Obama Gives Himself a 'Good Solid B+'

Perhaps Obama is grading himself on a curve - which compared to his cabinet of tax evading, unqualified cronies - would MAYBE get him a B +

National Energy Tax passed House - 50%
Government Health Care passed House - 50%
Close Guantanamo - Incomplete
End the Iraq/Afghanistan wars - Incomplete

SHOCKING - He blames his low personal score on the fact that he inherited so many problems from the previous administration. When doe he have to stop blaming Bush and take the responsibility for his own failure in creating jobs and getting the economy moving??

Happy Jobs Summit Day

When times are tough - wants the best solution? Get together and talk about the problem, but don't announce any solutions. We wouldn't want that kind of sensitive material about how Obama plans to create jobs, to leak out before we truly need the jobs.

Today President Obama convenes plenty of politicians of his lockstep politicians as well as labor bosses and academics. After 10 months and the authorization of $787 billion in government spending, the economic policies of the White House and the Democratic Congress have failed. 15.7 million Americans are out of work, 3.2 million of them since the stimulus was first passed in February. Unemployment, at 10.2 percent, is higher than the President promised it would be if he did nothing. The Obama-Pelosi-Reid economic policies are hurting, not helping.

When will the President learn that we're sick and tired of his lofty rhetoric - it's time for him to develop real solutions. Don't just throw money at the problem with another stimulus, it clearly didn't work the first time.

Stimulus II Doomed?

Remember when President Obama passed the $1 trillion stimulus plan - promising that this would keep unemployment below 8%?

Well now unemployment is at 10.2% AND following Obama's early Dec. jobs summit - there's word that he pay try to pass another stimulus/recovery package.

This news is a little startling when the recovery.gov website is reporting money spent and jobs saved in Congressional districts that don't exist.

Check out this video for more info:

Cash for Clunkers - a real lemon

"There can be no doubt that this program drummed up more business, for more people, in more places at a time when our economy needed help the most," said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood

The Cash for Clunkers program helped consumers who turned in gas guzzlers buy nearly 700,000 more fuel efficient vehicles in fewer than 30 days. Sounds good right?

WRONG! A report by automotive Web site Edmunds.com says the program actually cost taxpayers $24,000 per car sold. Only 18%, of the sales were additonal to normal car buying trends -- the remaining 82% of sales would have happened regardless of the program.

Obama and the Democrats chose to add another $3 billion to their spending spree to help out 125,000 people. $24,600 per car = the average $4,000 rebate the customer got? Sounds like fuzzy math to us

The Change We Deserve

CBS' Mark Knoller tweeted yesterday that President Obama has tied President Bush for the number of rounds of golf played while in office: 24. Only troubling thing, President Bush took 2 years and 10 months while Obama has managed to find the time in just 10 months.

What happened to the current health care crisis in America, the H1N1 National Emergency, the less than 3 months he's given himself to close Gitmo and move its dangerous detainees to our backyards. What about his pledge to end the war - instead he's decided to simply leave our troops in harms way in Afghanistan, delaying a decision on the requested troop surge.

Perhaps he thinks since he's already won the Noble Peace Prize his work is finished. Any other ideas on a better way for Obama to spend his time? Playing with his kids, fundraising for ACORN, appointing CZARS, campaigning for Democrats in NJ and VA?

Common Sense of the Day

This takes the cake for its simplicity, brevity, and Kansas common sense.

"I look at this health care plan. I see nothing that is about health or about care. What I see is - What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, Senator. Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke. And you want us to believe that a government that can't even run a cash for clunkers program is going to run 1/7 of our U.S. economy. No, sir. No."

• Concerned citizen at a town hall with Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA)