Certainly in different aspects, I believe there has been some policy uncertainty. The president’s position from going back to 2007 was, at a time when we don’t have money, it doesn’t make sense to give up trillions of dollars to keep high income tax rates the lowest they’ve been in 65 years. One argument you could say is, well, that adds uncertainty.
— Austan Goolsbee, chief economist, President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, CNBC

Ya think?

Sound familiar…?

You know how I feel about Ron Paul, but this pic is priceless

In yet another ongoing attempt to divert attention to the real issue, President Obama blames Republicans and the “Do-nothing Congress” for the numerous continuing resolutions needed to avert government shutdowns. The problem is the Harry Reid-Democrat-led Senate hasn’t done their job in years.

Over the years I’ve documented many cases of Democrats behaving badly while news accounts of their indiscretions neglected to identify their party affiliation as vigorously as they would had that person been a Republican, if at all. Kyle Keady is the latest and most glaring of examples….

The former Town Administrator for the Town of Shirley pleaded guilty to charges that he illegally recorded conversations and secretly photographed and videotaped his fellow town employees.

It gets worse from here.

The investigation revealed that on over a hundred occasions, the defendant illegally recorded conversations and secretly took video recordings of other town employees by using recording devices that included video cameras and a baby monitor. These devices were hidden in pens and a plant in various offices and rooms in Town Hall. Authorities also discovered that the defendant had taken a pen that contained a video camera and hid it in the ceiling directly above a bathroom stall in the women’s bathroom in Town Hall where he recorded numerous women. The investigation also revealed that on four occasions, he had broken into the home of one of the town employees.

The media wants to know why their subscription and ratings are down? Look into the selective non-disclosure of party affiliation in their reporting and you’ll see why. While I’ve been unable to verify Keady’s party affiliation, based on past experience, had he been a Republican (or even an independent), we’d have heard about it long ago and nationally.

January 24, 2012 — Saturday was the first-in-the-South primary for the Republican presidential hopefuls with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich coming out on top with 40.4 percent of the vote. Mitt Romney finished second with 27.8 percent and Rick Santorum received 17 percent. The race is down to the final four with the crucial state of Florida being the site of the next primary. Glenn McCall, national committeeman for the South Carolina GOP, and Bob Parks, creator of BlackandRight.com and formerly a key figure in the Massachusetts Republican Party, discuss the latest in the Republican race.

Regardless of his very irritating cable news pundit persona, Michael’s a very nice guy.

President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address again rated at an 8th grade comprehension level on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test — the third lowest score of any State of the Union address since 1934.

Now the question should be if the Address was dumbed down so the American people could understand it or Obama could approve it?

1000 Days Later
What is so special about April 29, 2009? It’s the last time Congress passed a budget. 1000 days later, we are still operating without any plan. With President Obama in the White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the power to implement any budget they chose. Unfortunately, they punted on their responsibilities….

Seeing how Harry Reid refuses to pass a budget through the Senate, I wonder who will be blamed during the State of the Union address THIS time?

Couple found love at Occupy Boston
The Boston Globe just left the insignificant Level 3 sex offender detail out. No biggie

I just received an email from a fellow B&R reader.

Bob,
My mom died January 13, 2011 and I’m concerned about what I found on line thru Spokeo.com. She was a white female in her mid 80′s when she died and voted Republican all her life. Now that she has passed according to Spokeo.com she is an African-American and registered Democrat. She resides in 4 different locations and 4 different districts too. Her name was Geneva Evans, she died in a nursing home here in Wheeling, WV.

I wonder if this is why Democrats are so concerned about black people and voting?

If anyone out there knows of how this lady’s mother can have her name cleared, please let us know. It’s not like we can depend on the Attorney General to clear this up….

Still, while racism persists on the right – witness Newt Gingrich’s slurs about the NAACP and food stamps and his slurring President Obama as “the food stamp president” – it’s remarkable to see how readily conservatives have found a way to blame economically struggling Americans for their own plight, even when most of them are white.

We’ll see if Joan Walsh has the guts to respond.

Canada ain’t much better than we are down here….

It would appear (depending on where you live) that fewer things are considered bad behavior.

Greek disabled groups are angry at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.

But the Labor Ministry on Monday said categories added to the expanded list — that also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists — were included for purposes of medical assessment and used as a gauge for allocating financial assistance.

So, not only are child molesters, flashers, and thieves now considered “disabled”, but they actually get subsidized. The fact that Greece is broke may mean there’s a whole lot more of this kind of behavior than the rest of the world (that’s bailing them out) knows.

10 Insanely Overpaid Public Employees
Where are those selective Occupiers when you need ‘em?
(Check your blood pressure before proceeding further…)

Given the nation’s fiscal state, I guess this was only a matter of time.

Eighty-five Illinois Lottery winners last week probably thought they were lucky — until they tried to cash in their winnings, that is.

Two days after Christmas, Maureen Furio of Lake Zurich bought an instant scratch-off ticket and won $1000. The next day, she got a check from the lottery. “I deposited it the same day and went ahead and paid some extra Christmas bills,” Furio says. “And Jan. 3, it bounced.”

Okay, let’s say this happened in a state where one of the Republican presidential candidates came from. Just what do you think the media would be saying…?

h/t @oddlysaid

If this is your typical on-the-sidelines Occupy supporter, they’re even dumber than we thought

It’s unfortunate that the Bureau of Labor Statistics may have been politicized and the media may be dutifully repeating fudged numbers to protect a certain preferred candidate.

It won’t surprise anyone that as of December, the real implied unemployment rate was 11.4% (chart) – basically where it has been ever since 2009 – and at 2.9% delta to reported, represents the widest divergence to reported data since the early 1980s. And because we know this will be the next question, extending this lunacy, America will officially have no unemployed, when the Labor Force Participation rate hits 58.5%, which should be just before the presidential election.

Funny how we hear how better the economy is doing, however the people we talk to on the street say otherwise.

Maybe the media should dig up a few of the chicks this guy may have spent some of this cash on.

DC Councilman Harry Thomas, Jr., Resigns, Due In Court For Embezzlement And Tax Fraud Friday
WASHINGTON (WUSA) — Former D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. is due in federal court later this morning. He’s expected to plead guilty to stealing more than $350,000 in government funds and filing false tax returns for three years. Thomas is accused of using the money for his own personal gain, such as lavish vacations, fancy cars and a motorcycle.

Again, if Thomas was a Republican, we’d know it.

I admit to being clouded by the fact Rick Santorum is one obnoxious Steeler fan.

King Barack’s power grab
The president blames the Democrat-controlled Senate for not confirming his nominee and by pulling this latest end-around has essentially declared war on the Legislative Branch, while creating yet another unaccountable bureaucratic monstrosity.

Next move…?