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Little Private Sector Experience in Obama cabinet

The chart below shows the percent of private sector experience in the cabinets of every president since 1900.

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The more private sector experience the more diversity. Conversely, career politicians with no private sector experience can’t provide the president the same valuable knowledge base when seeking advice about helping the economy.

The Obama cabinet has more than 90 percent public sector experience. No other president comes close. It’s mostly politicians advising politicians in the Obama administration.

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Climate debate in front of empty seats

Christine de Veyrac, a French member of the European Parliament, attends a debate on the upcoming Copenhagen summit on climate change in Strasbourg, France.

Obama poll numbers continue to fall

Shown below are the poll results for September followed by October and November. The Obama poll drop is steady and consistent.

Detail for the most recent poll is here.

The $300 million Louisiana Purchase and other Reid side deals

A report at the link below says:

The $300 million Medicaid fix that Sen. Mary Landrieu got inserted into the Senate healthcare bill wasn’t the first “Louisiana Purchase” of the healthcare debate.

Before Rep. Joseph Cao (La.) cast the lone Republican vote for the healthcare bill in the House, he secured assurances from President Barack Obama to work on Medicaid funding, loan forgiveness and issues related to two of his local hospitals.

The best-known deal involved Reps. Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa, two Blue Dog Democrats from the Golden State who secured funding for a medical school for California’s Central Valley.

The report mentions other last-second trade-offs and promises. Wavering legislators, fearful that a vote could cost them back home, hold out until leadership promises them a little sweetener.

But aren’t these “side deals” really bribes? Of course they are but probably none bigger than the Mary Landrieu $300 million deal.

Polls show only 38% of Americans favor ObamaCare but many politicians don’t care. Bribery must turn the ears of politicians deaf.

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Bill Moyers to quit weekly television

A New York Times article at the link below reports that Bill Moyers (pictured) will end his Friday night public affairs show, “Bill Moyers Journal,” on April 30, 2010.

Bill Moyers, former White House Press Secretary for Lyndon Johnson, has become well known for his many one-sided political stories that appeared on his program on Public Television.

Moyers always championed liberal causes and beliefs while assailing anything conservative on his publicly funded program.

The end of Bill Moyers Journal will also end a program, heavily loaded with liberal political content, funded by taxpayer money.

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The bow in Japan explained

Poll: Support for health care reform falls to new low

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan.

More telling is the fact that only 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats.

Congressional Democrats still trying to cram ObamaCare down the throats of Americans.

A short report here says:

The Democrats' polling must be showing something similar. Otherwise, House members wouldn't have competed for permission to vote against it, Senators wouldn't have demanded nine-figure payoffs to vote for it, and Harry Reid wouldn't have held the vote on a Saturday night (as Nancy Pelosi did with the House vote).

The recent suggestions of more limited mammograms and pap smears will further reduce the number of voters in favor of ObamaCare and further push Senate Democrat leaders to cram this bill through by any means possible.

Reducing the number of these critical tests will save money and will be a major step to health care rationing.

Poll data is here.

The climate change push is all about taxing and control

From a report at the link below:

For nearly 20 years, from Al Gore to President Obama, they have been intoning to us that 'the science is settled'. But as ever more scientists from outside the IPCC's self- selected 'magic circle' now maintain, it has never been more obvious that this simply isn't true.

No one has put this better than Professor Lindzen, one of the world's leading climatologists, when he wrote: 'Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st-century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections contemplated a roll-back of the industrial age.'

The climate controversy was never about stopping nature. It was about taxing and control.

Many scientists in the U.S. have been going along with the climate change theory in order to keep their grant money flowing. By going against the ‘warmists’ their grand money would suddenly dry up.

Ask a global warming believer why Al Gore will not debate the so-called ‘warming science’ in his books and movie. Gore won’t. He can’t.

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The convenient deception

Real jobless rate mostly ignored by media

A CNBC report at the link below says:

As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed.

According to the government's broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. The so-called U-6 number is at the highest rate since becoming an official labor statistic in 1994.

So much for the stimulus creating jobs.

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