Obama and the Money …..the Sleaze Continues

Another Obama crony.

Missouri stimulus beneficiary hosting

a $25,000-a-head fundraiser for Obama

Against the backdrop of the Solyndra bankruptcy, what might have seemed innocuous a few months ago seems more than a little sketchy now.

Tom Carnahan is at the helm of Wind Capital Group, an investment firm that received a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his home state of Missouri. In October, he’s scheduled to host a $25,000-per-person fundraiser to aid Obama’s reelection effort.

Politico, with more:

Republicans argue that it’s inappropriate for the Obama campaign to raise money from a donor who has benefited directly from the Recovery Act.

Missouri Republican Party executive director Lloyd Smith compared the situation to the Solyndra affair, in which the Obama administration reportedly rushed federal support to a green-energy firm that subsequently collapsed.

“At a time when Barack Obama is under fire for steering hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds to a failed company linked to a major campaign donor, it is stunning that he would come to Missouri and raise money with another recipient of stimulus cash,” Smith said in a statement to POLITICO. “Sadly, Missourians have come to expect this kind of pay-to-play from the Obama administration. November 2012 can’t come soon enough.”

Which came first — Carnahan’s support for Obama or his receipt of a substantial federal subsidy? Either way, it doesn’t really matter. It’s inevitable, with how much money Obama’s administration dispenses through swollen government programs, that some of it will go to former donors — or that it will convert some would-be apathetics into enthusiastic Obama supporters. But, while donors shell out their own cash to help the Obama campaign, he’s able to return the favor only with taxpayer dollars. In other words, they play; we pay.

It’s to be expected that voters will support the candidate whose policies most benefit them — and maybe Carnahan supports Obama because, to him, the stimulus worked. But we’re talking about direct infusions of cash in both directions here. As Smith implied, it just smacks of the crony capitalism we’ve seen on a grander scale with Solyndra and LightSquared. And “crony capitalism” — like class warfare — makes for poor economics. Put simply, picking winners and losers doesn’t work — except politically.”

 

The above article was sent to me by Lisa Rich.   She did not identify the author.

More about Obama’s Bridge…..the one over the Ohio River

A bridge too far

by Scott Johnson at PowerLine:

“President Obama made an appearance yesterday at the Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati to promote his “jobs” (i.e., tax) bill. The bridge was intended to symbolize Republican opposition to Obama’s bill, though the bill hasn’t proved to be a big hit with Democrats in the Senate either. The bridge spans the Ohio River separating Ohio, home of House Speaker John Boehner, from Kentucky, home of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The bridge was also intended to be symbolic of the good works that Obama’s bill will perform. Shovel-ready jobs, infrastructure, (union) jobs, an economy that lasts, and all that.

Here is the text of Obama’s speech. Here is the White House account of Obama’s appearance. Here is the video of Obama’s speech (and it is worth watching).

A conventional news account of Obama’s appearance captures his themes:

Standing before an aging bridge that links the home turfs of top Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama touted his $447 billion jobs bill Thursday as a way to help repair the nation’s infrastructure.

Obama called out by name Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, as he spoke near the Brent Spence Bridge that carries Interstates 75 and 71 over the Ohio River.

“Mr. Boehner, Mr. McConnell, help us rebuild this bridge,” Obama said. “Help us rebuild America. Help us put this country back to work. Pass this jobs bill right away.”

Andrew Malcolm recounts the facts that belie Obama’s themes:

You know all those rusting bridges that President Obama wants to spend billions more dollars repairing to allegedly stimulate the economy?

He’s headed out to one today which he’s described as a “bridge that needs repair between Ohio and Kentucky that’s on one of the busiest trucking routes in North America.” It is on a busy trucking route, spanning the Ohio River between Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati.

It’s the Brent Spence Bridge. It doesn’t really need repairs. It’s got decades of good life left in its steel spans. It’s just overloaded. The bridge was built to handle 85,000 cars and trucks a day, which seemed like a lot back during construction in the Nixon era.

Today, the bridge sort of handles more than 150,000 vehicles a day with frequent jam-ups.Obama speaks to the American Legion 8-30-11

So, plans are not to repair or replace the Brent Spence Bridge. But to build another bridge nearby to ease the loads.

But here’s the problem, as John Merline graphically notes here, that could screw up all those envisioned photo op shots of the Democrat and the traffic:

The president’s jobs bill is designed for “immediate” highway spending.

And the new $2.3 billion Cincy bridge is not scheduled to even start construction for probably four years, long after Republicans have scheduled the Obama presidency for completion.

And without delays, it wouldn’t be finished until 2022, when no one will be counting Obama’s rounds of golf.

The bridge itself doesn’t actually need repairs.

In other words, the bridge is indeed symbolic. It is symbolic of Obama’s demagogy, his loose way with facts, his profligacy with public funds, his cluelessness about job and wealth creation. “Pass this bill”? Pass this gas is more like it.”

Comment:   One wonders if Mr. Obama is simply a stooge, a suit, a mouthpiece pushed around by crowds of George Soros people.   One can understand his lack of knowledge, protocol, history, and things American.   Mr. Obama is a stranger away from the thick walls at university  which cause academia to spread so many diseases.

It is difficult to know much about Obamapotential.   It is so deeply hidden in his Marxist religion.

Make your own lists of Obamalese…..the New Marxist America’s Language in the Era of Change

KNOWING OBAMA, AMERICA’S SAVIOR- THE MESSIAH OF CHANGE, BETTER

Anthony Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times in a recent article,  listed a few of the new ‘Truths’ expressed in Obamalese, the new, more modern American English to welcome in the Nation’s Marxist Era:

1.  Abraham-Come-Lately Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party.

2.   Navy corpseman.

3.  the Austrian language.

4.  Fifty-seven states.

5. The president of Canada.

The collection is endless if one reads the president’s oral oracles.  Make you own lists for you will not find them in the Obama National Press…List the sillies made by this Barack Hussein Obama, the geatest American orator……the Gettysburg Address explainer of  his 22 year attachment to Jeremiah ‘Goddamn America’ Wright’s “Church” of black racism……the orator TOO SMART to be understood by the common American….TOO LOFTY to be questioned by mere mortals……this Marxist who promised CHANGE  and got Millions to buy America in 2008 by dressing neatly and wooing women and impressing thoughtless people……led by college graduates.

Obama, Keystone Cop, at the Railroad Bridge Pulls another DUMMY

New gaffe:

Obama hails America’s historic building

 of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad’

by Andrew Malcolm    at the Los Angeles Times

“We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad,” Barack Obama.

That’s what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge.

A railroad between continents? A railroad from, say, New York City all the way across the Atlantic to France? Now, THAT would be a bridge!

It’s yet another humorous gaffe by the Harvard graduate, overlooked by most media for whatever reason. Like Obama saying Abraham-Come-Lately Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party. Or Navy corpseman. Or the Austrian language. Fifty-seven states. The president of Canada. Etc.

If you talk as much as this guy likes to talk instead of governing, if you believe you are a Real Good Talker as much as this guy does, you’re gonna blow a few lines. But this many?

No doubt, we’ll see a collection of Obama’s Best Bombs on ‘Saturday Night Live’ this weekend, one right after the other. No doubt.

The Democrat had traveled to Ohio on Thursday to tout his American Jobs Act, the….

…$447-billion boondoggle he proposed to a joint session of Congress this month because his previous $787-billion boondoggle didn’t create anywhere near as many jobs as Joe Biden had promised.This president is in a jam. The economy sucks. Unemployment sucks. His job approval sucks and his economic approval sucks worse. Independents have abandoned the flailing White House occupant, so are some Jews, liberals and even blacks. His Hollywood bundlers had trouble selling out the POTUS fundraisers in L.A. next week.Obama’s own Democratic Party controls the Senate and won’t put their leader’s jobs bill on the schedule because more wild spending like this doomed bill could also doom some Dem senators next year.

So here’s how the ex-state senator from the Chicago machine reacts: At an operating cost of $181,000 per hour, he flies Air Force One nearly four hours roundtrip for 17 minutes of remarks touting infrastructure repairs by a bridge that doesn’t need them.

The real reason he’s at the Brent Spence Bridge is because it links the home states of both congressional Republican leaders, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. So Obama can cutely blame Republicans for holding up his jobs bill, even though it’s Nevada Democrat Harry Reid.

Obama turns the empty rhetoric into a pep rally for himself, leading the obedient audience to chant, “Pass this bill! Pass this bill!”

This guy, who will ride around in Secret Service SUVs for the rest of his life, has this thing for railroads that other people should ride in. So, according to the White House transcript (scroll down for full version and related stories), here’s what passes for Obama leadership:

Now, we used to have the best infrastructure in the world here in America. We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad, the Interstate Highway System. We built the Hoover Dam. We built the Grand Central Station.

So how can we now sit back and let China build the best railroads?  And let Europe build the best highways?  And have Singapore build a nicer airport?

Quick question: Has anyone ever heard any American express jealousy over Singapore’s sweet airport?

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Will Chris Christie Decide to Defeat Marxist Obamarule?

 All ‘three’ of my friends along with everyone else who knows my politics know that my American hero in politics is Chris Chritie, Governor of New Jersey.   He is that wonderful traditional American….the anti Obama’s Marxism man who does not pretend his Christianity, his Americanism and love of country, his respect for democracy, his devotion to honesty, and playing life above and not BELOW the table.

 

Mr. Christie is the antiObama in every essential respect.   He is a problem-solver, not a curtain hanger.    He seems to be able to cut through the political, cultural, educational, financial and other fogs that blind so many players in the American government game.

 

I believe he also knows that the basis for any successful democracy  is compromise where compromise is possible, meaning NO compromise when the American foe is Marxism, the progressive dream of One Party always progressing toward  Progressive Rule to create a  government big enouth to oppress the people by fiat from Progressives’ bureaucrats.  Today it is called Obamarule.

 

There can be no compromise which carves  up  traditional American democratic life to provide comfort and goods for Leninist gods on Obama’s left hand.

 

I see no conservative on the front lines at this point who are  as devoted to a belief  in American democracy as Barack Hussein Obama’s devotion to a  Progressive March to Marxism……………They do seem to be good people…..but I an worried about their beat Marxism abilities.

 

 

I do like Mitt Romney and Rick Perry,  the two best from  this fraternity.   I’d prefer Mitt for his potential to beat Barry’s one topic class warfare blab with  well organized coverage of the real problems with real answers, very business like.   I’d prefer Rick Perry because he has been Governor of Texas, is winsome if left alone to his own, not his advisors, talents, and because he seems to be a live, honest-to-goodness  American who can solve problems.  People will like him as a guy.

 

But, Chris Christie is my favorite American politician, as long as he can treat the president with the same approach   as he has  taken toward  many of the Lefty New Jersey entitlement  phonies who have been blasting Mr. Christie for three years now, only to have been put in their places  honestly, forcefully, and with guts and skill by a man who clearly knows American right from wrong.

 

But, as you all know, Mr. Christie has refrained from this larger task at hand……saving the Nation as well as New Jersey from Marxist Obamarule.

 

Yet, there is still time…..Maybe?   Could he?   Will he?

Another Christie fan, Mark Waldeland sent me the following article which suggests that this whale of a man might be reviewing something reviewable.  Where there is life, there is HOPE.

Our America needs a Chris Christie to lead a whale of a movement to return to the Peoples’ America, not the Obama America of Marxist Government Rule.

 

Chris Christie Reconsidering 2012 Run,

Will Decide in Days

 

Friday, 23 Sep 2011 05:10 PM

By Jim Meyers  at Newsmax.com

“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is reconsidering his decision not to enter the 2012 presidential race — and he says he will let top Republican donors know within days about his plans, Newsmax has learned.During the past few weeks, several leading Republican donors and fundraisers have been urging the popular Republican governor to reconsider his decision not to run and to enter the GOP primary.These Christie supporters note that significant GOP support has remained on the sidelines of the primary fight. Many leading fundraisers have yet to commit to any current primary contender, including frontrunners Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.Newsmax has learned that the effort to draft Christie culminated in a hush-hush powwow held in the past week with Christie and several notable Republican billionaires.A source familiar with the meeting suggested that Christie seemed inclined to enter the race but said he needed more time.Christie promised to make a final decision “within two weeks,” the source said.

Another source involved in GOP fundraising tells Newsmax that that uncommitted fundraisers and donors have been receiving phone calls from top political aides to Christie, seeking their feedback about his possible entry into the race.

Earlier this week Christie hinted at the effort to draft him when he spoke at a special forum that included Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Christie suggested to an audience at New Jersey’s Rider University that the current GOP candidates are not answering the public’s appetite for real leadership.

“I think what the country is thirsting for, more than anything else right now, is someone of stature and credibility to tell them that and say, ‘Here’s where I want us to go to deal with this crisis,’” Christie said.

Christie continued: “The fact that nobody yet who’s running for president, in my view, has done that effectively is why you continue to hear people ask Daniels if he’ll reconsider and ask me if I’ll reconsider.”

Christie has consistently and categorically stated that he would not run for president in 2012, noting he had significant work still to accomplish in New Jersey.

But New Jersey and New York Republican donors and bundlers who have backed Christie also have been courted in the past several months by Texas Gov. Perry’s campaign.

Senior aides to Christie have been quietly urging his supporters not to commit to Perry, indicating Christie was still mulling a bid and would make a final decision after New Jersey’s legislative races are completed in November.

But the rapidly changing primary landscape may be changing that timetable. 

Perry’s quick rise in the polls and indications he may be fading — coupled with nagging questions about Romney’s ability to lead the party after backing a Massachusetts healthcare law ominously similar to President Barack Obama’s own Obamacare program — may have created a window of opportunity for Christie.”