Thursday, January 28, 2010
Why I Can't Get Behind President Obama...and Why You Shouldn't Either
Instead of bringing the nation together around our strengths or building on trust to shore up the nation for crisis, President Obama used the state of the union address to taunt, to ridicule, to mislead, and to generally behave like a jerk.
The President used the podium to chastise House and Senate Republicans for attempting to block legislation and of not being bipartisan. He began by stating "what the American people hope – what they deserve – is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics." Of course, those comments were not directed at Democrats who have been using their super majority to shut the Republicans out of the legislative process. This became clear when he later added "To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve some problems, not run for the hills. And if the Republican leadership is going to insist that sixty votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town, then the responsibility to govern is now yours as well. Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it’s not leadership." Perhaps if the President himself would show some bipartisan tendencies others might be more willing. But his style of leadership is to tell us what is good for use whether we want it or not. Boo the the President and his Democratic foot soldiers and kudos to the Republican, Independents, and Blue Dogs who have kept the voice of the people in the political process.
And then there is the thuggery. It was completely inappropriate and offensive for the President of the United States to take the podium at the State of the Union and reprimand the Supreme Court of the United States of America and sit idly by as Congressional Democrats rise in ovation at his attack. "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong." The Presidents statements are misleading at best. What the Supreme Court actually did was to protect the free speech promised in the Constitution that had been limited by the McCain/Feingold bill. The President was attempting to use the SCOTUS decision as a scapegoat and to silence opposition to his agenda through a tactic of ridicule and mockery.
I am amazed by the number of otherwise intelligent people who still stand behind this President despite his blatant lies, his lack of decorum, and his wilful opposition to the interests of the American people. How can people be so blind to the truth? The President exhibits a lack of understanding of basic economic issues, he's weak on national defense, he practices partisan politics, he behaves like a Chicago thug, and he uses the podium like a pulpit preaching his socialist/progressive ideology to a country that wants nothing to do with it. He practices the same tactis which he warns against and claims to fight. The President is a poor leader who parades about like narcissistic fool patting himself on the back for bringing hope and change to the U.S...fiddling away like a modern day Nero as the nation burns down around him set on fire by his irrisponsible policy.
2012 can't get here soon enough for me.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Supreme Court Upholds First Amendment Rights
In the wake of the Haitian earthquakes, President Obama's failure to close Guantanamo, and the Massachusetts senate race, you may have missed the landmark Supreme Court decision which upheld first amendment rights. On January 21st, SCOTUS ruled in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that campaign finance spending limits on corporations and unions are unconstitutional.
So what does this mean for freedom-loving Americans? Some-like the President- would argue that it means that corportations and union lobbyists will now have free reign to do whatever they please and say whatever they like to influence elections. They believe that allowing corporations to have a voice somehow will corrupt the democratic process. I disagree. What it really means is that no policital voice can be stifled. That is what the Constitution promised us. The Founding Fathers wanted very much to protect the people from government control over political speech. That's why the amendment reads that Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech. McCain/Feingold therefore was unconstitutional. Kudos to the Supreme Court for upholding our freedom and shame on the President for not recognizing the same.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
AARP- what do they really stand for?

AARP endorses the new House health care bill. Of course. Cuts to Medicare funding which are certain to come with this bill could mean a big opportunity for the organization. AARP does not live on membership alone. They are also in the insurance business. Add to that the fact that AARP has been criticized for years for it's inability to keep its business and consumer interests separate and anyone can see that they do not necessarily have the best interests of members in mind- at least when it comes to health care reform.
Democratic proposals to slash reimbursements for Medicare Advantage, are expected to drive up demand for private Medigap policies like the ones offered by AARP. United Health Care which provides most of the medigap health insurance marketed under the AARP brand, brought in $400 million last year alone in royalties. Compare that figure to the $249 million they collected in membership dues for the same period of time. AARP also brings in medigap royalties through Aetna Life Insurance, Genworth Life Insurance and Delta Dental.
It seems to me that AARP the business has far more to gain from this government program than any of its members do. What do you think?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Is this the end of free speech in America?
We all know that the Obama administration is all about control. They control access by the press and therefore the message delivered by the media. If they can't control you, they smear you as evidenced by the dismissal of Fox News as not being a real news organization. He's accused Republicans of not being able to think for themselves. He's attacked capitalists, conservatives, Christians and Jews, white police and allied world leaders. About the only thing he ever does is take pot shots at people who don't worship him and his policies. And then he has the gall to preach at us to "grab a mop and start helping to clean up the mess". Great plan Mr. President. I'll start by doing my very best to get your Democratic Congress voted out of office and then I'll move on to making sure I help take back America by electing someone who cares about ALL Americans- not just the ones he can control.
Mr. Obama seems to believe that he only serves those who elected him. The rest of America clearly has no value to this President. I for one have had enough.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Russia/Poland Choice
Today President Obama announced that the United States will scrap it's plans for a missile defense shield located in Poland (you know that little country right next to Russia)
Whatever the reasons...today was not the day to make this announcement. 70 years ago today on September 17, 1939, the Russians invaded Poland in their bid to divide Europe with the Nazis. To this day, relations between the two nations remain straine...d and though Germany has offered many apologies for their role in the invasion 16 days earlier, the Russians have not. So the announcement of the removal of missile defense in Poland (our ally nation) is a slap in the face to the long-standing ties we've had. However, Vladimir Putin has expressed his approval of the decision.
As recently as last November, Russian Presiden Medvedev threatened to point missiles at Poland. Clearly the Russians feel threatened by having a U.S. missile presence so close to home..but if the American/Russian relationship is as good as this administration claims they why all of the fuss? The President has chosen to ignore the long standing relationship we have with the Poles and the Czechs in favor of appeasing the Russians.
The political spin to this story is that we have new and better information and those Iranians can't really nuke anyone in Eastern Europe, so we don't need the missile shield. But the history of this story goes further back. The Russians are pissed off because they don't want U.S. missiles close enough to them to put any pressure on them. These are defensive missiles by the way. They've threatened the Poles within the year and they have never apologized for the invasion of Poland. We can all see where Mr. Obama's alliegence lies. But is it in line with the rest of America. Ask the mothers of American sons and daughters who fight side by side with Polish soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. They might have a different opionion than our President.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Health Care or Health Insurance
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Uh Oh, better call the Gestapo...uh, er I mean the White House.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/
What the hell has this country come to? Informing on your neighbors who disagree with Barack the Almighty? Somebody wake me from this nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't care if you are Democrat, Republican, Independent, illegal immigrant, veteran, civilian, man, woman, or child. If you value your Constitutional freedoms, this should really bother you.
Inform on me if you must, but you should be mad as hell at what this government is asking.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
More on Climate Change
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html
Friday, June 26, 2009
Today is a dark day in American History
Reichert-Washington--8th District
Bono-California--45th District
Castle-Delaware
Kirk-Illinois--10th District
Lance-New Jersey--7th District
LoBiondo-New Jersey--2nd District
McHugh-New York--23rd District
Smith-New Jersey--4th District
Remember them at election time!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
I don't even know what to say.
I can't even begin to imagine where this path we are taking will lead us. What I do know for certain is that the American dream is over. The federal government is succeeding in taking away the rights of the people. The government "of the people, by the people, for the people" no longer exists. The president answers to nobody. The Congress is a bunch of cowards, liars, and cheats, the cabinet is a bunch of crooks, and the supreme court has steadily ignored the constitution and authored policy from the bench.
Will the people let this continue? I won't stand by and watch it happen without expressing my opinion (while I still can) and holding my congressmen and women accountable. We can't put up with this any longer. Our predecessors fought for our freedom and we are letting it be taken away. Shame on us. Stand up for your rights as an American citizen and demand accountability from your government! Get involved. Do something. Stop electing more of the same politicians to office. Use the power of your voice and your vote.
Monday, June 8, 2009
A tale of climate disater penned by alarmists. This week's bestselling "fiction"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124424567009790525.html
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Fascism is alive and well in the good old U.S.S.A.

I was listening to Hannity this afternoon on the radio and he was observing that President Obama still maintains an approval rate over 60% despite the polls showing a clear majority opposed to nearly everything he has done in office so far. This blows me away.
Then this evening on FOX News there was a discussion of how many in the press don't seem to be so much in bed with Obama any longer, but rather are afraid of him. The historical record has shown in BO's first months as President that if he opposes you, he will take you down. This first became clear when the feds ousted Rick Wagoner from GM. Nobody voted for that. Nobody authorized the President to have that kind of power- certainly it didn't come from the Constitution. The media should be afraid. Obama (with the help of the Bush administration) has taken over the American banking system and treasury. He has taken over American industry with the auto bailout, and he is getting ready to take over the health care system. Where is the opposition?
You may remember a guy called Adolf Hitler who rose to power in Germany after the First World War. Hitler was voted in as chancellor and soon made his way to becoming dictator. In a matter of months he had otherwise intelligent citizens deciding to round up the Jews and gas them all. Much like Hitler, Obama has taken his elected office and morphed it into some sort of sick dictatorship without the people who elected him even realizing what is going on. This is serious folks.
We have got to put a stop to the President and his "czars" and take back our country before we completely destroy our infrastructure and sell everything we have to China. At the rate we are going, we will soon be left like the post-war Russians with nothing but a dying dream of change and of power to the working class. Not since the Russian Revolution have we seen this kind of full-scale assault on law-abiding citizens. The anxiety produced by the upheaval of our economic system has led otherwise normal people to fall for this crazy scheme called the economic recovery plan. But every effort just brings the economy further under fire. More people are losing jobs and the industry that can save us is being parceled out to whomever the "car czar" or the President chooses. This is exactly the same thing that Lenin and Stalin did. It is the end of capitalism in America and the beginning of a fascist regime.
For anyone who might argue that fascism is too harsh a term, here is the definition. Don't know how you can argue that Obama is not fascist.
Fascism: a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Yep. That is pretty much what we're looking at.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Interesting article today on wsj.com about lawmakers and how they spend our tax dollars
A Lexus, big screen Sony TVs, really expensive cameras, etc. How do these people sleep at night? Probably on memory foam mattresses with 1000 thread count sheets. Check it out.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Somebody just doesn't understand- a misguided protester

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
What a day in the news!

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Obama vs. Cheney...I pick Cheney.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Dems did something to be proud of today!
Bet you never thought you’d hear that from me. But they earned their paychecks today by turning down funding to close Guantanamo Bay prison –at least until the President and his staff come up with a viable plan for the detainees. The house passed their war funding bill last week with the same noticeable omission. They haven't completely forgotten national security after all!
http://tinyurl.com/r8b6yj
AP source: Democrats won't fund Guantanamo closing
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer
Monday, May 18, 2009
President Obama at Notre Dame
So the President, recognizing that many Catholics do not support his views (oddly enough, they already have a Messiah), called for people to be more “open-minded” on the issue of abortion. He recognized that the different points of view are irreconcilable. How then, can one still hold to his/her convictions and stand by as those convictions are denied in federal courts?
The answer is that you can’t. To pro-lifers, the issue of abortion is about life and death. How do you compromise on life and death? Abortion is murder. One human takes the life of another human. It is pretty simple. But liberal politicians like President Obama claim that the life of the baby in the womb (or partially out of the womb) has no value. To them, abortion is a solution to the inconvenience associated with irresponsible sexual behavior. They justify the killing of babies by claiming that it is the right of the mother to decide what to do with her body. They claim that the baby isn’t really its own person until it is fully born and breathing air. They claim that it is better to abort than to bring the baby into a world in which it may not be well cared for.
But the pro-choice folks are leaving out some pretty important considerations. It takes two to make a baby. Where are the rights of the father when it comes to abortion? They do not exist. And that baby is a real, living child in the womb with a heartbeat, and brain function and the capacity to feel pain. http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/Fetal_Pain/FetalPain091604.pdf. And as far as bringing a baby into a world in which it may not be well-cared for, perhaps the liberals should look at their social programs and start focusing on helping parents learn to prevent pregnancy in the first place and to teach them to care for babies rather than providing a way to get rid of them. And perhaps legislators should look at drafting enforceable laws with serious consequences for parents who neglect their responsibilities as parents rather than providing for federally funded abortions.
Advocates for “choice” often indicate that mothers must have the option of abortion to protect their own health, but the reality is that 93% of all abortions performed in this country are performed for social reasons and not for health related reasons. Less than .5% are the result of rape, 4% for the mother’s health, and 3% because the baby may have a health problem while the other 93% are performed because the mother isn’t ready, can’t afford, or simply doesn’t want a baby. *
In response to conservative pro-lifers, many liberal pro-choicers claim that there is hypocrisy in being pro-life. They claim that the churches promote war, that many conservatives support the death penalty, etc. My response to that is that wars happen for various reasons and they are always tragic- but they are not all products of the church by any means. Whatever your feelings on the death penalty might be, comparing it to abortion is like comparing apples and oranges. Death penalty is reserved for extreme cases of violence and law-breaking. Since 1973 (the year of Roe v. Wade) fewer than 2,000 death row executions have taken place in America. That is just over half the number of babies who were aborted today! Since 1973 over 49 million babies have been aborted in this country. How can you even compare the situations?
As usual, President Obama left the Notre Dame graduates with some words of wisdom (after all, he is the smartest President ever- or so I've heard) :
“But remember, too, that you can be a crossroads. Remember, too, that the ultimate irony of faith is that it necessarily admits doubt. It's the belief in things not seen. It's beyond our capacity as human beings to know with certainty what God has planned for us or what He asks of us. And those of us who believe must trust that His wisdom is greater than our own. “
Perhaps the President could take heart to those words and have faith that when God said thou shalt not kill, He knew what he was talking about.
*Source: Lawrence Finer, et. al, "Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives" Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 37 No. 3 (Sept., 2005) p. 110.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Jennifer Granholm on short list of potential Supreme Court nominees
This is some scary stuff! I don't think I want a Supreme Court justice who is so out of touch with reality. In her two terms as governor of the great state of Michigan, Granholm has accomplished much of her agenda- to trim manufacturing jobs and to destroy the rights of the unborn.
Just take a drive down any one of our deteriorating roads in your foreign car and stop to talk to the locals. Don't worry, they'll be home. (Our jobless rate is 12.6%) But before you head out, you might want to fill up first. Michigan gas taxes are among the highest in the nation (behind only California, New York, Connecticut, and Illinois) even before you consider a proposed 15 cents per gallon increase in the works to keep our roads in "good repair". Stop to enjoy our natural resources (if you can get to them). You might notice how expensive things are in the tourist areas- but don't fret- that is just because we have to tax you to help balance our state budget (which hasn't happened in a long time even though taxes keep going up on everything from gas to ski lift tickets). Just keep driving. Pay no attention to the closed auto plants...Governor Granholm doesn't want us to focus on those. Instead, look for movie crews and wind farms. Those are the future jobs in Michigan.
And in case all of that doesn't give you confidence in our governor, perhaps you should consider her social agenda. She's Catholic and claims to rely on her faith as long as it supports her social agenda. For instance, when trying to balance a budget without cutting her pet social welfare programs to the mentally ill and homeless, Granholm took aim at Republicans who opposed her by saying...
"Often those who cloak themselves in a cape of religiosity happen to be some who are the biggest cutters. Now, some of that can balance out. But when you get to cutting the services for the least of these – in the 25th chapter of Matthew in the 37th verse the Lord says, 'Whatsoever you do to the least of these, so also you do unto me' – that's when I question whether somebody is really living out the faith that they profess."
But at the same time, Governor Granholm wholly supports abortion and embryonic stem cell harvesting which are in opposition to the core of Christian faith, Granholm said that “as a Catholic, I can say to be pro-cure is to be pro-life." She has been publicly rebuked by Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing for those remarks. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” Bishop Boyea said. “While the Catholic Church strongly supports legitimate forms of stem cell research and all other proper forms of scientific inquiry, the Church also teaches that is it is always immoral to destroy a human embryo.”
As a Supreme Court justice, Granholm would have the potential to influence or perhaps "legislate" from the bench. This is when her anti-life stance really becomes a problem. In 2008, Granholm vetoed SB 776, a bill which would ban partial-birth abortions in Michigan. She vetoed the bill claiming that there was no loophole for life-threatening situations for the mother. This veto has no precedence because a similar bill has already been passed and upheld by the Supreme Court at the Federal level. This blatant disregard for the rights is indicative of Granholm's character and her history of opposing life issues. In October 2003, Governor Granholm vetoed Senate Bill 395, the "Legal Birth Definition Act," which sought to outlaw partial-birth abortion by granting full legal status to the child as soon as any part of his or her body emerges from the mother.
This woman is reckless and dangerous. Her record in Michigan is atrocious and her social agenda does not belong on the bench of the highest court in this land.