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Knee-Slapper of the Week

May 4, 09 5:02 PM

Actually, I think this one outdoes MOST of the laughable plans announced by the Obama adminstration.

First, Obama promised more transparency in government. He promised change. Then he nominated tax cheat Tim Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury. Then he nominated Kathleen Sibelius to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Then he nominated Ron Sims as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Then he raised taxes on the “top 5%” of the earners in America, bringing the highest tax bracket up to 39.6%.

Today, he’s far outdone himself. Put your drinks down…

He and Tim Geithner have just announced a plan to inject $210 billion into the economy by even more taxes on the corporations in America. How? By overturning one of Bill Clinton’s tax laws that gave a break to companies that made some profit on overseas offices–so long as the money made overseas was re-invested overseas and stayed there. The instant it was brought back to US banks it was subject to taxation.

They’re calling this a loophole, and they say they’ll recoup a lot of money by closing it. It’s supposed to create more jobs, ostensibly by not giving that tax break in any way, shape or form to any corporation–PERIOD. There’s just a few problems with this, not the least of which being that it’s hilarious to see Tim Geithner trying to enforce tax laws when he can’t even follow them.

The fact still remains that it’s still cheaper to hire a group of employees in Bangladesh than it is to hire the same number of people to do the same job in the United States. Making those corporations pay more taxes cannot and will not change that fact. The only way to really, truly encourage companies to keep jobs settled right here at home is to offer incentives–i.e. TAX CUTS FOR WHAT LIBERALS DEEM “THE WEALTHY”–to keep those jobs here. When they’re paying the same amount of taxes on both home and foreign offices, yet it costs twice as much to hire me to do a job as it does to hire Sanji Rosgothra in India (name completely fabricated), where do you think the companies are going to want to go?

I talked to a woman last week who complained that she’d called customer service only to be asked a round of questions she couldn’t understand because of the rep’s heavy Indian accent. In the same breath, this woman said, “boy, I’m so glad Bush isn’t in office anymore, Obama’s gonna fix this mess right up!” I had to hang up quickly because I couldn’t help the hysterical laughter that threatened to escape my throat. Sure, the mess started under Bush, but Obama has only made it worse. Now he’s suggesting that we dump even more taxes on corporations during a damned recession as some kind of twisted cure?

I’ll tell you how this will play out: if Obama gets his wish, and this so-called tax loophole is closed, several businesses will pull up stakes in the US completely and move everything to other countries–countries that are more tax-friendly. Still others will outsource even more jobs to make up for their new losses because of the fact that it’s cheaper to hire people overseas. And whether they stay or they go, prices on everything will go up in reactionary inflation because businesses refuse to eat any losses that they can avoid. That’s not just greed; it’s the free-market system at work.

If this is the start of Obama “spreading the wealth,” then I don’t want to know what the next step is.

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Don’t Listen to Me…I’m Just a Right-Wing Extremist

Apr 16, 09 8:36 PM

I’ve been really busy lately and am now as sick as a dying dog (my friends would argue that it’s my refusal to take a break that’s to blame), but since the local pharmacist is going to take TWO HOURS to fill my prescription for codeine, I’m going to channel the body aches, the fever, the racking cough and the near-migraine into a blog. (I bet it’s nothing compared to Steve’s predicament–being a tax guy who just blitzed the end of tax season!)

So much has happened in the news this week that I’m not sure where to start, but it all ties in. I guess I’ll start where the madness began: the DHS report released on Monday, Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. Unfortunately, I’m not kidding. They actually released this report. Our liberal readers will jump up and down and scream, “they released a report on left-wing radicals in January!!!” Here’s my beef: that report released earlier this year named specific groups, listed the aims of those groups and highlighted specific incidents (such as bombings, break-ins, flooding homes and threatening personal violence) and gave police reports as their sources. The report on “right-wing extremism” does no such thing. It’s very vague. And here’s how it starts off: “the economic downturn and the election of the first African American President present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.” It claims that white supremacist groups are on the rise, and points out “opposition to abortion or immigration” as key indicators of right-wing extremism. Its sources? Not police reports…more like the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has named the American Legion a “hate group” for opposing illegal immigration.

Go read it for yourself. Put down your drink before you do, or you’ll be choking on it. Trust me.

It’s no coincidence that the report was released just days before the massive Tax Day Tea Party protests across the country. It was no secret that this was coming, organizers started over a month ago planning this shindig. The Tea Parties were a throwback to the historic Boston tea party, when American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into Boston Harbor to stop the tea tax levied by the Crown without any say in the colonies. Today, we’re angry about being told that it’s our “patriotic duty” to pay more taxes (don’t give me any of that “it’s only the rich” BS, either, because ALL taxes will rise eventually thanks to the Democrats’ outrageous spending). Yesterday’s massive nationwide protests are the backlash that was inevitable, and all of those registered Republicans who couldn’t stand to plug their noses and vote for McCain showed up with people from all walks of life to send the message that we’re not interested in being taxed to death. The aforementioned report is the Democrat government’s version of a preemptive strike.

Not that they really needed it. The MSM did a remarkable hatchet job all on their own, no doubt in an effort to protect Barkey’s messiah-like aura. Anderson Cooper stooped to the level of sexual innuendo by calling them “teabagging” parties, fat bastard James Wolcott from Vanity Fair put his fingers in his ears like a two-year-old and said, “they didn’t appear on the front page of my newspapers, so I WON’T believe they happened!”, and CNN’s Susan Roesgen whined that it was offensive to call Obama a socialist (this after gushing over a paper-mache effigy of Bush with devil horns and a Hitler ‘stache as an “excellent lookalike”). The message? If we don’t agree with you, we’re going to do our level best to make you all look like the radicals that our Democrat DHS says you are!

Then, today, in an amazing, brazen act of hypocrisy, Obama went to Mexico and held hands with Felipe Calderon (well, not really, but what happened is just as nauseating as watching Bush hold hands with the same Saudi king that Obama bowed to not long ago), declaring–and I do quote–“how we can improve our enforcement of existing laws because even under current law, trafficking illegal firearms, sending them across the border, is illegal. That’s something we can stop.”

This is where Philip goes, “oh, REALLY?”

I’d like to know exactly how Obama plans to do that. He not only refuses to secure the border, he also openly announces a brewing plan for amnesty–all the while accusing those of us who want the current laws enforced EXTREMISTS. How does he intend to pull off this heroic act? Send the National Guard to the border to seal it off with orders to let any “workers” coming North to pass by? How does he think the drugs are getting here? How ’bout we look at something that happened right here in Phoenix. In 1999, Phoenix police officer Marc Atkinson spotted a suspicious vehicle and pulled it over. The three men inside hid around a corner and ambushed Atkinson; an armed American citizen had the cojones to return fire in defense of the fallen officer and hold one suspect for officers responding to the scene. Today, that citizen would be labeled an extremist along with the rest of us.

But not only does Barkey swear to stop the flow of cash and guns South and the flow of drugs North, he yet again repeats the tired, debunked lie that 90% of all of the guns being used by the cartels come from the United States (I’m not gonna re-iterate my point, just read it here). The Arizona Repugnant repeats that lie and instead of “reporting” the story of Obama’s visit to Mexico, it gives a personal spin that makes it reek of a badly-placed editorial. So much for journalistic ethics.

What’s really funny is that in a related piece, the same freakin’ paper points out that a .50-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun was recovered in Mexico, mounted to a truck. Where’d it come from? Not the US, but you wouldn’t know that from the tacit omission by the writer who submitted the garbage for print.

If we can commit $350 million to stepped-up enforcement on guns and drugs on the border, then we can sure as hell start enforcing the immigration laws that our government has, so far, refused to enforce. Guess what? This human cost that you’re pointing out here, Barkey–THIS IS THE HUMAN COST OF IGNORING THE LAW AND GIVING A FREE PASS TO THOSE WHO FLAUNT IT. We don’t need reform. Our immigration laws are the way they are for a reason, and guest workers have the H2-A guest worker visa now to make themselves legal with. Stop bending over for the shamnesty crowd or you become the laughingstock you say your predecessor was.

But don’t listen to me. I’m just a right-wing extremist. I believe in the rule of law, liberty for all law-abiding citizens and LEGAL immigrants and small government that allows me to keep what I work hard to earn.

All the things that spell disaster, right?

Hmph…no pun intended.

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Change…At What Cost?

Mar 18, 09 2:28 AM

I said before Barkey was elected that the promises of change without a road map were a dangerous thing. We’re now finding out exactly HOW dangerous. It’s costing us more than we were willing to give.

Via Tammy Bruce, the news is that Barkey partied his green boxers off for St. Patrick’s day. Traditionally, the President meets with the Taoiseach (head of the government of Ireland, even over the Irish president) on St. Patrick’s day. This year, the new Fuhrer (er…ah, I meant President!) threw a massive party at the White House on our buck. AGAIN. This time his guest list was nearly 200 strong. I wonder if wagyu beef was on the menu again. According to Barry O, Americans need to be willing to tighten their belts. I don’t see a very good example being set.

That’s just the beginning of my latest gripe. Have you seen the news about AIG’s latest bailout request? They posted a $60 billion loss, and turned around and asked the government for an additional $30 billion in bailout funds. Strangely, they’re still able to pay out more than $160 in corporate bonuses in their Financial Products division, which is the same wing of the company that brought them to the brink of collapse last year and required a massive infusion of TARP funds. Outraged lawmakers in Washington, D.C. hurriedly wrote a bill that would stop corporate bonuses from being paid by companies that had requested bailout money, both from Bush Jr. and from the current administration.

Senator Chris Dodd, however, after feigning the same outrage over corporate bonuses, wrote a loophole into the legislation. It basically says that the law only applies to corporate bonuses written into contract after February 11, 2009. That pretty well allows all of the corporate bonuses that were in contractual agreements with employees and nearly cuts the balls completely off of the legislation. It gets better.

Dodd received $103,100 in campaign contributions for the 2008 elections.

Dodd isn’t the only one paid off by AIG. SENATOR Obama accepted $101,332 in campaign contributions. Gee, I wonder what’s going on.

AIG’s monkey business spurred the economic collapse we’re trying to recover from (along with Citibank). I wondered from the start why we were bailing out AIG, because they’re not as important to the world economy as some of the other banking giants. 11 of the executives who received million-dollar-plus bonuses quit as soon as they got their money, and they don’t have to pay it back. Are we seriously still going to keep dumping money into the black hole that is AIG? Of course! Barkey’s bought and paid for!

This is the kind of change we voted for? I don’t even want to know how much worse it can get. I’m also reading reports that The Man is concocting a plan to make wounded veterans pay for their own healthcare, and is even chewing on the idea of taxing healthcare benefits–all after he promised to lower healthcare costs. This is a fantastic idea–jack up the costs on everyone so that the citizenry begs for socialized healthcare. The only problem is we’re catching on before he can implement the plan.

At least I hope we are. This is our “change”…but at what cost?

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The Ruling Class

Mar 11, 09 2:12 PM

I have to build on Philip’s post about the $410 billion porkulus spending bill. Obama, having sworn during the campaign to cut wasteful spending, has reneged on his vow to sign the bill in the quiet of night–where the public couldn’t see it. No cameras, no news about it. He’s just trying to downplay it by making the excuse that they absolutely HAVE to have a spending bill right now, this minute, or the lights go off in government buildings.

Horsehockey.

Obama just doesn’t want to ruffle the feathers of major political contributors right now. The problem, however, is that after more than doubling the national deficit, he’s not addressing the serious problem of spending money on things that we don’t need right now. We should be going in a more fiscally responsible direction. We should be putting non-essential projects on a back burner while we take care of the situation at hand. But Democrats (and Republicans alike in the case of earmarks) don’t know how to lay off the taxpayers’ buck.

Let’s talk about some of the more eggregious dipping being committed right now. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has secured $125 million in earmarked funds. One out of every five dollars in the bill is going directly to the Kennedy legacy, including $5.8 million for the “Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate” and $22 million for upgrades at the JFK Memorial Library. This ranks right up there with people on welfare complaining that they need more food stamps while they buy new rims and loud stereos for their flashy cars.

Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY) doesn’t know how to cut back, either. While his personal net worth is around $1.2 million, he’s charging us upwards of $777 a month for a 17-foot, 300-horsepower Cadillac DeVille. He also–in direct violation of New York law–snapped up four rent-stabilized apartments that the owner gave him a 50% below-market discount for. He uses one of the apartments as an election office. According to Jason Mattera, the owner of the complex received permits to expand the complex in return. Rangel also shorted the Dominican Republic taxes on his half-a-million-dollar villa to the tune of about $75,000.

(And if anyone can help me find more information on the other 125 House Representatives who dip into the public coffers for their personal transportation, regardless of party affiliation, I’ll be happy to post it.)

Nancy Pelosi seems to think the Air Force is her personal escort service. She makes unreasonable demands for large, exorbitant aircraft to shuttle her, her co-workers and relatives all over the globe, even asking for one to take her husband on a trip that he was not authorized to go on. Department of Defense officials have been at a loss as to how to deal with Madame Speaker, as her demands have been draining and have included multiple last-minute cancels (which are costly). Staffers have harrassed DoD officials upon finding that specific aircraft would not be available at the Speaker’s request, and Pelosi had the temerity to request that a jet be repositioned for her personal use–something the DoD was completely unwilling to do and had to fight tooth and nail to avoid.

All this from a House Speaker insisting that we all do our part to reduce our so-called “carbon footprint.” Do as I say, not as I do.

In a day and age when we’re all tightening our belts and learning to save more than we spend, lawmakers are too busy making sure they get what they want (including their lavish lifestyles) at our expense. With unemployment skyrocketing, we cannot afford anything that isn’t necessary for the upkeep of our economy. Yet we have Congressmen travelling first class and living even better at no cost to themselves.

The ruling class owns us. And we’re happy to oblige.

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What Could Have Been

Mar 8, 09 11:21 AM

Since I’m still without the ability to post a vidblog, I’m going to resort to my Sunday Philosophy tradition. This week? Hindsight.

In the months immediately following 9/11, the first priority for everybody was recovery. The disaster was so massive that we didn’t have time to ask questions at first. Ask we did, though, and the questions were tough ones. How did this happen? How could they have pulled this off without tipping someone off? We had to have had some kind of warning–who knew what, and when did they know it? If they knew, then why wasn’t this stopped?

(Since many people, including myself, have soundly debunked the “truth movement” theories, I’m not even going to address them here.)

Today, the question remains thus: if we had some warning, why didn’t we act to stop it? I’m going to ask another question: What were we supposed to do?

Bill Clinton and some of his advisors have taken great joy in pinning the blame for inaction on the Bush administration by claiming that they warned Bush and his cabinet of the threat of Al Qaeda trying to use planes as flying bombs. That doesn’t answer the real questions, however. Everyone looking for more excuses for their long list of hating Bush 43 is happy to accept this as gold, because as we all know, Bush didn’t do anything, right? We can look back on it now and see where the warning signs were. The chatter being picked up, the suspicions of FBI agents who were told they couldn’t do anything, all of it points to inaction as the demon that led us down that path. Hindsight is 20/20, though. We can see it now. How clear was it then?

And even if it HAD been clear, what could we have legally done? According to our laws and the rights assigned in the Constitution, we weren’t legally allowed to listen to any conversations without warrants. An investigation would have had to be done. Evidence would have to prove to a judge that a warrant could be issued to listen in on the conversations. Then, any conversations picked up would have to show clearly–not subjectively, but plainly and clearly–that the men involved in the plot were planning a terrorist act. That would have to have been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt before any of them could have been arrested.

If even one of them had been arrested without clear and convincing evidence of their crime (which hadn’t even been committed yet), they would have been released within hours and the rest of the group would have been tipped off to change tactics. In order to stop them legally, the way Democrats are screaming for us to do with the combatants at Gitmo, we would have had to give them every single right each and every one of us is afforded in the Constitution. All of the precedents set for criminal trial by the Warren Court would have been applied. And I promise you, we wouldn’t have been able to do a damn thing. Deport them for their expired visas? Yeah, right. Every time a group is arrested, rounded up and deported everyone cries racism and inhumane treatment.

In order to stop 9/11, the USA PATRIOT Act would have had to be in place before they started going to flight schools. Like it or not, that is the only thing that has been able to stop terrorists now. Why? Because you can’t arrest someone for thinking of committing a crime. You can’t arrest someone for talking about it before they commit the crime, either, because legally that’s considered hearsay; talk alone would have been inadmissible in court before an actual crime had been carried out. There was little that could have been done in reality. 9/11 was brutally unfair. I wish just as much as anyone else that there had been some way to stop it. Think, however, of what would have happened if we’d tried to arrest the terrorists planning the attack before they’d done anything.

We can see what our reaction would have been by analyzing our reaction to the detainees at Gitmo. There would have been an outcry about their rights being violated, protests against the actions of FBI and CIA agents, and dramatic scenes put on by detractors of such actions depicting the “cruel and unusual” way they were being treated. Never mind that we could have learned from past incidents, such as the original bombing of the World Trade Center by members of the same Muslim terrorist cell. If you look back at it, it seems painfully clear what we could have done. It’s perfectly clear to me that it wasn’t possible.

What will we say in four years about what was going on at the beginning of Obama’s presidency today? When health care is socialized, inflation is running rampant and unchecked, and we’re drowning in tax rates, what will we say? When we realize that we could have learned about how horrible socialized health care is by looking at Canada, the UK, and Spain, what will we say? When the prisoners released from Gitmo manage to bomb us again and kill another three thousand because we weren’t willing to act the way we say we should have before 9/11, what will we say? Will we take responsibility for our actions and live with the consequences of not standing up and telling Obama and his cronies, “no, we won’t support that”? Or will we shake our heads and cast the blame on yet another scapegoat for what could have been?

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Chicago’s Tea Party

Feb 22, 09 1:44 AM

This fella hit a great note this week on CNBC when he spoke on behalf of “the silent majority.”  His liberal counterparts are simply speechless.

Finally, the true majority is starting to scream back.  A Chicago Tea Party in July, I invite all out to join us!  ;-)

I have officially switched my position on the Fairness Doctrine….so long as Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews will not be able to escape guys like Rick Santelli.

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We’re All Cowards

Feb 19, 09 6:51 PM

According to Attorney General, Eric Holder, we are a nation of cowards.  Yup.  You, me, everyone.  When it comes to race – we are cowards.  Holder says…..

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Though race related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”

I guess we can expect more of this type of garbage from the Obama administration.  But I don’t understand why.  Remember – the Messiah was supposed to heal all rifts, rescue the nation and lead us into the age of Aquarius.  Now it just seems that this bumbling administration has no idea where it is going or what to do.  Add to that the divisiveness being preached from the perches of the White House.  Obama might as well have appointed Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the AG position.

Michelle Obama thinks this is a “mean” nation – a nation which she was never proud of until her husband became the apparent Democrat nominee.  Mr. Michelle Obama, believes that we are a nation plagued by those bitter people clinging to guns and religion.  There is no hope or unification coming from this administration.  Just bitterness.  A bunch of people with chips on their shoulders.  But guess what folks?  These angry idiots are in charge now.

The thing that annoys me most about Holder’s comments is not just the subject matter.  Remember former Texas Senator, Phil Gramm?  He was torn apart by the MSM, thrown under the bus by Johnny Mac and eventually resigned as a McCain advisor.  His sin?  He said we were becoming a nation of whiners.  So, it’s worse to be a whiner than a coward?  I’ll never understand these things.

To be honest, one of the reasons that I don’t blog as much as I used to is because I am becoming more disenchated day-by-day.  There is so much hypocrisy in the mainstream media.  There is so much venom leveled against conservatives and Republicans in general.  I’ll admit to you - right now I feel a sense of political hopelessness that I have never felt before.  I know that things are not totally hopeless, but the events of the last few years sure can take the wind out of your sails as a conservative.

I often wonder what the point is of all of this.  Everyday we continue to move closer to European socialism and lose more and more of our liberties.  We’re spending ourselves into oblivion.  We have lost our regard for the value of life.  We have forgotten the lessons of 9/11 and want to negotiate with the Islamist thugs who want to kill us all.  It saddens me to see this all around me.

Presidents Reagan and Bush Sr. oversaw the demise of communism as a form of government and socialism as an economic system.  Yet, we have now seen a resurgence of socialism in the West.  And while the US held strong against the socialist tendencies that nearly bankrupted Western Europe, we seem to have bought into this crazy experiment hook, line and sinker.  Even President Clinton was forced into accepting major welfare reform by the GOP.  That reform undid a great deal of the damage dating back to the overrated administrations of FDR and LBJ.  In the late 90s things looked great.  But look at where we are now.

We have reverted back to the failed policies of yesterday. See if you can balance democracy and socialism.  See if democracy can survive absent capitalism.  It won’t happen.  But Obama and his minions will destroy this nation trying to prove that such a system can work.  And if it doesn’t, you can be sure that democracy will be compromised in order to accomodate socialism.

Sorry for the rant.  I don’t mean to sound cynical. I’m just tired.  Tired of it all.  I’m trying to fight, but it seems that all I can do these days is rant and call it as I see it. I take heart in the fact that there are so many conservative folks blogging and opining online.  Conservative talk radio is strong and popular (for the moment anyway).  I sense some grassroots, but I don’t see it translating into much these days.

The most disconcerting thing of all is that Republicans allowed this to happen.  That really hurts me and you in so many ways.  Most of us are conservatives first and Republicans second.  Yeah, yeah.  But the GOP is our vehicle in government.  The revolution of 1994 is a distant memory.  The corruption and loss of direction that we saw from the GOP after 1994 led us to where we are now.  I don’t know when or if the next Reagan or Gingrich will surface and lead us out of the wilderness. I used to believe that all things were cyclical in politics.  But I’m not sure anymore.  Maybe we have moved irreversibly in a direction that will lead us down the path of destruction.

And perhaps Mr. Holder was correct.  And Mr. Gramm too.  Maybe we are a nation of cowards and whiners.  Egged on by the fear that was instilled in the American people by liberals and Democrats, we have apparently sold our souls to the Devil.  And now we will see the true hell that awaits unless we wake up and change things – fast.

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More of the Same?

Feb 10, 09 7:39 PM

During the campaign, Democrats rode in on a promise that if we voted Obama into office, we would have change–but that if we elected McCain, it would be “more of the same:”

The “change we can believe in” has become exactly what Obama swore to us it wouldn’t be: more of the same.  After the immensely unpopular Bush bailout was forced on us, the Senate today passed the unbelievable pork-laden Generational Theft Act of 2009 (a.k.a. the “stimulus”).  Not finished ruining America yet, Obama and financial wonderboy Tim Geithner unveiled yet ANOTHER bailout–this one to the tune of $2 trillion.  You read it right, two TRILLION.  As if the first one wasn’t expensive enough–$700 billion–now we’re asking for even more money?

Do you think they’re doing this for our good?  Think again.  They know full well that the spendulus has pork in it–Chuck Schumer admitted it, and bragged that Americans don’t care:

In economic times like these, we absolutely cannot afford to spend anything on special interests or earmarks.  Obama promised change, but we’re getting exactly what Bush started and then some.  Can you imagine the outrageous noise we would have heard if Bush had spoken of his bailout in such a nonchalant manner?  I want you to close your eyes, picture him in your head, and in his Texan twang, I want you to imagine him saying, “you know, all these folks who are talkin’ about how unfair this bailout thing is, they need to understand somethin’–yes, I know that it’s more expensive than it should be, and we all know it isn’t gonna work exactly how we want it to, but the American people really don’t care.  They wanna keep their comforts, and I’m here to make sure they do!”

Oh, my God–the ballyhoo would be deafening.  Steve brought up this point in his last post, too, and he was right.  If Bush, Cheney, Paulsen or McCain had said anything even remotely like what we’re hearing from Chuckles in the video above, or from Biden (“if we do everything right, there’s still a 30% chance we’ll get it wrong”), or from Reid (who whined about being able to “smell the tourists coming” in the Capitol), Democrats would have gone into apoplectic fits.  This is the kind of snooty, elitist B.S. that Obama promised to CHANGE!

Maynard over at Tammy Bruce pointed out something pretty telling: “Back in 1990, the government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it.  They failed and it closed.  Now, we are trusting the economy of our country and $850-plus billion dollars to a pack of nitwits who couldn’t make money running a whorehouse and selling booze…the government can’t run a business, but it can certainly put it on track to be eradicated, and at great expense.”  During the Great Depression, FDR introduced the “New Deal” to combat 20% unemployment and an economy in the dregs, and it did absolutely nothing to improve–it wasn’t until we were dragged kicking and screaming into WWII that the men went to war, the women went to work and America realized fully the value of a hard day’s work.  We’ve forgotten that lesson by now.

We cannot afford to continue giving people incentives to stay on welfare–the spendulus’ line of credit for eliminating limits on welfare benefits without requiring proof of a genuine effort to find a job is exactly that.  We’re not curing the disease here; we’re taking an aspirin and hoping the headache will go away.  We’re going to have to face the pain sooner or later, and the more we put it off the worse it’ll be when it finally sets in.  Obama is playing the exact same “politics of fear” that he derided the Republicans for during the campaign, and nobody, not one person, has suggested exactly how the new bailout is going to fix our financial crisis.  As a result, stocks took another huge plunge today.  You won’t hear the press talking about it, though.  They’re too busy drooling over Obama to notice how much worse it’s getting.

Something stinks in here…and I think I know what it is:

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(Thanks to my buddy Greg for posting that one.)

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What Would Have Happened If Bush Said it?

Feb 10, 09 1:54 AM

Tonight, Obama urged the Senate to quickly pass the near-trillion dollar stimulus and threw in these encouraging words to Americans:

“The plan is not perfect,” the president said. “No plan is. I can’t tell you for sure that everything in this plan will work exactly as we hope….“

Can you imagine if GW Bush would have said this in response to a question about Iraq?

This is beyond partisan now, this isn’t funny or entertaining, this is literally dangerous!

At least our frequent liberal visitors like Robert will attempt to formulate some kind of defense with more regard for what he is sure will be a positive outlook than the President is able to do.

I cannot help it.  I feel as if the President himself is setting himself up for failure with this and by running around like Chicken Little saying “the sky is falling!” he has frightened some of the craziest Republicans like Olympia Snowe into supporting it.

Is it any wonder some Republicans and even liberals kept telling us how much more qualified Snowe was than Palin?

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Our 11 Friends In The House

Jan 29, 09 6:34 PM

As you all know by now, yesterday’s stimulus bill passed the US House without a single GOP vote.  And we were joined in our opposition by11 Democrats.  As Rush and other conservatives noted – the only “bipartisan” thing that happened yesterday was a vote AGAINST this ridiculous bill.  This legislation was no more a “stimulus” bill than Hamas is a benevolent, community-centered organization in Gaza. It was a pork-laden omnibus spending bill filled with rewards for liberal interest groups.

So, to answer questions posed in response to my last post, I decided to profile the 11 Democrats who reached across the aisle in order to do the right thing.  I researched these folks.  I know who some of these guys are but not all.  It’s interesting to see who helped us out in our unsuccessful struggle against this crap.  Here they are:

Allan Boyd (Florida):  Leader of the Blue Dog Democrat caucus.  Enough said.

Bobby Bright (Alabama):  Former mayor of Montgomery and a freshman.  Anti-abortion, progun and in favor of drilling in ANWR.

Jim Cooper (Tennessee):  Member of the Blue Dog Caucus

Brad Ellsworth (Indiana):  Member of the Blue Dog Caucus.  Former sheriff recruited by House Dems to run against a vulnerable GOP incumbent.

Parker Griffith (Alabama):  Freshman replacement for Dem. Rep. Bud Cramer – a longtime conservative Dem rep.  He favors off-shore drilling and border fences. Might be vulnerable next time around.

Paul Kanjorski (Pennsylvania):  Appears to be a moderate Dem.  Told CNBC that he didn’t think Republicans were consulted enough about the stimulus bill.  Apparently, he is a vulnerable Dem facing a tough reelection battle.

Frank Kratovil (Maryland):  A freshman who replaces Republican Wayne Gilchrest (who was defeated in the primaries by a conservative GOP candidate).  He won by just over 2000 votes in a GOP district.

Walt Minnick (Idaho):  A freshman who defeated a highly unpopular one-term GOP incumbent idiot.  Will likely face an uphill reelection battle in one of the most conservative districts around.

Collin Peterson (Minnesota):  One of the 7 original founders of the Blue Dog Caucus.  Represents a rural district and often votes with the GOP on guns, abortion, etc.

Heath Shuler (North Carolina):  Asked Pelosi for permission to vote against the stimulus because of bad reaction back home.  Former U. of Tennessee football star.  Member of the Blue Dogs. [Note: This guy is a self-interested joke]

Gene Taylor (Mississippi):  Blue Dog.  Pro-life, pro-gun – voted to impeach Clinton.  Regarded as one of the most conservative Dems in the House. [Side note:  He should just switch parties.  We'll trade one of our New England RINOs for Taylor]

So there you have it.  A quick glimpse at the folks who joined us.  There are actually about 50 members of the Blue Dogs with more applications pending.  So I am suprised at how few of them joined us.  But be assured that there is some potential there.  Don’t take this post as an endorsement of any of these folks (except maybe Taylor who just needs to come out of the political closet and run as a Republican).  A lot of these guys are being politically expedient. The rest should just run as Republicans and be true to themselves.  And note that I would eventually like to purge RINOs from the GOP.

The Blue Dogs, however, are very critical to the GOP.  If the Republican leadership really wants to reach across the aisle, I suggest that they reach out to these folks to create a “coalition of sanity.”  I am familiar with many of the Blue Dogs, and I can’t imagine most of them being happy with the socialist agenda that Pelosi will be pushing.

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