Wednesday Chronicle
Centralizing Power Is Really Expensive
The Foundation
"[W]hen all government ... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another." --Thomas Jefferson
Editorial Exegesis
"The latest Congressional Budget Office calls the lie on President Obama's claim that the nation's debt crisis can be solved with just a few trims to spending and a bit more taxes on the rich. Obama lately has acted as though most of the work has already been done to get the debt problem under control. ... But the latest CBO report shows that the country is far from out of the woods. In fact, despite the supposed budget cuts and the $620 billion in tax hikes Obama brags about, deficits start climbing every year after 2015, reaching back up to $978 billion by 2023. Debt, too, starts expanding again as a share of GDP, climbing to 77% by 2023, with no end in sight. Even that grim outlook is unrealistic. The CBO's forecast assumes, for example, that Congress will let scheduled huge cuts in Medicare payments to doctors go through, even though they haven't done so for years. It assumes ObamaCare's costs don't explode, despite increasing evidence to the contrary. And it assumes there's no recession anytime in the next decade and that interest rates remain reasonably low. The CBO also makes it abundantly clear that the cause of this crisis is out-of-control spending, not insufficient tax revenues. ... The report is also clear that entitlements -- Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and now ObamaCare -- are to blame for the continued growth in spending. ... The CBO adds that 'unless the laws governing those programs are changed, debt will rise sharply relative to GDP after 2023.' So what is Obama doing in the face of this still-looming crisis? Instead of confronting spending and entitlements, he's focused on meaningless side issues like gun control and scoring short-term political points against Republicans. Given the scale of the nation's fiscal crisis, this is hardly the leadership we need right now. But unless something changes, it's the leadership we're stuck with for the next four years." --Investor's Business Daily
The Gipper
"The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. ... It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing." --Ronald Reagan
Today marks President Ronald Wilson Reagan's 102nd birthday, or as he would have phrased it, the 63rd anniversary of his 39th birthday. The observance of this occasion provides a vital bond with our national heritage of Liberty and those who have devoted their lives and fortunes to advance it. Don't miss our remembrance.
Upright
"The income tax was considered ... one of the most notable achievements of the Democratic Party. ... Following the 16th Amendment, the Revenue Act of 1913 was passed and signed into law on Oct. 3, 1913. And so, the income tax was made a permanent part of American culture. In 1913, the highest income earners tax rate was 7 percent. That is dramatically different from today's highest earners, especially after the latest increase in income taxes. As of Jan. 2013, the top income rate is 39.6 percent, after the recent spike in income taxes at the beginning of 2013. This is a 465 percent increase from the original 1913 level of 7 percent. Even with this huge increase, the Democrats and media alike continue to call for raising taxes -- specifically on those who make more then $250,000 a year." --Media Research Center's Liz Thatcher
"The key to the progressive 'ratchet,' as it is often, correctly, called, is that no step forward may ever be retraced. ... The key to the success of Western socialism's 'progress' is not the periodic lurches toward the abyss. It is the art of effective stalling. All of today's political and moral outrages will be rationalized with a shrug tomorrow: 'What difference -- at this point -- does it make?'" --columnist Daren Jonescu
"This White House has already shown a propensity toward ruling by executive fiat -- whether by executive action that effectively enacts rejected legislation, by refusing to enforce existing law, or by crafting rules for legislation to grant vast new powers to bureaucrats. Once it has de-legitimized the opposition, the White House can claim it is left with no choice but to accelerate and expand its use of executive power. What else can they do, the president and his operatives will argue, when faced with the insanity of the Republicans?" --White House Dossier's Keith Koffler
"Not one of the past federal amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration. Instead, the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recipients, and this number was multiplied by an unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic U.S. citizenship. ... You want 'comprehensive immigration reform'? Start with reliable adjudications, fully cleared backlogs, consistent interior enforcement, working background checks for the existing caseload, and efficient and effective deportation policies that punish law-breakers and do right by law-abiders." --columnist Michelle Malkin
"There's an old saying amongst First Amendment lawyers that the proper cure for bad speech is better speech, and that Paul Harvey [Super Bowl] ad was, without doubt, better speech [than Beyoncé's halftime show]. To be clear, I'm not opposed to some good, old-fashioned cultural hand-wringing when the occasion demands it. Indeed, it's important to call out the wrong, but calling out the wrong without providing a compelling right will ultimately get us nowhere." --National Review's David French
Insight
"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights." --American author H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good." --Russian novelist and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
The Right ... to Keep and Bear Arms
Barack "Skeeter" Obama and his NeoCom cadres aren't letting up on their anti-gun agenda. We can't let down our guard, either.
Please take a moment and join the 37,000 of your fellow Patriots who have pledged to support and defend our Constitution, including the Second Amendment. Share it with your family, friends and colleagues via social media and email, as well.
Sign the 2A pledge!
Demo-gogues
Feelings: "[I]f there's even one thing we can do to keep our children and our community safe -- there's just one step we can take to prevent more families from feeling what they feel after they've lost a loved one -- we've got an obligation to take that step." --Barack Obama, still stumping for gun control on nothing but emotion
Gun grabbers: "I'm sorry it's taken two years for us to convene this hearing, that it took Newtown, Connecticut, to finally bring us to our senses and to open this national conversation [on gun control]." --Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
"Where are we going with [the Second Amendment]? I mean, do individuals get to own nuclear weapons? Do they get to own submarines, with this notion that they have a right to bear arms? No." --Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
Reminders: "I think it's important to remind everybody that, what I've said previously, I am not a king, I am head of the executive branch of government. I am required to follow the law, and that is what we've done. But what I have also said is let's make sure we apply law in a way that takes into that account." --Barack Obama, who all too often behaves as a king
Raise taxes: "There is no doubt we need additional revenue, coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit. And we can do it in a gradual way so it doesn't have a huge impact." --Barack Obama (Translation: So you don't notice quite as much.)
Coming to terms: "I hope no one uses the term 'illegal immigrants' here today. Our citizens are -- the people in this country are not illegal, they are out of status, they are new Americans that are immigrants, and I think that we can forge a path to citizenship that will be able to pass muster." --Rep. John Conyers at this week's House immigration hearing
Change: "My attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does in every institution and walk of life, and the [Boy] Scouts are a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives, and I think that nobody should be barred from that." --Barack Obama, calling for major policy change for the Scouts
Playing make believe: "[Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell] continues badmouthing the recovery. We are in a recovery. ... Growth went down in the fourth quarter because of reduced government spending. The economy was rejecting the austerity and brinkmanship." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
Dezinformatsia
Department of Corrections: "An earlier version of this article misstated the type of weapon that President Obama fired in a photo released Saturday by the White House. It was a shotgun, not a rifle." --The New York Times (See Barack "Skeeter" Obama on the range.)
Is this a fashion show? "Obama is outdoors amid grass and trees with a rifle cocked in his left shoulder, his left index finger on the trigger and smoke coming from the barrel. He is wearing jeans, a dark blue, short-sleeved polo shirt, sunglasses and headphones." --Associated Press writer Darlene Superville
Fearmongering: "I was thinking, you know, there's a few place in the country we are safe from the NRA, maybe California, maybe the Northeast. ... [But] I read the other day Cuomo's numbers have crumbled pretty much on that one issue in New York State. ... [I]s anybody safe from the NRA?" --MSNBC's Chris Matthews
Hot air: "When the president and certainly the incoming secretary of state who has been a leader on climate change is talking about doing something about greenhouse gases, haven't the storms -- Superstorm Sandy, Irene last year -- haven't all of these recent storms and the fluctuations in temperature taught us if nothing else, that we have a real climate problem and that we have to deal with this here even if the rest of the world isn't going to deal with it, in China and elsewhere?" --NBC's Andrea Mitchell
Newspulper Headlines:
Out on a Limb: "Could John Kerry Broker a Mideast Peace Deal? Probably Not" --NationalJournal.com
Working Title: 'What Difference Does It Make?': "Hillary Clinton to Write Second Memoir" --Today.com
So Much for an End to Name Calling: "Chuck Hagel, John McCain Butt Heads at Defense Secretary Confirmation Hearing" --ABCNews.com
It's Always in the Last Place You Look: "Hitler's Toilet Is in New Jersey" --TabletMag.com
Longest Books Ever Written: "Media Bias in the Age of Obama" --Commentary website
Bottom Story of the Day: "Gore Calls Lack of Climate-Related Questions in Presidential Debates 'Pathetic'" --TheHill.com
(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)
Village Idiots
A little self reflection? "There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable. ... If you look back, we've done some really stupid things over two hundred years." --Hillary Clinton
Blame game: "We live in Chicago and one of the reasons we have such a huge problem is all around us are areas with weak laws and with very lax background checks and a lot of illegal guns flow into this city." --White House adviser David Axelrod blaming gang violence on law-abiding gun owners who don't live in Chicago
Help wanted: "We look at death coming down the street[s] [of Chicago] and can't stop it. We need federal intervention. It must be seen as a threat to national security. It's not just local. When the president shows up, it shows ultimate national seriousness." --Jesse Jackson
"Last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody's control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that." --former Playboy chairwoman and CEO Christie Hefner
Hollywood hypocrites: "I know people get [upset] and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon.' Who ... needs an assault weapon? Like really, unless you're carrying out an assault. ... You can't hunt with it. ... Who's going to attack your house, a [expletive] army?" --actor Sylvester Stallone, who's latest movie is "Bullet to the Head"
"[Anyone] who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting." --actor Jim Carrey
Short Cuts
"[The] Founders could have never imagined television, radio, Internet. Clearly, we need photo ID and background checks to use these things. Twitter can reach millions in seconds. Clearly, the Founders never imagined such power. It should be banned. The First Amendment clearly only applies to quill pens on parchment, and primitive printing presses. ... Twitter, Pintrest, Instagram, Facebook, etc., should be shut down since minors illegally use their products. Bullying on social media has led to an outbreak of violence/suicide. Clearly social media requires registration. One should not be allowed to register social media under an alias under penalty of prison time." --PJMedia's Bob Owens
"The state of Washington is now looking for a marijuana consultant now that marijuana is legal up there. I think this is one of those green jobs President Obama is always talking about." --comedian Jay Leno
"President Obama's campaign staff and operation was rolled into a permanent lobbying group. Democrats can still buy items on his website to support his efforts for hope and change. Each Obama bumper sticker comes with a Toyota Prius attached to it." --comedian Argus Hamilton
"Despite the EPA's crackdown on coal-fired plants, the power plant heating the Capitol still burns coal. I think there's a more obvious source of hot air they're overlooking here." --Fred Thompson
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team
108 Comments
Doug Schexnayder in Vidalia, La.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM
How can deception be a surprise in 2013? How?
Any honest observer knows Obama is/has been a bold serial liar... its simply a tactic of the apostles of utopian socialism.. the others are demons/smears and distractions.
Expect these tactics daily... it is how naturally toxic policies have been sold for decades in many nations rotted by socialism.
Fidel can expand on this or Greece or or or.
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:53 PM
But it sounds good to the takers and they like to hear about free stuff.
Hamilton in IL
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 6:19 PM
The key to clear understanding of our debt woes and our inexorable march toward socialism, lies in income redistribution and the government dependency that is enables.
Conservative pundits and patriots like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Steve Cochran, and many others, have the right sentiment when they say Obama and the Liberal Democrats seek to "punish" producers. But they're not entirely correct. Sorry guys.
One needs to do something wrong in order to be punished. Even rabid Liberals and socialists don't consider it a "wrong" to earn income. They can't or else they would be condemning their own gravy train.
Conservative pundits and patriots would do better to say simply that Obama and the Liberal Democrats seek to LEECH OFF OF producers, i.e. to steal the fruits of their labors.
This is where we are these days. Liberal politicians leech off of society by creating policies that pander to people and enable those same people to leech off of producers. In exchange, the leeches vote for the politicians who will secure the hosts.
Mark in FL
Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 12:17 AM
If you think liberals don't want to punish conservatives just because they themselves like money in their pockets, you sadly underestimate the statist's vitriol for anyone who doesn't "do the right thing" (support statism) while getting their piece of the pie.
Hamilton in IL
Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 10:09 AM
Mark,
I think you're confusing terms. Conservatives and producers aren't always the same persons.
The Statists don't want to "punish" conservatives. They want to eliminate conservatism in order to remove any challenges to Statist rule.
The Statists don't technically "punish" producers, they demonize them in order to stir up class envy and to get the majority of public opinion against wealth generators - not to shut them down but to control them.
Statists don't intend to grind an economy to a halt. They want to meter it out, to control the producers in order to leech off of them.
Obama is doing all of this. In my opinion, he is the greatest threat America has ever seen.
Barack Obama in Washington, D.C.
Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 4:24 PM
Hahahahahahahahaha! And I didn't even need a teleprompter for that.;-)
Doug Schexnayder in Vidalia, La.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM
How can deception be a surprise in 2013? How?
Any honest observer knows Obama is/has been a bold serial liar... its simply a tactic of the apostles of utopian socialism.. the others are demons/smears and distractions.
Expect these tactics daily... it is how naturally toxic policies have been sold for decades in many nations rotted by socialism.
Fidel can expand on this or Greece or or or.
Lou Priestley in Pennsauken, NJ
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Back to Social Security and Medicare as entitlements. Just checked my last pay stub, they still charge me, How are these "entitlements" and if they aren't, why isn't the word "entitlement" in quotes ???
GVS in Illinois
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:47 PM
'Charged' is a kind word for the fact hat we have no choice in the matter. We are robbed of income then fed the lie that the benefits the robbed income supposedly is funding are not due us but are entitlements to others. System is a government run Ponzi scheme in my opinion.
Les in Texas
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Since when is something I've paid into for my entire working life an "entitlement"? Oh right, I forgot, the liberal/socialist/communikst democrats are in the Senate and the White House. My bad.
J D Steele in Lee's Summit, MO
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Mr. Obama continues to work the Cloward & Pivens plan, to load all entitlement programs, etc to failure, make the dollar worthless, tax and regulate private enterprise out of business (read nationalize), and turn the U.S. into a third rate socialist banana republic, if even that. Mr Obama could care less about budgets, deficits, and national debt, as these all feed into a growing dependence on governemnt by the progressively educated sheeples, and failure of the U.S. as a heretofore free nation.
JWG in Hampton
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM
Forrest Gump's mama said: "stupid is as stupid does". These are the consequences of electing and re-electing an unqualified, community-organizing hack politician. (Shoots a mean shotgun though, LOL!)
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:06 PM
And the consequences of electing an incompetent and inept opposition
Sam Sandlin in Sarepta
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Spot on, Mr. Bill ...
Les in Texas
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:35 AM
This weeks Patriot Humor was some of the best I've seen in years! I don't know who put it together but they did a bang up job. :D
zenga in Ashburn, VA
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Re the question (in Editorial Exegesis): So what is 0bama doing? As usual, he's leading from behind.
TheTexasCooke in Lockhart, Texas
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Concerning the out-of-control-federal-government: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,..." Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock.....
Sam Sandlin in Sarepta
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:47 PM
Thanks, Texican .. itsa comin' .. tick-tock-tick-tock - won't get here soon enough for this Louisianian and I'll stand with you ...
Edward Brown in Eaton, OH
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:53 AM
As a young boy, when I saw a really neat new car I would conclude: "That must cost a zillion dollars! It was a dream to think John Bares Fitipton might give me $1 million dollars anonymously. Now it seems like a billion is what once was a $5 bill! The way the government is viewing a trillion dollars as the new hundred dollar bill boggles my mind. Now I wonder if a zillion dollar national debt is not a possibility for the future
Kurtis D. Davis in Braggs, Oklahoma
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:54 AM
The President establishes mockery of the Budget & Accounting Act of 1921, which he is lawfully sworn to uphold. As a result, the appropriations process is once again characterized by utter confusion, just the way it was 90 years ago, before such Act was brought about. Furthermore, Congress can modify the BAA so that the President is required to submit a balanced budget---we don't exactly need an amendment to get it done.
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:05 PM
The King is above the law, he has Divine Right.
Rifleman in Nawth Jawja
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:58 AM
"I want you to help me to fundamentally transform the most prosperous Nation in the history of the world." -- Barack Hussein O'Bama (the "Irish roots" President), 2008
Obama intends to permanently cripple the United States so that we can never fully recover even after he has left the Oval Office.
He intends to weaken The Dollar through limitless spending, expand the government beyond reduction through taxation and eliminate all political opposition by castigation and blame.
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- Lord Acton
What amazes is how quickly he has drawn power to himself.
What he is doing -- what he intends -- is as obvious as the morning sunrise. Perhaps we've become too accustomed to the morning sunrise.
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:04 PM
What is being done to stop him? John Roberts is a fine example of protesting loudly and then caving when push comes to shove.
Rifleman in Nawth Jawja
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:57 PM
John Boehner?
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Probably a good man but the best he can do as a political tactician or strategist is break out crying
Senator_Blutarsky in Texas
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM
Roberts..............Quisling Vichy who is responsible for Obomba care being instituted
A RepubliCrud appointee, after the Shrub could not get some law clerk a nomination
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:57 PM
Like father (Souter) like son (Roberts). The Bushes come from the shallow end of the gene pool, probably helped along by drugs - either prescription or illegal - and have destroyed the GOP. Why be surprised when stupid does stupid things?
One VA Patriot in Arlington, VA
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:11 PM
What is "amazing?" There have been voices warning us for generations that we were imperilling our Liberty. The people allowed themselves to be disuaded from the object of government by the "free" goodies being handed out by politicians who do not have the whole peoples' interest in mind when they load pork onto legislation.
And unless I miss my guess, the few individuals who post here do not represent enough of this countries population to make a real difference in its governance. Therefore, it is now incumbent upon you, the readers of the Patriot Post who understand the dire condition into which we have fallen, to convey this situation to your community, city and state. We need to fan these brush fires of freedom into a country-wide conflagration so that many now silent will stand and face the evil before us.
Hamilton in IL
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 6:31 PM
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
For all those of us who needed (and should have seen) a clue to the level of corruption we're suffering, all they need do is witness Obamacare.
The fact that Obamacare was passed into law despite two-thirds to 70% (depending on whose poll you heard) of Americans not wanting it, is a glaring, cold-slap-in-the-face clue that our government is now insubordinate to the People.
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:03 PM
The problem is that King Obama and the GOP are codependents. Obama lets the GOP make a pretense of opposition while avoiding any responsibility for decision making. The GOP makes people feel good, that there is a loyal energetic opposition, but in fact is so inept that it allows the King to get away with whatever he wants to do. Unless the GOP finds some effective leaders we are lost.
One VA Patriot in Arlington, VA
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:16 PM
Bill,
It is not the GOP that needs to find effective leaders.
Reagan (to my mind the most effective leader in the last 75 years) was ignored by the Rockefeller wing of the GOP establishment until the people wanted him as their President.
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:58 PM
You have a way to reincarnate Reagan? I do not think he is a candidate to lead the current bunch of stumblebums who call themselves the GOP.
Senator_Blutarsky in Texas
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM
Reagan- the guy who vowed to have no TriLats in his administration............then ended up with dozens.
Reagan said, when asked if he would appoint members of the Trilateral Commission, an internationalist think tank, to cabinet positions, “I don’t believe that the Trilateral Commission is a conspiratorial group, but I do think its interests are devoted to international banking, multinational corporations, and so forth. I don’t think that any Administration of the U.S. Government should have the top nineteen positions filled by people from any one group or organization representing one viewpoint. No, I would go in a different direction.”
In order to secure the Presidency, Reagan wound up choosing the internationalist faction’s chief front man of the day, former CIA Director George HW Bush, as his Vice President, putting Bush “one heartbeat away” from the Presidency. However, it was well-known that the conservative policies of Reagan’s caucus inside the GOP were anathema to the internationalist, New World Order crowd represented by spy chief Bush.
The GOP is owned, 99% by the international banking cartels, just like the Dims
Bill in Leawood, KS
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 2:36 PM
But at least the Dims are smart enough to camouflage it; the GOP is not and they pay at the voting booth for their incompetence - but then again they are count ry club gentlemen who do not care if they lose as long as they follow the Marquis of Queensbery rules while losing
R.K. Sprau in L.C. N.M.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Interesting comments. I have a question, was VP Bush as VP, Senator, or as President, really not working for the CIA. One never retires from the world of shadows, In the the world of Black Box Units, who was running the show then through now?
Senator_Blutarsky in Texas
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 3:42 PM
Bush the Elder ran the 2 Reagan terms, Klinton terms, and Son the lesser admins.
Blame GHWB for the total abandonment ( & effective death sentence ) of the remaining POW-MIA, for letting KAL 007 go unpunished, S&L coverups, ad nauseum.
of note - It turns out that the shareholders of the Federal Reserve might have had motives to be sure their "handler"-GHWB was the de facto President. According to Bix Weir, Reagan took distinct and swift action on monetary policy shortly after becoming President. He notes a Reagan biography by Lou Cannon which makes reference to a moment when, on the third day of his Presidency, Reagan left the White House without Secret Service protection to discuss his reservations about the Federal Reserve System with then Fed Chairman Paul Volcker.
Reagan also swiftly began a gold commission around that time to look at the high inflation caused by Bretton-Woods. These policies would have put him at the opposite ideological pole from the banking establishment of the time. A couple of months later, John Hinckley, Jr, an allegedly lone gunman, opens fire on the President, seriously wounding him.
Convenient ? Coincidence ?
John Hinckley, Jr’s connections to the Bush family probably were close enough to warrant an investigation at the time. This did not happen, presumably because it is extraordinarily politically complex to accuse the sitting Vice President of a crime. According to Wikipedia, Hinckley’s father was a contributor to George Bush, Sr’s Presidential campaign. Both the Hinckley and Bush families were in the oil business. The two families were close and knew each other well.
Do your own math...Ronnie got the message and spent his remaining years as "President" merely mouthing great soundbites and bumpersticker slogans, while Poppy Bush ran the admin for the bankster cartel-internationalists, and the mil-intel community - the agendas RR hated but was gelded by the "op" that used Hinckley.. They were not about to allow RR to deviate from the global agenda , which was certainly the will and consensus of the people....and just as Perot was "delivered a message" to drop out.
Insider info here - Perot had a seething undercurrent against GHWB for his deliberate abandonment of POW-MIA , and he was determined to win, based on a reasonable degree of common sense and true justice the public still retained at that time. Ross was delivered a very very PERSONAL message, if you get my drift.
Wayne Miller in Hinesville, Ga
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Senator, You need to do a little more research on the Reagan-Bush agenda you are pushing. Try reading Reagan's Secret War and you might undestand that Reagan made his own decisions after consulting with his cabinnet. Alexander Haig left the administration because Reagan did not allow him to make his own decisions as Sec of State without consulting Reagan. This information comes from declassified documents and Reagan's hand-written notes.
Senator_Blutarsky in Texas
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 6:50 PM
How did those work out ?............not too good.
GHWB was the trigger man on all key issues after the Hinkley attempt. Reagan was nothing but a figurehead from then on. Do not be naive`.
Just playing what-if - if your assumptions and innuendo are correct (not), then where is the 'greatness' of RR in light of the unforgiveable MIA abandonment, the KAL 007 slap in the face, the S&L scandals, the Franklin coverup, the neutering of full auto weapons in '86 McClure Act, and the overall debasement of the currency during the " Reagan" years ?
Let us throw in FEMA, Ollie North, Contras, War on Drugs etc - what a debacle for America - what a disastrous 8 years
The actions of the Reagan Administration during the Iran-Contra scandal revealed "a pattern of conduct and a state of mind among important people in this administration which must be described as an American style of fascism. I would prefer to avoid that term, but it is the only one in the modern political vocabulary that adequately describes the situation."
William Pfaff, Chicago Tribune, March, 1987
Dude..........it was a coup de tat in Dallas........RR may have been well intentioned, but the moment Poppy was FORCED on him as VP, it was over - the banksters-mil-intel cartel had their man safely in place.
"The monopoly on use of nuclear weaponry, the cult of the commander in chief, the worldwide network of military bases to maintain nuclear alert and supremacy, the secret intelligence agencies, the entire national security state, the classification and clearance systems, the expansion of state secrets, the withholding of evidence and information, the permanent emergency that has melded World War II with the cold war and the cold war with the "war on terror"—all these make a vast and intricate structure that may not yield to effort at dismantling it. Sixty-eight straight years of war emergency powers (1941–2009) have made the abnormal normal, and constitutional diminishment the settled order...."
Garry Wills, "Entangled Giant," New York Review, 8/8/09
The fraudulent " Cold war " and " War on Drugs " have given as much 'cover' for illegitimate government and abuse of rule of law, as the false flag of 9-11
Git R Dunn in Alabama
Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 4:47 PM
I am thinking I should move to Texas
Elmer in Wisconsin
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:03 PM
As long as we ignore the money being spent yearly to take care of illegals, pork spending by our government and the handouts to every country in the world, nothing is going to change, PERIOD! Besides, if you are getting all this FREE aid, why become a citizen? And, how did these people get to vote???
John Q Citizen in Colorado
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:17 PM
It's called Fraud, and to reiterate the current class of GOPidiots in the halls of congress don't give a rats ptoo about their constituents. The kings laws don't apply to them either so why should they care. They no longer serve the nation they serve themselves and we need to rid ourselves of them.
Sam Sandlin in Sarepta
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:42 PM
AMEN !!!
Hamilton in IL
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 6:44 PM
John Q Citizen,
I would more accurately call it pandering. But you are absolutely correct in that our political class is almost exclusively serving themselves. And the People know it. And what's congress's approval rating now?
Unfortunately I can't remember which, but while expressing his concern over the longevity of the Republic, one of the Founders said something to the effect that our nation will be over when and if those in government discover that they can enrich themselves at public expense, and they have the immoral character to do it.
Brian in Newport News, VA
Friday, February 8, 2013 at 7:14 AM
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." —Benjamin Franklin
Hamilton in IL
Friday, February 8, 2013 at 5:54 PM
Thank you Brian.
zenga in Ashburn, VA
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Just a funny note re The Gipper: Having seen a reference to Reagon's 101st birday on another site this morning, I resolved in my mind that the Patriot Post is correct that this is indeed the 102nd anniversary, but during my google search (on this text: ronald reagan 101 today 6 feb 2013), I discovered that a number of websites have the same error. Apparently there are a lot of mathematically challenged people in the country (running blogs, etc.). But the most peculiar and amusing of the sites with this error was the first - his birthplace in Tampico, IL.
One VA Patriot in Arlington, VA
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 1:18 PM
Probably the same idiots who held that 01/01/2000 was the beginning of the 21st Century, instead of the end of the 20th.