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2010-11-17T16:41:00.000-06:00

Special Interests Own Washington?

2009-09-21T15:47:00.002-05:00

Has anybody else noticed that when Obama gets in trouble, the first thing he does is blames special interests? Healthcare reform. People hate it. So, the obvious thing for a Democrat to do? Villainize the people that make money from it (I say this assuming that making money from doing something well is a good thing, not a bad thing).

Obviously, the special interests are making this expensive. Doctors, hospitals, drug companies, all of those special interests that keep you healthy are just too darned expensive. So, it's their fault. Yeah, that makes sense.

Obama should have stopped when he was ahead. He has a horrible knack for attacking those who are trying to help us the most. Remember our soldiers "air-raiding villages and killing civilians"? Or how about anybody making over $250,000 that needs to pay more taxes (and provide less jobs)?

If the special interests truly own Washington, as Obama says, then Obama is basically playing their game. You have to remember that Acorn, a group critical to his election, is considered a special interest. If we want to kick doctors in the butt, let's take a look at Obama's closest friends as well.

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ACORN-A Corrupt Organization Runs Now

2009-09-18T17:05:00.002-05:00

Ah, has any other group in American deserved the thrashing that ACORN has taken over the past two weeks? After telling a "couple" how to set up an illegal brothel utilizing the services of under-aged girls, as well as telling a prostitute how to classify her illegal revenue so to avoid the wrath of the IRS, it appears that ACORN's time on taxpayer dollars is running low.

Now, don't get me wrong. I think the Democrats will continue to fight for ACORN; afterall, any organization that is a friend of prostitution and illegal activities is a friend of the Democrats. From the party of corruption came an organization of corruption from the highest ranks to the lowest.

Remember Mickey Mouse voting for Obama? That was the work of ACORN. Voters being told that Obama would pay their mortgages? ACORN. The list can keep going forever, folks.

This is just another rallying point for us conservatives in a summer where Democrats have reminded the American public WHY we never like them having control of government. Talk of higher taxes, destroying the healthcare system in the name of "reform", and pussing out on the missile sites in Eastern Europe (also considered to be kissing the feet of the Russians) and all the other activities of the Dems this summer are just proving it more and more. Dems are not fit to lead; but they can serve as good paperweights.

The Republican revolution is coming; and this time, it may last for thirty years. Things are about as bad as they can be for the country. Falling clout abroad, jobs being lost, higher taxes, more environmental regulations that halt job creation; what can they do next?

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Kanye-Jackass?

2009-09-16T20:08:00.002-05:00

President Obama has boosted his approval ratings among those bloggers named "The Silent Crusader" by calling Kanye West a "jackass."Bloggers responding to my poll, specifically me, said that Obama's recent outburst was "refreshing from a president that hasn't been able to lead his dog to the back yard, let alone lead this country out of the problems it faces."

Honestly, I have to stand next to the President on this one. Kanye is perhaps the most arrogant human being to ever disgrace the face of the earth.

That's all I have for today. Summary: Kanye, take a seat and shut up.

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Forgotten Freedom

2009-09-13T00:01:00.004-05:00

The political tide has been turning, and now the protests have been launched in full force--against Obamacare and a radical government take over of healthcare. But probably the most troubling sign for the White House is not that healthcare debate has caught on fire--but that debate on nearly every single domestic policy of Obama's has become rampant.

Deficit? Thousands of people marched on Washington, D.C. to protest against Obama continually sticking his hand into the pockets of Americans to pay back his special interest pals. Abortion? More Americans are opposed to abortion now than they were even a year ago--which I would like to thank the most pro-abortion president of all time for. War? Americans are willing to stomach a few deaths to keep the country safe, but bashing on the CIA and our soldiers for "torturing" a few terrorists has hurt his cause there as well. Apparently most people don't mind if we tickle Osama's toes to get a few answers about how they intend to kill thousands of people next. Obama finds himself in the minority there as well.

It's great. As an American first, conservative second, and Republican third, everything seems to be taking the right course (except the economy...but we'll be alright in about three years and five months). Obama's true agenda, socialist as it may be, is coming to light and the American people hate it. His approval rating has plummeted, his popularity has diminished to a shred of what it once was. And there is no hope on the horizon; if he passes healthcare, he loses votes. If healthcare doesn't pass, he becomes a lame duck.

Ah, gotta love it.

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Healthcare...Blah Blah Blah...

2009-09-10T11:15:00.003-05:00

This may be bad, but everytime that Obama opens his mouth to speak about healthcare "reform", I can only hear, "...blah blah blah blah healthcare blah blah blah blah reform blah blah blah must happen or we'll all die blah blah blah blah." It's kind of getting even more pathetic than it was six months ago when people still thought there was a prayer that Obama would be a competent president.

The truth is, you can't promise everything to everybody all the time. Healthcare reform will help his special interests, hurt the one sixth of the US economy that is related to health services, and destroy freedom of choice for people in healthcare coverage.

Small businesses, who already pay a large share of healthcare costs, would be able to opt out of providing insurance for their employees, and instead pay a tax for the government to provide coverage. Can we already see where this is going? If the tax is less than the coverage is now, small businesses all over the United States will start dropping coverage for their employees. Even the CBO says that this will likely result in over 3,000,000 people losing their work-provided coverage!

I don't agree with Representative Wilson yelling at the president and calling him a liar; even though Obama IS lying on crucial parts of his plan. I think the American people have seen enough. The polls SHOW us that the American people have seen enough. This "reform" has turned in a jumbled specials interests bill that will result in more government control of your life, and less money in your pocket.

The $900 billion price tag? Obama fails to mention it repeatedly. Why is that? Because his stimulus (which also failed miserably...) has already plunged the country so deep into debt that countries like China are starting to question buying US debt.

Can 2013 come fast enough?

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Healthcare Debacle

2009-09-09T08:14:00.003-05:00

With Obama's approval rating sinking quicker than the Titanic, he needs to do something quickly to bolster himself with his core constituency: stupid people. So, it will be interesting to see what Mr. Obama does if the bill put on his desk contains a provision that will fine people for not having health insurance. Doesn't that make sense? For the people that can't afford it, a fine of several hundred dollars really seems fair.

Ah, how times have changed. We have gone from being a country where personal freedom and CHOICE were what drove the marketplace to one where the government and a select few determine where the resources go in Soviet-style central planning. And it has sure worked well in the auto industry. New reports indicate that American taxpayers will lose billions on the auto bailout--which I will attribute to George Bush, but we need to remember that Obama was in the Senate that gave the okay for that as well. Nothing like putting your tax dollars to work.

The deficit is bad; the economy is worse; and morale is low among the American people. And perhaps it should be. We screwed up, and we have the next three years to kick ourselves over our own idiocy.

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What Happened to the Democratic Majority?

2009-08-31T11:30:00.001-05:00

Rule number one of politics: you know a bill is pretty bad when you can't even get the party sponsoring the bill to fully commit to passing it. Democrats are scrambling after angry town halls, calls, and emails indicating that healthcare reform, though necessary, should not mean government run options. Now, onto plan B.

Start attacking the CIA. They tortured terrorists! Bush lied, terrorists died! The political maneuvering behind this action is clear. Healthcare is an issue they are losing on. The war in Afghanistan is going as poorly as it has ever gone. Great Britain just released a terrorist in a deal for oil. I thought that Obama was a man with all the answers?

The best part about this was the arrogance with which Obama took office. There was no way that anybody could ever bring down Obama. His popularity, highly overrated as a political tool, has now plummeted as people began realizing the startling truth: this man has no idea what he is doing.

He can't keep the left happy. He can't keep the right happy. And now, even the middle is abandoning him because of promises he made to be bi-partisan that he continues to break.
And the Democratic Majority that was predicted forever? It looks as though it may be wiped out by 2012, according to new poll numbers. People are fed up with the status quo. And when you only make "change" a slogan, not an action, trouble is ahead.

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I Feel Bad...But So Did Kopechne

2009-08-27T15:16:00.003-05:00

Am I really the only person that thought Ted Kennedy was a sleazball? According to the American media, not only was Ted Kennedy "the greatest Senator of our time," but he was also an accomplished gentleman away from the Senate! A hero! Somebody who truly cared for Americans!

After constantly fighting my gag reflex for the last twenty four hours, I have had to take a break from the slobbering liberal media. As I posted in my last comments, if Ted Kennedy is the best, then who was the worst?

Ted Kennedy stands for everything that America is not. His sense of "royalty" among the peasants that were his constituents was exactly the sort of thing that America fought a war to get rid of (the Brits were a little snooty). And here we had the people of Massachusetts, loving it all up, electing him over and over again.

If Kennedy really cared about people so much, he probably would have gone back to the car which became the grave of Ms. Kopechne. His coverup of the incident, as well as his initial denial that anything had happened, spoke in great volumes about his character. But hey, one time he said that being prejudiced is bad!

A man who got kicked out of Harvard for cheating (not even peaking at a test, but LINING UP SOMEBODY ELSE TO TAKE THE TEST FOR HIM) and womanizing has been classified a hero by the liberal press. I just keep repeating it to myself, and to my readers, because of the craziness of the entire thing.

What happened to the values that used to define heroes? Loyal? Strong? Courageous? Those have all been watered down for pseudo-heroes like Ted Kennedy. That is the only type of hero that the left has. That's why, in a way, I feel kind of bad for them.

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2009-08-26T10:48:00.000-05:00

The greatest Senator of our time." Well, if Sir Tedward was the greatest Senator of our time, then who was the worst?

Here we have somebody that drove drunk, crashed into a river, left the girl who he was with to drown, and then didn't report it for nearly half a day to the authorities. And I thought heroes were the ones who SAVED lives!

The saddest part about all of this was that this man, a career politician from a family known for nothing other than politics, will be remembered as a "lion" for all of his work. Conservatives should remember him as the Cowardly Lion.

From his strong support for abortion to his hypocritical lifestyle typical of a Democrat, Kennedy exemplified all that is WRONG with American politics, not all that is right. He used the unfortunate death of his siblings to boost his political power.

America should be ashamed to have Senators like Tedward, and even more ashamed in the people that elected him.

True Healthcare Reform

2009-08-25T11:27:00.002-05:00

It seems like every time I turn around, another Democrat is blasting the American public for being against the same model of socialized medicine that is failing in Canada, England, and elsewhere. Between Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, I can't tell which has the least likelihood of getting reelected next year. If their constituents had even the intelligence of test rats, their chances would probably go down another 50%. That being said, I am sure that three of the most partisan characters to ever disgrace the halls of Congress will find some way to even up the race before the elections.

The most recent news to come out of Canada is that their Parliament (yes, the government) is meeting this week to address the wait for MRI's. Currently, the average patient can expect a 4 month wait (when I tore my ACL in 2003, I waited two days for my first MRI--Saturday and Sunday, and then the second MRI to confirm the first was on Wednesday--how horrendous!). Now, the Parliament really wants to improve things. ONLY a two month wait! Yes, two months. For those of you who have ever broken a bone or torn cartilage, you know how painful it can be to not be fixed up. Now imagine waiting for months to get it fixed. That's change you can believe in, right?

The public option being proposed by Obama has been shown by the NON-PARTISAN CBO to actually increase healthcare costs in coming years even more than what they would have gone up without any reform. I thought the entire purpose of this Snipe Hunt was to lower costs in the first place?

Nah. I think paying back political allies (Unions...the "control everything" leftists...etc.) is probably more important.

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Obama Trying to "Take Control" of the Debate?

2009-08-22T21:23:00.003-05:00

Now, apparently, the gloves have been taken off. After months of having his Obamacare plan torn apart not only by conservatives but liberals and moderates as well, Obama has taken to accusing people of lying to regain the lost momentum.

Poll numbers indicate that the President is in rough shape. His popularity has plunged, coincidentally at the same time that Americans realized they did not want to live in a Stalinist type state where the government controls you cradle to grave.

Folks, it is time. The government has spent itself to oblivion. As they have proven at the recent townhall meetings, they are also out of touch. And Obama has led the way. Only seven or eight months ago, it appeared that the Democrats were going to go through their own "Reagan Revolution." Now, every time a new bill or idea comes from a Democrat, the general public cringes.

But think about it. Obama claims to be for the common man; but he supported the bailouts of the big bankers and Wall Street firms. Obama claims to be for cleaning up the world and lessening the use of oil; his Export/Import bank just approved a multi-billion dollar loan to Brazil for off-shore exploration. And now, Obama claims to be for savings on healthcare; people are just praying to God that the government can run this program as well as the Postal Service (rates keep going up), Amtrak (government subsidized since...well...forever), the services for Veterans, and more. Note--all of those services are crumbling.

And here we have a President who thinks he has a mandate from the public to completely change everything that has made our country great. His biggest failure is that he cannot realize what has given us the problems of our day. Health insurance is expensive because state governments won't allow for cross-border competition. The home market crashed because loans were pushed on people who everybody knew couldn't afford it (once again-government interference). Almost 50% of a person's income will be paid in some form of tax. No wonder nobody has any money to keep the economy going.

Change wasn't a mindset. It was a slogan.

The true change that we need is lower taxes, less government, and more individual freedom. Until we get that, we will continue to see the downward spiral that has plagued our economy, our way of life, and now our healthcare. What does he want to attack next? I heard energy prices will be going up soon.

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Turning Tide of Republicanism

2009-08-19T15:37:00.003-05:00

After listening to Tim Pawlenty speak on Greta Van Susteren the other night, I am once again feeling confident about the propsect of the GOP gaining seats in the elections of 2010. A wave of disgust with the Democratic party, as well as a continually bad economic climate, makes for a favorable climate for the GOP in the upcoming elections.

How have things gone so far south for the Democrats, when just six months ago they were riding "hope" all the way to the White House? Arrogance, ignorance, and utter bliss.

The arrogance of this White House, especially the Secretary of the Press, Gibbs, is unbelievable. Gibbs, besides fitting right in with the elitists in Obama's cabinet, sums it up every time he talks. If you get a chance to look into his eyes (tough to do with his nose so high in the air) you may just see what arrogance would look like, if it were human.

Along with that arrogance, comments have been flying from the Democrats regarding people at town halls and how "un-American" they all are for opposing healthcare reform. Yet, we forget that just a few years ago, it was the Democrats who were encouraging people to stand at President Bush's ranch with anti-war slogans and opinions. The right didn't blast them for being un-American. But I digress.

Barney Frank, who I first mistook for a circus character when I heard him speak a year ago, told his constituents that talking to them was like, "...talking to a dining room table." Nancy Pe-lousy, who faces an uphill battle for reelection next year, has been spreading lies and rumors about the protestors at town halls since they began. It is no wonder that Obama wanted the legislation before the fall recess--now that people have had a chance to find out what this reform is all about, they are upset. Rightfully so.

To top everything off, today we find out that one of Obama's closest insiders is benefitting from the change to government run healthcare because several groups are spending money with his former advertising firm. Ah, remember the promise from Obama to separate lobbyists and insiders from serving in his administration? What are we at now, twelve former lobbyists?

The facts are indisputable. Republicans, tarnished by the last four years of George Bush, are recovering in the polls and in the hearts and minds of the American people. If Democrats keep up the "Status Quo" that they are railing against, I have a feeling we will see Red again in 2012.

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Bill Clinton to the Rescue?

2009-08-19T14:48:00.003-05:00

After months of mostly negative new about everything from his foreign policy to his abuse of the federal budget, Obama's appearance finally got a much needed boost from former president Bill Clinton visiting the North Koreans and saving the lives of two American journalists. While I am glad that these two journalists are once again in safe territory, I am mortified at what the Obama administration may have done to help solidify Kim Jong Il as the leader of North Korea.

The North Koreans are starved, beaten, and generally held hostage in their third world country because of this mad man. Even their closest allies, China and Russia, have been distancing themselves from the craziness exhibited by those lunatics. The United States has been shown up repeatedly by North Korea's provocative behavior. And now, just months into his presidency, Obama has shown the entire world how we feel about North Korea--by not even sending our Secretary of State or ambassador, but the former president that they duped during all eight years of his White House stay (remember the "we won't build nukes" line?).

Not only is this damaging to our image as being "above the fray" when it comes to dealing with regimes that starve their own people, but it sends a horrible message to the North Korean people. Even though foreign media isn't allowed into North Korea, you can bet that Kim Jong Il will use this opportunity to show his "peasants" how powerful he is. I can see the posters now: "Look at how this American pig-dog bows down to me for forgiveness. The American evil empire has weakness." Awesome.

The thing that we forget is that in the grand scheme of things, it was the fault of the journalists for getting too close to North Korea in the first place. I am sure they were trying to write an article about how the "reclusive regime" is really "misunderstood" by the rest of the world. Well, being misunderstood didn't change the fact that these two young ladies found themselves sentenced to hard labor for seven years just for accidentally crossing the border. But now, Obama has given the regime credibility. He has given them something to show the rest of the world. And he has let the North Korean people down.

Don't get me wrong; the people of North Korea don't know any better because they are all constantly fed media that lies about America and what our intentions are. Kim Jong Il is not stupid; he knows how to maintain control of his country, and he knows how to make the most of every opportunity he gets. This will be no different.

In the end, we won't get any change from the regime. They will still torture their people. They will still build and export nukes. And they will still hate us. Now, we have just given them a podium to stand upon while preaching their hatred and desire for the destruction of the Greatest Nation of all.

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Healthcare for All

2009-08-15T20:42:00.002-05:00

I apologize for how long it's been since I've written; with all the crap that Obama and the Democrats have been trying to push through, I've been so in shock that I didn't even know what to write. But, it has finally come: momentum has changed.

Obama rode a wave of popularity (and stupidity, but hey) to the White House, laughing the entire way over the ignorance of those who "cling to guns or religion" and how the he managed to get elected, in spite of all the campaign promises he made that any normal person would know were lies. And now, that popularity is dying.

As his polls dip well below 50%, Obama is at a teetering point in his presidency. If healthcare "reform" fails, as I expect it to in its current form, his major domestic priority will have been shut down by his own party. If it goes through, Democrats that are already struggling with an insurgence of disgust with their policies will have to answer to angry voters in the next election. So, where do things go from here?

It has become clear that Obama had no idea what he was doing when he signed up for the job. By charging into a debate about something that so many Americans believe should be their own personal decision, Obama has opened himself up to political attacks that he will not be able to sustain.

And yet, you can still sense arrogance on the voices of his staff. Hillary snaps at a college student. Gibbs won't answer questions related to email. The list of offenses goes on and on.

And there is Obama. If he isn't scared for his political future, he should be. The people have awoken.

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Not--TORTURE!

2009-04-30T12:45:00.003-05:00

Well Barack Obama has been on the road for several weeks now, promoting his entire "America is Sorry" campaign and apologizing for us barbarians and our deplorable acts. But in this case, I must admit, I'm not really sorry.

I'm not sorry that we waterboarded several terrorists-yes, terrorists-and gained valuable information that stopped the slaughter of innocent Americans. As far as I am concerned, and as far as Obama should be concerned, if we have to waterboard 100 terrorists 7 days a week for a year to prevent the death of even ONE American citizen, then so be it. Obama can't forget that it is his job to protect American citizens-as our president-and that it doesn't matter if he hurts terrorists to do so.

What the liberal media keeps forgetting is that most of the people tortured absolutely hate us with a passion. The ones we treat decently-like the guy that got a prosthetic leg from America's taxpayers and then went back to Al-Qaida to fight against us-almost always come back to burn us in the end. When will we learn?

You can't fight bullies by talking to them. Sometimes-you have to bully them right back. Maybe if the terrorists realized they would get "abused" when we captured them, they'd think twice about trying to fly airplanes into buildings or blowing up American Humvees.

Instead-they get flown to Club Gitmo, given better food than they ever got out in the field, and we are basically pampering them. Then again-it's the liberal mantra. Just like welfare-rewarding some for laziness and NOT working-this rewards terrorists for hating us.

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NOW They Love Us!

2009-03-31T14:42:00.003-06:00

Remember when Barack Obama campaigned on getting the rest of the world to love us again? I believe his statements were something along the lines of, "We need to transform America's image" and "stop being so unilateral."

So, here we are in one of the worst financial crises ever, and the Obama Administration has decided to go it alone on the economic policy. Americans are on the "road to Hell," as the Czech Prime Minister put it. I think you have problems when even the Europeans are telling you that you are spending too much and too liberal on the money you are giving away.

North Korea is still going to launch missiles. China still increased their military budget and is acting more aggressively than ever. And even after his pathetic outreach to the terrorist regime in Iran, the Supreme Ayatollah still gave a speech in front of thousands of chanters shouting, "Death To America!" BUT I THOUGHT THEY LOVED US NOW?!

The truth is, folks, that people are always going to hate the United States. We are the most powerful nation in the history of the world. Our economy, despite being in "shambles" as the Administration would love to have you think, still dwarfs anything else on the face of the earth. Freedom in the United States is considered a basic right, like water, so necessary to survival.

The jealousy of other nations will always lead them to say stupid things. And the funniest part? The funniest part is that nothing they do or say can affect us, because we are resilient. We are powerful. And we are resourceful.

It is insane to have to change ourselves to please those that hate us. Then again, it was insane to elect a socialist to power in a historically free-market, intelligent country.

Rule from the Center

2009-03-25T09:56:00.002-06:00

One of Barack Obama's campaign promises was to rule from the center of the political spectrum, bringing Republicans and Democrats together. Two months in, after passing a stimulus package with more bi-partisan support against it than for it, the President is showing his true colors: a borrow and spend lefty with no intention of bringing both sides together.

So was it any surprise last night that Obama had to immediately bash Republicans for the debt that he "inherited?" This is just another classic example of a politician reaching for something that just isn't there. The Republicans were not the ones in power when the bailout was passed (the President was, but Congress was controlled heavily by Democrats). So shouldn't he point the blame where it mostly belongs-at his own party?

The fact of the matter is, under the Republican party in the early years of Bush, the largest deficits were still under $500 billion. Now, take a look at Obama's budget over the next eight years and it AVERAGES a $1 trillion deficit. That is "trillion" with a "t".

Generational theft can only work for so long. Eventually, China is going to stop buying US debt and then where can we turn? The left will, again, use this as an excuse to raise taxes on the hardest working Americans, while passing out billions in bailout money that still cannot be accounted for. Meanwhile, the same bankers that supported Obama over McCain are laughing, literally, all the way to the bank.

They Wanted Us To Fail

2009-03-13T09:43:00.003-06:00

It seems like everywhere I look, Democrats are accusing Republicans and conservatives of wanting Obama to fail. Rush Limbaugh, the bastion of conservativism that has been hated by the left for nearly twenty years now, has become the main target of Democratic accusations. Limbaugh says it point blank: he wants Obama to fail. Not because Limbaugh wants America to fail, but because the policies that Obama wants to bring about WILL make America fail.

First off, Obama's stance on abortion and stem cell research cut to the core of Republican and conservative principles. Of course we want the world to look upon those policies as poor at best. Here we are, in the middle of a horrible economic crisis and the Democrats already piling up a deficit four times larger than Bush's worst (almost $2 trillion in debt, folks), and Obama wants to not only kill our own babies, but abort the rest of the world's as well. In his short sightedness, he forgets that we need those babies to pay our retirement because of another idiotic policy (social security) they tried and will fail at again in about ten years (when social security pays out more than it brings in).

Second, Obama wants to talk directly with Iran. Yes, the same Iran that called for Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth, has as state policy that woman are worth exactly 50% of what men are, and etc. Are we crazy? I am sure they will talk and he will come back just like Neville Chamerblain did after talking with Hitler (waving a paper, saying "we have peace!" right before Hitler destroyed Poland).

So what do you call it when Democrats wished that Bush's policy in Iraq would fail? Freedom goes against everything that the Democratic party stands for (higher taxes, controlled emissions on cars, the "fairness doctrine" that would shut down talk radio). So of course they wanted us to fail in Iraq; Democracy and equality just don't fit into the entire "we're better than you" thing they have going on.

I want Obama's policies to fail. There, I said it too. I think it sums it all up when China announces today that they are reconsidering all the money they have sunk into American debt. We can't repay it. As soon as they decide to stop giving us money to support our drunken spending spree, what happens?

America is still the greatest country in the world, without a doubt and far away. As conservatives, liberals, and moderates, we all know this. But we must fight to make sure that we don't abandon what got us to this point in the name of "equality." With every day that Obama spends in the White House, we get closer to looking like a wimpier version of France. That's why the fight needs to continue.

Obamanomics-The Verdict Is?

2009-03-04T10:03:00.004-06:00

Obama has had over a month now to make his mark on the Presidency, our way of life, and our economy. While his Presidency has been a complete lie of what was promised (lobbyists, clarity, bi-partisanship, tax evasion scandals, etc.) and he has definitely had an impact on our way of life (socialism vs. capitalism, remember?), what has probably affected us the most is Obama's HORRENDOUS economic policy.

First, let me approach this from a populist sort of vision. Even if you think that Obama is making the right moves by bailing out every industry that has shed a tear during this recession, how can you justify giving American tax dollars to Wall Street while you and I are given something like $400 for a year? First of all, WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY that he is giving away. Our children do. Excuse me, our children DID. What Obama is doing right now is no different than a father walking into an ice cream shop, finding his wallet empty, and stealing a dollar from his son to pay for his own ice cream while his son gets nothing. Would we ever view that as being courageous? OF COURSE NOT. So why the Hell does the media keep acting like Obama is walking on water by stealing from future generations?

The market reacts negatively every time this guy talks. He talks about raising taxes on the big bad energy companies to improve our situation. Folks, you can twist it any way that you want, but the truth is simple. Electrical companies will have to raise their rates. Gas prices will soar again. And then we'll be hurting. When input costs go up, companies inevitably look for somewhere else to do business. If you think I am lying, look at China. Cheap energy. True, it's dirty. But it's cheap. The same people that slam American companies for buying everything in China are the ones making it so hard to compete here in America.

So it's not wonder that nobody is buying stocks, nobody sees the end anytime soon, and the financial fallout will continue. The stock market is down 18% since Bush's last day in office. So much for hope (or was it hype?).

The market always knows best, and they know a bad policy when they see one. Obama's administration changes course every day, offering a new solution for a problem they promised would be solved yesterday. And it only keeps making things worse.

So, Mr. Obama, I invite you to GET OUT OF THE WAY. Politicians got us into this huge mess by forcing banks to make sub-prime loans (which Obama called a good idea once). They would do us all a huge favor by just locking themselves in their office, and shutting up.

Obama The Republican?

2009-03-01T21:53:00.003-06:00

Democrats have got to be just fuming over the recent developments in the drama we have come to know as the "Obama Presidency." I will have to give credit to the President on this one, as he may have finally opened his eyes to something that most sane people (primarily Republicans and Joe Lieberman) realized long ago: the United States is at war with people that hate us.

The anti-war crowd (for fun: if a liberal ever tells you "War never solved anything!" you can say right back, "Right. Except for ending slavery, fascism, Nazism, and communism") put their full power and might behind the Savior in the election, and rightfully so. Obama constantly bashed the military, as proved by his "fire-bombing villages in Afghanistan" comment during the campaign. No wonder the Democratic party is wondering, "Where did our generation's Jane Fonda go?"

I am willing to bet ($5 to anybody willing) that Obama got into office, read the security briefings that President Bush got every day for eight years, and said, "Holy crap, he wasn't kidding." The last thing that Obama would ever want would be for somebody to dislike him! Just imagine how low Obama's popularity might go if an ex-Gitmo detainee re-joined the terrorist ranks and declared war on us infidels again. Wait a second, in Saudi Arabia right now an ex-Gitmo guy IS actually running Al-Qaeda. Wow.

So, I actually was surprised when Obama said he wouldn't be able to close Guantanamo for at least a year, and that the Iraq pullout would actually take longer than he originally predicted. Perhaps the man DOES have a mind of his own, and isn't completely owned by the crazy left-wingers that would love nothing more than to destroy America.

Don't get me wrong; I still think Obama would rather offer terrorists a warm cup of coffee than a jail cell (or the electric chair). But at least this was a little sign that, maybe somewhere, Obama has an ounce of common sense. Maybe. Then again, he is passing the worst economic agenda since...well...ever. I guess you win some, you lose some.

I will be absolutely amazed if Obama is elected again in 2012. His economic doomsday message, which he recently changed thanks to Bill Clinton, hasn't made things any better (who wants to buy things when your Savior-in-Chief keeps saying you're going to lose your job?). His foreign policy (see my exporting abortion article) is horrid. Socialism and class warfare have been tried before, and failed miserably on a large scale EVERY single time.

But, America is the land of optimism, and this time it screwed us over. A socialist wimp came in disguise as an agent of change, a uniter, and the man of hope. America, always an experiment in Democracy, took this one too far.

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Our Next Great Export-Abortion

2009-02-27T08:00:00.000-06:00

On January 23rd, 2009, with no reporters or media personnel present to report to the American people, President Obama signed an executive order permitting the use of United States tax dollars to pay for abortion, both in the States and around the world. At 7 P.M. the White House released a statement, in which Obama proclaimed, "I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate."

So here we are, with a nearly two trillion dollar national debt expected for his first year in office, and Obama feels that it is the duty of the United States to encourage abortions throughout the world. Talk about repairing an image! I am sure that funding abortions in Africa will repair our image overnight. Keep in mind that Islam and Christianity are the dominant religions in Africa, taking nearly 90% of the population. Last time I checked, they were pretty opposed to the entire "stick something inside a women to kill a living being" thing.

That is how arrogant of a leader we have elected. He believes that since he won 52% of the popular vote, he has been given a mandate for extreme "change". Aren't we glad that with the economy melting down, two wars going on overseas, and a stimulus package going through that the American people are opposed to, the President is still finding time to kill babies?

Here we have a man who cannot even get his own appointees right, let alone trying to figure out our economy. Now we have him promoting something that he was quoted as saying, "That question is above my pay-grade." So, as one of his first acts in office, he okays funding abortions here and overseas with OUR tax dollars.

The Democrats are the FIRST ones to always complain about a lack of funding. "Our schools don't get enough money. Our healthcare system doesn't get enough money. Homeless people don't get enough money." But hey, here's a chance to kill babies, so we certainly can't pass up the opportunity! Imagine how much those millions, maybe even billions, of dollars could help out all of the OTHER causes that might actually deserve it.

But I guess Obama will just settle for state-sponsored genocide, because that is what abortion is (42 million abortions in 2006). The Holocaust, one of the worst atrocities in world history, killed 6 million Jews. SEVEN TIMES AS MANY BABIES ARE ABORTED EVERY YEAR THAN JEWS WERE KILLED IN THE HOLOCAUST.

So here we have a President who says he cares about the average man and Americans of all walks of life. If he can't even care for a baby, which his radical history on abortion certainly shows, how the Hell can he care about the "average man"?

This Just In-Automobiles Invented In America!

2009-02-25T12:15:00.004-06:00

For those of you who haven't been watching the news lately, our Liar-In-Chief was at it again last night. "And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it." The Library of Congress attributes the invention of the automobile to Karl Benz. Throw this into the list of lies that Obama continues to spin to get his agenda passed.

Obama has a huge political debt to repay the unions-especially from the UAW. It is only through government assistance (thus, our tax dollars) that GM and Chrysler can remain competitive. Why is this? Why is it that GM and Chrysler continue to shut down plants, while foreign competitors continue to build new plants in the non-union (and, dare I say, "harder-working") southern states?

When GM and Chrysler went to automate their plants years ago, the UAW had an uproar. How dare a company want to improve efficiencies and competitiveness! It has come back to roost, now. And Obama, after signing into law his "Obama/Democrat Reward Failure Act of 2009" is still feeding at the trough of the union bosses.

Keep in mind, unions account for less than 15% of all laborers in the United States (who, last time I checked, had the most powerful economy in the world and greatest income per citizen-but nevermind that fact). True, years ago unions were very necessary to improve conditions for workers in plants and factories. But times have changed. With all the labor protection laws in place now, unions should be a dying breed.

The best example of union incompetency perhaps lies in school districts. Take Los Angeles. Between 1995 and 2005, only 112 tenured teachers in Los Angeles lost their jobs (out of 43,000). Hmm...11 teachers per year, getting fired for incompetency, at a district where the graduation rates hover at 51%. It's no wonder that unions constantly fight against school vouchers: they would completely destroy the most corrupt and inept public schools.

Back to my main point-Obama lies to get his agenda approved. Did anybody stop to really think about his massive spending plan? How do we measure a job that is preserved? When does that start? Is my job writing this blog preserved because Obama decided to pass the stimu-lie?

We are over a month in, and the American people have more questions than they do answers. The largest question: "Does he really think we're that stupid?"

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Liar Liar Stimu-lie on Fire!

2009-02-17T21:25:00.007-06:00

It's only been a month and already Obama is lying through his teeth constantly to keep the ignorants who voted for him happy (see video on the right). He said there was "broad support" in the Congress and throughout the United States for this bill (even though he got only 3 total Republican votes and many polls indicated that support was under 50% from the public). Mr. President-if there was such broad support, why did you break your campaign promise and not wait 5 full days to let the American people see it before you signed it? More importantly, if time was of the "essence" as you stated, why did you have time to fly on Air Force One (at $200,000 per hour) to Chicago for Valentine's day before you flew to Denver (again at $200,000 per hour) to sign this legislation?

He knows the answers. He knows that the American people would be DISGUSTED if they actually took a look inside this bill. That's why he rushed the bill through congress. That's why he lied about having bi-partisan support for it. And oh Mr. President, that younger generation you promised the American dream to? YOUR OWN GAO SAYS THAT THIS BILL WILL LOWER GDP IN THE FUTURE. Lower GDP will mean lower average incomes, and lower tax revenues, but I guess Economics 101 wasn't your subject? What about the youth that you promised to protect but just saddled with tens of thousands of dollars more in debt-EACH?

You lied to the American people and said there was a "popular consensus" among all economists that this plan would create 3 to 4 million new jobs (there are several great economists that doubt your plan). You lied to the American people about not having any lobbyists in your administration (currently 12). And you lied to the American people about bringing "change" and decency back to the White House.

All that the President has brought to the White House is the same tired policies of the past that led us to the Carter Years and the Great Depression. God be with us as we try to cope with yet another idiotic liberal trying to run the economy.

Ladies and Gentlemen, YOUR $789 Billion

2009-02-14T14:23:00.005-06:00

Well, the Democrats did it. Nobody else can take credit for this. If it succeeds, Democrats will be cheered as the saviors of an economy that was faltering. If it fails, Democrats should never get another vote in elections again.

Why am I so harsh? Because this kind of thing has been tried before, and it failed then, too. Remember the New Deal? I am sure your college professors have told you how much of a "success" this was. But look at us now, over 70 years after the New Deal, and the large "reforms that were put in (the SEC, Fannie Mae, and Social Security) are now the things causing us the most problems.

Take the SEC. Designed to make sure that securities were traded in a appropriate manner, the companies that have stocks behave in an appropriate manner, and the actual brokers that handle the trading. Hmm...that all sounds great and dandy, but how have they done? Take a look at Bernie Madoff. That's all I should need to say (the man schemed people out of $50 BILLION dollars).

Fannie Mae? Those are your tax dollars now supporting sub-prime mortgages my friends. Yeah, those people making $35,000 a year but living in a $600,000 house. We are paying for it now. And Social Security? For those of you young people who voted for Obama over McCain, look at it this way: you gave government permission to keep taking your money, giving it to a program that will go bankrupt before you ever see a penny. If the President is truly a pillar of "change", he will stick up for our generation and take on Social Security. I wouldn't hold your breath.

The point of all of this is that government intervention often times lead to worse consequences that what we would have experienced had we just sat still. Who is going to use tax dollars better? YOU or Nancy Pelosi (see previous post about mice-yes, mice). Who in their right mind thinks that the government can spend money better than its citizens (bridge to nowhere-$24.5 billion missing from government in 2003-$55,000 to a fake college in 2002 from the Department of Education)? Honestly, when the government is taking 25 to 40% of your earnings, doesn't it just eat you alive?

By the way, the non-partisan CBO tells us that with this spending will result in a decrease in the United States GDP in the long-term. Don't you love short sightedness?

Thank you to the Republicans that voted against this massive spending bill. It's about time we had somebody standing up for what is right in Washington.

According to Heritage.org, the conservative thinktank, 62% of Americans polled wanted to the stimulus to have more tax cuts and less government spending. Maybe we are not a nation that is as stupid as Obama would have us think, after all.

We deserve better than this folks. Don't let your memory fail you four years from now when we truly get to choose between more of the same and "change."

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Nancy Pe-lousy, and the Three Blind Mice

2009-02-12T12:05:00.004-06:00

"There will be no pork in this stimulus bill," said President Obama. What about mouse? Can we eat mouse?

Nancy Pelosi (I like Pe-lousy better) has been a champion for the "salt marsh harvest mouse" for years. Guess what stimulus package has $30 million built into it for the little buggers? Yeah, that $789 billion piece of trash that is being finalized in Congress right now.

$30 million. A city nearby me is actually going to be building a new water treatment plant (so they can drink water without fear of bacteria) for $25 million in the upcoming months. In a town of 10,000, that equates to about $2500 per citizen. That is how far the liberals have taken this entire crusade of environmentalism. Water for 10,000, or save some obscure mouse that nobody has ever heard of anyways? I thought the entire point of having mice was to get rid of them?

Let's look at this from a completely different scope. Things are so bad, that Senator Judd Gregg (Obama's Commerce appointee) decided that enough was enough. The stimulus package, in his eyes, was so bad that he doesn't want his name anywhere near it. So he quit. He withdrew his name (but I am impressed that somebody quit the Cabinet without being accused of tax evasion or pay to play!).

The stimulus being pushed is outrageous. Imagine how much you pay in taxes every year. Now, over the next two years, if the stimulus is signed, Congress is going to add $30,000 in new debt per household based on a 1933 style economic plan. THE NEW DEAL FAILED, people. It kept us in recession longer than necessary and never got unemployment under control like promised.

The economy may be crashing down around us and Congress is destroying our future, but hey.

Nancy Pelosi will have her mice.

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Stimulus or Stimu-lie?

2009-02-11T12:20:00.000-06:00

Has anybody else noticed how dire Barack Obama's warnings have become over the last few weeks? "The stimulus package must pass soon, or else the recession might be irreversible." Come on, are we really supposed to keep believing this guy?

First of all, let's go all the way back to October when Obama was telling us the exact same thing. We needed to pass the bailout and "fast" or else we would face the worst of the worst. Well, $350 billion later, the economy is still floundering and nobody can track where all of that TARP money went (although I am willing to bet a lot of that money is padding the pockets of rich Obama donors...change, right?).

So was it so shocking to taxpayers when we learned that Obama had more Wall Street support than McCain did? Over $1.5 million from Lehman Brothers executives. Goldman Sachs? Over $690,000 for Obama. Morgan Stanley? Over $300,000 to Obama.

And now, all these banks took tax money and are asking for more. Not to get credit flowing again, but to keep the pockets of their richest stuffed full. And remember how that bill got passed into law? We were told by lawmakers that there was "no time to waste" and that "days spent waiting are days making things worse." Do we see a similarity between that and the current stimulus bill before Congress?

No wonder the President is pushing so hard to pass this bill without public scrutiny. Once the public found out there was over $200 million in the bill for treating sexual diseases and millions more to re-turf the mall in Washington, D.C., there was outcry. How do you avoid outcry? Simple. Do the exact opposite thing that Barack Obama promised the American people: hurry bills through Congress without people noticing (thus losing that entire “transparency” thing he talked about). Fact is, the more that people find out about it, the more they oppose the stimu-lie.

How can you promise the creation of 3 to 4 million jobs? The truth? You can't. Here is Barack Obama telling us that this massive stimu-lie is all good, when he is forgetting to tell the youth voters-such as myself-that SOMEBODY is going to have to pay for all of this someday. How will we pay for it? Massive tax increases. There's just no other way.

The President will rely on the laziness of Americans, and their unwillingness to study this bill, to get his massive spending agenda passed. That's how he got elected, too.

Change has Come, and it Looks Familiar

2009-02-11T12:09:00.000-06:00

Barack Obama ran his campaign on a central promise: he would bring change to America. All through the election cycle, posters were hung everywhere proclaiming that “change is coming” and “change is good.” The main stream media, eager to bring this “change” to America, quickly embraced Obama and made him their candidate of choice. Mr. Obama promised to bring transparency to government, fix the corruption in the system, and recreate the American dream.

Obama’s first major move while on the political scene was choosing his Vice President. Change first came to the Obama ticket with 35 years of Senate experience and behind the scenes political wrangling.

Okay. I will admit it was probably a wise decision on Mr. Obama’s part to ask somebody with more experience to help him manage our country. I mean, after all, President Obama’s own senate history is hardly long enough for him to have all the answers necessary from a president. So I let that one go. But now, the idea of “change” has gone completely out the window, and the mainstream media is giving the President a free pass.

Secretary of State? Hillary Clinton. Now, Hillary in herself may not be so bad (I wouldn’t vote for her, but she is experienced) but the ties that came along with her are too big to ignore. Her husband and former President, Bill Clinton, took home nearly $5 million in speaking fees from foreign sources last year. Is that not a conflict of interest? Here we have possibly the most powerful woman in the world, laying out United States foreign policy, and her husband is basically on the payroll of foreigners?

And now, change has continued to come, and it keeps looking more and more familiar. Obama promised government accountability; then, he named a tax cheat to be the Secretary of Treasury and head of the IRS. Rahm Emanuel, a fellow Illinois politician with his own history of trouble (yeah, the guy that stabbed a knife into a table at a banquet and kept shouting out names followed by “dead”) is the new White House Chief of Staff. And what about Obama’s now defunct appointee for Health and Human Services? Tom Daschle owed over $100,000 in back taxes. Keep in mind that one of Obama’s promises was to raise taxes, and now he is appointing people to positions that aren’t even paying taxes themselves!

To top things all off, one of the largest bills in United States history, a stimulus package worth over $800 billion dollars, is on its way to being passed in both the House and the Senate. What the President has forgotten to mention to those who voted for him, especially the college and youth vote, is that they are the ones who will be paying off this debt for years and years to come. Isn’t spending beyond our means (ever heard of sub-prime lending?) what got us mostly into this mess in the first place?

We can’t fix the economy by spending more. We learned that with the New Deal (contrary to popular belief, unemployment still hovered between 10 and 25% throughout the duration of the New Deal), and were reminded of this over the last eight years. I think that President Obama’s “change” looks a little too familiar for my tastes.

So finally, here I am...

2009-02-11T11:59:00.000-06:00

I have wanted to start a blog for the last five years, and I finally had the time one day to sit down and do it. I hope that this blog makes you think about subjects that are important-from religion, to politics, to life in general.

I look forward to hearing your comments. If you like what you are reading, please pass the address on to your friends!