Unhinged Doesn't Even Begin To Sum Up The Left

I started writing seriously about politics right before the US invaded Iraq in 2003. I dabbled before then in pages that have been lost to the ether but my collective thoughts since that first day nearly 14 years ago can be found on this blog. To say I'm a veteran is to describe an Edsel as a used car. 14 years of political writing on one blog is nearly unheard of. Back in the day there were the two guys who seriously got me writing--Glenn Reynolds and Tim Blair--that I admired and they are still at it today although both have expanded their horizons. There was Charles Johnson who went way off the rails, Matt Welch who is still surviving and Allahpundit who along with Ed Morrisey are pros now at Hot Air. Back then, blogs were the wild west and they brought down Dan Rather ushering in a new era of citizen reporting.

Needless to say, I've dealt with more than my share of liberals who disagreed with me on the topics of the day (and in the blogosphere, it was a different topic daily). I think I may have once been offended by being called a racist but as a US Navy vet it wore off quickly. I've been called xenophobic, misogynistic, a chicken hawk (oh the good old days), a tea bagger, a homophobe, a fascist, a warmonger, an idiot, moron, retard and a zillion other derogatory terms. So much so that they became meaningless. Being called a fascist by someone who advocated the forced silencing of their opposition was the norm and being called any of the above terms by people who know nothing about me and even less so the definitions of what they were calling me became more amusing than anything.

I wrote through the days when the left were making imaginary assassination films about Bush and the MSM breathlessly counted down to the day we hit 1,000, 2,000 and even 2,500 dead in Iraq so they could write pieces about the evil George Bush and his disregard for the troops he led. Who can forget the complete meltdown when Abu Ghraib came to light? They wrote as if GWB was holding the damn dog collar himself.

Those days I thought I had seen the complete lowest forms of life I'd ever see. The left was in full on meltdown. The Code Pinko's marched, Not In Our name screamed, Cindy Sheehan was paraded out as often as possible and International Answer and Move On just made nuisances of themselves. On the internet (pre-Facebook) the mobs were relentless. For a couple of years I had a paid gig writing for the now defunct AOL blog The Stump. I was the token conservative and boy did I battle people daily. They said they'd kill me, rape my wife, run over my children, light my dog on fire etc. The full anonymity of the internet was in full force. In short, it was the worst I had ever seen one group act and they were relentless. Blogs like Crooked Timber, Daily Kos, Think Progress and others urged them on by posting everything they could on Bush that was bad. It didn't even have to be real, they were just amping the intellectually stunted up and boy did it work. What we would now call fake news was on every page of those blogs.

Then came Obama and they were even worse. They had won so they were not only mindless and unintelligent but they were also smug. They were in their glory because now they didn't really even have to try to be witty, they just said that anything you said about Obama was racist and that was that. They didn't even try to form coherent points because why should they? In their cold, black hearts they just knew that anyone who was not with them was a racist misogynist pig. If you brought up Fast and Furious (a scandal that would've taken down any other president) you hated Mexicans even though Mexicans are the ones who suffered as did Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry who was killed by one of the guns that "walked". If you mentioned Benghazi and Hillary together you were a misogynist. If you pointed out the insanity that is Obamacare you hated poor people. Really good people were called horrible names by their neighbors just for pointing out the bad things in the country.

Which led us to Trump...

As noted above, I've seen the left at their absolute worst. The rage Ive seen was the same rage that Black men and women saw in the Jim Crow Democrat-controlled south. But that is nothing compared to what I'm seeing now. Perhaps because in the eyes of the left, this was never supposed to happen. Hillary would win easily and continue the path to socialized medicine, oppression of the white male patriarchy, abolishing the 2nd Amendment and abortion on demand at any time during gestation. They knew it was going to happen because the pollsters and pundits said so. They were stuck in the cocoon of MSNBC, CNN, the Huffington Post, Occupy Democrats and the NY Times. Nate Silver and other set the odds of Hillary winning all the way up to 99% right before the election. But then something  happened they never even considered--Trump outsmarted them. This orange, woman-hating, pussy-grabbing, billionaire moron played them. They never considered what the rest of the country thought because "fuck those God-loving, bible reading, gun-toting rednecks and everything they believe".

And then it happened. Election night started out as a coronation for Hillary and then, slowly at first, the momentum shifted. Hmm, Trump might win Florida but we have Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin...hell, we may win North Carolina. As the night went on the realization dawned on them that they just might lose and that fear and eventual realization that they had lost caused something to snap. They lost their collective fucking minds that night. And it just got worse.

Fast-forward to inauguration day after two months of Trump antagonizing them and picking a serious cabinet. They protested and burned shit and generally made assholes of themselves. Trump ignored them and started signing executive orders and overturning Obama's EO's. This enraged them even more and I could hear in my head Glenn Close screaming "I will not be ignored!". Worse yet, Trump did not only ignore them but he kept ratcheting up the EO's and the rhetoric. The media were astonished that Trump worked so fast and the left was pissed because they couldn't decide what outrage to settle on before Trump smacked them upside the head again. They posted memes on social media and were rebutted by Trump supporters--but something funny happened, they couldn't just get away with calling those who disagreed racist anymore because they were no longer the smug ones in charge.

Meryl Streep railed against Trump and was not only ignored but openly laughed at. Other celebrities went on the offensive and were subsequently tuned into hilarious memes belittling them that were shared hundreds of thousands of times. They are losing their minds in ways I've never seen before and I've seen a lot. We are exactly 9-days into Trump's term and the left is apoplectic. The level of insanity rises every morning when they see that Trump posted another tweet. They get doubly incensed when Trump throw a curveball and keeps Obama's EO in place that protects the LGBT community at work.

We've got a long, long four or eight years ahead of us. I'll report the latest tirade, blow up or melt down I find amusing but I've a feeling America may very well finally be irrevocably split. Oh well, it gives a blogger something to write about daily.

Do Any Liberals/Democrats Ever Take Responsibility?

One of the memories I'll always have of the Obama years is that he refused to ever take responsibility for anything. He used the excuse I heard in TV just like you for everything from the IRS scandal to Hillary's emails. Hell, John Stewart called him out on that bullshit excuse. Now I may be wrong here and maybe, in fact, his people did hide things from him but does anyone really believe him when he says stuff like this.

Or how about Obama and Hillary in the wake of the Benghazi attacks that killed four including an ambassador? Neither took responsibility and instead blamed it on a You Tube anti-Islam video that was seen by about twenty people prior to them noting it. They not only arrested the film maker and held him for an extended period of time but also said to the families that this was the cause while standing in front of their flag-draped coffins and sent Susan Rice out to tell the lie on all the Sunday shows. Instead of accepting responsibility and saying we reacted poorly they neglected it and went with an implausible excuse that was never followed up by the media. In fact, they knew it was a terror attack before it even happened.

Just two days ago we have Obama claiming the following:

"We should take great pride in the progress that we've made over the last eight years. That's the bottom line. No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland." --President Obama, remarks at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Fla., Dec. 6, 2016

I'm guessing the victims of the Orlando night club massacre, San Bernardino, Fort Hood and the Boston Marathon bombing may disagree. 

And now we have another uber-liberal who shirks responsibility. NYC Mayor Bill DiBlasio is claiming that it's Michael Bloomberg's fault that homelessness in NY City is rocketing up. Reality tells us that DiBlasio's horrible policies are 100% blame. Believe me, I'm no supporter of Bloomberg, he's a gun-grabbing liberal as well but at least one who accepted responsibility for things going wrong. 

How we went from Democratic President Harry S. Truman explaining that the buck stopped with him and John Kennedy accepting blame for the failed Bay of Pigs scheme to liberals denying anything that goes wrong on their watch had anything to do with them. Obama was sure as hell happy to claim he got bin-Laden speaking as if he donned tactical gear, night observation devices and shot the terrorist himself but there's no doubt if the op went south he would've blamed the military for everything. 

Hillary and her cronies still blame fake news for her loss even though it was the most poorly run campaign in recent memory. Just as she blamed others for the email fiasco. 

This would be another reason Trump won and an important lesson for those who wish to run. Act like an adult, take responsibility for your actions and move on. You keep your dignity and credibility intact that way. 

An Open Letter to All You Whiny Liberal Bastards

TRIGGER WARNING!

I've been writing this blog for nearly 15 years and have had my moments with those on the left. When I wrote for AOL's The Stump blog back in the 2000's, I was the token conservative and used to battle y'all every day. Nowadays it's Facebook and the same old shit just keeps going. The thing is, when I really started following politics, liberals were tolerable. You still had some of the JFK "ask not what your country can do for you" mentality and had actual smart ideas to add to the national debate. During the Reagan years you had your moments where you busted on Ronnie Raygun but you were civil. Even into the Bush 41 years you were civil--even during the first Gulf War. Into the Clinton years you started out civil but started losing your fucking minds towards the end. The Monica Lewinsky scandal was really when you started the slide down the hill toward becoming the despicable people you are today.

But you really became complete and utter fucking assholes during the Bush years. It started with the "he was selected, not elected" bullshit and grew during that first summer. But then 9/11 happened and for a few weeks you acted almost like proud Americans. But you could't make it last because your hatred is too deep. You hate America, you hate anyone more conservative than Al Gore and you hate the fact that your dumb ass paid a lot of money for a degree that got you nowhere. You're bitter fucking people who believe the world owes you something and never learned that the the world owes no one, anywhere, anything.

As the Bush years went on you started making up stupid conspiracy theories about 9/11, you thought Michael Moore was the height of intelligence and you further stewed in your own fetid hate juices. Then Bush invaded Iraq and you lost whatever passes for a mind in your lame existence. You cheered film makers who fantasized about Bush being assassinated and cheered disgusting screeds about the first black female Secretary of State Condi Rice and the Jews being complicit in 9/11.  You flat out lost any humanity you once had.

Then came the re-emergence of the race card. Oh boy did y'all play that one. You began driving a wedge between Americans who moved past race and you and the media cheered as race whores Sharpton and Jackson divided us. You played up the actions of some idiot soldiers in Abu Ghraib mistreating prisoners as an indictment of the entire military while others who were serving were fighting and dying for places like Fallujah and the Korengal Valley. The media giddily counted down the deaths until the reached 3,000 in Iraq and paraded Cindy Sheehan and those Code Pink degenerates all over the place. I really started hating your fucking guts right around that point but held out hope.

Then came the second Bush term and you all really started coming unglued. Conservative commentators like Michelle Malkin were slammed with the most vile threats such as rape and murder. You showed your true colors by treating us on the right as "the other" whom are unworthy of one iota of respect. Black conservatives were slammed as Uncle Tom's and any other minority on the right was belittled while you looked at everything we said and made even the most innocuous statements into racial slurs.

Then came your nirvana: the Obama years. It was open season on us then. Every fucking time we disagreed we did it solely because of race in your eyes. You cemented it in your brains that anyone that didn't agree with you was a complete racist and had to be shut down. With social media blossoming you shrunk farther into the cocoon y'all made and all you heard was what you wanted to and agreed with. Those with other viewpoints were shut down and the media played right along with you. The echo chamber became a safe space and pretty soon you wanted the entire world to be your safe space. You protested at colleges to make sure it was an environment completely devoid of anything contrary to your feeble thoughts. You all fancy yourself as enlightened because you have a black friend, fucked a Hispanic girl or posted a gay flag on your Twitter account. In reality you did nothing but you felt good so there's that.

As the Obama years went on and he became more of a divider you went after the cops. You glorified a man in Ferguson who attacked a store owner who stole from the man then was shot by the cops for being violent. You made "hands up, don't shoot" you mantra but two important things were left out: A) He never said those words and B) I didn't see a damn one of you pasty white liberals showing up in Ferguson and protesting. You almost cheered every time another black man was shot by a cop but never once questioned why this happened. In some cases the cop who did the shooting was black as well. You took everything you could from each incident except you left the fucking facts behind.

You really outdid yourselves in the scumbag department by hoping and praying that every mass attack was a white dude named O'Callahan and when that almost always ended up not being the case you didn't apologize but instead struck out at my civil right to own a weapon.

But a funny thing happened while you were smoking a joint and begging for explicit permission to bang some young college chick, more than half the nation started hating you as well. people said to themselves "am I racist?".  And they decided that no, they weren't because they grew past the race issue. people thought to themselves that how can I and by extension be racist if we elected a black man to two terms? They went to work every day and worked alongside black people, had drinks with them and met their families. They also decided that watching people like Kate Steinle get murdered in cold blood by an illegal alien who was not even supposed to be in the US was not right. They watched as the welfare roles and food stamps usage increased dramatically while their paychecks shrank. They watched as Obamacare gave insurance to people who don't work and caused their own insurance to increase by 30, 40 or 50%. More importantly they realized that for the first time in a hundred years their own kids would not have the opportunities that they did may not be more successful.

So now here we are. Your actions over the last 30 years have led to this point. Your closed-minded views, hateful language and all-around fucking distasteful personalities led those of us who love America have hope for its future and want to make us great again vote against you in droves. Not many of us were avid supporters of Trump at first but instead were voting against pieces of shit like you. You brought this on yourselves. You trebled the effect by nominating Hillary and never taking a second to ask why we were so mad about Benghazi and the email scandal.

For the record, I'm not talking about all liberals. As I noted above, there have always been honest liberal who love their country but a significantly smaller group than ever before. So before you go apeshit and start commenting that I'm a fucking asshole and blah, blah, blah...read what I've written and if it applies to you I guess you would be one of the idiots I'm talking about and I don't give a fuck what you think anymore.

I'm done. I'm done being called racist when I'm not even remotely and am an advocate of doing something for the poor inner cities besides what liberal policies have done for the last 50 years. I'm sick of being called xenophobic when I lived less than ten miles from the border, had numerous Mexican friends yet think it's a good idea to protect an open border. I'm sick of being called homophobic when I was for gay unions before both Hillary and Obama. I'm sick of being called Islamophobic when I sit here and watch a Muslim jihad taking place in America on a regular basis while the president downplays it as workplace violence (Fort Hood) or just a psycho whom happened to be Muslim (Orlando). I sick of being called a fascist by people who have no idea what the term means. I'm sick of you liberals turning on the cops who protect your sorry fucking asses.

So guess what you liberal fucks; I go to bed every single night with a smile on my face because I know you are miserable. I know your hatred has consumed you to the point that you can't handle anything. I laugh knowing that the "free" college you thought you were going to get will never come to fruition and that liberal arts degree will never allow you pay it back because I served in the US Navy and earned my way (and currently have a son doing the same). I laugh because the people who go to work every day and take care of their families won and you lost, they will see less money taken from their paychecks and given to you. Go back to your mothers basement, go back to college and run up more debt while getting your masters in women's studies or just go straight to hell, I don't give a shit anymore about your feelings.

A Special Snowflake Test

By now you've noticed that some people just aren't handling the election all that well. You may even be one of them. Below is a test to determine if you are in that esteemed group known affectionately as Special Snowflakes. Let's get started, shall we?

1. Have you cried, screamed or broke something since Tuesday?                              Yes    No
2. Was the thing you broke owned by someone else?                                                 Yes    No
3. Are you currently unemployed with a degree in Gender Studies?                          Yes    No
4. Do you consider Community Organizer a job to aspire to?                                    Yes    No
5. Did you not take your exams because of the Trump win?                                      Yes   No 
6. Do you believe the country owes you something?                                                  Yes   No
7. Have you ever attended a coloring session and strived to stay within the lines?    Yes   No
8. Do you get offended by even the most minor joke?                                                Yes   No
9. Do you think Trump voters are backward rednecks who hate gays?                       Yes   No
10. Do you think signing a petition will make Hillary president?                                  Yes   No

That's it. If you answered yes to any one of the questions, you are indeed a special snowflake and need to grow the hell up. And since you're all used to participation trophies, feel free to get yours by sending a self addressed, stamped envelope to:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Attn: President Trump

Trophies will be shipped after January 20, 2017

Whiny Snowflake Makes Big Plans

Update: Having some HTML issues with the font, my apologies.

Meet Jacob. Jacob is a community organizer and writer for the Huffington Post. I may be wrong but I highly doubt either job pays all that well, but I digress.

Anyway, our hero and social justice warrior has an eight point plan to counteract the things the big meanie President Trump has planned after Trump issued his "terrifying" list of what he hopes to accomplish the first 100 days.

Let's pick out the top actions Jakey plans on taking and recommends you do as well:

1. Think of 10 friends that might be eager to take action but unsure of what to do. Text them right now and invite them to sit down on Sunday (or other suitable day) to make a plan together.

I'm doubtful Jacob has ten friends but I'll play along. I'm also assuming that Jakey and his friends don't like football since he selected Sunday and most American men watch it that day, all day. No idea what plan they are thinking of conjuring up but it's a start. 

3. On Sunday, spend the first 30 minutes just talking about what’s happened.The shock and anger are real. Talk about it.

I'm sure the shock and anger are real, Jacob you live in a cocoon where you only hear things that you agree with. Echo chambers aren't generally good news sources. Plus I'm guessing that you never venture more than ten miles outside a major city unless it's to drive to another major city and make sure you have enough gas so you don't get freaked out seeing someone open carry. Trump had momentum and was getting 30,000 at his rallies, your candidate was a low energy criminal who has more baggage than an airline 

4. Present some options for action, discuss and vote. Do you want to volunteer at a homeless shelter together? Attend the meetings of a local immigration solidarity group? Escort women safely into and out of abortion clinics? Attend community council meetings? vote on which option your group wants to pursue, and commit to being there and meeting for 30 minutes after for a debrief.

It sounds like Jacob is really into talking, doesn't it? Briefs, debriefs and more meetings. Are there still homeless shelters? I thought Obama was a light bringer and was going to make sure we had no poor or homeless. Wait a minute, I bet they are all vets who were neglected be the VA. You may not like vets Jacob.

5. Finally, name your group together. Make it serious, or funny, or whatever. Just make it yours. And then create a text/whatsapp/groupme and a facebook group to keep in contact.

I have a great name: The Deplorables. Oh damn, that name is already taken. 

8. Get out into your privileged communities and start telling stories about what you’re experiencing ― especially to people who disagree. Have dinner with refugees. Work alongside undocumented people. These experiences will change you, and a good retelling of those experiences can change others too ― even a bigoted uncle or friend might be forced to think twice.

Privileged community? never mind. I do like the idea of having dinner with refugees though. Have dinner with a Syrian refugee and ask him his feelings on homosexuality, women and free speech. It should be enlightening. And please, please tell Trump voters what you're experiencing and you feelings, that will be great and will probably end in you getting a beat down. As for the bigoted uncle, I'm reasonably sure you don;t get invited to a lot of family get-togethers, do you Jacob? As for thinking twice, I'm sure they've thought numerous times and every time realized that your side is full of psychotic assholes like you and we don;t want anymore of those. 

Feel free to take Jacob's advice, you too can be a social justice warrior. 

What Do College Students Actually Learn About the Real World?

University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds has had a running theme about the "higher education bubble" and the huge increases in cost for higher education.

On one side you have the student loan bandits saddling kids with loans they will have a difficult time repaying. Add to the fact that student loans are not dischargeable in a bankruptcy and you essentially have people in their 40's or 50's paying off courses they took 30 years earlier. On the other side you have universities raising rates to egregious levels knowing that students will not worry about the consequences of paying those loans back and will pony up the cash.

What we are left with is a higher education system that is nothing but a business and the return on investment is horrific sometimes taking decades to "break even"...if ever. A student with a degree in Diversity or Ethnic Studies will never make that money back.

To make matters worse, our campuses are a nightmare of liberal thought and gestapo tactics designed to keep it that way.

Take Swarthmore College in the suburbs of Philly. Click the link above to find out just how insane things have gotten as described by the esteemed Thomas Sowell. Here's a snippet:

An all-too-familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4 to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that deal in fossil fuels. As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars such a disinvestment would cost the college, student activists invaded the meeting, seized the microphone, and shouted down a student who rose in the audience to object. 

Although there were professors and administrators in the room — including the college president — apparently nobody had the guts to put a stop to these storm-trooper tactics. Nor is it likely that there will be any punishment of those who put their own desires above the rights of others. On the contrary, these students went on to demand mandatory campus “teach-ins,” and the administration caved on that demand. Among their other demands are that courses on ethnic studies, and on gender and sexuality, be made a requirement for graduation.

That's just one example and this at a notoriously liberal private institution but it is playing out at public colleges around the country as well. As the saying goes "those who can't do, teach". That's essentially what we are seeing now. We have people teaching our students who never did anything. They've never built a business, risked their money, lost sleep over missing a payroll, faced the real threat of losing their house or any of the other things a person in business has to deal with regularly. They went to school, attained an advanced degree in 'Gender Studies', obtained a teaching job teaching the same useless course and are sitting fat with tenure on the back of the next wave of students who are in hock they'll never get out of.

Note that the students in the linked article that they want classes on ethnic studies, gender and sexuality to be mandatory thus costing those who are attending with borrowed money more debt. Now I know not all people who teach at a college are in this category but an alarming number are and that number is burgeoning. This is the norm at many campuses. When did we get to the point that one was required to go to college to "make something of oneself"? How is a graduate of Duke University with a degree in "International Relations" working at Starbucks and collecting welfare a more honorable person than the guy who owns a sprinkler repair company or a plumber? Because they didn't go into massive debt, attend course on human sexuality and get a piece of paper that says they're educated they are considered lesser? Here's a bit of info for you; the plumbers, electricians and construction workers of this world are the ones who are getting up every morning, buying coffee at 7-11 and paying taxes. They are the ones who made America great and continue to do so. We need to get back to the point where a signed piece of parchment means you are "somebody".

Yes, a degree in engineering means you have passed the course and learned the basics but no one in this world comes out of college ready to work in their chosen field. It takes years to attain the skills needed to be a productive employee. I recall when I owned my own business and I was interviewing a recent graduate. The interview was great and I looked to hire this kid. The going rate was $45-50K a year. When I asked the kid how much he wanted, he said "$80,000 to start, that's what my professor said I was worth". My response was simple: "You've been chasing pussy and drinking beer for four years and have no idea what to do in this business. If your professor says you're worth $80K, have him hire you" and I showed him the door.

And that is it in a nutshell; we have far too many students promised a rainbow at graduation and their heads are filled with bullshit about how much they will make. Meanwhile they continue to sign up for even more loans and get into more debt without ever gaining the necessary skills to make the money back.

As an aside: I used to have numerous battles with Swarthmore student or "Swatties" as they're known. They are a product of the liberal elite in our nation. They went to the finest schools and enjoyed growing up the offspring of limousine liberals. Click the link above to find out exactly how they think. It's a horrifying look into what these young leftist's want our country to become and, with Obama guiding them. are getting closer to achieving.

When Did America Become a Land of Pussies?

I was watching a history channel show about the home front during WWII. There was very little of everything because we came together and put all of our resources into beating back national socialism and the rising sun. People didn't bitch and complain, they accepted that it was all for the better and that we would be a stronger nation if we suffered through the war years. I won't even mention the men and women who were in theater and battled the enemy back mile by bloody mile.

How did we go from a nation that could steel its spine for the greater good to a nation of complete pussies?

Just look around you today, you'll see it everywhere: from laws on soft drinks and fattening foods to elimination of dodge ball in gym class, we have taken a nation forged by hard men and women and made it into a latte-sipping, metrosexualized place where the slightest un-PC thing is grounds for a lawsuit.

I'm pretty much the least PC guy I know and still I find myself stopping short of saying what I want to because it would be misconstrued and I'd be labeled a bigot, homophobe, misogynist or other "ist". Example: when I read that Chris Rock said that Obama was the "father of the country", my first thought was written and then erased.


Anyway, we've become a nation that can't even laugh at itself anymore. Racial humor has been around as long as we have and I for one find it humorous when comedians pick on white people. However, I can not, ever do the same when it comes to latinos or blacks. But I digress.


People who are not pussies take the right path even though it's almost always the more difficult one. Pussies take the easy way, all the time. Knock your girlfriend up? Abort the baby or just ignore it. Lose your job because your performance sucked or you just couldn't make it on time? Sue the company and collect unemployment for 100 weeks and when that runs out, sue for disability over some phantom illness. Your kid acts like an asshole and gets his ass kicked because of it? Complain to the school and sue the parents of the kid who whooped your sons ass all over the schoolyard.


The WSJ has a piece today on the "wimpification" of America and notes that Obama would not allow his son to play football if he had one. This is just another example and one that shows we are being led by an administration that personifies the pussification of the US. We have a president that voted "present" on numerous important bills and who didn't have the balls to accept responsibility for the bin-Laden raid until it was over and successful and later allowed four Americans to die in Benghazi while he was out doing something that was evidently more important.


Until we get back the swaggering, bad ass American ethos personified during the Reagan years and post 9/11, we will continue to ebb in the eyes of the world and our enemies are watching us closely to see what direction we are heading.

Shocker! Obama Believes in Redistribution

I know this will surprise many of you but yes, BHO believes that taking from the so-called rich and giving to the poor is the way the world should be. I mean, he hid it pretty well with his war against the "rich" (meaning those making over $150,000 per year), Obamacare, his drive to make as many people dependent on the government as possible and his run-in with Joe the Plumber. But now we have it all out in the open:


Obama's classics always come behind closed doors such as his "bitter clingers" comment (a comment that was way more offensive). He, like all libs cannot say what they actually believe because people would look at them as if they were nuts. Americans work hard, make profits and rely on their own skill and intellect to get ahead and provide for their families, redistributionism is as un-American as arresting a guy who made a bad movie that pissed off some religious zealots...uh, wait...

 That's why I'm all for Romney saying "hell yes I said that the 47% who don't pay taxes will never vote for me." That will resonate with people who actually get their ass out of bed in the morning, drive to work, pay taxes, support those who don't and get pummeled by high gas and food prices because of Obamanomics. Of the 47%, I'm sure there are a good amount who are embarrassed that they are not paying taxes and want to make enough to do so.

 This race just became the fight of the century with two ideologies battling. One is the side of big government, handouts, enslavement to the state, reduced wages for everyone, insanely high taxes, chronic double digit unemployment and an economy headed over the abyss while the other is one of limited government, reduced taxes, more jobs, higher wages and greater American success. I know what side I'm on and if Romney can articulate it during the debates he'll win this election going away.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Has More Balls Than Max Blumenthal Could Ever Hope To Have

Of course you knew that because the worst thing Max Blumenthal ever had to worry about was whether he would get his favorite table at some elitist restaurant in DC or Manhattan. But of course, that gives Maxie the right to bring down heavy Twitter scorn on a woman who has a price on her head and has to live in a safe house.

Did I mention her co-director on a movie she was instrumental in making was murdered in the street because he supposedly blasphemed against Islam and they threatened her next?

Today, Newsweek released their latest cover and, as so often happens when people question the only religion liberals like, the leftist intelligentsia got their thongs in a bunch. here's the cover:

Either Newsweek finally figured out that the world actually has people to the right of Bill Clinton living in it or they realized that they were sold for a buck because liberals are cheap bastards and want everything for free (think Sandra Fluke) so they don't pay for magazines...but I digress. 

So Newsweek's cover story for this week was written by one of the foremost authorities on Islam and radical Muslim culture. She lived it and has the scars to prove it. She knows the difficulty we as a nation world face in confronting Islamic terror and the radical Muslim culture and she knows the horror some women face living in the most misogynistic religion on the planet. 

Liberals went apeshit. How dare some woman who experienced the terror write about the world she escaped? She's got an axe to grind they say, she's a right-wing puppet, she appeared on Hannity and is supported by Michelle Malkin so her voice doesn't count they drivel. And especially this week when Islamic terror is front and center even though Obama wants to pretend (for purely political purposes) it's all about a movie, which is funny because they killed the aforementioned Theo van Gogh over a movie written by he and Ali. 

Back to Maxie. When the cover was revealed, the douchebag from Boston was among the first to attack Ali:

Newsweek gives its cover to vile Islamophobic self-promoter Ayaan Hirsi Ali to promote bogus "clash of civilizations"

Why would sweet little Maxie get upset about an article in a second rate magazine? Perhaps because our  hero was once a writer at the same company that now owns Newsweek or maybe it's because Maxie was busted by Jeff Goldberg lying about what was said by a prominent law professor.

Besides, anyone with half a brain knows what vile truly is and mocking a dead guy goes on the top of the list.

Perhaps it's the guilt that Maxie feels since he's evidently a self-hating Jew he must project his feelings upon Ali. Blumenthal hates Israel almost as much as he hates America so perhaps he feels the only place for him is to be in lockstep with others who detest both nations. That's the mainstream liberal position now, anyway.

I'm guessing that Maxie is just upset because he never could summon the testicular fortitude on his bravest day that Ayaan Hirsi Ali shows every day. Maxie never served his country in any fashion with the exception of tearing it down at any given opportunity, which in his liberal world is akin to "patriotism".  If a death threat was stuck into the dead body of a friend of Blumenthal's that said he was next, does anyone really believe the little dick head would ever show his face again? That happened to Ms. Ali and she continued to fight the fight against an enemy that has sworn to liquidate her. She speaks often because she has guts, intelligence and balls the size of Somalia.

If you want to read about the brief pathetic existence of Maxie Blumenthal, go to his very short Wikipedia page. If you want to read about a woman who should be held up as a heroine to women and damn near everyone else, go read about Ayaan Hirsi Ali here.

Update: Videos keep disappearing. This new Blogger sucks. Videos have been removed.

Media Sees Race In Every Corner of RNC

I just have no idea why we try to hide it anymore my fellow wingnuts. I mean, the jig is up (racist!) and it's as clear as black (racist!) and white. We are racists to the extreme. Oh no, we are too damn smart to do it overtly, we do it covertly so no one can figure it out. Or so we thought!

The geniuses at MSNBC seem to be on to us, especially Lawrence O'Donnell. No, we can't outsmart that guy, he's really on to every little attempt we make at a racial jibe. Check out what Sherlock O'Donnell figured out along with his counterpart Mr. Bashir:

MARTIN BASHIR: We have seen an early draft of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s forthcoming oration. Can I quote something from you? “For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation’s problems, he hasn’t been working to earn re-election. He has been working to earn a spot on the PGA Tour.” How about that? 

LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Well, we know exactly what he’s trying to do there. He is trying to align to Tiger Woods and surely, the — lifestyle of Tiger Woods with Barack Obama. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth. They find every way they possibly can to – 

BASHIR: Lawrence — don’t you think — don’t you think that what he’s really trying to do is to suggest that the president is not paying attention to the central issues that come with the responsibility he has? Is he really – Mitch McConnell really making a connection with Tiger Woods who, of course, has become infamous for chasing various cocktail waitresses around Las Vegas and so on? 

O’DONNELL: Martin, there are many, many, many rhetorical choices you can make at any point in any speech to make whatever point up want to make. If he wanted to make the point that you just suggested and I think he does want to make that point, they had a menu of a minimum of ten different kinds of images that they could have raised. And I promise you, the speech writers went through, rejecting three or four before they land order that one. That’s the one they want for a very deliberate reason. That — there’s – these people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches. 

BASHIR: You really believe that about Mitch McConnell? 

O’DONNELL: I know these people are insensitive. I know the speechwriters are insensitive. I know the way they work. They do not have the same sensitivity level that other speechwriters do. But when you get to the Tiger Woods reference, there were people in the speech writing room, I know this, without a shadow of a doubt, who said wait a minute, do we really want to go there? Do we really want to go to Tiger Woods and the vote in the room was yes, we do. Mitch McConnell agreed to do it. 

BASHIR: Wow. Things are getting lower and lower by the day.

You see how that works, one liberal asshole looks with his special racism-spotting glasses and sees the minority leader of the Senate comparing Obama to another black man (or in Tiger's case: Cablinasian) so it was super surely, most-definitely racist! Plus, said Senator is from Kentucky and we all know how racist they are down there, right?

Seriously, can anyone look at the discussion above and actually believe that it aired on a national news channel? Granted, about 3 people watch at any given moment but it is solely owned by NBC now and you'd think that they would have some professional integrity, right? I mean, NBC, the peacock. You'd be wrong however because the lefties over at MSNBC decided to talk over all the minority speakers at the convention. Mia Love, Artur Davis, Ted Cruz, why is MSNBC so racist that will not allow black people on their network?

But it doesn't stop at NBC, there are racist finders everywhere if one just has the special Lawrence O'Donnell dog-whistle hearing aid and race glasses. How about this non-racial racist incident.

Making up racist incident out of whole cloth is fun to report on but reporting on actual racist incidents is really not as good.

Damn this is going to be a really long election and one can only hope that people start focusing on the facts and can pick through this garbage the media keeps throwing out there to keep the coverage about anything but Obama's record.

More here.

An Open Letter to Tom Morrello

Tom,

I read yesterday that you are not such a fan of the fact that VP candidate Paul Ryan is a fan of your band Rage Against the Machine. I believe the words you used were that Ryan is the "machine you raged against". A clever turn of phrase there, buddy.

Anyway, as you may have learned throughout your career with first Rage and further on with Audioslave, your fans base is made up of a great many people with differing views, some of which would be considered conservative--but listening to you over the years I'm convinced that anyone with a viewpoint to the right of Hillary Clinton is a conservative in your eyes.

You see Tom, us with a conservative world view listen to music and some of what we listen to is harder rocking than gospel. You have to understand that our selections are kind of limited because in the entertainment industry as a whole and the music business in particular, there aren't all that many bands with a similar set of values and principles for us to listen to. I guess the only one that comes to mind quickly would be POD, the rap-rock hybrid band from South San Diego that sings of God and redemption, but I digress.

As much as it may unnerve you, us on the right enjoyed your music but as Paul Ryan noted, we didn't necessarily agree with your lyrics. Your band wrote songs about hard-left issues and thought you were (and I'm using the past tense because the band now is a caricature of what it was) some kind of secular messianic leaders. Newsflash Tom, you weren't. You were a flavor of the month band that gave testosterone-filled teenage boys a chance to feel bigger than they were. You sang of things that an seventeen year old from the suburbs thought were cool and made him seem rebellious.

But overall the lyrics were mundane and pretty basic from an intellectual standpoint. You sang of liberal concepts but just didn't have the intellectual capacity to make a difference and string together phrases and choruses that would equal your heroes such as Springsteen. Saying the same words over and over about how cops are white and mean grows tiresome after the first paragraph.

It seems to bother you as a person that your songs didn't motivate people to take down the "man" and fundamentally change the country. Case in point: you played a benefit concert for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal and you personally have spoken up for him. Even though every shred of evidence and numerous court appearances have confirmed that the former Black Panther shot Officer Danny Faulkner in cold blood on a Center City Philly street. Jamal should be six-feet under by now but instead is considered an icon in the left-liberal community thanks in no small part to you.

Getting back into it, your music was okay. You are an immensely talented guitar player who thought could change the world. Instead, you played behind lyrics that were shallow and infantile. Zack de la Rocha screaming "fuck you I won't do what you tell me!" repeatedly is not going to change anything except maybe the chances that the idiot teenager screaming them along with you has of getting laid that night. Believe me, that idiot teenager is going to calm down, come down and go back to the suburbs to his comfy basement with X-Box and cable TV. His mind wasn't changed--at least until he gets out of college with his degree in Native-American studies and no chance of a job in Obamanation.

Now granted, you have come out in support of the Occupy movement because they are what you've always hoped for; an angry mob of liberals that have been contaminated with the lefty gene. Years of elementary school, the entertainment industry, marxist college professors--and perhaps small bit of RATM music--have made them what they are today and that is a bunch of unproductive losers whom feel they are entitled to things from the government. This is your dream and it's populated by a group that once melded together raped, murdered and generally made pests out of themselves in the eyes of hard-working Americans. It took about a month after OWS started before people said enough. It's got to make you feel bitter that 20-years of pumping out lefty anthems was destroyed by six months of watching your disciples give the finger to what America stands for while taking a shit in the street. The enemy, the Tea Party lives on while every sensible politician--even those inclined to your world view-- has run away as fast as they can.

So in conclusion, yes, some of us on the right listen to your music or did back when you were somewhat relevant in the mid-nineties. And yes, we admit it and have you in our I-Pods. But don't believe yourself to be any bigger than you are or were. It's got to be balling that your band never had the lyrical talent of your contemporaries such as Tool, Alice in Chains or even Metallica. RATM threw together hard-left phrases but never in such a coherent fashion that it made any difference. Although you did out the fans and the alleged movement by going corporate with Audioslave, made your money, then went back to playing the lefty anarchist again. A typical elitist liberal move but we won't hold it against you.

Thanks for your time Tom and keep on raging against the machine.

Regards,

ER

Everybody Lighten the Hell Up

So I'm listening to The Five on the way home. I like the show, it's funny and they selected different personalities that mix well for the most part. Plus, Kimbery Guilfoyle, Dana Perrino and Andrea Tantaros are all hot so that's a bonus.

Anyway, today Bob Beckel breaks out his inner idiot and say something akin to Romney went to Israel for a fundraiser with "diamond merchants". Right-wing Twitterati are up in arms and want Beckel's head on a platter.

Listen y'all, lighten up. The premise of the show is humor and light-heartedness. Is what Beckel said offensive? To some it probably is. But we on the right have to roll with the punches and not act so damn offended at everything. Liberals have no sense of humor, we do. Beckel is a blowhard, I get that and the guy says outrageous shit on a regular basis but that's just his shtick. He a rude, old, alcoholic, jock who is the liberal punching bag on the show.

I'm a "South Park Republican", which means I find everything funny. that show has something to offend everyone, every second. That's why it remains the best show on TV. Unlike Family Guy, which has a liberal slant, South Park eviscerates everyone equally. You know how liberals comedians just can't bring themselves to bust on Obama? I find that offensive. Just as I would find it offensive if someone didn't bust on Michael Moore, Dick Cheney or Colin Powell.

Yea, Beckel is a moron and his responses are generally not thought out and inane to boot but let's stop all the talk of firing him and other such nonsense. Sometimes we all sound like pussy liberals who see racism, misogyny and gay-bashing in everything. PC-ism is bullshit in my opinion and we all need to learn to laugh at ourselves, each other and everything else because life is too damn short to freak out over every word muttered that makes you uncomfortable. If you wanna be that way, become a Democrat.

Meet the New World Douchebag Champion

As anyone who watches the Olympics knows, world and Olympic records are constantly falling. So it is with douchebaggery. As someone who's written about douchebags on a regular basis for ten years (Paul Begala, Al Sharpton, John Edwards, etc.) I consider myself an expert on just what qualifies one to be a raging douchebag. This guy was the former title holder.

We now have a new gold medalist who's pomposity, smug attitude and all-around dickheadedness gave him record scores. Check this out:


My friends, this is elevating douchebag to record levels and even the Venezuelan and French judges agreed by giving him a perfect score. First he talks to the camera and bestows his wishes on a group of young people who are probably just going to smoke a couple of bowls and get a Chick Fil A sandwich because they are good munchies food from what I've heard.

Then our heroine pulls up and berates a girl who's doing nothing more than trying to make a living. The dude goes on and on in his smug shit-eating style acting like he's some kind of fucking lefty super hero while the girl remains calm, cool and collected making the guy look even lamer.

The topper is that he destroys any credibility he had (about 0.00001%) by finishing with the line about being hetero and not having any gay in him. Just a hunch but I think he's probably had gay in him before...but I digress. But he says it like being gay is wrong or something after going off on a great American corporation for supposedly being anti-gay. Way to make your point you fucking homophobe.

 Of course, this asshole doesn't even have the balls to say his name and posts the video anonymously then takes it down because he's an all-around pussy.

I'm more than willing to take the bet that this jack-off gets identified pretty quickly because you know this guy has no friends and has probably alienated every one he knows, including his family, and one of those people will spill the beans. I can't wait until he gets belittled by tons of scorn, humiliation and abuse and we can all savor the schadenfreude together.

Exit question: The over-under on how many times this dude has been laid in the last year (without paying for it) is 1. I take the under.

Via The Trawler who links to the comments destroying this idiot.

Update: Our douchebag of the year has been identified as Adam Smith, a CFO/Treasurer of an upstanding company called Vante. He is now the former CFO/Treasurer as the company bounced his ass because of this stupid stunt. It appears that this guy was hated by his employer as much as he was by the rest of us. No company would oust a company officer that fast if they thought he was worth remotely keeping around. Here's their website but I'm linking to a page other than their homepage since that's evidently getting slammed. If i ever find myself in need of their products (and I pray i don't) I will gladly fork over my money.

Occupy Cleveland Is the New leader in Occupy Crimes

It was looking like Occupy Oakland and Occupy New York were going to battle it out for the occupy movement with the highest percentage of crime from people in their organizations. But we have a new player and the bar for this year has been set very high by the Cleveland chapter:

 A mohawk-wearing anarchist nicknamed "Cyco" was among five men arrested after allegedly conspiring to blow up a bridge about 15 miles south of Cleveland, according to court documents released Tuesday. 

Douglas L. Wright, 26, joined alleged co-conspirators Brandon L. Baxter, 20, a.k.a. "Skabby," and Anthony Hayne, 37, a.k.a. "Tony" and "Billy," in a plot authorities say homed in on the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge, which spans the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and carries a four-lane highway. 

It turns out that Cyco, Skabby (that rather odd-looking dude at right) and the rest were all hard core occupiers

I wonder if Occupy sympathizer Elizabeth (The 1/32 Cherokee) Warren is going to comment on this bust,

Old White Guy Says Black Hero Selling Out Race

This is probably the lowest form of racism because he claims to be on the side of the majority of the minority group:



In Moran's world Col. West--like all black people--only got where he was by rules enacted by the government and to then want smaller government or have your own views on issues counter to those of the big government party is tantamount to being a sellout to your race. It never occurs to the very simple Moran that Col. West attained his success because he worked harder than others, studied to become smarter and developed his ideas after his life experiences. No, to Moran, the only good black person is one who sees everything through the prism of race.

Moran is a blatant racist here but will never be called on it because in the eyes of liberals and the media (redundant, I know) people on the left can never be racist.

For the record; I still have to point this out because the media will never do it. It was the GOP who pushed through the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts and it was vehemently opposed by the Dixiecrats including Al Gore, Sr. and Bill Clinton mentor J. William Fulbright.

Hat tip: Hot Air.

Update: Ace nails it as usual.

Occupiers Preoccupied With Low Cash Flow

The Occupy Wall Street idiots are getting a hard lesson in reality when it comes to financing there inane "movement":

Occupy Wall Street—the movement built on protesting corporate greed and income inequality—is running out of money.

After raising more than $700,000 last fall, protesters who keep track of money for Occupy Wall Street reported this week that the group has about $170,000 in its bank account. Very few donations are coming in, they said.

"If we keep spending at the rate at which we have been doing, we will probably go broke in a month," said Haywood Carey, 28 years old, a member of the movement's accounting group

What a damn pity.

Perhaps if they hadn't reverted to liberal form and acted like a gaggle of morons they may have had more support and could have built themselves into a real operation. Perhaps if one of their kind had majored in business, finance or accounting they would have had an adult around to explain to them that taking a dump in public, whacking off in front of the world and booting hard drugs is a turn off to those who actually have a life. I mean, the list of offenses in staggering and they actually expected to raise money. Despite the support of members of Congress and a wink from Obama they've managed to squander it any good will and alienate everyone except each other.

Maybe if they tried the Tea Party method--cleaning up after themselves and not squatting (literally) in public parks that people like to use--they would have been received better.

So much for the OWS imbeciles being a force in the 2012 elections.

Good riddance.

Update: You know you've lost San Fran Nan when she compares you to a Tea Partier (or in her parlance I'm sure it's "tea bagger". Er, sorry to use tea bagger and Pelosi in the same sentence. Send me the bill for cleaning that puke that just ran down your shirt or ended up on your keyboard.

Alan Colmes Gives A Preview of Media in 2012

Alan Colmes has always been your typical beta male liberal. He was second fiddle behind Hannity on their show before Fox management realized that Colmes was just dragging the show down. He has a radio show, which can't be found anywhere on the dial and is still on Fox due to some feeling they owe him something or some other garbage reason. The dude is a great example of what happens when a guy gets picked on in school, has no chance at getting laid until he's 21 and has enough money to pay a hooker or get lucky with the ugly chick who's drunk at 2 AM grows older.

That said, the guy is a great bell weather for what we will see as liberal media lines of attack. He's linked in to whatever passes for the Journolist circle jerk club now where lib media folks decide what and what they will not discuss when it come to a particular topic.

However, it seems like Colmes jumped the shark today and went after Rick Santorum from an angle I expected but just not this soon:



Anyone who knows the story knows that Santorum did what he felt was right in a tough situation. His 2-hour old child died and he was devastated. He discussed what he should do with neonatal medical staff and decided to bring the dead child home so that his other children could have some time to bond and remember their sibling. Think about the state you would be in had your child died regardless of how long into the pregnancy.

In the view of most sane folks, you give someone a pass for their actions in that situation and you sure as hell don't use it as political ammo...unless you're a liberal scumbag like Holmes. I expected to see numerous stories about Santorum in the next week and I expected the issue of his dead child to be included but down in the story like the MSM always does when they want to get a particular touchy issue about Republicans out but not look blatant.

But not Holmes. He went right after it within the first minute of discussing Santorum. Rich Lowry rightly embarrassed him and Holmes did apologize but only because he was worried about losing his sweet gig on the number one news channel, not because he felt any remorse. I guess playing second fiddle to Keith Olbermann on a Al Gore's channel that's watched by no one was a horrifying thought.

More here and here.


No wonder Chris Christie bailed on this race. He knew the media would be even more nasty defending Obama since they sure as hell don't have any successful results to point to.

#Occupyfail: The OWS Generation

During the mid to late 80's, when I was in my late teens and early twenties, I was idealistic and thought I had all the answers. Whatever ills were ailing society, my generation could fix them. I get that the Occupy (fill in the balnk) people think what they are doing is Important.

I came from parents whose generation lived through WWII and in my pop's case, the Great Depression. They were old school before old school was even a term. They taught me that if you want things, you have to work for them and work hard. So, from the age of 15, I worked.

I wanted a car, I worked. I wanted to go skiing, I worked. There were no handouts in my house because if you didn't earn something, you didn't deserve it.

The generation directly after mine wasn't taught that. All you had to do was show up and you won. Your baseball team went 0-16, you won a trophy. You didn't do a good job on your term paper, that's okay, we'll grade you on a curve and a 60% becomes an 85%. You act up in class, it must be ADD and we'll feed you ritalin. There's no consequences to actions because for some damn reason--and it may have had to be made up by some liberal "researcher"--it was someone of something elses fault and you were not responsible.

Well guess what, that generation and the succeeding one are all grown up (at least physically), hyper educated and living in a park down the street while lambasting the people who had no part in their misery. Watch them rail about the evil corporations and the unfairness of American society. Why, these idiots spent six years in college, got a masters in art appreciation and are way smarter than those evil white men who actually fuel the economy and create jobs.

For those who are sleeping in a tent and railing about the 1% while using your advanced degree in Women's Studies as toilet paper, this is Real Life. While wasting $100,000 of their parents money or racking up huge loans you have no idea how to repay you essentially showed up and got by. Chasing pussy and huffing bongs while attending a class a day that began at 2 PM was just the way it was done because when you got out, you'd automatically make $80,000 a year right off the bat. At least that's what the professors who have spent decades within the confines of academia told you. You earned it God damn it! And you earned it even more if you were part of one of the oppressed groups such as LGBT because society owes you.

Now back in the Real World, people actually have to prove themselves to earn $80K. They bring real value to those who employ them and increase their skill set to become more valuable. I guess that degree in Gender Studies has value to someone, somewhere; most likely teaching a course in Gender Studies at a college where some other moron convinced her parents to pay $40,000 per semester to attend.

But in the real world, that degree means you've earned exactly nothing. It may even double some day. Just because you've gotten a 3.9 GPA and got raves from the instructor on your thesis entitled Misogynistic Inequities in an Oppressive, White and Patriarchal America in the 21st Century doesn't mean you've actually done anything of value to anyone; including yourself.
It must be doubly tough to watch the man you elected to bring Hope and Change(TM) to America remain deeply in bed with the very institutions you claim to abhor.

So how's this going to end for you? Great question. You have two choices: A) you trash the tent, move back into your parent's basement, lose the lip piercing, create a resume (shouldn't be too hard considering you've got zero experience), apply for a job some place and get on with being a productive American. Or B) continue living in the park and shitting behind a bush, make ridiculous signs that include some drivel about you being the 99%, draw the ire of every hard-working citizen within a mile of the park and not accomplish anything but lose more time that could have been used learning a marketable skill.

For the record, everyone is laughing at you (at least everyone who is not exploiting you like the unions have been). It doesn't unleash the inner hippy in us watching you grow dreads and bang on drums. We look at your incoherent rants on You Tube and chuckle at the inanity of what you say. Hell, John at Verum Serum has made exposing your idiocy a full-time job. We don't hate The Bankers or Big Business more because you want your student loan forgiven. We work for and/or with those people and provide a home and nice life to our children because of them.

Please just stop. You're an embarrassment to yourselves and a punchline to the 99% of us who are too busy working to even consider your plight.

Liberals Still Don't Get It About Obama

For those of us on the right and many centrists, it's been quite a show watching liberals constantly twisting themselves in knots trying to defend Obama on many issues that are utterly indefensible. The thinking goes that Obama was left a stinking economy, two wars and myriad other issues that the hated Dubya left behind for him to contend with. It's no wonder he can't get anything done. If the obstructionist GOP would just step aside and let the Light Bringer spread his gospel of Keynesianism, the country would be healed and the oceans would start to recede.

The meme has mutated into the revisionist belief that Congress has been thwarting his every move since his inauguration and it's not entirely his fault. This, of course, requires one to ignore forget that he had no impediments in Congress at the onset of his administration.

Now the leading Obama hack, Jonathan Chait, begins a new meme and starts the reconstruction process with this disjointed and flawed piece in the NY Times:

Rather than deploy every ounce of his leverage to force moderate Republicans, whose votes he needed, to swallow a larger stimulus than they wanted, Obama clearly husbanded some of his political capital. Why? Because in the position of choosing between the agenda he came into office hoping to enact and the short-term imperative of economic rescue, he picked the former. At the time, this was the course liberals wanted and centrists opposed.

On two subsequent occasions, Obama faced this same choice. Last December, he could have refused to extend any of the Bush tax cuts on income over $250,000. Republicans vowed to let all the tax cuts expire if he did so. If Obama let this happen, it would have almost fully solved the long-term deficit problem, while at the same time setting back the recovery by raising taxes on middle-class and low-income workers. Obama decided to make a deal, extending all the Bush tax cuts and also securing a progressive payroll tax cut and an extension of unemployment benefits, both forms of stimulus that Republicans would never have allowed without an extension of upper-bracket tax cuts in return.

Emphasis mine.

So where to begin on this? Obama isn't weak according to Chait, he was just caught in a web that forced tough decisions to be made. He had to steer through a hurricane of the GOP's making and still keep the country afloat. He was prudent, conciliatory and pragmatic when it was needed.

They still don't get it, do they?

Liberals got caught up in Hope and Change fever and the only prescription was Obamanomics. They allowed a thoroughly unvetted candidate to win the Democratic nomination eschewing a proven veteran in Hillary. Hillary had been through the wars going back to 1992 when she was co-president with Slick Willy. She knows exactly how to ram legislation through and when to use a little finesse.

Obama on the other hand is not being stopped by that conservative stalwart David Boehner (drenching sarcasm) but by his own limitations. He's an amateur in the big show. He's a talented kid who can hit the fastball a country mile but got exposed when he had to face change-ups and curves in single A. Hillary at the least had some executive experience working at law firms and working beside Bubba in both the White House and the Arkansas governor's mansion. Obama had zero experience but thought his sheer brilliance was enough to direct the nation. Unfortunately, intestinal fortitude is not a trait one can pick up on the fly but one that is ingrained from and early age and developed. Obama never had to make decisions because no one ever called him out when he didn't. He voted present and if you didn't like it you were either stupid or racist.

Now here we are; stuck in the morass of stagnant employment, enormous debts and an uncertain business climate. Instead of belt-tightening and austerity we get another speech that's going to lay out another plan that will do exactly what every other Obama-designed one has--wither on the vine and die while not producing one single positive result. Here's one example among a plethora: we did not create a single job last month--something that hasn't happened since 1945.

Chait and the rest of the liberal media echo chamber still haven't gotten it. Obama just isn't that smart and just isn't that capable of leading this once-great nation. People are realizing it more every day and no, it's not because America is an inherently racist republic as all liberals believe but simply because the man is not up to the challenge.

The Union Death Spiral

How quickly things change. The various unions still possessing clout thought they had the man and the timing to stage a labor rebound in a country that has seen union membership plummeting in the last few decades. Instead, they gave Obama millions of their members' money (which member's had no say in) with the expectation that he would push for and sign union-friendly legislation such as "Card Check".

Instead, Obama met reality and reality is that unions are dying and are becoming more and more hated by Americans who are struggling to keep or even find jobs while paying higher taxes, gas prices and insurance premiums. Why, many Americans ask themselves, should we in the private sector have to pay 10%, 20% or even 40% of our insurance premium when the unions are bitching about paying 1.5%? Why should we support organizations run by some of thew most vile people on the planet and take an ever-increasing amount of our tax money while giving us shoddy performance in return?

Events playing out in Madison, WI will dictate what strength the unions will have going forward in many states (mine included) and this has turned into an ugly war:

Nine people have been arrested in the third day of widespread protests at the state Capitol.

The state Department of Administration estimated 20,000 people attended protests outside the state Capitol, while 5,000 protesters filled the rotunda and hallways.

Labor supporters and activists have been protesting Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to strip most public employees of all collective bargaining rights, except for limited negotiations on salary. Walker has said the bill is necessary to close a budget shortfall of $137 million and a looming $3.6 billion deficit in the next two-year budget.

The arrests come after two days of incident-free rallies and demonstrations, as protesters have remained mostly peaceful. State officials did not immediately return calls asking for details on the nine arrests.

Police hand-cuffed one protester after he apparently tried to charge into the state Assembly.

The Tea Party organizers called for a large demonstration in supports of Badger governor Scott Walker and it appears they got a great response based on this picture.

MM has more info including the illegal distribution of doctors' notes to teachers who are staging an illegal sick-out and protesting. She also pics of the signs being carried by those who are paid to teach our children. They are pretty nasty but pretty much what one would expect from the collection of thugs and douche bags up in that liberal shit hole.

I leave you with this picture that about sums it all up:



I'm not sure that's exactly an ally they want at this point.