It will have to be left to the blogosphere to be the record. AJ Strata details how and why the Obama administration has failed to protect America from radical Islamists. While the Clinton adminstration failed to do more that through prosecutors at the problem, Clinton did not have the national will behind him that came from 9-11. We’ll never really be sure what happened with any clarity regarding Bin Laden as Sandy Berger seems to have destroyed the paper trail.

But now, Democrats have lost credibility with respect to fighting people who’s purpose is to kill as many Americans as they can. Couple that with lost credibilty on the economy and health care.

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Jim Hoft, the talented proprietor of Gateway Pundit, has aan easy to read piece at American Issues Project. Here’s the telling nember on how many jobs Obama and Democrats have killed since January:

The US lost over 2.5 million jobs in the first four months of this year under the Obama Administration. The US economy lost 598,000 jobs in January, 706,000 jobs in February, 742,000 jobs in March, 545,000 jobs in April, 485,000 jobs in May, and 473,000 jobs in June. That’s a total of 3,549,000 lost jobs since the beginning of this year. The US unemployment rate has risen from 7.6 percent to 9.5 percent under Obama, the highest rate in 26 years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, via Sweetness and Light, released a map of the unemployment rate over the last ten years. It’s not pretty. The US has lost 16,000 jobs each day since Democrats passed their non-Stimulus bill, the largest redistribution of wealth from the private sector to government officials in US history. President Obama promised that the unemployment rate would not rise above 8.0 percent with the Stimulus. Today, he says it will climb over 10 percent.

Wow.

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After telling Americans he was supporting Barack Obama on the economy, just six months into his presidency Colin Powell if off the Obama bandwagon.

“I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I’ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all. And we can’t pay for it all.”

H/T to Erick Erickson at
who simply says to Powell:

SUCKERRRRRRRR!

For Powell from me:

FOOL!

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Essentially, all non-tenured teachers are being told they will not be returning next year in Okaloosa County. We go through this from time to time, but with the economy being as bad as it is the cuts sadly serve to increase anxiety for all.

At Crestview High School, on paper we will be losing two Science teachers in my department. One is retiring and the other falls into the three years or less category. To put in in perspective, we are likely to have the same amount of students next year as this one, but there will be 10 less classes. I teach six classes right now – by choice – but have over 30 in each. The number will go up for each teacher.

But we are forced to do things backwards as we have not been told by the state how much funding will be coming on our way. Our union does not believe it will be so bad, but the district is letting teachers know as early as it can nonetheless.

Still this demonstrates the state and local role of education and its implementation. Mandates come down from the federal level, but it is up to states and local school boards to actually get the job done. There’s a disconnect between federal and the state-local combination with the federal mandates currently outweighing in power what’s far beyond the intention of the founding fathers. Its why an untold Jimmy Carter folly was the establishment of the Department of Education. One wonders how much money we’d save with it’s abolishment.

In addition this local problem reveals just how much President Obama’s claim that he’s saved teacher’s jobs. Only if states could actually use stimlus money as they see fit could Obama make this claim.

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From Ace of Spades.

More realize everyday that Obama had no intent of repairing the economy. Instead his actions are turning into the sum of all fears. It’s clear that his intentions for America all along really to turn in into a socialist state favored by all his mentors

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From Capitalism Gone Wild via Atlas Shrugs Without a banking system you don’t have an economy.

We are no better off now than we were three months ago.

Someone threw us in the middle of the Atlantic ocean without a life raft. We are trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there is any chance in the world to swim that far. We don’t know.

Why does it always seem that the names of George Soros and Chuck Schumer come up in situations like this?

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$150 million for honeybee insurance? Are you kidding me?

This bill has been all about party building for DEMs by Obama as a thanks for electing him. Clinton tried the same thing.

Hard core GOP nuts like me were willing to give Obama an opportunity to do what’s right for America, but he chose what is best for the DEM party first. He would have won GOP support with federal funds for real “shovel ready” projects, but less than 20% of the bill is even about infrastructure.

So many of the inclusions are about general bugetary items for established federal institutions and programs and should never have been part of a stimulus package to begin with. Considered singulary by GOP legislators, they may have been voted through as legit budget items. So why the anxiousness by DEMs to move through pork barrel spending that have nothing to do with stimulating our economy?

Obama and his DEM colleagues are not stupid and have to know this.
So whats it really about? Eleven DEMs voted against the Pelosi-Obama bill along with all GOP members of the House. Wouldn’t there have been at least one or two GOP pols who would have felt the Pelosi-Obama package would help the economy?

There are no other reasons except those that serve DEM pols and Obama personally.

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