Most Americans are mad as hell and ain't gonna take it no more

Did you see it in the news this morning? A new WaPo-ABC polls finds out the law of gravity still works.

Two-thirds of Americans are "dissatisfied" or downright "angry" about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every tax dollar they send to Washington is "wasted."

Only 53 cents is wasted by the federal guvmint? More like 99.9 cents. Seriously, did the lamestream media need a poll to tell them that Obama and the leftwingnuts in Congress are in seriously deep doo doo with the voting public after only a year in absolute power?

Of course the WaPo goes on to spin the results madly to try to favor Obama, saying the poll also found the Tea Party movement has nothing to do with the decline in public favor and that Sarah Palin's popularity is going down, not up. This crowd could spin poll results to show that a majority of Americans think the Pope isn't Catholic, but that wouldn't turn him into a Baptist.

Victor Davis Hanson explains what's really behind the public revolt against Obama and the "elitists" who are oh-so-much smarter than all us hicks who cling to God, guns and grits.

What's behind the Tea Party protests, low approval ratings for Congress, distrust of the media and unease with experts in the Obama administration?

In short, a growing anger at the sermonizing and condescension by many of America's elites.

In other news, remember all that populist blather from Obama about cracking down on the greedy Wall Street moguls who are supposedly the cause of the current recession/depression?

It's all BS and Ann Coulter gives us the straight skinny about Obama and Wall Street fat cats.

Employees from Goldman Sachs gave more to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of California -- with Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase quickly following in sixth and seventh place.

Whatever Obama has in mind for punishing the financial industry, I promise you, he won't punish his friends. After JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took a $17 million bonus this week, and Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein got a $9 million bonus, Obama said he didn't begrudge them their bonuses, saying, "I know both those guys."

Now, after all that encouraging news about the state of the disunion, don't you feel all warm and fuzzy? Me neither. Go open a window and shout "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it no more!" Or better still, make sure your voter registration records are up to date. C'mon November when we can start cleaning out Congress! And c'mon November 2012, when we can clean out the White House with a fire hose and a manure rake and move Sarah Palin in.

Global cooling wave extends too far down South for comfort

Where is Al Gore when you need him?

Jetting off in a trail of hydrocarbon exhaust to the Bahamas for the winter?

We sure could use a good wave of "global warming" here in the so-called Sunny South.

It was cold and snowy in Pittsburgh where the sweet wife and I went for Christmas, but that's to be expected.

But we ain't supposed to be having week after week after week of teen temperatures and even single-digit days here in the Sunny South.

I am so ready for a little global warming.

Anybody seen the Goracle?

Paging Al Gore!

An American leader who bows: Another Obama First!

Wesley Pruden, as usual, cuts through the fluff to the heart of the news, Obama's infamous full genuflection to the Japanese Emperor.

He established a new precedent for how American presidents should pay obeisance to kings, emperors, monarchs, sovereigns and assorted other authentic man-made masters of the universe. He stopped just this side of the full grovel to the emperor of Japan, risking a painful genuflection if his forehead had hit the floor with a nasty bump, which it almost did. No president before him so abused custom, traditions, protocol (and the country he represents). Several Internet sites published a rogue's gallery showing how other national leaders - the prime ministers of Israel, India, Slovenia, South Korea, Russia and Dick Cheney among them - have greeted Emperor Akihito with a friendly handshake and an ever-so-slight but respectful nod (and sometimes not even that).

Now we know why Mr. Obama stunned everyone with an earlier similar bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, only the bow to the Japanese emperor was far more flamboyant, a sign of a really deep sense of inferiority. He was only practicing his bow in Riyadh. Sometimes rituals are learned with difficulty. It took Bill Clinton months to learn how to return a military salute worthy of a commander in chief; like any draft dodger, he kept poking a thumb in his eye until he finally got it. Mr. Obama, on the other hand, seems right at home now giving a wow of a bow. This is not the way an American president impresses evildoers that he's strong, tough and decisive, that America is not to be trifled with...

Douglas MacArthur, who ranked above mere heads of state in his own mind, once invented his own protocol on greeting Emperor Hirohito. The emperor, the father of Akihito, wanted to meet MacArthur soon after he arrived to become the military regent of Japan in 1945, perhaps to thank him for saving the throne at the end of World War II. When the emperor invited MacArthur to call on him, the general sent word that the emperor should call on him - speaking of breaches of custom - and the two men were photographed together, astonishing the Japanese. The emperor arrived in full formal dress, cutaway coat and all, and MacArthur received him in summer khakis, sans tie, with his hands stuffed casually in his back pockets. Further astonishing the Japanese, he towered over the diminutive emperor.

But Mr. Obama, unlike his predecessors, likely knows no better, and many of those around him, true children of the grungy '60s, are contemptuous of custom. Cutting America down to size is what attracts them to "hope" for "change." It's no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of "the 57 states" is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.

He no doubt wants to "do the right thing" by his lights, but the lights that illumine the Obama path are not necessarily the lights that illuminate the way for most of the rest of us. This is good news only for Jimmy Carter, who may yet have to give up his distinction as our most ineffective and embarrassing president.

I wonder how many other embarrassments we have in store with our rookie President's first and hopefully brief tenure in office? Each world tour seems to bring at least one new one. As Pruden notes, we may soon be looking back at Jimmy Carter's reign as "the good ol' days."

Sarah Palin vs. MSM, the BS piles higher

Carol Platt Liebau at Townhall.com says it well. The mainstream media is back at again, spinning away and trying to convince the American public that Sarah Palin didn't slobberknock Joe Biden at last night's debate. But this time they couldn't leave all the good stuff Sarah said on the cutting room floor and take a few quotes out of context. This time the people saw Sarah live and she won the day despite the Obama Jr. moderator who came from the so-called mainstream media.

As Carol says, it's like what the lawyer said to the jury after they watched a video of his client committing murder:

Who Do You Believe: Us or Your Lying Eyes?

The MSM is busy today with "experts" and left-leaning commentators trying to convince Americans that Sarah Palin didn't perform as well as all of us know she did last night. Good luck to them. In a real sense, the Palin debate was the moment when the curtain was whisked away from the "Wizard of Media." What was revealed? A group of left-wing, elitist humbugs who have neither regard nor respect for "real Americans" -- regular people who believe in personal responsibility, right and wrong, and worship God rather than government. That's who Sarah Palin is, and with her unpretentious sincerity, her ability to show respect to Joe Biden without knuckling under to him, and her straightforward common sense, she showed that leadership in America needn't be predicated on Ivy League degrees or fancy pontification (contrary to the press bias). Good luck to the media trying to denigrate her again. Americans have seen who she is, and what she's made of. Further attempts to smear her as an ignorant, backwoods hick reveal nothing about Governor Palin -- and the world about those who are so desperate to hold the "regular people" of America at bay.

Amen.

Political Ear Protection gear for veterans

I gotta get me one of these. Maybe a pair of 'em.

A 73-year-old vet was photographed wearing the latest in political ear protection recently when Obama and Hillary addressed his fellow vets at a Veterans of Foreign Wars Post meeting.