PEOPLE LIKE ME...

Exit polls for the 2012 Presidential Election contained five questions for voters covering the economy, health care, employment and the like . Mitt Romney was viewed favorably for the first four but lost the fifth 82% to 18%. That question was “who cares most about people like me”?

I believe that the 2012 election was won by Barack Obama and lost by Mitt Romney, the GOP and Conservatives on that issue alone.

American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks recently wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Republicans and their faulty moral arithmetic”. In this article Mr. Brooks cited further polling prior to the election that indicated only “ 33% of Americans said that Mitt Romney ‘cares about people like me’. Only 38% said he cared about the poor.“

Mr. Brooks went on to cite research from NYU sociologist Jonathan Haidt that declared that“care for the vulnerable is a universal moral concern” and “that citizens across the political spectrum place a great importance on taking care of those in need and avoiding harm to the weak”.

Senator Rand Paul: “Don’t Drone on Me”

Imagine sitting at your local Starbucks restaurant or enjoying drinks at your favorite bar with friends and a drone blows half the place up because President Obama thinks he has the authority to conduct drone military strikes here at home on his own people. Senator Paul Rand Paul tried to put the brakes on President Obama’s “license to kill” obsession by filibustering John Brennan’s CIA nomination March 6, 2013.

That’s right Senator Paul exercised his right as a member of Congress, enshrined in the United States Constitution, to draw attention to a very serious matter. When the Senate was set to vote on John Brennan’s nomination for head of the CIA, Paul led a 13-hour filibuster against the nomination demanding Obama put in writing he would never use drones kill Americans not involved in combat.

Why did Paul take such a bold stand? Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a letter indicating the president has the power to conduct drone strikes on American soil but “has no intention of doing so.” “No intention” isn’t the same as “won’t ever” and Paul rode herd on this administration’s frightening interpretation of its executive war powers.

“You should be charged, you should be imprisoned if they can make the charges stick. But they shouldn’t just drop a Hellfire missile on your café experience,” declared Paul on the Senate floor.

Obama Expects His Sequester Will Lead to this Crisis

(Thanks to Travis Holte)

THE BUDGET FIRE NEXT TIME

We have survived the Fiscal Cliff crisis, the Debt Limit debacle and now the “Sequester that ate the nation” and the nation is exhausted. This President apparently lives to inflict fear, anger, terror and anxiety on the old, the sick, the disabled, the poor and his favorite target the ever handy “middle class”.

On March 27 we will be facing the next attempt to grow government, tax us to perdition, destroy the GOP, the constitution, capitalism, and our defense and national security capabilities. It is called the renewal of the Continuing Budget Resolution which we have in lieu of a budget which the Senate under Harry Reid has refused for 5 years to pass although they are required by law to do so.

I predict that Barack Obama will have learned nothing from the Sequester and the propaganda in lieu of leadership will begin anew. He will once again fear monger and use character assassination while he flies around the country in perpetual campaign mode to scare the hell out of Americans who are sick and tired of an economy that has been deliberately sabotaged by this President.

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...

The most puzzling thing about the presidency of Barack Obama has been how unpopular most of his policies are and how popular he is. At end of the Academy Awards Jack Nicolson trotted out Michelle Obama to make a speech and announce the winner for best picture and then suddenly everything came into focus. The Obamas have become full fledged celebrities in the classic Hollywood tradition. Hollywood was simply having one of their own participate in the industries most important evening and they were rubbing our noses in it.

The Obamas have transcended the pedestrian world of politics and have become part of mythmaking dreamscape of Hollywood where image is everything and substance is irrelevant. Obama isn’t really President in the here and now that real people have to live in. Instead he plays being the President on TV in a reality show that frees him from any blame or responsibility for the crises he sets into motion and the harm they do in the world far away from the fantasy world in southern California.
When we ask ourselves the next time why he is once again manufacturing another crisis, the answer will be that crisis is good drama and drama is interesting and generates great ratings. In short we have entered a kind of Rod Serling like “Twilight Zone” where fiction has become fact and the fact is that Obama is always cast as the hero.

EVERYBODY KNOWS

ON TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN FULL FEAR MONGERING MODE WENT ON ALL THE NETWORKS TO WARN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THE SKY ONCE AGAIN WAS GOING TO FALL. THIS TIME THE CRISIS INVOLVED THE JOBS AND SERVICES HE CLAIMED THAT WOULD BE LOST IF THE SEQUESTRATION CUTS WENT INTO EFFECT ON MARCH 1ST 2013. ONCE AGAIN HE NEGLECTED TO REMIND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HE WAS THE AUTHOR AND PRIME PROMOTER OF THIS INSANE WAY OF OPERATING A GOVERNMENT. INSTEAD HE ONCE AGAIN BLAMED THE CONGRESS AND THE REPUBLICANS IN PARTICULAR.

BEHIND HIM LINED UP LIKE ROBOTS WAS THE “VICTIM GROUP” DE JOUR WHO WOULD BE DEVASTATED IF THESE CUTS WENT THROUGH. IN THIS INSTANCE THEY WERE "FIRST RESPONDERS" IN FULL DRESS UNIFORM. THE PRESENCE OF BACK DROP GROUPS LIKE THIS BY NOW SHOULD BE AN INDICATOR THAT WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO TELL US WAS PURE POLITICS AND NOT RELATED TO REALITY.

PREDICTABLY HE PROPHESIZED THAT “air-traffic controllers and air port security will see cutbacks"…( I WONDER …DOES THIS MEAN THAT 4 YEAR OLD DISABLED LITTLE GIRLS IN WHEELCHAIRS WILL NOW NOT BE PATTED DOWN OR THAT ONLY THEY WILL BE PATTED DOWN ?)…HE TOLD US “thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off"( DOES THIS MEAN THAT DISTRIBUTION OF BTRTH CONTROL PILLS AND THE MORNING AFTER PILL ALONG WITH GRAPHIC SEX EDUCATION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS WILL BE SUSPENDED OR DOES IT MEAN THAT ONLY THAT WILL BE TAUGHT?)…

EDWARD I. KOCH 1924-2013

EDWARD I. KOCH 1924-2013

MAYOR EDWARD IRVING KOCH DIED RECENTLY AT THE AGE OF 88. HE WAS THE 105TH MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO THOSE OF US WHO SERVED UNDER HIM, HE WAS A LARGER THAN LIFE INSPIRATION WHO TAUGHT US TO ENGAGE THE WORLDS OF POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT WITH GUSTO AND MORAL COURAGE. TRAITS THAT HE DEMONSTRATED DAILY PERFORMING THE SECOND HARDEST JOB IN AMERICA.

AFTER HE LEFT OFFICE I SENT A NOTE TO HIM WHICH SIMPLY SAID “YOU HAD LAGUARDIA …ALL OF THOSE WHO COME AFTER YOU, WILL HAVE HAD KOCH”. HE WAS A TRANSFORMATIVE MAYOR WHO SAVED THE CITY FROM FISCAL RUIN AND MADE IT BETTER FOR EVERYONE DURING THE TUMULTUOUS 70s AND 80s. HE LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR HIS SUCCESSORS TO MAKE THE CITY PROSPEROUS, SAFE AND LIVABLE ON A LONG TERM BASIS.

MY JOB IN ALL THREE OF HIS TERMS FOCUSED ON THE NEEDS AND RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. ED KOCH PIONEERED NUMEROUS PROGRAMS IN THIS ARENA AND NEVER TOOK PUBLIC CREDIT FOR THEM.

NEW YORK CITY UNDER HIS WATCH PUT 1500 DISABLED YOUTH TO WORK EVERY SUMMER AND SET UP JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS USING FEDERAL MONIES IN NOVEL WAYS NOT FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE REST OF THE NATION. HE MADE APRTMENTS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE AND STARTED NYC ON THE PATH TO ALMOST 100% ACCESSIBILITY FOR VOTING SITES, UNIVERSAL CURB CUTS AND ACCESSIBLE MASS TRANSIT. HE PASSED LANDMARK HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION AND INITIATED THE FIRST PROGRAMS FOR ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN DISASTER SITUATIONS. HE DID ALL OF THIS AND MORE AND AGAIN HE NEVER TOOK ANY CREDIT.

SNAKE OIL ON THE POTOMAC

WHEN BARACK OBAMA GAVE HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. AS THESE EVENTS GO, IT WAS FILLED WITH ALL THE INCREASINGLY ADOLESCENT BACKSLAPPING BEHAVIOR THAT HAVE COME TO ADD AN AURA OF TEEN AGE THEATRICS TO WHAT SHOULD BE A SOLEMN EVENT CONCERNING A COUNTRY GOING DOWN THE DRAIN!

OBAMA BEGAN BY INVOKING THE GHOST OF JFK…THEN ASKED HIS COUNTRYMEN TO NOT HESITATE TO ASK THEIR COUNTRY TO DO VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING FOR THEM IT COULD DO. HE SOARED RHETORICALLY WITH A DAZZLING DISPLAY OF DELUSIONAL DUPLICITY BY INTRODUCING A CORNUCOPIA OF PLANS, PROJECTS AND FANTASIES THAT WERE ALL DESIGNED TO MAKE THE STATE THE MASTER OF US ALL IN THE NAME OF GOOD WORKS WHILE ASSURING US THAT IT WON’T COST US AN ADDITIONAL DIME. APPARENTLY HOWEVER ALL OF HIS GRANDIOSE PROPOSALS WILL COST US AT MOST RECENT COUNT, AN ESTIMATED $83 BILLION!.

HE SPOKE OF SIX MILLION NEW JOBS” THAT DON’T EXIST! …OF REDUCING THE DEFICIT BY $2.5 TRILLION WHICH DIDN‘T HAPPEN IN THE REAL WORLD OF REAL PEOPLE AND ADDITIONALLY TRIES TO CONFUSE PEOPLE WITH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DEFICIT AND THE DEBT…

...OF REFORMING MEDICARE VIA A NEW PANEL TO LIMIT ALTERNATIVE CARE TO THE OLD, DISABLED AND TERMINALLY ILL AND WHICH CREEPILY FOCUSES OMINOUSLY ON CARE FOR SUB POPULATIONS… WHOEVER THEY ARE.

HE ALSO TOLD US THAT OBAMACARE HAS ALREADY CUT COSTS WHILE IGNORING THE REALITY OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO ARE PAYING HIGHER PREMIUMS AND CO-PAYS AND 7 MILLION WHO ON THE VERGE OF LOSING THE PLANS THEY HAVE NOW.

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE

ASK YOUSELF WHAT IS IT THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS ATTEMPTING TO ACHIEVE?

FROM 2009 T0 2012 OBAMA IGNORED THE ECONOMY, THE BUDGET, THE DEFICIT, UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE DEBT TO PASS HUGE ENTITLEMENTS LIKE OBAMACARE. CONSEQUENTLY THE MIDDLECLASS IS POORER HAVING LOST 23% OF THEIR WEALTH, OUR UNEMPLOYMENT IS HIGHER THAN WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE AND OF THE 8.8 MILLION JOBS WE LOST WE HAVE ONLY RECOVERED 5.5 MILLION AND MOST OF THOSE ARE LOW PAYING JOBS UNLIKE THE ONES THAT LEFT. HE CONTINUES TO RAISE TAXES AND SPEND AND SPEND AND SPEND TO ALLEGEDLY STIMULATE THE ECONOMY WHILE USING BORROWED MONIES AND MERELY ENLARGING THE WORLD OF GOVERNMENT. .

THE CBO SEES TOTAL FEDERAL BORROWING HITTING 77% OF THE GDP BY 2020 AND 53% OF FEDERAL SPENDING IS NOW COMPRISED OF ENTITLEMENTS AND OBAMACARE. THE ECONOMY SHRUNK FOR THE LAST QUARTER OF 2012 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2007.

7 MILLION MIDDLECLASS WORKERS WILL LOSE THE HEALTH INSURANCE OBAMA PROMISED THEY COULD KEEP AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL SPEND 127,602,371 MAN HOURS COMPLYING WITH OBAMACARE THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF CONSTRUCTING MOUNT RUSHMORE , WHICH TOOK 14 YEARS TO BUILD…1040 TIMES.

TALES FROM THE 4TH ESTATE

JOHN DICKINSON WHO IS THE POLITICAL NEWS DIRECTOR FOR CBS NEWS HAS GIVEN SOME ASTOUNDING POLITICAL ADVICE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR HIS SECOND TERM. IN AN ARTICLE FOR SLATE.COM HE WRITES THE FOLLOWING REGARDING THE REPUBLICANS

“Obama’s only remaining option is to pulverize. Whether he succeeds in passing legislation or not, given his ambitions, his goal should be to delegitimize his opponents. Through a series of clarifying fights over controversial issues, he can force Republicans to either side with their coalition's most extreme elements or cause a rift in the party that will leave it, at least temporarily, in disarray.”

HE FURTHER STATES :

"That fight will be loud and in the open—and in the short term unproductive. The president can stir up these fights by poking the fear among Republicans that the party is becoming defined by its most extreme elements, which will in turn provoke fear among the most faithful conservatives that weak-willed conservatives are bending to the popular mood.”
THIS FROM THE NETWORK WHO ONCE GAVE US EDWARD R. MURROW, DOUGLAS EDWARDS AND ERIC SEVARIDE. PERHAPS HOWEVER WE SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED SINCE DICKINSONS BOSS LES MOONVES, SAID ONLY LAST YEAR AT AN OBAMA FUNDRAISER "ultimately journalism has changed … partisanship is very much a part of journalism now."

TALES FROM THE FUTURE

BARACK OBAMA DOESN’T WANT TO LEAD THE NATION …HE WANTS TO SUBJUGATE IT. HE IS A DEVOTEE OF CRISIS FOR CRISIS SAKE…HE IS A PRACTIONER OF MAKING A BAD SITUATION WORSE AND A NON-SITUATION BAD .
HE IS NOT INTERESTED IN SOLVING REAL PROBLEMS ONLY FALSE ONES. SINCE HIS REELECTION HE HAS BEEN IN OUR FACE MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. HE SEES POLITICS AS THE ART OF GETTING EVEN…AN ACT OF REVENGE. HE TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS BUT HE DOESN’T MUCH LIKE THEM BECAUSE IF HE DID HE WOULDN’T BE TAXING THEM SO MUCH…OR CHALLENGING THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS…OR TRYING TO HINDER THEM FROM THE RIGHT OF SELF PROTECTION OF THE 2ND AMENDMENT.

HIS NEWEST DEBT LIMIT CRISIS HAS COME ABOUT BECAUSE HE WON’T CUT ANY SPENDING EVEN THOUGH HE PROMISED A $3 DOLLAR CUT FOR EVERY $1 DOLLAR IN NEW REVENUE. INSTEAD HE WANTS TO KEEP ON SPENDING, MAKING GOVERNMENT BIGGER…MAKING MORE PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT…MAKING THIS DEPENDENCY LIKE A NARCOTIC ADDICTION…MAKING PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS MORE POWERFUL…MAKING THE PRIVATE SECTOR SMALLER..MAKING TAXES GREATER…MAKING HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT THE NEW NORMAL..

HE WILL TAX THE MIDDLE CLASS TO PERDITION AND TELL THEM HE IS PROTECTING THEN AS HE DOES IT. HE WILL DO THIS BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THE MONEY IS AND HE NEEDS THAT MONEY TO COMPLETE HIS TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATION FROM A FEDERAL REPUBLIC TO A SOCIAL JUSTICE STATE.