In Quest of the Prize Pig

It’s obvious that Mr. Obama does not fear elections. He intends on muscling through. How exactly he sees ‘muscling through’ is anybody’s guess. It obviously does not involve moving to the center. It seems to me that Obama’s strategy has been set as far back as when he first started promoting the health care bill. In fact, he now seems more determined than ever to muscle his leftist agenda through.

The results of the midterm election made no difference. This proves that Mr. Obama is not a political animal. He is purely ideological. I suspect, even, that he fully intends to be president after 2012; but that he would never be willing to sacrifice his agenda for the sake of his own political popularity. This gives him an edge over anyone still mired in pre-Obama politics.

Here’s the rub: How does he expect to be reelected given his low approval ratings? The answer is obvious: There won’t be elections in 2012 …or ever. Something will happen between now and then that will preclude this wasteful expenditure.

What we are seeing now are the dress rehearsals for the final act; simply going through the motions of running various campaigns, solely for public consumption. The Republicans are placated by the expectation of winning the prize pig. Along the way they will tear themselves apart. The Dems will blame them for anything that either stalemates or goes wrong. Their own base will draw and quarter them for being unable to stop Obama’s agenda - while the Left grudgingly applauds, barely being able to contain themselves. (The Left too will lose its status in the 'new world order' where left and right are the same).

Even in a clean and fair election, Republicans will enter the arena looking small and spent. Add to this mix the likely entry of a third party candidate, and the Republicans are toast.

Obama reelected would buy us time. I’ve said many times that if McCain had won, we would already be seeing the worst - as is now happening in Greece. With Obama at the helm, the Left still sees an advantage in keeping its powder dry. A Republican sweep in 2012 would literally ‘unleash the dogs‘ (to turn a phrase). I believe that those highest on the food chain know this. (McCain knew it.) They know that reelecting Obama will be the best among a whole series of bad options for us.

Obama knows it too. That’s why he struts around, looking so smug. He knows he can’t be touched. He’s simply there as a cutout for those whose phone calls he takes (or meets with across the street from the White House).

Bush knew it. That’s why he won’t say anything. He’s happy to no longer be a part of it; thankful that history has let him off easy.

Elections will no longer play a pivotal role in American politics. We’ve heard it from no less than the lips of the former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (while speaking of ‘shared values’ at Tufts University earlier this week).

“Shared values” indeed! Whose values? Based on what? I guess we’ll just have to wait till it happens. Then we’ll know what’s in it.

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Soup Nazis Galore

Let me begin by saying that I love Kelly Evans. In fact, my post entitled “I Want Kelly Evans Back” last January 1st became one of my most popular posts and elicited quite number of intemperate responses to boot. She’s looks smart and can well massage liberal talking points and chew gum at the same time – all this, while fitting in perfectly with the Soros-certified media sycophants that would include such luminaries as Meredith Viera along with most others that one sees on lame stream media outlets on a regular basis. I might add that John Batchelor himself has been skating dangerously close to falling in with this same dreary group, particularly by his frequent use of John Avlon as a surrogate.

My post entitled “Smoke-Filled Rooms At Bretton Woods” could be inserted here. In it I tried to show that what we are currently facing is much more insidious than the current vogue: Democrat/Republican divide, that seems to drain every last drop of our almost limitless patience; that the real players lurk in the shadows (at Bretton Woods) and would never expose themselves to Kelly Evans’ (among others’) essentially banally scripted questioning.

I submit that if George Soros had been sitting in Trump’s chair there at the WSJ studio, the questioning would have been quite different. He might have been asked what amount to a series of softball questions like, “Would you have gone into Iraq or Libya for ‘freedom’?” and he would have answered with a resounding ‘YES’, adding, “but never for oil” for that would rub against the grain of Soros’ own self-inspired talking points that demand that America should bleed herself dry before doing anything at all in its own self-interests.

Conventional wisdom has it that by the time the 2012 elections roll around, “anyone but (Bush)Obama” will be the order of the day. This would not necessarily mean that we are now out of the woods. On the contrary – as we have seen with both Bush and McCain – our situation would remain essentially on the same trajectory. It would take an outsider like Trump or (to a lesser extent) Palin to really shake things up.

Soros’ lib soup Nazis would spare nothing to smear anyone who could upset their apple cart. Of the two, Palin or Trump, the latter would be in a much better position to survive the onslaught. He is forceful, plain-talking, competent and savvy. He appears to be a patriot. I believe he could win if the present system would allow him to compete. You know it would do its level best to destroy him if he ever got close. The question then becomes: Is Trump man enough to smash the system?

As we continue to observe this approaching train wreck of an election and as we continue to keep score, it might do well to note which prospective candidate receives the brunt of press ire. That would be the one I would go with. Whether or not he or she could actually win; and, in winning, shred the current anti-American narrative top to bottom, is another matter entirely.

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Genocide

“This gas pipeline sabotage is an effective marker for the potential of much worse ahead.”

The game is a whole lot bigger than we are being told. And cut it out already with the ‘surprised' act! This has been in the works since Obama got elected - even before. It’s the reason Obama got elected in the first place. Obama could be counted on to go along with it - all of it. McCain would have only gone so far.

So, now we’re surprised. You don’t say! What the hell do we do now? Didn’t see that one coming - balderdash! - all of it. I’ll tell you who didn’t see it coming: we the people. Why? Because we’ve been lied to from the beginning. And we tried our best to believe. Nobody could be that evil, after all.

The whole thing is about Israel. We better start finding a new place for all those people to live before they’re all slaughtered. I don’t really understand all the animus against the Jews. Maybe it’s got something to do with the archaic idea of sacrifice. And maybe there’s really nothing to understand. We’re not dealing with rational minds here. They’ve even told us - over and over again. And, while we don’t quite agree, we sweep it under the rug and pretend everything is fine. - My ass, everything is fine!

What’s coming will make Rwanda seem like nothing. It’s in motion now. It’s coming together. And the world says nothing. Afterwards we’ll say, “What the hell happened?”

Time to put an end to it, NOW! But who will lift a finger? I still say the Chinese will make a play, just to give the impression that they weren‘t in on it. But I don’t think they really care either way. The only ones who could have stopped it early on were the Americans. But now, that Obama holds the reigns, we’ll let it happen. And after it’s over we’ll let Obama make speeches and wash his black hands. “Never again!” he’ll say, remembering something he had read somewhere in passing.

You’re damn right I’m pissed!

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TARP: "I inherited..."

I can’t let go of TARP. Bush was shown a piece of paper that said if he didn’t immediately authorize the release of nearly a trillion dollars the world economy would collapse within 24 to 48 hours.

He was like a father who takes his kids to the movies. On the parking deck, a group of thugs jump out of the shadows and point their guns at the young ones. He is told that he can kiss them good-bye unless he goes down to the ATM in the lobby and withdraws a sum. He cannot tell if the guns are even loaded; or judge the resolve of the thieves. All that would have to come later. All he knows is that he must do what he can to protect the kids NOW!

What makes me suspicious of this episode is its timing. Having come just days before the election, it clearly knocked out the Republican candidate. Much was made of McCain’s panicking in the press. Obama, on the other hand, seemed aloof, almost as if he were in on the joke.

Nobody to this day (that I am aware of) has examined what actually happened: Who talked to Bush; who talked to those who talked to Bush, and so on down the line. If there actually was a problem, what were the metrics that defined it? If an actual run on the money markets was in progress, who started the stampede, and how did they start it?

All we have is the result: Obama got elected; and Bush continues to be vilified because of it, and labeled a spendthrift to give Obama cover for his own excesses.

What’s been happening since amounts to a cover-up. It’s Bush’s gift to Obama that keeps on giving. Who, nowadays, can avoid that clarion call of our current president, repeated over and over again: “Why, when I was elected, I inherited…”

The American Revolution

I find it fascinating that much of what I have been saying has come true - or, at least, there are now others out there saying the same thing. The latest example is Ernest Christian’s and Gary Robbins’ perspective entitled ‘Will Washington’s Failures Lead Second American Revolution?' on INVESTORS.com.

The title caught my eye in that several interpretations are possible. The article did not disappoint in this regard. It did, however, gloss over the muck of revolution, touting the now entirely probable November midterm results as the cleanest of all the possible outcomes. Unlike our first revolution, however, the article acknowledges that it is unlikely to topple King Geobama (sic).

And this is precisely what I’ve been stressing as well: that the mistake we made back in November 2008 will yet cost us a great deal; that it will yet take several election cycles to turn the corner, much less recover. And even so, the die may already have been cast and the only benefit to us may well amount to no more than having become aware.

Neither is it appropriate to blame Obama for all our ills. Where we now find ourselves has been long in coming. In fact, we owe Barack Hussein Obama a debt gratitude for having uncovered the plot for us. McCain - like Bush - would likely have continued to keep us in the dark.

Cat Stevens wrote in “Tuesday’s Dead”: ‘If I make a mark in time - Then I can say the mark is mine - (When, in fact) I’m only the underline…' Obama is and always has been ‘the underline’. He is not original; he is not historic (as he likes to boast). If he were, he would have the American people behind him. He does not. Therefore, his revolution is not a revolution. It is a coup. The revolution is yet to come, and it will be an American revolution.

The Tail Wagging the Dog

I think it is time for the American voter to finally be afforded a seat at the table. Throughout the Bush years, I kept hearing that the president was losing his base because he was not conservative enough; because he was said to have moved too far to the left and embraced the likes of Ted Kennedy. Now, the complaints are the exact mirror image: Obama is in the process of losing his base because he is not radical (left) enough and much too willing to make concessions. Whether any one of these two men - who’ve had the misfortune of being president during these dysfunctional times - adjusted their actions and rhetoric due to expediency or epiphany remains an open question.

In any case, this is a discussion for the political class and taking head pundits. It leaves out the rest of us - we, (in Washington terms) the ‘great unwashed’, the sheeple; the voter/taxpayer – who, most likely by deliberate design, are becoming increasingly confused (and suspicious) about what Washington may actually be up to.

The sheeple have not yet have been totally rendered blind. (Alan Strang, a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama, has not yet been moved to consummate his dirty thought.) People see that while they’re hurting financially, Washington’s elite are doing quite nicely by comparison. There’s also nothing unusual about periodic outbursts of harsh rhetoric in public debate; or in elected representatives jumping off the government Ferris wheel with their multi-colored parachutes ablaze in the dying winter sun. There’s nothing exceptional about tabloid intrigue, or in mock media crucifixions. What is confounding is the constant political shifting to the left or to the right that deprives this hapless constituency of a reliable measure by which to hold their representatives to account.

In November ’08, the American people voted to end war, close Gitmo, and adopt socialist governance. A year later, most of what Bush had put in place and maintained continues unabated. It’s no wonder that the Left is peeved. They might very well decide to just stay home during the next several election cycles, just the way the conservatives did for McCain.

Pundits call it efficacy or ‘governing from the center’. I call it muddying the stream. All this sniveling around simple yes/no positions gives voters of any persuasion the false hope that their particular expectations are about to be met. When these then are allowed to gather dust, voters become disenchanted with the very concept of democracy itself. They stay home on Election Day and watch reruns of ‘Friends’ instead. That’s when the ‘special interests’ come out to do their worst and, as we have seen for all too many years, the tail has been happily wagging the dog.

Let the voters decide once and for all whether they want capitalism or socialism; fight terrorists to the death or pay them off; support or abandon Israel; keep or shred our Constitution; support or implode the dollar; designate education to be instructive or merely day care; etc.

Any of the above deserves a firm commitment. The people should be aware of where their candidate stands. Once the election has been decided, the representative should not be allowed to stick his moistened finger into the air to decide which way to vote. He is already committed to vote as he has promised. ‘Say anything just to get elected’ should no longer be tolerated.

VOTE THEM ALL OUT

It’s become bigger than just Democrat vs. Republicans. My fear is that it soon won’t matter who we vote for. We’ve already had a taste of it in the last election. McCain would have been even worse for us than Obama. McCain would have done pretty much the same things Obama is doing, with the added spectacle of the Left going out of their minds (the way they did with Bush). And the whole thing would have tarred the Republicans (and the country) into the next century. At least this way, all the fallout will land on the Dems’ doorstep.

I’m not saying the Republicans represent anything close to a remedy. In fact, at this point, they must be seen as accomplices. Anyone who thinks that voting Republican will turn things around has another thing coming. It’s Washington – Democrats and Republicans alike – that’s the problem. The deafening silence of the Republicans these days is indicative of the ‘good cop/bad cop’ routine.

No, friends, we must figure out a way to cut them off at the pass. We must outsmart them. We’ve got to stop falling for the same old Democrat/Republican shell game and realize that we’re the ‘mark’ in any case – and the mark always loses.

No doubt about it, we must vote them ALL out and start from scratch. (The press will call it a ‘massacre’.) We must make it clear that they work for us; that we want an accounting for our money; that we want us to start winning wars again; that Americans expect nothing less than ‘numero uno’ where American leadership is concerned. To this end, we commit to doing our share of the heavy lifting. Each one of us will work impeccably at the job each of us is best at. We expect the government to stay the hell out of our way except for what’s specifically enumerated in our Constitution.

I have no illusions. It’ll take us a long while to get back to where we should have been all along. It might even be that the whole thing will blow wide open even before we get there. Times like these usually end up in some kind of tussle. It’s difficult to predict at the moment just who the antagonists might turn out might be. Recognizable borders certainly would have been helpful in this regard. But it’s not as if we’ve never been there before. Mr. Lincoln was quite effective in seeing us through the last time this happened.