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There is Hope! Great Conversion!!!

2011-11-28T13:38:00.000-08:00

There is Hope! Lisa Converted to Our Side By Obama's Disaster and Rush's Show

November 28, 2011

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Lisa in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. It's a pleasure to speak with you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I'm a "new-time" listener, the reason being I was a Democrat, voted for Obama in the primary; and last month had Michele Bachmann at my house for a fundraiser breakfast. That's the track that I have taken in the last three years, and I could tell you how and why. (giggles)
RUSH: I would love to hear it. I've got about two minutes here, but how do you go from being an Obama voter to Michele Bachmann in your house?
CALLER: My husband's always been a listener of yours. I haven't. I fought him tooth and nail. I was stubborn. I was a teacher in New York, I was a member of a union --
RUSH: Ah.
CALLER: -- and I just believed what you said earlier, that the Democrats were the people that had the empathy, not the Republicans.
RUSH: Right. They cared, had compassion.
CALLER: The best thing that happened was Obama getting into office, because it changed me and made me look at the party for what it was -- and through this all I have seen that instead, they are the ones that are not caring about the people. They are the ones that are making us enslaved to government. So what I'm trying to do is instead of whining and crying about it, I'm trying to get out there and help. I'm working for the lieutenant governor that's running for North Carolina, Dan Forest -- "Run, Forrest, Run!" -- and I'm working with him.
RUSH: (laughs)
CALLER: I've had Michele to the house, and I said, "We are gonna change things around;" and the caller that you had earlier, I think that those type of people are like myself. See, I feel sorry for them, because I had the blinders on 'til I started listening to your show. I started really seeing what is happening out there. We have to treat them with kind of a respect just to say, "I know, I understand where you're coming from, but let me show you the light," and I saw the light.
RUSH: I'll tell you, this is a heck of a conversion.
CALLER: (laughs)
RUSH: You are a teacher, you're a member of a union, you vote Obama.
CALLER: Yes. (laughing)
RUSH: You believe that the Republicans have no compassion and that the Democrats own it all, and now look at you! What a great call to end with here.
CALLER: Yes. So there's hope. (giggles)
RUSH: There is. There is hope. There's a lot of hope.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: That's what we do: We liberate one mind at a time here.
CALLER: Yes, we do. Thank you, Rush.
RUSH: No, thank you, Lisa. I appreciate it. That is just great. That's real hope and change. That is real hope and change. Now, I'm fully willing to acknowledge my role in this, as she said, but there has to be something else that was going on at same time, because this is a fast conversion. You just don't go from loving Obama and a union member to hosting Michele Bachmann in your house! We'll take it. We'll take it. Maybe I do have that kind of power. Sure I do.

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Is Newt Gingrich Up To The Task!!!

2011-11-21T13:21:00.000-08:00

This comment came from Human Events and has a lot of validity IMHO!!!

Max Honeycutt 3 days ago

The Supposed “Inevitability” of Mitt Romney

Ann Coulter has written yet another deluded commentary about the inevitability of Mitt Romney winning the Republican nomination. As others have pointed out, Obama is not bill Clinton and Gingrich is no Bob Dole. And it is Gingrich who is the inevitable nominee, not Romney.

There is, after all, a very good reason that American's cannot and will not get behind Mitt Romney. Yes, it's partially because he believes that he and his people are waiting for the spaceship and that each of them will become gods ruling over their own planets. But Mitt's failure to attract support has a more mundane explanation, especially when he is viewed against fellow candidate Newt Gingrich.

Romney has never been a conservative leader. As governor of Massachusetts, he ruled over the most liberal state in the nation and did his subjects’ bidding by building the evil tower of ObamneyCare---the model for the Dark Tower and lidless eye of ObamaCare. In essence, Romney is a slightly smarter version of John Kerry, making wild claims about his "service" as a Republican soldier, claims which do not match his actual war record.

When your resume includes being the leader of an army of orcs and trolls (in the land of Mordor, no less), you can't very well claim to be a good wizard fighting against the enemies of darkness. Conservatives aren't that gullible or forgetful. Dumb as they are, even the democrats wouldn't fall for that.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney was not just eating, drinking and sleeping with the enemy, he was their fearless leader. That tops even the enemy cheerleading of Hanoi-Jane during the Vietnam war. Boston-Mitt has about as much of a chance becoming the Republican nominee as Jane Fonda does of becoming our mascot. (How do we know he won't ask John Kerry to be his running mate?)

Ann Coulter (who seems to have lost her senses of late) talks about how the media can't wait to rip Gingrich to shreds, while supposedly being scared to death of Romney. If that were true, then why rip away at Newt NOW? Why not wait until he's the nominee, if they're not afraid of him snapping the faux Obama intellect like a twig and shattering the grand illusion of his supposedly “superior” intelligence?

Obama the intellectual featherweight and Affirmative Action graduate from Columbia and Harvard goes up against the Red Elephant. -- I can't wait!

There's a lot more reason to believe that the half-wit-media prefer Romney as Obama's opponent, as there is less contrast (other than skin color) and they know perfectly well that a Romney candidacy would alienate millions of Christians, especially when the bizarre beliefs of Mormons are blasted across the cable news networks 24/7 once Romney is the candidate and locked in their sights.

As for baggage, Obama's is much heavier than Newt's. Sure, Romney has wedged ObameyCare tightly into a carry-on by denying its true size and implications, but that carry-on seems to follow him everywhere. Besides that he's wearing funny Mormon underwear which are sure to show up once the media hit him with the X-Rays.

The key to understanding Gingrich's ascendancy now is recognizing that (a) the pre-game primary party is almost over and (b) Newt is the only candidate that has led a conservative army into battle against the democrats and forced them to surrender. And just look at what he made them surrender: their sacred Welfare cow -- their biggest treasure. And a balanced budget -- their biggest fear. Just think how much they must truly hate him!!! Generalissimo Gingrich is their worst nightmare come true.

As for the media, Newt has obviously taken a much needed lesson from his undisciplined interview performance last spring. He realizes that they're the enemy, so now he goes on the attack rather than sitting there like a fish in a barrel, or letting them coax him into waxing philosophical, as he did last spring speaking about the Ryan plan.

All Newt has to do, when he is attacked by the dim-wit-media, is calmly return fire. They are not used to people turning the tables on them and, being democrats, they are inveterate cowards who will cringe and crumble before the master orator. Every question they attempt to ambush him with can be answered by reminding them that his life is a matter of public record. Shouldn't they be asking for all of the records hidden by Pinocchio-boy? Americans really want to know how a poor student like Obama managed to get into Columbia and then Harvard with bad grades and who paid for his education.

Newt knows that the best way to confront a mediot is to ask them whether or not they are ashamed to ask such trivial, nonsensical, biased, inflammatory, imbalanced and unfair questions? If you’re a mediot, how do you answer that question? I am not ashamed? That’s what I figured…. If you weren’t so biased you would be….

Consider -- can you think of anyone in the national media that can stand toe-to-toe with Newt Gingrich? We’re talking about someone on the order of a socialist-regressive version of George Will. And such a man does not exist.

As for Obama himself, the debates will be like watching a master school a child, and a shopkeeper catching a thief. Newt should have a list of all of the things Obama has concealed at the ready along with the sound-bite (by Obama) about people who have something to hide. He can use these as a foil whenever the media tries to ambush him with his own baggage by pointing out that people already know all about him, but the media has never asked Mr. Blank-Slate Obama for so much as his college report cards. What do those report cards show that Pinocchio is so afraid of? Over 2 million dolar spent hiding his records and not a whiff of interest or curiosity by the national press corps. -- You know, as in copse-man.....

As for attracting independents, consider who independents are: primarily monied intellectuals who are essentially free-market oriented and fiscally conservative. Socially, they are more liberal, but Team Obama and his costly socialist agenda have breached the boundaries of what independents can reasonably stomach. Besides that, they've had time to listen to the teleprompter and are sick of the broken Obama record playing over and over again, like a 1930s era dance-song in a concentration camp.

Gingrich will attract independents by giving them something to think about -- their favorite pastime. Plus, independents won't be embarrassed by Newt's intellectual reach, as they well might have been by Cain's, or put to sleep by the hollow sounds echoing from the redundant and uninspiring Mitt Romney, who has had 4 years to get rid of that deer-in-the-headlights look and failed.

Finally, there is the global warming photo with Nancy Pelosi. This would normally be unforgivable except that Gingrich has recanted and has become fast friends with Sen. Inhofe, who has been the battlefield commander against AGW in the senate. Newt is smart enough to understand the difference between valid science and the Marxist pseudo-science of the left. He has apparently been brought up to speed on the subject, which is what he's essentially been admitting on national TV. Everyone makes mistakes (except Obama, of course).

Character and integrity show through when you have the moral rectitude to acknowledge your mis-steps. Liberals do not realize this and therefore can never admit they're wrong, for fear of losing their slender grip on reality and losing face, which they avoid by ass-covering. But conservatives value redemption. Liberals are obsessed with condemnation. Their attacks on Gingrich will not only fail, but will draw unwanted attention to their own wooden boy-wonder, Pinocchio, the puppet of Soros, as the public witnesses the enormity of the media's psychosis.

Rush Limbaugh Sells Herman Cain Advertising!!!

2011-10-25T15:05:00.000-07:00

Herman Cain is using Rush Limbaugh's Radio Show to promote his 999 plan which will air in all 50 States. This is a brilliant move and will probably spread to other venues. I'm thinking other talk shows will also run his ad's and these 'ads' will also go viral on the internet. Rush Limbaugh says "So you will be hearing Herman Cain commercials on the program. He's a 50-state buy, by virtue of this program. And when you hear that, it doesn't imply an endorsement."

Following is a sample of one of the ads on Rush's show:

9-9-9 means jobs, jobs, jobs. I'm Herman Cain, a candidate for president, and I approved this message. But Obama doesn't. My 9-9-9 plan creates six million jobs. Obama doesn't want you to know, because he doesn't want me to win. Go to 999meansjobs.com and help me defeat Obama. An uprising has me leading in Iowa, but I need you. Please donate $9 or $999. Every gift counts. 999meansjobs.com. Paid for by Friends of Herman Cain, Inc. Thank you.

Interesting TidBits about Sarah Palin!!!

2011-07-02T17:57:00.000-07:00

Many persons here expressing an opinion, don’t have a clue what went on in Alaska, except what has been fed to them by the Lame Stream Media and the dumb cluck Tina Fey. I am copying and pasting an email that circulated here some time back that I kept just for occasions like this, to help inform the ignorant.
Chilly
Subject: Sarah Palin This is not a joke…no matter if you like her or not
I know a lot of people don’t like her but read it all just to see how you feel later…..
I never understood why so many people hate Sarah Palin, but I think it’s more fear than hate. The woman just makes things happen!!!
The Real Truth About Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin Democrat, Independent, or Republican….the second half of this email should make all of us very sick, send this on …..especially the second half……
READ TO THE VERY END! VERY ENLIGHTENING!! AND VERY DISTURBING!!!
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.
As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.
1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, “la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.
2. Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES.” Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork.” She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning – I imagine – that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4. Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5. For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. (while she was governor). I won’t be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents’ wives.
So “You go, Girl.” I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.
I rest my case. Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.
If you’ve read this far………….now, open your eyes…
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Servant List and Pay Scale
First Lady Requires More Than Twenty (20) Attendants
1. $172,2000- Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2.$140,000- Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3.$113,000- Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4.$102,000- Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5.$100,000- Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6.$90,000- Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7.$84,000- Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8.$75,000- Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9.$70,000- Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10.$65,000- Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11.$64,000- Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12.$62,000- Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13.$60,000- Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14.$57,500- Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15.$52,500- Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)
16.$50,000- Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0 Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)
17.$45,000- Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18.$43,000- Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19.$40,000- Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20.$36,000- Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21.$35,000- Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22.$35,000- Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(This is community organizing at it’s finest.)
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life.
One wonders why she needs so much help,at taxpayer expense,when even Hillary, only had three (3);Jackie Kennedy one (1); Laura Bush one (1) and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.
Note:This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .
FRIENDS…..THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000) FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE????? AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION????? WELL….MOST OF US ARE.
I GUESS IT’S OK TO SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT’S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY?????
Copyright 2009 CanadaFreePress.Com
Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry, poor, old, dumb USA!

Is The USA Going In The Wrong Direction???

2011-07-01T13:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=gQD9IaGoLWk

This video needs to be passed along and go viral!!!

Rethinking Sarah Palin For President!!!

2011-03-31T12:40:00.000-07:00

Each time the mainstream media tries to belittle her accomplishments she seizes the opportunity to set the story straight and the demonization backfires.

By Alicia Colon

Although I have written several columns expressing my admiration for Sarah Palin, I admit I have never taken her seriously as a 2012 presidential candidate. I've always felt that her greatest asset was as a kingmaker and behind the scenes advisor. In addition I've assumed that she wasn't that interested in pursuing the job but rather enjoyed making waves in the liberal media. The more I read the continuing attacks on Palin and her family I've started wondering why the Democrats and their media lapdogs fear her so much. Even some conservative pundits have determined that she is unelectable because of her high negatives. Those negatives are actually bogus and based on lies and misinformation and there is really only one word to describe Sarah Palin - indomitable.
Bill Maher played to the lowest common denominator and insinuated that Palin was a "dumb tw**t" and his moronic audience cheered. Ari Fleischer, a former press secretary in the George W. Bush administration, said recently that he couldn't see "any way, shape or form that [Palin] can win" the White House. Naturally there was a Public Policy poll that determined that Democratic and Independent voters would vote for Charlie Sheen over Sarah Palin. The fact that there was even such a poll should indicate the vigorous campaign to minimize her credibility as a serious candidate. Who's paying for these skewered polls anyway?
The anti-Palin campaign stretches to foreign media where Canadian TV columnist John Doyle writes in the Globe and Mail that television forever killed Palin's chances to be president. He writes: "television duly destroyed the Palin authenticity. The arc of her national political career began with a defining speech at the Republican National Convention in September, 2008, and ended in November, 2010, a few episodes into Sarah Palin's Alaska. The show, a cringingly inevitable reality-TV series, gave her a huge platform and she blew it. If her exposure on TV in 2008 brought out the authenticity, the show brought out Palin's inner princess. She talked about being a mom 87 times an episode (I'm exaggerating, but only a little) and made dubious attempts to make political parables linking her family, the outdoors and wildlife. It was ego unbounded. And this after quitting her job as governor of Alaska."
Why on earth American voters should listen to Doyle who has been an outright critic of all things conservative is beyond me but then again why does anybody watch The View? What he gets completely wrong is the impact of Sarah Palin's reality show. It probably did more to promote tourism in her state than all the previous travelogues. It was also clear from the TV show how much Ms. Palin loves Alaska which is the real reason she quit as governor. If Mr. Doyle had done any research he would have learned that staying in office while she was being pursued by unending bogus lawsuits and vicious media attacks made her duties as governor near impossible.
I didn't watch the entire Palin series but the ones I did watch left me with the impression that Sarah Palin represented the American woman we rarely get to see in the media-strong, independent and proud to be a mother. Mr. Doyle found this last image so offensive, he had to mock it because what mainstream media anchorwoman touts that familial connection? Fox News on the other hand has its anchorwomen proudly blooming on air throughout their pregnancies and not hiding their womanhood.
I also came away with a wishful thought about how wonderful it would be for our country to be represented by such a strong, vibrant woman who clearly loves this nation. I felt the same as a teenager when John F. Kennedy emerged as a presidential candidate and the nation was overwhelmed by his youth, charisma and beautiful family. We knew very little then about Kennedy's negatives and if the Internet had been around in 1960, it's doubtful he would have been elected. Conversely, we know everything about Sarah Palin and despite the distortion and lies about her character, what we see is what we get and frankly that honesty is what we need right now.
Each time the mainstream media tries to belittle her accomplishments she seizes the opportunity to set the story straight and the demonization backfires. The New York Times published an article attempting to denigrate her record involving Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share (ACES) which allows residents to share in oil revenue. Palin wrote a rebuttal on Facebook called, "NYT-There You Go Again.":
"Most importantly, Alaska enjoys a $12 billion surplus thanks to ACES and the sound fiscal policies of my administration. I put billions of dollars aside in savings accounts (though I could have easily spent those billions and made a lot of friends with big-spending legislators on both sides of the aisle), and I continued to veto excess spending and Obama stimulus funds, and chopped earmarks by 86% - much to the chagrin of liberal legislators who were used as "sources" in the article. It's kind of amusing to see state legislators claim credit for the surplus when they didn't vote for ACES, and they cried to high heaven when I vetoed their wasteful spending on their special interest projects."
The liberal media is also not reporting the success of her trips to our allies India and Israel because our president himself would not fare well in comparison. His last overseas trip is regarded as a colossal failure and more of a distraction from the serious global events like the imploding Mideast and the looming nuclear disaster in Japan. Obama effigies are being stomped on and beaten by Sri Lankan Muslims over the bombings in Libya. The question inevitable arises - what would a President Palin do? Better?
Barack Obama was never fully grilled on his ability to govern because he had no real executive experience and frankly the media didn't wish to expose his shortcomings.
Sarah Palin does have that experience as governor and we can gage from that what her priorities would be as president. Her record shows that she would not be burdening the American people with a multi-trillion dollar budget that would bankrupt the country. Her recent interview with Greta Van Susteren proved her to be a realistic and sympathetic observer of the difficulty Israel faces on a daily basis. Unlike our president who leans more towards the UN condemnation of that harried nation, Palin asked the question Israelis have been asking for decades: "Why is it that in the past, too often, the U.S. government has told Israel that they're the ones, the Jewish community, that they need to back up, they need to back off or there will never be peace? They need to keep conceding? Why aren't we putting our foot down with the other side and telling the Palestinians, if you're serious about peace, quit the shellacking and the shelling, quit the bombing of innocent Israelis. Look at the young Israeli family that was slaughtered in their house a week or two ago. Look at today, the bombing of those innocents at a bus station in Jerusalem."
This is not a dumb woman. This is an extremely competent and courageous woman whom I'd vote for in a nanosecond as my Commander-in-Chief. Dream ticket-Palin/Rubio.
The more the media attacks her, the more we get to hear her intelligent and self-assured responses debunking them all - and all without a teleprompter. No wonder they hate her.
Alicia Colon resides in New York City and can be reached at aliciav.colon@gmail.com and at www.aliciacolon.com

Palin Doctrine Emerges as Arab League Echoes Her Demarche on Libya

2011-03-16T12:20:00.000-07:00

Palin Doctrine Emerges as Arab League Echoes Her Demarche on Libya

Conservatives For Palin!

2011-03-15T17:19:00.000-07:00

Please go here for great blog concerning Sarah Palin

Commander-in-Chief

2011-03-13T12:15:00.000-07:00

Commander-in-Chief

Video: Bill Whittle's Half-Time Report Card For Obama - Bzzzzt-F!

2011-01-21T13:39:00.000-08:00

Video: Bill Whittle's Half-Time Report Card For Obama - Bzzzzt-F!

The Hero!

2010-10-28T22:00:00.000-07:00

Thank You President Obama!

2010-10-24T13:02:00.000-07:00

Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times Weekly February 2010

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America 's future. He is the best thing ever.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.

Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy.

Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.

We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.

A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are completely unsupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured.

Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years - the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.

Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website,aspenranchrealestate.com

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Palin Is No Puppet! by Paul Starobin

2010-04-10T22:35:00.000-07:00

Of the many unflattering caricatures of Sarah Palin that litter the political landscape, the notion that she is a dummy or a puppet -- a mere figure for manipulation by a superior brain -- is probably the most prevalent. She has even been given a mock "endorsement," bestowed in a YouTube video by the so-called Ventriloquist Dummies of America Association, for her supposed likeness to an inert object of play.

So let's just say this at the top: Palin is not anyone's puppet. It is not true for her, just as it was not true for George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and a long list of politicians who have been accused of having their strings pulled by one puppet master or another.

The image of the politician as puppet is among the oldest tropes in American politics. When William McKinley ran for president in 1896, political cartoonists had fun sketching him seated on the knee of Mark Hanna, a reputed Svengali of that era. No less a figure than John Adams, the Republic's second president, came to believe that George Washington, as the first chief executive, had been a puppet of the conniving Alexander Hamilton, Washington's brilliant Treasury secretary. Perhaps Adams's judgment was influenced by his wife, Abigail, who once wrote of Hamilton, "O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them."

But on this point, history's verdict is clear: Successful politicians are almost never anyone's dummy. Although it sometimes takes the passage of time and the release of documentary evidence to establish that judgment, there is virtually no case of such a figure proving true to caricature -- an empty vessel, a stick figure, a parrot.

Such portraits invariably have more to do with the manner in which ill-informed or biased journalists, jealous rivals, and self-promoting advisers mischaracterize the political figure in question than with reality. "Think about this: People sometimes think they are having an effect [on the politician] when they are pushing on an open door," noted political scientist Fred Greenstein, the author of a 1982 book on Dwight Eisenhower, The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader, that demolished the widespread belief that Ike was a lazy, figurehead president.

Now comes, predictably, the insistent rendering of Palin as a puppet, a portrayal that flies in the face of evidence that she possesses deep, if not always well-informed, personal convictions about America's role in the world. This criticism extends well beyond the political-humor crowd. It is at the heart of an anti-Palin narrative, peddled by cognoscenti in the media and foreign-policy elite, that depicts her, in patronizing fashion, as profoundly inept, like a small child unable to function without adult guidance. A typical example is Palin's increasingly belligerent tone on confronting a nuclear-weapons-seeking Iran. In adopting the view that the U.S. may one day have to bomb Iran to keep the mullahs from gaining nukes, Palin is said to be doing the bidding of the same camp of neoconservatives who campaigned for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

"Isn't it a little scary to have someone like Sarah Palin speaking words put in her mouth by ideologues?" MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked rhetorically on his show, Hardball, in February. In a recent Washington Post op-ed column, Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and host of the CNN show GPS, said that Palin was picking up her idea to "declare war on Iran" in a confused fashion from Daniel Pipes, a neocon analyst on Middle East affairs. Zakaria parenthetically added, with a heavy sigh, "It's getting tiresome to keep pointing out her serial gaffes, but Palin does appear to be running for president."

They Did It To Reagan, Too

Even within Republican circles in Washington, there is a school of thought that Palin is a "blank page," a tempting device for would-be handlers, as a former Bush staffer told a British journalist. This impression is fed, if inadvertently, by supporters who labor too hard to vouch for her intellectual credentials. Thus, in a blog posting, the veteran GOP hand Fred Malek offered this description of Palin's performance at an Alfalfa Club dinner of Washington VIPs to which he had invited her: "It was great to see her in deep conversations with people like Alan Greenspan, Madeleine Albright, Walter Isaacson, and Mitch McConnell. For sure, nothing shallow about this lady."

Washington's impression of Palin as clueless harks back to what was once a standard Washington perspective on Reagan as "an amiable dunce," as he was memorably called by the Democratic "wise man" Clark Clifford at a party in Georgetown in 1981, the first year of the Reagan presidency. Like other "politician-as-puppet" criticisms, that one has failed to survive careful scrutiny. A rough consensus has emerged that Reagan was a conviction politician who was sometimes misinformed and often passive but who, on the big issues, knew exactly where he wanted to go.

"That misperception [that Reagan could be easily manipulated] was at the core of the underestimation of Reagan" by his critics, Lou Cannon, a prominent Reagan biographer, noted in an interview. Cannon, who covered his presidency as The Washington Post's White House correspondent, blames the media, in part, for this portrait of Reagan, whom he credits with having a "very high emotional intelligence and a very high interpersonal intelligence" -- a keen ability to read people and situations -- if not a high logical or formal analytical intelligence. "I think those of us who make our living with words, we tend to underrate people who have emotional intelligence," Cannon said.

To put it another way, political figures who can be verbally clumsy or who may seem dumb, as intelligence is conventionally judged by those with high SAT scores, may be smart where it really counts; they may well possess inner convictions that make them anything but easy to manipulate. Palin, having gotten as far as she has in a tough racket, the arena of politics, deserves not to be dismissed as a dolt but rather to be studied for what seems to be working. "My guess is that probably she is doing a lot of the string pulling," Lewis L. Gould, a McKinley biographer, said in an interview. "Often, the candidate fools you," he noted, observing that in the case of Hanna and McKinley, who was twice elected to the White House before being assassinated in 1901, "there was no doubt who was in charge. Even Hanna recognized that McKinley was on top."

The Republican As A Dummy

A subtext of the criticism of Palin, who quit her job as Alaska's governor before completing her first term and is a favorite of the anti-establishment "tea party" movement, is that the GOP is capable of little better than elevating to political prominence a leader who appeals to the least mentally equipped of the party's Neanderthal base. Thus, the attack on Palin as a puppet follows close on the heels of the incessant criticism by Democrats, and especially liberals, that Bush was little more than an ex-alcoholic frat boy, even if he did attend Yale, who was willing putty in the hands of one of the darker and more adept political masterminds ever to inhabit the White House -- Dick Cheney, aka Darth Vader.

Was W. really Vice President Cheney's tool? The available evidence suggests that Cheney's influence was at a maximum in the first term, especially after the 9/11 attacks. Taking advantage of Bush's lack of interest in policy details, Cheney operated by keeping him in the dark as long as possible on key decisions, such as warrantless surveillance of suspected terrorists, as recounted in the book Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, by Barton Gellman, a former Washington Post reporter.

But as Gellman noted in an interview, Bush, even in his first term, did not hesitate to go against Cheney when the VP was advocating what the president viewed as a politically losing proposal. Although Cheney pushed hard, he could not get Bush to agree to a plan to inoculate all Americans against smallpox in the event of a biological attack. Bush could not stomach the idea that some people would likely die from the vaccine.

"Bush really was the decider," Gellman said, with Cheney working on the "broad scope of Bush's authority." This dynamic became clear as the president gained experience and lost confidence in Cheney's political judgment. Bush ruled in favor of civilian trials for terrorism suspects, against the continued use of waterboarding, and in favor of the release of some Guantanamo prisoners to their home countries -- with Cheney on the opposite side of each of those major decisions, as he now ruefully acknowledges.

Bush was stubborn as Sarah Palin appears to be stubborn. Take, for instance, her relentless pushing as John McCain's running mate in the 2008 campaign for the McCain team to send her to Michigan to take on Barack Obama there. Stubbornness may or may not be a virtue, but it is certainly not a trait seen in puppets. "She has never listened to established opinion on anything," Matthew Continetti, author of a sympathetic book on the former governor, The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star, said in an interview. "What political adviser," he asked rhetorically, "would have advised her to resign her office" in Alaska? Going Rogue, the title of her best-selling memoir, may indeed be an accurate, if shrewdly calculated, description of her political character.

Sarah Palin's Convictions

Palin's alleged ignorance of the world beyond U.S. borders is vouched for in Game Change, the best-selling book on the 2008 campaign by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, by no less a source than Steve Schmidt, McCain's senior strategist. "She doesn't know anything," the book quotes Schmidt as telling a pair of foreign-policy aides, Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann, who were charged with the task of "tutoring" Palin on foreign policy after McCain picked her as his running mate. The reader is told how Palin, with the use of "study aids" -- namely, 5-by-7 index cards -- manages to digest the rudiments of global geopolitics, much like a high school student cramming for a test.

One problem with this depiction is that Schmidt, whether that quote came directly from him or from someone else, is not an objective source -- he repeatedly jousted with Palin during the campaign, and post-campaign, the two have clashed bitterly in their self-presentations to the media. The bigger problem is that Palin, notwithstanding her deficiencies in knowledge, is not without a set of beliefs about the United States and its global mission.

Convictions can come from books but also, and usually more powerfully, from life experience. One formative influence for Palin is Alaska, a huge and somewhat isolated state whose economy depends on trade with the outside world. "She is intuitively a free-trader," said one Palin policy adviser with extensive exposure to her thinking.

The adviser also said that Palin, who was not born into wealth or privilege and is accustomed to being underestimated, is instinctively drawn to a mission for a powerful, big-stick America as a protector of small states that live in rough neighborhoods, such as Israel. Although that is a standard neocon position, this source attributed Palin's perspective to her ingrained character as a "pull for the underguy" person. She "doesn't like to see a nation bullied," the adviser said, adding that Palin is not, as is sometimes said, "a religious wack job" with an affinity for the Jewish state as the setting for the second coming of Christ to Earth. "I think she has a real connectivity to the spirit of Israel. Not theological; geographical and character-based, what the Jewish people had done," the source said.

This mind-set, the adviser continued, also extends to Palin's view, popular in neocon circles and promoted vigorously by McCain, that NATO should be expanded to include the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a fledgling democracy, historically dominated by Moscow, with a largely pro-American population. In August 2008, with the U.S. presidential election just three months away, Russia exploited a border clash as a pretext to invade and thrash Georgia, as Washington stood by helplessly. In an interview on ABC News at the time, Palin publicly called for both Georgia and Ukraine to be admitted to NATO -- even if that meant risking a future U.S. war with Russia, on the principle that an attack on one member of the alliance is an attack on all members.

"I think Sarah Palin above all is an American exceptionalist. I think she believes deeply and reflexively in American power, in American greatness, and in America's moral example. I think that influences all of her foreign-policy thinking," Continetti told National Journal.

In formulating her views, perhaps most important to Palin is the emotional support she gets from the people she can trust. By all accounts, the most important adviser in her life is her husband, Todd, the so-called First Dude of Palin's governorship, who was a very active player during her term, according to recently released internal e-mails. The two are a team, with Sarah Palin the more extroverted one and Todd rather quiet, at least in public settings, but able to speak to her from the heart. "He is definitely her anchor; he is the one who, I am sure, gives her the most confidence," said a source who has observed the couple's dynamic.

Moths To The Flame

Todd Palin, who has variously labored as an Alaska oil field worker and supervisor and a commercial fisherman, is even less experienced at politics than his wife is. If Sarah Palin truly intends to seek the presidency, she will need an able Kitchen Cabinet, a trusted cadre of professional advisers that extends beyond her husband. With polls consistently showing her in the front tier of contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, she can expect to attract advisers who, with good reason or not, will believe that she can be pulled in one direction or another.

This is less because she is thought to be a malleable nincompoop -- a "My Fair Lady" for a Henry Higgins-type sculptor, in a political incarnation of the Pygmalion myth -- and more because she is believed to be going places.

All political comers attract such people -- some of whom harbor fantasies of being able to use a political figure to accomplish some grand design. Palin ought to be prepared, that is, for a Col. House -- a striking example of a type representing a cautionary tale for her.

Of Edward M. House -- he was not an actual colonel, but he astutely managed to acquire the title -- a Washington politician once said: "He could walk on dry leaves and make no more noise than a tiger." He had a supreme talent for the art of political insinuation, which he applied with such skill that his chosen target, Woodrow Wilson, once remarked, "Mr. House is my second personality. He is my independent self. His thoughts and mine are one."

Or maybe that's not what Wilson said, because the source for that comment was the House camp. As is evident from House's diaries, he regarded Wilson, elected president in 1912, as a means to an end: great achievements in world affairs. "This guy had grand ideas -- delusions -- about things he could do in the world with the right instrument," John Milton Cooper Jr., a Wilson biographer, said in an interview.

House did become an intimate of Wilson's; he was there for his grieving buddy at the death of Wilson's first wife, Ellen, in the summer of 1914, in the second year of Wilson's presidency. He helped to assemble Wilson's Cabinet and to shape the president's Fourteen Points, the terms laid out by Wilson to end the First World War. But he was never Wilson's handler, and his influence waned with the president's marriage to Edith Bolling Galt, who took a dislike to House.

Reagan, too, was surrounded by would-be manipulators, and sometimes, for all of Reagan's confidence in his vision of America, the manipulators succeeded. In his book, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, Cannon persuasively renders Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger as the orchestrator of the administration's first key strategic decision in national security policy: deployment of the MX intercontinental ballistic missile, a multiple-warhead nuclear weapon. Reagan had little understanding of the strategic or technical complexities and was swayed by a Weinberger presentation that featured a four-panel cartoon from The Denver Post on the weapon's potential to fool the Soviets -- a shameless ploy by Weinberger to appeal to Reagan's fondness for visual props. At a press conference, Reagan was unable to explain the bare bones of the reasoning behind his decision, to the "derisive laughter" of the White House press corps.

Multiple Intelligences

Palin is now being introduced to permanent Washington's political class by Malek, who served as a co-chairman of McCain's finance committee in 2008 and as President Nixon's special assistant for personnel in the early 1970s. He has hosted a dinner party for her, and in December, Malek and the Palins attended a Gridiron Club dinner together in Washington. In an interview, Malek, who is chairman of Thayer Capital Partners, a private equity firm, described himself as "a friend" of Palin's, not an adviser, and said he felt "very resentful" about "barbs tossed at her" by McCain campaign operatives who "lacked loyalty and chivalry."

Malek attributes Palin's enduring reputation for a lack of smarts to her disastrous interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric during the 2008 campaign, when Palin appeared to be stumped by a question asking her to name any newspapers or magazines she regularly read. First impressions can be hard to overcome, he noted, likening the prevailing view of Palin to that of the fellow who shows up for the first day of work at the crack of dawn and is forever typecast as an early riser, no matter his arrival time on subsequent days.

Whether Palin ultimately proves vulnerable to the ministrations of a Col. House-type figure will be influenced in part by her character. Is she vain? Does she enjoy flattery? Hamilton cultivated a bond with Washington, starting when he was commander of the Continental Army, not only on the basis of Hamilton's dazzling mind and extraordinary energies but also because of a world-class talent for courting men in power. "I think Washington was one of the most vain men who ever lived," John Ferling, a Washington biographer, said in an interview.

Even so, Ferling added, the wily Hamilton was by no means able to dominate Washington. The aspersions cast on Hamilton tended to come either from those who personally disliked him, such as Abigail Adams, or from the camp of his great political rival, Thomas Jefferson.

Palin's ability to select wisely from the ranks of those who seek to guide her also poses a kind of intelligence test -- the sort at which all talented politicians, if not necessarily Ph.D. physicists, excel. Reagan, again, is an inviting parallel. In suggesting that Reagan possessed a high "interpersonal intelligence," biographer Cannon was drawing on a theory of "multiple intelligences" developed by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner as a counter to the debatable idea that human beings have a single, general intelligence quotient, or IQ. There are probably many successful politicians who never excelled at academic work but who qualify as highly intelligent under Gardner's terms, just as there are prize athletes, such as basketball great Larry Bird, the "Hick from French Lick," who define what it means to have a high "bodily-kinesthetic" aptitude, as Gardner puts it.

As an adept political tactician, not to mention an accomplished point guard for the high school team that won Alaska's state championship in 1982, "Sarah Barracuda" conceivably ranks high on at least three of Gardner's intelligence types: body smart (the bodily-kinesthetic dimension); people smart (interpersonal intelligence); and self smart (intrapersonal intelligence). She may not outrank other possible Republican contenders for the nomination -- such as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, and Mike Huckabee -- on a Gardner-style, multiple-intelligence test, but there is nothing to suggest that she is at the back of the pack, either.

Beware The Caricature

Caricatures are a staple of today's political culture, to the point that they often seem to define the culture itself. With her singsong voice and talents that reportedly include field-dressing a moose, Palin is easily the most tempting object of caricature on the political playing field. For Tina Fey and the gang at Saturday Night Live, not to mention the liberal sophisticates at The New Yorker and the likes of Frank Rich at The New York Times, a former theater critic, Palin is a gift for the ages.

But here, too, history's verdict is clear. Even the most talented and serious-minded of caricaturists -- for caricature can be a way of irreverently highlighting a defining trait of personality -- often get it utterly wrong. Herbert Block, known as Herblock, won no fewer than three Pulitzer Prizes for his editorial cartoons, many of which appeared in The Washington Post; but he was among those fooled by Eisenhower, whom he often rendered as a Donald Duck, doltish-looking type, led by his fiendish secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, into the quagmire of war in Asia.

As Eisenhower biographer Greenstein showed in The Hidden-Hand Presidency, Ike was a calculating leader who affected a folksy disdain for grubby politics because that seemed to be a winning ploy with the American people. In a 1952 interview with Edward R. Murrow, in the backyard of his mother-in-law's house, the general-turned-candidate said he was fed up with "these so-called political associates who have taken over" in Washington -- and then, in a gem of a maneuver, he got the family gardener to talk on camera about how the Democrats no longer deserved the public's support. The true Ike, as seen during his time as supreme allied commander in Europe in World War II, a job demanding a mastery of small-p politics, was a nervous chain-smoker who barely slept.

Palin's signature "You betcha!" might serve the same reassuring purpose -- I'm one of you -- and conceivably is just as calculated. Stylistically, she appears to be presenting herself exactly as she would like to be seen -- with little of the awkwardness of, say, an Al Gore, the Harvard grad who took to wearing earth tones in a cringe-inducing bid to warm up his remote persona in the 2000 presidential race.

Harsh criticism of Palin is not necessarily "persecution," as her sympathizers maintain. Although some of the attacks are on the loony side -- the Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan has assiduously raised suspicions that Trig is her grandson, not her son, thus making Palin out to be a brazen liar and a complete phony, on top of being an ignoramus -- so it goes in American politics. Grover Cleveland, in the 1884 campaign, endured taunts that he had fathered a bastard son.

Evidently, there is something about Palin that drives her critics crazy. But if they can pause for breath, they might take a lesson from history as to the wisdom of mocking a political figure for a supposed lack of intelligence. The caricature of Eisenhower as Donald Duck did not stop him from twice defeating, in Electoral College landslides, the cerebral Adlai Stevenson, the darling of the intellectual crowd. The Georgetown set's view of Reagan as "an amiable dunce" did not keep voters from giving the Gipper landslide wins over Jimmy Carter, a nuclear engineer known for his propensity to micromanage, in 1980, and Walter Mondale in 1984. And Bush won re-election over John Kerry in 2004 despite being pilloried as Cheney's puppet.

Whereas Democrats tend to criticize GOP figures as dolts, Republicans tend to criticize prominent Democratic politicians, from Gore to Kerry to Obama, not as dummies but as reincarnated Stevensons -- elite, egghead types out of touch with mainstream America.

As results suggest, this is not an exchange with an obvious payoff for Democrats. Palin's critics would be wise to marshal the best assault they can on the basis of her convictions -- on the substance of her vision of America and her policies for fulfilling that vision. This is unimpeachable ground for an inquest. So what if she scribbles crib notes on the palm of her hand: She's doing the scribbling, and the only really interesting question concerns what she is writing down.

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Posted at 9:11 am by Glenn Reynolds

MAYBE THEY SHOULD ADJUST EXPECTATIONS? New jobless claims rise more than expected. ‘Cause we seem to see this headline almost every week. . . .

Plus this: “The increasing number of people claiming extended unemployment insurance indicates that even as layoffs are declining, hiring hasn’t picked up. That leaves people out of work for longer and longer periods of time.”

UPDATE: A longtime reader emails:

Glenn, in the unlikely event you publish this email, I’d ask you not use my name. As a partner in a midsize firm (annual gross about $50,000,000) I can give you our perspective on hiring: we’re not doing it. And we’ve always been in hiring mode in the past. We’re not struggling, but we simply are not willing to take on the risk of hiring people in this environment. Just look around: small businesses are still closing. How many “For Lease” signs do you see right now in front of empty commercial properties that used to house small and mid-size businesses? With taxes and interest rates expected to rise later this year or next, thus sucking even more cash out of the economy, and consumers still cutting personal spending, most businesses would be idiotic to go on the type of hiring sprees that would be necessary in order to create robust job growth. Instead, many businesses are still looking everywhere they can to slash expenses. Unfortunately, that includes payrolls.

I doubt anybody in the Obama Administration gets this. They’d have to take a break from their obsession with health care reform, and you know, actually talk to people who run businesses to understand what’s going on. But except for hobnobbing at fund raisers with the occasional fund manager or Fortune 500 CEO who’s so rich he can afford to be a liberal Democrat regardless of what happens, they don’t do that.

This seems right.

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Ronald Reagan Remembering Christmas!

2009-12-14T13:43:00.000-08:00

"I guess we all have our own favorite Christmas memories, for this is the time of year when most of us try to be better than our everyday selves. For the past few years in this great house, I've thought of our first real Christmas as a nation. It was the dark and freezing Christmas of 1776, when General Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware. They and Providence gave our nation its first Christmas gift -- a victory that brought us closer to liberty, the condition in which God meant man to flourish. It always seems to me that Christmas is a time of magic. Each December we celebrate a Prince, the Prince of Peace, born in utter poverty. And the fact of his birth makes hearts turn warmest at the coldest time of the year." --Ronald Reagan (Dec. 13, 1984)

You Will Love This By John Wayne!!!

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Al Gore's Global Warming Climate Change Fiasco!

2009-12-09T22:23:00.000-08:00

Hello and here I am standing in 10 inches of snow in my front yard here in Reno, Nv. This morning Wednesday December 9, 2009 it was -6 degrees and the middle of the day temperature was 22 degrees. It actually snowed Sunday evening and all day Monday. This storm is now moving Eastward and playing havoc all over central America and we could see another storm heading our way...

Sarah Palin Opines In The Washing Post About the Copenhagan Summit!!

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Should Sarah Palin Consider Presidential Run In 2012?

2009-12-04T16:01:00.000-08:00

Many of Palin's fans are encouraging Sarah to run for President in 2012!

Definitely large groups of the foot soldiers in Palin's army: thousands of devoted fans who show up to catch a glimpse of the one-time GOP vice presidential nominee on her book tour and urge her to seek the nation's top job.

Aloofness in Action!

2009-12-03T12:20:00.000-08:00

Passing the Buck!

The UK cancer death rate was 38% higher than in the United States!

2009-12-03T12:17:00.000-08:00

Dick Morris, former adviser to President Clinton states the following in today's email alert:
As the Congress prepared to vote to let us enter the world of waits for doctors, waits for specialists, waits for testing and waits for surgery, radiation and chemo -- we should pause to consider the relative records of the private medical care system in the United States with the socialized system in the U.K.

In 2008, Britain had a cancer death rate 0.25% while the United States had a rate of only 0.18%. The UK cancer death rate was 38% higher than in the United States.

The Guardian, the UK's left wing daily, estimated that "up to 10,000 people" are dying each year of cancer "because their condition is diagnosed too late, according to research by the government's director of cancer services." While many people die because of late detection due to their own negligence, there is no reason to believe this self-neglect is more common in the UK than in the US.

In Canada, the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the United States.

EZ Success4U

2009-11-28T16:51:00.001-08:00

Site has video's explaining opportunity that normally costs $250 for only $37. Great opportunity in today's economy to allow anyone to earn $10,000 over and over.

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Ann Coulter at her best!

2009-11-28T14:12:00.000-08:00

Ann Coulter On Obama, War on Terror and Afghanistan
WNO recently sat down with acclaimed author and commentator Ann Coulter. This is part one of a two part interview.

The Wilding of Sarah Palin

2009-11-24T15:41:00.000-08:00

The Wilding of Sarah Palin

Every one needs to read this and defend Sarah Palin. Robin is dead on and we conservatives need to do something about it!

Great Interview with Sarah Palin!

2009-11-19T19:40:00.000-08:00

Radio Talk Show host Mark Levin interviews Sarah Palin and mentions her reference to 'Death Panels'.

Do We Have A Pattern Here?

2009-11-18T08:17:00.000-08:00

Comments About Sarah Palin On Fox News!

2009-11-14T19:00:00.001-08:00

911 Terrorists to be Tried in New York City!

2009-11-14T00:25:00.000-08:00

This decision is not only a travesty but juvenile IMHO! I'm so upset being ex Army Military Intelligence during the Viet Nam era. Why? The harm derived from this world wide is immesurable, not only intelligence wise but discovery and the possibility of acquittal etc etc what can happen in a courtroom. I'm thinking tho the backlash of this decision that they will reverse this decision. I'm actually shaking here trying to type this comment. Even the New York City mayor agrees with this stupid decision. We just had another Terror attack last week here on our soil and the liberals come down with this bird brained idea....jeeeeesh what is next people??? Again, I predict this will be reversed...no way can it stand.

Thank You Mr President!

2009-11-11T19:19:00.000-08:00

This is a great site about President Bush that I never knew existed!

Ronald Reagan

2009-11-09T15:15:00.000-08:00

Tear Down This Wall!!!

"Always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth." — Ronald Reagan

"Government is not the solution of our problems, Government is our problem!"
— Ronald Reagan

"We, the members of the New Republican Party, believe that the preservation and enhancement of the values that strengthen and protect individual freedom, family life, communities and neighborhoods and the liberty of our beloved nation should be at the heart of any legislative or political program presented to the American people." —Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Go to this site that has been put together by The Patriot Post!

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2009-11-08T17:30:00.000-08:00

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Take Back America in 2010!!!

2009-11-08T16:20:00.000-08:00

Fox News Beats Em All Combined Election Night!

2009-11-05T20:56:00.001-08:00

More people watched Fox News than all of its cable news competitors combined, and CNN came in a dismal fourth. CNN's ratings have been in a tailspin.

CAN YOU 'CONGRESS' HEAR US NOW!!!

2009-11-05T13:26:00.000-08:00

Jon Voight speaks at the Defeat Obama Health Care Bill Rally at the Capitol!

The numbers range from 10,000 to over 45,000 people gathering today November 5, 2009 in front of our Nation's Capital who don't support the over 1990 page Health Care Bill. Notables from congress and even well known actors from Hollywood have shown up to support this great cause in opposition to this monstrous health bill.

Heritage Foundation reports that Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) opened the event. Followed by an opening prayer, the pledge of allegiance and the anthem. Actors Jon Voight and John Ratzenberger (Cliff from Cheers) have also spoke. Best selling author Mark Levin detailed the problems with the current health care bill, telling the crowd, “Freedom is only one generation from extinction.”

Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) actually organized this event and appeared on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News last Thursday or Friday and it mushroomed to an enormous gathering of people and will be covered tonite on Sean's show. This is a tremendous start and I think the result of this will possibly cancel Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) Speaker of the House vote on Saturday!

This event is monumental and hopefully the results will be in our favor!

House Conservatives Break With GOP Leaders in Fight Against ObamaCare

2009-11-04T15:38:00.000-08:00

House Conservatives Break With GOP Leaders in Fight Against ObamaCare

We the People Come Knocking on Congress Door!

2009-11-04T14:44:00.000-08:00

Michelle Bachmann, Mark Levin and Jon Voight will be on the steps of the Capital Thursday November 5, 2009 at noon. Check out Canada Free Press for more info and please try to attend this great gathering!

A Hollywood Republican: Nothing to Write Home About by Ira Schwartz

2009-11-03T12:41:00.000-08:00

A Hollywood Republican: Nothing to Write Home About by Ira Schwartz

Let Your Voice be Heard!

2009-11-02T14:06:00.000-08:00

Congressman Mike Pence recorded this video about Health Care and that our voice's need to be heard to fight this monstrosity of a Health Care Bill! More information about this on the Power Line Blog so please check it out.

Talented Guy and His Bike!

2009-11-01T21:05:00.000-08:00

So you think you can ride a bicycle?

Saving America: "What Can I Do?"

2009-10-31T11:45:00.000-07:00

We conservatives need all the help we can get and a great article to start is Jim O'Neills latest entry at the Canada Free Press titled Saving America: "What Can I Do?"

Andrew Brietbart Interview!

2009-10-26T00:19:00.000-07:00

Eric Olson interviews Andrew Brietbart, interesting but a little lengthy.

Fox and Friends

2009-10-23T14:02:00.000-07:00

This is a great video from Fox News Morning show 'Fox and Friends'. Posted on the Western Journalism site.

Obama suggests Fox News is like 'talk radio

2009-10-23T13:43:00.000-07:00

Eric Zimmerman of 'The Hill' reports that the President doesn't think Fox News is news!

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

President Obama says this is not something he's not losing sleep over...I'm thinking this is another classic lie.

Video reveals Congress at work!

2009-10-23T13:24:00.000-07:00

Democrats caught on video! Concerns lawmakers hearing on Country Wide where a Republican Aide films the Democrats fleeing the meeting room. In retaliation the Democrat Chairman changed the lock on the Republican side of the chamber.

Ronald Reagan Quotes!

2009-10-23T12:30:00.000-07:00

Latest News Source

2009-09-21T12:43:00.000-07:00

If like me you want the latest and hottest news the latest source is a site called Big Government. Andrew Brietbart has out flanked the fringe media with history making news leaving them in the dust. You can check out all the latest scoops here