Right Direction or Wrong Track. Just 29% Say U.S. Heading In Right Direction
Just 29% of U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest level measured since early February, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. The percentage of voters who felt the country is heading in the right direction remained in the narrow range of 31% to 35% from July to early November. For the previous three weeks, however, confidence in the country’s current course has held steady at 30%. The majority of voters (65%) continue to believe the nation is heading down the wrong track. [How’s all that dope and chains workin’ out for you Obama voters these days?…ed]
No Churchgoing Christmas for the First Family
The Senate vote on final passage of health reform almost scuttled their plans, but it looks like the First Family will still make it to Hawaii for Christmas. They’ve had a whirlwind holiday season so far, starting with the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, through hosting more than 50,000 people for 27 parties and open houses, and ending with a visit by the First Lady, Malia and Sasha, and the family’s dog Bo, to deliver cookies to the Children’s National Medical Center. The Obamas have also started their own holiday traditions in their new home, adding a Christmas wishing tree to the decorations festooning the White House. But there’s one common Christmas practice not on the First Family’s schedule: a visit to Christmas Eve church services. Church, in fact, has been a surprisingly tough issue for the Obamas. [I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you that the Obamas are completely uninterested in going to church to join in this country’s celebration of the birth of baby Jesus. NOT!…ed]
NIMBY Feinstein nixes solar, wind farms
Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate subcommittee that oversees the Interior Department, has scuttled plans to build 13 multi-million dollar solar plants and wind farms on a million acres in California’s Mojave Desert proposed as a national monument. Feinstein’s move will severely complicate her state’s quixotic effort to obtain a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. The desert land was bought for nearly $45 million in private funds and $18 million in federal funds by an environmental group, which then donated it to the federal government for the purpose of conservation. In 2005, however, President Bush ordered that renewal energy production be fast-tracked on all public lands including the Mojave, which is among the sunniest in the nation. [The liberals bellow about how badly this country needs this idiotic “green” energy so when the best place in California to pull this off is chosen Feinstein blocks it from happening. Wake the hell up people and understand Democrats could care less about the citizens of this country!…ed]
Dems not worried about post-vote backlash at home
Democrats today have repeatedly expressed a confidence that they won’t face a backlash for their votes when they return home for the holidays, which would stand in marked contrast to the August recess. “This is a happy day. (Senate Republican Leader) Mitch McConnell said on the floor that we’re going to go home and hear our constituents rail against this bill. I don’t believe that. I believe that the negativity that Leader McConnell and others have continually displayed on the floor has peaked, and now when people learn what’s actually in the bill—and all the good it does—it is going to become more and more popular because it is good for America, good for the American people, and a true symbol of what we can do if we all pull together,” said Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. [EVERY reputable poll out there shows Americans did not want this POS but the tin ear Democrats ddn’t give a damn. If this bill is such a great deal why did some Senators insist on language that THEIR state was exempt from many provisions contained within? If this bill was so great why did Congress exempt THEMSELVES from this pig? Hmmmm?…ed]
Rude awakening for naive Left about big government
To watch the Left turn against President Obama’s health care reform is to watch the shattering of an illusion. Liberals’ high-minded plan for insuring all Americans has devolved into a congressional orgy of pork. It has produced a bailout for insurers and a generous subsidy for drug makers — and both industries are backing this bill to the hilt. Why wouldn’t insurers support a bill that places a gun at the head of every American and shouts: “Write a check to an insurer, or we’ll send you to jail!” Independent-thinking liberals are now suffering from buyer’s remorse. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called in vain for the death of Obamacare. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann promised to go to prison before he would comply with the bill’s mandate to purchase health insurance. Markos Moulitsas of the liberal Daily Kos wrote on Twitter: “Insurance companies win. Time to kill this monstrosity coming out of the Senate.” [Heads up to you stupid liberals, Obama is merely the camel’s nose poking through the tent opening. Middle names matter. Think about it…ed]
Crapo: GOP unlikely to be able to repeal health bill
Republicans are unlikely to repeal the health reform legislation before Congress if they take control of the House and Senate, a GOP senator conceded Wednesday. Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) said Republicans are unlikely to be able to repeal the legislation anytime in the near future. “Technically it could be peeled back if the circumstances were right,” Crapo said during an appearance on a conservative news radio syndicate. “But we would have to have a president who would sign such a bill, and we would have to have 60 votes in the Senate — not just 50.” “So it would be a very tall order, and frankly, the likelihood’s that that’s not going to develop in the near future,” he added. [This group of gutless Congressional Republicans are completely useless. Where the hell is the representation of the American people in our government?…ed]
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A friend sent this along, and I’m passing it on since it’s too good not to share during this, y’know, season: [Political correctness has made it’s best effort to make life so much less fun in this country and I blame all those asshat liberals who’s worthless lives suck, for this…ed]
Obama’s year of falling swiftly
As Barack and Michelle Obama prepare for their first Christmas in the White House, they might wonder why he has fallen so swiftly from being virtually a national icon to the unhappy status as among the least popular occupants of the Oval Office since modern polling began. Regardless of what happens during the balance of his presidential tenure, Obama will always be a national treasure because he proved for all time that America truly is the place where any child, including one whose skin is not lily white, can be elected to the most powerful office on Earth. But, just as Americans can elect whomever they choose to be their commander-in-chief, they can also decide they made a serious mistake in their choice. [Please forgive the fact I have never been a guilt ridden white guy so I haven’t been able to wrap my mind around the whole concept. O(bama) A(A) B(ig) A(ss) M(istake) A(merica)…ed]
Congress raises debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion
The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year. The Senate’s rare Christmas Eve vote, 60-39, follows House passage last week and raises the debt ceiling by $290 billion. The vote split mainly down party lines, with Democrats voting to raise the limit and Republicans voting against doing so. There was one defection on each side, by senators whose seats will be on the ballot next year: GOP Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio and Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana. [And the insanity continues. The concept of our country being 12.4 trillion dollars in debt is mind boggling…ed]
Have you wondered why the American Civil Liberties Union hasn’t been carrying out its usual war on Christmas this season? There is a one-word explanation: money. In a letter to ACLU supporters, its chief writes, “The ACLU was recently notified that our largest individual donor, David Gelbaum, who contributed over $20 million to the organization in 2009, will not be able to continue his support due to a change in his financial circumstances.” Mr. Gelbaum, an investor in “clean” technology, told the New York Times that “my investments in alternative clean energy companies have placed me in a highly illiquid position as a result of the general credit crisis in the American and world financial systems.” Thus, the ACLU is deprived of the money with which to mount its usual spate of threats and lawsuits against towns that have the temerity to have Christmas parades or Nativity scenes. Many of the latter have been accompanied in recent years by symbols of other religions, too, but that makes no difference to the ACLU. It’s Christianity they’re after. [Hey George Soros and Maurice Strong, it’s time to step up and bail this bunch of anti American scumbags out before too many people in this country have a chance to enjoy their Christmas! Oh wait…too late for that this year…ed]
Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011
President Barack Obama’s commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will take months for the government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists. The drawn-out construction timetable shows the political risk of Obama’s pledge, a delay that could even be extended by congressional opposition to funding the purchase and upgrades for the Thomson Correctional Center, an underused state facility about 150 miles west of Chicago. Lawmakers in both parties have been wary of bringing detainees to the United States. Attorney General Eric Holder already has decided that self-declared 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court in New York City. [The holdup isn’t because it will take months for the federal government to buy this prison. The holdup is due to American citizens blowing a gasket over the moving of hardcore terrorists onto U.S. soil…ed]
Fort Hood shooter asked about killing Americans in 2008: report
Nidal Hasan, the US soldier who killed 13 people at an attack on Fort Hood military base last month, sought advice about murdering US troops in 2008, a Yemeni imam told Al-Jazeera on Wednesday. Hasan, a Muslim Army psychiatrist, faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in connection with the November 5 shooting attack at the Texas military facility. On Wednesday, Al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language website published an interview with US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, who said he and Hasan communicated by email for over a year about the permissibility of killing US soldiers and Israeli civilians. “The first message I received from Nidal was on 17 December 2008,” Aulaqi told the interviewer, adding that Hasan initiated the email communication. “He asked about killing American soldiers and officers and whether that was legitimate or not,” Aulaqi said. [Let’s not jump to conclusions or stereotype muslims serving in our armed forces though folks…ed]
Schwarzenegger Seeks Obama’s Help for Deficit Relief
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, anticipating a $21 billion state budget deficit, plans to ask President Barack Obama to ease mandates and minimums on social programs to save as much as $8 billion. The Republican governor plans to seek the relief, according to a California official who asked not to be identified because details haven’t been resolved. Instead of seeking one-time stimulus money or a bailout, the most-populous U.S. state wants the federal government to reduce mandates and waive rules stipulating expenditures on programs such as indigent health care, the official said. [California is a sad example of the federal government’s unfunded mandates strangling a state’s finances and a generation of left wing legislators who are incapable of understanding the consequences of spending billions of dollars that are simply not there to spend…ed]
The announcement by Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith that he is switching to the Republican Party is just the latest warning sign that the Democratic Party — my lifelong political home — has a critical decision to make: Either we plot a more moderate, centrist course or risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come. Rep. Griffith’s decision makes him the fifth centrist Democrat to either switch parties or announce plans to retire rather than stand for reelection in 2010. These announcements are a sharp reversal from the progress the Democratic Party made starting in 2006 and continuing in 2008, when it reestablished itself as the nation’s majority party for the first time in more than a decade. That success happened for one major reason: Democrats made inroads in geographies and constituencies that had trended Republican since the 1960s. In these two elections, a majority of independents and a sizable number of moderate Republicans joined the traditional Democratic base to sweep Democrats to commanding majorities in Congress and to bring Barack Obama to the White House. [Another leftist worried to death about the marxist Obama’s impact on the upcoming midterm elections. Heh heh…ed]
Carter Says Sorry to Jews, Apology Not Linked to Grandson’s Political Ambitions
Jimmy Carter’s recent apology to Jews for actions he acknowledged have stigmatized Israel is not timed to a decision by his grandson on whether to enter Georgia politics, the former president told an online Jewish news agency this week. Atlanta attorney Jason Carter, 34, is debating whether to run for Georgia’s state Senate from the district representing suburban DeKalb County, which has a significant Jewish population in the area around Emory University. Jason Carter, whose father is Jimmy Carter’s eldest son, Jack, would aim to succeed David Adelman, President Obama’s nominee to be ambassador to Singapore. [Jimmy Carter, you sir are a moron and a liar and I hope your grandson gets his ass kicked in this election. Have a nice day you arab loving America hating cretin…ed]
Killer Tripped on Baggy Pants, Plunged to Death after Slaying Three
A career criminal who slaughtered three members of a family in their apartment in New York’s trendy Upper West Side Thursday plunged to his death after tripping over his baggy pants. The bloodshed began when the killer barged into the family’s third floor apartment and opened fire at around 1:45 p.m. Thursday, near a string of upscale shops. Gunman Hector Quinones blew away 24-year-old Carlos Rodriguez Jr., and his father Carlos Rodriguez Sr., 52, and then repeatedly stabbed grandfather Fernando Gonzalez, 87, to death before the elder Rodriguez’s wife and adult daughter walked unwittingly into the carnage in the apartment they all shared. [Imagine the visual of this dirtbag having his pants fall down around his ankles causing him to trip and take a swan dive to the pavement 30 feet below…ed]
Quote of the day.
There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.
-W.J. Cameron