Affirmative Action President Defines Failure Down

During the 1980 presidential debates, candidate Ronald Reagan famously quipped that “President Carter has given failure a bad name.” Yet President Obama has defined failure down to a new low; in fact, he has created an entirely new class of failure. Having run on a liberal Utopian platform completely devoid of substance and whose meaningless mantra can best be summarized as ‘Hope, Change, blah, blah, blah’, Obama rode into office on a cloud of high-sounding yet empty platitudes and clichés, the likes of which will probably

President Obama

never be equaled, let alone surpassed, in the realm of political rhetoric. Perhaps never in history has any person talked so much while saying absolutely nothing. His campaign speeches, while lionized as Epiphanies by the doting, starry-eyed popular press (which completely abandoned investigative journalism and impartiality to serve as his lapdogs) were in large part mere strings of platitudes as vague as his resume and as empty as his congressional voting record (voting ‘present’ over 200 times rather than take a principled position on legislation—not what we pay our elected officials to do).

Obama’s “jobs” (Campain) Speech: A Free Preview

After the debt ceiling debate debacle, golfer-in-chief President Obama retreated to Martha’s Vineyard for a ten day vacation to eat ice cream, hit the links and ride bicycles with Queen Michelle-Antoinette, the First Splurger, who has reportedly already bilked the taxpayers out of more than ten million dollars for vacations, massages, spas, top shelf vodka and other goodies of royalty which she apparently feels we the peasants owe her. The president promised to unveil a “jobs” plan after he had rested sufficiently from his grueling, tireless efforts to blame others for his failures, and from scolding the Congress for actually expecting him to lead on important issues rather than lecture from the sidelines (imagine the nerve!).

Originally slated for Wednesday, September 7, so as to coincide with a long-scheduled Republican debate in order to try and divert as many viewers as possible from hearing the GOP contenders illustrate his inadequacies as chief executive, Obama’s speech has now been moved, at Speaker Boehner’s behest, to Thursday the 8^th. Predictably, the upcoming speech promises to deliver an astronomically anti-climactic, empty, feather-soft, wet noodle sissy punch which will be notable for its audacity in endlessly repeating the same old dead-horse themes, as though swiveling his head from one teleprompter to the other one more time will enable us all to finally ‘get it’. The president will once again exhibit his uncanny, unparalleled ability for redundancy by re-re-re-offering policies which have already failed miserably. He will display his astonishing inability to understand even the most basic principles of economics, free markets and job creation. He will also once again demonstrate his glaring and frightening lack of even that most basic characteristic of intelligence, namely, the ability to learn from past mistakes and alter course.

So, as a patriotic public servant, I am happy to offer an advance preview of the speech to all those who can’t bear to put themselves through the torture of hearing the president’s condescending, petulant cadence again. This will of course not be a jobs speech, but simply another campain speech (for those of you who are concerned that I can’t spell ‘campaign’, be assured that I can; however, listening to the president repeat his worn out rhetorical mantras has become not only boring but also extremely painful to me, as I’m sure it has to many of you; therefore, I refer to them as campain speeches, and unfortunately we will have to endure many more of them throughout the course of his campain in the coming year.

First, let me outline the president’s “jobs outline”. He will:

1. Blame George Bush for Obama’s inheriting the greatest catastrophe in human history
2. Blame the enormity of the inheritance for not realizing how enormous the enormity was
3. Tell us how his policies have us on the right track, and actually expect us to believe it
4. Tell us that he ‘brought us back from the brink’ and that without him things might have been far, far worse, and actually expect us to believe it
5. Blame the Tea Party Republicans for not letting him spend even more money we don’t have, and call them dangerous and irresponsible for having the gall to oppose his dangerous and irresponsible policies
6. Laughably, and with a straight face, call for ‘fiscal responsibility’ after increasing our debt by 6 Trillion dollars in just two and a half years
7. Laughably, and with a straight face, call for bipartisanship after, among other things, partisanly ramming Obamacare through an absolutely partisan, filibuster-proof Democrat congress
8. Encourage the half of Americans who pay no federal income tax to hate and envy the ten per cent of those wealthy which pay well over half the taxes
9. Ask those same ten per cent to pay “their fair share”, even though they are already paying far more than that
10. Disparage ‘millionaires and billionaires’, even though confiscation of 100% of their wealth would not even run the government for a year, much less put a dent in our debt
11. Refer to more borrowing, more spending and more debt as ‘investment’
12. Ask for another ‘stimulus’ plan to add another Trillion or so to our debt despite the fact that the last ‘stimulus’ only ‘stimulated’ unemployment and the federal work force
13. Propose to spend untold billions on fantasy ‘green jobs, green energy’ and useless rapid transit which no one will ride: ideas which have been and will ever be net losses in revenue
14. Propose to spend untold billions on transportation and ‘infrastructure’, the very things which his “shovel-ready” ‘stimulus’ was supposed to have funded already
15. Propose to spend untold billions more on unemployment benefits

There you have it, my friends. In short, although his will be dressed up in cloudy, obscure, vague, over-generalized rhetoric with a good deal of untruth and arrogant condescension thrown in, here is the text and the gist of the president’s upcoming lecture/speech, which I have conveniently condensed for you from the hour plus he will narcissistically take to deliver it:

“Good evening. As you know, America is in a tough economic situation, which of course has nothing to do with my policies or my spending. When I came into office the scope of the disaster left to me by President Bush was worse than I could ever have imagined, and even though everything is far worse now after almost three years of my presidency than it was when I took office, it is not because of my policies or my spending during the two years when I and the Democrats completely controlled the government. Remember, after all, that there were floods and earthquakes and things in Japan and probably some other places, and some market troubles in Europe. I think they also had an unusually dry summer in Canada, so as you can plainly see, it’s not my fault.

“However, after I was elected and saw what deep doo we were in, how unemployment was at 7% and our national debt was rising, I took immediate steps. With my brilliant concept of economics, I immediately began borrowing to get us out of debt, spending to reduce our deficit and printing money to lower inflation. I also began hiring thousands of new federal workers to oversee thousands of new regulations from new government bureaucracies in order to encourage the growth of businesses by making things harder on them. And now I can say that I have brought us back from the brink, for unemployment has gone up two percent since I took office, and the national debt has risen by six Trillion dollars.

“However, there are some in Congress, known as evil Tea Party Republicans, who want to stand in the way of further throwing good money after bad; they seem to think that money is real, and that bills have to be paid. Their unwillingness to compromise and their stubborn refusal let me do even more damage to the economy has done much damage to the economy.

“Also, there are those who feel that they should be able to just keep the money they earn instead of letting me give it to my friends, union cronies and constituents. They fly around in corporate jets and actually keep their money in banks and investments, where you and I can’t get to it. It’s time they stepped up and paid their fair share; 38% of everything they earn is just not enough; they can afford to pay a little more, so that the 50% of you who don’t pay anything won’t have to begin contributing; this is only fair—at least according to Karl Marx (whose ideas, as you know if you read my ghost-written and highly fictionalized ‘biography’, I studied and revered in college). Now, those misguided Republicans call this increasing of taxes on the rich a ‘tax increase’—but it isn’t; it’s simply raising taxes on the rich, to increase ‘revenue’. Revenue; ….revenue.

“But oh yes—this was supposed to be my jobs plan speech; so here it is; to get jobs and the economy going we need to immediately borrow even more money and spend another Trillion or so that we don’t have on phony-baloney, pie-in-the-sky green jobs which don’t work, like the 14 jobs the last batch of stimulus money created with 20 million dollars for winterizing homes, three of which I’m proud to say have actually been winterized. Some, such as those evil Tea Party Republicans, would say that spending 20 million dollars to create 14 jobs doesn’t make sense, because that means each job cost one million, four hundred thousand dollars to create; this is the kind of partisan, obstructionist thinking which the Republicans often use, and they need to compromise more.

“So tonight I’m asking for yet another stimulus package, although I’m not going to call it that. I’ll call it ‘investment’ or a ‘jobs creation bill’…yeah, that’s the ticket. We need to rebuild our infrastructure with a lot more borrowing and spending on look-busy, make-work projects like the ones that were supposed to have been shovel-ready for the last stimulus, except this time we should really spend the money on what I said we would spend it on before. To summarize, we must increase taxes on the rich without calling it a tax increase, encourage class warfare against the job creators, encourage welfare by paying more people not to work, borrow and spend a lot more, and continue to blame President Bush and the Tea Party when our policies fail.

“This is my plan for our economy. In essence, we need lots more of the same things which have already failed miserably.

“Finally, I would like to thank my lapdog mainstream media for doing such a wonderful job of demonizing my opposition while ignoring my ineptitude, for maintaining glaring bias and double standards in their reporting, and also for their endless propagandizing, helping me to convince so many Americans that down is up, black is white, night is day, bad is good, recession is recovery, flashy rhetoric is substantive policy, patriotism is obstructionism, and that a clueless, inexperienced empty suit is a brilliant messiah. I couldn’t have done it without them.

“We knew it would take a while to get ‘hope’ and ‘change’ implemented. We’ve come a long way toward my goal of completely wrecking the economy and implementing my socialist agenda but there is a lot of work left to do; and with your help, given four more years, I assure you that I can screw things up even worse. Thank you and good night.”

Defining My Conservatism

Michael Hutcheson

I identify myself politically as a (independent) conservative. While there are certainly extremists and radicals in every political affiliation they are, without exception, in the minority. However, the mainstream media, politically ‘correct’ bloggers, certain minority groups and the liberal left in general have been largely successful  in defining and portraying (for various self-serving and chiefly political reasons) all conservatives as right-wing religious fanatics, hate-filled homophobes, xenophobes, misogynists, racists and warmongers. Unfortunately, this view seems to be widely believed, at least generally, among non-conservatives. Therefore, and since I fall into none of those categories listed, I wish to clarify and express what conservatism means to me so that those who wish to discuss it or other related issues with me can do so in an informed, intelligent manner.

The conservatism I embrace, and which is embraced by most conservatives I know, can be defined by a very limited but crucial set of principles. First and foremost among these is the principle of a limited federal government operating strictly under the authority and strictly within the confines enumerated to it by the States under the United States constitution, and as set forth clearly by the Founding Fathers, thereby ‘conserving’ the original intent and purpose of that precious document. U.S. citizens, while on American soil, are subject to no other laws, including the religious laws of any religion, or the laws of any other nation or group of nations.

Wake Up America!

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President Obama and the Democrats believe that every penny of the struggling middle class, all the wealth earned by the hardworking, risk taking entrepreneurs and businesspeople, and all the profits of the job-providing corporations, belongs to them, the Federal Government—and that we should all be thankful for whatever amount of our incomes they decide to let us keep. President Obama has said that in these difficult times everyone must sacrifice. His and the Democrats’ idea of sacrifice is to confiscate even more money from the people to feed the government monster which politicians have created. I say the American people have sacrificed enough.

Wake up, America! Wake up, stand up and refuse to sacrifice further; its time you take control of the Federal government and make it sacrifice for a change; it’s time you stick a long sharp spear of responsibility and accountability into the pale fat underbelly of Big Government Oppression and bleed dry the bloated, corrupt, tyrannical and insatiably hungry monster it has become; bleed it dry of its waste, its fraud and its ability to steal and squander our wealth—wealth which rightly belongs to those who create and earn it.

More Insane Liberal Rhetoric

Froma Harrop

It would truly take an army of full time researchers and rebuttal agents to keep up with and refute all the idiotic lies and deceitful propaganda constantly spewing from the Liberal media sewer; however, here is a typical piece of completely untrue slime by someone named Froma Harrop:

Make no mistake: The tea party Republicans have engaged in economic terrorism against the United States — threatening to blow up the economy if they don’t get what they want. And like the al-Qaida bombers, what they want is delusional: the dream of restoring some fantasy caliphate in which no one pays taxes, while the country is magically protected from foreign attack and the elderly get government-paid hip replacements.

The entire rant, if you want to waste valuable time in your life, can be found here.

I’ll take the slightest moments from my valuable time to address this desperate Liberal nonsense. Comparing Tea Party Republicans to terrorists is both despicable and desperate, and it illustrates the Left’s inability to conduct a political discussion free of invective since invective, lies and false accusations are really all that they have to operate with.

An Open Letter to Congresswoman Sheila Lee, Democrat of Texas

Sheila Lee race card

Congresswoman Lee, I had the misfortune to hear and later read the petulant and whiney diatribe you delivered from the floor of the House on 15 July, wherein you stated, among other things, that “your community” (black people, as you see it) wanted to know why my community (white people, as you see it) are treating President Obama with such “disrespect” by not agreeing to raise taxes as part of any scheme to raise the U.S. debt limit beyond its current 14.3 Trillion dollars. You asked what makes “this president different,” implying none too covertly that racism, the inevitable fallback position of your kind in any political or social discourse, is the culprit.

Let me take this opportunity to educate and enlighten you, if such a thing is possible. My “community” does not disrespect President Obama because of his black half, any more than your “community” disparages him because of his white half; neither do the significant and growing number of black conservatives, and independents of all races, object to the President because of his biraciality, as you would so conveniently assert. No, congresswoman Lee, what we all object to about the president is that he is an utterly incompetent, unqualified failure, hopelessly inept, clueless and ineffectual as concerns the economy and foreign policy, and that he is arrogantly condescending and narcissistic in his manner with those who disagree with him. What we object to, congresswoman Lee, is that his policies, in collusion with Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid and the Democrat party, have moved this country from bad to infinitely worse in every measurable area, seriously endangering our institutions at home, our fragile standing abroad, and our very lives and futures. We object to raising the debt ceiling because, unlike you and others like you in Washington, we realize that at some point money becomes real, not just a fantasy of numbers on a page for you to manipulate; and we have decided that fifteen Trillion dollars of debt is enough!

And by the way, congresswoman Lee, did you accuse then-senator Obama of racism when he voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006? Did you accuse him of doing so because President Bush was white? The depth of your racial hypocrisy is appalling and obvious to all.