Black Boxes, or “mandatory event data recorders” will now be installed in your “new” car in 2015, they will record your mileage, locations, and speeds before and during accidents. Of course, it takes no electronic genius to imagine this information being enlarged to provide the government with continuous information concerning you and your transportation, and there is some speculation that the law will become inclusive of all licensed cars since the technology is rather simple and doesn’t require the advanced technology of computerized systems. The bill has been passed by the Senate in March and is expected to be rubber stamped by the House.

This bill — known as “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act,” or MAP-21 is conspicuous with the “Moving Ahead for Progress” phrase as a clever way for the Progressive Socialists to hide their intent at control in plain sight. It becomes only a short step for the Progressives of the future to institute mandatory “carbon footprint” control by limiting individual mileage and imposing huge fines for those who exceed their limits. Is it hard to imagine, the technology is in place and it is conceivable that Obama and Pelosi will still be in power in 2015.

The bill has a right to privacy provision, but we have seen how easy it is for the tyrants of Progressive Socialism and their stooges in the Supreme Court to circumvent rights in the implementation of control, control is good if it is for the good of society or the environment through the prism of Global Warming Heresy, is the philosophy of the Progressive Socialists. The very word “Progressive” suggests that the spirit of progressive revolution among the International Marxists is an ever advancing and relents assault on freedom. It is their profound belief that an incremental approach will eventually consolidate their tyranny of control over an unsuspecting public. The “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act” is a major victory against a naive and unsuspecting public, and the sleeping representatives in Washington.

Obviously, the bill wouldn’t pass if the opportunity for abuse was blatant, but Obama has demonstrated how easy it is to manipulate the law, in the future it will always be there for the Marxists to use for control of the masses.

The same bill would allow the IRS to revoke passports of citizens accused of owing more than $50,000 in back taxes, according to PrisonPlanet.com, a website of radio show host Alex Jones – described by Rolling Stone as “a giant in America’s conspiracy subculture.”

How ironic, now that Americans are renouncing their citizenship to avoid the US tax laws, the same bill will now revoke the passport of those owing back taxes, and I am sure Buffet who owes a billion will have his passport rescinded, oh sure! As some one who has been caught in this trap of working internationally and paying taxes in two different countries, it is tempting to want to tell the IRS to take their oppression and stuff it where the sun doesn’t shine.

‘SEC. 7345. REVOCATION OR DENIAL OF PASSPORT IN CASE OF CERTAIN TAX DELINQUENCIES.
‘(a) In General- If the Secretary receives certification by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that any individual has a seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000, the Secretary shall transmit such certification to the Secretary of State for action with respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of a passport pursuant to section 4 of the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the issue and validity of passports, and for other purposes’, approved July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a et seq.), commonly known as the ‘Passport Act of 1926’.

‘(b) Seriously Delinquent Tax Debt- For purposes of this section, the term ‘seriously delinquent tax debt’ means an outstanding debt under this title for which a notice of lien has been filed in public records pursuant to section 6323 or a notice of levy has been filed pursuant to section 6331, except that such term does not include–

‘(1) a debt that is being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement under section 6159 or 7122, and

‘(2) a debt with respect to which collection is suspended because a collection due process hearing under section 6330, or relief under subsection (b), (c), or (f) of section 6015, is requested or pending.

‘(c) Adjustment for Inflation- In the case of a calendar year beginning after 2012, the dollar amount in subsection (a) shall be increased by an amount equal to–

‘(1) such dollar amount, multiplied by

‘(2) the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year, determined by substituting ‘calendar year 2011’ for ‘calendar year 1992’ in subparagraph (B) thereof.

If any amount as adjusted under the preceding sentence is not a multiple of $1,000, such amount shall be rounded to the next highest multiple of $1,000.’.

This same bill wants to prevent those who owe $50,000 or more in taxes to have their passports revoked. Please tell me why this isn’t an Orwellian attack on your freedom.

SEC. 31406. VEHICLE EVENT DATA RECORDERS.
(a) Mandatory Event Data Recorders-

(1) IN GENERAL- Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall revise part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, to require, beginning with model year 2015, that new passenger motor vehicles sold in the United States be equipped with an event data recorder that meets the requirements under that part.

(2) PENALTY- The violation of any provision under part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations–

(A) shall be deemed to be a violation of section 30112 of title 49, United States Code;

(B) shall be subject to civil penalties under section 30165(a) of that title; and

(C) shall not subject a manufacturer (as defined in section 30102(a)(5) of that title) to the requirements under section 30120 of that title.

(b) Limitations on Information Retrieval-

(1) OWNERSHIP OF DATA- Any data in an event data recorder required under part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, regardless of when the passenger motor vehicle in which it is installed was manufactured, is the property of the owner, or in the case of a leased vehicle, the lessee of the passenger motor vehicle in which the data recorder is installed.

(2) PRIVACY- Data recorded or transmitted by such a data recorder may not be retrieved by a person other than the owner or lessee of the motor vehicle in which the recorder is installed unless–

(A) a court authorizes retrieval of the information in furtherance of a legal proceeding;

(B) the owner or lessee consents to the retrieval of the information for any purpose, including the purpose of diagnosing, servicing, or repairing the motor vehicle;

(C) the information is retrieved pursuant to an investigation or inspection authorized under section 1131(a) or 30166 of title 49, United States Code, and the personally identifiable information of the owner, lessee, or driver of the vehicle and the vehicle identification number is not disclosed in connection with the retrieved information; or

(D) the information is retrieved for the purpose of determining the need for, or facilitating, emergency medical response in response to a motor vehicle crash.

Obama and the Marxists impose this type of legislation with the intent of imposing totalitarian control in the future, that is obvious, but our Republican legislators allow it to proceed under cover a veil of stupidity.

Apparently when Obama uttered these idiotic words about the Supreme Court:

“Ultimately I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” Obama told reporters today while speaking with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

Obama reminded reporters that conservative commentators, have complained about “judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint,” that “an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.”

People misunderstood him because we are all not as smart as he:

Liberals:

President Barack Obama: “So do not tell me that we’re not drilling. We’re drilling all over this country. There are a few spots we’re not drilling. We’re not drilling in the national mall. We’re not drilling at your house.”

President Obama: “(W)e have made progress, with imports of foreign oil decreasing by a million barrels a day in the last year alone.  Our focus on increased domestic oil and gas production, currently at an eight year high, combined with the historic fuel economy standards we put in place, means that we will continue to reduce our nation’s vulnerability to the ups and downs of the global oil market.”

President Barack Obama on Republican energy proposals “Lately, we’ve heard a lot of professional politicians talking down these new sources of energy. They dismiss wind power and solar power. They make jokes about biofuels and electric cars. They were against raising fuel standards because apparently they like gas guzzling cars better. We’re trying to move towards the future, and they want to keep us stuck in the past.  Of course, we’ve heard this kind of thinking before. If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the Flat Earth Society.  They would not have believed that the world was round.”  The ancient Greeks not only knew that the world was round, but they knew the circumference.  I am unclear as to what middle ages Spaniards thought, but I don’t think they believed the world to be flat.  However, several things I do know: oil is the fuel of today; algae is not; increasing our tire inflation will not be a sufficient substitute for drilling; and, whereas developing new resources for energy is a good thing, Obama using this excuse to give money to his donors is not.

President Barack Obama: “The biggest driver of these high gas prices is speculation about possible war in the Middle East, which is why we’ve been trying to reduce some of the loose talk about war there.”

President Obama: “Change is the decisions we made to stop waiting for a Congress to do something about our oil addiction and finally raised fuel efficiency standards on our cars and on our trucks so that by next decade we will be driving American made cars that get 55 miles per gallon.”  Or, GM (government-mandated) cars that catch on fire, drive about 40 miles on a battery charge, and the government pays you $10,000 to buy one, and still cannot sell enough of them to continue production.

President Obama in his weekly address: “Hi, everybody. As I’m sure you’ve noticed over the past few weeks, the price at your local pump has been going up and up. And because it’s an election year, so has the temperature of our political rhetoric.  What matters most to me right now is the impact that rising prices have on you…It’s easy to promise a quick fix when it comes to gas prices. There just isn’t one. Anyone who tells you otherwise – any career politician who promises some three-point plan for two-dollar gas – they’re not looking for a solution…But we can’t just rely on drilling. Not when we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil, but still only have 2 percent of the world’s known oil reserves…But what we can’t do is keep being dependent on other countries for our energy needs.”  He also explains all of the reasons for the price being so high.  Unrest in the middle east, oil speculators, and, of course, so-called government subsidies to big oil.  And, again, he claims his raising of the fuel standards will be the key.  Inflation, the rapidly falling dollar, and limited production in the United States; those didn’t really enter into his address.

The President seems to think he is more like Lincoln than any of the Republican candidates.  Barack Obama: “[Lincoln] understood that we are a people that take great pride in our self-reliance and our independence but that we are also one nation and one people, and that we rise or fall together.  So I hope that while my counterparts on the other side enjoy the outstanding hospitality of the people of Illinois and spend some money here to promote our economy, I hope they also take a little bit of time to reflect on this great man, the first Republican President.”

President Obama on Oprah: “And she has continued to be just – not just a friend, but somebody who Michelle and I seek out in thinking about not just the day to day issues of the day but trying to keep our focus on the big picture.”

President Obama: “It gets you a little nervous about what is happening to global temperatures. When it is 75 degrees in Chicago in the beginning of March, you start thinking. On  the other hand, I really have enjoyed nice weather.”

Obama, who usually only rips Bush: “One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: `It’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?’ That’s why he’s not on Mt. Rushmore.  He’s looking backwards, he’s not looking forward. He’s explaining why we can’t do something instead of why we can do something.  The point is there will always be cynics and naysayers.”  Hayes thought the telephone was a great invention.

President Obama, when asked about waging a “war on religion”: “I find this very puzzling, because my first job, my first real job out of college, was working with churches in low-income communities, trying to make sure that the social gospel was made real, that people were getting help.”  The social gospel is what “Christians” preach when they do not understand the gospel of the Bible (that Jesus Christ died for our sins).

Joe Biden: “Simply stated, we’re about promoting the private sector. They’re about protecting the privileged sector. We are for a fair shot and a fair shake; they’re about no rules, no risks and no accountability.  If you give any one of these guys the keys to the White House, they will bankrupt the middle class again.”

White House press secretary Jay Carney, when asked about the amount of time the President spends fund raising and campaigning: “I still maintain that the president is still spending a vast preponderance of his time on his official duties. As is everyone who works here.”  The president has gone to over 100 fund-raising events, which is pretty much double what any other previous president has done in the same mount of time.

Vice President Joe Biden of Obama choosing to okay the mission to kill Osama bin Laden: “This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron: “Barack understands that the means matter every bit as much as the ends. Yes, America must do the right thing but to provide moral leadership America must do it in the right way too.  The first president I studied in school was Theodore Roosevelt. He talked of speaking softly and carrying a big stick. That is Barack‘s approach, and in following it he has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.”

Former FBI most wanted Bill Ayers: “I think the people who practice white supremacy and who benefit from it are going to have to be stopped. And I think that’s a huge undertaking and I think it takes a revolution.”

HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, answering a question to a middle school audience, after showing a Cartoon Network film  not to call call people names like “stupid,” “fat,” and “jerk”: “I think, very important, is for kids to understand how powerful you really are. You might feel like you’re not big enough, not strong enough, not–don’t have enough tools. But just saying, `Stop it! You know, you’re being a jerk!’–walk away, get away from this person can make a huge amount of difference.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, of a new CBS News and New York Times survey finding that 80% of Americans are not better off financially than they were four years ago: “I’m not much of a pollster guy…I think this poll is so meaningless. It is trying to give the American people an idea of what 300 million people feel by testing several hundred people. I think the poll is flawed in so many different ways including a way that questions were asked. I don’t believe in polls generally and specifically not in this one.”  Unless he agrees with the poll; then he believes in it.

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka of President Obama: “With our endorsement today, we affirm our faith in him – and pledge to work with him through the election and his second term to restore fairness, security and shared prosperity.”

Ed Schultz: “The root of this problem [saying that Obama is a Muslim] is at the doorstep of the McCain campaign from 2008. You don’t have to look any farther than the recent HBO movie ‘Game Change’ which premiered over the weekend to see how this whole fire started to rage.”  It was the Hillary campaign which circulated the photo of Obama in Muslim garb.  At no time, did the McCain campaign attack Obama for religious reasons or suggest that he was a Muslim.  Even Reverend Wright was declared off limits.

Rahm Emanuel, when asked about Bill Maher’s  vicious comments, which people found as insulting as Limbaugh‘s: “I thought what Rush Limbaugh said was . . . absolutely not only wrong, it was absolutely repulsive…if you can’t stand up to Rush, how are you going to stand up to Russia?”

Rep. Shelley Berkley: “This has nothing to do with the First Amendment. I am merely asking Clear Channel to make a business decision to get somebody who uses and abuses the public airwaves off the airwaves.  Obviously, 141 sponsors of his show agree with me, as do 30,000 people who have gone online and signed my petition. I am not hanging alone out here….There’s a big difference between what is being said by Bill Maher and his humor, although I don’t find that funny, and what Rush Limbaugh does, who pretty much calls the shots in the Republican Party.”

Bill Press on his radio show: “Boy, this has me really burned up.  There is a war on women going on. It’s a war on women that’s being conducted by Republicans in the House, you expect that. By Republicans in the Senate, you expect that. But, it’s also being led by the Catholic bishops of this country, which is outrageous and which is wrong. Well you might say of course the Catholic Bishops are part of the war on women, you know they won’t allow women to become priests in the Catholic Church. They won’t allow Priests to get married because there’s something wrong with living with a woman, or having sex with a woman. I mean they’ve got this anti-woman thing built into them.”

Kelly Ward, DCCC Political Director, seeking money via email: “Republicans aren’t backing down from their War on Women crusade…Republicans in Congress have already tried to give your boss the power to deny women access to birth control coverage. How much worse can the Republican War on Women get?  We’re launching an urgent grassroots campaign against War on Women Republicans while they are back home in their districts this week. We’ve set a goal of raising $100,000 by tomorrow night to launch targeted advertising against anti-women Republicans…Let’s make Republicans regret they ever launched a War on Women.”

Jessica DelBalzo, an activist writer from Flemington, New Jersey: “I love abortion. I don’t accept it. I don’t view it as a necessary evil. I embrace it. I donate to abortion funds. I write about how important it is to make sure that every woman has access to safe, legal abortion services. I have bumper stickers and buttons and t-shirts proclaiming my support for reproductive freedom. I love abortion.”

Energy Secretary Stephen Chu: “Well, first, [top Obama bundler] Steve Spinner was absolutely firewalled from making any decision or encouragement on what make for any loan, let alone the Solyndra loan. What he was pressing for was, after the conditional commitment was made, he was pressing to finalize things. But he was not part of the decision-making process.”

Stephen Chu, on previous remarks where he wanted our gas prices to go up: “I no longer share that view.”

Sen. Al Franken: “When I hear about the $50 light bulbs and the award given for that technology, I think of what laptops were when the first laptop came out.  I mean, essentially we’re talking about mainframes – what the cost of a main frame – between now everybody who can get a laptop gets a laptop.”  Except that mainframe computers and their evolution to laptops was not partially funded by taxpayers.

It’s all about racism:

David A. Wilson, executive editor of the NBC-owned black “news” website TheGrio.com:: “How can we expect and how can we be the country that is as the Republicans like to say, you know, the great shining city on the hill? And we have people who are saying all sorts of things about our President, a President that by most accounts, most accounts across the world, people are pretty proud of that he is the first African-American president. Yet, you know, the media on the right goes after him because of his race.  What does that say about America to the international community? About – we’re supposed to be the ones who lead on matters of tolerance and matters of, you know, race relations, supposedly, and yet we have a huge portion of our media that goes after the president for his race.”
Al Sharpton: “And does it – goes after him due to his race – but goes after it unchecked.”

Karen Finney a Democrat strategerist on MSNBC, tried to explain how Santorum won Alabama and Mississippi, given his (so-called) “anti-woman” stance: “Well… This woman vote really hurts me, I gotta say. (snickering) It’s a little painful ’cause I’m wondering if those women really heard the full message that: Yes, there is the economy, but if you’ve gotta worry about your basic health care, how are you then gonna be able to do what you need to do in terms of having a job, paying your rent, taking care of your kids.  You know, I’m stunned.  Uh, the only explanation that I can come up with is — and I think this would be a question I’d want to go back and ask these women. For these women:  Did race — or… or, in other words, “conservative values;” that’s the code, right? — trump gender?  You know, it’s still a very conservative state. The racial issues are alive and well in Alabama and Mississippi.  Remember those polls that we saw where large percentage don’t believe in interracial marriage and think the president is a “Mooslem.” So clearly there is some sort of racial stuff in there, and I wonder if that — ultimately for white working women — trumps their own gender.”

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Politico editor John Harris, when it comes to poll results that they do not like: “Well it was a story that I encouraged to be, uh, written. A lot of times stories generate, uh, from, uh, people’s, uh, rants, uh, editors’ rants, my rants, your rants…Alex Burns wrote up one of my rants which was looking at some of these polling numbers that have been out recently. You’ve mentioned them already at different times on the show already, Jim, the results from Mississippi showing a majority of Republicans think that President Obama might be Muslim. Well it’s not true, that’s just wrong. Some of the concern about how come he doesn’t do something about gas prices. Well the president can’t really control gas prices in a complicated global market.  To me, some of these poll results just seem stupid. So I asked Alex Burns to, said, why don’t you do a piece that looks at the question of whether voters are stupid and a lot of the things that they say in these polls are just plain stupid and Alex warmed to the assignment and he wrote this. He actually found a number of sources from pollsters who say yeah, that’s the first thing you learn as a pollster, voters are stupid.  They didn’t mean that literally, they meant that often they’re expressing their opinions in a context of ignorance, they don’t really understand the issues although they’re happy to pop off if a pollster invites them to. So you do get some results that seem stupid even if the voters themselves aren’t actually stupid…we did get a picture of Forrest Gump to accompany the story, Forrest Gump in this case representing the sort of ignorant voters out there who are saying these wacky things in polls.”

Washington Post’s Richard Cohen: “At some point while watching HBO’s absolutely smashing (and terrifying) movie “Game Change,” it occurred to me that Sarah Palin has ruined America.”  And then he goes to disparage Sarah Palin based upon the content of this HBO docu-drama.

FoxNews liberal pundit Susan Ochs, of states: “Everybody’s raising taxes now.”

Obama Sycophants after seeing his movie:

@Iamtoniharper @BarackObama The Road We’ve Traveled is GREAT. Parts brought tears as I remember where we were and headed. Thank You President Obama!

@Robert_Friend: #RoadTraveled Fabulous. Made me cry. Seriously.”

@npbat: @Robert_Fried @BarackObama Me too! I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house! So very glad I got to see it. #Obama2012

@Rayydiance: Brought tears to my eyes. RT @BarackObama: What did you think of #RoadTraveled?

@tleewest: #RoadTraveled made me cry! I am SO proud of @BarackObama. Next payday I will be making another donation. We are NOT handing over the keys!

?@oonasez: #RoadTraveled, watched it, swore I wouldn’t cry, but did anyway. 4 more for 44!

@Karoli: OMG, just finished watching #roadtraveled. #hcr memories made me cry. Such an accomplishment, despite the haters.”

@AmyTidd: #roadtraveled brought tears to my eyes. Thank you President Obama for making the hard choices that have saved American jobs and families.

@brownsugar7878: Just saw The Road We’ve Traveled. No words just tears at all Pres Obama has single-handily done for America I’m energized #RoadTraveled

@teenagepundit Dammit. The Obama team made me cry. Again. #RoadTraveled

From Weasel Zippers (from the Washington Examiner)

Georgian Obama fans wave to their savior.

And a random collection from YouTube:

Stunning.? 4 MORE YEARS!!!!!
PolishPunk04

This video makes me proud to be an American. Barack Obama is the greatest? president in my lifetime. One hundred years from now when they are talking about these times and the near 2nd depression, two wars, health care problems and all the rest that has been going on they will point to one man that made the difference, Barack Obama.
TAN00N

We are so lucky to have Barack Obama. We have come so far, image what we can be done in 4 more years. Clear your mind of the hate and lies, show your voice this year? by voting Barack Obama back into office!
sirrafae

Obama12?
phanor

Amazing! I watched three times lol. Well done Mr. President?
dixonmaster

O B? A M A 2012!!
NotsoNutso

Outstanding achievement, and? remarkable progress in the shadow of political turmoil, economic crisis and military uncertainty.
Congratulations Mr. President on a historic first term in office. Your accomplishments will be recorded by historians as monumental and you will be held in the highest of esteem with all the great men who have held your office.
I believe America will be strong and healthy economically, militarily and as a leader in the worlds future as you prepare to leave office fo
cermakable

What a strong president!!?
tjazzmuzik

For the last 4 years, I walked around Seattle and? every day, saw somebody with a picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache or Joker makeup.
This docu finally puts into perspective the longterm good that his “bad choices” seemed at first has really done for the better.
I turned 19 last month and make no mistake, I would have voted for this man 4 years back if I was older, I intend to keep him in office in November now.

We’re are a very lucky country that this man is in charge. FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!
572b

The Road We’ve Traveled (the Obama film)

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney regarding the Obama movie to the press: “I thought it was superb.  I’ll probably watch it many times. I hope you will, too.”

Liberal Celebrities:

Tom Hanks of Obama, in the Obama move: “He would not dwell in blame or in dreamy idealism.”  From a few months ago, this is a partial list of things that Obama blames for problems during his administration.  Not to worry, one person he does not blame is…Obama.

Hollywood producer and Obama bundler Harvey Weinstein: “I’m so thrilled he’s running for reelection, he’s done a fantastic job, and he’s the most underestimated president I’ve seen.  He’s too humble, and his accomplishments far outweigh his esteem, but people will learn that in time.”

Tom Hanks in the Obama film: “Not since the days of Franklin Roosevelt had so much fallen on the shoulders of one president.”

Woody Harrelson, who played John McCain in Game Change: “The s__t those people [Republicans] say just makes me weep for humanity!”

Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep introducing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:”We’ve all spent a lot of time thinking about Hillary Clinton because – poor girl – she represents us, Hillary is us and we are Hillary.”

Rosie O’Donnell, filling-in for Piers Morgan: “What has happened, that we are fighting again for reproductive rights?”

Angelica Huston: “And how did guys, get to be the ones to solely discuss it?  It’s absolutely astonishing to me, it’s the Dark Ages.”

Businessman, Virgin Group CEO and reality TV person Richard Branson to the president at a White House dinner: “I asked him if I could have a spiff, but they didn’t have any.”

Liberals from the past:

Before Stephen Chu became energy secretary (2007 or 2008?): “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”  The idea is to reduce the demand for gas here in the United States.

Candidate Obama: from 2008: “Not only do we have to invest in mass transit, but we have also have to make sure that, we also have to make sure that people are making good decisions about cars. And their freedom–people are, you know, people are free to buy a [Chevrolet] Suburban if you want, it gets 8 miles a gallon but we can’t subsidize to make sure that you have–you are able to fill up your Suburban tank at a really cheap rate because that’s not the trajectory of oil prices worldwide.”

Candidate Obama: from 2008: “…under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

Senator Obama of Congressman Danny Davis: “He is one on the greatest congressmen in the country…he shares our values.”  Congressman Davis, was recently the keynote speaker at a Communist Party of the USA.

Rev. Jeremy Wright: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him [Obama] talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.”

Liberal civility:

Million dollar Obama donor Bill Maher tweet: “If Gingrich Was Any More of an A__e Santorum Would Have to Pray For The Strength Not to F__k Him”  All of the words were spelled out, of course.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Speaking of prostitutes, big oil’s top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers.”  He also accused Inhofe of treason for feeding our “addiction to oil” because it funds terrorism.

Rev. Jesse Jackson: “America is a liberal idea. How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That’s toxic waste to our consciousness. It’s hard to be an American conservative because that’s a contradiction in terms.  Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that’s conservative and fascist.”

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Stephanie Miller from her radio show: “Yeah I think the President got off a good one the other day didn’t he when he was talking he said `if some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail they must have been founding members of the flat earth society. They wouldn’t have believed the world was round’ Ah just in relation to the whole energy debate, correct?”

Rep. Adam Schiff: “Exactly, they would have been talking about the alleged round earth theory.”

Jim Ward, Miller’s side-kick: “I think they should test the alleged laws of gravity by jumping out of a plane without a parachute.”

Muslims and Muslim supporters:

Adam Gadahn, a U.S.-born media adviser for Al-Qaeda, about which U.S. media outlets would be best for a bin Laden anniversary video: “It should be sent for example to ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN and maybe PBS and VOA. As for Fox News let her die in her anger…From a professional point of view, they are all on one level – except (Fox News) channel, which falls into the abyss as you know, and lacks objectivity, too.”  More proof of how biased FoxNews is.

Germany’s Social Democratic Pary leader Sigmar Gabriel (and candidate for chancellor): “I was just in Hebron.  There’s a legal vacuum there for Palestinians. This is an apartheid regime, for which there is no justification.”

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai: “Our demand is that this process [for U.S. troops to hand over all security responsibilities to Afghanistan by 2013] should be executed sharply and the responsibility should be handed over to to Afghans.”

Muslim from the grave:

Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus: “The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make (Vice President Joe) Biden take over the presidency…Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour and killing him would alter the war’s path [in Afghanistan.]”

Liberals being honest:

Politico’s Jim Vandehei: “Are reporters biased? There is no doubt that-I’ve worked at the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and worked here at Politico. If I had to guess, if you put all of the reporters that I’ve ever worked with on truth serum, most of them vote Democratic.”

NPR reporter Nina Totenberg: “The elite media will then glom onto this person, and everything he has ever done that might be slightly untoward or controversial will come out.”

Leftist Bob Beckel of FoxNews, who ran Walter Mondale’s campaign (as quoted by Cal Thomas): “I managed Walter Mondale to the greatest presidential loss and now I am a political pundit—it’s a great country.” [quoted from memory]

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

A transgendered Indonesian man who was Barack Obama‘s nanny in the late 1960s: “Once he pointed to a picture of (Indonesian) President Sukarno and said `I hope I will grow up to become someone like him’. I am proud that his wish came true.  And if the Barry I knew is the same Barry who is America’s number-one man, I’m sure he will accept me for the person I am, transgender or not.”

Matt Romney, son of Mitt, in Hawaii: “I was glad to come; I had to fight with my brothers to see who would come.  I’m not here to talk about President Obama I think he is great. I’m here to talk about my dad and what he would bring to the country.”

Patrick Jane (Aussie Simon Baker) in the Mentalist, explaining gender differences when it comes to pushes a person’s buttons: “Men are like toasters; women are more like accordions.” This is from awhile back, but I misplaced the envelope that I wrote it on.

Moderates who should have not shared their thoughts:

Meghan McCain: “I’m not a lesbian, if that’s what you’re asking. I’d be the first person to tell the world I was gay. I’m not private about anything. I think you should live how you should live. But I’m strictly dickly. I can’t help it. I love sex and I love men.”  Too bad she did not exercise an emoticon of circumspection before sharing.

Crosstalk:

11 year old Sena:  “How do you respond to critics who say the government should not be telling people how to eat or to stay active?”

Michelle Obama:  “You know, that’s absolutely right — and Let’s Move! doesn’t do that. Let’s Move! is not about having government telling people what to do, because government doesn’t have all the answers. I mean, a problem that’s this big and affects so many people requires everyone to step up. So we’re asking everyone to do their part. Parents have to make some changes at home, but they need the information to be able to make those choices. And they have to have access to affordable foods in their communities — fresh and healthy foods, right? We need government to do its part, but we need businesses to do their part, as well.”

Rush Limbaugh:  “So, there’s Mrs. Obama: ‘No, our program doesn’t do that! No, no, no. Government doesn’t do that. It doesn’t tell people what to do.  We’re asking everybody do their part. Parents have to make some changes at home, but we’re not telling people what to do.  But parents have to make some changes, and businesses have to make some changes — and we gotta get good foods in your house. But we’re not telling anybody what to do.’  Right.  Yeah, right.”
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Jake Tapper: Bill, thanks for doing this. I just wanted to make sure that as I cover this debate about appropriate language and such, I’m not excluding any points you think should be made.

Bill Maher: I don’t really know all the “points,” but as I said on my show last Friday, I’m a pottymouth, not a misogynist.

Tapper: So with all the criticism of Rush Limbaugh for his comments about the Georgetown Law student, conservatives claim that there’s a double standard, with President Obama, Democrats and the media far more tolerant of offensive language when wielded by liberal or progressive media figures against conservative women. Is that a fair comparison? You have certainly used offensive words to describe some politicians you don’t like.

Maher: I’m a comedian – not just a guy who says he is, like Rush, but someone who – well, you saw me do stand-up last year in D.C. There’s a big difference between just saying you’re a comedian and going out and getting thousands of people to laugh hard for 90 minutes. And the one I’m compared to most is Carlin, who also had these kind of problems. Edgy is my brand.

Tapper: How do you know when you’ve gone too far?

Maher: I let the audience be the guide. The bit I did about Palin using the word c-, one of the biggest laughs in my act, I did it all over the country, not one person ever registered disapproval, and believe me, audiences are not afraid to let you know. Because it was a routine where that word came in at just the right moment.

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Luke Russert (Tim Russet’s son): “And Bill Maher has had a lot of choice words to say about the Republicans; he specifically went after Sarah Palin with some very crude language that’s in the same sort of stratosphere of how Rush Limbaugh went after Sandra Fluke. Do you have any reservations about accepting that $1 million from Bill Maher and will you give it back? A lot of conservatives are calling that.”

Bill Burton, who runs the Obama SuperPAC that Maher donated $1 million to: “I know that Republicans have tried to use this to distract from what Rush Limbaugh said to sexually degrade a woman.”
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Hillary Clinton: “Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They want to control women. They want to control how we dress, they want to control how we act, they even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and bodies.  Yes, it is hard to believe but even here at home we have to stand up for women’s rights and reject efforts to marginalize any one of us because America needs to set an example for the entire world. ”

Katie Pavlich: “Women in the United States can vote, have children in wedlock, have children out of wedlock, get married, choose to be single, commit adultery, work, choose not to work, go outside, drive a car, take the bus, show their ankles, go shopping without their husbands, get married when they choose to not when they are forced to, leave their husbands in abusive situations, obtain justice against a rapist, change religions, protest in the street, etc. Women are not oppressed and have rights as human beings in the United States. Having someone else pay for your birth control is not a right and if they refuse to pay for it, they aren’t waging a ‘war on women.’ ”
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Lee Papa: “Who’s saying she’s hurting Obama because of the GOP‘s stance on women’s issues now. You can’t turn back the clock, and that’s what they want to do. They don’t want to conserve what exists, they want to actually turn it back.”

Stephanie Miller: “So what happens in Crackerland this week, as we like to say? We have, what, Alabama and Mississippi coming up tomorrow.”

Papa: “I think Santorum and Gingrich split the yahoos in Alabama and Romney just flat out wins Mississippi.”  From WFP
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Howard Stern: Who should be the next President of the United States Elle MacPherson, go ahead.

Elle Macpherson: I think Obama’s going to do it.

Stern: You like Obama?

Macpherson: Yeah, I’m living in London and I’m socialist. What do you expect?
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Challenged by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) regarding the administration’s definition of a “food desert” which is being a mile away from a grocery store.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: “Well, I think it’s very difficult for a family buying groceries – if they have to walk a mile with bags of groceries, it may be too far to get healthier food.”

Rep. Kingston: “You really think that?”

Sebelius: “I do.”  What happened to “Let’s Move”?
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Jay Carney on the finality of the Obama mandate for religious organizations: “The solution that was reached here . has been reached, and we firmly believe that it achieves the goals that the president set…[Obama] brought the process to a solution here that met his two objectives – to ensure that women across America . were able to get the same preventive services, including contraception services without having to pay for them, and that those who have religious objections . would not have to provide or pay.”

On Feb. 10 Obama announced a new regulation that forces religious groups to financially support activities they abhor, but that the government supports. In particular, the president directed religious organizations to provide insurance policies that offer free contraceptives.

A statement by the top-level administrative committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: “…government has no place defining religion and religious ministry. If this [regulatory] definition is allowed to stand, it will spread throughout federal law, weakening its healthy tradition of generous respect for religious freedom and diversity [and] is unprecedented in federal law, which has long been generous in protecting the rights of individuals not to act against their religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

Conservatives:

Dennis Miller on the economy: “Everybody knows it’s crap.”

Cal Thomas on women voting as a monolithic block: “Anyone who thinks that women can be controlled is not married to one.” [quoted from memory]

Paula Priesse posting: “March 15th – Davis Guggenheim, maker of the Obama documentary “The Road We’ve Traveled”, wishes his 17 minute film could have been longer. Asked on CNN if there were any negatives with the project, Guggenheim responded, “The negative for me was, there were too many accomplishments”. That’s true. Just this week we’ve learned that the CBO now projects the cost of Obamacare at $1.76 trillion, up just a tad from the original $940 billion. And today, in spite of O’s solemn pledge that “you can keep your health plan”, the CBO reports that up to 20 MILLION Americans could lose their employer-provided coverage. Poor Davis, so many O “accomplishments”, so little time. P”

Paula Priesse posting: “March 13th – From Bloomberg: ‘President Obama’s re- election campaign is planning to seize upon the recent partisan bickering over health care, contraception and abortion to garner the women’s vote in the November presidential election.’  Guess O has the women’s vote so long as women don’t: 1) Drive ($3.80 avg. per gallon up from $1.81) 2) Work or have husbands who work (median income down 6.7%) 3) Buy groceries (misery index up 45%) or 4) Own a house (home values down 13%) So Bloomberg tells us O’s surefire plan to woo women is ‘Look ladies . free birth control pills!’  Good luck with that. Course if his plan does work, it’s America that will need all the luck! P”

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: “Israel has never left its fate in the hands of others, not even in the hands of our best friends [the United States and Britain].”

Mitt Romney: “I know that he [President Obama] likes alternative energy, but I’d like an alternative president.”

Mitt Romney in Mississippi: “Mornin’ y’all; Good to be with you.  I got started right this morning with a biscuit and some cheesy grits, I’ll tell ya. Delicious.”  Whatever.

The Conservative Media:

Britt Hume of Obama blaming others: “Winners take responsibility; losers blame others.”

Chris Wallace, quoting Samuel Goldwyn Meyer concerning Mitt Romney: “The key is sincerity; once you learn to fake that, you’ve got it made.”

Greg Gutfeld: “I like Gingrich, but his ego is so big that is has its own ego.”

Greg Gutfeld of Attorney General Eric Holder: “He is the Chevy Volt of Attorney Generals.”

Greg Gutfeld: “If the Catholic Church is paying for birth control, then Greenpeace needs to pay for my gas.”

Gary B. Smith tying to make the point that the inflation right now is not that bad: “The odds of me, Jonas [Max Ferras], and Susan [Ochs] all being wrong is zero.”  This is a conservative, moderate and liberal on FoxNews all agreeing that inflation is not a big deal right now.  I would disagree (as did most of the other conservatives on that panel).

Rush Limbaugh: “People in the know realize Barack Obama is the number one obstacle to cheap energy in this country. Don’t doubt me.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The poor are still poor. The homeless are still homeless. Despite all these great liberal programs, the numbers, the percentages never change. Liberalism doesn’t solve problems. It doesn’t fix anything. It just exacerbates them.”

Rush Limbaugh: “There is not a shortage of oil on this planet. There is not a shortage of oil anywhere. Whenever there are shortages, they are contrived and are the result of distribution channels being locked down, shipping lanes being closed, or production being shut down in oil-producing countries.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Oil is treated by the American left — by the Democrat Party, by Democrat politicians — as some almost evil invention, when it’s not. In fact, if you ask me, it’s incredible ingenuity to figure out what all we can do with oil and what it has meant to economic growth and prosperity, wealth creation, liberty, freedom. It’s amazing what has come from oil in that regard.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Do you know what the unemployment rate was in March 13th, 2006? You know what the unemployment rate was then? Take a guess. Come on, you guys! It was 4.7%. The unemployment rate when Wolf Blitzer was celebrating Bush’s ‘all-time low approval number’ was 4.7%, March 13th of 2006. Today the unemployment rate is 8.3%. The economy is in a free-fall disaster.”

Rush Limbaugh: “We get some State-Controlled Media polls that look bad for Obama and they run stories, ‘Are these polls broken? Are the people in the polls stupid?’ They have what they think is the smartest, slickest, most-polished president and politician ever in the history of the country. They have total propaganda control over the media, and in their minds that means they have total control over what America thinks.”

Rush Limbaugh, on his new Twitter account: “I’m not gonna be hanging on Twitter 15 hours a day and tweeting: ‘Just had breakfast, hope you have a wonderful day. Here’s a picture of me eating some corn flakes.’ None of that stuff.”

Rush Limbaugh: “What Obama advertised was a knowing falsehood. What Obamacare and every proponent said about this was knowingly false. They knew it was going to cost more than $940 billion. They knew it because they had to delay the spending by four years to get it under a trillion dollars. They knew!”

Rush Limbaugh:  “You can go back and look at any liberal social program you want. You can look at the Great Society, the War on Poverty, AFDC, food stamps — any program — and it always costs far more than what we’re told when the legislation is signed.”

Conservatives from the Past:

Rush Limbaugh, from memory: “The only way Gingrich poses a threat to women is if he marries them.”

Republican Infighting:

Rick Santorum of Mitt Romney: “He has FoxNews shilling for him every day.”

I was thinking of writing this up as a Most Wanted, but it deserves significant exposure. The Institute of Justice has filed an amicus brief regarding Obamacare. It questions the ability of the government to force people into contracts against their will, and if this is done for Obamacare then there would be no limit to what Obama could force anyone to do. And one cannot help but wonder if this is not part of the plan.

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Constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley, who is the executive director of the Institute’s Florida Chapter and who co-authored IJ’s brief, said, “The individual mandate violates a cardinal rule of contract law—to be enforceable, all agreements must be voluntary. The Framers understood this, and would never have given the federal government the power to force individuals into lifelong contracts of insurance. The Court should not allow the government to exercise this unprecedented and dangerous power.”

As IJ’s brief shows, the principle of mutual assent, under which both parties must consent for a contract to be valid, is a fundamental principle of contract law that was well understood during the Founding era and is still a cornerstone of contract law today. Indeed, contracts entered under duress have long been held to be invalid. Yet the mandate forces individuals to enter into contracts of insurance that would never be valid under this longstanding principle. (For a copy of IJ’s brief, visit: www.ij.org/PPACAbrief.)

If the U.S. Supreme Court fails to strike down the individual mandate, there will be nothing to stop Congress from forcing people into other contracts against their will—employment contracts or union membership, for example. If we still have a constitutional republic in which the federal government’s powers are limited, then the Court should strike down this law.

The Institute for Justice’s brief is the only amicus brief filed with the Court that examines this case in the context of the history of contract law. The brief illustrates how the Supreme Court has recognized the principle of consent in commercial relations in its Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment cases, and it explains why the U.S. Supreme Court has a key role in acting as a check against this unconstitutional power grab by the federal government.

This is arguably the single most important aspect of Obamacare. It could in fact codify tyranny.

via Hot Air

More at IJ

#OccupyWallSt has given us some memorable images, but arguably none more memorable than these:

#OccupyWallSt has made a list of demands. Some are simply ridiculous but some have merit- specifically the concerns over the cost of education and money’s involvement in politics. The problem is that the numbskulls in the #OWS movement are so self-obsessed that all of their efforts are way off target. They place themselves in Zucotti Park and somewhere in UC Davis and aspire to shut down the harbor in Portland.

The question is- what can that possibly achieve?

Their concerns about costs of higher education are truly meritorious. Higher education is the biggest scam in town. Since 1988 the rising cost of higher education absolutely dwarfs the cost of living increases.

In fact, it has risen far more rapidly than the cost of medical treatment.

When my oldest son entered Boston College the tuition was $35,000 per year. When my second son graduated from BC seven years later tuition was over $50,000 per year.

That’s obscene. And for what? I thought it was robbery, but we paid it.

While #OWS wants all debts forgiven, some are definitely accumulating faster than others.

California’s public universities enacted the highest average tuition increase, 21%, of any state, the College Board finds. Steep state funding cuts to higher ed were significant factors in pushing up tuition and fees nationwide.
But even excluding California, tuition prices at such colleges rose significantly nationwide this year, an average of 7%, the College Board found. Apart from California, Arizona and Washington had the highest rates of tuition increases at public four-year campuses, 17% and 16% respectively, while Connecticut and South Carolina were lowest, at 2.5% each.

Sandy Baum, a policy analyst for the College Board, said the recession’s toll on tax revenues prompted some states to slash higher education funding. “California seems to be the leader of that” trend, she said.

Yet the study also showed that significant increases in federal grants and tax credits are shielding many students from some of the tuition pain even as unemployment is driving more people to enroll at colleges. “As the states have stepped back, the federal government to some extent compensated for the higher prices,” Baum said.

Nationally, in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities average $8,244 for this school year. With room and board, the average cost of such schools is $17,131, up 6% from last year, said the report, which is being released Wednesday.

Significant tuition increases are nothing new to UC Davis. This is from 2009:

The first tuition hike, which takes effect in January, will raise undergraduate tuition to $8,373. The second hike kicks in next fall, raising tuition to $10,302, said university spokeswoman Leslie Sepuka.

Students who live on campus could pay up to an estimated $17,200 in additional fees that include the annual cost of books and housing, according to the system’s July 2008 finance guide.

The January increase of about 15 percent is more than double the average public university tuition hike last year. On average, tuition and fees at four-year public universities nationwide increased 6.5 percent, or to $7,020, since the previous school year, according to data from College Board.

A ten year analysis of tuition increases found that UC Davis tuition increased 185%, second only to the U of Arizona at 231%.

It seems to me that if one is going to protest, one ought to protest at a venue a which a goal might be achieved. That is to say that if you need gas, you don’t go to the pharmacy. These protests should have been conducted at the home of the University Chancellor, and at the homes of the University trustees. Instead, protests put tents up on campus. The Chancellor, Linda Katehi, ordered the students and the tents removed.

In her first statement about the incident, Katehi justified the police’s action by stating that the protesters offered her “no option but to ask the police to assist in their removal.”

As criticism mounted, Katehi threw the cops under the bus, as gutless politicians and academics are wont to do. An obviously flustered Katehi scrambled to redirect the blame away from her.

In an interview this morning on KQED’s Forum, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi said she expected campus police on Friday to remove tents peacefully without interfering with students’ rally.

Katehi said that under UC policy, tents are not allowed on campus “for health and safety reasons.” She said police were asked to dismantle the encampment out of concern for the safety of the students.

“The group that set this up was not UC Davis students,” she said. “They had individuals that were not affiliated with the campus. The police were called for nothing else but a very peaceful dismantling of the equipment…They were not supposed to use force.They were not supposed to limit the students from having the rally, from congregating to express their anger and frustration.”

You can’t help but wonder if the tear gas would have come even more quickly had the students set up camp where a protest would have been effective- at Katehi’s home and the homes of the trustees.

Money in politics is another very legitimate issue, and probably the most contentious money issue in politics is insider trading. There is really not anything more painfully hypocritical in government than this. The same activities which increased the net worth of the Pelosi’s by 62% last year sent Ivan Boesky, Jeffrey Skilling and Martha Stewart to jail.

Nancy Pelosi is everything that’s wrong with government. #OWS should be camping outside her office in Washington and outside her home in San Franciso. Instead, protesters defecate on the flag and on police cars, they leave 200 pounds of feces in Santa Cruz, they stalk children on their way to school and they scream at Wall St.

They urinate on banks and hurl Molotov cocktails at banks.

Why? What did banks do that was illegal? Nothing.

It may have been immoral, but it was legal.

Banks do what politicians allow them do. There is no purpose in harassing people who are doing nothing illegal. If change is desired, then energies ought to be directed so as be effective. This is the terminal stupidity of OccupyWallSt and the reason for its failure. They’re waiting for gas at the drive-in window of CVS.

The Democrats are banking on the Occupy Wall Street Mob becoming the sacrificial lambs for the reelection of Obama; however, it is patently obvious, they are not capturing public sympathy with their bizarre messages and disgusting lifestyle. Poets rarely write of the beauty of fleas and parasites or those who carry them.

Their efforts are a but forlorn hope for this fall, reality in the form of winter and or disease will kill them, maybe literally and no one will care. The public is more than willing to concede stupidity is its’ own reward; especially, in the “rebel without a cause” syndrome of ignorance.

But be assured, the demonstrations will be reforming in late spring, these may indeed become a threat to freedom and liberty. If Democrat strategists can formulate a working, yet simple reason to riot that all the witless ones can remember, degenerates need little more incentive to gather for drugs, sex, and rock n roll; there will be Hell to pay in the streets, when the weather heats up and the police are sent in to break up the orgies of excess.

These protests have been a half wits’ interpretation of Saul Alynsky’s “Rules For Radicals” and in the haze of lunacy that passes for logic from Nancy Pelosi, it is perceived as a righteous movement and in essence an offshoot of the anti-Viet Nam protests that Pelosi and others cavorted around showing their asses during her youth. The anti-war protests essentially caused the loss of a war to an enemy that was defeated and prepared to throw in the towel. Regrettably, Pelosi and the Socialist bigots she speaks for, see this as a great victory for those who want to transform America into a Socialist State.

Back then, there was a unifying message for those willing to demonstrate and go on a rampage, it generated from a weariness of a war started by JFK. There were also underground leaders, with intelligence, coordinating a unified effort. The degenerates and unrepentant domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and his harpie wife Bernadine Dohrn, friends and neighbors of the Obama family, are examples of this underground leadership; they are not stupid, in fact, they are highly intelligent people and more importantly, they know how to lead incredibly stupid people and direct mobs. Skills and abilities, Pelosi and friends must envy. Unfortunately, for the modern day Socialist protest movement, the people who direct Obama and the leaders like Pelosi have proven themselves to be incredibly inept at leading and directing.

The Democrat Party and their leadership want these people to succeed and have the public fall in love with the nobility of the protests; unfortunately, for the public to embrace the protests, there must be a coherent message and at least a pretension of noble ideas; so far, they merely appear to be self-serving hedonists out for a lark and the possible excitement of heroic civil disobedience, if an opportunity arises.

The public is not as easily manipulated as they were in days of TV, radio, and newspapers. The MSM cannot invent a cause for the malcontents and claim them to be noble. In these modern times, there are too many like Breitbart, Fox, and independents like us, who are willing to wade through the filth and depravity to find the real story. These guys are the true heroes, they are actually protecting the liberty of our country by exposing the degenerates living in squalor and filth while they consume drugs and engage in public sex to keep the momentum alive; rather than allowing the lies and propaganda of the Democrats and their propaganda bureaus know as the MSM to sway public opinion. Otherwise, the pimps and whores of the MSM would be able to convince the public of the humiliation and degradation these saints have suffered while trying to preserve our Constitution and our way of life. In other words they would feed us lies and propaganda and we would believe a lot of it and the police would become the henchmen of corporate greed. The Dems want to develop this scenario, but there are no leaders in the Mass of Morons. Many of those interviewed and can only express hatred of the Jew and other types of bigoted nonsense.

We can rightly criticize Ayers the degenerate and his harpy wife Dohrn, but the truth is they are intelligent people, despicable pieces of human waste, but intelligent; the Sixties had many brilliant people leading the protests and in the center of the action. They knew they were leading mindless misfits, but they were able to manage and manipulate the mobs. If these people are depending on Pelosi and the idiots directing every move of Obama, they are doomed to failure and will continue to be categorized as a mindless mob.

Bloomberg thinks the mob will find leadership and become a political force to be reckoned with, he is willing to gamble his political future on that assumption, but more importantly he is sending a message to New York City and across the country that such mindless mobs are automatically a legitimate force to be taken seriously, regardless of their lack of a message.

Bloomberg and the leadership of the Democrat Party are hoping beyond common sense that the OWS Mob will congeal into an effective antithesis to the TEA Party. There is a real problem with that line of thinking, assuming Bloomberg is even capable of thought. The TEA Party had many brilliant minds forming a unified message a long time before the earliest members walked out on the sidewalk that first time. There was a unifying force, the disgust and revulsion of the corruption and profligacy of Obama and his government.

The TEA Party demonstrators were well disciplined members of mainstream America with a coherent message that resonated with Americans of the heartland; fiscal responsibility has been difficult for the propaganda writers of the MSM and the Democrat party to condemn, but they tried and they are still trying to condemn these people from the heartland who believe in the Constitution.

With quiet dignity and a dedication to the principles of the Constitution, TEA Party members gained the attention and respect from other respectable members of mainstream America. They didn’t walk around in the nude, use sex as artistic and philosophical expression, they didn’t get whacked on drugs; they presented themselves as the type of American that everyday Americans are proud to be identified with.

When spring comes and Obama has impressed America with his military adventurism by starting a new war or two and managed to get many more patriotic Americans killed because he lacks any pretense of diplomacy or leadership, look for the OWS Mob to evolve into a more effective political tool of the Democrat Party. The Democrats know they have a potential for a mindless mob, that is ready to jump into the fray and engage in mindless hedonism for the sake of Obama. Thus if the Keystone Cop types in the White House can construct a unified message and plans for the mobs, there will be Hell to pay in the streets next summer. They only want to transform America and using the mob is seen as a tool to be used in the transformation. But a word of caution to the White House, mobs throughout history have often become unruly and sometimes they turn on their handlers for unintended consequences.

The police will be busy next year; they will be dealing with the desperation and frustration of Obama trying to win reelection after four years of failure. Thus the TEA Party and the OWS Mob have arisen from the same primordial ooze and have a similar DNA, they both owe their existence to a failed presidency that has been rejected by mainstream America and the antics of an incompetent president who is desperately running around like the proverbial outhouse rat seeking to renew his lease on the White House.

Biggest poll news of the last few days is this national Rasmussen poll of 1,000 likely voters showing Perry vaulting pass Romney:

• Rick Perry 29%
• Mitt Romney 18%
• Michele Bachmann 13%
• Ron Paul 9%
• Herman Cain 6%
• Newt Gingrich 5%
• Rick Santorum 1%
• Jon Huntsman 1%
• Thaddeus McCotter 0%
• Undecided 16% [9%]

Pretty damn surprising BUT he just got into the race. Will these numbers hold up once the left and the MSM aim their cannons at him daily as they did to Palin and Bachmann? We shall see.

Perry captures 39% of the vote among GOP primary voters who say they are members of the Tea Party, with Bachmann a distant second with 21% support from this group. Perry barely leads Romney among non-Tea Party members 27% to 24%, but this marks a interesting change from the previous survey when Romney held a double-digit lead over Perry among these voters.

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of primary voters hold a favorable opinion of Perry, with 38% Very Favorable. Bachmann is viewed favorably by 71%, with 32% who share a Very Favorable regard for her.

Romney has slightly higher overall favorable rating – 77% – than Perry and Bachmann, but there’s less enthusiasm in his support. Only 21% hold a Very Favorable opinion of him.

Roughly one-in-five hold an unfavorable view of the three front-runners.

Paul, who emerged as a Cinderella of sorts from the Saturday straw poll, is viewed favorably by 43% and unfavorably by 45%. Gingrich is in a similar position with favorables of 48% and unfavorables of 43%.

For Cain, Santorum, Huntsman and McCotter, name recognition is still a problem, with at least one-in-four primary voters still not aware of them enough to venture any kind of opinion.

It’s still very early, not a whole lot of people are paying attention except for us political junkies, and as Rove said, there might be a few more candidates throwing their hats into the ring….lots will change over the next few months I’m sure.

Now, moving away from the national to some regional polls like this Ohio poll done by PPP of 792 voters. Check out their sample…44% Democrats, 34% Republicans, and 22% Independents.

Yeeeaaaah. Should I even put up the numbers?

Anyways:

• Barack Obama 48%
• Michele Bachmann 41%

• Barack Obama 45%
• Rick Perry 41%

• Barack Obama 45%
• Mitt Romney 43%

• Barack Obama 47%
• Herman Cain 39%

Among Independents

• Barack Obama 45%
• Michele Bachmann 37%

• Mitt Romney 43%
• Barack Obama 38%

• Barack Obama 40%
• Herman Cain 38%

• Rick Perry 40%
• Barack Obama 35%

And lastly check out these two polls and tell me what’s weird:

Colorado:

• Rick Perry 20%
• Mitt Romney 20%
• Michele Bachmann 12%
• Ron Paul 8%
• Herman Cain 7%
• Newt Gingrich 6%
• Tim Pawlenty 3%
• Jon Huntsman 2%
• Someone else/Undecided 11%

And North Carolina

• Rick Perry 17%
• Mitt Romney 17%
• Herman Cain 11%
• Newt Gingrich 10%
• Michele Bachmann 9%
• Ron Paul 7%
• Tim Pawlenty 2%
• Jon Huntsman 1%
• Someone else/Undecided 9%

Perry has tied Romney in Colorado! And Romney has tied Perry in North Carolina!

Twilight zone time.

Granted, these were conducted last week prior to the Ames poll so the numbers will have changed already, with Bachmann gaining ground, but still plenty weird.

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Terry McAuliffe was a legendary Clinton fund raiser. Al Gore called him “the greatest fundraiser in the universe.”

McAuliffe also had the Midas Touch. In 1998 he invested $100,000 into something called Global Crossing and within 18 months had $18 million in his pocket. In less than four years Global Crossing went bankrupt, but McAuliffe knew to cash out well ahead of that. There’s more of this sordid affair here.

McAuliffe is the person who put the White House up for auction.

According to one source, “McAuliffe’s soft money strategy was responsible for President Clinton’s 1996 scandal concerning the Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers and the White House coffees, two tactics employed to solicit huge donations from wealthy friends and patrons of the Clintons.”

McAuliffe convinced the gullible Huffington Post that he is committed to green energy and green jobs.

The former Democratic National Committee chairman and father of five has gone on a green crusade to bring renewable energy jobs and industrial dynamism to his home state. The Commonwealth of Virginia is today at a cross-roads between old and new, between colonial conventional and diverse cosmopolitan, and it shares in the suffering that all states now experience, lack of jobs.

Whenever you hear a democrat talking green, think green- as in dead Presidents. And hang on tightly to your wallet. I have also noticed that as soon as someone says the word “green” or “renewable” left wingers stop thinking.

Yes, it’s the same and he is back in China, and back in the fundraising business. This time, he promises to bring 300,000 cars to China. Made in America by Americans. Assembled in China. In that new factory which is going up behind the two gentlemen.

How exactly could this be done profitably?

McAuliffe has joined something called Greentech Automotive:

Wang is CEO, McAuliffe is Chairman. According to some accounts, Xiaolin “Charles” Wang was still with Yang Rong a.k.a. Benjamin Yeung when Greentech was founded in 2006. According to the puff-piece Wikipedia article, the founding happened 2008, and Hybrid Kinetic did never exist in Wang’s illustrious career.

and is now raising funds for that company. Greentech Automotive has been described this way:

“Greentech Automotive is the hybrid vehicle firm founded by the former CEO of Brilliance with plans to build a plant in Mississippi with funds raised through the EB-5 visa program. Not to be confused with Hybrid Kinetic Motors, the hybrid vehicle firm founded by the former Chairman of Brilliance with plans to build a plant in Alabama with funds raised through the EB-5 visa program.”

The EB-5 visa program?

Both (Greentech and Hybrid Kinetic) attracted investors via the EB-5 visa program, a scheme which the Center for Immigration Studies along with many others call either “a scam” or “investor fraud.”

Allegedly, if someone invests $500,000 in an underprivileged part of America, green cards for the “investor” and the immediate family beckon. There are a lot of Chinese who paid much more to enter the U.S. illegally, so that’s considered a great deal. Some killjoys claim the investment must be “active” and the investor must be involved in managing the company. Minor detail.

Alabama is considering throwing millions at HK Motors, to which Edmunds Automotive has said

“Pouring millions of state funds into an untried automaker headed by an entrepreneur with a question mark hanging over his head (he says he’s done nothing wrong, that the charges against him in China are politically motivated) is something that’s ought to require a heck of a lot of due diligence on the part of state officials.”

More on Yang Rong, the President of Hybrid Kinetic Motors:

“But in 2002, after feuding with a Chinese provincial governor over the location of a new factory, Yang found himself charged with unspecified economic crimes. He fled the country under a false passport for Los Angeles, where he joined his wife and four children. Most of his own personal wealth had to be abandoned in China.”

Automotive News missed the good part. The dispute was about more than a location of a plant. It was about who owns what of Brilliance, a company that became the first Chinese corporation listed at the NYSE after 50 years. According to this account in the China Auto Review, Yang “was forced out as chairman of Brilliance China and served a warrant for allegedly committing “economic crimes of embezzlement of state assets” in late 2002.” Here is one of the many lengthy court documents, in case you have the time.

Wang was Rong’s lawyer.

A legal fallout between Yang and Wang split Greentech into two entities- Greentech and HK Motors.

Now Greentech and HK Motors are competing, promising new plants and thousands of jobs for either Alabama or Mississippi.

And this is supposed to turn the city of Ordos, Mongolia into a new Detroit.

Ordos is a city built for a million people.

It stands empty today.

And Terry McAuliffe is the chief fund raiser for Greentech. This is supposed to be a green initiative, but it smells like a landfill. The Green Revolution has seen AL Gore’s net worth skyrocket to $100 million. It seems McAuliffe wants in too.

If you recall the movie “Ghostbusters” you’ll remember that slime was always green.

Liberals:

President Obama: “It’s been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we’re not even halfway there yet. When I said `change we can believe in,’ I didn’t say `change we could believe in tomorrow.’ Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we’ve got this big, messy, tough democracy.”

President Barack Obama: “So, when Congress gets back in September I want to move quickly on things that will help the economy create jobs right now. Extending the payroll tax credit to put a thousand dollars in the pocket of the average American worker. Extending unemployment insurance to help people get back on their feet. Putting construction workers back to work rebuilding America.”

WH press secretary Jay Carney: “The White House doesn’t create jobs.”

Obama: “My singular focus is the American people. Getting the unemployed back on the job.”

Chris Matthews: “If Boeing doubled its contract with Air Force planes, that would be great news in Seattle and some other areas where they’re operating. In Houston, it’s space. In the southwest of Virginia, it’s Bobby Byrd!  Jack Murtha in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Why do people have this disconnect?  They know that the government creates jobs.  Every time in our life, we know that WWII saved us economically.  All our experience locally and historically is the government creates jobs.  And then you hear Eric Cantor, with this new cant of his, this religious notion of some kind, that somehow this belief in small business means that government shouldn’t do anything. Small business is the area of the economy that does best when government spends money. What’s he talking about?  …We studied this in school, we learn it from history.”

White House press secretary Jay Carney: “Over the past weeks and months the President repeatedly called for substantial deficit reduction through both long-term entitlement changes and revenues through tax reform, with additional measures to spark jobs and strengthen our recovery.  That is why the President pushed for a grand bargain that would include all of these elements and require compromise and cooperation from all sides.”  The key word here is revenue; I don’t recall any specifics from Obama about entitlement reform, apart from him mentioning that he might look at means testing.

Christine Romer, President Obama’s first chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, on the credit downgrading of the U.S.: “[The U.S. is] pretty darn f___ed.”

Claire McCaskill: “There is a philosophical difference between Democrats and Republicans and it is pretty simple: they have voted to keep giving tax check to billionairs while they voted to convert medicare to a voucher system.  How can you be more willing topush money—public money—to the most profitable corporations and, at the same time, you are willing to dismantle medicare.”

Senate majority leader Harry Reid: “It`s been a pretty hard work period we’ve had. The last two weekends, working late. And I think the Senate deserves to be able to go home as soon as we can. If there was ever a time we need to work with our constituents, it’s now. And for me personally, I’ve been here for a long time. I have a home in Nevada that I haven’t seen in months. My pomegranate trees are, I’m told, are blossoming – there’s pomegranates on them, I have some fig trees, roses and stuff that I just haven’t seen. So I have constituents that I’m anxious to see, friends I’m eager to visit with, relatives I need to visit with. So as soon as we can complete our work, I would like to move as quick as I can to the summer recess period.”

Joe Biden to Gabby Giffords: “Now we’re both members of the `Cracked Head Club.’”  Ms. Giffords had been shot in the head in Arizona and had come to the House to vote on the compromise bill.

Former presidential candidate John Kerry: “And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.  It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?”  So, it is the news’s job and moral duty to see that some viewpoints are not given much air time.  You never hear a conservative say this.  In fact, I feature more liberals than anyone else on this Say What? column.   I want everyone to know what they say; I want liberals I know to hear what they say.

Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn.org: “It’s hard to see how we avoid a Tea-Party recession if the president who has the biggest megaphone in the country is not willing to speak clearly on the issue.”

Actor Matt Damon: “I really don’t mind paying more taxes.”

Hillary Clinton: “Like it or hate it, it is really effective.  In fact, viewership of Al-Jazeera is going up in the United States because it is real news.  You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news that is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.”
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Open letter from the patriotic millionaires: “Dear Mr President

We are writing to urge you to put our country ahead of politics.

For the fiscal health of our nation and the well-being of our fellow citizens, we ask that you increase taxes on incomes over $1,000,000.”
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Al Gore on those who do not believe in global warming: “They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: `This climate thing, it’s nonsense. . .’ Bullshit! `It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! `It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!”

California Gov. Jerry Brown: “I would say that the Republicans are gearing up to destroy the president, that the president will have to respond in a very powerful way, and the result for the country could be calamitous.”

The Adoring Obama Press:

NY Times columnist Paul Krugman:  “On one hand, there is a case to be made that the madness of the right has made America a fundamentally unsound nation. And yes, it is the madness of the right: if not for the extremism of anti-tax Republicans, we would have no trouble reaching an agreement that would ensure long-run solvency.”

Chris Matthews: “You know I’m pretty pro-Obama in many ways. I sort of like the spirit of his administration. I like the whole direction its taken in terms of responsibility and what it stands for in our country’s history”

Good Morning America had on Mellody Hobson, a regular ABC “financial contributor” and former host of her own ABC financial-advice show:  “Now they [Standard & Poor’s] come in, and they flex. As if they’ve been, you know, this bastion of, of correctness, when they’ve completely been wrong.  So now, everything that they do is suspect, in my view.”  ABC never mentions that “financial expert” Hobston was an Obama fundraiser in 2008.

Yahoo Finance economics editor Daniel Gross: “In downgrading the U.S.’s credit rating, S&P points out what has long been obvious: Washington’s inability to come to an agreement on how to close the large fiscal gaps that have emerged since the recession began is troubling. Recent events have sapped the agency’s confidence that the government can and will do what is necessary to align revenues with spending commitments. And it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that America’s credit rating was intentionally sabotaged by Congressional Republicans.  It has long been obvious to all observers — to economists, to politicians, to anti-deficit groups, to the ratings agencies — that closing fiscal gaps will require tax increases, or the closure of big tax loopholes, or significant tax reform that will raise significantly larger sums of tax revenue than the system does now. Today, taxes as a percentage of GDP are at historic lows. Marginal rates on income and investments are at historic lows. Corporate tax receipts as a percentage of GDP are at historic lows. Perhaps taxes don’t need to rise this year or next, but they do need to go up in the future.”

Liberals from the past:

FoxNews Interviewer Peter Barnes: “Is there a risk the US could lose its AAA credit rating, yes or no?”

Tim Geithner: “No risk of that”

Barack Obama, In his State of the Union address on Jan. 25, 2011: “We are poised for progress.  Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up. The economy is growing again.”

Liberals being civil:

John Kerry on the TEA party types and those who want to balance the budget: “These people have been irresponsible, and reckless and absolutest. And what we need are people who are prepared to negotiate in good faith and protect certain interests of our country. We’ve got to invest in jobs.”

Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) at a closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting, “We have negotiated with terrorists.  This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.”

Steven Rattner, “Morning Joe” economic analyst: “It’s like a form of economic terrorism. I imagine these Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying either you do it my way or we’re going blow you up, ourselves up and the whole country up with us. So you tell me how those kinds of standoffs ends.”

Michael Eric Dyson, sociologist professor: “Once having been successful at blindfolding the American public, putting a gun to the president’s head, forcing him to read into law or to sign into law this extraordinary act of, I think, unpatriotic and irrational frenzy, I think that now they are emboldened.”

Former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean: “This is a tea party problem.  They are totally unreasonable and doctrinaire and not founded in reality. I think they’ve been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it.”

Van Jones, Center for American Progress: “Any faction in America that would put a gun to the head of 310 million people and say if you don’t do it our way we will blow your dreams away, we will blow a hole in the American economy, that is un-American.”

New York Times columnist Joe Nocera: “The country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible.”

Bernie Goldberg on the Obama media complex calling TEA party members terrorists: “These are people who won’t call real terrorists, terrorists.”

Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver called the compromise legislation a “sugar-coated Satan sandwich.”

Crazy Muslims:

London Islamist Abu Waleed: “What is the nightmare on Downing Street? The nightmare on Downing Street, my dear brothers, is when the door of 10 Downing Street is kicked down by one monotheist, and the Caliph walks in and establishes the shari’a,”

Audience member: “Say: Allah Akbar.”

Audience: “Allah Akbar!”

Abu Waleed: “The nightmare on Downing Street, my dear brothers, is when one monotheist pulls a rope, and raises the banner of “There is no god but Allah” above the Big Ben. The nightmare on Downing Street is when one monotheist flies a helicopter all the way to the top of the Big Ben. He removes those numbers, and replaces them with Arabic numbers. That is the nightmare of Downing Street, my dear brothers.  As you all understand, we, as Muslims, are not those types of coconut-chocolate moderate Muslims – the ones who bow their heads down to the government. Rather, we are the ones who want to work for the sake of Allah, to establish the manifestation of Islam, and make sure that David Cameron comes on his hands and knees, and give us the jiziya – yeah, that’s right – and cover up all the women and put a niqab on their faces, including Queen Elizabeth and Kate Middleton, the whore, the fornicator.”

Liberals making sense:

NYT Op-Ed Columnist, Joe Nocera: “I wrote a column comparing the Tea Party Republicans to terrorists. The words I chose were intemperate and offensive to many, and I’ve been roundly criticized. I was a hypocrite, the critics said, for using such language when on other occasions I’ve called for a more civil politics. In the cool light of day, I agree with them. I apologize.”

China’s official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary: “The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone.  To cure its addiction to debts, the United States has to re-establish the common sense principle that one should live within its means.”

Obama: “We’ve gotta make sure that Washington lives within its means, just like families do.”

Crosstalk:

George Will: All of the people comparing the Tea Party to suicide bombers, one of whom is Steve [Rattner] here.

Christiane Amanpour: I don’t think he said that, did he?

Will: Yes.

Steve Rattner, MSNBC economic analyst and former obama administration car czar: No.

Roberts: Terrorists are suicide bombers.

Will: I can read you the transcript from the morning show.

Rattner: I was there. I was there.

Will: I understand, I was watching.
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What Rattner said on MSNBC: “You know, the problem with this is it’s like a form of economic terrorism. I imagine these Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying, ‘either you do it my way, or we’re going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up with us.’ So you tell me how those kinds of standoffs end.”

Whatever:

Hitler: “Was the teleprompter guy out of town or something?”

Conservatives:

Congressman Allen West (Fl-22) released this statement: “Happy 50th Birthday Mr. President! While surprises are for birthdays, it is no surprise to the American people that your failed economic policies – from TARP to your health care bill – have resulted in disaster for our economy. Since taking office, unemployment has remained at or near 9 percent for 28 months, America has added $3.4 trillion in debt in 29 months – the equivalent of about $4 billion per day – we have an anemic housing market with record foreclosures, and an average price of nearly $4 for a gallon of gas. Even your budget did not receive one single vote in the United States Senate – and the icing on the cake – a stock market slide of nearly 800 points in the last 5 days.  While it may be hard to hear the American people’s frustration over the pop of the champagne corks and R&B bands at your $30,000/person birthday party, the citizens of this nation are suffering under your failed leadership. The best present you can give the American people will be for you and your failed economic policies to be defeated in November of 2012.”

Charles Krauthammer on why President Obama won’t let overseas money travel back into the U.S.: “When he sees a trillion dollars over there untaxed, it gives him pain.”

Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty: “My goodness, it’s his [Obama’s] economy; he’s been president for 3 years.  He’s inept.”

Neil Cavuto, when going to commercial, after explaining to a liberal Congressman the percentage the rich pay in taxes, and have him come back with “the rich need to pay their fair share”: “I beg you to stop.”

Nicolle Wallace: “Only in Washington is a lesser increase in spending called a cut.”

Michelle Malkin: “You can’t conduct a stealth, carefully -organized campaign the way you used to anymore; if you just go on twitter anytime of the day, Mitt Romney’s habit of issuing statements about the importance policy debates of the day, hours after these things have been decided—days, weeks, months—has become a running punch line.  This is going to be a continuing chronic problem for him.”

Peggy Noonan: “[Obama] is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.”

Amilya Antonetti (a small businesswoman): “He’s not going to be known as the first Black president; he’s going to be known as the president to have a downgrade.”

Mary Katherine Hamm (tongue-in-cheek): “That stimulus [law] was super-awesome.”

Texas Governor Rick Perry, at the prayer-fest: “He’s a wise, wise God, and He’s wise enough not to be affiliated with any political party.”

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal: “It pays to be stubborn.  The press is constantly urging compromise. They root for it like it is the highest possible virtue, the sign of true maturity and achievement in life.”

From Conservative Review #190  (HTML)  (PDF)

Crossposted from The Pacific Gate Post

The developed world, and most of the struggling third world, as much as it may pretend otherwise for politically expedient reasons, is depending on an American economic turnaround. This means that the world is in fact awaiting, not for Washington to solve its debt crisis, not for a forestalling of Obama’s armageddon, not for resolutions of budget deficits, but for the resurgence of America’s unique brand of entrepreneurialism.

American entrepreneurs have always been the consummate optimists, whose innovation, creativity, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and financial diligence, have produced the most successful economic engine in history. Entrepreneurs have independently created companies, big and small, that have sustained the tests of time and market adversities, and some have gone on to become international behemoths.

Today, America is spinning and twisting under leadership that vilifies businesses and maligns corporate America. It imposes laws, and institutes structural dictates that push entrepreneurship into the realm of the nearly impossible. An administration that promotes a climate of government growth and government dependence, is promoting the destruction of the fundamental and positive core of the human spirit that makes for a dynamic society.

When government grows faster than the private sector, net productivity shrinks. Such is the trend in America. It would be a complete waste of time to look to Washington for ideas or programs that might actually be helpful to any advancement of the entrepreneurial exercise. Furthermore, let’s not look to those glad-handers, who’ve gravitated to the beltway to rub shoulders with this Administration, for any answers. The agenda is being manipulated by less than a handful of ideologues behind Obama. Everything else is showcasing and pretense for the masses, accomplishing nothing positive toward improving productivity or increasing GDP.

Not everyone is cut out to become an entrepreneur, however, the urgent need for supporting entrepreneurship is now more manifest than at any time in the past century. Far too broad a swath of the MSM has been supportively trumpeting the Obama Administration’s ideological convictions and hostility toward corporate America. Too many Americans are sliding into the slothful perception that heaping taxation on those who “have,” is an answer to deficits produced by bloated government spending.

Since America’s earliest days, entrepreneurs have disseminated enthusiasm and passion for success which has been contagious. American entrepreneurs champion the work ethic while playing by the country’s rules and laws that much of the world may not emulate, but furtively admires. I say “may not emulate” because, as we have discovered in so many other socio-political environments including China, laws and decency don’t often matter.

In high schools, colleges and universities, students should be encouraged to break new ground for themselves as new entrepreneurs, rather than to go out and “find a job.” It’s always easier and is the default to pursue the latter, but some encouragement is required to attempt the former. Educational institutions should place more emphasis on the stimulation of entrepreneurial thinking, and should allocate class time and courses to the encouragement of new entrepreneurs. You may not be able to “teach” entrepreneurialism, but you can certainly induce its discovery, and inspire its actualization.

Some entrepreneurs may be born, but entrepreneurialism is also a mindset that can be ignited and nurtured, and its required skills developed. More effort should be addressed to cultivating the perception that entrepreneurs are among the most positive contributors to a vibrant and successful society. They are critical to the economic health of America. The entrepreneurial attitude is the antithesis of the union led bureaucratic morass that has grown out of control, and clogged the wheels of progress and the financial well being of companies.

Typically the entrepreneurs who grab public attention are those who cut new trails in technology, however, any new business, in any industry, that can be formed to employ at least one person, is a step in the right direction. America has no choice but to reverse the current trend toward disaster. The Nation must enthusiastically promote entrepreneurialism and its optimistic perseverance.

The world looks forward to America’s new entrepreneurs and the energy they will inject into the world’s most consequential economy.