Had enough “change” yet?
June 6, 2008
When the Democrats took over control of Congress in the election of 2006, consumer confidence stood at a 21/2-year high, regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon and the unemployment rate was 4.5 percent.
Since the Democrats took over, consumer confidence is down, gasoline has soared to $4.00 a gallon and the unemployment rate, as we learned this morning, has climbed to 5.5 percent.
Mutual and stock fund losses now total in the trillions, and an increasing number of home mortgages are in foreclosure.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to block homegrown efforts to drill for domestic oil, build new refineries, produce more clean-burning natural gas, increase our use of atomic energy and fully exploit our coal resources, including making motor fuel from coal. The United States will never become energy independent until we are allowed to develop the many sources of energy which are our own.
The voters opted for change in 2006, and the Democrats certainly gave it to them. Now Barack Obama and his band of merry pranksters that is the Democrat Party want voters to approve even more “change” in 2008. I don’t think our economy can stand it - do you?
- JP
The real battle now begins
June 4, 2008
To this point Obama has survived largely on the votes of young democrats that believe a politician when he talks about hope and change even if his true beliefs reflect neither. That was fine for the primaries but how will Obama transform himself into a candidate that can win in November? If you read most polls less than 30% of Hillary’s supporters would vote for Obama in November, how does he change that? He must articulate similar positions that Hillary did, the problem is that by doing that he must abandon the hope and change mantra and thus alienate the young voters that got him where he is.
He has really painted himself into a corner because he can’t win in November without a greater share of Hillary supporters, he can’t get those without alienating at least an equal number of the young college types, and he will find it impossible to get conservatives to support him. Most seniors seem to have supported Hillary, they vote more reliably than the young impressionable skulls full of mush that seemingly made Obama the nominee. For Obama to win would mean that McCain will absolutely have to implode, not a far fetched possibility given his history, or democrat voters will have to fall for the greatest job of slick marketing and packaging in American History.
Obama is going to have to debate McCain at some point, and that is not what he is good at. He’s good at prepared speeches, making young college girls faint (a trait even Bill Clinton didn’t possess), but he’s not shown that he can think on his feet or discuss foreign policy issues at a 10th grade level. Ok given the state of education in this country perhaps he could have that discussion at a 10th grade level, but the point is the guy can speak, outside of that he’s not that intelligent.
It is my belief that most American’s will see Obama for what he really is, the 2nd coming of Jimmy Carter, if not we’re in for Jimmy Carter’s 2nd four years…
Howard the Dean to the rescue
May 31, 2008
Proving yet again that they are all about power and not at all about democracy, the powers that be in the Democratic Party today came up with a great “compromise” basically deciding that Hillary should lose delegates that she rightfully won and Obama should get delegates in a state that didn’t even vote for him.
Obama winds up taking 59 delegates in Michigan even though he wasn’t on the ballot there and wasn’t entitled to any delegates. This infuriated the Hillary supporters and for good reason, I thought this was the party of “count every vote”. No the Democrat party is proving to Democrats what conservatives and most Republicans have known all along, that they are the party obsessed with power and will screw any group they have to in order to obtain it.
For what it is worth Hillary seems ready to take this fight to the convention, which is a good thing. She has almost no chance of getting the nomination from it but she can make sure that Obama doesn’t get it either. She has done enough damage to Obama that he will certainly lose in November to McCain even though McCain is weaker today than Bob Dole was in 1996. No for the sake of the party they will look to someone who has not been in this fight, someone recognizable but who has been above all this at least to this point.
When the convention rolls around I submit that it will be Howard Dean who emerges victorious in Denver. Why Dean, well he pulls all the strings, he has the most to gain, he knows when it comes to Florida Hillary needs those delegates seated, but with Michigan he also knows there is no way Hillary will stand by and let Dean give Obama 59 delegates that he didn’t win. Dean knows that Hillary will fight this to the convention, he knows that this will create such a mess that he can come in and be the savior. He will make the case to the super delegates that both these candidates are so damaged by the primary process that neither can win in November.
This is true, but his claim will be that he is the only person who can save them from this looming disaster. Will this be true, could Dean save this party from itself, I doubt it. More than likely he will hand his party a crushing defeat in November, but at the end of the day it’s all about the thirst for power and they will gladly step on each other in their quest for it.
More empty threats from Hollywood
May 30, 2008
After listening to Alec Baldwin threaten to move to Canada if Bush was elected or re-elected, or whatever, I have no stomach to listen to the likes of Susan Sarandon threaten to move to Italy or Canada if McCain gets elected. If it were true then that alone would be a valid reason for voting for McCain but like all the other Hollywood socialists and the Democratic Party leadership they have no intention of keeping their word…
Racist church trumps scathing memoir
May 30, 2008
Just when the Democrats figured it was safe to come out of the Chicago churchhouse, Pfather Pfleger rose… er, sank to the occasion. Now the Dems and their pfrontrunner for the party’s presidential nomination, Senator Barack Obama, can’t seem to get pfree pfrom the quagmire that is Trinity United Church of Christ.
They thought that had found the perfect “get out of manure free” card. What could be better to get the shamlessly racist church Obama has chosen to attend for over two decades out of the headlines than some new scandal-mongering aimed squarely at the object of the left’s obsessive derangement - Chimpy McBushitler? Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, nouveau riche with thirty pieces of silver from the book deal he had cut with a publishing house connected to leftist sugar daddy George Soros, had just started making the round of television talk shows to publicize his “scathing memoir” just chock full o’ “explosive” revelations about the Bush Administration. Hot on his heels was an army of Dem footsoldiers who, in a stretch which would impress even the Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards, were trying to use the flap the media was sure to generate over McClellan’s book to taint the campaign of Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
If this sounds to you like a scheme worthy of a Roadrunner cartoon script, you’re right on target. Wyle E. Coyote, the perpetually hapless Dem, was yet again let down by what seemed to be a sure-fire solution from big brains at Acme Inc. And things seemed to be going so well, too. Both people and press were growing tired of hearing about Jeremiah Wright, and the Obama connection to unrepentant domestic terrorists William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn never sparked true outrage in any sector beyond the patriotic right. Obama’s daily gaffes didn’t seem to be hurting him much, either. So the Dems thought they had found a big story with legs which was a great twofer - it would give them a fresh club to beat President George W. Bush with, and they would use those of McClellan’s charges which were related to the Iraq war against McCain. Ah, but it only lasted about a day and a half. Along came Pfather Pfleger to cut the legs out from under the McClellan story, steal Scotty’s thunder and drag Obama’s First Church of Hatred kicking and screaming back into the limelight.
Fr. Michael Pfleger, ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1975, has pastored the mostly African American Saint Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood since 1981. His social activism has put him in league with Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Blogger Sultan Knish calls Pfleger “the white Rev. Jeremiah Wright.” The good Pfather says that he’s known Obama for 20 years.
Indeed, it was at White’s Trinity United Church where Pfleger stepped into the limelight (not to mention the manure) of the presidential campaign.
Can you say “racist”? I knew you could.
After this bizarre display by the radical priest, the Obama campaign, professing “disappointment,” was forced to remove Pleger’s endorsement of Obama from the “faith” page of the Obama website. There’s been a lot of “cleaning up” on that website over the past weeks…
No, the lackluster McClellan just can’t compete with the likes of Pfather Pfleger, a true rock star. But Scotty’s story would have probably collapsed under its own weight, even without the antics of a pathologically progressive priest to help push it to the back pages. After all, Scott McClellan didn’t even try to hide the fact that he was just another disgruntled former employee:
He reveals that he was pushed to leave earlier than he had planned, and he displays some bitterness about that as well as about being sometimes kept out of the loop on key decision-making sessions.
Also, the connection between McClellan’s publisher and George Soros leaves little doubt that Scotty and his book are just teeth on a cog in a much broader agenda. And if anyone still has any doubts, here’s what McLellan had to say about the 2008 presidential race:
Scott McClellan, making the media rounds to promote his book and push back against the ferocious counter-attack by Bush loyalists, declined to come out tonight for John McCain and said he liked what he had heard from Barack Obama.
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“I haven’t made a decision,” McClellan told Katie Couric on CBS’s “Evening News,” when asked if he was backing the Arizona senator. McClellan paid homage to McCain, saying that the Republican nominee had “governed from the center, and that’s where I am.”
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But without prompting, he said he was “intrigued by Sen. Obama’s message.”
Oh, well. Back to the Acme catalog. There’s just got to be something in there that will work next time…
- JP
RSC Members List
May 25, 2008
As a follow up to JP’s post I felt it important to publish the list of members of the Republican Study Committee. This year conservatives don’t have many reasons to be hopeful but these 102 members deserve our support. They represent our last line of defense against the onslaught of liberalism.
Is your congressman on this list? If so write them and thank them for standing up for conservative principles, if not write your congressman and let him/her know that you are very disappointed that they don’t stand with the majority of Americans in supporting conservative ideals.
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