John Batchelor writes on his blog: Better Idea Evan Newmark and Dennis Berman, WSJ, point to the surprising decision by the Obama administration to endorse the 100% tax credit for R&D, which will fuel purchasing of equipment and boost jobs for manufacturing, especially technology and vehicles. This is a long past due good idea, and
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Batchelor: POTUS Rahm in Retreat – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Why Not Twenty? Rasmussen shows the generic poll on Labor Day now expands to a fairly never-seen-before 48-36 lead for the Republicans over the Democrats
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Batchelor: What Is a Generic Massacre? – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: POTUS reads a statement that does not signify and is no longer worth arguing. Stimulus package “will lead to” jobs?
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Batchelor: Battle Tax Axis – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: In The Shape of Things to Come This Mercury Messenger robot snapshot of Earth and Moon in the brightness of reflected sunlight makes me relax for the scale of our ambition to describe what is and how it got here. Also makes me snicker at the closed-mindedness of the
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Batchelor: Earth Moon Full Policy – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Jerry Seib Works Hard to Reset POTUS The eve of POTUS’s second Oval Office speech, this time on Deepwater Iraq, the estimable and trenchant Jerry Seib, WSJ, measures the Obama administration foreign policy in the ummah and finds it “reset.” This is generous and ambitious at once.
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Batchelor: Amateur Zero Hour Oval Reset – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Dead Whale Economy At 1.6% revised GDP growth for the 2nd quarter, the US economy and the Obama administration are floating adrift while losing jobs and suffering more uncertainty and gloom.
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Batchelor: Moby GDP – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: White House Knots Imam Feisal Rauf is a double-talking sharpie who has been practicing his malarkey for a decade on various political actors in both parties (Democrats are no more sucker for it than the credulous GOP) — all in preparation for the big stage of the mosque at
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Batchelor: Money at Ground Zero – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: The Lockerbie bomber Al-Magrahi fraud is deepening the problems of the Obama administration to escape the inevitable “What did you know and when did you know it?” inquiries that will begin anew after the mid-term. The Gordon Brown government cravenly signed off on this scam, and the Scottish government
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Jobs in Reverse The last fig leaf fell off the Obama administration’s hope and change with the first-time unemployment filing going to the Hindenburg Omen-worthy 500,000 the week ending August 14, reported today (as presciently pointed to by Joe Brusuelas, Bloomberg, when we spoke last Friday 13). The markets
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Batchelor: Hindenburg Reverse ‘R’ Hope – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: NRSC Launches on Democrats Using the theme of “extreme,” the National Republican Senate Committee goes at the polls, especially POTUS polls over the mosque at Ground Zero, but also at the bail-out, healthcare, stimulus and jobless polling, and then slides gingerly into the polling that shows the GOP candidates
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Batchelor: Airstrike Jackass – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Liz Cheney is attached to the heartbreaking ad above, and it is a stunner. Try this with the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” being hummed instead of the piano and orchestra background. POTUS in Ohio takes a tossed question about his confusing remarks on the mosque and says, in
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Batchelor: Answering the Wrong Question Precisely – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: POTUS Obama Votes Present On Friday night at the White House, POTUS Obama at a gathering of significant Moslems for the Ramadan meal, proposed that religious freedom is crucial to the American way of life. Shrug
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Batchelor: POTUS Zero – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Spoke to Sebastian Gorka, FDD, re the Obama administration policy for Iraq and learned that there is no policy after the withdrawal of combat troops. POTUS Obama asserts that he is keeping a campaign pledge to move the US out of Iraq
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Batchelor: ‘Five Years from Iraq’ and ‘Taliban Did’ – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: The rumored spike in wheat prices started well before the Russian decision to end exports. The immediate assumption is that food supplies will come under pressure, as Russia was expected to export 11 million tons of wheat and may very well need to import now. The disruption that was
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Batchelor: ‘Rumors’ and ‘Not Getting Worse Fast’ – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes no his blog: Genial and slippery Jared Bernstein is the economic adviser to VPOTUS Biden, and in this stunning four-minute performance of misdirection and distraction, Mr. Bernstein communicates why the Obama administration is deeply, deeply lost inside its own defensiveness. Never answer the question.
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Batchelor: Deeply Lost Batteries – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: The Congressional Black Caucus pushes back at the Democrats on the Hill, and at Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, by sending out agents with the tale of woe that there is a double standard in the Ethics Committee when it moves against the senior CBC lawmakers, Rangel and Waters.
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Batchelor: Blame Standard – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Hydra Taliban Quick note to mention that POTUS is in an unusually defensive posture these days with regard Afghanistan. Petraeus, Mullen and even David Cameron all mention 2014 as a date for departure, handover, which is an euphemism for Afghan control of security. However, the Pakistan Army is ready
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Batchelor: Pashtunistan Hercules – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Accusing POTUS is back on the attack-the-GOP trail — looking again for a way to rally the retreating Democratic members of Congress who flee in panic and despair from the polls and the economy. Last week, you will recall, POTUS accused the Republicans of “making a stand on the
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Batchelor: Bantam Stars – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Spoke with Arif Rafiq, Bill Roggio, and Rufus Phillips re the sudden diplomatic flap between Pakistan and the UK. PM David Cameron remarked at Delhi that Pakistan is untrustworthy and in league with terror teams. Soon after, the Zardari government split with the Pakistan Army ISI
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Batchelor: Partition Riots 2 – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Spoke with David Drucker, Roll Call, to learn that the Democratic leadership in the Senate openly describes its stratgy for the mid-term election as a version of going negative early, late, and always. The Democratic campaign charge, according to Robert Menendez of New Jersey, is to paint the Republicans
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Batchelor: Extreme Weakness – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Paranoids Have Enemies Ahmnadinejad’s whining remarks that the US and Israel are about to attack his nuke facilities is a peculiar demonstration of the old truth that paranoids have enemies. A-N is under assault from the middle-class merchants who have supported the Islamic Revolution for thirty years — the
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Batchelor: Cry Chaos – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Hapless The massive Afghan War Log doc dumpster from Wikileaks, thanks to someone’s access to secret raw intel files, pushes the AfPak region and the Afghan war back into the news. The affair so far plays like the Pentagon Papers of June 1971
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Batchelor: Doc Dump – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: POTUS speaks to the Netroots Nation via video during the Mrs. Pelosi presentation of the morning at the Las Vegas gathering. Spoke with John Fund, WSJ, at the Vegas hall on the mood
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Batchelor: ‘Told You So’ – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: The elephants in Dumbo always make me laugh, and this nostalgic trip to the Melbourne Zoo, to witness young Molly frolicking with her Mum and Aunts, is ready made for remembering Dumbo and the Crows. “I’ve seen everything when I’ve seen an elephant fly!” The White House is in
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Batchelor: Dumbo and the Polls – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Latest from the melodrama at the Department of Agriculture is that the gang that can’t sack straight is having a rethink about jettisoning the hapless, helpless and completely winning Shirley Sherrod while she was in her car, on her blackberry. Why did AgSec Tom Vilsack sign on to this
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Batchelor: Vilsacking – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Cold War by Pixar The so-called swap of the ten Russian deep-cover ops for four genuine Russian security officials who are charged with and/or convicted of betraying Russian national security has now moved into the motive stage of the caper. A Russian voice opines that “hawks” in the U.S
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Batchelor: Boris and Natasha, Missing Persons – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: NASA chief Charles Bolden’s remarks about how POTUS wants NASA to make Muslim countries “feel good” about their contribution to space and engineering have now been abandoned with an embarrassing display of doubletalk and helpless shrugs. Nothing could have made the brouhaha worse than the White House whining.
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Batchelor: Misspeak NASA – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: The Red spy ring without a plot strolls toward a vague conclusion according to reports that there will be a swap of bumbler for bimbo, and Anna Chapman can go home to a TV career and sensational laughter. Nothing about this story adds up
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Batchelor: No Way Spy – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Joe Biden departs Iraq without leaving a boot print on the Green Zone. VPOTUS is the single most effectively meaningless politician in the Obama administration, a man who can do no harm yet rarely leaves a room without creating doubts about his cogency. As scary as a bloviating leghorn
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Batchelor: Bootless Joe – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Petraeus Wins David Petraeus uses the “win” word in Afghanistan, a subtle change of mission form the Obama administration’s approach of management and containment. There is a rule that the first man to speak of victory is usually the fellow who gets the credit
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Batchelor: Winners and Losers – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Moscow Center Stage The FBI sweep of the Russian spy ring is a political gesture by POTUS and his frustrated and overwhelmed Attorney General, Eric Holder.
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Batchelor: Putin Frowns – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: David Petraeus is the strong horse, and the pashas of Pakistan respect the strong horse. This quality will buy Petraeus some extra muscle to rearrange the battlefield
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Batchelor: Obama LBJ – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: POTUS Plugs Something The Wall Street reform bill meanders and chugs through the minds of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd — two geniuses without whom we would not be blessed with delisted Fannie and Freddie and their collective $12 trillion mortgage market — as POTUS sashays to the White
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Batchelor: Barn Door Florida Horse Glue; Kim Gone; and Dream Again of Rome – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Rudd Gone Spoke with Mary Kissel, WSJ, re the swift and silent fall of Kevin Rudd from the prime ministership of Oz. The presenting issue that cracked Rudd’s popularity and threatened was the confiscatory 40% tax on mining resources. The gouging became too naked; the government could not explain
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Batchelor: Warn Warmist Not – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: No Billet McChrystal is relieved of duty and will likely choose to retire pronto.
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Batchelor: McChrystal on Mars – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Who is writing the script? Fabulous, but too fantastic, pell-mell, illogical, climactic.
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Batchelor: Survive – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: The brouhaha over the Rolling Stone gossipy piece, “Runaway General,” is not because Stanley McChrystal and his staff have remarked in a fresh way. The opinions of Holbrooke, Jim Jones, VPOTUS Joe Biden and POTUS are all well known and widely followed.
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Batchelor: Caesar at the Rubicon of Beer – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Bailing out Harry The Sharron Angle team release a caricature of an attack ad that has the unintended consequence of being accurate and funny. Harry Raid’s re-elect numbers are dreadful.
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Batchelor: After Harry – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Malaise Again POTUS climbs into the Oval Office TV stage set to restate again his frustration with the Gulf crisis and to announce the new political offensive on Big Oil on the Green Front. The email from POTUS, via the DNC, is comprehensive, ambitious, unsubtle and bloody-minded in its
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Batchelor: War on Oil, Green Front – (The Real Obama)
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Shock Army Advances on BP The US-launched War on Oil continues with the destruction of BP value and the bullying of Big Oil worldwide. Faced with the prospect of curing America from its addled dependence upon oil and gas, the Obama administration has chosen wisely to destroy Big Oil
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Batchelor: Victories in the First War on Oil – (The Real Obama)