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Armed Revolution A Foregone Conclusion??

2009-10-14T17:53:00.001-05:00

Is armed revolution a foregone conclusion?

Why was the First American Revolution fought?

1. England needed money for their empire’s expansion, and thus, they taxed the Colonists for just about everything under the sun. Kind of like how the Federal government does things today. For example, ObamaKare needs a few trillion? No problemo says Nancy Pelosi, we’ll just slap a VAT (Value Added Tax) on Americans. Then, like today, Americans didn’t want to pay it.

2. England sent in the troops and the tax collectors in possession of “general” warrants to search people’s homes to things to tax or contraband, etc. Americans got mad then, as we are now, (Tea Party 12 Sep 09) and threatened to resist.

3. The British moved to seize guns and powder at Lexington Green. American’s then fired the “shot heard ‘round the world.”

In a nutshell, a government imposed high taxes, tyranny, an armed invasion of homes, a violation of privacy, and an abolition of certain God-given rights. Americans resisted the tyranny through peaceful means at first, petitioning the King of England. Their pleas were ignored, over and over and over and over, almost like Congress ignoring the will of the people over Porkulous, Cash for Clunkers, Bailouts of the Big Three, Bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ObamaKare, etc. Thus, America was born in an act of resistance to tyranny!

So where are we at right now? Our Government, run by Liberals and a few RINOs (Snowe for one):

1. Spent 787 BILLION in a massive "stimulus" package, full of pork.
2. Took over the Big Three and then gave it to the UAW.
3. Is working to impose mandated ObamaKare for us even though we say NO!
4. Is working to regulate the salaries of CEO’s in PRIVATE industry.
5. Is trying to force Cap and Trade on us. (Government energy regulation and taxation of energy usage.)
6. Supports community organizers (ACORN) with taxpayer funding.
7. Is working to increase Capital Gains Tax by 60%!
8. Refuses to drill for domestic oil, thus keeping us energy DEPENDENT.
9. Is working to regulate PRIVATE health care insurance.
10. Refuses to implement tort reform.
11. Supports a federal regulation (fairness doctrine/local regulation) of radio stations.
12. Seeks to bail out their propaganda organs in the newspaper industry.
13. Refuses to rid us of illegal aliens.
14. Refuses to follow the Second Amendment at the highest levels, i.e., Eric Holder.
15. Is working to restrict the First Amendment, i.e., Obama vs. Rush Limbaugh/Fox News/Sean Hannity.
16. Refuses to side with freedom in Honduras while backing a Marxist named Zelaya.
17. Collaborates with dictators like Castro and Chavez.

Many of us reading this are Constitutional Conservatives. In a nutshell, we believe in the limits imposed on the Federal Government by the Constitution AND we believe that Conservatism, as outlined by such great minds as Burke, Eliot, WF Buckley, etc, We also believe in a republic of largely independent states. The First American Revolution was fought for a country that would the citizen’s natural God-given right to liberty, hence the words, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” not what the liberals (especially THIS administration) would impose on us, “death panels, taxation, and government-imposed tyranny.

One of the [many] failing points of public education is that people are no longer taught what exactly IS a Republic. A Republic government is one that exercises a set of limited powers and NARROWLY defined functions, which are delegated to it by the will of the people. This is not a surrender of rights or will but an agreement that a small group of officials, answerable to the people, are sent to DC to do the “will of the people”, in regular and free elections. Unfortunately, many Americans are under the impression that we’re a Democracy, a form of mob rule really, and it’s a lie promulgated by the left for decades. A Democratic government, as stated above, is mob rule in a polite form. There are no limits to government power, as we’re seeing unfold on the Hill with Porkulous, Cash for Clunkers (US subsidizing other people’s new car purchases), ObamaKare, etc. If we object, as we are, we’re told that the majority rules. Exactly what our Founding Fathers fought AGAINST! The tyranny of the many over the few.

In a Republic, always remember that the government exercises narrow powers delegated to it by the people, who possess such power themselves wherein a Democracy, the rules come from the mob’s current flavor of the moment. Liberals will say that a Democratic government can be limited but this is nothing less than Stalin’s Big Lie technique at work. ONLY a Republican government can be limited in scope and size, hence the “Republican” Party that used to believe in such a thing but sadly, lose their way. For example, there is no right that people can steal from their neighbor in order to be more “equal” thus the government doesn’t have the power to create a welfare state, yet FDR did just that. The people cannot write checks beyond what is in their bank account yet the Federal Reserve, led by Congress and the President, do just that!

For example, here is how liberals use “mob rule” against us.

1. Liberals mandated in 1977 that banks must provide loans to people in the inner cities who have no credit, no money and are considered bad risks. (A violation of economic and free market principles)

2. Liberals mandated in the CRA that they would prevent bank expansions and impose lawsuits if any bank refused to give loans to people with risky credit. Oddly enough, Barack Obama, as an ACORN lawyer, sued banks for not making enough loans to these people! (A violation of economic and free market principles with a hefty dose of Federal tyranny to boot).

3. Liberals used OUR TAX DOLLARS to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that THEY used to BACK the bad loans! Liberals working to destroy the financial system.

Indeed, the very people responsible for our entire financial meltdown are in power blaming the Republicans for this mess and many Americans are, or were before the Tea Party uprising, too stupid to figure it out! The Democrats created and enforced the CRA. It was Thomas Jefferson who said, "the people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberty." Time to wake up folks.

15 April 2009: the first shot was fired. Roughly 700 anti-tax “Tea Parties” erupted across the nation. The Lapdog media, really nothing more than courtiers to Obama, ignored them or as on CNN, called them “tea baggers,” a reference to a sexual practice that liberal men do to one another. Laughingly, Obama stated that he was unaware of the tea parties but later called them something dangerous that could become “unhealthy.” What does that mean? Americans cannot express their anger in free protests as allowed under the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence? When did we swear alleigance to King Barack? Never. We swore allegiance to the Constitution! To protect and defend it against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic. And an oath once sworn cannot be unsworn. If you guessed that the Gunny is in high dudgeon over all of this, you win a cigar.

4 July 2009: the second shot came with thousands of America citizens, from sea to shining sea, gathering to protest “taxation without representation,” which it IS when liberal politicians and their RINO/CINO allies are spending OUR MONEY willy-nilly. Case-in-point: Obama gives 2 BILLION of our money to Brazil so that THEY can drill for oil off of THEIR coast! The courtiers called us terrorists, mobsters, and called the entire affair right-wing nutjobs and kooks, and dismissed it.

August and September 2009: This was actually volley fire aimed point blank at politicians in Townhalls who backed Obama’s health care reform package! American citizens put the fear of God into them as they shouted down their calls for government tyranny, higher taxes, and a submission to government. Then 1.7 MILLION Americans marched on DC on 12 Sept 09. Obama and his Lapdog media called us a Conservative fringe group or more laughingly, Republican agents agitated by Rush Limbaugh and Fox News! Oh yeah, and Sean Hannity too! We’re mad as hell that our Representation is passing bills THEY DO NOT READ and furthermore, WON’T LET US READ! (Baucus Bill for one) We’re forced to suck down taxpayer-financed bailouts, subsidies (cash for clunkers), buyouts, rescue plans, porkulous plans, and government tyranny (CEO pay regulation for example), with no public platform to vocalize our disagreement, and our only option is to email or call Congress, which are ignored as was the pleas to King George in 1770-1775. Now we’re exploding in anger and ObamaKare is just another big government plan to control our lives and make us PAY for it, once again telling us what we can or cannot do

America has some serious issues folks:

The dollar is plummeting and the government, led by Obama could care less. Hell, they're printing MORE money to cover their debt.

The Congress is spending trillions of dollars it does not have in order to impose a socialistic tyrannical rule over us.

The Congress has the lowest approval rating in our history and tried to pass the largest tax increase in American history with Crap and Tax.

The Lapdog media refuses to report anything adverse on their demi-god Obama who hates America.

Perhaps the most frightening is that American citizens are STILL more concerned over the death of a pedophilic fruitcake singer or that Ellen is on American Idol now than in what their government is trying to impose on them!

A Republican government’s main duty is to protect the individual’s right to life, liberty, their private property, and of course, the pursuit of happiness. In this area our current government gets an “F”. Our fellow Americans are being murdered, robbed, pillaged, etc, by illegal aliens and they do nothing. No, they actually DO do something, they write in ObamaKare that WE have to PAY for their health care, thus guaranteeing MORE illegals on the way! Our federal government has become something ugly, corrupt, and tyrannical. They seek to rule over us and this is not only wrong but criminal. They refuse to reform social security, they refuse to prosecute tax evaders like Rangel, Solis, Ghietner, and instead, put them into positions of power. They refuse to implement tort reform. They refuse to allow competition across state lines for health insurance carriers. They refuse to follow the Second Amendment and force us to SUE THEM for our rights! They refuse to follow their oaths of office and that is simply despicable.

We must cease believing politicians’ WORDS and look at their DEEDS! This the Lapdog Media failed to do with Obama, as did the idiots who voted for him. How do know a politician is lying? Their lips are moving. We no longer have representation in our government. The few good politicians are outweighed by tax and spenders like Pelosi, Reid, and Obama who are not only rich, but enjoy the finest life has to offer, all on our dime. The Second American Revolution started in April and it’s a fight for what America was supposed to be and could be again. We watch as Obama uses the power of government to destroy the lives of private citizens like Joe the Plumber and attack those who disagree with him, i.e., Limbaugh and Hannity, which is an un-American as it gets. Americans do not attack freedom of speech but liberals are doing just that. Is that not a declaration of war on the American people? When liberals refuse to defend our borders against illegal aliens, is that not a repudiation of their sworn duty? When liberals like Eric Holder refuse to allow us our Second Amendment rights what is that if not an attack on our God-given rights as a free people in a free country? Washington wrote: “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages,” and that should be our motto. We are resisting tyranny by all peaceful means but when the government does not listen, when they do not care to listen, and when they move to oppress us, what else is there BUT violence? May God prevent that from happening but one has to wonder would it be better to fight in the streets for a free America or submit as slaves?

In closing, the Gunny would leave you with one quote: “I know not what course others may take, but for me, give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry. Can we choose any other course today? Do we have a duty for follow on generations of Americans to fight for our freedom in the face of prison or death today? Will politicians listen and heed us or will they, like King George, ignore us at their peril? In any event, the Gunny prays that we don’t shirk our duty as a free people, whatever direction it goes. Freedom over tyranny my friends, at any cost.

Stay Engaged.

Lib Morality Explained

2009-10-04T14:43:00.001-05:00

Gaypatriot explains what is okay to left-liberals, and what is not okay.

1 - A rich, famous brother of a Democrat President who drives drunk off a bridge and murders a young woman who was not his wife: OKAY
2 - A famous Hollywood Director who intoxicates, then rapes a 13 year old girl, confesses to it and then runs from the law for 30 years: OKAY
3 - A Democrat President who sexually harasses an intern under his employ in the Oval Office then lies under oath: OKAY
4 - A Republican Congressman who texts with 17-18 year old boys but never met them: NOT OKAY
5 - A Democrat Senator currently with leadership status who was the elected “Exalted Cyclops” in the Ku Klux Klan and repeatedly used racial slurs on television until he became too old and his words slurred: OKAY
6 - A Republican Congressman who yelled at a President who happens to be African-American: NOT OKAY
7 - A Democrat school teacher, now Presidential “Safe Schools Czar”, who did nothing when a teenager told him of dangerous sex habits with older men: OKAY
8 - A liberal late night talk host targets the children of a former Republican VP candidate with rape jokes: OKAY (and hilarious!)
9 - A liberal Late Night host sexually harassing employees on his staff: ALSO OKAY
Gaypatriot left out a few that I could think of:

10. Democrat Congressmen has sex with an underage male page — OKAY (Re-elected 9 times after censure.)

11. Liberal Director rapes 12 year old boy, and goes on to make mainstream Hollywood movies that fetishize violence against teenage boys — OKAY

12. Republican Senate Candidate takes his own wife to a sex club where nothing happens — NOT OKAY

And a correction to GayPatiot's Number 7: Instead of doing nothing, the safe school czar encouraged the fifteen year old kid to continue the inappropriate relationship, and covered it up from authorities.

Obama Doublespeak Glossary

2009-09-28T14:05:00.001-05:00

For those having difficulty making sense of Obamunist doubletalk, Bob Maistros offers a helpful glossary. Be sure to have it on hand next time you try to sit through a speech by Dear Leader.

Action (as in "now is the time for action") — big government.
Balanced and sustained (as in "chart a course for growth that is balanced and sustained") — involving more big government.
Choice — the opportunity to select big government.
Competition — we choose who wins.
Compromise — accepting my position after I give a big speech.
Cost savings — $900 billion in new spending.
Create or save (as in "create or save 4 million jobs") — destroy or lose, as in 2 million jobs.
Engagement — a combination of unilateral concessions and America-bashing abroad.
Fact (as in, "these are the facts" or "to state a fact") — my opinion.
Honest debate — agreeing with me.
Incorporate (as in "incorporate ideas from Republicans") — include in the early stages of a proposal and then have Pelosi and Reid drop like a hot potato behind closed doors in the final version.
Irresponsible (as in "irresponsible behavior") — constitutionally protected.
Misinformation — facts, when presented by our opponents.
Neutrality (as in "net neutrality") — favoring one side in a dispute, especially when that side has supported your campaign and provided a senior White House staff member.
Necessary (as in "necessary war") — not really that necessary, at least when it comes to backing up your words with required manpower and funding and standing up to your liberal base.
Negotiations without preconditions — the position I took vis-à-vis our enemies during the campaign, then denied taking, but am now trying to force on the Israelis.
Nobody (as in "nobody disputes [these facts]") — no liberals or members of the mainstream media.
Non-profit (as in proposals to establish tax-favored, non-profit status for failing newspapers) — making official a condition that has existed unofficially for years.
Nothing (as in "nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have") — everything.
Plan (as in, "the [health-care] plan I am announcing tonight") — a really good speech.
Respect (as in, "respects the rights of the Israelis and Palestinians" or "the Iranians and North Koreans") — overrun (Israelis) or elevate beyond reason with no expectation of reciprocity (everyone else).
Responsibility (as in the "responsibility" to buy health insurance or America's "responsibility" to confront global warming) — big government telling people or nations things they have to do. (See "Action" above.)
Scare tactics — see "Misinformation" above.
Security (as in "stability and security" in health care or "true security for all Israelis") — you're toast.
Stand by our friends — desert our friends in order to "engage" with our enemies. (See "Engagement" above.)
If you can't find the term you'd like to translate, use this handy rule of thumb: Obamunist doubletalk almost always means the precise opposite of what it pretends to mean.

U.N. Loves Obama Because He Is WEAK

2009-09-23T15:26:00.001-05:00

Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage of his presidency than any US leader in recent times with the exception of Bill Clinton. But he is still worshipped with messiah-like adoration at the United Nations, and is considerably more popular with many of the 192 members of the UN than he is with the American people.
The latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey of international confidence in Obama’s leadership on foreign affairs shows strikingly high approval levels for the president in many parts of the world – 94 percent in Kenya, 93 percent in Germany, 88 percent in Canada and Nigeria, 77 percent in India, 76 percent in Brazil, 71 percent in Indonesia, and 62 percent in China for example. The Pew survey of 21 countries reveals an average level of 71 percent support for President Obama, compared to just 17 percent for George W. Bush in 2008.
As the figures indicate, Barack Obama is highly likely to receive a warm reception when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today, whereas his predecessor in the White House was greeted with undisguised contempt and stony silence.
It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits the president at Turtle Bay. Obama’s popularity at the UN boils down essentially to his willingness to downplay American global power. He is the first American president who has made an art form out of apologizing for the United States, which he has done on numerous occasions on foreign soil, from Strasbourg to Cairo. The Obama mantra appears to be – ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do to atone for your country. This is a message that goes down very well in a world that is still seething with anti-Americanism.
It is natural that much of the UN will embrace an American president who declines to offer strong American leadership. A president who engages dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez will naturally gain respect from the leaders of the more than 100 members of the United Nations who are currently designated as “partly free” or “not free” by respected watchdog Freedom House.
The UN is not a club of democracies - who still remain a minority within its membership – it is a vast melting pot of free societies, socialist regimes and outright tyrannies. Obama’s clear lack of interest in human rights issues is a big seller at the UN, where at least half its members have poor human rights records.
The president scores highly at the UN for refusing to project American values and military might on the world stage, with rare exceptions like the war against the Taliban. His appeasement of Iran, his bullying of Israel, his surrender to Moscow, his call for a nuclear free world, his siding with Marxists in Honduras, his talk of a climate change deal, have all won him plaudits in the large number of UN member states where US foreign policy has traditionally been viewed with contempt.
Simply put, Barack Obama is loved at the UN because he largely fails to advance real American leadership. This is a dangerous strategy of decline that will weaken US power and make her far more vulnerable to attack.
As we saw last week with his shameful surrender to Moscow over missile defence, the president is perfectly happy to undermine America’s allies and gut its strategic defences while currying favour with enemies and strategic competitors. The missile defence debacle is rightly viewed as a betrayal by the Poles and the Czechs, and Washington has clearly give the impression that it cares little about those who have bravely stood shoulder to shoulder with their US allies in Iraq, Afghanistan and the wider war on terror.
The Obama administration is now overseeing and implementing the biggest decline in American global power since Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately it may well take another generation for the United States to recover.

It Has Begun..Media Harassing Joe Wilson's Kids

2009-09-16T11:07:00.001-05:00

Today's Hope and Change--In Obama's America, if you disagree with Dear Leader's misleading statements and misrepresentations publicly, even your children will be harassed.The state-run media is stalking Joe Wilson's children hoping to build a case that their father is a bigot. The AP reported:
U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's oldest son defended his father against a claim by former President Jimmy Carter that the congressman's outburst during a speech by President Barack Obama was "based on racism."Responding to an audience question at a town hall at his presidential center in Atlanta, Carter said Tuesday that Wilson's outburst was also rooted in fears of a black president."I think it's based on racism," Carter said. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president."But Wilson's son disputed that."There is not a racist bone in my dad's body," said Alan Wilson, an Iraq veteran who is running for state attorney general in South Carolina. "He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes. I won't comment on former President Carter, because I don't know President Carter. But I know my dad, and it's just not in him.""It's unfortunate people make that jump. People can disagree — and appropriately disagree — on issues of substance, but when they make the jump to race it's absolutely ludicrous. My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race." Remember in present day Obama America if you oppose this marxist in any way...You are racist..plain and simple....

Doctor Shortage Will Worsen Health Bill

2009-09-09T12:07:00.000-05:00

The fundamental question that the Obama Administration has never answered is a simple one: How can they treat 50 million new patients with no extra doctors?A new report from the American Association of Medical Colleges underscores the urgency of this concern. The Association notes that the United States now suffers from a shortage of 15,000 doctors - a shortfall that is expected to grow to 125,000 in fifteen years. And, the Association reports, if universal health insurance is passed, the shortage will grow to over 150,000 by 2025.

While the number of elderly people in the U.S. is expected to grow by 60% over the next decade and a half, the number of doctors will increase by only about 6%. (Total U.S. population will rise by about 17% over the same period).This shortage of doctors will, inevitably, lead to the rationing of medical care, more quickly and drastically if the Obama plan is passed. In Massachusetts, where universal health coverage was enacted under Governor Mitt Romney in 2006, the Medical Society found that the number of patients who reported difficulty in getting care has already risen by 50% up to a quarter of the patient population. The New York Times reports that "a main reason for the logjam was long waiting times for appointments."In 1949, when President Harry Truman first proposed mandatory health insurance, he coupled his initiative with an expansion of federal aid to medical schools. But Obama makes no provision for an expansion of the pool of doctors, even as he grows the population of patients by up to 50 million.Indeed, by cutting medical fees by dropping the reimbursement rates under Medicare, he likely will hasten the retirement of many medical professionals worsening the underlying shortage. The Times quotes medical experts as predicting that the three years specified in the House bill as the time by which universal health insurance coverage will take effect "is not nearly enough time to build the supply of doctors needed to care for the additional tens of million of people who would become newly insured."Because there will not be enough doctors, nurses, and medical equipment for the massive influx of patients under the Obama plan, there will be rationing, more draconian year after year. As in Canada, it is this fundamental discrepancy between the number of patients and the population of doctors that will lead to rationing. From there, the inevitable consequence will be cutbacks in care for the elderly. Optional procedures, vital to quality life but not to survival, are likely to be limited. Hip replacements, new knees, hearing aids, and such are less and less likely to be approved. And, medical administrators will be less likely to OK surgery or expensive medical treatments for the elderly who they perceive to be at the end of their "quality" years.It is the shortage of doctors, not any specific language in the text of the legislation, that makes rationing and the so-called "death panels" cited by Sarah Palin inevitable.We all agree that everybody should have health insurance, but let us precede this step by expanding the number of doctors and nurses so that we can cover everyone without sacrificing the care for anyone. Otherwise, we are not giving 50 million new people medical care. We are consigning 300 million, and particularly the elderly among them, to long waiting lists.

Would Reagan Stand For This?

2009-09-07T09:09:00.001-05:00

It is AMAZING how the current regime AND their Lapdog Media ALWAYS tries to run crappy news items on Friday, especially before a big holiday. That way, with their quest for utter transparency in govenment, the people can't review it or see it before it is too late. Can ANYONE imagine this bullsh*t happening with ANY other president (even BJ Bubba would have said no) but our Commie Punk-in-Chief? He who has a CommieCzar closet full of radical leftists and whose friends are as far to the Left as Lenin and Stalin? No. Read on my friends but have a puke bag handy.

EXCERPT: "The national flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 20, media reported Sunday. Chinese associations in the United States had applied to hold a ceremony in front of the US President’s residence to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of PRC. Chen Ronghua, chairman of Fujian Association of the United States, told reporters that their application was approved not only because of the sound Sino-US relations but also because China is a responsible country. "Many Americans admire China due to the success of last year’s Beijing Olympics," said Chen. More than 1,000 people will attend the ceremony and the performances held after it, according to Zhao Luqun, who will direct the performances. Zhao said the performances will demonstrate the friendship, magnanimous spirit and kindness of modern Chinese people."

For those of us who fought in the Cold War, or in a Hot one for that matter, against Communism, this is especially obnoxious. The Gunny's father fought in the Cold War from the outset (1948), the Gunny and his brothers served in the military at some time during the Cold War, and the Gunny had two Uncles who fought in Korea, from 1951-53. The SHITE coming out of the White House under Obama is simply unbelieveable. Check out the "commie-speak" here:
1. "Many Americans admire China due to the success of last year’s Beijing Olympics." Really? The Gunny didn't waste one minute watching that sh*t and he is sure many other Americans didn't as well. Nice appeal to emotion and authority here, i.e., the "Big Lie." Liberals and Communists are great at this one.
2. "More than 1,000 people will attend the ceremony." In other words, a rigged game. A nice appeal to novelty but no go here. Liberals also try to justify their actions with this one.
3. "the performances will demonstrate the friendship, magnanimous spirit and kindness of modern Chinese people." Good GOD! You can't make this crap up. This is straight out of a commie textbook. Yeah, let the Gunny guess, they want peace and love for the world as well. So do the liberals, as long as you let THEM run the show.
Only an idiot, a stooge so steeped in Marxism an Communism woul allow something like THIS to happen. The US Flag coming DOWN and a COMMIE flag going up on US SOIL? Are you F***ING KIDDING ME!? Whoever approved this in the US government should be tried an shot for being serially stupid. Probably ANOTHER Obama appointee without a CLUE of what America stands for an what we're ALL about.

Hey Did You Read The Job Description??

2009-09-04T11:21:00.000-05:00

In case the Bama failed to read the full job description before he took the gig, it involves preserving,protecting, and defending the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The presidency knows no break, no true vacation, no real uninterrupted downtime. That's the nature of the job. If anyone doesn't want to live that way for four or eight years, then they have no business running for the job to begin with.
Our current president just returned from a week's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, only to hightail it to Camp David for the rest of the week and through the Labor Day weekend, because, as his spokesman Bill Burton put it, "He needs a break from his vacation."

Burton went on to say that the Bama had been looking for a news-free week last week, but it didn't turn out that way, with the re-nomination of Ben Bernanke to the Fed and Ted Kennedy moving on to meet his Maker.

So apparently, the Bama is bushed from his vacation and needs another one. He's so exhausted from those whopping two events last week that he needs to really escape. Someone book this man a spa getaway with the girls!

Here's the bottom line: I don't think he likes being president.

Don't get me wrong: I think he loves the power of it; the power to say, ruin the free market or send mash notes to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez or investigate our own patriotic and dedicated CIA operatives. I also think he loves the perks: the plane, the valets, the private chef, the never having to get stuck in traffic.

But I don't think he likes the demands on his time, the heavy lifting of policy, the schmoozing necessary to pass legislation. In other words, he doesn't like governing. He finds it boring. A waste of his time---time better spent working out, smoking, sleeping in, and playing golf.

This is why he turned over every major piece of legislation to Nancy Pelosi and her rabid band of left-wing zanies to write: the waste of a trillion dollars known as the economic stimulus, the cap and trade job killer, and the government takeover of health care. He sat back and let them dictate the terms, because he was too busy planning the destruction of the country---and oh yeah, his next vacation. The result is that all three policies have either been policy or political catastrophes, for him, his party, and the nation. No wonder he needs another vacay.

There's delegating responsibility---and then there's failure to lead.

The Bama has utterly failed the test of leadership so far.

But he's passed the vacation test with flying colors.

Disaster In The Polls For Obama

2009-09-03T13:00:00.000-05:00

This week's polls are a disaster for President Obama. The Rasmussen poll has his approval dropping to 45 percent, after several weeks at 49 percent. The Zogby poll has it even lower -- at 42 percent.

Worse yet, he's losing his political base:

* People under 30 -- long a key element of his support -- give him no better than break-even ratings, with 41 percent approving and 41 percent disapproving of the job he's doing, according to Zogby.

* Only 75 percent of Democrats, who formerly have supported Obama strongly, now approve of his performance in office. Zogby reports that this represents a slide of more than 10 points over the summer.

* Even among blacks, only 74 percent approve of the job he's doing (also a drop of more than 10 points).

* Hispanics, who voted for him by a margin of more than 40 points, now break even (36-36) when rating his performance.

Independents, the key swing group in our politics, now deliver a sharply negative 37-50 verdict on Obama's job performance. The elderly also give him negative ratings by 42-51.

This poll-implosion leaves Obama with few good options.

He obviously can't get 60 votes in the Senate for his health-care proposals in their current form. No Republican will support them, and moderate Democrats aren't likely to vote with him.

If he tries to pass it with 50 votes, using so-called reconciliation procedures, he may also fail -- because he'd also lose the votes of less-moderate Democrats who'd quail at using parliamentary tricks to pass such a radical, unpopular program.

If Obama waters down his proposals to attract moderate support, he'd lose votes on the left -- perhaps more than he'd gain, at this point.

Yet the longer he takes to resolve this political problem, the more his ratings will slip -- diminishing his power to achieve anything. No president with support in the 30s would be able to push through a program like his health-care agenda.

It now looks like health-care reform will cripple the Obama presidency, as it did Bill Clinton's in 1993.

Of course, Clinton was able to move to the center and secure re-election in 1996. But can a true believer like Obama do the same? He's shown a willingness to move to the center on foreign policy, leaving troops in Iraq and adding them in Afghanistan. But on the domestic front, the only aread where he's been willing to embrace centrist positions is education.

At best, Obama will be months if not years recovering from this disaster. In the short term, he's likely to finish September wishing he'd stayed in Martha's Vineyard.

Bill Maher Appears On Conan..What An Idiot

2009-08-26T17:58:00.000-05:00

Bill Maher made his first appearance on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.

He invited himself. Apparently, Maher called up and offered to come on the show, not to plug anything, but just to welcome O'Brien to California.

I didn't know Maher was serving as the Welcome Wagon.

I disagree with the notion that he had nothing to plug. Egomaniac Maher asked to be on the show to plug himself. It's also possible that Obama's people wanted Maher on the air to talk up Obama while he frolics on Martha's Vineyard.

There was some chitchat about California v. New York. The supposedly thoughtful Maher claimed to be concerned about how O'Brien was adjusting to his move out to California. It was an awkward exchange.

Eventually, of course, Maher talked politics.

O'Brien brought up Maher's recent "little bit of a controversy," the interview Maher did on CNN with Wolf Blitzer.

(Video and transcript of that interview here.)

Transcript

CONAN O'BRIEN: Some people got upset because you said that America is stupid.

BILL MAHER: Yes.

O'BRIEN: And they got upset.

MAHER: You know who did? The stupid people.

(Cheers and applause)

O'BRIEN: Yes.

MAHER: Not us. Nobody in this room.... Well, I mean, I was answering a specific question. Wolf Blitzer asked me if I thought Sarah Palin could win a presidential election. And I said, 'I think anything's possible in this stupid country.' And yes, some people's heads exploded, and Bill O'Reilly called me a pinhead.

O'BRIEN: He called you a pinhead?

MAHER: Yes, which is A) not true, and B) really funny coming from a doody-face like him.

O'BRIEN: You're right. It is a stupid country.

MAHER: Well, it is. So, I had to... The next week I just had to defend myself because, you know, I like to back up what I say. So, you know, you can look this stuff up. There are polls that they do, and they find out what people in this country are thinking or, in this case, not thinking. And it's really frightening. Like over half the people cannot name one branch of government or tell..., or tell you what the Bill of Rights is.

Um, they're constantly bitching and moaning about how much taxes they are taxed, and spend. They have no idea what the government spends money on. Like they think 24 percent of our budget goes to foreign aid when it's less than 1 percent. Eighteen percent of people think that the sun revolves around the earth. I'm not making this up.

O'BRIEN: Andy just fainted at that one.

...

MAHER: Here's a great one: More than half the people do not get it that Judaism preceded Christianity. That's half the people look at books called the New Testament and the Old Testament and cannot figure out which came first.

I hate to be the bad guy, but it is, you know... A third of Republicans think Obama was not born in this country.

O'BRIEN: That's... They have a name.

MAHER: The birthers.

O'BRIEN: The birthers. Yeah.

MAHER: Yes. I mean that's a good example of.... Any birthers here? I don't want to get shot.

(Very little applause)

MAHER: But, yeah, these are, you know, will not accept that he was born in Hawaii, but I read this week 10 percent of people don't know Hawaii is a state.

O'BRIEN: Really?

MAHER: Yeah, but uh, there's nothing you can do. I mean, they have shown his birth certificate. I mean, but they cannot be convinced. You could go up to these birther people with the original birth certificate, personally deliver it with the placenta...

O'BRIEN: Don't do that.

MAHER: You could have a video of Obama emerging from the womb with Don Ho singing in the background. Jack Lord could be filming...

O'BRIEN: Sure, I hope so.

MAHER: ...Hawaii 5-0 behind the birth and they would not believe it. So, you know, I make a bargain with these people: I will show you Obama's birth certificate if you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma. How 'bout that?

(Applause)

O'BRIEN: That's fair.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

I think it's funny that Maher depicts conservatives as stupid people.

Remember the poll that John Zogby did for John Ziegler. Obama voters were found to be less than intelligent, informed people. Read more here.

Stupid people elected Obama.

Stupidity is nonpartisan, but that wouldn't fit Maher's template.

Another thing--

Why focus on the birthers?

Maher could have mentioned the stupidity of the 9/11 truthers, as he's done in the past.

O'BRIEN: You have said, and you may have a point here, that you think that President Obama, uh, in how many day has he been in office now? They were counting for a while. It's his ninth day. It's his 100th day. And I don't know what it is now -- it's 140 days, 120 days in office -- that he's overexposed. Do you think our president is overexposed?

MAHER: Well, he is. I mean, at some point, 'Change we can believe in' became, you know, 'Tyler Perry meets the Obamas,' which is fine. I like him. I mean, let's put this in perspective. I'm glad he is the president. You know, I mean, it's a big difference from what we had, just grammatically, you know.

(Applause)

MAHER: When the president speaks, English teachers don't cry now. But, yeah, there is a fine line between transparency, which we did not have with the previous administration, and being overexposed.

I mean, I get it. He likes to be on TV. I like my bong. I take it out of my mouth every once in a while.

(Applause)

Obama has had more than his share of verbal gaffes. The man is lost without his teleprompter.

Have we ever had a president speak more slowly and say "uh" more often than Obama?

Do English teachers cry when they hear the president say, "all wee-weed up"?

MAHER: And, uh, you know, I mean, the point I was trying to make when a president cares that much about his popularity, I don't think it's a good thing. I don't want my president to be primarily a TV star who's worried about his ratings.

I think right now, for example, this health care debate looks like it's... we could lose it because I don't think he has been tough enough. This, you know, he used to say in the campaign, 'It's your time.' This is his time. He should get mad. Stop dicking around. Can you say that here?

O'BRIEN: None of this will air. They're gonna show a Leave it to Beaver.

MAHER: Right. Well, that's dirtier than my...

O'BRIEN: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

(Applause)

O'BRIEN: We can do better.

MAHER: That's my 'Welcome to California beaver' joke.

O'BRIEN: Thank you very much. We didn't get enough of those in New York. I appreciate it.

I thought Maher was a libertarian.

Has he converted?

Certainly, a true libertarian wouldn't want a massive government bureaucracy controlling health care.

MAHER: Right, right. Uh, but, yeah, I mean, you know, they're talking about 60 votes they need. Forget this stuff, 60.... You can't get Americans to agree on anything 60 percent. Sixty percent of people don't believe in evolution in this country.

He just needs to drag them to it. Like I just said, they're stupid. Just drag them to this. Get health care done, you know, with or without them. Make the Gang of Six an offer they can't refuse. This Max Baucus guy? He needs to wake up tomorrow with an intern's head in his bed.

(Some laughter)

O'BRIEN: Good Lord.

What a horrific thing to say!

Talk about inciting violence!

I get The Godfather reference, but what does that suggest?

That the White House should use mafia tactics?

Rahm Emanuel is the Enforcer. He does send people dead fish.

MAHER: I'm serious. You know, this is where, I said this months ago and people criticized me, this is where the president needs to be a little more like Bush. Bush had horrible ideas -- torture, deregulation, massive tax cuts for the rich, preemptive war -- horrible ideas.

But you know what? He had that swagger that said, 'I'm just gonna get it through. Suck on it, America, if you don't like it.'

O'BRIEN: So, you think Obama needs to get to that level of toughness.

MAHER: He needs to marry his good ideas with that kind of attitude.

They asked Dick Cheney once, 'Most of Americans are against the Iraq war.' Do you remember what he said? 'So?'

In other words, 'We got elected. You have your opinions. Fine. That's what Twitter is for. But, I'm gonna do what I have to do.'

And that's what Obama should do. He should wake up tomorrow and say, 'Jesus told me to fix health care.' I'm certain about it. Seriously.

(Applause and laughter)

Funny that Maher mocks President Bush's faith.

Just last week, Obama said, "We are God's partners in matters of life and death."

I think that translates to "Jesus told me to fix health care."

O'BRIEN: Well, he does. It's one thing to say that he needs to get tough, but we have a two party system. He needs those votes. He has to convince....

MAHER: He doesn't need those votes. That's the point. He does not need those votes. They have 60 votes. They only need 51.

That's right. The Republicans aren't blocking anything. This is the Dems' baby. Reconciliation.

O'BRIEN: But there is something to be said probably for making in a two party system...

MAHER: He has tried. We do not have a two party system.

O'BRIEN: Right.

MAHER: We have two parties, but we don't have the right two parties. We have one party that is a good party if you're defending banks, credit card companies, big agriculture, pharmaceutical lobby. That would be the Democrats. And then on the other side, we have a fringe party of religious lunatics, flat-earthers, and Civil War reenactors who call themselves...

(Applause)

MAHER: They call themselves the Republicans, and they take their orders from Rush Limbaugh. And they think Obama is a socialist. Socialist? He's not even a liberal. What we need is a progressive party in this country. We don't have it.

(Applause)

...

Could Maher be more offensive? "Fringe party of religious lunatics, flat-earthers, and Civil War reenactors."

Maher is operating under an entirely different set of definitions if he thinks that Obama isn't a liberal.

Obama thinks of himself as a liberal.

Good grief.

O'BRIEN: Yeah, I think a lot of the great social change though in this country, just me personally, has come through some element of compromise, and it's too bad that we... I don't think we can do that. That's all.

MAHER: But that's what he's been trying, compromise. And they don't want to compromise. See, they only win when health care loses. That's how this...

O'BRIEN: Is your prediction then that health care will not pass. Is that what you're saying?

MAHER: I don't know. I just hope that he doesn't sign anything that says 'health care reform,' you know, if it's not actual health care reform.

Again, I thought Maher was a libertarian. Apparently, he's abandoned that.

Maher's segment ended with him complaining about the government subsidizing "bad things."

MAHER: Please, you're in California now. Let me show you how to eat.

O'BRIEN: What is that?

MAHER: Well, I'm just saying I wouldn't eat a hot dog if you put a condom on it.

O'BRIEN: Neither would I!

That was the only time I laughed during Maher's appearance, and it was at something O'Brien said.

O'Brien seemed rather uncomfortable during much of the interview.

It was like he didn't want to agree with Maher even when he did.

Maher's extremism seemed to make him nervous. O'Brien didn't say much. He kept sipping from his mug. It was as if O'Brien was searching for a joke to interject and lighten things up, but instead he just ended up listening as Maher did his "America is stupid" shtick.

It wasn't entertaining.

SURPRISE!! Cash For Clunkers Will Be Taxable!!

2009-08-26T10:40:00.002-05:00

A few weeks ago, I listed the top 10 problems with the "cash for clunkers" boondoggle (and why it doesn't bode well for healthcare). It didn't even occur to me, and probably also didn't with those that flocked to dealerships, that the $3,500 - $4,500 government subsidy would be taxed. That's right - that figure is added to what you actually pay for the car when state sales tax is assessed. From KeloLand via RightWing News: Some Surprised By 'Clunker' Tax.
The Cash For Clunkers program is adding to the activity at treasurers' offices all around South Dakota. First, people were asking for proof of ownership, so they could show they owned their vehicle for a full year, allowing them to cash it in. Now, they'll be returning to register their new vehicle. And when they do, new owners need to bring every bit of paperwork provided to them by their dealer."That means they need their title, their damage disclosure, their bill of sale and the dealers have 30 days to get that to them," Minnehaha County Treasurer Pam Nelson said.But many of those cashing in on the clunkers program are surprised when they get to the treasurer's office windows. That's because the government's rebate of up to $4500 dollars for every clunker is taxable.Warner Todd Huston also sais this over at RWN:
Even worse, many states will charge income tax on the $4,500 because the sum will be determined to be the same thing as income to the car buyer.
Exit question: anyone know how the subsidy will be handled with regard to federal taxes?UPDATE: A thread on this has opened up over at memeorandum with more commentary from Riehl World View.Previously:"Cash For Clunkers" Failing Dealerships In Michigan Cash for clunkers program has only reimbursed dealers 2% of claims. If the feds can't run a simple trade-in program, how can they run healthcare???Will healthcare be administered like cash for clunkers?Top 10 reasons why "cash for clunkers" doesn't bode well for Obamacare With video: The most transparent administration in history is -- withholding "cash for clunkers" data With video. No logic - "cash for clinkers" destroying perfectly good engines, cars U.S. House Reaches Compromise on "Foreign Car Reinvestment Act"

Move Over Al Gore, Scaremonger Obama Is Here

2009-08-26T10:37:00.001-05:00

From Martha’s Vineyard where everything, including summer, this year’s tomatoes, and liberty are dying, the president of a nation is sending scare spitballs back at the very people he is supposed to be serving.
Between rounds of golf and long walks on the beach, El Presidente keeps himself busy spinning fright nights.
No crafts for this family when Daddy finds it more fun trying to scare the masses like a mean-spirited political shock jock.
Before departing for his seashore holiday, it was another “let’s demoralize ‘em” Friday with the somewhat startling news that the national debt has jumped from $7-trillion to $9-trillion.
Engines of Air Force One had barely cooled when news came that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would be hunting down torture interrogators in the CIA.
That happy news was followed by a president’s panel warning Americans Monday that not only is swine flu coming back with a vengeance this fall, but that up to 90,000 of them—most of them kids—could die.
“The advisers’ 68-page report paints a “plausible scenario” in which 60 million to 120 million people in the U.S. will be sickened by the virus and hospital emergency rooms overwhelmed.” (Daily Mail, Aug. 25, 2009).
Homesick already for mainstream media attention by Tuesday, Barry-Oh-Whatsizname took to the airwaves announcing that Goody Two Shoes Ben Bernake was being renewed as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
How’s your golf swing, Mr. President?
It would seem that the current semi-occupant of the White House is just another political hack that would try to scare people half to death.
While he and his family are licking ice cream cones and pulling salt water taffy, American parents must contemplate sending their youngsters back to school with a pandemic on the way.
Move over Al Gore, your scaremongering is being trumped by no less than Barack Obama.
While Obama collects overdue `R & R’ in Martha’s Vineyard, many of his senators and `congress people’ are holed up anywhere where the Town Hallers can’t find them.
Obama could be a stand up comedian were it not for the nastiness of frightening and demoralizing decent folk back on the mainland trying to slug it out to put school age children in shoe leather.
This president is making a historical record that goes far beyond what his cult celebrates. He’s the first anti-American president who spends his holidays playing the scaremongering boogeyman.
If Barack Obama really wants to scare the masses, all he really has to do is let the MSM send another one of those pictures of Michelle sporting her trademark look of resentment.
Now that’s really scary!

We Told You So Libs

2009-08-21T16:02:00.000-05:00

Scha·den·freu·de - (shä-d?n-?fro?i-d?), noun, German, from Schaden damage + Freude joy, 1895, 1. Enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others.

The Gunny told you so. WE...told you so America. You did not listen. But you're listening now ain't ya? To the idiots who voted for Comrade Barry the Weak, you deserve every ounce of pain and suffering, financially, mentally, and physically that you get. Seriously. You suck. And seriously, we're digigng every minute of your suffering. Really. But in the black cloud of Barry World (no pun intended) the Dummycrats are falling to the earth faster than BJ Bubba's trousers in the Oral Office! Read on...and enjoy their pain.

EXCERPT: Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama’s approval rating declined as a growing number of Americans said the Democratic president and Republican leaders aren’t working together on important issues. In a poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 63 percent of Americans said they thought the two sides weren’t working together. While 29 percent of respondents said Republicans are most to blame for the lack of cooperation, 17 percent cited Obama, up from 7 percent in February, Pew said. Obama’s job-approval rating fell 3 percentage points, to 51 percent from 54 percent in July, within the survey’s error margin of plus-or-minus 2.5 percentage points. His rating stood at 61 percent in June. Independents were almost evenly divided, with 45 percent saying they approved of Obama’s performance and 43 percent saying they disapproved. In June, independents approved of Obama’s job performance by almost a 2-to-1 margin. Approval ratings for the Democratic Party also fell, with 49 percent of Americans saying they viewed the party favorably. That’s down 10 percentage points from April, Washington-based Pew reported. Democrats had a 62 percent favorable rating just before Obama’s inauguration in January. The 40 percent approval rating for the Republican Party has held steady all year.

What great news. The time is ripe for Conservatives to rise to the ocassion and take The Joker aka Barry Soetoro to task on his socialist regime and his Stalinesque tactics in use by his useful idiots.
EXCERPT: WASHINGTON -- Democrats on a House committee are seeking detailed financial records from dozens of large insurance companies, officials disclosed Tuesday, part of an investigation into "executive compensation and other business practices" in an industry opposed to President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul health care. The request included records relating to compensation of highly paid employees, documents relating to companies' premium income and claims payments, and information on expenses stemming from any event held outside company facilities in the past 2 1/2 years. The requests were made in letters signed by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who guided a portion of health care legislation through the House Energy and Commerce Committee last month as chairman, and Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who heads the Energy and Commerce investigations and oversight subcommittee. The Senate bill imposes a new requirement that all persons who provide health care coverage to others must file a return with the IRS listing the names, addresses, social security numbers, and the coverage period for each person, and "such other information as the Secretary [of Health and Human Services] may prescribe." (Section 161(b) starting at page 107). The bill does not limit what information the Secretary may request, so it is conceivable and likely that information as to the nature of the coverage, the family members included, and other details will be reported to the IRS. The House bill contains similar provisions in section 401(b) (at pp. 175-176).So this is how we do business in America now? If someone opposes Barry we send out the SEIU union goons to "punch back harder" as Comrade Barry stated? And if a group opposes Barry's bullsh*t, he trots out a useful idiot like Nostrilus Waxman to [sic] the IRS on them? What these groups should do is ban together in a class action suit against Nostrilus and the other idiots involved in this. No, even better is that these companies should have their lawyers fire off a letter to Nostrilus, cc'ing Barry the Weak, saying something like:Dear Libs, we will be happy to provide the information requested just as soon as:1. Obama provides his real birth certificate.2. Obama provides his grades from Harvard and Columbia.3. Obama provides the information he used to go to college as a "foreign Student" and get grant money.4. Obama speeds the investigation of Charles "tax cheat" Rangel to a finish NOW!5. Obama speeds the investigation of Chris "the corrupted" Dodd to a finish NOW!6. Obama investigates to a satisfactory conclusion, the role of Barney "Ol Lispy" Frank and Chris "the corrupted" Dodd in the housing market meltdown.7. Obama closes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac so that they can no longer payoff politicians...like Obama, Dodd, etc.8. Special investigators look into the unconstitutional use of taxpayer's money in porkulous, bank seizures, GM firings and the purchase of GM (with union kickbacks), cash for clunkers, the payoff of ACORN in porkulous, and every other little scam Barry is running.9. Special investigations into the abuse of the taxpayer's money when Congress travels on private jets all over the globe with their family members, on junkets.10. Special investigations into the salaries of Congcritters and their staffers and how much do they REALLY need to do their jobs.11. The finalization of the investigation in ABSCAM Murtha and a settlement of the Marine's lawsuit against him.
In closing, once the above is accomplished to the full satisfaction of the American people, we will consider violating our Constitutional Rights to answer your Stalinesque request. --------------------------------------------So now we see the sides lining up against America: Barry (strings pulled by Rahmbutt and Soreholes), the Senate, led by Dingy Reid, the Politboto on the Potomac, led by Blinky Nazi Piglosi, the IRS (always the enemy of freedom), ACORN (always the enemy of freedom), AARP (losing members daily), and the union goons at UAW, SEIU, etc). Now, the Federal Colossus wants to look at their competitor's books in order to write legislation? Redo their healthcare scam? This goes beyond the pale and is something that Lenin or Stalin would have squeezed out on the throne. This is nothing less than a flagrant violation of the Constitution...AGAIN! And once again it's the LIBERALS doing it! There can no longer be ANY DOUBT that America is in a Constitutional crisis started by and kept running by...LIBERALS. The GOP, or better still, the American Conservative Party needs to stand up for the Constitution and demand the resignation or impeachment of everyone involved in this crap. Nostrilus Waxman is nothing more than a pint-sized Himmler who, after being bullied as a kid for being the Phantom of the OPera's lookalike, now abuses any power that he can get his grubby paws on.

It's seriously evident that these vermin play by a whole set of different rules, that is, the Alinsky rules. Therefore, WE should not be bound by the rules of fair play, assertive free speech, or the rules of democratic actions. Nope, this is no longer enough to win this war for our country. In the words of Marsellus in "Pulp Fiction," "I'm gonna get medieval on your a s s." THIS is the only thing these commie thugs, like their Soviet counterparts understand/understood, is force. Brutish, thuggish force. One cannot reason with a criminal like Nostrilus Waxman. It never works. It did not work for Chamberlain with Hitler, it did not work in Korea with Kim Il in 1950, and it won't work here at home now.

My friends, what we are seeing now is the battle of freedom versus tyranny. The tyranny of the left versus the freedom lovers on the right. Comrade Barry takes charge and declares that the financial company execs are evil capitalists and then takes over the financial institutions. Then, the Big Three are declared evil by Barry and the auto-making companies are seized (with dividends to the UAW who shilled for Barry). Now it's the evil insurance companies turn. Then it will be the oil companies. Then the communication companies (bye bye Rush, Sean, Levin, and freedom of speech).

WE. TOLD. YOU. SO.

In retrospect, we should probably be happier than a pig rolling in sh*t that Barry was elected. He's given Conservatives and Conservatism a HUGE shot in the arm. Those of us in the Saint Crispin's Day Society KNEW that if McShamnesty had been elected, we'd have taken a gut punch. The election of Barry the Bumbler and TOTUS has energized Conservatives it like nothing else could. TEA PARTIES in 2009? Who'da thunk it possible in November 2008? The RINOs siding with Barry have been targeted and now freedom-loving, fiscally responsible, Constitution-loving advocates of small government have a serious shot at regaining control of the GOP.

Maybe it's true, it's always darker before the dawn.

A Glimpse Into A Lib Mind...Or What Passes For One Anyway

2009-08-21T15:57:00.000-05:00

In today's Anti Liberal Zone essay, the Gunny is going to implement a new rule and that is, as buck noted, not using nicknames for libs, like Nazi Piglosi for Nancy "Blinky" Pelosi. That said, liberals are and will ALWAYS be scurrilous varmints and triple-vested jackanapes to the Gunny and hopefully, to his readers as well. EXCERPT: "President Obama took to the conservative airwaves Thursday to charge that Republican leaders are engaged in a vast right-wing conspiracy to kill health care reform in order to repeat the 1994 mid-term takeover of Congress, which followed the defeat of President Clinton's reform plan. "I think early on, a decision was made by the Republican leadership that said, 'Look, let's not give him a victory, maybe we can have a replay of 1993, '94, when Clinton came in, he failed on health care and then we won in the mid-term elections and we got the majority. And I think there are some folks who are taking a page out that playbook," the president said. Appearing on the Michael Smerconish radio show, Mr. Obama said he would "love to have more Republicans engaged and involved in this process," but he vowed to win the battle, with or without support from the minority party in Congress. "I guarantee you, Joe, we are going to get health care reform done," he said to one caller. "I know there are a lot of people out there who've been handwringing, and folks in the press are following every little twist and turn of the legislative process, but having a big bill like this is always messy." Okay, that is part one and let's pick it apart before moving on. This is how the liberal thinks my friends. They have a Democrat in the White House, they have a majority in the Congress, and they have a majority in the Senate! Let the Gunny spell this out. They DO NOT NEED Republican support to pass anything their little black hearts desire. No. What they want is a partner in thier misery. When the health care reform crapola goes belly up like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Cash for Clunkers, and ANY OTHER government run program, the libs want to be able to point at the GOP and say, "they did it too!" just like what a child would say to deflect the blame when their parents discover something amiss and reach for the belt. The party of NO should be the party of HELL NO in anything that Obama does OUTSIDE of the Constitution. Period. End of story.BTW, Smerconish IS NOT a Conservative. He's a poser, like Chris Buckley, who endorsed Obama.Now, bear with the Gunny for a moment. He was surfing the net, seeking out liberal treachery, and stumbled upon Senator Obama's "diary" on the Daily Kos aka the Daily Kids aka the Daily Kooks. Anti Liberal Zone readers will recognize this site as the one run by an ex Army PRIVATE of 6 years, now living in Bezerkely, The People's Republic of Kalifornia. (Sorry buck, could not resist!) Now don your rain gear and venture into the tepid mind of a man-child and his cultists.Obama:1. "But to the degree that we brook no dissent within the Democratic Party, and demand fealty to the one, "true" progressive vision for the country, we risk the very thoughtfulness and openness to new ideas that are required to move this country forward." 2. "The bottom line is that our job is harder than the conservatives' job. After all, it's easy to articulate a belligerent foreign policy based solely on unilateral military action, a policy that sounds tough and acts dumb; it's harder to craft a foreign policy that's tough and smart." 3. "It's easy to dismantle government safety nets; it's harder to transform those safety nets so that they work for people and can be paid for." 4. "Whenever they [Republicans] are wrong, inept, or dishonest, we should say so clearly and repeatedly; and whenever they gear up their attack machine, we should respond quickly and forcefully."Pretty funny right? Obama wrote this in 2005 and let's look at #1. Simply speaking, he DEMANDS fealty to "the one" always. Just look at his reaction to ANYONE who says "no" to him. Trot out the lapdog media and set them on attack. Trot out Rahmboy Emanuel and set him on sending out dead fish. Trot out the tried and true "race card" and declare anyone who does not follow him...racist. In number two, it gets even better with Obama blaming Bush (what else is new) for the ills of the world. Unilateral military action that acts "dumb?" It liberated two nations, freed 50 million people giving them a taste of democracy and freedom for the first time ever, nearly crushed al-qaeda (except when Waxman and Code Pink sent them supplies), and took the fight to the enemy. Now oddly enough, Obama is following Bush Doctrine almost to a "t". In number three, those safety nets that he is talking about are not really safety nets. They are abused and bankrupt government run programs wholly unconstitutional in nature, immersed in waste, fraud, and wild spending, and bankrupt or nearly so. They rob Peter to pay Paul only now, Peter is flat tapped out. Obama says they're harder to transform them to "work for the people" yet it was the liberals who stood in the way of Social Security reform, stamping their feet like children lest the legacy of the Great Socalist be tampered with. In fact, they even went so far as to take a pretty picture standing next to FDR's statue. How sweet. The Heritage Foundation has a GREAT PLAN for reforming SS but the liberals did not want to hear it. http://www.heritage.org/Research/SocialSecurity/bg1811.cfm So much for looking out for the little guy. It's liberals who have stood in the way of ANY reform so once again, we can see that they are hypocrites and liars in the extreme.We are seeing the flip side of number four right now. WE think the libs are lying and WE take them to task in Townhalls and what is our reward? Being called Nazis, right-wing extremists, nuts, kooks, traitors, etc. So the hypocritical left thinks it's okay for THEM to protest but if WE do it, we're a threat to Obama as Eleanor Norton thinks. (Right wingers at Townhall meetings carrying firearms as per their Second Amendment right.) It's not the threat to Obama she is worried about, it's her inherent liberal need to ban guns and control the masses. As Obama said, "they [libs] should punch back harder." The Gunny figures that meant using SEIU thugs to beat up innocent Americans enjoying their First Amendment rights. Nice job Obama.Okay, now we've had a glimpse into the mind of a manipulating serial narcissist named Barack, let's check some posts of those who voted for him.Wojo writes: "I, like many people watching the Democratic convention last year, heard your speech and either decided outright or internalized the notion that you are indeed the savior--not only of the Democratic party--but also of politics in general. Since then the mask has been lifted via a number of posts here regarding legislative decisions made in the last several months with which progressives may disagree, but this post brings for me the truth back into strong focus. You're not a savior, and you're not all things to all people. You're something much better: a rare breed of senator who not only speaks his mind openly and honestly, but intelligently and with much reflection."Sue in NH writes: "Right now. We sure do need just this kind of leadership to heal our broken country. I can't wait! President Obama. :) "I don't want to name names, but they know themselves." Koffi Annan (Hilarious that this lib quotes one of the most corrupt and treacherous individuals in human hisotry!)Baseballgirl writes: "That diary actually brought tears to my eyes. The greatest speech I have personally heard in my lifetime was his speech at the convention. I cried when I heard it and cried again the next day when I reread it."(How's that Hopey Changey thing treating you NOW baseballgirl?)Ed in Montana writes: "Since Reagan and his henchman stole the 1980 elections by delaying the Iranian hostage realease date." (Now HOW could Reagan delay the Iranian hostage release date when Carter was POTUS?)Pen writes: "Take whatever you can, Steal whatever you can't take, Kill what you can't steal so no one else can have it." - Republican Business Philosophy. (The Gunny wonders WHO is seizing control of American industry and bankrupting them along the way? Seems like it's the LEFT!)Dunbar writes: "Moderation has gotten us nowhere. Civility has gotten us nowhere. When will the Democrats wake up?" (Dunbar, they woke up under Saul Alinsky, the very guy who wrote the playbook for Obama, Rahmboy, the CommieCzars, etc)Lastly, the best three:quixotic writes: "I am just thankful that senator obama has recognized his many gifts and is sharing them with the rest of us. it is a tremendous responsibility to have the talents and ability to communicate in the same veins of jfk and martin luther king. it seems he doesn't take it lightly and i am so grateful. we need a messenger, yesterday. but i'll settle for tomorrow if that's what it takes."
Dear quixotic, the real communicator behind the Obama facade is TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States)
d to the f writes: "wow thank you, this needed to be said - and I can't imagine it being said any better. Dang! You are such a rock star."

Dude, like totally. Just having him as a rock star is enough to vote for him. The heck with doing any research on him, his voting record, or his background.

Panicbean writes: "The first time I saw you speak was at the Democratic Convention and you took my breath away. You are the new voice of reason (with a heart) that this country will listen to. It is wonderful to see you get involved here at Kos because these are some of the best minds I have had the pleasure to read in a long time."

The best minds comment at the Daily Kos? BWHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

THE BEST ONE!draftchrisheinz writes: "No wonder Senator Obama has become the target of right-wing attacks. Anyone this intelligent and eloquent must scare the pants off of them."

Simply awesome. Won't release his grades. Uses a teleprompter 24/7. But he's intelligent and eloquent. Now THAT is FUNNY!

Now if you'll pardon the Gunny, it's time for a hot shower and a lot of soap. Visits to Daily Kos leave you feeling dirty feeling and having a ring around the brain. (Reading the American Thinker, Townhall, or the Heritage Foundation is the cure for that!)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/30/153069/-Tone,-Truth,-and-the-Democratic-Party

The "I'm Sorry I Voted For Obama" Website Is Here

2009-08-21T08:10:00.000-05:00

The website is here.
Pass it along to all the naive fools you know that voted for this guy and actually have the guts to admit that they screwed up. Ask'em how it feels to be part of the "in crowd" that "voted for the hip black guy" now!
Link.

It wasn't Always A Big Deal To Threaten The President

2009-08-20T11:37:00.007-05:00

Last Wednesday, a kook in western Maryland made the media's day by getting carried away and bringing a "Death to Obama" sign to a town hall meeting. He was promptly arrested by the Secret Service. William Kostric wore a gun to a protest outside of where Comrade Obama was staging one of his phony dog and pony shows, and carried a sign reading "It's Time to Water the Tree of Liberty." Chris "Tingles" Matthews decided to interpret this as a death threat, nearly causing his own head to explode.
But there was a time when threatening the president's life was all the rage, as exhaustively documented by Zombie. A few examples:
Apparently no one was ever arrested or even questioned for threatening W's life at moonbat protests, in stark contrast to the hysterical reactions to the vaguest hint of a threat today. Zombie explains the discrepancy:
I contend that the media is aggressively reporting on, highlighting and pursuing any and all possible threats to President Obama — and even hints of threats — but they purposely glossed over, ignored or failed to report similar threats to President Bush. Why? I believe it is part of an ideological bias: most mainstream networks and newspapers tried their best during the Bush administration to portray the anti-war movement as mainstream and moderate; whereas now they are trying to portray the anti-tax and anti-health-care-bill protesters as extremists and as fringe kooks. To achieve these goals, they essentially suppressed any mentions of the violent signage (including threats to Bush) at anti-war rallies, but have highlighted anything that could even conceivably be construed as a threat at anti-Obama events.
To get an idea of how widespread threats against W were, here is Dem presidential candidate John "François" Kerry joking about bashing his head in with a rock:
Bill Maher: You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.John Kerry: Or, I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.
As readers will recall, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Betty Williams has also publicly fantasized about killing Bush 43.
Once again, the lesson is: anything goes, so long as you're a liberal. In contrast, conservatives are held to the highest standards. This is both a cause and an effect of the fact that liberals have no standards, whereas conservatives aspire to the highest ones.
On a tip from V the K.

UNREAL...Obama Funds Brazil Oil Company BILLIONS For Offshore Drilling...CAN'T DRILL HERE THOUGH!!!

2009-08-20T09:42:00.003-05:00

Sarah Palin keeps hitting...Sarah Palin pummeled Team Obama over the news yesterday that the government will fund Brazilian offshore oil development and research but deny US companies access to oil deposits off our own shores.From her Facebook page, via Free Republic:
YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL.Today's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That's all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects. I'll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can't say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.- Sarah PalinFYI: Barack Obama's top supporter George Soros is heavily invested in Brazilian oil- Petrobras. Soros made a major purchase last week before the news broke that the US would invest in the Brazilian oil company.Nahanni says- "Follow the (Soros) money." Wow do you think maybe Nobama is finally paying back Soros for getting him elected?? HHmmmmmm!!!

Commies, Left Wing Kooks Infiltrate Health Care Protests

2009-08-13T08:17:00.002-05:00

3,000 anti-Obamacare protesters attended Representative Adam Schiff's (D-CA) town hall meeting last night.American Power blog has photos of the socialists, democrats, ACORN and union activists who also attended the meeting. The LaRouche communists showed up with their Obama-Hitler signs.This was the same Far Left group that held the Obama-Hitler sign in Michigan this week.The state-run media insists these far left kooks are rightwingers.UPDATE: Here more video produced by LaRouche supporters of their members infiltrating the Dingell event in Michigan.(You'll see him starting about 20 seconds in)

Elderly Swing Away From Obamacare

2009-08-11T13:54:00.001-05:00

The most ominous signal yet for the Obama health care plan emerged in the poll by Scott Rasmussen released today. While public support for the plan fell to a new low (42% support, 53% oppose -- down five points in two weeks), the elderly emerged as the strongest opposition group. Those over 65 rejected the plan by 39-56 while almost half -- 46% -- said they were "strongly opposed" to it.

The group that supports the plan most strongly is those likely to be least affected, voters under the age of thirty, 67% of whom support the proposals.

The Democratic Senators and Congressmen can well choose to ignore polls. Polls go up. Polls go down. They may figure that the public will have moved on by the time they run for re-election, particularly those Senators who are not up in 2010. With four or six years to go in their terms, they can afford a relaxed view of polling data.

But the Democratic Party as a whole cannot afford to ignore a massive defection in the ranks of the elderly, one of its key building blocks. Ever since the New Deal coalition was cobbled together by FDR, the elderly have been a major component. Worried about Republican designs on their Social Security, they vote overwhelmingly Democratic.

But the Obama proposals, which many see correctly as a major cut in Medicare, might be seminal in driving them en masse away from the Democrats.

The Democratic Party is built on six pillars -- blacks, Latinos, single women, young people, union members, and the elderly. If legislation threatens one of those pillars, it threatens the stability of the entire partisan structure. And Obama's health care reform seems to do just that.

With 40% of the savings in medical spending coming from Medicare, the senior citizens of America are coming to see the Obama proposals as an assault on their health care system. Since their needs are fully met by Medicare, they see no need for monkeying with the system and are highly suspicious of any changes. When they watch as their fellow seniors attend town meetings to protest to their Congressmen about these cuts and are labeled "un-American" for their pains, their alienation from the Democrats just grows.

The fissure Obama is driving between his party and the elderly will not soon heal. When the elderly change their voting habits, they tend to do so for a very, very long time. Even Senators who are up in

2012 or 2014 should worry that their votes for the Obama plan could doom their ability to attract elderly support.

As to the young people who back the plan, once they learn that they will have to pay steep premiums for health care coverage, whether they want to or not, their support is likely to cool. Under the bill, for example, those making $30,000 a year would have to pay up to 7% of their income in health insurance premiums before they could get a government subsidy. A $2,100 bill for such a young person might seem affordable to Obama, but perhaps not to them. Thus, the legislation may well come to be seen as a tax on the young, another of the key constituencies of the Democratic Party.

The cost of Obama's health care changes just keeps growing -- financially and politically.

Cash For Clunkers Should Be Called Cash For Japan

2009-08-10T15:22:00.001-05:00

The only part of the stimulus program that is working, the cash-for-clunkers program is, in reality, a subsidy to foreign car companies, proving that Barack Obama is the best president Japan ever had.

The Department of Transportation reports that the ten leading trade-ins are all American branded cars while six of the top ten new cars purchased - and four of the top five - are foreign. So the United States Senate is about to pass additional funds to subsidize the trade-in of American cars and the purchase of foreign cars.

DOT reports that the following are the ten top trade-ins, all American:

Ten Top Trade-Ins Under Cash for Clunkers

1. Ford Explorer
2. Ford F150 Pickup 2WD
3. Jeep Grand Cherokee 4 WD
4. Jeep Cherokee 4 WD
5. Dodge Caravan/Grand Caravan
6. Chevrolet Blazer 4 WD
7. Ford Explorer 2 WD
8. Ford F150 Pickup 4 WD
9. Chevrolet C1500 Pickup 2 WD
10. Ford Windstar FWD Van

And the top ten new car purchases, subsidized by the American taxpayer, are mainly foreign vehicles:

Top Ten New Car Purchases: Cash for Clunkers

1. Toyota Corolla
2. Ford Focus FWD
3. Honda Civic
4. Toyota Prius
5. Toyota Camry
6. Ford Escape FWD
7. Hyndai Elantra
8. Dodge Caliber
9. Honda Fit
10. Chevrolet Cobalt

It is a violation of the World Trade Organization rules to enact a public subsidy program and skew it toward only domestically produced products, so the Congress has no choice but to extend the program to all comers. No choice, that is, but to not spend the money in the first place.

Cash for Clunkers will do wonders for the Japanese economy, but its impact on the US job situation is problematic. This unintended consequence is a great illustration of what happens when the blunt tool of government subsidy is applied to the fine tuning of a free market economy. Government planners keep getting it wrong. That's why socialism is such a bad idea.

So Obama can boast of a great success in taking American cars off the road and replacing them with foreign cars. Great going!

Joke Of The Day

2009-08-10T10:14:00.002-05:00

A driver is stuck in a traffic jam going into downtown Chicago . Nothing Is Moving north or south. Suddenly a man knocks on his window. The driver rolls down his window and asks, 'What happened, what's the hold Up?'
Terrorists have kidnapped Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton,Oprah Winfrey,Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Rosie O'Donnell, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.They are asking for a $10 Million ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, taking up a collection.' The driver asks, 'On average, how much is everyone giving? 'About a gallon'

Black Conservative Activist Gets Beaten By Union Thugs, Now that didn't make the news did it? Only Racist Lib College Professors Do

2009-08-08T16:06:00.002-05:00

Aug 07, 2009 - This turns the narrative we’ve been hearing for the past few weeks on its head doesn’t it? St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don't tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.“It just seems there's no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said. Question: Is this a teachable moment? Perhaps the president can have Mr. Gladney and his assailants over to the white house for a few whisky sours. Or does that offer only stand for Harvard professors?h/t PattericoUpdate Here's the video of the incident. Notice the SEIU thugs in the purple shirts. Is this Obama's idea of "Punching back twice as hard?"Update II The attorney of Kenneth Gladney, the man who was attacked by the thugs, has released a statement claiming race was a factor in the beating.
August 7, 2009Dear Mr. Hennessy:I am Kenneth Gladney’s attorney. Kenneth was attacked on the evening of August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting in South St. Louis County. I was at the town hall meeting as well and witnessed the events leading up to the attack of Kenneth. Kenneth was approached by an SEIU representative as Kenneth was handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags to other conservatives. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also brutally attacked by one other male SEIU member and an unidentified woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo.Kenneth was beaten badly. One assailant fled on foot; three others were arrested. Kenneth was admitted to St. John’s Mercy Medical Center emergency room, where he was treated for his numerous injuries. Kenneth was merely expressing his freedom of speech by handing out the flags. In fact, he merely asked people as they exited the town hall meeting whether they would like a flag. He in no way provoked any argument or altercation, as evidenced by the fact that three assailants were arrested.We hope that Kenneth fully recovers from his injuries; however, he is in great pain at this time. We will be pursuing legal action at our discretion. This was a truly senseless hate crime carried out by racist union thugs. Regretfully, Representative Carnahan’s statements blaming Kenneth for being a disruptive force are wholly untrue and slanderous. We would like to think that an elected official in Representative Carnahan’s position would gather accurate information before carelessly rushing to judgment.Kenneth supports conservative ideals, although he subscribes to no particular political party. We are calling on the SEIU, Representative Carnahan, and President Obama to condemn the racist actions of these union thugs. In the days to come, we will be investigating whether these thugs are working at the behest of Representative Carnahan and how strong their alliances to various organizations–such as ACORN–may be.We hope the St. Louis Tea Party and tea party organizations around the country will protest Representative Carnahan’s offices and also protest SEIU offices in every major city across the U.S. These Democratic strong-arm tactics must end now.Regards,Attorney David B. Brown

An Email From A Lib

2009-08-07T17:22:00.002-05:00

The Gunny got an almost coherent, well-thought out, and lucid email from a liberal last night. He was stunned. It requires a reply.--------------------------------------------------From: GP*****45 @ hotmail.com Sent: Wed 8/05/09 8:34PMTo: libsmustdie@gmail.com[No subject]
You are great at arguing and fighting like most right-wingers are but do you realize that the things you say are the same things Hitler said about Socialists? Liberalism is not fascism as you say over and over. You say we are in denial but you're wrong. Why do you attack President Obama. Not all liberals spout the talking points comnig out of Soros (as you say) and a few of us actually think for ourselves. We don’t need people like you smearing Barack Obama, our President, when he has not done anything to deserve it. You should be giving him a chance to show what he and his administration can do for America before tearing him down. You guys who attack him are bneath him and I admire him for not lowering himself to your level! He truly wants to unify our country. He wants to make it better for every citizen. We should give him our support and help him in his efforts. If you love America you will do it. America is going to be all Democrat because we won and won big. You guys really need to take a break and give him a chance. I am a Democrat and a Jew who voted for Gore, Kerry, and now Obama. I refuse to let this country be run by people like you. Just relax and give the man a chance.----------------------------------------------------------------
Wow, where to start?

1. The Gunny spouts the same stuff that Hitler said about communists? Here are a few quotes from the guy Louis Farrakhan (friend of barack)reveres.

a. How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. (Did Hitler see Democrats in 2008 in a dream?)

b. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. (Did Hitler foresee Robert Gibbs in a dream?)

c. The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. (Sounds like Saul Alinsky read a little Hitler befoire writing Rules for Radicals.)

Now the Gunny has NEVER promulgated such nonsense. Indeed, he has touted critical thinking skills, real leadership skills and real gravitas, and telling the TRUTH, even when it hurts. Sorry libby, you missed on that shot.

Wait, maybe the lib WAS right in one small instance. Hitler wrote: "Great liars are also great magicians." The Gunny HAS referred to Barry as a liar and a fakir, able to trick his sheep into following him, almost magically!

2. Liberals are not fascist and not in denial. Good God, the Gunny could write a book on liberal fascism, wait, Jonah Goldberg already DID! But here are some good examples of liberal fascism.

a. Hitler mobilized the masses with a demand for "change." That is, "Alles muss anders sein!," or everything must be different. Indeed, a naazi poster declared, "Unite for Change!"
b. In "Rules for Radicals" Alinsky writes an entire section on "The Ideology of Change."
c. The motto of the Obama campaign was "change." A buzzword for Barry is "unify."
d. In Mein Kampf, Hitler used the phrase, "the movement" over 200 times. Oddly enough, this same phrase was used on Barry's change.gocv site!
e. He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. Hitler. This sounds somewhat like Barry's various discussions on "forced" volunteerism AND creating a Civilian National Security Force, just like Hitler did with the SD/SA.

So libby, it appears that when the Gunny links your boy Barry to fascists like Hitler, he's dead on the money. Liberalism and fascism are like peas in a pod.

3. Liberals are not in denial. (Okay, the Gunny laughed until he cried reading that. Ol Libby is a SERIOUS kool-aid drinker but in the spirit of saving a liberal from eternal damnation in hell, sitting through Ted Kennedy speeches for eternity, here we go.

Here is a short list with MORE instances of liberal denial:

1. Liberals deny they are liberal. We see this every day when a liberal is campaigning. Barry did it well, making himself appears a centrist and then veered "HARD A PORT!" when he gained office. This is the norm for libs. 2. Liberals deny that the Lapdog Media is liberal or liberally biased. Rather memos anyone? Olbermann, Chrissy Matthews, Cupcake Kouric?3. Liberals deny that they idolize statists and other tyrants. Right. Carter kowtows to Castro. Barry bows to Faud, sucks up to Chavez, and dances with Castro. Hell, the NY Obama Times LOVED Stalin and covered for him (Walter Duranty's writings)4. Liberals deny that reducing the number of guns, which they LOVE TO DO, results in an increase in crime. 5. Liberals deny that the surge worked in Iraq but now Levin calls for one in Afghanistan.6. Liberals deny how they and their fellow travelers lie and obfuscate the facts. ("I promise not to raise taxes on the middle class." Obama)7. Liberals deny that tax cuts stimulate the economy. (The cuts in the 20's, 60's, and 80's prove differently)8. Liberals deny that state run health care in Britain, France, and Canada really sucks. (http://www.sucks.org.uk/forum/)9. Liberals deny that that unions hamper production and stifle employment opportunities. (And that they're corrupt as hell)10. Liberals STILL Deny that Islamic extremism is a threat to the US and Western civilization.11. Liberals deny that climate models and forecasts fifty years from now are as inaccurate as fifteen days from now.12. Liberals VICIOUSLY deny that illegal aliens contribute to crime, rising health care costs, and poverty in the areas they occupy.

13. Liberals STILL deny that BJ Bubba lied to a Federal Grang Jury and tried to intimdate witnesses.

14. Liberals deny that oil drilling will lower gas prices and give us energy independence.15. Liberals UNBELIEVEABLY deny that they are intolerant of opposing viewpoints. (WH Snitch email: flag@whitehouse.gov) 16. Liberals UNBELIEVABLY deny that they work to stifle discussion. (See above AND see the Fairness Doctrine)17 Liberals deny that socialism and liberalism have the same: political agenda, methods, and ultimately, results.
18. Michael Dukakis and Hillary Clinton BOTH refused to admit in a presidential debate that they were liberals. (1988 and 2007) 19. Liberals DENY that Bush kicked the crap out of global terrorists.20. Likewise, Liberals STEADFASTLY DENY that under Clinton, the following events happened: the Khobar tower bombed in Saudi Arabia, two US embassies were bombed in Africa, the US embassy in Manila was bombed, the USS Cole was bombed, Rwanda genocide, Balkans, the missiles hit an empty aspirin factory in the Sudan, Mogasidishu and Blackhawk down, etc, etc, etc.Lastly, and the Gunny's favorite. 21. Liberals deny that ACORN fraud got Obama elected.

As far as Barry's working to help America goes:

1. The stimulus package. This bill is 99% pork, from start to finish.
2. Obama bowing to King Faud.
3. Obama's bash America tour in Cairo.
4. Obama’s housing relief plan. A total joke.
5. Throwing weekly White House parties. 100.00 per pound wagyu beef!? Stevie Wonder? Earth, Wind, and Fire?
6. Bungling his first meeting with the English Prime Minister Brown and family.
7. "The Cambridge Police acted stupiidly."
8. Nationalized General Motors.
9. Acted without Constitutional authority in setting CEO pay.
10. Acted without Constitutional authority in appointed CommieCzars.
11. Basically abandoned Israel, our lone Mid-East ally while embracing PLO, HAMAS, and Hezbollah.
12. Got punked by Putin.
13. Got punked by China.
14. Got punked by Chavez.
15. Trying to pass a bogus health care reform that is not needed.
And on and on...

Well Libby, there is your answer. While the Gunny is certain that it will ricochet off of your tinfoil hat, no one can ever say that the Gunny refuses to try to help a lost soul.

Find Your Nearest Townhall Meeting

2009-08-07T17:13:00.000-05:00

As Leonardo da Vinci said, "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." We're past the beginning now, but it's not too late to resist — although with each passing day it will get harder, as the socialist thugs running the government consolidate their power and hack away at our precious liberty. Don't let union goons deployed by the Democrat Party be the only ones who show up at town hall meetings. Find the one nearest you at The American Conservative Union.
However, in light of recent Democrat tactics, it might not be safe to bring your kids.

Healthcare Costs Will Skyrocket Even Without Obamacare

2009-08-05T16:30:00.000-05:00

I keep reading about healthcare "reform," but I have yet to see anyone explain how the government can make it easier for more people to obtain medical services, control the already exploding cost of those services, and not interfere with people's most intimate decisions.
You don't need to be a Ph.D. in economics to understand that government cannot do all three things. (Judging by what Paul Krugman writes, a Ph.D. may be an obstacle.)
The New York Times describes a key part of the House bill: "Lawmakers of both parties agree on the need to rein in private insurance companies by banning underwriting practices that have prevented millions of Americans from obtaining affordable insurance. Insurers would, for example, have to accept all applicants and could not charge higher premiums because of a person's medical history or current illness." (http://tinyurl.com/knzczq).
No more evil "cherry-picking." No more "discrimination against the sick.” But that's not insurance. Insurance is the pooling of resources to cover the cost of a possible but by no means certain misfortune befalling a given individual. Government-subsidized coverage for people already sick is welfare. We can debate whether this is good, but let's discuss it honestly. Calling welfare "insurance" muddies thinking.
Such "reform" must increase the demand for medical services. That will lead to higher prices. President Barack Obama tells us that reform will lower costs. But how do you control costs while boosting demand?
The reformers make vague promises about covering the increased demand by cutting other costs. We should know by now that such promises aren't worth a wooden nickel. The savings never materialize.
Some of the savings are supposed to come from Medicare. The Times reports "Lawmakers also agree on proposals to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare by reducing the growth of payments to hospitals and many other health care providers."
With the collapse of the socialist countries, we ought to understand that bureaucrats cannot competently set prices. When they pay too little, costs are covertly shifted to others, or services dry up. When they pay too much, scarce resources are diverted from other important uses and people must go without needed goods. Only markets can assure that people have reasonable access to resources according to each individual's priorities.
Assume Medicare reimbursements are cut. When retirees begin to feel the effects, AARP will scream bloody murder. The elderly vote in large numbers, and their powerful lobbyists will be listened to.
The government will then give up that strategy and turn to what the Reagan administration called "revenue enhancement": higher taxes on the "rich." When that fails, because there aren't enough rich to soak, the politicians will soak the middle class. When that fails, they will turn to more borrowing. The Fed will print more money, and we'll have more inflation. Everyone will be poorer.
The Times story adds: "They are committed to rewarding high-quality care, by paying for the value, rather than the volume, of [Medicare] services."
Value to whom? When someone buys a service in the market, that indicates he values it more than what he gives up for it. But when the taxpayers subsidize the buyer, the link between benefit and cost is broken. Market discipline disappears.
Listening to the healthcare debate, I hear Republicans and Democrats saying it's wrong to deny anyone anything. That head-in-the-sand attitude is why Medicare has a $36-trillion unfunded liability. It's not sustainable — and they know it.
They've given us a system that now can be saved only if bureaucrats limit coverage by second-guessing retirees' decisions. Government will decide which Medicare services have value and which do not. Retirees may have a different opinion.
One may be willing to give up the last year of life if he's in pain and has little hope for recovery. Another may want to fight to the end. But when taxpayers pay, the state will make one choice for all retirees.
Now, to reduce the financial burden of the medical system, Obama proposes a plan that inevitably will extend the second-guessing to the rest of us. So much for his promise not to interfere with our medical decisions.

Clinton's Boost Of North Korea

2009-08-05T15:25:00.000-05:00

Was it only a week ago this past Sunday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the North Koreans "unruly children" on Meet the Press and said all they wanted was attention and that "we shouldn't give it to them?"

Yes, that was her, the wife of the very same Bill Clinton who gave Kim Jung Il ten years' worth of free good publicity by traveling to North Korea and shining the global spotlight on the "Dear Leader's" generosity in releasing two journalists he had illegally seized in the first place. North Korea's last good press was before 1949, but now they shine in the glow of worldwide approval thanks to Bill (and Hillary) Clinton.

Those two nuclear explosions? Hey, so what? Those rockets that can go 4500 miles and someday hit Hawaii? Lots of countries have them and haven't the North Koreans proven that they are just plain folks?

History is curiously repeating itself. In 1993, President Clinton was working up the gumption to impose sanctions against North Korea after they were caught enriching uranium, but his momentum - always difficult to sustain at best - was derailed when former President Jimmy Carter traveled to Pyongyang to announce a deal with North Korea to stop them from going nuclear. The deal turned out to be nothing more than a green light, but no sanctions were imposed.

Now former President Clinton has upended the world's efforts to isolate and punish North Korea by letting it in from the cold.

Why did he do it? He and Hillary saw a chance for positive publicity. She, newly consigned to the inside pages of the newspaper and he, entirely absent from them, chaffed at their irrelevance and jumped at the chance to get back into the limelight.

Obama may or may not have initiated the trip, but he doubtless knew of it and approved it. Why did Obama OK it? In the upside down world of Obama's foreign policy, the more a nation is our enemy, the more he feels he as to show it kindness, love, warmth and support. The more it is our ally (Colombia, Israel, Britain, Honduran democracy advocates) the more he must give it the cold shoulder. He calls it engagement. It is really something more than appeasement but, one hopes, less than disloyalty.

But, we suspect, Obama had a more sinister motivation for letting the stunt unfold: He wanted to change the subject from health care. He knows that he is getting clobbered in the national debate. He sees his approval dropping and is watching as the elderly coalesce against his health care initiative.

So, what better way to drown out his critics of August than to pull of a spectacular hostage release? Obama would gladly punt during August, distract the nation, and then stealthily pass health care in September.

He is terrified of August. August is when legislators discover where their districts are located and go home to get an earful from those they represent. Increasingly, it seems the month will be particularly rocky for Democratic advocates of his health care proposals. He would do anything to change the subject.

But we cannot let him.

Let's Read Whats Really In The Health Care Bill (The Bill The Dems Say They Won't Read!!!)

2009-07-29T13:34:00.001-05:00

You've all heard it in the news, Obama's Health Care "reform". So what all is in this bill? I feel that it is important to look into this, since not even the President himself knows what all is in it. (proven by his lack of knowledge in recent interviews)

Here's a summary of the bill:

(this is lengthy, if you cannot get through all of it, at least skip down to the bottom and read lines 429, 430 that discuss end of life scenarios) Trust me, just reading a few lines enough will make you want to reach out and choke the nearest govt official!

Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self insure!!

Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.

Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!

Page 42 of HC Bill:The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!

Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise

Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to individuals finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued!

Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to you ur banks accounts for elective funds transfer.

Page 65 Sec 164: is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations: (ACORN).

Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange.

Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare!

Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example - Translation: illegal aliens.

Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.

Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP members - your Health care WILL be rationed.

Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.

Page 124 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Govt Monopoly.

Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association - The Govt will tell YOU what you can make! (salary)

Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE!

Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.

Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll.

Page 150 Lines 9-13: Business's with payroll btw 251k & 401k who doesn't provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll.

Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn't have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income.

Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)

Page 195 HC Bill: Officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans finances /personal records.

Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax" Yes, it says that!

Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors, low income and poor are affected.

Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors, doesn't matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same!

Page 253 Line 10-18: Govt sets value of Doctor's time, proffession, judgment etc. Literally value of humans.

Page 265 Sec 1131: Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries.

Page 268 Sec 1141: Federal Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.

Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!

Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt will penalize hospitals for whatever Govt deems preventable re-admissions.

Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission -Govt will penalize you.

Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Doctors what/how much they can own!

Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand.

Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input is required. Can u say ACORN?!!

Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. HC the way they want. Rationing.

Page 341 Lines 3-9: Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan.

Page 354 Sec 1177: Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people! Unbelievable!

Page 379 Sec 1191: Govt creates more bureaucracy - Tele-health Advisory Comittee. Can you say HC by phone?

Page 425 Lines 4-12: Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think Senior Citizens end of life patients.

Page 425 Lines 17-19: Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!

Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death. (assisted suicide)

Page 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends.

Page 429 Lines 1-9: An "advanced care planning consultant" will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates.

Page 429 Lines 10-12: "advanced care consultation" may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOVT!

Page 429 Lines 13-25: The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life!

Page 469: Community Based Home Medical Services = Non profit organizations. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?

Page 472 Lines 14-17: PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORIGINATION. 1 monthly payment 2 a community-based organization. Like ACORN?

Page 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which means they will insert Govt into your marriage.

Page 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services.

Source for above summary: A man who is actually reading the bill in it's entirety and is posting his findings.

If you are like me, reading this has your pulse beating faster and your blood boiling. Who do these people think they are?! TAKE ACTION NOW!!

Call your Senator/Congressman NOW!

Call, Fax, E-mail... whatever you have to do to them know that your are absolutely opposed to all elements of this bill!

ObamaCare

2009-07-28T12:47:00.001-05:00

Obamacare: Health Care That Doesn't Care About Your Health

2009-07-26T15:55:00.001-05:00

Obama is either starting to be strained by remaining in human form or his teleprompter was broken yesterday. His speach on health care was meandering, off topic and often unintelligible. You can view some of the stranger portions of it on Hot Air: Obama presser: What was the point?, Greedy doctors are coming after your tonsils or something, Sometimes the tonsils have to come out, champ. The Other McCain and Moonbattery also weigh in on the issue of Obamacare: The Other McCain: The basic problem with Obamacare, Moonbattery: A peek inside the Obamacare bill.
“Tonsilgate”, though, for all its weirdness, is just a diversion. It is part of the effort to convince the American people that there is some sort of emergency that only the government is capable of fixing. You are supposed to believe there are millions of people out there in desperate need of care, if only they could afford it. To make matters worse, there are evil doctors, motivated only by profit, who seek to remove your organs so they can make a few extra bucks. Someone needs to save the uninsured souls and protect us from scheming doctors. The problem is, its all bullshit. Even if the numbers of uninsured were entirely accurate and all doctors were money hungry pirates, that’s not what this “health care” plan is about.
This plan is about the same thing as everything Obama has done since he took office. This plan is about power. Obama’s presidency thus far goes right to one of the fundamental differences between true conservatives and what many Democrats and too many Republicans have become. Conservatives, and the guys who wrote the Constitution, believe that you have certain rights, everyone does. You are endowed with these rights by God and therefore they shall not be taken away by a government. I think they even put something like that in the Constitution somewhere. People voluntarily turn over some of these rights to a government for the purpose of an orderly and civil society. Obama-types believe quite the opposite. You have no inherent rights. Priveleges are doled out by the government and can be revoked at any time. This includes the most important “privelege” of all, life.
Obama has surrounded himself with eugenicists and disciples of eugenicists. His “regulatory Czar” nominee, Cass Sunstein has written books on the legal rights of “nonhuman animals” and associates with Peter Singer. Peter Singer is a professor and eugenicist who has stated that you should be able to “abort” a child up to the age of 2. He then apoligized, stating that he shouldn’t have put an age limit on it. He also thinks killing retarded people would be fine since they don’t really serve any purpose. In Obama, Notre Dame and a new abortion solution, I illustrated where this sort of thinking leads and was accused of hijacking a legitimate discussion on abortion for ludicrous chatter. Read some of Peter Singer’s work and see how ludicrous my exagerated scenario sounds.
Hillary Clinton is a big fan of Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist and founder of Planned Parenthood. She has even compared Margaret to Thomas Jefferson.
Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren (John Holdren: Alarmist extraordinaire) has written books on the topic of mass sterilization, forced sterilization and other such charming topics.
What does this have to do with healthcare? Well these people don’t believe you necessarily have a right to live, or a right to healthcare (though they use that front to push this through). Do you want to believe what they are saying now or what they have said their entire lives. These people will be controlling who recieves what kind of care and these people believe there is a mathematical formula out there that can determine such things. Too old to work? Guess what, don’t get sick because the doctor will be busy seeing someone who can still work. Oh, you’re black? Why didn’t you say so, the doctor hasn’t seen his share of minority patients this month. This isn’t about health or caring, its about taking one step closer to being God…I mean Darwin.

Obama's Loss Of Power

2009-07-24T12:38:00.001-05:00

Superficially, the United States appears to have a presidential system, but in fact it more and more resembles a parliamentary form of government. When a president loses the approval of the majority of the voters and polls reflect that his ratings have fallen substantially below 50 percent, he loses his power. In this context, polls are like parliamentary votes of no confidence in European systems. While the government does not fall if it loses in the polling, it limps on until either its ratings improve or it is voted out of office at the next election.Clinton was called "irrelevant" after the congressional defeats of 1994, when his ratings hovered in the high 30s. Bush seemed almost out of power in the last years of his administration, when his approval dropped to the low 30s.Now Obama faces the loss of power that comes with dropping poll numbers. The two early symptoms of this creeping impotence are his inability to pass the union card-check legislation or to force action on healthcare before the August recess, once highly touted administration goals.

As is usually the case, the apparent cause of these defeats -- the buildup of public disapproval of both bills -- is not what is really at work. Rather, it is the president's obvious inability to improve the economy that is exacting the daily toll in his approval ratings evident in all of the surveys. Like the body counts that mounted in Iraq and drove Bush's numbers ever downward, the rising unemployment numbers are stripping Obama of his popularity and power.Obama's very activism in promoting the stimulus package in January as a cure-all has set him up for failure now that he cannot deliver on his overblown promises. Unlike Clinton's presidency, Obama's cannot be rescued by good public relations. His obvious failure to turn the economy around drags him down at every turn. Will the group of moderate Democrats that is increasingly blocking his programs prove to be a lasting coalition? As long as Obama's economic failures continue, they will grow and harden in their opposition to his radical agenda. Once their president's popularity tanks, Democratic centrists will not look forward to running in an election defending his policies. The race to distance themselves from his failures will be on.That's not how Republicans work. Among the GOP, the tendency to hunker down and follow the leader into oblivion is all too obvious. The elections of 2006 and 2008 provide vivid examples. But Democrats, particularly those who sit nervously astride red states, are not made that way. Their proclivity toward dissent and independence, muzzled in times of presidential popularity, emerges when approval ratings drop.Despite having 60 votes in the Senate, it is a serious question as to whether Obama will be able to get his controversial programs passed in the fall. The public mood is congealing against his healthcare proposals, and skepticism over the impact of cap-and-trade on American manufacturing is growing.While voters are idealistically determined to cover the uninsured, they are more selfishly concerned about their own healthcare. And they are loath to trust the man who sold them on the stimulus package when he says that their care will be protected. More and more, they are asking the very simple question that Obama cannot answer: How is he going to cover 50 million new people without more doctors?The elderly are coming to understand that his plan effectively repeals the bedrock guarantee in Medicare that seniors can get whatever care they want for free. The opposition to healthcare changes is building so fast that Obama was forced to retreat from his August deadline. And it's unlikely that he will be able to make a successful stand in September or October, when his ratings will likely be 10 points lower than they are today.

It's Confirmed! Libs Are Idiots!!

2009-07-24T11:35:00.000-05:00

There can NO LONGER be any doubt that not only are liberals idiots, they're nothing more than jackbooted fascists thugs seeking to rule us, not serve us, as the Constitution intended.Let's pick this pile of trash apart shall we?EXCERPT: WASHINGTON (CNN) – As the prospects for passing health reform by the time Congress leaves for its August recess look bleaker, Democratic grumbling about President Obama is growing louder. One Democratic senator tells CNN congressional Democrats are “baffled,” and another senior Democratic source tells CNN members of the president’s own party are still “frustrated” that they’re not getting more specific direction from him on health care. “We appreciate the rhetoric and his willingness to ratchet up the pressure but what most Democrats on the Hill are looking for is for the president to weigh in and make decisions on outstanding issues. Instead of sending out his people and saying the president isn’t ruling anything out, members would like a little bit of clarity on what he would support – especially on how to pay for his health reform bill,” a senior Democratic congressional source tells CNN. The Democratic leadership had hoped the work going on behind closed doors for months could bear fruit in time for the president’s news conference Wednesday night. But multiple Democratic sources tell CNN that’s looking very unlikely, and one senior Democratic source tells CNN there is some frustration among Democratic leaders that Senate negotiators have, "repeatedly missed deadlines."

Number One. Liberals, this is what happens when you select an affirmative action baby, simply to make some historical note. You pandered to the blacks and got their vote (nothing new there), and now you're complaining about it. Suck it up.

Number Two. Liberals, this is what happens when you select an idiot with absolutely NO executive level experience. Signing rosters and passing out leaflets in neighborhood as a community organizer IS NOT and IT NEVER WILL BE...executive level experience. This kind of experience comes from running a company, making high-level decisions, being a mayor or governor, and actually learning how to follow before you lead.
Number Three. Liberals, this is what happens when you select an idiot without any actual managerial experience. This is the kind of hands-on training that people get when thye come up through the ranks. The Gunny started as a Private and actually had to LEARN the job o]f the rank above him BEFORE he was promoted into it. Gee, ain't THAT a novel concept.

Number Four. Liberals, this is what happens when you select a racist, who sat his a s s in a church of hate. Who pals around with terrorists like Ayers, Dorhn, Farrakhan, and Rashid Khalidi. We on the right pointed out that this idiot RAISED over ONE MILLION DOLLARS to help his Marxist/Socialist cousin, Ol' Ray Odinga, get elected. Immediately thereafter, he established Sharia law, roughly 1,100 Kenyans were murdered, and Christians fleeing for their lives. But you were too busy drinking the kool-aid. YOU OWN THIS FOOL, LOCK, STOCK, and BARREL!

In fact, wasn't it YOU LIBERALS that crowed that electing Comrade Zero proved that America had become less racist? If so, then why did Barry Odingo Soetoro say THIS yesterday:
"Make no mistake, the pain of discrimination is still felt in America (applause) by African-American women paid less for doing the same work as colleagues of a different color and a different gender; by La-tin-os made to feel unwelcome in their own country; by Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion simply because they kneel down to pray to their god; by gay dead brothers and sisters still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071601929.html

Number Five. Liberals, this is what happens when you select an idiot without one iota of PROVEN gravitas. Voting "PRESENT" 205 times IS NOT gravitas. Landing on an aircraft carrier is gravitas. Walking out on the commies at Reyjavik is gravitas. Lying on college applications for grants as a "foreign student" is not gravitas. Being the president of the Harvard Law Journal and never ONCE writing an essay, review, article, etc, is NOT gravitas, it's a joke. Bowing to a FOREIGN KING and bashing America is NOT gravitas, it's borderline treason. You elected a snot-nosed punk who has gamed the system since he was able to realize how to play the race card to prefection and now you're whining about it.

BTW libs, how about that transparency huh? The Democratic leadership had hoped the work going on behind closed doors for months could bear fruit in time for the president’s news conference Wednesday night. So THAT is how this works huh? Kinda like Congress going behind closed doors to give themselves a 25% pay hike, over two years, as they did in 1988, only NOW, we have to subsidize MORE parasites. Hmmm. So much for transparency in government but then again, you know a liebral is lying when his or her lips are moving.

In retrospect, we called it folks. We correctly identified Comrade Zero as a whiny, spoiled, wet-behind-the-ears punk, who is a serial narcissist, who could not lead a platoon of thirsty Marines to FREE BEER, and who was unfit to lead America after a whopping 140 days in the Senate. The liberals can't impose ther fascist state on us and THEY ARE UNHAPPY about it. The rise of the silent majority scares the HELL out of them because they know they'll be out of an easy job by 2010. The people's anger scares them as well and they know we're on the verge of busting out the pitchforks and torches.

Obama Sides With Race Hustling Nutty Professor

2009-07-24T08:54:00.001-05:00

The wheels must be coming loose on Comrade Obama's farcical presidency, because out comes the race card.
The police officer who arrested a Harvard professor for disorderly conduct said Thursday he wants President Obama, who is the educator's friend, to butt out of the incident.
Cambridge, Mass., Sgt. James Crowley arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home last week after he responded to a report of two black men attempting to break in to Gates' home.
It turned out that Gates, head of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, had broken into his own home after being unable to find his keys upon his return from a trip to China.
Asked about the incident, Obama, who is friends with the professor and documentary filmmaker, told reporters at a Wednesday night press conference that he didn't know all the facts. But he said, "the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home."
Proof? Like Gates' identification? But when the police asked to see it, Obama's friend started shrieking about racism, which is how he makes his comfy living at Harvard.
Gates also screamed abusive epithets directed at Crowley's mother. Keep in mind that at the time, the cops did not know who he was. You would think he'd be grateful that the police were there to investigate two guys with backpacks breaking into his house, considering that it had been broken into before (per the police report).
Imagine being a cop and having to deal with elitist vermin like Gates, who think that neither laws nor the rules of common courtesy apply to them because they are "oppressed" and therefore higher beings.
From all this, Dear Leader concludes:
Race remains a factor in the society.
I wonder why Chairman Zero would step into this sordid incident just as his Stalinized healthcare debacle is starting to tank. Look for more race-oriented stories to attract his attention as opportunities to distract ours, as the Post Turtle in Chief's panic deepens. Being black got him into this mess, maybe it can get him out…

Healthcare Debate Stalled Until Fall

2009-07-21T17:08:00.000-05:00

The 1,018 page Health Care Bill (that no one would have read) is not getting the approval faux-bama was hoping for even from within his own Party and promises to try again in the Fall. If I were to guess the reason for the stall, I would say it was the 2010 elections fast approaching many of these dems. Americans are starting to wake up as more people are losing their savings, homes, jobs, unemployment figures are closing in on 20% nation wide, welfare needs are going up, and obamavilles are springing up around the Country.
Is it Reality to think that Americans are concerned about their health care if they have no job or no where to live? Of course, only a bureaucrat would think of what will perpetrate his job rather than thinking about serving those who pay for his job!
The truth of the matter is that this faux-administration and Congress are out of control. They refuse to see the Law of Cause and Effect, and continue pushing forward their massive spending agenda because of their Super Majority and lack of any checks or balances with no thought of where this money is going to come from and who will have to pay for it.
When Obama is long gone, and I hope that is very soon, our sons and daughters will still be paying for his government jobs creation programs! This is flat out Marxism, French style or Russian style, doesn’t matter, governments that over spend eventually crush under its own weight.
I did a survey on my block which I would encourage you to do as well. I counted how many people live on my corner of my village and what jobs they had and this is the result that I tallied:
Out of 30 neighbors:
Retired and on Social Security, welfare and or disability – 10
Government Employees – 4
Unemployed from private companies – 5
Those who work for a private company - 4
Retired living off personal retirement – 1
Homemakers/not working outside of home - 3
Children - 2
Adult unknown what kind of job – private or government (?) -1
Let me go even further and say that in my circle of friends who are not retired, most of my buds have lost their jobs, are currently on unemployment, or have had their unemployment run out, and have quit looking for work. There are three people working.
I am not saying that all neighborhoods will end up like mine, but as you can see we have four people who are creating a tax base, with five people who use to work for private companies, and the rest are living off the tax system! How will this work? I suggest you take a survey of your neighborhood, and see how many people create a tax base, and how many people actually suck off the tax base.
Now add the regular Congressional budget, the trillion dollar Stimulus Bill, TARP I and II, Cap and trade which will increase the average family tax burden by $3000. a year and a health care system that will make these other tax burdens look like a cake walk. How is it possible for this country to survive when we have Congress Critters who are only concerned with their own lives and creating government jobs that suck off the tax payer?
WILL SOMEONE ANSWER THE QUESTION???? And please spare me the,
“We have to spend money to make money” argument.
In our family and 99% of all families and businesses, we don’t spend money to make money! That’s an insane Looney Left Lie! We work! That’s how we make money! Then we save our money which is what China is now doing, and will become the world’s super power because of it. America used to save her money, but now America lives off a credit card. Eventually America will have to go bankrupt!
By the way as a side note: Did you know that Congress created a Law for themselves so that they do not pay into the Social Security system? They have their own private retirement accounts that they refuse YOU to have for yourself! You know why they don’t pay into this system? Because they know for a fact it will fail someday and they don’t want to lose the money they put into this failed system, but they care NOT if you lose your money!
This is NOT a representative Republic, but an oligarchy or mob rule!! Some people have more Rights than others, and it’s time it STOPS!

This Summer-31 States With Record Lows-256 New Records-Global Warming Garbage

2009-07-21T14:10:00.000-05:00

The Next Ice Age Now reported that there were record low temperatures recorded in 31 states this month. 256 new record low temperatures were either set or tied nationally.Hat Tip xqqume Of course, the state-run media did not report this.And, Don't expect this news to sway the junk scientists and leftists who want to punish Americans with cap and trade legislation.

Obama's Climate Czar Self Described Socialist

2009-07-20T13:07:00.000-05:00

Why does that not surprise me in the least? Carol Browner, Obama's "Climate Czar" is a self-described socialist. If there is a difference between the two philosophies, it's a small one and can be summed up in one small sentence: communism is imposed by the power of the state, socialism by the vote of the people. The end result is the same, however - statism. As I have pointed out before, nowhere in the U.S. Constitution will you find any stipulation allowing the President to appoint a "czar" that is unaccountable to We The People. Yet Obama has 34 of them. Some are outright kooks. Past Presidents have had them, but they were largely ornamental. This is different as it is tantamount to a shadow government operating outside of any accountability. Case-in-point today of the kookiness factor is Van Jones, the "green Jobs czar." From the Detroit Examiner: Van Jones, 'Green Jobs Czar', a self-described 'communist' arrested during Rodney King riots.
The 41-year-old Yale Law School graduate and civil rights lawyer is also the founder of California's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, "a non-profit agency for justice, opportunities and peace."The Ella Baker Center was connected to STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a "multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences" with which Jones was involved.In 1992, Van Jones founded another STORM project, Bay Area PoliceWatch, a "hotline and lawyer-referral service for victims and survivors of police abuse." This is fitting, perhaps, since Jones was himself arrested and detained briefly during a protest after the Rodney King verdict that same year.Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005:
I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist. (...)
I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.
Like a character out of The Big Chill, Van Jones seems to have evolved from radical activist to Establishment insider. Perhaps only a left-wing administration incapable of recognizing irony would put a self-described communist in charge of creating jobs. Luckily for Van Jones, and Obama's many other "Czars" with dubious credentials and troubling backgrounds, his new job was not dependent upon making it through Congressional hearings.
Thus back to my question of the constitutionality of these unaccountable positions of power. If most of these kooks couldn't make it through public Congressional hearings, then what the heck are they doing with any input into our lives whatsoever?

Obama Forgets Who Controls Congress

2009-07-20T11:05:00.001-05:00

In his Weekly Address Barack Obama forgot who controlled Congess for the last 2 and a half years.The New York Times reported:
“I want to be very clear,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly address to the nation. “I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. And by helping improve quality and efficiency, the reforms we make will help bring our deficits under control in the long term.”...“The same folks who controlled the White House and Congress for the past eight years as we ran up record deficits will argue — believe it or not — that health reform will lead to record deficits,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s simply not true.” For the record-- Democrats have controlled Congress since 2007.The Democratic Congress controlled the purse strings last year and shattered government spending records this year.UPDATE: Minority Leader John Boehner debunked a couple of other claims made by the president in his Weekly Address:
Washington, Jul 18 - President Obama is using his weekly address today to repeat some of the same claims that have been debunked time and time again during the health care debate. While Republicans have offered a better solution to give more Americans access to affordable health care without a small business tax, without raising health care costs, and without forcing millions of Americans off of their current plans, Democrats have stubbornly barreled ahead with their flawed government-run plan. Here are some previously-debunked claims the President resurrected in his weekly address today: CLAIM: “I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. And by helping improve quality and efficiency, the reforms we make will help bring our deficits under control in the long-term.”FACT: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) yesterday released its cost estimate on the House Democrats’ government takeover of health care and found that it will deepen the federal budget deficit by $239 billion over the next 10 years. Will the President promise to veto it? House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) noted that the CBO’s findings are just the latest in a string of problems with the House Democrats’ government-run plan:
“In recent days, Congress’ official, nonpartisan scorekeeper, the Congressional Budget Office, has reported that the Democrats’ government takeover of health care will drive health care costs even higher and add hundreds of billions more to our budget deficit. When are Democrats going to admit that their claims about their government-run plan are pure fiction? Repeating the same disproven myths over and over again will not make them true. Instead, Democrats should scrap their costly, job-destroying proposal and work with Republicans on a real plan to give Americans better access to affordable health care.”CLAIM: “Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.”FACT: The Associated Press already reported that on this pledge, “White House officials suggest the president’s rhetoric shouldn’t be taken literally.” Maybe that’s because the Congressional Budget Office found that 23 million Americans would lose their current plans if a Senate Democratic health care “reform” bill was enacted. Worse yet, an independent study conducted by the Lewin Group predicted that 114 million Americans would be forced out of their current health care coverage, including more than 106 million Americans who currently have employer-provided health care.

Even The Russians Don't want to Shake Hands

2009-07-20T07:42:00.001-05:00

Crazed Lib Garofalo: No Left Media Outlet In U.S.

2009-07-19T11:22:00.001-05:00

I've often wondered what the color of the sky is in Janeane Garofalo's world, and after hearing her interview on BBC Radio Saturday, I'm convinced this woman lives on another planet.
After all, in her view: "[T]he media in the States is much more to the right. I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing."
This coming from a woman who used to host a program on the far-left-leaning Air America Radio, and is a frequent guest on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" as well as Bill Maher's "Real Time."
Such idiocy made it all the more fitting that after she finished her chat with the BBC's Clive Anderson, Garofalo ended up cutting her comedy routine at the Latitude festival short due to the audience's seeming disinterest in her views.
But before we get there, here's a partial transcript of her fact-challenged, Bush-bashing interview (audio available here)

JANEANE GAROFALO: Over the last, well since the Bush administration, much more so, I was...
CLIVE ANDERSON, BBC: He used to be president.
GAROFALO: George Bush, yes, used to be President of the United States.
ANDERSON: I remember that.
GAROFALO: And I got involved in certain anti-war groups and stuff like that, and I would be invited on to these so-called news programs, but not because they thought I was any kind of a thinker. It was mostly just to mock and marginalize the anti-war movement and things of that nature.
Imagine that. On Garofalo's planet, the anti-war movement is mocked and marginalized by America's media.
ANDERSON: There seems to be a slightly odd way in America, or maybe I've just got a false impression, that there seem to be a lot of programs where like-minded people get together and chat, and then, as your case might be a liberal group chatting, and then another group, might be sort of a radio jockey's got a TV program, then plays in clips of you, and then argues with you in your absence. You ought to put those two together some times you know.
GAROFALO: The, mostly the media in the States is much more to the right. I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing. And also, they have an unfortunate need to make it combative where they have people that wind up devolving into a shouting match of sorts.
ANDERSON: Well, I don't put up with that. I wouldn't dream of being in combat with anybody.
GAROFALO: No, you're very polite. You're British.
Fascinating, wouldn't you agree? But the best is yet to come, for watch how she gets dressed down by Anderson:
ANDERSON: So, but you started your own program, what your own radio...
GAROFALO: I worked at Air America Radio for 2 1/2 years, and, which was a radio station formed as an answer to all the rightwing radio that dominates.
ANDERSON: How did it do, is it still going?
GAROFALO: It's still going, I mean, it's had a lot of financial difficulties, and a lot of problems over the years. But that's just because of a poor business model. Yeah, it's still going.
ANDERSON: But who'd have thought, a poor business model from a left-wing group? You should try a license fee, that seems to work well.
Hehehehehe. Gotta love it.
Later:
ANDERSON: Last week we had on the program Jamie Kilstein who's a comedian I think you know, and he made the point that there's a slightly different flavor now that American comedians bring to the country because for many years you've been able to come on and say, "Oh no, we've got this interesting man Bush as President." Now you've a different President and we, should we have a different attitude toward America now do you think?
GAROFALO: Well, I think people like us better now that Obama's there. It's a much better representative of the States I think, because George Bush certainly makes it seem like we're the biggest jerks in the world. And it's nice to have Obama. But there's certainly no shortage of still political things to discuss and media things to discuss.
ANDERSON: And do you think there'll become a time when you'll be criticizing him, for he's having quite a long honeymoon.
GAROFALO: No, there is many things to criticize him for at this point. He's a great guy, but he acquiesces too much to the right-wing in our country.
ANDERSON: So you're never going to be satisfied are you?
GAROFALO: Well, why should I be?
Why indeed? But most deliciously, it was folks that attended her comedy show hours later that weren't satisfied according to Britain's Uncut:
Janeane Garofalo cut short her Saturday afternoon set in Latitude's comedy tent because of the poor reception she was given by the audience. The American comedienne's rare UK live appearance was expected to be one of the highlights in a strong comic line-up, but she failed to win over the festival crowd.
Best known to TV viewers as talent booker Paula in The Larry Sanders Show and political campaigner Louise in the final series of The West Wing, Garofalo was due perform for half an hour, but left the stage after less than ten minutes when her routine about post-9/11 security checks at airports met with stony silence."It's not you, I blame myself for this," she said before leaving the stage.
Some attendees tweeted their displeasure:
Ouch. Jeaneane Garofalo was on the Comedy Stage at Latitude. She lasted five minutes. My interview with her was longer.Sarah Silvermanesque
And:
Oh dear, janeane garofalo has just died on stage seriously badly!
It seems quite fitting that she would flop after speaking such nonsense about our nation while on foreign soil, don't you agree?

Obamacare Will Punish Small Business

2009-07-19T11:20:00.000-05:00

Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) discusses Republican ideas for reforming health care and explains why the Democrats' plans are unwise. Sen. Kyl notes that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said that the Democrats' health plans would "add additional onto an already unsustainable system." Further, Sen. Kyl says, the Democrat plans would "empower Washington, not doctors and patients, to make health care decisions. And [it] would impose a new tax on working families during a recession." Here's the full transcript of Senator Kyl’s address:
“Hello. I’m Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl, of Arizona.“Republicans believe all Americans should have access to quality health care and that we must find ways to reduce health care costs.“The debate in Washington is about how we can achieve these goals. “Republicans have put forward common-sense ideas, including rooting out Medicare and Medicaid fraud, reforming medical liability laws to discourage frivolous lawsuits, strengthening wellness and prevention programs that encourage healthy living, and allowing small businesses to band together and purchase health insurance like large corporations do. “These changes do not require government takeover of the healthcare system, or massive new spending, job-killing taxes, or rationing of care.“Democrats in Congress have a different approach. Their plan would increase spending by more than two trillion dollars when fully implemented, and would, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, “’add additional costs onto an already unsustainable system.’“It would empower Washington, not doctors and patients, to make health care decisions and would impose a new tax on working families during a recession. A study by the respected Lewin Group shows it would also move millions of people who are happy with their current insurance to a new government plan. “They propose to pay for this new Washington-run health care system by dramatically raising taxes on small business owners. Small businesses create jobs -- approximately two-thirds of new jobs in the last decade.“With a shaky economy and the need for new jobs, the last thing the President and the Congress should do is impose new taxes on America’s small businesses. New taxes on small business would cripple job creation, especially jobs for low-wage earners.“This week, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office told the Senate Budget Committee that the health care-reform measures drafted by Democrats would worsen our economic outlook by increasing deficits and driving our nation more deeply into debt. So, there’s good reason to be skeptical when the President tells us we need to pass the Democrats’ bill to help the economy.“The President and Congressional Democrats have even proposed cutting Medicare to pay for their plan. “How can we justify dipping into funds for seniors’ care to pay for a new government plan, especially since Medicare is already in financial trouble? This would ultimately lead to shortages, rationing, and the elimination of private-plan choices—something our seniors rightly fear. “These are not the right steps to achieving the reform Americans want. “But the President and some Democrats insist we must rush this plan through. Why? Because the more Americans know about it, the more they oppose it. Something this important needs to be done right, rather than done quickly.“We know Americans would prefer us to work together to ensure access to affordable quality health care for all. But Americans do not want a government takeover of health care that will jeopardize their current coverage, ration care, and create mountains of new debt and higher taxes. “We urge Democrats to support a plan that would lead to real reform and include the innovative ideas Republicans have put forward that would cut costs, improve access, and preserve the kind of care that millions of Americans already have and like. That’s the kind of reform Americans would be sure to support.”More... Here's the latest-- Doug Elmendorf and the CBO announced this weekend that the House version of ObamaCare adds $239 billion to deficit.

Unemployment Rates Expected To Continue Upward

2009-07-14T13:25:00.000-05:00

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday declined to predict how high unemployment will climb but made clear he expects it to keep worsening for a while as hiring lags behind other signs of economic recovery.
"How employment numbers are going to respond is not year clear," the president said on a day when he was headed to Michigan, home of a particularly battered economy. "My expectation is that we will probably continue to see unemployment tick up for several months."
The unemployment rate stands at 9.5 percent, the highest in 26 years.
Obama, addressing reporters in the Oval Office, said the stabilization of the financial markets has allowed banks to start lending again and some small businesses to stay afloat. But he said his administration is aware that the most important factor is whether people are able to get good-paying jobs.
More than 2 million jobs have been lost since Congress passed Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package. Without that government intervention, Obama said, states like Michigan would be even worse shape because they would have had to lay off more teachers, firefighters and other workers.
The White House has been criticized for being overly rosy about employment projections. Just 10 days before taking office, Obama's top economic advisers released a report predicting unemployment would remain at 8 percent or below through this year if an economic stimulus plan won congressional approval.
Instead, it is headed toward double digits.
The president said the creation of jobs that pay good wages is the "single biggest challenge" in the recovery for the U.S. and governments worldwide. He defended his multi-pronged agenda of trying to revamp health care, energy, science innovation and infrastructure as the key to real economic growth.
"Those foundations are so critical because we've got to find new models of economic growth," Obama said.
Obama was headed later to Michigan to promote investments in community colleges. The state's unemployment rate is the nation's highest, 14.1 percent.
The president spoke after a wide-ranging meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.

Obama Losing Popularity-Says Today Unemployment Will Get WORSE!!!

2009-07-14T13:21:00.001-05:00

In the polling hierarchy, the least significant data measure is a president's per sonal popularity. Here, President Obama excels, with most polls showing him in the high 60s. Next comes his job approval, significant but not necessarily predictive.Obama's approval, in the Rasmussen Poll, has now dipped to 51 percent, one point less than his 2008 vote share of 52 percent. In past polls, most voters registering disapproval for the president had voted for Sen. John McCain. Now, Obama's starting to lose people who backed him last November.But the true predictive measurement is a chief executive's and his party's ratings on specific issues. As these shift, so usually do his job-approval numbers and eventually his popularity. And current trends suggest that Obama is in for rough sledding -- his job-approval ratings likely will quickly fall into negative territory and then drop further.

Rasmussen asked voters to compare which party was best on 10 issues. While Obama's ratings are likely better than his party's, the Republicans can take heart in trumping their opposition in eight of the 10 categories.The most significant topic was, of course, the economy. For the second straight month, Rasmussen shows a GOP lead over the Democrats, this time by 46 percent to 41 percent, indicating that the incessant bad news and the collapse of the false hopes the stock market entertained this spring have taken their toll.And only 39 percent of voters say that Obama is doing an excellent or good job on the economy, 11 points lower than his overall job approval. Forty-three percent say he's doing fair or poor.As unemployment continues to rise and even Obama predicts that times will get worse, this gap on economic issues will likely rise.On their competing health-care reform plans, Rasmussen finds Obama and the Republicans drawing equal support. On health care generally, Democrats find their margin down to 4 points from 18 two months ago.Obama is rapidly losing support on health reform, his key issue. And if he stays behind on health care and the economy for long, nothing much will hold him and his party aloft.Rasmussen also found a Republican edge on many other issues. Democrats led Republicans 41 percent to 38 percent on education -- but the GOP led 49-40 percent on national security, 40-34 on immigration, 46-39 on abortion, 34-33 on ethics and corruption and -- get this -- 42-37 on Social Security.When Republicans are winning on Social Security, it's bad news for the Democrats.Most ominous for Obama is the GOP lead on the economy, taxes and immigration and the party's parity on health-care reform: The issues that will dominate the next few months are all working for the Republicans.It's amazing how quickly Obama has lost his lead. His ratings had fallen steeply after his inauguration. Most polls had his job-approval dropping 13 points in his first three months. But then his number revived with the adulatory coverage at his first-100-days mark. Buoyed by hopes of a swift recovery, voters and the stock market gave him a break, and his ratings and the Dow rose sharply.But since April, he has been dropping fast -- and his alarming losses on his central agenda issues portend further declines.Congressional elections are still more than a year off, but Obama needs strong approval ratings to steer his legislative package through Congress. If he's sagging in the low 40s or high 30s by the fall, he probably won't be able to persuade moderate Democratic senators to walk the plank and vote for cap-and-trade, health-care reform, higher taxes or an immigration amnesty.His chief legislative achievements, in other words, may already be behind him.

Barry Betrays The U.S....Again

2009-07-14T10:22:00.001-05:00

The Osama, oops, Obama Administration is weak on terrorists, of that there can no longer be any doubt. Of course, there never WAS any doubt even before the election since Osama's, oops, Obama's pals are terrorists, i.e., Ayers, Dorhn, Khalidi, etc. So it should come as no surprise to us that Barry's actions, like Team Clinton's before them (he pardoned 4 FALN terrorists who murdered and wounded NY cops in bombings), on Thursday, 8 July 2009, when his administration released 4 Iranian detainees, members of the Qods Force (more on this below) and who smuggled explosives and explosive devices into Iraq. These are the very same scumbags who smuggled in EFPs (more on this below), which killed, wounded, and maimed Coalition troops in Iraq. Along these same lines, let's remember that it was the liberals, led by Mexifornia Congcritter Henry "Nostrilus" Waxman, who sent aid in the form of medical supplies and money, through Code Pink, to the terrorists in Fallujah, while US Marines were engaged in battle with them.
Andrew C. McCarthy of the National Review writes: "On Jan. 20, 2007, five American soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded in Iraq. As Bill Roggio relates at the Long War Journal, it was a daring operation: a twelve-man terrorist team disguised as U.S. servicemen attacked our troops as they held a previously arranged meeting with local officials in Karbala. Four of the soldiers were alive when they were abducted from the scene. They were handcuffed and murdered in a remote location when the coalition forces attempting to rescue them closed in. A few months later Qais Qazali, Laith Qazali and Ali Mussa Daqduq were captured, along with documents that confirmed they were agents of Iran responsible for organizing and directing terror cells in Iraq. Hundreds of US servicemen and women and thousands of innocent Iraqis died horribly because of them. What these Iranians did were war crimes, from the killing of civilians to the execution of prisoners. They likely took part in operations themselves; in fact the attackers in Karbala were so expertly disguised as American soldiers their equipment and vehicles were very likely supplied directly by Iran."
The Neville Chamberlain, oops, the Obama administration released Laith Qazali after they entered into negotiations with a terrorist organization called Asaib al-Haq. These terrorists have been saying that they'll stop fighting IF their top members Qais, Laith Qazali, and Ali Mussa Daqduq, are freed.
Comrade Barry and his cabal of naïve children made this happen.
What angers the Gunny the most is that this was done, as USUAL, under the radar, and without ONE IOTA of scrutiny from the Lapdog media. Again, the libs spit on the troops but this time, it's on the graves of the ones who DIED at the hands of these scumbags and the other pigs within the Quds Force. Here is the crux of the issue. Comrade Barry got these vermin released with the promise to STOP fighting until the US troops are pulled out. You can bet your last dollar on this one. Once the US troops are out, or almost out, these sh*tbirds will renew their fight for an Islamofascist state, a state sponsor of terrorism, and a friend of Barry's...IRAN! The Democrats released these terrorists simply for political gain. How screwed up is THAT?
The pure naivety of this childlike administration should ABSOLUTELY AND TOTALLY INFURIATE the American people; that is, if the Lapdog media actually reported it. When wronged, you don't ignore it. When a crime is committed, you don't twist your hanky and mewl about it. And when someone is responsible for killing AMERICANS, you find them, no matter how long it takes, and you put them down like a rabid animal. It should be crystal clear to all Americans that liberals DO NOT respect American lives, the sacrifices of the American military or their families, and that liberals have no honor.
They've lain down with our enemies like a cheap two-bit wh**e merely to look good to their base. Stupid, idiotic, and naïve. BTW Barry, your pal Ahmadinejad calls us the Great Satan and calls for our destruction as well as the Little Satan, Israel. Just thought you should know.
This pathetic excuse for an administration (and libscum in general) whined and bleated about poor poor Gitmo detainees getting waterboarded, boo-hoo, yet ignore these terrorists as they kill Americans. So called president Barry Soetoro sides with our enemies, has gone on bash America tours I and II, and ignores war crimes against US, merely for a cheap political gain. Truly he is little more than a cheap streetwalker. Dear Barry, when MORE American, Iraqi, and Israeli blood is spilt because you are living in your Columbia University cloud of Kumbaya (http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/nytint/docs/obama-s-1983-college-magazine-article/original.pdf) What will you do? Ignore it most likely. Just do your Wednesday night party night thing, snack on 100.00 Wugyu beef and Arugula salad, all on our dime. Oh, and send out the Ballerina, Rahmbutt Emasculated, to squelch any rumblings from Lapdog the Media. It's amazing how blind liberals are to the absolute stupidity of letting terrorists go in order to secure a cheap promise that they won't fight again.
My friends, this is how stupid Barry and company are on the threat from Iran.
There are two forms of lying in Islam, Taqqiya and Kitman. Taqiyya is the principle that if lying serves an Islamic cause, then dissimulation may be employed. It is a legitimate part of Islam, to lie and deceive unbelievers by any means. Kitman is telling just a PART of the truth. "Lying is wrong, except in three things: the lie of a man to his wife to make her content with him; a lie to an enemy, for war is deception; or a lie to settle trouble between people" Muhammad. The Koran states in verses Q2:225, Q3:28, Q16:106, Q77:38, and Q9:5 that lying is permissible to the enemy and that a Muslim can break a treaty with a non-believer or even a "not so good" Muslim. Barry qualifies as a "not so good" Muslim. So Barry got their promise not to fight again but this is complete bullsh*t, he knows it, but doesn't care that releasing terrorists will get out troops killed. He KNOWS that released Gitmo detainees are back in the fight and several are LEADING the fight in Afghanistan. Liberals wonder why the military hates them? Liberals wonder why the US Military is a HUGE BLOCK of Conservatism? Because liberals have betrayed this nation's servicemen and women time and again. The Obama/Carter/Chamberlain administration just put the heads of our troops on the chopping block, along with countless innocent people.
QODS FORCE BACKGROUND:
The Qods Force is a special unit of Iran's Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. The primary mission of the Qods or Ghods Force is to organize, train, equip, and finance foreign Islamic revolutionary movements around the WORLD by contacting, supplying, maintaining and building revolutionary Islamic militant organizations globally. They report directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Its current commander is Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani.
November 2006: Quds Force accused of supporting "Shi'a death squads" at the SAME TIME the government of Iran pledged to support Iraqi stability.
December 2006: Four Iranians were captured by American troops in Iraq. Two of them were members of Quds Force. The Quds Force members were involved in the transfer of EFP technology from Iran to Iraq. The two Qods Force members were: Brig. Gen. Mohsen Chirazi (Third in Command of the ENTIRE QODS FORCE!) and Col. Abu Amad Davari.
January 2007: US forces raided and detained five employees of the Iranian liaison office in Irbil, Iraq. The US military says the five detainees are connected to the Quds Force. (All five were knowledgeable on the Qods Force and Iranian activities in Iraq. American Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad declared: "one of the men in custody is Quds Force's director of operations."
July 2007: Quds Force aided in the planning of a raid on U.S. forces in the Iraqi city of Karbala in January 2007. (5 GI captured, tortured, and killed)
September 2007: The US military arrested an Iranian during a raid on a hotel in Sulaimaniyah, a city in the Kurdish-controlled north. The military accused the Iranian of being a member of the elite Quds Force and smuggling powerful roadside bombs, including armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators (EFPS), into Iraq. The military said intelligence reports asserted the suspect was involved in the infiltration and training of foreign fighters into Iraq as well.

(THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG CONCERNING THE QODS FORCE)
"I can say with certainty that the Quds force, a part of the Iranian government, has provided these sophisticated IEDs that have harmed our troops." Bush 43

And Barry Barack Husseini Obama Soetoro just freed the ones who made this happen. Soft on TERRORISM, that's liberals for ya.
BTW, WHERE IS THE GOP ON THIS? (enter crickets chirping)

Obama, The Pope and Townsend

2009-07-13T08:51:00.000-05:00

According to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Obama better represents Catholics than the Pope.Wacky?Absolutely. Surprising?Not at all.Many Catholic Democrats, as well as Catholics with other or no political affiliations, routinely ignore Catholic doctrine. For Newsweek, Kennedy Townsend writes:
Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama meet for the first time, an affair much anticipated and in some circles frowned upon by American Catholics in the wake of Obama's controversial Notre Dame commencement speech in May. Conservatives in the church denounced Obama's appearance as a nod by the premier Catholic university to a conciliatory politics that heralds the start of a slippery moral slope.In truth, though, Obama's pragmatic approach to divisive policy (his notion that we should acknowledge the good faith underlying opposing viewpoints) and his social-justice agenda reflect the views of American Catholic laity much more closely than those vocal bishops and pro-life activists. When Obama meets the pope tomorrow, they'll politely disagree about reproductive freedoms and homosexuality, but Catholics back home won't care, because they know Obama's on their side. In fact, Obama's agenda is closer to their views than even the pope's.WHAT?"Catholics back home won't care, because they know Obama's on their side."That's a problem. Kennedy Townsend concludes with this incredible statement:
The pope has a lot to learn about Catholic politics in America. Barack Obama can teach him."Catholic politics in America" isn't the concern of the Pope. The Holy Father is the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, over a billion Catholics. Obama sat in the pews of Jeremiah Wright's church for twenty years. He joined Wright's church and abandoned it out of political expediency. Obama is hardly a man worthy of representing Catholics on matters of faith.And yet we're supposed to buy that Obama better represents American Catholics?It all depends what the meaning of "better represents" is.I think it's accurate to say that Obama better represents the views of lapsed Catholics. I think Obama is the one who has a lot to learn. Pope Benedict can teach him.

White Family Attacked For Being White..No Hate Crime Here

2009-07-09T12:25:00.002-05:00

As part of its blitzkrieg to impose the entire radical left agenda before people figure out what the media has tricked them into voting for, the Obamination regime has been pushing more "hate crime" legislation. Needless to say, this doesn't count as a hate crime:
Akron police say they aren't ready to call it a hate crime …
But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.
It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend's home in South Akron.
Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.
The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black.
Marshall spent five nights in the critical care unit with a concussion and multiple bruises to his head and eye. The construction worker is now on the line for $thousands in medical bills.
Good thing he didn't inflict any damage in return. Then he would have the added expense of defending himself from hate crime charges. As it is, "the case is not being classified as a racial hate crime." Remember in this day and age only the white man can be a racist.

Looks Like NObama The Idiot Finally Finds His Patriotism

2009-07-09T07:53:00.004-05:00

Below you see the dim witted president during America's National Anthem. Above you see your dim witted president covering his heart--AT THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER IN MOSCOW!!!! We now can officially confirm your president is a commie.

Sinking Sinking Gone

2009-07-08T12:44:00.000-05:00

Of all the lame reasons for supporting the absurd candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama for President, possibly the most preposterous was that this underqualified, ultra-left extremist would "unite us." Unsurprisingly, he has done the opposite.
According to Rasmussen, 37% strongly disapprove of the Moonbat Messiah, despite the relentless media campaign on his behalf, and the psychological ju-jitsu by which our rulers have subconsciously convinced many of us that we are "racists" if we oppose him. Strongly approve gets 32% and crumbling, leaving only 31% who haven't yet been politically polarized after a mere 6 months.
The hard left may have overplayed its hand by installing an actual communist in the White House. His demented policies could succeed at destroying America and replacing it with a half-starved socialist slave state. But if they don't, the backlash should rid us of moonbattery for generations. Maybe the Community Activist in Chief will unite us after all.

Sheila Jackson Lee Wants Child Molester Jacko Honored

2009-07-08T12:43:00.000-05:00

Despite all the long faces, at least one good thing has come from the death of the world's favorite transracial child molester — it has distracted Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee from her usual task of replacing America with a socialist slave state. She is sponsoring a bill to have the dead freakazoid officially honored by the House of Representatives:
Resolved, That the House of Representatives
(1) recognizes Michael Jackson as a global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises; and
(2) celebrates Michael Jackson as an accomplished contributor to the worlds of arts and entertainment, scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, and global food security.
Presumably the bill does not include anything about his contribution to advancing the spread of HIV/AIDS to children, by doing more to normalize pederasty than NAMBLA could in a century.
Via Michelle Malkin, here's Jackson Lee portraying the degenerate King of Pop as another Mother Teresa and milking his drug-induced demise for more moonbat votes:
On tips from John R and nancz.

Chairman O Wrecking GM

2009-07-07T08:56:00.001-05:00

GM CEO Barack Obama seems determined to wreck what’s left of the auto maker. Consider “Economics Wasn’t GM’s Only Criteria for New Plant” from today’s Wall Street Journal:
When it was deciding where to build its new compact car, General Motors Corp. made a point of saying it would push politics aside and use strictly commercial criteria.
So Tennessee’s three top officials were astonished last month, in a meeting with GM, when they were told the first two criteria were “community impact” and “carbon footprint” — or how the choice would affect unemployment rates and carbon-dioxide emissions.
“Those didn’t strike us as business criteria at all,” said Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, who was joined in the meeting by fellow Republican Sen. Bob Corker and the state’s Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen. Those factors, Mr. Alexander said, “seemed odd for a company struggling to get back on its feet.”…
… The federal government’s outsize role in the new GM has already raised concerns about the mixing of politics and commerce. Lawmakers, such as Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, have squeezed GM to reject plant closures in their districts. Obama administration officials have prodded the car giant to develop smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.
The Obama administration is hoping for a public offering of stock in the new GM next year. LOL!

Obama's Lies About Health Care

2009-07-06T08:11:00.001-05:00

The liberals love to throw out half-truths and "big lies" in order to pass their agenda, "ON THE DOUBLE" as the Obomunists like to try it. It's an EMERGENCY! It has to be done NOW or we'll all die, the economy will crumble, lions will lie down with lambs, etc. And in keeping with their lies, big lies, and D*MNED lies, liberals trot out the WHO report published in 2000. The report that shows us as ranked as #37 overall in health performance but #1 in spending and "OH THE HUMANITY" we must do something now!
Here comes the funny part. Like the gloBULL warminmg reports where they take the temps next to air conditioner exhausts or on an asphalt roofs, the WHO reports not only no longer rank nations (because it's too hard) but two professors from Princeton, Tsung-mei Chung and Uwe Reinhardt point out that the rankings are based on the ratio of the achieved values in comparison to the values that "should" have been obtained in reflection of the country's spending and educational levels. In other words, crap. The entire report(s) is/are based on the opinions of the people surveyed, with science totally out of the picture, kinda like Al Goreacle's gloBULL warming, gloBULL cooling, we're all gonna die BS.

In other words, it was "empathy" and "fairness" that overruled actual health care performance! The liberals will "empathize" with you when you have cancer and can't get care because there are no beds or some bureaucrat ruled that, "the expense is not cost-effective." You're too old, or not important enough, to rate that kind of treatment. Of course, the rich like Soros, Pelosi, Hanoi John Fonda Kerry, Dingy Reid, Feinstein, Comrade Barry, etc, will have their own doctor or be able to jump on a Gulfstream V to see a doctor in Switzerland.
Djibouti, for example, was ranked 3-5 on "fairness of financial contribution scale" but ranked ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY on responsiveness. So if you're waiting for an operation in Djibouti, you're gonna wait a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time. But liberals, please feel free to head to Djibouti because their treatment is "fairer" than ours. The Gunny will take a system that provides a shoulder arthoscopy in three months, from start to finish, via Tricare Prime.

Our infant mortality rate is among the best in the world and and our life expectantcy is up from 75 in 1990 and up from 77 (2000) to it's current level of 79 years old. In fact, the the WHO report stated that in the USA, 99% of all births attended by a skilled and trained health care provider,which is only surpassed by Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan! Has someone sounded the BULLSH*T alarm yet? That is the big lie number one from the leftists.
Big Lie number two is about how our healthcare spending is running rampant. No one on the left, in a party full of tort lawyers like Love Daddy LEFTwards, talks about the rise in lawsuits which causes a rise in malpractice insurance which drives up healthcare costs. In fact, according to WHO, in 2007, the USA health care spending actually DEcelerated, from 6.7% to 6.1% (2006). Who is driving up health care costs? Illegal aliens http://www.pnhp.org/news/2005/may/paying_for_health_ca.php and http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/12/26/170334.shtml
and http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/health_care.html and chiselers like the Democrats, a party comprised of 100% lawyers, suing everything and everyone to line their pockets. Every d*mn one of them a scumbag.

Big Lie number three is that the money paid out is systemic of a system run by bloated fat cats in the pharmaceutic companies yet liberals never ever discuss these same companies who have programs that give FREE drugs to those in need. What liberals DON'T like is that these companies don't dispense the drugs to EVERYONE free but actually check to make sure that these people are truly in need. That's a lesson the Federal Colossus could take full measure of, i.e., welfare, medicare, medicaid, etc. The whole bottom line is that Americans make the personal choice to spend THEIR money on getting the bets possible treatment available, whether it's perscription drugs or an operation.

Liberals continue to lie like a rug in their 4th big lie, that Americans want to see the system overhauled. Liberals are bound and determined to inflicit change in the healthcare system because it's, as they say, "broke", but refuse to fix a broken and defunct Social Security system or give school vouchers a chance to fix or broken public school system. A Gallup poll conducted in late 2008 revealed that: 49% preferred maintaining what we have.41% wanted change. the current system, while 41% wanted it to change. A Rasmussen poll conducted a scant few months ago revealed that:Only TWELVE percent think their healthcare coverage will improve under Comrade Barry's plan.Thity-seven percent think that their health care coverage will get WORSE under Barry's plan. In that poll, an overall 74% see Barry's plan not doing a D*MN thing for them but raising their taxes, which is what the left wants, besides control and power over the masses.

Their final big lie is that we all want to take care of those not covered. WRONG! Americans are not so stupid as to believe that there are people w/o coverage. One, some people choose to spend their money elsewhere and NOT buy coverage. Two, there are free clinics, county hospitals, and ER's take MUST treat people whether they can pay or not. Unfortunately, they're crammed with illegal aliens using them for THEIR free health care. The liberals fail to address that. In a poll done by the Kaiser Foundation, 54% of Americans are not willing to pay more out of THEIR pockets to give coverage to all.The whole issue is to seize control of YOUR healthcare in order to facilitate government control. When you rely on the Federal colossus for your food, water, medical needs, jobs, welfare checks, and social SUCkurity checks, you do what you're TOLD to do by the new aristocracy, the socialist elites.

STIMULUS DID NOT WORK!!!!!

2009-07-02T22:37:00.000-05:00

New unemployment numbers from June were released today, and they were not good. The national unemployment rate is now at a staggering 9.5%. Many states have jobless rates even higher than that, into the double digits, and the national rate is at a 26 year high.
This, despite:
The $787 TRILLION economic "stimulus"
Over $80 billion and climbing for a bailout of the auto industry
The Half-TRILLION omnibus spending bill
Hundreds of billions for bailouts of the insurance industry
Tens of billions for bailouts of the banks
Tens of billions for bailouts of the mortgage industry
And yet: here we are, with 9.5% unemployment and rising; home foreclosures at record highs; and industries still in collapse.
None of it has worked. Not a single, massive spending initiative has worked.
A jobless recovery? I don't even see much of a recovery---jobless or not---at all.
All of this government intervention was for nothing: except an excuse for a massive power grab for the Democrats.
Republicans: start your engines.

Libs Put Al Frankenweenie Into Office

2009-07-01T07:36:00.002-05:00

1. Came out of the closet as a tinfoil hatted moonbat, pictured here:

2. He ripped off 480,000 dollars from the Gloria Wise children's charity to run Air America after the first or second time it went belly up. Who can keep count?
3. The weenie joked about Cheney hunting accident. But maybe that was not in bad taste since libs are STILL joking about Palin's Down Syndrome child on Democrats Underground, Wonkette, and the official DNC blogger http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/03/celtic-diva-official-dnc-blogger.html4. The California Tax Franchise Board revealed that Franken owed the state $5,800 in taxes, fines, and penalties because he did not file returns in 2003 through 2007. 5. He OWES back taxes to 17 [out of 57 states] to the tune of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!
6. The New York State Workers' Compensation Board fined Franken $25,000 for failing to carry worker's compensation insurance for his employees in New York. Now THAT is looking out for the little guy, Democrat-style.

This election is so tainted with fraud and if there is any indication of that, one only has to look at the SecState for Minnesota, one Mark Ritchie, who has been linked to: George Soros, ACORN, and moveon.org, AND is being investigated for his actions therein. Like in Washington State for the Governor's race, votes just kept popping up. You KNOW it's a sham of an election when the Minnesota Star Tribune, a LEFT-WING paper, actually endorsed Norm Coleman! http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/acorn_mark_ritchie/2008/12/22/164573.html We now have a rogue government run by Soros and the radical leftists. Our government is being run by tax cheats, perverts, idiots, commies, and one community organizer who did not have the resume to be hired by Home Depot much less be potus. It's 1861, not 2009 my friends but my oh my how history repeats itself.More on Franken's lies, stupid antics, and fraud here: http://www.frankenlies.com/truth/index.htm

Sorry Folks But Michael Jackson Really Wasn't That Great

2009-06-28T11:41:00.002-05:00

I know this is heresy, blasphemy to the gods of the publicity industrial complex who created and destroyed the later Michael Jackson.
But I’ve let a day pass since his awful death before saying this: after the completely wonderful Jackson Five era, Michael Jackson was no longer a very interesting singer, not after he left the collaborative genius of the J-5. He became known for his dancing (wow, the moonwalk, really memorable!), for his stupid costumes (what was with the whole militaristic thing? And was the glove really all that interesting or distinctive in any way?), for one or two good songs (”Human Nature” or whatever it was officially called) and “Thriller” wasn’t one of them. Come on, do you really think that novelty concoction is worth another listen ever? (Okay I liked “Billy Jean” even though I still misremember the key lyric as “the chair is not my love”)
Then after the success of his solo comeback, fueled by nostalgia and moonwalking eccentricity, he became known for being a celebrity, famous for being famous, then famous for his eccentricities. Eccentricities that were at first harmless (Bubbles the chimp, etc.), then famous for being weird (”Neverland” the boy-pals), famous for his grotesque plastic surgeries, then famous for being an accused child-molester, acquitted of criminal charges but never able to quit the children. Then he became famous for his famous associations–buying the Beatles catalog and doing that hideously sappy “The Girl is Mine”* with Paul McCartney,”marrying” Lisa Marie Presley, etc. Famous for his famously annoying sisters. Famous for anointing himself “King of Pop” when he no longer could produce a decent pop song. And yet the idiot pop media went along with it, He was the King of Trainwreck Celebrity.
But as for his music? Can you name a single post-”Thriller” song he did?
Sorry. He and the Jackson Five created something magical. “I’ll Be There” is an immortal love song, sublimely beautiful in its simplicity. I’ll remember him with gratitude for that and the rest of the J-5 hits, and try to forget the trainwreck he became.
But in the “moronic inferno” (h/t Martin Amis) of the media “mourning” let’s not forget the real tragedy, that he long ago ceased being a talent and gave in to being a mere celebrity, the sure road to ruin.

A Few Thoughts On MIchael Jackson

2009-06-26T12:35:00.001-05:00

Generally speaking, I’m a believer in the rule that we should not speak ill of the dead. Or at least we should wait a decent interval before doing so (if we never spoke ill of the dead, history would be meaningless). But, I must say I find the media’s instinctive rush to sanctify Michael Jackson disgusting. Look, I understand that Michael Jackson was an “icon.” I understand that some people loved his work and that many people who never met him believed they loved the man too. But I didn't, and I’m hardly alone. If Michael Jackson were just another famous person, I’d probably stay silent and let the pro forma celebration of his memory roll by without comment. (For instance, I have no problem whatsoever with the media taking a moment to pay respects to Farah Fawcett). Sure, I liked the Jackson Five. I liked “Thriller,” too, when I was a teenager. Michael Jackson was an “icon” for me too. But let’s pause for a moment on that word “icon.” It seemed the consensus adjective for the news networks. NBC ran a special on two “American Icons” — Fawcett and Jackson. Every cable network (including Fox, for the record) used the word “icon” to describe him as if this was some sort of safe harbor, a word everyone could agree on. “Love him or hate him,” the implied logic went, “he was an ‘icon.’”Yes, well, maybe so. But that doesn’t let you off the hook. Even though the term sounds neutral, it isn’t. An icon, technically speaking, is a religious symbol deserving of reverence and adoration. The networks may not have intended to use the word that way, but they certainly showed an unseemly amount of reverence and adoration for the man. I think part of it is the narcissism of our celebrity culture. Here was a guy so many of “us” read about in People magazine for so long. His passing, therefore, isn’t a loss in the sorrowful sense of the word, but in the selfish one. It’s a loss of an interesting subject, a creature to gossip about and to fill a few minutes on E! or Entertainment Tonight. Everyone likes to invoke Lord Acton’s axiom that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But nearly everyone forgets that he coined this phrase not to indict powerful men, but to instruct the historians who write about them. Historians tend to forgive the powerful their transgressions. Likewise, journalists (for want of a better word) tend to forgive the famous. Calling Michael Jackson an icon doesn’t let him off the hook for anything. But to listen to the news anchors you’d think it absolves him of everything.
I say: Who cares who his famous friends were? Who cares what a “fascinating” person he was? If you want to talk about his death as an end of an era, have at it. But that’s not what the Barbara Walters set is doing. I know that Michael Jackson wasn’t convicted of the despicable crimes he was accused of. And that’s why he never went to jail. Three cheers for the majesty of the American legal system. But in my own personal view, he wasn’t exonerated either. Nor was he absolved of his crimes because he could sing, moonwalk, or sell 10 million records. (Though many of us suspect the money and fame he made from those things is precisely what kept him out of jail). And, while I merely think he was a pedophile, I know he was not someone responsible parents should applaud, healthy children emulate, nor society celebrate. And while we’re at it, his relatively early death wasn’t “tragic.” He was one of the richest people in the world. He spent his money on perpetual childhood and he was perpetually with children not his own. Meanwhile, in the last ten days, we’ve seen or heard of remarkable people who’ve given their lives for freedom in Iran. We’ve heard of innocents killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the last decade, America has lost thousands of heroes in noble causes and thousands of innocent bystanders who were denied the simple joys of life through no fault of their own. Those deaths are tragic, and we're hard pressed to think of more than a handful of names to put with the long line of the dead.
If anything, Michael Jackson’s life, not his death, was tragic. Every year at the Oscars they show a montage of people who died over the previous year. Invariably, the audience only applauds for the really famous people. This has always offended me. Not necessarily because the famous people don’t deserve praise but because it’s so clear that the audience is clapping for the fame. Michael Jackson had many accomplishments. But the press is sanctifying him because he was famous, deservedly so to be sure, but not because he was good. So much of the coverage seems to miss this fundamental point, as if being famous made him good. I feel sympathy for Jackson’s family and friends who understandably mourn him. But I can't bring myself to mourn him any more than I mourn the random dead I read about in the paper everyday. Indeed, I confess to mourning him less. Every channel says this is a sad day for America. I agree. But not for the same reasons.

Obama Defeats Fly

2009-06-26T11:23:00.001-05:00

While protestors against the totalitarian regime in Iran are getting shot and beaten in the streets of Tehran, Mr. Hope and Change, Barack Hussein Obama, continues to vote present with his “nuanced” (read panty-waist) response. Imagine the conversation going on in Jeremiah Wright’s former parishioner’s head: “on the one hand, it’s a brutal dictatorship that promotes terrorism all over the world. On the other hand, America has no right to interfere, given our racist, imperialistic history, and our interference in Iran’s domestic leadership in 1953.” Once again, B. Hussein, votes present, and his apparatchiks in the politburo media justify it with reference to the afore-mentioned events in 1953, leaving most of his supporters extremely confused. “How could America get involved in Iran in 1953 when that’s when the American Civil War was going on?” they ask as they scratch their empty heads.He Who Walks on Water saved his ire for a a more worthy adversary, to the collective swoons, oohs and aahs of the propagandists in our version of Pravda over his “amazing athleticism.” We haven’t seen reporting like this since Kim Jong Il’s first golf game. Take that, you vicious, dangerous fly! I’m gonna get you, Sucka! No doubt the poor hapless insect was attracted by the reeking stench coming from the lies that issue with such ease and regularity from Barry’s mendacious mouth.Meanwhile here at home, the Lame Stream Media continues their approach to “objective reporting” about Barack and Michelle Obama, which means pretending that normal Americans consider them objects of worship and endless fascination rather than a couple of narcissistic beneficiaries of affirmative action who alternately bore and enrage us with their ostentatious displays of taxpayer-funded amusements. In the latest foray into “hard news,” as in fluffy feature stories promoting their already overpackaged images, they want us to believe that we are looking to them to help us get our fat, flabby bodies in shape. In Michelle’s case--how can I say this delicately?--no matter how many stories they write about her “buff arms,” I can’t help but notice that there’s a reason she is rarely photographed from the waist down, particularly from behind, so I’m not looking for her “perfect body” diet any time soon. As for Barry, I assumed that all supernatural beings were possessed of perfect physical bodies. Or it could be the cigarettes.

Obama's Poll Numbers Go South

2009-06-23T11:13:00.000-05:00

Despite the relentless media hype, deliberate suppression of negative information, and industrial-scale brainwashing to make us subconsciously feel it is "racist" to disapprove of anyone black, Chairman Zero's honeymoon has already ended, with his approval index going into negative territory after only a few months in office. From Rasmussen:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 33% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1. Today is the second straight day the President's rating has been below zero (see trends).
However, Comrade Obama did manage to pull his numbers up from -2 yesterday. He must have gotten a bounce from the doting CBS scoop about him feeding his dog pumpkin-flavored ice cream while protestors die in Iran without even moral support.

Skateboarding Where Great Men Once Walked

2009-06-22T11:15:00.002-05:00

How's this for emblematic:
Above you see 41-year-old adolescent Tony Hawk skateboarding in the White House.
According to Hawk, Comrade Obama apologized for the absence of skateboard ramps, a welcome change from Chairman Zero's usual apologizing for America's historic defense of liberty.
If we don't get adults back in charge immediately, Hawk isn't the only one due for a major wipeout.

Grab Your Ankles..Your Taxes Are Going Up! Hey Obama Voters Hows That Workin Out For Ya?

2009-06-20T09:56:00.001-05:00

Remember when the Moonbat Messiah was promising repeatedly that he would cut taxes for 95% of Americans? Apparently, some actually believed him, and didn't have the decency to care what outrageous injustices were inflicted on the other 5%, who would be made to pay for BHO's extravagant socialist policies. But what goes around comes around. To the surprise of no one with an IQ above 80, Chairman Zero will be jacking taxes through the ceiling on all of us:
House Democrats have lots of potential targets for higher taxes as they aim to expand health care coverage to reach the roughly 50 million that experts say are uninsured.
Also under consideration are higher alcohol taxes, increases to the Medicare payroll tax and a value-added tax, a sort of national sales tax, of up to 1.5 percent or more.
A value-added tax would hit every American who buys or sells anything. Obama et al. are also thinking about a 10¢ per can tax on "sugary drinks," taxing employer-provided health insurance benefits, and of course, further looting "the rich," who need to have money to spend and invest if the economy is to recover.
If this sounds bad, wait until the cap and trade lunacy effectively results in massive energy taxes, which will also hurt each and every one of us, including the fools who voted this socialist regime into office.

The Wussy Liberals

2009-06-18T16:07:00.001-05:00

or the sissification of the American Man by liberals. After watching Comrade Zero simper, pout, whine, and beg since the clown took over, and after watching the videos posted here over the last two days, this essay NEEDED to be written.
We are being led by women in men's clothing. This is not a slam on women, but on the weak-kneed, limp-noodle, gutless liberals who appease, kowtow, bow, and otherwise grease up and bend over for any criminal, tyrant, dictator, or thug. Once upon a time in America, men, REAL MEN, signed their own death warrants by putting their signature on the Declaration of Independence, and knew full well that if captured, they'd find themselves at the end of a rope, their families would be cast out of their homes, and the British would seize their property for the King. Once we had Congressmen like Davy Crockett who stated once: "You all can go to hell. I’m going to Texas!" Where he died at the Alamo, fighting for freedom. We had other politicians, who, for right or wrong, CANED another politician almost to the point of crippling him, for slandering the South. In other words, don't talk sh8t unless you can back it up, a far cry from the sissies we have now. Lawyers who talk and talk and talk and talk... When evil raised its ugly head in World War One, men went to war to crush it. In World War Two, men lined up to enlist. It's what men did. H*ll, we even had a President that shot rifles, went hunting, and loved to box! (Teddy Roosevelt) Indeed, many of us men grew up catching lizards and snakes, playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, having BB gun fights, brawling, rough-housing, rock fights, dirt clod fights, fist fights, King of the Hill, playing mumblypeg (the Gunny has a nice scar on his left foot where a jackknife went in...thanks again Sean!), and fished, hunted, and worked on becoming a man, with the ability to MAN THE F**K UP when it was called for. ith the liberals in charge, it ain't like that anymore.
The liberals have taken over the education system and seek to emasculate boys when THEY play Cowboys and Indians, fight, rough-house, and in some schools, RUNNING around at recess is a no-no. Guess "Red Rover" is out because someone MIGHT GET HURT! Liberals teach that violence is baaaaaaaad. That criminals are to be treated with the milk of human kindness instead of giving them a stomp down, shooting the b*stards, or horror of horrors, actually executing the vermin for capital crimes! Eating meat...BAD. Just ask the PETA morons. "Go vegan" cry the skinnies! Vegan men whose arms hang out of their shirts like strings but hey, they have a low carbon footprint! A scumbag breaks into your house, jump out of the window, run to a neighbor's house, and call 911 and hope the cops get there in time. Schools recommend Ritalin for "over-active" boys effectively turning them into an emasculated zombie and parent comply! We can't be having any restlessness, overt curiosity, or aggressiveness, can we? Get caught poking at a red ant nest at recess? You're suspended.
Indeed, look at TV today and the message put out by liberals and make no mistake, liberals RUN the mainstream media. Just ask ABC NEWS, now called Pravda and broadcasting from the White Crib. Men are made fun of on TV. In commercials, they are hapless idiots unable to clean up after themselves. In TV shows, like the one with Charlie Sheen (the name escapes the Gunny who never watched it), he's a buffoon. The same with Jim Belushi's show. Of course with Sex in the City, women are movers and shakers and men simply tools. Maybe liberal men ARE nothing more than tools, useful idiots, and excess baggage for the nation to carry. Bush lands on a carrier and gets sneered at. Saint Goreacle deep throats his pig on national TV and is applauded. Bush flies to Iraq unknown, to serve turkey to the troops, and gets denigrated. Comrade Zero flies to Iraq with planeloads of reporters on set up meetings with the troops and this is great stuff. The word "cowboy" is a curse word for leftists to use on us and has been since Reagan. We on the right are knuckle-dragging, swaggering, cowboys, according to liberals and Euro half-men. The sissification of the Eurotrash is definitely complete. German troops are too soft to go on patrol in Afghanistan. HAHA! Rommel is rolling over in his grave.
Since women got the vote, government has become more involved in our lives. Don't believe the Gunny, do the research. Men enjoy risk, women seek security and protection, it's the way we are wired but it seems that liberal men are more apt to be wired like their women, scared of risk, uncertainty, and danger and unable to overcome that fright. Just glance at what liberals espouse, i.e., cradle-to-grave welfare, cradle-to-grave health care, Social SUCKurity, and a hotline for the little girlylib men to call when they're scared and need reassurance, 800-MYOBAMA!
As for TV, witness the ad for Boyardee ravioli. The Dad reading the label that discusses more veggies in the mix and Mom beating on pots to shut him up. Why? Because junior won't EAT his veggies if he knew about it. SHEEEEEEEET! Growing up, the old man told you to clean your plate and you D*MN SURE DID or you sat there until you did. Not today. Can't hurt the little b8stard's self-esteem by snatching him up by the stacking swivel and reminding him who the F**K is running the show. The Gunny once stupidly lipped off to the old man, at age 13, and found himself jacked into a wall, hoisted up off of the ground, with two eyeballs burning a hole in him, reminding him who was the boss! Lesson learned.
Witness the worst show of the century, "Qu**r Eye For The Straight Guy". A group of mincing fagg0ts working to "turn" a man into a metrosexual! There can be no doubt that the chuckleheads on that show are liberal men because no self-respecting Conservative man would allow simpering h0m0s to change: his clothes, music, home décor and furnishings, etc. Men go for comfort, not fluff Brucie. We're slobs and we like our couches, recliners, worn-in clothes and shoes, and hammocks and that is the way things are. Then we get married, to a WOMAN, who TRY, emphasis on the word TRY, to civilize us by "changing" us. It rarely works but we like acting like MEN and secretly, conservative women (and lib women who won't admit it) like their men...acting like a man. That’s the natural order of things. Men talk about women, guns, politics, women, sports, women, hunting and fishing, women, and of course, power tools, and that is what men do. It's how WE are wired. And best of all, it's FUN! Libs must hate fun because they much veggies and polish their nails in keeping with their liberal metrosexualism! haha. Women own lapdogs and they seek to make their men lapdogs. Indeed, you just KNOW by looking that micHELLe Maobama runs that show. The Gunny would bet a big chunk of dough that Comrade Zero was never in a fight and indeed, was pounded on after he tried to talk, talk, talk, his way out of a jam. Not being able to defend yourself is stupid, not civilized. "Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war!") Flavius Vegetius Renatus
What do liberal politicians do first? Why pass legislation to keep us from: fishing, hunting, smoking, pinching the secretary's butt, riding our Harley without a helmet (OH THE HUMANITY!), fighting over women (a male past time going back 10,000 years!), shooting scumbag who, as we say in the South, "needed killing," and outright raising a little h*ll. The Gunny will take someone like Reagan or Bush 41/43 over Comrade Zero, a mincing lightweight, or Saint Goreacle who had to HIRE a CONSULTANT to teach him how to act like a man! Haha. We won't even mention the highly nuanced Hanoi John Fonda Kerry! Don't forget, he served about 40 days in Vietnam and went on two or three patrols!
Men like it simple, uncluttered, uncomplicated, and straight-to-the-point and THAT is why we dig: John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Robert Mitchum, Bogie, Bruce Willis, William Holden, etc. You mess with them, you're done, it's that simple. Jeff Cooper, a great pistolero and warrior stated once that the job of a real man is to: "to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth." Unfortunately, liberal dipsticks like Comrade Zero FIRE people for speaking the truth, witness the firing of the guy at AmeriCorps, who exposed the corruption. Oops.
Liberals enjoy being victims, conservatives don't. Maybe that is the core of it. Conservatives shoot criminals while liberals try to understand them, sit down and talk with them, seeking to appease, and then BAM!, they get shot and robbed, beaten and raped, or all of the above with a slit throat to boot. The sissification of liberals began decades ago but they're pulling US into that vicious circle as well. Hitler once stated to adults in Germany that he could care less about what THEY thought, he had the kids and over time, they'd know nothing but what HE told them to think. Much in the same way, liberals are perverting the boys of America today. Liberals always expect others to take care of them IF they have unbridled loyalty to the system and to their party line. Maybe it's too late, who knows, but men, enjoy being a man. Enjoy being a Conservative. When your son comes home from school for fighting ask why and then DEFEND him against the school. Sometimes you HAVE to stick up for what you believe in, with nothing but a forecast of pain and suffering ahead. A fat lip is INFINATELY better than having the other kids in school call you a coward and here is where liberals get derailed. They stand for nothing and thus, fall for everything and NOTHING is a better example of that than Barry Soetoro getting played and punked around the world. Bush 43 is a cowboy and only the Eurogarbage, terrorists, and liberals did not like it! For all angles, it's better to BE a cowboy than a pretty little metrosexual like Barry, unable to fight his way out of a thick fog without mommy or micHELLe helping him. As far as the Gunny is concerned, the first family consists of four females and Barry is our first female potus! The sissification of American manhood continues with liberals but we must continue to fight that crap.

Another Thug Of The NFL

2009-06-18T16:05:00.001-05:00

If your dad was killed by a drunk driver, would you ask a court to give the killer a lenient 30-day sentence in exchange for a huge cash pay-off?
I certainly wouldn't.
But the family of 59-year-old construction worker Mario Reyes did just that. They were paid off by Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth, and because of that, justice wasn't served. Stallworth--who should do years in prison for the killing--will serve only a 30-day sentence. And while he'll serve two years of house arrest after that, he will be playing for the Browns when the NFL football season starts at the end of this summer. The ridiculously lenient plea agreement allows him to do so.
NFL's Donte Stallworth Killed a Man Driving Drunk, Got 30 Days
It's really a disgusting display. But I don't just blame the family. I blame the justice system and the prosecutors who recommended this, merely because he paid the family off. And I blame the judge who went along with this absurd sentence.
Stallworth's "cooperation" in the matter--which they cite--is a euphemism for nothing. People get killed by drunk drivers all the time, and they do hard time. The fact that they admitted, hey, I agree with your tests that I had an alcohol level over the limit when I killed a man, doesn't save them from that.
Unless they are a rich ball player with the capacity to pay someone off.
The 28-year-old National Football League star's abbreviated jail term came because of his cooperation with investigators and the wishes of the victim's family.
Stallworth pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter while driving under the influence of alcohol in exchange for a lighter sentence. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail for the car crash that killed a pedestrian in Miami Beach.
The player had faced up to 15 years in jail for the death of 59-year-old construction worker Mario Reyes, who apparently was running across the street to catch a bus when the athlete hit him with his car March 14.
The average jail sentence for similar crimes in Florida is 10 years, but Stallworth reached a confidential financial settlement with Reyes' family.
What does this say for poor people who commit crimes and are unable to pay off their victims?
It says that, contrary to the trite adage, justice isn't blind in America. It's not blind at all. If you have the right dollar amounts in your bank account, you get a separate kind of "justice" applied to you.
But don't worry, Donte Stallworth will get away with murder, just like his NFL colleague, Ray Lewis, got away with taking part in the murder of three people.
Crime pays when you are a wealthy star athlete and your victims are humans and not dogs (a la Michael Vick).

ObamaCare

2009-06-18T09:22:00.001-05:00

To quote the esteemed Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the chickens that were hatched in the stimulus package are coming home to roost in the healthcare proposal. The budget deficit Obama racked up paying for the massive federal spending passed in January is now having a real economic and political impact, which is forcing the president and his congressional allies into hard choices as they face his healthcare legislation.Of course, the prudent thing to do is postpone healthcare changes until the economy generates some revenues and trims the deficit. But the socialist in the White House can't do that. He's got to strike while his congressional majority is hot. So he is forcing his administration and his party to choose among unpalatable choices to finance his program. His demand may be a bridge too far, endangering his popularity with the American people.

First of all, the very fact of a focus on healthcare reform inevitably stirs discussion of the deficit. Americans are allergic to deficit spending and worry the more the deficit grows. As interest rates rise and the government finds it more and more difficult to borrow enough to cover Obama's massive spending, the economy is likely to show the negative effects. It is a matter of a few months, certainly no more, before voters start to realize that it is the deficit, not the pre-existing conditions Obama inherited, which is causing the prolongation of the recession. Already the jump in mortgage rates has slowed the refinancing, which was the only aspect of the Obama economic program that was working well.But the foreign and domestic focus on the deficit has a harsher political impact: It forces the Democrats to come up with money to fund healthcare reform. In other words, it makes them raise taxes. The Democratic Party is good at fooling itself that tax increases don't matter and are politically palatable, but they do and they are not.The massive spending healthcare will require dwarfs the capacity for the rich alone to pay the bill, no matter how confiscatory Obama chooses to become. Only broader taxes will do the job. Obama faces two practical choices: a value added tax or taxing health insurance benefits.The political harm either way will be enormous. Not only will Obama be breaking his pledge not to tax the middle class, but he will be doing so in a particularly pernicious way. If Obama opts for the value added tax (VAT), Democrats will hope to cloak the increase in the price of the product. They reason that the consumer won't know how much the tax is since it will be added on throughout the sale and resale of the product rather than at the cash register at the end, as the sales tax is. But it will work the other way. As inflation sets in, triggered by Obama's deficit spending, consumers will blame the whole thing on Obama. His VAT will be much magnified in the voters' minds to include all of the inflation going on. Just as voters blamed Clinton's gas tax increase of five cents in 1993 for the entire run-up in gasoline prices at the pump, so they will place all the blame for inflation on Obama's VAT.Or Obama could tax healthcare benefits, a direct reversal of his campaign pledge. He would be adopting a policy for which he overtly and loudly criticized McCain. And his popularity will wilt as taxpayers suddenly have to add onto their tax liability the money their employer has always paid for their health insurance. Obama will probably have his own separate line on the 1040 and even on the short form for his new tax. That's not the way to stay popular.Obama's only good option is not to move so quickly on healthcare reform, to give himself some wiggle room. But as the song says, "we're knee deep in the big muddy but the damn fool says to push on!"

Bush Finally Speaks Up!

2009-06-18T07:49:00.000-05:00

Finally, after being pummelled for months, George W. Bush blasted Barack Obama for his socialist economic policies, overspending and weak national security decisions.Obama will quadruple the US budget deficit his first year in office.And, he wants to spend trillions more for his Obamacare program.The Washington Times reported, via Reboot Congress:
Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care. "I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in," the former president said to applause from members of a local business group. "You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money." Repeatedly in his hourlong speech and question-and-answer session, Mr. Bush said he would not directly criticize the new president, who has moved to take over financial institutions and several large corporations. Several times, however, he took direct aim at Obama policies as he defended his own during eight years in office. "Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States," he said to huge cheers. Look for President Thin-Skin to blame the current situation on Bush before noon today.

Quotes Of The Famous Lib Idiots

2009-06-17T08:50:00.001-05:00

"One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game... During the 7th inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
--DAVID LETTERMAN
"I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above – above the world, he's sort of God."
--EVAN THOMAS
"I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them."
--HARRY REID
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life."
--SONIA SOTOMAYOR
"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature."
--REMBERT WEAKLAND
"Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am."
--NANCY PELOSI
"You know, you might want to look into this, [President Obama], because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight."
"Rush Limbaugh -- 'I hope the country the fails.' I hope his kidneys fail."
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"[Obama] told me I did a great job. The first lady said the same thing. I got a 'well done' from the president, I'm on cloud nine."
--WANDA SYKES
"I think what Rush does as an entertainer diminishes the party and intrudes or inserts into our public life a kind of nastiness that we would be better to do without."
"Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."
--COLIN POWELL
"If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today."
--ARLEN SPECTER
"I would tell members of my family – and I have – I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico. It's you're in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point - if they had another way of transportation – suggesting they ride the subway.
"Um... So, from my perspective, what it relates to is mitigation. If you're out in the middle of a field when someone sneezes, that's one thing. If you're in a closed aircraft or closed container or closed car or closed classroom, it's a different thing."
--JOE BIDEN
"[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country."
--PAUL BEGALA
"Reagan's dead and he was a lousy President."
--KEITH OLBERMANN
"I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling."
--CHRIS MATTHEWS
"[A]t a certain point I don't think we'll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy and so forth."
--RON HOWARD
"I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court."
--BARNEY FRANK
"Nice to see a little diversity for a change. We have an African-American president, a female Speaker of the House, and there's the white guy, Bob."
--KATIE COURIC

"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution -- except one. We should not -- we must not -- and I will not -- raise taxes."
--JIM DOYLE, Liar
"I am not resigning now because I have done nothing wrong."
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"I've got this thing. And it's f---ing golden. I'm just not giving it up for f---ing nothing. I'm not going to do it. I can always use it. I can parachute me there."
"F--- [Obama]. For nothing? F--- him."
--ROD BLAGOJEVICH
"I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one till I die. What else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?"
--HELEN THOMAS

"Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible." (Note: The Iraqi people are better off because of the service and sacrifice of American troops. No apology is necessary.)
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"And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." (Note: That's a false statement.)
"My father was basically agnostic, as far as I can tell." (Note: That appears to be a false statement. Obama's deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough says that Obama's father was Muslim.)
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"I want to be very clear, that we are resolved to halt the rise of PRIVACY in that region."
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"My administration is the only thing between you (bank CEOs) and the pitchforks."
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"We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through other mechanisms."
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"There's gotta be a little gallows humor to (LAUGHS) get you through the day."
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"It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something."
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"What I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market, but the long-term ability for the United States and the entire world economy to regain its footing."
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"Yesterday, Jim, the head of Caterpillar, said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off."
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"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
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"I won. I will trump you on that." (Obama to GOP)
Note: Where's that new tone? Where's that promise of bipartisanship, Barack?
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"In terms of speaking to former presidents, I've spoken to all of them that are living. Obviously, President Clinton -- I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances."
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"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
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"[J]ust to take a, sort of a realist perspective... there's a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you've got World War II, you've got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home."
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"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
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"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this (spreading the wealth around) socialistic. You know, I don't know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."
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"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
--BARACK OBAMA
"He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist."
--JOY BEHAR

"You know, I just want to say to her (Sarah Palin), just very quickly...F--- you."
--JON STEWART

"There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area."
--JOHN MURTHA

"And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."
--MICHELLE OBAMA
"You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."
--LOUIS FARRAKHAN

"Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery?"
--WHOOPI GOLDBERG
"I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."
--FR. MICHAEL PFLEGER

"I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and, ladies, he's single."
"If you have a few hundred followers, and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you 'Pope.' It's like, if you can't pay your mortgage, you're a deadbeat. But if you can't pay a million mortgages, you're Bear Stearns and we bail you out. And that is who the Catholic Church is: the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia -- too big, too fat."
"When the current Pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul's Dick Cheney, he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the Statute of Limitations ran out. And that's the Church's attitude: 'We're here, we're queer, get used to it,' which is fine, far be it from me to criticize religion. But just remember one thing: If the Pope was -- instead of a religious figure -- merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of day care centers, where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he'd be arrested faster than you can say 'who wants to touch Mr. Wiggle?'"
--BILL MAHER

"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."
--MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals."
--TED TURNER

"We will continue to make the necessary improvements so that citizens of Milwaukee can be confident in their elections."
--TOM BARRETT
"Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'"
--LAWRENCE O'DONNELL

"The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks]."
--HUGO CHAVEZ

[The Bush] administration has done the greatest assault on our Constitution perhaps in American history."
--RUSS FEINGOLD
"I invite you to embrace Islam... There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited Zakaat [alms] totaling 2.5 percent."
--OSAMA BIN LADEN
"Mexico does not end at its borders... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."
--FELIPE CALDERON
"If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime."
--STEVE KAGEN

"I just freaked out."
--ERIC HAINSTOCK

"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant."
--AL GORE

"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."
--ROSIE O'DONNELL
"Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?"
--CHRIS ROCK

"Shut the f--- up! Shut up if you can't take a joke [about President Bush]!"
--BARBRA STREISAND
"Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?"
--JAMES BROLIN, Mr. Barbra Streisand
"I think President Bush very well may have signed an authorization for the 9/11 attacks."
--KEVIN BARRETT, UW-MADISON Lecturer

"I said what I said. I am not guilty."
--SADDAM HUSSEIN
"Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away."
--MICHAEL SCHIAVO
"On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths -- half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. "
--BILL MOYERS
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."
--HOWARD DEAN

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."
--MICHAEL MOORE
"Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: US management."
--TED KENNEDY
"When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit."
--MAUREEN DOWD

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."
--JOHN KERRY
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
--HILLARY CLINTON

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
--BILL CLINTON
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"He looked right into my eyes and he said, 'How can we help? How can we help President Obama?'"
--LAURA RICHARDSON, (D-CA)
"It was almost like listening to an old friend."
"In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor."
"We've been led to believe that the Cuban people are not free, and they are repressed by a vicious dictator, and I saw nothing to match what we've been told."
"Fifty years of foolishness is over. It's time for the children to sit in the corner and the adults to take over."
--BOBBY RUSH, (D-IL)
"[Castro was] very engaging, very energetic."
"It was quite a moment to behold."
--BARBARA LEE, (D-CA)
"[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met."
--EMANUEL CLEAVER, (D-MO)

Huge Example Of Media Bias..ABC To Broadcast From Inside White House?

2009-06-16T10:46:00.002-05:00

Here is another good one from The COnservative Dominion.......A huge example of blatant media bias. This just hot off the presses at Drudge:
ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSETue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ETOn the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!Highlights on the agenda:ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.So much for a "fair and balanced" media. Charlie Gibson and the rest of the lemmings at ABC News are pushing for Obama to ration our healthcare, limit prescriptions, bring about huge waits the likes of what is seen in Canada and Great Britain. Meanwhile, any dissenting opinion will not be tolerated as the GOP got the boot from ABC.Of course, just like in Soviet Russia, The Party will have no problems getting good healthcare and access to the best doctors. Charlie Gibson and the rest of the lemmings will be treated with the best medicine that there is to offer, while the rest of us wait weeks (if we're lucky) for simple procedures and surgeries, and the elderly... in order to save costs, will likely receive no treatment. Obamacare will bring about another nightmare in medicine like we've seen in Cuba. But don't expect the media, who is without a doubt a mouthpiece for the Democrat party, to speak out about it

Obama Lies Again-Slammed McCain For Wanting To Cut Medicare

2009-06-16T08:53:00.001-05:00

Here is what Dear Leader said this weekend about cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in his internet address:
Obama has proposed trimming more than $600 billion from Medicare and Medicaid by 2019 -- including more than $300 billion in cuts unveiled in his Saturday radio and Internet address.And, here is Dear Leader attacking John McCain during the campaign for cutting Medicare and Medicaid:Obama attacked McCain for cutting Medicare and Medicaid.

Gas Prices Up Again

2009-06-15T10:03:00.001-05:00

“I’m a free-market guy, but the government must step in to stop the speculators!” ~ Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor Crude oil prices have now doubled this year to over $70 a barrel, and gasoline prices are moving back up quickly, and have even hit $3.00 a gallon in California. American consumers are getting restless again, worried that gas prices might return to $4 or more in the near future, and all this is happening at a time when Americans can least afford it.
Why would gas prices rise in the midst of a deep recession and high unemployment? It makes no sense! On the supply side, gasoline and oil inventories at historical highs, and on the demand side, fewer goods are being transported by trucks, trains and airplanes. So what gives? Why are energy prices suddenly going back up in the midst of a glut? Bill O’Reilly and other populists are blaming the commodity speculators for bidding up the price of oil and gasoline futures on the New York Merc and other exchanges. They want the government to impose higher margin requirements, from the current 10% to 50% or more, to curtail speculation in oil and gas prices. There are two important points to be made about the role of the futures markets in determining the pricing of basic commodities. First, it is true that speculators can push commodities far beyond their fundamental long-term value. We saw that when oil prices rose to $147 a barrel a year ago. That’s when speculators are labeled the bad guys. But don’t forget that it was also speculators who pushed the oil prices down to $34 a barrel in January -- far below their fundamental long-term value. Second, futures markets are not only for speculators, but for hedgers. These are producers who sell and lock into higher prices in order to protect their profits against the possibility of prices coming back down (and they need those higher profits to find new reserves). And they are customers who buy commodity contracts to protect themselves from the possibility of having to pay higher prices down the road. In reality, blaming the speculators for the high price of energy is really attacking the messenger instead of the ultimate culprit. Speculators are looking into the future, and what they see is a very different supply and demand situation for energy. That is, they see a coming shortage in crude oil and a sharp rise in the dollar demand for energy. Let me explain. On the supply side, speculators see surpluses turning into shortages. OPEC and major oil producers are cutting production. In the long run, most of the cheap oil deposits have already been found. New oil deposits have been discovered off the coasts of South America, Africa and elsewhere, but the new reserves are in inhospitable and inaccessible places, such as the deep waters off Africa and Brazil, or the frozen oceans of the Arctic. And deep-water exploration is extremely expensive compared to land-based exploration. Deep-water extraction isn’t profitable unless oil prices exceed $75 to $80 a barrel, compared to $25 to $30 a barrel for some land-based deposits. In addition, governments everywhere are over-regulating the oil & gas market, either by outright nationalization (OPEC nations) or restricting drilling in new oil fields for environmental reasons (Alaska). The Obama administration wants to impose huge new taxes on traditional oil & gas markets (cap & trade). On the demand side, speculators see more consumption of energy products as the global economy recovers and emerging markets expand (China, India, Latin America). They also see a new round of inflation coming, as reflected in a weak dollar. To fight the current depression, governments everywhere have adopted “easy money” policies, pumping trillions of new dollars into the economy, and aggressively running massive deficits -- deficits funded with depreciating dollars. Don’t forget that the price of oil is quoted in dollars, and as the dollar weakens, the price of oil inevitably goes up. A King Dollar policy -- a stronger dollar -- and deregulating the energy markets, would be the best remedies for stabilizing energy prices. But neither one is going to happen, so you better get used to higher gasoline prices. They are inevitable.

14 Of The 15 Most Dangerous Cities Run By Democrats

2009-06-11T13:09:00.004-05:00

When Mayor Giuliani, the feisty Italian-American Republican took charge of New York, he meant business. Crime went down, down, down.
Alas, today's big city mayor is more likely to be a soft-on-crime Democrat.
What do I mean? When Forbes magazine listed the 15 most dangerous cities in America - the political class ignored one embarrassingly obvious fact. Yes: 14 of the 15 mayors leading America's most dangerous cities are Obama-first leaders.
Here's the beef:
No. 15 Philadelphia, Pa. Mayor Michael Anthony "Mike" Nutter (Democrat)
No. 14 Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Patrick "Pat" McCrory (Republican)
No. 13 West Palm Beach, Fla. Mayor Lois J. Lois J. Frankel (Democrat)
No. 12 Baton Rouge, La. Mayor-President Melvin "Kip" Holden (Democrat)
No. 11 New Orleans, La. Mayor Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. (Democrat)
No. 10 Baltimore, Md. Mayor Sheila Ann Dixon (Democrat)
No. 9 Nashville, Tenn. Mayor Karl Foster Dean (Democrat)
No. 8 Charleston, S.C. Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. (Democrat)
No. 7 Little Rock, Ark. Mayor Mark Stodola (Democrat)
No. 6 Orlando, Fla. Mayor John Hugh "Buddy" Dyer (Democrat)
No. 5 Stockton, Calif. Mayor Ann Johnston (Democrat)
No. 4 Las Vegas, Nev. Mayor Oscar Baylin Goodman (Democrat)
No. 3 Miami, Fla. Mayor Manny Diaz ("Independent,"Obama-first voter and 2008 DNC speaker)
No. 2 Memphis, Tenn. Mayor Willie W. Herenton (Democrat)
No. 1 Detroit, Mich. Mayor David Bing (Democrat)
Thanks to the "watchdog media," there are no efforts underway to determine whether or not America's Obama-first mayors are using "green issues" to distract us from their out-of-control crime rates. This is unacceptable. Oh Lets not forget about my hometown of Chicago. Don't know where it came in on the list but I'm sure its Top 20...Richard Daley..oh yeah another democrat!!

Obama:No Respect For Presidency

2009-06-11T10:53:00.003-05:00

Has anyone seen the picture of Obama talking on the phone in the Oval Office with his feet kicked up onto the desk? He was talking to the Israeli Prime Minister at the time. The Israelis consider that to be insult because like the Bush shoe throwing incident, shoes and especially the soles of the shoes are offensive. What many people are missing here is the fact that he has HIS SHOES UP ON THE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE!!!This community organizing punk has ABSOLUTELY no respect for the office of the presidency. Kicking his shoes up onto the desk in the oval office is disgraceful. Obama's many weaknesses and lack of ANY experience at etiquette let alone running the nation is showing and has showed. Heaven help us all.

Inflation Looms Because Of Obama's Deficit

2009-06-11T10:27:00.001-05:00

It's increasingly looking like President Obama may be sunk by his own deficit.Yes, the recession started under George W. Bush -- and voters will still blame him for unemployment and related woes. But rising interest rates and inflation are the coming fears -- and Americans will increasingly see Obama's big-spending ways as the cause.

Deficit spending has always been Americans' bete noir; the gospel of balanced budgets is deeply ingrained in our political and economic psyche. Through all the Keynesian experiments of the '60s and '70s, voters remained committed to a balanced budget. They worried as deficits rose in the Reagan years -- then calmed as the economy turned up.But when the news turned bad under the first President George Bush, they blamed the deficit -- the issue was a major source of Ross Perot's appeal in the 1992 election. And when President Bill Clinton (and a Republican Congress) finally balanced the budget, the economy bloomed -- reinforcing public beliefs about the dangers of deficits.Still in shock over the financial collapse, voters tolerated the massive government stimulus package in January. But now they're starting to turn on the deficit-makers.In the latest Gallup Poll, Obama's favorability remains high (67 percent), as does his job-approval rating (61 percent). But only 55 percent approve of his handling of the economy, just 45 percent approve of his handling of federal spending and only 46 percent approve of his treatment of the budget deficit.Meanwhile, the Rasmussen poll finds that the public now trusts Republicans over Democrats in managing the economy (for the first time in two years) by 42 percent to 36 percent.There lies the president's vulnerability. As the consensus among economists and journalists grows that the deficit is pushing up interest rates and weakening the dollar, Obama's weakest link will come under strain. If, say, the falling dollar pushes up gasoline prices and rising interest rates kill off any revival in the construction industry, the deficit will cause a perfect economic storm for the president.The United States has to borrow a net $3 trillion to $4 trillion over the next two years -- far more than the $1 trillion a year average of the last three years. Obama may well face a tough choice: Print more money (monetizing the debt), triggering a run on the dollar -- or let interest rates skyrocket, killing off the recovery.Alternately, he could raise taxes to try to fund his programs (particularly his health-care proposals). But even tax hikes confined to the upper brackets will undermine his popularity -- and slow the economy.Plus, voters will fear that the added government spending will just grow the deficit further. They won't believe Obama's claims that he can save by spending, worrying instead that he's just on another big spending spree.Indeed, deficit fears -- rather than concerns about whether the program will work, or even opposition to the needed tax hikes -- may prove to be the telling argument against Obama's health-care plans.The one thing Obama should do is the one thing he won't do: cut spending.The public has begun to realize that the stimulus package is doing little to help the economy. Obama's answer is to ramp up spending -- but voters in the Rasmussen poll believe, 45-36, that he should cancel the rest of the stimulus outlays.Stoked by ongoing bad economic news, the firm public conviction that new deficit spending will do more harm than good will increasingly wear on Obama's popularity -- and may bring him down.

How Obama's Mortgage Rescue Plan Is A Failure

2009-06-09T12:35:00.002-05:00

The data for April and May prove that Obama's plan to rescue those facing mortgage foreclosure is a dismal failure. Since this issue was the cornerstone of his economic program during the campaign, its abject failure is a significant setback for the Administration's economic plan.In the month ending on May 26th, 464,983 foreclosures of subprime and Alt-A mortgages (out of a universe of 3.2 million studied). So 15% of all subprime mortgages were foreclosed in May! Only 19,041 -- a paltry 6% -- were modified during this period. And of those modified, only 11,200 involved any reduction in the monthly payments! Only 12% involved any write-off of interest, fees, or principal and 27% of the loan modifications actually increased the monthly payments due.Alan M. White of the Valparaiso Law School, who conducted the study, noted that the data showed that "the Administration's plan to stimulate mortgage modifications does not seen to have had much effect yet, at least in this market segment" [i.e. subprimes].And the trend lines are all bad:• The number of loan modifications dropped 11% from April to May.• The ratio of foreclosure losses to modification write downs (the amount lost in foreclosure: the amount rescued by write-downs) doubled in the past month. For every dollar saved in modifications, $150 was lost in foreclosure.When Obama launched his mortgage rescue plan, he promised that it would help five million households. So far, he is about 4,969,000 short of his goal!!When will the subprime foreclosures stop? In about a year when all of these unfortunate people have lost their homes!Why is Obama's plan falling so far short of the mark? The fault is its own restrictions. You cannot get a loan modification if:• You have lost your job• You owe more than 5% above what your house is worth• You are already in default• You have not yet missed at least one payment• Your lender does not want to participate• Your mortgage is not one of the half of all mortgages insured or owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac• The reworked mortgage payment would come to more than 31% of your income• Your mortgage is over $759,000• The home is not your primary residenceThe number of beleaguered homeowners who can slip through the eye of this particular needle and qualify for a mortgage modification is tiny. And yet there is an easy remedy at hand. Obama should simply say, as they did in Sweden, that the government will simply buy the distressed mortgages from the banks and adjust the payments to make them possible for the homeowners. Then, when the economy comes back, the homeowners could either pay back the government what they owe for the postponed payments or sell the house and repay the feds from the proceeds. If they won't do either, the feds could then seize the house and get their money back. Cost to the taxpayers: zero. In f act, they would likely make a profit.Why won't Obama do this? It's because a Democratic administration cannot throw people out of their homes. Better to let them default and make the big, bad bank do the dirty work.All these facts underscore how cynical was Obama's campaign in predicating so much of its economic message on an appeal to help those facing foreclosure. You don't hear Obama talk about foreclosures any more do you? That's because he knows he has no solution and that he won't offer any.

The MSM and Obama Is Like God?!?!

2009-06-09T07:57:00.001-05:00

Here is a good one from Moonbattery and Newsbusters.....NewsBusters has collected some of the witless wisdom of Newsweek editor Evan Thomas:
"Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." — Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington, February 2, 2007.
"I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God." — Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.
The more things Change, the more MSM journalists remain moonbats.

Hamas For Obama

2009-06-05T10:24:00.000-05:00

The Failure Of Obama's Stimulus

2009-06-04T13:47:00.001-05:00

The data is in for April. Here's what happened:1. Household personal income (inflation adjusted) rose but every penny - and then some - went into savings or paying down debts. Consumer spending, on which Obama is betting to stimulate the economy, actually fell. None of the stimulus money was sent. None.2. Meanwhile, to pay for this stimulus spending that didn't stimulate, Obama had to borrow so much money that long term interest rates have almost doubled since he took office, forcing postponement of abandonment of business expansion and hiring across the board.What a record!

Here are the details. In April, personal household, inflation-adjusted income rose by $122 billion. Of that increase, one-third or $44 billion came from the government's stimulus program. But while personal income was rising, household savings (which includes paying down credit card balances, mortgages, student loans, car loans, etc) rose by $132 billion -- $10 billion more than the rise in income. So personal consumption dropped 0.1%.The stimulus package was a total and complete failure. As predicted, as happened with Bush's 2008 tax cut, as happened with the Japanese stimulus packages of the 90s, fearful consumers sat on their money and wouldn't spend it. Keynesian economics didn't work. Again.But the debt sure piled up. The deficit quadrupled and is sending interest rates soaring as the government elbows aside businesses and consumers at the loan window, all in a desperate effort to borrow enough money to spend enough money to stimulate the economy which isn't happening. Catastrophe, Keynesian economics doesn't work. The theory for rational expectations has taken its place. Consumers are not idiots. They know that when their paycheck is fatter - either because of tax cuts or government spending - that it is not the beginning of nirvana but just a short term, one shot respite from hard times. They know the difference between standing in front on an electric fan and a windy day.Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!Is Obama a failure? Not by his lights. His goal was never to stimulate the economy. His goal was to expand government spending and he used the recession as an excuse to do so. And, by this standard, he is a raging success. With the stimulus spending, the government proportion of GDP will rise from about 35% to about 40% and with health care "reform" it will go soaring into the mid-forties, bringing us to parity with Germany en route to France!But the results are in: None of Obama's spending is doing anything to help the economy.Of course, the process of household savings, designed to pay down debt, is very healthy. Economists call it de-leveraging. By the start of the recession, the debt American households owe had risen from 70% of their annual income in 1995 to 140% (excluding mortgages). Now it is on its way back down again. And, eventually, that will lead to a real recovery -- If Obama doesn't wreck the currency and bring on mega-inflation before then. (But he probably will).

So When Did America Get All These Muslims?

2009-06-03T12:40:00.001-05:00

Isn't it funny that liberals have spent years falling all over themselves to protest when people call this a Christian nation, but now, we now have the most liberal President in our nation's history declaring that we're a Muslim nation.
The reason this has been called a Christian nation is because it was originally populated by Christians seeking religious liberty, since it was founded by Christians, and since the population is still heavily Christian.
The reason we're now a Muslim country? Ehr...hard to say. We don't have an accurate count of how many Muslims we have in this country, but the number is generally thought to be under 3 million and many of them are from the Nation of Islam, which most real Muslims consider to be heretical.
Yet...
As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt.
In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." He sought to downplay the expectations of the speech, but he said he hoped the address would raise awareness about Muslims.
God bless the Muslims who are here in this country, but just to be crystal clear, we're not "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," nor are we ever going to be "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
We're also not one of the "largest Muslim countries in the world," even if you count the Muslims in the nation of Islam. Here's a list of the world's largest Muslim populations,
Indonesia: 204 millionPakistan: 164 millionIndia: 154 millionBangladesh: 128 millionTurkey: 76 millionEgypt: 74 millionNigeria: 73 millionIran: 65 millionMorocco: 34 millionAlgeria: 33 millionAfghanistan: 32 millionSaudi Arabia: 28 millionSudan: 28 millionChina: 27 millionIraq: 27 millionEthiopia: 27 million
In other words, this is typical Obama. He says whatever he thinks his audience, which in this case, is the "Muslim World," wants to hear with no regard to facts or logic.
Since he's giving a big speech in Egypt, America is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." If he thinks you're concerned about spending, he's the guy you need to cut spending. If you want lots of expensive, new government programs, he's the man for that, too. If you're anti-war, he's the guy to reverse Bush's policies! If you're not, he's the guy who'll be smart enough to quietly keep them in place.
He gets away with this because the mainstream media has his back. When he makes the sort of mistakes they'd harp on for weeks with a Republican, they either give it a brief, perfunctory mention while spinning for him as best they can or they just ignore it entirely. When he breaks his campaign promises, and he does that constantly, the media shrugs and moves on. When he makes huge gaffes, they yawn and pretend to be disinterested. Essentially, Obama's playing the role of an incompetent, batty Soviet premier while the media is playing the role of Pravda.
That's a big part of the reason why the MSM is going out of business ever more rapidly and why Obama has been such a historical disaster as President, because he's constantly being given free passes on these huge screw-ups.

Obama: America A Large Muslim Country

2009-06-03T07:54:00.001-05:00

What the hell is he talking about?Just when you thought things could not get any weirder.Barack Obama is now calling America a Muslim Nation.It seems like it was just yesterday that Dr. Dobson was attacking Dear Leader for his "fruitcake distortion of the Bible."Now we know why.He's loco.The Caucus reported, via Jihad Watch:
HAHN, Germany — As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt. In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”...

Obama Lies About His Muslim Roots...REALLY??

2009-06-03T07:53:00.001-05:00

Sick.Obama lied about his family's faith during his campaign.From Obama's Fight the Smears website:
When people fabricate stories about someone’s faith to denigrate them politically, that’s an attack on people of all faiths.During the 2008 Campaign Barack Obama's website claimed that Obama's father was an agnostic or atheist:
“Barack” is the candidate’s Kenyan father’s name; Obama’s middle name, “Hussein,” is his grandfather’s name. Obama has described his father as atheist or agnostic.Today we find out his father Barack Obama Senior was indeed a Muslim.Jake Tapper reported:
During a conference call in preparation for President Obama's trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said "the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to -- or before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world -- you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father -- obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago."Sick.But, the media did not just cover for Obama and his father.The media also insisted his Kenyan grandmother was a Christian.But, this past month we learned that this "Christian" grandmother is going to attend The Hajj.She just might be the first Christian to attend the Hajj in years.It's more of that change we've been looking for.UPDATE: BG pointed out this quote from last year:
The candidate's comment at a Boca Raton, Florida, town hall meeting on May 22, 2008, was typical: "My father was basically agnostic, as far as I can tell, and I didn't know him," he said.In September 2008, candidate Obama told a Pennsylvania crowd, "I know that I'm not your typical presidential candidate and I just want to be honest with you. I know that the temptation is to say, 'You know what? The guy hasn't been there that long in Washington. You know, he's got a funny name. You know, we're not sure about him.'And that's what the Republicans when they say this isn't about issues, it's about personalities, what they're really saying is, 'We're going to try to scare people about Barack. So we're going to say that, you know, maybe he's got Muslim connections.'...Just making stuff up."

Sotomayor Crazy Even In College

2009-05-31T14:22:00.001-05:00

Barking Moonbat lays out the proof right here.
Sonia "el racista" Sotomayor threw a big bean-counting tanrum when she was in Princeton back in '74. This included letters. Here are some of her bullshit gripes....
The facts of the complaint are these: 1) There is not one Puerto Rican or Chicano administrator or faculty member in the university; 2) There are two million Puerto Ricans in the United States and two and a half million more on the island itself. Yet there were only 66 Puerto Rican applicants this year, and only 31 Puerto Rican stuents on campus. While there are 12 million Chicanos in the United States, there were only 111 Chicano applicants and 27 students on campus this year; 3) Not one permanent course in this university now deals in any notable detail with the Puerto Rican or Chicano cultures.
And as Barking Moonbat stated - "Somewhere in the Lefty Mind there is this concept that any “minority” group should have representation at all walks in life, at least equal to their numbers in the overall population. Otherwise evil discrimination exists!!"
This is so, so true. If there were only 111 Chicano applicants, then maybe, there just weren't a whole hell of a lot of Chicanos that wanted to go to this school. No one is stopping anyone from applying. It's classic left-wing ethnic bean counting. It never dawns on these fools that maybe, just maybe, people of their demographic are on average, less interested in certain things than people of another demographic might be. Take the NBA or the NHL for example. One is almost all black, the other almost all white. And it'd be crazy to call either of them racist outfits. And just yesterday, a young girl of Indian descent won the national spelling bee. And I wasn't shocked. Indian children often excel in these competetions. Ya know what else - a lot of black kids like rap. And a lot of white guys are into politics and the stock market. This phenomenon does in fact happen. And it's normal, and hardly evidence of some evil racist conspiracy. And here's Sotomayor insinuating that Princeton - a reputable university that should only hire the best and brightest - ought to be handing out jobs to people based on their ethnicity.
This rat of a woman makes me sick. She is bigot. She is a racist. And she has no business being on the SCOTUS. She represents everything that is wrong with this country. This woman is a giant step backwards for our nation. And had I expected anything more out of Obama, I'd actually be disappointed in him for this.
Hope! Change! Kill Whitey!

Mancow's Water Boarding Faked?

2009-05-30T11:47:00.000-05:00

Via Five Feet of Fury, I came across a story at Gawker that seems to show "Mancow" Muller's waterboarding was faked!
Here's the key email that was sent, one day before he was waterboarded,
From: [redacted]Date: Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:38 PMTo: [redacted]Cc: [redacted]Subject: Re: URGENT
You are a ROCK STAR!!!
It is going to have to look "real" but of course would be simulated with Mancow acting like he is drowning. It will be a hoax but have to look real. Would be great if they could dress in fatigues and bring whatever is needed. We will supply the water
Of course, they're denying this is a hoax, but assuming Gawker has the real deal -- and I have no reason to think that they don't -- I doubt they'll stick to their story for long.
Now, here's a guy who's supposed to be a "right wing" shock jock (I've heard of the guy, but have never listened to his show nor even knew prior to his waterboarding that he was supposed to be "right wing"). So naturally, when he said waterboarding was "torture," liberals loved it. It made news all over the place. This guy was on Olbermann. He got tremendous publicity out of this -- and meanwhile, it was playing all of you. All you liberals got suckered. I love it!
Let me also just say this: not only is Mancow a worthless piece of human debris for doing this, all of the liberals who rushed out to shout, "Waterboarding is torture because Mancow says so" are almost as idiotic as the guy who hoaxed you.
Now, consider the facts as people knew them, even before he admitted this was a hoax:
1) Mancow volunteered to do this live on his radio show. How many people would genuinely volunteer to be tortured? Anybody out there want to have your toes broken with a hammer? Okay then, who wants to have bamboo shoots jammed under your fingernails? Anybody? All right, lets go halfway and use a technique the terrorists actually use against our guys -- who volunteers to have a power drill run through his leg? Nobody? But, but, but...people are falling all over themselves to get waterboarded, so they can talk to the press about it? Why aren't they willing to have these other forms of "torture" done to them? It's obvious. The reason people are willing to be waterboarded is that while it may be extremely unpleasant, it's not torture. They know it will be a short, miserable experience, then it will be over and they'll suffer no lasting effects or trauma from the experience.
2) 30 seconds after Mancow was waterboarding, he was talking live on the radio. How can that be if it's "torture?"
Let me just put it this way: waterboarding isn't torture. I'm not the least bit sorry, embarrassed, or troubled that it was used at Guantanamo Bay. In fact, I wouldn't have been troubled if it had been used on fifty times as many prisoners. They're terrorists who use real torture on our men. Stop crying into your pillow about how tough they have it. Last but not least, I hope the United States uses waterboarding again after Obama is out of office.
Update #1: Mancow has responded to the people saying his waterboarding was faked and to his credit, it's at Big Hollywood, not at the Daily Beast, where the pretend conservatives post.
Bored Bloggers Are All Wet
I am not a magician. Many news cameras were there!Obviously, it was on the radio and I wasn't in prison. I'm also not a radicalized Muslim terrorist. But it was not a hoax! I repeat: NOT A HOAX.
We kept telling management, the insurance companies, and the local Chicago cops we weren't really going to do it until we did. Otherwise, they weren't gonna let us do it!
...It would be insane to equate what I did with anything that happens in prison. I am simply a free man in a radio studio that always tries to get inside the big issues. This is an ugly issue with no easy answers. But I now see it's easier for some to dismiss me than to do any real soul searching on this very heady issue.
I learned about this post from an email I received from Linda Shafran, the publicist, who sent the "It will be a hoax" email.
Quite naturally, I had some questions. So, we had a brief email exchange, most of which I am going to excerpt here.
John Hawkins: So, just to be clear: Are you saying the email Gawker has up is fake?
Linda Shafran: There was nothing fake about the waterboarding.
John Hawkins: I am having a hard time reconciling the fact that you say that it was a real waterboarding (with the fact that) these lines were written the day before:
"It is going to have to look "real" but of course would be simulatedwith Mancow acting like he is drowning. It will be a hoax but have tolook real."
If it's a real waterboarding, can you give me an explanation that makes sense for those lines? Again, I am willing to be convinced, but it's hard to square the idea that this was real with that email.
Linda Shafran: Per Mancow's statement:We kept telling management, the insurance companies, and the local Chicago cops we weren't really going to do it - until we did. Otherwise, they weren't gonna let us do it!
John Hawkins: Linda
That would make sense -- except this was a private email, was it not? Was there someone from the management, insurance companies, or local police who was cc'd on the emails?
Again, I'm just trying to make sure I understand.
As of yet, I haven't gotten a response to the last email and if I get one that makes sense, I'll be certain to post it.
Here's the problem: there's still no explanation for what happened. It's understandable that they wouldn't want management, insurance companies, or local police to know about it prior to the event happening, for fear of their stopping it. But, why would they still be referring to it as fake during private email conversations?
It doesn't make any sense and although, just as I said in the email, I am keeping an open mind and willing to be persuaded otherwise, I don't think Mancow's post at Big Hollywood changes things one iota. For the moment, it still looks like Mancow faked the whole thing as a publicity stunt.
PS: Olbermann knew this whole thing was a fake when he put Mancow on the air. If MSNBC had any journalistic integrity, at a minimum, they would suspend Olbermann for a couple of weeks over this,
Astonishingly, MSNBC is standing by its flackery for Muller's hoax. An MSNBC spokeswoman acknowledged that Olbermann's producers had been made aware prior to airing the Muller interview that his publicist had described it as a hoax, saying, "We asked the publicist and were assured by her that she just used a poor choice of words." But when asked if MSNBC still believes that publicist, in light of the fact that Muller's waterboarder had no idea what he was doing, she declined to comment.

Cops That "Stimulus" Saved Layed Off Anyway

2009-05-28T07:44:00.002-05:00

Red State had this report:On March 6, Obama’s mouthpiece, Robert Gibbs, happily told the nation that the Obama “stimulus” plan had saved the jobs of 25 Cops in Columbus, Ohio. This was an example, Gibbs trumpeted, of how Obama’s supposed stimulus package was “working” to set the country to rights. President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder even took a road trip to Columbus to proudly see these “saved” cops being sworn in as police officers.
It was back slaps and grins all around as Obama celebrated his successful “stimulus” program. That was less than two months ago. Today, those same 25 new policemen whose jobs were “saved” by the great father in Washington have been laid off over lack of funds.
Obama’s great hope and mirrors campaign strikes its false stance as savior again, proving that there was no “stimulus” in the stimulus plan and that it was a false front all along meant only to serve as a part of Obama’s permanent political campaign effort. In reality, there’s just no there, there.
Anyone that believes that government spending can “save” anything is the sucker every con man is waiting for. This is further proof of the un-sustainability of an ever increasing government. And what will we see from this? Will we see government trim its budget, tighten its spending? Certainly not. We will see government require more money from tax payers instead of expecting of itself a renewed effort to live within its means. And those calls have already been issued.
Columbus Police Chief Walter Distelzweig is already reminding everyone that tax increases are being sought by the city.
He stressed the cuts are not final, and city voters are being asked to approve an income tax hike in August. The half-percent increase, if passed, could avoid the firings and furloughs. Distelzweig said the announced cuts are not meant to be a threat to voters. “It’s math — whatever money is available,” he said.
Not meant to threaten voters? Yeah, right.
So, Obama’s feels-good “stimulus” plan was a pointless waste of money because it solved no problem but merely acted as a bandaid over the gaping wound of wasteful government spending, a wound that returned to a fully festering sore once the temporary “stimulus” money ran out.
On the other hand, Obama got a national platform to pretend that his policy was a “success” and was handed one more opportunity to propagandize the public, a public that will likely never hear that these “saved” cops are out of a job but two months later, anyway.
Obama’s entire presidency thus far is little else but smoke and mirrors. Or, as I say, hope and mirrors.

Nominee: Bully On The Bench

2009-05-27T08:16:00.000-05:00

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's nominee for US Supreme Court is described by Law Clerks on the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as being "not so smart" and is "a bully on the bench" according to people who have worked with her.One former Second Circuit clerk for another judge went so far as to say "She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue."During one argument, an elderly judicial colleague is said to have leaned over and said, "Will you please stop talking and let them talk?"Her opinions, although competent, are viewed by former prosecutors as not especially clean or tight, and sometimes miss the forest for the trees. It's customary, for example, for Second Circuit judges to circulate their draft opinions to invite a robust exchange of views. Sotomayor, several former clerks complained, rankled her colleagues by sending long memos that didn't distinguish between substantive and trivial points, with petty editing suggestions--fixing typos and the like--rather than focusing on the core analytical issues.Competent but overtly racist and decidedly activistSome former clerks and prosecutors expressed concerns about her command of technical legal details: In 2001, for example, a conservative colleague, Ralph Winter, included an unusual footnote in a case suggesting that an earlier opinion by Sotomayor might have inadvertently misstated the law in a way that misled litigants.The most controversial case in which Sotomayor participated is Ricci v. DeStefano, the explosive case involving affirmative action in the New Haven fire department, which is now being reviewed by the Supreme Court.The City of New Haven, CT - a cesspool of politically-correct elected officials who are, collectively, Traitors to America and who deserve to be assassinated -- administered a written test for promotions in the City Fire Department.When the test results came back, only White firefighters passed the test; Blacks and Hispanics all failed. The Blacks and Hispanics threw a temper tantrum and the politically-correct charlatans on the City Council THREW OUT the test results!The White firefighters who passed, sued for reverse discrimination. A panel including Sotomayor ruled against the firefighters in a perfunctory unpublished opinion.This provoked Judge Cabranes, a fellow Clinton appointee on the Second Circuit, to object to the panel's opinion that contained "no reference whatsoever to the constitutional issues at the core of this case." (The extent of Sotomayor's involvement in the opinion itself is not publicly known.)In 2001, Sonia Sotomayor, as an appeals court judge, gave a speech declaring that the ethnicity and sex of a judge “may and will make a difference in our judging.”In her speech, Judge Sotomayor questioned the famous notion — often invoked by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her retired Supreme Court colleague, Sandra Day O’Connor — that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion when deciding cases.“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male . . . . ."Her remarks, at the annual Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, were not the only instance in which she has publicly described her view of judging.This month, for example, a video surfaced of Judge Sotomayor asserting in 2005 that a “court of appeals is where policy is made.” She then immediately adds: “And I know — I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don’t make law. I know. O.K. I know. I’m not promoting it. I’m not advocating it. I’m — you know.”Judge Sotomayor has given several speeches about the importance of diversity. But her 2001 remarks at Berkeley, which were published by the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, went further, asserting that judges’ identities will affect legal outcomes.“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,” she said, for jurists who are women and nonwhite, “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”Her remarks came in the context of reflecting her own life experiences as a Hispanic female judge and on how the increasing diversity on the federal bench “will have an effect on the development of the law and on judging.COMMENTARY: This woman is absolutely unqualified to be on the bench in any capacity, never mind the U.S. Supreme Court. Her own law clerks say she isn't smart enough, she cannot delve into the issues of cases. Her own Judicial Colleagues have to tell her to shut up and let the lawyers argue a case. She makes no secret of the fact that she feels courts are where policy is made rather than by elected Legislatures and, she overtly claims that her gender and race causes her to come to different legal conclusions.For years, I have stated on my radio show that the reason Third World countries remain that way is because the occupants of those countries are genetically incapable of doing better. For that, I have been slammed as a racist.This Judge now admits that her race will affect the way she Judges things and will affect the development of the law. This absolutely confirms in every regard, my assessment about genetic capability for which I have been vilified.If we allow Third-World Judges to interpret our First (New) World ideals, America will devolve into a third world country just like the cesspools that heathen such a Sotomayor came from.

Update To This Blogs Breaking Story Of Donations Of Chrysler Donations

2009-05-27T07:53:00.005-05:00

It's amazing how this blog was the first one to report the Chrysler dealership campaign contributions to the GOP and the effect it had on their closings. It seems now that every blog in the world has caught on to this fact. This blog doesn't have the high traffic that others have so we were lost in the dust. Gateway Pundit had this to say earlier, of course remember where you heard about the original story first.. .** Earlier it was reported that the Obama Administration may have targeted GOP donors in deciding which Chrysler dealerships would have to close their doors.** Last night it was discovered that a Big Dem Donor Group was allowed to keep all 6 Chrysler dealerships open.... And, their local competitors were eliminated by Obama's task force!!2008 Red and Blue Counties (Flickr)Now here is the latest on the Chrysler closings-- I was sent this earlier today:
I have obtained two pdf files from the bankruptcy court.One is the list of dealers to close and the other is the list to stay open.I am in the process right now of editing the data into comma delimited format for import to Excell and am about 2/3rd of the way through the closure listing.I haven't done any donation cross references yet and that will come.This has to be done manually ,which is very time consuming due to formatting issues with the data.But, so far in the shutdown list there is an extremely high correlation between dealers closing and congressional districts BHO lost.Texas is getting killed and Blue States are sliding by. Florida is also taking major hits and nearly all are in Republican Congressional Districts.Little West Virginia is getting hammered.I will know much better when I start doing all the cross reference work after I finally get the data into Excel, but that is going to take time since the data has to be formatted up manually and there are over 2000 dealers involved between the two lists.So far what I see smells big time.And, Reboot Congress is asking for some assistance:
I’ve created a list of the cut dealers that *simplifies* the process of gathering donation information from OpenSecrets. It’s a partial solution that needs lots of help from folks on the web. It’s a crowd sourced project.Previously:Hope, Change & Marxism: Did Obama Target GOP Donors In Chrysler Dealer Closings? (Video) Shock! Big Dem Donor Group Allowed to Keep Their 6 Chrysler Dealerships Open

President Numb Nuts In Action

2009-05-26T09:29:00.002-05:00

How many of us have been to a carnival and saw the different shows and played at the rigged games and had a great time? Probably us all. Well here is another great game, TEST YOUR STOMACH. Here are some videos of what the liberals elected, Soros' puppet in action, a clueless stooge without a shred of executive experience, actually elected to office (with help from ACORN), and having a negative impact on our lives. So test your stomach and see if you can watch these videos without projectile vomiting into the nearest sh*tcan. This is what passes for a leader in the Dummycrat Nazi Party. Well liberals, hope it was worth it because these videos WILL be seen again, in 2011 and 2012. You elected a moron, a puppet of George Soros and when your party fragments because of it, we'll make sure to kick you when you're down...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap2Cg_FDRy4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5R6kVry4_c&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt6C1Sl3ZrU&feature=player_embedded

Obama's Pick For The Supreme Court

2009-05-26T09:21:00.000-05:00

EXCERPT: WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. President Barack Obama tapped U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, officials said, making her the first Hispanic in history picked to wear the robes of a justice. If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor, 54, would succeed retiring Justice David Souter. Two officials described Obama's decision on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made.The trouble is, is that she is a member of the National Council of La Raza.LA RAZA means, The Race. There are many immigrant groups joined in the overall "La Raza" movement. The most prominent and mainstream organization is the National Council de La Raza -- the Council of "The Race". To most of the mainstream media, most members of Congress, and even many of their own members, the National Council of La Raza is no more than a Hispanic Rotary Club. But the National Council of La Raza succeeded in raking in over $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts were for get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions. The Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for "housing reform," while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
MEChA is a part of La Raza: "Chicano is our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that we...should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot...Aztlan was the legendary homeland of the Aztecas ... It became synonymous with the vast territories of the Southwest, brutally stolen from a Mexican people marginalized and betrayed by the hostile custodians of the Manifest Destiny." (Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006) This is their plan. "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan" (The Spiritual Plan for Aztlan): "In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. ... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. ... We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada."They claim equal rights for all but their closing sentence in their motto means: "For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."

Trust one anti-American to nominate another one.

Pelosi And The Marxists

2009-05-25T17:12:00.000-05:00

Like the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not have to go through a background investigation in order to get a security clearance. This loophole in the law enables the president and members of Congress to automatically qualify for security clearances, even if they have controversial backgrounds and associations, by virtue of the fact that they get elected to high office in Washington, D.C.
In the case of Speaker Pelosi, who is second in the line of succession to the presidency after the vice president, there is increasing concern about whether she can be trusted with national security secrets. But the concern not only involves her unsubstantiated charges against the CIA over what officials told her about the treatment of terrorists, but her close personal relationship with pro-Castro Rep. Barbara Lee and the "progressive" Hallinan family of San Francisco, once under scrutiny by the California Senate Fact-finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities for their pro-Soviet propaganda efforts.
Pelosi used a Friday news conference to offer up other members of the House Democratic leadership as "human shields" to deflect questions from the press about the CIA controversy. They droned on about the liberal legislative agenda.
At the very end of the news conference, as Pelosi was trying to leave the podium and had already issued an edict that she didn't have anything more to say about the CIA matter, a reporter tried to ask a question about Rep. Steve King's intention to introduce a resolution asking the House to suspend Pelosi's security clearance until the controversy is resolved. The reporter asked, "And were you aware that Steve King is asking for your security clearance to be revoked?" But Pelosi walked away without commenting.
With the help of the mainstream media, Pelosi is obviously hoping that she can stonewall further inquiry. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Washington Post liberal columnist Eugene Robinson, a follower of the Democratic Party line, declared that he wasn't sure that she was "in such terrible political danger" and that "People underestimate Nancy Pelosi sometimes as a politician."
Pelosi the politician is clearly depending on the press to stop asking questions.
However, since Pelosi and other elected officials don't have to go through background investigations, it is the job of the media to perform this function. In the case of Pelosi, it is long overdue.
San Francisco Democrat
Pelosi has represented the city of San Francisco, perhaps the most liberal in the nation, since 1987, and is a very close friend of Rep. Barbara Lee, who represents neighboring Oakland and Berkeley, California, and is the most vocal apologist for Communist Cuba in Congress today. Lee, head of the Congressional Black Caucus, recently led a delegation to Cuba to meet with the Castro brothers to discuss normalization of relations. But she paid no attention to political dissidents or political prisoners being held on the communist island.
Lee, who calls Pelosi "a magnificent woman" and "one of California's greatest representatives," began her career in the California state legislature as a secret member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a spin-off from the Communist Party. As a member of the staff of Rep. Ron Dellums, Lee was shown to have been collaborating with communist officials on the island of Grenada, according to documents captured after the liberation of that island nation. These revelations have not hurt Lee's standing with Pelosi and other "progressives." Indeed, Lee also served as the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
But even more interesting than the Barbara Lee connection is Pelosi's long-time friendship and association with Vincent and Vivian Hallinan, one of the most radical left-wing families in San Francisco over the course of five decades.
Pelosi hailed them as "one of San Francisco's great Irish families" in a March 17, 1999, statement, after the passing of Vivian Hallinan. "Vivian was a pioneer, a mentor and a leader," Pelosi said. "Our community was blessed by her presence and will long remember her many significant contributions to improving society. I will miss my friend, Vivian."
Notice use of the term "mentor."
Pelosi called Vivian Hallinan, who openly held "socialist" views, a "pioneer" in "a wide range of progressive causes."
But these causes included support for communists in Central America during the 1980s, when Soviet- and Cuban-backed forces were subverting Central America through violence and terrorism and fighting for control of the region.
Indeed, Pelosi paid tribute to Vivian Hallinan by inserting into the Congressional Record an article saying that she had "opposed U.S. policy in Central America" under President Reagan, had "befriended Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's [Communist] Sandinista leader," and had met with Cuban dictator Castro.
"She was a role model for many of us," Pelosi said. "If Vincent was the lion, Vivian was the lioness."
"My mother and Nancy were pretty close," acknowledges Conn Hallinan, one of their sons.
Official Scrutiny
The names of the Hallinans, including some of their sons, are included in the annual volumes of the California State Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities. The subcommittee was a well-regarded investigative body which examined not only communist activities in California but right-wing groups such as the John Birch Society and the Minutemen.
In the case of the Hallinans, there was a lot to examine. Vincent Hallinan, a lawyer who died in 1992, was a founding member of the San Francisco chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, officially designated a front of the Communist Party, and defended secret Communist Party member and labor leader Harry Bridges.
In addition, he was a self-described "roaring atheist" who specialized in attacks on the Catholic Church. In one case, according to the New York Times, he "sued the Roman Catholic Church for fraud, demanding that it prove the existence of heaven and hell."
Vincent Hallinan also ran for president on the ticket of the Progressive Party, "a creature of the Communist apparatus, and completely dominated by the Communist Party from start to finish," the subcommittee said.
A 1961 subcommittee report says that Vincent Hallinan traveled to the Soviet Union with his wife to vouch for the legitimacy of the communist show trial of Francis Gary Powers, the American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers' mission had been to document the Soviet missile build-up. It adds, "[Vincent] Hallinan's glowing accounts of the Soviet Union and favorable comments concerning the fairness accorded Powers at his trial were sold in great quantity by the Communist Book Stores both in San Francisco and in Los Angeles."
A 1953 edition of the report states that Vincent Hallinan was a participant in a meeting of the Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case, a "Communist front organization." The Rosenbergs were communists executed for committing atomic espionage against the United States on behalf of the Soviet Union.
A wealthy woman, Vivian Hallinan had contributed financially to one of Pelosi's campaigns. Her only other political contributions on the federal level, as recorded by the Federal Election Commission, went to Senator Barbara Boxer and Reps. Barbara Lee and Ronald V. Dellums.
The "Progressive Champion"
Despite her pro-communist record, Lee will be honored as a "progressive champion" at the June 2 "awards gala" sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future, perhaps the largest "progressive" group in the U.S. The gala, held in conjunction with a conference, is being chaired by the AFL-CIO, whose president, John Sweeney, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is also being honored; the Service Employees International Union; the National Education Association; and Hollywood producer Norman Lear, among others.
Fenton Communications, the public relations firm which represented George Soros during his attempt to buy the White House in 2004, is one of several groups and individuals on the Gala Awards host committee.
At the group's 2006 conference, Pelosi was a featured attraction, telling the assembled "progressives" that if Democrats took control of Congress and made her speaker that Democrats would "make the most corrupt, closed Congress in history the most open and honest Congress in history."
On Friday, however, Pelosi tried desperately to avoid being open and honest about her charges against the CIA.
Time to Drop the Matter
One reporter did note that after Pelosi charged that she had been misled by the CIA, Republican House Leader John Boehner had said that she needed to produce the evidence or apologize, and that CIA director Leon Panetta has said the CIA was not in the practice of misleading Congress.
Pelosi replied, "I have made the statement that I'm going to make on this. I don't have anything more to say about it. I stand by my comments. And what we are doing is staying on our course and not be distracted from it in this distractive mode. We're going forward in a bipartisan way for jobs, health care, and energy for our country. And on the subject that you asked, I've made the statement that I'm going to make. I won't have anything more to that about it."
Pressed for further explanation, she reiterated, "I won't have anything more to say about it."
The New York Times thought the performance was impressive, declaring that Pelosi had stuck to the "script" and had not succumbed to "the impatient media horde."
This is a signal to the rest of the press that they should drop the matter.

This Is Why You Don't Put Muslim Terrorists In U.S. Jails Obama!!

2009-05-21T14:43:00.001-05:00

The New York Post reports: "Four homegrown Muslim terrorists on a mission from hell were arrested last night as they planted what they thought were high-powered plastic explosives at two Bronx synagogues, authorities said." Why would they do something like that? "They stated they wanted to commit jihad," NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in a press conference. Three of the four jihadi wannabes (to borrow the Post's formulation) converted to Islam after recent stints in jail.
JOHN adds: This case illustrates one of the perils of putting terrorist leaders in prisons, as opposed to special facilities like Guantanamo Bay.

CIA Torture Briefing Logs

2009-05-21T13:15:00.000-05:00

Washington, DC -- Who knew what and when did they know it? That is the single most vexing question facing the US public with regards to which members of Congress were briefed by the CIA on "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT)" more commonly known as "torture" of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has been telling the public that she didn't know what was going on and/or the CIA lied to her. This document will lay that lie to rest.The link below will provide you with the actual Log kept by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), proving which members of Congress knew what, when they knew it and which of their staff members were also present at these briefings!Once again, we have obtained documents from a government agency labeled FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY which are not supposed to be given to the media or to the public.We publish this document in the public interest because only an informed public can hold its government accountable.Click Here to download the official CIA - Congressional Torture Briefings Log Click Here for the Cover Letter sent with the log above

Dems Defeat Resolution of Pelosi Investigation

2009-05-21T13:11:00.000-05:00

And, we were so hoping to see the liar frogmarched from the Capital.House Democrats smacked down an investigation on Speaker Pelosi today.FOX News reported:
House Democrats have defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects.The House voted 252-172 to block the measure that would have created a bipartisan congressional panel.

Road To Rebellion

2009-05-21T13:10:00.001-05:00

It cannot be said enough folks, elections have consequences and we're living those consequences right now. The Gunny blames stupid white liberals for putting a liar, a thug, and a deceiver in the Oval Office. Blacks at least have a reason, they voted for Maobama for racist reasons alone just like they do in Detroit, Trenton, Camden, Filthadelphia, DC, etc, etc. Chairman Zero is a friend of the world, extorting our Ersatz allies and overt enemies to higher levels of anti-Americanism. Onward and downward comrades! The stupid liberals who installed this fool thought that once in, the world "could be as one," to quote a line from one of the stupidest songs ever puked up, yet this has failed to happen. Also failing to happen was that the rise of the oceans would halt, global cooling or global heating, depending on the day of the week, would stop, Michelle Obambi's bulbous butt would shrink, and their kids would attend public schools in DC. Now, the Angry Gargoyle in North Korean has flexed his muscle, playing the libs for idiots yet again (remember Maddy Halfbright and BJ Bubba's laughable efforts here?) while China is on the rise, flexing their muscle against US Navy ships, and Iran just shot a missile capable of taking a nuclear warhead, albeit a small one, all of the way to Israel or Europe. But WE'RE the bad guys according to the Thug-in-Chief. Evidently, reparations for blacks are out of vogue, it's now time for America to pony up reparations FOR THE WORLD!
Liberals attack the Right on a daily basis for NOT giving The Mystical Magical Negro (LA Times) a chance, just like we should have given BJ Bubba a chance, over and over and over and over and over... This is nothing new to us; we've all seen this before from a liberal potus. BJ Bubba could not tell the truth to save his fat a** during his unimpressive years as the Liar-in-Thief and the lies, scandals, and impeachment trials came at us faster than Rosie O'Donnell shoving bean burritos down her neck! One needed a program to track the players and Comrade Zero is not far behind. Here is a website that tracks the lies of the Thug-in-Chief. http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/fashion-shows/ The main focus of effort for this bumbling idiot seems to be eroding or rather, outright dodging of the US Constitution as he seeks to command private industry, dictate car emissions standards, bow to foreign sovereigns, and utter such nonsense that the Constitution:
"must break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and [the] Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. The document says what the states can't do to you, says what the Federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf."
Stunningly, this fool was actually allowed to TEACH the Constitution to students who did not know that they were being fleeced by the best flim-flam man to come out of the Chicago political sewer! The entire purpose of the US Constitution is to, listen up Comrade Zero, LIMIT GOVERNMENT! He swore to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic but he IS the enemy! His attacks on and efforts to erode and destroy the Constitution of the United States of America are impeachable offenses but no one has the guts to say that the Anointed One has no clothes. We Conservatives would rather die than allow this pawn of Soros to turn the Constitution into a sliced and diced "living and breathing" joke. Our Founding Fathers got it right, THE FIRST TIME!
Liberals whine that we on the Right are starting a civil war, not backing the potus, being big meanies, etc, but the reality of this entire issue not only has its roots in the 1960's that birthed the radicalism of Hitlery, Alinsky, DiFi, Boxer, Waxman, Reid, Rhambutt the Ballerina, Maobama, etc, but was exacerbated when the Democratic majority Congress attacked and slandered and then blocked the 1987 SCOTUS nomination of Judge Bork. Who led the charge? Why none other than Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy! Hypocrite. Liar. Drunkard. Then they followed that with continual attacks against Bush 43, printing classified information on the front page of the NY Obama Times, gave aid to our enemies in Fallujah via Waxman and Code Pink, and continue to consider criminal prosecutions against the Bush administration for being mean to captured Islamic terrorists like Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of 9/11. On April 21, 2009, Comrade Zero stated that he "left open the possibility of legally pursuing the Bush administration officials who formulated the policies that led to enhanced interrogation techniques."
Well boo-hoo. The Gunny wonders what Daniel Pearl would have to say about that. The liberals in America believe that if we could just "hope" for a socialized utopian world, those terrorists and the enemies of America will "change" and why, the liberal lamb will lie down with the islamofascist lion! We'll NEVER have to worry about a terrorist attack again! The radical liberals in Congress, under the guise of "progressiveness" (codeword for socialism/communism) are ready to try ANYONE who protected the American people, as per the US Constitution, from terrorist attacks. It is the JOB of the President and elected leaders to PROTECT US from THE ENEMY! Looks like these clowns are too busy bending over and kissing the knob of the Saudi king and groveling in the land of the euro-pee-ons to be much good there. The liberal's continued attempts to prosecution Bush administration officials are simply the continuation of the attacks on the USA since 1968.
The liberal-socialists, and that is what this breed really is, fervently believes that our Constitution SHOULD BE SUBJECTED to evolving standards of the times! They are down with change for the sake of change and then they'll hope for the best. Idiots. They rule by public opinion, dig judicial activism and legislating from the bench (when the people say NO!) and use ex post facto laws like BJ Bubba loose in a Girl's college dorm after lights out! But only if they can be used against CEO's, Christians, Conservative political officials, private citizens like Rush and Hannity, and any bank or business that Comrade Zero feels like being the boss of. The civil war that the left started, and is now scared to death of losing (we're playing by TEHIR ALINSKY RULES NOW) has grown in both intensity and bitterness as we stockpile guns and ammo and Janet Napwad calls us Vets "Right-Wing extremists" and seeks to limit our freedoms. Be careful what you libs wish for because when Conservatives regain control of House, Senate, and the Oval Office, we're going lib-hunting. (Hopefully for real).
Turbo Tax Timmy now has the power to fire private industry CEOs at the behest of his master, the puppet of Soros, Chairman Zero. The Kenyan Usurper bleated that America ignores the leadership of the Eurotrash but fails to note that they've done nothing but bring us World War I, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a failure to live up to their NATO commitment in Afghanistan. Fat Germans on patrol! Rommel would sh*t his pants. So while The Cipher chatters off of TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States), kisses the knob of Faud, p*sses off our allies in Turkey and Israel, and tells us that we are not at war with the Islamofascists, Kim Jong Il continues to counterfeit American $100 bills, works to test its nuclear capability, and the mad mullah and President "I'm-in-a-jihad" still make deals for missile technology and work their centrifuges! Maybe a nasty note to them telling them to stop it will work, right libs?
Liberals laughed at the Tea Parties on April 15th that happened in 835 cities across the USA! It should be noted that after the Boston Tea Party, the British suppressed us more, increased taxation, stole individual property, quartered their soldiers where they pleased, and restricted personal freedom. We rebelled. Then the rebellion turned into an armed conflict at Lexington Green after the Brits tried, as the libs now try, to seize our weapons. It took years and a lot of bloodshed but we were eventually free from the oppressive government. Now that the liberals are running the show, we ARE becoming less exceptional, less free (as Maobama tries to force the Euroturd mold on us), and coming under the domination of some clowns in Brussels and the UN Building in NYC more and more, and all in the name of global diplomacy, saying we're sorry (for liberating the world, being the shining city on the hill, and being the ONE to help in times of crisis.) Comrade Zero and the radical liberals are giving away our God-given rights, our Judeo-Christian judicial system (albeit that it's broke), our economic juggernaught, and our government to the UN, the ICC, and other anti-American scumbags. When we're being dictated to by the weasels in euroland, when these surrender monkeys are dictating the path of the United States (HARD APORT MAOBAMA!), telling us how to live, what to spend, how much we can make, injecting political correctness into every aspect of our lives, and taxing the crap out of us to support the subservience to elitist socialists in a centralized government, it'll be 1775 all over again. Liberals had better start paying attention to that history lesson and learn it or continue to laugh at us and ignore us at their peril. We're not hoarding ammo libs, we're STOCKPILING IT!

Obama Was A Proud Graduate Of Alinsky Academy

2009-05-21T13:02:00.000-05:00

"The most significant part of Barack Obama’s education was not at Columbia University or Harvard Law School, but the years he spent being trained in the Saul Alinsky system for community organizing and then practicing what he learned.” Eagleforum.org
All practicing leftists have been influenced by Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals; the essential primer for all good America hating radicals. Written by the great granddaddy of all community organizers, Alinsky’s book lays out the tactics to be employed in creating a revolution.
When I was growing up in Chicago in the 1960’s, these folks were known as “paid agitators”, a far more accurate description of what they do. Community organizers were carpet baggers who blew into town for the express purpose of whipping the locals into frenzy over some grievance, real or imagined. This type of “organizing” is not to be compared with legitimate, local grass roots organizations that get together to put pressure on local officials to bring about a change for the better. Alinsky style organizers are not concerned members of the community who pressure city hall into putting in a new stoplight. For the Alinskyite, the actual issue is of no consequence. The organizer doesn’t care about the community. The agenda is to gin up a revolt which gives the organizer power. As Alinsky put it: “You want to cause fear, confusion and retreat in the enemy, i.e. the Haves.” (Alinsky, Saul D. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. Toronto: Random House, 1971. Pg. 127).
Remember Hoffer’s work on mass movements: the organizer’s task is to inject the society with an ailment and then offer the movement as the cure. “Agitate, aggravate, educate, then organize.”
As is always the case with socialism, Alinsky’s programs never succeed. Barack Obama’s lack of success as a community organizer is what motivated him to pursue a law degree.
By all accounts, Barack Obama was a model Alinsky student; evidently results are not considered in the grading process. In actual practice, the results of Obama’s agitating were less than spectacular. He organized the residents of the Altgeld Gardens public housing project to have dangerous asbestos removed. It was a small victory, at best. Workers sealed the asbestos in some units but quickly abandoned the project. Some tenants still have asbestos today. A $500,000.00 initiative for a jobs bank was a flop. Despite a few bright moments, overall, Obama’s community organizing was ineffective in bringing any genuine help to the people he claimed to want to represent. Obama had the benefit of receiving his training from disciples who had studied with Alinsky himself; he went on to train hundreds of others in Alinskyism. Barack Obama has said that his Alinsky training was the best education of his life. A former fellow organizer told the New Republic that Obama was the “undisputed master” of agitation. (Freddoso, David. The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2008).
What distinguished Alinsky from your run of the mill revolutionary is Alinsky’s preference to wreck the system from within the existing order rather than resort to violence; not that violence out of the question, however. Alinsky was a big believer in the end justifying the means.
Saul Alinsky also subscribed to a style of ethics that has been described as “very fluid.” In other words, there is no right or wrong in any absolute sense. Marxists despise religion, the original source of morality; the Marxist has substituted the state for the church. The future president’s mentor didn’t believe integrity was an important quality, but creating the illusion of integrity is essential.
Just how does one qualify for Alinsky training? Saul had specific traits he wanted to see in his pupils, number one and most important: ego. Alinsky believed the best organizers were the ones driven to play God; who were irreverent; could demonstrate a sense of humor, and had confidence. Eagleforum.org
Undeniably, Barry Obama was just the kind of guy Alinsky was looking for.
It is astounding that Obama is using the White House to harass private citizens. But Obama surely would have earned a gold star if Saul Alinsky was still with us. L. David Alinsky, son of Saul, submitted a letter to the Boston Globe which was published, extolling the virtues of dad’s star pupil. Right after the Democratic National Convention, Alinsky Jr. wrote: “I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.” Boston.com

Campaign Donations Of Chrysler Dealerships That Are Closing

2009-05-20T10:09:00.001-05:00

Before reading this post which has been up for about 8 days as of May 27th take note that every blog in the world has jumped on this story that was FIRST POSTED HERE...Chrysler announced the closing of 789 dealerships earlier this month. On today's radio program, Rush Limbaugh spoke for a few seconds about whether or not some of the dealership closings are the result of politics (campaign contributions). After hearing this, I decided to look up the contributions of the dealers on the Internet.Here are a few examples of the campaign donations made by some of the dealers who will close their doors shortly. I'm not anywhere close to going through the entire list yet. The figures are only from the 2004, 2006, and 2008 Election cycles:
(1) Michael E. Maroone
Mr. Maroone has 6 dealerships in Fort Lauderdale, FL that will close. Since 2003, he has donated $12,700 to the RNC, $10,000 to the Florida Republican party, and $2,300 to Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign.
(2) Vernon Buchanan
Vernon Buchanan is a member of the U.S. House from Florida since 2007. One of his dealerships in Venice, FL will close. In the past 3 election cycles, Mr. Buchanan has given $50,000 to the RNC, $20,000 to the Florida Republican party, $4,000 to President Bush's campaign, and numerous amounts of money to other Republican candidates for Congress.
(3) Larry Crain
Mr. Crain's dealership in Little Rock will close. He has given $1,000 to President Bush, $1,000 to Marvin Parks (U.S. House cndidate in Arkansas), $2,300 to Mike Huckabee's Presidential campaign, and $2,300 to John McCain's Presidential run.
(4) Thomas Ganley
Mr. Ganley has 3 dealership that will close in Lakewood, Ohio. He has given $1,250 to Sen. Voinovich, $200 to Sen. Dewine, $7,750 to the National Auto Dealers Association, and $250 to Steven Latourette.
(5) Ray Huffines
Mr. Huffines will have a dealership in Denton, TX lose. He and his family are huge donors to the GOP. He has gave at least $1,000 each to Sen. Brownback, Gov. Huckabee, and Sen. McCain during their Presidential runs. He gave $3,400 to Sen. Cornyn, $5,900 to Rep. Sam Johnson, $800 to Rep. Tom DeLay, and $5,000 to Jeb Hensarling.
(6) Ronald Hoover
Mr. Hoover has 2 dealerships in Charleston, SC that will close. He gave $1,000 to Pres. Bush, $1,000 to Senator Graham, $750 to Henry Brown, $500 to Charlie Condon, and $500 to the RNC.
(7) Roger Penske
Roger Penske has a delearship in Michigan that will close soon. He has given $28,500 to the republican Senate Committee and $15,000 to the RNC. He gave $2,300 to Guiliani's Presidential run, and more money to Senators Kyl, Alxander, Collins, and Elizabeth Dole. In the interests of fairness, he also gave small amounts to Michigan politicians Kilpatrick, Dingell, and Stabenow.
(8) J.J. Fitzgerald
The most interesting find so far is John Fitzgerald, Jr. and J.J. Fitzgerald III. They have two dealerships that will close soon in Maryland.
While the previous entries gave mostly to Republicans, these two guys gave most of their donations to the Democrats.
The two gave $3,800 to Chris Van Hollen, $1,000 to Rep. Hoyer, over $3,000 to Ben Cardin, and other small amounts to Barbara Mikulski, Wynn, and Dennis Hastert.
Since 2004, they gave $300 to Wesley Clark's Presidential run during the Primaries. In the General Election, they gave $1,000 to John Kerry. In the 2008 Democratic primaries, they gave $2,000 to Hillary Clinton. When the 2008 General Election came down to John McCain vs. Barack Obama, they didn't donate any money to Barack Obama. The Fitzgeralds gave $4,600 from May to September 2008 to John McCain's Presidential run.

Another View Of The Credit Card Legislation

2009-05-20T08:04:00.000-05:00

Talk about rewarding bad behavior. From the NYT via HotAir: Responsible credit-card users to “subsidize” deadbeats now.
Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those people with sterling credit.
Banks are expected to look at reviving annual fees, curtailing cash-back and other rewards programs and charging interest immediately on a purchase instead of allowing a grace period of weeks, according to bank officials and trade groups.
“It will be a different business,” said Edward L. Yingling, the chief executive of the American Bankers Association, which has been lobbying Congress for more lenient legislation on behalf of the nation’s biggest banks. “Those that manage their credit well will in some degree subsidize those that have credit problems.”…
The industry says that the proposals will force banks to issue fewer credit cards at greater cost to the current cardholders.You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me. Uh - isn't this going to basically be the death of the credit card industry? I mean, the only reason I have a credit card is for the goodies and convenience. I rack up frequent flyer miles and get cash back at the end of the year. I don't have any revolving credit card debt and therefore pay no finance charges or fees. Should the credit card companies try to charge me immediate interest or an annual fee, I will cancel the cards and just go with the debit card which is just as convenient to use. It's that simple. I will go Galt on the credit card companies. I dare say I won't be the only one either.It used to be that personal responsibility was treasured in this country, even by the government. In these days, that virtue is on its head as it appears that personal irresponsibility is held to a higher stand. Why the redistribution? Well, who do you think vote for Obama? The deadbeats or the responsible cardholders? In fact, since statistics will likely show racial disparities (it's more a function of income, but the party of identity politics always gets race involved) between deadbeats and those responsible, couldn't this be viewed as a form of reparations as well? HotAir adds:
Just a little friendly congressional intervention in the marketplace to shift risk from people who can’t afford the product to people who can. Hey — it worked out with mortgages, didn’t it? You’re already helping to pay off deadbeats’ homes. Why not help free them up to rack up some more credit-card debt too? This is simply a horrible idea foisted upon us at the worst possible time. It's rather funny how the Democrats turn a blind eye to responsible. Case-in-point is this quote in the Detroit News on the topic:
"Today is a victory for all credit cardholders," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who had sponsored a similar measure that passed the House earlier this month. "All" cardholders. I guess it depends on what the definition of "all" is... More on this topic over at Memorandum.
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Obama's Credit Card Plan

2009-05-20T08:00:00.001-05:00

The imperial president Obama was inaugurated four months ago.

The question: Am I better off today than I was four months ago?

NO!

Another question: Is there any hope that I will be better off a year from now than I am today?

HELL NO!

On Tuesday, Andrew Martin, the New York Times, warned that Obama's credit card plan would punish responsible card users.

Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards, frequent-flier miles and other perks in recent years.

Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those people with sterling credit.

Banks are expected to look at reviving annual fees, curtailing cash-back and other rewards programs and charging interest immediately on a purchase instead of allowing a grace period of weeks, according to bank officials and trade groups.

“It will be a different business,” said Edward L. Yingling, the chief executive of the American Bankers Association, which has been lobbying Congress for more lenient legislation on behalf of the nation’s biggest banks. “Those that manage their credit well will in some degree subsidize those that have credit problems.”

Whether it's mortgages or credit cards or whatever, I'm sick of being PUNISHED for being responsible and having my act together.

I believe in being charitable. My household is not stingy with donations. Our total dramatically exceeds what Joe Biden and his wife give to charity, and what the Obamas gave before they had their eyes on the White House.

When it comes to spreading our wealth around, I want control. I don't want the government to determine my charitable giving.

But here we go again.

I have to bail out people that are irresponsible and living beyond their means.

I'm getting screwed.

...People who routinely pay off their credit card balances have been enjoying the equivalent of a free ride, he said, because many have not had to pay an annual fee even as they collect points for air travel and other perks.

“Despite all the terrible things that have been said, you’re making out like a bandit,” he said. “That’s a third of credit card customers, 50 million people who have gotten a great deal.”

Robert Hammer, an industry consultant, said the legislation might have the broad effect of encouraging card issuers to become ever more reliant on fees from marginal customers as well as creditworthy cardholders — “deadbeats” in industry parlance, because they generate scant fee revenue.

“They aren’t charities. They have shareholders to report to,” he said, referring to banks and credit card companies. “Whatever is left in the model to work from, they will start to maneuver.”

I played by the rules, yet I'm going to be punished.

I have to pay because other people don't have the self-control and discipline to manage their spending.

I'm sick of being tapped to clean up others' messes. I'm sick of the Obama government planning ways to seize more and more of my money, taking away my freedoms, and generally messing with my life.

Today, Ron Lieber, the New York Times, is putting a happy face on the Obama plan to screw me.

At first glance, the sweeping credit card legislation that passed the Senate on Tuesday looks like a huge victory for consumers. The bill, after all, contains relief from penalty fees and certain interest rate spikes.

But for people who pay off their bills each month, and milk the card rewards programs for everything they’re worth, there is some cause for concern.

For months now, the card companies have been threatening to cut rewards programs sharply to make up for revenue lost because of the new restrictions.

My guess, however, is that this talk is just so much saber-rattling.

Card companies want to make money, and big spenders help them do it, even if those cardholders do not go into debt.

First, let’s lay out the things we know will change because of the new legislation. The bill is chock-full of new rules, which will take effect at various points in the year after President Obama signs the final legislation.

Lieber discusses eight of the changed rules, ones that don't really impact responsible card users.

Then, he delivers the good news!

...So will credit card companies kill reward programs or drastically scale most of them back? Of course not.

“If you strip away the reward component of a credit card, it’s essentially a commodity,” said Rick Ferguson, editorial director at the loyalty marketing company LoyaltyOne. “The reward is what gives it its personality. It works from a branding perspective as well as a mechanism to influence customer behavior and consolidate spending on a particular card.”

That last part is crucial. People who spend a ton generate fees galore from merchants, and that money helps the card company stay in business. So you may soon see card companies giving away more goodies or lowering annual fees for people who hit certain spending thresholds each year. American Express already does this on a number of cards.

The NYT has done an about-face. Only the day before, Martin spread the doom and gloom message.

Now, Lieber is spreading the word that responsible card users WILL NOT have to carry the burden of those who made irresponsible choices with their credit cards.

In fact, people like me "may see card companies giving away more goodies."

This has the scent of pure propaganda.

Lieber concludes his column with another turnaround.

Also, keep in mind that you may have more control over what the card companies do to you than you may think.

If you don’t like the new fees and other things that banks will soon be testing as they grapple with their new economic reality, then make some noise. Send a note to me at rlieber@nytimes.com, so I can write about the latest foolishness — or consumer-friendly twist. At the very least, all of our complaints to the higher-ups at the banks may help persuade the companies to head in another direction.

“Work your way up the chain,” said Dennis C. Moroney, research director for bank cards at TowerGroup, a MasterCard-owned financial services consultant. After all, it may cost less to appease you than it would to replace you.

All of a sudden, Lieber talks about "new fees and other things that banks will soon be testing." Huh?

Everything was rosy. Don't worry, be happy. Then, POW. He does a 180, back to reality. Forget Lieber's heavy duty sugarcoating.

He wants aggravated people to send him their complaints so he can try to persuade the credit card "companies to head in another direction." Sure.

Send in those complaints to Lieber. That will help.

The fact is, once again, responsible people will have to bail out the irresponsible. We will be punished because we did the right thing. We will have to carry the irresponsible on our backs.

Here's a thought: Why not hold the irresponsible responsible for their own choices?

I use credit cards as a convenience. If it costs me, I'll stop using the cards if necessary.

Kiss this customer goodbye.

The solution on the credit card matter is simple for me, but it's still disturbing to have the out of control Dems and imperial president Obama screwing up my life.

L.A. Times Demanding Torture Photos Be Released

2009-05-20T07:52:00.000-05:00

Oh, this is rich!The LA Times demanded this week that President Obama release the detainee torture photos:The Times insisted, "The truth must come out."Of course, this is the same outfit that hid a video of Barack Obama attending a Jew-bash and toasting a former PLO operative Rashid Khalidi before the election.Rashid Khalidi and Bill Ayers were practically best friends.And, both Ayers and Obama signed the commemorative book given to Khalidi at his going away party.But the LA Times would not release the video.In case they forgot... There was even a "Free the Tape" protest outside their building before the election:Mere Rhetoric has more photos and video.Oh, the irony.

Taxpayers To Shell Out Money To Chinese Hookers

2009-05-19T13:31:00.000-05:00

Via Redstate:
Chinese hookers have a drinking problem. Obama has the answer: U.S. Tax money. So it appears that the President of “change” seems to be The One that drunken Chinese prostitutes “have been waiting for.”
Our informative friends at CNSNews.com discovered that the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse (NIAA) has been awarded $2.6 million U.S. tax dollars to help train Chinese prostitutes to “drink responsibly on the job.” Yes, I said Chinese prostitutes… in China. One wonders if the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse missed the salient fact that they have the word National in their moniker? Or perhaps the NIAA just missed that the nation in their title is supposed to be our nation, not China’s?
I guess it’s heartwarming that the NIAA cares so deeply about China’s FSWs (that is university speak for whores — Female Sex Workers), and all, but what of American prostitutes? Are they unworthy of the attention of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse? Don’t our oh, so intellectual university pinheads care about our own home-grown drunken whores?hereGuess not.
I wonder what we could have done with that money here in the States. How about investing in small business! What a novel idea. It is unbelievable how inept our government is.
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