With Independence Day at hand, let’s review:

There’s much more, almost none of it reported by mainstream media, but here are some highlights of the last two years.

In 2008, Obama campaigned as a centrist “you can believe in” who would make corruption, lobbyists, pork and closed-door deal-making a thing of the past. In other speeches, he promised special benefits and White House access to ACORN, S.E.I.U., N.E.A. and other leftist groups.
The Democratic-controlled House and Senate (Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Dodd, Frank, etc) joined with over-spender George Bush to pass trillion dollar TARP. It was to be only for stabilizing lending, strictly accounted for and mostly paid back. Billions disappeared into thin air, much has been held unspent (i.e. “slush-fund”) and returning money has been appropriated for unapproved, unadvertised projects. No one even claims to know where it all went.

Obama was elected and started paying off on those ‘other’ speeches. He appointed a pedophilia advocate as “safe schools” czar for your kids, a tax-cheat to guard your U.S. Treasury, an anti-free speech Marxist to safeguard the FCC, and two dozen other self-proclaimed “revolutionaries”, “Socialists”, “Communists”, and anti-Constitutionalists (“it’s just out-of-date guidelines”) to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Unions and special interests got many special privileges.

A “job stimulus” bill was passed by the Progressive controlled Congress and President. It spent another trillion on advertizing, foreign companies, crony-owned companies, projects ten years away, non-existent ZIP codes, non-existent Congressional Districts and the inevitable hundreds of billions to be named later (slush fund). It produced a handful of jobs, some temporary gigs and millions of theoretical “jobs saved”. Unemployment (promised to remain below 8%) soared well over 10%, plus another 7% that gave up on the system.
Two-thirds of Auto Manufacturing was nationalized, seizing private assets from stockholders and handing them to unions. Many, many banks followed. The best health care in the world is being strangled. All energy production and use (every volt, gallon or B.T.U. of energy and every device in the country) are now on the block to be taxed and rationed. Stimulus II is being threatened.

It took 10 seconds for Obama to decree that “I don’t know the facts, but Cambridge Police acted Stupidly” and “I haven’t read it, but Arizona’s law causes racial profiling” against all actual facts. It took weeks to acknowledge the single worst oil spill in U.S. history “on day one” (skimming, dispersing, burning and berm-building were delayed for more weeks by Obama’s OSHA, EPA and union rules, while F.E.M.A. is M.I.A.) and accepting offers of expert oil skimming by 20 countries took 70 days. On day 71, ships that were finally accepted were delayed until union crews can be trained to take the experts’ jobs. Obama’s fastest act was to shut down the remaining oil rigs (operating safely for 29 years) “just in case”. But he never ordered any inspections, which could be complete by now. When overturned in court, he announced he would find a way to get around the ruling to punish oil-producers (and consumers) anyway. Once shut down, these rigs are very complex and time consuming to re-start. Owners will simply tow them to less restricted waters off Brazil or Venezuela.

It took four months to approve 75% of desperately needed reinforcements in Afghanistan (only half delivered), but firing a decorated general and turning Democrats’ “General Betray-us” back into Petraeus only took one day. The pitiful 1,200 National Guardsmen promised to Arizona to reinforce I.C.E. turns out to be only 536 desk jobs, and have yet to be funded; lies about both SB1070 and federal law continue, joined by frivolous lawsuits. Billions around the world can’t just stroll across our border, but we are told to “offer a path” to those that did. Meanwhile, many non-Hispanic terrorists gladly join the coyotes’ caravans of drugs, weapons and millions of unskilled job-seekers.

Unemployment is 10% and rising again, while 90% of reported “new jobs” last month turn out to be government rather than productive private-sector jobs. Most of those were Census gigs: one employee doing 4 assignments over 4 weeks is counted as 4 “jobs created”. The Stock market, which tried to grow despite all the interference, is retreating again. They recognize that the 2009-2010 trend (including failing Socialism across Europe) mirrors that of 1928-1929. That’s when government spending (“stimulus”) and interference in the free market pushed a bad recession into the Great Depression by increasing taxes and co-opting credit needed by employers. Now Pelosi tells us that extension of unemployment to almost 2 years will save the economy, because bare subsistence money somehow spurs discretionary spending and will “create jobs”.

To date, Obama has yet to visit Arizona to see conditions for himself, though he has hosted foreigners to insult our sister American state. But as I write, he and other Democrats mourn the loss of Senator Byrd, who opposed desegregation and filibustered against the Republicans’ 1964 Civil Rights Act. He was an actual, card-carrying, hood-wearing leader in the KKK before Progressives taught the Democrats to play patron-provider to minorities, in order to keep them limited and dependent.

That’s why new polls show that 70% of Americans believe that the country is being misled and misinformed. We must change course away from whims and reckless spending of politicians, and back toward Constitutional rule of law.

Let’s get the “shakedown” straight.

In another anti-capitalist hit-piece, Leonard Pitts Jr. once again exploits an out-of-context statement and misleads the people. In his Jun 25th “Meet Joe Barton”, the first line is, “OK, let’s make sure we have this straight”, and he then immediately misrepresents the facts.

The subject is Senator Barton’s preamble to questioning BP executive Tony Hayward in hearings last week. Despite Pitts’ insinuation, Barton does not represent the foreign-owned British Petroleum and many of his Texas constituents would actually be BP competitors. Nonetheless, Barton is a United States Senator, sworn to uphold the Constitution. As such, he was shocked by President Obama’s announced extortion under color of authority, and mentioned it before grilling Hayward and BP.

Pitts accurately excerpts the actual apology, but not the context. The fact is that before the hearings, Obama made a statement that, “I will inform BP that they will place $20 billion into an escrow“, administered by one of his own white house czars. At that moment, two things were happening. First, the Obama administration was continuing to block measures that would limit the damage done (waiving the union-protectionist Jones act and allowing 13 nations to donate their skimming ships and expert crews to remove oil, permitting burning of surface oil, permitting piling of sand burms to trap oil on beaches, permitting use of dispersants to break up oil, etc) and second, BP had already confirmed that they would pay for all damage (and had begun doing so) plus a $75million fine, as required by existing law. This is after Obama’s appointees Salazar and Birnbaum signed off on the Deepwater Horizon’s equipment and plans as adequate, and 1996 federal oil response plans were ignored.

To order BP to pay $20 billion when damage to that point was only approaching $2 billion, and no law or Presidential authority allows him to extract money from private companies, is a “shakedown”: extortion. That means forcing someone to hand over money that one has no lawful claim to (at least not yet). The fact that BP agreed to it in closed door meetings, whether from generosity or due to some other pressure, does not change facts. Sen Barton simply pointed out that he is against the concept of Presidents demanding huge sums of cash, for their personal control, outside of the law. He then went on to investigate what BP had done wrong, since there is no evidence that there was any sabotage or attack to excuse them.

Not only did Obama expect this apparently reckless oil company to pay for damages, fine and $18 billion besides, he randomly shut down all other Gulf oil rigs and expected BP to pay for their lost production and idled workers. This was not for inspection. Inspections could have been completed in the two months it took Obama to get to his threat; no inspections have been scheduled yet. One of Obama’s commissions will look into them next month. It was not for any obvious systemic flaw, as these Gulf rigs have operated for decades with no blowouts until Deepwater Horizon. It was simply an opportunity to prove his toughness for the press, punish an industry for being successful, and set capitalism back on its heels. His approval ratings required it after having ignored the issue and obstructing cleanup for weeks. No matter that idle oil rigs, with thousands of related jobs, will be towed to countries with lower standards and higher production.

A federal judge overruled the specious drilling ban. Obama’s reaction? He re-names the former MMS as the “Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement”. He fires director Birnbaum in favor of yet another Harvard intellectual with no industry or regulatory experience. Finally, he orders Salazar to find a way to get around the ruling and shut down American drilling anyway. The fact is that until this incident, every significant spill has been from oil tankers, not drill rigs. These same tankers, vulnerable to attacks of all sorts, waste millions of tons of fuel plowing across thousands of miles of ocean from foreign oil fields. These fields are mostly owned by unfriendly nations that don’t waste time and money on tough American environmental standards. Also, on-shore and in-shore (shallow water) rigs are much safer and easier to repair, but liberal “ecologists” forced drilling out to sea and into deep water years ago.

Finally, Pitts insinuates that BP bought the brief apology for officials’ improper procedure and demonizing rather than investigating. Pitts tells us that Barton received $1.4 million from the oil industry. He does not mention that this is from many companies over several years. Pitts also overlooks the fact that the single largest recipient of BP money is Barack Obama. The President, who exceeded his authority and the Constitution to sound tough (much like terrorists getting “a fair trial and then be convicted and executed”), got $77,051.00. This is twice as much BP money as the next beneficiary, and Barton was further down the list. He appears to stand for capitalism, responsible oversight and the rule of law.

Now we have it straight, Mr. Pitts.

Advertizing is key!

The U.S. Department of Labor is actually trying to RECRUIT illegal aliens to use federal, taxpayer-funded services to enforce their "rights". In jobs they keep away from American citizens and lawful immigrants. In a place that they have no right to be.



Kinda goes along with 100,000 road signs boasting of "your (hard-earned, taxpayer) stimulus dollars at work". At $3,500.00 each.

Or trying to convince more people - - to whom it might not have occurred - - that they should apply for welfare; now called "SNAP" to avoid any embarrassment. Even if they have a car. And a house. And a job. In fact, there's no nasty work required anymore; just lay back and collect! Let's get everyone indentured along with those who have no choice but to accept aid for their families! And taxpayers can foot the bill. Whee!

AMERICA 101:

This is just a refresher in American government. (HINT: we do NOT have a democracy!)



...while all citizens get to vote equally, they elect representatives from their own ranks who temporarily fill the role of decision maker. They are then expected to return to private life and live among their constituents under the laws they have passed. We MUST get back to this original model!
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