So Teh One now wants us to believe he cares about the poor, forgotten middle class since they rose up and kicked a Democrat out of the sacred Kennedy-owned seat in Massachusetts.  Well, don’t be fooled.  He was all ready to drop some heavy taxes on your butts when Obamacare passed — and make you pay them for four YEARS before seeing any benefit.  Do you honestly think taxes levied on everything from a heating bottle to a titanium hip joint won’t get passed on to the customers in higher premiums?  That’s not to mention the tax for opting out of the system if you chose not to be forced into participation.

So now he wants to give a bigger child tax credit.  That’s laughable.  That’s just a payoff to poor people who don’t pay income taxes to being with.  Just more transfer of wealth going on.  That’s not going to create one damn job for those people. 

Oh, he also wants to reduce minimum payments on federal student loans.  That only keeps people in debt for longer and just endorses the whole ”bill me later” lifestyle we’ve become accustomed to. 

And don’t forget the real doozy — force automatic IRA enrollment at work.  Hmm.  I wonder who benefits from those proposals.  Could it be those damn Wall Street firms (who service the IRAs) that he’s been vilifying this past week?  And aren’t we already forced to put money away in the form of social security taxes?

Ugh.  What liars.

The Obama administration has spent SO MUCH TIME talking about this stupid saved or created measurement for the stimulus bill.  They spent too much time honing and selling the brand, then they chucked it out the window when they saw the data was wrong at best, fradulent at worst. 

Now, the blogs and shows are buzzing about the administration not getting the message straight on the weekend talk shows.  Who CARES?  The only numbers we should be worried about are ones that we know are fact:

• 4.2 million jobs lost in 2009 (after promising to create somewhere around 3 million)
• Unemployment rate is up 2.6% (to end the year at 10%, even after promising the stimulus bill wouldn’t take us past 8%).

They WANT us bickering over the thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of jobs CREATED so we won’t focus on how many were actually LOST!

What a night, what a night!  Scott Brown won!  Can you believe it? 

The Ds keep saying it’s a local race, but all Mass. voters I’ve heard interviewed ( on FNC, CNN, MSNBC ) who voted for Brown mentioned health care or sending a message to D.C.  So, if the Ds continue business as usual, unlike Clinton’s reversal of course back in ‘94, Obama is going down, and so are a lot of his liberal friends.

The link at Hot Air has the humpbot.  It’s nice to see it again!

And just in time!  Go, Scott, GO!  Turn Mass. RED!

VP Joe Biden’s mother passed away today at the age of 92.  Thoughts and prayers go out to the Biden family.  May she rest in peace.

Well, my laptop died on me this morning. That means I will probably be using my phone to do most of my surfing, and I’ve never used it for blogging before. I might venture up to the main computer on occasion, but I guess this means my blogging will be light for the next at least a week, probably two.

Sunday night, Newark’s terminal C was locked down after someone went to the secure side of the terminal without screening then left the airport. They still haven’t found the person that breached the barrier.

Yesterday, power was out at Reagan International airport for about an hour, bringing that airport to a standstill with FAA grounding flights and TSA halting screening until generators were brought online.  Officials found that the problem was in an airport substation, but they are still investigating. 

Today, Bakersfield airport has had a “hazmat issue” which has been declared not terrorist related, even though they don’t know what the bottle in the passenger’s baggage contained.  Several flights have been diverted.

I was once at the Atlanta airport some time after 9/11, and a small child was playing near the exit doors and set off the alarm (I saw it happen).  I was worried that we would have to be rescreened, and I would miss my flight, although I knew it would have to be done.  An officer showed up less than a minute later and asked the woman, who was very apologetic, what happened, and he ordered the alarm shut off.  That was it.  He didn’t ask anyone else if they saw what happened.  I was rather shocked and slightly disturbed, even though I was relieved.

I’ve thought about that incident a couple of times since and wondered if something like that could be used as a distraction for a real breach, or as a test of response time, etc.  I can’t help but wonder if these airport issues aren’t just a coincidence.  I certainly hope not.

Update: First, the TSA officer at Newark has been reassigned, because he didn’t see the person and was only alerted by a bystander. It also took over an hour to report the incident.

Second, Cavuto is reporting a breach at the Minneapolis airport.  Apparently, there was an alert on an incoming bag, but there aren’t many other details.

All this is going on, and Michael Yon, a celebrated war journalist, is detained because he won’t divulge is income to the officers.  I’m sure his passport stamps are suspicious because of where he’s been, but asking him his income?  C’mon.  That’s not security.  And then Joan Rivers is kept off a plane in Costa Rica because her passport has her real name and her stage name on it. 

I guess it’s good they’re looking at the passports at least, especially after the unconfirmed reports that Abdulmutallab tried to get on Flight 253 without one.

Update II: The incident at Bakersfield was apparently caused by five soda bottles filled with … honey.

Also, FNC is reporting the bag at Minneapolis came from a foreign flight.  No other details.

The federal courthouse building was the site of the shooting of two federal courthouse employees.  One was a courthouse officer and one was a federal marshall.  One of them has died, but FNC is not reporting which one waiting for family notification.  The person responsible was also killed.  More details to come, I’m sure.

Someone who was going in to change his appointment for jury duty (as reported by FNC from talking to the videographer) shot video of the indicent.  The video shows the building, but not much else.  You just hear a lot of gunfire.  (Language warning)

Update: FNC is now reporting that the court officer is the one who died and the federal marshall is in serious condition.  The network also notes this building houses offices for Senators Ensign and Reid.

Update II: The guy who shot the video, Nicholas Gramenos, is on Shepard Smith’s show.  He went to the wrong courthouse, then went to the federal courthouse, to report for jury duty.  He said he was greeted by three “elderly” men, one of which he later learned was the officer shot and killed.  He reported for duty at the location and was rescheduled because he was 15 minutes late.  He left, and he told Shepard that he saw an “incredibly suspicious” person that looked like he might be one of the many homeless that he sees hanging around federal and state buildings.  He says he saw the gunman leave the courthouse and enter the single-story building right across Las Vegas Blvd with the rifle.  That’s when he pulled out his phone to record it.  He says the guy looked like a “typical derelict” with a long trenchcoat on.  He says he actually saw where the guy was while he waited to go into the building, and he sounded almost sad that he had no idea what was going to happen and couldn’t stop it before it happened.

He didn’t say this, but it looks like he was standing at 4th and Lewis while he recorded the video, which appears to be the street just behind the building he saw the gunman flee into (and one block west of the courthouse).  Scary stuff.

So it wasn’t just the Salahis that made it into the dinner uninvited that night.  CNN is reporting that a third guest who was not on the list showed up at the dinner as well.  The network reported that the third person got in by going to the hotel where the Indian delegation was staying and showing up with them.  The reporter didn’t give any more details, but I’m sure more are forthcoming.  I will link a story when I can find one online.

Update: Link to story (via Hot Air headlines).

So, that “isolated extremist” isn’t so isolated after all.  Fox News is reporting that the Embassy in Yemen has been closed “in response to ongoing Al Qaeda threats to attack American interests in the Arabian Peninsula country.”  I hope this is just a precaution against retaliation due to upcoming drone strikes.  And I hope our personnel get out of there safely.

Update: Fox is also reporting that the UK has joined the US in closing its embassy as well.