Ok, so I haven’t Posted for awhile….

But this one really has me shaking my head:

Via Drudge:

THE LOUISIANA

 

PURCHASE: $300

 

MILLION FOR MY

 

VOTE!

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Bribery constitutes a crime and is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in discharge of a public or legal duty. The bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient’s conduct. It may be any money, good, right in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, object of value, advantage, or merely a promise or undertaking to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public capacity.

Where’s Holder!?

Who REALLY Visited Castro?

Well, well, the CBC (Congressional Black Caucus) has visited Cuba and met with both the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul.
Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Bobby Rush (D-Il.)
Laura Richardson (D-Ca.)
Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)
Melvin Luther Watt (D-NC)
Michael Honda (D-CA)
Marcia Fudge (D-OH)
all vistied the Dear Leader (#1) on their visit.
But was it REALLY the Congressional Black Caucus that paid Dear Fidel the visit? I beg to differ: for I give you the Congressional Progressive Caucus (which is supported by the Democratic Socialists of America) which has, as some of its members:
Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Bobby Rush (D-Il.)
Laura Richardson (D-Ca.)
Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)
Melvin Luther Watt (D-NC)
Michael Honda (D-CA)
Marcia Fudge (D-OH)

Gee….go figure, who woulda thunk it…that those congresspersons who visited Fidel Castro and had all those good things to say about Fidel were actually…well, SOCIALISTS!

What?  Socialists in our Government?  How’d they get there?  I thought they were DEMOCRATS!

The Arrogance of Power

In case you missed it, here’s video of Alan Grayson, D-Orlando showing just what arrogance and ignorance looks like:

As you may recall,  TARP turned over all power to solve the financial problems to the Secretary of the Treasury.  When the Secretary didn’t do what Congress thought he would do, Congress (Barney Frank) came unglued, even though they gave him carte blanche.

As you may recall, the “stimulus bill” , with Chris Dodd’s help, allowed the bonuses that the AIG executives got.  This idiot voted for that bill.  He voted to allow those executives to keep that money.  Much as I may not like it, they were entitled to that money (many of them worked for $1 a year and those bonuses were their only compensation). THIS IDIOT VOTED FOR IT!

So this idiot wants to give the Treasury secretary carte blanche to determine what is too much to pay people who work for companies that took TARP.

He’s willing to “trust” that the Secretary only means that people won’t be getting huge bonuses, but did he put any guarantees in the bill?   NO!

I don’t know what surprises me more, his intolerance of his responsbility to the American People, his arrogance in his response to legitimate questions aboput that bill, or his ognorance of the real puropose of his office.

These are the people driving this country.  God help us.,

The More Things Change……

The more they stay the same….Obama’s favorite project.  He loved this idea….I mean it was HIS bill for cryin out loud…..

Global Poverty Act of 2007(Sponsor: Barack Obama)

 – Directs the President, through the Secretary of State, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

Requires the strategy to contain specific and measurable goals and to consist of specified components, including: (1) continued investment or involvement in existing U.S. initiatives related to international poverty reduction and trade preference programs for developing countries; (2) improving the effectiveness of development assistance and making available additional overall United States assistance levels as appropriate; (3) enhancing and expanding debt relief as appropriate; (4) mobilizing and leveraging the participation of businesses and public-private partnerships; (5) coordinating the goal of poverty reduction with other internationally recognized Millennium Development Goals; and (6) integrating principles of sustainable development and entrepreneurship into policies and programs.

Sets forth specified reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary of State to designate a coordinator who will have primary responsibility for overseeing and drafting the reports, as well as responsibility for helping to implement recommendations contained in the reports.

But this is really so much better!

Prime Minister Brown visits President Obama

Much of their brief meeting focussed on questions about the economic crisis, which had also dominated an hour-long private meeting beforehand.

Both pledged to change the global financial system which has been blamed for the current meltdown.

‘There are going to be fits and starts in getting the mess cleaned up but it is going to get cleaned up and we will emerge more prosperous, more unified and more protected from systemic risks.’

Mr Brown called for a ‘global new deal’ which would see the world’s biggest economies agree on a new regulatory system for banks, fiscal stimulus packages to boost growth and action to deal with ‘shadow banks’ and regulatory and tax havens.

Now we will be bailing out the rest of the world.  Everybody hates the rich.  Everyone is on the “hate the rich” bandwagon.  But watch out, to the rest of the world, the U.S. IS THE RICH!

It’s all our fault that this international financial; crisis exists, we need to pay-up!

It’s All In The Numbers

The Senate passed the stimulus by three votes.

According to Michelle Malkin, Senator Kennedy will miss the vote tomorrow.

Do the math: -(Kennedy)+ (Gregg) =a 1 vote lead for the upcoming vote.

Turn back two of the three Republican traitors and hold the line with the rest and the bill fails…….

Brave New World…..

Americans United For Change began running an ad urging people to contact Senator Kit Bond encouraging him to vote for Obama’s  “stimulus” bill.

To me, this sets a very scary precedent.  That a President of the United States uses (and I am sure, considering Woodhouse’s association with Obama, that this is coordinated) a political organization(s) to push his agenda.

The President of the United States is, supposedly, the President of all citizens.  That’s why his election is the ONLY nation wide election.

Obviously the President has his opinions and his agenda.  Let him address the citizens rather than through one of his shadow organizations.

Let’s take a look at what Brad Woodhouse, Director of AUFC has to say:

This is not about paradigms but about the death of one ideology and the rise of another approach. Conservative ideology in the Bush years railed against government and starved and denigrated it to the point that it failed to respond to Hurricane Katrina and let the economy fall into the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. The new approach is both a response to the failures of the Bush years but also recognition that America has moved forward the most — from civil rights to the interstate highway system to Social Security — when government, with the support of the populace, and in the hands of innovative, pragmatic leaders like President Obama, has played a leading roll.

The death of an ideology?  All through the campaigns I kept reading blogs with comments referring to the death of the Republican Party, the end of conservatives, that finally, FINALLY, we can be rid of those who stand in our way.  Well, it appears that they may have their wish.  I have always thought Obama and his ideology to be very dangerous to the basic foundations of our government and our way of life.  Now I am even more fearful.

The Bush years were not failures.  Considering what we have gone through, the economy did fairly well.  yes, we were dropping into a recession at the end of his term, but that is hardly unusual.  It happens towards the end of most Presidential terms simply because markets are reacting to the unknown.  It happened when Clinton left office, it happened when Bush left office. What also happened towards the end of Bush’s second term is

1. an unprecedented rise in oil and gas prices and
2. the collapse of the mortgage and banking industries brought about by policies created by democrats and assisted by the refusal to listen to the pleas from the Bush administration to reform those policies.

Now, free enterprise and capitalism are under attack by those we have placed in the Oval Office.  Wealth building is no longer an option, wealth sharing is the word of the day.

It is this wealth sharing that this stimulus package promotes.  Not economic growth but government work programs, promoted by shadow groups like AUFC at the President’s bidding.

Sounds like Marxism to me……

Does It Never End?

Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy

If the democrats would pay their taxes maybe we wouldn’t have a deficit.

Trying To Keep An Open Mind

On the way in to work this morning, I heard the folks on the radio talking about Obama replacing “Hail To The Chief” with Desert Rose”
My first reaction was to go apoplectic. Then I realized that it must be a joke.
Well, turns out it is somewhere in between (I Hope!)

Now, I have a mixed opinion about a “casual” Presidency. I don’t mind so much of he doesn’t have a suit coat on while in the oval office but he had better wear one when he receives someone in that office (or anywhere else other than in the residence for that matter).

And I hope that this thing about not playing “Hail To The Chief” is only sometimes and only for unofficial events, otherwise I will go apoplectic again.

You see, by not accepting the traditions of the office he thumbs his nose at the Presidency, both the office and the position, and at us.  Because he represents us, and the country, and the office.

By dressing down his appearance as well as the traditions, he diminishes the office that the American people elected him too.  In short, it’s nit HIS office to mess with, it’s OUR office.

I GOT YOUR BIPARTISANSHIP RIGHT HERE…

President Obama met with  congressional leaders today to discuss the “stimulus package”.

When confronted with GOP objections he reminded them that “I won”. Further, 

But perhaps taking a cue from Obama’s “I won” line when Democrats were asked if they were concerned about Republicans blocking the package, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a swift one-word answer: “No.”

Across the isle friendship for the sake of moving the country forward my ass.  You could see this coming during the primaries when, despite what Obama said about his willingness to work with Republicans, he NEVER did.

Now you have a socialist leading the executive branch, the Senate, the house, and 1/3 of the Judicial.  Pelosi has already introduced a new rules package that basicallyeliminates any action by the minority party:

The rule was changed in a way that eliminates motions to lower taxes or motions to restrict spending. Pelosi gutted the “pay-as-you-go” rules that mandated that any mandatory spending increases or tax cuts must be offset. And a new loophole declares a piece of legislation an emergency when the U.S. is experiencing “sustained low economic growth.”

Furthermore, Pelosi removed a standing rule that made it impossible to hold votes open. That way, when liberals are losing a tough vote, she’ll have enough time to twist the necessary arms. The effect of the rules changes allows House liberals to push for higher taxes, because conservatives won’t be allowed to force votes anymore to remove tax increases from legislation on the floor.

Since October we have basically nationalized the auto industry.  As of today, we have nationalized Bank of America and Citi.  When will we nationalize the newpapers? The oil companies? Television? Radio?  And is it a coincidence that all this happens at the same time?  I don’t believe in coincidences.

Think this is a knee jerk reaction?  Don’t answer now, tell me what you think in a year.

 

……SKIN IN THE GAME……

So his “O”liness says that “every body’s going to have some skin in the game”

Frankly, I am tired of  the idea that I should have to foot the bill because of the incompetence (at the least) or the political goals (at the very worst) of the asshats in Congress.

My retirement is gone largely because of these assholes.  The economy is a wreck largely because of these assholes.  And what happens to them?  They get an F-ing raise.

It’s time to freeze Congress’ pay, reduce their perks, establish term limits and get back to being served by public servents instead of power grabbing greedy pond scum that we have now.

Bawney Fwank and Chris Dodd should BE IN JAIL, NOT in Congress!