March 8, 2010
March 7, 2010
March 6, 2010
OBAMA: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE
Not the American Way
There is something way off balance in the character of Barack Obama. Something in the realm of zealotry, with a touch of megalomania, and perhaps an authoritarian impulse too. He combines Alinskyite tactics and outlook with an air of self-assumed moral superiority in a way that fails to respect the usual, small 'r' republican limits on American presidents. All presidents, of course, think at some level that they know best about policy choices. But almost none of them (Woodrow Wilson perhaps excepted) were so willing to disdain, in pursuit of such radical policy upheavals, such intense and overwhelming public opinion as has been evident in the current health takeover attempt.Grandiose plans are one thing. Most presidents fall prey to them. It's another thing entirely, though, to refuse to accept the ordinary republican restraints on implementing grandiosities without public support, and furthermore to do so by A) bending existing rules; B) directly violating multiple personal pledges; C) ignoring constitutional limits; D) directly lying; and E) demanding that other politicians sacrifice their own political careers.
A little humility would be nice. So would a sense that he answers to the public rather than to some self-proclaimed (and self-determined) imperative of history and/or call of destiny. What Obama seems to fail to understand is that his own, overblown self-assurance and self-mythologizing is actually hampering his own goals. One need not stretch too far to observe that one of the factors adding to public opposition to Obamacare is a growing public disquietude about the lack of responsiveness, the authoritarian certitude, and the zealous near-fanaticism of the government that would run the new health-rationing system -- all character traits as embodied by the president himself.
As Obama ignores public opinion while pushing for full-fledged Obamacare in one fell swoop, and as he insists that he knows best and that the public is too ill-informed to know what is good for it, he directly -- as the very symbol of the state -- reminds the public of what they distrust about government in the first place and of why they don't want government interfering in a realm as personal as health care. These feelings are especially fierce because Obama is trying not to change something with which most Americans are dissatisfied, but instead to change (and arguably take away) a system in which some four-fifths of the public remains generally satisfied with their own personal level of care.
For most Americans, Obama doesn't seem to be giving them something they don't have, but instead to be taking away something they already value.
Worse, he and the increasingly unpopular Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are doing it while hectoring the public, insulting (at least by implication) the public by belittling the public's understanding of the issue, and treating opposition as if it is guided by evil motives rather than sincere concerns.
Passage of this health overhaul/takeover under these circumstances would be frightening. The harm it would do the political system would be almost as great as the harm it would cause the health system. The American republic was designed to give a minority a way to slow down major changes buoyed by popular passions. It was not designed to give a minority the power to implement major changes against popular passions.
The Obamites are doing the latter. They are turning American checks and balances on their heads. They are using temporary parliamentary advantages for a permanent power grab. The Obamites are dictating to Americans rather than representing them. Revolutionizing, not just evolving. Ruling, not serving.
And it's not just on health care. They work against public opinion on matters of criminal justice, terrorist treatment, race preferences, bank bailouts and corporate takeovers, overall spending, domestic welfare requirements, fossil fuel development, missile defenses, advocacy of American interests (and pride!) abroad, and on the whole panoply of oft-unstated attitudes that cohere as American exceptionalism.
This is not the way the system is supposed to work. This is not the American government we grew up with. This is not the national ethos that we love.
Yet Obama pushes on, perfectly cognizant of what he's doing, intentionally upending the American Way. This is a form of mania -- megalo- or otherwise. And, by any and all legitimate means, it must be stopped.
March 5, 2010
HARRY REID: DUMBING DOWN AMERICANS' EXPECTATIONS LIKE NOBODY ELSE CAN
We are witness to trickle-up poverty in action. Get dissed, or get pissed. It's one of the two.
March 4, 2010
QUOTE 'O THE DAY
"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."
- William Lyon Phelps
- William Lyon Phelps
March 3, 2010
DEMOCRAT SAYS "I TOLD YOU SO" .....TO DEMOCRATS
-Link
March 1, 2010
ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY IS A MENTAL DISORDER
Watch the video, believe it; these people, sadly, are your neighbors.
February 28, 2010
February 26, 2010
GUESS WHAT !?...
...apparently, the Democrats aren't too concerned with governments' evil wire-tapping and surveillance ways after all.
It's times like this that remind me of saying a fellow conservative(Dennis Prager) came up with:
"Being a liberal means never having to say you're sorry"
"Being a liberal means never having to say you're sorry"
February 25, 2010
IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK, AND TALKS ABOUT SPREADING THE WEALTH AROUND...IT'S A SOCIALIST, LAME DUCK
"... President Obama is quite clearly a socialist.All these verbal gymnastics that are used to avoid stating the obvious may be rather humorous for someone watching from over the Atlantic, but for Americans, such delusion is a very serious matter. It is important, not just for the American right, but for the American people as a whole, to realise just exactly who it is they have elected to office."
-Full article >>
February 23, 2010
February 22, 2010
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: THE DEATH OF GLOBAL WARMING - PART 3
" The climate change movement now needs to regroup, and at some point it will have to confront a central, unpalatable fact: the wounds from which it is bleeding so profusely are mostly its own fault. This phase of the climate change movement was immature, unrealistic and naive. It was poorly organized and foolishly led. It adopted an unrealistic and unreachable political goal, and sought to stampede world opinion through misleading and exaggerated statements..."
THE HOPENCHANGE SPIRAL
RASMUSSEN POLL:
Obama Approval Index: -19
Strongly Approve 22% (all time low)
Strongly Disapprove 41%
Total Approval 45%
February 21, 2010
KRAUTHAMMER: THE FAILURE TO LEAD
"...Bill Clinton, successfully tackled another supposedly intractable problem: the culture of intergenerational dependency. He collaborated with another House speaker, Newt Gingrich, to produce the single most successful social reform of our time, the abolition of welfare as an entitlement. It turned out that the country's problems were not problems of structure but of leadership."
-Link
-Link
February 20, 2010
ANDREW BREITBART: NEW MEDIA MOGUL (VIDEO)
The 2 videos(at the link) are must watch!
Andrew Breitbart explains who he is, what he does, why he does it, and why he and his enterprise are kicking a## and taking names. Take a few minutes listen how he and Co. are blowing the minds of the Main Stream Media (MSM) I've been a fan of his work for a while, and I've been witnessing in real time how his integrity and toughness of his work is getting results...and best of all...getting noticed! The New Media has brought in a new awakening in America. God bless it.
-Link>>
February 19, 2010
OLYMPICS: LINDSEY VONN'S GOLD MEDAL STRIPPED?!!
I heard they stripped Lindsey Vonn's gold medal away from her last night!
They decided Obama is going downhill faster than she did.
HeyOOOOO!!!
Hat tip: Scott A.
February 18, 2010
OBAMA'S FAITH BASED ECONOMICS
Previously, Democrats were coined to have "fuzzy math" issues... now, "faith based economics" ...Go figure.
-Link
February 15, 2010
February 13, 2010
February 12, 2010
RICH LOWRY WRITES A GOOD PIECE, BUT....
...this commenter has summed it up better than anybody I've read in quite a while...
"Rich nailed it! We all probably WISH that the liberals were correct about Guantanamo, Palestine, Islamo-fascists, Iran, jobs -- all of it. Unfortunately, those of us who actually grow up in the real world, have real jobs, create real jobs for others, actually join the military, actually pay over half our incomes in taxes to the feds, states and cities we live in, and see the reality of the "real world" -- we understand that here on earth is NOT Utopia. It is wonderful here. We are lucky to be here, and should strive to be the best we can be for ourselves and our fellow humankind. BUT, we are in the real world where not everybody is the same as us. Too many people did not understand Bush for what he was -- a pendulum swing by our REAL American culture back in the face of a post-9/11 world. Nothing more and nothing less. We elected Europe's best Utopian president (an entitlement baby who never had a real job in his life, and had perhaps the weirdest childhood of any 20th century US president) to replace a realist with a bad Q rating. Now he actually has to do more than "sound presidential". Shock, Bush was not as stupid as the liberals thought!! Shock, if you kiss an Iranian fascist he kicks you back. Hello Jimmie Carter and pass the peanuts."
-Rich Lowry - The Presidents Reality Problem
"Rich nailed it! We all probably WISH that the liberals were correct about Guantanamo, Palestine, Islamo-fascists, Iran, jobs -- all of it. Unfortunately, those of us who actually grow up in the real world, have real jobs, create real jobs for others, actually join the military, actually pay over half our incomes in taxes to the feds, states and cities we live in, and see the reality of the "real world" -- we understand that here on earth is NOT Utopia. It is wonderful here. We are lucky to be here, and should strive to be the best we can be for ourselves and our fellow humankind. BUT, we are in the real world where not everybody is the same as us. Too many people did not understand Bush for what he was -- a pendulum swing by our REAL American culture back in the face of a post-9/11 world. Nothing more and nothing less. We elected Europe's best Utopian president (an entitlement baby who never had a real job in his life, and had perhaps the weirdest childhood of any 20th century US president) to replace a realist with a bad Q rating. Now he actually has to do more than "sound presidential". Shock, Bush was not as stupid as the liberals thought!! Shock, if you kiss an Iranian fascist he kicks you back. Hello Jimmie Carter and pass the peanuts."
-Rich Lowry - The Presidents Reality Problem
February 11, 2010
SMALL BUSINESS TO OBAMA: "HOPE MINUS AUDACITY"
The clueless one is still clueless.
The small business owner states in this article one of the truisms of a prosperous free market; "you can't give with one hand and take away with the other" Cheers!!
Good article at Bloomberg...
-Link
February 10, 2010
IS GLOBAL WARMING KILLING MINNESOTA MOOSE?
If you're inclined to believe the Minneapolis StarTribune, you'd likely take their word for it. I, on the other hand, don't trust the red rag any farther than I can throw it. They've simply had their integrity proven moot too many times - thanks in large part to the local guys at Powerline blog !
To any Minnesotan, particularly a northern Minnesotan...to take out the wolf factor so quickly, simply doesn't smell right. I used to hunt in the northern wolf country and I know landowners up north; there can be no way of convincing them there are not too many wolves. The wolves are now federally protected again, to the dismay of most landowners.
Go read the Powerline take and read up on how the Startribune makes the case for global warming affecting just the moose in Minnesota.
-Link
February 9, 2010
THE DICHOTOMY THAT IS HOPENCHANGE AND OBAMA'S CHICAGO MACHINE
"But now that the sun has risen on the 386th day of the Obama White House, many political observers are coming to see that the ex-state senator from the South Side is running his federal administration in Washington much the way they run things back home: with a small....
When the LA Times is writing this way on Obama...you know there's a problem...or, at least, the problems are not just seen from the Right.
February 8, 2010
February 7, 2010
February 6, 2010
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: AN INTELLECTUAL TREASURE
LOL!: EMAIL FROM GRANDMA
Thanks for sending, Grandma Jo Mae ;) xxoo
Email forward:
$50 Lesson
I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she
grows up.
She said she wanted to be president some day.
Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked
her, "If you were president what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
Her parents beamed.
"Wow... what a worthy goal." I told her, "But you don't have to wait
until you're president to do that. You can come over to my house and mow
the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50."
"Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where homeless guys hang
out, and you can give them the $50 you earned, to use toward food and a
new house."
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in
the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the
work, and you can just pay him the $50?"
I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Her parents still aren't speaking to me.
Email forward:
$50 Lesson
I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she
grows up.
She said she wanted to be president some day.
Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked
her, "If you were president what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
Her parents beamed.
"Wow... what a worthy goal." I told her, "But you don't have to wait
until you're president to do that. You can come over to my house and mow
the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50."
"Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where homeless guys hang
out, and you can give them the $50 you earned, to use toward food and a
new house."
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in
the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the
work, and you can just pay him the $50?"
I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Her parents still aren't speaking to me.
February 5, 2010
HOLY BUCKETS! "CORPES-MAN" ???
John Hinderaker at Powerline blog had the same experience yesterday as I did listening to Hugh Hewitt's radio show. I'm linking here to his post with commentary nobody could do any better(escpecially me) along with the video of Obama's horrible stumble.
It now appears-upon after seeing the video-pretty obvious that President Obama has been relying virtually 100% on his teleprompter, sad as it is. As you may know, his teleprompter now even has its own blog. Serious.
It now appears-upon after seeing the video-pretty obvious that President Obama has been relying virtually 100% on his teleprompter, sad as it is. As you may know, his teleprompter now even has its own blog. Serious.
February 2, 2010
FINALLY... ME AND SARAHCUDA!!
Photographs were finally posted of Sarah Palin's book signing here in Minnesota at the Mall Of America 12/7/09. I was able to get two books signed...one for my great friend, Larry, for Christmas...and of course, one for myself;) I was extremely lucky to get the opportunity to meet Sarah, and Todd...to shake their hands and exchange a few words - great fun!!!
Here is the link to the photo. There is obviously proprietary issues with the pics, so, for now it's a link to their official photographers' page.
Here is the link to the photo. There is obviously proprietary issues with the pics, so, for now it's a link to their official photographers' page.
February 1, 2010
ROGER AILES VS. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: THIS IS RICH
I watched this program live and hoped I'd find a clip from this highlight. Roger Ailes, Foxnews CEO defends Glenn Beck, and demonstrates why he's virtually never seen debating on MSM...he's just too damn good ;)
ANOTHER BOW. THE TAMPA FL. MAYOR ?!?!?
AP PhotoEmbarrassing.
As if it wasn't bad enough, previously bowing to the Saudi King, Chinese Premier, Japanese Emperor...Am I missing one?
What's the deal with this U.S. President?
January 30, 2010
MARC THIESSEN:"TERRORIST THANKED HIS INTERROGATORS FOR WATERBOARDING HIM" - MUST SEE!
Marc, his new book, and the forthcoming unclassified information(much of what he has now divulged) is a BIG DEAL.
Did I mention this is a BIG DEAL!? ;)
Courting Disaster is his new book.
-Via TheRightScoop
January 29, 2010
MY DOG, GUS
A.K.A. my boy ;)Gus is daddies boy. He's a yellow labrador, weighs a healthy 90 lbs. and is 11.5 years old
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