A relationship not worth sustaining anymore.  Enough political correctness already!

I see where Obama is concerned about spending.  You can tell this by how concerned he is about spending $40 billion to send the additional troops to Afghanistan as requested by General McChrystal.  He didn’t mind giving Citibank $45 billion in the bailout of the banks.  What are they doing with these funds?  They are not loaning it out for businesses – bonuses maybe, and buying gold and investing for more money!  Then of course Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got billions and billions and are now asking for more.  However, now they are going into rentals, keeping those who bought houses they couldn’t afford inside those homes.  I understand many of them are free rentals and Fannie and Freddie will be doing the repairs and maintenance.  Good use of taxpayers money…. I think not!

Obama and the Democrats are using all of their time and efforts to pass a budget busting, physically irresponsible bill.  With their health care bill, they have put in a part to have people who don’t get their insurance, when passed, face massive fines and jail time.  Unconstitutional is the softest expression I can use to describe this.  I can’t use the language that would really apply.  There are other things in this bill that are covered up with double-speak.  There is no tort reform.  Lawyers give the Democrats half of their campaign funds.  There is also no putting into place policies that would allow crossing state lines by insurance companies to encourage competition by the insurance companies.  This might also allow them to compete with the plan by the Democrats to have government take over health care in total.  What a tragedy that would be.

See this article:

From Sunlen Miller:

During an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper today, President Obama said that penalties are appropriate for people who try to “free ride” the health care system but stopped short of endorsing the threat of jail time for those who refuse to pay a fine for not having insurance.

“What I think is appropriate is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don’t, you’re subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it’s affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there’s a thousand dollar hidden tax that families all across America are — are burdened by because of the fact that people don’t have health insurance, you know, there’s nothing wrong with a penalty.”

Under the House bill those who can afford to buy insurance and don’t’ pay a fine. If the refuse to pay that fine there’s a threat – as with a lot of tax fines – of jail time. The Senate removed that provision in the Senate Finance Committee.

Mr. Obama said penalties have to be high enough for people to not game the system, but it’s also important to not be “so punitive” that people who are having a hard time find themselves suddenly worse off, thus why hardship exemptions have been built in the legislation.

“I think the general broad principle is simply that people who are paying for their health insurance aren’t subsidizing folks who simply choose not to until they get sick and then suddenly they expect free health insurance.  That’s — that’s basic concept of responsibility that I think most Americans abide by,” Mr. Obama said, “penalties are appropriate for people who try to free ride the system and force others to pay for their health insurance.”

The President said that he didn’t think the question over the appropriateness of possible jail time is the “biggest question” the House and Senate are facing right now.

Read more from Jake Tapper’s interview with President Obama HERE.

-Sunlen Miller

We have had free speech in this country since it was founded.  Even Father Charles Coughlin and the German Bund, prior to World War II, were allowed to speak antisemitism and communism against Jews and others they hated.  The Muslims in this country are allowed to speak openly, espousing their views currently.  FDR put in internment camps for the Japanese people, some Germans and Italians during World War II and now, because of political correctness, no Muslims may be questioned, even if they espouse views encouraging other Muslims in other parts of the world to hate and portray violence on America and its citizens.  They cannot be questioned and so our world towers were attacked by Muslims.  This is what caused the Fort Hood terrorist act and an effort is being made to place this terrorist act as the work of a madman.  BULLSHIT!

The Third Reich would not allow anyone to speak in dissent and Americans voiced our disapproval.  Now, in this country, efforts are being made to stifle dissent.  It isn’t anymore “Loose lips sink ships,” but “Dissent cannot be voiced by American citizens because loose lips can sink an administration.”  That is horrible.  See the following article:

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site “not to disclose the existence of this request” unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the Justice Department’s subpoena. (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-center amalgamation of journalists and advocates that – according to their principles of unity and mission statement – work toward “promoting social and economic justice” and “social change.”)

The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded “all IP traffic to and from www.indymedia.us” on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to “include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information,” including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers’ Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on.

“I didn’t think anything we were doing was worthy of any (federal) attention,” Clair said in a telephone interview with CBSNews.com on Monday. After talking to other Indymedia volunteers, Clair ended up calling the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, which represented her at no cost.

Under long-standing Justice Department guidelines, subpoenas to members of the news media are supposed to receive special treatment. One portion of the guidelines, for instance, says that “no subpoena may be issued to any member of the news media” without “the express authorization of the attorney general” – that would be current attorney general Eric Holder – and subpoenas should be “directed at material information regarding a limited subject matter.”

Still unclear is what criminal investigation U.S. Attorney Morrison was pursuing. Last Friday, a spokeswoman initially promised a response, but Morrison sent e-mail on Monday evening saying: “We have no comment.” The Justice Department in Washington, D.C. also declined to respond.

Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, replied to the Justice Department on behalf of his client in a February 2009 letter (PDF) outlining what he described as a series of problems with the subpoena, including that it was not personally served, that a judge-issued court order would be required for the full logs, and that Indymedia did not store logs in the first place.

Morrison replied in a one-sentence letter saying the subpoena had been withdrawn. Around the same time, according to the EFF, the group had a series of discussions with assistant U.S. attorneys in Morrison’s office who threatened Clair with possible prosecution for obstruction of justice if she disclosed the existence of the already-withdrawn subpoena — claiming it “may endanger someone’s health” and would have a “human cost.”

Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press, said a gag order to a news organization wouldn’t stand up in court: “If you get a subpoena and you’re a journalist, they can’t gag you.”

Dalglish said that a subpoena being issued and withdrawn is not unprecedented. “I have seen any number of these things withdrawn when counsel for someone who is claiming a reporter’s privilege says, ‘Can you tell me the date you got approval from the attorney general’s office’… I’m willing to chalk this up to bad lawyering on the part of the DOJ, or just not thinking.”

Making this investigation more mysterious is that Indymedia.us is an aggregation site, meaning articles that appear on it were published somewhere else first, and there’s no hint about what sparked the criminal probe. Clair, the system administrator, says that no IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are recorded for Indymedia.us, and non-IP address logs are kept for a few weeks and then discarded.

EFF’s Bankston wrote a second letter to the government saying that, if it needed to muzzle Indymedia, it should apply for a gag order under the section of federal law that clearly permits such an order to be issued. Bankston’s plan: To challenge that law on First Amendment grounds.

But the Justice Department never replied. “This is the first time we’ve seen them try to get the IP address of everyone who visited a particular site,” Bankston said. “That it was a news organization was an additional troubling fact that implicates First Amendment rights.”

This is not, however, the first time that the Feds have focused on Indymedia — a Web site whose authors sometimes blur the line between journalism, advocacy, and on-the-streets activism. In 2004, the Justice Department sent a grand jury subpoena asking for information about who posted lists of Republican delegates while urging they be given an unwelcome reception at the party’s convention in New York City that year. A Indymedia hosting service in Texas once received a subpoena asking for server logs in relation to an investigation of an attempted murder in Italy.

Bankston has written a longer description of the exchange of letters with the Justice Department, which he hopes will raise awareness of how others should respond to similar legal demands for Web logs, customer records, and compulsory silence. “Our fear is that this kind of bogus gag order is much more common than one would hope, considering they’re legally baseless,” Bankston says. “We’re telling this story in hopes that more providers will press back and go public when the government demands their silence.”

Update 1:59pm E.T.: A Justice Department official familiar with this subpoena just told me that the attorney general’s office never saw it and that it had not been submitted to the department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. for review. If that’s correct, it suggests that U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison and Assistant U.S. Attorney Doris Pryor did not follow department regulations requiring the “express authorization of the attorney general” for media subpoenas — and it means that neither Attorney General Eric Holder nor Acting Attorney General Mark Filip were involved. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an internal investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility; my source would not confirm or deny that.

There has been a current example of money buying votes by the Obama administration for the passing of the House health care bill.  Buying votes and earmarks have destroyed any confidence in our elected officials.  Jesus drove the money changers from the temple.  Now those politicians sit in Washington.  The only danger to them is the voters.  I hope they come through.  Let’s hope there is no march on Washington by the unemployed.

Obama the liar catches OUR pants on fire!

Obama – the Pied Piper of Government – dulcet tones read from a teleprompter, his eyes going from left to right following his speech as written by some of his socialist companions… there is no doubt that he is a good orator, but only if he has his teleprompter to refer to.  Without it, he is pathetic in his delivery.  However, what this country needs is not a good orator, but a leader who is willing to make decisions predicated on the country’s needs – not following strictly political aims.  His political aims are what makes him attack the Chamber of Commerce, insurance companies, Fox News and Wall Street.

I quote Charles A. Beard, “It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”  Even though Obama calls the founding fathers “so-called”, I will quote one of them, Thomas Jefferson, “I predict the future happiness of Americans if they can prevent the government wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” ~ which is what Obama is attempting to do.

Now I hear Obama is wanting to give aid and comfort to the newspaper industry.  I can hardly understand how they would merit any aid, as they have abandoned their principals and purpose.  I suppose he would want to give aid only to those who support him and his views.  That’s what I mean when I say they have abandoned their principals and purpose.  You know the newspapers I am referring to – I don’t have to say – except to say THEY DESERVE FAILURE!

Oriana Fallaci says, “The moment you give up your principals and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. PERIOD.”

The media of all kinds who are able to express their opinions and points of views and keep track of government crimes, keep track of political acts and their ramifications and fail to do so deserve to fail and be swept up in the dust of history.  The same applies to all those companies that were saved by the use of taxpayers’ money, even though they had failed caused by their own greed and failure to run their businesses in a professional manner.

The Democratic party, Barney Frank and others, forced banks to lend money for homes to people who could not afford them and consequently placed a burden on the banks that broke their backs.  Even Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad and other Democrats took advantage of sweetheart deals with Countrywide lenders.  They have managed to keep any examination of their acts away from the ethics committee or anyone else – similar to no charges having been filed against Charles Rangel for his crooked acts.  Remember how the Democrats rushed to protect the Democratic Representative, William Jefferson, with bribery money in his freezer?  You could hardly escape the Democrats failure to pay their taxes.  However, they expect us to, so they tax any way they can knowing they needn’t pay it themselves.

I have never seen someone who won an election and continued non-stop campaigning after taking Office for NINE MONTHS.  Obama won Office by lying.  He said his would be a transparent governance; that all bills would be put on the internet for five days before voting; CSPAN cameras would be at every meeting for sunshine purposes; and other lies to obtain votes from the people and not ACORN and the SEIU, of course.

Another great quote is by George Bernard Shaw, “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.”  That, I think, is what Obama figures.  And it’s working!  I think he thinks he is better than how he describes our “so-called” founding fathers.  See attached:

Obama vs. The President He Said He’d Be

By Tom Bevan

Out with the old and in with the new, huh Obama?

Isn’t it nice that the Boston Tea Party people were not afraid to act against the British forces that wished to deny us freedom?  We cannot allow Obama’s union goons and ACORN from depriving us also.  I had three brothers and many nephews, cousins, and uncles who fought for our country during World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf Wars.  These were all foreign wars.  I am 77 years young and will gladly go into service to fight the union goons, ACORN, and people Obama has assigned to take our freedoms away in our country.  This cannot be allowed, even if THEY wished.

This is all about the “gimme generation”.

As a Christian, I believe that it is every Christian’s duty to live complete lives as given to them by God.  They have no right to end it for economics.  Our country has only ONE chance – a new two party system calling for term limits.

Remember the Soviet Union insisting that its citizens rat out their relatives and friends?  Where is the Soviet Union today?  Cuba forced citizens to rat on parents, friends, and relatives… where is their economy now?  Is Obama’s rant against rumor and false information a similar program, set up to destroy dissent and crush our our rights to privacy and freedom of speech?

I sure hope the DNC comes out with more of their great commercials to divide the American people.  It shows their true character, absence of principal, lack of integrity, and their hate for the First Amendment and their fellow countrymen.  They call their fellow Americans Nazis for using their free speech rights.  This is the best hope for the Republican party to regain the majority in Congress.  KEEP ON TALKING!

Hitler also decided who lived and who died.  The Jews went first, then the mentally ill, criminals, people who espoused free speech and any enemy of the state.  Obama’s health plan decides who lives and who dies – the Obama five year program.

Monday, August 10, 2009

EDITORIAL: Look for the union label

Politics is getting increasingly violent as Democrats desperately try to salvage their health care bill.  Rep. Brian Baird, Washington Democrat, said last week that public protest against the government health care plan “is close to Brown Shirt tactics.” For Mr. Baird to characterize his constituents as Nazi storm troops is distasteful, to say the least. Yet it is fully in line with the tone set by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who misleadingly decried protesters “carrying swastikas.” Closer examination revealed that in every case, the symbol was being used as a warning against the arrogance of power of which Mrs. Pelosi has become emblematic.

Democratic talking points characterize the spontaneous grass-roots opposition to the planned government takeover of the health care system as being organized by a shadowy cabal of lobbyists and insurance companies. However, the real storm troops are being deployed openly by organized labor in an attempt to squelch dissent.  On Aug. 6, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney sent marching orders to his members to confront concerned citizens at town-hall forums. In St. Louis, members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reportedly attacked and beat Kenneth Gladney, who was passing out yellow flags outside a forum held by Rep. Russ Carnahan, Missouri Democrat. SEIU President Andy Stern has summed up his philosophy as, “We prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work, we use the persuasion of power.”

We expect to see his grim-faced “purple shirts” using intimidation at other events during the congressional recess.  This effort is fully consistent with the general contempt that the Democratic majority has shown for those who oppose its radical agenda. The promised era of bipartisanship is long gone. The government’s new slogan is “sit down and shut up.” In an appearance in McLean last week, President Obama advised opponents of his plan to “get out of the way” and said he didn’t want them “to do a lot of talking.” The Obama White House made history when it set up an e-mail snitch line for people to report on the “fishy” ideas of their fellow citizens.  The Democrats would do better to try to understand the root causes of this unprecedented spontaneous outpouring of public concern and frustration than to resort to intimidation tactics.

There are many serious questions about the growth of government and the planned takeover of health care that need to be answered, not beaten down. Deploying thugs will only lead to violence, which serves no one’s interest. If the people are shouting, it is because the politicians have stopped listening.

Another article:

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Angry rich liberals

Victor Davis Hanson

Scolding Americans for our various sins is proving popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists.  Take well-meaning environmentalists who warn us that our plush lifestyles heat up and pollute the planet. To listen to former Vice President Al Gore or New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, we must immediately curtail our carbon emissions — or face planetary destruction.  Yet these influential prophets of doom do not have lives remotely similar to the lesser folk they lecture. From time to time, Mr. Gore hops on a private jet – and purchases “carbon offsets” penances for the privilege. His mansion not long ago consumed more energy in a month than the average American home does in a year. Mr. Friedman lives on a sprawling estate reminiscent of those of the grandees of the 18th-century English countryside.

The rest of us would find these environmental scolds more convincing if they chose to live modestly in average tract homes. That way, they could limit their energy consumption and provide living proof to us of how smaller is better for an endangered planet Earth.  Critics in the business of racial grievance offer the same contradictions.  Recently, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. got into a spat with a white policeman who arrested him in his own home for disorderly conduct. Mr. Gates immediately cried racism. He argued that his plight was emblematic of the burdens the black underclass endures daily from a racist white America.  However, Mr. Gates is one of the highest-paid humanities professors in the United States. And Mr. Gates – not the middle-class Cambridge, Mass., white cop — engaged in shouting and brought up race.

Within hours, the black mayor of Cambridge, the black governor of Massachusetts and the black president of the United States all rallied to their chum’s side.  Yet this well-connected, well-paid man apparently wants us to believe in melodramatic fashion that he is living in something like the United States of decades ago.  Indeed, citing racial grievance at times proves a valuable asset for wealthy celebrities. Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson posed as victims of various racial oppressions when they found themselves in their own self-created legal problems. Race-baiter the Rev. Jeremiah Wright simply retreats to his three-story mansion on a golf course after his day job of denouncing whites as exploiters.

We have more of the rich on the barricades railing about the economic inequality of America. Former Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina preached about “two Americas,” one poor and abandoned, one wealthy and connected. Mr. Edwards should know because he built himself a gargantuan multimillion-dollar mansion in which he might better contemplate the underprivileged outside his compound.  Sen. Christopher Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, sermonizes about corporate greed and credit card companies’ near-extortion. Nonetheless, Mr. Dodd managed to squeeze out of the corporate world a low-interest loan, a sweetheart deal for a vacation home in Ireland, and thousands in campaign donations.

Former senator and Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle of South Dakota was a big proponent of raising taxes to nationalize our health care system. The problem was that the populist Mr. Daschle both hated paying taxes and loved limousines — and so avoided the former but welcomed the latter.  In the old days, critics of what we called the “system” were at least for the most part blue-collar workers, underpaid teachers or grass-roots politicians whose rather modest lives matched their angry populist rhetoric. Now the most vehement critics of America’s purported sins are among the upper classes. These critics’ parlor game has confused Americans about why they are being called polluters, racists and exploiters by those who have fared best in America.

Do the wealthy and the powerful lecture us about our wrongs because they know their own insider status ensures that they are exempt from the harsh medicine they advocate for others? Mr. Gore, a millionaire, is not much affected by higher taxes for his cap-and-trade crusade.  Or does the hypocrisy grow out of a sort of class snobbery? Do elites hector the crass middle class because its members lack their own taste, rare insight and privileged style? Judging from the police report, Mr. Gates seemed flabbergasted that the white Cambridge cop did not know who he was “messing” with.  Or is the new hypocrisy an eerie sort of psychological compensation at work?

Perhaps the more Mr. Gore rails about carbon emissions, the more he can without guilt enjoy what emits them. The more Mr. Gates can cite racism, the more he himself is paid to spot it. And the more Tom Daschle wants to tax and spend for health care, the less bad he feels about his own chauffeur and tax avoidance.  Here’s a little advice for all of America’s wealthy critics: a little less hypocrisy, a little more appreciation of your good lives — and then maybe the rest of us will listen to you a little more.

And another…

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

PRUDEN: Recycling the contempt

OPINION/ANALYSIS: Recycling is so popular that even our congressmen, unaccustomed as they are to practicing what they preach, do it. They’re reaching back into the dark past to recycle contempt. Never waste a crisis, even if you have to manufacture the crisis.  Democrats from the cosseted life in the House and Senate, accustomed to getting the deference at home so often denied in Washington, are suddenly having to deal with inconvenient old folks at home. President Obama insists that the War on Terror is over, ended by his ultimate weapon, the Apology Bomb. But to listen to delicate congressmen whose feelings are hurt, al Qaeda has merely moved terror operations to their congressional districts.

Angry lynch mobs (to hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her sidekick Steny Hoyer tell it) of elderly gents on walking sticks and little blue-haired ladies in their 80s have descended on congressmen at town meetings across the country – in California, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Ohio, Georgia and other places. They’re taking out their anger and frustration at the Obama health care “reform” in the robust American way, but Mrs. Pelosi professes to see “reform” adrift on a turbulent sea of Nazi swastikas. Rep. Brian Baird of Washington sees a blur of Brown Shirts. Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas calls the dissenters “un-American.” She later remembered where she was and said she didn’t mean to call them that. Her contempt for Arkansas folks just popped out. In Georgia, Rep. David Scott tried to calm a town meeting with a plea to “calm down and take a deep breath,” then took a deep breath and scolded everyone with a hysterical screed about the “hijacking” of his meeting.

Rep. Steve Cohen treated his Memphis constituents with similar contempt: “Take two aspirin and come back in the morning.” Rep. Russ Carnahan told livid St. Louis constituents, naive yokels in his view, that they had been “mobilized [by] special interests in Washington.”  The frightened Democratic reaction to robust debate – “the conversation” that “progressives” are so eager to have with those who disagree with them – recycles the insults and epithets last heard in confrontations over civil rights and the war in Vietnam. The protests are “organized,” the work of “outside agitators.” Martin Luther King, by Democratic reckoning, was an outside agitator. The marches against the Vietnam war were marvels of organization, true, but … umm, well … that was different. Mr. Obama should recognize outside agitation when he sees it, given his career in outside agitation in Chicago. He was taught by Saul Alinsky, “the father of American radicalism,” that the left-wing strategy for achieving an unpopular goal is to “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”  We’re almost there.

The Democrats are trying to impose rationed government health care (the target) quickly, before the public wakes up from entertaining distractions (the freeze), making villains of all who oppose (personalizing it) and creating a chaotic controversy (polarizing it) that can be effectively exploited. Mr. Obama once taught Saul Alinsky workshops in Chicago, so he was ready when he thought he heard opportunity knocking.  But the president and his congressional accomplices forgot that timing is everything. The public-opinion polls show that bare majorities think there’s a health care crisis, but bigger majorities are satisfied with their own coverage.

The majority can smell government medicine and the confiscatory taxes on the way. The president further miscalculated when he agreed to the insertion of a scheme, hidden in the thousand pages of the House legislation, to “offer” counseling to the aged about how they want to die. Nothing there about the “how” and “when.” That comes later.  When he confronts mortality, a man is suspicious of boodlers with smooth tongues. Roger Fakes, 70, a retired businessman, showed up at the Memphis “town hall” in neither Brown Shirt nor swastika (he’s actually a Presbyterian elder). His congressman’s insistence that Obamacare would not disturb his private insurance moved him to his feet with polite but pointed questions and observations: “There are some of us old gray-haired folks who don’t want the government involved in any of our business.” And not just the gray-haired folks. Congressmen are learning the hard way they sometimes have to listen, like it or not.

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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Palin got it right

Rep. Don Young

On July 24, Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts took to The Washington Post to attack former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s opposition to the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax legislation and her overall energy philosophy.

Mrs. Palin correctly criticized the scheme presented in the legislation sponsored by Democratic Reps. Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts. By only citing a report from the left-of-liberal Center for American Progress, Mr. Kerry and Mrs. Boxer naively underestimate the effects the legislation will have on the American economy. Other, more mainstream organizations, such as the Brookings Institution and the Black Chamber of Commerce, disagree.

Waxman-Markey artificially creates competition between cheap, abundant energy and unreliable, expensive renewable forms, compelling utilities to use heavily subsidized, politically correct “renewable energy” while thousands who work producing traditional energy lose their jobs.

All the while, American industry will flee to other countries where they can power their assembly lines with cheaper energy. Because nearly four decades of obscene subsidies for wind and solar power haven’t worked, Waxman-Markey ups the ante and engages in societal re-engineering and fundamental restructuring of America’s energy supply.

According to the Energy Information Administration, wind and solar receive 55 times more in subsidies than coal and 100 times more than oil and natural gas. Yet today, wind and solar barely make up 1.5 percent of America’s electricity supply and 0.5 percent of the total U.S. energy supply, while 85 percent of the U.S. energy supply originates from fossil fuels. These figures make clear to what extent the Waxman-Markey bill must give a leg up to wind and solar to force their success. The simple fact is that these so-called industries would not survive without mandates and subsidies.

Mrs. Boxer and Mr. Kerry seem ignorant of the fact that wind and solar fail to power America’s trucks, planes, trains and ships. In reality, wind and solar will not displace the energy necessary for moving people and products around the country.

Nevertheless, while mocking Mrs. Palin’s good sense, they choose to advocate legislation and policies that will drive U.S. dependence on foreign oil through the roof. The senators seem oblivious to the fact that nearly one-fourth of every barrel of oil goes to producing the asphalt on which their electric cars drive, the lubricants that enable the blades on their windmills to spin and the plastics that are used in the medical supplies, fabrics and raw materials Americans cannot live without.

In 1995, Congress passed legislation to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas development. In fact, legislation to open ANWR has passed the House 10 times and the Senate once. Unfortunately, President Clinton vetoed that attempt, and today, Americans fail to enjoy the hundreds of millions of barrels a year that would be flowing had the bill become law.

Now, for the first time since 1982, we have the ability to develop our offshore resources. In 2008, President George W. Bush let the Executive Moratorium on Outer Continental Shelf Development expire, and Congress did not renew the legislative moratorium. However, the Obama administration and the radical environmentalists have other plans, and a de facto moratorium remains.

American energy marvels such as the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) are the real drivers of the American economy. TAPS didn’t require a government mandate; it required the federal government to get out of the way. This pipeline would never be built today. TAPS was successful only because of the oil embargo and, more significantly, because the legislation curtailed the ability of environmentalists to file lawsuits to block the project — an effort in which, unfortunately, they have become well versed. This summer, as TAPS prepares to send its 16 billionth barrel to the consumer, I am reminded that Sarah Palin is correct and Mr. Kerry and Mrs. Boxer are again on the wrong side of energy issues.

Healthy markets succeed when the federal government steps back, not when it picks winners and losers. If history has demonstrated anything, it’s that economies cannot be centrally planned by legislative bodies or bureaucrats — even though some in the majority party seemingly disagree. The market, coupled with the ingenuity and enduring spirit of hardworking Americans, always wins.

Cheap energy means a strong economy. This is something we’ve learned firsthand in Alaska. In our villages, where gasoline or heating oil can top $7 a gallon, jobs are hard to come by.

The senators write that climate legislation will “ensure that the United States — not China or India — will be the leading economic power in this century.” But the truth is, they already are.

The United States was the dynamic economic power in the 20th century without cap-and-trade. I know Mrs. Palin and I are both committed to ensuring that America’s economic dominance continues into the 21st century rather than embarking blindly down the road to serfdom offered in Waxman-Markey and by the aforementioned senators from Massachusetts and California.

Video highlight:

They tip the scale with scandal but can't host a decent radio show!

Watching Barney Frank and Maxine Waters, two of the people who caused the financial meltdown, questioning bank CEOs about what they did with the funds they received to straighten out the mess these two made – it is the height of hypocrisy.  If you recall, when Bush tried to put the breaks on Fannie and Freddie, Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Chris Dodd, and others refused then.  Even though it was their ineptness that caused this, they blamed it on Bush.

Analysts were surprised by one percent rise in consumer spending in January.  I don’t know where they left their brains.  It was easily apparent.  It was a result of a large drop in gas prices, giving people who have to commute to jobs extra cash to spend.  I guess since these elitists live in cities, take cabs and limos to work, they forget what affects the common man and woman out there.  If the CFTC did their job, these low gas prices would continue and consumers would have a little extra cash to spend.  Oil prices are very low, and yet the speculators are at it again and gas prices are going up again.  When will it end?  What is wrong with our politicians to allow this to happen?  Wouldn’t you think they would prefer to give American citizens a break instead of allowing greedy, piggish speculators feeding at the trough?  It is being put out that refineries cutting down on production – I don’t believe it!  That sure wouldn’t serve their purpose.  Gas is sold by convenience stores owned by the oil companies or franchised by them.  The cheaper gas is the more money will be spent in their convenience stores.  How stupid do they think the American people are?

One thing that puzzles me about this idiot stimulus package the Democrats put together and rammed down our throats – that has in it an attack on our privacy and health care system.  The Democrats want to give terrorists the right to privacy but take it away from Americans.  I and many other Americans will allow only so much of our freedoms to be taken away, and I will not allow any more.  I have had it and I will not take it anymore.  Now they are trying to silence Conservative talk radio because the Democratic radio hosts, such as Bill Press, are intellectually challenged, have no sense of humor, and cannot attract advertisers nor an audience.  What they want to do is steal Conservative radio talk show hosts’ marbles.  They still wouldn’t be able to win the game.

The Democrats already have NPR, PBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times, Boston Globe, LA Times, TIME, NewsWeek, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the list goes on.  Should these NAZIs try to silence the Conservatives’ only voice, talk radio, I am ready to participate in a march on Washington whether armed or unarmed.  If the liberal radio hosts want to succeed as the Conservative radio hosts do, they could ask to be an apprentice to Rush, Hannity, Ingram, and maybe if they were able to use their limited learning abilities after a year or two, they might be able to produce a show that people would listen to – BUT I WOULDN’T BET ON IT!

• Obama said to the Democratic Congress “Will you help me screw the American people?” And they said loudly “YES WE CAN!”
• I heard that Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann are mad at the New York Times lady and her friends who want to make love to Obama.  Seems they insist on being FIRST!