Gamecock announces the dawn of only the sixth Super Bowl in which one of our favorite teams is participating, still a bit tired from our fourth week of immersion in contract law, but even more beleaguered from last evening’s defense of “right-wing Christians” accused of having taken over the federal government.
Proudly wearing our Colts horseshoe, we were surprised to find that one of our hawkish on defense and economic conservative friends thinks that a third-party Warren Buffet as President would be preferable to a return to power of the Republican Party given its supposed obeisance to Falwell fundamentalism and that the ObamaDem dominance will have been worth it once they inevitably legalize cannabis sativa nationwide.
Don’t hold your toke waiting on that one, anymore than you should wonder who dat team that will prevent saints from marching back to the Crescent City with the Lombardi trophy.
My good-natured conservative friend carries no flag for liberals or democrats, and affirmed his belief in America’s historical exceptionalism, but didn’t seem to appreciate the coincidence and contradiction of the influence of Judeo-Christian values in producing our greatness even while his libertarianism leanings blinded him to the real enemies of personal freedom in the World’s Oldest Party, i.e. the Democrats.
Contrary to Drive-by media myths of old concerning supposed Christian intent to “impose” their will on America, it is those of the modern day liberal persuasion that have done so via unconstitutional judicial fiat for decades; arguably legally thru bureaucratic interpretation of vague laws passed by cowardly congresses; and today through super-majorities over-interpreting their 2008 election mandate to fundamentally transform the exceptional America.
No, my good libertarian friends, your natural allies to protect civil liberties are those same Christians some of you love to loathe, and not Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Even if they could make marijuana legal across the Fruited Plain (and their are certainly strong 10th Amendment arguments that they could do so absent a constitutional amendment regarding the usurpation of state police powers), I missed the announcement of their intention so to do. Moreover, no true libertarian would find the trade off between legal pot, and the ObamaDem taking away of the means to earn enough money to by a pot to put the pot in.
The underlying problem I see in this mentality is the failure of the GOP and conservatives to dispel the another myth, i.e. that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the parties.
Fact: There are 10.3 and 10.56 trillion dime’s worth of difference between Bush’s worst budget deficit ($400 billion, and even that one passed by a Democratic Congress with then Senator Obama voting aye) and the first two budget deficits of the ObamaDem super-majority.
This is a difference not merely in quantity, but in kind. The Obama spending threatens the currency and economic well-being immediately. In contrast, the Bush spending looks quaint by comparison. Why, we could slouch towards Gomorrah as a country for 100 more years at the Bush rate. Obama has us at the precipice.
Looking at the past 20, 40 and even 60 years, there simply is no comparison on civil liberties, national defense and economic prosperity between the policies of Democrats vs. Republicans. I am a conservative first, but to imagine that voting for a supposed conservative Democrat could possibly do any good while making Pelosi speaker, is just folly. Voting third party also merely empowers the left. See Bull Mooses paving the Wilson way and Perot ushering in Bubba.
Another good conservative friend with libertarian/third party leanings, albeit also a Christian not hostile to the Christian Church, asks why must conservatives “settle” for an impure GOP in arguing for Tea Parties to produce a third party to fix the system.
There is a very conservative reason why conservatives should eschew the Utopian dream of a pure conservative third party and always vote Republican: Since Eve bit the apple and man was banished from the garden, we have had to settle for a world east of Eden. This is fundamental, and together with the recent history of the Democratic Party, makes it vital that Democrats be removed from power.
The Tea Party movement is essentially a visceral reaction and revulsion of Americans to big government that will translate into a huge victory for the GOP this November. The new myth of the media is to focus on the differences between individual tea drinkers and muse about how democrats could co-opt some of them.
Poppycock!
These Lipton lovers will kick out the bums in office now, and they are democrats, all 60 of which in the Senate who voted for socialized medicine should dispel any myth that there are any moderates worthy of that squishy word in any event.
Looking back, wouldn’t we die for the Bush deficits compared to the disaster we find ourselves in now? Any rational person would. Should we make sure that next time we have power that we exercise it much better? Yes again and amen. But politically, we must stop feeding the lies that there is no difference between the parties and that a third party could be our salvation.
And Warren Buffet? Please Jesus, take time off from dominating the Party of Lincoln long enough to help me weather that nomination.
Buffett voted for Obama. Buffett is an expert at making Buffett rich no matter who is President. Buffett like to be liked by the Manhattan-DC-Boston elites, and you don’t get invited to their parties if you get too close to Christians that really believe the Bible.
And as to those Bible-thumpers with whom I proudly associate myself, does anyone ever wonder from whence came the tolerance, love for liberty and compassion for fallen enemies came but from a adaptation of turning the other cheek? Libertarians, you want the right to make a living in America? Keep more of your paycheck? Drive an SUV? Drill for oil?
Then vote GOP.
Want to make marijuana legal in Georgia? Use your free speech to persuade a majority to do so. It is Republicans that respect majorities. It is Democrats that employ judges to impose views on majorities.
Finally, an aside on the pro-life position of my good conservative Christian friend, who seems, at times, to go out of his way to make clear to assumed social liberals that his pro-life position doesn’t wish for a “national law” to impose his preference on all the states.
First, let me admit that I may be being too harsh in my criticism of this position and a bit hypocritical given that Fred Thompson did persuade me a few years ago that it is a better strategy to focus on replacing pro-Roe v Wade judges and pass state laws rather than seek a federal pro-life amendment.
That said, pro-lifers need not fear this issue politically, even as we naturally must now focus on the threat to our economy and terrorism. After all, we can fight against abortion in moral terms without changing the law; but if a president won’t defend our nation, we won;t be defended and if congress won’t let us pursue happiness and private property, we can’t fight that very well in the pulpit.
That said, either abortion is killing or its not. It is, and everyone knows it, and just as I favor every state having laws against homicides with malice aforethought for those un-tethered to an umbilical cord, I also pray for the day that America’s 50 states and the District of Columbia once again protect the umbilically tied.
And politically, pro-life is now the majority position with the generations younger than the baby boomers being even larger.
The rooster for Indianapolis simply crows so that we not be fooled by the media into thinking there is any real political dissonance between libertarians and Christian conservatives. There is not.
And if any on our side seek purity, don’t seek it through a third party or any man-made institution promised to Eve to be as Gods with a bite of the apple. Seek purity through God.
Conservatives know Utopia is beyond this world. In other words my friends, at some level, we do have to settle.
And given the history of the Dem Party and third parties, the only place to settle is the Grand Ole Party.
Cockstradamus:
2011 House of Representatives – GOP +11, Senate GOP +1
Dark-skinned with a Southern accent, Devan Downey will never be the Democratic Party’s Harry Reid-approved choice for a Presidential candidate. But the University of South Carolina’s Fighting Gamecock star in his team’s prime-time ESPN win over then undefeated and number one ranked Kentucky Wildcats this week sure showed up the light-skinned accent-less President.
Braves-Gamecock (pictured) knew, when he heard the sycophant in the White House campaign for Kentucky’s team to congratulate them on their rise to the top of the AP college basketball poll and tell them that they need not worry too much about their game in Columbia that evening, that USC would probably win, given the Barack kisses of death in post-Inauguration elections in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia.
This was the first time my law school alma mater had ever beaten a team that was ranked #1 at the time, but it was not our greatest win. Under Frank McGuire in the late 60s and early 70s, South Carolina was a major power in college hoops and even won the ACC with a 14-0 record when All-American John Roche lead the team. The Gamecocks have also won the SEC in the 90s and beaten Kentucky twice in some years.
But what is most special about this week’s win, was that the country was introduced to the jewel of a small player from the small town of Chester, S.C., whose game is anything but small. The sports world is gaga for Devan Downey (pictured).
Braves-Gamecock nation joins forces with Tebow-nation this week to remind the NFL-creeps that whether their horse-teeth inspectors relegate the Florida Gator to a glue factory or not, matters not a whit to those that love the college game and that see it as a superior test of athletic ability and leadership.
NFL’s social darwinists can’t take Heisman away
I was not part of the worship Tim crowd, but there is no denying what a good man this is and that his achievements on the gridiron make him one of the top football players of all-time. They take the Heisman away from those the NFL shun.
That said, we are looking forward to only our sixth Super Bowl ever in which one of our teams is participating. As a life-long Colts fan who also pulls for Dixie’s falcons and Panthers, we hope the Saints go marching out of Miami as losing martyrs trampled under equine foot.
Braves Pitchers and catchers report in 21 days and we hope that before the first umpire’s regular season cry of “Play Ball!”, that Obama campaigns for the Phillies.
President Barack Obama has told congressional Republicans that it’s time to work more closely together to solve the country’s problems. He made the comments during a speech at a retreat of House Republicans Friday in Baltimore
Obama Lays Out Parameters for Bipartisan Health Reform
“If I get confirmation from health care experts, people who know the experts and how it works – including doctors and nurses – ways of reducing people’s premiums, covering those who not have insurance, making it more affordable for small businesses, having insurance reforms that ensure people have insurance even when they’ve got pre-exisiting conditions that their coverage is not dropped just because they’re sick. That young people right out of college or as they’re entering into the work force can still get health insurance. If those component parts are things that you care about and want to do, I’m game. And I’ve got a lot of these ideas.”
Obama on C-SPAN Coverage
Horrible answer, having committee meetings about a phantom bill while the real legislation is being written and negotiated behind closed doors both at the White House and in Congress is not transparency!
Obama on Earmarks
This is just ridiculous, Obama’s biggest cheerleaders – MSNBC, even pointed out the political slight of hand the Dems used to claim that the stimulus had no earmarks.
Obama on Lobbyists in Administration
Btw – PoliFact has already rated this fallacy as Obama promise broken and here’s a list of lobbyists Hot Air put out about a year ago… the list has grown since then:
Here are former lobbyists Obama has tapped for top jobs:
Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm [now confirmed].
Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.
Could New York Democrat’s proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts mark the beginning of the restoration of Americans’ unalienable rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Two House Democrats in tough reelection races are asking Congress and President Barack Obama to extend the Bush tax cuts:
Reps. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.) and Mike McMahon (D-N.Y., pictured) asked members in a “Dear Colleague” letter Thursday to support extending the tax cuts, which passed in 2001 and 2003 and are set to expire this year, for at least another two years. Specifically, Bright and McMahon are asking lawmakers to sign a letter to Obama asking him to include the tax cuts in his budget plans for 2010.
“Allowing these tax rates to expire during this recession runs the risk of curtailing economic expansion just when it begins to pick up and could lead to a ‘double dip’ recession,” says the letter to Obama.
In the letter to the president, the members say the Bush tax cuts should not be allowed to expire. That would put them in opposition to Obama’s stated plan of letting some of the tax cuts meant for the wealthy to expire while keeping breaks in place for the poor and middle class, consistent with his campaign pledge of not raising taxes for anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
In a related development, former Tennessee Democratic Party Congressman Harold Ford, now residing in the Empire State, tells the Wall Street Journal:
“First we need to cut taxes for businesses in the country, small and large,” he says. “We ought to provide a six-month exemption from the payroll tax for all firms less than five years old. We ought to extend the current capital gains and dividend tax rates through 2012. We ought to make permanent all the research and development tax credits for businesses making those investments. And we ought to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%.”
I feared that the passing of ObamaCare could be the socialist tipping point from which the America we know might never recover, so I rejoice that it appears to be dead. So sure that the Dem Donkey would exhibit mule-like stubbornness and ram it through despite the lumps Scott Brown’s Plymouth Rock left on the heads of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, that I proposed MLK-style non-violent civil disobedience to force its repeal.
But we aren’t safe yet, even if they let health reform die, because the damage from a great recession that ObamaDems won’t let We the People end for three more years, would also destroy millions of lives.
Conservatives need to drink tea from deep within Alexander Pope’s Pierian Wells and mount an offensive to seize our right to make a living on our own land, and especially with what lies under it and the seas. Want a booming recovery with good jobs and the side effect of falling energy prices?
Drill. Drill. Drill.
But the federal government bans it. Want to start or expand a business? The federal government punishes it. Want to get a loan from a bank? Why would they lend with no prospects for the profits from which the loan could be re-paid. Obama demonizes anyone that dares make a profit.
The only jobs created by the non-stimulus bill were for federal regulators and lawyers to stop business from doing business lest a rare rock get turned over and harm Mother Earth. The only jobs saved were state and local paper-pushers.
We have the right to earn a living!
Unless Harold Ford’s better idea catches on and more tax-cutting Bushies grow, there is zero chance that this recession will end, and the only way possible to make it happen is going to be up to We the People.
I propose massive MLK civil disobedience. His rights were being denied then. Ours are being denied now.
If I had an oil derrick, I would wheel in onto the Mall in D.C. one night and plan the writing of a letter from a Georgetown Jail (or from Marion Barry’s former cell downtown.
This recession is destroying lives. We can’t wait for two more election cycles to create wealth.
Martin Luther King showed us the way to defeat defiant Democrats
In the aftermath of the Scott Browning-out of the Ted Kennedy legacy in Massachusetts, we suspect further ObamaDem health care overreach and defiance of We the People that can only be turned back by Martin Luther King Jr.-style non-violent civil disobedience en mass.
[Mike DeVine Law Gamecock returns from his longest absence during our three years as Law & Politics columnist for Examiner.com. During our absence, necessitated by our orientation in our new position with an Atlanta area law firm, we missed writing our Ninth annual column for Martin Luther King Day as Haiti was destroyed, but return in time to comment contemporaneously on the Biggest Reality Mugging in recent history in the Bay State.]
As we witness President Barack Obama’s exercise of American exceptionalism in Haiti, that he spent his first year in office denying or denouncing as having been “imposed by a world order”, we celebrate another manifestation of it in the Commonwealth of Massachsetts’ rejection of ObamaCare.
The only issues remaining concerning the threat to American Liberty from the separate ObamaCare bills that passed the House and Senate late last year is whether Democrats accept the message or continue to defy the wishes of the citizens they serve.
Drawl and that’s all: The Myth of the Moderate Democrat
Last year we received conclusive proof of the decades-old myth of the moderate Democrat when the votes of all 60 were needed to ram thru 2000 lumps of coal-like pages on Christmas Eve. So I had to agree with an astute conservative Republican political observer and lawyer in Gwinnett County who suspects that the Jack Asses will more resemble their mule cousins when it comes to stubbornness in altering behavior after sharp slaps on the head.
While we hear many elected Democratic Party voices suggesting that ObamaCare is dead, we are reminded of all the moderate braying of Democrat drawls since the 1960s that never translated into votes that defied their supposed more liberal bosses. We suspect that Speaker Pelosi will threaten enough so-called pro-life House Democrats with their own political abortions to get a majority to pass the more pro-abortion Senate bill on the way to a Rose garden signing ceremony.
Obama v McCain
During many pre-2008-election intra-party debates inspired by our uninspiring McCain side of the GOP ticket, I argued that the only way it would be better for the conservative movement and, most importantly, America itself, for Obama to win, would be if we could prevent the passage of permanent entitlements that would never be repealed.
I was always sure that the life under super-majority ObamaDem rule, would result in Americans’ re-education in the proven-failed liberal policies abroad and at home that we experienced in the late 70s. The 2009 results in Virginia and New Jersey and writ large in the just completed Plymouth Rock drop onto Harry Reid’s head, vindicate that Cockstradamus vision as well as the Rush Limbaugh Ronaldus Magnus maxim regarding the marketability of unabashed, unapologetic conservatism regardless of region, especially when the environment is saturated with disgust for leftist overreach.
But if the ObamaDems go on and defy We the People and impose the transformation of the health care industry as public utility on America, then it will not have been worth the lesson given the history of other such huge entitlement codifications and the fecklessness of the Grand Old Party when it holds the reins of power.
We suspect that the only way the ObamaCare socialist tipping point can be turned back is by following the example of the great man whose birth we celebrated last week.
MLK vs Democrats
When a young Montgomery, Alabama pastor from Atlanta directed bus boycotts, letters from jails and marches over bridges and on Washington, D.C., he was at all times seeking to repeal unjust laws passed by defiant Democrats. He had many more allies in that struggle in the GOP of his father, Martin Luther King, Sr. and Abraham “The Great Emancipator” Lincoln, which party was created to end slavery.
King, unlike the present occupant of the White House, believed deeply in American exceptionalism, despite existing segregation laws. He knew that most all Americans were infused with the same Judeo-Christian values he preached and that they could be appealed to within our system.
King’s dream that one day little black boys would hold hands with little white boys while hearing freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia came true. Our exceptionalism was proven long before the First Lady first discovered some of it in votes for her husband in 2007.
We could soon face a dire circumstance of a Liberty defying law directed at our very lives in the end of the protection of the unalienable right to pursue happiness via health care. We cannot claim taxation without representation as could King and those at the first Boston Tea Party. But that does not diminish the fact of the denial of liberty just as great.
Some astute political observers fear that there could be riots in the streets should the Democrats ram the ObamaCare bill into law in this environment. Violence must be opposed, but we should not settle merely for the prospects of future election results to pave the way for repeal.
Non-violent civil disobedience is the way
I have long advocated non-violent civil disobedience with respect to oil drilling given the 32-year moratorium on expanded drilling imposed by the Democrats. Then came the ban on Edison’s bulb. I also support the recently announced Manhattan Declaration to defy unconstitutional laws, court rulings and regulations that infringe upon speech and religious freedoms.
A massive defiance of a Health Care Bill signed by President Obama may well be the only way to ensure repeal and the restoration of the Liberty that our forefathers, including MLK, fought and died for.
America should be proud of the aid we are sending to Haiti, and especially some of the well-to-do orthopedic surgeons donating their valuable time to make sure those with simple broken bones in Port-au-Prince don’t get added to the earthquake death toll.
But doctors alone can’t repair an America broken by Big Goverment. A defiant Congress can only be tamed by a defiant people.
Economics 101
Many liberals simply don’t understand what creates the wealth that makes it possible for us to help the Haiti’s of the world. They take it for granted that the wealth created due to the economic liberty and private property rights the founders devised, will remain no matter what burdens they put on doctors or investors.
The health care bill would be the final blow to an economy already stifled by Fannie Mae-like intrusions into the market.
The moral heart of capitalism and conservative epiphanies
Lastly, let me address the false allegation of some on the left, that it would be “heartless” not to pass one of the two bills on the table or a compromise thereof, as I heard yesterday in person.
Americans have never been “heartless”, and the existing state of health care is nothing if not a huge heart with the requirement that no one be turned away from emergency rooms receiving federal aid.
The Republican Party has held all the power in D.C. several times since FDR and never have they sought to end nor substantially reduce the Reagan endorsed “safety net for the truly needy” in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or food stamps.
Once can argue that a heart-filled person should seek some repeals, but by the Democrats’ own standards, the GOP passes “heart” muster.
Doing “nothing”, then, would not be heartless, nor does a failure to pass ObamaCare prevent doing something in the future that improves the status quo.
I switched parties in large part due to my heart for people, especially the poor, and the results of the policies of Democrats vs the policies of the GOP, clearly vindicate my elephantine memory of a heartless Democratic Party when it came to victim-defendants trapped in welfare or millions suffering under the Soviet Union.
Trent Lott is Clean, light-skinned, articulate non-Negro dialect and carried Clinton’s impeachment coffee, and, hence is Harry Reid’s perfect Democratic Party presidential nominee
Another in our ongoing “Democrats are vile” series in hopes that the American people will finally get it despite the cover given them by the Drive-By Media. The only hope is that Republican leaders stop being brain-dead nice to their dis-honorable Jack Ass Party colleagues with beltway moral equivalence and poor reading comprehension.
In other words, Elephant party members: Never forget!
It is about a party that nominated a Vice-President Joe Biden that thanked God that Obama was “clean and articulate.”
And it is about a party that nominated a President that viewed his white grandmother as typical of her race in being a racist; sat in the pews of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Hate white America Church for 20 years; assumed a Cambridge police officer was racist without any evidence; and dropped election intimidation charges against New Black Panther thugs.
In the final analysis, after 40+ years of evidence, it is a Democratic Party obsessed with skin color as a weapon against conservatives that oppose race-based policies, and a party that uses race to create victim-dependent voters based on imagined bogeymen.
Trent Lott was a victim of the Democratic Party-Drive-By media fake racism allegation machine. His comments at a birthday party for the dying Strom Thurmond were not racist. The comment that America wouldn’t have had as many problems over the years had Thurmond been elected were not meant to suggest any endorsement of 50 year old segregationist policies. They were meant to make an old, dying man feel better. Trent Lott’s life since the 50’s, as testified to by black folks in Mississippi make that clear. What was disgraceful was the cowardly surrender of President George W. Bush and the GOP leadership to the Drive-By media PC police.
Harry Reid has no such cover given his documented slander of Thomas, but also as judged by the actual meaning of the words he used about Obama and the defense of Virginia’s Tim Kaine.
Kaine is all over Sunday Morning Shows with the line that Reid was “praising Obama.” Yes, he was. The praise was that Obama was a better candidate because he wasn’t too black and could turn a fake Southern aka Negro (black) dialect on and off.
Obama was praised for his “whiteness” and for being able to “act black” when necessary.
This reminds me of the praise then President Bill Clinton received from the media and many Democrats during impeachment, for being able to lie so well.
Joe Biden praised Bill Clinton as such and apparently has examined Obama’s personal hygiene closely and found him superior to Revs. Jackson and Sharpton.
Add the above to Bill Clinton’s outing of closeted GOP gays and documented by George Stephanopoulos treatment of White House employees and it becomes clear that the former President’s comment to Ted Kennedy during the Hillary-Obama primary battle about coffee-carrying Obama, that the Democrats also have utter contempt not only for blacks, but also for working people.
This also reminds me of many liberals in the press and Democratic Party who several years ago characterized as racist some drawings of black folks that they assumed were caricatures of blacks with exaggerated lips and other features. It turned out that the drawings were accurate depictions of real black folks. I think their reactions to those drawings, much like their assumptions that conservatives are racist because we don’t support their race-based, white-guilt infused, big government power grabs, are actually projections of their own racism.
Based upon his picture above, we assume Atlanta’s mayor, Kasim Reed (pictured), would not be acceptable to Harry Reid.
After all, look at Bill Clinton’s cabinet and the average Drive-By media news room. The whiteness abounds.
But Trent Lott and those Republicans like him, while not being racist like Harry Reid and his Democratic Party, are also part of the problem in keeping the America people ignorant of the rot that is the Democratic Party.
Bill Clinton was impeached by the House but when the matter moved to the Senate, then GOP Majority Leader Lott kept the most damning evidence against Clinton under lock and seal, where it remains to this day. No, it wasn’t just about sex (see also perjury and obstruction of justice), but it could have been more about missile technology to China and campaign contributions.
But the beltway protected its own.
Trent Lott should not have been forced to resign.
But Harry Reid should. The problem is that the Pelosis and Obamas that would have to force him out are just as vile as he is.
Give us time to read ObamaCare bill and advise our Congressional employees and we won’t need to see Obama-promised debate on C-Span.
In 1993-4 I defended Hillary’s behind closed doors meetings to draft President Bill Clinton’s health care bill and also defended Vice President Dick Cheney’s similar meetings in 2001 with regard to energy policy.
Why? Because the best and most honest advice is often given only when one is free to speak without immediate ridicule, and, most importantly, everything Congress does has to be written down and voted on.
HillaryCare was never brought after its details were made public. Democrats filibustered Bush Administration-proposed expanded oil drilling. We also recall the loud public advice given to Bush-McCain’s illegal alien amnesty bill.
But under Obama-Reid-Pelosi filibuster-proof super-majority rule, final 2000-page amendments to bills are rushed to the floor for votes within 24 hours or less, and so the public is denied the opportunity to supervise our elected employees.
Desperate for a vehicle to stop the deaf-to-the-will-of-We-the-People ObamaDems’ insistence on a bribe-produced bill to socialize American medicine, conservatives and independents have seized upon then candidate Obama’s eight or more promises to take over the private company C-Span and force them to televise health care negotiations.
Obama also promised not to sign bills before they had first been posted on the Internet for at least 72 hours. That promise was broken with the first bill signed by the president, i.e. the non-stimulus government growthulus bill and every bill since.
Obama lies. You can tell when he is lying when you see the TelePrompter speaking.
There is nothing wrong with confidential negotiations per se. In fact, they are necessary for Presidents to receive frank and honest advice and for legislators to fashion compromises.
But when you have a deceitful Democratic Party and Messiah for a president, all of whom deem the constitution and voters to be a nuisance, then you can’t trust them to give you time to read bills that will radically change your pursuits of happiness.
How is that Hope and Change working for you Obama voters now?
Americans were promised change and yet, as many have asked, where is it? With Congress saving jobs in phantom districts, fake zip codes being used for stimulus funding, and not to mention Obama’s lavish lifestyle citizens have to see the complete disconnect between our sacrifice and the Democrats luxury. First, it is to be expected that the President of the United States is going to be busy and that 99% of his/her life is going to be on the tax payer dollar. Most of us get that. With the speed of information and a good attitude of “dirty boots” leadership one should expect the President to be on the move. Meals, travel, hotels….the job demands certain things and even a certain level of decorum, yet, the President, as the Chief Executive has a fudiciary and an ethical obligation to maintain a measure of decorum and expectation that he/she is not abusing tax payer dollars.
For instance the White House, in June, held a Laua. The reason is unimportant, but in a time when the President is asking Americans to tighten up, do more with less, be responsible, he has kobe beef (priced at $100 per pound) brought in. This does not even begin to address the staggering measure of other food stuffs flown in and the entertainment to boot. Does it not also strike any one as unusual that while the President chides CEOs for thier wages, benefits, and perks, he himself maintains a Chef and is allowed to use government vehicles, offices, and property at his desire?
The president earns $400,000 a year, and has not received a raise from Congress since 2001 (not that I am pushing for one). He also gets a $50,000 annual entertainment expense account (unused money at the end of the year goes back to the Treasury.) Then there is the use of two private jets, Boeing 747s better known as Air Force One (which when flown overseas both fly to confuse enemy onlookers). There is also of course the security details, drivers, a country vacation estate, and the rent-free use of a well-known, 132-room mansion better known as the White House. Of course the office of the President is a full time 24/7 job, but as CEOs have to pay taxes on the flights they take on corporate jets, the President does not. So while he only techincally makes $400,000, using his own yard stick he benefits a whole lot more, and all this tax free of his income. This could actually make the argument the President’s salary should be cut since he gets tax free benefits and more often then not has a substantial living once even one term is complete (assuming of course Obama does not some how become King).
So by way of example, most government employees are allowed to maintain the miles and point earned while they are on travel. It became too expensive for the government to maintain, so civil servants that fly often gain a serious benefit. Yet they are not allowed to fly First Class. One may ask why cannot they not pay for the upgrade or use those miles they got? Does not cost the tax payer at all. Well it actually does. First civil servants earn an income paid for by the tax payer so one could assume that civil servants make too much if they can afford all those upgrades, that does assume that one bothers to research to see if said civil servant even paid for it themselves. Each civil servant has has a fudiciary and an ethical obligation to maintain a measure of decorum and expectation that he/she is not abusing tax payer dollars. Sound familiar?
From now until 2012 we will hear more from the President asking Americans to make sacrifices, and we will watch as Congress approves more taxes on Americans from once seemingly happy places like the Health Care bill. It will become strikingly clear that as Americans loose wages, benefits, and dreams of a desired lifestyle, our leadership is gaining more and more. We will begin to wonder why there is a disparity in what we are being asked to do and what our leaders are doing. Republicans are not free of this, yet it is more clear with Obama then any other. So when we hear about how Michelle and Barry decided to enter a career of service versus one of corporate privilege just remember that today, politics in America is as much as a corporation as any other.
Abu Ghraib is a distant memory, waterboarding is limited to U.S. armed forces training exercises and Guantanamo Bay detainees held without charge are being sent to the Big Apple for show trials. Yet, al Qaida was still able to find and utilize a “tool” in the Age of Obama to recruit a silver spoon Nigerian to blow up a plane bound for Detroit.
Could it be that the Cowboy recruited jihadis to die by the tens of thousands in Iraq while Obamassiah apology tours actually book more suicide bombing tours to the Fruited Plain?
It now seems clear to this observer that the Bush war on terror killed more terrorists than it created what with Iraq’s murder rate below that of Chicago and Iranians in the streets demanding the rights enjoyed next door from the ruling Mullahs rather than chanting death to the Great American Satan.
Could it be that the Arab and Persian streets, over time, saw the stark difference between U.S. enabled Liberty and the Saddams, Talibans and bin Ladens of the world and chose Liberty? It seems so in Pakistan and Afghanistan as well, where the citizens have repeatedly been ahead of the curve in wanting al Qaida out of their neighborhoods.
Would that the Western Left, including the Democratic Party could see as clearly.
It never was the Left’s Great Satan George W. Bush that recruited Osama bin Laden’s agents for their September 11, 2001 non-apologetic tours to NY, PA and DC, nor was it National Guard sadists that caused Baathists to fight on in Iraq.
The main recruiting tool that led to 9/11/01 is the same as the one that led to 12/25/09: weakness invited aggression.
The Left never understood that the Soviet Empire was evil and ignored Saddam’s hundreds of thousands slaughtered at Abu Graib before the late Ted Kennedy’s immoral equivalence saw nudity where dead bodies once flourished, and pronounced it merely under new management.
But let’s give it another shot. Maybe Democrats will pay attention this time since their Chosen One now has the Watch.
Pat Buchanan was always wrong when he suggested that “they” (Muhammed Atta et al) were Over Here because “we” (US trade, Exxon et al) were Over There. And even if that were the case, would that mean that the Zawahiris of the world speak for Saudi and Indonesian trade deals? But I digress.
We have a source that told us why they came over here in the Third Millenium after attacking us over there in the Second. The source is none other than Osama bin Laden himself whose first recruiting tool, as documented in Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, was the jihadist, kill the infidel literalism of the Koran of Islam, preached by Sayyid Qtub in the 40s-60s with a special shout out to resentment at Attaturk’s Turkish secularism.
The Koran says what it says, and after playing an integral role with us in pushing Russians out of Afghanistan before the Berlin Wall fell, the message resonated more in Arab coffee shops. Osama bin Laden considered the U.S. to be a “weak horse” when we left Saddam in power after the first Gulf War.
The recruiting accelerated after UBL had an eye-witness view of Clinton fleeing Somalia and after Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s blood kin almost knocked down the Twin Towers in 1993.
UBL dubbed us a Paper Tiger and declared war on America after Clinton’s response to the acts of war in leveling two U.S. embassies in Africa was to kill a nightwatchman in an abandoned terrorist camp in Afghanistan while UBL continued to appear in public in that country.
UBL thought George W. Bush was made of the same weak stuff and expected the response after 911 to be another pinprick.
Osama miscalculated.
I don’t know whether he is alive or dead, but I question the value of his continued life or a martyr’s death as a recruiting tool given his now 9-year slump in achieving successful terrorist attacks against the United States.
Enter Obama and the return to the Clintonian pre-911 treatment of acts of war as mere domestic crime, complete with Miranda rights and OJ trials.
Since Osama can’t appear live on TV for fear of being bombed, why not let KSM and Nigerian silver spoons deliver the message?
To be fair, President Obama actually bombed Yemen twice in the weeks leading up to the Christmas Day attack, yet neither he nor the press have mentioned this in all the reports I have seen since Detroit was targeted. I applauded the bombings soon after.
Moreover, we now learn that Obama is going to get tough (read: act rational) and profile airline travellers from “terror” states. But since his name isn’t Bush, this isn’t racial profiling and also not a recruiting tool?
Maybe Obama can be “coerced” into protecting America much like Jimmy Carter was transformed to “ordinate” fears of Communism after the Afghan invasion and when he was “betrayed’ by Ayatollah the Pious in Iran.
FDR, JFK and HST acted to defend America based on American values. Carter is said to have become angered due to what he perceived as “personal” affronts.
We know that Obama doesn’t share most American values given his apology tours and campaign to “transform” America. So I challenge Barack to take this attack personally and get mad at jihadists for not accepting his apologies for America. Get focused on winning re-election in 2012. After all, killing terrorists worked pretty well for Bush’s re-election bid.
Come to think of it, given the public’s view of health care reform, he might want to change that policy.
But then again, Obama may not care about re-election. He may be acting on principle to transform this country. His principles now have us in a deep recession and one Dutchman away from 300 less Americans in Detroit.
Think maybe the prospect of failing in his attack and then getting his own show trial could have been a recruiting tool for Farouk Abdul Mutallab?
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