If the Obama 2012 Campaign turns out to be honest, we'll see more of this . . .

Obama supports oil industry . . .

1984:  Reagan vs. Mondale
Could 2014 be as red?

in Brazil.  Check out this link.

I wish this was hard to believe.  But, for this guy, it seems to be par for the course.

Is it 2014 yet?  I can't wait to see the electoral map turn uniformly red.

Mr. President, I hate to break it to you, you're no Ronald Reagan

Barack Obama's attempts to morph his image, though certainly not his ideology, into that of Ronald Reagan Continues.  Now, he's even taken to referring to himself as "The Gipper."  Link here to see for yourself.


Mr. Obama, I remember Ronald Reagan.  You're not him.  Not even close.

Will America have any allies left once this guy gets done?

After today's disclosure that the Obama administration sold out the people with whom we once had a special relationship; our closest (soon-to-be formerly closest?) allies . . . the British, I have my doubts.  Apparently, in order to placate the bear, we agreed to tell the Russians about all the nuclear weapons that the U.K. keeps in its arsenal.  Information that the U.K. holds as a state secret.  (Link to story here.)

Obama's got to go.  The incompetence (it's either that or anti-Americanism and I prefer to think positively) must end.  January 20, 2013, can't get here fast enough.  I just hope that there's enough respect for the United States left by then to salvage a coherent positive foreign policy.

President Fiat

It comes as no surprise that one American president, South American that is, has embraced the power to rule by decree.  That president is Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.  (Link to story here.)  But at least Hugo waited until his country's legislature officially gave him that power.

In North America, a president is ruling by executive decree and bureaucratic fiat as well.  Of course, that president is the United States' own Barack Obama.  Here are two recent examples . . .

#1:  Remember the brouhaha over "Death Panels" originally included in the monstrous bill that brought us (or is bringing us) Obamacare.  Without rehashing the details, suffice it to say that at the very least Obama and the majority of the Dems wanted end-of-life planning included in patients' government funded annual checkups.  Pro-Life conservatives opposed and won the battle.  The provision was removed before Obamacare passed.

But winning the battle is not winning the war.  The death panels are back.  The Obama administration has simply issued a new Medicare regulation enacting them.  (Link to story here.)  So much for the will of Congress.  So much for the will of the people expressed through their representatives in a representative democracy.

But one is not enough . . .

#2:  "Net neutrality."  The Obama-controlled Federal Communications Commission has decided to jump into the field of internet communications and regulate those communications as it does television and radio.  To date, standing alone, the reasons and the proposed regulations may even seem innocuous.  But the fact of the matter is, the government regulating the free flow of information on the only communication outlet not controlled by the political left wing in America should cause some pause.

Now, certainly in a representative democracy, the will of the people on this issue should matter, right?  Certainly our elected representatives in Congress would be the ones to determine whether or not a new field should be opened to government regulation, right?

Not in Barack Obama's America.  Nope.  Congress passed no law unleashing the hounds of the FCC on the internet.  And, according to this Rasmussen poll, just 21% of American voters want government regulation of anything on the internet.   A majority opposes such regulation in favor of a free market.

Welcome to America.  You and I are the great unwashed.  What you think doesn't matter - at least to President Fiat.  He knows best.  The great father looking out for us from the mountaintop.  So he thinks.

The upcoming regime change in 2012 (actually January 20, 2013) can't come fast enough.

And Obama's new political advisor is . . .

Michael Dukakis.  (Link to story here.)

"Let's remember, our rights and our privileges flow from our creator and not from our member of Congress."

-Tim Pawlenty, in Iowa this weekend.  (Link here.)

Maybe somebody should tell Elena Kagan.

Who are the 39%?

In a poll released today by the National Journal, 39% of American voters reported being completely uninformed, biased to the gills, bribed with government handouts, or just plain stupid.  That 39% "said they would vote to re-elect Pres. Obama if the election were held today."

Romney-Palin 2012? Palin-Romney 2012?

I've seen worse tickets.

Why the speculation now? Link here.

Al Sharpton, Barack Obama and Socialism

Barack Obama's agenda is Socialism.  Rev. Sharpton, however, seems to be under the mistaken impression that Barack Obama was honest during his campaign.  In fact, he's a wolf in sheep's clothing.  Had he admitted his plans for country during the campaign, John McCain would be president today.

President Obama was in Missouri today. Where were all the Democrats?

The president came to St. Louis today to give a speech in St. Charles and another at a fundraiser downtown for Claire McCaskill.  At least she was there.

Where were the rest of their fellow Democrats?

Not wanting to be seen with Barack Obama, that's for sure.  Robin Carnahan, Russ Carnahan, and Ike Skelton skipped both events.

But, folks, don't give the skippers too much credit.  Especially the Carnahans.  Russ has supported and Robin certainly would support everything Obama stands for.  They just don't want you to know that.

Link to story here.

$9,700,000,000,000.00

We conservatives don't count George W. Bush as a full member of the club.  We voted for him, twice and en masse, but only because he was so much better for the country than Al Gore and John Kerry.  But during his term in office, the national debt of the United State of America increased by $4.97 trillion.  (Link here.)  That's not conservative folks, not by any method of accounting.

So what's the difference between George W. Bush and Barack Obama?  $4.73 trillion or so.  That's a whole bunch of money.

I wish that I was kidding.  I wish that I was just piling on a president I don't like.  But, unfortunately, I'm not kidding.  The Congressional budget office has issued a report projecting that Obama's proposed budget will add $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.  (Link to story here.)

As bad as Bush was at spending our money (and more) . . . Obama's twice as bad.

44% Approval - 47% Disapproval

Barack Obama's job approval rating has crashed to a new low, just over a year after he took office.

I think the country knows the answer to Sarah Palin's question.  It isn't working out very well at all.

The 44% approval rating, by the way, comes from a poll of all registered voters - including dyed in the wool Democrats and liberals of all description.  Among independents, whose support thrust Obama into office, his job approval sits at 29%.  57% of independents disapprove.  (Link to story here.)

For America, election day can't come soon enough.

"Hows that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya'?" -Sarah Palin

Good question Sarah.  Good question.  (Link to story here.)

Three years from today . . .

Barack Obama will be sworn in for another four years in office . . . OR, if we all do everything we can, he will no longer be president.

One quarter, twenty five percent of this national nightmare is over.

Hang in there America.  Together, we can make it.

Pawlenty calls for balanced budget amendment

Minnesota Governor Tom Pawlenty, a Republican presidential contender for 2012, is calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring Congress to pass and the president to sign a balanced budget.  (Link to Wall Street Journal article here.)  As quoted by the Journal, Pawlenty said - correctly - that "government spending in the country and in many states is progressing at an unsustainable, irresponsible and reckless pace . . . the bathtub is overflowing onto the floor and the first thing we need to do is shut off the faucet."

How true.  A balanced budget amendment should be something the GOP rallies behind in 2010 and 2012, no matter who becomes the party's standard-bearer.

45%

Liberalism on the run . . . conservatives must keep up the chase.

Present trends seem good for conservatives . . . the Democrats' plans to socialize medicine have been delayed until fall, giving us time to show Americans the truth about so-called healthcare "reform."  Some of that truth is coming straight from the Congressional Budget Office, which, for example pointed out this weekend that a change in the proposal touted as bringing down the monstrous cost really doesn't.  (Link to story here.)

And, thanks to President Obama's "stupid" comments at his recent press conference (along with his actual performance - or lack thereof - since taking office), Obama's poll numbers are lower than ever.  (Link to story here.)  According to Rasmussen, 40% of the country's likely voters "strongly disapprove" of Obama's job performance.  Just 29% strongly approve.

When Obama was elected with Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress, conservatives (and the country at large) had two things to hang onto until the 2010 elections . . . the possibility of a filibuster in the U.S. Senate stopping the Democrats' most egregious proposals and hope that Obama and the Democrats would overreach.  

Arlen Specter and Minnesota have all but neutralized the filibuster but, thankfully, the Democrats have not been patient.  They have already overreached and Americans have taken note.  

But, contrary to what some might believe, Obama and the Democrats aren't stupid.  And they are persistent.  (Didn't you all think that socialized medicine was dead when Hillary-care was defeated?)  Look for them, with their willing accomplices in Big Media, to pull back and spin this Healthcare bill however they have to spin it (a.k.a. tell as many lies as they need to tell) in order to provide enough political cover to get something passed.

And "something" is all they need to get their foot in the door.  "Something" will start the ball rolling and nobody will be able to stop it later.  Government entitlement programs grow, it is in their nature.  So conservatives can't compromise here.  The mantra must be . . . no government-run healthcare.  Not now.  Not ever.

Liberalism has taken some body blows over the past few days.  But conservatism hasn't delivered the knockout punch.  Until that happens, we must keep up the fight.

Time.com publishes interview with Sarah Palin

Check out this interview of Sarah Palin by Jay Newton-Small at Time.com.

Highlights include Palin's statement that "President Obama is growing government outrageously, and it's immoral."  Obama's plan, she continues, which takes on trillions of dollars in debt and "passing it on to our kids, expecting them to pay off for us, is immoral and doesn't even make economic sense."

Palin also takes on Obama's and the Democrats' cap-and-trade proposal.  If implemented, Palin says, this ridiculous measure would "drive the cost of consumer goods and the cost of energy so extremely high that our nation is going to start exporting even more jobs to China and to other countries that do not have the corporate tax or the equivalent of the corporate tax that the cap-and-trade - I call it cap-and-tax - agenda is going to usher in."

Sarah Palin gets it folks.

What will conservatives to without Sarah? Nothing. She's not going anywhere.

Alaska is a long way from here - wherever here is.  And, it take a long time to get to and from there from here.  Transit, and governing a state (not to mention being a wife and mother) take one heck of a lot of time.  So much, in fact, that running for president would be difficult.  So, in what was a surprise - at least until we had time to think about it - Sarah Palin announced Friday that she was resigning as Alaska's governor.

And now, she's off and running and announced on her Facebook page that she has a "higher calling."  She wrote about her desire to unite the country behind conservatism, citing "our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint."  (Link to story here.)

All that I have to say at this point is . . . run Sarah, run!