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A couple of months ago, in asking if and to what effect a Jenny Sanford political endorsement would manifest, I wrote:
It is no secret – nor should it be – that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s estranged wife, Jenny, is a very smart woman and the person most responsible for his political career. Better than smart, she’s bright, wise and has a precise understanding of people, issues and values.
For reasons we all know, she is the most admired woman in South Carolina and certainly at the top of the national list. Strong, resolute and unashamedly committed to her ideals and religious convictions, she is another in a long list of women that demolishes the notion that women don’t have a place in politics.
Jenny Sanford is South Carolina’s Wonder Woman and she wields a powerful lasso of truth.
Today, Jenny Sanford endorsed Lexington State Representative Nikki Haley for Governor. Nothing about this surprises me. A woman of unquestioned principles, Ms. Sanford no doubt sees in Haley similarities in political and family value commitments. Both are purposeful women highly respected in a very male environment.
President Obama and his White House Staff has said so. So it must be true?
No, it seems today that we are only concerned with those few misbegotten mentally ill villains who subscribe to some far off Middle Eastern fanaticism. All so-called terrorists are mentally ill, right? We just need to help them understand their illness. There is no War on Terrorism, anywhere….
But wait! What about those shifty Mormons who spend a dragon horde of money to alter the political landscape? What about those methodical Methodists who are planning a secret new world order behind their stained glass windows where no one can openly see them? And you better not let your eyes wonder away from those pesky Baptist assassins that are everywhere, ready to strike in the name of God, even within our government! And who can stomach those suicidal Christian Scientists who will stop at nothing, even fighting the government within its own courts! Even the Catholics are now recruiting a new army of dissidents from the Evangelical Church of England, married Priests and all! But the worst of the lot is the Scientologists who are truly fanatics and will stop at nothing to enlist the horrible rich demons of Hollywood. Last, but not least, are the suicidal Atheists who will stop at nothing to prove that God does not exist, yelling “God Is Dead!”, just before they click the trigger.
Still, the real elitist groups are in your own communities, in small local cells that recruit locally, you know, the little innocent looking Protestant Church on the hill or down the street, viewed from your own back yard. There, the true seeds of revolution and war are being hatched! Oh, they may look harmless, but don’t turn your back on them or they just might invite you to church too…….
The Fed Audit bill with 308 co-sponsors has been “gutted” as it has been making its way through the House of Representatives. The bill “has been stripped of provisions that would remove Fed exemptions from audits of transactions with foreign central banks, monetary policy deliberations, transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee and communications between the Board, the reserve banks and staff.” So basically, everything of importance.
Mel Watt (D-NC) is the chairman of panel’s domestic monetary policy and technology subcommittee, and is the main culprit involved.
A quick look at Mel Watt and one realizes that such legislation might be doomed until a new chairman takes over. His district includes Charlotte, home of Bank of America.
Commerial/Bank sectors have contributed the most out of any category to Watt’s 2010 campaign with $15,000. The next closest category has half of that. Within the top five contributors are Citigroup with $5,000 and the American Bankers Association with $3,000.
Ron Paul, the Texas Republican Congressman who ran for President last year is a smart guy with ideas to which I can really relate. But – and this isn’t his fault – some of the people that follow him so fervently are not altogether as honest as Congressman Paul appears to be.
For instance, Paul’s South Carolina Field Coordinator in last year’s election was Ms. Amanda Moore of Charleston. Ms. Moore has some very sterling credentials for conservative activism and organization. She owns Liberty Belle Consulting in Charleston and is involved in myriad conservative/libertarian groups and activities. Good for her!
It’s axiomatic that the first order of business when you’re in a hole is to stop digging.
Not so, it seems, if the hole is the U.S. economy and the one in charge of the shovel is the Obama administration. Having uselessly squandered $787 billion on the so-called Recovery Act, there is still pressure being brought to bear on the administration for another “stimulus” package.
Consider former Secretary of Labor and now Berkeley Professor Robert Reich, who complains that the Obama administration “low-balled the stimulus”, and asserts the saving “likely effect of a larger stimulus”. Confident that the problem of unemployment would be solved by another stimulus, he argues that Obama needs to sell the idea to the Blue Dogs on the ground that “the economy needs a bigger stimulus in order to show improved job numbers by the mid-term elections.”
One cannot help but wonder if John Maynard Keynes himself would advocate government spending borrowed (and printed!) money ad infinitum. Does there ever reach a point, in their models, in which the returns diminish? In other words, when good money gets thrown after bad.
Tea party (TP) organizations in South Carolina are divided over whichgubernatorial candidate to endorse next year. I offered a suggestion a few days ago, but my wisdom apparently – sorry, can’t resist - isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
It seems that the division among the organizations – endorse Lexington Representative Nikki Haley or State Senator Larry Grooms – isn’t based on principles or qualifications, but, instead, appears to be orchestrated by a particular candidate’s campaign and, possibly, a big consulting firm.
I wonder if ANYTHING can penetrate the perpetual campaign world of ME-ism that our current president lives in. Two solid minutes of inconsequential, self-centered banter and campaign schmoozing takes precedence over national tragedy?? Just plain sick.
Republicans are offering a step-by-step, common-sense approach to health care reform – an altogether better solution than the 2,032-page government takeover of health care being pushed through Congress by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
We’ve introduced a bill to lower costs, and increased access to high-quality care – a bill the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed will lower premiums by up to 10 percent, without imposing tax increases on families and small businesses.
As Ohio and other states across the nation continue to struggle with joblessness, rising costs of living and skyrocketing health care costs, our plan offers real relief.
In fact, the House Ways and Means Committee has determined that under the Republican plan, premiums for families will be nearly $5,000 lower than the cheapest plan in the Democrats’ government-run proposal.
Newt Gingrich has voiced his criticism of President Obama’s decision not to attend next week’s 20th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Gingrich calls the decision, “a tragedy.” I call it a travesty. The difference is significant. Defining synonyms are “calamity” and “misfortune.” Tragedy implies a random event that has wrought destruction. No, this is an outrage, a travesty. The Cambridge online dictionary defines a travesty as “something which fails to represent the values and qualities that it is intended to represent, in a way that is shocking or offensive.” The President’s refusal to attend the commemoration is both shocking and offensive. Furthermore, Obama is fails to represent the values and qualities that are the United States of America.
Supposedly our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are partly to “fight them over there so they don’t come over here.” Yesterday that idea was unfortunately turned on its head as a closet extremist in the military was allowed to stay in the military and open fire at a fort.
It’s during times like this that you understand how absurd that argument really is.
The Madrid bombings, London 7/7, 9/11, Fort Dix, and now yesterday all prove one thing. People WILL attack you when you are over there.
Has Spain been attacked since they pulled their small force out?
When will people realize that we are attacked BECAUSE we are over there. Non-interventionist countries do not get attacked in North America or Europe even with a muslim demographic. The United States gets attacked, Britain gets attacked — the two biggest meddlers in other peoples business. Sweden doesn’t get attacked, Switzerland doesn’t get attacked.
But regardless of your views on foreign policy, the American people will soon have to choose between an expensive empire and domestic sanity — and we all know what the choice will be.
PelosiCare is much improved over the original Democrat HR3200… if you’re trying to grow bureaucracy . (Click to get the larger view)
But those evil insurance companies are guilty of abuse through claim denial. Uhh, the following show that the most heartless denier of claims is… Medicare:
And PelosiCare and Cap&Trade will just make this chart massively worse.
Let’s say this together: THE STIMULUS MONEY WAS A WASTE!
Well, so much for the pork, er, I mean stimulus bill. You remember: The one that absolutely had to be passed immediately or the consequences would be dire. The one that cost $787 billion. The one that was over 1000 pages long and that nobody bothered to read. The one that our beloved President assured us would create or save 600,000 jobs by the end of Summer. The one that was supposed to stop unemployment in its tracks- long before it approached 10%.
2010 is going to be a very bad year for the President’s party if the job crisis continues. And with their penchant for wasting staggering amounts of Federal dollars (can you say health care “reform”?), I have little doubt that it will.
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus object to a provision in the Senate legislation – backed by the White House – that bars illegal immigrants from buying health insurance within a proposed new marketplace, or exchange, even if they use their own money to buy from private companies. [AP]
Each member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that agrees with this approach should be impeached!
South Carolina State Representative Nikki Haley handed Congressman (and fellow gubernatorial candidate) Gresham Barrett his own head yesterday when she accepted his call to ” sign a letter to President Barack Obama opposing the transfer of any of the more than 200 terror suspects housed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a naval brig outside of Charleston.” [The State newspaper]
The recent “pre-off year” elections have demonstrated a disturbing fact for Democrats… the man in whom the party put it’s trust, it’s “hope” and it’s future has proven to be toxic.
Exit polls showed independents, who made up nearly one-third of voters in both Virginia and New Jersey, went for the Republicans by a margin of nearly 2-to-1. [Washington Times]
Chinese military strategists have come to view information dominance as the precursor for overall success in a conflict. The growing importance of Information Warfare to China’s People’s Liberation Army is also driving it to develop more comprehensive computer network exploitation techniques to support strategic intelligence collection objectives and to lay the foundation for success in potential future conflicts.
The US information targeted to date could potentially benefit a nation-state defense industry, space program, selected civilian high technology industries, foreign policymakers interested in US leadership thinking on key China issues, and foreign military planners building an intelligence picture of US defense networks, logistics, and related military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.
If Chinese operators are, indeed, responsible for even some of the current exploitation efforts targeting US Government and commercial networks, then they may have already demonstrated that they possess a mature and operationally proficient computer network operations capability.
From a national security perspective, this study in an indictment of China’s already successful (though intentionally limited) cyber warfare capabilities and, more distressing, this administration’s negligence.
The Congressional race in New York’s District 23 has made headlines nationwide. Just three days before the votes were cast, Dede Scozzafava the Republican candidate dropped out of the race, as it became clear her chances of winning were gone. Conservative candidate, Doug Hoffman has been declared the spoiler, who forced Scozzafava from the race. Few have actually pinned the blame on Scozzafava’s own political philosophy. Scozzafava tipped her hand in her withdraw speech. She announced she was withdrawing, “for the good of the party.” Then hours later she endorsed Democratic candidate, Bill Owens. This writer wonders what “good of the party” means to Ms. Scozzafava, perhaps her definition and mine are not the same, unless she is referring to her true party allegiance.
