The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy; Translating Obamese

In all the hoopla that has surrounded the current campaign for president an important fact has been lost; Barack Obama is a Harvard lawyer. Why is this important? Lawyers are trained to hide the truth. Trained to parse their words and use vague statements which can later be spun this way and that.

Remember the last Ivy League lawyer who sat in the White House? He had the nation contemplating what the meaning of “is” was. Like all good lawyers Barack Obama speaks a language all his own. As a service to voters I am going to try to translate some of Barack’s statements into plain English.

“…that happened when I was eight years old.”  Translation: I would really rather not try to explain that when I was coming up in Chicago politics I would use anyone I could to try to get ahead. A hateful preacher, an aging terrorist bomber or a political fixer, I didn’t care as long as they could help advance my career.

“We will use public funding for our campaign.” Translation: I had no idea how many donations would be pouring in from interests overseas. We needed to use the law to hide all that cash and bundle it into small donations. Strangely, we also got small donations from some of the same people that ACORN registered to vote like Mickey Mouse, Good News, Yo Mama, Homer Simpson and many more. In addition some super rich folks like George Soros wanted to kick in a lot of dough so we got donations from a lot of his distant three year old relatives.

“…we need to spread that wealth around.”  Translation: Traditionally taxes have been used to pay for the constitutional activities of the government. My plan is to use taxpayer’s money to try some experiments in social engineering. We can use taxation to level the playing field economically. That is expensive so we need to hike up everyone’s taxes; of course I can’t say that until after November fourth.  From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. My pal Karl Marx said that!

“… the middle class will pay the same rate they paid under Ronald Reagan.” Translation: I will do away with the Bush tax cuts and everyone’s taxes will go back up to the rates from when Jimmy Carter was president. When Reagan took office in January, before he could put his tax cut into effect these were the tax rates so technically these were also Reagan’s tax rates.

“… we will look at that.”  Translation: This will never happen.

“I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.”  Translation: We Marxist like to revise history to fit our world view. Lincoln was white and accepting that any white person isn’t racist works against the class envy and racial tension that I try to foment.

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”  Translation: The rich and those that want to be are shallow and deserve to be punished. Anyone who has earned a significant amount of money obviously has no other interests in life and is a selfish pig.  By getting involved with socialism and socialistic policies we can take what we did not earn and give it to those who do not deserve it.

“This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably” Translation: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. My pal Karl Marx said that!

“I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby”. Translation: Don’t take responsibility for your actions or behaviors. Babies are not human beings, they are a punishment for sex. Since knowing when life begins is above my pay grade I am not even sure my kids are alive.

“Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.” Translation: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. My pal Karl Marx said that!

“We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.” Translation: Knowledge of the constitution is not needed. As long as you have a progressive liberal world view and are willing to try to legislate from the bench you too could become a Justice or Federal Judge. 

“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”  Translation: Redneck morons in the Midwest! We need to get these folks in a nice reeducation camp ASAP.

“In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”  Translation:  If you vote for McCain you are a moronic cynic.

 

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy; Caution Leftist, the Fat Lady May Be a Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

I know all of my leftist friends are in a state of total euphoria. All of the journalists like Chris Mathew, Maureen Dowd, Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric and Keith Obermann have declared Obama the winner of the White House in a landslide. I understand the New York Times has already printed their front page for November fifth. Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank are busy writing new laws outlawing the Republican Party and getting ready issue federal arrest warrants for Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. Re-education camps are being readied for the members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Hillary is out shopping for a black pant suit to wear under her Supreme Court robe. Oprah is planning a week of special shows each dedicated to one of Barack’s new spending programs. At the end of each program she will pick an audience member to have their wealth redistributed to get things started.    

The Champaign is on ice, the confetti is ready to be thrown and the balloons are ready to be dropped.  Plans for the coronation, I’m sorry, inauguration are being drawn up and the tee shirts are being printed. You are all making your party plans and I know what fun it is and I hate to be a wet blanket but the Fat Lady has not yet agreed to sing.

I know all of you lefties have been IM’ing, texting, e-mailing and blogging each other reinforcing your belief that it’s a done deal.  I know when you drive your Prius to the Organic Food Farmers Market and Hemp Clothing Outlet all you see is Obama 08 stickers and you know it’s going to happen. I am a Cub fan and I was pretty sure I would be watching my beloved Cubs play Tampa Bay tonight but here I am watching the Phillies. So just take a deep breath for a second and imagine a different world than the one you live in. In this world we are unhappy with Bush and his mediocre leadership but not quite ready to become France. We are not crazy in love with our candidate but not quite ready to wipe our collective backside with the Constitution for the sake of change.

I hate to seem petty, to stand on ceremony but some of us out here in Flyoverland want to vote before we let the Big O put his hand on the book. I can’t say I understand how it can be true but from everything I have read there are still ten to twelve percent of the voting public that say they are unsure who they are going to vote for. I may be wrong, those ten percent may go for Obama and I might be crying in my non-alcoholic beer a week from Wednesday but the Fat Lady may just be a card carrying member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

 

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Can We Get Some New Talking Heads?

I am going to take a break from the presidential politics and try to reach out to my brothers and sisters across the political aisle. I would like to start a list of the talking heads both left and right that we would like to see banned from all news outlets. I am tired of spin morons who offer only party talking points and no original thought or intellectual honesty. I am tired of non-responsive answers from alleged political experts who don’t even get close to addressing the question from the news reader or program host. I am tired of split screen talk-over matches to see who can yell the loudest. Finally, I am tired of folks whose number one reason for being on these programs seems to be to plug their own show or book.

I know some of you will say I am dreamer and idealist but could we have just an hour somewhere on the idiot box where rational people actually discuss the issues and events of the day?

I will lay down the ground rules and get the list started. I invite you to join in. I will forward the list and your suggestions to the appropriate networks at some future date.

Here are the rules:

1) You cannot ask for someone to be banned for ideological reasons. Let me give you an example; Karl Rove. I know those of you on the left can’t stand this guy, think he is the devil blah blah blah, but his work is pretty good. I have never seen him do a talking point or just be a “homer” for the right. You are welcome to try to prove me wrong

2) You have to keep it non-personal. No banning for being too fat, bald, ugly or anything to do with physical appearance. You may call someone stupid if you can cite examples or give links to video that back up your position.

3) Character counts. Past deeds, associations and other evidence of character defects is fair game.

4) Only “talking heads” on the list. No Keith Doberman or Sean Humidity as they are host types and most appear in the fabulous “Dickopedia” on www.236.com.

I reserve the right to add to the rules or change them at any time. It’s my bat and ball.

My picks for the list:

Pat Buchanan- This has-been is number one with a bullet! He has gone from being a member of the greatest administration of the last fifty years to ranting lunatic is just a few years. I don’t often use the “N” word but this dinosaur is bordering on neo-Nazi.  

Bob Bickel- Is this guy ever sober? Bob, I am ready to take you to a meeting whenever you are ready.  If you asked this guy why the sky is blue his answer would be that because McCain is the third Bush term. For the love of God, Bob, just answer one question.

Dick Morris- The plug machine. That alone should get him on the no-air list but I have a bigger problem with this guy. He is a turncoat. Not that you can’t ever change your mind or point of view but my impression of Morris is that he blabbed about the Clintons for spite and money and like Scott McClellan there is nothing lower than being a rat.

Al Sharpton- How does this guy have any creditability? Riot inciter, serial perjurer and flat out liar. My opinion of Glenn Beck went down by fifty percent for having this criminal on for a full hour not once but twice and never once holding his feet to the fire about past misdeeds.

Ok, it’s your turn to nominate the talking head who makes you reach for the remote.

 

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: What is She Thinking?

We have all heard the old saw about the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, yet members of the Jewish Community continue to vote almost en masse for anyone with a Democrat “D” behind their name. I did a fund raiser a couple of years ago for the California Jewish Republicans and the running gag for the night was that we should be holding the meeting in a phone booth. Despite the major media bias against politically conservative Jews, known by their code name of “neo-cons”, their numbers are growing as many Jewish-Americans have come to realize the Democrat Party is deserting our only true ally in the Middle East; Israel. I know there are some who think Saudi Arabia is an ally but having the House of Saud for an ally is like having Scott Peterson for your fishing buddy, you better watch your back or you could end up in the bay.

Since the election of Ariel Sharon in 2001 Israel has been moving towards national suicide by allowing pacifism and appeasement to dominate their foreign policy. This has no doubt been influenced by the number of liberal leaning American Reform Jews who have immigrated to the Middle East over the past twenty years. Sharon’s formation of the Kadima party when he broke with Likud marked Israel’s swing towards a liberal policy of land for peace which has encouraged renewed attacks from Hezbollah and Hamas. This policy had been continued by Ehud Olmert until he resigned last month under a cloud of low approval ratings and corruption accusations. It remains to be seen if Israel will continue in this direction under new Kadima leader Tzipi Livni.

Appeasement and continuing to weaken Israel’s security might continue if Comedienne Sarah Silverman’s choice for President gets his way. Silverman is the kind of Jew who will be the demise of the nation of Israel. Not only is she voting her liberalism and hatred of Bush ahead of the interest of the Jewish state but she is urging other to do the same. Ms. Silverman is fronting for a failing effort know as the “Great Schlep” which is urging young Jews on the East Coast to go to Florida and urge their grandparents to vote for Obama. Her grandparents reportedly don’t even live in Florida and I would think at Ms. Silverman’s age it might be her parents who were retired to the Sunshine State, but I digress. I am sure that she thinks her “Great Schlep” is funny and cute and politically correct but her type of short sighted disengagement liberalism is exactly what is driving Israel towards oblivion.

Ms. Silverman is urging Jewish Floridians to vote for Obama despite the fact that recent speeches and writings by major movers in the Democrat Party that should make Jewish voter question their traditional alignment with the left. Outspoken friends of Obama like Jimmy Carter and Jesse Jackson and fringe supporters like Louis Farrakhan have shown various degrees of distain for Israel and yet few Jewish groups or leaders have spoken out against this rising tide of anti-Semitism in leftist American politics. Free speech is a wonderful thing and I certainly support Ms. Silverman’s right to campaign for whomever she wishes but Mr. Obama’s position on Israel has sifted more times than a NASCAR driver. Hopefully her grandparents, wherever they are, can talk some sense into her

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy; Three Joes and the Big O

There is nothing like spending 15 hours driving to Northern Michigan and back to give you a chance to do some thinking. I don’t know if you believe in God but I have noticed that no matter how far from civilization you get his radio stations always come in clearly.

I watched the debate on Wednesday and thought, (and I know this will surprise you), McCain did reasonably well. I am not claiming that his campaign is now reading the VRWC blogs but he did all three things I suggested he should and now his poll numbers are rising here in Ohio and other swing states.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden was out there proving his level of intelligence with two stunningly stupid statements. While a lot of folks on the left look down their surgically enhanced noses at Sarah Palin but I am pretty sure she could tell you how many letters are in the word “jobs”. Then Joe “Have I mentioned I grew up in Scranton in the last five minutes?” Biden suggested that his neighborhood was chock-a-block with blue collar worker like plumbers, cops, and firemen. Sen. Biden, who has done well on $160,000 a year, lives in a 6400 square foot lakeside mansion that sits on a four acre lot valued at 3.5 million. I am not a betting man but I might be willing to risk a buck or two that he is the only government worker or tradesman on his block, especially since his house takes up the whole block.

Then there is Joe Wurzelbacher, AKA Joe the Plumber. Here is some poor working stiff who dares ask the anointed one a question and now that the answer to that question is partly responsible for sending his poll numbers down the Obamamaniacs are doing a colonoscopy on Joe. Ok, so this single parent father is working as a plumber without a license to support his son and himself. Yeah, he’s behind in his taxes, which might be the reason he’s wondering if he will pay more. Maybe he is dreaming too big thinking that someday he will buy out the boss and be making 250 large a year, but isn’t that what America is all about?

So, how does the left treat this working class hero? This guy who Obama/Biden claim to be so in touch with and working so hard to help. They set out to make his life a living hell.  In Obama’s Marxist view of the world there is no upward social or economic mobility. For daring to step up and give a point of view that doesn’t fit in with the Progressive mythology he is investigated. For being a working class guy who might have a longer term view of life than his next paycheck he is slapped down and told to remember his place.  That, my Enlightened Progressive friends, is a tactic that would make Big Joe Stalin proud. Hey, Joe Stalin, another Marxist!

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The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: What I Need to Hear Tonight, Part Two

Before the last great debate I gave some free advice to John McCain. My father always used to say that free advice is worth what you paid for it and maybe that’s why I was ignored. However I am fairly hardheaded and my thirty years in show business has made me impervious to rejection so I will give it another try.

This is the last round of the title fight and it looks like McCain is behind on all the cards so he needs not only to win this round but at least make an attempt at a knockout punch. He must engage Barack Obama directly as well as the American people. He has to ask direct questions of Obama to throw him off of his game. Toss him a “gotcha” question or two and see how he handles being on the spot. Ask him to answer a direct yes or no question and when he doesn’t answer with a yes or a no ask him if there is anything on which he doesn’t equivocate.

Show some passion and put some ideas out there that don’t involve the Federal Government spending tons of our dough.

Go negative! Yeah I know that all the folks in the Government Owned Media say that going negative is not working but every election since the beginning of time says differently. McCain must use Ayers, Rezko, Farrakhan, and anything else that comes to mind. Bring up the fact that Obama has taken more money from Fannie Mae than anybody except Chris Dodd.  Ask him to give it back to the American people. McCain must not only show what you can do but raise questions about Obama in the minds of the public. Kick some dirt on Bush. We far right wing nut jobs agree with the far lefties that this President has done a horrible job in the past three years. Go after a few Republicans as well as Democrats and hit them all hard. I don’t want to see the Harvard Debating Society; I want to see a good old fashioned, ashtray-in-the-eye bar fight.

As a comic I know that if you finish strong the audience will forget that you limped through the first part of the show. One last thing John, if you want to look presidential try to remember “that one’s” name.

The Vast Right Conspiracy: Beating a Dead Horse

So we have twenty-one days left and I already feel like I am living in a Stalinist state. Here we have the party that is supposed to be all about tolerance, building bridges and open mindedness about to take the reins, if you listen to the Government owned media channels, and yet if we on the right even dare ask a question about Obama’s associations and past we are shouted down with cries of racist and worse.

I’m not trying to change minds at this point; in fact I can’t believe there are still people who haven’t decided yet. The difference between our two parties is the greatest it has been since Ronald Reagan sent Jimmy Carter off to build houses for the poor and crank out his anti-Semitic crap.

I am going to challenge my Enlightened Progressive readers to try something really difficult. Put aside your unbridled idol worship for King Barack and reach deep down into your intellectual honesty and admit there is a double standard in the way the media questions the two men running for the right to screw up traffic where ever they go.

I want you to look without emotion for a moment at what it would be like if a man from a different ethnic background was running and had done some of the things Obama had done.

Let’s say there was a guy from the south side of Chicago running for president but instead of being African-American he had a last name that ended in a vowel. This candidate goes to a Catholic Church where they still say Mass in Latin and the priest gives sermons about how America had deserted God and was an instrument of evil for allowing abortion. He has a friend that kicked off his campaign for Alderman several years ago who had been a reputed mob hitter and had once beat a rap for murder. Some of his early financing had come from well know Chicago political figures with ties to organized crime. Do you think the New York Times would do an article or two about this man’s associations? Do you thing folks on he left would be screaming about how who you do business with isn’t important?

Ok, maybe that’s not fair so let’s look at another example. Let’s imagine there is a politician not from the south side of Chicago but from the Deep South. He’s a decent guy especially when it comes to matters of race. Being born and raised in the South he knows history the importance of the Civil Rights movement. Even though he is a conservative he has a record on race issues any liberal would be proud to show around.  Then one day he is at a birthday party for an old man who was a segregationist and Klan member much like Robert Byrd (D-WV) and he says a few kind words about this old man. The big time elite media guys go nuts and ignoring his lifetime of work all but hounds him out of politics. Fair treatment, who’s to say?

 

I know I am beating a dead horse with you lefties but as long as I still have some first amendment rights left I will ask, Mr. Obama what exactly is your relationship with Bill Ayers? Will you ever publicly denounce him? How is it you bought a house you couldn’t possible afford? Why did Tony Rezko help you get such a sweetheart deal?  Why did you start wearing a flag pin is you didn’t think it necessary? Why didn’t you stand by your principle? There’s more I’d like to ask but there is an old saying that even a stupid dog will walk away if you kick him enough.

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy; Progressive Mythology

 

Writers Note: I have gotten a great number of new readers in the past six months and I thank you for reading my blog. These are a series of blogs I published in April and May. I hope you enjoy reading about the mythology of the left. 

Progressive Mythology

Progressive politics, which used to be known as liberalism in American until Liberals thought the general public would be fooled by changing the name for creeping socialism, is built on a mythology.  Here are some of the more common myths which progressives believe.

 

Progressive Myth Number 1        You are stupid.

The key to all progressive mythology is that you are stupid! It is the underlying granddaddy whopper on which all other progressive mythology is based. You are so stupid you poor ignorant and unenlightened soul. Do not despair! We, the enlightened progressives are here and they know what’s best for you.  They are smarter that you, you ignorant masses of drones. Not to worry, they are here to help you, especially with your kids who you are obviously much too stupid to raise by yourself.

            The roots of this progressive myth are in the early sixties when the Surgeon General first issued his report on smoking. Because of the progressive belief that you are stupid and could not understand this report progressives, still known as liberals at that time, passed a law to put a warning on cigarettes. The number of people who smoked dropped after the report and the progressives, driven by their belief in their mythology, assumed it was because of the warning label on cigarettes. In my entire life I have never know anyone to pick up a pack of cigarettes read the warning and run away screaming. Could smoking rates have dropped because people became aware of the dangers and decided to quit on their own? According to progressive mythology this is not possible. So they took the next step, they banned cigarette ads on TV. Still, some people smoked so the progressives figured they had not stooped low enough for the stupidest Americans to understand the dangers. They invented a sub-mythology of second hand smoke and claimed millions died every year.  With this additional mythology they started banning smoking in restaurants, then bars, then everywhere, even outdoor stadiums.  

Now there is an assault on freedom of choice, strangely enough being propagated by the political wing in America which claims to be pro-choice.  Progressives are only pro-choice when it comes to abortion. When it comes to your ability to choose your kids schools they prefer Government enforced conformity. Witness the recent lawsuits against homeschoolers in California. They are against freedom of choice when it comes to food choices. Witness the recent laws passed in many cities banning various trans-fat foods. They are against your choice in cars and homes. Witness recent progressive-backed movements to economically punish people who want to drive SUVs or live in large homes.  

So the myth of stupidity has grown. Progressives believe you are too stupid to know what is good to eat or drive. That you cannot possibly even begin to comprehend what should go on in Government Schools or have any idea of what your children should be exposed to so leave that to the progressives and all will be well.

 

Progressive Myth Number 2   All cultures are equal

Progressives can’t see that being tolerant and recognizing that some things are better than others are two different things, even though they would never be seen in a domestic car or drinking a Bud. Progressives like to belittle all things western and elevate all things from any other culture. They believe in the myth that tolerance means equality. Progressives see every culture that exists or ever has existed as being of equal value.

The fact the culture of Western Europe from the Middle Ages until the late nineteenth century was responsible for most of the advances of modern human civilization and that these advances have been adopted by most cultures around the world drives progressive folk’s nuts. It goes against one of their basic myths that all cultures are equal in all ways.

I took a field trip to an old American Indian village with my son and his grade school class. Our “guide” through the old settlement was constantly telling the kids how great and advanced the culture was in this area when the village was active between six and eight hundred years ago. This was a subsistence farming and hunting community of semi-nomadic people who buried their food in the ground to preserve it. After awhile I asked if this village was active at the same time folks in Europe were writing the Magna Carta, building Notre Dame, exploring the world and developing the science, mathematics, literature, philosophy and technology that was the groundwork for all of modern civilization. Our guide gave me a long sigh and said that the contributions of the Native peoples were still used today. I asked her which ones they were and she talked about the value of the art. Would you rather have a beaded belt or a painting by Michelangelo?  Exactly! The other thing that Europeans figured out was that plumbing was important. Modern sanitary systems have saved more lives than all the doctors in all of history. Your extended life span is due more to your plumber that to your cardiologist.

It’s not that I don’t appreciate the resourcefulness of the early American tribes but I like my microwave oven and central air. I like flying from coast to coast in a few hours in the relative comfort and safety of a modern jet. The Europeans figured out how to move up the Maslowian Pyramid into self actualization while many cultures were still trying to figure out how to keep deadly animals away from their kids. I am also tolerant of any moron who would like to go live in a tent in the woods and eat berries and rabbits.  Knock yourself out.  

 

 

 

Myth number 3 Big Business is Evil

The progressive economic philosophy is Socialism/Marxism warmed over with the concession that you may own property unless the government needs it for a freeway or a rich donor needs it for a high rise. It should come as no surprise that myth number three is that big business is evil.

How dare some people get ahead of others by working hard! You see the basic difference between Progressives and Conservatives can be seen in the old half a glass of water metaphor. A conservative looks at the glass and says, “There is a half a glass of water, maybe I could buy it, work hard and soon I could have a full glass for myself and my family.” A progressive sees the same glass and says “When are you greedy, evil, SUV driving, gun nut conservatives gonna fill up this glass for us.”

Progressives see big business as some evil robber baron sitting behind his desk with a fat cigar. He is looking to ravage the earth and cheat you out of your money. Never mind that these progressives think its fine for the government to dip into your pocket for fifty or sixty percent (Aren’t we even partners anymore?) If Exxon make nine percent that’s “windfall” profits and should be grabbed by the nice people in Washington D.C. You see the progressives think Mr. Robber Baron has a monopoly on oil, gasoline, drugs, and most other products. Forget that the rich pay ninety nine percent of all taxes in America. Don’t forget that to be “rich” in America today by progressive standers you only need to make $200,000 a year. I know that seems like a lot to most of us but when you are in that tax bracket in California and self employed; with sales tax you would pay close to seventy percent of your income to some branch of government. That would leave you with a whopping take home of $70,000 which is no fortune in California.

 Progressives don’t see that business is us! We are big oil and big pharma. We own these companies in our IRAs our 401Ks, in our state retirement funds and in out small portfolios.

They also don’t see that companies like Microsoft and Apple make much higher percentage profits and are sitting on billions in cash.  Of course, lots of progressives work in San Jose and Los Gatos so we don’t want to say anything about the profits they are making.

Now we see Barack screaming to the left labor base about the evil big business and NAFTA and CAFTA. He is howling about how all the jobs that used to pay for their homes and put hundreds of millions into the local tax base are now in China, India and Mexico. Apparently they are hoping that the labor class in America is so busy trying to patch together a living that will forget it was that great American progressive Bill Clinton who gave us NAFTA and Other trade agreements which are now killing the middle class along with the flood of cheap labor still coming into this country. Yet they defend the millions of illegal entrants in America who take jobs from drywall hangers, painters, plumbers, roofers and other skilled and unskilled workers who are unwilling to work for a wage that your high schooler would turn up his nose at.   

As a conservative I am all for fair and open markets but our trade with these third world nations is neither fair nor open. And yet both of our political parties continue to defend the export of our economy and the import of our labor force.

We cannot continue on this road until we are all fixing each other’s computers. An economy based totally on service is unsupportable. We need to make things, big things, like steel, tanks, guns and ships unless we want to ask the Chinese to make them for us while we our fighting their  other business partners like the Arabs and the North Koreans.

 

Progressive Myth Number 4  Guns are bad and kill people.

Can we agree that objects are neither good nor bad?  They simply are. A Bible isn’t a good book it’s just a book but what it inspires people to do is good. Any object can be used for good or for evil.

In the entire history of man never has an inanimate object jumped up and killed anyone. I am sure that at some time a rock has fallen off a cliff and killed someone but never has a knife jumped off the table and stabbed anyone with intent. So it follows that a gun has never killed anyone. People kill people and only when people are outlawed will that stop. The myth that guns either causes more murder or do not deter crime are two staples of the progressive attack on the second amendment.  Neither contention is borne out by any scientific study in fact the opposite is true. Many crimes are prevented or deterred by guns.

If you don’t believe this try this experiment. Put a sign in your yard that says, “I hate guns and don’t keep any in my home!” Any there takers? I didn’t think so and do you know why? Because deep down in their bleeding hearts progressives know that we gun owners keep the trash at bay.

Some people have this utopian view of the world that tells them if they get rid of guns people will all hold hands and sing Kumbaya and solve their problems by talking and going to anger management classes.

Here are the facts. There are a lot of people out there with little or no impulse control. Maybe it’s because their mommies didn’t hug them enough or maybe their fathers were drunks who smacked them around and that’s horrible but when he is kicking in my front door or trying to car jack me I really don’t care.  I just want to stop their behavior and in my experience asking nicely doesn’t work. A large weapon does!

I am also tired of the “hunter” argument. I don’t hunt. I don’t want to kill Bambi, skin her and have a venison burger on my deck. I want a gun for two reasons, to protect my home and to keep the government in line. Don’t get me wrong I don’t see myself as Rambo holding the entire U. S. Army at bay but an armed citizenry is a deterrent to tyranny. So the next time you see some moron like John Kerry out at a photo op in camos that still have the fold lines from the store in them and carrying a rifle that has never been fired realize that they have ever hunted is your vote.

 

 

Progressive Myth Number 5: Big Government is Good

Progressives love big government. They love the concept of the government doing everything for them. Educate and raise their children in government schools and day care, great! Government health care, free for everyone! Anyone who wants the Government to run health care has not spent enough time at the post office.

 Recently far left major whack job Maxine Waters even suggested that the Government should nationalize the oil industry. Wouldn’t that be grand, imagine those same highly educated, friendly, courteous folk who are going through your underwear at the airport pumping your gas. I am sure that would drive the price down. I imagine she has a picture of Hugo Chavez in her bedroom and dreams of them meeting at an OPEC conference.

 

Hey Uncle Sam, can you replace our houses when we get flooded our or blown away by a hurricane? Can you tell me what kind of car to drive, how much and what I can eat, what I can smoke and drink? Can you make sure that no one gets ahead of anyone for any reason or ever does anything that anyone one else might take offense to.

I am surprised that some Progressive hasn’t demanded the government give us free toilet paper and someone to come over and wipe our bottoms for us.

Have you ever noticed that civil servants today don’t seem to know the meaning of either one of those words?  No matter how bad the economy gets the government never has lay-offs.  Government workers (or should we just call them job holders) never have to take a pay cut or get hit up to pay a bigger portion of their own health care expenses. That government job holders get raises every year based on the cost of living even if they suck at their jobs. Even when the government get “shut down” because the Congress can’t agree on how much more of our money they should spend when the employees come back they get paid for the days they didn’t work.

The fact is that there is very little the government can do better that the private sector. Let’s take the post office as an example. When Fed-Ex cut into the Post office parcel business the post office came up with their overnight “Express Mail”. They undercut the price Fed-Ex was charging and yet Fed-ex continued to crush the post office for overnight delivery. Why is this? Several reasons, service and dependability for sure but more important was the fact that if you are unhappy with Fed-Ex they actually care. They will do what they can to make it right or give you a refund. Every try to get a refund from the post office?  I can hear you laughing.

The IRS is pretty good at getting our money but is totally unnecessary. If the government really wanted to go green they could eliminate the IRS and go to a VAT or sales tax. Think of all the gas we would save if all of those IRS employees all over the country were riding their bikes down to the unemployment office. Think of all the trees we could save by eliminating paper work of the IRS. 

Perhaps the only outfit in the government that does a reasonable job is the military. Despite the political interference from the left since Viet Nam they have managed to keep us free, but the Progressives are working on that.

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Clinton’s are Lurking

I had to miss the big non-debate the other night because my son broke his arm at football practice. Some kids will do anything for their parents! I think there are many things that we Right Wing Conspirators and you Enlightened Progressives disagree on but can we get some bipartisan support for saying that this alleged debate was the most boring ninety minutes of television since TBS ran a “She’s The Sherriff” marathon. I said in my previous blog that McCain needed to give Obama a verbal “beat down” which his campaign may have taken for “bed down”. Maybe their strategy is to put the left to sleep for the next four weeks and when they wake up McCain will be President.

I said that McCain had to step up in the economic crisis. What he stepped up with was more socialism. Right now I don’t think he could win his Senate seat if it was up for grabs. Where is Duncan Hunter now that we need him?

Since the Republican Party seems to have no interest in winning the White House the last hope for conservatives may be the Clintons. I don’t think that Hillary has gone back to New York and told herself that being a U.S. Senator is pretty good and she can do a lot of good work in the Senate. I think that this is a woman who feels like she was owed the nomination and that Obama and Move On have done her wrong. She wants to be President and if Obama wins she is McCain’s age before she gets another chance. I don’t think Bill Clinton is too happy going from “first black president” to racist good old boy. Even if it’s not true (let’s not forget one of Bill’s early mentors was segregationist and anti-Semite, J. William Fulbright) it makes him look bad and there is nothing an ego the size of Vermont hates more than looking bad. The Clinton’s are seething in their separate bedrooms and know how to get even. They are like Michael Corleone, quietly going about their business while their minions have been sent out and all scores will be settled before Election Day.   

I had to run this idea by someone to make sure I was on the right track so I called my ultra liberal older brother. He’s the kind of guy that is the heart and soul of the Obama Nation. Upper middle class white guy who for some reason feels like he is part of the oppressed masses. I called and ran my idea by him and he started into a laundry list of reason why it wouldn’t happen. I knew I was on to something. He then reminded me that several weeks ago I had written that the “lipstick” comment would be the seminal moment of the campaign and it was all but forgotten. I hate when that happens.