Hoax and Change - UPDATED

Rush's comments on Obama's speech today pretty much sums up the substance, or lack thereof, Obama's plan for jobs and growth has become. Blame Bush, check. Total revisionist history, check. Rush destroys the speech:



UPDATE: Via Hotairpundit: Karl Rove responds:



See more at the link to Hotairpundit.

Krauthammer Comments On The Power Grab By The EPA: May Bring A Revollution on the Administration's Hands"’

Charles Krauthammer commented on the decision by the EPA to declare greenhouse gases a threat. Charles makes it clear, this is a huge power grab:

“Look, it’s blackmail, a way of saying to Congress: ‘either you do cap-and-trade or we’re gonna do cap, no trade. We’re gonna regulate every aspect of American life.’ This is – if the EPA now has in its power – perhaps it will when acted over time – to intrude into every aspect of American life."

Via Breitbart TV

A Day of Infamy for Global Warming Fatalists

Al Gore can stow away his hypnotic bag of tricks, the Obama administration is planning to announce this afternoon greenhouse gases are a threat and must be regulated. Carbon dioxide (which we exhale) and other greenhouse emissions pose a danger to our health and well-being. Be careful when you exhale folks! EPA administrator Lisa Jackson will make the announcement which will confirm the "endangerment finding" the administration signaled a willingness to declare back in April.

The move bypasses the necessity for climate legislation to be enacted opening the door for federal regulations on businesses large and small though the administration thinks they claims they can carve out exemptions:

The endangerment finding stems from a 2007 Supreme Court decision in which the court ordered the EPA to determine whether greenhouse gases qualify as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. It could trigger a series of federal regulations affecting polluters, from vehicles to coal-fired power plants.

Businesses argue that such a finding would mean even emitters as small as a mom-and-pop grocery store would be forced to comply with onerous greenhouse gas regulations. The administration has crafted rules that would exempt facilities that emit less than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent annually. But it remains unclear if that exemption would hold up in court.

 In light of our fragile economy and 30 year high unemployment levels, adding new taxes to businesses can't be expected to speed along recovery.  The threat must be awfully serious or the announcement is timed to boost credibility of the ridiculous summit currently underway in Copenhagen.  Bet on the latter:

"This action poses a threat to every American family and business if it leads to regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Such regulation would be intrusive, inefficient, and excessively costly," said the American Petroleum Institute president Jack Gerard in a statement. "There was no compelling deadline that forced EPA's hand on this decision. It is a decision that is clearly politically motivated to coincide with the start of the Copenhagen climate summit."

The Washington Post also reports business leaders predict the EPA regulations will be tied up in court for years which is hardly a consolation given this administration's propensity to act without the support of the American people.  Meanwhile the Al Gore brigade is just tickled pink with the news:

Bill Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, said officials on the state and local level "are extraordinarily pleased that President Obama is making this endangerment finding. It will trigger subsequent measures to continue on the road toward making significant progress to address the global warming problem."

Finally the Obama administration finds a problem they can solve.  Unfortunately it is one that doesn't exist.  

Read much more on this topic at Memeorandum

Tiger Woods Latest Mistress In the News

Via  Twitter

Heh, Fox Nation merits a few props for this headline:

Another Tiger Woods Mistress Rears Head
Three more women say they have played a round with Tiger.

So, if we add Manhatten club socialite Cori Rist ( Is that an occupation) to the collection of porn stars, party promoters,  waitresses and would-be models to the mix, Tiger has had himself quite the romp off the golf course.  He seems to have quite the predilection for blondes, though Perkins waitress Mindy Lawton  and model Kalika Moquin prove he can vary his swing.    I could comment on  his taste in women but I think the pictures speak for themselves:

Fox Nation reports:

Jungers, 26, reportedly hired an Orlando lawyer and prepared to dish her story to a British tabloid, RadarOnline.com reports.

It looks as though Tiger is going to be the king of the supermarket tabloids for quite a while.

Saturday Night Live: Desperate Messages From Tiger Woods, "She's so strong"

Here is the other hit skit from the December 5, 2009 Saturday Night Live featuring a desperate Tiger Woods. This is great stuff and Tiger, enjoy!

SNL Opener: Party Crashers in Allentown

This was a hilarious opening and pretty much hits the nail on the head as far as Obama being upstaged lately. The ending is great so watch it all the way through. Too bad though they didn't get anyone to play Desiree joining in the party rather than doing her job. Still, one of the better openers but the Jintao press conference is still my favorite.

JoeMentum: Not Hiding Behind a Public Option Fig Leaf

Joe Lieberman is sticking to his guns on the public option reports Kimberly Strassel in "The Wall Street Journal:"

When Mr. Lieberman says no public option, he means no public option—not an "opt-in" or an "opt out" or a "trigger" (a public option only comes into effect if private insurers fail to spread enough coverage). "We are at the point now where this has become the classic legislative process of trying to get a fig leaf that everyone can hide behind. And I don't want to do that."

Why so adamant, Strassel wonders:

 Mr. Lieberman says that while he is not "a conspiratorial person," he believes the public option is intended as a way for the government to take over health care. "I've been working for health-care reform in different ways since I arrived here," he says. "It was always about how do we make the system more efficient and less costly, and how do we expand coverage to people who can't afford it, and how do we adopt some consumer protections from the insurance companies . . . So where did this public option come from?" It was barely a blip, he says, in last year's presidential campaign.

"I started to ask some of my colleagues in the Democratic caucus, privately, and two of them said "some in our caucus, and some outside in interest groups, after the president won such a great victory and there were more Democrats in the Senate and the House, said this is the moment to go for single payer.'" So, I joke, the senator is, in fact, as big a "conspiracy theorist" as me. He laughingly rejoins: "But I have evidence!"

 Leiberman raises an excellent point, where did this famed public option come from?  The lefty blogs claim it was there all along pressing Lieberman to retract his hateful denial of the beloved public option:

Climategate Update

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Timesonline reports confidence has been so shaken by the revelations from the hacked emails from the CRU, the British Met Office plans to take a full review of their data.  The review is not expected to be completed until the end of 2012:

The new analysis of the data will take three years, meaning that the Met Office will not be able to state with absolute confidence the extent of the warming trend until the end of 2012.

 The Met Office database is one of three main sources of temperature data analysis on which the UN’s main climate change science body relies for its assessment that global warming is a serious danger to the world. This assessment is the basis for next week’s climate change talks in Copenhagen aimed at cutting CO2 emissions.

The Government is attempting to stop the Met Office from carrying out the re-examination, arguing that it would be seized upon by climate change skeptics.

Heaven forbid the politicians should stay out of science or allow a careful review of the so-called "science" they are all positive is settled before they rework the world economy.  Meanwhile, our Politician-in-Chief plans to swoop in for the last day of Copenhagen talks in hopes his mere presence will bring the world leaders  to an agreement on reducing carbon emissions.  Obama plans to promise a 17% reduction in emissions that has no backing in legislation and isn't likely to have much effect on global warming anyway:

By contrast, the U.S. will propose a cut in emissions over the same time period in the range of 17 percent, regardless of the growth of its economy. For the U.S. to achieve the target it proposes, however, Congress will have to pass legislation to curb greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The Senate has said it will not take up the measure until next year.

And even if it does, a 17 percent reduction by 2020 is lower than what scientists say is needed to avert the dangerous consequences of climate change.

We could likely get a 17% reduction in carbon emissions through a ban on politicians discussing the matter.

H/T: Memeorandum