Schumer: $2 Billion More Not Enough For 'Clunkers'

New York Senator Wants $4 Billion For Wildly Popular Program, Says Senate Really Dropped The Ball Initially

NEW YORK (CBS) ―The rebates aimed at getting gas guzzlers off the road have proven so successful, the $1 billion set aside to pay for them is drying up.
But Congress is set to earmark more money for the program.

"Not more than a few weeks ago there were skeptics who weren't sure that the 'Cash for Clunkers' program would work. But I'm happy to report that it has succeeded beyond our wildest expectation," President Barack Obama said.

"There were people in the Senate who didn't like the program and they said 'We won't let it go through. We will filibuster. Try $1 billion and see if it works,'" Schumer said.
He said those senators now have egg on their face.
"This week's evidence shows that people who said the program wouldn't work, who said that the program was the wrong thing to do, are very wrong themselves," Schumer said.
And even the $2 billion extra voted by the House isn't enough said Schumer, who wants at least $4 billion.
"'Cash for Clunkers' is helping jump start our weak economy," Schumer said.
And get gas guzzlers off the road.

Blog comments;  Seems to me that this will do nothing for the environment. The amount of energy to make these new cars probably far out weighs the pollution from a car that gets 4 mpg better mileage? Sure sales will go up for the auto companies but then what happens after all the clunkers are gone? Hey…and wait a minute…what about all the poor auto mechanics who keep these clunkers rolling? Will they be out of business? What about the sales tax the new owners have to pay and the increased cost of tabs they will eat? Seems that if they could not afford a newer car then they may have problems paying for plates and insurance (they will now need collision coverage if they want to keep a new car running). And all this is being paid for by tax payers….

THE NEWS SPREAD FAST

“HOWDEE NEIGHBOR…IM GONNA GIT $4,500 FOR OLE LUCIE AND GIT MYSELF A INDOOR TOILET AND A CASE Of BUD-LITE….. “

 YET ANOTHER “Cash For Clunkers” SATISFIED CUSTOMER

"I HAD A YARD FULL OF OLD JUNK CARS, NOW A EMPTY YARD AND A POCKET FULL O CASH!"

BEFORE

AFTER

(ACTUAL RESULTS MAY VARY)

Cash For Clunkers In The Crapper

Well that didn't take long. A program to buy back old energy inefficient vehicles has apparently run out of money 4 days into a program that was supposed to last until October. You got to love government efficiency.

“Transportation Department officials called lawmakers' offices earlier Thursday to alert them of plans to suspend the program as early as Friday. But a White House official said later the program had not been suspended and officials there were assessing their options.”

These folks want to control your healthcare. This administration is posting one failure after another. The stimulus package that didn't stimulate, a cap and trade policy that right now is capped in congress, and an attempt at card check that got checked at the door.
This morning Libertarian Party former presidential candidate, Wayne Root, was participating on a panel discussion on Fox and Friends talking about the near beer BS session last night and he brought up the case of the Mustang Ranch in Nevada.
The Mustang Ranch was a highly successful brothel in Nevada, that is until the owner got caught for not paying taxes, and since he wasn't an elected official, got sent to jail. The government took over control of the enterprise and within a year the ranch was out of business. How bad do you have to be to go bankrupt running a whorehouse??
Anyway there are reports all over the place of dealers not being able to get reimbursed from the government for car deals they have already made, that had been approved and now with word that the entire program may be out of money I hope y'all are enjoying all this hope and the change in your pocket.

From; JammieWearingFool 7/31/09

Oboma really meant to say……..

Obama: white cop acted stupidly like an inexperienced rookie, but being one I may be biased……

Socialized Healthcare: No Drugs For The Useless!

Voice of progress: kill the health care hogs!

"Kill the health care hogs!" is the progressive message we hear increasingly from the more socially advanced comrades in Europe. How many times have you stood in line at the pharmacy behind an ancient decrepit walking dead? Inevitably, they order dozens of medications and then pay almost nothing as our Government picks up the tab! How is one to deal with these selfish broken-down useless monsters as they suck the economic lifeblood from our Cities?

As usual, the Europeans have been leading the way. We all know how successful their previous bold moves in socialized health care have been.

In a true socialist society, a death of one elderly parasite is a equal gain for the entire community. You know…like leveling the playing field…

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"Me and my hottie like a good medicinal tonic now and then, but these oldies are out of control!"

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"Medicine is like a fine wine, to be had by few and only on special occasions."

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"I sleep with one eye open, else I get mercy killed by me son-in-law."

Not long ago the British Government took on a Health Care Hog who wanted to live on a feeding tube ON THE GOVERMENT’S DIME! This horrendous man, the so-called English Patient, sued to ensure that he will not be forced to endure death by dehydration when his paralysis kicks in. The socialist system must and will crush him like a bug for the sake of the common good! Indeed, if everyone in England gets a feeding tube, there won't be enough money for social equality programs and global warming studies!

Every day THE British see the useless amongst them demanding increasingly more than their share! The so-called "Alzheimer's patients" selfishly take expensive medications to delay the inevitable! Someone should tell these people that they have an INCURABLE illness. And in five minutes when they forget what they were told, we should tell them AGAIN! The Britons are screaming, "No drugs for the useless!" It is a  necessity that such ethics should also win over the backward individualism that still lingers the United States.

The most progress has been achieved, of course, by the French. We all applauded when the French said NON to the human leeches with too many decades against them, as forthright citizens deserted the elderly for August vacation leaving the prunes to wither and die! I am so proud of our European colleagues! Not since the French distributed AIDS tainted blood to avoid the excess cost of a screening test produced by American capitalists have we seen such forward thinking!

The main question of the day is, can Americans afford NOT to adopt socialized healthcare? Everyone knows that the individual will never take the necessary steps; it is up to the State to do it for us. In a vital decision like this, do we really need to depend on the vote of emotionally underdeveloped 60+ year old geezers? Those incapable or unwilling to acknowledge the moral superiority and the ethical progress of the more socially advanced Europeans, do not deserve a right to vote. Voting rights shall be taken away from them old farts, as well as their medicine.

John Conyers…What a Guy!!!!!

 "What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?" Interestingly enough, it was Conyers' own supposed ability to understand the law that made him a viable candidate for Congress to begin with.

Blog comment: Maybe someone will introduce a bill to ban all numb-skulls from holding a Congressional seat and name it “ Term-Limit Reform Bill”. John and his flock will sign it without reading it and Presto!, bye-bye to all the leaders in Congress.

WANTED: Campaign Manager for Martha Reeves

DETROIT -- A flier supporting the re-election of Detroit City Councilwoman Martha Reeves is raising eyebrows just weeks before the August primaries.

With a resume that hardly needs padding, Reeves claims she is a member of eight organizations and lists the organizations' logos on the back of the flier.

When asked if she got permission to list the logos on her flier, she said, "Well, since I am a member -- no. It’s just public knowledge."

Of the three organizations that Channel 4 was able to contact, all said that Reeves is either not really a member, improperly used the organizations logo or mistakenly used the wrong logo.

One of the logos listed is the Detroit Lions. The NFL-protected logo cannot be used without permission. If used improperly, a person or organization can be sued.

"I am a member of the club -- The Detroit Lions Wizard of Oz Club. All of those organizations I am a member of," Reeves told Channel 4.

However, Reeves was apparently referring to her childhood fantasy of being the Cowardly Lion in her favorite The Wizard of Oz.

A Detroit Lions spokesman told Local 4 ..it was most likely an innocent mistake because it is really difficult to tell the difference between the logos and  because they both have the color blue in them.

The Detroit Zoological Society told Local 4 that they believe an improper use of its logo was used, “but what the heck, we got a lotta lions around here and maybe we missed her on our last feeding?”

The Detroit Historical Society told Local 4 that Reeves is not even a member but added that ..”Martha Reeves is in the process of being inducted into Museum of Natural History ...and maybe that will make her a member or sorts?”

Reeves said she has not asked any of the organizations listed, including Motown, the AFL-CIO and the Rogell Golf Course for endorsements but said she was sure they would in a heart-beat if the Wizard would only give her a heart…

Although Martha Reeves is internationally famous for being the lead singer of the group Martha and the Vandellas she has now decided to use her middle name on the ballot.

The flier reads Martha Rose-Reeves on one side of the flier and Martha-Rose Reeves, with the hyphen in a different spot on the back.

"That's my name and I want everybody to know that. Barbara-Rose Collins exposed me when we were given an award – a rose award," said Reeves.

The flier also states, "Elect Martha-Rose Reeves and the Vandellas."

When asked if the Vandellas were also running for council, she said, "Yes. They are running and dancing in the streets and they will report back to me directly to advise me on what has to be done to improve the quality of music in the neighborhoods"

Blog comment; Well now, enough said…..she’s got my vote!!!!! Just thing how boring City Council would be without her?…

Nancy Pelosi needs a mental evaluation!

Mostly courtesy of Rob, Say Anything Blog…

Speaker Nancy Pelosinochio

John Fund reports in the Wall Street Journal:

Blue Dogs who are dragged into Speaker Pelosi’s office should be aware of just how she is selling the health care bill. Yesterday, she told supporters it represented “real change,” because it meant “a cap on your [health care] costs, but no cap on your benefit.”

Essentially, what Pelosi is saying is that the Democrat plan for health care can provide you with an unlimited amount of health care “benefit” on a finite budget that’s actually represents less spending then we’re doing on health care now.

Anyone who has ever planned a wedding reception knows differently.  Think of it this way: Private health care is a cash bar.  Government health care is an open bar.  We all know that less booze gets consumed at a cash bar than an open bar, and thus open bars are very, very expensive.  But what Pelosi is suggesting is that we can have our health care be an open bar, where people can get all they want and have someone else pay for it, and simultaneously have it cost less overall than a cash bar where people have to pay for what they get.

This is simply not true.  Pelosi is either lying in favor of her plan for health care or she’s economically illiterate or better yet she is way over due for a mental evaluation…

The truth is, if the Democrats actually intend private health care to cost less than private health care, it can’t be an open bar.  It’ll be more like the sort of bar where you can drink all you want and you don’t have to pay the bartender, but the bartender gets to pick what you drink.  And you have to wait 20 minutes for each drink.

And it costs you $1,000 to get into the reception.

Blog comment and photo submitted by “Willie Wonker” of New York..

Obama Mouthpiece: When The President Called The Cops Stupid He Didn’t Really Mean Stupid

Everything Obama says has an expiration date.  It’s getting to the point where we may not even need to listen to Obama directly any more.  It would be a waste of our time.  We may as well just sit around and wait for his handlers to tell us what he really meant to say. The White House today sought to soften the tone of President Obama’s criticism of police in Cambridge, Mass. for arresting prominent professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home earlier this week.Asked about the incident at his nationally televised news conference last night, Obama said he thought “any of us would be pretty angry” about such an incident and that “the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.”

But this morning after several major police unions expressed outrage over the remarks, White House spokesman Robert L. Gibbs told reporters that Obama does not regret what the president said about the Cambridge Police Department, but he had not meant to specifically criticize James M. Crowley, the Cambridge police sergeant who made the arrest.

“Let me be clear,” Gibbs said. “ He was not calling the officer stupid, okay? He was denoting that . . . at a certain point the situation got far out of hand, and I think all sides understand that.”

There’s that “let me be clear” thing from the Obama administration again.  Every time they say that, the only thing that’s clear is they’re about to tell us a whopper.

Obama said the cops acted stupidly.  There’s no getting around that now.  It’d be better for Obama and his people to just admit to the mistake than to try to convince us that we didn’t really hear what we heard.

Good Time are here again!!!!

Balerina Rahm Emanuel without his tutu proclaiming “We rescued the economy from the wicked wizard of OZ”

WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama shifts his effort to convince the American people healthcare reform is the right thing to do right now to prime time Wednesday.

In an evening news conference, Obama is expected to outline the case for healthcare reform as well as provide an update on what has been accomplished since he took office in January.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told The New York Times Obama intends to use the news conference as a "six-month report card," to talk about "how we rescued the economy from the worst recession" and the legislative agenda moving forward, including health care and energy legislation.

Well…..It’s about time we got some good news….”The economy has been rescued”. Just in time to pass the Trade and Cap bill and Obomba’s health care bill a.k.a “the Kavorkian blue light special”. How cum nobody told my neighbor who lost his job and went to Florida looking for a job at McDonalds? He would have stayed if he knew the economy was rescued”.

N. Korea Escalates War of Words, Calls Clinton Vulgar, Unintelligent, Obomba agrees!

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:21 AM

PHUKET, Thailand, July 23 -- The war of words between North Korea and the United States escalated Thursday, with North Korea's Foreign Minister LongDongPong lashing out at Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in unusually personal terms for "vulgar remarks" that he said demonstrated "she is by no means intelligent, and sometimes she looks like a schoolgirl, sometimes like a pensioner going shopping”.

Clinton, earlier this week likened North Korea to an unruly child "What we've seen is this constant demand for attention," Clinton said. "And maybe it's the mother in me or the experience that I've had with small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention -- don't give it to them, they don't deserve it, they are acting out, the little brats"

Blog; Well now….Glad to see all this new diplomacy exuding from the Obomba administration….Great to see the new foreign police strategy at work!!!

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Clinton commented; “sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me….so you can all go Phuket!”

“GOVERNMENT MOTORS”

“Our goal is to end dependency on oil…”

Obama’s latest invention!!!!

Cap and Trade Climate Bill

By Rob Hotakainen, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Sat Jul 11, 6:00 am ET

WASHINGTON - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) warns of 'droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution, blindness, impotency and more.' -- if Senate fails to pass bill...

She says there's a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation's children.

Blog Comment; You remember Boxer? She was at a Capital Hill Hearing last week grilling Army Brigadier General Michael Walsh when he called her “Ma’am”…Boxer responded;

"Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it."
The general's response? "Yes, Senator."

Now that she is universally accepted as a Senator, Boxer now plans on sharing her ability to forecast the future. She is working hard to earn the new title of “Senator odd illuminus pro psychic psycho”

A little know fact is that Boxer was born with this ability to forecast the future from her Gypsy heritage. Unpublished rumors say her lineage is traced back to at least two well known gypsies, her great-great-great-grandparents, a blind Gypsy shoplifter and a Gypsy moth.

“Six Fingers Yankonit Smirnoff” and

“Gypsy-Lee Donka from Cucamonga”

Al-Qaeda Kidnaps Obama's Teleprompter

The Peoples Cube July 2, 2009;

In an audacious raid Friday, al-Qaeda terrorists managed to slip past White House security and seize President Obama's teleprompter. Their demands were released in a grainy video, which apparently showed the president's teleprompter, bound and blindfolded but  unharmed, while heavily armed masked men stood behind it, quoting from the Qur'an. The content of their demands is not being released.

Leon Panetta, CIA Director: I'd like to address the terrorists, wherever they are hiding: If you did this because you were annoyed by our president saying "uh" too often in his speeches, then stealing the teleprompter is not going to help. Just think about it.

Janet Napolitano, DHS Secretary: I want to stop this misguided nonsense of calling terrorism "man-made disaster." A terrorist is a terrorist. They are evildoers and not "man-made disaster operators" for crying out loud!

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President Obama, visibly shaken, attempted to address the White House press corps on his own. "Words, uh, um, I, uh, heh-heh, well..."

"We need a verb!" shouted David Gregory of MSNBC.

"I uh, know that," quipped the president testily. "And... I'll make sure my staff, uh, gets back with you," he resumed after regaining his composure.

Bravely attempting to continue his speech without the teleprompter, Mr. Obama said, "Um, let me be, uh, clear. Um, this barbaric act will not be, you know, tolerated. And... We call on all nations to help us fi-fi-find that, uh, you know, teleprompter. You're either with us or, um, against us. And... I have authorized CIA director, uh, Leon Panetta to use, um, enhanced interrogation techniques to be e-e-employed to help us gain, um, like facts and stuff... that these uh, you know, evildoers may have. And... I have directed that one prisoner be executed every 30 minutes until they-they-they restore that, uh, you know, teleprompter."

Vice President Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Biden spoke next. "Let me at 'em!" the former senator growled. "I know where these people work. After our helicopter was forced down in Afghanistan, I held these thugs off for a week in bitter hand-to-hand fighting. You'd better mark my words: the only language these Neanderthals understand is brute force, and they're messing with the wrong man. Sure everybody thinks we're a bunch of imbeciles up here, and that may be true, but let me tell you, they've got another thing coming. We're in this fight for the long haul, or as I like to say it, 'If necessary for years, if necessary alone.'"

"Until that teleprompter is found," fumed Senate majority leader Harry Reid, we must, and we will prosecute this war to victory. I assure the president of the full, bipartisan support of the US Senate. Defeat is not an option."
"Why these terrorist animals aren't on the rack having their bones slowly pulled out of their sockets is beyond me," complained House speaker Nancy Pelosi. "I mean, I know that the 9-11 attacks were totally inappropriate, and like all Americans I was shocked by the environmental damage, but this latest action is beyond the pale. Clearly, it points to the failure of the last administration," continued Pelosi. "Contrary to my urgings to use any medieval form of torture they could conceive of, they insisted on being overly concerned about the rights and humane treatment of these, these, ugh! I don't care if I personally have to pull out their fingernails with rusty pliers! That teleprompter must be restored to the American people."
In the meantime, the Pentagon has cancelled all leave while anonymous sources report that the Strategic Air Command and nuclear missile submarines have had their level of readiness raised to DEFCON 1.

Sixty…Magic Number or New Average IQ of Senate?

Al Franken: Helping to maintain the decorum of the Senate since 2009.