Will Ferrell as George W. Bush, Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton, Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush, Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter and Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford, and Jim Carrey as Ronald Reagan. The video is directed by Ron Howard.

So we’re now to take financial advise from grossly overpaid actors, many of whom end up broke.

Students at the University of California’s flagship Berkeley campus took to the streets on Friday night, vandalizing university buildings, burning trash cans and clashing with police in the latest expression of frustration over cuts to the educational budget in California.

Now, I’m not an intellectual but I have a question.

While we are talking Berkeley, it’s still a state-run university, thus is subject to the same budget deficit the rest of the state has to deal with (talk to the free-spending Democrats in the California legislature). These students can scream whatever ‘ism’ they want, but the rest of the state won’t suffer so a bunch of spoiled brats can catch a break.

Welcome to the world, kiddies.

A modest job-creation bill advanced in the U.S. Senate on Monday as the chamber’s newest Republican bucked his party and sided with Democrats on a $15 billion package of tax cuts and highway spending. Republican Scott Brown joined four other Republicans, 55 Democrats and two independents to overcome a procedural hurdle that sets up a final vote later this week.

Brown was widely hailed as a conservative hero after his surprise victory in Massachusetts last month gave Republicans enough seats to block most Democratic legislation.

That was the first mistake.

His election prompted President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats to call for increased bipartisanship, and an earlier version of the bill was written with Republican input.

Brown said the bill was not perfect but would help put people back to work. “I hope my vote today is a strong step toward restoring bipartisanship in Washington,” he said in a statement.

As most conservatives know, “bipartisanship” to a Democrat is do it our way. As most conservatives know, “bipartisanship” to a RINO is his or her way of sucking up, no matter what damage it does to the party (or in this case, America).

Walter Williams’ 1985 PBS documentary Good Intentions based on his book, The State Against Blacks (1982). The documentary was very controversial at the time it was released and led to many animosities and even threats of murder. In Good Intentions, Dr. Williams examines the failure of the war on poverty and the devastating effect of well meaning government policies on blacks asserting that the State harms people in the U.S. more than it helps them.

h/t Dan. Good catch

We are seeing many families that never before sought government help. We see a spiral in food stamps, heating assistance applications; Medicaid is skyrocketing. It is truly reaching a stage of being alarming.
— Greg Blass, commissioner of Social Services in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island

During Democrat administrations we very seldom see any news stories about the homeless, but there’s usually always a homeless epidemic depicted in the media while a Republican sits in the White House.

To see this kind of coverage now is a new phenomenon.

Still waiting….

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous compared Senate Republicans with the Dixiecrats who 40 years ago blocked civil rights legislation. “If the Senate Republicans want to kind of keep on using tactics … from the last century that were used against black people in this century, against working people, then we’re going to hold them to account,” he said.

Benjamin Todd Jealous (who is barely black himself) is below the most despicable kind of human being.

His intentional revision of history (just to keep his kiss ass relationship with Democrats and job relevant) is one reason why black people will remain the only people in this country who will never know their history, and that is happening for the worst of partisan, self-enriching reasons.

Aren’t liberals so damn understanding…?

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class
The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families. In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a tax hike by stealth.

Advisory: Backdoor taxes to hit middle class
I guess someone at the White House contacted Reuters and the story got pulled.

There is an upside.

We’ll soon get to a place where Barack Obama (and let me be clear on this) has no more promises left to break.

Ten Months After Stimulus 49 of 50 States Have Lost Jobs
Friday, January 22, 2010
While the White House claims their stimulus bill “has already created or saved up to 2 million jobs,” the table below compares the White House’s recent claims of state-by-state job creation with the actual change in state payroll employment through December 2009, using data announced today by the U.S. Department of Labor.  According to today’s data, 49 States have lost jobs since stimulus was enacted in February 2009.  Only North Dakota and the District of Columbia have seen net job creation, and even those levels fall short of White House claims. To see how stimulus has failed your state, see the table.

Dave Camp, Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Republicans makes a good case and Democrats have a lot of spinning to do.

h/t Amy V

We’ve got to make some decisions here as to what’s in the best interests of our country going forward. And I think the best interest is to invest in education, control these deficits, while at the same time trying to get people back to work.

We’re not going to save our way out of this recession. We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession, and I think most economists know that.
— Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), House Majority Whip

Actually, I don’t think “most economists know that” because I haven’t heard too many publicly advocate the notion you could spend your way out of a recession.

Obviously Congressman Clyburn knows something the economists don’t.

White House advisers appearing on the Sunday talk shows gave three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to President Obama’s Recovery Act.

The discrepancy was pointed out by a Republican official in an email to reporters noting that “Three presidential advisers on three different programs [gave] three different descriptions of the trillion-dollar stimulus bill.”

Valerie Jarrett had the most conservative count, saying “the Recovery Act saved thousands and thousands of jobs,” while David Axelrod gave the bill the most credit, saying it has “created more than — or saved more than 2 million jobs.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs came in between them, saying the plan had “saved or created 1.5 million jobs.”

Without the hubris they all came into town with, discrepancies could have been written off as simple rhetorical symbolism that a lot of jobs were created. But seeing how we were told they were the best and the brightest, mistakes like these show them as the fuck ups they are since their Recovery.gov site can’t give an accurate count.

Obviously, the Democrats’ post-Massachusetts-special election topic will be jobs, but just because the administration says they were created, doesn’t make it so.

These three stooges were just delivering spin, and our parents would have only one assessment of people who can’t get their stories straight.

Air America, the progressive talk radio network, said Thursday that it would cease broadcasting immediately, bowing to what it called a “very difficult economic environment.”

“It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business,” the chair of Air America Media, Charlie Kireker, said in a memorandum.

Their talkers will be fine.

They’ll find a home at MSNBC.

Initial jobless claims unexpectedly rise
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of newly-laid off workers seeking jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, as the economy recovers at a slow and uneven pace.

Layoffs have slowed and the economy began to grow in last year’s third quarter, but companies are reluctant to hire new workers. The unemployment rate is 10 percent and many economists expect it to increase in the coming months.

“reluctant to hire new workers” because employers don’t know who Obama and Pelosi will choose to punish tomorrow. And as far as this being unexpected, the only thing the clueless can count on is the arrogant geniuses running the country blaming it on Bush.

Let’s see how many mouths that feeds.

I’m sure the people who’ve lost jobs since this president was elected are happy to know some of the right people got hooked up.

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

Six million dollars for three jobs.

Is this the change we were promised?

This reminds me of the opening scene of Blazing Saddles…

Taggart: The surveyors say they may have run into some quicksand up ahead. Better check it out.
Lyle: Okay, I’ll send down a team of horses to check out the ground.
Taggart: *Horses*?
[hits Lyle's head]
Taggart: We can’t afford to lose any horses, you dummy! Send over a couple of niggers.

What white Democrat would ever stick his neck out and attempt such potentially suicidal actions as has been demanded by the left of Barack Obama (and they have been very demanding)?

Bill Clinton (early into his first term) wasn’t stupid enough to attempt a takeover of one-sixth of the United States’ economy.

He got his wife to do it.

She was a woman, thus deemed untouchable by the media and opposition. We all know what happened after that and other screw-ups: Democrats lost control of the House and Senate.

No politician was stupid enough to try that again…

We can’t afford to lose any horses, you dummy! Send over a couple of niggers.

Barack Obama’s only crime is that he’s allowed himself to be used by a chicken-shit, white progressive movement that would never politically martyr one of their own to the extent they have this president.

Would Al Gore or John Kerry ever attempt all the things Obama’s supporters have demanded of him in eleven months of his first term? I think not, but as liberals have little respect for black people, it’s no surprise they would use the first black president to get what they want as Barack Obama is less than garbage to them.

Don’t get me wrong; it takes two to tango and they needed to find a black person who was willing to sell his soul (and they did). Barack Obama and his family are living large, a small price to pay for being a willing dupe who’d throw out a long-term future in politics for one short term in the big house. Will he live large later? Sure, he’ll get paid, but for now he’s doing what he’s told, reading what’s written for him to say, and he’ll push the radical agenda as far as he can. The left will play the race card as his cover, and they’ll get their way without losing one prominent white Democrat. At least that was the plan until Pelosi, Reid and others strayed from the playbook.

We can’t afford to lose any horses, you dummy! Send over a couple of niggers.

Look at the last presidential election. Barack Obama told us (for the most part) what he wanted to do, and the patronizing mainstream media lauded him for his courage. How many former presidential candidates ever made the socialist promises Barack Obama did (aside from Dennis Kucinich and Sheila Jackson-Lee types)? And speaking of Sheila Jackson-Lee and Barbara Lee types, the black Democrats who usually get the most attention from the liberal wing are the ones who say and do the most ridiculous things; things very few white Democrat officeholders would in public.

Heard much from Al Franken lately…?

Democrats love using black people. Every two years, Sharpton and Jackson have to remind Democrats not to take the black vote for granted. Every two years, blacks vote 9:1 for Democrats and the same shit they were complaining about two years ago still ain’t fixed. Whether government should be expected to help anyone is a discussion for a later date, but the fact remains liberals don’t respect black people and continue to use them for any political advantage they can get.

We can’t afford to lose any horses, you dummy! Send over a couple of niggers.

However our nation looks a month from now, six months from now, years from now, remember that we’ve seen our nation transformed in a way none of us could ever imagine, and given the way black people are portrayed by the left, no black person will ever be trusted with this kind of power again. Liberals will have gotten their way and they didn’t have to lose any of their horses at all.

They obviously realize just how stupid and inappropriate it is to use their politically correct term, “man made disaster”.

“Black Friday” has been a holiday shopping tradition for years, yet it took Joy Behar to see something in it few others did…

What do they call people who see racial offense when there isn’t any…?

I’m not talking about the now-very cheesy 1968 sci-fi flick that freaked me out as a child.

No, I’m talking about the green slime environmentalists who ridiculed anyone who didn’t get in line and give their homage to the all things green. We were told to conserve, recycle, change our way of life and save the planet. We were told to abide by environmentalist narcissism and buy into the fact that people were more powerful than Mother Nature. We were told we more than capable of destroying something we could never create, and if we didn’t drop everything and go green now, we’d all die horrifying deaths.

(And it’s a real shame we have to rely on foreign press to get information on this scandal.)

We’re talking about people who had no conscience about perpetuating a lie, even when it meant knowingly sending innocent little kids to bed crying, just to be woken by nightmares not based on fact but by a desire to make everyone conform to a way of life the elites wouldn’t live, but all of us would be forced to live under so a few could make serious amounts of money.

Yes, this (in the end) is all about money. It’s quite ironic that the same environmentalists who accuse oil companies of greed, are themselves propagating a scam to make themselves the rule makers of a global warming bank where the rest of us only make forced deposits.

Those of us (previously called deniers) who didn’t get sucked into the sham don’t want to see the world polluted unnecessarily. But we don’t wish to be held hostage to quack science now known to be a lie. Unfortunately, we’re also dealing with people who’ll never admit they were wrong while everything around them points to the fact they were. Just ask those who voted for Barack Obama and are now jobless and broke.

When it comes to global warming and climate change, there are people I just don’t wish to hear from ever again.

GREEN SLIME: AL GORE
If I was an environmental activist, the first tip-off would wouldn’t get in people’s face and debate the issues. This man managed to win a Nobel Peace Prize, Academy and Grammy Award, all without showing any kind of leadership (guts) and take on all comers when it came to defending the planet. He conveniently declared all debate on the matter closed; not because it was but because he was a hustler and a coward.

GREEN SLIME ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND “SCIENTISTS”
I’ve questioned both their knowledge of the topic as well as their motives when after all the years of issuing blame for the impending doom caused by global warming, there’s one thing they consistently omit from responsibility: The Sun.

That immediately told me they weren’t interested in the truth because they blew off the most obvious. A five-year-old could consider The Sun a cause of warming. Full grown environmentalists seemed to lack the common sense of a child, so why would we place the future of our world economy in the hands of these clueless saps?

GREEN SLIME POLITICIANS
Carol Browner of Obama’s EPA doesn’t care about the emails that not only prove the so-called climate scientists fudged their findings towards desirable results, considered destroying evidence sought under the UK Freedom of Information Act, and ostracized anyone who questioned findings they knew were manipulated. It’s more important to move forward with cap-and-trade policies that will cripple the United States economy and make his Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers carbon-credit-trader partners very rich.

Any elected official (given the recent revelations) who recites the global warming-climate change scam should be recalled and/or impeached. The debate is over when it comes to the motives of any politician that pushes this. Either that person is ignorant, arrogant enough to dismiss any chance they were wrong, or have something politically or financially to gain by parroting a lie.

They’ve already forced many communities to separate their garbage into multicolored bins just to make themselves appear “smart”. Such separation is not cost saving, but that makes environmentalists feel good about themselves (and that’s all that matters).

GREEN SLIME HOLLYWOOD ELITES
In their on-going quest to be considered relevant, celebrities have given their time and money to make us more aware of apocalyptic demise they they could never prove. It was all about their being the ones to tell us, and that’s all that need be said on the topic. Very few of Hollywood actors, actresses, singers, producers, and directors have little experience in the scientific community. They consider themselves experts when they play relevant roles or sing of saving the world.

With that, they invade our homes with promotions and expect we should all fall in the environmentalist line because they say so. We may be personally and financially affected by green policies, but the Hollywood elite never seem to be bound by the rules they’d see inflicted on the rest of us. When they tell us to drive little hybrids, they drive drunk down Santa Monica Boulevard in brand new SUVs. While they tell us to conserve electricity, they leave the lights on in their ten-bedroom Bel Air mansions when they go away for a month. While they tell us to fly commercial and leave a smaller carbon footprint, they fly around in private jets because they’re too important to wait in line with the rest of us.

They’ll use more water, power, and leave more waste behind because they believe they’re better than us and deserve those little perks.

GREEN SLIME ENTERTAINMENT
With the revelation that fraudulent science is behind the global warming-climate change scare, I will personally have greater contempt for any network that tints their logos green to remind us that they’re more enlightened than their mere customers.

They should spare us the message programming and public service announcements telling us how to be more responsible wards of our planet, because not only do we know it’s all bullshit, but talking down to us like we’re stupid further repels us from your product.

GREEN SLIME EDUCATORS
These people are even more cowardly than Al Gore.

It’s one thing to try to indoctrinate someone my age about all this global warming crap. Some of us were around when scientists were screaming “global cooling” just a couple of decades ago. Some of us know where to go when it comes to seeking the other side of an argument. But it must take real guts to show elementary school children pictures of polar bears playing on ice sculptures and tell them they’re on melting icebergs and will soon drown.

It must take real guts for teachers to tell high school and college students to go protest on the streets (where they may get arrested), but these teachers are seldom there with their students. It must take real courage to issue one-sided presentations to the very young and impressionable; even more courage to use the authoritative nature of the student-teacher relationship to create little environmentalists base on junk science, just to bolster a political, redistributive agenda.

The days of being guilted green are over (and with a great sense of irony) this battle evolve into a second phase where the believers have become the deniers.

Mr. Teabagger himself now making the rules.

h/t Michael G