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1. Does Barack Obama Think America Needs Viagra? His “Malaise’ Moment Arrives
2. Today is P-Day: Sarah Palin’s Self-Imposed ‘Drop Dead Date’ To Declare Her Candidacy
3. Obama Administration Continued to Throw Money at Solyndra After Loan Default
4. House Committee Takes an Axe to Job-Killing Union Measures
1. Does Barack Obama Think America Needs Viagra? His “Malaise’ Moment Arrives
It’s not Barack Obama’s policies. It is not the economic uncertainty over regulations and taxes. It is not the National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor pushing aggressively pro-union agendas that hamper competition.
No, according to Barack Obama, our nation has grown soft. That’s our problem. Jimmy Carter said America was in a “malaise.” This is Barack Obama’s “malaise” moment.
It can’t be about him. It cannot be about his polices. On the same day Joe Biden declares the economy belongs to Barack Obama, Obama passes the buck. This time it is directly to the American people and American businesses.
It’s not him, you see. It’s us.
“This is a great great country that had gotten a little soft and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades,” Mr. Obama said in response to a question about the country’s economic future. “We need to get back on track.”
We don’t have the competitive edge we once had because we have a President who spent two years deciding the government would grow the economy and the government would take over the auto industry and the government would take over the healthcare industry and the government would pick the winners and losers in the economy.
The American people and American business has not gone soft. They’ve gone out of business.
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2. Today is P-Day: Sarah Palin’s Self-Imposed ‘Drop Dead Date’ To Declare Her Candidacy
Today is P-Day, the date Sarah Palin herself imposed as the deadline for her announcement to run for the Presidency. From U.S. For Palin:
Sarah Palin however has said she will make an announcement before the deadline to declare by the end of September. It is now September 8th, 2011 and all the media and her supporters have to do is wait till September 30th, 2011.
Never mind that last night she declared on Fox that, despite her own words, she probably won’t make up her mind today. Still, she said it. She set today’s deadline. Not the media. Not me. She did it.
To quote Leon Wolf, “Consider that of all the candidates, Sarah Palin has the least excuse for her dithering. Unlike Perry, Bachmann, and Paul, Palin hasn’t had a job with official duties for the last two-plus years. All the other quasi-retired or term-limited candidates have long ago declared. Even Jon Huntsman was serving as ambassador to China as recently as April; and by the way, Huntsman has a larger family than Palin does. I get that deciding whether to run for President is a difficult decision; however, the Presidency is a job of difficult decisions, and if it has legitimately taken Sarah Palin over two years to decide whether to even start the process of becoming President, then she is unfit for the job.”
So today, by her own admission since July, this is the date Sarah Palin should announce. Throughout the day we will monitor whether or not there is an announcement.
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3. Obama Administration Continued to Throw Money at Solyndra After Loan Default
“Exactly what did the White House know and when did they know it?”
It’s a pretty simple question and one that you would think is on the lips of every reporter that has the opportunity to ask a question of the Press Secretary or President Obama would be asking about the failed Solar company Solydnra which received over $500 million in loans from the U.S. Government.
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4. House Committee Takes an Axe to Job-Killing Union Measures
This morning, the House Committee on Appropriations issued a press release regarding its Draft Fiscal Year 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services Funding Bill.
Within the text of the release, there are some specific union-payback items that the Committee knows are harmful to the creation of jobs and are, as a result, taking an ax to.
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