America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.

February 8th, 2010

There’s an interesting piece in Real Clear Politics. The author Jay Cost slays a meme running around the liberal blogosphere and legacy media and it’s hard to argue against his reasoning.

Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested that America’s “political instability” was making people abroad nervous. And Michael Cohen of Newsweek blamed “obstructionist Republicans,” “spineless Democrats,” and an “incoherent public” for the problem.

Nonsense. America is not ungovernable. Her President has simply not been up to the job.

I think it’s a good article. I think it’s a good recap of how HRH The Sun King has poll numbers right up with “W” when he left office and how he got there.

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The Hubris Of Government Is The Problem

February 2nd, 2010

Devauled Patrick is cooking the books for jobs “saved” like all the other politicians.

Gov. Deval Patrick’s economic-stimulus program is looking more like a Save-A-Hack telethon with a federal cash infusion going mostly to save jobs on the government payroll.

With pink slips flying in the private sector and the state unemployment rate at 9.4 percent, a Herald review has found that more than 70 percent of jobs “created or retained” by state stimulus spending last quarter were government jobs.

And the vast majority of those jobs were not newly created – the stimulus money was either used just to keep government workers on the job or to increase their hours.

And this is the biggest issue with the “stimulus” package. It was and has proven to literally be nothing more than a payoff to HRH The Sun King’s supporters. You will not find a single private sector job “saved” by the federales. Hell, they don’t even like the dreaded private sector and don’t understand it.

Alethea Pieters, a spokeswoman for Patrick’s economic stimulus office, said yesterday that public sector jobs are “as important, if not more important” than private sector jobs because of the “critical services” some of them provide

Hey Alethea, let me clue you in on something. If there no private sector jobs, then you would never in a million years get your six figure public sector job. I’m so glad that I don’t live in the People’s Republic because it is obvious that the hacks in charge of the government care for themselves and themselves only.

Jeffrey Simon, Patrick’s stimulus czar, said the administration is “proud of the fact” that it has saved public-sector jobs.

And until these bums are voted out of office repeatedly and this attitude changes, the people of the People’s Republic will continue on their path of slavery.

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Trouble… deep… sad.. pathetic United States

February 2nd, 2010

I have had some conversations lately with friends from other countries, and the revelations regarding the political views of the rest of the world are so overwhelmingly bad for the US, I grow more pessimistic by the day about our chances of navigating our foreign relations without disaster.

The gist is this: China is easier to deal with. Russia isn’t that bad. The US should stop meddling in the middle east, and who cares if the US Economy goes to hell — they’re a bad apple and deserve it.

The overall take amongst a dozen average folks in 5 different countries is that the US is juvenile in it’s diplomacy, puerile and pugnacious in it’s dealings with other countires and causes the vast majority of it’s own problems with it’s stupid views on spreading ‘freedom’ where it isn’t wanted or needed.

Australians, Canadians, Brits, Germans, Turks – these aren’t enemy states. These are supposedly friends.

The truth is, the US has no reliable allies left and has replaced France as the most disliked nation on the planet.

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About That Vaunted Canadian Healthcare System

February 2nd, 2010

To the surprise of many in Canada, the premier of Newfoundland is coming to the US for heart surgery and is not having it in Canada.

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States.

The best part, unless you look to Canada for healthcare is that no one knew this was going to happen.

For many, the Premier’s need for heart surgery comes as a surprise, especially in light of the fact he is an avid hockey player and has shown no outward signs of illness as of late.

On Friday, Mr. Williams met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and while speaking to reporters seemed healthy and in good spirits.

A decision to leave Canada for the surgery, especially if it is available here, raises questions about the Premier’s confidence in Newfoundland’s health care system.

Ya think?

As I’ve said before, the facts are, the health care in the US is the best in the world. People don’t come here from other countries for surgeries for nothing. If the Canadian health care was so frickin great, he would have stayed. That he doesn’t tells me that he knows he will get better care here in the states.

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DANGER! DANGER! Iranian situation is NOT a game.

February 1st, 2010

I am sure that greater minds than mine have thought this through, but watching our response to the threats of Iran for some sort of attack in February 11th is incredibly frustrating to me. Look, I know, 99% chance i’m totally wrong here, but strategically speaking Iran could very well be playing us for fools.

fact: If you threaten the US, inevitably, a bunch of ships and armaments will zoom right to the site of the threat.

fact: If you want to attack and enemy, it is best if their forces are divided or elsewhere - preferably both.

If Iran wants to successfully attack The West, it’s best bet is to scream, “I’m going to attack you on February 11th – draw in the enemy – then attack them elsewhere and elsehow.

If I were  Iran, I would be doing several things:

a) Stirring the pot with China & the US through every contact and friend I had.
b) Coinciding my activities with other world events such that US can not bring full strength to bear
c) Misdirecting US Forces away from true targets
d) Coordinating multiple attacks on multiple fronts from multple enemies
e) Lying to build up the ‘cry wolf’ factor – thus strengthening later attacks.

Rushing our ships to that area serves many Iranian purposes, and makes the US look even weaker than it already appears.

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Codependency, The New American Voter

February 1st, 2010

The following graph comes to us courtesy of Financial Armageddon.

The top graph shows the percentage of income to the average American that comes from the federal government. You can see that it’s been on its way up for a long time. That means more and more people are getting money from the federal government and that’s becoming the basis for their “income”.

It’s a sad commentary because for every dollar that a person gets from the federales, it’s a dollar less that they are actually working for in a product job. I would like to think that when we finally come out of this downturn that the chart will start back on a downward turn, but I really know that’s just wishful thinking.

The tough part is that the more people get used to being on the government dole, the harder it will be for the government to stop paying them and the harder it becomes on those actual taxpaying people to continue to finance the unworking. At some point, which I hope isn’t too soon, there will be way too few people working for the amount of benefits that are being paid out. That way lies madness and I don’t want to see what happens.

gubmint spending on people

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What are all y’all expecting from State of the Union?

January 27th, 2010
  • Obama touts economic growth
  • Obama calls for amnesty for illegals (to bolster Democrat voter rolls in time for 2010 elections)
  • A Renewed call to push through healthcare
  • “I’m Scott Brown” shout out in a Sparticus sort of way
  • Gratuitous fawning over Fort Hood Heroes whilst blaming past administration and neglecting to mention militant islaam’s involvement
  • We’re great, we’re helping Haiti

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State of Disunion

January 27th, 2010

It seems to me that some how someone should say something tonight about what a liar Obama is. Obviously they can’t do another shoutout as he lies, but perhaps someone should be keeping track of the lies and such and pass the list to the official responder.

To my thinking an honest accounting would really help people understand Obama and his radical nature.

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Time to Attack China!

January 23rd, 2010

I think all the patriotic hackers and computer geniuses in the US should make a concerted effort to bring down the Chinese internet. They put a lot of energy and time into cracking and hacking and spamming and all that. Why not do it for a cause that might actually help us all?

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To Paraphrase Michelle Obama

January 23rd, 2010

For the first time in my adult life, I am proud that I was born in Massachusetts.

;-)

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