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I receive a daily email from the Dallas Business Journal with headlines from the local business scene.  You can imagine I was not surprised to see these 2 headlines adjacent to each other in the email:

EFH says air rules could prompt power plant closures

Extreme heat prompts electric grid warning

At a time when we have the electric grid nearly maxed out, the EPA is hammering the electricity providers with its under the radar cap and trade program to shut down those evil coal-fired electricity plants.  All this will do is drive up costs, or to quote then candidate Obama. “Electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket“.  I am not sure how that will help the economoy, but I don’t think that is a concern of this President.

If you are looking for a concise view of why our economy is struggling, the Heritage Foundation has done a concise and spot on analysis located here.

Proposed solutions:

“Those measures include repealing Obamacare, its employer mandates and tax increases; preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide; passing tort reform to reduce the cost of meritless lawsuits; expanding trade agreements; permitting more domestic energy production; and cutting spending to avert massive tax increases.”

Spot on indeed!!

From my friend Karri at imc²:

“If you voted for Obama in ’08 to prove you’re not a racist,
vote for someone else in 12 to prove you’re not an idiot.”

Very well said!!

Who could forget this inane quote from then (thank God) Speaker Pelosi.  Well, now we are finding out.  The AP reported:

President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.

This is what happens when bills are written behind closed doors and rushed through a jury-rigged voting process so that opposition to the bill can not congeal in time to stave off passage.

What happened to the transparency in government, all the negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and all bills will be posted on the internet 5 days before he signs it.  Were those just a few of many broken promises or were they outright lies?

I’m glad President Obama can laugh about unemployment, or wasting $800 BILLION tax dollars.  Excuse me, not tax dollars, DEBT dollars.

The Heritage Foundation has a more comprehensive view on this matter located here.

Grab power, through whatever means available.

After listening to the podcast of Michele Bachman on the Laura Ingraham show where Bachman described President Obama’s professorial pontificating at the big budget summit last week, where he offered no leadership and no solutions, I was reminded of the adage, “Them that can, do.  Them that can’t, teach”.  I thought that described our president perfectly, since he has shown no ability to lead or find solutions, only to propose bi-partisan commissions to develop solutions (which he then ignores), or to throw stones at solutions others have proposed.

However, when I read Hugh Hewitt’s piece at the Washington Examiner about Obama’s Declarant Presidency, it became clear as ever that Barack Hussein Obama is not interested in fixing the economy.  He is not interested in providing leadership to take this great country out of the economic morass we are in.  He is not interested in restoring the United States of America to greatness.  As Dennis Miller would say, he is willing to crash this country on the carrier deck in order to implement his radical views of what this country should be.  He is a far, far left radical ideologue who will and is implementing his radical agenda of single payer healthcare, cap and trade, unfettered unionism, the demise of Israel, open borders, green energy, etc., etc., etc., using all the tools he has available, the foremost of which is government regulation making, whether legal or not.

This is a man who we should have recognized as a socialist when he told Joe the Plumber “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”  He doesn’t understand that this country became great only through the hard work of its citizens who earned their keep in our capitalist system.

We should be very, very afraid of this man’s vision for America and we must do everything we can do to stop him before he is re-elected and consolidates his plans.

It sure didn’t take long for reality to set in. Last week I speculated about a Romney/Bachmann ticket, and earlier this week, that looked pretty good as Romney and Obama polled even in a Rasmussen poll.

However, in the last couple of days I have heard of Romney’s belief that global warming exists and is partially man-made and his continued support for ethanol subsidies.

Sorry Mitt, these unsettling positions, combined with your Romneycare history, cause you to fail my ideological purity test, even grading on a curve.  Its time to look for someone who is above pandering to his audience just so he can get their support.

Can you say Tim Pawlenty?

Check out the Grand Rapids LipDub video.  Some guy came up with the idea to highlight his town of Grand Rapids, Michigan, got the town to buy in and now 3 million folks have seen this.

Makes me proud to say I lived in GR many years ago.

Headline at CNBC:

Many US Employers to Drop Health Benefits: McKinsey

A McKinsey survey of about 1300 businesses has found 30% will definitely or probably stop offering health care coverage for their employees and drop them into the government exchanges.

Can you say “Single Payer”?  Can you say “If you like your current insurance, you WON”T be able to keep it?”

My guess is that this will be a higher % because once significant momentum for dumping employees into the gov’t exchanges is achieved, that will be considered the norm for an employee benefits package and the negative stigma will be removed, thereby hastening the process for other companies to follow suit.  This, in turn, will force the insurance companies to raise rates due to customer losses, forcing more companies into the exchanges.

Key point : “The numbers compare to a Congressional Budget Office estimate that only about 7 percent of employees currently covered by employer-sponsored plans will have to switch to subsidized-exchange policies in 2014, McKinsey said.”  I assume that means that Obamacare will save the U.S. Gov’t even more money!!

Very Nice!

Headline at The Hill:

Daily economic briefings disappear from Obama’s White House schedule

I guess when you are dealing with something of which you have no practical knowledge, nothing your try works, and all your staff are quitting, its better to stick your head in the sand and try to ignore bad news.