Obama’s Unqualified RINO Approved by Senate for Defense Secretary

OBAMA GETS HIS RINO CHUCK HAGEL; AMERICANS LOSE Allahpundit explains the crazy votes: The final vote: 58-41, which is a bit closer than the 71-27 margin on cloture earlier today. There are 15 Republicans who think voters are too dumb to realize that the cloture vote is the one that assured Hagel’s confirmation and that, by voting yes on that and no on the meaningless final vote, they can pretend that they “opposed” Hagel. And in fairness, they’re probably right; most voters likely are that dumb. But let’s name those 15 anyway: Alexander Ayotte Blunt Burr Chambliss Coburn Collins Corker Flake Graham Hatch McCain Murkowski Sessions Thune [...] I can’t believe a single one of those 15, let alone the scores of Democrats who voted for this guy, seriously believes he’s prepared to run the Defense Department…The next time McCain and Graham pound the table about defense cuts or O’s foreign policy, remember that they both voted to send Chuck Hagel on to the final vote. That’s how serious they are. As for Republicans voting yes, there were four: Cochran, Johanns, Shelby, and … Rand Paul, who voted no twice on cloture. That’s the most bizarre vote array on a nominee I could imagine. Liberatarian Rand Paul Voted for Chuck Hagel Allahpundit writes: Here’s Paul’s reasoning: “I voted no because I wanted more information and I think that part of what the Senate does is try to get information about the nominees,” Paul told reporters …“There are many things I disagree with Chuck Hagel on…but the president gets to choose political appointees,” Paul said. [...] If “the president gets to choose political appointees” is sufficient reason to vote yes, then (a) we should get rid of the Senate’s advise-and-consent responsibility and (b) at the very least we should not be filibustering nominees, as Rand Paul voted to do twice. Even if he did that purely to squeeze the White House for more information, why would he vote yes on the final vote when they never gave him that information? And if the president’s entitled to his nominee of choice, why would Paul demand more info about Hagel in the first place? Just rubber-stamp him. Vote yes on every vote, no questions asked.

OBAMA 2011: Wanted Sequester Cuts. OBAMA 2013: Against Them (Video)

OBA-MANIPULATION

2011 Obama defends automatic spending cuts (Nov. 21, 2011): “Already some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No.” “I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending.” 2013 Obama predicts Armageddon if sequester cuts go through (Feb. 19, 2013): “So these cuts are not smart. They are not fair. They will hurt our economy. They will add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls. This is not an abstraction — people will lose their jobs.”

(H/t: TheRightScoop.com)

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Ohio Double Voters Not Cooperating with Investigation

DEMOCRATS ON DOUBLE VOTING: WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

Remember the Ohio Democrat poll worker who brazenly admitted that she voted twice for Obama during the 2012 presidential election (and currently being investigated for potentially voting six times in 2012)? Well, 18 persons are also being investigated for voter fraud in Ohio. But not all are cooperating.

Eric Shawn at Fox News has an update to the Ohio voter fraud investigation: [Video 1, Video 2] In written reports detailing the 19 cases, Board of Elections investigators described their findings. In one instance, an investigator called a suspected double voter and was hung up on. “I explained that she voted twice and she told me not to bother her and get off her phone and she hung up,” the investigator wrote. Another voter admitted to double voting, but did not think it was an issue. “The voter said yes she ‘voted early’ and then voted again, then she asked ‘what’s the problem?‘” according to the report. Yet another voter was at a loss for explaining why he voted more than once. “Voter said he remembered both times. He doesn’t know why he voted twice,” the report said. The documents show that another voter said he had received a phone call before Election Day telling him his absentee ballot would not count. When investigators questioned him about voting two times, the voter replied “‘as usual, you guys are wrong.’ … he was curious about the investigation and asked ‘Now what will you do’ and ‘are you taping me now?” The Hamilton County Board of Elections is holding hearings to further investigate these cases. [...] As part of a new effort to root out any voter fraud, Secretary of State Husted has ordered all 88 of the state’s county Board of Elections to hold public hearings on any credible voter fraud allegations or claims of voter disenfranchisement during the 2012 election. He said any substantiated allegations should be turned over to prosecutors.

Obama’s is the Worst Economic Recovery in History (Graph, GDP Data)

“Obama has presided over the worst multi-year recovery in American history since the end of World War II,” CNSNews found using public economic data. During Obama’s so-called economic recovery, the economy grew only 7.5% while other post-recession periods saw double-digit growth from 11.7% to 51.2%. “From the end of the last recession in June 2009 until the fourth quarter of 2012, the economy grew only 7.5 percent, increasing from $12.7 trillion to $13.6 trillion,” explains CNSNews. We prepared graphs and tables to illustrate how weak Obama’s economic recovery has been. (Sources: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) since 1949 and NBER’s List of U.S. Recessions.)

RECESSION PERIODS (A recession/contraction is a period between a peak and a trough — see graph below.) Officially, the last recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009.

Start (Peak) End (Trough) Duration (# months) 1948 Nov 1949 Oct 11 1953 July 1954 May 10 1957 Aug 1958 Apr 8 1960 Apr 1961 Feb 10 1969 Dec 1970 Nov 11 1973 Nov 1975 Mar 16 1981 July 1982 Nov 16 1990 July 1991 Mar 8 2001 Mar 2001 Nov 8 2007 Dec 2009 June 18

RECOVERY/POST-RECESSION PERIODS (An expansion is a period between a trough and a peak — see graph below.) Obama’s economic recovery is the worst multi-year recovery when compared with double-digit growth in other post-recession periods. During Obama’s economic recovery (from the second quarter of 2009 until the fourth quarter of 2012), the economy grew only 7.5 percent, increasing from $12.7 trillion to $13.6 trillion.

Start (Trough) GDP ($ Billions) 1949-10-01 $1,838.7 1954-04-01 $2,306.4 1958-04-01 $2,534.5 1961-01-01 $2,816.9 1970-10-01 $4,253.0 1975-01-01 $4,791.2 1982-10-01 $5,866.0 1991-01-01 $7,943.4 2001-10-01 $11,370.0 2009-04-01 $12,701.0 End (Peak) GDP ($ Billions) 1953-07-01 $2,351.8 1957-07-01 $2,616.6 1960-04-01 $2,832.0 1969-10-01 $4,259.6 1973-10-01 $4,948.8 1979-10-01 $5,884.5 1990-07-01 $8,052.6 2001-01-01 $11,287.8 2007-10-01 $13,326.0 2012-10-01 $13,647.6 % Economic Growth Duration (# months) 27.9% 45 13.4% 40 11.7% 24 51.2% 106 16.4% 36 22.8% 58 37.3% 92 42.1% 120 17.2% 62 7.5% 42

NOTE The early 1980s post-recession period lasted just 12 months (from July 1980 to July 1981.) SOURCES ●Obama’s economic recovery the worst multi-year recovery since WWII ●Real Gross Domestic Product (1949 – 2012) National Bureau of Economic Research ●http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html Bureau of Economic Analysis ●http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=9&step=1#reqid=9&step=1&isuri=1