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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (154616)	4/6/2013 9:46:40 AM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

George Bush had real crisis to deal with. He didn't create them or encourage the arrival of crisis. For Obama the pandering press will appear little different than the supportive graffiti on the walls of Caligula's empire in histories renderings. Both are famous for tossing the treasury to the streets for popular support, insulting allies , degrading the military around him and throwing lavish personal parties while the empire suffered.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (154616)	4/6/2013 2:33:47 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224729

The More Things Change… …the more they stay the same. Maybe the only real difference between the early 21st and late 18th centuries is that the good guys no longer control the government: The good news is that so long as Henry Waxman is nervous, we still have some freedom to work with.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (154616)	4/6/2013 3:31:11 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224729

‘Billions and Billions and Billions’: Biden Has No Comment on Fisker FailurePosted on \| April 6, 2013 \| 3 Comments and 0 Reactions “This is seed money that will return back to the American consumer in billions and billions and billions of dollars of good new jobs.” – Joe Biden, Oct. 27, 2009 “With the help of UAW lobbying efforts for advanced vehicle manufacturing and federal dollars, the plant will become a production facility for Fisker Automotive, a new American car company that plans to produce 100,000 electric hybrid vehicles per year by 2014. “GM’s former Wilmington [Delaware] assembly plant was selected for its primary global production facility based on its size, production capacity, access to shipping ports and rail lines, and skilled workforce.” – United Auto Workers, February 2010 “Once again, the American public lost when the Obama administration attempted to pick ‘winners and losers’ in the free market. Today the electric car company Fisker Automotive, which received nearly $200 million in taxpayer money, is laying off three-fourths of its U.S. workers.” – Sarah Palin, April 5, 2013 When Democrats piss away taxpayer money on useless boondoggles, they always do so while proclaiming their noble intentions, and the credit they get for their good intentions is sufficient to excuse their failures in the eyes of media stooges who consider it a career duty to help elect Democrats. It was therefore a rare moment in October 2011 when ABC News reported that Fisker — the company that Biden declared would bring automaking jobs back to Delaware — had instead pocketed its taxpayer-subsidized federal loans and was building cars in Finland: But two years after the loan was announced, the company’s manufacturing jobs are still limited to the assembly of the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car in Finland. “There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle,” the car company’s founder and namesake told ABC News. “They don’t exist here.” . . . Fisker Automotive, backed by a powerhouse venture capital firm whose partners include former Vice President Al Gore, predicts it will eventually be churning out tens of thousands of electric sports sedans at the shuttered GM factory it bought in Delaware. Friday, we got the inevitable denouement: Green Jobs: Taxpayer-Funded Fisker Will Lay Off 75% of Workforce Really, this is a drop in the bucket, compared to the “punch to the gut” unemployment situation, for the simple reason that Fisker never employed many Americans: Its U.S. workforce was only 200 people, of whom 160 got laid off Friday. Twitchy is on the story, as are William Teach at Right Wing News, Rick Moran at American Thinker, Paul Swansen at Liberty News and the Washington Free Beacon. Yet when we consider the laudatory media fanfare that accompanied Biden’s 2009 promise of “billions and billions and billions of dollars of good new jobs” for his UAW buddies in Delaware, it’s strange to notice how the usual suspects of liberal journalism show no interest in following up on the story. Has anyone in the White House press corps bothered asking the obvious question?