April 30th Presser Could Be High Point Of Obama’s Second Term

May 1, 2013 2 Comments

Did you catch Obama’s press conference yesterday? It’s been a long time since we’ve been subjected to such a boring, seemingly pointless press conference from a President. Some have suggested Obama is channeling Clinton’s worst day in office back in 1995. Clinton declared in 1995 that the President is still relevant and Obama yesterday threatened to take his marbles and go home before declaring that his demise has been exaggerated. For Clinton his second term never really got any better. In looking at Obama’s potential during the next three and a half years, it just doesn’t look very good. His press conference yesterday didn’t help him one bit.

What was the point of yesterday’s surprise press conference? It didn’t seem to have a theme or purpose. Obama gave boilerplate answers to every question, focused on the same issues he’s been yapping about for months if not years. The most interesting point he made is that he admitted Obamacare was having trouble being implemented. Sure, he blames those rogue states (seven of which have Democrat Governors, including Illinois) which haven’t joined the exchanges. This is the first time that Obama has admitted problems with his signature legislation in such a big event. Surely that wasn’t the point of the press conference. No President is going to hold a presser to tell them his big claim to fame is failing.

So what was the point of yesterday’s press conference? It’s just not clear. Chalk it up as a big mistake from the gaudy magnificos running the PR end of the Obama administration. Those guys usually don’t make mistakes. Through four plus years and two campaigns Obama’s PR team has done an excellent job of thinking out events and having a purpose to everything Obama does. That Obama screws stuff up and shifts focus away from where the PR team would like to go doesn’t take away from his team’s stellar PR record. Yesterday was a big mistake for them. They sent a disinterested President out before the press with no real purpose in mind.

Obama is facing the cold reality that he is losing power by the day. This happens to every President who wins a second term. They come into the second term on a high from an electoral victory only to discover that their own party is trying to distance themselves and prepare for the next Presidential election. The papers are already full of speculation on who will run in the Democrat Primary, which begins in earnest in two years or less. The public becomes weary and tired of second term President’s, they’re not able to whip up public support like they used to. Especially when they harp on the same old subjects over and over again. The disengaged public wonders why after all these years the President didn’t fix the problems he’s complaining about. The details of why he didn’t don’t matter to the disengaged.

With the public tuning out the President and the President inspiring nothing at all, it should come as no surprise when Congress ignores the President. Not just Congressional Republicans, who have long bucked Obama. It’s the Democrats who will cause Obama the most problems. Red state Democrats are already distancing themselves, fearful of another 2010 style landslide next year. Obama has pinned all his hopes on winning back the House next year, which at this point is highly unlikely. What does he expect to do even if he did win? He’ll have a Democrat Congress but the party will be focused on picking his successor to the Dem nomination. In other words, a Democrat Congress will take its cues not from Obama but from the new nominee. Before the nominee is picked, you’re looking at a divided party that is unlikely to pay much attention to Obama. April 30th 2013 could be the high point of a second term downward cycle for Obama.

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Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty, Media Largely Ignores

February 19, 2013 Leave a comment

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is going to plead guilty to charges relating to illegal campaign expenditures. It seems Jesse the younger has a taste for $43,000 Rolex watches, furs and Michael Jackson memorabilia. Jackson and his wife managed to spend $750,000 worth of campaign donations on personal expenditures. As a result Jackson is likely headed to the slam for around four years. Prosecutors are asking for 46-58 months, sentencing hasn’t been scheduled yet but is likely to be several months from now. Jackson’s wife is also expected to plead guilty though her sentence is likely to be significantly less than her husband’s.

As is typical of the mainstream press, Democrat scandals are ignored. ABC offered a whole 18 seconds on the matter. Another Chicago Democrat is heading to the slam and it’s gotten next to zero coverage. Just like the Kwame Kilpatrick scandal, just like Sen. Menendez, just like Diane Hathaway, the media is ignoring this Democrat scandal. Oh look, Marco Rubio is drinking water again! That’s news in the media today. The last Democrat scandal the media covered was Rod Blagojevich and they only covered it to protect Obama. The more they put Blagojevich in front of the cameras the more Obama was able to distance himself because let’s face it, the former Governor turned jail bird is a clown.

The media we are getting about Jesse Jackson Jr. has been largely sympathetic. Poor Jesse the younger was just confused about which money was his and which was his campaign’s. Because we all forget that we don’t earn $750,000. Now they’re playing the bipolar card, with Jesse the elder claiming his son is under “tight medical supervision.” The message is clear, feel sorry for the former Congressman, he’s bipolar. No one could be mean to someone with bipolar. That’s of course if you believe the Congressman is actually bipolar. It’s very convenient that Jesse the younger suddenly became mentally ill as the Feds closed in on his racket.

The big question here is whether President Obama pardon’s or commute’s Jackson’s conviction. Obama hasn’t used his pardon power on anyone high profile yet. He’s letting the former Illinois Governor rot in a Colorado prison, he never pardoned former fundraiser Tony Resko. Obama has a history of ditching former allies as a long line of early Obama for State Senate donors will tell you.

On the other hand Jesse Jackson Jr. has a father who has been for better and usually worse the defacto (perhaps self proclaimed as well) leader of blacks in this country for decades. Jesse the elder hasn’t exactly been part of the Obama administration, he and other leaders like Al Sharpton have been largely shut out by Obama. Jackson was allegedly around when Obama got his start and he still enjoys considerable support in the black community. Whether that’s enough to sway Obama towards a pardon is anyone’s guess.

Playing armchair President, any public official who misuses either public money or money donated to a campaign must be punished. Jesse Jackson Jr. essentially stole money from donors. People gave money to his campaign expecting it to be  used for campaign expenses not for Rolex watches, Michael Jackson memorabilia and other personal items. This stealing should be punished. If we followed Biblical law, Jackson should have to repay those whom he stole from times four. That seems a better penalty than wasting tax money housing him for four years. Unfortunately that remedy isn’t available. The President has no business giving Jackson a pardon or commuting his sentence. This is a serious crime against public trust, it deserves a serious punishment.

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Clinton Undermines Obama’s Arguments Against Romney

June 5, 2012 2 Comments

Last week Bill Clinton called Romney’s business career at Bain Capital “sterling.” He also declared that in addition to Romney’s business career, his career as Governor makes him qualified to be President of the United States. Conservatives have run with Clinton’s comments, with Rush Limbaugh leading the way, declaring that Clinton affectively endorsed Romney. Nothing could be further from the truth. Clinton didn’t endorse Romney, he merely said he was qualified to be President. While Clinton isn’t endorsing Romney, he’s clearly up to no good.

Obama’s biggest argument against Romney is that his career at Bain Capital was less than sterling. Obama has claimed that Bain gutted businesses for profit and cost thousands their jobs. Obama’s claim isn’t factual, it furthermore requires Obama to have not the slightest clue as to what Bain Capital does to make money for its investors. Nevertheless, that’s Obama’s argument and in the very least it appeases the far left and may appeal to some independent voters. He’s been making it for the better part of the last month, the Obama team clearly thinks it is a winning argument to make as they try to paint a negative picture of Romney.

Now you can see that Bill Clinton was up to no good in praising Romney’s business career. It’s one thing for the Mayor of an irrelevant city (Cory Booker) to criticize the Bain attacks, it’s another thing for a washed up former Governor (Ed Rendell) or Congressman (Harold Ford) to criticize the Obama Bain attacks. It’s something entirely different when the still popular former Democrat President of the United States, with a wife eying a 2016 run says it. Clinton is undermining the Obama argument and he knows exactly what he’s doing.

A substantial number of Democrats still listen to Clinton and believe everything he says. Many of these Democrats are the sort of blue collar folks who voted for Hillary in 2008. They’re the sort of blue collar Democrats who voted for a convicted felon in West Virginia rather than Obama last month and who voted for someone no one has ever heard of in Arkansas rather than Obama. But worse than that, independent voters still respect Clinton’s judgment. Thus when Clinton praises Romney’s record at Bain Capital, it completely undermines Obama’s attacks with this group of important voters.

Obama may not be after independent voters this time around, his campaign is going to be won or lost based on his ability to turn out the far left in greater numbers than Romney can turn out the right and middle. Clinton is doing two things though. First, he’s undermining Obama’s argument knowing that many independent voters will listen to him rather than the President. In doing this, Clinton imagines he’s setting Obama up for defeat in November. An Obama defeat will make it easier for Hillary to win in 2016. Which is the second thing Obama is doing, he’s positioning Hillary to appeal to independent voters down the road. Hillary is no less liberal than Obama is but Bill can position her to appear more moderate in comparison to Obama on this and other largely irrelevant issues of importance during this campaign.

Expect to see Clinton undermine Obama’s arguments every so often between now and November. Ole Bill will still be out there campaigning for Obama and putting on a good show of support. Make no mistake, Clinton will play the part of the good Democrat all while undermining Obama both in public and in private. He desperately wanted Hillary to take on Obama in this years primary. He’s eying an Obama defeat to set Hillary up in 2016. Clinton is willing to lose the White House for a few  years if it helps him, so expect him to put on a good show of support while occasionally undermining Obama’s arguments on all the important campaign issues. Bill Clinton is a calculating politician and he’s calculating a return to the White House in January 2017.

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Obama Campaign Anything But Incompetent

May 30, 2012 2 Comments

Is the Obama campaign incompetent? It seems this has become a growing theme among Republicans, many of whom are  eyeing a return to the White House. The last two months have been brutal for Obama. From his secret whispers into the Russian President’s ear to the disastrous Obamacare oral arguments before the Supreme Court to the mediocre economic news and now to the utterly foolish gaffe about Polish death camps, Obama sure looks incompetent. But we must separate the administration from the campaign. The campaign will not be nearly as incompetent as the administration.

From all accounts the Obama administration is being run by Valerie Jarrett, a leftist ideologue and political novice. She’s chased off Obama’s Chief’s of Staff, she’s shielded him from advisers who challenge him. She’s the only advisor who has dinner with the Obama’s, the only one close with both the President and his wife. Jarrett is the one who pushed for Obamacare instead of jobs during the first year of the administration. It is Jarrett who has pushed Obama to the left, she is a major reason why Obama doesn’t speak to anyone in Congress no matter their party.

Over the last three plus years we’ve seen this administration make major public gaffes. Obama has stuck done any number of things that are unpresidential, from making comments on local criminal affairs to demanding an audience in Congress on the night of the opposition party’s Presidential debate. His administration is loaded with people who make inflammatory comments (Joe Biden), who don’t follow the law (Eric Holder) or who simply make Obama look bad. (most everyone else) Obama entered office unprepared to manage the executive branch. This is what happens when a Senator is elected President, they have no managerial experience.

But just because the administration makes a lot of mistakes doesn’t mean the campaign will. We cannot assume that Obama’s campaign is incompetent, especially considering how well it operated in 2008. Conservatives have pointed to Obama’s homosexual marriage announcement as evidence of a gaffe. While it’s clear Obama’s campaign thought it would do more for them than it did, Obama really had no choice but to make the announcement. He needs homosexual money and he can afford to alienate blacks because he knows they won’t abandon him. Considering all the factions within the Democratic base, Obama’s campaign made a calculated risk. It’s largely worked, if only within the Democrat Party. I did not create the groundswell of support they thought it would though.

If Romney has one thing going for him it’s that he’s equal with Obama on money. They’re both taking in about the same amount over the last couple of months. Obama has a lead as he didn’t have to spend much on his primary but conventional thinking is that Romney will either catch up or his Super PAC will make up the difference. Obama will not be running a billion dollar campaign. The difference is going to be seen in how the two candidates spend their money. Romney is going to spend a fortune on ads, expect to see him dominate the airwaves in October. Obama will spend a fortune on his ground game.

It is Obama’s ground game that ought to have Republicans nervous. It is quite true that Obama is alienating moderates by moving to the far left. But he has a purpose, he wants all of his base to come out and vote for him. He has a massive ground game in states like Ohio, they’re prepared to deliver every possible leftist vote to the polls on election day. Romney has to  hope his base and independents show up to vote, his ground game isn’t going to be as strong as Obama’s. It is here that Obama’s campaign will prove they aren’t incompetent.

Obama’s campaign is quite competent, they know exactly what they’re doing. Obama’s campaign speeches won’t be centrist, they’ll be far left. The campaign cannot control the administration but they likely don’t care what the administration is screwing up because Obama’s base voters don’t care. The key is to get every single leftist and every single member of the Democrat coalition to the polls. That is their only pathway to victory because they’ve don’t believe they can get the independent vote this year. They’re taking a calculated risk but it’s a worthwhile risk if Obama truly cannot get the independent vote. This election will be all about turnout. Don’t ever discount Obama’s campaign by calling them incompetent. They’ll get their people to the polls. Will Romney?

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Elizabeth Warren Exposes Academia’s Absurd Racial Preferences

May 18, 2012 2 Comments

Elizabeth Warren wanted to go places in life. She wanted to be Harvard Law School’s first female minority professor, with all the cafeteria privileges that entails. So in order to do that she began to claim she was a native american, particularly a Cherokee. She based this off of vague stories passed down in her family, though there isn’t a single document proving Indian ancestry nor is she a registered Cherokee. She laid claim to being 1/32 Cherokee, though the facts suggest she’s 0/32 Cherokee.

Everything was going great for Warren. She was an academic, people listened to her and took her seriously because of her claim of American Indian ancestry. She even submitted recipes to an Indian Pow Wow cookbook. (nothing says American Indian like crab omelet and tomato mayonnaise dressing. Cherokee’s also don’t do pow wow’s but who is paying attention.) Warren was going places on her American Indian claim and things were great. Until she decided to run for Scott Brown’s Senate seat. Her political opponents saw a white woman not an American Indian so they looked into her background. Now the world had discovered that Warren is just another white lady, she isn’t special at all.

Cherokee’s are demanding she come clean and admit she isn’t an Indian. Warren cannot do that though because she’s staked her entire career on being an Indian woman. In liberal academia, the color of your skin or your ethnic origins can give you instant credibility. People will listen to what you have to say if you have the right skin color or the right ethnic background. Warren isn’t going to be listened to if she’s just a white lady, unless she’s truly gifted academically. But as an American Indian, her views are automatically listened to in liberal academia. She didn’t have to go through the bother of having to prove her academic worth she had it handed to her by her ethnic claims.

Barack Obama did the same thing. Keep in mind he has always had his eye on becoming part of academic, going so far as to be an adjunct law professor at the University of Chicago. A black man offering perspective on race in America is valued at universities but they’re a dime a dozen. Having a half African, half white American who was born in Africa provide perspective on race relations in America is “unique.” Obama knew that, which is why his literary agent claimed he was born in Africa. It’s all about gaining credibility among liberals, be they smoked salmon socialist in New York’s upper east side or in academia.

The Elizabeth Warren fiasco says a lot about the way leftist colleges and universities run. Warren was only hired by Harvard because she was a minority. Warren knew the only way she could reach the top of the academic world was by being a minority, she knew her views would be listened to as a minority where they likely would be ignored otherwise. She would have still been in academia just not at Harvard. Clearly she wanted to be at the top. That she had to lie about her family history mattered not to Warren. After all who would look into her genealogy in order to call her out? Her mistake was running for Senate, it’s as though she forgot her academic success was based on a lie. The truth is that she lied so much she believed her own lie.

We shouldn’t be listening to people and taking their opinions more or less seriously because of their race. The notion that American Indians have some unique perspective on law and morality is simply absurd. That a half African, half white American born in Kenya and raised overseas has a perspective on race relations in America that is automatically credible because of these facts is equally absurd. Yet this is what happens daily at America’s largely liberal colleges. If you’re a minority, you’re in high demand because you must have something unique to say. If you’re a minority plus (like Obama and Warren) even better. Whether you’re actually talented academically doesn’t matter, all that matters is race and ethnicity. No wonder college degrees are increasingly worthless.

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Inept Obama Campaign Causing Democrats To Panic

May 16, 2012 4 Comments

Amusements abound over in the Obama campaign. The well oiled machine of 2008 has given way to a machine that had its best days four years ago. The other day Obama claimed that the election would be “tight” because of a name like his. He’s playing the race card and it’s only May. We’ll of course pretend that he didn’t win in the biggest Democrat victory in over a generation with “a name like his.” The notion that racist America cannot handle a name like Obama as President is the sort of middle school argument that should have been dead on election night 2008.

Democrats are beginning to panic over Obama’s campaign. Recent polls haven’t looked great for Obama. He’s been well under 50% in most of them. In a CBS poll Romney had a slight lead (a statistical tie really) over Obama in support from women. The same poll found the overwhelming majority of Americans believe the President was playing pandering politics with his homosexual marriage announcement. Even those who agree with homosexual marriage. Big mean JP Morgan lost $2 billion (the government loses $6 billion daily) which the media is absurdly falling to pieces over. Meanwhile the President says JP Morgan is great and praises its CEO. Obama recently attacked Romney over Bain Capital yet is taking money from a former Bain Capital executive. Inconsistencies abound in Obama’s campaign and Democrats are rightfully nervous.

The Democrats are even panicking over the choice of Charlotte, North Carolina as the Convention site. The North Carolina Democrat Chairman is embroiled in a sex scandal and that isn’t even the biggest problem facing the Convention. It’s underfunded. Unions are being expected to pick up a lot of the tab but they’re apparently outraged that North Carolina is a right to work state and are even more outraged that Charlotte hotel’s aren’t unionized. Most amusing, especially for us non-Democrats, is that the far left is worked up over the fact that Obama’s acceptance speech will be made at Bank of America Stadium. That’s right, they’re worked up over the name of the Stadium.

While all of this is going on ole George Soros is busy sitting down with top Democrats to discuss strategy for the 2012 election. One can only imagine what he has to say. It’s an open secret that Obama’s pathway to victory is to get his base to come to the polls in large numbers. It will be Soros that funds this sort of grassroots effort. Soros funds many left-wing organizations, many of which are actively involved in the sort of community organizing that gets the vote out. Soros has in the past said that he wouldn’t mind a Romney Presidency, probably because Romney is a progressive. You wonder whether Soros will dial back the support for Obama if he thinks the Obama ship is sinking knowing that Romney will still support many of Soros’ progressive policies.

We’re in the middle of a defining period in a Presidential race. This is Obama’s chance to define Romney and so far Obama is failing miserably. The President still has a bully pulpit, many Americans don’t really know who Romney is. Obama can take that pulpit and define Romney in any way that he wants. Calling him a vulture while taking money from a fellow Bain executive and patting the back of JP Morgan’s CEO who just lost $2 billion defines Obama as a pandering political hypocrite more than it defines Romney as vulture.

Obama has had nearly two months to define Romney since the GOP nomination was largely secure and he’s utterly failed. Obama still has another three months or so to define Romney but the longer he waits or the longer he fails to define Romney the worse it will be for his campaign. If Romney has a chance to define himself it will of course be only in the most glowing terms. By being able to define himself, Romney can make himself look good but he’ll also make Obama look inept without even mentioning him. No wonder the Democrats are beginning to panic.

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Dems Lose NY-9; Should Be Concerned About Losing Jewish Vote

September 14, 2011 Leave a comment

The GOP scored an upset win in New York’s 9th district last night. Rep. Weiner’s old seat has been held by Democrats since 1923. That didn’t stop Dem spin doctors like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz from declaring that NY-9 is a “tough district for Democrats.” I guess in her mind losing once every 88 years makes for a tough district. This was not so much a Republican victory as it is a Democrat defeat. Make no mistake, the GOP will lose this seat if not next year than in 2014. Yesterday’s vote was a vote against Obama, which does not bode well for him or his party.

Why did NY-9 vote against Obama and the Democrats? No doubt a down economy is really hurting Obama right now. But one thing that should be noted about NY-9 is that it has a large number of Orthodox Jews and they aren’t particularly happy with Obama’s position on Israel. I’m not sure that Orthodox Jews living in Queens and Brooklyn are alone enough to swing a district that Weiner won by 20 points, but they clearly aren’t pleased.

Obama’s foreign policy is not well thought out. Obama makes a lot of grand sweeping statements and gestures that sound great at the time they’re said. But they aren’t thought out and as a result they’ve created more problems for this administration and our nation. Obama has gone over to the middle east several times to appease Muslim countries. He’s gone so far as to support a Palestinian state with the 1967 borders. He’s even demanded a September 2011 vote on Palestinian statehood in the UN.

No doubt these statements have made Muslim leaders happy. But Obama’s problem is that they weren’t thought out. Now we’re approaching the September vote in the UN and the administration is scrambling to stop the vote. Why? We can begin with the fact that the Palestinians are still run by terrorists who continue to launch bombs into Israel as well as kidnap Israeli citizens. The Muslim nations Obama has tried to appease are currently attacking Israeli embassy’s. Obama’s appeasement made these leaders happy at the time but now they want to move to the next stage in the destruction of Israel and Obama isn’t ready for it yet.

Obama’s foreign policy has been inconsistent and it leaves everyone wondering what he’s really up to. His administration is full of Muslim Brotherhood supporters who at the end of the day want to wipe Israel off the map. Obama has spent most of his administration appeasing these people and opposing Israel. But the flip to that is that Obama relies on Jewish financiers here in the US for his election. He on some level depends on a Jewish vote that is overwhelmingly Democrat.

Obama is now in trouble because his poorly thought out middle east policy is hitting him in the pocketbook and at the ballot box. Who does he support, the Muslim Brotherhood supporters who want to destroy Israel (not to mention capitalism and western society) or does he support Israel and reap the campaign cash and votes that come with it? His base position is more in line with the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to destroy not only Israel but also capitalism and western society. My guess is that he will make a big show of suspending the UN vote until after the November 2012 election. He’ll try to patch up his Jewish base while continuing to bow to the Muslim Brotherhood types.

In the end, it likely won’t work. Obama is clearly on record supporting the 1967 borders, which is unacceptable to Israel or most American Jews. In fact, bizarrely, it isn’t acceptable to a legion of evangelical Christians who foolishly believe that modern Israel is the reincarnation of ancient Israel. The 1967 borders are unacceptable for the simple fact that the Palestinians continue to bomb Israel and the old borders only allow Israel an 8 mile stretch of land between the northern and southern portions of the state. It’s a military disaster in the making for Israel, independent of any theological or emotional reason one might have to oppose the old borders.

Obama is clearly losing the support of his base Democrats. He cannot afford to lose the Jewish vote for if Obama loses the Jewish vote he may lose it for the Democrats forever. Obama probably doesn’t care about this, Democrats should. Democrats should especially be concerned after yesterday’s election. Obama is trying to suspend the Palestinian statehood vote, likely until after the election. If it becomes clear that Obama isn’t going to win, it’s entirely possible he’ll push for statehood before he leaves office. Democrats should oppose this across the board. If Obama allows a Palestinian state, American Jews and their money will forever leave the Democrat Party. As a Republican, I’m happy to have more people join the party and spend their money on our pro-Israel candidates. The Democrats should be very, very concerned about this. Obama is no longer simply an economic liability, he’s turned into a foreign policy and fundraising liability for the Dems.

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Harvard Declares Republicans Are More Patriotic

July 4, 2011 Leave a comment

Harvard complains that 4th of July parades turn children into Republicans. Their study confirms what we already know, Republicans are more patriotic than Democrats. One reason I believe is that Republicans tend to love the Constitution and the founding fathers while Democrats have stuck with President Wilson’s position that the Constitution and founding fathers are largely irrelevant. Unless they suit Democrats at any particular moment, then they’re wonderful!

Perhaps one reason why 4th of July parades and other patriotic events turn children into Republicans is because Republicans can simply relax and enjoy the day. Democrats and liberals on the other hand cannot for a moment relax without making some grand point about something. Brian Palmer of Slate.com wrote an op-ed in the NY Times complaining about 4th of July cookouts. We’re not allowed to enjoy them because they’re bad for the environment. Beef is bad, potato salad is evil and pie is a big no-no. He literally spends three paragraphs discussing which method of grilling is more environmentally friendly before not reaching a conclusion. His suggested 4th of July meal: fried potatoes and grilled peaches. No wonder kids don’t want to be Democrats, they’re not allowed to enjoy a grill-out.

Why do liberals hate American traditions? Why do they constantly look down upon Americans who love their country? It’s hard to put a finger on, though I suspect it has to do with the far left’s ties to Moscow and radical marxism over the course of the 20th century. When the far left, who largely control America’s colleges, teach students about radical change they clearly want a change from what we’re doing now. In other words, change includes eliminating love of country and apparently Independence Day grilling. Not all Democrats buy this sort of radical thinking, especially at the rank and file level. But enough of them do, especially in leadership, that it hangs like a cloud over the entire party. Enough Democrats aren’t excited about the 4th of July to the point that children see that and gravitate towards the people who are excited: Republicans.

So on this 4th of July I encourage you to take your kids to a parade and celebrate the birth of our nation. Thank God for the founding fathers, who loved Him and sought to protect the rights which He endowed. Fire up your grill, if only to annoy your liberal neighbors. Perhaps plan on grilling hamburgers, since that seems to really rile leftists from Michelle Obama to Al Gore. But most important don’t forget to remember our Christian heritage and don’t forget to pray for God’s blessing on our nation.

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Obama, Democrats Want To Raise Middle Class Taxes

April 18, 2011 2 Comments

The AP wrote a tax hit piece that might as well have been written by one of George Soros’ radical leftist groups. The piece grouses about how the “super rich” have seen their tax bills drop “dramatically.” The piece only looks at income percentages rather than overall dollar amounts. It’s clearly a biased piece of writing aimed at aiding Democrats and the Obama administration’s demands for a tax increase.

Nearly half of the country doesn’t pay a dime in income taxes. The article notes that the top 10% pay nearly 50% of the taxes in the country, without noting that the top 10% pay more than 70% of the income taxes. But one liberal Columbia professor made $200,000 last year and only paid $2,000 in income taxes so that’s proof that the tax system is flawed in favor of the rich! There is nothing worse than journalism that relies on the story of one person’s unique tax situation that is then applied to the entire system.

Income taxes are lower for everyone since 2001 when Bush signed his tax cuts. Nearly half the country doesn’t pay any income tax, in fact many low income Americans walk away with a check from the IRS that exceeds what they paid in income tax. The rich pay the overwhelming majority of income taxes and nearly half of the overall Federal tax burden. Yet the Democrats and leftists in the media want more. Never mind that taxing the rich more will only result in fewer investments and thus fewer jobs for those of us who aren’t in the top 10%.

The demonization of the rich by the Obama administration and the leftist media is ridiculous. As Walter Williams recently pointed out, even if the Federal government taxed 100% of all income over $250,000, 100% of all corporate profits and confiscated all the assets of billionaires they wouldn’t have enough money to pay government expenses past August. The problem isn’t that the rich aren’t taxed enough, the problem is that the Federal government is spending to much.

Obama has the audacity to propose tax spending cuts (ie tax increases) on not just the rich but the middle class as well. Obama has proposed eliminating the mortgage tax deduction and the charitable giving deduction. Eliminating these sections will not just negatively affect the rich, they’ll negatively affect the middle class. Rather than cutting back on the size and scope of government, the Democrats simply want to raise your taxes. They’ll sell it as a tax increase on the rich when in reality it is a tax increase on the middle class as well. The Democrats war on the American dream and on the middle class began last week with the President’s budget speech.

So while the media is going off about how the rich aren’t paying enough, never forget that the rich pay 70% of income taxes and 50% of overall Federal taxes. Nearly half the country pays zero income taxes and many walk away with a refund check larger than what they paid. President Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich and middle class. Remember all of this in November 2012.

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Al Gore Claims Snow Storm Proof Of Climate Change

February 2, 2011 Leave a comment

Snowtorious BIG swept through town last night. You can count me as not impressed, mostly because of media over hype. If one were to listen to the hysterical local media you would think the end of the world was near.

Speaking of the end of the world, Al Gore chimed in on the big snow storm. Of course in the world of Al Gore every weather event is proof of man made global warming. It doesn’t matter if it’s of the cold variety. This stands in stark contrast to the hysterical claims of left-wing Democrats who just a few years ago claimed that low snow totals proved global warming was real.

Everything is proof of global warming, or climate change as they like to call it now that the Earth isn’t warming. I personally love the term climate change because it exposes these people as the charlatans they are. Lower than average snow fall proves man made global warming. Major snow storms prove climate change. It all works perfectly for them, they have an answer for everything. And of course they have a big government, socialist solution to fix these ‘problems.’

Those of us who live in the midwest have had major snow storms for our entire lives. Back in the 70′s there were huge storms that dumped a foot or more of snow on Chicago and elsewhere. There were big storms in the 80′s and bitter cold in the 90′s. Even in the 2000′s we have had years where there has been above average snow fall. Mixed in have always been mild winters or winters where we didn’t get as much snow as normal. None of these weather events, or lack thereof, prove anything. Much less that man has caused global warming and only government can save us.

These days the Earth isn’t warming like the global warming fanatics insisted it would. At best Earth has flat lined, perhaps even cooled slightly over the last couple years. It’s been colder than normal in Europe and North America. The last couple of years have seen cold winters and coolish summers in the US.

Since charlatans like Al Gore can’t point to actual warming to prove their case, now they’re claiming that every big storm is proof that man made climate change is causing havoc on Earth’s weather. Anyone with half a brain knows that isn’t true. Throughout the history of mankind there have been big storms. They don’t prove anything other than Earth has big storms. There aren’t more of them now than there used to be. There aren’t less of them either.  They perhaps get more hype because of the internet and 24 hour news networks which spew forth hysteria over every storm. But the number of storms and their strength isn’t any different than it’s ever been.

But of course that won’t stop socialists with an agenda. Make no mistake, the global warming/climate change crowd are socialists and they have an agenda. Government can’t control the weather and they can’t regulate business to the point that it affects weather. But what climate change legislation does do is give socialists more power and more control over our lives. There is no link between man and weather but that won’t stop these people from claiming that there is. Al Gore and his ilk couldn’t care less about the environment and in fact their actions run counter to their rhetoric. What they do care about is implementing socialism in the United States. Hysteria created over global warming or climate change is just their vehicle.

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