It is easily observable that Robert Gibbs is one of the most arrogant Mr. Nastys to ever become White House press secretary. His penchant for self-superiority is only sometimes outstripped by his sheer lack of sincerity or outright dishonesty--however you wish to categorize it...

Like when he complains that Mr. Obama is the first President to ever be compared to Hitler. (A tactic the left practiced against President Bush with ferocity starting the say Al Gore seceded in 2000.)

Watch the lie...

I only had a cursory awareness of Obama's comments yesterday afternoon. I was neck deep in two projects that prevented me from having the sound turned up.

But HOLY COW! If it came off the way NBC says so in this piece... very bad indeed.

Coupled with the fact that it appears the Obama administration is not seeking to pursue the matter as a potential terrorist action, and it sure feels like President Articulate is way out of step with the minds of Americans on this one...

Stephen Hayes has been a welcome (read that non-stammering) replacement on a regular basis for Fred Barnes on Special Report's All-Star Panel.

Moments ago, I think he broke news...

According to sources Stephen had spoken to hours of the Ft. Hood attack told him on the record that Obama's FBI was more or less holding the discussions/investigations into the causes of Ft. Hood, but that "links to terrorism" were quote "not being discussed."

This in light of the fact that the shooter on Thursday was heard shouting "Allah Akbar" as he was unloading...

Obama's response to Ft Hood: EPIC FAIL!

I'm not always a fan of the ads being run to put forward a particular view on a given issue. But you can NOT argue with the fact that this one is extraordinarily effective. It is fact. Fact that draws one to a larger observation, and ultimately a realization of truth that there is NO WAY the U.S. Government can run much of anything, much less something that is currently satisfactory to 87% of the American population, with any kind of efficiency in making it over.

This ad is brilliant because of it's simplicity:

If an employee is about to lose their job, by having it eliminated, downsized, merged, or replaced... do they normally get a raise?

Hence... someone getting a raise ISN'T about to be disposed of, hence NOT a job saved.

But Obama and company like to do the math invented by Michael Scott...

The White House had best wise up and realize that continuing to pick a fight with Fox News is going to ultimately come back to bite them far worse than anything else they could do.

On election night Fox News had more audience than the rest of the cable news prime timers... COMBINED.

CNN came in 4th, behind their own "subsidiary" Headline News--long used as the minor leagues for CNN talent:

FNC: 4,043,000 in total viewers (1,130,000 in A25-54)

MSNBC: 974,000 in total viewers (308,000 in A25-54)

HLN: 842,000 in total viewers (341,000 in A25-54)

CNN: 826,000 in total viewers (227,000 in A25-54)

   

I knew when I did my last media yesterday that Democrats were going to begin carping about how much the Governor races didn't matter. And how the special elections in NY23 and CA10 were soooo significant.

Even though Obama came to New Jersey 5 times, Biden twice, the Obama campaign guru took over the Corzine campaign in August and they had the President even in the state as late as the weekend before the election, Axelrod had the audacity to imply in media today that the New Jersey campaign had nothing to do with Obama.

Well if that's true then someone should fire whoever it was bringing the administration to a state where their coattails couldn't get them within 4% in a traditionally DEEP blue state.

Well today Nancy Pelosi appears to be learning zero from the voters and the election.

It appears as though she is ready to attempt to stronghold the Blue Dog Dems in her own party, to support her universal health care bill... or else.

Now those Dems are also thinking, wondering, pondering whether or not a vote FOR Health Care will hurt them in their traditionally republican districts.

Basically Pelosi's smoking crack, as is Reid, Obama, Gibbs, Axelrod, and the rest of the higher ups.

Do you see where Nancy Pelosi is standing? Do you see the building that she is front of? Do you understand that "We the People" own the property on which she stands? Do you understand that the "plan" she was there to "champion" will be enacted upon the people to whom she answers to?

Does she understand that we are her boss, and not the other way around?

A few facts to remember about Ms. Pelosi's dog and pony display today...

1. The bill she was discussing, lauding, and claiming to be the ultimate solution today was crafted entirely in secret.

2. The "three committees" that she praised for doing the hard work on the bill met in private and excluded any and all Independent or Republican input on the initiative.

3. Pelosi did not even allow "We The People" aka "The Public" to be present at the announcement of her "public plan" today on public grounds at the publicly owned Capitol building grounds where I myself stood on 9.12 and addressed 1.2 million people.

Arrogance personified are the democrats at present. They believe that in proclaiming the emergence of these health care reform measures, that the announcements of these bills drafted in secret will somehow satisfy the issue of transparency.

Her bill is nearly 2000 pages long, requires you and I to fund the public option regardless of whether or not our individual state "opts out" of the public option plan.

She claims it will cost less than $900 billion. Harry Ried says the Senate version will cost more than $2 trillion. Splitting the difference between the two bills will put the price tag at $3,333 per PERSON in the United States. So a family of four will eventually be forced to cough up $13,000 to get the "free" plan, and that's even IF they have health insurance from their employer.

States opting out is a joke because while they can refuse the "benefits" there is nothing in the language that keeps the states from having to "pay into" the plans. And if they "opt out" of the public option plan it is highly likely that the Fed will hold all other state help on health costs, i.e. Medicare or Medicaid, and a dangled carrot to be involved. So long story short, because there is no way the states WON'T opt in.

Meaning, these two bills, as we have been saying all along will lead to the destruction and end of the private sector health insurance industry all together.

But let me add one more tidbit here...

We were told that Cash 4 Clunkers would run the tax-payers a cost of $4500 per transaction. That was the amount of money "We The People" would pay people to turn in their junkers so that we could crush and dispose of them.

But as it turns out, when you subtracted the "sellable" cars that were turned in and would have sold anyway, "We The People" ended up spending $24,000 for each one of the rest of the junkers involved.

So "We The People" were told we were spending $4500 per car, but when it was adjusted we spent $24,000 which is 5.33 times the amount we believed we were spending.

If the government types who were in charge of the financing on that deal are the same ones who will be left watching the amount spent on health care you can safely expect the price tag for "free health care" to be equal to $17,764 PER PERSON of any age (including all illegals, babies, and institutionalized folks.) It will cost the average family of four $71,059 to get the "free public option plan."

And I will be shocked if the price tag came in that low given how the most recent entitlement, the horrific drug option plan put forward by President Bush, has not even come in close to the original cost projections.

A bad deal is a bad deal. The "public option" is not "free health care" as so many moronic Obama-zombie-bots have been brainwashed into thinking.

Health Care costs.

And when it is the federal government providing it, it will literally bankrupt the nation (unless you believe the average family has $70,000 sitting around to give to their type 2 diabetic neighbor so that they can continue to eat sugar and receive forced coverage.)

And when it goes bankrupt, rationing will set in... politics will determine who gets what procedures, and death panels will be making decisions that families should be the ones making.

READ THE BILL people, if they ever let us. And don't allow an over-reaching federal government to drive us into personal and corporate bankruptcy just to scratch a socialist itch that should've been dead YEARS ago!

Alrighty then, the word of the day is "Strategy Room" and Fox has me scheduled to appear at 10am EST as opposed to my normal 9am slot.

Also the Lovely Harris Faulkner continues her rotation with the News Channel so they are rotating hosts around and it looks like I will be paired for the first time with Patti Ann Browne.

You might know her from the news breaks in Glenn Beck's show, or the Strategy Room segments she has hosted with Beck.

Not sure what the topics are scheduled to be, but my guess would be Health Care, Afghanistan, and anything else in the news.

Chat live with us by sending your e-mail along: strategyroom@foxnews.com

And watch live right here...

Living in the metro NYC area the New Jersey Governor's race is of major interest. The current angst with Washington, coupled with the fact that New Jersey taxpayers are the most taxed voters in the nation has created tremendous unrest among the voters.

Jon Corzine's administration has been abysmal. It's hard to imagine he envisioned this sort of end to his political career when he vacated his U.S. Senate seat only four years ago to step in for the embarrassed state Democrat party.

But few could imagine his term having gone much worse.

When the election will be held Corzine will have overseen the highest unemployment in his state in it's history.

He will have overseen the biggest mass exodus of companies to other locales across the nation due to the punitive regulatory environment in his state.

Corzine et al has refused to protect tax-payers, and proposed billions more in additional spending.

There is even open speculation that Corzine himself enticed the third party candidate to enter the race to attempt to peel Christie's support off and allow Corzine a partisan win, with the brainwashed numbots that will vote for him regardless of anything he has or has not accomplished over the course of his years in power.

More importantly President Obama runs the risk of going 0-3 on election night next Tuesday and New Jersey may be the most important race in the running.

For all these reasons and more I firmly believe that Chris Christie will be elected next Tuesday, but I will be lending all the help I can by appearing with Congresmman Joe "You Lie" Wilson, former gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonnegan, and James O'Keefe (the pimp who brought down ACORN) on behalf of Christie at a major Tea Party in Morristown this coming Sunday.

You are encouraged to be with us 11:30am-2pm. Get the address and directions here.

And if you come to the Tea Party or not, you need to be giving your last $25, $100, or $1000 to the campaign for Chris Christie for NJ Governor.

Interesting stat: "When Christie was being put forward for US Attorney, Corzine voted in favor of him and seconded his nomination... twice."

How far has Corzine fallen: Corzine's lowest point in elected politics, releasing television commercials making fun of Chris Christie's weight.

The circus has to stop: Give and Vote for Chris Christie!

Please show me how Public Policy Polling and Rasmussen can both come to the same conclusion unless there is a legit validity to what they are asking about.

I've long lauded the Rasmussen polls as the most accurate. They have more sophistication, better methods, and deeper/more well balanced penetration into the masses.

Last week they had Huck up 29% to Romney at 24% and Palin at 18%.

Tonight PPP puts Huck within the margin of error against OBAMA.

This is the seventh time PPP has taken this poll. It is the seventh straight time Huckabee has polled closest to Obama.

In a brief stop-over into the Ed Morrissey chat room at HotAir today, Duane Patterson and other chatters denounced Huck as irrelevant.

I was the first person to tell you that Huckabee will be the nominee for the GOP and I told it to you months ago. I might add that I was the first person to tell you Obama would be President, predicting that would happen in December of 2006.

Huckabee has done several things right since 2008, and made very few mistakes. His commentary on Fox is the textbook definition of "statesman." His ratings hit on Fox News Channel has made him the most watched cable news show every weekend.

His willingness to bring liberals on his show and debate them sometimes two to four liberals against himself shows tremendous stamina and strength. His sense of humor and his ability to finally brand his positions for himself, (and not through the lens of slime in Camp Romney that distorted his positions, fed them to NRO--who then repeated them without question,) are all playing to his strength. He also didn't implement a mandatory Health Care System in his state that allows for $50 abortions.

I know Hugh Hewitt opposes the Fair Tax message, but it is a less discriminatory tax than the present system. And in opposition to Obama arrogance, Huck's greatest strength--humility will be a winsome combination.

Duane and others all laughed at me when I told them Barack Obama would be President. They are laughing at me again now.

But maybe I know "we the people" a little bit better than they do. And all the signals I see developing point to an anti-tax candidate doing best. Huck is that candidate at present, and he's even better on other dozens of positions he's staked out on his television show.

Keep underestimating him people. Keep believing all the "smart people."

I put my faith in the ability of the American people...