Sword and Sextant

This is based on passage of Obama’s class-warfare tax surcharge nonsense passing.

The collective government, in another palsied grab for power and influence, has yet again decided it has more claim on the monies of the rich than they themselves do. While our representatives on the Hill and at state capitals fly jets around and take months long vacations to rest their laurels and be in parades, hundreds of thousands of Americans veritably kill themselves to make enough money to live comfortably in the future. Now, they will have to ship over half to their betters in D.C.

This is the first time in decades that this horror has visited our nation, and is in direct violation of an Obama campaign promise:

The $544 billion tax hike would violate one of President Obama’s ironclad campaign promises: No family will pay higher tax rates than they would have paid in the 1990s.

But what does ass-clown Robert Gibbs think?

Asked if Obama supports the surtax on wealthiest Americans even though it would break a campaign pledge, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said only, “It’s a process that we’re watching.”

Wonderful. Thank God they have their eyes on it.

Here’s one for the “the public option isn’t really an option” file:

The legislation is especially onerous for business owners, in part because it penalizes employers with a payroll bigger than $400,000 some 8 percent of wages if they don’t offer health care.

There are jobs out there that should not give out health care. McDonalds is a great example. Of course, the payrolls of those 16-year-olds with a summer job will be counted against the lowly franchise owner, evil enough to withhold care from his employees. The result will, of course, be that those jobs disappear. Growth directly below the $400K payline will stagnate to prevent this albatross, and everyone will suffer. The transition of health care from privelage (aka benefit, to use the pre-Obama word) to right is going to be phenomenally expensive and destructive.

Liberals trade in the currency of best intentions. Their high-and-mighty pretentiousness must be sated by allocating other people’s effort and dollars “for the greater good”, and so we fight them as the only American’s capable of understanding the harm the New Left crowd can inflict. I don’t believe they plan on killing the country that nurtured their foolishness, but they will not let an economy get in the way, as proven by their attempted cap and trade ambush during a huge recession. Its merely happenstance that their myopic crusade du jour will burn down the nation that so many great men have built with…

…minority entitlements, political kickbacks, and buying votes from envious class warriors? That doesn’t sound right.

…hard work, sacrifice, accountability, and self-sufficiency? There it is.

Obama is about to find out how hard a brick wall feels when he runs up against the force of the American people and its interests. He already had to park Cap and Trade in the Senate to let the fires die down. Clock’s ticking until 2010, buddy. The world’s first lame duck year 2 President may be at hand.

Stay out of our country’s affairs, you bastard. Aren’t you busy enough quashing the rights of your own people? When the bombs come for you, I hope you cry like a little girl and everyone knows how weak this dictator/terrorist is.

Speech suggesting the possibility of the death of a foreign head of state is beyond the pale, and it pisses me off. I don’t like Barry one bit, but I’ll still fist-fight any useless foreigner with the audacity to suggest our leader may get shot.

Frankly, Obama is beyond reproach when compared to the likes of banana republic dictators like Chavez. This man makes my blood boil more than I can say. Talk about the seed of evil for an entire sector of the globe.

Just one excerpt:

You can send the Fourth and the Sixth Fleet, or the world’s largest bombers, but changes will not end.

I’ll take that bet, you weak-ass. You’d be a shitstain in Obama’s boxers in less than a day.

At long last, the media is coming around to some realities Obama is hiding behind the curtain.

Read it. Short, concise, and relatively objective.

In great news, the NL finally took the fucking lead away from the AL, 3-2, bottom 2nd. Screw the AL.

Anywho,

Obama finds his way onto television yet again at a baseball game decked out in a nasty, atrocious White Sox jersey. Seriously, every Sox fan is a piece of slimy, stinking crap. All felons, as well.

Obama must have set some kind of record for being on tv at this point, right? Dude likes to be seen, that’s for sure.

Mrs. Palin is not quite done being heard yet.

In an important first step toward rehabilitating her image, Sarah has won a spot on the editorial page of the WaPo (congrats to WaPo for agreeing). Therein she writes a very nice piece on cap and trade, savaging it up and down. However, you can read the thing and draw your own conclusions.

I would say this is certainly evidence that Palin isn’t leaving the scene, if less than proof. I expect numerous Sunday talker interviews and a speaking tour to take place, a la Reagan before his first run. She must create her own image with personal appearances instead of settling for the caricature currently on display, and she’s at least making preparations for the process.

I’m not sold on Palin, but I do love her ability to play outside the “rules” of running for office. I’m looking forward to hearing from her on more important issues. Should she resurrect her platform and image, she would be a tremendous force in 2012.

So, now that PressSec Robert Gibbs has given us the go-ahead to start blaming/lauding the President on the economy, lets see where we are.

Oh shit.

9.5%? Good Lord, Barack. Where in the hell is your stimulus at? I thought it was the only bill that could save America? I thought that was why the incoming spectre of inflation was going to be worth the squeeze?

But alas, now we’re even talking about the dreaded “jobless recovery”! OMG!!!! Le me te u somping, mang. We saw this shit the coming the whole time. Reckless federal spending and increased central power in our nation’s President is a piss poor method of fixing our nation’s problems. As a matter of fact, however, it was never the goal to begin with.

In light of Honduras and Iran, the responses of the POTUS, and his constant power-grabbing, I believe Obama is trying to change this nation into something we have never been. He continually subjugates our freedoms, even as he crows that he’s going to fix everything while giving sermons overseas apologizing for the history of this nation, which he happens to be ashamed of. Ah yes, the child of the Far Left is born into power on hollow promises, and he despises the nation he runs.

This man is out to destroy America and remake it in his nanny-state totalitarian image. This is a dark chapter in America. However, conservatives will ride to the rescue in 2010. Obama could be a lame duck President in two years. Deliver us from evil.

Up 50% since they took control.

They want to regulate executive pay, tell you what kind of dishwasher detergent to use, and control your car’s mileage, but they’re going to fly wherever they want and demand higher taxes, to, in part, make up for their own largesse.

You don’t say?

Those evil, heathen bastards at Big Oil, trying to make a profit, are going to go overseas for cheaper materials if we unnaturally raise domestic prices. Of course, that would cost jobs that won’t be counted in the nebulous “created or saved category”.

The government, in an environmental orgasm not seen in decades, has decided that the world ends at the coasts, and that raising price controls won’t affect anything. Or, they think they decided that, seeing as no one has read the MF’ing bill yet, let alone before it narrowly passed in the House.

Let’s get down to brass tacks. This was never about the environment or tax revenue, or the economy. Its another ploy to concentrate power in the hands of the federal government. Liberals want to run your life, and by God, they’re going to do it. It doesn’t matter what campaign promises have to disappear, who gets thrown under the bus, or how many secret lobbyist meetings have to take place. Your life is theirs, cradle to grave.

Remember how 95% of Americans won’t have higher taxes under Obama? Yeah, I guess he was sorta right, because the real number that will is at 100%. The real pot sweetener is that he’s going to injure the economy and our job market in order to do it? Is there really any stronger proof that he’s just looking for power?

The backlash Obama feels in 2010 is going to scare the shit right out of him. There has NEVER been a better motivator of the GOP.

Update: Rush has a great question: Meddling in Iran is wrong, but meddling in Honduras is right. Why does Obama meddle in favor of a burgeoning dictator in Honduras, but not when the dictators are in trouble in Iran? Does Obama really side with the dictators on this one?

Original Post:

Hillary and Obama are unhappy about it. They are joined by good friends Chavez and Castro.

From HillDog:

Mrs. Clinton has piled on as well. Yesterday she accused Honduras of violating “the precepts of the Interamerican Democratic Charter” and said it “should be condemned by all.” Fidel Castro did just that. Mr. Chávez pledged to overthrow the new government.

From Obama:

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the weekend ouster of Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya was a “not legal” coup and that he remains the country’s president.

Oh boy. Well, the WSJ has something more on this:

Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. The Honduran Congress met in emergency session yesterday and designated its president as the interim executive as stipulated in Honduran law. It also said that presidential elections set for November will go forward. The Supreme Court later said that the military acted on its orders. It also said that when Mr. Zelaya realized that he was going to be prosecuted for his illegal behavior, he agreed to an offer to resign in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Mr. Zelaya denies it.

Well, well. Unless one is prepared to debunk the WSJ story in some fashion, it appears our SecState and POTUS in agreement with dictators on being able to overthrow whatever elements of a lawful democracy they see fit. I’m gonna go ahead and side with people who demand freedom and lawfulness from their leaders. We have extreme interests in keeping this whole region from falling under Hugo’s reign, as well, and that only sweetens the pot when he promises to overthrow this lawful government that he hates. We’d be able to deploy and wipe him off the map, finally.

A word from a Honduran:

“We won’t go backwards,” one sign said. “We want to live in peace, freedom and development.”

I’m with ya, buddy. I just hope we get a chance to prove it.

WTH is change, anyway?

Looks like even Obama thinks we need this shit.