Archive for February, 2009

Not looking forward to 4 years of being lectured

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Today, Eric Holder lectured Americans by saying the following, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”

So this is what change feels like?  It feels awfully close to being a child once again and being lectured by mommy or daddy, in this case, for something that I have done wrong.  But then again, this is what I expect from holier than though progressive liberals who search for cosmic justice, as Thomas Sowell puts it, or the kind of justice that only God can meet out.  For liberals though, they try and meet it out here on the Earth with their special form of justice, which is nothing more than injustice heaped upon others.  America is no more cowardly than any other nation when it comes to race relations.  We are far from perfect, but we fought a Civil War to end slavery.  How many other nations did the same thing?  Most nations were forced to end slavery because the US and Great Britain forced them to end it.  It was because of our example that slavery was ended.  Now, I don’t know about you, but Eric Folder has quite a bit of gumption to call us cowards, but then again, his boss, President Obama often can be found lecturing Americans on what they should think, drive, expect, etc.  so this MO is not much different and isn’t unexpected.  It is going to be a long 4 years of koolaid listening to this sanctimonious bunch tell us that we need to unite, we need to get along, we need to be bi-partisan when in reality they want us to just fall in line and think what they think, do what they want us to do, and feel what they want us to feel.  This kind of behavior is just like a father or mother scolding a child, which is really how liberals love to operate for they feel that they know what is best for us, that they are gifted beyond what we are blessed with, that their brains function on a higher level, and that the government should bestow upon us what we need.   Such arrogance is never found in a conservative or traditionalist.  Sure we have values, but rarely do we wish to use the government to force them upon people like the liberals so often love to do.

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Sometimes It’s Hard to Say No to the Koolaid

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Today I read the following article.  It was filled with koolaid moments overflowing.  I guess that politicians actually believe the stuff that comes out of their mouths.  I just think it is all koolaid.  So Obama today said the following, “It’s a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they’ve presided over a doubling of the national debt…I’m not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility…You get a feeling that maybe we’re playing politics instead of actually trying to solve problems for the American people.”  Facts are a funny thing.  Congress controls the budget.  The President decides to veto it or not.  Congress is the one primarily responsible for the deficits that we experience, not the President.  Bush never presided over anything.  The Congress is a separate part of the government.  It doesn’t follow the President’s lead.  The Republicans controlled Congress and the Presidency from 2003 to 2007, for 4 years.  The Democrats have controlled Congress for the last 2 years.  Where were they when it cames to stopping these deficits.  They were no where to be found.  They weren’t doing anything to stop it, to spend less money.  The Democrats controlled the House from 1949 to 1995, almost 40 years.  Were they cutting programs?  Nope.  They were inventing new ones such as Medicare, which is the fastest growing expense on the books.  The Democrats controlled the Senate from 1955 to 1995, except for 6 years.  While it is true that the deficit doubled while Bush was President, it is not true that he is at fault.  The fault squarely lies with the Congress who sets the budget or the primary fault lies with Congress.  But is much easier for Obama to be cute with words and make off-handed sleigh comments and half-truths than admit the truth.  There is plenty of blame to go around here.  When a Democrat calls a Republican not trustworthy on financial issues, it is like Hannibal Lecter calling Jason from Halloween a good guy.  It just isn’t true.  Both parties are terrible at managing finances.  That is why the founding fathers attempted to limit both parties ability to spend by making progressive taxation unconstitutional until that was changed in the early 1910s and by requiring Congress to use only coins for currency, not paper money.  Once the Constitution was amended and both those provisions were thrown out the window with the 16th amendment and the creation of the Federal Reserve, the federal government slowly began centrally planning the economy because they could now control the money supply, the amount of money they could both tax from the people, and print from nowhere.  Obama has his facts wrong.  The Republicans and Democrats are both guilty and should be punished for crimes against this country and this people, for spending us into a ditch, and then having the audacity to point the finger.

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