Pig Latin

Say, if USA convictsSnowden, could we then use him as captured labor or parole him to work for the NSA.  I could see a Tea Party President using him as 4^th Amendment snoop on NSA reporting to Congress and to the People and to their several states. You know you have to use talent wherever you find it. 

    So if I have foreign exchange students who are like sons and daughters, with whom I communicate with emails constantly, are these being monitored by NSA?  If I express political opinion in those emails, could they haul me in?  (Well, I know, I’m hardly worth the jail space.)  One of our German exchange daughters told about her and a friend riding the trains in France headed for a fun weekend in Paris.  And all the French passengers were listening-in on their German conversation.  Because suddenly some of them wanted to take issue with what the girls were saying.  Annoyed, the kids began using English, only to discover that the French understood that too.  So they began using English pig-Latin and it made all the darned Frenchmen mad because they scowled and crossed their arms in protest.  Evidently they couldn’t understand pig-Latin. 

    Err, then do the rest of us need to develop a pig latin so that future governments won’t be able to understand what we are talking about?  The OK Indians have a solution.  Just speak in native language.  Very few people with understand it and the government has no one to translate.  Windtalkers.  My friend is in charge of getting Ponca Tribal teens to learn the Ponca language.  Few have much interest and only about 20 people are still fluent in the native tongue. 

     “Oh, you are so paranoid!” You will say.  “The government is collecting data on everyone and has no intent to use it.”  Of course.  Perhaps we should suspect nothing and just assure ourselves that all is well.  Every person in government has good intentions.  That is what the Germans did in 1934.  Then came the Night of the Long Knives when people started showing up at Bundestag (parliament) member’s homes, threatening them not to show up for a vote in the Reichstag.  Mostly the Nazi members attended and immediately declared marshal law.  The rest, as they say, is history.

    “So Mr. Maldono, we see you are a political activist that opposes the present regime.  If you would give up your activism we might be willing to give your granddaughter that lung transplant she needs so desperately.”  The NSA data center as well as IRS privacy violations in behalf of Obamacare is insidious.  If the 4^th Amendment’s unreasonable search and seizure clause doesn’t apply to this, when and where will it ever?

    But, you may protest my logic.  Obama is a cool guy and he would never violate anyone’s privacy.  Well in that case, another friend of mine is correct.  He deflects my concerns about how Obama might violate civil rights.  Obama, he says, is more like James I of England /Scotland than Mussolini or Stalin. He might be right. There is a dire warning.  James was the son of Catholic Mary Stuart when she was run out of Scotland, sought refuge in England, was thereupon imprisoned for 19 years and tragically beheaded.  James was crowned king of the Scots at the tender age of 10 months.  Raised by nannies and tutors to be a Protestant, he was very bright, and educated as well as any man in Europe in an era when most Scots couldn’t write their name.  But what do you get when you have a king who can’t remember when he wasn’t the king, had missing parents, and everyone bowed to him.  You get a narcissist, an egotist who thinks the world revolves around him.  (sounding familiar?)  James then inherited England when Elizabeth died in 1603.  He was not so much a tyrant as a college professor who was a king.  He was not too serious about religion and very squeamish about war.  When Germany was getting destroyed by the Hapsburgs in the Thirty Years War, James wouldn’t commit to help the endangered fellow Protestants, despite pleas by his parliament and privy council.  He derided parliament and badmouthed them. Disgusted, they issued the Great Protestation of 1621, whereupon he disbanded parliament in a clever move to get around the rules.  Finally, to appease the polls against himself, James declared a futile war against Spain in 1624.  Most historians think that if James had countered Austria, the Thirty Years War would have ended in a couple years—the 5 Years War?-- instead of killing half the population of Central Europe. The Thirty Years War should technically be called the first world war since it destroyed so much of Europe and eventually included just about every country (Sounds like Syria, when Obama doesn’t commit to action until the situation is too late and sets up the entire Middle East to explode. 

     James ruled both Presbyterian Scotland and Anglican England with differing faiths.  James decided to solve this by calling the Hampton Court Conference in which he declared that not only did he have a divine right to rule but that his word on doctrine was infallible.  This was a stunning thing, for only the popes had claimed this last.  The Conference went home more divided than ever.  Yet James, typically loose about faith issues, didn’t enforce his decree.  He was a scholar miscast as a ruler.  (There was one saving grace of Hampton, the resolution of the clergy to authorize the King James Bible.)  James was too wishy-washy to follow his edict, but he set in motion, the Great Revolution against his son, Charles.  Maybe this really is like Obama. Not the achiever, but the divider and critic of every other institution.  Not the hawk but the dodo.  Not the law writer, but the orator. Not the dictator, but setting us up for one.

Fathers

Albert Speer notes in his huge book of recollections about Hitler and Nazism that the German high command thought the Americans were no big deal when they entered the war on the other side.  A bunch of mongrels of impure race, unable to get along and accomplish anything, was the analysis.  D-day put an end to such talk.  Speer, as German Industrial Minister, watched the Americans simply swamp the Nazi industry by a factor of ten, in planes and tanks and just about every other weapon.  And far from being wimps, they challenged relentlessly, in the Battle of the Bulge, in the Operation Cobra breakout, in Sicily and in crossing the Rhine. 

            Men are supposed to grow up to be dangerous, take risks and be society’s providers. When Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the helicopter, made a bomb at age 8, and detonated it on the front porch blowing out all the windows of the house, his mother said, “Wait until your father comes home.”  Dad came home, laughed at his son’s audacity and suggested that in the future they build the bombs together—after they’d fixed windows.  My own dad used to announce the day we would work cattle as “time for a rodeo.”  And the time I wished out loud that I could climb that massive Sycamore tree, 100 feet, tallest in the timber, my grandfather told me to climb on the hay stacker and he would give me a 20 foot head start up the trunk.  Psychologist John Eldridge calls this quest for risk the Cowboy Stage of a man which typically peaks in the pre-adolescent but really continues throughout a lifetime. Dads encourage the cowboy risk. Moms usually just worry about the behavior. 

            Followed by the cowboy stage comes the warrior.  Warriors become accomplished in something.  They achieve.  They find their purpose.  When little Charlie Curtis ran for help when the Cheyennes were about to attack his own tribe of Kaws, he ran 65 miles in 19 hours and no one could figure out how such a small boy could do this.  His own tribal elders called him aside and questioned.  He attributed it to determination and divine intervention  to give him strength.  The elders, all of whom had done dream quests as young men, understood and were much impressed.  The kid had passed muster and went on to be Vice President of the United States.  The Kaw tribe took a second look at his Christian faith.  Being an accomplished warrior can only be awarded by a father or a group of men.  No woman can tell you how to be a real man. 

            Creation requires all of us to submit in humility to a purpose and order larger than ourselves.  That is the lesson of warriorhood.  You can be accomplished but you are never a god.  You need God as a guide and the rest of humanity as a team in order to survive.  And that is what those men of D-day had despite being just a couple years removed from the Grapes of Wrath.  The Nazis were wrong.  These Americans hung together.  Japanese pilots marveled that the Yanks had inferior planes but flew in such formations that they were unstoppable.  The Germans knew their equipment was better.  The Yanks had not been ready for the war. But their cowboys-turned-warriors were.

            And men know they need God as a moral compass.  Teens with no dad turn to peers, and a bunch of insecure boys make up the rules as they go along.  There is no real morality when this happens. But real men are noble and virtuous.  

            In all that we know about military history, it is not the technology or the the equipment or the spit and polish that makes the winner.  It is the espirit de corps, the discipline, teamwork and determination that constitute about 90% while technology matters 10%.  Charles Martel and the Franks were correctly thought to be dumb, ill-equipped barbarians by the Moors.  “They stood like a wall” against the Moorish cavalry at Tours because they had been trained to fight together and fought for their lives.  The same was true of American backwoods militia at Cowpens in the Revolutionary War.

            There is still a highly successful military in the United States.  There are still highly successful young men coming out of intact families.  But there is the growing minority of boys with no dad.  Nobody cheers their  tree-climbing or when they successfully tear down the chicken house.  Nobody salutes their stamina when they stuck their head out the iced-over cab of a truck to drive home 10 miles in -40 weather.  Nobody told them to go apologize for insulting an elderly lady.  And so those kids are gangstas, seeking peer approval when no Army, no dad gives it.  Peter Drucker told a nation who didn’t listen in 1970 that they would pay for the divorce culture with maladjusted and listless workers in the future.  And with little inner moral compass.

            That, Speer says, is what was at the core of Hitler’s monstrosity.  He was a boy fighting his Jewish origins, determined to prove himself a German man, but attempting it in frightening ways—wild oratory, radical socialism, and persecution of Jews and others who weren’t Germanic. Speer himself, more or less roped into the Nazi regime when they needed an industrial minister to supply the war, was always an outsider to the strange, depraved inner circle of Hitler.

 

           I guess that leaves me no great fan of the nanny state.  Men, according to feminazis are just inseminators.  But who will teach the kids to be honorable and brave?  Instead we get much higher probability for drop outs and druggies, rapists and unemployeds. Even a father like Huck Finn's humorously bad dad who cussed everything and everybody, seems better than none.        

             

The story behind our flea market

Our local Sunday Morning Flea Market came to an abrupt ending last week.  Someone fell over some of the crap, er merchandise, and sued naming the owner of the parking lot the deep pockets defendor.  The ensuing result was that the parking lot owner decided to close his obligation.  So the Flea Marketers are now looking for another lot.  My suggestion is that they demand the Trial Lawyers Association parking lot.  But since the Trial Lawyers have no such location, they would have to buy a parking lot somewhere.  An alternative is to use government parking areas on weekends.  These are rarely used on a weekend.  Plus, you can’t sue the government because you are the government and you can’t sue yourself.  There are several government lots—State Park of the Pioneer Woman Monument, city building parking, Vo Tech and High School.  I suppose the Head Start parking lot next to one of my rentals is too small.  The federal government workers habitually throw the tree limbs of their Chinese elms onto my lawn so I have to pick them up and dispose of them.  And why do they throw them onto my lawn?  So they can park in the shade under their own trees.  

            Today I was in the Tag Agency, which goes by the name DMV in most other states.  Several people have died at the Tag Agency due to strangulation by cob webs that have accumulated on their persons.  An old man was standing at the desk as we waited in line today and it took them nearly 45 minutes to figure out his car situation. The lady behind me said she thought he was trying to file a last will and testament.

            Why do we think government can fix things best? Comparing the government with private sector is like a baseball manager needing a pinch hitter in the bottom of the ninth.  Do you go with MVP who was given a day off or the government .184 hitter?   Inevitably something goes wrong and people clamor for the government to 'do something'.  Politicians thrive on doing such things.  There’s a big storm, like we are prone to have in Oklahoma.  Libs all say that the fix-up will stimulate the economy and the infrastructure will be rebuilt. Pah! Some help that is! Do you really think that we prosper by destroying property and wealth.  If that were the case, why not have a storm every day? Imagine the stimulus! What needs to be asked is this question, “What would people have done with that money if they didn’t have to spend it on re-building?  You could conceive of a massive earthquake having struck Silicon Valley years ago and the pols saying that the infrastructure is now rebuilt so wonderfully.  Yeah, but the Internet and iphones weren’t invented because of it. 

            So the people of OK are pitching in and helping their neighbors in the OKC area and the national media is stunned.  Why?  Do they expect us to sit and bellyache over FEMA not being here like they did in NY and NJ?  No, the sooner we get over this the better off us sooners will be.

            East coast crabbing is a sport, they say.   People talk about how the feds didn’t help Staten Island or Long Island enough.  It wasn’t fair!  Oh give me a break! The fairness arguments always sound like this, “That not fair that you have some benefit I don’t”  So then they take away that benefit from the privileged guy whereupon nobody has it.  Hence we are all equally miserable.  Fairness politics takes away the things that people aspire to.  It deprives the dreams.  It kills the American Dream. 

            To get ahead in life, stop fretting about all the things others have that you don’t.  Covetousness is not only a sin, it eats the soul away and makes talents go unused and worthless.

            Case in point.  A few years ago, I had a renter who could only find sporadic work and he apologized for being late with the rent.  I told him that at age 30, he was about where I was at age 30.  Perhaps he should figure out something he could do to supplement on the side.  And so he started re-fixing damaged things and doing flea markets.  Last I heard, he and wife had 3 kids and moved to Tulsa to a good job.  Don’t tell me flea markets are just junk.  Just let us have our flea markets and garage sales and don't try to come up with some sort of cash for clunkers program for them.  We're still doing fine, Oklahoma, without federal help.

Low Cash Flow

Now how on earth am I going to stay off Medicaid?  Obamacare says that everyone under an income level of about $30,000 a year MUST go on Medicaid, the poor people’s insurance.  The last 3 years I was in business, I made $29K a year and that got me curious.  How much would I have made had I not continuously taken money out of savings to help my businesses?  Answer is that for 2 decades I averaged $29,000 a year.  Rats!  Do I have to be on poorhouse insurance now?  Medicaid hardly has any doctors accepting patients.  They all look like Gosnell.  And under Obamacare, the program is going to be Death By Bureaucracy.

            How does this Low Cash Flow come about?  Well, many small businessmen are like many farmers.  They show very little cash flow but their assets continue to increase in value.  That’s why almost half the Millionaires Next Door are farmers who own valuable land. When a quarter section of grass brings $200,000 around here yet only generates $3500 in annual income—a little less than 2% return—you can see how hard it is to make a living.  But that is what farmers, small businessmen and ranchers do.  They learn to live on less than $20K a year and enjoy it.  Imagine a socialist economy where everyone is paid $40K a year.  If 49 out of 50 people spend all they make, they have nothing but social security to retire on.  But say, that last guy who gets his 40 thou can live on 30.  He saves $10,000 a year and winds up the Millionaire Next Door.  And since the above-mentioned careers have such frightening financial ups and downs, this is precisely what these guys do just to not go broke. “If you can just break even when hogs are sellin’ bad—then you can make big money as a hog man.”

            If you are one of these kinds of folks, you tend to laugh at the TV journalists who cry about “the poor”. They treat the entire universe as if people are salaried and can’t control their spending.  Even if you aren’t a millionaire (many businessmen have had bad health, horrid struggles, and other problems that short circuit their wealth building) but are still in business for yourself—and there are 11million of us, 10% of the population—you shake your head in confusion over media stories and figures of speech.  I know all sorts of wealthy people today who spent most of their lives living below the poverty line.  And still they live a rich life full of grandkids and friends.

            So are we going on Medicaid, as dictated by Uncle Sugar?  Uncle can’t figure out what is wrong with us, the people who build America’s businesses.  He has offered states a big sugar tit of federal funding, at least for a couple years for states to expand Medicaid.  Who could refuse?  Well, half the states evidently.  Oklahoma is determined to pay our own Medicaid and has set aside an extra $40 million to handle the people Obamacare is going to threaten with fines or jail time if they don’t buy insurance or go on Medicaid.  But by funding ourselves, the Medicaid rolls retain the old limits and are going to expand about 20% instead of doubling like Obama wants. 

            It is as if the Oklahoma Peronistas are telling Peron to go back to his lousy Nazi villa. Stop trying to ram your healthcare down our throats!  We will take care of our own.  But don’t underestimate Peron.  His healthcare is going to try to demand that all policies conform to what Uncle Sugar requires.  No more insurance policies with a large deductibles to make them affordable for small businesses and farmers.  They will require very low deductibles like the no-assets-no-nothing poor can only afford. Of course the whole intent is to drive Oh Ye of Little Budget into the arms of government bureaucrats.  We are here from the government to help you.  (Reagan’s “Nine most terrifying words of the English language.”)

            Still, I take comfort in the resolve of our Oklahoma legislature and Governor and Insurance Commissioner.  Seems like almost all these people are resistant to Federal Dole.  Obamacare may collapse before it really manages to corner me and put the Medicaid Star of David on my chest. And why would OK pols be so resistant?  It’s because almost all of ‘em are former farmers and small businessmen who learned to live on low cash flow.

Make sense?   

            

Levin for Special Prosecutor

Remember 1992, when the week before the Presidential election, Leonard Walsh who was special prosecutor for Iran-Contra announced his list of people to be prosecuted.  The result was that Bush 41 went from 3 points ahead in polls to 2 points down.  That was because Walsh was a partisan hack who chose the date to make his announcement to maximize effect—the October Surprise.  And then do you remember how in the succeeding months, all the accused folks beat their raps in courts.  Even Ollie North, supposedly the ringleader, who had 11 charges against him won on 9 counts and the judge dismissed the other 2. 

 

I’m thinking of this because they are calling for a special prosecutor for the IRS scandal.  When over 500 Tea Party organizations claim they were singled out by the IRS and no liberal groups were, it looks a bit fishy.  I say we nominate Mark Levin, a superb constitutional lawyer, to be special prosecutor.  He could turn this administration every which way but loose. 

 

Of course, if the Republicans can’t pin the tail on jackass Obama, then he gets by scot-free with big approval ratings.  For this reason, I think the R’s would do themselves a good turn by not going after Obama specifically, but rather to raise the rebellion against big government.  Which is what the Tea Parties are trying to do anyway.  Any government large enough to give you everything you want is also large enough to take it all away.  We need to hammer and hammer the point that big government isn’t helping.  Say, wasn’t the big government stimulus supposed to fix all the infrastructure?  Roads, bridges, potholes, free wi-fi, fast trains from LA to Los Vegas were supposed to appear as Shovel-Ready Projects, were they not? So why did that bridge fall down in Washington? Wasn’t it fixed? Never happened, because the feds gave the moolah to the states for keeping the pro-Obama union government workers hired and secure.  Did doubling the national debt help our economy?  Well, the new normal in recoveries is now 1% growth instead of 4% since government crowds out the private sector.  Fewer jobs but lots of entitlements until government figures out that they can’t afford such stuff. 

 

Big government with no responsibility has given us the EU.  The Economist says that the European leaders think they are now doing a well-managed reform but Economist says they are sleepwalking through an economic wasteland. Nothing is growing.  No jobs are being created.  More and more countries slip into recession.  The EU’s unemployment in a recovery is 12% (post-war high)and Spain’s is 27%.  Instead of Europe talking about emulating America, it’s the other way around.  Well, if that’s the case, I want voucher education like Scandinavia (which has some of the best education in the world.).

 

The worst offense of big government isn’t the economic stagnation.  It’s the loss of freedom.  The original Tea Party stunt was against unfair taxation. But the Declaration of Independence buries “no taxation without representation” in the middle of 22 other abuses of power. We should concentrate on the abuses too.  That’s what rouses people up.  IRS abuses will not be looked upon lightly.  Churches, told who they can have as ministers and what they can believe, will stand up in faith.  EPA killing small family businesses with regulation are stories with more legs. 

 

And concerning the traditional social issues there needs to be some new talk.  Why, oh why, when the Koran requires Muslims to “Pursue the infidels and beleaguer them. Cut off their heads and cut off their fingers.” (Sura 9:3) Why don’t we have a moratorium on Muslim immigration?  If jihadic Islam is normative Islam and all this talk about the peaceful religion is a concocted fake Islam--as the mullahs have been saying since that British soldier was killed, the Boston bombings, and the Swedish riots---then is it not a political movement intertwined with a religious fanaticism?  Shouldn’t we give Chechen rebels about as much immigration approval as say, a radical communist or a Nazi?

 

Why doesn’t Congress pass hard-hitting resolutions decrying loss of freedom when churches are told what to believe?  When czars are put in place with no advice and consent of Congress?  When the Justice Department refuses to uphold the laws of the land like DOMA?  When the federal government tries to tell a private company they cannot move a plant to S. Carolina?  When bankruptcy laws were trashed and the auto companies were gifted to the UAW?  This is indeed the tyranny  around the corner.  Just wait.  When a government that thinks, no one is watching, and it can get away with these kinds of things, will violate unreasonable seizure  of the 4^th Amendment and take part of your 401K.  They’ll propose making political opinion radio conform to “equal time”.  They’ll label evangelical Christians in the Army as religious extremists.  Ooops! They’ve already proposed these things. Gosh, I dunno, they might try to take your ammunition supplies.

 

Well, if Congress won't do it, Levin would.  We need somebody to talk plain.

Demolish Oblamer with ju jitsu

Obama’s secret is now becoming clear.  He scaremongers and crab-asses from the sidelines.  Amazingly he has turned the tables on the party out of power and managed to mimic their game of critiquing from the back row.  What should the R’s do when we have a President who seems to content himself with bashing them for not doing his job--leading the country?  After all, the Republicans have no power to lead. They have only a slim majority in the House. 

Ju-jitsu is how the Republicans win it. 

First of all, this swell game of Obama’s is not playing so well over the last two weeks.  He is beset with scandals.  Here’s the chance to flip the tables on Obama’s arguments.  No matter what the explanation, it is clear that tax officials singled out the president’s opponents for abuse.  How can he then persuade Americans of the virtues of bigger government if the IRS is politically biased? Hence his chief argument is wearing thin.  Realizing this, Obama is trying to say that he is disdainful of what the IRS did.  But in the coming weeks there will be testimony showing that the IRS has a built-in distrust of conservatives, that the scope of targeting which the administration claimed is far wider and more insidious, and that he didn’t do a darned thing to stop it.  This  isn’t going to play well for him.  And unlike Bengazi where he might make a few drone strikes against the consulate attackers (and proudly say ‘we got Al Anser Sharia’ just like he proudly said, ‘we got bin Ladn.”) there is no fix of the IRS without a massive reform that Congress might demand.  So that’s item 1: Demand massive IRS changes be made—or even tax reform to a fair tax-- perhaps holding Obamacare hostage to the assurance that IRS become fair in their assessments.  Secondly, use Bengazi and AP scandals to harass. Flip the tables on him.

 

By making Obama’s scandals the headlines and tying them to his lack of leadership, he is forced out of his catbird seat of Non-leadership Critic in Chief.   Ju-jitsu point #2 : Make him propose something to fix the messes.  This is what Obama apparently doesn’t do or hates doing.  He rarely creates a solution.  He never wrote legislation as a Senator.  He let others write Obamacare.  He didn’t do an immigration reform.  He talks a big act about all these things including entitlement reform, but never proposes his own solutions.  Now it may be that Obama thinks he can’t work with Republicans, but his legacy depends on him trying.  And the longer he delays, the more leverage he loses.  I predict that he will do only the minimal. He is a man without solutions.  His game is to blame R’s for everything. 

 

So what do you do with a leader who won’t lead but just criticizes?  Be patient and offer your own solutions even though doomed in passage.  Patience.  Wait for a crisis to strike. Our debt will either cause no-growth or inflation.  Make sure Obama is in charge of this, by reminding the American people that a Republican House passed a budget every year that would have led to balanced budgets within a few years.  Foreign crisis or a 9/11 event?  Remind the public that Republicans had policies of containment of certain dangerous countries.  Obama pronounced the war on terror over like Mission Accomplished and it led to a mess. Obamacare?  Refuse to amend it or fix it.  Let it stand or fail on it’s own merits.  Tie it around the Democrat’s necks.  Point out that R’s had passed numerous repeals.  Here’s the salient point.  When times are good, people don’t like to think about policies.  But when times are bad, they clamour for each side to tell what they are going to do. If something bad happens to a guy in power, he has a hard time explaining how he will fix it since he’s already in charge.

 

And what of the 3 big issues that need addressing in Congress—immigration, entitlements, tax reform?  Ju-jitsu #3.  Pass a House plan in each case but don’t compromise on key parts.  On immigration reform, don’t compromise the border security or Visa overstaying strictures.  Those must come first, ahead of citizenship.  On entitlement reform, offer to raise retirement age but not payroll taxes and point out that the political gimmick of lowering payroll taxes for one year made the system less solvent.  On tax reform, the Dems want all sorts of money grabs to raise more revenue.  Value added taxes will kill business.  Corporate taxes already make it hard for US businesses to compete.  Taxing everyone’s IRA or 401k is an fascist asset grab.  And raising taxes of the rich did pitifully nothing to help our deficits.  All the Dems use them for is to soften up the middle class for a tax hike that is coming unless we cut spending.  Here’s the point.  Don’t let Oblamer blame you.  Point out your solutions and show how you tried to work with him but he was AWOL.

 

And that reminds me, the R’s need to reclaim the role of the opposition party out of power.  Boil down their rhetoric into more understandable terms.  Do the American people realize that an average health care policy costs $5000 per worker and has gone up $3000 since Obamacare was passed, and will likely go to $10,000 by 2016 and all because of government mandates?  Who is going to pay for this?  Do the people realize that 16% of small businesses think the tax system is fair and 89% of us pay for help doing our taxes spending $168 billion each year?  It’s a too-complicated  mess when the IRS collects only 8 times that much. Time for a fairer system. Do the people realize that Muslim Brotherhood, which now runs Egypt, is the parent organization that oversees Al Qaeda?  Why are we giving them aid? Do they know that the Quran, not radicalization, demands jihad and maybe we need a moratorium on Muslim immigration? 

 

We need a plain-spoken spokesman who connects with real people the way Sarah Palin did. 

Watching the squirming

Okay, call me perverse, but I love to watch MSNBC and Rachel Madcow when the Democrats are squirming about something.  This week has been classic with Bengazi, IRS targeting and AP phones.  So what are the Dems saying?  EJ Dione said that it is all a tempest in a tea party pot. That most people support the President.  He says that Obama won decisively (what? 50.3%?) and  that there will always be a disgruntled 20 or 30 percent that don’t adore the Prez, but ‘we aren’t going to allow them to speak’. Whoa! Does that include the AP? 

 The British magazine, The Economist, often sympathetic to our Democrats, sees Obama as longing for his winning majority of the election.  His very capable campaigners managed to get minorities and youth and single mothers to vote where they usually have poor turnout.  But once the election was over, these folks aren't very political and they disappear.  Hence Obama continues to operate his campaign organization, raising money like it was an election year, trying desperately to keep these people inspired to vote for their local Democrat congressional challenger.  But the low-info voters don't even know who their current congressman is.  So Obama faces a dilemma.

            Hardball Matthews had a leading authority in the form of a cub reporter whose name I missed but he looked all of 22 years old.  Breathlessly he explained that someone had told him that the reason Bengazi had gone bad was that Ambassador Stevens had twice told the guys in Washington he needed no help, thank you.   And so that’s why the military was told to stand down twice.  Matthews celebrated this point with a belief void of any skepticism.  He told the young guy to follow up on this story since it surely would exonerate both Hillary and B. Hussein.  Hmm.  Methinks something is rotten in Denmark since we have Steven’s diary complaining loudly about lack of security.  Moreover, if such would have been the case, doesn’t one think that President Out Of The Loop would have immediately jumped on this explanation from the first day? “It was very sad that the Ambassador refused for us to intervene…”

            Representative Joe Crowley (does he get his debate points from Candy?) defended IRS outgoing head honcho Steve Miller saying that the R’s were making partisan mockery of the hearing in asking Miller a lot of hard questions.  “Same o’, same o’” he insisted.  Did Crowley get the memo that Miller was fired by Obama?

Bett Midler, upon learning that IRS had targeted Tea Party groups, said “thank you! Thank You, IRS!” Alec Baldwin said the IRS scandal is “merely a Rovian pushback.”  (Push em back! Push em back! way back!) Bill Mahrer noted, "The IRS targeted people who want to abolish the IRS? Shocking, like getting pulled over more after U put on the F--- the Police bumpersticker." You know, I’ve never had an 'F--- the Police' bumpersticker let alone put one on.

            Now returning from La-la land, I notice that my plumbing supply house, which has had no political postings in several decades of business, now has a picture taped to their cash register.  It is of Obama’s face photoshopped onto Sargeant Schulz and captioned, “I see not’ing, I hear not’ing.” “Everybody is getting a big kick out of it,” Fred insists.  Maybe he should give his poll results to EJ Dione.

            If the IRS management knew about the targeting in 2011, and had a meeting about it in May 2012, and then allowed it to continue, allowed confidential data about the Tea Parties to be handed over to a leftist PAC which specializes in attack ads, then I have a suggestion for House Republicans.  Simply refuse to allocate any funds for the IRS until a Special Prosecutor is appointed by a panel of federal judges.  Stand by the decision when Obama and the Dems scream about government shut-down.  Then refuse to let IRS administer Obamacare until it is cleared by the Prosecutor.  It’ll get their attention.  But then crazy guys like me suggest such things because we like to watch the Dems squirm.