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Friday, November 2, 2012

Motivational Memeogram #2

If we want to repeal Obamacare, we must vote out every single Democrat. Ev. Ree. One.

Motivational Memeogram #1

If we want to repeal Obamacare, we must vote out every single Democrat. Ev. Ree. One.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama in Wisconsin: Al Qaeda has been decimated

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QOTD: "One woman said [Democrat Senator Bob] Menendez wooed her with compliments like “beautiful” before they slept together. The other woman recounted, with apparent bitterness, receiving from an intermediary only $100 of the $500 she had been promised.

“He lies,” she said of Menendez. “He says one thing and does another. I should have checked his party affiliation before I slept with him." --Daily Caller (note from our lawyers: I made up the last sentence)

Thursday, November 1, 2012

PHOTO: Leaked photo depicts an especially presidential Obama touring damage from Hurricane Sandy

The invaluable Looking Spoon beats Biff Spackle to the punch with another scoop:

Obama's handlers chose the photo op strategy, according to Mark Levin, because the old strategy wasn't working.

Here's a helpful hint for Messrs. Axelrod and Plouffe: the new strategy ain't gonna work either.

CHART: Yo, Johnson -- How's that "Great Society" workin' out for ya?

Not too well, if both quantitative and qualitative measures are to be trusted.

Majority of Americans Say Government Spends Too Much on Welfare

Welfare spending has been growing for decades and is at a record level, approaching $1 trillion annually. Putting that amount in perspective, if the cost of welfare were converted to cash, it would be five times the amount necessary to pull all poor Americans out of poverty. Yet under President Obama’s plan, welfare spending is on track to keep climbing...

...Such low confidence in government welfare may be due to the fact that despite massive rates of spending, the number of Americans considered “poor” has stayed roughly the same. Instead of eliminating poverty and promoting self-sufficiency, welfare has led to government dependency. Today, roughly one-third of the U.S. population—100 million—receives some type of welfare aid.

The vast majority of government programs don’t require work for able-bodied recipients. Tragically, the Obama Administration has been whittling away at the very few programs that have included a work requirement, gutting work requirements from the 1996 welfare reform law and suspending work requirements in the food stamps program.

This course of dependence is not helpful to the poor, and it’s not helpful to taxpayers. The American people know this, too. The vast majority—84 percent—say that work for able-bodied adults should be a requirement to receive welfare.

...Work requirements led to the successes of the 1996 welfare reform. Within just five years of the law’s implementation, which inserted work requirements into the largest cash assistance welfare program, welfare rolls dropped by half. Child poverty rates plummeted, and employment rates among low-income individuals climbed.

Work requirements should be applied to the rest of the government’s 80 welfare programs. The food stamps program, which has seen massive growth in spending and participation rates during the last decade, would be a good place to start...

But don't worry: facts, logic, reason, history and a track record of unmitigated failure never dissuaded a "progressive".

MONSTER: Night-time satellite view of Sandy making landfall

Spotted at Anthony Watts' invaluable site:

Larwyn's Linx: Ambassador Chris Stevens Called for Help in the Midst of the Bengahzi Attack

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Nation

Ambassador Chris Stevens Called for Help During Bengahzi Attack: GWP
Consulate warned it couldn't withstand 'coordinated attack'!: Fox
Contradictory Evidence Swallows Administration Libya Cover-Up: Foundry

Hannity on Benghazi Slaughter: the Tapes are Damning: GWP
Gingrich: Senator Said Networks Have Libya Emails: Powers
Final CBS/NYT/Q-polls in OH, FL, VA show Obama up …: Hot Air

The Obama Campaign’s Most Honest Surrogate: HayRide
Levin: They didn't have to die, that's the point!: Scoop
Women: Dem Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex: DC

So Much for the Obama Early Voting Advantage: ScarMonk
Democrat Mayor: Let's Face It, We're Losing Wisconsin: Ace
New Polls Confirm Romney Momentum in Battleground States: LifeNews

Economy

The economy is why Romney wins: RWN
September Surprise! Jobs Count Revised Down, October Bleak: Riehl
No love connection: Chuck Woolery outraged at AARP: Fox

Scandal Central

Bob Menendez and Hookers?: RSM
Fast and Furious: Where Was the Leadership at the Department of Justice?: Foundry
Critics say AG Holder’s ties to abortion industry create conflict of interest: Watchdog

Climate & Energy

MACT – The End of Coal as an Energy Source: RS
The U.S. Energy Boom in Four Charts: FreeEnt
E-mails Contradict Obama On Involvement With Yet Another Green Energy Failure: JoshuaPundit

Media

Romney Is What The Country Needs Now: Coulter
Obama campaign sign in L.A. modeled after Fascist Mussolini portrait: Zombie
Feinstein Refuses to Debate Republican Opponent: OCR

The Uncool President: Hanson
Liberals So Stressed By Election That They Can’t Exercise Or Sleep: STACLU
Pic: Detroit News front page highlights Romney’s momentum in Michigan: Twitchy

Uh Oh: Jay Leno Brings Up Benghazi: JWF
There You Go Again: New York Times In Futile Attempt to Save Obama in Ohio: Forbes
Why New Jerseyans, Vermonters can’t enter NatGeo photo contest: Overlawyered

Press hurls hardball questions at Mitt on FEMA while lobbing softballs to Obama on Benghazi.: IBD
Pew backs up Gallup on Obama losing early voting totals: Moe Lane
The mysterious media Benghazi bugout: Post

World

Libyan Leaks: Secret Document reveals Al-Qaeda ‘brother’ put in control of U.S. Embassy in Tripoli: JihadWatch
Rumors of General Officers Arrested, Relieved, or Resigning in Protest: BlackFive
The Latest Disasters in Greece: Mead

Former A.G. Mukasey: Obama Knows What Happened In Benghazi: Ace
OMG! Is this what happened in Benghazi?: Matzav
Al-Qaeda Linked Radical Was Hired By Obama Administration to Run Security at Tripoli Embassy: GWP

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

The Case of the Unexplained FTP Connections: Russinovich
Cell networks struggle under Sandy: Fierce Government IT
Unboxing Photos from Early iPad Mini Delivery Surface in France: MacRumors

Cornucopia

No One Left Behind...In A Swing State: MOTUS
Where's Howie?: Jawa
Fabulous New Ad From Independent Women’s Voice on Breaking Up with Obama: Bruce

Image: Paul Ryan goes trick-or-treating with his niece Zaydee May in Janesville, WI
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QOTD: "There is a rumor — I want to be clear, it’s a rumor — that at least two networks have emails from the National Security Adviser’s office telling a counterterrorism group to stand down. But they were a group in real-time trying to mobilize marines and C-130s and the fighter aircraft, and they were told explicitly by the White House stand down and do nothing. This is not a terrorist action. If that is true, and I’ve been told this by a fairly reliable U.S. senator, if that is true and comes out, I think it raises enormous questions about the president’s role, and Tom Donilon, the National Security Adviser’s role, the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who has taken it on his own shoulders, that he said don’t go. And that is, I think, very dubious, given that the president said he had instructions they are supposed to do everything they could to secure American personnel." --Newt Gingrich