Nine Thoughts on the Eleventh Anniversary of 9/11

(1) The so-called "War on Terror" is a conflict between incompatible civilizations. On one side is the target - western civilization, sprouting from the principles of free will introduced to mankind by the Age of Enlightenment. On the other side is the aggressor - Radical Islamism - a religiously political ideology stuck in a backward 7th Century model of tyrannical dictation to its followers.

(2) The US Constitution and sharia law are completely and utterly incompatible.

(3) They don't hate us for anything we've done. They hate us because their ideology instructs them to hate infidels.

(4) We have been relatively safe over the past eleven years due to thousands upon thousands of unheralded heroes quietly doing the work they were born and/or trained to do in the context of America's exceptional opportunity society. These heroes labor in the FBI, CIA, and various other agencies including the uniformed armed services. These heroes write computer programs, utilize "gamer" skills flying unmanned drones, analyze telephone wire recordings, drive humvees through god-forsaken landscapes, and perform a thousand other functions I could not possibly fully catalog.

(5) These unheralded heroes continue to keep us safe despite the failed leadership of the current administration.

(6) The geopolitical situation in the Middle East grows more dangerous by the day, and Radical Islam grows stronger there, because of the failed leadership of the current administration.

(7) Ultimately, western civilization surviving this conflict depends on American global leadership, which is not being provided by the current administration.

(8) If Tehran acquires the ability to deliver nuclear warheads into the population centers of western civilization, it will be due to the failed leadership of the current administration.

(9) Western civilization should thank God it has an independently led outpost named Israel to take care of business while we are stuck with the failed leadership of the current administration.

So, That's It Then ...

Today SCOTUS ruled there are no practical limits to federal power.

Supreme Court upholds individual mandate, ObamaCare survives

Score one for tyranny in the battle of Ameritopia.

The Statists In Black have not only punted in this act of judicial cowardice, they have in fact forfeited their very purpose in our original constitutional system. Having ruled the government has the power to universally mandate something, why wouldn't it have the power to universally mandate anything? So, why even have judicial review of anything at all? Tyranny. Period. End of sentence.

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It is now up to We The People to use what remains of the constitutional system to repair the damage inflicted upon the republic by this tyrannical ruling.

Are you listening Mittens? Establishment GOP? Repeal *must* be a central campaign theme. Repeal *must* be legislated on day one of the next congressional session, and signed on Inauguration day.

Meanwhile, get some ambitious intern working on Amendment 28 to the constitution - "Congress shall make no law universally mandating the purchase or production of any product or service." Start winding it through the states by next week. Do your job. By my lights 1994-1995 was the last time you did. That's a long time for ceding the field to the statists.

It's the Spending, Stupid

Another historic rant from Rick Santelli. The numbers is the the numbers, and some of us are getting a little pissed off at so-called "leaders" who are lying about the numbers.

(From the most important web site of 2012)

Question for BHO and His Corrupt Gang of Progressives ... what the hell is so "fair" about saddling unborn citizens with crippling debt?

When Santelli says he's not ready to talk about solutions (LAS likes a man who knows when he's too pissed off to go there), it's because he knows the solution space is entitlement reform. Whether we are able to go there as a nation before we are completely broke is the all time test of Alexander Hamilton's proposition that the masses are fools ... or maybe Benjamin Franklin's famous answer to the man who asked him what form of government the constitutional convention had created - "a republic, if you can keep it." When the occupy mob chants "this is what democracy looks like" ... they mean it ... pure, unfiltered, 'democracy' will inevitably degenerate into lowest common denominator mob rule. It's just how the numbers work.

Update

I think this one is going viral. A blogger with what is quite obviously a much larger readership than mine - the Left Coast Rebel - likes Rick's Rant, too.

Only Rhetorically, Billy Boy, Not Literally - Like You

From Red State.

Bill Ayers is a despicable human being. So is is his wife Bernadine Dohrn. Born to privilege, radicalized by the 60's New Left, convicted domestic terrorists both. Hard core members of the Weather Underground, which literally sought the violent overthrow of the US Government in order to replace it with a form of Marxism, and acted upon this goal by literally blowing stuff up. Neither has ever expressed the slightest remorse for the mayhem they inflicted upon the civil society.  All of this, of course, made them darlings of the Left and set them up for life as tenured members of the Leftist academy. And, oh, did I mention Barack Hussein Obama launched his political career in the living room of these entitled felonious Marxists?

There is also a good bit of circumstantial evidence supporting the assertion Bill Ayers wrote BHO's first of two autobiographies.  The book Ayers undisputably wrote - Prairie Fire - is being used as one of two playbooks (Alinsky's Rule For Radicals being the other) directing the street mayhem and political food fights BHO and his corrupt gang of progressives are inflicting upon the civil society in the current election cycle.

Recently, Ayers attacked Breitbart with rhetoric proving once again Leftists possess no sense of irony.  Kind of like arguing for photo ID to purchase a six pack of Corona, or sign up for government assistance, but not to vote.

Look it all up, kiddies - you have the Google machine.

My First Demotivational Poster

Created here.

LAS 2011 Review & 2012 Preview (Part 2 of 4)

Part 1 covered domestic conditions.
Part 2 covers foreign affairs.
Part 3 will cover the current electoral situation (probably after the Iowa caucuses).
Part 4 will cover this blog project.

In Part 1, we covered domestic conditions. To quickly summarize: (1) intentionally divisive due entirely to the political tactics of BHO and his corrupt gang of Progressives; (2) standing on the precipice of total chaos due to same. Law and Order will be a big topic next year. 2012 is looking a lot like 1968. That’s the election year that gave us Nixon, btw.

We now turn our attention to the state of foreign affairs with the scandal LAS predicts will become the ‘Watergate’ of 2012. As the following graphic shows, the Fast and Furious scandal has aspects that neatly fit into any / all of the posts in this series. I’m throwing it into the foreign affairs area just because it has Mexico in it. Last time I checked - Mexico is a sovereign foreign nation as we haven’t yet invaded Mexico and made it a territory. For the sake of Law and Order, that is.

This is the Fast and Furious story in a nutshell ... In a politically corrupt effort to score political points around gun control, Eric “My People” Holder’s “Department of Just Us” literally sold military grade automatic weapons to Mexican drug cartels. When this operation was uncovered south of the border, it naturally strained relations will the small part of the Mexican government that is still independent of the drug cartels. But that was the least of it. Eventually – and completely predictably (the truly maddening part!) – American Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was shot dead by one of these weapons. Holder and the rest of his corrupt gang has been stonewalling Brian Terry’s family and the American people on this tragedy ever since. To his credit, the Congressman with investigative jurisdiction, Darrell Issa of California, has been holding Holder’s feet to the fire. The next round of questioning occurs later this month. LAS predicts the confrontation will drive Holder into ever tighter fits of dissembling to avoid accountability for his corruption and incompetence, and this will be his ultimate undoing – maybe even BHO’s.

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Just as the original genesis for Fast and Furious was this administration’s corrupt domestic politics, the remainder of our foreign affairs review is chock full of situations arising directly from this administration’s domestic political calculus – i.e. pandering to the naïve worldview of its’ Leftist base.

When populist riots erupted in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Team Leftie misinterpreted events as a grass roots democratic movement – in a country that has no historical experience whatsoever of democracy. Consequently, BHO and Team Leftie actively participated in bringing down a secular dictator who also happened to be an important ally in maintaining stability in that most volatile region. The first couple of rounds of Egyptian “elections” have yielded the result LAS predicted from day one of this diplomatic fiasco – a massive “electoral” victory for fundamental Islamism in Egypt. When BHO and Team Leftie threw Hosni Mubarak under the bus, they effectively threw Israel under the bus with him.

The current state of affairs is a set up for the rise of an Egyptian Islamic Caliphate. The latest turn is more astro-turfed street riots aimed at Egypt’s last remaining stabilizing institution – the Army we have spent 30 years training and arming. Thanks, Barry.

Next, BHO picked a fight with Muammar Ghaddafi, secular dictator of Libya. Once again, naively reading it as an opportunity to use armed force in support of some ill-defined downtrodden and oppressed “peoples”, BHO committed American prestige, treasure, and armed forces to fight on behalf of a loose collection of “rebels” no one could quite identify. His stated rationale was a foolish policy known as “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) – an open ended blank check to rush in wherever populations are being mistreated by brutal governments. News flash: there are an awful lot of those across the globe - way, way, more than we can possibly police.

BHO was lucky no American blood was spilled. Really lucky, because he unconstitutionally committed US armed forces without so much as a conference call with Congress. (At least Geo. W Bush acquired legislation for both Afghanistan and Iraq). And, of course, Al Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalists now appear to be enjoying the spoils of victory in Libya. Thanks, Barry.

Now, a secular dictator in Syria is brutally mowing down crowds of civilians with his armed forces. No signs of the Barry admin showing any willingness to invoke R2P here. WTF, Barry? Mubarak was a friend and ally. Ghaddafi was at least neutral with respect to US interests. (Thanks to Geo. W. Bush, TYVM.) Assad is a friend and ally of Iran, and actively involved in waging terrorism against Israel. If there is an argument for engaging any one of these situations, Syria is it. Well, the good news is that at least R2P seems to be thoroughly discredited. That much will be useful in the future.

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Speaking of BHO’s “inheritance” from Geo. W. Bush we now train our attention on the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. IMHO, both of these countries are doomed to be under the influence of stronger neighbors ruled by fundamental Islamism in the next stage of their histories.

In Iraq, history will record that Geo. W. Bush started the war, David Petraeus won the war, and Barack Hussein Obama lost the peace.

Whatever went before, President Bush deserves credit for implementing General Petraeus’ “Surge” strategy in Iraq. The immediate result was a military victory not only over Al Qaeda but also various other de-stabilizing proxies of Iran. Through various twists and turns, much heavy lifting by Americans, and much honorably spilled American blood; the end result was a functioning democracy in Iraq. Simply an amazing bestowment to a region of the world otherwise stuck in the 7th Century.

All this nascent democracy needed was sufficient leadership to keep a relatively small contingent of American troops in theatre for the sake of stability. Like the garrisons still in Europe that won the Cold War stand-off with the Soviet Union. Like the garrisons still protecting South Korea from North Korea’s lunatic Kim dynasty. But BHO and his corrupt gang of Progressives weren’t up to the task. They couldn’t negotiate an extension of the Status of Forces agreement, and Iraq is now on its own. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is consequently making Ramadan 2012 travel plans for Baghdad. BHO is disgracefully claiming a political victory with a so-called promise kept to “end the war.” In fact, he has condemned all of Iraq to Iranian dominance. Thanks, Barry.

Similarly, the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama has guaranteed Afghanistan will be under the influence of the Taliban internally, which will in turn enjoy strong ties to its fellow travelers in Iran’s government as well as Pakistan’s security services and government.

BHO "inherited" the perfect set up in Afghanistan - the democracy building and stabilizing influence of a “reach out and kill the enemy when necessary” small garrison. Afghanistan is not Iraq strategically. Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous region offering no strategic advantage. Iraq, by contrast, literally sits on an important cross-road of civilization (the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys). That’s the fundamental difference. Attempting total military victory in Afghanistan was never the right strategic move. Just ask the Brits or Russians. But still, if you’re going to attempt it, do it right. BHO did it all wrong – ramping up while simultaneously broadcasting to the enemy a date certain for ramping down. Military Science 101 will teach any fool the foolishness of giving your timeline to the enemy. No one on Team Leftie seems to have ever taken Military Science 101, however. They’ve spent all their time in the faculty lounges discussing transgender social and economic justice, or something. Expect the Taliban to be on the rise in Afghanistan next year, as our Army pulls out prematurely.

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Osama Bin-Laden is anticlimactically dead. BHO dithered for nine months before pulling the trigger on the special forces capabilities he “inherited” from Geo. W. Bush’s administration. Anwar al-Awlaki, technically an American citizen, is also dead by drone capability developed during Geo. W. Bush’s administration. Some of us still have a problem with the concept of Presidents assassinating American citizens without a due process conviction for treason.

The giant elephant in the foreign affairs room for 2012 is Iran, of course. The so-called “Arab Spring” – now clearly becoming the “Islamist Winter” – has but one common denominator for the close observer. The common denominator is an increase in Tehran’s hegemony over the region.

Tehran’s saber rattling in the Strait of Hormuz is but a sign of Tehran feeling its oats for this very reason. From a foreign affairs point of view, Iran is turning out to be the singular cautionary tale of the BHO administration. In 2009, BHO initiated an appeasement policy toward Iran with his “open hand / clenched fist” Cairo speech. This appeasement policy caused him, in 2009, to forego extending any aid to the authentically democratic Green Revolution. (Where was R2P then, Barry?) Iran barreled forward with its nuclear weapons program through 2010 and 2011.

I just heard KT McFarland, Fox News analyst, predict 2012 is the year the question of Iranian nukes will come to a head. I agree. The Iranian Islamic regime – on record as desiring to “wipe Israel off the map” – will either acquire a nuclear capability in 2012 or western civilization will find a way to prevent it.

This brings me to Israel – the only functioning modern democracy in that otherwise God-forsaken region stuck in the 7th Century. Thank God Israel is being run by Benjamin Netanyahu – former special forces operative and all around stand up guy. 2011 was the year his government wisely decided to start acting in its own interest and told Barry’s administration to take a hike. My personal theory – just a theory – is the recent mysterious explosions around Iran’s nuclear weapons production infrastructure are the work of Israel’s Mossad organization. Whether or not this theory holds water – these explosions are certainly in the interest of Israel’s survival, which makes them in the interest of the continuation of western civilization. For Israel, 2012 will be a year of living at defcon one and a half.

I am also in agreement with what I’ve heard KT McFarland recommend as the best strategy for choking Iran off economically. “Drill Baby Drill!” We need to exploit our copious domestic fossil fuel resources to reduce – maybe even nearly eliminate - dependence on Mideast oil. Beginning now. However, the problem is “now” means a heated national argument leading to a historic election in November 2012.

(Shameless plug for the F=M*A theme that has permeated this blog from inception)

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The spasmodic street riots that erupted in Greece, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the European Union in 2011 – all foretelling the predictable end game for the socialist welfare state, or any society foolish enough to embrace it – barely even merit mention at this time. We can thank God, I guess, for the temporarily stabilizing force of Germany conquering the rest of Europe with financial loans rather than tanks. Because we here in the USA will be spending the year 2012 deciding for ourselves how much further down the road of socialist moral and financial bankruptcy we will allow ourselves to go.

Sorry “world community”, the USA has had its attention turned inward by its political Left. You’re on your own for 2012. GLWT. See you in 2013 hopefully.

Footnote

Encountered while idly scrolling down the Bob Schieffer Blog Roll. Thanks again. Barry.

Update 1/3/12

This take on the Appeaser-In-Chief made me laugh.

She Said, He Said, They Said, We Said (Part 2)

* Yeah, I’ll get to Sharon Bialek, whoever the hell she is. And Gloria Allred, too - well known Leftist hack and media whore. But, first, I shall finish what I began drafting just yesterday.

Continued from Part 1 ...

What’s really going on here is an epic battle between forces I’ve labeled Team Liberty and Team Leftie. Team Liberty is the collection of institutions and people who believe in individual liberty. Team Leftie is the collection of institutions and people who believe in statism and collectivism. These two teams have been at odds and fighting an ideological war that has ebbed and flowed since about 1870 by LAS’ reckoning.

World War I and World War II were gigantic exercises in sorting out the two sides. In WW I, armies mostly belonging to Team Liberty scored a temporary victory against armies mostly belonging to Team Leftie – only to give rise to Team Leftie’s most virulent strains of the 20th century: the Fascism of Mussolini, National Socialism of Hitler, and Communism of Vladimir Lenin. In WW II, armies mostly belonging to Team Liberty scored a victory against two out of the three by making a military alliance of convenience with one of the three.

The Cold War then ensued. We (Team Liberty) won a huge victory when the Berlin wall fell and the half of Europe that had been occupied by Communist armies for 45 years was liberated.

American Progressives have always been with Team Leftie. Every step of the way. LAS recommends Jonah Goldberg’s excellent book – “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning” – as the summer vacation read that proves it.

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Now to contemporary events …

One of Team Leftie’s own sits in the Oval Office today. One of their own is Senate Majority Leader. One of their own was Speaker of the House from 2007 until 2011, until We The People corrected that particular travesty in the historic election of 2010.

Team Leftie’s propaganda organ in modern America is the corrupt and biased main stream media (MSM). Period. End of sentence.

Team Leftie desires political power above all else. To the exclusion of all else. Team Leftie simply *must* have political power to impose their statist / collectivist central plans on everyone else. Every one of you. Team Leftie maintains its’ hold on political power with a corrupt narrative that includes such asinine memes as:

• To not be with them is to hate poor people
• To not be with them is to be racist
• If you are a minority, you must be with them, or your very survival is at stake

Team Leftie has become dimly aware that the Conservative Ascendancy, marked most spectacularly by the TEA Party movement, threatens their present hold on power in the soon to be historic election of 2012. Team Leftie must destroy Herman Cain, because Herman Cain’s very presence in the Presidential race destroys Team Leftie’s asinine narrative.

That is what is really happening here.

And That's The Bottom Line, Because LAS Said So!

(Sorry, couldn't resist the Stone Cold Steve Austin detour)

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Now to Sharon Bialek. We need to find out what her politics are. If she is demonstrably on board with Team Leftie, then my contemporaneous reaction on the Gateway Pundit site stands - she is as likely a liar as a victim.

There is simply no need to even explore the hypocrisy angle Team Leftie gives us with one of their heroes – the one named William Jefferson Clinton. Because we on Team Liberty have standards – and if it can be credibly demonstrated Herman Cain has been serially lecherous, then we will be done with him.

The problem right now remains the credibility of the charges.

We already know Gloria Allred is deeply embedded inside Team Leftie. For a total destruction of her credibility, revisit this thirteen month old takedown by Mark Levin.




Since Sharon Bialek has chosen to hide behind Gloria Allred, well …

What else ya got, Team Leftie?

Update 11/8/11

The plot thickens. Bialek has participated in Republican politics. But she seems to be that most contemptible form of Republican - the gold digger. Rest assured the source of the truth here lies in motivations. We already know Politico's and Gloria Allred's motivation. They fear the candidacy of the principled conservative black man.

Game On. 

Without purporting to know what is presently unknowable as far the truth in this matter, and assuming no further shoes to drop, LAS predicts the "take no prisoners", "no quarter, no compromise," posture is in perfect tune with the times and bodes well for Mr. Cain's next round of polling and fundraising data.  We shall see.

In a Democracy, The People Get The Government They Deserve

The post title is one my favorite all time quotes. It is the perfectly pithy expression of my own thoughts and feelings about the non-stop clown parade the American people seem content to send to the nation’s capital every election cycle. This simple ten word sentence is also positively dripping with sarcasm, which any reader of this blog will know would have made it an instant favorite of mine from the moment I bumped into it.

My first exposure to the quotation remains lost in the swirling mists of my personal memory. Whatever it was, the moment of exposure surely connected the quote to Alexis de Tocqueville – prominent 19th Century French politician and political scientist – because until today I was certain he was its’ author.

But today is the day I began researching the facts around fleshing out the general idea for this post. While I browsed the Intertubes for information on deTocqueville, I certainly did confirm, as expected, he was the author of the great work of political and social science that nailed a profound examination of the American character – Democracy In America (1835).

However, his connection to my beloved quote was severed by this:

The statement is often quoted as "In a democracy, people get the government they deserve," and often attributed to Alexis de Toqueville ... but it's hard to verify where he said it, and even whether he really did.
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But I doubt that de Toqueville said it, simply because it doesn't sound like him. The tone of the remark is sarcastic or cynical, and de Toqueville's writings weren't like that. It wasn't his style.

Ack! (Bill the Cat) How could I have gone on for so long so mistaken? What failure of gub’ment education policy has allowed me to carry this ignominious badge of ignorance with me all my life! OK, I’m over it now.

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I kind of remember asking in an earlier post something like “what the hell are these people thinking?” This question was re-constituted in my brain, courtesy of two recent polls local radio man Chris Plante discussed over the AM wavelength this past Thursday and Friday morning.

In the Thursday morning poll, a majority of Americans expressed, incredibly, the belief that deposed President George Walker Bush is more to blame for today’s economy than sitting President Barack Hussein Obama.

In the Friday Morning poll, at least half the country expresses the belief, incredibly, Martin Luther King’s dream of racial equality remains unrealized. Most interestingly, white Americans are slightly more pessimistic than black Americans on this question.

What the hell are these people thinking?

Well, upon long and careful consideration of this existential question – I, LibertyAtStake, have come up with a two part answer. Part 1 = The Power of Propaganda. Part 2 = White Guilt.

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The Power of Propaganda

There is by now a very strong case to be made for a Leftist bias in today’s mainstream media (MSM). The case for MSM bias has been articulately made on this blog, if I don’t say so myself. I won’t belabor the point of this case. I will simply stipulate what should by now be obvious to the most casual observer – the MSM is actively working on behalf of the Progressive Left.

The agenda of the Progressive Left is, at rock bottom, an agenda of identity politics. The furtherance of this agenda involves the continuous stoking of divisions between wealth, gender, and race classes – with certain of those designated victim and the certain others designated oppressor.

The political party owned and operated by the Progressive Left is the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party’s well-heeled propaganda organ is the corrupt and biased MSM. Any American that is only getting his or her information from the corrupt and biased MSM has been barraged with a steady one-sided drum beat pounding home the Leftist agenda. The messaging for this agenda includes, among other things, the messages “George Bush evil” and “Blacks victim class.”

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White Guilt

I’ve spent less time on this blog examining the effects of “white guilt” on today’s republic. I am not susceptible to its deleterious effects, as I was born into a low socio-economic status (as measured by the class warriors of the Left) and spent time as a toddler in one of LBJ’s housing projects. I clearly remember how George Wallace’s snarky label “limousine liberals” resonated with my parents, friends, and neighbors shortly after the family escaped said projects.

In the subsequent decades, however, I have become something of a bemused observer of privileged liberal whites seemingly willingly to turn off their cognitive functions when confronted by questions of race.

Take, for example, the legions of privileged white voters who were willing to suspend disbelief on a (non) record of (non)accomplishment coupled with a fully demonstrable record of radical associations for this numb nuts in 2008.

I tell the “victims” (full sarcasm entirely meant) of 2008’s outbreak of “white guilt” the only cure is affixing this bumper sticker to your Prius or Smart Car immediately.

Update 1/27/12

LAS has noticed a pattern of visits directly to this post, by Intertubes users searching on phrases closely approximating the post title. Therefore, since this post is apparently destined for Intertubes fame, I made a quick editorial pass to correct a couple of grammatical errors. My Grandmother apparently told my father a lot to wear clean underwear every day because you never know when you'll be in an accident and have to be picked up by an ambulance. Basically, I'm applying that advice toward cleaning up this post before it takes off into true Intertubes fame and fortune. And since I pride myself on remaining the Most Transparent Blog In History, the original errors remain with strikethrough notation.

Contemporary Politics and Newton's Three Laws (Part 17)

Bright lines are being drawn all across the republic this summer. Brittle lines - the kind that hold megatons of potential energy just waiting to be released into the flow of history. Divisive, emotional, lines that will deliver profound consequences to the people standing on both sides of those lines when they finally snap. The kind of lines that the DemoHack party has become villainously expert at drawing – as the Backyard Conservative eloquently observed recently.

The president took his opening salvo, starting his campaign a year early, demonizing yet another group of Americans. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) calls him out on the Senate floor as engaging in behavior more akin to that of a third world leader.

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The National Debt, It is Accumulatin’

Do you think Greece looks like a good vacation spot this summer?

Here is a little video brochure.



This anarchy and chaos is the product of a cradle-to-grave socialist gub’ment running out of other people’s money. The cradle-to-grave socialists (aka rioters) in Greece aren’t very happy about this development, as you can see.

If you agree with these peevish and contemptible dependents of the state, then you must be that one person who is still answering ‘Right Track’ on the American ‘Right Track, Wrong Track Poll.’ And that makes you the person who will be responsible for turning the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave into one giant mob of whiny state dependents unable to process the consequences of running out of other people’s money.

If, on the other hand, you understand the national debt is growing at an outrageous rate due to a gub’ment spending addiction, not a gub’ment revenue problem – then you have the opportunity to take civic action right now – by sending a message to the politicians debating the conditions for raising the gub’ments credit card. Here or Here.

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The Tenth Amendment, She is a-Risin’

Do you really want the minutia of your daily life regulated by a small number of ruling elites bumbling about in the District of Columbia?

The Tenth Amendment states:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Since the dawn of the American Progressive movement in the late 19th century, statists have been steadily chipping away at the federalist system of de-centralized power the 10th Amendment was intended to protect. Direct levy of income taxes (amendment 16), popular election of Senators (amendment 17), and the alphabet soup of gub’ment agencies that seem to exist in perpetuity once created – brought to you by FDR’s New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society, and various other Progressive meddlers and do-gooders who have been experimenting with the Founding since Woodrow Wilson came to DC. Prohibition of alcohol (Amendment 18), repealed shortly thereafter by Amendment 21, was probably the most foolish overreach on record (so far) for the Progressives.

The steady march toward centralized national power has now reached a point of absurdity that must be resisted, lest the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave be reduced to a wandering mass of drones looking to DC for every little direction.

The good news is, lately, so-called “states’ rights” seems to be making something of a comeback.  The Supreme Court ruled Arizona can require employers under its jurisdiction to use all available tools to verify the citizenship of employees, against the objections of Eric “My People” Holder’s Department of “Just Us.” This is a blow to the not-so-secret DemoHack 2012 re-election strategy having the code name ‘Project Undocumented Democrats.’ The voting bloc known as 'Undocumented Democrats' is under increasing pressure in Alabama and Georgia, as well.

But the leading light guiding the new rise of the Tenth Amendment seems to be the state of Texas, guided by the firm federalist hand of Governor Rick Perry. Under Governor Perry’s leadership, Texas now has a future as the world’s leading incandescent light bulb manufacturing titan.

Not to mention, the always reliable Cato Institute has a plan for other states to follow the path being blazed by Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas.

The Rules Made By the Ruling Elites, They Are a-Stinkin’

What do you think of the rules these Ruling Elites in DC have made so far?

So, if you are not convinced yet that vesting broad powers in a small ruling elite is a bad idea – well, let’s look at the record, shall we?

How’s that ObamaCare working out for you, so far? I mean, that is, if you haven’t been one of the lucky few chosen by HHS to receive a waiver (in total violation of the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection clause, IMHO).

Are you an employer looking at rising costs? Or thinking about dropping coverage for your employees due to those costs? Are you an employee of an employer caught in this vice? I have a suggestion – get involved with the Repeal movement. And get involved with the solution to replace the ObamaCare monstrosity. The plan is to kick the DemoHacks completely out of power in 2012. A newly elected congress can pass the repeal in early June January 2013, and the new president can sign it on Inauguration day. It’s only 18 months away, folks.

How’s the economy under these Keynesian geniuses working out for you so far? These geniuses are actually planning to run on the ridiculous meme that the biggest, most expensive, Keynesian stimulus program ever rescued the economy! The very same crappy economy you are living in every day nearly three years on from its passage.

Barry’s so-called economic team doesn’t seem to have the stomach to argue in favor of these policies, as Turbo Tax Tim Geithner seems set to join fellow Progressive/ Keynesian architects of these policies such as Christina Romer, Peter Orzag, and Larry Summers in running for hills and away from the debate.

The republic sorely needs a replacement team to be elected in 2012 to free the greatest national economy ever from the malignant clutches of the DC leviathan.

The Southern Border, it is a-Boilin’

Do YOU want our southern border to turn into the Road Warrior movie?

Or, has it already? The border with Mexico has not only turned into an entry portal for Undocumented Democrats, but a convenient security gap for Jihadis as well. (Warning for humorless Lefties: the link provided is intentionally satire, so save your hyperventilating)

But, no worries, the Ruling Elites in DC have come up with a remedy. Under the code name Fast and Furious, Barack Hussein Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has been selling armaments to the Mexican drug cartels. The clever devils. Some of us are wondering if this is the cover up that might lead to a premature departure for the Empty Suit Currently Occupying the Oval Office.

The Sharia, it is a-Creepin’

Do want to continue to live in a nation that is about freedom of speech, assembly, and religion for all citizens; or would you prefer to submit to Allah?

TCOTS explains what I mean regarding the stealth invasion now underway inside the borders of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

And who better that the blog actually named Creeping Sharia to sound Paul Revere’s modernized alarm.

Zilla of the Resistance lays out what that means – especially for you patriotic women. Expect Women’s suffrage (Amendment 19) to be the first thing repealed under sharia. Zilla also gives us a nice piece highlighting your ruling elites’ indifference to the First Amendment freedoms that stand between us and sharia.

Bottom line – Mohammed’s Murder Monkey Cult From Hell means to rule the world and everyone in it. Paraphrasing the Fram Oil Filter guy … we can deal with these nut jobs now, or deal with them later.

Confrontational Times, They Are a-Comin’

And now it’s a time for a-Choosin’

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. But be advised - The Progressive Left already has a 120 year old plan and they are not going anywhere.

We can only hope it stays this “civil.”

The problem is the Progressive Left has a history of not playing well with others. The solution is provided by the great Ann Coulter – that is, most of their drone “foot soldiers” have glass chins.

So, let’s make sure their current champion, the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama, is facing a different kind of crowd on the campaign trail in 2012. The future of the republic depends on it.

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Footnote: I enjoy much of Bob Dylan's music - but, man, does he sing off key.

Updates 7/6/11

‘Fast and Furious’ just got a whole lot more interesting today. The Acting BATFE Director decides he’s not taking the fall for BHO and the Progressives. Chairman Issa informs AG Holder the hearings will continue until morale improves.

The link I chose to support the ObamaCare waiver discussion is somewhat dated. It lists a mere 729 waivers issued as of January 28, 2011. The updated count is more like 1400. HHS can’t be bothered to update its table on the Internet, however. Maybe HHS is confused by the Most Shameless Administration in American History being shamed into discontinuing the application process.

Update 7/10/11

The breaking news this hot and humid Sunday morning is very good. It seems the GOP establishment will be standing tall and firm on principle in the debt ceiling negotiations. If they get their two “take it or leave it” conditions – spending cuts exceeding the number of dollars the ceiling is raised, and not one red cent in additional taxes in this soft economy – it will be a very good deal for the republic given the irresponsible third world kleptocrats currently running the White House and Senate.

Also, the lunatic Left is likely to be driven into the streets, in spasmodic demonstrations of violence, if they are once again denied the opportunity to redistribute other people’s money. It’s going to happen eventually anyway, better now than later – same theory as ruthlessly ripping off a band aid.

Contemporary Politics and Newton's Three Laws (Part 16)

If any long time readers of this blog (you know who you are) thought I had abandoned the Newtonian thread … fear not. The post I classified as part 15 in the series (April 11, 2011) posited the republic, on that particular date, was calmly sailing through the eye of the storm toward more headwinds, toward a penultimate Newtonian collision (which will become forever known as “Shellacking II” when the votes are counted on November 6, 2012).

The leading edge of these headwinds has arrived. There has been a portentous flurry of news events in the past couple of weeks. These news events demonstrate to anyone paying attention (once again) that the American Progressive Left is amoral, illiterate on economic matters, illiterate in foreign relations, and lives solely to direct the micro details of other peoples’ lives.  And always with disastrous results - because it’s simply an impossible pursuit.

Most prominently, a prominent Demo-hack corruptly used government resources and time for – ahem! – ‘personal pursuits,’ and then doubly corruptly lied about it through his teeth (Lesson 1 from my May 28 post). This very same corrupt Demo-hack, possibly even with the approval of a sizable bloc of his morally challenged constituents, obviously with the support of the criminally biased MSM, and hardly a peep from the majority opposition party – shamelessly retains his seat in the republic’s national legislative body (Lessons 2, 3, and 4 from my May 28 post). Make no mistake, this shameless moral miscreant will have to dragged off of Capitol Hill kicking and screaming – because he is a Leftist, and therefore cannot imagine doing anything else with his (professional) life other than micromanaging the choices available to other people.

Simultaneously, and almost without notice due to the aforementioned shenanigans, there was a  flurry of terrible economic news. While the criminally biased MSM was caught off guard by the news, LibertyAtstake was not at all surprised – because as I explained in my May 11 post, your current administration is Stuck on Keynesian Stupid. They also seem to be running out of Keynesians over there, as the “economic team” seems to be reenacting ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ (Run away!) in the face of abject failure. I am undecided as to whether this is good or bad news for the republic, on balance.





Still less noticed, because it hasn’t come to a head yet, which is to say the mushroom cloud isn’t rising above Israel just yet, is the now near certainty Iran will acquire nuclear weapons. This easily predicted outcome is largely due to the incredibly naïve foreign policy doctrine followed by the administration of the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama. The wages of BHO’s naiveté vis-à-vis Iran will be one big smelly ‘inheritance’ for the next POTUS - that much is for sure.

And, finally, the bill Nanny Pelosi told us she needed to pass to find out what’s in it ... is coming to a head - for millions of Americans who are about to find out what's in it and experience the loss of their employer provided health insurance plans because ObamaCare made those plans far more expensive. [ begin heightened sarcasm alert ;) ] Gee, Leftist intervention making a market product far more expensive? No, that’s never happened before. [ end heightened sarcasm alert ;) ]

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The good news is: LibertyAtStake The Predictor can now predict with virtually absolute certainty the republic will thankfully be rid of the Empty Suit Currently Occupying the Oval Office in January 2013. If you’ve been paying close attention, I’ve been using this blog space to work out for myself whether or not a sufficient percentage of politically clueless independents would be sufficiently awakened to the non-stop misery carousel that is Leftism to vote the Demo-Hacks, and their current champion (BHO), out of office in November 2012. With all hell breaking loose around them, and misery raining down upon them, the politically clueless independent bloc will at least be as sophisticated as Pavlov’s dog … this much we can be sure of. (See the election of Richard Nixon, even with the influential third party run of George Wallace, circa 1968, as the historical precedent)

The bad news is: there are two long, hot summers between now and the November 6, 2012 elections. And Leftists do not relinquish power willingly or easily.  LibertyAtStake The Predictor predicts a growth economy for his Just Another Unhinged Leftie (JAUL) Gallery over the next seventeen months or so. Try to enjoy the wild ride best as you can ... it’s better that way. Happy Friday.

Footnote

I had a bunch of links teed up to accent various statements in this post.  Screw it - I'm going John Lennon and White Album on this one - that is, just throw everything out there.  Here's the links I collected this week in so-called 'preparation.'

http://randysroundtable.blogspot.com/2011/06/sinking.html

http://faustasblog.com/?p=26482

http://www.letfreedomringusa.com/news/read/1838

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269274/help-iwapoi-and-itimesi-destroy-sarah-palin-david-kahane

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/video-in-sidewalk-interview-defiant-weiner-again-says-hes-not-resigning-declines-to-comment-on-wifes-pregnancy/

http://tammybruce.com/2011/06/the-nation-time-is-running-out-on-obama-presidency.html

http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2011/06/time-says-were-in-double-dip-recession.html

http://theglitteringeye.com/?p=13723

http://tclblogger.blogspot.com/2011/06/2011-federal-budget-in-pictures.html

http://patterico.com/2011/06/07/beyond-parody-joseph-cannon-doubles-down/

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2011/06/former-ny-lt-gov-others-call-for-rep-weiner-to-resign.html

http://wyblog.us/blog/obama_watch/golf-yes-economic-briefings-no.html

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=28158

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2011/06/06/charles-johnson-suicide-watch---more-weiner-photos-to-be-released.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wizbang+%28Wizbang%29

http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2011/06/weinergate-a-tweetdeck-disaster-congress-tweets-tracked-by-tweetcongress-org/

http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/the-weiner-is-cooked/

http://patterico.com/2011/06/06/the-weinergate-photos-patriot-and-mediaite/

http://jerseynut.blogspot.com/2011/06/cash-for-clunkers-comes-back-to-haunt.html

Special mention to the Jersey Nut for solidifying my editorial thinking on this one ...

Jack Wiley Dithers Exclusive: Bibi Schools Barry

My Mossad contact has provided me with a transcript of the private meeting between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, May 20, 2011.  I have no knowledge of how he acquired it.  And if questioned under oath, I will plead Fifth Amendment privilege.  Our staff of highly trained Analyzers have authenticated the source material.

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Netanyahu:  “What the hell were you thinking?  1967?  Really?”

Obama: “Valerie told me that’s what you agreed to.”

Netanyahu:  “Who’s Valerie?”

Obama: “My advisor.”

Netanyahu: “If she’s advising you on Israel, why haven’t I heard of her?”

Obama: “I dunno. Let’s get her in here right now.  She’ll show you.”

{intercom comes on}

Obama: “David.  David?”

Unidentified voice: “This is Monica, David’s intern.”

Obama: “Where’s David?”

Unidentified voice: “Ummmm….temporarily indisposed, sir.  May I assist?”

Obama: “Please summon Valerie Jarrett to the Oval Office, please.”

Unidentified voice: “Sir, remember?  She’s delivering the keynote to the Socialist Workers Collective Union Party Conference today.”

Obama: “Ah yes.”

{intercom off}

Netanyahu: “Good God, it’s worse than I thought.  OK, Barry, listen up and listen good …”

Obama:  “How dare you address …”

Netanyahu: “Cut the crap N.W.O.  boy!  I need to make lunch with Eric Cantor.  If you make me late to that, then I’ll really be pissed.  Now, here’s the deal – if you didn’t know it before, know it now and know it good … we define our borders, right of return is a dead letter, and no way in hell is Jerusalem ever going to be divided again.

Obama: “Hey, I think we can negotiate here, Bibi”

Netanyahu:  “That’s ‘Prime Minister’ to you N.W.O. boy.  Listen, I don’t care what you say to save face.  Just as long as you make two points to AIPAC on Sunday, and I’ll take it from there.  Number one – the negotiation is strictly bi-lateral, got it?”

Obama: “What’s Kevin Jennings got to do with this?”

Netanyahu:  {sigh}  “That means no U.N. role – strictly between Israel and Palestine.  Number two – There is no negotiation until the Palestinians formally recognize Israel’s right to exist.  Got it?”

Obama:  “I’ll get Valerie on it right away.”

Netanyahu: {sigh} “I’ll be watching on Fox.  Don’t screw this up.”

Obama:  “And if I don’t?”

Netanyahu: “Mossad?  Pictures?  You, Soros, Ayers, Riviera, Speedos?”

Obama: “Oh.”

Footnotes

Inspired by (pictures clickable) ….

… and …

Update 5/25/11

While Barry does a credible imitation of Chevy Chase on his slapstick 'European Vacation,' Bibi takes care of big boy business with the US Congress.



Quickie Analysis: Barry's Big Deficit Speech

I’ll start with the one positive comment I can come up with, because that’s what my mother told me to do once. The “come together” stuff, mostly toward the end, wasn’t half bad. He actually mouthed some words about American greatness and weaved in a call to patriotism for a change – even if it looked liked it pained him to do so, and even if he did so in the service of flawed assumptions and faulty narratives concerning the American enterprise.

The remainder of the speech revealed much about the Speechifier’s character (lack of), and the state of his ideology (bankrupt). The Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama is a demagogue pushing an ideology that has nothing left but demagoguery to sell it.

The ideology boils down to redistributive statism. It assumes the state owns all wealth, individuals keep the wealth they produce at the discretion of the state, and the state has the authority to redistribute (reallocate) anyone’s wealth to purposes chosen by the state. This ideology puts the state in a god-like position with limitless power to pick winners and losers. This ideology has failed miserably wherever it has been tried; from Cuba, to the old Soviet Union, to the inner cities of America that have been destroyed by Democrat “Great Society” policies.

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During the day’s build up to the big speech, the news media alerted us to the obvious – more “tax and spend” was coming from the statist demagogue currently occupying the White House. My vigorous participation in the pre-game discussion is documented by these two comments to Daily Caller articles here and here.

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As this Daily Caller post-game analysis astutely caught onto – surprise! surprise! (Gomer Pyle) – the speech was designed and delivered as a campaign speech much more so than a policy speech. It also put on full display many character flaws in the demagogue we have come to know as the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama.

BHO the narcissist kicked things off with a lame joke designed to pat himself on the back for keeping the government open, for the benefit of all us serfs who would have no idea what to do without it. Then he adopted an insultingly lecturing tone to propagandize and spin recent history – almost as if he was a professor at one of our institutions of higher education.

BHO the spin-meister misrepresented the big government nanny state society we’ve been living with since FDR’s “New Deal” as a core characteristic of our entire history since the founding. While talking up “progressive” tax codes, he told the lie “everybody pays.” No, actually, today 47% (nearly half) of all households pay no federal taxes at all. This is a condition teetering on the brink of tyranny.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.


- Adrian Rodgers, the Internet, or something

BHO the rabble rouser played the old Community Organizer’s class envy card when he set the stage for raising taxes by stating the “rich” (whoever they are) have done “well” (whatever that means) each and every year of the past decade.

BHO the dissembler told another lie when he claimed he inherited a trillion dollar annual deficit. The last Bush 43 budget (2008) had an approximately $400 billion dollar deficit – hardly acceptable, but less than half the claim.

BHO the fear monger spent a significant amount of time demonizing the only serious plan in town so far – Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan. He went so far as to paint a vivid picture of his audience members’ grandparents being thrown to the curb to starve. He engaged in this fear mongering to justify raising "revenue" (taxes) to fund more “investments” (spending) in “Winning the Future” (WTF). The WTF “investments” he ticked off were the same tired old statist ideas for redistributing wealth. Like throwing more money down the rat hole of a public education system that has shown an inverse correlation between money spent and student performance. Like burning more cash on “infrastructure” projects (whatever they have decided that means this week).

BHO the arrogant elitist gave us a snarky “heh” when he noted nobody wants their own taxes raised, lied again by stipulating small government is not the majority of our history, lied yet another time by stipulating there was deficit reduction in his first 2012 budget (the one events have compelled him to reconsider), revealed his hatred for the private sector by dismissing out of hand Medicare voucher solutions (his rhetoric on turning Granny over to the “mercy” of the Insurance industry and so forth) and private investment options for Social Security contributions (the rhetoric on not subjecting contributions to the whims of the stock market).

BHO the hypocrite offered nothing but fraud, waste, and abuse tweaks for ObamaCare after earlier denigrating this approach in the general. BHO the partisan reduced a solid theory of economics with a proven track record – supply side – to someone’s “article of faith.”

November 2012 can’t come soon enough. Unless Donald Trump’s private eyes turn up something that will help us get rid of this walking, talking disaster for the republic sooner …

Update 4/14/2011

Radio man Chris Plante just moments ago made a very salient point over the air waves.  Barry's so-called 2014 trigger proposal is a statist's subterfuge designed to implement his program with or without Congressional approval.  How did I, in my infinite wisdom, miss this critical point?

Update #2 4/14/2011

In keeping with the Swami (Chris Berman) theme that runs through this blog, I will promote this News Real Blog comment to auditable "prediction."

I'm gonna go out on a limb here ... Barry's first veto, and the first veto override immediately thereafter, will be over the Bush tax "cut" renewal. Gridlock will ensure the only viable choices are extend all or extend none, just like in December. 2/3 of congress will want nothing to do with the extend none scenario. That is, if he doesn't cave first over a gridlock situation that will raise taxes on everyone. It'll be the rare and magnificent flip-flop-flip. Barry in a box.

Stupid or Treasonous? (Shootin’ War Edition)

Short musical break to set the mood.  Lyrics linked here.  Story behind lyrics linked here.




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Now to the point.

Yes, that’s me patting myself on the back. For writing perhaps the most important blog post series in all the history of blog post series’ - my ‘Stupid or Treasonous’ series (2010-01-04, 2010-12-05, 2011-02-26, 2011-03-24).

I’d like to thank my designated foil – The Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama – for inspiring me to make this post all about me.

It has to be about me – it can’t be about what President WTF is up to in our latest shootin’ war, the one he started in Libya, because it seems no one can figure out that particular Rosetta Stone ….

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With the ‘Stupid or Treasonous’ series I have been boldly predicting, for five full financial quarters now, the inevitability of impeachment proceedings being brought against the Empty Suit That Occasionally Occupies the White House. Sending the US military on a fool’s errand, into someone else’s shooting war, without so much as a conference call with Congress beforehand, has certainly brought the ‘I’ word to the fore in respectable (congressional) circles of late.  The operative question remains whether BHO’s inevitable impeachment will be due to rank stupidity, outright treason, a combination of both, or we’ll all be so damn fed up we won’t care either way anymore.

Can BHO possibly even be this stupid? He states plainly US policy is that ‘Ghadafi must go.’ Yet he also rules out the use of ground troops, the only reliable means to effectuate regime change known to mankind. The gang of hacks in his administration have fanned out in all directions to tell us that Ghadafi is not a target, yet the President’s policy that he must go is operative; that we will be out in days, yet there is no timeline.

The dizzying swirl of inconsistencies has Verum Serum asking ‘What’s the frequency, Barry?’ Big Lizards is also asking ‘What’s the frequency, Barry?’ Hell, the Speaker of the House is asking ‘What’s the frequency, Barry?’ Nice Deb even wonders if we should be calling the men in white coats to bag President WTF.

Then there’s this distinct possibility: the only way to make sense of it is to connect the dots of which side BHO has come down on in a series of conflicts. That side would consistently be Theocratic Islamists. Right Truth got me started on this angle – the ‘Treasonous’ angle. Have you noticed BHO didn’t lift a finger to help demonstrations against the regime (theocratic Islamists) in Iran, then came down hard against the regime on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators in Egypt? Now we have him spending American prestige, treasure, and perhaps even blood (it ain’t over yet) in support of WHO, EXACTLY?

WE DON’T EVEN REALLY KNOW WHO THE LIBYAN REBELS ARE! Liberty Pundits reports Rand Paul, to his credit, has sufficient common sense to ask this primary question.

If we find out, when the next shoe drops, that these Rebels are Radical Islamists and Jihadis – then We The People have every reason to demand our representatives ask serious and deeply troubling questions about where President WTF’s loyalties really lie.

It Ain't a River In Egypt

Whether it’s investigating the very real threat of domestic Jihadism, the ticking time bomb of massive debt at all levels of government, or the obvious need for energy independence – the American Progressive Left doesn’t seem to care at all about solving the actual problems.

Last week Rep. Peter King (NY-3) simply did his job as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee (WI and IN Fleebaggers could learn a thing or two from that much alone, I think), and held very important hearings on homegrown terrorism being manufactured inside the mosques of a very insular domestic Muslim community. These are congressional hearings that quite literally could prevent things from blowing up and people from dying inside the United States.

How did the Left respond? Well, according to form, actually. The Left tried to change the subject and savage Rep. King’s character and motives.

From ‘Keith Ellison Lied When He Cried’ to ‘Ezra Klein is Amazingly Stupid,' the Left did what it does: obfuscate.

My favorite analysis on the matter was posted at National Review Online.

Cartoon Wars Part I
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Exhibit 2 in the case demonstrating the Left’s ‘Head Burying Stupidity’ is their total unwillingness to negotiate with the rest of us in good faith to solve the nation’s crippling government debt crisis.

Their current champion – the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama – submitted a laughably unserious 2012 budget proposal, failing to touch even one hair on the chinny, chin, chin of the giant debt troll known as Entitlements. The 2012 budget proposal was an act of abdication by the person who occupies the Oval Office (when not out on the links).

The Left went absolutely apoplectic in Wisconsin when a duly elected legislature and governor attempted to implement transparently communicated campaign promises to close the state’s budget gap. Similar rumblings of Leftist lawlessness have wafted out of Indiana and Ohio. These same rent-a-mobbers will no doubt make their ugly, tyrannical presence known in state capitol after state capitol, and finally in DC, as the budget crisis unfolds. It’s how they “negotiate.” They told you so with their obnoxious chant in Madison - “democracy, this is what it looks like.” (In a pure sense they have a point – republicanism (small r) is so much better at creating prosperous, ordered, civil, societies. Behold pure democracy (small d) in the wild, desperate eyes of the mob.  But I digress.)

The Left is not serious about ‘sharing any sacrifice,’ as rhetorically called for by Barack Hussein Obama. The Left is, however, deadly serious about protecting its piece of the pie. BHO lied when he uttered the words ‘shared sacrifice.’ What he really means is ‘sacrifice for everyone but my Leftist friends.’

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Finally there’s the issue of energy independence for the republic, and its’ relationship to national security. Again, the Left just doesn’t seem to give a damn.

The Left is against drilling for domestic oil. So much so, BHO was willing to lie about his record on this issue. So much so, BHO prioritized telling this lie over the economic well being of the citizenry of the Gulf Coast region, denied permits to drill in the Gulf.

The Left is against burning coal to generate electricity. But also against the only viable alternative that exists today – nuclear. And, ofcourse, they will gin up their well-funded fear-mongering machine to try to leverage the crisis in Fukushima, Japan to further depress this industry.

[Begin: Rational Thinking Break]

The safety system breakdown at Fukushima is the exception that proves the rule. The only other real examples Leftists can point to are Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.

Chernobyl was a shoddy operation run by a Leftist government (Marxist Communist variety). The number of documented deaths associated with Three Mile Island is zero.

The Fukushima plant was hit by a massive earthquake and monstrous tsunami. That the earthquake did not disable it is a testimony to its hardened design. The tsunami waters finally got it, by flooding lower chambers and preventing access to the systems devoted to emergency cooling. The fact that there is still a chance to get the reaction in the plant mostly contained is a testimony to the professionalism and heroism of its Japanese operators and engineers. Prediction: the doomsday scenarios the Left is hysterically predicting as I write this will prove as specious as the doomsday scenarios they predicted for the Deepwater Horizon spill – you know, in the Gulf where there is no longer any trace of the oil spilled.

LibertyAtStake is here to state emphatically the forty year safety record for the nuclear power industry (outside Communist countries at least) is exemplary. The lessons learned from this experience will result in the industry coming up with solutions to survive an 8.9 earthquake plus gigantic tsunami. That is, if the Left allows even one more plant to be built in its hysterical reaction.

[End: Rational Thinking Break]

The only energy sources the Left is *for* are so-called “renewables” that currently supply about 1% (ONE PERCENT) of our national need, even after 35 years (THIRTY-FIVE YEARS) of subsidies rained upon its crony capitalists by the federal government. That means the Left’s energy policy is *for* your standard of living declining, because their plans will supply you with less energy at a higher price.

Their current champion said so on the campaign trail.



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So, why all the ‘Head Burying Stupidity’ from the American Progressive Left? The answer is a wicked stew with three prime ingredients.

First, they hate the United States. This is the “Blame America First” crowd. Every ill in the world is your fault, so you must be punished for your sins. Your standard of living (energy non-policy) and your children’s standard of living (debt non-policy) must be reduced as a demonstration of “fairness” to all the world’s victims of American imperialism. You could say this makes the Left “anti-American.”

Second, they travel in packs, both literally (street mobs) and figuratively (criminally biased MSM). For all of their elitist conceit around being intellectually superior to middle Americans, they are the “anti-intellectuals.” The American Progressive Left has organized itself into a highly cohesive propaganda machine to distort, dismiss, and fabricate facts, with a mission to push a pre-determined agenda. What could possibly be more “anti-intellectual?” This propaganda machine is capable of organizing into lawless rent-a-mobs on the street, as we saw in Madison. All with the no longer merely implicit, now totally explicit, support of the political party they hijacked – the party that shall now be known on this blog as the Mobocrats. You could say this makes them “dangerous.”

Third, they are supremely confident in their own self-righteousness. The ultimate holiness of their ends, in their minds, justifies all possible means. (This observation, btw, has been a prime contributor to the construction of this blogging character: LibertyAtStake, the ant-Progressive. But I digress.) You could say this makes them “relentless.”

You could therefore say the composite is a “relentlessly dangerous anti-American mob.” That is, The Left means to impose the tyranny of their ideology, even if it means using the tyranny of the mob to do it.  Things are going to get uglier before they get better. And as Wisconsin showed us, the Left co-opted the American union movement long ago. You union members – especially the cops – are going to have to decide if you stand with the Leftist mob or with America.