Our Teleprompter President and his Cambridge-Gate

Our President is a very good public speaker -- as long as he is reading from a teleprompter. When is goes ‘off script’, he all to often gets in trouble. Such is the case when he was asked during a recent Presidential Address on Health Care about the incident between the Cambridge MA police and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. The President said he wasn’t there, but then stated the police had acted ‘stupidly’. Well, it was pretty obvious that was not a smart thing to say for any President. Now what’s interesting here is how the President tried to handle this screw up. And don’t think for a minute it wasn’t a blunder -- you can bet his aids were all crapping their drawers the second he answered the reporters question and uttered the word ‘stupidly‘ in reference to the police. All of the President’s underlings immediately knew he had just pissed off every cop in America. So instead of just stating he regretted what he said and say he in no way wanted to insult law enforcement personnel, we get some half assed statement in which the President stated “I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department and Sgt. Crowley specifically.” Gee, what other ‘impression’ would Sgt. Crowley or the Cambridge Police Department get when they are told by the President of the United States that they acted “Stupidly”? And now, we hear this should be used as some kind of “teaching moment”. I suggest our President should be the first to learn something from this incident. President Obama is rightfully concerted that his inappropriate comment has distracted the American public from his crusade to cram socialized medicine down out throats. This story lingering in the news further diminishes his hopes of getting his welfare healthcare quickly passed through Congress. He could have easily defused this situation by retracting his ’stupidly’ statement saying he regretted what he said and that it was inappropriate for him to comment on a situation in which he did not have all of the facts. If he had, the story would only have had a 24 hour news life -- and the President would have been back on the heathcare crusade,,, but…. It appears that the liberal arrogance of our President would not allow him to do so. On the up side, Cambridge-Gate may have saved us from a very bad piece of health care legislation. So let me be the first to thank both Sgt Crowley and especially Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a job well done.

The Same Old Song and Dance……

Well, our President was on national television tonight preaching the virtues of “his” health care plan. Instead of telling us why we need reform, and what the specifics are of his plan, he relied on the old liberal strategy of blaming Bush and blaming Republicans - you know, those evil rich people. And you know who these evil people are, small business owners, corporations, entrepreneurs -- the ones that believe in Capitalism and provide the majority of the jobs in our country. Those evil rich are afraid they may soon be paying 50 to 60 percent of their incomes to the government to fund Socialized medicine. They will cut jobs, cut benefits, and tighten their belts to pay for the additional tax burden.
But the President’s problem isn’t Republicans, it’s with the members of his own party. The blue dog democrats smell a stinker and it’s called Obama Welfare Healthcare. They understand if they get behind Obama’s health plan, then they will be held accountable by voters when this reform cost too much, increases the tax burden on all of us and reduces the quality of healthcare in our country. Now I’m not saying the Old NCO is against health care for all Americans, what I’m saying is I’m not in favor of the socialist in the administration rushing another pork ridden, bad piece of legislation down my throat.

Reaganomics, Liberal Style

We once heard about “Trickle Down Economics”. The theory advanced by Presidents Reagan and Bush was if American businesses did well by selling more products and services, they would need more employees -- creating more jobs which in turn would expand and grow our economy. Conservatives did this by cutting tax rates and passing business friendly legislation. TDE simply stated was if those at the top of the economic ladder did well, it would benefit everyone by passing the increased wealth down the economic ladder. And for all of its critics, trickle down economics worked.
But our new President has a different theory. I refer to it as “Trickle Up Poverty”. As he explained to Joe the Plumber, you simply “spread the wealth around” which is to benefit everyone. I guess it’s an OK idea, until you run out of wealth - which you eventually will from punishing the very people who create it by raising taxes and passing legislation unfavorable to business. Trickle Up Poverty is where you keep taking wealth away from those that earn it and give it to those that didn’t. And over time, those that create the wealth and jobs will layoff employees, close their doors, or move to more business friendly countries and leave the United States for greener economic pastures. In the end, overall wealth in our country will decrease until there isn’t much wealth left to “spread around”. That leaves us all on a march towards a collective level of poverty -- and perhaps that's the goal.

“One nation under Obama, indivisible, with health care and poverty for all."

We obviously need health care reform, according to our socialist administration. Never mind that a recent Rasmussen Report says 70% of Americans with health insurance rate their heath care good or excellent while 62% of Americans without health insurance rate the health care they have received as good or excellent. But we have a health care “crisis” in this country - at least that’s what the administration and his comrades in the liberal press have been selling us.
So why does the liberal run Congress feel the need to cram government run, socialized health care down our throats and place us an additional $1.2 trillion dollars in debt? Simple answer: More government control over our lives, higher taxes, and a reduction of our freedoms.

The Tax Man Cometh….

“Eat the Rich” is now the battle cry of the spend, spend, spend, liberals. A leader in this rush to kill any economic recovery is Congressman (D) Charles Rangel. Using one of the standards of the Democratic Party, which is sell a tax increase by advertising it as a tax only on the rich, they usually can fool the middle class that they won’t be effected. His plan is to tax only those people who make more than $250,000 a year. Now, to the Old NCO, that’s a bucket full of money. But, America wasn’t built by people working hard to become poor.
Charlie’s plan has worked in the past, but the average Joe is more informed today than before and most have wised up to the liberal’s fraud. Fact is, raising taxes on any American, taxes us all. Only a flaming idiot thinks that “the rich” won’t pass on any tax burden by raising the price on products their companies produce, laying off employees, or closing the doors of their businesses all together.
Bottom line - raising taxes in the middle of an economic downturn only makes the economy worse. It’s a dumb idea. It didn’t work for Jimmy Carter, and it won’t work for Obama.

And Now You Own It

Congratulations to Al Franken, the newly sworn in junior Senator from Minnesota. Democrats have now reached the magic number of 60 - a super majority for the Democrats in the Senate. This eliminates the possibility of Conservatives using a tried and true liberal process of filibustering the opposition party’s legislation or nominees. The Democrats can cram down our throats all the socialist legislation or leftist nominees they want unfettered by any opposition voices -- and of course, they won’t hear anything but cheers from the liberal press.
But here’s the thing -- be careful what you ask for. By finally getting their much sought after super majority, the Democrats own whatever happens. So far, they have practically bankrupted the country, nationalized businesses, and increased the national debt more than all the previous administrations before them - combined. Foreign countries hold over 50% of our debt, and now they are looking at moving away from the dollar as their monetary standard. Interest rates are starting to creep upward - all pointing to signs of runaway inflation.
So what’s the Administrations answer - blame Bush. Vice President Biden’s recent statement that he and President Obama “underestimated” how bad the economy was that they inherited demonstrates they are returning to the only thing that liberals have ever done well - and that’s blame President Bush for everything.
How sad - these elected officials are to be our leaders - and all they do is blame others for their mistakes.

Robert McNamara dead at 93

Most will not even take notice of the passing of Robert McNamara. But I will. As a young kid, I heard his name almost nightly on the TV news in the 1960s in regards to reports on the war in Vietnam. Serving as Secretary of Defense for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Robert McNamara had his critics, and his name and life has forever been connected to his directing of the war in Vietnam, back then, an advocate of the war, but later in life stating the war was a mistake.
For what you may think of Robert McNamara, he was a patriot. He had the courage of his convictions. He acted on what he believed regardless of politics and popular sentiment.
You hear these are trying times today, but nothing what this SecDef faced during his time in Washington. One can look at the news reports of the protests in Teheran and draw a comparison to riots in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic Convention - and today, some get all excited due to conservatives having “tea parties” -- how times have changed.
In 2003, the documentary “The Fog of War” detailed the 11 lessons Robert McNamara learned during his life - simple lessons that can have massive implications. I felt it was his final contribution to America, and in a way he was saying goodbye. Rest in Peace Bob.

The Continued War on Conservatives

It seems liberals aren’t satisfied with winning the election, taking complete control of Congress, and turning America into a Socialist country - it’s obvious they feel the need to kill all opposing voices who they perceive a threat to their liberal doctrine. Take the case of Sarah Palin. No person in the history of American politics has ever been the assaulted by such vicious, hateful, unrelenting attacks as Governor Palin. With her announcement today, the Democratic National Committee did not pass up the opportunity to stick one more knife in Gov. Palin, by saying her decision to step down as Governor and not seek re-election “continues a pattern of bizarre behavior”. This on the heals of David Letterman’s over the top personal attacks on her family. The fact is that nothing is out of bounds for liberals when attacking conservatives - for example the thousands of jokes about Ronald Reagan when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease -- for liberals to make fun of anyone with this horrible affliction - how classy.