As President Obama sinks in the polls, Democrats and liberal pundits inevitably are searching for a scapegoat. The most likely victim appears to be gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden, who has become the focus of speculation that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just might replace him on the 2012 Democratic ticket.

Former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, his state's first African-American governor, touched off the controversy. Writing at Politico.com last week, Mr. Wilder argued that Mr. Biden's tenure has been undistinguished and chock full of "too many YouTube moments." He charged that Mr. Biden "has continued to undermine what little confidence the public may have had in him."
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May be the only way to save the Obama Presidency for a second term

The president of a California manufacturers group on Monday elevated the fight over job-creation in the U.S. Senate race by likening Democrat Barbara Boxer's treatment of businesses to the barbaric behavior of the Huns.

Jack Stewart, president of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, announced that his group was endorsing Republican candidate Carly Fiorina. He said it was the first time the association representing 30,000 California manufacturing and technology companies has endorsed a federal candidate.

During a stop with Fiorina at Ace Parking in San Diego, Stewart said Boxer has been a disaster during her three terms in the Senate. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also backed Fiorina as she began a two-day tour of California to highlight her business record.

"Today, Barbara Boxer treats business much like the Huns treated the cities of Europe as targets of plunder and pillage," Stewart said
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Haha – not quite as bad but she is anti-business for sure

Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife is speaking out for the first time, telling Esquire that there is “no way” the man she stood by during his tenure as Speaker of the House will be president.

“He could have been president,” said Marianne Gingrich in an interview for a profile on Gingrich out Tuesday in Esquire. “But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don't like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new … you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way.”
Asked about her ex-husband's presidential ambitions, Marianne replied: "There's no way."

The former speaker’s ex-wife added that Gingrich “believes that what he says in public and how he lives don't have to be connected.”

“If you believe that, then yeah, you can run for president,” she said.
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Yep, Newt won't be the GOP nominee

Here's how the MSM played the story of an alleged confrontation between Sarah Palin and an alleged Alaskan school teacher yesterday, with this example coming from the $1 store newsweekly-formerly-known-as-Newsweek:

Wow, pretty bad news for the governor, right?

Except the "school teacher" was much more than a school teacher, as Gateway Pundit and MacRanger make clear.

Go back and read the entire Newsweek entry by Ben Adler, from beginning to end. Adler's scorn of Palin is present in every paragraph, which matters only if Adler has a job other than commentary, one that would require him to make news judgments in a reasonable, objective fashion perhaps?
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And, Andrew Sullivan is going off with Palin's eyeroll.

Rad all of Hugh's piece and there will be little doubt as to why Newsweek has crashed and burned.

The U.S. economy shed more jobs than expected in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%, a further sign the economic recovery may be losing momentum.
Nonfarm payrolls fell by 131,000 last month as the rise in private-sector employment was not enough to make up for the government jobs lost, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday. Only 71,000 private-sector jobs were added last month while 143,000 temporary workers on the 2010 census were let go.

Economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires were expecting total nonfarm payrolls to drop by a smaller 60,000 in July.

The June data were revised down significantly. Payrolls fell 221,000 that month, more than the 125,000 drop previously reported, as only 31,000 jobs were added in the private sector.

Taking into account revisions to prior months this year, the U.S. economy added an average of less than 100,000 jobs a month in the first seven months of 2010, a level that isn't strong enough to bring unemployment down.
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Obamanomics

. . . the rising radicalism of the politically correct . . . the increased demand of all levels of government for the money of the people, the spotty success with which we are communicating to the young America's reason for being and founding beliefs, the growth of cities where English is becoming the second language . . . these things may well come together at some point in our lifetimes and produce something painful indeed. I can imagine, for instance, in the year 2020 or so, a movement in some states to break away from the union. Which would bring about, of course, a drama of Lincolnian darkness. . . . You will know that things have reached a bad pass when Newsweek and Time, if they still exist 15 years from now, do cover stories on a surprising, and disturbing trend: aging baby boomers leaving America, taking what savings they have to live the rest of their lives in places like Africa and Ireland."
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Agreed – we it all.

The extremely private comedian did little to publicize his philanthropy, which included hefty donations to environmental groups, AIDS charities, schools, children’s aid organizations, and not-for-profits in Nebraska, where he grew up.

The group's latest tax return lists 67 separate donations totaling nearly $3 million. The filing also lists eight other contributions, totaling $5.7 million, that the foundation approved for future payment. These gifts include $4 million earmarked for the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, $100,000 for the Los Angeles Free Clinic, and $125,000 for a Planned Parenthood high school sex education initiative.
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Very nice and thank you, Johnny

The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.

Participation has set records for 18 straight months.

Unemployment in July may have reached 9.6 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the Aug. 6 release of last month’s rate. Unemployment was 9.5 percent in June, near levels last seen in 1983.

An average of 40.5 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that began Oct. 1, according to White House estimates.
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Spreading the wealth around, Obama?