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Obama won the war that Bush lost

By on February 20, 2010
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Everything you need to know about the Obama Administration in one quote:

“On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.” ~blogs.abcnews.com

Wow. With this one quote we learn everything we need to know about the Obama Administration.

They. Lie. About. Everything.

Since when did Democrats become habitual liars who shamelessly take credit for things that they have nothing to do with? (Rhetorical question.) Conversely they are also never to blame for anything that happens. Every thing is image without substance. All hope and no change. All hat and no cattle. All credit and no accountability.

Knowing this, we can examine everything that these guys try to spin and realize the truth.

Both Obama and Biden opposed the surge in Iraq. In fact they said the surge would fail and make things worse! The reality is that it succeeded. What’s even more is that Obama’s present day Iraq policy still has, “Bush Administration,” stamped on the cover. There is not a dimes worth of difference between the two. Withdrawal of US troops was coordinated and signed by Bush. Obama has done absolutely nothing to change the Bush policies in Iraq. But he inherited a bad economy and now Iraq is his greatest success?

Just think back a few years. More than just questioning Bush’s Iraq policy Democrats made a conscious decision to oppose victory in Iraq in the hope that it would become a Vietnam for them. Meaning, a lost war which they could ride as a political issue. They declared that the war was lost and that the surge would fail. But now that Bush’s policy has succeeded, well, it was all their idea to begin with.

Less than three years after Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nev.) declared the war lost, less than three years after then-Sen. Barack Obama—with the usual fierce moral urgency—opposed the Bush administration’s military surge, and within three years of Mr. Biden’s own recommendation that Iraq be divided into three parts, these Democrats are laying claim to Iraq’s extraordinary victory.

The vice president wisely made his victory assertion in the television studio of a left-leaning network experienced in fudging Iraqi history. CNN, by its own admission, muted coverage of Saddam Hussein for over a decade.

In the past, American liberals have relied on a sympatico press and leftist academics to obscure or whitewash their grievous historical errors. President George W. Bush, pursuing the global war on terror, encountered the same personal slander Ronald Reagan faced as he fought and won the last major political battles of the Cold War. Both were branded “cowboys” and “warmongers.” Now, Reagan’s victorious Cold War legacy is claimed by all Americans.  ~online.wsj.com

Watch this clip: “the war is lost,” or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, and ask yourself where (D) defeatist policies would have put us in Iraq today. Democrats opposed victory in Iraq. The policy they advocated was to surrender, to give up, because they felt we had already lost and more importantly that Bush had to be denied any sort of victory.

You would think that the success of the surge would be an embarrassment for Democrats but that’s just not the case. The truth, like the constitution, is a living thing; amendable and always in flux.  Thus the war that Bush lost yesterday becomes the war that Obama won today.

Stupid American Proletariat

By on February 12, 2010
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The American people are so ignorant… and ungovernable. They just don’t know what’s good for them. Why can’t they understand that what Obama and the left want to impose on them is in their best interest?

The concept is called false consciousness. That’s when people fail to realize how great liberalism and socialism is– because they have been forced or tricked into believing the evil propaganda of big business.

Just listen to how Obama explains the overwhelming opposition to his Healthcare takeover:

Still, this is a complex issue, and the longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became.  I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people. And I know that with all the lobbying and horse-trading, the process left most Americans wondering, “What’s in it for me?”  ~whitehouse.gov

Stupid American people, they  just don’t understand the issue clearly enough. They just don’t see how compassionate the left is in wanting to be in control of health care. It’s that false consciousness once again. Clearly, when folks think that they can make better decisions about their own lives than government officials and politicians in Washington DC something is wrong.

The irony is that throughout the entire effort to ‘Reform Healthcare’ Obama left it to Pelosi and Reid to do the sausage making and they collectively realized that the less said about what was in that sausage the better. The attempt to ram through their reform without any scrutiny was, in hindsight, a poor one. But I doubt that they will learn from their mistakes.

The answer is, of course, more government intervention in order to combat the lies of big business and root out all the false consciousness out there. What we need is a plan to correct this informational injustice. The Fairness Doctrine is an effort along these lines. Government bailouts/takeover of failing news organizations is another. Registering bloggers may be necessary. Tracking your cell phone and keeping a record of all the websites you visit may be necessary as well.

What Obama, Pelosi, and Reid represent is the worst in paternalistic governance.  Welcome to hope and change.

Still, I predict that the people will rise up. The American proletariat are not going to continue to labor under the yoke of their oppressors for long. Ordinary Americans, everyday people, are the government. The one principle upon which this democratic republic is founded is that ‘We the people’ are the source of political power– not professional politicians who see themselves as better equipped to make decisions for us than we are and who assume that we are not clearly informed if we disagree with what they have determined what’s best for us.

Where we are headed

By on February 5, 2010
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No, no, and ‘Effing’ no:

The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes. ~news.zdnet.com

This is the typical mindset of a ruling class that no longer sees any value or necessity to follow the constitution. Does it make sense for the government to have all internet traffic saved and monitored for the supposed purpose of catching a narrow set of criminals visiting a specific narrow set of websites or chatrooms?

After 9/11 the government pushed for and authorized the wiretapping of phone conversation of US citizens –when they were talking to known or suspected terrorists or terrorist connected individuals overseas. Something the Federal government was not able to do previously without a warrant. This seemed to me limited intrusion for the sake of national security and in the face of an immediate threat. I wouldn’t be opposed to repealing this privilege either once the necessity has passed.

Totalitarian means total control

We are heading in the wrong direction and have been for the last forty years (if not more). We are incrementally losing all of our freedoms as Americans and each successive set of regulations ratchets up the control and surveilance. Where will it end?

Once the government is in charge of all of our health records, all of our financial information, –some are even floating the idea of putting GPS in our vehicles to tax us by how many miles we drive, why not ankle bracelets as well?– the IRS would have power to enforce the individual mandate that we all have insurance… there is no end to the mischief and entanglement that our government will have in our lives.

I don’t think we always fully understand the repurcussions even small regulations can have on our freedom and choice. I know that many times we don’t feel threatened by such laws because we think it won’t affect us but the other guy.

Living in California, as I do, there are so many petty nanny state laws and regulations that I gaurantee the average Californian has no idea that they are in violation of forty or so everyday without knowing it. Any one of which, if a diligent official might happen to find you in violation of, may only be an inconvenience involving a small fine all the way to having to appear in court or go to a regulatory agency to have cleared. But many are tied into other ‘privileges’ and can impact your life and livelihood.

Obamacare fails…

By on January 26, 2010
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…America wins! (Thank you Scott Brown.)

“61% Say It’s Time for Congress To Drop Health Care” And with that, it’s time to move on to other America destroying legislation.

After a year of trying to rush this bill through, of trying to hide what is in it and get it passed without any scrutiny at all, and promising, threatening to take over the greedy Healthcare industry, illustrious Senator Reid says, “What Bill? Healthcare reform… what’s that?”

“We’re not on health care now,” Mr. Reid said. “We’ve talked a lot about it in the past.” [Like yesterday?]

He added, “There is no rush,” and noted that Congress still had most of this year to work on the health bills passed in 2009 by the Senate and the House.  ~nytimes.com

The more the American people learned about every iteration of this atrocious legislation the more they realized that Democrats did not have them in mind. In fact, every policy of this Obama-Pelosi-Reid government has been disastrous. The stimulus, said to have saved or created millions of jobs, is actually driving up unemployment and pushing this country further over the precipice of national bankruptcy.

But now that Healthcare is dead, it’s time to pretend to be fiscally responsible!

According to the CBO our trainwreck of government debt is now flying down the tracks toward the Barack Hussein Memorial Precipice. Oddly enough, Obama’s ascension to office has been accompanied by an acceleration of spending beyond anything in the history of this nation and there’s no slowing down despite some talk (finally) about possibly, maybe, theoretically, at some future date of putting on the brakes.

The CBO baseline contains two important messages. First, Washington is accumulating debt at an unsustainable rate. After the debt slowly grew to $5.8 trillion through 2008, the more realistic baseline shows the federal government adding an astonishing $16.3 trillion in new debt between 2009 and 2020–$130,000 per household over those 12 years. ~heritage.org

Obama will prove that he can ruin the economy with more than just healthcare. I’m sure tax increases, cap and trade, new regulations on businesses, laws re-muzzling the free speech of corporations, and more higher taxes to pay for the Healthcare reform bill democrats will try to sneak through will bring us right out of the depression and into unprecedented prosperity! Hope and Change.

Irony or hypocrisy?

By on January 23, 2010
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This is too much: “President Obama Blocks ‘Tax Cheats’ From Government Work”

For this to be mere irony would mean that Obama and everyone around him are completely blind to the fact that he nominated a score of tax cheats to his cabinet. Of course, for it to be hypocrisy would mean that they know and don’t care. Paying taxes is for the ruled, not the rulers.

So which is it: irony or hypocrisy? I’ll be charitable and let you decide. But keep in mind that the person in charge of the agency enforcing this edict is Timothy ‘turbotax cheat’ Geithner. Maybe Charles Rangel can help enforce this as well?

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If this is how Obama is going to pivot from the direct loss in Mass in his second year of office

Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors

The beginning of the end of change

By on January 19, 2010
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Brown wins. What does it mean? It means that the Tea Party tsunami has begun. The end of the attempted socialist transformation of America. My prediction for the 2010 congressional races is defeat, defeat, defeat, for every arrogant liberal incumbent who dares go along with this rape of the republic called Healthcare reform.

Republicans should take note that repudiation of democrat policies doesn’t mean automatic GOP support. The purpose, the job, of politicians is supposed to be the representatives of the people. The voice of the people. Fail in this and it’s good night for the GOP as well.

Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts is more than just a defeat for President Obama and the priorities his administration has established during his first year in office. It is an outright rejection of the “identity” politics he and his party have championed for more than a generation.  ~corner.nationalreview.com

One way or another…

By on January 18, 2010
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Our Leftist President and Congress, at odds with the American people, fully intend to ram ‘Healthcare Reform’ down our throats no matter what– for our own good! “They’ll learn to love it,” they say. Hope and Change indeed. But Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are more likely to feel feedback of another sort from voters if they continue down this road of arrogance and ruin.

Carville poll: Only a third of voters support Barack Obama’s national health-care plan

According to Democracy Corps, likely voters have a sharply negative view of the president’s health-care and economic plans, and a far more favorable view of Republicans than they did a few months ago. Because Democracy Corps was founded by Democrats James Carville and Stanley Greenberg, the firm’s findings have significant influence in national Democratic circles.  ~dailycaller.com

Just another example of how Obama is bringing America together.

In light of this what is the best course of action? When your ideologically driven political agenda is distasteful to most Americans is it wise to disregard the will of the people and double-down? To attempt to ram the legislation through no matter what? Democrats have already hinted that they will try to delay seating Brown if he wins in Massachusetts Tuesday because his election will lose them their 60 seat filibuster safety margin.

Some are hinting that they must cheat in order to win this seat– to save healthcare and to, ‘keep those bastards out [of office].’

A defeat in Massachusetts will not translate into anything resembling thoughtful consideration of the people’s will. Not for Obama and not for Congress.

President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say.

“This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt,” a senior administration official said. “It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.” ~dyn.politico.com

And the queen of the House has issued a proclamation as well:

“Let’s remove all doubt, we will have health care — one way or another,” Pelosi said. “Back to the drawing board means a great big zero for the American people.”  ~sfgate.com

The American people don’t want it, but that sure that doesn’t seem to matter to the left.

“…we will have health care — one way or another,” Pelosi said.

Cognitive infiltration?

By on January 15, 2010
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silencingShould the Federal government be infiltrating and disrupting groups they deem to hold conspiracy theories or who may hold what they deem as non-mainstream views? Not that they pose any physical threat mind you. It seems like implementing such a policy would essentially validate any conspiracy theorists paranoia.

In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated “cognitive infiltration” of groups that advocate “conspiracy theories” like the ones surrounding 9/11.

Sunstein argued that “government might undertake (legal) tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories.” He suggested that “government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.” ~rawstory.com

Is this our future under Obama and one-party rule? Government infiltrators meant to discredit and shape public opinion? I’m absolutely positive from the comments already made public by democrats that Tea Party protestors would be prime targets as well.

He says that the reason this must be done is that these ‘conspiracy theorists’ are uninformed. So the government must send in infiltrators to undermine their arguments and create confusion, distrust, and fear. Hmm.

That alone is enough, but this Obama official also suggests some insane speech chilling policies.

Sunstein’s book is a blueprint for online censorship as he wants to hold blogs and web hosting services accountable for the remarks of commenters on websites while altering libel laws to make it easier to sue for spreading “rumors.”

Smith notes that bloggers and others would be forced to remove such criticism unless they could be “proven”. The litigation expense would be daunting; the time necessary to defend a posting (or an article) would work to the benefit of the public figure being criticized since the delay would probably allow the figure to win an election before the truth “won out”. The mere threat of retaliatory actions would be enough to dissuade many commentators from daring to issue a word of criticism or skepticism. ~americanthinker.com

These kinds of regulations coupled with reimplementation of the Fairness Doctrine would effectively cripple the free speech of conservatives. Which is the reason that Democrats are proposing these ideas in the first place.

I think that this is exactly what was meant when Michelle Obama said that Barack would, “never allow us to go back to our lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
~Michelle Obama, Speech at UCLA

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