March 5, 2009
$75 Billion Mortgage Bailout Passed Today
We keep gettin' the money. We are just so happy. Let's go
print some money.
Lattes
all around!
Thanks, Kathy
and Matt!
Obama's safety net: the Teleprompter
President Barack Obamanation doesn’t go anywhere without his
Teleprompter. The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s
prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.
Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements
and when repeating the same lines on his economic stimulus plan that he's
been saying for months — whereas past presidents have mostly worked off of
notes on the podium except during major speeches, such as the State of the
Union.
“It’s just something presidents haven’t done,” said Martha Joint Kumar, a
presidential historian who has held court in the White House since December
1975.
Are you surprised? Without the teleprompter, he might actually
say what he truly thinks.
March 4, 2009
Pelosi Says, "They Are Lucky They Got What They Did."
I can't provide any link to corroborate this but it is being reported
that San Fran Nan, when asked by Republicans were not included in drafting
the CRAP bill or allowed to even read it as amended said, "They are lucky
they got what they did. I could have fast tracked this."
The Party of Rush vs. the Party of No Rush at All.
From Charles Krauthammer on Fox News last night:
What was hoped was that there would be a new team, new people, fresh ideas,
who have a year, ‘08, in which to study and learn what went wrong and would
have a plan in place. It is what Obama had said he had, they knew what to do
and would do it. It looks as if they have no idea what to do, and they
won’t. When Obama had his first press conference, he promised it would be a
detailed plan by Geithner the next morning. There was none. The market
tanked. It looks as if this administration is entirely at sea on what to do
on the principle element of our collapse, the banks, and they may not have
any idea is what is scaring the markets. If they don’t, we are all at sea.
Read the entire transcript.
Four football players were 35 miles out at sea, with life jackets on
clinging to their overturned boat, waiting to be rescued. After a
matter of hours, two gave up, took off their life jackets and swam away --
hoping to get to land? Impossible. Then the third, thinking he
saw lights, took off his life jacket and swam away toward the lights.
The fourth kept clinging to the boat, kept his life jacket on and was saved.
We can't give up. Our beliefs are our life jackets and we must use
them to combat the insanity this president proposes for our country.
Dems Trying to Rob a Gun Store?
Armed robbers are not the sharpest knives in the gene-pool drawer.
However, most of them have figured out the basics: don’t try to rob gun
stores or karate studios.
The Politico reports that Democrat strategists as early as October 2008
identified Rush Limbaugh as their next target of abuse, in terms of beating
all conservatives and Republicans into submission.
For eight years the Dems and their media toadies relentlessly engaged in
24×7 attacks on President Bush - accusing him of every form of dishonesty,
corruption, malfeasance, and stupidity. Their attack extended to all
Republicans and the soldiers as well. Mostly Bush just hunkered down and
took it (thanks again, genius Karl Rove, for that one), even though he could
have responded, using the bully pulpit, in deadly effective counterattacks,
by speaking directly to Americans without the media filter. Bush never would
fight back, and his silence was exceedingly costly to himself, his agenda,
conservatives, the Republicans, the soldiers, and the citizens of Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Rush is already fighting back — gleefully, articulately, with his trademark
rapier-like wit, mockery, and humor. He even challenged The One to
come on his show for a debate. Like Rush's op ed asking POTUS to not
try to back door the Fairness Doctrine, no response. But the Democrats
have woefully, desperately miscalculated. Rush’s 20 million person listening
audience is the most politically educated and astute bunch in America.
And all the publicity is bringing him even more listeners.
Top 2010 House Races -- Let's Get These Seats!
This simply confirms what we already know intuitively: having been
crushed in two straight elections, House Republicans now hold relatively few
seats that are in danger in 2010. The Hill reports on the top 10 House
races of 2010 — at least as of 20 months out. Seven of the ten are
Democrat-held seats:
Idaho-1 — Walt Minnick (D)
Arizona-5 — Harry Mitchell (D)
Ohio-1 — Steve Driehaus (D)
Georgia-12 — John Barrow (D)
Hawaii-1 — Neil Abercrombie (D)
Kansas-1 — Jerry Moran (R)
Florida-17 — Kendrick Meek (D)
California-3 — Dan Lungren (R)
California-44 — Ken Calvert (R)
Florida-8 — Alan Grayson (D)
Check out the
Cook Political Report. Cook rates 6 Republican seats as ‘leans
Republican’ or worse for next year. By comparison, he rates 23
Democratic seats as ‘leans Democrat’ or worse. In other words, every
indication so far is that Republicans will be playing offense in 2010, and
the Democrats will be on defense. Especially if The Messiah's massive
tax and spend policies haven't born fruit. Of course, just like
Florida oranges after a freeze, the cost will be dear if they do.
March 3, 2009
Wall Street Journal:
"As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to
blame."
The Wall Street Journal today didn't mince words. "...After
five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are
slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of
economic recovery.
The article went on to say, "The Democrats who now run Washington don't want
to hear this, because they benefit from blaming all bad economic news on
President Bush."
Read the
entire article.
Meanwhile, after dissing PM Brown by not sharing a press
conference after
their meeting today about the global economy,
Obamanation had one of his own
and said,
"The
stock market is
sort of like a tracking poll in politics. It bobs up and
down
day-to-day. And if you spend all your time worrying about that,
then you're probably going to get the long-term strategy wrong."
Yes, wrong, oh Messiah! You've got it all wrong! The stock
market is an indicator of where our economy is - and conven-
tionally the predictor of where our economy is going. It's not
a bobble head doll!
"This is the most, greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a president."
CNBC host Jim Cramer has angered The One.
Obama press
secretary Gibbs, when asked about this by an NBC reporter at today's press
briefing said, "I'm not entirely sure what he's pointing to make some of
the statements," said Gibbs. "And you can go back and look at any number of
statements he's made in the past about the economy and wonder where some of
the back-up for those are too."
Looks like some of us regular folks are getting it. You betcha!
NBC/WSJ Poll:
Support for Obama, but Challenges Await
Give me a break! His disapproval ratings
have doubled.
Identifying More RINOs
POTUS (Presidential
Orifice of the United States) can sleep tight tonight. The Senate just voted
to keep all those earmarks that don’t exist in the $410 billion spending
bill.
GOP (sorta) Sen. John McCain’s amendment stripping the omni-pork package of
an estimated 8,500 pet projects worth roughly $8 billion was defeated this
afternoon. You can find a database of all those teeny, tiny pork projects
here.
You can see the Republicans who voted for and against. Also the Dems
who voted with Republicans, so those who voted with us should be contacted
and applauded.
More info here.
Lots more from today but I'm done for tonight.
March 2, 2009
Breaking news: Jason picks Melissa, Dumps Molly, Dumps Melissa, Begs
Molly
You gotta admit you watch Bachelor or Idol or Survivor or one of
those shows, right? Just to get away from reality for a while -- although they are called
"reality shows."
Click here to
watch, if you care.
Rush Rocks the House --
Update
RNC Chair Michael Steele Put
His Foot In It Bigtime...
On CNN's "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News"
Saturday night after Rush's speech at CPAC,
Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele told Hughley that Rush
Limbaugh is not the head of the Republican party, but merely an
"entertainer" -- and went on to call Limbaugh's anti-Obama rhetoric
"incendiary" and "ugly."
Rush fired back on his Monday program, "The Republican National Committee
and Michael Steele need a little leadership ... we're going to have to drag
them kicking and screaming back to our core," Limbaugh said.
"They are caught up in so much fear because of where they live and work in
Washington, DC," he added.
“I'm not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don't want to be. I would
be embarrassed to say that I'm in charge of the Republican Party in the
sad-sack state that it's in. If I were chairman of the Republican
Party, given the state that it's in, I would quit. I might get out the
hari-kari knife because I would have presided over a failure that is
embarrassing to the Republicans and conservatives who have supported it and
invested in it all these years.”
Perhaps Rush was so upset because he had helped Steele when he was running
for Governor of Maryland, a seat he held for 4 years from 2003 to 2007.
"Michael Steele was on this program ... he got air time on this program ...
I personally
took time to defend Michael Steele ... Something has happened. Now, I'm just
an 'entertainer', and now I'm 'ugly' and my program is 'incendiary'."
It wasn't long before Steele issued an "apology."
“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush
Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit
inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his
leadership.”
Unfortunately, this comes at a time when when top Democrats are trying to
make Limbaugh the face of the Republican Party. Acknowledging this,
Steele went on to say,
“I’m not going to engage these guys and sit back and provide them the
popcorn for a fight between me and Rush Limbaugh,” Steele added. “No such
thing is going to happen. … I wasn’t trying to slam him or anything.”
Does the left going after Rush indicate they are worried his message will
strike a nerve with Americans? Let's hope so. But it may make
them even more rabid to back door the Fairness Doctrine.
Putin Warns U.S. About Flirting With Socialism.
At the recent World Economic Forum, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin warned of our government’s flirtations with socialism, that is, a
state-run economy.
Trying not to “gloat,” Putin told the U.S. that “Excessive intervention in
economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence” is a
“mistake.” He reminded listeners that state control of the old Soviet
economy made the nation “totally uncompetitive.”
Read about the Forum
here.
Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll
For the third straight year, Mitt Romney won the CPAC presidential
preference straw poll with 20% of the vote. Bobby Jindal finished with 14%,
just ahead of Ron Paul and Sarah Palin, who got 13% each.
Newt Gingrich finished with 10%, Mike Huckabee 7%, Mark Sanford 4%,
Rudy Giuliani 3%, Tim Pawlenty 2%, Charlie Crist 1%, and 9% said they were
undecided.
However, just 55% said they were satisfied with the potential GOP
2012 field; 44% said they wished the Republicans had a better field.
And Speaking of Charlie Crist...
He's the fourth RINO be inducted into the RINO Hall of Shame.
I didn't pay much attention to him when he wasLt. Gov of the
state of FL under Jeb Bush, who did anadmirable job and
should be on the national scene.
As recently as
February 22 of this year, he was on Meet
the Press supporting the fiscal bridge to nowhere. He
slobbered all over Obama when he was here in Fort Myers and
seemed delighted to have the spotlight on Lee County as the
capital of the country.
Crist is a prime example of why independents are refusing
to vote for Republicans. This is the cancer that is eating away at the GOP.
This "need to be loved by all" is the death knell of the Grand Old Party.
You cannot win over lefties by moving left.
Gee, how smart am I? Didn't Rush say that Saturday?
March 1, 2009
Obama Declares
War on Investors, Entrepreneurs,
Businesses, And More
Larry Kudlow, CEO of Kudlow & Co.,
LLC, an economic and investment
research firm and host of CNBC’s "Kudlow
& Company," made this statement in a
blog post on Friday. The
question is, he asks, do
conservatives dare say: We told you
so?
Read the post.
February 28, 2009
Rush Rocks the House -- "We are not going to give up the American dream."
"We are in for a real battle. We are talking about the United States of
America... remaining the country we were all born into and reared and grown
into. And it is under assault, it has always been under assault. But
it has never been under assault like this, from within."
This was just one of Rush Limbaugh's thoughts he shared during his speech at
CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) today.
Never one to back down from criticism or a challenge, Rush reiterated his
statement that he wanted Obamanation's policies to fail.
"Why in the world would I want...rampant government growth, welfare that is
not being created yet is being spent? What is in this, what is possibly in
this that any of us want to succeed? Did the Democrats want the war of Iraq
to fail? They certainly did. And they not only wanted the war in Iraq to
fail they proclaimed it a failure.... They hoped George Bush failed. So what
is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail
if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism
and individual liberty are not its foundation?"
"We can take
this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate," he said.
See his entire speech. I certainly hope you have time to view it
or read the transcript.
While some Conservatives think Rush can go over the top, and I have to admit
I agree at times, he is THE voice for conservatism. True conservatism.
Sean, Glenn, Mark and others get the message out also, but no one does it
like Rush.
"The Constitution doesn't need to be redefined. Conservative intellectuals,
the Declaration of Independence does not need to be redefined and neither
does conservatism. Conservatism is what it is and it is forever. It's not
something you can bend and shape and flake and form. "
"I want the country to survive and to succeed. I want the US to survive
as we know it."
"Everyone
I Know Is Buying Ammunition."
Appearing on Glenn Beck's show, country
music singer Trace Adkins, who began his singing career in grammar school
singing in a Gospel choir, responded to Glenn's revelation about the great
increase in the purchase of firearms and ammunition. Adkins stated,
"Everyone I know is buying ammunition. You can't hardly find any in
Florida and Texas."
The interview went on to discuss how Americans feel they will be needing to
protect their constitutionally given rights, even the right to free speech.
I will try to
get a transcript of this interview and post it here.
Guess Obama was
right when he said, "...they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or
antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or
anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Obama's new
policies are making many frustrated as they watch the America we know come
under fire. So some ARE clinging to their guns and religion. And
that's a good thing, IMHO.
February 27, 2009
Obama Will Move to Rescind ‘Conscience’ Rule on Abortion, Birth Control
Just noticed
this as a headline on Comcast.net's home page. Here's the scoop:
"During the last
months of the Bush administration, the feds adopted a new rule that could
allow health-care workers to refuse to provide birth control on moral
grounds. Now the Obama administration is moving to reverse that rule, the
Chicago Tribune reports.
Existing federal law allows health-care workers to refuse on moral grounds
to provide abortions. The new rule strengthened and extended those
protections. While some groups, such as the Christian Medical & Dental
Associations, supported the move, many others, including several state
attorneys general and the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, opposed the rule.
There have been recent reports of women being denied emergency
contraception, which is federally approved for use within 72 hours of
intercourse, the Trib says.
The Obama administration will start the process of reversing the rule today.
Final action won’t be taken until after the public is allowed a 30-day
comment period."
Why the rush to push through his liberal, socialist agenda? Today he
also announced the redeployment of 70,000 to 80,000 troops from Iraq but
leaving 50,000. And he did so 20 minutes late -- rather than 11:45 AM
it was delayed until a little after noon. Lunchtime, Rush time.
And, historically, it is preferred that negative stories break on Friday
since folks are thinking about the weekend and won't pay attention. So
he's not getting all the troops out as he promised? Break that on a
Friday! Spit in the face of Christians who believe in the sanctity of
life? Do it on a Friday!
What's going on? What is the hurry with all this? Obamanation
cannot possibly have consulted with professionals and contrived all these
initiatives in 5 weeks. It would take
a week to read the stimulus act, never mind write it. Who drafted
these with him before he was ever inaugurated? Before he ever had a
cabinet? Before he ever had an office in the White House.
It's scary.
Tea Parties
All Over the Place This Friday!
I had hoped to attend the Tea Party Protest at Fort
Myers Beach today but work commitments prevented
me from doing so. If I had, I would have been carrying
a sign with pictures of my ten grandchildren and the
slogan, "Obama, you owe them an apology for robbing
them of their future!"
This is a fledging effort and many did not know about it
soon enough, including good conservative friend Dave.
There was one some way away from him in Lansing
but he did not have time to drive there. I know he
would have wanted to be there.
Let's make sure these events keep happening and growing in numbers!
And if you can, sponsor one yourself.
Click here.
In my opinion
I've worked hard all my life, as has the
Chuckster, so we could have a comfortable later life. Yada, yada, yada.
I've written about this before.
Today I went to Target to pick up some advertised paper goods. At
checkout, the young lady probably being paid about a quarter above minimum
wage was wearing more gold than I own! (Trust me, I know gold when I
see it! This wasn't the plated stuff.)
Obamanation says he will go line by line to root out pork (yeah, right!)
Maybe he should go line by line on the credit card charges of all these
folks who are wanting a bailout because they can't afford to pay their
mortgages!
Daughter-in-law Polly reports a couple who bought in their neighborhood with
100% financing then bought motorcycles, jet skis and other toys.
Living beyond their means. But why? Didn't they ever hear about
budgets or spending only what they could afford?
Was it not because liberals told them they deserved it? Or maybe
failed to teach them about personal responsibility? Every toy we own,
and that's not many, we worked to buy.
I'm proud my family works hard and hope they are not the casualties in this
class war. Because they deserve toys when they work hard for them, not
to provide them to other families.
