Polls are polls which is to say one needs to take their assertions “under advisement,” taking into account who is behind them, etc. One troubling trend of late is that much of the Obama administration’s agenda seems to be more and more out of touch with the majority of Americans as depicted in a series of recent polls.

As a gearhead, I came across another such poll:

America’s “Cash for Clunkers” bill is on the cusp of being signed by President Obama, but according to a new survey by Rasmussen Reports, a majority of U.S. citizens aren’t in favor of the plan.

…not that Obama’s agenda is correlated in any way with what is best for America…or Americans. Obama thinks taxpayers want to spend more money our country doesn’t have to sell cars that people apparently still want so they can buy new cars that they don’t want right now either, from an industry where the taxpayer has already invested billions to buy the biggest domestic player.

According to the telephone survey, fully 54% of those queried are against the measure, while 35% are in favor and 12% aren’t sure how they feel about it. That’s up from a similar survey done last month, in which just 34% were against consumer vouchers for trading in older, less efficient cars and trucks. In fairness, Rasmussen Reports indicates that the change could have been influenced by a change in the wording of the respective surveys (the initial survey did not indicate how much the program might cost the government).

So, not unlike the President’s socialized health plan, there are those that are for it in theory (and in the minority) but when the promoters thereof have to account for the cost, support wanes.

Perhaps most interesting of all is news that many Americans would appear to have little faith in the ability of the government to help General Motors improve its fortunes, with 41% expecting for GM’s quality to deteriorate under federal ownership. (Presumably, this leaves 59% of those surveyed that feel otherwise or are undecided). Perhaps more damaging is that the study’s findings say that fully 57% of those questioned believe that the government is likely to pass laws and regulations that give Chrysler and General Motors unfair advantages over other automakers that did not receive bailout funds.

General Motors’ quality has markedly improved of late. Nonetheless it is by no means is on par across the board with the Japanese competition. As such, it’s not an area where GM can afford to backslide.

You can always buy a Honda and avoid this debacle, which is to say the consumer still has a choice. But substitute Obama’s government trespass du jour, “Socialized Health Care,” for “General Motors” in the passage above, and the stakes go way up, and there will be no going back; no alternative for consumers.

Led by the President, liberal lawmakers are working feverishly to trim their proposal down to a trillion dollars, to reform a health care system that covers most of us and that most of us are satisfied with to offer a theoretical system that will cover less of us and will almost surely degrade the quality and accessability of care. The proposal has less support now than when Hillary Clinton gave it a go.

…and yet the President persists here as well. So much for the theory that an Obama Presidency would be driven more by ambition that ideology as it is clear now that agenda has little regard for the times we are in or the people he represents.

One of the biggest challenges ahead for the GOP is to reclaim the Fiscal Conservative ribbon from…well actually nobody has it now…which is probably why we are enjoying a hiatus from the trappings of low unemployment, prosperity and economic growth right now.

“Paying for what you spend is basic common sense. Perhaps that’s why, here in Washington, it’s been so elusive”

True.

Who said that? Wait for it…of course…Barack Obama; filling the vacuum left by Republicans with more wholesome teleprompter goodness. The most liberal former Senator in recent history defines audacity once again.

Republicans marvel at his skill in stealing their clothes. Democrats retort that, under George Bush, Republicans left their clothes unguarded while they cavorted in a hot tub of borrowed cash. Sure, they talked about fiscal responsibility. But instead of choosing between tax cuts, wars and social spending, they chose all three—and left the bill for future generations.

True (although picturing Dick Cheney in a hot tub is a wee bit unsettling).

Whenever Republicans accuse Mr Obama of fiscal profligacy, Democrats have three easy answers. The first is to accuse them of hypocrisy—why did they not speak up when Mr Bush was splurging red ink?

True (although a few of us did speak up).

Americans stopped trusting Republicans with their money in part because some were caught trousering bribes or peddling influence.

and True…although Republicans have no monopoly here. Sadly, the public’s attention has been drawn from  Republicans…because there are so few of them in power right now.

Republicans think they see an opening. Although Mr Obama is still very popular, Americans have doubts about his fiscal stewardship. In a recent Gallup poll, 51% disapproved of his handling of federal spending. Since this is the only area where most people disapprove of Mr Obama, Republicans are enthusiastically prodding it.

But will middle America believe them this time?

…because President Obama conveniently failed to say “Americans.” In the spirit of creating crises that ostensibly only larger government can solve…as long as we’re counting the “uninsured”…I know there are a great many other living beings that aren’t insured too.

The administration uses the “46 million uninsured” as a reason to nationalize health care. But the Census Bureau says about a fifth of those aren’t U.S. citizens. In fact, a goodly number are illegal aliens.

According to “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States,” a Census Bureau report published last August, of the 45.6 million persons in the U.S. that did not have health insurance at some point in 2007, 9.7 million, or about 21%, were not U.S. citizens.

“Being uninsured is a transitory state, since most uninsured Americans [emphasis mine-JR] are only without coverage for a short time.”…only 19 million Americans go without insurance for a full year.

If we work real hard, enlist our nation’s Neighborhood Organizers^®, and count house pets for example, we might find close to “100 Million Uninsured” if we discretely drop the “people” moniker altogether.

Subtract noncitizens and those who can afford their own insurance but choose not to purchase it, and the number of uninsured falls dramatically. “Many Americans are uninsured by choice,”

…but what about house plants! People talk to their plants, which means they have feelings, which means they suffer, which means they have a right to access affordable health care. Since most plants don’t have legs, we need to provide transportation as well.

Now we’ve got ourselves a crisis!…that only government can solve!

Joe Biden opens his mouth and out comes humor, drivel or drool.

“Everyone guessed wrong,” Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday, on the impact of stimulus legislation.

Not everyone. And by the way, they weren’t guessing – they were siezing an opportunity to not unwaste a crisis and transport America quickly to the left under the cover fire of Obama’s Doom and Gloom speech.

Some 330 economists signed a statement last winter saying that President Obama’s claim — that “there is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy” — simply “is not true.”

The economists were not crackpots but respected scholars, including Nobelists James Buchanan, Vernon Smith and Edward Prescott, as well as Reagan Office and Management of Budget Director James Miller, Walter Williams and John Lott.

Also opposed to the stimulus are the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and a core of U.S. representatives and senators, too small unfortunately to change the outcome, who saw through the smoke and weren’t fooled by the mirrors.

The result is now a soon-to-be total debt per American household of several hundred thousand dollars, the result of which will soon weigh heavily on the shoulders of liberal Democrats and our facist President when Republicans ask in 2012 “are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

David Letterman did the unthinkable.

Apologized for a really inappropriate joke.

“As they say about jokes, if you have to explain the joke, it’s not a very good joke,” he said. “I take full blame for that.”

“I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed,” he said.

“So, I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke,” Letterman said. “I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future.

Nearly unprecedented I reckon.

Then again, it’s sort of like your buddy apologizing for passing gas on a road trip in the winter. You hear the apology and all but your eyes are still burning and watering for miles.

While I watch little television, especially that late at night, I have watched enough Letterman over the years to classify it as the high-fructose corn syrup of the medium.

David Letterman really has no nutritional value either.

Letterman’s joke…

…that (Sarah) Palin’s “daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez” at a recent Yankees game, still insisted he was referring to Palin’s 18-year-old, Bristol, who gave birth to a boy in December, and not her 14-year-old, Willow.

…wasn’t funny, but given the source it really wasn’t surprising.

Or relevant.

What is interesting is that David Letterman, in apologizing, forwent a potential Donald Trump v. Rosie O’Donnell-esque battle that would have most assuredly been a ratings boon for Letterman, who is reportedly already beating upstart Tonight Show host Conan O’Somethingorother in the ratings.

Then again, maybe it isn’t really all that interesting and I should go to sleep now.

Sorry I wasted your time.

Years ago I visited Chrysler headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan on a business trip, just after their purchase by Daimler Benz. I noticed a Mercedes Benz C-Class sedan in the expansive reception area and asked my executive host “What do your employees think of a Mercedes in your headquarters?”

“It’s not so bad.” He replied. “…we’re probably handling it better than the German’s who now have a minivan in theirs.”

Alas, the Germans were not able to make a go of Chrysler and sold them for a loss to Cerberus some time ago.

Now the Italians, not known for their domination of the business world, let along the automotive industry, are quickly taking charge and striking fear into executives at Fiat’s new American arm, Chrysler.

When Chrysler’s crisis-weary staff gathered in their Michigan headquarters this week to hear an address from their new leader, Fiat’s chain-smoking Sergio Marchionne, the atmosphere was far from ebullient.

“Numb” was the word one Chrysler manager used to describe the mood.

The American automotive industry’s woe’s can not be tied to a sole cause. A combination of management’s short-sightedness, government over-regulation and a union bent on an unsustainable model of “work less, make more” all conspired to gut an industry, once a source of national pride.

“The Cadillac of…(fill in the blank)” is now a sad anachronism in a era of Cimarron’s and rebadged Tahoes and Suburbans – not that Fiats are known for their excellence in craftsmanship, design or durability.

But apparently, unlike many American’s in the sector, the Italian’s know how to work.

Chrysler’s employees have some reason to be wary. At Fiat, where Mr Marchionne is both respected and feared, he has shunted aside underperforming managers and expects underlings to join him working nights and weekends.

Discounting the blow to national and corporate pride among the ranks of Chrysler workers, this isn’t so bad in light of the alternative. Had the deal with Fiat not closed this month, Chrysler would have almost surely been liquidated. An 80-hour work week seems a fair alternative to a zero-hour one.

…and an apt prescription, in contrast to our President’s socialistic policies, for the relief of the Great Recession.

How ironic is it that we find ourselves schooled on capitalism by the Italians?

Pass me the Chianti Classico.

Methinks “No” isn’t the answer the Strib was looking for.

Instant Poll: Is the Shubert Theater project a good use of stimulus funds?

Al Qaeda’s second-in-command urged Egyptians not to be seduced by the ‘polished words’ of…Barack Obama

Dude. Where were you in November?

GM should have been allowed to go bankrupt months if not years ago, and without the “help” of Congress or the Obama administration. Now that it has finally come, an analysis of the distribution of the spoils reveals both method and motive.

GM’s bankruptcy pushes bondholders aside in favor of the U.S. government and the UAW. Though bondholders hold $27 billion in debt, they’ll get just 10% of stock.

How’s that compare with the other “stakeholders?” For spending $50 billion to bail out GM, the government will get 60% of the equity in the new GM; the UAW, which along with other unions gave millions to Democrats, will be repaid for its loyalty with 17.5% of the stock for $10 billion of unsecured debts.

Not unlike our nation’s financial crisis, those that caused the crisis employ more of the same and escape with the plunder.

They call it “restructuring.” We call it theft. Never in our memory has there been a more thorough, systematic effort to disenfranchise the shareholders and bondholders of a major American firm.

Has this happened before? Yes – well, almost. But these are different times – and a different judicial climate.

…in 1952, when President Harry S. Truman tried to seize control of the U.S. steel industry during a debilitating strike, the Supreme Court made him back down. And Truman had a real emergency on his hands: the Korean War.

By what authority is the Obama administration orchestrating this expedited bankruptcy and government takeover of a global corporate enterprise?

We pored over Article II of the Constitution, known as the Executive Powers Clause. Nowhere is the White House granted the right to override the time-tested bankruptcy process, to use Treasury money raised by taxing Americans to buy or bail out companies, to fire CEOs, to micromanage corporate policy, or to abrogate lawful contracts made by private parties.

Arrogance and incompetence have taken the place of justice and precedent. Where’s the outrage now?

How bad our country’s balance sheet must be that we are sending our Secretary of State and Treasury Secretary to China…to beg…to promise…we’ll behave?

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arrived in Beijing with a pledge that the Obama administration will control its borrowing, seeking to reassure China that its Treasury holdings are safe.

“No one is going to be more concerned about future deficits than we are,” Geithner told reporters en route to two days of meetings that start tomorrow in China’s capital.

Interesting word choice: “No one is going to be more concerned about future deficits than we are.” In the mean time, being liberals, the only thing this administration knows how to do is spend more and tax more – under the guise of economic “rescue” this time.

The Chinese however, who hold more of our debt than anyone else, can do math, and they too have noticed that every time Brack O. Bomba opens his mouth, another trillion dollars is stolen from our children.

A Chinese state media report today said that 17 out of 23 Chinese economists polled in connection with Geithner’s visit said that holdings of Treasuries are a “great risk” for the nation’s economy.

Let me pause to underscore the notion that the Chinese feel our economy poses a great risk to theirs.

Geithner needs to show how the U.S. can prevent the value of China’s debt holdings being eroded by a weaker dollar or by inflation driven by the stimulus money being pumped into the U.S. economy, according to Yu.

“It will be helpful if Geithner can show us some arithmetic,” he said.

Uh oh. That’s trouble. Math is no friend of the Obama administration.

There aren’t arithmetic or historic data depicting successful outcomes of huge government borrowing to fund huge government spending to counter a crisis caused by huge government, corporate and consumer borrowing. Rather, the arithmetic will show catastrophic devaluation of the dollar – the very inflation the Chinese are fearful of.

How do you say “Oops” in Chinese?

CAFE standards and the UAW hobbled the US auto industry…Barack Obama is here to finish the job.

A select few Conservatives and even fewer media pundits have labeled the takeover and bailouts of several American corporate icons as Socialism manifest.

The first months of the Obama Administration have given rise to abundant talk about a U.S. drift into socialism. “We Are All Socialists Now,” a Newsweek cover declared in February. On May 20 the Republican National Committee approved a resolution calling on Democrats to “stop pushing our country toward socialism.”

Socialists in America say however that it isn’t so.

They say if the Obama Administration were establishing a true socialist state, we’d have at least a $15-an-hour minimum wage (instead of the current $6.55 federal minimum) and 30-hour workweeks. Every American would be guaranteed employment and health-care coverage. Oh, and homeless people would be occupying vacant office buildings in cities and vacant McMansions in the suburbs.

…as if Socialism exists on one side of a hash line but not on the other.

So apparently we’re not there yet.

Guaranteed employment, health-care and housing will come in Obama’s reelection campaign.

But that’s not really the point, is it?

Conservative Americans concerned for our future as a nation, as an economic power, fear the direction our country is headed and even more the lack of concern among our citizenry for what is quickly happening right under their noses. You can’t unbake a cake and so it is with big government and entitlements.

As our esteemed governor knows, reductions in either are historically very hard to come by. As the saying goes, a luxury becomes a necessity twenty four hours later not unlike new layers of government spending and regulation. Once in place, they tend to stay in place.

Socialists say the policies Obama has pursued are hallmarks of “democratic capitalist” states, not socialist ones. “None of the societies of Western Europe are socialist, but the political influence of their strong Labor, Social Democratic, and Socialist parties make their form of capitalism much more humane than our own,” says Frank Llewellyn, national director of the New York-based Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest U.S. Socialist party.

I don’t know how “humane” delaying the inevitable was to UAW workers at GM; thousands of which are soon to lose their jobs as GM declares bankruptcy under the weight of years of artificially-high labor costs and government over-regulation, despite an infusion of billions of taxpayer dollars and an inept CEO being fired by an even more inept President.

In the end, auto workers will discover their rightful economic value hard and fast. Taxpayers will own 70% of a corporation that should have been absorbed by the system. Capitalism should have been allowed to do what capitalism does – efficiently redistribute capital and talent to it’s highest and best use.

Something quite opposite capitalism has instead been deliberately and opportunistically brought to bear. Call it Socialism or Obamunism – labels don’t matter – the point is our government is violating domain it has historically been denied (and in many cases by law is prohibited) to venture.

Socialists say…the Obama team is…scrambling to rescue and preserve capitalism.

Deflection. Nice try. Capitalism can take care of itself, thank you very much.

If Socialism were to come to America, would it come quick like a thief in the night…or real…slow…like…so as to stay under the radar; take capitalism by surprise?

How do you cook a frog? In a pot of cool water; turn up the heat real slow.

By the time he realizes he’s cooked, it’s too late to jump out.

…this may be just as ominous.

If George Washington and Thomas Jefferson could visit America in 2009 they would call the Chinese attacks Acts Of War.

Russia, the Peoples Republic of China, Iran and others will soon have a cold dose of reality that in awaking the American sleeping giant Cyber attacks can run two ways.

Update Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate

Governor Pawlenty’s discipline is tutelage for Republicans everywhere.

Congressional Republicans — the ones who got tossed because of their embrace of spending and earmarks — might start looking for a message up north. Fiscal responsibility? “It is the fundamental tenet of our party, and the conservative coalition more broadly,” says Mr. Pawlenty, nicely. “If we don’t have that, we are nothing.”

If Republicans are looking to get back their conservative groove, they could do worse than study Minnesota’s budget brawl. Mr. Pawlenty deftly (and amusingly) outmaneuvered his Democratic opposition, not only saving his state from huge tax increases but clearing the way to cut government spending. Call it a refreshing break from the financial-crisis norm.

While liberal TV ads equate fairness with sticking it to the “rich”…

…Mr. Pawlenty kept voicing three simple principles. “Number one, we must have [because of the constitution] and should have a balanced budget,” he told me. “Number two, the state government needs to live within its means, just like everybody else. Number three, we shouldn’t raise taxes in the worst recession in 60 years.” Minnesota already has one of the highest tax burdens in the nation.

While in Washington, Comrade Obama increases the Federal Government and National Debt at unprecedented speed…

this will be one of the first times in modern Minnesota history that the state will reduce the size of government in real terms, not just slow its rate of growth. “The correlation in recent history has been between job growth and states that have reasonable government cost structures,” he says. These cuts, he says, will position Minnesota to take advantage of the recovery when it comes.

A Crisis Not Wasted^™ indeed, Governor.

Minnesotans, The Frozen Chosen, celebrate a high quality of life and boast once people move here they never move away. That stickiness is a mystery to others around the nation, especially when viewing our winter weather forecasts in January and February from points even just a click or two South of here.

Residents and business owners have tolertated a fairly high cost of doing business in deference to that quality of life.

As our population ages however, and as our tax-and-spend lawmakers leverage their majority, we will find ourselves waxing nostalgically about the good old days when our economy was strong and diversified, our schools were world-class and our cities safe and clean.

Ever wonder why you see so many Florida license plates on the backs of Cadillac, Mercedes Benz and Lexus cars in Minnesota?

Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich

With states facing nearly $100 billion in combined budget deficits this year, we’re seeing more governors than ever proposing the Barack Obama solution to balancing the budget: Soak the rich. Lawmakers in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Oregon want to raise income tax rates on the top 1% or 2% or 5% of their citizens. New Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn wants a 50% increase in the income tax rate on the wealthy because this is the “fair” way to close his state’s gaping deficit.

A good many wealthy Minnesotans have figured out how to live in Florida – and more recently in my professional experience, South Dakota and Arizona – 181 days of the year, and if we raise taxes again, I’d say a good many more are going to give it a go.

…from 1998 to 2007, more than 1,100 people every day including Sundays and holidays moved from the nine highest income-tax states such as California, New Jersey, New York and Ohio and relocated mostly to the nine tax-haven states with no income tax, including Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and Texas. We also found that over these same years the no-income tax states created 89% more jobs and had 32% faster personal income growth than their high-tax counterparts.

Examining data from a 2008 Princeton study on the New Jersey tax hike on the wealthy, we found that there were 4,000 missing half-millionaires in New Jersey after that tax took effect. New Jersey now has one of the largest budget deficits in the nation.

Have you seen those commercials and heard those radio ads here that equate the Governor’s directive to not raise taxes with the suffering of students and teachers and firefighters and law enforcement?

Those who disapprove of tax competition complain that lower state taxes only create a zero-sum competition where states “race to the bottom” and cut services to the poor as taxes fall to zero. They say that tax cutting inevitably means lower quality schools and police protection as lower tax rates mean starvation of public services.

They’re wrong, and New Hampshire is our favorite illustration. The Live Free or Die State has no income or sales tax, yet it has high-quality schools and excellent public services. Students in New Hampshire public schools achieve the fourth-highest test scores in the nation — even though the state spends about $1,000 a year less per resident on state and local government than the average state and, incredibly, $5,000 less per person than New York. And on the other side of the ledger, California in 2007 had the highest-paid classroom teachers in the nation, and yet the Golden State had the second-lowest test scores.

Texas, recently threatening secession, seems to have the right formula.

Texas created more new jobs in 2008 than all other 49 states combined. And Texas is the only state other than Georgia and North Dakota that is cutting taxes this year.

The Texas economic model makes a whole lot more sense than the New Jersey model, and we hope the politicians in California, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota [emphasis mine-JR] and New York realize this before it’s too late.

Given the current economy and already-high taxes, we may be near a tipping point where raising taxes now could accelerate an exodus of the wealthy and more importantly, business owners, taking their jobs and consumption with them.

Surely New Jersey didn’t think they would ever be a cautionary tale. Let’s not let Minnesota be the next.

Remember this?

The Car The People have been Waiting For®

Now this:

The 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sport Edition

HT Dr. Chris

President Obama campaigned on the promise he would end earmarks, one of the political lead balloons that brought Republicans from the sky and confused the electorate as to who the conservative party is.

Obama promised to change…

Mr. Obama had campaigned against earmarks, even saying he would cut them back to levels before 1994, the start of the Gingrich-GOP interregnum. Now here was Obama as president signing a bill soaked in earmarks.

…his mind. Again.

The Teleprompter-in-Chief offers this unmasked subterfuge:

“Individual members of Congress understand their districts best, and they should have the ability to respond to the needs of their communities.”

In a short 100-some days and counting, the President has broken promise after promise, putting a spit shine on and extending Bush policies he rallied voters against and clearly establishing his status as a another garden-variety liberal politician (save the magnitude), making chumps of those who voted for him and leaving the rest of us wondering:

Where is the rage now? Where is the outcry?

And…where’s the Change^®?

Americans that lived through The Great Recession of “Ought Nine” will not soon forget the lessons learned and in fact US savings rates are up; consumer debt has fallen like a rock.

In the end, history will point an impeaching finger at liberals whose “high-mindedness” led to the most catastrophic and costly financial crisis in American history.

And yet…

Grants of as much as [$16,000] to first-time buyers and the lowest interest rates in 49 years have emboldened more than 40,000 young [home buyers] to take out home loans since October, stoking demand for properties that cost less than [$385,000].

These buyers may be vulnerable when interest rates begin rising, potentially triggering a jump in foreclosures that will drive down property prices, cut profits at banks and damp household spending, which accounts for half the economy. A surge in defaults in America was a key trigger for the financial crisis that pushed the global economy into its worst recession since World War II.

History repeats itself indeed, only this is in Australia, where the toilet swirls the other way and lessons are apparently learned the hard way.

“We’re mirroring what happened to the U.S. three years ago, when people who shouldn’t have been in the market bought houses,” said Martin North, managing director of Fujitsu Australia, a Sydney-based property-consulting company. “It’s a strategy set for an unfortunate outcome.”

G’Luck, mate!

Non-survival of the dumbest for example.

Drivers and front-seat passengers in Florida may be cited for not wearing seat belts when a new law takes effect on June 30. Known as a “primary” seat belt law, the law allows enforcement officers to pull vehicles over solely for a belt violation

Sounds reasonable enough, right?

Signed into law by Gov. Charlie Crist earlier this week, the legislation makes Florida eligible for up to $35 million in federal grant money created in 2005 as an incentive for states to establish seat belt laws.

Thanks for holding firm to the principals of conservatism there Chuck. It’s my pleasure to pay federal income taxes and see them spent in Florida to incent some dufus to wear his seat belt.

100 Plus days in and America’s first half-African American President is proving to be everything and more of what conservatives warned he’d be…and has reneged on so many campaign promises to his liberal supporters that one loses count.

the handwriting is on the wall regarding our new leader’s game plan for America.  Spend other people’s money like a Madoff on steroids.  Let every enemy on the planet know there’s a wimp in the White House. Let every ally know the wimp in the White House will do nothing to help them when push comes to shove. Let the 50 states know there’s a power coup in play that strips them of constitutionally guaranteed liberties.  Let every company know that neither they nor their non-union employees are safe from Chicago-Way thugs and their mouthpieces in the media. Let the 300 million American citizens know that the rule of law, applied equally to all, is about to be replaced by special favoritism in the form of “empathy.”

If asked for a word to describe an Obama voter, there is only one that any sentient person could offer: SUCKER.

They’re the kind of voters that every crooked politician has drooling dreams about every night of the year.

What does Johnny Roosh think of Brett Favre donning the Purple?

Thanks for asking.

First off, I lost interest in the Vikings after the (…I’m getting emotional) 1998 season, which was poised to be the payoff for childhood memories of four forlorn Super Bowls. If the Vikes want to skip town because I won’t take money off our dinner table and put it into a stadium for the big boys, so be it. I could give a rip.

But, from a businessman’s point of view, if Favre’s tired bones can fill the seats with a choir of beer-swilling, profanity-prone fans and actually make some money selling tickets and selling out so I can tune in for the last quarter, I’m all for it.

Alas, if history teaches us anything about the Vikings, they will find a way to screw this deal (if it happens) and Brett Favre’s career will defy the odds by apending a prologue even more embarrassing than the the would-be, should-be final chapter that is last year’s season with the Jets. Favre’s story could have eneded on a high note.

He does look good in Purple though.

The MSM are abuzz with their assessments of Brack O’Bama’s first one hundred days and as my Blog Boss so aptly pointed out, they are missing the real story here.

Ever notice how you’re not seeing as much public opinion polling about the President these days?  Especially in the MSM?

There’s a reason for that:

According to Gallup’s April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969. The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86. Mr. Obama’s current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises.

Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll tells a very different story from what the Obama Broadcasting Network would have you believe.

Jimmy II is in trouble.

Polling among those that “Strongly Approve” of the President thus far remains relatively steady ranging from 44% at Inauguration to 35% as of today.

That’s not surprising. Liberals don’t know what’s hit them yet….the broken campaign promises, the rapid erosion of what is left of our nation’s financial resources, the vast expansion of The Entitlement Society^™, the socialization nationalization of everything within arm’s reach…they still have the “Change Has Come” commemorative plates on their mantles and are still being instructed to harbor anger for (i.e. blame) the Bush Administration for all ills domestic, foreign and individual.

The real movement underlying the erosion of Che Obama’s approval ratings is among those who “Strongly Disapprove”; doubling from an Inauguration Day low of 16% to 32% as of today. It’s only a matter of time before one spills into the other as America wakes to the leftist agenda of our President and his thugs.

Rasmussen’s daily poll tracks the differential between the “Strongly Disapprove” and the “Strongly Approve” results.

Does this movement translate into Conservatives growing some cojones or is it a groundswell of both parties’ constituents realizing the error of their choice last November? Most likely a little of both.

In any case, it would appear the pendulum is swinging back to reality.

And fast.

Change^® is coming.

Chrysler takes Denny Hecker down a half billion.

The financial services arm of automotive giant Chrysler won a $476.9 million judgment against embattled car dealer Denny Hecker in the latest blow to his crumbling auto dealership empire.

Well, at least he has the mortgage and real estate businesses to fall back on. I’m sure they’re doing swell.