In the eight days leading up to the budget deal signed late Friday, the federal debt increased 54.1 billion dollars. Yeah, I know. 54.1 billion dollars in only eight days. Wow!
So that means the whopping 38.5 billion dollars in cuts, the largest in history that Obama is hijacking, taking credit for and implementing in to his reelection campaign, that 38.5 billion in cuts he had nothing to do with, taken away from the 54.1 billion dollars in just eight days means the government was still 15.6 billion dollars in the red just for those eight days.
That historic cut that everybody seems to want to take credit for amounted to just about a grain of sand on a beach. What's the point? Oh yeah. Politics.
According to the Bureau of the Public Debt, we are currently $14.2642 trillion in the hole as of April 7th. And to think, the politicians are patting themselves on the back, proudly touting how responsible they are and what a great job they did. Well, at least somebody thinks so.
The full text of the decision from Federal Judge Roger Vinson is not available yet, but according to reporters who've seen the decision, he's ruled the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The ruling favors of the 26 state attorney generals challenging the law. The judge ruled the individual mandate that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance invalid and, according to the decision, "because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ-8) has been in my prayers, as her family has been as well. She was targeted for assassination and basically ambushed at a Safeway in Tucson. She never saw it coming and was shot in the head. Six others are dead.
Doctors are cautiously optimistic she will live and according to the Huffington Post she recognized her husband early Sunday morning.
The gunman, Jared Lee Loughner was a kook, period. How he voted or what side of the aisle he aligned himself with is a moot subject. It doesn't matter. He's as much of a retard as John Hinckley, Jr. A fruitbasket that should have been committed to a mental asylum. Oh that's right, we don't have many of them anymore. You might want to reconsider that terrible decision (to close most asylums). Apparently, he has a troubled history. And those of you excuse makers that are against capital punishment, how do you feel now? When he's found guilty, Jared Lee Loughner should be electrocuted in the chair, not decades or even years after he's convicted, but days or weeks. He chose to murder 6 people in cold blood. No excuses. Capital punishment is the only just punishment.
Law enforcement is convinced Loughner did not act alone. They are looking for a 50 year old white male, so this could get pretty deep when all is said and done. We don't know who or what is behind this conspiracy, so there's no point speculating until the facts become known.
Giffords was not some way out leftist. According to my research, is one of the few that is not a progressive, and is considered a "blue dog."
Another troubling aspect(s) of this premeditated crime is politics. "Never let a good crisis go to waste." Before the bodies were even being hauled away from the crime scene the Tea Party was in the loony left's cross-hairs. That's sick. It's just as sick as the gunman's act. I suspect that's what we will be inundated with over the course of the next few weeks.
And the anti-constitution crowd will also use this to promote new gun restrictions. We already know the power brokers running this country have no love for the 2nd Amendment. I believe that will be coming under assault.
Right now the important thing is Gabrielle Giffords health. Let's all take a moment tonight and pray for her, and her family in their time of need.
I only had one vote for national office this year since none of the senators were up for reelection. I cast my vote for Erik Paulsen here in Minnesota's 3rd District. I aided other Republican candidates throughout the country, namely Michele Bachmann, John Kline, Sean Duffy, Ron Johnson and Dan Banishek. All of them won.
This wasn't a party-line, rubber stamp on the Republican Party, in fact I'm very skeptical of the Republican Party as a whole, I don't trust them any more than I trust the Democrats to be honest, but for me this vote indicated a stop the socialism mandate from across the country.
So what do you expect the Republican House majority to do now? The Democrats still have the senate and the White House, at least for the next two years. Can they repeal the Soviet-style Socialized Medicine law? No. They can't. They can defund it, and starve it out of existence, right? Yes and No. Obama will most likely veto a budget that has defunded his Socialist Medicine law, the Republicans do not have the numbers to override that veto.
"The police acted stupidly." Remember that one? Barack Obama shooting his mouth off with no evidence, just a sick and twisted professional victim state of mind. There have been two or three other major incidents where Obama accused, and when the truth came out, well, he had to put his foot back in his mouth.
And here we go again with the Chamber of Commerce accusations of foreign money going to Republican candidates via the Chamber. Wow! Obama really hates business, doesn't he? That is the normal mindset of a Marxist. I don't see any accusations spewing from his mouth when it comes to big labor, do you?
So the Idiot-In-Chief is accusing the Chamber of funding GOP candidates with foreign money. Ya got any proof of that, Sport? Present the evidence. Or do you just expect everyone to believe what you say? Show me the proof. That's a tactic of the left. Change the narrative, make baseless accusations and present it so you have to prove it didn't happen. In other words, you are guilty unless you can prove innocence.
Lori Sturdevant had a column in the October 7th edition of the Star Tribune in which she made some points that were valid, but also, in usual left-of-center fashion, missed the big picture.
Apparently MNGOP Chair Tony Sutton stated that the 13 Horner backers (former GOP legislators) were “a generation of Republicans that were not successful, the permanent minority.” That was news to me, I didn’t hear that until I read Sturdevant’s column. MNGOP has been a weak, moderate friendly establishment party that goes along to get along for so long, that I don’t even pay attention to what is going on over there anymore, I just pay attention to the candidates and apply my litmus test, if they are moderates, they fail.
The part I take issue with is Sutton’s “permanent minority” comment. That was anything but true, as she points out:
Looks as though Obama’s 23 point lead in regard to the question of who is better, Bush or Obama has been cut to just 2. That would seem to indicate a fairly large number of Democrats are finally waking up, and we already know the ever important independents have seen the light, they have slid over to the right in droves over the past year.
(CNN) – Americans are divided over whether President Barack Obama or his predecessor has performed better in the White House, according to a new national poll.
And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday also indicates in the battle for Congress, Republicans hold large advantages over the Democrats among independents, men and blue-collar whites. The poll also indicates that Republicans are much more enthusiastic than Democrats to vote.
It's been a busy summer over in my world. Spent a lot of time up north, which is the main reason my postings have been sparse to say the least. We're going back one more time over Halloween and that's it until spring. Naturally, I will be contributing more, now that the season is over. I want to take a minute to touch on yesterdays news. The 10-2-10 One Nation Radical Rally, so here goes...
The 10-2-10 Radical Rally One Nation Under Marx, or whatever the hell those anti-Americans called that Communist get-together. I wanted to make sure all the nasty little details were published which have vindicated everything I said about this rally last week on LML. I have been vindicated.
It’s like I know these leftists better than their own parents. Oh! I’m sorry. Did I say, “parents?” That’s plural. I mean parent, and the one parent is probably lucky if she knows who juniors father is.
Takers. It doesn’t matter if it’s Barack or Michelle. They’re takers. Extravagant 5 star vacations and it’s not being paid for by them, but somebody else. That’s the motto of progressive Democrats. Money is no object when you can make your subjects pay the bill. Hey! Come on, now! We’re spreading the wealth around. Nothing wrong with that! What exactly did we get out of the deal? Silly me, the satisfaction of knowing that we paid the bill for her and her kids vacation. I live to serve the Obama’s, don’t you? Everyday I wake up and think I’ve got to work a little harder to make life easier for my family and then it dawns on me how selfish that is, because I put my family first, without even thinking of the Obama’s. Then I get on my knee’s before the statue of Barack that is proudly displayed in my livingroom and pray to the almighty for forgiveness and enlightenment. Praying above all else, to be worthy to serve the Obama’s.
Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends, which could easily cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering £50,000 a day.
The First Lady has been lambasted for her extravagance at a time when the economy is still struggling. One blogger went so far as to brand her a modern-day Marie Antoinette.
More bad news for the worst president in modern times. Hey! I guess this poll by a left-leaning polling firm, a very prominent one as well, is showing that the statement “worst president in modern history” isn’t really that far off the mark, nor is it merely rhetoric.
In a recent poll by Public Policy Polling, going up against 4 potential GOP nominee’s in a hypothetical 2012 match-up, Obama loses in three and ties in one. And who is he tied with? This will drive the left-wing loons even more batty than they already are… Sarah Palin. It’s 46 a piece.
This post may be recycled a bit, some of you may have read similar posts but since I’ve been on vacation for almost two weeks and pretty much out of the blogging loop, I’m going ahead with it because it is still pertinent, and still a big issue.
I don’t know how else to describe Obama and his administration other than radical, tone-deaf, out of touch, with a blatant disregard of the law and constitution. Tyranny in other words.
We all know by now the DOJ led by the bigot Eric Holder filed suit against Arizona, and we all know the government is going to lose. It’s a ridiculous, frivolous lawsuit that was put in to motion purely for political reasons. That should tell you something about this administration and this president that willingly places partisan politics ahead of the safety of its own citizens. They’ve lost the white vote, they’ve lost the independent vote, they’ve lost the Jewish vote, they’ve lost some Democrats, so now they are trying to buy the Hispanics, and the roughly 20 million illegal aliens that will show their appreciation for amnesty by voting Democrat. Meantime Americans are being killed, the drug cartels are running free and Phoenix is the kidnap capital of the civilized world. Screw our own people, I want absolute power! Though he didn’t say those words, remember what I always say, “Actions speak louder than words.”
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving senator in American history, died Monday at the age of 92, a spokesman for the family said.
Byrd, a Democrat who served in the U.S. Senate since 1959, had been plagued by health problems in recent years and was confined to a wheelchair. He had skipped several votes in Congress in the past months.
Jesse Jacobs, a family spokesman, said Byrd died peacefully at about 3 a.m. at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Va.
Fired, resigned, it's the same thing. Barack Obama wanted him gone, and gone he is. But the real question is why? "Oh come on man, it's for what he said in that Rolling Stone article. What are you? Stupid?" Really? Could you be specific? "Come on man, it's in Rolling Stone, everybody knows it." I know, that's what you keep telling me. I'm asking you to be specific. "I don't know man, I didn't read it. But it's in there. Everybody says so. It's all over the news and, you know, those dudes in the government, you know, Senators and congress guys and stuff, they all say it. And the president man, he says it too."
Oh, I see. You mean when he was kind of dismissive of Joe Biden? "Yeah man." Um, that was over a year ago and McChrystal was already held accountable and reprimanded for those statements. Yesterdays news. You must be talking about the reinforcements. When it was leaked that McChrystal wanted 40,000 additional troops at the minimum and Obama sat on his hands for months before making a decision. Embarrassing the president like that wasn't a good thing, so obviously you mean that incident. "Yeah man. You don't mess with the president like that." Well, McChrystal was summoned to the White House and held accountable for that as well. Almost a year ago. Yesterdays news again. "Well I don't know man. It's in Rolling Stone." No. Actually, it isn't.
I read the article in Rolling Stone and there were no disparaging quotes about the president by Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Not one. Some of his staff said some things and even what they said weren't as bad as the phony media and talking heads of the political world claimed. The point being Stanley McChrystal did not say "those things" in that Rolling Stone article. The real question should be, who wanted McChystal out and why?
I just knew it. I didn’t know when, but I knew it was coming. For the record, I was never in favor of or supportive of Harriet Miers nomination by President Bush to the SCOTUS. But it seems some high profile Republicans that still hold office were. They cited her being an outsider without prior judicial experience as a positive, but now that Obama nominated Elena Kagan, all of a sudden judicial experience matters. Let me see if I have this right. It was okay with the Bush nominee, but not the Obama nominee. Why some people would call that hypocritical.
You see, this is why I hate politicians. You either be consistent or get the hell out of D.C. Be true to yourself and don’t back down from your principles and beliefs just because your guy does something, or the other guy does something. This is why the majority of America despises congress.
I got the idea for this post from Mike Lillis of the Washington Independent and of all places, Media Matters. Oddly enough those two sources only cite Republican inconsistencies. What those two sources don’t tell you is the very same Democrats are for Elena Kagan for the exact same reasons they opposed Harriet Miers. Hypocrisy again. Are you as fed up with this crap as I am? From both sides. We have the opportunity to stop this crap in November. I suggest we do. It’s time for fresh blood in D.C., on both sides.
Patriot's Day is celebrated on the third Monday in April. It commemorates the Battle of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Paul Revere rode 16 miles from Olde North Church in Boston to Lexington. The British arrived in Lexington in the early dawn of April 19, 1775. It was there that the Patriots or 'Minutemen' and British confronted each other on the green and "the shot heard round the world" was fired.
I wonder if there's any way to have a political discussion anymore. It all seems to be a game of "gotcha" and the meaning behind the gotcha phrase is sit down and shut up.
We'll use some of today's issues like spending. You bring that up and nine times out of ten you'll hear "what about Bush?" or "Bush started it." No disputing that fact, it is true, but justifying one wrong with another wrong, well... that's just wrong. Does it really matter who started it? The issue at hand is its gotten worse and unsustainable and it needs to be stopped and reversed. Pointing at the past isn't exactly living in today.
That mentality is what made the phrase "two wrongs don't make a right" popular. Or, "If you knew someone that jumped off the Empire State building, would you?" This is what we have become. A nation of people looking for the ultimate "gotcha." And while we're playing that juvenile game, our problems keep mounting with no substanative solutions, just sound bites.
Another hot button item is immigration. Speak out about illegal immigration and you're a racist. Wow! That's really small minded. I love the look on their faces when I tell them I'm an immigrant. That's right! Born in Canada, that makes me an immigrant. So I guess that also makes me racist against myself according to their logic.
Without fail the usual I'm racist towards Hispanics babble flows. I'm not the one that brings Hispanics in to the conversation, they are. So technically they are associating Hispanics in a negative stereotype. Wouldn't that make them the real racists? Of course it would.
And here we go again, around and around playing a fools game.
