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Political Tipping Point
As with all politics of late, a great and grand crisis looms, it is the modus operandi of the current administration. Our conundrum has been framed like a B western movie; shall the good guys (Democrats) continue to pay the ever expanding list of entitlements and pet programs or fall prey to the sinister and evil Tea Party thugs who wish to push the poor and downtrodden back into the work camps of self reliance?
Really?? No not really, this is what happens when message trumps substance. The Demagogic Democrats have been handed their scripts, associate the Tea Party as radicals, position yourself as the defender of Medicare and Medicade, place Social Security in that Gore lock box and call the opposition rigid and unyielding, and most of all, repeat after me, “fair and balanced”.
This my friends is the change they believe in, never mind our government as a whole is borrowing 60 cents of every dollar spent just to service the mounting debt, never mind bureaucratic laden agencies such as the Department of Education, EPA, Amtrac, USPS, and the litany of others rife with inefficiency, we need to save these vital and crucial agencies?
In a phrase: sorry but that dog won’t hunt. The message and answers are really simple; do we as a nation continue to “feed the beast” of rampant government growth, or do we begin to lay the foundation of accountability of the governing process.
This process of accountability began as a loosely formed group of individuals spurred on by the rant which at the time seemed like nothing more than another talking head venting his anger at government oppression; thus spawned the Tea Party.
The Tea Party is not a Republican platform, it does not consist of anarchist, it is not radical, it is the voice of frustration created by the never ending insular government leadership who fail to recognize the voice of the people. To minimize its presence, to attack it’s viability, is a large miscalculation by its oppressors that is clearly based in the fear that finally a large majority of active individuals has had enough!
Regardless of how the manufactured passion play on the raising of the debt ceiling is resolved, more and more individuals realize a power shift is underway, we as a people are returning to a land governed by the people, and that reality has, and should strike fear in the political base for now they are accountable and no amount of polling catch phrases will stop that process.
The overwhelming theme of today’s headlines is the structured one minded attacks of GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann based on some of her less than accurate historical comments. For all intent and purpose these minor gaff’s pale in comparison to the current state of the union on so many levels one has to wonder is this the best the liberal detractors can come up with? Should not the questions be Mrs. Bachmann, what is your plan to turn around the economy, the jobless rate, your position on national defense, the current unrest in the Middle East?
The media’s choice to focus on minutia, is telling in that is uncovers a very real and valid fear; hey this woman is pretty darn smart and is racing up the GOP polls like a some kind of GOP Secretariate, garnering influence and mass followers along the way, or in other words a very real challenge to Obama in 2012.
If 2008 proved anything is clearly shows us that politics in the internet 24/7 age is directly tied to the buzz one can create outside of the normal means of the controlled media. The fourth estate has expanded to small gorilla social media consortium’s so much so that now the media powerhouses of the past have been relegated to nothing more than attack dogs of any source that might not agree with their structured plan of who should be in power.
In essence a quantifiable balancing of the structured message has taken place, and the old school NBC’s, CBS’s find themselves in a diminished role of influence. I for one could not be happier.
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Re-Post of Speaker Boehner’s Press Office release.
Liberating Our Economy to Help Create New Jobs
February 15, 2011 | Post by Speaker Boehner’s Press Office | Permalink
On Thursday night at CPAC 2011, Speaker Boehner discussed the new majority’s commitment to creating a better environment for job creation by liberating our economy from the shackles of debt, excessive regulations, and over-taxation. Boehner noted that this week the House will vote to cut $100 billion in spending over the next seven months – with more cuts to come. Read more about the past week below and check out Boehner’s remarks to CPAC here:
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Stopping the Washington Regulatory Assault on Small Businesses & Removing Barriers to Job Growth
* In a series of hearings and legislation last week, Republicans focused on creating a better environment for economic growth by taking on the federal regulations that are creating uncertainty and making it harder to create new jobs – a key part of the Pledge to America.
* Small businesses called on Washington to stop the regulatory assault on the private sector, saying “The uncertainty being created by Washington is stifling a small business recovery.”
* One small business owner told the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee that, “Regulatory costs require business owners like me to devote more time and resources to government compliance, which means less capital devoted to investment and job creation.”
* President Obama spoke to job creators in the spirit of “being more neighborly,” even as he pushes for more “stimulus” and higher taxes, and his party fights to protect hundreds of job-crushing federal regulations. Read more.
* The director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) testified that the Democrats’ health care law – with its maze of new federal rules, mandates, and penalties – will destroy roughly 800,000 jobs.
* A group of 28 Republican governors sent a letter to President Obama underscoring the impact of the health care law’s mandates on cash-strapped states and struggling small businesses.
* The head of the president’s own economic advisory panel is pushing for action on three pending free trade agreements to help boost U.S. exports by at least $13 billion and help create new jobs.
Cutting Spending and Ending the Job-Crushing “Stimulus” Spending Binge
* Here are some quick facts about H.R. 1, the bill that goes beyond the Pledge to America and cuts $100 billion in spending over the next few months.
* Speaker Boehner said “deficit spending is causing job creators in America to hold back,” and that’s why you’re going to see this Congress “cut, cut, cut” spending.
* Two leaders of the so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats broke with the White House and signaled they may be unwilling to raise the debt limit without “significant cuts” in spending.
* Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) introduced legislation to cancel unspent “stimulus” spending.
* Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the House Budget Committee that the spending binge of recent years is hurting job creation.
* Washington Democrats all but admitted they don’t have a plan for helping create new jobs that doesn’t involve more “stimulus” spending and debt.
Also This Week
* Vivian Butler – a parent of one of the children in the landmark D.C. landmark school choice program – wrote an op-ed about what the program has meant for her daughter and her family.
* NOTE: Catch Speaker Boehner on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning.
As always, we appreciate your interest in the new House majority and encourage you to stay connected with the Office of the Speaker on Facebook, Twitter, and on Speaker.gov. Have a great week!
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Anyone have a syllabus? One issue is clear, President Obama is frustrated and true to form and without forethought Ploofe, and Obamas speechwriters penned a very lackluster State Of The Union Speech. I will give Ploofe credit, you could hardly see the puppet strings last night.
In the Presidents first SOTU speech a grand missed opportunity became evident once Obama turned rabid, rather than bend to the will of the people, the Obama demagoguery was the tact taken. Oh there were small apologies but none specific, what was specific is Obama see’s his actions as true and correct, some might say, pathological.
First he attacked the Supreme Court sitting not 30 feet from the lectern, so inflamed was Obama that he is creating an “executive order” in an effort to circumvent the courts decision. Second, and thoughtfully so, Obama began to castigate his own party, literally calling them out as cowards, IE; “run for the hills” comes to mind. Not to be left out, Obamas ire and sarcasm was unleashed on the Republican party of whom for all intent and purpose he called “obstructionist”, and created problems HE faces when he walked in the door?
Then came the sing song Southern Preacher in an effort to rise the level of emotion, the bland stories about little Jimmy in Two Egg Florida who can’t get health care. The obligatory, “our country has faced tough times before” angle, then when the crowd was his, (in his mind) Obama promised to fight for us the American public. Suggestion, how about listening to the American public first!
The great orator has lost touch, in fact, the great orator has lost his audience of Independents, moderate Democrats, and last but not least, the impressionable youth. Times are tough when you loose the trust of the people, and in reality President Obama has no one to blame but himself. Rather than doing the right thing, Obama has choose to ignore the voice of the people, and with the ample assistance of Rham Emanual Chief Of Pit Bull’s they have severely overplayed their hand by leveraging the economic crisis to implement their BIG GOVERNMENT pie in the sky plan for recovery.
Not once did Obama apologize or direct blame for the current economic crisis on his own party who has been in control of the purse strings since 2006, or the runaway budget deficits created by HIS stimulus plan, he also failed to mention that the current housing crisis started with Bill Clinton and John Podesta, and was ushered past any semblance of pragmatic governance by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Rham Emanual, and a litany of other Democrats attempting to protect their disenfranchised voting base.
No President Obama went into full campaign mode last night, and expect much more of the same now that Plouffe is back in the fray. This is where this administration finds its center, attack everyone and everything, then state you have a better way, but offer nothing but worn out shallow promises of change, when what our country really needs is a clearly defined platform with bipartisan support.
Our nation is being held hostage by Obama’s narcissistic rage, which is the root cause of the Presidents passive-aggressive attacks directed at anyone who questions his intellect. Our country deserves more, and I will say our country demands more of our elected leadership, to offer any less, is a betrayal to the citizens of this great nation. Time to lead, follow or get out of the way Mr. President, ego be dammed.
NEW YORK POST Obama’s answer for America: more of me
ED MORRISSEY AP’s ten whoppers from the SOTU speech
ALLAHPUNDIT SOTU open thread: Fighting President totally ready to fight or something
VODKAPUNDIT Must-see TV
ON MY WATCH High on himself-Obama enjoyed his SOTU fantasy
DANCING CZARS Citizens against government waste: Drum roll please!
VOTINGFEMALESPEAKS! SOTU Report: Harry Reid Yawns while Janet Incompitano sleeps
Obama’s most useful tool in the 2008 election was to paint his image as the savior and leader of the emerging populist movement, Scott Brown and the Supreme Court put a severe dent in that image last week, so much so that Obama has enlisted the services of David Plouffe Obamas former campaign manager to re-spin and fortify Obamas convoluted message to the masses.
Clearly Obamas strategy to take advantage of the current economic crisis to push the Democrats social leaning, big government, spread the wealth policies is leaking water like a sieve. Bring in Plouffe, the Pied Piper and media mastermind in the 2008 election who was charged with leading a virtual unknown to the Office of President by pushing a populist platform has been given the reins in the effort to regain that “Obama magic” seen in the last election.
Plouffe’s efforts will have to contend with the “controversial” Supreme Court decision last week opening up the flood gates to corporate spending in political campaigns, which actually is a brilliant move to add balance back to the political process. Although this move was seen by most politicians as judicial activism by a conservative court, the byproduct of this move will place the power of the electorate in the hands of the very companies Obama and his team attack publicly but look to for support behind closed doors, IE; the elite bankers and Wall Street financiers.
If you thought the Obama administration was in campaign mode before, prepare yourself for an all out media attack directed at the painted and perceived demons of a free society, the money changers. Although this tact was highly successful in the 2008 election where Obamas ideology and “Uber Liberal” beliefs were unknown, the task will be practically insurmountable now that the constituency has seen the real Obama.
Obamas expected shift to jobs and employment will surely be the foundation of his State Of The Union speech, but also pay close attention to who Obamas speech writers are attacking, will Obama shift to the middle with fiscal restraint and a workable jobs program, or will Obama continue to push the social agenda of health care, cap and trade and financial reform at his own demise.
The choices are clear on which direction this country needs to go, the question is will Obama concede to the masses, or continue to forge ahead in his egocentric quest for his page in history? This quote sums up the Obama administration to date “You can’t change a pig into a race horse, but you can have a very fast pig”, clearly Obama is not a “race horse”, the question is can he be a “very fast pig”? That question will be answered in part this week, but given past history I see pork chops in the future, pass the barbecue sauce please.
Plouffe Notes SEE INSIDE THE BRAIN OF PLOUFFE
HOTLINE ON CALL Dems Preview Populist Message
ED MORRISSEY WH fumbling jobs, ObamaCare Messages
ALLAHPUNDIT Obama: I will continue to fight for you by trying to pass a bill you despise
JOSEPH LAWLER The Socialist to the Right of Senate Democrats
VOTINGFEMALESPEAKS! Obama: The left’s moribund hoper and changer
ON MY WATCH A vengeful return to Obama the enforcer
MICHELLE MALKIN The Astroturf Presidency
THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE The Democrats bad weekend continues
DANCING CZARS Berry: Obama said “big difference” between “10 and “94 is “me”
GATEWAY PUNDIT Far Left Hack Bob Beckel: GOP is party of Birthers, Baggers & Blowhards (Video)
ED MORRISSEY Obama most polarized first-year presidency
NICE DEB Is Recent Astroturf Campaign Part of Dept of Justice Propaganda Unit?
OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY Obama most polarizing President ever
RIEHL WORLD VIEW Obama’s Arrogance On Parade
SISTER TOLDJAH Astroturfing campaign underway by Team Obama?
VODKAPUNDIT And so it continues
PUNDIT & PUNDIT Revolting voters and the endless campaign
Considering the Democratic loss in Massachusetts which is considered the bastion of Democratic ideology you would think Obama and his handlers would give more than lip service to the media about their current negative tact and direction.
Initial finger-pointing was directed at Coakley where the Obama brain trust used every adjective possible to distance themselves from the dramatic loss of “Ted Kennedys” seat, but wait their always is George Bush and the last eight year drama they can leverage!
In the usual highly scripted Obama response the same sing songy Obama style language was directed at “the mess we inherited”, where blame or abdication thereof was placed firmly on the door step of the Bush administration, only this time the tread has fallen off the track.
Two times Obama has been inserted at the last moment to save the day, it happened in NJ and now MA, but Obama’s eloquent power of words and actions do not meet, he is asking voters to trust him, then in the same breath he projects blame to the past administration shunning all responsibility. By taking this approach Obama continues to insult the intelligence of the American public, and cement the glaring fact that leadership is not his strong suit.
Victor Davis Hanson is dead on when he states “I believe President Clinton provided some crucial insight when he said, “people would rather be with someone who is strong and wrong than weak and right.” It’s not that people are uninterested in who’s right or wrong, it’s that people will only follow leaders who seem to actually believe in what they are doing. Democrats have missed this essential fact”
Hanson goes on to state about Obama’s style “A technocracy – many Ivy-League-educated and without much experience outside academia and government – pushes legislation most people do not want but is nevertheless judged to be good for them.”
Clearly a detached elitist view when people are treated as ignorant children to be told what is correct and that they should be glad that Obama’s “benevolent guidance” is being offered, also to accept Obamas efforts because they are what Obama chose to pursue and are good for the people regardless of what those very same people may think!
Continuing on the elite theme, and like all great “Utopian kings” they exempt themselves from their own laws, all hail the King!
In a continued effort to focus on past mistakes or the perceived weakness of the Bush years, Obama has directed his negative hit machine on the bank bailouts, along with the evil Wall Street bankers. It is important to note Obama, Gethner, and Summers all bought into TARP with Obama signing the bill while he was still a Senator, so more of the same double speak when the rubber hits the road from this administration.
Both JFK and Clinton faced the same challenges in their first year, both were able to adapt and thrive, for all intent and purpose Obama should be able to do the same. But as of today Obama’s efforts are beginning to resemble the old adage, “he is just a one trick pony”, we have three more years to figure that one out, but the ponies feed bag has become one vote short of a meal, and this will make Obama’s “change we can believe in” all that more difficult, anyone know what time the Bush re-runs are on?
ALLAHPUNDIT Paul Ryan Tells NRO: The Dems are going to try reconciliation
ED MORRISSEY CT poll shows support for ObamaCare crumbling
ACE OF SPADES HQ Obama: Hey it turns out that 3000 years of warfare in the Middle East wasn’t going to end just because you elected and unprecedented, historic guy made of pure awsome
THE DAILY CALLER Obama: I ran into a “buzzsaw” in Massachusetts over health care
DOUG POWERS Michael Bloomberg Actually Has a Good Idea
GATEWAY PUNDIT Scott Brown, a Protestant, holds special relationship with local Cistercian Nuns
LA SHAWN BARBER’S CORNER Blogs for Life
LEGAL INSURRECTION No returns for Nelson and Landrieu reputations
PUNDIT AND PUNDETTE It’s the Obama, stupid
SLUBLOG David Brooks and the real President
THE OTHER MCCAIN Rush Limbaugh, Jew-Hater?
AMERICAN SPECTATOR/PAUL CHESSER “Green” means living off the government
DANCING CZARS Michelle Bachmann respond to the sexist remarks of Snarlen Arlen Specter
FLOPPING ACES (VIDEO) Yeeeaarrghh-ahahahah!!!!!!!!
MICHELLE MALKIN Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
NICE DEB About Obama’s Approval Ratings
OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY/JAMES JOYNER USA Parliamentary Democracy?
POLIPUNDIT Polls
RIEHL WORLD VIEW Oof!: Obama’s restaurant comment, so “Camelot-ish”
VODKAPUNDIT The Fall Guy
THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE One election doesn’t change anything, right?
VOTINGFEMALESPEAKS! ACC to left wing loons at PoliticalArticals.net Moi is a “frenzied republican sociopath” basking in the Nudist Brown victory! hahaha
CATO@LIBERTY The Empire Strikes Back
CHRIS MOODY It’s Free Market Day in Washington DC!
Who better than Dickie Durbin, the consigilari of the Chicago body politic to propose “the Senate could make changes to the bill by using the nuclear option, known formally as “reconciliation,” a tactic that would allow Democrats to adjust parts of health care reform with just a 51-vote majority”.
Although this tact has been rumored in the past, floating the balloon today to proceed in such a manner makes two very clear points, first, Coakley being DOA after tonight’s loss, the party seems more focused on who to blame.
Second, if it was not clear before the Brown/Coakley election it is crystal clear now that the health care bills passing, (note I did not say success) is the Democratic keystone in the bridge of sighs of their social engineering platform. Never mind the economy, unemployment, or something simple as “doing the right thing”, ObamaCare is the priority even at the height of the worst recession in recorded history.
After being second fiddle for the most of the last 20 years has the Democrats eager to show how well they can spread the wealth, granted the Bush regime ran up 1.2 trillion in eight years, but the new leader in the pork and waste department is, drum roll please, number one, Barack Obama, number two, Nancy Pelosi, and a close third Harry Reid.
This trilogy of spendocrats have managed to; kill any economic recovery by, not addressing the housing crisis, you can thank Rham, Timmy, Barney, and Chris for leveraging that one, enter Nanny Pelosi and her tyrannical hold on the House, passed the stimulus package, passing health care with a public option, and as of today a new 135 trillion education bill, government is growing the economy isn’t.
With Brown taking the election tonight, prepare for some serious down and dirty Chicago politics from Obama and krew. The style that worked in the past while the country was at the height of the Obama euphoria, has grown callow. The words though delivered well, carry no weight, the leadership behind the man has become much to secret and dark, trust has vanished, and if the trend continues who will pay for these mistakes in judgment?
Tonight just might be the start of a grand cascade of fallen Democrats and liberal Republicans, the country seeking a cause has congregated in the center where their frustration grows waiting for a leader to appear. 2010 just might be, “the new American revolution”, many losses loom on the horizon that will effect the very core of both parties, I have hope for that change.
ALLAHPUNDIT Paul Ryan Tells The NRO: The Dems Are Going To Try Reconciliation
VODKAPUNDIT Success has a thousand fathers…
MICHELLE MALKIN The Democrats Massachusetts Meltdown
ALLAHPUNDIT House Dems already starting to run from ObamaCare
ED MORRISSEY The World Turned Upside Down
DANCING CZARS Dems Assemble Circular Firing Squad Over Coakley Loss; Freedom Left Intact
VOTINGFEMALESPEAKS! MA victorious in first battle of the second American Revolution; The patriot’s revolt against tyranny of the DC socialists
THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE Scott Brown Wins In Massachusetts!
FRUGAL CAFE BLOG ZONE On Scott Browns Win are they listening now!
AMERICAN SPECTATOR Stupak: Sentate Bill Would Not Get 100 Votes In The House
GATEWAY PUNDIT Voters be dammed; CNN blames unruly conservatives for the Obama disaster (VIDEO)
AMERICAN THINKER The coming Democratic Counter-Offensive
ED MORRISSEY Weiner on passing ObamaCare Pigs might fly too…
GEORGE WILL The Curse Of Opportunity
ED DRISCOLL Polls closed “GOP’S Brown in epic win!
POLITICO Dazed Dem0crats rething entire process
ACE OF SPADES HQ You, Howard Dean, are insane if you’re spinning this as some kind of proof america wants a more socialist health care plan…says Chris Matthews
NICE DEB Video: Scott Brow’s Victory Speech + Political Fallout Round-up
FLOPPING ACES Color me happy
LEGAL INSURRECTION What if the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy?
OTB-JAMES JOYNER What Democrats should learn from Massachussetts
SCRAPPLEFACE Obama: Coakley Victorious if Brown gets less than 60%
POLIPUNDIT For those keeping score
SISTER TOLDJAH Caption This: John F”n Kerry Edition
CATO@LIBERTY The Brown Revolution
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER Check the linkage
ANOTHER BLACK CONSERVATIVE Obama gets an attitude adjustment too? Well, sort of…
ANIMAL FARM Baseball Blues…Coakley V Schilling
It was reported by Johna Goldberg this morning that Newsweek Magazine has enlisted the services of President Obama to write a piece on the current tragedy in Haiti. Although a noble cause, and truth be told Obama will have one of his staffers write the piece, this request is further evidence of the blurring of the lines between the press and the political process.
Also of note is the fact that in the past Newsweek has had a rather aggressive tilt in their coverage of Obama and his administration. The question that comes to mind is; why not just issue a press release which is normal SOP in cases similar to Haiti’s tragedy. Considering this point, the next viable question is what is the motive or payoff for the exclusive scoop to Newsweek?
Payoff: Newsweek is one of Obama’s top supporters, they have kowtowed and idolized Obama from the beginning, the bill is now being called due now that Newsweeks redesign and change of focus is coming out of the gate. They need a home run to pull this off, what better way than to plaster Obama’s face on their newly redesigned rag.
Motivation: All kidding aside, Obama loves Obama, no mirror is safe, I can see the Prez in 20 years (living in exile) paging through all the covers he garnered while in office, the man is a narcissist plain and simple.
Not to dilute the crisis in Haiti, but this is not the best use of office to be pandering to the media, I don’t think the subscription rate in Haiti will increase due to this article, and by now becoming Author In Chief it further degrades the office of President.
Now if I can only find that recipe piece by Lincoln, or was that FDR, no Trueman, I am making the President some humble pie!
ACE OF SPADES HQ CNN: GOP leads in generic Congressional. 48-45
FLOPPING ACES Extraordinary US military central to Haitian Relief Efforts
ED MORRISSEY Local news shows are where the biased action is
NICE DEB Black Panther Malik Z. Shabazz hits back at republican critics
OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY Pentagon Fort Hood Massacre Review Finds Nothing New
POLIPUNDIT Do Coakley’s Polls Show Her Trailing?
RIEHL WORLD VIEW Sparkman: Census worker planned, rehearsed suicide beforehand
VODKAPUNDIT Bay State Blues
ANIMAL FARM Finger Pointing
FRUGAL CAFE BLOG ZONE Need a good laugh or two? Check out the Martha Coakley photo caption contest at Hillbuzz
LISA IN TEXAS Obama’s council of governors: Congress granted federal power to control us on a local and state level
VOTINGFEMALESPEAKS! Obama? Come stump for Coakley and you will see…a Boston Tea Party just for Thee, UPDATE; Tea Party ON!
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DANCING CZARS Martha Coakley I approve this message photo shop contest
Much has been said about the potential losses the Democratic party will face in the 2010, what has not been addressed is who or what party will reap the perceived benefit of these losses.
With the Tea Party stumbling out of the gate, the lack of solidified Republican platform, the Democrats abysmal polling numbers and least we forget the independents, 2010 could ultimately result in the increased marginalization of all four platforms.
Obama currently garners an estimated 30-35% of the lefts support regardless of issue, call it blind ambition, Republicans continue to struggle with similar polling numbers, Independents are leaning right, the Tea Party movement is in its infant stage, so as they say in football, time to throw the hail Mary, and although political opportunity abounds, so do the associated risks, read on.
Given the above scenarios along with an increase in each of the platforms protectionism to assure it’s ideological growth the potential for stagnation and inability to proffer any useful legislation will surely follow. This fractionating of the former two party system into what appears to be four distinct groups is dangerous in that no clear consensus can be obtained when one is so sorely needed.
The current and proposed infighting for top billing will assuredly result in the increase of the benign grandiose promises politicians have become so caviler at issuing but not keeping as of late. With the end result of increasing the ruminating displeasure toward our elected officials which is dangerously at an all time high. While this process is an integral part of the form and function of a free republic, the answer on who will reign supreme is a story yet to be told. This fight for supremacy will surely leave copious amounts of blood on the battlefield further dividing our country when a unification of purpose is what is required.
What spoils remain for the winner along with it’s direction will make life interesting far into the approaching decade, and from a personal perspective none of the four competing factions have jumped to the forefront with any brilliant ideas or suggestions, nor statesman like leadership.
Obama was correct in that our government needs “fundamental change”, but not to the bloated, special interest driven, increased socialization of the political machine that now exists. For now until our proposed hero reaches that Valhalla, the highest use we the citizens of the United States can perform is to be ever vigilant, and involved in the process.
Lastly, we as a nation have dropped the proverbial ball over the last 30-40 years in that our apathy and acceptance of our elected officials has not been in our best interest. This nescient approach has led us to the conundrum we all now face, our saving grace is that history will show the American people possess unlimited resolve when their freedoms are vetoed by the very same elected officials we entrusted.
To use a highly worn out metaphor our Republic is facing “a defining moment” it is up to each of us to become part of that definition, that my fellow Americans is the only platform that matters!
Charles Krauthammer The Fall Of Obama
ED MORRISSEY Brown tells Obama to stay out of Massachusetts; UPDATE: Rothenberg moves race to “toss-up”
ALLAHPUNDIT Jackpot: Brown raised a million dollars a day every day this week
LARREY ANDERSON Some advice for the Republican National Committee
VASKO KOHLMAYER Ending Corruption in Washington
PHILIP KLEIN More details on Obama’s big bribe to big labor
REID WILSON Majority would vote against Obama
MICHAEL BARONE Obama’s rapturous style versus Tea Party substance
GATEWAY PUNDIT Marth Coakley on Afghanistan: Mission Accomplished
LEGAL INSURRECTION Something you don’t know about Scott Brown
MICHELLE MALKIN Martha Coakley’s Marie Antoinett/Jon Corzine moment; UPDATE: Curt Schilling responds to Coakley
NICE DEB Coakley Caption Contest
OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY God and the Elite-Populist Divide
POLIPUNDIT New Scott Brown Ad
POWERLINE Obama’s Two-Minute Drill
SCRAPPLEFACE Reid Adds “Skin Lightening Therapy” to Health Reform Bill
SISTER TOLDJAH Is President Obama trying to muzzle Joe Biden?
VILLAINOUS COMPANY National Dress Up You Pet Day Must See, Not Political
VODKAPUNDIT Epic WIN!
VOTINGFEMALESPEAKS! Against all odds… a leader emerged and le us against Tyranny (video)
ON MY WATCH Another Obama lie-he never was for public option
FRUGAL CAFE BLOG ZONE Expect a miracle in Massachusetts: Government’s pundits & puppets wrong again
WESTERN EXPERIENCE Sarah Palin to join Fox News Team
In a complete 180, some say 360 reverting back to the promises made on the campaign trail, Obama talked tough on terrorism today. Obama with a pitch count of three strikes and no balls in his discontinued war on terror, took a swing at a curve ball and accepted blame for the current lax and disorganized effort of late while on his watch, and promised change.
Although the Presidents speech did inferred a break down in “intelligence dissimulation” would be addressed, he split the blame 50 cents Obama, the other 50 being thrown in the direction of the intelligence agencies tasked with our safety, stopping the “buck/blame” equally between the two.
Today’s statement was an about face in that Obama framed his comments directed at the one area of doubt that has empowered the “evildoers”, “we are at war, this is not a crime wave”. Now terrorist (if we can call them that) can be viewed as enemy combatants, and will be treated as such, certainly a new stance for the fledgling President.
The danger with the “other cheek” strategy is that it can lead to overkill. In an effort to establish the resolve of the Obama stance increased restrictions, policies and costs are sure to follow, it’s this administrations way. While this new tough stance might increase our well being, question is at what cost, The Patriot Act, Act II?
Some are of the opinion that further work needs to be done, specifically reconstituting the moral at the CIA and other military establishments who have been targeted as the scapegoat for Obama’s team over the last twelve months. While the Obama administration attempted their terrorist friendly approach, the agencies in charge of keeping us safe faced daily political attacks, career threats, and potential law suits, a clear sign by Obama’s handlers that now they were in charge, and let them know it.
Terrorism by definition; “the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments”, was successfully carried out Christmas day 2009. Terrorism is not going away, we all will be touched by it’s success for years to come, the trillion dollar question becomes; what freedoms are we willing to give up to feel safe, and is safe ever achievable?
It’s a perfect time to be a fatalist and a free one at that!
POLITICO President Obama “the buck stops with me”
ED MORRISSEY Obama: “the buck stops with me”
AMERICA BLOG Obama speech on terrorist incident
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