Now, 0bama does not even have to have treaties ratified by the Senate. He just calls them “Executive Agreements,” even though he does not have the Constitutional power to do what the “agreement” says. This “Executive Agreement” is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, and you can read more about it here.
I watched it when the Shawshank Redemption went to commercials. It sounded vaguely familiar with the last one. I wasn’t even about to interrupt Justified. The snippets are these:
I say I care but I don’t.
I won’t cut anything but there are new programs needing funding.
I want everyone but me to be fair.
All will abide by the same rules…..in Bazarro-land. I will continue to break rules, make new ones and break those too, if I feel like it. When are you suckers ever going to learn not to listen to my rhetoric?
I will continue wasting your money for golf, vacations, doing whatever I feel like doing because I am the President and you workers just wish you could be!
If I missed something, I’m sorry. No I’m not. It was dull and boring and I had better things to do with my life. “Somewhere in Kenya, there is a village missing their Idiot” Amen, brother.
Well, after spending millions of “dues” dollars trying to recall Wisconsin state Senators and losing, as well a Supreme Court Justice and losing, the fight continues to recall Governor Walker. Unfortunately some union members and residents of the state are beginning to see the picture (or the truth, as it were) that their state is BETTER off from the Walker/GOP initiatives. Teachers weren’t losing their jobs, that reads ZERO where there are no “held over” union contracts. The debt went bye-bye and now they have a good budget. Matter of fact, all the Union venom spewed about the doom to follow never materialized…..except in the union contracts. WOW! And now they will spend MORE union dues dollars on another failed folly which should greatly deplete their coffers and not soon replenished. All because they are losing control over “workers”. You see, the unions are nothing about rights but about power today. Their need has diminished to levels of ineffectiveness and lies, and they are mad. Big whoop. Time marches on and the hope and change promised you by your leader just cut your main artery where, eventually, you will bleed out and die.
And what state will their Congress have left to run to once the Right to Work Law is passed in Indiana? Those Dems there are mad as hell and playing the “vacation” game to get their way, which isn’t working. I wouldn’t fine the fools. I would make a state amendment that if members deliberately boycott by absence, the work of the legislature, that it would be construed as a dereliction of duty and unless a family emergency or an illness, with a note from Mommy of course, those members automatically lose their seats and a special election is held to fill them. This crap with state representatives avoiding business because they want to pout is too much. That is what stalemates on votes are all about. If you can’t handle the job, don’t apply. of course these actions are all being done for union solidarity sake. Yup, unions are REAL GOOD for business, aren’t they.
Read the attached articles. Looks like the next bastion for the people will be the taking back of Illinois and I am sure that will come with a very special union supporter, community organizing that one. Hey, everyone needs a job and why not fall back to what you are good at when the job you hold, you failed miserably and got kicked out!
Newt Gingrich. I am a Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal fan but I don’t have what I wanted. So why do I care about Newt? Let’s see….
Romney is a moderate. With Romney you will get very little in change in government. It will still grow and there will be minor modifications. Many governors are backing Romney and many in and out of the Congress are against Newt. Romney is a McCain and McCain backs him. Christie backs him. Christie may want to be VP. Ann Coulter is against Newt because she backs Romney and says strange things like “supporting Newt is like throwing out the baby and keeping the bathwater”. Coulter is conservative. Coulter LOVES Christie. Haley endorses Romney and she won as a Tea Party backed candidate. Do you think those same Tea Party people are happy with Haley right now? McDonnell backs Romney and some of it has to do with a VP appointment. Some of it has to do with establishment Republican ( no tolls on the road, Bob). Many other endorsements out there and they all shine a light of obvious. They are either establishment Republicans at heart or in practice, or they are swallowing hype because they can’t see past “conventional” wisdom. “They are your children. Their names are want and ignorance and on their forehead is written the word DOOM!” (Charles Dickens A Christmas Carole)
Now I have heard Limbaugh state that if Newt is the candidate that the GOP feel they will lose seats in the House and the Senate. And this “conventional wisdom” can be heard by all those that KNOW politics. Well, I’m glad that I don’t know politics because I see something entirely different. I see that established Republicans see a surge in the Tea Party because someone has just given them the high ground yet again. Newt put a bullhorn in their hands to pronounce, just like in the movie Network ”We’re tired as hell and we aren’t going to take it anymore!” That “anymore” is what the influential politic money candidate pushers are throwing down our throats. We have asked for more but get what the influence peddlers give us. Bigger money, bigger campaign, bigger backed candidate to squeeze out the “little people’s candidates”.
If you remember 2010, the Tea Party pushed some candidates to Congress where they immediately got stifled. When they pushed their views and their votes, they were left “hanging” by the rest of the party which made everyone look like fools. Why? Those established individuals don’t want to give up their “good thing” and aren’t interested in what the citizens want…..since they already know what is best and what we can get (instead of asking for the moon and not getting anything). Pure and simple. It isn’t fear of loosing seats for the party in Congress; it is fear of gaining more TEA PARTY seats which diminishes their voice. Yup, Newt is a blessing in disguise.
Many people don’t like Newt and many people said they won’t vote if Newt is the candidate. That would be a foolish mistake. Newt has baggage. Newt changes on things. Newt has been embarrassing for the party (gee, where have I heard THAT before). Well, Newt has experience. Newt doesn’t get intimidated. Newt has an idea for every occasion which is not a bad thing. You may say “Well, ACT, do you remember the Paul Ryan thing about social engineering?”. I sure do. It wasn’t a perfect plan by any stretch but it was a good start. My problem is it didn’t go far enough with getting entitlements under control. I’m a fan of the Penny Plan/One Percent Solution. Newt probably has something similar. Regardless how “out of the box” Newt thinks, he does have to contend with Congress and HE WILL veto anything he feels doesn’t go far enough. Romney would only build on compromise which gives us the same “establishment” mentality that brought us the 100 billion dollar reduction from the last session. Did we even get 100 million out of that deal? And wasn’t it over 10 years? There are short term cuts and long term cuts and if we keep going with the status quo, we will NEVER see a 10 year cut because of “shift” change. That’s the facts, Jack.
As Rush would say, “don’t doubt me on this”. You watch the Tea Party movement grow again and watch who gets backed for these congressional seats. The Dems are running scared because they felt they could steam roll over Romney. They never thought the Newt variable could become a reality. They will run scared of Newt. They will start jumping the Obama ship in droves if the Newt momentum continues. And that is a good thing, yes?
8:45 PM Early results are showing a big win for Gingrich, higher than the averaged polls which were predicting 5%. With 49% of the precincts reporting he is up by 13% in South Carolina.
No doubt Newt’s performance in the last debate bought him some support, it was a pleasure to watch him smack down the MSM and Obama, but is this merely another rise and fall or a sign of real viability for the nomination? Newt peaked right for SC, Santorum peaked right for Iowa, Romney has been the tortoise in this race and Ron Paul is, well – he is Ron Paul!
I am watching Ron Paul right now, rambling speech that started with him bragging that he received 4 times the votes he did in 2008. Well Ron, that still puts you in 4th place out of 4 candidates in 2012. And so he will go on.
No word from Santorum yet, but if he doesn’t get the money – he can’t continue. His big fundraising after Iowa has slowed down. Wait……Santorum is coming on right now and apparently he is continuing on to Florida.
9:35 PM Newt is speaking, if he receives the nominimation he says he will challenge Obama to seven three hour debates and will allow Obama to use his teleprompter. THIS is why many people are voting for Newt, they want to see this!
UPDATE: Excellent analysis from Mason Conservative – a must read.
Talk about strange animals. This is what Paul’s attempt is all about. I must admit that it is a novel approach but I have to liken it to more sleazy, unscrupulous politics than ever before. We have turned the political process into an self-gratifying art of slime for politicians and the MSM. As Gingrich recently stated, “that is why you can’t get good people to run”. Now you may take something different from this then I did and that is fine. What I am seeing is more hostage taking of the political system by selfish individuals who want it their way or not at all. More of “you American citizens will take what we give you and like it!” And some people think this man is level headed? Sorry, I just can’t buy in to a campaign like this and at the surface, with all the “young voters” backing him, doesn’t this kinda smack of someone from the last election? Buyers beware!
Gee, no surprise here. Gun-ban Bob has started to show his horns again and then he comes out with this endorsement. Of course, with all the talk for months about a Romney/McDonnell ticket in the fall (and Bob being coy on the issue) he goes down to SC for the primary. Why? Read it here. Now Bob and Mitt are truly melded in vision; both being pseudo-conservatives in my estimation. What a wonderful ticket for someone this will be.
I see a hidden blessing here. Say Mitt and Bob run and win. Who becomes governor of Va? That’s right, Bill Bolling. He finally gets what he has been waiting for. But, hark! Doesn’t that mean that AG Cooch will be able to run for that position come next election with little ado? I think so and that way everyone has a turn and we are all one big happy family once more. Aren’t politics a strange animal?
Notice that I didn’t infer anything in this post to what all his reasons were for not pushing to change Va. ballot rules. Does make it more convenient when your horse is one of two in the race though.
Also an endorsement for Gingrich by McCollum here and one for Romney by Bolton here. Both are great opinion/endorsement pieces.
