BLESSED TEA PARTY?

The "tea party" is not composed of impatient rabble or sly political operatives. it's friends and neighbors who may just have a little help from the proverbial big man upstairs, says Richard Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.

"The tea parties are an unfettered new force of the middle class tapping into the anger and disappointment felt not only toward...

Rumor has it that, to avoid the Tea Party rallies in D.C., Obama fled to a suspected safe-house in Miami somewhere, run by Gloria and Emilio Estefan.

But taxpayers haven't been able to avoid Obamanomics. In fact, this is your economy on Obamanomics:

-- "A record number of U.S. homes were lost to foreclosure in the first three months of this year," the AP admitted yesterday. RealtyTrac Inc. noted "that the number of U.S. homes taken over by banks jumped 35 percent in the first quarter from a year ago" and "households facing foreclosure grew 16 percent in the same period and 7 percent from the last three months of 2009." Obama's recovery is on track to 'grow' over 1,000,000 bank repossessions this year.

-- The AP also reported yesterday that the "spreading economic recovery" has been spreading itself so thinly that industrial production barely reached 0.1 percent "growth" in March, "lagging expectations despite growth" in manufacturing, "underscoring" the "uneven" spread of the "spreading economic recovery" manufactured by newsrooms busily spreading myth. The expectors expected a number 7 times larger than what the Fed coughed up yesterday. Capacity utilization -- 73.2 -- is 7.4 percentage points below the average going back to the early Pleistocene Epoch.

-- The alleged official 'scorekeeper' of the economy, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), can't seem to even locate a "spreading recovery." The Committee posted on its web site Monday that "determination of the trough date (the date the recession hit bottom) on the basis of current data would be premature" and that "many indicators are quite preliminary at this time and will be revised in the coming months." Administration officials insist the spreading recovery will eventually be found.

-- First-time filings for jobless benefits jumped 24,000 in the latest week, but the jump seemed to stem largely from the fact that thousands of jobs were nefariously hidden by Easter Bunnies playing tricks, the same way gazillions of jobs were buried deep in the snow by Frosty the Snowman in February. The suddenly unreliable, "distorted data" showed claims rose to 484,000 last week, with the four-week moving average -- equally unreliable because the news was bad -- spiking up to 457,000. The expectors were shocked at the lousy numbers -- even though signs were everywhere that the Easter Bunnies were up to their usual tricks. The expectors expected claims to ridiculously drop 30,000, to 430,000.

In a keen assessment, Reuters noted that soaring "jobless claims add to worries" about the fake recovery. Take out the massive census hiring underway, and these awesome job numbers would be even worse.

-- In yet another Green Shoot, the Labor Department admitted yesterday that average hourly wages fell during the month of March by an inflation-adjusted 0.2 percent. Year-over-year, average hourly wages are down 0.6 percent (inflation-adjusted). But the stock market is up!

-- ABC News's Consumer Comfort Index has dropped back down "to -47 on its scale of +100 to -100," which is "down 4 points from last week," remaining "far below its 24-year average," "casting doubt" on the spreading recovery. An awesome 8 percent "rate the economy positively."

-- AP: "Consumer borrowing fell again in February, reflecting weakness in credit cards and auto loans. It marks a setback to hopes that consumers are beginning to feel more confident and will start spending more" in this spreading recovery.

-- CNN: "Office vacancy rates are now at their highest level in 16 years . . . as elevated unemployment levels across the country continue to temper demand for space . . . in fact, nearly three-quarters of the country's major metropolitan areas experienced an increase in office vacancies in the first quarter of 2010."

-- Wall Street Journal: "Consumer bankruptcy filings hit their highest monthly peak in March since Congress overhauled the system in 2005. The number of filings rose to 149,268, 34% higher than February's filings . . . the March tally was also 23% higher than the same time a year ago." With a recovery going this strongly, who needs a recession?

Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"

Obama and Dems will continue to lie about their healthcare mess, but nobody believes it. Seniors are scared to death and say so. Everyone else is livid, boiling with frustration and anger. Those who voted for Obama and dems won’t admit it, but you can bet they won’t make that mistake again. The only way the Dems escape retribution in Nov. is by ramming through mass immigration ‘reform’ with all the bells and whistles, not to mention allowing prison inmates the vote as well. They figure they can get 10 million votes from illegals, who will immediately be eligible for free healthcare, welfare for life. God knows how many more they finagle through fraud.

Campbell Brown on CNN interviewing a spokeswoman for the Tea Party last night: Brown chose her words so carefully you’d think she was skating on thin ice, which, of course, she was. Trying to trip up the woman, who was articulate and sensible. Brown did everything she could to link the voice of Americans to violence, racial hatred, bigotry. Didn’t work. It was a disgusting display. Chris Wallace did his best to outdo that on his show, only in his case it involves outshouting his guest. Smear, smear, smear.

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