"SLOW JOE" BIDEN, FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE, PROTECTOR OF THE DOWNTRODDEN….

In typical loony liberal fashion, our favorite vice president, "Slow Joe" Biden, has been out saying that there is just no way that charging corporate jets a $100 fee to take off or land at U.S. airports “is class warfare.” "Slow Joe" prefers to describe it as a “reasonable” way for executives and corporations to help pay for policing American communities. “If corporate jets just paid a $100 fee every time it took off or landed in America, that would raise $11.5 billion,” "Slow Joe" said, adding that the money could be used to “make sure the streets are safe.” Could be used, says old "Slow Joe." He also said, “So folks, this is not class warfare, this is all about just being rational and reasonable.” Ok, since when did Democrats and action that is considered "rational and reasonable" start going together?

When he made these most recent idiotic comments, "Slow Joe" was speaking at the Alexandria Police Department in Alexandria, Va.. He was there on Thursday to promote, of all things, Barry Almighty's" bogus $450-billion American Jobs Act, which supposedly, includes $5 billion to retain or hire law enforcement personnel around the country. "Slow Joe" said the federal government could also raise money for law enforcement and other causes by increasing the taxes paid by those sleazy hedge fund managers, who he called “good guys.” “Except they pay at a 15 percent tax, and you pay a 28 percent,” "Slow Joe" said, spewing the same drivel as Barry himself. “And I don’t get that,” he said. “How is that fair? How’s that fair?” Again with it being all about "fairness."


"Slow Joe" said that if only those hedge fund managers would pay the same taxes as “middle class folks pay,” the cost of law enforcement in the United States could be covered “for the next several years.” “If they just paid the same 28 percent rate middle class folks pay – not even the upper rate – that’s $12-and-a-half billion dollars,” said Biden. “That’s enough to cover half of the costs, or all of the costs, for the next several years of law enforcement that we’re talking about.” The event where "Slow Joe" spoke also was held for the purpose of announcing more than $243 million in federal grants to add officers to departments, including in Alexandria, which received almost $900,000 allowing it to add four staff positions.


Just a brief word here on fairness, if I might. Look, I'm all for being fair, but what I see as being blatantly unfair is to ask those who already pay more than their "fair" share to pay more before you bother to ask those who pay nothing at all, in the way of income taxes, to pay something. If we are all in this mess together and it's as bad as everyone says that it is, then everyone should be asked to pony up something, at least until we're able to extricate ourselves from our current economic and financial situation. No one, and I do mean no one, should be entitled to be on the receiving end of what is essentially a free ride. These parasites, who are so willing to just sit back, not being bothered in the slightest when watching everyone constantly being made to pay an ever-increasing amount in taxes, need to be made to pay something. For them not to be, well I'll just use "Slow Joe's" words, how's that fair?

AL GORE, THE MOUTH THAT ROARED...

Our old buddy Al Gore is at it again. This time doing his best to sound the alarm that Democracy in the U.S. is being undermined by Congress appeasing special interest groups in return for campaign funding rather than tackling climate change. You see, since losing back in 2000, old Al has moved on to a rather profitable little career, hyping non-existent man-made climate change, which he has now transformed into a rather lucrative little enterprise for himself. Conning all within earshot and bribing those, who I can only assume would otherwise be respectable scientists, he can't con, Al has done his best to paint an image of events that long ago, if his predictions had been anywhere near right, should have taken place. But I'm here to tell you, sitting here in Florida that should by now be underwater, that Al's little premise is nothing more than a money making little scheme that has worked out quite nicely for him. Gore is part of that same cadre of malcontents who just a short 40 years ago, or so, were warning us of the coming new ice age. When that didn't quite pan out for them, they just altered course and began to make the claim that man was causing the planet to warm unnaturally. Al Gore continues to sound the alarm, saying that there was now incontrovertible proof that climate change is directly responsible for the extreme and devastating floods, storms and droughts that displace millions of people a year all across the globe. At least that what's our stellar former vice president and global warming campaigner stated at a recent conference in Scotland. Speaking to an audience of business leaders, political leaders including Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond and green energy entrepreneurs in Edinburgh, Gore said the world is now at a "fork in the road".

The former US vice-president, failed presidential; candidate and climate campaigner also argued that America has suffered a "breakdown in democratic governance", because members of Congress are obsessed with appeasing special interests in return for campaign funding, rather than confronting climate change. The perpetual modern day "Chicken Little" made it clear that is it his opinion that US democracy had been undermined. "In the language of computer culture, our democracy has been hacked," he said. In a near hour-long "speech" to the Scottish low-carbon investment conference, Now is that a title or what, Gore said the evidence from the floods in Pakistan, China, South Korea and Columbia was now so compelling that the case for urgent action by world leaders to combat carbon emissions has become overwhelming it cannot be ignored. "Observations in the real world make it clear that it's happening now, it's real, it's with us," he said. Failing to take immediate action meant the world would face a catastrophe. Gore added that nearly every climate scientist actively publishing on the subject now agreed there was a causal link between carbon emissions and the sharp increase in intense and extreme weather events seen across the globe. "Every single national academy of science of every major country on earth agrees with the consensus and the one's that don't agree with it do not exist. This is what they say to governments: 'The need for urgent action is now indisputable'. "The environment in which all storms are formed has changed. It's influence is now present according to the leading scientists in all storms, and they speak of relative causation." What he should have said is the the ones who don't agree are at best ignored and at worst personally attacked and, if possible, have their reputations destroyed.


A report on the event by the Environmental Data Interactive Exchange, some European Web site, said Gore had praised Scotland’s efforts in the field of renewable energy, including efforts to harness wave and tidal power. “Although developments in this sector remain at an early stage, let me tell you that the whole world is rooting for you,” it quoted him as saying. “Frankly, we already have everything we need around the world to address climate change and renewable energy issues. All that is lacking in many areas is the political will to carry those solutions through. “In that context, of course, it’s important to remember that political will is itself a renewable resource,” he said. Gore acknowledged that global economic problems had created a “time of apprehension,” saying some politicians were “paralyzed” by arguments about the heavy cost of investing in renewable energy. But sounding eerily like Barry "Almighty", he said, plenty of jobs were on the horizon. “Jobs are going to be especially important in this process, of course, and you are going to see the creation of lots and lots of jobs.” The Scottish daily Herald reported on an exchange between Gore and a member of the audience during a short question-and-answer session. It said Edinburgh city councilor Cameron Rose had challenged the “consensus” argument, pointing out that some respected scientists disagree. “Mr. Gore responded with an analogy that a man with chest pains would take the health advice of 98 doctors and ignore the two that said there was nothing to worry about,” the paper reported.


In his best used car salesman pitch, Gore made the claim that there is now overwhelming evidence that the globe's hydrological cycles were changing: as the atmosphere and oceans warmed, more water was evaporating and getting stored in the atmosphere. The amount of water vapor over the oceans had increased by 4% in 30 years, particularly around the tropics and sub-tropics. In turn this fed even heavier and more violent storms and flooding incidents, which in Pakistan displaced 20 million people earlier this year, and which forced out 8.5 million from 13 provinces in China. This destabilization of global weather patterns then fed into a complex cycle of more intense and prolonged droughts in drought-prone regions, which in turn caused more frequent and more vicious wildfires, increased desertification of agricultural land, and was now affecting river levels in the Amazon. There were 387 million people affected by droughts in the first six months of this year. China, Iraq and Iran also recorded their highest ever temperatures during this period. The city of Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan recorded a temperature of 53.5C, while in the United States, 200 cities broke their highest temperature records this summer. In Texas, 252 out of the state's 254 counties had experienced major wildfires during 2011. Gore then proceeded to cite a recent report from something called the global insurance Munich Re, that climate change was "the only plausible explanation" for the rapid increase in extreme weather events. "They're paid to get this right. It's their job," he said. I would ask, paid by whom exactly?


Anyway, Gore droned on: "They used to say we're changing the odds, we're loading the dice that make it more likely that we'll get extreme weather events. Now the change is we're not only loading the dice, we're painting more dots on the dice. We're not only rolling more 12s, we're rolling 13s and 14s and soon 15s and 16s." Arguing that the younger generation would demand world leaders show the "moral courage" to take action, he heaped praise on Salmond, applauding his "vision and leadership" for championing wave, tidal and offshore wind power in Scotland. At the end of Gore’s hour-long "speech," Salmond, who envisages Scotland as leading the world in wind power, led a standing ovation. Oddly enough, however, The Scotsman and the Herald both reported that hours after Gore had heaped praise on Scotland’s “inspiring” efforts, the head of the Scottish Chamber of Commerce warned in a speech in Glasgow that the cost of subsidizing the renewable sector could bankrupt businesses as a result of soaring power bills. Chamber chairman Mike Salter, an energy industry veteran, noted that the cost of a wind farm project off the British coast made the power it generated 25 percent more expensive than had been estimated 18 months ago – and 25-35 percent more expensive than nuclear energy. “The Scottish Government have committed to have the majority of generation coming from this very expensive source by 2020,” Salter said. “All I say at this time is, ‘have a care.’” “This is indeed a very significant opportunity for Scotland, but only if the cost base is right. If as a consequence, the rest of the economy is disadvantaged then perhaps such a total commitment is misguided. Other lower-cost technologies are available."


Now I hate to be one of the wet blankets here, but unlike our buddy Al Gore and his Scottish chum Mr. Salmond, there are a great many climate scientists and even some environmental activists who have become much more cautious about attributing various weather events and trends to man-made climate change, especially after a series of blows to the credibility of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including the “Climategate” data-manipulation scandal and the IPCC’s retraction of an assertion in a key 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. In his speech, Gore referred among other things to recent flooding in Pakistan, where an estimated five million people have been affected, especially in the southern Sindh province. Pakistani government and meteorological department statistics for river discharges during the monsoon season (July-September) show flooding has occurred frequently, including in 1950, 1956, 1976, 1977, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2003, 2007 and 2010. The deadliest flooding on record occurred in 1950, when almost 3,000 lives were lost, followed by the 2010 floods, which cost up to 2,000 lives. Around 1,800 people died during the 1992 monsoon. Pakistan’s Indus River runs from the Himalayas through Kashmir and Pakistan before emptying into the Arabian Sea. Some 100 million people live in the fertile Indus Valley, and many are at risk when heavier-than-usual rains dump huge amounts of additional water into the Indus. Experts point out that the Indus is also more prone to flooding than many rivers because it carries significant quantities of sediment, causing waterways to silt up and embankments to breach.


Al Gore and his band of fellow "climate change" hoaxers, are strictly in the business of making money for themselves and they have been very successful in that endeavor. But it is all nothing more than a very expensive scam that makes anything that might have been perpetrated by Bernie Madoff pale in comparison. Al and his friends have beome very rich at our expense, and a bigger bunch of hypocrites you'll not find anywhere. They wish to exclude themselves from the manner in which they would like to force the rest of us to live. Gore fancies himself as the high priest of this bizarre little religion that is based on something that is completely fictional. There is absolutely nothing about what Gore professes as being underway that has any basis, whatsoever, in actual fact. It's a myth which Gore and others like him, are working feverishly, in their desperate attempt, to prove is a fact. And has much as this whole theory has been so soundly discredited and shown to be a fraud, there has been no let up in the rhetoric from Gore and his ilk that we continue to face some apocalyptic climate event. And it just ain't gonna happen. But it hasn't prevented government from dictating to us the size of our toilets, the size of our cars and even what type of light bulbs we can have in our homes. We are all under assault here in the name of man-made climate change that isn't actually taking place. This is the same twisted mentality behind all the "green" rhetoric we hear coming from Barry "Almighty." We are going to be required to take a stand against this sort of nonsense or be made to suffer economic consequences the magnitude of which we would never be able to survive.

THINGS GETTING CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER...

Well, well, well. Apparently a recent Daily Caller investigation has found out that, in addition to the failed company Solyndra, there are at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies who have been on the receiving end of an excess of $500 million in "loan" guarantees from the Barry "Almighty" administration. Companies, which by the way, employ executives or board members who have donated substantial sums of money to Democrat campaigns. And as questions continue to swirl around possible connections between political donations and these preferential financing arrangements, the Barry White House has suddenly taken the tack of now deflecting questions on the topic, from The Daily Caller, and I assume others, on Wednesday to that other pillar of trustworthiness, the Democratic National Committee (DNC). When asked on Wednesday to comment on the connection between large Democratic donors and Barry administration "loan" guarantees to the companies they just happen to represent, the White House responded to The DC with a single sentence: “We refer your question to the Democratic National Committee.” Imagine that. Concerns about the long-term viability of Solyndra, first made public by The Daily Caller back in February, and have now expanded to include the financial health of other loan-guarantee recipient firms as well.

These same companies have suffered from declining stock prices despite they're receiving most-favored status over there in the Barry White House. Yet as the end of the federal government’s fiscal year looms on Friday, a whole new series of loans could be finalized amounting to more than nine times what taxpayers have already lost on the failed company Solyndra. “Who was visiting the White House during this period of time?” Texas GOP Rep. Joe Barton asked when contacted by TheDC. Barton is a former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “Who were they talking to and what were they talking about? Are there more loans at risk of not being paid back? Are these good investments or political favors?” adding, “The American people just lost a half billion dollars and they deserve answers to these questions before more money is wasted. Until we know exactly what happened, I think we should slow down this loan program and take a closer look at each case.” “It is becoming more clear with each revelation that warning signs were ignored in the Solyndra case,” Barton continued. “Yet in the next 48 hours — because of a deadline that can still be changed — the Department of Energy is going to hand out another $5 billion in loans."


Yes indeedee, corruption does run pretty deep there in the old Barry White House. Companies like First Solar, SolarReserve, SunPower Corporation and Abengoa SA have already, collectively, received Billions in loans through Barry administration "stimulus" programs to build solar power plants in the southwestern United States. Yet each, with the exception of the privately held SolarReserve, has seen its stock price hammered at the same time it was heavily lobbying the Barry administration and Congressional Democrats for Billions more in loan guarantees. The Hill newspaper reported Wednesday that the Santa Monica, Calif.-based SolarReserve has secured a $737 Million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy for a Nevada solar project. And something I'm sure that can be explained away as being merely a coinsidence is the fact that that company has ties to George Kaiser, the Oklahoma billionaire who raised $53,500 for Barry "Almighty’s" campaign in 2008. Through his Argonaut Private Equity firm, Kaiser holds a majority stake in Solyndra. Argonaut has a voting stake on SolarReserve’s board of directors in the person of Steve Mitchell, who also serves on Solyndra’s board of directors.

So like I said, as we move forward in time, the goings of the current adminstration continue to get curiouser and curiouser. The unprecedented level of corruption that we have been witness to on nearly a daily basis and practically since day one, very clearly reveals a mentality that leaves one with the unmistakeable impression that the characters involved here seem to think that the rules simply don't apply to them. That they are, somehow, above all of the petty nonsense, because of who they are. Because, after all, they are the ones that we were waiting for. They seem to think that the money accumulated from taxpayers is there for their personal use, as a source of funds to be used to repay their political cronies. "Hope and Change" was a rather unique and quite inventive way, to say the least, for Barry's to describe his plan to, as soon as being elected, go about robbing blind, the taxpayers of this country. Who would have thought that that was what he had in mind? I don't think even his most ardent supporters believed what's going on now is what he had in mind then. But even if they had, would it have mattered all that much to them? I seriously doubt it. After all, the vast majority of them don't pay taxes in the first place so why should they care?

OBAMACARE…YA KNOW, IT JUST KEEPS ON GETTING BETTER AND BETTER….

Now I'm pretty sure that it goes without saying, that a majority of us are very well aware of the fact that we were repeatedly lied to about all of the supposed benefits that this, seizure by the government of our healthcare system, would bring about. Well, that which is being called the signature legislation of the Barry "Almighty" Administration, that one thing that was so much more important than everything else including a worsening economy that was bleeding jobs, the Affordable Care Act fondly, or not so fondly, referred to as Obamacare, came under a damaging assault Wednesday from a Kaiser Family Foundation survey that found it has already partially contributed to increasing health care costs. Wait a minute, I thought we were all told that more people were going to be covered and it was all going to be cheaper! Isn't that what Barry promised, over and over and over? The survey of private and public employers conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a left-leaning think tank, disclosed that the average cost of a family policy climbed 9 percent to $15,073 in 2011, the largest increase since 2005. Premiums for single coverage rose 8 percent. The group’s findings also showed that health insurance is consuming a bigger share of employer costs, forcing many companies to eliminate pay raises and pass on more medical costs to workers. Imagine that!

This recent Kaiser survey does shed a little light on why it is that so few employers are hiring, as health care costs for employers continue to spiral upward at an ever increasing rate. Which I might add, was one of the objectives Democrats set out to achieve through the implantation of Obamacare. The survey found that insurance premiums rose by 9 percent in 2011. Healthcare costs for a single worker went up on average from $5,049 to $5,429, and for a family, costs rose from $13,770 to $15,073, on average. The survey also found that some provisions of the Affordable Care Act already in place -- including the allowance for young people up to 26 years of age to remain on mommy and daddy's insurance policy -- contributed to 20 percent of that increase. Drew Altman, chief executive officer of the Kaiser Family Foundation, looking to perhaps lessen the impact of the survey's results, asserted that the healthcare reform bill enacted last year accounts for just 1 to 2 percentage points of the premium increases in 2011. But other factors are also contributing to the rising costs of health care. They include the prices of new technologies, research and development for new prescription drugs and the proliferation of chronic diseases like diabetes. The aging of the baby boom generation is also placing a tremendous strain on the health care system, as baby boomers have begun qualifying for Medicare this year. The survey found that with better treatments and drugs, they may live longer than previous generations and impose huge costs on the system as they age.


And in an effort to do a little damage control of its own, because of this recent report, the Barry White House issued a statement on its blog in advance of the reports’ release, accusing it of, "looking backwards." "When we look to the future we know that The Affordable Care Act will help make insurance more affordable for families and businesses across the country, " wrote Nancy-Ann DeParle, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Hey Nancy, no offense, but you're full of shit! And then, of course, like always we had that Barry stooge and highly skilled lying sack of dog squeeze, White House spokesman, Jay "I lie through my teeth every chance I get" Carney who later attempted to defend the provision of the Affordable Care Act which allows 26-year-olds, to, again, stay on mommy and daddy's insurance policies well into adulthood. "That has already had this tremendous impact on young people in America, which we obviously think is very positive," he said. Most other provisions of the Affordable Care Act will not take effect until 2014. The survey suggests that if costs are going to come down, people will need to live healthier lives. Duh! And just whom do you think is going to mandate how we go about doing that? Survey says….THE GOVERNMENT, who else! Survey also suggests that health information technology will need to be improved, as will efficiency if cost are to be reduced. The survey also calls for greater consumer involvement in health care such as those provided in health reimbursement accounts, where employers contribute to a health account managed by the employee.


Also offering up a critique, we have New York Lt. Gov. and healthcare expert Betsy McCaughey, who said in a recent interview that, "The early provisions of the Obama health law are bending the cost curve up, the opposite direction from what the president promised. The new rules — young adults on parents' plans, no annual caps on benefits, and no copays for preventive care — are not free. They add to the premium. There is no tooth fairy." She is a patient advocate and founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, and president of Defend Your Healthcare. She came to national attention in 1993 for her attack on the then Clinton healthcare plan and was considered a major factor in the defeat of the bill. She has predicted that Obamacare will lead to even larger increases in insurance premiums in the near future. Again, that is exactly what was intended to happen since the net result will be for more people to become m ore dependent on the government and move us ever closer to the single payer system that Democrats desire. "There are bigger premium hikes ahead in 2014,” she said, explaining that “1,472 employers and unions got waivers from the current coverage requirements because they couldn’t afford them. But in 2014, the waivers expire and mid- and large-size employers will be required to provide the ‘essential benefit package’ or pay a $2,000 fine — a mere pittance compared with the cost of that package.


Ms. McCaughey said, “That's why McKinsey & Co. found that as many as 50 percent of large employers surveyed are considering dropping coverage in 2014. If that happens, middle and high earners will be forced into the exchanges, and lower income workers will be forced onto Medicaid." This year's premium hikes also result because more people have lost their jobs or part of their income and now qualify for Medicaid, “the government program that shortchanges hospitals and doctors,” McCaughey noted. “Medicaid pays about 86 cents for every dollar of care. Doctors and hospitals make it up by charging privately insured patients more, pushing up premiums." She added: "The impact of Medicaid cost shifting on employer-paid premiums will be far larger in years ahead. The Obama health law will expand Medicaid enrollment by at least one third in 2014. The president promised to solve the problem of the uninsured by making health plans affordable, but in fact, at least two thirds of the currently uninsured will be put on Medicaid in 2014. “Much of the cost of that Medicaid expansion will be shifted to private health premiums." Premiums are also expected to be pushed higher by the rising cost of healthcare in the United States. The average American now accounts for about $7,538 a year in medical costs, including out-of-pocket expenses.


It is absolutely crucial that this blatant attempt by the government to hyjack something as fundamental, and as private, as that relationship between an individual and their physician, be struck down in its entirety. This health care law is an affront on Americans' individual liberty, and we must not allow the federal government to violate our constitutional rights. And it may very well prove to be a true test of whether those justices on the Supreme Court stand ready to defend the people against a government gone rogue, or if they will be willing acomplices in the futher shredding of the Constitution all in an effort to do nothing more than to advance a corrupt ideology that robs from every single American that most basic of rights, that which allows them to determine for themselves, without outside interference, decisions regarding their healthcare. And the truly frightening thing here is that it remains so very much of a crap shoot. Legal experts have said the nine-member Supreme Court, with a conservative majority and four liberals, most likely will be closely divided on whether the individual mandate requiring insurance purchases exceeded the power of Congress. There is so much riding on this one decision, that if I spend too much time thinking about it I don't get any sleep at night. You would think that this decision would be so much of a no brainer, but with judges now demonstrating a willingness to be much more "creative" in their interpretation than in actually interpreting the Constitution as it is written, an environment of uncertainty has now been created where no uncertainty should exist.

OBAMA CLAIMS REPUBLICAN VISION "CRAMPS" AMERICA...

While attending his many fundraisers out there in what has come to be referred to as that well known bastion of liberal lunacy which extends up and down the entire West Coast of this country, we hear that our buddy Barry "Almighty" acknowledged to gathering after gathering, the fact that this coming election isn't like the election of 2008. And during one of his many stops, Barry told the assembled crowd, this one a star-studded Hollywood gala/fundraiser on Monday night, that this time around people are weary, and the energy of 2008, back when he was the exciting new face, is going to have to be generated in a much different way. He urged the many guests, made up of such imbecilic actors as Eva Longoria, Danny DeVito and Jack Black, not to get tired now. "This is when we're tested," he said. We know that whenever Barry is surrounded by large numbers of his own kind, he feels comfortable, and as such has more of a tendency to reveal his outright contempt that he has of this country. And by being with his own kind, I mean that he is surrounded by those who have the same sentiment regarding this country as he himself possesses. Unlike during the days of John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Glenn Ford, you'd be hard pressed these days to find anyone in Hollywood who dares make the claim that they love their country, let alone would go off and fight for it. And I've always thought it more than a little odd that these "actors" could possess such an animosity toward those upon whom they rely so heavily to purchase ever more costly movie tickets. But, I suppose, that's the topic for another discussion.

Barry "Almighty," acting as a modern day marathon money man, held seven fundraisers over the course of two days in Washington state and California in advance of an important fundraising deadline. And later, on Tuesday while in Denver, he toured a high school where he spoke about his $450 billion jobs plan, mixing tax credits and public works spending, and how it is that he wants Congress to pass to quickly pass it. With the economy remaining very firmly stuck and unemployment remaining high just as the 2012 campaign is beginning to heat up, Barry has been constantly reminding his supporters that he never told them re-election would be easy. He has also been taking some numerous cheap shots at the GOP presidential field. "I urge all of you to watch some of these Republican debates. It's a different vision about who we are, who we stand for," Barry told about 120 Hollywood supporters at Los Angeles' Fig & Olive restaurant. Guests to Barry's little soiree paid $17,900 each to attend. This is one of those very rare occasions when Barry actually makes a statement with which I can wholeheartedly agree. It is very much a different vision that we see coming from the Republicans. It's a vision that does not glorify government but, instead, the God given rights that all Americans were intended to enjoy. It's a vision that professes the need for smaller, less intrusive government, the importance of the 2nd Amendment as well as the important role the religion should play in our society. It is the perverted vision of those like Barry that has resulted in our now being perched on the precipice.


The American people want a "bold and generous" vision of America, Barry said, not the "cramped" one he said the Republicans are offering. "That's what this election is about. It's about values, it's about character, it's about who we are." Not sure what Barry means exactly by a vision that's cramped, and for him to talk about values and character is laughable, because he has none of either. Now if he's talking about the actual limiting of government authority so that it would more closely resemble the government as it was conceived by our Founding Fathers, then I guess maybe he has a point. I'm all in favor of "cramping" the government. After all, we should all be aware by now that what Barry describes as a "bold and generous" vision, what he means is that the government should be completely unleashed, free to roam into whatever area that it may see fit. So, I think it fair to say that the vision one holds for this country, regardless of who it is that you are talking about, has as it's basis the philosophy of those individuals involved. For instance, Barry's vision for this country has as it's source his outright hatred for all that this country is, as well as what it has been throughout its history. He sees this country as nothing more than a purveyor of greed, an excessive user of resources that provides nothing in return and as a massive contributor to "global warming." On the other hand, the vision for this country as presented by those seeking the Republican nomination, at least if you can take them at their word, is based much more on their love of country, a belief American exceptionalism, as well as a firm belief in our Constitution. Now, of these two visions for America, which was is the more preferable? The "cramped" one, or the "bold and generous" one? Seems like a no brainer to me!

OBAMA SAYS, HIGHER TAXES GUARANTEE A "MODERN INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY?"

In what has to be one of the more revealing things that I've yet heard come from Barry "Almighty" was his recent statement regarding how it is that higher taxes somehow enhance the prospects of achieving a "modern industrial economy." Apparently, that is the impression under which he operates with the premise being, that if taxes consumed less of America's wealth, as he says some Republicans would like, it would not be possible to have a “modern industrial economy.” At least that's what he said during a town hall event in Mountain View, California as recently as Monday. Barry went on to say that, “Right now, we’ve got the lowest tax rates we’ve had since the 1950s." “And some of the Republican proposals would take it back, as a percentage of GDP, back to where we were back in the 1920s,” he added. “You can’t have a modern industrial economy like that.” Have you ever heard a more idiotic justification for the raising of your taxes? It appears that Barry will leave no stone unturned in his attempts to justify the stealing of even more of Americans' hard earned money in his continuing effort to feed the government coffers. All so that he can then, like a modern day "Robbing Hood," turn around and shower upon his most favored demographic all manner of taxpayer subsidized goodies. This whole notion that its higher taxes that somehow make a "modern industrial economy" possible has no basis whatsoever in fact. But when has Barry ever let a little thing like facts get in the way of his desire to "fundamentally transform" this country?

Michael Tanner, who happens to be a senior fellow at the libertarian CATO Institute, said he could not see why Barry made the comparison with the situation in the 1950s, as the economy was doing well back then. “He seems to be of the belief that economic growth comes from the government and therefore the government has to take more money to put it into economic growth and not leave it in the private sector,” he said in a recent interview. Tanner said Barry was correct to say that tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product was lower than in the past. However, he pointed out that the Congressional Budget Office projects it to be higher than average by the end of the decade. Also, government spending is 25 percent, much higher than in the 1990s, when it was about 18 percent. Mr. Tanner said, “If you look at it as a percentage of the economy that is being taken in taxes, we are at a low point right now, largely because of the recession." Adding, “CBO predicts we will be up well above the historic average by the end of the decade. Historically we take in a little over 18 percent. CBO says it will be around 20 percent by the end of the decade.” So once again, when things are put into their proper perspective the outright dishonesty of Barry's claim becomes all the more transparent. All the more reason that more than 60 percent of Americans now disapprove of how Barry is handling the economy. Although, I'm sure that it probably makes pretty good sense to those who think he's doing a bang up job.


During Monday’s little forum, Barry said, and with a touch of disdain in his voice, that even in the tough economic times, the wealthy have done disproportionately better than the middle class. “The income of folks at the top has gone up exponentially over the last couple of decades, whereas the incomes and wages of the middle class have flat lined over the last 15 years,” he said. Barry has proposed a $1.5 trillion tax increase to both pay for his jobs plan and reduce the federal deficit. He told the California audience in attendance that the proposed increase was not designed to punish success. “We’re not talking about going to punitive rates that would somehow inhibit you from wanting to be part of a startup or work hard to be successful,” Barry said. “We’re talking about going back to the rates that existed as recently as in the 90s, when as I recall Silicon Valley was doing pretty good and well-to-do people were doing pretty well. And it turns out in fact that, during that period, the rich got richer. The middle class expanded,” he continued. “People rose out of poverty because everybody was doing well. So this is not an issue of, do we somehow try to punish those who’ve done well. That’s the last thing we want to do. It’s a question of how can we afford to continue to make the investments that are going to propel America forward.” Investments? By the time Barry gets done, what are Americans going to have left to invest? Oh, wait a minute, I get it now. He takes the money from us so that the government can then "invest" it in such things as car companies and all of those "green" companies creating all of those new "green" jobs.


Look, I think most of us realize that no matter how hard Barry may try to convince us that his plan to raise our taxes is actually for our own benefit, the plain truth is that this desire of his to steal even more money does nothing to create even a single job. In fact, it serves to lessen, even further, the prospects of any, real, long term job creation taking place. So that leaves only one other reason for his drive to raise taxes. And as hard as he, and his many minions, may try to deny the fact that what is being perpetrated here is something that is purely punitive in nature and designed for the specific purpose of redistributing wealth, that is, in fact, exactly what's going on here. It is the central theme regarding where it is that Barry wishes to drag this country. What this is very clearly all about is the perpetuating of an leftist agenda that revolves around Barry's central strategy, which is to incite, and to the greatest extent possible, an elavated level of class warfare. And this latest cockamamie ploy of his, with him saying that higher taxes is what somehow makes possible a “modern industrial economy," is nothing more than a bunch of leftist nonsense. And anyone who falls for this pathetic little ploy, which no doubt many of his more adoring supporters will do, is a certified imbecile who will believe just about anything. Barry is very good at coming up with new and ever more inventive ways to acquire more of our money, money which he claims to be able to put to much better use than I ever could. But this latest ploy of his seems to be more than a bit of a reach.

OBAMA, WORKIN TO STIR UP A LITTLE HATE AND DISCONTENT?

In what has been described by other as being a fiery summons to a crucial voting bloc, Barry "Almighty" told blacks on Saturday that they need to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" and to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity. I'm curious here, just what exactly might he have been calling for here? Not that I would ever imply that what I though he was doing was calling for rioting in the streets, because he would never to do anything like that. Right? He wouldn't advocate such a thing just to get re-elected, would he? Barry's speech came at the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus and was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he's been giving away too much of the farm in talks with Republicans and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent. "It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y'all," Barry told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened, no pun intended, Washington convention center.

But he said blacks need to have faith in the future, and understand that the fight won't be won if they don't rally to his side. "I need your help," Barry said. So what I guess he's really saying here is that in order for him to turn those demands sought by the blacks, essentially at the expense of everyone else, into a reality, he's going to require their unique brand of mindless support. The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he's to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday's speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns. He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. Naturally there was no mention of those policies of his that have only made matters worse. "So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on," Barry said, then added: "And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way." That there are people fighting his policies is a true statement, what was implied here is that the opposition is based on race, which, while it is nothing more than a lie, has become the standard fare that we have now come to expect from Barry. What these people, to whom he refers, are actually "fighting him every step of the way" on, is his radical agenda that has accomplished nothing more than his having now officially broken the bank and his massive growth of government.


But Barry said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy. "Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do." Topping his to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to pass his bogus jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago. Barry said the package of payroll tax cuts, business tax breaks and infrastructure spending will benefit 100,000 black-owned businesses and 20 million African-American workers. Republicans have indicated they're open to some of the tax measures, but oppose his means of paying for it: hiking taxes on top income-earners and big business. Just how, exactly, Barry's recent proposal would assist 100,000 black-owned businesses remains more than just a little unclear, but that didn't stop this crowd from enthusiastically supporting it, once more they seem to be totally oblivious to the fact that they're being played for nothin but saps by their hero, Barack Hussein Obama.


And something that I'm sure comes as no big surprise to anyone, Caucus leaders made it clear that they remain fiercely protective of the nation's first African-American president, even though in recent weeks they've been increasingly vocal in their discontent, especially over black joblessness. The fact that they remain so protective of Barry does nothing if not to make it painfully clear that actual measurable results matter very little to these people. The only thing that's remains of the utmost importance to blacks is the fact that Barry is black and that he's president. All else pales in comparison. The fact that he has done absolutely nothing but to make it more difficult for them to make their situation better, seems to have very little impact on the level of their devotion to Barry. And in what was likely to be the most honest statement made was when the caucus chairman, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, recently told McClatchy Newspapers that "If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House." That statement lays bare just how important a part that race plays in the behavior of these people. You can continue to be a complete screw up, but if your black, that's ok. At least you're a black screw-up.


Like many Democratic lawmakers, caucus members have been more than a little dismayed by what they perceive to be Barry's needless concessions which they claim he has made to the GOP on far too many occasions, especially during the summer's talks on raising the government's borrowing limit. Cleaver, in what I can only assume was an attempt of his be "clever," famously called the compromise deal a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich." But Cleaver said his members also are keeping their gripes in check because "nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president." Why is it that it's always morons like this guy who repeatedly talk about hate? Then, of course, we have the bizarre ranting of Rep. Maxine "Dumb as a Doorknob" Waters, D-Calif., who caused a bit if a stir last month by complaining that Barry's Midwest bus tour had bypassed black districts. She told a largely black audience in Detroit that the caucus is "supportive of the president, but we're getting tired." Trust me, there Maxine, when I say that the rest of us are getting pretty tired of Barry too, on a scale you can't even possibly imagine.


Last year, Barry addressed this same little gathering and implored blacks, in his typical racist dogma fashion, to get out the vote in the midterm elections because Republicans were preparing to "turn back the clock." Yup, those racist old cross burning Republicans were salivating over they're finally having the opportunity to do nothing more than to return this country to those glory days of segregation. Are there are still a sufficient number of morons who actually believe this crap? Really? But as we all remember, what followed in those same midterm elections was a Democratic rout that Barry himself acknowledged as a "shellacking." Where blacks had turned out in droves to help elect him in 2008, with 99 percent of those who voted, voting for him, there was a dramatic drop-off just two years later. Some 65 percent of eligible blacks voted in 2008, compared with a 2010 level that polls estimate was somewhere between 37 percent and 40 percent. Final census figures for 2010 are not yet available, and for what it's worth, off-year elections typically draw far fewer voters. But while that may serve to explain things to a certain extent, I think Barry's team may be concerned that what's behind the lower black turnout might run a bit deeper than merely using the historical lower turnout for midterms, to explain things away.


So demonstrating behavior that would seem to reveal just a hint of desperation, we find Barry working to motivate blacks, as best he knows how, and by utilizing those tried and true Democrat tactics. That being all manner of smear tactics intended to instill fear and hate. The reducing of the entire process to sophomoric name calling for the simple reason that they have no record, or at least one that most Americans would knowingly vote for, on which they can run, is typical for Democrats. So they resort to accusing the opposition of being nothing more than a bunch racist, sexist, homophobes. So this most recent example of said behavior was very clearly demonstrated by Barry as he put himself out front doing his best to manipulate the weak-minded. His reason for doing so was all in an effort to make these folks remain very securely on the Democrat plantation and under the firm control of their Democrat overseers. After all, if you are a black living in America, independent thought is something not be tolerated. To exhibit such a tendency places one at risk of not only being booted off of the plantation, but to, in turn, be lumped in together with all of those other racist, sexist, homophobes. By speaking your mind you automatically become a traitor to your race, and made to suffer that fate worse than death, being referred to as the proverbial "Uncle Tom."

OBAMA'S TEAM SAYS, "IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF THE TEA PARTY!"

Top White House adviser David Plouffe made the rounds on the Sunday‘s news talk shows to lay out what is to be the theme of Barry "Almighty’s" re-election campaign: Which is, ironically, that it will focus on Barry's claim that the Republicans running for president, should any of them actually win, they would “take dead aim” at middle class Americans. It's ironic because who is it that is out that there that could ever take a deader aim on the middle class than has Barry "Almighty?" Speaking Sunday on the Communist News Network's (CNN) "State of the Union," Mr. Plouffe did say something that I agreed with when he said the election will offer voters a “profound choice.” But that's as far as my agreement with him went. Because, he says, the race will be “a tough, close election” that Barry will narrowly win. Plouffe says Barry will defend his record on health care and avoiding a depression. When exactly does he plan on starting this ardent defense of his abysmal record. And exactly how does one defend the shoving down the throats of the American people the outright seizure of our health care system by the government? And avoiding a depression? Barry inherited and unemployment rate of 7.8 percent and he has managed to successfully drive that up to where it is now, and very firmly so, stuck above 9 percent. And he has accomplished al that through the artful wasting of over a $1 Trillion.

Plouffe, Barry’s 2008 campaign manager, said that Republican candidates share the goal of loosening restrictions on Wall Street bankers and giving more tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. He said all of the benefits going to the rich would be paid for by seniors and the middle class. Can't these guys ever manage to come up with something new, they really are starting to sound like a broken record. It was over on "Fox News Sunday," that Plouffe had a rather heated discussion with host Chris Wallace, Whom I'm not a big fan of, as Plouffe placed the blame for the deadlock in Washington on House Leadership putting the wants of 30 Tea Party Republicans in front of the needs of 300 million Americans. I would beg to differ with Mr. Plouffe regarding his assessment of the situation. What is actually going on here is the blatant way in which Barry "Almighty" sides with his more favored minorities over the needs of those who make up the remainder of that same 300 million people. And it is "Dingy" Harry and his band of Democrat malcontents over in the Senate that forms the major impediment to actually getting anything done. “We’re not going to make progress on the deficit, on things we can do right now for jobs, on tax cuts, unless those 30 or 40 Tea Party members of the Republican House stop being the focal point of our discussion,” Plouffe said to Fox News. Blah, blah, blah.


Speaking of those stellar Senate Democrats, they defeated a House GOP-backed stopgap continuing resolution to fund the government through November 18 by a vote of 59-36 on Friday. The $1.04 trillion measure contained $3.7 billion for disaster aid, $200 million of which was offset by cuts to green energy programs, including a loan account that once helped fund the now-defunct, controversial solar panel firm Solyndra. You know, that little company so highly touted by Barry as being the model for green jobs, that has now gone belly up after having ripped off the taxpayers to the tune of $500 Million. Plouffe insists that Congress must pass a resolution to keep government functioning without tying disaster aid to offsets. While Plouffe placed a large portion of the blame for failure in Washington on the Tea Party, he defended the “Buffet Rule” and called on Congress to pass the President’s jobs plan, which along with Barry’s recent rhetoric, has been labeled “class warfare” by critics. “The American people are screaming out, saying it’s unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyist have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here,” said Plouffe on Fox News. That screaming that Mr. Plouffe is actually hearing is the screaming from many Americans that Barry get out of town.


And then finally while on ABC's This Week with that absolute moron, Christiane Amanpour, Plouffe said Barry’s jobs plan would make it to the Senate floor by October. “We need action. The American people know that the economy is too weak; too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games or are we going to say we can do something right now to create jobs?” I would ask this clown Plouffe, who is it that so interested in playing "political games?" Upon a closer inspection he would see, and very plainly, that it is those on his side of the aisle. The $447 billion jobs plan to which he refers, according to Barry and his team, forms a two-pronged approach of spending initiatives and tax cuts. Last week Mitch McConnell called it “a hodge-podge of retread ideas aimed at convincing people that a temporary fix is really permanent.” I'm siding with McConnell on this one. It nothing but more smoke and mirrors that accomplishes nothing in trying to get people back to work. What he we have going on here by "Team Barry" is what equates to being nothing more than a stalling tactic. The endless drivel about the new "jobs plan" is just that. One more thing thrown up against the wall to make it appear that there is genuine concern coming from the Oval Office regarding the millions of people out of work? It's all nothing more than a con job, and so transparently so. And these continuous attempts to blame the Tea Party reveal just how desperate Barry and his team are.

MOST FOLKS STILL DON'T TRUST THE MEDIA….

Now if I was a betting man, I'd be willing to bet that most Americans, or at least most sane Americans, are of the opinion that they just don't feel as if they can actually trust many of the "enlightened" characters, those faux journalists, who comprise today's "mainstream" media. And low and behold out comes a new little poll from those folks over at Gallup that pretty much bares that out. You see, according to the poll, to which I refer, a majority of Americans do not have much confidence that today's mass media actually has the desire to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 44% of Americans who, for whatever bizarre reason, do have a great deal or fair amount of trust are pretty significantly outnumbered by the 55% of us who say that they have little or no trust in the ability our state-controlled media to accurately report the news. And that number remains among the most negative views Gallup has measured. When you look at those who are essentially the faces of today's media conglomerate that really should come as no surprise.

The majority of Americans, that is 60 percent of us, also continue to perceive some level of bias in how the news is presented, with 47% saying the media is too liberal and 13% saying it is too conservative, on par with what Gallup found just last year. The percentage of Americans who say the media is "just about right" edged up to 36% this year but remains in the range Gallup has found historically. Partisans, as I supposed it should be expected, continue to perceive the media very differently. Seventy-five percent of Republicans and conservatives say the media is too liberal. Democrats and liberals, on the other hand, tend to lean more toward saying the media is "just about right," at 57% and 42%, respectively. And that little factoid alone, should tell you all that you really need to know. So-called moderates and independents diverge, however, with 50% of independents saying the media are too liberal and 50% of moderates saying they are just about right. Talk about a confused demographic.


So now we have further proof that Americans remain largely distrusting of the news media, with 55% saying they have little or no trust in the media to report the news free of any bias, and 60% perceiving bias one way or the other. These views are largely steady compared with last year, even as the media landscape continues to change. In a report released Thursday, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found record-high negativity toward the media on 9 of 12 core measures it tracks. These measures may help explain some of the underlying negativity, though Gallup does not find sharp changes in overall views of the media this year compared with last. The types of media one consumes likely play a role in one's overall perceptions, and Gallup is planning more research in this area. Sadly, there are very few places, today, where people can go to get the unvarnished truth when it comes to searching out useful information. There seems to be very little interest coming from those who should care the most, in simply putting out information free of any influence. Everyone seems to feel the need to put their own unique spin on things.


I do think it very safe to say that the media took a pretty major credability hit when it attempted, and some would argue succeeded, to influence how many Americans came to perceive Barry "Almighty." They did exert a great deal of pressure in their attempt to sell Barry to the people, going to great lengths to keep well under wraps many items of interests that may have served to adversely effect the opinion people would have when looking more closely at Barry. The many questionable associations from his past, his obviously radical preacher of 20 years, his actions as a "community agitator," plus his records as far as a birth certificate and college records were all keep covered by a shroud of secrecy with questioners being told they were simply not relevant. But when deciding who it is that will be the next leader of your country, as we have now found out after the fact, there is nothing that should be considered as not being relevant. Because, I also think it fair to say, that if more people had possessed just a bit more knowledge about the man they were voting for, much of what has happened over the course of the 3 years would have been averted. But they didn't, and they haven't been.

REPUBLICAN RE-DO?

The continuing saga in Congress' latest never-ending must-pass legislation environment lurched ahead toward what is certain to be yet another House-Senate showdown, highlighting a partisan rift so raw that an effort to help disaster victims has become mired in disputes over jobs, the national debt and the discredited Solyndra solar energy company. The Republican-led House approved "revamped," and I use that term very loosely, legislation early Friday providing $3.7 billion to help people battered by Hurricane Irene, Texas wildfires, tornadoes and other natural disasters. The money would replenish an emergency fund that Homeland Security Secretary Janet "The Clueless Moron" Napolitano warned could be depleted early next week. The measure would also prevent a federal shutdown next weekend by financing government agencies from the October 1 start of the new federal fiscal year through November. 18. It was approved by a near party-line 219-203 vote shortly after midnight. There were 24 Republicans who remained steadfast in their opposition to this bill while 6 Democrats joined with those Republicans who supported the bill.

However, the stellar individuals who make up the leadership in the Democratic-run Senate were quick to promised that the legislation was pretty much DOA, saying it lacked sufficient disaster assistance. In other words, it doesn't spend enough money. Democrats also complained, and as usual quite loudly, about cuts the bill would make to help pay for the aid by trimming $1.5 billion from Energy Department loans, "loans" which we are supposed to believe are aimed at spurring development of fuel efficient vehicles, a program they said is creating thousands of badly needed jobs. You know, the same kind of "loans" that were made to now defunct Solyndra, whose executives are now pleading the 5th as they testify in hearings before members of Congress. "They insist on holding out on Americans who have suffered devastating losses," Senate Majority Leader "Dingy" Harry Reid, D-Nev., said of GOP lawmakers. "Americans are tired of this partisanship. They deserve to know that when disasters strike, we will be there to help them." Yea right, this coming from the biggest partisan hack in all of Congress. Shut the Hell up, Harry!


Now the Senate version, which was approved last week with the support of 10 GOP, I can only assume RINO, senators, provided $6.9 billion in disaster aid but with absolutely no cuts to help pay for it. Now I'm not sure who exactly those 10 Republicans were who voted for this thing, but I think I make an educated guess that would be pretty accurate. Mostly likely it was those usual suspects whose names we are quite familiar with as always being those who take such great pleasure in "reaching across the aisle." It was unclear how the standoff will be resolved as we move forward from this point. The House and Senate had both planned to take next week off, but neither seemed likely to risk accusations of ignoring the thousands of Americans victimized by natural calamities or of allowing the government to shut its doors. "We're establishing priorities," said Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif. "We have a priority, that being dealing with our fellow Americans." "The last thing Congress should do is hold up disaster assistance because of partisan politics," said Rep. Michael Simpson, R-Idaho. He said that while he hasn't always believed emergency spending must be paid for with savings in the past, "In the past we have not had a $14 trillion" deficit. "That's the danger to this country," he added.


House passage represented a reversal from an embarrassing setback the chamber dealt its Republican leaders on Wednesday. On that day, the House rejected what was a nearly identical measure, shot down by Democrats complaining its disaster aid was too stingy and conservative Republicans upset that its overall spending was too extravagant. The bill the House approved Friday morning contained just one change, that being an additional $100 Million in savings from cutting a second Energy Department loan program, this one aimed at sparking new energy technologies. Wow, merely a very small drop in a very big bucket and one that amount to nothing that would have changed my mind as to where I would have being willing to support this thing. So I guess it's safe to assume that it still provides for all of the same things that so many found objectionable during the first go round. You know not only things like funding for Obamacare implementation and Planned Parenthood, but also the funding to the United Nations Population Fund and, of all things, the allowing of funding to the Palestinian Authority all set to continue on into the new federal fiscal year that begins on October 1. All for a measly $100 Million in supposed savings.


Even with this additional $100 million in "savings" being cut from a second Energy Department loan program, the same program that financed a $528 million federal loan to Solyndra Inc., I don't see how so many who were so adamantly against the bill the day before could, in good conscious, so quickly turn to, and become willing to support essentially the same bill on the second time through. The Barry "Almighty" administration had praised Solyndra as a model for green energy companies, but now Congress is investigating the circumstances under which the government approved the loan. The California solar panel maker that had won such high praise from Barry "Almighty" has since gone belly up and laid off its 1,100 workers. Forty-eight Republicans had voted against the bill on Wednesday, a number that GOP leaders were able to cut in half in Friday's vote after hours of lobbying. One who switched from "no" to "yes" was conservative Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., who said he was swayed by the new cuts in the technology loan program. That's nothing more that pure unadulterated bullshit, and Rep. Landry knows it! So he can peddle that crap to somebody else. What was he provided with in exchange for his vote?


The present bout of "gridlock" over the spending bill is the third time this year where the two parties have clashed over legislation whose passage both sides considered crucial to their cause. Democrats, as always, see the spending of even more money as being the only solution. It matters very little to them that we are well beyond being broke. Republicans, on the other hand, at least the conservatives among them, prefer perusing a different method out of sheer necessity. Back in April with just hours to spare, the two sides reached agreement, essentially with the Republicans caving, on a bill that averted a federal shutdown and provided money for government agencies through September. Then this summer, they battled for weeks before, with Republicans again capitulating, finally approving legislation extending the government's borrowing authority and narrowly preventing a historic federal default. Against a backdrop of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections and angst over the country's dismal job market, this year's clashes have been intensified by the infusion of dozens of Tea Party Republicans who often show little inclination to compromise. And rightfully so!


Wednesday's defeat of the spending bill was only the most recent time they have made life difficult, and deservedly so, for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. And it underscored the challenges that may lie ahead this fall as Congress tackles efforts to fix the economy, create jobs and try to rein in a growing debt that now stands at over $14 Trillion. Democrats tried turning the House spending bill debate into a battle over the economy, lambasting Republicans for cutting loans for technology research that they said creates jobs. "When Americans need jobs, the Republicans are pushing an anti-jobs bill," said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich. The Democrats arguments just don't hold water. How much money has been wasted in their effort to "create or save" jobs with the only result being a net loss of over 2 million jobs after having spent over $1 Trillion? Republicans said the "loan" money that was cut wasn't being spent anyway, which Democrats, of course, quickly denied. And let's be honest here if we can, that loan money, like the money "loaned" to Solyndra and who knows who else, has had nothing to do with jobs. It has had everything to do with it being a method by which Barry's can use to pay back his big time campaign contributors. Barry is awash in corruption. As is the entire Democrat Party. And the American taxpayer is just expected to just continue to cheerfully pony up and cover the escalating cost of this corruption.

BOEHNER, A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP…OR SOMETHING ELSE?

It would appear that our stellar Republican leadership, those who have proclaimed that they have heard the voice American people and understand their frustration, attempted to pass a continuing resolution through the House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon that would have permitted, not only, funding for Obamacare implementation and Planned Parenthood, but also funding to the United Nations Population Fund and, of all things, the allowing of funding to the Palestinian Authority to continue on into the new federal fiscal year that begins on October 1. Imagine my surprise! So I now find myself asking, just whose side is it that these guys are on? Look, I've never been a big Boehner fan, I've always seen him as being a bit wobbly and not having much of a spine. And all that crying stuff has nothing do to with that perception. I had thought, however, that Cantor, at least by the tone of his frequent rhetoric, was a bit stronger. Maybe I was severely mistaken.

Thankfully, the bill went down in flames, 195 to 230, when 48 House conservatives joined with 182 House Democrats in voting against it. Who says Democrats are good for nothing. Among the leading conservatives opposing the bill were Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R.-Texas), Rep. Joe Walsh (R.-Ill.), Rep. Jeff Flake (R.-Ariz.), Rep. Trent Franks (R.-Ariz.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R.-0hio), the chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, which is the organization of House conservatives. Sadly though, one of my favorites in the House, Allen West, chose to support it as did my own representative, Ander Crenshaw. Even Paul Ryan supported it. How are we supposed to believe these people when they do something that so completely contradicts all of the things that they have said and continue to say? By the way, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) and Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas), who are both campaigning for president, did not vote. We can only assume how they might have voted.


While the rationale for voting against the bill varied with party affiliation, the important thing is that it went down to defeat, and hopefully will be rewritten in a much more appropriate manner to more accurately address concerns of conservatives. The Democrats objected to the bill because it would have offset new money for disaster relief at the Federal Emergency Management Agency by cutting $1.5 billion from the $25-billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loans program that provides government-subsidized financing to automakers. The failed CR, promoted by House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R.-Va.), was a temporary measure designed to fund the entire government through November 18. During that time, it would have funded the government at an annualized rate just $7 billion less than the level of federal spending for fiscal 2011--but $24 billion more than the Republican-controlled House approved in the budget resolution they passed earlier this year.


However, with that said, the spending level authorized by the proposed CR was at exactly the level of the maximum spending cap House Speaker Boehner and Barry "Almighty" agreed to in the deal they struck last month to increase the limit on the federal debt by as much as $2.4 trillion. An analysis of the CR published by the conservative House Republican Study Committee should have been a show stopper for this thing from the get go as it made very clear that the CR, “continues funding for the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), the UN agency known for its involvement in China’s brutal one-child policy. It also continues $300 million in annual funding to the Title X family planning program, which is a prime funding source for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.” I'm not sure if I'm more confused or disappointed in these folks who say they understand my frustration and want to fix things, and then they turn around and put forward something like this. Well, which is it?


The study-committee analysis pointed out that in addition to permitting funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion provider, the Republican-leadership-backed CR also permitted more than $2 billion in additional funding for domestic birth control and international population control through Medicaid and foreign aid programs. “Note that Medicaid also provides $1.4 billion in family planning assistance to low income individuals,” said the analysis. “The CR also continues to provide international population control funds at a rate of $575 million per year.” These are astronomical amount of money that we cannot afford to be spending. And if the current leadership can seem to understand that fact, then maybe it's time for some new leadership. I read somewhere recently that Mr. Boehner would be facing a primary challenge the next time around. I think that's terrific! While I'm sure Boehner will mostly win election, hopefully it will be close enough to throw a little scare into him!


The CR pushed by the Republican leaders did not include some of the key spending policy changes sought by conservatives. “Some conservatives may be concerned that the legislation does not block funding for Obamacare during the period covered by the legislation,” said the study-committee analysis. It also would have permitted federal funding to continue to flow to abortion providers, the Legal Services Corporation, and the Palestinian Authority, which does not recognize the right of Israel to exist. “The legislation does not include many other ‘riders’ that conservatives have advocated during the appropriations process,” said the Republican Study Committee analysis. “This includes a ban on funding for abortion providers, prohibiting funds for various new environmental regulations, and prohibiting funds for Net Neutrality regulations. The legislation provides the same funding formula for most programs, with final funding levels left to November 18, 2011 for individual program levels. This means that the CR continues to provide funding for many programs that conservatives would object to, such as NRR, the Palestinian Authority, and Legal Services Corporation."


Planned Parenthood, which would have continued receiving federal tax dollars under the Republican-leadership CR, aborted 332,278 babies in 2009, according to its most recent annual report. It also received $363.2 million in government money in its organizational fiscal year that ended in June 2009. A Planned Parenthood spokesman told Bloomberg Businessweek that 90 percent of that $363 million in government money came directly from the federal government or from Medicaid, a federal-state program. At its 2009 pace of 332,278 abortions per year, Planned Parenthood aborts 910 babies per day. At that rate, the organization could have aborted 44,590 babies during the 49 days the Republican-leadership-backed CR would have permitted it to continue taking in federal tax dollars. That it continues to receive federal funding which allows it to commit murder at such a level is simply unconscionable. And how can those who claim to conservatives support such a thing?


So, is what we have here a failure of leadership or is it something much worse. Are we simply being given lip service as those we are relying upon in Congress simply go about business as usual? We are rapidly running out of time to get things turned around, and if those who claim to be on our side are incapable to doing what has now become necessary, or simply refuse to do so, then a new tactic will have to be devised and put into action. And soon! Either these "leaders" are going to be willing to be part of the solution or they are going to be steadfast in their effort to remain part of the problem. The choice will soon not be their to make. We the people may be forced into making the decision for them. In the words of George Bush, either these people are with us or they are against us in this ongoing attempt to rescue our country from where it is presently headed. We are in a very steep, downward spiral and simply cannot afford to put our trust in those who haven't the stomach to do what's needed. It is now make it or break it time. We are officially now out of options.

OUR PRESIDENT IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE EXTREME...

Well, it's official. The United States of America is now the laughing stock of the World, and we can thank our illustrious president, Barack Hussein Obama for our now being bestowed with that prestigious honor. In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, Barry "Almighty" called for “open societies” that “empower their citizens,” including homosexuals and women. “No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere,” Barry said one day after the United States started allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the U.S. military. In a reference to women, Barry said, “no country can realize its potential if half its population cannot reach theirs.” Barry noted that the United State this week signed a new Declaration on Women’s Participation. “Next year, we should each announce the steps we are taking to break down economic and political barriers that stand in the way of women and girls. That is what our commitment to human progress demands.” This idiot gives a whole new meaning to being naïve. He thinks he's so worldly and he is just the opposite. He has got to be the least presidential president my lifetime. He even beats Jimmy Carter.

Elsewhere in his little speech, Barry mentioned poverty that punishes children. “We must act on the belief that freedom from want is a basic human right,” he said. Now here's one area where Barry does know of what he speaks, with data having been recently released which very clearly shows that since he assumed office the number of those living below the poverty line in this country has absolutely skyrocketed. And of course, he had to throw in his two cents worth about bogus climate change, saying that in order for us to preserve the planet, action was needed regarding the dangers from this supposed crisis that we are now facing: "Together, we must work to transform the energy that powers are economies, and support others as they move down that path. That is what our commitment to the next generation demands." He also went on to praise the United Nations as an institution that binds our fates together: "When the corner-stone of this very building was put in place, President Truman came here to New York and said, ‘The United Nations is essentially an expression of the moral nature of man’s aspirations.’ As we live in a world that is changing at a breathtaking pace, that is a lesson that we must never forget."


Truman may have been accurately describing the United Nation as it was initially conceived and maybe even how it existed at the beginning. But that is not how the United Nations can be described today. A much more accurate present day description of the United Nations would be to call it, other than, of course, the U.S, Congress, the most dysfunctional and corrupt organization on the entire planet. It has morphed into something that now much more closely resembles, in the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a wretched hive of scum and villainy. It has become an organization that is now serves as the club house, so to speak, for every dictator, despot and tyrant out there. And as such it is no longer welcome, nor is it now worthy of being, located in our country. And for Barry to elevate the stature of this failed cadre of despicable characters only serves to further weaken the position of those presidents who will come after him. Barry continually proves himself to be a complete embarrassment to this country every time he goes out before any gathering of such scum which makes up the majority of countries represented at the United Nations. And I'm pretty sure he's the joke of every diplomatic party he attends. He's the guy on whose back they take turns sticking the "Kick Me" sign, and he never quite figures it out.

OBAMA'S FUZZY MATH or FACT VERSUS FICTION

If we have learned anything about our illustrious president, Barack Hussein Obama, over the course of the last nearly three years, it is that he is nothing if not the consummate liar and dishonest to his core. I picture him standing in front a mirror working on hoaning his deception skills to be used later on the unsuspecting American people while reading his prepared text from his ever-present teleprompter. "Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires. That's pretty straightforward." That's what our old buddy Barry recently said in a White House speech, the topic of which was, of course, deficit reduction. It was even more straightforward than he seemed to think, because not only should middle-class families pay less than millionaires and billionaires, but the fact of the matter is that they already do pay less. Much less. So what might old Barry "Almighty" be up to here? It's so sad really, that every time we hear our president speak, we just automatically assume that he's lying to us. And what's even sadder is that more often than not, he is lying to us. He does so in his attempt to convince us to go along with him as he busies himself destroying our country right under our very noses. Many of us seem none the wiser regarding these goings on. We watch Barry as Barry tells us how, in the name of fairness, he's going to stick it to those "rich fat cats" who resist paying their fair share. And then we go, "Ya, stick it those rich SOBs." We fail to understand that after he's through with them, we're all next on his little hit parade.

Anyway, as Barry presented his grand illusion regarding he proposes to "fix" things, at the same time he also tried, as best he could, to blunt what he correctly anticipated would be some very vocal criticism of his remarks with a parenthetical: "This is not class warfare. It's math." But a funny thing happened, funny strange, not funny ha-ha, in that the actual math to which Barry so confidently referred, tells a very different story than the one he wishes us to believe. For example, back in 2009, roughly 237,000 individual income tax filers reported adjusted gross income of $1 million or more. Now taken together, these filers, which included both families and small businesses, made a grand total of $722 billion, and in turn paid $178 billion of that in income taxes. Their effective federal income tax rate was 24.6 percent, between three and four times the effective rate on middle-income families that pull in $50,000 to $75,000 per year. So, it becomes pretty obvious, pretty quickly, that Barry's "Buffett Rule" is nothing but more of his specialty, that being nothing but smoke and mirrors, as well as lies and deceit. And people continue to fall for it. Everybody thinks those mean old rich people just aren't paying their fair share, Damn it! So Barry can proclaim until the cows come home that this isn't just another attempt at class warfare, but unfortunately for him, that's exactly what it is.


This million-plus crowd, who comprise less than 0.2 percent of all taxpayers, made 10.6 percent of all income in 2009 and yet paid 20.5 percent of all individual income taxes. To be sure, the wealthy can and should pay more in taxes than the poor. The point here is that they already do pay more, a lot more. Because as it stands right now, the so-called poor, don't pay any taxes. So when we discuss tax increases on the wealthy, we aren't really talking about whether we should be letting "millionaires and billionaires" slide on their obligations to society. We are really talking about how disproportionately large their share of the tax burden has to become with corrupt liberals, like Barry, being the ones to decide what's "fair." For Barry, the answer to that question is based entirely on what politicians decide to spend. "The rich," and that essentially means everyone making over $200,000 per year, but could extend well below that figure, will always be failing to pull their weight until they are covering the spread between what government takes in and what irresponsible politicians dish out. So while millions enjoy a free ride, the picking up of the cost of that free ride is left to an ever shrinking number of taxpayers who are being forced to hand over to the government more and more of their hard earned money. Where does it stop? I know where Barry would like it to stop, and that would be at the point where, in the name of "fairness," the government simply confiscates every dime that all of us, who still have jobs, are able to make.


Unfortunately, America's top earners can never hope to keep up with politicians like Barry, who recently, and very proudly so, proposed an additional $447 billion in deficit spending. In 2009, the earners our buddy Barry is now so enthusiastically targeting had only $1.5 trillion in income after paying their federal income taxes and before paying taxes to states and municipalities. Were Barry to seize every dime of that money, which no doubt he would just love to do, it would just barely cover the $1.3 trillion deficit he just ran in the fiscal year that ends next week. And of course, even a smaller seizure would have a crushing effect on the jobs that these earners create directly through their small businesses or indirectly through their investments. When looking back at that Barry has done thus far, and what he has made clear still wishes to do, how can anyone come to the conclusion that he is attempting to do anything other than to manufacture a complete economic and financial collapse. Is there an actual economist anywhere out there, and not that clown Krugman from the New York Times, who can look at what is being done here and say, with any degree of confidence, that, yes, what Barry is doing will in fact improve our economnic environment? From my untrained prespective, doing more digging after Barry has already dug us into a very deep hole, is not the solution we need.


In what was clearly nothing more than a very tranparent attempt to deceive and to make his tax increase more palatable, Barry referred to it as "tax reform." But the term "tax reform," llike his term "increasing revenue," was never meant as a euphemism for tax increases. Actual tax reform is needed because lobbyists have successfully bastardized the system, inserting hundreds of incentives into the tax code that lead individuals and corporations to engage in economy-stunting and otherwise irrational behavior. Tax reform is needed because 58 percent of American tax filers (81 million) had to use paid preparers to do their individual income taxes in 2008, and 75 million had to consult the IRS itself. If Barry was truly serious about tax reform, he would present a reform plan that isn't just another tax increase in disguise. And if he was at all serious about reducing the deficit, he would at least avoid presenting his tax hikes alongside massive new deficit-spending proposals. But we known with some degree of certainty that that is not something that will be happening as long as, one, Barry is in the White house, and, two, as long as the Democrats are able to maintain control of one of both houses of Congress. Barry needs to be sent packing, and we need to flush every Democrat down into the sewer where they belong and where they seem to be the most happy.


One small fact that I am going to continue to harp on, is the fact that there are in this country, people who essentially make up roughly 50 percent of our popualtion, who pay absolutely no income taxes. In fact, the tax code, as it is presently constructed, turns out to be a rather profitable little enterprise for these people. Because while put no money into the system, they are very often the recipients of some, what can only be described as being, rather excessive "refunds," that's a pretty good return with what is essnetially no investment being made. That's almost as good as some Hillary Clinton's investments. I've never quite figured out how it is that someone could get a tax very substantial refund after having paid zero taxes. I really get tired of seeing society's parasites paying in nothing and yet receiving outrageous amounts from the government which they then proceed to spend on booze, cigarettes or that flat screen television they've been wanting. Meanwhile I'm left owing the government even after paying what I consider to be much more than my "fair share" based on the amount of money that my wife and I make. And we are not "rich" by any stretch of the imagination. The system is very badly broken, but Barry's idea of "tax reform" is nothing but an oxymoron.