Happy New Year

Happy New Year! The year 2010 looks more promising than 2009 for the industrious Americans who hope capitalism, the Constitution and Christianity can survive the Obama, Pelosi and Reid socialist cabal.

The Democrats in Congress are in full retreat. Obama Care will destroy the political careers of many in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Those seated in the Red and Purple States wishing to survive will not support Cap & Trade and blanket amnesty.

When the electorate discovers that a large portion of the cost of providing health care for the extra 30 million people is being dropped on state governments, which will require huge property and income and sales tax increases, the eyes of the tax crazed Democrats will be frozen in the headlights.

The Democrats' definition of revenue neutral is hypocrisy wrapped in lies and studded with fantasyland projections. If they pass Obama Care the cost of health care will grow in indirect proportion to the quality. Policy holders and Medicare recipients are going to get hammered. The income of the young and healthy will disappear in front of their eyes.

Few Democrats are bragging about the merits of the $878 billion Stimulus Package. It's no longer part of their lexicon. Likewise, they aren't talking about the masterful job Obama and company have done creating non-government jobs. And you can bet your last dollar they are not about to praise the Department of Homeland Securities Secretary, Janet Napolitano.

Of course, they haven't reformed. The coffers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being reloaded so unqualified home buyers and Democrats can con the public out of another $200 to $300 billion. It makes the Wall Street bonuses, which outrage their ethical standards, chump change by comparison.

The Obama "speak softly and burn the stick" international policy debut has crashed and burned. Only an arrogant, narcissist would have entered the field of battle in his birthday suit. Our enemies are shaking in their boots, doubled over in laughter.

The overall B+ Obama gave himself adds a whole new dimension to grade inflation. In fairness, he deserves an A+ for deficit growth, an A++ for the policies that have stopped the job recovery, and an A+++ for mastering the teleprompter. The grade of F- pretty much covers all other aspects of his first year in the Oval Office.

This insipid, little creature is still working under the misguided perception that Americans wait breathlessly for his next appearance with a teleprompter. He wore out his welcome in most living rooms when his guarantee of unemployment staying below 8% went up in smoke. And most are tired of hearing that President Bush made him do it.

Obama is tanking in the polls. This fact is a testament to the intelligence of the majority of Americans. Coupled with the declining viewership and readership of ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times and the other subsidiaries of the Democratic Party, the year 2010 looks like a year ready for a November recovery.

Fear the Electorate

It's difficult for any rational American to comprehend why Mr. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid despise the nation's success. We may never know. And it's equally hard to understand the effrontery of their contempt for its citizenry and the Constitution.

In the spirit of Christmas accept for the moment that this trio fervently believes that the benefits of socialism outweigh those of capitalism. Then allow that they are historically illiterate and are overwhelmed by the desire to share the nation's bounty with the less fortunate.

Now agree that their zeal to right inequities is pristine and is only motivated by their love of mankind and nature. Finally, acknowledge that they are not interested in power, and that their sole political goal is to set the world on a path to universal happiness.

About twenty percent of the electorate in the United States of America ardently believe that this trio is only motivated by these virtues. With all their hearts they believe that happiness is a right of birth and that uncontrolled prosperity is the root cause of misfortune. Another thirty percent conceptually accept these liberal tenets.

The trio's path to building eternal joy on earth got muddied by the fifty percent of social heretics who believe a person's financial destiny shouldn't be abridged by government guidelines, which define and allocate opportunity. They believe in the economic neutrality of government. They expect government to watch their backs while they toil on behalf of themselves and their families.

Most of these heretics never thought of themselves as capitalists, nor Constitutionalists, nor gave much thought to religious traditions or the scattered attacks on religious symbols. They were too busy working.

Their spirit of independence and self-confidence and trust of government created a period in history when their work ethic distracted them. For generations, they, maybe naively, trusted their representatives to strengthen and protect their ability to prosper. And they were too busy working to secure a foothold on the American Dream to notice their right of self-determination disappearing.

The erosion of self-reliance never occurred in pandemic proportions. It was more like the seasonal flu, expected and worrisome but never catastrophic.

Taxes kept encroaching on their personal goals. They didn't revolt. They just worked harder to build their dreams. Most never equated the government's demand for absolute equality and the growth of taxes with the gradual loss of freedom.

Fortunately, Obama, Pelosi and Reid abandoned the stealthy approach to building socialism. They regarded the election of 2008 as a chance of a lifetime to bury capitalism, Christianity and the Constitution. Their greed may have saved the nation.

Americans were persuaded that TARP was necessary, but the electorate was wary. The Stimulus, the bloated budgets, the takeover of the financial institutions and General Motors and the trio's decision to control health care at any cost awakened America's industrious class.

The realization that Obama, Pelosi and Reid despise their ethics and ideals is manifested by the confederation of Americans that hit the streets in protest. The Tea Party is not a political organization; it's a consensus.

Americans want America back. And they will take it back. Any politician who fears the socialist trio more than an irate electorate is doomed.

Merry Christmas

Christmas is a noisy holiday with a quiet message, Peace on Earth and Goodwill to Men.

The Western World has sprinkled this Christian holy day with decorative lights, mistletoe and wreaths, carols and greeting cards, Santa and elves, gift giving and tales of a shiny nosed reindeer and a talking snowman.

Say what you will, these ingredients merely add to the festivity of this special birthday party. The glitter is a reminder of the joy of the season in a world in need of a welcome respite from the headlines.

With all these distractions, the message of Christmas remains translucent. Mankind was blessed. The salutation, Merry Christmas, reminds all that the world is blessed with a guiding light we call Jesus, the son of God.

It's nice to be reminded that someone has our backs. That's the real joy of Christmas. Merry Christmas!

The New Enemies of the State

Well, the Mistress of Marxism, the Commune Captain and the President of the Proletariat have managed to ratchet health care away from the clutches of America's families and those evil private entrepreneurs.

Pelosi, Reid and Obama threatened, bribed and harangued Democrat, Ben Nelson, into accepting socialized medicine. The identical technique worked to crush the resistance of a handful of other moderate Democratic Senators who capitulated under the same pressure.

Because Nelson faltered, he will be welcomed into the ranks of the fifty-nine Senators who abandoned any pretense of supporting constitutional government. Like the others, Nelson withered and died under the convoluted weight of party politics.

These sixty Senators obediently subscribed to the logic that their protection of private enterprise and the economic benefits of capitalism will endanger the power, agenda and career of their leader, the narcissistic, socialist twit sitting in the White House.

They were convinced that the failure to pass Obama Care would limit the liberals' battle against capitalism, which in turn, would have undermined the influence and power of the Democratic Party.

In the final analysis, these sixty Senators succumbed to the implementation of socialized medicine to create a springboard upon which they hope to guarantee a Democratic voter majority. Their promised reward for abandoning support of the Middle Class is the opportunity to permanently control both Houses of Congress by overwhelming the forces that support Capitalism, Christianity and the Constitution.

This is what's driving Reid to conceal the details of the Democrat's health care plan, and demanding its passage without disclosing its contents. In fairness, the Senators whose districts are welfare bastions filled with the leftwing, lunatic fringe at least represented the wishes of their constituencies.

The moderate Democratic Senators, like Bill Nelson, raised their finger to the very Middle Class that voted them into office. They abandoned any sense of morality, their conscience, their oath of office and any shred of honor. These weasels endorsed socialized medicine to protect Obama's reputation and the march of Marxism.

And here comes a political charade. Ben Nelson and nine other closet, socialist Democrats were promised they could vote against the final legislation to protect their reelection chances, as final passage only requires 51 votes. Vice President Biden, the White House pet, will cast the deciding ballot.

Ben Nelson and the other so-called moderate Democrats are now the most dangerous representatives in Washington, DC. They blew their cover. Thus this band of traitors must support any legislation, from blanket amnesty for illegal aliens to massive entitlements and ruinous energy taxation, to quickly build and replenish their voter block to replace the industrious Americans they just betrayed.

Imagine the joy Pelosi, Reid and Obama felt when Nelson rebuked the US Constitution and capitalism. Now, Obama and the Democratic Party will officially declare the US Constitution, Capitalism and Christianity the Enemies of the State on Christmas Eve. They get three for one.

Terrorism by Any Definition

The vision of Mr. Obama and the Democrats has more in common with that of the Islamic Jihadist Terrorists than with America's families. Both these enemies are fighting an undeclared war against the United States of America.

If this contention is hyperbole, rather than a cold blooded assessment of the Democrats' agenda, the American people wouldn't be sounding alarms cross the land. Obama's agenda continues to imperil the economic survival of the nation.

The Democrats plan to steal the $700 billion in TARP repayments, and the unspent funds in the account, to grow the federal government. They pretend that this money is a real asset, but it's not. Every penny was borrowed and increased the national deficit $700 billion.

The $787 billion Stimulus Plan is a total failure. These funds were all borrowed to expand the power of government; and with good reason has the world questioning the US' credit worthiness. Sadly, either the White House can't account for the spending, or is hiding its distribution.

These are the same smarmy weasels demanding full citizenship for all illegal aliens. This act of "moral generosity" will cost $1 trillion in direct federal and state compensation for these new citizens the first year it's enacted. The federal share of this debt can only be paid with borrowed money. The states will be forced to raise taxes to cover this mandate.

Now the fiscal henchmen running the White House are threatening to use the EPA to expand the government's control of energy to protect the planet from Global Warming. Of course, their sole purpose (other than to appease Al Gore aficionados) is to indirectly raise taxes. This green masquerade party will cost every family Obama promised no new taxes about $3000 to $6000 a year.

Obama and the Democrats are hiding the 2000 pages of details in the Senate's version of the health care bill. If they weren't aware of the economic destruction it will cause, they wouldn't be concealing it from the public. The cost, when fully implemented, will add about $2.5 trillion to the national deficit.

This addition to the deficit is greater than the projected gross receipts of the federal government in 2009. Of course, its real cost is the deterioration of medical health care, including the ability of hospitals to keep their doors open and doctors to stay in practice. Obama Care is to US medicine what Pearl Harbor was to world peace.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid are in full attack mode. The current $447 billion budget, awaiting Obama's signature, is filled with billions of dollars in earmarks and raises government spending across the entire administrative spectrum a full 12%.

While 15 million Americans are unemployed the Democrats showered government with riches. In fairness, the economic psychopath sitting in the White House proposed spending billions of dollars hiring performance dance groups and other warm bodies to caulk windows and doors.

To cover the cost of their flagrant spending, the Democrats will raise the nation's debt ceiling another $1.8 trillion beginning with a stealthy $290 billion.

This should guarantee that inflation will soon send the cost of goods and services into a Jimmy Carter orbit. This universal thief will steal whatever scraps are left on the plates of the current generation of Americans, after Obama and the Democrats have stolen all they can from the future generations.

One Sorry Tiger

Is Tiger Woods preparing for a future in politics? He has showcased most of the attributes and prerequisites required for a distinguished career in government.

He doesn't honor his vows, is willing to abandon any sense of loyalty or ethics for personal gratification, ignores the expectations of his supporters and is too arrogant to consider anyone's financial security if his behavior pleases a handful of camp followers.

His great smile and lack of moral character make him a natural for national office. And he can play golf. He's practically a prototype for Congress.

To date, his only shortcoming is that he hasn't demonstrated the art of declaring himself a victim of a conspiracy. This skill entitles him to proclaim no responsibility for his actions, and automatically infers that his detractors are liars.

Tiger was born with a fabulous athletic skill and parents who understood the value of practice. Both of these assets are irrelevant, if not detrimental, to a political career. With the right family name and fortune an individual can by-pass that whole learning curve nuisance and buy an election.

It's obvious, Tiger doesn't understand the value of shortcuts. This character flaw would outlaw him from the Democratic Party and make him highly suspect in Republican circles. Think about it. The fool would probably want to read the legislation before casting his ballot.

If this character flaw doesn't have the potential to make him the laughing stock of the Washington, DC insiders, think of the snickering that would ensue if he showed up for work more than three days a week.

Holding a political office would be a difficult adjustment for Tiger after years on the professional golf circuit. His tournament competitors all had to play on the same course, on the same day and were judged by the same rules. Imagine the guffaws if he played by the same rules as those foisted on the voters.

And no bureaucrat ever subtracted points from his score card for the sake of multi-culturalism, diversity or to fulfill affirmative action requirements. It would take him years to adjust to the fact that his skin color should always allow him to replay any unsatisfactory drive, chip or putt.

The Black Caucus would shun him and label him an Uncle Tom for demonstrating that persistence, hard work and personal initiative are the backbone of success in America. His very existence repudiates their agenda.

The American Dream is within the grasp of any man or woman with the ambition and fortitude to achieve it. If that message got out, the liberal agenda would crash and burn. So be assured the liberals will claim that he was a target of those evil conservatives. It's coming.

His crime hurt his family and deprived millions of Americans from watching and admiring such a gifted athlete. If he looked America in the eye and promised he would never again be unfaithful to an oath, the people would believe him because he has already demonstrated his resolve to be a winner.

The Pretense Stopped

It's clear. The policies of Mr. Obama's administration are hurrying the country down a path of fiscal destruction. Most Americans now realize his presidency opened the doors of the US Treasury to a band of ideologically warped miscreants.

Of course, President George W. Bush and the Republican Party are responsible for deeding these flag burning socialists the opportunity to plunder America. The faces of the congressional Republicans were so deeply buried in pork, perks and political pillaging that they couldn't see the wrath of America's electorate.

The Republicans got what they deserved, a sound thrashing. The Democrats promised change in 2008, and they have delivered. They doubled the deficit and have outlined their plans to quadruple it. By comparison, their $787 billion Stimulus Plan shunted the Republican contempt for the electorate to the minor leagues. That's not the change Americans had in mind.

The major difference between the Republican and Democrat strategy can only be measured by a calendar. It took about six years for the Republican contempt for the voters to become clear. Obama, Pelosi and Reid only needed ten months to reach this pinnacle.

It seems that both political parties feel no compunction to represent the interests of the constituencies which elect them. They by-pass this core principle of democratic rule and violate their oath of office when they vow allegiance to their party rather than to the country.

The debate in congress, over destroying or not destroying the best health care system in the world, epitomizes where their loyalty lies. The Democrats (this time) are bent on acquiring control of health care to forever cement the power of government over the life and death of US citizens. That is absolute power by any definition.

In fairness, at least the Democrats have shed any pretense of listening to the public. They see the window of opportunity closing as Americans scream their discontent. This has only encouraged them to double their effort to bury the last vestiges of capitalism in insurmountable debt while they still have control of the White House and both Houses of Congress.

Harry Reid, the Senate's top weasel, stated that anyone opposed to the liberals' effort to substitute Obama Care for private insurance is pro-slavery and against women's suffrage. That these words dripped from the lips of a politician who has spent his career shredding the liberties of American citizens is beyond irony. He is to hypocrisy what the sun is to warmth.

And there stands an army of voters under the Tea Bag banner. These independent minded folks don't seem to like anyone very much in Washington, DC, and they are not impressed with party labels. But their greatest potential attribute has yet to be tested, their memory.

Currently the Democrats are rationing votes. Those members of Congress up for election in 2010 are permitted to vote against any legislation the majority of their constituency despises. All others will cast their ballots in favor of the party. The Democrats are betting the voters will forget about their "yes" votes by 2012.

Never forget those who squander the opportunity of our children and grandchildren to soar.

The Sea of Duplicity

The cynics were quick to express the opinion that Mr. Obama's Job Summit, held on December 3, 2009, was a fruitless, pandering, campaign styled event which produced much gas, while ignoring the engine and maps that propel prosperity. That's not entirely true.

The sickle and hammer crowd and the corporate toadies who attended the event defined the strategy and tactics of Obama's economic plan. They spoke in unison without innuendo. They informed the nation that the capitalist beatings will continue until the American workforces' morale improves.

Did you listen to their words? It was all about taxes. Obama and his team of socialist advisors seem horrified by the prospect that private enterprise may rebound. Between the lines, they label it worker exploitation and condemn it. Their weapon of choice, the confiscation and redistribution of income, is the battering ram they plan to use to smash the basic engine of economic growth, the accumulation of investment capital.

Communism failed because job creation and full employment are not goals. Rather, they are an outcome; the product of invention, expansion and profit motivation. No entrepreneur, CEO, or Board of Directors ever convened a meeting with the explicit, charitable goal of hiring more workers.

And only socialists, in all their duplicity, can pretend that the creation of make-work government jobs helps the economy. Every single, last government job depends on taxation to exist. Government workers are an anchor around the neck of every worker and employment seeker in the private sector.

Granted, Obama and his nest of fiscal vipers have resorted to by-passing the traditional source of government funding (taxation) in favor of printing money. This fiscal deception temporarily shields their spending, which is an admission that they fear a taxpayer revolt (not to be confused with temporary disgruntlement).

But both sources, taxes and deficit spending, cripple the recovery. Investment capital, the mothers' milk of growth, is siphoned into non-productive bureaucracies. Deficit spending creates inflation, which raises the cost of goods and services, which in turn, make US companies less competitive. The predictable outcome of these policies is stagnant employment.

It would be enlightening if a think tank compiled the trend lines which compared the growth of government employment and taxation to the creation/loss of jobs and income in the private sector, and the GNP.

It's conceivable, and frightening to postulate, but it appears that the current level of local, state and federal taxation has nearly destroyed capitalism's ability to overcome the liberals' determination to annihilate capitalism.

Politicians like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Dodd and Schumer built their careers on destroying the American Dream by fomenting class warfare. The Job Summit was just another confirmation of their intent to increase the size of government.

Employment and income growth will not materialize until these weasels are thrown out of office. Unless spending is slashed, taxes lowered and the nanny state laws rescinded, America's golden age is but a memory.

Americans have two options. They can join the food stamp crowd and tell their children and grandchildren to be thankful for government handouts. Or they can express their anger in the voting booth, and pass along the opportunities they inherited.

Mr. Obama Goes to War

The chattering class and the politicians on both sides of the aisle have all issued opinions about Mr. Obama's Afghanistan strategy. Those who tuned in to Obama's West Point, NY address need no interpretation from the media to be persuaded about the reception of his speech.

Many of America's finest, brightest and best educated youth were sitting in the audience. Their reaction to the presentation was telling. Although they were polite and well disciplined, there was no Hurray in their reaction.

There was something on their faces that expressed resentment for being made the backdrop of the "Mr. Obama Goes to War" theatrical production. Americans have seen the same expression on the faces of US military prisoners paraded in front of enemy cameras for propaganda.

And every seasoned officer sitting in the auditorium wore his or her best poker face. As expected, there was polite applause, but it was obvious that few of America's tested warriors embraced the man standing behind the title of President.

It's sadly apparent that Obama is no leader and has no life experiences that allow him to reach out and actually light the torch that generations of Americans have followed. He can't speak beyond the teleprompter; he can't feel the words; he can't rally America's patriots.

He has no substance. He doesn't have the soul of an American. He can't relate to their aspirations and is confounded by their self-reliance.

He is a pretender. Americans were deceived. They elected a man with sensational acting skills and great charm, a man completely satisfied with positive personal reviews, even though the production is panned and the theater closed.

It's his absorption-with-self that no words on a teleprompter can camouflage. He is a needy little person whose ambitions outpaced his capability. There is no character behind the image, no backbone behind the style, no knowledge behind the ascertains.

All the majority of Americans wanted to hear from Obama was that the United States will unleash forces dedicated to the eradication of the Islamic jihadist cockroaches. He didn't have to mention that it will cost money; money he has already squandered undermining America's might.

The statement just proved that he doesn't have his priorities in the correct order. To placate his socialist base, he had already thrown the CIA and New York's 9/11 survivors to the pack of wolves who gorge themselves on political correctness.

This was the big "if" in his commitment to the troops. In a few words he told our warriors that they could depend on his support unless Pelosi and Reid need the money for some welfare scheme. Nice, huh?

Our sympathy should go out to our warriors and their friends and families. No! Not because they will be in harm's way. Because they will be betrayed by a narcissistic, socialist twit who is living his fantasy.