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"Hope and Change" Turns Into Obama's Malaise

If you had the misfortune to live through Jimmy Carter's presidency, the current epic fail of the Obama administration in all areas -- especially economic and in foreign policy -- probably seems very familiar.

How familiar?  Apparently the close similarity of these two presidential epic fails extends all the way down to Carter's famous "malaise" speech.

From Laura Ingraham, via Ace and Mediaite:

 
 

Looking at the Bright Side of Obama's Presidency

"And maybe we’ve simply evolved as a nation past the need for a competent president. Having a good president was an absolute necessity early on in our nation’s history when we were still struggling to survive. But now even our poor people are fat, and no matter how bad the president is, it’s not likely that we’ll starve to death. Plus, having a good president may just make things too easy. Remember how easy it was to succeed in the 80s? It hardly took any effort, and that probably made us lazy. But with the way the economy is now and with added things like Obamacare trying to crush small businesses, only the really smart and the hardest workers will to be able to make any traction. So, in a way, instead of looking at Obama as a horrible president, you could simply see him as an added layer of difficulty to spur us on to be even better."

Frank J. at Pajamas Media

So in a way, the Obama presidency is like progressive weight lifting.  All the taxes and spending and overregulation is for your benefit!  That's why, as soon as you figure out a way to lift the weights, he piles on some more.  That tax was too easy?  Here's another one! 

Think of Obama as your personal trainer. 

Yes we CAN!

America's Ambassador to England AWOL From Event Honoring Reagan -- and the Brits Notice the Snub

... What could the Ambassador to England [Louis Susman, appointed by Obama] have on his schedule that is more important than attending a celebration and commemoration of a US president?  Isn’t this, in part, part of the job?  When a foreign country goes out of its way to honor your country, doesn’t that give you a unique leverage that should be capitalized on?  Doesn’t it follow that the only way to capitalize on it is to actually be there?

From all reports, Susman was not sick, stricken with illness or involved in a really intense game of Farmville.  He simply didn’t show up, as the representative of the United States, to an event honoring one of the greatest presidents in US history.  Susman didn’t show up to honor the long standing relationship that the US and Great Britain have; one that solidified in World War II, and was made stronger through the Cold War and its eventual end — and end that was percipitated by the man they were there to honor!  (PJ Tatler)

As Don Surber points out, the Brits noticed the snub.  Surber concludes:

It feels like petty partisanship because that is what it is.

Thank you England for being proud of America.

I hope that our next president will be as proud for a change.

The Obama Legacy (Video)

Via Flopping Aces

American People Vote With Their Feet -- For Freedom

 

GOP Just Got a Huge Win from New Census Data

It was expected, but people who don't follow this stuff probably hadn't realized it yet: The new Census data that just came out today is a huge win for the GOP.

The National Journal describes it as an "embarrassment of riches".

First of all, there was a big shift in Congressional states from "blue" to "red" states. Texas is the huge winner, picking up 4 seats. NY and Pennsylvania both lost seats. California failed to gain any seats for the first time.

Other red states picking up seats, according to Washington Post's Aaron Blake: FL +2, AZ, GA, SC, UT, WA, NV +1.

Will state and local politicians learn the lesson?:  Enact enough job-killing policies and your clout in national politics will fall, drip by drip, decade by decade.

People go where the jobs are. 

Businesses offer jobs where they are not taxed, regulated, burdened and penalized every time they make a move.

Freedom works.