Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a memo to 4,000 Department of Education Employees suggesting that they attend Rev. Al Sharpton’s rally last Saturday. Of course, Duncan was speaking at that event but somehow I doubt Duncan’s desire to have 4,000 of his employees in attendance was just simply for moral support. No. I actually suspect that they were “suggested” to attend as a way for Duncan, Sharpton, and company to further indoctrinate them.
Let me remind you dear reader that there is a law banning federal employees from attending partisan demonstrations (the Hatch Act). And although the Sharpton rally technically does not fall under the ban, the mere suggestion by Duncan that they attend could be construed as undue influence by a superior.
Department of Education employees are not political appointees and have a right to be insulated from partisan bickering in the context of their employment. Duncan’s “suggestion” that his employees attend may have crossed the line of appropriateness. If Duncan wanted to speak at this rally, he had the right. But he did not have the right to “suggest” his employees attend especially if a lowly federal employee wishes to keep his/her job and feels compelled to attend as a condition of keeping said job.
In the light of this memo, and its inappropriate “suggestion”, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan should probably re-evaluate his position with the Obama Infestation. Personally, if I were Barry O, Duncan would be shown the door. That said however, the Emperor hasn’t shown any signs of booting any member of his cabinet due to inappropriate behavior or lack of vocational aptitude. Why should he? He hasn’t any vocational aptitude.
So I guess that we on the right should just add Arne Duncan’s name to the list of Infestation Appointees that need to be put under tighter scrutiny. His foibles should be exposed at every opportunity and the goal of sending his incredibly incompetent arse back to Chicago should be pursued.
As I pointed out when Duncan was nominated by Emperor Barry-O I, Arne should never have been nominated in light of the fact that under his watch, Chicago Public Schools became one of the nation’s most failing public school districts. You don’t reward failure. That is unless you are Emperor Barry-O.
Amid the fresh controversy created by the recent release of the results of two polls showing an increasing number of Americans believe Barack Hussein Obama is Muslim, a headline on The Drudge Report caught my eye. It involves some items printed in that bastion of legitimate news, The New York Times (all the news that is fit to wrap fish in; or line bird cages for that matter).
On May 12, 2008, the NYT asked the question – President Apostate? The Times actually had the audacity to ask the questions that needed to be asked, however, they failed to deliver an answer.
From the NYT:
One danger of such charisma, however, is that it can evoke unrealistic hopes of what a candidate could actually accomplish in office regardless of his own personal abilities. Case in point is the oft-made claim that an Obama presidency would be welcomed by the Muslim world.
This idea often goes hand in hand with the altogether more plausible argument that Mr. Obama’s election would raise America’s esteem in Africa — indeed, he already arouses much enthusiasm in his father’s native Kenya and to a degree elsewhere on the continent.
But it is a mistake to conflate his African identity with his Muslim heritage. Senator Obama is half African by birth and Africans can understandably identify with him. In Islam, however, there is no such thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith.
As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant. – emphasis mine
The Times never went beyond this statement of reality. Instead they chose to point to his “chosen Christian faith”.
Since asking the question back in May 2008, the NYT and other “legitimate” news sources have conveniently avoided revisiting the question of Obama’s faith. However, in the dust-up created by the proposed Ground Zero Mosque (the so-called Cordoba House), questions of Obama’s faith has once again entered the American discussion.
A Pew Research poll revealed that 1-in-5 Americans believe Barack Hussein Obama to be a submissive of Muhammad’s delusional visions and rantings. A Time poll on the same subject revealed that 1-in-4 believe Obama is a Muslim. Given that Obama has hosted a Ramadan celebration at the White House, snubbed the Boy Scouts of America by not attending their prayer breakfast, and making statements supporting the planned Cordoba House, the American people are beginning to look more closely at the man with the middle name Hussein. But where is the press?
[cue crickets]
While we again wait for the main stream media to catch-up to the American people and ask the tough questions they should have asked prior to November 4, 2008, perhaps we should move on as if they will choose to continue to ignore their responsibilities in favor of being Mr. Obama’s dissemination of propaganda conduit. Although I think that is beginning to wear on the media as well. After-all, who can glean any information out of Robert Gibbs? The man stutters more than Mel Tillis.
As for the Emperor… What I can’t understand is the love affair that American academics have with the moron. I mean, who takes a teleprompter on vacation? Obama, that’s who. For someone who was to be a great departure from the poor rhetorical skills of George W. Bush he seems to be extremely dependent upon prepared remarks. Bush was best when he diverted from the prepared statements. Obama on the other hand can’t function without his teleprompter. Off-the-cuff Obama is a stammering idiot. No wonder he keeps Gibbs. Birds of a feather etc…
And what is with that smug Leninist posing? It’s like he has a need to show that he is superior to everyone else staring off into the distance in an attempt to show he’s a visionary. It’s called arrogance – a disease of the elite.
The American press has failed the American people. To get honest reporting about the Obama Infestation one has to read news sources in the UK. This fact alone should be proof positive of the journalistic malpractice being committed by the American dead trees and alphabets. Save FoxNews, America’s journalistic community is devoid of any integrity as they actively shill for the Progressive Utopian Emperor. And they aren’t even attempting to hide it anymore.
The White House addressed the latest questioning of Obama’s faith by having a Communications underling tell the White House Press Pool that Obama is Christian and he prays everyday. The fact that he prays everyday isn’t the concern of the people. What the people want to know is if he finds the need to orient his body towards Mecca when he does. “He prays everyday” what kind of fools do they think the people are? Muslims pray everyday as well – 5 times!
I don’t give a rat’s ass if he’s a Muslim unless he wants to be President. If he’s the President of the United States, in a time of war, against an enemy that is waging a war in the name of their religion, and that religion is the same one that the President is accused of being a member of, there are questions that need to be answered.
In 1960, many Protestant Americans worried that John F. Kennedy’s Catholic faith would be an impediment to his ability to govern. After-all, who would he be loyal to, the US Constitution which translates into the American people or the Pope. The same should be asked of Obama. Who is he loyal to? The Constitution – which he has a track record of downplaying as a contract of negative liberties – or is he a submissive to Islam? I fear the truth may be that he is a submissive follower of Islam. Especially when he refers to Muhammad’s horror novel as “the holy Qu’ran” and greets Muslims in perfect Arabic.
In 1960, the American press asked the questions and answers were given. John Kennedy WAS elected President and by all accounts his faith never played a direct roll in his governance. However in 2010, nearly 2 years into the Obama Infestation and the American people are still asking the same questions of Barack Hussein Obama. And like all the other questioning of Obama’s past, it gets avoided. Why is it so important for him to shield the American people from his past? Perhaps it is because he’s on a mission that he’s already explained to the American people at $20 a copy. His book “Dreams from My Father” outlines what his father dreamed of for Kenya. Perhaps Junior is following in his absent daddy’s footsteps and wishes to carry on his pappy’s dream in the United States. It’s called Communism.
At a time when the socialist societies of the world are beginning to downsize their governments, Barry O is expanding ours. Why? It fulfills the strategy of instituting socialism outlined by Columbia Professors Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven. The Cloward-Piven Strategy to Implement Socialist Revolution was written in 1966 at the height of civil unrest in the United States. Progressives and Socialists believed they could force revolution. The strategy was then and is now to overwhelm the system and cause it to collapse. It’s on its way thanks to Obama’s Keynesian economic policies.
According to a well-known Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” The Federal government has so usurped the sovereignty of the various states that they have become dependent upon mother government for their very existence. This is the reason why the United States House of Representatives found itself in session today. That and to give Charlie Rangel an opportunity to whine on the House floor about his persecution at the hands of the Ethics Committee.
The White House and Congressional Democrats were all in a tither about getting a $26 Billion state aid packaged passed that Nancy Pelosi felt compelled to call the House back into session during the August recess. The emergency? To get the legislation passed before the school year begins. Why? So those reliable Democrat votes (teachers) don’t lose their jobs.
Is this going to be an annual event? I mean, is this setting the standard for years to come? Will the House and Senate be recalled from their “much needed” summer recess in order to pass “emergency” legislation so that teachers don’t lose their jobs every August from now until the fall of the Republic? 47 of the 50 states are running budget deficits thanks to mismanagement at the state level and federal intrusion. Unfunded mandates from the federal government and federal aid has made the states dependent upon the feds for funding of all aspects of governance. This is NOT how this nation is supposed to work. If anything, it should be reversed. At least that was the intention of the founders.
Education has become the latest dependency class. Soon to follow will be police and fire departments. Although, the aid package passed this afternoon by the House is a general aid package for states that includes funding for police and fire.
Glenn Beck warned several weeks ago that soon we will have a national police force. He went on to say that it won’t be named as such but follow the money trail.
If the Cleveland Police Department accepts federal funding you should fell safe to bet the farm that the feds will have a dominant say in how the CPD conducts its business. The same can be said of the fire departments AND – Teachers.
Conservative pundits – myself included – understand that this is nothing more than another veiled payoff to a major labor union. Employed teachers equal votes for the Democrat majority. Verbose urging from the Emperor increases his popularity among his base, but only his base.
What isn’t widely known about this bill is that it steals money from another federal program in order for it to be paid for. Beginning in 2014, the federal food stamp program will have a reduction in its planned annual increase in order to keep under-performing and junior teachers in their positions for the 2010-2011 school year. When 2014 rolls around, Progressives around the country will be screaming for additional funding for the food stamp program because this bill gutted the planning increase in funding.
What I find interesting is the choice of which federal spending program to raid in order to keep these under-performing and junior liberal teachers working. The food stamp program. A recent report showed that a record number of Americans are receiving benefits from that very program. Approximately 40.5 million to be exact.
What also hasn’t been discussed in public is the fact that funding for these teachers is already in place. Nearly half of the American Robbery and Redistribution Act funds have yet to be spent. It included funding for teachers, police, and fire but yet the Congress of the United States (House and Senate) with urging from the President, thought that new legislation with an additional funding source needed to be passed now – urgently – before the beginning of the school year so that more liberals turn out to the polls on November 2nd to vote for Democrats. There is no other explanation.
Why use existing funding when they can seem to be taking action by passing new legislation. As I said in another post, it’s a shell game.
I predict that next year there will be a push from the White House to bailout the states again. The cries will be that our school children need these teachers in class when in reality Obama needs their votes.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
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Democrats haven’t learned anything from the failures of the GOP in 2006 and 2008. They have consistently gotten it wrong over the last two election cycles. Democrats falsely believed that the rejection of GOP candidates in the past two election cycles were a rejection of policy. They ran on the mantra of the “Culture of Corruption” and won an unstoppable majority.
Was there corruption in the GOP? Yes there was. Many were beginning to get corrupted by the power that Washington D.C. infects. Many were using their offices to gain personally and others were using legislation to insure re-election. The Pork being enjoyed by many Republican members of Congress in the latter years of the Bush Administration led to the downfall of the GOP.
In 2006 Conservative voters had no one to vote for so they stayed home. In the 2008 Presidential race, the choice was between a Progressive Democrat and a Progressive Republican – Socialist or Socialist Lite. Identity politics played a larger roll than ever before in American politics. The euphoria created by the possibility of electing a minority candidate to the Presidency won over voters and rationale lost.
The GOP’s candidate was selected by the progressive main stream media because they all knew that if given the choice between a Democrat and a Liberal Republican, Conservative voters would bail on the Republican as they did in 2006.
Voter intimidation and fraud did play a roll in the 2008 races as well. But yet, the Obama Infestation doesn’t have any interest in making sure those crimes are never again repeated. After-all, they benefited from those crimes.
Since taking office, Obama and Nancy Pelosi have led their party to the far left. The sheer growth of the federal government and the near Imperial powers now granted to the President by this Congress must have the founding fathers rolling in their graves. The result of all this growth in government is record high deficits which are 4 times the size of those that led to the downfall of the GOP in 2006.
The $427 Billion deficit racked up by the Bush Administration in 2005 pales in comparison to $1.42 Trillion 2009 short-fall and seem like nothing in comparison to the projected 2010 deficit of $1.75 Trillion. To put the Bush deficits into context, during his 8 years in office, Bush added $4.9 Trillion to the national debt. If you just take the past two years in to account, Obama has already added $3.17 Trillion. If left unchecked with a hypothetical returning Democrat majority for the next 2 years, Obama’s contribution to the national debt over 4 years in office would be an estimated $6.34 Trillion and likely more.
Debt and corruption were the GOP’s undoing in 2006 and 2008. Now, the Democrats are facing 4 times the debt and double the corruption. The current Treasury Secretary is a known tax cheat. The former Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is as well as evidenced by his 13 ethics violations and pending criminal indictment (because we all know there is an indictment in the works). Another Democrat member of Congress faces an ethics battle. Pelosi has failed to “drain the swamp” and seems to have encouraged her members to seek out ways to exploit the earmark process.
Nancy Pelosi’s most ethical and most transparent Congress in history is about to fall flat under the weight of its ethics violations and shady back-room deals. Remember what she said about the Death Care bill?
“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.”
How about that transparency Nancy?
I won’t hold my breath waiting for her to answer.
Now Pelosi has another shell game in the works. As the school year is about to begin and the financially strapped states have less money to dole out for education, SanFran Nan and her band of miscreants are calling the House back into session in the middle of the August recess in order to pass “emergency” legislation totaling an additional $26 Billion in spending for teachers. Ask the question “why?” since nearly half of the American Robbery and Redistribution Act money is still unspent. After-all, wasn’t that supposed to fund police, firemen, and – umm, who else… that’s right – TEACHERS so they wouldn’t lose their jobs?
People this is nothing more than as cheap game of 3-card Monty. Chase the red queen but there is no queen on the table. It’s a ploy for votes and nothing more. The funds are already allocated to save teachers’ jobs if the Infestation wished to use it; but they don’t. They’d rather Pelosi do a little grand standing in order to buy some more votes and in the process increase the debt a little bit more in order to justify more tax increases in the future. You see if they use already appropriated funding to “save teaching jobs” it doesn’t make headlines. No headlines, no votes.
Before you go to vote on November 2nd remember a couple of very important items.
Obama promised that if the “stimulus” (aka the American Robbery and Redistribution Act) were passed unemployment wouldn’t go any higher than 8%. How’s that 9.5% unemployment feeling America? Or how about the estimated 17% – 24% underemployment for that matter?
Pelosi promised to drain the swamp and yet one Congressman has been sent to prison for taking bribes, and two more are under Ethics Committee investigations and expected to be expelled.
Democrats rode a wave of discontent over Republican deficits in 2006 and 2008 but the current budget deficit is 4 times higher.
And finally I want you to ask yourself a question…
Is your family better off today than you were in 2006?
OH.. before I go. I have a little misconception to clear up.
That surplus that all you Clintonian drones like to point to that Bush destroyed with his deficit spending… That was the brain child of a Republican. Rep. John Kasich of Ohio wrote the budget that created that surplus. Kasich is currently running for Governor of Ohio. And much to the dismay of Obama and Uncle Ted (Strickland), he’s leading in that race. And for the record… Uncle Ted rode that anti-GOP wave in 2006. Remember the quote at the top Uncle Ted.
On a day when a story in the Boston Globe brings attention to the rising number of Americans living on food stamps, we also see that the First Lady is enjoying a “mother/daughter” trip to Spain’s Riviera. Not only that, but the State Department had to remove a warning to African-Americans about traveling in Spain just as Obama’s plane hit the runway in Spain.
Michelle, her daughter, entourage, and security are taking nearly half a of a 5-star resort over as 40.5 million Americans now are dependent upon the Department of Agriculture to eat. The round-trip flight to Spain is estimated to cost in excess of $148,000. That figure does not include the cost of 60 rooms in the Hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella, meals, ground transportation, or the costs of the security detail. The hotel only has 129 rooms and yet the smallish Obama entourage is using 60 of them.
The Hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella is rated as one of the world’s top 30 hotels. I wonder how well those who have lost their jobs on the Gulf Coast due to her husband’s oil drilling moratorium are living these days? Are they living in conditions that Michelle Obama is enjoying this week? Somehow I sincerely doubt it.
Also announced today is a rise in new jobless benefits claims. That’s right, more people than expected filed for new benefits this past week. Approximately 479,000 people have found themselves out of work over the past week and the First Lady is living the high life as 479,000 people join the ranks of the unemployed (nearly 10%) and under-employed (estimated between 17 and 24%).
What surprises me is that the article outlining the increase in new jobless claims indicates that the rise in unemployment was a surprise. What? We have a President who is doing his level best at destroying the private sector and someone is actually surprised?!?
The best passage in the article was…
On Friday, the Labor Department will issue the July jobs report and economists expect it will show the nation lost a net total of 65,000 jobs. That includes the end of about 150,000 temporary census jobs.
Umm… how can there be a net loss of 65k jobs when the government automatically lost 150k census jobs? [confused look]
The next paragraph (a single sentence) of the article attempts to clear the discrepancy up a bit, however the numbers do not add up…
Excluding government employment, private companies are expected to add a net total of 90,000 jobs.
Ok, the government expects the private sector to cover most of the government jobs they are shedding. Where? I thought it was government who had the power to solve all of our problems. [another confused look]
Further into the article we learn that their estimates are based on the “back to school” season which then leads into the holiday shopping season. Ok… We are supposed to think that low paying retail jobs are going to sustain our economy? In whose fantasy?
The truth is this country is shedding many established higher paying jobs directly due to this President and his Infestation’s war on wealth. His do as I say not as I do mentality when it comes to the word sacrifice and his love affair with high taxes are driving this nation’s economy into the ground faster than the ValuJet Flight 592 crash in Florida in 1996. And while he personally does his best to destroy America, his wife is enjoying an all-expenses paid trip to a resort in paradise.
And where is Barry? He’s celebrating his 49th birthday “alone” at the family’s Chicago home. Yeah, I believe that one. Perhaps he’s trolling the streets of Chicago for some assistance in some of his more lurid vices as previously rumored. Why else would he be “ok” with his ENTIRE family being away from him on his birthday. After-all, he has assumed the office of the President (legitimately or illegitimately).
Democrats are right. There IS two Americas. But it isn’t rich versus poor. It’s actually the Ruling Class versus the Proletariat. As Michelle figuratively says, “let them eat cake”, she’s dining on fresh sea food in a Mediterranean resort with a few of her closest friends. What better example of the Ruling Class living off the backs of the Proletariat can we ever possibly have?
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I’m going to ask you to remember the 2006 midterms. I understand that asking you to remember what happened in 2006 is a stretch because of our political short-term memories, but please try.
During the 2006 midterms, Nancy Pelosi coined a phrase that hurled her into the position of Speaker of the House. She promised to preside over “the most ethical Congress in history”. Now ask yourself, “has she?” The short answer is no.
During her tenure as Speaker, she has had multiple members of her caucus abuse their offices. William Jefferson, Barney Frank, Charlie Rangel, and Maxine Waters, just to name a few. The bigger question should be, “if these are the ones who we know about, how many more are there that do we not know of – yet?”
Instead of “draining the swamp”, Pelosi’s tenure as Speaker seems to have flooded it with more corruption. We all have known for years that Rangel was dirty, but no one did anything about it. Everyone already knew that Barney Frank had ethics problems as well, but no one did anything about it nor do they seem to be willing to do anything at present. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson got caught on both audio and video tape taking a $100,000 bribe from what turned out to be an FBI Informant. 90% of the money was recovered by the FBI in a raid on the then Congressman’s home. This all happened BEFORE the 2006 elections and yet, he was permitted to run for re-election, be re-elected, and seated for an additional term all while Pelosi continued to point at Republicans and cry “CULTURE OF CORRUPTION”.
One other note about Jefferson before I move on…
During the flooding of New Orleans associated with Hurricane Katrina, Jefferson commandeered a National Guard truck to remove personal possessions from his home. This truck got stuck in the Congressman’s front yard and needed a second truck to remove it. The Congressman also found the need to further commandeer vital resources that would have been of better use assisting the rescue of stranded citizens when he called for a Coast Guard helicopter to remove him from a balcony at that same home because the first National Guard truck had gotten stuck. He was never questioned or charged for these flirtations with ethics violations.
I’ve read the charges against Charlie Rangel and to be honest, it’s a slam dunk. I’ve also read the charges against Maxine Waters, that too is a slam dunk. What in the world is possessing these idiots to fight the charges? They both actually believe they are above the law.
Barney Frank’s VIP loan from Countrywide isn’t the only problem that he’s had since being elected to Congress. He has twice been party to a crime and never charged. The first in 1989 -
“Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank, an acknowledged homosexual, today confirmed that his Washington apartment had been used as a callboy headquarters by a male prostitute for a year and a half until late 1987. Responding to a story in today’s Washington Times, Frank said he had hired the prostitute out of his own funds as a personal aide and fired him when he found out what was going on.”[1]
The second was in 2007 -
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was present during his partner James Ready’s marijuana arrest in 2007, according to a police report.
Ready was arrested at his home in Ogunquite, Maine and was charged with marijuana possession, cultivation, and use of drug paraphernalia. Marijuana plants were found in Ready’s backyard. Ready paid a fine for civil possession and the rest of the charges were dismissed in 2008.
The Boston Globe reports that Frank was on the front porch and told police that he never saw the plants and would not have recognized them. Frank repeated those remarks to Boston TV station FOX25, saying he would not recognize the plants because “he is not a great outdoorsman” and “would not recognize most plants.”
Congressman Frank, who is openly gay and serves as the head of the House Financial Services Committee, supports legalizing marijuana for medical use.[2]
Not only has Pelosi not “drained the swamp”, she seems to be looking the other way as the swamp becomes more flooded with corrupt Democrats. So I’m asking you to remember Pelosi’s campaign against the “culture of corruption” on November 2nd. That “culture of corruption” mantra was the cause of many Democrats being elected in 2006 at all levels of government. Now that these same politicians are up for re-election, might I suggest it is time to return them to their previous state of employment?
As for…
Jefferson – convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2009.
Waters – she’s going on trial before the ethics committee.
Rangel – he’s currently facing a trial before the ethics committee and expected to be facing multiple criminal counts as well. Rangel may be joining William Jefferson very soon.
Frank – he’s still “serving” in the House but it is looking increasingly likely that he won’t be returning for the next Congress.
We tried to warn you. Bloggers like myself, talk radio (Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, and others), and Conservative politicians all tried to warn the American voters not to put Barry O in charge of this country. We told you that he was the most liberal member of the Senate, yet you voted for him. We told you about his associations with Rev. Wright, but you still pulled the lever, marked the circle, or punched the card for Barry and Joey. We told you what their agenda was even though they avoided discussing their agenda, and you still cast that vote. Do you want it back?
After his election, many on my side of the fence looked at it through rose colored glasses. Perhaps an Obama Presidency would be the final nail in the coffin of Progressivism. This glass-half-full mentality has gotten us into trouble before. Need I remind you of Jimmy Carter? Yet this country then elected Bill Clinton to two terms and then went one step further down the neo-Socialist Progressive path and elected Barack Obama. I am convinced that the American voter doesn’t have the ability to think beyond the moment to see past the glitz and glitter of the made-up pig known as the Progressive Democrat.
Barack Obama got elected by being vague and spewing platitudes. The words “hope” and “change” were heard so much that you should have begun to question their relevance. But you didn’t. That same group who were warning you not to vote for this snake oil salesman tried to question his use of these words. “Hope” in what? “Change” what from what and to what? But neither you nor the charlatan you eventually voted for cared to answer the question. But now we know.
He wants to “change” a once thriving American economy into an Orwellian nightmare. He’s a student the Cloward-Piven strategy for effecting “change”. You must destroy the economic system of the United States in order to create an emergency by which you make the “change”. You do this by overwhelming the system and allowing it to collapse. Once it is in a free fall, you sell yourself as the only “hope” of restoring stability. The answer? Socialism. Complete with its Big Brother paranoia, class envy, and massive poverty and despair. You create a religion of government and remove the need or legality of private worship of any other god. – Enter the Greek Columns and speeches about making the oceans recede.
Problem with Progressivism and the utilization of a Cloward-Piven strategy is there can be no half measures. Cloward-Piven requires a sharp increase in the number of people in the dependency class, swamping the system in order to facilitate its collapse.
The first step for Obama was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka: Porkulus) -which I affectionately call the American Robbery and Redistribution Act because that would actually be truth in advertising.
The Recovery Act put forward a fraud of epic proportions. It claimed to be a jobs creating bill which would repair America’s crumbling infrastructure by “saving” or “creating” much needed jobs during the economic downturn. Problem, it hasn’t “saved” or “created” anything. It has in fact, put several companies out of business or influenced them to move from their established locations to other cities or states. Case in point, NCR relocated from Dayton, Ohio to South Carolina because of incentives embedded in the Porkulus. How on earth can anyone say with a straight face that prompting NCR to relocated “saved” or “created” anything but more poverty in Dayton, OH? - A city which Obama carried heavily in 2008 incidentally.
Aside from being fraudulent on its face, the Recovery Act also included massive payoffs to Democrat supporters in Organized Labor as did the Chrysler and GM bailouts, the health care legislation, and Cap and Trade (which is still stalled in the Senate). Andy Stern former President of the Service Employees International Union still holds the record for being the most frequent visitor to the Obama White House visiting the executive mansion more times than any other non-Administration official. Why?
It is my belief that after the collapse, the only way you will be able to find meaningful employment will be to join one of Obama’s favorite unions. Being a union worker will make you a Party worker. Party workers keep the Party in power especially when only Party workers are earning anything to contribute to the Party.
Democrats like to separate the American people into classes. They do this so that they can foster class envy which empowers them. If they can pit those who are impoverished against those who have wealth, they benefit by playing to the masses whom they’ve co-opted. Obama did this during his campaign by saying that if you earn less than $250k or less than $200k or – I don’t know, he kept changing the number – that “your taxes won’t go up one single dime.” Anyone still believe that fable?
House and Senate Democrats – you know, the ruling Party – are poised to allow the Bush era tax cuts to expire on December 31, 2010. This my friends includes the lowered 10% bracket (it goes away entirely), taxes on the middle class, and the rich will get soaked. You know those evil rich people. They don’t deserve to have that much money. Never mind that it is the rich who create jobs and invest in our economy. Certainly those who are struggling to feed their families do not have enough disposable income to invest in business. And neither will the so-called rich once Obama and his ilk get done with them.
Did you know that if you died in 2009, your estate tax bill was 45% of your estate? Under the Bush Tax Cuts, if you die in 2010 your estate tax bill is 0%. Meaning, your heirs get to enjoy the fruits of your labor and savings not the federal government. However, if you were to die in 2011 and the Bush Tax Cuts are allowed to expire, your tax bill will be 55% of your estate.
Did you know that if you are a working poor person in the United States today, your federal tax liability is 10% of your adjusted gross income? But on January 1, 2011 if the Bush Tax Cuts expire your tax liability goes up by half and your new liability is 15% of that same amount. You didn’t get a raise, but the government is going to take more of your hard earned money. How difficult is it to put bread on the table now? Imagine how much more difficult that will be when you are bringing less home.
I’ve only briefly touched on what I see as failures of Progressivism there is much much more I could mention but this post would be a longer read than Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. My point is, Progressivism has been a failure since its conception. Americans in the 1920s began to realize this truth so Progressives had to relabel themselves so they became liberals. Now that liberal has become a bad word in American politics, they’ve reinvented themselves again (on the surface) by relabeling again to Progressives. Is anyone actually falling for their shell game anymore? Like Obama’s inability to settle on a defining income level to label someone “rich” Progressives consistently have a need to reinvent themselves and their policies. We see this with their ever evolving think tanks and activist organizations. ACORN has “gone out of business” but another community activist group spawned in its place, often times in the same office fronts, doing the same exact work. It is nothing less than deception.
We told you that candidate Obama was an empty suit. He needed to be. Because if you had known what he is and what he stood for then, he would have been unelectable. We can’t throw him out quite yet but we can toss his political allies.
No Democrat running for re-election this year, at any level of government, deserves to be returned to office. They ARE the problem. And it is a problem that we will be dealing with for a very long time.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let the cat out of the bag last Sunday when he stated the obvious – much to Nancy Pelosi’s dismay – that Democrats might lose the House in November. Ya think?!?
Truth be told, it isn’t inconceivable that Republicans could pick up both the House and the Senate this November. If there is any justice in the world, they will. However, before we begin to prognosticate about how many seats in each house the GOP might pick up, let’s make sure we stay grounded.
“Never under-estimate the stupidity of people. Especially on election day.” – Kender MacGowan
As my best bud Kender says, we cannot underestimate the power the left has over voters. We cannot count on people’s unhappiness today to translate into opposition votes on election day. Especially, if Republicans screw up. In my poking around the net – something that I’ve stayed away from for far too long – I found an article written by Dr. Charles Krauthammer in which he warns Republicans not to underestimate Obama.
In his article he alludes to the idea that Obama’s agenda is a two-step plan to undo “Reaganism” replacing it with “Obamaism”.
Act One is over. The stimulus, Obamacare, financial reform have exhausted his first-term mandate. It will bear no more heavy lifting. And the Democrats will pay the price for ideological overreaching by losing one or both houses, whether de facto or de jure. The rest of the first term will be spent consolidating these gains (writing the regulations, for example) and preparing for Act Two.
The next burst of ideological energy — massive regulation of the energy economy, federalizing higher education and “comprehensive” immigration reform (i.e., amnesty) — will require a second mandate, meaning re-election in 2012.
What Dr. Krauthammer is saying makes sense when you factor in how Obama’s key legislation has been crafted. ObamaCare doesn’t take full effect until 2014. Why?
We may have underestimated this political novice. America has short-term memory loss when it comes to our Presidential election cycles. How else can you explain how Clinton served two terms? All the harmful legislation championed by Obama in the past 18 months has time to be forgotten over the next 2 1/2 years. If he sails into a second term and he can stymie a new Republican majority (worst case for him) enough to render it impotent like Bush did with the first two years of the Democrat majority, then it is possible to complete his final death plan for America.
Beginning the day after the 2012 election, if granted his wish Obama will begin his slam-dunk of capitalism followed by the end of Democracy as we know it. He is not only determined to go down in history as the first black President of the United States, I truly believe he would prefer to go down as the last democratically elected President. My evidence? Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
Alinsky states in his book that the end game is a Dictator led Communist society. As a student and teacher of Alinsky’s rules, Barry Obama knows this is the goal and sees himself as the completion of Alinsky’s dream.
I honestly believe everything has gone according to plan. What he hasn’t counted on to this point is the level of opposition within the electorate. This level of opposition MUST be maintained. Republicans – even if they prevail in large numbers this November – MUST, MUST, MUST keep Obama’s political short-comings in the minds of the electorate all the way up to the day they cast a vote for the next President. And I mean NEXT President because this guy can’t live in that house past 12 noon, January 20, 2013. NOTONEMOREDAY.
Much to the dismay of House and Senate Dems, they did not know that many of them were expected to be handed their pink slips come November 2, 2010. People like Max Baucas and Lincoln Chafee were expected to be replaced by a Republican all along. They just didn’t know it.
What wasn’t planned was people like Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold, and Harry Reid being in danger of losing their previously “secure” seats. But those seats ARE in danger. Reid’s ability to keep that seat is further in doubt by the hour but he keeps on championing that hard-left agenda.
There is an additional danger when the left loses Congress in November. in the month and a half left in the current Congress, the Democrats who lose in November will have no incentive to oppose Obama’s “lame duck strategy”. Pass all the most harmful legislation before going home on their full pensions. Cap and Tax, Amnesty, Card Check, and more kickback pork to labor unions.
Bottom line…
If Obama sees his chances of obtaining that second term slimmer in November than he does today, he’ll go for the prize before the current Congress exits. And barring a 2/3rds majority in both Houses, there isn’t thing 1 Republicans can do about it without shutting down the government – WHICH – may become necessary to break the President. But at what cost politically?
Finally, some predictions…
Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, Rham Emanuel, and possibly Robert Gates will be gone before the end of the year. Gibbs probably before the midterms.
Hillary Clinton dumps her job by the end of 2011 and challenges Obama for the Democrat Nomination for President in 2012. If she does, she wins it. Why end of 2011? She’ll wait to see how badly Obama’s popularity tanks (and it will) due to the “lame duck strategy” and poise to strike at that vulnerability. At least if she’s smart – and we all know she is.
Republicans take a clear majority in the House in November. In the Senate Republicans secure between 49 and 52 seats. They’ll either fall short of a majority by 1 seat or they’ll take a majority by no more than 2.
If the economy continues to stagnate, Tim Geithner will be out in 2011. Eric Holder is already under a heat lamp due to his failure to prosecute crimes committed by minorities. I predict he’s out by tax day 2011. These resignations will be the result of House and Senate (should Republicans gain a majority) investigations of both.
Kagen gets confirmed by a slim majority but her nomination will be subjected to a “filibuster” (blocked cloture vote).
Should the GOP gain a slim majority in the Senate, Senate investigations into all of Obama’s Czars will begin in 2011 as they are operating as a shadow government as an intentional effort to circumvent the advice and consent of the US Senate. Result will be legislation banning such “special advisers” paid using taxpayer funding.
I don’t often get a chance to listen to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity any more. Radio reception in my home is worse than my cell reception. (Read also: DO NOT BELIEVE AT&T. Their coverage SUCKS!) But today I had an opportunity in the car to listen to a few minutes of Hannity.
Sean had a caller on just before a hard-break that brought something up rather observant. The caller – a woman – observed that The Emperor will only allow the items the American people want or need to proceed if Congress also approves of his agenda. For example, the unemployment extension that the media and the Progressives are crying about. They claim that Republicans are blocking the bill because they do not care about out of work Americans. No… Republicans want to extend benefits but they do not want that extension tied to monetary kickbacks to the nation’s teacher’s unions. To get what America needs you must approve of what Obama wants.
Lets examine the legislation championed by our Chief Executive:
The Porkulus – Kickbacks to the labor unions
The GM Bailout – Kickbacks to the labor unions
The Unemployment Extension – Kickbacks to the labor unions
Cap and Tax – Kickbacks to labor unions
Every single piece of legislation on the Obama agenda has some sort of political payoff to a labor union. Imagine that.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a memo to 4,000 Department of Education Employees suggesting that they attend Rev. Al Sharpton’s rally last Saturday. Of course, Duncan was speaking at that event but somehow I doubt Duncan’s desire to have 4,000 of his employees in attendance was just simply for moral support. No. I actually suspect [...]
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let the cat out of the bag last Sunday when he stated the obvious – much to Nancy Pelosi’s dismay – that Democrats might lose the House in November. Ya think?!? Truth be told, it isn’t inconceivable that Republicans could pick up both the House and the Senate this [...]
I don’t often get a chance to listen to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity any more. Radio reception in my home is worse than my cell reception. (Read also: DO NOT BELIEVE AT&T. Their coverage SUCKS!) But today I had an opportunity in the car to listen to a few minutes of Hannity. Sean had [...]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a memo to 4,000 Department of Education Employees suggesting that they attend Rev. Al Sharpton’s rally last Saturday. Of course, Duncan was speaking at that event but somehow I doubt Duncan’s desire to have 4,000 of his employees in attendance was just simply for moral support. No. I actually suspect that they were “suggested” to attend as a way for Duncan, Sharpton, and company to further indoctrinate them.![[del.icio.us]](http://gribbitonline.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
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