I have a confession to make. As not a nube contributor Aaron Gardner can attest, I would have supported Gov. Rick Perry‘s run from the get-go, but for populist Tea Party reasons, I jumped aboard the CainTrain, only to jump off at the last transfer station when this happened.

Someone is going to make money dissecting how Team Perry imploded, and they’ll source a lot of what was written on RedState by Erick, this great Governor of Texas himself, and many others (warning: be prepared for a few minutes of fame in a book’s reference section).

Learning from President Clinton, Speaker Gingrich’s often quoted partner-in-crime,

was another lesson via Dick Morris: ‘triangulization‘. Somehow my ‘friend’ Newt Gingrich got to the Texas governor to include him in a 10th Amendment brigade, knowing he had to, in order to prevent Governor Perry from watching and waiting, unlike the Tea Party grassroots’ favorite candidates of Rep. Michelle Bachmann (who BTW, may challenge Speaker Boehner in less than 50 weeks), Gov. Sarah Palin, and CEO Herman Cain, once again, Gov. Perry jumped the shark.

Now we have this from Erick. It would seem Newt Gingrich is on the verge of being Rick Roll’d, but not the way those annoying viral videos took hold, but by a nexus evangelical & catholic Pro-Life voters and Tea Party grassroots activists who will remind America again about the core of Reagan conservatives.  This is A Time For Choosing of this on the 39th anniversary of the disastrous SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision:

p.s. Question. How would a President Gingrich govern? Like his idol Winston Churchill? I for one prefer an American republic to a prime minister-ship, given the choice… But heck, what didn’t the Founding Fathers know that Newt does?

p.p.s. Georgia just became a bell weather for Super Tuesday. Speaker Gingrich abandoned it, like so many other things, when they became too inconvenient.

RedState has forced me outside my “comfort zone”. So I’m up on the FoxNews LiveBlog and destroying their Twitter #DODGE and #ANSWER tool — quite fun, muahahahahah

(FWIW, I became an official supporter of Governor Perry’s bid today; I jumped off the slow-moving CainTrain nine weeks ago, despite the forthcoming 9-9-9 tour bus).

Rep. Mark Schauer's futile money-shot: "I understand the concerns that many Americans have over how their government is spending taxpayers' money. One of the reasons I ran for Congress is because I believed we needed to end the fiscal irresponsibility that turned a $234 billion surplus into a $1.2 trillion deficit by the time I took office."

Where are the 2.5 million “green” jobs Mr. President?

It appears now that they are not only a fabrication, but even the alleged 87,000 jobs to be created by $16 billion in Stimulus weatherization funds are nearly nowhere to be found, unless one looks to more government jobs. Liberal mayors helped champion this scam on the American people, and they too should be called into account. (These must be the same kinds of mayors who have led American cities into poverty?  Perhaps it’s time to plan the next TEA party wave?)

Not only has this weatherization boondoggle fallen far short of its goal to weatherize one million homes per year, it is now reportedly in the President’s own home-state of Illinois, causing more harm to inhabitants and doing less, yes less, to curb energy loss. Consider this bit regarding Illinois from the latest report of the U.S. Energy Department’s inspector general:

Substandard weatherization work can pose health and safety risks to occupants,” the audit said. “Payment of excessive materials costs to contractors reduces the amount of funding available to weatherize homes … and reduces the amount of funding for direct job creation.

In 15 weatherized homes visited, auditors found 14 would not pass safety inspections because of poor work quality. Twelve of the homes had “substandard work that could have, in some cases, resulted in significant property damage or injury to the homeowners,” the report said, such as a kitchen exhaust vented to the attic that auditors said posed a fire hazard.

It get’s worse:

…officials also found instances where a furnace had not been vented properly; a shut-off valve had not been installed on a gas stove; and, carbon monoxide detectors, smoke alarms and fire extinguishers had not been installed as planned. In one home, a contractor had been paid for removing siding to insert insulation, but the contractor had actually taken a short cut, drilling holes through the existing siding. A July 2010 State monitoring report cited a significant number of gas leaks in single-family homes weatherized by CEDA contractors. State officials reported that the number of gas leaks verified during the monitoring review was “alarming.”

This all has been made public by the DOE nearly a year ago. A full DOE IG report on the Weatherization Assistance Program from February 2010 can be found here. Further audits are being conducted currently in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Ranking Senate Finance republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley (whom dhorowitz3 states we can do better than) sums it up here in a recent letter to DOE Secretary Chu:

Along with OIG, I am concerned that the Department of Energy and state WAPs are failing to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in the massive amounts of taxpayer dollars spent on weatherization projects. On September 16, 2010, in response to my previous concerns about a lack of oversight of stimulus spending, your Department assured me that “the Weatherization program has turned the corner,” and “made great strides” in reducing fraud, waste, and abuse. In light of this report, it is clear that the Department’s efforts have been inadequate. It is critical that the Department take immediate steps to ensure that the Illinois experience is an exception, rather than the rule. We owe no less to American taxpayers.

This is what happens when you live and breathe in a SimWorld. And these were considered the “best”, most ready shovel ready stimulus jobs. Too bad even the Blue Dogs didn’t heed Michelle Malkin’s job-killer warning eighteen months ago.

Does Cindy even have a basis for a legitimate rant? Let’s break it down.

Americans bailout GM, and while still having a 60% stake in this company, a/k/a Government (or Obama) Motors, it ups and brings another plant in Mexico with 400 jobs that could just as easily be done on Tennessee.

In exchange, Americans get a porous border with our southern neighbor, illegal drug trade compounded by human trafficking and a standing ovation by Obama democrats for the Mexican president F’lip Calderon (when given the honor of a joint address to Congress) for calling Americans (by way if Arizona) a bunch of Latina-phobes.

Perhaps ‘we’ should ask Mexico how is it that following Mexico City’s  rank as kidnapping-capital in North America, Phoenix, Arizona now comes in #2.

Or from another angle, while American corporations set up shop and jobs in Mexico, that country’s second greatest source of GNP are from wire-transfers of both legal and illegal aliens working in the U.S.

One wonders if the hundreds of flying Mexican flags at pro-immigration rallies around the country are for a change in U.S. laws or an affirmation of La Raza’s charter? This is a hard conundrum to untangle when seeing the world through the eyes of our own president. Sometimes Virginia, allegiances surpass an oath taken to support and defend The Constitution of these United States:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/2595-obama-nominates-la-raza-activist-as-ambassador

If you are a believer in that God draws straight with crooked lines, then it only stands to reason that Allah has cleared a path for where the monies for that proposed Ground Zero mosque can be built. No, not our Ground Zero, this ground zero.

I bet this would be a good jumping off point to match dollar for dollar in aid in exchange for a permanent withdrawal of any 9/11 terrorist shrine from being built on or near our hallowed grounds there in NYNY.

My props to Twitter for the tip directing me to this American Spectator piece. All I know is if Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs can be refused by PayPal, American Thinker where she crossposts may be next, and then who?

“Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime.”

Any alternatives to PayPal out there?

In the wake of an Iranian spy ring scandal in Kuwait and staring down today’s anniversary (June 12th) of the green movement comes this leaked report. Fly the Saudi friendly skies? Today can’t be a great day for the regime in Tehran.

I think I’m getting used to this meme from the Obama Administration. When there’s a problem, they aren’t in charge, period. BP has the lead on the oil leak, Gov. Jindal has the lead on the oil mess, and the MMS Chief quits her post without her boss, Obama, knowing of it. (Personally, if I were a Lib, I’d blame the Duke Mens basketball team for keeping the POTUS from more pressing matters)

Now we have Texas being warned by this Administration to be on the alert for a Somali terrorist that may soon cross their southern border.  That would be the same border state that this Administration has ignored for over a year — ignored their pleas for more border enforcement, more troops on the ground.

Even when you call for help from Obama, it never comes.  It immediately reminded me of that old school Public Enemy rap, “9-1-1 Is A Joke”. Except the joke is this Administration.

……”Get up and get, get, get down…….O-B-A-M-A is a joke in your town…..(There’s not a minute to spare!)”

Can I get a remix? Paul Shanklin?

Not for the simple fact that lapdog liberal (and Athens, Georgia-area) carpetbagger Congressman John Barrow remains in congress and supports Nancy Pelosi when it matters most (as in most of the time and when voting for Speaker), I am beyond fed up and TEA’d off that snake-oil salesman John remains in Georgia’s office of the 12th district to this day.

I am blogging of a Cook County D+1 district, and ergo in 2010 especially, a district that should be considered an easy pickup considering Redstate’s policy of supporting the conservative in the primary and the republican in the general.

Redstate has (via Erick) endorsed Brian Rooney for Congress in Michigan’s 7th district, to end-run around his fellow primary challengers to defeat Michigan’s most corrupt in history apparatchik and Pelosi bootlicker.  So what say you about Georgia’s own 12th congressional district?

I submit to RS this candidate for consideration.  I have contacted two of the three declared candidates and suffice to say, having communicated with each one directly, am (A) not to keen on the good-ol’ boy network (read Oxendine) and (B) muckraking by a certain Georgia county chairwoman who shall remain nameless.

I’ll dig down more as this Ides of March approaches and look forward to seeing all at the upcoming Defending the American Dream Summit.

Every time a recession occurs in our country, Democrats control the House.

(Another Obama backed nominee bites the dust)

Sean Hannity was just reporting that Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, has said that Scott Brown will be sworn in when the "proper paperwork is received".  Sean went on to say that Sen. John Kerry should stand up for the people of Massachusetts and call for Senator-elect Brown to be seated.

Regardless of when Senator Brown is sworn in, "proper paperwork", certification results, whatever… the first thing that should happen is that appointed-Senator Paul Kirk should step down, out of respect for the people of Massachusetts…

tomorrow…

morning .

I can think of no better way to “let the people speak”, than to have Senator-elect Brown deliver the GOP response to President Obama’s first State of the Union speech next week (whether he is sworn in or not!).  As it was mentioned in this AP article no less.

“It would make everybody the 41st senator, and it would bring fairness and discussion back to the equation,” the state senator said of a potential victory. He spent the rest of the day out of public view, crafting evening rally remarks that had the potential to be an early State of the Union speech for the national Republican Party.

The 41st vote against ObamaCare, from the “people’s seat”… it would be a very, very smart move.  I do hope the GOP inside the Beltway is considering this.

I did my daily pull on Rasmussen Reports today and came across 2010 South Carolina Governor: Democrat Rex Runs Close Against Top GOP Hopefuls. Naturally I clicked on it, curious to see how state rep. Nikki Haley fared. Much to my surprise, her name was not even polled.

What gives RasmussenReports?

"(We) have not yet begun to fight" -- courtesy John Paul Jones

Huzzah!

The recession is over, so says Reuters. Even if it is spurned in part by government tax-relief (wow, tax-breaks, one would think liberals would get a clue) via home buyer tax credits and the “cash for clunkers” programs, it is time we all embrace this news.

However, in calling the “(Bush) recession” over, it’s time to mark the beginning of the Obama recession. The narrative going into 2010 will be simple, no sooner has the U.S. economy recovered, than another recession commenced marking the shortest recovery period in U.S. history. Root causes attributed to continued rising unemployment (despite fuzzy math from the White House), the wasteful $787 billion porkulous Recovery Act, the return of higher taxes as the Bush tax cuts expire, the devaluation of the dollar, exploding deficits, massive debt, growing government, ominous increase in federal mandates on the states, and the threat of government run health care.

Having reviewed the President’s summer reading list, I’m giving it one out of five stars (okay, maybe 1 1/2) and that’s because I found John Adams by David McCullough a good read. Maybe it’s the constitutionalist in me.

Here’s a few I am recommending to our POTUS, what about you?

The FairTax Book and it’s companion reader FairTax: The Truth [Answering The Critics]

Common Sense and that of the original inspiration, Thomas Paine’s collection of works.

Unstoppable Global Warming which was reviewed here

And for good measure, considering the firestorm B.S. Obama and the Attorney General have kicked up (h/t Mr. Vice President for your rapid response), reserve an advanced copy of Robert Spencer’s Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran.

The documents released Monday clearly demonstrate that the individuals subjected to Enhanced Interrogation Techniques provided the bulk of intelligence we gained about al Qaeda. This intelligence saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks. These detainees also, according to the documents, played a role in nearly every capture of al Qaeda members and associates since 2002. The activities of the CIA in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by al Qaeda to launch further mass casualty attacks against the United States. The people involved deserve our gratitude. They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions. President Obama’s decision to allow the Justice Department to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA personnel, and his decision to remove authority for interrogation from the CIA to the White House, serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many Americans have doubts about this Administration’s ability to be responsible for our nation’s security. – (former) Vice President Dick Cheney

Go Sarah Go!

Bidens reported donations of $1,885 to charity in 2008

That’s a 1894% increase over last years and much better than the pittance before.

The buzz over his and his bosses 2008 tax filings. Perhaps the not deducted “church donations” was the extra change from Ol’ Joe’s pocket?