Al Franken – Wholly Owned Subsidiary of ACORN

Al Franken, the former Stuart Smalley, becomes the 60^th Democrat in the US Senate. That statement is even painful to type on a keyboard! This blithering idiot joins the likes of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Chris Dodd, Dick Durbin and Roland Burris as examples of just how far the United States has fallen from its pinnacle of greatness.

The Franken ‘victory’ is just the latest assault on the senses. This nightmare became a reality when the incumbent Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman conceded defeat in the recount of all recounts after the state’s Supreme Court unanimously rejected his lawsuit.

But his loss was more than likely preordained in 2006 when Democrat Mark Ritchie defeated two-term Republican Mary Kiffmeyer to become Minnesota secretary of State.

Ritchie is the one who finagled the recount that gave Franken a lead some six weeks after Coleman appeared to win by 725 votes on election day. Now here is the dirty little secret: Ritchie has extensive ties to the ACORN organization, now under federal investigation for voter fraud in fourteen states, and was endorsed by the community activist group in 2006.

"Mark Ritchie as we all know is a hard-core liberal who was endorsed by Acorn and funded by Acorn," Matthew Vadum, senior editor of CapitolResearch.org, a nonprofit think tank, recently told NewsMax. "It is not surprising that he has a permissive attitude toward the recount process."

Ritchie gave credit for his 2006 election to the liberal ACORN organization, the stated goal of which is to replace conservative secretaries of state with liberal Democrats. Why? Simple: After the recounts in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, both of which were key to Bush victories, the Left realized that the secretary of state is as important, if not more so, as which candidate got the most votes. Control the election process and you control the future.

In 2008, the group helped fund Democratic victories in Montana, West Virginia, Oregon and Missouri, spending some $280,000, according to the watchdog group Center for Public Integrity.

If this trend continues, our elections may soon be no more honest than the one recently held in Iran. If the Secretary of State Project and Acorn are allowed to so manipulate the process, there will be more "victories" like Al Franken's to come.

Honduras Defends Its Democracy; Castro and Hillary Clinton Object

Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution.

It seems that President Mel Zelaya (Chavez wannabe) miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking.

But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton (US Secretary of State) and, of course, Hugo himself.

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.

But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. I would not be surprised if Chavez did not apply for Stimulus funds from Supreme Leader B. Hussein and have ACRON assist in the bogus election; something they at which they excel!

But why should a little thing like the rule of law and a constitution bother a true liberal socialist? All Zelaya had to do was use the playbook written by the current gang of Chicago thugs in the US White House. If you want to do something a democratic constitution might frown upon, just appoint a Czar (or a few dozen), unelected and unaccountable to the public, and do it anyway.

It is not surprising that Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration would want to thwart democracy in Honduras. They are busily doing the same thing here.

So Much for Superior Latina Judgment!

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision Sonia Sotomayor (now Supreme Court pretender) endorsed as an appeals court judge. The same Supreme Court nominee who said that a Latina (Hispanic female) would make a better Justice than a white male because of her 'rich life experiences.'

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination when there is no evidence it was intentional.

Thank goodness that the adults on the Court prevailed. For way too long, the “aggrieved class” of minorities have held businesses hostage in fear of ‘offending’ someone.

The lower court ruling endorsed by Sotomayor was a perfect example of Liberal thought:

Do not reward hard work and excellence and encourage others to strive for more, but punish success and lower the standard of all to the level of government dependents. Politicians cannot make you dependent upon them as long as hard work and study are allowed to advance success. No one is to be smarter than anyone else and no one is to earn more as a result than anyone else. But instead of setting the threshold at the level of success, set it where all you can be is what the government allows.

I wonder what will happen when the ego maniacal politicians that crave unrestricted control over their subjects will do when there are no longer any successful people from which they can re-distribute wealth to the un-washed masses?

This ruling by the Supreme Court is a small step in reversing a half-century of reverse discrimination and long overdue.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who are not." -- Thomas Jefferson

The 'Forceful' Response

With an ego rivaling some US politicians, the little nightmare with a bad haircut, Kim Jong-Il (North Korea) continues to waive the nuclear red flag in the face of the US and the rest of the world with underground nuke test on Memorial Day.

America responded with the feeble bleatings from the State Department that there may be internal change (in N. Korea) down the road emphasize the central feature of the present scene: the absence of meaningful American power. The President came out with a most forceful response: Pyongyang's actions were "a matter of (here it comes!) grave concern." That should have Kim’s knees trembling!

The president's general line on the geopolitical big picture is: I don't need this in my life right now. He's a domestic transformationalist, working overtime – via the banks, the automobile industry, health care, etc. – to advance statism's death grip on American dynamism. His principal interest in the rest of the world is that he doesn't want anyone nuking America before he's finished turning it into a socialist basket case. This isn't simply a matter of priorities. A United States government currently borrowing 50 cents for every dollar it spends cannot afford its global role, and thus the Obama cuts to missile defense and other programs have a kind of logic: You can't be Socialist Utopia writ large with a U.S.-sized military.

The First 100 Days of the New Era

The first 100 days of a new presidential administration has been used as a milepost to take measure of a new president and how things are being handled. I see no reason not to apply the same standard to The Anointed One even as the Main Stream Media Obama-press scramble desperately poo-poo such an subjective measure of one who can not be measured on any human scale.

When the B. Hussein administration crashes and burns, and it will, political scientists/talking-heads can trace its demise to its first hundred days. How can I say that it will crash and burn when his approval ratings are so high? Simple. All who were hoodwinked into voting for such a untested, inexperienced novitiate are in denial and are, at present, unable to admit buyer's remorse.

Underlying this superficial and unjustified support, B. Hussein's specific polices run afoul of the very deeply felt convictions of American voters. For example, the most recent Rasmussen Poll asked voters if they wanted an economic system of complete free enterprise or preferred more government involvement in managing the economy. by 77% to 19%, they voted against a government role. That is up seven points from last month!

As B. Hussein's daily line changes from "I inherited this mess" to "There are faint signs of light," the clock starts ticking. If there is no recovery in six months, and I do not think there will be, Americans will come to the conclusion that he and his policies are the problem and not the solution. Especially when his policies really kick in: higher taxes, a 50% hike in utility bills (cap and trade) nationalizing the financial system and closing down the auto companies.

Therefore, it is my conclusion, in light of the polls, that B. Hussein's first 100 days can be summed up thus: He has done many wrong and harmful things, but he has done them extremely well!

The Americans Who Risked Everything

Rush Limbaugh' father, Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr., delivered this oft-requested address locally a number of times, but it had never before appeared in print until it appeared in The Limbaugh Letter. His dad was renowned for his oratory skills and for his original mind; this speech is, I think, a superb demonstration of both. I

"Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor"

It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall bony, redheaded young Virginian found time to buy a new thermometer, for which he paid three pounds, fifteen shillings. He also bought gloves for Martha, his wife, who was ill at home. Thomas Jefferson arrived early at the statehouse. The temperature was 72.5 degrees and the horseflies weren't nearly so bad at that hour. It was a lovely room, very large, with gleaming white walls. The chairs were comfortable. Facing the single door were two brass fireplaces, but they would not be used today. The moment the door was shut, and it was always kept locked, the room became an oven. The tall windows were shut, so that loud quarreling voices could not be heard by passersby. Small openings atop the windows allowed a slight stir of air, and also a large number of horseflies. Jefferson records that "the horseflies were dexterous in finding necks, and the silk of stockings was nothing to them." All discussing was punctuated by the slap of hands on necks. On the wall at the back, facing the president's desk, was a panoply -- consisting of a drum, swords, and banners seized from Fort Ticonderoga the previous year. Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold had captured the place, shouting that they were taking it "in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" Now Congress got to work, promptly taking up an emergency measure about which there was discussion but no dissension. "Resolved: That an application be made to the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania for a supply of flints for the troops at New York." Then Congress transformed itself into a committee of the whole. The Declaration of Independence was read aloud once more, and debate resumed. Though Jefferson was the best writer of all of them, he had been somewhat verbose. Congress hacked the excess away. They did a good job, as a side-by-side comparison of the rough draft and the final text shows. They cut the phrase "by a self-assumed power." "Climb" was replaced by "must read," then "must" was eliminated, then the whole sentence, and soon the whole paragraph was cut. Jefferson groaned as they continued what he later called "their depredations." "Inherent and inalienable rights" came out "certain unalienable rights," and to this day no one knows who suggested the elegant change. A total of 86 alterations were made. Almost 500 words were eliminated, leaving 1,337. At last, after three days of wrangling, the document was put to a vote. Here in this hall Patrick Henry had once thundered: "I am no longer a Virginian, sir, but an American." But today the loud, sometimes bitter argument stilled, and without fanfare the vote was taken from north to south by colonies, as was the custom. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted. There were no trumpets blown. No one stood on his chair and cheered. The afternoon was waning and Congress had no thought of delaying the full calendar of routine business on its hands. For several hours they worked on many other problems before adjourning for the day.

Much To Lose What kind of men were the 56 signers who adopted the Declaration of Independence and who, by their signing, committed an act of treason against the crown? To each of you, the names Franklin, Adams, Hancock and Jefferson are almost as familiar as household words. Most of us, however, know nothing of the other signers. Who were they? What happened to them? I imagine that many of you are somewhat surprised at the names not there: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry. All were elsewhere. Ben Franklin was the only really old man. Eighteen were under 40; three were in their 20s. Of the 56 almost half - 24 - were judges and lawyers. Eleven were merchants, nine were landowners and farmers, and the remaining 12 were doctors, ministers, and politicians. With only a few exceptions, such as Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, these were men of substantial property. All but two had families. The vast majority were men of education and standing in their communities. They had economic security as few men had in the 18th Century. Each had more to lose from revolution than he had to gain by it. John Hancock, one of the richest men in America, already had a price of 500 pounds on his head. He signed in enormous letters so that his Majesty could now read his name without glasses and could now double the reward. Ben Franklin wryly noted: "Indeed we must all hang together, otherwise we shall most assuredly hang separately." Fat Benjamin Harrison of Virginia told tiny Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: "With me it will all be over in a minute, but you, you will be dancing on air an hour after I am gone." These men knew what they risked. The penalty for treason was death by hanging. And remember, a great British fleet was already at anchor in New York Harbor. They were sober men. There were no dreamy-eyed intellectuals or draft card burners here. They were far from hot-eyed fanatics yammering for an explosion. They simply asked for the status quo. It was change they resisted. It was equality with the mother country they desired. It was taxation with representation they sought. They were all conservatives, yet they rebelled. It was principle, not property, that had brought these men to Philadelphia. Two of them became presidents of the United States. Seven of them became state governors. One died in office as vice president of the United States. Several would go on to be U.S. Senators. One, the richest man in America, in 1828 founded the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. One, a delegate from Philadelphia, was the only real poet, musician and philosopher of the signers. (It was he, Francis Hopkinson not Betsy Ross who designed the United States flag.) Richard Henry Lee, a delegate from Virginia, had introduced the resolution to adopt the Declaration of Independence in June of 1776. He was prophetic in his concluding remarks: "Why then sir, why do we longer delay? Why still deliberate? Let this happy day give birth to an American Republic. Let her arise not to devastate and to conquer but to reestablish the reign of peace and law. "The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us. She demands of us a living example of freedom that may exhibit a contrast in the felicity of the citizen to the ever-increasing tyranny which desolates her polluted shores. She invites us to prepare an asylum where the unhappy may find solace, and the persecuted repost. "If we are not this day wanting in our duty, the names of the American Legislatures of 1776 will be placed by posterity at the side of all of those whose memory has been and ever will be dear to virtuous men and good citizens." Though the resolution was formally adopted July 4, it was not until July 8 that two of the states authorized their delegates to sign, and it was not until August 2 that the signers met at Philadelphia to actually put their names to the Declaration. William Ellery, delegate from Rhode Island, was curious to see the signers' faces as they committed this supreme act of personal courage. He saw some men sign quickly, "but in no face was he able to discern real fear." Stephan Hopkins, Ellery's colleague from Rhode Island, was a man past 60. As he signed with a shaking pen, he declared: "My hand trembles, but my heart does not."

"Most Glorious Service" Even before the list was published, the British marked down every member of Congress suspected of having put his name to treason. All of them became the objects of vicious manhunts. Some were taken. Some, like Jefferson, had narrow escapes. All who had property or families near British strongholds suffered. · Francis Lewis, New York delegate saw his home plundered -- and his estates in what is now Harlem -- completely destroyed by British Soldiers. Mrs. Lewis was captured and treated with great brutality. Though she was later exchanged for two British prisoners through the efforts of Congress, she died from the effects of her abuse. · William Floyd, another New York delegate, was able to escape with his wife and children across Long Island Sound to Connecticut, where they lived as refugees without income for seven years. When they came home they found a devastated ruin. · Philips Livingstone had all his great holdings in New York confiscated and his family driven out of their home. Livingstone died in 1778 still working in Congress for the cause. · Louis Morris, the fourth New York delegate, saw all his timber, crops, and livestock taken. For seven years he was barred from his home and family. · John Hart of Trenton, New Jersey, risked his life to return home to see his dying wife. Hessian soldiers rode after him, and he escaped in the woods. While his wife lay on her deathbed, the soldiers ruined his farm and wrecked his homestead. Hart, 65, slept in caves and woods as he was hunted across the countryside. When at long last, emaciated by hardship, he was able to sneak home, he found his wife had already been buried, and his 13 children taken away. He never saw them again. He died a broken man in 1779, without ever finding his family. · Dr. John Witherspoon, signer, was president of the College of New Jersey, later called Princeton. The British occupied the town of Princeton, and billeted troops in the college. They trampled and burned the finest college library in the country. · Judge Richard Stockton, another New Jersey delegate signer, had rushed back to his estate in an effort to evacuate his wife and children. The family found refuge with friends, but a Tory sympathizer betrayed them. Judge Stockton was pulled from bed in the night and brutally beaten by the arresting soldiers. Thrown into a common jail, he was deliberately starved. Congress finally arranged for Stockton's parole, but his health was ruined. The judge was released as an invalid, when he could no longer harm the British cause. He returned home to find his estate looted and did not live to see the triumph of the Revolution. His family was forced to live off charity. · Robert Morris, merchant prince of Philadelphia, delegate and signer, met Washington's appeals and pleas for money year after year. He made and raised arms and provisions which made it possible for Washington to cross the Delaware at Trenton. In the process he lost 150 ships at sea, bleeding his own fortune and credit almost dry. · George Clymer, Pennsylvania signer, escaped with his family from their home, but their property was completely destroyed by the British in the Germantown and Brandywine campaigns. · Dr. Benjamin Rush, also from Pennsylvania, was forced to flee to Maryland. As a heroic surgeon with the army, Rush had several narrow escapes. · John Martin, a Tory in his views previous to the debate, lived in a strongly loyalist area of Pennsylvania. When he came out for independence, most of his neighbors and even some of his relatives ostracized him. He was a sensitive and troubled man, and many believed this action killed him. When he died in 1777, his last words to his tormentors were: "Tell them that they will live to see the hour when they shall acknowledge it [the signing] to have been the most glorious service that I have ever rendered to my country." · William Ellery, Rhode Island delegate, saw his property and home burned to the ground. · Thomas Lynch, Jr., South Carolina delegate, had his health broken from privation and exposures while serving as a company commander in the military. His doctors ordered him to seek a cure in the West Indies and on the voyage, he and his young bride were drowned at sea. · Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Heyward, Jr., the other three South Carolina signers, were taken by the British in the siege of Charleston. They were carried as prisoners of war to St. Augustine, Florida, where they were singled out for indignities. They were exchanged at the end of the war, the British in the meantime having completely devastated their large landholdings and estates. · Thomas Nelson, signer of Virginia, was at the front in command of the Virginia military forces. With British General Charles Cornwallis in Yorktown, fire from 70 heavy American guns began to destroy Yorktown piece by piece. Lord Cornwallis and his staff moved their headquarters into Nelson's palatial home. While American cannonballs were making a shambles of the town, the house of Governor Nelson remained untouched. Nelson turned in rage to the American gunners and asked, "Why do you spare my home?" They replied, "Sir, out of respect to you." Nelson cried, "Give me the cannon!" and fired on his magnificent home himself, smashing it to bits. But Nelson's sacrifice was not quite over. He had raised $2 million for the Revolutionary cause by pledging his own estates. When the loans came due, a newer peacetime Congress refused to honor them, and Nelson's property was forfeited. He was never reimbursed. He died, impoverished, a few years later at the age of 50.

Lives, Fortunes, Honor Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost wives, sons or entire families. One lost his 13 children. Two wives were brutally treated. All were at one time or another the victims of manhunts and driven from their homes. Twelve signers had their homes completely burned. Seventeen lost everything they owned. Yet not one defected or went back on his pledged word. Their honor, and the nation they sacrificed so much to create is still intact. And, finally, there is the New Jersey signer, Abraham Clark. He gave two sons to the officer corps in the Revolutionary Army. They were captured and sent to that infamous British prison hulk afloat in New York Harbor known as the hell ship Jersey, where 11,000 American captives were to die. The younger Clarks were treated with a special brutality because of their father. One was put in solitary and given no food. With the end almost in sight, with the war almost won, no one could have blamed Abraham Clark for acceding to the British request when they offered him his sons' lives if he would recant and come out for the King and Parliament. The utter despair in this man's heart, the anguish in his very soul, must reach out to each one of us down through 200 years with his answer: "No." The 56 signers of the Declaration Of Independence proved by their every deed that they made no idle boast when they composed the most magnificent curtain line in history. "And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." My friends, I know you have a copy of the Declaration of Independence somewhere around the house - in an old history book (newer ones may well omit it), an encyclopedia, or one of those artificially aged "parchments" we all got in school years ago. I suggest that each of you take the time this month to read through the text of the Declaration, one of the most noble and beautiful political documents in human history. There is no more profound sentence than this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness..." These are far more than mere poetic words. The underlying ideas that infuse every sentence of this treatise have sustained this nation for more than two centuries. They were forged in the crucible of great sacrifice. They are living words that spring from and satisfy the deepest cries for liberty in the human spirit. "Sacred honor" isn't a phrase we use much these days, but every American life is touched by the bounty of this, the Founders' legacy. It is freedom, tested by blood, and watered with tears. - Rush Limbaugh III

The Magical Mystery Apology Tour

His Lord Highness B. Hussein and his entourage of 500 useless idiots have finished their first Magical Mystery Apology Tour of Europe. He slobbered all over the EU in search of adulation and new worshipers. He found neither. For all the hype, pomp, fawning press and a gift-basketful of mea culpas, what did this multi-million dollar romp around the Continent win us? Well, to start with . . . nothing!

In general, there is nothing wrong with gift-giving in international relations. But it would be nice to see some reciprocity. And a gift-giving mood he was in! Throughout Europe, this temporary occupant of the White House pretty much gave the farm away. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, B. Hussein indicted his own people (that would be us) for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and of insufficient respect for the Muslim world.

And what did he get for this obsessive denigration of his own (that would be our) country? He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan to match the surge of 17,000 Americans. He was rudely rebuffed.

He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe. He got nothing.

From Russia, he got no help on Iran. From China, he got the blocking of any action on North Korea.

And what did he get for Gitmo? France, population 64 million, will take ONE prisoner. One! The Austrians said they would take none. As Interior Minister Maria Fekter explaned with impeccable Germanic logic, if they're (detainees) not dangerous, why not just keep them in America? When Austria is mocking you, you're having a bad week!

Obama has admitted that he does not speak a foreign language, but he certainly learned the word "no" in most European languages plus Russian and Chinese. How is that for the immersion method of learning?

Oh, and by the way; do not believe your lying eyes! B. Hussein did not bow to the King of Suadi Arabia despite the images that the worlds news cameras recorded. The White House corps of idiots issued a statement denying what we all could clearly see. Instead, they contend, Obama was looming over the King projecting an air of authority and power. Good grief! This bunch of amateurs can't even lie convincingly. I guess the White House Protocol Officer could not make the trip; must have been tied up in an IRS audit or some such.

It is strange and sad for a world leader to celebrate his own country's decline. A few more such overseas tours, and Obama and Co. will have a lot more decline to celebrate.

This man is not only inexperienced and naive, he is a clear and present danger to the United States. I hope our country can survive until 2012; or maybe Obama is what the Mayans had in mind 5000 years ago.

"The Bailout" Is Unconstitutional

An expanding majority of Americans are expressing a growing unease with the whole concept of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (herein known as 'The Bailout'). They have good reason to trust their intuition; The Bailout is most likely unconstitutional.

By enacting it, Congress did not, in any meaningful sense, make law. Rather it made hash out of the law making process by making executive branch officials into legislators. Congress, in effect, said to the executive branch: "Here is $700 billion. You say you will use it to buy up banks' 'troubled assets.' But you can use it for something else if you wish -- say subsidizing automobile companies.'

The Washington-based libertarian advocacy organization, Freedom Works, argues that The Bailout violates "the non-delegation doctrine." Although the text of the Constitution does not spell it out, its logic and structure, particularly the separation of powers, implies limits on the size and kind of discretion that Congress may confer on the executive branch.

The Vesting Clause of Article I says, "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in Congress." All. Therefore, none shall be vested elsewhere.

The Supreme Court has said: "That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the president (executive branch) is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution." And the court has said that properly delegated discretion must come with "an intelligible principle" and must "clearly delineate" a policy that limits the discretion. The Bailout flunks that test.

Author of "Liberty and Tyranny", Mark Levin sums it up nicely, "If the Constitution's meaning can be erased or rewritten, and the Framers' intentions ignored, it ceases to be a constitution but is instead a concoction of political expedients that serve the contemporary agendas of the few who are entrusted with public authority to preserve it."

"Chaotic and Unforgiving Capitalism" Is What We Need

Last week President Teleprompter wrote in the Chicago Tribune, “But I also know that we need not choose between a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism and an oppressive government-run economy. That is a false choice that will not serve our people or any people.”

That is funny! I did not know we were being offered a choice. When the president’s teleprompter told B. Hussein to declare war on the business community a couple of weeks ago, the only ‘choice’ he left on the table was an oppressive government-run economy. Just how oppressive is still unknown, but oppressive it will be.

And it does not stop here at home. Treasury Secretary (and part-time tax cheat) Timothy Geithner, America’s own Toxic Asset, has called for “global regulation”. Now there is a term that just rolls off the tongue and warms the cockles of the liberal heart!

Says Toxic Timmy, “We can’t allow institutions to cherry pick among competing regulators and ship risk to where it faces the lowest standards and weakest constraints. .”

In other words, ‘we will not allow businesses (and soon to be individuals) to manage their own affairs and accumulate wealth unless we tell them they can and then tax it all away.’

You will be forced to let economically illiterate, demagogic legislators-for-life like Barfy Frank (d-Mass) make investment and business decisions for you. How do you like that ‘warm-and-fuzzy’ feeling?

President Teleprompter and Toxic Timmy grow daily ever more hostile to the private sector and ever more comfortable with the notion of micro-managed government-approved capitalism – which, of course, is not capitalism at all. Consider this: it takes extraordinary skill to create and manage a billion-dollar company; there are very few very smart people in the world that can do that. Now look at President Teleprompter and Toxic Timmy, the two currently ‘managing’ (or more accurately ‘mangling’) more money than any individuals in human history – TRILLIONS, not billions! Not very comforting when you realize that Toxic Timmy can’t figure out Turbo Tax and President Teleprompter’s only management experience was running an penny-ante shakedown operation in Chicago as a ‘community agitator’.

In their first two months, Obama and Geithner have vaporized your wealth and your children’s and grand-children’s future. What was an economic problem has been hijacked and used to set up the largest political power-grab in our history. As more than one Obama Administration official has stated, ‘never let a good crises go to waste.”

“Chaotic and unforgiving capitalism” is exactly what we need right now. It is the quickest, cheapest, fairest, most-efficient road to economic stabilization and renewal.

America Close to Freaking Out!

The Obama presidency is a sign we have lost, at least temporarily, our national will.

Signs of our collective weakness emerged after 9/11 when only part of the American populace took seriously the fact that we were (are) at war with an evil and focused enemy determined to destroy our way of life. Since then, al Qaeda has refused to quit despite debilitating losses and a US political class unwittingly assisting them here at home.

Too many Americans no longer want to engage our external threats head-on. On the domestic front, we are confronting the economic crisis of our lifetime with the same irresponsible spending spree that got us into this mess to start with. The Plan: Create more government dependency; reward the incompetent; and print more money. (In other words: Double-down on stupidity!)

The ‘Greatest Generation’ (our parents and grand-parents), which learned the valuable and painful lessons from the Depression and World War II, is not here to guide us through these difficult times. We are a trust-fund nation (picture a DebuTart, just name one) whose BMW has run out of gas in the middle of nowhere after a pointless 115 mile per hour joy ride, credit cards maxed and out of cell phone range, who can’t understand why daddy is not there when she pouts. The narcissistic baby boomers are now firmly in charge, and therein lies the problem. Where are the adults?

What is scaring us – even Obamaites, though many won’t admit it – is that we elected a president, American Idol style, who wants more than anything (even more than Bill Clinton) to be liked. And he can’t even get that right (let me count the ways):

1. His headlong rush to persuade foreign governments – even enemy regimes – to embrace us is rebuffed; ie: Iran’s shrug-off of his YouTube appeasement of the mullahs. (Yes, he actually sent a YouTube message to a foreign government!)


2. His unprecedented appearance, as a sitting Commander-in-Chief, on The Tonight Show without his Teleprompter, resulting in an embarrassing slap to Special Olympics and the disabled. When the going gets tough, the weak go on Leno.

3. The cheesy gift from the leader of the free world to the British prime minister of 25 films on DVD from the White House gift shop – that don’t even work on U.K. players!

4. Floating the idea, albeit briefly, to require injured warriors to pay to have private insurers take care of their war related treatment.

5. Allowing the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to dictate the terms of his budget- and Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd, the symbols of incompetence and hubris – to be the spokesmen for his financial bailout.

And there are more examples everyday!

These are not beginner’s mistakes; these are his core incompetencies.

Folks, America is getting very close to officially freaking out!

The Tax Code As A Weapon

The national outrage ginned up by politicians, and their enablers in the media, over the AIG bonuses has been used to create a very dangerous weapon; The Retro-Active Punitive Tax.

The awarding of the bonuses in this economic environment was a bone-headed move by AIG, but perfectly legal, thanks to the Democrat Congress and the B. Hussein administration. Language allowing this type of bonus was inserted in the 'Stimulus' package by Senator Chris Dodd (d) at the behest of someone in the Obama administration. That someone has yet to be determined with any certainty, but it is clear it was not a Republican since all Republicans were completely shut out of the writing of this legislation. This is a wholly owned mess of the Democrat congress and they have no where to run, and as the facts come out, less places to hide. They are in classic circular firing squad mode and provides this observer great entertainment!

Don't be fooled by the displays of congressional outrage and finger-pointing. This is largely an exercise in theatrics because lawmakers missed the boat the first time around. They knew about the bonuses in December, when AIG gave out $55 million in the first round of "retention" bonuses. AIG did not try to had these legal bonuses, they were even disclosed in their required Securities and Exchange Commission filings in September. But for a Congress who does not read their own legislation, why would they read an SEC filing?

The response to the public outrage to these bonuses resulted in hasty action (punative retro-active taxation) by the US Congress that doesn't make any sense. Experience shows that legislation forged in haste amid the swirl of headlines and theatrical hearings tends to produce bad policy, of which this is a perfect example.

Using the tax code as a weapon to exact revenge on a select few, no matter how badly they've behaved, is a horrible, frightening and dangerous idea. Slapping heavy taxes on the bonuses and on the company that issued them may satisfy the initial rage of taxpayers who see incompetent executives being reward for failure, but it sets a bad precedent. The bill aims at sanctioning supposedly bad people by confiscating their earnings. As such, it flies in the face of something the Constitution expressly forbids -- a bill of attainder, which is a punishment of particular individuals imposed not by a court of law but by a legislative body.

If this legislation is allowed to stand, the precedent is set for a vengeful Congress to willy-nilly decide that anything they do not like, be it action, item or idea, can be retro-actively taxed out of existence. For example: Some future wild-eyed, mouth-foaming Congress (it might well be this one) could decide to slap a retro-active tax of 90%-100% or more on all gun owners on the value of the guns. Or how about a retro-tax on all SUV owners in the name of a 'green' warm-and fuzzy feeling? Hopefully, when this monstrosity reaches the US Senate, cooler heads will prevail, but that may be too much to hope for.

There are better ways to channel taxpayers' anger at incompetence and greed. The place to start is the incompetence and greed of the US Congress, members of both parties! This bunch makes corporate America look like a bunch of pikers in the incompetence and greed department. It is time for action, swift and certain, or we will lose the greatest nation on earth. There is a revolution coming and it is necessary. Our current governance is out of balance and must be restored somewhere between socialism and anarchy.

Socialism seems to hold that the State is everything, the Individual nothing - or at best only a cog in a vast machine, an atom in an indistinguishable blur. Anarchy makes the State nothing, and the Individual everything - each a law unto himself, and chaos at the end. Between the two lies the way of wise government. There are certain things which every man must surrender in behalf of the common good, and other things which it would be a sin to abdicate. Therein lies the balance we are missing today. The balance we should seek is a free and representative republic with competent and moral representatives. Something that is in very short supply in Washington today.

The revolution starts with the 2010 mid-term elections!

Lost In the Tall Grass!

President Teleprompter (aka: Barack Hussein Obama) has lost control of his administration, if he ever had control. He is now officially lost in the tall grass!

Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve is dropping trillions of fresh paper dollars on the world economy, the President of the United States is cracking jokes on late-night comedy shows, his energy minister is threatening a trade war over carbon emissions, his treasury secretary is dithering over a banking reform program amid rising concerns over his competence and a monumentally dysfunctional U.S. Congress is launching another public jihad against corporations and bankers.

There are daily disasters and new indicators of political breakdown. The shameful political classes who make U.S. laws are on display for what they are: ageing self-serving demagogues who have spent decades warping the U.S. political system for their own ends. We see the system up close; law-making that is riddled with slapdash, incompetence and gamesmanship.

This is not what the American people voted for and more and more Obama-freaks are beginning to admit it. They are now aware, as many of us were two years ago, that B. Hussein Obama is seriously unqualified for the job of president. He had no practical experience in running anything and, as a result, he has made hash of running the country so far. And it can only get worse.

The sum of his ‘experience’ consisted of ‘community agitating’ and Chicago goon-style politics. Through Sunday mornings listening to the radical Rev. Jeremiah Wright, to the left side of Democrat caucuses in Springfield and Washington, he has been surrounded almost exclusively by extremely liberal people, and moreover, by people just as shallow as he.

He is a product of these environments in which even moderately conservative ideas are never considered. His whole idea of where Middle America might be is well left of where the average American thinks it is. On too many occasions, when away from his teleprompter, he as let slip that “Middle America” is something that must be manipulated, because it is stupid. The proof that it can be manipulated is that he is president today.

B. Hussein as president is not only incompetent, he is dangerous. The video ‘olive branch’ to Iran is the latest catastrophe. B. Hussein does not understand how this ‘olive branch’ will be received, not only by the mullahs in Iran itself, by wherever else on the surface of the planet the United States has enemies. It “reads” – to people who do not share anything like America’s aspirations – as an unambiguous confession of weakness. He has moved the American position towards Iran from offensive to defensive, for no defensible reason.

This directly affects the security of the United States, a president’s overriding responsibility. A responsibility he is willfully abrogating.

Congress Worse Than Useless!

To paraphrase the great American philosopher, Pogo: ‘We have met the enemy and it's the people who represent us.’ The blowhards and buffoons in Congress (America’s only professional criminal class) proved again Wednesday they are worse than useless.

Ronald Reagan's famous line that "government is the problem" kept going through my head as the AIG hearing demonstrated the dangers of Washington's role in the economy. The very people, Republicans and Democrats alike, who can't balance America's budget, now claim the expertise to run banks, insurance companies and automakers. Why do we allow these idiots to vote themselves $175,000 annual salaries, generous pensions and health benefits when the rest of us lose ours due to their incompetence? The US Constitution innumerate so few actual duties of Congress, this job should last two weeks per year.

If we let them continue to ignore the Constitution, we're dumber than they are.

What was supposed to be a legal lynching of AIG boss Edward Liddy over the firm's bonus plan turned into a humiliating defeat for the lynch mob. Liddy came off as a smart straight shooter, a man who gave up retirement for $1 a year to rescue AIG so it wouldn't bring down the financial system.

He also proved himself a cut above those who aimed to make cheap headlines at his expense. I'd pay to see him question Congress on its role in the economic mess. Wouldn’t you just love to see Barney Frank and Chris Dodd sputter and squirm under the klieg-lights and under oath about their incompetence! That would be worth a $165 million (the amount of the AIG bonuses) price of admission.

Most important, he revealed the dirty little secret that much of Washington knew and approved of AIG's promises to pay retention bonuses to members of its financial products unit. That revelation came early in Liddy's testimony and punctured the hot air balloon.

Liddy's matter-of-fact claim directly implicates the Federal Reserve, which he called the "gatekeeper" for the 80% of AIG owned by the taxpayers. He also said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner knew of the bonus plan nearly two weeks before it became public.

And as for you, President Teleprompter:

Much of the government outrage over the bonuses pool of $165 million was, like your feigned, scripted and staged outrage, phony anyway, ginned up for a public now being taught that the private sector is evil and must be punished; textbook socialism. As your Administration has stated on more than one occasion: “Never let a good crises go to waste. The real outrage is that the bonuses represented a fraction of the $180 BILLION of public money pumped into AIG without any real oversight.

Predictably, most of Liddy's tormentors steered clear of that topic, lest they be forced to make a tough call on a complex issue.

Liddy stands guilty of being tone deaf to the public anger on any bonus payouts at a time when people have lost their savings, their homes and their jobs. But as he repeatedly made clear, he came not to defend AIG's past, merely to clean it up.

That puts him head and shoulders above those posturing panderers and pinheads in Washington who follow no star except merciless ambition.

B. Hussein Received AIG 'Bonus' Too

President B. Hussein, back when he was only a lowly money-grubbing Senator in 2008, received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group (AIG). This bonus came in the form of political contributions. The two biggest congressional recipients of AIG bonuses are (then) Senator B. Hussein and Senator Chris Dodd (d). Surprise, surprise!

The AIG Financial products affiliate of AIG gave out $136,928 in political ‘bonuses’, the most of any AIG affiliate, in the 2008 campaign cycle of which B. Hussein received 75%. It is also interesting to note, if only the main-stream-media would, that AIG’s financial products division is the same unit that wrote trillions of dollars’ worth of credit-default swaps and “misjudged” the risk causing, in large part, our financial mess today.

The Washington Post bird-cage liner reports a “mob effect” at AIG financial products division:

“A tidal wave of public outrage over bonus payments swamped American International Group yesterday. Hired guards stood watch outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG Financial Products, the division whose exotic derivatives brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse last year.”

You have no doubt heard all the political huffing & puffing about the “outrageous” bonuses that AIG paid out to its executives due to contractual obligations. These very same contractual obligations were protected by specific language inserted into the $787 Billion 'Economic Stimulus' package by none other than, you guessed it, Senator Chris Dodd (d) and the Democrat controlled Senate Finance Committee.

Perhaps all the anger and rage being exhibited by B. Hussein and Company, in light of the ‘bonuses’ they received are nothing more than crocodile tears. Politicians of all ilks have their taxpayer provided undies all in a wad demanding the AIG executives who received bonuses return the money to the idiots who gave it to them. Now one would wonder if they will hold themselves to the same standard? Will B. Hussein and Chris Dodd give back the money they received from AIG? Waiting for this to happen would be like teaching a pig to sing: It would only waste your time and just irritate the pig!

It is very clear that the motto for the Obama Administration, be it taxes or ‘bonuses’ is:

“Do as I say . . . not as I do!”

A "Manchurian Candidate"?

Kevin Hassett (Bloomberg) in a commentary makes a good point. Makes you wonder!

“Imagine that some hypothetical enemy state spent years preparing a “Manchurian Candidate” to destroy the U.S. economy once elected. What policies might that leader pursue?

He might discourage private capital from entering the financial sector by instructing his Treasury secretary to repeatedly promise a brilliant rescue plan, but never actually have one. Private firms, spooked by the thought of what government might do, would shy away from transactions altogether. If the secretary were smooth and played rope-a-dope long enough, the whole financial sector would be gone before voters could demand action.

Another diabolical idea would be to significantly increase taxes on whatever firms are still standing. That would require subterfuge, since increasing tax rates would be too obvious. Our Manchurian Candidate would have plenty of sophisticated ideas on changing the rules to get more revenue without increasing rates, such as auctioning off “permits.”

These steps would create near-term distress. If our Manchurian Candidate leader really wanted to knock the country down for good, he would have to provide insurance against any long-run recovery.

There are two steps to accomplish that.

Discourage Innovation

First, one way the economy might finally take off is for some entrepreneur to invent an amazing new product that launches something on the scale of the dot-com boom. If you want to destroy an economy, you have to persuade those innovators not even to try.

Second, you need to initiate entitlement programs that are difficult to change once enacted. These programs should transfer assets away from productive areas of the economy as efficiently as possible. Ideally, the government will have no choice but to increase taxes sharply in the future to pay for new entitlements.

A leader who pulled off all that might be able to finish off the country. “

Ummmmm? Food for thought!

Throw the Bum in Jail!

Congressman Barney Frank (Democrat) from Mass., says he wants some of those responsible for our current financial meltdown to be prosecuted. That is probably the only good idea he has ever had. The first one to be prosecuted should be: Representative Barney Frank (D)-Mass.

Even by the low standards of Congress, it takes some chutzpah for someone such as Frank to suggest that he will seek prosecutions for those behind the housing and financial crisis when he, more than any other person, private or public, is to blame.

It was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), that lay behind the crisis.

After regulatory changes made to the Community Reinvestment Act by President Clinton in 1995, Fannie and Freddie went into hyper-drive, channeling literally trillions of dollars into the housing markets, using leverage and implicit taxpayers' guarantees. This continued through the Clinton years with $2.4 trillion in housing aid; the largest expansion ever.

Still, from the early 1990s on, many people both inside and outside Washington were alarmed by what they saw at Fannie and Freddie.

Not Barney Frank: Starting in the early 1990s, he (and other Democrats) blocked any effort by regulators, Congress and the White House to get the runaway housing market under control.

He opposed reform as early as 1992. And, in response to another attempt to bring Fannie-Freddie to heel in 2000, Frank said it wasn't needed because there was "no federal liability there whatsoever." Either he is an idiot or a criminally negligent (probably both).

Even after federal regulators discovered in 2003 that Fannie and Freddie executives (Franklin Raines - friend of Obama) had overstated earnings by as much as $10.6 billion in order to boost bonuses, Frank was still running interference.

President Bush warned of the impending problems and introduced reforms that, if they had passed, the housing crises likely would have never boiled over taking down the economy with it. Instead, led by Frank, Democrats stood as a bloc against any changes.

Why did Frank do all this? Hard to say. Maybe it was his close ties to the Neighborhood Assistance Corp., a powerful housing activist group in Boston. Or that he received some $40,100 in campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie from 1989 to 2008. Or, being the only openly gay Congressman, it was his romance with a one-time executive at Fannie.

Whatever the case, his conflicts are obvious and outrageous, and his repeated blocking of any reform of Fannie and Freddie contributed in large part to today's meltdown. If you are looking for a culprit in the meltdown to prosecute, no one fits the bill better than Frank!

Could All This Be Intentional?

The seeming negligent indifference of the B. Hussein Administration to the catastrophic wealth destruction he has caused since the election should surprise no one. The great masses of the apathetic and/or ignorant have elected a president who has no real business or investment experience. His only notable for-profit venture was selling his book. As a law professor, community organizer, and legislator, he operated in redistributionist worlds where wealth, garnered from contributions or taxes, is received and redistributed. Their philosophy is this: What is theirs is theirs (the government) and what is yours is theirs!

The mentality inherent in "social justice" activism is also revealing. Created by radical leftist, union organizer and Obama mentor, Saul Alinsky, community organizing tends to eschew the hard work of helping individual lives with such boring bourgeois approaches as better education, development of job skills, encouragement of marriage, and the engagement of fathers in their children's lives. Instead, social justice is about co-opting existing institutions and instilling collective grievance and victimhood. Practitioners of "social justice" encourage beliefs as that if the utility bills are too high it's because "the system" is deliberately oppressive, or if there's not more employment of members of the community it's because employers are racist. It is always someone else’s fault.

That's the same mentality that doesn't care "what some derivatives trader" on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange worries about - which was the response of the White House to CNBC's Rick Santelli calling out the unfairness and moral hazard in the Administration's mortgage plain. To the social justice mindset, this is not viewed as fellow American's suffering, but with schadenfreude (gloating at somebody else’s bad luck): traders are part of the system that is to be blamed, and if they suffer, it's due and owing.

There's another Alinsky principle that B. Hussein is following religiously: issues and events are not so much important in and of themselves, but for the way they allow you to grow and strengthen your organization, and advance your agenda.

That is exactly what the Democrat's recent, rushed, massive, partisan, unread, and barely stimulating "stimulus" bill accomplished: they gained more money for their organization, expanded their dependent constituencies, and used the "crisis" to push through proposals that with daylight would have slunk back under the rocks from whence they came.

Continuing that crisis will allow them to do more of the same. It is becoming increasingly clear that B. Hussein and his team of socialists are intentionally destroying the US economy to achieve their goal of a nanny-state society. Yes, the same system that has failed every time it has been tried anywhere in the world.

Here is their method: Make the people feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and accept any solution they are told will work. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

We don't have a credit problem or a liquidity problem - those are only symptoms. We have a severe confidence problem, one which is being exacerbated into a crisis by every move Team Hussein makes.

Those who thought they were electing a savior may soon realize that not only is B. Hussein no messiah for the American economy, but he wouldn't want to be a savior even if he could be. It's time to prepare for a long and ugly ride unless we, the great silent majority, find our collective voices and put and end to this madness!