What a difference eight years can make. USA Today paper has a big headline that says “Romney’s returns show he’s elite 1%”. These were not issues when John Kerry was running. It’s almost like they are being driven by the White House’s political narrative. At the very least, it shows that reporters are not driving the news…which begs the question. Who is?
Ultra-liberals like to be called progressives. I can’t figure out why. There is nothing progressive about their ideas. For instance, Dennis Kucinich is proposing a windfall profit tax on the oil industry. We tried it before. Jimmy Carter passed a windfall profits tax and it led to long lines at the pumps.
So progressives want no changes to Social Security (a 60 year old program), Medicaid or Medicare (40 year old programs). They rehash keep rehashing failed policy after failed policy. They have a saying for that.
“Progressives” should be renamed the “Lunatics”.
PIPA is the Internet Piracy Act in the Senate. Opposition to this power grab by the feds has bipartisan opposition. It is particularly opposed by young voters. So is it any wonder you haven’t heard that most of the opposition to it in the Senate comes form Republicans?
Currently there are 16 Republicans and 2 Democrats who oppose the bad bill
If a conservative says that poor kids have a bad work ethic and liberals jump to the conclusion that the conservative is talking about “black” kids…who is the racist? That would be you Mr. Carter.
We say poor and you hear black.
Newt delivers the best moment of any of the debates so far…only the elites despise earning money.
It reminds me of my first job after college. I took a job as a carpenter at a rate that was below the going rate. I needed a job. My new boss gave me the job of digging holes for for deck posts. My parents used to tell me that I would end up digging ditches if I didn’t go to college. I ended up digging them any way, and I didn’t think if it as demeaning.
My boss watched from afar. Not only did I get my job done, but I helped a co-worker who was in over his head. I busted my ass to get my holes done and then I showed my co-worker how to build a straight deck railing.
At the end of the first day, I got a raise. In three months, I was the foreman.
You have to get on the first rung before you can climb the latter.
Don’t know who gets the credit, but I like it:
It’s official: Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills — fewer than during any other session since year-end records began being kept in 1947.
Furthermore, an analysis by The Washington Times of the scope of such activities as time spent in debate, number of conference reports produced and votes taken on the House and Senate floors found that Congress set a record for legislative futility by accomplishing less in 2011 than any other year in history.
This should be no surprise. The previous Congress (run by Nancy Pelosi and a super majority run by Harry Reid) gave sweeping powers to the Executive branch.
From the New York Times:
…what appears to be a spreading trend, dozens of cities and towns across America — from California and Oregon to Maine — are contemplating significantly reducing the number of street lamps to lower their hefty electric bills. (link)
Obama Flashback:
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…Barack Obama
I’m not blaming Obama for high electric rates because his plan of a cap and trade system has not been implemented…but he has pushed clean air regulation designed to kill coal fired power plants. Coal supplies nearly 50% of electric power generation.
He implored us to understand the consequences of our energy polity. He believes we can control the global thermostat if we just drive up the cost of electricity and plunge our cities into darkness. I believe cheap energy is the critical to a thriving economy.
So I agree with the President. You should understand the consequences. You can attempt to drop the temperature of the Earth by tenths of a degree or we can have a thriving economy. That’s pretty clear.
We are fast approaching the debt ceiling again. Soon, Congress will break for lunch, Obama will deem them in recess and make an executive order to raise the debt ceiling to $999 trillion. It’s a good thing he doesn’t know what comes after a trillion. If anyone tells him, they should be shot on site.
A review of conservative values coming from liberal Hollywood
Read this tale of why one poor sap living with Nanny State worker protection won’t hire anyone. Here’s the first reason.
I wouldn’t hire a woman.
The reason is very simple: women give birth to children. I don’t have the right to ask if she still wanted to. If I had the right, and she would answer, she could deceive me deliberately or she could change her mind.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any problem with women giving birth to children. That’s how I was born and that’s how my child was born. I wouldn’t hire a woman because when she gets pregnant, she goes for a 3 years maternity leave, during which I can’t fire her. If she wants two children, the vacation is 6 years long.
Of course, work has to be done, so I would have to hire somebody who works instead of her while she is spending her long holiday years. But not only I couldn’t fire her while she’s away, I couldn’t fire her when she comes back either. So I would have to fire the one who’s been working instead of her for the whole time. When a woman would come back from the maternity leave I would be legally forced to increase her salary to the present level in her position, and also, give out her normal vacation days, that she has collected during the maternity leave. When she would come back to work, she would start with 2-4 months of fully paid vacation.
Democrats have been demonizing the pharmaceutical industry for years.
The number of prescription drug shortages shot up to a record 267 in 2011, nearly four times the level of just seven years ago, a new report says. It’s a shortage made in Washington. (LINK)
This is what price controls and regulations has wrought. As Jeremiah Wright would say, it looks like the chickens have come home to roost.
I posted a link to a story about the Obama administration fining Bank of America for racial discrimination. Today, Reuters reports:
The Fed, in a paper sent to lawmakers on Wednesday, outlined an array of steps that could be taken to help the housing sector, including allowing Fannie and Freddie to provide cheaper mortgages to a broader pool of homeowners…LINK
Did Washington learn nothing from the housing collapse or is the fed filled with bankers looking out for their own? Either scenario is a good argument for less government power…not more. The solution: Anybody buy Obama.
They say President Obama is so smart, yet he fails to learn from mistakes.
Just days before Christmas, the Obama administration gave Bank of America a big lump of coal, levying a hefty $335 million dollar fineon the company for discriminating against minorities in its lending practices. Read more:
He also wants to emulate the welfare states of Europe even as they implode. This man has learned nothing.
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