The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Constitutional Amendment

Remember back when Obama was on the campaign trail and he promised us, (yes, I know he promised a lot of things that he hasn’t followed through on) that we would get the same healthcare that every Senator and Representative gets.

Didn’t quite work out that way, did it? Some real idiots in the Senate, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown being one of them, will grandstand and say he will not take the special Senate healthcare package. That’s because he is probably covered by his wife’s sweet deal with the Cleveland paper where she works. If he isn’t he may have some deal with his union cronies to be o their policy. You can bet your last dollar he won’t be fronting up to some goverment run clinic or standing in line for a byass when he gets sick.

Sherry Brown thinks you are an idiot and that he and his pals Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their pinko, I’m sorry, “progressive,” pals who are now hard at work writing the “regulations,” can run your life better than you can. This is one of the most basic myths of “Progressivism.” 

So the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is supporting this Amendment to the Constitution. A friend sent this to us and asked we put it up for your consideration. I am only too happy to do so. 

 

       Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States  Constitution       
 
“Congress shall make no  law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply  equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no  law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply  equally to the citizens of the United States.”

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Curious Case of David Espo, Alleged Journalist

 

I saw an article in my local paper today under the byline of one David Espo of the Associated Press. At the time I knew nothing of Mr. Espo. After reading the first sentence in his article it was obvious that he had neither taken a basis civics course in high school or college nor did he have a functional knowledge of law, rights, the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.

Here is part of the sentence that made me want to learn more about Mr. Espo,

“…congressional Democrats put the final touches Thursday March 25, to historic legislation enshrining health care as the right of every citizen.”

Wow! I would advise Mr. Espo not to go on the “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader” television quiz show. Even my fifth grade son knows that our rights as American citizens do not come from Congress, Democrats or laws. Our rights, if you would like to look at Declaration of Independence, come to us from our Creator. A few of them are listed there. Here is why we believe our rights come from the Creator, Mr. Espo: because then only he can take them away!

Furthermore, Mr. Espo seems to think that because Congress passes a law that is “enshrined.” I am not sure if he knows what that word means or perhaps this unbiased “journalist” was speaking metaphorically. In a democratic republic like ours laws are open to challenge. As a final note on this one sentence Mr. Espo seems to think it covers “every citizen.” Even those how foisted this unwanted scam on the American public admit it still leaves millions uninsured.

I thought I would do a little research on the undereducated Mr. Espo. I wanted to find out how someone who demonstrated such enormous incompetence in so few words could hold a job. Perhaps he had just had a bad day at the word factory. Imagine my surprise when I found a number of internet references to what I will politely term “misstatements” in Mr. Espo’s work.

His reporting on redistricting in Texas, ( http://unitelater.com/s9y/index.php?/archives/140-David-Espo-Incompetent,-or-Propagandist.html  ), on voting for judicial nominees, (http://www.all-encompassingly.com/third-grade-insights-from-david-espo/) and a number of other topics as reported on the News Busters ( http://newsbusters.org/people/david-espo ) show him to be nothing more than a left wing propagandist. This is to be expected since he works at the Associated Press the media arm of socialist causes everywhere!

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: A Photo Tribute to Stupak

My blog from yesterday about Bart Stupak was also published on Big Government

A reader  photoshoped this picture for me.  See his other stuff @ americanprinciplesproject.com

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Bart Stupak, A Pocket Full of Mumbles

 

The horse trading went long into the night. In the end the House Democrats bought, cajoled, wrangled and bullied enough votes to pass the health care debacle. The battle is far from over and will range into next November and beyond.

As a far right wing nut job I will enjoy the coming downfall of the Democratic Party. I will enjoy the stunned looks on the faces of those who will lose their union and employer health care plans if this legislation stays around long enough to take effect. I will enjoy the coming revolt of the middle and upper class taxpayers. I could of course, be wrong. Maybe the American people are tired of being free and maybe rugged individualism is dead. Maybe the vast majority of my neighbors are looking forward to the never ending growth of the Federal Government. Maybe we all want the nanny state.

So now that the first battle of the “health care reform” movement is over we need to ask some questions. Is that it from the left?  Will there be no further movement to start a government option? Will there be no push to get to a single payer system? If you believe that you need to get in the line that starts right behind Rep. Bart Stupak.

Rep. Stupak has become the Neville Chamberlain of our time. Chamberlain, for those of you who attended public school, was the British prime minister who returned from a meeting with Hitler and thought he had reigned in the plans of the Nazis by getting them to sign a piece of paper. Stupak has traded his principled stand for the unborn for less.

Although I don’t approve I can understand someone like Mary Landrieu or Ben Nelson selling their vote for a payoff to their state. What did Bart Stupak get for giving up his values? He got Obama’s promise that he would issue an executive order.  This brings to mind a line from the old Simon and Garfunkel song, “The Boxer”, “I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.”

 Which has the greater force under the law, an Act of Congress or an Executive Order? If you answered an Act of Congress you are correct. So if the President’s Executive Order for Congressman Stupak is determined to be in conflict with the bill then the order is out and the bill is in. I would believe that if this Executive Order isn’t in conflict with the bill then there would have been no point in Mr. Stupak making a big deal about the abortion language all along.

Even if I am wrong, does Rep. Stupak think that the left wing of his party will now stop their push to have federal dollars fund unlimited abortion? He is waving his agreement and thinking he has done well and right. What he has really done is taking his place next to Chamberlain as one of the great political fools of all time.

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Spring Fever

Even the most staunch of conservatives is not immune from a bad case of spring fever. Combine this with a healthy dose of March Madness and it spells trouble!

The VRWC will be back later this weekend with a new blog but until then enjoy some college hoop!

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Lindsey Lohan, Reality is Calling, Please Answer!

 

You can say a lot of things about the modern Hollywood “Celebrity Class,” but no one has ever accused them of being short on a sense of self worth or ego. Case in point the recent publicity shenanigans by one Ms. Lindsay Lohan.

In case you haven’t heard Ms. Lohan, former teen movie star, is suing E*Trade for $100 million. Why? In a recent commercial, part of the  E*Trade series of talking baby ads unveiled at the Super Bowl, one baby refers to another baby named “Lindsey” as a “milkaholic.” Ms. Lohan’s claim is that the American public thinks of only one person when it hears the name “Lindsay” and that she is that person. Furthermore, that this funny little ad has so damaged her career and her reputation that she should be compensated to the tune of $100 Million.

  My response: wow! I never thought of Ms. Lohan in reference to this ad until she grabbed some tabloid headlines by filing this suit. This redefines the concept of hubris. Oedipus, the old standard for hubris, pales in comparison to the monumental assessment of self on two levels.

Ms. Lohan is under the delusion that she has become “The Lindsay.”  That most of the people in the civilized world think only of her when they hear that name. That by braving rehab a few times, posing for Playboy and making a series of forgettable teen films she has achieved the status of Madonna or Cher. A bold claim when the only Lindsey who has been in the news lately is Ms. Lindsey Vonn a multiple medal winner in the recent Olympic Games.

I did a little experiment with some friends who play tennis and said, “Hey, how about Lindsay making a comeback?” To a person they all remarked that it would be great to see Ms. Davenport back on the courts. I did the same with some musician friends who thought it would be great to see Lindsey Buckingham back with Fleetwood Mac. In politics Lindsey is a Senator from South Carolina. I know that Ms. Lohan spells her name with an “a” instead of an “e” but I put that down to her undereducated parents. If you have never seen any footage of these two, they are a pair of gems.

Let’s set the name thing aside for a minute and move to point number two. For a minute I will concede Ms. Lohan her point that she is “The Lindsay.” Let’s also concede the point that the folks at the ad agency for E*Trade had some ax to grind with her and intentionally used the name “Lindsay” (Do we know that the baby in the commercial isn’t a “Lindsey” for those who wish to split spelling hairs?) as a disparaging reference to Ms. Lohan. How much is she damaged?

The combined total U.S. gross box office of every film Ms. Lohan has made in the last six years is $28 million less than she is asking in her law suit. Maybe she will use her lawsuit winnings to reimburse the producers of those turkeys. Her top salary demand for any film was $7.5 million and that was in 2004 before she put her career and life into self destruct mode. I am guessing I could get her to do a film tomorrow for a new Kia, a pass to the VIP room at the right Hollywood night club and a few Starbucks gift cards. If this ad has done anything it has helped her sagging fortunes by giving her a way to garner a little free publicity.

Oh yeah before I go, if Ms. Lohan should prevail in her lawsuit I want everyone to know that I will be in court the next day. Among those who know comedy and golf I am universally known as “shankopotamus.”

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Glenn, That Was a Close One!

As a right-wing nut job I am bound by the 11th commandment of Ronald Reagan which is: Never be too harsh on a fellow right-wing nut job. Yesterday I almost had to break that commandment.

As a fan of The Glenn Beck Show” I was a little stunned when two days ago he announced that he was going to devote the entire hour on Tuesday to an interview with Eric Massa, left-wing nut job and serial gropper of male employees.

Massa seemed to be a nut job- full stop! He seemed to me to be a guy who had gone off the rails, forget the political mileage that could be made by his wacky charges. Without any prof he seemed like a guy who was playing a huge game of CYA.

That Glenn would have him on made me thing that he had also gone off the deep end. That the usually funny and informative “Glenn Beck Show” might have jumped the shark.  So I watched the hour just in case Massa said anything that made sense or was provable. For an hour he ranted and huffed but it was all smoke without even the benefit of a mirror. Nothing credible except maybe the “Rham in the Shower,” which I find believable but it was unwitnessed.

 My temperature was rising  and I was  getting tired of Massa’s non-answers to Glenn’s questions while Mr. Beck let Massa do his dance. At the end Mr. Beck apologized to his audience for wasting an hour of our time! That was the only thing worth watching in the entire hour!

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy;The Academy Awards

 As we move towards the Sunday night granddaddy of all awards shows I am starting to wonder several things. First, after seeing an editorial in the New York Times and a very drab and unhappy looking professor of woman’s studies on Fox News call for just one best actor and best supporting actor award to end sex discrimination in Hollywood I am starting to think lots of people are reading my blogs. Over a year ago I poked a little fun at the politically correct Screen Actors Guild for not using the word “actress” but still give and award for a “female actor.” The left has now jumped on my bandwagon so maybe there is hope for America and Hollywood!

The second thing that has been on my mind is which brand of political correctness will prevail this year’s Oscars. Will the “I’m voting for ‘Avatar’ because it ridicules the America and its military, be stronger than the “It’s time a woman won best director,” faction.

There are other political considerations in this year’s voting but his got me to thinking about past years and were the nominations and awards really all about the art. It seems that all sorts of considerations, political, social, personalities and career get mixed in and often the storytelling gets left on the cutting room floor. In the interest of brevity I will limit my comments to the years I can actually remember which, if I am honest, would rule out several years in the early seventies and mid-eighties.

Back in 1967 we all rushed to see “The Graduate” with anti-hero Benjamin played by Dustin Hoffman. A good movie but not a great movie. Bonnie and Clyde, Dr. Doolittle, and winner, “In the Heat of the Night” were also nominated. So was the entirely forgettable “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” nominated for its subject matter and the casting of Hollywood legends Tracy and Hepburn.

In 1970 the double question mark of “Airport” and “Love Story” were nominated. Has anybody under the age of 75 gone back and given “Airport,” the forefather of the disaster film genre, another look? What do you get when you take an unbelievably banal book and make a very predictable movie? In 1970 you got a best picture nomination for the chick-iest chick flick of all time. The beautiful and irascible young woman in the picture getting cancer and dying may have done the trick in getting the nomination, a lesson not lost on the makers of 1983 winner “Terms of Endearment.”

I have this other theory about the Oscar’s; if you want to get a nomination for an acting award play someone with a physical or mental problem. There are tons of examples, “Rain Man,”Forrest Gump,” Scent of a Woman,” All About Eve,”  “A Beautiful Mind,” “As Good as it Gets,” I could go on and on but you get my point.

Of course the all time champ of getting a best picture nomination that it didn’t deserve is “The Godfather: Part III.”  The result of all this was that now I believe that Marlon Brando and George C. Scott were right; leave the trophy and take the cannoli.

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: “Fat it’s the New Smoking, The Sequel” Starring Kevin Smith

A few weeks ago writer/director Kevin Smith was thrown off of a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat to fit into a single seat easily. He was on his way home from Northern California and had paid for two seats on his outbound flight but according to reports I have read there weren’t two seats available on the return. This brings up a lot of questions like why is Kevin Smith flying coach on Southwest. Doesn’t he have someone to book his flights for him and why didn’t he reserve two homebound seats when he booked? The inefficiencies of Mr. Smith and his staff , however is not my point.

I am ignorant of a lot of things but I try to hide that when I can. My dad told me that a lot of people might think you’re stupid but only you can open your mouth and show them they are right. Ms. Laura Washington, who writes for the Chicago Sun Times, a daily tabloid might want to write that down. In a recent attack piece on writer/director Kevin Smith she starts by confessing that she has never heard of Mr. Smith. Now, that would be alright if she were a seventy year old nun from Evanston but this woman is a writer for a major daily newspaper in a major American city!  We all laugh when Jay Leno or Sean Hannety do man-on-the-street interviews and someone doesn’t know Joe Biden or Lady Gaga but how can a reporter on a major daily newspaper not know a major Hollywood figure?

Then she proceeds to attack him as a publicity hungry person who is trying to rise from his “obscurity” on a wave of his fat. She urges him to quit being comfortable with his “girth.” She goes on to deride a civil rights group that works for “fat acceptance.”  Fat, that Ms. Washington claims will kill him. I have an ugly message for Ms. Washington: something is going to kill all of us. I don’t know Ms. Washington but I am going to play Kreskin for a minute and guess she is a “progressive,”, ”liberal” or whatever label big brother loving health Nazis are calling themselves this week.

I make this guess for two reasons. First, is that Ms. Washington is swimming in the granddaddy of all Progressive myths: You are too stupid to run your own life and they know what is best for you. Second, is that she is unaware of the greatest of all American freedoms: We have the right to be as stupid as we want to be! If I want to eat Big Macs three times a day 365 days a year and the only exercise I get is handing my money to the person at the drive thru window that’s my business! If you want to eat tofu and sprouts and wear hemp underwear to your to yoga class more power to ya! Isn’t that what is really great about America?

You know what obscurity is Ms. Washington? Making your career writing for a dying, old media, left-wing, newspaper. Combine that with a touch of hubris and a dash of stupidity and you get progressive thought and behavior police telling a successful, well-known Hollywood director/writer Kevin Smith how to live his life. Mike Royko is rolling over on his grave.

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Bunning Gives Reid The Brushback!

If you are a conservative and you believe in limited government you have to love what Kentucky Senator and Hall of Fame Pitcher Jim Bunning is doing.

He has thrown the Dumbocrats a little chin music and they are too weak and lazy to rush the mound.

If you aren’t up on this let me bring you up to speed. As a sign they were “serious” about reducing spending the Democrat Congress along with a few Republicans pass a measure known as “Pay-Go.” It simply means that if you pass a spending measure you have to show how you are going to pay for it. 

OK, not a bad idea. Sen. Bunning thought the bill was a load of manure and so didn’t vote for it. So, when the first new spending bill came up in the Senate, an extension of unemployment benefits with a rider to further limit what doctors can get from Medicare the Senate also voted to bypass the recent “Pay-Go” legislation because this was an “emergency!”

Sen Bunning thought that at that rate you could just decide everything was an emergency and is holding up the legislation.

Harry Reid and his “progressive” friends have a wedgie the size of Texas and are screaming bloody murder. I think that the vast majority of Americans love this move by Sen Bunning. Let him and Reid know you support Sen. Bunning and think all spending should be curtailed by at least 10% today!

Strike one Senator Reid! Step back in the box if you’re man enough to take another pitch from Big Jim!