It's Just a Little March Madness Thing

Dear America,

happy Friday

Let's immediately cut to Breitbart Sports because it is just that brilliant:

Conservative Nebraska Senate candidate Ben Sasse, who has been surging since being labeled the anti-Obamacare candidate, has released a "Constitutional Madness" bracket to highlight the lawlessness of the Obama administration.

"Which is President Obama's worst constitutional violation?" the bracket says. "Make your picks!"

is how it all begins before breaking down the Constitutional Madness into regions with each pairing more reprehensible than the next.

Then, if we were to buttress the domestic policy up against our foreign policy, what do we get?

Firm foundation for success?

Domestic and International tranquility worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize?

Let's cut to Mary Katharine Ham, of HotAir, taking us to a post dating back to the first week of March, just because it is a happy Friday and it is that good:

When you accept a repressive Russian ruler’s offer as a political escape hatch because your own ill-considered rhetoric put you in the awkward position of being a Nobel Peace Prize winner elected president as an anti-Bush who would “nation build at home” now half-heartedly lobbying the nation to go to war in Syria, that repressive Russian ruler might not take you seriously the next time around.

A coherent foreign policy— at its best telegraphing that the United States is willing to use many tools to back good actors and punish bad, reward allies and punish enemies— is about being perceived as tough and reliable enough to prevent something like the invasion of Ukraine from happening before it happens

Let's now cut to Wednesday -- being on the cusp of, oh how do you say, a Ukraine Spring -- when the president made oh so sadly clear where his foreign policy in that region stands:

We are not going to be getting into a military excursion in Ukraine.

What we are going to do is mobilize all of our diplomatic resources to make sure that we've got a strong international coalition that sends a clear message

Ukraine should decide their own destiny. Russia right now is violating international law and the sovereignty of another country. Might doesn’t make right

[and to continue reading, go to Washington Examiner]

Remember now -- we have long told Ukraine not to worry; we would have their back all the way through the brackets, whether it was March, or not...And making it look totally official  and everything ...here, and here, when the March madness news on "the Ukraine Page" dot Gov.  included this from the ambassador: 

U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine Says Crimea Should Stay In Ukraine
Ambassador Pyatt (Mar. 10): "Crimea is and should remain a part of Ukraine. Discussion over. That said, I have been encouraged to see comments from Prime Minister Yatseniuk and others indicating that the government, the Ukrainian government is open to enhance levels of autonomy for the people in Crimea."

U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Ukraine
Deputy Assistant Secretary Rubin (Mar. 6): "Our united efforts have demonstrated to the people of Ukraine and to the international community that the United States is resolute in its support of Ukraine’s desire for a democratic, peaceful, and prosperous future."

Perhaps we should revisit the scrapped missile defense program to help Ukraine...and quickly mitigate the growing concerns of other allies, see Poland.

Let's cut to the CBS News post for a simple breakdown of what happened to it:

The Bush program, which would have placed 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland along with a radar in the Czech Republic, was replaced with a system of smaller interceptors to better deal with short- and medium-range missiles that the administration believed Iran had made more progress developing. The final stage of the replacement program was cancelled last year to place more interceptors in Alaska to deal with threats from North Korea.

And for a WHOLE lot more deep background on the entire missile defense program  -- that is, if you've got the time -- see the Heritage Foundation here.

While all this makes me nervous, anxious, good reason to pop up to the concessions for a hot dog, soft pretzel and beer, it also makes me wonder...just what happened to kinetic military action?  Why then, not now?  [Don't hate.  It's just a good question.]

AND don't get me wrong.  This girl doesn't want to go to war with Russia! 

What I am dreaming of is an administration who carries a big stick, bolstered with a well thought out game plan in both offense and defense; an administration who says what they mean and means what they say; an administration so formidable that by just walking into the arena makes any opponent shrivel into a ball, making almost any situation a non-starter.

But look at us; that was era gone by, long in the record books; that was then and this is now, all "nation building at home."

How's that working out for us?

Are we?  Are we really building a stronger nation , here, there, or anywhere?

Let's cut the denial.  We suck.

Look at us!   Completely and thoroughly divided by region... be it race, religion, wealth, sexuality, boy vs. girl, English vs. Spanish, progressive vs. conservative, east vs. west vs. north vs. south  -- you name it, we've got a bracket for it.  And who do we have leading the charge?  A community organizer -- make that agitator; just a guy who has no business being the leader of the free world, be it foreign or domestic.

Somebody, anybody, make it stop; stop the insidious madness.

A cohesive, free enterprising, peace building, corporate culture,  united under the Divine and the Rule of Law, and brought to you by painstaking assimilation by virtue of all brackets melting into one -- begins with one ball.

Make it a Good Day, G

And since this week is brought to you by the Number 8 -- let's add this to the long list of links --  Obama March Madness:  Scandal Edition:  College Students Fill Out Their Brackets on Top [Eight] Obama Scandals.

It's If Government Lives to See Another Day Under the Confines of Obamacare Thing

Dear America,

Oh, this diary; it's always hard taking the first few steps on the keyboard; the mind is a muddled mash pit -- having been thoroughly marinated in thoughts and thesis anywhere from a day to nearly a week.  Just how does one lowly human being bring it into proper form, determined to make it a fine tuned delicacy of consensus worthy of your time? 

...especially after the week it's been, right?

It's utterly grotesque, the tricks of political trade and treason against the bounty that is America.

Keeping pace with the truth and everything that remains outside the truth, seems to be the theme on the day.  [And if we're being honest here, I'm really not sure if I can stick with this --  but will give it a  shot ...preferably with a Jack Daniel's chaser.]  

At times like these, deciphering what is true and not true takes everything we've got.  Which begs the immediate, exasperated response under our breath: 'it just shouldn't be this hard' ...this thing called congress.

Here's a little something something to wet your whistle.  (It's nothing fancy, but breaks down simple ideas into bite-size nuggets, leaving the option open to delve deeper on your own time.)

Sticking to a limited, free market loving, self-reliant respecting body politic -- one that truly upholds the principles and values set forth over two hundred years ago, one that remains diligent and mindful of living within our means, one that applauds the governing aspects in keeping with our inherent checks and balances of power, and to that end, fully respecting the individual ideas that come forth -- shouldn't be this hard.

What began as a simple family recipe of five, quality, worthy ingredients has been adulterated by a gastronomic attack of all five senses -- placing quantity over quality, elevating the new hybrid chemically-enriched over what is just good food, replacing the long, evening meal shared with family around the table with a quick-serve out of a box or microwave, up against a schedule that leaves little time for real conversation.

For Ted Cruz, it became a situation that demanded we sit down and talk about it...even if that means standing for 21 hours straight, including an epic bed time read of Green Eggs and Ham.

For Harry Reid, it was all a pathetic sideshow, a big waste of time...as he clearly made known in his best mealy mouthed, thirty years of bureaucratic mediocrity, well timed verbal assault upon a fellow statesman, just oozing with arrogance and condescension.

Again, contemplating just five little words:  it shouldn't be this hard. 
And throwing in five more for good measure:  how did we get here? 

It's like a bad case of acid-reflux.  As if we didn't know eating a half rack of baby backs swimming in sauce, cheesy-creamy scalloped potatoes made from scratch, coleslaw of cabbage and kale! thoroughly juiced in a sweet and spicy horseradish dressing, followed with a heaping serving of sticky toffee pudding (make that two)  --  wasn't going to come back to haunt us...seriously?

Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?

We set ourselves up for this; none of this should be any surprise at all.  For it all began, way back when, at a time when we were simply five days away from fundamental transformation.  And again.

Just what did you think FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION was going to look like? Feel like?  Taste like?

As Cruz duly noted in his statement lasting nearly an entire day, "the Senate is no longer a deliberative body."  Summing things up for you --  the right to speak and to amend legislation upon each deliberate whim, fully representative of one's own constituency,  has been thoroughly violated from within, in an effort to control debate. 

Then, in proper turn, he went on to explain the points of opposition.  And there were many.  But by this time, it's like 5 am, pacific coast time, having been up since three; excuse me if I spare you on every detail, for it's a wee bit of a blur.  All I really know is that I didn't want to miss being a witness to history, and I loved every minute of it. 

But funny thing, as the first one -- repealing the medical device tax -- just so happened to be an issue not of contention whatsoever (at least, in theory).   An overwhelming majority of both sides of the aisle thoroughly disapprove of it -- cue yahoo!  And rightly so!  It kills innovation and the free market at every possible chance.   But let it be known, it is the Democratic Senate who was for it, before they were against it (after the truth came out),  before they were for it again.   So who's playing to the sideshow now?


Um, telling the truth shouldn't be this hard...

Then there is this -- under the makeshift heading of Alinsky's Rules of Order: "a society devoid of compromise is totalitarian"..........

Sure, we may not all agree on things; but to say we're done talking, that negotiating any further is completely off the table, that the bill is dead upon arrival, while resorting to name calling, and throwing food if they could, is that their dignified and final answer?

Oh, and I get it...
The Senate passes the Cloture test, nearly unanimously voting to end debate 79 -19, defunding Obamacare for a split second, thereby giving congressional cover for those who may need it come re-election; but then, in an instant, like a package of freeze dried mashed potatoes, immediately removes the defunding of ObamaCare... and sends the whole mess back to the house for a re-do.  Just like Cruz called it.

"Today, far too many Republicans joined Harry Reid in giving the Democrats the ability to fund Obamacare. When the bill comes back to the Senate, when the House yet again stands for principle and fights for the American people, I very much hope that Senate Republicans will rise to the challenge. We are stronger when we are united, and we can defeat Obamacare only if Senate Republicans come together, stand with House Republicans, and champion the millions of Americans being harmed by this disastrous healthcare law."

The Senate is where the sideshow lives and breathes -- it acts much like a Kitchen-Aid stand alone mixer, massive enough to whip up a lively 300 million; but so unfortunate the color, currently only coming in baby puke.



Oh, but the NINETEEN patriots:
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Lee (R-UT)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)

Send them some love, maybe even a batch of cookies.

So the saga continues, with no resolution in sight.

At this present moment,  Boehner, and the people's House, has already sent it back to the Senate -- with corrections, of course.  Here's the press release.

In a nutshell,  coming out of the AP, with the headline, "Who'll blink?..."  The Associated Press confirmed congress is now closed, "after a post-midnight vote in the GOP-run House to delay by a year key parts of the new health care law and repeal a tax on medical devices, in exchange for avoiding a shutdown."

Now, there are as many ways to look at this tactic as there are pundits.

Sure, why not just let ObamaCare fall under it's own weight and let the cake tiers climb to the moon and back until it crumbles on it's own...why delay the inevitable...why not just sit this one out and watch the catastrophe in the making...let the democrats bake their own demolition cake and eat it too.   We all know it tastes like alfalfa.    There is that.  (And Rush, along with many, many others deem this to be the way to go.  And count me in.)

But then again,
and strangely enough -- as wonders never cease and Wondra never fails me --
I kinda like where Boehner is going with this:

“If the Senate stalls until Monday afternoon instead of working today, it would be an act of breathtaking arrogance by the Senate Democratic leadership.  They will be deliberately bringing the nation to the brink of a government shutdown for the sake of raising taxes on seniors’ pacemakers and children’s hearing aids and plowing ahead with the train wreck that is the president’s health care law.  The American people will not stand for it."

At this moment in time, the House has, at the very least, temporarily funded the government -- which is slated to come to a complete stop come midnight, September 30th.  Consider the "delay" of the health care mandate for individuals just part and parcel of all the delays unilaterally imposed by this president -- unconstitutionally, I might add.    The House has merely thrown a little rubber scraper of their own into the mix to slow things down, scrape the sides, see how things are blending -- because reality reveals trouble at every pulsating turn. 

Love that link to Hot Air, above;  Ed Morrissey does a bang up job reporting on the administration run amok and ends posing a really good question:

"Why is Obama

bailing out employers and insurers

with delays

on mandates,

but not consumers?"

So the president can negotiate with the big guys, and even with terrorists, and even breaking the Code of Honor and Silence of thirty four years with Iran -- but not with the American people?

"A path to a meaningful agreement

will be difficult,"

Obama told reporters

at the White House

after the call.

"But I believe we've got

 a responsibility to pursue

diplomacy

and that we have a unique

opportunity

to make progress

with the new leadership

in Iran."

The president feels a strong responsibility to pursue diplomacy with crazy people, who HATE westerners, and seem hell bent on nuking our only real friend and ally in the region, Israel, but won't negotiate with the GOP for a meaningful agreement between opposing sides of congress over health care?  And Oh -- how sweet -- Obama and Rouhani exchanged "pleasantries."

"It is particularly unfortunate that President Obama would recognize the Iranian people's right to nuclear energy but not stand up for their right to freedom, human rights, or democracy."  This being the response from Eric Cantor, Republican House Majority Leader, simply exchanging what everybody else is thinking...But I digress.

Let's review:  

NOT ONE REPUBLICAN

voted for the

 "Affordable Care Act." 

 Not one.

Who does this president think they represent?  (Besides domestic terrorists... "tea-baggers," extremists, and anarchists...)  It's called the other half of the country, Mr. Obamacare.
 

DO you think, Mr. President, that the GOP (all facets of it) should just give up the fight, just because you say so?

The Left never gave up the Utopian dream for Universal Health Care.  It's still the ultimate goal -- is it not?  See here, and oops, what I said was, here,  and with Harry Reid double fudge brownie downing on the single payer health care system here. 

The Left is so patient.  How long has it been?   Decades in the making?

Here's a Hell's Kitchen Habanero Pepper update:  Cruz wasn't in the Senate the first go round.  As a Senator from the fine state of Texas, he is entitled to a say  -- even if some say it's too late -- even if it takes a filibuster lasting 21 hours to fully bake. 

Another way of looking at it -- large or small, elections have consequences  (shout out to you, too, John McCrazy Cain).  The people of Texas put Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz in the hot seat in 2013 for a reason; and Cruz proceeded to do exactly what the people of Texas wanted him to do, no matter what, no matter how hard it was.  KUDOS to you, dear sir.

And Mr. President -- you may not agree, or like it -- but as president of these United States, there is an inherent obligation to let Cruz speak for those of us who oppose this outrageous piece of legislation without ridicule; and without undermining the full faith and credit of the American people that THIS congress, THIS president, THIS administration, heeds every word like a well loved recipe passed down through the generations.


We, the people, always have the floor. 

It would be perfectly fine by me if this government doesn't survive another day.

The thing is:  the House has averted a government shut down.

It's up to the Senate to keep it.
By the time they reconvene, they will have about as long as it takes to roast a standing crown of pork -- or each other --  to do it. 

In the great scheme of things -- the president and his liberal organizers have waited this long to complete his fundamental health care transformation, what's another delay?   [Guess that only works if the president thinks of it first...ooooh snap. and make mine ginger]   But seriously, how insane would it be if they can't deal with a little itty bitty delay?  Right?   Anarchy comes in all kinds of flavors, doesn't it now?


At the end of the day tomorrow -- it may not be pretty, but let's just hope it's eatable.

Make it a Good Day, G



It's Narrative by the Nose Thing

Dear America,

It's not the issue whether Obama and Biden KNEW of the security decisions made by lower level bureaucrats prior to the attack in Libya on September 11, 2012 --  WELL IT IS, but it isn't --  but thanks anyway, Hillary.

“I take responsibility...The president and the vice president wouldn’t be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals, [who are] the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision." thank you Daily Caller here.

The nose grows.

Sure, there is the clear and present danger that it was indeed another anniversary of September 11th, and Libya could have been guarded better all the way around. There is that.  And that's hindsight for you, right?  That would be using our noggin, but nooooooo....

While the Bahamian Embassy probably wasn't necessarily the most critical hot spot to protect...just sayin'...and tried to find my backup for that statement, but can't find a thing on it anymore, like anywhere...so strange...

But no matter...this is where "the State Department" placed their priorities of budget and resources.  Note: dating all the way back to April.  Go Chevy Volts instead of keeping our diplomats safe and sound.

But for a president who says he gets INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS every single day -- or at least, reads them -- "the intelligence" under sworn testimony pointed to a TERRORIST attack within about 24 hours.  I would think this point would have been mentioned, in writing even,  in said INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS, don't ya think?

So -- you would think -- connecting all the dots now -- that the president's narrative would have been more measured on the whole video thing.... with more emphasis on the terrorist attack thing..... with his actions moving with stern diplomatic intention, accordingly.  [and maybe even cancel a few campaign speeches in the immediate aftermath...]

IF the little lowly intelligence peons, the "security professionals,"  realized we were dealing with a terrorist attack, why the nonsense?   Regardless --

"In a briefing to Capitol Hill staffers delivered the day after the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the killings appeared to be the result of a terrorist attack.

Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy -- who exercises responsibility for all department personnel, facilities, and operations, and who is one of the department's most respected civil servants, having served in his position under both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations -- delivered the assessment in an unclassified, half-hour conference call with staff aides to House and Senate lawmakers from relevant committees, and leadership offices, on the evening of Sept. 12. Capitol Hill sources described the call to Fox News."

"Fox News and other news organizations have previously reported that earlier on Sept. 12 -- within 24 hours of learning about the murders -- the Obama administration made a secret determination that Benghazi was indeed a terrorist attack.  Doing so enabled them, under the terms of a 2001 anti-terrorism statute, to move men, money and materiel around more freely, and position these assets to meet the threats in Libya and other parts of the Mideast that had recently seen attacks on U.S. installations.  Kennedy's assessment accorded with that determination."

You know that thing that happens when you tell a lie...and you have to keep telling a lie, perhaps pose an even bigger lie, and a bigger lie --

In ANY EVENT,  the president did not have to blame a stupid video for two weeks making him look like an idiot, then.  He didn't have to go there.  Remember now, he was still squawking about "the video" and tying it to the American deaths in Libya at the United Nations -- on September 25th!

Does this administration really think we are that stupid?

Does this administration really think the real intelligence isn't going to be brought to light, eventually?

The continuing evolution of this lie is simply ridiculous.

Okay -- so the administration IGNORED the threats and attacks in Libya leading up to the ambassador's death, along with three other Americans [FOR MONTHS we are told].  Is that news any better to hear?  Hello, Mr. I read my Intelligence Briefings, like, everyday -- that's gotta be enough....

The nose grows.

Okay -- so Obama and Biden were not included in security briefings?  They didn't know that there were issues apparently -- and that little tidbit is from the horse's mouth and according to the vice president right up front in the middle of a debate.

The nose grows.

Yet today, we find out from  Hillary, that only low level "security professionals" were dealing with this sort of thing....If Bush/Cheney had even insinuated something to that effect, there would have been hell to pay -- would not every American be alarmed and outraged?

Okay -- so Hillary is taking full responsibility for outrageous security breaches and leaving the Libyan ambassador vulnerable to attacks?  Really now?  really?  well then she should be asked to resign, right?

The nose grows.

Okay -- so considering the attacks in Libya were accomplished using our state-of-the-art weaponry -- is this just 'same verse same as the first' -- only bigger -- in tandem with another big mistake called "Fast & Furious"?  Is that what they are about to fess up to, I mean, reveal?  We gave the Libyan rebels weapons to fight the bad guys -- to become liberated and fan the Arab Spring -- and then we turn over the consulate guard to "Libyan insiders" [and who's idea was that?] -- and then --  lo and behold, they turn on us, using our state-of-the-art weaponry  against us [including that which was handily given to them freely or simply taken right out from under our noses]?  

The nose grows.

can you tell?  g is a wee bit upset...I can't even stop to breathe right now.

wow.
so let's keep the good news coming..

The web was ablaze with stories immediately following the attack in Benghazi.  Even as late as September 21st, "AllahPundit" from Hot Air made enormous leaps of intelligence connections.  See here.

What does this do?  It outlines proper CONTEXT -- albeit from someone outside the "security professional" domain -- but my goodness, this kind of "intelligence" at this point is simply everywhere.    AND this is four days before Obama is speaking before the U.N.

Okay -- so Hillary is covering for Obama the day before the biggest night of his life. Co-in-kee-dink?  I think not.

The nose grows.

But at the risk of beating a dead horse -- at what point would the president and vice president receive bonafide "intelligence briefings" outlining a need for concern?  Where is that red line?  What else were in the intelligence briefings that day?  And when I say that day -- pick one -- 9/12, or 9/16 [the day UN Ambassador Susan Rice and other puppets were on TV], 9/21, 9/25.... 10/11...Has he read the one for today...yeah, yeah, that's a good question; what's it say for 10/16/12?

“There were six better stories."  according to the NY Times -- and likewise, according to THIS administration.  More to the point: a planned terrorist attack just didn't fit the narrative...

He's said it before -- and I'll say it again -- it's always about telling a better story to the American people.

As the nose grows... 

The nose knows...  we smell something that stinks to high heaven.

But no matter, new subject and more story.

Here's the  opening paragraph on the official White House biography page on President George W. Bush:

"The airborne terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted flight against the White House of Capitol on September 11, 2001, in which nearly 3,000 Americans were killed, transformed George W. Bush into a wartime president. The attacks put on hold many of Bush’s hopes and plans, and Bush’s father, George Bush, the 41^st president, declared that his son “faced the greatest challenge of any president since Abraham Lincoln.”

Now here's Obama's opening paragraph:

"Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States.
His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others."

You have got to be kidding me -- "values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others."   Wouldn't it be more like a broken family, living on an island -- and if not there, Indonesia, on foreign turf?  But sure... having rather angelically transcended a seemingly conflicted childhood:

• being of mixed race (hating his whiteness), 
• being of mixed religion (having Christian, Black Liberation, and  Muslim influences), 
• being of mixed ideology (wanting to believe in self-reliance, and yet betrothed to wealth re-distribution),
• being raised by grandparents, as all three of his parents failed him miserably.

Sure, this notion of "values of the heartland, middle-class upbringing" is exactly what I would have come up with to describe Obama's family roots.

And this just in -- no, wait, it's old news, but what does that matter, right?  Anyway, it's just a post documenting the actions of our handsome, intelligent, super-smart and super-cute Editor-in-Chief
standing in as president.

oh...ya get it now?   

The thing is, radicals make their own rules and make up stories all the time; it's what they do; it's all they know.   Don't y'all know that by now?

Can't wait for tonight's debate.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's Laboring a little on Labor Day Thing

Dear America,

"Let it show on the record 

that when the American people 

cried out for economic help, 

Jimmy Carter took refuge 

behind a dictionary. 

Well if it’s a definition -- 

if it's a definition he wants, 

I’ll give him one.  

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.  

A depression is when you lose yours. 

And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."

Ronald Reagan, Labor Day 1980

whole speech go here --

thank you American Rhetoric.com

It's Labor Day; what a splendid day to look at the labor market:

Here's the final word from Hot Air's Ed Morrisey, posted August 31st, simply titled The McJob Recovery:

"The data shows that even the paltry job creation of the Obama recovery has done little to advance the economy.  Businesses won’t invest in job-creating activities that require more expensive labor until they can reliably calculate future costs, which in this regulatory and tax environment, they cannot do.  That’s why companies are sitting on their capital, and why we won’t get anything but McJobs in significant numbers until those policies change.  The only thing we can get with this job-creation environment is fries with our meal."

and let's get real, we can't even get fries....thanks to Michelle, it comes with apples slices, fries cost extra.

Businesses must be able to form a business plan looking forward, at the very least, five years.  Businesses can't even do this simple simon step because of living in an environment of a sea of unknowns -- or KNOWNS that scare the beegeesus out of them:  health care costs, looming higher taxation, cost of living and commodities skyrocketing, pending market collapse with the dollar going down with it, inflation...


Here are the facts scooped up by Morrisey:

"Today, the Obama administration keeps claiming to have added 4.3 million jobs by choosing to start from February 2010 rather than the start of the recovery in June 2009 or the passage of Barack Obama’s stimulus package in February 2009.  The Obama recovery in full has only added less than 65,000 jobs per month, far below the level needed to keep up with population growth (125K-150K per month), and the civilian population participation rate has fallen to a 30-year low this spring."

This administration fudges with the real jobs numbers just as they play Go Fish with the real Unemployment numbers  -- it's a kid's meal 300 million served.

And yet upon this Labor Day weekend, the chocolate shake runs deeper than that.   For we have a president who continues to chime a message even more troublesome than the hamburglar himself; it's a message tossed into the political fryer claiming "if you're successful, you didn't get there on your own."



It's just dripping with smacks of greasy, envious, class warfare in order to set the new temperature for fundamental transformation in America by attacking anyone of salt-of-the-earth beginnings  -- who happened to ultimately -- with a whole lot of toil, trouble and labor -- amass some kind of wealth.

There have been numerous stories from people who have "made it" claiming to have started at a drive-thru window taking orders for Ray Kroc.  Ray Kroc created the opportunity for MILLIONS of Americans and foreigners alike to get their first job.   Some made a career out of it, while for some, it was just a stepping stone before laboring somewhere else.

Ray didn't start out with billions served and thousands of restaurants; he began in one location with the first customer and it led him down a path no one could ever fully imagine, even for Ray.  A burger empire was created and it made real jobs in the private sector.  Government can't buy -- or borrow -- this kind of success; matter of fact, even if they were to try  to duplicate it, it would cost exponentially more.

So when President Obama also adds remarks to last week's Republican Convention, saying it was so Victorian and all, so "better suited for the last century," perhaps we are seeing the real campaigner-in-chief show his true despise for this great country of ours, let alone the people -- the greatest generation -- that built it.

Gary DeMar of Godfather Politics writes a wonderful expose, President Obama Slams the Greatest Generation, highlighting recent Obama rhetoric:

"It was a rerun. We’d seen it before. You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV. . . If you didn’t DVR it, let me recap it for you. Everything is bad, it’s Obama’s fault, and Gov. Romney is the only one who knows the secret to creating jobs and growing the economy"

The President actually continues saying, "you might as well of seen it on a black and white TV..."   ooooh burn as he helps himself to a little chuckle...

Gary does a fine job returning to the labors of the greatest generation; a generation often characterized by sacrifice, ingenuity, strength, ambition, humility, and grace.  While history proves this generation made America into the industrialized and compassionate nation we see today (or perhaps the one a decade ago), one certainly worthy of the entire world's respect.  [Read his whole piece, if you will, and admire the perspective for just a moment or two.]

Here's a thought, Mr. President, so when you say, "if you're successful, you didn't get there on your own" -- does that mean the converse is also true?  If you're UN-successful, did you get there on your own?"  It's a good question.

So our American president is poking fun at the ideals of yesteryear and clearly highlighted in last week's convention; choosing ridicule rather than running on his own merits.

He never should have skipped Business Advertising 101; or better yet, maybe he should have worked at a McDonald's for awhile [there is rumor he worked at a Baskin Robbins circa 1978; which is weird, as I worked at BR same time frame...so I won't go throwing mud pie in his eye just yet].

But seriously, we don't see McDonald's advertising for their Big Macs by saying outright that 'the King's Whoopers suck.'

Mickey D's has to run on it's own merits, it's own product, it's own special sauce and that's it -- and it all rests in the hands of the people and the Law of Competition and Compensation, with a whole lot of Labor of Love in force.

Most of us look back to our first jobs with appreciation, a kinship with all those who follow after us, and a strange connection to the whole.  We all have to start somewhere.  Mr. Kroc gave too many to really count an opportunity -- and that is not only the American way -- it is a commodity that is to this day, priceless!

Republicans see an opportunity to get America's labor market back to laboring by driving America's ideals and principles and values all the live long day. 

It's like a drive-thru up in here...one ideal after another...one principle after another...one value after another....

Sure, call it old-fashioned, Mr. President. Go ahead -- and make my labor day.

Make it a Good Day, G