Speaking Truth to Power

Courtesy of WSJ:

The Obama Economy
As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame.

Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence -- and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth.

The Democrats who now run Washington don't want to hear this, because they benefit from blaming all bad economic news on President Bush.

Amen!

Obama - Confidence Man

The cover of the March 2 edition of Newsweek boldly titles itself:

The Confidence Game: How Obama can talk us out of a depression

From the wikipedia entry for "Confidence Game":

A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam,gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, or swindle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.

The term con man originated from the longer term confidence man, and a confidence game is a scam. Personally, I would say that is a pretty apt description of Obama's political career so far, but somehow, I doubt that is what the editors of Newsweek meant.

Grain of salt warning...

It was pointed out to me that the source I linked to on my last post about the fairness doctrine contains mainly anonymous sources, point taken. Consider this your official warning to take "The Prowler" article and it's anonymous sources with a big fat grain of salt. However, here is a non-anonymous democratic source on the fairness doctrine:

More good news!

The dawning of the great American Utopia is upon us! There are just a few things we have to clear up first.

Like that pesky constitution, why does it have all those annoying amendment thingies. For example, this first amendment business. How are we going to implement change if people can just say or write whatever they want? Obama said it himself: "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and expect to get things done."

Hey guys, let's bring back the fairness doctrine! This time though, let's make sure we include the internet:

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/16/in-all-fairness/1

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is also looking at how it can put in place policies that would allow it greater oversight of the Internet. "Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we're seeing that some web sites are able to control traffic and information, while other sites that may be of interest or use to citizens get limited traffic because of the way the people search and look for information," says on committee staffer. "We're at very early stages on this, but the chairman has made it clear that oversight of the Internet is one of his top priorities."

Yeah, those evil neocons are so evil with their well organized and coherent blogs! Give the angry and incoherent a chance, too!

And don't even get me started on that dang 22nd amendment, I mean, change can't always happen overnight. It might take more than 8 years to implement true social justice! Just ask Hugo Chavez.

H. J. RES. 5

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

Thank you 111th Congress!

Good news!

That whole liberty thing was a little tiring wasn't it? I mean, freedom is great, but that whole personal responsibility deal really blows.



Hilarious - until you realise this is happening in your country.

About the light posting...

Posting has been light; we are welcoming a new member of our family to the world. It turns out babies are a lot of work.

Change! Yippee.

To steal a phrase from my favorite news anchor, Kent Brochman (who has more credibility than any non-animated news anchors, these days): I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. You can laugh or you can cry; I prefer to laugh.

Here are some funnies to get you started. Click the links to read the entire column:
Election Analysis: America Can Take Pride In This Historic, Inspirational Disaster

So for now, let's put politics aside and celebrate this historic milestone. In his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial 45 years ago, Dr. King said "I have a dream that one day my children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Let us now take pride that Tuesday we Americans proved that neither thing matters anymore.

Southpark weighs in: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/207897/

And one last thing! Palin 2012! Stop dissing Sarah Palin. Her selection as VP was the best thing about the McCain campaign.

Ann Coulter and I agree:
THE REIGN OF LAME FALLS MAINLY ON MCCAIN

Like Sarah Connor in "The Terminator," Sarah Palin is destined to give birth to a new movement. That's why the Democrats are trying to kill her. And Arnold Schwarzenegger is involved somehow, too. Good Lord, I'm tired.

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For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.

Starting tomorrow, if not sooner.

Welcome to the next four years! My sunny predictions for what HOPEANDCHANGE will look like: 1) more war, not less, in the Mid East, with a good possibility of out right nuclear warfare between Iran and Israel; 2) massive energy shortages in the US - the gas line and the rolling blackout are the new breadline; 3) another terrorist attack or a slew of smaller ones; and 4) a whole lotta disappointed dems when they figure out they still have to work for a living and pay their mortgage. The beauty of being a conservative is, if my world view is correct then in a few years I get to say "I told you so" and enthusiastically support Sarah Palin in 2012. If my world view is wrong, then I still get to enjoy the socialist utopia along with everyone else -- that is, unless Billy Ayers gets those re-education camps up and running in less than 4 years. Gulp.