There’s a malady sweeping the country that is quickly going from sporadic to epidemic. That disease is OIT, otherwise known as Obama Induced Tourettes.

We saw the first public outbreak of OIT last October when Congressman Joe Wilson popped a rupture disk and famously intoned “You Lie.”

The condition is triggered by the inability of The Won to utter more than a paragraph without serving up more whoppers than a Burger King near a MorOn MoveOn convention.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is the latest to display OIT.

Please don’t condemn those with OIT, there’s really nothing they can do. In fact there is growing evidence that those who had originally been diagnosed with HCDB (Hope-n-Change Debilitating Blindness) have been cured of that dread disease only to find OIT left in it’s wake.

Rather than pitying those with OIT, we should embrace them. As it spreads the prospects for the removal of the root cause by 2012 increase exponentially. In fact, some signs are pointing to the eradication of some of the subordinate causes as early as this fall.

To recycle a MLB ad campaign from several years ago: OIT — Catch it!

(h/t for the video TMH at Moonbattery)

Listing to Rush while I’m at lunch. He played a clip of President Obama that is just astounding in it’s cluelessness. I will find the actual quote as soon as possible, but here is my take.

The president placed the blame for joblessness on business, ignoring the role government plays. His basic premise is that businesses are interested in making a profit at the expense of creating jobs. Really? The purpose of a business is to give people jobs? He. Doesn’t. Have. A. Clue.

UPDATE: Here’s the actual quotes from the White House web site.

But despite the progress we’ve made, many businesses are still skittish about hiring. Some are still digging themselves out of the losses they incurred over the past year. Many have figured out how to squeeze more productivity out of fewer workers, and that cost-cutting has become embedded in their operations and in their culture. That may result in good profits, but it’s not translating into hiring. And so that’s the question that we have to ask ourselves today: How do we get businesses to start hiring again? How do we get ourselves to the point where more people are working, and more people are spending, and you start seeing a virtuous cycle and the recovery starts to feed on itself?

I’m not an economist nor a business owner, but from what I observe, the answer to how do we businesses to start hiring again is get government out of the way.

Now.

While two intrepid investigative reporters, ingeniously disguised as DC socialites, crashed a White House party they found this document underneath some arugula leaves in a kitchen trash can.

MEMO

FROM: Management
TO: All Offices and Personnel
RE: Our New Business Model

I am sending this out to our entire team to outline and explain our newly developed business model that will guide us in the new year. We are encouraged by the unprecedented demand for our products and services. It is that high demand, coupled with current, on-going economic conditions, that is driving this directive.

We have listened to our managers and others “in the field” and developed the following:

• Extreme high demand is causing us to increase staffing dramatically. Although our regional managers and Senior Vice Presidents saw a need for higher numbers, we are pleased to announce that we will be hiring 30,000 new workers early in the year.
• Experts tell us that aggressive advertising forces our competition to do the same thing, so we will keep our advertising to a minimum. We are confident our competitors will do the same.
• While the 30,000 new hires are nearly half again our current workforce, we can not sustain that number indefinitely. We need to prepare to ramp down operations and start reducing staffing by the start of Q3 2011.
• It has always been our goal to transfer operations to the local team. On our new, accelerated schedule we will do that no matter how prepared they are to take on the new role. We are sure that our competition will respect the fact that our local team may be under prepared for the task, and will do nothing to interfere with our local partners or customer base.

This program is designed to satisfy our core stock holders as well as the minority share holders. The suggestion that it satisfies neither, and possibly angers both, is immaterial. Our consultants, and even our competitors, have said that this is the best plan.

We are trying to determine what company produced this document. Any ideas?

Once again Chris Muir has nailed it. He has perfectly summed up nine months in eight panels.

I’m just sorry that he’s so accurate.

Does someone in the legacy media finally get it?

Yet, the American public’s astonishing decision to pick someone with so little experience (a few years as the Junior Senator from Illinois, and before that, a “carreer” as a community organizer) as President of the United States underscores just how alarmingly expertise is discounted — or equated with elitism — in our increasingly democratized era, and just how thoroughly colorful personal narratives overshadow policy arguments and actual knowledge.

See the answer below.

Having learned nothing from this

We get this

Not quite the way other leaders have done things. Of course being a clueless pretender with no experience and a general disdain for the country you are supposed to be leading does have it’s drawbacks.

OK

In light of President Obama’s Nobel Prize for doing, well, nothing of note, Jeffrey Lord takes a look at the idea of an award for those who actually make a contribution to peace — The Reagan Prize.

The hard cold facts of history illustrate that the peace through strength policies initiated by President Reagan were a success. His belief in the importance of human freedom, in directly opposing tyranny and protecting liberty, combined with the maintenance and, when needed, projection of a strong military, ended the Cold War and the “evil empire” that was the Soviet Union. Reagan’s strategy freed millions of East Europeans enslaved since the end of the Second World War, which in turn was brought on by the inexcusably wrong-headed, naive if well-intentioned policies of one Nobel Peace Prize winner after another.

He makes a compelling case and the whole article is more than worth a read.

J.P. Freire, writing at the Washington Examiner, asks, “Can a sitting president receive a Nobel Peace Prize?”

There’s a problem for President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize victory and it’s not his inexperience. From Article I, Section 9 of “that neglected curio,” the U.S. Constitution:

“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

Read more there, but I’d like to know your thoughts.

At least the Nobel Awards Committee.

U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Nobel Committee said in Oslo today.

For doing WHAT? Seriously. What?

And I was already in a bad mood this morning. This news isn’t going to help.

Ace of Spades HQ, and now Fox News, are reporting that there won’t be a ChicagObamOlympics™

Olympic officials eliminated Chicago in the first round of voting from its bid to host the 2016 Summer Games, a surprise failure for President Obama who put his capital behind an enormous campaign.

A FAIL like this is gonna leave a mark.

I guess you can get things wrong if you only read the headline: U.S. hails resignation of Kenya anti-graft chief

Reading birther sites can get you call confused.