Posts Made By: david elosser

Well, he is a liberal Democrat.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380264/posts

David E

...failed by a narrow 5-vote margin. Thirty-nine Democrats joined all but one Republican in this effort to kill the bill. How costly is it? By Pelosi's own admission her health care bill will cover only 96% of Americans. So basically, we're about to spend 1.3 trillion dollars not to cover 12 million Americans.

David E

Yeah, Obama is real good at not jumping to conclusions!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32092715/

David E

Some interesting polls on Rasmussen's site today, November 11th.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Obama continues his negative approval rating. Only 30% of those polled strongly approve of the way Obama is handling his job. His approval index is back in negative double-digit territory.

Republicans now have a 6 point lead on a generic Congressional ballot (i.e. a fictious ballot with no specific names on it.)

A majority of Americans still disapprove of the Democrats Health Care Reform attempts. (Doesn't matter, they are going to cram it down our throats anyway.)

Six out of ten think the Fort Hood shooting should be prosecuted as a terrorist act. Just three in ten think it should be a criminal investigation. (Boy oh boy, the main stream media has its work cut out for them on this one! )

Whereas 8 out of 10 Americans have a favorable opinion of our military, roughly 4 out of ten have favorable opinions of our President.

Two-thirds of Americans oppose a law that would ban big screen televisions. (Well, that's what happens when you vote Liberals into office, they want to ban everything. First light bulbs, now televisions. :S )

David E

Just found this from Reuters:
"A sculpture by Chinese artist Liu Bolin titled "Burning Man Obama" is tested at a workshop in Beijing November 11, 2009. The sculpture represents U.S. President Barack Obama's impact on the world."

Consider this quote from a recent article:
"Confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly dropped in November as the loss of jobs threatened to undermine the biggest part of the economy."

Now, I just have to ask: Who in the world would expect consumer confidence to rise when the unemployment rate goes from 7.8% to 10.2%? Consumers are going to feel real confident while they watch one in ten adults in their neighborhoods getting laid off? Who would make such an inane statement? Well, these two did:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=ap_ThMQkTaJg

Geeze, these guys must have a single key on their keyboards that types "unexpectedly" every time they hit it, a single key with the word "unexpectedly" written on it. Let me help these two out, and insert that word into some of their other sentences to see if it makes any more sense:

"Rising joblessness unexpectedly puts the economy at risk of slipping into a vicious circle of firings and declines in consumer spending."

"In the U.S., rising unemployment unexpectedly threatens consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the economy."

"Joblessness may also unexpectedly weigh on Americans as they head into the holiday shopping season. Macy’s Inc. is among retailers showing an unexpected decline in sales as consumers spend only on essentials such as food and clothing."

"Macy’s, the second-biggest U.S. department-store chain, is among retailers that are unexpectedly more cautious as consumers unexpectedly hold back on discretionary purchases. The Cincinnati-based chain unexpectedly reported a third-quarter loss as sales unexpectedly fell."



David E

Hope and change is working out really good at the NY Times:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BURGD00&show_article=1

"The New York Times News Service, which repackages Times stories for other media outlets, is laying off at least 25 employees.
Those cuts are in addition to the 100 newsroom jobs the Times plans to eliminate by the end of the year, according to New York Times Co. spokeswoman Diane McNulty."

AND...adding insult to injury: "New non-union jobs will be created at the Times Co.'s Gainesville Sun in Florida to handle editing the wire service."

David E

...is starting to take it's toll on both those fighting for us in Afghanistan:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_troops_mental_health
and now on the home front as well:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/21581554/detail.html

"Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war..."

"As family and friends mourn a fallen U.S. paratrooper on Veteran's Day, his mother made an emotional plea to President Barack Obama that it's time to either bring home the troops or end the war in Afghanistan."

David E

President Obama-Nobel tell us he is going to push for federal spending reductions:
"The Obama administration, mindful of public anxiety over the government's mushrooming debt, is shifting emphasis from big-spending policies to deficit reduction. Domestic agencies have been told to brace for a spending freeze or cuts of up to 5 percent as part of a midterm election-year push to rein in record budget shortfalls." -AP

But this is what he is really doing:
"The Obama administration is confident Congress will raise the country’s debt limit by year end to avert a showdown similar to the one that shuttered parts of the government in 1995, administration officials said. The White House wants an increase of at least $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, according to a person familiar with the deliberations between lawmakers and the administration. Record budget deficits are pushing the national debt closer to the $12.1 trillion statutory limit...The administration officials said the White House is open to any legislative vehicle that will raise the debt limit, by any amount."

David E

Remember how the Democrats always scream bloody murder about our huge trade deficits when a Republican is in the White House? Trade deficits are bad! Bad bad bad. They destroy our jobs with a giant sucking sound! Well...

"The trade deficit in the U.S. widened in September by the most in a decade, ...Imports surged by the most in 16 years, swamping a gain in exports."

And what foreign items are we buying? "...rising demand for imported oil and automobiles "! Wow! How's that Hope and Change there, Detroit?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aN1mKmvVAZp4

And of course, predictably, there's the obligatory "unexpected" clause in every economic report: "The gap grew a larger-than-anticipated 18 percent to $36.5 billion..." (Well, at least Mr. Willis showing a little creativity!)

Now we all know trade deficits are BAD when a Republican is in the White House. But now that we have a liberal Democrat president with the most liberal administration in American history, why, deficits are suddenly a great thing! “Sometimes what looks bad on the surface is actually quite good and I think that’s the case this time around,” said Sal Guatieri, a senior economist..." Yeah, right. While China's economy grows at a 9% rate in the third quarter, we have double digit unemployment for the first time since the Democratic Carter administration.

David E