What do John Boehner and Barack Obama have in common?

What do John Boehner and Barack Obama have in common?

They are both really lousy leaders.   Boehner’s leadership of the budget battle can be compared to Obama’s leadership of the Libyan fiasco.  It is pointless, clueless and without a goal or strategy.

Obama’s primary goal, now that he has started this war is to abdicate leadership as quickly as possible.  Boehner’s primary goal seems to be to avoiding any meaningful changes in the budget and doing so as quickly as possible.

Does anyone in Washington understand the concept of being a leader?   Of course, Obama does not.  He is the professor (except he was never a professor).  He has no clue.   Boehner should at least have a clue.  He ran a business before being elected to Congress.  But that was twenty years ago.  He seems to have forgotten.

With no leadership in Washington, I have come to two conclusions.  First, we need to shut the government down.   I had hoped the Republican leadership in the House would come to its senses and push for realistic budget cuts.  I want to see $1.65 trillion in budget cuts.  We are rapidly hitting insolvency.  I would certainly be willing to compromise on say $800 billion in budget cuts this year.  But when the high figure for budget cuts this year is $61 billion and the more realistic figure is $25-35 billion, which in the face of a $1.65 trillion dollar deficit is a joke.

The fact that John Boehner will not stand firm for serious budget cuts in the face of this drastic situation tells me he is clueless.  He could not find his head if he were searching for it with both hands, standing in front of a mirror.

My second conclusion is that we have absolutely no choice but to reject any attempt to raise the debt ceiling.   The debt is now at 100% of our gross domestic product.  Personally, I think this is a huge psychological figure.  Either we stop here or we will never stop.  If the debt ceiling is raised now, we will simply blow past the 100% debt mark and Congress will keep spending money will all the furor of Paris Hilton on a shopping spree.

The last time we raised the debt ceiling was in February of 2010.   The ceiling went up and spending did not go down. We keep hearing it will be the end of the world as we know it, if we do not raise the debt ceiling.  This is from the same bunch of clowns who gave us record debt.  This is from people like Tim Geithner who cannot even operate the Turbotax software program. 

We the people spoke in the last election.  It is time to speak again.  We need to be calling, faxing, email, and twittering our leaders. Stop the spending.  Let the government shut down.  The left has a lot more to lose from this than Americans do.  Tell them; do not raise the debt limit.   Allowing Congress to be able to borrow more money is about as bright as giving an alcoholic a room full of booze and the keys to a high performance auto.

It is time to tell Congress, stop spending and cut up the credit cards.  We are watching and if you are not serious, the elections are only eighteen months away.  We will remember and we will fire you.

Iowa Emergency Drill–draws outrage

An emergency drill set to take place in an Iowa school Saturday is drawing outrage after organizers revealed the mock scenario involves an “anti-immigration” pro-gun student shooting dozens of students in a racially-motivated shooting spree.

Convervatism–Not Winning

 

Foxnews.com called me yesterday and asked if I still felt the same way about John Boehner.   I told them not only was Charlie Sheen making more sense than John Boehner, at least Charlie Sheen is winning.

It isn’t just Boehner that is not winning.  The Tea Party is not winning, and if the Tea Party is not winning, that means America is not winning.

Only five months after our electoral triumph, conservatism is not advancing, which means our movement is not winning.

Do we need proof?  Look at the budget.  After a promise to cut $100 billion from this year’s budget, the House only passed a budget that cut $61 billion and now when it goes to the Senate and the final version comes out, it looks like there will only be cuts of between $25 to $35 billion.   That isn’t a cut, that is a joke.  Despite the promise to defund Obamacare, nothing is being done to stop Obamacare.  The James O’Keefe videos gave conservatives the ammunition to defund NPR and PBS.  That is not happening.  Defunding Planned Parenthood has huge support.   That is not happening either.

Boehner claims his hands are tied and there is nothing he can do. In other words, its perfectly okay for Reid to say, “We won’t pass anything that defunds Obamacare, Planned Parenthood and NPR,” yet Boehner is unable to (or won’t) say, “You either cut $100 billion from the budget or we won’t pass anything and the government will shut down.”  Instead of backdoor cocktail party wheeling and dealing, Boehner should be out on the steps of the Capitol telling the American people exactly what the Democrats are up to and ask for their help.

Congress will soon deal with the issue of the debt ceiling.   By April, our national debt will equal 100% of our gross domestic product. In plain English, we owe an amount equal to what America makes in an entire year.  There is every indication that congress will simply ignore this horrifying number, raise the debt ceiling and let us slide even further into debt.

The obvious answer is to stop spending.  Unfortunately the answers that are being discussed in Washington do not involve cutting spending.   The Congressional Budget Office has just come out with a proposal suggesting that we should be taxed for every mile we drive.   The CBO is complaining that because people are going to more fuel-efficient cars, gas taxes are down.  Instead of cutting wasteful spending, the CBO is proposing that there be a mandate that technology be installed in every car that would measure the number of miles driven and the government would tax you based on that.  How would you measure the miles driven?   With GPS of course.  Big brother would be watching and charging you for every mile you drive.

Speaking of waste, it has been a month since the General Accounting Office released a report on waste and inefficiency in government.  According to the GAO report, hundreds of billions of dollars could be saved by eliminating programs that are inefficient or are duplicative.    Republican Senators and Congressmen should have been wrestling with each other to see who would be the first to get in to introduce legislation to eliminate these programs.

To date, nothing.

Perhaps it is asking too much for those who eagerly sought our support in the election to now do what they promised to do.

It is a time honored GOP tradition for Republican elected officials to come home, talk a great game, yet when they go back to Washington, they conveniently forget what they told the folks at home.  The Tea Party rose up to say we are not tolerating business as usual.  Unfortunately, John Boehner has not gotten that message.   The question is, are we going to get the message they are not listening and not paying attention.  And if we do, what are we going to do about it?

Fed’s waste more of YOUR money

Feds to spend $461 million to speed up 3 hour train trip by 13 minutes
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WBTV reports:
North Carolina transportation officials say they've reached an agreement that will allow them to obtain $461 million in federal grants to improve train service.
The agreement will allow faster and more frequent passenger service between Charlotte and Raleigh. State transportation secretary Gene Conti says the agency will seek bids for contracts for tracks, bridges and trains.
Officials say the new service would cut travel time from Charlotte to Raleigh to less than three hours, even with seven stops along the way. However, the ride will only be 13 minutes faster.

Illegals with criminal records arrested in Virginia

Need to Know

March 24, 2011

Over 130 illegals with criminal records arrested in Virginia
Posted by Staff

The Washington Post reports:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say more than 130 illegal immigrants have been arrested in northern Virginia as part of a recent enforcement effort targeting criminal aliens.
ICE and other law enforcement officials announced the arrests Wednesday morning in Manassas, where local authorities have complained that the federal government is not doing enough to remove and deport illegal immigrants.
Officials say they arrested 163 foreign nationals from Sunday to Tuesday, including roughly 130 with criminal records. They say the enforcement effort focused almost exclusively on illegal immigrants with criminal records, including people convicted of sex offenses.

03/24/11 4:07 AM

Lessons from Napoleon : listen up Republicans

Lessons from Napoleon

• Posted by Judson Phillips on March 24, 2011 at 7:06am in Tea Party Nation Forum

Napoleon is attributed with making the famed comment; when your enemy is destroying himself, don’t get in the way.

That is a lesson the GOP has never learned and most Republicans in congress seem genetically incapable of learning.

Obama has made a huge mistake with his Libyan adventure.  Liberals and Conservatives are skewering him for it.   Obama is on the ropes over this one and his entire Middle East policy seems to have no purpose other than turning the Arab countries into one massive Islamist state.

Obama needed something to get the GOP to start self-destructing again and get them fighting each other instead of him, so he tossed out the one card guaranteed to do that.

Amnesty

Speaking in El Salvador, on his way back to America, he called on the GOP to join him in enacting Amnesty.

Obama understands the GOP very well.  The GOP is probably the only organization in the world that has surrendered more than the French Army.   The GOP is more ADD than I am and has a singular inability to stay on message.  Finally, the GOP is much like my dog.  If I pull out a treat, I don’t care what else is going on, that dog is there for the treat.   Obama knows all he has to do is bring up amnesty and the RINOs are going to start slobbering all over the place for it.  The GOP will surrender its values and this will reignite a civil war in the Republican Party.

Obama takes the typical liberal racist view that all Hispanics are pro illegal immigration.  Obama believes that just because people are Hispanic, they have only one point of view and that point of view is determined by the color of their skin.  Unfortunately, the GOP falls into that same trap.  The simple truth is not all Hispanics are for illegal immigration.   There are some that are.  There are a lot that are not.  Amnesty will have a huge cost, not only in money but also in political upheaval in this country.

The GOP lacks the singular ability to stay on message.  Michele Bachmann is one of the few members of the GOP who knows how to tenaciously stay on message.  This is something the Republicans should learn.  Her interview with David Gregory a few weeks ago on Meet the Press is a classic example of how to stay on message.

Bachmann’s message has been simple.  No continuing resolution without cutting $105 billion for Obamacare.

The GOP had a great chance to stay on message and not only defeat Obama in a landslide of epic proportions, but they could have had the opportunity to establish the GOP as the dominant party for the next twenty years.   The messaging is simple.  Obama is bankrupting us and we are going to cut the budget, balance the budget and save the country from financial collapse and national insolvency.

Unfortunately for America, the GOP is doing its best French Army imitation and is reverting back to its norm of unilateral surrender and forsaking victory at all costs.

Two hundred years ago, Napoleon led the French Army across Europe.  He was a great general and when he was leading the French Army, they did not surrender.

The Republicans have some very talented conservatives.  The problem is, they are not the ones leading the party. 

Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science

March 23, 2011

Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science
by Ann Coulter

In response to my column last week about hormesis -- the theory that some radiation can be beneficial to humans -- liberals reacted with their usual open-minded examination of the facts.

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According to Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, MSNBC's Ed Schultz devoted an entire segment to denouncing me. He called me toxic, accused me of spreading misinformation and said I didn't care about science.

One thing Schultz did not do, however, was cite a single physicist or scientific study.

I cited three physicists by name as well as four studies supporting hormesis in my column. For the benefit of liberals scared of science, I even cited The New York Times.

It tells you something that the most powerful repudiation of hormesis Schultz could produce was the fact that a series of government agencies have concluded -- I quote -- that "insufficient human data on hormesis exists."

Federal Government Watching You !

The federal government is now policing your Facebook page
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Education Department officials are threatening school principals with lawsuits if they fail to monitor and curb students’ lunchtime chat and evening Facebook time for expressing ideas and words that are deemed by Washington special-interest groups to be harassment of some students.
There has only been muted opposition to this far-reaching policy among the professionals and advocates in the education sector, most of whom are heavily reliant on funding and support from top-level education officials. The normally government-averse tech-sector is also playing along, and on Mar. 11, Facebook declared that it was “thrilled” to work with White House officials to foster government oversight of teens’ online activities.
The only formal opposition has come from the National School Board Association, which declined to be interviewed by The DC.

Sexist attacks on Sarah Palin: It’s okay if you are a liberal

Posted by Judson Phillips on March 22, 2011 at 7:16pm in Tea Party Nation Forum

 

Bill Maher, who is allegedly a comedian, recently made a very tasteless, sexist comment directed towards Sarah Palin.

The silence from the left was deafening.  Had the speaker been a conservative, the firestorm would have been immediate and intense.   The left would have demanded the conservative apologize, lose their job, attend sensitivity training and come out in favor of everything on the loony feminist agenda.

From NOW, at first silence.  Then they finally said they would denounce Maher for what he said but then said, “we are on to you, you right wingers.”

Where does someone start with this?  Maher is a talentless hack. If he were not a liberal, no one would even pay attention to him.  Of course, for NOW, it is the seventh circle of hell that they have to step out and defend Sarah Palin.  Maher is a part of the liberal establishment so he is able to get away with such stupid and offensive comments.

Double standards are mandatory for liberals.  They do not want to defend Sarah Palin.  After all, she is everything they are not.  She is talented, intelligent, worked her way up using her own brains and talent and does not look like a reject from a Texas cattle stockyard.

Of course, NOW is nothing more than an arm of the liberal establishment.  They only came out in defense of Sarah Palin because they had to.  Conservatives called them on this.  Conservatives followed Alinsky’s playbook, making liberals live up to their own ideals.

Watching NOW, or as Rush Limbaugh likes to call them, the NAGs, National Association of Gals, go through contortions to make sure they were not to hard on a liberal was really amusing.   They had to make sure in their comments they were not endorsing Palin.  I can almost imagine the writer of the press release holding it out at arm’s length so that none of the Palin germs got anywhere near her.

NOW has a long and disgusting record of double standards.  They ignored Jerry Brown’s staffer calling Meg Whitman a “whore” last year during the California Governor’s race.  Sexist remarks against conservative women get a pass as long as the speaker is a liberal.  NOW will not even stand up against allegations of sexual assault, as long as the alleged perpetrator is a liberal. When Juanita Broderick claimed Bill Clinton raped her and had some credible evidence to back up the claim, NOW was silent.  When Anita Hill made extremely weak charges of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas, NOW was all over them.  There were demands that Thomas withdraw his nomination, all because he was a conservative.  Had he been a liberal and supported abortion, he could have been a serial rapist for all they would have cared.

It is hard to take NOW seriously any more.  They are truly a joke.  The good news is there is a wave of conservative women led by Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann who do not need to hide behind such a fringe group and who really put theories of equality into practice.

Meanwhile, NOW becomes little more than the punch line on a joke told by a talentless comedian.

Obama–What Me Worry?

What in hell is he doing?

And does he freakin' know?

With Japan staggered by a natural disaster and a nuclear crisis, cruise missiles launched against Libya in our third Middle East conflict and a majority of U.S. senators complaining about a lack of leadership on the budget, President Obama decided it would be a good time to schmooze with Brazilians.

His "What, me worry?" presidency has given both Americans and our allies plenty to worry about. But in the process of making nice with Brazil, Obama made a mind-boggling announcement that should make even his most loyal supporter cringe:

We will help Brazil develop its offshore oil so we can one day import it.

We have noted this double standard before, particularly when — at a time when the president was railing against tax incentives for U.S. oil companies — we supported the U.S. Export-Import Bank's plan to lend $2 billion to Brazil's state-run Petrobras with the promise of more to follow.

Now, with a seven-year offshore drilling ban in effect off of both coasts, on Alaska's continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico — and a de facto moratorium covering the rest — Obama tells the Brazilians:

"We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers."

Obama wants to develop Brazilian offshore oil to help the Brazilian economy create jobs for Brazilian workers while Americans are left unemployed in the face of skyrocketing energy prices by an administration that despises fossil fuels as a threat to the environment and wants to increase our dependency on foreign oil.

I can't wait to hear Obama's defenders defend this one.

Stand by for sheer idiocy.