-regulate economic policies and a massive pile of federal debt! 

Of course, the lapdog media report all of this with their usual objectivity.

How Small Businesses are Doing With Obama as President and Dems Controlling Congress

How are small businesses doing with Democrats in charge of both Congress and the White House?

Terribly, that's how.

It's almost as if Democrats have used their control of Congress to drive up energy and food prices, which in turn caused a housing collapse and drove countless restaurants and retail shops out of business.

But, hey, Obanomics is just getting started.  In another six months these will probably look like the good old days. 

Ben Stein: "We've Figured Him Out"

Why Obama's approval ratings are dropping like a stone:  We've Figured Him Out

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

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The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.