Sword and Sextant

3)  If you inherit a $450B deficit, triple it in one month, and vow to cut it in half, are you a budget hawk?  What if you then increase it to $1.7T without making any new claims?  

Obama is going to use his significant others in the press to run as a budget hawk in a few years, despite the total lie you have to swallow to view Obama in this light.  Its disingenuous and sinister, but that’s our President, folks.  The ultimate wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Alright, truth time.  The GOP has very little idea how to get out of a recession, placing them behind even the Dems.  However, before I get caught giving too much credit to the Democrats, lets talk a bit more.  Democrat policies are still incorrect, but a side-effect of their foolishness is the crux of the illness that our economy feels when we throw $750B at banks and let them sit on it.

The fact is, this recession, like the Great Depression, is a monetary crisis, and not a social crisis or anything like that.  Its evident when you notice that our economy has no credit at the moment, and isn’t flowing.  The money is frozen, quite literally, at all the places it normally flows fastest.  Its as if your peripheral circulatory system is functioning, ie stores still sell milk, but your aorta is blocked off, or just refusing to let anything through.  So, no new factories, but everyone still needs shit.

Now, this leads to job losses and huge Wall Street issues because businesses and investing both hinge on growth potential.  No one buys a stock that is going to stand pat, unless its form of growth is expressed in a dividend quarterly, which is a different story.  Anywho, no one will invest in improving a business venture that can’t expand due to credit issues, regardless of where they derive.  Lack of upward mobility is a huge issue, and the banks have put a low ceiling over everyone for about 16 months now.

All this adds up to a reality in which we realize that the flow of money must be restored to invigorate the economy.  This brings us to Obama who will do exactly that with his stimulus bill.  He clearly doesn’t get why what he’s doing is good, as he runs on the dubious neosocialistic term fairness and whatnot.  (He called the Bush tax cuts ” wealth transfer to the wealthy”!  Since when is giving people their OWN money back a transfer of wealth?!?!?)  It just so happens that he also jams money down the throat of the country when he does this foolishness, so he may accidentally fix our woes.  Sadly, giving money to the poor and taking it from those who created it isn’t the best way to go about this, but I digress.

GOP-types understand this principle as little as the Dems, but their policies don’t felicitously cost tons of money we don’t currently have, so they look even worse.  Also, their notion that the New Deal failed and WW2 saved us is a false dichotomy once you think about it.  If WW2 saved the nation, it was surely the deficit spending that rallied us, as making things that blow up and kill people on other continents isn’t usually the way a healthy economic cycle works.  Therefore, the New Deal was on the right track, but not because of any airy social agenda.  As always, it was about the money.  The money is where you find most of the true answers and power in this world, and this is no different.  The New Deal failed because FDR didn’t spend enough, he spent too much time thinking his social agenda was the important factor, and he also detached supply from demand with price controls, a surefire way to kill off healthy economic signs.

One thing the GOP has at its disposal to spend money and get money flowing is the tax cut.  Its more indirect, but putting money into people’s wallets has a way of causing them to take it out of their wallets.  If anything, more tax cuts should occur and be counted as deficit spending.  Not a thinly veiled partisan hack grandstanding effort like the stimulus check, but actual income tax cuts.  Sadly, GOPers used up their opportunities badly a few years ago, and the party is as dead as the Dems were six years ago.  Also, the moderates run the asylum at the moment, and they are running from their supposed principles at top speed these days.  

As a conservative, and at my age, I can only smile that our nation will inevitably survive Obama, no matter what havoc he wreaks on us, and my generation will be at the helm when we return to our true ideas.  Not sure Jindal is the guy, but there are millions like him and millions more like myself.  Watch out, liberals, we’ll be back.  You can’t kill an idea, no matter how hard you try.

This is reckless spending.  

I hope everyone in America realizes Obama forced us to ask our unborn for a huge loan, and we’re getting it.  

The tax plan is also the antithesis of a stimulus, siphoning monies from the very people who power industries.  They are, of course, the rich.  The ones who buy yachts, sports cars, housing additions, etc.  

Also, business taxes are going up, which ALWAYS results in layoffs, which is lost jobs.  Sorta the reverse of adding jobs.

Quick math quiz:  You pass a bill creating 3M transient  jobs.  You then tax the crap out of people who consume goods and the businesses that sign the paychecks for everyone else.  People lose jobs.  How much stimulus have you created?

Question two:  When unemployment is below 10%, how do you create 3M jobs when your total population is a shade higher than 300M?  Have you really made any dent in anything?  Show your work.

He’s given us “fairness” as a strange response to captial gains’ taxes in the past, but its not all about fairness for Obama.  

He’s against the Fairness Doctrine.

Not much else to say.  Good work, Mr. President.  I still hate most of your policies, but this is a step away from the “consolidate power at any cost to freedom” crowd headed up by Pelosi.

Scene:  A President spends over 12 months in public, congressional, and fruitless international debate over an invasion of Iraq.  The measure receives bipartisan majorities from both parties and America goes to war with warnings that it will not be easy.  Our country invades Iraq.

Scene:  A President leaves the public 5 days total to read an omnibus spending bill to combat an economic crisis billed as the worst since the Great Depression, despite inflation, jobless rates, and real wages all being significantly lower in Ronald Reagan’s first year in office.  The measure receives nearly zero bipartisan support.

You know the actors, but isn’t it strange that one is demonized as polarizing whilst the other is a Uniter?  Its only fair to view the Iraqi invasion at the time it started, as the spending bill hasn’t gone any farther.  Both men utilized a “crisis” to politick their cause, and both wielded the subsequent fear of the situation to spur debate.  

I’m not surprised that the politicians used fear to get what they want, but I will always be shocked how the media can take two stories and shape public opinion in the bent of their own bias.  I’m confident that in a few years, Obama will 

a)  fail in several measures to govern differently than GWB (FISA intact, Guantanamo around, etc.)

b)  fail to garner bipartisan support for much of anything (“I won,” he said triumphantly.)

c)  endure very little of the slings and arrows his policies will inevitably have, even if everything goes better than it ever has

On c), I would say that every administration has their critics, but only this one is seeking to eliminate their voices by destroying the only mouthpiece it has in talk radio.  I stand by the stance that the fairness doctrine will be an internal battle that eventually reveals Obama as what he claims to be in his lofty sermons, or the sinister political agent of a far Left oligarchy vying for revolution.  Passage of the fairness doctrine is such a direct attack on free speech little doubt will be left if he gives this robbery of the 1st ammendment his authority.  Talk about shredding the Constitution.  Your move, Barack.

While Dems are ginning up talk about the fairness doctrine, Ed Schultz got a front row seat for Obama’s press conference yesterday.  Isn’t that interesting?

I surely wouldn’t expect Rush, Levin, Belling, Hannity, etc to get any seating, but this isn’t really the message you want to send if you’re trying to sell the FD as the best thing for the country, right?  I swear, all the political deftness Obama had during the campaign seems to have gone right out the window.  Is it brazenness or ineptitude?  Beats me.

I’m all over this story, obviously, because its item A-1 on the list of visible things Democrats plan to do to restrict the ability of dissenting viewpoints in the marketplace of ideas.  As the only wing of any media that isn’t totally liberal already, it must be destroyed to consolidate manadatory leftward swoon of our populace.

Where ideas fail to win hearts and minds, Obama/Pelosi/Reid will overcome with fines, laws, and ham-fisted force.  Your freedoms are dwindling, America.

I have always been completely in favor of dissenting opinions in this country.  Verily, it is my mission to find these people and show them how futile and self-destructive some of their values are, despite the fact that it is very rare that any actually has the stones to entertain the possibility that they may not be politically perfect.

Anyhow, what I cannot stand is liars.  People who shamelessly cavort around as a particular political stripe while secretly, or even openly spouting careless anecdotes revealing what kind of twisted sheep writhes beneath the wool facade (I’m descriptive!).  

Today we are faced with three fools guilty of this intellectual crime:  Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, and Susan Collins.  They are all supposedly Republican Senators, and yet they have proven time and time again to be quite capricious when faced with tough issues.  The name for such people has historically been RINOs, for Republicans In Name Only.  This term will no longer suffice, however, because these three have distanced themselves even from the Maverick ™ himself.

There should be reprisals for this kind of betrayal, as no GOP senator should EVER look at this stimulus bill (quite the misnomer these days) and think of voting for it.  To do so is to remove your political soul, or never have it to start with.  Light on tax cuts, no way of paying for anything in it, huge non-combat deficit spending, and a huge move toward socialized medicine secreted away in the back pages.  Wait, they’re sneaking things into this bill?  How strangely bareknuckled for the most transformational politican of our times.

Collins, Specter, and Snowe should be expelled from the party at all costs.  Its no longer about votes or the balance of power, its about the political soul of a party.  You can’t have people categorically at odds with your platform and carry a healthy message.  Thankfully, these are the only three fools to stumble down this road, so most GOPers will have clean hands when our country becomes a worse place to live in over the next 5 years and beyond.  I’m still impressed on the balance with the remaining GOP senators, who have shown Obama he’s going to have to take responsibility for his actions for the first time in his political life.  Now more Ayers- or Wright-style passes for bad judgment in the Oval Office.  

On a semi-related note, I have read a bit of Saul Alinsky recently, and I was astounded and impressed to read of his derision for those who lack the spine for decisionmaking, instead choosing to have the government make decisions for them.  He also chides those who don’t believe that the individual should be able to rise to his potential, rather than the potential someone else ascribes to him.  Very conservative ideas coming from Mr. Alinsky, indeed, regardless of how you choose to identify them.  I’m eager to finish his tome, Rules for Radicals.

This of course runs diametrically opposed to the idea of nationalization of banks, auto-makers, socialized medicine, and executive wage caps (less of an argument here).  How far into insanity has the Pelosi/Reid/Obama Left sunk when this is the twisted child of equality and freedom?  This stimulus is nothing more than a FDR-style power shift that attempts to throw liberals the reins to the country for 50 more years.  Its not to help people, its not to create jobs (the % of actual job creating funds in the bill proves that).  Its a vote-buy and a socialist agenda at the core, and we’re helpless to defend the nation.

Passage of this bill sets the bar at a new watermark for government pork, although that term doesn’t mean anything anymore.  Last night, when Obama myopically stated that the stimulus had no pork in it, there was a collective gasp by most informed bystanders, including both sides of the issue.  I had a different shock to my system.

He’s right.  This one bill changes the meaning of pork to nothing.  Passing this bill as actual stimulus redefines frivolous spending as “stimulus”, making it acceptable and even necessary to a liberal like Obama.  Our country is probably forever damaged by this one bill.  Remember, the Guvamint NEVER gets smaller.  Even Reagan increased it, and that’s the best we’ve done so far.

In summary,  the three douches whose spines couldn’t handle the weight of gallant pride in true GOP values are less than honest, and deserve to be sent adrift on an ice floe for the damage they’ve just caused.  Also, our country is closer to famine, rationed healthcare, weakened national security, and atrocious loans against our future.  Historically speaking, every socialist country is wracked with these problems as the illuminati ruling class lives it up (remember, Dem congressmen don’t pay any taxes, as we’ve recently found out).  Thank god the future generations we’re robbing aren’t here to stop us.  Fannie Mae 2006 wouldn’t have given us the loan we’re about to take out…

…unless we were unemployed able-bodied inner city residents who promise to vote Democratic if handed a free sandwich.  Then we’d get double.

Oh noes.

We’re boned.

Obama’s bill, or the one he outsourced to the Dems in the House and Senate, is losing ground, and citizens are doing their civic duty, reminding their representatives that they represent the views of the voters.  Senators and Reps can’t find a room without a ringing phone suddenly, and its getting to them.  Public opinion has turned mightily on this bill, and even McCain is firing from both barrels against the President, who still thinks he can turn the world on with his smile.

This is the groundwork for a major defeat, as the CBO is warning against the bill now, and Dianne Feinstein is throwing more brushback pitches at the leader of the free world.

“What in my view a stimulus is, is not candidly speaking a tax package,” she said. “I do not believe in this economy tax cuts are simulative… I worry about this economy. The point of this package is to get jobs out to the people. So I reserve the right at the end of the day to vote against a package that does put those jobs out there.”

For the last eight years, the word fearmongering was thrown around alot.  The liberal fringe even suggested that we used a false flag strategy to attack ourselves on 9/11 and stir up a bloodlust so we could get after Iraq.  I haven’t heard that word used much since Obama came into office, but he’s earned the tag, alright.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

Rahm Emmanuel

Let’s just keep that quote in mind when we read this story.

We’ll never recover?!?!  What a load of absolute garbage.  Listen, this country is going to survive all these economic problems as long as you don’t take this opportunity to shove socialism down our collective throats.  You’re scaring people into supporting a bill they are already showing flagging support for, despite you being the most popular dude in a decade politically.  That is textbook fearmongering.

“I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change,” he wrote.

You just don’t get it, do you?  No one voted against tax cuts, dude.  Remember when you promised tax cuts, even to people who don’t pay them?  You ran, at least rhetorically, on tax cuts!  You convinced the public you would cut taxes more than McCain, who had a full on tax cut plan!  What the hell bipartisan healer even says that anyway?  

This is becoming eerily similar to the early Carter years, where a fawning press helped an overrated decisionmaker into office.  He was ineffectual at best, and slowly lost the favor of the press and the public, but had too big of an ego to admit it was his fault.  Instead, he gave dreary speeches about the decline of America and the inevitable depression that awaited us.  He is now a bitter old man who visits China to laud their human rights and Columbia to monitor their fair elections.

I remember when America was a special place in the world, and a grand example of overcoming hurdles to achieve greatness.  Please don’t convince people that this place sucks, because it doesn’t as long as we have our freedom and our lives.  President Obama, try and be proud of your country for a change I can believe in.