The International Crisis that Biden Talked About

February 15, 2009 at 11:52 PM (General, political)

Back on the campaign trail, gaff-a-day Biden talked about an “international crisis” that would test Mr. Obama within the first six months. He claimed that we would think them wrong but to stick with them because they will be right.  Quite a few people have speculated as to what that “international crisis” might be. I’m no different. There are so many options to choose from:

  • Iran’s nuclear capability
  • Iraq pull-out
  • Pakistan and the anticipated moves of Obama regarding crossing over into Pakistan from Afghanistan to hunt down Obama with or without Pakistan’s permission
  • North Korea’s nuclear capability and the ability now for them to launch medium and long-range missiles
  • Al Qaeda’s missions around the world to strike at us through the innocent

The list could just go on since every day there is another item to add to the list. But what’s not been discussed is our current economic crisis which is, in fact, international in nature. And, what’s more important in this international crisis is that every country (with exception of the US until now) has had a nationalized banking system. Now we, America, have a nationalized banking system that makes us much like the rest of the world. Our government has invested heavily and without many strings, in our country’s largest banks.

Now, I’m not the sharpest tack in the box when it comes to economics, but it seems to me that the reason this whole thing is so global is because every country’s economy was nationalized and globalized. Had countries not nationalized their banking systems, whole governments would not be having to sink funds into the private sector banks and businesses. Had governments not linked their economies together as Europe has done with the EU, they would not be suffering nearly as bad as they are. Our country is suffering because we’re forced to back every country’s ventures in some way or another, either militarily or economically, or socially.

I’m not espousing xenophobia But what I am espousing is the old phrase, “charity begins at home”.

We have to take care of our own houses – our economic house and our governmental house. Before we go spending hundreds of billions of dollars on other countries, some of which is in this spendulous bill, we need to concentrate on the needs here in our own country. This spendulous bill of $787 billion dollars (more than $1.3 trillion before it is even half paid off) does nothing serious about “stimulating” the US economy. And, to add to this, Mr. Obama (and to be fair, Mr. Bush) both began the process of nationalizing our economy. I believe Mr. Bush simply played into the hands of a stupid treasury secretary who had skunked him about the true nature of the problem and helped to manufacture the extreme situation. Nevertheless, TARP I ends at Mr. Bush’s doorstep and no other. But Mr. Obama has compounded, with the aid of a Socialist liberal agenda of the Democrat-controlled Congress and Senate, the already troubling situation that Mr. Bush’s administration began. Mr. Geithner, the new Administration’s treasury secretary, spouted a significant amount of non-speak last Tuesday and has absolutely no idea which direction to turn in order to undo the damage already done. This speaks quite clearly to his ineptitude and his lack of qualifications to handle the position he has been placed in.

Mr. Obama and Mr. Geithner will continue to nationalize our country’s banking system and, as can be readily believed, Democrat senators and representatives seem to have absolutely no problem with this occurring (as evidenced today on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopolous) where the woman representative being interviewed (sorry I didn’t catch her name) specifically said she had no problem with nationalization. This is a purely Socialist/Marxist philosphy. In addition, they will begin the process of nationalizing otherwise private businesses such as these private banking institutions that remain private in order to mandate how much money one can make. This, again, is a Socialist/Marxist philosophy. He might as well invite Hugo Chavez to be on his cabinet.

Before the November election, true conservatives saw easily through Mr. Obama’s words to the Socialist/Marxist agenda he really seeks to institute in this country. Newsweek echoed that sentiment when it placed on its cover two hands shaking saying something like, “welcome to Socialism”.  What’s really actually surprising is that Newsweek would even comment on the matter since they are an extremely liberal news magazine. However, don’t think that Newsweek has suddenly changed fence sides. They commented that this was a good thing. But then again, what liberal magazine wouldn’t espouse Socialism as a good thing?

Had Mr. Obama and the Democrats voted to give a tax refund purposed to assist with the mortgage/lending crisis, most Americans would have applauded and cheered him as having made the correct decision. Facts are that most Americans can’t get any form of lending because the vast majority of us don’t have credit scores exceeding 720 which is the bottom line of who gets loans right now. (Basically, you can’t get a loan unless you don’t really need it. I certainly can’t get one right now. I’m in the same boat as most every other American when it comes to personal debt.) Instead, the Democrats voted to spend money on projects, most of which will do nothing to stimulate our economy in the near term, nor even in the long term. They’re spending money on projects that will only increase our national debt; institute government social projects, give money to groups like ACORN (over $4 billion available to them and we all know how they “help” with elections now, don’t we?); medical records mandates which will take away you and your physician’s decision-making by mandating who gets what medical care based on cost and age; mandating you turn over your medical records to build this massive database without giving you the opportunity to “opt out” so that you can maintain your right to privacy (and where will that end?); and many other so-called projects that have nothing to do with infrastructure re-building, stimulating the economy, or helping Americans who did the right thing and only bought what they could afford, to stay in their homes.

Personally, I think this international crisis that Biden was talking about is this economic “stimulus” package that will do absolutely nothing to stimulate the economy. Even the OMB says it won’t do what’s needed. And, what’s needed is for everyone to get their own economies in order and for our government to stop spending money it doesn’t have. We all just have to live within our personal means and stop asking for handouts from Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam has to stop asking for handouts and loans from other countries and has to stop giving money to other countries with their own hands out. The vicious cycle just has to end and we have to be big enough to say, “it’s going to hurt badly, but it will be the best for us to stop all this madness”.

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Some Common Sense At Last

February 12, 2009 at 2:57 PM (Constitutional, political)

Senator Gregg, who was Obama’s second choice for Commerce Secretary, has just withdrawn his name from consideration. Of paramount importance in this decision was Obama’s mandate that the 2010 census be placed under White House purview. This, of course, should never be done because it would do much to politicize the census and the data could be unfairly manipulated to sway the membership of both house and senate to Democrat majority indefinitely. This is not sensible in a two party system, let alone in a federal republic with democratic principles.

What does this mean to all conservatives? It means that we will have a staunch voice in the Senate going forward for spending controls that the Democrat-controlled congress and senate would love to be able to quash.

From Senator Gregg’s office, the following statement was released:

Judd Gregg abruptly pulls out of the process of becoming Commerce Secretary.

I want to thank the President for nominating me to serve in his Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce. This was a great honor, and I had felt that I could bring some views and ideas that would assist him in governing during this difficult time. I especially admire his willingness to reach across the aisle.

However, it has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census there are irresolvable conflicts for me. Prior to accepting this post, we had discussed these and other potential differences, but unfortunately we did not adequately focus on these concerns. We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy.

Obviously the President requires a team that is fully supportive of all his initiatives.

I greatly admire President Obama and know our country will benefit from his leadership, but at this time I must withdraw my name from consideration for this position.

As we move forward, I expect there will be many issues and initiatives where I can and will work to assure the success of the President’s proposals. This will certainly be a goal of mine.

Kathy and I also want to specifically thank Governor Lynch and Bonnie Newman for their friendship and assistance during this period. In addition we wish to thank all the people, especially in New Hampshire, who have been so kind and generous in their supportive comments.

As a further matter of clarification, nothing about the vetting process played any role in this decision. I will continue to represent the people of New Hampshire in the United States Senate.

I am very thankful that this didn’t work out because it tells me that Senator Judd Gregg will not compromise his principles just to have a cabinet position and that those of us who are conservatives can continue to enjoy at least one staunch republican who will stand up for conservative values against the onslaught of the unbridled Democrats who will surely spend us into oblivion.

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His First 2 Weeks

February 5, 2009 at 9:06 AM (General, political)

Now that Obama has been officially installed as president (even though question remains as to his Constitutional eligibility and more than 30 cases have or are being heard across this country), what do you think of his performance in the first two weeks:

This poll will be active for one week only. Be sure to tell all your friends…..

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The Wedding Is Off!

February 4, 2009 at 12:18 PM (General, political)
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You remember the in the movies how either the bride or groom gets left at the altar? Well, the groom in this case is Obama and the bride is the dominant liberal mass media (aka the White House Press Corps). The gloves have come off between the press secretary Robert Gibbs and the press who have their digs in the basement levels of the White House who grill him every day.

Needless to say, Robert Gibbs has a very real tendency to come into the press briefings completely unprepared for what he’s going to be asked about. I’m actually quite pleased with this little scene. It tells me a couple of things:

1) The actual press hounds who live, eat, and breath the White House press life are no more married to Obama’s administration than I am; and

2) Sooner or later, Gibbs is really going to screw up; and

3) The dominant liberal mass media (Rush calls them “drive by media”) are eventually going to tire of not getting a straight answer from Obama’s lackey, Robert Gibbs.

I can say all this with complete confidence because I have been going to www.whitehouse.gov and reviewing the daily press briefings. It’s pretty sad stuff to see. Mr. Gibbs has had an obvious lack of public speaking; has difficulty speaking to large groups (let alone small groups); cannot complete a sentence without stumbling and re-tracing what he said then starting over; gets miffed when a press hound pursues a line of questioning; and obviously has no clue what’s really going on in the White House because he’s not getting the information he needs to be well-enough informed to entertain any question put to him.

His favorite response seems to be, “I’ll look into that and get back to you”; however, I have yet to read where he has actually followed up on anything and reported back to the press corps in the White House. If he is following up, he is not being the “transparent” press secretary that he is supposed to be. There are no follow-ups to anything put to him in the transcripts of the press briefings, nor in subsequent press briefings. So, either he’s avoiding coming up with an answer or he simply doesn’t want to admit that he is so totally not worth spit when it comes to being a press secretary. A press secretary is supposed to be able to entertain any question put to him/her. His predecessors certainly were.

If the dominant liberal mass media doesn’t start getting real answers concerning this lie of a “stimulus” bill; the escalation of conflict in Afghanistan; the shifting of military priorities; the tax scandals that seem to be now plaguing all of the nominees and still dogging Geithner (yes – the press is continuing to pursue this one!), they will turn on Obama like a great white shark on a bee-line for the new seal pups that are the White House cabinet members.

Picture it now – the great white is circling, coming in closer and closer, but deep down in the ocean and it sees this dark form near the surface of the water – it’s a seal pup named Obama (or maybe Gibbs). The shark shifts into high speed and comes up from beneath the form and launches itself and the seal pup out of the water all the while cutting death strikes into the sides of the baby seal. Nature will take its course. The press is already becoming disenchanted with Obama’s people and, before long, they will go after the ‘One’ himself.

Maybe then they’ll decide to finally vett this person whom they have so lovingly placed upon a pedestal and proclaimed to be the governmental equivalent of the Messiah. Even Jesus was flailed and ridiculed (and eventually crucified).

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