ThoughtRogue:  Folks, take a look at the unbelievably sobering graphs below (courtesy of The Wall Street Journal).  Note the following: (1) Obama’s deficit is larger than Bush’s largest by a factor of FOUR – and the Usurper still attempts to shift the blame to others, especially Bush. (2) For the first time EVER, the federal deficit exceeds $1,000,000,000,000.00 (that’s 1 $Trillion in overspending) – and the fiscal year is far from complete. (3) The federal “revenues” have significantly SHRUNK in comparison to last year’s – that’s because business profits are disappearing along with tens of millions of tax-paying jobs. (4) The insatiable federal spending, bars on the right, are displayed on the same scale – and include all the bailout schemes to date.

WARNING:  These audacious, skyrocketing federal deficits do not yet include: (1) The “Cap and Trade” massive tax scheme (largest in American history if it passes the Senate). (2) The Socialized Medicine extravaganza – destroying our superior private health care system, in favor of the rationed ObamaCare “Universal” health care scheme. (3) “Immigration Reform” – aka The Mother of all Amnesty schemes.  And now, Congress is even contemplating another colossal “stimulus” pork-laden spending scheme.

Also, likely to compound this Obama Nirvana, (1) another stock market crash in the next few months. (2) a crisis in commercial real estate. (3) a continually collapsing value of our Dollar, and (4) a debilitating rate of inflation when our economy finally does become able to recover.

Ah, the wonders of Hopenchange!!  Perhaps we should have elected someone who is actually Constitutionally eligible (not to mention competent) for POTUS instead?

Economic Nirvana

“Never before have so few stolen so much from so many for so little.”  -Jefferson Paine

Exclusive to NoCompromiseMedia by Jefferson Paine

Open Letter to:

Mr. David Reichert

Republican Representative

Washington State Delegation

June 30^th, 2009

 

Dear Mr. Reichert,

Please, resign your seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because of your “Yes” vote in favor of the abominable “Cap and Trade” or “Climate Change” bill – and without having even read the final bill in its entirety before voting on it.  Your egregious voting record does not represent me, or of any Republican that I know.

 

Since your debut in Congress, I have been watching your sorry voting rating, from the American Conservative Union (ACU), steadily decline from a score of 64 (out of 100) in 2005, to a low, thus far, of 48 in 2007 – you have voted consistently with the fringe Left of the Republican party in the House – even more so the last two years under Speaker Pelosi.  Sir, you are a RINO’s RINO if there ever was one.

 

I knew something was drastically broken with your moral compass when, right out of the gate in 2005, on that Palm Sunday, when you voted against allowing a federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo state murder, where you helped deny her loving family from merely giving their daughter some comforting water, while she was slowly, and painfully starved to death.  Her cruel death at the hands of the State, would never, ever have been allowed to take place in such a manner if ending the life of the most monstrous inmate on death row.  Please, resign your seat, now.

 

Which segues us to your buddy, Gary Ridgeway – one of the most prolific serial killers of all time – who you have ridden to fame and power by single-handedly “apprehending” him!  How’s Mr. Ridgeway faring these days – continuing to fantasize until he dies of old age about his 50, 60, 70(?) horrific strangulations of beautiful, innocent girls?  Oh, and the necrophilia!  In your coming retirement, perhaps Gary can join you, on furloughs you have arranged, to mind the gift shop part-time at your Green River Killer Catcher museum?  Or, rather, how about giving Gary a little of the treatment you gave Terri?

 

I’ve observed your many, many votes in favor of prolific federal spending, especially for out-of-control social programs galore, your votes against curbs on pork and spending limits, your votes to continue a moratorium on domestic oil and gas drilling and exploration, in favor of Orwellian “hate-crime” laws, skyrocketing the federal minimum wage, expanding the laws for union bosses to continue their thuggery in the labor markets, and expansion of embryonic stem cell research.  Which planks of the Republican Platform do you actually believe in besides supporting our military personnel?  You even voted on a gigantic pork-filled bailout bill recently which you didn’t even read!  Please, resign, now.

 

On the eve of voting on the ridiculous “Cap and Trade” monster energy-tax bill, based on the most dubious “science” ever, I called your office in Washington, D.C.  I asked the girl who answered what your position was on the bill.  She said that you didn’t have one.  Really?  Just a few hours before the big vote?  I didn’t ask her how your were going to vote – just what your current position was.  I then asked her if you took an Oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution when you assumed your office.  She said she didn’t really know.  I asked if you, or she, knew anything about our Constitution, such as what the Amendment X actually means.  Again, she really couldn’t tell me anything.  Question:  Does your call answerer play with her Silky Pony and Barbie dolls when she’s not answering calls for you in the Big Office?  Funny, but I’m willing to bet anything, based on all of my observations, that you and she probably have the same depth of understanding of our Constitution – which now lies in tatters – precisely because power-hungry clowns such as yourself continue to violate it daily.

 

Case in point: You don’t even read the legislation in its final form, in its entirety before voting on it – such as was the case again with the “Cap and Trade” bill.  We can prove this in this case because at least three hundred pages of revisions were submitted at 3:00am last Friday morning, mere hours before the vote.  Making the final copy of the bill well over 1,200 pages – it was a physical impossibility for ANYONE in the House to have read a final copy of the bill, in its entirety, before voting on it.  And I watched the circus unfold on C-SPAN, and what I witnessed was not due process and proper deliberation – but an abomination.  But you, Sir, voted “Yes” on it anyway – screw the American People and the Citizens of the 8^th District of Washington and their ‘representation’ in Congress.

 

Mr. Reichert, resign your seat in Congress.  You now epitomize what is wrong with our system and why it is broken.  To paraphrase an American hero, Ronald Reagan, “You, Sir, are not a part of the solution – you are the problem.”  I am told I am to refer to you as “The Honorable” congressman, but your actions do not warrant it.  I will, continue to use ‘Sir’, as I would like to express just enough respect to encourage you to resign honorably.

 

Better yet, assuming you and your ilk want desperately to retain your power and perks, please consider defecting to the Demonrat party.  I’d be willing to bet they’d make a very cushy position for you in a heartbeat.  Turn in your tarnished star, empty holster, and empty suit to your nearest Republican office, and start walking toward enemy lines to be welcomed.  You are no longer welcome here.  We’ve had enough of you.  GO!!

 

Sincerely,

-Jefferson Paine, Constituent, 8^th-District, WA

Savvy conservatives win, fumbling moderates get clobbered.

By Thomas Sowell, National Review

Sagacious Sowell

A Gallup poll last week showed that far more Americans describe themselves as conservatives than as liberals. Yet Republicans have been clobbered by the Democrats in both the 2006 elections and the 2008 elections.

In a country with more conservatives than liberals, it is puzzling – in fact, amazing – that we have the furthest left president of the United States in history, as well as the furthest left speaker of the House of Representatives.

Republicans, especially, need to think about what this means. If you lose when the other guy has all the high cards, there is not much you can do about it. But when you have the high cards and still keep taking a beating, then you need to rethink how you are playing the game.

The current intramural fighting among Republicans does not necessarily mean any fundamental rethinking of their policies or tactics. These tussles among different segments of the Republican party may be nothing more than a longstanding jockeying for position between the liberal and conservative wings of the party.

The stakes in all this are far higher than which element becomes dominant in which party or which party wins more elections. Both the domestic- and foreign-policy direction of the current administration in Washington are leading this country into dangerous waters, from which we may or may not be able to return.

A quadrupling of the national debt in just one year and accepting a nuclear-armed sponsor of international terrorism such as Iran are not things from which any country is guaranteed to recover.

Just two nuclear bombs were enough to get Japan to surrender in World War II. It is hard to believe that it would take much more than that for the United States of America to surrender – especially with people in control of both the White House and the Congress who were for turning tail and running in Iraq just a couple of years ago.

Perhaps people who are busy gushing over the Obama cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under sharia law.

The glib pieties in Barack Obama’s televised sermonettes will not stop Iran from becoming a nuclear terrorist nation. Time is running out fast and we will be lucky if it doesn’t happen during the first term of this president. If he gets elected to a second term – which is quite possible, despite whatever economic disasters he leads us into – our fate as a nation may be sealed.

Unfortunately, the only political party with any chance of displacing the current leadership in Washington is the Republican party. That is why their internal squabbles are important for the rest of us who are not Republicans.

The “smart money” says that the way for the Republicans to win elections is to appeal to a wider range of voters – including minorities – by abandoning the kinds of positions Ronald Reagan held and supporting more of the kinds of positions that Democrats use to get elected. This sounds good on the surface, which is as far as many people go when it comes to politics.

A corollary to this is that Republicans have to come up with alternatives to the Democrats’ many “solutions,” rather than simply be naysayers.

However plausible all this may seem, it goes directly counter to what has actually happened in politics in this generation. For example, Democrats studiously avoided presenting alternatives to what the Republican-controlled Congress and the Bush administration were doing, and just lambasted them at every turn. That is how the Democrats replaced Republicans at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ronald Reagan won two elections in a landslide by being Ronald Reagan – and, most important of all – by explaining to a broad electorate how what he advocated would be best for them and for the country. Newt Gingrich likewise led a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives by explaining how the Republican agenda would benefit a wide range of people.

Neither of them won by pretending to be Democrats. It was precisely the Republican “moderates,” Bob Dole and John McCain, who lost disastrously to Democrats who had been scarcely known at first but who knew how to talk.

TR:  I tried to warn you that tax-cheat Geithner was milking the money machines 24/7…. just wait until they start buying up our own Treasury Bills with this phony money (not backed by any production of real wealth).  Can anyone say ‘Weimar Republic’?

Forget about Carbon.. Now, There's a Hockeystick!

ThoughtRogue:  Hey, the Penny Guy’s back, and he’s got another brilliant economic illustration that even a Leftist might be able to understand…

Welcome – Take a Number!  [and perhaps we'll get to your vehicle sometime this month..]  Break Time!

TR:  Have the Sheeple been so sodomized by the ravaging Porkulus Demoncatus that they are going to fall for this?  Folks, they’re now ’strapping-on’ boosters which are rocketing us straight into Socialism.  Are we so dumb as to let Big Daddy and Frank’n'Beans Barney exercise some despotic authority to take over any company, set its salaries, and run it straight into the ground, IF they accept $1 in aid or subsidy from this beast?  Really?  Please, THINK ABOUT THIS PHONY OUTRAGE BIG DADDY HAS SUCKED YOU INTO – and the power you are about to relinquish to never be seen again!!  From what part, exactly, of the U.S. Constitution is this power-grab authorized?  That’s right - from nowhere!   Prepare to bend over for Big Daddy..

By Byron York   <<  Attention  JimmysnutZ!  A byline!  

Behold, Happiness.

It was nearly two weeks ago that the House of Representatives, acting in a near-frenzy after the disclosure of bonuses paid to executives of AIG, passed a bill that would impose a 90 percent retroactive tax on those bonuses. Despite the overwhelming 328-93 vote, support for the measure began to collapse almost immediately. Within days, the Obama White House backed away from it, as did the Senate Democratic leadership. The bill stalled, and the populist storm that spawned it seemed to pass.

But now, in a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.

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By John Stossel, ABC

C’mon, just this little mint – it’s wafer-thin… (pronounced:  waffah-theen)

You’d better get a bucket..