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Posted on The Patriot Post-On June 15, 2012:
“The Foundation
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth—and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. ... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”—Patrick Henry
Government & Politics
‘Titanic II: It’ll Be Different This Time’
“The Democrats are saying something like this: ‘We found a big hole that we did not dig. ... Give us two more years. If it doesn’t work, vote us out.’” That’s what Bill Clinton said about the economy—in 2010. There’s plenty of blame to go around for that hole, of course, but it’s worth remembering that Democrats took control of both houses of Congress—and the purse strings—almost a year before the recession started. And we can’t think of a better argument for voting Democrats out than how they bound and gagged the economy for the last five years.
One of Clinton’s most trusted strategists, James “It’s the Economy, Stupid” Carville, is painfully aware that the languishing economy doesn’t bode well for Democrats in November, and he’s advising Obama to quit talking about his record—a strategy he says is “wrong” and “will fail”—and focus on the future instead. Carville wrote, along with fellow strategists Stanley Greenberg and Erica Seifert, “We will face an impossible headwind in November if we do not move to a new narrative, one that contextualizes the recovery but, more importantly, focuses on what we will do to make a better future for the middle class.” In other words, it’s like the sequel to “Titanic,” and the ship will sink all over again.
Barack Obama isn’t listening to Carville, though. He gave a 54-minute speech yesterday at an Ohio community college—ironically, the same place Clinton made his remarks two years ago—in an attempt to “reframe” the issue. “Rerun” might be a better word because there was nothing new offered, no deviation from the bigger-government-fixes-everything template, and it was full of the usual mix of self-congratulation and blame for everyone else. In fact, we think we’ve heard it 54 times before.
Obama blamed the “policies of the last decade” for the bad economy, while arguing that Mitt Romney would gut education, science and green energy programs, as well as “end [Medicare] as we know it.” Arguing that he needs four more years because of George W. Bush is less than convincing, though as he reminded us last Friday, “the private sector is doing fine.”
He then whined that Romney’s campaign will go negative: “The other side will spend over a billion dollars on ads that tell you the economy is bad, that it’s all my fault ... that I can’t fix it because I think government is always the answer or because I didn’t make a lot of money in the private sector and don’t understand it or because I’m in over my head or because I think everything and everybody is doing just fine.”
“No, I don’t believe that government is the answer to all our problems,” Obama joked—at least we assume he had to be joking—before turning around and saying of his “investments” of taxpayer money, “The private sector can’t do it alone.” In fact, he says, government investment is necessary to help “the next Thomas Edison, the next Wright brothers.” Also laughably, he hammered the Bush tax cuts and alleged deregulation in general, only to later tout his own tax cuts and supposed deregulation.
All in all, the speech was a tired refrain of Obama’s old standbys, class warfare and government solutions—so much so that even a panel at MSNBC panned the speech. But Obama did offer one bit of wisdom: “This election is your chance to break [the] stalemate” between economic visions for the country. Indeed, it’s time for a change.
The Obama Presidency in a Nutshell
“I think people are still hurting. I think the economy has not recovered, and it’s not where it needs to be.”—White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
On Cross-Examination
“Now you may have heard that President Obama is on the other side of the state and he is going to be delivering a speech on the economy. He’s doing that because he hasn’t delivered a recovery for the economy. And he’s going to be a person of eloquence as he describes his plans for making the economy better but don’t forget, he’s been president for three and a half years. And talk is cheap. Action speaks very loud. ... What he says and what he does are not always the exact same thing.”—Mitt Romney, just before Obama’s speech.
Hope ‘n’ Change: Collusion on ObamaCare
We have long known that the Obama administration pulled out all the stops, legal and otherwise, to make ObamaCare a reality, but recent evidence indicates a staggeringly high level of collusion between the White House and pharmaceutical companies in crafting the legislation. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating the relationship between the Obama White House and the drug industry lobby, led by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The committee’s recent findings are the most glaring example of crony capitalism we have yet seen from this administration.
In 2009, when ObamaCare was coming together, drug makers eagerly stepped up to join the White House effort in order to protect their own interests from too much government regulation, and because they realized that the new entitlement might bring a wave of new customers their way. Emails from the drug makers and the White House show that the White House explicitly looked to Pfizer and other drug companies to provide financial and critical support for the bill, dangling promises of looser price controls and anti-re-importation provisions in exchange. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), then chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, took everything that PhRMA offered, and then pushed re-importation anyway. As part of the well-played skit, the White House stepped in, saved the drug companies from the re-importation provision, and PhRMA wrote a $150 million check for an advertising campaign that touted the virtues of ObamaCare to an increasingly skeptical public.
Democrats pretend to be the champions of the average American, but they had no problem cozying up to drug companies in order to get their own way. The drug companies in turn had no problem getting into bed with the White House if it meant bigger potential profits for them down the road.
Meanwhile, even if the Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare, some of its provisions may live on with various insurance companies. UnitedHealth Group and other large insurers, for example, intend to keep the provision that allows families to keep their children on their plans up to age 26, and they will also maintain certain preventive measures with no out-of-pocket charges. On the other hand, they’re unlikely to stick to the portion of the law that requires them to take all comers regardless of pre-existing conditions, and they will probably ditch the requirement that insurers spend at least 80 percent of premiums on health-related costs.
Campaign Trail: Fundraiser-in-Chief
Barack Obama hit six fundraisers Tuesday in Baltimore and Philadelphia—tying the one-day record for fundraising events by a sitting president. The previous record, by the way, was held by ... wait for it ... Barack Obama. Obama has held a total of 160 fundraising events since officially kicking off his re-election campaign. To put that into perspective, by the same point in his first term, George W. Bush held 79 events.
On another campaign stop for barbecue, the president and his four guests left without paying the $55.58 bill. The White House did settle the tab before the end of the day, but the episode reminded us of a particular attack Obama made on Republicans. Rebutting their criticism of his deficit spending, he said it’s “like somebody goes to the restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, martini, all that stuff and then just as you’re sitting down, they leave and accuse you of running up the tab.” Just as with his budgets, he ordered something he didn’t pay for.
News From the Swamp: Federal Reserve Debt Holdings Skyrocket
Newly released numbers show that the Federal Reserve under Obama has become the largest shareholder in U.S. government debt. The Fed owned $302 billion in U.S. Treasury securities in January 2009. That portion rose an incredible 452 percent by April 2012, with the Fed now holding $1.67 trillion. In roughly the same time frame, China’s share of U.S. government debt rose from $740 billion to $1.17 trillion, and Japan’s share shot from $635 billion to just over $1 trillion. Together, these three entities possess 49 percent of all the new debt generated during Obama’s term, in which total debt rose 50 percent from $10 trillion to $15 trillion.”
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Romney Will not be the next president in my opinion, and if he is, it won't make any difference, because he is part of the Internationalist, NWO agenda. The biggest problem is that the Majority of Americans, even those who think they understand the problem, simply do not understand it. Most Americans will not do their own individual research to find out where the real problems lie, and who is behind them, but think they know what is going on, and speak as if they do.
Tell em, "give the GOP 4 years now and if they don't work out we vote you back in"....(NOT)
It's more like disaster and deceit, rather than hope and change with Fidel Obama in the WH.
As a realist and pro-life citizen, I am looking at what will be best for America in the long run and there is no doubt in my mind that Barrack Hussein Obama has got to GO and the ONLY candidate who can take him out this time around is the Republican nominee, so yes I intend to continue voting Republican and hope enough o f the electorate is sufficiently awake and concerned to do the same - the future of the country depends upon insuring that necessary change back to the right.
None, and I repeat, None of those who have been running for nomination in the Republican Party, except Ron Paul or Gary Johnson are true Conservatives. Don,t kid yourselves, do your research, don't just go along with what the MSM, or the National Republican Party says, and I am sure you will find the truth, and a bright light will come on for you. To begin with this whole word conservative does not belong in American Politics, what word does belong is "Constitutional", and none of the Democrats, or the Main Stream Republicans are Constitutional, or this Nation would not be in the shape it is in. Quit repeating with conviction what the MSM and Washington is telling you, they are both complicit with the International Corporate Fascists, and Communists, because they invented both movements!
Looking at the two major party platforms, the contrast is clear since one stands for respect for human life (Republicans) while the DNC pushes a very deadly agenda from abomination passing for marriage to forcing taxpayers to subsidize abortion/baby murder and ObamaCare poised to force rationing and sending the elderly before death panels...big contrast, I will gladly vote for the party of life, knowing that brings America the prospect of a far brighter future for my posterity. From the beginning of the nomination process, Paul had the lowest polling numbers of all those running and recently his son Rand finally expressed acceptance of Romney as our nominee. It's about time the nation united behind the nominee we have, urging the selection of a conservathive pro-life running mate to bring about an unbeatable ticket so desperately needed to deliver us from Obamunism.
Obama is going to win the election. He is going to win, because the American people are still in the dark, in the dark with what has, and is going on in this country. The republican and Democrat Parties are owned by the International Corporations, who play a deadly shell game with the American voters. The American people listen to the Corporate Media, who is owned by the same people who control our traiterous Congress. Most Americans will not accept that there is an alternative to our so-called two party system, and therefore will allow the Mainstream Media to tell them that a third party candidate cannot win, and should not win. The MSM directs the American voter to dismiss a third party candidate, to ignore and have contempt for them, and the voter complies. We find the public actually repeating the same thing that the media says without checking it out themselves, totally dismissing a candidate who represents what the voter says they stand for.
Obama is going to win, Romney is not advertising like someone who wants to win, even though he has the big corporations and banks, as well as the Major Media behind him. Many polls across the country showed that Ron Paul has a better chance of beating Obama that Romney does, all of the evidense shows that Ron Paul's movement (grass roots) is by far more in line with what the American people want that all the rest put together, but Paul has been dismissed, the Major Media refuses to give him coverage, and now Rand Paul has come out and endorsed Romney even though his dad is still in the race. What in the world is going on, we have never seen anything like this in history.
Yes! The liberals had the power! They failed!
Republicans offer the best hope for positive change at this point. While I would have preferred conservatives like either Perry or Santorum going for the Presidency this year, it is my hope that maybe Romney may at least select a conservative pro-life running mate to complete the ticket going up against Obama this November and the winning of that ticket will be the beginning of the restoration of our ailing republic. It is going to take a decisive Republican success to put a stop to ObamaCare, the repeal of which in itself will do a lot to help the nation resolve some of our fiscal deficits.
A second term for Obama, [God forbid] would be 4 more wasted years. Unless the Alinskyite left
is able to coup/Chavez/Castro our Constitutional Republic, our free market will survive; a little
stronger for the effort.
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