Once again Obama mentions the do nothing congress and how he can’t accomplish anything.  Yet in the same speech he elevated another agency to Cabinet level. Here is what the President had to say

So, to take one example, as of today, I am elevating the Small Business Administration to a Cabinet-level agency.  (Applause.)  Karen Mills, who’s here today and who’s been doing an outstanding job leading that agency, is going to make sure that small business owners have their own seat at the table in our Cabinet meetings.

So now two of the six agencies will have a seat at the table.  I need an answer to the following question.  If the President gets his way and gets to combine these six agencies who losses their cabinet seat and how much will the merger save the taxpayers?  None of this is discussed by the President.  One more very disturbing tidbit and I know it is hackneyed but once again the President said something along these lines.

So with or without Congress, I’m going to keep at it.  But it would be a lot easier if Congress helped.  (Laughter.)  This is an area that should receive bipartisan support, because making our government more responsive and strategic and leaner, it shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

I will act with or without Congress.  I am pretty sure people like Chavez, Mussolini and others said something very similar.  It is not his place to act without congress and as I said earlier he does mot mention any savings from consolidating these agencies.  He only speaks of putting them under one tent.  But with Commerce and Small Business on the Cabinet it makes it a hydra!  A money sucking two-headed Hydra!

There it is the oceans equivalent of a Push me-pull you.  A beast that fights against itself to go one way or the other and could likely go nowhere.  Wait I just described our current Administration.  Obama likes to throw the do nothing Congress out there.  SO here is the question.  How many budgets have the congress passed since the Democrats took control in 2006?

Don’t buy the Hype.  Obama is a street magician.   Read the speech  he is full of SHIT!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/13/remarks-president-government-reform

I won’t say enjoy I will just say read critically.

2010 was banner year for the Tea Party. The movement got many local and state level elections and took back quite a  few Governorships.  But the press and the left want to point out two losses.  Christine O’Donnell and Sharon Angle.  You would think with how these two were held up as the failure of the Tea Party that 2010 was the end of the movement.Yet on an almost daily basis the President and his minions in the Democrat controlled Senate talk about the Tea party Republicans that won seats in 2010 as being obstructionists.  Once again the opposition is talking out of both sides of their “collectivist” mouths.  How about 2012?  Where is the Tea Party?

I am not the least bit surprised that the Tea party is split on which candidate to vote for in the Presidential Primary.  There are 50 States and countless Tea Parties in each of them.  Contrary to the other meme of the left, the Tea Party is not controlled by the Koch Brothers!  The groups (there is no “organization) are independent and even within each group there is debate about which candidate would be the best choice.  2010 showed the local power of these grassroots constitution based groups.  2012 should continue that trend.  Fighting for every Senate, Assembly, Committee, Council and House seat.  Yes, we will engage in the process of the primaries and yes some will support this candidate of that one.  But as of yet only one local Tea Party organization I know of has announced the backing of one candidate.  For the record I think it was too soon.  Timing is everything and the group that announced it’s choice really flubbed the timing.  There are months until the primary in their home state.  Too much too soon!

What the Tea party needs to focus on is not just who gets the nomination but who wins the general election in November.  We need the House and Senate and the Presidency would be a plus.  The Tea party should be beating the bushes for voters in local elections.  We should be educating ourselves and voting for the Nominee of our choice.  But in the end no matter what candidate is picked by the Republican party the Tea Party, we need to support them.

The disparate nature of the groups prevent them from solidifying support on a national level during the primaries.  That is not to say they will not coalesce behind one candidate and that will most definitely be the person who will be at the other podium at any debate with Barack Obama.  Oh one more point.  Don’t be surprised if Barack does not jump right into a debate platform. He has nothing to gain from debating and everything to lose.  He is after all running away from his record.

The Tea Party is still here.  Watch!

You remind me that this country is all about folks who work hard and where responsibility pays off, an America where anybody who puts in the effort and plays by the rules can get ahead.

Now I don’t know about you but I hear that man say something like that and I have to wonder what rules is he talking about.  With his current attacks on the millionaires and billionaires we are left wondering why would anyone want to get ahead?  Would these be the rules he wants?  Which seems to be rape the rich and give to the Government.  We know he is not giving to the poor in any real way.  There are more poor now than when he took office.   But that wasn’t his fault either.  Teflon is jealous of Barack Obama!

I also find it amusing that as he was breaking a long-standing rule his own party used he was talking about playing by them.  Watch the other hand folks.  This guy is notorious for saying one thing and doing another.  Here is what he said on November 10, 2011

I support the State Department’s announcement today regarding the need to seek additional information about the Keystone XL Pipeline proposal.  Because this permit decision could affect the health and safety of the American people as well as the environment, and because a number of concerns have been raised through a public process, we should take the time to ensure that all questions are properly addressed and all the potential impacts are properly understood.  The final decision should be guided by an open, transparent process that is informed by the best available science and the voices of the American people.  At the same time, my administration will build on the unprecedented progress we’ve made towards strengthening our nation’s energy security, from responsibly expanding domestic oil and gas production to nearly doubling the fuel efficiency of our cars and trucks, to continued progress in the development of a clean energy economy.

The open and transparent process.  That would be the same process that Obama and the Senate Democrats used to force an unconstitutional health care bill down the throats of every American!  Even that last sentence is an outright illusion.  This is an Administration that had to be ordered by a federal judge to start issuing permits to drill in the Gulf of Mexico.  His real agenda is to ram only clean energy down our throats.  And to do it he will take money from the rich and create fake jobs in companies like Solyndra and other alternative energy companies that have also gone under.  Mainly because they were not to big to fail.  Those entities would be the banker friends of the Democrats.  Jon Corzine being one such crook who did a magical feat and made 1.2 billion just vanish.  I hear David Copperfield is jealous and Joe Biden proud of Corzine.  I like this one.

“I literally picked up the phone and called Jon Corzine and said Jon, what do you think we should do,” Biden said. “The reason we called Jon is that we knew that he knew about the economy, about world markets, how we had to respond, unlike almost anyone we knew. It was because he had been in the pit — because he had been in the furnace. And we trusted his judgment.” Joe Biden
Do you think Corzine who took a company by the name of MF Global into bankruptcy and misplaced over a billion dollars is the guy who should be getting that call?

Folks the rules that Barack Hussein Obama is talking about are his rules.  And what we need to understand is that the political elite are stacking the deck against the average citizen (even some of those millionaires)  You see when the time comes for the shift of power only those rich folks who are already playing ball with the poser brokers will be allowed to keep their wealth.  If you doubt that you may want to read the history of the USSR and other communist, fascist and socialist countries.

What we need folks is less rules but effective ones.  What we have is politicians protecting their friends with bad rules that run counter to the constitution which requires the government to treat all people equally.  That hasn’t been happening since the early 1900′s and we are letting it happen. Even the Progressive income tax is unconstitutional and some corrupt court had to allow that one .  Read the taxation article.  Rules?  Our politicians throw them out or make up fake ones as they see fit!

Vote 2012.

The President announced at the school that he was going to put Richard Cordray in place as the administrator of the new government credit oversight agency. Recess appointments are not a new thing. As most of the people who read my blog know these appointments have been done by almost every president in recent history. The time frame of the Senates recess is the question on the appointments that Barack Obama did in early January. In a procedural move the Senate actually had meeting every three days. That gavel bang on those days were designed to say the Senate was in session and not on a recess.

Now where is this going? Let’s look at what the media is saying. The NY Times Jonathan Weisman wrote the following on January 7th.

WASHINGTON — To many Republicans and some constitutional scholars, President Obama’s decision last week to ignore a sitting Senate and sidestep the confirmation process for several appointees risked nothing short of an end to the Senate’s role of providing advice and consent on presidential appointments.

In this article Weisman details the timeline of the recess stall game and guess who started it? The Democrats during G.W. Bush’s. back in 2007 Reid created this procedural process and kept Bush from recess appointing his choices. Now here is what Weisman wrote about the appointment on the January 4th.

On Wednesday, Mr. Obama went where Mr. Bush had declined to go. He invoked his constitutional right to recess appointments to install four nominees — the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, and three members of the National Labor Relations Board — effectively calling the pro forma Senate session illegitimate.

Republicans, lawyers and parliamentary experts say the move, if it survives potential legal challenges, could herald an end to the Senate’s constitutionally guaranteed right to advice and consent. Eric Ueland, who was chief of staff to former Senator Bill Frist, said that using Mr. Obama’s logic, presidents could make recess appointments when the Senate chamber closed for as little as a night or a weekend.

Folks is there any doubt the man in the White House right now does not care about the Constitution? He just bypassed years of Constitutional precedent and threw the rules out the window. And he did it going against what the Democrats started.

2012 is a tipping point for this country. We either remove this man from office or give him a do something Senate and House that can override any veto he would attempt. I fear the Cowadrly Lions and Scarecrows over in the chambers of the legislature are too inured to corruption of the Constitution they have become part of. Some don’t care and want the collapse of the constitutional republic. Some are so power-hungry they won’t see the corruption until it is too late.

President Barack Obama, dismantling the Constitution one passage at a time

Educate yourself and Vote!

As congress passed bills to create agencies they placed wording in the bills to take things off their plates.  An agency gets a director or board and is then given the power to establish the limits of their jurisdiction.  Lets call some of those regulations.  These regulations by the power vested in the agency become law.  Each regulation put in place by an agency of the United States government is in its basis unconstitutional as it was never voted on by congress.

It can be debated that each law establishing a regulatory agency is unconstitutional.  I will not debate here the need for some regulation.  The constitution gives that power to the congress.  Does it grant the power of unfettered, unrepresented regulations?  No.

But the folks who we are sending to Washington are so intent on staying there.  With good reason, we are adding to the so-called 1% with every new person we send to Washington.  They have become the ultimate inside traders and will put aside any principles to stay where they are.  This is not a partisan issue.  All parties are equally at fault.  They use the system to pull a Pontius Pilate,  they wash there hands of much of the blame, leaving the bureaucrats to do as they wish and saying that they are working for us.

Let me give you a great example, the tax code.  The Constitution says this about taxation.

Section. 8.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Can anyone honestly say that the tax code is uniform?  There is no more unbalanced mechanism in this country than our tax code.  But Congress won’t touch it.  Why?  Because it is political suicide.  In attempting to repair the inequity there are only two  ways.  The flat or fair tax and a rebalance of the current system with a massive reduction in deductions.  Either way some Americans face either higher taxes.  Political expediency would tell you to screw the rich because there are less of them. DO we see that happening?  Where has this happened before and why did the founders want an equal draw from excises and duties?

In deference to the Ron Paul fans I will touch on the Federal Reserve too. It is the congress that was charged with the monetary oversight.

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

Without calling for the outright destruction of the Federal Reserve system, I will say that control should be in the hands of the congress (scary thought based on current partisan bickering) and not is a quasi-governmental agency.  The establishment of the Federal Reserve is another example of abdication of responsibility.  The congress is now not being held accountable for the fluctuations in currency.

Every regulation needs to be voted on by our representatives.  Monetary decisions need to be made by people who can be held accountable.  That folks is why they do what they do.  So they can not be held accountable.  Let’s call them to task on that, at least.

It is the lack of accountability and the lack of concern for the citizens that allow for these appointments.  All of this could be avoided if our Congress would just do their job.

In September a former US Marine with a permit to carry in Indiana traveled to New York to sell some jewelry.  He did some online checking and got some bad information.  Now here it comes!  While walking around New York with his weapon and permit he goes to the Empire State Building and asks a security guard where he can check his weapon. The guard promptly called the police and the man who assumed he was legally carrying was arrested.  His case is before a grand jury.   Imagine a grand jury for a legally purchased gun being carried by a man with a permit from another state.

Sadly in December a Nurse from Tennessee travel to New York and pretty much had the same experience.  She went to the World Trade Center site and saw a sign banning guns.  She asked the guard where she could check her weapon.  Guess what happened to her?  Well you don’t know the half of it.  This woman’s career could be ruined by a false accusation by the Mayor of New York.  Michael Bloomberg looking to defend the over the top and asinine guns laws he supports decided to up the ante on this woman.  Here is Bloomberg being questioned.  The question which is hard to hear was about the officers giving the woman the benefit of the doubt.  Note the arrogance of Michael Bloomberg.

“She probably would have gotten arrested for the cocaine that was in  her pocket”  That comment was a cheap shot at this woman. Note how Bloomberg is surprised that the whole nation does not know that New York State is one of the most regressive gun laws states in the nation.  Bloomberg even says Guns kill people.  This now justifies the arrest of a person in possession of a legally purchased weapon and licensed to carry in her home state.  But Mike Bloomberg is not content with juts that.  He makes a blatantly false statement.  He says she has cocaine on her.  She did not and DA cleared her of that allegation.  It was an allegation.  You see she had two vials of white powder on her person at the time of her arrest.  The police had to identify it as something and on the report they wrote “allegedly cocaine”.  This is pretty much a CYA so they could charge her later if it were true.  But it wasn’t.  Mike Bloomberg the man the people of New York trust to run their city made it a fact in his one statement.  I won’t even talk about the fallacy that she would have been arrested for the vials. How many people do drugs in NY everyday? Mike?  Really

At least Mike shut the heck up in reference to the US Marine!

Can I get a lawyer to do some Pro Bono for these people.  This would be a good constitutional challenge of New York’s Gun Laws.

http://nation.foxnews.com/rick-santorum/2012/01/02/fiery-debate-breaks-out-between-lowry-and-colmes

I can not begin to tell you how wrong what aired today on Fox News Channel is.  Alan Colmes literally mocked the reaction of a grieving family over how they handled that grief.   How can any human honestly believe that they can say what is weird and what is not when it comes to the grief process.  But it gets worse.

Mark McKinnon one of the founders of “No Labels” a group of people from both parties and some independents decided to weigh in on Santorum to Fox News Radio, here is what MCKinnon had to say:

With the prospect of former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum running for president (Iowa is nice the time of year.), former Bush adviser Mark McKinnon is scared by the thoughtof such a possibility.

“Santorum represents, in my view, much of what is wrong the in the Republican Party. While I disagree with him on some fundamental issues, I am much more concerned with his lack of character.”

And then there is this little known tidbit: “I’m a pretty tolerant guy, but beyond his ideology, some of Santorum’s behavior is just a little bizarre. For example, Santorum has six children. In 1996, he had son born prematurely who lived for only two hours. He and wife brought the child home and introduced the dead infant to the rest of their children as ‘your brother Gabriel’ and slept with the body overnight.”

Based on what I can see of McKinnon he is not by any means a conservative.  His view of the conservative movement as a problem for tthe Republican party.  But more importantly he has the temerity to call Santorum’s actions bizarre.  This was a guy who worked for G.W.  Bush.

Getting back to Colmes, I guess Alan does not read Salon.com much. Here is a 2008 piece by a college professor Elizabeth Heineman who lost her full term baby during childbirth. Please have a look at this story and tell me how different it is from the Santorum scenario?

http://life.salon.com/2011/10/07/my_stillborn_childs_life_after_death/singleton/

The bond between mother and child and for that matter father and child should not be a state dictated or for that matter hospital dictated process.  Alan Colmes calling out Santorum’s moment of grief on national televison should go down in history as one of the most evil acts in political history.  It was nothing short of a bold-faced attack on what Alan sees as a conservative.  He obviously did not take the feelings of Santorum or his wife into account.  Nor did he consider the many other people like Elizabeth Heineman who chose to bond with their babies before having to bury them.

Alan , now would be a good time to apologize to anyone with a heart. Since you seem to lack one.

I pray each day that you receive an enlightened view of what liberty means.  While having a governing body is important it is more important that the people dictate the government actions not the other way around.

I pray that you find peace within yourself so you can share it with others.  No one can share love and peace with others unless they themselves are at peace with their lives.  We all suffer setbacks in our lives but it is the person at peace that overcomes them and makes them a benefit.  What is the old saying? If life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

I pray that all of you can deal with pain in your life.  I have seen good people die at their own hand due to pain in their lives.  Nothing bothers me more than the prospect of suicide.  If you feel yourself losing the battle with your pain, reach out.  God has given us people in our lives that can help.  We just need to recognize those people and share the pain.  It may not go away but you will know you are loved.

I pray that we all learn to laugh.  Since meeting my wife we have shared many good laughs.  It is that laughter that makes our disagreements tolerable.  Let the fun in your life outweigh the bad.

I pray that evil will avoid your doorstep .  But if it doesn’t I pray that the faith in our Lord will give you the armor and tools to fight it and expose it for what it is.

Lastly,  I pray that all of us can begin to prosper again in 2012.  Too many of the people I know are effected by the stagnation in the world right now.  I pray for real non-partisan agreements in our nations capital which will aid in the growth of this country, not in the party politics that are being played out there now.  We need people of honor in Washington not people of party loyalty.

Have a wonderful New Years celebration and get home safe.

Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical,” Biden said in the interview published this week. “There is not a single statement that the President has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy, because it threatens U.S. interests,” said Biden.

Why would he say that?  I will let Jay Carney explain

As the video shows Obama himself while running for office talked about the evil Taliban.  Now the big fish is flopping away while golfing in Hawaii.

We are engaged in a “reconciliation” process.  Let’s use the word appeasement shall we.  The President, Vice President and Jay Carney want you to belive the Taliban are nice guys who just made the mistake of letting a few bad eggs hang out in their country.  Have no doubt the Taliban was in charge of Afghanistan pre-2001.  Here is how George W Bush informed American of what and why we were invading the country.

On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taleban regime in Afghanistan.
These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and to attack the military capability of the Taleban regime.
We are joined in this operation by our staunch friend, Great Britain. Other close friends, including Canada, Australia, Germany and France, have pledged forces as the operation unfolds.
More than 40 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and across Asia have granted air transit or landing rights. Many more have shared intelligence. We are supported by the collective will of the world.
More than two weeks ago, I gave Taleban leaders a series of clear and specific demands: Close terrorist training camps. Hand over leaders of the al-Qaeda network, and return all foreign nationals, including American citizens unjustly detained in our country.
None of these demands were met. And now, the Taleban will pay a price.
By destroying camps and disrupting communications, we will make it more difficult for the terror network to train new recruits and coordinate their evil plans.
Initially, the terrorists may burrow deeper into caves and other entrenched hiding places. Our military action is also designed to clear the way for sustained, comprehensive and relentless operations to drive them out and bring them to justice.
At the same time, the oppressed people of Afghanistan will know the generosity of America and our allies. As we strike military targets, we will also drop food, medicine and supplies to the starving and suffering men and women and children of Afghanistan.
The United States of America is a friend to the Afghan people, and we are the friends of almost a billion worldwide who practice the Islamic faith.
The United States of America is an enemy of those who aid terrorists and of the barbaric criminals who profane a great religion by committing murder in its name.

Enemies of those who aid terrorists!  My how the worm had turned.  Looks like we want to be friends with them now.  Many were surprised by the announcement of the potential release of a few Taliban leaders. Here is an excerpt form the Chicago Tribune:

The debate surrounding the White House’s consideration of high-profile prisoners such as Fazl illustrates the delicate course it must tread both at home and abroad as it seeks to move the nascent peace process ahead.

One U.S. intelligence official said there had been intense bipartisan opposition in Congress to the proposed transfer.

“I can tell you that the hair on the back of my neck went up when they walked in with this a month ago, and there’s been very, very strong letters fired off to the administration,” the official said on condition of anonymity.

In what can only be describes as the MO of this Administration, it seems they acted unilaterally on this issue then the news leaked to the Congress.  You know the one the President does not talk to.  Well you see the reaction in the statement above.  Now here is the zinger.  What did a spokesman say?  Again from the Chicago Tribune

The senior administration official confirmed that the White House has received letters from lawmakers on the issue. “We will not characterize classified Congressional correspondence, but what is clear is the President’s order to us to continue to discuss these important matters with Congress,” the official said.

Congress, I am sure, except for a few select insiders and true believers was not told about this until very recently.  These negotiations have gone on for a while.  The United States tried to set up a Taliban satellite office in Qatar, which came as a surprise to Hamid Karzai.  This stopped any peace negotiations for quite a while.   Karzai has enough problems without the Obama administration undermining his authority to run his country and negotiate with his enemies.  Iraq’s breakdown since we left is a clear sign that we are not in control, and Obama stumbling through his foreign policy is not helping the perception of our great country.

Once again this President undermines our stated policy!  Turning these men over to Afghanistan is a mistake and opens the Karzai government up to even more attacks to free these killers.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton Top the List of Most Admired

By MARJORIE CONNELLY

Four years ago, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were battling each other for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now, Mrs. Clinton is President Obama’s secretary of state, and together they top the lists as the Gallup poll’s most admired woman and most admired man of 2011.

Most Admired Woman, 2011

	% Mentioning
Hillary Clinton	17
Oprah Winfrey	7
Michelle Obama	5
Sarah Palin	4
Condoleezza Rice	3
Laura Bush	2
Margaret Thatcher	2
Ellen DeGeneres	2
Queen Elizabeth	II 2
Michele Bachmann	2

Most Admired Man, 2011

	% Mentioning
Barack Obama	17
George W. Bush	3
Bill Clinton	2
Rev. Billy Graham	2
Warren Buffett	2
Newt Gingrich	1
Donald Trump	1
Pope Benedict XVI	1
Bill Gates	1
Thomas Monson	1

Mrs. Clinton has finished first on the list of most admired women 16 times since 1993, coming in second in 1995 and 1996 to Mother Teresa and in 2001 to Laura Bush. No one else has been named No. 1 — man or woman — in the Gallup poll as often as Mrs. Clinton.

Mr. Obama’s finish is his fourth time on the top. Presidents often take that spot: a sitting or newly elected president has been named the most admired man by the Gallup poll for past 31 years, and 55 out of the 65 times the question has been asked.

The Rev. Billy Graham has never been No. 1, but he has been in the top 10 more than any other man — 55 times since 1955. This year, he is in third place, following former President George W. Bush.

Queen Elizabeth’s ninth-place finish is her 44th time in the top 10, although she also never made it to No. 1. She was first named to the list in 1948, when she was still a princess and her father was king.

Gallup first asked Americans to name the living person they most admired in 1946. In 1948, it separated the men from the women. The questions have been posed by Gallup every year since except in 1967, when Gallup asked only about the most admired man, and in 1976, when it did not ask the question at all.

The USA Today/Gallup poll was conducted Dec. 15-Dec. 18 with 1,019 adults. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish using land lines and cellphones. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Barack Obama is the most admired man in the United States!  Here is a link to the Gallup website you can see for yourself that there is a sin of omission in the story.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1678/most-admired-man-woman.aspx

 

For the record the poll shows that “Other” 27% and “None/No Opinion” 25%  both beat the Presidents anemic 22%.  To say that Barack Obama is the most admired man is not a falsehood.  To say that Hilary is the most admired is not a stretch based on their rank versus others listed.  But that is true only if you do not count those two listed categories.  The real story is the rise and fall of Barack Obama as the incumbent President.   His opening status was 32% and he has dropped to 22% in just three years.

 

To be fair the paper was using Gallup’s own assessment which somehow also failed to mention None/Unknown.  My guess from what I see is that Gallup does not consider that when publishing results.   As not sitting President ever really got more than 40% of the votes in the poll.  Here is Gallup’s evaluation of sitting Presidents.

 

Let’s be fair here.  Obama does garner 22% of the votes in this poll.  Technically this would make him the most admired man in the country.   But compared to None/No Opinion” he has lost ground, big time.    Even the biggest target of Obama hate, George Bush beat “None/No Opinion”  his first three years in office.  See this article at CNSNews.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/none-beats-obama-gallup-s-most-admired-survey

I will finish with this video

EDUCATE YOURSELF!