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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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Will Annual ‘Teacher Bailout’ Be The Next Federal Entitlement?

August 10, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, Elections, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, The Nanny State, The REAL Culture of Corruption, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism Comments Off

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.

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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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Rangel Sings A Tune

August 7, 2010 Democrat Corruption, Humor, News, Opinion, U.S. House Comments Off

08-03-10 Charlie Rangel’s Golden Ticket by HumanEvents

H/T: Human Events

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Remember the “Culture of Corruption”?

August 5, 2010 Democrat Corruption, News, Opinion, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, The REAL Culture of Corruption, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House Comments Off

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.

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References and/or Footnotes:

Sam Donaldson – ABC NEWS August 25, 1989 H/T Newsbusters [↩]
Huffington Post – Barney Frank: POT BUST Took Place With Congressman Present March 18, 2010 [↩]

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, House and Senate Dems, and November 2nd

July 17, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Communism, Democrat Corruption, Elections, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Presidential Politics, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism Comments Off

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. NOT ONE MORE DAY.

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.

Let’s see how close I am. Shall we?

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H.R. 2499 – The Fast-track to Voter Fraud [UPDATED]

April 29, 2010 News, Opinion, U.S. House, Voter Fraud Comments Off

The quest to gain the Hispanic vote is taking a despicable turn today as the U.S. House of Representatives takes up House Resolution 2499 – Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009. Leftists and Progressive Republicans would say about my comment, “why would you want to deny Puerto Ricans democracy?” The answer is, I don’t. I want to preserve it.

Three times Puerto Rico has voted on the issue of statehood and three times they have voted to remain a Protectorate (see also: Territory). Statehood will subject Puerto Rico to taxation under the federal tax code. As of right now, Puerto Ricans enjoy the benefits of citizenship and protections under the United States Constitution. They have turned down the opportunity for statehood or independence three times between 1967 and 1998 each time DEMOCRATICALLY electing to remain a Territory of the United States.

We have allowed the decision to be Puerto Rico’s. But today, the U.S. House takes up the question of statehood for Puerto Rico in a way that will force Puerto Ricans into a situtation where they will be voting yet again without the choice to remain a Territory of the United States and they are doing so under the guise of “democracy”.

H.R. 2499 changes the question from “Do you want to become a state?” to “Do you like the current status?”. If the people of Puerto Rico vote “no” on that question, the ballot for the next vote will have the choice to remain a Territory of the United States removed. I’ll get into detail on that a bit further down in the post.

In 1796, the Tennessee Territory was admitted into the Union by force. Not by the government of the United States, it was the Tennessee Territory who forced themselves to be seated as a state. Tennessee unsuccessfully petitioned Congress for admission so they adopted a state Constitution, elected Representatives and Senators then showed up in the capital and demanded to be seated. The Congress didn’t have any frame-work in place for dealing with this kind of forced inclusion so they seated the delegates and Tennessee became the 16th state.

Now, Progressive forces in Puerto Rico are attempting to achieve the same thing by use of the Tennessee Plan model. The Partido Nuevo Progresista de Puerto Rico has written into their platform:

“The New Progressive Party adopts the Tennessee Plan as an additional strategy for the decolonization and the claim for the admission of Puerto Rico as the 51st State of the United States of America.”

“This shall be done through legislation which will establish a process for the adoption and ratification of the Constitution of the State of Puerto Rico, and the election of two senators and six federal congresspersons to appear before Congress in Washington D.C. to claim their seats and the admission of Puerto Rico as the 51st State of the United States of America.”

Right now both Parties are pushing this “non-binding” legislation to remove the opportunity for Puerto Rico to remain a U.S. Territory when they vote again.

H.R. 2499 explicitly states…

The Government of Puerto Rico is authorized to conduct a plebiscite in Puerto Rico. The 2 options set forth on the ballot shall be preceded by the following statement:

‘‘Instructions: Mark one of the following 2 options:

‘‘(1) Puerto Rico should continue to have its present form of political status. If you agree, mark here ____ .

‘‘(2) Puerto Rico should have a different political status. If you agree, mark here _____ .’’.

The ballot doesn’t mention statehood. It says in effect, do you like the current status?

But the supposed “non-binding” resolution goes on to define what the consequences are if the people vote for option 1 or option 2…

If a majority of the ballots in the plebiscite are cast in favor of Option 1, the Government of Puerto Rico is authorized to conduct additional plebiscites under subsection (a) at intervals of every 8 years from the date that the results of the prior plebiscite are certified under section 3(d).

OH COOL. If the people want to remain a Territory now, in 8 years they get a chance to reconsider. How thoughtful of the Congress to define these terms for them. What ever happened to allowing the people of Puerto Rico to decide when they wish to vote? But what if a majority votes for option 2?

If a majority of the ballots in a plebiscite conducted pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) are cast in favor of Option 2, the Government of Puerto Rico is authorized to conduct a plebiscite on the following 3 options:

(1) Independence: Puerto Rico should become fully independent from the United States. If you agree, mark here _____ .

(2) Sovereignty in Association with the United States: Puerto Rico and the United States should form a political association between sovereign nations that will not be subject to the Territorial Clause of the United States Constitution. If you agree, mark here ______ .

(3) Statehood: Puerto Rico should be admitted as a State of the Union. If you agree, mark here _____ .

Not only is the Congress of the United States telling the people of Puerto Rico when to vote, but upon what they are voting. Does that sound like democracy? How about fully disclosing the consequences resulting from the first vote? Are they planning on telling the people the truth before the election about rejecting option 1? Are they going to tell the people of Puerto Rico that if they select option 2 there is no going back to option 1?

If the people fraudulently are led to voting for option 2 in the first vote, remaining a U.S. Territory is off the table. After-all, it is the New Progressives in Puerto Rico who are pushing for statehood, do you really think they are intending on fully informing the electorate of what they are voting on? Ask yourself, how truthful was our Progressive President when he ran for office?

Liberals are worried that if Puerto Rico becomes a state they will inevitably vote for Republicans making them another Red State. However, the forces within Puerto Rico pushing statehood are more likely to push those they influence to vote Democrat. Here is the danger.

What the House is voting on today is no different than Congress becoming Puerto Rico’s ACORN. The U.S. House is engaging in voter fraud my misleading the Puerto Rican people and the people of the United States by shielding this non-democratic binding bill as a “non-binding” resolution with the name Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009.

Let me be clear on one point before I end this. If Puerto Rico wants to become a state, let them petition the Congress for statehood. They haven’t. Once they do, I’m all for including them into the Union. BUT, this bill forces them to choose and it is misleading in the choices offered. If you are going to force them to choose, put all the options on the table in one vote. Don’t break the choices up so the people lose their choice of keeping things how they are.

H/T: Glenn Beck

[UPDATE 1835] At 1:01 pm the United States House of Representatives passed roll call vote 232 by a vote of 222 yea to 190 nay (with 18 not voting) to consider the bill H.R. 2499. For passage, voting were 221 Democrats and 1 Republican. Among the nay votes, 170 Republicans and 20 Democrats. Those not voting 12 Democrats and 6 Republicans. Those not voting were; Barrett (SC), Davis (AL), DeGette, Fallin, Gordon (TN), Hoekstra, McCaul, Meeks (NY), Melancon, Mollohan, Moore (WI), Pingree (ME), Poe (TX), Shuler, Stark, Teague, Wamp, Wilson (OH).

Keep in mind, this was just a House Resolution to consider H.R. 2499 not full passage of the bill. Yet.

[UPDATE 2015]Just moments after my last update, the United States House of non-representing Representatives passed H.R. 2499 by a vote of 223 – 169 with 1 voting present and 37 others not voting at all.

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Shifting My Focus to a November Victory

April 12, 2010 Conservatism, Death Care, Elections, GOP/RNC, Liberal MSM Bias, MSM Ignorance, News, Opinion, Taxes, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism Comments Off

As I stated in the previous post, I’m so angry at what the non-representing Representatives (aka: Congresscritters) allowed to happen, that I can’t even address it rationally yet. I said yet. So I’ll move on to address how we proceed and that is simple. Throw out every single critter and so-called Senator (aka: Obama lap dog).

Q: How do we do that?

The answer to that question is simple. Conservatives need to take back the Republican Party. No more of these wishy-washy blue blood Progressive Republicans who look to Teddy Roosevelt as their idol. We need Ronald Reaganite Conservatives running in the races in November. We gave control to the blue-bloods before and that led to the over-spending Democratesque BS during the Bush years. This is an error that this country cannot permit to be repeated.

Some will say that the answer is an alternative. A “TEA Party” candidate. To which I say, that idea is a recipe for disaster and 2 more years of Democrat control on the Hill. Two more years for Obama to get his way and two more years for the liberals to ignore the electorate.

Nobody running under a “TEA Party” label is going to do any good. First off, they won’t get any committee assignments even if they do manage to get themselves elected. Secondly, there is no way to prove the Conservative credentials of these false-Conservatives. Many will be wolves in sheep’s clothing.

This week TEA Party activists around the country will be taking part in protests in every city. Their beef? The answer to that question is found in what TEA stands for. Unlike the moron libtards of the weak “coffee party”, TEA is actually an acronym. It stands for Taxed Enough Already.

But during these protests, the uber-left is planning to undermine the credibility of the TEA Party by acting “on behalf of the Tea Party which will exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.)“. These goons will be among the true TEA Party activists purely to make a spectacle which will get the notice of the already libtarded Main Stream Media in an effort to discredit the grassroots nature of the protests and paint members of the movement as uneducated, racists who only oppose the Obama socialist agenda because the Emperor is black.

If they are willing to go all out in an effort to discredit the TEA Party activists this Thursday, why then would it be far fetched to imagine the uber-left infiltrating the TEA Party movement in order to shill for their favorite candidates? – Harry Reid for example.

Speaking of the racism claims, how about the claims of racial insults being thrown about the day of the Death Care vote? Real or imagined?

I know there is no proof these things ever took place but let’s for the sake of argument say that they did. Who is to say that these weren’t Democrat plants tasked with calling members of the Congressional Black Caucus (a racist organization if there ever was one) the “N” word and spitting on them? Think about it. The only reason why these members took this particular path to vote that particular day was to bait the crowd. Who says that they couldn’t be so low as to plant some stooges in the crowd to show said crowd as racists?

I assert that there will be many so-called “TEA Party” candidates running for office in November who are nothing more than Obama/Pelosi wolves in TEA Party clothing by design. They are there to split the Republican vote and insure a win.

Our task isn’t in November, it is this spring as the Republican Party decides who will run against the ~~Socialists~~ Democrats in November. Will we as a Party select blue-blood John McCain type Progressive Republicans who look to Teddy Roosevelt for inspiration or will it be Reaganite Conservatives who will ask for your vote to lead this nation out of the socialist abyss the Emperor is leading us into?

The answer for this election cycle is not a third party. The TEA Party movement was never intended to be a political party. It is a movement. Inspired by the frustration of the masses who are telling those who they have previously elected that they are not happy with what they are doing. The TEA Party members are working within the two Parties to bring about reforms within those Parties. - Personally I don’t see how the Democrats can ever be reformed at this point, they’ve sold their collective souls to Karl Marx.

As a political movement the TEA Parties are unstoppable. Unless they decide to run a candidate. Nothing can destroy the credibility of the grass-roots nature of the TEA Parties than to putting forth candidates for office.

Don’t be fooled into believing that just because the candidate wearing a “TEA Party” label is who he/she says they are. Anyone can say they are a TEA Party member. Can you truly be sure?

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