No, there's no astroturfed "progressive" pollution in any election process, is there?
Excerpt:
"The purpose of the SEO Astro Turf program is to influence undecided voters by having them read negative articles about Republican candidates for Congress. This exploits the fact many undecided voters conduct pre-election research via search engines like Google.
Kos is urging their members to sign up for a program to conduct research and then link damaging articles with the purpose of manipulating them to the top of the Google rankings where they will be the first thing read when an undecided voter is researching their candidates."
Saturday, October 09, 2010
A typical conversation these days among Democrat politicians
More context here:
"Have you seen the interview with President Obama in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine? In it, President Obama proves why he’s one of the most polarizing figures in politics today, and how deep his disconnect is with voters."
Friday, October 08, 2010
Let's put the idiotic "Tax Cuts for the Rich" bleat into context
The problem is NOT "too little revenue, we can't afford the tax cuts". the problem CLEARLY is too much spending, whether "progressives" like it or not.
.....from Daniel Mitchell at Cato, who adds:
"Amazing how the problem becomes obvious when you look at real numbers and don’t get trapped into using “baseline” math..."
Thursday, October 07, 2010
How the Dems could still steal the 2010 election
Anything is possible, as The Spectator points out.
Noteworthy:
"And now the aforementioned Justice Department, especially its Voting Rights Section, is as corrupt as anything this country has seen since John Mitchell carried Dick Nixon's water. Dead people and felons remain on the voter rolls. Some of them actually vote from their graveyards. Too many military personnel are disenfranchised. Minority voters are protected but white voters aren't. People vote in the name of Alzheimer's patients. Illegal aliens vote -- and, even after being busted for it, are still offered citizenship.
No conservative who goes to bed on Election Night with a tiny lead should rest safe. John Thune learned that against Tim Johnson in South Dakota in 2002. Dino Rossi actually was certified as the winner of Washington state's gubernatorial race in 2004 before having it snatched away. Norm Coleman was upended by Al Franken in Minnesota in 2008. And in Indiana's 'Bloody Eighth' district in 1984, Democrats swiped a seat for incumbent Frank McCloskey even after the official count showed Republican Rick McIntyre had won by hundreds of votes.
In short, conservatives can't just win; they need to win each race beyond a steal-able margin. Otherwise, Eric Holder's brigades will find a way to snatch elections away the way armed goons snatched Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives, at Holder's orders, in the dark of night."
Noteworthy:
"And now the aforementioned Justice Department, especially its Voting Rights Section, is as corrupt as anything this country has seen since John Mitchell carried Dick Nixon's water. Dead people and felons remain on the voter rolls. Some of them actually vote from their graveyards. Too many military personnel are disenfranchised. Minority voters are protected but white voters aren't. People vote in the name of Alzheimer's patients. Illegal aliens vote -- and, even after being busted for it, are still offered citizenship.
No conservative who goes to bed on Election Night with a tiny lead should rest safe. John Thune learned that against Tim Johnson in South Dakota in 2002. Dino Rossi actually was certified as the winner of Washington state's gubernatorial race in 2004 before having it snatched away. Norm Coleman was upended by Al Franken in Minnesota in 2008. And in Indiana's 'Bloody Eighth' district in 1984, Democrats swiped a seat for incumbent Frank McCloskey even after the official count showed Republican Rick McIntyre had won by hundreds of votes.
In short, conservatives can't just win; they need to win each race beyond a steal-able margin. Otherwise, Eric Holder's brigades will find a way to snatch elections away the way armed goons snatched Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives, at Holder's orders, in the dark of night."
Correcting Austan Goolsbee about the pending Obama tax increases
Read about it here:
"Despite the constant repeating of myths by Goolsbee and other Obama Administration officials, these myths remain just that. The American people recognize that higher tax rates on high-earners wouldn’t just hurt the rich but would hurt Americans at all income levels because they would destroy jobs, reduce wages, and limit prosperity for everyone."
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Are we there yet?
The Fabled Recovery
By Bill Wilson
"When the housing bubble popped in 2007 and financial mayhem ensued over the next two years, revenues to the federal and state governments dried up. This has produced untenable budget situations as states struggle to keep spending at pre-financial crisis levels. 'Stimulus'has been justified in part to give the economy the juice it needs to restore growth, which in turn would promote higher revenues.
'We need a big stimulus package that will jolt the economy back into shape,' said Barack Obama on January 2th, 2009.
The trouble is that it just has not happened.
The American people are still waiting for this fabled recovery. With growth slowing to 1.7 percent in the second quarter and unemployment remaining unacceptably high, the long-awaited recovery has now become an article of faith on the Left. It has become akin to the belief that the end times will come in our lifetimes.
A key indicator to look at over the past few years has been state budget deficits. In Illinois, reports Bloomberg News, the state faces yet another $15 billion deficit for fiscal year 2012. 'The state’s financial condition "continues to deteriorate,"' [state comptroller Dan] Hynes said, citing 36 percent surge in fiscal 2010 bills to be paid from current-year revenue,” according to the report.
Despite the terrible numbers, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn 'is committed to paying all' the bills from 2010. Cutting spending is apparently not on the menu.
In New York, next year’s deficit could be another $8.2 billion. California’s shortfall remains at $19 billion. Despite Governor Chris Christie’s herculean efforts in New Jersey to eliminate an $11 billion deficit and balance the budget, the state 'is expected to face a similar gap next year,' according to the Daily Record.
So, nobody is expecting an immediate rebound, despite all of the Keynesian deficit-spending that was promised to turn the economy around. The first $150 billion 'stimulus' in 2008, the $700 billion TARP, the failed foreclosure 'prevention' and mortgage modification programs, and the second $816 billion 'stimulus' in 2009 did not work.
The near-zero interest rates, and the Federal Reserve more than doubling the money supply and purchasing $1.25 trillion of mortgage-backed securities, the government seizures of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GM, and Chrysler, the $26.1 billion states bailout passed this year, and then the government takeovers of the health care and financial sectors have not worked either.
None of it has produced the fabled recovery.
All told, the federal government has contracted more than $4.6 trillion in new debt since 2007 under the congressional leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi — all to no avail. Housing prices are still slowly declining. New jobs are only being created at a snail’s pace and well below the rate of new entrants into the workforce. Exports and wages remain flat.
Meanwhile, the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are set to expire at year’s end, which will result in automatic tax increases across the board on all Americans, including critical job creators. Gold has spiraled up to $1,341 an ounce, signaling future inflation. Already food and other commodities are inching upward in prices. Medical costs are still on the way up.
Together with the new regulations from ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank financial takeover, higher prices and tax hikes will impose new, dramatic costs on American businesses, hamper economic growth, and leave Americans out of work.
The United States cannot compete in the global marketplace with these sorts of costs being imposed on jobs and wealth creation. With over 14.8 million Americans unemployed, virtually unchanged from a year ago, now is the time to begin rolling back these disastrous government policies that have critically damaged the economy.
Nobody believes the propaganda anymore. The American people are not holding out for the government 'stimulus' to kick in. They’ve seen what it does and does not do, and they want a change. It didn’t work. The fabled recovery is nowhere to be found."
Bill Wilson is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
From Get Liberty dot org
By Bill Wilson
"When the housing bubble popped in 2007 and financial mayhem ensued over the next two years, revenues to the federal and state governments dried up. This has produced untenable budget situations as states struggle to keep spending at pre-financial crisis levels. 'Stimulus'has been justified in part to give the economy the juice it needs to restore growth, which in turn would promote higher revenues.
'We need a big stimulus package that will jolt the economy back into shape,' said Barack Obama on January 2th, 2009.
The trouble is that it just has not happened.
The American people are still waiting for this fabled recovery. With growth slowing to 1.7 percent in the second quarter and unemployment remaining unacceptably high, the long-awaited recovery has now become an article of faith on the Left. It has become akin to the belief that the end times will come in our lifetimes.
A key indicator to look at over the past few years has been state budget deficits. In Illinois, reports Bloomberg News, the state faces yet another $15 billion deficit for fiscal year 2012. 'The state’s financial condition "continues to deteriorate,"' [state comptroller Dan] Hynes said, citing 36 percent surge in fiscal 2010 bills to be paid from current-year revenue,” according to the report.
Despite the terrible numbers, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn 'is committed to paying all' the bills from 2010. Cutting spending is apparently not on the menu.
In New York, next year’s deficit could be another $8.2 billion. California’s shortfall remains at $19 billion. Despite Governor Chris Christie’s herculean efforts in New Jersey to eliminate an $11 billion deficit and balance the budget, the state 'is expected to face a similar gap next year,' according to the Daily Record.
So, nobody is expecting an immediate rebound, despite all of the Keynesian deficit-spending that was promised to turn the economy around. The first $150 billion 'stimulus' in 2008, the $700 billion TARP, the failed foreclosure 'prevention' and mortgage modification programs, and the second $816 billion 'stimulus' in 2009 did not work.
The near-zero interest rates, and the Federal Reserve more than doubling the money supply and purchasing $1.25 trillion of mortgage-backed securities, the government seizures of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GM, and Chrysler, the $26.1 billion states bailout passed this year, and then the government takeovers of the health care and financial sectors have not worked either.
None of it has produced the fabled recovery.
All told, the federal government has contracted more than $4.6 trillion in new debt since 2007 under the congressional leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi — all to no avail. Housing prices are still slowly declining. New jobs are only being created at a snail’s pace and well below the rate of new entrants into the workforce. Exports and wages remain flat.
Meanwhile, the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are set to expire at year’s end, which will result in automatic tax increases across the board on all Americans, including critical job creators. Gold has spiraled up to $1,341 an ounce, signaling future inflation. Already food and other commodities are inching upward in prices. Medical costs are still on the way up.
Together with the new regulations from ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank financial takeover, higher prices and tax hikes will impose new, dramatic costs on American businesses, hamper economic growth, and leave Americans out of work.
The United States cannot compete in the global marketplace with these sorts of costs being imposed on jobs and wealth creation. With over 14.8 million Americans unemployed, virtually unchanged from a year ago, now is the time to begin rolling back these disastrous government policies that have critically damaged the economy.
Nobody believes the propaganda anymore. The American people are not holding out for the government 'stimulus' to kick in. They’ve seen what it does and does not do, and they want a change. It didn’t work. The fabled recovery is nowhere to be found."
Bill Wilson is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
Your Obama "stimulus" at work
"Unemployment Likely Increased to 9.7 Percent in September"
Imagine that!
Noteworthy:
"The amount of unemployment we’ve already got and the slowness of recovery lead to predictions that we could have 9-plus percent unemployment even through the next presidential election."
Things are not looking too peachy in Obamaland, are they?
Imagine that!
Noteworthy:
"The amount of unemployment we’ve already got and the slowness of recovery lead to predictions that we could have 9-plus percent unemployment even through the next presidential election."
Things are not looking too peachy in Obamaland, are they?
Another failure of "If you like the health insurance you have now, you can keep it".
"3M drops retiree health coverage"
This comment to the story nails it:
"When employers face the reality that they can't predict future costs of retiree healthcare they decide to change to a more predictable and sustainable solution. The cost of providing the benefits is one thing, but the intrusion of government mandates is another that causes employers to be proactively cautious."
This comment to the story nails it:
"When employers face the reality that they can't predict future costs of retiree healthcare they decide to change to a more predictable and sustainable solution. The cost of providing the benefits is one thing, but the intrusion of government mandates is another that causes employers to be proactively cautious."
The current state of "Blame Bush-Foreign Policy Dept."
"As the antithesis of Bush is learning, foreign dictators are likely to bite the hand that strokes them."
VDH:
"But suddenly Barack Obama’s brief tenure has reminded us that, in fact, almost all the world’s crises arose before the Bush presidency and continued during and after it.
Examine current American foreign policy toward every region, and one of three general patterns emerges: Either things are no better since the end of 2008, or they are much worse, or the Obama administration has reverted to the Bush way of doing things — despite constant assurances to the world that Bush was at fault, American foreign policy was now reset, and global animosity arose out of past misunderstanding, insensitivity, and American hubris."
Imagine that!
We are less secure as a nation with Obama as President, enabled by partisan fools both inside and outside of Congress and the tank media.
VDH:
"But suddenly Barack Obama’s brief tenure has reminded us that, in fact, almost all the world’s crises arose before the Bush presidency and continued during and after it.
Examine current American foreign policy toward every region, and one of three general patterns emerges: Either things are no better since the end of 2008, or they are much worse, or the Obama administration has reverted to the Bush way of doing things — despite constant assurances to the world that Bush was at fault, American foreign policy was now reset, and global animosity arose out of past misunderstanding, insensitivity, and American hubris."
Imagine that!
We are less secure as a nation with Obama as President, enabled by partisan fools both inside and outside of Congress and the tank media.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
"Bernanke : Defict threats are 'real and growing' "
Ya think?:
Still, Bernanke doesn't get it. He doesn't think Obamaland needs to stop the on-going crony capitalism spending campaign:
"Bernanke, in a speech prepared for delivery, reiterated his belief that the government shouldn't raise taxes or slash spending now because the economic recovery is still too fragile."
It could be worse. He could be advocating for massive tax increases (over and above the expiration of the Bush tax cuts), and massive increases in spending, as advocated by leftist agenda clowns who masquerade as economists, like Paul Krugman.
Still, Bernanke doesn't get it. He doesn't think Obamaland needs to stop the on-going crony capitalism spending campaign:
"Bernanke, in a speech prepared for delivery, reiterated his belief that the government shouldn't raise taxes or slash spending now because the economic recovery is still too fragile."
It could be worse. He could be advocating for massive tax increases (over and above the expiration of the Bush tax cuts), and massive increases in spending, as advocated by leftist agenda clowns who masquerade as economists, like Paul Krugman.
Monday, October 04, 2010
"Emancipation From What...Capitalism?"
Brian Wesbbury and Bob Stein:
" 'In the year 1000, the average infant could expect to live about 24 years. A third died in the first year of life. Hunger and epidemic disease ravaged the survivors. By 1820, life expectation had risen to 36 years in the west, with only marginal improvement elsewhere. After 1820, world development became much more dynamic. By 2003, income per head had risen nearly ten-fold, population six-fold. Per capita income rose by 1.2 per cent a year: 24 times as fast as in 1000-1820. Life expectation increased to 76 years in the west and 63 in the rest of the world.'
Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy.
To paraphrase - for 1800 years, progress was virtually non-existent; then it accelerated sharply. It takes a severe case of denial for someone to ignore these lessons of history. What they show is that when freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the true source of improvement in the human condition.
The US Constitution was crucial in the process of freedom. It established a new country with protected property rights. The Declaration of Independence declared the “unalienable Rights” of 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.' It also declared that 'whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government….'
Yes, the US has its history with slavery and women’s suffrage, but the Civil War, and 13th and 19th Amendments to the Constitution fixed those wrongs. It wasn’t easy, but the system worked. No system of social and economic organization has done more to lift living standards than the US system of 'free market capitalism.' No system of governance has improved the lives of so many people.
So, why is this system under attack? Have we uncovered problems with free market capitalism that are the equivalent of slavery and women’s suffrage?
President Obama thinks so. In a speech last week, he called belief in capitalism 'blind faith.'He said this philosophy, of letting people 'fend for themselves' has 'failed.' He added that “people are frustrated, they’re anxious, they’re scared about the future. [But] now is not the time to quit....We’ve been through worse.... It took time to free the slaves. It took time for women to get the vote.'
This is the Progressive’s mantra – 'Capitalism is unjust, unfair...A new system must be put in its place and this takes time.' There is only one problem with this logic. It’s not really progress and it has never, ever worked. Today’s progressives are the ones that ask for blind faith. They want people to believe that they have finally figured out how to do it right
But this is just wishful thinking. Every economic system, no matter how it is described, is a system that distributes resources among competing interests. In a Progressive system, government officials control this process. In a free market system, resources flow to those who use them best to improve the lives of others. The market votes every day on these products and services and the successful ones are given more resources. To prove how fluid this system is, more businesses fail each year than succeed.
This is not true of government. Once started, government programs rarely fail. The system perpetuates them with more money and more resources. The waste increases over time until it becomes so overwhelming that the entire system fails. The Roman Empire, the Soviet Union, Greece, California and Illinois are all the evidence needed.
The real problem with the economy these days it that we have moved too far away from free market capitalism. As government spending has increased, so has unemployment. This is not a mystery; the bigger the government, the smaller the private sector and the less dynamic the economy. If there is any emancipation needed these days it’s from the government, not from capitalism."
" 'In the year 1000, the average infant could expect to live about 24 years. A third died in the first year of life. Hunger and epidemic disease ravaged the survivors. By 1820, life expectation had risen to 36 years in the west, with only marginal improvement elsewhere. After 1820, world development became much more dynamic. By 2003, income per head had risen nearly ten-fold, population six-fold. Per capita income rose by 1.2 per cent a year: 24 times as fast as in 1000-1820. Life expectation increased to 76 years in the west and 63 in the rest of the world.'
Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy.
To paraphrase - for 1800 years, progress was virtually non-existent; then it accelerated sharply. It takes a severe case of denial for someone to ignore these lessons of history. What they show is that when freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the true source of improvement in the human condition.
The US Constitution was crucial in the process of freedom. It established a new country with protected property rights. The Declaration of Independence declared the “unalienable Rights” of 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.' It also declared that 'whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government….'
Yes, the US has its history with slavery and women’s suffrage, but the Civil War, and 13th and 19th Amendments to the Constitution fixed those wrongs. It wasn’t easy, but the system worked. No system of social and economic organization has done more to lift living standards than the US system of 'free market capitalism.' No system of governance has improved the lives of so many people.
So, why is this system under attack? Have we uncovered problems with free market capitalism that are the equivalent of slavery and women’s suffrage?
President Obama thinks so. In a speech last week, he called belief in capitalism 'blind faith.'He said this philosophy, of letting people 'fend for themselves' has 'failed.' He added that “people are frustrated, they’re anxious, they’re scared about the future. [But] now is not the time to quit....We’ve been through worse.... It took time to free the slaves. It took time for women to get the vote.'
This is the Progressive’s mantra – 'Capitalism is unjust, unfair...A new system must be put in its place and this takes time.' There is only one problem with this logic. It’s not really progress and it has never, ever worked. Today’s progressives are the ones that ask for blind faith. They want people to believe that they have finally figured out how to do it right
But this is just wishful thinking. Every economic system, no matter how it is described, is a system that distributes resources among competing interests. In a Progressive system, government officials control this process. In a free market system, resources flow to those who use them best to improve the lives of others. The market votes every day on these products and services and the successful ones are given more resources. To prove how fluid this system is, more businesses fail each year than succeed.
This is not true of government. Once started, government programs rarely fail. The system perpetuates them with more money and more resources. The waste increases over time until it becomes so overwhelming that the entire system fails. The Roman Empire, the Soviet Union, Greece, California and Illinois are all the evidence needed.
The real problem with the economy these days it that we have moved too far away from free market capitalism. As government spending has increased, so has unemployment. This is not a mystery; the bigger the government, the smaller the private sector and the less dynamic the economy. If there is any emancipation needed these days it’s from the government, not from capitalism."
Sunday, October 03, 2010
More pictures fron the "One Nation" event
From Doug Ross@Journal, via Fred Gregory.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "Take out the trash", doesn't it?
Gives new meaning to the phrase "Take out the trash", doesn't it?
Lefty Desecration at the National Mall
Obnoxious "Progressives" and desecration of national monuments just seem to go hand in hand, don't they?
On the other hand, what else would we expect from low life scumbags like this?
On the other hand, what else would we expect from low life scumbags like this?
Friday, October 01, 2010
Here's some help for the undecided voter
Need help deciding on who to vote for this November?
Here's your guideline to help you make your decision:
Note: If you can't comprehend these difficult instructions, go to the polling place. Before you enter, find the nice Democrat electionfraud enabler worker, and tell him or her that you need help.
Here's your guideline to help you make your decision:
Note: If you can't comprehend these difficult instructions, go to the polling place. Before you enter, find the nice Democrat election
Let's call this for what it is......
Pimp the bonds, then pimp the tax increase.
It's an outrage, and a typical example of the "Business As Usual" disease which plagues Greensboro and Guilford county, and makes our part of the world a less atteactivbe place to live and work.
This unholy combination of corrupt special interest groups needs to be stopped.
It's an outrage, and a typical example of the "Business As Usual" disease which plagues Greensboro and Guilford county, and makes our part of the world a less atteactivbe place to live and work.
This unholy combination of corrupt special interest groups needs to be stopped.
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