Gas prices climb 6.4 cents overnight

It is 2008 all over again. What reverse the high gas price in 2008? Bush rescinding an executive order banning off shore drilling. That cause a cascade of events that ended the speculation in the oil market. Will Obama do the same? It would be a fat chance in hell that will transpire. So far, EPA clamping down off shore leases, a ban in new refineries, and Obama raising the tax on oil companies. I don't think these will bring down the price of gas.

southeast-michigan">(WXYZ) - Michigan motorists will pay 6.4 cents more for gas today than yesterday -- with the current statewide average now at $4.040 per gallon, reports AAA Michigan.

This is the first time the average price of self-serve unleaded gas has hit $4 across the state since Sept. 19, 2008, when the average price was $4.034 per gallon.

The current statewide average is $1.196 more than the same time last year. The average for self-serve regular rose 4.2 cents in Metro Detroit yesterday, with the average now at $4.020 per gallon.

The Metro Detroit average is $1.187 cents higher than last year at this time.

Half of Democrats Think Bush Did 9/11, More than Half of GOP Think Obama is a Kenyan

No one cares if over 50 percent of Democrats think Bush knew about 9/11. Obama is believe by more than half of Republicans that he is not a US citizen. It looks like an even swap, but there is one thing Republicans have in their arsenal. We can impeach Obama if he is lying. Obama still have 18 months till the 2012 Presidential Elections, which is plenty of time to throw a monkey wrench in his plan. Remember Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos?

(Politico) — I’ve been looking for a good analogue to the willingness of Republicans to believe, or say they believe, that Obama was born abroad, and one relevant number is the share of Democrats willing to believe, as they say, that “Bush knew.”

There aren’t a lot of great public numbers on the partisan breakdown of adherents to that conspiracy theory, but the University of Ohio yesterday shared with us the crosstabs of a 2006 poll they did with Scripps Howard that’s useful in that regard.

“How likely is it that people in the federal government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East?” the poll asked.

A full 22.6% of Democrats said it was “very likely.” Another 28.2% called it “somewhat likely.”

That is: More than half of Democrats, according to a neutral survey, said they believed Bush was complicit in the 9/11 terror attacks.

With a Democrat in the Oval Office, Five Dollars a Gallon is No Big Deal

Rush Limbaugh exposes the hypocrisy of the Main Stream Media. Under Bush, the media went on a rampage with the $4.00/gallon of gasoline, but under Obama, it is denyingly quiet. It is abundantly clear that Obama is forcing us to change our ways. The president wants us to get rid of our big SUVs and trucks. Obama wants us to buy expensive hybrids, smaller economical cars (deathtraps), use more mass transit, and buy defective electric cars. Well, the government cannot tell the American public or force us to buy something that we don't want.

Transcript from Rush Limbaugh Show

RUSH: It is so predictable. There's MSNBC during their one-year retrospective impact of the Gulf oil spill. And you know what the purpose is of this particular episode being anchored by Andrea Mitchell is. The purpose here is to make sure we don't drill for oil ever again. It's to support Obama and the regime 'cause, man, look what almost happened. Do you realize every prediction of doom and disaster from that oil spill ended up being totally wrong, as wrong as you could be if you wanted to be a hundred percent wrong, and yet here they are, their one year retrospective with the whole focal point being, "Boy, it was a disaster, dangerous, could have been really disastrous. We better never drill for oil again." Why do this? What's the big deal about this anniversary? And to whom is it an anniversary, aside from the media? Zilch, nobody.

I want to show you something on the Dittocam. I just turned it off while I zoomed tight. We did a little Google search here. In the previous hour of the program I made reference to the fact that, where are all the stories on the gasoline price going up? Five bucks a gallon. If you heard the riff, you know, I don't need to repeat it, basically the point of it was that compared to 2005, the last time gasoline prices spiked big time, there's no coverage of it. So, yeah, while the price is exceeding four bucks in many places, five bucks in Washington, there's not this accompanying panic. No. What are we getting? A one-year look-back at the oil spill. So the media is doing everything it can to suppress any negative economic impact to Obama, virtually no coverage of the rising gasoline price.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a search, gasoline prices, Google trends. Here it is. That big spike that you see on the left is 2005 when the price was approaching four bucks a gallon and the oil price was around $150. That's been the way they've been covering gasoline prices since. This year, no coverage. See the little spike there. It just proves the point that I was making an hour ago, and that is that there's no coverage on this. I mean people are sending me notes, "Gasoline prices are skyrocketing. People are really feeling the pain." Are they? Do they know it? They're feeling it but do they think anybody else is feeling it? There's no news on it and there's certainly no negative news about it. Whatever news about the gas price going up tends to be, "Well, you know, there's really some good news about this. Less dependence on foreign oil. Less travel. Less accidents. Fewer lives lost." I mean, they're actually doing stories on the benefits of rising gasoline prices. Something you would never see, of course, if a Republican were in the Oval Office.

Liberal Hypocrisy, Abu Ghraib versus the Afghan Death Squad

The perfect double standard. Which is crueler, Abu Ghraib or Afghanistan Death Squad?? Where are the anti-war protesters? This is bull-sh*t!!!

(Washington Times) Reports of a U.S. “death squad” in Afghanistan, complete with the publication of gory photographs, have failed to attract the intense political or media attention afforded a previous war scandal — the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

In 2004, CBS News broadcast an array of photographs showing American jail guards abusing Iraqi detainees. The most famous: a forced pyramid of naked, humiliated prisoners. The depictions touched off an avalanche of media coverage. In Congress, liberals called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Democrats launched inquiries and held a string of well-covered hearings.

In recent months, another wartime embarrassment has emerged. The Army charged five soldiers with murder in the deaths of Afghan civilians in what amounted to a “death squad.” The German magazine Der Spiegel published several digital photos of soldiers posing with the dead last month.

Yet the U.S. media have given relatively little coverage, and no one in Congress has called for Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to quit, planned hearings or raised questions at budget hearings.

Conservatives, while not seeking negative coverage of the armed forces, say it is another example of a blatant double standard. The reason the mainstream media have barely touched the story, conservatives say, is because it happened under President Obama, not George W. Bush.

Ahmadinejad Says Obama Sucks as President than George W. Bush

When Ahmadinejad says Obama sucks as president than George W. Bush, that really means something. It means Ahmadinejad was scared of Bush than Obama. Well, what else is new?

(FNA) TEHRAN- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted the US administration for its deceitful policies, and warned that US President Barack Obama will have to face an end far more embarrassing than what his predecessor, George W. Bush, encountered.

Speaking at a press conference here in Tehran on Monday, President Ahmadinejad stated that the capitalist system sough to save itself and its main base in the Middle-East, i.e. Israel, through entering new players into the scene under the guise of the motto of change and defending the rights of the nations.

But soon it was revealed that change means a change in nations in the interest of capitalism, he added.

Stating his interpretation of the Obama policy, Ahmadinejad said that the difference between Bush and Obama lies in the fact that the current US president uses force and at the same time deception and conspiracy unlike Bush who clearly resorted to weapon and military action to save the capitalistic system.

As regards the future of the US administration, the Iranian president stated, "I believe that he (Bush) left the scene of politics with shame, but his successor (Obama) will have to leave the scene of politics with much more shame because of his resort to both force and deception."

It Was George W. Bush that Put Gaddafi in His Place

Gaddafi was scared of George W. Bush. The Libya president was fearful that his fate would parallel Saddam Hussein. It was Bush who was able to put Gaddafi on a short leash. Now, Obama is giving the opportunity to make Gaddafi a martyr, or if Gaddafi survives, one vengeful terrorist. I miss George W. Bush!

Obama Will Not Give Up His Nobel Peace Prize

If that is the case, George W. Bush should get a Nobel Peace Prize too.

(Politico) President Obama defended his Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, saying that Americans “don’t see any contradiction” in him ordering an attack on Libya to make sure “people aren’t butchered because of a dictator who wants to cling to power.”

“When I received that award, I specifically said there was an irony because I was already dealing with two wars,” Obama said in an interview with CNN from El Salvador. “So I am accustomed to this contradiction of being both a commander-in-chief but also someone who aspires to peace.”

And he said again that the U.S. military has already saved lives there. “I think the American people don’t see any contradiction in somebody who cares about peace also wanting to make sure that people aren’t butchered because of a dictator who wants to cling to power,” he said.

Some foreign leaders have called on Obama to return the Nobel Peace Prize he accepted in 2009 since ordering the Libya attack.

MSM and WH Silence on Obama Abu Ghraib Moment

In war, it's not painted as a pretty picture. It is ugly and sad. It is the survive of the fittest. It is us versus them. There will be collateral damage. In the Obama Abu Ghraib moment, the media is keeping silent while we interpret the meaning of the pictures. With the Abu Ghraib incident under Bush, the media condemned that actions committed by the military to terrorist and criminals. Here, these pictures of the military posing with dead civilians are brushed under the rug by the media. Meanwhile, the White House is hoping the Japan nuclear fallout and going to war with Libya will quell any mention to Obama's Abu Ghraib moment. It seems the Obama presidency is starting to unravel. It is perfect timing for the 2012 presidential elections.

(HotAir) When the Abu Ghraib scandal broke in 2003, the mainstream media and liberal blogosphere couldn’t find enough column inches to express adequately their shock and revulsion. The New York Times alone published 56 stories on the hideous revelation that members of the U.S. Army Reserve had tortured prisoners of war and posed for “trophy pictures”—inexcusable acts that the Times placed squarely at the feet of then-president George W. Bush.

Nor could left-leaning sources conceal their delight when President-elect Barack Obama boldly proclaimed:

[U]nder my administration the United States does not torture. We will abide by the Geneva Conventions. We will uphold our highest ideals.

What a difference a president makes. Until you flash forward to today’s bombshell, dropped by the British newspaper The Guardian, noting that members of a self-styled U.S. Army “kill team” posed for photos not with tortured prisoners but with corpses. Of civilians. Whom they had killed.

United Nations Give the Okay to Attack Libya, Awaiting for US to Lead

The war is going to begin very soon. Since Nato forces is mostly supported by the US military, the United Nations is waiting for the United States to lead the attack. The United Nations gave their blessing to stop Gaddafi by military force. Doesn't this sound familiar when Bush went to the UN to stop Saddam Hussein? What is the difference? Why did Bush get criticize and not with Obama? Hypocrites!

(Reuters) - The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing "no mercy, no pity."

"We will come, zenga, zenga. House by house, room by room," he said in a radio address to the eastern city.

Al Jazeera television showed thousands of Benghazi residents in a central square celebrating the U.N. vote, waving anti-Gaddafi tricolour flags and chanting defiance of the man who has ruled for four decades. Fireworks burst over the city.

Gaddafi had warned that only those who lay down their arms would be spared vengeance to be exacted on 'rats and dogs'.

"It's over. The issue has been decided," Gaddafi said. "We are coming tonight...We will find you in your closets.

"We will have no mercy and no pity."

The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution endorsing a no-fly zone to halt government troops now around 100 km (60 miles) from Benghazi. It also authorised "all necessary measures" -- code for military action -- to protect civilians against Gaddafi's forces.

French diplomatic sources said military action could come within hours, and could include France, Britain and possibly the United States and one or more Arab states; but a U.S. military official said no immediate U.S. action was expected following the vote.

Ten of the Council's 15 member states voted in favour of the resolution, with Russia, China and Germany among the five that abstained. There were no votes against the resolution, which was co-sponsored by France, Britain, Lebanon and the United States.

Gallup Poll: Reagan Was Greatest President Ever

It still bothers me that Clinton is #3...........

(NewsMax) Ronald Reagan tops the Gallup Poll's list of the greatest presidents for the third time, reports AOLNews.

Reagan was the choice of 19 percent of those polled, followed by Abraham Lincoln at 14 percent. Bill Clinton was third at 13 percent.Gallup began its "greatest president" poll a dozen years ago, and Reagan has been No. 1 three times: 2001, 2005 and this year.

The rest of the top 10:

4) John F. Kennedy

5) George Washington

6) Franklin Roosevelt

7) Barack Obama

8) Theodore Roosevelt

9) Harry Truman

10) George W. Bush

Cheney says Obama conceded that Bush policies were RIGHT

(The Hill) President Obama has “learned from experience” that some of the Bush administration’s decisions on terrorism issues were necessary, according to former Vice President Dick Cheney.

In his first interview since undergoing major heart surgery last July, Cheney said he thinks Obama has been forced to rethink some of his national security positions now that he sits in the Oval Office.

Cheney also asserted that Obama has learned that the prison at Guantanamo Bay simply cannot be closed, despite the promises he made while campaigning for the White House.

Janet Napolitano Says Keep Things Status Quo with Illegal Immigration than using Bush's Virtual Fence Program

Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is scrapping George W. Bush "Virtual Fence" program. She is stating that $1 billion is a tough price to burden the American people. Instead, she want to continue the same status quo to detect illegal aliens. In other word, DHS is planning to turn a blind eye, which has been the standard norm.

(ABC News) The Department of Homeland Security today officially scrapped a Bush-era program designed to use radar technology to detect illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a DHS official and a congressional source.

The project, called "Virtual Fence," was rolled out under the Bush administration in 2006 with much fanfare about how technology could help secure the border. Illegal immigrants crossing the border would be detected by a radar and picked up by remote cameras, which were monitored by border patrol agents.

But numerous internal and Congressional reviews found consistent performance problems with the project's systems, which only spanned 53 miles of the vast U.S.-Mexico border.

DHS will utilize some of the existing technologies that were found to be useful in what the agency is calling a southwest border security technology plan.

....Janet Napalitano's plan.....


DHS will utilize some of the existing technologies that were found to be useful in what the agency is calling a southwest border security technology plan.

The new plan "will utilize existing, proven technology tailored to the distinct terrain and population density of each border region, including commercially available Mobile Surveillance Systems, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, thermal imaging devices, and tower-based Remote Video Surveillance Systems." Napolitano added.

The issues that the program encountered were wide ranging: cameras often provided blurry images, the radar system performed poorly in bad weather, and it often displayed false detections that were unable to distinguish between humans, cars and animals.

There were also cost overruns and the primary contractor, Boeing, repeatedly missed deadlines, officials said.

Obama May Care about Football but Doesnt care about a Fallen Soldier

Obama is not a true "commander-in-chief." Unlike Bush, who has visited many families of our fallen soldiers, Obama has better thing to do with his spare time. If putting a wrong name of a fallen soldier on a condolence letter is bad, it is an outrage to deny a 30 second phone call to that grieving family. If the Obama Administration says the president has a very busy schedule to contact a Sean Collin's mom and dad, but was able to make a phone call to Philadelphia Eagles coach thanking him for supporting Michael Vick, what kind of impression would you have for this president. SCUMBAG!

(Fox News) It was bad enough that after Sgt. Sean Collins was killed in Afghanistan his parents received a senator's letter of condolence with the wrong name.

But the soldier's father says the White House added to the sting by subsequently turning down a request for President Obama to personally call Collins' mother.

Pat Collins, a retired lieutenant colonel, told Q13 FOX in Seattle that the family was told last month that the president could not fit it "into his schedule" to call mother Linda Collins about their son's death. Pat Collins, who initially made the request with the White House, said he would've understood, except for the fact that around the same time, Obama found an opening in his schedule for a much-publicized phone conversation with Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie.

Pelosi Rants Democrats Loss Recent Elections Because of Bush

Give it up already! Blaming Bush doesn't work anymore. Obama did this all by himself with the help of Pelosi and Reid. Pretty crazy to see Nancy Pelosi tell CNN's John King that she blames George W. Bush for the recent Democratic loss.

Pelosi Blames Democrat Loss to George W. Bush

Look Who Likes George W. Bush Book Decision Point?

The King of the Ring= Muhammad Ali

Bush job approval rating higher than Obama's

In the past month, Bush popularity and comeback proved that history will judge him fairly. Americans short attention span are fueled by the media's negative narrative. Without using facts, most Americans are fascinated to hate the former president. Bush "mistake" with Katrina, government spending, and the financial crisis are overblown by the media. Looking further behind the personal attacks, each had a Democrat signature associated with it.

The high approval rating is a correction for the poor treatment Bush received from the media since being elected in 2000. With climbing approval numbers, Bush stands alone as the only president to gain tremendous boost in popularity after leaving office. Hopefully, as more Americans are expose to the truth and less what they hear from the media, Bush approval rating is expected to be respectable to the likes of JFK, Reagan, and Clinton.

(Politico) George W. Bush’s job approval rating as president has spiked to 47 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.

That’s 1 point higher than President Barack Obama’s job approval rating in a poll taken the same week.

This is the first time Gallup asked Americans to retrospectively rate Bush’s job performance. And it was a stunning turnaround from his low point of 25 percent in November 2008. The 47 percent number is 13 points higher than the last Gallup poll taken before Bush left office in 2009 and the highest rating for him since before Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Bush’s 47 percent approval rating also raises serious questions about the wisdom of the White House’s decision to relentlessly attack him in the months before the Democrats’ historic losses in the midterm elections. The president had kept warning a House Republican majority would return to Bush-era policies. But Obama’s message did little to galvanize the liberal base, and independents flocked to the GOP on Election Day.

Bush’s rebound gives some credence to what he has long said — that history will eventually judge his presidency.

It Took an Obama White House to Realize How Much We Miss George Bush

(The Telegraph) The 43rd and 44th American presidents are a study in contrasts, but the link between them is symbiotic, argues Toby Harnden. There could have been no Obama without Bush, and only Obama's stumbles could have made Bush look good again so quickly.

Just after his successor Barack Obama took a self-described "shellacking" at the polls, Dubya was back, mocking the current occupant of the White House by his very presence. For the 43rd President, the return must have been sweet.

During the 2008 election campaign, Obama slammed Bush at every turn. Since then, the 44th President has almost ceaselessly blamed his predecessor for everything, even stooping to lambast Karl Rove, Bush's long-time aide, by name during the recent mid-terms campaign.

Two years after Obama was anointed, the halo around his head seemed distinctly tarnished. In his post-defeat interview with 60 Minutes, Obama was at his most listless and meandering, projecting all the certainty of a Hamlet on the Potomac.

Who would have thought that the man hailed as a great American orator and whose stage at the 2008 Democratic convention was a faux Greek temple would be shown up in terms of the theatricality and articulation of the presidency by the man derided as a tongue-tied bumbler and global village idiot?

Looking at the 43rd and 44th American presidents right now, it is worth reflecting that it was only the unpopularity of Bush and all he represented that enabled someone as inexperienced and unproven as Obama to ascend to power.

By the same token, perhaps only a performance in office as myopic, self-absorbed and hubristic as that of Obama could have brought about a Bush rehabilitation so swiftly.

Obama Skipped Out on Veterans Day

We have two very distinct presidents commemorating Veteran Day. While Former President George W. Bush honor veterans in Ohio, Obama went overseas to find anybody willing to listen to his rhetoric. During 2010, Obama skipped out on Memorial Day in Arlington Cemetery and Veterans Day. Honestly, it is embarrassing for a sitting president not to preside and commemorate these military holidays. It seems Obama stopped marking Veterans Day when he couldn't differentiate it with Memorial Day. Frankly, Obama needs to Google Veterans Day and Memorial Day and try again next year.

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Obama and Charlie Crist should take lessons from Former President Bush how to Throw a Baseball

RealClearPolitics - Video - Former President Bush Throws Out First Pitch At World Series

To Barack Obama and Charlie Crist, this is how to throw a baseball. Let a real former governor and president show you how!