Watergate Revisited

If Mark Felt were alive today.....

Republican Failure

Really? This is the best you can do on a health care bill? President Trump said he was “disappointed”. I’m not sure the word disappointed was what he really thinking. But what the Senate Republicans showed today was they were the epitome of incompetence – coming out to a microphone and repeating the same old “we need to do this” and “we need to do that” but we got nothing accomplished. We have heard this crap before ladies and gentlemen of the Senate -- now is the time to get your “you know what” together and give the American people a good health care bill. You know what needs to get done – just do it.

CNN Breaking News - The Russians are Coming!!!!

CNN Breaking News….. “Sources” have told CNN that there were additional Russian officials in the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and the Russian Government Lawyer wanting to discuss the Russian adoption issues with the American Government. These two additional Russians, “sources” say, are nefarious people of evil intent to our way of life and again, “sources” say, have colluded with representatives of President Trump. “Sources” report the names of these evil Russians are Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. CNN has very little information on these Russian individuals but wanted the American public to know about this additional collusion Trump officials had with Russia. CNN Breaking News…..Correction. Sorry, after minimal fact checking, it appears Boris Badenov and Natsha Fatale are cartoon characters from a 1960’s TV show called “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show”. Our “sources” could not confirm, however, CNN can only take comfort in that not many of you saw our Fake News report as our Prime Time ratings are now below a network that features 50 year old sitcom reruns about a talking horse. Our apologies to “moose and squirrel” and to Bamboo Harvester, who played Mister Ed.

They Make Money The Old Fashioned Way - They EARN It!

That’s a picture of John Houseman. He was an actor best known for his role in the movie and subsequent TV Show, The Paper Chase as the crotchety old, yet wise, Professor Kingsfield for those of you old enough to remember. But he was also known for his commercial for the investment firm of Smith Barney, where the commercial always ended with “They make money the old fashioned way, They EARN It. That got me to thinking about Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan. Perhaps we could take a cue from Mr. Houseman’s commercial, and change Donald Trump’s campaign slogan to “It’s Time to Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get to Work” -- because that is the ONLY thing that is going to save America – Hard Work. That’s not to say that we don’t have hard working Americans getting up and going out to work each day. But when we are told by the Bernie Saunders and Hillary Clinton’s of the world that our economic suffering is some rich fat cat’s fault and the government needs to confiscate and redistribute their wealth by taxing the rich people – then why work? “When you spread the wealth around it benefits everybody” as our current President has said only works when there IS wealth to spread around. Someone has to roll up their sleeves and EARN the wealth. There has to be an incentive to go out, work hard, and with the knowledge that you have a government that lets you keep the majority of what you earn. Short of that, we can all live in poverty equally.

Disrespecting Hillary

Hillary has now taken direct aim at Donald Trump. It seems she feels he doesn’t respect women. In a recent report from CNN, it states Hillary mocked Donald Trump’s claims that he would be a champion for women's rights, including his oft-repeated vow that he "cherishes" women. Clinton went on to say "If it's all the same to you, Mr. Trump, I would rather you stop cherishing women and start respecting women." Hillary Clinton should know full well what it means to be disrespected by a man. As someone who remembers the 90s, the then first lady, Mrs. Clinton, probably would have wished her husband had cherished her a little more than he did while he was serving in the Oval Office.

Unfit to Lead

There is a creed the American military lives by, which is “No man left behind”. Anyone who doesn’t believe and fully support that creed has no business being in charge of America’s military personnel. Yet, we have someone running for President who thinks it’s just fine to leave four Americans behind to be slaughtered by Al Qaida supported terrorist in Benghazi, even after they were crying out for help from their country. That person, Hillary Clinton denied help to these Americans in trouble as it was not ‘politically’ advantageous to her then boss, Barack Obama who was out on the campaign stump shouting that he had Al Qaida “on the run”. Clinton was more than willing leave Americans hung out to die if helping them meant it might cost her boss a few votes in the Presidential election of 2012. To further demonstrate her contempt for the American military, she supported a made up story that what happened in Benghazi was due to a You Tube video – a fable that was shortly discredited when the facts came out that Clinton and Obama knew the night of the Benghazi attack that is was in fact a planned terror attack. And Hillary Clinton feels she has the credentials to be Commander and Chief of our armed forces? Well, the Old NCO feels differently as she is quite simply, UNFIT TO LEAD.

Can anyone Trump Trump?

Donald Trump is sucking all of the air out of the room. What I mean by that is he continually grabbing headlines and the complete attention of the press corp. And there is a one person that is hugely benefiting from Trump’s ‘shoot from the hip talk’ – and that is Hillary Clinton. As long as Trump is grabbing the headlines, she doesn’t have to worry about questions about Benghazi, destroying emails, white water, and every other scandal in her resume. Instead of criticizing Donald Trump, she should be sending him a thank you letter. Perhaps Mr. Trump would serve his presidential bid better if he turned his sights on Ms. Clinton and her shortcomings to being President.

Income Inequality

Well, another Presidential election is upon us -- and the battle cry from the left this election season will be “income inequality”. The Old NCO has been thinking about what that term means – specifically, what it means when we hear it from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or Bernie Sanders. Income Inequality sounds like such a bad thing. It evokes images of the poor and downtrodden masses struggling to survive while a small group of super rich people enjoy life to the fullest. That’s why it’s an easy sell to the uninformed, mindless droves of liberals. The leadership of the elite left teach their minions that rich people, especially conservative rich people, are evil. They would have you think that these rich people’s idea of fun is to throw rolls of quarters as hard as they can from the balconies of their penthouse apartments at groups of small hungry children in the street below begging for money to buy food. So how would Hillary and company fix income inequality? Well, it’s what Barack Obama stated when he ran for President in 2008 in that he would “spread the wealth around”. It’s better known as redistribution of wealth – that’s where the government uses taxes to take from the rich and give it to the poor. The problem is who decides when there is enough redistribution accomplished to give us enough income equality? Hillary? Bernie? Do you continue to punish those who believe in Capitalism so you can promote the tenants of Socialism until everyone in America has the same income and wealth? For those that think this is a good idea, I hate to be the bearer of this truth – if you want to live in a country where everyone has the same amount of money and wealth, it already exists. Just pack up your stuff and move to North Korea.

On the 7th of May, there was an election in the United Kingdom to elect members to the 56th Parliament. The results would determine if Liberals would take over power from the Conservatives in the U.K. In America, the liberal press was watching. All of the polls indicated that the Liberal party would unset David Cameron’s conservative majority in the House of Commons. I’m sure all of the good socialist at CNN were drooling over the possibility of the Conservatives losing power and the rise of Liberal Democrats as the ruling party as a precursor to our own Presidential election next year. There were high hopes for Hillary and the Democratic party recouping the losses from their failed policies in America. But then the results started coming in. And the Conservatives were victorious. I’m sure you could have heard a pin drop in the liberal press rooms all across America. In fact, you heard very little from America’s liberal press about the election in the U.K. after the Conservatives won.

A Real Hillary Town Hall Meeting

It appears Mrs. Slick Willie has taken a new approach to campaigning for the 2016 Democratic Nomination for President, and that is if your record is so full of lies, deceit, illegal activity, and allowing the murder of Americans on foreign soil, that it’s better to just keep your mouth shut. Hillary’s MO is to fill any town hall meetings with pre-selected attendees with pre-approved “soft-ball” questions. So, I was wondering how a real town hall meeting would go with real people and real questions. The below is how the old NCO thinks it would go….. Question: Mrs. Clinton, how do you explain you left four Americans die at the hands of terrorist in Benghazi when they were pleading for reinforcements? Hillary: Well, as you know, President Obama was running for re-election, and since part of his campaign speech was that “Al Queda is On The Run”, helping to save those Americans didn’t play into our narrative. So we invented the You Tube video story to cover our foreign policy failures. Not sending aid to those four American who were killed by Al Queda, while tragic, you can take comfort they gave their lives in helping to re-elect a Democratic President for four more years and set me up to run for President in 2016. Question: How do you explain breaking federal law and maintaining a personal email server in the basement of your home to send/receive official government communication while you were Secretary of State, and when asked by Congress for the emails, you claim they ‘Got Erased’? Hillary: Well, frankly, those emails contain a whole lot of incriminating evidence. If my correspondence as Secretary of State had been made public, as Federal law requires, it would not only be very embarrassing, but it may even get me indicted and prosecuted for crimes. Question: So, on these two issues alone, how to you expect to elected President? Don’t you think the press will crucify you? Hillary: (Laughter), that won’t be a problem. The press, with the exception of those kooks at Fox News, is on our side and if we need a little pay for play, there’s plenty of money in the Clinton Foundation coffers to line the pockets of the press. While the above exchange between potential voters and Mrs. Clinton will never take place, the Old NCO can still dream.

Liberal Liers

Whenever there is some horrific tragedy, you can count on the looney left to find a way to blame Republicans no matter how false their claims. Liberals subscribe to the theory that if you repeat a lie enough times, their brainless supporters will begin to parrot their lies as the truth. Enter Amtrak Northeast Regional Train No. 188, headed to New York from Washington yesterday carrying 238 passengers. Train 188 derails near Philadelphia, killing seven and injuring over 200 – a tragedy for sure. Reports are the train was travelling over 100 MPH going into a turn where maximum speed was 50 MPH. However, that didn’t stop the liberal liars. Their propaganda started from the Commie from California, Nancy Pelosi, who stated the Amtrak wreck was a result of Republicans not supporting additional funding for Amtrak. We all know the Democrats answer to everything – spend more money on it, But, last I remember, the United States of America is 18 Trillion dollars in debt, but Liberal Democrats capacity to ignore financial reality knows no bounds as long as it advances their Liberal agenda.

The Times, They Are A Changin'

Today, this won’t be some rant against the liberal extremist. I want to talk about something else – and that’s cable TV. I remember when my parents got our first TV. In fact, it was one of the first TVs in the little community I grew up in smack dab in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. It was a heavy metal box with a small black and white screen. For its day and age, it was high tech. Problem was we only got one channel. That was due to the mountains blocking TV signals from the ‘over the air’ antenna we had mounted on the roof of the house. (I needed to explain that should anyone under the age of 40 be reading this). Then the mid-1970s brought us Cable TV. This new technology got mixed reviews. I remember people saying, why would I pay for TV when I can get it for free over my antenna? Well, as we all know, the answer to that question is entertainment content. We only got one station on our metal box, and if the programming you wanted to watch wasn’t on NBC, which was the channel we got, you just didn’t see it. That’s why as a child, I was deprived of such classics as the Beverly Hillbillies and My Mother the Car. But eventually Cable TV matured and grew into the billion dollar industry it is today. Today, we receive more channels than we can ever watch, and consider our cable or satellite service as essential as the electricity or water coming into our homes. We could not imagine life without it. So, compared to getting one channel in the 1960s, I now pay for more content than I can ever watch, and am forced to buy what the cable or satellite sells me in ‘packages’. – Well, that’s all about to change. Even though I’m a baby boomer, and kind of stuck in my ways, I’m astute enough to notice the behavior of generations who came after me, and their attitudes about how and when they want entertainment content. And that attitude is this - I only want what I want to watch and only when I want to watch it. That pretty much describes what the internet provides. From the day that Al Gore invented the internet (I just had to say that) I always believed someday there would be a merger, for lack of a better term, between the TV screen and the PC monitor. I believe that day is soon upon us. This was reinforced to me last night when I totally turned off my DirecTV receiver and used the Smart TV option on my Samsung TV and watched ‘over the internet’ programming all evening. Now, I’m not running out and dumping DirecTV, because it does deliver content I can’t currently get through any other means – and that involves a certain NFL football team that is 1500 miles away from where I live – but that’s another story. However, for the average TV viewer, the day is very near where we will receive our entertainment content via the internet and the will be “Unhooking” from our current entertainment content companies such as Time Warner, Comcast, and DirecTV. These companies will be replaced by internet only entertainment content companies such as NetFlix, Hulu, Amazon and Crackle. The only thing holding back the entertainment content internet industry is bandwidth. You can only shove so many ones and zeros through the pipe at one time, but once that issue is resolved, through new technology or infrastructure, your days of flipping through 1000 channels of crap you never watch to find the one program you want to watch will be over. God I love technology.

Timing is Everything

Without doubt taking instruction from the White House, the steaming sack of California Crap, Diane Feinstein, released a Democrat Intelligence (there’s a contradiction in terms) Report about the horrific atrocities committed by the evil Dick Cheney and George W. Bush after the 9-11 attacks against terrorists held at GITMO to obtain information that has helped keep American safe. What no one really noticed is that there isn’t one Democrat that really gives a shit about what was done to detainees at GITMO. This heavily biased report was released yesterday for the sole purpose to over shadow Doctor Johnathan “Goober” Gruber’s testimony before a House Oversight Committee who grilled the idiot architect of Obamacare on his admitted tactics of non-transparency and the stupidity of the American public to get the failed socialist health care plan passed into law. Sadly, the Democrat’s strategy worked. All major news networks’ lead story yesterday was about the Democrat Intelligence Report on torturing terrorist instead of the House Oversight Committees grilling of Gruber - sparing the White House further embarrassment. As usual, Democrats continue to follow the Obama Doctrine of Politics First, America Second -- no matter what the cost. After all, what are a few more dead Americans? To use the words of Hillary Clinton, “what difference does it make?”

Obamaware!

Tired of those pesky Congressional subpoenas? Demands for your company emails? Requests for official correspondence? And most of all, having to lie on behalf of your President to the American public? Or worse yet, having to take the 5th when on the witness chair because you are guilty as hell? Well, now there’s an easy solution – it’s Obamaware. Obamaware is the #1 solution for busy liberal political appointees in high paying government positions who need to lie for Presidential directed programs targeting Mr. Obama’s political enemies. Once you launch Obamaware on your computer, it destroys all of your incriminating emails and launches a fatal crash of your system’s hard drive. So if you want to remain on the job, committing crimes on behalf of your President, Obamaware is for YOU! Obamaware, just $49.95 a year for three computers – make your checks out to “The Democratic National Committee” today!

Hard Choices

Obviously, Bill wasn't one of them. -- Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Failure

Only Barack Obama could pull it off. After campaigning that his administration would be the most honest, most uplifting, and most transparent in the history of America, he has brought us the economic malaise of Jimmy Carter and the contempt and criminality of Richard Nixon. At a time when the rest of the world needs the shining light of American strength, his policies and failure of leadership has left America with little credibility to influence world events. So, Iraq falls into turmoil and chaos while Alexander Putin res-erects the old Soviet Union.

The Black List

I read an article in Newsweek recently about how the Obama administration is waging financial war against certain Russian citizens to place pressure on Vladimir Putin to remove his troops from the Ukrainian border after his incursion into Crimea. What the Obama administration did was to create a financial Black List of Russian citizens -- the financial movers and shakers in the Russian economy. Being on the Black List means you can no longer conduct business using US Dollars, which is required in nearly 90 percent of foreign exchange transactions. Simply put, when foreign country ‘A’, wants to buy something from foreign country ‘B’, the common currency used between the two countries is the US Dollar – this is because the US Dollar is currently the world’s standard currency in which the value of all other countries currency is determined. Country ‘A’ converts their currency to dollars, and sends that cash to Country ‘B’ where they convert the dollars to their currency. The US Dollar has been the world standard since World War II as we were the only financial power house left at the end of the war, which is why the US Dollar is universally accepted anywhere on the globe. So in effect, being on the black list ties your hands in doing any financial transitions in a global economy. This is also why the US government, when they need more cash, just cranks up the printing presses knowing the dollars they print will be accepted worldwide. So here’s the danger in all of this. The US is no longer the only financial powerhouse in today’s global economy – and Mr. Putin is not a stupid man -- so what happens if he, and his black listed comrades, make agreements with say, China, and begin foreign transactions using the Chinese Yuan as the common currency for Russia’s foreign financial transactions? If other countries were to perceive the American economy as weak, like say we are 17 Trillion dollars in debt, they could easily follow Russia’s lead. If that happened, the US Dollar could lose its position as the world’s standard currency, and the dollars freshly printed at the US mints would be worth only what the new world’s standard currency determined. In the US, interest rates would shoot up overnight and inflation would take off like a rocket. It would make the 1970s look like a walk in the park. I don’t mean to doom and gloom here, but the Obama Administration needs to know they are playing with fire with this Black List. Putin’s no dummy, and for every action we take against him, there will be an equal and opposite action by Putin. Pushing Russians on the black list to find alternate means to conduct foreign exchange transactions could easily backfire in America’s financial face.

The Welfare President

Today, the Congressional Budget Office reported Obamacare will decrease the number of people seeking full time work by over two million. The reason is that it will be more beneficial to take part time work and receive subsidy dollars through Obamacare than work full time so you can purchase health care through your employer. Seriously, why work full time when the Welfare President will subsidize your health care cost? As I’ve stated before, Obamacare is not about health care, it’s about socialism. That’s farfetched you say? 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan warned American about socialized medicine. Check out what he had to say – it’s worth a listen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnLa1BvtaxM. Quite simply, Obamacare encourages people to go on government welfare and discourages Capitalism by punishing those who would seek full time work by taxing them to death. In Obama’s own words, it’s just his way to “Spread the wealth around”.

This is CNN, the Clinton Nomination Network

Ever since the news story broke about Governor Chris Christi’s staff closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee NJ, CNN has been dancing in the streets. Wolf Blitzer reported the story with his signature “End of the World” hysteria – stating that this was probably the end of the New Jersey’s Governor’s aspirations of running for President in 2016. And CNN has poured hours and hours of investigate efforts into “finding the truth” about what they immediately dubbed “Bridegate” They have kept this story on the front burner in an effort to disgrace Christi and wound him politically so he won’t be a serious challenger to their chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton. I wish CNN had put one tenth of the effort into finding out how Secretary of State Clinton left four Americans to die in the sands of Benghazi, while ignoring their cries for help. But then, the closing of a few traffic lanes is far more disastrous and CNN news worthy than the murder of Americans by terrorist if it serves your political agenda of slandering the Republican front runner for 2016. So it’s no surprise that today, CNN reported Chris Christi is trailing Secretary Clinton in their poll for the next Presidential election – just what they have been working towards.

FORE ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

As our President hit the campaign trail immediately after delivering his meaningless State of the Union address, it got me to thinking about the remaining time he will reside in the White House. I’ve determined the very best thing Barack Obama could do for the country is to hit the golf course – and stay on the golf course. As the President who has spent more time playing golf than any other President, this shouldn’t be a problem. At least this will keep Barack Obama from doing any further damage to the country. So the next time you hear someone on a golf course yelling the word “Fore”, hope he has an entourage of Secret Service men in tow.