Michael Yon reports on some of the very good work our troops are doing with the people of Afghanistan. Most of us talk a good game of helping the less fortunate – these men and women actually do it, and do it at the risk of their own lives.
They are the best we have, and a cut above the rest of us. God bless them all.
Liberalism: America’s Bane.
Pelosi at 11% approval – which is, astoundingly, better than Reid’s, at 8%.
ACORN goes out of business. Liberalism’s glad morn sure lasted a short amount of time – from November 4th, 2008 until March 21st, 2010. I know, liberals are calling Sunday a win…but, then again, liberals are pretty dumb.
A new “Decade of Greed”: investors are snapping up junk bonds at the fastest pace, ever. This is the change we can believe in? No – this is a fool’s errand. Eventually everything has to be squared. I didn’t think the Fed and Treasury could keep it going as long as this – I was wrong about that. Guess there are more “greater fools” out there than I suspected. But it will come crashing down – tomorrow, next week, next month, next year; who knows?, but it will come and it will be a mess.
Sunday’s vote is proof that abortion is the central pillar of the Democrat party. Trouble is, having death as your motive doesn’t work, in the long run.
The National Black Pro-Life Union speaks out:
Many Americans put so much trust in Rep. Bart Stupak and the other Democrats who stood with him when they promised that they would stand firm–no matter what–to insure there would be NO taxpayer funded abortion.
They caved! A very weary looking Stupak announced that he had changed from No to Yes.
Don’t you get it, Mr. Stupak? President Obama is a staunch abortion supporter! He doesn’t care about the 50 million children (including 17 million black babies) that have been butchered by abortionists since 1973. He is not going to give or “issue” anything of value. He will say whatever it takes to get this horrible bill passed including issuing an Executive Order to do so.
It’s amazing…President Obama insisted over and over that there was no tax payer funding for abortion in the 2700 page monster bill yet, he issued an Executive Order re tax payer funding for abortion. President Obama lied–again.
‘Nuff said.
The news:
The bond market is saying that it’s safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama.
Two-year notes sold by the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in February yield 3.5 basis points less than Treasuries of similar maturity, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Procter & Gamble Co., Johnson & Johnson and Lowe’s Cos. debt also traded at lower yields in recent weeks, a situation former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. chief fixed-income strategist Jack Malvey calls an “exceedingly rare” event in the history of the bond market.
The $2.59 trillion of Treasury Department sales since the start of 2009 have created a glut as the budget deficit swelled to a post-World War II-record 10 percent of the economy and raised concerns whether the U.S. deserves its AAA credit rating…
You can’t borrow forever. The budget must be balanced. This is not a difficult task – just spend as much as we spent in 2004, and we’re in surplus.
Obama is digging our economic grave, and the Banksters and Bureaucrats re calling it a recovery.
Who can describe what it is like to see power-hungry Democrat deliberately ignore the will of the people while declaring their passing of government-run health care as being on behalf of the American people. Poll after poll showed Americans did not support Obamacare, and it took back room deals, arm twisting, and threats to narrowly pass legislation that empowers the government in ways that place George Orwell’s 1984 closer to the non-fiction section.
But make no mistake, this isn’t over yet. November is closer than you think. We will win back Congress, we’ll kick Obama out of the White House — a place he never belonged in the first place — and prevent this country from going down the mudslide towards socialism.
Americans will continue to rise up and stand against the tyranny of corrupt politicians only interested in empowering themselves. The Tea Party Movement will continue even louder.
Obama’s election put our Republic on life-support. Last night, congressional Democrats pulled the plug. We have a small window of opportunity to fix this before our health care system becomes broken beyond repair. Whatever your problems with the past failings of the Republican were, you have to forgive because the Republican Party is our best device to end this socialist nightmare.
If you don’t get that, then you are otly part of the problem, and not the solution.
Our mission is clearly defined in one word: Repeal.
We will do it.
UPDATE: Ditto what Karol says.
Well, the Machine rolled over the people and got ObamaCare through. Illegally, unconstitutionally, but they got it through. Never under estimate the power of a corrupt political elite to get something done when they have the raw power to do it.
Some thoghts:
1. With Stupak’s cowardly defection on ObamaCare, it is time now for all pro-life people to understand that a vote for a Democrat will always be a vote to betray the cause of Life. Even if there is a Democrat who has solid pro-life credentials, the fact is that he’ll be adding power to pro-abortion politicians like Nancy Pelosi.
2. No one can ever rely upon a Democrat to do the right thing. Stupak was bought with mere $726,000.00 – “moderate Democrats” are just something liberal Democrats use to run in Republican districts. The very nature of a person who would lend power to someone like a Nancy Pelosi is that of a coward and an opportunist. Its not a matter of if they’ll betray, but when they’ll do it.
3. The liberal leadership is convinced that they’ll weather the storm. They are convinced that we, the people, are just a tiny, angry minority – mostly bitter at the fact that a black man is President. They kept pushing this not in a “votes be darned” mood but, instead, in a “we’re the majority and we won’t let a bunch of racist, gun- and Bible-clingers stop us”. If you listened to Nancy’s speech on the floor, its clear that they really believe that what they are doing is in accordance with the will of the people.
4. Now becomes the time for us to bear down on this. Next week, for instance, we have a rally against Reid in Searchlight, NV. I’ll be there. When ever one of these things comes up in your area – be there. No excuses. Donate to candidates. Volunteer. Give of yourself. If we come together and fight hard, then we will have a different Congress come next year.
As for me, I’m all geared up and happy – haven’t been this jazzed in ages. Don’t get angry – keep that fire, but remember that it is the cool headed person who prevails. We will have these people – and we will teach them what being an American is really all about.
The first votes to be cast will be in Hawaii – where Charles Djou carries the banner of responsible government in to battle. Go here and give until it hurts.
And don’t forget Stupak’s opponent.
UPDATE: DeMint is going to introduce a repeal of ObamaCare.
UPDATE II: Ever since Stupak became central in the ObamaCare drama the name kept nagging at me. I could swear he came up in the writing of Caucus of Corruption. I did a bit of checking and, sure enough, he did. Unfortunately, the bit about him wound up on the cutting room floor, but the basic is this – while running for re-election un-opposed he still raised more than 700 grand…and then did things such as pay his wife $36,000.00 per year out of campaign funds for alleged campaign work…Just another hack. And now he’s going to get what’s coming to him.
UPDATE III: Are you really, really disgusted with ObamaCare? Then you can now look to back candidates who will promise to vote for impeachment in 2013. Quixotic? Certainly – but also a lot of fun.
UPDATE IV: Allen West pledges to vote for repeal.
UPDATE V: A multi-State legal challenge is shaping up.
UPDATE VI: Racist slurs at protests? Not seen or heard on videos of the event.
UDPATE, by Matt Margolis: DeMint to intrudce repeal of ObamaCare.
UDPATE, by Matt Margolis: Check out RepealIt.Org
UPDATE IX: ObamaCare – a declaration of war.
So, there are claims that some of the demonstrators yesterday shouted racial epithets at Democrats. There is always the chance of one or two idiots showing up in any crowd of thousands, but I’m calling BS on this unless and until I get video and audio demonstrating it happened – with the number of devices for recording present, if this happened there simply must be something. And then if it did happen, we’ll want to check carefully the background of the person or persons who did it. As this dovetails perfectly in to the liberal lies about the TEA Party movement (ie, that we’re motivated by anti-black bias), its just too convenient for them at this critical moment.
Pictures of yesterday’s demonstration.
After unifying us on health care (though not the way he wanted), President Obama seems to want to also unify us around illegal immigration.
Obama: the Great Divider.
UPDATE: Vote “No” and get out?
UPDATE III: Video round up of the demonstrations
UPDATE IV: Been at work today so was unable to update. My first reaction on Stupak: the man is very easily bought. The Executive Order isn’t even a fig leaf. The lesson here is that there really is no way to be pro-life and do anything worthwhile in the Democrat party – when push comes to shove, life will be set aside in favor of loyalty to the Machine.
And that is what we have here, Americans, a remorseless, political machine just grinding it out until they get it done. We are going to take on this machine and we’re going to crush it in November.
UPDATE V: Stupak’s Opponent: Dan Benishek. Unless I find out he’s a pornographer or on the lam from a bank heist, or some such, he’s getting a donation from me.
UPDATE VI: It only cost $726,409.00 for Stupak’s vote. For a pittance of pork, he’s tossed aside the pro-life movement. It profits a man nothing to gain the whole world, yet lose his soul…but for pork?
Just got considerably stronger:
TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill Nato forces in Afghanistan.
The commanders said they had learnt to mount complex ambushes and lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have been responsible for most of the deaths of British troops in Helmand province.
The accounts of two commanders, in interviews with The Sunday Times, are the first descriptions of training of the Taliban in Iran.
According to the commanders, Iranian officials paid them to attend three-month courses during the winter.
It is time for Obama to stop his asinine, counter-productive policy of engagement and resort to the firmest measures possible. The Iranian government is, once again, waging unjust, aggressive warfare against us and our allies. We are fully justified in taking whatever measures we deem necessary to compel Iranian compliance with our wishes.
Given that our primary wish, at the moment, would be a cessation of terrorist training and nuclear development, the best course of action would be blockade of gasoline imports/oil exports and selective bombing of Iranian military and nuclear targets if the blockade doesn’t force Iran to capitulate.
We must press the issue, even at the risk of a general war with Iran – they must not, under their current government, obtain nuclear weapons. And now we’ve got all the justification we need.
ObamaCare has racial preferences – because nothing a Democrat does can leave off picking over the bones of racism.
Make it a roll call vote – after all, if Democrats in favor are proud of the effort, they should have no problem being very public about it, right?
Pelosi was against “Deem and Pass” before she was for it.
Hammering Pelosi on her use of Catholicism to pass the bill: is she just ignorant, or cynical? It seems this lady either didn’t pay attention to the sisters who educated her, or she’s just being rather dishonest.
The abortion problem.
Attempting to conscript Catholicism for Obamacare – amazing how liberals hold us in utter contempt, but so eagerly attempt to bamboozle Catholics in to supporting their efforts…almost as if they know that what they do is immoral, and they want cover.
UPDATE: Constitutional challenges to ObamaCare.
UPDATE II: The bribe list.
UPDATE III: Obama at 56% disapproval.
UPDATE IV: A bit of good news – ACORN going broke.
From Rasmussen:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
I seem to recall seeing numbers like this before. Back in 2007.
