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Is the Obama Collapse Inevitable?

 

   The country is broke. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are all firmly on the road to insolvency. Large states are on the verge of bankruptcy and we are largely at the mercy of the Chinese when it comes to financing nearly anything we want to do. Never in the history of our country have we fallen to a low this dangerous and embarrassing. Even during the Great Depression, we never put ourselves at risk by allowing a relatively hostile foreign country to gain enough control over our economy that they could collapse us if they saw fit. And still, the Democrats in Congress have decided to drastically increase our national debt ceiling. This comes from party members led by a President who very recently touted “fiscal responsibility”. One wonders when we can expect that to start.

 Our economic maladies are not the result of ‘Wall Street greed’ nor are they a failure of free market capitalism. A massively coordinated effort by Democrat politicians and their allies in the MSM and academia to portray our current plight in this light has been successful to the point that you have to grieve for the collective American intellect. All one needs to pinpoint the source of our economic collapse is to isolate the primary cause- subprime mortgages- and then determine the catalyst that spawned these economic cancers- government sponsorship of universal home ownership. If government had maintained its rightful role in the housing market- none- we would not be wondering right now whether we have reached the point of a permanent American decline.

 Government interference in free markets is no solution to any of our problems. In fact, it is more often than not the actual source. Government ‘action’ deepened and prolonged the Great Depression and the Obama administration is doing its best FDR act to follow suit. Talking about recovery doesn’t mean we’re recovering any more than talking about X-ray vision allows you to see through walls.

 This is why it is so stunningly stupid for our Congress to go along with the obviously destructive policy agenda of the Obama administration. Government does almost nothing right, let alone efficiently. Despite that undeniable fact, Congress is gearing up to hand over control of our health care industry to government. Great idea! I have asked for someone- anyone- to cite for me a large-scale government program outside of military operations that has ever been a success, even a minor success. To date, no one’s been able to give me a satisfactory answer. And also to date, nothing in the Obama agenda does anything other than turn over more control of our economy and our lives to the same incompetent government. We are edging up to the definition of insanity.

 If we take any action to cripple our economy by foolishly regulating harmless CO2 emissions, we will have crashed the insanity party with lampshades on our heads. Not only are our CO2 emissions a tiny, miniscule fraction of what nature emits, they have an imperceptible effect on global temperatures. The warming alarmists have adopted the old Communist technique of branding dissenters as fringe lunatics. The only difference is that the Commies would actually throw dissidents in mental hospitals. The warmists merely destroy the careers of their skeptic colleagues regardless of how compelling the contrarian findings of the ‘deniers’ might be.

 Warmists have also adopted all of the propaganda techniques of Nazis and Communists. They have used hyperbole and false imagery to make their cases and they’ve assembled what appears to be a monolithic movement. Now, they have begun the process of indoctrinating schoolchildren with their propaganda, utilizing highly emotional tools like images of drowning polar bears and children being swept away in fierce, man-made floods. They have turned belief in global warming into the 21st century equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition. A near-religious fanaticism infects their movement with high-profile skeptics and ‘deniers’ being silenced, shunned and even threatened with death.

 Finally, the discovery of the Climategate e-mails establishes that the men at the forefront of warmist alarmism are so invested in their work and their belief that they are willing to go to possibly criminal lengths to shut down dissent and gin up their statistics. For these people, our government is willing to cripple our economy and hand over hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to Third World despots in the name of ‘environmental reparations’. On a near-daily basis, we hear references to the future victims of coastal flooding in Bangladesh due to the climate change ostensibly caused by greedy Westerners. What an unmitigated crock! As I sit back and ponder the numbers of people who buy into this nonsense, it begs the question; how utterly sheepish and moronic has Western society become?

 As Obama’s popularity circles the drain, there is hope still that the US is emerging from its flirtation with Stepford wivery. I can’t say I have any such hope for Europe, which appears content to scuttle its own society in favor of Muslim immigrants and Sharia law. Perhaps within another generation or two, we will experience a second great wave of immigration from Europe. This time it will be the indigenous population fleeing religious persecution at the hands of their Muslim rulers. By that time, one can only hope that we will have abandoned our ill-advised self-flagellation and will get on with the business of behaving- and voting- like real Americans.    

 It is time to resume unashamedly pro-American policies and behavior. When our foreign ‘allies’ begin bleating like sheep and delivering bleeding heart calls for Western mass suicide in the UN, our leadership needs to smack them across the face and tell them to snap out of it, figuratively of course. Better yet, we should tell them to take the UN and get the hell out of our country. We won't be joining any suicide pacts, especially when we're compelled to pay for them all. When liberals demand that we equalize outcomes for all Americans and muzzle the majority to benefit a tiny and ungrateful minority, we need to send those liberals back to the private sector where their talents cannot harm the rest of us. Until America rejects the anti- American progressive, liberal agenda once and for all, we will be at risk of the collapse they have planned for us.

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A Short Study of the Liberal Heirarchy

 

 As a child, I recall thinking that none of the world’s ills needed to exist. To eliminate the collective evils that plagued mankind, each and every member of the human race would need to pull together and work towards the common goals. Surely, the sheer strength and will of a unified world population could solve any problem we faced, no matter how dire it seemed. After all, it was the 1960’s. We were putting a man on the moon and we were instilled with a lot of ideas that were hatched and viewed through rose-colored granny glasses. As I grew and learned more about the world and its harsh realities, I came to realize that my beliefs as a child were erroneous- even silly.

 At the same time that I was recognizing reality, I noticed that not all of my peers had abandoned the raw and naïve optimism I had eschewed. They clung stubbornly to the beautiful vision of a unified and peaceful world free of hunger, disease and poverty and war. They wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, dammit, and no one was going to tell them they couldn’t. I soon came to understand that these adults who believed they could overcome all of the world’s ills had a name- Liberals.

 Three very distinctly different types of liberals became apparent. There are the voters, enormous in number and infinitely variable in beliefs, and there are the politicians, of whom there are very, very few. The voters are split into sub-categories. The liberal elite are the academics, the media, entertainers, athletes and the old-money socialites. These folks are comfortably well off and frequently have the ear, and the votes, of the politicians. Finally, there is the underclass. Their collective voting and purchasing power are formidable but by and large, they are undereducated and easily swayed with simplistic and paternalistic thinking.    

 Liberal voters believe that society has a collective responsibility to provide. Providing, of course, means for all people, animals, plants, environments, etc. In their vision, we are all stewards of the earth sharing in its upkeep and maintenance. Of course, many people who would otherwise be expected to share in the responsibility to provide are excused for various reasons. They may belong to certain classes of humans who have suffered harm at the hands of their fellow man. Whether it be by discrimination, war, political oppression or whatever other reason, there is a rather large percentage of the population who simply cannot be expected to chip in their fair share in providing for the earth because they are deemed victims of one kind or the other. This class grows constantly and new categories of victims are added regularly. For reasons that remain to be explained, membership in this victimocracy is permanent. A member of a victimized class can rise above and become spectacularly successful but is forever imbued with the perpetual right to play the victim card. In short, liberal voters are split between the liberal elite, the class of morally, socially and intellectually superior providers, and the liberal victims, the class for whom providing is prescribed.

 The other types of liberal, upon whom all others depend, are the politicians. These are the ultra-elite and they are masters of their craft. Most are lawyers so they know precisely what our system of government will and will not tolerate. These people are generally highly educated and one can only presume that they clearly understand economics and history. This presumption is what makes the liberal politician a deeply disturbing conundrum. If they truly understand the lessons of history and economics, then their actions as political leaders can only be explained in one way- they are focused on the subjugation of their subjects.

 Most intelligent people recognize the superiority of the capitalist system over the socialist model. Capitalism thrives on the incentives that are laid out for the most motivated members of society. The initiative and ingenuity and of these people drive our economy and raise the standard of living for us all. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison and Bill Gates are the type of insightful people who have made our country great. They also amassed great fortunes as a result of their efforts, laying the path for the great inventors and industrialists of future generations. These men deserved to accumulate great wealth because they gave to society far more than they took. The capitalist system has within it the potential to enrich all of its members unless they turn their backs on the system itself.

 In recent years, liberals, led by the politicians, have turned on capitalism in an attempt to blame “the system” for the plight of the “victims” who make up such a large percentage of their base. In the mold of 20th century communists, liberals have launched all-out class warfare, branding those who have thrived under capitalism as greedy and unprincipled, living the high life on the backs of “the poor” and the working class. These liberal politicians artfully whip their base into frenzy, feeding on envy and a thirst for “economic justice” in the form of wealth redistribution. This practice dates back centuries and is little different than that employed by the architects of the French Revolution. Never is it mentioned by advocates of class warfare that the targets of their venom are the real producers in our society; the people who are primarily responsible for creating most of the jobs on which we depend to maintain the world’s highest standard of living.

 It is difficult to imagine that most liberal politicians do not grasp the lessons of economics and history; however warped their lessons were by liberal elite college professors. It doesn’t require a degree from the Wharton School to determine that FDR’s policies under the New Deal were an unmitigated disaster for the country and the primary driving force behind the Great Depression. Recognizing the destruction caused by the forced redistribution of wealth takes little more than a glance at the history of communism in the 20th century. If wealth redistribution was inherently a good idea, the USSR would still thrive and hundreds of millions of people would yearn for a life under that brand of socialism. In foreign policy, the lessons of Neville Chamberlain at Munich should be enough to prevent us from ever again resorting to appeasement in dealing with dangerous enemies. These examples are so clear, so unequivocal, how then can liberal politicians justify defiance of their lessons? 

   The aim of the liberal politician is to amass and retain power, not to enlighten or educate the people. These people are fully aware that their policies are destructive to their voters and to the country. They simply don’t care as long as they and their lackeys, the liberal elite, retain preferred status in society. Can anyone really make the argument that Stalin or Mao truly believed that their policies benefited their societies as a whole? These people knew the difference between their countries and Western societies. They also knew that giving their people freedom, both economic and social, would end their dictatorial powers and their elevated and pampered status. They chose power for themselves and their inner circles at the expense of hundreds of millions of their citizens. Liberal politicians in the US aren’t terribly different.

 The current administration harps endlessly about social and economic justice for classes of Americans who they have deemed ‘victims’. While it would be wrong to claim that there no longer exists discrimination in America, it is worse to suggest that it is so pervasive that tens of millions of our citizens are held back by it and are entitled to some form of compensation or reparations as a result of it. Demonizing corporations and their CEOs along with small businesses and their owners has become a favorite tactic of liberal politicians. It is easy to get ‘the base’ riled up and ready to exact retribution for imagined wrongs done to them by people of means. The more that ‘the base’ is led to believe that they will receive some of the wealth they have not earned, the more likely they’ll be to continue to support the liberal politicians who promise them other people’s money. In an example of just how thoroughly disingenuous liberal politicians have become, the legalized theft of people’s money in order to hand it out to others is now known as “economic justice”.

 What incentive is there for liberal politicians to encourage their constituents to better themselves through the system of free enterprise that we enjoy in this country? If this constituency transforms from a dependent underclass to a class of independent entrepreneurs who are also taxpayers, what incentives will they then have to continue voting for liberals whose goal is to confiscate their earned wealth in order to give it away to those who have not earned it? Liberal politicians not only know that their socialist policies are bad for the country; they also know that the success of their constituency will result in their removal from power. Therefore, it is clearly in the interests of liberals to maintain an underclass who are kept in a state of dependency through subsistence-level handouts. The perpetual continuation of these handouts is traded for votes. This is precisely what we saw happen under FDR and later under LBJ, two of the most destructive liberal politicians in American history.

 It would be erroneous to continue to refer to liberals as if they are a monolithic movement or bloc. They are not. The reality is that the vast majority of liberals are people who are “on the take” in one way or another. Their underlying belief is that society somehow owes them. They know that in order to get the loot they believe they deserve they need to vote for people who can get it for them legally. The politicians are there for that purpose. A massive network of academics, media figures and celebrities exists to propagandize the masses for the benefit of the politicians. For their work, these liberal elites are handsomely rewarded and allowed access to the politicians’ inner circles. This entire apparatus is immeasurably destructive to societies where it exists. It always has been and always will be and has been demonstrated as such repeatedly throughout history. Sadly, liberal politicians couldn’t care less.       

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The 10% Anchor Around Our Necks

 

 In my personal experience, I notice that there are small percentages of people who fall in the categories of “exemplary people” and “problematic people”. Speaking strictly on a non-scientific basis, there seem to be about 10% of people who are the kind of folks who you want as friends, who you’d trust with your home, your family, your finances or your livelihood. These are people who are decent, moral, hard-working and upstanding citizens, who don’t bad-mouth others behind their backs and who represent the best of what makes ours a great country. On the other hand, you have about 10% of people who are the opposite. They are the lazy, shiftless, liars and criminals who drag us down. They spend more time scheming ways to take for themselves than they do contributing to a civil society. These are the people you would cross the street to avoid and steer clear of their neighborhoods. Working or socializing with them is the last thing you’d want to do because of their untrustworthy or volatile natures.

 In the not-too-distant past, societies had draconian measures in place to keep ‘problematics’ in line. Criminal justice was more exacting and severe. Parents of generations gone by were stricter disciplinarians, fearing that their children would become ‘problematics’ and thus a disgrace to the family name. Serving prison time was not some rite of passage but a mark of shame. The number of children raised during the Great Depression who overcame crushing poverty to better themselves and emerge as the Greatest Generation is a testament to the diligence and perspicacity of their parents who struggled through unprecedented hardship to steer them right. Those who could not be steered paid a steep and certain price.

 The hard-left turn that our country took in the 1960’s created a generation of hand-wringers who began questioning the ‘root causes’ of anti-social behavior and the time-honored methods of countering it. Eschewing corporal punishment of children became de rigueur. New approaches to ‘corrections’ systems made ‘rehabilitation’ the goal rather than punishment. News stories of violent crimes involving perpetrators in their 20’s with dozens of prior convictions on their records are common. Sixty years ago, they’d have been locked up for good or executed for their inability to live within the law. Today, they are portrayed as ‘victims’ of one kind or another, more often than not of some sort of childhood abuse, real or imagined. Obsessive-compulsive do-gooders insist on trying new age remedies for habitual criminal behavior. There don’t appear to be many success stories; certainly not any number that justifies allowing violent criminals back out on the street.

 The poor are nearly always portrayed as noble, hard-working souls who are merely down on their luck or who have had an earth-shattering tragedy strike their lives. Indeed, liberals and the press (sorry for the redundancy) go out of their way to parade poor folks in front of cameras when tragedy does strike them. This helps to hide the fact that the overwhelming majority of poor people seem to have a deeply ingrained propensity for making incredibly bad life decisions over and over again.  

 When you take a look at the percentage of people in poverty or who are high school dropouts or who are chronically unemployed or who are drug addicts or who abuse their children or any number of other examples of miscreant behavior, it is remarkable how their percentage of the population seems to hover around 10%. It will vary higher and lower with the times but for the most part, it does seem that the percentage of trouble-making ne’er-do-wells in society falls somewhere around that 10% mark. You   would think that it would go without saying that this tiny minority would account for an awful lot of the resources that society sets aside to assist the poor but this is nearly never pointed out by their advocates in liberal government and the media.

 Think about it for a second- the entire criminal justice system; courts, lawyers, prisons, police- is only necessary because of a tiny minority of cretinous citizens. The entire government apparatus for assistance to the poor; AFDC, WIC, LIHEAP, Section 8, Food Stamps, Medicaid, etc.- is only there to provide hand-outs to a small sliver of the population, most of whom condemn themselves to their plight through repetitious poor judgment and decision-making. Roughly ninety percent of us toil everyday to carry ten percent who cannot or will not help themselves.

 Now, I am not saying that no one is worthy of help. There are truly disabled people who need our assistance. A society’s greatness can be measured by how it treats it’s least fortunate members. But laziness, stupidity or criminality are not disabilities. At some point, a line needs to be drawn on who gets assistance and why.

 Right now, our Congressional delegations are home listening to the concerns of their constituents over healthcare reform or health insurance reform (they haven’t settled on what they want to call it). Advocates of Obamacare want to destroy our existing system of providing health care in order to provide insurance for 47 million Americans who don’t have it. They will not point out that about 32 million of those people are either illegal aliens or Americans who choose not to purchase health insurance or who have failed to sign up for existing government assistance programs. That particular statistic doesn’t suit their purpose so it isn’t cited. This leaves around 15 million people, or about 5% of the legal population, who are without health insurance who would like to have it. In short, Obama wants to take away the existing health care most of us have (HR 3200 has provisions to make sure your private coverage will be short-lived), increase our taxes (middle tax increases are a foregone conclusion with profligate spending like this), and hand out ‘free’ coverage to his most loyal bloc of voters, the poor.  Of course, that bloc comprises an awful large percentage of the 10% who are dragging the rest of society down. Is it any wonder people are steaming at these town hall meetings?

     We are allowing the 10% to destroy what’s left of our country that is good. It’s time to grow a national backbone and tell them to sink or swim. They are an anchor around our necks and if we don’t cast them and their enablers off next year, we will see this country fall faster and harder than any great civilization in history.

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Write Your Senators and Representatives Now!

  If you haven't written your Senators and Representatives yet concerning national health care, you need to do so now. Obama is in a desperate push to get this passed before the August recess and he is employing the same tactics he's used to rush through $787 billion in stimulus and a $1.3 trillion dollar budget deficit. Enough of the ACORN tactics! Here is the letter I wrote to my Senators. Feel free to use the same one if you haven't written already: 

Senator,

 I have heard all of the arguments in favor of nationalized, socialized medicine and frankly, I am convinced that nearly all claims made by the President and his supporters in Congress are bold-faced lies. This push is designed simply to buy votes and consolidate control over the economy. It is becoming clearer every day to growing numbers of Americans that Obamacare will mean higher costs, less quality, longer waits and in the end, a national tragedy. If this plan truly had merit, you and all of your colleagues in Congress would be willing to submit to its mandates. I understand that it is clearly written into the bill that you and all of Congress are exempted from the plan. Tell me why you are willing to support laws to which you yourself are not subject? That, sir, is blatant hypocrisy.

 I believe that as an intelligent and thoughtful man, you are beginning to realize that the election of Barack Obama was a horrific mistake. This man is clearly in over his head. You cannot help seeing it. Once again, he is calling for a massive and complex bill to be bull-rushed through Congress without anyone reading it or understanding its ramifications despite the fact that he himself has acknowledged that we are out of money. He recently stated that 2/3 of the bill will be paid for with "savings"! Senator, please cite for me any legislation ever that has cost us trillions in 2009 dollars that was paid for with "savings". The claim is patently ridiculous. Anyone who will publicly agree with it is as well.

 Obama has gone from a silver-tongued, "Hope and Change" dreamer to a desperate and smarmy snake-oil salesman in a very short period of time. It is not too late for you to jump off of this destructive, socialist bandwagon in time to salvage your political career. If you will speak out against this monstrosity that the majority of true Americans oppose, you may actually make a name for yourself as a principled and courageous leader. If you continue to support this national suicide, you will fade into history as one of the buffoons who willfully marched this country into the abyss by blindly following this Marxist novice with no concept of history or economics.

 It’s your choice, Senator. Make it carefully and if you are rushed, ask yourself why.

Sincerely,

Brian Squire

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Obama: 21st Century FDR

  Pundits have compared Barack Obama to lots of past Presidents from Lincoln to Kennedy to Carter. Six months into his Presidency, it is clear that Obama is channeling none other than Franklin Delano Roosevelt above all others. Like FDR, Obama came into office having offered harsh criticism of his predecessor's handling of a seriously damaged economy. He promised "Hope" and "Change" without clearly defining either. He fomented class warfare by heaping scorn on the well-heeled, largely blaming them for the plight of the poor. He promised loads of relief, surpassing FDR by leaps and bounds by including free health care and college education in his package. It is clear after a half-year of the Obama Administration that his plan for America closely mirrors that of Roosevelt.
  American public education since World War II has taught students that FDR "led us out of the Depression". We were also taught that the fatherly Roosevelt held the country together and rekindled the American spirit with his regular "fireside chats" on the radio. His sweeping and revolutionary social programs are said to have put millions of Americans back to work, averting starvation and misery. Finally, we've been informed that the great administrator deftly led us to victory against the twin mortal threats of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. No wonder Obama chose Roosevelt to emulate. The man was like Moses, a virtual Messiah, a template for the modern-day Messiah. The only problem with the historical account is that it is all a lot of liberal malarkey and propaganda.
  Franklin Roosevelt was a deeply flawed man. Like his modern-day protege, he was a narcissistic and delusional socialist. He castigated his predecessor for mishandling the economy and then proceeded to make matters worse once he took the reins. Both the Great Depression and the current economic crisis were caused by undue and unnecessary meddling in the free-market economy. Free markets have built-in mechanisms for self-correction. Unfortunately, politicians since the late '20's have deluded themselves into thinking that the economy needs their help to get back on its feet after a downturn. In reality, it is a theatrical display of self-importance and vote-buying. In addition, most politicians know that most voters are economically ignorant enough that the politicians can plausibly deny responsibility for worsening a bad situation. For that reason, we are never really safe from the kind of downturn we are currently experiencing. Both FDR and Obama inherited bad situations created by government meddling and both men chose to treat the ailments with yet more government meddling. If history was written without a political agenda, FDR would be included amongst our worst and most dangerous Presidents.
  Both FDR and Obama moved quickly to consolidate their power over the economy, blatantly trashing the Constitution in the process and frittering away massive amounts of taxpayer money. Both men, with the acquiescence of Congress, victimized the private sector, banks and small businesses in an effort to exert iron-fisted control over all three. The Cabinets of both men were packed with die-hard socialists and it was discovered many years later that Roosevelt's administration was heavily infiltrated at the highest levels by Soviet spies. American business lived in fear of FDR's autocratic power much as American business today fears and loathes Obama unless they have entered into an unholy alliance with him as GE has. The deficit and the national debt soared out of control in the early '30's as they are doing today. Both men embarked on extravagant programs using taxpayer money to reward political allies and create make-work projects.
   Obama and FDR both believed that the ends justify the means and therefore, both rammed unconstitutional legislation through a compliant Congress with unprecedented audacity. Their unchecked power led to fears that they would usurp the Constitution to create a dictatorship. Neither man showed any kind of hesitation to steamroll political opposition with impunity. When the Supreme Court threatened to slow FDR's march towards full-blown socialism, the President threatened to increase the number of justices so he could personally "pack the court". When he went this far, the court backed down and let him have his way. It is clear that neither man has or had enough respect for the Constitution or the traditions of the country to reel in their socialist ambitions.
  Unfortunately for America, FDR's interventionist approach did not "lead us out of the Depression". In reality, FDR singlehandedly lengthened the economic crisis by many years. In all previous economic downturns, many of which started out as badly as the Crash of '29, the government took the hands-off approach and the economy was back in full swing within about two years. The only other depression that took longer to correct lasted about five years. FDR's Great Depression lasted over 12 years and may have continued much longer if World War II hadn't changed the world. Socialist policies were and still are a disaster for Americans.
  Barack Obama is closely mirroring the policies of FDR including the autocratic and heavy-handed dictatorial leadership style. All of this is cloaked in a paternalistic manner of addressing the public that is, to the uninformed, reassuring but condescending. Add to that Obama's appeal amongst lower class minorities whose loyalty could hardly be broken no matter how poorly he performs. His policies are almost uniformly contrary to the United States' national interests but the liberal education establishment has managed to misinform American youth to the point that they root for their own country's enemies. Economic decisions are uniformly geared towards causing a more serious  crisis, perhaps even creating a second Great Depression. Finally, Obama is a virtual reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain; weakly appeasing our enemies and naively trusting them to do the right thing so that they may "take their rightful place" amongst the nations of the world. The man has an inability to conceive of anyone immune to his powers of persuasion. His policies, audacity, hubris, narcissism and naivete may yet lead us down the same path FDR did- Depression and World War.  
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Poor, Poor Pitiful Democrats

  Remember last year during the Presidential campaign when Hilary invoked the dreaded Republican Attack Machine and warned of its impending onslaught? How about all those years ago when she invented the VRWC (Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy), secretly formed to tear down her paragon-of-virtue hubby? How many times have you looked through liberals' blogs and read the patchouli-wearing Trotskyites' descriptions of conservatives? We are described as "evil', "heartless", "lunatics", "war-mongers", "sick", "delusional", etc. When liberals' hatred of W boiled over and began turning them into foamy-mouthed, red-faced mental patients, BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) was born. For some reason, the public listens to these descriptions of Republicans and then never asks the question: Why don't I ever see or hear any of this out of Republicans?
  John McCain ran one of the wimpiest campaigns in memory. Of course, he was thoroughly petrified that someone would pull the race card on him and rightfully so. It wasn't whether or not the Obama campaign would pull the race card, it was how early and how often. Any claim by Democrats that we had entered a "post-racial era" in politics rang about as false and hollow as Johnny Cochran's claim that he wouldn't use race in defending O.J. Simpson. McCain came to the fight unarmed and Obama's corner men shanked him while the rules were being read.
  Let's face it; Democrats fight dirty. They'll lie unabashedly, they'll cheat wontonly, they'll resort to scurrilious and baseless charges against their opponents, they'll attack friends and relatives of opponents. Dems are like the bad guys in professional wrestling. If they have to break a chair over your head to win, well so be it. The only time they won't fight effectively is when an actual enemy of the country attacks us. In that case, they find reason to blame America. Meanwhile, Republicans act like David Niven in some old movie, with prim and proper English manners, taking care not to utter anything that anyone anywhere may remotely find offensive. You can't help thinking that the fight isn't fair because it isn't.
  The most compelling example in memory of just how vicious and unscrupulous Democrats are in their political in-fighting came with the case of Sarah Palin. This woman burst onto the public stage as a refreshing ray of light in an otherwise generally boring field of Republican politicians. Real Americans loved Palin instinctively because she reminds us of the kind of people who made America great. Tough, individualistic, unapologetically patriotic, conservative to the bone, and folky in a way that most of us can relate to, Palin represents everything that liberals hate. And they made no bones about expressing that hate. The fact that she was diverting some of the limelight off of the Messiah enraged them. The fact that she is a woman who rose to such heights made them apoplectic because, in their tiny, narrow minds, only liberal women can rise to positions of power. Conservative women, to them, are a joke because the Republican party is the party of old, white men.
  The lengths that liberals have gone to in their attempts to discredit and destroy Palin are nothing short of incredible. Even after the election was lost and she had returned home to her job as Alaska's governor, the rabid dogs of the left hounded her with ridiculous ethics charges and a wide variety of shameless, false personal attacks. It isn't hard to justify tough political battling in the heat of the campaign but for what reason would the ceaseless digging for dirt continue when the race is over and the contestants go home? The answer lies in the nature of the left. They know no bounds or decency. They cannot be trusted with or without power but when they have it, they are outright dangerous because they will surely abuse it. Anyone who opposes them and dares to speak their opposition is fair game for any type of attack and so are all friends, associates and relatives, even minor children. How many liberal politicians came out and condemned David Letterman's remarks about Palin's teenage daughter? Don't bother thinking about it; you won't come up with any.
  Democrats whine about an imaginary "Republican Attack Machine" and simultaneously perfect the politics of personal destruction. It's like a pack of hyenas tearing a zebra to shreds while complaining that the zebra was making fun of their silly laughs.  
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Waxman-Markey: Is Obama on the Chinese Payroll?

  Presidential candidate Barack Obama signaled clearly to the world that he intended on following the "lead" of Britain and Spain in advocating a system of 'cap and trade' in order to curtail carbon emissions in the US. Obama bluntly informed us that the intent was to "bankrupt" operators of coal-fired power plants despite the fact that over half of our electricity is coal-generated. In a rare moment of candid honesty, Obama divulged that under his administration electricity prices would "necessarily skyrocket". With no viable source of energy developed that could even remotely replace coal for the generation of electricity, it is tough to determine what candidate Obama was trying to tell us. The one message he delivered loud and clear was that fossil fuels would have no friends in an Obama administration regardless of what a transition to alternate energy sources would cost us both individually and as a nation. 
  For alarmists who have unilaterally ended debate on anthropogenic global warming, Obama's stance was comforting. America would develop new sources of energy, cut greenhouse gases and pave the way for the rest of the world to follow suit. In typical fashion, every facet of the plan was painted in the rosiest of hues. Wind and solar will handle the bulk of the supply, creating huge new industries in which the US will lead. Of course, all other nations will clamor to give their business to sage American entrepreneurs who jump at the opportunity to get in on the ground floor. The transition will be a painless job creator that spawns a massive new industry in which America leads the world and all the while we'll actually be 'saving the planet'. How nice!
  Despite a rising tide of scientific opinion that AGW theory may well have been overstated and is based on suspect, if not junk, science, the left continues to trumpet impending disaster if this change isn't made- and made right now. So, in suicidal lockstep worthy of a scene in an Orwell novel, the House voted for the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. In the midst of a deep recession, our representatives saw fit to saddle us with a massive increase in energy costs. As we all learned in the summer of 2008, steep run-ups in gasoline prices drove up the cost of nearly all consumer goods. Waxman-Markey promises to do an even more thorough job of increasing the cost of every single thing we need or want. This de facto tax on everything will almost certainly spawn a new Great Depression but apparently, it is pointless to bring this to the attention of Congressional Democrats (and eight turncoat Republicans). According to them, the scientific debate is over and this move is necessary to save the human race from itself. "Deniers", as we're derisively called, are simply told to shut up.
  The one aspect of this sorry saga that seems to get little play in the media is the effect Waxman-Markey will have on developing nations, specifically China and India. The Chinese alone are bringing a new coal-fired power plant on line every week to ten days. There is no amount of carbon emissions we can cut that will offset Chinese production. We have elected to tank our economy in order to allow the Chinese to increase global carbon levels a little more slowly. Of course, the Obama administration, in its patented delusional manner, thinks that they can talk the Chinese into global agreements to curb their emissions, too. Obama may have demonstrated oddly effective powers of persuasion with the US electorate but when it comes to talking the Chinese into voluntarily ruining their economy, I'm afraid he'll have met his match.
  Coal is relatively cheap and plentiful and China isn't building dozens of new power plants so they can shut them down to placate Obama. Also, with the US attempting to make oil a forbidden fuel, the 25% of world consumption for which we account will drop precipitously. Of course, we and a handful of other Western countries bent on our own destruction will be the only ones who are not actively seeking to exploit domestic oil supplies. Hence, supply remains the same or actually increases just as demand drops considerably. Voila, lots and lots of cheap oil available on the world market to fuel the explosive growth of the Chinese and Indian economies just as we are intentionally destroying our own.
  Hu Jintao should at least send Comrade Obama a nice thank you card.     
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Biden: "We Misread How Bad the Economy Was." Really?

   Barack Obama didn't mince words in his speeches back in January and February. We were warned of the dire consequences that lay in store if we ignored his calls for action. Crisis would become catastrophe, a bad situation would become dramatically worse and so on and so forth. In a now-familiar pattern, Obama, speaking of our economic crisis, went so far as to tell us and Congress that if they didn't act immediately, "we may not be able to reverse it." The party that had accused the Bush administration of "fear-mongering" for acting against an enemy who had slaughtered 3000 civilians in cold blood, was now sounding the alarm that our entire economy would surely collapse if we failed to pass Obama's stimulus bill that very night; never mind that there was no time to read it.
  Today, five months later, more than 2 million additional Americans have lost their jobs. In a knee-jerk power grab, the banking and auto industries have been largely nationalized following the fascist model. Huge new tax increases have been proposed and are being debated in Congress where Democrats appear to be willing to do whatever Obama asks. The economic crisis, despite the passage of Obama's stimulus, has crept up on the verge of becoming the catastrophe he warned us about in January and February. The stimulus has had no discernible effect in remedying what ails the economy but we're told it's because the spending has happened too slowly. They need time to prevent corruption and misuse of funds, you know?
  Today, VP Joe Biden, he of the boundless tongue, told us that they had "misread how bad the economy was." He went on to say that we were only 120 days into the stimulus so he's expecting way more job creation. Is it just me or does none of that make any sense whatsoever? Which part of "this crisis will become a catastrophe" or "we may not be able to reverse it" demonstrates that the administration had unfounded confidence that the economy wasn't so bad? Why was it imperative that Congress pass the stimulus overnight without reading it when it is now OK to have spent less than 10% of it 120 days later? Are the two million additional unemployed people OK with this? How about the next two million who are waiting for word on their employment status? Should they be patient waiting for this stimulus to have some, or any, effect? Or should they just be satisfied that Obama will sit on the funds until next year when he can use them to buy votes just before the mid-term Congressional elections?
  These actions have been brought to us by the same people who whined for over five years that "Bush lied". Certainly, Bush made mistakes and acted on faulty or incomplete intelligence. But when it comes to bold-faced lying with impunity, the Obama administration has taken less than six months to set a new standard for executive deceit.    
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Obama Has A Dream

 

 Is it any wonder that President Barack Obama has such a large and loyal following? After all, who else has ever had the capability of providing the wonderful array of government services that Obama plans to offer? Who else could ever unilaterally transform the entire world from a hostile and belligerent place to a harmonious and cooperative conglomeration of benevolent and compassionate nations? Who in the past has managed to inspire millions of young people to envision a world devoid of the senseless problems created and nurtured by their parents and grandparents? No one has ever been able to effect these changes throughout history but Obama’s enthusiastic supporters are fully confident that he can do it with the help and support of a Democrat supermajority in Congress. The expectations of Obama are high- probably the highest bar ever set for an American President.

 Barack Obama has captivated large numbers of Americans with his promises of a new America. Universal health care will give all Americans  (and a lot of non-Americans, too) access to high-quality, free health care that will actually save the country money as it reels in runaway health care costs under the private sector. Everyone will be healthy and equal and unburdened by concerns over medical care.   

 Obama’s energy policy will virtually eliminate our dependence on energy imports as we shift our economy to wind and solar power. Carbon emissions will disappear and the sea levels will recede and polar bears will live free of the threat of drowning. By dismantling the fossil fuel industries, he will have eliminated the oppression and pollution brought on by these purveyors of evil who have victimized the world for so long. Wind and solar will employ millions and millions of citizens and they’ll never run out and they’ll never pollute our planet and we’ll all get our power from these sources at practically no cost to anyone.

  Anyone who cares to better themselves will have full access to a free college education and all that will be required of them will be a couple of years of government service doing something we’re not quite sure of yet but you can bet it’ll be just great for the country and the world.  These new college grads will inevitably secure good, high-paying jobs and poverty will virtually melt away.  Anyone experiencing any kind of financial difficulty will have free access to government assistance to see them through without all of the onerous restrictions and limitations of the past. We’ll have the most highly educated and productive citizenry in the world because they won’t have to worry about hardship and there won’t be medical bills or pollution to worry about either.  

Twelve to fifteen million undocumented workers will enjoy a path to citizenship that will be quick and fair and they will become loyal American citizens in no time, surely supporting the flawless policies that allowed them to come out of the shadows and join their fellow Americans as ‘citizens of the world’. All people of all races will live in peace and harmony, showing mutual respect as we build a color-blind society that barely even recognizes that there are any cultural differences amongst us because all of our cultures are equally important and valuable.

 With so many people so highly educated and learning to respect each other’s cultures, there will obviously be a massive drop in the crime rate. With crime no longer a problem, there will be no need for guns or prisons and we can convert those industries into something worthwhile like more windmills or solar panels or cultural appreciation centers. Former criminals can be employed at the free universities making large salaries lecturing on how Obama has solved all of the country’s problems at virtually no cost by simply making these few little adjustments that virtually anyone with a brain supports unquestionably.

 Foreign enemies will cease to exist as America shows its new-found respect for all nations and cultures. By admitting that we are not and never have been any better than anyone else and that most everything done in the name of the US before Obama was wrong-headed war-mongering, our enemies will surely see that we are not to be feared or loathed. They will lay down their arms in order to accept the aid that we send them to solve all of their problems in the same manner we solved all of ours. With our enemies pacified and brought into the Obama fold, we will no longer have any use for armed forces. Of course the hundreds of billions that will be saved by dismantling defense can be used to enrich the poor or can be donated to the UN to begin the implementation of one world government that will be just and fair. America can take her place alongside Albania and Antigua as equals.

 All citizens of the world will intuitively know to stay within bounds of WWOD (what would Obama do?) For this reason, all pollution and hostility and angry words and dirty looks will stop. No one will go to bed hungry or wonder where they’ll get money for things they want and need. There will be no lack of information about what government services are available because the government will always be there to see the citizenry through every phase of their lives. No one will stumble and fall because everyone else will be there to catch them on the way down and set them back on their feet. Since every child will have been raised by a village, everyone will know and love and respect everyone else.

 Everyone will have their own room where there will be kittens and rainbows and unicorns and all the free ice cream and cotton candy you ever want.

 Oh, and the Democratic Party will be the only one allowed to exist and people who disagree with The One’s teachings will sort of just disappear.   

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