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D-Day

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For four years we’ve used this little platform to point out the errors and failures of our government.  That someone like Barack Hussein Obama could be so easily swept into the office of president of these United States based on nothing more than a deadly and deceitful stint as a senator in Illinois, later admitting to being merely a “composite” of memoirs suspected to have been written by someone else both infuriated and frightened us.  As time went by this man who believes in “partial birth abortions” because the intent of the mother was to kill her unborn child anyway proved his allegiance to nothing that remotely resembles America by sending our border patrol to fight with beanbags while secretly arming drug cartels with some half-baked idea it would push the American people into accepting their version of gun control, directly resulting in the deaths of Brian Terry and Jamie Zapata.  The man who sits down with unelected Chicago cronies each morning to decide who will die that day from a drone strike, with collateral civilian damage be damned, couldn’t be bothered to muster the same force when Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Brian Doherty and Tyrone Woods were fighting Al Queda in vain for their lives in a place that had been called out to the administration numerous times to be lacking adequate security on a day common sense alone would have given them more of it.

This administration and this president in particular have far too much innocent  and literal American blood on their hands.  And far, far too much blood has flowed figuratively from the entitlement-encouraging laws and policies that have trickled down over the last four years to crush both the spirits and the wealth of the middle class.  Not to mention making the poor even poorer and creating even more of them.

Mitt Romney asked the age-old question, “Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?”  Gas prices are double what they were in 2008, food and other commodity prices are higher; wages, if you are fortunate enough to be making them, are stagnant, homes that haven’t yet been foreclosed on carry underwater mortgages, banks are playing Wack-A-Mole with more and more insidious little fees on checking account while interest on savings accounts are essentially non-existent.  Almost half of the legal citizens in this country pay nothing in federal income taxes but a subset of them, pathetically and ironically goaded on by wealthy Democrats, demand more and more “entitlements” from those who do pay taxes.  We have watched spectacles like a 30-plus year old college student sit in the chambers of Congress and bemoan the fact that her Catholic college – a college she deliberately chose to attend – won’t cover her birth control.  We won’t even go into “Obamaphones” or people on food stamps buying everything but food with them.  Illegal immigration?  Let us count how many Democrat votes result from the administration’s refusal to follow the rule of law and thereby add more cost to the legal taxpayer’s already straining burden.

Simply put, this administration has exceeded even our cynical expections of disaster.  They are a dangerous, deadly lot that scuttles around in the shadows like so many fat rats; blinking senselessly when the light is cast upon them.  That is, when the complicit lamestream media even bothers to “report” anything resembling an objective fact.

They have to go.

All of them.

They blamed the elections of 2010 for creating more “obstructionism” to their enslaving communist manifesto.  Today we can not only obstruct them completely, we can obliterate them.  Send them back into the trash heap of a history that will only note that the last 4 years proved once and for all that socialism is forever a failed experiment.

Vote wisely, my fellow Americans.  Vote for Mitt Romney, vote for every conservative candidate on your ballot from local to state.  It is our last chance to save – to reclaim – what has proved to be the greatest country in the history of mankind.

God bless America.

It’s Resignation Time

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“We have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al-Qaida, Hezbollah.”
(Adm. James Stavridis, NATO supreme commander for Europe, speaking about Libya’s rebel force to the Senate Armed Services committee in 2011)

 

 

If you think the Middle East is having a spontaneous, multi-national BBQ of American flags, embassies, consulates and Obama-in-effigy this week simply because of a film, I have a bridge for sale.

Sure, Muslims don’t like to see their so-called “prophet” denigrated; any more than Christians like to see images of Jesus tossed into a container of urine and called art.  But modern Christians no longer take the violent parts of their good book literally and go on a rampage to kill alleged “blasphemers”, instead following the example in the newer section that says to “turn the other cheek”. 

Muslims, on the other hand, remain in a state of hypertensive Old Testament barbarism and remain hell-bent on their millenium-old quest of world Islamic domination.  Free speech in the U.S. simply gives them cover, an excuse, to party like it’s 9/11.  Underneath their anger at so-called blasphemy of their so-called prophet is the goal of ridding the world of everything that doesn’t conform to Islam, to institute their mysoginist and violent culture of sharia.

This isn’t exactly rocket science so you’d expect those in the highest positions of leadership in the U.S. would remain vigilent, particularly on the anniversary of Islam’s greatest modern accomplishment:  the killing of some 3,000 Americans on U.S. soil in 2001.  Instead, what happened this week is that Hilary Clinton and her boss, Barack Obama, killed 4 Americans in Libya; much the same way as Eric Holder killed border patrol agent Brian Terry with Fast and Furious.  Whether through either sheer and utter incompetenance or the unforgivable sin of deliberate inaction, the buck stops at the empty chair behind the Resolute desk.

It was common knowledge that 9/11 anniversary attacks were being planned.  Statements were published all over various foreign medias talking about revenge for the recent assassination of Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi. The Jerusalem Post had an article on 9/9/12 referencing a letter written on 9/4/12 that warned that Sinai-based/Gaza-based “Global Jihad” cells were planning attacks on American and Israeli embassies in Cairo.   Sean Smith, one of the Navy Seals killed in Benghazi, had even posted to one of his gaming forums hours before the attack that “We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”

If pressed, the answer to and meekly accepted by the lamestream media to pass along to the sheeple would most likely be that “policeman” was merely taking photos for his travel journal.

You’d not just hope but think these tidbits of trivia would be included in the president’s daily intelligence briefings.  You know, the ones our oh-so-brilliant composite president only needs to read while out on the campaign trail instead of attending in person.

Obviously President Composite didn’t read the memo.

As Secretary of State, the job of keeping safe our fellow citizens serving on foreign soils falls right into the ample lap of Hilary Clinton.  To the forever-sorrow of the families of Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, she chose the Eric Holder path of national defense:  no bullets to be loaded unless necessary (geeze, Hil, not even bean bags?) and there were no orders issued to put extra security – U.S. military security, to be specific – anywhere in preparation for this year’s anniversary of 9/11. 

Our guess is that if she bothered to ask anyone anything, dear Hilary only checked in with her Muslim Brotherhood BFF, Huma Abedin, to get the latest taqiya about the real risks to our people in the Middle East on this year’s 9/11 anniversary.  Taking the easy way out, Hilary deliberately chose to leave our people under the dubious protection of Libyan nationals; Islamic loyalists all who ran away – right on cue – at the first sign of trouble.

And while Ambassador Stevens was allegedly being raped, tortured and killed and dragged through the streets in Benghazi (as reported by multiple Middle Eastern sources and later reported by UK papers but not by the U.S. lamestream media), Hilary’s people in Cairo were frantically trying to keep their own asses there safe by playing along with the the Islamic jihadist’s any-excuse-to-attack-Americans game through issuing a bassackwards – and later deemed “unofficial” – apology for an American exercising their first amendment right to free speech.  It didn’t keep “peaceful Islam” from burning their embassy, though, did it?

As the rest of the week played out, backlit by fiery protests and more deaths across the Middle East, instead of taking a good, hard look at the problem with forcing American-style freedoms upon those who are by long-standing culture unable and by ideology unwilling to handle it, the media wasted its breath and our bandwidth slamming Mitt Romney for calling any apology for free speech wrong and fell all over itself trying to figure out just who would have the audacity to create the really piss-poor film that sharia-lovers used as their cover to strike while they felt their chances of adding the deaths of more Americans to their body count was good.

If all of this doesn’t disgust you and even cause a shiver of fear, the LA Times reported that “Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Muslim world.”

They want you to believe the FBI overstepped its purview to investigate if this was some probation violation by the alleged filmmaker, but as has been pointed out in places that go unread by this administration, probation is a function of the courts, not law enforcement.  If there were questions that this Bacile character was using the internet in violation of his probation, his parole officer would have been the one to question him and, even then, what he did on the internet would not be the problem.  The FBI was sent by someone else. 

We’ll give you three guesses who and the first two don’t count.

That someone else is high in the political food chain and now finds themselves globally embarrassed because their 3-1/2 years of Islamic appeasement foreign policy just blew up in their face and they were caught very, very publicly with their pants down.  But what they are doing is sending a clear message to those who despise our freedom of speech that our free speech can and will be curtailed – through intimidation if not possible by outright mandate – if it hurts their widdle sensibilities.  All those who want nothing more than global sharia have to do is figure out how to kill a prominent American or two and we’ll cave to their demands to follow their ideology, even when doing so violates our Constitutional rights.

Bottom line:  Hilary Clinton must resign.  Barack Hussein Obama must resign.

The problem is they won’t.  And we don’t have a Congress with the balls to even pretend to force them to resign.  We’ll have to usher them out ourselves in the November election, along with all those pathetic and therefore equally culpable Congress critters.

Penalty Play

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Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

A penalty that’s really a tax.   So decreed the Supreme Court about Obaminablecare this past Thursday.  But President Walking Eagle still decrees the tax is just a penalty.

Could have fooled me.

If it’s not a tax, O Self-Proclaimed Smartest President Ever, then why is the IRS ramping up its ranks by some 16,000 agents and preparing to go through your personal life far beyond just your income?  Why does it now matter to them how many people live in your house?  If someone living in your house for whom you have no legal responsibility (for example, a roommate), refuses to get a health insurance policy, why does this have the potential to impact YOUR taxes?  While they might not be willing to say so now, you can bet dollars to a cop’s donuts that the day will come when the IRS will seize YOUR assets in order to pay for someone else’s choice to not pay for what some government bureaucrat mandates as “adequate” health insurance coverage.  Not to mention the ugliness of the whole snitch aspect of enforcement.

It’s incomprehensible to regular folks just how Justice Roberts managed to squeak out justification of the mandate as a tax when the progressive liberal Democrats insisted from Day One it was merely a “penalty” and continued to argue it as such during the hearing.  Even if they had argued it as a tax, it falls into neither category by which Congress can levy a tax.  Mark Levin put it this way:

“What kind of taxes are permitted under our federal constitution? Well, there’s a tax that is called a direct tax or capitation tax…it is a tax on the individual. The Constitution requires direct or capitation taxes (a head tax if you will) to be apportioned among the states…

Then under the Constitution you can have an excise tax. But excise taxes require some sort of action or activity on the part of the individual. So surely this tax can’t be (an excise tax).

What about an income tax under the Sixteenth Amendment?

Even John Roberts doesn’t attempt to justify the (Obamacare) penalty as an income tax.”

Some are arguing that this can’t go forward because tax legislation must originate in the House.  But they are forgetting that the Senate essentially gutted a House bill to use as the container in which to create their version of Obaminablecare.  So although one might well and should argue this as both an immoral and unethical tack (often) done deliberately to deceive, this wicked legislation did “originate” in the House.

But passed under reconciliation, it may also be repealed (cue liberal progressive squeals of “unfairness”).

This is yet another horrible example that our government is simply and utterly out of control.  When 60% of Americans do not want Obaminablecare, yet the government is forcing it upon us through outright lies and backroom deals, we are living under the same situation that created the War of Independence:  taxation without representation.  We have one election left before we become simply Amerikka the USSA.  If we use it wisely, we can begin to drain that swamp in D.C. and, like other unconstitutional Supreme Court decisions (Dred Scott, anyone?) we can not only repeal Obaminablecare in its draconian socialist entirety, we can seat justices who rule based on the Constitution, not what they think others might think of them. 

 

The Smell Of Desperation

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“If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters.
If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.”
(Barack Obama, DNC Convention, 2008)

As summer draws near and temperatures begin to soar,  the stench of desperate Democrats  begins to waft across America’s political landscape.  Three and a half years into this most unfortunate presidential term, the average American has come to the realization the hope and change promised by a rank unknown in 2008 smacks too much of the socialism that more astute eyes and ears caught from the beginning of his meteoric takeover of the election spotlight.  Put simply, President Lame Duck’s snarky presumption of great intelligence and endless finger-pointing campaigning have now begun to bear fruit and the taste is far from sweet.

Instead of realizing that leadership is something requiring more effort than bowing to foreign rulers in the Middle East and sucking up to Islamic extremists, playing golf, appearing on late-night television shows and Hollywood fundraisers or checking off names on a kill list, The Abonimable One has doubled-down and alternately continues to blame his predecessor for the results of his failed policies while attempting to rule by executive fiat.

Obligingly, his poll numbers drop correspondingly.

This doesn’t bode well for someone who wants to rule the world…errrr…serve another term in office so word on the street is that the Chicago machine is frantically sharpening its claws in preparation for what they hope will be an early takedown of the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

The following quote was given to John Heilemann by an Obama campaign advisor on how they plan to win over racists.  You know, those “bitter clingers”, “teabaggers” and others who believe the Constitution is not equal to Charmin, live responsibly and expect others to do the same.

“[Romney is] not likable. He’s not trustworthy. He’s not on your side. You live in Pittsburgh and you’ve got dirt under your fingernails, who do you want to have a beer with? It ain’t f***ing Mitt Romney. You’re like, ‘S**t, I’d rather have a beer with the black guy than him!’”

Yes, indeed.  They intend on putting the finest of their crude, inner-city Chicago on full display; the same kind of low-class divisive act that cost the Democrat-backed unions Wisconsin and California earlier this month. 

Americans aren’t as stupid as Herr Barry thinks. 

“No Más Pantalones”?

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I say no, no pants.  But this one sure has legs.

Breitbart has broken the story about President Lame Duck’s biography as written by his literary agency:

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.  The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation.   He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.

The problem here isn’t necessarilyhis claim of Kenyan birth, that still remains to be truly and properly proved or not.  The problem is that it is yet another example of this insufferable man’s never-ending lies.

Interestingly, one of President Lame Duck’s coworkers wrote about their working at Business International Corporation, essentially telling the world in 2005 that the then-new Illinois Senator had “embellished” his resume.  Which, of course, means that like with his composite girlfriend, BO played fast and loose with what he actually did for a living, too.

All of this demonstrating a pattern, and not a good pattern at that.

Breitbart.com attempted to contact the woman who edited the 1991 pamphlet but:

 Miriam Goderich, who has since become Dystel’s partner at Dystel & Goderich, an agency founded in 1994. Breitbart News attempted to reach Goderich by telephone several times over several days. Her calls are screened by an automated service that requires callers to state their name and company, which we did. She never answered.

 Are we at all surprised to learn that instead of nipping this in the bud by calling Breitbart.com, Ms. Goderich instead sent an email to a client of Dystel & Goderich in which she confesses to having made a youthful “mistake”?  (A mistake, it may be noted, that was not caught until 2007, when BO began campaigning for the presidency.)

 “You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.  This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time.  There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii.  I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more.”

Cue the flying pigs.

Media Madly Manipulates Martin Murder

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It’s always horrible news that a 17-year old is dead.  For parents, it doesn’t matter why; it’s just never right to have to bury your own child.  So my heart goes out to the parents of Trayvon Martin.

But at the same time, I find my hackles raised by those using this young man’s death as a reason to continue to play the race card when heinous black-on-white crimes are only local news at best.  Truth be told, humans are rather a herd animal and it is an inherent survival instinct to profile in one way or another; no species can survive without using visual clues to ascertain friend vs. a foe who’ll eat you for lunch.  So unless it happens every day, a black man walking through a predominently white neighborhood is simply going to be noticed, just as a white man walking through a predominently black neighborhood will be noticed.  We’re hard-wired to pay attention to something that is different in our immediate environment but if we are to believe we’re really better than “animals” then it behooves us to put common sense to work when something does catch our eye and appears to be out of place.

That means I’m not going to be defending George Zimmerman’s actions here.  We are a nation that was founded on belief in the rule of law, not the rule of man and I will let the law do its job and investigate fully what happened last month.  That also means that  the bounty being collected and vigilantes being encouraged to go to Sanford, Florida by the New Black Panther Party and bring back Zimmerman “dead or alive”, Spike Lee’s tweet of Zimmerman’s home address and the thousands of ugly tweets calling for Zimmerman’s lynching, all being encouraged by the likes of Al Sharpton and even President Lame Duck are not only blatantly hypocritical, they are  absolutely wrong and I personally condemn them.

But you won’t get condemnation of black vigilantes or any encouragement for the rule of law from the lamestream media; they continue to do nothing but support racial divisiveness, starting with the first media reports noting Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic” instead of simply “Hispanic”.   And posting only a photo of Martin as a child instead of one more recent.  And forgetting to mention that Martin was 250 miles from home because he’d been suspended from school and although the father he was visiting claims he’d grounded his son because of whatever wrong behavior got him suspended, he was out on the street after buying treats while visiting his father’s fiancee and her son.

No, no.  No real reporting.  Just fluff and nonsense like last Friday evening when the ABC Evening News aired what might, if one wanted to be polite, be termed a “human interest” story related to the Sanford incident:  they interviewed an obviously middle-class black mother who told the reporter that she “always” tells her sons to act like what amounts to little more than a civilized human being when they go out in public.  To whit, pull your hood off when you go into a store (“remove your hat” in the “old days”), carry your purchases in a bag, be polite.  We called these things simple manners when I was growing up and god bless the woman for teaching it to her sons today.   The problem is that in a desperate attempt to appear somehow relevant, the lamestream media presents this wholly appropriate kind of parenting by a black mother as somehow “wrong” or “shameful” despite the fact that thousands of mothers of every race do the same thing with their sons and daughters every day.

Frankly, it is ABC and every other lamestream media hack that ought to be ashamed.  But that’ll happen about the time pigs fly.

To put what so many mothers say into plain English, if you want to dress like a “gansta” and slouch around on MY streets, you can bet that ass deliberately hanging out of your low-slung pants that I’m going to take notice and I’m not going to be pleased to see you.  For while self-expression is a fine thing, if you deliberately make the choice to identify with misogynists, thieves, gangbangers and murderers and to go out in public dressed the part, you will be labeled and treated as such when you show up where the majority do not make that same choice.  Should you really be a good kid with good parents, I sure hope your mama whips your butt for being such an embarrassment when you get home.

2012 State Of The Union Address

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All too soon, President Lame Duck will take to the airwaves in that annual tradition Americans know as the State of the Union address.  As a service to you, dear readers, we thought we’d give you a sneak preview so you can use that time to do something more productive – like give your cat a bath.

Cue teleprompter.

“Our economy sucks.”

“It’s Bush’s fault.”

“I’ll be on the road campaigning all year.  Except when I’m bypassing Congress to issue an unprecedented number of Executive Orders.”

“It’s Bush’s fault.”

“Rich people (except for me and Da Mooch, of course) are greedy bastards who owe you the fruits of their risks and labor.”

“Anyone who doesn’t agree with me is a racist.”

“It’s the GOP’s fault.”

“I will be on the campaign trail all year.”

“We’re going to continue to encourage the Islamist extremists to play nice in the sandbox by giving them control over more of the Middle East.”

“Illegal immigrants are good and deserve everything we can give them.  That’s why I appointed someone who used to head up La Raza to head up the Domestic Policy Council.”

“Anyone who doesn’t agree with me is a racist.”

“It’s Bush’s fault.”

“Look at all the goodies you’re going to get from the new health care law this year.  Doesn’t matter if we don’t have any money to pay for it.  The Supreme Court is gonna see things my way.”

“I’m going to promise again that I’ll reduce the size of government because it’s a good way to get you to vote for me.”

“It’s the GOP’s fault.”

“I’ll be out campaigning all year while Congress does nothing.”

“It’s still Bush’s fault.”

End to great applause and a standing O.

The Democrats’ Dilemma

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“If you voted for Obama in ’08 to prove you were not a bigot,
vote for anyone else in ’12 to prove your not an idiot.”
(Comment at FOX News website)

This weekend’s FOX News poll asks the question:  Could Obama Face Rival for Democratic Nomination?  But the real question is SHOULD he?

In his Saturday address, a few hard-core Kool-Aid drinkers and the media hacks paid to listen heard the obvious:  “You’ve got a right to be frustrated. I am. Because you deserve better. I don’t think it’s too much for you to expect that the people you send to this town start delivering.”

What President Lame Duck conveniently forgets to mention is that HE is one of the “people” sent to Washington and voters expected HIM to deliver.  And to deliver better; more than just petulant, divisive snarking and pointing fingers and admonitions to eat our peas while he and Marie…errr…Michelle spend our tax money on Waygu beef and vacation after vacation.  The people who voted for him expected that his ability to orate off a teleprompter was a result of having real-world leadership abilities; they didn’t expect things like a budget so far out in left field even the most progressive liberal entitlement-mentality derangement syndrome Democrats couldn’t find a way to hold their noses to vote for it.

So now, after growing the deficit faster in two years than G.W. did in eight and unemployment refusing to budge no matter how much phantom “shovel-ready” is thrown at it, we are being told that very same 9+% unemployment is really the equivalent of jobs; apparently because in the Ivy League bubble-land of unicorns and fairy dust money earned by one person and given to another to spend on necessities is still money earned and spent; even though there is no multiplier in the equation and so this merely maintains a consumption status quo simply by saying it is so it magically creates “growth”.

The American people aren’t stupid.  That kind of “new math” only proves the growing suspicion that public education ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.

Any Democrat who can still harbor a tiny shred of self-respect should see the writing on the wall.  It’s not the Tea Party pointing out the serious economic and Constitutional problems in this country and insisting on grown-up, real-world solutions that is the problem here, it’s that their Chosen One who has failed them.  Rather spectacularly, I might add.

If they were smart they’d give Obama a cardigan and a primary challenger.

Trickle-Down Hypocrisy

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Last November Americans voted to flip the House over on its progressive liberal head and put grownups in charge of the nation’s purse strings.  They also put a serious conservative tilt on the Senate.

To anyone with a modicum of common sense the message was clear:  hope and change means the American dream, not working your ass off so someone else doesn’t have to.

But finally, with someone at the helm who has made a living off the taxpayer teat his whole life and spent the first two years of his presidency throwing the Constitution under the bus, America has now finally gotten up the courage to stare straight into the eyes of the monster birthed by progressives some 76 years ago:  we’ve run out of other people’s money.  So the topic of the day has been the debt ceiling and the games have begun.

But like most of what we pay Washington politicians to do, it’s pointless.  There is no need to default on our debt, nor on things like Social Security and Medicare payments.  What we wouldn’t be able to pay for are all the unnecessary services that have accumulated like rats in a dumpster over the last 76-odd years, the vast majority of which are unconstitutional anyway.

Here is a chart put out by the administration’s bailout buddy, AIG, that demonstrates this in black and white:

To us regular folks (who can’t possibly understand or be bothered with something as Big And Important as the national debt) the chart points out the obvious:  decisions have to be made on how to spend the money left over after we pay the mortgage and utilities.  Do we opt out of that daily cuppa joe at Starbucks (grants for “cowboy poetry”) or do we skip a trip to Kohl’s for clothing we don’t really need anyway (Marie Antoinette…errrr…Michelle Obama’s staff)?  The choices are endless and some decisions save us more money than others but like Dave Ramsey is fond of saying, it’s “beans and rice and rice and beans” until you get your debt paid off so the non-essentials have to go.

President Walking Eagle repeatedly scolded we should eat peas we can’t afford on our rice-and-beans budget and threatened to withhold Social Security checks but as the chart shows it’s just an empty threat and the kind he makes solely try to and gain political points.  I don’t think the American people are buying it, though, because the more he tries to blame those who’ve taken the time to put a budget down in black-and-white the more his approval rating continues to plummet and it now sits happily below his disapproval rating, earning him the new monicker of President Lame Duck.  And the American people aren’t missing the fact he’s illegally using federal property to film campaign ads, either.  Nor does it go unnoticed that we’re paying his bloated staff to help run his 2012 re-election campaign.

Another sign of what is either cluelessness or simply willful ignorance from those “best and brightest” in Washington of the people’s intentions in the November election is Tax-Cheat Timmy’s statement that he “never thought they would take it [raising the debt ceiling] this close to the edge”.  Is it because when a Democrat-majority Congress fails to pass a budget for well over 800 days you get used to seeing the limit raised on the credit card without any questions?

I don’t expect Tax-Cheat Timmy expected the nation’s credit rating would be downgraded when the debt ceiling was raised without addressing the underlying issue of continued overspending, either.  So remind me again:  exactly why is this clueless man in charge of the Treasury?

Oh yeah, for the same reason President Lame Duck threw off his Jimmy Carter cardigan and danced at a reelection campaign fundraiser he called his 50th birthday party.  Said party paid for in part, of course, by our hard-earned tax dollars.

Demonstrating yet again that the only thing first class about progressive liberals is their hypocrisy.