The Morning Spew

This video is hilarious.  Can you over botox to the point of speech problems?  I feel like I’m watching a slurpee talk.

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Truly amazing!!!   The ineptness and failures of this administration are beyond belief.

From FoxNews.com

The Department of Energy is standing by a $529 million loan guarantee to a company building an electric car line in Finland.

A department official, in a lengthy response posted on a government blog Thursday night, confirmed that the company Fisker is assembling its Karma electric car at its “overseas facility.”

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Class warriors, come out and play!

Any time a conservative talks tough, the Left claims it’s some kind of secret code for getting violent — a “dog whistle.”  But when a leftist overtly calls for violence, these same folks have nothing to say.  So what are we to make of President Obama’s speech to the Congressional Black Caucus yesterday?

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Protecting you from the evils of modern finance.

This weekend, the usual bunch of ne’er-do-wells once again failed to teach the world to sing (probably because they smoke too much weed).  Apparently unable to take control of their own finances — and in search of some serious munchies — “hundreds” of smelly, inebriated social misfits decided they’d have a go at shutting down Wall Street.  Because, you know, if everyone can’t be wealthy, no one can.

One big problem, though.  As the NY Times reports, they planned their little anti-commercial offensive for Saturday, which no es bueno:

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Regular readers of this blog know that we’ve been — shall we say — skeptical about President Øbama‘s much-ballyhooed jobs speech since Obama was still living la dolce vida in Martha’s Vineyard.  Turns out, we’re hardly alone.  First, there was the reaction of the global markets, which basically sucked.  Now, there’s the polling data — which ain’t so hot either.

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As we await with puzzled amusement President Øbama’s post-Martha’s-Vineyard “Jobs Speech” — aimed at the unfortunate rabble who can’t afford such extravagances — Fester thought it might be useful to ponder the White House’s previous promises, predictions, and preposterous puffery.  Luckily, Reuters recently made this task very easy in its FACTBOX feature.

"This job is HARD!"

Fester’s attempt to summarize the Reuters article comes after the jump.

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President Øbama

Answer this question as quickly as you can — don’t think about it:  If Fester raises the price of his lemonade, will you buy more of it, or less?  Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Incredibly, Professor Alan Krueger thinks just the opposite, at least when it comes to hiring labor.  Professor who, you ask?  You know, President Øbama’s proposed chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors — the administration’s chief economist.  Yeah, that guy!  But here’s the problem, see.  As Spengler points out, Krueger hasn’t the foggiest idea how jobs are actually created:

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U.S. Unemployment - From biggovernment.com

Through his long and illustrious brief and humorous career, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has said exactly one thing that makes sense:  “The White House doesn’t create jobs.”  Of course, that was already painfully freaking obvious to non-comatose Americans.  But whatever.

Anyways … Fester was puzzled (and a little sad) when President Obama tossed Carney’s semi-official pronouncement aside and promised yet another speech about how the White House was going to unfurl yet another plan to … create jobs.

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