Joe Biden Claims that Democrats Will Take Back the House in 2012

Vice President Joe Biden predicted that Democrats would take back the House of Representatives in 2012. Of course what else is he supposed to say? While addressing House Democrats gathered for their annual retreat on on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. However, the idea of putting the gavel back in the hands of Nancy Pelosi should be enough for most everyone to never have Democrats control the House again. Of course this is the same Biden that said prior to the 2010 elections that saw the GOP win big, “the death of the Democrat party has been greatly exaggerated”.  Hey Joe, how did that work out for you and the Democrat party?

House Democrats will win the House in November, swinging the gavel back into the hands of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vice President Biden predicted Friday.

“Nancy, I think, is not going to be remembered just for being the first woman Speaker,” Biden said, “she’s going to remembered for being the second woman Speaker.”

Addressing House Democrats gathered on the Eastern Shore for their annual retreat, Biden said the combination of GOP obstructionism and a strengthening economy will propel the Democrats back into control of the lower chamber after just two years in the minority.

For Democrats to take back the House they will need to have a net 25 wins more than the GOP. Sorry, but such a win would need the effort of a “wave” election. That is hardly going to happen when partisan Barack Obama is up for reelection and and the GOP is poised to take back the US Senate in 2012. Barack Obama is still under 50% in job approval, the economy still mired in a pathetic recovery, unemployment high, record number of people on food stamps and the President’s signature piece of legislation Obamacare hated … its hard to believe there will be any coattails. Also, the GOP still holds an edge in the Generic Congressional ballot.

As stated by Larry Sabato of the Crystal Ball, in order for Democrats to win back the House, President Obama will need to win next year, and that probably won’t be enough. What Democrats really need is a poisonous, damaged Republican nominee who not only loses to Obama but causes harm down the ticket. With so much on the line, a Presidential race and the Democrats having so many Senate races to defend, its hard to imagine the Donkeys will win back the House.

There is no truth to the rumor that Biden made the prediction with an Indian accent.

Barack Obama … One of the Most Polarizing President EVER … The Most Polarizing During Third Year in Office

Barack Obama sets another record … the most polarizing President ever during a third year in office. How does a polarizing President warrant 4 more years? 

According to a recent Gallup poll, Barack Obama is one of the most polarizing Presidents ever. Obama’s 68% polarization gap is the 4th highest rating dating back to the  Eisenhower administration.  Also, Obama’s 3rd year in office from 2011-2012 of 68% ranks as the highest of all time by 9 points. Wait until 2012-2013, an election year when the polarization numbers will get even worse. As stated at the Politco, Obama’s numbers are already high, they can only get worse in an election year. How does that lead to an Obama second term?

2011 Is Most Polarized Third Year by a Wide Margin

The 68-point gap between partisans’ approval ratings of Obama last year is nine points higher than that for any other president’s third year. George W. Bush had the previous high for a third year. The list of third-year averages underscores the point that the highly polarized ratings are a more recent phenomenon, with four of the last five presidents at the top of the list.

Let us not forget that Barack Obama promised he would be the first post-partisan President.

UPDATE I: For those on the LEFT who still can’t comprehend that Obama is the most polarizing President ever, it took Obama no time at all for him to be the most devisive President in history. For the GWB delusional syndrome challenged, answer the following questions. We already know that Obama is the most partisan President in the year of Presidency, however …

1. Who was the most partisan President ever in first year of Presidency?
2. Who was the most partisan President ever in second year of Presidency?

The answer to both, Barack Hussein Obama

Obamanomics: The Final Pathetic GDP for 2011 is … 1.7% … Oh Yeah, Let’s Give Obama 4 More Years

Obamanomics has provided us the final pathetic GDP of 2011 … 1.7%.

More disappointing economic numbers under Obamanomics. Not only was the 2.8% 4th quarter GDP under the expected 3%. Also, personal consumption growth of 2.0% were below expectations of 2.4%. The GDP price index only grew by 0.4%, well below expectations of 1.9%.

That’s the final, pathetic growth number for 2011.

From the just-released GDP report:

Real GDP increased 1.7 percent in 2011 (that is, from the 2010 annual level to the 2011 annual level), compared with an increase of 3.0 percent in 2010.

Check out the main reason as to why the GDP tanked. Funny how government spending has a way of artificially making things look better than they really are. However, eventually the government spending runs dry. As stated at Wizbang, blame it on Rio government spending.

It says that all of the things you associate with positive economic developments (exports, consumer spending, et al) rose. And this is good. However, the second half of that sentence tells you all you need to know to discuss our economic woes directly and in plain English: Those gains were offset primarily by… wait for it…

•Local Government Spending
•State Government Spending
•Federal Government Spending

Are you joking, these are hardly the economic numbers that one gives 4 more years to an incumbent President. 1.7% GDP for 2011. That is down nearly half from 2010′s 3.0% GDP. During all this Obama has the nerve to tell us that the economy is getting better. However, in Obama in Wonderland where us is down and left is right, Obama will tell the American people that all is good. The fact of the matter is, the Obama recovery is a disaster.

Green Energy Hypocrisy: Barack Obama Leaves Event Promoting Clean Energy in Motorcade of 22 Fossil Fuel Gas Hogs

Green Energy Hypocrisy: Barack Obama Leaves Event Promoting Clean Energy in Motorcade of 22 Fossil Fuel Gas Hogs

Classic from the Hypocrite in Chief … From the files of you just can’t make this stuff up comes the hypocrisy of Obama and the LEFT promoting “green”, clean energy while driving around in fossil fuel gas hogs leaving the carbon foot print the size of Sasquatch.

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

On January 26, 2012, President Obama visited a Las Vegas UPS plant. Stimulus subsidy for said UPS plant to purchase natural-gas-powered trucks: 5.6 million dollars. Stimulus subsidy for North Las Vegas green energy plant that laid off 200 workers yesterday: 5.9 million dollars. Using taxpayer dollars to leave an event promoting clean-energy vehicles in a motorcade of twenty-two fossil-fueled vehicles: Priceless.

Every wonder why there is no market for clean energy and these government subsidized green energy companies, because those promoting it do not even believe in it. Why is it that the very people, whether they be Obama or those in the private sector who cry “green” energy are the very ones who are the most wasteful. have multiple homes and fly private jets? Hmm?

Robert Hegyes, Actor who Played Juan Epstein on ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ Dies at Age 60

Robert Hegyes, the actor who played Juan Epstein on one of my favorite comedies of all times, ‘Welcome Back Kotter” has died. Hegyes, who played Puerto Rican wheeler-dealer Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein and one of the “SweatHogs” on the 1970s classic “Welcome Back Kotter,” back in the day when comedies could be un-PC and were actually funny, dies at the age of 60 of an apparent heart attack.

Obit from USA Today:

THe was born in Perth Amboy and grew up in Metuchen, the eldest child of a Hungarian father and Italian mother.

He attended Rowan University, formerly Glassboro State College, in southern New Jersey, before heading to New York City after graduation. He returned to Rowan on several occasions to teach master classes in acting, a university spokesman said Thursday.

“He was a good friend to the university,” spokesman Joe Cardona said.

Hegyes continued to act after Kotter and was a regular on Cagney & Lacey. He also guest-starred in shows including Diagnosis Murder and The Drew Carey Show.

Robert Hegyes website.

In honor of the debates, we have included the Youtube VIDEO of the Sweathogs debate. Welcome Back Kotter, and its cast  John Travolta, Ron Palillo, Gabe Kaplan, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs and Robert Hegyes were brilliant in a time when comedy was comedy and there was no such thing as “reality TV” on TV.

Goodbye Robert Hegyes, Rest in Peace … signed, Epstein’s Mother’s doctor.

Another Obama Green Energy Company Fails … Ener1 Received $118.5 Million Stimulus Grant Files for Bankruptcy

Another One Bites the Dust …

Ener1 received a $118.5 million stimulus grant and was supposed to double its production capacity and create 1,700 jobs, instead it is filing for bankruptcy. The company was supposed to made batteries for electric cars. A funny thing happened on the way to the Obama hand picked business winners and losers, free market capitalism … there is no market or demand for this product. Didn’t Barack Obama in this years SOTU just say he was going to continue to fund the car battery industry with government money and not cede it to China? Oops. Yet more tax payer dollars wasted.

Add another to the Obama back failed green energy companies

An Indiana-based energy-storage company, whose subsidiary received a $118.5 million stimulus grant from the Energy Department, filed for bankruptcy Thursday.

Ener1 is asking a federal bankruptcy court in New York to approve a plan to restructure the company’s debt and infuse $81 million in equity funding.

“This was a difficult, but necessary, decision for our company,” Ener1 CEO Alex Sorokin said in a news release. “We are extremely pleased to have the strong support of our primary investors and lenders to substantially reduce the company’s debt.”

The VP had previously visited the Indiana company and touted it as a new chapter in American history for energy and business; however, the only chapter it turned out to be was Chapter 11.

Red State may have a point, another Obama hand picked company has met the reverse Midas touch of “The One”. Erick says, look out Master Lock, all who have stock in it may want to sell.

Add Ener1 to the list of other Obama tapped green energy companies that have been given stimulus money that have failed miserably. NRO has the present tally:  Solyndra, SunPower, BrightSource, and Tonopah Solar Energy. So far that is.

Daily Commentary – Friday, January 27, 2012 – Prospective Juror Ordered to Wear ‘I failed to appear for jury duty’ Sign

• 22yr old prospective juror disobeys judges orders and ends up having to wear a sign in front of the Lake County Courthouse

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Daily Commentary – Thursday, January 26, 2012 – Sad News in the World of Crime Investigators

• Philip Vannatter, Los Angles Police Detective in OJ Simpson case, dies from cancer at age 70

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AZ Gov. Jan Brewer & Barack Obama Have Words Over Her Book as Prez Gets Off Air Force One … “He’s Very Thin Skinned”

Barack Obama, Lost in Smallness, Part 87 …

As the GOP Primary continues to see who shall take on Barack Obama in 2012, let us not forget who is the present occupant of the White House and how “small” and Un-Presidential he has acted in as the “Thin Skinned in Chief”. President Barack Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer had a dust up as Obama got off Ir Force One yesterday. As per The Politico, Brewer stated that “The One”got in a huff over things that Brewer wrote in her book, ‘Scorpions for Breakfast’. Check out the Gateway Pundit and the pic of Brewer pointing a finger at Obama and not backing down to the bully tactics of Obama. Maybe the WWE will have these two in a cage match this summer for Wrestlemania.

It was a tense moment on the tarmac.

President Obama, alighting from the stairs of Air Force One in Phoenix this afternoon, was greeted by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who handed him an envelope and the two exchanged what appeared to be some heated sentiments. At one point, she pointed her finger at him.

Asked afterward what happened, Brewer said, “He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast.

“I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt,” she said, according to a pool report. “He didn’t feel that I had treated him cordially. I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn’t get my sentence finished. Anyway, we’re glad he’s here. I’ll regroup.”

In an interview on FOX with greta Van Susteren, Jan Brewer discuses the incident on the tarmac between herself and Obama.

Governor Jan Brewer discussed her confrontation with Obama today at the Phoenix airport. Brewer told Greta Van Susteren that Obama ambushed her when he got off the plane about a book she wrote.

As the Weekly Standard opines, Thou Shalt not write bad things about the Obamamessiah. They remind us that this is not the first time that Obama has shown his “smallness” and acted in this manner, remember Bobby Jindal.

You go girl, nice to see there are some politicians with some stones who will not cower to Obama. Too bad there were not more in DC who would take Obama to task for his actions and pettiness.

Barack Obama Plagerizes Ford Motors Ad During SOTU Speech … “Built to Last”

Wow, Obama’s SOTU was not only flat and predictable lame, there appears to have been other issues with it was well.

Are you serious, did President Barack Obama rip off a Ford Motors ad during the State of the Union last night … America, Built to Last. The Daily Mail seems to think so. What is even more ironic is that Obama and his speech writers managed to plagiarize the one car company that did not take any government bail out money. It would appear that Biden is not the only gaffe prone individual in the White House.

“An economy built to last, where hard work pays off, and responsibility is rewarded.”

“Tonight, I want to speak about how we move forward, and lay out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last – an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values.”

“You see, an economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country.”

“An America built to last insists on responsibility from everybody.”

“That’s an America built to last.”

The America we had lasted more than 200 years. It was built, in part, on the sweat and vision of Ford Motors Company.

And not on its slogans.

I pray that nothing lasts from this terrible presidency.

Full transcript of Obama’s SOTU.

Who needs SOPA/PIPA and on-line piracy when we have a US President plagiarizing a car companies commercial ad. I guess Obama can always blame the TOTUS.