Obama: "I have no idea what I'm doing, but TRUST ME!"

This article in yesterday's Wall St. Journal by Karl Rove-hit me in immediately because I have been observing the same thing- Team Obama is faking it and making it up as they go along. Problem is when you are dropping a trillion $ here a trillion $ there on the kid's Credit Card, you are talking some serious cash and painful long term problems.

They have no idea how to govern, only how to run for office. The Clinton legacy lives on along with "I did not have sex with that woman....(fill in any of 40 to 50 known names here.)

Remember that quote about those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it?

LBJ and the Dem controlled Congress spent 6 Trillion dollars on the "war on poverty" over a decade creating ACORN a tax supported Leftist only arm for the democrat party and a whole lot of dependent slackers- but little else.

FDR managed to extend the Depression from 1933 to 1940 with the spend now, pay later government deficit spending that didn't work. Now comes the Obamanation crew saying, "they just didn't spend enough" and they certainly cannot be accused of that now.

Happy 200th Birthday ABE!

Mr. President, you are no Abe Lincoln

2/12/1809

SAVE THE UNIONS! SAVE THE UNION!

I had a letter to the editor of Wisconsin State Journal published on Jan 18, 2009. My submitted headline was:

Lincoln: Save the Union!

Obama: Save the Unions!

They softened it in my opinion, with the headline, "Saving the union, or unions?" but who's complaining? (me).

After seeing the Pork barrel spending today, Lincoln's B-day, of the "stimulus" bill to retain mostly union only jobs- Government construction, teachers, state, federal workers, firefighters, police and hiring 600,000 new federal workers, I may have underestimated Pres. Obama. He and the truly professional spenders A.K.A.: Democrats are now showing just how much they can spend on pork. Truly breath taking! Only about 12% will go towards infrastructure rebuilding and very little will be infused into the economy in 2009.

The three RINO* Senators from the N.E. who, 'just want to be loved' Sen. Collins, etc. who joined in the Democrat hogfest need to be taken down on their next election. The reason Republicans lost heavily in the last election is they, in their amateurish way, tried to spend like democrats and did pretty well- enough to get them unelected at least!

I need to stop now and work on my "NO BAIL OUT" bumper sticker like my buddy Adrian has on his car!

* Republican In Name Only

A 'RUSH' to judgement of the Magnus PORKUS "stimulus" plan

I'm back! Lost the habit for several months and decided to fire up my blog in 2009.

But now with Democrats in charge at the County Board, State of Wisconsin Legislature and Governor's office, both houses of Congress and the President's Office.....so many opportunities for lampooning the LEFT can not be ignored! The guy who has been poking more Democrats in the eye more times and for over 20 million listeners than anyone else has is RUSH LIMBAUGH!

This editorial in 1/29/09 Wall Street Journal "My Bipartisan Stimulus" is worth reading. (The WSJ is a subcription site but I believe it should be good for at least a week- besides I think I am the only one writing or reading this!)

Funny how the simple recipe from Rush makes far more sense than the complex, confusing and confused "Save the Unions" pork projects that every democrat has tacked onto the so called Stimulus bill does.

OBAMA: Plays the Liberal race card against Justice Thomas

This article in today's (Aug 18,08) Wall St. Journal opinion page puts a light on Obama's far Left bias against anyone who is a Conservative- in this case Assoc. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He's bought and sold the line that anyone who is a conservative is obviously 'dumb' since they disagree with their dogma.

When asked last Saturday night at the debate which Supreme court judge they would not have nominated, Obama's reply was Clarence Thomas- not "strong enough jurist or legal thinker " he also named Scalia and Roberts but at least they were smart enough for the job. Thomas is dumb because he is a Conservative or because he is Black or both... Obama?

My take: the whole racial preferences AKA "affirmative action" (the PC version)- is based on liberalthink that Black people are not smart enough to compete with other races so they need racial preference legislation. This is pure BS wrapped up in judicial manure wagons and rulings. Base job hiring, contracts, school entrance on merit not skin color and all can and will compete on a level playing field. Racial preferences have undermined fully earned accomplishments of "minorities" - to me the term itself sets up the victimhood mentality.

Example: you have a life/death operation on yourself or your child/loved one. You need to chose between three "highly educated and qualified surgeons" with comparable experience to do the delicate surgery- An Asian, an African-American and a Caucasian. Which do you choose?

Democrats have been using the dumb label on all Republican Presidential candidates and Presidents for over a hundred years. Reagan was bombarded with dumb jokes for 8 years and Pres. Bush, even though his grades were higher than Sen. Kerry at Yale and ALGORE dropped out of divinity school while Bush earned an MBA from Harvard, has had this same tired label hung on him for the last 10 years.

Olympians on Pres. Bush

I guess not ALL Amercians hate our President.... "The President Is Watching, It's Time To Step It Up" U.S. Olympians Comment On President Bush's Robust Support Of Their Efforts "The Olympics] exceeded my expectations. ... I think the highlight was getting my picture taken with the teams. ... They were so gracious, and grateful, and excited. It's just a very energetic feeling. You know, they represent the best of U.S. athletics. And they were really excited about their events, and they're full of hope. It was just a very uplifting experience." – President George W. Bush, 8/11/08 "For Our President To Come To Watch Us Play The Game ... Makes It Even More Significant" Michael Phelps (Swimming): "Afterwards, I looked up and saw President Bush giving me the thumbs-up and holding the American flag." "That was pretty cool." (Simon Barnes, "Phelps Proves He Is In A World Of His Own, Times Online [ UK ], 8/11/08) Kobe Bryant (Basketball): "For our president to come to watch us play the game and try to bring back the gold medal makes it even more significant." "This means the entire country is rallying around this kind of road to redemption theme that we have." ("Bush Looking To Instill Patriotism In NBA Hoopsters," Agence France-Presse, 8/7/08) Larsen Jensen (Swimming): "The President is watching, it's time to step it up." "There is no greater honor as an athlete to compete in front of the President." (Aimee Berg, "Olympic Notebook #1 – Presidential Visits," TeamUSA Blog, 8/10/08) Sylvia Fowles (Basketball): "[T]hat our President was out here was good ... Now I feel like an Olympian." (Doug Feinberg, "President Bush Watches US Rout Czech In Opener," The Associated Press, 8/10/08) LeBron James (Basketball): "It's not every day you get to play in front of a president and a king." (Jeff Duncan, "Star-Studded Audience Sees U.S. Women Cruise," The Times-Picayune [LA], 8/10/08) Dwyane Wade (Basketball): "We get support of our president. That means a lot. That means a lot of people ... back home want us to succeed." "So we have to go out there and play like we're representing the US of A. If we do that ... we'll win it." (Paul Alexander, "Bush Gives Pep Talks To US Olympians In Beijing ," The Associated Press) Lisa Leslie (Basketball): "It was awesome." "It's an honor that he came out and watched us perform and that he is a fan of the women's basketball." (Doug Feinberg, "President Bush Watches US Rout Czech In Opener," The Associated Press, 8/10/08) Chris Bosh (Basketball): "It was just a thrill to have the leader of our country there." "It was pretty patriotic for us and for the citizens all across the world who are United States citizens." (Parke Brewer, "US Men's Olympic Basketball Team Beats China ," Voice Of America , 8/10/08)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1978 calling OBAMA in 2008

Those who do not know history........

Notable & QuotableAugust 5, 2008; Page A19 WALL ST. JOURNAL

Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaking at Harvard in 1978:

Very well-known representatives of your society, such as George Kennan, say: We cannot apply moral criteria to politics. Thus we mix good and evil, right and wrong and make space for the absolute triumph of absolute Evil in the world. On the contrary, only moral criteria can help the West against communism's well-planned world strategy. There are no other criteria. . . .

In spite of the abundance of information, or maybe because of it, the West has difficulties in understanding reality such as it is. There have been naive predictions by some American experts who believed that Angola would become the Soviet Union's Vietnam or that Cuban expeditions in Africa would best be stopped by special U.S. courtesy to Cuba. Kennan's advice to his own country -- to begin unilateral disarmament -- belongs to the same category. If you only knew how the youngest of the Moscow Old Square officials laugh at your political wizards! As to Fidel Castro, he frankly scorns the United States, sending his troops to distant adventures from his country right next to yours.

However, the most cruel mistake occurred with the failure to understand the Vietnam war. Some people sincerely wanted all wars to stop just as soon as possible; others believed that there should be room for national, or communist, self-determination in Vietnam, or in Cambodia, as we see today with particular clarity.

But members of the U.S. antiwar movement wound up being involved in the betrayal of Far Eastern nations, in a genocide and in the suffering today imposed on 30 million people there. Do those convinced pacifists hear the moans coming from there? Do they understand their responsibility today? Or do they prefer not to hear? The American Intelligentsia lost its [nerve] and as a consequence thereof danger has come much closer to the United States.

But there is no awareness of this. Your shortsighted politicians who signed the hasty Vietnam capitulation seemingly gave America a carefree breathing pause; however, a hundredfold Vietnam now looms over you. That small Vietnam had been a warning and an occasion to mobilize the nation's courage. But if a full-fledged America suffered a real defeat from a small communist half-country, how can the West hope to stand firm in the future?

See all of today's editorials and op-eds, plus video commentary, on Opinion Journal.

CARTOONS from the Right side

12 ways the Dems will not lower gas prices

Harry and Nancy -that New Direction?Retreat,

appease, surrender- but for one accomplishment - raise the minimum wage!

The inconvenient Hippo-crit ALGORE & Lord Obama

Ever notice when far Left Dems, Libs, and "progressives" have a solution to a proplem- in this case the supply and demand imbalance that is causing high gas prices- they come up with a program that takes at least 500 words, filled with the lastest buzz words to explain, usually is a recycle of FDR, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman long shots and doesn't actually address the core problem? Here's an article that points that out perfectly.

The Republicans are backing, "Drill here, Drill now, Pay Less".

Sounds like a plan - as opposed to a tap dance.

Bush has MBA Pelosi has only BS

Ann Coulter's latest article is a screamer. The accepted wisdom from the Left is that Pres. Bush is dumb. They've been shouting that since 2000. Yet his grades at Yale were better than John Kerry's (who served nearly 3 months in Vietnam) ALGORE, who dropped out of Divinity School- figured he was better than God anyway would be my guess, and Nancy Pelosi who has proven herself to be one of the dumbest, least effective "leaders" in Congress ( and I use the term way too loosely) so who is the dumb one?

The Dems mantra, "If you drill for oil now it will be seven years before it reaches the pump!" Which besides being untrue, was obviously the reason they decided not to go to college. "If you start now it could be four or five years before you Graduate!!!" Read Obama's take on energy or watch his Campaign ads and you have to think, "OK ... Nancy Pelosi is dumb....is Obama Dumber?" or the other way 'round" Obama is Bill Clinton without the class....Oh wait he had no class....without the ability to lie so convincingly.

The only Domestic Drilling Democrats will support

This was a good chuckle. You can click on the cartoon to enlarge it. From Human Events weekly newspaper.

George Will on surprising crime statistics

George Will does his homework. This article is the first I've seen that explains some of the reasons incarceration of Blacks is so high, the oft quoted "there are more black men in jail than in college" is false। Yes, it is simply not true -even if Obama says it over and over on the stump- 'taint so MON!

FACTS are nice to have once in awhile instead of FEELINGS.

Will drags out the NY Times headlines "Crime is down, but prison population up" DUH? This type of headline appears all the time in liberal leaning newspapers. The fact that black men kill black men at a much higher homicide rate than any other race is never mentioned in the press- but the FACTS bear that out also.

Baracks ACORN sucks up tax dollars and indictments

Barack Obama: ACORN ball from Chicago Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin was here at UW-Madison last on April 4 08 thanks to the College Republicans (CR) hosting the Wisconsin convention of CR's. Believe it or not, the UW-Madison has the largest group in the state.

Her article covers ACORN, the group that Barack Obama in his first book, Dreams From my Father only ID ed his Chicago work in the 82-84 time frame as 'community organizer" without ID ing ACORN.

This group is in fact a notorious arm - make that armpit- of the Democrat party with dirty election practices standard fare. Chicago: Where even the Dead vote Twice. ACORN lives the slogan. This is where Obama got his groove and grease.

What should anger many conservative Democrats- all eleven of them (I can only name 3 off the top of my head.. Joe Liebermann, and ah.....OK , only one) - Independent voters, Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarians- (screw the Naderites, Greenies and Code pinkos) is the flat out cheating and throwing elections paid for with their own taxes to ACORN balls.

Rich Lowry on Its tuff being a senator

Rich Lowry's tongue in cheek article on June 23 08 is a hoot. Not one, but two (so far) Democrat Senators have been caught with their greedy little hands in the till via sweet heart mortgage loans from Country Wide. Even though they are on the Senate Banking Committee (Dodd) and Budget Committee (Conrad) they claim ignorance of getting 'special VIP" personal loans even though they regulate deal with the industry almost daily.

We are supposed to believe they are too stupid to see a bribe that saves them thousands of dollars from the industry they already receive massive amounts of money come election time- or any other time for that matter.

Note also the lack of coverage in the MSM. If this were Republican Senators it would be fodder on late night TV comedians and nightly news casts for at least a week. Was it even covered on network or Cable TV newscasts? I can't tell you- been out of the loop crossing the mighty Lake Michigan on the SS Badger last week. Have a dollar that says it wasn't mentioned on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC or CNN or.......

Thank you President Bush for all you have done and for protecting us so well since 9/11/01

President Bush has many good reasons to smile. He's freed 50 million people, taken down the Islamofascist terrorist organization and prevented another 9/11/01 attack in America. Compare to President Clinton's legacy- "it depends on what your definition of 'is' is"

Today's (June 12 08) Ann Coulter Column contains these classic caustic Coulterisms:
"The sheer repetition of lies about Bush is wearing people down. There is not a liberal in this country worthy of kissing Bush's rear end, but the weakest members of the herd run from Bush. Compared to the lickspittles denying and attacking him, Bush is a moral giant -- if that's not damning with faint praise. John McCain should be so lucky as to be running for Bush's third term. Then he might have a chance. "

And Obama is running for Jimmy ( I can't find it with both hands) Carter's second term!

Why we went to war in Iraq -An Arab scholar's view

Fouad Ajami - Prof. Johns Hopkins Uninversity

Great article in the Wall ST. Journal sent on to me by my friend Wendy, also a colleague and member of VOTE NO TO CUT AND RUN- a group we formed in 2006 to remind Wisconsin to support the troops, you support their mission.

The author is an Arab scholar, FOUAD AJAMI and he eloquently reminds us of the acommplishments and vast changes in the War against the terrorist who struck us on 9/11/01 and the changes for the good in the world because of it.

One of his many good points: Now that the war is going so well with far fewer deaths, better command and control in country, better, stronger Iraqi army, police and government in general the press is no longer interested.

So like Scot McClellan the press rat, let's look now from the point of view of hindsight and keep the Blame Bush machine running by hammering away on the beginning of the war and the many reasons it was called for!

Coulter: If we could talk to the Animals

Just read Ann Coulter's lastest column as usual, she is on the mark and actually ID the Sen. in '39' who actually said" If only I could have talked to Hitler..." As Ayn Rand said in Atlas Shrugged "when Good compromises with Evil only Evil wins" or words to that effect. Obama has stated he will talk with any leader with no preconditions and has been held to that statement.

I heard all the news clips of Pelosi, Reid, and 5 or six more leading Dems reacting to the Pres. at the Knesset speech about the failure of apeasement. They all used exactly the same words in the same order.

They can't even re=phrase their talking points- pathetic.

Pelosi went into Syria 6 months ago and bad mouthed the USA, but the president can not mention the failure of British appeasement at Munich to a country surrounded by enemies sworn to wipe them off the earth?

OBAMA and the Jews. I know what's best for you.

Great article in Today's (5/20/08) Wall Street Journal. Obama knows what is best for the Jews in Israel. The guy is either arrogant beyond help or more likely, just naive and uninformed.

Suggestion: Go back to your "Change and hopping for Change and Changing for Hope" mantra.

Whenever he tries to make a statesman-like comment he only tastes his own shoe leather.

Michelle on Michelle Baracks Bitter Half

Michelle Malkin like David Horowitz, needs to travel with a body guard to keep all the Left Wingnuts from attacking her. She did this article on Michelle Barack and her whining about how tough it is to be an American these days. Let's see... both she and Barack went to the finest schools, Princeton and Harvard Law. Both came from simple, and low income backgrounds - She from S. Chicago, Barack from Hawaii-and yet somehow managed to attend the finest colleges in the Nation.

How did they accomplish that? Was it by sitting back and complaining about how tough it is in America or by setting high goals for themselves and doing everything they could to succeed? Hmmmmm. That's a tough one.

Both are making big bucks- She gets over $350,000 a year in a job she got after Barack became a Senator, he limps along on his Senate Salary and the royalties from his books, they own a 1.6 Million Dollar house- your typical black family living from pay check to pay check.

Pull- Lees...Rich people complaining about how tough things are should shut their pie hole and learn better manners.

The foolishness of corn for fuel

WE are in "The new Dark Ages" Part I

This article, "Food fuel No Laughing matter" shows the effect that conversion of food into fuel is causing world wide. The old saw about the press and their emphasis on class warfare- "World to end, minorities and poor to suffer most" or a similar quote is used here to demonstrate that the sudden price increase in grains, basic ingredients due to conversion to Biofuel is real and hitting the poor first and hardest.



Even the Republicans in the SENATE have asked that the tax subsidized ethanol conversion be slowed to ease price pressure on Corn- which shot up to $6 a bushel in April of 08.



Personal take: this tax boondoggle subsidy of 51 cents a gallon for Ethanol will go down in history as one of the dumbest "the sky is falling" programs ever legislated by the Democrats- with many weak-kneed Republicans falling in line.



It will be eclipsed only by the panic stricken Church of Global Warming cult believers and their turning free economies into Soviet style 5 year plans shown to be so successful in starving millions in the old USSR and China- or any Socialist country for that matter. N. Korea, Cuba etc.

Ann Coulter Not the Wright stuff

Ann Coulter's column

on Obama's ongoing problems with the Rev Jeremiah Wright is entertaining for us and a fright for him. 'Course he was married by the Rev. Wright, baptised his daughters there and has been a member of the congregation for 20 years, gave the church $20 K last year... but is just now cognisant of the racist hatred he's been preaching all these years. Must be a sound church sleeper!