The Big Engine And the Bad Conductor

Obama And the Democrats

Our nation has never faced this much difficulty.

Worse the difficulty is of our own making.

I am very sad tonight.  I have been watching the National Debt clock since November the 9th, 2011.

When I started my National Debt Clock watch our National Debt stood at $14,972,448,000,000 + ( the clock moves so fast you cannot possibly capture all of the numbers). And the Gross National Debt Ratio to GDP was 99.7331351% on 9/9/2011 at 2:44 p.m.

As I sit here heartbroken by the failure of our nation's leadership for their abominable track record of spend spend spend and failure to perform their sworn fiduciary duties I am beyond outraged.  I am heartbroken.

I feel every bit as powerless to stop this financial cancer that is consuming our nation and threatening it's every existence as I felt when I watched my mom, my best friend who forever championed me when she wasted away from a rare form of liver cancer but it was congestive heart failure that caused her demise.

I feel every bit as powerless as when I watched my brothers life leave him, but it was his wild life style and heavy drinking combined with diabetes and lung cancer that took his breath.

I feel every bit as powerless as when I watched my first and forever hero my father slip into a ninety day coma, before his frail and shrunken body finally surrendered from the ravages of old age.

And thus I am in mourning, filled with great sorrow as I watch the great economic engine of the United States waiting for the ambulance to arrive.  Waiting for nation saving coal to be placed in the engine, waiting for the engineer to slow down the train, waiting for the train to shed empty cars and waiting to for the whole crew to agree that our engine needs help. And I wondering who is going to stop the insanity before the big engine completely derails.

Sometime tonight when I am fast asleep, or tomorrow our National Debt like a tsunami will wash a red tide over the fiscal house of the United States.  Our National Debt is now 15 trillion 30 billion dollars and change.

Our National GDP is 15 trillion 31 billion dollars and change.  Huge numbers. Galactic numbers. Numbers so large you could not count that high in a lifetime.  Our Gross National Debt to GDP Ratio as I type is 99.9942721%.

Our National Debt is five times our annual revenues. We are the biggest debtors on the planet, we are the biggest debtors in the universe. The debt per individual, each and every citizen of the United States is $174,269.00.  The debt for each family is a staggering $660,578.00.

While the bureau of labor statistics says our unemployment is at 9.1% our National Debt Clock claims the 'official' number of unemployed is 13,895,654. And right below that statistic our National Debt Clock says the real number of unemployed Americans is 25,011,796.

Our entitlement debt load is equally frightening.  Medicare and Medicaid cost at the present is $825,056,380,185*.  The Social Security cost is $723,261,387,850*.  Income security (which consist of Supplemental Income Security, Earned Income Credits, Unemployment Compensation, Nutrition Assistance, Family Support, Child Nutrition, Foster Care and Making Work Pay) is $407,614,871,500*.
Federal Pensions are $212,918,734,685*.  Our interest on the Federal Debt is $218,261,493,650*
 (* These numbers are approximate as they are hard to capture as they rise faster than I can read and type.)

President Obama is racing around the world calling Americans lazy, saying we have gone soft.  And when he is not slamming the citizens of the United States on foreign soil, he is endorsing jobs in Indonesia by Boeing, while his National Labor Relations Board blocks Boeing jobs in South Carolina.  While he tours the country pushing for union jobs and shovel ready nonsense he kills an earth moving real shovel ready job the Keystone Pipeline that would boost our economy by at least 20,000 jobs and help serve our energy needs.

Unbelievably President Obama wants another stimulus package.  This Friday the Congress and Senate passed yet another Continuing Resolution, good only through December the 6th, 2011.  Our nation has not had an official budget in 935 days.

In August our nation suffered the first ever credit downgrade in our history. 

Instead of our leadership responding with a Code Red and placing this nation in intensive care they are bickering like small children.

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And today is 11/21/2011 Our National Debt is 100% of our GDP.

The Supercommittee is not so super after all.  The Supercommittee has done exactly what they were designed to do.  They have failed.  This should come as so surprise.  This Committee is really outside of the Constitution.

Like a thief in the night, the proud legacy handed down for generations is placed in peril by cowards who we have elected. Our fiscal crisis is a result of years of reckless spending by both parties, has brought this Republic and every family to this point of financial hardship.

The Price Of Moral Relativism ~ The Loss Of Our Moral Compass

Political Altruism And

The 'Lemmingnization' of America

Moral relativism usually includes three claims: First, the concept that morality is changeable; second that morality is subjective; and third, individual.

Moral Relativists claim that it is relative first to changing times; and that you cannot turn back the clock. Secondly, Moral relativist equivocate that what we subjectively think or feel is neither good or bad, but thinking makes it so. And in a celebration of Nihilism for individuals; different strokes for different folks.  Anything goes. No harm no foul. 

Moral absolutism claims that there are moral principles that are unchangeable, objective, and universal.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798.)

This nation was not founded on the premises of Moral Relativism. It was founded by just men who sincerely believed in unchangeable moral principles and that those principles were universal and absolute.

Our nation has lost its Moral Compass. The left is doing their very best to convince you and I that morals are not important. The Progressives and socialist and envirofacist on the left are busy nudging you and I out of our freedoms.  They decry rugged individualism and a society glued together by the moral absolutes in our founding documents.  Democrats and the left insist on the psychologically mind numbing one size fits all answers for everything.  The left is busy insisting that there are no winners or losers, when life teaches us the opposite. These social distortionists are engaged in disseminating lies and half truths and the result is taking a very heavy toll on our national consciousness. 
 
Moral relativism can be found in utilitarianism, evolutionism, existentialism, emotivism and in situationism. Everyone of these forms of moral relativity share the common unifying ideal, that absolute morals do not exist, and that what is right or wrong is a product of happenstance and cultural human preference.

The left celebrates a life based on justification alibis and excuses for toxic behavior.  Morals and ethics can be altered from one situation, person, or circumstance to the next. Essentially, moral relativist say that anything goes, because life is ultimately without meaning or what ever you perceive the meaning to be. Words like "ought" and "should" are rendered meaningless. In this way, moral relativism makes the claim that it is morally neutral.

 

The main argument relativists appeal to is that of tolerance. They claim that telling someone they are morality is wrong is intolerant, and relativism tolerates all views. But this is misleading. Evil should never be tolerated.

 

Worst of all moral relativism makes society unstable. It blurs the concepts of right and wrong. Moral relativity allows temporary swings in popular opinion.  Practitioners of moral relativity use all the tools of the left in arguments, and frequently will choose to both see and shape history through a lens that frames facts to suit their agenda.  Each step away from moral absolutism devalues diminishes and damages the building blocks of what makes a society strong.

 

A result of this valueless thinking and of accepting this vague blurry line between right and wrong is what has allowed in many instances evil persons to rise to power.  And it is this type social dysfunction that allows narcissist and nihilist seeking radical change by abusing temporary swings in popular altruistic opinion to seize power.

 

A vast number of Americans have embraced Moral Relativism as a defense of socially toxic behaviors and attitudes.  Moral relativity is practiced by an amalgamation of leftist groups from various politically active numerically challenged political and social ideologies.  Those group ideologies are not large enough on their own to electorally win an election but aligned together and elected President Obama.

 

The left manipulated moral relativism and political altruism to elect Obama, who shares their moral relativity.  He is the first Post Modern American President who sees no authority superior to his own, and believes his views are superior and that our Constitution is fundamentally flawed.  Obama believes it is his moral duty to fit the Constitution to his morally relative view point. And it is this thinking that drives Obama to rule by fiat when his agenda is met with principled moral absolutism.

 

From the Ayn Rand Lexicon, "There are two moral questions which altruism lumps together into one “package-deal”: (1) What are values? (2) Who should be the beneficiary of values? Altruism substitutes the second for the first; it evades the task of defining a code of moral values, thus leaving man, in fact, without moral guidance.
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value—and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes."

Our Nation is in grave peril. 

We are Fiscally Bankrupt. 

Since taking control of the house and Senate in 2006 Democrats have been on a spending spree. Foolish modifications were altruistically made to loosen credit requirements to buy homes, cars, and lines of credit.  President Bush kept the expenditures for the Wars in both Afghanistan and Iran off of the general budget.

In 2007, "Too Big to Fail" was coined and used as a vehicle for massive government intervention in US Banking and Investments, and billions of US Taxpayer dollars were used to interfere in the private sector.  Shortly after Obama was inaugurated a second stimulus was passed.  However it was not immediately pumped into the economy but passed out to various Agencies who sought out agenda driven projects wasting vast sums of tax payer dollars on ill advised green energy projects. 

The last Budget for the  Federal Government was passed on April 29, 2009. It has been 930 days as of today, November 15, 2011 since President Obama and the Democrats have performed their fiduciary duty.  The Republican house passed  a budget on April 15, 2011  as I write this blog our National Debt is only 3 billion dollars away from the benchmark of 15 trillion dollars and will soon surpass our GDP.

We are at the brink of Moral Bankruptcy.

In recent years we have had a President, Clinton be charged with Articles of Impeachment due his Lothario like behavior with an intern, Senators and Congressmen, Governors, and Candidates seeking the highest offices in our government forced to resign for inappropriate sexual conduct.

Just this last week a long secret scandal at Penn State exposed a former Defensive Coach, Jerry Sandusky as an alleged pedophile and charged him with multiple charges of sexual assault.  Not only is Sandusky's behavior monstrous, but most of of his associates were aware of his pedophilia and did not alert the Police allowing his disgusting behavior to continue for years.  Not only were those in the infamous Nittany Lions coaching staff and Athletic Department aware of his behavior but also the Chancellor of the College.

Our national leadership and Corporate leadership are Ethically challenged. 

Apparent pay for play with Solyndra, GunRunner where guns were illegally sold and taken to Mexico, resulting in the death of a border agent. Former Senator and Governor Corzine and his now bankrupt hedge fund, the list is endless.  We undermine our allies.  Members of Congress basically commit insider trading, but it is not against the law for them.  Government officials who have been tax cheats. Authorities on every level refuse to enforce our immigration laws, and sue states who model state law on Federally coded immigration law. Bernie Madoff, Enron.  I could link all of these issues, but they are common knowledge.

We support abortion and deny that fragile being in a mother's womb is a child.  The left would have us believe that this infanticide is just a mass of cells. Once ObamaCare is in force we will have death panels who will choose who gets life saving care and who does not based on some faceless nameless hidden bureaucrat's cost analysis determining the value of a life.

The basic family unit is under attack, divorce once a social disgrace is now widespread.  The child abuse rate is high.  We are caught up in celebrity.  Our government is interfering in free enterprise with miles of regulation that hamper the pursuit of happiness.  This nation has a drug addiction problem, an alcoholism problem.  We have a gang problem.

The 4th Estate, the press, Mainstream Media and Broadcast Organizations distort the truth in the name of Political Altruism to move a political agenda.

We are cognitively challenged.  We engage in affirmative action which awards and moves poor performers over those who have better scores and skills.  The result of this National acceptance of lowest common denominators has resulted in large segments of our society unable to identify facts from fiction.  This segment has traded self fulfilling individual achievement and chosen the slide from the quest for excellence to the social engineering of aspiring to failure.  A nation breaking culture that awards the least marginally able, by promoting the lowest common denominator with favoritism and punishing excellence.

Each of these declines can be directly attributed to the practice and pursuit of moral relativism.

“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.”  ~ Charles Dickinson

DEMOCRACY DENIED ~ A Must Read, Must Have, Must Share Book By Phil Kerpen

DEMOCRACY DENIED by Phil Kerpen is a book that every freedom loving American should read and have on their bookshelf.

It is more than a must read.  It is a must have.  DEMOCRACY DENIED is packed with must know facts.

If you are concerned about what is happening in this nation you must read this book. 

If you feel that your freedoms are slowly being eaten away by unelected bureaucrats you must read this book. 

If your business is buried in never ending red tape, a result of over regulation you must read this book. 

If you are concerned about why this nation is in dire fiscal trouble and debt you must read this book. 

If you are concerned about why there are no jobs, if you are concerned about where all the jobs have gone,  you must read this book. 

If you are concerned about how the attacks by the Obama Administration has taken your rights Phil Kerpen lays it out in easy to understand terms.

We must stand up in opposition and reverse the trend of greater regulatory power. Phil Kerpen details the loss of our Freedom and the endless assault on the Constitution by the Obama Administration.

Phil Kerpen has outlined how Obama and his Administration have undermined the founding principles of this Republic. This book documents every infringement and has solutions and a road map to recovery, and once again, you must read "DEMOCRACY DENIED".

And after you read it, keep it.  Encourage your family friends and neighbors to buy this book.

Phil Kerpen's book is the best accumulation of facts of why President Obama and his Administration do not deserve a second term.

If you love America, and the Constitution please read this excellent piece of research.

"DEMOCRACY DENIED", In his own words, Phil Kerpen will inform you with facts, "How Obama is ignoring you and bypassing Congress to radically transform America- and how to stop him." 

Phil Kerpen says, "The message from Obama and his administration was clear:  we will accomplish our policy objectives at any cost and by any means.  Indeed that's how they would push two major pieces of legislation they wanted, ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank in the health and financial realms, respectively."

DEMOCRACY DENIED is not only a well written expose of how Obama has turned this nation nearly inside out, but offers strong solutions, and has forty pages of notes and a lengthy index.  Mr. Kerpen has done his homework and has performed a great favor to each and everyone of us.

He is one of my heroes for this bold clearly stated book  and I am honored to have been requested to review his book.

Dogs Fleas Candidates And~~

The Sneaky Snarling Yippy Dog

                          Chewing Up The Constitution 

Every election cycle we are faced with which doggy in the window we will take home for the next four years.

Every election cycle is like a trip to your local breeder, or the pet store or do we want to 'rescue a dog' from our local Animal Shelter.
 
Our current crop of candidates like most dogs have some fleas, they get them from the yard, on walks and playing with other dogs. Some of our candidates have more fleas than others.  Our problem as voters is sorting out which dog has fleas that we can live with. Some questions for voters is which dog will wear a flea collar, subject himself to a flea bath and monthly treatment.

Do we want a big well trained dog, do we want a hunting dog, a good shepherding dog, or a well coiffed high maintenance dog?  Or is a mutt a better fit for the voting public.  Are we willing to buy a dog who has never been on a leash?

The last election we were sold a dog without papers. In the minds of some voters they believe the record keeper at the Hawaiian dog club lost our current Top Dogs papers. Although we know who was his mother there remains serious questions in the minds of many voters about his pedigree, and whether his pedigree was filled out properly.  Further we are not sure where he went to puppy school and his Big dog training is hidden behind the walls of the big dog training school he attended.

Due to our last dog purchase voters have become highly sensitive about who should be our Top Dog.  We have learned that even dogs that have been highly touted by everyone as the smartest dog in the hunt can have serious house training problems. 

It seems our current Top Dog who resides in our house, is chewing up the furniture, soiling the carpet.  And the current Top Dog has a barking problem.  Our current top dog seems to have trouble understanding who pays for his dog food, vet bills, and his kennel.

Our current Top Dog also has a problem knowing exactly who is a threat. He barks and snarls at all the wrong people, whether they are family or long time friends.  Our current Top Dog has this problem not only at home, but on trips our Top Dog does not seem to understand what his job is.

Our current Top Dog seems to like dog fights, and he has bitten the hand that feeds him.  Our current top dog has developed a habit of growling at his owners, threatening them and shows an unwillingness to get along in the dog park.  He seems to think as Top Dog he can have his bone and eat it too.  As a matter of fact our Top Dog has a habit of taking other bones and feeding them to the dog in his pack.

Americans are all dog lovers and we each have breeds that we champion, some of us are more than attached to our Heinz 57 varieties, and who does not love a good junkyard dog that will protect his bone and his junkyard?

Our problem as voters is sorting out which dog has fleas that we can live with.  Some questions for  voters is which dog will wear a flea collar, subject himself to a flea bath and monthly treatment.  Which dog has had the proper training and which dog will listen to our whistles and not trudge off on some skunk chasing adventure, leaving us to bathe them in tomato juice or a concoction from the pet store.

This year those of us on the right are blessed with nine fine pedigreed dogs all seeking to be the Top Dog.  Some are more stubborn than others.  Some have fleas left from previous excursions.  Some have fleas of their own making.  But each and everyone of them has been to Dog Rescue school and each is up to the job they are asking us to elect them to do.

I have no question in my mind whether any of our dogs are loyal enough.  I am certain that those of us on the right will not have another Top Dog Chewing up the Constitution, barking up the wrong tree and eating us out of house and home.

Obama Must Go

If You Don't Have A Reason ~

               You Might Be A Liberal

A Cabinet of Culprits

My first instinct for this blog was a quick list of my reasons I could just rip out, add some art and be done with it.

However I like to link facts.  Just a habit I have developed when I first started my blog.  Once I got started I realized that we all have a mental list of reasons that Obama absolutely deserves one and done.

So I will make this a series, first I have determined to address his Cabinet of Culprits.  We all need to understand that nearly every Cabinet has been re-purposed.  Every single Cabinet member is busy writing departmental changes and directions contrary to the founding of the various Cabinets that make up the Executive Branch.  It is my contention that this Republic has never been so ill served, and that no previous Executive has been so determined to embed his agenda by warping and undermining the original intent and  the purpose of every agency.

President Obama's agenda is one to permanently fundamentally change our Constitutional frame of a limited government. 

As of 10/10/2011

 Federal Deficit, $14,820,099,650,553

The clock moves almost too fast to read!

 Debt from Obama has accrued since he was sworn in 4.212 trillion--more than the total national debt of about $4.1672 trillion accumulated by all 41 U.S. presidents from George Washington through George H.W. Bush.

No Federal Budget for 894 days as of 10/10/2011.

 Unemployment 9.1% As of 10/7/2011

GDP 1.3%

 
On October 14, 2011 the Treasury Department noted FY 2011 deficit second highest in US History, only surpassed by FY 2009 "The US budget deficit for fiscal year 2011 is $1.299 trillion the second largest shortfall in US History...The nation only ran a larger deficit for the 2009 fiscal year, which included the dramatic collapse of financial markets and a huge bailout effort by the government. The nation's deficit that year was $1.412 trillion... This year's deficit is slightly higher than fiscal year 2010, when the nation ran a $1.293trillion deficit.  A Stunning 3 year total Deficit for Obama of $4.004 Trillion Dollars.

Cabinet of Culprits

1.  Obama's selection of Hillary Clinton Secretary of State

Obama has successfully made Hillary Clinton unimportant.  Every time there is a major Foreign Policy push, Obama has sent Hillary on a wild goose chase to some far-flung unimportant corner of the world.

However when Obama wanted to support the Small Arms Treaty or to turn the United States into the UN Human Rights Commission (which at the time Gdaffi chaired, he sent Hillary.

Discover The Networks bio on Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton's announcement of support for Small Arms Treaty

Hillary Clinton Reports State of Arizona to UN Human Rights Commission

Hillary Clinton's Report of United States Abuses of Human Rights

Hillary Clinton's continued support of Apology Tour Foreign Policy

Hillary Clinton's support of Agenda 21

Hillary Clinton's support of Global Warming At Copenhagen Climate Conference

2.  Obama's selection of Eric Holder as Attorney General.

Has the United States every had an Attorney General who has had so little regard for the laws he has sworn to protect and defend?  If you are an illegal immigrant, a terrorist, a New Black Panther Party Member Holder has your back.  If you are in the running guns to Mexican Cartels and a US Border Agent dies from one of the illegally procured weapons, Holder has your back. 

Holder is in violation of his oath of office to enforce United States laws and be Attorney General who protects all Americans and not the Agenda of the Left. 

Discover The Networks  bio on Eric Holder

Eric Holder and his involvement with Operation GunRunner and Fast and Furious

Eric Holder's choice to delay the USS Cole Trial

Eric Holder's determination to send the FBI to Afghanistan to give enemy combatants 'Miranda Rights'

Eric Holder's Decision to not pursue New New Black Panther Party Voter Intimidation Case.

Eric  Holder never ending determination to try Enemy Combatants (Whoops! 'Man Caused Disasters in the United States, In New York City.) 

Eric Holders decision to sue the States of Arizona,  Alabama over immigration Laws that are based on US Coded Immigration Law. 

Eric Holder's protection of US Assistant Attorney who was caught viewing porn and storing porn on his DOJ government owned computer. 

3.  Obama's Appointment of Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury

Who would have ever guessed that a tax cheat who had an illegal alien as a housekeeper would be appointed to be Secretary of the Treasury?  Meg Whitman Conservative Republican woman fell behind in the polls when it was discovered that she terminated an illegal alien housekeeper.

Timothy Geithner was in charge of the Treasury during the firs ever US down grade.  Both Rand  Paul and Michelle Bachmann have called for his resignation.

If you look on the Internet for Timothy Geithner there are pages and pages of links about Geithner AIG and the financial collapse and what his role may or may not have been.  My eyes are absolutely crossed.

All of Obama's economic team save Geithner have resigned.

If Geithner is an economic wizard his talent sure seems missing.

Discover The Networks bio on Timothy Geithner

4.  Obama's selection of Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security

From The Foundary at Heritage Foundation: "Secretary Napolitano’s job is to follow and enforce the law—not to use her authority to undermine it."

In April of 2009 Janet Napolitano issued a report calling returning Veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars potential terrorist,  and refused to apologise.  (In both links the PDF file would not open).

Napolitano declared Obama's Dream Act Executive Order 'Defacto Law'

Napolitano hindered Sheriff Arpaio of Arizona's efforts to arrest illegals.

In 2009 Napolitano said illegally crossing the border 'was not a crime' ..."On Sunday, April 19, 2009, Secretary Napolitano went on CNN’s “State of the Union” and proclaimed that crossing the border illegally is not a crime. This statement left a lot of folks scratching their heads given that U.S. law—the law Napolitano is sworn to uphold—says quite the opposite. Section 8, Title 1325 of the U.S. code clearly states that those who enter the U.S. illegally are committing a crime..."


5.  Obama's selection of Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior Department

Discover The Networks bio on Ken Salazar

Cost of Jobs to Oil Industry as a result of Ken Salazar's Oil drilling Policies

Ken Salazar and the battle over the Delta Smelt, starving San Joaquin Farmers of water.

Ken Salazar's Support of Global Warming and his changes at Department of Interior

Ken Salazar and the Department of Interior Support of Obama Executive Order #86 On Agenda 21

10.  Obama's selection of Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture

Tom Vilsack's support of Bio-Fuels

Tom Visack's support of Global Warming

11.  Obama's selection of Gary Locke as Secretary of Commerce

It appears that the most important thing Gary Locke has done is buy his own cup of Starbucks coffee and carry his own luggage on a recent trip to China.  To be honest I have wading through 15 pages of searches I give up.  He is Obama's most recent appointee, and oh by the way he buys his own coffee and carries his own luggage. 

12.  Obama's selection of Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor

Discover The Networks Bio on Hilda Solis

Hilda Solis is yet another Cabinet Member of the Obama Administration obstructing United States Coded laws. In this Hot Air blog, in a You Tube Hilda Solis encourages illegal employees to turn their employers in for not paying them a fair wage.  Well that link is missing, but here is the You Tube...'illegal not being paid fairly, call us we can help!'

13.  Obama's selection of Kathleen Sibelius as Secretary of Health And Human Services

Kathleen Sibelius is the Grande Dame of abortion support, and is completely in charge of writing miles of regulations for the Affordable Health care act.  Take a look at what the EPA has done to manufacturing, and you will have a bit of a clue what it will do for Health Care in the United States.

Discover The Networks bio on Kathleen Sibelius

14.  Obama's selection of Shaun Donovan as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Shaun Donovan and sustainability and support of EPA in housing and urban development.

From the above link,..."Beyond that, Donovan has created the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, bringing HUD, DOT, and the EPA together in an effort to ensure that funding decisions by all three agencies weigh housing affordability, transportation, and environmental protection in every funding disbursement they make that has any connection with real estate development. Last October, the three agencies’ Partnership for Sustainable Communities joint venture awarded its first $100 million in planning grants to 45 local community development and planning groups. That same month, HUD and DOT awarded $68 million in grants to 62 local and regional partnerships working on transit-oriented real estate projects designed to connect affordable housing and employment in innovative ways."

15.  Obama's selection of Ray H. Lahood as Secretary of Transportation

Ray Lahood was the chief overseer of the Auto bailout.  He also was overseer of the foolish cash for clunkers, he supports silly little cars with plugs.

16.  Obama's selection of Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy

Discover The Networks bio of Steven Chu

Where to begin with Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winning envirofascist that has done more than nudge the use of ineffective green energy into our lives.  Billions of dollars, somewhere in the neighborhood of 38 billion, of our tax dollars have been squandered for a very limited number of permanent jobs.

Steven Chu believes in man made Global Warming and in Cap & Trade.
In a previously blog, "DOE's Solarpalooza Smelly Smarmy 'Nudge' The Big Green Agenda" I wrote extensively about the loans to Solar Energy Advisers.

The news and scandals surrounding the clean energy loans gathers steam everyday, even as I write this current blog.  Even Obama's Treasury Department officials said the Solyndra loan should not be packaged.
what horror stories of mis-spent taxpayer dollars will emerge as the Department of Energy rushed loans that were not closed on September 29th, but sent out the doors of the Department of Energy at the end of the fiscal year September 30, 2011.

17.  Obama's selection of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education

It is my position that anyone who holds that it is acceptable to force an agenda promoting a gay or lesbian lifestyle to school aged children is completely out of sync with traditional American values.  Had the Senate not had a majority, I doubt that Arne Duncan would ever have been confirmed as Secretary of Education.

Arne Duncan War on local school boards.

Arne Duncan support of LBGT agenda.

18.  Obama's selection of Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Veteran's Affairs

It would appear that Eric Shinseki may be one of the least agenda riven of all of Obama's appointments to his Cabinet.  Major General Eric Shinseki resigned from his positon of Army Chief of Staff a result in disagreement with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's and George W. Bush 43s Iraq policy.

19.  Obama's selection of Susan Rice as Ambassador to the UN

Discover The Networks bio of Susan Rice

Susan Rice is perhaps the worst Ambassador to the UN that has ever held this positon.  From Front Page Magazine "President Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice​, has long been an advocate for weakening American sovereignty in order to benefit the UN and its anti-American agenda. It is a policy known as “engagement,” where the United States subsumes its own vital interests, abandons its traditional role of leadership in the world community, and, as Anne Bayefsky writes, pushes the process of “subcontracting American national security” to the UN..."

20.  Obama's selection of Julius Genachowski Chairman of the FCC

It would appear that at least once an Obama Appointee has chosen to do the right thing and take the 'Fairness Doctrine of the FCC off of its books.  ..."In his statement killing the doctrine along with 82 other outmoded rules, Mr. Genachowski got it right: "The elimination of the obsolete Fairness Doctrine regulations will remove an unnecessary distraction. As I have said, striking this from our books ensures there can be no mistake that what has long been a dead letter remains dead. The Fairness Doctrine holds the potential to chill free speech and the free flow of ideas and was properly abandoned over two decades ago..."

And in the same breath but more chilling Genachowski is in favor of net neutrality and is engaged in a one size fits all access to information which can be found on the Internet.  From Neil Stevens at RedState:

..."Net Neutrality started out as a broad-based movement on the Internet. It wasn’t a left-wing thing at all, but rather was something most of us could support, because it was merely a movement to ensure (usually government franchise-backed) ISP firms could not abuse their monopoly or oligopoly power to coerce their customers to use other services by the firm, such as phone service in the case of AT&T or television service in the case of Comcast. I believe this is a reasonable request. It doesn’t prevent investors in Internet technology from profiting, but rather merely prevents them from abusing government-granted market power to benefit other businesses..."

Here is a copy of the PDF file of the speech Genachowski gave at the Brookings Institute of his vision of 'net neutrality'

21.  Obama's selection of Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense.

Discover the Networks Bio of Leon Panetta

Long time Clinton insider who should never have had his positon at either the CIA or Department of Defense.

We pay these Cabinet Secretaries $199,700.00 annually.  They serve at the President's Pleasure. The secretaries are appointed by the president, but must be approved by a simple majority vote of the Senate. The only qualification is that a department secretary cannot be a member of Congress or hold any other elected office.

These Cabinet Secretaries are busy writing regulations and writing policy that affect every American and our role in the world at large, and they are subject to testify before Congress.  Meanwhile hiding in the shadows are Obama's Czars, writing all sorts of regulations out side of advise and consent of the Legislative body.  Who even knows how much damage and at what cost this bunch has been up to.

And to be honest, I feel like I need a shower. 

Dead Parrots And The Cognitive Dissonance Of Democrats

                  A Dialectic Derangement Disorder

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.  When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
                                                               ~Thomas Paine,  The Age of Reason

If you have ever found yourself in an unwanted circular never ending discussion with someone on the left chances are you have found yourself as frustrated as John Cleese in this infamous skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus from the 1970s.  Liberals never change their tactics.

Since the election of Obama, this nation has been subjected to one after another distortion, mis-statement, speeches filled with half-truth's based on straw man arguments,  misdirection, tall tales, double speak, and a blurring of real facts that are breathtaking in both their scope.  Obama certainly employs all of these tactics, as well as his administration.  Every interview, speech, or appearance by by Obama, or his Cabinet. If you watch FOX news, and the pundits on any of the various shows, you will see this Cognitive Dissonance in nearly every segment when there is a discussion of any political topic with a Republican and a Democrat on the left.  The Democrat immediately heads to an altruistic "feelings are fact argument."

The ploys are always the same, and these are the varying tactics used by the left, whenever Republicans or those on the right allow themselves to get ensnared in a circular discussion to nowhere with Democrats:Here is a list compiled by Dr. Sanity:

"1.  Red Herrings:  Premises or ideas that are irrelevant to a particular conclusion, but which are offered as evidence of the conclusion.

2.  Straw Man:  Deliberately setting up a false target that is easier to defeat in an argument.

3.  Begging the question:  The situation where the truth of a conclusion is assumed by its premises.


Remember these promises?



4.  Selective use of evidence:  In any analysis there is usually a large amount of evidence to consider, particularly when there is sufficient complexity involved. Sometimes it is easier to pay attention only to evidence that supports the desired conclusion and not to evidence which contradicts it.

5.  Moving the goal posts:  Is a common practice in denial and occurs when someone always demands more evidence than can currently be provided.  If that evidence becomes available at a later date, the demand is made for even more evidence, ad infinitum.

6.  Argument by definition:  Is changing the meaning of words or concepts so that they support your argument (e.g."it depends on what the meaning of 'is is"; and other distortions of language like using the opposite meaning of a word as in George Orwell's Newspeak).

7.  Liar Paradox:  Is the use of paradoxical statements (e.g., "This statement is false" or "There is no objective truth") that are linguistically correct but internally inconsistent and cannot be demonstrated to be either true or false."

Chances are after your first encounter with a 'libidiot', you may, like me, be inclined to wear a helmet, and some chest high waders, have a paddle and a nitwit net for your next exchange of facts and the obfuscation you will encounter with a 'true believer agenda driven leftist reality distorter.

Is it even possible for the left to ever give up their denial of the failure of the Obama Administration?

Or have Democrats become so jaded and intent on forcing the agenda of the Obama Administration down our collective throats they will resort to any means to win not just a discussion between voters, but debates and an election.  Has the left  been completely poisoned by the blue Koolaid they are drinking?

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding." Marshall McLuhan

Clearly the Mainstream Media is involved in enabling the Obama Administration, along with commentators, all are obscuring what anyone paying attention to real everyday facts.

The latest social theater of the absurd can be seen in the Occupy Wall Street protests all over America manufactured by the left and enjoined by public and private sector unions.  These ginned up protest are an effort to fire up the now very depressed far left base of the Democrat Party as Americans and Independent voters are now holding the Obama Administration accountable for their failed policies.

In this article from the Weekly Standard, Matt Labash says, ..."When I arrive at Occupy Wall Street (OWS) ground zero at Zuccotti Park, only a few blocks over from the World Trade Center ground zero, the first revolutionaries I encounter are two masked-up anarchists named Spooky and Newport. They wear studded leather jackets which bear hand-painted inscriptions like “Fight War, Not Wars” and are clad in black from head to toe. Except Newport additionally sports a chartreuse fright wig and sunglasses with reflecting marijuana leaves on the lenses. They seem to know they’re a spectacle, since they stand in front of a cardboard sign that reads “Pictures for change or a dollar.” Meaning the passing fanny-packing tourist hordes or smirking financial sector barbarians can get their snaps taken with Spooky and Newport as if they were mascots at Disney’s new Protester World Experience..."

From Forbes Magazine, Occupy Wall Street: Contempt Of Political Class:  ..."Keynes prophesied in The Economic Consequences of the Peace something very much like #OWS (and the whole world of protests) and addressed the underlying cause of the resentment:

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. … By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become ‘profiteers,’ who are the object of the hatred …. [Emphasis added.]

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose..."

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe Suppports Occupy Wall Street

Hugo Chavez supports Occupy Wall Street

Code Pink Supports Occupy Wall Street

New York Times Supports Occupy Wall Street

SEIU and Unions Support Occupy Wall Street

Is it even possible for a Democrat to be honest in addressing any of the dire issues this nation faces? Can Democrats be straight talkers about the economic difficulties, high unemployment this nation faces without a true astroturfed organized event to ramp up the emotions and class warfare of America's Left?

It sure does not appear the left is capable of embracing the limited government Free Market model found in the Constitution from my perspective.

..."As long as the left continues to live in the world of denial and play their rhetorical games and use their non-logic to justify the unjustifiable, to tolerate the intolerable; and support the unsupportable; then I will continue to blog and expose their motives and hidden agendas; and do everything I can to prevent them from regaining political power."