I find is amusing, all this political stuff happening across the nation. Nothing soothes the American palate most watching career politicians scurrying throughout their districts in need of support, and being told that it's time to give up the seat.
Millions of Americans, 17M estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are unemployed, and because Congress has yet to energize the economy with a cogent plan that does not stifle economic prosperity, millions of voters are finally having a say in the coming election. They are planning a massive routing of Congress, and for the second time in five years, both Houses stand a chance of switching party control.
Americans are visibly angry and rightly so. We are going on three years with stagnant economic growth, businesses afraid to lend or invest and hire, and an end to the Bush tax cuts at the end of the year.
Meanwhile, President Obama flirted with the idea of a $50B stimulus to help build up infrastructure and green technology. That plan was sunk by Congress days later, because Americans do not want more government spending which will saddle future generations with a higher debt for the failure of today's leaders not being able to control spending and debt.
Today, as he has done in the past, President Obama has taken the GOP to task. It is an effort that is rather too little, too late given the president and his party's ignoring calls from the GOP to early last year to come to the table to craft pertinent legislation.
Fact is, Obama can call out the GOP all he wants, but voters have grown weary of such attacks. It will not work. It is too late for Obama and the congressional Democrats to stem the tide against them.
When Obama decries Bush's tax cuts and refuses to support extending it unless the cuts to the rich are taken out, and then you read about a number of Democrats supporting full extension of Bush's tax cuts, what does both messages say to the American people?
How can a president blame the economic mess on Bush's tax policies, and then you see Democrats running in support of that very same Bush policy?
Look, neither President Obama nor the congressional Democrats know or have a cogent plan to help the economy. The president's economic advisors are not men and women who come from the business sector. They are professors who understand economic theory ensconced in their academic bubble, but know absolutely nothing about actual business practices.
The United States is on the verge of a political revolution like that which hasn't been seen since 2006 and 1994. Americans want real, positive political and economic changes that betters the standard of life for all. Americans are sick and tired of class warfare, high taxation, federal mandates, government spending and meddling, and an end to immigration abuses. Americans want a return to Constitutional government, and if it takes political turmoil at every election, then by far they are going to wreak havoc until the right leaders are elected to implement the necessary changes that's called for.
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Coming Political Showdown
If 2009 was a good year for President Barack Hussein Obama, 2010 will certainly be a year he will wish he could run away from as quickly as possible.
Yes, the latter half of last year proved to be a little bit bumpy, especially with the Tea Party movement gaining ground over issues on healthcare and the national debt. The elections of two Republican governors in November abruptly ended his third honeymoon, a feat never given to other presidents in their first year.
However, 2010 will be a political revolutionary year for both parties, and here's why. For one, the Democrats are scared as hell of losing power once again. And, it looks like the main reason is Obama, according to the pundits.
But, blaming Obama for all the Democrats' political troubles is merely a scapegoat. Congressional Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for supporting the leadership running that entire body.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a miserable failure who acts like Mussolini while her counterpart in the senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) looks like a bumbling fool who's been hit about the head a number of times. Neither inspires confide, but they retain their power because nobody in their caucus are willing to stand up against them for fear of retribution through loss of appropriations and committee chairs.
Democrats, however fearful of their leadership, are increasingly concerned of the coming mid-term election because, as history shows, the party that run the White House normally loses control of one or both bodies in Congress. Remember the election of 1994 and 2006?
Last week's testimony before the House Oversight & Government Reform committee, Treasury secretary Tim Geithner faced a tongue-lashing not only by the GOP but by the Democrats regarding his role in the bailout of AIG and others.
Democrats are also becoming more interested with homeland security issues to appear tough on the security front. But, will all this be enough to avert what is projected to be a significant loss in both chambers come November 2nd?
It's quite clear congressional Democrats, like congressional GOPers under Bush, are distancing themselves from President Obama. However, perhaps Democrats ought to distance themselves from Pelosi and Reid, too. Talk about two divisive personalities who are willing to skirt the House and Senate rules to pass healthcare legislation with a bare partisan majority vote rather than a super majority vote.
Said Pelosi with respect to healthcare legislaiton on January 28, 2010: "You go through the gate. If it's closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people."
It's such language flying in the face of massive popular uproar that is hurting the Democrats more so than Obama's anti-business rhetoric. The view that the government knows better than the people is a foreign concept liberals have been trying to plant into the American mindset.
So, expect 2010 to be a very turbulent year in politics. As for the GOP, well, there are a few RINOs who could use a pink slip. McCain certainly comes to mind.
Yes, the latter half of last year proved to be a little bit bumpy, especially with the Tea Party movement gaining ground over issues on healthcare and the national debt. The elections of two Republican governors in November abruptly ended his third honeymoon, a feat never given to other presidents in their first year.
However, 2010 will be a political revolutionary year for both parties, and here's why. For one, the Democrats are scared as hell of losing power once again. And, it looks like the main reason is Obama, according to the pundits.
But, blaming Obama for all the Democrats' political troubles is merely a scapegoat. Congressional Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for supporting the leadership running that entire body.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a miserable failure who acts like Mussolini while her counterpart in the senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) looks like a bumbling fool who's been hit about the head a number of times. Neither inspires confide, but they retain their power because nobody in their caucus are willing to stand up against them for fear of retribution through loss of appropriations and committee chairs.
Democrats, however fearful of their leadership, are increasingly concerned of the coming mid-term election because, as history shows, the party that run the White House normally loses control of one or both bodies in Congress. Remember the election of 1994 and 2006?
Last week's testimony before the House Oversight & Government Reform committee, Treasury secretary Tim Geithner faced a tongue-lashing not only by the GOP but by the Democrats regarding his role in the bailout of AIG and others.
Democrats are also becoming more interested with homeland security issues to appear tough on the security front. But, will all this be enough to avert what is projected to be a significant loss in both chambers come November 2nd?
It's quite clear congressional Democrats, like congressional GOPers under Bush, are distancing themselves from President Obama. However, perhaps Democrats ought to distance themselves from Pelosi and Reid, too. Talk about two divisive personalities who are willing to skirt the House and Senate rules to pass healthcare legislation with a bare partisan majority vote rather than a super majority vote.
Said Pelosi with respect to healthcare legislaiton on January 28, 2010: "You go through the gate. If it's closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people."
It's such language flying in the face of massive popular uproar that is hurting the Democrats more so than Obama's anti-business rhetoric. The view that the government knows better than the people is a foreign concept liberals have been trying to plant into the American mindset.
So, expect 2010 to be a very turbulent year in politics. As for the GOP, well, there are a few RINOs who could use a pink slip. McCain certainly comes to mind.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Where's the anger over the Haiti aid lateness?
The differences five years and two administrations make in regards to the reaction of the US media, elected officials and political activists over New Orleans and Haiti is undeniable. It speaks volume about the tactics that were played out in late summer 2005 and what we are seeing today.
For all the abuse President George W. Bush took over his handling of the federal response in the wake of Katrina, the untold number of deaths as a result of the flooding, the rumors that it was all a government conspiracy to weed out the black residents from the ninth ward, and FEMA's late response, all contributed to the sagging of Bush's approval numbers.
This, despite the fact that the federal government is not the first responder of sorts in any natural emergency or disaster, but rather it is the responsibility of the local authority and the state government to handle such matters as they see fit.
Regardless, the blood was in the water, and the press force-fed the idea that Bush was not up to the job of protecting Americans after all. Truly horrible. The vendetta was on, again. Bush had to be made an example of GOP incompetence, negligence and uncaring towards the poor minorities of New Orleans.
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, we see similarities with New Orleans. Black residents in desperation. Thousands dead, many injured and dying. Total infrastructural collapse. And, little to no government control.
Granted, Haiti, unlike New Orleans, is an independent nation. However, it's been over a week since the Caribbean plate rumbled, and humanitarian relief along with thousands of US troops have just arrived. The USNS Comfort, a hospital ship, has also docked in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Seven days it took, but they are there now, nonetheless.
Where's the outrage from the US media? Where are Speaker Pelosi and senate majority leader Harry Reid calling for an investigation into the late arrivals? Where is the manifestation of public anger at President Obama for not getting there sooner?
Frankly, I'm waiting to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan come up with a doozy, like say, the Mothership observed a United States Geological Survey vessel in the distance of the Haitian capital unload some super-secret depth charges causing the earth to shake violently so white crackers can re-colonize the black nation in order to transform it into a Club Med paradise for white blue-eyed devils.
But no. That's not going to happen. All's quiet in the American pressrooms. No visibly-shaken shouting Sheps. No dumb Kanye comment. No problems. Things are under control. The Democrats are in charge now.
But a Democrat governor, Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana, was in charge at the time of Katrina, as was a Democrat mayor, Ray Nagin of New Orleans. Right, both so-called leaders availed themselves to the comfort of safety while their own citizens were left to fend for themselves amid the ravaging storm and flood, leaving one leader, a republican, to take the flak for the combined ineptitude of two democrats.
For all the abuse President George W. Bush took over his handling of the federal response in the wake of Katrina, the untold number of deaths as a result of the flooding, the rumors that it was all a government conspiracy to weed out the black residents from the ninth ward, and FEMA's late response, all contributed to the sagging of Bush's approval numbers.
This, despite the fact that the federal government is not the first responder of sorts in any natural emergency or disaster, but rather it is the responsibility of the local authority and the state government to handle such matters as they see fit.
Regardless, the blood was in the water, and the press force-fed the idea that Bush was not up to the job of protecting Americans after all. Truly horrible. The vendetta was on, again. Bush had to be made an example of GOP incompetence, negligence and uncaring towards the poor minorities of New Orleans.
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, we see similarities with New Orleans. Black residents in desperation. Thousands dead, many injured and dying. Total infrastructural collapse. And, little to no government control.
Granted, Haiti, unlike New Orleans, is an independent nation. However, it's been over a week since the Caribbean plate rumbled, and humanitarian relief along with thousands of US troops have just arrived. The USNS Comfort, a hospital ship, has also docked in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Seven days it took, but they are there now, nonetheless.
Where's the outrage from the US media? Where are Speaker Pelosi and senate majority leader Harry Reid calling for an investigation into the late arrivals? Where is the manifestation of public anger at President Obama for not getting there sooner?
Frankly, I'm waiting to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan come up with a doozy, like say, the Mothership observed a United States Geological Survey vessel in the distance of the Haitian capital unload some super-secret depth charges causing the earth to shake violently so white crackers can re-colonize the black nation in order to transform it into a Club Med paradise for white blue-eyed devils.
But no. That's not going to happen. All's quiet in the American pressrooms. No visibly-shaken shouting Sheps. No dumb Kanye comment. No problems. Things are under control. The Democrats are in charge now.
But a Democrat governor, Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana, was in charge at the time of Katrina, as was a Democrat mayor, Ray Nagin of New Orleans. Right, both so-called leaders availed themselves to the comfort of safety while their own citizens were left to fend for themselves amid the ravaging storm and flood, leaving one leader, a republican, to take the flak for the combined ineptitude of two democrats.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Mr. Brown Will Go to Washington, After All
The Massachusetts special election is over. Senator-elect Scott Brown will now represent the Bay State. His stunning victory will provide the GOP with 41 votes to the Democrats' 59.
Meaning, the Nevada senator Harry Reid will either invite the GOP leadership into the negotiating table, or play hardball and pass all legislation with a senate budgetary maneouvre called Reconciliation requiring just a 51-vote majority.
In yesterday's blog, I mentioned that Brown must win by several thousand votes in order to avoid a Democrat hijacking. He won big in a state that has only 21 elected republicans compared to the Democrats' 178 in the Massachusetts House and Senate combined.
The Democrats are in disarray as they circle the wagon seeking someone or somebody to blame for their electoral defeat not only in yesterday's loss, but the losses this past November in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.
With the Tea Bag movement in full battle mode, independents flocking back in droves to the GOP, and the 365-day Obama honeymoon over, 2010 will certainly be an interesting year in American politics as voters take out their hostility towards career politicians who created this miasmic economic conditions and a president who has absolutely no clue as to how to fix it.
Meaning, the Nevada senator Harry Reid will either invite the GOP leadership into the negotiating table, or play hardball and pass all legislation with a senate budgetary maneouvre called Reconciliation requiring just a 51-vote majority.
In yesterday's blog, I mentioned that Brown must win by several thousand votes in order to avoid a Democrat hijacking. He won big in a state that has only 21 elected republicans compared to the Democrats' 178 in the Massachusetts House and Senate combined.
The Democrats are in disarray as they circle the wagon seeking someone or somebody to blame for their electoral defeat not only in yesterday's loss, but the losses this past November in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.
With the Tea Bag movement in full battle mode, independents flocking back in droves to the GOP, and the 365-day Obama honeymoon over, 2010 will certainly be an interesting year in American politics as voters take out their hostility towards career politicians who created this miasmic economic conditions and a president who has absolutely no clue as to how to fix it.
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