The Patriot Post Chronicle 6-8-2011

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 6-8-2011
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The Foundation

"To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted." --Alexander Hamilton

Editorial Exegesis

"You've got to hand it to President Obama and his White House economic team. Faced with [Friday's] dreary May jobs report, they did their best and rolled out the old 'bump in the road' analogy for comfort. As chief White House economist Austan Goolsbee put it, 'there are always bumps on the road to recovery, but the overall trajectory of the economy has improved dramatically over the past two years.' Nice try, but there's no way to spin news that the economy in May created only 54,000 new jobs, which is about one-third the number necessary to keep up with the growth in the labor force. The jobless rate rose for the second straight month to 9.1%, which is especially depressing nearly two years after the end of a very deep recession. At this stage in the Reagan expansion, after a comparably deep 1981-82 recession, the economy was growing by 7% a year and the jobless rate was plunging. This time the economy is growing by less than 2%, and we still have 6.8 million fewer jobs than when the recession began in late 2007. ... The same economists and pundits who promoted the economic policies of the last four years are now lamenting the jobs bust and demanding that Washington double down: More stimulus spending, more Federal Reserve easing, more temporary tax rebates. They can't explain why these policies have failed to date, but we are supposed to rinse and repeat. ... The economy doesn't need more of this. It needs a return to the growth agenda that created the long post-1982 boom." --The Wall Street Journal1

Upright

"You can only expect a robust economic recovery for so long before you figure out, as Herbert Hoover eventually did, that it is not around the corner. Exogenous factors explain some part of the current economic stagnation. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a slowdown in manufacturing. Horrendous tornados did not help. Nor did bad weather, though only a few still bitterly cling to the theory that it's caused by manmade global warming. But poor public policy is surely one reason why the American economy has not rebounded from recession as it has in the past. And political posturing has also played a major role." --political analyst Michael Barone

"Many in the GOP of today are fatally underestimating the power of today's mainstream media and how effective they can be in helping Team Obama win a second term. A myth has taken hold in the GOP: that because of the Internet, the explosion of conservative bloggers and the still-substantial power of talk radio, that the mainstream media have been marginalized. Bull-feathers. That's just ridiculous and is believed by those who don't have a clue about what real Americans have to deal with every day in their real lives." --columnist Douglas MacKinnon

"Healing is a term that has been co-opted from the emotive, liberal, psychobabble crowd and misapplied by politicians to serious situations so often that it has lost any semblance of meaning. ... It is impossible to heal a community suffering from the devastation of a tornado or any other disaster. ... Politicians do not have the power to remove the experience or the suffering. They only have the power to direct resources that alleviate the problem, but do not erase the problem. To think otherwise is pure hubris." --columnist Tom Roberson

"Liberals always cater to man's lowest base instincts. They hate standards for behavior, labeling all rebuke of bad behavior as being intolerant and judgmental. And yet, they believe without divine influence, man is capable of someday achieving universal peace. Totally absurd." --singer, songwriter and columnist Lloyd Marcus

Insight

"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin." --Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

"There is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

The Demo-gogues

Pride and hubris: "Now, my administration has a job to do as well, and that job is to get this economy back on its feet. That's my job, and it's a job I gladly accept. I love these folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, well, this is Obama's economy. That's fine. Give it to me." --Barack Obama

If at first you don't succeed... "The unemployment numbers are obviously disturbing. Are they an anomaly as some people suggest because of the disasters in the South and the Midwest and the rest, or is this something systemic that we have to accommodate in a different way?" --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

The BIG Lie: "What the president has done has improved the situation from where it may have been." --Nancy Pelosi

Let's don't: "Let's allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country's middle class again. We can do that." --Barack Obama

Class warfare: "What we are fighting for -- and I'm a member of the Budget Committee -- is the concept of shared sacrifice. No, you don't balance the budget on the backs of the sick and the elderly and the poor and the vulnerable. You do ask the wealthiest people in this country and the large corporations -- many of whom are making huge profits and paying nothing in taxes -- that they've got to contribute to deficit reduction as well." --Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-VT), the only admitted socialist in Congress

Over the top: "If you go back to the year 2000, when we had an obvious disaster and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally -- and very transparently -- block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And it's nothing short of that blatant." --Rep. and DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), who needs to look up the definition of "literally"

Sticking it out: "I am deeply regretting what I have done, and I am not resigning. I am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused Huma, my wife, and my family." --Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on the Twitter photo scandal that has plagued him for the last two weeks