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Open Letter to Congress.

Posted on March 24, 2009 by | 14 Comments

Dear Congress,

Stop. Right now.

Stop forcing legislation through faster than you can read it. No one actually thinks you read the stimulus. And we’re pretty hacked off about it, too.

Stop spending $1 billion a day. It’s not your money, and you’ve made it pretty apparent that you’re not even sure where it’s being spent. See: AIG debacle.

Stop raging about AIG. We know you don’t care. Your faux anger is entirely out of proportion, and we still don’t believe that you care about wasting taxpayer dollars.

I’m listening, Princess Pelosi. And apparently hearing things you aren’t. We DO hold you and Chris Dodd and Barney Frank and the rest of Congress responsible for things like this. You signed the bill that put the bonus protections in place. So, the options are that you either read it and were okay with it, or you didn’t read it at all – neither is flattering. Your idea of correcting them? Signing an entirely unConstitutional Bill of Attainder into effect to cover it up.

Stop. Just stop what you’re doing. Think about the ramifications. Can we sustain this budget? Can we sustain the spending? As I said in my American Issues piece yesterday, the answer is no. From Fox:

Deficits under his policies would exceed 4 per cent of the overall economy over the next 10 years, a level White House budget director Peter Orszag says is not sustainable.

The result, says the budget office, would be an ever-expanding national debt that would exceed 82 per cent of the overall economy by 2019 — double last year’s level — and threaten the nation’s financial stability.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – socialism will fail here, just like it did everywhere else in the world. Why do we insist on repeating failed experiments? I certainly don’t have faith that this administration can pull off what no one else in the history of the world has been able to accomplish.

So, Nancy Pelosi, et al, I say again, stop the bleeding.

Just stop.

Signed,

Tab.

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What I Learned From The Media…

Posted on November 18, 2008 by | 1 Comment

Here are some post-election polls that DO matter… if only because they bring light to the ignorance surrounding this election.

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Clearly, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are non-factors to people. And Palin was the fall back for any stupid comment that was made – including Obama’s 57 states comment, Biden’s plagiarism, etc.

These weren’t fools that Howard Stern grabbed off the street, who may or may not have been voting (although, the results were pretty similar). Had the media done it’s job, this race would have been much more interesting to watch. Here’s the Stern audio, and a segment from Anna’s fabulous entry in response to it:

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I’m uncomfortable with voters choosing a “brand” instead of choosing policy that actually lines up with what they think. In the following clip, reporters with the Howard Stern show ask Obama supporters why they choose him over McCain, substituting McCain’s policies (pro-life, staying in Iraq until “victory” is reached) for Obama’s. The supporters agree specifically with McCain policy when it’s presented as belonging to Obama. This is NOT OK.

Now, yes, the election is over. At this point, how he got there is irrelevant. However, if the media continues to bury truth, which we have every reason to believe it will, Obama has eliminated any accountability with the people of the United States. Not only does he have a near-filibuster proof (filibuster proof if you count his new friend McCain, as well as a few other RINOs…) Senate, the House, and 3 supreme court appointments to make, he has the entire US media cleaning up after him and spinning until the people reporting the truth don’t even know what it is anymore.

The job of the media is supposed to be unbiased reporting of the news – the good, the bad and the ugly. However, during the epic media breakdown that was this election, few would argue that they were “fair and balanced”. These videos show us that the average American gets their news from mainstream media and doesn’t do the research. Is it possible to make the best decision based on false or partial knowledge? No. Let’s check out the Zogby polls, just to illustrate:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet…..

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

97% high school grads, and more than half had completed college. These were not Stern’s streets of Harlem examples. Can we blame them? Naturally I want to say yes! Yes! Read! Learn! But, is it really a horrible thing to believe that the media is doing their job? I mean, most people don’t have the time to spend hours a day researching and analyzing things people say and watch speeches. Media, do your job. Meanwhile, bloggers, speak truth. Hopefully our voices will be heard.

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Obama's Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel.

Posted on November 8, 2008 by | 4 Comments

Rahm Emanuel. Obama’s first appointment as president-elect. A cog in the Chicago machine, Clinton’s advisor for his first primary campaign, blah blah blah… exactly what we’d expect.  An Illinois Senator, worked for the Clinton campaign for over a decade, and notoriously hotheaded and profane.

A couple stories seem to keep surfacing. My favorite is the steak knife fiasco. Times Online recounts the infamous tale:

At a dinner to celebrate Bill Clinton’s first presidential victory – Mr. Emanuel was his chief fundraiser – he began to reel off the names of those who had ‘crossed’ him. He grabbed a steak knife and began plunging it into the table shouting “Dead! Dead! Dead!” after each name.

Fabulous. Clearly Obama’s even temper will balance him out. Right? I’m not buying the “take no prisoners” persona. This guy is a loose cannon. I suppose we’d expect nothing less, however. His profane, hyper-active attack dog style is being billed by supporters as a valuable asset. What better guy to be a gate-keeper to the Oval Office… right?

He’s also getting credit for his fundraising abilities. Obama, we’ve been through this, you’ve already won. Relax, okay? You don’t need another $650 million, you’ve got all of our tax dollars to spend now. Please spare us another corrupt fundraising debacle.

Not to mention this quote from his 2006 tome, The Plan: Big Ideas for America:

It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.

Here’s how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They’ll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we’re hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities’ most pressing needs.

Remember all the anti Bushies railing against the idea of a draft? Likely the same people that voted for Obama? Right. Not only does this play into Obama’s plan of slashing military defense and relying on a civilian defense group (a la Gestpo, KGB… take your pick…), it is an action that effects more Americans than a draft ever would. It depletes the voluntary basis of military service, while instituting what can be deemed indentured service.

This administration is going to be a trainwreck of epic proportions. I can’t wait for Secretary of Education Ayres, Secretary of Treasury Frank… it should be a fun game. Any predictions?

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