Ok, a couple of items…

The Messiah, Barry Hussein Obama, got zero bounce in the polls from his little intern tour of Europe. Then he had to throw his buddy, the rapper Ludacris, under the bus for his offensive lyrics in a pro-Obama song.

So to get his campaign back on track, the Barry resorted to playing the race card again. Accusing McCain and Republicans –

Obama said: “What they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name, you know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

Barry Hussein Obama. You have accomplished nothing to make you worthy of appearing on the currency! But voters aren’t scared of what you’d look like on the dollar; they’re scared of what you’ll do to their dollars! Take even more of them to spend on programs that haven’t worked and don’t work and will never work!

The second item.

NASA has announced a startling discovery. Saturn’s moon, Titan, has large lake-like features; at least one of them contains liquid hydrocarbons — ethane. This is huge! Besides earth, Titan is the only body in our solar system known to have liquids on its surface — and hydrocarbons are a building block of crude oil.

Heads up, Democrats in Congress:

This is your new battlefront! To protect its environment and keep Saturn’s moon looking like ANWR, you better go into emergency session and craft legislation to ban all oil drilling on Titan now… or you will regret it.

• AP: Obama and McCain go Old-School in Political Jabs

Thursday story in the New York Times, that referred to the 1.9% economic growth rate as “tepid” and that the stimulus had failed.

Here’s the Washington Post headline Friday: “Economy Grows on Impact of Stimulus,” the exact opposite take.

Thursday the economy, “tepid,” and the stimulus didn’t help.

Washington Post:

“Economy Grows on Impact of Stimulus; Troubles Expected As Effect Wears Off — The [commerce] department said the economy shrank at the end of last year, revising an earlier estimate of growth. And there is evidence that the decent growth in the second quarter will come at a cost. ‘We essentially traded strong growth now for weak growth later,’ said Sung Won Sohn, an economist at California State University.”

By the way, I discount all these economists that the Media find because every month when new economic figures or job figures or whatever come out, their experts are always surprised. Whether the news is good or bad, they’re always surprised at it. The news is always unexpected.

So they’ve got this guy from Cal State, Sung Won Sohn, who says,

“As a result, this may turn out to be a longer recession than we’re used to.”

We’re not in a recession!

The Simple Truth: we are not in a recession.

Nancy Pelosi and the gang have left town. There is nothing going to be done for five weeks, not a single appropriation bill — nothing on drilling.

And it was not just four years ago when we saw John Kerry hounding President Bush to go “jawbone” with the Saudis to bring the oil price down? Now, four years later, all they want is for the price to remain high.

Anyway, what Pelosi has basically done here is shut down the House so they don’t have to talk about offshore drilling. They went out, got aboard their jets and they left town without taking any action on the president’s request to drill for oil and other things.

Twenty-five members of the House Republican caucus nevertheless stayed behind and continued to make speeches and discuss — on the floor of the House — the need to drill here and drill now. But Pelosi ordered the cameras from C-SPAN turned off, she ordered the microphones turned off, and she ordered the press gallery cleared.

When the speaker of the House, who controls all this, orders the cameras turned off, the lights turned off, and the microphones turned off…

You know, this is reminiscent of what happened back in the eighties with Newt Gingrich and his boys leading the special orders at night. Tip O’Neill finally got fed up with it and ordered the House closed.

… They’re just in there making speeches to an empty body — but as long as somebody is speaking C-SPAN contractually had to carry it. So the House Republicans, 25 or 30 of them, are just continuing to hammer away, and they’re demanding that the Democrats come back and debate them and talk about this and take action on this thing that the American people care so adamantly about, and that’s the supply of oil and providing it for ourselves to make us less dependent on foreign oil.

This is not going to be good for the Democrats, folks. They claim to be for the little guy, they claim to be for the great unwashed and the downtrodden, the homeless, the hungry, and the thirsty, but they’ve abandoned them — and they’ve abandoned them with four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline.

They want the price to stay high. The American people are starting to figure this out. The only people making noise about taking market action that would lower price is Republicans.

And Obama is in big trouble on this. To sit there and take no action whatsoever and then to say, as he did today, he wants another stimulus check to every American, a thousand dollars paid for by oil company profits… The American people don’t want the oil companies paying more taxes. The federal government gets 50% of all the profits that the oil companies report anyway, so this is a winning issue, and I suspect the president and the Republicans are content to have the Democrats out of town and showing that they care nothing at all about the American people. All the Democrats care about is their own reelections and their upcoming convention.

Now, Representative Mike Pence, Republican, Indiana is one of the organizers of this session that is taking place in the House of Representatives today. He says that up to 40 Republican members are prepared to keep the proceedings going. He is quoted as saying, “I’m prepared to stay here as long as we can.” He added that before the Democrat motion to adjourn was adopted, a hundred Republicans, 100, had signed up to speak for five minutes each about gas prices, but the adjournment vote precluded that. Bu the Democrats skipped town, got in their own private jets, making their own carbon footprint and flew away. These kinds of tactics, folks, are exactly what is called for.

This is worthy of your support.

If you can somehow find a way to let these guys — the Republicans — know that you are appreciative of what they’re doing, that they’re finally standing up and that they are fighting the Democrat majority on this and taking it to them on an issue that matters greatly to a vast majority of the American people, do it.

I want to congratulate them and encourage them to keep up these kinds of legislative tactics. They’ve been absent for way too long. This is gutsy and it’s courageous, and I will stand with these honorable guys.

It will inspire their voters, it will inspire them, and you can inspire them by letting them know you appreciate what they are doing.

Well, Congress is in recess. (Normally, good news.) They’ll be gone for the rest of the summer. As we approach the fall elections, we should take stock of the enormous benefits that electing a Democrat Congress have brought us.

Their single biggest achievement of the Democrat Congress has been that huge increase in the minimum wage… 30 or 40 cents an hour? A pizza a week? Whatever.

Those extra dimes, no doubt, have saved us all from economic collapse. Now, I know unemployment is edging up as a result of this, but the Democrats can take pride in the fact that fewer people will be driving to work.

Speaking of high energy prices, this Democrat Congress has done what Democrats do, historically: stand in opposition to producing more energy. Rather than debate the merits of drilling for our own oil, Democrats shut down the legislative process — turned off the lights — and then took off on vacation.

They want gas prices to remain high, and they’ve succeeded; so they are to be congratulated.

Democrats also stand firmly in opposition in the area of national security. Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats have given lip service to supporting the troops… while, of course, doing everything in their power to thwart the No. 1 mission — and that’s victory in Iraq.

Yes, our military is thoroughly succeeding despite Democrat obstruction, but Pelosi, Reid & Co. must take credit for their accomplishment: they’ve made every step so much more difficult.

In war and in peace, Democrats are Democrats. The bad news is: this recess is so short — they’ll be back before you know it.

YIPPPEEEEEE!!!!!

Reference:

• The Politico: House Dems Turn Out the Lights but GOP Keeps Talking

You parents who have sent your kids or whose kids are at present in Ivy League schools, you might want to think about the education they’re getting just by listening to BARRY HUSSEIN OBAMA, because he is a walking, talking example of the kind of education you come out of Harvard or any of these Ivy League schools.

This is Obama yesterday at a campaign event in Springfield, Missouri.

OBAMA: We could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and — and — and getting regular tune-ups, you can actually save just as much.

This is unbelievable. My friends, it’s laughable.

But it’s stupid! It is stupid.

How many of you remember the seventies when we had these shortages, all through the Jimmy Carter years? We had all these tips, all these tips on how to save gasoline. Avoid jackrabbit starts, keep your tires properly inflated, and all that. There’s a list about ten or 12 of these things.

Ridiculous.

This is a presidential candidate, and he’s talking about keeping your tires inflated and get’n regular tune-ups? That would save as much oil as drilling would produce?

This guy is the Democrat presidential nominee. Who has filled his head with this stuff?

As you know, the whole tone of the Obama campaign has changed, and it is amazing to see some of the manifestations of this. In Lebanon, Missouri, before getting on his campaign bus, outside a restaurant. He said this to a bunch of reporters.

OBAMA: I don’t pay attention to what John McCain says, although I do notice that he doesn’t have anything very positive to say about himself, does he? He doesn’t — he — he seems to only be talking about me. You need to ask John McCain what he’s for, not just what he’s against.

Whoa, they’re getting testy out there on the Obama campaign! They really are. They’re getting testy. They’re getting defensive out there on all of this — and it’s about time.

This is a specious, vacant campaign. There is no substance in the Obama campaign whatsoever. This is like a campaign totally built on a foundation of celebrity. That McCain ad that that has Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in it, to equate the audience in Germany at the Victory Column to nothing more than American pop culture celebrities, was dead-on right. The Obama cult is nothing more than a celebrity cult, a pop culture celebrity cult based on him being presented as a celebrity, and what does he do? He furthers the notion by having the Entertainment people or whoever did it, come by, and do a television interview with Michelle and the kids and then he grants People magazine access.

He’s on the cover. He’s following the route exactly blazed by people like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. And he’s upset by this. He’s upset that McCain’s called him on this. And this referendum stuff on Obama up or down, the thin skin is starting to show here. And that stupid, stupid, stupid comment, four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline, the Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot (and they may be aiming a little higher) by opposing drilling for oil anywhere new — and Obama tells people to inflate their tires and get tune-ups!

It’s insulting; it is weak. It blows me away, it’s so stupid. It’s so out of touch. For The Messiah to tell people to get their tires inflated so that we don’t have to drill for oil?

You know, the thing that’s happening out there, folks, reality is killing the Democrats.

The race card is a fiction; it’s a distraction from reality. What’s the reality? Obama goes on this summer intern tour, when he goes to Germany, speaking to 200,000 Europeans, he trashes his own country. He canceled a scheduled visit with wounded American soldiers. He hinted to minority journalists that reparations may be needed to make the US a more perfect union. He has carried himself around as an arrogant, elite, out-of-touch politician who looked down his nose at voters and told them to put air in their tires to deal with four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline.

Of course he gotta throw down the race card. He’s having a very bad few weeks here, folks. He’s supposed to be burying McCain. Instead, McCain is picking up ground, in some polls leading, and in Florida and Ohio the race is pulled even, according to polling data. So he throws the race card.

By the way, contrast something. President Bush at a recent press conference, a reporter, stood up,

“Mr. President, Mr. President, are you going to advise the people to drive their cars less and to get smaller cars?”

BUSH: “No, I’m not going to do that, they’re adults. They know what to do to save money. They know what to do to deal with this. I’m not going to tell people how to live their lives, they’re adults.”

Contrast that with Obama.

Obama: “Put the right amount of air in your tires and get tune-ups, and we will not have to drill for oil.”

Black and white difference, ladies and gentlemen, between the Democrats and the Republicans, and that’s not a racist comment when I say black and white difference.

The Drive-Bys know that there’s trouble in paradise.

Obama, somewhere, making a campaign appearance, and the Democrats are back to blaming Big Oil. They just last week, it was the spectators, now they’re back to blaming Big Oil. They are fit to be tied, fit to be tied over Exxon’s profits, $11.7 billion, whatever it was. They’re mad as hell.

Obama’s sitting there saying,

“We don’t need to give them any more tax breaks! We’re through giving them tax breaks! We gotta stop! We gotta stop having an energy policy that works for Big Oil. We need an energy policy that works for you.”

Please, please, remind them how to deal with these Exxon profits: proper inflated tires! Please, Obama, tell your audience to inflate their tires and get tune-ups.

Hahahahahahaha… ROFL…

He’s a comedian not a candidate…