Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are friends and soul sisters. They are high profile examples of that ever increasing breed of attractive and conservative women. They seem not to fear the collateral damage of their carpet bombing attacks on the messiah and his policies. The establishment republicans would do well to learn from their ballsy intent to eviscerate this administration and put our country back on the right track of fiscal sanity and economic growth. Their attempt to reign in government and unleash the private sector is long over due. They are a threat to the decades old, "media created narrative," that women, and especially attractive and intelligent women, cannot and should not be conservative. That same narrative applies to all minorities. The media and the left, which are interchangeable, want us to believe that conservatives should be limited to aging white males.
Sarah Palin exploded onto the scene at the 2008 republican convention. She connected immediately with middle America and therefore was subsequently attacked by the left. Hoards of reporters were dispatched to the remote areas of our 49th state to dig up dirt through the frozen tundra to discredit her. This was an immense contrast to the free pass given to Barack Obama once it was known he was viable for the nomination of the democrat party. Bloggers fashioned lies about her, stooping to the most vile and despicable charges such as her baby Trig was her daughter's child. Her clothing and the amount that was paid for them was attacked. Why. Because she was a conservative woman. There was never a mention of the two thousand dollar suits that the Obama campaign supplied to the anointed in waiting, or the six thousand dollar pant suits that Hilary had specially made for her.
Well, we all know too well what transpired. The McCain Palin ticket lost and Sarah returned to Alaska to lead that state. But, the attacks continued relentlessly. Frivolous ethics charges were brought against her that made governance pretty much impossible. She resigned and headed to the lower forty eight where she immediately became a force that helped the republicans destroy the democrats in the 2010 elections. The attacks continued. You can always tell who the left fears the most by how viciously they attack them, but Sarah just kept on keeping on. The narrative was formed, that she was stupid, and unsophisticated, even though she seemed to flourish. The left's intentions were obvious. They wanted to so damage her credibility as to insure she wouldn't run for president. The media's "jump the shark" moment, was when they sent and solicited people to peruse over 30 thousands Palin emails that the state of Alaska had just released because of a freedom of information request. This is an absolutely perfect description of "Palin Derangement Syndrome." This blew up in their faces. The emails revealed a serious, and conscientious governor that cared for her state and her staff.
Now we have Michele Bachmann announcing for president and rising in the polls. This last Sunday Chris Wallace asked her if she was a flake. She immediately responded by saying "that is insulting, and I'm a serious person." Wallace then put out a video apology, and Bachmann didn't immediately accept it, and no one could blame her. Would Wallace have asked that of a conservative man? I think not. Chris Wallace is a fair minded interviewer, but you can see that even he had fallen into the media narrative that it is OK to attack a conservative woman. The good that came out of this incident is that he didn't get away with it. Could it be that all the unfair attacks on Sarah Palin are making it less likely that the media can have free reign with Michele Bachmann. If she were to be attacked to the same degree as Sarah has been their narrative would be exposed for all to see, and any media credibility that remains would be shattered.
I think the arrows that Sarah has courageously taken now pave the way for a conservative woman to make a serious run for the White House, without being maliciously attacked at every turn. She is the forerunner of all that come behind her, and they all owe her a debt of gratitude. Her strength of character to not curl up in the fetal position in a far away Alaskan town, but rather keep marching onward is inspirational to us all. How many men could have persevered through what she has gone through? Whether or not she decides to make a run herself for the presidency is irrelevant to what she has already accomplished. She is the Susan B. Anthony of this generation and all conservative women. She jumped on an enormous earth mover and blazed a trail that all that follow will benefit from, especially Michele Bachmann.
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Barack Obama continues to lean sharply left when given the choice between job creation and politics. With the country fearing a double dip recession due to high energy costs, stagnant growth, and continued high unemployment, his ideology will not allow him to bend for the good of the country. It seemed after the 2010 midterm smack down, he was willing to compromise when he agreed to extend the Bush tax rates for high income earners for the next two years. But, since then he's stated he will not agree to an extension beyond that, and he and his cohorts are ratcheting up the class warfare rhetoric leading up to 2012. It's enlightening that his ideological rigidity might be his ultimate undoing. Is he so out of touch with everyday Americans that he can't see beyond his progressive utopia to the pain his policies are inflicting? He relishes the role of a professorial lecturer enlightening the masses of their stone age dependence on fossil fuels. He theorizes of a green energy tomorrow while doing all he can to inflict enough pain through high energy costs today, to allow the uncompetitive and well subsidized green world to blossom. It's evident green energy jobs cannot survive without huge government subsidies which American taxpayers are loathe to continue.
In January 2008, Obama told the San Fransisco Chronicle, "Under my cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. They will pass that cost unto consumers." Well, since cap and trade wasn't passed while the democrats held huge majorities his first two years, he's decided to empower the EPA to do what he couldn't do through legislation. In January of 2011 the Obama administration, for the first time ever, blocked an already approved bid to build one of the largest mountaintop removal coal mines in Appalachian history. Two new EPA pollution regulations will slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost and electricity rates could skyrocket to over 23% according to a new study based on government data. He also said in 2008, "If someone wants to build a coal power plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them." That would be the ultimate result of Obama's idea of a cap and trade bill.
After the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico the administration put a moratorium on all deep water drilling, and even though the moratorium was lifted a de facto moratorium still exists. The interior departments decision to issue only a handful of permits has driven many rigs to Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, while the Gulf states have lost thousand of good paying oil industry and other ancillary jobs. Remember Obama promised to help the government of Brazil with it's offshore drilling on his March Latin American trip. He then said, "And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers." So much for energy independence, and job creation for hurting Americans. Even though he's given lip service to expanded drilling because of the political hit he's taking, he still has the Pacific Coast, Atlantic Coast, and the Eastern Gulf off limits to future energy production. A good portion of Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf is being kept under lock and key. According to the American Energy Alliance, expanding drilling in the OCS could create 1.2 million jobs nation wide and generate 8 trillion in economic output. The same narrative exists for further onshore production of both oil and natural gas which this administration is resisting.
Probably the most political move this administration has taken recently is the decision by the NLRB, "National Labor Relations Board," to sue Boeing over their decision to build a production plant in South Carolina for their new 787 Dreamliner. South Carolina is a conservative right to work state while Washington state, site of Boeings main product line is a very democrat union state. Boeing had gone ahead with the plant that would employ thousands with the understanding that the NLRB would not get involved. No jobs were taken from the state of Washington, and in reality two thousand jobs were added there for the production of the 787. If this lawsuit were to achieve, a chilling effect would be felt by all businesses considering relocation to increase competitiveness and expansion.
Preferring union interest over the interests of the country at large is not new for Obama. During the auto bankruptcies early in his administration, Obama took from the first in line preferred creditors to give to the United Auto workers which would not have happened in an ordinary bankruptcy. He has talked of increasing exports, a sure way to boost employment, but is sitting on three trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. These agreements were negotiated by the Bush administration, but of course opposed by unions. He is cynically demanding more taxpayer money be given to workers displaced by foreign competition through a Trade Adjustment Assistance expansion as a condition of these agreements. By doing this he will attempt to make the GOP look uncaring and fault them for the hold up, when it's obvious this is another payback to unions that give almost exclusively to the democrat party.
It's undisputed that Obama's political arm, "Organizing For America" was behind much of the union protests in Wisconsin early this year. The protests were in response to new GOP majorities attempt to reign in state employees collective bargaining rights through the leadership of GOP governor Scott Walker. The GOP has succeeded now that the state supreme court has ruled in favor of the new law. Had the law failed thousands of state workers would have been laid off to fill huge budget shortfalls. Apparently Obama was more concerned for the welfare of union bosses so he could grease the skids of campaign cash rather than those targeted for lay off. It is evident beyond a shadow of doubt that this administration is hurting economic growth and job creation because of ideological purity and subservience to political allies. You'd think the 2012 presidential election would be a cake walk for any republican that could articulate this. Only time will tell if a Reagan-esque figure will emerge.
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It's becoming increasingly clear how Obama intends to attack the 2012 campaign. His intentions are not honorable or befitting a sitting president. Of course he will attempt to distract the public from his huge deficits, 9% unemployment, $4.00 a gallon gasoline, and diminishing home values. The U.S. debt has grown roughly 3.7 trillion dollars in his less then three and a half years as spender in chief. The unemployment rate, which he promised wouldn't reach 8% if the stimulus was passed, is back at 9% and that stimulus bill added a trillion to the debt if you consider interest on the original 787 billion. His health care bill continues to be unpopular to the point that the latest Rasmussen poll shows 57% favor repeal while 36% do not. The media is in full "watch his back mode," as they continue to spread a narrative of a "tough on terrorist, tall dark and handsome Hollywood heart throb, that has saved our economy from depression, and is a winning the future president." As Sarah Palin once said, " Winning The Future is nothing more than a big WTF." The future looks more like generations in serfdom, saddled with higher taxes and diminished standard of living as the bill comes due for the messiah's lavish shopping spree.
He recently attempted to demagogue immigration reform on a visit to Texas, accusing republicans of wanting an alligator infested mote across our southern border. He knows immigration reform cannot pass now, but is attempting to shore up his Latino base which has shrunk recently. He will stop at no euphemism to paint his opponents as racists who use border enforcement to keep brown down. Maybe he should borrow UPS's motto, and just come out and say, "what can brown do for you if only we granted them amnesty." The problem is, he has alienated many conservative Latinos because of his recent decision to not defend the "Defense Of Marriage Act."
He invited Paul Ryan to a front row seat while accusing his recent budget of leaving autistic and Down syndrome children to fend for themselves, and hastening grandma and grandpa's death by attempting to save medicare. It's obvious where all this is going. Shouts of racism, scaring the elderly and handicapped, and painting republicans of diabolical intentions with the phrase "draconian cuts." All this is an attempt to distract from a far less then stellar economic plan that has increased government and shrunk the private sector. In his Saturday radio address he tried to walk back a bit his energy policy by giving overtures of more drilling and exploration, while also demonizing the oil companies for record profits. He understands that the American peoples disgust with gas prices is a huge negative for him, so he hopes lip service will help while not alienating his environmental left. This is evidence that his reelection is foremost on his mind, because he has always touted high energy cost as a necessary element to bring about his goal of restricting Americans mobility and increasing their dependence on mass transit and ultimately government.
Will the republicans take the bait and walk back their attempts to cut Washington's power by sticking to their promises of entitlement reform and budget cutting? Nobody knows for sure. They could easily take back the senate and the presidency by simply putting forth the numbers, and show the public where all that leads. The reality is stark, and somebody has to sound the alarm, that the present trajectory is unsustainable. It sadly appears that the 2012 elections will be won by the party that can scare the American people the most. It is also ironic the the republican party will be arguing for the sake of the collective, and the country as a whole. The democrats will try to scare certain voting blocks. There is another alternative out there somewhere. Can a candidate come forth with a pro growth, positive agenda that inspires us in American exceptionalism rather than scaring the living daylights out of us. As of yet, that candidate has not emerged. Is there another Ronald Reagan in the wings?
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Obama spoke today at Georgetown University about energy policy and rising gasoline prices. Once again he showed arrogance and condescension as he dismissed calls for more oil exploration as an unrealistic fix to the problem. He mentioned $4 gasoline prices during the 2008 elections and ridiculed the slogans like, "drill baby drill," dismissing them as election year sloganeering. His new goal is to cut our oil imports by one third over the next decade. Apparently he then intends to drill baby drill. That would mean opening up ANWR, and start approving leases for the Gulf Coast as well as the East and West Coast for off shore drilling. Maybe he should loosen regulation for American companies instead of supporting Brazilian exploration. Obviously that is not his intention. Apparently he thinks the green route and conservation is going to accomplish that. Rising gasoline prices seem to be in his wheel house for lessening dependence and encouraging alternatives. In reality all that will do is put the brakes on an economy that is dependent on affordable energy. Alternatives are no where near any type of sustainable level that would even make a dent in our energy needs. Natural gas is the closest example of a transitional cleaner burning fuel that could power our vehicles, and he's blocking exploration and extraction of it right here in America. He's right about one thing. You can drop our importation of oil by one third over ten years without loosening regulation and drilling, but he'll bankrupt many with oil driven inflation and our economy may shrink to the level of many third world countries.
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Has there ever been a president so in control, that he can be totally disengaged? Maybe his strategy is, "I'm not worried, Why should you be." Let's consider the peril. The budget battle continues as government nears another shutdown on Friday if congress doesn't pass another short term continuing resolution. The deficit could reach 1.6 trillion dollars this year. But, remember he told us not too long ago that China is becoming an economic powerhouse. Therefore they'll be able to buy more of our debt. Oil and gas prices are accelerating at break neck speed. Don't worry, it's all part of his plan. Libya is in chaos, and Japan is in crisis. Wisconsin republicans are receiving death threats, and the union thugs continue to attack the capital in Madison. All par for the course for a community organizer. What is our illustrative leader doing? Well, he played golf this weekend for the second week in a row, and I'm wondering if he's hit par for that course yet. His 61st round since becoming president. It takes time and dedication to improve your golf game. He still must be having trouble slicing left.
Saturday he spent the whole of his weekly radio address talking about, "March is Women's History month." The Japanese quake and ensuing tsunami weren't even mentioned. But, in fairness, and isn't that what womens history month is all about...fairness, he probably recorded it ahead of time to make room for golf on the weekend. Last week he addressed a White House conference on the need to stop bullying in schools. He reminded folks that he got bullied because of his big ears, and name. Apparently those big ears help him fly above the chaos and turmoil that the country is facing. And, to top it all off, he's filling out his NCAA basketball bracket today to be released tomorrow on ESPN. Don't forget about the women's bracket. It is Women's History Month. Will he pick Duke this time around? The suspense is killing me.
It gives all Americans such comfort to know that he has everything under control. Engage. Why engage? He knows that if he gets involved it signals there must be a problem and that he's worried. Should he be leading? He is leading by example. If we all just relax and enjoy life, everything will fall into place. Work, why work? He worked leading up to his inauguration, or incarnation, or whatever you want to call it. And, since many consider him the messiah he considers his presidency the seventh day, and we all know what God did on the seventh day. Work is the curse of the proletariat. Intellectual elites don't work. God forbid. Do elitists believe in God? They may believe in elected gods. These are all good questions, but seriously, elites don't work. They are, because they think, and he's thinking right now... "do I pick Duke or do I go with Ohio State." Hmmm, Ohio is a very critical state for next years election. He's probably thinking..."Go Buckeyes."
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When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, labor had just secured their most potent ally ever. For years state legislators had been giving Utopian style wage and benefit packages to their unionized state employees through the collective bargaining system. Pay back for huge donations to democrat coffers. Obama loaded more goodies to his union buddies in the stimulus, and then in the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies he gave them an even greater piece of the pie at the expense of the secured bond holders. Labor was running high. The head of SEIU was the most frequent guest at the White House through Obama's first two years in office. Federal workers salaries and benefits were exploding exponentially, as Obama added over 200 thousand new hires his first two years. Budget deficits continued to explode in both the federal and state governments. All of this was a revelation to the American people who began to see the unholy alliance between private and public sector unions and the democrat party.
The midterm elections of 2010 was more than just a revolt over deficit spending and arrogance exposed through Obama Care, the stimulus, bailouts, cap and trade, and the financial reform bill. it was a backlash against a democrat party that a vast majority of Americans saw as highly partisan, prone to class warfare, and willing to do anything to protect their most potent sugar daddy....UNIONS. It was a perfect system. The more the democrat party could empower unions, the more unions would empower democrats with ungodly campaign cash and mobilization. They were both getting fat and sassy at the expense of the taxpayer, until voters decided it was time to reign the rascals in.
Much of the attention of the 2010 elections was focused at the federal level where the GOP took over control of the house with historic gains, and increased their numbers in the senate. But, the real transfer took place in the state houses and legislatures. Twenty two state legislative chambers switched control in 2010, all in favor of the GOP. They picked up 680 state legislative seats. In the huge wave election of 1994 they picked up 472, which pales in comparison. Most post election talk was focused on the new advantage in redistricting, but not many talked about the effect it would have on public employee unions. Republicans now hold 29 governorships to the democrats twenty with one independent.
The turmoil in Wisconsin shows that this was a pivotal battle that will be repeated in many other states that have elected GOP governors and state legislators. Wisconsin is a swing state and essential for Obama's reelection. Why else would he and his union boss friends like Richard Trumpka head of the AFL-CIO be so personally involved in what happened there? Trumpka has acknowledged that he visits the White House 2 or 3 times a week and talks to someone in the White House every day. We can all see where this presidents priorities lie. The mobilization of people from all over the country to Wisconsin shows this is a line in the sand state, and Governor Walker has taken his bold foot and rubbed that line out. Now we see where the left comes from, as death threats and intimidation spew forth from the union members and their allies. It's instructive to note that the media's response to these threats and the intimidating demonstrations was muted, while they slandered Tea Party rallies that were unusually civil.
Governor Walkers resolve to stand firm can do nothing but help his state as this new law should attract business back and increase employment, while giving local governments flexibility in deficit reduction which is essential for long term fiscal health. It will ironically save many of those union jobs that were set for elimination if this law hadn't passed. Now we will began to see the dominoes fall as state after state where republicans now have legislative control began to reign in union benefits and collective bargaining. The democrats fatal mistake was exposing themselves for whom they actually are, by openly rewarding allies and giving their back hand to the majority of tax paying voters. The irony of the democrats overreach in this unholy alliance with unions, has resulted in a mindset to dramatically reduce the influence and power of the very ones they hoped to protect.
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When Obama told Bill O'Reilly that he hadn't moved to the center since the mid term elections, that was probably the only 100% true statement he made during that interview. Today he spoke to governors at the White House, and continued his smoke and mirrors routine. He solidified his socialist bonefides when he said, shown here, "While the wealthiest among us keep or get more tax breaks we're not doing the right thing." His continued assault on the wealthy makes him the master of the class warfare game. When in reality the fair share that the wealthy already pay is astounding. In 2008 the top 1% of taxpayers payed 35.02% of all personal income taxes collected. The top 5% paid 58.72%.... The top 10% paid 69.94%....the top 25% paid 86.34%, and the top 50% paid 97.30%. That hardly looks like those greedy rich are getting richer on the backs of the poor. You may say, "they should pay more, because they have the money." Of course they do, and because they're a small minority it is politically palatable to make them the democrats whipping boy.
On the other hand the president also said, shown here, "I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon." He again tried to make the case of shared sacrifice by stating that he had frozen the wages of federal employees for two years. That is as absurd as his proposal to freeze discretionary spending for five years after he'd increased it 25% over the last two years. Federal employees have been on the fast track to wage and benefit Utopia for at least five years now, and it was accelerated when Obama was sworn in. The number of federal employees that make $150.000 or more has doubled under Obama's watch, and Obama has hired over 200,000 new federal workers since he took office. His stand for public employees collective bargaining rights is an obvious overture to those that support him politically and give millions of taxpayer dollars back to the democrat party. It's an unholy alliance that must be broken to get the state budgets under control. It's clear where he's coming from. He's a big government liberal, that wants to redistribute income from the private sector, to his political allies, which in turn funnels back to him and the democrats in massive campaign donations. All the time he's growing the size and scope of government, so that government and it's workers take a much larger piece of the pie. In the meantime the private sectors piece of the pie shrinks, and those, as Obama likes to call them, "rich fat cats," who are the private sector job creators and the biggest contributors to the socialists' Ponsi scheme to redistribute wealth through income taxes, stop creating jobs or move off shore. Bill O'Reilly got the master of disguise to admit that he really hasn't moved to the center, but still wants your money to redistribute.
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