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The War is Over!!! Well – Maybe Not

August 31, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Incompetence, Liberal MSM Bias, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Economy, War on Terrorism View Comments

His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Barry-O I made the official announcement earlier this evening that “combat operations in Iraq” are complete. One would get the idea from this announcement that he has belatedly made good on a campaign promise. However, upon further inspection, you see yet another level of deceit from the factually challenged president. Allow me to explain.

For the past month, the Obama compliant main stream media has been tripping over itself to indoctrinate the American people that the Emperor was finally making good on his Iraq War promise. Troops were shown to be leaving their bases in Iraq and shifted to bases in Kuwait. However, many combat troops actually remain in Iraq in spite of the media gushing and tonight’s announcement from the Charlatan-in-Chief. Rather than pulling ALL the combat troops out of Iraq, the Obama Infestation simply renamed them and redefined their mission.

What was formally known as a Combat Battalion is now being referred to as “Advice and Support Battalion”. Instead of it’s mission being to seek out hostile insurgent forces and improvised explosive devices, our troops will remain on their bases and wait for something to happen that the Iraqi Defense Forces cannot handle on their own – which is just about everything that could happen.

The telling story in all of this comes from the Bangor Daily News published on August 24th…

As the nation watches troops being withdrawn from the Middle East, few perhaps are aware that another wave of soldiers is being deployed.

On Tuesday, a group of about 150 soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Hood, Texas, had a two-hour layover at Bangor International Airport on their way to southern Iraq.

In reality, the troops being “withdrawn from the Middle East” are troops who were late being cycled back to the US. Additional troops are being filtered into Iraq and Kuwait to serve in these new “Advice and Support Battalions”. Nothing’s changed but the mission and the names of the units. Tankers, Cannoneers, and Infantrymen are still being deployed to Iraq or to staging areas outside of Iraq. The idea that the “War” is over is a twisting of the truth.

What is more offensive and hypocritical of Obamaramadingdong is the fact that he takes credit for the accomplishments that our troops have made. As a Senator he opposed the troop surge which is the reason why the insurgency has been suppressed to the point where Obama can feel comfortable with scamming the American people. Additionally, as a Senator, Barry voted against funding troops in the field.

To add insult to injury, the Emperor mentioned former President George W. Bush in passing during his announcement. Saying that he spoke with the former President about this announcement earlier in the day and although he and the former President had differing views on the War in the beginning, blah… blah… blah…

Obama is an opportunity seeking flim-flam man. If he were a box of cereal (aptly named BarryO’s) he’d be an exciting colorful box that promises great taste, zero calories, zero grams of sugar, zero cholesterol, but when you open the box, there’s nothing inside. But then again, what do you expect from the empty suit that brought us undefined ‘hope’ and ‘change’?

Speaking of which, I believe that I’ve finally figured out that whole ‘hope’ and ‘change’ thing.

Like it or not, he’s going to fundamentally ‘change’ American and we are all going to have to ‘hope’ that our freedoms aren’t all completely taken from us in the process.

Blind ‘hope’ in undefined ‘change’. How’s it working out for you America?

Unemployment nearly doubled.
Deficit nearly quadrupled.
National Debt approaching $14 Trillion with unfunded liabilities approaching $130 Trillion.
Record numbers of Americans on food assistance.
1-in-6 Americans on some form of federal assistance.

Somehow, I don’t think this is what the voters were expecting.

As for August 31, 2010 being the date to end combat operations, truth be told President George W. Bush negotiated this event. Even though August 31, 2010 date wasn’t mentioned specifically in the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), it has always been understood that events on the ground would determine the ultimate time-line of events. According to the agreement…

The U.S. has been involved in military operations in Iraq since March of 2003. The legal framework under which the U.S. has operated includes H.J.Res. 114 (P.L. 107-243), multiple U.N. Security Council Resolutions, as well as orders under the Coalition Provisional Authority. The U.N. Security Council extended the mandate for the multinational forces through December 31, 2008.

On November 26, 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Kamel Al-Maliki signed a Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America. Pursuant to this Declaration, the parties pledged to “begin as soon as possible, with the aim to achieve, before July 31, 2008, agreements between the two governments with respect to the political, cultural, economic, and security spheres.” Among other things, the Declaration proclaims the parties’ intention to enter an agreement that would commit the United States to provide security assurances to Iraq, arm and train Iraqi security forces, and confront Al Qaeda and other terrorist entities within Iraqi territory.

On November 17, 2008, after months of negotiations, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and Iraq Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari signed two documents: (1) the Strategic Framework Agreement for a Relationship of Friendship and Cooperation between the United States and the Republic of Iraq, and (2) the Agreement Between the United States of America and Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq. The second agreement is commonly referred to as the SOFA between the United States and Iraq and is incorporated by reference into the larger strategic agreement.

Congress has several tools by which to exercise oversight regarding negotiation, form, conclusion, and implementation of agreements by the United States. The agreements with Iraq were negotiated and concluded as executive agreements and entered into force on January 1, 2009, and yet there remain many unanswered questions about the specific terms within the SOFA. This report begins by discussing the historical legal framework governing U.S. military operations in Iraq. The report then provides a general background as to the content of agreements traditionally considered Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs). Finally, the report discusses specific aspects of the SOFA, highlighting issues that may require continued congressional oversight. [1] – emphasis mine

In reality, as long as US forces were withdrawn from the cities by June 30, 2009, and the mandated date for full withdrawal “no later than December 31, 2011[2]” hasn’t expired, anything short of full withdrawal is consistent with the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement which became binding 19 days prior to Obama assuming the Presidency.

To put it bluntly, Obama just rode in as the current Lib Infesting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. to take credit for the withdrawal as if he had to actually do something to bring it about. It’s pretty easy to be seen as making the difficult decisions when they have already been made by more responsible and prudent individuals before you ever needed to take the matter under consideration isn’t it?

In conclusion, Iraq is still a potentially dangerous place and the United States is still under an obligation to provide security and training for Iraqi Defense Forces. There is a reason why U.S. troops haven’t left the region entirely, but rather withdrawn to another friendly host country in the region from which rapid deployment is possible.

As the Obama Infestation plays games with semantics in regards to our fighting men and women in Iraq, the Emperor has egg on his face in regards to Afghanistan. In the past 3 days 21 U.S. troops have lost their lives in Afghanistan. One has to wonder, if Obama would have given Gen. Stanley McCrystal the full number of troops he asked for, could these 21 deaths have been minimized or avoided?

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References and/or Footnotes:

U.S.-Iraq Withdrawal/Status of Forces Agreement: Issues for Congressional Oversight – July 13, 2009 Summery [↩]
U.S.-Iraq Withdrawal/Status of Forces Agreement: Issues for Congressional Oversight – July 13, 2009 ‘Withdrawal Timeline’ page 10. [↩]

Misery Index? You’d Be Surprised At The Numbers [UPDATED]

August 29, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Opinion, The Economy View Comments

Austin Hill has a new post up at Townhall.com in which he discusses a term that I haven’t heard discussed in the media since the days of Jimmy Carter’s Infestation of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. That term? The misery index.

In simple terms, the misery index is calculated by adding the unemployment number by the rate of inflation. Sounds simple enough and using the raw data you would get the impression that things aren’t much worse now than before Obama took office. But that is deceiving.

By artificially growing the economy through political trickery designed to offset true unemployment numbers and inflation rates, the Obama Infestation has to this point been able to get around admitting they are making things worse. Utilizing the raw data available, the current misery index is sitting at 10.8352. How bad is that? Well compared to Carter’s numbers that is spectacular. But compared to George W. Bush’s 8.10, it’s beginning to look dismal.

But the numbers as I have said have been distorted by the Infestation and their desired to remain blameless for the economy. The 10.8352 number is derived from the current unemployment rate (9.6%) added to the current rate of inflation (latest numbers are from July – 1.2352%). However, what isn’t taken into account are the underemployed and those who have given up looking for work. If you were to factor those numbers Obama is looking nearly as bad as Carter.

The underemployment number according to Gallup (a Democrat friendly polling agency) is 18.3%. Added to the latest inflation numbers (July 1.2352%) and we get a misery index number of 19.5352.

Compared to Jimmy Carter’s high of 20.76 in 1980, Obama is looking pretty bad. What do you think?

*NOTE: The actual use of the misery index was to calculate an economic average over the previous 12 month period. The numbers stated in this post are for one single month – July 2010 – utilizing the most accurate data about that month.

[UPDATE 0207] Poking around the net for more accurate information regarding the data needed to calculate an accurate misery index metric, I came across an article related to a new misery index developed by Moody’s. In the Moody’s misery calculations, instead of calclating the unemployment rate added to the rate of inflation, fiscal deficit numbers are combined with unemployment giving a more accurate dynamic to the equation in my opinion.

Currently, the federal deficit as a percentage of GDP is 10.64% – an astronomical sum by-the-way and yet, the possibility of it rising before September 30th is great – and as stated above, the estimated unemployment rate is 9.6%. Add them together and you get 20.24. If you were to consider the underemployment numbers, we are in real trouble America. How about a misery index of 28.94 America?

Keep in mind, it is Moody’s who determines credit ratings for countries. No wonder our AAA rating is in danger.

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Obama’s MSM Shill, Questioning His Muslim Heritage, and Journalistic Malpractice

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.

But where is the press?

[more crickets]

I won’t hold my breath.

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A Vote for ANY Dem in November is Approval of the Obama Destruction Agenda

August 17, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Death Care, Democrat Incompetence, Elections, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Presidential Politics, Taxes, The Economy, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism Comments Off

The Emperor is on the campaign trail, well sort of as he has been asked to stay clear of those wishing to actually win their seats. Anyway, he’s attempting to convince the American people to keep Democrats in power. His reasoning? Giving the GOP power will return the country back to the policies of George W. Bush. But is this accurate? No. This reasoning is so inaccurate let me count the ways….

First, Obama is President (like it or not) and he is who sets policy not Congress.

Second, George W. Bush couldn’t win in this political environment. Bush is not seen by Conservatives and Libertarians as someone who reflects the common desires of a smaller, less intrusive government. It was the spending of the 109th Congress under the direction of then policy maker George W. Bush which led to the disaster of the 2006 midterms and a repeat of that disaster in 2008 and the election of Obamaramadingdong. Remember the reasoning why every gullible voter was willing to vote for a vague empty suit. The promise of changing the status quo was too much to resist especially when that promise of change is masked by a cloud of ambiguity.

The election of Barack Hussein Obama was a precursor to a statement made by Nancy Pelosi in the days leading up to the approval of the Death Care bill. Remember when she said, “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it”? Yeah that statement. Well in relation to the 2008 Presidential election Obama failed to identify what he wanted to change and what he wanted to change it into. He also failed to define in whom or what we should have hope. It was a calculated effort to keep the American voter away from details because if they knew the agenda prior to his election, he would never have gotten elected.

With Death Care the bill got passed so we could find out what was in it and the people do not approve. Likewise, we now know Obama’s change agenda and it too is not approved of.

Progressivism took a 100 year approach to getting their political will which culminated with the election of Obama. His aggressive agenda has alienated the American people who were looking for fiscal responsibility and freedom. Its far reaching intrusion into the lives of the American people are responsible for the creation of the TEA Party.

Speaking of the TEA Party, isn’t it ironic that the largest threat to the Progressive agenda was born out of said agenda? After-all, what exactly IS the TEA Party? Broadly, it is a rejection of Obama Progressivism and its policies.

Congress is polling at 11% which translates into only 11% of the American people believe that the agenda being forwarded by the Congress is in their best interests. The GOP has been out of power for nearly 4 years. The agenda from January 2007 to present has been a Democrat agenda [Read also: that includes the last 2 years of the Bush Administration] not the agenda of the Republican Party.

The GOP has been attempting to reassure the American people and in particular the Conservative “base” of the Party that they have learned their lesson. That remains to be seen. However, compared to the spendaholic ways of the 110th & 111th Congresses, the spending spree of the 109th seems like a spending binge. Sort of like a weekend spending bender that ends on Sunday morning with a hangover that produces promises of reform whereas the spending ways of the current Congress is better explained as being in a state of perpetual spending intoxication. They avoid the impact of the morning after by staying drunk from the night before. No sobering realization of self destruction, no promises of reform. While the GOP has been forced by the American people into a figurative SA (spending anonymous) 12-step program, the Progressive Democrats have no intention of giving up their drug of choice.

As the Emperor is out on the “campaign trail” remember that he only wants you to keep his party in power so they can spend more, tax more, and pass more legislation which erodes even more of your individual liberties. Also remember, he understands that come January 2011, his party’s majority is gone. He is also well aware of the fact that his Presidency is going to be restricted to 1 term. That is the price he was willing to pay for progressing the Progressive agenda.

This point is driven home by a post on the Democrat friendly Politico…

Q: Will Barack Obama be a one-term president?

A: Yes, he might last that long.

Honest to goodness, the man just does not get it. He might be forced to pull a Palin and resign before his first term is over. He could go off and write his memoirs and build his presidential library. (Both would be half-size, of course.)

The visions of the Fabian Socialists who invaded American academia in the early 20th century have their chance. It is Barack Hussein Obama. If he can’t close the deal before he’s tossed out of office and designated along with Jimmy Carter in the pit known as “the worst US Presidents in US history”, he will have certainly gotten them closer than ever to achieving their ultimate goal in the US, turning it into a full-blown socialist nightmare.

Failing to understand who Obama was in 2008 has resulted in what is occurring now. He can blame Bush all he wants but the truth of the matter is the American people understand that this economy is owned by Barack Hussein Obama and the Progressive leadership of the 111th Congress. No matter how much he tries to re-paint and revise that simple and undeniable truth into “this is all Bush’s fault”, this is his mess and it is getting worse not better due to his neo-socialist/neo-marxist ways.

It is now 2 years later and some of the damage can be controlled if only Congress were controlled by the opposition Party. Perhaps aggressive action can be made by a Republican Congress to curtail some of the more harmful items on the Obama agenda through its power of the purse. But in truth, the Obama years will take at least 18 more years to reverse. Giving Obama and Democrats another 2 years to do more damage double that time frame.

Consequently, if you cast a vote for a Democrat for any office this fall, it will translate into your personal approval of what Obama is doing to this nation. If you cast a vote for anyone, and I mean anyone including Dog Catcher, you are endorsing the complete and utter destruction of the greatest nation this planet has ever experienced. If you think that statement is far fetched, remember what Obama said about the election so Scott Brown. He made the case that it was the same angst with the status quo that swept himself into office which then elected Brown to a traditionally held Democrat seat.

In other words, a Democrat being elected Dog Catcher of your little hamlet will somehow be made to reflect the American people’s endorsement of Democrat policy. So short-circuit that by making sure every Democrat is relegated to political irrelevancy.

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Dems Poised to Feel Wrath of Voters in ’10 Just As GOP Did in ’06 & ’08

“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.

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The Obama’s, Living the High Life as America Sinks Further Into Institutionalized Poverty

August 5, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Corruption, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Presidential Politics, The Economy, The REAL Culture of Corruption, Unemployment, socialism Comments Off

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?

Information from the following sources contributed to this post…

Michelle Obama Criticized as “Modern-day Marie Antoinette” Over Spain Vacation – CBS News
Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacation – New York Daily News
Me and my heavies: Michelle Obama goes walkabout in Marbella after ‘racist’ Spaniards gaff – Daily Mail (UK)
Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May – Boston Globe
New claims for jobless benefits rise to 479K – AP via Yahoo Finance

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Obama and “The Spill” – Videos

July 29, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Incompetence, Energy, Opinion, The Economy Comments Off

Talking Feds 3 from RightChange on Vimeo.

Oil Spill Timeline Update Day 84 from RightChange on Vimeo.

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Progressivism’s Failures Mean Long-Term Consequences for the USA

July 26, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Communism, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, News, Opinion, Presidential Politics, Taxes, The Economy, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism Comments Off

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.

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UK Announces Plans To Decentralize Health Care System

July 24, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Death Care, Democrat Incompetence, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Economy, The Nanny State, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism Comments Off

Is The Emperor Listening?

Now that The Emperor has used a recess appointment to get his Health Care Czar, you know – the one that likes the UK’s health system, I wonder what is going through his mind as he reads that the UK is making plans to decentralize their system. According to several sources, the UK’s new Coalition government is in the process of making plans which they say will save an estimated $30 Billion a year in “efficiency savings” and reduce administrative costs by 45% by 2014. How do they plan on doing this? Decentralizing the National Health Care System and putting local General Practitioners in charge.

From the New York Times…

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.

Yet another example of Europe moving to the right as Obama forces America to the left.

Leftist policies Do Not Work but the Moron in Chief is so stuck in a 1960′s neo-Socialist mentality that he is incapable of making the necessary adjustments as Europe seems to be willing to make. The Euro-Socialism that American leftists wish to emulate is in decline at a time when they are finally in a position to implement the failed policies which are drawing out the global economic crisis.

The window is shifting America and we are all about to get caught as the sash comes crashing down. The way it generally works is the left demands outrageous leaps to the left which can’t get passed because the right blocks them. So they compromise and take a slight movement to the left instead. But since the beginning to this Infestation, aided by the leftist majorities in both houses of Congress, those giant leaps have been made in spite of the will of the American people. Poll after poll shows the public’s resistance to the measures put forward by this President and this Congress but they get their entire wish list anyway.

They have abandoned their gentle nudging in favor of massive shoving and so far it’s worked because nothing could be done to stop them. However, November 4th is quickly approaching and many Democrats are going to be facing forced retirement because of the neo-Socialists’ [read also: Barry Obama, SanFran Nan, Dingy Harry et. al.] aggressive agenda. The major worry for Conservative AND Independent America is what the lame-duck Congress will attempt.

On their agenda in the event of a loss of their majority is…

Full implementation of Cap and Tax
Card Check
Tax Increases under the guise of balancing a budget that has yet to be passed and couldn’t be balanced if they did pass one. And no, you won’t be exempted because you earn less than $250k a year. They want to soak everybody.

My question is now and will also be in November and December, are the Republicans willing to put up enough of an opposition to stop it. It will take Every Single Republican to reject this. In the House, it will take some Democrats who are unwilling to play the role of a petulant child.

The American people have been speaking LOUDLY and the Democrat Congress has had their hearing aids turned off. They erroneously stand by the notion that what they have done was what the people wanted. If there were ever a reason to never put Democrats in a position of power – this President and this Congress is that reason.

So to answer my initial question…

NO, he isn’t listening. He’s the Obamassiah. He knows all and sees all. His is the only vision for the future. Too bad it leads to conditions similar to those experienced by Detective Thorn in ‘Soylent Green‘ or Winston Smith in ‘1984‘.

As I keep saying…

You cannot legislate Universal Prosperity; but you can legislate Universal Poverty.
You cannot legislate Universal Health; but you can legislate Universal Sickness.
You cannot legislate Universal Happiness; but you can legislate Universal Despair.

It is my belief that the left knows and understands these three simple truths and that is why they deliberately leading this nation into a condition of Universal Poverty, Sickness, and Despair.

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Obama “The Jobs Killer” and Uncle Teddy – Ohio’s Recipe for Disaster

July 6, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat Incompetence, Elections, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Fiscal Responsibility, News, Ohio Politics, Opinion, Stupidity, Taxes, The Economy Comments Off

Many of you know already that I refer to Barack Hussein Obama as “The Emperor”; however, I also have a nickname for the Governor of Ohio that is just as scathing. I call Ted Strickland “Uncle Ted or Uncle Teddy” in the same mold as “Uncle Ho” for Ho Chi Minh. I mention this only to put the title of this post into context.

Earlier today, I was reading an editorial written by Wayne Allyn Root that appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in which the author ripped apart The Emperor as being “Obama “The Jobs Killer”. He said…

Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This “community organizer” knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.

It’s time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes — rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners — Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

Not a word of these passages do I disagree with for the record. However, if Obama deserves “the top spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted List” Uncle Teddy deserves a spot right next to him.

Since he assumed the post of Ohio’s Chief Executive, he has so severely mismanaged our state budget that libraries in this state are operating under reduced hours, mental hospitals have been closed, museums have had to find new sources of funding, and the state’s largest inland man-made lake is polluted with an unknown substance which has caused the formation of two types of algae that are expelling neuro-toxic gasses. On top of all of this malfeasance, the state of Ohio has been hemorrhaging jobs during Uncle Ted’s watch to a tune of 500,000 jobs that will NEVER return. NCR has left the state utilizing Obama’s Porkulus Package to relocate to another state, DHL is gone, and GM Moraine is closed taking with it many large and small support companies. Yet he has the bold-faced audacity to run for another term?!?

Since I have brought up the subject of the polluting of Grand Lake St. Marys, let me add that the local population has a few yet unproven theories about what may have been the root cause.

A few years ago when gasoline prices spiked near $5.00 per gallon, many in this country were touting ethanol as a potential source of clean-cheap fuel. Problem – the production of ethanol is not exactly clean.

During the distillation process, a bi-product mash is produced. Rather than refining that mash down, a local ethanol plant was distributing it to local farmers to spread on their fields. The idea was that it is made from corn so it should be safe for the soil. That may be, but it isn’t safe for ground water. Some of the fields which were treated with this substance are within a couple of dozen yards of Grand Lake St. Marys. Locals are speculating that it was this substance that probably leached into the lake which is causing the release of these neuro-toxins. Not to mention, the air quality around the lake is horrendous.

The State has issued a warning about the lake. No swimming, no fishing, and if you use the lake for sport, do not come in contact with the water. Wonderful! Makes me want to jump on a SeaDoo for an afternoon in the sun! NOT!

How about we return to reason? How about the people of the state deciding to not allow an inept political hack like Strickland to remain in charge? How about electing someone who has a plan to return our state to economic stability? How about electing someone who authored the budget that resulted in the federal budget surplus that Bill Clinton is so often credited with? That person is former United States Congressman John Kasich.

John has a plan to return Ohio to economic stability. Uncle Ted doesn’t. John has a plan to attract new business to Ohio. Uncle Ted doesn’t. John doesn’t see the solution to the state’s budget deficit in new and expanded taxes. Uncle Ted does.

So how about November 2nd being Uncle Ted’s notice to clean out his desk? Elect John Kasich because our state needs someone with a plan.

[NOTE] The ethanol plant cited in this post was closed in 2008 due to economic insolvency. Define that as ethanol being economically nonviable.

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