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Obama’s War

Published at February 22, 2009 in War On Terror. 0 Comments

Obama is like a relief pitcher in the bottom of the ninth, with a one run lead and the home team at bat. He can save the game or lose it but he can’t win it. To quote one predecessor, ol’ Number 37, “Let me make one thing perfectly clear”. Unless he makes a mistake and blows the lead, Iraq has been won and he can’t pin anything but credit on President George W. Bush.

Afghanistan is a different story. ‘Bama is being suckered into his own Vietnam as he readies to commit another 17,000 ground troops to a pointless, unwinnable war. No outside power has ever been victorious there in more than 5,000 years of history, including the former Soviet Union during its prime.

The barren, mountainous terrain ranks among the most forbidding in the world and only those who know its intricacies can prevail. There is no strategic military value in Afghanistan, only the political pursuit of a 9/11 vendetta against Osama Bin Laden, whose single greatest role now lies in being an effective decoy. We’ve been successful at hitting high value terrorist targets near the Pakistan-Afghan border from the air but as the Taliban withdraw deeper toward the interior of the country, following them with additional ground troops becomes increasingly suicidal.

Our bravest of the brave will be needed elsewhere in the coming months as we address more threatening situations in The War On Terror. If “H” believes he can simply talk his way around the growing Iranian threat, he is dangerously mistaken. If our own Congress can ‘roll’ him so easily, as they did with the giant Porculus bill, he’ll be putty in the hands of Middle-Eastern thugs who already see him as a weak leader. Mohammed is their ‘Messiah’, not Obama!

Existing military personnel are already spread thinly across the globe and I, for one, am not ready to see the draft reinstated. With 35 active terrorist training camps operating right here in America, perhaps we should be addressing internal security first — before we go rock climbing in an impossible place halfway around the world. I like being safe at home.

Number 44 has taken the mound and he is nervously looking for the right grip on the horsehide. Does he have a fastball that can nibble at the corners or will he dangle a hanging curve over the center of the plate? We have yet to discover whether or not he has any real stuff. Geez — I hope it’s hidden in there somewhere!

R.S.F.

Vanilla, Chocolate or Rocky Road

Published at February 17, 2009 in Stuff. 0 Comments

Obama is about ice cream. All along, I’ve been wondering what it was that motivated people to give him a pass on everything from a lack of experience to consorting with thugs. A teacher in the Nashville area finally figured it out after observing the behavior of her students. Silly me — while I was busy focusing on ‘the cow’, I should have been thinking about the cream!

Back when the national election was heating up some of the kids in her third grade class showed a real interest in politics, so she decided to have an election for class president. Little did she know who would actually learn the civics lesson.

To keep it simple class members would choose their candidates, who would then make a campaign speech, and the class would vote. They discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have and several nominations were offered. From those nominated, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids, although Jamie might have had an advantage because of strong parental support. Olivia remained an unknown quantity. The day finally arrived when they were to make their speeches and Jamie went first.

He had several specific ideas about how to make their class a better place and enumerated them in detail. He closed by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded. Jamie sat down and Olivia came to the podium.

Her speech was concise. All she said was, “If you vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down. The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.” She surely could have said more but she didn’t have to.

A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn’t know. The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice cream. Jamie was forgotten and Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds — they wanted ice cream. Meanwhile, the other forty-eight percent of us are now going to have to feed ‘the cow’ and clean up the mess.

Maybe the multi-trillion dollar spending bill only looks like pork; maybe it’s really another dairy product. Anybody have a shovel?

R.S.F.

Now Amerika!

Published at February 14, 2009 in Domestic Politics and The Economy. 0 Comments

Yesterday the House and Senate each passed the huge $1.2 trillion ‘Porkasbord’. If there’s a bright side to any of this, it’s that House Republicans seem to have rediscovered their core values and stood solidly against the non-stimulus measure, even though their meager numbers were predictably outvoted 246-183. The Senate tally was 60-38 with three traitorous RINOs voting with the Amerikan Socialist Party.

Twice, Arlen Specter [of Pennsylvania], Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins [both of Maine] had a chance to stop this giant obscenity in its tracks, sending it back to the drawing board for a realistic rewrite. Twice, with their votes for the original Senate bill and last night voting for the revised House version, all three stood with their backs firmly turned against their country, their party and the vast majority of the American people.

To have drafted the final bill without permitting Republican input was irresponsible; to have voted on it before anyone had a chance to read it was unconscionable; to ignore the will of the people, begin changing our system of government into something alien to The Founders and mortgage the fortunes and liberty of future generations simply defies description! From what anyone actually knows about the ‘Porkasbord’, there is little stimulus in it for the economy but plenty of payback for special interests and funding for growing government.

You expect destructive behavior from demagogues like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank or ‘Bama himself: they’re flagrantly far-Left, arrogantly radical and plainly incompetent. It is fools like Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, who continue to confound by declaring themselves as Republicans but vote, more often than not, with the Socialists. Their punishment is mandatory; voting out of office is too good for such un-American behavior but it’s all we have in what, at least for the time being, is still a democracy.

There is no comfort in knowing that this spending legislation, and that which follows, is doomed to failure or that it’s failure falls squarely upon the shoulders of the former Democrat Party. Historically, spending in a down economy has never worked — on the other hand tax cuts have never failed but the dark forces crafting this boondoggle managed to remove what few actual tax cuts there were.

There is no comfort because, even more important than the cost of this measure in dollars and cents, is the cost in liberty. So distracting is the financial aspect of the ‘Porkasbord’ that most people have overlooked where their money is going and what it is doing. As well as the single greatest transfer of wealth in history from the private sector to government, it is also the single greatest transfer in history of freedom from the individual to the state. The Constitution has been cast aside and we are now entering an era of government without limits — huge, unrestrained and tyrannical. Nowhere does the Constitution authorize this kind of spending, mandates about to be imposed upon the private sector, or restrictions placed upon the individual. Rather, the Constitution was designed to restrict government and protect against exactly the kind of abuses occurring right now.

Thank you Mr. Specter, thank you Ms. Snowe, thank you Ms. Collins for selling out the free Republic of America and helping to reverse more than 200 years of sacrifice and hard-won liberty. Thanks to you and your Stalinist comrades, God-given rights are fast becoming government-granted privileges and “Government of the people, by the people and for the people” which “shall not perish from the earth” — just did!

R.S.F.

Winners And Losers

Published at February 9, 2009 in General Commentary. 0 Comments

Throughout my misspent youth, I was taught not to be a sore loser — in fact, I was taught how to be a graceful winner. So, how come the Democrats are such sore winners? They’ve invented a whole new category!

Ever since Al Gore stuck out his lower lip and pouted like a five year old when he couldn’t steal the presidential election of 2000, the lemmings on the Left have been whining about one thing or another, even during the most robust economy in our nation’s history.

This time they got what they’ve wanted — ‘Bama has managed to combine the skulduggery of groups like Acorn, and suspicious contributions from other unsavory sources, with a seemingly mass hypnosis to secure an election victory. Now there’s the giant porkulus bill on the table, and “H” is going to get his way with that, too. Even so, he’s stamping his foot in frustration and reminding people that, “I won so you have to do it my way!” Three weeks in office and he’s already becoming impatient with the speed of passage for his trillion dollar Socialist obscenity.

Personally, I’d like to treat him like any other playground brat, pick up my marbles and go home. The problem is, he’s setting in motion the process to steal all our marbles with the greatest transfer of wealth in history, from the private sector to what is becoming our new Marxist government at the speed of light.

He is throwing a tantrum because he never encountered resistance before. Since he has never really worked or accomplished anything of significance, he is not practiced at either winning or losing. “H”’s entry level position into the work force is the presidency of the most powerful country on earth!

Now ‘Bama is discovering that if you try to walk on water, you can get you feet wet. There are the usual procedural questions which have been raised about legislation since the days of George Washington, but it’s all new to the neophyte. Shock is beginning to set in that there is more to the game than just winning it — there’s actual governing. A leader must learn to lead not just talk about it. In all this time, I don’t believe he ever thought about what happens after the campaign.

He had better grasp that concept pretty quickly, because right now Madam Pelosi and Little Harry Reid are playing him like a couple of hookers rolling a drunk in a cheap motel room. If congress can have its way with him so easily, and “H” can’t even stand up to his own party, what is going to happen when he faces off with world leaders and terrorists; when all his rhetoric, with or without tele-prompters, now begins to fall upon deaf ears because our enemies don’t recognize that he’s “The Messiah”? What’s going to happen when whining becomes weakness and winning or losing have permanent consequences?

R.S.F.

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Gump Senate

Published at February 7, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary and People Parade. 0 Comments

Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does”. I don’t think I can improve upon that — except to add how desperately Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins need voting out of office. You expect Liberal slobbering from the pair of bimbos who misrepresent Maine because their ‘brains’ are perpetually numb from the cold. Besides, they’ve been bought by the Democrats before.

Specter, misrepresenting Pennsylvania, should know better. He has now, officially, outlasted any pretense of usefulness.

R.S.F.

$1.17 Trillion Pork Smorgasbord

Published at February 3, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary and The Economy. 0 Comments

Just to show you the Liberal spin being applied to the un-stimulus package of pork heading for the Senate, I intercepted this tidbit from MoveOn.org to their Leftist backers:

This week, the Senate will vote on President Obama’s economic stimulus plan—with historic investments in green jobs, health care, and education to get our economy back on track. But right now, the stimulus doesn’t have the votes to pass. 1 Republicans and conservative Democrats are teaming up to strip out the good stuff—college loan assistance, health research, tax cuts for poor folks, and more—in favor of more tax cuts for corporations. 2 If they don’t get their way, they’ll block the plan.

Last week, not a single Republican in the House voted for Obama’s plan—they didn’t think voters would ever hold them accountable. That’s why we’re asking folks to pledge now to help run ads after the vote letting the public know where key senators—both Republican and Democrat—came down on the bill. We need to get started now, so politicians and the media know their constituents are paying attention.

First of all, the Democrats already have the necessary votes to pass their bill but, knowing the deceit and inevitable failure inherent in this measure, they want Republican fingerprints on it so they don’t have to shoulder all the blame themselves.

Secondly, it is because their constituents are paying attention and they will be held accountable that so many politicians are opposing this debacle. Only 37 percent of Americans now think the bill is a good idea, according to Rasmussen Reports, down even further from last week.

Lastly, none of the items being propagandized by the kook-fringe groups are in question. This bill will simply stimulate nothing that helps our immediate economic situation, which is supposed to be its intent. Proponents will most likely strip out a few items as bargaining chips but unless they kill the whole thing, it’s just a bad bill — and a major step toward converting America into a failed, Socialist nation. Let’s see what’s really in there that responsible legislators find objectionable:

$1 billion for Amtrak, which hasn’t earned a profit in four decades.
$2 billion to help subsidize child care.
$400 million for research into global warming.
$2.4 billion for projects to demonstrate how carbon greenhouse gas can be safely removed from the atmosphere.
$650 million for coupons to help consumers convert their TV sets from analog to digital, part of the digital TV conversion.
$600 million to buy a new fleet of cars for federal employees and government departments.
$75 million to fund programs to help people quit smoking.
$21 million to re-sod the National Mall, which suffered heavy use during the Inauguration.
$2.25 billion for national parks. This item has sparked calls for an investigation, because the chief lobbyist of the National Parks Association is the son of Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wisc.
$335 million for treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. $4.19 billion to stave off foreclosures via the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which means a substantial amount of it will be captured by ACORN, the controversial activist group currently under federal investigation for vote fraud. Another $750 million would be exclusively reserved for nonprofits such as ACORN – meaning cities and states are barred from receiving that money. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., charges the money appears to be a “payoff” for the partisan political activities of these community groups during the last election cycle.
$44 million to renovate the headquarters building of the Agriculture Department.
$32 billion for a “smart electricity grid to minimize waste.
$87 billion of Medicaid funds, to aid states.
$53.4 billion for science facilities, high speed Internet, and miscellaneous energy and environmental programs.
$13 billion to repair and weatherize public housing.
$20 billion for quicker depreciation and write-offs for equipment.
$10.3 billion for tax credits to help families defray the cost of college tuition.
$20 billion over five years for an expanded food stamp program.

Republican leaders say the un-stimulus package will add 32 new government programs at a cost of $136 billion. One objection is that many of the programs, once established, are likely to continue indefinitely.

The $1.17 trillion ‘porkasbord’ passed by House Democrats bears little resemblance even to the bill originally proposed by Obama himself, with less than 5 percent of the expenditures now going to repair America’s deteriorating infrastructure.

This is not to say there aren’t some worthwhile projects being addressed but an alleged stimulus bill is not the place to address them. As House Minority whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., told the media, “This was not a stimulus bill. It was a spending bill.” Let your senator know you don’t like pork!

R.S.F.