Republican Clown Car
The other day I heard the Colorado Republican Party described as a clown car. With the governors election coming up in November the party has run their candidates car into the center ring. Then a bunch of clowns tumbled out as the contenders for the Republican nomination.
The mayor of Denver is the Democratic contender for governor and is also a clown with limited capabilities and easily defeated if a creditable opponent appeared on the Republican ticket. The Colorado elections in November are lining up as competition with Ringling Brothers and Barnum, Baily for the “Greatest Show on Earth” title.
It is quite a show but not one designed to unseat the incompetent administration that has run Colorado for 4 years. I hope this is not a preview of Republicans preparing for the November Congressional elections.
Political party operations are not needed at this time.(if ever) as a candidates primary consideration. Consolidation of party power structure as a main Republican effort is being clearly recognized by the public and will be rejected as the important issue. The politicians need to understand that an awakening is happening in the nation’s population and their ilk on both sides of the aisle is looked upon with mounting disgust.
I am a strong critic of the current Federal government administration. My failure in my posts has been to ignore the culpability of congress in allowing the Obama team to run away from Constitutional restraints on Federal responsibility.
We need to find candidates at the local level with an understanding of the relationship between states and the Federal Government as established by our founding fathers. Defense of individual rights and the Electoral College must be issues understood by those running for office at every level. Fiscal responsibility needs to be more than campaign rhetoric. It needs to be pillar in a candidate’s structure.
We have “clowns to the left of us and jokers to the right” and a ringmaster that has ignored the United States operating script written in Philadelphia in 1787.
We are in a sad moment as a nation. Our country is being dramatically altered in structure and the politicians are letting our freedom slip away while squabbling over political power issues.
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Biodegraded Oil
Where has the oil in the Gulf gone? This is the headline question in the news. Experts have indicated the nature and biodegradation are taking care of the oil problem. The only surprise is the rapid rate that the biodegradation is taking place.
If you are a Gulf Coast oyster fisherman with your oyster bed covered with oil the biodegradation is little comfort since income in the near future is in grave jeopardy. The individual damages cannot be ignored while excitement over rapid improvement is the news story of the day.
There is a need for some serious reflection on the whole story of the last 3 months and where the greatest economic damage is taking place. “Evil oil” has been the media reported culprit and the administration eagerly has been trumpeting the need for non fossil answers to energy needs.
The media depiction of oil flowing with predictions of the oil rounding the Florida Keys and settling on the beaches of the East Coast has sent an early chill on beach communities Tourists have pictured their favorite Gulf State beaches covered with oil and littered with wildlife killed by the oil. Not a pretty site on which to spend vacation dollars.
The over stating of damage by the media has probably cost more to some beach communities than will ever be done by the oil. Many of the Gulf resort areas have almost no tourists this year and also have no oil on their beaches. There is no recovery from income lost on a summer day. The summer will soon be over and no summer days will be available to earn tourist dollars till next summer.
The question on the table at this moment concerns the 20 Billion dollars that BP has deposited to take care of damages caused by the oil .spill. 20 billion dollars can solve a lot of dead oyster pain. It can pay for a lot of beach hotel vacancies and for picking up those annoying tar balls on the sand. Wisely used, 20 billion dollars can go a long way to making the Gulf states whole and economically on the road to recovery.
There is however one problem. The money is controlled by Obama and his minions. If there is anyone who can twist the use of the money away from reasonable recompense to the damaged businesses and the oil soaked areas, it is Obama.
20 billion dollars seems like a lot of money at first glance to most people. To a bunch of politicians, most of whom never worked for living this represents more than reparations to the damaged area. This will be a slush fund for reelection. Obama cannot figure out this use of billions by himself. He and Rahm are like lottery winners with money dumped into their lap without restrictions. They are grinning from ear to ear and the smiles are about November and how the money can be use to maintain control of Congress.
They love the thoughts of biodegradation taking place. That means more money will be available for their use in the election campaigns. I can hear part of the discussion. “Rahm, how can I take credit for nature’s solutions unless my divine rights are firmly and finally established?”
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Rangle Wrangles
Ran”gle\, v. i. To range about in an irregular manner. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] –Halliwell.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Charlie Rangle D. Representative of NY’s 15th Congressional District has been ranging about in an irregular manner for years. He has finally been called to task by his congressional colleagues for potential ethics violations.
Charlie is accused of major ethical violations which include:
The use of official stationery to raise money for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York.
The use of four rent-subsidized apartment units in New York City. The city’s rent stabilization program is supposed to apply to one’s primary residence. One had been used as a campaign office, raising a separate question of whether this was an improper gift.
Failure to report income as required on his annual financial disclosure forms. The committee had investigated his failure to report income from his rental unit at the Punta Cana Yacht Club in the Dominican Republic. Rangel also belatedly disclosed hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment assets.
The details of the charges are not yet fully available but Nancy Pelosi has been sitting on the Rangle case for nearly two years. She probably hoped it would disappear or not be addressed until after the elections in ovember.
If these charges are true discipline by his Congressional buddies will not be sufficient. This looks like jail time for these violations of more than ethical misdeeds:
Failure to report income, raising a million dollars for his Center at CCNY by granting favors in Congress and getting four government subsidized residences in NY at about $2500 rent per month when the normal rate would be about $8,000 per month are the basic “ethical” violations being investigated
Watch this case closely and take notes as to how the ethics committee handles it. It will floor me if Charlie doesn’t wrangle his way to a minor slap on the wrist for his transgressions. Charlie will be reelected for his 21st term in November by a constituency that has sent him back to Congress without serious opposition for 40 years
You can make book on Charlie avoiding jail. no matter what evidence is uncovered
Information on the violations was found on various Internet news sources. The most succinct summary was found at Gazettenet.com
Wrangle and Rangle are two spellings with the same meaning according to Wilkipedia and other sources.
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Latin Nations join Holder Law Suite against Arizona
Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru filed separate, nearly identical motions to join Mexico’s legal brief supporting the lawsuit filed against Arizona by U.S. civil rights and other advocacy groups.
I’ve read the coverage on this 10 times and still can’t understand or believe what is happening. We have a Federal administration that seems to be populated by insane people. That is the only answer I can come up with concerning Eric Himpton Holder and Obama suing Arizona for various damages that they say will be caused by Arizona’s Immigration law
The Arizona law will not go into effect until July 29th but the Justice Department is suing for damages that have not yet happened. Not only has there been no damages but it is very likely that the damages Holder claims are inevitable are not all that inevitable
Step 2 in the suit against an American State is now being joined by 8 South and
Central American countries. Obama, Holder and the Justice Department are now creating their case against Arizona with the help of these foreign nations.
Holder needs to resign and Obama must require that resignation. Holder dismissed the suit concerning the Black Panther intimidation at the polls in Philadelphia. He has now gathered and supports the participation of foreign nations in joining his most recent outrageous actions. What Obama should do and what he will actually do are obviously two different things.
The welcoming of these nations to the suit are a step towards applying some sort of international law to our internal legislative actions. Congress needs to step up to the plate here. To stand by without comment while El Salvador and others take action to override a law passed by a state in the United States will be clear indication as to the vapid thought process currently prevalent in Congress.
This law suite needs to be dismissed as the first action of the court. If there proves to be some egregious result after the law goes into effect, that is when legal action is appropriate
Somebody should be standing on the floor of the House calling(demanding) for the immediate withdrawal of this Holder lawsuit.. This needs more than somebody standing in opposition. This needs every politician who has any love for this Federal Republic to stand in unison opposing Holder and the Justice Department
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November Election Campaign Has Begun
The President and his cohorts have begun the active campaign to hold on to their majority in Congress. Preident Obama made a major push on proposed legislation for the extension of unemployment benefits.
His speech on the subject was designed to project the Republicans as heartless opponents to his efforts to ease the anguish of those who have been unemployed for a long period.
He criticized Republicans as the opponents that have demonstrated their heartless nature by, on three occasions rejecting his proposal to extend unemployment benefits.
Obama did not discuss his administrations responsibility for unemployment figures remaining at a high level for 19 months of his administration. There was no mention of his failed stimulus actions as part of the reason for continued joblessness.
The most duplicitous aspect of his speech was his failure to indicate the Republican willingness to approve the extension with one sensible requirement added to the proposal. They have insisted that the extension be paid for by elimination of programs that are of sufficient size that further deficit expansion does no take place.
The Obama created deficit has now reached three and a half TRILLION dollars.
The Bush excesses left us with a deficit of 500 billion dollars after the 8 years of his administration. In 19 months Obama has expanded the deficit to the 3.5 trillion level. We do not need that deficit to rise by extending unemployment benefits without a plan to pay for them.
Obama really does not care about the unemployed other than as a chance to expand the numbers of those who are financially controlled by the Federal Government. There is no interest in sitting down with Republican leadership to work out a plan that does not expand the deficit. The issue is one that he will continue to use as he rolls into a full fledged campaign mode that does not have honesty as a requirement in his pronouncements.
Last week the campaign issue was contributed to Obama by the NAACP with their outrageous categorization of the Tea Party as a racist organization. There was no mention of a fiscally sensible government being the goal of the Tea Party This week the Republicans are heartless deniers of help for the unemployed. No mention was made of the Republican statement of willingness to support the legislation if fiscal sense was included in the proposal.
Obama is not speaking about what America needs. What Obama “wants” is the sum total of his interest. A week will not pass before we see the next pronouncement of his greatness coupled with a half truth denouncement of his opponents actions.
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Obama- Read Marianne Moore
The new financial bill is guaranteed to make obtaining credit more difficult for small business. It is a poorly crafted bill that puts a noose around the total banking and financial sector because of the actions of some Wall Street.based firms.
If Obama and his cohorts were truly interested in strengthening our nation they should do a little reading to understand the nature of America. I’ll develop a reading list that will help. Marianne Moore a modern poet of note in her work called “England” outlines a few truths that our political leadership missed in their various studies
Marianne in her poem has a verse which could apply to the action taken by the legislature in their punishment of all banks because of the actions of a few.
She says:
“why should continents of misapprehension
have to be accounted for by the fact?
Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools
which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?
Of mettlesomeness which may be mistaken for appetite,
of heat which may appear to be haste,
no conclusionns may be drawn.”
Our current leadership probably will need guidance in understanding how this relates to their drive to make us all become subject to government control in every facet of life.
The Obamanestas have no clue as to the simple unique factors that have brought greatness to America. Moore touches upon this in her poetry.
“America where there
is the little old ramshackle victoria in the south,
where cigars are smoked on the street in the north;
where there are no proofreaders, no silk-worms, no digressions;
the wild man’s land; grass-less, linksless, languageless country in which letters are written
not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand,
but in plain American.”
Moore was writing in a time when plain American was understood by politicians and the will of the people was important. I confess that I don’t miss the cigars but I do regret the move from the simple truth that plain American meant, individual effort was the available path to success and government better not interfere.
Obama, Nancy and Harry are determined to obliterate any trace of “the wild man’s land” that has been woven into the very fabric of America’s growth throughout our history.
The Federal disregard for the limitations on their actions placed by the Constitution is rapidly moving us in a direction that does not resemble Plain American. Obama has no clue or interest in this “wild man’s land” that limited Federal actions in governance.
November must be our first step in the restoration of America where vigor and individual initiative with a bit of wildness are recognized as characteristics at the heart of our greatness.
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The Race Card
The Tea Party must be making headway in their attempts to put fiscal responsibility on the top of the Congressional and Administration’s “to do lists”. The NAACP has brought out the racist brush to paint the Tea Party efforts.
The Tea Party is a loosely organized group of citizens who are mostly focusing on issues of taxation and unrestrained spending by the current administration. There is no doubt that on the fringes of the movement there are some folks who are extreme in there views and take advantage of the gatherings to wave their obnoxious signs at the TV cameras.
The NAACP has ignored the sensible main message of the Tea Party. They have decided to focus on the few extreme fringe attendees at the meetings They are using the few as targets to cast unfair aspersions on this popular uprising of Americans, that are seeking to force sensible actions on the political left and all politicians of any leaning.
The NAACP is an organization that has it’s own share of fringe racists but the racist brush is only used in one direction. The racist charge is directed towards anyone that strongly advocates opinions that are contrary to the actions and individuals that are supported by the NAACP hierarchy.
The NAACP in their public denouncement of the Tea Party have ignored the strong public statements of Tea Party leaders in denouncing any racist statements or racist activity that is attempted to be included in their agenda. The leadership statements have clearly defined the thrust of the Tea Party as a search for fiscal sanity and an understanding that the peoples Will, must be recognized by the Government
The NAACP has declared that opposition to the Health Bill was a racist motivated opposition and opposition to Obama was racist in nature.
These charges are outrageous and obviously part of the strategy to quell any serious threat to the primacy of Obama and his administration due to a decline in Black support in the November elections. The Black vote for Obama was as close to 100% as any group has every voted for a candidate. I’ve seen figures that indicate he received about 95% of the Black votes cast.
It is clear what this racism charge is all about. It is about keeping their favored figure and his party in control of America. The NAACP is an old and formally important organization. They need to move into the current world and put away the hackneyed racism tool for good. It needs to be replaced by sensible discourse between Americans
The NAACP is closely mimicking the lunatic fringe that is trying to attach themselves to the Tea Party while creating racial conflict. The NAACP has self serving objectives in their outrageous comments. To oppose Obama is depicted as a racially motivated activity no matter why such opposition is happening.
The race card is worn and needs to be removed from the deck. The NAACP seems to only know one game and has no new deck to put into play.
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Obama -A Lame Duck After 6 months
Geoffry P. Hunt in The American Thinker has written Anatomy of a failing Presidency.
Hunt says “
“ Obama doesn’t have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn’t connect with us. He doesn’t have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us.”
Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal said about Obama:” He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them.”
Hunt and Rabinowitz are both American thinkers and have succinctly articulated what I have been railing about with less than their skill for months in this Blog. Obama’s narrative has never connected with me at any level. The level of arrogance he has brought to the Presidency has had me continuously bewildered as to it’s origins. I have come to the conclusion that it is camouflage for his lack of management ability and shortness of intellectual capacity.
Hunt in his piece has given me a bit of relief by indicating that I have not been the only one puzzling over this issue. Hunt says::
“In the meantime, while we’ve been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he’s dissed just about every one of us–financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job.”
Obama is plummeting in the polls although not fast enough for me. His lame duck period needs to be accompanied by a Congress that is determined to right the disaster that is being foisted upon us by his alien philosophy.
Obama probably was born in the US and is Constitutionally qualified to be president. His qualification ends there. In the league of ex-presidents he will vie with Wilson, LBJ, & Carter for the title of most inept of our leaders since 1900.
Obama combines his arrogance with a continuously dishonest description of his aims and accomplishments. He really does not care about jobs and further has no interest in the small businesses that create jobs. While unemployment continues to hover near 10% he calls his programs a success. The only success he seeks is reelection. Surrounded by a cadre of like minded sycophants in describing successful accomplishments this is a repeat of the fairy tale about the emperor that “wears no clothes”.
I share Hunt’s hope for legislative gridlock after we elect a new Congress in November. We then can ride out Obama’s last two years and hopefully elect a leader who knows what he (or she) is doing and loves America.
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Tar Balls on The Beach
Lisa Jackson who is the head of the Environmental protection Agency has said that the Gulf Coast communities should close down their beaches due to the health hazard indicated by the tar balls appearing on the beaches
I have no scientific credentials but that won’t stop me from giving my own analysis of the safety of swimming in the Gulf. I have spent many years living on the waters edge and have been a keen observer of all kinds of conditions including tar balls on the beach.
I believe that Lisa Jackson is not telling the whole story. I am absolutely convinced that the chemicals used to disperse the oil are more dangerous than the oil.
If you go to the beach and the surf is filled with oil you probably won’t go swimming and don’t need Lisa Jackson to tell you to stay out of the water. The tar balls are messy if you step on them but I don’t believe there is a case of tar ball syndrome recorded in any journal of medicine.
The people on the Gulf have enough economic problems without Lisa giving vague warnings with no detail as to the danger and how to measure and identify it. As a 4 or 5 year old I had considerable tar ball experience
When I was a kid we had a summer home on the beach in South Jersey. In the early 40’s there was great concern about protecting our shore from the enemy. In the first years of the war we were very vulnerable and the war came to the edge of Cape May County. I can remember being awakened by the sound of explosions and looking East from my bedroom window. The sky was lit up with an angry red color that accompanied the noise.
The explosions were cause by German U boats torpedoing freighters that had rounded Cape May Point out of the Delaware Bay heading to New York to join a convoy heading to Europe. Navy planes would be roaring overhead heading out to sea to join the battle. All of this action was taking place just a few miles from my bedroom window that faced the sea. It never made the papers that the war was taking place in the water just off the New Jersey Coast.
The oil from the sunken freighters came ashore with life preservers and flotsam and jetsam associated with the actions. Many days we went to the beach and did not swim because of the oil in the surf. Our parents had common sense and stopped us from swimming in an oil filled surf. The tide and wind invariably took care of the oil and we were in the surf within a few days. The tar balls stayed with us the entire summer. There were always tar balls on the beach and in the surf.
Every home had an outside shower which was used to get rid of the sand after coming home from the beach. During those war years there was always a can of Old Dutch Cleanser or Bon Ami which we sprinkled on the concrete shower base to scrape our feet and get rid of the tar before going into the house.
We had no one spreading chemicals on the oil that was released into our water and nature eventually took care of the oil.
The Gulf oil spill is undeniably a serious situation with environmental and economic consequences. The response of our Federal Administration has been slow and implemented haphazardly. The oil skimmer that they are touting as a major tool in collecting the oil was available 72 days before they approved it’s use. The amount of oil being spilled has been reported in a manner that indicates that an actual accounting is not able to be discerned.
If the condition on the beaches is a health hazard Lisa needs to tell us what the hazard is and where it is located. Is the hazard oil or involving chemicals being used in the clean up? I know it isn’t the tar balls. Dutch Cleanser will take care of that part of the problem
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Terry Anderson is Gone
The death of Terry Anderson has stilled a tireless voice in the black community speaking about illegal aliens and the damage to the black community by our open borders
Terry often said:” If you ain’t mad, You ain’t paying attention. Terry was more than just a spokesman for the black community he was a defender of America. His message was clear and constantly pointed out the damage to black neighborhoods and loss of opportunity caused by the influx of illegal aliens.
The President does not hear Terry’s message in his march towards blanket immunity for the illegals. The law suit against the Arizona legislation concerning illegal immigration is a clear demonstration of the political maneuvering of Obama to gain the votes that will insure his continued power.
The cost of illegal aliens to the American economy can be seen by examining the financial condition of California. That beautiful state has become a state of desperation caused in large part by the cost of supporting the education, welfare payments and medical assistance to the millions who are illegal residents of California.
Arizona has passed legislation that may help in controlling the illegal influx and it’s cost. Arizona seeks to enforce the laws that the Federal Administration does not administer in controlling the illegal influx over the Arizona border. Obama is suing Arizona to defeat their legislative attempt to gain control of their border with Mexico.
As Terry said: “If you ain’t mad you ain’t paying attention”. Terry’s motto could be used for much of the Obama Administrations activity and results. Study the biggest tax raise in the nations history that starts in January. Look at the record breaking deficits created by Obama. Think about our President bowing to the heads of Islamic nations. Remember that Gitmo is open when Obama said he would have it closed in a year. There are more troops in Afghanistan than ever were there under Bush. Think about unemployment which was 4.5 % when Obama was elected and now 18 months later continuously hovers around 10% while Obama runs around touting wind and solar as the answer to unemployment . Note that Eric Holder dismissed the case against the Black Panthers terrorist threats at the polls in Philadelphia. Watch the oil pour into the Gulf for months while Obama’s people dithered over bringing the offered equipment to help mitigate damages.
I could go on with a list 3 times as long concerning Obama’s inept governance of America and his litany of broken promises, but if you have read this far and you ain’t mad you (really) ain’t paying attention.
America will miss your voice and passion Terry
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