Obama Admits He Hasn't Brought Us Together

A little honesty from President Obama is a refreshing and rare thing. Of course, the atmosphere of divisiveness he speaks of was mostly caused by President Obama ramming the democrat's versions of the stimulus and health care reform down Republicans throats. You can't bring people together while spouting "Elections have consequences."

AP reported via Yahoo News:

President Barack Obama says he has not succeeded in bringing Americans together...

"That's what's been lost this year ... that whole sense of changing how Washington works," Obama conceded in an interview with People magazine.

We have to wonder what common values President Obama thinks he shares with the rest of America. If the answer is socialism at home and bowing down abroad, he will fail again.

New GOP ad: The stimulus isn’t working (video)

Here is a new GOP ad featuring Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and a bloodhound. This ad highlights the lack of job creation by the stimulus.


Bloodhounds (video)


Graph from Karl Rove:

From Karl Rove:

Overall, the Obama Administration is now 3.4 million jobs below where they should be to create 3.675 million jobs by the end of 2010. The only sector to create jobs in June was the Education/Health sector, even though it still was 18,174 jobs short of the Obama Administration's monthly target.

New Anti Cap & Trade Ad: "The Breaking Point"

This national ad by American Solutions calls attention to the devastating economic costs of the Waxman-Markey national energy tax.


What will Cap and Trade do?

* Various analysis show that Lieberman-Warner would result in higher prices at the gas pump, between 41 cents and $1 per gallon by 2030.
* The bill would represent the largest tax increase in U.S. history.
* The bill would be the biggest pork bill ever contemplated with trillions of dollars in giveaways.
* Science Applications International Corporation SAIC shows that up to 4 million jobs will be lost by 2030 in the U.S.
* Manufacturing jobs will be one of the hardest hit sectors as the Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that manufacturing output will decline by up to 9.5% in 2030. This country has already lost 19% of its manufacturing since 2000.
* EIA estimates that this bill will result in the loss of nearly 300,000 U.S. jobs by 2020.
* The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that “most of that cost would ultimately be passed on to consumers.”
* CBO says Lieberman-Warner would effectively raise taxes on Americans by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years.
* Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), warned last week that Lieberman-Warner “could result in the most massive bureaucratic intrusion into the lives of Americans since the creation of the Internal Revenue Service.”
* The bill would not have a detectable impact on the climate. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s own analysis, by 2050 Lieberman-Warner would only lower global CO2 concentrations by less than 1.4% without additional international action.
* The Wall Street Journal calls it “the most extensive government reorganization of the American economy since the 1930s.”
* The bill would hinder U.S. competitiveness. It will transfer American jobs overseas where environmental regulations are much more lenient.
* If you are wonderng what is going to happen, just watch and then get involved by calling your Senator on these issues immediately.

NASA admits solar cycles affect global warming

Anthropogenic cooling advocates have long scoffed at the idea of solar activity being a factor in global warming. Now, a new study from NASA has confirmed the theory of solar cycles affecting global temperatures. NASA still clings the the unproven theory that greenhouse gases have been the dominant influence on recent climate change.
From DailyTech:

Some researchers believe that the solar cycle influences global climate changes. They attribute recent warming trends to cyclic variation. Skeptics, though, argue that there's little hard evidence of a solar hand in recent climate changes.

Now, a new research report from a surprising source may help to lay this skepticism to rest. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth's climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution.

The report can be read here. ScienceDaily has an article here.

Past studies have shown that sunspot numbers correspond to warming or cooling trends. The twentieth century has featured heightened activity, indicating a warming trend. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Obama admits current spending is unsustainable

Obama admitted that the current level of government spending in unsustainable. Bloomberg.com reported:

Keynesian Economics Is Wrong: Bigger Gov't Is Not Stimulus