THE OBAMA LEARNING CURVE: Ahead of Friday's critical jobs report, a new poll finds more Americans blame President Obama than his predecessor for continued economic woes. The learning curve is beginning to have an effect.

GOVERNMENT THUGGERY: “The Justice Department has found a new way to pursue civil rights lawsuits, using the powers of the Civil Rights Division not just to win compensation for victims of alleged discrimination but also to direct large sums of money to activist groups that are not discrimination victims ....”

THE OBAMA ELITE care nothing for the “little people”.

THE ‘WHO DECIDES’ ELECTION.

ANDREW BREITBART IS A BLOGGER? In the news reports it’s been interesting to see Andrew Breitbart consistently referred to as a “conservative blogger.” And yet Brietbart owns Breitbart News; Breitbart TV; Big Hollywood; Big Government; Big Journalism, and now Big Peace.

I suppose it’s fair to say these holdings don’t constitute legacy media, but to classify Breitbart as “just a blogger”? C’mon, legacy media, grow up.

BUMMER STICKER. Understatement.

QUESTIONS, MORE QUESTIONS: Once a law is arbitrarily not enforced, all sorts of bizarre paradoxes arise ....

Read it all.

THE CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION: do it yourself.

Shame, humiliation, mockery ... it worked once. Maybe it can again.

ANTI-SEMITISM FOR ME – but not for thee. I’m, uh ... shocked?

SHIRLEY SHERROD plans to sue Andrew Breitbart? Given Breitbart’s propensity to fire back with both barrels, Sherrod might want to rethink her plans.

More here.

THE KERRY YACHT and other teachable moments: “Note how all this wealth was made: John Edwards made it summarizing personal-injury cases against doctors; Al Gore by hyping a global-warming Armageddon and then offering psychological and concrete ameliorations for it; John Kerry by marrying someone who had married someone who had inherited it. This suggests that some of the most influential of the rich Democratic elite don’t have much experience with the role of low taxes or less regulation in fostering profitable, capital-creating enterprises.”

Heh.

THE WASHINGTON POST’s Kathleen Parker thinks the JournoList flap shows a destructive 'gotcha' mentality. I think the most valuable contribution of JournoList is proof that they are immature twits.

JournoList is the liberal equivalent of the TV show “Cheers” and the JournoListers deserve an equivalent response – jeers.

LIBERALISM: Peace, love, rainbows, unicorns … and property destruction.

DREAMS. We all have ‘em ....


2012 - year of the soccer mom?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO TAX THE RICH: billionaires to give half their fortunes to charity. And likely not U.S. charities.

MORE: myths about taxing the rich.

EVEN MORE: Fox News chimes in with a slide show.

TAKING ON WASHINGTON



Steve Wynn is a casino resort/real-estate developer in Las Vegas. The CNBC link is here.

GOVERNMENT CAN’T STAND ENTREPENEURSHIP: Oregon county apologizes to 7-year-old girl after saying she can't have lemonade stand. Mother of Julie Murphy about city hall: “It’s gotten to the point where they need to be in all of our decisions.... They don’t trust us to make good choices on our own.”

MORE: "They don’t like lemonade in Oregon. It’s strictly a Kool Aid state."

VOLTSWAGEN: "[T]he Volt is a vanity car for the well-off that will be subsidized by less well-off taxpayers at all stages, from R&D to sales and to the construction of charging stations."

Also a new definition of a windmill: “a voltspropeller.”

PORK FOR PEASANTS: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann issued the following statement regarding next week's special House session to spend $26 billion for supposed "state aid":

Next week, Speaker Pelosi is calling the 435 Members of the House to DC next week for the purpose of spending another $26 billion we don't have. We were on a six week hiatus, and members had scattered to the four corners of the Earth.

The reason she wants to do this is because her members are in political trouble and she knows they will need the financial support of the public employee unions. This $26 billion represents a circle that works like this:

Take $26 billion away from the productive private sector, deposit it in the US Treasury. Speaker Pelosi and the Democrat majority will then vote to send the money from the Treasury to politicians across the nation.

State and local politicians then give the money to employees of public employee unions. The public employee union skims their share off the top of the worker's check first in the form of union dues. Part of the dues are funneled into the union's political action committee, which in turn will be spent on political TV, radio, Internet, and print ads, as well as union "boots on the ground."

Speaker Pelosi and President Obama have already spent $3.6 trillion on stimulus. For them, $26 billion doesn't rise to the level of a day at the beach, so why bring us all back to DC after we were scattered?

Could it be because their most loyal constituency and political foot soldiers, many of whom could be facing the never before seen horror of a government employee let go due to lack of state and local tax receipts, need to be reminded whose hand quite literally feeds them?

Spending is the least popular item on the public's mind right now, but it looks to me like this $26 billion has more to do with fully funding the union political action coffers and making sure the left's political "volunteers" get the message to get out the Democrat vote.

I've invited my House colleagues to join me on what I think will be the largest tele-townhall Congress has ever held, this Monday evening at 7pm in Washington, DC, at the exact moment Speaker Pelosi is opening her session.

We will call 1,000,000 households, tell them what the Speaker is doing, and ask the peoples' opinion on the "Cash for Democrat re-election Program".

I am also inviting anyone to join us on the call by opting in at my website, michelebachmann.com. People can weigh in with their opinions in a live interaction with members of Congress.

This is by far the gutsiest move of desperation yet seen on the part of Speaker Pelosi.

If you want to participate in the tele-townhall, you can register here.