1. The Democrats are floundering, in part, because they have been the real "PARTY OF NO"?
Now the electorate has sent the message that Obamaism is not wanted, that the country is over the American Idol fantasy about Obama and that Republicans and Independents will have to be heard.
2. The fact is that Pelosi and Reid have shut out every attempt by the Republicans to contribute ideas to health care reform or to any other matter.
3. As with Obama, Pelosi and Reid have had great arrogance due to their large majorities in both parts of Congress; so much so that they caucus alone and write their socialist pork laden bills alone. This is Obama's definition of being "conciliatory".
4. The Democrats say "NO" to every idea that the Republicans offer, "NO" to every bill the Republicans introduce.
The DEMOCRATS ARE THE REAL PARTY OF "NO".
"NO" outsiders invited!
5. The Democrats have shuffled all Republican introduced bills into committees that the Democrats control and the bills just die in the committees as their trick for saying "NO".
6. The elitist Obama AGAIN asks for bipartisanship, but what he means is that the Republicans have "NO" power, so they should just roll over and vote YES to whatever Pelosi and Reid put in front of them.
7. The REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS are keeping the United States a democratic Republic by voting
"NO" to bigger government,
"NO" to bigger deficits and
"NO" to other socialist programs!
It is their duty to vote "NO" to bad legislation.
The Republicans and Independents in the ELECTORATE are not giving up, as shown in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts and by the energy and enthusiasm in town hall meetings and Tea Party rallies where they all said
"NO" to ObamaCare,
"NO" to uncontrolled deficit spending, and
"NO" to pampering Islamic Terrorists.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Obama's "STATE OF THE OBAMA" Address
1. The "State of the Union" speech turned out to be the "STATE OF THE OBAMA" speech where he referred to himself ("I") about 75 times,, to the generic "we" (really meaning himself) about 70 times and to "me" or "my" about 5 times. All of this self-focus in only 70 minutes of speech. It was all about the state of the narcissist Obama and not the State of Union.
2. Obama's tone was one of LECTURING AND REPRIMANDING. Obama did his USUAL BLAMING OF OTHERS for his ineffectiveness and failures; hitting the Bush administration about 5 times, Washington (as though he wasn't part of Washington since January 2006 and didn't have a dominant Democratic majority this past year) about 5 times and, of course, Wall Street and Bankers about 7 times. OBAMA SOUNDED ANGRY THAT HE HASN'T GOTTEN HIS WAY ON MANY THINGS.
The newest group he BLAMES IS THE VOTERS THEMSELVES FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT HE HAS BEEN TRYING TO DO FOR THEM. The bad news for Obama is that voters do understand.
3. Unbelievably, Obama STUCK TO HIS CALL FOR OBAMACARE being passed and modestly said he just didn't explain it well enough to the American people. The fact is that he made over 120 speeches on ObamaCare, numerous interviews and had many of his cohorts explaining how the government taking over one-sixth of the economy was a good thing. Obama is TONE DEAF TO THE PUBLIC; his problem is that the public is not stupid, as he assumes, and ever since August of 2009, the public has been paying great attention to his health reform plan and has rejected it in town hall meetings, in Tea Party rallies and in the votes in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts. Obama's elitism and ideology make it impossible for him to hear the people.
4. Also, unbelievably, Obama is still pushing Cap and Trade, while the Congress and the people don't want any part of this, as most recognize the HUGE HIDDEN TAXES AND JOBS LOSSES THAT A CAP ON CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS WOULD CREATE. Obama sticks to this insane proposal that will cost jobs and at the same time pretends that jobs creation is his number one priority. He mocked all of the recent evidence that man-made warming is a hoax.
5. Obama's plan for "creating jobs" is a fake. He got a massive Stimulus (Recovery Act) bill last year which is now projected to be at about $850 billion, rather than the original $787 billion, and there is no evidence that it helped the economy or created jobs. As everyone knows, but Obama avoided mentioning, his Stimulus Bill did NOT CAP UNEMPLOYMENT AT 8% AS OBAMA PROMISED, but has exceeded 10%. At the same time, he makes up this FAKE NUMBER of the Stimulus "SAVING OR CREATING 2 MILLION JOBS"; there is no evidence for this, but he gives a few anecdotal stories, assuming Americans are stupid and will believe his 2 million number( which started at half a million last summer, then was one million and then 2 million sounded better).
6. Now, Obama wants a SECOND STIMULUS BILL, but the code word is "Jobs Bill" because the FIRST STIMULUS BILL WAS SUCH AS RESOUNDING FAILURE AND FULL OF EARMARKS. The version passed by the House will cost about $80 to $120 billion and is predominantly for more unemployment benefits and public jobs. Obama's philosophy seems to be that if you fail once then do the same thing again. At the same time, he repeated his campaign promise of stopping earmarks after having signed budget and Stimulus bills with thousands of earmarks.
7. The plan to cut the deficit and "FREEZE SPENDING" IS A FAKE. Obama increased the budget deficit by $800 billion over 2008 and now proposes freezing some small part of this at the 2009-2010 inflated levels, but not until 2011. Is he kidding; this is supposed to be a plan for fiscal responsibility?
8. On foreign policy, Obama once AGAIN WARNED IRAN OF "SEVERE CONSEQUENCES" as he has numerous times in the past year and once AGAIN IRAN WILL LAUGH at him. He spoke so strongly about supporting freedom but has been silent when protesters in Iran were beaten, jailed and killed by the government.
9. It's nice to know that WE ARE NOT AT WAR WITH ISLAMIC TERRORISTS, while we are at war in Afghanistan for some vague reason and fighting Al Qaeda. or AIG not repaying all loans or GM and Chrysler not repaying all loans.
10. Also, there was a GLARING ABSENCE of any word about GITMO, or CIVIL CRIMINAL TRIALS for KSM and the underwear bomber.
11. Obama ranted against the influence of lobbyists in government and how he will continue to oppose them, while having APPOINTED ELEVEN FORMER LOBBYISTS to high positions in his administrations and after personally meeting with the leaders of the biggest lobby of all, unions, and handing them a huge earmark, the exemption of union Cadillac health insurance plans from being taxed. What a hypocrite! He plays word games with the public, again believing they are stupid.
12. Obama showed his ANGER in his UNPRECEDENTED CRITICISM OF THE SUPREME COURT for their ruling allowing American businesses to contribute to campaigns. Obama, the Constitutional Law Professor revealed that this was just one more undeserved phony credential in his resume. First, he did not accept that the Supreme Court is an equal branch of government and that they let that ANNOYING DOCUMENT, THE CONSTITUTION, get in the way of his agenda and, second, this Harvard Law graduate EVIDENTLY DIDN'T READ OR UNDERSTAND the Court's decision which specifically forbade contributions from foreign countries or foreign corporations.
2. Obama's tone was one of LECTURING AND REPRIMANDING. Obama did his USUAL BLAMING OF OTHERS for his ineffectiveness and failures; hitting the Bush administration about 5 times, Washington (as though he wasn't part of Washington since January 2006 and didn't have a dominant Democratic majority this past year) about 5 times and, of course, Wall Street and Bankers about 7 times. OBAMA SOUNDED ANGRY THAT HE HASN'T GOTTEN HIS WAY ON MANY THINGS.
The newest group he BLAMES IS THE VOTERS THEMSELVES FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT HE HAS BEEN TRYING TO DO FOR THEM. The bad news for Obama is that voters do understand.
3. Unbelievably, Obama STUCK TO HIS CALL FOR OBAMACARE being passed and modestly said he just didn't explain it well enough to the American people. The fact is that he made over 120 speeches on ObamaCare, numerous interviews and had many of his cohorts explaining how the government taking over one-sixth of the economy was a good thing. Obama is TONE DEAF TO THE PUBLIC; his problem is that the public is not stupid, as he assumes, and ever since August of 2009, the public has been paying great attention to his health reform plan and has rejected it in town hall meetings, in Tea Party rallies and in the votes in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts. Obama's elitism and ideology make it impossible for him to hear the people.
4. Also, unbelievably, Obama is still pushing Cap and Trade, while the Congress and the people don't want any part of this, as most recognize the HUGE HIDDEN TAXES AND JOBS LOSSES THAT A CAP ON CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS WOULD CREATE. Obama sticks to this insane proposal that will cost jobs and at the same time pretends that jobs creation is his number one priority. He mocked all of the recent evidence that man-made warming is a hoax.
5. Obama's plan for "creating jobs" is a fake. He got a massive Stimulus (Recovery Act) bill last year which is now projected to be at about $850 billion, rather than the original $787 billion, and there is no evidence that it helped the economy or created jobs. As everyone knows, but Obama avoided mentioning, his Stimulus Bill did NOT CAP UNEMPLOYMENT AT 8% AS OBAMA PROMISED, but has exceeded 10%. At the same time, he makes up this FAKE NUMBER of the Stimulus "SAVING OR CREATING 2 MILLION JOBS"; there is no evidence for this, but he gives a few anecdotal stories, assuming Americans are stupid and will believe his 2 million number( which started at half a million last summer, then was one million and then 2 million sounded better).
6. Now, Obama wants a SECOND STIMULUS BILL, but the code word is "Jobs Bill" because the FIRST STIMULUS BILL WAS SUCH AS RESOUNDING FAILURE AND FULL OF EARMARKS. The version passed by the House will cost about $80 to $120 billion and is predominantly for more unemployment benefits and public jobs. Obama's philosophy seems to be that if you fail once then do the same thing again. At the same time, he repeated his campaign promise of stopping earmarks after having signed budget and Stimulus bills with thousands of earmarks.
7. The plan to cut the deficit and "FREEZE SPENDING" IS A FAKE. Obama increased the budget deficit by $800 billion over 2008 and now proposes freezing some small part of this at the 2009-2010 inflated levels, but not until 2011. Is he kidding; this is supposed to be a plan for fiscal responsibility?
8. On foreign policy, Obama once AGAIN WARNED IRAN OF "SEVERE CONSEQUENCES" as he has numerous times in the past year and once AGAIN IRAN WILL LAUGH at him. He spoke so strongly about supporting freedom but has been silent when protesters in Iran were beaten, jailed and killed by the government.
9. It's nice to know that WE ARE NOT AT WAR WITH ISLAMIC TERRORISTS, while we are at war in Afghanistan for some vague reason and fighting Al Qaeda. or AIG not repaying all loans or GM and Chrysler not repaying all loans.
10. Also, there was a GLARING ABSENCE of any word about GITMO, or CIVIL CRIMINAL TRIALS for KSM and the underwear bomber.
11. Obama ranted against the influence of lobbyists in government and how he will continue to oppose them, while having APPOINTED ELEVEN FORMER LOBBYISTS to high positions in his administrations and after personally meeting with the leaders of the biggest lobby of all, unions, and handing them a huge earmark, the exemption of union Cadillac health insurance plans from being taxed. What a hypocrite! He plays word games with the public, again believing they are stupid.
12. Obama showed his ANGER in his UNPRECEDENTED CRITICISM OF THE SUPREME COURT for their ruling allowing American businesses to contribute to campaigns. Obama, the Constitutional Law Professor revealed that this was just one more undeserved phony credential in his resume. First, he did not accept that the Supreme Court is an equal branch of government and that they let that ANNOYING DOCUMENT, THE CONSTITUTION, get in the way of his agenda and, second, this Harvard Law graduate EVIDENTLY DIDN'T READ OR UNDERSTAND the Court's decision which specifically forbade contributions from foreign countries or foreign corporations.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Failing in Domestic Policy and Failing In Foreign Policy
OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY IS FAILING IN BOTH DOMESTIC POLICY AND FOREIGN POLICY.
1. Obama has chosen a course that DOES NOT RELATE, AND IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST, of the large majority of American people.
2. OBAMA GOT CARRIED INTO OFFICE BY THE ANGER AGAINST BUSH FOR THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN THAT REACHED CRISIS LEVEL IN OCTOBER 2008 UNDER HIS WATCH.
3. Obama got elected because others around him created a great marketing story about the man and propped him up with teleprompter speeches and rock star like appearances.
4. HOWEVER, Obama cannot change his words in a believable way or his actions.
5. Obama has been PROGRAMMED and given the words by a LIFELONG CONNECTION AND ATTRACTION TO RADICALS, SOCIALISTS AND EVEN COMMUNISTS as he clearly states in his books.
6. Obama has demonstrated this commitment by his lifelong associates in Illinois and many of his appointments to the Cabinet, Czars and his 411 speeches to date as president.
7. OBAMA DOES NOT CONNECT WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, as evidenced by so many instances such as apologizing for America, calling the Cambridge cop stupid for challenging the Black Harvard professor, mocking people who cling to guns and religion and mocking Scott Brown for driving a truck. (Obama cannot relate to people who actually work for a living or do manual chores and may have to drive a truck.)
8. OBAMA IS ALOOF, ELITIST AND ACTUALLY NOT SO SMART OR ARTICULATE WHEN HE IS REMOVED FROM HIS TELEPROMPTERS, as evidenced by such things as how he stumbles and bumbles for words and thoughts in interviews and press conferences without a teleprompter, his blatant bribery of the unions with a tax break and his outrageous decision on pampering Islamic Terrorists.
OBAMA JUST DOESN'T KNOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NO MATTER HOW PRETTY HE LOOKS IN READING A SPEECH.
1. Obama has chosen a course that DOES NOT RELATE, AND IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST, of the large majority of American people.
2. OBAMA GOT CARRIED INTO OFFICE BY THE ANGER AGAINST BUSH FOR THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN THAT REACHED CRISIS LEVEL IN OCTOBER 2008 UNDER HIS WATCH.
3. Obama got elected because others around him created a great marketing story about the man and propped him up with teleprompter speeches and rock star like appearances.
4. HOWEVER, Obama cannot change his words in a believable way or his actions.
5. Obama has been PROGRAMMED and given the words by a LIFELONG CONNECTION AND ATTRACTION TO RADICALS, SOCIALISTS AND EVEN COMMUNISTS as he clearly states in his books.
6. Obama has demonstrated this commitment by his lifelong associates in Illinois and many of his appointments to the Cabinet, Czars and his 411 speeches to date as president.
7. OBAMA DOES NOT CONNECT WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, as evidenced by so many instances such as apologizing for America, calling the Cambridge cop stupid for challenging the Black Harvard professor, mocking people who cling to guns and religion and mocking Scott Brown for driving a truck. (Obama cannot relate to people who actually work for a living or do manual chores and may have to drive a truck.)
8. OBAMA IS ALOOF, ELITIST AND ACTUALLY NOT SO SMART OR ARTICULATE WHEN HE IS REMOVED FROM HIS TELEPROMPTERS, as evidenced by such things as how he stumbles and bumbles for words and thoughts in interviews and press conferences without a teleprompter, his blatant bribery of the unions with a tax break and his outrageous decision on pampering Islamic Terrorists.
OBAMA JUST DOESN'T KNOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NO MATTER HOW PRETTY HE LOOKS IN READING A SPEECH.
Education and Jobs - Obama Changes Costumes
Obama's "agenda" needs to be reset.
Is the anticipated turn toward education and jobs a camouflage for his core beliefs in socialism?
If support of education means more government control of education and less private education, fewer Charter Schools, and making sure that everyone is guaranteed a higher education no matter how qualified or past performance in school, then this is a cover for part of the socialist agenda.
Control of education, health and energy are at the core of socialism.
Will Obama encourage competition among students, reward effort, recognize individual abilities of students? Will standards and variation in teachers' knowledge and ability be rewarded appropriately or will teacher unions dominate the system with seniority the number one metric?
Is Obama in favor of federal government run education with educational materials influenced by the government and students having financial indebtedness to the government?
In jobs, will Obama and the Democrats take the steps to build private sector jobs with a wide range of tax incentives for businesses and individuals (like maintaining the Bush tax rates and a high inheritance tax deduction), abandon the economically unsound "green jobs" agenda and encourage the R&D and implementation of cost competitive domestic energy sources?
Or will the "jobs" be dominated by expanding the public sector which is a drain on the economy not growth, payoffs with earmarks for jobs in certain districts, states and unions and staying on an unsound energy policy that requires huge government subsidies to prop up uncompetitive green energy technologies?
Is the anticipated turn toward education and jobs a camouflage for his core beliefs in socialism?
If support of education means more government control of education and less private education, fewer Charter Schools, and making sure that everyone is guaranteed a higher education no matter how qualified or past performance in school, then this is a cover for part of the socialist agenda.
Control of education, health and energy are at the core of socialism.
Will Obama encourage competition among students, reward effort, recognize individual abilities of students? Will standards and variation in teachers' knowledge and ability be rewarded appropriately or will teacher unions dominate the system with seniority the number one metric?
Is Obama in favor of federal government run education with educational materials influenced by the government and students having financial indebtedness to the government?
In jobs, will Obama and the Democrats take the steps to build private sector jobs with a wide range of tax incentives for businesses and individuals (like maintaining the Bush tax rates and a high inheritance tax deduction), abandon the economically unsound "green jobs" agenda and encourage the R&D and implementation of cost competitive domestic energy sources?
Or will the "jobs" be dominated by expanding the public sector which is a drain on the economy not growth, payoffs with earmarks for jobs in certain districts, states and unions and staying on an unsound energy policy that requires huge government subsidies to prop up uncompetitive green energy technologies?
Economic Recovery. Is It Posible Under Obama-Pelosi-Reid?
We need some straight talk from Obama, with clear ready to implement solutions.
These are not new ideas and are so simple.
All but the Left have the common sense to know that they will work.
1. Drop ObamaCare, country cannot afford it; if anything, replace it with free-market based health reforms on tax deductions for individuals, rate competition across state lines, tort reform and pools for truly uninsured citizens not covered by Medicare or Medicaid.
2. Pledge to maintain Bush tax cuts on income tax rate, capital gains and dividends rates instead of letting them expire and increase significantly.
3. New tax breaks for small businesses and for investment in R&D and in equipment for manufacturing.
4. Take all returned TARP money out of circulation to reduce national debt.
5. Take all unspent Stimulus funds and use to reduce national debt.
6. Put strict restraints on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that now have open-ended pipeline for further losses and lose many billions each month. No more propping up cheap loans and loans to those who are high risk. Regulations that were needed in 1990 need to be passed.
7. No more bailouts. No more "too big to fail". Propping up dysfunctional institutions is a sure prescription for further failure and more government deficit spending.
8. Stop the "Second Stimulus" bill that has already passed the House.
9. Cancel "green jobs" that require the government to heavily subsidize these non-competitive alternative energy sources.
10. Immediately start to develop and make more use of domestic energy sources, off shore drilling, ANWAR oil, natural gas, cleaner coal, nuclear.
11. Extend the inheritance tax exemption at the 2009 level or higher to encourage savings and then investment.
12. Finally, live up to the pledge of no more earmarks (pork). this will be big battle with congress and the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and many more of both parties.
13. Actually stop illegal immigration to keep jobs for U.S, citizens and deport all illegal aliens who commit crimes or who do not have jobs.
14. Drop Cap and Trade plan and drop EPA reclassification of carbon-dioxide as a pollutant; this sends jobs overseas. Pay attention to all the scandals around man-made global warming hoax.
Will we get an agenda like this from Obama and the Democrats? Very unlikely. It will likely be more smoke and mirrors, blaming others, and vague promises of fighting for the people (but not doing anything specific) that will get caught up in the Washington bureaucracy and scramble for local pork advantages, so if anything, too little too late gets implemented.
These are not new ideas and are so simple.
All but the Left have the common sense to know that they will work.
1. Drop ObamaCare, country cannot afford it; if anything, replace it with free-market based health reforms on tax deductions for individuals, rate competition across state lines, tort reform and pools for truly uninsured citizens not covered by Medicare or Medicaid.
2. Pledge to maintain Bush tax cuts on income tax rate, capital gains and dividends rates instead of letting them expire and increase significantly.
3. New tax breaks for small businesses and for investment in R&D and in equipment for manufacturing.
4. Take all returned TARP money out of circulation to reduce national debt.
5. Take all unspent Stimulus funds and use to reduce national debt.
6. Put strict restraints on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that now have open-ended pipeline for further losses and lose many billions each month. No more propping up cheap loans and loans to those who are high risk. Regulations that were needed in 1990 need to be passed.
7. No more bailouts. No more "too big to fail". Propping up dysfunctional institutions is a sure prescription for further failure and more government deficit spending.
8. Stop the "Second Stimulus" bill that has already passed the House.
9. Cancel "green jobs" that require the government to heavily subsidize these non-competitive alternative energy sources.
10. Immediately start to develop and make more use of domestic energy sources, off shore drilling, ANWAR oil, natural gas, cleaner coal, nuclear.
11. Extend the inheritance tax exemption at the 2009 level or higher to encourage savings and then investment.
12. Finally, live up to the pledge of no more earmarks (pork). this will be big battle with congress and the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and many more of both parties.
13. Actually stop illegal immigration to keep jobs for U.S, citizens and deport all illegal aliens who commit crimes or who do not have jobs.
14. Drop Cap and Trade plan and drop EPA reclassification of carbon-dioxide as a pollutant; this sends jobs overseas. Pay attention to all the scandals around man-made global warming hoax.
Will we get an agenda like this from Obama and the Democrats? Very unlikely. It will likely be more smoke and mirrors, blaming others, and vague promises of fighting for the people (but not doing anything specific) that will get caught up in the Washington bureaucracy and scramble for local pork advantages, so if anything, too little too late gets implemented.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Harry and Bess
WE WILL NEVER SEE THIS HAPPEN AGAIN . . .
BUT THIS IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE . . .
Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more, important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri. His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale. (sic. Illinois )
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!
I say dig him up and clone him!!
Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date!
BUT THIS IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE . . .
Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more, important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri. His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale. (sic. Illinois )
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!
I say dig him up and clone him!!
Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date!
Who is the Real Barack Obama?
Lanny Davis (former special counsel to Bill Clinton and columnist) in a WSJ article "Blame the Left for Massachusetts" is in denial about who is the real Barack Obama by suggesting that Obama needs to get back to "the New Politics/bipartisan aspirations" that are his real beliefs. Davis writes that Obama has somehow relinquished his leadership position to the "purists on the left of the Democratic Party". This is nonsense.
The ideals and promises of the "Campaign Obama", which espouse bipartisanship, a new morality, transparency, compromise, balanced budget, no earmarks and all those other high ideals are like a hologram; nice to look at but nothing was ever actually there.
The "Reality Obama" can be gleaned from his own writings in two books, early speeches, voting records in Illinois and the U.S. Senate, associates from college through part of the presidential campaign and appointments to his administration. They tell the story of the "Reality Obama" who was far from bipartisan, whose core beliefs are locked into major social and economic change that are very left-wing in nature and who has learned and practiced the ways of backroom politics from the time he was a Community Organizer in Chicago. Redistribution of wealth, big government knows best and a single-payer government run health care system have been part of Obama's core beliefs; they are not aberrations somehow imposed upon him by far left ideologues.
Voters in New Jersey, Virginia and, most remarkably, Massachusetts have figured this out even while Lanny Davis, and the leftwing Democrats, either haven't or just refuse to admit it for reasons of political spin.
The ideals and promises of the "Campaign Obama", which espouse bipartisanship, a new morality, transparency, compromise, balanced budget, no earmarks and all those other high ideals are like a hologram; nice to look at but nothing was ever actually there.
The "Reality Obama" can be gleaned from his own writings in two books, early speeches, voting records in Illinois and the U.S. Senate, associates from college through part of the presidential campaign and appointments to his administration. They tell the story of the "Reality Obama" who was far from bipartisan, whose core beliefs are locked into major social and economic change that are very left-wing in nature and who has learned and practiced the ways of backroom politics from the time he was a Community Organizer in Chicago. Redistribution of wealth, big government knows best and a single-payer government run health care system have been part of Obama's core beliefs; they are not aberrations somehow imposed upon him by far left ideologues.
Voters in New Jersey, Virginia and, most remarkably, Massachusetts have figured this out even while Lanny Davis, and the leftwing Democrats, either haven't or just refuse to admit it for reasons of political spin.
It's Time for Hope and Change, AGAIN!
Massachusetts voters soundly rejected Obama and ObamaCare.
How could this happen in true blue Massachusetts and, worse yet, with the "Kennedy seat"?
It was the angry mobs, Tea Partiers, extreme right wingers, Nazis, racists, neocons, Bush, Cheney, FOX cable news, talk radio, Coakley's weak campaign, those evil "special interests" and even the Devil, that allowed Scott Brown to win though Martha Coakley and Obama had such a beautiful message.
Now, sit back and enjoy the panic and desperate spin,coming from the usual leftwing Democrat mouth pieces - Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chucky Schumer, Barney Frank, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, Keith Olbermann, everyone else on MSNBC and the ever lovable Nancy Pelosi. Blame someone, blame anyone, except Obama and his agenda.
The best case scenario is that the Left and Obama remain delusional and continue to push for ObamaCare (with more bribery and backroom deals), for big spending in the public sector and that they rationalize away Virginia, New Jersey and now, the most unlikely, Massachusetts.
Hope is here, change is just around the corner.
How could this happen in true blue Massachusetts and, worse yet, with the "Kennedy seat"?
It was the angry mobs, Tea Partiers, extreme right wingers, Nazis, racists, neocons, Bush, Cheney, FOX cable news, talk radio, Coakley's weak campaign, those evil "special interests" and even the Devil, that allowed Scott Brown to win though Martha Coakley and Obama had such a beautiful message.
Now, sit back and enjoy the panic and desperate spin,coming from the usual leftwing Democrat mouth pieces - Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chucky Schumer, Barney Frank, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, Keith Olbermann, everyone else on MSNBC and the ever lovable Nancy Pelosi. Blame someone, blame anyone, except Obama and his agenda.
The best case scenario is that the Left and Obama remain delusional and continue to push for ObamaCare (with more bribery and backroom deals), for big spending in the public sector and that they rationalize away Virginia, New Jersey and now, the most unlikely, Massachusetts.
Hope is here, change is just around the corner.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
"Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice...."
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS CATCHING ON TO OBAMA!
The old adage applies: "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me".
OBAMA FOOLED ENOUGH PEOPLE ONCE, BUT NOW THE TIDE HAS TURNED AND THERE IS SIGNIFICANT BUYERS REMORSE!
HERE IS WHY.
Limit unemployment to 8% with Stimulus bill: Obama lied
Bipartisanship; he lied
Open debates on C-Span: he lied
Cut Bush deficit in half: he lied
No increase in taxes: he lied
Lower health care costs: he lied
Improve health care: he lied
New morality in government and appointees: he lied
Nuclear Iran unacceptable: he lied
No lobbyists in his administration: he lied
No pork in bills he signs: he lied
Close GITMO in 2009: he lied (fortunately)
Contain Al Qaeda: he lied
Proud of America: he lied
Hold executives accountable of companies getting TARP: he lied
TARP money will be repaid in full: he lied
There is a man-made global warming crisis: he lied
Restrain North Korea nuclear and missile programs: he lied
Transparency in government: he lied
Post-racial politics: he lied
Card-check for unions: he lied (fortunately)
Middle East peace: he lied
But, he kept his word on one thing, there is a new dog in the White House
WHEN WILL THE REST OF OBAMA PUPPETS CATCH ON TO WHAT ALL THAT "HOPE" AND "CHANGE" REALLY MEANS?
The old adage applies: "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me".
OBAMA FOOLED ENOUGH PEOPLE ONCE, BUT NOW THE TIDE HAS TURNED AND THERE IS SIGNIFICANT BUYERS REMORSE!
HERE IS WHY.
Limit unemployment to 8% with Stimulus bill: Obama lied
Bipartisanship; he lied
Open debates on C-Span: he lied
Cut Bush deficit in half: he lied
No increase in taxes: he lied
Lower health care costs: he lied
Improve health care: he lied
New morality in government and appointees: he lied
Nuclear Iran unacceptable: he lied
No lobbyists in his administration: he lied
No pork in bills he signs: he lied
Close GITMO in 2009: he lied (fortunately)
Contain Al Qaeda: he lied
Proud of America: he lied
Hold executives accountable of companies getting TARP: he lied
TARP money will be repaid in full: he lied
There is a man-made global warming crisis: he lied
Restrain North Korea nuclear and missile programs: he lied
Transparency in government: he lied
Post-racial politics: he lied
Card-check for unions: he lied (fortunately)
Middle East peace: he lied
But, he kept his word on one thing, there is a new dog in the White House
WHEN WILL THE REST OF OBAMA PUPPETS CATCH ON TO WHAT ALL THAT "HOPE" AND "CHANGE" REALLY MEANS?
"Let Me Be Clear"
When Obama says "let me be clear" you can be sure that what follows is the
MUSHROOM TREATMENT. YOU ARE PUT IN THE DARK AND GET A LOT OF FERTILIZER DUMPED ON YOU.
When Obama says "let me be clear", he then blathers on endlessly and is anything but clear.
His charisma has faded; most now recognize that he is simply a pretty guy in an empty suit who could read from a teleprompter with a booming voice and has been propped up by others for his entire life.
The only things he is "clear" about is the leftist and economically disastrous direction in which he is taking the USA.
We now see a man of no integrity, no ideas and no inspiration.
He is perfectly "clear" that he is clueless on health care, security, economics, global warming and fulfilling any promises about ethics in government.
Obama is a loser as president, the United States is being damaged domestically and around the world by his presidency.
We can only look forward to restoring American values partially in 2010 and ultimately in 2012.
MUSHROOM TREATMENT. YOU ARE PUT IN THE DARK AND GET A LOT OF FERTILIZER DUMPED ON YOU.
When Obama says "let me be clear", he then blathers on endlessly and is anything but clear.
His charisma has faded; most now recognize that he is simply a pretty guy in an empty suit who could read from a teleprompter with a booming voice and has been propped up by others for his entire life.
The only things he is "clear" about is the leftist and economically disastrous direction in which he is taking the USA.
We now see a man of no integrity, no ideas and no inspiration.
He is perfectly "clear" that he is clueless on health care, security, economics, global warming and fulfilling any promises about ethics in government.
Obama is a loser as president, the United States is being damaged domestically and around the world by his presidency.
We can only look forward to restoring American values partially in 2010 and ultimately in 2012.
Payoff to Unions
OBAMA BRIBING THE UNIONS (with a tax exemption on 'Cadillac" health plans) FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND FOR THE VOTES OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM HEAVILY UNIONIZED CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS IS THE MOST DISGUSTING BACK-ROOM DEAL YET .
This deal stinks more than the "Louisiana purchase" of Sen Mary Landrieu's vote and the "Cornhusker sellout" by Sen Ben Nelson .
OBAMA IS GIVING NON-UNION WORKERS THE FINGER,
JUST AS HE HAS TO SENIORS with his plan to destroy Medicare Advantage (except in Florida, another bribe) and to cut Medicare by $500 billion lowering the quality of care.
THIS IS ORGANIZED CRIME AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL; RIGHT IN THE OVAL OFFICE.
This deal stinks more than the "Louisiana purchase" of Sen Mary Landrieu's vote and the "Cornhusker sellout" by Sen Ben Nelson .
OBAMA IS GIVING NON-UNION WORKERS THE FINGER,
JUST AS HE HAS TO SENIORS with his plan to destroy Medicare Advantage (except in Florida, another bribe) and to cut Medicare by $500 billion lowering the quality of care.
THIS IS ORGANIZED CRIME AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL; RIGHT IN THE OVAL OFFICE.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Health Care Message From The White House
Important Message From the White House About Your Health Care.
It's Fashionable (and Convenient) to Bash The Wall Street Bankers
Congress and the White House are so ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT BASHING WALL STREET BANKERS IN ORDER TO TAKE ATTENTION AWAY FROM DEMOCRATS WHO WERE THE INITIATORS AND THEN COMPLICIT IN THE BUILD UP TO THE BANKING-MORTGAGE MELTDOWN.
The huge bonuses in banks that received TARP bailouts are unethical even if the loans were repaid. But, it's not just the Wall Street bankers that deserve bashing.
HERE ARE SOME FACTS!
1. Jimmy CARTER and Congress passed the COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT OF 1979 which was the foundation for the subprime loan failures.
2. Rep Barney FRANK, Congress and Bill CLINTON from 1994 to 2000 gave the authority to, and encouraged, HUD to PRESSURE BANKS , Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to SET UP HIGH RISKY LIMITS for the amount of loans to go to " affordable housing" for poor people and minorities who could not qualify for normal loans; these became the "SUBPRIME" loans with higher rates for the risk.
3. Bill CLINTON and Congress REPEALED THE GLASS STEAGALL ACT in 1999 to allow companies to be involved in insurance, commercial banking and investment banking, thereby TAKING AWAY SOME OF THE REGULATORY SAFETY NETS in each industry.
4. DEMOCRATS in Congress, LED BY Barney FRANK and Chris DODD, BLOCKED Bush in 2003 when he attempted to get legislation for "SIGNIFICANT REGULATORY OVERHAUL of the housing financial industry". Barney Frank assured Congress that there was no problem with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac while Sen. Chris Dodd was getting low interest personal loans from Country-Wide Mortgages.
5. DEMOCRATS in Congress again BLOCKED the "Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005" to REGULATE FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC. Frank and Dodd sang the same obstructionist tunes.
6. Timothy GEITHNER, as head of the New York Federal Reserve in 2008, APPROVED AIG BONUSES while advocating the huge bailout of AIG which continued under Obama.
7. The bank executives ought to be held accountable for their part and huge bonuses for those who received TARP money are outrageous EVEN if the TARP loans were repaid because the TARP loans allowed these banks to survive and become healthy again. But, it was GEITHNER AND OBAMA WHO DID NOT HAVE THE FORESIGHT TO PUT RESTRICTIONS on future bonuses.
The huge bonuses in banks that received TARP bailouts are unethical even if the loans were repaid. But, it's not just the Wall Street bankers that deserve bashing.
HERE ARE SOME FACTS!
1. Jimmy CARTER and Congress passed the COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT OF 1979 which was the foundation for the subprime loan failures.
2. Rep Barney FRANK, Congress and Bill CLINTON from 1994 to 2000 gave the authority to, and encouraged, HUD to PRESSURE BANKS , Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to SET UP HIGH RISKY LIMITS for the amount of loans to go to " affordable housing" for poor people and minorities who could not qualify for normal loans; these became the "SUBPRIME" loans with higher rates for the risk.
3. Bill CLINTON and Congress REPEALED THE GLASS STEAGALL ACT in 1999 to allow companies to be involved in insurance, commercial banking and investment banking, thereby TAKING AWAY SOME OF THE REGULATORY SAFETY NETS in each industry.
4. DEMOCRATS in Congress, LED BY Barney FRANK and Chris DODD, BLOCKED Bush in 2003 when he attempted to get legislation for "SIGNIFICANT REGULATORY OVERHAUL of the housing financial industry". Barney Frank assured Congress that there was no problem with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac while Sen. Chris Dodd was getting low interest personal loans from Country-Wide Mortgages.
5. DEMOCRATS in Congress again BLOCKED the "Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005" to REGULATE FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC. Frank and Dodd sang the same obstructionist tunes.
6. Timothy GEITHNER, as head of the New York Federal Reserve in 2008, APPROVED AIG BONUSES while advocating the huge bailout of AIG which continued under Obama.
7. The bank executives ought to be held accountable for their part and huge bonuses for those who received TARP money are outrageous EVEN if the TARP loans were repaid because the TARP loans allowed these banks to survive and become healthy again. But, it was GEITHNER AND OBAMA WHO DID NOT HAVE THE FORESIGHT TO PUT RESTRICTIONS on future bonuses.
Where is the Passion and Inspiration From Obama?
Even some of Obama's supporters are concerned that, as President, he does not show passion and is not inspirational about issues. They worry that this is why he is dropping in the polls and the large majority are now opposed to ObamaCare and to Cap and Trade.
It's difficult for an ELITIST and NARCISSIST like OBAMA to drum up passion about anything other than himself and inspire others; particularly when all of his speeches are scripted and he is reading them from teleprompters. The few occasion where he speaks without a script, we see Obama stuttering and stumbling for words because he cannot "think on his feet". It's difficult to show passion and be inspirational in this situation where his energy is focused on trying to come up with the politically correct buzzwords but noncommittal response.
Obama has never been inspirational about issues. He did a great job reading the teleprompter during the campaign but during his actual career he has been bland and non-committal.
1. Obama as Editor of Harvard Law Review -NO INSPIRATION, only editor with no articles of his own.
2. Obama as Community Organizer: NO INSPIRATION, no accomplishment just organizing a political base in dirty Chicago politics.
3. Obama as State Senator in Illinois: NO INSPIRATION, just conniving the "Chicago Way" and avoiding controversy with 100 "present" votes.
4. Obama as U.S. Senator: NO INSPIRATION, no major legislation sponsored, spent two years running for president with slogans and buzzwords but no substance.
5. Obama as President: NO INSPIRATION.
WHY IS HIS LACK OF PASSION A SURPRISE TO ANYONE?
It's difficult for an ELITIST and NARCISSIST like OBAMA to drum up passion about anything other than himself and inspire others; particularly when all of his speeches are scripted and he is reading them from teleprompters. The few occasion where he speaks without a script, we see Obama stuttering and stumbling for words because he cannot "think on his feet". It's difficult to show passion and be inspirational in this situation where his energy is focused on trying to come up with the politically correct buzzwords but noncommittal response.
Obama has never been inspirational about issues. He did a great job reading the teleprompter during the campaign but during his actual career he has been bland and non-committal.
1. Obama as Editor of Harvard Law Review -NO INSPIRATION, only editor with no articles of his own.
2. Obama as Community Organizer: NO INSPIRATION, no accomplishment just organizing a political base in dirty Chicago politics.
3. Obama as State Senator in Illinois: NO INSPIRATION, just conniving the "Chicago Way" and avoiding controversy with 100 "present" votes.
4. Obama as U.S. Senator: NO INSPIRATION, no major legislation sponsored, spent two years running for president with slogans and buzzwords but no substance.
5. Obama as President: NO INSPIRATION.
WHY IS HIS LACK OF PASSION A SURPRISE TO ANYONE?
Hillary Was Right
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton warned that if a national security crisis arose with Barack Obama in the White House and the “red phone” rang at 3 a.m., then Obama could not be trusted to adequately respond. Hillary Clinton has been proven to be right. Hillary warned that an Obama White House would so downplay the threat posed by terrorism that “the government’s focus would shift away from the harsh and determined tactics used to protect the homeland,” Obama's actions have been to work at becoming more popular in the world and stress negotiations. Even after the Fort Hood attack and the failed attempt by the underwear bomber, the comments by Obama's appointees and his own, still do not recognize the magnitude of the threat from Islamic Terrorism..
Terrorists Are Also Criminals, But All Criminals Are Not Terrorists
OBAMA PLAYS WORD GAMES to label Al Qaeda and its operatives as "criminals" and avoids the use of "terrorists".
OF COURSE, ALL TERRORISTS ARE CRIMINALS, if they commit murder, attempted murder, cause significant property damage like blowing up planes or buildings or other defined felonies.
HOWEVER, ALL CRIMINALS ARE NOT TERRORISTS.
THIS IS WHERE OBAMA GETS SNEAKY WITH HIS WORDS!
TERRORISTS seek to overthrow or destroy established governments, institutions and beliefs, like the United States, democracy, Christianity and other religions and their moral beliefs.
TERRORISTS want to bring about radical change by using coercion, force and acts of frightening.
THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT AL QAEDA, AND THE ENTIRE ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT ARE TERRORISTS AND NOT SIMPLY CRIMINALS.
The Islamic terrorists are not protected by the rules of the Geneva Conventions since they violate the "laws of war" by not wearing a uniform, they do not display their weapons openly(hiding a bomb in underwear), they murder or attempt to murder unarmed civilians or unarmed military and they kill hostages.
THERE IS NO DOUBT, UNLESS YOU ARE THE MOST BLIND OF OBAMA'S PUPPETS, THAT AL QAEDA AND THE ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT WANTS TO OVERTHROW WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
It is just plain stupid, naive or dishonest to label this movement as criminal and not terrorism and to treat these terrorists as criminals in civil courts rather than illegal combatants in military courts.
OBAMA PUTS AMERICANS AT GREATER RISK BY HIS ACTIONS THAT TREAT TERRORISM AS SIMPLY A CRIME UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF CIVILIAN CRIMINAL COURTS RATHER THAN UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE MILITARY.
OF COURSE, ALL TERRORISTS ARE CRIMINALS, if they commit murder, attempted murder, cause significant property damage like blowing up planes or buildings or other defined felonies.
HOWEVER, ALL CRIMINALS ARE NOT TERRORISTS.
THIS IS WHERE OBAMA GETS SNEAKY WITH HIS WORDS!
TERRORISTS seek to overthrow or destroy established governments, institutions and beliefs, like the United States, democracy, Christianity and other religions and their moral beliefs.
TERRORISTS want to bring about radical change by using coercion, force and acts of frightening.
THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT AL QAEDA, AND THE ENTIRE ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT ARE TERRORISTS AND NOT SIMPLY CRIMINALS.
The Islamic terrorists are not protected by the rules of the Geneva Conventions since they violate the "laws of war" by not wearing a uniform, they do not display their weapons openly(hiding a bomb in underwear), they murder or attempt to murder unarmed civilians or unarmed military and they kill hostages.
THERE IS NO DOUBT, UNLESS YOU ARE THE MOST BLIND OF OBAMA'S PUPPETS, THAT AL QAEDA AND THE ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT WANTS TO OVERTHROW WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
It is just plain stupid, naive or dishonest to label this movement as criminal and not terrorism and to treat these terrorists as criminals in civil courts rather than illegal combatants in military courts.
OBAMA PUTS AMERICANS AT GREATER RISK BY HIS ACTIONS THAT TREAT TERRORISM AS SIMPLY A CRIME UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF CIVILIAN CRIMINAL COURTS RATHER THAN UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE MILITARY.
WOW! After Eight Years of War, Obama Partially Admits It's Real
EIGHT YEARS AFTER 9/11, AND ONE YEAR AFTER BECOMING PRESIDENT, OBAMA FINALLY NOTICES THAT THE UNITED STATES IS AT WAR.
HOWEVER:
1. Obama still cannot bring himself to mention Islamic Jihad or Islamic Terrorists which encompasses Al Qaeda but MUCH MORE. Obama is delusional in simply calling Al Qaeda an organization of "hatred". We are not fighting hatred, we are at war with a world-wide network of Islamic Terrorist groups and nations that come together under the ideology of Islamic Jihad. This includes nations that give the Islamic Terrorists bases for training, safe haven, weapons and financial support.
2. Obama still has the U.S. on the defensive in the war with Islamic Terrorists who try to strike the United States. He wants to tighten security measure for air travel which is good but he is still reacting in a narrow context.This is not simply an issue of making air travel more safe but one of war on many fronts. If Al Qaeda cannot strike us through blowing up airplanes, then they will find other ways to murder Americans.
3. Obama totally misses the larger picture of going after Al Qaeda and the nations that support all Islamic Jihad movements, not just in Afghanistan but, where ever they are based such as in Yemen, Northwest Pakistan and Somalia.
4. Since Iran is a major supporter of various Islamic Terrorists groups as well as providing the Taliban and enemies in Iraq with arms and explosives, it's way past the time that Obama stopped making empty threats to Iran for which they laugh at and ignore him.
5. Obama has moved in the right direction in taking a backdoor to profiling but still confiscating one ounce of shampoo if it's in a four ounce bottle and not allowing airline passengers to use toilet for one hour before landing is not exactly the kind of offense against Islamic Jihad that we need.
6. The complete incompetency of Obama's cronies in this matter, Brennan, Napolitano, Clinton and others is so apparent in their remarks since the Underwear Bomber incident.
OBAMA EITHER JUST DOESN'T GET IT OR HIS EGO IS TOO LARGE FOR HIM TO BACKTRACK ON HIS PREVIOUS POSITIONS AND THOSE OF HIS LEFTIST SUPPORTERS.
HOWEVER:
1. Obama still cannot bring himself to mention Islamic Jihad or Islamic Terrorists which encompasses Al Qaeda but MUCH MORE. Obama is delusional in simply calling Al Qaeda an organization of "hatred". We are not fighting hatred, we are at war with a world-wide network of Islamic Terrorist groups and nations that come together under the ideology of Islamic Jihad. This includes nations that give the Islamic Terrorists bases for training, safe haven, weapons and financial support.
2. Obama still has the U.S. on the defensive in the war with Islamic Terrorists who try to strike the United States. He wants to tighten security measure for air travel which is good but he is still reacting in a narrow context.This is not simply an issue of making air travel more safe but one of war on many fronts. If Al Qaeda cannot strike us through blowing up airplanes, then they will find other ways to murder Americans.
3. Obama totally misses the larger picture of going after Al Qaeda and the nations that support all Islamic Jihad movements, not just in Afghanistan but, where ever they are based such as in Yemen, Northwest Pakistan and Somalia.
4. Since Iran is a major supporter of various Islamic Terrorists groups as well as providing the Taliban and enemies in Iraq with arms and explosives, it's way past the time that Obama stopped making empty threats to Iran for which they laugh at and ignore him.
5. Obama has moved in the right direction in taking a backdoor to profiling but still confiscating one ounce of shampoo if it's in a four ounce bottle and not allowing airline passengers to use toilet for one hour before landing is not exactly the kind of offense against Islamic Jihad that we need.
6. The complete incompetency of Obama's cronies in this matter, Brennan, Napolitano, Clinton and others is so apparent in their remarks since the Underwear Bomber incident.
OBAMA EITHER JUST DOESN'T GET IT OR HIS EGO IS TOO LARGE FOR HIM TO BACKTRACK ON HIS PREVIOUS POSITIONS AND THOSE OF HIS LEFTIST SUPPORTERS.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Health Care Reform Behind Closed Doors
The Democrats are claiming they need "intraparty" discussions of the House and Senate versions of ObamaCare bills whereby "policy gaps can be bridged".
WHO ARE THEY KIDDING?
The Democrats are trying to finalize ObamaCare by themselves and BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (oops, no Obama transparency) because they have to cut even MORE SLEAZY DEALS with possible holdout votes like the "Louisiana purchase" of Sen. Mary Landrieu's vote for $300 million and the "Cornhusker collusion" of Sen. Ben-maybe abortion isn't all bad-Nelson for perpetual Medicaid supplements for Nebraska.
Also, Reid and Pelosi have to RECONCILE VARIOUS PAYOFFS, in the form of mandates and exceptions, to unions, AARP, big Pharma and big Insurance for their respective support of ObamaCare.
It's behind closed doors because IN THE END, health costs will rise not fall, quality of care will go down not up, insurance companies and AARP will make more profit not less, those on Medicare will see rationing not choice and many uninsured will remain uninsured.
OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO BUILD A MONUMENT TO THEMSELVES AND HIDE ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF PORK FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS UNDER THE GUISE OF A HEALTH CARE BILL, NOT TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE.
WHO ARE THEY KIDDING?
The Democrats are trying to finalize ObamaCare by themselves and BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (oops, no Obama transparency) because they have to cut even MORE SLEAZY DEALS with possible holdout votes like the "Louisiana purchase" of Sen. Mary Landrieu's vote for $300 million and the "Cornhusker collusion" of Sen. Ben-maybe abortion isn't all bad-Nelson for perpetual Medicaid supplements for Nebraska.
Also, Reid and Pelosi have to RECONCILE VARIOUS PAYOFFS, in the form of mandates and exceptions, to unions, AARP, big Pharma and big Insurance for their respective support of ObamaCare.
It's behind closed doors because IN THE END, health costs will rise not fall, quality of care will go down not up, insurance companies and AARP will make more profit not less, those on Medicare will see rationing not choice and many uninsured will remain uninsured.
OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO BUILD A MONUMENT TO THEMSELVES AND HIDE ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF PORK FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS UNDER THE GUISE OF A HEALTH CARE BILL, NOT TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE.
Not Just the Intelligence System Failed, The Obama Administration Set The Tone For Failure
Intelligence and law enforcement organizations are much like large corporations in some respects. The non-management ranks and lower level managers take their clues as to what is acceptable behavior, what level of personal risk taking will be allowed and even rewarded, what not to say and what not do do, from the words, written notices, stated policies and actions of the top executives and the CEO. Even when the lower levels in a corporation may know that the top is mistaken or doesn't have all of the information, most lower levels will only talk among themselves but not risk their jobs, security, benefits or careers, by disagreeing with the top executives and pointing out errors. This is how most large corporations work and this is absolutely how the government works where careers and financial security are prime motivators for seeking employment.
When Obama and his inner circle, particularly Eric Holder in the case of terrorism, give repeated signals in speeches, press interviews and policies about politically correct behavior and a soft attitude toward suspected terrorists and apologies to Muslims around the world, then this message is picked up by the intelligence and law enforcement communities and a tone of personal caution sets in. When actions are taken by the top - such as closing GITMO, prosecuting CIA operatives for vigorous interrogations, prosecuting military people for punching a captured terrorist involved in murders, and civilian trials for the worst of the Islamic Terrorists - then the rank and file in the various intelligence organizations become very cautious and even timid in coming to what might be perceived as a hasty, unsubstantiated or racist conclusion. Acting on "suspicions", possibly intruding on suspects with "unreasonable searches" or possibly violating other civil rights of suspected terrorists, who aren't even U.S. citizens, is viewed as a risky business in this atmosphere.
So, it's not just the sharing and sorting of data that is the problem in heading off Islamic terrorist attacks, it is the total environment created by Obama, Holder and others that lead to intelligence failures such as the Islamic terrorist Kasan committing murders at Fort Hood and the Islamic terrorist Abdulmutallab getting on a plane and attempting to murder hundreds of American civilians. The ultimate example of "right think" and excuses is when we have total incompetents like Napolitano and Gibbs first claiming "the system worked" in the Abdulmutallab case, when it could not have been a worse failure.
When Obama and his inner circle, particularly Eric Holder in the case of terrorism, give repeated signals in speeches, press interviews and policies about politically correct behavior and a soft attitude toward suspected terrorists and apologies to Muslims around the world, then this message is picked up by the intelligence and law enforcement communities and a tone of personal caution sets in. When actions are taken by the top - such as closing GITMO, prosecuting CIA operatives for vigorous interrogations, prosecuting military people for punching a captured terrorist involved in murders, and civilian trials for the worst of the Islamic Terrorists - then the rank and file in the various intelligence organizations become very cautious and even timid in coming to what might be perceived as a hasty, unsubstantiated or racist conclusion. Acting on "suspicions", possibly intruding on suspects with "unreasonable searches" or possibly violating other civil rights of suspected terrorists, who aren't even U.S. citizens, is viewed as a risky business in this atmosphere.
So, it's not just the sharing and sorting of data that is the problem in heading off Islamic terrorist attacks, it is the total environment created by Obama, Holder and others that lead to intelligence failures such as the Islamic terrorist Kasan committing murders at Fort Hood and the Islamic terrorist Abdulmutallab getting on a plane and attempting to murder hundreds of American civilians. The ultimate example of "right think" and excuses is when we have total incompetents like Napolitano and Gibbs first claiming "the system worked" in the Abdulmutallab case, when it could not have been a worse failure.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Abdulmutallab and Obama
EVERY ACT OF TERRORISM against airplanes flying into, or within, the United States, since the Pan Am flight was bombed over Lockerbie Scotland, HAS BEEN COMMITTED BY ISLAMIC TERRORISTS WHO WERE CITIZENS OF A FOREIGN COUNTRY in the Middle East or neighboring countries. IT IS INSANE NOT TO PROFILE based upon some clues such as appearance, passport country, etc. for both airline travel and other potential target situations.
EVERY ISLAMIC TERRORIST in these cases has not had a uniform, did not display weapons in the open and was targeting unarmed civilians. THESE ARE WAR CRIMINALS, and those that are captured, have NO RIGHT to be treated as military prisoners of war who are protected by Geneva Convention rules or as civilian criminals protected by the Constitution and the U.S. criminal court procedures.
Yet, Obama and his penchant for appearing fair has this adolescent view that if he is just nice to ISLAMIC TERRORISTS then they won't hate us so much and try to murder Americans. This is nuts, Obama is in a dream world and not dealing with reality. He is also surrounded by incompetents like Janet Napolitano who said "the system worked" with respect to Abdulmutallab, when in fact "the system" could not have failed any worse. In Obama's dream world, there are no Islamic Terrorists or a War on Terrorists, just "extremists" and "man-made disasters" caused by "criminals". Al Qaeda must be having a good laugh over the United States having such a fool for a president and must be planning more attacks where they will correct what went wrong with the Abdulmutallab atttempt.
Abdulmutallab should be in GITMO and subject to VIGOROUS INTERROGATION and a MILITARY COURT!
EVERY ISLAMIC TERRORIST in these cases has not had a uniform, did not display weapons in the open and was targeting unarmed civilians. THESE ARE WAR CRIMINALS, and those that are captured, have NO RIGHT to be treated as military prisoners of war who are protected by Geneva Convention rules or as civilian criminals protected by the Constitution and the U.S. criminal court procedures.
Yet, Obama and his penchant for appearing fair has this adolescent view that if he is just nice to ISLAMIC TERRORISTS then they won't hate us so much and try to murder Americans. This is nuts, Obama is in a dream world and not dealing with reality. He is also surrounded by incompetents like Janet Napolitano who said "the system worked" with respect to Abdulmutallab, when in fact "the system" could not have failed any worse. In Obama's dream world, there are no Islamic Terrorists or a War on Terrorists, just "extremists" and "man-made disasters" caused by "criminals". Al Qaeda must be having a good laugh over the United States having such a fool for a president and must be planning more attacks where they will correct what went wrong with the Abdulmutallab atttempt.
Abdulmutallab should be in GITMO and subject to VIGOROUS INTERROGATION and a MILITARY COURT!
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