Now it becomes apparent that the Democrats truly are getting desperate! From The Hill:

Jackson Lee [D-TX] said Obama has been targeted unlike any other president.

“I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one,” said Jackson Lee from the House floor.

“Read between the lines,” she continued. “What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?”

Well for starters, it’s been rare to have a President as petulant as this one. This guys reminds me of a Carter/Nixon combo — not a great mix! Doesn’t earn a great deal of respect to walk away from the talks like he did the other night.

At Bloomberg, it’s being reported that even if the debt ceiling is raised, there’s a 50/50 chance that our top credit rating will be lost. It’s not so much how much more we can borrow, it’s how the bloody hell we’re going to pay it all back!

POTUS, armed with ever more elevated hyperbole warms the nation of economic Armageddon if his plan isn’t enacted . . . now, what was that Obama plan exactly? Guess we’ll have to agree to it and pass it to find out what it is. Dems, gotta LUV ‘em!

We could sure use a lot less Jane Harmon out here on the westside . . . hmmmm, one never knows ’cause as Ace reminds us, “. . . the basic operating theory this election: Virtually no Democrat is safe.”

From his keyboard to . . .

Philly requiring bloggers to pay $300 for a business license — Wow! That’s not anything we like to hear — hope it doesn’t become a trend. Wonder if it’s really for revenue generation or just a new means to control freedom of speech?

Mark Tapscott presents a quick list of facts to help us ward off the Democrat meme of how terrible the cost of the Iraq war has been and sure — it’s all Bush’s fault. Yawn.

* Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more.

* Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.

* Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.

Plenty more facts there so go and read it. In another piece, Mark highlights this little piece of financial terror:

* By 2020, half of all income tax revenues will go toward paying interest on a $23 trillion national debt.

Over at the Telegraph, they are discussing whether Obama believes that he’s bigger than the Presidency.

They might also be a glimpse of the future. For Obama, the crowning moment of his presidency have been speeches abroad – the statement in Strasbourg that America had been “dismissive and arrogant”, the address to the Muslim world from Cairo, the acceptance in Oslo of the Nobel Peace Prize.

In Berlin in 2008, Obama cast himself as a “citizen of the world”. He has dismissed the bedrock notion of American exceptionalism by describing it, also in Strasbourg, as little more than narrow patriotism. Elite opinion among liberal Ivy League types – of which Obama is the embodiment – holds that we are already living in a post-American world.

There are few Americans who see themselves as bigger than the presidency but Obama could well be one of them.

Uh . . . oh goody, another speech coming. Bated breath, not.

At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey drops this bomb:

Remember in December when the White House said it would make a “hard pivot” from health care to jobs? That “hard pivot” didn’t materialize until months later, and in a completely different form than one might have assumed. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration’s moratorium on drilling in the Gulf cost Americans 23,000 jobs — and that Barack Obama knew it when he ordered it:

Michelle Malkin has more on that, along with this quote from the Chamber of Commerce about another one of Obama’s pet projects:

U.S. Chamber of Commerce economist Martin Regalia on Monday said the tax increases advocated by President Obama would essentially kill any chance for an economic rebound.

“That’s what you’re suggesting, is a corporate bullet in the head,” Regalia said. “That is going to be a bullet in the head for an awful lot of people that are going to be laid off and an awful lot of people who are hoping to get their jobs back.”

Hang on tight kiddies . . . it’s a gonna be a wild one!

[H/t: Patterico]

However, the tone-deaf folks on the Demmish side of the isle aren’t listening, don’t give a whit, or both! Paul Ryan (R-WI) schools the Prez on why double-counting and offset time frames don’t exactly give one a clear picture of reality.

You can almost see that Obama is playing that scene in The Untouchables where Robert De Niro as Al Capone beats one of his competitors to death with a baseball bat at the meeting’s round table in his mind as he sets his jaw and listens to Ryan score points.

Ha!

Still, bottom line was that Obama threw down the gauntlet and has given the Repubs 4 to 6 weeks to come around and embrace Obamacare or they’ll shove it up our ass via reconciliation! The way to stop this is to convince those Dems that are most vulnerable this Nov. that to vote for the Senate bill — the necessary first step toward that reconciliation process — is political suicide. Hugh Hewitt has the contact list.

Obamacare can be stopped — but it’s sure not dead yet . . . Let’s kill it!

Possibly this Isabel Melendez — the community activist from Lawrence?

Michelle Malkin is keeping a running link fest of voter fraud incidents and allegations.

Over at American Digest Vanderleun breaks down what he sees as the margin that Scott Brown needs to overcome the cheating that most certainly is happening, and the recount shenanigans that are certain if he doesn’t win by double digits.

Dems — if they don’t cheat . . . no way they can win!

[Update: Dems in good ol' California are gettin' . . . er, ah, nervous.]

An open letter to the Democrats in power in Washington D.C.

November 2, 2010 — the most important election in my lifetime!