Thursday, February 18, 2010

Bowing and Scraping Before His Majesty Obama.

This morning I listened to more lies from Obama. I watched as he used eight pens to sign his name to a document which will commit us to at least hundreds or thousands of dollars more spending, borrowing and the attendant debt and debt service costs which will go along with it. I couldn’t help but notice that the advance news about the new Debt Commission was in conflict with the Obama’s announcement.

Early I listened as Fox News told me that the commission would have 2 chairmen, appointed by Obama, 8 Democrats selected by the Democrat party and 6 Republicans selected by the Republican party. The total? 16. A total of 14 votes would be required to reach agreement.

Okay, let’s see. That’s 9 liberals and 7 possible conservatives. In order to prevail at anything the Democrats would need to persuade five Republicans to switch over to vote with the liberals to win. The conservatives would have to change the minds of 7 liberals to carry their view in the commission. Tough enough.

But when the man reading the Teleprompters entered the room he said the commission would be made up of the two men he had already selected as chairmen, FOUR others picked by him, 6 selected by the Democrats and 6 selected by the Republicans.

The make up now is 11 Democrats and 7 republicans. The big announcement a few days ago was that we needed a bi-partisan solution to the ever-growing national debt. Again today, in his opening remarks he repeated the need for bi-partisanship in the makeup and function of the commission. But in less than 48 hours the Democrat’s power in the commission grew from 9 to 11. The Republican’s share remained at 7. Strange how the Democrats always need such great advantages in numbers in order to promote bi-partisanship.

Now the Republicans, if they actually agree to serve on the commission, will be forced to muster a change of mind and heart of SEVEN liberals to accomplish their goals while the Democrats will need only three changes in GOP thinking to have their way. Take careful note that in changing the makeup of the commission, Obama blatantly increased the burden of the Republicans and lessened the necessary votes the Democrats need to prevail. He did it by giving the Democrats additional voting power while leaving the Republicans where they were.

I am not surprised that the Democrats would have an advantage. After all, they own the House of Representatives and require the services of only one turncoat Republican to control the Senate again. But it is the un-balanced and unfair way he goes about it that stands out now.

That brings us to what should be the first question. Why do we need this commission? Where is the constitutional authority for it? Who, in our government, should be doing this work?

There are likely numerous opinions as to whether any commission is needed or not, but the question is better answered by the next one. “Where is the constitutional authority for it?” There is no constitutional authority for establishing such a commission. The task assigned to it by its creator is a legislative one. Obama has no legislative power he can rely on to pass laws, to create a body to pass laws, or to direct a body to tell Congress what laws to pass or how to pass them.

That is done by the constitution.

The U.S. Constitution grants certain legislative power to the U.S. Congress and reserves the rest to the States and to the people. Check it out for yourself. Read the Tenth Amendment. The office of President has only the power to enforce federal laws and to operate the military establishment in time of war.

He has no power to create, recommend, push for or pass laws. That’s it. He just doesn’t have the power. All powers not delegated to the Federal government by the constitution are reserved to the States and to the people of the country, its citizens. Creating a budget is something the office of the president does in order to let Congress know how much money they will need to operate the administrative branch of the government for the coming year.

Although almost every person who occupies the position of president always expands the government by creating new departments and making the existing ones larger, no president has the right or the power to make laws. Creating the department of Energy was a giant mistake and none of the “laws” laid down by it has any valid constitutional basis. This new attempted monstrous takeover of health care in America is completely without constitutional authority. First because that power was not delegated to Congress and secondly because the President does not have the power to make any law what-so-ever.

But a few weeks back, Obama, upon being told that the U.S. Senate refused to set up this so-called bi-partisan commission to study and make recommendations about what to do with the financial deficit and crushing debt the country is now saddled with, simply said that it didn’t matter. He said he would just go around Congress and appoint the commission himself by executive order, otherwise known as a dictatorial act. That is what he did this morning.

So, the news pundits all sit around talking about the makeup of the commission, how much it will cost, how long it will operate and when will its results be made known to us, Obama has torn another piece out of the constitution. We have lost more of our liberties.

Well, who should be tending to this matter? Congress! According to the constitution, the House of Representatives should originate all spending bills and appropriations. It is the job of Congress to study the problem. To find solutions. To suggest, to create laws, to levy taxes to do, in fact, everything that this new commission is being charged to do. They are in fact being hired by Obama to take over some of the work of Congress. Keep in mind that none of us get to have anything to say about who gets “elected” to the commission, what the commission is authorized or charged to do, how long it is to serve or to establish any oversight of the commission’s work. The only limitation the commission will have is what Obama says they should do.

There is no constitutional authority for it!

By the way, the whole point is that we are spending too much money. Right? Right. Okay. What then are we doing but creating another great expense. Another need for money to operate the commission? It will need staffing, offices, transportation expenses, recreational retreats in the Bahamas to rest after all the hard work they will be doing. How much will that cost? I have no way of knowing but I can guess now that it will be at least hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions. But more importantly, how will that help our debt problem?

The Energy Department mentioned above? It had a specific purpose: to reduce our dependancy on foreign oil. Here we are 32 years later, their budget is now 24.2 Billion US dollars annually. Are we less dependant on foreign oil? Who should have taken action on the reduction of our dependancy on foreign oil? Right. Congress. But, no, Jimmy Carter took care of that - without constitutional authority to so do. And today we continue to spend almost a hundred billion dollars on that failed department every four years. How long will this new Commission last? And when will it be morphed into a new cabinet level department? And more importantly - what will be the result?

Well, I can probably tell you that. They will not agree to reduce spending. They will recommend new taxes. First step, if not already taken by a gutless Congress, the elimination of the Bush tax cuts. Then increases in the federal income tax. He has already promised greatly increased taxes against the “rich” and will doubtless add the “new rich,” formerly known as the “middle class,” to the punitive income tax brackets. And finally a consumption tax. To make sure we know what we’re talking about here, read that as Federal Sales Tax.

It can be suspected that the commission will either remain silent on or recommend against drilling for domestic oil and gas and there can be no question as to Obama’s intention to create more so-called Green jobs, thereby immediately expanding of the Department of Energy. Think 30 billion annually instead of the paltry 24.2 we are spending now.

The end result will be a further depression of the oil industry, huge reductions in growth investment into other industries, a falling stock market and inflation headed toward Carter years’ levels.

It is easy to tell what a duck will do. It will sound like a duck, act like duck and look like a duck. That’s because it is a duck. Neither will it be difficult to predict what Obama’s new commission will do. It will sound socialist, it will act socialist and its results will look socialist. Because Obama is what he is. He will never change. And even with the strongest willed conservatives now in the Republican party, they simply can’t win. The cards are stacked against them. Bi-partisan indeed.

The end goal will be destroy private enterprise and to increase the size of government. Obama must see himself at the end of his second term getting ready for his third inauguration. Because by that time, our constitution will only be a memory. They don’t obey it now. And although we have started, too few of us are active. Too few of us are willing to stand up to them. Too many of us only put our fight into words and are unwilling to take the fight to the streets.

Don’t get me wrong. I still believe we can win. But it will take many more of us than we have now. And it will take a great awakening among the voting public. They must recognize the differences between voting in the primary elections and voting in the general election. The soul of the party is won or lost in the primary election.

Remember the 2008 elections? We lost that election in the primary. When R.I.N.O. John McCain became the GOP candidate, the general election became a waste of time. We had some strong conservatives in the race. We had those who believe in our constitution, who believe that it means what it says, not what some judge thinks it aught to say. But they were all cast aside when the party leaders agreed on McCain.

This time, our work is already upon us. If we don’t get control of the precincts now, Progressives, R.I.N.O.s and other liberal Republicans will control them again in 2010 and 2012.

If you see a fight looming between Republicans, R.I.N.O.s, Progressives and Independents within the GOP, remember that the fight must take place during the primary election process. We must come out of the primaries with conservative, constitutional originalists as precinct chairpersons, as delegates to state conventions, and as candidates for national office. We fail therein, we fail again in the general election in November.

And please don’t kid yourself. You are not going to elect a Tea Party candidate as president in 2012. Remember Ross Perot. Third parties in America always split the conservative party and pass the victory to the liberals. Dream all you want, but throw your weight around where it counts. For conservatives, that is within the Republican party. But it must happen during the primary. Otherwise, Obama will continue to dictate his decisions to us and we will continue to bow and scrape before him.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Letter To America

Letter To America!

You are a part of the problem if you are not paying attention. You did not believe me. When the man who now claims the right to live in the White House and to use the Oval Office as his own told you he was going to bring about change and hope. But he didn’t explain what that meant.

You didn’t believe me when I told you that Obama’s change meant communism. Many argued with me saying that he was only a liberal, not really a communist. Some in trying to show their erudition pointed out that he was progressive. None of his supporters wanted to publicly admit that they supported an avowed Marxist as their president.

You didn’t believe me when I described his promise of hope as the despair we would all feel as our money, our property and our freedoms slid into the cesspool that is socialism. And now here we are.

When I said, he will nationalize our industries, you pooh-poohed the very thought of it. He has now taken over the automobile industry, the banking industry, portions of the insurance industry and is well on track to completely nationalizing the entire insurance industry in the name of improving the nation’s health care system.

You called me insulting names when I said he hated America and intended to destroy it so that he and his buddies could rebuild it in the image of the Soviet Union. You didn’t believe me when I said his mentor, Saul Alinsky, taught a young Obama about de-constructing society, industry and a nation. You refused to accept his very own words promising to do just that. You called me an alarmist - a reactionary - and right wing lunatic.

You didn’t believe me when I said that spending hundreds of billions of dollars would not bring the nation out of a recession if the money were spent by the government on government programs. You said that Obama was right. We could spend our way back to wealth

When I warned you that the government would borrow more money from China and other nations, you laughed. When I predicted the Federal Reserve would needlessly and carelessly print dollars which could not be backed by any hard commodity or valuable wealth, you said I didn’t understand economics.

Barack Obama has kept his promises to you. He is on the verge of bankrupting the nation.

When I complained about his plan to close the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, you said it needed to be closed. When I said George W. Bush was wrong in not moving those Islamofascists through the military tribunals as quickly as possible, you complained that we would be denying those poor Muslims basic human rights to which every American is entitled.

You didn’t believe me when I said that Obama would surrender in Iraq and that he would pander to the Iranians putting all Americans in grave danger. You blamed the war on George W. Bush, accusing him and Dick Chaney of plotting, financing and masterminding the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.

When I said that Obama would become a dictator over America, you laughed. You said it can never happen here. You even claimed that the constitution would prevent it. And when I said he hates the constitution and will not obey it. You said, “Impossible.”

Barack Obama has kept his promises to you. He makes up rules as he goes along. He enters treaties with foreign nations with no intention of allowing the Senate to approve or not. He is now in process of buying an old prison in Illinois with plans to move the terrorists from Cuba to the U.S. where they will be granted full constitutional guarantees and protection. Don’t be surprised when they are also placed onto a pathway to citizenship along with twenty million Hispanics who invaded our country and stole from us.

I called him liar. You challenged me to prove it. I pointed out one of his lies. His promise for complete transparency in government. He said the health care bill would be debated on C-Span. Yet every thing he’s had done by his lackeys in Congress has been hurried, unread, done behind closed doors, acted on during night time hours and never explained to anyone before passage and his quick signature. He is a liar. But then you still don’t believe me.

He promised fairness and the end of favoritism in government. The fact is that he has been paying off his friends in the unions and community organizers with our tax money. He violated the law by giving substantial ownership of General Motors to the labor union which controls their factories. He is destroying our economy and using what money is available to pay off political debts. It appears now that he may have followed through on his deal with Hillary Clinton to pay off almost six million dollars of campaign debts she incurred in her losing campaign against him. With our money.

But you love him. You said he has such dreamy eyes. You said he is brilliant. A great orator. You called him the “gracious god” Obama. You said I was a racist because I refused to support him. By the end of this year we may have a national debt in excess of 14 trillion dollars. Trillion. With a “T”. That comes out to $437,500 for each and every one of us including the illegal aliens who, of course, won’t have to pay. You and I. We’ll pick up their share.

The interest on the debt alone will crush us. We have no manufacturing capacity. That went for NAFTA. Our farming industry is being wiped out by huge corporate farming whose main task now is to feed the world, not us. The remaining wealthy entrepreneurs who chaired the offices of chief executive grab their golden parachutes and jump off shore to place their money in protected bank accounts in foreign countries. You know why that is? Because we treat foreign countries better then we do our own.

We will never be able to pay off this debt. And when the new landlord comes to call, where will your “gracious god” be then? His goal is still to be dictator of the world. He would never be happy leading a crummy, broken little country like the former United States of America..

You were a part of the problem. And you still are if you have not awakened to what we did as a nation in November of 2008. You are still a part of the problem if you are not yet awake to our need to fight to regain control of our government. It still works, but you have to be willing to move the levers, push the buttons and haul the load. And sitting by while Congress refuses to do its job and the courts pass laws which they are not supposed to do and the office of the president is nothing but a collection of financial war lords with no constitutional authority won’t get the job done

Where is your vision, America? Where is your common sense? What happened to that fire in your bellies which made us the greatest nation in history? Why have you come to think that government is the only thing that can save you? When did you forget that this was a nation of laws, with a government of the people, by the people and for the people? When did you lose your connection with the God who gave you liberty as well as life? When are you going to do something about it? Where are your guts?

Friday, October 23, 2009

Taxes. For Texans Only.

A general election will take place in less than two weeks. The ballot in Texas will include eleven proposals for amending the state’s constitution. For those of you who live in Texas, you should already know that the Constitution of the State of Texas is highly detailed and sets forth not only how the state’s government is to be constituted but how it is to operate as well. That includes telling the legislature what it can and cannot do.
Because the founding document is highly detailed, in many cases before the legislature can change the statutes, the constitution must first be amended by the people. That is what is going to happen in a few days.

Why is this significant today? Well, it’s because e-mails have been circulating lately about the proposed constitutional amendments which will be on the ballot on November 3, 2009. Those mails have for the most part urged Texas voters to vote No or against passage of the amendments claiming they will raise your taxes. That is not true. Although your taxes might get raised, it will not be because of any of these three amendments. If anything, the amendments will likely cause your taxes to go down or maybe even prevent them from rising further.

The following is what my research shows:

Proposition 2, 3 & 5 are all really part of the same issue. For some reason, simplicity or law they have been separated. First of all Texans have always been taxed in Texas on property both real and personal. Real property is land and anything permanently attached to the land. Everything else is personal property. It makes no difference whether it used for earning income, it is all personal property, either private or business. Generally speaking property is always taxed on an ad valorem basis. Ad valorem is a Latin term meaning "at the value of."

The State of Texas does not tax property directly for ad valorem taxes, but it does permit the taxation. Actually the legislature authorizes certain entities such as the county, the school districts, hospital districts, utility districts and others to assess and collect taxes from Texans based on the value of their property.

Those entities establish the value of the property and determine the amount of tax to be assessed against it. The tax rate is usually an amount of money per 100 dollars worth of property, or something similar. For example: the 2007 tax rate for Harris County was 0.392390. For a $120,000 evaluation of a single family dwelling the assessed tax would be $392.39. (Tax rate times value divided by 100)

Of course each taxing entity sets its own rates. If you don’t like the rate, contact Commissioners Court. If you don’t like the evaluation, contact the appraisal district.

You can fight the amount of the tax in elections and other actions. But they can hurt you whether it is by the tax rate or in the evaluation of the property. Each year a tax evaluator can visit the property and set its value based on age, condition and the use to which the land is being put. If the evaluator raises the taxable value of the land your taxes go up. If for some reason the evaluation is lowered, your taxes will go down.

If you own a lot with a house on it, the land is said to be used as a personal residence and should be taxed that way. But sometimes they use a "best or highest" use of the property to value it. Therefore, a small house located near a shopping center could be said to have its highest value as a parking garage with a value hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the little house.

Even though it is now just a little house, it can be said that the land would be worth so much more if the house were torn down and parking garage built there. In other words making the taxable value of the land much higher based on a better use of the land. The owner of the house might be required to pay a much higher tax on his property even though was still being used only as a residence.

The first part of the amendment, Proposition 2, addresses that problem by limiting the state to allowing nothing more than the residential value of the land on which your house sits regardless of the highest or best use to which it could be put. The owner must live in the house and it must be a Texas Homestead to get the protection but right now, you don't even have that. So vote on Preposition 2 accordingly.

Currently, the methods used in establishing the ad valorem value of property are set by the local taxing authority. As a result there are many different methods followed. Those differences often produce vast differences in the amount of tax collected.

The second part, or Proposition 3, attempts to take care of the problem of varying methodologies by standardizing the method for all taxing entities. It will provide for the administration and enforcement of uniform standards so that all taxing authorities are on the same page in how they determine the value of your property and therefore how much tax you will owe.

Presently if property you own is in two or more taxing districts, such as mine, you can have three or more taxing authorities evaluating your property, determining the tax rate and collecting taxes from you. It is very confusing. In my case I am in a county which taxes me. I live in a municipal utility district which taxes me. I live in a hospital district which taxes me and two school districts which tax my property. All of them tax at different rates. They each set values on my property following different methods and reaching far different results and each has its own equalization board. It can be a nightmare.

Proposition 3 will, if passed, authorize the legislature to allow a single board of equalization for two or more adjoining appraisal entities that elect to provide for consolidated equalization. That would be something you could control through your voting rights in the taxing entity.

So, most of what has been written about those three propositions has either been mis-leading or outright false. The faulty interpretation lies, I think, in the lack of knowledge as to how the Texas Constitution works and what it says. I would not recommend voting against any of these three propositions. In fact I intend to vote for them in the interest of protecting my own property.

If you want to learn more about your taxes look up the name of your county Tax Assessor/Collector. Call that office. They may have a website. If not, visit the office and ask for information. They work for you.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Barak Obama Declares War on the United States of America!

He did it in Cairo. He said it again at the United Nations. The lines have been drawn. Obama has chosen his Muslim brothers while most of the rest of us have chosen Israel. He picked the labor unions, while most of the rest of us choose the right to work. He proposes socialist schemes while most of the rest of us rely on free market based capitalism. He is willing to divide Jerusalem and shoot down Israeli airplanes while most of the rest of us believe in the rights of Jews to have a country of their own. He attempts to force down our throats a total government take over of the health care system in the United States while most of the rest of us want to buy our own insurance, select our own doctors and seek treatment when we are sick or injured without waiting on government to decide for us.

I wonder just how many people do not fully understand the danger this man, Obama, holds for us. He is a communist. Some do not like for me to use that word claiming that he is not actually a member of the Communist Party. But I don't say he is a Communist. I call him communist because he thinks as they do. He believes in the teachings of Karl Marx. He admires the socialist governments of Europe. And on top of that he is a committed fascist.

These are words which describe his kind of government. Many confuse them and think they have different meanings, but they don't. Call him communist, collectivist, socialist, progressive, fascist or Nazi. The only one which would actually be incorrect is Nazi. He probably is not a member of the Nazi Party either here in the U.S. or in Germany. But the fact remains that he acts like a Nazi and the Nazis like the Communists are fascists.

And the worst thing of all about Obama as far as I am concerned is that he thinks of himself as the embodiment of government. He doesn't seem to regard himself as having been a part of a Democrat Party win in the November 2008 election. He regards the win as a personal victory for himself.

He believes that he now personally holds the power. He believes that the people by electing him have turned all decisions of government policy over to him personally and that we, those who voted against him, no longer have anything to say about our government. After all, he says, "I won!" Not we won. Not a great Democrat victory or even a great victory for socialist policies, but a victory for Barak Obama, himself. I suspect that he plans on being president for the rest of his life, just like Castro, Chaves, Stalin and Hitler.

He has shown no sign of weakening his plan of de-constructing the United States in order that he can rebuild it in the image of a Muslim style Islamic Republic where the only law is the personal laws of Shariah. A country where the leader, who ever the leader is, can simply make up laws as they go along, always claiming that Allah proclaimed it.

It makes me sick to my stomach to think that we, as a nation, have been so foolish as to allow a person such as this to take over the reigns of government, destroy the provisions of the Constitution that have protected us for over two hundred and thirty years and claim the country as his own personal kingdom. And he has only two more steps to go before he has complete control.

If Congress passes the so-called "health care" legislation the government will have absolute control of every facet of our lives. A complete record of our existence including physical examinations and personal conversations we have with doctors will be encoded on government computers and bureaucrats will have the power to decide whether we can get treatment or not, if we can go to hospital or not and even as to whether we live or die.

With that horrible success he will then have Congress pass the so-called cap and trade legislation which will in effect destroy every remaining business enterprise in the United States except those operated directly by the government, with Obama and his fascist, progressive friends calling all the shots and reaping all the profits.

I have always thought that Americans would never allow such a thing to happen, but I'm afraid there are not enough of us left to do anything about it now. We have five or more generations of people who have grown up being taught to rely on the government for everything. We have twenty or more million illegal aliens in country who support that type of government and who will receive complete amnesty from Obama as soon as he can grant it.

The small number of people I know who voted for and continue to support Obama show no signs of recognizing what he stands for and what he is doing to our country. Most of them call me names, accuse me of being a right wing extremist and a racist. That is Obama's most powerful tool. Anyone who does not agree with his taking over the government and changing it into communist, Islamic theocracy is immediately accused of being racist solely because Obama is half-black.
In other words, we must all agree with him or prove ourselves prejudiced against him.

This past summer saw the birth and growth of a resistance movement in the so-called Tea Parties across the country. We were called terrorists by our government. Nancy Pelosi said that it was not a real grassroots movement. She said it was only "astroturf." She charged that the Tea Parties were just being staged by right wing extremists made up mostly of nazis and racists.

Tea Party goers are still being accused by the liberals of carrying guns at the Tea Parties and acting "Un-American." But what I fear now is that the people who took part in the summer time activities will now lose interest. They will be worrying about school and too busy getting back to work and watching football to realize that the fight is not yet over.

The next few days and weeks will be critical. If those of us who love liberty and freedom keep to our stations sending letters, faxes, e-mail and making telephone calls to our members of Congress demanding that government "health care" be stopped, we can still win. We can still save our republic. If we don't, you can rest assured that the worst of these dark predictions will all come true. Whether Obama is a communist, whether he is a Muslim, whether he is even a natural born U.S. citizen will mean nothing when our constitution is thrown out the window and we are subjected to the personal law of Barak Obama and friends.

The fight is still on. How about it? Are you in? If so, you must act now.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

It’s Not That He’s Black, It’s That He’s Red.

In an effort to denigrate an article I wrote, one liberal numbskull suggested that it is Obama’s blackness that I am tired of. I’m not. No. Really. I’m not tired of Obama being black. He can be black as long as he likes as far as I am concerned. I am tired of Obama because he’s red! I am tired of watching him destroy my free country in order to rebuild it in the image of the Soviet Union with Islamic overtones.

During the past few days we have watched while a conscientious dedicated conservative member of the United States Congress has been singled out for the wrath of the left because in a moment of patriotic fervor he blurted out a truth to which we are all witnesses. As Barak Obama stood before a joint session of the Congress, he lied to America. Well, nothing new about that you say. True, but in this case, one man, one patriot shouted out, "You lie!" And ever since Joe Wilson of South Carolina has been criticized by just about every member of government right and left.

Even the Fox News Channel, which some of us have come to look to for re-enforcement of our conservative principles, chastises the man for "rudeness." Two days ago, I asked and I ask again now, why is it rude to call a person a liar when they are in the midst of a lie? And if it is rude to say he’s lying while he’s lying, when might be a good time to accuse him of lying?

Okay, I understand. The House of Representatives has adopted a rule which prohibits being rude to the person occupying the office of President by calling that person a liar, even when he’s lying. Here. I’ll tell you what’s rude. Lying to the American public about the most important things in our lives. That’s rude. Murdering our unborn children - that’s rude. Stealing our property from us without due process of law - that’s rude. Ignoring the law of the United States Constitution after swearing an oath to protect and defend it - that’s rude.

Claiming that you are a natural born citizen of the United States but hiding all evidence of it under seal of law to prevent citizens entitled to know from learning the truth - that’s rude! Barak Obama occupies the residential palace of the legitimate leader of our country, and yet we are not allowed to know whether he is the legitimate leader or not. He lies to us. He steals property from us. He appoints himself monarchial rights over our private industry and makes other foolish decisions which has led to the un-employment of almost ten percent of our work force. It is extremely rude to those he has put out of work to take such actions. Yet, he goes on and now the Democrats in the House of Representatives assembled dare to censure the patriot who called out the true bill of indictment, "You lie!"

The army of the Soviet Union was known as the Red Army. On May 1st of each year, grand and elaborate celebrations were held in what was known in Moscow as "Red Square". Persons suspected of being communists in the United States were know as "Reds." Red became the international color of communism. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was similarly singled out by the Senate charged with failing "to cooperate with the sub-committee on Rules and Administration," and had "acted contrary to senatorial ethics."

Senator McCarthy saw "Reds" everywhere. He ultimately lost his career and possibly even his life over the issue of Reds in sensitive places in our government, our industries and especially in the entertainment industry. Sound familiar? So, rest assured, I have no problem with Barak Obama being black. I have an enormous problem with him being RED above all else. And I do not mean that I think he is an American Indian. I think he is a communist.

No doubt that he enjoys the membership of no known communist party anywhere in the world, otherwise, he would be called a Communist, with a capital C. Bandy these words about all you please, communist, Marxist, fascist, collectivist. What you wind up with is a person who does not believe in the greatest economic engine of all time. The economic engine which made the United States the most powerful, the most wonderful, the most free independent nation in the world, capitalism.

Banks, labor unions, automobile manufacturing and much of our representative form of government has already fallen prey to his obsession with hatred for everything American prior to his election. And now he presently moves on our medical services delivery system in an attempt at the most massive transfer of power from the people to the government in the history of the United States. It is his redness that disturbs me, not his blackness. A redness that says to us that we are stupid, that we are lazy, that we are cowards and that only the government can solve our problems.

Sadly, if we allow Joe Wilson to fall to the same fate as Joe McCarthy we are all those things and worse. When heros step forth, we should rise up with them, not against them. We all heard Barak Obama lie the other night. But only Joe Wilson had the courage to shout out to the world to identify the liar. How about you shouting out in support of Joe Wilson before his private life is destroyed as was Joe the Plumber’s and as was Joe McCarthy’s before them?

Friday, September 11, 2009

The Honorable Joe Wilson of South Carolina: Thank You!

A man stands in front of the entire government, the Senate, the House of Representatives, Executive Branch members and the Supreme Court and lies to the American people. When is it more appropriate to call that man a liar? Barak Obama can’t seem to stop telling us lies. He can’t seem to find the truth. What is his name? Is it Barak Obama or is it Barry Soetero? Where was he born? We don’t know. He says it was in Hawaii, but is unwilling to release the documents which would settle the matter once and for all, opting instead to order all of his personal records sealed for all time. Rather than expose the truth, he chooses to continue the cover and denials which prevent the truth from being known.

He made unrealistic promises during the election campaign which he had no intention of keeping. That is not campaign rhetoric. Those are lies. The man who spoke them, a liar. What is wrong with calling him by that title. Following the 2008 election, Obama even created a new office for himself, calling it The Office Of The President Elect! There is no such office. To say there was is a lie. The man who said it, a liar.

He said he would end Cronyism in the government, but filled administration offices with friends and former Clinton staffers, choosing people based mostly on their tendency toward socialism and radicalism rather than on the skills and experience they bring to the office. His promises, lies. The man who spoke them, a liar.

As a candidate he promised transparency in government yet began his massive personal coverup even before taking office. He then went on to appoint more than thirty communist style Czars to administrative positions in the government loyal only to him with no oversight by the Congress or the court system and no constitutional authority for the creation of the positions. Transparency? No. Lies.

We do not even know whether he was legally qualified to run for election to the highest office in our land. The Democrats were in charge and they don’t care. They have long since surrendered honor and honesty for politics and progressivism. So, the man climbs to the stage in front of our government, the American people and the world and speaks lies. When he said that the so-called "health care" proposals now before Congress would not pay for medical expenses of illegal aliens in our country, Congressman, Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina, apparently couldn’t contain himself longer and shouted out, "You lie!"

Rep. Wilson was late. He spoke out only after I had already yelled, "You’re a liar," at the television set a half a dozen times while listening to the ‘campaign rhetoric’ of the Liar-In-Chief. Thank you, Mr. Wilson for speaking for me when I had no voice.

When someone lies, what is wrong with calling him out on the matter? Why is it impolite to call a liar a liar? To hell with politeness! This is politics, after all. Why should it be politically incorrect to point out the lie in the place where it matters most, in the halls of government, where lies hurt us the most?

All of the television news channels I can monitor say it was wrong for him to shout out the insult to the speaker because of the setting and the occasion. I ask where might there be a better time and place, for those of us who continue to doubt, to raise the issue of Obama’s compulsion to take liberties with the truth than when he is speaking?

We’ve already heard it, read it, seen it when he has lied in the past. So what? No one does anything about the lies. Joe Wilson did. At least he spoke out. He called out the word we use when describing what someone does when they speak falsely. Why let a liar continue lying without confrontation over the untruth?

Nancy Pelosi was popping up and down in her seat from the first word he spoke like an overzealous thirteen-year-old cheerleader, encouraging him to continue the lies. Her Democrat minions followed her lead by applauding the lies from the leader of their party. Why should not a member of the opposition express their opinion as well? When George Bush was president, the Democrats booed him. Booed the President of the United States during a state of the union address. Obama was conducting a partisan political rally inside the capitol building and one man had the courage to shout out the correct charge, "You lie!" And he needs to apologize? I don’t think so.

Pelosi has not apologized to the CIA. Harry Reid has not apologized to George W. Bush. And Obama himself has not apologized for having called us terrorists. Why the hell should we apologize to him for noting that he is in the act of lying - again - as he has so often in the past?

We are not in second grade here. Our liberty and our very lives are at stake. We can still call a liar a liar and so can Rep. Joe Wilson even when sitting in the capitol building and most especially at the moment he hears the lie spoken!

Thanks, Joe.

Friday, September 4, 2009

I’m tired of Obama.

Obama, Obama, Obama. He ran for president for two years or more. The election was last November but he’s still running. I guess it’s to be head of some other world organization next. Or maybe he only wants to be the head of the new North American Union - you know, as a stepping stone toward Secretary-General and Dictator of the United Nations. But it’s the talk I’m really tired of.
The outstanding thing about Obama is that he has pulled off the most stunning political victory in the history of man. I don’t mean the 2008 U.S. national elections. I mean the theft of the United States - right from under our noses. Unqualified for the job both legally and experientially, he lied his way across the country and into the hearts of blind America. The person who lives in a house which I own in Washington, D.C., a house which I and my fellow citizens paid for, is not my president. I do not call him president. He is nobody’s president. He is a usurper and therein lies the brilliance of his campaign.
The last president of the United States was George W. Bush. And as paradoxical a man as you could ever expect to see, President Bush unwittingly paved the way for the Obama family to move into the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue through his overly self-centered governing style.
Mr. Bush either could not or would not listen to those of us who supported him through every election in which he ran for office. His singularly outstanding achievement was the result of his response to the attack on New York City and Washington, D.C. by Islamofascists. What we as Americans accomplished under his leadership was to strike back at the heart of Islamic sponsored aggression against us and to depose one of its worst leaders. The result is a free Iraq.
In almost every other way, Mr. Bush abandoned us in favor of the Progressive movement. Expansion of government, increased government spending and enlargement of the body of foreign nationals living within our borders, many of whom entered and remain here illegally. Although his reduction in taxes sparked an economic recovery, turning a blind eye toward our southern border canceled the effect by allowing American jobs to be taken by illegal aliens and American wages to flow southward into Mexico and other parts of Central and South America. The over all result was to pave the way for Obama to bring on his dog and pony show, called Hope and Change.
While we all grew angry, the radical Democrats had already chosen their new leader. The Obama Circus traveled about the United States putting on live performances. Television carried his contrived speeches to all parts of the world. Bill O’Reilly called him brilliant. NBC declared him to be eloquent. One man in Florida called him "gracious god." While he took office and moved into the White House, we sat by and complained.
As he gave away our money, we talked to each other about it. We watched him steal General Motors as his own private automobile company. We wrote blogs and comments objecting to this theft, but we did nothing about it. He then stole Chrysler Corporation only to sell it to an Italian Company. Both transactions were completed with the very best financial terms and considerations for the labor unions, which Obama said he "owed." Bitter condemnations were voiced in the columns. But no action was taken.
The banks were taken over. Hundreds of billions of dollars were authorized by Congress to bail them out, to stimulate the economy and to satisfy the greedy needs of an Obama budget. We screamed in print. Soon commentators began hurling insults and calling each other names. It was not long before the dirtiest place in town was no longer the local whore house but the internet. Linguistic pornography now saturates almost every blog and every forum. But otherwise we do nothing.
So, I’m tired of Obama. I’m tired of talking about him. Recently a man who had as much as anyone alive to do with the success of Obama died. Days were spent by enemies and friends alike speaking of him in hushed, respectful tones. I was reminded of Mark Antony’s eulogy for Julius Caesar. I thought, we should not be speaking to praise Ted Kennedy but to bury him. He was a scoundrel while alive and no less a scoundrel when dead. But after his passing, you would have thought he could have never done a wrong thing in his life. He was the lion. And in the eulogies for Kennedy, most speakers had to comment on the fact that he had taken part in the successful coup by Obama which moved him into the most powerful office in the world.
August saw the re-enactment of the historical Boston Tea Party in cities across the nation as members of Congress took their annual summer vacation. Citizens turned out in record numbers to talk to their congressional representatives. To let them know of the great opposition in the land to the massive take over of the health care delivery system. Most of the people from Congress were shocked, dismayed, even surprised that the people wanted to talk back. In the minds of our governing public servants, the purpose of a town hall meeting was for the members of Congress to talk to us. To give yet another speech in which they would have their say and we would listen.
When it was discovered that we wanted to have our say, we were accused of being terrorists and Nazis. And when purple-shirted thugs knocked one man to the ground, they were excused because they were just looking out for the union. Strange thing about that was that similar purple-shirted thugs appeared at other meetings, to shut folks up, to usher people out and to prevent citizens from coming in. What did we do? We wrote about it in columns and blogs and comments. We bitched. We pissed and moaned. We clamored. We hurled insults. We called each other names.
And worst of all we argued with liberal shills, trolls, cyber terrorists, hired to disrupt our conversations. To cause rifts in our unity. To dissuade us from our subject of interest. To change the discussion to their condemnation of a former president and praise for the new "gracious god" Obama. And we fell for it - again! In short - we did nothing - again! The country is now led by a thief, a liar and a communist and no one is going to do anything about it.
And one of my senators now wants to be my governor. After six years in Washington, ignoring everything I asked for, and treating me in her letters as though I am stupid, she continues to do nothing about Obama’s constitutional violations. Furthermore, both of my senators and my congressional representative still think they can negotiate with Obama’s Democrats on a Health Care Bill!
Banks, automobile companies, money we don’t have and yet he announces the continuation of his plans to build a civilian force as strong, as well funded and armed as our army, navy, marine corps and air force, combined. And no one does anything about it but talk! On Tuesday of next week, he begins the formation of the Obama Youth Corps which is nothing less than a quickening of the pace of taking over the local school systems and federalizing them. Inaugurating direct access to our children in order to drive a wedge between them and their parents, a wedge which will separate them from the past, from historical fact and into the fantasy of Obama World. And still we only talk.
What can you and I do about it? Not much, really. We can continue to enlighten as many of our fellow citizens as possible, encouraging them to awaken to the dangers and stand with us. We can continue our barrage of letters to our legislators by electronic mail, facsimile, United States Postal Service and the telephone demanding that they listen to us, that they remember they work for us and not the other way around. We can keep reminding them that they were elected to represent us not themselves.
But if they don’t respond on a timely basis, we must find others to help. We must find those like minded persons who have the wealth and power to speak forcefully to power. We must convince them of the impending doom which faces these United States if we do not act in a coordinated, united way to defend our way of life. Those presently in government unwilling to take the necessary action must be removed from office as early as possible. The people chosen to take their places must be able to abandon political correctness, to speak out in defense of our guaranteed liberties and to stand against those who would further corrupt our freedoms into the slavery of socialism and multi-culturism.
This democratic Republic of ours has the means of controlling such despots as Obama. But there is no one in the congress who has the courage or the will to exercise the powers they have. It is, for them, politics as usual. They are more concerned with the security of their own positions and size of their own personal bank accounts and the longevity of their growing careers than they are with preserving and protecting the constitution they promised us they would care for. In the meantime, they are letting Obama walk away, his pockets stuffed with goodies.
So, Obama gets a pass. If that’s true, then Bill Maher was right when he said Americans are dumb. If we allow Obama to get away with this massive theft of our rights, our property and our futures, then Eric Holder was correct when he called us a nation of cowards. If Obama can continue this swindle of the entire nation, then perhaps he is as O’Reilly says: brilliant.
If that’s the way it’s going to be, I don’t want to hear any more of it. I’m tired of Obama, not just tired of hearing about him, but tired of him using the Oval Office as his election headquarters. I’m tired of being called a racist because I don’t believe in communism. Tired of sitting by while my liberties are piece by piece rubbed out and replaced with my so-called duty to the leader.
I’m tired of Obama. I’m ready for something else. I’m ready for some real change. How about you?