Super Committee Failure Is A Surprise?

Back at the very beginning of the Super Committee it was going to fail. It was designed that way. All anyone had to do was look at the people who were put on the committee and it was obvious they were NOT serious about finding ways to cut spending. The people the Democrats put on were MASSIVE tax and spenders, while the Republicans were MASSIVE spending cutters. It would be easier to get a lion to become a vegetarian than to get these two groups to come to an agreement. This committee was designed to fail and that's what it did. The Democrats were planning on a "Do Nothing Congress" for Obama to run against and to keep the Republicans from having any success to point to for 2012.

The SUCCESS of this Super Committee is in the eyes of the American people. It's symbolic, but it's a MASSIVE success. The Republicans have managed to lock up the Democrats from piling on MORE spending and MORE taxes before we can get to the 2012 elections and own BOTH houses and the White House. Until that time, being a "Do Nothing Congress" is EXACTLY what they were elected to do and they are succeeding exceptionally well.

No Rewind Buttons

Life has no "Rewind" buttons.

The best we can do is learn from our mistakes and keep on moving forward.

The Michelle Boo Chorus

When you tell the American people they are stupid, lazy, unable to make decisions for themselves, bitter-clingers and generally beneath your contempt until you want to use their tax money for one of your "celebrity" vacations how do you expect them to react when you run into them in public? BOOOOO!!

Michelle Obama's handlers tried to keep her away from the general public for most of her three years as First Lady. She spoke to groups that either paid to see her or were well vetted and controlled. When the First Lady goes to large events like the World Series or a NASCAR event she gets booed because Americans now see her and her husband for who they are - and it's not as fellow Americans concerned about the welfare of the country. And Americans don't like the Obamas any more than they like us.

Michelle Obama had better get used to that kind of treatment, however, because the election season is about to start full-bore in about two months. She's going to be speaking at a lot of events with a lot of people and they are all NOT going to be happy to see her. She may want to hang onto those noise suppressors from NASCAR, as we get closer to the election she's going to need them - there's going to be a LOT more booing.

Obamacare Repeal Warning

Just a small warning to all of us "Defeat Obama and Obamacare" folks. If the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare jobs will start to return. The economy will start to pick up as soon as employers are sure Obamacare regulations are off their backs. If that happens too early in the election cycle, that could help Obama's re-election chances.

This has been a public service of the "Don't Re-Elect Obama" campaign.

Redistribution Of Middle Class Wealth

We now see what President Obama meant when he said he wanted to redistribute our wealth. You never listen to what Obama SAYS – you have to watch what he DOES.

He SAID he wanted to take money from the “richer Americans” and flow it through the government to the “poorer Americans.” That’s what he SAID.

What he DID was take taxpayer money from ALL AMERICANS and flow it to his campaign contributors, bundlers, unions who support him and those who will be working for his re-election in 2012.

We saw the first wave as payoffs for help in 2008 campaign in the Stimulus Bill that flowed predominantly to the public unions in the states to keep their pension plans solvent. That allowed the unions to keep their members working and producing dues that will eventually be flowed back to the Democrat Party in political contributions.

The Solyndra Scandal flowing money to an Obama campaign cash bundler was the tip of the iceberg. Now we find the Obama White House is flowing billions of dollars to “green” businesses that are owned by his friends and supporters, as well as drug companies that flow money to his re-election campaign.

The spin is always that Democrats are looking out for “the little guy.” The opposite is OBVIOUSLY true. The Democrats are taking the tax dollars Middle Class Americans have worked hard to earn and they are flowing them to their rich friends and family members. While average Americans are scrimping to get by, the money taken for taxes is NOT flowing to the “needier amongst us.”

The Democrats are flowing money to the “richer Americans” while the rest of us are made poorer. Kids are hungry, people are losing their homes, businesses are failing, oil prices are rising, and all as Democrats flow money to the “1%.”

In the meantime, the media totally ignores what is going on, leaving the Democrat Rulers to steal from the less fortunate and give it to the very people the “Occupy” movement was supposed to be protesting.

THIS is what insanity looks like.

Americans Deserve Better.

No Plan Future

As we move further into the Obama Administration we have to wonder where that brilliant plan is we were told about during the last presidential campaign back in 2008. For every issue we were told the Democrats would do it “smarter and better.” Here we are four years later and we have yet to see either “smarter” or “better.” In fact, what we have is “lost” and “no clue.”

Most of us Conservatives knew there was no such plan. It was all a marketing strategy.

One of the best jokes to come out of the Obama Administration and his alliance with the Democrats in Congress has been that they should be the ones to fix the banking industry. I suppose the theory there is that if they broke it they should know how to put back together. I have a mental image of Barney Frank sitting on the floor covered in grease with a wrench in his hand, surrounded by car parts, explaining to us that the car will be back to better than new in just a little while – he knows what he’s doing. There’s a man who – literally – can’t fix a parking ticket without making a massive mess. Yet, we’re supposed to believe he knows what he’s doing to fix the banking industry.

The majority of Americans are beginning to understand it was the government and their dabbling in regulations and placing demands on lenders to give out loans to people who could not afford them that caused the collapse of the housing industry and the bankrupting of the banking system. Years of building in laws that were not only detrimental to the system but also downright contradictory caused confusion and placed burdens on the banks that were nearly impossible to navigate.

After the collapse, TARP and another series of MORE regulations to be sure it “never happens again,” we find a major problem exists in the U.S. Congress – they don’t know what they’re doing. We’ve always known that, but it’s becoming more blatant as we go along. More importantly, it’s no longer a secret. The whole world knows the American Congress has no idea what they are doing.

Our credit rating was downgraded because our Congress – the people who write the banking regulations – have no plan to do even the most rudimentary budgeting. Their plan is to borrow and spend without any kind of a plan. Average Americans, nor our businesses, would ever be allowed to follow that kind of practice if they were trying to get money from the bank. We would have to demonstrate responsibility with money and have a solid plan the bank believed in to get money. However, our Congress has decided to ignore the practices they want the rest of us to follow and go forward without a budget/business plan for… going on three years now… in spite of the fact that they are REQUIRED to have a budget in place.

As a result, we are heading toward another showdown in Congress that is going to force us into another one of these useless standoffs threatening to shut down the government unless another extension is put in place to allow the government to take more money from our kids and grandkids.

Congress MUST come up with a budget/business plan for going forward that restores fiscal sanity to this nation. It probably will not happen with the current tax-and-spend liberals in the Senate to block any moves that would protect us from them, but we have to push on and insist government listen. They need a plan just like businesses that rolls back the budget and repays our debt before we are so far down the road there is no hope for recovery.

As our Ruling Class continues to plunder our treasury and steal from our future to satisfy their needs for power, they are ruining our credit rating and making it impossible for future generations to run the country. Their lawless plundering MUST be brought to an abrupt halt.

The Economic Strain of the Occupy Movement

There are reports in the media every day about the strain local governments are feeling from lack of funds. They tell us they are lacking the money to hire cops, pay teachers, put on firemen and the usual laundry list they use to squeeze more money from taxpayers.

Yet, here we are listening to this same media herald the greatness of a bunch of protestors who are requiring cities to pay millions in overtime pay for cops, sanitation crews and countless other hidden expenses built into protecting, cleaning up after and containing the Occupy Wall Street people. As they chant their speeches into their bullhorns to be repeated by their echo-minded comrades, they are chewing up money that could be spent to send kids to school, put cops somewhere where they are needed and respond to emergencies.

Their concern is not for kids or cops, it’s for building a massive central government with a ‘benevolent dictator’ – whatever that is – to oversee this massive government monster they want created. In other words, they’re looking for a nanny and don’t know how to do it except to have the government make the rest of us provide it for them.

The mainstream media and everyone from President Obama down to the local city councils are behind these people and what they are trying to achieve. The same people telling us they want to raise our taxes. The translation of that is that no matter how much it costs, these kids are part of the Democrat re-election campaign just like the mainstream media. They have all bought into the nanny approach. The kids want it because they want their lives easier and the politicians because it gives them power over the rest of us. They all have one intention – install a powerful central government that forces all of us to do what they want us to do and do it at our expense.

Memo To Americans

Being Equal does NOT mean we are the same.

That is a distinction that seems to be lost on many in our mainstream media and our politicians. Maybe the concept is too complex for them, or maybe... just maybe... they want us all to be the same so we are easier to control... easier to fit into their little cubbyholes so we can be pandered to and made to think like a herd rather than individuals.

THAT is when being Equal means being the Same.

Mainstream Media's Hoax

Back in 2006 when President Bush was down in the polls the American mainstream media piled on – including the pundits who are supposed to be from the Conservative side of the aisle working for the mainstream outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post and all the other media outlets with tame Conservatives. If there was a word to be said against Bush, the war, the economy, whatever the topic, the mainstream media was piling on and the Conservative pundits were right behind them throwing their own diminishing weight to the conversation.

It was shortly thereafter the media began pounding us with stories of how wonderful future President Obama was. He was not Bush, making him extremely attractive to the Left, and he was one of them. He spoke their language and he could give great speech. For eight years the mainstream media had listened to the “nails on a chalkboard” delivery of President Bush and wanted someone who could speak well in public. Unfortunately, in their lust for this new talker, the media failed to do their jobs. Rather than doing even the least amount of research into who or what this new candidate was, we were handed a radical leftist who muffed the ball right from the start and continued chasing it around like a grade school football team trying to get a handle on a fumbled football.

Now, however, that Obama’s numbers are about as bad as Bush’s were at the end of his second term, the media is still out there trying to save him going into a re-election campaign. That’s to be expected from the mainstreamers on HIS side, but for those media people on the Conservative side to continue to help Obama and attack the Republican field is extremely confusing. Not really. The writers who try to pass themselves off as “conservatives” at those major newspapers are nothing more than fodder to be used by the left. They are the whipping boys kept on staff as tokens and they are getting paid handsomely enough to be willing to take it.

Most Americans realize this means we are being fed news manufactured to look like it is balanced when it is nothing of the sort. Americans now have many ways to get our news – and most of us utilize those channels – and we are able to see what a hoax we have been fed.

Too bad our Political Class in Washington is unable to see what is happening with our media… or, more likely, they are in on the hoax.

Determination Undaunted

I read a lot of stories about how we are a country in decline, that our best days are behind us, that we need to manage and come to grips with our fading light. There are articles out there telling Americans how we need to understand that our best days are done and it's just a matter of time before we turn out the lights and hand the keys to the Chinese.

Yet, when I look in the eyes of my countrymen, I don't see a people defeated. Even under the most tyrannical socialist this country has ever seen, we still see our resurrection starting January 20, 2013. I see a determined people who are itching for the coming battle, who can accomplish anything together, who have only just begun the work of preserving Freedom. We know Freedom. We understand what it takes to preserve it from ALL enemies - both foreign and domestic.

Men don't yearn for the yoke of tyranny, they yearn to be FREE. They yearn to be Americans. Only these pathetic whiners infesting a Wall Street park yearn to be treated like slaves of a regime. The rest of us seethe at the mere thought of it.

Stories like ours - the story of the American Experience - don't have an ending. Our struggle will go on as long as there is breath left in us, as long as there are tyrants willing to subjugate people and lie about their intents. And that's how we know the story is real. There is no well scripted ending. It is an ongoing and enduring story we, The People, fight to pass on to generations to come.