Thursday, April 30, 2009

Will Obama sell the Statue of Liberty?

It’s difficult to understand what all the fuss was about when the CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen,recited the Enchanted Kingdom Party line to a Tea Party protester in Chicago. It must have been a slow news day.

The same week Speaker Pelosi was caught lying about her tacit approval of water boarding after demanding that every man, woman, child and insect involved with enhanced interrogation be prosecuted.

A CNN reporter chanting the Obama dogma and Pelosi, a politician, employing doublespeak to conceal the truth are as extraordinary as a choreographed news conference dominated by a teleprompter.

And who would have guessed that Senator Arlen Specter was a closet Democrat? His official shift from the Republican to the Democrat Party won’t change the vote count in the Senate. He was Reid’s right-hand rubber stamp.

The change smells like the little weasel had pretty much figured out he was persona non grata among Republicans in Pennsylvania.

Maine’s two Senators should do the same. Again, they are about as conservative as Barney Frank. Although, in fairness, they dress better, don’t slur their words and aren’t running gay brothels in their DC digs.

And Senator Dianne Feinstein guiding $25 billion in federal funds into her husband’s company, the CB Richard Ellis Group, was a stroke of luck. Who could have guessed that the value of the $10 million of company stock they purchased a few days before the announcement would go up forty percent.

Talk about a profitable coincidence. Of course, in fairness, maybe she didn’t know the name of her husband’s company. The mainstream media doesn’t see a smoking gun here. Maybe the deal was just beginners luck. Whatever the case, it seems being a Senator is better than playing the lottery.

The Heritage Foundation did the arithmetic on the cost of granting the 13 million illegal aliens amnesty. Relax! By the time they die amnesty will only cost the taxpayers a paltry $3.6 trillion in welfare, unless they bring all their relatives. In that case it gets expensive.

The upfront cost for amnesty is only $1.2 trillion. What’s another one trillion dollars in deficits between neighbors? Come on! They’re doing their share. It’s not easy spreading the swine-flu across the globe. And here you thought they weren’t productive contributors to the GDP.

And you will love this. Congress is working overtime to bring in a few million temporary workers to share the abundance of jobs created by Mr. Obama, Pelosi and Reid. Maybe that’s what Air Force One was doing when it buzzed New York City.

It was probably gathering promotional footage for an ad linking Mr. Obama to the fiscal and security benefits the US offers to foreign workers. They wanted to film it before the nation had to sell the Statue of Liberty back to the French to reduce the deficit.

Of course, the transaction would also shrink the cost of national security by eliminating one of the Islamic Terrorist’s targets. That sounds like a plan that Obama could hide behind.

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