Now .. the McConnell idea

Speaking of being gutless … the Republicans are so worried about being blamed for any sort of government default that they are actually toying with the idea of giving the president the power to automatically increase the debt limit.
Now a lot of people are having a bit of a struggle trying to figure out just what Phineas T. Bluster (Mitch McConnell) is proposing.  Let me try to boil it down for you step-by-step:

1.  The Republicans agree to a plan that allows Obama to raise the debt ceiling by as much as $2.3 trillion (that’s right, TRILLION) in three installments within the  next year.
2. Obama would be required to submit to the congress a list of proposed spending cuts equaling the amount of the debt ceiling increase.  Apparently these would not have to be REAL spending cuts --- they could simply be cuts in spending increases.  That’s how Washington usually proposes spending cuts. 
3. There would be no requirement whatsoever that congress even consider any of Obama’s proposed spending cuts.
4. Once Obama raises the debt ceiling the congress could vote to disapprove the increase.
5. Obama would then veto the resolution of disapproval.
6. Neither house would be able to come up with the two-thirds vote necessary to override Obama’s veto, so the debt ceiling increase would take effect.
7. Since the veto override would fail principally due to a lack of Democrat votes, the Republicans believe that they would be able to blame Obama and the Democrats for the increases in the debt ceiling.

There … does that work for you?  Not for me.  It’s a GOP cave all the way.  The McConnell plan is to just back off, hold your hands up into the air and say “Just go ahead and do it.  We’re washing our hands of this.  The voters will hold you responsible.”  Are you kidding me?  Do you think for one moment that the voters --- these voters --- the very same voters who put Obama into office --- are going to hold the Democrats responsible for raising the debt ceiling without cutting spending?  Won’t happen.  The Democrats will walk away with a victory here and Republican voters will just walk away.

WHERE ARE HIS GIRLFRIENDS? AND JUST WHO THE HELL IS BARACK OBAMA?

Obama: Where are his girl friends?????

Where are his girl friends????? Strange that none have popped up!!!!
Strange to the point of being down right WEIRD!

OK... this is past the birthers questions.... this is just plain old
common sense, no political agendas for either side.

Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, especially American
citizens, who even know that Andrew Jackson and his wife smoked a corn cob pipe
and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or
Kennedy wore a back brace or Truman played the piano.

We are Americans! We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring
for our fellow man  We care, but none of us know one single humanizing
fact about the history of our own president.

Honestly, and this is a personal thing...but it has niggled at me for ages
that no one who ever dated him ever showed up. The simple fact of his
charisma, which caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during
his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity....

We all know about JFK s magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin s courtship
and even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden's aneurisms are no
secret. Look at Cheney and Clinton--we all know about their heart
problems. How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House?

Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy," or
"What a great dancer!" Now look at the rest of this.... no classmates,
not even the recorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him.

I just don't know about this fellow.

Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Then check groomsmen.
Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony.

Has anyone talked to the professors? It is odd that no one is bragging
that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.

When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? Every president
gives to the public all their photos, etc. for their library. What has
he released?

And who in hell voted for him to be the most popular man in 2010?????

Does this make you wonder?

Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they
knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. ? Not one person
has ever come forward from his past.

VERY, VERY STRANGE… This should really be a cause for great concern. To
those who voted for him, you may have elected an unqualified, inexperienced
shadow man.

Did you see a picture called The Manchurian Candidate?

Let's face it. As insignificant as we all are... someone whom we went to
school with remembers our name or face ... someone remembers we were the
clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something
about us.

George Stephanopoulos of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008
campaign. He questions why no one has acknowledged the president was in
their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches
on campus. Stephanopoulos also was a classmate of Obama at Columbia--the
class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him.

While he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college
class remember him? And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his
records?

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia
University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there,
but none remembered him. For example, Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama,
a political science major at Columbia, who also graduated in 1983. In
2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that
knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew
Barack Obama at Columbia ... EVER!

Nobody recalls him. Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of  83
political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer
than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him."

At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to
be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five
years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class
notes, who 's kind of the, as we say in New York,  the macha  who knows
everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."

Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook, and Obama
consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia ,
provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or
friends while at Columbia ...

NOTE: Root graduated as valedictorian from his high school,
Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from Columbia University in 1983
as a political science major in the same class in which Barack Hussein
Obama states he was.

Some other interesting questions…

Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?

Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?

It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one
Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.

WHAT!?

The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he
is never reported to have lived.

No wonder all his records are sealed!

Is the American Dream dead?

Forty percent of Americans think that our economy is in a permanent state of decline and will never get better.  Five out of ten Americans, one out of two, think that there is virtually no chance that their children will have better lives than they did.  That has been the American dream for generations.  For generations that has been the American dream – that I’ll work hard, I’ll care for my children, I’ll nurture them, I’ll see that they are educated, and they will have a better life than their parents had.  That dream is gone.  It is going. 

At this point, to be completely honest and absolutely honest with you, my disgust and contempt for Barack Obama grows every time I see his picture, every single time I see that face and every time I hear him speak. 

I’m 58 years old and I love this county, and I thank God every day that I was born in this country.    Every one of  my father's his kids … he had three … their standard of living rose above what he enjoyed, and I’m hoping it will be the same for my daughters.  But it stops there.  Americans have lost that confidence. 

This standard of living we have in this country was not brought to us by government; it was brought to us by free people working in an economic system of capitalism and free enterprise, where every individual out there was empowered to pursue their dreams as far as their dreams would take them … with the rule of law always out there to protect them from predators – the economic predators, the criminal predators – always out there ready to protect them.  It was the free enterprise system that created a standard of living unsurpassed by any other economic system anywhere in the world in the history of civilized man, and then the people of this country put a man dedicated to the destruction of capitalism and free enterprise in the White House. 

As late as the 1980s, this man, Barack Obama, was a dedicated Marxist revolutionary.  Then his zeal was tempered somewhat because he finally figured out that there wasn’t going to be a Communist revolution in the United States.  His father was a Communist.  His mother was a Communist, and when his father disappeared from his life, his mother took on a lover who was a Communist.  He hung out with Communists in college.  He gravitated toward Communist professors in college.  And now he is president of the United States? 

This is a man who, when he decided that he was going to finally enter the political realm, decided that he would make that announcement in the home of two dedicated Communist revolutionaries: Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.  Everything about this man -- from his childhood, through college and his entry into politics -- everything about him is infused in Marxism and anti-capitalism and a hatred for the private sector and free enterprise and a love of government.   And he becomes president of the United States.  And now people think the American dream is over … that our free market economy is in permanent decline and will never get better.  Surprised?  Not me.

Weiner pull out

Sorry for the obvious headline there .. but I’m going in a direction you might not expect, so I needed that to maintain my reputation for insensitivity.

First – I think that Anthony Weiner is actually emotionally disturbed.  I would have seen nothing wrong with allowing him to seek therapy and continue with his job.  The one factor that speaks against this would be his blatant lying to the media and his attempt to hang the whole thing on Andrew Breitbart.

Another thing … I thought Tony the Bone showed some class yesterday when those idiotic hecklers showed up at his announcement.  This is a man who lost his career and is fighting to save his marriage, and these fools are yelling insults at him.  Weiner showed far more courage and class with his stoic demeanor than these ignoranuses did with their attacks on him.  

THIS AIN'T A DAMN JOKE, PREZBO

Yesterday PrezBo went to North Carolina to meet with his Council on Jobs and Competiveness.  I know what you are thinking .. Barack Obama is the last guy that I would associate with job creation or competitiveness .. these businessmen must be insulted when he gets up to talk about the issue.  But when asked about the bureaucratic red tape that can delay projects or put a stop to them completely, Obama jokingly says:  "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." 
Gee, ya think?  And it was nice of you to have a little chuckle at your own cleverness, PrezBo …. But the people who have been out of work for six months weren’t laughing with you. 
Barack Obama said that if we implemented his grand stimulus plan, it would provide for hundreds of thousands of “shovel-ready” projects that will bring our unemployment rate below 8%.  We HAD to do this, otherwise our country would not recover.  Remember?  So $821 billion later, what do we have to show for it?
“Unemployment is now 25 percent higher than when the president took office, the deficit is 35 percent higher, and gas prices have more than doubled,” according to Commentary Magazine.
Obama’s stimulus included $28 billion in new highway money, which he said would "create or save" 150,000 jobs by the end of 2010.  These are the quintessential “shovel-ready” jobs that Obama jokes turned out to be not so shovel ready. 
From Investors Business Daily:

A new study by economists Timothy Conley of the University of Western Ontario and Bill Dupor of Ohio State found that despite the influx of all that federal money, highway construction jobs actually plunged by nearly 70,000 between 2008 and 2010.
As the authors explain, many states simply took the free federal money and shifted their own highway funds to meet other needs.  Examples:

• Texas got $700 million in highway stimulus funds last year, but spent $560 million less on its roads in 2010 than it did in 2009.
• New York's highway spending was basically unchanged between 2009 and 2010, despite getting $522 million more in federal highway bucks.
• Michigan boosted its highway spending just $17.4 million, far below the $189 million extra the feds handed the state for highway improvements.

These jobs and our economy, Mr. President, are not a joke.  This stimulus bill was your great plan at turning the tide of this nation.  This was it!  When others, like yours truly, were telling you that MORE government spending on “shovel-ready” projects were not going to be the way to save this nation and grow our economy, you passed the gargantuan bill, continued to pass other bills (like ObamaCare) that increased the size of government and then refused to do anything to actually tackle our entitlement crisis.
According to government figures: When you add up all of the money that we owe in order to cover our future liabilities in entitlements, our country is now in worse financial shape than Greece.  Greece!  While Obama has nearly doubled our debt to $14.3 trillion, that doesn’t even compare to the $50 trillion that we owe when you include Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
This is not a laughing matter.  Americans are not impressed that you “have a better plane” than three years ago or you now travel “with a bigger entourage.”  What Americans DO know is that your stimulus plans were a big fat freaking failure and their families are paying the price for it and will continue to pay the price for your policies for decades.

Separation of church and state

The concept of separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state. The term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state," as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists Association in 1802. The original text reads: "...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." Jefferson reflected his frequent speaking theme that the government is not to interfere with religion.^[1] The phrase was quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947. Like many other governing principles, the phrase "separation of church and state" itself does not appear in the United States Constitution. The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
The concept of separation has since been adopted in a number of countries, to varying degrees depending on the applicable legal structures and prevalent views toward the proper role of religion in society. A similar principle of laïcité has been applied in France and Turkey, while some socially secularized countries such as Norway have maintained constitutional recognition of an official state religion. The concept parallels various other international social and political ideas, including secularism, disestablishment, religious liberty, and religious pluralism. Whitman (2009) observes that in many European countries, the state has, over the centuries, taken over the social roles of the church, leading to a generally secularized public sphere.

FALLING OFF A CLIFF

And, of course, it just has to be Bush’s fault, doesn’t it?  Well come on!  Obama now knows that everything thing he’s tried; his moronic and economically destructive Pelosi-designed stimulus plan, his hire-more-government-workers jobs programs, his promoting of jobs-killing unions, his animosity toward private enterprise … none of it is working.  So of course he’s going to blame Bush.  We’ll keep hearing phrases from the Obamajahadeen about “turning the corner” and “moving in the right direction” as Barry begs for another term so that he can continue his “fundamental transformation” of the United States. 
When the people look at our economy there are two things that really stand out right now.  One is jobs, the other is housing.  And just how are we doing on the jobs front?  In January, February and March we added about 200,000 private sector jobs every month.  That fell to 180,000 in April.  In may it looks like the numbers may be around 40,000.  That’s “turning the corner?”  That’s “moving in the right direction?”  For people looking for work, I don’t think so.  It takes about 150,000 new private sector jobs every month just to keep up with population growth.
Housing?  I don’t know about where you stays (or “live,” if you don’t live in the city center) but in Atlanta home values now are around their 1999 value.  Many Americans, perhaps most Americans, have the bulk of their wealth tied up in home equity … and now that equity has turned to vapor for many.  People are seeing their retirements disappear! 
Simply put, Obama has no plan to bring our private sector economy back.  He has grand plans to expand the size of government and to improve the economic lives of those who work for government however.  What is the one place in this country where home prices are holding their own?  That would be around Washington DC.  The one economically secure area of our country – the seat of the Imperial Federal Government of the United States. 
Many experts think we’re heading back into another recession.  Inflation is up.  In fact, if we measured inflation with the same metrics that were in use when Jimmy Carter was in office the inflation rate would be around 10%.  Reelecting Obama would be like strapping on an economic suicide vest and giving the trigger to your worst enemy.