One can never be certain just how low the Democratic party’s political operation will stoop or what inane tactics they will employ to distract the public from the real issues and where the socialist wannabes are taking our country. However, between Barack Obama’s sweet talking lies leading the most radical assault on the fundamental policies and beliefs that provide for economic success and national security ever seen and the leadership on Capitol Hill exhibited by the harshly partisan iron fisted left wing extremism of House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi and the corrupt, self-serving, highly negative thinking character serving as Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, never has the radical extreme of the Democratic party been so boldly empowered.
While Pelosi’s and Reid’s agenda spell disaster, their impact is slight compared to the power a committed radical groomed by self-proclaimed communists like William Ayers and devisive race baiters like Jeremiah Wright groomed for politics by the most corrupt political system in the United States, the Illinois Chicago Democratic machine. Yes, patriotic traditionalists and conservatives saw Obama for what he represents and could easily predict his radical leanings, who would have thought he would have gone for virtually every far left agenda item so quickly when the national economy is struggling so severely. Being the sophist and master of slick sales jobs and smoothing talking language of deception, most of these have been spun into being justified as economic necessities when in fact they will put a permanent larger drain on the economy by having the Federal government take on more day-to-day responsibilities that belong in the private sector or in the hands of state and local governments.
To ask the Democrats to defend their major policy initiatives right now is demanding defense of the indefensible and at least at an intuitive level the Democrats get it. If their attempts to cram socialist solution down our throats as their response to the nation’s current economic conditions were fully exposed and they were willing to give time for the public to see the details of their stimulus package and budget, even rather misinformed voters would be outraged.
Things are not going smoothly as the Obama White House works to secure its grip on power having one nominee after another failing to come out clean in examining such things as their tax records. For those who are intent on demanding those who have earnings to sacrifice that these shameless manipulative corrupt hypocrites have no problem bending rules and avoiding their duties as prominent citizens involved in government. Who besides Linda Chavez who would have been a brilliant cabinet secretary was forced to withdraw from consideration for President George W. Bush’s cabinet though many of his nominees were slandered, abused, and taunted when facing confirmation hearings in the Senate? Bill Clinton had problems with Kimber Woods and Zoie Baird for Attorney General on a nanny issue. Nanny issues don’t seem to matter for the Obama administration. His nominees with dark clouds over them are involved in tax payment issues or worse. Still some of them, most notably his Secretary of the Treasury, slip right through. They would have been crucified in the last administration. Still, would it be an exaggeration to say the number of nominees withdrawn exceeds the total of all Presidents since World War II?
Anyone wanting a true assessment of confidence in the Obama administration’s performance and game plan need only consult the Dow Jones stock index for a report card on those most intimately involved with the economy’s perception of how they feel the Obama economic policies will work. The Obama administration is failing miserably to instill any confidence at all as the market has gone into free fall since our ‘pseudo-savior’ was elected in November. The stock market was struggling to hold its own until the likelihood of an Obama presidency became a legitimate fear. Since that time, it has lost half its value going into free fall since election day in November.
The Democrats’ approach to the economy is counter-intuitive. The best economic stimulus is to provide all citizens with as much disposable funds as possible while giving those with sufficient wealth to start and stimulate businesses as much control over their money as possible so they will invest in starting new businesses, providing investment capital to those businesses trying to get off the ground, and to expand and strengthen existing businesses. The more money in the private sector to accomplish this, the more likely the economy will overcome its losses and grow successfully. The two most tangible things the national government can do to help this is cut taxes and streamline excessive regulation. For what little money the stimulus has put back in the peoples’ pockets, the huge increase in government spending on special interest paybacks and ineffective and inefficient social programs. What was supposed to lean primarily on infrastructure has come out of the legislative process looking very different. The end result is an unprecedented run up of the Federal deficit that dwarfs all debts previously entered into by the Federal government. The Democrats’ counter that they are only continuing that which the Bush administration began is blatantly dishonest when they boast of how the last Democratic President (not mentioned – and a Republican congress0 had balanced the budget. While the Bush administration deserves serious criticism for ramping up Federal spending that does not tell the story. 9/11 and Islamic terrorism does. The battle rages on to secure Afghanistan from being a staging ground for El Qaeda serviced by the Taliban. A brutal dictator who overran a strategic ally with rich oil reserves destined to Western interests was still acting in belligerent ways in 2002 firing upon American and British jets patrolling the “no fly zone” established to keep Iraq from attacking minority populations within its borders and moving onward to harm its neighbors. Winning military campaigns aren’t cheap.
What could directly destroy the ability to generate new business opportunities than raising corporate taxes and capital gains. The more a company pays to comply with a myriad of regulations and document compliance and the higher its tax burden, the less capital is left to hire workers and to grow the business and enhance its product availability and quality.
While talking down the terrorist threat as best witnessed by Homeland Security’s Secretary Janet Napolitano’s introductory address focusing on hurricanes and disaster relief with no remarks on our real security threats, illegal immigration and world terrorism and appointing a political figure, Leon Panetta, as CIA director, instead of talking about a strong sense of resolve to protect the republic from terrorist attack, the focus is directed toward criticizing the assertive measures of the previous administration. Clearly Barack Obama and his left wing idealists don’t believe what the radicals of the Muslim world have made so painfully clear, they are at war against our way of life.
One of the positive economic developments of the last quarter of the 20th century through the Bush administration has been developing a more constructive, less confrontational approach toward employer/employee relationships as trade unions outside the public sector have diminished tremendously. Employees are more actively involved in working with management in many industries determining the future of their companies and the products they produce. Obama and the Democrats see the management/worker relationship as inherently confrontational requiring institutional and government support to secure the workers’ welfare. The goal is huge growth of the rank-in-file of union member is the goal as unions provide the most loyal and consistent support of the far left of the Democratic party. Union pacs and the money they raise support Democrats in every election. The reward the Democrats offer is abolishing a most fundamental democratic principle of a secret ballot for employees to vote whether they chose union representation. The card check provision allows union reps to hand deliver and collect ballots from workers allowing room for time honored union practices of bullying and intimidation to obtain the desired result.
Rather than seeking to carefully consider the future of health care and determine the best way to provide quality health care to the public at large, Barack Obama with his leaders on Capitol Hill, measures to set in place the beginning of socialized medicine is being put in place through the bailout and budget process avoiding the opportunity to sweat the details and get the kind of national debate started that will help rescue our medical system from chaos and collapse as the baby boomer generation is entering into old age.
Massive funding is being dumped upon education not to help give parents more remedies to escape from failing public schools but instead to fund the primary goals of the teachers’ unions and other liberal special interest concerns. Though Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education seemed to hint that vouchers designed to rescue pupils from failing inner city schools were okay, Obama’s close Senate ally, Dick Durbin, has led the effort to end a highly successful program of $7,500 a year vouchers to send students to private and parochial schools. Given the cost per pupil established for the failing DC public schools exceeds $13,000 a student, that’s a bargain, not to mention the long term payoff of having kids learn at a high level, a feat virtually impossible in a dreadful school system.
Vice President Joe Biden warned that there would be hostile forces who’d attempt to test the strength of Obama’s presidency before he was elected, while the big disaster hasn’t happened yet, there are events going on that have to be measures to test how much the military doubting President responds. Last week, Communist China sent boats out into international waters to harass U.S. Naval ships in the area. Meanwhile, North Korea has been pushing ahead with attempts to launch a strategic missile capable of reaching the west coast while putting their military on full alert. Iran launched what is supposed to be its first satellite. One can only imagine what welcoming present radical Islam is preparing to greet our shameful President.
The worldly crew and press speculated that an Obama presidency would restore damaged relationships with European leaders who were tired of what the elite called the “Cowboy diplomacy” of the Bush administration. They’d find Obama to be more sympathetic to their viewpoints and less intrusive.
On one score, one would think the socialists in Europe would rejoice how rapidly Obama is attempting to push through socialist programs on every level in the United States. Privately, they must be shaking in their boots he might compromise American military superiority, every European democracy’s security blanket as they have the might of the American military to defend them leaving their economies free to pursue other priorities.
Through the best and worst of times, no ally has been more openly supportive of the United States than the United Kingdom. Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was seen as a perfect buddy for Bill Clinton, but stood arm in arm with George W. Bush when forceful action was required in the middle east. It would only seem natural that the first major head of state to visit the White House after Obama’s inauguration would be British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
The Brown visit couldn’t have turned out to be a more vicious embarrassment for the Obama regime. In one event after another, Obama showed no regard for traditional protocol, no visit to Camp David, no state dinner, not a single one of the ceremonies that shows the world how much the United States treasures and respects British support. Even the appearance to the world press where the two leaders stand side by side behind podiums with each leader’s shield was overlooked apparently leaving Mr. Brown feeling quite jilted. Adding insult to injury, it’s tradition to exchange gifts when new leaders take power. Gordon Brown offered an artifact rich in British history, a pen holder set made from wood from the anti-slave ship, HMS Gannet. The Obama gift, 25 DVD’s supposedly representing American movie classics which the London Guardian labeled as about as exciting as “a pair of socks.” One more thing, American DVD’s don’t play on British DVD players thanks to encryption standards. US DVD’s use NTSC coding. British discs require PAL coding. Nothing like a thoughtless gift totally useless to create a first impression with an ally Obama might be glad to have on his side sooner than he could ever realize. The White House response was that the President was a little weary from being so preoccupied with the economy.
Too preoccupied with the Economy!?!? Be real. If that’s the case why is the President trying to stiff arm through every imaginable agenda item on the radical left’s wish list with special attention to empower the labor unions who along with groups like MoveOn.org and other domestic intellectual terrorist groups provide the Democrats a never ending source of funds with explicit demands for payoffs in return.
After 50 days, it’s not to early to pass judgment on the Obama administration as one of the worst failures in the history of the American Presidency given the huge amount of money, now we’re talking about trillions, as in 12 digits to the right of the first comma, in spending for tattoo removal, pig stench studies, Frisbee golf, and earmarks and pork galore while attacking the people and institutions best prepared to rescue a struggling economy.
How can responsible citizens work to stand in the way of the Obama administration and the corrupt, self-serving arrogant Democratic representatives on Capitol Hill? It won’t be easy as the traditional media and White House enjoy a close relationship where the White House chief of staff worked with political hatchet men currently posing as commentators on CNN to create the Rush Limbaugh uproar and how various Republicans react to his statements condemning the Obama administration bluntly asserting he wants the Obama administration to fail. The other part of it was his reasoning, because he wants America to succeed.
When considering what we’ve discussed in this column, how can we not hope that Obama fails miserably? For Obama to succeed with his policies and programs, our country from Pennsylvania Avenue to Rodeo Drive with hundreds of Main Streets north to south east to west will have to deal with the damage for decades. In fifty days, we’ve seen that any notion of Obama being a “pragmatist” or “centrist” is way off. He is the radical his associations with Ayers and Wright suggested he would be. His dreadful handling of his responsibilities and high number of failed nominations shows his absolute lack of experience in any meaningful management position. Lyndon Johnson lead us into the most divisive episode in American history since the Civil War, sending tens of thousands of young Americans to be slaughtered in Vietnam while building the welfare state in the name of “the Great Society.” Jimmy Carter proved to be a total incompetent absolutely unprepared for the responsibilities of the most powerful office in the world emboldening radical Islam leading to the successful radical take over in Iran and seizure of the US embassy holding American hostages for 444 days until the morning Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.
Barack Obama represents the worst of Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter many times over. On top of that, he makes Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton look like “swear to tell the truth” Boy Scouts when Obama’s very existence as President is built on lies much less the garbage that comes out of his mouth.
America, it’s okay to want Obama to fail. It’s not just okay, it’s something we must do if in our heart we want America, our people, our friends and neighbors to prosper. Our freedom is at stake. Taking more money from any American in the form of taxes reduces freedom for that person and restricts freedom in many other ways that aren’t at first obvious to see. The specter of a charismatic demagogue who can get an audience worked into a frenzy shouting slogans in response should remind those of us who know world history of where we’d think American society could never go.
To hear Obama justify his decisions, he does not cite history or any kind of detailed factual analysis. Instead he offers, “It’s always been my opinion….,” “I’ve always thought…..” “I’ve said many times…..” In Obama’s mind, if he says it, “it” must be so. The gullible Obama-maniacs drunk on emotion hoping for “change you can believe in” and false senses of “hope” have swallowed the Kool-Aid.
They must fail. They must fail. They must fail!!!
While Pelosi’s and Reid’s agenda spell disaster, their impact is slight compared to the power a committed radical groomed by self-proclaimed communists like William Ayers and devisive race baiters like Jeremiah Wright groomed for politics by the most corrupt political system in the United States, the Illinois Chicago Democratic machine. Yes, patriotic traditionalists and conservatives saw Obama for what he represents and could easily predict his radical leanings, who would have thought he would have gone for virtually every far left agenda item so quickly when the national economy is struggling so severely. Being the sophist and master of slick sales jobs and smoothing talking language of deception, most of these have been spun into being justified as economic necessities when in fact they will put a permanent larger drain on the economy by having the Federal government take on more day-to-day responsibilities that belong in the private sector or in the hands of state and local governments.
To ask the Democrats to defend their major policy initiatives right now is demanding defense of the indefensible and at least at an intuitive level the Democrats get it. If their attempts to cram socialist solution down our throats as their response to the nation’s current economic conditions were fully exposed and they were willing to give time for the public to see the details of their stimulus package and budget, even rather misinformed voters would be outraged.
Things are not going smoothly as the Obama White House works to secure its grip on power having one nominee after another failing to come out clean in examining such things as their tax records. For those who are intent on demanding those who have earnings to sacrifice that these shameless manipulative corrupt hypocrites have no problem bending rules and avoiding their duties as prominent citizens involved in government. Who besides Linda Chavez who would have been a brilliant cabinet secretary was forced to withdraw from consideration for President George W. Bush’s cabinet though many of his nominees were slandered, abused, and taunted when facing confirmation hearings in the Senate? Bill Clinton had problems with Kimber Woods and Zoie Baird for Attorney General on a nanny issue. Nanny issues don’t seem to matter for the Obama administration. His nominees with dark clouds over them are involved in tax payment issues or worse. Still some of them, most notably his Secretary of the Treasury, slip right through. They would have been crucified in the last administration. Still, would it be an exaggeration to say the number of nominees withdrawn exceeds the total of all Presidents since World War II?
Anyone wanting a true assessment of confidence in the Obama administration’s performance and game plan need only consult the Dow Jones stock index for a report card on those most intimately involved with the economy’s perception of how they feel the Obama economic policies will work. The Obama administration is failing miserably to instill any confidence at all as the market has gone into free fall since our ‘pseudo-savior’ was elected in November. The stock market was struggling to hold its own until the likelihood of an Obama presidency became a legitimate fear. Since that time, it has lost half its value going into free fall since election day in November.
The Democrats’ approach to the economy is counter-intuitive. The best economic stimulus is to provide all citizens with as much disposable funds as possible while giving those with sufficient wealth to start and stimulate businesses as much control over their money as possible so they will invest in starting new businesses, providing investment capital to those businesses trying to get off the ground, and to expand and strengthen existing businesses. The more money in the private sector to accomplish this, the more likely the economy will overcome its losses and grow successfully. The two most tangible things the national government can do to help this is cut taxes and streamline excessive regulation. For what little money the stimulus has put back in the peoples’ pockets, the huge increase in government spending on special interest paybacks and ineffective and inefficient social programs. What was supposed to lean primarily on infrastructure has come out of the legislative process looking very different. The end result is an unprecedented run up of the Federal deficit that dwarfs all debts previously entered into by the Federal government. The Democrats’ counter that they are only continuing that which the Bush administration began is blatantly dishonest when they boast of how the last Democratic President (not mentioned – and a Republican congress0 had balanced the budget. While the Bush administration deserves serious criticism for ramping up Federal spending that does not tell the story. 9/11 and Islamic terrorism does. The battle rages on to secure Afghanistan from being a staging ground for El Qaeda serviced by the Taliban. A brutal dictator who overran a strategic ally with rich oil reserves destined to Western interests was still acting in belligerent ways in 2002 firing upon American and British jets patrolling the “no fly zone” established to keep Iraq from attacking minority populations within its borders and moving onward to harm its neighbors. Winning military campaigns aren’t cheap.
What could directly destroy the ability to generate new business opportunities than raising corporate taxes and capital gains. The more a company pays to comply with a myriad of regulations and document compliance and the higher its tax burden, the less capital is left to hire workers and to grow the business and enhance its product availability and quality.
While talking down the terrorist threat as best witnessed by Homeland Security’s Secretary Janet Napolitano’s introductory address focusing on hurricanes and disaster relief with no remarks on our real security threats, illegal immigration and world terrorism and appointing a political figure, Leon Panetta, as CIA director, instead of talking about a strong sense of resolve to protect the republic from terrorist attack, the focus is directed toward criticizing the assertive measures of the previous administration. Clearly Barack Obama and his left wing idealists don’t believe what the radicals of the Muslim world have made so painfully clear, they are at war against our way of life.
One of the positive economic developments of the last quarter of the 20th century through the Bush administration has been developing a more constructive, less confrontational approach toward employer/employee relationships as trade unions outside the public sector have diminished tremendously. Employees are more actively involved in working with management in many industries determining the future of their companies and the products they produce. Obama and the Democrats see the management/worker relationship as inherently confrontational requiring institutional and government support to secure the workers’ welfare. The goal is huge growth of the rank-in-file of union member is the goal as unions provide the most loyal and consistent support of the far left of the Democratic party. Union pacs and the money they raise support Democrats in every election. The reward the Democrats offer is abolishing a most fundamental democratic principle of a secret ballot for employees to vote whether they chose union representation. The card check provision allows union reps to hand deliver and collect ballots from workers allowing room for time honored union practices of bullying and intimidation to obtain the desired result.
Rather than seeking to carefully consider the future of health care and determine the best way to provide quality health care to the public at large, Barack Obama with his leaders on Capitol Hill, measures to set in place the beginning of socialized medicine is being put in place through the bailout and budget process avoiding the opportunity to sweat the details and get the kind of national debate started that will help rescue our medical system from chaos and collapse as the baby boomer generation is entering into old age.
Massive funding is being dumped upon education not to help give parents more remedies to escape from failing public schools but instead to fund the primary goals of the teachers’ unions and other liberal special interest concerns. Though Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education seemed to hint that vouchers designed to rescue pupils from failing inner city schools were okay, Obama’s close Senate ally, Dick Durbin, has led the effort to end a highly successful program of $7,500 a year vouchers to send students to private and parochial schools. Given the cost per pupil established for the failing DC public schools exceeds $13,000 a student, that’s a bargain, not to mention the long term payoff of having kids learn at a high level, a feat virtually impossible in a dreadful school system.
Vice President Joe Biden warned that there would be hostile forces who’d attempt to test the strength of Obama’s presidency before he was elected, while the big disaster hasn’t happened yet, there are events going on that have to be measures to test how much the military doubting President responds. Last week, Communist China sent boats out into international waters to harass U.S. Naval ships in the area. Meanwhile, North Korea has been pushing ahead with attempts to launch a strategic missile capable of reaching the west coast while putting their military on full alert. Iran launched what is supposed to be its first satellite. One can only imagine what welcoming present radical Islam is preparing to greet our shameful President.
The worldly crew and press speculated that an Obama presidency would restore damaged relationships with European leaders who were tired of what the elite called the “Cowboy diplomacy” of the Bush administration. They’d find Obama to be more sympathetic to their viewpoints and less intrusive.
On one score, one would think the socialists in Europe would rejoice how rapidly Obama is attempting to push through socialist programs on every level in the United States. Privately, they must be shaking in their boots he might compromise American military superiority, every European democracy’s security blanket as they have the might of the American military to defend them leaving their economies free to pursue other priorities.
Through the best and worst of times, no ally has been more openly supportive of the United States than the United Kingdom. Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was seen as a perfect buddy for Bill Clinton, but stood arm in arm with George W. Bush when forceful action was required in the middle east. It would only seem natural that the first major head of state to visit the White House after Obama’s inauguration would be British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
The Brown visit couldn’t have turned out to be a more vicious embarrassment for the Obama regime. In one event after another, Obama showed no regard for traditional protocol, no visit to Camp David, no state dinner, not a single one of the ceremonies that shows the world how much the United States treasures and respects British support. Even the appearance to the world press where the two leaders stand side by side behind podiums with each leader’s shield was overlooked apparently leaving Mr. Brown feeling quite jilted. Adding insult to injury, it’s tradition to exchange gifts when new leaders take power. Gordon Brown offered an artifact rich in British history, a pen holder set made from wood from the anti-slave ship, HMS Gannet. The Obama gift, 25 DVD’s supposedly representing American movie classics which the London Guardian labeled as about as exciting as “a pair of socks.” One more thing, American DVD’s don’t play on British DVD players thanks to encryption standards. US DVD’s use NTSC coding. British discs require PAL coding. Nothing like a thoughtless gift totally useless to create a first impression with an ally Obama might be glad to have on his side sooner than he could ever realize. The White House response was that the President was a little weary from being so preoccupied with the economy.
Too preoccupied with the Economy!?!? Be real. If that’s the case why is the President trying to stiff arm through every imaginable agenda item on the radical left’s wish list with special attention to empower the labor unions who along with groups like MoveOn.org and other domestic intellectual terrorist groups provide the Democrats a never ending source of funds with explicit demands for payoffs in return.
After 50 days, it’s not to early to pass judgment on the Obama administration as one of the worst failures in the history of the American Presidency given the huge amount of money, now we’re talking about trillions, as in 12 digits to the right of the first comma, in spending for tattoo removal, pig stench studies, Frisbee golf, and earmarks and pork galore while attacking the people and institutions best prepared to rescue a struggling economy.
How can responsible citizens work to stand in the way of the Obama administration and the corrupt, self-serving arrogant Democratic representatives on Capitol Hill? It won’t be easy as the traditional media and White House enjoy a close relationship where the White House chief of staff worked with political hatchet men currently posing as commentators on CNN to create the Rush Limbaugh uproar and how various Republicans react to his statements condemning the Obama administration bluntly asserting he wants the Obama administration to fail. The other part of it was his reasoning, because he wants America to succeed.
When considering what we’ve discussed in this column, how can we not hope that Obama fails miserably? For Obama to succeed with his policies and programs, our country from Pennsylvania Avenue to Rodeo Drive with hundreds of Main Streets north to south east to west will have to deal with the damage for decades. In fifty days, we’ve seen that any notion of Obama being a “pragmatist” or “centrist” is way off. He is the radical his associations with Ayers and Wright suggested he would be. His dreadful handling of his responsibilities and high number of failed nominations shows his absolute lack of experience in any meaningful management position. Lyndon Johnson lead us into the most divisive episode in American history since the Civil War, sending tens of thousands of young Americans to be slaughtered in Vietnam while building the welfare state in the name of “the Great Society.” Jimmy Carter proved to be a total incompetent absolutely unprepared for the responsibilities of the most powerful office in the world emboldening radical Islam leading to the successful radical take over in Iran and seizure of the US embassy holding American hostages for 444 days until the morning Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.
Barack Obama represents the worst of Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter many times over. On top of that, he makes Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton look like “swear to tell the truth” Boy Scouts when Obama’s very existence as President is built on lies much less the garbage that comes out of his mouth.
America, it’s okay to want Obama to fail. It’s not just okay, it’s something we must do if in our heart we want America, our people, our friends and neighbors to prosper. Our freedom is at stake. Taking more money from any American in the form of taxes reduces freedom for that person and restricts freedom in many other ways that aren’t at first obvious to see. The specter of a charismatic demagogue who can get an audience worked into a frenzy shouting slogans in response should remind those of us who know world history of where we’d think American society could never go.
To hear Obama justify his decisions, he does not cite history or any kind of detailed factual analysis. Instead he offers, “It’s always been my opinion….,” “I’ve always thought…..” “I’ve said many times…..” In Obama’s mind, if he says it, “it” must be so. The gullible Obama-maniacs drunk on emotion hoping for “change you can believe in” and false senses of “hope” have swallowed the Kool-Aid.
They must fail. They must fail. They must fail!!!
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