CORRINE BROWN, JUST HOW STUPID CAN ONE PERSON BE?

When looking for proof, as if we really needed to go looking for any, that blacks in this country will vote for just about anything, as long as it’s black and, of course, Democrat, enter Corrine Brown. In Ms. Brown we have someone who proves, and on pretty much of a daily basis, that she is by far one of the dumbest things on two legs. And yet, she is in Congress. This reject from a home for the terminally ignorant was recently heard to say, and during a congressional committee hearing no less, that she blames the House for the government shutdown, "Let’s don’t confuse nobody with the facts." Oh by all means, let’s don’t do that! Please!

Personally, if this incompetent stooge was my congress-person, I’d be embarrassed. But then, judging by the candidates that blacks insist upon voting for these days, it must take an awful lot for them to be embarrassed. Brown spewed her idiotic gibberish during an Oct. 9 House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing on the impact the shutdown is having on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). "Let me be clear, I keep hearing the Senate, the Senate, I put the responsibility straight here with the House. We could pass a clean CR and you would not be sitting here," Brown told Veterans Affairs Secretary, Gen. Eric Shinseki.

Every time I hear her babble, I find myself wondering just what the IQ of this flaming moron could possibly be. But then, I suppose, maybe a better question to ask would be what’s the average IQ of those in her congressional district? Because I gotta tell you, for as long as these boobs have been sending this imbecile back to Washington, they certainly can’t be all that bright. I mean come on, is she really the best they can do, or is there, maybe, some sort of ulterior motive at work here. Or, is it as basic as just being a ‘black thing?’ Her and her bad wig are nothing more than a perpetual freak show.

Anyway, of course Brown spewed more of her nonsense, saying, "I don’t blame the Senate." She added, "I thank God for the Senate. The bad politics of this House - and at some point let’s don’t confuse nobody with the facts." And she still went on to say, "Now we're talking about November 1. I want to talk about October 17. If we do not pass the full faith and credit-- if we default -- what will happen to all the mothers and the spouses and the Tri-Care and the checks that go out period for the VA. Period, tell us what’s going to happen when these people in the House let us default on our credit?"

And apparently determined to make full use of her microphone, she droned on, saying, "The government is not effective and the House is responsible. They could pass a clean CR," Brown added. "For the first time ever in the history I have voted against a VA bill because it was 6 billion dollars less than what we pass out of here, so now please respond." Shinseki replied, "I would just repeat what the president has pointed out. What he looks to the Congress to do, is two things. One, provide a budget so we can operate as a government. And two, pay the bills that have already been incurred." What a dumbass!

It’s pretty obvious that this moron Shinseki isn’t any smarter than Brown, since he seems to be completely unaware of the fact that there hasn’t been an actual budget passed in the five years that his boss, Barry, has been president. And since he’s a Democrat, I can only assume that he’s perfectly fine with that, regardless of the fact that it’s unconstitutional. What it is, too, is a ploy by his fellow Democrats to sneak past the American people ever higher amounts of wasteful spending that has now created $6 Trillion of additional debt in just 4 short years. I guess he’s ok with that as well. I’m not surprised!

Frankly, I’m pretty fed up with what these scumbag Democrat spendthrifts have managed to do to my country. They seem to be very determined in their efforts to destroy what’s left of it, as they continue to spend money faster than we can print it. It has to stop. And imbeciles like old ‘Freak Show’ Brown, here, should never again be allowed anywhere near the controls. The House has to stand fast here, and if the American people insist upon being as stupid as Brown, as some recent polls might suggest, then so be it. If we do go down, then let us at least go down fighting, and knowing that we did our best for the country.

OBAMA STILL INSISTS ON CALLING IT “THE REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN”…

Barry "Almighty" used his Saturday radio address to press for an end to what he likes to refer to as being "this Republican shutdown" and for yet another increase in our, already too high, debt limit. Now I would hope that at least those folks who have been paying attention to what’s been going here, and have been essentially ignoring all of the silliness coming out of the state-controlled media, would know full well who it is that has brought about this shutdown. With the GOP offering up 26 pieces of legislation and the Democrats having said NO to every single one of them, it strikes me as being a little difficult to pin this on the Republicans.

But as has been the case since this lying sack of shit first strutted his cool self into the Oval Office, nothing is to ever be seen as being his, nor the Democrat’s, fault. It must always the other guys who are to be blamed, loudly and repeatedly. So in Barry’s little spiel he said, "It wouldn't be wise to just kick the debt-ceiling can down the road for a couple months, and flirt with a first-ever intentional default right in the middle of the holiday shopping season. Because damage to America's sterling credit rating wouldn't just cause global markets to go haywire; it would become more expensive for everyone in America to borrow money." Gag me with a spoon!

I did think it a bit ironic when Barry referenced, what he called, our "sterling credit rating" especially, since thanks to him it has become somewhat less than sterling. After all, it was under his ‘sterling leadership", that we suffered the first credit downgrade in our nation’s history. Barry said once the debt ceiling is raised and the shutdown is over, "there's a lot we can accomplish together." Oh ya, right! He called for more job creation at a time when Obamacare is prompting some employers to cut jobs or move workers to part-time. And he called for additional deficit reduction in a "smarter, balanced way," which is code for more tax hikes.

And then he proceeded with his same old, tired song and dance routine, saying "I know you're frustrated by what you see in your nation's capital right now. But because it's easy to get lost in or give up on the political back-and-forth, I want you to remember: this is not normal. Our government is closed for the first time in 17 years. A political party is risking default for the first time since the 1700s. This is not normal. That's why we have to put a stop to it. Not only because it's dangerous, but because it saps everyone's faith in our extraordinary system of self-government. And that hurts us all." Geez-louse, what a bunch of idiotic drivel.

Barry also urged businesses to give furloughed government workers a break, as their regular paychecks are delayed: "And I want to thank all the neighbors and local business owners who've shown acts of kindness to these Americans who serve their country. I ask that same spirit of citizenship from lenders who do business with these folks. Because they're being punished enough through no fault of their own." Bullshit! As far as I’m concerned, these underworked and grossly overpaid public employees should have been saving up for just such an occasion. Because I wonder, would you ever get a break if you lost your job through no fault of you own?

Barry chose to end his typical little blame-game routine by saying, "So let's pass a budget, put people back to work, and end this Republican shutdown." Again with it being a Republican shutdown? I guess Barry must figure that if he repeats it often enough, it just might stick. And who knows, maybe with the crowd that makes up his imbecilic base, it just might. After all, the combined IQ of that pathetic little collective rests, very firmly, somewhere down in the single digits. Barry said the nation should be focusing its energy on job-creation, education, and immigration reform. "And as always, this country works better when we work together."

Ya know, that would be hysterical if it weren’t so tragic. When we work together? I’m curious about something, when, if ever, do Democrats, including our lame excuse for a president, ever strive to actually work together with anyone but themselves? Democrats, by essentially demanding that everything be their way or the highway, can hardly be identified as those possessing any desire for working together. And as far as job creation, Barry has been far more successful at decimating the employment rolls, than he has in creating jobs for those few who still remain. After all, we have 10 Million fewer people working in America today than we had back in 2009.

So as this "Obama Shutdown" is allowed to continue, the scare tactics employed by Barry & Company only continue to escalate as they hope to bring pressure to bear on the Republicans that will be sufficient to make them abandon their supporters and to then cave on all their demands that something actually be done regarding our current, and worsening, fiscal mess. And I’m quite confident that it will only be a matter of time before we witness yet another complete capitulation on the part of congressional Republicans, after all, that seems to be what they do best. It’s enough to make we want to be a Democrat, just to feel what it’s like to be on the winning side once and a while.

OBAMACARE…IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTROL, NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS…

When it comes to Barry and the Democrats, I think you’d either have to be terminally ignorant, or irreversibly naïve to think that their political philosophy is not based entirely on they’re being able to achieve a level of control over the people that would be, essentially, ironclad. And what better way is there to achieve just that than to have the government in the position of being sole decision maker when it comes to the type of healthcare that you can receive? It’s a fact that since the days of FDR Democrats have been in search of a way of putting the government in just such the position. And so, under the guise of lowering costs and broadening choices, and making all manner of false promises such as if you were happy with your present healthcare, you would be able to keep it, like the Frankenstein monster, Obamacare was created.

Now I’m assuming most of you who stop by here have heard of Dr. Ben Carson, the former director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. So it was then while speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. this past Friday, that Dr. Carson drew a parallel between Obamacare and "socialized medicine," actually citing Communist leader Vladimir Lenin’s support for government-run health care as the "keystone to the establishment of a socialist state." And in hitting the nail squarely on the head, Dr. Carson said that Obamacare "was never about healthcare. It was about control," and making all Americans "subservient to the government." He then pointed out that that was why the Democrat-dominant Congress in 2010 moved so swiftly to ‘pass’ the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.

He then went on to pose the question, "And why did they want to pass it so badly?" Dr. Carson then proceeded to answer his own question by saying, "Well, as I said the other night on television, Vladimir Lenin, one of the fathers of socialism and communism, said that socialized medicine is the keystone to the establishment of a socialist state." Dr. Carson went on to say, "So this is – this is – you know, some people have said, oh, come on, you’re being paranoid. How could anybody bring up something like that? I would say, if you know anything about history, how could you not bring it up? And, you know, that’s the problem." And he is exactly right! Now here is a man who is willing to put his country above his race and to tell it like it is. And what did he get for his effort, why, an audit from Barry’s IRS, that’s what!

And it was earlier in the week, on Oct. 9, that Dr. Carson was interviewed on Fox’s "The Kelly File." It was during that discussion, that he was asked about his rather infamous IRS audit and the fact that it came almost immediately after a speech that he gave that was rather critical of government-run health care. Dr. Carson, in refusing to back down, said, "Well, you know, it's not terribly surprising because if you read Rules for Radicals [by Saul Alinsky] it talks about the need to ridicule. It also talks about never having a real conversation with your adversary because that humanizes them and your job is the demonize them. Therefore, we see people saying about those who oppose Obamacare, for instance, that they want older people to die. They want kids to be deprived of food." He added, "You know, all these things are just straight out of the text."

Dr. Carson went on to further make his point by saying, "What's interesting is, you know, Vladimir Lenin, one of the founders of socialism and communism. He said socialized medicine is the keystone of the arch to the socialist state. In other words, you've got to get the socialized medicine as the foundation because it gives you control of the people." He added, "Once you have control of them you can do what you want," said Carson. When Lenin and the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917-18, healthcare became a government-run operation. Today, despite the collapse of communism in Russia over 20 years ago, the life expectancy for Russian males today is 63 years and for females its 75 years. Now today here in the United States, average life expectancy for males is 76 years, and females, 81 years. But that will most assuredly now begin to ‘change’ for the worse.

And you know, I find it more than just a little disappointing, we all as being quite a bit frightening, that more people aren’t able to recognize the true underlying purpose of Obamacare. It should be so painfully obvious. Now granted, our state-controlled media has been a very will accomplice in the Democrats endeavor to hoodwink the American people regarding the many supposed ‘benefits’ of Obamacare. But let’s face it, a substantial portion of our population hasn’t put up all that much resistance, and have pretty much allowed themselves to be hoodwinked. Far too many Americans have become nothing more than the equivalent to Pavlov’s dogs. Only in this case the stimuli of choice used by the Democrats is another ‘cost-free’ entitlement program. Unfortunately, it’s one that ends up with us all being very firmly under the control of the government.

OBAMACARE...WE TRIED TO WARN YOU...

Why is it, do you think, that those who cheerfully identify themselves as "liberals", are usually the same ones among us who must always learn things the hard way? Remember, if you can, back when the Democrats were working so hard to convince as many people as they could, to get onboard the Obamacare train. Remember all of the impossible promises that were made, promises Democrats knew were false when they made them, but that they also knew were promises that wouldn’t need to be kept once they were able to get the legislation signed into law. Now there were also many who were working just as hard to sound the alarm by telling everyone there was simply no way that the Democrats could possibly keep all of the promises being made. And remember too, how they pointed out that none of this really had anything to do with lowering healthcare costs, that it was all about putting the government in charge of our healthcare.

So now, fast-forward three short years and many of Barry "Almighty’s" supporters and apologists have now been made to face a rather sad realization. But it isn’t because of bogus economic stimuli, Wall Street bailouts, drones, increased gestapo security measures, NSA or even of several scandals that have been swept into the memory holes of the state-controlled media. Nope. That which now has so many on our side of the aisle saying "I told you so" to so many on the other side, is Barry’s "Affordable Care Act" because of the insurance premium price hikes for those whose private plans are now more expensive than before. Already, there have been reports of tremendous premium hikes from Barry supporters upon enrolling for Obamacare, even though they haven’t had major health issues or medical care. They somehow seem to be so shocked. But we tried to tell them. But they were so sure Barry would never lie to them.

For example:

The San Francisco Bay Area is, as we all know, a liberal strong-hold. But the San Francisco Chronicle came out recently with the headline "Health Insurance Shoppers Suffer Sticker Shock." One example they cited was SF Bay Area resident 47-year-old Shelley Ross, self-employed, who was looking forward to getting a better deal through Obamacare. After registering, she lamented that "every plan is going to cost more than what I pay now, and what I pay now is ridiculous." Another San Francisco resident, 63-year-old John Lonergan lost his reasonably priced Kaiser Permanente plan, because it can’t comply to Obamacare mandates. In order to maintain the same level of coverage with Obamacare that he had with Kaiser, his annual premium cost will increase by over $3,600.

And in nearby San Jose, California, the San Jose Mercury News reported, "Like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills." This paper featured Cindy Vinson’s and Tom Waschura’s sticker shock. Both are Barry "Almighty" supporters. Vinson’s annual premium bill went up $1,800, and Waschura’s annual premium spiked incredibly to $10,000 over what he was accustomed to paying. Cindy Vinson explained that she’s in favor of everyone having coverage, but "[she] didn’t expect to be the one paying for it personally." Waschura told the Mercury News, "I really don’t like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this." So I’d like to ask him, what is it that he doesn’t like about the GOP tactics, exactly?

And still today, Democrats to a person, continue to swear that the American people actually love their new entitlement, and will grow to love it even more once they get used to it. But sadly, that’s all really nothing more than smoke and mirrors. It’s their little way of trying to make the American people think that the efforts now being made by the Republicans to repeal, or to defund or to modify Obamacare in some way, are based on politics, and nothing more. The American people must be made to see that its the motives of, as well as the tactics employed by, the Democrats, in forcing this thing upon them, that must be called into question here. And regardless of their political persuasion they must see the wisdom of allying themselves with the Republicans in the continuing effort to forever remove this albatross from around our collective neck. This debacle already has had a horrendous impact on the lives of too many people. It just needs to go!  

PELOSI ON OBAMACARE, “WE MAY CONSIDER AMENDING IT, BUT ONLY AFTER IT’S IMPLEMENTED”…

Back when this debacle that we today refer to as ‘Obamacare’ was first passed, and I use that term rather loosely, it was Nancy "Botox" Pelosi who told us all that we would first have to pass it in order for us to find out what was actually in it. Now fast forward to this past Thursday, and the words sound eerily familiar as Ms. Botox said that Democrats will not consider making any changes, whatsoever, to Obamacare. She said lawmakers may consider amending the bill, but only after it has been implemented. "None of these suggestions [are] acceptable," Pelosi said in reference to Republican efforts to delay the law’s individual mandate for one year.

"After we open government and a plan is in place, any law that a Congress makes, a Congress can make another law and so bring your ideas forward. But not, with government shut down and before the plan is even in effect, are they going to make changes," she said. Old ‘Stretch’ went on to say, "We’ll see how it works — [we're] open to other suggestions, but not shutting down the government unless you have your way, before the bill is implemented." Pelosi made her idiotic claim that Republicans have some secret motive for their wanting to attack Barry ‘Almighty’s" signature health care law. Yup, it’s always got to be all about Barry.

And just what might that so-called "secret motive? be" Well according to Pelosi, she describes it by saying, "[W]hat they’re trying to get to, you know, is Medicare and the rest of that under the guise of the Affordable Care Act." Pelosi went on, "So be very careful about the facade that they put on this health issue, because what we’re concerned about is where they go next on that subject." So if I understand Pelosi correctly here, the motive of Republicans wanting to get rid of this albatross around all of our neck has nothing to do with the fact that millions of Americans have become part time employees, or are losing their doctors or are seeing their premiums skyrocket.

Folks of Pelosi leftist political persuasion are, more often than not, rather fond of telling the rest of us, and until they are blue in the face, about how this ‘law’ was in fact very properly legislated, and then thoroughly adjudicated and even reaffirmed by the American people by way of the 2012 election. But by they’re doing so, they assume that we must have all been asleep during that entire process. Because after having watched the Democrats use the questionable tactic of reconciliation to ‘pass’ Obamacare, it doesn’t take a genius to recognize the fact that it is far from being a properly ‘passed’ piece of legislation. It was a scam, pure and simple.

And, personally, I would also take exception to the claims that this ‘thing’ has been anywhere near properly adjudicated. How can this be when we have four Supreme Court justices who are far more interested in furthering a political ideology than they are in supporting the Constitution. And in this particular instance, add to those four a ‘conservative’ justice who, whether influenced by the liberal side of the court, the media, or perhaps Barry himself, allowed his judgement to be clouded to the point where he essentially rewrote the law in order to make fit with the court’s decision. That, my friends, is not proper adjudication by anyone’s definition.

In this last election, Obamacare was far from the only issue addressed. First and foremost, I think it fair to say, was the economy and jobs. There was also the issue of America’s energy independence and of course the Benghazi attack, that we are still waiting to hear some answers on. So I just don’t think that it’s fair to say that the American people were focused primarily on Obamacare. So as much as Pelosi and her fellow Democrats would like you to believe, the 2012 election was not some referendum on Obamacare. So there is absolutely no truth to any of the claims being made, it is a house of cards that we need to focus on bringing down.

VERY TROUBLING TIMES…

I have to say that never before in my adult life have I ever had the sense that my country is so close to slipping completely out of control. Actually, I think it would be very safe to say that it is now, and very energetically so, be pushed in that direction. And yet, as I look around me, I hear very few, if any, voices of genuine concern. I see people going about their daily business everyday as if they don’t have a care in the world. They talk about the future as if it is actually a sure thing. Well, I’m here to tell you, that it’s not!

I listen to the talking heads on television and I wonder if those on either side really believe anything of what they say, or are they simply doing nothing more that preaching to their respective choirs. I’d like to believe that those who seem to espouse those very same things that I believe are being honest about their sentiments, but at the same time I can’t help but wonder if it’s all about finding your own little niche, and playing it up for all it’s worth all in the name of ratings and therefore, money.

Quite honestly these days, I’m not sure who I can believe, or trust. I know there are very few politicians who can be trusted, and the vast majority of those in our state-controlled media are just as bad. Actually, those in the media are probable worse than the politicians, because we’re supposed to be able to trust our media to provide us with what is supposed to be usable information. But these days all they do is feed us propaganda all in an effort to persuade us into coming around to their side of the favorite cause of the day.

I do hear people constantly complaining about how nothing ever seems to get done in Congress. And what strikes me is just how ignorant most people seem to be about how our system of government is actually supposed to work. While I freely admit that I am by no means an expert on the Constitution, I have done something that a majority of our politicians, and most likely a majority of our citizens, have not done, and that is I have read it. And therein, I think, lies the problem.

And where Americans once saw government interference in their lives as being something to be avoided, most Americans, today, seem to yearn for such interference. And as much as the Democrats, as well as many on the other side, would like to have you believe, ignorance is not bliss. And if the last four years have proven anything to us, it’s that ignorance can be very, very dangerous. And yet, people seem to be willing to do very little to replace that ignorance with real usable knowledge.

I keep hoping that more people will eventually see the light. That there will be some sort of event that might finally shake loose those things that I would like to think are still inside us all, but that we just haven’t used in a while, and may have forgotten were even there. You know, those qualities that were once looked upon as being so uniquely American. Things like self-reliance, a strong work ethic, a rugged individualism, pride in being able to provide for one’s family and a desire to be self-sufficient.

These days when I look at Washington, I see fewer and fewer individuals who are actually on the side of "We the People." And whenever I think I see a ray of hope in those who claim to be on my side, the end result is, more often than not, nothing more than the equivalent of a swift kick right in the old gonads. We’re spending our children’s futures, while, at the same time, being in debt up to our eyeballs to China. And all our ‘leaders’ seem to want to do is to keep madness going.

And as much as I would like to, I just can’t bring myself to blame it all on the politicians. Because it seems that every time there is even the slightest bit of talk about finally taking the necessary measures to reverse the insanity, those trying to do just that are maligned, slandered and vilified courtesy of all manner of incendiary rhetoric. And, sadly, many people allow themselves to believe such garbage. And as a result, those folks who were at least trying to the right thing, wilt under the pressure brought to bear.

But wouldn’t it be something if people would simply choose to ignore all of the inflammatory and toxic rhetoric, and finally be able to admit that, yes, for the sake of our children, we must do something even though we know that it’s not going to be easy. I know, I’m living in a dream world, and the chances of it ever becoming a reality are remote to say the least. If the little light bulb ever does go off in the minds of people, I’m quite sure it’ll be too late to do anything. The time for taking action will have been long passed.

OBAMA’S RULE #1, TELL THE LIE, THEN REPEAT THE LIE, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN…

I think that we can all agree on the fact that most of those who vote for Democrats are, for the most part, uneducated, morally challenged, rather lazy as well as being either too gullible or just too stupid to figure out that what the Democrats are telling them is nothing more than a bunch of BS. So therefore when Barry "Almighty" tells them, as he has done repeatedly, that raising the nation’s borrowing limit "won’t add a dime" to the federal debt, they just not their pointy little heads in agreement. And when you point out to them that the government already has borrowed the equivalent of more than 60 Trillion dimes since he took office, their eyes glaze over and you just get this blank stare in return.

The very simple fact is that when Barry "Almighty" first became president, back on what was that very fateful day in January 2009, the total federal debt stood at $10.6 Trillion. Just this week, it hit the rather staggering amount of $16.7 Trillion. Now for all you braindead liberals, that would be an increase of 57 percent. Now keep in mind here, that during the same time frame under President George W. Bush the total federal debt rose 38 percent. And under ‘Slick Willie’ Clinton, it rose 32 percent. Granted, neither one of those figures should have been seen as being anywhere acceptable, but they have since been dwarfed by what Barry has managed to rake up since assuming office.

Barry’s and the Democrats continue in their effort to hoodwink the American people by insisting to perpetuate the nonsense that the government will somehow run out of authority to pay its bills by Oct. 17 unless Congress raises the debt limit once again to allow even more borrowing. Barry portrays the move as one of simple responsibility. "It does not increase our debt," he said. "It does not grow our deficits. All it does is allow the Treasury Department to pay for what Congress has already spent." But Barry rarely, if ever, mentions the fact that it is he who, by law, approves congressional spending, and his idiotic argument only serves to gloss over the nation’s rapidly ballooning total debt.

"It’s certainly not the whole story," said Alex Brill, who’s a budget specialist at the American Enterprise Institute. "We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the debt held by the public in the last four or five years, and it’s projected to only get worse." Which only goes to show just how dishonest Barry has been, and continues to be, on the topic of our debt. And since when do we ever actually get the whole story from Barry? What he does take great pleasure in doiing, however, is to look us all right dead in the eye while he lies right to our face, and then laughs about how much smarter he is than the rest of us. This is the caliber of the pathetic little man who is our president.

So it was then that on Oct. 4, the debt held by the public, not including Social Security and Medicare, had risen 89.3 percent since Barry took office, according to FactCheck.org. The administration recently projected an annual deficit of $750 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 and $626 billion the year after that. "At that rate, the debt owed to the public will more than double during the Obama presidency," FactCheck said in its quarterly statistical report on Barry’s tenure in office. That’s why many Republican lawmakers say that is the reason spending cuts and entitlement reform should be part of the discussion to raise the debt limit. But Barry stubbornly refuses to cut any amount of spending.

Barry has said, repeatedly, that he will NOT talk about long-term budget issues until Republicans agree to reopen the government and raise the debt limit without any preconditions. So, I guess, he’s only willing to negotiate after he has gotten everything that he wants. Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner, said Wednesday that linking spending reforms to increases in the debt limit is "common, bipartisan practice." The Republican leadership pointed to a Congressional Research Service report last month that said Congress has used debt-limit laws to change fiscal policy 20 times since 1917. In that same 96-year span, the nation’s debt limit has been raised an incredible 103 times.

And in what has been his increasingly contentious showdown with Congress, Barry also has been rather fond of pointing out that budget deficits, the annual red ink that contributes to the total debt, have been falling at the fastest pace in 60 years. But that’s only true in large part because the amount of our spending shot up, pretty dramatically, in his first term as the administration blew through nearly a Trillion dollar in a bogus effort to blunt the impact of the supposed "Great Recession". And although a "grand bargain" on spending and entitlements eluded Barry and congressional Republicans in 2011, Mr. Brill said, it is that same kind of approach that’s still needed to get the debt under control.

Finally, it has been said, and more times that I can to count, that part of the problem that the Republicans have is in properly articulating their message. Well, while that may be true, they also need to remember that whenever they find themselves speaking to those who have a tendency to vote for Democrats, they must be mindful to keep the dialogue in what is no higher than a third grade level. Because, unfortunately, that is the mentality that they are essentially going to dealing with in any such conversation that takes place with these people. Which, of course, only serves to make their task all the more difficult. People need to be made to understand what’s happening here, even if we need to resort to the use of coloring books.

THE NUMBERS, UNLIKE THE DEMOCRATS, DO NOT LIE…

 

The Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee has put together the above little chart to show you, the American people, that the U.S. actually added two times more debt than there has been economic output in the last two years. Now Barry, as well as the congressional Democrats would have us all believe that there’s really nothing to worry about here, that they have the situation well under control. We’re constantly being told how we can all rest assured that their experts are watching everything very closely.

Now I’m sure that most of us here are quite familiar with Barry’s recent statement that should have left pretty much every rational thinking American scratching his or her head. You know, the one where he said that increasing the debt limit does not increase the debt. Now hating, as I most definitely do, to call Barry "Almighty" a despicable liar, when the Treasury department started using so-called extraordinary measures to avoid a breach of the debt ceiling in May, 2011, the debt limit then stood at $14,294 Billion.

Today our debt limit sits at $16,699 Billion, which was reached when Treasury started using extraordinary measures in May of this year. So that would be an increase of $2,405 Billion in just 2 years which would then make it very obvious, very quickly, that Barry’s little theory is a bunch of bullshit. Meanwhile, the economy, as measured by GDP, only increased by $1,199 Billion between the second quarter of 2011 and the second quarter of this year. So the debt increased twice as much as the economy over the last two years.

Now to me, and I am by no means a genius on matters of economic and/or fiscal policy, that would seem to be the classic definition of unsustainable. The growth of a nation’s debt cannot, for very long, exceed the growth of its economy, which, as you can plainly see from the numbers, is precisely what’s been happening. So as I asked in a previous post, how is it then, that the Democrats and Barry are both able to avoid being seen as the bearers of at least most, but most definitely not all, of the blame for where we now find ourselves.

So I would think it would be wise for people, regardless of their political persuasion, if they care at all about the futures of their kids, to start calling the House Republicans, if for no other reason than to offer up some moral support. We must make our voices heard, we must stand with them and against Barry "Almighty" and the Democrats. The saving of our country has now become just as much up to us as it is up to the House Republicans. We must let them know we are on their side and that the polls do not tell the true story!

ARE AMERICANS, NOW, SIMPLY TOO FAR GONE?

So I ask you. Are the polls really that skewed in favor of the Democrats, or is a substantial percentage of the American people now simply too far gone, having moved well beyond being able to comprehend, even in the slightest, what’s really going on here, and what’s really at stake? I guess I just don’t understand how anyone can look at the fact that America is now $17 Trillion in debt, and not see that as being a very bad thing. And now, word has apparently come down from on high, that ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid has said that he wants the debt ceiling to be raised by yet another $1 Trillion to take us through the end of the year. REALLY? Does that make sense to anyone? While I wish we would snap out of whatever trance we’re in, I can’t help but think that it’s already too late.

So as our country enters into the eighth day of what is really only a partial shutdown of our government, it would appear, if we can believe these polls, that Republican lawmakers are now taking the brunt of the political heat that has thus far been generated. Although a series of new polls, albeit conducted by mostly left of center organizations, would also seem to indicate that the public blames both parties as well as Barry "Almighty" for the current budget impasse, the lion’s share of the blame always comes down on the side of the GOP. The latest poll from Washington Post/ABC News, both less than credible organizations, of 1,005 adults, shows that 70 percent of those surveyed disapprove of the way Republicans have handled the budget negotiations, with 51 percent saying they "strongly" disapprove.

Ok, now let’s stop and look at that, for a second, shall we. After only nine days after it officially came online, I think it fair to say that we now know the nightmare that Obamacare is going to be. That should now be pretty readily apparent to anyone who’s being the slightest bit honest with themselves. So, personally, I’m all in favor of the Republicans using whatever tactics necessary to, if not completely defund, at least delay Obamacare, with the ultimate goal being either defunding or repealing it. Also, I do not want to see the debt ceiling raised one more dollar. What we need to be focused in on, like a laser, is real spending cuts. So I guess I get somewhat confused when I see some poll that appears to indicate that the American people are essentially arguing for just the opposite.

So anyway, that 70 percent figure represents a seven-point increase from the Post-ABC poll released barely a week ago on Sept. 30 that then showed a 63 percent disapprove of how Republicans have dealt with the budget issues. By comparison, the new Post/ABC poll taken Oct. 2-6 shows that 51 percent disapprove of Barry "Almighty's" handling of budget negotiations, with 39 percent of the public strongly disapproving. Sixty-one percent of respondents also said they disapprove of how congressional Democrats have handled the budget mess. In the Sept. 30 survey, 50 percent of participants said they disapproved of Barry’s handling of the shutdown crisis while Democrats drew a 56 percent disapproval rating. Not matter what, the Republicans are always shown to be more at fault.

Another new survey, this one of 1,009 adults and conducted by CNN/ORC International, two more left of center groups, also, coincidently, found that more people blame Republicans than Democrats or Barry for the shutdown, though, again, both sides are taking some heat. According to this poll, which was conducted Oct. 3-6, 63 percent of those questioned say they are angry at Republicans for the way they have handled the shutdown, compared to 57 percent who feel that way about the Democrats and 53 percent who feel similarly about Barry. "It looks like there is more than enough blame to go around and both parties are being hurt by the shutdown," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. But, again, they made sure to show that MORE people were angry at the Republicans.

And in yet another survey, conducted by a couple more left leaning organizations, CBS News/ New York Times, was released on October 3 and apparently also showed that more people are blaming the Republicans for the shutdown than are blaming the Democrats. Meanwhile, the CNN/ORC survey also indicated growing fears about the impact of the shutdown, with most respondents saying it is causing a crisis or major problems for the country. Specifically, 18 percent of the respondents described the shutdown as a "crisis," while 49 percent said it has already caused major problems. The CNN/ORC results mirror a Gallup survey released October 4 showing that seven in 10 believe the shutdown is causing a crisis or major problems. Only 17 percent of the government is actually shutdown!

So are the American people actually saying that they want House Republicans to just hand over to Barry and the Democrats a blank check? Are they simply never to say no? Apparently so, because if what I heard yesterday is in anyway true, that 20+ Republicans House seats could now be in jeopardy come 2014, no other conclusion can be reached. So have we, as Americans, now become quite enamored with the idea of one party rule? That, to me, is nothing short of absolutely frightening. Because isn’t that what got us saddled with Obamacare, as well as with a level of spending never before seen? Is that really the road we want to go down? Now I’m really not sure how much stock we can put into any of these left tilting polls, but they do make for good propaganda. And propaganda does sell rather well.

As I have tried to argue before, I think that to treat the burying of our children under what is a mountain of debt in such a willful and callous manner, is nothing if not completely irresponsible of us as parents. And what is it, exactly, that we hope to gain from doing so? We are being lied to, on a daily basis, by our president and we seem not to care in the least. We have essentially become nothing more his willing accomplices in his mission to destroy our country. We have thrown our children to the wolves at his behest, and for what? I’m not sure how we have been persuaded to sacrifice the futures of our children at the altar of "Hope and Change," but that seems to be what has happened here. Our country is being destroyed right before our very eyes, and yet far too many of us just don’t seem to care.

OBAMA SEEMS A BIT LOST ON THE FINE ART OF NEGOTIATION…

Ya know, Barry "Almighty" seems to be more than just a little confused on how this whole negotiation thing is supposed to work. And yes I know that Barry likes to play this game of politics by his rules, and his alone. So no one should have been the least bit surprised when, on Monday, Barry turned what was nothing more than a manufactured photo opportunity, into an opportunity to blast House Republicans for what he called a "manufactured crisis." How ironic, we have here the king of the manufactured crisis, accusing the Republicans of doing that which no one does better than Barry himself. Weird, don’t you think? Anyway, Barry once again demanded that the Republicans fund the government and raise the debt limit with no strings attached and without any negotiating taking place.

"Pass a budget, end the government shutdown, pay our bills and prevent an economic shutdown," Barry demanded of the Republicans. "And as soon as that happens, I am eager and ready to sit down and negotiate with Republicans on a whole range of issues." Now look, I know I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I always thought that the entire concept of negotiation required that it come BEFORE the deal, not after. I mean otherwise, doesn’t that kind of defeat the whole purpose of negotiating? And yes, I fully realize the fact that Barry thinks he’s a whole lot smarter than the rest of us, but I think this is going just a bit too far. But be that as it may, this time around Barry’s venue of choice for unloading on the Republicans was the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

We’re told that Barry was supposedly there to get some briefing on "what happened with Hurricane Karen, became Tropical Storm Karen and then fortunately dissipated, so we dodged a bullet there." He said the government shutdown has made it more difficult for them to respond to events that never even happened: "So Craig (Fugate) was just explaining to me here at FEMA, about 86 percent of the FEMA workforce is furloughed. In response to the potential event that might have happened down in Florida and along the coasts, Craig called back 200 of those workers. Keep in mind calling them back doesn't mean they were getting paid; it just means they had the privilege of working without pay to make sure that they were doing everything they can to respond to the potential needs of their fellow citizens." Blah, blah, blah.

That, I guess, then led Barry into what I suppose was to be his main point here in this obviously staged little event. Because he then went on to say, "Right now, Congress should do what's in the best interests of the economy and the American people, and that's move beyond this manufactured crisis and work together to focus on growth, jobs and providing the vital services that Americans all across the country depend on, including the services that FEMA provides." As far as I’m concerned, and I’m surprised that I’m even saying this, I think that’s exactly what I see currently being undertaken by Speaker Boehner. He is actually trying to do that which is in the best interests of our economy and to prevent, or to delay, that which will have some pretty dire economic consequences for the American people.

Look, the House Republicans have passed a number of smaller bills, 26 at last count, the purpose of which is to fund various vital services, but the Democrats have done little else but to denounce the effort as inadequate. Barry also took the opportunity to defend himself against criticism that he won't even talk to Republicans. And in what was really nothing more than another demonstration of his ability to lie through his teeth, he said, "I heard a lot of talk over the weekend that the real problem is, is that the president will not negotiate. Well, let me tell you something. I have said from the start of the year that I'm happy to talk to Republicans about anything related to the budget. There is not a subject that I am not willing to engage in, work on, negotiate and come up with common-sense compromises on." OH REALLY?

And he went on, "What I've said is that I cannot do that under the threat that if Republicans don't get a hundred percent of their way, they're going to either shut down the government or they are going to default on America's debt so that America for the first time of history does not pay its bills. That is not something I will do. We're not going to establish that pattern. We're not going to negotiate under the threat of further harm to our economy and middle-class families. We're not going to negotiate under the threat of a prolonged shutdown until Republicans get a hundred percent of what they want. We're not going to negotiate under the threat of economic catastrophe that economists and CEOs increasingly warn would result if Congress chose to default on America's obligations." Just so much bullshit!

Barry insisted that there are enough Republican and Democratic votes in the House to end the shutdown immediately -- "with no partisan strings attached." Barry said, "If Republicans and Speaker Boehner are saying there are not enough votes, then they should prove it. Let the bill go to the floor, and let's see what happens. Just vote. Let every member of Congress vote their conscience, and they can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down." Ok, then why is it only in the House that we must have a straight up or down vote? Why are we prevented from doing the same thing over in the Senate when it comes to anything related to Obamacare? Might Barry not be quite so confident when it comes to holding his Democrats together in a vote that would delay it or even defund it?

And while he was at it, Barry also pretty much demanded that Republicans raise the debt limit -- and end the sequester. "Pass a budget, end the government shutdown, pay our bills and prevent an economic shutdown," he told Republicans. "And as soon as that happens, I am eager and ready to sit down and negotiate with Republicans on a whole range of issues." Now if I remember correctly, this entire sequester thing was actually HIS idea. It was probably the only good one he’s had since coming into office. So if I were him, I might be tempted to leave that one alone. After all, it really wasn’t all that much money, in the big scheme of things. But hey, that’s just me. But even though it wasn’t really all that much money, to the Democrats it’s still something that we can’t afford to cut. It must be spent!

Finally, have you ever noticed, and I’m sure that you have, how it is that whenever the Republicans finally work up the nerve to play a little political hardball, in the same manner that Democrats always do, they’re always accused of, somehow, playing dirty, or of being against the little guy? And even though it’s the Democrats who have done far more to hurt that very same little guy, because their motives are always seen as being so pure, their behavior is seen as being nothing more than the nasty, but necessary, business of politics. I suppose that it’s just another example of what we can all chalk up to as being that same old double standard than always comes into play. But this time around, we cannot allow ourselves to be bullied into backing down. Not this time, the stakes are just way too high.

‘DINGY HARRY’ REID SAYS, “HEY, IT’S NOT OUR FAULT.”

It would seem that sufficient evidence now exists that would seem to indicate that ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid has slipped into the beginning stages of dementia. His recent claim that the Democrats are in no way to blame for the government shutdown, should be seen as sufficient reason enough to call his sanity into question. He recently even went so far as to tell one reporter, "search the news accounts today and find anything that suggests that Democrats had anything to do with this shutdown." Now knowing our state-controlled media as I think we all do, the sad thing here is that ‘Dingy’ is probably pretty close to being right? It is, after all, the same state-controlled media that has long operated as the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.

It was while at a press conference on this past Friday that ‘Dingy Harry’ was asked, "You have made this very clear that you cast this as a Republican shutdown. Are you concerned as this wears on, that at some point people start to blame Democrats, too?" To which old ‘Dingy Harry’ responded, "Well I tell you what, you search the papers with me today, you search the news accounts today and find anything that suggests that Democrats had anything to do with this shutdown." Now personally, if I were a member of the ‘mainstream’ media, I might now be asking ‘Dingy’ to perhaps come up with a different strategy, one that wouldn’t necessarily bring any additional scrutiny to those whom most Americans already don’t seem to trust all that much.

According to a Gallup poll released just last Friday it would appear that both Republican and Democratic congressional leaders are now being viewed negatively as a result of our partial government shutdown. And even Barry "Almighty" is now seen as taking a hit as well, at least according to Gallup. "A majority of Americans, 57%, say they now view President Obama more negatively as a result of the shutdown," the pollster said. How can he not be taking a hit? After all, who is it that has been standing on the sidelines, declaring, and very loudly I might add, that he WILL NOT negotiate? Since when is that an example of presidential leadership? Barry doesn’t get to make all manner of demand, and then expect us all to simply fall in line.

The fight over the shutdown is causing splits within the two political parties as well. A growing number of House Democrats have now broken with their party leadership over the past two weeks to vote with House Republicans in approving funding for at least some parts of the federal government that do not involve implementing Obamacare. As has already been reported, the number of Democrats voting for funding bills put up by the House leadership that were then blocked by the Democrat-controlled Senate has grown from 2, who voted for a measure to fund the entire government except Obamacare, to as many as 36 who voted to pay members of the National Guard when on inactive-duty training.

However, because the Democratic leadership in the Senate has stubbornly refused to support these measures, they have not been passed and sent on to Barry "Almighty" to see if he would actually veto them to maintain his leverage in trying to force the House to fund Obamacare. And there have also been various press reports that have indicated that at least 17 House Republicans have released statements saying that they would actually support passing a clean continuing resolution on to the Senate, even on that would include funding for Obamacare, in order to end the shutdown. And every one of these 17 Republican turncoats should now be firmly atop everyone’s list and marked very clearly as individuals in need of being defeated come 2014.

If the House, which is controlled by the Republicans, has been passing different pieces of legislation designed to fund various parts of the government, 26 at last count, and the Senate, which is controlled by the Democrats, has passed absolutely nothing, it should become pretty obvious, pretty quickly, who the primary speed bump is in this continuing resolution process, as well as being the main culprit in the shutdown of the government. Look, folks, this ain’t rocket science. The bottom line here is, we simply can no longer afford to go on spending the way we have been. It’s just a fiscal impossibility. Someone is going to have to play the role of the adult here, and that obviously is not going to be ‘Dingy Harry’ or Barry "Almighty."

THE UPSIDE TO THE GOVERNMENT BEING SHUTDOWN…

Personally, I continue to be not the least bit bothered by Barry’s having decided to keep the government shutdown firmly in place. After all, how much of a government shutdown is it really, when we have only about 17 percent of the government that’s actually "shut down?" And for anyone out there who might actually be fretting over the whole thing, they really need do no more than to consider the fact that with this shutdown of the government comes a slowdown of putting in place of a whole host of Barry’s new and improved rules and regulations. That must be seen as a positive.

So for anyone who might be in search of that ever-elusive silver lining regarding our current government shutdown, The Hill has reported that the number of new federal regulations being pumped out on a daily basis, has now almost ground to a halt, with only the most ‘vital’ rules still being written. Ok, so I’m a little confuse here, I’d like to know what, exactly, constitutes a "vital regulation." Anyway, the fact that the regulation mill has at least been slowed is just fine with most conservatives and business groups. And that would be with yours truly very enthusiastically included!

Now of course, those who are responsible for the creation of ever more stronger and intrusive regulations will warn us that any delays in all of this idiotic rulemaking will surely jeopardize public safety and health. But how can that be when there are already very few, if any, aspects of our lives that aren’t already over-regulated by the government? I’ll take my little reprieve from the red tape, even if it doesn’t last long. I’m kinda glad that all the regulatory activities have fallen by the wayside. And the longer it goes on, the better off most of us are likely to be because of it.

Of course those ardent defenders of all those regulations will claim that nothing less than the wellbeing of the American people is at stake, if lawmakers are unable to end the budget impasse. "Regulations are vital for everything from protecting the environment, to maintaining public health, to ensuring workplace safety," Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat, said. "Anything that slows down the rulemaking process … is bad for American workers, consumers and families." Now while that may be how most Democrats see things, I’m just not thinking that that’s how most intelligent people view things.

The effects can already be seen in the Federal Register, where new regulations and draft rules are published daily. Monday’s edition of the Federal Register, the last one published before the shutdown, clocked in at more than 400 pages and contained 40 rules or proposals for the public to look over, covering everything from fees charged by U.S. Marshals to protecting the habitat for sea turtles. Oh ya, there’s some pretty "vital regulations" that we just couldn’t have been able to do without. Meanwhile, Friday’s edition was down to less than a third that size, and had just six rules

Republicans, of course, were more than happy to hear that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had cut back on its regulatory work. "I’m no fan of the EPA at all. So they certainly can’t perform any of their mischief if 93 percent of them are furloughed," Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, told The Hill. Hell, we even had a scum-sucking Democrat in the person of former Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who admitted that business groups are happy with the cutback in regulations, however temporary. "If they think potentially it means a week without regulations, they’re thinking, ‘Great, I have a week to catch up," she said.

But, sounding like the Democrat that she is, Lincoln, now with the National Federation of Independent Business said that no one who is serious wants to see all government regulations abolished. Maybe that goes for the majority of her fellow scum-sucking Democrats, but I’d be willing to wager that a substantial number of those in the small business community wouldn’t be too disappointed to see that happen. I think most rational people agree that our government has become far too intrusive, far too nosey and far too controlling. ‘We the People’ need to reassert ourselves.

Most of the headlines having to do with the shutdown make it very apparent that Barry is out to do his level best in making it, at least appear to be, as painful as possible. Such as barring WWII veterans, who we are rapidly losing more of each and every day, from viewing their memorial. Barry sees himself as being above the need to negotiate. He is Barry "Almighty" and therefore His will must be obeyed. This shutdown is all his. He is the one responsible, no one else. So let us make sure that we use this moment in time to our best advantage. Let it be our line in the sand, our "red line", where we will stand united against Barry’s efforts to destroy our country.

OBAMA…ONCE AGAIN TAKES ARROGANCE TO NEW HEIGHTS…

Just in case any of us were about to forget just how arrogant our president really is, it was on Thursday that he saw fit to provide us all yet another brilliant demonstration of just how arrogant he can be. And in what I thought was behavior which was well beneath the dignity of his office, Barry actually chose to lecture the Republicans regarding what he described as being their "attitude" problem. This rather childish display of his came while he was speaking to an audience in The People’s Republic of Maryland, and Barry made it quite clear that it’s his opinion that there’s a group of Republican "extremists" who are now the only thing standing in the way of a "yes-or-no vote" on a continuing resolution to fund the federal government. Well, that wouldn’t really be an accurate assessment of things.

It was during this little tantrum of his that Barry supposedly quoted a House Republican as refusing to be "disrespected" by failing to "get something" out of the CR vote. To which Barry responded, and in typical juvenile fashion, by saying, "If you're being disrespected, it's because of that attitude you've got -- that you deserve to get something for doing your job." Adding, "Everybody here just does their job." You know, maybe, and I’m going out on a limb here, just maybe if, over the course of the last four years, our community agitator of a president had taken his job just a bit more seriously, and actually chose act like a leader and not just some kind of a spoiled brat, we wouldn’t be where we now find ourselves. But, nope, he just couldn’t bring himself to do it.

Barry prefaced his rather idiotic remarks, in his usual sophomoric manner, saying, "The only thing that is keeping the government shut down, the only thing preventing people from going back to work and basic research starting back up and farmers and small business owners getting their loans, the only thing that's preventing all that from happening, right now, today, in the next five minutes, is that Speaker John Boehner won't even let the bill get a yes-or-no vote because he doesn't want to anger the extremists in his party. That's -- that's all. That's what this whole thing is about." That is nothing more than pure Barry BULLSHIT! What’s keeping the government shutdown is the unwillingness of Democrats, including Barry, to compromise. THAT is what this whole thing is about.

Then Barry claimed to be quoting some unnamed House Republican: "I didn't make this up," Barry said: "One House Republican said, 'We're not going to be disrespected, we have to get something out of this, and I don't know what that even is.'" Barry repeated the quote and urged his audience to think about it: Speaking about House Republicans, he said, "You have already gotten the opportunity to serve the American people. There's no higher honor than that. You've already gotten the opportunity to help businesses like this one, workers like these. So the American people aren't in the mood to give you a goodie bag to go with it." Now wouldn’t you think that a 52 year old guy could act a little more mature? I mean, really. Who but his brain dead supporters will fall for his infantile drivel?

As part of his ridiculous little rant, Barry stupidly remarked that House Republicans should be content to put people back to work. "That's what you should be asking for," he said. "Take a vote, stop this farce, and end this shutdown right now." Well, why doesn’t that same logic apply equally to the ‘Dingy Harry’ and the Democrats? After all, it’s the Republicans have said they will fund all of government on a short-term basis, except for Obamacare, and ‘Dingy Harry Reid who has said nothing but NO!. Most Republicans view this as being their best chance to stop what they, and more than a few Democrats as well, have called a "train wreck." Republicans have rightly pointed out Barry’s lack of leadership, and specifically, his refusal to even try to bring the two sides together.

Just a brief word about this whole Obamacare fiasco. I’m really getting sick tired of hearing from Democrats about how it is that the unaffordable Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, has been legislated, adjudicated and reaffirmed by the American people by way of the last election. But that’s less than an accurate portrayal of the events as they have occurred. In "legislating" this train wreck, the Democrats used every political shenanigan available to them to shove it through Congress. And I think we all know full well how the law was, in being adjudicated by the Supreme Court, essentially rewritten. And I think it’s a stretch to claim that the last election was somehow a referendum on Obamacare when it was far from being the only issue. None of these arguments hold any water!

BOEHNER AGAIN POISED TO KNIFE CONSERVATIVES IN THE BACK?

Just when I think we MIGHT be making a bit of forward progress in the right direction, along comes John Boehner to prove me nothin but wrong. Because, apparently, according to a new report out from the New York Times, it would seem that our perpetually spineless Speaker of the House, the guy who just never seems to be able to pass up an opportunity to knife conservatives in the back, has told fellow lawmakers that he’d be willing to allow legislation to come to the House floor that would raise the nation’s debt limit yet again. And he would do so even if a majority of his fellow House Republicans, oppose such a measure.

That move, if Boehner were to actually go through with it, would violate the longstanding Hastert rule, that unwritten policy that says the Speaker will not allow legislation onto the floor that is not supported by a majority of the party in power. Because should Boehner allow such legislation to come to the floor, it would then require only a small number of supposed Republicans to cross the aisle to join their Democrat brethren in voting for and, in all likelihood, passing it. Now if Boehner does go through with move, then every effort must be undertaken, and as soon as possible, to remove him from the Speakership.

"Hurricane Sandy, the fiscal cliff, all of the big votes require reasonable Republicans and Democrats to come together in order to pass it and get it to the president’s desk," Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick (R-PA) told the Times. "This will be no different." What the Hell does this moron mean when he says, reasonable Republicans? Personally speaking, I can only assume that what he must really mean are those who we recognize as RINOs but who like to refer to themselves as being the "reasonable Republicans." There’s just no other way to look at it. This is the kind of crap that is to be considered as being unacceptable and needs to be stamped out!

And then we had Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ), another freaking RINO, who met with Boehner on Wednesday. And while this clown wouldn’t provide any details of what was said during that meeting to the Times, he did imply that such a move was indeed possible. "The speaker of the House does not want to default on the debt on the United States," he said, "and I believe he believes in Congress as an institution, and I certainly believe he is working for the best interests of the American people." Just a bunch of lame excuses the purpose of which is to properly prepare us for the coming disappointment, proving, once again, that our supposed leadership is anything but.

As for Boehner’s camp, they all seemed to be quite tight lipped, dodging the question but seeming to leave the door pretty far open. "The speaker has always been clear that a default would be disastrous for our economy," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told the Times. "He’s also been clear that a ‘clean’ debt hike cannot pass the House." That last part of the quote references recent reports that over 20 RINOs have now signaled their support for a "clean" continuing resolution that fully funds both Obamacare and the federal government. So again it’s our side who seems to be only too happy to surrender.

I stopped trusting Boehner a long time ago. Frankly, I was shocked when I heard that he had sent to the Senate a Continuing Resolution (CR) that actually defunded Obamacare. I really didn’t think he had the backbone to do such a thing. But it was to be short lived. Because it wasn’t long after that he was already making compromises, weakening his own position. Who does that? Why is it that this is how our side defines leadership? Our guys seem to walk around with a white flag in their back pocket that they can have at the ready to throw anytime things get the least bit tough. Just doesn’t make any sense!

You know, after the 2010 elections I had some pretty high hopes. But I’ll tell ya what, it wasn’t very long after Boehner assumed his current position that I realized we could have done a whole lot better in choosing a speaker. Instead of having someone who possessed some real leadership abilities, we were, instead, saddled with someone who was, and who continues to be, pretty much useless. But he is far from being the only one lacking the necessary courage to put a stop to all of the madness. So, if not enough on our side are willing to do what we all know needs to be done to save our republic, might we now have to take matters into our own hands?

OUR STATE-CONTROLLED MEDIA PUSHES MORE U.N. PROPAGANDA…

Well, as some of you may have heard, that bizarre little group referred to as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its latest dire warning about what it calls "catastrophic" climate change. Yes, my friends, once again we’re being told that the end is near unless we further bankrupt ourselves in trying prevent the unpreventable. While many a climate expert was quick to ridicule this conglomeration of what is some seriously flawed unscientific gobble-dee-goop, it did manage to garner the frantic attention of all three major broadcast networks almost as soon as it hit the street. The Communist Broadcasting System, or (CBS), even went so far as to air one of the claims of the report, that temperatures could be rising "more than 200 degrees."

But, as is usually the case whenever dealing with our, less than trustworthy, state-controlled media complex, the evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC, in repeating the IPCC’s dire warnings, did so with nary a mention of the report’s many prominent skeptics and without bothering to mention any of the IPCC’s glaring failures of the past, such as their inability to accurately predict warming or sea level rise. ABC, NBC and CBS all failed to include any criticism whatsoever of the IPCC with the exception of what was nothing more than a sophomoric swipe at "skeptics" on ABC. NBC continued to do its best to link such weather events as Hurricane Sandy to climate change while CBS aired a statistic that one scientist called completely "meaningless."

And with the words "big warning" in bold letters extending across the screen, ABC announced this "landmark" report, describing it as coming from some "top scientists." Then some guy, who I can only assume must be their resident climate change doofus, Dan Harris, went on to mention weather events including "superstorm Sandy," after which he ominously warned that the "UN report says we will be seeing much more of these kinds of things in the coming decades as a result of climate change ..." But let’s face it, this idiotic IPCC has been saying this kind of stuff for years. And yet, other than the stray fluke, which Sandy most certainly was, nothing has happened that would provide any amount of proof that they know what the Hell they’re talking about.

And while this imbecile, Harris, did go on to acknowledge the existence of other viewpoints on the topic, he then immediately proceeded to tear them all down by saying, "skeptics have predictably accused the UN panel of being alarmist, but Princeton climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who is on the panel, says this is a major wake up call." Yet this supposed scientist, Oppenheimer, himself has been accused of perpetuating what has been proven to be nothing more than activist junk science from other bogus scientists, according to meteorologist Anthony Watts’ website. But of course our boy Harris, here, didn’t bother to mention any of that. No sense in clouding the issue by throwing in any relevant facts. After all, what good would that do?

The geniuses over at the Communist Broadcasting System, otherwise known as CBS, took a slightly different approach, deciding to air a story about oyster farming and sprinkling in complaints that climate change is ruining a man’s business. But in Ben Tracy’s story, which of course made prominent mention of the IPCC’s latest report, he said that oceans have absorbed much of the heat caused by CO2 and that ocean temperatures have risen only slightly. Then he made a claim that Principal Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville called "totally misleading and irresponsible." Tracy actually made the claim, "Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees."

Dr. Spencer told the MRC’s Business and Media Institute, "The oceans have warmed by an average of less than 0.1 deg. C (only the SURFACE by about 0.5 deg.) since the 1950s, and since that is so much water mass, the absorbed heat equivalent to 0.1 deg. If released all at once in the atmosphere [it] would, indeed, be hundreds of degrees. But this is physically impossible. It is a meaningless statistic. The heat actually had to go through the atmosphere before it reached the ocean." But, as is usually the case with our state-controlled media, the idiotic nonsense didn’t stop with CBS. All three networks seemed to be singing from the same sheet of U.N. crafted, global warming music.

Because according to the rather dim bulbs over there at NBC, we are now "hurtling" at near breakneck speed toward that day when climate change will be "irreversible and catastrophic." There resident ‘Chicken Little’, some bimbo by the name of Anne Thompson, actually warned us that if things remain unchanged, the seas would rise three feet by the end of the century, and we’d have more storms like Sandy. But oddly enough, the media’s many claims about hurricanes and "Superstorm" Sandy simply don’t line up with the facts. The U.S. is currently experiencing a drought of "intense" hurricanes, and climatologist Dr. John Christy, of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has noted that even Sandy was a "minimal hurricane" at best.

Yet, NBC was sounding the alarm, calling for "drastic" changes in carbon emissions. Anne Thompson interviewed some environmentalist wacko by the name of Jeff Masters, of the equally wacko, Weather Underground. Regarding CO2 emissions, she asked him "How much longer can we go?" He responded by saying, "We’ve got about 30 or 40 years before we have to completely stop and go to zero." Christy said he has examined the climate models used for the latest IPCC report, all of which failed to account for the lack of warming since 1996. He stated that he had analyzed all 73 models used in the latest IPCC report and not one accurately predicted that the Earth’s temperature would remain flat since Oct. 1, 1996.

And so it should come as no surprise that all three networks made sure to exclude any and all information from their segments regarding the IPCC’s less than impressive track record. None pointed out the IPCC’s lack of explanation for the "pause" in global warming over the past 15 years, although Scott Pelley mentioned that "the rise in air temperatures has slowed." The networks also failed to mention embarrassing "mistakes," such as the inclusion in the 2007 IPCC report of an "unfounded" prediction that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. They have made predictions time and again that far exceeded actual climate changes, as The Daily Mail (UK) reported on Sept. 14. But ABC, CBS and NBC didn’t consider that worth mentioning to viewers on Sept. 27.

That our much vaunted state-controlled media would take it upon themselves to perpetuate what is nothing more than pure propaganda should make it all the more apparent that they are simply no longer worthy of our attention or trust. They seem quite willing, and almost eager, to busy themselves by spreading all manner of false information. And for what purpose, exactly? What kind of sick person must you be to sit in front a television camera, night after night, and do nothing more than to tell lie upon lie to your fellow Americans? But that’s what those who profess to call themselves journalist do these days. No one in the media, or very few, actually tells the truth anymore. And it’s not just on this bogus climate change, the list of things that we are lied to about is nearly endless.

And "We the People" are the ones who suffer, because we have fewer and fewer sources of accurate information. These days we must automatically assume that everybody is lying to us. And more often that not they are. It’s just all so damn depressing. Staying informed these days is hard work, and the problem lies in the fact that most people don’t want to expend the energy. They’d rather sit in front of the boob-tube and listen to the idiots listed above spew their drivel. They believe the garbage they’re being told without ever bothering to take the time to find out if any of it is true. These are dark times my friends and getting very much darker and those in the press are working feverishly to keep things from us. So believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you can see.

WELCOME TO OBAMA’S ‘SHUTDOWN’…

When it comes to the issue of our current government ‘shutdown’, Barry "Almighty", our ‘Dear Beloved Leader’, is being more than a little dishonest, which is nothing new, when discussing what exactly brought it about. The fact is, is that he and his fellow Democrats have simply refused to negotiate, slamming the door on reopening the government by doing nothing more than to make impossible demands. And, as stories across the country highlight the devastating impact that Obamacare is having on working families and small businesses, Democrats continue to reject any and all demands of fairness for all Americans.

And let’s face it, those of us who work at staying at least minimally informed should be not surprised at all by this continuing arrogant and egomaniacal behavior that we see coming from Barry and the Democrats. It’s not like we haven’t seen all before, and repeatedly. It’s part of a much bigger picture: that being, of course, Barry's scorched-Earth policy of refusing to negotiate in a bipartisan way on his health care law, current government funding, or the debt limit. We are just supposed to hear his commands and then obey. We are but the servant of this man who apparently sees himself as being nothing short of a God.

It was earlier this week that Senate Democrats, acting in concert with Barry "Almighty", rejected no less than four separate proposals from the House of Representatives that were designed to keep the government running and to fund all basic services. On Friday, September 20, the House passed legislation that would keep the government running, fund Medicare, Social Security, veterans benefits, and more, while removing funding for Barry’s debacle of a health care law, which is driving up costs and killing our economy. The Democratic-controlled Senate chose to reject this measure.

And then on Saturday, September 28, the House passed yet another measure to keep the government running, this time attempting to delay Barry's health care law for one year, and that would permanently repeal Obamacare's tax on such things as pacemakers and children's hearing aids. Senate Democrats again rejected the measure on a straight party-line vote. Oh and by the way, the House also passed the Pay Our Military Act, which ensures that our troops are paid during a government shutdown. Thankfully, that measure was adopted by the Senate and actually signed by Barry "Almighty".

And then just this past Monday, September 30, the House again passed another measure, albeit one that some would say was a pretty watered down version of the previous bills, that would keep the government running and ensure fairness for all Americans under the Barry's disastrous health care law. Since Barry had already illegally delayed the law's mandates on big businesses and insurance companies, this most recent bill would have done nothing more than to delay the law for everyone else. But, no surprise here, the Senate was quick to reject this measure as well. Obamacare is considered as being completely off-limits.

The House then passed a second bill late on Monday requesting a formal conference committee with the Senate to come to an agreement on legislation that provides funding for the federal government and delays the president's health care law for all Americans. After all, that is the system the Founding Fathers gave us to resolve differences between the House and Senate. The Senate then opposed that measure as well, so Senate Democrats and Barry "Almighty" got the government shutdown that they apparently so badly wanted. Because for them this is always about politics

Now in the meantime, it’s in just a few weeks that Congress must act to raise the debt limit to pay the tab for Barry's insane amount of spending. There is no way Congress can or should pass such a bill without there also being some pretty significant spending cuts and reforms to deal with the debt and deficit that, hopefully, would help get our economy moving in the right direction. But Barry refuses to even talk about negotiating such a bipartisan agreement. For years we have heard Barry say that in a divided government, no one gets 100% of what they want. I guess what he meant was, anybody but him.

Democrats, Barry included, love to talk about compromise, but rarely, if ever, do they ever actually take part in it. Democrats view compromise as being for suckers, and Republicans. From their rather skewed perspective there’s simply never any need for them to compromise because, and as ridiculous as this may sound, they claim to be the protector of the little guy, and as such are therefore entitled to do whatever they feel they must in that supposed endeavor. But the truth doesn’t quite match up with reality, because sadly, it’s just the opposite that’s true. They’ve done little to protect anyone but themselves.

I think it’s pretty common knowledge, or it should be, that the priorities of the Democrat Party rarely match up with the priorities of the American people, and nothing provides a better example of that than their stubborn refusal to modify Obamacare. That would be because this law that they ‘passed’, using all manner of political trickery, gives to them a level of control over people that, up until now, they have only been able to dream about. And now that they have it, they’re not likely to let go of it willingly. No matter what the people may feel about it. Our opinion simply doesn’t matter. All that matters is power!

And therein lies the reason behind the government shutdown and the primary reason why the Democrats refuse to budge when it comes to Obamacare. They have exempted themselves from the effects of it because, after all, there’s no need to control themselves. And I have no doubt that before long we’ll all be hearing about how it is that their union friends have also be exempted. So the only ones who will be made to comply with this thing will be we, the unwashed masses. And I am not a firm believer that this law will come crashing down under its own weight, it’s going to need to be brought down. One way or another!

THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF BARACK OBAMA…

What, do you suppose, must it be like to live in the alternate universe of Barry "Almighty"? I only ask because I can remember back to a not too distant time, when candidate Barry said that if you made less the $250,000 you would not see your taxes go up bu one dime? Well, I think we all now know how well that one worked out. But, it must have worked well enough for Barry, because just today in a little speech over at the White House, Barry was heard to say that raising the debt ceiling "does not cost taxpayers a single dime."

In fact, Barry said, raising the debt ceiling is simply "routine." However, never before in the history of our country have we been talking about such a staggering amount of debt that has been accrued in such a short, historically speaking, period of time. We have progressed well beyond the point where the taking on of any more debt should be considered as being, to use Barry’s word, "routine." I just don’t understand how ANYONE can look at $17 Trillion of debt and declare it as being merely routine. To me that’s nothing short of insanity!

"For example, one of the most important things Congress has to do in the next couple weeks is to raise what's called the debt ceiling. And it's important to understand what this is. This is a routine vote. Congress has taken this vote 45 times to raise the debt ceiling since Ronald Reagan took office." My response to that is, "So fucking what?" This isn’t the 1980s or the 1990s, when the our debt, while still considered to be too high by many, was nowhere near what Barry and the Democrats have gotten it up to today. We’re spending money faster than we can print it.

And then Barry, in lying through those big pearly whites of his, went on to say, "It does not cost taxpayers a single dime. It does not grow our deficits by a single dime. It does not authorize anybody to spend any new money whatsoever. All it does is authorize the Treasury to pay the bills on what Congress has already spent." Just how stupid does he think we really are? Or is he simply delusional? I mean, how can this make sense to anyone? And I’ll tell ya, any Democrat that goes along with this level of insanity must be viewed as being just as dangerous as Barry.

What’s underway here is the very purposeful destruction of our country. And anyone who can bring themselves to agree with what Barry is trying to do here must be considered as being an enemy of the people. No more excuses can be, or should be, tolerated. Politicians are to be considered as either being with us or against us, there can be no middle ground. Taking up the middle ground is what helped get us here. Somewhere there must be some Democrats who are willing to stand up to this madness. In the present political climate, Republicans cannot do it alone. Real leadership will be required of both sides.

OUR ‘MAINSTREAM’ MEDIA HAS BECOME BADLY CORRUPTED…

So, you ask, just how far in the tank for Barry "Almighty" are those malcontents who comprise our state-controlled media complex? Well as it turns out, Barry should have absolutely nothing to worry about when it comes to his being made to face the music for that which he is just about solely responsible for bringing about. And of course what I mean is the much talked about, government shutdown. The media is very squarely on his side.

The most recent example of where our in-the-tank ‘news’ media stands when it comes to the issue of the shutdown, comes to us by way of that Virginia-based trade/propaganda publication, Politico, who makes it quite obvious on whose side they are very firmly on in this political standoff. Because according to this particular publication, Barry "Almighty" is said to be winning by shutting down the government.

"President Barack Obama started September in an agonizing, extended display of how little sway he had in Congress. He ended the month with a display of resolve and strength that could redefine his presidency," or so says Politico propagandists Edward-Isaac Dovere and Reid J. Epstein. "All it took was a government shutdown." Like most other places, this is apparently what now passes for journalism over there at Politico.

To bolster their position that Barry is actually showing strength by shutting down the government, Politico quotes Barry himself, White House spokesmoron Jay "The Liar" Carney, OMB deputy director Brian Deese, Democrat pollster Stan Greenberg, and Democrat strategist Jim Manley. All of the quotations in the story are, of course, in support of Barry and all are from Democrats. For theirs is to be seen as the righteous position.

Indeed, one even uses Politico to tell the president to continue blaming Republicans. "Manley advised Obama to make sure people continue to see Boehner and the House Republicans as the problem and not rush into any more negotiations until public outrage forces them to bend," writes Politico. Ah yes, true biased reporting and it’s absolute finest. Proving, once again, there is little that one hears these days that one can actually believe.

And it should come as no surprise that there were no Republicans quoted anywhere in this rather skewed story. After all, why muddy up the waters by throwing in any competing opinions. And not one person skeptical of the president's strategy not to negotiate with Republicans is quoted in the story. "Best DNC press release ever," says one longtime Washington reporter. "Brad Woodhouse [the former DNC spokesman] should take notes."

This is just one more incident the reaffirms my belief that with each passing day, that which used to pass as our ‘mainstream’ news media continues to make itself less and less relevant. Granted, they still have the ear of a great many Americans, but many more today than when I was a kid now turn a deaf ear to those who seem to have forgotten what the mission of the press is supposed to be. Personally, I’d be embarrassed to call myself a journalist today.

Because far from being democracy’s watchdog, those who comprise the state-controlled media of today have become the left’s attack dogs. Instead of striving to keep the American people informed, far too much energy is now expended on keeping us all in the dark. And sadly, in doing so, those in the media, though their continuing acts of subversion, are making it all that much easier for those in power to rob from us more and more of our freedoms.

These days you need to be careful who you’re listening to. No longer is it safe to simply accept things at face value. You must always assume that you’re being lied to. Because more often than not, you are. Trust but verify. Truth is said to always win out, but the more time you have to waste trying to discover it, the more difficult it will be for you to combat all the lies that have been told in the meantime. And I fear we may be loosing the battle.