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Reince Priebus – More Wisconsin Shenanigans

May 9, 2012 By Scott Rohter Leave a Comment

Reince Priebus – Wisconsin Shenanigans

Scott Rohter , May 2012

The word was when Reince Priebus was first being touted for a position as the National GOP Chairman in January 2011, that he was a good strong conservative from Madison Wisconsin. Hummm… I thought. “A strong conservative voice from Madison Wisconsin.” Is that even possible?.. While I thought it was a bit unlikely that such a thing could actually be coming from a place like Madison, the home of the University of Wisconsin, nevertheless I stifled my skepticism and tried to keep an open mind. A lot of things are possible you know… especially in the land of Vince Lombardi ! And so after six unsuccessful attempts to elect a Party Chairman, a deadlocked group of Republican delegates to their Party’s Central Committee elected Reinhold Priebus, attorney and a former Wisconsin State Party Chair, to lead the National Republican Party on January 14, 2011 in an unprecedented seventh ballot.

My first inkling that something wasn’t quite right though,… that his performance didn’t quite match up to all of the rhetoric, was when my calls to the RNC did not get returned, not by him or by anyone else. My next observation was when Mitt Romney got caught red-handed trying to steal the Iowa State caucuses away from Rick Santorum. Then nearly the same thing happened again, I think it was either in Maine or New Hampshire. My initial pause for thought over Reince Priebus was now causing me to slow down a little bit and take notice.

Once more in Ohio there were serious violations of the official Republican Party rules governing Primaries with respect to the apportioning of delegates. This was cited by the Santorum campaign. All of these things were going on under the watchful eye of the National Republican Party Chairman, Reince Priebus! When Texas wanted to go to a winner take all Primary last month, (and it was perfectly legal for them to do so) the RNC found some way to stop them. There was that too. Then all of a sudden and for no apparent reason, Rick Santorum suspended his Presidential campaign, when he was really doing quite well against The Establishment’s favorite candidate Mitt Romney,.. and with comparatively little resources.

Now under Reince Priebus’ watch there is blatant and open candidate favoritism going on during the remainder of the GOP Primary (against the rules) while there are still two candidates left in the race, which by the way is not over yet, not at least until Mitt Romney racks up the magic number of delegates… (I think the official number is 1144). Maybe the Republican Party does not think that Ron Paul is actually a real candidate in this race? I know they wish that he wasn’t! But he is! So now my original pause for thought has turned into an abrupt, screeching halt!

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Filed Under: 2012 Elections, Corruption, Elections, Ethics, National, Politics Tagged With: GOP, mitt romney, Reince Priebus, RNC, Ron Paul

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Obama Secret Service Suffers From More Than Just a Lack of Morale

April 20, 2012 By Scott Rohter Leave a Comment

Enjoying Everything that Columbia Has to Offer

Breakdown of Morale in the Ranks

By Scott Rohter, April 2012

A very interesting but not widely covered item in the news last week was from Columbia, South America where twelve members of President Obama’s advance security team were recalled back to the United States for “disciplinary reasons.” Hmmm… Have some members of the Secret Service, the nation’s finest and truest men and women, who are responsible for the President’s own personal safety, and who are supposed to be willing to lay down their lives to protect the President, finally had about enough of him too?

President Obama was attending a Summit of the Americas Conference this weekend in Cartagena, Columbia, on Columbia’s northern Caribbean coast, and just like everywhere else that our young, jet setting President goes, there was an advance contingent of Secret Service agents sent in there ahead of him to prepare the way for his visit, and to ensure his personal safety.

So what actually happened down there in Cartagena, Columbia in the week prior to President Obama’s arrival, to cause an entire contingent of Secret Service personnel, twelve Secret Service agents who were members of his advance personal security team, to be removed from their assignments and summarily returned home for disciplinary action? Well, the details are still a little bit sketchy, but I have never heard of anything like this ever happening before in my lifetime! So what do we actually know?

The twelve Secret Service agents included two high level supervisors. At least one of the agents is accused of employing the services of a Columbian prostitute. There were possibly other agents involved with prostitutes as well. This unheard of misconduct was discovered when a disgruntled hooker complained about not getting paid! The prostitute filed a report with the local Columbian police who contacted the U.S. State Department. All of this information was released by a Secret Service spokesman and was reported originally by CBS News.

According to hotel employees in Columbia where the Secret Service agents were staying, the agents had been drinking heavily all week long prior to the Presidents arrival. The Secret Service spokesman said this only represented a moral deficiency, not an operational deficiency. I would say that it represents both a moral deficiency and an operational deficiency, and a breakdown in morale as well.

Now why would there be a breakdown in morale and a lack of discipline among the President’s most highly trained Secret Service personnel? These are the people who are supposed to be willing to take a bullet for him! Could it be that they are unhappy about having to protect a man who according to the Constitution, and the best available evidence, is not even legally qualified to be our Nation’s 44th President? -A man who many Americans view as a usurper, and whose Marxist policies to transform America are not well liked?

Does the idea of his forged birth certificate, now proved by the Sheriff of Maricopa County Arizona and his “Cold Case Team”, which were not disputed in a New Jersey court room last week by the President’s own defense attorneys, possibly have anything to do with this breakdown of morale in the Secret Service? One can only wonder if this,.. and other possible un-Constitutional acts committed by President Obama are starting to catch up with him, and are having a cumulative effect on the morale of the Secret Service agents who are charged with protecting him.

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Alphabet News Networks and Talk Radio’s “Crackers”

April 10, 2012 By Scott Rohter Leave a Comment

Alphabet News Networks and Talk Radio’s Crackers

By Scott Rohter, March 2012

Campbell Soup Company makes a pretty good tasting broth called alphabet soup. It’s tomato based and it’s loaded with tasty little pieces of pasta shaped in the letters of the alphabet. It’s been on the grocery store shelves since I was a little boy. And that’s over sixty years of serving up some pretty tasty meals to millions of satisfied customers. The Mainstream News Media is sometimes jokingly referred to as the Alphabet News Networks. Unlike Campbell Soup however, what they cook up is not nearly as nutritious, nor good for you!

The Alphabet News Networks are ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, and FOX News. They all tilt to the left, and some of the stuff they cook up is extremely liberal. That’s why I suggest that you don’t try to taste their soup without having some Talk Radio crackers right along with it, to help you digest it. That way the news “de jour” that is served up by the Liberal Press won’t leave you with a bad taste in your mouth which is the same as the misrepresentation of the facts that their stories leave behind in your head, when you are done reading them or listening to them. Don’t partake of the Liberal’s soup without also taking a big helping of “crackers” from Talk Radio.

For example, last week Mitt Romney won the Illinois Primary, and the Mainstream Media was in full spin and damage control mode for several days after his victory, because Rick Santorum who spent only a fraction of what Romney did, actually did quite good. In particular CBS, National Public Radio, and the Chicago Tribune produced several different versions of the same push piece of yellow journalism that said that Mitt Romney literally “ran away” with the Illinois Primary. Did he really? Romney had about 46% of the vote and Santorum had 35% of the vote. Only a switch of five small percentage points would have turned that Primary into a real horse race! And the Mainstream Media was describing it as a romp for Romney. I don’t think so! It doesn’t sound like a romp to me. It sounds more like spin and wishful thinking.

In addition, the Progressive Press tried to further analyze the results of the Illinois Primary this way. All of the voters with college degrees voted for Romney they said, in other words the “better educated” and “more intelligent” people. Only “un-educated” or “under-educated” people actually voted for Rick Santorum. Those voters were the stupid, right-wing, Christian conservatives who didn’t have college degrees. They are the kind of folks that President Obama said cling to their Bibles and guns. Well I actually have a different explanation. It goes something like this.

Perhaps the notion that people who graduate from college are more intelligent than others who don’t, should actually be examined and subjected to a little scrutiny. With all of the constant partying and beer drinking that goes on around American campuses nationwide, should we just blithely assume that most students are there to receive an education, and they are actually learning something besides how to keep from barfing? A college degree doesn’t actually make anyone smart, and the absence of one doesn’t necessarily imply that somebody is stupid. There are other ways to access and absorb information. The assumption that people who don’t receive a college degree and the education that goes with it are incapable of rational or intelligent thought is simply erroneous. And the assumption that colleges and universities actually produce smart people is not true. At best they merely supply some information and add a few necessary facts which gives people who are already smart, an edge over their competition when looking for a job.

At worst, our nation’s colleges and universities are guilty of neglecting the basic fundamentals of an education, and merely pushing politically correct propaganda on a generation of unsuspecting, substance addicted youth, who can’t even begin to think for themselves because they have never been taught how to think for themselves! Instead, they have been brainwashed into total conformity. Perhaps some of the most intelligent people don’t even go to college because they already know this, and they are already able to think for themselves.

To be sure, the reason that most children go to college is because their parents expect them to go and because their friends are going, or because of the prospect of drastically improving their earning potential later in life, but at the ripe old age of nineteen I don’t think that is very likely. So most children go to college strictly for social reasons, and not for any great intellectual purposes. That’s why campus life is often just one big party, and students find the time to study and cram for their tests in between alcoholic binges. So I’m not so sure that by portraying college educated Romney voters in Illinois as more intelligent, the Chicago Tribune and National Public Radio are actually correct.

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Filed Under: 2012 Elections, Elections, Liberals, Media, National Tagged With: mainstream media, Progressives

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Reaping the Rewards of a ‘Progressive’ America

March 30, 2012 By Frank Salvato Leave a Comment

As the nation directs its attention to the events taking place at the United States Supreme Court, specifically, the oral arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now may be a good time to evaluate some of the “progress” we have made, both as a country and as a culture, where the Progressive Movement’s efforts are concerned.

I say that now may be a good time for this evaluation because as the Justices of the Supreme Court debate the merits of the case before them, we stand on the precipice of the largest expansion in government authority since the institution of the income tax. And while both Republicans and Democrats; Conservatives and Liberals, have had a hand in the total of government expansion, no other group has celebrated that expansion over our liberties, over our freedoms, more than Progressives.

Now, I am not an overly religious man. As regular readers understand, my Mother would be very happy if I attended church more often. But even I can see that at the hand of the Progressive Movement the idea of secularism has become totalitarian. In a nation built, in part, as a sanctuary for the religious (this is the onus behind the First Amendment’s right to “Freedom of Religion”), people of the cloth are being placed under arrest for preaching on public grounds.

In Hemet, California, the Rev. Mark Mackey, a preacher with the Calvary Chapel, was arrested for “preaching to a captive audience” as he read passages from the bible outside a still closed Department of Motor Vehicles building. The arresting California Highway Patrol Officer said to Mackey, as he was leading him away in handcuffs, “You’re not allowed to preach here because this is a captive audience…You can preach on your own property.” One so-called constitutional attorney said Mackey was “creating an intimidating situation.”

In Florida, as the details of a highly publicized crime are still coming into focus, a volunteer neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, is in hiding because the New Black Panther Party has put a $10,000 bounty on his head, along with a “dead or alive” precursor, for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin (and we all thought vigilantism was a thing of the past). And as race-baiting activists – the likes of self-anointed Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, both whom have become quite wealthy in their pursuits of keeping the nation divided along racial lines, and elected officials call for – and incredibly so – the arrest of a man before an investigation into the event is even concluded, racist organization La Raza (“The Race” in Spanish) has issued a statement questioning his ethnicity. “His background is not clear…Is he Latino? Is he white? Is he both? Who knows?,” La Raza spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete said in an interview with The Daily Caller. Zimmerman’s Mother is Hispanic.

Speaking of the New Black Panthers, as the men and women of our military fight and die to liberate whole national populations from the tyranny of Islamofascist oppression, our own Justice Department, led by Eric Holder – who is turning out to be not only a racist but a racial activist by proof of both his actions and inactions, refuses to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, paramilitary-clad, night-stick wielding New Black Panther racists who stood outside a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 General Election intimidating every Caucasian voter who tried to enter. J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department Voting Rights Section attorney, who served in the Holder regime, has testified that orders were given not to prosecute any Black defendants…period.

Take a walk on any college campus and the cultural decay envelops you at almost every step. As Progressives blanket every square inch of every campus in an effort to register as many college students to vote as they can, militantly Progressive professors, protected with tenure status, spew hatred of the Founders and Framers while juxtaposing the “benefits” of Socialism and Socialist Democracy against the “evils of Capitalism” to terminally half-hungover students in Ché Guevara t-shirts. I say terminally half hungover because in an age when an alarming number of college graduates need to be completely re-trained for the workplace – and in an age when those entering college need remedial classes just to feign that they graduated with any subject knowledge at all from high school – late-night orgasmic debauchery is the social norm.

Don’t get me wrong, I was no angel in college, in fact, the calls about my charge card use each month that came from my Father saw most of my dorm floor evacuating for the tapestry of weaved anguish that emitted from the telephone receiver. But I would be considered a model student by today’s standards (If you choose to click on the corresponding link in the previous paragraph, please know that it is R-Rated progressing to X-Rated in nature).

Tune the radio to any station that used to be Top 40 in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and you will be inundated with the musical offering known as rap music. Having been a musician in my young adulthood, and having played with some of the best jazz and blues players in the business, many of whom are mentioned in history books, I can always appreciate something about a musical genre. But I can’t help but notice that if you listen to a “popular” music station today for longer than 20 minutes you will eventually hear “singers,” or “artists,” pontificating about women being whores, men questing to bed as many of those “whoes” as possible, shooting cops, the celebration of the drug culture and a much undeserved self-aggrandizing of overall violence and intolerance. This “art form” is permissible but – going back to the first item – telling someone that Jesus Christ loves them is something you can get arrested for.

And then we have politics…

Throughout history, Progressives and Liberal Democrats have existed in the seat of power each and every time that the government has expanded power. Whether it was the creation of the New Deal entitlement of Social Security, the Medicare entitlement of the Great Society, or the now constitutionally challenged entitlement of mandated Health Insurance under the Obama Administration, each time Progressives have been elected to the seat of power they have connived their way to the expansion of government., doing so with little regard to the limitations placed upon them by the United States Constitution and the total of the Charters of Freedom.

In fact, two of the most revered Progressives ever to inhabit the Oval Office, Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, literally despised the Charters.

Wilson is quoted as saying, “If you want to understand the real Declaration of Independence, do not repeat the preface.” The preface – or Preamble – is the part which states that the only legitimate purpose of government, regardless of time, place or circumstance, is to secure the natural rights of the individual:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

According to Senator James Watson’s memoir, Teddy Roosevelt, in response to criticism that his Pennsylvania Plan regarding the Coal Strike of 1902 was unconstitutional, is quoted as saying, “To hell with the Constitution when the people want coal!”

President Bill Clinton is quoted as having said, in an August 12, 1993, speech:

“If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.”

And today, we have a President in Barack Obama, who views the Constitution as flawed and through eyes tainted by the teachings of not only Socialism – via his childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis, but the racism of Black Theology – via Trinity United Church and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Regarding the Constitution, Mr. Obama has stated,

“I think it is an imperfect document, and I think it is a document that reflects some deep flaws in American culture, the Colonial culture nascent at that time…

“African-Americans were not – first of all they weren’t African-Americans – the Africans at the time were not considered as part of the polity that was of concern to the Framers. I think…it was a ‘nagging problem’ in the same way that these days we might think of environmental issues, or some other problem where you have to balance cost-benefits, as opposed to seeing it as a moral problem involving persons of moral worth.

“And in that sense, I think we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and that the Framers had that same blind spot. I don’t think the two views are contradictory, to say that it was a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now, and to say that it also reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”

Regarding his racist tendencies, in his book, Dreams from My Father, Mr. Obama wrote,

“That’s just how white folks will do you…It wasn’t merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn’t know they were being cruel in the first place; or at least thought you deserving of their scorn.”

Today, as the United States Supreme Court contemplates the constitutionality of yet another Progressive expansion of governmental authority – and, yet again, another diminishing of our individual liberties – and as we can clearly see the fomentation of a potential race war in Florida at the hands of Progressive race-baiters, we have to ask ourselves some important questions: Do we really approve of the government and society that the Progressive Movement has delivered us? Is this the government we want to leave to our children; a government that tells us what we have to buy and eat, who are privileged and who are not, what we can say and where we can acknowledge our God?

The question put to all of us this coming election is not whether we are Democrat or Republican; Liberal or Conservative, it is whether we embrace liberty and freedom or cede both to further governmental encroachment upon individual sovereignty. Truth be told, our Founders and Framers started a revolution over this very question. I wonder if we will make them proud, or further disappoint them with our abdication of constitutional stewardship.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

Filed Under: 2012 Elections, Big Government, Commentary, Elections, Liberals, Obama, Politics, Socialism, Socialism, Socialism, Taxes Tagged With: Constitution, culture, Ethics, government, holder, New Black Panthers, Obama, Obamacare, progressive, racism, racist, Reid, rights, zimmerman

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When Did Honesty Become Optional?

February 18, 2012 By Frank Salvato Leave a Comment

Throughout time politicians and their handlers have been prone to omitting unpleasant facts or manipulating them so as to mold issues to their advantage. This is the concept behind “spin”; a form of propagandizing that crafts an “alternative” interpretation of an issue, organization, person, event or campaign in order to sway the public’s opinion “for” or “against” said issue, organization, person, event or campaign. In fact, the “art of spin” has created an entirely separate category of political animal; the “spin doctor,” many of whom are regularly featured on the many mainstream media news outlets disguised as “political strategists.” But somewhere along the line, the art of employing wit, reason, personality and persuasive rhetoric in order to achieve a political ends gave way to the blatant lie, and never before has it been as evident as it is today.

This political malady is not exclusive to one side of the aisle or the other. Neither is it exclusive to the elected class. In fact, some of the most egregious abusers of truth and honesty come in the form of agendized media operatives. It is an across-the-board problem that comes with the intellectual infections that are the “inside-the-beltway mentality” and the special interest mentality, both of which are shared by the elected class, the media who cover them and the special interest groups who try to sway them both.

In the Republican Primary Elections we have seen a good example of spin, and viciously so. In one of the most negative political cycles in recent times, we have witnessed each of the nominees unleash barrage after barrage of negative attacks ads against whomever they deem the threat of the day. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum, although not as blatant about their approval of such tactics, are just as guilty of partaking in the art of spin; in stretching the truth to achieve an ideological goal, as Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney. It can be argued that Mr. Romney is the biggest abuser, but I am sure that Romney supporters will spin that to their advantage.

But the Republican field’s negative campaigning and spinning of fellow candidates’ stances and records pales in comparison to the outright dishonesty that is coming from the Progressive Left, the media who supports them and the Obama Administration. Ironically, an unspoken penchant for decorum and civility kept the word “liar” – and the accusation of lying – from being employed just one short decade ago. Chronicling the genesis of this sad and reprehensible turn of events, one can point to the Progressive Left’s disingenuous assault of President George W. Bush with, “Bush Lied, Soldiers Died” as the moment it became acceptable to level the charge of “liar” against an elected official, never mind a sitting President. Although many may have thought it – and perhaps even known it – we, as a people, refrained from actually saying it.

Today, it doesn’t even garner an eyebrow-raise when the likes of US Rep. Maxine Waters (P-CA) calls Speaker of the House John Boehner or House Majority Leader Eric Cantor “liars.” Recently, the radically Progressive lawmaker went so far as to call the whole of the House Republican contingent “demons.” So much for the civility speech that President Obama gave after the shooting of US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.

Three recent events serve as perfect examples – three articles of evidence, if you will – of how the Progressive Left has “fundamentally transformed” the art of spin to a campaign of dishonesty, and, again, simply for the retention of political power.

The first item comes in the form of a declaration by the Obama White House that Catholic Charities USA stood with Mr. Obama and Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in support of their plan to mandate that the insurance companies of religious institutions provide free “contraception coverage” for all employees.

According to FOX News, the organization that Media Matters and the Progressive Left love to hate:

“Catholic Charities USA has occasionally been cited as a supporter of the new policy, after the administration announced last week it would no longer require religious organizations to directly offer contraceptive coverage to workers. That’s almost certainly because the White House listed the group on an official blog that cited ‘praise from a wide range of individuals and organizations’ for the policy change…

“But the organization has since posted a clarification on its website, after that statement was interpreted by some as an endorsement.

“‘We have not endorsed the accommodation to the HHS mandate that was announced by the administration last Friday,’ the group said. Rather, the group said it would ‘unequivocally share the goal’ of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to ‘uphold religious liberty. Any representation to the contrary is false,’ Catholic Charities said.”

It is interesting to note how the Obama White House cherry-picked and abbreviated a quote by Catholic Charities USA to fit their narrative. Catholic Charities USA had issued a statement saying it welcomed, “the administration’s attempt to meet the concerns of the religious community” and that they were “hopeful that this is a step in the right direction.” That’s a far cry from an endorsement or even convoluted support.

Out of this same subject came another assault against honesty, this time at the hand of habitual spinner and a Progressive operative herculean in her ability to weave fiction out of any given issue, Rachel Maddow.

On her MSNBC program, speaking on the Obamacare contraception mandate issue, Maddow said:

“In these 28 states there’s already State law that requires employers – including in many cases employers associated with religious institutions – to provide health insurance that covers contraception. That is already the law of the land in these 28 States.

“There is a reason you have not been deafened by the cries of outrage over that policy in these 28 States. It’s because no one in the Republican Party decided that that sort of thing would be an outrage until now – until they could somehow try to use it against President Obama even though they never cared about it before.

“Actually eight of those States that require health insurance to cover contraception – in these eight States there’s not even an exemption for churches. That’s true of all these Godless places you see here, like Georgia and Iowa and Montana.

“So, in fact, the Obama Administration’s proposed new rule on health insurance, which says religious institutions like churches do not have to provide health insurance that covers contraception – those new rules from the Obama Administration would actually give churches a new exemption from that law that they’ve never had before. In eight States the Obama Administration rule would carve out more space for churches to evade the rules that everyone else has to operate by, on the basis of their religious beliefs…

“I, personally, along with many other people across this country, along with eight States across the country, think it is bizarre that there should be religious belief exemptions from having to follow laws like this, but the Obama Administration is willing to go there. Their rules will exempt churches, which eight states right now don’t even do.”

There is so much wrong with this statement one can hardly find a place to begin. So, we are thankful that the Media Research Center captured one of Ms. Maddow’s own MSNBC colleagues, Lawrence O’Donnell, debunking the blatant lie foisted on the American public by Ms. Maddow and her production team:

“Now you’ve heard many, many times in the last couple of days that there are now 28 States that have passed [measures] similar to the regulation in the Obama healthcare law and that all of that has suddenly become so controversial.

“You’ve also been told – and I’ve been told – repeatedly on television that eight of those States have absolutely no exemptions to the law. None. No religious exemptions at all. No way out for Catholic churches, Catholic schools, Catholic hospitals…their stuck. And I’ve got to tell you, when I heard it, every time I heard it, it just didn’t sound right to me. And whenever I hear people in Washington or New York say what’s happening out there in the States, in some State law, in a place where they’ve never been, I just don’t believe them, and you shouldn’t either.

“…we spent the day today studying the statutes in the eight States that everyone is saying provide absolutely no exception. The other twenty States, everyone agrees, provides bigger, more comfortable exemptions for the Catholic Church, including Massachusetts, which has falsely been reported as being identical to the provision inserted into the federal law. In all of those other twenty State laws there’s an exemption big enough for the White House to drive through.

“Let’s look then at the Georgia law, which you’ve been told and I’ve been told, repeatedly, has absolutely no exemptions and does have that astonishingly Liberal sounding prose introduction to it that I just read.

“The Georgia Law actually says, ‘This code section shall not be construed to require coverage for prescription coverage benefits in any contract policy or plan that does not otherwise provide coverage for prescription drugs’…And there is the huge exemption to the Georgia law. You are exempt from it if your policy simply does not provide for prescription drugs. And so all religious institutions have to do in Georgia to avoid the requirement to provide birth control pills is to just not provide any drug benefit in their policies….which is true about an awful lot of policies out there anyway.”

Refreshing to have an MSNBCer calling one of their own out on the carpet.

But perhaps the quintessential example of governmental and political dishonesty came in the form of a statement Obama Chief of Staff Jack Lew made during a taping of CNN’s State of the Union, defending the blatant and grotesquely partisan obstructionism of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid where passing a budget is concerned:

“Let’s be clear, what Senator Reid is talking about is a fairly narrow point. In order for the Senate to do its annual work on appropriation bills they need to pass a certain piece of legislation which sets a limit. They did that last year. That’s what he’s talking about. He’s not saying they shouldn’t pass a budget, but we also need to be honest, you can’t pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without sixty votes and you can’t get sixty votes without bi-partisan support. So, unless Republicans are willing to work with Democrats in the Senate, Harry Reid is not going to be able to get a budget passed.”

Of course, there is one major thing wrong with that statement: it doesn’t take 60 votes to pass a budget in the US Senate.

As The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler points out in The Fact Checker:

“Lew is completely wrong when he claims that 60 votes are needed to ‘pass a budget in the Senate.’ As he well knows, a budget resolution is one of the few things that are not subject to a filibuster. In fact, that is one reason why a bill based on reconciliation instructions cannot be filibustered.

“You don’t even need 50 votes, just a simple majority. Here are a few of the recent close votes for the budget resolution, as listed by CRS: 48-45 (2009 budget); 51-49 (2006); 51-50 (2004); 50-48 (2001). Senate Democrats may have reasons for failing to pass a budget plan — such as wanting to avoid casting politically inconvenient votes — but a GOP filibuster is not one of them.”

It needs to be noted here – for those who don’t know his prior positions in federal government – that Mr. Lew was not only the most recent budget director for President Obama; he was also the budget director for former President Bill Clinton. That said, it is impossible for him not to have known that it does not take sixty votes to pass a budget resolution in the US Senate.

In fact, Mr. Lew made the statement repeatedly that day, pointing to a concerted effort to move that political talking point into the mainstream so as to manipulate the truth and, thereby, manipulating the public’s perception of the issue. The bottom line here is that the President of the United States’ Chief of Staff went on several national media outlets professing an out-and-out lie in order to confuse and manipulate the American people; solely for political gain.

Joseph de Maistre, a key figure of the Counter-Enlightenment and defender of hierarchical societies and monarchical States, in opining against a democratic form of government, whether a Direct Democracy of a Constitutional Republic, such is the United States, is quoted as saying: “Every country has the government it deserves.” Given the pathetic performance of the American Electorate in not only turning out the vote but in abdicating our constitutional obligation of governmental oversight, I’d say Monsieur de Maistre was spot on.

We talk a lot today about how we must act to save our country. To be sure, this action is incredibly necessary. We the People have allowed government to fall into the hands of nefarious men and women; partisans and opportunists; men and women more loyal to their political parties than to their constituents. We have an opportunity to right this wrong by enlightening ourselves to the many truths of the matters, by educating ourselves on the philosophies of the Charters of Freedom and then engaging in the process of electoral decision making and properly discharging our constitutional duties to governmental oversight.

We can also go a long way to “getting back to good” by making honesty and truthfulness election year issues. If we accept dishonesty from our elected officials and do nothing to right that wrong, then Monsieur de Maistre was right, we have the government we deserve.

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CATHOLICS FOR CHOICE CRY LIVES ARE AT RISK!! RACISM, SEXISM…

February 11, 2012 By Rebecca Diserio 2 Comments

At a National Press event, groups like “Catholics for Choice” and the “Reproductive Justice League” gathered to make statements about the HHS ongoing conundrum over Women’s Birth Control and Abortion Services’. Health & Human Services under Obamacare ordered Catholic Institutions to provide Birth Control and Abortions, something that goes against the very teachings of the Church. As the blowback by people of Faith leveled the Administration, Obama changed his mind and has said the Insurances will provide it, “maybe”. Upset over the flip-flop, Catholics for Choice, an unrecognized group at Catholic University came out full force to share their stories.

First up at the Press conference was Callie Otto, Catholic University Student and President of the group “Catholics for Choice”. Callie states she is not a practicing Catholic. She relates in a emphatic tone that her “Religious liberty to practice individual freedoms are being “trampled” and this is not acceptable”. HUH? Her Religious liberty…to practice individual freedoms…are being trampled…I don’t even know what that means–what does that mean Callie?? Callie states she pays 50,000 dollars a year tuition (I guess she didn’t get the free student loans from Obama?) and cries “for that kind of money shouldn’t I be able to get free birth control too?”

How can we still be so racist, sexist, misogynist? Callie can’t seem to get over “the discrimination”. Catholic University is “imposing their Religious beliefs on the Students by not providing Abortions and Birth Control on Campus”. Right, how can Catholic University not provide those things….what a bunch of haters!

Other speakers like Erik Orantes, who proudly stated he interned for Pelosi, was extremely upset. Mr. Orantes is also a student at that terrible Catholic University. Erik tells of students having to “hide” and be “shunned” who are looking for birth control, and of students “having to travel great distances to search and obtain birth control. (Erik & Gang- google- Clinics for Birth Control Washington DC area-wow 5 clinics- isn’t that just a big fat surprise? huh. Maybe the crazy kids google is “broken” too) Erik was also “appalled”, and called on “men of virtue to stand up” at all the “trampling of rights going on with the birth control issue in America!” And it goes on like that for about 20 minutes, with students from Georgetown and Fordham relating the same type shock and total utter hardship searching the Country for Birth Control.

The whole problem it seems, is that since they attend Catholic Universities which do not provide birth control, where are they to go? They can’t seem to find anywhere to get birth control, and they are extremely upset at those mean US Bishops who are to blame for their rights being trampled and their “lives at risk” over this situation. They state the Bishops blowback at Obama have caused the HHS to recant the order to the Catholic Church to pay for their employees and students Birth Control, Abortions, Abortifacients, which they call “Women’s Reproductive Rights”. One Student who stated her name was Sondra became teary eyed at the thought of her friend who has ovarian cysts, and no way to get birth control pills, and the pain, the pain she is experiencing hourly. Sondra yelled “And you, you US Bishops don’t suffer, you have no idea what suffering is”.

I called three Free Clinics and all three said with an ovarian cyst condition “if birth control pills were prescribed, they would be eligible for obtaining them for free”–if they made under 22,000 a year (one person). If they made over that amount the price would be at the most 50.00 a month. I was suffering just listening to the absurd thought of Law School Students being stumped on where to get Birth Control….but I guess its an epidemic.

One Keeley Monroe, added that as a freshman at Fordham she felt the need to almost put out a “cheesy want ad”. Keeley put the frustrations of the group like this “a cheesy want ad saying female looks for affordable contraception who is perfectly able of making that decision”. Cheesy as well of course, is this ad “capable female can’t find affordable contraception anywhere in America?”.

And, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was also a speaker. She is well known to in the Catholic world as a dissenter and an illogical one at that. In the Atlantic (Dec 9th 2011), she talked about the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which she made emphasis that it is “the Feast of the Conception of Mary—not Jesus”. She said that since “St. Anne and St. Joachim (naturally conceived Mary), then shouldn’t the Catholic Bishops realize woman have consciences and know when to conceive.” Now what does that mean…. Kathleen…. what does it meeaaan? I also had 12 years Catholic School, but I must have missed this class on all things relevant to rational thought on all things. The Kennedy clan, really need to think about calling themselves Catholic, they seem to think the Catholic Church’s doctrines and dogmas are up for a popular vote. The whole idea is laughable. What comes to mind are the dogs of Proverbs, and Peter 2:2 see link: wXWboJ

How about the freedom to chose to leave the Catholic Church? Or not go to a Catholic University? And do I have to say, I know it may be a stretch, but this isn’t about access of birth control, my God, 12 year olds can get ABORTIONS in California WITHOUT their parents even being notified. This of course, is about making individuals who are in charge of Religious Institutions, pay for what the Church has steadfastly deemed against it’s teachings. Moreover, this isn’t about Catholics, or ignorant illogical youths, its about undercutting Liberty. And they will keep coming. We must send the message that their irrational doublespeak, won’t be allowed to pass this time. We Americans won’t back down…we never do when it comes to Freedom.

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Counterfeit Conservatives – Newt Romney

January 24, 2012 By Scott Rohter 1 Comment

The Devil comes as an angel of light, and he sounds so much like a messenger from God that if it were possible, he would deceive even the very elect.

Of course it is not possible the Bible proclaims, because God is the guarantor of our salvation! But who or what is the guarantor of our personal freedom? In the United States, the Constitution is the great guarantor of our freedom!

But how can this amazing document, which is the greatest achievement of our Founding Fathers, who have long ago died, defend even one of our sacred liberties from the encroachments of living politicians who have more than once tried? The plain and simple truth is that no assemblage of mere words, no matter how lofty or high-minded they are, can defend us unless we are first willing to defend our Constitution. So like-minded conservatives and libertarians must insist upon strict compliance with the true meaning, and the clear intent of the Constitution!

The enemies of freedom are always those progressive politicians who try to twist and distort the Constitution to conform to their own progressive agenda! No one should be allowed to reconfigure or transform the Constitution to satisfy their own personal, or their Party’s goals!

Today, some so-called conservative pundits, and radio and TV talk show hosts, sound very much like real conservatives. But they are actually wolves in sheep’s clothing! They are trying to derail the TEA Party train! They are trying to suck the wind from the TEA Party’s sails! They use the same jargon that real conservatives use, and if it is possible, and you can count on the fact that it is possible, they will deceive the very conservative voters that they are trying to influence.

So who are these phony messengers of conservative principles? Well I’m sorry to say they are people you know and trust. They are media personalities that you have grown accustomed to hearing on the radio and television, and reading in the newspapers.

Rush Limbaugh is an avid golfer, and he is supposedly the most popular prophet of conservative values. He is someone who has made more than a small fortune over the years, leading his congregation of conservative voters, but he frequently leads his followers off into the rough, on the right side of the fairway where you can often find him on the weekends.

Sean Hannity can never seem to get to the end of his long list of progressives, liberals, and RINO Republicans that he is both willing and eager to showcase on his radio and TV programs. And if he ever does run out of new and interesting liberal guests to promote, then he will just go back to the beginning of his list and start over again. There is Dick Morris, Geraldo Rivera, Bob Beckel, Ann Coulter, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich, just to name a few.

Of course, we have all heard and watched Bill O’Reilly at FOX News over the years, position himself squarely in the middle on most issues, or straddling the fence so often that one could not be blamed for coming to the conclusion that he must wear a steel jock strap!

But what about the next generation of radio and TV talk show hosts, the ‘next-gen’ talkers? Laura Ingraham, I’m sorry to say is pushing her favorite progressive Republican, Newt Gingrich. Doug Urbanski was last heard promoting Mitt Romney as 2011 drew to a close, before his radio show was canceled.

The Midnight Radio Network clowns, which broadcast from the great State of Texas, a place that you would normally think is conservative, are a couple of phonies too, who are shilling for Newt Gingrich! How do I know that? I called their show once, and I tried to get just a few of the pertinent facts out about the disgraced former Speaker’s record. But they pushed the little red button that disconnected me before I could! Moments later after they jettisoned my call, they commented that if I wanted to trash Newt Gingrich, I should start my own website and do it there, but not on their show. So I actually have first-hand experience with those two phonies from Texas.

And I have taken their advice too. I started a website called NewtWorldOrderGingrich.com. The two Midnight Radio Network stooges disconnected me after only about 10 seconds on the air. This was after they had spent the first twenty minutes of their program in a monologue glorifying and praising Newt Gingrich as the only conservative who could actually beat Barack Obama. There must be a lot of pot-bellied pigs in Texas, because that sure is a lot of hogwash!

Any Republican candidate can beat Barack Obama. That’s why it is so important that we get behind a real conservative! We have a wonderful opportunity before us, if we can just get a real conservative to lead the Republican ticket.

Last but not least there is Mark Levin, a man who has a lot of intellectual and ideological influence among conservative voters, and a man I actually like listening to most of the time… But as we get closer to the actual date of the State Primaries, he seems to be reserving an awful lot of respect and support for guess who, Newt Gingrich!

The other day on his radio program, Mark Levin called Congressman Ron Paul, “A real nut job who can’t beat Obama.” Oh really! Does Mark Levin now think that he speaks for the entire nation? Let me remind him that he doesn’t even speak for the Republican Party! If Mark Levin thinks he has his hand on the pulse of America, and that he knows what most Republicans want, then maybe we should just let him pick the Republican nominee for us! After all it would certainly be a lot quicker and cheaper!

Levin has ramped up his attacks on Ron Paul. He has taken them to a whole new level of rancor. He has called Ron Paul a crackpot and a neo-confederate, whatever that means! That’s the first time I’ve ever heard that term used in so-called ‘civil’ discourse, broadly speaking. And he has called all of Ron Paul’s supporters jerks and morons.

If anyone is fracturing the Republican Party right now, it’s not Ron Paul! It’s people like Mark Levin with their hateful rhetoric. It sounds to me like he is getting very desperate. Ron Paul is not my first choice. I supported Michele Bachman, now Rick Santorum, and then Ron Paul! But if we don’t get a real conservative nominee this time, I’m ready to throw my support to Ron Paul as a Third Party candidate, no matter what anyone says! And the Republican Establishment better think long and hard before they try to shove another phony RINO Republican progressive down our throats again!

It seems to me that Ron Paul wouldn’t even get Mark Levin’s token support if he turns out to be the Republican Party’s nominee. Well that’s exactly the way I feel about Newt ‘World Order’ Gingrich! I will not support Newt Gingrich under any circumstances. I will not support a nominee who describes himself as a ‘Real Politik’ Wilsonian. I will not support someone who is a fan of author Alvin Toffler’s books, The Third Wave and Creating a New Civilization: the Politics of the Third Wave. I will not support a man who views our Constitution as an impediment or an obstacle that just gets in his way.

Newt once said, that in order to understand him you had to read Toffler’s book, The Third Wave. He is a big fan of Toffler’s ideas for a new world civilization. Toffler writes that our current form of government is obsolete, and that it must be replaced with something better, some new kind of government that will work for today. Those are the kind of ideas that Newt Gingrich is a big fan of! That is exactly what the far-left leaning political commentator, Fareed Zakaria believes too! And guess what? They are both members of the ‘forward-looking’, progressive thinking Council on Foreign Relations. I won’t vote for a progressive just because they happen to be a Republican, or because they might be one step better than an outright Marxist!

When Mark Levin isn’t openly ridiculing Ron Paul, he is being very disrespectful of the twelve-term Congressman. Levin refers to the Congressman as ‘Rue’ Paul, as in you will ‘rue the day you ever voted for him’. But although he denies it, Mark Levin is also doing a lot to advance the fortunes of Newt Gingrich, just by claiming that Mitt Romney is the official progressive Establishment candidate in the race. Levin says that Romney is a member of the Republican Establishment, while he totally ignores Newt Gingrich’s extensive Establishment credentials! Newt has a long record as a progressive ideologue, and a 22-year member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the House Minority Whip, and later the Speaker of the House, and the third in line of succession to the President. There is no bigger member of the progressive political Establishment than Newt ‘World Order’ Gingrich. See NewtWorldOrderGingrich.com. Also see Newt Worthy or Not, Newt Gingrich Update, and Newt Gingrich Consummate Politician and Progressive Establishment Republican.

We have far more to fear from another progressive like Newt Gingrich than we do from a strict constructionist like Congressman Ron Paul!

As far as Dr. Paul’s foreign policy goes, and as extreme as some of his foreign policy statements sound, there is no stricter adherent in Congress to the Constitution than Ron Paul! Even if you disagree with some of his more extreme foreign policy views, and I do, you still have to admit that his foreign policy positions over the years are far more in line with the views of our Founding Fathers (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison) than any other candidate who is running in the Republican Presidential Primary! With that said, we also live in a very different world today, and discretion should be the general order of the day. It is certainly the better part of valor!

Next, let’s talk about some phony conservative newspaper columnists. Let’s start out with one of Mark Levin’s acknowledged friends, former Democrat, Charles Krauthammer. A couple of months ago, Krauthammer told the TEA Party activists to pack it up and go home, when they were right in the middle of trying to keep the pressure up on Congress to make serious spending cuts in order to balance the Federal Budget and to reduce the Federal Debt and deficits.

Ultimately Congress did not make the necessary and serious spending cuts, and Krauthammer was perfectly okay with that. He told the TEA Party in his column that they had made their point, and they should just go home! Why? Because Charles Krauthammer is still a Democrat in his heart, and in his mind too, even though he prefers to register now as a Republican. He probably registers Republican just in order to pull our Party farther to the left too. See my article, Farther to the Left Too.

By the way, Mark Levin calls Charles Krauthammer his personal friend! Another one of Levin’s friends is political commentator and strategist, Bob Beckel. He actually still is a Democrat. They say birds of a feather flock together. Well I guess they really do!

George Will may never have been a Democrat before, but he frequently doesn’t sound like a real conservative either. He is so far removed from the average American voter, and buried so deep inside of the Washington Beltway, that he couldn’t tell the difference between a blue-collar worker and a blue light special.

So what about the primary cause of all of this debate and divisiveness, Newt Gingrich, the disgraced former Speaker of the House? Newt has such a long political record that all you have to do is read what he has done in the past, in order to know what he will do in the future.

Newt describes himself as a ‘Real Politik’ Wilsonian, and he said in 1995 that if you wanted to understand him, you had to read The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler. This book advocates for a progressive new world order, in which adultery, homosexuality, and other forms of immorality are all considered to be perfectly normal and even desirable! That’s something that Newt Gingrich knows a lot about! For anybody that doesn’t know history, Woodrow Wilson was a progressive Democratic President in the early 1900s, who was as far to the left in his lifetime as Barack Obama is today. See Chronicling America’s Progressive Slide to Socialism. Newt referred to himself as a ‘Real Politik’ Wilsonian!

All of these people are Mark Levin’s friends to one degree or another: Ann Coulter, Charles Krauthammer, Bob Beckel, Sean Hannity, and of course the ever-present Rush Limbaugh. Together they form a very formidable defense of the status quo, and of the Establishment. This almost impenetrable defensive line has been assembled in order to block you, and manipulate you, the Republican voters! Together they probably reach 40 to 50 million Americans every day, with their counterfeit conservative message! Mark Levin and the rest of his friends are so deep into Newt Gingrich’s public relations campaign that you would have to drag them to the surface with an trans-Atlantic underwater cable!

Finally in closing, I would like to encourage you to think about the whole issue of taxation from a slightly different perspective than the one that is usually presented by the mainstream media (FOX News included). Everyone is talking about taxes today, whether we should raise them or lower them, or leave them basically the same. One side claims that we need to raise taxes. The other side says that we need to lower taxes across the board, in order to avert disaster. Both sides are concentrating their message on how taxes directly affect middle-income people and families. However, they are both failing to point out the effect that tax revenues have on our Federal Government, a.k.a. Frankenstein.

If you want to reduce the size and the impact of this Federal monster, then you must not allow the Federal Government to increase its revenues, by any means, no matter where the money comes from! Whether it comes from rich people, or middle class people, it still goes right into the same old pockets to feed the same insatiable appetite, and to satisfy the addiction to revenue of our Federal Government! See my article, Addicted to Revenue.
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Raiding of the Treasury to Bribe the Irresponsible

January 13, 2012 By Frank Salvato 1 Comment

A little publicized political story, if played out to the satisfaction of California Democrats (read: Progressives), would not only set the stage for a politically motivated raid on the US Treasury, it would afford President Obama, his administration and political operatives plausible deniability in any “coincidental” benefit to Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign. And if you don’t think that has David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett and David Plouffe salivating, you haven’t been paying attention for the past three years.

According to a report by TheHill.com:

“A long list of California Democrats is urging President Obama to name a new housing regulator using a controversial recess appointment.

“In a letter to the president, more than two dozen House members said the temporary head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Edward DeMarco, simply hasn’t done enough to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure. The lawmakers are pushing the president to name a permanent director ‘immediately.’

“‘FHFA has consistently and erroneously interpreted its mandate far too narrowly and as such has failed to take adequate action to help homeowners,’ the lawmakers wrote. ‘Installing a permanent director of the FHFA will allow the FHFA to move forward to make key decisions that will help keep families in their homes and improve our economy.’”

Okay, let’s first examine the FHFA. According to their website:

“The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) was created on July 30, 2008, when the President signed into law the Housing & Economic Recovery Act of 2008. The Act gave FHFA the authorities necessary to oversee vital components of our country’s secondary mortgage markets – Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks…FHFA’s mission is to provide effective supervision, regulation and housing mission oversight of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks to promote their safety and soundness, support housing finance and affordable housing, and support a stable and liquid mortgage market…”

The reason the California congressional delegation is pushing for a permanent replacement for Mr. DeMarco has little to do with the well-being of California’s citizens whose mortgages are both underwater or in foreclosure. It has everything to do with 2012 being an election year. The California delegation’s letter to President Obama urging the so-called “recess appointment” of a new FHFA director presents as a gift to the Obama re-election effort. I say “so-called recess appointment” because the US Senate is in pro-forma session and it is unconstitutional for the president to make recess appointments when either house of Congress is in session. I and the rest of the Conservative and Republican rank-and-file are still waiting for congressional Republicans to do something about the initial round of “recess appointments.” Of course, one needs a spine to stand-up to a bully, so we probably shouldn’t hold our collective breath.

I say that the letter presented to the President and his team is a gift because it is a win-win situation that indirectly provides enormous benefit to his re-election campaign.

Should Mr. Obama make an unconstitutional recess appointment to fill the FHFA directorship, the director would be able to take action, almost immediately, to mandate the re-negotiation of any and/or all of the mortgages held by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks. That mandate could literally include the forgiveness of sizable portions of monies due to those organizations by mortgage holders who are either underwater, on the bubble of foreclosure or both. This is, effectively, an exercise in debt forgiveness…without the tax liability for the borrower.

Debt forgiveness, by definition, is:

“…a reduction in loan value where a loan is discounted from its original principal or charged off as a bad debt…Under IRS rules [the amount of the reduction] is reportable as income to the borrower for loans discounted or charged off.”

Because this move by the FHFA would be recognized as a mandated re-negotiation of the loan, the borrower wouldn’t be subjected to the IRS rules pertaining to debt forgiveness. That leaves this question: How would Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks recoup the monies lost in mortgage re-negotiations? If you answered, “from the federal government” or “from the US taxpayers,” give yourself a gold star. The mandated re-negotiated mortgages would literally facilitate a raid on the US Treasury by the Obama Administration under the guise of affordable housing and the “correcting” of the mortgage industry.

Now, here’s the part that makes David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett and David Plouffe drool.

Being the narcissistic political opportunist that Barack Obama has demonstrated himself to be, any of the so-called “political strategist” talking heads seen blathering on nightly on your cable news channel of choice could tell you that as soon as the first reduced mortgage bills are sent to the “rescued” (read: bailed-out, or, better yet, bribed) voters…er, excuse me, borrowers, Mr. Obama will be on television, radio, in print and on the Internet trumpeting how his administration “saved” or “thwarted the foreclosure of” hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of family homes.

I can hear it now:

“This morning, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, initiated a plan to save the homes of millions of Americans who were tricked, deceived or otherwise forced into signing on to home mortgages unfairly by the greed merchants of the Wall Street One-Percent. Exacting social justice on these filthy Capitalists, the FHFA director has ordered the heads of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks to renegotiate any and all home mortgages that are either underwater or on the brink of foreclosure. While I had nothing to do directly with this decision, I did, in my infinite wisdom, appoint the director and, therefore, am due your support in my bid for re-election to the presidency of the United States. Thank you very much and goodnight. Be sure to tip your bartenders and waitresses on your way out. They work hard. You’ve been great.”

Sir Alex Fraser Tytler, a Scottish lawyer, writer and Professor of Universal History, and Greek & Roman Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh, is quoted as saying:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship…”

To clarify, the United States of America is not a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic with a democratic electoral system, that understood, Tytler’s axiom still holds true. Once the voting public realizes that they can elect pillagers to office who have no problem achieving full political cowardice in their sycophancy to special interest voting blocs, the gates to the Treasury are no longer secure and the Republic is doomed.

It is for this reason that two events simply must take place.

First, congressional Republican leadership must – immediately – cease being the gaggle of spineless political geldings that they have been since Mr. Obama took office. They must challenge, in every way, shape and form the unconstitutional (read: illegal) recess appointment of Richard Cordray atop the newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Mr. Obama’s recent appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. This opposition should include consideration of a radical move: organizing a congressional walk-out, ala the tactics of the Democrat lawmakers in Wisconsin and Indiana, who brought those state legislatures to a halt over the legitimate limitations imposed on public-sector labor unions in those states by the duly elected.

And second, Republicans simply must become more aggressive with branding issues, with messaging. This would be a perfect opportunity to get ahead of the message; to frame the issue before the Progressive “history re-writing machine” gets a chance to sell the American public a bill of goods that is fundamentally Socialist in nature (redistribution of wealth is a Socialist tool to placate the masses). Sadly, if the same message wizards in the GOP hierarchy execute their status quo they will once again find themselves on the defensive and operating from a disadvantaged position, just as with the tax-cut extension issue, the deficit issue, the entitlement reform issues, the budget issue, etc.

Should the Republican leadership – both in Congress and at the RNC – refuse to take this battle on with the intention of winning without compromise, we can all be sure that Mr. Obama and his team of Progressive anti-Capitalists will “fundamentally transform” the raiding of the US Treasury – disguised as an affordable housing initiative – into a dedicated voting bloc come November 2012. If the Republican leadership – both elected and at the Party level – allow this to happen then the subsequent demise of the Republic becomes the GOP’s legacy to the human race.

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America’s Dark Mood

January 8, 2012 By Alan Caruba Leave a Comment

By Alan Caruba

It is possible for an entire nation to suffer depression? Not the financial, but the emotional kind.

I have not spoken to anyone, however, that has expressed any optimism about the state of the nation and the air is full of conspiracy theories regarding what new action Barack Obama might take. The most popular of these is that he will declare “a national emergency” in order to assert powers that would put him in control of the nation without reference or consultation with Congress.

I would have dismissed such a notion in the past, but Obama genuinely scares me and a lot of other people as well. An example of this was the great surge in gun sales that led up to Christmas. Guns are not generally regarded as the kind of gift you find under the Christmas tree unless you’re a hunter or shooting sportsman.

I cannot shake off the memory of the march on Washington in 2009 when an estimated million Americans gathered there to peacefully protest the pending passage of Obamacare. The President’s chief political advisor, David Axelrod, dismissed the gathering saying, “They’re wrong.” That’s beyond arrogance. It signals contempt for the way a democracy works.

They were not wrong and the Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing in March in response to 26 U.S. State Attorney Generals who filed suit to have Obamacare declared unconstitutional. The manner in which the then-Democrat controlled Congress forced the bill through to passage was scary, along with then-Speaker Pelosi’s statement that we just would have to read the bill “to find out what’s in it.” It was apparent that none of members of Congress who voted for it had bothered to do that.

What’s scary, too, is that Congress has provided the presidency with all manner of virtually dictatorial powers that were intended to be evoked only in the event of a major, national crisis. Even following 9/11 these powers were not used to hamper news coverage, freedom of travel, and other aspects of our lives. 9/11, however, was followed by the Patriot Act and many of us continue to have grave misgivings about some of its provision.

A more recent piece of legislation that permits the President to authorize the seizure, arrest and imprisonment of anyone deemed an enemy of the state is scarier still. Obama says he would not use such powers but modern history is filled with examples of dictators that did.

So, yes, America is in a very dark mood these days. New Hampshire’s citizens are poised to vote for a Republican to be that party’s candidate for the presidency. Adopted in 1945, at the end of World War Two, New Hampshire’s state motto is “Live free or die.” It is my hope that other Americans feel the same way.

Suffice to say that Barack Hussein Obama is not like any other President in the history of the nation. It is more than a little frightening that this unknown quantity was so carefully “packaged” that, along with a mainstream media that were literally enthralled with him, enough voters were found to elect him.

A lot of those voters were young and likely unaware of U.S. history, the Constitution, and the principles by which the nation is intended to be governed. A lot of those young voters, now a bit older, looking for jobs that don’t exist, living at home still, and perhaps also saddled with huge college loan debt may not vote at all or vote for anyone but Obama.

The other group that was instrumental in his victory was African-Americans and one wonders if a majority among them have had a change of heart. I doubt it. A third group was union members and the civil service unions and others have benefited greatly from his Administration despite growing opposition at the state level.

It is worth keeping in mind that there is a hard core of 25% to 30% of voters who are blindly liberal and utterly immune to facts or reality. The “Occupy” movement drew from this group and they quickly wore out their welcome wherever they gathered. If enough liberals are disheartened by their personal situation, they too may not turn out in large numbers to vote.

As for the GOP, it has become fractionalized by its libertarian segment, its evangelical Christian segment, and by what was a cohesive Tea Party conservative segment. They need to set aside their differences to elect a candidate who can defeat Obama and I am inclined to believe that the closer we get to Election Day, they will.

As with any depression, one has to shake it off and find ways to turn dark moods in to bright tomorrows. That’s America’s job. We have done it in the past and we can do it again.

Filed Under: 2012 Elections, Commentary, Corruption, Liberals, Media, National, Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: Barack Obama, Republican Party, US Constitution, US economy

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Blinded by the Left: How Marxists Wrote Ron Paul’s Defense Cuts Plan

January 8, 2012 By Trevor Loudon 3 Comments

While many conservatives admire Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s principled economic and constitutional views, they are often bamboozled, even appalled, by the Texan’s defense and foreign policy ideas.

Ron Paul

It seems, that when it comes to defense, Ron Paul is stuck in 1776. He seems not to realize that America’s enemies, real or potential, Russia and China, and Iran chief among them, have a very long reach. The continental US is only partially protected by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The enemy can now attack the American homeland with ICBMs, biological weapons, cyber warfare, dirty bombs smuggled across the Mexican border – any number of deadly methods of mass destruction.

Just as frontier forts had outposts to warn of Indian attack, the US needs people all over the world to protect not just her friends and allies, but the American homeland itself.

Why then does Ron Paul, a man so rational in many areas, have such a blind spot when it comes to US national security?

In my opinion, Ron Paul’s justified distrust of the growth of government power in many unconstitutional areas has irrationally succumbed to an antipathy towards federal government activity in one of its few legitimate areas – national defense.

Further, Ron Paul’s libertarian suspicion of big government defense spending, has been deliberately fostered and encouraged by the most anti-libertarian elements in the land – the US hard left.

Ron Paul and many Libertarians think they can work with Marxists to achieve libertarian ends.

The hard bitten Leninists and disciplined Marxists of the left know they can use naive Libertarians to achieve their ends – particularly to gut America’s defenses, to the benefit of their foreign masters.

In short, the US left is using Ron Paul and other Libertarians, to do what their armies and intelligence services have long dreamed of – destroy America’s military superiority and with it, US national sovereignty.

By promoting the left’s defense policies, Ron Paul, a man of patriotism beyond question, could be unknowingly betraying his own country to its enemies.

The degree to which Ron Paul buys into leftist anti-defense views was well illustrated in 2010.

That year, The Sustainable Defense Task Force was formed in response to a request from far left Massachusetts Democratic Representative Barney Frank, Ron Paul and Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, to “explore possible defense budget contributions to deficit reduction efforts that would not compromise the essential security of the United States.”

What did the much heralded report recommend?

The Task Force’s proposals included cutting nuclear deterrence, reducing the fleet by 57 ships, including two carriers, canceling the Joint Strike Fighter, “severely curtail[ing] missile defense” (a direct quote from the report), retiring four Marine battalions, reducing the military by 200,000 personnel, cutting defense research spending by 50 billion over ten years and increasing health care fees for military personnel.

Daniel Greenfield of the excellent Sultan Knish blog, points out that many of the groups contributing to the report were funded by the notorious leftist billionaire, George Soros.

But Soros was not the only sinister influence here. Several report contributors had direct ties to the Marxists of Democratic Socialists of America and indirect ties to the Communist Party USA . Members of both organizations have been convicted of spying for hostile foreign powers. Both have ties to radical regimes such as Cuba and Venezuela. Both want to overturn US capitalism and replace it with Marxist socialism.

Other contributors have ties to the ultra-leftist Institute for Policy Studies, once described by British analyst Brian Crozier, as the “perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB.”

Another associated with the Council for a Livable World – America’s oldest and best funded ‘peace” Political Action Committee. The Council was founded in 1962 by Hungarian expatriate Leo Szilard, a former Manhattan Project physicist, a Marxist and a reported Soviet spy. Council for a Livable World has helped finance hundreds of pro-”peace” leftists into office, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Sustainable Defense Task Force initiators Barney Frank and Ron Wyden.

Barack Obama in 1994, with Council for a Livable World chairman, and Democratic Socialists of America affiliate , Jerome Grossman

On February 4, 2010, the Council for a Livable World announced that David Bonior would become the next chair of PeacePAC, the organization’s arm that endorses candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives. At the time, Bonior commented:

“I am honored to be selected as the next chairman of PeacePAC. I look forward to working with the experts on the committee’s Board of Directors to endorse and help elect strong, progressive candidates in the 2010 elections.

A former Democratic Party Whip, Bonior has, since 2007, been an open member of Democratic Socialists of America.

The Project on Defense Alternatives coordinated the work of the Task Force. Carl Conetta drafted the main body of the Task Force report in ongoing consultation with Task Force members who “developed or digested proposals from the diverse sources cited in the report.” A sub-committee of the Task Force reviewed the final draft before publication. Conetta was assisted in overseeing the report by his Project on Defense Alternatives co-director and fellow Task Force member Charles Knight – a long time member of Democratic Socialists of America.

D.S.A. member, and report author Charles Knight

Knight wrote an article for Boston Democratic Socialists of America’s The Yankee Radical of October 2001, entitled “Defense Budget Blues”:

It is important to note that George Bush has now fully joined the ranks of wartime Keynesians. He has a majority coalition with Democrats to spend the country out of the recession it is now entering. In the short term the left in this country cannot hope to advance a better option. We must instead focus on deepening our analysis and story of this time in history so that when our country tires of vengeful war and its repercussions we have done the groundwork to lead the country in a different direction.

Part of that story should be that 90+% of military investments have nothing to do with countering terrorism or with defending our homeland and that if we desire not to be a target of terrorist hate in the future we need to change our country’s stance in the world.

The economic self-interest of contractors is an important fact of the political economy, but the central impetus for high military budgets comes from the utility of military power to US elites in their efforts to enhance their position of dominance across the globe. We are seeing that power in action now.

Nevertheless, I believe that the majority of Americans do not share that interest in dominance with conservative elites. We must learn to provide a viable security option for this majority of Americans.

Connetta and Knight’s organization is the lead project of the Boston based Commonwealth Institute.

Interestingly, four of the Institute’s seven board members have been identified members of Democratic Socialists of America – Charles Knight, Richard Healey, Guy Molyneux and Cynthia Ward. A fifth, S. M. Miller, has at least been a long time D.S.A. affiliate. Richard Healey is the son of the famous, late California communist Dorothy Healey and is a former staffer with the Institute for Policy Studies. Healey also serves on the board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, which is run by the sons of executed Soviet “atom bomb spies,” Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

One notable former board member of the Project on Defense Alternatives was Dr. Philip Morrison, Professor, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who died in April 2005. Morrison had been a Communist Party member, a Manhattan Project scientist and was suspected of being a Soviet spy – code names: “Relay” or “Serb.”

Other Taskforce members also had known radical associations:

William D. Hartung: Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, a leftist “think tank” headed by Steve Coll, a former Occidental College contemporary of Barack Obama’s. Hartung also serves on the Advisory Committee ^,of Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.

Christopher Hellman: National Priorities Project, which is a partner organization of the Institute for Policy Studies. The N.P.P. “analyzes and clarifies federal data” so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent. Board members include Jen Kern, of the D.S.A. front American Rights at Work, who previously worked in the ACORN national office, “providing research support for local ACORN organizers nationwide on issues from insurance and banking discrimination to jobs, education and minimum wage,” two Task Force members – Paul Kawika Martin and Miriam Pemberton, an Albany New York academic Lawrence Wittner, a member of Democratic Socialists of America and Connecticut academic Vijay Prashad, a long time affiliate of the Communist Party USA.

Heather Hulburt: National Security Network and a senior adviser with leftist New York “think tank” Demos, also a partner organization of the Institute for Policy Studies. Incidentally, both Barack Obama and his former communist “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones, are former Demos Trustees, while Demos CEO Miles Rapoport has a long history with D.S.A.

Judith LeBlanc with Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat, 2002

Paul Kawika Martin: Political & Communications Director with Peace Action, the US’ largest “peace” umbrella group. Peace Action was formerly known as the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, a well documented communist front. Mr. Martin “uses his expertise on nuclear weapons, international relations and US foreign policy to mobilize Peace Action’s 100,000 members and lobby Congress for social change.” His recent travels include trips to Cuba and Iran. Martin also works very closely with Judith LeBlanc, who is Peace Action’s national field organizer. LeBlanc is a vice-chair of the Communist Party USA and chairs it’s Peace and Solidarity Commission, the body charged with directing the US “peace movement” and liaising with foreign communist and terrorist organizations. Most recently, LeBlanc was organizing Peace Action activist to lobby the Senate “Committee of 12″ to institute massive defense spending cuts.

Laicie Olson: Senior policy analyst Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and board member of Council for a Livable World.

Miriam Pemberton: Institute for Policy Studies and the peace and security editor for Foreign Policy in Focus. Pemberton leads a group that produces the annual “Unified Security Budget for the United States.” Other recent publications include, “The Budgets Compared: Military vs. Climate Security.” She has authored two reports comparing the budgets for military and climate security in FY2009 and FY2010 and with William Hartung published “Lessons From Iraq: Avoiding the Next War.”

Prasannan Parathasarathi: Founder of the 25% Solution, which is “building a citizen movement for cuts in the Pentagon budget.” Parathasarathi is married to fellow Boston College academic and long time Democratic Socialists of America member, Juliet Schor. Incidentally Schor was one of several D.S.A. and Institute for Policy Studies leaders who set up the radical New Party in the early 1990s. One of their most well known and successful members was Barack Obama. The Coalition for Peace Action‘s 32nd Annual Conference for Peace was held on November 13, 2011 at Princeton University. The Conference was entitled “Smart Security: Reducing Military Spending to Fund Urgent Needs at Home.” The event featured talks from Dr. Prasannan Parthasarathi and Judith LeBlanc of the Communist Party, who “encouraged the audience to be hopeful about our political progress and to be involved with the current Occupy movements around the country.”

Prasannan Parthasarathi , left, Judith Leblanc, center

Clearly Ron Paul and Barney Frank’s Sustainable Defense Task Force was totally dominated by the hard left – people with an interest in transforming America through socialist revolution.

How did Ron Paul get sucked into this leftist scam? Did he not care who wrote his country’s defense policies? Did he not do “due diligence” on the people he entrusted with such a huge responsibility?

Either Ron Paul was extremely negligent in checking the bona fides of those he entrusted with such a vital responsibility or he just didn’t care that anti-American Marxists were involved.

I think Ron Paul was probably negligent. He was so blinded by his own prejudices, that he was willing to do a deal with the devil to get publicity for his cause.

That a serious contender for the presidency of the United States could be so careless over such a vital issue speaks volumes about his judgment.

Ron Paul may have been blinded by the left, but he is guilty of at least partially closing his eyes of his own accord. Candidate Paul should publicly admit his error and vow never to repeat it, or he should leave the presidential race and return to Congress.

Ron Paul is the best there is on financial and economic matters. That is the field where he can best serve his country and the cause of liberty.

Unfortunately, he clearly doesn’t have the understanding of defense issues required of a man who aspires to the highest office in the free world.

Filed Under: Big Government, Corruption, Defense, Economy, Elections, Liberals, Local Politics, National, Politics Tagged With: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Headline, Social Movements, Socialism/Communism, Socialist Opinion Shapers

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