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The Big Speech

Traditionally, speeches before the whole Congress are important affairs.  Usually, they give the State of the Union address in January and only rarely does the president ask to speak before the entire assembled Congress unless there is some momentous occasion such as war.  It's usually not the venue for an economic policy speech.

If you are going to go that route, then your legislative plan should be in the hands of Congress when you make your speech or at least on its way.  If you are just wanting the spotlight and the other party runs at least half the show, you better have something better than a glorified stump speech to give or you are going to be treated appropriately.  The President does not run the Congress.

Usually, a speech of that caliber is usually given at a more appropriate place.  Often it is at some factory or at some city in a state that is particularly hard hit by a recession.  Presidents are political animals by definition and when times are tough, you want to give the impression that you are in charge, but you also want to shore up the base a bit.  That's why the speech is often given in a state that , along with being hard hit, is a swing state or a one that is starting to waiver.  Michigan was a good state to give a jobs speech on labor day using that reasoning.

First, he flubbed the scheduling.  He's been relegated to a time slot when few will be watching.  The Republicans have surmised that all he is going to do is give a speech that is a rerun of similar speeches in the past.  In other words, there won't be anything really new except the terms. 

Recognizing the unpopularity of the 2009 package, however, Democratic leaders have revised their message with less loaded language – “job creation” instead of “stimulus” and “Make it in America” in lieu of “Recovery Act” – in hopes of tackling the jobs crisis.

So, instead of stimulus, we'll hear "job creation".  They are banking on the fact that you are too stupid to know any of this.

And because it's just another speech, some Republicans said they wouldn't be there and Speaker Boehner said that there won't be a Republican rebuttal.  Boehner, so far, has played Obama like a violin and he continues by refusing to answer his speech.  Pelosi is furious, which means Boehner probably made the right call.  No one would be hanging around to listen to it anyway, there's a football game to watch!

I probably will read the box score later on.  I won't be watching football either, although that is probably preferable.  Heck, I'd prefer to listen to a cat howl.  The cat would also make more sense.

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More Proof Obama Is Inept

So the Dear Leader demanded a joint session of Congress so that he can give another "Jobs" speech.  And that's fine.  Theoretically, I suppose anyone could demand to speak before a joint session of Congress.  The trick is getting it approved by the leadership of the House and the Senate, specifically the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader.

Since the President is only a wannabe dictator and not a real one, he can only ask that the Congress set a little time aside for his speech.  Since the Speaker of the House is a Republican, it becomes a bit trickier in that he needs the Speaker's permission.  A little diplomacy is in order - or at least one would think so. 

Usually what happens is the President decides he wants to address a Joint Session of the Congress.  This is usually not done for mundane reasons.  These sessions are usually reserved for more significant speeches by Presidents and other dignataries.  State of the Union speeches are the more common speeches given by Presidents in a Joint Session.  Once the President decides he has some really significant things to say, he has his Congressional Liaison staff contact the appropriate staffers in Congress who pass on the request to their respective Chamber leaders.  They negotiate upon a date and time, arrange it with the media covering the speech, then make the public announcement.  Nobody gets their toes stepped on and we, the public, are not privy to any spats over scheduling.  Nobody looks like an idiot.  It's how professionals do it.

Until now.  Obama demanded in public a joint session to talk about jobs and Speaker Boehner shot him down, also in public.  It seems Obama's desired date and time would conflict with the GOP Presidential debate also scheduled for that evening.  The Obama camp said it was a coincidence, but most people with half a functioning brain cell don't believe it for a minute.  He was looking to steal some thunder and got struck by lightening instead.

Obama comes out of this looking more  inept and inexperienced  than presidential.  It's not even a rookie mistake.  It's arrogance, amateurish, and a sign that he has absolutely no idea what he's doing.

EPIC FAIL!

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Give The Keys Back To The Republicans

Barrack Obama is going about the country warning people not to give the keys to the car back to the Republicans.   He says the Republicans drove the car into a ditch and now they want the keys back.   Let’s look at the keys to the car.

Republicans had the keys until Democrats convinced voters they would be better drivers, so, in January 2007, the keys to the car were officially handed over to the Democrats.

In the first year of the Democrats having the keys, 5,700,000 jobs were created in America with an unemployment rate of 4.6%.   These jobs were created under a budget and policies which were enacted when Republicans had the keys.   Remember, the Federal Fiscal Year runs from October 1 to September 30. So essentially, the Democrats had the keys to the car but were running on Republican gas.

In 2008, the first year of Democrats not only having the keys but also running on their own gas, the unemployment rate rose to 5.8% with the economy loosing 2,600,000 jobs.

In 2009, the second year with the Democrats in full control of the car, the unemployment rate rose to 9.3% while the economy lost 4,100,000 jobs.

So, when Obama says the Republicans drove the car into the ditch; he’s lying, he knows it, and he believes you’re too stupid to figure it out.

Applying Common Sense

Common sense is usually not very common.  Take politics for instance.  You won't find much there that, if put under a degree of scrutiny, makes any sense at all.  One of the themes in the Democrat's aresenal is that the Republicans are the party of the rich and all they want to do is ship your job off to China.  It is the Democrtas, the party of the "working family" that will save your job and help you prosper.  It's almost an article of faith in liberal theology politics.

If you apply common sense to that idea, you immediately understand the shallowness of it.  If there was any kind of independent news reporting in this country, it would be exposed for the lie that it is.

First, it is the goal of any and all political parties to get elected and stay elected.  In order to do that, you have to have the votes.  Here of late, Democrats, through their different surrogates like ACORN, are trying to manipulate the vote by illegally registering large groups of names, but that isn't my point here.  Getting and keeping votes is the ultimate goal.  The idea is that if you do a good job at your Representative/President/Governor/Mayor/Dog Catcher job, you will get re-elected.  That's the theory.  Add any number of random things like a disaster or crooked people and things go south real quick.  Again, I digress.  The point is that in order for you to get and hold office, your constituents must perceive some benefit from your efforts on their behalf.

Now, to the original assertion that the Republicans intend to drive you into the poor house and ship your job off to China.  Liberally apply some common sense to that statement (It's OK to be liberal when you are applying this) and ask yourself this one question.  Why would that be their goal if they intend to keep themselves in office?  Doesn't make much sense, does it? 

Unfortunately, many Republicans fall into the trap of offering you government goodies in return for your vote.  They learn that you sometimes expect it and they want to appear to be compassionate and caring people and give you what you want.

What you need to understand is that most employers (and politicians) don't really want to ship your job off to some place unpronouncable.  When they do that, that means you are less well off and you can't buy stuff.  If you can't buy stuff, the economy goes to hell along with many business. 

What ships most of these jobs out of the country is compliance with the myriad of laws and regulations that, in many cases, don't do much more than give a bureaucrat a job making sure that your employer is obeying them all.  Add up how many companies are still manufacturing airplanes in California and then figure out that California is extremely hostile to anyone manufacturing anything. See a connection yet? 

The Democrats run the business out, then blame the evil corporations because they move the jobs out in order to stay in business.  You elect them because you see the jobs leaving, but you don't ask too many questions or dig below the surface.

Conservatives want to limit the intrusiveness of government.  We want the rules to enforce equal opportunity, not equal outcome.  We want it easier for business to do business.  If they are making money, they stay.  It's common sense.

 

Now, It's Visceral

The passage of this healthcare bill is the last straw.  It's personal.  The Democrats can no longer call themselves "Democratic".  They don't care what we, the people, think.  If you came away thinking the Democrats care one whit about you, you are either stupid, or...well, your stupid.  You are an idiot.  If you think this bill will in any way make healthcare cheaper, reduce the deficit, and/or create jobs, you are permanently stuck on stupid.  You are incapable of rational thought.

The Democrats like to charge that Bush "shredded" the Constitution. He did nothing of the sort.  Yesterday, however, the Democrats did not just shred the Constitution, they recycled it and made it into toilet paper and are now wiping their collective Socialist asses with it.  Again, if you think this is anywhere close to what the founders of this nation envisioned, you are as stupid as a post.

The beginning of the end to freedom started with FDR and his so-called "New Deal" which actually lengthened the Great Depression.  Social Security, which was enacted during his time is now bankrupt.  The Democrats started robbing it in the sixties to pay for LBJ's "great society".  Instead of money in an account with your name on it, there is nothing but a stack of moldy IOUs.  It's all been spent.  Medicare is also about to go broke.  They pretty much robbed it to help pay for this fiasco they just passed.  Now they ask - nay, demand - that we trust them with this.  Once more, if you think you can trust this group of thugs, liars and crooks, you are stupid, perhaps even a moron.  Your IQ is equal to that of a week-old, used condom. You should most likely not be allowed out without supervision.  I'm not kidding.

Now that the Democrats have showed us that they care nothing for your opinion and think you are too stupid to think for yourselves (and you might be if you agree with this healthcare bill), it's time to go to work.

I know, we are all fired up, but sometimes, the flames have a tendency to die out after a few weeks.  We cannot let this happen.  If you are angry, you need to stay angry.  If you are fired up, throw gasoline on that fire.  Every time you feel like slowing down, look at a picture of Pelosi, Reid and Obama and remember what they did to liberty last night.

Decide to fight.  Work to throw these bums out of office.  Give money and time.  Make it personal, make it your fight.  Do not let up.

I will surely be doing my share.

Fight them by any legal means you can.

On June 18th of 1940, things looked pretty bleak for the British Empire.  France was about to fall and Churchill knew that as soon as Hitler was done with France, he would turn the full weight and might of his war machine on Great Britain.  Churchill encouraged his countrymen to fight what seemed like a hopeless battle.  It's now our turn.

To paraphrase the great Winston Churchill:  Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if America and her freedoms and liberty last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

It's time to fight.  This time, it's visceral!

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This Isn't Democracy, Is It?

I'm not sure what to call it, but this whole deal over the various health care bills doesn't resemble any kind of democracy (representative or otherwise) that I've ever seen.  Despite what the far left wants, Americans don't want a single payer system nor do they want some kind of public option that is designed to thwart the private system.  Poll after poll shows that.  People want the system fixed, but they don't want to break it further.

The Senate is now considering some Frankenstein-esque monstrosity of a bill that is not even the bill they will eventually even vote on.  I've never wholly understood the proceedings of our Congress and their arcane rules, but something is definitely wrong with this entire process.  If this is supposed to be democracy, it's some kind of weird perverted kind.  It's readily apparent that the majority party is way out of step with the majority of Americans.

If I thought for one second that any of these bills would fix the problems, you would find no one more willing to fight for them.  They won't and there is every indication that they will make things even worse.  They use a few budgetary sleights of hand to make it seem like there will be no impact on the budget.  One of their tricks is to front load the taxes and defer the implementation for several years.  By the time it kicks in, they've raised half of the money and spent it on other things.  This is a form of fraud.  It may not be exactly illegal, but it's highly unethical.

Part of the problem with the Congress is that for too long, we've put up with and even encouraged unethical behavior.  We re-elect the same people time and again and this is the result.  We have a de facto ruling elite that twist, subvert and pervert the will of us, the people.  It goes for both parties, but the Democrats seemed to have taken it to a new level with health care.

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What Was The Right Thing For Them To Do?

How many times we have agonized that those in congress won’t listen to the people who elected them?   Many times we’ve cursed our representatives for voting party lines instead of doing what their constituents want and demand.   After all, when we send a man or woman to the House of Representatives, we send them to represent us, the people of their district.   There not there to represent you who live in another district or state or their political party, there to represent the people who voted them into office and them only.  Isn’t that what a Republic is? 

 

Merriam-Webster:   Republic -   a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them

 

Congressman Ike Skelton (D) Missouri is taking heat from Democrats and Liberals in his district for voting against the health care bill.  He was the only Democrat Congressman from Missouri to do so.   Skelton, although a Democrat, represents a district that almost always votes Republican.  Skelton gets reelected because he’s VERY pro gun and VERY pro military.   He’s the one who brought the B-2 Bomber to Whiteman AFB which happens to be in his district along with Fort Leonard Wood.   When Skelton voted against the health care bill in Congress, he was voting to represent the will of the people in his district.  As Conservatives, we all applauded him.

 

Now, this one is going to cause me to put my flame suit on.  Congressman Joseph Cao (R) Louisiana is taking a lot of heat from Republicans for supporting the health care bill.   He was the only Republican to do so and allowed Pelosi and Obama to claim bipartisan support by his vote.   Cao represents a district which is heavily Democratic, having won election over corrupt Democrat Congressman William Jefferson.  Being from a district that is overwhelming Democrat and populated with those of the entitlement generation, wasn’t Rep. Cao voting the will of the people who elected him to congress?  As Conservatives, we wanted his head on a platter. 

 

Both of these men voted against their political party but both of them voted the will of the people who elected them to congress.   What was the right thing for them to do?  Vote to support the party they’re members of or vote the will of the people who elected them? 

Economic Death By A Thousand Cuts

While we all watch the kabuki theater that is Nanci Pelosi, the world is turning and it is turning on us like a pit bull with sudden blood lust.  Pelosi is pure distraction. She won't be resigning and the Congressional Show Trial Truth Commission won't even call her as a witness.  She will not be resigning.  It may not be meant to be a distraction, but it's working out to be a good one.  A good distraction is never wasted, much like a good crisis.  She will eventually get someone to fall on their sword and lie for her and it will end well for her.

Meanwhile, we are dying a death of a thousand cuts.  Unlike the Chinese model that is designed to deliver exquisite pain for the longest possible time before dying, we are numbed by fancy rhetoric and distracted by political theater as we slowly succumb to economic death.

While Pelosi dances, we get cut again:

Brazil and China will work towards using their own currencies in trade transactions rather than the US dollar, according to Brazil’s central bank and aides to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president.

The move follows recent Chinese challenges to the status of the dollar as the world’s leading international currency.

What that means is that anything, imported from amywhere, will instantly becom more expensive. 

Not that we'll be able to afford anything as soon as Comrade Waxman gets done with his cap and trade bill (or as I like to call it, the Cap American Industry bill).  Not only will it cause the price of everything to skyrocket, including utilities and gasoline, American industries that can afford to do so will beat feet to friendlier countries where the cost of energy is reasonable.  Those that can't will be faced with extremely high energy costs and make it will make it almost impossible for them to grow or even survive.  This will severely handicap American industry and damage the economy beyond the point of return.  Don't worry about paying those high energy costs, you won't have a job to pay the bills anyway.

So watch the show while the American economy and your way of life dies by a thousand cuts.

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400Gs To Study Sex In Argentina Gay Bars

From Fox News:

The National Institutes of Health are paying researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk -- and just what can be done about it.

I know that $400,000 is nothing.  It's  only .00001 percent of of $3,400,000,000,000,   If you make 50 Grand a year, that's about a nickel (provided my math is not really horrible).  It;'s not the amount, it's the principle.  Even wasting that "nickel" is too much!  There are way too many nickels being handed out by this Congress.

Let me attempt to save 400,000 dollars.  When people drink alcohol, they lose their inhibitions.  They aren't thinking clearly and good sense gets all clouded in an alcohol fog.  If you've ever been drunk, then you know.  When people lose their inhibitions and don't think clearly, they engage in risky behaviors.  In a straight bar, you get things like STDs (including AIDS) and pregnancies.  In gay bars, you get STDs including AIDS.  It's been going on that way since somebody stumbled upon fermentation.  It happens here, in Argentina, England, France, Russia, Japan or anywhere else booze is legal and readily available.

You want a solution, close the bars and stop selling, making and importing alcohol.  Except that really doesn't work.  There is a history lesson we can look back on.   So short of complete prohibition, people will continue to drink, engage in risky behavior, get diseases and/ or pregnant, then wake up with serious hangovers.  They may not even remember what happened the night before. 

There, I just saved the government 400,000 bucks. 

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The Naked Lady No One Saw

Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans ventured out of their comfort zone and gathered in various places around the country to express their anger at a government out of control.  I was one of them. 

The left reminds me of a guy who sees a naked woman.  He wants to look and stare, but he's afraid she'll notice him staring.  He looks away, but glances to the side to see if she is still there.  The left saw the Tea Parties, but they are trying hard to dismiss them as nothing more than a few (very few) "anti-government rightwing nutjobs" who got together to complain about paying taxes in general.  They saw the size of these protests, but their response was to just stand there, hands in their collective pockets while whistling some mindless tune so as not to look the least bit interested in yesterday's activities.  They noticed, just like our fellow who saw the naked lady.  They noticed, but they don't want to acknowledge the significance of what they saw.

The left uses two main tactics.  Sometimes, they target the threat in order to try and neutrakize it.  The example here is their clownish attempt to demonize Rush Limbaugh.  The other tactic is to minimalize it and that is what they are doing in this case..  Ignore it and it will go away.  All day today, the standard line was simply that it was a few disgruntled Nazis and it will all go away within a few days.  They will probably not even mention it tomorrow.

It is incumbant upon us to not let them just bury this movement.  They can try and dismiss it as "astroturf" and a flash in the pan all they want, but we aren't going anywhere.   We need to show them that we will not be easily cowed into submission and going.

This isn't about just taxes.  It's not anti-government and we will only grow stronger the more they try to down play it!

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