FILE THIS ONE UNDER: JUST WHAT PLANET IS THIS MORON FROM???

Proving yet again that there is absolutely no lie that Democrats will not tell in their continuing effort to convince people that Obamacare is some great and wondrous thing, we have moron Barbara Lee from, where else, California, who in a rather heated exchange with Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, on "Meet the Press" Sunday, insisted that Obamacare is reducing health care costs. "Health care costs are going down….they’re going down for the first time in 50 years," Lee stated emphatically. This is an old Democrat tactic, lie often and lie loudly and eventually the less intelligent folks will come over to your side.

"No they’re not. They’re escalating," Ms. Blackburn countered, interrupting Lee. "They’re through the roof." And there is an abundant amount of evidence available that makes it quite easy to determine which one of these two ladies is lying. Well, since ladies don’t lie, what we really seem to have here is a lady and a scum-sucking Democrat. And it was earlier in the program that Lee made the rather idiotic, and patently false argument, that millions of "people right now are benefiting from the Affordable Care [Act]," which, you’ll recall, Congress passed in 2010 without a single Republican vote.

"They’re being hurt by it," Ms. Blackburn interjected. To which the lying sack of shit Lee responded, "They’re not being hurt by this." So who’s right? Well if, unlike Ms. Lee, you’re interested in actual facts, then according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, (CPI), which measures the average change in prices for basic goods and services, including food, energy, transportation, housing and health care, the answer to that question would be obvious. Because it would be Ms. Blackburn. Lee is doing nothing more than what Pelosi did back when she said we’d needed to pass it to see what’s in it. LIE!

Over the past year, the cost of all goods and services here in America rose 1.5 percent. But, despite what Ms Lee, the Democrat, would have us believe, costs for medical services rose more than 3 percent during the same time period, or more than twice the CPI’s average rate of inflation. Obviously the esteemed Ms. Lee is no brighter than many of her fellow House Democrats, such as Shelia Jackson Lee, Corrine Brown, Eleanor Holmes, Marcia Fudge and Frederica Wilson to name just a few. The collective brainpower of this little cadre wouldn’t light up your average appliance bulb. And yet people seem to be willing to believe them.

In addition, we have the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that recently issued its "National Health Expenditure Projections 2012-2022," which noted that "health spending growth through 2013 is expected to remain just under 4.0 percent." The cost increase is lower than expected, "due to the sluggish economic recovery, continued increases in cost-sharing requirements for the privately insured, and low growth for Medicare and Medicaid," CMS noted. But next year things will be turning pretty ugly, pretty fast. But of course you’ll hear none of that from the disgusting Ms. Lee.

Because next year overall health care costs are forecast to increase a pretty significant 6.1 percent because of "improving economic conditions, the Obamacare coverage expansions, and the aging of the population, drive faster projected growth in health spending in 2014 and beyond." The same report also predicts that "health spending is projected to grow at an average rate of 5.8 percent from 2012-2022, 1.0 percentage point faster than expected average annual growth in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)." Again, this is not the kind of information that Ms. Lee and her fellow Democrats want to bring to the forefront.

According to CMS, aggregate health care costs under Obamacare will: 1) Grow an average of 6.2 percent per year through 2022; 2) Increase cumulative health spending in the U.S. by roughly $621 Billion over the next decade; 3) Consume 19.9 of GDP by 2022, compared to 17.9 percent in 2011. "The primary emphasis of the health law is to reduce the number of uninsured," University of Southern California health policy Professor Glenn Melnick told the Los Angeles Times. "It has limited ways to achieve cost containment. We should be realistic that the law will not substantially slow down spending." Tell that to Ms. Lee!

So I’ll ask again. Just what planet is this moron, Barbara Lee, from? I mean here we are being inundated with all manner of proof, that is essentially undeniable, telling us this train wreck of Obamacare, is truly that, a train wreck, yet the Democrats, including this loon Lee, continue to deny it. Instead they feel completely justified in referring to that mountain of evidence as being nothing more than fear-mongering coming from opponents of the ‘law.’ If in fact this is such a great idea then why is it that Ms. Lee and her colleagues have found for themselves a way out of it? Either we’re ALL going to be in it, or none of us should be!

Finally I’d just like to say that I’m really getting fed up with being treated like some sort of second class citizen who is presumed to be too stupid to take care of himself and therefore needs the government to do the job for me. People like this Lee character turn my stomach. She like the rest of her cohorts in the Democrat Party hate this country, and have made it quite clear that they are now on a mission to destroy it. People like her used to be a little more covert in their sinister activities, but in this age of Barry "Almighty" they are now free to operate in the full light of day and right under our noses. They are a pathetic bunch, these Democrats, as is anyone who votes for them.

OBAMACARE…EVEN MORE GOOD NEWS…NOT!

Here’s some food for thought for all those out there who remain of the opinion that the Republicans are doing nothing more than spinning their wheels with their effort to defund Obamacare. The reasons why this needs to be done are as plentiful as they are apparent. First, let’s begin with what was one of most vivid and concrete campaign promises we heard uttered by Barry the candidate. It was when he made the solemn pledge on June 5, 2008: "In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year….. We’ll do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States." Well, as they say, truth is very often stranger than fiction. Unfortunately, the experts working for Medicare’s actuary have again reported that in its first 10 years, Obamacare will boost healthcare spending by "roughly $621 billion" above the amounts Americans would have spent had this horrendous law never been enacted.

And I can almost hear you all asking, "What might this mean for your typical family of four." I mean, after all, $621 Billion is an amount a little hard to comprehend. Most folks, I assume, might be interested in finding out how this number translates over to a typical American family, the very family that candidate Barry promised would actually see $2,500 in annual savings and as far as the eye could see. Well, you take the latest year-by-year projections and divide by the projected population and then multiply the result by 4. Sounds simple, right? Anyway, this approach allows us to see just how badly Barry’s promise, one more on a long list of many, fell far short of his mark. Between 2014 and 2022, the increase in national health spending, which the Medicare actuaries specifically attribute to the law, amounts to $7,450 per family of 4. What, you say? No way, you say? Yes way!

So now we’ll have to hope that this family, and millions others like it, hasn’t already spent or borrowed the $22,500 in savings that they might have expected over this same period had they taken candidate Barry’s promise at face value. But in truth, no intelligent American ever should have believed such an absurd promise, especially coming from such an unseemly character as Barry. At the time, even Factcheck.org charitably deemed this claim as being "overly optimistic, misleading and, to some extent, contradicted by one of his own advisers." Yet rather than learn from his mistakes, Barry "Almighty," as recently as July 16, 2012, essentially doubled-down on his promise, assuring small business owners "your premiums will go down." He made this assertion despite the fact that in three separate reports between April 2010 and June 2012, the Medicare actuaries had demonstrated that the ACA would increase healthcare spending.

But hold your horses folks, because with the arrival of 2014 things get much worse when that burden increases ten-fold. Because as it turns out, the average family of 4 has only had to face a relatively modest burden from Obamacare over the past four years, or just a little over $125. Unfortunately, this year’s average burden ($66) will be 10 times as large in 2014 when Obamacare fully kicks in in earnest. And it will rise for two years after that, after which it hit a steady-state level of just under $800 a year. Of course, all these figures are in nominal dollars. In terms of today’s purchasing power, this annual amount will rise steadily. In the interests of fair and honest reporting, perhaps it’s now time for the mainstream media to begin using "Affordable" Care Act whenever reference is made to this terribly misguided law. Doing so would make it all the more apparent how this law is actually anything but.

Anyone is obviously welcome to take exception to the numbers of the Medicare actuary, and I’m sure most Democrats, being the ones who dreamed this whole thing up, will. But it’s difficult to challenge their central conclusion, Obamacare will not save Americans one penny now or in the future. And perhaps voters could better serve themselves by being just a little less eager to believe politicians making such grandiose claims and a little more eager to protect their wallets. Until then, let’s spare strapped Americans from having to find $657 in spare change between their couch cushions next year. Let’s defund this Rube Goldberg device known as Obamacare, and set to work on removing the government from the healthcare business. For a nation with the most complicated and expensive health system on the planet, making it even more complicated and even more expensive is just a dumb idea.

The ridding ourselves of Obamacare has got to remain our top priority despite all of the naysayers telling us that we’re only wasting our time. They are cowards and, obviously, they’re afraid of a fight. All they seem to be worried about are their own worthless backsides. Every American should now be screaming at the top of their lungs in support of the Republican effort to defund this catastrophic law. And we should view a government shutdown, if it comes, as being a very small price to pay for ridding ourselves of it. We need to stay on top of guys like Boehner and Cantor so they don’t go squishy on us, as well, we need to stay in constant contact with our own members of Congress. We cannot afford to let up for a second, this is simply too important of an issue. So much depends on our being able to erase this horrible law, and to replace it with something that genuinely improves our healthcare system and completely removes the government from having any control of it.

I GUESS JUST ABOUT ‘ANY’ BLACK PRESIDENT WILL DO, NO MATTER HOW BAD…

Ramping up some of his typically favorite racially charged rhetoric, geared specifically for the audience to which he was speaking, something he has always been quite good at, Barry made sure to highlight the usual themes of civil rights and social justice. It was in a speech this past Saturday, that Barry made the point that until the U.S. becomes a place where anyone who is willing to work hard can earn a way into the middle class "we can't let up and we can't rest." In making references to those who want to work, Barry may have been speaking to the wrong crowd here. And what Barry managed to leave out of his little attempt at pandering to this primarily black crowd, was the rather inconvenient truth that black unemployment has literally exploded during his tenure as president, having now worked its way well into double digits.

"We can't rest until we offer new ladders of opportunity for anyone willing to climb them," Barry said in a keynote address to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation's annual awards dinner. "Over the last 30 years, upward mobility in this country — the idea that if you work hard, you can get ahead — has slipped out of reach for too many Americans. And that's especially true in communities with large African-American populations." But again, Barry failed to mention, and it matters very little whether intentional or not, that the primary reason that that is now even the case, has an awful lot to do with the policies that he himself has put into place. The black community has been made to suffer greatly under the supposed leadership of our own black president. His policies have made it nearly impossible for our economy to actually grow.

Barry hewed to the theme of the dinner, which this year celebrated the "Spirit of 1963," including the civil rights movement and the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice led 50 years ago at the Lincoln Memorial by Martin Luther King Jr., and the advances it brought about for black Americans. Topping the list of achievements is Barry's election in 2008 as America's first black president. To be honest with you, I’m still more than a little confused regarding just why it is that the black community can actually view the electing to this particular black president as being an accomplishment that you’re average black American can rightfully be proud of. Is it truly all about nothing more than color, that, in effect, any black president will do? If that is in fact the case, is that not the height of stupidity?

Without talking about himself, which is something of a rare occasion for this president, Barry acknowledged progress made since 1963, but said there was more to be done. He spoke of work needed to reduce a black unemployment rate that is twice that of whites, increase the minimum wage and provide health care and education for all. "We must make this country a place where anyone who works hard can earn their way into the middle class," Barry told hundreds of his most ardent supporters packed into the Washington's convention center. "And until we do, we can't let up and we can't rest." But what he neglected to mention was his continuing to stubbornly refuse to let up on his war against those who comprise our small business community, the sector of our economy that creates the majority of jobs for blacks and whites.

Barry also took the opportunity to sound a note of caution about recent mass shootings, including at the Navy Yard in Washington last Monday where authorities say 12 people were slain by a gunman who later was killed by police. Two days ago in Barry's hometown, the murder capital of the country, of Chicago, 13 people were shot during a game of pickup basketball, including a 3-year-old girl. Barry, of course, again lamented the failure earlier this year to get gun legislation through the Senate and said "that means we've got to get back up and go back at it" to work harder than those he said want to make it easier for people to get firearms. He added, "We've got to work as hard as possible for the sake of our children."

Barry "Almighty" is scheduled to speak today, Sunday, at a memorial service for victims of the Washington shooting. An occasion I’m sure he will do his politically best to exploit to the greatest extent possible. And I’m sure, as with the Newtown tragedy, we’ll soon be hearing from many other Democrats who, I’m also quite sure, will be quite thrilled that the incident was so horrific, making it all the easier to be exploited to the fullest. Because this is the way Democrats work. They are determined in their efforts to deceive, distract and destroy. But hey, all that really matters is that we have a black president. We may have sky-high unemployment, an unfathomable amount of debt, an economy on the brink, and a world about to descend into a level of chaos unseen in recent years, but at least America has a black president.

HOUSE ‘GANG OF SEVEN’ IMMIGRATION PLAN GOES UP IN SMOKE…

ANOTHER AMERICA-HATING DEMOCRAT

Apparently today there is also some good news on the amnesty front. Because in a blow to the hopes of passing immigration reform anytime soon, the bipartisan House "gang of seven" plan is probably dead, and almost certainly won’t be introduced this fall as promised, so says a top Democrat member of the "gang." "It doesn’t appear that we’re going to move forward with the group of seven," said Luis Gutierrez, who not all that long ago was touting the fact that he had more than enough Republicans on board to get the plan passed in the House. Gutierrez said, "The process is stalled. I don’t believe we’re going to produce a bill anytime soon."

This undermines what were already the dwindling prospects for reform, because the House "gang of seven" plan, which would provide a path to citizenship but is significantly to the right of the Senate bill, was seen as a ‘comprehensive’ plan Republicans who genuinely want to solve the immigration problem just might coalesce around. But Gutierrez said that House Republicans on the gang of seven, who have been trying to negotiate comprehensive reform that members of both parties can support for a long time, are just not prepared to embrace a final plan. He blames House GOP leaders for not providing Republicans on the gang with sufficient support.

"The bipartisan group just wasn’t getting support from Republican House leadership," Gutierrez complained. "It’s just not gonna happen now." Gutierrez said that he continues to believe there is substantial tacit support for immigration reform even among Republicans, but that the GOP leadership refuses to acknowledge this or try to make something happen. "We need the GOP leadership to acknowledge the votes exist for reform," he said. If this was actually about reform, that would be one thing, but it’s not. What it’s about is granting amnesty and creating millions of new Democrat voters in the process. So this moron can peddle his crap elsewhere.

Immigration reformers had hoped for what they call a "bipartisan moment" on reform in October, after the government shutdown fight is resolved — one that could have involved rolling out the gang of seven plan. But Gutierrez cast doubt on the possibility, noting he doesn’t expect anything to happen with the gang’s bill "anytime in the near future." Democratic sources have said that they believe leading House Republicans on the gang, such as GOP Reps. John Carter and Sam Johnson, both conservatives who risked exposing themselves to potential blowback from the right, are now getting ready to publicly announce that the gang of seven plan just ain’t gonna happen.

So while it has been reported that Republicans on the gang have backed away from reform because they we catching heat from many of their conservative constituents who wanted more assurances on border security, Gutierrez maintains that those Republicans were prepared to support the emerging compromise, but didn’t because they simply didn’t have support from GOP leadership. "We had agreed on virtually everything," Gutierrez says. "The last components were enforcement components" that were down to differences over "nuances" and "language." The passing of any new immigration policy should not be about nuances. It should, first and foremost, be about adequately securing our porous borders.

But that doesn’t mean the battle is over. Instead, reformers are likely to focus on another possibility. House Republicans could roll out a series of piecemeal bills, including border security measures and citizenship for just the DREAMers, which House GOP leaders support. Something that has already been floated by Cantor. If such things were to pass, it’s possible the House and Senate could get to conference negotiations, an outcome some ‘reformers’ want. But really all that’s been presented in public sounds like nothing more than an end run around current objections regarding amnesty and border security. And something that makes me more than a bit nervous is the involvement in the House discussion of Chuckie Schumer.

But for that to happen, House Republican leaders would have to be willing to allow votes on these measures this fall, and more to the point, allow Republicans to enter into conference talks, which could mean further pressure to make concessions and compromise, something conservative opponents of reform are heavily resisting. And while it’s still unclear how House GOP leaders will proceed, they appear unwilling to move anything that isn’t supported by a majority of Republicans, and this is exactly how it should be. Scraping by with a majority of Democrats and just enough Republicans is not going to be acceptable. So Boehner and Cantor should put that little thought out of their heads right now!

So at this point in time it remains very possible that House Republican leaders will choose to simply let reform die, prioritizing their base over what some see as being the need to ‘repair’ GOP relations with Latino voters. But as I have said before, if our only way to entice Latino voters into the GOP is to allow those who have been breaking our laws, potentially for years, a free pass into our country, then maybe they are better suited to be members of the Democrat Party, where the breaking of our laws seems to be no big deal. Latinos have just as much at stake as do the rest of us should the economic and fiscal collapse currently being engineered by Barry and the Democrats takes place. So they need to decide what their priorities really are.

OLD NANCY MIGHT WANT TO LAY OFF THE ‘BOTOX’…

Barry "Almighty", whose been under fire, of late, from both Republicans, as well as many in his own party, was recently on the receiving end of what can only be described as being a rather glowing review from old ‘Stretch, Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi absolutely raved about the wonderful job that our embattled commander-in-chief is doing, going so far as to actually call him a "brilliant" and "eloquent" strategist. Which made me wonder if she was talking about the same Barry "Almighty" who we all loath and despise. And, as to be expected, she made the claim that Republican scorn was based on nothing more than simple jealousy. "You know why it is. You know why it is," she spewed. "He’s brilliant, … he thinks in a strategic way in how to get something done … and he’s completely eloquent. That’s a package that they don’t like." Ya know, on those rare occasions I find myself thinking about Barry the first word that usually pops into my head, isn’t brilliant. More often than not it’s something like, corrupt or socialist

So anyway, in this same little exchange, Ms. Botox went on compare the GOP vitriol that she sees as being directed at Barry to what she described as being the snobbish distaste she claimed some Republicans had for old ‘Slick Willie’ Clinton. She said, "They didn’t think he was one of them … because of his upbringing and his personal story of success," she charged " … Although he had the Ivy League and the Georgetown education, he wasn’t rooted where most of the former presidents came from." Well to be fair, I don’t think that’s quite accurate. Republicans didn’t view "BJ" as being one of them, because he wasn’t one of them . For one thing, he was a draft dodger, and for another thing he was having sex, and doing some rather unsavory things with a cigar, right there in the Oval Office, with a girl young enough to be his daughter. So I think it went a little further than a snobbish distaste. I’m sorry, but there is something distasteful about our commander-in-chief discussing matters of state while his favorite teenager is under his desk.

And Nancy sounded her typically arrogant self in saying that the GOP's initial plan to keep the government running past Sept. 30, including the defunding Obamacare provision demanded by conservatives, wouldn't fly with her caucus. And apparently, for the most part, I guess she was correct. Because in the vote today only two Democrats voted with the GOP. She said, "I call it the tea party continuing resolution, because they are obviously driving the ship. We can do it the hard way, well, we can do it not at all, which is the path that they’re on now." She added: "They don’t want our vote. I believe that the path the Republicans are on is designed to shut down government. … [T]he question is: Can they have their ideological dream come true, or will there be some voice of reason?" Talk about an ideological dream! Having the government in complete control of the healthcare that Americans can and cannot receive has been the ideological wet-dream of the Democrat Party going all the way back to FDR!

The bottom line here is that Pelosi is nothing more than a pathetic hypocrite. And regardless of what she says, I’m one of those who happens to be of the opinion, and I could be wrong, just like the Democrats made it their priority, while forsaking such things as our troubled economy, to literally shove this train wreck disguised as ‘reform’ through Congress by hook or by crook, and making it very obvious that they didn’t much want, need, nor care for, votes of Republicans, Republicans must now begin what is sure to be the very arduous task of ending this debacle, and, if necessary, in much the same manner. Stopping Obamacare has got to be priority number one. Democrats, just like today, will be presented with an opportunity to do the right thing, maybe not for their party’s agenda, but most definitely for the American people, by voting with the Republicans to scrap this thing and start over. With only two Democrats joining the Republicans in today’s House vote, most have now demonstrated whose side they are on.

And so it would now appear that Obamacare may very well be that one ‘red line’ that Barry "Almighty", and the Democrats in Congress, will go to the wall to enforce. But, look, what’s really going on here? The Republican House passed a continuing resolution that will keep the government running but Obamacare is not a part of it. Obamacare, according to Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat, is a train wreck on the American economy. And what Barry appears to be saying here, is that he will shut down this government with his veto if Republicans don’t send the money to cover the cost of this train wreck. And Pelosi’s compatriot ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid has said that the Democrats in the Senate will take nothing that does not have Obamacare in it. So if I have this right, Barry has admitted that he will not negotiate, and ‘Dingy’ has told Boehner don’t send anything that doesn’t contain Obamacare, and it’s still the GOP who will be blamed if the government shuts down? Talk about ‘liberal logic’!

DECISION TIME IS UPON US…

WHAT AN ARROGANT A**HOLE LOOKS LIKE

In what country is it that it can now be said that we are living when a sitting U.S. senator can feel justified in making the claim, and very confidently so, that, yes, it would be morally justifiable for Congress to pass a continuing resolution that forces Americans to buy healthcare plans covering abortion-inducing drugs even if doing so violates their religious beliefs. And who might it have been who made such a claim, why none other than Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat. He made his bold proclamation when asked about funding the controversial provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, following a press conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Morally justified? And this coming from a Democrat?

The question as it was posed to the good senator went like this: "As implemented the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, is forcing Christian individuals and business owners to purchase health plans that cover abortion-inducing drugs. Now as a result, people are going to be able to use those federal subsidies to buy plans that pay for abortions. Do you believe, Senator, you're going to be morally justified in voting, through the next continuing resolution, to give the administration more money to do those things?" To which this pompous boob wasted no time in responding, and in typical liberal fashion, with a very resounding, "Yes!" Which just goes to show you the twisted mentality that we are now up against. These are dangerous times!

According to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, there are now over 200 plaintiffs who are challenging the implementation of Obamacare in court on the grounds that it violates Americans' First Amendment rights by requiring them to purchase health care plans that cover sterilization, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs even if they are morally opposed. But if you’ve spent any time listening to such liberal luminaries as Dianne Feinstein lately, Democrat hag from California, you’ve heard it said that that which is outlined in the First Amendment is actually not a right, in fact, according to Ms. Feinstein, it’s more of a guideline. Which would, I suppose, if they were alive today, come as bit of a surprise to those brilliant men who conceived it.

So such is where we seem to have now arrived. The point where those in government apparently feel that they somehow have the power to dictate to us, "We the People", and that we simply have no recourse but to comply with their increasingly arrogant demands. When was it, exactly, that we lost control? When did we cease being the master and become the servant? We are headed down a slippery slope, my friends, and we’re rapidly running out of time if we hope to respond to this outrage in any meaningful way. We cannot afford to tolerate his type of arrogant behavior, we must waste no time on setting to work in our effort to nip it in the bud and we may already be too late! But we should not permit that to stop us from acting, and acting boldly.

It would seem that we are now being forced into a position where we will soon have to make a decision. We must decide if we are going to act, and very aggressively so, or if we are going to simply resign ourselves to the fact that we have become nothing more than the servants of those whom we ‘elect.’ And with each passing day our available options are being significantly reduced and the longer we allow ourselves to be lulled into what is nothing more than a terminal form of passivity, the less likely we are to be successful in any effort we may undertake to right this ship of ours that is now listing dangerously to the left. The goal of many of our ‘leaders’ is to keep us distracted just long enough, at least until we have passed that point of no return. And it won’t be long now.

CALLS FOR STRICTER GUNS LAWS ARE PURE POLITICS…

Well what do you know about that? ‘The Windy City’ may have now acquired a new nickname, that being ‘The Deadly City.’ Because, apparently, Chicago has now earned for itself, either in spite of, or because of, its strict gun laws, the title of murder capital of the U.S. So it is then that Chicago now sits atop a list on which no city would want to find itself, a list that points out that more homicides were committed in the ‘Windy City’ in 2012 than any other city in the United States, surpassing even the ‘Big Apple.’.

And that fact becomes al the more alarming when you stop and consider the fact Chicago has only one-third the population of the Big Apple. According to new crime statistics released Monday by the FBI, there were 500 reported murders in Chicago in 2012, which was a jump from the 431 recorded in 2011. New York topped out at only 419 murders last year, compared with 515 in 2011. And yet we’re constantly being told that if only we had stricter gun laws that would solve all of our problems.

Meanwhile, the numbers were also anything but good for two Michigan cities. In Flint, a city with a population of only 101,632, there were 63 murders in 2012, meaning that one in every 1,613 city residents were homicide victims. Detroit, which experienced 386 homicides in 2012, was almost as unsafe; that’s enough murders to account for one in every 1,832 residents. So our big cities, with their bizarre devotion to liberalism, and all of the misery that goes along with, continue to suffer needlessly.

There were fifteen cities that reported more than 100 murders in 2012. Alongside Chicago, New York and Detroit, we had Philadelphia (331), Los Angeles (299), Baltimore (219), Houston (217), New Orleans (193), Dallas (154), Memphis (133), Oakland (126), Phoenix (124), St. Louis (113), Kansas City (105) and Indianapolis (101) had the busiest homicide departments. Washington, D.C., which once suffered some of the worst crime rates in the nation, reported 88 murders in 2012.

So it should be obvious that only thing Democrats, in their effort to put party politics above the safety of their citizens, have managed to do, is to turn our big cities into what are essentially nothing more than huge ‘gun free’ zones. They insist upon putting their citizens at risk by enacting stricter and stricter gun laws with the only result being escalating murder rates. And yet they stubbornly continue to advocate that allowing law abiding citizens to own a gun would only serve to make the situation worse. DUH?

So while folks continue to be denied their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, they are purposely left defenseless, being made to run what is nothing more than a gauntlet of those who are able to obtain a weapon by a less than legal means. It simply makes no sense, but when has that ever had an impact on Democrat policy making. I have a little suggestion here. How about we make the office space of every single anti-gun Democrat a ‘gun free’ zone, with NO weapons of any kind being permitted.

There are simply to stats that back up any of the claims being made by a majority of Democrats that stricter gun laws would reduce the number of deaths in this country that can be related to guns. The Democrat drive for increasingly tougher gun laws really has nothing whatsoever to do with public safety. If Democrats were truly interested in keeping people safe, they would be busy asking Barry "Almighty" why it is that his Justice Department is not enforcing gun laws already on the books. But they are not.

ANOTHER EPISODE OF THE ‘GAS BAG CHRONICLES’, FEATURING EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE 'GAS BAG', STENY HOYER…

Senile old Steny Hoyer, that pathetic sleaze-bag from the People’s Republic of Maryland, rarely if ever actually makes any sense. But it was just this past Tuesday that he was heard making even less sense than usual. Because in discussing the upcoming fiscal battles that are sure to take place in the House, he used the act of hostage-taking as his metaphor of choice in describing the need to once again raise our, already too high, debt limit. He actually went so far as to use Ronald Reagan as his example. Which was rather strange, I thought. But then, it seems that whenever Democrats are looking for a good example for justifying something they want to do, they never look to their own. It's never Carter or Clinton who are used as being their example.

"Ronald Reagan agreed on that so that almost all the leaders and certainly every former Republican president believes that taking that hostage is a hostage you do not want to create," Hoyer said while explaining that it would be "dangerous" for Republicans not to extend the debt limit. Hoyer added, "Taking that hostage that if you kill that hostage would kill the economy and undermine the stability of the country and give to the world an extraordinarily negative view of the United States’ ability to manage its own affairs," Hoyer added. Steny needs to come down from whatever trip he's on and realize that the world already has a negative view of this country. And after having gone four years without a budget it's become fairly obvious that we can't manage our own affairs.

Personally, I thought the fact that Hoyer made his rather idiotic hostage comparison just one day after a gunman killed 12 people and injured 20+ others in a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. was a little inappropriate, even distasteful. But then, he is a brain dead Democrat, so I'm sure it never even occurred to him. Steny's idiotic attempt to compare hostage-taking with raising the debt limit came in response to something that some doofus by the name of Ben White, who I guess is the host of Politico’s Morning Money Breakfast Briefing, had said. White started the bizarre exchange by saying, "Speaking of hostage taking, if you take hostages, the only way that scenario works is if you’re willing to kill the hostage."

White then proceeded to ask Hoyer, "On the debt limit, do you think there is a real risk that we get very close to the point of being unable to borrow further with the Treasury and to default given the differences on the fiscal issues and insistence of many Republicans on either defunding Obamacare or cutting spending in a way the Democrats would never expect?" And he followed up asking, "Is this a riskier scenario than we’ve seen previously given how polarized the two parties seem to be right at this moment?" Hoyer claimed it was "riskier" because of what House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor were trying to do on the continuing resolution. I see the greater risk in our continuing to borrow even more money.

Hoyer said, "You saw Heritage and Freedom Works and Club for Growth, all very energized and a very hard line, we’re-going-to-score-this-vote mode." He went on to say, "All which, as I said, Republicans for the most part are concerned not about generals but about primaries, and they’re concerned about funding from these very, very hard-line right groups, right-wing groups – incorrect groups, but right-wing groups. And I think that in that context, we’re at greater risk." He added, "The irony is that Boehner and Cantor would both tell you if they were on this stage not extending the debt limit is an irrational, dangerous, economically devastating policy. My presumption is McConnell would say the same thing. He has said the same thing in the past."

In bringing up Reagan I guess Hoyer was making reference to a Sept. 26, 1987, radio address to the nation on the federal debt ceiling increase and deficit reduction, in which Reagan said, "Unfortunately, Congress consistently brings the government to the edge of default before facing its responsibility. This brinkmanship threatens the holders of government bonds and those who rely on Social Security and veterans benefits." He added, "Interest rates would skyrocket, instability would occur in financial markets, and the federal deficit would soar. The United States has a special responsibility to itself and the world to meet its obligations. It means we have a well-earned reputation for reliability and credibility -- two things that set us apart from much of the world."

But look, the bottom line here is that as much as Steny and his fellow Democrats might wish it were so, this is not 1987. It's 2013 and never before in our nation's history have we had the level of out-of-control spending that has been underway over the course of just the last 4 years. And without a budget of any kind. So this pompous old gas bag can throw around Ronald Reagan as much as he wants, but I don’t think what Reagan said over 25 years ago applies to the situation that we have today. The Democrats have now essentially turned our ballooning debt into what is nothing more than a suicide mission for the country. There has to be an end point to all of this insane spending, and there can be no better time than right now to say this much and no more.

THE "FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION" OF AMERICA CONTINUES, UNABATED...

ALL GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN

Barry came into office with a promise to "fundamentally transform" America. And we continue to see evidence that he is making good on that promise. You see, during Barry's first term in office, the real median income of American households dropped by $2,627 and the number of people in poverty increased by approximately 6,667,000, and that would be according to data recently released by the Census Bureau. Thanks primarily to the policies that have been put into place by our current president, we now have a record number, 46,496,000, of people in the United States who are now in living in poverty. A number that is more than twice the population of Syria, which, according to the CIA, has a population of 22,457,336.

In 2008, the year our "Dear Beloved Leader" was first elected, real median household income stood at $53,644. And just four short years later, after being made to endure the last full year of Barry’s first term, median household income had dropped to $51,017. So, in an effort to make it simple enough for the average Barry voter to understand, real median household income dropped $2,627, or 4.89 percent, from 2008 to 2012. In fact, real median household took a serious hit in every year of Barry's first term. In 2008, when he was elected, it was $53,644. In 2009 it dropped to 53,285, in 2010 it dropped to $51,892, in 2011 it dropped to $51,100, and, in 2012 it dropped to $51,017. Quite the record of accomplishment for Barry.

At the same time, this was going on, the number of people living in poverty in the United States increased rather dramatically. In 2008 there were approximately 39,829,000 people living in poverty in this country. And again after four years of Barry', in 2012 there were 46,496,000. For all you Barry voters, that's an increase of approximately 6,667,000, or 16.73 percent, just from 2008 to 2012. The number of people in poverty increased during three of the four years of Barry's first term. In 2008, there were 39,829,000 people in poverty, in 2009, it climbed to 43,569, 000, in 2010, it climbed further to 46,343,000. Then in 2011, it dipped to 46,247,000, and in 2012, it climbed to an all-time high 46,496,000.

Another rather depressing indicator that makes apparent the level of progress that Barry has thus far achieved in accomplishing primary his goal of "fundamentally transforming" our nation is the fact that we now have a record 23,116,928 American households who are now enrolled in the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, aka food stamps, during the month of June. That information comes to us by way of some recently released data by the Department of Agriculture. And what kind of puts that into perspective is the fact that that number is greater than the 20,618,000 households that the Census Bureau estimated were in the entire Northeastern United States as of the second quarter of 2013.

Now according to the Census Bureau, the Northeast region of this country includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Thus, in June, the number of households receiving food stamps exceeded the total combined households in all of these states, combined. The 23,116,928 million households on food stamps in June also outnumbered the 15,030,000 home-owning households in the entire Western United States in the second quarter of the year and the 18,018,000 home-owning households in the entire Midwest. So here we are, living in what was once referred to as being the most prosperous nation on Earth and this is what we've become?

The record 23,116,928 households on food stamps in June also equaled 20.16 percent, or more than one-fifth, of all 114,663,000 households nationwide in the United States as of June, according to the Census Bureau. The 23,116,928 household on food stamps in June was an increase of 45,908 from the 23,071,020 household on food stamps in May. In fiscal 2009, the year Barry "Almighty" was inaugurated, there was a monthly average of 15,161,469 American households on food stamps. The 23,116,928 households on food stamps in June exceeded that 2009 monthly average by 7,955,459 households, or 52 percent. So, in June, there were 52 percent more households on Food Stamps than in the year Barry took office.

Under the stewardship of Barry "Almighty", America has become a mere shadow of it's former self. And we the American people have allowed it to happen. There should be rioting in the streets, endless calls for impeachment and unending calls to our members of Congress. The point must be made that, "We're mad as Hell, and we're not going to take it anymore!" Because if we do not rise up against that which is being perpetrated against us, then the perception will be that this is the kind of government that we actually want, in which case, things will only continue to be made worse. We must, before it's too late, take the opportunity to draw our own "red line", and we must vigorously make the point that we will tolerate no more of this behavior.

Obviously, the responsibility to rescue our country has now fallen to us, "We the People". The majority of our politicians can, quite frankly, no longer be trusted to do that which they were 'hired' to do. So like it or not, we're now going to be required to get our hands a little dirty. More than a few of us will have some pretty tough decisions to make, especially those of us to have grown somewhat soft, becoming quite comfortable living off the fruit of someone else's labor. But we must all refocus, so to speak, on what is the bigger picture here. If this great ship of America is made to sink, then we will all go down with it. And if that doesn't bother you, then simply stay at home and do nothing more than to wait for the end. Because the end is coming.

‘DINGY’ HARRY USES 'CLIMATE CHANGE' TO RIP HOUSE GOP...

So I ask you, with nary a hurricane in sight, what’s a poor ‘climate change’ believing Democrat to do when trying to badger the opposition? Well, apparently, if you're 'Dingy' Harry Reid, you go looking for the next best thing to blame on 'climate change.' And in this case, if you’re ‘Dingy’ Harry, that would be the massive destruction caused by flooding in parts of Colorado. You see it was while on the Senate floor Tuesday morning that 'Dingy' proceeded to slam House Republicans for partisanship and wasting the "taxpayer's time" trying to repeal ObamaCare. Personally, I prefer having a little more time be wasted than anymore of my money. And I always find it being a little hypocritical when Democrats accuse the Republicans of being partisan.

Anyway, ‘Dingy Harry’ listed numerous issues that Congress should be focusing its efforts on during session this year and lamented the fact that the House Republicans have simply refused to get on board with Barry's domestic agenda. As if he somehow considers it as being a no-brainer. 'Dingy' said, "ObamaCare is the law of the land. It's time for Republican's to mature," adding, "to grow up ... It's time for Republicans to stop denying reality." So I guess, according to 'Dingy', we’re all just supposed to ignore completely how this law will adversely effect the lives of every single American, except for those in Congress, and the disgraceful manner that this law was brought into being, and simply surrender to it? Sorry, I am firmly behind any effort to get rid of it.

And then after suggesting that Congress could be better using it's time on addressing issues that have to do with such things as the nation's infrastructure, ‘Dingy’ changed quickly gears and focused on the issue that remains so important to Democrats, "climate change." In choosing to ignore completely all of the evidence to the contrary, 'Dingy' boldly declared that, "Climate change is here." He went on to decry the fact, "We're doing nothing about it." ‘Dingy’ also suggested that Congress should "try passing immigration reform" before going on to actually list what he comically referred to as being the economic benefits of ObamaCare. Now there's a laugh, economic benefits of Obamacare. Is that not an oxymoron?

But 'Dingy' then returned to the topic of 'climate change', saying, "We should be facing the reality of climate change. Look what happened in Colorado. I talked to Senator Bennet yesterday, he said the floods were "biblical." In one part of Colorado, it rained 12 inches in two hours. I can't imagine that." Wow, you know 'Dingy's' got to be really worried about all of this 'climate change' nonsense, especially when he starts throwing around the 'B' word, even if it's kinda by proxy? But hey, I'm sure 'Dingy' views it as being one of those instances where desperate times call for desperate measures, especially as Democrats try to wreak as much economic havoc as possible while, in the process, identifying the Republicans as being the cause.

But old 'Dingy' wasn't finished just yet, not by a long shot, as he then proceeded to lay it on even thicker saying, "Fires all over the West, climate change is here. I met with the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh. They don't know what they're going to do with the rise of the sea, which is taking place. That country has no place -- no high ground. It's that way all over the world. Martial Islands -- 1,000 islands make up the Martial Islands. Fifty-five thousand people live there. These islands are being washed away with these new waves they've never seen before." yup, quite the work of fiction that we heard presented by old 'Dingy' Harry. But then this is typical behavior for scumbags like 'Dingy', always sounding the alarm for no real emergency.

'Dingy' reiterated again in his effort to chastise the Republicans, "Climate change is here. We're doing nothing about it. They're spending all our time, the American taxpayer's time, trying to repeal a law that's been in effect for four years." Well I would argue that just because it has been effect for four years, doesn't make it undeserving of being gotten rid of. Now granted, I'm sure 'Dingy' has no problem with it since he no longer has to abide by it, but the vast majority of those of us who do, would just as soon see it go the way of the do-do. It's going to be far too costly and it's going to result in people losing their jobs. Don't forget, this thing wasn't created to 'fix' anything, it was created for the sole purpose of allowing the government control of your healthcare.

THE ARROGANCE OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA...

Once again Barry has put on a demonstration of arrogance typical of one who assumes the power of one's office as his own. And in his effort to blame others for what has been the result of HIS own economic policies, Barry issued, what has been referred to, as a blistering warning to Republicans, saying, on Monday, that it would be the "height of irresponsibility" for lawmakers to cause a new economic crisis just five years after the near-collapse of the nation's financial system. A new economic crisis? What, exactly, has Barry done over the course of the last 4 years but to make what was an already bad economic situation, very much worse?

"I cannot remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos if it can't get 100 percent of what it wants," Barry said, contending that the stance of some conservative lawmakers amount to just that. Then I'd have to say that Barry has a rather piss-poor memory. Democrats have long demonstrated a willingness to do absolutely anything, no matter how extreme, in order to get their way. So old Barry can peddle that bullshit to his many imbecilic constituents. The simple fact of the matter is that we simply cannot go on spending the way we have been, and Barry makes it very clear that he intends to spend this country right into bankruptcy! That IS his goal here!

Barry is a liar, plain and simple. And he has made it very apparent, and on more than one occasion, that he will lie to get anything, and everything that he wants. Such was the purpose behind Barry's arrogant chastising of those Republicans who have said that they would vote to extend current spending levels or to increase the nation's debt ceiling only if Barry delays putting in place his healthcare law, which is a condition Barry has rejected. Others say that scheduled spending cuts should stay in place to reduce the deficit, while Barry wants his "sequestration" cuts reworked. So while Barry sees no need to 'compromise' himself, he now demands that Republicans do so!

Barry reiterated his refusal to negotiate with Republicans over the debt ceiling. And he called on Congress to "pass a budget without drama." Without drama? Just where the Hell does this asshole get off? And the White House's National Economic Council on Sunday issued a joke of a report detailing those policies that it claims have 'helped' put the economy on a path toward growth. Those steps range from the unpopular Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, that shored up the financial industry and bailed out auto giants General Motors and Chrysler, to the bogus $800 billion stimulus bill to sweeping new bank regulations. None of which accomplished anything.

Nearly all of the policies that have been put in place by Barry and his cadre of socialists have resulted in doing nothing more than to make what was an already bad economic situation, far worse. The most obvious result was the fact that the credit rating of this country was lowered for the first time on our nation's history! And then, making it obvious that he must reside in some alternate universe, we had Gene Sperling, a top Barry adviser and director of the National Economic Council, actually say that Barry's policies "have performed better than virtually anyone at the time predicted." What the Hell has this guy been smokin, snortin or shootin up? Because that's just plain nuts!

Despite the nauseating level of propaganda, the public remains unconvinced that the economy is on the mend. Only one-third say the economic system is more secure now than in 2008, and 52 percent say they disapprove of Barry's handling of the economy, according to a Pew Research Center poll. There is still plenty of pain to justify their pessimism. Despite job growth, the unemployment rate remains high at 7.3 percent. But we all know that the real unemployment rate is somewhere around 17 percent. And though the rate has fallen, one of the primary reasons for that is the fact that 10 Million people have dropped out of the labor force and are no longer counted as job seekers.

The share of unemployed workers who have been unemployed for more than six months is more than double what it was in 2007 before the recession began. And the income gap between the very rich and the rest of the population is the biggest since 1928. What's more, some banks that received government aid because they were deemed "too big to fail" are now bigger than they were in 2008, although they are smaller as a share of the economy than the largest banks in other big economies. Three years after Barry signed a sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules, execution of that law is behind schedule. Which should come as a surprise to no one!

Anxious to make his case with the public, Barry has set out to create fictional signs of progress. Barry wants to reverse automatic spending cuts that kicked in in March, but at the same time he has said he will not negotiate with Republicans over the nation's debt ceiling. His remarks have hinted at a potential constitutional confrontation with Republicans. Section 4 of the 14th Amendment says that "the validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned." I love how Barry rather selectively supports our Constitution.

Since first coming into office Barry, in his effort to buy votes for his party, set out to purposely run up our debt to what can only be identified as being an astronomical amount, and he now demands that we the taxpayers be made to cover the cost of his vote buying spree. But unfortunately, it goes beyond what we ourselves could ever hope to cover. So that responsibility will fall to our children and grand children. Freedom loving Americans are being forced to hand over more and more of their hard earned money to our societies leeches and parasites who are only to happy to vote for slimy, unethical and corrupt politicians like Barry. The madness has to be brought to an end!

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT PROVES YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID...

ANOTHER FINE EXAMPLE OF WHAT STUPID LOOKS LIKE

What was heard last week at something called a mayors' forum on, of all things, economic justice, was perhaps the most bizarre rationale I've yet heard for favoring state funded abortions. Because it was the imbecilic mayor of Tacoma, Washington who actually suggested that abortion is an antidote to poverty: "Young women who have children who are not married are more likely to end up in poverty, and so are their children," so said Mayor Marilyn Strickland. Now it should come as no great surprise that Ms. Strickland is, of course, both black and a Democrat. She went on to say, "When you take away a woman's right to choose, you may actually consign her to a life of poverty with her children or her unborn children."

Mayor Strickland also said that it's important to "help people become empowered," and she made the point that mayors can set policies at the local level to encourage economic development. She mentioned the debate over paid sick leave. She said labor unions are now recruiting members who don't belong to unions "because they understand that as union membership goes down every year, the middle class suffers in America. So we have to make sure there is a middle class that is strong and that is vibrant." And so I guess one way of accomplishing that is through the allowing of unfettered abortions? Sorry, but I'm just not making the connection, there. But then, of course, I'm not an empty-headed liberal like the good mayor here.

And our brilliant mayor said businesses must understand that they need consumers with buying power to be successful. "We all do better, when we all do better. And we made great gains as a country as far as civil rights. But there's a lot of work to do," Strickland said. She noted that the rates of unemployment, incarceration and educational achievement are all disproportionately higher for people of color: "So we know good and well that we still have a major hangover from the institution of slavery and other decisions that we've made." So nearly 150 years after slavery officially came to an end, this moron actually thinks that what we are dealing with is the residual effects of slavery. Like they say, you just can't fix stupid!

So I guess what she's claiming here is that the only reason that blacks suffer from higher unemployment, a higher rate of incarceration and a lower level of educational achievement, is because of slavery? Actually if she could bring herself to be bit more honest, she would admit that all three of these issues actually stem from what have been decades worth of liberal policies the specific purpose of which was to decimate the black family and make blacks forever dependent upon the federal government. But since she can't do that, she can peddle her progressive brand of bullshit to someone too stupid to recognize the fact that they're being lied to. That’s the only way people like her operate, they blame everything except what's actually at fault. A hangover from slavery? Nope! It's a hangover from years of liberal hogwash!

THE BOGUSNESS OF 'GLOBAL WARMING'...

Back in 2007 there was prediction made by some global warming zealot, that summer in the North Pole could be "ice-free by 2013". And that very same prediction would later be cited by former vice president, and climate change profiteer, Al Gore in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. This just goes to show you that one should always be a little leery whenever making predictions because, as in this case, the odds are usually against you being correct. Because as was the case here, this particular prediction was way off, by over 920,000 square miles. But I'm sure the fact that an ice free failed to come to pass, will have very little impact on those who remain quite dedicated to what has essentially become the religion of "climate change."

It was in his silly Dec. 10, 2007 "Earth has a fever" speech that Gore referred to this prediction made by U.S. climate change zealot, and a supposed scientist, Wieslaw Maslowski who prophesized that the Arctic’s summer ice could "completely disappear" by 2013 due to global warming caused by, of course, carbon emissions. It was on Sept. 21, 2007, that Gore said, "scientists reported with unprecedented alarm that the North Polar icecap is, in their words, 'falling off a cliff.' One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week warns that it could happen in as little as seven years, seven years from now." Whoops!

This nutjob Maslowski told members of the American Geophysical Union in 2007 that the Arctic’s summer ice could completely disappear within the decade. "If anything," he said, "our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is already too conservative." Gore also warned that rising temperatures were "a planetary emergency and a threat to the survival of our civilization." but a funny thing happened, instead of completely melting away, the polar icecap is at now at its highest level for this time of year since 2006. Satellite photos taken by NASA in August 2012 and August 2013 show a 60 percent increase in the polar ice sheet despite "realistic" predictions by supposed climate scientists six years ago that the North Pole would be completely melted by now.

So instead of shrinking away to nothing, the NASA photographs clearly show that the Arctic ice sheet is much larger than it was at this same time last year, or more than half the size of Europe. The thick layer of summer ice, which currently stretches from Canada to Russia, is actually preventing ships from using the North-West Passage. A Dec.12, 2007 BBC article, a less than credible source on the subject, actually quoted 'Professor' Maslowski and his team of climate change enthusiasts at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. explaining how they used "a high-resolution regional [computer] model for the Arctic Ocean and sea ice forced with realistic atmospheric data" to make their predictions. "This way, we get much more realistic forcing, from above by the atmosphere and from the bottom by the ocean," he said.

Well I hate to be the one to burst the good 'professor's' global warming bubble here, as well as that of Al Gore, but it would seem to me that their data was maybe a little less realistic and a lot more wishful thinking. Look, more and more evidence that proves that this entire cockamamie notion of global warming is absolute horse shit becomes available every single day. It is nothing more than a pathetic scheme dreamt up by bogus scientists and guys like Gore who are out to make themselves rich at the expense of folks like you and me. All you have to do is open your eyes and ignore the propaganda coming from politicians and our state-controlled media. It matters little that climate change is a pretty low priority for most Americans, because it's such a high priority for those on the left.

MORE LIES FROM OUR LIAR-IN-CHIEF, BHO...

If there is one thing we can honestly say about Barry, it's that he most certainly is consistent. He has always demonstrated willingness to take advantage of any situation that he sees as being another opportunity for him to lie to the American people, especially if he thinks that he can create for himself some manner of political advantage. He is always on the prowl for ways to take credit for all things positive that take place in spite of his policies, or to lay blame for those things that take place that are a direct result of his policies. It's really a remarkable thing to watch. And as we have seen over the course of the last four and a half years, there is absolutely nothing that Barry will not lie about. And he can do so with a smile on his face.

And apparently our corrupt and patently dishonest president was up to his usual tricks are recent as this past weekend. Because while appearing on ABC News’s "This Week" with George "Stephy" Stephanopoulos", the well-know faux journalist and retread from the "BJ" Clinton administration, Barry "Almighty" complained that even though he had 80 to 90 percent of the country in agreement with him on the need for stricter gun control, it was a "faction of the Republican Party" that ultimately prevented him from getting some form of stricter gun-control legislation enacted. And in Barry's making such a claim, he really accomplished nothing more than to add to what has become his already rather impressive list of infamous whoppers.

Barry made his little observation about this supposed supermajority of Americans whom he firmly believes favor "gun control" when "Little Stephy" asked him why it is that the issues he has chosen to focus on at the beginning of his second term seem to have stalled. "You put gun control at the top of the agenda, immigration reform, climate change--all of it's stalled or reversing," said Stephy. Gee, I can't imagine why it is that Barry's blatantly left wing agenda might be stalled. Can you? I mean what we're talking about here is an immigration plan that really does nothing more than to grant outright amnesty to 11 million illegals, in an effect creating millions more Democrat voters, and a policy based on a climate change theory that is far from proven.

But the ever persistent Stephy, always eager to provide to Barry an opportunity to blame others, asked, "How do you answer the argument that beyond the deficit, this has been a lost year, and how do you save it?" Now of course the very fist thing out of Barry's mouth, was to blame obstructionist Republicans. Barry claimed that the Senate-passed immigration bill would win in the House if only Speaker Boehner would bring it up for a vote. Barry said, "If Speaker Boehner put that bill on the floor of the House of Representatives right now, it would pass. It would pass." He added, "So the question then is not whether or not the ideas that we put forward can garner a majority of support, certainly in the country."

And then Barry, in again lying through those pearly whites of his, proceeded onto the topic of gun control saying, "I mean, gun control, we had 80, 90 percent of the country that agreed with it." And as expected he once again simply blamed the Republicans. Barry said, "The problem we have is we have a faction of the Republican Party, in the House of Representatives in particular, that view compromise as a dirty word, and anything that is either remotely associated with me, they feel obliged to oppose," said Barry. "And my argument to them is real simple. That's not why the people sent to here." I beg to differ. Those whom I voted to send to Congress, I did so with the specific intent of having them STOP everything that Barry is trying to do!

And you know, the proof that Barry was lying when he claimed to have 80 or 90 percent of the country behind him, was made quite obvious by a Jan. 23 Gallup poll in which it had asked people about some gun-related issues. Gallup asked, for example: "Would you vote for or against a law that would limit the sale of ammunition magazines to those with 10 rounds or less?" Fifty-four percent said they would, and 43 percent said they would not. But when the respondents to that question were broken out as Democrats, Independents and Republicans, only a majority of the Democrats, 74 percent, said they would. By contrast, only 46 percent of Independents agreed as did only 39 percent of Republicans. Not exactly 80 or 90 percent.

And don’t you just love how this scumbag president of ours throws around the word "compromise" as if it’s something that he and other members of his corrupt, Constitution hating, political party do on a regular basis. However the truth is more than just a bit different. Because Democrats consider themselves as being above having to compromise. And as such, they should never expected to do so. Because in their universe, compromise is seen as being something for suckers or, in this case, Republicans. Republicans must always be made to cave on their principles. And when they refuse to do so, they must then be cast as being nothing more than obstructionists. Hence Barry's idiotic statements made during this imbecilic interview with Stephy.

FEWER AMERICANS TRUST THEIR GOVERNMENT…

Now look, I'll be the first one to admit that I'm far from being the sharpest knife in the drawer, but when I see something like this, the first thing that pops into my head is, what the Hell were people expecting. We have a president who is completely incompetent regarding all things having to do with foreign policy and who, at the same time, is a devoted socialist regarding all things that fall under the heading of domestic policy. Add to that, the fact that we also have a Democrat majority in the Senate who seems to be interested only in raising taxes as high as they can get away with so that they can then turn right around and put our country even further into debt. And our GOP controlled House has offered very little in the way of bona fide resistance.

And all of this craziness is currently taking place because this is exactly what the people voted for. And yet, according to a recent poll, less than half of the American people say they now trust the government to handle the nation's problems, and that, my friends, is a new all-time low. Personally, I voted for people who I, at least, hoped would vote against such things as tax increases as well as against, what has been up to this point, an insane amount of spending that has only continued to accelerate at pace never before seen until Barry first came strutting into the Oval Office. But, sadly, they have been far less aggressive than I had hoped they would be, with many being far too timid when it comes to resisting both higher taxes and additional spending.

So it is then that, according to this new poll, only 49 percent of Americans now say that they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the federal government to handle international problems, and again that would be according to Gallup as of today, Friday the 13th. The previous low was 51 percent, and that was back in 2007. And apparently, the public’s trust is even lower when it comes to domestic issues. In that instance, it's just 42 percent of Americans answered with a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the government to handle issues here at home. Our frustration, I think, is coming from different directions, with the moochers among us wanting more, and those of us forced into covering their costs, wanting to provide less.

And what I'm pretty sure is something that will come as absolutely no surprise to nearly anybody, is the fact that it's Democrats who seem to have far more confidence in our government than do Republicans. If you can believe it, it's a rather impressive 78 percent of Democrats who actually say that they trust their government on international issues compared to just 35 percent of Republicans who say the same. However, Democrats don’t have nearly as much faith when it comes to the government’s handling of domestic issues, with only 58 percent saying they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence compared to 25 percent of Republicans. I can only assume that the other 42 percent of Democrats aren't getting what they feel that they're entitled to.

Speaking for myself, these days I don't trust my government to get much of anything right. The majority of our politicians, today, seem to have forgotten exactly why it is that they have their current job and for whom it is that they work. And their primary interest seems to be in trying to find increasingly creative ways for them to keep their jobs. There seems to be very little interest on their part, in doing what would actually best for the country as a whole. And therein lies the problem. We have no one who is willing to dole out a little tough love to those who seem to be of the opinion that they are somehow owed something by the rest of us. When we should actually all consider ourselves to be quite fortunate if no other reason than the fact that we are blessed to live in this country.

And as such, there are certain responsibilities that are actually required of us if we are to have any hope of being able to hand down to future generations a country where they too will be able to enjoy the same freedoms that have been enjoyed by past generations and that are, much to the displeasure of Democrats, guaranteed to us by our Constitution. The most important of those being the electing of responsible men and women whom we can trust to steer our country in such a manner as to achieve the highest level prosperity for all, and to make sure that our enemies know well that we are not a country to be messed with. Unfortunately, these days, many of the politicians whom we chose to elect are nothing more than a reflection of our own reckless disregard for those who come after us.

AL 'NOT SO' SHARPTON…'MINISTER OF MAYHEM'

Al "Not So" Sharpton has done more damage to the black cause than George Wallace could have ever done. He has suffocated the decent black leaders in New York. And his transparent venal blackmail and extortion schemes taint all black leadership. So says none other than that proverbial leftwing weirdo, Bobby Kennedy Jr. Bobby Jr. also said that old reverend Al actually gives him "the creeps." Kennedy also refers to Sharpton as a "buffoon" who has never escaped the "stench" of his advocacy for Tawana Brawley, you may remember as being the black Dutchess County teen who fabricated a story about six white men raping her back in 1987.

And in referencing Jesse ' The Extortionist " Jackson, Kennedy describes him as having "a desperate and destructive addiction to publicity." NO! He even recalls when Jackson, while attending labor leader Cesar Chavez’s funeral, pushed "Cesar’s friends and family out of the way to make himself lead pall bearer." Kennedy adds, "His love affair with [Nation of Islam leader] Louis Farrakhan and his Jewish xenophobia are also unforgivable." Kennedy says, "I feel dirty around him, and I feel like I’m being used. I feel like with Jesse, it’s all about Jesse." That Kennedy can harbour such opinions and keep them to himself does a great disservice to those impacted.

Let's face it, old 'Bull Horn' Sharpton has been criticized for as long as he’s insisted upon doing nothing more than to bastardize the true meaning of Civil Rights. But the criticism never seems to phase him, as he has continued, over the years, to spread his own unique brand of hatred. Which, for a supposed man of God, I would think most rational people would view as being rather disgusting. Instead, morons all across the United States continue to act as if he is some how relevant. Even though he has repeatedly thrown his own people under the bus in return for nothing more than a seat at the Democrat Party, they turn a blind eye to such activity and embrace him as their leader.

So, what follows here is a little attempt of mine to point out to those who love him that he is really all that he cracks himself up to be. So here are just a few reasons why I think Al 'Bull Horn' Sharpton is a disgusting fraud:

Number one on Sharpton's bizarre little hit parade is none other than Tawana Brawley. It was in 1987 that Brawley, then 15, was found smeared with feces in a garbage bag, her clothing torn, with slurs written on her body. Brawley said she had been raped by six white men, including police officers. Sharpton took her side and made a huge stink about it. The only problem? She made it all up. To this day, Sharpton says he disagrees with the grand jury. One last question, is anyone other than me the least bit curious about what kind of sicko would actually smear themselves with feces? Just askin.

At number two in the list, we have Bernhard Goetz. As you may remember, or not, in 1984, it was Goetz who shot four black thugs who tried to rob him on the subway. And, as to be expected, it was old 'Bull Horn' who came riding into rescue these four black thugs from Al referred to as being a justice system that was out of control. He claimed that Goetz’s actions were racist, pure and simple, though a federal investigation concluded the shooting was due to an attempted robbery, not race. Sound familiar? We heard the same bullshit, and are still hearing it, surrounding George Zimmerman.

Coming in at number there is the incident at Freddie’s Fashion Mart. This tragedy occurred in 1995, when one of the people protesting right there alongside old ' Bull Horn' apparently decided to take matters a step further and murdered the man who they were protesting against: Than man was a Jewish business owner who was told by his black landlord to evict his black subtenant. Once again, Sharpton makes a stink out of nothing, with the result being that an innocent man gets murdered. 'Bull Horn' was obviously implicated in the death of this man, and yet was never made to pay a price.

At number four and five, respectively, are 'Bull Horn's' rather disgusting habit of defending rapists and his participation in the Crown Heights Riot. In 2007, Sharpton defended violent rapists, saying they were treated unfairly because they were black. These were people who made a Haitian woman perform oral sex on her own son. And during the Crown Heights Riot, Sharpton inflamed tensions by saying, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." He also called Jews "diamond merchants."

Rounding out our little review of Sharpton's rather disgusting behavior, we have one of his more idiotic quotes, where he told an audience at Kean College in 1994 that, "White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." And then after failing to pay his taxes, Sharpton said the investigations into his finances reflected a racist political agenda. Yup, poor Al. Just another black who seems to be of the opinion that the rules simply do not apply to him.

And one other thing that I normally would not expect to hear coming from someone who bears the title of 'reverend', are comments attributed to 'Bull Horn' regarding Mormons. Because it was back in 2007, that Sharpton said about Mitt Romney: "As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a temporary situation." You know, whatever your opinion might be regarding Mormons, when you’re running for president, you just don’t make idiotic statements like that. Unless of course, you're Al ' Bull Horn' Sharpton. Then I guess you can just about anything.

These are but a few examples that make clear the rather racist history of one Al "Bull Horn" Sharpton, hate-monger, race-baiter, and all around disgusting human being. I've long thought that there is a very special seat in Hell currently being reserved for Sharpton. Most likely right next to Bobby Kennedy Jr's father, uncles and grandfather. What a way to have to spend eternity, but most definitely, a very fitting one and very well deserved. Sharpton is nothing more than a black menace, and someone who has been the driving force behind more misery and mayhem than any 10 men like him. And the fact that anyone can look upon him as being a 'leader' is pretty sad.

'DINGY HARRY' REID SOUNDS THE ALARM, “ANARCHISTS HAVE SEIZED CONTROL OF CONGRESS!”

I have long been curious about how it is that old 'Dingy Harry' Reid has been able to so successfully elude those men in white coats for as long as he has. Because I would think it obvious that there is, sitting somewhere in one of our many fine psychiatric institutions in this country, a rubber room that is missing its occupant. And with 'Dingy' having made it quite obvious, earlier this week, that he could, in fact, be that very missing occupant, when he went so far as to actually imply that "anarchists" have now seized over of Congress, I just thought I'd bring it to someone's attention.

Now, if perhaps he had been, at the time, making a reference to how it is that he and his fellow Democrats have continued to run rough shod over Congress for some time now, completely ignoring the confines clearly laid out in the Constitution regarding how Congress is to operate, then I would say that, yes, he might be onto something. But that's not exactly where 'Dingy' was going when he made his rather incendiary claim. What he was talking about was those dastardly Tea Party folks. But then, since when can wishing for a more faithful adherence to the Constitution be described as anarchy?

Now you would think what's really behind old 'Dingy Harry's' toxic little rant would be transparent to anyone with more than one functioning brain cell. Because what's really got Harry's panties in a bunch is the fact that our Tea Party Republicans are attempting to prevent progress on what is a very bogus energy efficiency bill by offering up amendments on ObamaCare, as well as a few other issues. Personally, I'm all for it. So what's really going on here sounds to me to be more like whining on the part of Harry than it does about warning us about possible anarchy coming from the opposition.

Anyway, in trying to make his rather pathetic little point, Harry proceeded to complain from the Senate floor, with him spewing is typical brand of BS. He said, "We’re diverted totally from what this bill is about. Why? Because the anarchists have taken over." And in not being quite finished in trying make, what I'm sure he thought was a valid point, he proceeded to make the claim, "They’ve taken over the House and now they’ve taken over the Senate." And in further whining, he said, "People who don’t believe in government, and that’s what the Tea Party is all about, are winning, and that’s a shame."

On Wednesday, Sen. David Vitter, who is a Republican and is said to reside in the Tea Party camp, said that he would work to prevent votes on lawmakers' amendments to the proposed energy bill until he's assured that he'll get a vote on his own amendment, which would require some congressional and executive branch staff to enroll in the ObamaCare health exchanges. And of course, as expected, Harry opined, "It’s defund ObamaCare, and I guess as the fiscal year comes to an end that’s what it’s all about." Actually me thinks he does protest too much. If in the same position Harry would do the same thing.

And then we had Senate Minority Leader Mitch "The Gutless Coward" McConnell who also introduced an ObamaCare-related amendment that would delay the individual health insurance mandate for one year, and codify the Obama administration's one-year delay of requirements that employers provide insurance. "Let’s delay ObamaCare mandates for families right now," McConnell said. "Then let’s work together to repeal the bill." Sorry, but I have a very difficult time believing that McConnell is very serious when come to his threatening to repeal Obamacare.

All that Harry has done here by choosing to make such an idiotic claim, is to make it abundantly clear to just about everyone, that he is either completely ignorant regarding what brought the Tea Party into being, and what it continues to be all about, or worse, he does recognize what motivates those who affiliate with the Tea Party, and therefore feels compelled to expend every effort to portray them as being nothing more than extremists, or anarchists, who oppose any and all forms of government. So I think we now safely know what it is that he's up to. The question is, will it work?

HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MODERN DAY SNAKE OIL SALESMEN...

MIKE LEE, TELLIN IT LIKE IT IS

In a recent interview on the nationally syndicated Mark Levin Show, one of my favorites by the way, we heard Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) as he slammed the Republican-led initiative to simultaneously propose legislation that would both fund and defund Obamacare. Lee rhetorically asked Levin, "With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?" And therein lies the reason so many are becoming, or have become, disenchanted with the Republican Party.

Lee explained how this scheme is supposed to work. It goes something like this: Our stellar Republican leadership in the House of Representatives intends to put forward two different legislative proposals in one single vote. One would defund Obamacare. And here’s where the scam comes into play. The other proposal would be a continuing resolution that would fund everything in government, and that would include all aspects of Obamacare.

I'm guessing that the entire purpose behind this idiotic little charade is that the House Republicans, at least our spineless leadership, think that by voting to both fund and to defund Barry's signature health law simultaneously, they can somehow fool those of who want this law repealed into believing they are actually working toward that end. But it's become more obvious all the time that nothing could be further from the truth.

Because as Lee makes very clear, this proposal would then be sent over to the Senate, the DEMOCRAT controlled Senate, which would then simply "pull apart the two pieces of legislation," and end up passing only the spending resolution that funds Obamacare. Come on, is this sophomoric kind of politics the best that we can now expect to see from our supposed leaders in Congress? It's getting to the point where it's embarrassing.

Lee said, "It allows for Republicans or anyone else who claims to be against Obamacare to be able to say they voted against funding Obamacare." He went on to say, "And yet, still at the same time, allow them also to fund everything in government including Obamacare." Adding, "It is the classic Washington two-step." I think I would describe it a little differently. And does Boehner and Cantor really think we're stupid enough to fall for it?

Lee called the initiative "disgraceful" and implored everyone in the House who purports to be against Obamacare to stand up to the leadership to prevent this proposal from hitting the floor. "This is the Washington political establishment versus everyone else in America and this represents the worst of Washington politics," Lee said. At this point I would argue that we no longer have any real leadership in the House. All we seem to have, are posers.