Today our troops have drawn back from major population centers in Iraq. Thanks to the surge and the valiant troops, we have won a victory. Congratulations and thank you.
Have you been following the political drama in Honduras? It’s not that complicated. An extreme leftists tried to subvert their Constitution (what a surprise). Their Supreme Court (with the support of the party in power) ordered the military to remove the would-be dictator. The 2nd in command (of the same party) was then put in charge temporarily.
The immediate reaction for socialist and leftist around the world was swift. Hugo Chavez went as far as to say he would get involved militarily. Fidel Castro threw his support for the un-democratic thug who tried to steam roll over the constitution he swore to defend. And last but not least, Barack Obama jumped immediately on the situation condemning what he labeled a “coup”.
This latest episode not only illustrates what our President thinks of written constitutions, it also shows that he is definitely a man of the left. He gets along with Chavez, not because he is diplomatic. He gets along with him because the see eye to eye on many issues.
For anyone who still thinks Barack Obama is a moderate, you really need to pull your head out of…….the sand.
According to the Washington Post (LINK):
General Electric, the world’s largest industrial company, has quietly become the biggest beneficiary of one of the government’s key rescue programs for banks.
At the same time, GE has avoided many of the restrictions facing other financial giants getting help from the government.
The company did not initially qualify for the program, under which the government sought to unfreeze credit markets by guaranteeing debt sold by banking firms. But regulators soon loosened the eligibility requirements, in part because of behind-the-scenes appeals from GE.
Let’s see…GE owns NBC. NBC kisses Barack’s back side. GE runs green week on NBC (green as in money?) GE stands to make billions from Cap & Trade.
This GE-Obama connection is getting out of hand.
There is another rape at Duke. This time it is worse than a bunch of drunk racist white boys with lying strippers. This time it is a prominent gay health researcher. Why is it worse? Because he allegedly raped his fiver-year-old son and the offered him on the Internet to other rapists. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)
Here is a gay man molesting African American children that he adopts. It ties together many stories and raises many questions, yet the main stream media is uninterested. Why haven’t you heard about this? We are suppose to have equal protection under the law. Apparently, we don’t even have the illusion of equal protection from the media.
George Stephanaopouos to David Axelrod (Senior White House advisor….Obama’s Karl Rove)
I pressed Axelrod on whether Obama will draw a line in the sand and veto any bill that funds health care reform with tax hikes for people making under $250,000 a year — despite a pledge Barack Obama made during the 2008 presidential campaign not to raise taxes on the poor and middle-class.
“One of the problems we’ve had in this town is that people draw lines in the sand and they stop talking
to each other. And you don’t get anything done. That’s not the way the president approaches us(LINK)….blah blah blah
The blah, blah, blah is short for a bunch of populist rhetoric about hard working people.
What strikes me is the “line in the sand”. What Axelrod meant to say is that he won’t draw a line in the sand to his left. He’s worried about stopping the discussion. Republicans have already been shut out.
President Obama ran as a moderate (I know, any thinking person knew that was a load). Axelrod statement is absurd. The liberals in Washington aren’t going to abandon Obama if he remained a moderate. They wouldn’t abandon him if he kept a campaign promise. Barack Obama ran as a moderate, but he wants to sprint to the left now.
Dishonest politicians say what you want to hear on the stump. That sounds like the same ole Washington that has led to cynicism…the cynicism Barack Obama pledged to end. I guess he will get to that after he stops the sees from rising and puts an end to greedy capitalists.
From the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office:
Today CBO released the Long-Term Budget Outlook. Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path—meaning that federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run.
The Alternateive Fiscal Scenario (the scary one) is based on “policy that are widely expected to occur”. Barack Obama calls that Hope and Change. I call it devastating.
It is an absolute disgrace that our “leaders” are passing unread bills.
At 4:00 AM on Friday morning, the Democrats introduced a 300 page amendment to the Cap and Tax Bill…except the actual document didn’t actually exist. That didn’t stop them from voting. The House Democrats were voting on an idea, not a law. The US Congress is not a think tank. It is their jobs to pass laws.
They added an amendment and rammed a vote through on a Friday so that they would miss the normal news cycle. Many people are headed off for their July 4th/summer vacations. Americans don’t want an energy tax and they know it. Americans know that Global Warming doesn’t exist.Do these clowns in Washington really thing a huge tax will go unnoticed for long?
I’m sure in a month’s time, Barney Frank will be spinning a new web of lies (like he had nothing to do with the housing crisis). It is imperative that those who pay attention remind those who don’t what happened this weekend. It’s time to throw the bums out.
The Democrats like to slip out major bills at the last second and call quick votes before it can be read. Would you buy a car from a salesman who said you didn’t need to read the fine print on the contract? I certainly wouldn’t.
Even if this cap-and-tax bill was a good bill (its’ a huge tax masquerading as environmental policy), I still wouldn’t vote on a bill with a 300 page amendment released just before the vote. I would vote it down on principal…even if I was a Democrat.
I may be asking too much though. A Washington Politician with principals…what was I thinking?
I’m not advocating more F-22s. I’m not a military expert and wouldn’t know the first thing about the need nor the abilities of the F-22.
I do know that Barack Obama only sees spending cuts in defense. He is threatening his first veto if the F-22 is not removed from the $550.4 billion defense authorization bill for fiscal 2010. (LINK)
These jets are already being built. These are the ultimate shovel ready jobs. I guess auto workers are more important than military suppliers. Barack Obama is always worried about jobs…until now. I guess building bridges we don’t need is OK, but building jets we don’t need is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
How come the only other cut I have heard him talk about is reducing funding for missile defense? Maybe he believes the teleprompter is more powerful then the sword.
From the LA Times (LINK):
President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don’t stand to gain from the extra care.
Obama Care will kill medical advances. Medicine advances because doctors try those “futile procedures”. Doctors learn a great deal when they attempt to help those who are likely to die.
Look how far have we come in saving prematurely delivered babies. We are able to save many of these babies because doctors made the expensive and ultimately futile attempts in the past…before Barack Obama.
If you stop the attempts, you stop innovation. Wouldn’t it be better to STOP OBAMA?
Liberals see problems and solutions. They feel their way through major decisions.
Wouldn’t it be great if we got rid of dirty power plants and just absorbed the energy from the sun?
Let’s tax dirty energy and make it go away. Yea. No power plants would be great!
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone had health insurance?
Let’s just give everyone insurance ’cause that would be great!
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone made enough money to raise a family of four?
Let’s raise the minimum wage to a “living wage” ’cause that would be great!
The economy is slowing down after a housing bubble burst. Wouldn’t it be great if the laws of economics could be ignored?
Let’s ignore economics and history and spread happiness around the country in the form of a stimulus. Let’s make boring economics go away. That would be great!
Wouldn’t it be great if the people and workers owned businesses instead of greedy business men?
Let’s have the government take over failing companies and give it to the workers cause they really work hard and deserve it. That would be great!
Wouldn’t it be great if the world loved us?
We should go around the world pointing out how bad the old Republicans were and then the world will love us…and that would be great!
Wouldn’t it be great to live in a world with no nuclear weapons?
We should decommission our nuclear weapons. The other counties of the world will see how great we are and they will do the same thing. A nuclear-free world would be great!
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a black president?
If I vote for a black guy, then I can’t be a racist. Let’s elect a guy we know nothing about because a black president would be great!
If everyone would just understand that Barack Obama is above us (like God) and everyone learned to obey and fear him, to pray to him for forgiveness and good fortune, then we could live in our liberal world and that would be great!!!!!
Let’s accept for the moment that Barack Obama’s energy policies will create (or save) millions of “green jobs”. (I know, that’s a huge stretch)
We only produce enough energy to meet demand. Electricity is not stored in off peak hours and gasoline doesn’t accumulate during recessions. So, does it make sense to hire a million more people to provide the same level of energy?
It will be expensive to add all those people to our energy supply chain. It means the price of energy will go up.
To some expensive energy is a good thing. It means less pollution. But to the adults in the room, it is not. Higher energy prices means the average Joe will have less money to support his family. Maybe Dad will work two jobs. Maybe Mom will take on extra hours. That leaves less time with the kids. Maybe it will just leave families with less money. Economists like to call that a depression.
To the government, higher energy prices means a slower economy…which means less tax revenues…which means more debt. To deal with the debt, we will sell more bonds (increasing interest rates killing investments) or we print more cash (more dollars chasing fewer products means inflation).
Green Jobs will trigger all kinds of unintended consequences. That is a principal that conservatives understand. Liberals don’t.
Everything is a crisis to a liberals that needs to be met head on. They have inflated egos that lead them to the false conclusion that they can manage these problems. More often then not, there solutions cause problems to pop up somewhere else.
Did Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty end poverty? Absolutely not. What it did do is make it easier for a woman to raise a family without a husband. 40% of all babies born in this country today are from unwed mothers. You don’t need an education to receive a welfare check. Education in our inner citys is horrible and it is mostly due to the kids and parents. There is no reason Philadelphia schools can’t perform as well as any other school. The culture just doesn’t place value on education and that is truly sad. The War On Poverty set of a cycle of dependence, apathy and ignorance never seen in this country…and yet, we still have poverty.
Some of the unintended consequence of a progressive energy policy are quite predictable. “Unintended” doesn’t mean unknowable. What you must do as a voter is decide what is more important to you. Would you rather have tens of thousands of dollars over the next ten years to spend on your family as you see fit, or would you like to spend that money to reduce the global temperature by 0.2°? Would you like to create a million “Green Jobs”, but send the economy into recession killing tens of millions of service sectors jobs.
Those are the predictable consequences. There are many unpredictable ones which may be far worse. If our economy is weakened, will our enemies be emboldened? Will electronic systems break down because power is unreliable? Will people die as a result? These are all possible outcomes of a radical change to our energy policies.What are the unknowables? Is it worth the risk?
Barack Obama repeated over and over that he was going to reduce taxes on 90% of Americans. Now the Congress is ramming through a Cap and Tax program that CBO says will cost the average household $175 a year. That is the cost of just running the system. They didn’t factor in the decrease in GDP that is likely to happen.
When the Heritage Foundation did a more comprehensive analysis, they found that the bill will cost the economy $161 billion in 2020, which is $1870 for a family of four. As the bill takes effect, the cost is estimated to rise to $6800 per family.
What happened to the promise of tax cuts for 90% of Americans? Oh yea..they are from the master of words…they were just empty words. The only thing he said was true was “change”. He is changing America alright. We are going from a nation of achievers to a nation of beggars.
The current batch of Democrats are living up to the “tax and spend liberal” label like never before in my life. The Republicans were spent too much when they were in power, but this is taking fiscal irresponsibility to epic proportions.
Governor Rendell is at it again. Today’s emotional appeal is to fear.
‘State Police will simply not have the manpower to continue assisting police in our distressed cities like Coatesville, Erie, Williamsport, and Reading’…(Link)
Let me translate that for you. We are going make it difficult to by a gun for protection. Then we will threaten to remove police protection. The only way to stop this tragedy is if poor people agree to let us take more tax dollars from those rich people…you know…anyone with a job.
Remember: It’s the politics of fear when George Bush talked about terrorist (those guys who killed 3,000 innocent people on 9/11), but it’s OK to raise taxes under the threat of reduced police protection in areas where the people hate the police. That’s not the politics of fear because it’s a liberal position.
Here is a thought to ponder. Poverty and crime do not have to go hand in hand. There was no crime wave during the Great Depression. The prosperous decade before the Depression, the Roaring 20′s, was the time of gangster. Much of the crime was the unintended consequence of a progressive Constitutional amendment…Prohibition.
I have heard about the 1969 fire that burned on the Cuyahoga River. I once lived in Ohio and the river ran by about a half mile from my house. It made Cleveland a laughing stock and helped the environmental movement push the Clean Water Act of 1972.
Here is something I didn’t know (LINK):
In fact, the Cuyahoga had burned at least nine times since the late 1860s.
The river was increasingly filled with flammable liquids as it drained Cleveland industrial byproducts into an equally polluted Lake Erie.
Oil slicks on the river surface burned much worse in the past. Among them: A 1912 fire had killed five dock workers when the blaze spread to the shipyards and a 1952 fire caused an estimated $1.5 million in damage.
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But two months later, when Time magazine ran a brief essay mentioning the Cuyahoga River fire, its editors instead published a Plain Dealer photo from the 1952 fire showing a towering blaze and firefighters dousing the conflagration as it engulfed a tugboat.
In today’s internet vernacular, you might say that the fiery (if misleading) photo “went viral,” showing up on news broadcasts nationwide and likely worldwide, the historians say.
“I will never forget a photograph of flames, fire, shooting right out of the water in downtown Cleveland,” former EPA Administrator Carol Browner said in a later interview, apparently referring to that 1952 image. “It was the summer of 1969 and the Cuyahoga River was burning.”
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