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Friday, December 2, 2011

The Foundation

"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it." --George Washington

Government

Divide and Conquer

Democrats' new electoral strategy

It's official: In the 2012 election, Democrats will rely completely on the votes of minorities, lower class government dependents, and the highly educated affluent, while giving up any pretense of trying to get the votes of white working class people. This may seem anathema to a party that features labor unions as one of its prize special interests, but private sector union workers make up an increasingly smaller portion of the workforce. Hispanics, however, are a fast-growing demographic, blacks are solidly Democrat, and the Occupy Wall Street movement has energized the entitled and the supposedly educated, so Democrats are betting they can win without working whites. Yet it's not the plan that's strange, it's the explicit acknowledgment of it.

Thomas Edsall, writing in the New York Times, says, "The 2012 approach treats white voters without college degrees as an unattainable cohort. The Democratic goal with these voters is to keep Republican winning margins to manageable levels, in the 12 to 15 percent range, as opposed to the 30-point margin of 2010 -- a level at which even solid wins among minorities and other constituencies are not enough to produce Democratic victories." So how can Democrats still win elections after having announced these intentions? They're telling working whites, "We don't need you," while at the same time hoping those voters won't leave completely.

Part of the reason for the strategy is that between 2008 and 2012 the white share of the electorate will shrink by 2 percent, while the aforementioned coalition's share will increase by the same amount. Also, there's a tacit lowering of the bar. As Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin write for the Center for American Progress (a leftist "think tank" funded by socialist financier George Soros and run by former Clinton operative John Podesta), it's The Path to 270: Demographics versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election. The path to 270. Barack Obama won 365 electoral votes in 2008. Lowering the bar means shafting an entire demographic and still winning is plausible.

Of course, we hope Obama takes Jimmy Carter's path -- going from 297 electoral votes in 1976 to just 49 in 1980.

As for the new -- or rather publicly admitted -- coalition, a large segment includes those who either receive or demand assistance from the federal government, i.e., the Occupy movement, which, incidentally, left behind 30 tons of trash in LA after cops arrested 300 while removing the protesters. More than 5,000 Occupiers have now been arrested across the nation. How many Tea Party activists were arrested?

Edsall writes of these entitled miscreants, "A top priority of the less affluent wing of today's left alliance is the strengthening of the safety net, including health care, food stamps, infant nutrition and unemployment compensation. These voters generally take the brunt of recessions and are most in need of government assistance to survive. According to recent data from the Department of Agriculture, 45.8 million people, nearly 15 percent of the population, depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to meet their needs for food." Obviously, Democrats promise to keep the gravy train running.

Meanwhile, productive citizens, small business owners and those without "sufficient" education -- the bitter clingers -- are told to take a hike. Democrats know they have no shot at convincing these voters that more entitlements, more regulations, more taxes and more debt are the way to restore prosperity. Just this week, Obama insisted, "Every single thing that we care about is at stake in the next election. The very core of what this country stands for is on the line." It seems that with their desperate new electoral strategy, Democrats have fully embraced the hate-filled group-against-group tenets of identity politics. Worse, however, is that they seem to have publicly declared their belief that "the very core of what this country stands for" no longer includes working-class white people.

This Week's 'Alpha Jackass' Award

Make sure you're sitting down for this one.

Barack Obama this week held a fundraiser in New York City, where guests paid $35,800 a plate to hear this tripe: "Our kids are going to be fine. And I always tell Malia and Sasha, look, you guys, I don't worry about you. ... [T]hey're on a path that is going to be successful, even if the country as a whole is not successful. But that's not our vision of America. I don't want an America where my kids are living behind walls and gates and can't feel a part of a country that is giving everybody a shot." Imagine how many poor, hungry kids could have eaten for $35,800.

The Obamas: Regular 99 percenters.

Meanwhile, Thanksgiving was the topic of Obama's last weekly address. However, he failed to mention God (a.k.a. He to Whom We Give Thanks) in his Thanksgiving commentary, instead noting "how truly lucky we are."

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News From the Swamp: Super Failure

The U.S. Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, humorously dubbed the Supercommittee, failed in its mission to devise a way to trim $1.2 trillion from the budget over the next 10 years. The blame game over who caused the failure lasted for much of the week with Democrats predictably blaming Republicans for refusing significant tax increases even though they themselves refused to consider cuts or reforms to the entitlements that are driving the debt.

With this latest shot at a grand bargain now wasted, elected officials are turning their attention to smaller measures, such as extending the payroll tax cut. There is no economic data to suggest that the payroll tax cut has done anything to spur employment, but the White House and many Democrats insist on continuing the plan. Republicans initially opposed the extension because it hasn't revitalized the economy (in fact, growth has slowed this year) and because the Democrats want to "pay for it" with a 3.25 percent surtax on millionaires, three-quarters of whom are small business owners. That's on top of the possibly expiring Bush tax cuts, which will hit those same taxpayers. As The Wall Street Journal put it, "Perhaps Democrats can explain how taking money from employers is going to lead them to hire more workers."

Republicans, however, are bowing to political pressure as Democrats gladly label the GOP as hypocritical on taxes -- willing to raise taxes on workers but opposing tax increases on the wealthy. The real problem, of course, is that government spends too much, not that it takes in too little. So far, very few people in Washington really want to address that stubborn fact.

From the Left: Barney Frank to Retire

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) announced this week that he will retire at the end of his term, bringing an end to his 32-year congressional career. Mean, condescending and stubborn as a jackass to the end, Frank continues to deflect any blame for his role in the financial crisis. In 2003 and 2005, Frank claimed that government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sound institutions, and he supported their practice of forcing banks to grant home loans to borrowers with questionable credit. It was this subprime lending that led to Fannie and Freddie's shaky balance sheets, a nationwide foreclosure crisis and, ultimately, a global financial meltdown.

Frank later created, with retired Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, a sweeping set of regulatory shackles that seeks to take over the banking industry under the guise of reforming it. Frank is confident that the law will never be repealed, but he is clearly not confident about Democrats' chances in 2012. As ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, Frank would become Chairman if Democrats were to retake the chamber next year. The fact that he's retiring indicates he doesn't believe that they will, and his retirement could signify a wave of Democrat House members running for the exits ahead of next year's elections. Frank isn't even confident about his own chances, telling reporters this week that the redrawing of his district would mean a fresh constituency and a very hard campaign convincing new people to vote for him. As Comedy Central's Jon Stewart quipped, "So Frank's reason for stepping down is that, if he did run in 2012, he would, for the first time in decades, have to actually make himself appealing to voters."

In 2010, he faced the toughest fight of his career after 15 mostly uncontested terms that included a 1989 male prostitution ring run out of his DC apartment. Frank promises to spend the remainder of his term fighting the dismantling of Dodd-Frank, but he did manage to find time to sign on to a bill that would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a significant portion of ObamaCare. The IPAB is an appointed board that, beginning in 2014, would be the ultimate decision maker regarding how much medical care Medicare patients will receive. This is the death panel that Frank and other leftists emphatically promised us in 2009 didn't exist. Barney remains a class act to the end.

New & Notable Legislation

Democrat Sens. Harry Reid (NV) and Ben Cardin (MD) have introduced the End Racial Profiling Act, calling for the prohibition of federal funds to state and local law enforcement agencies that practice any aspect of racial profiling in carrying out their investigations. The bill is clearly meant to punish states that seek to enforce illegal immigration laws. "Racial profiling" is defined so broadly and situations in which profiling would be unacceptable are so numerous that it would effectively strip police officers of much of their ability to perform their duties.

In other news, House Republicans' half-hearted attempt at a balanced budget amendment failed, falling 23 votes short of the two-thirds necessary to amend the Constitution. The fundamental problem with the proposal was that it contained no provisions on taxation or spending, leaving Paul Ryan, Chairman of the Budget Committee to comment, "This version ... makes it more likely taxes will be raised, government will grow and economic freedom will be diminished." Ryan was one of four Republicans to vote against the measure.

The Senate Thursday night passed the Defense Authorization bill, which includes a few interesting provisions. One ends the military ban on sodomy and bestiality. Don't ask, don't tell, right? Also, there's a provision that any suspected al-Qa'ida terrorists, including U.S. citizens captured in the country, may be held by the military indefinitely. The implications of that could get interesting.

On the Campaign Trail: As Cain Falls, Gingrich Rises

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain faces another allegation of sexual misconduct. This time it was from a woman named Ginger White, who claims that she had an off-and-on 13-year affair with Cain and that she has the phone records to prove it. White may not be the most credible person to come forward with such accusations (but then again, people who have affairs generally have credibility problems). She has a history of financial problems, a string of evictions, a previous sexual harassment claim that was settled out of court, and a lawsuit by a former business partner that was later dismissed. Cain announced that he was "reassessing" his campaign, which has, of late, become a colossal distraction and a treasure trove to media talkingheads and late-night comics.

Oddly enough, Cain continues to lose supporters to a resurgent Newt Gingrich, who won the coveted endorsement of the New Hampshire Union Leader last week. Gingrich's candidacy had been written off earlier this year, and his penchant for self-destructive comments and actions, such as sitting on a couch with Nancy Pelosi to profess his support of anti-global warming legislation, has made even his closest supporters nervous. But the endorsement from the conservative-leaning publication in the nation's first primary state, coupled with the former Speaker's impressive debate performances, makes Gingrich a viable alternative to Mitt Romney, who has yet to garner the support of more than about a quarter of Republican voters. The Union Leader's endorsement is not a guarantee of success in the primary, but it's a sure sign that Newt's once-moribund candidacy is now full of life.

Economy

A Swift Kick in the Eurozone

The economic crisis in the so-called "Eurozone" has become critical. This week a spike in Italian bond prices -- almost doubling levels in October -- foreshadowed serious problems with Italian debt. With interest rates having already risen three percentage points on both long- and short-term treasury bills, each increase of a percentage point adds roughly €20 billion in new debt-servicing costs. Continuing this trend will likely lead to a crash in Italy, which in turn, "would inevitably lead to the end of the euro, causing the deadlock of the process of European integration and resulting in unforeseeable consequences." So says newly appointed Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, citing his frank discussions with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Seeking to stem that trend, the Federal Reserve rushed to open cash spigots to foreign banks, expanding a program that allows them to borrow dollars at lower rates. The hope is that easing borrowing costs to banks will temporarily stem the breakdown of global financial markets and give Europe more time to deal with its debt crisis. The anticipation of more cheap money sent financial markets soaring in the U.S. and Europe, but as with previous cash infusions this stopgap measure merely buys time: the rapidly growing tab is coming due.

What "tab" is that? Well, for one, a half-century of beggar-thy-neighbor socialist entitlements and completely unchecked government spending has amassed a debt that is simply unserviceable. Along with this latest installment of the "rearranging-deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic" Euro-saga, debt holdings of both Portugal and Hungary have been downgraded to "junk," with the promise of more downgrades to follow. Although European leaders publicly proclaim that a Eurozone breakup is "impossible," European banks are quietly preparing exactly that: a return to a multi-currency Europe.

Such a breakup would be devastating. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated that it would pose a greater threat to Poland than "tanks, terrorism or missiles." According to Swiss bank UBS, resulting bank runs and financial crises could cost smaller countries like Greece up to 50 percent of their GDP in the first year and 15 percent in subsequent years. For larger countries like Germany, the story is only slightly less bleak: 25 and 12.5 percent, respectively, in the first and subsequent years.

Reiterating the official U.S. position on the crisis, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney echoed comments made in October by the Chosen One. Declaring that the crisis had "created a headwind" for an already sluggish U.S. economy, Mr. Carney reminded us, "[W]e need to take decisive action on things that we can control." Carney added that European economic difficulties make it "much more difficult for us to create good jobs at home." Such look-at-that-speck-in-your-eye-not-the-plank-in-my-own statements highlight the sheer hypocrisy of the Hope-&-Change cabal and also signal the administration's latest "tactic" for turning the U.S. economy around -- namely, blame Europe.

While it is true Europe's house is not in order, blaming Europe for U.S. economic woes is not sufficient. Europe did not accumulate the $15 trillion U.S. debt bill, Europe is not responsible for implementing the U.S. entitlement system, and Europe did not mandate the current anti-business, anti-growth and anti-freedom policies of this administration. While the stronger countries in Europe are doubling down on an already bad bet -- that bailouts can save the European economy from the fundamental flaws of a Ponzi-scheme socialist entitlement system -- Team Chosen is doing them one better: Ignore the root cause of the problem and blame it on someone else. Ultimately, neither problem will be solved without real fiscal reform, notably the shedding of two continents' worth of entitlement spending and socialist policies.

Unemployment

November employment numbers are out today and they bring mixed news. Bloomberg reports, "The jobless rate declined to 8.6 percent, the lowest since March 2009, from 9 percent, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Payrolls climbed 120,000, with more than half the hiring coming from retailers and temporary help agencies, after a revised 100,000 rise in October." Seems like good news. Unfortunately, part of the reason is that 315,000 Americans left the workforce altogether. Another part is that retailers have hired seasonal help.

Bloomberg also notes, "The so-called underemployment rate -- which includes part- time workers who'd prefer a full-time position and people who want work but have given up looking -- decreased to 15.6 percent from 16.2 percent." Furthermore, "The jobless rate has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, the longest stretch of such levels of unemployment since monthly records began in 1948." This long after the recession supposedly ended, things should be looking much brighter than this. Welcome to Obamanomics.

Regulatory Commissars: EPA Takes Up Auto Design

Try as they might to catch up to fuel economy standards set by Congress a few years back, Detroit automakers concede that the EPA's new standards -- set without benefit of congressional hearings or one of those nasty floor votes Democrats aren't assured of winning -- will prove difficult to attain without radically changing their business model and making cars less safe. Citing the 1970 Clean Air Act for the EPA's unprecedented regulating of the automotive market, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson unilaterally decided to double fuel economy standards in 15 years to 54 miles per gallon. Granted, when numbers like 56 or even 62 miles per gallon as a fleet-wide average were bandied about, "only" 54 miles per gallon is a bit of a relief. But the EPA's own estimate pegs the cost of the new rule at an astounding $157 billion (a low estimate), which will be passed on to consumers. The National Automotive Dealers Association estimates that the price of cars will increase an additional $3,100 thanks to the new standards.

While Congress is trying to restore more realistic numbers that were worked out among automakers, safety advocates, and the federal government, it's not likely any change will occur unless a new administration is sworn in come 2013. By then Detroit may already be on a road they're forced to travel by an overzealous regime.

Around the Nation: Drilling Ebb and Flow

Domestic oil production provides further proof that Barack Obama's economic policies are at best ineffective and at worst driving this country into the ground. Approval for drilling applications in the Gulf of Mexico has dwindled to a pathetic 35 percent. To make matters worse, there is now an unprecedented 115-day wait for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement to issue its decision. The historical averages for approval are 73.4 percent and 61 days, respectively.

These policies are not only harming the post-spill recovery effort in the Gulf, but they are having an equally detrimental ripple effect throughout the country. Some 700 local jobs would be created from each rig, and allowing drilling projects to move forward would generate revenue for both the public and private sectors.

Yet every cloud has a silver lining. The Obama administration's bureaucratic quagmire hasn't completely stifled American innovation. The oil and gas production industries are growing, though as noted already they could be growing even more. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 440,000 Americans at work in these industries, up 80 percent since 2003. This is due not to government stimulus money or other handouts but good old-fashioned private investment. While the government continues to flush money down green toilets for the likes of Solyndra, there have been incredible developments in horizontal drilling and hydraulics. Contrary to the multipliers and other magical equations employed by Keynesians, these are actual numbers, showing actual progress. All we need is a government that will back off and allow this growth in other sectors.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is set to become a net exporter of petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel for the first time in 62 years. Granted, we're also the world's largest importer of crude oil, but it speaks well of American capacity and productivity that our exports are soaring.

ObamaCare: Waivers and Taxes

States are still lining up for waivers from ObamaCare. While several states including Nevada, Wisconsin, Maine and Iowa (purely coincidentally, these were all blue states in 2008 but are very much in play in 2012) have won waivers, other states, such as Delaware, North Dakota, Indiana and Louisiana, have not been so fortunate. As blogger Doug Powers correctly points out, however, "The real red flag isn't who was denied or approved, but that states are clamoring for waivers at all from something that purportedly will improve the quality of everyone's life. If it's this painful on the front end, what's it going to be like at the back end? Probably like most back ends."

Meanwhile, some are already beginning to feel ObamaCare's kick in the back end. Michigan-based Stryker Corporation, a global medical device company, recently announced it's laying off 5 percent of its workforce because of the law. "The targeted [employee] reductions and other restructuring activities are being initiated to provide efficiencies and realign resources in advance of the new Medical Device Excise Tax scheduled to begin in 2013," the company noted. Industry-wide, ObamaCare's 2.3 percent tax is expected to cost $20 billion in revenue over 10 years. In July, one major trade group representing the medical device industry warned that the tax would "undermine ... [the] industry's ability to create and maintain good jobs in the U.S." Unfortunately, this prediction is proving true. This administration may give lip service to job creation, but talk is cheap, and ObamaCare is proving to be anything but.

Security

Warfront With Jihadistan: Trouble With Pakistan

As the Obama regime continues preparations to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the region remains intensely hot. Last Saturday, a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol was fired upon across the Afghan-Pakistani border, apparently by Pakistani troops. The U.S. patrol called in air strikes, and two Pakistani border posts were destroyed, killing 24 Pakistani soldiers and sparking anti-American riots. Islamabad retaliated by closing its Afghan border crossings to NATO supplies, telling the U.S. to vacate a Pakistani air base used by American drones, and boycotting an international conference aimed at stabilizing Afghanistan. The air strikes have also jeopardized Barack Obama's hope of enlisting our supposed ally's support in the Afghan war as the U.S. role winds down.

This is not the first attack on our forces by Pakistan. With a large percentage of its military being sympathetic to, or even members of, the Taliban and al-Qa'ida, those forces often use whatever chance they get to shoot at U.S. troops. Unfortunately, Pakistan has us over a barrel, since more than 40 percent of all supplies sent to U.S. forces in Afghanistan are shipped via Pakistani ports and roads. Additionally, Pakistan allows us to use its airspace, including the use of three air bases from which Predator drones are operated. But given the increasing hostility from Pakistan, maybe it's time for the U.S. to redirect the billions of dollars in aid given to Islamabad and start building a better logistics route and system that steers clear of Pakistan's Islamist leanings, or at least use the threat of reduced aid as a big stick to bring the Pakistani military under control. The problem is, we can't live with them, but we can't live without them either.

Tensions Rise With Iran

Another week, another explosion at an Iranian nuclear facility. The first one destroyed a large portion of a military complex and killed a key figure in Iran's ballistic missile program. This latest one occurred in Isfahan, damaging a facility that prepares uranium for enrichment. Iran continues to assert that both explosions were accidents though there is reason to believe they doth protest too much. A growing list of unusual incidents relating to Iran's nuclear program suggests that a covert sabotage effort is underway. Nuclear scientists have been killed in a plane crash, by a mysterious drive-by bomber, and by unmanned aerial vehicles crashing into a nuclear facility. The Stuxnet and Duqu computer viruses also did substantial damage. Whether it's Israel, Britain or the U.S. -- or all of the above -- may the effort continue.

In perhaps related news, The Wall Street Journal reports, "On Tuesday, around 200 protesters belonging to the plainclothes Basij militia stormed the British Embassy and its residence compound in Tehran, vandalizing the property and causing significant damage." The British responded by evacuating the embassy and ordering all Iranian diplomats to leave the UK immediately. France, Germany and the Netherlands have also recalled their ambassadors to Tehran. Recall that in 2008, Barack Obama declared that he would meet with the leaders of Iran "without pre-condition." Maybe he should call Jimmy Carter for advice.

Culture

Second Amendment: Hiding Something

"The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico," reports Judicial Watch. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered last December in Arizona with a gun obtained through Operation Fast and Furious. Attorney General Eric Holder testified to Congress last month, however, that the government wasn't responsible. Now, further information regarding that case will be withheld from the media and the public. So much for transparency.

Fortunately, The Washington Times obtained some of the details before they were sealed. The Times reports, "A now-sealed federal grand jury indictment in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry says the Mexican nationals were 'patrolling' the rugged desert area of Peck Canyon at about 11:15 p.m. on Dec. 14 with the intent to 'intentionally and forcibly assault' Border Patrol agents." Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, a cartel member, was also shot in the firefight and awaits trial for second-degree murder. That he hasn't yet been tried suggests that Obama has a great deal more to hide in this administration-concocted operation that has taken hundreds of lives. And to think that Leftists drove Nixon out over a second-rate burglary of the DNC office.

Climate Change This Week: A Decline Not Hidden

Perhaps the global warming hysteria brought on by claims that our planet is hotter than at any point since temperatures have been recorded can't be refuted by a single piece of research, but a new climate study published in Science Magazine found that global temperatures are not influenced by the amount of carbon dioxide in the air as previously thought. Even if current CO2 levels were doubled, Earth's temperature would rise only about 3.1 degrees Fahrenheit, not 3.6 degrees to 8.6 degrees as estimated in the 2007 report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Furthermore, in the dry language of the study's seven co-authors, "Assuming paleoclimatic constraints apply to the future as predicted by our model, these results imply lower probability of imminent extreme climatic change than previously thought." Translation: the ecofascist hype was just blown away. Of course, that's not going to stop the true believers from castigating "deniers" or pointing out that any extreme weather we have experienced in recent years is symptomatic of drastic climate change, nor will it halt their demands that government continue combating a problem that's truly beyond mankind's ability to rectify.

The debate about whether we are causing climate change is not really about temperatures, but about power and control over our wallets and our lifestyles. Some of us realize that and are realistic about what can be done. Let's see if those who still think mankind is influencing the climate in a negative way can hide the decline in their credibility based on this new research.

In related news, Sunday will mark the 2,232nd consecutive day in which the U.S. has not been hit by a major hurricane. That's a new record, despite dire warnings from warmists.

Knoxville Murder Update

There is an unbelievably cruel update on the "hate crime" rape/torture/mutilation/murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, the subject of "Murder in Black and White" by Mark Alexander. Alexander focused on this case because, despite the clear racial implications -- the victims were white and the assailants are black -- there was a virtual media blackout on the incident.

On Thursday, it was announced that the sentencing judge, Richard Baumgartner, a New York native and longtime Democrat, has been removed from the bench on account of his habitual drug use. Though juries rendered the verdicts in these trials, lawyers have won a retrial for all four convicted murderers because Baumgartner was likely impaired during their trials. That means the families of the two victims will have to go through the horrors of these trials once again. What a travesty of justice.

And Last...

Obamanomics has many people in a slump these days, including GM and even Santa Claus. General Motors is dealing with bad publicity for its electric car, the Volt. Touted as the latest, greatest "green" automobile, the heavily subsidized Volt is powered partly by battery and partly by gasoline. Unfortunately for GM -- and possibly some unlucky owners -- three Volts have actually caught fire in crash testing. GM at first offered loaners to any skittish owners and is now working on a full-blown recall and an offer to buy back Motor Trend's Car of the Year from any owner who fears a fire. Sounds like the perfect investment for the Obama administration.

Meanwhile, a Michigan school for would-be Santa Clauses is teaching these mall Santas how to deal with the Obama economy -- including how to quickly size up a family's financial situation and possibly scale back a child's gift request. Also part of the training is how to answer the tragic question, "Can you bring my daddy a job?" A school lecturer said, "Santas have to be sure to never promise anything." It's a sad state of affairs, to be sure, but on the bright side, at least Santa's sleigh won't be catching fire.

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team



Comments

BJ Cassady

The demoncrat strategy is evil wrong but probably will win the presidency. Hopefully, we will gain enough in the house and senate to force a stalemate.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 11:41:49 AM


BJ Cassady

This is the number one most damning issue of our time. Many factors come to play, not drilling for oil, not allowing the pipeline from Canada, not developing our own shale oil, over-regulating our industries, not building desalination plants, too high corporate taxes and ignorate federal policies ie Freddie Mac, Fannie Maye, and WTO have contributed to losing of millions of jobs. I would add the Fed to the list.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 11:50:25 AM


BT Atkinson

I think it is a wonderful strategy, because it is doomed to fail. I have seen reports that North Carolina is "critical" to Obama's re-election strategy, which is why the Democrat National Convention is going to be held in Charlotte. But he only carried North Carolina by 14,000 votes in 2008. North Carolina is a vehement right-to-work state, and without working class white votes in this state he doesn't stand a chance.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 11:54:15 AM


Dan R Smith

Obama will lose in a landslide! Throwing working-class folks under the bus is like killing the goose what's laying the Golden Eggs! Totally stupid! What planet do these people live on again?

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:03:51 PM


Robert E. Johannesen

Countries do not have friends. Countries have interests. We have a necessary interest in Pakistan. They are our only sustainable supply route to our troops in Afghanistan.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:07:35 PM


William T. Meddings

This is the kind of continued arrogance that further divides the taxpayers from the tax takers. And George Soros is paying good money for this kind of advice and consent? He reaps what he sows!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:07:38 PM


Jim McMillian

If you are a taxpayer, Barack Otrauma is not your friend. Wake up America!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:08:53 PM


Allyn L. Conover

Obama and his cohorts have not just abandoned white workers, they have thrown ALL working class Americans under the socialist bus. I work in a small midwestern business along with a fine group of working class people that includes both blacks and hispanics. We all, to a person, feel the heat of the administration's laser sight upon us. Color makes no difference. We all go to the same jobs, Churches and schools. Instead of food stamps, we raise gardens and share the bounty with each other.

We sit in the break room and converse worridly about the state of affairs, and we all agree that Obama must be defeated, Pelosi and Reed must be made insignificant by sizeable conservative majorities in both Houses (that's CONSERVATIVE, not republican or democrat) and the slow, painful process of weaning the takers in our society from the government udder and the restoration of individual freedom and responsibility must begin.

The dividing line in society is whether or not you are a producer or a taker. Color, in and of itself, has no bearing.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:09:08 PM


Sandra Miller

I do not worry about Obama winning on his merits. I worry a lot about his winning through fraudulent

means.

Never have we had a President so untrustworthy. 4

more years of him and his Czars will completely

crush this great country. Socialism, we're well on our way. We had better put a stop to it or become

Greece #2.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:12:18 PM


The Texas Cooke Ph.D.

Stop the music...stop the music....The United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics state in thie Employment Situation Technical Note that the 90% confidence interval over the monthly estimate of unemployment is -50,000 to +150,000. What that means is the UPWARD CHANGE that is being heralded by the drive-by press and the Obigmouth administration is within the confidence interval of the previous estimate....WHICH MEANS THAT THERE WAS NO CHANGE FROM THE PREVIOUS MONTH!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:12:58 PM


David Thompson

Divide & Conquer: you nailed the new Democrat "demographic" strategy, Mark. Thank you.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:16:49 PM


Cabo Juan

The Democrat's strategy is right out of the Hugo Chavez play book. Buy off a large enough part of the population with government bribes and it doesn't matter what the working class wants or needs. Right now Venezuela is suffering from some of the highest inflation on the globe and those that can are moving their money out of the country or putting it in places where it cannot be confiscated by the government. We will see more of this here in the US if the Democrats succeed in stealing this election as they did in 2008.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:17:55 PM


wjmccrindle

I would hope that enough of the marxist statists are defeated to have a supermajority in the house and senate, and then articles of impeachment could begin, with conviction and jail time for the treasonous Obamao and his extra governmental czars. His outright defeat would be preferred, but removal for failure to uphold his oath of office would work as well. Amerca cannot afford another 4 years of this tryanny. Stalemate leads to bankrupcy. This marxist statist crowd has got to go, one way or another. The EPA is not our government, the auto makers should just tell them to go skip rope, thier mandates have no basis as concieved outside government channels.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:18:26 PM


Charlie Moore

This is NO Supprise concerning the Demmie stratigy. Desperate times call for desperate measures! Dummies,er. Demmies have long been against the working class of this nation. However they don't realize that it's the working class that supply the jobs, contribute to needs of those less fortunate than themselves,pays the bulk of the taxes and the list goes on. Their planned actions are not suprising, they are the party of division, isolation, and a contrite spirit, a party with the mindset of Satin himself!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:26:29 PM


Peggy

It's a common practice of the Democrats. They are not interested in a United States of America or in the principles of the Constitution. All they want is to divide and conquer. If they win, we can kiss our freedoms goodbye and live under a dictatorship. If these people they are going after want to be slaves the rest of their lives, so be it. I don't want to be a slave to the government, therefore I will do everything I can to rid our Country of this current administration.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:26:47 PM


Howard

Don't fall for the Entrenched Elites' unemployment figures. They are fake numbers to start the lies needed to re-elect themselves, including Obama, so they can continue their campaign to Socialize the United States - even though it will destroy us as it has destroyed Europe.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:28:49 PM


Daniel Lanoue

The Demagogue in Chief is using the Republicans' rigid stance against taxing millionaires to great advantage in appealing to the large numbers of uniformed voters who hear and read only sound bites and talking points. Surely, the Republicans could offer a counter proposal that protects the middle class and small business while increasing the upper tax bracket for the true millionaires and billionaires. This continued insanity may cost the election. Getting Obama out of office is far more important than than any ill conceived, all encompasing campaign promise. Insisting on the righteousnous of the conservative position is counterproductive to winning over the undecided votors.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:29:19 PM


Marvin

DOMESTIC OIL! - DOMESTIC OIL. People keep saying, but nothing is ever said, let alone being done about the BAKKEN RESERVE. WHY???????????

WHO IS BEING PAID OFF??????????????????

RE: HOLDER & OBAMA - nothing will ever be done as long as the Democratic controlled Senate keeps voting Party over country.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:32:17 PM


Jill

It is so very obvious that the leftists are truly in a desperate situation given the mess in which they have put this country. Their big bags of dirty tricks and lies will be growing to gargantuan proportions. This will be an election where voter fraud will be the likes of we've never before seen.This bunch of unAmerican individuals will stop at nothing, absolutely nothing, to win. They will do what ever it takes, no matter what, to get this election to swing in their favor.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:33:00 PM


Michael Reynolds

I think this is a very sound strategy and will play out to the Obamanator's benefit. Its all part of the Dems long term outlook, get more of the government dependent types to sneak into the country and vote and maintain power for generations.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:33:40 PM


marvy

the societal disintegration accelerates..it wont be long now...THE END...

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:34:29 PM


MSW

I think the democrats should all be sent to Greece.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:37:21 PM


Paul Mell

Obama can not win , but the Republicans can lose it.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:38:12 PM


Gil Brook

Obama's comment on Thanksgiving: "How truly lucky we are". Reminds me of Ben Hogan's comment when some golfers chided him about being so lucky. He said, "You know, the more I practice the luckier I've gotten." So, to paraphrase, "Mr. President, the harder we, the people, have worked the luckier we have gotten."

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:40:18 PM


James Pogue

Their actions speak so loud I cannot hear them talking. We have enough Fairweather friends already. We do not need them, but they probably need us. Why would we continue pursuing a relationship with an enemy.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:40:52 PM


Jiggs

Re: Democrat Strategy: A plan for LOSERS. If the shoe fits, wear it! I hope they stick to their plan.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:45:43 PM


Jeff Simon

It sounds like the GM Volt's poor crash test performance and a a government buy-back option is a "Cash for Flunkers" plan. Just one more bail-out for the tax-payer to fund.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:46:37 PM


Bernard P. Giroux

This entire strategy sounds like the Marxist strategy in 1917.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:48:07 PM


Hardtack

I'll tell you next November.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:49:28 PM


Keith White

I don't really think it is democratic, but socalistic or communist leaning. The Obama administration has taken this country farther left toward a socialistic state than any president in history. If he gets four more years there will not be a USA as we know it now and will probably become a dictatored country much like most of Europe.

What bothers me as I feel we will enter into a war between the halves and working people and the people that think they are entitled to a free education, houseing, food car or anything else that the working class have to buy and they feel they are entitled to.

The problem is most of the Democratic party have no or few ethics.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:55:07 PM


Hardtack

Is Pakistan a friend or foe? How much money do you think Pakistan would be willing to lend us? At $15 trillion in debt, God knows we need the money.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:57:09 PM


D. Matthews

I think it is the same thing over and over again. It is not a hate crime to kill a member of the majority. It has to be a minority for the MSM or the DOJ to look at it. It does not matter how heinous the crime, and it does not matter if the subject of race is incontrivertible, when it is black on white crime, it just does not rise to the level of "interesting" or "provocative" enough in the minds of liberal elites.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:58:09 PM


Matt the Terrible

If neither of these wars end without unconditional surrender by the enemy, we have wasted or time, treasure, and blood. Any country that gets in the way of this goal should be bombed (conventional and nuclear if necessary) into submission, to include population centers. A war that ends any other way has solved nothing. Korea is a perfect example of weakness in foreign power. We should have never ceased hostilities until they surrendered. This is just a fact of life. Good must defeat evil for the world to survive!!!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:59:55 PM


Gary Blunt

I despair of ever witnessing ingelligent AMERICAN foreign relations in my lifetime. We reward our enemies and ignore or slight our friends. How many more autocratic dictators friendly to our country and our allies are we going to betray to permit really bad dictators who really mistreat their populations and spit in our face?

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:00:46 PM


robert anderson

FOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:04:34 PM


Jiggs

Why, I ask you, would anyone in their right mind buy a Chevy Volt? Watch the ads for this expensive toy. What they say at the gas station is "This is a gas station, what are you doing here? The car is electric, isn't it?" Yes, but maybe you have to use the Rest Room. In reality the electric driving range is just 35 miles on a charge. Beyond that, you have to run on gasoline. If I had a Volt and wanted to go to the next town to shop, 32 miles, before I got there and on the way home, I would be on gasoline. So what's the big deal about driving a Volt? Stupid.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:06:11 PM


hank

The Democrat strategy is the same as what caused the fall of the Roman Empire. Our government is another Roman candle, soon to be extinguished.

If you pay attention you will note that most of the Democrats or hangers on that spit on the Constitution as an outdated. outmoded scrap of paper have never read it or are aware of the lengthy process by which it was given birth. It was not something rattled off on someones lunch hour. It was meant to prevent abuses of the then world governments and those of our present Kenyan sovereign,

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:06:51 PM


Howard Last

Barney Fag (oops Frank) should have followed Jesse Helms advice, "Sit down and keep your mouth shut."

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:07:00 PM


Erik Christian

Greetings:

I met a deer last week that totaled my Jeep.

Do you still have the "Governmement is best which governs least" sticker available for my new-to-me-car?

I looked through the Patriot Shop to no avail.

Regards,

Erik

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:08:26 PM


JLG

The most troubling thing about the Demo strategy is that, ultimately, it will lead to armed conflict--a new civil war. We're already seeing the beginnings of this in the criminal violence of the Occupy movement, and the subsequent anti-police violence when the folks in blue start arresting the criminals. At some point, if this continues, we will all be forced to either take up arms against the Occupiers, or be forced into the bankruptcy of new progressivism.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:08:39 PM


Myrl Allinder

FOE. And do NOT forget it.

1. President BUSH PAID OFF Pakistan's Musharaff $20Billion in 2001 to BREAK Pakistan's alliance with Afghani taliban. Pakistanis were

taliban-friendly in 2001... and have continued so thru 2011

2. Pakistan has NUKES.

3. Pakistan ASSISTED the nuke programs of both IRAN & N. KOREA

4. Pakistan NEARLY LAUNCHED at least 2 NUKE WARS w/ India

Q: How many nukes would it take to BANKRUPT USA? A: ONE

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:10:38 PM


Art Bailey

The only reason the Dems want middle class working white people is to garner taxes from them to give to the other non-middle class non-white working folks and government dependents. As I remember, we MCWWFs make up a lot more than 1/2 the population, so we MCWWFs can more than decide the next election. That is when we MCWWFs can agree on a great candidate to best BHO.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:14:27 PM


DJ King

Communism is a very ugly thing.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:15:07 PM


lester

Prior to elections any and all of these hoodlums should be tried and convicted as treaters. What accountability means? (resignation or lesser means?) - Is there anyone who's paying attention what is happening here?

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:24:15 PM


Marc

I agree with your implied disagreement with Obama's Thanksgiving message that we are "lucky". However, it is completely appropriate for him to omit giving thanks to the supernatural. Just because some may choose to thank supernatural beings does not mean we all must. I'm thankful to our founders for protecting that freedom with the First Amendment.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:35:31 PM


Carol Wolney

It smells so bad even the Fathers who supported Roosevelt through all his bad news, would become Republican. The political climate right now is very toxic: The Republicans aren't able to form a solid, unifying platform, to support their Platform and the Democrats are looking more and more like they are either racketeers, mobsters, or miscreants of some kind. This is NOT good. Thank God for the Tea Party, which keeps the "First Principles" to the fore.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:39:56 PM


One VA Patriot

To Carol:

Why should republicans have a a solid unified platform already? We haven't even selected our candidate! The platform is made during the convention, or it has been in past election years.

Relax and give yourself time to allow the process to unfold before throwing in the towel.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:54:20 PM


Judith Maskel

I think not everyone forced to take a hand UP right now will automatically vote democratic. They are smart enough to know who got us in this place and and is causing our children and grandchildren to pay a debt they had nothing to do with. I am a senior and use food pantries, but will stay a republincan and a tea party member.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:56:37 PM


Harold (Wyatt)

In Divide and Conquer , one statement really caught my eye, and that is ; Meanwhile, productive citizens, small business owners, andthose without "sufficient" education. My concern is that by "sufficient" you mean that we were not educated in the socialistic way that they were, because I consider myself as an educated person. But I was educated in such a way that socialism was not a "good" thing.

I have met some people that think that Obama is a good thing, and most of them , in my opinion were uneducated, living on welfare or just downright stupid.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:58:37 PM


Ralph

This awful occurrence is a reminder that when seconds count the police are only minutes away. Both were each of the age for a concealed weapons permit which might have lead to a different outcome had they ben armed. I cannot begin to comprehend the families heartbreak resulting from the attack by these human vermin.

It is an ongoing evil that the taxpayers will likely have to feed, house, and clothe the scum when they are convicted.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:59:20 PM


Major Stu

So Indiana and other Red/Purple states have been denied waivers, while the Blue states are given what they ask for? I propose that the GOP introduce a bill in the House granting a blanket waiver from ACA aka Obamacare, and allow the Blue states and liberal organizations an choice to "opt-in". We'll see how popular Obamacare is when people and states are actually given a choice. Isn't that what the Pro-Choice activists are always preaching to us?

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:02:35 PM


Mel Raab

There are a couple of old songs that need to be revived for use next year.

The first is Obama's theme song, In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, by Harry McClintock.

The other should be the Republican lead in. Titled Bread Line Blues performed by Jorma Kaukonen on "Blue Country Heart"

One evening as the sun went down

And the jungle fires were burning,

Down the track came a hobo hiking,

And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning

I'm headed for a land that's far away

Besides the crystal fountains

So come with me, we'll go and see

The Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,

There's a land that's fair and bright,

Where the handouts grow on bushes

And you sleep out every night.

Where the boxcars all are empty

And the sun shines every day

And the birds and the bees

And the cigarette trees

The lemonade springs

Where the bluebird sings

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

All the cops have wooden legs

And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth

And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs

The farmers' trees are full of fruit

And the barns are full of hay

Oh I'm bound to go

Where there ain't no snow

Where the rain don't fall

The winds don't blow

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

You never change your socks

And the little streams of alcohol

Come trickling down the rocks

The brakemen have to tip their hats

And the railway bulls are blind

There's a lake of stew

And of whiskey too

You can paddle all around it

In a big canoe

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,

The jails are made of tin.

And you can walk right out again,

As soon as you are in.

There ain't no short-handled shovels,

No axes, saws nor picks,

I'm bound to stay

Where you sleep all day,

Where they hung the jerk

That invented work

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

....

I'll see you all this coming fall

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:06:35 PM


Dick Quinn

Regrettably it sounds like a winner. Couple that with the disunited and lackluster Republican field of candidates and conservatives may be in the wilderness once again, perhaps for a decade or more.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:09:12 PM


travelingpaul

Michigan-based Stryker Corporation, a global medical device company, recently announced it's laying off 5 percent of its workforce because of the law. "The targeted [employee] reductions and other restructuring activities are being initiated to provide efficiencies and realign resources in advance of the new Medical Device Excise Tax scheduled to begin in 2013," the company noted.

Do you know that Jon Stryker is a big donor to Obama in particular and Dems in general?

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:13:36 PM


George H. Schryer

As a once working, now retired, middle class white American I am damn glad the Dems aren't counting on me. They can count on me though to do everything I can to vote against every one of them I can and help those voters I know to do the same.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:18:37 PM


The Rev. Dr. M. A. Kunkle, FAPC, HOKC

Sad to dsy, it will prevail. The combination of the stupid greed of those sought by the democrats combined with the lack of a viable Republican candidate make fr a certain Obama win.

Many Republican the I know say the same thing:"If Romney ... aka Obama-Lite ... runs, we will vote for Obama. rather have a Socialist in office when everything hits the fan than a RINO who will destroy the party.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:20:21 PM


Carl Backe

I don't see how Obama can lose:

He has the money and media on his side.

He has the vote of the african americans, unions, hispanics, abortionists, seniors, women,teachers,

entitlement folks, and democrat loyalists. Add them up and he has a majority. Not to mention the republican candidate's weaknesses in capturing the heart of the independents. And he has the bully pulpit and unlimited use of taxpayer money to campaign in the name of meeting the people. So Sad, Too Bad.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:24:46 PM


Bill DeFelice

The democRATs have no real plan.The spoiled ilk,that make up the OWS,are their hope+chumps.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:33:08 PM


coyotecanyon

I have never been so afraid in my 57 yrs. I knew what this man was when he first appeared as most amatuer WWll history buffs recogonise in his rhetoric. The man has no soul. The two parties have been working for themselves for decades and not the Country. As the founders said that's the end of the Republic and any semplance of democracy. I'm one of those

he's targeted from the beginning and I've half joked

"see you in the camps!" I'm a typical white women

who would rather die in our defense. I can't bear to think of my kids and grandchildren. Yes you fools, it IS happening here. God Bless Us and Israel. Seen on a T-shirt and soon on my own...

The Secound Amendment is my Gun Permit.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:33:39 PM


Paul Brockman

"These voters generally take the brunt of recessions and are most in need of government assistance to survive. "

This may well be true, but... why is it that Democrats, rather than fix (or allow to be fixed) the economy, keep adding to the numbers of those on the dole? It would seem that their fundamental philosophy is this: Keep the economy down, so that more people need our "help" as opposed to letting the economy up so that everybody cab share in the blessings of prosperity. Their rallying cry: Prosperity for me, poverty for you.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:40:33 PM


Michael

These animals didn't deserve the first trial...they very clearly did it. But they got a fair trial, judged by their peers...now because of a jackass judge they will be retried, causing major additional trauma to these poor families. God have mercy on those two kids families... and vengeance on the perpetrators.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:42:08 PM


Harold (Wyatt)

Pakistan is definitely a "foe". One only has to look at where Osama bin Laden and all the Taliban made/make their home.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:50:18 PM


Bill DeFelice

Pakistan is our friend,as long as we give them monitary aid.Unfortunatly,those lower class,would rather pay head to the tali-wackers+al-Qeada.Money means little to them.Islam comes first.

We need to stop money being spent,from our treasury,to islamic militants.When the low class citizens realize money is relevent,their might be a Pakistan Spring.I.E.just another stan.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:53:22 PM


Sean Valdrow

I think we need to file a class action suit against the Communist/Democrat (Commu-crat?) party for failing to properly cater to white folks. Mind you, I'll never vote for the commu-crats, but I think they need to choke on the bitter dregs of their own medicine. So let us sue them for being racists pig-dogs, utterly failing to cater to the white vote. It hurts my feelings when they ignore me.

On another note, the obvious seems to go unstated with respect to the Cain campaign. The unending and baseless attacks charging Cain with sexist behaviors are an effort to destroy his campaign, but they chose sexism and not racism. Why? Well, it's simply because he's black--and therefore completely unassailable by racism in the commu-crat mind. Yet no one seems to tackle this obvious strategy by the commu-crats. Clearly, the commu-crats have a hierarchy in their arsenal of weapons, a sliding scale of 'sins' to accuse an enemy of having committed. Yet little is said to counter the commu-crat propaganda taking the angle of attacking their strategy. Instead it is all focused on the minutae of that strategy. We need to step back out of the mire of their making, and start hitting them by making plain what they are doing, and how it avoids any real argument and is solely designed to draw the emotional reponse they have attempted to program us to give.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:54:47 PM


Jeremy McCourt

I think Pakistan has proven not to be our friend in almost every action they have taken. Whether they are truly our foe has yet to be seen, but at the very least the are obstinant and focused only on their own. Just the fact that Osama Bin Laden was captured ina large city in Pakistan should make you question their resolve to helping us. Also they have betrayed us consistently while still milking us for cash. I think it is high time we begun pulling out money and showing them who is in charge. Especially since India is actually a democracy on the rise, a good ally, and hates pakistan.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:58:29 PM


Bill DeFelice

I am sick+tired of "ONE SIDED hate crimes".If it wasn't for Michelle Malkin,and The Patriot Post U.S.,no one would have learned of this most terrible HATE CRIME!

Where are all those Rush Limbaugh bashers?When one of their own dopes out,not a peep,is heard.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:02:33 PM


Alton

No surprise on Obama throwing white America under the bus. He got what he needed the first time with lying rhetoric. If you have read alot about Obama you know that he has disdain for white America, He also had issues with his white Mother. He identified and still does with black America. He just needed the whites to get elected. My big questions are his rich Jewish donors who watched Obama develop a plan to spilt up Israel and he still counts on these people to get him re-elected. with major contributions.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:05:45 PM


David Jackson

hAVE THESE IDIOTS FIGURED OUT who IS GOING TO PAY for all the spending ? What happens when the taxpayers finally say NO ? These politicians are THE wealthy and should also pay big.....cut the salaries and perks for them. Send them all home.......as was once said..."kill the lawyers first " Am a truly frustrated senior barely getting by and these jerks are SO out of touch. We NEED to limit government,term limits and tort reform are needed first. Amen

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:07:51 PM


bob hand

i don't think that these putrid afro-americans were even charge with a hate crime, but just simply murder,put the shoe on the other foot, and listen too the outrage by the afro-americans community. this country is sliding down a terrible slope that cannot be stopped, we have too indict eric holder and remove him from office and put him behind bars for his ignorance and stupidity..

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:10:01 PM


Mike Treece

I don't believe any of those countries are friendly to us. All they want is our money. We would be better off spending all that "aid" money here in the US.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:14:56 PM


Bob Heisser

I believe their strategy is a sound one. While those of us who fit into the "white side" can questions them and suggest that it's a losing strategy it isn't...the numbers don't lie. This is why we see the President hammering the white middle class and upper class every chance he gets. Watch out, this strategy can get him back into the oval office.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:17:12 PM


Harold (Wyatt)

While reading through all the comments, I seen where Carl Backe said; He has the vote of the african americans, unions,hispanics, abortionists, seniors, women, teachers, entitlement folks and democrat loyalists. Well I guess I fall into a few of these categories, but I have never and would never vote for that imbecile or any member of the DemoKRAUT party. I am 71 years old, retired NAVY, retired steelworker union member, on S/S and am proud to say that since becoming a union member in 1979, I never once voted for anyone that the steelworkers backed...PERIOD Their beliefs never met mine.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:17:16 PM


CHRIS MAKRIS

Obviously, Mr. Thomas Edsall has never stood in a grocery check line behind the typical "food stamp" recipient who pays for all of their food stuff with food stamps and then pays for their beer, tobacco and other "necessities" with $20.00 bills.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:28:30 PM


Steve

For King Barry, it's all about maintaining power, not about doing something good for our country, and this strategy may work for them. Winning elections is all about the numbers, and they have a substantial number of useful idiots on their side.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:30:11 PM


Steve Cotton

One term I see bandied about a lot, and this sure applies to the OWS "Flea Party" bunch, is over-educated. I'd suggest a better way to put it would be over-schooled/under-educated.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:40:16 PM


Pat Thornton

This strategy may not work this election cycle due to Barack Obama's colossal ineptness, but a more popular Liberal could pull it off. Given our government's propensity to reward lazy people without requiring work from those capable of working, it is only a matter of time. It will now require years of Conservative administrations to correct our financial situation, but I doubt Conservatives can be reelected for that long once they start to close the federal spigot. It may take a term-limited, part-time legislature to over-come the resistance to do the financially right thing.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:44:27 PM


Harold (Wyatt)

Steve Cotton :: way to go===Over-schooled/Under-educated, I wish that I would have thought of that one. That is the best discription I have seen for Obama Idiots.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:45:49 PM


Barbara

'Mr. Carney reminded us, "[W]e need to take decisive action on things that we can control." Carney added that European economic difficulties make it "much more difficult for us to create good jobs at home."'

I can't help it, whenever I hear Jay Carney spout his boss's points I think of the terminology of Carnival workers,known as carnies, such as: carny barker (standing outside the tent touting for business), flat (a rigged game to prevent wins-illegal), flash (to stock a place with prizes to make it look 'flashy' or ready for business), gaff (to rig a game to make it unwinnable), spring (to open the carnival), and other terms: shill, sharpie, score, scratch, poke, oats, patch money, mooch, lot lizards, and marks. Interesting and there are many more including greenies (temporary workers), forty-milers (considered phonies or fakes), and butchers (a carnie that will take every penny from a mark by confusing him and then forcing him to pay). Welcome to Obama's circus.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:49:49 PM


Lynn

I'll buy and send them a rope.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:51:20 PM


Lynn

None of these countries are our friends, they're in it for the foreign aid Uncle Sap hands out/ We need to stop worrying about some foreign country. If they can't keep their people fed and clothed, just means there to many.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:54:57 PM


Lynn

I've been a member of the UAW for 30 years, white, a little college and Haven't vote for a democrap yet. Not starting now.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 3:58:16 PM


CHRIS MAKRIS

As with personal relationships anyone who is your friend because of your money is not really your friend, ergo Pakistan is not our friend.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 4:06:30 PM


Danny Boy

It's a brilliant strategy even if I pray that it not work.

But, it is just part. You are completely neglecting a key foundational component. These gangsters are from Chicago. This is the place where there is not bi-partisan supervision of many polling places and where it is possible to exceed 100% voter turn out.

Fox News is currently doing an investigation on wide spread voter registration fraud in Indiana, which is not nearly as bad as it is in Chicago.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 4:13:55 PM


Buzzkill

$35,800.

That is more than I make in a year.

I am going to be sick.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 4:16:43 PM


Paul Damewood

It sucks, just like the democratic party.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 5:17:06 PM


Brian

Can you say Dumb and Dumber.

The Packs take our money, I mean receive our Foreign Aid, and expect not to give the USA any real help. Example harboring Osama which is DUMB.

The USA expects the Packs who harbor terrorist and help block our efforts to strike at our enemies to be our Friends and give us real intelligents. Seems like Dumber to me.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 5:38:37 PM


Larry v

All I can do is hope and pray that more white workers vote! (even those of you that are unemployed workers because things like "cash for clunkers" not only didn't produce jobs but even put us more in debt! Please all of you, we must vote this man and his fellow demos out

Posted December 2, 2011 at 5:47:42 PM


George R.

We 'the stupids' are going to show Mr. Obama just how stupid we are come time to vote. We don't need a college education to figure out that guy, has done to our great country. I believe he will regret those words.grc

Posted December 2, 2011 at 5:58:30 PM


Robert

The knoxville murder rape trial is turning into a circus. It was a hate crime pure and simple and the jury judged the case not the judge .the perps should get the maximum sentence available under TN law.

As for Obamas cover up of criminal activity in the death of Brian Terry he should also be tried and removed from office for complicancy ,complacency and failure to obey the laws of this country.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 6:10:19 PM


Ga_Mtn_Lady

Many years ago, when education was really eduction and I was working on my Masters Degree, I took a course in the School of Business at IUPUI. The professor said something that I have since followed in all my personal & business life. It's pretty simple. "NEVER reward inappropriate behavior". Unless of course, you desire inappropriate behavior? Perhaps we could make this our "new" foreign policy?

Posted December 2, 2011 at 6:19:50 PM


Buzzkill

"Democrat Sens. Harry Reid (NV) and Ben Cardin (MD) have introduced the End Racial Profiling Act, calling for the prohibition of federal funds to state and local law enforcement agencies that practice any aspect of racial profiling in carrying out their investigations. The bill is clearly meant to punish states that seek to enforce illegal immigration laws."

THIS IS PRECISELY WHY THE 17TH AMENDMENT MUST - MUST!!!! - BE REPEALED!!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 6:29:40 PM


WOB

I am praying that God will intercede. If we are headed to "End Times" as describe in Books of Daniel and Revelations, I pray that God will use this Country and its inhabitants to reach out to the not only our neighbors, relatives, and friends but also world wide. (Yes, I know that we are commanded to already be doing so, but I mean to put things into "high gear." If it is not time for God's Plan to unfold, and we're just being led to slaughter, as a nation, because of our stupidity, sloven/greedy behavior, or otherwise nitwits, then I pray that we will awaken ... that we'll take to the streets, phones, computers and urge our fellow Americans to vote out those who would take our Country from us. Do it now!!!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 6:55:01 PM


Christopher Patterson

What I think in detail about this case is unprintable so I will just make a brief statement. This country is going to the hot place in a hand basket with the media helping to lead the way, and with substantial help from BOTH parties.

We're not going to "fix" things by electing people like Cain, Gingrich Romney, Perry or most of the other GOP hopefuls.

This judge should be convicted and jailed. The defendants in this case should all get the death penalty at least.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 7:08:44 PM


Michael P. Keintz

Foolish question. Don't listen to their words, watch their actions. The answer is plain as day: FOE. Same as OBAMA.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 7:15:34 PM


Ronald L Hoff

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Posted December 2, 2011 at 7:25:41 PM


Carmina Burana

Given the history of the Roman Republic, I am afraid the strategy may well work -- in the long term if not in this election. Once there are enough people dependent on governmental largesse, there will likely be no turning back short of economic collapse. It's why I keep praying for heavenly intervention, as I'm not terribly optimistic about my fellow citizens.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 7:45:28 PM


A Murricun

Even noting that much of the Pak's bluster is for home consumption, we should not stay where we are not welcome. And we should take our checkbook with us.

Maybe they can get along without US aid. I would applaud their self-reliance. Or maybe they would realize that staying bought is their best bet.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 7:48:41 PM


Larry Paullus

It may succeed if the average working type don't get out and vote. If it does, our freedom is in dire risk of being eliminated

Posted December 2, 2011 at 8:05:40 PM


rspellmann

What's the surprise?

Posted December 2, 2011 at 8:15:46 PM


Chris in California

It's difficult to find words for my contempt for the policies and strategies the Democrat party uses to plunder the people of this country. Remaining civil as the instructions for posting is difficult but to remain true to conservative values I can only say that they are despicable and it is to be regretted that so many people fall for their ploys and would rather be dependent slaves rather than free citizens.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 9:05:41 PM


KP of NOVA

Note to Mark Alexander

Mark, you are sitting on top of a treasure trove of information on conservative issues that could be a God-send to anyone from a student writing a paper to a speech writer for a presidential candidate to someone who wants to write a thoughtful response to a crazy left wing editorial.

You have written the Patriot Post for years and, if you kept your files, you have the quotes and authors and information we need to state the facts in a succinct and accurate manner.

Is there a way that you could make available your files to people who are trying to help the cause of conservatism in response to a non-responsive media and an unbelieving group of liberal supporters? We need to be able to use key word and other Goggle techniques to pull out the data to make our points to the many unbelievers.

Obviously, you would need some kind of vetting to prevent your organization from being besieged by those who want to overwhelm you with requests; yet, many, many people could become effective in their arguments if they could quote from your data sources.

Your costs to create such a capability might be paid by a number of conservative organizations that, through careful selections, would not jeopardize your independence.

I really hope you could create such a capability for many of us who would like to have a worthwhile response to the insults hurled by the liberals and their media.

Can you help?

If there is any way I can help you, I am available.

KP

Posted December 2, 2011 at 9:27:29 PM


Gunner

If the US Government did something smart (I know, I know), they would purchase a number of the existing new Lighter-Than-Aircraft and develop newer, larger ones. LTAs would be able to load at Diego Garcia, fly over India and Kashmir (avoiding Pakistani airspace entirely) to drop material at an airbase/ Forward Operating Base at night and return to Diego Garcia.

They could also be used in many situations in the US (firefighting, emergency resupply, commercial cargo movement, etc.), which could encorage commercial purchasing of LTAs.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 9:28:19 PM


Marj

Unfortunately if they have the numbers right, it just might be a winning strategy.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 10:00:21 PM


Robert N. Clarke

IT SUCKS !!!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 10:23:39 PM


Lee

Makes me RETCH

Posted December 2, 2011 at 10:26:29 PM


steve

in re to Demo strategy-check it out:

The Left Owns the Election Law Industry

Posted By J. Christian Adams On August 12, 2011 @ 12:40 am

Before the 2000 presidential election, most Americans assumed the mechanics of elections functioned smoothly. The thirty-six day battle for the presidency demonstrated otherwise. Today, most Americans still assume the institutions, firms and foundations that fight about election law disputes are equally matched and similarly funded as between left and right. That is a dangerously incorrect assumption, especially with the 2012 election fast approaching. From an election administration perspective, the 2012 presidential election is already upon us. And the Left is fully engaged.

Like so many other institutions, whether academia or the media, leftists dominate the field of election law, and the consequences are immediate and devastating. Worst of all, hardly anyone has noticed that these scores of leftist election experts enjoy a largely unopposed battlefield.

Leftist foundations, litigators and organizations have established permanent structures designed to alter election outcomes through policy advocacy and strategic litigation. Project Vote, DEMOS, the Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDF), the Brennan Center for Justice, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Advancement Project, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), League of Women Voters, Asian Pacific American Legal Center and Common Cause are some of the groups that push election law in a direction hostile to conservatives, and the rule of law. Not surprisingly, money tainted by George Soros also flows downstream through various groups and institutes to the cause.

Literally hundreds of individuals man permanent stations, full time, at these groups. They benefit from tens of millions of dollars in funding. They bring lawsuits under federal and state statutes ranging from the Voting Rights Act, Motor Voter law and the Help America Vote Act. They station teams of election observers in polling places around the nation every election to fuel their litigation and their media efforts. Almost nobody opposes their efforts.

Their efforts pay off over and over again. Whether preventing Michigan or Colorado secretaries of state from purging the voting rolls of dead voters in 2008, or grandstanding about purported “voter intimidation” when law-abiding citizens in Houston, Texas deploy retirees to serve as poll watchers in 2010, these leftist groups are affecting the outcomes of elections.

Activists posing as nonpartisan academics, like Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center or Tova Wang of DEMOS, disingenuously claim voter fraud doesn’t exist. Wang is particularly dishonest. She released a report after the 2010 elections that there was no voter fraud. Wang’s conclusion came only two days after the election, hardly enough time for the careful study necessary for such a sweeping conclusion. Nevertheless, sycophants in the media lapped it up.

What do conservative groups have to oppose this coordinated leftist strategy of lies and litigation? Virtually nothing. The best effort is an ad hoc group of Republican lawyers. Other embryonic efforts have sprung out of the Tea Party movement, such as True the Vote in Texas or the Election Integrity Project in California. Like so many other things, conservatives are justifiably too busy making money or raising families to commit to a cause.

Of course there are some excellent Republican lawyers, but they often focus on high paying clients, and they don’t represent a permanent counterweight to the enormous leftist election law structures. They assemble just before the election then disperse, like minutemen. The Tea Party groups are making enormous strides, but they haven’t been through the whirlwind of a presidential election yet, certainly not one with a community organizer at the top of the ticket.

No permanent engine of intellectual opposition exists to the leftist election law industry.

In contrast, the leftist election law practitioners have permanent structures. They are well funded. They have resources, offices and hardwired networks. Eager leftist law students clamor volunteer time, seeking to change the world, like so many at their age do. The courtroom practitioners enjoy vibrant academic support from leftist law professors. And as I know from firsthand experience, they have the full weight of the Eric Holder-run Justice Department behind them.

When it comes to constructing the legal environment of election law, full-time leftists are the most engaged and energetic. They know how to beat part-time conservatives, either by mastery of the law, or by dominance of everyday

attention to control the narrative.

Conservative public interest groups occasionally dabble in election matters. But their efforts, primarily defending Voting Rights Act vote dilution lawsuits, have dismal success rates. The most effective conservative election law effort has been jockeyed by Edward Blum of the American Enterprise Institute. He has bankrolled challenges to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and ensured that brilliant election litigators like Mike Carvin of Jones Day have what they need. But this is one tiny area that barely scratches the surface of the problem.

All of the prevailing winds in election law blow from the left. Instead of condemning New Black Panther Voter intimidation, Kristen Clarke of the NAACP LDF, defended it by seeking to have the Justice Department lawsuit dismissed. Instead of purging Michigan voter rolls of dead and ineligible felons, the Advancement Project sued Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land to stop any purge ahead of the 2008 presidential election. Instead of Georgia enforcing a voter photo identification law, the American Civil Liberties Union sues to stop it. Instead of Arizona ensuring that all voter applications are submitted by eligible citizens, groups like the Brennan Center for Justice and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund have successfully undermined the law.

What lawyers oppose the Advancement Project, ACLU, MALDEF, the Brennan Center, Project Vote, Demos, LULAC and the NAACP when they bring these suits? Often it is government attorneys who rarely litigate such weighty election battles. Sometimes the government lawyers are sympathetic to the plaintiffs.

Millions of leftist dollars pour into election law wars before the lawsuits are brought. After the lawsuits are brought, the leftist groups intervene and swarm like sharks around a flailing victim. Just look at the pleadings and amicus briefs submitted in any major election law dispute. Not surprisingly, the victims often succumb, or accept their fate and die. The Rule of Law often dies along with it.

Leftist election litigators even have their own training academies. One is the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Dozens of lawyers at the most militant groups in the country cut their teeth in the Voting Section at DOJ where I used to work.

After the Obama administration took control of the division in 2009, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King returned to the Clinton-era policy of refusing to hire anyone but leftists to work in the Voting Section. She implemented policies that placed prior employment with leftist organizations as a uniquely qualifying factor in being hired – even if it was as a volunteer. Only leftists need apply to enforce federal election laws before 2012.

Since the inauguration, the Voting Section at DOJ has seen a hiring blitz of lawyers from the SEIU, Advancement Project, Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, international communist groups, the NAACP, as well as those who provided pro bono representation to GITMO detainees. I have reviewed the resumes of every new attorney hire, and they do not contain a single lawyer with a non-ideological or conservative background.

As such, the Obama Justice Department has blocked requirements in Georgia that voters establish they are United States citizens, has sued Rhode Island and Louisiana demanding sweeping changes to push welfare recipients and drug addicts onto the voter rolls, and has failed to bring any lawsuits under federal law to ensure the voter rolls are free from dead and ineligible felons.

The election next year will determine the fate of a nation in a way few elections have. Unfortunately, the election law practitioners who represent the far-left fringe have a mighty head start. Whether they are DOJ attorneys turning a blind eye toward anti-Semitic New Black Panthers, or Soros-funded crusaders enabling voter fraud, hundreds of lawyers will cloak themselves in neutrality while working hard to obtain a particular outcome next November. Nobody should be surprised when they employ every means necessary to achieve exactly what they seek.

About J. Christian Adams

J. Christian Adams is an election lawyer who served in the Voting Rights Section at the U.S. Department of Justice. His forthcoming book, "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department" (Regnery), releases in October. He received the Annie Taylor Award in 2010. His website is www.electionlawcenter.com.

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Posted December 2, 2011 at 10:37:13 PM


gary sheldon

I bet the founders forsaw the U.S. senate voting in favor of perverted military having relations with animals and people of the same sex. THE FOUNDER'S DREAMS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED !!! I do not care if every country on earth is thus perverted but why the one nation under God? This is not acceptable to any patriotic American. It may well be that we have the "leadership" we deserve rather than what we need at every gumMINT level. Nearly all anger about this bloated rediculous sociocRATic system created over the last few decades is righteous in nature.

Posted December 2, 2011 at 10:58:19 PM


Fleet

I think we'd better come up with some system to verify, one way another, that people going in to the polls are citizens and registered voters, political-correctness and anti-profiling be damned! I'll stand outside a polling station, if only to make any unqualified voters think twice or to keep an eye out for repeat offenders/voters. I'd also be willing to video comings and goings but I don't know the legality of any of this or how to go about it. SOMEBODY'S got to help keep our country from being stolen away, though. Someone come up with some way that we can help keep the Demos honest!

Posted December 2, 2011 at 11:53:23 PM


Ed Shipley

An idea for a kinda economical car: Take a Harley-Davidson engine and transmission system, add a 3-wheel configuration with two wheels up front for stability and conventional steering, add two side by side seats ( and maybe a "jump seat or two behind), with a lightweight tube frame and beer-can thick metal skin. More -or-less an updated British Morgan car of the 1940's-1950's.

I bet it would be a hot-rod, get good milage, and sell like hotcakes, if it were not too expensive. Probably it could even be made to comply with most of the existing government auto regulations, without destroying the basic idea.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 1:45:50 AM


CKAinRedStateUSA

RE: Divide and Conquer: What the Democrats/progressives/liberals/leftists don't comprehend is that there are college-educated whites who have not voted nor will not vote for a DPLL, but especially one named Obama and another named Biden.

Regarding the Democrats' announced intention, maybe it is meant for the left-wing of the Democrat gaggle and others who need reassurance that Obama can win.

But one wonders: How will whites who are union members embrace this?

Whatever, Obama and his party continue to play identity politics which create even more of an unbridgeable divide in our country.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 1:56:05 AM


paul

What do I think of democrats(strategy)???

When I think of that bunch I am set to a mood of color - and that my friends is the color of the toilet paper I happen to be using any given week.

White may mean the slate if they all just went back the the rock they crawled out from under - pink may remind me of their fabian socialist agenda - yellow their spine.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 2:55:17 AM


ed gallagher

This strategy really shouldn't come as a surprise. The American left has been building this constituency since FDR. They are almost in the position where those who do not work, and do not contribute to our society, along with the glitteratti who don't need to work and think they should control our society, will be in the majority of the electorate. They can then dictate to the productive class of our society just how much of their efforts will go to pay for grand social experiments. The recipients of the payoffs don't realize that along with the largess they steal from those who work come control of their lives in a manner they never were told about before they put out their hands and said gimme what you got. Obama's economic program has "get whitey" as its foundation, steal from the productive as its walls and economic slavery as its steeple. The dogma of the left seeks to reimpose slavery in order to further its myopic socialist agenda. Fortunately the working segment of our society woke and shouted enough!!! in 2010. I just hope they are even more outraged by the dismal record of the most failed presidency in history, and disgusted by the antics of a political party that ties its existence to its ability to steal from one segment of society in order to buy votes from another segment.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 6:34:09 AM


garrett

Reminds one of the proverbial albatross

Posted December 3, 2011 at 8:24:30 AM


Dave Walden

This "new" strategy is little more than the tired, worn, intellectually-corrupt though largely successful strategy that has been employed in the cities for over 50 years.

I dislike putting it into "racial" terms but local and physical "white flight" is in the process of morphing into national electoral "white flight."

Hopefully it will further morph into national intellectual/moral flight from the ideas abhorrent to our political heritage bequeathed to us by our Founders.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 8:25:57 AM


Harold (Wyatt)

Lynn ; UAW/30yrs/never voted Democrat. Me : USWA/32yrs/never voted DemoKRAUT. I hope there are a large number of us out there.

Do you think our unions like us ?

Posted December 3, 2011 at 9:23:56 AM


Harold (Wyatt)

Proof of citizenship : Time for a national photo ID. I have had one since I first joined the Navy in 1958, when I was 18. It hasn't hurt me yet, except for all that the government has taken away from my retirement benefits.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 9:31:55 AM


Blaster

How many Illeagals will be allowed a vote and how many times will the dead will rise to vote again.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 9:42:56 AM


Bob McKune

Obamanomics: Buy votes by building bigger public troughs. Kill jobs with regulations. Refuse to use our own natural resources. Keep the GOP playing defense. Buy maintenance contracts for the printing presses at the US Treasury.

And, so far, getting away with it. There is more but, suddenly, I don't feel well.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 10:04:49 AM


Bill in Az

I am afraid that we have so many people on some kind of public dole that they will use that as an excuse to vote "big government". They will "have to vote for their subsidy".

Posted December 3, 2011 at 10:28:28 AM


Joel

I just pray it does not work. If it does, and we cross that precipice into becoming a land where everyone looks to government for sustenance, who then will think he has cause to pray to the true source of our sustenance? It's time we put politicians with god complexes out of business and promote a society of independent, productive citizens, each striving to use his talents as his Maker intends.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 10:28:35 AM


Fred Siemers

I would expect that from a liberal mind, but as the liberal women said, I am full of crap!

Without WEALTH as a motive, soon there will not be enough producers ( tax payers )to pay for the non-producers ( non taxpayers ). Where is the incentive for the Middle Class to achieve personal wealth, if the Government is going to confiscate or( tax ) their gain?

Posted December 3, 2011 at 10:45:35 AM


Dale

Simply put, we are headed for WWIII, and we need to get the hell out of there, and take care of our own war, on our southern boarder, at home in the USA.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 11:42:15 AM


Morning Glory

I'm so sick of all the "COVER UP" and "BLACK OUTS" that this administration blatantly uses to keep us in the dark. Where is the media--ALLLL of them? Where is their "inquiring minds want to know"? Where are all those investigative reporters? GEEZ!!!

"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." I love this quote from Joshua, and it has brought me through more than one serious trial. I wish that the Republican HOUSE would adopt this verse from Joshua as their 'motto'. They'd be surprised at the results; if they truly believed it, they would be blessed beyond measure. In return, our country would begin to see the mighty hand of God once again shelter us under HIS wing. I miss having a leader who also serves as a "spiritual covering" for us......actually, I just miss having a LEADER period!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted December 3, 2011 at 12:32:55 PM


Buford Furrow

It is rare to "bite the hand that feeds you" BUT actions/inactions by Obama's handlers (CZARS)may get a big surprise. Be sure to include the Chicago mob as well. The blatent Socialist/Communist actions which have been exposed MAY sway the labor unions and other supporters such as Hollywood to see the light. We are in serious trouble unless American history, once again, becomes a required subject in our public schools. Be sure that the books are authenic when you start.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 12:46:10 PM


Jim Anderson

The Democrat's are completely and wholly out of touch with reality and the mainstream American population... those who actually make this society work and who, through their own charity, also help the indigent and unemployed by giving substantive aid to a variety of Christian and charitable organizations. The 'occupy' groups do nothing to help anyone but themselves.

It's time Americans who have supposedly depended upon the Democrat dole for years finally realize that with the Democrat assault on mainline America, jobs will be lost, the economy will continue to fail, and those who have been supporting them will be forced to care for themselves, instead, thus leaving the indigent and homeless and unemployed to fend for themselves. This will ultimately result in anarchy unless we re-take the leadership of our nation by electing real leaders who care more for their countrymen and their country than their own petty agrandisement.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 1:23:38 PM


Harold (Wyatt)

Buford says that the blatant Socialist/Communist actions which have been exposed MAY sway the labor unions and other supporters such as Hollywood to see the light. Well I am one union member that saw the light many years ago when union membership was required for me to work in the company where I was employed, that saw the light then (1979) because I saw fit not to vote for anyone/anything that the union endorsed, because their endorsements did not meet my beliefs. AND they still don't. I just hope the Republicans can come up with someone worthy of my vote, because I don't want to write in Micky Mouse AGAIN.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 1:25:44 PM


James

The US Economy is not yet dead, there are still employed middle class workers - That is why 0bama needs one more term. Besides what other job would give him this many paid vacations?

Posted December 3, 2011 at 2:02:09 PM


Jonathan Oaks

It's okay for blacks to kill whites. Heaven forbid if it's the other way around.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 3:42:32 PM


George R. Clark

With friends like Pakistan who needs any foes???

I have a question that needs to answered for a whole lot of people. What is keeping Obama from being impeached???

Posted December 3, 2011 at 4:00:33 PM


Don

There sure are a lot of Dum-masses out there to vote for Barack Obama again, but, i don't think reasonable thinking people will put him back in office again. He continues to make things worse for our country instead of better. He has, by design, crippled our nation. We will be a long time getting it back.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 4:37:29 PM


gil doan

You're kidding.

For leftists, nothing COUNTS but winning.

NOTHING!

But who would say that to their faces?

I would.

Give me a shot!

Posted December 3, 2011 at 5:54:08 PM


Terry Webb

The open season on whites is 365 days per year. The corresponding open season on blacks is; wait a minute, there is none.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 6:19:33 PM


Bud H

For once, I totally agree with BO when he stated: "Every single thing that we care about is at stake in the next election. The very core of what this country stands for is on the line." However, "the core" for BO and his marxist/sociualist/elitist cronies is very different from the core beliefs and desires that the Founding Fathers spoke so adamantly and passionately about. No matter how BO intended his statement to be received, it is a definite fact that "everything the true American Patriot believes that the country stands for is INDEED on the line".

That's why 2012 is the most critical presidential election since the American Revolution. If all true American patriots fail to energize the conservative base for the 2012 election, unite behind a candidate who can rally the support of all those who understand the core values that the founders were willing to die for, and crush the secular, leftist/socialist desires to "fundamentally transform" America, the US will quickly become another third-world toilet, no better than a banana republic.

Anyone who values liberty must not allow anyone or anything to sway him/her from the goal of the 2012 election: to restore the country to its original greatness, to reaffrim the US Constitition as the Law of the Land, and to remember the values upon which our gret nation was founded.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 6:48:38 PM


JimBob

The (un)employment numbers we are being given amounts to smoke and mirrors. Seasonal employment no doubt makes up the bulk of all this hiring and will not continue into the new year. Look for 9+ numbers again in mid to late January and throughout 2012. And if taxes on the so-called 1% soar as obooba would have it, the numbers will go higher. No one is going to hire when their own financial picture is grainy.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 6:59:52 PM


Scott M

Pakistan, friend or foe? Unfortunately, the answer must be FOE for the simple fact that Pakistan is a Muslim nation. It is therefore impossible for them to be a true friend of America.

Posted December 3, 2011 at 8:58:20 PM


JAMES J. BILENKI JR. (USN. RET.)

My Patriotic Brothers and Sisters,

I'm not a curch going Christian anymore, and since that Ignorant, Arrogant, Incompetent and Highly Un-Qualified Shill Slithered his way into OUR White House, I don't believe our religious entities are listening to our pleas and prayers anymore. But God, or whom ever is supposed to watch over us, help us if this NITWIT we've been infected with for the last 3 years, gets re-elected. This country will not be able to withstand his administration's assault for another 4 years, nor it's weakening of our once powerful nation. Not only that but, China has thousands of miles of underground tunnels that are filled with Nuclear weapons. Weapons they're not supposed to have under world wide Nuclear weapons ban treaties. Obama's FAILED, USELESS, MORONIC and HIGHLY INCOMPETENT administration is DISMANTLING AND WEAKENING our nations military and defense systems at a time when "We The People" are being targeted by nations that hate us and want to see us overthrown and destroyed. And remember that China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela and most of all the other Far Eastern, oil cartel, muslim nations, want all of us dead or in slavery. Please wake the Hell up America and, if need be, Physically and Permanently Throw These Very Dangerous, Destructive and Anti-American Traditors, out of OUR COUNTRY!!! Since God dosen't seem to be listening to us anymore, (and it's our own damn fault) or helping us get rid of these Tyranical Despots, I guess we're gonna' have to do it on our own! All we need is a competent, common sense, charismatic leader, who'll have the balls or the leather ovaries to organize this nations White Middle Class citizens, and again, if need be, Physically take back OUR country!

"THE TREE OF LIBERTY MUST BE REFRESHED FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS!"

I believe that time has come.

J.J.B.Jr.(USN.RET.)

Posted December 3, 2011 at 9:48:37 PM


JAMES J. BILENKI JR. (USN. RET.)

As far as the Knoxville, Kentucky case is concerned...,

The Judge, the Savages Blood Sucking lawyers and the Savages themselves should be taken out into a field somewhere in the back woods of Kentucky, stripped naked, and one by one, so the other Savages and their Savage friends can watch what will be their fate, then doused with a flammable liquid and set ablase!

Then let that be a leason to all other Savages. You WILL meet the same fate if you act like a Savage in a civilized nation.

J.J.B.JR.(USN.RET.)

Posted December 3, 2011 at 10:21:12 PM


David Kilpatrick

Obama's strategy is a good one and, sad to say, it has a good chance to win. The white middle class and the people they support for political office, are characterized by the press and the Obama crowd as being anti-Hispanic just because we want immigrants to be legal and because we don't want illegals drawing benefits from the public trough. We will lose the class warfare battle unless we embrace policies that enhance opportunities for those folks who come to this country for no other reason than to advance themselves and to provide better lives for their families. And I believe we should do that, especially in the case of immigrants from Mexico. They share the same values as do we. Blanket amnesty, no! Some kind of guest worker plan with a path to citizenship, yes. We need those hard working folks gainfully employed and contributing to society, not looking for handouts from government. And we are going to need those votes!

Posted December 4, 2011 at 6:16:03 AM


Dwight Smith

There seems to be a cycle or evolution being displayed. History records this. The intensity of the progressives hate and their overt display of contra-survival goals for our country as a whole convinces me they will be satisfied with nothing but the carcass of a betrayed America. This is surely the end-game and is not a time for fence-sitters if we are to win through to a second chance for ourselves and future generations.

Posted December 4, 2011 at 7:54:29 AM


Rich Morini

And this surprises someone???????

Posted December 4, 2011 at 8:53:20 AM


Jim Qualls

Hopefully, it'll spell the end of Democratic hold on the house and senate, as well as the loss of the whitehouse

Posted December 4, 2011 at 9:07:34 AM


lee stalsby

I believe it will work just fine. With freeloaders, voter fraud, unions and minorities and just people to lasy to work but can vote. He`ll be back in office for another 4 years. I busted my hands and back all my life to support my family and pay my taxes just to see my money wasted by the government. This is not my government any longer and I refuse to pay into it anymore taxes.

Posted December 4, 2011 at 10:43:32 AM


Mike

Unfortunately, the demoncrats' strategy is working.

Posted December 4, 2011 at 11:08:22 AM


Harold (Wyatt)

The so-called unemployment rates are a farse. The numbers are much higher than the government figures, just like they were in the 80's. I was laid off the last part of 81 and didn't return to full employment until mid 85. During this period I drew the max that I was qualified for-$21/wk. Yes, $21/wk. because the state of PA deducted my $400 plus retainer/retirement, because I spent 20 years in the Navy. To get this $21, I had to submit a list of places that I seeked employment at, each week. I wish that I still had all the paperwork on this, but I cleaned out all my files last year and threw them out. I had a list of over a 100 places that I applied for work at. from PA to SC. I drove my mother-in-law(her car & trailer) down to her granddaughters.

Try living and putting enough gas in your 1965 clunker to look for jobs with $21/wk. I did, but looking back, I don't know how.

My point is; when I ran out of UE, I asked my caseworker how the government would classify me at this point. He said; they would now list me as being employed...So how many people are out there, who have exhausted their UE and according to the government are considered employed, when in fact they are not. So as I look at it, they are pulling the wool over the citizens eyes now, just like the past.

H.E.E.Sr,USN,Ret

Posted December 4, 2011 at 2:19:12 PM


m dean

in other words the ones against oboma are the working taxpaying group they should wake up & stop paying taxes how many can they arrest at one time???????????? just a thought---------------

Posted December 4, 2011 at 2:37:23 PM


RJ

Reading many of these posted comments only leads me to believe we are facing greater difficulties these next months leading to the election. The media will overwhelm us with propaganda. (Information seldom verified or checked by most. The wrestling between different groups "standing up" for people will also be heard. My question is have we reached the tipping point where so many have defined entitlements as rights expected and having the right to vote , can and will vote themselves what appears to be the best support of how they want to live? My hope is we have not, but the news I read tells me it was passed sometime ago without hardly anyone noticing !

Posted December 4, 2011 at 4:27:31 PM


Terry Webb

To answer Bilenki: Everything you said is true, but it pales in comparison to today's national imperative that this nation is to be blamed for all of the world's ills since the beginning of time. Forget 1776. Whatever ill befalls us as a nation is more than deserved since we had the temerity to allow democracy and capitalism (yes, that dirty word) to imbue into a people that all things were possible when given the freedom to imagine.

Posted December 4, 2011 at 5:09:40 PM


Hauptman

What do we expect from a class warfare communist orginization?? We the people need to eliminate every Demo from office and clense the govermant(local, state and fed) from anyone appointed by a Demo to the post they now hold. Take no prisoners!

Posted December 4, 2011 at 5:38:59 PM


Hauptman

The idiots that inhabit Packistan, or should I say Stupidstan are all islamic fools and are hell bent on destroying anything American. When will we understand that we are at WAR with all of Islam and the idiot prophet mohammad. In a word...FOE. Shoot on sight!

Posted December 4, 2011 at 6:19:22 PM


Dave

What do I think of the democrat's strategy? It is typical. They are constantly advocating class warfare. It would be interesting to project what would happen if they succeeded in eliminating the societal classes that support the classes that democrats feel so responsible for.

Posted December 4, 2011 at 6:55:03 PM


Dave

What do I think of the democrat's strategy? It is typical. They are constantly advocating class warfare. It would be interesting to project what would happen if they succeeded in eliminating the societal classes that support the classes that democrats feel so responsible for.

Posted December 4, 2011 at 7:01:55 PM


Robohobo

Why will the GoP lose next year?

Easy-peasy. They are letting the liberals dictate the agenda again.

The debates = They are put on by MSM outlets by and for MSM and Liberal consumption. Letting them choose who is the easiest for Obama to beat. They have completely cooked the books on the unemployment numbers starting this month. They numbers dropped because eligible worker rolls dropped. Nothing else.

Candidates = Cain has been 'unblacked'. Romney has been flip-flopped. Perry has been dumbed. Newt will be past historied. The Liberals will find the one for Obama to beat and crown him.

The Economy = Lies will told as all circles the drain.

Conservatives are playing the game by the rules, they just do not measure that the rules have been Alinskied and not longer apply as they think.

Unless the current crop wakes up and starts the real fight, they will lose and the American experiment will die.

Posted December 4, 2011 at 10:42:46 PM


MikeEcko

The problem of this type of thinking is there is no certainty poor people will vote their situation. I am willing to bet many people do not think of themselves as poor. Here is an interesting fact: poor people give to charity more often and with greater donations than the rich.

Posted December 5, 2011 at 12:48:39 AM


Kevin

I am a long time Knoxville resident, since 1968 to be exact. I grew up here in East Tn also. This whole mess is totally nauseating to me. I am appalled but not surprised having had my own experience with our local "justice" system a little more than 10 yrs ago. Although a civil trial not criminal, the judge was a total biased arse.

In this probably racially motivated torture/murder trial, which lasted over 4 yrs, the families of the victims were "tortured" by our court system's "right to a speedy trial". It's very interesting how so many people knew of the judges "addiction"; yet did or said nothing. Kind of reminiscent of the Penn State situation. Then when the judge finally admits his drug abuse, buying drugs from a druggie from his courtroom, and much more, he is removed from the bench. BUT naturally he does not go to jail and he gets to retain his benefits and his pension. Nauseating once again.

Now the victims' families get to enjoy this new trial all over again because of the judge's illegal, above the law actions. In my humble opinion, Judge Baumgartner should first be stripped of all of his benefits and retirement. Then he should be made to sell everything he owns to help pay for this 2nd trial. Then he should be forced to sit in the courtroom to personally witness everyday of the trial. Then he should be tried and if found guilty of any crime(s), he should have to go to jail.

The over-manufacture and abuse of prescription drugs are destroying our country while continuing to profit pharmaceutical companies and physicians willing to prostitute themselves for dollars.

We may just be witnessing the last days in America?

Posted December 5, 2011 at 8:00:24 AM


Jeff Topps

Obviously, if the victims in the Knoxville case had been anything but White, HBO, Showtime and a major movie company would already have produced a production about the case. Unfortunately, the victims were White and that's OK with Hollywood and the news media.

Posted December 5, 2011 at 8:33:36 AM


Steve May

The Democratic Party lost me many years ago. I will not be a member of any group or party who casts aside the values and priciples that made this the greatest contry in history. Democratic strategists would rather cater to people who feel they are "entitled" to everything that most of us our entire adult lives have worked hard to achieve. I have had a tough enough time raising my own family, paying off my home and my cars, but I did it because I believe in working for what you want, not expecting others to give it to me without offering anything in return.

Posted December 5, 2011 at 12:17:35 PM


Traveller1861

RE: EPA Takes Up Auto Design

Clearly Lisa Jackson is not a drinker so we can not blame her notion; that you can move a one-ton object for one mile on a little over 2 oz. of gasoline, on inebriation...cause a true drinker would know how little two shot really are!!!

Posted December 5, 2011 at 3:02:10 PM


Greg

Here is something additional to consider regarding the Global Warming piece in this issue - http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=171149

Posted December 6, 2011 at 11:26:41 AM


Kent

This time the prosecution should demand the death penalty for all envolved in the rape, torture and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.

Posted December 6, 2011 at 12:46:59 PM


CrazyEddie

I dislike this strategy and what it implies about Americans but I'm very much afraid that it will work.

Posted December 6, 2011 at 1:49:30 PM


MKBUC

Until the current mindset in DC changes, the employment statistics will not change. Too much regulation, taxation, and Big Brother involvement. We need to return to what made this country great, hard work and reliance......

Posted December 6, 2011 at 1:49:38 PM


GEORGEWBOAT

Hey anybody listen to that speach HITLER gave today

oops Obama, got confused, Thought i was watching old clips of Hitlers old speaches,

SAME OLD BS< SAME OLD BLAME GAME> SAME OLD CROCK OF

#$@% HITLER SOLD TO THE PEOPLE

USA WAKE UP

Posted December 6, 2011 at 2:27:35 PM


K.Hunter

Simply creating jobs will offer only minimal reduction in unemployment until prospective employers drop their insistence that entry level employees have such esoteric skills as reading, arithmatic, punctuality, responsibility and a willingness to actually perform some labor.

Posted December 6, 2011 at 7:04:27 PM


AFret333

Simple solution folks. Get every able-body man and woman to vote every, single incumbent out of office. It would send a powerful message to the those politicians, both replaced and incoming, democrat and republican that...."WE, THE PEOPLE" are in charge.

Posted December 6, 2011 at 10:46:12 PM


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