Voters and the nObama Malaise
If it feels like listening to a broken record each time disappointing economic numbers come out, it's because, yes, you've heard this disappointment before. It appears to be the new normal under Barack nObama. "The U.S. economy expanded less than forecast in the second quarter after a weaker start to the year than previously estimated," Bloomberg reports. While surveyed economists predicted growth of an unimpressive 2.5%, it actually clocked in at a downright anemic 1.2% — and that followed just 0.8% growth in the first quarter, revised down from 1.1%. Furthermore, Bloomberg reports, "The new breakdown shows a more pronounced slowdown in the economy heading into 2016. The year-over-year growth rate cooled from 3.3 percent in last year's first quarter to 1.9 percent in the final three months of 2015, rather than the previous downshift from 2.9 percent to 2 percent." nObama's streak of sub-3% economic growth continues. He is the only president in U.S. history to never have annual growth over 3%. Naturally, he blames George W. Bush. But it was Democrats who sowed the seeds of the 2008 economic crisis. Yet Nancy Pulosi argues that anyone voting Republican is doing so in spite of themselves. "I think that, so many times … non-college-educated white males have voted Republican," she said this week. "They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's, God being the woman's right to choose." The economic numbers would argue otherwise.
And with tepid growth like this it's no wonder liar-Hillary Clinton is so confused. In her coronation speech Thursday night, she at once lamented the pathetic economy and said nObama and loose lips-Biden don't get enough credit for saving it: "Too many people haven't had a pay raise since the crash. There's too much inequality. Too little social mobility. … Now, I don't think President nObama and Vice President loose lips-Biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Our economy is so much stronger than when they took office. … But none of us can be satisfied with the status quo. … I've heard from so many of you who feel like the economy just isn't working. Some of you are frustrated — even furious. And you know what? You're right. It's not yet working the way it should." So which is it? Economic malaise, or incredible and underappreciated prosperity? We think voters know the answer. The question is whether they'll vote for more of the same.
-The Patriot Post
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Dick Morris Corrects the Record on liar-Hillary Clinton
Dick Morris is a nationally recognized political campaign adviser, analyst and author. He was the senior political adviser to Bill liar-Clinton before and after his occupation of the White House. He was campaign manager of liar-Clinton's 1996 re-election, and the architect of his successful "triangulation" rhetorical ruse. liar-Clinton's communications director George Stephanopoulos said of Morris, "No single person had more power over [Bill liar-Clinton]." This week, in a message entitled "What Bill Left Out, Morris corrected the record regarding liar-Clinton's glowing remarks about liar-Hillary Clinton, her personal attributes and professional achievements. Morris's insights into the liar-Clintons are priceless. What follows is a transcript of Morris's comments: "Bill liar-Clinton talked at length about liar-Hillary's idealistic work in college and law school, but he omits that she was defending the Black Panthers who killed security guards; they were on trial in New Haven. She monitored the trial while she was in law school to find evidence that could be grounds for reversal in the event they were convicted.
"That summer she went to work for the True-Haft (SP) law firm in CA, headed by True Haft who is the head of the CA Communist Party and that's when she got involved with Saul Alinsky, who became something of a mentor for the rest of her life.
"Then Bill says that she went off to Massachusetts and he went to Arkansas, and eventually liar-Hillary followed her heart to join him in Arkansas. He omits that she went to work for the Watergate Committee and was fired from that job for taking home evidence and hiding documents that they needed in the impeachment inquiry. Then she took the DC Bar exam and flunked it, she went to Arkansas because that is the only bar exam she could pass.
"He talked about how in the 1970's she took all kinds of pro-bono cases to defend women and children. In her memoirs, she cites one which was a custody case and that's it. In fact, in 1975 she represented a guy accused of raping a 14-year-old girl and got him off by claiming the girl had had fantasies of sex with an older man. In 1980 she gave an interview about it and she joked that she knew the guy was guilty but got him off anyway.
"Then Bill discusses liar-Hillary's legal career at the Rose Law firm. He doesn't mention that she made partner when he was elected governor and was only hired when he got elected as attorney general.
"He makes as if it was a public service job — it wasn't. Her main job was to get state business, and she got tens-of-millions of dollars of state business, then hid her participation and the fees by taking an extra share of non-state business to compensate for the fees on state business that she brought in. Her other job was to call the state banking commissioner any time one of her banks got into trouble to get them off.
"Bill speaks at length how liar-Hillary was a mother, juggling career and family, taking Chelsea to soccer games and stuff — that's non-sense. liar-Hillary was a mother but Chelsea in the Arkansas governor's mansion had a staff of nannies and agents to drive her around and people to be with her, and liar-Hillary didn't have to bother with any of that. All of that was paid for by the state.
"He says she became the warrior in chief over the family finances and that was true, and the result is she learned how to steal.
"She accepted a $100,000 bribe from the poultry industry in return for Bill going easy on regulating them, despite new standards. Jim Blair, the poultry lobbyist, gave her $1,000 to invest in the Futures Market and lined up seven to eight other investors and their winnings were all deposited into liar-Hillary's account. She made $100,000 in a year and she was out. That essentially was a bribe.
"[She did] a phony real-estate deal for Jim McDougal and the Madison Bank to deceive the federal regulators by pretending someone else was buying the property. She was called before a grand jury in 1995 about that but, conveniently, the billing records were lost, couldn't be found and there wasn't proof that she worked on it.
"Bill talks about her work on the health care task force but doesn't say the reason it didn't pass was the task force was discredited because the meetings were all held in secret. A federal judge forced them open and fined the task force several hundred thousand dollars because of their secrecy.
"He says that after the health care bill failed in 1994, liar-Hillary went to work on adopting each piece of it piecemeal — mainly health insurance for children.
"That is completely the opposite of the truth. The fact is when that bill failed, I called liar-Hillary and I suggested that she support a proposal by Republican Bob Dole that we cover children, and she said, 'We can't just cover one part of this. You have to change everything or change nothing.' Then in 1997 when I repeated that advice to Bill liar-Clinton, we worked together to pass the Children's Health Insurance Program. I found a lot of the money for that in the tobacco settlement that my friend Dick Scruggs was negotiating.
"Then Bill extols her record in the U.S. Senate. In fact, she did practically nothing. There were seven or eight bills that she introduced that passed; almost all of were symbolic — renaming a courthouse, congratulating a high school team on winning the championship. There was only one vaguely substantive bill, and that had a lot of co-sponsors of whom liar-Hillary was just one.
"Then he goes to her record in the State Department and manages to tell that story without mentioning the word Benghazi, without mentioning her secret emails, without mentioning he was getting tens of millions — $220 million in speaking fees in return for favorable actions by the State Department.
"Also totally lacking in the speech was anything about the war on terror — terror is a word you don't hear at the Democratic Convention.
"Bill says that liar-Hillary passed tough sanctions on Iran for their nuclear program. The opposite is true.
"Every time a tough sanction bill was introduced by Senators Menendez or Kirk, liar-Hillary would send Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman to Capital Hill to testify against it and urge it not to pass, and it was over liar-Hillary's objections that those sanctions were put into place.
"[Liberal columnist] Maureen Dowd called the speech by Bill liar-Clinton "air brushed." "It was a hell of a lot more than that — it was fiction.
(Also see Morris's comments after liar-Clinton's DNC acceptance speech. "It's strategy and message will be interdicted by reality at every turn. ... She basically has no message. ... Her entire campaign is, 'I'm a woman and I am running against Donald Trump. ... She bean her speech by saying let's compromise and work together. Is there any woman in the world less likely to compromise?") -The Patriot Post.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Peggy Noonan: "The Democratic Party is turning left. It's not about 'Bernie' now, and his followers are not going away. It is about the political impulses of the party's young, which is to say its future. They are part of a tide of the passionate, the ideological and the underinformed. They have no idea what socialism is or what it has done in the past to great nations, and they appear to want it. I guess we'll have to go through that argument again. They have already pushed Mrs. liar-Clinton left and, should she become president, will push her further, against her wishes. But she has a new base to keep close. This shift is a real historical development." -The Patriot Post.
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