It’s been awhile since VDH hit the ball out of the park like he does here. He really gets the nature of this Bourbon-esque monarchy that team Obama sees in the mirror. Well they had lots of mirrors at Versailles, as well.

United States of America does not possess the Guillotine. We have only impeachment and removal from office.

… Pity…T

Consider: The 120,000 troops in “the surge is not working” Iraq are now complaining of ennui —while the White House is paralyzed over whether to send more troops to the new escalating front in Afghanistan. How odd the present perceptions: Bush’s bad optional war became good in the public mind, and Obama’s necessary good war became bad…

The Russian gambit failed…

Sorta, Kinda, Maybe Diplomacy

…Guantanamo really will close on March 1, 2010; Iran must comply this time by June 1, 2010; all combat brigades will be out by March 2008, 2009, 2010; health care must pass by August, September, October, November…

Oil is climbing back over $80 a barrel…

They got greater bailouts, higher unemployment, larger deficits, and Chicago politics…

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• Politicized intelligence — will the Democrats investigate the real thing? (powerlineblog.com)
• Charles Krauthammer: In Afghanistan, the generals have spoken. But will Obama listen? (network.nationalpost.com)
• Little Hope, Less Change (navitor.blogspot.com)
• U.S. Chamber vs. Obama (blogs.wsj.com)
• Strassel: The Chicago Way (online.wsj.com)

The applicable descriptive term is “Cult of Personality“, which was used to describe Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. Also the Ayatollah Khomeini, who the author compares Obama to, as well as to Hitler himself.

The use of “crisis mentality” to justify radical change. The demonization of someone, some country, or some people to mobilize action and stifle dissent. Obama is carrying out the textbook fascist playbook..T

I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama after the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a wholesome presidential package. It is so instinctive for most people to want to see blacks succeed. It is as if all humanity is carrying a collective guilt for what the ancestors of blacks endured. However, despite my initial interest in him, I was soon put off, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.

It is surreal to see the level of hysteria in his admirers. This phenomenon is unprecedented in American politics. Women scream and swoon during his speeches. They yell and shout to Obama, “I love you.” Never did George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt. Martin Luther King Jr. or Ronald Reagan arouse so much raw emotion. Despite their achievements, none of them was raised to the rank of Messiah. The Illinois senator has no history of service to the country. He has done nothing outstanding except giving promises of change and hyping his audience with hope. It’s only his words, not his achievements that is causing this much uproar.

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The Cash for Clunkers program’s sudden financial insolvency is a valuable object lesson as the country gears up to consider nationalizing 17% of it’s economy under President Obama’s national health care plan. The initial one billion dollars allocated for the program was designed to boost car sales from Mid July to Labor Day, a period when retail sales slow down across the board. Thus, the plan was crafted to inspire car sales now and free up inventory dollars as the new model year approaches.

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“Remember the Alamo!” “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country;” These rallying cries instantly bring together mind, will and emotion, break the inertia of complacency, and move people into collective action. Even though public sentiment often tilts against marketing and packaging, we are all moved by resonant rallying cries.

President Obama generated collectivist action around marketing pitches that resonated with average citizens who feel out of touch and out of control when it comes to governmental behavior. “Yes We Can” and “Change we can believe in” drew the best of the American spirit into focus like the sun’s rays through a magnifying glass. Thus his concentrated public approval has been hard to dissipate.

In the current health care debate, missing on the the conservative side is a marketing plan, a rallying cry. We need a simple call to action which the public can identify with, and like “Remember the Alamo” use to emotionally activate the wider American public. This cannot be a slick bait and switch approach which is too often the methodology of in Washington. Conservatives cannot afford and should not employ disingenuous tactics. We want truthfulness and integrity from our leaders. Honor and truth will in the end win the hearts and minds of the people.

So what can we shout from the street corners and write in the blogosphere that will unite conservative Americans in this debate? In recent weeks, a few messages have surfaced with limited success. To the administration’s claim “cheaper universal care which maintains private choice” we have responded but not well. It is impossible to explain how “expanding government control over private lives will ultimately limit choices, cause costs to escalate and lead to government intrusion into every area of our lives” in a sound bite.

Sarah Palin’s comment regarding government health care “death panels” is gaining traction. I applaud the ex-governor for taking such a bold and informed stand against Obama’s juggernaut. Yet can we get the American people to activate and engage the political system on the idea of “stopping govt. death panels?” The argument gets lost in translation via sound bite media, and gives the left too much fodder for their marketing teams.

“We don’t want socialism, and do not want to become a socialist country” is accurate. But let’s be honest – many citizens don’t know what socialism is, or why it is undesirable. When these weak slogans break down, many conservatives are left with “Well just stop this plan. Stop Obama and stop congress.”

What may surprise some of my readers is that I would like our country’s president to succeed. I would like an intelligent, black American to leave a powerful legacy on the pages of American history. America could close a chapter of racial strife, and start a new one which points in the direction of genuine healing between races. Our nation celebrates the achievements of underdogs. For a man or woman to climb from humble beginnings into the White House is an incredible accomplishment which should be celebrated. However, a man who does so via thuggish “coalitions of power” assembled to “fundamentally restructure American society” while listening to the advice of ex-terrorists, felons, hate-mongers and communists . . . well . . . now I have a problem.

Which leads full circle to the fundamental issue. Conservatives can’t rally public sentiment on “stopping this person” or “voting against a policy.” We need a rallying cry which resounds deep in the hearts of free people who want change that will genuinely create improved quality of life. Toward that end, I offer this sound bite friendly clarion call.

1. Lower prices mean more coverage, more choices and more freedom for more people
2. Less government means lower prices.

Policies can be built which achieve less government involvement. (Thank you President Reagan.) But explaining them to the public which believes “Yes We Can” create “Change We Can Believe In” is a tough sell. It is equally tough to sell “reintroduce market forces” or the benefits of “health care savings accounts” to a digital, sound bite culture. Conservatives need a plan to support, and an idea around which to rally that creates positive, proactive excitement. Failing to create positive momentum on our side can stop this current generation of socialist advance only to be vulnerable for the next evolution of the same message. We need a voice. We need a message. We need change we can believe in. We need to fix a flawed health care system, without replacing it with a failed socialist one. We need to get popular support for a positive solution which will make our lives better.

• We want lower health care prices.
• Lower prices mean expanded coverage.
• Lower prices mean more people can be covered.
• Lower prices maintain my freedom and choice.
• Less government involvement means lower prices.
• It works, it always does. It works every time it’s tried.

So Congressman, Senator, Mr. President, craft a bill which lowers the price of health care, and you will then fulfill the promises you have made to the American people. This is what we hired you to do.

Real time, real information is entering the debate over the Obama Administration’s health care plans. However, the problem with real time streaming information is the diminished ability to distinguish between reality and falsehood. Some political operatives fan sparks into flame for the purpose of watching the fire, and they reside in both the left and the right. These political thugs have their own reasons for creating social unrest, modeled after the Saul Alinsky school of political thought. They believe that chaos and crisis is one of the most favorable environments to push forward radical, transformational policies.

Others are willing to endure the sparks in the political and media firestorms in order to uncover the truth of a matter. Their approach may create sparks, but these patriots’ goals are to discover accurate, truthful information from which the American people can make informed decisions.

For this reason, I appreciate Newt Gingrich, and his well informed political analysis. Those who firebomb Newt usually do so because he accurate, shining the light on back room political hacks and their deals often struck out of sight from the American people. Newt also has demonstrated the ability to apply political theory and forecast the outcome of a given flight path.

Newt has done it again with a recent article at HumanEvents.com. The health care debate has been stirred into a frenzy around the topic of rationed health care. A core question is whether or not seniors will receive the same quality care in the final years of their lives as they received in their youth. Words like “euthanasia” and “death panels” have been lobbed like grenades into the public forum. While the comments reflect the feelings of those behind them, the consequences of these verbal explosions are not helpful to the discussion. What is helpful is finding sources which can tell us what a US single payer, government plan will look like. Enter again Newt Gingrich.

Check out his article describing Britain’s national health care, and the decisions which the Britain’s national health board make regarding the monetary value of a human life. How much are you worth?

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33100

Timothy Burns

Light the Fire

Great article by Mr Michael Barone, that really summarizes the crass opportunism and fanatic leftist ideology of the Unholy trinity of Obama, Pelosi and Reid…T

(Obama and the democrats) believe, out of idealism but also perhaps for crass political reasons, that America would be better off with a single-payer system like Canada’s or Britain’s. But they realize that they’re operating in a country where most voters don’t agree. The video helps us understand how they’re seeking to reach their single-payer goal through government-option stealth.

One video is worth a thousand words (or, as in this column, about 730). The video in question, put together by a group called Verum Serum, shows public statements by three advocates of single-payer (government monopoly) health insurance explaining that a health care bill with a “government option” would move America toward a single-payer government health care system. You may not have heard of the first two, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and professor Jacob Hacker. But you have heard of the third, President Barack Obama.

Schakowsky is a left-wing Democrat from the north side of Chicago and adjacent suburbs and, as chief deputy whip, part of the House Democratic leadership. The video shows her speaking to an enthusiastic group last April. She cites an insurance company spokesman as saying, “A public option will put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer.” The audience cheers. “My single-payer friends,” she goes on, “he was right.”

Obama has never made his ultimate goal a secret; it’s the same as Schakowsky’s and Hacker’s. The video shows him saying in October 2003, when he was running for the U.S. Senate, “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care program.” He adds, “We may not get there immediately,” noting the Democrats must “take back” the White House and both houses of Congress — a condition fulfilled last Jan. 20.

But, as Schakowsky says, “This is not a principled fight.” Schakowsky, Hacker and Obama believe, out of idealism but also perhaps for crass political reasons, that America would be better off with a single-payer system like Canada’s or Britain’s. But they realize that they’re operating in a country where most voters don’t agree. The video helps us understand how they’re seeking to reach their single-payer goal through government-option stealth.

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Obamunism - it’s a thought provoking title. Yet do the majority of America’s citizens assent to this characaturization of our new president?  After all, he was elected on a groundswell of American populism (and maybe Acorn voter fraud, but who’s really keeping track).  Until recently, His poll numbers continue to reinforce his self-assumed deification, and the liberal media unquestioningly toes the party line.   With support like this, who wants to challenge the Chicago thuggery politics which have come to the White House with him?

If only we could get an outside point of view – someone who could comment on recent political evolutions in America who doesn’t have Democrat or Republican prejudice.

In april of this year, Pravda, the state run media outlet in Russia printed the following.

“It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.”

Read the full story here: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0#

This commentary comes from the Russian state run political news machine. I would suggest that this group knows communisism and marxism when they see it.

Stand up Americans.

Light the Fires

Tim

Osama and his ilk want to take our freedoms away, to obtain and sustain control over all of us. This is what all socialists, progressives, fascists, Nazi’s and collectivists of all stripes have in common.

• They care not if global warming is taking place, you see, because their “remedy” (cap and trade) gives them control over the worlds economies.
• They know full well that single payer socialized medicine has failed everywhere it has been tried, but they don’t care, because Osamacare will give them control over our lives, cradle to grave.
• They knew the porkulus bill ($787 billion ) would do nothing for the economy: They didn’t intend for it to! These funds were massive bailouts for democrat interest groups, liberal state governments, unions, campaign contributors, and a peremptory bribe to the groups that had opposed Hillarycare in 1993.

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?
Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill — a great idea in theory — was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.
Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama’s plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be — a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to “protect us” from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.

There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.

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As I watched Obama stumble, dissemble, and ramble through his prime time “State Media apparatchik public event” er, press conference, a powerful though came to mind. OK, two thoughts: The 1st, of course, was the mental image of the Brezhnev era military parades featuring the Soviet Elite atop the Kremlin walls waving to the “adoring” masses. Ah yes, the power of a prescient double entendre!

The 2nd:  Obama’s poll numbers are falling faster than Jimmy Carter’s. The Democrats, the ones who still eat meat, are in open rebellion, rightly fearing an impending 1994 redux. This guy is a liar, like Bill Clinton was. Obama, though, unlike Mr. Lewinsky, is an ideologue. Obama has neither the political skills nor the inclinations of W.C. Clinton to sway with the prevailing political winds and but survival above ideology. He has, along with the most left-wing congress since 1917, shoved his progressive, fascistic agenda against the collective will of the American people, who have seen this scam before.

His presidency, to quote a real US president, is like “an Evil Empire, whose last pages are even now being written.”

The Obama presidency is over. God bless America.

What we’re seeing is the people speaking through their politicians. Obama and many Democrats assumed that the financial crisis would predispose most Americans to favor a larger and much more expensive government than we ever have had before.

A plausible hope for change, perhaps, but polling shows it hasn’t happened. The prospect of huge federal deficits extending out as far as the eye can see is not appealing to most voters. The prospect of having the health care sector of the economy designed by the people who gave us the $787 billion stimulus package is even less appetizing.

But we should not cynically underrate the importance of a strong argument, which may prevail despite the transcendent aura of a new president. Some of the Blue Dogs’ concerns may be parochial (rural health care), but they make a strong case, buttressed by ( CBO’s) expert testimony, that Congress should not rush to transform the health care sector at huge cost and with little cost-cutting effect. And the Polis letter signers’ concern about the negative macroeconomic effects of higher taxation of high earners can find support in the writings of Democratic, as well as Republican, economists.

What will this Thursday bring? We’ll wait and see what comes from the buzzing on Capitol Hill. In the meantime, as I read the text of the Blue Dogs’ and Polis’ letters, I suddenly heard the voice of the late Jack Kemp proclaiming at the 1984 Republican National Convention that if you subsidize something, you get more of it and that if you tax something, you get less of it.
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