Yes, he went here. Totally and 100%.

(Hat tip to Red State)

I do not think all of the quantum physics equations in the world could come up with a resolution as to how to fit this man’s ego within the known universe.

Or as Doug Powers puts it:

What Obama purposefully fails to mention each time is that the bridge collapse in Minnesota wasn’t caused by a lack of repair/replacement funding, but rather by a design flaw. The bridge was destined to collapse from the moment it was blue-printed — much like the Obama economy.

As one person said, “If Kitten Pile Wrestling was an Olympic event, more people would go.”

Not much else needs to be said…

Well, that did not take long. Only this time, it came from the other side.

From Salon.com:

An Austin Ron Paul supporter has taken out a full-page ad in the local alt weekly newspaper seeking any “stripper … escort … or ‘young hottie’” who has slept with Rick Perry, part of his single-minded jihad against the presidential candidate.

Robert Morrow describes himself as a “self-employed investor and political activist” as well as a three-time delegate to the Texas state GOP convention.

It is things like this that make it hard for most in the GOP to take Ron Paul seriously as a presidential candidate. Even if Paul had nothing to do with it.

Ouch.

I am not a big one for polling organizations like Gallup that generally only poll “adults” (which can mean literally anything as far as methodology goes), as compared to outfits like Zogby and Rasmussen that poll “registered voters” and “likely voters”, which is a much more accurate methodology.

On the other hand, when ANY poll shows these type of numbers, it is worth noting.

From Gallup:

A new low of 26% of Americans approve of President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy, down 11 percentage points since Gallup last measured it in mid-May and well below his previous low of 35% in November 2010.

Maybe more interesting and consequential is the continuing erosion of independent support for the president:

Obama earns scant support on the issues among Republicans, and does not do much better among independents. In contrast to Democrats’ majority approval of Obama on all seven issues tested, fewer than half of independents approve of the president’s handling of any of these.

As I first noted in 2009, general independent support for Democrats has been steadily eroding and that has also spilled over into Obama’s numbers, in particular. Since it is virtually impossible for a Democrat to win a national election without a very high percentage of the indie vote, this bodes quite ill for Obama at present. Granted, it is still a good 14.5 months until the election, but this cannot be very comforting for the White House.

Of course, I have long said that I do not really expect Obama to even be on the 2012 ticket, as I have long had a feeling that his own party will “Nixon” him out well before. Anyway, at the very least, I expect multiple primary challengers to him come early 2012. Ala Ted Kennedy in 1980 and just as serious. Polls with these type of results only help cement that belief.

Well, I suppose we can chalk this one up next to Pelosi’s claim that unemployment benefits “create” jobs.

Video courtesy CNS News:

So, I suppose he is saying the non-food stamp dollar that I spend does not “generate” the same amount of economic “activity”? He seems to forget that the money being taken from the taxpayer in the first place, is a net loss for the economy, as it could have been used on the consumption, saving or investment side. Not to help someone buy a steak and bag of chips.

The seepage from Michelle’s lead-based veggie garden is obviously seeping into the D.C. Water system, as once someone enters the confines of the Beltway, they immediately park their brains at the Capitol’s door.

Doug Powers puts it correctly:

I can’t help but wonder though… if every dollar of food stamps puts $1.84 into the economy, instead of the $860 billion stimulus, why didn’t the administration just send every single American $2,800 worth of food stamps and thereby generate $1.58 trillion in economic activity?

This is what passes for “intelligence” in today’s world.

Well, for all of the caterwauling by both sides of the fence when it came to the phony “Debt Deal”, one of the cold realities is how a Spendaholic addiction can literally wipe out fortunes in a matter of moments or even months.

In just a little over four months, due to reckless spending, lack of leadership and a lot of BS floating around, the value of American stocks has fallen over 19%.

From The Heritage Foundation Blog:

Since the S&P 500 hit its high for 2011 on April 29th, to August 10th, 2011, $3.3 trillion dollars invested in the U.S. stock market has been wiped out. The value of American stocks owned fell from $16.82 trillion to $13.57 trillion—19.3 percent. See Chart .That is more than the Gross Domestic Product–the value of all of the goods and services produced in a country—in 2010 of Canada ($1.3 trillion), the U.K. ($2.2 trillion), or Germany (3.1 trillion).

While we may not know precisely for some time what triggered this decline in value from the April 29th high, rapidly growing government debt of the last few years certainly played a central role. European economies share this fault with the U.S. Their stock markets lurch downward daily like ours with each new debt crisis in Greece, Italy, or some other European Union member country. Like us, they spent beyond their means and are now in terrible financial shape. A country can only spend more than it takes in for so long. That is why the ratings agencies put the U.S. government on warning April 18, 2011, days before the market began to fall. Many saw the day of reckoning on its way.

Funny how trillion is now tossed around nowadays, as billion was not too many years ago. Get people used to enough to having less and they will eventually either be quiet and shut up. Or you end up like England. Or France. Or Zimbabwe.

You want to solve the debt ceiling problem? Raise it to $999 quintillion and just be done with it. It is not like the debt we now owe can ever be paid back, the way things are going. (and probably not ever, under any circusmtances)