The Ghosts of Christmas Past

Isn’t it funny how things just don’t go away with Obama? Like Ghosts of Christmas past, specters keep rearing their ugly head. He just can’t seem to say “Mission Accomplished” with any certainty on anything. It doesn’t seem to matter the issue, things just keep on keeping back on him like bad heart burn.

 

Take health care. This was supposed to be a done deal. Now with Republicans controlling the House and the whole constitutionality of it all being taken to court, debate is alive and well again. Who would’ve foreseen the GOP regaining the house a scant two years after Obama was elected? Who would’ve guessed Obama would be back on his legal heels fighting with all his might to defend health care? With this issue so unpopular with Americans it is no wonder nor an accident that it has cropped up to the forefront again. In the courts, two more liberal judges sided with Obama’s legal stance that the Commerce Clause allows for health care to be legal. But this was a very poorly presented case by the opposition and those prosecuting were few in number as to the plaintiffs. The Virginia verdict was much more professionally presented in a complete manner and the more conservative judge agreed with the Constitution and the many states in on this matter and said no to Obama Care. The Supreme Court could put the nail in the coffin of Obama by Nov. 2012. Without the mandate that all must have healthcare and buy insurance, the whole house of cards falls.

 

Next, take immigration at the border. This issue rings home whenever a border officer dies, when another person is kidnapped in Arizona and when violence flares up on the border on either side. There’s no end in sight and Obama clearly has no answers. Now he must answer for it all in court. The results have been mixed but Arizona is not out of it by any stretch of the imagination. There is no end in sight because once again Obama is walking in murky waters trying to do away with a law in Arizona that would help curb illegal immigrants from getting what they don’t deserve.

 

Even global warming is taking a cold turn for Obama. When the recent Cancun meeting to advance an agenda for it took place, it took place in record cold temperatures for the area. There was little agreement on anything which once again underscores the fact that politics and money have more to do with the issue than a real concern for the environment. More and more people are waking up and becoming skeptical of the whole issue. This is especially true as more people see the pressing needs that are really facing us and they are beginning to question the whole idea of the “dangers” of global warming. Here again the debate is not over but is just beginning again.

 

Finally, look at Guantanamo. The place Obama loves to hate but now must hate to love. There is little doubt as to the wisdom of Bush’s establishing a place for these extremist terrorists and Obama cannot do Bush one better at all. Now Congress has severely limited his ability to move terrorists out of Gitmo to other countries or anywhere else. There is also a lid on spending until he has a plan. Clue to the clueless: He will never have a plan. His idea of trying terrorists in the US has quickly unraveled and it is all looking like an old sock with many holes in it and strings just waiting to be pulled.

 

Yes, reality has once again come back to kick Obama in the butt and make him realize job is not done until it is done. That is why he must keep doing these do overs again and again. Is it any wonder why he must take so many vacations?

Unemployment

Almost everyone is thinking about it.  The problem is the ones not thinking about it are the President and Congress. Obama came into office saying creating jobs was "Job One." What he forgot to mention was that like most worthwhile things, he never finished his sentence and meant it was Job One Hundred. In his failure, the nation suffers. Instead, we get non-solution solutions like the failed stimulus package that was to fund “shovel-ready” jobs to go forward, only to find later Obama admits the Tooth Fairy is more realistic than a shovel-ready job is. We also get extensions that stave off reality- much like the failed foreclosure prevention program.

Republicans aren’t much better, as they offer no solutions but extending tax cuts that offer future promise. You can’t pay the bills today with promises of a better tomorrow. In this sense, I somewhat depart from conservatism as I see nothing wrong with the people who pay unemployment tax now drawing on their contributions and beyond. At least people collecting have worked to earn unemployment as opposed to many politicians who have never drawn an honest paycheck. Unemployment is not evil but it should also not be a path to workforce invisibility. However, a balance between liberal foolishness and conservative futuristic thinking is possible.

What we need is benevolence with purpose. This means that there must be an end to justify the means. One does not go to physical therapy without expecting permanent improvement- so in like manner should be unemployment compensation. If I were President I would cap unemployment benefits at two years but within those two years there would be a retraining process that would lead to a new viable job in today’s workforce. Whether this would involve schooling or a trade apprenticeship, a person collecting unemployment would have to choose a new job for which they would begin training and then complete their chosen training within the two years. Benefits would not start until training is chosen and taxes would not be levied on benefits but would instead be withheld and given as a lump sum bonus when a new job is kept for six months. Future unemployment help would be denied for a predetermined time.

Dignity and hope would then create a productive worker. We need to consider our workforce as an investment, rather than an expense.

Source Material Published

Hey everyone, I've got a new page running now with an up-to-date list of where I get my information from, since many of you have been curious.  You can see it at:

http://rcswrite.blogspot.com/p/source-material.html

Thanks for reading, and always keep thinking!

To Be Fair...

Wouldn’t it be nice to be fair? Isn’t that what we all want as we go through life and meet its ebbs and flows, rights and wrongs, years of plenty and years of famine? At least that is what Janet Napolitano, our alleged Director of Homeland Security, would like. Just be fair.  When her Director of Intelligence (not assistant, or adviser, but director, mind you) was clueless about terror arrests that had been made in London HOURS earlier, she pleaded for us to be fair and realized that all who needed to know, knew. Hmmm. So the Director of Intelligence doesn’t need to know which begs the questions, what does he need to know and when does he need to know it?

Fast forward in reverse to Sept. 11, 2001. Pres. Bush is reading to an elementary class and first hears about the assault on the twin towers and the potential for it being a terrorist attack. He takes a few minutes to finish with the kids so as not to create panic and then proceeds to the task at hand. Yet for these few minutes, he has been ridiculed and put down as incompetent. Really? Hey, what happened to being fair? What happened the proposition that things are defensible and there is a chance to have a do over?

Or what about the proposition that George W. Bush was behind the twin towers coming down. Either this man is the greatest nefarious planner of all time or the whole idea is simply ludicrous on its own lack of merit. How fair are all of these charges against him on this matter? Now even Cindy Sheehan is aboard as a 9-11 Truther. That settles it for me. Her hatred of George Bush while he was in office got her nowhere and now she has found new way to regain the spotlight and continue that hatred. The sad part is that Pres. Bush was fair to her in light of her losing her son in Iraq- he met with her and she said she understood why he died and what it meant for the nation. Fair. Soon after, she is berating the President, demanding another meeting, and this time was not going to be so understanding. What would her son think of her? What would he think of her using him as a political wedge between herself and reality?

The truth is that there is no desire to be fair. The Obamites see the cup ¼ full and stress the heck out of this. There is no way to hold these people accountable; if this was a member of the Bush Administration not knowing, Harry Reid would be out front stating how this President was a loser and how this was just another example of the blatant incompetency of the Bush Administration. No understanding or being fair here. It happened time and time again and so Bush was not only dealing with Al-Qaeda but also the Harry Reids of the world who think nothing of being unfair.

Without accountability, there will be no responsibility taken by this group of jokers. Lose an election? Not my fault. Obviously the people are still angry from the Bush era. Economy down the tubes? Not my stimulus’ fault- just imagine how bad things would get if we didn’t pass it! How do you reason with people like this? There is no reasoning and that is why I have no fairness for people whose only goal in life is to excuse everything they do. Weren’t these guys the ones who were supposed to save us?

Obama's Abdiction

Okay, so what do you do if you’re the President attending a press conference about the important pending legislation over tax rates and unemployment benefits and you’re a half hour late for your next personal engagement? Do you:

1. Bail and leave the man you hate in charge to bask in the limelight you so hate
2. Man up and stay to show your concern for the issue
3. Tell everyone they're in good hands and abruptly leave
4. Stay as long as you can before you know you’re dead if you stay one minute longer

 

Obama, being the multi-tasker that he is chose A, B and D. Cut to the Cuban Missile Crisis:

 

Sec. of State: Mr. President we really need to get a plan of action going.

JFK: Yes that is why I’m glad my brother Bobby is here to help out.

Sec. of State: So what are we going to do?

JFK: Well, to tell you the truth I’m a half hour late for a meeting with Jackie so I’ll leave Bobby here to take over. Rest assured you’re in good hands.

 

Think that sounds crazy? Well just watch Obama’s press conference from Friday and you’ll see we now have a president who has evolved from using one president to now using another. Up to now we have heard Obama blame Bush for everything from the economy to why the weather is so cold. Pretty convenient way to avoid having to say that you’re an idiot with stupid ideas that have not a ghost of a chance of working.

 

Now we have seen the evolution of Pres. Obama into further abdication by calling on Pres. Clinton to step in for him. I am sure Pres. Clinton had to be dragged to that presidential podium and literally tied down to face the press. We all know how he hates the limelight. He must have hated this like Michael Moore hates one more piece of cheesecake. Now if we don’t get a deal on the Bush tax rates, he can now blame Clinton. This Obama guy is stupid like a fox.

 

My question is, when is this guy going to accept the responsibility of being President? At this point, we are dealing with such a dunderhead that I would even consider letting Clinton finish out his term and we can push the reset button in 2012-which will likely happen anyway. How bad do I want Obama out of office? Let me count the days.

The Meaning of Christmas

In this festive time of year, we often say, “Merry Christmas” to one another without truly giving it much thought, but let us take time now to think on it. Those who would take the “Christ” out of Christmas do so foolishly, for the fool has said in his heart there is no God. Instead, substitutions are made to fill the Void but this is like taking our President’s Day and saying it applies to any president serving in any country.

The whole purpose of Christmas is not that a child was born but to show that hope literally does spring eternal. Unlike evolution, which debases our humanity and leaves us hopeless, this Child shows us our imperfections and gives us means to once again attain perfection. Unlike atheists who spend every waking minute denying His existence, this Child says though you lack belief in Me, I believe in you- enough to come to you and even die for you.

We celebrate the Christmas season saying, “Merry Christmas” to celebrate this miracle birth, yet deny His creation of us. Those who deny the Creation week by mixing God’s creative ability with evolution make this miracle birth of no meaning in their lives. He created, He was born, He died for us, and He shall come again. That is the miracle of Christmas. What say we of the Second Coming when the earth is recreated? Will that also take billions of years or be done in “twinkling of an eye”? Instead, the deniers create their own make-believe world in which something comes of nothing, improvement is spontaneous, and we are no more than animals. Who is the real spinner of tales?

Our founding fathers knew the meaning of Christmas as they believed in a Creator and rightfully claimed the rights He endowed as inalienable. They asserted we are one nation under God. Sadly, we now want to make God to be under us. We banish Him from our schools, from our public activities, and ultimately from our lives. Are we the better for it?

We live in a world where our political leaders have forgotten Christmas as they believe we serve them. If they had the spirit of the season, they would not only claim to serve us when they run for reelection, they also not act as servants who are greater than their masters. We live in a world where leaders want to spend billions on global warming’s worse case impossible scenarios yet ignore the want that actually exists in this world. They wish their “science” to be beyond scrutiny but why fear if truth is on their side?

This Christmas I hope that we root out the Scrooges in our lives and seek goodwill for our fellow man for by embracing Christmas we can truly be merry. That we could look beyond ourselves and then we would seek out missions like the Salvation Army so they would not have to seek us out with their kettles. Would that we could take hold and hang onto Tiny Tim’s immortal words, “God bless us everyone” so that God truly can.

The Freaks

Let us make one thing perfectly clear: Julian Assange is a freak. This fact must be firmly established or what follows will not be understood or appreciated.

This Wikileaks founder has led a roller coaster ride all of his life that is now on a steep downward turn. He’s on the run all the time trying to dodge allegations of rape and he is facing a situation where the walls are closing in. He is, even as I write this, hiding out in England pursuing asylum in Switzerland. The British are not actively pursuing him but will apprehend him if he is seen in the public. His own conscience hounds him doggedly.

Assange is of course the force behind intelligence leaks vexing world leaders. He was never a “regular Joe” and this is true now more than ever. He rarely sleeps in the same place for more than a few days. He trusts few people and never answers his own cell phone-he has aides do it. For anyone new to meet him, they must go through a labyrinth of road blocks before actually seeing him. He maintains a bunker mentality much like Bin Laden.

Stranger still is that his life is full of oxymoronical ironies. A simple question that begs to be answered is whether anyone is their right mind would trust him with a secret.Is there anyone who would? He is so hard up for friends even PayPal won’t allow him to collect donations through their site any more.

Most ironic of all his contradictions is how he- a strong proponent of exposing secrets at any cost- is so anxious to keep his deeds and his whereabouts a secret. To expose him, to hunt him down, to bring him to justice, to show everyone his warts should be no less than he demands of the world.

In like manner, Rep. Charlie Rangel(D-NY) was convicted by a jury of his peers of tax evasion and ten other counts and after two years of this, all he gets is a public shaming and a slap on the wrist. Others would get cuffs. He is tax cheat and formerly served as ranking member on the committee that makes tax laws.  He broke laws that would land most people in jail yet still he wanders the halls of Congress without fear of real prosecution. Of those that know better, more should be expected.  Unless there is accountability, there will never be real change in the world today from the Rangels an the Assanges of this world.

Note:

This article was written December 4th, 2010.

Julian Assange was arrested early morning, December 7th.

The GM Government Bailout on Reality

Nice event put on at Kokomo, IN at an auto plant touting the success of the stimulus funds and the bailout of GM and Chrysler. Obama and Biden were there tooting all the horns they could as to how fortunate it was that the firms accepted government/your money. Sounds good even if reality says otherwise. Funny how Ford, which was also in horrible financial shape did not take any bail out money and still managed to make just as good as a comeback as the other two auto makers without being hamstrung by government interference from people who know as much about making cars as they do making a good pastrami sandwich.

In reality, GM could have gone bankrupt, reorganized under legal protection and continue operating all the while under a new plan to “go green” profit wise. Instead of a clean recovery, we have a path muddled by government interference that has cost Americans billions. Even now the government owns 37% of stock and still dictates what GM can and cannot do; this belies Obama’s claim that he “doesn’t want to” own a car company. This is by design because unions got a good deal especially a controlling interest in Chrysler and Obama paid off some political debt for himself. How nice.

GM shareholders and creditors were all screwed in a deal that left them out in the cold. When they protested they were told that it was for the greater good. Whose good? Even now the GM stock price is depressed due to investor realization that the Feds still call the shots. We need to government to divest and do it quickly. Future tax breaks and other goodies will still cost us billions more. How can we pay down the debt? Get rid of bad deals like these and it will add up. The stimulus cost us a trillion, health care laws will cost us many billions, TARP (Toxic Asset Recovery Plan) is costing us billions to keep alive (what it was not supposed to do).

Now compare this to Greece and Portugal. Greece is doing what we should be doing and cutting costs despite public protests. Portugal just today, the day after Thanksgiving, opted out of the bailout option offered to them and instead will work to cut costs to pay down their massive debt. Instead of us leading the way, the sheep are leading the shepherd. Obama’s Far East tour ended with China lecturing us and nations again telling us that printing dollars and increasing debt is not the way go. When will Obama learn? Good thing this is the guy that “gets it.” I would like “it” defined for me.

There are certainly better ways than this.  If Sarah Palin was president, we’d never have had the bailouts, never have had TARP be permanent, never have favored labor unions over Americans- all extreme positions, I know- good thing she’s not president! The sad truth is, Obama will never learn and it was only the 2010 elections that can begin to slow down his bad spending ways. Let’s just hope, like George Washington who died from excessive “bleeding” treatments, that our condition is not terminal.

The Few, The Proud, The Minority

You just have to love Pres. Obama’s Thanksgiving message of getting along with one another, when just less than a month ago he was telling Republicans to get in the back seat and shut up. Enter Bristol Palin and she shows that the fangs are still there showing on Obama supporters. There is an innocent but popular show called Dancing with the Stars where fans get to decide what dancing duo continues and what duo goes home. Well, fans decided that Bristol should stay long after others (a.ka. liberals who know better) thought she should be gone. So the Right Wing Conspiracy once again was conveniently brought out as the only reason she was still on the show. Hmmm.

Wasn’t it just this last election that special interest groups came out and saved a massive wave from becoming a tsunami? Let’s see teacher unions and labor unions as well as other special interest groups did all they could to help losers like Harry Reid escape the guillotine they so deserved. Doesn’t sound like a grass roots all American movement to me. But in reality so what. Everyone can vote and vote they should and if they are a special interest group more power to them for getting their voice heard. And so I say so what to all the Bristol Palin detractors who thought she should be gone but a special interest group kept her in. More to her credit than anything for having the pulling power to flex her Palin power.

Yet another point must be made here. There are those who simply hate the new TSA rules for being searched before boarding a flight-rules that border on the ridiculous and insane. A movement was on to protest these rules by many people opting out of the scanner and instead choosing a pat down with the object being to slow things down and cause disruptions. Those who disagreed with these planners lamented that it was just a few that wanted to spoil it for the many. Hmmm.

Isn’t it the few on the liberal side who want to spoil things for the many in mainstream America? Always there are the freaks who want to ban “In God We Trust” from anything public. They freak out when prayer occurs. It only takes one person filing a lawsuit and a looney judge to overturn what the majority support. Can’t think of an example? Look at the amendment in California that passed recently affirming that gay marriage should not be legalized by supporting the concept that marriage is defined as being between one man and one woman. All it took was one judge and the whole apple cart was upset.

It seems that the minority has a way of getting their word out by being more vocal and thus loud as to what they support. This is after all a republic and not a democracy-remember we chose sanity in the form of a republic and France chose insanity in the form of democracy and got the French Revolution-guillotine and all. In the end I think the good guys will win and liberals will go back to the bottoms of rocks from which they came.

Joe Biden's America

So Joe Biden wants to go back to 2008. Well, I can’t really blame him.  Things were better for Democrats then, who were supposedly holding power for an entire generation. In truth, it has been one short generation, even in dog years.

In a recent interview with GQ the VP relates how Obama appears aloof because of his brilliance. The only way he could have said it better would be, “He’s so %@$! brilliant!” So when all else fails, Obama is once again a genius. Like the Nobel Peace Prize embarrassment, “Where’s the beef?”  I have never seen a president so reliant on image because he has nothing else to offer. Biden claims Obama “gave” Joe the Iraq War to handle; he assembled a “dream team” of liberal experts to fix the economy; he’s hired czars for every ailment known to American society; Congress took the blame for his failed policies; I ask, where is the brilliance and what is he using it on?

While in office every President has displayed a passion for something and without a doubt that Obama’s main passion is himself and his image. Louisiana Governor Jindal’s recent book about the Gulf Oil Spill relates that when he met Obama at the airport, Obama was seething and the President’s anger was directed at Jindal for criticizing him. Rahm Emanuel was reaming out Jindal’s Chief of Staff. Any emotion for the oil spill? Do you think Bush did the same thing when faced with Katrina?

You have to wonder how Obama really felt about Congressmen who let him down by not being reelected; how Obama felt about Americans who let him down by not voting for his party. You have to wonder when this President can say with a straight face that the back lash against his party is our fault for not understanding his actions. What is missing has been missing since Day One-accountability.

He calls the police stupid when they arrest a friend, but when Americans are assaulted at airports, he speaks nary a peep. Candidate Hillary had it right (forgive me) when she said the three most important things for her if elected were "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs." Obama also said this would be objective number one- how’s that working out?

Obama told Republicans that he should prevail on issues because he won and they lost.  Sounds like a father that never gives a reason and only says, “Because I said so!” He said they drove the tiresome car into the ditch, he said they would have to get in the back seat, and yet now he must face them in Congress. Obama had to be slowed down if not stopped during this election so that he cannot totally destroy our American Way of Life. I fully hope for an extinguishing of his administration in 2012. He is not Jimmy Carter Version 2; he’s worse, far, far worse.

Things will get better as the people we elected will now get a chance to stand up for us. If not, we throw them out and try again. Everywhere, Americans are relaxing their grip just a little on their guns and their religion.

TSA and Comedy Hour

We’ve seen this new TSA Regulation controversy from every aspect, but how would a conservative comedian view the whole deal? Wonder no more as what is wondered becomes reality….

Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen, and as we are five stories up you will all now be subjected to a body pat down to ensure my safety! What they are looking for are the usual things comedians fear: audience barbs, tomatoes and all types of fruit, and of course the long cane. Seriously folks, hasn’t this whole thing created quite the stir? Man, it seems everyone is getting in on this.

In fact, not to be lost out of the limelight, Pres. Clinton has volunteered to help the TSA grope, I mean pat down, female passengers, female flight attendants, cleaning ladies, whoever is deemed to be a threat. Of course, Clinton backed off when he found out it was men patting down men…

To ensure equal time, Barney Frank has also volunteered to work for the TSA in helping to conduct the pat downs. As a man of the people and being a public servant, he is also willing to be subjected to pat downs even when he is not flying. Yeah… Okay.

As part of the whole deal, the training for these new duties required some unique training techniques to simulate the real things. So, TSA agents were ordered to fan out to all local grocery stores and spend time in the produce department feeling and patting down fruit. I gotta tell you, there wasn’t a tomato that felt safe in the whole country.

To make a hard job harder, the South African track star Caster Semenya, whose gender is in question has to do double duty and go through both the male and female line. Wow, what a deal.

Let me tell you that I feel real safer on my flight when I know that the 90 year old nun with rheumatoid arthritis and poor eye sight sitting next to me has been patted down and scanned. On a personal note, it must be reassuring to her to know that all her parts are still there.

I think the TSA is missing the boat here. In fact, they should be offering passengers a chance to buy their own scans after the flight. You know kind of like how they do at Disney when you get done with the water rafting ride? Heck, it could help pay down the national debt!

The TSA really is the gift that keeps on giving…look at the material it gave me for tonight’s monologue! We’ll be right back.

Transparency

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if the transparency demanded of us all from the TSA when flying would also be demanded of politicians? Think about it. What if Nancy Pelosi owned up to what she was and attended a self-help group for over spenders by going in front saying, “Hello, my name is Nancy and I’m a spendaholic!” What are the odds that members of Congress have to go through pat downs or x-rays?

The IRS wants to see your financial picture for the previous year laid own in your tax return but why was the health care plan not laid out in such a manner for our inspection? The height of hypocrisy and overreach has now attained new heights in the TSA trying to determine whether my 88 year old mother is a terrorist and the military not batting an eye about the blatant terrorist indicators of Major Nidal Malik Hasan which resulted in his cowardly attack within a Ft. Hood Army Base.

The truth is these scans of our body are kept and does not even detect plastic explosives or those hidden in the body’s cavities. We are being sold a bill of goods in which we must bare all but we are not allowed to know all about these body scanners. Don’t want a body scan? Prepare to be groped in ways that should make anyone blush-what a choice.

When looking at a similar situation reasonably this whole matter is all the more silly. When police put out an All Points Bulletin, they try to give as precise a description of the person they seek in hopes that other officers will see this person and arrest them. Imagine if they gave an APB like this, “Attention all officers, a robbery has occurred at the First State Bank so immediately begin stopping everyone and search them for the money stolen.” How would that investigation go?

There may be a need for random stops, scans and searches at the airports and a professional look at the passenger list and a visual look of the people boarding would be much more effective in stopping a terrorist attack without denying our constitutionally protected right against search and seizure. The Bush Administration started this madness and imagine if they were the ones putting it into practice? There would be charges of Gestapo techniques being implemented.

To deny that an actual profile and personal makeup of a terrorist trying to board a plane is to deny reality. In today’s world we want to be as efficient as possible and flying is still the safest way to travel. Why do we seek perfection with such inane techniques that gives no one, not even pilots and flight attendants the benefit of the doubt?

I predict that this system will not be in use on a long term basis and will be abandoned as law suits and outrages will soon mount to the level that will render them unusable. The transparency we really need to be safe lies within the walls of Congress so we can know just what they are up to. No more hidden amendments in appropriation bills that have nothing to do with each other, no more ear marks, no more passing a law without reading it, no more insanity. Put this editorial through your mental scanner and tell me what you see.

Reality Check Please

"Hello! McFly!" Those immortal words still ring out from the classic Back to the Future movies as Biff beats Marty McFly Sr. on the head. I almost wish that someone would do that to Pres. Obama and maybe that would jar him into a sense of reality of just what is going on here in the United States.

 

It seems hard to believe that after the drubbing received by Democrats last week that Obama would not take a little time to reassess. Instead, he mimics Pres.Bush’s stale strategy of “staying the course.” He also throws in a dose of “It’s not me, it’s you” for good measure. This would not all be bad as this would assure us all that he is one term president but the sad fact is that he is dragging us all down with him.

 

This is true of most anything that Democrats handle. Save the earth? Go broke. Not enough money for Congress? Raise taxes and screw Joe Blow. Create jobs? Spend 787 billion dollars. Want a city led by Democrats that surely would show compassion? Welcome to a political cesspool. Global Warming? It ‘s your fault. It just never ever really is their fault. They, like the idiocy of evolution, just need more time. Right.

 

There is no good intention Democratic politicians have that does not end up screwing the average American. Just wait for the Social Security Commission’s findings that will soon be released-somehow you will have to pay for more and get less. Such a deal! Does anyone have the capability to show me the exit door when it comes to Social Security? On my form that I get every year, it shows that I will likely get only 74% of the $1750 due me per month-heck, I’d do better sticking it under a pillow at least then my return wouldn’t be zero. It’d be worth less but so will 74% of $1750.

 

Just where is it written that politicians need to survive at all costs. They are leeches that suck the blood out of American’s pockets and act like they know what do to with it. I know from experience that you appreciate something more if you actually have to earn it. What would you think of a lazy pot belly father who runs around the bars in a wife beater shirt all day only to come home and tell his wife who earns good money as an R.N. how best to spend the money? That is the same thing being done in Washington D.C.

 

I submit that Congress would be a much better organization if we made it a requirement that anyone running for office had to have successful work experience in private enterprise. Heck, Obama wants today’s youth to have mandatory community service but I submit that he should have been required to work in private industry and then he’d have more appreciation for what it takes to earn profits to pay the taxes that he so recklessly thinks is his to blow on a date night in New York with Michelle.

 

Bottom line: Democrats and politicians in general just need to grow up.

The Irony of It All

The irony was thick and rich on Election night as the expected was somehow the unexpected which is what everyone expected…in an unexpected sort of way, of course. Confused? Read on.

Doggone it, Nancy Pelosi was ticked. She knew at the beginning of election night she had her oversized fit for a clown gavel at her side but by the end of the night she had lost it…never to be found again.

Doggone it further, Barack Obama was ticked. Hadn’t he graced the nation with so many speeches some words in the English language are officially listed as MIA? What happened? How could the vote have gone so bad? He was so sure that he had unangered and underanged the American voter so that they were back under his control mouthing the mantra trance words, "Yes, we can." Somehow Americans got it wrong and said, "Oh no you don’t." What a bunch of idiots he was leading, he thought in his most cerebral pose, still clinging to their guns and their religion… Oh, well, I’ve got an itch to spend! Hey Michelle, let’s say we blow this country off for a couple weeks and go east! Heck, money’s no object; in fact, invite 3,000 of your closest friends and lets go blow couple billion abroad. That’ll show them to mess with Barack Hussein Obama! (He’s not kidding about this.)

Doggone it, now Harry Reid was ticked as well. Where was everyone? After the election all the Democratic incumbents were supposed to meet for a victory party. Looking nervously at his watch, he saw that it was 8:30 (one hour past his bedtime) and no one else was here. Oh well, may as well have some cake while I’m waiting. (Cut to 11:30 pm) Hello? Is anyone else here? I’m serious guys if this is some kind of joke, I’m not laughing! Where are you guys?! (Cut to 2:30 am) By this time Harry is prone, sucking his thumb (his usual sleeping aid) and quietly wondering if he really is all alone.

Doggone it, Chris Matthews was really feeling bummed. Barry Manilow’s “Trying to Get That Feeling Again” was playing in the background as Chrissy was wondering when that special tingle he used to feel all the time was going to come back. He longed for that wonderful jolt that gave him that Obama high and left him wondering about his sexual orientation. Tonight, nothing was happening. Darn Republicans were leaving him as flat as a day old beer in a cheap glass. Wait, Harry Reid won! Is it coming back now? Nope. A Harry victory did little more than give him a cheap cramp in his big toe. As he sat there massaging it and cleaning out the lint between his toes, he wondered if his T.V. audience would shrink below the 30 people that watch him every night on MSNBC. Man, he really needed that .0000005 percentage Neilson rating that made him one of the top rated shows on this network.

All across the nation, fellow Democrats were asking if anyone got the plate of the Republican truck that hit them. Americans gave them the keys back and now they were in the driver’s seat. Somewhere, Linus was smiling knowing that he had a better chance of seeing the Great Pumpkin than the Democrats seeing a victory. Another major step toward Americans reclaiming their country had just taken place. 

NOBAMA 2012!

Liberal vs. Conservative on Taxes

There seems to be no better time to look at the difference between liberals and conservatives than now. I used to think, as recently as earlier this year, that there was really no difference. President Bush was not a conservative in that he expanded government spending by a sizable margin under his watch. Yet, despite his spending, he had the government financial picture posed  to show a surplus in the near future. There really is a difference.

I would urge you to look at the great cities of our nation. Look at them from the perspective of liberal versus conservative. It goes without saying that the cities that have had non-stop or almost non-stop liberal leadership has done poorly and still headed south. Look at Detroit, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and you will find the cities in deep trouble with no solutions in sight. Now look at Houston and Dallas, conservative-led cities that have almost bypassed the recession. In fact, Texas is the state in the best financial condition and they charge no state income tax.

When an average person needs to tighten their belt, they don’t instead get a bigger one; they see what can be cut. When a liberal needs to tighten their belt, they see the belt as the problem. No matter what tax is charged and how much comes in, it is never enough for them. They just see the new plateau as the new minimum spending level. 

It would be one thing if our leaders set the example for us to follow but the opposite is true. Obama’s administration is littered with tax cheating evaders all the way up to the Sec. of the Treasury. Even liberal thinking celebrities don’t practice what they preach. Barbra Streisand is infamous for being tight wad cheap with her help. When producing movies, Michael Moore is well known to film his productions in Canada to avoid paying union scale wages to his employees. Ralph Nader, long considered to be a working man’s friend, has hidden income and assets so as to protect his image. The list goes on and on.

Even in the area of goodwill to their fellow man, conservatives pave the way. Charitable giving by conservatives far outpaces liberal giving. In wanting to do for themselves, conservatives still are able to look beyond themselves to help. Liberals become so wrapped up in their causes and making it look like they care that they have little time to actually help people.

The joke goes that Pres. Bush and Pres. Obama were walking down a street talking when they happened upon a homeless man begging on a corner. Pres. Bush pulled out $50 and gave the man his card and told him to call him on Monday about a job. Obama, wanting likewise to do something as nice, stopped as they happened upon another homeless man. This was his time to shine. So, he reached into Bush’s pocket, whipped out $50, gave him Bush’s card, and said, "Call this guy for a job." What a guy!

Taxman

“Let Me Tell You How It Will Be
Here’s One For You Nineteen For Me
Cuz I’m The Taxman, Yeah, I’m The Taxman”

So begins the great lyrics by George Harrison, who was extremely agitated that more than half of his income was going to the British government. He was, of course, one of the Beatles, and it was to his dismay that his government was taking the lion’s share of the income his songwriting talents produced- with the government contributing not one iota to a given song’s production.  Well, save one. The song “Tax Man” was inspired by his frustration as to his tax liability.

“Should Five Percent Appear Too Small
Be Thankful I Don’t Take It All
Cuz I’m The Tax Man, Yeah I’m The Taxman”

This frustration continued to grow to the point that he moved out of England to escape the taxman. He certainly did not show any of the thankfulness requested by the English taxman. In fact, when he was near death he wanted to be sure that he did not die in England so as to totally avoid the remotest possibility of being subject to their massive estate tax. His problem did not stem from wanting to avoid taxes, he just felt that they were excessive to the point of discouraging him from even doing his work. What was the use? The taxman waiteth.

“If You Drive A Car, I’ll Tax The Street
If You Try To Sit, I’ll Tax Your Seat
If You Get Too Cold, I’ll Tax The Heat
If You Take A Walk I’ll Tax Your Feet!”

The taxes we pay are ridiculous to the point that no matter what you do, you pay taxes. Tax on gas, tax on your paycheck, numerous taxes for staying in a hotel, tax on utilities, tax on selling a used car that has already been taxed, taxed for eating out, and on and on it goes. Now they was to give us more taxes- and they wonder why the tea party exists.

“Don’t Ask Me What I Want It For
If You Don’t Want To Pay Some More
Cuz I’m The Taxman, Yeah I’m The Taxman

“Now My Advice For Those Who Die-Ah-Ah Mr. Wilson
Declare The Pennies On Your Eyes-Ah-Ah Mr. Heath
Cuz I’m The Taxman, Yeah I’m The Taxman
And You’re Working For No One But Me- Taxman!”

Mr. Wilson and Mr. Heath were political leaders in Harrison’s day. Mr. Wilson proposed a 95% super tax on the very wealthy and this infuriated George. He later added the lyric “If Your Overweight, I’ll Tax Your Fat”. What would he really think of Barack Obama if he were alive today? George Harrison died in Los Angeles on Nov. 29, 2001.

The Charges Against Congress

If we were to bring legal charges against this Congress, what would they be?  Let's make a list.

Charge #1

Identity Theft- You can’t use your child’s identity to incur new debt, yet this is what is happening with the current national debt our grandchildren will still be paying. 

Charge #2

Bait and Switch- You can’t advertise something and then offer a lesser product. “Smart” guys like Geithner and Biden told us that the Stimulus held “shovel ready” jobs, unemployment would max at 8%, jobs would be created, and other wonderful promises, none of which came to be. Now they tell us “shovel ready” doesn’t exist and we instead get a load of debt and nothing to show for it. Want shovel ready? Try the finishing the U.S. 31 bypass!

Charge#3 

Impersonating a Legal Representative- Congress passes bills they don’t read, authoritatively comment on bills they haven’t read (see Arizona’s immigration law), and try to convince you that, with pardons to Dr. Lester, health care legislation is a good deal.

Charge#4

Abuse of Fiduciary Duty- With health care, a broad brush is used to cherry pick desirable items from the legislation but like the forbidden fruit, one should not swallow. Cost overruns will bankrupt us, new benefits like extending health care to age 26 will still cost more, and no one can wants to admit to the myriad of bureaucracy created and the eventual rationing that has to ensue. Worse still, Congress exempted themselves, federal employees, unions, and now certain corporations. They drive us to the cliff and then jump off before we go over. The local Niles Haunted House will seem like a walk in the park compared to the landmines this legislation contains. Nancy Pelosi says, “We must pass it before we know what is in it!” Are they looking out for you? Over 80% of Americans were happy with healthcare before, so why must we all pay?

Charge#5

Power of Attorney Abuse- An elected Congress must act on our behalf. Instead, this Congress has continually passes legislation that few want. Isn’t that the reason we sought independence? They still want to do more if they are rehired Nov. 2nd: Cap and Trade, raising your taxes, reviving the Health Care Public Option, etc.

Charge#6 

Bringing False Charges- They hurl false charges at the Chamber of Commerce and any opponent deemed a threat; heck, they even call you dangerous. Sure, all politicians lie, but weren’t these guys supposed to be different?

Let’s convict them on Nov. 2^nd.

The World Knows

The world knows what Obama continues to deny.

Even the Chinese know that spending must come to an end. They took measures to cool down their hot economy and have fostered private enterprise to keep the economy humming along with happier workers.

Even the Cubans know that government spending is not the answer to economic prosperity. They recently announced that they are laying off one half million workers to trim the fat. People will actually have to worry about getting a job and keeping it without the security of a Communist government backing it up. Private enterprise is taking root and would this not be a great time to open the door to Cuba to let their form of government die due to prosperity. Imagine the value of those 1950s cars that still dominate Cuban roads on Ebay motors in America. Still Obama remains silent as he did with Iran-letting precious opportunities for spreading freedom slip through his fingers. What a waste.

Even the Greeks know that they can’t promise unions everything forever. The government is curbing retirement benefits, extending time to work until retirement and reducing the government work force. Riots have ensued but Greece must do this to survive. Are you watching Barack?

Even Castro knows that the Communist experiment has not gone well. He admitted himself in a candid interview. Yet Barack still believes the best is yet to come with the stimulus and yet another rescue plan for America. He is like McGyver trying like heck to make it work but Obama’s plans don’t work and never will.

Even the Democrats know that Obama is not a winning hand this fall. They are running from him like rats from a sinking ship. If he is mentioned he is mentioned as an object to be disagreed with and a tool to show that a given candidate is independent.

Even the Iraqis know that they cannot trust Obama as some are so desperate they are turning to Al Qaeda for leadership. Even when given a situation that any fool could caretake to success as Bush left Iraq for Obama, Obama still finds a way to screw it up and possible snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Even Illinois knows that things are not right as they are poised to elect a Republican governor and very possibly a Republican to take Obama’s old seat. Don’t worry Barack, Al Gore knows just how you feel as he lost Tennessee to Bush in 2000 to lose the election.

Even world leaders know that it is time to curb spending and they tell Obama that every chance they get at summit meetings. How can a President who supposedly “gets it” be so averse to getting it? I’ve not seen anything like this since…never.

The question is, when will Obama know?

Pelosi's Halloween Fun

I submit that this Halloween should be dedicated to none other than Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat extraordinaire. Unlike no other Halloween, the Halloween of 2010 belongs to Nancy Pelosi for many reasons. To find out why, read on…

 

Can you imagine a real life version of the Ground Hog Day movie where Mr. Pelosi must wake up every morning to a grotesque version of the Bride of Frankenstein? The cucumber eye covers, the makeupless face, the first Joker-like smile of the day, the realization that it doesn’t get much better than that first look? Oh, the horror!

 

Don’t you believe that Mr. Pelosi is one of the few men in the world who looks forward to his wife putting on a Halloween mask to improve her looks? Whatever Nancy chooses to wear, how can he lose?

 

Wouldn’t you guess that Mrs. Pelosi’s facelifts are a real downer for her husband? All of that crossing of fingers and holding the of the rabbit’s foot only to find out there really is no improvement. How much disappointment can one man stand? Even the Botox Hope Syndrome suffered by  Mr. Pelosi has lost its magical ability to provide a realistic chance for improvement.

 

Can’t you imagine how Nancy Pelosi would make a great Dr. Frankenstein? Close your eyes and just picture Mrs. Pelosi standing with that stupid gavel in her hand as she presides over the health care vote and just as it passes, she cold bloodedly shrieks out, “It’s alive! It’s alive!!” The monster arises only to find that it really can’t move for another four years. What a depressing movie all around.

 

In an unsuccessful sequel to the Frankenstein Monster movie, no amount of electric paddles and lightning could bring the Stimulus Monster to life. Not only has it shown no signs of life, it has somehow managed to kill all that it comes in contact with.

 

When the health care vote went late into the night and Nancy started her nightly metamorphous, it brought back a very vivid memory of the horror classic Night of the Living Dead. This scene was supported in a real way by the Congressional version of the Undertaker- none other than the one and only Harry “Dead Man Walking” Reid.

 

Time for some Halloween Joke Humor: What does the effect of a face lift on Nancy Pelosi and the Stimulus Bill have in common? Nothing.

 

No, really.  The effect they both have is nothing!

 

Yes, Halloween may be a time for bobbing apples and ghostly parties, but don’t forget the great contribution Nancy Pelosi has made to this very scary Halloween. One look at her and it is hard to forget! Boo!!!

On Revolution

The seeds of the revolution started out informally, as revolutions usually do. There was a sense that something had to be done. The government was not listening to the people, and cries of, “Taxation without representation” were becoming more and more common. Why, the people should be grateful for all that we do; after all, it is for them! Of course the mother government considered all of these meetings and defiant statements as acts of sedition- they would be put on lists and watched closely. Still, despite all efforts, the seeds of revolution continued to grow.

Finally, a shocking revolt took place in Boston which prompted renewed denials by those in charge that a real revolution was afoot and growing by the day. As the rabble became more organized there was a feeling that if they had just enough support from the common man that maybe, just maybe a rebirth of our country was possible. Pressure continued to build until new skirmishes across the east gave the rebels further reason to hope.

There were torn feelings as even within this group decisions had be made to stick with the establishment or forgo all loyalties to let the chips fall where they may-there was almost a feeling that things had gone too far to go back to the way things were. Still the ruling establishment hurled insults at those who would dare rebel and continued to heap unpopular legislation upon the people so as to make rebellion a foregone conclusion. How could there be reasoning with those who would not listen to reason and forsook the good of America in place of their own selfish desires?

There was a certain feeling that as the uprising grew with increased support that no matter what was done by the deaf ruling class that this was the right thing to do. History has a way of taking control of a situation so as to make the rebellion so many thought was impossible become a very real possibility.

Despite the fact that there was no one strong leader to spearhead the rebellion, there were enough spokesman so as to give voice to the movement. There was a feeling of safety among the numbers that continued to grow by the day. Tensions continued to build until the day for the reclaiming an America once thought long gone was upon them. Plans were made, new leadership would soon be adhered to and at last there was hope that government would once again be of the people, for the people and by the people.

What is this fateful day, you may ask? Is it April 19. 1776? No. It is November 2nd, 2010. The day of reckoning is fast approaching and the Tea Party continues to gain strength as Election Day nears. Those in charge continue to deny what is as plain as the nose on their face: change, real change, the change that most Americans support is growing by the day. Regardless of what happens Nov. 2, it will be an election where those who love this country will see the fruits of their labor to take this nation back from chaos and those who feel entitled. I have a strong belief that they will not all be disappointed with the results of all of their work. The Tea Party is real and that reality will soon hit home to everyone.

Obama and History

Let's go back to various times in religious history and draw comparisons to the Obama Administration. Take first the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness. No matter how bad things got, they always had the surety of Canaan. What if all Moses gave them to hope for was, “It could be worse!”

We have insight that Moses saw the Promised Land; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. likewise; John the Revelator saw a new heaven and a new earth; Elisha saw the army of angels ready to fight; Daniel saw the rise and fall of empires ending with God in charge. . What do we have today under Obama? A lot of economic wilderness with manna and scorpions. Obama wants us to settle for this “new reality” that jobs aren’t coming back and we need to lower our living standards. He needs to create a realistic hope for the future-this is totally lacking in America today. 

All we have gotten are artificial prop ups like home buyers credits, and Cash for Clunkers that only goose the economy and leave us owing more. Why doesn’t Congress cut spending to offset reduced income? We need real help like tax cuts that leave more money in the hands of those who actually create jobs and opportunity- the entrepreneurial American. Give a reason to invest with confidence; give us hope to help see over the economic mountain top so we can again see America in her full glory. Yet polls show Americans have lost faith in Obama’s ability to lead and they find his speeches lacking inspiration. Blaming, excusing, and ranting are not leadership.

We are not a nation intended to rest on its hands to await the next Obama edict; we need leadership that gives us direction and then gets out of our way. Like with Katrina, expecting the federal government to be a first responder to every crisis is to give up on the American dream. We need to be like Mississippi and Alabama who met Katrina head on with a plan and have come a long way since then. Louisiana today is an example of relying on the government to do it. This fall we have a choice of whether we want government to do it for us or if we demand the opportunity to do it ourselves; I will always choose the latter.

Time To Start Again

Democrats are playing the 2010 version of the Alzheimer’s patient with short-term memory loss. They play the game they always play at election time: suddenly they listen to the voter and are so concerned with what they think- where were they when the debacle of health care was being weaseled through?

The candidates of today are running from Pelosi, keeping Obama away from their district, and distancing themselves from the stimulus package and the health care vote. What happened? They were in lock step to Congress marching in a most arrogant way to show the American voter just how stupid that voter is-who cares what they think-this is for them! Now, the Astroturf movement has taken root and there is a very real danger of overtaking what Democrats have worked so hard to build. Now, like the Tower of Babel, their work is abandoned and hopefully never to be picked up again.

We don’t just need a Pelosi face lift in America today, we need a total make over that changes the status quo from head to toe. We need two more years of Democrats like Nancy and Harry need a Halloween mask. There is no need to hide behind the hideousness of their actions; these last two reprehensible years speak for themselves and we will be paying for their idiocy for many years to come.

Now with the likelihood that at least two new Republicans will be seated prior to Jan. 20th due to the deaths and resignations of Senators, the likelihood of a December cram down seems a little more remote. There will be little stomach with which to try and pass legislation that is atrocious-such as Cap and Trade- because the people may well revolt.

After control is regained in the Congress, action must be done immediately to help reverse the last two years and if Obama won’t play ball then in 2012 we take it off at the head and replace Barack with a real American bent on following and upholding the Constitution.

I have never lost faith that the time for doing what is right will eventually come. There is never a wrong time to do what is right. With the change in Congress there will at last be hope for real change and the kind we can really believe in. There is just no substitute that will do for good legislation bent on getting America back on track. It is time for Republicans to start acting like Republicans again.

They Just Don't Get It

Man, these people just don’t get it. Professional politicians come out every election year and sound like the used car salesmen who hope that we don’t too closely under the hood. They really think it is all about them. They really think they’re spending their money and when they don’t have enough, they want a raise in their allowance. They try to protect their district, their state, their party and in turn forget to protect their country. We have created 435 little kings and unless they’re going for reelection, they treat us like serfs and want us to eat cake.

This election year has taken on shades it should never have. This has been called an anti-Obama referendum, it’s been called a contest of Democrat v. Republican, and it has been dubbed as an anti-incumbent year-it is really none of the above. What this election is all about is the defining of our core beliefs and a reaffirmation of what the United States of America is all about. Republicans thought they knew everything in 1994 as Democrats did likewise in 2006. Yet as one party comes to power and the other temporarily fades, it never dawns on them that they serve America and not the other way around.

Republicans seems on the verge of retaking control of Congress but this is far from the end game. Will they, like Obama, refuse to take the reins of responsibility that come with the authority of taking office by blaming those they replace? Which CEO would keep his job long with the two slogans, “It’s my predecessor’s fault” and “It could have been worse”? It borders on the absurd to accept credit for the good and blame others for the bad. There is a true sense of awe that comes with the office of the Presidency and that recognition is costing Obama today.

I have long adhered to the conservative creed of beliefs and this transcends party line when it is appropriate. Conservatism is coming back into vogue but like a great fitting pair of jeans, it never really goes out of style. We stray from these beliefs as we are seduced by the siren song of “Let Uncle Sam take care of you” but reality jolts back to what is really in our hearts.

Let Democrats stand on what they have stood for since 2006 and if they lose they should learn from it. No election, no leader, and no slogans ever change how I really feel. Unlike politicians, I love this country too much to short change it.

The Chickens are Coming Home To Roost

Well, now that summer is over and the elections are heating up, it is good to see just where people stand. Take Michelle Obama for instance. She’s not running but it is becoming clear that she’d like to run back home to Chicago. Being first lady is not all the fun she thought it would be after all. Why, heaven forbid, it is actually a job! Like most people she hates her job and thinks it’s a living hell for her to endure everyday. Well, at least now she knows what Barack has been going through having his mother-in-law in the White House for most of his term. Of course, things for Michelle, like everything else for the Obamas has not gone the way they thought they would. The world was supposed to bow before them and just be in awe of all that they do- instead she is left with egg on her face when the French First Lady tells all in her memoirs about how Michelle just hates her job. Even if it is not true, doesn’t it say a lot when people have no problem believing this to be true?

So either the First Lady of France is lying or Michelle is in hell right now. This reminds me of the flap over Obama denying he knew what Rev. Wright was preaching for over 20 years. In that case either Obama slept through every sermon or he’s lying. In this case, Michelle has every reason to think this given her feelings for America. I think they are both bad liars when the truth is exposed.

Let us move on to Delaware where Christine O’Donnell defeated Congressman Castle in the Republican primary. She won fair and square but after a Castle tantrum, it is all the more relief that she beat him. The establishment was behind him and actually refused to help Ms. O’Donnell even after she won. Of course, like with Mrs. Obama, they did an about face and are now singing a different tune about how they will help her. This is why it is so important to support conservatism at all costs and not just vote for someone because of their party affiliation. The true colors are coming out and it is to their embarrassment that they are.

What say we of Nancy Pelosi? She really has to take the cake for acting like she is inebriated even when she doesn’t have anything to drink. The BUSH tax cuts are now the OBAMA tax cuts; a sentiment that flies in the face of reality. But then this is the same crazy lady who said now that health care passed there would be no need for the unemployed or the guitar playing street bum to worry as they would get the best care in the world. Does anyone still believe this?

Not to be outdone, Global Warming is now “Global Climate Disruption” just like a terrorist attack is a “man-made disaster”.  You just can’t make up this stuff in the world of politics that would beat the real thing. Here Chickee, Chickee, Chikee!

Running the Numbers

Let’s Run the Numbers:

Obama has racked up more debt than all other presidents combined.

 

More people are in poverty now than when Obama took office.  Hmmm. Good liberal policies at work.

 

Still over $200 billion of the stimulus is not spent.

 

Dems has overwhelming majorities to run the table on their agenda and came away looking weak.

 

Obama has still not created, nor will he ever create positive job one against all the job losses.

Unemployment was supposed to stay below 8% with the stimulus-how’s that working out?

 

Does anyone really think Obama knows how to spend even $1 wisely? Let alone $50 Billion more.

 

Obama, no matter what issue he chooses, is in the clear minority when it comes to what Americans support. He does not poll well even by liberal standards.

 

House losses for Dems run anywhere from 40 to 100 seats. The Senate could be 8 to 11-who would have thought this a year ago?

 

It has only been nine years since 9-11 and watching the History Channel run shows on it, I am amazed as to how much Americans have forgotten what really happened.

 

20 States have joined in against the Obama nightmare of a health care plan. Nearly half of the United States is taking a legal stand against this guy.

 

In a generic poll ballot, Republicans run 12% above Dems. This is the greatest margin of difference since anyone kept track.

We are waiting for Nov. 2 so we can tell Nancy Pelosi what she can do with that giant gavel she foolishly pranced around with the day health care in America died.

 

Even California is trouble for Dems as they must pour money into campaigns no one thought would be contested like Boxer’s seat and the Governor ship. Boxer trails and Jerry Brown also lags behind in the polls.

 

To make things worse, the Republican candidate for Senate has pulled ahead by 3% over her Democratic challenger who no one thought could lose.

 

To make things worse still, Republican Mrs. McMahon of WWE fame has pulled within 10% of Blumenthal in Connecticut after being down by over 30 points. Many are starting to believe she will catch him and win.

 

Boy looking at this, Dems better plan to do addition by subtraction!

On Political Hypocrisy

Isn't it ironic that the very people who blasted Glenn Beck for holding his 8/28 rally on the anniversary as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech," and for even holding it in the same place, are the same people who support the audacious plan to put a mosque at Ground Zero? These are also the same people who denounce the Koran potentially being burned this weekend. ALL of these things are constitutionally okay but that does not necessarily make them right. They must be seen on their own merits beyond what is constitutional. This important point makes the argument that the mosque is a constitutional question of no merit. It just goes back to the truth that just because you can do something doesn't make it right.

It just goes to show the hypocrisy of those who would want freedom of expression for all-well so long as you agree with what they want to express. So many times I have been told myself that my editorials I have published could put me in harm’s way. I’ve been told I need psychiatric help and that I am so full of hate that I will explode. They say that I am brave for saying what I do but I know that I am in the majority of what America believes. It is always the 10% who are so extreme that seem to garner the right to speak for everyone. I have been told that they hope I don’t end up face down in a ditch, that I don’t get shot, that nothing happens to my car or my house, etc. These are all from people who like what I write and wish me well. What are the so-called liberal thinkers actually thinking?

I remember when the billboard came out saying that George Bush was an abortion gone wrong; that he was an argument for abortion; that someone should perform oral sex on him so that we could impeach him- all loony statements made by the left. When VP Cheney was in Afghanistan and there was a plane crash, the left spouted off that “If only it could have been Cheney onboard that fallen plane. Where are the repercussions for all of this? None by no one because these are hideous things to say about anyone. As much as I despise the policies and conduct of Pres. Clinton, Pres. Carter and Pres. Obama, I wish them no harm to them or to their families. Anyone who seriously does is mentally ill.

You are what you eat and you are what you think and say. There is just too little thought given to these wise adages in today’s world. Instead we just get things said and printed that will garner short term gain and deduct from the originator’s self-respect and standing in the world. We could all use a little more restraint and a whole lot more respect for our fellow man.