Is it any wonder that the print journalistic media are going out of business in record numbers of late? Their refusal, and the refusal of most of their liberal broadcast brethren, to cover legitimate stories of a non-liberal bent (a despicable process called “slanting” or “propagandizing” rather than doing real journalism) leaves that happy job open to the internet and to FOX broadcast news and the talk radio shows and all have been responding to the challenge admirably.

The New York Times famously subtitles their rag, “All the News that’s Fit to Print” as their masthead logo. Of course it’s a terrible lie, the Times has for at least 55 years only printed less than one half of all the news that’s fit to print. This is the price you pay when your editorial policy is to slant every story to fit your publisher’s ultra-liberal bias. The Times is just one small part of the problem, of course. In their sainted ivory-towered offices the Obama-protecting Barak-worshipers of Main Stream Media (MSM) as a whole look to be committing the cardinal sin of the news business: missing out on important stories. 

Right now when it comes to having a “newspaper of record” in the United States that honor falls to USA Today, which unfortunately is only a weekday newspaper: certainly the NY Times has abdicated all right to that lofty title. The fact is that the liberal media, MSM if you will, has entirely failed to vett Obama himself . . . if they had done that job as good journalists must, they would have found Van Jones to be an Obama Clone nothing more . . . and that neither Obama nor Jones is fit to wear the mantle of public official. But, of course, liberals are never challenged by the NY Times or other MSM -- that would be high treason. 

The MSM can’t seem to get their story straight about Van Jones. Some like Tom Brokaw insist that Van Jones was a good man “railroaded unfairly by the uncontrolled, irresponsible internet nut cases and crazy FOX.” Meanwhile the Washington Post claims that Obama’s vetting policies are to blame and rues the fact that “the resignation will prove a distraction" to the important work of passing Obama’s health care reform initiative.

In the wake of their refusal to vett and even thoroughly interview ex-Obama Green Czar Van Jones or even to properly cover the story of his demise (because he was a czar and not vettable by the FBI and the legislative branch, it was their very important job to find up what’s what with Mr. Van Jones and all 36 of the Obama Czars – Rajjpuut must reiterate:  that job has NOT been done yet) . . . it now appears the MSM has been reduced, as David Limbaugh put it, to “sputtering incoherence” and is about to miss another scoop. And what scoop is that? Who or What does it involve?

                Call it “GE-Gate,” call it “Obama-Payola,” call it “Rent-a-Senator” . . . whatever you call it, hearken back to the days of proud smokestack America when an idealistic young actor was serving as spokesman for and signing off from one of the most popular shows on television, General Electric Theater with his signal anthem: “At General Electric where progress is our most important product.”

That young actor, a union-paying Democrat and later union president before coming to GE, was so impressed by the corporate culture, integrity and sense of purpose at General Electric that he eventually became a conservative and later served as Governor of California and President of the United States. While in the oval office he helped win the Cold War, end the Warsaw Pact and the USSR and Eastern-European communism while bringing the Berlin Wall crashing down. Those were the halcyon days when General Electric really commanded respect. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Rajjpuut doubts very much that Ronald Reagan would be proud to serve as GE spokesman nowadays . . . .

                Today, once mighty GE, proudest long-time resident atop the Dow Jones 30 Industrial Stocks, is in the butt-kissing and apple-polishing business full time with none other than the nation’s first black president . . . a charismatic speaker and out-and-out charmer who promised to “. . . clean up Washington” and “run the most open, transparent and accountable administration in the country’s history.”

                 “. . . clean up Washington” and “run the most open, transparent and accountable administration in the country’s history.” Memorable words, unfortunately NOT SO the deeds!

The only question now is, “What's the going rate to buy one U.S. Senator's vote for the most important event in corrupt-new suddenly Eco-conscious GE’s life?” Will it take $50,000 or $75, 000 or $100,000 each to pass the “cap and trade Waxman-Markey bill?” Forbid it almighty God, I know not what course the pikers may take, but for real payola, hold out for $200,000 minimum!

Once mighty General Electric has spent so much money buying influence in Washington that it’s now become a one-penny-dividend stock. That’s right, it’s last dividend was one whole penny. Oh, for the glory years when retired teachers, store clerks and profligate Hollywood celebrities could survive and thrive on the large steady dividends from GE. But somehow they've gotten diverted from their old sense of corporate purpose. 

General Electric spent more on lobbying in the second quarter of this year than any other company, according to federal lobbying files. Since 1998, GE has been the undefeated long-term champion of lobbying excesses, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, outpacing its runner-up by 40 percent in the last decade plus. Meanwhile GEPAC has become perhaps the shadiest political action committee in a mighty shady town. Tying the lobbying and PAC effort together, is the noble profession of Vice Chairman John G. Rice who, poor baby, may be suffering from “Deep-Throatitis” since a secret corporate e-mail he wrote was recently leaked to the press and revealed embarrassing strategic goals and tactics all based upon supporting Barak Obama and buying votes for GE-favoring measures. This in itself is perhaps only playing hard ball with a nine-pounder cannon . . . however, GE besides owning a financial arm that recently received $139 Billion dollars in federal bailout funds courtesy of the Obama administration . . . most sinister fact of all: GE also owns NBC and all its Obama-praising affiliates such as MSNBC and CNBC.

While it may have been obvious during the presidential campaign that MSNBC news was incapable of mouthing anything less than glowing praise for Barak Obama . . . their closet relationship has come out into the open courtesy of the aforementioned leaked memo GE Vice Chairman Rice wrote in that Aug. 19 e-mail to his colleagues at GE. First a bit more background . . . .

                In the most blatant and shameless sell-out in American journalistic history, Barak Obama now “owns” MSNBC journalistic coverage of Himself and scratching the back that scratches his: General Electric (GE: MSNBC’s parent company) now “owns” the inside track on all cap-and-trade contracts; global warming contracts; green job contracts; and, oh yes, bailout money for the nearly bankrupt** General Electric during the Obama administration. GE, of course, has already received $139 Billion dollars in federal bailout funds for its financial arm.

                It appears that this “open scandal” is no surprise to anyone. The other liberal-leaning networks aren’t commenting, however, so the only party-pooper in the crowd is conservative channel Fox News. The MSNBC-Obama mutual back-scratching act is so blatant that Barak himself made light of it at the Radio and TV correspondent’s dinner when he said, he was trying to come up with ideas for his comments at the gathering and couldn't sleep. But suddenly he knew where to go for help. So he just rolled over in bed and asked Brian Williams for his opinion.

                If you watch political news at all, it’s no secret that the Fox Network is on Barak Obama’s enemies list; and that MSNBC, owned by GE, is easily the most pro-Obama TV news department in the whole country. In a land of left-leaning antennae, MSNBC could just as well change its name to the “Barak Network” and no would notice or raise an eyebrow.

There was one instance during the presidential campaign when light criticism of Barack the Beloved resulted in a wrist slap and another in March of 2009 when some of their CNBC financial analysts began criticizing Obama and his proposed programs (“a spending spree” according to one pundit) -- the typical government spending boondoggles GSBs liberals are famous for. Virtually immediately GE CEO Jeff Immelt and NBC President Jeff Zucker both dropped in on aforesaid commentators to inform them as to the weather: “Boys, this is how the wind blows around here . . .” 

Apparently the “re-orientation chat” worked. Since that time criticism, even subtle criticism of Obama the candidate or Obama the president has been non-existent. Their bias for Obama had always been outrageous, but today Zucker and Immelt have become Obama’s trick ponies and President Obama is deified at least three times daily on each NBC affiliate company. Other than Obama getting unlimited use of NBC teleprompters during the campaign and later as president, no one could be sure exactly what the tie in was. Up till late August the nature of their “pact” was still anybody’s guess. Let’s look at three examples of the suspicious nature of the relationship:

1.        GE is relying on the Obama administration to come through on a promise that all American health records could by law only be computerized with GE and its supposedly “superior technology” having the inside track for a contract that would bring in billions. When word of this “cozy relationship was first aired in early August, Obama began showing a bit less favoritism at news conferences and even invited ABC in for one-on-one interviewing. Instead of a whole slew of government contracts, however, GE might be cruising for a bruising. Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly opined recently that any important contract for GE

“would make Watergate look like a Shirley Temple movie.” If that is the case, then one video clip that will make every highlight reel will be Kareem Dale (Special Asst. to Obama) smiling, “At the White House, as we always like to say, we love MSNBC.”

2.      GE appointed former Senator Tom Daschle to its health advisory board. Daschle, President Obama's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services until a tax scandal derailed him, has strong connections to the Obama White House. So obviously there is a huge potential conflict of interest here. NBC News is in on the “hear no evil, see no evil, SPEAK no evil” take for Obama, even as GE, the parent company, is aiming to corral billions from the federal government. Hard to believe that MSNBC has only run positive spin stories on Obamacare for the last 11 ½ weeks isn’t it? NBC, was once renowned for the high ethical tone of its (liberal) news coverage but now with Zuckerman, Immelt and Daschle running point for the news gatherers, all you can hear is poisonous left-wing fanaticism supporting the president unerringly. Literally, sneezing or partial eye-rolling while reporting an Obama story is now a capital offense at NBC.

3.      GE, the once mighty Dow Jones Smokestack America Industrial giant who’s dividends were all any frugal retiree every needed, is now (unless the White House comes through) moving toward not just penny dividends, but actual penny stock status unless the White House comes through for them. To arrest that slide they have created a whole new strategy arm called “Ecomagination” which is plotting to win a wide array of ecology-themed contracts associated with global warming, green-tech, and cap and trade legislation. It all comes down on the “Obama connection,” will the president come through?

The connections that were assumed are now obvious, the August 19 e-mail memo from GE Vice Chairman Rice made it all official . . . .

"The intersection between GE's interests and government action is clearer than ever," Vice Chairman John G. Rice wrote in his August 19, 2009 e-mail to colleagues. He was calling on all GE people and GE subsidiary people to join GEPAC, the General Electric Political Action Committee. "GEPAC is an important tool that enables GE employees to collectively help support candidates who share the values and goals of GE,” that is, as the e-mail continued:   sharing the values and goals of GE means “support for policies that profit the company.”

Rice continues by getting specific about climate change, "we were able to work closely with key authors of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives. If this bill is enacted into law it would benefit many GE businesses."

GE has put almost all its eggs into the Waxman-Markey basket. W-M would profit GE Greenhouse Gas Services, which deals in greenhouse gas credits, products that have value only if a cap-and-trade bill like Waxman-Markey passes. That is if W-M fails, GM is up the creek. Rice did not pull any punches, "Our Company is heavily impacted by a number of issues pending in Washington this fall.”

GE spent more on lobbying in the second quarter of this year than did any other company, according to federal lobbying files. Since 1998, GE has been the leading lobbier, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, outpacing its runner-up by 40 percent. Tying the lobbying and PAC effort together, Rice said, " . . .we must also make sure that candidates who share GE's values and goals get elected to office . . ."

Six House members have received more than $4,000 from GEPAC this cycle -- all Democrats -- Representative John Murtha, D-Pa., faces a tough re-election next year, thanks to accusations that he has used his chairmanship of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee to benefit donors and patrons. GE is a top defense contractor.

The other big recipients are all incumbents in powerful positions, presumably safe for now: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt, House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer, Ways and Means member Richard Neal, who chairs the subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, and key appropriator Norm Ducks**. This year two-thirds of GEPAC money has gone to Democrats, but during the 2008 elections, recipients were pretty equally divided.

Why would GE give $15,000 to every senatorial candidate regardless of party in the last election? Obviously, it was not because they cared so much who won, but rather because this way they had an “in” with the winner, whoever he/she was. The process is called “Rent-Seeking” which means: Lobbying and contributing to campaign funds so that favorable government legislation or regulation; or defeat of unfavorable legislation or regulation happens precisely in the manner most calculated to generate huge profits for the company which ordinary free market interchanges could never provide. 

                Call it “GE-Gate,” call it “Obama-Payola,” call it “Rent-a-Senator” . . . whatever you call it, hearken back to the days of proud smokestack America when an idealistic young actor was serving as spokesman for and signing off from one of the most popular shows on television, General Electric Theater with his signal anthem: “At General Electric where progress is our most important product.” 

That young actor, a union-paying Democrat and later union president before coming to GE, was so impressed by the corporate culture, integrity and sense of purpose at General Electric that he eventually became a conservative and later served as Governor of California and President of the United States. While in the oval office he helped win the Cold War, end the Warsaw Pact and the USSR and Eastern-European communism while bringing the Berlin Wall crashing down.  Those were the halcyon days when General Electric really commanded respect.  Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Rajjpuut doubts very much that Ronald Reagan would be proud to serve as GE spokesman nowadays . . . . 

                Today, once mighty GE, proudest long-time resident atop the Dow Jones 30 Industrial Stocks, is in the butt-kissing and apple-polishing business full time with none other than the nation’s first black president . . . a charismatic speaker and out-and-out charmer who promised to “. . . clean up Washington” and “run the most open, transparent and accountable administration in the country’s history.” 

                 “. . . clean up Washington” and “run the most open, transparent and accountable administration in the country’s history.” Memorable words, unfortunately NOT SO the deeds! 

The only question now is, “What's the going rate to buy one U.S. Senator's vote  for the most important event in corrupt-new suddenly Eco-conscious GE’s life?” Will it take $50,000 or $75, 000 or $100,000 each to pass the “cap and trade Waxman-Markey bill?” Forbid it almighty God, I know not what course the pikers may take, but for real payola, hold out for $200,000 minimum!

While it may have been obvious during the presidential campaign that MSNBC news was incapable of mouthing anything less than glowing praise for Barak Obama . . . their closet relationship has come out into the open courtesy of the aforementioned leaked memo GE Vice Chairman Rice wrote in that Aug. 19 e-mail to his colleagues at GE. First a bit more background . . . .

                In the most blatant and shameless sell-out in American journalistic history, Barak Obama now “owns” MSNBC journalistic coverage of Himself and scratching the back that scratches his:  General Electric  (GE: MSNBC’s parent company) now “owns” the inside track on all cap-and-trade contracts; global warming contracts; green job contracts; and, oh yes, bailout money for the nearly bankrupt** General Electric during the Obama administration. GE, of course, has already received $139 Billion dollars in federal bailout funds for its financial arm. 

There was one instance during the presidential campaign when light criticism of Barack the Beloved resulted in a wrist slap and another in March of 2009 when some of their CNBC financial analysts began criticizing Obama and his proposed programs (“a spending spree” according to one pundit) -- the typical government spending boondoggles GSBs liberals are famous for. Virtually immediately GE CEO Jeff Immelt and NBC President Jeff Zucker both dropped in on aforesaid commentators to inform them as to the weather: “Boys, this is how the wind blows around here . . .”  

Apparently the “re-orientation chat” worked.  Since that time criticism, even subtle criticism of Obama the candidate or Obama the president has been non-existent. Their bias for Obama had always been outrageous, but today Zucker and Immelt have become Obama’s trick ponies and President Obama is deified at least three times daily on each NBC affiliate company. Other than Obama getting unlimited use of NBC teleprompters during the campaign and later as president, no one could be sure exactly what the tie in was. Up till late August the nature of their “pact” was still anybody’s guess. Let’s look at three examples of the suspicious nature of the relationship: 

1.        GE is relying on the Obama administration to come through on a promise that all American health records could by law only be computerized with GE and its supposedly “superior technology” having the inside track for a contract that would bring in billions. When word of this “cozy relationship was first aired in early August, Obama began showing a bit less favoritism at news conferences and even invited ABC in for one-on-one interviewing.  Instead of a whole slew of government contracts, however, GE might be cruising for a bruising.  Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly opined recently that any important contract for GE

“would make Watergate look like a Shirley Temple movie.” If that is the case, then one video clip that will make every highlight reel will be Kareem Dale (Special Asst. to Obama) smiling, “At the White House, as we always like to say, we love MSNBC.”

2.      GE appointed former Senator Tom Daschle to its health advisory board. Daschle, President Obama's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services until a tax scandal derailed him, has strong connections to the Obama White House. So obviously there is a huge potential conflict of interest here. NBC News is in on the “hear no evil, see no evil, SPEAK no evil” take for Obama, even as GE, the parent company, is aiming to corral billions from the federal government. Hard to believe that MSNBC has only run positive spin stories on Obamacare for the last 11 ½ weeks isn’t it?  NBC, was once renowned for the high ethical tone of its (liberal) news coverage but now with Zuckerman, Immelt and Daschle running point for the news gatherers, all you can hear is poisonous left-wing fanaticism supporting the president unerringly. Literally, sneezing or partial eye-rolling while reporting an Obama story is now a capital offense at NBC.

3.      GE, the once mighty Dow Jones Smokestack America Industrial giant who’s dividends were all any frugal retiree every needed, is now (unless the White House comes through) moving toward not just penny dividends, but actual penny stock status unless the White House comes through for them. To arrest that slide they have created a whole new strategy arm called “Ecomagination” which is plotting to win a wide array of ecology-themed contracts associated with global warming, green-tech, and cap and trade legislation. It all comes down on the “Obama connection,” will the president come through?

The connections that were assumed are now obvious, the August 19 e-mail memo from GE Vice Chairman Rice made it all official . . . .

"The intersection between GE's interests and government action is clearer than ever," Vice Chairman John G. Rice wrote in his August 19, 2009 e-mail to colleagues. He was calling on all GE people and GE subsidiary people to join GEPAC, the General Electric Political Action Committee. "GEPAC is an important tool that enables GE employees to collectively help support candidates who share the values and goals of GE,” that is, as the e-mail continued:   sharing the values and goals of GE means “support for policies that profit the company.”

Rice continues by getting specific about climate change, "we were able to work closely with key authors of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives. If this bill is enacted into law it would benefit many GE businesses."

GE has put almost all its eggs into the Waxman-Markey basket. W-M would profit GE Greenhouse Gas Services, which deals in greenhouse gas credits, products that have value only if a cap-and-trade bill like Waxman-Markey passes. That is if W-M fails, GM is up the creek. Rice did not pull any punches, "Our Company is heavily impacted by a number of issues pending in Washington this fall.”

GE spent more on lobbying in the second quarter of this year than did any other company, according to federal lobbying files. Since 1998, GE has been the leading lobbier, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, outpacing its runner-up by 40 percent. Tying the lobbying and PAC effort together, Rice said, " . . .we must also make sure that candidates who share GE's values and goals get elected to office . . ."

Six House members have received more than $4,000 from GEPAC this cycle -- all Democrats -- Representative John Murtha, D-Pa., faces a tough re-election next year, thanks to accusations that he has used his chairmanship of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee to benefit donors and patrons. GE is a top defense contractor.

The other big recipients are all incumbents in powerful positions, presumably safe for now: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt, House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer, Ways and Means member Richard Neal, who chairs the subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, and key appropriator Norm Ducks**. This year two-thirds of GEPAC money has gone to Democrats, but during the 2008 elections, recipients were pretty equally divided. 

Why would GE give $15,000 to every senatorial candidate regardless of party in the last election?  Obviously, it was not because they cared so much who won, but rather because this way they had an “in” with the winner, whoever he/she was. The process is called “Rent-Seeking” which means: Lobbying and contributing to campaign funds so that favorable government legislation or regulation; or defeat of unfavorable legislation or regulation happens precisely in the manner most calculated to generate huge profits for the company which ordinary free market interchanges could never provide.  

It’s a fact of life in Washington, D.C. and GE is playing the game for high stakes with its presidential stooge benefitting from the firm's (via NBC) unfailing support over the airwaves. A $15,000 contribution to both horses in a two-horse contest may cancel each other out, but they work fine if what you’re really paying for is the “ear” of a congressman.  But really, that's not the question is it . . . "How much for just his soul?"

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

1. A.    Every day the INTEREST on the national debt costs the country half a billion dollars, every single day.

    
2. B.     By 2019 the Interest on debt will cost America more than our national defense does. By 2020 we will owe $24 TRillion.

    
3. C.      Our national debt is larger than the combined economies of the 3^rd largest; 6^th largest and 14^th largest economies in the world . . . that is, our debt is larger than the economies of China, the United Kingdom and Australia altogether.

    
4. D.    The current “Obamacare” health bill is designed to cover-up the fact that Medicare currently has obligations totaling $34 TRillion it canNOT meet. Medicare will be bankrupt by 2016. The same thing has already happened to our other two monstrous government spending boondoggles Social Security and Medicaid. The dire status of those two programs were hidden by legislation that made the debt appear to go away, but which did nothing about the underlying fiscal atrocities. Social Security is scheduled now to go bankrupt in 2037, but in reality it’s been bankrupt since 1988.

    

   E.      The Federal Reserve this year has printed up fourteen new dollars for every dollar circulating in 2008. Currently, the theoretical value of today’s dollar is 6-7 cents in buying power compared to the same dollar in 2008. Only people’s faith in the money keeps that from happening . . . for awhile.
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6. F.      China, Russia, India and Brazil have already put forth suggested measures to remove the dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency. This is not done lightly, next to the United States and Japan, these nations stand to lose far more than most if the dollar loses its prestigious place in the world economy. But their efforts aim to get perhaps one-fifth or even one-fourth the current value rather than waiting till the United States dollar is worth four or five cents of its current buying power.
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8. G.     The coming tax hike on the middle class American is likely to doom any hope of economic recovery; but even without a tax hike the present banking crisis and real estate crisis have shattered the nation’s confidence.
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10. H.    The dollar has lost over 13% of it exchange rate value in just the last seven months.

     
11. I.       Unaffected, seemingly, Barak Obama is trying to create far more debt with his health care bill; to stifle the nation’s productive capacity with a cap and trade bill that will drain the country of $220 Billion every year. And he’s promised/threatened to create five million new green-tech jobs apparently unaware that a similar law in Spain cost 22 real jobs from the wider economy for every single permanent green-tech job created. He has also spent a lot of taxpayer money on the “cash for clunker’s program” which no matter how it’s analyzed is another government spending boondoggle. So much for jive-talking your way into the presidency . . . .

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                He called reports of death panels, abortion funding, coverage of illegal aliens, and federal government takeover of the health care insurance system and some of the delivery system “phony claims.”

                Are they now, are they really phony claims? Like Bill Clinton before him, Barak Obama has nurtured the art of lying with a straight face and telling half-truths with a wrinkled grin. There are no death panels mentioned nor euthanasia nor mercy killings. But since health care rationing for the elderly (half of all their costs typically occur during their final six months of life) is the only way to meet Obama’s resolve to cut health care costs by curtailing of drugs, operations and other procedures . . . and since this decision is to be made by government bureaucrats and is sure to advance the date of death in at least 95% of cases: death panels is a good operative description. Mr. Obama whose Science Czar has written a book on euthanasia, mercy-killings, forced abortions, and mass (secretly done via drinking water) sterilizations knows full well what he’s proposing and so do his detractors who caught him in this lie.  By the way, the elderly are far more likely to be conservative voters . . . Lie #1.

                Similarly, government funded abortions are not in the Obamacare bill. More significantly, however, an anti-abortion funding amendment was struck from the bill. Obama supports the “Freedom of Choice Act” and would like nothing better than to sidestep the Hyde Act prohibiting funding for abortion by the government. Obama is 100% pro-abortion on demand with NO restrictions. His word on the matter is somehow less comforting than having an anti-abortion amendment in the legislation. Lie #2.

                Illegal aliens are also NOT specifically covered, but the Democrats have defied all manner of attempts to make sure that all illegal aliens would be barred from receiving any benefits. Without an eligibility screening method sought by the Republicans there is NO path to barring illegal aliens with any effectiveness. Obama also has publically stated his desire to put every illegal alien in the country “on the path of citizenship.” That makes them eligible. Rather than securing the borders, Obama is asking for excuses to allow anybody who can get across to become a citizen and get taxpayer funded health care in America. Lie #3.

                Obamacare is, of course, a huge step on the path to single-payer government monopolized health care insurance running the private sector out of the business.  How can they (private insurance companies) compete with a competitor that can lose money hand over fist forever and still come back fighting for the business? Universal health care via the government option with no competing private companies is the only logical result of Obamacare, and furthermore it is also the desired result by Obama and Barney Frank, who both have said as much in virtually every non-guarded moment. Lie #4.

                So much for open and honest debate, Mr. Liar, ‘er President.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

Obama Power Grab Via Czars

Violates Constitution, Separation of Powers

                Earl Devaney, Stimulus Accountability Czar, has spent $18 Million setting up a website, without any authorization from anyone except Barak Obama . . . certainly congress didn’t authorize it; certainly the FBI has never vetted Mr. Devaney, who by the way is one of the few obviously qualified personnel choices Obama’s made while hiring 36 czars and their ten-person staffs at taxpayer expense. Is this the sort of oversight American taxpayers want? 

Looking over some of Obama czars it does seem that way: (in alphabetical order: Afghanistan czar, aids czar, border czar, car czar, climate czar, copyright czar, cyberspace czar, drug czar, economic czar, education czar, energy czar, executive pay czar, faith-based czar, Great Lakes czar, green jobs czar, Guantanamo closure czar, health reform czar, info-tech czar, intelligence czar, Iran czar, Middle East peace czar, non-proliferation czar, Performance Czar, Persian Gulf/Southeast Asia czar, regulatory czar, science czar, stimulus accountability czar, Sudan czar, TARP czar, terrorism czar, urban czar, war czar, and WMD and terrorism czar.  Actually three separate “tech czars” have been created and two of Obama’s three dozen have dropped through the cracks and not been identified by Rajjpuut.

Georgia Republican Representative Jack Kingston introduced the “Czar Accountability and Reform Act” to cut off the salaries of these czars and their staffs.   Rajjpuut recommends that you link this blog and send a letter to your senators and representative demanding that they back Kingston’s bill and force Obama to abandon these phony czars and fill his White House staff and cabinet in the normal manner where vetting and congressional approval is part of the process.

HR 3226 the Czar Accountability and Reform Act would withhold funding from any czar until confirmed by the Senate makes sense to Rajjpuut. Transparency, accountability, balance, openness and a return to Constitutionally guaranteed checks and balances, separation of powers and oversight are required by any logical analysis of the situation. Then there’s the matter of the $1,720,000 in salaries for these unappointed people; how much do their 10-person staffs earn? Oh and what about that $18Million website?

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                The senior Senate Democrat, Robert Byrd of West Virginia says that these czar appointments are a power grab by the executive branch and violate the constitutional system of checks and balances as well as the constitutional separation of powers. He said they are a clear attempt to evade congressional oversight.   Looking over some of Obama czars it does seem that way: (in alphabetical order: Afghanistan czar, aids czar, border czar, car czar, climate czar, copyright czar, cyberspace czar, drug czar, economic czar, education czar, energy czar, executive pay czar, faith-based czar, Great Lakes czar, green jobs czar, Guantanamo closure czar, health reform czar, info-tech czar, intelligence czar, Iran czar, Middle East peace czar, non-proliferation czar, Persian Gulf/Southeast Asia czar, regulatory czar, science czar, stimulus accountability czar, Sudan czar, TARP czar, terrorism czar, urban czar, war czar, and WMD and terrorism czar.

                Georgia Republican Representative Jack Kingston introduced the “Czar Accountability and Reform Act” to cut off the salaries of these czars and their staffs.   Rajjpuut recommends that you link this blog and send a letter to your senators and representative demanding that they back Kingston’s bill and force Obama to abandon these phony czars and fill his White House staff and cabinet in the normal manner where vetting and congressional approval is part of the process.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

PS:  Russia had only 18 czars in its entire history and Obama already has 36.

Obama is “The Prince” of the 21^st Century and he has read and re-read and re-re-read his Machiavelli . . . .

“An Obama Primer”

“Lesson 1: How to Overthrow the U.S. Government”

                Should YOU ever decide that it’s important to YOU to bring down the American way of life and their political and economic system, for instance to replace it with a better system such as Marxism, the process is really quite simple. It isn’t easy, of course, but it is simple, direct and easily understood.

First, YOU MUST create a straw-man, an internal enemy that all manner of accusations can be made about . . . an un-American enemy . . . and YOU have to pound that enemy’s name and practices into the public consciousness. The Constitution is, using this enemy as a fall guy, undermined at every opportunity while the Constitution becomes YOUR chief source of weaponry against the straw-man. Accusation becomes undeniable guilt.  Everything blurs sweetly so that right or wrong is a judgment YOU make and nothing else.

Obama’s straw-men are the knuckle-dragging Republicans who, he says “created the mess we’re in’**and especially the more vocal Nazis among them.

Tail-gunner Joe McCarthy of the Communist Witch Hunt infamy almost got the formula correct. Barak Obama’s got it nailed down to a science . . . in one way, McCarthy took away the strongest possible tool (the word “Un-American”) making Barak’s job more difficult. But the words “Nazi,” “Brown-Shirt,” “Hitler,” “Swastika” and “Storm Trooper” seem to be doing the job for Obama quite nicely just as references to the “Hammer and Sickle” helped McCarthy. It really speeds up the process if the public already suspects YOUR straw-man really is an S.O.B. such as the obvious intolerance and bigotry of the right wing extremists in America . . . it doesn’t take much imagination to lump virtually all who would oppose YOU into bed with the worst of them . . . the beauty of it all of course is that by using Hitler’s propaganda method to associate the straw-man with Nazism, YOU’VE pre-empted the words . . . they canNOT be used by YOUR opposition against YOU nearly so effectively, ah, lovely, lovely.

Secondly, all governments not based expressly on MIGHT are based on words, a constitution, founding documents and the like. Words are nebulous things. Use words to undermine the authority of the document itself, like a martial artist turning the adversary’s striking force against him. For quite some time this process was used effectively by the slave-holding states from about 1816 to 1860 to continually bring up the issue of “states rights” and “natural rights” to bolster their position within the government and make it practically unassailable. However, the Civil War which southerners called “The War of Northern Aggression” and which was taught about under that name in many Southern schools right up until about 1970, brought MIGHT back into the equation. 

Should Maine or Georgia or Oregon decide tomorrow they wanted out of the Union and now, that starry-eyed notion would be opposed by Federal troops and tanks post-haste. Even Texas, the “Lone Star State” which expressly holds the legal right to secede from the country any time it wishes could NOT do so, MIGHT would triumph right in a heartbeat. So the attacks must be with words, words so clever that MIGHT never enters the picture, words that bring down the government as surely as ten million nuclear weapon strikes, words mightier than swords.

These “words mightier than swords” must appeal first of all, at least obliquely to “the things people are afraid of” and directly and constantly to the “edges” of things in the imagination. There are limits set in the Constitution and things just at the edge of the limits.   There are barriers to traditional and trusted power and things just at the edge of those barriers. The main order of business is to undermine the authority of the Constitution so that from a “call to action” standpoint it’s rendered innocuous, worse than useless for the opposition, because of course YOU will wield it often to make YOUR points and defend the “proto-edges” YOU’VE created and then attack the very foundations of the world the opposition is built upon. 

McCarthy used words from communism itself to undermine communism, or rather suspected or insinuated communism. Words like “comrade,” “proletariat,” “infiltration,” “revolution,” “fellow travelers,” and “classless society” are bandied about easily and can always be used to impugn an opponent’s patriotism. More importantly with these words YOU  find out who you can count on as allies. Early on Truman opposed McCarthy, but Joseph Kennedy and his son Robert and President Eisenhower aligned with him for several years until the whole country started to suspect his extremism and deplore his “unusual tactics.” It’s very easy to use words from Nazism and the Hitler years to attack people you label “Nazis.” But this is the light work . . . .

The real work lies in undermining the authority of the constitution by stretching the meaning and legal impact of words; by snatching up every ambiguity and claiming authority or better yet merely acting out on that authority to the utmost latitude; by exercising tiny acts of authority NOT guaranteed by the Constitution which at least YOUR own now numerous followers can approve of; if all of this is done with chutz pah (a bold assumption of undefined right or ‘constitutional prerogative’) much can be accomplished. By quibbling, parsing words and wielding esoteric distinctions to explain away the plain and obvious meanings (a la Bill Clinton when talking about Monica Lewinsky), the words quickly lose power. 

As the public sees first one such audacious encroachment after another without repercussion . . . a precedent is set and they become accustomed and ACCEPTING, however, begrudgingly of it and YOUR power. Every time these things are made good, the “WORD” is made less powerful. Seizing undefined constitutional powers or UNconstitutional powers adapted and stretched to the ultimate when using the “edge” principle mentioned above is a powerful tool that gets reinforced with every new success.

The lies, broken promises, half-truths and horrendous obfuscations of Obama and his main lieutenants Pelosi and Frank are legendary. The creation by Obama of 36 czars answerable to Obama and only to Obama sidestepping the FBI and other vetting and eliminating the need for the approval of the legislature is clearly unconstitutional. The orchestration of the Chrysler and GM bankruptcy by Obama and particularly the ignoring of the rights of the secured creditors such as the three Indiana pension funds and the establishment of major stock ownership by the Obama-supporting UAW violated 232 years of bankruptcy law and precedent.

His unprecedented decision to select a U.S. Supreme Court justice based upon “empathy” has no grounding in the Constitution. After the President’s lobbying for his point of view almost half of Americans think “empathy” is a wise and necessary requisite more important than knowledge of and dedication to the principles of established law.

He appears to be winning the battle allowing him to “personally oversee” the 2010 Census and he has expanded the funding for ACORN, or is trying to, to $8.5 Billion via economic stimulus funds. 

Mr. Obama intervened in the business of reforming the automobile industry shamelessly, personally “overseeing” that also. Imagine this: Chrysler and GM are getting roughly $15,000 a car in government bailouts . . . but they’re closing roughly 720 Chrysler dealerships and 1200 GM dealerships including many which despite all the problems were profitable before the bailout. What sense is there in that? Good question. Obama is nothing, if not sly, it seems that dealerships owned by Obama supporters, even ones who lose money are finding competition within 20 miles of them disappearing. It seems that dealerships owned by McCain supporters are being closed even if profitable and lacking competition in their immediate radius.

Thirdly, the opposition by now has replaced mere distaste with utter abhorrence perhaps even fear of YOU and YOUR method. Pay them no serious mind. The “utterly natural” assumption that everything YOU do is meant for the ultimate good of the country without once apologizing or retracing steps followed close upon by audacious attacks on the patriotism, goals and means, and character of YOUR opposition in line with the straw-man principle now accelerates. 

The Obama strategy is clearly to label all opposition as “stupid,” self-serving and somehow Nazi-ish.

Spies or investigators have been working all along to find the “skeletons” in their closets and attacking the most “righteous” and most importantly the most effective of the voices raised against YOU, YOUR methods and YOUR goals and accomplishments. Three or four such brutal responses will have a subtle quieting power upon would-be opposition. Who after all wants first to labeled a storm trooper and then brought down publically for his all too human mistakes? Words like “dangerous,” “unpatriotic,” “seditious” and self-serving” along with notions of moral weaknesses go a long way to make the opposition kowtow. Alluring to the opposition’s anti-Constitutional ways and goals and poor character as well as attacks with buzzwords like “Nazi” should have a proper suppressive effect upon political conversation and claims in opposition to YOUR own.

Fourth, external alignments and conversations “for the purpose of understanding” with YOUR (the country’s) heretofore enemies and an indifference to YOUR (the country’s) heretofore friends whose leaning might be along the lines of the Constitution YOU’RE discrediting will certainly make things easier. Judiciously finding areas of disagreement, in line with our Constitution to “prod” the former friends with, while embracing “for the purpose of open and honest discourse to promote reconciliation” former enemies will keep things in a fluid state that YOU can exploit.

The “rights” of terrorists are now more important than the rights of Americans to be safe within their own borders in ObamaWorld.   He undermines measures taken to protect the country. He uses interrogators who got vital information that protected Americans as propaganda pawns.  His kissing up to Chavez in Venezuela and giving DVDs of his speeches to our friends is absolutely indefensible.

Fifthly power and accomplishment and fame are all magnets, however fleeting. Therefore YOU MUST from the initial forays into the halls of power and government acquire “toadies.” The more rich, powerful, famous and accomplished the toady the better. But discourse among toadies is forbidden except along YOUR PARTY LINES. All equivocations and subtle disagreements with YOU, YOUR “stated goals” (not, of course the real goal of overthrowing and subverting the present system LOL) and YOUR stated means (no need to belabor the point that YOUR means are not necessarily worth revealing in all or in any case) canNOT ever be allowed. 

The more needy, clingy, true-believerish, fashionable and politically-correct the toady the easier it is to keep them in line. True-believers in the occult, pseudo-sciences and the power of government spending to bring about good in virtually every case are natural toadies and need to be cultivated, nurtured and rewarded directly from YOU. YOUR lieutenants are important to YOU but YOU MUST be the ONE doing the rewarding at least 90% of the time. Let YOUR lieutenants receive reward from YOU for effectively and verbatim carrying YOUR message of reward, but only on rare occasion. YOU MUST reward your lieutenants in some manner agreeable to them 30% - 40% of the time: too much reward gives them too much sense of power, too little reward is discouraging.

Besides their main appointed tasks, YOUR lieutenants are forever vigilant for opinion contrary to YOUR own. To this point the lieutenant MUST be effectively brainwashed to see YOUR ends as so crucial that virtually any means YOU enlist are justified because “We’re in a war here. Our opponents have no scruples the dirty Nazis (or whatever) and sometimes we have to fight back against bullets with bullets.” Etc., etc., etc.

YOU must create within your “classless society” several levels of distinction between YOUR toadies. The more uniformly in line with YOUR thinking and the more useful to YOU a toady is . . . the higher their “distinction” within YOUR operation. Rank and etiquette distinctions can enhance the power of such reward and this can be a function of your lieutenants. YOU, however, would occasionally hold ceremonies presided over by YOU to collectively honor such reward recipients.

While Obama and his toadies call fiscal conservatives and especially Republicans “stupid,” the lineup of environmental extremists, enamored celebrities and handout-seekers that make up the extreme left and extreme-extreme left of his supporting coalition clearly don’t have a brain among them. They still believe banning DDT was a great thing, although the original science was non-existent; no real studies have ever been done and DDT can demonstrably be drunk and used as salad dressing (albeit bad-tasting salad dressing) and has never been proven to hurt any human or any animal with two or four legs or any fish. 

Perhaps in hopes of drawing attention away from the intellectual paucity among his followers, Obama has surrounded himself with an “academic elite” all noteworthy for academic credentials that don’t translate into the real world outside the ivory towers. Many are crackpots such as his Science Czar Holdren whose recommendations for “forced abortions,” “secret mass sterilizations” via drinking water additives and admiration of the “science of eugenics” and negative population growth was published^^ for the whole world to see in the late ‘70’s. Other appointees clearly are unable to walk the walk of his and their talk. His Surgeon General Benjamin is an enormously fat lady whose acceptance speech was a sad litany of her own family’s irresponsible lifestyles:  smoking resulting in death; use of illegal drugs; depression, victimization by anti-health choices that brought on adult-onset diabetes, HIV, suicide and lung cancer.

His cabinet is far left and impractical beyond belief. They believe the cabinet is an acceptable testing ground for their radical ideas. Legislation is an acceptable way to totally and immediately shift national priorities and even morality.  Hence cometh: “cap and trade” and “Obamacare.”  Obamacare's provisions bring us the nanny-state shepherded in by radical feminists in the guise of social workers (78% of social workers are female; most are liberal and about half of them feminists).

Sixth, public opinion is a powerful thing. Without ever apologizing . . . it becomes necessary to get the wider public tolerating YOU and YOUR visible METHODS and YOUR stated goals. It’s all done, after all, for their good. Quoting from or alluding to the Bible and popular tales and myths, etc. to feelings of justice and fairness and necessity should be constantly employed to allay suspicion, or worse fear. YOU are to be respected and loved by the general public . . . a bit of fear for the opposition is, naturally a good thing.

Obama’s most recent ploy is to convene a teleconference of churches and employ Biblical quotations like “bearing false witness” repeatedly during the speech. Since the man is a testament to the awesome power of bearing false witness, he protesth too much.

Seventh, have a system in place to control the voting system at appropriate times that is the culmination of YOUR work: the CONTROL they will give YOU. But more importantly CONTROL and manipulate the purse strings on a daily basis. This is YOUR real POWER-BASE, the banking system and the legislature’s purse strings. This is the most fundamental way to REWARD YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ENABLERS: YOUR sponsors.

His election was engineered by the winning of 13 primary states by illegal means. 13 of the 14 caucus states were won by Obama despite the fact that he lost the voting in 8 of the 11 dual purpose states (voting and caucusing both took place). It began with illegal busing non Iowa citizens across the state line from Illinois and it included strong arm tactics against Hillary Clinton that were repeatedly documented on the internet and in news stories in print and on air. He now controls the voting, by holding votes on huge pendulous legislation which no one has read; or perhaps which have NOT entirely been written yet. He has twice held secret votes at times not scheduled for legislating meeting (any forum is acceptable, right?) and he’s been pressing for Obamacare a bill that is not yet finalized; (indeed there are five versions being hammered out) as if it were a finished product that some one person might actually know what the hell is in it.

Mr. Bernanke is definitely in Obama’s pocket: he has recently multiplied the circulating currency in this country by a factor of 15 to 1. If that continues, then your January, 2009 one dollar bill will be worth less about 6 ½ to 7 cents in buying power.

Mr. Obama is meting out stimulus money very slowly . . . Why? Because while just to apportion it fairly based upon either need or population or both might make things go very efficiently, that would NOT suit his purposes. By a 2/1 ratio, Obama is rewarding counties that voted for him with stimulus funds over counties that did not . . . to do this a justification must be created in virtually every case that would stand up to legal challenge: tough work and slow work, hence the tediously slow distribution of funds except to some crucial foot soldiers like ACORN.

The immense amount of bailout and stimulus money is only trickling into the economy one teeny drop at a time. The president seems to be attempting to win future votes with this money and borrowed money (his 2009 budget deficit is close to four times that of George W. Bush in 2008. When questioned about these matters, Mr. Obama replies virtually uniformly in a morally superior manner, implying the wisdom of his actions and the need to be compassionate for the downtrodden of society and to establish a more caring and moral social structure. Didn’t G.H.W. Bush get laughed at in the media for talking about a “kinder-gentler society?” Why isn’t this considered funny now?

Eighth, a private standing army (for security purposes only) is the penultimate testament to YOUR power. The ultimate testament is when YOUR private army is accepted as necessary and desirable by the public at large. Even though, especially because there is no apparent reason for its creation . . . this is a must. Create alarm, more straw-men and scapegoats, and nebulous threats to the country’s security.

Mr. Obama has discussed on several occasions the vital need for “an independent force equal to but separate from the regular army created to deal with special security issues now threatening to arise.” He has talked about mobilizing the country immediately and the need for a “special force” to respond immediately to the swine flu threat or other serious national emergencies.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

Obama is “The Prince” of the 21^st Century and he has read and re-read and re-re-read his Machiavelli . . . .

“An Obama Primer”

“Lesson 1: How to Overthrow the U.S. Government”

                Should YOU ever decide that it’s important to YOU to bring down the American way of life and their political and economic system, for instance to replace it with a better system such as Marxism, the process is really quite simple. It isn’t easy, of course, but it is simple, direct and easily understood.

First, YOU MUST create a straw-man, an internal enemy that all manner of accusations can be made about . . . an un-American enemy . . . and YOU have to pound that enemy’s name and practices into the public consciousness. The Constitution is, using this enemy as a fall guy, undermined at every opportunity while the Constitution becomes YOUR chief source of weaponry against the straw-man. Accusation becomes undeniable guilt.  Everything blurs sweetly so that right or wrong is a judgment YOU make and nothing else.

Obama’s straw-men are the knuckle-dragging Republicans, he says “created the mess we’re in’**and especially the more vocal Nazis among them.

Tail-gunner Joe McCarthy of the Communist Witch Hunt infamy almost got the formula correct. Barak Obama’s got it nailed down to a science . . . in one way, McCarthy took away the strongest possible tool (the word “Un-American”) making Barak’s job more difficult. But the words “Nazi,” “Brown-Shirt,” “Hitler,” “Swastika” and “Storm Trooper” seem to be doing the job for Obama quite nicely just as references to the “Hammer and Sickle” helped McCarthy. It really speeds up the process if the public already suspects YOUR straw-man really is an S.O.B. such as the obvious intolerance and bigotry of the right wing extremists in America . . . it doesn’t take much imagination to lump virtually all who would oppose YOU into bed with the worst of them . . . the beauty of it all of course is that by using Hitler’s propaganda method to associate the straw-man with Nazism, YOU’VE pre-empted the words . . . they canNOT be used by YOUR opposition against YOU nearly so effectively, ah, lovely, lovely.

Secondly, all governments not based expressly on MIGHT are based on words, a constitution, founding documents and the like. Words are nebulous things. Use words to undermine the authority of the document itself, like a martial artist turning the adversary’s striking force against him. For quite some time this process was used effectively by the slave-holding states from about 1816 to 1860 to continually bring up the issue of “states rights” and “natural rights” to bolster their position within the government and make it practically unassailable. However, the Civil War which southerners called “The War of Northern Aggression” and which was taught about under that name in many Southern schools right up until about 1970, brought MIGHT back into the equation. 

Should Maine or Georgia or Oregon decide tomorrow they wanted out of the Union and now, that starry-eyed notion would be opposed by Federal troops and tanks post-haste. Even Texas, the “Lone Star State” which expressly holds the legal right to secede from the country any time it wishes could NOT do so, MIGHT would triumph right in a heartbeat. So the attacks must be with words, words so clever that MIGHT never enters the picture, words that bring down the government as surely as ten million nuclear weapon strikes, words mightier than swords.

These “words mightier than swords” must appeal first of all, at least obliquely to “the things people are afraid of” and directly and constantly to the “edges” of things in the imagination. There are limits set in the Constitution and things just at the edge of the limits.   There are barriers to traditional and trusted power and things just at the edge of those barriers. The main order of business is to undermine the authority of the Constitution so that from a “call to action” standpoint it’s rendered innocuous, worse than useless for the opposition, because of course YOU will wield it often to make YOUR points and defend the “proto-edges” YOU’VE created and then attack the very foundations of the world the opposition is built upon. 

McCarthy used words from communism itself to undermine communism, or rather suspected or insinuated communism. Words like “comrade,” “proletariat,” “infiltration,” “revolution,” “fellow travelers,” and “classless society” are bandied about easily and can always be used to impugn an opponent’s patriotism. More importantly with these words YOU  find out who you can count on as allies. Early on Truman opposed McCarthy, but Joseph Kennedy and his son Robert and President Eisenhower aligned with him for several years until the whole country started to suspect his extremism and deplore his “unusual tactics.” It’s very easy to use words from Nazism and the Hitler years to attack people you label “Nazis.” But this is the light work . . . .

The real work lies in undermining the authority of the constitution by stretching the meaning and legal impact of words; by snatching up every ambiguity and claiming authority or better yet merely acting out on that authority to the utmost latitude; by exercising tiny acts of authority NOT guaranteed by the Constitution which at least YOUR own now numerous followers can approve of; if all of this is done with chutz pah (a bold assumption of undefined right or ‘constitutional prerogative’ much can be accomplished. By quibbling, parsing words and esoteric distinctions to explain away the plain and obvious meanings (a la Bill Clinton when talking about Monica Lewinsky), the words quickly lose power. 

As the public sees first one such audacious encroachment after another without repercussion . . . a precedent is set and they become accustomed and ACCEPTING, however, begrudgingly of it and YOUR power. Every time these things are made good, the “WORD” is made less powerful. Seizing undefined constitutional powers or UNconstitutional powers adapted and stretched to the ultimate when using the “edge” principle mentioned above is a powerful tool that gets reinforced with every new success.

The lies, broken promises, half-truths and horrendous obfuscations of Obama and his main lieutenants Pelosi and Frank are legendary. The creation by Obama of 36 czars answerable to Obama and only to Obama sidestepping the FBI and other vetting and eliminating the need for the approval of the legislature is clearly unconstitutional. The orchestration of the Chrysler and GM bankruptcy by Obama and particularly the ignoring of the rights of the secured creditors such as the three Indiana pension funds and the establishment of major stock ownership by the Obama-supporting UAW violated 232 years of bankruptcy law and precedent.

His unprecedented decision to select a U.S. Supreme Court justice based upon “empathy” has no grounding in the Constitution. After the President’s lobbying for his point of view almost half of Americans think “empathy” is a wise and necessary requisite more important than knowledge of and dedication to the principles of established law.

He appears to be winning the battle allowing him to “personally oversee” the 2010 Census and he has expanded the funding for ACORN, or is trying to, to $8.5 Billion via economic stimulus funds. 

Mr. Obama intervened in the business of reforming the automobile industry shamelessly, personally “overseeing” that also. Imagine this: Chrysler and GM are getting roughly $15,000 a car in government bailouts . . . but they’re closing roughly 720 Chrysler dealerships and 1200 GM dealerships including many which despite all the problems were profitable before the bailout. What sense is there in that? Good question. Obama is nothing, if not sly, it seems that dealerships owned by Obama supporters, even ones who lose money are finding competition within 20 miles of them disappearing. It seems that dealerships owned by McCain supporters are being closed even if profitable and lacking competition in their immediate radius.

Thirdly, the opposition now has replaced mere distaste with utter abhorrence of YOU and YOUR method. Pay them no serious mind. The “utterly natural” assumption that everything YOU do is meant for the ultimate good of the country without once apologizing or retracing steps followed by audacious attacks on the patriotism, goals and means, and character of YOUR opposition in line with the straw-man principle now accelerates. 

The Obama strategy is clearly to label all opposition as “stupid,” self-serving and somehow Nazi-ish.

Spies or investigators have been working all along to find the “skeletons” in their closets and attacking the most “righteous” and most importantly the most effective of the voices raised against YOU, YOUR methods and YOUR goals and accomplishments. Three or four such brutal responses will have a subtle quieting power upon would-be opposition. Who after all wants first to labeled a storm trooper and then brought down publically for his all too human mistakes? Words like “dangerous,” “unpatriotic,” “seditious” and self-serving” along with notions of moral weaknesses go along way to make the opposition kowtow. Alluring to the opposition’s anti-Constitutional ways and goals and poor character as well as attacks with the buzzwords like “Nazi” should have a proper suppressive effect upon political conversation and claims in opposition to YOUR own.

Fourth, external alignments and conversations “for the purpose of understanding” with YOUR (the country’s) heretofore enemies and an indifference to YOUR (the country’s) heretofore friends whose leaning might be along the lines of the Constitution YOU’RE discrediting will certainly make things easier. Judiciously finding areas of disagreement, in line with our Constitution to “prod” the former friends with, while embracing “for the purpose of open and honest discourse to promote reconciliation” former enemies will keep things in a fluid state that YOU can exploit.

The “rights” of terrorists are more important than the rights of Americans to be safe within their own borders in ObamaWorld.   He undermines measures taken to protect the country. He uses interrogators who got vital information that protected Americans as propaganda pawns His kissing up to Chavez in Venezuela and giving DVDs of his speeches to our friends is absolutely indefensible.

Fifthly power and accomplishment and fame are all magnets, however fleeting. Therefore YOU MUST from the initial forays into the halls of power and government acquire “toadies.” The more rich, powerful, famous and accomplished the toady the better. But discourse among toadies is forbidden except along YOUR PARTY LINES. All equivocations and subtle disagreements with YOU, YOUR “stated goals” (not, of course the real goal of overthrowing and subverting the present system LOL) and YOUR stated means (no need to belabor the point that YOUR means are not necessarily worth revealing in all or in any case) canNOT be allowed. 

The more needy, clingy, true-believerish, fashionable and politically-correct the toady the easier it is to keep them in line. True-believers in the occult, pseudo-sciences and the power of government spending to bring about good in virtually every case are naturally toadies and need to be cultivated, nurtured and rewarded directly from YOU. YOUR lieutenants are important to YOU but YOU MUST be the ONE doing the rewarding at least 90% of the time. Let YOUR lieutenants receive reward from YOU for effectively and verbatim carrying YOUR message of reward, but only on rare occasion. YOU MUST reward your lieutenants in some manner agreeable to them 30% - 40% of the time: too much reward gives them too much sense of power, too little reward is discouraging.

Besides their main appointed tasks, YOUR lieutenants are forever vigilant for opinion contrary to YOUR own. To this point the lieutenant MUST be effectively brainwashed to see YOUR ends as so crucial that virtually any means YOU enlist are justified because “We’re in a war here. Our opponents have no scruples the dirty Nazis (or whatever) and sometimes we have to fight back against bullets with bullets.” Etc., etc., etc.

YOU must create within your “classless society” several levels of distinction between YOUR toadies. The more uniformly in line with YOUR thinking and the more useful to YOU a toady is . . . the higher their “distinction” within YOUR operation. Rank and etiquette distinctions can enhance the power of such reward and this can be a function of your lieutenants. YOU, however, would occasionally hold ceremonies presided over by YOU to collectively honor such reward recipients.

While Obama and his toadies call fiscal conservatives and especially Republicans “stupid,” the lineup of environmental extremists, enamored celebrities and handout-seekers that make up the extreme left and extreme-extreme left of his supporting coalition clearly don’t have a brain among them. They still believe banning DDT was a great thing, although the original science was non-existent; no real studies have ever been done and DDT can demonstrably be drunk and used as salad dressing (albeit bad-tasting salad dressing) and has never been proven to hurt any human or any animal with four legs or any fish. 

Perhaps in hopes of drawing attention away from the intellectual paucity among his followers, Obama has surrounded himself with an “academic elite” all noteworthy for academic credentials that don’t translate into the real world outside the ivory towers. Many are crackpots such as his Science Czar Holdren whose recommendations for “forced abortions,” “secret mass sterilizations” via drinking water additives and admiration of the “science of eugenics” and negative population growth was published for the whole world to see in the late ‘70’s. Other appointees clearly are unable to walk the walk of his and their talk. His Surgeon General Benjamin is an enormously fat lady whose acceptance speech was a sad litany of her own family’s irresponsible smoking resulting in death; use of illegal drugs; depression, victimization by lifestyles that brought on adult-onset diabetes, HIV, suicide and lung cancer.

His cabinet is far left and impractical beyond belief. They believe the cabinet is an acceptable testing ground for their radical ideas. Legislation is an acceptable way to totally and immediately shift national priorities and even morality. Hence cometh: “cap and trade” and “Obamacare.”

Sixth, public opinion is a powerful thing. Without ever apologizing it becomes necessary to get the wider public tolerating YOU and YOUR visible METHODS and YOUR stated goals. It’s all done, after all, for their good. Quoting from or alluding to the Bible and popular tales and myths, etc. to feelings of justice and fairness and necessity should be constantly employed to allay suspicion, or worse fear. YOU are to be respected and loved by the general public . . . a bit of fear for the opposition is, naturally a good thing.

Obama’s most recent ploy is to convene a teleconference of churches and employ Biblical quotations like “bearing false witness” repeatedly during the speech. Since the man is a testament to the awesome power of bearing false witness, he protesth too much.

Seventh, have a system in place to control the voting system at appropriate times that is the culmination of YOUR work: the CONTROL they will give YOU. But more importantly CONTROL and manipulate the purse strings on a daily basis. This is YOUR real POWER-BASE, the banking system and the legislature’s purse strings. This is the most fundamental way to REWARD YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ENABLERS: YOUR sponsors.

His election was engineered by the winning of 13 primary states by illegal means. 13 of the 14 caucus states were won by Obama despite the fact that he lost the voting in 8 of the 11 dual purpose states (voting and caucusing both took place). It began with illegal busing non Iowa citizens across the state line from Illinois and it included strong arm tactics against Hillary Clinton that were repeatedly documented on the internet and in news stories in print and on air. He now controls the voting, by holding votes on huge pendulous legislation which no one has read; or perhaps which have NOT entirely been written yet. He has twice held secret votes at times not scheduled for legislating meeting (any forum is acceptable, right?) and he’s been pressing for Obamacare a bill that is not yet finalized; (indeed there are five versions being hammered out) as if it were a finished product that some one person might actually know what the hell is in it.

Mr. Bernanke is definitely in Obama’s pocket: he has recently multiplied the circulating currency in this country by a factor of 15 to 1. If that continues, then your January, 2009 one dollar bill will be worth less about 6 ½ to 7 cents in buying power.

Mr. Obama is meting out stimulus money very slowly . . . Why? Because while just to apportion it fairly based upon either need or population or both might make things go very efficiently, that would NOT suit his purposes. By a 2/1 ratio, Obama is rewarding counties that voted for him with stimulus funds over counties that did not . . . to do this a justification must be created in virtually every case that would stand up to legal challenge: tough work and slow work, hence the tediously slow distribution of funds except to some crucial foot soldiers like ACORN.

The immense amount of bailout and stimulus money is only trickling into the economy one teeny drop at a time. The president seems to be attempting to win future votes with this money and borrowed money (his 2009 budget deficit is close to four times that of George W. Bush in 2008. When questioned about these matters, Mr. Obama replies virtually uniformly in a morally superior manner, implying the wisdom of his actions and the need to be compassionate for the downtrodden of society and to establish a more caring and moral social structure. Didn’t G.H.W. Bush get laughed at in the media for talking about a “kinder-gentler society?” Why isn’t this considered funny now?

Eighth, a private standing army (for security purposes only) is the penultimate testament to YOUR power. The ultimate testament is when YOUR private army is accepted as necessary and desirable by the public at large. Even though, especially because there is no apparent reason for its creation . . . this is a must. Create alarm, more straw-men and scapegoats, and nebulous threats to the country’s security.

Mr. Obama has discussed on several occasions the vital need for “an independent force equal to but separate from the regular army created to deal with special security issues now threatening to arise.” He has talked about mobilizing the country immediately and the need for a “special force” to respond immediately to the swine flu threat or other serious national emergencies.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

While some liberal voters “don’t think Obama’s doing enough,” 86% of all liberals give the president at least some sort of approval.  Fiscal conservatives on the other hand give Obama less than 10% approval and the vast majority of them strongly DISapprove of the his job performance. Fiscal conservatives outnumber fiscal liberals by almost a 2/1 margin and constitute a majority in every state. Democrats** still outnumber Independents and Republicans in all polling as they have for at least the last eighteen years, but fiscally conservative Democrats and fiscally conservative Independents are the swing votes that have taken Obama from +30% strong approval the day after his inauguration (45% strongly approved but only 15% strongly disapproved) to his present critical state (-10% strong disapproval edge). Failure to create the promised huge job increase with the two bailouts is cited most often as evidence of Obama’s weak performance.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

You have talked about “rebuilding the American economy.” Amen, if that were true! You have nationalized and subsidized great sectors of our economy. Maybe you’d be sitting better in the polls and in the hearts of Americans if you kept from building up the government by standing with both feet on the neck of the American free markets with a gun in one hand and your other hand in the pockets of business and individuals. Perhaps your actions should match your pretty words and you should be creating real jobs. You have talked about creating five million “green-tech” jobs like you were doing a wonderful thing for the American economy. For some reason you have not mentioned four key facts:

1.       many of these jobs will last less than six weeks and only one in ten will be a permanent job

2.       92% of these green tech jobs will pay  between $9 -$15 per hour; since the poverty line for a single person is roughly $10 per hour, even the permanent jobs are “no great shakes”

3.       Each green-tech job created by your government subsidies, regardless of its desirability and permanency, will cost an average of 2.2 jobs from the real economy

4.       Since only one in ten green jobs will last, you are eliminating 22 real jobs for every government-subsidized green job you create.

Perhaps the American economy would be better off without your help!

You ran out of real money after the first few weeks of extravagant spending, bailouts and taxpayer-funded subsidies and NOW we’ve seen the federal reserve printing $15 in funny money for every dollar previously circulating here in the United States. That means that in effect the dollar of yesterday is worth less than seven cents today Perhaps the American economy would be better off without your help!  The country's national debt amounts to 81 times the nation’s gross domestic product. Responsible countries worry when the amount of debt equals one-third the GDP, Mr. Obama.

As usual, Mr. President, you use adept lies to claim that the problem you inherited came from the prior Republican administration. In truth, however, the problem was created by two disastrous pieces of liberal legislation both passed overwhelmingly by Democrats: the 1977 and the 1998 mortgage guarantee legislation eagerly signed by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. The Bush administration attempted to avert the sub-prime lending crisis that arose into visibility in January, 2005, but was outvoted by Democrats, of course. Much of that terrible legislation is still on the books, still threatening the country as we speak. You also don’t mention that you, Barak Obama worked as an attorney for ACORN and your job was to sue banks and force them to grant unwarranted loans to people who were extremely UNlikely to be able to pay off their mortgages. You, Mr. President were a hundred times more guilty of creating our present financial mess than everybody in the Bush Administration put together! 

Not only are you creating temporary government sector jobs, Mr. President, at the cost of 2.2 permanent real private sector jobs, but you have shown a predilection for rewarding your supporters at every point in the process. You have even inserted yourself within the bankruptcy process in violation of 232 years of bankruptcy law and precedent and stolen money from several groups of Indiana state pensioners to grant much stock and voting power within the Chrysler Corporation to the United Auto Workers Union which supported your campaign.

You are seeking to spend and borrow your way out of debt while eliminating the private sector whose very profits allow economic growth. This compounded with your willingness to have money printed out of thin air, is madness. You seem unable to understand that you are daily further robbing our children and grandchildren of prosperity. You have proven, Mr. President, to be the most inept politician in American history, congratulations!Given competition like Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Warren G. Harding, and Arlen Specter, that is no small feat.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                The United States actually boycotted the Durban, South Africa conference that Robinson led to protest its anti-Israel and anti-Semitic declarations, apparently singling out the Jewish State as the only nation in the world deserving of censure. Colin Powell stated about that conference, “. . . she not only failed to resist it, she facilitated (the attacks on Israel), you do not combat racism by producing conferences that allow declarations that contain hateful language . . .”

                Mr. Obama who made a big deal about kowtowing to the Arab and other Muslim nations is proving himself a bit of an “anti-Semite by association.”  Perhaps Elie Wiesel is rolling over in his grave????

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

The sacrifices of Americans in the 20^th Century freed hundreds of millions of people around the planet. America is still the beacon, the hope of mankind. Obama’s recent shameful apologies notwithstanding, America is the one place people will risk everything to get to. America’s mistakes, and there are many of them – some repeated ad nauseum --  are so small, by comparison to that great truth, that it would be better if our illustrious president first apologized to the American people living and dead and then shut his fat mouth.

Mitt Romney took exception to Obama’s claim on Arabian television networks that America has “dictated to other nations.” As Governor Romney so eloquently put it: “No, America has sacrificed to free other nations from dictators.” America is one of a handful of nations on earth who’ve sacrificed their own blood for the freedom of others. It began first with abolitionists and later the entire Union under Republican leadership fighting a war to set enslaved peoples free and it continues to this day.

President Obama has signed a treaty without teeth supposedly to end “nuclear proliferation”. He has agreed to reduce our missile defense system as part of this treaty. Like Chamberlain before him he has appeased a wily and rapacious enemy.   If our potential enemy has no wish to attack us at some moment in the future, if it is as he implies “the furthest thing from his mind,” why would he demand we lessen our defenses? Making peace with the fox is not good policy for the henhouse; making peace with the fox and leaving the door to the chicken coop wide open is utter folly.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                “If you crap in your nest, don’t expect a pleasant rest.” Thanks to the abuses Barak Obama has recently heaped upon the American economy, sometime in the next eighteen months the heretofore “Almighty Dollar” will probably lose its place of honor as the world’s “reserve currency.”   Countries all around the globe who’ve relied on American money as a trusty backup currency to their nation’s own have been showing great concern about Obama’s doubling of the American national debt within his first half a year and his threatened future domestic programs expected to double that debt again by the year 2017. 

Governments and individuals holding huge amounts of dollars as a trusted reserve are already becoming motivated to exchange or “sell off” dollars. Since early March this year the dollar has already  lost roughly 12% of its value on world money markets because of an excess supply and dramatically  lowered demand for American currency. All this could be the “tip of the iceberg.” If and when the dollar loses its hallowed status as reserve currency . . .  all those folks around the world holding on to greenbacks would become highly motivated to sell dollars and a significant devaluation of the dollar would then become a virtual certainty. Before that tragedy happens it’s a good idea for every  citizen needs to understand the ramifications of hyper-inflation.

The last large country to suffer such an embarrassment was Argentina in the ‘80’s which

A) at one point saw riots burst out when shoppers in a department store heard a PA announcement that everything in the store would cost 33% more than priced when they got to the cash register

B) official price devaluations three times a day; and

C) unending street demonstrations.  

For an entertaining read and unusual lessons about the dynamics of severe inflation, Erich Maria Remarque’s classic “The Black Obelisk” details the hyper-hyper inflation in Germany’s Weimar Republic which granted Adolph Hitler instant celebrity after his failed “Beer Hall Putsch” and subsequent treason trial (while the Nazis do play a slight role, the book is about the personal side of inflation). Remarque, most famous for “All Quiet on the Western Front,” was not, as his name sounds, French, but rather a German who used his alias to avoid pressure from fellow Germans and their government.    The personal inflation survival lessons gleaned from “The Black Obelisk” will profit anyone willing to learn from them. Unfortunately, the novel may become a “must-read” in the very near future.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

             One-time General of the Armies and later President Ulysses Grant discussed a problem personality this way:  “I used to divide my officer corps into the Competent and Incompetent; the Industrious and Lazy. Surprisingly some of my very best officers were Competent but Lazy; of course in the main the Industrious-Competents made up the vanguard of my staff. There are many and varied uses for the Lazy-Incompetents; but . . . the Industrious-Incompetents are Dangerous and must be gotten rid of.”  Less than ten months later, General Custer proved the wisdom of Grant’s evaluation of him.

            Like Custer, who infamously told his “own private reporter,” Mark Kellogg of the New York Herald, there is almost “nothing so demanding that it requires reversal of a ‘Custer Command,’” Obama is one of the most arrogant politicians to have ever strode into the Oval Office. Just as Kellogg paid for Custer’s arrogance by being one of the very first to have fallen at the Little Bighorn (according to Souix oral tradition reports on the battle); the American economy that Obama has commandeered appears to be a likely victim of cocksure Obama’s socialistic extravagances.

            So if the question becomes, “Is Barak Obama more arrogant than dangerous?” we can readily see that he fits the Custer mold to a tee: an Industrious-Incompetent and so arrogant that it is his danger to the American Way of Life and American Free Market Economy that is most notable about him. AMEN!

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut