[Thanks to Random Acts of Patriotism for the heads-up.]

From ABCNews.com:

With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million dollar federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.

Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department’s $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the job of assembling the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car has been outsourced to Finland.

“There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle,” the car company’s founder and namesake told ABC News. “They don’t exist here.”

Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money so far has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S., not on the 500 manufacturing jobs that went to a rural Finnish firm, Valmet Automotive.

“We’re not in the business of failing; we’re in the business of winning. So we make the right decision for the business,” Fisker said. “That’s why we went to Finland.”

[Let’s see; what else does Valmet make? Oh yes, that would be cheap AK-47 knock-offs. Valmet is actually a Finnish state-owned conglomerate.]

So imagine that. A business saying, straight up, it’s “not in the business of failing.”

That’s called “taking the money from the dumb (deleted) and shoving it up his philosophical ass.”

And the price? A “$529 million dollar federal government loan guarantee.” HALF a BILLION dollars. Sound familiar? Solyndra, anyone?

That’s called “the true cost of green jobs,” where infrastructure is lacking, when regulations are overbearing, where unions for unskilled laborers rule all, why taxes are confiscatory.

And, bottom line, that’s called “The Fleecing of the American Taxpayer.”

Predicated upon brain-damaged (but nonetheless clearly entertaining) Vice President Joe Biden saying the company was, quote: “a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs.”

Repeat: THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURING JOBS.

Once more, for those of you who just may have tuned in:

PROMISED by VP Joe Biden: THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURING JOBS.

Removed, however, OFFSHORE to the frozen country of FINLAND.

Do I somehow detect just a tad bit of irony here, perchance?

BZ

Mr Obama’s quite into self-promotion these days, reveling in the violent passing of Muammar Khaddafi (one of 75 different ways of spelling his name) — as though he had something to do with it — and prompting applause at the end of his lackluster (Canadian-manufactured by Prevost) Bus Tour. From the Los Angeles Times:

On Wednesday afternoon, Obama stood at a lectern against a backdrop of firefighters and offered his prescription for solving the persistent jobs crisis: “A fair shot for everybody; a fair share from everybody. That’s the principle that built America.”

The president got a polite reception from the 100 or so people crowded into the station garage. Early in his speech he mentioned his American Jobs Act.

One or two people clapped.

“You can go ahead and clap,” the president said. “Go ahead, nothing wrong with it.”

In the meantime, it may appear that Nancy Pelosi won’t get a Christmas card from Mr Obama this year. From The Hill:

Pelosi’s silent treatment shows breaks with President Obama

By Mike Lillis – 10/20/11 05:30 AM ET

For House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), disagreement with President Obama often takes the form of silence.

While rank-and-file House Democrats have been outspoken in taking the White House to task over issues as diverse as foreclosure prevention, environmental protection and funding the federal government, Pelosi has stayed quiet or shifted her talking points to attacks on the GOP.

And all is not well between Mr Obama and the Demorats:

Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., announced his retirement from Congress this afternoon — and he issued a scathing parting shot at President Obama‘s track record on his way out.

In a statement explaining his decision, Cardoza, a leader of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition, said he was “dismayed” by the administration’s “failure to understand and effectively address the current housing foreclosure crisis.”

Home foreclosures are destroying communities and crushing our economy, and the Administration’s inaction is infuriating,” Cardoza said.

A former chairman of the moderate Blue Dog Caucus, Cardoza also bemoaned the increasing partisanship in Washington, and blamed the media for fueling the ideological divide in the country, not giving enough attention to moderates.

But wait, every bit of news isn’t bad:

Cardoza is the sixth member — all Democrats — to announce plans to retire outright so far. He’s also the third member of the Blue Dog Caucus to head for the exits — joining fellow moderate Reps. Dan Boren, D-Okla., and Mike Ross, D-Ark.

And finally, it is with the greatest sadness that I report Minister Louis Farrakhan seems to be breaking with the First Black President of the United States:

A YouTube video of Minister Louis Farrakhan taking President Obama to task over the war in Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya is making its way around the Web. In the video, Farrakhan admonishes the president for turning into someone else. Farrakhan says, “We voted for our brother Barack, a beautiful human being with a sweet heart, and now he’s an assassin. They turned him into them.”

“They turned him into them.” Right. It’s not Mr Obama’s fault. It’s that nebulous “they.” In Mr Farrakhan’s racist world, “they” are white.

People, you couldn’t write a fiction book this ridiculous and out-of-control.

BZ

A black woman, Patricia McAllister, an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District states her bigoted mind here:

I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government. . .they need to be run out of this country.”

But, of course, because she’s black, she can’t possibly be bigoted, yes?

Further, let’s examine just who somehow manages to “support” the Occupy Wall Street “movement” besides Barack Hussein Obaka:

– The American Nazi Party;
– The Socialist Party USA;
– The Communist Party;
– Hugo Chavez;
– China;

In my time, considering my extremely advanced years, those were called clues. At least to those who had half a brain remaining.

Plus, let’s not forget the obligatory “white male shitting on NYPD car with no arrest made during Occupy Wall Street” photograph:

Because, after all, to have made an arrest behind that would have subjected the officer to a completely dead career. And they knew it.

BZ

HERMAN CAIN: 43%
BARACK OBAMA: 41%

From Rasmussen polling:

2012 Presidential Matchups

Cain 43%, Obama 41%

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Whether Herman Cain’s surge in the polls is temporary or has staying power, he’s enjoying a big enough bounce to take a very slight lead over President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. At the moment, the Georgia businessman is the only Republican with a lead of any kind over Obama, although former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has held a similar advantage several times and is currently trailing the president by just two points.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows Cain attracting 43% support, while Obama earns 41%. Given such a matchup, eight percent (8%) prefer some other candidate, and another eight percent (8%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The potential quandary of a lifetime:

Conservative black vs Leftist black.

BZ

From the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president’s push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States.

As a result, from Saudi News Today:

Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami on Thursday warned the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of a possible US military attack, following charges that Iran was behind a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington.

“Our political officials should be careful not to give the US any pretext to target our security and territorial integrity,” Khatami told the opposition website Rahesabz.

Again, more Wag the Dog at work?

Because: meanwhile, back at the ranch, Mr Obama has another entire set of problems, including words behind his back — from his “own side.” To wit:

(New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman) says, “there is enormously widespread anxiety over the political leadership of the country.” Mr. Zuckerman reports that among Democrats, “The sense is that the policies of this government have failed. . . . What they say about [Mr. Obama] when he’s not in the room, so to speak, is astonishing.”

Any sense that Mr Zuckerman or his newspaper isn’t liberal?

Concurrently, Al Sharpton literally threatens chaos if the “jobs bill” (read: tax bill) isn’t passed:

Referring to Congress, Sharpton said, “If you won’t get the jobs bill done in the suite, we will get the jobs bill done in the street!”

DC, specifically the Obama Regime — no surprise here — plans to take advantage of the resulting chaos:

President Obama and his team have decided to turn public anger at Wall Street into a central tenet of their reelection strategy.

The move comes as the Occupy Wall Street protests gain momentum across the country and as polls show deep public distrust of the nation’s major financial institutions.

And it sets up what strategists see as a potent line of attack against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, a former investment executive whom Obama aides plan to portray as a wealthy Wall Street sympathizer.

Many Democrats consider Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, the greatest threat to Obama when it comes to wooing centrist independents next year, and Romney this week has begun to present himself as a champion of middle-income Americans.

Mr Obama, you have bitten off way, way more than you can chew.

BZ