Archive for August 8th, 2011
Rick Santelli: Without the Tea Party, we’d be rated BBB right now
Some of the truths Santelli tells in the above:
* Democrats keep blaming Bush, keep blaming the sun, keep blaming everyone for their inability to lead
* without the Tea Party, the Left and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment would have raised the debt ceiling recklessly and we’d be rated BBB right now
* where is the leadership in Washington? The Cocktail Party has gone on another vacation and won’t return until September 7th.
That last one is like the fire department going on vacation in the middle of an arson outbreak.
Why do voters let these people get away with shirking their responsibilities like this?
Governor Palin sounds very presidential yet again: her response to S&P downgrade
Here is Governor Palin’s response to the S&P downgrade on her Facebook page.
Please read every last word of it.
If that’s not presidential sounding — and just the sort of tone and leadership we need in a president — I don’t know what is.
Meanwhile, in an oak-paneled room somewhere, with a fireplace roaring in August and a bevvy of young men in white coats and black ties circulating around him serving cucumber and mayonnaise sandwiches on silver platters, Mittens “Mood Ring” Romney remains characteristically silent on the economic Obamageddon the Left’s hopeychange administration inflicts on America.
Maybe Mittens’ mouth is too full of chewy, gooey, cucumber goodness. Maybe he’s just waiting for someone from the Cocktail Party GOP establishment to sneeze, so this wimp will know what direction the wind is blowing.
More likely, his complete lack of leadership and trademarked inability to respond to events in real-time is manifesting itself yet again.
The same way it does with all the flaccid men the Cocktail Party GOP establishment insists on masquerading as realistic presidential candidates.
If you want real leadership in politics today, you need to look to the WOMEN in conservative circles who keep showing the wimpy guys in the establishment how it’s done.
YOU BETCHA!
HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy claims her mother Jackie believed Lyndon Johnson killed JFK
Question: If Jackie Kennedy REALLY believed Lyndon Johnson and White House officials killed her husband, how could she have pulled it together enough to spend so much time at Studio 54?
Not long after Jackie Kennedy died in 1994, I remember hearing on various programs that Jackie’s will also included provisions for materials to be released 50 years after the death of her last child that would confirm her personal suspicions regarding the Kennedy assassination.
After John Kennedy died in his plane crash in 1999, it looked like we’d have to wait until HRH Princess Caroline passed on for the clock to start ticking in terms of releasing whatever revelations Jackie wanted to drop from beyond the grave.
Remember when HRH Princess Caroline and Maria Shriver teamed up to put Kennedy family pressure on ABC to kill “The Kennedys” miniseries that was supposed to air on The History Channel, starring Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, and apparently a rum-soaked Muppet (as Ted Kennedy)?
At the time, it was argued that HRH Princess Caroline threatened to not do any publicity for a book of Jackie’s old grocery lists and To Do memos that Princess had “edited” (and drawn pictures into the margins, using broken crayons). Maria Shriver also threatened to possibly say mean things or pull someone’s hair if “The Kennedys” miniseries ever aired, this being the high mark of credibility in terms of any threats she could possibly execute.
“The History Channel” backed down and dumped a multi-million dollar production, already in the can, and never aired it…and it always seemed incredibly strange they did this just so HRH Princess Caroline would work a book tour circuit promoting yet another “FOUND! Jackie Kennedy’s old scribblings!” compilation, when all of three dozen people would wait in line for several minutes to meet her (and THAT would require the event to be held at either the Kennedy Compound itself, or in the lobby of HRH Princess Caroline’s swank Manhattan apartment building).
Now it seems we know the REAL reason ABC dropped the miniseries: it was because HRH Princess Caroline agree to violate her mother’s personal wishes and release tapes of Jackie whispering conspiracy theories into a microphone about Lyndon Johnson orchestrating the plot to kill JFK.
It sure sounds like something Johnson would do, and it makes a heck of a lot more sense than believing Fidel Castro had something to do with it. A palace coup is in fact the most likely explanation for what happened to President Kennedy, though if Jackie really believed this was the case, it’s strange she behaved the way she did towards the Johnsons in later years.
Maybe in the tapes she’ll claim she thought the Secret Service agents assigned to protect her were really there to keep her quiet, but if Jackie Kennedy really believed President Johnson killed her husband, I can’t imagine her keeping quiet about that during her lifetime. If she was really so scared, maybe she would have waited until Johnson was dead himself, and most of his inner circle was dead too. That happened by the early 1980s. Why didn’t Jackie ever come forward, and why did she insist on these things being revealed 50 years after her last child’s death?
I’ve always been a little fascinated by what could be in the great Jackie Kennedy data dump from beyond the grave, thinking it would be something so shocking it would destabilize the government if it was ever released…hence the desire to protect not only her children, but her grandchildren too, since she’d assume everyone she knew or was immediately related to would be dead by the time her explosive revelations saw the light of day.
HRH Princess Caroline undermines all of this by apparently releasing this stuff now…and having it turn out to be just Jackie whispering about things and also talking about affairs she had with movie stars while JFK was off having affairs with other movie stars, or White House interns, or random women he’d pass on the street.
I’m not surprised Princess betrayed her mother’s wishes like this, because Princess is a fool with more money than class and absolutely no trace of her mother’s fabled grace.
But I am disappointed if “Jackie’s Revenge” really ends up being just these whispers and conspiracies, and not the rock solid concrete proof I assumed Jackie was so afraid of going public she sealed into a time capsule to protect everyone she loved.
Young people at last will be protected from members of Congress: page program to end
After more than 200 years, the taxpayer-funded, $5 million/year, Congressional page program is being ended — partly for austerity, but on some levels to protect young people from members of Congress. Apparently, there was just too much concern that Nancy Pelosi could snap any day now, especially with the woman working so much overtime trying to blame all of the Obama administration’s failings on the Tea Party.
The Congressional page program was, in reality, just a means of giving privileged families a chance to bolster their children’s college applications for the Ivy League. It seemed rare for any high schooler without deep political connections to be chosen to attend their junior year of school at a high school within Congress, where they’d also serve as messengers for various Congress critters who were too lazy or inept to use telephones, fax machines, or email.
With little to do, the Congressional pages just stood around in their blazers, young and perky, apparently tempting some of the more deviant and dangerous members of the House to such a degree that it’s a big public safety win this program is ending.
$5 million being saved is great.
There are a lot of arcane, sometimes interesting, often redundant, things the government does here and there that should be defunded immediately.
The entitlement programs and unions have bankrupted this country, so we can’t afford things like “page programs” or other oddities anymore.
What are some ideas for things you would cut, if you could, that could further eliminate frills we can’t afford anymore in our government?
Will they ever learn?
The Dynamic Duo...Geithner and Obama
As predicted, the stock market is plummeting today….down almost 500 as I write this piece. As also predicted, the Obama administration is blaming everyone but themselves for the disaster (mainly blaming the Tea Party).
Here are just a few Democrat talking points that are appearing today…
1. Howard Dean: “I think they’re totally unreasonable and doctrinaire and not founded in reality. I think they’ve been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it,”
2. David Axelrod: “The fact of the matter is that this is essentially a Tea Party downgrade. The Tea Party brought us to the brink of a default. … It was the right thing to do to avoid that default. It was the wrong thing to do to push the country to that point.”
3. John Kerry said that the S&P downgrade was “without question the Tea Party downgrade”
One thing they have conveniently ignored? The S&P made it perfectly clear why they downgraded our rating. “The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government’s medium-term debt dynamics.” The S&P requested a $4 trillion dollar debt reduction. They laid it out for Obama and Congress.
Obama…Reid…and Boehner knew what it would take to keep our AAA rating. The only plan that would have saved our rating was the Cut-Cap and Balance plan which passed in the House but not in the Senate. Our brilliant Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the C-C-B bill “over,done,dead” before it even hit the Senate floor. Nice going Harry. If the bill had passed both houses then the pressure would have been on Obama to sign it. It was the only way to save our AAA rating. It was a very good bill.
Who was the biggest proponent of Cut-Cap-Balance?
The Tea Party.
A Tale of Two Pauls
Paul Ryan vs Paul Krugman
I’ve been trying to learn as much about economics as I can over the past few weeks. I was not an economics major in college…in fact…I never took an economics class because it wasn’t a requirement for my major. I’ve always just sort of fluffed over the subject and knew barely the basics. I decided that now is the time to dig in and learn a few things because if I am going to convince some of my liberal friends that we have got to get Obama out of the White House before he pushes our country over a cliff, I’d better be able to back up what I’m saying.
I started thinking about the difference in economic theories embraced by the 2 parties in Congress. I realize that there are some who fall somewhere in between, unfortunately, someone who is an elected democrat in Congress had better put any conservative ideas they may have out of sight and vote in line with their party. The same goes for the Republicans too.
I recently read an article by William Anderson that summed up the Keynesian theory of economics….which is the theoryour current President likes to embrace. It is the hallmark of famed (I use the term loosely) economist Paul Krugman’s beliefs. Anderson writes that “Krugman has almost a religious belief that borrowing and printing money and policies of spending for the sake of spending will pull the country out of a recession. Borrowing from future generations (or repudiating the debt through inflation) is nothing more than making a claim on futurewealth. Furthermore, Krugman’s recommendations do nothing to address the current set of malinvestments which plague the economy, not to mention the huge added burden of government-imposed costs which make production of wealth more difficult.”
So…Krugman is a firm believer that we need to spend even more to get out of this recession…not cut spending. He thinks that the government should print more and more money and flood the system to encourage spending because the more people spend, the more goods will fly off the shelves in stores and this will create the need for more jobs to replace those goods….and so on and so on. Krugman seems to ignore that fact that printing more money will lead to inflation. Those goods are going to cost a whole lot more and people are going to end up cutting back on buying these goods and this is going to hurt the economy.
In contrast to the Keynesian theory is Paul Ryan’s budget plan titled ” The Path to Prosperity”. His plan follows these basic guidelines.
- ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION: Fosters a better environment for private-sector job creation by lifting debt-fueled uncertainty and advancing pro-growth tax reforms.
- SPENDING CUTS AND CONTROLS: Stops Washington from spending money it does not have on government programs that do not work. Locks in spending cuts with spending controls.
- REAL SECURITY: Fulfills the mission of health and retirement security for all Americans by making the tough decisions necessary to save critical health and retirement programs.
- PATIENT-CENTERED HEALTH CARE: Repeals and defunds the President’s health care law, advancing instead common-sense solutions focused on lowering costs, expanding access and protecting the doctor-patient relationship.
- RESTORING AMERICA’S EXCEPTIONAL PROMISE: Tackles the existential threat posed by rapidly growing government and debt, applying the nation’s timeless principles to this generation’s greatest challenge. Ensures that the next generation inherits a stronger, more prosperous America.
Needless to say, Obama and the Democrats didn’t like Paul Ryan’s plan at all. Cutting spending means cutting government entitlement programs and that would mean making many of the democrat voters furious. They want their Obama money. The really insane thing is that Obama has managed to infuriate his base anyway by not being “Keynesian” enough. Paul Krugman has ended up being one of Obama’s biggest critics because he thinks Obama is lowering himself to compromise with the Republicans. Krugman thinks that we didn’t have enough money in the stimulus package. He wants more, more, more! The bigger the debt…the happier Krugman will be.
So, the Tale of Two Pauls can be summed up like this….
Cut spending or spend more?
Obama needs to listen to Paul Ryan….not Paul Krugman.
Today will most likely be a horror show for the economy — but don’t lose faith and hope in America’s natural resilience
Today is very likely to be an all out horror show in the financial markets.
If you watched any of the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday, or paid attention to Obama administration hacks over the entire weekend, you’ve already seen people like Axelrod working hard to blame the Tea Party for Obama’s failures in managing the economy. This is a classic tactic of the Left when things get REALLY bad.
Normally, the talking points are to deny there’s any sort of problem at all and hope the media carries that stinky water for them. It’s better to pretend there is no problem at all when there’s a Democrat in the White House, since a good portion of the public is so ill-informed they will actually buy into the “Nope, nothing to see here!” ruse.
When a problem is so big it can’t be hidden — like the fact we are in a Depression, and have been since Obama squandered a trillion dollars on Democrat pet projects in 2009 — the Left and its media enablers next try to downgrade it, forcing themselves to admit things are bad, but renaming the catastrophe to make it sound better. “Depression” thus becomes “recession”, the way a shady landlord calls “cockroaches” “hug-a-bugs” to make them sound cuter.
The reckless, partisan, entitlement spending Democrats forced through Congress for decades with the help of the idiot Cocktail Party GOP establishment has really caught up with this country.
The first shoe to drop was the S&P downgrade on Friday. There are many more to come tumbling down. It is a Hurricane Carrie Bradshaw meets Typhoon Imelda Marcos of economic shoes ready to monsoon upon us, all because Democrats for more than thirty years have been propping their party up by making minorities dependent on entitlement programs and engineering a system in local governments where most of the budgets are eaten up by public sector unions that raid treasuries to funnel campaign cash back into the Democrat party.
Democrats see the writing on the wall, and know things are going to get so bad in the economy that they won’t be able to get away with calling this a “recession” any longer…and so the new tactic is to start laying blame…and of course the Democrats’ favorite target is the Tea Party.
You know, the regular Americans who have been trying to prevent this economic meltdown by telling Washington it needed to put the brakes on all this wasteful spending.
It’s like shoveling ice cream into your gullet all day and night for months and then blaming your personal trainer — who has been yelling at you to stop — for becoming morbidly obese and unable to function anymore. “It’s my trainer’s fault for trying to stop me and make me exercise. That’s why I’m in the mess I’m in! Stedman, bring me another crate of Rum Ripple!”
This is the only thing the Left has left, to try to blame the Tea Party for all the terrible things the Left’s recklessness (and the Cocktail Party GOP’s enabling) is responsible for.
It’s like playing Scrabble with someone who’s down to just a few tiles, who tries desperately to convince you that XBZP is indeed a word, so he can win the game.
Hoping you are stupid enough to fall for it, since he’s got no plan X,Y, or Z to fall back on to pull a victory out of thin air.
Folks, things are going to get really bad, but when they do please do not lose hope.
If you are someone who is going to lose a lot of money in the markets today, it’s going to be brutal, but you are still alive and you still have your health, your family, and your friends. So do not lose hope. The REAL hope, the kind that comes from a loving and protective God, and not a snake oil huckster with snazzy posters offering hopeychange that never comes.
Americans have been through worse than the Obamaconomy. And we have overcome, thrived even.
It will happen again, no matter what happens today on Wall Street and beyond.
Just pray for your friends, your family, your neighbors, and of course yourselves.
Start thinking about practical things you can do to prepare for the very worst, and decide today that you will not only survive all this, but you will be a leader in your community that helps others do so too.
Be excellent to each other, and keep that faith in God, while using your God-given talents to weather the storm.
