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Obama Will Not Secure the Borders, Plays Politics Instead

2010-06-21T09:30:00.000-07:00

On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”

If only the liberals thought the illegals would become Republicans, we'd have a border fence within a year.

Obama and Benito Mussolini

2010-06-18T09:29:00.000-07:00

Is Obama, Mussolini?

Strong arming $20 Billion from private enterprise. Clearly un-Constitutional. Judge, jury, and executioner in one shot. He fires the GM CEO. With the help of a leftist judge, Obama ignores contract law and strong arms bondholders. Obamacare. Porkulus.

We've got one shot at saving our Republic on November 2, 2010. Otherwise the greatness America as founded, will die.

Worst President in history. First American Dictator.

Great GOP Ad

2010-06-17T08:23:00.000-07:00

This is a great ad. Really drives home the point how much Obama sucks. This is what happens when you vote for liberals.

Where's the Leadership?

2010-06-16T09:12:00.000-07:00

Is it just me or do we have a personal injury attorney pretending to President?

No leadership. No accountability. Just blame, threats, bigger government, and more taxes.

He flat out lied when he said we are running out of places to drill. We have plenty of land and closer to shore (non deep) drilling left untapped.

This is what happens when you elect liberals, especially those unqualified for the job.

Obama Administration Trying Game Unemployment Numbers

2010-06-15T08:28:00.000-07:00

Obama administration is looking to game the unemployment numbers by turning the 411,000 census workers to permanent government jobs. Wonder where the private sector jobs will come from in order to support 411,000 more deadbeats?

snip - Federal hiring rules quietly eased and adjusted by the Obama Administration over the past year will further enable the administration to place those temporary workers, according to the White House source. For example, the Obama Administration has cut back the number of forms job seekers must fill out, ended the practice of a skills and knowledge essay, allowed the hiring process to take place with only the use of a résumé and writing samples, and, perhaps most important, eased hiring rules based on the "most qualified" requirement, so that less experienced prospective employees might be hired over better qualified or more experienced competitors.

H/T: American Spectator

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/14/obama-jobs/

Ain't Hope and Change wonderful?

When Liberals Attack

2010-06-14T08:11:00.000-07:00

These liberals are such a violent bunch. This is what happens is you ask a liberal Democrat a legitimate question. Here is Democrat Rep. Bob Etheridge of North Carolina committing battery on a student who approached him on the street. For your viewing pleasure... When Congressman Attack!!!

Gulf Oil Spill Makes Obama Whine

2010-06-12T07:48:00.000-07:00

Obama explains that his opponents would have fought him if he had pre-emptively cracked down on BP. From JustOneMinute:

In an interview with POLITICO, the president said: “I think it’s fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and wasteful spending.”

Wow. Of course,others would have criticized the President for taking his eye off of the vital effort to reform healthcare. And speaking of which, if the goal of Obama's Presidency is to avoid criticism and confrontation (rather than, for example, advancing policies in which he believes), why didn't he just drop the push for healthcare reform?

The First Emoter also adopted an old Frank Rich talking point:

The president also implied that anti-big government types such as tea party activists were being hypocritical on the issue.

“Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,” Obama said. “Some of the same people who are saying the president needs to show leadership and solve this problem are some of the same folks who, just a few months ago, were saying this guy is trying to engineer a takeover of our society through the federal government that is going to restrict our freedoms.”

Let's see - BP is drilling on Federally leased site in a Gulf which borders five states and several other countries. I see an Federal role there that is a bit different from the Feds bailing out the guy down the street who over-extended himself when he bought a house, or taking over health care, but maybe that is just me.

From Red State:

Hmmmm. Notice a pattern?

Seems like our Commander-in-Chief feels that it’s not necessary to engage another being in conversation, because with his superior intellect, he’s able to discern what they’re going to say, without their having said it!
And then he blames them for what he thinks they would have said!

My Star Trek days were long ago, but even Spock had to come into physical contact with the party on the other end of the Vulcan mind-meld, if I recall correctly.

You can’t play this game, Mr. President. It’s not fair, but worse, it’s not presidential. (Imagine FDR before Yalta: “What’s the point of meeting with Stalin? I know he’s going to want Eastern Europe.”)(Imagine Ronaldus Maximus in Berlin: “I suppose I could ask Mikhail to tear down this wall, but I bet I know what he’d say!)

And your speculation deflects attention from the actions you did take with respect to the MMS, namely appointing Liz Birnbaum to head the agency: an Ivy League environmental lawyer who wouldn’t know an oil well if she were to fall bass-ackwards into one. How are you going to blame the Republicans for that boo-boo?

From Patterico:

It’s everyone’s fault except Obama’s. He even blamed the media for focusing on his lack of passion because it makes “good TV.”

Expecting government to do its job in cleaning up the BP Oil Spill is not a justification for Obama’s massive deficits; his takeover of the banks, the car industry, and healthcare; or his repeated bailouts, pork, and stimulus projects. Except to Obama.

Senate Votes Away Constitution and Gives Unchecked Power to EPA

2010-06-11T07:11:00.000-07:00

The rogue democrat Senate voted yesterday to give an unconstitutional power grab to the EPA. Get ready for the massive jobs losses, high energy costs, and brownouts. More liberty lost. Ain't socialism/marxism wonderful?

Freedom Action urges Senators to vote Yes on Thursday on S.J. Res. 26, Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Resolution of Disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Endangerment Finding. Senate passage of the Murkowski Resolution will be the first step in stopping EPA from using the Clean Air Act to regulate the economy into stagnation. This is a key vote that will have a major impact on Americans’ future living standards.

Senators who vote No on the Murkowski Resolution are voting for a regulatory train wreck that will result in much higher energy prices, less money in consumers’ pockets to spend on other things, and lost jobs in manufacturing industries that will lose competitiveness from higher energy costs. It is therefore critically important for the Senate to pass the Murkowski Resolution on Thursday and begin the process of taking back Congress’s authority from an out-of-control EPA.

It was defeated 47-53.

The EPA is packed with Obama's unelected marxists. Now they get to make laws concerning CO2. A gas people exhale and plants use for photosynthesis. This sets up Al Gore to become a billionaire over phony science.

We are getting ever so close to the abyss, and past the point of no return. Don't you just love democrats?

The worst Republican is better that any democrat any day of the week. Our society may collapse.

Obama's $400 Million Dollar Stimulus for Terrorists

2010-06-10T11:54:00.000-07:00

America is broke, but Obama has found a way to gives $400 million dollars in aid to Hamas. Wonder how much of it will turn into weapons? Obama is the worst President in history. Loser.

From CNN:

The United States will contribute $400 million in development aid to the Palestinian territories and work with Israel to loosen its embargo on Gaza, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

Obama's announcement came after White House talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The money will be used to build housing, schools, water and health care systems in both the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank and Gaza, which is ruled by the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas.

Obama called the situation in Gaza "unsustainable," and said the United States would work with its European allies, Egypt and Israel to find a "new conceptual framework" for the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

"We agree Israelis have right to prevent arms from coming into Gaza," Obama said. But he said "new mechanisms" were needed to allow more goods to reach the territory - and he repeated that the long-term solution was a permanent deal creating "a Palestinian state side-by-side with an Israel that is secure."

Who Exactly is in the White House

2010-06-09T12:31:00.000-07:00

The Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz nails it with her editorial today. President Obama pretended successfully to 'of the people' during the campaign. Clearly now we know he is not of the people. He is not of America. He is not for America. He is for himself and his ideology. Period.

From Ms. Rabinowitz's editorial:

The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president's earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a powerful sense of urgency about the oil spill.

There should have been nothing puzzling about his response to anyone who has paid even modest critical attention to Mr. Obama's pronouncements. For it was clear from the first that this president—single-minded, ever-visible, confident in his program for a reformed America saved from darkness by his arrival—was wanting in certain qualities citizens have until now taken for granted in their presidents. Namely, a tone and presence that said: This is the Americans' leader, a man of them, for them, the nation's voice and champion. Mr. Obama wasn't lacking in concern about the oil spill. What he lacked was that voice—and for good reason.

Those qualities to be expected in a president were never about rhetoric; Mr. Obama had proved himself a dab hand at that on the campaign trail. They were a matter of identification with the nation and to all that binds its people together in pride and allegiance. These are feelings held deep in American hearts, unvoiced mostly, but unmistakably there and not only on the Fourth of July.

A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe...

They are attitudes to be found everywhere, but never before in a president of the United States. Mr. Obama may not hold all, or the more extreme, of these views. But there can be no doubt by now of the influences that have shaped him. They account for his grand apology tour through the capitals of Europe and to the Muslim world, during which he decried America's moral failures—her arrogance, insensitivity. They were the words of a man to whom reasons for American guilt came naturally. Americans were shocked by this behavior in their newly elected president. But he was telling them something from those lecterns in foreign lands—something about his distant relation to the country he was about to lead.

Helen Thomas Resigns

2010-06-08T10:24:00.000-07:00

Helen Thomas resigned/retired after yesterday's blog was posted.

While I think Helen Thomas should be able to a bigot if she wants to, she did not belong as member of the White House press corps. It is a very selected and coveted position, and Americans deserve a more competent journalist than Thomas. I don't want to shut her up, she can run a blog, write for a publication etc., but an anti-semite does not belong as a member of White House press corps.

Good riddance. She was always overtly liberal in her questioning, and often completely off base. The only time she asked liberal leaders a tough question was when she thought the leadership wasn't being liberal enough.

Helen Thomas Should Be Fired

2010-06-07T08:06:00.000-07:00

Anti-semite Helen Thomas must be fired. This was no random outburst, she's always been an extreme leftist who's pro Hamas and a bigot.

From the Media Research Center:

Longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas was captured on video telling an interviewer that Israeli Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to Germany and Poland. The May 27 exchange with Rabbi David Nesenoff was posted June 3 at RabbiLive.com and featured at the top of the Drudge Report on Friday and Saturday.

Thomas has not been shy about expressing her left-wing views and reliably anti-Israel opinions since she became a White House “columnist” in 2000, after a lengthy career as UPI’s straight news White House correspondent. “I censored myself for 50 years....Now I wake up and ask myself, ‘Who do I hate today?’” she boasted in 2002. But a review shows Thomas was expressing solidly liberal opinions even as a supposedly neutral reporter.

Guiliani Rates Obama's Gulf Oil Response

2010-06-04T07:03:00.000-07:00

fHere is Rudy Guiliani rating Obama's oil spill leadership. Best part is when Rudy talks about the "crimes" BP has committed according to the Obama administration. Guiliani basically says that if the BP organization has committed crimes, why is Obama letting them handle the leak? Ah, logic the domain of conservatism.

Could Blago Trial Bring Down Obama?

2010-06-02T09:42:00.000-07:00

Dare to dream, fellow patriots. Sestak, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Israel, gulf oil spill...Blago could be the final nail in the coffin. The American Spectator is already speculating that Obama could be so damaged after the 2010 elections that even Democrats will call for his resignation in 2014.

From the Politico:

The Blagojevich defense team contends the president can clear up inconsistencies in a portion of the case offered by prosecutors that deals with interactions a labor union official is reported to have had with Obama, Jarrett and Blagojevich during several days in early November 2008.

Defense lawyers say Obama sent a labor union official to make the case for Jarrett with Blagojevich. But Blagojevich himself offered the most exonerating assessment of Obama’s role, according to the prosecutors’ account.

“Blagojevich said he knows that the President-elect wants Senate Candidate 1 for the Senate seat, but ‘they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F[—-] them,’” reads the juiciest passage in the original complaint against Blagojevich.

But there are at least a couple of angles that could arm Obama’s political opponents if they are explored in depth during the trial: Convicted Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko — a onetime Obama supporter — could testify, thrusting his name back into the headlines.

In addition, any holes in the White House story, as laid out in a memo developed by incoming White House Counsel Greg Craig in December 2008, could tarnish the image the president has sought to build as a proponent of transparency.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38015.html#ixzz0piNIwEyc

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Shows Leadership Obama Lacks

2010-06-01T12:57:00.000-07:00

President Obama couldn't suck enough. We are officially leaderless in Washington D.C. Thank God for people like Bobby Jindal.

From NECN:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said the state will not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Oil has pushed at least 12 miles into Louisiana's marshes, with two major pelican rookeries awash in crude.

Gov. Jindal was critical of the amount of boom his state received to ward off the oil seeping toward the coastline. But his major gripe comes at the expense of the Army Corps of Engineers, who have yet to give the go-ahead for the building of sand booms to protect the Louisiana wetlands. He used photographic evidence of oil breaking through hard booms, soft booms and another layer of protection, before being finally being corralled by a sand boom built by the National Guard.

"It is so much better for us. We don't want oil on one inch of Louisiana's coastline, but we'd much rather fight this oil off of a hard coast, off of an island, off of an island, off of a sandy beach on our coastal islands, rather than having to fight it inside in these wetlands," Gov. Jindal said, making the case for sand booms.

The governor said he has been forced to protect Louisiana without the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers, which is weighing the ecological impact of the construction of more sand booms.

"We are not waiting for them. We are going to build it," Jindal said.

"We can either fight battle -- we can fight this oil -- on the Barrier Islands 15 to 20 miles off of our coast, or we can face it in thousands of miles of fragmented wetlands," Gov. Jindal said, clearing favoring the first option. "Every day we're not given approval on this emergency permit to create more of these sand booms is another day when that choice is made for us, as more and more miles of our shore are hit by oil."

The oil spill, which has lasted 33 days since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, has yet to be stopped by British Petroleum at the source. The situation is dire for Gulf coast states.

"It is clear the resources needed to protect our coast are still not here," Gov. Jindal said. "Oil sits and waits for cleanup, and every day that it waits for cleanup more of our marsh dies."

Memorial Day Message to President Obama: Show Some Respect or Shut Up

2010-05-31T08:07:00.000-07:00

Perhaps this Memorial Day President Obama should think about why we owe Europe and the world an apology.

1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne, France. A total of 2289 American graves.

2. The American Cemetery at Ardennes, Belgium. A total of 5329

3. The American Cemetery at Brittany, France. A total of 4410

4. Brookwood, England American Cemetery. A total of 468

5. Cambridge , England. A total of 3812

6. Epinal, France American Cemetery. A total of 5525

7. Flanders Field, Belgium. A total of 368

8. Florence, Italy. A total of 4402

9. Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. A total of 7992

10. Lorraine, France. A total of 10,489

11. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. A total of 5076

12. Meuse-Argonne, France. A total of 14246

13. Netherlands, Netherlands. A total of 8301

14. Normandy, France . A total of 9387

15. Oise-Aisne , France . A total of 6012

16. Rhone, France. A total of 861

17. Sicily, Italy. A total of 7861

18. Somme, France. A total of 1844

19. St.. Mihiel, France . A total of 4153

20. Suresnes, France. A total of 1541

This is just Europe. A total of 104,366 dead American soldiers. It doesn't include those buried in the Pacific.

And we have to watch an American elected leader who apologizes to Europe and the Middle East that our country is "arrogant"!

How many French, Dutch, Italians, Belgians and Brits are buried on our soil, defending us against our enemies?

We don't ask for praise, but we have no reason to apologize.

Hopefully, Americans remember this in November 2012 and 2014.

Obama's Watergate

2010-05-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

What was Joe Sestak offered and when was it offered by the White House? This will not go away. If true, its a felony and if not true then Sestak, a former Navy officer, is lying. Congressman Darrell Issa, is pushing for an investigation. Attorney General Eric Holder and the White House have been stonewalling. Sestak must come clean.

Obama's Redistribution of Wealth

2010-05-25T11:38:00.000-07:00

From Hot Air:

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds.

At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

Those records reflect a long-term trend accelerated by the recession and the federal stimulus program to counteract the downturn. The result is a major shift in the source of personal income from private wages to government programs.

The trend is not sustainable, says University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes. Reason: The federal government depends on private wages to generate income taxes to pay for its ever-more-expensive programs. Government-generated income is taxed at lower rates or not at all, he says. “This is really important,” Grimes says.

This comes before the federal health-insurance subsidies hit in 2014, too. That program provides federal welfare payments to families making less than $88,000 a year who buy their health insurance through the state-run individual exchanges. As more employers dump health-insurance coverage (and they will), more Americans will move into the dependent class despite making as much as 400% above the poverty level and better household income than 60% of their fellow Americans.

It’s more than just unsustainable. We were already on an unsustainable path before Barack Obama got elected President, with pending entitlement disasters in Medicare and Social Security threatening financial oblivion. In the past sixteen months, we’ve doubled down on disaster, and the accelerated redistribution of wealth through entitlements has us careening towards it at breakneck speed.

Terrorists Also Cross Arizona/Mexico Border

2010-05-24T10:49:00.000-07:00

Terrorists from Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, etc., are learning Spanish and crossing the Arizona/Mexican border. Muslim prayer rugs, jihadist uniform patches are being found on the ground in Arizona. It is not just an illegal immigration issue, but a national security issue as well. Watch this video.

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html

Republican Charles Djou Wins Congressional Seat in Obama's Hometown

2010-05-23T08:38:00.000-07:00

Charles Djou, a Republican, won the Congressional seat in Chairman Obama's hometown in Hawaii. First time in 20 years a Republican holds the seat. Beating his two Democrat opponents by 8.6% and 11.6%.

From FOX News:

Republican Charles Djou topped Democrats Colleen Hanabusa and former Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) to succeed retired Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) in Congress. Before Djou’s victory, Democrats had won 11 consecutive special elections. The stretch included a win last Tuesday by Rep. Mark Critz (D-PA) to succeed the late-Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA). Many political handicappers expected Republican Tim Burns to win that contest and viewed the race as a barometer for how the political winds may blow this fall.

Djou secured 39.5 percent of the vote. Meantime, the two Democratic candidates, Hanabusa and Case combined to score nearly 60 percent of the vote. But that splintered the Democratic impact and allowed Djou to squeak through.

“Eighteen months ago, President Obama carried this district with seventy percent of the vote,” said Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), the head of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (NRCC). “Charles Djou’s victory not only changes the makeup of the House of Representatives, but it helps Republicans move one step closer toward winning back the majority in November.”

Mexico is the Problem, Not Arizona

2010-05-22T08:02:00.000-07:00

Corruption in Mexico is the problem, not SB1070. Back in 1994, the Clinton administration started Operation Gatekeeper, using fences and patrols to stop illegals crossing the border. This caused illegals to shift their focus towards crossing in Arizona. Since then, the federal government has refused to help Arizona with the problem.

The Tulsa Beacon reports, the percentage of illegal crossing had now risen to 45 percent from 8 percent in 1992 reported Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. What this has brought along with individuals wanting a better life is drug smuggling, organized crime and filth. Not only has the federal government not helped Arizona, it has ignored requests for help from some of the major Indian tribes that share their borders with Mexico.

The Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation stretches for 150 mile along the Mexican border. I personally visited the site and was told that the tribe regularly picks up tons of trash left behind by illegals, as well as finding lost persons who have died in the Sonora Desert.

The Bush administration would not pay for tribal policing, trash collection or help stem the influx. The Obama administration, desperate for political help this November from the Mexican community, too has done nothing to stop illegal immigration. The Bloomberg story concluded by saying after a prominent rancher was killed by unknown assailants as he patrolled his property, Arizonans felt things had gotten far out of control.

The story’s author Peter Coy said, “For years, the United States has behaved hypocritically on immigration. Legal immigration of low-skilled workers is far below the amount demanded by American businesses.” Only 5,000 green cards are issued yearly when the “demand many times exceeds 400,000 immigrants on permanent or temporary visas.” “One obvious but imperfect way to relieve the pressure is to increase the number of low-skilled immigrants who are admitted yearly,” said the author.

Most observers agree since Mexican workers are not replacing less-educated native-born Americans. Our less educated native-born are also many times unmotivated to work. You will not see them repairing a roof or working on a street. That work is left to the Mexicans. These are the voters Obama covers for and who he caters to. It doesn’t matter about their unemployment or incarceration rates. Their votes are all that is really desired.

The Business Week article went on to say, “Investing in employees to upgrade their skills and put them on a path to promotions and higher pay is good for employers as well as workers.” Like this is not happening? People in their 60s every day participate in continuing education classes and learn new skills. All it takes is a desire to step out and take a chance.

In the article, John Schmidt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research is quoted as saying, “It’s not the border that’s broken, it’s our low-wage labor market.” Rutgers University economist argued, “When employers say they need 400,000 visas a year, they’re saying ‘We need indentured servants.’” Really, the problem of illegal immigration does not lie on the Arizona side of the border or with a desire for low wage employees. It is far easier to “scoff” at Arizona for wanting to address the problem than to talk about the source. Mexico is a beautiful country with abundant natural resources and a population of hardworking people.

It’s too bad those of Spanish ancestry leading Mexico don’t look like the native population or have their interest in mind. If they did we wouldn’t have illegal immigration regardless of what Professor Appelbaum thinks.

As the World Bank wrote in their May 21, 2007 report “Diagnoses of Mexican Economic Problems,” there are 11 reasons why Mexico doesn’t work economically. First is the competitive environment or lack of it. There are special interest groups that act as bottlenecks and limit economic competition. These “untouchable” interest groups impede any economic growth.

Another area is in education where “teachers unions are more concerned with protecting their own privileges than truly reforming education.”

Mexico’s labor law is “rigid and counterproductive.” The law “discourages employment and encourages employers to come up with ingenious tricks to save money.”

What Mexico lacks in innovation and commerce it makes up for with corruption. “Corruption is a part of Mexican society.”. Corruption is part of the way government works. It influences investment, commerce and transportation and Mexican tax law.

Until Mexican bureaucracy changes, the only hope for many citizens will be illegal immigration to the United States. Mexican elite “encourage never-ending emigration to the United States” so that they do not have to address their problems.

Mexico’s problems will not be solved in Arizona. They will be solved by the U.S. government insisting that Mexico City finally act in their people’s best interest.

Obama May Use ICE to Thwart Arizona Immigration Law

2010-05-21T12:20:00.000-07:00

Now it looks likes Obama and the DHS may use or not ICE to thwart the Arizona immigration law by refusing to process detainees turned over by Arizona law enforcement.

John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comment during a meeting on Wednesday with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper reports.

"I don't think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution," Morton told the newspaper.
The best way to reduce illegal immigration is through a comprehensive federal approach, he said, and not a patchwork of state laws.

The law, which criminalizes being in the state illegally and requires authorities to check suspects for immigration status, is not "good government," Morton said.

Meanwhile, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said ICE is not obligated to process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities.

"ICE has the legal discretion to accept or not to accept persons delivered to it by non-federal personnel," Napolitano said. "It also has the discretion to deport or not to deport persons delivered to it by any government agents, even its own."

Let's Destroy America

2010-05-20T08:42:00.000-07:00

A great speech on what liberals are doing to the United States:

I have a plan to destroy America
by Richard D. Lamm

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” Here is my plan:

1. We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin Lipset, put it this way: “The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with its Basques, Bretons and Corsicans.”

2. I would then invent “multiculturalism” and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal: that there are no cultural differences that are important. I would declare it an article of faith that the black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds.

3. We can make the United States a “Hispanic Quebec” without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently, “The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved, not by tolerance, but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrically, and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.” I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with a salad bowl metaphor. It is important to insure that we have various cultural sub-groups living in America reinforcing their differences, rather than Americans emphasizing their similarities.

4. Having done all this, I would make our fastest-growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50 percent dropout rate from school.

5. I would then get the big foundations and big business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of victimology. I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was all the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.

6. I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would “celebrate diversity.” “Diversity” is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other–that is, when they are not killing each other. A “diverse,” peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia.

Look at the ancient Greeks. Dorf’s “World History” tells us: “The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic Games in honor of Zeus, and all Greeks venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet, all of these bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two factors … (local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions …)” If we can put the emphasis on the “pluribus,” instead of the “unum,” we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.

7. Then I would place all these subjects off-limits–make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to “heretic” in the 16th century that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like “racist”, “xenophobe” halt argument and conversation. Having made America a bilingual-bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of “victimology,” I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra –”because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good.” I would make every individual immigrant sympatric and ignore the cumulative impact.

8. Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book “Mexifornia” –this book is dangerous; it exposes my plan to destroy America. So please, please–if you feel that America deserves to be destroyed–please, please–don’t buy this book! This guy is on to my plan.

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” –Noam Chomsky, American linguist and U.S. media and foreign policy critic.

HUD Wrong for Decades

2010-05-19T11:19:00.000-07:00

From the CATO Institute:

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has long been plagued by scandals, mismanagement, and policy failures. Most recently, HUD's subsidies and failed oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped to inflate the housing bubble, which ultimately burst and cascaded into a major financial crisis.

Given this giant policy blunder, now is a good time to review the many failures in HUD leadership over the years. This study discusses how HUD officials operate within a highly politicized environment, which is heavily influenced by the groups that HUD subsidizes and regulates, including the housing industry, financial institutions, and community activists.

At the same time, HUD leaders often put their personal goals ahead of those of the general public. Recent HUD secretaries have focused on gaining private benefits while doing favors for business interests and political insiders. These leadership failures are illustrated in this study by profiles of four recent HUD secretaries: Samuel Pierce in the 1980s, Henry Cisneros and Andrew Cuomo in the 1990s, and Alphonso Jackson in the 2000s.
These public officials touted seemingly noble goals while pursuing personal and political agendas that ended up harming taxpayers and the economy. Even if there were a need for federal housing programs, experience has shown that HUD could not implement such programs without mismanagement, cronyism, and other abuses.

Federal housing policies illustrate broader realities of government intervention. When making decisions, policymakers usually have selfinterested goals that conflict with the broader interests of taxpayers and the general public. Furthermore, their visions for improving society with federal programs usually backfire because of the distortions that those programs create in the economy.

Housing was traditionally a private concern, and it should be made so again because government involvement has done great damage. Alas, policymakers have not learned this lesson even after the recent housing boom and bust. Since the housing and financial meltdowns, federal intervention in housing markets has substantially increased, thus paving the way for further troubles down the road for taxpayers and the economy.

Dodd's Replacement Blumenthal Lies About Vietnam Record

2010-05-18T08:26:00.000-07:00

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut is running for the Dodd seat, while lying about his military record. What is about liberals and the ability to tell the truth about their record:

From the NY Times:

“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”

There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records.

The deferments allowed Mr. Blumenthal to complete his studies at Harvard; pursue a graduate fellowship in England; serve as a special assistant to The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham; and ultimately take a job in the Nixon White House.

In 1970, with his last deferment in jeopardy, he landed a coveted spot in the Marine Reserve, which virtually guaranteed that he would not be sent to Vietnam. He joined a unit in Washington that conducted drills and other exercises and focused on local projects, like fixing a campground and organizing a Toys for Tots drive.

Who is the Real Human Rights Violator

2010-05-17T09:39:00.000-07:00

Gulags. Rouge organ harvesting. One child per family. Male baby favoritism. Etc. Etc. Yet another Obama administration apologist was talking to the Chinese, apologizing for the Arizona immigration law. This administration is filled with some of the biggest losers in world history.

From the AP:

The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002…

Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state, told reporters that another round will happen some time next year in Beijing…

Posner said in addition to talks on freedom of religion and expression, labor rights and rule of law, officials also discussed Chinese complaints about problems with U.S. human rights, which have included crime, poverty, homelessness and racial discrimination.

He said U.S. officials did not whitewash the American record and in fact raised on its own a new immigration law in Arizona that requires police to ask about a person’s immigration status if there is suspicion the person is in the country illegally.

Kagan is Full On Radical and Must Be Stopped

2010-05-14T11:15:00.000-07:00

From Doug Ross:

RedState's invaluable Erick Erickson has published the full text of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's thesis. I have transcribed some of the key graphs, below. In fact, you can read her entire, 130-page thesis in 90 seconds here if you wish. I'm not joking about that.

It's now crystal clear that Kagan was nominated for one reason: to rubber-stamp Obama's radical agenda, including an individual mandate for socialized medicine.

She is a radical. She is a socialist. And she must be blocked at all costs.

Acknowledgements ...I would like to thank my brother Marc, whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas...

...most historians have looked everywhere but to the American socialist movement itself for explanations of U.S. socialism's failure...

...the American socialists· "failure to build a movement that even resembled Sombart's idealized notion of a class-conscious party--a failure which they shared with most of their European counterparts--did not render their party any less significant. Nor did such a failure render their party any less successful...

[To explain why the] American socialist movement of the Progressive Era suddenly fell apart... we must turn to the internal workings and problems of the socialist movement itself.

...the dissolution of the Socialist Party resulted not from the walkout of the syndicalists in 1912 but from the infinitely more disastrous departure of the communists seven years later...

...[Early on] the [American] socialists divided into two camps: those of "constructive" and "revolutionary" socialism.

...the Russian Revolution set the spark to their long-smoldering rebellion, and the Socialist Party burst into flames. In 1919, the SP split into two, and the New York City communist movement emerged... by the last 1920's, the socialist movement in New York City was dead.

...The SP's first priority was to prepare for revolution than to work for reforms -- to bring ultimate salvation rather than immediate relief.

Conservative craft unions could not develop the unity and class consciousness that alone would lead workers to vote the socialist ticket. They could not compel a resistant capitalist class to accept an SP electoral victory. Nor could they prepare the workers for the administration of industry in the cooperative commonwealth. According to such left-wing leaders as Boudin and Slobodin, then, the socialists needed to do all in their power to set New York's unions on a militant path. If that meant interfering with some other "arm", so be it.

...Most historians have viewed World War I as an unqualified disaster for the American socialist movement...

[During the war] both local and national socialist leaders had taken their stand: they would condemn the war in the strongest terms... having formulated their policies, the socialists turned with rekindled enthusiasm to active propaganda work...

Leon Trotsky, living in New York..., urged the Socialist Party to adopt more daring tactics in its fight against the war. In particular, he suggested that the socialists publicy declare their intention to transform the international conflict into a civil one...

Finally, the Socialists began to hold mass meetings in Madison Square Garden, with audiences that even non-socialist newspapers estimated at some 13,000. Most often, the socialists simply protested the war's continuation, using arguments and rhetoric similar to those employed before the U.S. became a belligerent...

We are told that we are in war to make the world safe for democracy. What a hollow phrase! We cannot ... " force democracy upon hostile countries by force of arms. Democracy must come from within not from without, through the light.of reason and not through the fire of guns.

Prior to April 1917, the socialists had enjoyed relative freedom to oppose the war... however, the situation [then] changed considerably. The government prosecuted socialists; the police harassed them; crowds of hysterical citizens lent federal and municipal officials a helping hand. [Ed: Racist tea-baggers, I'd surmise]

...On June 15, 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act, which prohibited an person from willfully helping the enemy, inciting rebellion in the armed forces or attempting to obstruct the government's recruiting efforts... [Ed: sounds like the modern Democrat Party]

...[In 1919] the intra-party dissension that had built up for almost two decades came to a climax. In the wake of this battle, American communism was born... [which advocated a revolution in America]

[However] ...Revolutionary socialism... had never suited the conditions of American life, conditions which demanded a program with a "realistic basis."

...[The radicals caused the Red Scare, in which massive raids were launched by the authorities on revolutionaries]... The effects of the Red Scare on the communist movement were' nothing short of cataclysmic. Nationally, membershipship in the two communist parties decreased from an estimated 70,000 in 1919 to 16,000 in 1920...

...In 1933, the [Socialist-inspired labor union].ILGWU, along with many other formerly left-wing unions joined the mainstream of American political life by jumping on the New Deal bandwagon. These unions viewed the NRA both as a means of withstanding the depression and as an opportunity to recoup the losses they had suffered as a result of their struggle with the communists. To be sure, the NRA did enable the vast majority of these labor organizations to expand at phenomenal rates...

...There was, however, a price. In the pl:ocess.of ·endorsing Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the ILGWU ceased to be a radical oppositional force, with deep links to socialist politics and ideology...

Conclusion In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness... Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force?

...[America's] societal traits... a relatively fluid class structure, an economy which allowed at least some workers to enjoy [prosperity]... prevented the early twentieth century socialists from attracting an immediate mass following. Such conditions did not, however, completely checkmate American socialism...

...Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism... to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America.

...if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

Surprise. Surprise. Obamacare Over $1 Trillion

2010-05-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

Congressional Budget Office estimates released Tuesday predict the health care overhaul will likely cost about $115 billion more in discretionary spending over ten years than the original cost projections.

The additional spending — if approved over the years by Congress — would bring the total estimated cost of the overhaul to over $1 trillion.

The CBO released the estimates in response to a request from California Rep. Jerry Lewis, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. A spokeswoman for Lewis said the inquiry was filed before the House voted on the bill.

“[L]arge sums of discretionary spending in both the House and Senate versions of the health care reform bills have not yet been included in estimates by the CBO, rendering it impossible to make informed decisions regarding the outcome of this legislation,” Lewis wrote in a February letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking her to postpone votes until the discretionary spending analysis was complete.

The CBO estimated in March that the gross cost of the overhaul would be $940 billion over 10 years. The net cost was estimated at $788 billion over 10 years. But the group cautioned that it couldn’t make an estimate of the discretionary costs without more time and information.

Small wonder the Democrats rammed though the legislation, instead of waiting.

What about all those young people who just decide to pay the penalty instead of buying insurance. Or how about those companies, some quite large, that just dump their employees on the government and pay the penalty. Verizon and AT&T are thinking about doing just that.

How about the history of government overruns:

In 1965, the House Ways and Means Committee estimated that the hospital insurance program of Medicare - the federal health care program for the elderly and disabled - would cost $9 billion by 1990. The actual cost that year was $67 billion.

In 1967, the House Ways and Means Committee said the entire Medicare program would cost $12 billion in 1990. The actual cost in 1990 was $98 billion.

In 1987, Congress projected that Medicaid - the joint federal-state health care program for the poor - would make special relief payments to hospitals of less than $1 billion in 1992. Actual cost: $17 billion.

The list goes on. The 1993 cost of Medicare's home care benefit was projected in 1988 to be $4 billion, but ended up at $10 billion. The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which was created in 1997 and projected to cost $5 billion per year, has had to be supplemented with hundreds of millions of dollars annually by Congress.

Barely two weeks in office, Mr. Obama signed a $33 billion bill that will add 4 million mostly low-income children to the SCHIP program over the next 4 1/2 years.

State Run Media Ignores Truth in RNC Criticism of Elena Kagan

2010-05-11T08:42:00.000-07:00

Justice Thurgood Marshall gave a speech during the year that marked the bicentennial of the Constitution. He claimed that the Constitution, as originally drafted and conceived, was "defective"; only after 200 years had the nation "attain[ed] the system of constitutional government, and its respect for... individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today."

Elena Kagan used the same phrase "as originally drafted and conceived, was defective", in a college thesis.

Marshall was referring to slavery. And as an activist judge, was wrong about the Constitution being defective.

Northerners favored eliminating slavery, but realized we had no hope of defeating the British without the South. The South wanted to count slaves as population to increase Southern representation in the new American government. The North wanted slaves not be counted, since the slaves would not be represented in the new government.

The compromise of 3/5ths of a man was actually a first step in eliminating slavery. Secondly, the amendment process allowed for changes like the 14th amendment. Had the Democrats not fought against the rights of blacks up through the mid-60's, more changes would have happened sooner.

Therefore, Marshall was wrong. Had he actually understood history, he's have realized that the Constitution was well drafted and conceived. It was crafted with the knowledge that the founders did not know everything and could be amended. Further, it made one step toward actually eliminating slavery.

This is what the RNC means, and they are right. Unfortunately, liberals and the state run media refuse to get it. They also refuse to explore the truth. Perhaps, because our educational system doesn't teach it.

Obama described Kagan as a woman who will represent “everyday people” and “ordinary citizens.” Kagan repeated the meme in her brief comments. Lock step Alinskyites.

She's a lightweight. She's a leftist. She's a "living and breathing" type. There's no way on God's green earth she's anywhere close to a moderate. She'll endorse Obama's leftist agenda. This is why she was nominated. Stevens was a schmuck. She'll be the same should she be nominated.

I have only one question for her confirmation hearing: Is Obamacare Constitutional? For those of you slow on the uptake, the answer is no. There are so many reasons as to why.

If she ducks or says yes, dump her.

Supreme Court Nominee Kagan and Obama Cut from Same Socialist Cloth

2010-05-10T11:48:00.000-07:00

Obama and supreme court nominee Elena Kagan, are tied together in socialist ideology and the Chicago machine.

From NBC Chicago:

The current Solicitor General and soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice tried her best to woo Obama to a life in academia when the two worked at the University of Chicago, according to MSNBC's First Read.

Kagan joined the staff there in 1991 and won tenure in 1995. Obama was a part-time lecturer there between 1992 and 2004, when he was elected to the U.S. Senate, but according to reports she tried to convince him to pursue a tenure track.

Obama and Kagan share a deep Chicago connection. They both learned the ropes on the South Side, and rumor is they're both rabid White Sox fans, according to the Sun-Times.

Kagan clerked for legendary Chicago federal Appellate Judge Abner Mikva, who is one of Obama’s political mentors. She went on to have a brilliant scholarly career.

Kagan laid the groundwork for many of her political beliefs while at the University of Chicago, and perhaps provided fodder for Republicans to interrogate her.

Before winning tenure at the University of Chicago she published Confirmation Messes, Old and New a review of a book about the judicial confirmation process.

Kagan lamented the lack of "seriousness and substance" in confirmation hearings for Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce," she wrote in the University of Chicago Law Review in 1995.

Her college thesis suggest a socialist's in sheep's clothing:

Kagan spent her senior year conducting research for her thesis on the history of the socialist movement, which was titled “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900–1933.” Her thesis has been criticized by her opponents for revealing sympathies with the Socialist Party and became a source of controversy when she was a potential nominee for Associate Justice David Souter’s seat on the Supreme Court last spring — a position which instead went to Sonia Sotomayor ’76 — and when she was nominated for her current position of solicitor general in January 2009.

“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,” she wrote in her thesis. “Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation.”

She called the story of the socialist movement’s demise “a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America … In unity lies their only hope.”

Sounds a lot like our community organizer in chief. Eh?

Bamster Gives $568 Million Dollar No-Bid to Halliberton (KBR)

2010-05-09T07:18:00.000-07:00

Well, well, well the Democrats' military service corporate whipping boy Halliburton's former subsidiary KBR just got a $568 million dollar no-bid contract. None of this bothers us. Clinton gave 'em no-bids too back in the 1990's. In spite of a few problems with KBR, the company is very good at what it does. We've never met the perfect company or the perfect individual, see Obama for example, but Obama is giving no-bids to KBR too.

Democrats. Full of shit again.

From Bloomburg:

KBR Inc. was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, the Army said.

Do What's Right, Stand with Arizona

2010-05-08T08:01:00.000-07:00

Stand with Arizona.

http://standwitharizona.org/

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Strikes Back at Obama

2010-05-08T07:53:00.000-07:00

Our loser of a President, Barack Obama, gets schooled on what real leadership looks like by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Perhaps Barack can borrow some balls from Michelle.

Obama Ignores Nashville, Where's the Media

2010-05-06T12:13:00.000-07:00

We need to start expecting Obama to drop the ball when it comes to disasters and national security. Oil spills in the gulf, Times Square bombers, and now floods in Nashville that has caused at least a billion dollars in damage. The storms have killed 28 people in the American Southeast.

Where's Obama? Where's the media?

Ah just a bunch of bitter clingers and gun owners. This video is heart wrenching.

Los Suns son estúpidos

2010-05-05T12:32:00.000-07:00

Turns out Los Suns are in fact showing support for illegals.

The National Basketball Players Association said in a statement yesterday that the Arizona immigration law is “disappointing and disturbing” and called for its repeal or modification. The players’ union also praised the Suns.

“We applaud the actions of Phoenix Suns players and management and join them in taking a stand against the misguided efforts of Arizona lawmakers,” said the statement by NBPA Executive Director Billy Hunter.

Los Suns point guard Steve Nash (a Canadian), "I'm against it. I think that this is a bill that really damages our civil liberties. I think it opens up the potential for racial profiling and racism. I think it's a bad precedent to set for our young people. I think it represents our state poorly in the eyes of the nation and the world... Hopefully it will change a lot in the coming weeks."

Says a man from a country that censors speech. Isn't sweet that a rich athlete who probably lives in a gated community with security can feel the pain of illegals, but not the need to protect the citizens who pay his salary. Dope.

Fun Facts About Natural Oil Spills

2010-05-04T09:40:00.000-07:00

What the tree hugging eco-nazis fail to mention about big bad oil is that nature spills more per year than any man caused spill. Right now, liberals have their panties in a bunch over the BP accident. Perhaps they should pull their panties out out their cracks and chill out. The gulf will recover quickly as nature does. Stopping drilling is just spin to pacify stupid leftists.

Imagine if the White House had done its job from day one. We may have contained most of this oil from reaching coast line. Unfortunately, Obama was preoccupied demonizing Wall Street and Arizonans for over a week.

A study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, California.

The study shows the oil content of sediments is highest closest to the seeps and tails off with distance, creating an oil fallout shadow. It estimates the amount of oil in the sediments down current from the seeps to be the equivalent of approximately 8-80 Exxon Valdez oil spills.

NASA scientists find that tons of oil seep into the Gulf of Mexico each year. Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year, according to a new study that will be presented January 27 at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

But the oil isn't destroying habitats or wiping out ocean life. The ooze is a natural phenomena that's been going on for many thousands of years, according to Roger Mitchell, Vice President of Program Development at the Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) in Rockville Md. "The wildlife have adapted and evolved and have no problem dealing with the oil," he said.

Get Ready for a Nuclear Iran

2010-05-03T10:56:00.000-07:00

This is too important. I am re-posting in full. More ineptitude from Obama.

By John Bolton
Monday, May 3, 2010
Wall Street Journal

Negotiations grind on toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran's nuclear weapons program, even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Sanctions advocates acknowledge that the Security Council's ultimate product will do no more than marginally impede Iran's progress.

In Congress, sanctions legislation also creaks along, but that too is simply going through the motions. Russia and China have already rejected key proposals to restrict Iran's access to international financial markets and choke off its importation of refined petroleum products, which domestically are in short supply. Any new U.S. legislation will be ignored and evaded, thus rendering it largely symbolic. Even so, President Obama has opposed the legislation, arguing that unilateral U.S. action could derail his Security Council efforts.

The further pursuit of sanctions is tantamount to doing nothing. Advocating such policies only benefits Iran by providing it cover for continued progress toward its nuclear objective. It creates the comforting illusion of "doing something." Just as "diplomacy" previously afforded Iran the time and legitimacy it needed, sanctions talk now does the same.

Speculating about regime change stopping Iran's nuclear program in time is also a distraction. The Islamic Revolution's iron fist, and willingness to use it against dissenters (who are currently in disarray), means we cannot know whether or when the regime may fall. Long-term efforts at regime change, desirable as they are, will not soon enough prevent Iran from creating nuclear weapons with the ensuing risk of further regional proliferation.

We therefore face a stark, unattractive reality. There are only two options: Iran gets nuclear weapons, or someone uses pre-emptive military force to break Iran's nuclear fuel cycle and paralyze its program, at least temporarily.

There is no possibility the Obama administration will use force, despite its confused and ever-changing formulation about the military option always being "on the table." That leaves Israel, which the administration is implicitly threatening not to resupply with airplanes and weapons lost in attacking Iran—thereby rendering Israel vulnerable to potential retaliation from Hezbollah and Hamas.

It is hard to conclude anything except that the Obama administration is resigned to Iran possessing nuclear weapons. While U.S. policy makers will not welcome that outcome, they certainly hope as a corollary that Iran can be contained and deterred. Since they have ruled out the only immediate alternative, military force, they are doubtless now busy preparing to make lemonade out of this pile of lemons.

President Obama's likely containment/deterrence strategy will feature security assurances to neighboring countries and promises of American retaliation if Iran uses its nuclear weapons. Unfortunately for this seemingly muscular rhetoric, the simple fact of Iran possessing nuclear weapons would alone dramatically and irreparably alter the Middle East balance of power. Iran does not actually have to use its capabilities to enhance either its regional or global leverage.

Facile analogies to Cold War deterrence rest on the dubious, unproven belief that Iran's nuclear calculus will approximate the Soviet Union's. Iran's theocratic regime and the high value placed on life in the hereafter makes this an exceedingly dangerous assumption.

Even if containment and deterrence might be more successful against Iran than just suggested, nuclear proliferation doesn't stop with Tehran. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others will surely seek, and very swiftly, their own nuclear weapons in response. Thus, we would imminently face a multipolar nuclear Middle East waiting only for someone to launch first or transfer weapons to terrorists. Ironically, such an attack might well involve Israel only as an innocent bystander, at least initially.

We should recognize that an Israeli use of military force would be neither precipitate nor disproportionate, but only a last resort in anticipatory self-defense. Arab governments already understand that logic and largely share it themselves. Such a strike would advance both Israel's and America's security interests, and also those of the Arab states.

Nonetheless, the intellectual case for that strike must be better understood in advance by the American public and Congress in order to ensure a sympathetic reaction by Washington. Absent Israeli action, no one should base their future plans on anything except coping with a nuclear Iran.

Mr. Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of "Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations" (Simon & Schuster, 2007).

Make Mine Freedom

2010-05-02T11:38:00.000-07:00

Here a great cartoon about freedom created in 1948. This is must watch and great to show the kids. Very prescient today, given our current leadership:

Obama Spends Week Race Bating Arizona Immigration Law While Oil Spill Reaches Shore

2010-05-01T08:08:00.000-07:00

Obama fiddled while Rome burned. He wasted time rabble rousing and race bating Arizonans who just want the law to protect them. Unfortunately, it appears that our community organizing President is only good at community organizing. At a time when we need a President to be Presidential, we are stuck with one who lacks the capability.

Turns out the administration was unaware that the defense department has oil spill fighting equipment. Whole administration is a bunch of novices. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

From the NY Times H/T to Gateway Pundit:

As oil edged toward the Louisiana coast and fears continued to grow that the leak from a seabed oil well could spiral out of control, officials in the Obama administration publicly chastised BP America for its handling of the spreading oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, where Obama is expected to travel this weekend.

Yet a review of the response suggests it may be too simplistic to place all the blame for the unfolding environmental catastrophe on the oil company. The federal government also had opportunities to move more quickly, but did not do so while it waited for a resolution to the spreading spill from BP.

The Department of Homeland Security waited until Thursday to declare that the incident was “a spill of national significance,” and then set up a second command center in Mobile, Ala. The actions came only after the estimate of the size of the spill was increased fivefold to 5,000 barrels a day.

The delay meant that the Homeland Security Department waited until late this week to formally request a more robust response from the Department of Defense, with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano acknowledging even as late as Thursday afternoon that she did not know if the Defense Department even had equipment that might be helpful.

By Friday afternoon, she said, the Defense Department had agreed to send two large military transport planes to spray chemicals that can disperse the oil while it is still in the Gulf.

We Cannot Let Liberals Define Language

2010-04-30T10:30:00.000-07:00

It seems to happen to me almost daily. I am for the U.S. Constitution, individual rights, limited government and low taxes. I cut through the liberal hypocrisy with clear researched facts, and guess what “moderates” and liberals call me? Nazi, fascist, the klan are the commonly included in curse laden responses.

And these “moderates” are the people that “blame both sides” but grouse about high taxes and deficits.

I am for legal immigration and border security while being against illegal immigration. Yet they call me a racist. Which is funny because my wife is a naturalized American citizen from the Philippines. She’s darker than Obama, and tans like photo paper in the summer. Half a day on the beach and she’s a luscious coppertone, even with SPF 45. And those sexy tan lines… :) Where was I. Oh yeah. Meanwhile it takes me a whole summer to get a little color without burning.

The primary problem is that liberals get to re-write history through language. Nazism, communism, fascism, totalitarianism, imperialism, and socialism are all restrictive governments and restrictive ideologies. All these governments expect the people to serve the state. Taxes are high. Personal property rights are negligible. Its people crave freedom.

Liberals push high taxes, bigger government control over our daily lives, and less upward mobility. They use the bureaucracy to pester the citizenry preventing innovation and growth, using phony climate change schemes. They just took over 1/6th of our economy with Obamacare, further limiting choice. Had we only encouraged competition by allowing people to buy across state lines, and allowed people to control the purse strings to their own care, costs would drop like a rock. I saw it happen with car insurance in my state when they allowed in dozens of car insurance companies. I compared rates and saved 50%.

Liberals are the oppressors. We need to take back control of language. Your modern day liberal is cut from the same cloth of the fascist. Only the free speech they agree with should be heard. They use racism and classism to divide the country for political gain. They make it hard to rise up out of poverty and stop receiving government assistance, keeping an almost permanent dependent poverty stricken Democrat voting class.

We must use language to expose the truth. Prepare for the hate speak from the left when you do, but you must not stop. The only way to stop liberalism is with the truth. Truth is like kryptonite to liberals. Make sure you use it.

Oh, I almost forgot… the klan, is a terrorist arm founded by Democrats to suppress blacks. And blacks used to vote Republican until the mid 60’s, when Johnson’s Great Society kicked in and gave them a reason to accept poverty and vote for Democrats.

Obama: “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money”

2010-04-29T09:58:00.000-07:00

Um say what?

How very marxist of President Obama. Who is he to decide who makes what? Give me more business creating, innovative investing, job creating, tax paying, filthy rich. What an ideological moron this President is.

Obama yesterday:

We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy.

Race Bating Obama Lies About Arizona's Immigration Law

2010-04-28T09:01:00.000-07:00

Its clear the Obama did not read Arizona's immigration law. Where is this post racial era of Obama? Probably won't be coming as long as Obama keeps race bating.

Right now Arizona is overrun with illegals. Arizona citizens are subject to kidnapping and murder. If you live close to the border in Arizona, it is likely that you will find your house occupied when you go on vacation or leave your property unattended for any length of time.

OTTUMWA, IA — Asked about his plan for undocumented workers at a town hall this evening in Ottumwa, IA, President Obama referred to “this law that just passed in Arizona which I think is a poorly conceived law.”

The president said, “you can try to make it really tough on people who look like they, quote, unquote look like illegal immigrants. One of the things that the law says is that local officials are allow to ask somebody who they have a suspicion might be an illegal immigrant for their papers — but you can imagine if you are a Hispanic American in Arizona, your great, great grandparents may have been there before Arizona was even a state. But now suddenly if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re going to be harassed, that’s something that could potentially happen.”

“That’s not the right way to go,” the president said to the crowd at Indian Hills Community College.

Memo to Liberals: Arizona Immigration Law Just Enforces Federal Law

2010-04-27T08:26:00.000-07:00

Well the race baters like Obama, Al Sharpton and others in the Democrat party are at it again. Arizona was forced to do what the Federal government refuses to do... SECURE THE BORDER. The Mexican boarder is rife with murder, kidnappings, and beheadings. Arizona schools and hospitals are overwhelmed.

What is American citizenship worth if the open borders crowd gets their way?

The first job of the Federal government is to protect its citizens. We Americans aren't anti-immigration, we are anti-illegal immigration. Sovereignty means something. Other countries protect their sovereignty, and no one complains. Mexico in fact has some of the most oppressive and racist immigration laws against Central and South Americans.

Here are some specifics in the law:

Prohibits law enforcement officials and law enforcement agencies of this state or counties, municipalities and political subdivisions from restricting or limiting the enforcement of the federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.

·          Requires officials and agencies to reasonably attempt to determine the immigration status of a person involved in a lawful contact where reasonable suspicion exists regarding the immigration status of the person, except if the determination may hinder or obstruct an investigation.
·          Stipulates that if the person is arrested, the person’s immigration status must be determined before the person is released and must be verified with the federal government.
·          Stipulates that a law enforcement official or agency cannot solely consider race, color or national origin when implementing these provisions, except as permitted by the U.S. or Arizona Constitution.
·          Specifies that a person is presumed to be lawfully present if the person provides any of the following:
Ø     A valid Arizona driver license.
Ø     A valid Arizona nonoperating identification license.
Ø     A valid tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification.
Ø A valid federal, state or local government issued identification, if the issuing entity requires proof of legal presence before issuance.
·          Requires that if a person is convicted of any state or local law, on discharge from imprisonment or on the assessment of any monetary obligation imposed, ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must be immediately notified.
·          Authorizes a law enforcement agency to securely transport an unlawfully present alien to a federal facility.
·          Requires a law enforcement agency to obtain judicial authorization before securely transporting an unlawfully present alien to a point of transfer that is outside of Arizona.

Surprise, Surprise Obamacare Will Increase the Costs of Health Care

2010-04-26T07:01:00.000-07:00

Medicare's Office of Actuary reports that Obamacare will increase health care costs, not decrease costs as Obama and the Democrats say it will. The report projected that Medicare cuts could drive about 15 percent of hospitals and other institutional providers into the red, "possibly jeopardizing access" to care for seniors.

Further, the Health and Human Services Department concludes that adding 34 million people to the health care rolls will raise costs by at least one percent. The increase in cost are expected to be even larger since the medicare cuts are predicted to unsustainable.

From the AP:

The report acknowledged that some of the cost-control measures in the bill — Medicare cuts, a tax on high-cost insurance and a commission to seek ongoing Medicare savings — could help reduce the rate of cost increases beyond 2020. But it held out little hope for progress in the first decade.

"During 2010-2019, however, these effects would be outweighed by the increased costs associated with the expansions of health insurance coverage," wrote Richard S. Foster, Medicare's chief actuary. "Also, the longer-term viability of the Medicare ... reductions is doubtful." Foster's office is responsible for long-range costs estimates.

Republicans said the findings validate their concerns about Obama's 10-year, nearly $1 trillion plan to remake the nation's health care system.

"A trillion dollars gets spent, and it's no surprise — health care costs are going to go up," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., a leading Republican on health care issues. Camp added that he's concerned the Medicare cuts will undermine care for seniors.

Uglygov.com Names GM Crapweasel of the 4/23/10

2010-04-25T12:22:00.000-07:00

Turns out that GM or Obama's Government Motors paid back the $6.7 billion dollar loan with tax payer money from a "working capital" account courtesy of the Obama administration (read tax payers). It would have to be an Obama shell game since GM hasn't broken even yet let alone made a profit.

Arizona Does for Immigration What Obama Refuses to Do

2010-04-25T06:40:00.000-07:00

After the death of rancher Robert Krantz, Arizona brought forth legislation to combat border problems of immigrants shooting at American citizens.

From the AP:

Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation's busiest gateway for human and drug smuggling from Mexico.

With hundreds of protesters outside the state Capitol shouting that the bill would lead to civil rights abuses, Brewer said critics were "overreacting" and that she wouldn't tolerate racial profiling.

"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," Brewer said after signing the law. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation."

Earlier Friday, Obama called the Arizona bill "misguided" and instructed the Justice Department to examine it to see if it's legal. He also said the federal government must enact immigration reform at the national level — or leave the door open to "irresponsibility by others."

Yet again our clueless President doesn't get or care about the safety of its citizens, just cramming through more one party Democrat voters via amnesty. And the "irresponsibility by others" comment is just precious, giving that it defines his Presidency to a T.

Earlier Friday, Obama called the Arizona bill "misguided" and instructed the Justice Department to examine it to see if it's legal. He also said the federal government must enact immigration reform at the national level — or leave the door open to "irresponsibility by others."

"That includes, for example, the recent efforts in Arizona, which threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe," Obama said

And you still have fools that think immigration laws are racist, but the truth is succinctly explained:

The bill's Republican sponsor, state Rep. Russell Pearce of Mesa, said Obama and other critics of the bill were "against law enforcement, our citizens and the rule of law."

"Illegal is illegal," said Pearce, a driving force on the issue in Arizona. "We'll have less crime. We'll have lower taxes. We'll have safer neighborhoods. We'll have shorter lines in the emergency rooms. We'll have smaller classrooms."

GM Shell Game: Pays Back Bailout with TARP Money

2010-04-24T05:16:00.000-07:00

Does anyone associated with the Obama Administration tell the truth? I am beginning to think, NO.

GM has been running print ads stating that they have paid back the automotive bailout ahead of time. The drive-by state run media has been promoting same. Problem is that it is not true.

From CNS News:

Senator Chuck Grassley is asking Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to justify those claims. According to the Iowa Republican, GM has repaid its TARP (taxpayer-funded bailout) loans using other TARP funds.

The automaker – which is 61 percent owned by the U.S. and 12 percent owned by Canada -- announced on Wednesday that it has fully repaid the $6.7-billion in loans it received from the U.S. and Canadian governments.

“GM is able to repay the taxpayers in full, with interest, ahead of schedule, because more customers are buying vehicles like the Chevrolet Malibu and Buick LaCrosse we build here in Fairfax,” said GM Chairman Ed Whitacre during a visit to an auto plant in Fairfax, Kansas on Wednesday.

But as the Associated Press reported, GM received a total of $52 billion from the U.S. government and $9.5 billion from the Canadian and Ontario governments as part of its bankruptcy reorganization. The U.S. considered $6.7 billion of the $52 billion as a loan.

In fact, GM still owes $45.3 billion to the U.S. and $8.1 billion to Canada, money it received in exchange for shares in the company. GM said it hopes to repay those amounts with an eventual public stock offering, the AP reported.

“It looks like [GM’s] announcement is really just an elaborate TARP money shuffle,” Grassley said in an April 22 letter to Treasury Secretary Geithner. “The repayment dollars haven’t come from GM selling cars but, instead, from a TARP account at the Treasury Department.”

Grassley pointed to the most recent quarterly report from Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for TARP.

Barofsky testified before the Senate Finance Committee this week that the funds GM used to repay its TARP debt are not coming from GM earnings.

“Instead, GM seems to be using TARP funds from an escrow account at Treasury to make the debt repayments,” Grassley said. The senator noted that according to Barafsky's testimony, "Treasury had supervisory authority over GM’s use of these TARP escrow funds."

Grassley questioned whether the Treasury Department is being straightforward with taxpayers about its management of the $700-billion taxpayer-funded bailout program

Grassley has been an outspoken critic about the lack of transparency with how TARP funds have been used. Last fall, he cosponsored legislation to end the program.

Seems like the Obama Administration has invented a new term... robbing Peter to pay Peter.

Entepreneur Steve Wynn Says U.S. No Longer a Good Place to do Business

2010-04-23T06:49:00.000-07:00

Gaming titan Steve Wynn, who's created thousands of jobs and enriched the lives of many Nevadans, may move his headquarters to China. He feels that the United States is no longer a good place to do business.

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Mr. Wynn, in Macau for the opening of his hotel expansion, told CNBC Wednesday that he might move his company's headquarters from Las Vegas to China.

"The governmental policies in the United States of America are a damper, a wet blanket," Mr. Wynn said in a different interview on Bloomberg Television. "They retard investment, they retard job formation, they retard the creation of a better life for the citizens in spite of the rhetoric of the president.

"I don't think the Las Vegas market at the moment beckons a large investment," Mr. Wynn said. "The economic outlook in the United States, the policies of this administration, which do not favor job formation, do not encourage investment at all."

Mr. Wynn is no partisan hack, and we hope he sticks around. But even the most economically unsophisticated taxpayer should be concerned when one of this country's most successful entrepreneurs -- and the chief executive of a publicly traded corporation -- declares that this country is no longer a good place to do business.

ACORN Chief Bertha Lewis Calls Tea Parties a Bowel Movement

2010-04-22T07:16:00.000-07:00

On March 25, 2010, ACORN boss Bertha Lewis gave a speech to the Democratic Socialists of America in which she called the Tea Parties a bowel movement. She followed the leftist meme of tying the Tea Parties to racism. Class is not something most leftists possess. See video below.

Thankfully, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued a stay on the December 2009 injunction by Clinton-appointed Judge Nina Gershon that declared the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) funding ban was unconstitutional. At least for now we taxpayers aren't funding this leftist criminal front group for the Democrats.

80% of Americans Don't Trust Government

2010-04-21T07:22:00.000-07:00

Only 4 out 5 Americans don't trust government. Obama and his cohorts in the Senate and Congress have place the United States on a path to a banana republic, and Americans have woken up to that fact.

From the AP:

Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don't trust the federal government and have little faith it can solve America's ills, the survey found.

The survey illustrates the ominous situation President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party face as they struggle to maintain their comfortable congressional majorities in this fall's elections. Midterm prospects are typically tough for the party in power. Add a toxic environment like this and lots of incumbent Democrats could be out of work.

The survey found that just 22 percent of those questioned say they can trust Washington almost always or most of the time and just 19 percent say they are basically content with it. Nearly half say the government negatively effects their daily lives, a sentiment that's grown over the past dozen years.

This anti-government feeling has driven the tea party movement, reflected in fierce protests this past week.

"The government's been lying to people for years. Politicians make promises to get elected, and when they get elected, they don't follow through," says Cindy Wanto, 57, a registered Democrat from Nemacolin, Pa., who joined several thousand for a rally in Washington on April 15 — the tax filing deadline. "There's too much government in my business. It was a problem before Obama, but he's certainly not helping fix it."

Majorities in the survey call Washington too big and too powerful, and say it's interfering too much in state and local matters. The public is split over whether the government should be responsible for dealing with critical problems or scaled back to reduce its power, presumably in favor of personal responsibility. About half say they want a smaller government with fewer services, compared with roughly 40 percent who want a bigger government providing more. The public was evenly divided on those questions long before Obama was elected.

Right Wing Network to Begin this Summer

2010-04-20T09:20:00.000-07:00

From AOL.com

The "RightNetwork" announced its arrival with a limited-preview website, touting a line-up of all-original programming designed to reflect "Pro-America, Pro-Business, Pro-Military sensibilities." And even though the start-up lacks a specified release date and may or may not have a national distributor, it has already generated the kind of controversy that befits any cable news channel.

The commotion was largely kicked up by a widely circulated promotional video starring "Cheers" and "Frasier" alumnus Kelsey Grammer as himself, sounding off on things he thinks are wrong with the world -- a list that covers everything from "big government" to "grape-flavored vodka."

It's certainly not the first public declaration of the beloved actor's political persuasion. In years past he has notably stated his disgust for some of his fellow Hollywood stars' anti-war views, voiced his support for Republican platforms and presidential candidates and played the part of Gen. George S. Patton in "An American Carol," a limited-release satirical film* that reworked the better-known "Christmas Carol" expressly to poke fun at America's modern political left.

RightNetwork's website also contains YouTube trailers for some of the network's flagship new programs, including "Running," a reality show about first-time congressional candidates gearing up to challenge incumbents in the 2010 midterm elections, and "Politics and Poker," which "mixes entertainers, pundits, cards and politics," and features a notable appearance from one Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet mogul behind the "Big" series of websites: Big Government, Big Hollywood, etc.

Michael Steele Named Crapweasel of the Week for 4/16/2010

2010-04-19T12:33:00.000-07:00

Uglygov.com names Michael Steele Chairman of the RNC Crapweasel of the Week for 4/16/2010. Steele met with racist Rev. Al Sharpton and Sharpton's National Action Network to pander. Pandering to a racist like Sharpton is not the way to a big tent. Plus, Steele compared Republicans to the back end of an elephant, which is beyond pale.

Obama Mocks Tea Parties Over Taxes

2010-04-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

Barack's middle name should be gall. He lot of gall saying we should thank him for "lowering" taxes when he's been increasing taxes by letting cuts lapse and signing the biggest tax bill in history with the implementation of the health care bill. Well he's only fooling his shrinking supporters. Soon the Tea Parties will be the majority. 24% of people agree with the tea parties, and independents are running from Obama like he's a leper. Here is the divider in chief behaving badly once again:

Obama mocks tea parties

Contract From America Unveiled

2010-04-15T07:01:00.000-07:00

The Tea Parties have unveiled the Contract From America. It was voted on by Tea Party Patriots.

The Contract from America serves as a clarion call for those who recognize the importance of free market principles, limited government, and individual liberty. It is the natural extension of a movement that began in the local communities and quickly spread across America in response to unprecedented government expansion, reckless spending, and a blatant disregard by our leaders of the nation’s founding principles.

During the past several months, hundreds of thousands of Americans have debated thousands of ideas to solve our nation’s most pressing problems. 454,331 votes were cast. It has been an open process and has provided a genuine opportunity to give voice to a broad cross section of concerned Americans.

The Contract from America

We, the citizens of the United States of America, call upon those seeking to represent us in public office to sign the Contract from America and by doing so commit to support each of its agenda items and advocate on behalf of individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom.

Individual Liberty

Our moral, political, and economic liberties are inherent, not granted by our government. It is essential to the practice of these liberties that we be free from restriction over our peaceful political expression and free from excessive control over our economic choices.

Limited Government

The purpose of our government is to exercise only those limited powers that have been relinquished to it by the people, chief among these being the protection of our liberties by administering justice and ensuring our safety from threats arising inside or outside our country’s sovereign borders. When our government ventures beyond these functions and attempts to increase its power over the marketplace and the economic decisions of individuals, our liberties are diminished and the probability of corruption, internal strife, economic depression, and poverty increases.

Economic Freedom

The most powerful, proven instrument of material and social progress is the free market. The market economy, driven by the accumulated expressions of individual economic choices, is the only economic system that preserves and enhances individual liberty. Any other economic system, regardless of its intended pragmatic benefits, undermines our fundamental rights as free people.

1. Protect the Constitution
Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03%)
2. Reject Cap & Trade
Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. (72.20%)
3. Demand a Balanced Budget
Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike. (69.69%)
4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words—the length of the original Constitution. (64.90%)
5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington
Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the US Constitution’s meaning. (63.37%)
6. End Runaway Government Spending
Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%)
7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care
Defund, repeal and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enabling a competitive, open, and transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn’t restricted by state boundaries. (56.39%)
8. Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy
Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs. (55.51%)
9. Stop the Pork
Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%)
10. Stop the Tax Hikes
Permanently repeal all tax hikes, including those to the income, capital gains, and death taxes, currently scheduled to begin in 2011. (53.38%)

Alinskyites Set to Infiltrate Tea Parties

2010-04-14T10:54:00.000-07:00

H/T to Michelle Malkin

Here comes the brown shirts to try and disrupt the peaceful assembly of the tea parties. What a bunch of losers liberals are:

Former Democratic State Party Chairman Kathy Sullivan is heading up the search, the source said. Sullivan has been calling and e-mailing liberal activists trying to get them to attend tea parties in different parts of the state and hold signs denying the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and make racially disparaging comments to reporters. “This is Kathy’s [Sullivan] project,” the source told NowHampshire.com. “She is absolutely obsessed with painting the tea party people as racists.” Similar “crash the tea party” efforts are taking place throughout the country on Tax Day.

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Stupak is as Stupid Does

2010-04-09T07:03:00.000-07:00

It looks as if the anti-abortion sellout Bart Stupak, is not going to run again. He's expected to announce it at a 12:30PM EST news conference. The Tea Party Express has spent $250,000 running anti-Stupak ads in his district.

Stupak will probably mumble about all his accomplishments, and he has been thinking about doing this for a while. The truth is the backlash is showing that he won't win in November. Character matters. In voting for Obamacare, Stupak proves he doesn't have any.

Obama's Weak Nuclear Play

2010-04-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

Nothing worse than a leftist ideologue leader purposely weakening America's national security. President Obama is like those people that watch Texas Hold 'Em on TV, and think they could play with best. The problem is that in real life one doesn't get to see the hole cards like on TV. Russia and China are far better players and they just gamed our novice President. Obama has so many tells, and he got played. Actually its not that hard to play Obama. Iran does it weekly.

Rudy Guiliani has it right in National Review Online:

“President Obama thinks we can all hold hands, sing songs, and have peace symbols,” Giuliani says. “North Korea and Iran are not singing along with the president. Knowing that, it just doesn’t make sense why we would reduce our nuclear arms when we face these threats.”

“The president doesn’t understand the concept of leverage,” Giuliani continues. “He’s taken away our military option and it looks like he would prevent Israel from using a military option. He also hasn’t gotten Russia or China to agree. With Russia, he should have made them put their cards on the table. Instead, like with the missile shield, he gave up and got nothing for it. He negotiated against himself. That is like reducing the price of your house before you get an offer.”

“Leverage means the other guy has to be afraid of you,” says Giuliani, a former associate attorney general. “I worked for a president, Ronald Reagan, who understood that brilliantly, and that’s how he won the Cold War. You need to appear to be unpredictable. [Reagan’s] State Department understood that you need to create pressure, to create something they’re afraid of. Tell me where Obama has done that.”

“This president has taken so many steps backward in dealing with national security,” Giuliani concludes. “Beyond this nuclear policy, this is still an administration in a state of confusion about how to deal with terrorism. They’re out of control. And they have shown an inability to make tough decisions. It’s not inconsequential how the president dithers over so many issues, yet when it comes to dealing with Israel, one of our strongest allies, he doesn’t show much ambiguity. With Israel, he has been extremely hostile. His treatment of the Israeli prime minister [during his recent Washington visit] was shocking.”

I just hope we can survive the ineptness of the Obama Administration. We will need to reverse course as soon as Obama is voted out of office. Even then, our country will have been weakened and we could be attacked. And it will Obama's fault, just like 9/11 was Clinton's fault.

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Racist Thy Name is Democrat

2010-04-07T08:29:00.000-07:00

It shouldn't be a surprise that black conservative and tea party participants are called racist names by liberals and Democrats. The history of racism in the Democrat party, has just morphed in a holier than thou meme from liberals. If you are black or a minority you must be a Democrat otherwise you are a sellout or an Uncle Tom. You must except the crumbs from the Democrats. You must stay in your place. Its a perverse plantation mentality that occupies the liberal mindset.

Many minorities that escape the plantation and become conservatives. Then they are vilified by the left with racist tags from another era.

Even the AP is reporting how black conservatives are treated. Remember folks liberals are supposed to be a tolerant bunch, unless you don't conform.

I suggest that people read this book Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past. You'll never look at the liberals and the Democrats the same way again.

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Truth About Tea Party Demos Ignored By MSM

2010-04-06T12:46:00.000-07:00

After I watched the setup video op to demonize the Tea Party protest during the health care vote, I knew the liberals and MSM don’t get it. When they couldn’t bait the tea party participants to hurl racial slurs or become violent, the Democrat congress critters made it up. The MSM lapped up the talking points without fact checking. Nothing radical or racist happened. There were videos of the event from all angles and had something happened we’d have seen the video a thousand times by now.

The fact is that the Tea Parties are just peaceful assemblies by patriots, who realize that our government is overspending and taxing us to death. But here’s something more for the MSM and the liberals to choke on… the Tea Parties are 40% Independents and Democrats. Demographically, the tea parties represent and accurate breakdown of all Americans, not just white people.

H/T to Sistertoldjah:

Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey. The findings provide one of the most detailed portraits to date of the grassroots movement that started last year.The national breakdown of the Tea Party composition is 57 percent Republican, 28 percent Independent and 13 percent Democratic, according to three national polls by the Winston Group, a Republican-leaning firm that conducted the surveys on behalf of an education advocacy group. Two-thirds of the group call themselves conservative, 26 are moderate and 8 percent say they are liberal. The Winston Group conducted three national telephone surveys of 1,000 registered voters between December and February. Of those polled, 17 percent – more than 500 people — said they were “part of the Tea Party movement.”

“It’s a good sample size,” said David Winston, the polling firm’s director. “It will certainly give us an initial base to follow where these folks are.”

The group is united around two issues – the economy/jobs and reducing the deficit. They believe that cutting spending is the key to job creation and favor tax cuts as the best way to stimulate the economy. That said 61 percent of Tea Party members believe infrastructure spending creates jobs. Moreover, given the choice Tea Party members favor 63-32 reducing unemployment to 5 percent over balancing the budget.

The breakdown is as follows:
49% Republican
43% Independent
8% Democrat
70% Conservative
22% Moderate
8% Liberal

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Welcome Aboard

2010-04-01T13:30:00.000-07:00

This is the blog for the social networking site of politics, www.uglygov.com We basically just started. We felt that there is no better time than now to start a social networking site. We see a major need given the tyrannical nature of our government. Respect for U.S Constitution by our leaders is practically nil. Our deficits have exploded beyond our current and future needs, and President Obama does not care.

Now we have a health care program that will reduce care for everyone, while raising costs. We our now about to ruin the best health care in the nation.

Obama faked running as a centrist, and many believed that he is a essentially a marxist. We were aware of his associations to radical and racist people. His desire to redistribute wealth. His desire for bigger oppressive government.

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