Paranoid Messiah

This idiocy started with President Messiah, now his loyal subjects at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have gotten in on the act. We’ve certainly come along way from when Mrs. Bill Clinton screamed that it was their right to dissent during a well-publicized temper tantrum when Bush was president.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition to express outrage at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for saying he wanted President Obama to “fail.”"Jobs, health care, our place in the world — the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed,” the petition reads. “Stand strong against Rush Limbaugh’s Attacks — sign our petition, telling Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama.”

The petition comes after Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill Friday that they need to quit listening to Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.

On Monday, Limbaugh shot back at Obama, opening his show by saying, “I’m the man you should not be listening to, according to President Obama.”

“I think [Obama] wants me to fail,” Limbaugh said. “He’s more frightened of me than he is of John Boehner, which doesn’t say much for our party.”

Time for the President Messiah to grow up just a little bit. Rush Limbaugh always has and always will be an influential conservative talk show host but for President Messiah to single Rush out (and Sean Hannity as he and his racist pastors have done in the recent past) shows that the current leader of the free world is more than a little insecure about his agenda and his ability to persuade the majority of the country that his race towards socialism is the direction this country needs to be headed in.

Why should it be news that Rush Limbaugh wants President Messiah and his Politburo in Washington to fail? Every American who loves their liberty, freedom and self-determination should want President Messiah to fail because it’s obvious that his intent for the next four years is to wage an all-out assault in everything The Founders intended our country to be.

By the way, part of the Washington Politburo’s “change” agenda includes either reviving the “Fairness Doctrine” or coming up ith some “local content” rule in hopes of stifling popular free-market voices of dissent. If this passes, I’m sure President Messiah won’t be able to sign it fast enough. At this point, we might as well just rename Washington D.C. Leningrad. After all, it would be a much more appropriate name for a city where our national leaders are working every day to erase more and more of our freedoms. And the Russians aren’t using the name anymore.

[Then again, if Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Levine,Bennett, et al had so much influence, how did Obama get elected? Keep screaming about them! Maybe you will validate their importance . . .]

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Congress Is About to Destroy an Entire Industry—And Shaft the Poor On Top of It

Very few people are aware of it, but February tenth–if something doesn’t change–will be bankruptcy day for the American thrift store industry.

Now, I suppose “industry” may be a rather strong term for the hundreds of thousands of small shops nationwide that specialize in re-selling used items, but you’ll get the point in a minute.

You’ve seen them, I’m sure. Many of us even shop at them regularly. Some are large, like Goodwill and Salvation Army, and others are small entrepreneurial efforts by industrious individuals filling a need in a low-income neighborhood.

But as of February tenth, all of them will find business much much more difficult to do.

That’s the day that the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act passed by Congress goes into effect.

Under this law, it will be illegal to sell any children’s product that has not been tested to ensure that it complies with the new limitations on lead and other chemicals. All materials that have not been so tested will be assumed to be hazardous and therefore illegal to sell.

That means that either your ordinary resale shop owner tests everything (which would be extremely expensive), or he doesn’t sell them. Non-profits, as the CPSC has recently clarified, are actually exempt from the testing requirements–but are still subject to prosecution if they are found to be selling products that violate the new standards.

Without some form of intervention before the law goes into effect, re-sellers of children’s products will either go out of business or become criminals.

It seems a rather inopportune time in our economic history to remove the source of children’s products for the truly needy, not to mention forcing small businesses out of business, and onto the unemployment rolls.

Your government at work, boys and girls.

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Democrats Behaving Badly: Baltimore Mayor Indicted for Stealing from the Poor

Proving that “the Chicago Way” isn’t limited to Chicago, the Democratic mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, was indicted Friday on 12 counts of theft, misappropriation, perjury, and other interesting crimes.

While no Bernie Madoff, Sheila Dixon is accused of a series of crimes that are distasteful, tacky, and cruel. In essence, the indictment claims that she took various gifts from people having business with the city and, let’s say, “forgot” to mention them on her financial disclosure forms. (Did I mention that she was dating one of the gift-givers involved?)

But that’s not really the bad part. The bad part is when she allegedly took custody of gift cards intended for the poor children of Baltimore–wait for it–during the Christmas season and used them to buy electronic goodies for herself at Circuit City, Toys Backwards-R Us, and Best Buy. And before you jump to her defense, the indictment states that she paid for part of the goods with the gift cards–and the balance on her personal credit card.

Thus, we would seem to be able to prove both that she did it and that she is not very bright.

Following the lead of the world-record-holder for chutzpah in political office, Rod Blagojevich, Dixon not only is not resigning, she is essentially ignoring the situation in order to devote her energies to working for the people of Baltimore. (Whenever a Democrat says he or she is “getting back to work for the people,” you know something fishy’s going on.)

While not as interesting as the breathtaking corruption of the Illinois governor, this episode promises to at least be in the running as a Top Political Scandal of 2009–Congratulations, Baltimore, for breaking out of the pack so early in the season!

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The messiah Meets Algore

Noted Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist Algore met with The Messiah today to talk about the urgency of “attacking” global warming in the middle of a raging snow storm and temperatures falling into the teens.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday attacking global climate change is a “matter of urgency” that will create jobs as he got advice from Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the issue.In remarks to reporters, Obama made clear he would adopt an aggressive approach to global warming when he takes over the White House on January 20.

He and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met for nearly two hours with former Vice President Gore at Obama’s presidential transition office in Chicago.

“All three of us are in agreement that the time for delay is over, the time for denial is over,” Obama said.

And of course if he were being truthful, the next sentence out of The Messiah’s mouth would have been “And in the spirit of not being in denial and coming clean on the issue, Al Gore and myself will admit that man made “global warming” is nothing more than a grand scam that Al has milked for tens of million of dollars in personal wealth and thousands of scientists have reaped hundreds of billions in research dollars from.”

Because, of course, anyone who is paying attention knows that we’ve been in a global cooling period for better than a decade now — one of those cyclical periods of regular good-ole warming and cooling that have been happening on the earth for literally hundreds of millions of years. Does anyone who has lived in the Midwest (or even Florida) for the last 12-14 years believe that the planet has actually been warming in the last decade or so?

But warming or cooling, it matters not to the “global warming” scam artists. The new tag line of their ever-evolving scam appears in the first sentence of this liberal media piece: We are beginning the transition from calling the scam “global warming” to calling it “global climate change” which is more all-encompassing and allows charlatans like Algore (and The Messiah) to claim that all these darned wacky up and down gyrations in the temperature are caused by “global warming” that us evil bastards otherwise known as humans are responsible for. This way, whether the natural temperature fluctuation is up or down, they’re covered. And based on this utter BS, expect The Messiah to make the pursuit of capitalism as difficult as possible in the name of Algore’s pet scam. Continue reading . .

No Automaker Bailout

A few weeks ago we thought this might be a dead issue. But it seems that the General Secretary Bush and his Politburo of Democrats are pushing hard to transform the U.S. auto industry into the same type of quasi-governmental agency as the U.S. Postal Service. We know how well the Postal Service works and we can no doubt expect the same from the auto industry as lorded over by a “car czar”.

From the government’s perspective, this is a hell of a deal. A big chunk of control over the U.S. automakers for a mere $15 billion (Or is that $40 billion?). Problem is that everyone concedes that this “chump change” (compared to the $7 trillion the central planners have committed to the rest of the economy)is just a down payment on what will end up being hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars with no guarantee that this money won’t just be pissed down a rat hole.

The government has been dictating to the automakers how cars have to be built for decades and this was the result in the 80s:

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FYI: Jack Black Mocking Christ

For those who consider themselves religious, you may be interested to know that there is a “Funny or Die” video gaining some fame on the Internet in which a group of Hollywood actors express their clever disdain for the supporters of California’s Proposition 8. In the clip, actor Jack Black takes the role of “Jesus” to scold supporters of the California amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Rather than say too much about it (thus drawing more undeserved attention to it), I will merely let you see it for yourself, and then determine what to do.

I think “the right thing” is obvious in this case.

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Liberal Chicken Little Can’t Wait for the Constitution

On Morning Joe, disgraced CBS “newsman” Dan Rather opined that it might be a good idea to inaugurate Barack Obama on December first.

That seems to make perfect sense in the atmosphere in which we find ourselves these days. After all, if we don’t require any qualifications from our Senators, our Secretary of State, or our president, why should a pesky little thing like the legal election of the president get in the way of our desperate thirst to turn everything upside down as quickly as possible?

For those who don’t know why this is a ridiculous suggestion, let me spell it out for you.

First of all, there is the slight problem of the fact that–despite his cute little sign, and no matter how loudly he proclaims otherwise–Barack Obama is not the president-elect yet.

Barack Obama calls himself the “president-elect” because a portion of the electoral process is completed, and he has won that aspect of it (also because he has something of an obsession with style over substance.) However, under the law, he will not be the “President-Elect” until December 15, when the Electoral College votes and (presumably) declares him to be the winner.

Moreover, according to the 24th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States (a quaint little document you might want to familiarize yourself with), the outgoing President remains President until January 20th of the year following the general election.

And to put to rest the feverish imaginings of those who think we are in the worst situation the US has ever before seen, let me remind you that both Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to wait four months between their elections and their inaugurations.

And those were genuinely bad times.

So, it would be a good idea for the blabbering idiots in the media to stop talking for a few more months, until their Emperor takes his throne and they get to say anything they want to.

Until then, someone get Dan Rather a copy of the Constitution for Christmas.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Well almost. Perhaps later on today. And still the question has yet to be answered: How is this woman any more qualified to be in charge of our foreign policy than, say, Alfred E. Neuman? What, me worry?

President-elect Barack Obama today will formally announce a national security team that is led by his one-time chief Democratic rival and includes a top member of President Bush’s cabinet — a daring gamble on an eclectic group of personalities to confront a turbulent world.Obama plans to introduce the entire team at a press conference in Chicago scheduled to begin at 10:40 a.m. eastern time. Sen. Hillary Clinton traveled to Chicago to be introduced as Secretary of State, ending for good the bitter rivalry that blossomed during the long Democratic primary. As Obama’s top diplomat, Clinton will be the face of his efforts to remake the country’s foreign policy.

Let’s go over the resume here:

Goldwater girl turned commie hippie Saul Alinsky-worshiping freak show with gigantic Coke-botttle-bottom glasses; Black Panther lawyer intern; Vietnam War protester; opportunistic political wife; crooked lawyer; extremely lucky novice cattle futures trader; risk-free, no money down real estate developer; ever-suffering wife of a philandering husband who “stood by her man” for the promise of future political payoffs; friend of Indonesian bankers and Columbian drug dealers; marketer of the most lucrative bed and breakfast in the world — the Lincoln Bedroom; ex-First Lady of the United States (which incidentally, makes Laura Bush as qualified to be Secretary of State as she is); screwer-upper of what was supposed to be the crowning achievement of the Clinton presidency — universal health care AND — Whew! — junior senator from New York. Did I miss anything?

Well, now it’s pretty much set. We have a Clinton third term headed by a wet-behind-the-ears stuffed shirt named Barack Oabama with a buffoonish court jester as veep. How does the Chinese curse go? May you live in interesting times? Well, the Chinese couldn’t have wished anymore “interesting times” on us than we are in for in the next four years.

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Let’s Rename it Citi-Bailout Field

I was more than a little annoyed to find out that Citigroup — the recipient of $45 billion of the taxpayer’s largess, is still planning on going ahead with its comittment to a 20-year $400 million deal for the naming rights to the New York Mets’ new stadium.

It’s nice to know that these bailouts — now exceeding $7 trillion — are working so well. Fantastic! We’ve now nationalized half the economy, why not just go for the whole $14 trillion, comrades?

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The “We’ll be working out the details” Economic Plan

As has happened every Saturday since he was anointed, the sky parted, the wind was still and the soon-to-be Dear Leader, The Messiah of our nation descended through parted clouds to deliver wisdom via YouTube. As an anxious nation listened, the Lord Most High spoke…… utter gibberish, as usual. This time the gibberish was a long-awaited message on the economy.

Yes, a “new direction, new ideas and new reform” from the old Clinton team.

Perhaps the most absurd part of “Your Weekly Address from the President-elect” (Thank you for taking the time to “address” your subjects, oh Lord Most High) was where Obama promised to “create” 2.5 million jobs in the next two years quickly followed by this: Continue reading . . .