Thanks again to Oatz. I can just hear the liberal spin this tape by saying "Well, at least Obama is able to change his mind." Yes, but how much aid and comfort did these two leaders give to the enemy, encouraging them to fight on and kill more of our men and women?
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Who Wrote the Stimulus Bill?
Pelosi and David Obey, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee wrote the Stimulus Bill. So, can someone explain to me how this cartoon was seen by some as a racist cartoon. I must be a little slow, but I just don't get the connection here.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Our Readers Keeping an Eye on the Administration
The White House's missing documents
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 2/17/09 8:46 PM EST
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President Barack Obama signs the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
A few moves escaped notice because they were never announced by the press office.
In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire.
Despite the intense scrutiny a president gets just after the inauguration, Obama managed to take all these actions with nary a mention from the White House press corps.
The moves escaped notice because they were never announced by the White House Press Office and were never placed on the White House web site.
They came to light only because the official paperwork was transmitted to the Federal Register, a dense daily compendium of regulatory actions and other formal notices prepared by the National Archives. They were published there several days after the fact.
A Politico review of Federal Register issuances since Obama took office found three executive orders, one presidential memorandum, one presidential notice, and one proclamation that went unannounced by the White House.
Two of Obama's actions on regulatory reform were spotted by bloggers, lobbying groups and trade publications after they emerged in the Federal Register.
There was no apparent rhyme or reason to the omissions. A proclamation Obama issued on February 2 for African-American History Month was e-mailed to the press and posted on the White House web site. But another presidential proclamation the same day for American Heart Month slipped by.
Such notices were routinely released by the White House press office during prior administrations — making their omission all the more unusual given Obama’s oft-repeated pledges of openness.
The documents were posted to the White House web site Tuesday night, after Politico inquired about their absence. “It was a simple oversight,” a spokesman, Ben LaBolt, said.
One order Obama signed Feb. 5 expanded the National Economic Council to 25 people by adding the Secretary of Health and Human Services; Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; senior adviser Valerie Jarrett; “climate czar” Carol Browner and two other officials.
Another order the president signed the same day added two slots to the Domestic Policy Council, bringing it to a total of 26 people. Some slots were reassigned. The chief was among those added to the panel, while “AIDS Policy Coordinator” was removed. It was unclear if that was a substantive change, simply reflected plans to keep the AIDS czar post at the State Department, or perhaps both.
Another Obama executive order, signed January 30, canceled two Bush-era executive orders relating to regulatory review. The White House did release chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s memo halting regulations in the works at federal agencies, but didn’t release another Obama memo setting a 100-day deadline for agency heads to recommend a new regulatory review process. The memo indicates that Obama may want to do some things differently on the regulatory front than the last Democrat in the White House, Bill Clinton.
Also waylaid was a notice Obama signed February 4 extending sanctions against some nationals of Cote D’Ivoire because of what he termed “the massacre of large numbers of civilians, widespread human rights abuses, significant political violence and unrest, and attacks against international peacekeeping forces leading to fatalities.”
Posted by Oatz to A Watauga Conservative at February 17, 2009 10:45 PM
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Republican Bloggers, the New Paul Reveres
REPUBLICAN BLOGGERS UNITE. WE NOW HAVE A NEW CALLING
Shutting out every Republican, the radical Left House members, wrote the so-called stimulus bill. We quickly learned it was not a stimulus bill, but a big spending reward for Democrat constituencies. Then, after the travesty was crafted, deceitfully Democrats publically invited Republicans to: “Show bipartisan spirit by getting behind our ‘stimulate the Democrat party bill’. We will even let you pretend you are doing something by allowing you to tinker around the margins of the thing.”
Unable to support a non-stimulus bill which at the same time violated everything Republicans believed about tax relief and free market principles, the Republicans proposed a genuine stimulus bill at half the cost.
Now shamelessly, the Democrats have set out to convince the American people that Republicans were just being obstructionists. Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels gave them their play book: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
BECAUSE WE WERE SHUT OUT OF THE WHOLE PROCESS, BILL CRYSTAL ON FOX NEWS SUNDAY SAID TODAY, WE REPUBLICANS HAVE A NEW ROLE TO PLAY. If Obama follows through on his promise to put the future process on line, it will become our calling to track this money. We will watch for bait and switch projects where something different was done than allowed. We will watch for waste and fraud especially on projects in our regions. We will need to ask questions about each one? For example, Is this specific project what the American people thought they were paying for? Is it stimulating jobs? When we find hoaxes, we can demand the money be returned.
Goebbels did not have blogging. We do.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Waiting to Hear From Senator Hagan
When I read this morning the headlines screaming: " Democrats get only 10 hours to read 1,434 page “stimulus bill!” I whipped off an e-mail to our Democrat Senator:
Dear Sen. Hagan,
Tell us. Will you be able to raise your right hand and swear to all of us citizens in North Carolina that you read every word of the Stimulus Bill given to you today and that you understand exactly what you are voting for?
You could just answer yes or no and hit the reply button on this message."
Who among our readers think I will receive an answer?
Our Representative Foxx usually answers right away. Oh, and by the way, did you catch her on Fox News standing with Rep. Boehner today. Shepherd Smith introduced her as one of the House leaders. Our lady is really getting up there. I bet it will be a long long time before we see Sen. Hagan get that kind of bounce.
Dear Sen. Hagan,
Tell us. Will you be able to raise your right hand and swear to all of us citizens in North Carolina that you read every word of the Stimulus Bill given to you today and that you understand exactly what you are voting for?
You could just answer yes or no and hit the reply button on this message."
Who among our readers think I will receive an answer?
Our Representative Foxx usually answers right away. Oh, and by the way, did you catch her on Fox News standing with Rep. Boehner today. Shepherd Smith introduced her as one of the House leaders. Our lady is really getting up there. I bet it will be a long long time before we see Sen. Hagan get that kind of bounce.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Foxx presents 11,000 NC signatures opposing stimulus to Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05) today joined Members of Congress and Americans for Prosperity to present more than 425,000 petition signatures to Congress, including 11,086 from North Carolina, in opposition to runaway government spending in the current stimulus package.
“This stimulus bill is generational theft,” Foxx said at a Washington, DC press conference this afternoon. “Americans are hurting and Washington Democrats decide that government spending is the only answer despite calls to enact fast, job-creating tax cuts. Republicans have proposed an alternative that creates twice the jobs at half the cost.”
More than 425,000 Americans have signed a petition started by grassroots group Americans for Prosperity that urges Congress halt wasteful stimulus spending and the rampant growth of long-term national debt. Foxx joined Tim Phillips, president of AFP, and Congresswoman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, in presenting the signatures to Congress.
“Hundreds of thousands of Americans are making their voices heard,” Foxx said. “Instead of borrowing and spending our way to prosperity, they want us to take a responsible and balanced approach that gives meaningful tax cuts to small businesses and hard-working families.”
Congress is expected to begin debate on the final version of the stimulus package today. Final passage could come as early as Friday.
If you would like to schedule an interview with Congresswoman Foxx on the stimulus package please contact Aaron Groen at (202) 225-2071.
“This stimulus bill is generational theft,” Foxx said at a Washington, DC press conference this afternoon. “Americans are hurting and Washington Democrats decide that government spending is the only answer despite calls to enact fast, job-creating tax cuts. Republicans have proposed an alternative that creates twice the jobs at half the cost.”
More than 425,000 Americans have signed a petition started by grassroots group Americans for Prosperity that urges Congress halt wasteful stimulus spending and the rampant growth of long-term national debt. Foxx joined Tim Phillips, president of AFP, and Congresswoman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, in presenting the signatures to Congress.
“Hundreds of thousands of Americans are making their voices heard,” Foxx said. “Instead of borrowing and spending our way to prosperity, they want us to take a responsible and balanced approach that gives meaningful tax cuts to small businesses and hard-working families.”
Congress is expected to begin debate on the final version of the stimulus package today. Final passage could come as early as Friday.
If you would like to schedule an interview with Congresswoman Foxx on the stimulus package please contact Aaron Groen at (202) 225-2071.
News Flash to Democrats, Money Doesn't Grow on Trees
It boggles the mind as to how the Democrats plan to pay for their pork bill. The Chinese usually lend us the money, but they are in trouble. The oil rich potentates are watching oil prices go South, so they will have difficulty buying our bonds. The American people can’t.
Is there not one Democrat willing to admit some worry over where the money is coming from? Or, did they all get in a room at the same time and contract some type of groupthink disorder?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Schumer: The American People Don't Care About Pork Projects In Stimulus
Does anyone believe that Shumer even knows an American? This guy must just visit us from whatever planet he lives on.
Republicans Propose Real Stimulus Plan, Foxx
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05) today made the following statement on the House floor after the Senate passed its version of the stimulus. Foxx called on the Democratic majority (Watch Video) to allow House Republicans to bring their ideas to the negotiating table as the House and Senate hammer out the differences between the two competing stimulus bills:
“America faces an unambiguously dramatic economic downturn,” Foxx told the House of Representatives. “And Americans are hurting in this very difficult economic time.”
“But Republicans in the House are still waiting for an opportunity to bring our ideas for economic recovery to the table. So far we’ve have been shut out of negotiations.”
“For instance, Republicans have proposed real assistance for the unemployed by slashing federal taxes on unemployment benefits. But our suggestions for effective economic recovery have been ignored.
“The result? A bill that does little to stimulate the economy and lots to stimulate the federal government and our national debt.
“We must pass a bill that helps struggling workers get back on their feet and that encourages entrepreneurs—the real engines for job creation—to take risks again.
“Mr. Speaker, we cannot borrow and spend our way back to prosperity.
Note: The House Republicans’ alternative Economic Recovery Plan contains targeted tax cuts for every family and small business. It includes the following provisions:
Immediate Tax Relief for Working Families: Rather than a refundable credit based on payroll taxes, House Republicans propose reducing the lowest individual tax rates from 15% to 10% and from 10% to 5%. As a result every taxpaying-family in America will see an immediate increase in their income with an average benefit of $500 in tax relief from the drop in the 10% bracket and $1,200 for the drop in the 15% bracket. A married couple filing jointly could save up to $3,200 a year in taxes.
Real Help for America’s Small Businesses: Small businesses (those employing less than 500 individuals) employ about half of all Americans, yet they can be subject to tax rates that siphon away one-third or more of their income. House Republicans propose to allow small business to take a tax deduction equal to 20% of their income. This will immediately free up funds for small businesses to retain and hire new employees.
No Tax Increases to Pay for Spending: The stimulus proposal pending in Congress includes record levels of government spending that will substantially increase the current deficit. House Republicans are concerned that this level of spending will result in new tax increases on American working families. House Republicans are insisting that any stimulus package include a provision precluding any tax increases now or in the future to pay for this new spending. House Republicans believe that any stimulus spending should be paid for by reducing other government spending, not raising taxes.
Assistance for the Unemployed: Incredibly, the Federal Government actually imposes income taxes on an individual receiving unemployment benefits. House Republicans propose to make unemployment benefits tax free so that those individuals between jobs can focus on providing for their families. The plan would also extend unemployment benefits for a full year.
Stabilizing Home Values: The real-estate market is paralyzed as potential buyers wait on the sidelines waiting for prices to fall even further. This is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. In order to encourage responsible buyers to enter the market and stabilize prices, House Republicans propose a home-buyers credit of $7,500 for those buyers who can make a minimum down-payment of 5%.
“America faces an unambiguously dramatic economic downturn,” Foxx told the House of Representatives. “And Americans are hurting in this very difficult economic time.”
“But Republicans in the House are still waiting for an opportunity to bring our ideas for economic recovery to the table. So far we’ve have been shut out of negotiations.”
“For instance, Republicans have proposed real assistance for the unemployed by slashing federal taxes on unemployment benefits. But our suggestions for effective economic recovery have been ignored.
“The result? A bill that does little to stimulate the economy and lots to stimulate the federal government and our national debt.
“We must pass a bill that helps struggling workers get back on their feet and that encourages entrepreneurs—the real engines for job creation—to take risks again.
“Mr. Speaker, we cannot borrow and spend our way back to prosperity.
Note: The House Republicans’ alternative Economic Recovery Plan contains targeted tax cuts for every family and small business. It includes the following provisions:
Immediate Tax Relief for Working Families: Rather than a refundable credit based on payroll taxes, House Republicans propose reducing the lowest individual tax rates from 15% to 10% and from 10% to 5%. As a result every taxpaying-family in America will see an immediate increase in their income with an average benefit of $500 in tax relief from the drop in the 10% bracket and $1,200 for the drop in the 15% bracket. A married couple filing jointly could save up to $3,200 a year in taxes.
Real Help for America’s Small Businesses: Small businesses (those employing less than 500 individuals) employ about half of all Americans, yet they can be subject to tax rates that siphon away one-third or more of their income. House Republicans propose to allow small business to take a tax deduction equal to 20% of their income. This will immediately free up funds for small businesses to retain and hire new employees.
No Tax Increases to Pay for Spending: The stimulus proposal pending in Congress includes record levels of government spending that will substantially increase the current deficit. House Republicans are concerned that this level of spending will result in new tax increases on American working families. House Republicans are insisting that any stimulus package include a provision precluding any tax increases now or in the future to pay for this new spending. House Republicans believe that any stimulus spending should be paid for by reducing other government spending, not raising taxes.
Assistance for the Unemployed: Incredibly, the Federal Government actually imposes income taxes on an individual receiving unemployment benefits. House Republicans propose to make unemployment benefits tax free so that those individuals between jobs can focus on providing for their families. The plan would also extend unemployment benefits for a full year.
Stabilizing Home Values: The real-estate market is paralyzed as potential buyers wait on the sidelines waiting for prices to fall even further. This is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. In order to encourage responsible buyers to enter the market and stabilize prices, House Republicans propose a home-buyers credit of $7,500 for those buyers who can make a minimum down-payment of 5%.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Obama Plays With Words In Front of the Press
Tonight, the president looked into the camera and said "there are no earmarks in this bill.” Now we are back to "what the meaning of is, is."
Wikepedia defines the use of the word "earmarks" as: "Congressional earmarks are often defined loosely as anonymously authored guarantees of federal funds to particular recipients in appropriations-related documents.
The federal Office of Management and Budget defines earmarks as funds provided by Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents Executive Branch merit-based or competitive allocation processes, or specifies the location or recipient, or otherwise curtails the ability of the Executive Branch to manage critical aspects of the funds allocation process."
So, of course, by definition, there are no earmarks. But the bill is loaded with more "pork" than a sausage factory. Once again, we have a president who tries to trick the public by counting on them not to notice he is playing with words.
Wikepedia defines the use of the word "earmarks" as: "Congressional earmarks are often defined loosely as anonymously authored guarantees of federal funds to particular recipients in appropriations-related documents.
The federal Office of Management and Budget defines earmarks as funds provided by Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents Executive Branch merit-based or competitive allocation processes, or specifies the location or recipient, or otherwise curtails the ability of the Executive Branch to manage critical aspects of the funds allocation process."
So, of course, by definition, there are no earmarks. But the bill is loaded with more "pork" than a sausage factory. Once again, we have a president who tries to trick the public by counting on them not to notice he is playing with words.
The Inconvenient Debt (clip from Fox News Glenn Beck)
Again thanks to Oatz. Also, this is of interest to our Liberatarians.
Harry Reid: Watch In Disbelief
When you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. Idiot Harry Reid maintains that paying income tax is voluntary in the U.S.. Harry Reid is the Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate. He's obviously not very bright. Interviewer Jan Helfeld does a great job of trying to nail him down but... well, you'll see.
April 01, 2008
Ted Nugent to America: No more "We the Sheeple" -- It's time for "We the People" to fight for what's right
You don't have to be fan of rock music to love rocker/hunter Ted Nugent. You just have to share the unabashed patriotism and "rock"-solid conservative values that come through in his music and bestselling books.
Now comes the Motor-City Madman's wildest, most politically incorrect book yet. In Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto, "The Nuge" lays out his plan for defending red-blooded, full-throated Americanism against pantywaist politicians, nanny-state judges, and tofu-eating Obamamaniacs -- calling on readers to "Roll up your damn sleeves, sharpen your crowbars, and think hardcore."
Ted, White, and Blue rocketed to #8 on The New York Times bestseller list in its first week of release.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Mother of Cole Victim On Obama:I Voted for Him I Think I Made The Wrong Decision
Thanks to Oatz.
By the way, the tape is a little jerky but at the most important times, it is smooth.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Even the Obamamaniacs are Catching On
On today’s Morning Joe, of all people, tingling leggy Chris Matthews actually added some additional insight to why President Obama is blowing his so-called stimulus presentation. According to Matthews, the plan actually has three parts. One part is Relief. A second part is Job Creation, and the third part is long range Recovery. Because Obama has not created a justification for each of the three as separate entities but instead, called it all a stimulus plan, it has not taken the American people long to begin to look at the parts and ask “Where’s the stimulus?" All you readers who are keeping up with what is going on probably have already found your own list of questionable projects.
If Obama will do what Matthew’s suggests, he would explain that the first part, Relief is to give immediate help to the people who have lost their jobs. Then the second part would be targeted programs that put large numbers of people back to work. The third part are projects down the road which will help the country recover. (On that last part, one can legitimately ask the Congress to slow down and think them through.)
The second mistake all the people on the program agreed that Obama has made, was to outsource the writing of the bill to the children in the House. He should have realized they would make it a grab bag of all the goodies they have wanted for years but were not allowed to have.
The final conclusion was that the “great orator” has been stumbling all over himself. All that from a person who use to have his legs tingle
Thursday, February 5, 2009
PROPHESY?
Thought provoking……
By Pat Dollard
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.
Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is 2000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic.
To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government, our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change.
Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.
And promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media-did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and .. . . change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)
By Pat Dollard
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.
Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is 2000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic.
To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government, our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change.
Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.
And promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media-did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and .. . . change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)
Why the Stimulus Bill Became a Disaster
If you are as puzzled as I have been as to why this administration has created such a mess with the stimulus bill, then maybe this will help. This morning on TV, Senator Webb, Democrat of Virginia explained what went wrong. He revealed that the president’s advisers told the president he had to throw $800 Billion dollars at the problem right away or disaster would happen. Anything less would not do the job.
Telling Congress they have to find a way of spending $800 Billion immediately was like turning children loose in a candy store. Of course, they were able to find things to spend it on–especially those on the Left who had been waiting for such an opportunity. Karl Rove has been declaring all along that the whole crowd in Washington are just winging it now. Congress had no guiding philosophy for creating jobs. They only had to find ways to spend $800 Billion.
Right now, our only hope to avert disaster are those moderate Democrats and the Republicans who are trying to do the right thing and turn this away from being the Christmas tree spending bill it is and back into a job creation bill. However, a lot of people out there have already had their hands in the cookie jar and they are not wanting to let go of their cookies..
Democrats, the Ones Who Would Limit Executive Perks
Today, Obama and the Democrats will head to the plush Kingsmill Resort and Spa in historic Williamsburg, Va., for the three-day planning powwow. The resort boasts multiple championship golf courses, a full-service spa and six restaurants. (Does all this sound familiar?)
Individual lawmakers pay for most of the expenses related to retreat lodging through their campaign committees, but the Democratic Caucus subsidizes some of the costs for what aides consider "official business" -- to the tune of nearly $100,000 each year, according to a Democratic aide involved in retreat planning. READ:
What the rest of us can't afford
And on and on
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Obama, the Man Who Would Be King
The president went on TV this morning. Have you noticed that each time he does that, the stock market goes in the toilet?
Today, he said he was capping bank executive pay. A few minutes later, the media announced that six of them have already moved to a German bank that does not have caps.
Then he said he was working together with the Senate to get something better in the stimulus plan. In the next breath, he implied that he still likes what he has. You get the feeling that he is just fudging to see if he can get 60 votes. Never mind that 85% of Americans don't think it will have any immediate effect. Only 37% approve the present form. Most people who are paying attention know that the Democrats are just using a crisis to do what typically should go through a regular appropriations bill. Either the president is secretly behind the Pelosi bill or he is incredibly stupid. He is close to crashing and burning right at the start.
Yes, the stock market headed into the toilet a few minutes later.
Today, he said he was capping bank executive pay. A few minutes later, the media announced that six of them have already moved to a German bank that does not have caps.
Then he said he was working together with the Senate to get something better in the stimulus plan. In the next breath, he implied that he still likes what he has. You get the feeling that he is just fudging to see if he can get 60 votes. Never mind that 85% of Americans don't think it will have any immediate effect. Only 37% approve the present form. Most people who are paying attention know that the Democrats are just using a crisis to do what typically should go through a regular appropriations bill. Either the president is secretly behind the Pelosi bill or he is incredibly stupid. He is close to crashing and burning right at the start.
Yes, the stock market headed into the toilet a few minutes later.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Maybe There is Still Hope on the Stimulus Bill
I wish I could find this morning’s Morning Joe’ interview with Senator McCaskill. Even though she is a Democrat, she actually gets it. She realizes this stimulus plan is a spending plan. She understands that the House Democrats sent them a bill which was a Christmas list of things they had not been able to get through under the Republicans. She is clear that there are many things that need to be done, but they do not belong in a stimulus plan. She also realizes that Obama promised the bill was to be temporary and that if they started some programs they would be unable to continue. She is aware Pelosi pulled a very stupid move as the House Bill filled with nothing but pork, gave credibility to Republicans. McCaskill is networking with other moderate Democrats and Republicans to try to give us the real thing before the Congress causes a disaster in the middle of a disaster.
Perhaps, she saw the polls this morning that say 52 % of Americans want a real stimulus plan or none at all. Let us hope, yes and really pray, that more Democrats get it before it is too late. Americans are not stupid.
Perhaps, she saw the polls this morning that say 52 % of Americans want a real stimulus plan or none at all. Let us hope, yes and really pray, that more Democrats get it before it is too late. Americans are not stupid.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Stimulus Payment Info
This year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment. This is a very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and A format:
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.
Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:
If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.
If you spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs.
If you purchase a computer it will go to India.
If you purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala (unless you buy organic).
If you buy a car it will go to Japan.
If you purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan.
And none of it will help the American economy.
We need to keep that money here in America. You can keep the money in America by spending it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, beer and wine (domestic ONLY), or tattoos, since those are the only businesses still in the US.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The Best Approach to Stimulus
(Part of an interchange on this morning's Meet the Press worth thinking about before we bankrupt the country.)
MR. GREGORY: Senator Hutchison, Alice Rivlin, who, who was budget director for President Clinton, made the observation that if you want to focus on up-front stimulus, that should be the focus. That's what this crisis should be geared toward. Why not separate some of this longer-term spending and address that separately down the road, particularly if the size of the package is of political and economic concern?
SEN. HUTCHISON: I think that is exactly what we ought to do, David, exactly. Because if you took out the increases in spending that are not going to have the lasting impact on jobs--our focus should be keeping people in their homes, trying to get the financial markets back on track and creating jobs. That should be our focus. And about 200 billion of this is just added spending that are--they're good programs, but they are not programs that are going to create jobs, and I think that should be our focus right now
MR. GREGORY: Senator Hutchison, Alice Rivlin, who, who was budget director for President Clinton, made the observation that if you want to focus on up-front stimulus, that should be the focus. That's what this crisis should be geared toward. Why not separate some of this longer-term spending and address that separately down the road, particularly if the size of the package is of political and economic concern?
SEN. HUTCHISON: I think that is exactly what we ought to do, David, exactly. Because if you took out the increases in spending that are not going to have the lasting impact on jobs--our focus should be keeping people in their homes, trying to get the financial markets back on track and creating jobs. That should be our focus. And about 200 billion of this is just added spending that are--they're good programs, but they are not programs that are going to create jobs, and I think that should be our focus right now
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