Just like that government accountability died a little more.

So the D.C. Court of Appeals has decided that who the President of the United States meets with is well, none of your damn business. In a decision that contains a level asshatedness not seen since the Obamacare decision, the Appeals Court unanimously decided that the logs of who visits the Oval Office is beyond the reach of the FOIA.

Does the No budget No pay bill really make a difference?

I ask this in all seriousness. The House passing the bill is a good step I think, but where does it really get us? It allows Obama to continue his reckless spending until April at the earliest and only means that the Senate has to do the job that the Constitution requires them to do already. So again I ask does this really make a difference?

Dems begining to realize Obama doesn't like them either.

Well maybe not liking them is too strong of a term, not willing to help, doesn't care if they win or lose, thinks of all of them as beneath him might be better ways to describe it. Since his election in 2008 he hasn't exactly been willing to get out there and get his hands dirty getting other dems elected. Apparently after almost 4 years they finally learned what the rest of us already knew, he's only in it for himself.

Fox News talks about his disassociation with Tom Barret in WI. The fact that he could attend 6 fundraisers in MI and IL, causing him to fly over WI in the last days before the election, and not even stopping. To at least act like he cared if the rest of his party actually did anything. I wonder if he gave Barret the finger as he flew over?

Further down that article they mention that the magic number is 39, as in 39%.

-- Decline in the median net worth of American families since 2009 – from $126,400 to $77,300 – according to a new report from the Federal Reserve. The drop set the nation back two decades in wealth accumulation.

So while me and you are losing 39% or more of our net worth what is he out doing? Well what he does best, fundraising. For the last, well since he got elected, he has been campaigning to get re-elected. I don't think he ever stopped long enough to figure out what it actually means to be President and try to actually, you know, run the government. 

Then again if he is this bad just winging it and being distracted all the time, I really don't want to know what kind of crap he would try to get passed if he was actually paying attention. But don't worry you can always win a dinner with him and Sara Jessica Parker. 

So would anyone be in favor of a law that makes it illegal to use bill the tax payers for the transportation if the President gives a "policy speech" then goes to a fundraiser. Shouldn't the campaign have to pay for the trip if ANY part of the trip is going to be for campaign purposes. At least then he would have to admit that all this traveling is simply for his attempt at re-election.

 

Then again always remember this man hates you. Not in the general sense, I'm talking in the you kicked his dog and stole his girlfriend can't stand your mere existence hates you.

Why do we do this to ourselves?

Four years ago I wrote a blog on Townhall that I kept up with for about a total of 45 minutes. I have since beaten that record here. Thank you to both of you reading this.

Now four years ago remember we had about 400 people running for office it seemed and there was no way to figure out who anyone was, and the ones we knew none of us wanted. In the end we ended up with John McCain. Gee thanks guys. To everyone who believes that our current practice of picking our nominee is a good idea, please go run your head into a wall a couple dozen times. That may sound harsh but every 4 years or so that's basically what we do as conservatives. We allow a couple of selected states "cough NH, IA, SC cough" to decide who our presidential nominee is going to be. To say that I hate this process would be like saying that I only have a mild dislike of everything liberal.

UPDATED: Newest Charge against Herman Cain

I was originally going to just make this an update to the previous post about Gloria Allred and the presser scheduled for today, however I felt it deserved its own. CNN has the story and video here, while The Hill has the story here. With this one you get a face and some actual details. At first glance it doesn't look good for the Cain campaign.

Herman Cain: The only real option out there

 For those of us with a very strong conservative streak in us saying that the fields for POTUS for the last few election cycles has sucked would be a gross understatement. No one has really come out and just been honest and principled in their views. Ok well one has, but lets be honest Ron Paul ain't exactly what were looking for in a President. Although I would contend his intentions are good and having him as POTUS right now would still be better than whats there. 

 In the last election cycle I would have bitten the bullet and voted for Mitt Romney. I felt at the time even with his inability to have a backbone and take a stand on anything at least he could have competed in the debates with O and probably made him look silly most of the time on economic issues. I cannot do that this time around. The movement and progress that we have made over the last year or so with the mid-terms and the Tea Party just will not allow me to compromise that much on what I believe this country needs.

 That brings us to who I feel not only could win the nomination but also win the general. Now I do not really care about the establishment and their belief that its Romneys turn. Or that he is the most presidential looking or whatever ignorance they are spitting out to try to convince us that a Northeastern Gov who created socialized medicine in his state is where we should go.

 Thus enter Herman Cain. I'll admit when he first came out I like most people didn't give him much credence. First off I knew nothing about him and secondly I wasn't sure if he was actually able to put together a campaign and do everything that would go along with that. What we are seeing now is that the more people find out about him the more that people like him. Yes, just to get it out of the way he makes mistakes, he misspeaks, he screws up, hes  a novice at running a campaign, and you know what I'm completely fine with all of that. It proves more to me that he is being honest. He is coming out and saying what he believes, mostly because he doesn't have the staff to prep him or teach him about all the other things that politicians worry about and frankly we here at the Handbook like that a lot.

 I don't want a cookie cutter politician that always smiles never shows emotion and always has the perfect answer that actually answers nothing. I don't want sound bites. I want policies, I want beliefs. Take his 9-9-9 plan, is it perfect? Absolutely not, however I believe hes showing a willingness to work it and mold it into a plan that could actually work. Without him you don't get the Perry plan, you don't have Mittens coming out saying that he would be willing to possibly flatten his tax plan out.

 Face it whether you like Cain or not he is setting the agenda right now for the debates and the policies coming out of the Republican candidates. Even doing so and being attacked at each of the last couple debates he is still the front runner. Why? Because people want someone who is honest, and doesn't three polls, four studies and a teleprompter to tell him what his positions are on things.

The President needs your Help!!!

Perusing the re-election site for Barack Obama today I came across a post that told me that he, leader of the free world, needed MY help. Well we here at the Handbook are always up to the challenge when our POTUS calls.

http://www.barackobama.com/news/analogy-challenge-without-helping-homeowners

There are some down at the bottom who are what you expect but a few people have apparently made it through the security systems and are talking about free market principals and market corrections. I'm sure the IRS has already been contacted.

haha.