BARACK OBAMA...

...wants change, and he'll take it from your pocket.

America blames the President for America's problems. Next time there's not toilet paper in a public bathroom: "God DAMN America! It's all your fault, George Bush!" You've probably worked with people like that. Well, you roll your eyes at them when they blame everything on G-DUB even when there isn't any conclusive evidence.

George Bush shot a cruise missile at the Pentagon! The WTC had bombs in it! George Bush hired local Amish to excavate the land in Somerset to look like a plane crash! Dick Cheney shot JFK! George Bush rigged the gas station's pumps!



Look, sorry, he's not the root of all our problems. He's been a little more impulsive that most of our Presidents, but the reason he gets all this blame, methinks, is because he's the public solo face of government that people can point at while they curse and moan about their problems.

How long, about, has the economy been wobbily and the media has been going bonkers about it? One, maybe two years? Back when this presidential race kicked off, just after the 2006 elections, immigration and the war were the hot-button issues. But now it's the economy and global warming with gas prices tying in to both.

Wait, what? Did I just say the 2006 elections? Yes, that's right, the election when the voters easily swayed by what's on Headline News in the last week rejoiced that Democrats won the majority. Yes, the election when the Democrats seized the Senate and the House from the GOP's clutches.

Is there, perhaps, a connection? The economy tanked almost entirely since the Democratic Congress took office. How about a steaming cup of proof with your flabbergasted pancakes?

The Dow Jones hit 13,000 around April 29, 2007. The new Democrats took office on January 3 (House) and January 3 (Senate).They'd barely had their offices redecorated with blue curtains and hadn't had the chance to mess up any legistalation yet (they have two and six years, respectively.) Now, 2008, after they sat down and shuffled papers, what have we got? Gasoline that is flirting with $4, a housing catastrophe (or so they say), high(er) unemployment, a huge drop in home equity, and a financial crisis that has finally been popped with 1% of homes in foreclosure.

So, how about this little diddy I snagged off a blog:

In just one year . Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

<http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/04/since-the-democ.html>

Yeah, that's right: A Democratic Congress sucks more than Bush. Nancy Pelosi was going to "clean house" but she did no such thing. *sigh*

President Bush's all-time lowest approval rating is 28%. As of May 14th, he sits at 29%. That's funny, though, because Congress's has dipped to 18%... only the fourth time in Gallup's history any Congress's approval rating has dropped below 20%. Pathetic. Good thing that 2008 is a Congressional election year too.

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/107242/Congress-Approval-Rating-Ties-Lowest-Gallup-Records.aspx>

It all comes back to Barack Obama, our cotton-candy politician. Democrats can elicit all degrees of excitement from the people who gather their only information from TV media who have to make it exciting for ratings. Republicians are not so good at that, but look what happens after the initial newness. The Democrats are just bumbling around while Bush is still plodding along actually getting things done.

Did you see that bill that one of the arms of Congress was voting on? It was some sort of global warming bill that is meant to lower America's overall emissions by like 66% by around 2050. Well, this is going to make gas prices go higher and higher and higher. Say, who's proposing the bill? Did you know that G-DUB is threatening to veto the bill?

Barack Obama is just like Nancy Pelosi and her band of bloodsuckers. After the initial brouhaha dies down, it's just an utterly pathetic deflation and we're left with Democraps.

More on the Democratic primary endgame forthcoming.

-Ze Baron