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A quote often attributed to Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve” may be a message from history that the Progressive movement, led by President Obama, should have listened to.

While President Bush left office with a very low approval rating, primarily driven by an MSM feeding frenzy, his popularity appears to be rebounding quite well after leaving office. A recent Gallup poll shows Obama’s popularity at 52 percent, and George Bush at 45 percent. During Obama’s time in office, his overall popularity has fallen 20 percent, Bush’s has risen by 10. Quite a significant turn around, given Bush finds it necessary to swim against the tide of the MSM, while Obama has them washing his feet. Against all odds, and a very vocal minority, Bush’s star is rising as Obama’s falls.

Also significant :

A prominent Democratic pollster is circulating a survey that shows George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President Obama in “Frontline” districts — seats held by Democrats that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees as most vulnerable to Republican takeover. That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for outright fear.

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To what would we attribute these turnovers in presidential popularity ? It would appear the sleeping giant is awakening in response to Obama’s full frontal assault assault against America.

We have all seen the “Do You Miss Me Yet ?” posters. It would also seem that America’s answer is quickly becoming ‘Hell, Yes!’.

We have all heard repeatedly from the left how our current economic mess is to be blamed on George Bush and the Iraq War. American Thinker points out, that yet again the left is being dishonest :

So the following are facts, based on the government’s own figures.

Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more.

Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.

Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.

Iraq War spending was not even one quarter of what we spent on Medicare in the same time frame.

Iraq War spending was not even 15% of the total deficit spending in that time frame. The cumulative deficit, 2003-2010, would have been four-point-something trillion dollars with or without the Iraq War.

The Iraq War accounts for less than 8% of the federal debt held by the public at the end of 2010 ($9.031 trillion).

During Bush’s Iraq years, 2003-2008, the federal government spent more on education that it did on the Iraq War. (State and local governments spent about ten times more.)

Read article at AmericanThinker.com

According to the CBO, the Obama stimulus will cost us more than the Iraq War. Think about that..

Poll shows more Americans think Obama is a Muslim

The number of Americans who believe — wrongly — that President Obama is a Muslim has increased significantly since his inauguration and now accounts for nearly 20 percent of the nation’s population.
Full story at Washington Post

Suggest they poll again after his recent comments pertaining to the New York mosque.

Taking a cue from John F. Kerry Obama was for the Mosque at ground zero before he was against it.

According to Obama, Americans are mean. According to Obama, we are bigoted. According to Obama, America, once again, is in dire need of a lecture from its betters. Americans are Neanderthals because we are offended by a 130 ft tall monument to the successful murder of 3000 Americans by Islamic Jihadists. We needed to be scolded once again.

Being the weasel that he really is, he is now backpedaling as fast as he can in the face of the righteous indignation of the American people. America is outraged by the monument to Islamic Fascism at ground zero. Americans are not interested in being scolded by the DOTUS. Americans are tired of the mindless politically correct drivel coming from the likes of Obama.

So now Obama is against this Mosque. Having stuck his foot in it, he also stuck his foot in his mouth, and the Apologist in Chief does not like the taste one little bit. It is the taste of a wholesale rejection by the American people in this matter.

From yesterday’s column by Catharine Evans:

Virginia has become the newest target for the Chicago corruptocrats. The Commonwealth recently gained national attention when Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli stood his ground by filing a lawsuit against Obamacare and clarifying the state’s policy on illegal immigration.

The Obama administration is not happy. Like the mob, they can’t go after the state officials, that’s too obvious. They’ll just hit them where it hurts–like laying off innocent constituents in droves. Maybe the sight of 5,000 men and women looking for work in a 9.5% unemployment economy will change Cuccinelli’s mind. The Chicago Four, Michelle, Valerie, Rahm, and Barack are out to teach Virginia a lesson: mess with our Leftist agenda and we’ll get even.

The Obamas seem particularly ignorant of what it is exactly that holds a nation together.

A foreign perspective on the Obama aristocracy:

She really is the modern-day Marie Antoinette.

We are evolving into a nation of moochers, a process which has been apace for years but the twist now is we are mooching off of Americans who do not yet pay taxes and in fact have not yet been born. It is happening at the state level – thank goodness, not so much in mine – but it is the federal government we should all be very concerned about right now. The theft taking place under the Democrats, who have controlled Congress since 2007, and President Barack Obama is unprecedented in its scale.

As Smitty notes in one of the best blog posts I’ve seen in weeks:

Remember, this hairball has been a century in the making, and will, at bare minimum, require a decade of your best effort just to get that hydra chopped down to something reasonably un-lethal. Incumbency is the enemy. We The People can either rule, or enjoy slavery.

Go read it all, read it again, and then get your game face on for the campaign season which is about to begin.

Our focus must be 100% on the Democrats in public office who are pushing us further into debt slavery.

Just some recent examples to highlight the absurd level of heedlessness these larcenists are operating at:

- $23 million to promote abortion in Kenya.
- $192 million on signs promoting the utterly failed $797 billion “stimulus” boondoggle.
- $22 million to provide high-tech training … to workers in South Asia.
- And now they are poised to steal billions more to reward reckless borrowers in mortgages they can’t afford. You and your children and grandchildren will be paying the moochers’ bills.

This is all being financed with money our country does not have – debt imposed on future generations.

The federal government is filthy with programs we cannot afford and institutions which never should have existed in the first place. There needs to be a housecleaning of Robespierrian proportions, a slash-and-burn campaign on the federal budget. The federal government is meant to provide national security: Everything else should be on the chopping block. Our rule of thumb going forward should be “take it over and shut it down.”

Those who pay for the government must be in charge of the government. Those people, companies, industries and factions who are financially supported by it will receive only what we decide to give them.

To be sure, it has taken both Democrats and Republicans to get us into this mess. A bipartisan line of personages stretching from decades in the past up to the present day deserve a pox on their houses. We can’t separate all the wheat from the chaff along party lines. So if the Republicans currently holding office and the ones we will be putting in office from 2010 through 2014 do not take immediate action to reverse the criminal direction of the federal government we need to end their political careers with extreme prejudice. But let’s face it, the GOP is our only hope. Republicans certainly contributed to our precarious financial situation but Democrats have taken the theft to an entirely new level and one from which our nation may never be able to recover.

It should be more than evident simply by who brought us Obamacare and who did not which party needs to be chastened and which one needs to be tossed in the dustbin of history.

Anyone with the gall to run for public office under the Democrat party banner must be laughed out of all public forums and if they will not slink from the stage they must be shamed and scorned, because they no longer deserve to show their faces in civil society. This cabal of Democrat office holders is guilty of the attempted murder of American liberty. Their misdeeds must be memorialized in perpetuity so the destructive path of our current federal government is never taken again. Having a “D” after your name should be treated as the equivalent of membership in Cosa Nostra and assigned a similar degree of respect in American public life.

There are many problems facing our country and voters are motivated by different concerns, but the threat which should have our laser focus is the one that is in the process of turning us into a third-world nation over the next 20 years. Debt slavery should have every American’s attention. Those who will do the hard work of liberating us should have our undying support. The primary racketeers – elected Democrats, public employee unions, ACORN spin-offs and all the other leftist organizations – are threats to our nation’s future and should be viewed with all appropriate seriousness.

And what they are talking about is not the philosophical kind:

Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily.

Barack Obama, however, has pulled off the ultimate switcheroo: He’s diminishing America from within — so far, successfully.

He may soon bankrupt us and replace our big merit-based capitalist economy with a small government-directed one of his own design.

He is undermining our constitutional traditions: The rule of law and our Anglo-Saxon concepts of private property hang in the balance. Obama may be the most “consequential” president ever.

The Wall Street Journal’s steadfast Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that Barack Obama is “an alien in the White House.”

His bullying and offenses against the economy and job creation are so outrageous that CEOs in the Business Roundtable finally mustered the courage to call him “anti-business.” Veteran Democrat Sen. Max Baucus blurted out that Obama is engineering the biggest government-forced “redistribution of income” in history.

Etc. That’s not to mention the sheer incompetence of this administration which has led to things like the BP oil spill – more a result of Obama being a bumbling oaf, i.e. defunding the Coast Guard, than evil intent, but as they say in the movie, stupid is as stupid does. What is the next stupid thing he is going to do, and what will be the result of that one?

As the IBD authors say, “The overgrown, un-pruned power of the presidency to reward, punish and intimidate may now be so overwhelming that his re-election in 2012 is already assured — Chicago-style.” Can we allow that to play out?

Two images from June 2, 2010

While U.S President Barack Obama, the biggest recipient of BP Oil cash, has been partying into the night, the residents of our Gulf Coast have been pleading for help.

Attention American schoolchildren – this is Business 101: Here is what happens when you put a “community organizer” in an executive position:

First, the bad news is hidden from public view.

Why? Well, because stupid is as stupid does.

For example: While thousands are willing to help solve the problem, the Obama administration takes the weekend off and insists everyone else do likewise.

This is how non-managers deal with a managerial problem: They dither, they delay, they do not make decisions. In the meantime, the disaster continues apace.

The state of Arizona has tried to solve a problem on its own, and the Obama administration is going to sue them for it. Bad managers do not solve a problem but only make it worse.

In the Gulf region, local firefighters are eager to help keep oil from reaching their shores. While the federal government is taking a long weekend, and considering lawsuits against the states, these volunteers are being told to stand down.

Hixon said fire chiefs offered BP equipment and knowledge and, in return, asked for the chemical make-up of leaking materials “so we could train our people to safely handle it, but we got no response whatsoever.” County chiefs became frustrated at the lack of unified command and the disregard for local resources, including boats and crews who have knowledge of the area’s waterways.

“You can’t plan on how to boom off an area from an office 50 miles away looking at a map,” he said. “It just won’t work.”

By the way: While these concerned citizens were being held back from attacking the oil spill, President Barack Obama was playing golf … again.

We can only wonder how long it will be before the Obama administration decides to sue them.

UPDATE: Captain Kickass rates low confidence in Democrat-skewed poll. I think if most people had any awareness of how long the Democrats have controlled Congress the ratings would be even lower.

So just like O.J. Simpson’s quest to find the “real killers” by sauntering from country club to country club, U.S. President Barack Obama has been hot on the trail, from golf course to evening soiree, for ass-kicking over the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe.

Here is a lesson: When a guy goes from academia to community organizer to junior senator, he has yet to hold a real job where management comes into play. Electing said guy to a CEO-level position is likely to expose some weaknesses which would have been evident if he had been obligated to run a lemonade stand or car wash first. Alas, we held Barack Obama to no such standard, and look what it got us. Captain Kick-Ass. Yeah, he has kicked some ass. Mainly those who will be affected by the Gulf oil spill.

The Coast Guard said there have been 107 offers of help from 44 nations, ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been accepted, with the vast majority still under review, according to a list kept by the State Department.
And in recent days and weeks, for reasons BP has never explained, many fishing boats hired for the cleanup have done a lot of waiting around.
A report prepared by investigators with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., detailed one case in which the Dutch government offered April 30 to provide four oil skimmers that collectively could process more than 6 million gallons of oily water a day. It took seven weeks for the U.S. to approve the offer…
The frustration extends to the volunteers who have offered to clean beaches and wetlands. More than 20,000 volunteers have signed up to help in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, yet fewer than one in six has received an assignment or the training required to take part in some chores, according to BP.
The executive director of the Alabama Coastal Foundation, Bethany Kraft, said many people who volunteered are frustrated and angry that no one has called on them for help.
“You see this unfolding before your eyes and you have this sense that you can’t do anything,” she said. “To watch this happen in our backyard and not be able to help is hard.”

Here is what a community organizer gets you, America: pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

Each morning seems to bring a new fool’s errand. On June 18, for example, the U.S. Coast Guard apprehended a dozen oil-skimming barges in the midst of performing their duty, and shut down their operations for the rest of the day in order to determine if they were carrying the proper number of life preservers and fire extinguishers. If the Coast Guard was so worried about safety, why not simply take a big pile of life preservers and fire extinguishers out to these craft and hand them around, so that the skimmers could keep at their essential job?

It took 70 days for the Barack Obama administration to consider foreign offers of help. 70 days of Barack Obama looking in the mirror, practicing his lines on “the problems we inherited.” 70 days of millions of gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. 70 days of a community organizer, slacking in the CEO chair.

UPDATE: Team Obama Now Strong-Arming Outspoken Politicians & Detaining Reporters Near Oil Spill

UPDATE II: Who elected this dipshit anyway?

Why the hell did I not think of this.

On a similar note, however, I do have some t-shirt ideas ….

UPDATE: “Captain Kickass” is on TV tonight. It is at 8 pm. Here is my advice: Do not watch this dipshit and do not allow your children to watch. It is mind pollution. At the same time you can watch Deadliest Catch on Discovery or Man v Food on Travel or Ace of Cakes on Food Network. Or just leave the TV off.

UPDATE II: How “Community Organizer” prepares one to be “Chief Executive.”

Oh my, R.S. The things you find.

Content warning, and you must watch to the very end to get the full message.

Writing is on the wall for DOTUS.

I think we should all be able to agree on one point of fact: Barack Obama is presiding over the most secretive, corrupt and incompetent presidency in American history. In addition, by virtue of his complete lack of managerial experience, he is the least qualified individual to ever hold the office.

These propositions seem so obvious at this point I believe discussion is unnecessary. However, since we have been in a state of semi-hiatus here at NVTH, with just a few of us posting periodically, I would like to propose that the title of this post become a theme for future work – especially as we approach the 2010 elections.

Understanding and explaining history usually requires some sort of “model” or prism through which analysis is conducted. I think this should be ours. Thank you; please enjoy the remainder of this Memorial Day weekend.

As oil begins to wash up on the shores of Key West, it seems reasonable to ask whether the huge amounts of cash our president has received from BP have had any influence on the U.S. government’s hands-off approach to the environmental catastrophe during its initial days.

For instance, why did the White House acquiesce in allowing BP to refuse to release video of the oil spewing from the well for three weeks? We all know by now everything Obama promised in terms of government transparency was a big fat lie, but it could be assumed this was due to the sheer incompetence of the man. He did not know what he was talking about on the campaign trail. However this episode pushes to the outer limits of malfeasance. The White House had the video of the unfolding epic disaster but helped cover it up.