Reporting from Washington — Even as he takes a series of executive actions to juice the economy, President Obama said Wednesday that he alone can’t solve the unemployment crisis and he needs Congress to spend money on major new programs to dent the jobless rate.

In recent weeks, Obama has been trying to bypass Congress, using his own executive authority to reduce student loan payments, help struggling homeowners refinance their loans and ease the shortage in prescription drugs. He has been acting under a new battle cry: “We can’t wait.”

But in an appearance at a bridge connecting northern Virginia to Washington, D.C., Obama conceded that his strategy has limitations. On his own, he can’t create enough jobs to find work for the 14 million unemployed, he said.

May be The Obama doesn’t know Harry Reid the Democratic Leader in the Senate is holding up over 12 bills passed by the House and Sent to the Senate.

In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats has introduced legislation to create an official process that will allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office.

Ironically, Obama revoked a similar George W. Bush order in one of his first official acts as president. In 2001 Bush penned an executive order severely limiting public access to his presidential records. Shortly after swearing in, Obama killed it as part of his much-ballyhooed commitment to government transparency. At the time, the new president claimed that he was giving the American people greater access to “historic documents.”

If the Democrats’ proposed measure (Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011) becomes law, former presidents will be allowed to assert a new “constitutionally based privilege” against disclosing records of their liking. Here is how it would work; the Archivist of the United States would be required to notify the former president, as well as the incumbent, of intentions to make records public. Anything that either the former or current president claims should be kept private won’t be released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaT19rQ-Do&feature=player_detailpage

“You Need to Scold those Darned Republicans!!”
By HELENE COOPER
Published: August 11, 2011
HOLLAND, Mich. — In the seven days since Standard & Poor’s downgraded the country’s credit rating, political observers and frustrated Americans alike have asked this same question: Why doesn’t President Obama haul lawmakers back to Washington to deal with the worsening economic woes?
On Thursday, Mr. Obama gave his answer. “The last thing we need is Congress spending more time arguing in D.C.,” he said in an angry speech before workers and executives at a battery plant here.

http://www.patriothobbits.com

Here is all the Democrats can offer the people since their record is one of total failure and incompetence.

Stand with President Obama: End Tax Breaks for Billionaires and Big Oil
BREAKING: Speaker Boehner has irresponsibly QUIT negotiations with President Obama.
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Critical budget negotiations have left the GOP refusing to give up even one penny of tax breaks for Big Oil and billionaires.

What do Republicans support? Recklessly slashing Social Security and Medicare to make sure their special interests donors never have to pay their fair share.

Sign our petition right now telling Speaker Boehner and the GOP to end special tax breaks for Millionaires and Billionaires and to stop pushing America’s economy to the brink of disaster.

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Take and fact check those lies above for yourself. Who do you think will pay any increase in oil taxes? Has OUR government not already done enough damage to the price of oil. Is oil production under attack from the Obama administration, YES. Has the price of gas continued to advance toward 4.00 a gallon, YES.

Who is causing the collapse of OUR economy?

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Congressman Mack today welcomed the support of Tea Party Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) as he signed on to the “One Percent Spending Reduction Act,” legislation – also known as the “Penny Plan” – that was introduced by Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) last week, and authored by Congressman Connie Mack (R-FL) last spring in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Mack stated: “The support for the Penny Plan is growing almost daily on both sides of Capitol Hill as we draw closer to President Obama’s August 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling and continue Washington’s reckless spending. Senator Paul’s election last year was another clear example of the voters saying ‘enough is enough’ with the way Washington spends their money and having Senator Paul’s support for the Penny Plan should send say to those voters, ‘We heard you loud and clear.’”

Presently the Mack Penny plan enjoys the support of over 40 co-sponsors in the U.S. House, the backing of the Republican Study Committee’s 103 Members, and two key U.S. Senators.

The Penny Plan balances the budget by:
– Cutting total federal spending by one percent each year for six
consecutive years,
– Setting an overall spending cap of 18 percent of gross domestic
product in 2018, and
– Reducing overall spending by $7.5 trillion over 10 years.

If Congress and the President are unable to make the necessary cuts, the bill’s fail-safe triggers automatic, across-the-board cuts to ensure the one percent reductions are achieved.

Last week Senator Enzi stated: “This proposal is simple, effective and real. That’s a winning combination that I hope my colleagues can get behind. If they can’t, I hope the people who elect them will.”

Mack added, “At President Obama’s news conference last week, he talked about hard-working American families having to make tough budget decisions at home – so is it too much to ask the federal government to do the same and eliminate one penny out of every federal dollar spent?”

“I think this piece of legislation is about as weak and senseless as anything that has ever come on this Senate floor. And I’m not going to waste the Senate’s time day after day on this piece of legislation, which I think is an anathema to what our country is all about,” Reid said on the Senate floor.

“So everyone, understand. We’re going to have a vote tomorrow (Friday)…I’m not going to wait until Saturday. We’re going to have a vote tomorrow, and I feel confident this legislation will be disposed of one way or the other.

“The American people should understand that this is a bad piece of legislation – perhaps, some of the worst legislation in the history of this country.”

Really?

After 2 1/2 year you and your Party didn’t pass or submit a budget.

After spending like you didn’t care who was paying for it, BECAUSE YOU DIDN”T.

After driving the car out of the swale you are your PARTY drove it off a cliff.

After driving more Americans to food stamps in the history of this country.

After driving unemployment thru the roof.

After entering into a civil War without getting approval from Congress.

Now you decide to use OUR senior citizens as political pawns?

You, The Obama are a total disgrace and have now proved to all America why Socialism is always a failure for the people and success for elitist members of government and their friend in big business.

Senator Marco Rubio

There is broad consensus in Washington that a “balanced approach” between spending cuts, controls, and increased revenue is the only possible way to reduce our $14.3 trillion national debt and avert a Greek-style debt crisis. I share this perspective.

As the ongoing debt negotiations advance, members of Congress should evaluate the components of a debt package through one question: Will this make it harder or easier for the American people to create jobs? For my part, I have never met a job creator in Florida that has told me they are waiting for Congress to pass another tax hike before they start growing their business.

Unfortunately, there are indications some are willing to accept that higher revenues in a debt package should come from a $1 trillion tax hike, even at a time when the unemployment rate is 9.2 percent and 25 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. I vehemently disagree with this approach and will oppose a net tax increase on the economy that makes its way into a debt reduction deal.

To be clear, new revenues are an essential component of any viable debt reduction deal. We can’t simply cut our way out of this debt; we also need to grow our way out of it. The best way to do this is by increasing the number of taxpayers gainfully employed in our economy and by easing burdensome regulations, not by raising taxes.

We can generate lasting economic growth and trillions in new revenues for the federal government through pro-growth tax reform. Sen. Pat Toomey has a budget proposal that lowers top marginal tax rates to 25 percent in a revenue-neutral way and eliminates loopholes and deductions, resulting in $1.5 trillion of additional real growth over the next decade and millions of new private-sector jobs, according to the Heritage Foundation. His budget recognizes that tax cuts and an overhaul of our 70,000 page tax code will create jobs and generate trillions in new revenue.

Net tax increases are poor economic policy. Will raising taxes on manufacturers make it easier for them to hire new workers? Will raising taxes on American energy companies make it easier to create jobs? Will raising taxes on the businesses that Democrats refer to as “millionaires and billionaires” allow those businesses to expand? Across the board, the answer is “no.” Instead, these tax increases will kill jobs in every district, state, and industry in the country. Regardless of the rhetoric coming from Washington politicians, these taxes will also have a mathematically insignificant effect on deficit reduction.

I proudly support a “balanced approach” in the context of debt reduction that grows the economy and boosts tax revenues in the process. But when presented with the option of choking our weak economy with yet another net tax increase, I will oppose it. Our country needs new taxpayers, not new taxes.

A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.

Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.

Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.

“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said Friday. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”

Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami, said she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved.

“The TSA works with passengers to resolve any security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner,” she said. This is just another THUG UNION of The Obama Administration.

Weber’s mother entered the airport’s security checkpoint in a wheelchair because she was not stable enough to walk through, Weber said.

Wheelchairs trigger certain protocols, including pat-downs and possible swabbing for explosives, Koshetz said.

“During any part of the process, if there is an alarm, then we have to resolve that alarm,” she said. The alarm should be the assault on the elderly and Children by these TSA thugs.
Weber said she did not know whether her mother had triggered an alarm during the 45 minutes they were detained.

She said her mother was first pulled aside into a glass-partitioned area and patted down. Then she was taken to another room to protect her privacy during a more extensive search, Weber said.

Weber said she sat outside the room during the search.

She said security personnel then came out and told her they would need for her mother to remove her Depends diaper because it was soiled and was impeding their search.

Weber wheeled her mother into a bathroom, removed her diaper and returned. Her mother did not have another clean diaper with her, Weber said.

Weber said she wished there were less invasive search methods for an elderly person who is unable to walk through security gates.

“I don’t understand why they have to put them through that kind of procedure,” she said.

Koshetz said the procedures are the same for everyone to ensure national security.

“TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability,” she said.

Weber filed a complaint through Northwest Florida Regional’s website. She said she received a response from a Homeland Security representative at the airport on Tuesday and spoke to that person on the phone Wednesday.

The representative told her that personnel had followed procedures (orders) during the search, Weber said.

Just following rules and regulations (orders), isn’t that what Lieutenant Calley said at M? Lai? Isn’t that what the Nazis elite said at Nuremberg? Now we hear it from The Obama TSA.

“Then I thought, if you’re just following rules and regulations, then the rules and regulations need to be changed,” she said.

And Congress has done what to stop this abuse??? NOTHING!!!!!!

Weber said she plans to file additional complaints next week. “I’m not one to make waves, but dadgummit, this is wrong. People need to know. Next time it could be you.”