Common Sense

“I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation-from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries. They called it the Reagan revolution. Well, I’ll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscover of our values and our common sense.“
- President Ronald Reagan

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"Spending your money on yourself in the private sector is vastly more efficient and productive than spending someone else’s money on someone else in the public sector."
- Milton Friedman

Friday, October 30, 2009

Wow, Even CBS now calling Obama Adminstration BS Out

LOL...It would be as if you thought this report came from Fox News - which the Obama Adminstration is convinced that it's sole goal is to undermine the Administration - but instead this came from a LEFT wing media organization. 

Time for the Obama Administration to go to war with CBS News now since they are not buying the "saved or created" farce that is Obama's claim on jobs and the economy. 
CBS: Administration's Trillion-Dollar 'Stimulus' Claims "Hard to Believe"

You know that when a mouth piece for the Obama Administration is calling out the accuracy of the Administration that things are finally starting to give way to the truth.  No longer can CBS, NBC, ABC, NY Times, et al.  cover up the dismal truth about the $700B Stimulus package aka "Porkulus."  No longer can they buy the Obama Adminsitration's BS about what it is trying to do for the US economy versus what it is ACTUALLY doing to the US Economy.  Two entirely different things going two entirely different ways. 

And this is an Administration that wants to take over 1/5th of the ENTIRE US ECONOMY and manage it down the tubes just like everything else the federal government takes over and tries to manage.  WTF!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - They ARE the BIGGEST Bunch of CRYBABIES!

It is so damn funny how sad these two are.  Obama, with idiots like this as your main source of guidance, WE, Americans are in for a great deal of trouble.  Then again Obama seems pretty content with doing irreversible damage to the US economy without Axelrod and Emanuel, but then again, they are the Obama TEAM!

David Axelrod: Fox News "Not Really A News Station"

Rahm Emanuel on White House's War with Fox News

Oh wait, we ALREADY ARE IN A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE...Thanks to the Democrats' economic policies.  How can ANYONE look at these GDP numbers and debt projections and call them positive and "going in the right direction?"

President Obama: GDP Shows Economy Headed in Right Direction
The president said the GDP not-as-horrible-as-anticipated economic contraction was “an important sign that the economy is heading in the right direction and that business investment which had been plummeting in the last several months is showing signs of stabilizing.
So having the nation going completely bankrupt and having no possible way of reversing is "going the right way?"

Charts o' the Day: Obama has a Death Panel --- for the Economy





Yeah keep talking Democrats, the American people are keeping tabs on your lies, and economic policies which are creating DISASTER for the USA.  Democratic complaints that this was all Bush's fault are baseless and hold ZERO water with anybody with even the slightest economic IQ.  Democrats CANNOT BLAME BUSH FOR ALL OF THIS BECAUSE DEMOCRATS TOOK CONTROL OF CONGRESS IN 2006 MAKING PRESIDENT BUSH'S LAST 2 YEARS BASICALLY STERILE.  Democrats have been the ones crafting policy and setting the US on this course of DISASTER since 2006.  You can thank Barney Frank for the Housing crisis (gee, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac don't need regulating now do they?!?!) , Christopher Dodd, for the Banking and Financial mess, and you can thank Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barak Obama for the socialism and BANKRUPTING of America now happening.


...still going higher, currently at 9.8% and RISING!




Any more questions about the path America is on under the Democrats?

The Farce of the Liberal Left, Has Been Exposed!

The Nobel-Hollywood Complex Implodes

This was one of the best articles I have read regarding the self efficacy of the liberal Left and their supporters.  There are so many good lines in this article that speak truth to power - some from actual liberals themselves that were ashamed or finally realized that have been exposed for the frauds of morality that they are. 
It may or may not, but it no longer matters, as it is clear that the jig is up. For decades, the peace prize committee has seemed to speak with the voice of humanity, or of the world community, or of the Almighty, but it is clear now that it speaks with the voice of five more or less insular nitwits, of great self-regard and no great
distinction, too clueless and tone-deaf to sense how their choice would be seen
. Like the culture elites defending Polanski and Letterman, they have no sense of irony, much less of perspective or rectitude.
Yet, these are the types of people who are pushing that European socialism upon America, the likes of which, President Barak Hussein Obama is their champion. 

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Breitbart vs ACORN....Breitbart Kicks Ass!

The Weekend Interview With Andrew Breitbart: Taking On the 'Democrat-Media Complex' - WSJ.com

What a great article.  I loved every bit of it except the last paragraph where author JAMES TARANTO states:
Even if one accepts Mr. Breitbart's critique of the mainstream media, nobody should root for their downfall or destruction. Their role—that of impartial watchdog and broker of information—is a vital one, whether
or not they perform it well. While Breitbart-style opinionated journalism can provide healthy competition, it cannot substitute for straight news.
As Mr. Breitbart himself says, in an unusually modest
moment, "I'm not looking to slay the dragon . . . but I wanted to embarrass the dragon into being a more reasonable dragon."

I have a bit of an issue with this statement.  True the media as it was envisioned by our founding fathers was to be a watchdog of the government, to keep it in check for the people.  What the Mainstream media has become, in effect, is a mouth piece for a certain political party, aka the Democratic Party.  The main stream media is so skewed towards liberalism and destroying what the founding fathers tasked them to do initially that in effect the Main stream media has become the enemy OF the people, instead of the watchdog FOR the people. 

People like Andrew Breitbar, James O'Keefe, and Hannah Giles, are true Americans looking out for WE THE PEOPLE.  THAT is what the media should look like.  Yes, maybe their tactics were a littel guerilla, but hey, in this day and age where the main stream media is effectively suppressing the truth and covering for a political party, aka the Democratic Party.  THAT is truely a scandal of momentus proportions, which if not for people like Andrew Breitbar, James O'Keefe, and Hannah Giles would barely get heard because of the corruption and collusion in the mainstream media.  And almost was in deed covered up if not for Andrew Breitbars' plan to expose the media for the corrupt mouth piece of the Democratic Party that it is.

Cheers to Andrew Breitbar, James O'Keefe, and Hannah Giles, and the others out there unwilling to bend to the thug pressure by corrupt leftists in this country and expose the truth and the cover up.  As we all know, "The cover-up is always worse than the original lie."

Friday, October 16, 2009

ERROR - Misstated Health Care Reporting

Al From: Democrats Don't Need the Public Option - WSJ.com
By insisting on the public option, liberal Democrats will allow the Republicans, who have no ideas of their own, to cloud the prospects for reform.

This is just a patently FALSE accusation.  This is what Democrats in Congress and Barak Obama WANT you to think.

Conservative Heath-care Ideas:
More Health Care plans!

Again, Republicans DO HAVE HEALTH CARE  IDEAS, Democrats just don't want to hear them! They are too damn focused on getting socialism entrenched in the American system. 

Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk said the package put together by moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives would be far cheaper than a plan being drawn up in the Senate. A preliminary review of that plan by the Congressional Budget Office found it would cost about $1 trillion over 10 years to extend health insurance to 16 million people who otherwise would not be covered -- about a third of the roughly 45 million now uninsured.

"I think this plan that we put forward is more centrist, more bipartisan and would be at significantly lower cost," Kirk said. He said no cost estimate had been prepared for the measures he put forth Tuesday, but asserted its elements would require less money from taxpayers than other proposals.

The package announced by the GOP "Tuesday Group" includes some perennial Republican favorites such as regulatory relief, an individual tax break for purchasing health insurance and limits on malpractice lawsuits. It also would encourage insurers to pool their coverage to a greater extent
than currently allowed, which Kirk and other supporters say has worked well in California.

But it also emphasizes preventive care, computerizing patient records and reducing "defensive medicine" by promoting treatments proven effective -- all principles the White House has endorsed, as well.

The centerpiece of the plan, Kirk said, is a "Medical Rights Act" that would keep government out of "decisions made by you and your doctor."

He said the plans were drawn up during four months of talks with dozens of groups, including patient advocates, doctors, nurses, employers and "other interested groups."

The proposal came as the conservative GOP leadership in the House stepped up attacks on the proposal being drafted by Senate Democrats. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Monday's budget office report showed "millions of Americans" would lose their current insurance.

"President Obama says the problem with our health care is that we spend too much, and if you look at all the proposals, clearly they are going to spend trillions of dollars of additional money that we don't have -- that we're going to have to borrow -- in order to finance their scheme," Boehner told reporters.

The notion that Democrats keep saying that Republicans do not have any health care ideas is ridiculous.  It shows how out of touch Democrats are with the American People.  Yes, the American people want some health care reform, but are ADAMANTLY AGAINST GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE.  What Republicans propose

Al From: Democrats Don't Need the Public Option - WSJ.com
As President Barack Obama has made clear, we need to reform. Right now, health insurance is too costly and the health-insurance market is not competitive enough. Too many people lack insurance or the chance to choose a plan that best suits their needs. Too many people are denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions or lose their coverage when they become sick. And our most successful public program—Medicare—is on the road to going broke. Doing nothing is not acceptable.
Interesting.  The last time I checked, when a program is going terribly wrong you would do everything in you power to fix it, not create a COPY of it which will cost 10 times as much as the original program that ended up not working!  Medicare is going broke, and Obama and Democrats use that as an example of a success!  LOL, what a joke!  Or the Post Office.. LOL what a JOKE!  The government is a BUREAUCRACY AND NEEDS TO GET OUT OF THE WAY OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE DOING THE GOOD WORK MAKING THINGS CHEAPER, MORE EFFICIENT, AND BETTER. 

Doing nothing is not an option - BUT SO IS MAKING THE ENTIRE THING WORSE!  If it is going to make things worse and cost close to a $1,000,000,000,000.00.. leave the current system in place, and tackle the issues 1 at a time, not comprehensively change the entire system that 75% of Americans are happy with! 

If Democrats really wanted to pass something they could be proud of, and the American people would completely accept:  Why not just remove the regulation restricting cross state insurance?  THAT would solve about 85% of the problems with costs, and medical restrictions and would cost $0,000.00.  Honestly, I currently don't have health insurance.  I'm 30 years and and in great condition, I CHOOSE not to buy health insurance becauwse it costs too much and i have higher priorities than paying $3,600 a year to go to the doctor 1 time for a checkup.  With that being said, I DO NOT WANT A FORCED GOVERNMENT HEALTH-CARE OPTION.  I WANT THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE MY DOCTOR, AND I WANT MY DOCTOR TO HAVE THE FREEDOM TO TAKE ME ON AS A PATIENT.  I WANT MY DOCTOR TO RUN HIS OWNS PRACTICE SUCCESSFULLY, NOT BE RUN OUT OF BUSINESS BY THE GOVERNMENT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. 

And one more thing... GET TRIAL LAWYERS UNDER CONTROL!  TORT REFORM MUST BE DONE!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

This Is Why Democrats Are Out Of Touch With Americans, And IN TOUCH With Illegals!

Re-Posted from Hot Air:

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Vitter: Reid wants illegals counted in the Census
Senator David Vitter has tried to attach an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriation for FY2010 to clarify that the Census should restrict its counts to people in the US legally. The Hill reports that Vitter accuses Harry Reid of attempting to block a vote on the amendment, which might have serious consequences for California and other states with large populations of illegal aliens. Vitter claims that California got as many as five extra Congressional districts from the 2000 Census after their failure to determine status:

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), who is sponsoring an amendment to an appropriations bill that would require illegal immigrants list their status on next year’s Census, said late Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants them counted amongst the general population instead.

The senator claimed that Reid wants illegals to be counted in the 2010 Census so that left-leaning states with high illegal immigrant populations could increase the size of their congressional delegations. The Census is a major factor in determining the each state’s share of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives.

“I think it’s pretty clear that Harry Reid and the Democratic side…wants illegals counted in the Census, wants illegals in the reapportionment of the House,” Vitter said on a conservative talk radio show late yesterday.

Vitter, who is co-sponsoring the measure with Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), claimed that illegals counted in the 2000 Census allowed California to maintain up to five additional seats in Congress they should not have.


Each seat represents 690,000 American residents at the moment, although in 2000 it would have been closer to 640,000, as population grew about 8% since the last census. Would California’s illegals have amounted to 3.2 million? That would be the upper reaches of estimates for illegal immigrants in the Golden State, but probably not outside the realm of possibility. If they all got counted, it could have skewed the allocation of seats in the House as much as Vitter claims.

Critics will say that the Census is not an enforcement agency for immigration, and they’d be correct. However, no one says that the Census Bureau has to act as an enforcement agency, either. They do not need to call the cops if they discover that residents have no legal status to remain in the country. They do need, however, to document it, for a couple of reasons. The lesser reason is that it will give us some real data on which to base immigration enforcement and/or reform legislation in the near future — Barack Obama says it’s one of his key priorities — instead of relying on guesswork from contradictory resources on the subject.

More importantly, though, is the core purpose of the Census itself. The Constitution requires the Census to properly calculate the legal population in order to apportion representation in the House for the states. Not only does counting illegal immigrants have no legitimacy for that purpose, it penalizes those states who act to enforce American law and reward those that act as “sanctuaries” in defiance of the law and national security.

Below, Vitter makes his argument on the Senate floor. This amendment needs a vote so we can see how our Senators support and defend the Constitution.


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This just proves the point I made in my earlier post regarding photo ID requirements for everyone to prevent ILLEGAL immigrants from scamming our health care system.  The vote that was taken in Congress - and DEFEATED by DEMOCRATS on a straight party line vote - is exactly the kind of proof that Barak Obama and Democrats in Congress don't want to see regarding their "Make Illegal Immigrants Legal" campaign. 

Honestly, at this point, I think Americans are so fed up with the crap coming out of Washington DC.  Democrats WANT to take someone NOT FROM THIS COUNTRYand NOT IN THIS COUNTRY LEGALLY and basically make them eligible to be counted AS LEGAL, which essentially will skew all the 2010 US Census data in favor of ILLEGAL Immigrant states/counties/Politicians/Democrats.  There simply couldn't be any other explanation to it than that.  Any congressman/woman who votes to allow ILLEGAL aliens to be counted as a US Citizen should be removed from Congress and tried as a traitor to the USA.  Your job in Congress is to look out for AMERICANS, NOT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!  How much clearer do the American people need to make it!!!!!!

ILLEGAL Immigrants DO NOT deserve to be counted, they DO NOT deserve to have citizen rights, they DO NOT deserve our health care system on US tax payer subsidies.  We are AMERICANS, AND WE TAKE CARE OF AMERICANS FIRST AND FOREMOST, NOT ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO COME HERE AND BREAK OUR LAWS, STAY HERE ILLEGALLY AND USE ALL OF OUR SOCIAL SYSTEMS FOR THEIR BENEFIT WITHOUT PAYING INTO THAT SYSTEM TO MAINTAIN IT!!!

STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NOW FIRST!@!@!  DO NOT GIVE ILLEGAL ALIENS THE RIGHT OF A US CITIZEN... THOSE RIGHT WERE EARNED, PEOPLE WHO COME HERE ILLEGALLY HAVE NOT EARNED THOSE RIGHTS AND SURE AS HELL DO NOT DESERVE THEM!!

Just Proves Fox News Is Not partisan... It's Just GOOD!

CNN’s Finishes 4th in Prime Time Demo For 7th Consecutive Weeknight | TV | Mediaite

The ratings Fox News puts up just shove in the face of any rhetoric coming out of the White House that "Fox News Lies."  Hey, Robert Gibbs....Wonder why YOUR rating keep going down and Fox News' keep going up?  Yeah, it's cause the American peolpe can tell who is spewing the BS and who tells it like it is.. good or bad, and that's what Fox News does.  Suck on it Fat boy!

Categorized | Cable News Ratings

Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Posted on 14 October 2009 by Bill Gorman

Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for October 13, 2009

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,451,000 viewers
CNN – 497,000 viewers
MSNBC –401,000 viewers
CNBC – 219,000 viewers
HLN –359,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,735,000 viewers
CNN— 766,000 viewers
MSNBC –898,000 viewers
CNBC – 176,000 viewers
HLN – 694,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC –412,000 viewers
CNN –127,000 viewers
MSNBC –128,000 viewers
CNBC – 73,000 viewers
HLN- 179,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 798,000 viewers
CNN – 198,000 viewers
MSNBC –270,000 viewers
CNBC – 96,000 viewers
HLN – 271,000 viewers

35-64 Total Day
FNC – 696,000 viewers
CNN – 201,000 viewers
MSNBC – 208,000 viewers
CNBC – 111,000 viewers
HLN – 193,000 viewers

35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,345,000 viewers
CNN – 306,000 viewers
MSNBC –457,000 viewers
CNBC –85,000 viewers
HLN –340,000 viewers

Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 950,000 viewers (453,000) (611,000)
American Morning- 330,000 viewers (120,000) (187,000)
Morning Joe- 327,000 viewers (131,000) (200,000)
Squawk Box- 144,000 viewers (47,000) (75,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 293,000 viewers (222,000) (172,000)


5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,849,000 viewers (670,000) (1,196,000)
Situation Room—788,000 viewers (193,000) (258,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—580,000 viewers (162,000) (264,000)
Fast Money—285,000 viewers (a scratch w/37,000) (110,000)
Prime News–252,000 viewers (122,000) (176,000)


6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,339,000 viewers (561,000) (1,075,000)
Situation Room—677,000 viewers (166,000) (249,000)
Ed Show—597,000 viewers (142,000) (324,000)
Mad Money —201,000 viewers (56,000) (119,000)
Prime News — 232,000 viewers (90,000) (166,000)


7PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –1,998,000viewers (500,000) (993,000)
Lou Dobbs Tonight—652,000 viewers (181,000) (267,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews—731,000 viewers (170,000) (372,000)
Kudlow Report — 163,000 viewers (58,000) (75,000)
Issues– 440,000 viewers (130,000) (233,000)

8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)

The O’Reilly Factor– 3,694,000 viewers (1,058,000) (1,824,000)
Campbell Brown – 794,000 viewers (194,000) (314,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,191,000 viewers (349,000) (597,000)
New Age of Wal-Mart – 166,000 viewers (90,000) (75,000)
Nancy Grace – 947,000 viewers (300,000) (461,000)

9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)

Hannity –2,393,000 viewers (740,000) (1,173,000)
Larry King Live —780,000 viewers (183,000) (275,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —913,000 viewers (281,000) (474,000)
Executive Vision 3 – a scratch w/115,000 viewers (57,000) (a scratch w/38,000)
Joy Behar- 632,000 viewers (249,000) (291,000)

10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren —2,113,000 viewers (592,000) (1,032,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —725,000 viewers (216,000) (330,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 589,000 viewers (181,000) (298,000)
New Age of Wal-Mart – 247,000 viewers (140,000) (143,000)
Nancy Grace –557,000 viewers (279,000) (295,000)


11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,651,000 viewers (512,000) (892,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —523,000 viewers (203,000) (236,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —387,000 viewers (132,000) (205,000)
Mad Money – 153,000 viewers (83,000) (108,000)
Showbiz Tonight– 429,000 viewers (240,000) (244,000)

P2+ = viewers over the age of 2

(25-54) = Adults 25-54 viewing

(35-64) = Adults 35-64 viewing

Prime Time = 8-11pm

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IN OTHER WORDS - IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!!

Friday, October 9, 2009

Exactly Why Obama Should NOT Have Won the Nobel Peace Prize

What has he done?  N.O.T.H.I.N.G!!! 

Obama's Nobel: The Last Thing He Needs - Yahoo! News
At this moment many Americans are longing for a president who is more bully, less pulpit. The president who leased his immense inaugural good will to the hungry appropriators writing the stimulus bill, who has not stopped negotiating health care reform except to say what is non-negotiable, whose solicitude for the wheelers and dealers who drove the financial system into a ditch leaves the rest of us wondering who has our back, has always shown great promise, said the right things, affirmed every time he opens his mouth that he understands the fears we face and the hopes we hold. But he presides over a capital whose day-to-day functioning has become part-travesty, part-tragedy, wasteful, blind, vain, petty, where even the best intentioned reformers measure their progress with teaspoons. There comes a time when a President needs to take a real risk - and putting his prestige on the line to win the Olympics for his home town does not remotely count.

Couldn't have said it any better. 

Thursday, October 8, 2009

As Blunt As You Can Be on Afghanistan

This woman knows what's she's talking about.  CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan explains exactly why President Barak Obama's strategy of talking to and including the Taliban in the Afghan government is a fallacy.  She breaks down everything wrong with what Obama and the Democrats want to do in Afghanistan and how it won't work and why it won't work.  What she has... it's called, REASON!  Something Preseident Obama is LACKING very much.  How can you possibly even consider including the Taliban in any peace negotiations?


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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Hey Barak Obama Supporters - How's that "Not Raising Taxes on the Middle Class" Promise Working Out For You Now?

Pelosi says new tax is 'on the table' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
A new value-added tax (VAT) is "on the table" to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night.

Value Added Tax (VAT) is what they have in Europe right now, hence why everything you buy there costs 25%  MORE than it should!  This is just the beginning of all the NEW taxes that the Obama Administration and the Democrats are pushing on the American people. Why?  This is their one and ONLY shot at implementing SOCIALISM IN AMERICA - that is just a misnomer in and of itself now isn't it?!?!?

For all you suckers out there buying the kool aid from the Democrats and Barak Obama - how is your financial situation going for you?  Looking any brighter or a lot worse?  If it weren't so damn scary I would be laughing my head off right now at you leftists.  Instead I'm looking down the gun pointed at American's face, and Barak Obama and the Democratic Party have their fingers on the trigger and are about to kill America!

Anyone who values their freedom, less government intervention in their lives, lower taxes, and an accountable government who will not drive our nation debt to RIDICULOUS levels needs to stand up and be heard now and over the next 3 years.  America cannot afford/cannot survive any more Democratic party or Obama Administration punishment of American citizens.


Saturday, October 3, 2009

This is Why the Accusations by Democrats of Bush and the Republicans Not Doing Anything to Stem the Housing Crisis and Financial Meltdown Are Baseless and Hold No Water

Re-Posted from Gateway Pundit (who, is awesome by the way!)

Gateway Pundit: Karl Rove Goes Off... Blames Obama & Libs For Housing Meltdown
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Finally, Karl Rove sets the record straight on the 2008 financial crisis. Rove slams Obama and democrats for their inaction and interference prior to the housing meltdown:

Here's Rove on the housing meltdown:


Karl Rove whacks Juan Williams on Fannie and Freddie
"We started in 2001 to try and reign in Fannie and Freddie. We spent four years doing it. We got a bill through the Senate Finance Committee on a party line vote to reign in Fannie and Freddie in 2005 and one of the first things Barack Obama did when he came in to the United States senate was, because he was the third largest recipient of Fannie and Freddie money he joined a filibuster of every democrat led by Senator Chris Dodd to block that measure from being brought to the floor of the United States Senate. Three years later in September 2008 President Obama, then candidate Obama, voted for the same bill he could  ave voted for three years ago after Fannie and Freddie collapsed. So don't tell me that we didn't try to do something during the Bush years to reign in the housing problem. We were the people who said let us subject Fannie and Freddie to the same kind of scrutiny that we subject banks, savings and loans and credit unions and it was candidate Obama who refused to join that effort, that would have kept this from being an accelerant to a worldwide financial crisis."

True. President Bush publicly called for the reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 17 times in 2008 alone before Congress acted. Democrats, on the other hand, blocked reform numerous times.

It was later reported after the 2008 election that Bush had nothing to do with the financial crisis. Hoover Institution visiting fellow Scott S. Powell wrote in Barron's in February of this year that the present crisis began in the 1970s, during the Carter administration, with passage of the Community
Reinvestment Act to stem bank redlining and liberalize lending in order to extend home ownership in lower-income communities. This risk was acknowledged in the Bush administration's first fiscal-year budget, released in April 2001.
Sadly, these warnings were ignored by Obama and the democrats in Congress.
Posted by Gateway Pundit at 10/03/2009 08:15:00 AM

Friday, October 2, 2009

LOL

Rep. Joe Wilson was CORRECT, Democrats and Barak Obama LIE to US Citizens - Otherwise, Explain This Vote?!?!

Wow, this vote just proves the glaring hypocrisy of Democrats to Censure Rep. Joe Wilson for yelling out the TRUTH!

Let me ask you a question:  Bill Clinton was impeached for LYING to the American people under oath, not for the act of fondling Monica Lewinsky.  The fact that President Bill Clinton hooked up with a woman - granted he was married and shouldn't have cheated - is not the reason that made Americans revolt so much as to impeach him - it was the LYING under oath.  That was all over a woman.  Now, imagine President Barak Obama, under oath of office of the Presidency while addressing a joint session of Congress ... Lying?  Is that enough for impeachment?  He's talking about using US tax payer money to fund ILLEGAL immigrant health care.. let me re-phrase - Barak Obama and the Democrats are taking YOUR American TAX Dollars and using them to BENEFIT ILLEGAL immigrants!  Barak Obama says that the Democratic health care proposals do not allow for ILLEGAL immigrants to obtain health insurance under ObamaCare. 

Oh REALLY?
Senators turn back ID requirement for immigrant healthcare - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.

Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits.

Grassley's amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.


The bill, authored by committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), would require applicants to verify their names, places of birth and Social Security numbers. In addition, legal immigrants would have to wait five years, as under current law, after obtaining citizenship or legal residency to access federal healthcare benefits such as Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program or receive tax credits or purchase insurance through the exchange created by the legislation.

But the would not require them to show a photo ID, such as a drivers license. Without that requirement, the bill "remains dearly lacking when it comes to identification," Grassley said. "Frankly, I'm very perplexed as to why anyone would oppose this amendment," he said.


How can you justify that President Barak Obama and Democrats in Congress are doing everything in their power to keep American taxpayer money helping AMERICANS, NOT ILLEGAL immigrants?  There is no justification for not requiring a valid photo ID to prevent fraud, waste and abuse of our system by people who are here ILLEGALLY!!  They broke our laws and now are going to receive benefits at US Tax payer expesnse?  ARE YOU INSANE!! 

You need a photo ID to enter a bar to drink a beer, you need a photo ID if you go and buy cigarettes, you need a photo ID for so many things in this country it is NOT a valid excuse to say that obtaining a photo ID with proof of citizenship or status would cause undue hardship and exclude a large demographic of this country.  Indeed, we ARE trying to exclude a demographic - ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS from stealing our (hard earned and yet liberally taxed) US tax payer money intended to help and sustain US CITIZENS.  Everyone else of voting age, including LEGAL immigrants should have a valid photo ID, it's practically a necessity for everyday life. 

This is America right?  Well in America we take care of Americans BEFORE we take care of NON-Americans - IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT.  ESPECIALLY IN TOUGH TIMES! That is not being racist or non-humanitarian, or anti-immigrant - THAT is just a FACT of being a CITIZEN of a country, in our case, the Untied States of America.  I wouldn't expect another country to pay for everything I do and subsidize my life if I entered their country illegally and lived there illegally.  If I really wanted to live in a country in which I was so desperately trying to get to, I would try and get there the legal way, then try to integrate into society because that is the best way to be prosperous and live a long peaceful life. 

I am not anti-immigrant, I am in fact the son of an immigrant who came here legally and orderly.  I watched as my mom became a US citizen at a Maryland courthouse when I was 8 years old, and I was incredibly proud of that.  For people - mind you these are all kinds of people, some who wish us harm, some who just want jobs, some for a better life - America does not work if the system is FLOODED and UNENFORCED.  You need an efficient, orderly process to move people who legitimately want to migrate here to be counted, pay taxes and live a peaceful life, but DO IT LEGALLY, GO THROUGH THE PROCESS, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, YOU UNDERMINE THE ENTIRE SYSTEM AND SCREW THE VERY PEOPLE YOU ARE TRYING TO BECOME NEIGHBORS WITH.  We, US Citizens - tax paying citizens, do not take kindly to being screwed by people who break and flaunt our laws.  And we sure as hell DO NOT LIKE Congress giving ILLEGAL Immigrants priority over US Citizens! 

All this can be solved with ID Verification.  Now I ask you again:  Is President Barak Obama, under oath of office of the Presidency while addressing a joint session of Congress ... Lying?  Is that enough for impeachment?  Remember, he's talking about using your US tax payer money to fund ILLEGAL immigrant health care. 

Joe Wilson was CORRECT, Barak Obama and the Democrats ARE funding ILLEGAL immigration with US taxpayer money.  This Vote PROVES IT!  Otherwise why vote against it?  Please, Congressmen, please justify yourselves to the US tax payer/voter/your boss/Americans who elected you/ and ME ?

Meanwhile our national debt is:



Meanwhile, US Unemployment Rate is now 9.8%