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BARACK OBAMA’S VAUNTED CONCESSION TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Harvard Professor Greg Mankiw explains the reality of the President’s ostensible concession in a published piece aptly titled Semantics at the Highest Level.

Consider these two policies:

A. An employer is required to provide its employees health insurance that covers birth control.

B. An employer is required to provide its employees health insurance.  The health insurance company is required to cover birth control.

The President changed the law from A to B which is no change at all.  The claimed concession is not an about face; it’s about farce.  It has oft been said that perception is reality.  The two are not the same, of course, but the aphorism makes the point that the difference is irrelevant.  Perceptions are formed by speeches and headlines while truth and reality often remain in obscurity.  In a prior post on this subject, I wrote “If there is one thing the President knows well, it is the art of agitation, how to create it, how to use it as a tool for accomplishing an objective and even how to deal with it if it turns negative to your cause.”  The pot is still simmering on the issue but thus far Obama has dealt with it effectively.

OBAMA’S ACT OF DICTATORSHIP

In brazen defiance of law, President Obama has made four controversial appointments to public office without the approval of Congress as is required by the Constitution.

John Boehner described the president’s move as “an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama that defies centuries of practice and the legal advice of his own Justice Department.”  The Speaker is a public figure and must be diplomatic when making public statements.  We are not inhibited by any such restrictions so we call it for what it is, a defiant act of dictatorship. Barack Obama’s action in this instance is consistent with that of a neo-totalitarian government, not a democracy.

John Hinderaker, a lawyer and one of the founders of the Power Line blog has provided excellent coverage on this important issue.  You can read about it there.  There is no limit to where this president may take the country if he is not stopped.

 

JOB HUNTING OBAMA STYLE IS LIKE DEER HUNTING, THE AIM IS TO KILL

Investors Business Daily is biased.  Is there a newspaper today that isn’t?  But all bias is not political; the IBD’s bias doesn’t lean left or right.  As the name implies, the paper is pro investor, pro business and pro capitalism.  That means they are biased in favor of jobs.  The IBD is purely an investment and business paper and they report on these endeavors every day.  That makes the paper somewhat of an expert on the subjects of economic growth and job creation.

In a recent article titled Obama’s Job-Killing Machine Rolls On, the IBD points out some glaring examples of how Obama has snuffed out jobs.  AT&T was ready to hire 5,000 people for well paying new jobs until Eric Holder’s Justice Department sued and the FCC came forth and opposed AT&T’s merger with T-Mobile.  And then there is the infamous Keystone Pipeline which was steadfastly opposed by Obama until the Republican Party in control of the House of Representatives forced his hand.  More than 10,000 jobs were at stake.  Obama has kept one promise he made on the campaign trail; electricity bills are skyrocketing.  New EPA rules have caused three generating plants to be closed already with the attendant jobs lost.

Obama doesn’t just fail to create jobs; his administration pro-actively takes steps that kill jobs, new jobs that would occur naturally, jobs that need no assistance from stimulation programs, no subsidies and no cost to taxpayers.  President Reagan was never more correct than when he said “Government isn’t the solution to the problem.  Government is the problem!”

 

 

$38,500 FOR DINNER WITH BARACK OBAMA

At least it wasn’t just lunch.  Yesterday, 20 people tossed in $38,500 apiece to have dinner with Barack.  And to think, I am happy if you just pick up the tab.

How do you suppose they came up with a number like 38 ½ thousand?  Did they start at 50, were offered 25, then agreed to split the difference?  Perhaps the 500 bucks was for the waitress.  But that’s not even 10%.

I said waitress.  Did I err?  Can you say that any more, or is it too gender specific?  How long has it been since you heard some one say “I’ll be your waitress this evening”?  There are no more waiters or waitresses; there are only server persons.  I don’t know what these people think they are hiding.  I can still tell if my server person is a waiter or a waitress, most of them anyhow.

Excuse me; I must sign off now.  My server person just called my number; my burger and fries are up.  I just need to get some ketchup and fill my soda cup.

ADDENDUM
AP reported the number as 35,800; Drudge puts it at 38,500.  I am going with the Drudge figure.  I can’t see Democrats leaving an 800 dollar tip.

WHAT FREE MARKETS? NOT HERE.

When Sen. Dick Durbin stood up in the Senate chamber and told the American public not to do business with a bank he didn’t like, he threatened the free market system.  When the President of the United States confirmed and added to the senator’s condemnation, the free market system ceased to exist.

Free is free.  Half free is not free.  What we have is coercive capitalism, a form of fascism where private ownership of the means of production of goods and services is allowed, but where management is not free to follow the dictates of the market.  This, along with crony capitalism has been described by some as the new face of socialism in America.

John Hinderaker at Power Line has written an excellent piece that begins “Nice Bank You Have Here…, a shame if anything should happen to it… The Democrats took gangster government to a new level today…”  It’s an excellent post and falls into the category of required reading.  Don’t miss it.


Socialist leaders have long realized the challenge of establishing the Marxist form of socialism in a democracy like the United States is an insurmountable one.  A strong and prosperous middle class would never willingly accept a government that would appropriate ownership of private enterprise.  The alternatives are to employ force with a violent revolution (a very bad choice) or to allow private ownership but control it.

Control comes in many forms.  Durbin-Obama coercion is just one of them.  Other means of control include appointing czars to oversee various industries, misuse of executive orders, outright flaunting of established law and the passing of bills that are vague, thereby leaving the specifics to be set by the whims of the bureaucracy as dictated from above.  Go along get along becomes a near necessity.  Those who do more than go along, get along even better.  From Solyndra to GE, this is the new face of socialism in America.

GALLUP – RECORD 81% DISSATISFIED WITH CURRENT GOVERNMENT


Results of a Gallup poll released today show that a “record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed…”.

What can we infer from that?  First, a large number of people who voted for Obama are sorely disappointed.  That’s the price they paid, the price we all paid, for their not doing their homework.  Admittedly, it was a task that required some self study, not one easily resolved by watching the evening news and reading an occasional newspaper.  However, when a candidate for President of the United States launches his political career from the home of a virulent unrepentant anti-American terrorist and takes as his beloved mentor and spiritual leader a black liberation theologist like Jeremiah Wright, doesn’t that call for doing some homework before voting for him?

Secondly, can we infer that the President has little chance of winning a second term?  No we cannot.  We might if the election were to be this November rather than the next.  A year and a month are like an eternity in politics.  Community organizers know how to work up a crowd and this community organizer was very good at his job.  His tools are class warfare, stoking envy, channeling rage, appealing to liberal guilt and of course, race.  His techniques are covered in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. 

That is a formidable arsenal.  Barack Obama wants what he sincerely thinks is best for his own people and for his vision of a better America.  He is a deeply dedicated man.  The President is a powerful fundraiser and a strong campaigner.  Never discount such a person.

 

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

Dear Mr. President,

Here is my plan for fixing the economy.

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force.  Pay each of them 1 million dollars tax free severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.
Forty million new job openings – Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a house or pay off their mortgage.
Housing Crisis fixed.

3) They MUST buy a new American made car.
Auto Industry fixed.

4) They MUST travel abroad and talk quietly in restaurants.
The reputation of Americans in Europe fixed.

You put 535 million dollars into just one corporation, Solyndra, and it didn’t create a single positive job.  In fact, Solyndra was responsible for 1,100 negative jobs when your friends closed up the shop after they got the money.  My plan creates positive jobs and will pay for itself by taking millions off the unemployment rolls, turning them from tax receivers to tax payers.  (Don’t do the math.  The President doesn’t.  Why should we?)

If more money is needed, have all the members of your administration and Congress pay their taxes.

Sincerely yours,  a man over 50

FREEMAN IS LOOKING THROUGH RACE COLORED GLASSES

Black actor Morgan Freeman had this exchange on the Piers Morgan show: (click here for the video)

FREEMAN: Mitch McConnell. Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What’s, what does that, what underlines that? “Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.”

PIERS MORGAN: But is that necessarily a racist thing?

FREEMAN: It is a racist thing.

PIERS MORGAN: Is it not Republicans, wouldn’t that say that about any Democrat president?

FREEMAN: No…

Early in his presidency, Barack Obama promised his stimulus bill would bring down unemployment.  He warned unemployment could rise as high as 8% if his bill did not pass Congress.  It passed quickly and easily.  Unemployment soared to over 9% and is still there.  Particularly hard hit are black Americans with rates over 20% in some districts.

Obama promised the first thing he would do is close Gitmo.  Gitmo is still open.  He promised to bring all of our troops home quickly from Iraq.  Troops are still there.

Obama promised unprecedented openness in government.  He said he would open the doors wide for CSPAN to cover debates on every important issue and then he shut them out of coverage on the health care bill.  We got less openness, not more.  Obama promised he would require every bill presented to him to be published on the internet for 5 days of public comment before signing it.  And then even Senators and Congressmen weren’t given copies of the bill, if they were Republicans, until 3 days before they had to vote on it.

When Barack Obama assumed office the country was dangerously in debt.  Instead of proposing steps to bring the debt down to safe levels, he campaigned incessantly for dramatic increases in spending to the point where our credit rating was downgraded for the first time in history.

Obama submitted a budget that was so out of line with realities that not even one single Democrat would vote for it.

He has alienated our friends, coddled our enemies and pointed out our shortcomings in speech after speech made abroad.  Black Caucus members have recently expressed their dissatisfaction with the President.

Mr. Freeman, don’t you suppose, just suppose, that some people might object to Obama’s presidency, not because of his color, but because of what he has done?

A FEW YOUNGSTERS STAGE “DAYS OF RAGE”

Headline. September 19, 2011

Police Set Barricades as ‘Days of Rage’ Protesters Target Wall Street

Rile them up, stir up some anger, get them mad at someone then boldly tell them that you are the answer.  It doesn’t matter who.  It doesn’t matter what.  It’s not about solving any problem; it’s about gaining power.  It’s in Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals.  It’s the Chicago style of government.  Even more, it’s the Obama style of government.  He knows no other.

Fortunately, enough of the American people see it for what it is.  Those that don’t, never will.  Police estimated today’s ragers numbered about 350.  Have no fear; it’s not enough to get a community organizer re-elected.

CHUCK SCHUMER FOR PRESIDENT

The Democrat’s dilemma – go in 2012 with an apparent loser or give up the race card and draft Hillary.  The race card is pretty well played out.  It’s gone from an Ace to a Ten, or maybe a Jack at best.  Drafting Hillary would be the Democrat’s best chance, but what if Hillary declines to run?  Who is up next?  Chuck Schumer.

Sen. Schumer can bring in all of those NY State electoral votes.  He has the stridency that appeals to the party base and the NY sophistication which appeals to the party elites.  Whoever runs, it is beginning to look like it is not going to be Barack Obama.  The man has been a disaster for the economy, has dealt a crushing blow to blacks and has been a great disappointment to socialists who thought their day had finally come.

A day is like a year in politics.  But party strategists must make their decision now.  And now it looks like the Democratic candidate will be a sacrificial lamb.  Hillary isn’t the type to volunteer for a slaughter.  If not Schumer, then who, Al Sharpton?  (That was a joke).  How about Al Gore?  He won once before.