Boo! Cross-referencing the current economic problems to the Great Depression is not particularly helpful to those who’ve been in charge of Congressional spending.

Another thing to worry about for those Democrat incumbents who threw over their constituents for the guy in the Oval Office.

From David Paul Kuhn’s Great Depression Ghosts Haunt Dem Prospects:

The ghost of the Great Depression has become eerily (more) relevant in recent months. The Depression was the confluence of two catastrophes: an economic bubble burst domestically while Europe faced a debt crisis. The September 2008 market crash brought us the former but not the latter. We now have the latter.

Greece’s debt crisis has spread to the more-vulnerable European economies. This debt crisis remains still an echo of what overtook Europe following the Great War. But it’s a loud echo at that. Markets closed May with their worst monthly declines since early 2009.

Kuhn draws a conclusion that should terrify (most) Democrat congressmen who’ve mindlessly backed the Obama agenda–back when the president was flying high in the polls–over their constituents.

The most likely outcome is not calamitous. But it’s not good. Financial wise men expect a “sideways market” through at least year’s end. That means ups and downs but generally, that stocks remain steadily in this down and unstable market. That scenario should also frighten this White House. No market recovery, no jobs recovery.

No significant jobs recovery by 2012, Obama looks like Jimmy Carter. With recovery, Obama looks like Ronald Reagan. There is another potential scenario as well. Obama did not, like Franklin Roosevelt, focus the full-force of his early presidency on the financial crisis. This president’s inaction would be contrasted against any double-dip recession. Should the market suffer a second crash, Obama could look like Herbert Hoover.

In 138 days, it’s the constituents who will get to speak in a way that will be unmistakably loud: the November elections.

Until then, let the Second Scoop of a Double Dip (Recession) and the Great Depression keep incumbents–and Dem incumbents–awake at night everywhere.

by Mondo Frazier
image: Creative Capital

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Seen at Don Surber’s, who saw it at Gawker.

One suspects the Washington Post is not racist: after all, it’s not like the paper was used for a Tea Party sign. Easy to see why the mistake occurred: both Obama and Malcolm X have produced their share of wind energy.

The Party in Wheeling had it down to a “T”

It wasn’t as big as Cincinnati or some of the other Tea Party events planned for around the country today, but in terms of percentage of the population of the host city, it was BIG.

Main story and more pix at DBKP: Wheeling Tax Day Tea Party: Sunshine, Passion and The Mob

NOTE: More pix and captions will be forthcoming. Give it about 7-10 hours.

WESTBORO BAPTIST COMES TO WHEELING WV

More pix from hate group’s appearance in the Friendly City on April 10, 2010.

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Groups of young folks from Young Life and others prepare for the Westboro invasion.

The crowd starts to get into the mood.

“Go Home!” USA! USA! USA!” and sundry insults were traded back and forth between the crowd and the lady with the quad-signs arrangement.

After about 20 minutes, fully 300 people were surrounding the police barricades set up to keep the two groups apart. The police’s main duty seemed to be keeping various members out of the street to avoid getting hit by passing vehicles.

A large crowd gathered across the street in front of the Cathedral of St. Joseph because there was no more room on the side of the street where Westboro was set up.

Several couples on their way to evening mass wondered who the “crazy people were and why they’re like that?”

The president was not spared. Who does the Westboro graphics?

Interesting sign from one of the counter-protesters. Fight hate with lobster abstinence!

These two locals were well-prepared with appropriate signage.

Mary from Moundsville and her husband, John, had a milder message–which reflected the overall tone of the counter-protesters.

Main story at DBKP: Westboro Baptist: Coal Miners in Hell, God Hates WV

Obama: “My health care bill is really a yummy eclair. Doesn’t it taste good? Well, doesn’t it?”

President Obama continued his “Shit Sandwich Tour 2010″ by whining that Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck can’t see the yumminess of ObamaCare–yet.

“Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it’s pretty apparent, and it’s troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out.

“It happens often when you’ve got an economy that is making people more anxious and people are feeling like there is a lot of change that needs to take place. But that’s not the vast majority of Americans. I think the vast majority of Americans know that we’re trying hard, that I want what’s best for the country.”
–Obama on CBS

Limbaugh responded.

“I and most Americans do not believe President Obama is trying to do what’s best for the country,” he wrote. “Never in my life have I seen a regime like this, governing against the will of the people, purposely. I have never seen the media so supportive of a regime amassing so much power. And I have never known as many people who literally fear for the future of the country.”

Can’t taste ObamaCare’s sweetness after it’s forced on you?

That’s “vitriol.”

Truly, our greatest president ever–and our biggest unifier!

April Fools!

UPDATE: Don Surber has the complete transcript.

Excerpt: The transcript:

He kept all his promises.

Obama: “Change has come to America”

Unemployment is at negative 39%

Obama: “The most sweeping economic recovery package…”

Our deficit is no more.

Obama: “It is time to put an end to the runaway spending and the record deficits”

And global warming has been solved by replacing cars with low-emission unicorns

Powered by the renewable energy of rainbows.

More laws, regulations and police mean more chances to run afoul of them. Extremely helpful video that details how to deal with a police encounter, which is always stressful. Video is 44 minutes long and narrated by narrated by Baltimore trial attorney Billy Murphy from HBO’s The Wire.

EXTREMELY USEFUL VIDEO

A new film by FlexYourRights.org

From the Cato Institute’s 10 Rules for Dealing with Police.

If a free society depends upon an informed citizenry exercising oversight of its government, then more people need to know how to handle themselves in a police encounter. Is cooperation always the best course of action? Or are there times to assert the constitutional right to refuse consent to a search of one’s home or belongings? A new documentary film answers those questions and more in an informative and entertaining series of skits narrated by Baltimore trial attorney Billy Murphy (from HBO’s The Wire). Learn how the safeguards of the Bill of Rights operate outside of the courthouse and on the street. Learn how to make smart decisions and respond effectively to police misconduct.

A few notes:

1-The video itself is 82 minutes;
2–the film itself starts at the 5:10 mark and is approximately 44 minutes long; and,
3- a premiere Q & A session afterward.

Some of the rules are common sense: stay cool and calm. But one thing that this film does is separate some facts from fiction. It also is helpful to know that info you may have heard is correct or not.

Some of the rules are common sense, but hard to practice. Such as, keeping your mouth shut.

It’s long–but worth the watch. It’s so helpful, you might want to watch it in parts. The film itself starts around the 5:15 mark.

video h/t: Instapundit