Cheney with Guts

Dick Cheney is not afraid.

He has nothing to gain. He has no political ambitions, no need for money, no need for a job. And he is not going away.

Thank God.

Obama's foreign policy has been found wanting. It lacks strategy, vision, direction and even experience. So much for the genius of the Veep. From the silence during the Iran protests to the gushing support of socialist president Zelaya to the all-too-telling gaffe of Medvedev- Obama has been a foreign policy freshman stuffed in a shorter, weaker junior's locker. Her Majesty's shoulder rub and bowing to a Wahabi prince are not his biggest blunders.

His misunderestimating of radical Islam is.

Cheney has called him out on it. The CIA investigations (that both AG Holder and POTUS are on record as "against" yet for some reason are still proceeding) and the neutering of the intelligence community are dangerous steps. They will weaken the country and leave us frightfully vulnerable.

Press Secretary Gibbs had this to say: "I’m not entirely sure that Dick Cheney’s predictions on foreign policy have born a whole lot of fruit over the last 8 years in a way that have been either positive or to the best of my recollection very correct".

I'm not sure how that applies to the conversation. Did Cheney purport to be a svengali of foreign affairs? Did the Bush Administration claim clayrevoyance?

What I do know and what is completely inarguable is that the Bush Administration kept us safe for 8 years when Al Qaeda was at its prime. And the countries that started off cold towards Bush eventually elected leaders who were admitedly pro-American. Zarkozy defeated Chiroc. Merkel defeated Schroeder. Berlusconi defeated Prodi. We never lost the UK or Japan or Australia. Our relationship with India and China had never been stronger and our alliances with most African countries were at their best.

What was not "correct"? Our weak relationship with Cuba?

I can criticize the Bush Administration on several things. No one logical or intellectually mature would claim the Administration was flawless. But it is hard to argue that our foreign policy is "incorrect". One of the biggest flaws of Bush Administration was that it allowed this mantra to continue: our foreign policy was weakened, Bush harmed out "reputation around the world", etc. Republicans let that one stick and never pushed back. Stupid move.

So with 7 months done of hope and change we have record deficits, CIA investigations, government takeover of industry, an attempt to socialize healthcare and making fun of retard people.

Is it 2012 yet?

In Support of Whole Foods

I don't regularly shop at Whole Foods. It's too expensive. Sure they have great cheeses and wines and cuts of meat. And I have bought their shushi before. Their desserts... eh. Not enough flavor. But most of all the place is grossly overpriced. But hey- you go there if you want. Free country, right?

Wrong.

See, in the new post-racial, post-partisan Age of Obama, your opinion can cost you your job. Or your Whole Foods. That is what John Mackey, the CEO and co-founder of WF found out when he dared, DARED author an opinion that differed from King Barry. And in the Wall Street Journal of all places!!! And we KNOW that Wall Street is responsible for the mess we are in- them and their greed...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

Anyway- Mackey's first mistake: quoting Margaret Thatcher. Though your average liberal cannot tell you why they dislike Dame Thatcher, they know she is bad. Very bad. Like Reagan. And the Pope. Yuck. (They also cannot tell you why the revere Che Guevara... but his tee shirts are so fashionable, does it really matter?)

So the Logan Circle Whole Foods had some protestors. Just play the clip and listen to the "sultans of smart" as they issue their reasons for the picket lines. Main reason: they are being paid? No. Of course not! It's because Mr. Mackey disagrees with Obama and the DNC party line. Dissenters will not be tolerated.

It used to be the highest form of patriotism. I guess that's only if you speak it and not publish it...

An Italian Mistake

This post should be read with the accompanying music. "izz-a mo' fun-nah. you hitta da play."

The bad news: White House Budget office announced it made a mistake. The deficit is off by a smidge- just a bit.

$2,000,000,000,000.

The good news: I might get a vacation villa in Amalfi.

Per che?

The GDP of Italy is $1.85 trillion. So here's what we do to overcome our Italian sized budget....

We blayma da Bush-a! Managia la miseria... iss-a da falta di Bush e delle neocons. Poor Italia...

And then- we invade Italy again. Claim it as America's 51st State. We name it "Obamitalia" and give it to the taxpayers. We did it once- we can do it again.

And this time we don't rebuild Montecassino!!!

(On another note, Michelle wore a sleaveless sun dress from J-Crew and Barry played golf with his buddies).

Now- off to invade Italy! Bon appetito!!!

A Hero's Welcome

Abdelbaset Ali Mohammad Al Megrahi, AKA evil incarnate, was released by a Scottish judge so he could go home to die in his own country.

This was the man who was responsible for Pan Am Flight 103 which was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. I was just a kid but I remember it vividly.

270 people died that day. But mister evil has cancer. And we need to show compassion.

Obama said "we thought it was a mistake". Clinton, our impotent Secretary of State, said she was "deeply concerned".

Then, Obama took off for Martha's Vineyard for his vacation. I hope he has fun.

Mark Rubin did the math- mister evil spent 11.5 days in jail for every person he killed. Not much of a sentence.

Since when do our allies act with such utter disdain for our relationships? I thought that Mr. Obama was going to hit a reset button on foreign policy and rebuild our relationship with the world?

There is an easy way to prevent this- call Scotland, call the Queen and remind them of our relationship- remind them of WW2 if necessary. But this was a preventable atrocity. And yes, it is an atrocity.

So mister evil got a hero's welcome for killing 270 people 21 years ago. What a sick religion.

What an embarrassing President. And what a sad future we all face.

Free money- costly servitude

Today my birth state, the formerly great New York implemented a free money program. Of course this pig's lipstick shade is called "Back to School Assistance". But it still goes "oink oink" and rolls around in feces.

All the parents of "needy" kids were given $200 assistance from big brother government to prepare for back-to-school. That's $200 per child. The assistance did not come in the form of a $200 staples card. Nor did it come in $200 of credit for Macys kids section. Nor did it come in $200 voucher at a bookstore. No. It came in cash.

Cash.

So let me get this straight... we just handed out $200 cash to every "needy" kid and said "now make sure you spend this on books!". Will it have the same success as the $2000 per Katrina victim debit card?

From the NY Daily News: "It's free money!" said Alecia Rumph, 26, who waited in a Morris Park, Bronx, line 300 people deep for the cash to buy uniforms and book bags for her two kids. "Thank God for Obama. He's looking out for us."

Well, there you go.

And that is, of course, the job of the President. To give us free money. Fact is- we've been printing money like mad and the only ones it benefits are the communist chinese.

This is being billed as an education program. Want to talk education? Let's look at education spending.

In New York it started with buses. See, kids could not do well in school because they couldn't get there. Too far, too cold, too rainy, too hot- we need to drive the kids to school. So the government brain trust started (in cahoots with the unions and organized crime) a busing system that currently spends over $1billion annually in busing kids. Bus these kids there. Bus those kids here. Drive them around in circles- who cares? Just drive them.

Ready to learn?

No. Food. Sure, they are driven to school. But they are HUNGRY! Free lunch. What about in the morning? Free breakfast.

Satisfied?

No. What about after school?? See the kids are driven, yes, and fed, yes, but what about help with their homework? Mom and dad are busy at work and the children need help with homework. OK- let's start an after school program.

What about before school? What about the kids who's parents have to be at works soooo early that they need to drop off their kids before 7? Enter the morning program.

Hang on- see you are just assuming that the kids are prepared for school when they start in kindergarten. What about a program to prepare the kids? Headstart was born from that need.

Now- let's recap- we will pick you up, early too if need be, and give you breakfast and lunch. Then we give you after-school program for homework and drive you home too. And we will even take the wee little ones to prepare for school. On top of that we just gave you $200 for school supplies (a.k.a. mom's new rosette tattoos for her breasts and dad's new iphone). Are we done?

ARE WE FREAKING DONE NOW??? Will test scores NOW go up?? Will school crime NOW go down?? Will kids NOW learn to read and write and speak and study?

No.

So we will offer a jobs training program for those graduates that cannot find work. Then we will offer you free housing, free food stamps, OF COURSE free healthcare.

And bury you in your free grave. And you will thank Obama for "looking out for you".

Know what lady? Thank God for ME damn it. Where's my thank you?

The left, the White House, the media are still perplexed at the anger in the healthcare town halls. The revolution is coming. People like me are tired of being raped by a government that then takes my money and doles it out to people who do nothing but take and take and take and then complain that what they have stole is not good enough. They have not amassed any wealth with their sweat. They have not earned the livelihood through their efforts. They have not worked, have not sacrificed, have not produced, have not been taxed, have not contributed and yet they take and take and take and DARE to complain that what they receive from my wallet is not up to snuff.

The revolution is coming. And I am proud to join it.

"Unamerican" Debate

Just when you think you've seen it all. Or read it all. Or heard it all.

A few months ago the Tea Bag movement was called "teabaggers". CNN thought that was funny. Keith Olberman loved the term. White House said nothing.

Now, as the number of protesters has grown and as the Fuhrer's poll numbers has dropped 17 points, Speaker Pelosi has called the them "un-American". Secretary Sebelius has called the protesters "terrorists".

Is this America?



Where were Madam Speaker's sentiments when this happened?







Or this?









Surely she must have agreed with this?:





Protest is a right, Madam Speaker. And heated protest, organized, planned and "orchestrated" protests are a tactic of your left. And violent protest birthed our nation when "a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

President Obama comments on a black man being arrested in Cambridge. But he has no words for a black man being beaten in St. Louis. And the difference between these two men is politics: one agrees with the leader and one doesn't. So one deserves White House commentary, one is deemed unworthy. Heil Fuhrer.

Orwell, Huxley, Didion all wrapped up into one opus magnum that we don't read but live.

Luxury travel for our elected elite

So Speaker Pelosi has appropriated $550 million to buy 8 new jets for "senior officials". These are the same senior officials who derided the Big 3 CEOs for having the gumption of flying their companies' private jets to the Hill for a dog and pony show.

Anyway- how much is $550 million? Doesn't seem like a lot- especially in the absurd economics of the Obama era where trillion is all the rage. Let's put it like this- $550 million buys EVERY member of Congress a $1000 round trip airline ticket EVERY DAY for one thousand days. And then some.

Where are they all going?

I've worked in lobbying, worked on the Hill- I know how the game is played. They make a call to some center in New Zealand about some study concerning the green frog and decide it is necessary to fly there and see the results themselves. We pay for the ticket and the hotel, they bring their spouse (who has to pay his/her own meals) and make a 7 day trip out of it. It is STANDARD.

In my day we took corporate jets. But now such gifts are illegal under the campaign finance rules. Congress grew accustomed to the joys of luxury travel and in response decided to buy its own planes.

But Madam, the masses are starving. They are unemployed. They have no jobs. And Madam Pelosi, turning to her aid before boarding her G5, retorts "let them eat cake".

I miss you, W

My brother sent me this side-by-side. I don't know who its maker is- but I thank you for a good laugh. I know it's a little old but still nonetheless funny.

Bush throwing out the first pitch on September 20, 2001 was one of the greatest moments of Americana in the last 100 years of our country.

No peeking, Justice Sotomayor

At 11:03 this morning, I heard the following:

I Sonya Sotomayor do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and to the rich and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States under the Constitution and laws of the United States so help me God.

I wish you well, Madam Justice. But you will forgive my scepticism. Your song and dance in the Senate confirmation don't necessarily negate your years of rulings.

And I will always return to thoughts of my mom- born in NYC to immigrant parents. She was not, nor ever called a minority. yet you Madam, born in New York to American parents, are a minority. So... odd.

The Revolution is Coming...

St. Louis is just the start- and it will get worse. Much worse.

Six people arrested- several landed in hospitals. Earlier this week we saw the scene in Austin. And Tampa, Michigan, Arkansas, Denver...

It is beyond reason that the response coming out of the White House is "we will punch back twice as hard".

Punch back? Welcome to Chicago politics, America. It's in Obama's blood- remember this is a guy who won every election up to 2004 by having his opponents thrown off the ballot or breaking the law and having sealed court documents "leaked" to the press (by the way did anyone get arrested for what they did to Ryan?)

This is a guy who is, in his core, a Saul Alinsky protegee, an Acorn operative, a "community organizer" who made a name for himself by agitating the people into a frenzy. Well Mr. President, you are so good at your job that the are agitated without you even meaning to do it.

And now that the Obama White House clashes with the former "silent majority" taking to the streets and organizing, they need to change tactics. So the organized community is now an "angry mob" and thwarting the democratic process. Shucks, he even said last night in Virginia (and I avoided that traffic like the plague- a President in Tysons corner at rush hour... nice planning) that he "didn't want them to do a lot of talking". Good thing he didn't say "you people".

I'm not advocating violence and I don't want to see people land up in jail nor the hospital. But a revolution is coming to America. When Andrea Mitchell talks of Americans as "they don't know what's good for them", when Arlen Specter admits he doesn't need to read the legislation, when Harry Reid scolds them, when Pelosi infers they are racist (or at the least antisemitic- whatever that has to do with anything...)- it means that our leaders are out of touch with, well, us.

A revolution is coming. It will start in New Jersey and Virginia this fall. And it will continue should this Congress and White House continue to ask for the emails of those who spread misinformation. Couple that with Cap and Trade and the Fairness Doctrine and $500 million for new jets and 10% unemployment....

A revolution is coming. 'Bout friggin time, too.

'Nuff said...

This image of Obama was made by school children... I wonder if they were the same children who sung that creepy "Obama's gonna change the world" song...







Dictators love to have their images uniquitiously displayed.

How the Obama Administration ruined the automotive industry

What could be more American than the automobile? As Europe and Asia invested in high speed trains with the intention to move people en masse, America invested in roads and bridges and an entire country interconnected by highways so that the freedom in the American soul could be driven by the automobile.

Since then, the federal government has tried its hardest to kill the car industry. And this week they succeeded.

The "Cash for Clunkers" program has been a disgrace for several reasons. In the spirit of Capitalism and Federalism, it has been the antithesis of the Constitution. But here is what it really did. It convinced (they would use the term "incentivize") thus far 200,000+ people to turn in their "clunkers" for a $3500 or $4500 rebate on the purchase of a new car. Once again, people were incentivized, by government hand outs, to buy something new and shiny. Can they afford it? How much was their monthly payment with their clunkers? How much will their new payment be?

So- there goes the cheap living. I'm curious to see how many of these cars will be repossessed as people bought above their means based on a false government program.

As cars are repossessed, they will be returned to dealers- damaged, worth less than their financing and add to a surplus of cars driving down the cost of cars nationwide.

Plus 200,000 used cars have been taken off the market- not scrapped for parts, not fixed up by some teenage kid who can only afford a $3000 car- scrapped. What about those Americans (we call them "the poor"- Democrats love the poor, don't forget) who depend on the used car markets? Price of used cars are going up...

Too many used expensive cars worth less than their lease, not enough cheap cars, people who spent a few months of financing, got he vehicle repossessed and now have NO car, debt and worse credit scores. This sounds like what other federal government program....hmmm.....

replace "cash for clunkers" with "Fannie and Freddie" and replace "cars" with "house" and you've got...ta da!... the housing market- artificially inflated, artificially deflated, over valued, over stocked and now dragging down the whole economy. Fannie and Freddie "incentivized" people to buy houses with sweet, ARM loans, no doc and 0% down... sounds great right? What is the result? They are in debt, foreclosed, kicked out, then banks bundled the loans and sold them on the market- no one knows what the value, and the whole market tanks. TANKS.

So who gains from this "cash for clunkers"? UAW. That's for starters. Environmentalists who think that better emissions standards will somehow stop us from this massive heat wave during the hottest summer on record (hee hee)... it's a typical democrat "free candy" program where it does tremendous long term damage and makes people dependent on government to get out of their blight.

That's what Obama wants though. You to depend on him.

More to come

And then there is this one:



This is Democracy. Not the black panthers who wield baseballs bats at the polling stations (licit, in an Obama Administration. Had they worn white hoods and burnt a cross, they would be in jail right now. Welcome to post-racial America).

This is Democracy. I think too many elites- professors, journalists, beltway types, Washington socialites, Congressmen and their ilk, have forgotten the power of the ordinary citizen. Was it not ordinary citizens who fought for this nation in 1776? Was it not ordinary citizens who fought to preserve this nation in 1861?

We are not an angry people. But we are mad. Mad at our false leaders- mad at this Administration. Made that men and women who didn't pay their taxes, who get chauffeured to work in limos, who fly to NYC for a Broadway play- are telling us about sacrifice, fairness, equality and "spreading the wealth".

A revolution is coming. It will be non-violent. But it is coming. It is being forged in the hearts of men and women who see themselves more as Sarah Palins and Joe the Plumbers than arugula eating Barack and $450 sneakered Michelle.

This revolution will be true change. That's my hope.