In another back-room deal this week labor leaders agreed to a compromise with the White House health care plan on taxing employee insurance plans. Non-union workers with expensive health care plans would start paying this tax in 2013. The deal brokered with unions would push that date out to 2018.
Actually, this is another example of Americans not standing up to leadership that purports to represent them. Like lost sheep they continue to be led around by liberal politicians and union thugs. Voters enter the voting booths ignorant and uninformed basing their vote on poll numbers and scare tactics as opposed to facts. Employees join unions after being brow beaten into believing union leadership will be representing the employees’ best interest. In fact, union leadership is looking out for their own best interest. Liberal politics and unions are joined at the hip.
Where is the Obama campaign promise of no tax increases for middle-class income? He must have meant no tax increase during his term in office.
Can we get another shout-out from Congressman Joe Wilson to the POTUS, “You lie!”
As the world struggles with global warming the U.S. is held in an icy grip.
- Florida is in a fever pitch trying to save their crops from freezing
- In the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Minnesota wind chills will dip to -20s, -30s, and -40s
- Cold air will bring snow to Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee
- In the Northeast temps are expected to be 20 degrees below average by Saturday
- Montana, Wyoming and Colorado will have high temps in the 0s and 10s with wind chills way below zero
Let’s not forget the United Kingdom. With more than a foot of snow Britian is digging out from the coldest winter in a century.
Icy, cold weather is also hitting China. Energy demands are straining coal supplies as unusual cold brings snow and sleet across large areas of the country.
It’s getting difficult for global warming gloom and doomers to raise a bead of sweat in all this frigid weather.
On Christmas Day there was a terrorist attack onboard an airliner with a concealed explosive device in the underwear of a 23-year-old Nigerian. He had been added to a terrorism watch list in November but not to the no-fly list.
When an airliner lifts off a runway all earthly governments, laws and policies are left behind. Airborne passengers are left to their own wits and survival skills when confronted with a degenerate, subhuman lowlife determined to destroy an airliner with everyone onboard.
“This was one individual literally of thousands that fly and thousands of flights every year. And he was stopped before any damage could be done. I think the important thing to recognize here is that once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have.”
~Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
Just what exactly is that supposed to mean? You have someone on a security watch list whose own family turns him in for suspicious activity, apparently has no luggage and pays cash for a ticket and he is still allowed onboard a plane. Security failed miserably Secretary Napolitano! Yes, Madam Secretary, everything happened that should have. The passengers took security matters into their own hands and subdued this moron without the help from Homeland Security. They should be rewarded for having the discipline not to stomp his face into a piece of pulp.
As terrorists continually conjure up more ingenious ways to smuggle explosives onboard airliners policies will have to adapt. Currently we bend, swerve, and dodge with every new, evil terrorist whim. After the shoe bomber incident passengers had to remove their shoes. Then there were no liquids allowed while boarding. Will we now have to remove our underwear before boarding? How else will they determine the presence of suspicious material?
So let’s ponder a real unnerving thought. What happens when a terrorist smuggles the first AED (anal explosive device) onboard an airliner? Will cavity searches become the norm? If so, chalk up another win for al-Qaeda whose rank and file will be bent over (pun intended) with laughter.
No, it’s not your local jail. This group of miscreants are your political representatives. They did not ascend to political power because they were nice people. Americans voted these politicians into office placing trust in their judgement that they would always put their constituents interest ahead of any personal agenda or gain.
At 1:00 AM Monday morning the people’s trust was compromised after the health care reform bill was passed by the Senate. The back room deals in order to reach the 60 votes needed are nothing less than shameful if not downright contemptible. Democrats call it compromise. Republicans call it bribery. Constituents can call it skullduggery.
“I don’t know if there is a senator that doesn’t have something in this bill that was important to them. And if they don’t have something in it important to them, then it doesn’t speak well of them.”
~Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev)
What happens to the states whose Senators were not savvy enough to broker a back-room deal? Let’s not forget Republicans that were completely left out of any negotiations. Are they the losers? Yes, those states will have to pick up the tab that did not have a Senator with the shrewdness to threaten a nay vote unless Harry Reid and his gang of cronies sweetened the pot.
Florida Flim Flam: A deal to grandfather Medicare advantage enrollees in Florida – apprx $5 Billion.
Louisiana Purchase: $300 Million in Medicaid funding for Louisiana.
Cornhusker Kickback: The Federal Government will now fund Nebraska’s new Medicaid recipients forever…yes folks, forever!!
~Senator John Mccain on Twitter
How about some more.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, gained some medicaid help as well as $10 billion for his favorite project of community health centers throughout the country. Sen. Chris Dodd will be building a new hospital in Connecticut for a mere $100 million.
Dare we ask if anyone has read this entire new bill? Doubtful. If so, there is sure to be more hidden deals discovered among the 2,000 plus pages of this abomination.
Swindlers, shysters, scoundrels, scallywags and scam artists. Enough said.
Minnesota’s favorite comic-relief Senator was at it again yesterday. Democratic senior leadership needed a patsy to preside over the Senate and chose Al Franken with orders to stifle any hint of opposition. While Senator Joe Lieberman was offering amendments to the health care bill debacle he used up his 10 minutes and requested an additional moment to finish. In an unusual move Franken refused.
“In my capacity as the senator from Minnesota, I object,” Franken said.
“Really?” said Lieberman. “OK.”
Franken was merely carrying out orders from his senior senators.
With the majority of Americans opposed to this bill it’s no surprise that Democrats will use every means at their disposal to push and rush this horrendous piece of legislation through Congress.
It bears repeating - the majority of Americans are opposed to this health care reform bill.
Is it any small wonder that Democrats want to ram this bill through as fast as possible? When you are the majority party and your personal political agenda is such that passing a government control bill just because you can is the crux of your argument then it is imperative that the people take back control.
Most Americans realize this is government control masquerading as health care reform and they will vote their “appreciation” using the people’s control in next year’s election.
Which is it, global warming or climate change? We need Al Gore to provide further clarification on these phenomena. Why is it that we only hear about global warming during a heat wave in July? As we go into December with cold, snow and blustery winds it’s suddenly climate change. Has Al Gore invented the concept of climate change just as he claims to have invented the internet?
Let’s review. During the summer it gets hot and throughout the winter months it is cold. I’d have to call that climate change. There are some motorists that were stranded on the New York State Thruway early Friday morning snowbound in their vehicles. They must have been hoping for some of Al Gore’s global warming while awaiting rescue. Where’s Al when you need him?
Tomorrow I’m off to shred some climate change with my snowboard on my favorite mountain. I don’t want to see or hear about any global warming while I’m doing it.
On Sunday the President held a pep rally for the Democratic caucus. Obama’s sidekick, Joe Biden, also attended. This meeting was for a select few to push their latest round of government control disguised as health care reform. So much for transparency and bipartisonship.
“Ten, 20, 30, 40 years from now, people are going to look back on what this Congress did.”
~Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
Not only will people look back but they will still be paying for what Congress did.
“We’ve got to get this done to demonstrate that we can get something this substantial done, even in a difficult economy and in a difficult political environment.”
~Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (Pa.)
Get this done just to prove they can get something done. That’s not a comforting thought.
The big push is to get this oppressive, behemoth, 2,000-plus page bill passed before the end of the year. What’s the hurry if it’s not right, if it hasn’t been read, if the loopholes have not been closed?
Obama would have everyone believe that the Senate is close to reaching a deal and passing this bill. That’s not the case or he would not have had to gather the Democratic faithful together and give them a Presidential scolding during an unscheduled trip to Congress on a Sunday. This is a bill that Obama expected to be passed last August and his growing angst is showing.
The contentious obstacles in this bill could spell doom for its passage. That would be good news for the majority of Americans that oppose this government controlled program.
When West Point cadets learned that the Commander-in-Chief would be delivering a major speech on Afghanistan at the United States Military Academy they probably never realized it would be an exercise in fighting insomnia. As TV cameras panned the audience cadets were seen in various states of consciousness. The Commander-in-Sleep was working his magic mesmerizing the crowd with his canned, teleprompting message. There was nothing new. The main stream media had already covered all the pertinent points that day prior to the speech.
You can be sure that if America saw those nodding cadets then the Military Academy leadership also took notice and probably doled out a little extra-curricula disciplinary action.
This speech lacked passion and enthusiasm. As the President continued on it appeared that even he was bored. Was it me or the lighting? Obama looked like a cast member from Michael Jackson’s video “Thriller”.
Those Taliban and al-Qaeda forces that listened and managed to stay awake had to be equally bored but somewhat pleased of the announced departure date of American troops. Maybe this speech was a new Obama administration secret weapon. Any future enemy forces that are captured will be subjected to a new enhanced interrogation method, repeatedly listening to this speech until they give up the information needed.
It will have the enemy longing for the good old days of waterboarding.
Those that are responsible for releasing a menace on society must bear the moral burden when clemency kills.
Four police officers were gunned down and killed last Sunday morning representing a tragedy that should never have happened. Maurice Clemmons specifically targeted the Lakewood officers inside a local coffee shop south of Seattle, Washington. This convicted felon had a long history of living outside normal civilized society.
Granting clemency is a failure in judgement on all individuals involved. There are many people that invest a lot of valuable time in order to convict a felon. This would include members of the jury, prosecutors, the judge and a myriad of others that support the judicial system.
Mike Huckabee as Governor of Arkansas had an obligation and responsibility to keep Maurice Clemmons behind bars. He demonstrated utter disregard for the public safety in which he was entrusted. There is no amount of defense, no comforting apologies or flowery rhetoric that will disguise this irresponsibility that he so blatantly chose to support.
Why are criminals released under the false pretense that they have been rehabilitated, that they are now nice and no threat to society whatsoever? The list is long of parole boards and governors releasing criminals only to have them prey on society with robbing, raping, and murdering the innocent in the name of giving someone a break.
This was Huckabee’s downfall during his last Presidential bid. Either you’re tough on criminals or you feel sorry for them and grant clemency. Is now a good time to mention Wayne DuMond? Another criminal from Huckabee’s clemency campaign who went on to rape and murder Carol Sue Shields in Missouri.
Mike Huckabee’s past is coming back to haunt him over and over. This effectively seals his fate from ever running for public office again. Any political aspirations are history. Not even Chuck Norris will be able to pull him from this precipice.
The question now is how many more innocent victims must fall prey to clemency releases?
Maurice Clemmons is now dead. Shot to death by a police officer trying to apprehend him. For all you bleeding hearts that swoon over criminals, if there had been no clemency in Clemmons case he would still be sitting safe and sound in an Arkansas prison receiving his three hots and a cot. The rest of us will have to be satisfied that he received a just punishment and millions of dollars, so they say, will not have to be spent on death penalty appeals.
When battle-hardened Navy SEALs bring in a known terrorist and then face court martial charges this country has a serious problem when it comes to winning a war. This particular group of SEALs were successful in hunting down and capturing, alive, Ahmed Hashim Abed. In 2004 Abed, the alleged planner, was responsible for helping to ambush and murder four Blackwater security guards then mutilating and dragging their bodies through the streets of Fallujah before hanging two of the burned bodies from a bridge.
Three Navy SEALs now face various charges after apprehending Abed to include dereliction of duty, willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.
Back in June 2005 Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell and his team mates faced a politically correct conundrum when three goat herders compromised their position on a barren mountain top in Afghanistan during a secret operation to capture a high-ranking Taliban leader . The goat herders were set free only to notify local Taliban that quickly pursued the SEALs and eventually resulted in the deaths of 19 warriors.
The problem lies with the lily-livered, spineless political leadership of this country that has a problem calling war - war. A leadership that sees fit to impose restricting rules of engagement on our troops that aids and abets our enemies. These ROE’s burden and hinder our warriors’ ability to overpower and annihalate enemy combatants.
Citizens of America must pause and reflect on which side our country’s leadership stands and supports. This warped and perverted PC mindset has allowed this war to go on for many years now. It is a sick political correctness that urges one’s stomach contents to creep up into the back of the throat.
There appears to be no tolerance for military success when brave men risk their lives and are then punished over a bloody lip. Once upon a time it was acceptable to crush and destroy our enemies, now we coddle and pamper them. Abed is using a ploy right out of the Taliban terrorist handbook. Get captured and immediately accuse your captors of abuse. He knows that there are enough panty-waist sympathizers in America to give him credibility including the Commander-in-Chief.
This Abed character needs to point himself east, get down on his knees and thank his Allah that all he has is a bloody lip.
