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Where the Real Wild Things Are

As we close yet another bizarre week in the news, the Obama administration combined with world despots, to create yet another series of truly wild events.  So to coincide with release this weekend of Where the Wild Things are, we present this week’s list of Wild Things.

Venezuela
In a picture of what could be on the horizon for Americans, Venezuela’s “Porky Pig” Chavez, who hasn’t missed a good feeding because of the inherently unfair capitalist, imperialist system, announced a new government policy limiting showers to a total of three minutes to conserve water.  Chavez recently put the Venezuelan media under his control because he could no longer force feed them a daily ration of trash.  So now the population is both dirty and uninformed – sort of like the US hippie culture of the late 1960s.  This explains the voting habits of these 1960’s lifestyle leftovers – most of whom are now teachers in the public schools.

Fox News
Obama’s recent attempt to freeze out Fox News is a long way off from Chavez’ outright nationalization of the news media, but the Prez is still in line with South America’s favorite tubby despot.  It has been said that Democrats lack a sense of humor.  This must be true, since the Obama administration has made itself the laughingstock of even the most liberal member of the DC press corps.   Fox meanwhile has enjoyed the treatment, adding significant numbers of viewers due to the free exposure provided by leading leftists.  If the lefties are so outraged against Fox, most thinking viewers understand that Fox must actually be telling the truth.

Hollywood Musicians
Some of the world’s foremost purveyors of modern music objected loudly this week when it was revealed that some of their music may have been used to break down the wills of trained killers currently held at Guantanamo.  The theory goes that their music was played repeatedly to aggravate and finally coerce the terrorists to spill their guts – to prevent Americans from literally spilling their guts in the streets of unnamed US cities.  

The outrage is absolutely laughable – especially to anyone that had an 11 year old daughter when Hanson came out with its Mmm Bop song.  The song was on auto repeat for hours on end in millions of American homes and the youth came out none the worse for wear.  It was the parents that needed mental help. 

Roseanne Cash in speaking for some claimed that ‘music should never be used for torture.’  That may be true enough, but anyone who has endured an interview with any member of R.E.M. has suffered far worse.   In truth, the US military and CIA officers that came up with this scheme may have finally discovered a true benefit to whatever it is that Rage Against the Machine produced in the way of sound.   At least Rage finally contributed something to the country.  In the end, if the interrogators really wanted to turn these killers into kittens, they would have played the Banana Boat Song by Harry Belafonte until the terrorists brains melted into mush.   This also explains how Belafonte created so many Democrat followers.

Rahm Emanuel
Rarely does the White House allow Rahm to participate in extensive press sessions where he could be photographed.  After this week’s video of Emanuel’s meetings with Congressional lefties emerged, the reasons for this strategy became self evident.    Rahm’s eyes are consistently at half-mast.  However the part of his pupils that peek out give one the impression that he needs to go in for his yearly rabies shot.  Perhaps this is all a Halloween get-up, but the administration would be well advised to banish this lunatic into the same locked up room where they now keep Joe Biden.

Balloon Boy
The Colorado family that created a crisis for the purpose of generating publicity is probably headed for a court date.  Interestingly though, this is exactly the same tactic that the aforementioned Rahm Emanuel employs to drum up false demand for government takeover of health care (as well as energy, transportation, finance…..).   Emanuel should immediately come to the Balloon Boy family’s defense as it was he who made this method of pursuing one’s objectives acceptable.

Sense of Direction
A Northwest Airlines flight from San Diego, California overshot the Minneapolis, Minnesota, airport by about 150 miles Wednesday evening, causing passengers to miss their connections.  Interestingly, their luggage arrived right on time.  The flight of course eventually reached its destination, but not without unwanted publicity. 

Overshooting objectives seems to be a common result of Democrat action as well.  After pledging to bring in a health care bill that didn’t add to the deficit, the Congressional Budget office reported that the current Democrat takeover plan won’t add to the deficit but will instead result in billions of new taxes that will be paid by consumers that already have health care insurance.  So while Congressional lefties were celebrating the potential reduction in the deficit, their constituents were trying to reach them by phone to ask how they are to pay for it.  At least voters know which direction Democrat office holders will be heading next November.

These events occurred within only a few short days this week.  Just don’t ask what Team Obama and the DC lefties have planned for next week.

Conservative Blog post for October 21 was delayed by a day.  Apologies to our regular readers.

Obama’s Balloon Boys

Late last week, a lunatic Colorado family launched a home-made helium balloon from their back yard and ignited a hoax watched by the entire world.  Claiming they believed their son was carried aloft by the craft, the entire state and nation were mesmerized by the drifting balloon believing the child was on board.  In the end, the story generated a great deal of emotion, skepticism and finally, accusations of fraud. 

Claiming this was all done for a ‘show’ the young man who had hidden himself inside the family garage as much as admitted the hoax on CNN afterwards.   At least this is more than Team Obama members admit to when caught in a hoax of their own.  This family may get their show as a result, but it will be one from which they will never earn a dime.  All proceeds will almost assuredly be paid in restitution for the services of those involved in the rescue attempt and for the diversion costs of flights in and around Denver International Airport where the thing finally came back to earth.   All in all, this family will have only perpetrated a fraud and embarrassment upon themselves and cost taxpayers a great deal of money.

This of course brings us to discussion of Obama policies.  Fraud perpetration and choices that are sure to bring future embarrassment are also being made at the White House, where the President’s staff seems focused on its own ‘show.’  

Fox News – Picking a fight with Fox News is pointless and guaranteed to leave the White House with its nose bloodied.   Team Obama has sent up this trial balloon of hyped up indignation claiming that Fox News is untruthful in its reporting.  The ultimate objective in this fight is to establish Obama as the ‘victim’ of unfair treatment.  And one of the surest ways to tell when Democrats are desperate is when they claim victimhood.   The Presidency is the loudest bully pulpit in the world.  Still, Obama wants to be the underdog.  And accusing Fox of being unfair Obama Himself drove millions of new viewers to the very network He wants to demonize.

Young Voters – Former Clinton advisor Dick Morris reported yesterday that recent polling among young voters suggested that the younger age group supports the Obama health care takeover plan.  That is they supported it right up until they had it explained to them.  When individual features of the plan are laid out, younger voters understand that they will get bills for increased cost for their own health care, increased fees and taxes for health care of others, and a great reduction in the quality of care that they receive.  When the college aged crowd gets details, they no longer support the plan.  The more Obama sends up His health care trial balloons, the more laughable He appears.

Incidentally, GOP strategists have apparently emerged from the morgue to come up with a way or two to reach out to these same younger voters.  To illustrate just what the Obama brand of socialism means, some of the GOP troops came up with a fake Facebook redistribution plan.  As younger voters make such heavy use of Facebook, the GOP wizards came up with a program to execute a  ‘Facebook Tax’ to take friends from one user’s Facebook account to redistribute to those that have fewer friends.  This also could be extended into each college campus where students would redistribute their grades so that all students will score evenly on class work.   When socialism is made personal, younger voters tend to run away like all other intelligent voters. 

Iran – This would be a lot funnier if it didn’t mean the potential deaths of millions of innocents.  The Prez floated the idea that Iran would be sanctioned by the world community as a result of His awesome diplomacy.  After surrendering the safety of Eastern Europe by dropping deployment plans for a missile defense shield in exchange for – well nothing really – Obama expected the Russians to join Him in sanctioning Iran for its nuclear program.  Of course anything that is good for the United States will be opposed by the Russians.  Still, Obama naively believed that by cowering before Putin the Russians would suddenly become reasonable.  The Obama doctrine of ‘see how great the US is since I’ve been President’ has failed miserably.

United Nations – President Obama gave a marvelous speech for a socialist, showing the world once and for all that the US has been a great nation for the past nine months.  He then called on the international body to live up to its charter by taking appropriate action to secure world peace.    His speech was then followed by speeches by the world’s leading terrorists – Libya’s Muammar Khadafy and the nut job from Iran.   Only a fool puts any kind of hope in a body that embraces terrorists.  The only world leader with both a brain and a backbone was Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the world body to shame for entertaining those such as Khadafy. 
 
Unemployment – Although the administration’s cooked books show that new applications for unemployment may be decreasing by a very small percentage, the numbers of new unemployment applications are still growing by half a million each week!  Team Obama has pointed then to Wall Street where stock prices are rising as proof of their economic policy success.   Large numbers of unemployed are not going to spur consumer confidence or increase consumer spending.  Until unemployment improves, the recession will continue to deepen.

Joe Biden – Biden himself declared the recession over in a speech earlier this week.   As proof, he said that we are now in a ‘depression.’  Team Obama dispatched a team of specialists to capture the VPWI (Vice President Without Intelligence) and confine him to that previously unknown secure location.
This latest gaffe comes right on the heels of Team Obama’s attempts to increase the VP’s stature in advance of handing Biden the responsibility for losing in Afghanistan.  Fortunately, CNN chose to ignore the story and the gaffe.

Team Obama inflates each of its policy trial balloons with hydrogen instead of heium.  From economics to foreign policy, every Obama trial balloon has gone down (or up) in flames. 

Conservative Blog post for October 17.

Mmm, Mmmm, Good!

There is nothing more humorous than the truth. 

Last week’s controversy surrounding the school district that produced a video of impressionable school children singing the praises of Barack Obama hasn’t exactly disappeared.  The incident re-raised the question why our public schools are failing so badly, but that is another matter. 

This little song opened the administration up to ridicule for the hero-worship it has done nothing to tamp down. In the end, the administration will regret not presenting itself with more humility. 

So for your reading pleasure this Saturday, we’ve discovered the original words to the Barack Obama ditty sung by those impressionalble younsters who have just had their inheritance stolen.  The updated and expanded version is also included below.

                                 Original:                                              

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand           
To make this country strong again         

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today               
                        Equal work means equal pay                               
                                                                                
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand           
To make sure everyone gets a chance     

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black or white         
All are equal in his sight                         
                                                                        
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
                              Yes!                                 

Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama

 Updated:

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must pay the man
To make this country strong again         
Taking your money doesn’t matter
’cause we know He can spend it better

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He spent our kids inheritance
for campaign trips at our expense
He will raise the cost of energy to
keep you cold’til you turn blue

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that each of us should pay
For illegal alien care today
But health care costs, He will save
by sending us to an early grave

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Red, yellow, black or white,
We’ll beg His government for our rights
Barack Obama is the one who knows..
What is best for American Souls.

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
                                                   Nope!                                                

Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama

Conservative Blog post for October 16.

Paranormal Activity – in the Obama Administration

Grossing over $8 million thus far, the film Paranormal Activity is supposedly one of the scariest films released this year.  Why people pay good money to be scared out of their wits is a unique socio-psychological phenomenon.  Interestingly, the election of Barack Hussein Obama has followed a similar path.  People are going to pay good money –in fact one whole lot of it – to have the living Hell scared out of them by their future personal health care.

Paranormal roughly translates as something unusual that defies logical or physical explanation.  This is a perfect description for the Obama administration’s daily operations.  Here is but a sampling

Press Conferences and Robert – Family Guy – Gibbs – Could the President have found a spokesperson that could be less trustworthy?  The Family Guy must have been brought in to take attention away from the President.  Gibb’s daily Dilbert imitation has made even the left leaning DC Press Corps uncomfortable.

Health Care – Does anyone at the White House understand economics? Does anyone really care?  (Apologies to the band Chicago from the 1970s.) Clintonista Robert Reich at least understands!  A video gone viral this week shows the prominent Obama Economic Advisor telling the truth about Obamacare – specifically the need to have senior citizens die sooner to save money.   So far the response from DC Dems has been to point to Rush Limbaugh as being inappropriate to play an ownership role in the NFL.

Afghanistan – How does one win a war if one isn’t willing to fight it?  Flailing around for months now for a solution to win a war without sending in troops, President Obama came up with a brilliant idea – increase the stature of Imbecile Vice President (IVP) Joe Biden so that Biden can take the fall for whatever ridiculous plan emerges.  Actually, this may turn out to be one of the politically smarter things Obama does to handle this.  Blaming Biden for a screw up would at least be logical – even if Obama created the problem.   Afghanistan only has one option – fight the bad guys where they are.  Period.  Obama’s silly searching for an alternate universe from which to launch a be-nice strategy is dangerous, embarrassing and doomed to failure.  He may as well set up Biden for the fall.

Gitmo – You mean we have to move these guys?  Team Obama was stunned last summer to learn that US voters didn’t want trained killers housed in their states.    What really was stunning was that no one on Team Obama thought to figure out a place for these lunatics before the Prez made his juvenile pledge to close the thing in one year.

Unemployment – Why aren’t people hiring?  Man, with all the Stimulus money, unemployment won’t exceed 8% – oop,  or 9%, or… 10%.  And… the peak of unemployment will hit by October, no wait – by December,   no wait, by June of 2010.  The Obama administration keeps hitting hard on its health care takeover plan because it doesn’t want voters to focus attention on how awful the employment picture has become as a direct result of the Stimulus.    Obama truly believed that just borrowing and spending our children’s inheritance would create a stable employment market.

Fighting Fox News – Other network ‘news’ organizations are primarily configured as entertainment venues.  Katie Couric is not a journalist but she is cute.  Accordingly, those interested in a cute recitation of Democrat talking points just tune in to CBS. Unfortunately for CBS, there aren’t many of these. 

For Team Obama to impugn the honor and honesty of Fox News only brings attention to the fact that Fox is the most viewed and most influential cable news provider.   Fox is the 500 pound gorilla in the news biz whether CNN wants to admit it or not.  For Team Obama to continually point out that Fox News isn’t being supportive of the Democrat and Presidential political objectives, only increases interest in what the network has to say.  Of course this drives viewership up and the viewer stats prove that this is a consistent trend. 

The bottom line:  in any conflict of viewpoints, making one’s adversary stronger is the mark of a fool.    And this is the same team setting economic and defense policy.

Conservative Blog Post for October 14, 2009

Coping with a Bad Boss – The Voters Guide to the Obama Presidential Style

Literary works dedicated to helping citizens cope with common, everyday problems are usually found in the ‘Oprah Winfrey Recommends’ corner of the local bookstore.  However, authors Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster recently released a highly useful piece entitled “Working for You Isn’t Working for Me.”   Not only does the work provide insight into several types of business leadership characteristics, the descriptions nicely illustrate the current state of Obama Presidency – except that all of the ‘bad-boss’ characteristics all seem to be rolled into one.

Given the current state of the Presidency, the book allows several insights into how ‘bad bosses’ mismanage or manipulate their positions to the detriment of the organization.  The work also provides guidance as to how individual citizens might cope with and survive bad bosses as well as the Presidency of Barack Obama.

Americans look to their President as a leader – not as a ‘boss.’  That distinction seems to be lost on the current White House occupant.   The Founding Fathers envisioned a republic where the government was always relegated to the role of people’s servant with its powers strictly limited by the Constitution.  In fact the Second Amendment was included to guarantee that relationship.  However, Obama would certainly like to redefine which party is the boss and which is the employee. 

Obama certainly envisions himself as ‘the boss.’  With no offense to Bruce Springsteen, this boss intends to take over health care, ram through massive energy taxes and in the end, enslave the people to its government and to the liberals that run it.  It therefore bears careful analysis of the type of ‘boss’ the President actually is.  Below are five ‘bad boss’ types.  Evidence of each is readily visible in the workings of the Obama administration.

 “Control Freak” – Of course this suits Barack Obama perfectly.  That the Prez is a control freak was evident from the start.  On election night, the Chosen One didn’t even allow others on stage with him while he spoke to the excited crowd.  Cameras were compelled to focus on Him alone.  That is exactly as He wanted it.  And going back to the Democrat Convention in Denver, the gaudy Greek stage was designed to present the nominee as an Olympic god.  (Interestingly, the Olympic Site Selection Committee did not buy into those theatrics.)

Surviving the Control Freak usually involves two strategies; comic relief and an exit strategy.  Saturday Night Live led the way in finally examining this Presidency in tones that engender the laughter it deserves.  CNN was so humiliated that it undertook to ‘fact check’ the SNL sketch and only humiliated the network further.  Comedy is indeed the best medicine for surviving a control freak.

In addition to comic relief, an exit strategy is important as well.  Voters began employing the exit strategy at the last Obama Press Conference on the health care takeover – few people watched.    Voters have an additional tool that they will be employing soon enough though, and that is to impose an exit strategy on current office holders.  This will begin in earnest next autumn.

The “Tell all Boss” – This ‘boss’ type is one that needs a constant audience.  In looking back at the last Presidential campaign, this also fits Obama perfectly.  Obama and his VPL MA (Vice President with Limited Mental Ability) worked their way in front of every available camera.  Once the election was won, neither Obama nor Biden could figure out how to act without the cameras or a teleprompter.  Accordingly, they started calling press conferences – lots of them.  And they began to take high-profile trips – lots of them.  And at each campaign-style appearance, they held themselves – not their policies –out to be the center of attention.  As the press corps never asked any meaningful questions during the early stages of Obamamania, these were beautiful performances.

Coping skills for this ‘boss type’ also include the comedy and exit strategies, but also contain a more serious effort at trying to get some real information out of the leader.  Although NBC and CNN cannot be counted on to ask the President any difficult question, a few others are getting so bored with the same Obama adoration festivals that they are willing to risk their table at the Press Club Dinner by posing questions like ‘how in the world can the country pay for the Stimulus package?’  And, ‘don’t you think elected representatives should read proposed legislation prior to voting on it?’  (Alright, no one has the nerve to ask the Chosen One this second question, but it was a nice thought.)  In short, the DC Press Corps is showing signs life and seems to be growing tired of playing the role of Presidential lap dog.

The ‘Checked Out’ Boss – This type of leader couldn’t really care less about many important issues.  Granted, Obama cares a great deal about taking over the health care industry and in fact does care a great deal about his re-election prospects.  However, this President has adopted a unique ‘check out’ style regarding important international issues such as missile defense and Iran’s nuclear bomb development. 

Not wanting to provoke the Russians, Obama laid down under Putin’s demand that the US remove its missile shield from Eastern Europe.  The general feeling in the White House was ‘so what?’  So what if the Poles are put at risk?  What is it to Obama?  And what of Iran’s nuclear program?  The administration seems content to let the UN handle that one.  So what if Israel loses 80% of its population to a nuclear strike?  That would just be another opportunity to intervene and win another Nobel Prize.

Of course the obvious evidence that Obama is a ‘checked-out’ boss is when discussion of cost for his big government programs arises.    The ‘so what?’ answer emerges time and again along with ‘we had to do something’ whenever discussion of the Stimulus and the recession are attempted.  President Obama has never provided anything resembling sound economic justification for spending nearly a trillion dollars at a time when the dollar is heading for record low values and joblessness is outpacing even Team Obama’s expectations.  

The ‘Indecisive Boss’ displays an uncanny inability to make a decision – like deciding the future of the  Afghan War.   Crises only elevate this boss type’s inability to make a decision.  Dithering on the Afghan troop request for weeks now when there really are few other options reflects a President who doesn’t want to lose a war but doesn’t want to fight it either.  Locked in this internal battle of competing interests, Obama hosted meeting after meeting after meeting hoping for a glimmer of wisdom from an unknown source.  This ‘Dilbert’ method of management is growing comical as well.

Coping with an indecisive boss requires allowing one’s impatience to find a place to vent.  In Obama’s case, the national ‘venting’ may occur when the President decides to give a press conference on whatever His decision on prosecuting the Afghan War might turn out to be.  Ooop, wait… He will never give a press conference on this as it would require answering difficult questions without His teleprompter.  Voters’ impatience will find itself reflected in a growing chorus of demands from the few journalists in the press corps who want to provide meaningful information to their viewers and readers.

The “Rule Changer” boss orders modifications to existing policy at a whim and without concern for consistency.  Recalling the national outrage when it was revealed that AIG and Bank of America execs received outrageous bonuses paid for by taxpayer bailout funds, Obama gave a quickie press conference at which He called the practice despicable and announced His intent to put legislation in place to prevent it.  On His way back to the Oval Office, it was pointed out to the modern day political Einstein that the guys that got these bonuses were in fact big Democrat contributors.  No problem.  Team Obama then manufactured the argument that it would allow these bonuses to prevent a ‘brain drain’ on these companies just when they needed experienced executive leadership. 

Team Obama puts the Clintonista spin machine to shame primarily because it does not feel the need to justify its decisions.  Voters fortunately get to exercise their right to exit those in power for ones they believe will serve them better.  Unless Obama succeeds in changing the fundamental relationship between who is the employee and who is the ‘boss’ this should take place at every election between now and 2012.

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Conservative Blog post for October 12

Another News Flash – Obama’s Face to be added to Mount Rushmore!

National Parks Chief Ron Jarvis revealed over the weekend that the National Park Service – which oversees the Mount Rushmore National Memorial – that preparations are underway to carve the face of current President Barack Obama into the granite face of Mount Rushmore. 

“It doesn’t make any sense to put this off” said Jarvis, adding “if we start now, we can have the face engraving done on this massive scale by the time of our great President’s second inauguration.  That would be a fitting tribute to the greatest, kindest and most intelligent US chief executive in history.”

Problems have arisen though as part of the mountain may be unsuitable for the addition of another Presidential face.  Carving the Obama face to George Washington’s right may be the appropriate place, but would point Obama’s face well to the west of most viewing points.  Placing the 44th President’s face to the left of Abraham Lincoln might also work, but fissures and cracks in that part of the mount may make a clean, clear etching impossible.

“To overcome these difficulties,” Jarvis said, “we are making contingency plans to replace Teddy Roosevelt’s face with that of Barack Obama.  As Roosevelt represents an America that bullied its neighbors and as he hailed from a political party that repressed populations elsewhere in the world, replacing Roosevelt with Obama makes sense.  In effect, this would be an upgrade to the Mount Rushmore Memorial Park that would also upgrade America’s standing in the world. “

Jarvis also had some advice for the Roman Catholic Church.  “We see today that Pope Benedict has cannonized five more saints.  The church would be well advised to start the cannonization process for President Obama, seeing how it has fallen behind the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in heaping praise and adoration upon our President. “

Conservative Blog post – supplemental for October 9

The Obama administration this morning announced huge grants to the Jay Leno Show and to Saturday Night Live. The gift of an infinite supply of joke material was provided to America’s comedy institutions this morning following the absurd announcement that President Barack Hussein Obama had been named the Nobel Peace Prize winner in honor of… well… in honor of him not being George W. Bush.

Jokes should be forthcoming . Leno and SNL would not say whether they will accept the award of an infinite wealth of absurd humor material, but spokespersons said to tune in to find out.

Conervative Blog post for October 9

Doubling Down on the Stimulus

Congressional Democrats revealed Thursday that they possess some kind of unique political learning disability.  After the utter failure of the original Stimulus – even though some really cool airports were built for towns of 225 people, Congressional lefties are looking at the rapidly escalating unemployment rate in complete shock that their cherished raid on the nation’s financial future has not generated any new jobs.  So to compound the disaster and perhaps ensure a Republican sweep in 2010, Pelosi and company revealed Thursday that they were considering a second Stimulus bill.

Many of the usual lefties – Obama included – insist that the original Stimulus monstrosity has helped the economy.   This is similar to the constant repetition that the health care takeover will not result in rationing of health care.  The Dems seem to believe that repeating the same lie over and over again will somehow make it truth.     

The Stimulus though, has been a horrible failure.  We know it is a failure because the very people that put it together insisted that unemployment would reach a maximum of 8% if the thing wasn’t passed.  The Democrat Congress and a couple Republican traitors passed the bill thing pretty much as President Obama wanted it, so according to these wizards, unemployment should have held at 8%.  The net result of course was that the President and His advisors drove the unemployment rate nearly to 10% and it is still climbing.

Failing to learn this lesson, the lefties are now rooting around in the debris from the first Stimulus bill to see what might be resurrected for inclusion in a second massive government pork bill.  Keep in mind that these proposed new expenditures would be on top of the 1.4 trillion dollar federal deficit that was projected earlier this week.  

Democrats just do not learn.  And if they keep this up, they won’t be around for the concluding lesson.  Stimulus borrowing has already driven the dollar to its lowest value in a generation and the upcoming inflation from these outrageous deficits will in 2010, cause the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.  And that little action starts the snowball roll to economic Hell.  The Saudis and Chinese will begin demanding higher interest rates to purchase US debt instruments.  Business interest rates as well as consumer and mortgage rates will escalate beyond control.  The US will have to keep ahead of inflation with interest rate increases or see the asset value held by each American decrease very significantly – and ultimately the government would lose control of the economy altogether.   And the real kicker; increasing interest rates drives down consumption which drives unemployment up.  These are just fundamentals of Econ 101 that the lefties always fail.

How do we know this?  It has all happened before under the simple and economically ignorant James Earl Carter.  (We shouldn’t refer to Carter as a peanut farmer any more.  It turns out that he was as good at goober farming as he was at dealing with Iran).   The wizards that Obama has brought in to sail the economic ship – the same folks that predicted unemployment would reach 8% if we didn’t pass the first Stimulus Bill – are now considering a second Stimulus.

In an interesting twist to all this, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers need to hear from economists before settling on a package. “What is it that we can afford? What works the fastest?” Pelosi said Thursday.  It hasn’t occurred to the Speaker or the President that the federal government has no money.  In fact no government has money that it first doesn’t extort from taxpayers.  It was unclear which economists Pelosi would like to hear from, but given her listening skills, it wouldn’t be a productive session.   The Speaker will spend whatever she wants without regard to the debt load heaped on future generations.

Conservatives should be emboldened by all this.  Conservatives also need to figure out a way to fight more effectively.  The Maine Girls (Snowe and Collins) along with Arlen – ‘give me a home’ Specter, sold out the country and conservatism by agreeing to the first Stimulus.   It will be very interesting to see who supports this second round.  And it will also be interesting to see what questions are asked of the President’s economic team should they crawl out of the White House basement to answer questions on Capitol Hill.  Conservatives should buy tickets to this.

And especially if Senator Snowe sells out conservatives and seniors by supporting the health care takeover, there will be a major political bloodletting within the GOP as well.  Party Chair Michael Steele already told the GOP leadership in Washington how difficult it would be to raise money for Republican Senatorial and Congressional funds when Snowe and Collins sell out their conservative GOP partners.  The old GOP guard didn’t like the message, but at least understood it.  No backbone for conservative issues, no money.  No money, no campaign success. 

The Democrats on the other hand, have no clue about either history or economics.  Jimmy Carter ruined the economy using the same spending and borrowing policies as Obama and at least succeeded in igniting the Reagan Revolution. 

Obama is Jimmy Carter on steroids though.   The next Reagan could be King Kong. 

Conservative Blog post for October 8

Transparently Foolish

The Obama administration has no problem ‘calling out’ people that it doesn’t agree with.  Remaining true to its south Chicago roots, Team Obama is not above sending surrogates to assassinate the character of those that oppose the health care takeover, cap and trade or other liberal objectives.  Unfortunately, the lefties are so thin-skinned that they couldn’t take a Saturday Night Live parody about Obama’s lack of accomplishment.  For each of the supposed failures, conservatives breathed a sigh of relief.

Obama entered the Presidency with a promise to change the direction of the Country.  The problem is that the country doesn’t want to go there.  The President’s team can’t seem to figure out why – after a significant election victory – the public has so quickly turned against them.  Obama has experienced the fastest drop in approval in a generation.  The smarter members of Team Obama are not trying to figure out why, but are trying to come up with a way to stop the skid.

Returning to the south Chicago methodology, the smarter politicos on Team Obama have determined that the best way to end the President’s skid is to stop telling people what their elected President is actually doing.  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is particularly gifted at this, usually talking for an hour each day or more without saying anything meaningful.  This is usually enough for CNN as they can’t seem to process information flow in a way that can be effectively communicated to its viewers.  Accordingly, that network relies on emotionalisms and school kids singing the praises of the Obama Health Care Takeover live on set. 

Restricting information flow – long a tactic of tyrannical dictatorships and leftist butchers – now seems to be the standard MO for Team Obama though.  If all networks were as obedient as CNN and there were no Conservative Blog types, all would be rosy because no one would ask any tough questions.   The challenge for the Obama White House is then to try and stifle Conservative Blog operators who seem to be the only ones capable of performing anything resembling investigative journalism or logical critique.

Candidate Obama promised journalists that He would operate the most transparent administration ever.  CNN swooned, thinking that they might finally have access to the President whenever they wanted.  MSNBC cheered, believing that a President might actually give them information they were capable of understanding.  Initially, Obama met those expectations.  Being honest about socializing medicine and buying off special interest groups with taxpayer funds via the Stimulus package caused his poll numbers to fall off the cliff.

The President’s promise of transparency has morphed into a fatherly admonition similar to stating that the kids really don’t need to see what is in the liquor cabinet or understand why dad gets home late on Tuesdays.   In short, an Iron Curtain has fallen over information about the President and His policies.  Obama aides now insist that the public wouldn’t understand such technical issues as how best to ruin American health care or jack up the costs for home heating oil for senior citizens.   

Fortunately, Conservative Blog operators have figured out ways to peek under this Iron Curtain.  And what they’ve seen reveals the President’s transparently foolish and inept management of several key issues, including:

 Unemployment – Growing the jobs base requires the availability of reasonably priced capital.  Obama has personally driven up the unemployment rate with the Stimulus and budget spending.  The feds now have to compete with business and industry on the world financial markets for capital.  Capital that once went to support free enterprise at market prices now goes to fund federal government projects such as building a $14 million dollar airport in an Alaskan town with 225 people.  This drives up the cost of capital and drives down industry consumption, orders and ultimately employment. 

Inflation – Team Obama doesn’t see any real correlation between government spending and inflation.  Geithner paid some lip service to inflation a month ago, but hasn’t made a peep about it since after being hauled behind that curtain and scolded.  Inflation is the cruelest tax of all, since those impacted most are low and lower middle class Americans who can’t buttress their finances against rising costs – particularly for consumable necessities like food and fuel.  As Obama prints more money for His spending, the value of what each American earns and owns decreases.  If one is lucky enough to still have a job, those wages are worth less and less.  Look for this to be a huge problem in 2010.

Stimulus – Building airports in Alaska may be fine, but where did most of this money go?  Don’t know? The lunatics that voted for it don’t know either.  That is because none of ‘em read the danged bill before approving it.  Believing the American public too simple or stupid to understand, the lefties – with a couple notable GOP traitors – passed it without reading it.

Budget – It doesn’t appear that anyone read this either.  And with all the Democrat bluster about waste, they can’t seem to find any to cut. 

Cap and Trade – This seemed like such a great idea before people started thinking about it.  And that is exactly what Team Obama wants to prevent.  Jacking up the heating costs for folks on fixed income is a troublesome matter.  Team Obama understands that Cap and Trade will elevate costs.  The surprise to the country is that He is okay with it.

Card Check – Fortunately, this initiative has been exiled to the back burner.  During the health care takeover debate, several purple shirted SEIU thugs tried their best to intimidate opponents.  They even beat up a few of them.  This makes the argument that voting for union membership should be done in public and not in a private vote a little more difficult to make. 

Health Care – Oh what can be said about this except for not many of the folks supporting it have actually read it.  Seniors that oppose it have read the proposed legislation though and it caused them to get out of the LaZboy and head to the town hall meetings. Pelosi responded by calling Granny and Gramps ‘Nazi’s’ but that hasn’t helped.  And the illusion that there is half a trillion dollars of waste in Medicare begs the question “why isn’t Obama cutting that waste right now regardless of whether or not there is a health care takeover bill on the table?”   George Bush actually had a proposal to make Medicare submit its procurement to open bidding to drive down costs, but – you guessed it – Democrats killed it in 2006.  There won’t be a dime of Medicare savings in any health care takeover – except by arbitrarily reducing the amount of funding provided to physicians for certain treatments. 

Global Warming – School districts in Idaho had the earliest school closure day in its history due to snow on Wednesday.  Also on Wednesday, a ski area in Colorado celebrated the earliest opening of a ski area in the continental US.  Global warming is a tough case to make when things are getting cooler.  The earth has in fact experienced a general cooling since 1996 – apparently owing to a relatively low level of sun spot activity.   That global temperatures are primarily influenced by the sun has taken many Democrats by surprise. 

Conservative Blog post for October 7

Washington Box Office Flops

It was reported this week that Hollywood is finally reacting to the economic downturn and is expected to drastically reduce its collective costs and overhead for future releases.  The request for a bailout has not been made public yet.  Maybe Tom Cruise will finally be laid off too.  Although quick to blame the economy for most of the missed revenue expectations, Hollywood would do well to look at the actual product they are producing.  It would seem that Hollywood expected Americans to pay a lot of money for junk. 

Heads are expected to roll out of the So Cal executive suites this week as punishment for decisions such as putting out two horrible films; Funny People with Adam Sandler, and Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell.  These films collectively cost some $170 Million to make and grossed but a small share of that figure in sales.  This must be why Hollywood is so qualified to offer advice to our elected leaders.   If Congress and the President made decisions like these, the nation would soon be headed for bankruptcy.  Of course… the country is headed exactly there.

It is interesting how Hollywood and Washington DC have merged their methodologies.  DC politicians have adopted the Hollywood belief that a good performance makes up for terrible policy.  DC liberals have extended their belief that a dramatic display of concern can override the laws of economics.    In the end the main characters in DC and Hollywood discover that efforts to change others’ behavior always carry unforeseen negative consequences.  In the Democrats’ case, these consequences will be felt in November of 2010.

Hollywood invests heavily in films that offer performances by big name stars.   Washington also wants its big name stars to carry the flag for things like the health care takeover.  Big names though don’t necessarily mean success.  And as Obama Himself discovered, even His great oratory cannot repeal the fundamental law of supply and demand.  Hollywood paid Sandler and Ferrell handsome sums prior to making Funny People and Land of the Lost.  The investors lost big money and the execs that made the bad decisions are going to walk the plank.  In Washington, the plank stroll takes place next year. 

Funny People and Land of the Lost do have several similarities to the way Washington is now handling key issues:

Funny People and the health care takeover.  The central storyline of the Hollywood picture surrounds a comic who is diagnosed with an incurable disease of some sort.  This causes him to change his life, take some chances and of course learn some things before bucket time.   No matter how one tries though, death just cannot be made very funny – unless it is Osama Bin Laden bungee jumping with a cord that is greater than the height of the bridge he swan dives off of.

In the Washington storyline, the insensitive reference to death reflects Team Obama’s willingness to restrict or control life extending treatments for Senior citizens in the interest of saving money.  Saving money is in itself a laughable storyline conflict, because government in general and Democrats in particular never, ever are willing to take action to save a dime on anything.  So changing liberal behavior is an irrational and illogical part of the DC storyline.

To save the story, President Obama invests himself in persuading senior citizens – who interestingly have read the proposed legislation that Obama wants.   Seniors, falling back on their wealth of life-experience, have seen snake oil salesmen before and are generally smart enough to have the offender tarred and feathered.  The Washington/Hollywood response has been to roll out the biggest name star in the arsenal – Barack Obama Himself – to bring people to the show and separate them from their money. 

Team Obama insists of course that there will be no rationing of health care – even though it occurs in every nation on earth that has tried this kind of medical delivery system.  Pelosi, Reid and company believe in themselves so much that fundamental economics escapes them.  They appear to be the evil characters in the film and they fully understand what takeover of the health care industry will look like – and they like it.  Pelosi and Reid in fact don’t want to release the story until after the damage is done; they are actively opposing a bill that would require posting the health care legislation on line prior to voting.   

The Obama persuasion methodology has simply been to repeat the same old lines over and over and to appear again and again at press conferences, speeches and a White House remake of Dr. Kildare.  No matter how hard He tries, He just isn’t funny.  The story isn’t logical.  And besides, the public is tired of disaster films – especially when they are in ‘em.

Land of the Lost – Lost in Foreign Policy.  This is almost too easy.  Will Ferrell is a washed up, has-been scientist that somehow gets sucked through a ‘way back’ machine to land in an alternate universe.  Obama thinks He lives in an alternative universe where adoration for Him personally will make all His leftist dreams come true.  While the Hollywood film has Ferrell and company fighting for their lives, Team Obama will be fighting for their political futures soon enough.  They will be looking for their own ‘way back’ machine to take them back to the era when the press never asked any challenging questions and Saturday Night Live only made fun of the GOP VP candidate.

Like Ferrell being unprepared for his trip into prehistory, the Obama administration was completely incapable of reading the mood of the country – even after the election.   An overwhelming Democrat majority in both houses, the reasoning went, should enable Obama to radically transform the country in the first 100 days.   Obama did run up the country’s credit cards far beyond our reasonable ability to pay, but other than that, most other initiatives have thankfully stalled. 

Most of Obama’s troubles can be traced to the fact that He has never had a job where He had to produce any tangible result.  Accordingly He doesn’t know how to manage others to do the same.  The greatest asset that most in Team Obama contribute is the ability to complain and demonize conservatives.  This makes the Chosen One a perfect Hollywood resident.  Most actors couldn’t hold a real job if their lives depended on it.

Obama is just plain lost.  Dithering on Afghanistan – looking for a way to fight the war He promised to competently lead and win and at the same time appeasing His leftist base by pulling out.  This is an impossible storyline and one side or the other is going to lose.  That is why Obama keeps putting off any decision.   Don’t’ look for any decision on Afghanistan until the health care debate is settled.

Compounding the intrigue, it was also reported today that Team Obama is considering firing White House Counsel Greg Craig for botching the closing of Guantanamo Prison.  Even though Obama Himself believed that Guantanamo was the source of distain for America, He was utterly unprepared to actually close it down.   Again, this is where some real job experience would have helped.  The Great Leader would have understood that these decisions have to be executed and that before one makes a drastic decision, it is wise to have some kind of plan.

In keeping with His Hollywood theme, the President made a big theatrical production out of signing the closure order on day one of His presidency.  One problem – no one had any idea what to do with the trained killers locked up there.  And surprise of surprises – even Nancy Pelosi didn’t want any of them near her district.    So… getting the storyline to reconcile with reality requires the firing of Mr. Craig.   This story isn’t over though.   It is completely unfair to punish the attorney (even if he is an attorney) for the Chosen One’s horrible decision. 

All Hollywood lefties are incredibly egocentric.  Like Obama telling the UN that since He was inaugurated, America is now a good place.  When Obama told the Olympic Selection Committee that holding the Olympics in Chicago would help America rebuild its image abroad – ostensibly because the nation had essentially been evil prior to his election – the Olympic Committee headed for the exit and demanded a refund.  By bouncing Chicago in the first round of the selection process, the Olympic Selection Committee walked out on the film. 

US voters are going to walk out on this disaster picture in 2010.