I sometimes think that
Republicans are genetically compelled to bring water pistols to a gun fight.
While I acknowledge that it’s difficult to combat the bully pulpit the Left
commands, thanks to a corrupt media, I really am sick and tired of hearing Mitch
McConnell referring to “Our friends on the other side of the aisle.” Harry Reid
is not your friend. Charles Schumer, Patrick Leahy and Dick Durbin, are not your
friends. What’s more, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray and Dianne Feinstein, are not
going to the prom with you. Get over it.
What I would like to know is why
it is that the Democrats get to conduct recall campaigns against Governor Scott
Walker and his Republican colleagues in the Wisconsin state legislature, but
Republicans never return the favor. When liberal governors and left-wing state
legislators push for same-sex marriages, ObamaCare and abortions on demand for
14-year-olds, why aren’t we forcing them to devote their time and money to
fighting recall elections?
How is it that when liberal members of state
senates and assemblies roll over during negotiations with public service unions,
driving their states into inevitable bankruptcy, they do so with impunity? I
understand they are not motivated by a commitment to the labor movement, but
because they want to be able to count on union volunteers and union funds when
they inevitably run for re-election. But why don’t we ever disrupt the honeymoon
by recalling their sorry carcasses?
I’d also like to know why no
Republican in Congress ever accuses Obama of anything worse than incompetence.
When it comes to making repairs around the house, I’m incompetent. When it comes
to figuring out why my computer does some of the mischievous things it does, I’m
incompetent. However, when, at the very same time that China, North Korea and
Iran, are all building up their armies and increasing the stockpile of nuclear
bombs in the hands of madmen, Obama is gutting the U.S. military and promising
to reduce our nuclear arsenal by 80%, that can’t be explained away as mere
incompetence. Let’s face it, if a foreign power had the ability to lower our
defense capability that easily, they’d leave us no option but to declare war on
them.
For all the nonsense about respecting the Office of the President,
when the commander-in-chief insists on surrounding himself with the likes of
Eric Holder, Van Jones, Kathleen Sibelius, Valerie Jarrett and Jacob Lew, he
deserves about as much respect as George Soros or any of those Occupy Wall
Street creeps defecating on the sidewalk.
Last year, Obama came up with a
budget that was so odious that even his cronies in the Senate voted it down
unanimously. Not one to take “No” for an answer, he came back this year with a
budget that raised taxes on people in America who make over a million dollars a
year, while not asking a plugged nickel from the 47% who don’t pay a dime in
income taxes.
He also proposed raising capital gains taxes by 30% and
taxing stock dividends at the same rate as regular income. It’s a one-two punch
that would destroy the Stock Market. Even Obama’s good friend Warren Buffet
wouldn’t invest under those conditions. What’s more, he would probably fire that
secretary he’s always yakking about.
Not satisfied with destroying Wall
Street, Obama also wants to destroy Main Street by raising taxes on small
businesses.
And lest anyone think that they can evade the grasp of the
IRS by simply dying, he wants to raise death taxes from 35% to 45%. Under his
tax policy, you not only can’t take it with you, you can’t even leave it
behind.
What is so confounding about all this is that Obama owes so much
to Wall Street, having been the biggest recipient of campaign donations from
banks and lending institutions in the history of American politics. And as an
Illinois politician, he knows better than most how indebted the Democrats are to
dead people for their loyal support down through the years. This is obviously
one dog that believes in biting the hands that feed it.
To top things
off, we have to listen to Press Secretary Jay Carney telling us, on behalf of
Obama, that we didn’t know how bad the economy was when candidate Obama swore to
cut the national debt in half by the end of his first term. And yet, if memory
serves, in 2008, it was his boss who declared, “I think we all know that we are
in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.”
I wasn’t too
crazy about Obama’s “Hope and Change” slogan in 2008 and I’m not overly fond of
his new one, “Winning the Future.” Still, there’s something to be said for its
initials. WTF, indeed
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