The Foundation

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” –Thomas Paine

Editorial Exegesis

“The NAACP, in crafting a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement, seems to have forgotten those Black Panthers with clubs intimidating voters and wanting to kill white people. The ‘angry mobs’ that reshaped the 2010 political landscape are angry white racist mobs, at least according to a resolution [passed] by the NAACP at its annual convention this week in Kansas City, Mo. The resolution calls on ‘all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era,’ said Anita Russell, head of the Kansas City chapter of the NAACP. ‘We need to realize it’s really not about limited government.’ We suppose ‘tax cuts’ is also code for racism. The resolution comes after the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, former grand kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan, was honored for his service to the nation…. This may be a shock to … the NAACP, but the Tea Party movement has black members. Lots of them, all concerned about ObamaCare’s damage to the economy and the creeping socialism advanced by this administration. … The proposed NAACP resolution says Tea Partyers ‘displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically.’ Attacking the president’s policies is not racism, though his defenders have tried to say so since Day One. As the polls plummet for the president and his party, we suspect this is an attempt to stir up the Democrats’ African-American base, just as the administration’s war on Arizona over illegal aliens is designed to stir up Hispanic voters. It is a manufactured issue designed to be used against Tea Party candidates such as Sharron Angle in Nevada and Rand Paul in Kentucky. Hope and change? Sounds like playing the old race card to us.” –Investor’s Business Daily

Village Idiots

Nobody holds a racist candle to the NAACP: “We’re deeply concerned about elements that are trying to move the country back, trying to reverse progress that we’ve made. We are asking that the law-abiding members of the Tea Party repudiate those racist elements, that they recognize the historic and present racist elements that are within the Tea Party movement.” –NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell on the resolution condemning Tea Party “racism”

“We have to close the enthusiasm gap. The danger of the Tea Party is that people see them and think about periods in history when groups like them were much more powerful than they are now, and so a lot of what we spend energy doing is explaining to people what reality is, and that the reality is that the majority from 2008 still exists.” –NAACP president Ben Jealous

Prep for tax hikes? “This debt is like a cancer. It is truly going to destroy the country from within. … What we do is not so hard to figure out; it’s the political consequences of doing it that makes it really tough.” –Erskine Bowles, Demo head of Obama’s debt panel, laying the groundwork for attacking your wallet

As if it’s only a “message” problem: “We were forced to do things from the start to deal with this economic crisis that helped create a false narrative about spending and deficits that’s had some impact on independent voters. And that’s something we have to work on.” –White House adviser David Axelrod, on the “false narrative” that emanates from their own media

Prep for another lawsuit: “It doesn’t mean that if the law for whatever reason happened to go into effect, that six months from now, a year from now, we might not look at the impact the law has had … and see whether or not there has been that racial profiling impact. If that was the case, we would have the tools and we would bring suit on that basis.” –Attorney General Eric Holder, threatening further legal action against Arizona

Second Amendment Nuts: “[T]hey need to sit in our chairs and worry about these nut jobs that go around with guns.” –West Burlington, Iowa, Mayor Hans Mayor Trousil, responding to an NRA letter opposing the city’s “firearm ban” ordinance

Upright

“In just a few short decades, the stalwart strivers for equality have turned into coddled whiners for hypersensitivity. The NAACP is a laughingstock. The group no longer represents the best interests of oppressed minorities, but the thin-skinned whims of the black elite and the ravenous appetite of the Nanny State. Establishment civil rights leaders now use their once-compelling moral authority to hector, bully and shake down corporate and political targets.” –columnist Michelle Malkin

“Beware when the political class preens about protecting us from ‘special interests.’ The most powerful, persistent and anti-constitutional interest is the political class. Bradley Smith, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, says that Disclose should stand for Democratic Incumbents Seeking to Contain Losses by Outlawing Speech in Elections. It is a reason for voters to multiply those losses.” –columnist George Will

“The political rationale for the lawsuit the Obama administration has filed to overturn Arizona’s immigration law is clear. … [T]he lawsuit likely is an effort to boost the president’s standing among Hispanics. … Since federal appellate courts – including the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1976 case – have held that state laws which enforce federal statutes are not unconstitutional intrusions into federal jurisdiction, the administration is unlikely to prevail in court. But since the purpose of this lawsuit is political, that may not matter much to this scofflaw president.” –columnist Jack Kelly

“Have you heard about the administration’s propaganda campaign to adorn each federal ‘stimulus’ project with taxpayer-funded signs to remind us that these projects have been bestowed on us by the beneficence of the Obama administration? The signs read, ‘Project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.’ In the first place, they’re not funded by any act, but by the American taxpayer. This type of government self-promotion is eerily reminiscent of dictatorial governments in modern history that not only deprived their citizens of freedom and private property but also demanded to be glorified for the morsels they doled back out to them.” –columnist David Limbaugh

Insight

“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. … Roosevelt’s policies were very destructive. Roosevelt’s policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been.” –economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

“I don’t know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can’t run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That’s the biggest single business in the World.” –American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Dezinformatsia

That’s racist! “We’ve all seen the signs. There have been signs that compare Barack Obama to a monkey, there have been signs that have had the ‘n’ word on them. When you see those signs, how do you feel?” –ABC’s Dan Harris to a black Tea Party leader

The BIG Spin: “Concentrating on the deficits, I didn’t realize we voted for a Republican president. Obama seems to have bought into the Republican talking point on deficits when Americans are definitely more concerned with jobs right now. Polls show that the public wants more government spending, not less. According to the recent USA Today/Gallup poll, 60 percent of Americans favor additional government spending to create jobs and stimulate the economy. The only people who oppose more stimulus spending by the government, Republicans. Once again, I thought they lost the election. Why are they still in charge in DC?” –MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur

In need of remedial history: “The GOP’s internal feuding could help the Democrats on the road to November if it interferes with the party’s ability to deliver a consistent message that Obama has overpromised and underdelivered, and to avoid getting sidetracked by some of the more outlandish things today’s GOP revolutionaries like to blurt out. (My favorite is GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle in Nevada, who maintains that separation of church and state is not in the Constitution, and that Thomas Jefferson was misquoted.)” –Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift (Is she saying it IS in the Constitution?)

Speaking of nuts: “What percentage of the Republican Party would you put in the nut bag right now? The party that, not just conservatives, but people that are just really crazy out there, even beyond the Tea Partiers?” –MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

Non Compos Mentis: “Let’s say that the American people … are perfectly happy basically with a slave culture of illegals and outsourced slaves in China making iPhones at Foxconn and that for as much as we talk about the liberation of the slaves and we like to pat ourselves on the back for the Civil War – got a big statue of Abe Lincoln – all we’ve really done is alter the color of some of our slaves and moved them to other countries. Is that too extreme on my part?” –MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, a candidate for the “nut bag”

Newspulper Headlines:

Breaking News From 1493: “Spain Returns Home With Newfound Confidence of Being a World Force” –Canadian Press

Justice Thomas Has the Foggiest Idea Who Olbermann Is – Now That Would Be News: “Keith Olbermann Calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to Resign” –NewsBusters.org

Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking: “Socialism Is the Answer” –ClassicalValues.com

The Lonely Lives of Scientists: “Scientists Expected Obama Administration to Be Friendlier” –Los Angeles Times

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: “‘Zombies’ Crash on I-84 Near Lloyd Exit” –KGW-TV website (Portland, OR)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Radical NAACP Leftists Propose Resolution Condemning Tea Party Racists” –BigGovernment.com

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

The Demo-gogues

Pot and kettle: “It is a little odd getting lectures on sobriety from folks that spent like drunken sailors.” –Barack Obama on the previous spendthrift Republican Congress

Class warfare: “Clearly we will want to extend the middle income tax cuts at the very least.” –Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (You mean the Bush tax cuts weren’t just for the “rich”?)

“What you want to do is stimulate at this point in time, so you certainly do not want to increase taxes on the middle class, middle-income working Americans.” –House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), neglecting to explain why tax increases on those making more than $200,000 stimulate the economy

Stop focusing, please: “Our job is to focus not on the next election but on the next generation.” –Barack Obama, the perpetual campaigner, on the stump for Sen. Harry Reid (The only focus Democrats have on the next generation is loading them up with debt.)

Cat out of the bag: “Policy-wise it makes sense, and Obama is popular with Hispanic voters and this is going to be a popular move with them nationally.” –New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D, of course) on the DoJ lawsuit against Arizona

Yeah, that’s the ticket: “[S]ome of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.” –Barack Hussein Obama on why the Israelis may not fully trust him

Short Cuts

“Democrats have no interest in fighting any war that would serve America’s interests. (They’re too jammed with their wars against Evangelicals, Wal-Mart, the Pledge of Allegiance, SUVs and the middle class.)” –columnist Ann Coulter

“Obama is boldly going where no president has gone before. [NASA’s new Muslim-outreach priority] is a continuation of the president’s subjugation of himself (bowing to foreign leaders) and the country he is charged with leading by obsequiously kowtowing to a people for whom advancement to the Middle Ages would be a step up.” –columnist Cal Thomas

“Given how poorly Obama appointees seem grounded on earth, it would make sense for them to be better suited for NASA – once also called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Unfortunately, they are so far out in space that even the Hubble has no idea what they are doing and why.” –Business & Media Institute vice president Dan Gainor

“Government policies designed to stimulate the economy seem to be having the opposite effect. Consumers aren’t buying, businesses aren’t hiring, and those fortunate enough to have some cash on hand don’t seem to be investing. I call it the mattress economy. People seem to be following this investment strategy. Step one: Go to Mattress Discounters and buy the biggest mattress you can find. Step two: Take it home, and stuff all your money in it. Step three: Lie down, and get some rest.” –political analyst Michael Barone

“There’s always going to be a downside to even the best policies, because the experts don’t know as much as they think they do. Sometimes, they don’t even know they’re not experts at all.” –columnist Jonah Goldberg