Government doesn’t suck?

Some  federal employees are planning a “Government Doesn’t Suck march in conjunction with comedian Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity.”

If this is what this  “group of younger,  web-savvy feds” finds not merely appropriate but cool,  I’d say they’re too clueless to realize they’ll merely cement the public’s view of federal employees as under-worked and overpaid.

How bad will 11/2 be?

Pretty bad,  if Karen Tumulty,  often found flogging progressive causes in Time magazine,  is  asking this  very thing in the WaPo.   Add to that the Democratic gubernatorial candidate for  Rhode Island says His Oneness  can shove his endorsement,  and November 2nd ain’t looking pretty for the progressives.

The report from the office of Neil Barofsky,  special inspector general  of the TARP bailout slams Treasury and the administration for  manipulating data depending on their audience.    I don’t see how Geithner the Incompetent survives this,  but stranger things have happened.

His Oneness is growing hoarse from  exhorting Hispanics to punish “enemies” by voting Democratic,  while Marco Rubio has this great ad.

To make matters worse,  CBS has shown a “60 Minutes” investigative report which finds that when you take into account the underemployed as well as the unemployed,  the national rate hits 17% and California a staggering 22%.    20% of the unemployed have college degrees,  and a third of the unemployed have been out of work for over a year.   This hasn’t happened since the Great Depression.

Sage Michael Barone  explains in the Telegraph why Americans have turned against His Oneness and big government.   The Daily Beast has a piece up on the  “Five Signs Your Party Is Doomed” and someone let CNBC report that the dollar is  in danger of becoming toxic waste.

The American Spectator points out that  views normally considered mainstream are now being reviled by Democrats as extremist and bigoted.  No one is surprised that Hugh Hewitt calls for radical Democrats to  be booted out next week,  or that Deroy Murdock writes of the stimulus as an  $814 billion flop,  but even the bookies are now coming out with  odds that Republicans will regain the House,  and the new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press  features a chart which should make Democrats suicidal,  despite Tim Kaine’s  claims that Democrats will hold the House,  and Nancy Pelosi whining that her party hasn’t gotten credit for what it’s done.   Of course,  voters are giving them full credit for what they don’t like…

The G-20 summit has ended  in failure for the administration’s proposal to set a cap for each country’s deficit or surplus.   Even the India trip so  carefully planned  by Obama for immediately after the mid-term elections,  is  generating no buzz,  while gathering some criticism for his use  of teleprompters and failure to  provide an itinerary.