Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Barry admin's new corporate math

I hope you all have been paying attention to what the socialists were proposing to the bond holders. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124105303238271343.html#mod=djemEditorialPage
So our new auto czar in chief who claimed last night that he doesn't want to nationalize the auto industry is trying to create some real new corporate law. As has been reported the negotiations for GM are also breaking down. What the auto czar in chief, or Barry as he used to like being called, has told the bondholders is that for their 27.2 billion in bonds they would get 10% of the new GM stock. For the governments 16.2 billion Barry and his mates would take 50% of the stock. Huh, where in the heck do they get off making this type of demand on the bond holders? But wait the best is yet to come. The UAW which owns no bonds directly would get 40% of the new equity. I have never ever in my life seen a proposal as wacky as this one. I hope the bond holders laughed in Barry's face. Talk about payback for votes. So the estimates are that the government takes around 87 cents on the dollar. The UAW gets an estimate of around 76 cents on the dollar. The bond holders get 5 cents on the dollar. So the group with the largest claim in a bankruptcy filing gets almost nothing in the restructuring if it is agreed to. What would you do if you were a bond holder? Especially a hedge fund or a mutual fund that owes a fiduciary duty to your investors. Under the bankruptcy law these three groups are all equal creditors.

This is the same reason that Chrysler is now BK. Don't believe any of the BS that Barry is spouting now. His blasting of the hedge fund bond holders saying that it is their fault for holding out for a sweeter deal is laughable. Has the most arrogant President in history ever heard of corporate law? If I am managing a hedge fund and I agree to the proposal from Barry, the new car czar, I better start cleaning out my office and hiring a good attorney to represent me in all of the investor law suits. What ever happened to all of the transparency that this administration promised?

Welcome to AmeriKa. I hope you all love socialism. It has worked so well in so many other countries.

President Thomas Jefferson said "That government is best which governs least". President Ronald Reagan said "That government is usually the problem, not the solution". We are now seeing how wise these two men really were.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The results of the Barry Hussein European apologypalooza

Well we are starting to get back the actual hard core results from the apologypalooza that our current President went on in Europe. In his historically becoming the first blame America President in history Barry Hussein had hoped that this would result in the Western European Countries going along with his administrations new policies. Well the results are starting to come in and it appears that it didn't make a difference in substantive policy making.

We got zero of what we were seeking in the economic summit. His stated goals were to get the western European countries to substantially increase government spending equivalent to 2% of GDP as a stimulus to the world economy. Didn't happen. Instead we received a pledge to increase funding to the IMF with the US on the hook for another 100 billion or so. We also agreed to the possibility of more international financial regulation. Just what our economy needs the ability of foreign regulators to come in and regulate the competition.

At the NATO summit our goal was to get the other nations to pony up combat troops for the Afghan war. Again a great big goose egg. The Brits did their friendly best by stating that they would send more troops if the other countries agreed but they knew that this was a hollow safe statement which would result in zero additional UK soldiers entering the Afghan theater.

Now our esteemed Marc Rich pardoning AG tried to get the western European countries to agree to the release of some of the Gitmo Prisoners of War into their countries. Again almost a complete shut out. It appears that France has agreed to take one of the inhabitants. That is it.

Results are always the ultimate measure of actions. Apparently all of the apologizing for American past behavior has done absolutely nothing from a results perspective.

This also points out the growing problem with the Barry Hussein policies of making unilateral policy statements like "we will close down Gitmo within a year" without having any concrete plans as to how this will be accomplished. One may argue with whether or not Gitmo should have been set up in the first place. I obviously come down on the side of supporting the decision because we had to do something with all of these captured Islamic jihad warriors. But it is there and we can't go back in time and change the facts. Along this line of reasoning I have never seen the left wing alternative for what we should have done with all of the Islamic extremist soldiers we captured. Just the constant complaint that Gitmo is horrible and evil. Now Barry's stated policy is testing this left wing belief with real world efficiency. How is he going to keep his promise to the left wing lunatic base and still meet his responsiblity to keep the US safe? What is he going to do with all of these prisoners now that all of his new friends have shut him down again? The clock is ticking!

When is the lunatic left going to MoveOn?

Rich asked me to critically review the article he posted by Alan Dershowitz and I have finally managed to get to it. Amazingly I agree with much that Dershowitz had to say and it is equally enlightening to see that he somewhat agrees with the Bush adminstrations use of enhanced interrogation. The biggest problem with this debate especially from the radical George Soros wing of the Democratic party, that appears to be driving the bus, is that there is no fall back position. One cannot adequately analyze the decisions of another without looking at all of the facts and circumstances that surrounded the decision at the time the decisions were made. Professor Dershowitz recognizes that in exceptional circumstances torture must be an option. This is exactly what happened. Dershowitz wants there to be a court order attached to the torture as well, like a warrant. I disagree because the Constitution states that the President is the Commander in Chief and these are decisions that should be made by the Executive branch not the Judicial Branch. In my opinion the Judicial Branch has way more power than was intended in the Constitution. But that is a discussion for another day.

Many of you may recall your history that under the Democrat administration of FDR we put many Japanese Americans in camps. Our current left leaning history books, that my daughters have used in AP US History, just talk about how wrong this decision was without examining why FDR made the decision and what were the facts and circumstances surrounding the decision that would result in this kind of policy.

There are many on the left who even argue that dropping the two nuclear bombs on Japan were wrong.

In all of these instances there is a balancing test going on between the proposed controversial policy decision and the safety of American citizens. In all three instances the scales came down in favor of making the tough controversial, history changing decision. That is what it means to be the President. The President's biggest responsibility is to protect the safety of American citizens. Based on the decisions Barry has been making lately concerning national security I really wonder if he is up to the task.

Arguably the decision made by the FDR administration to put actual American citizens of Japanese ethnicity into camps is much more offensive than waterboarding three Al Queda terrorists. Yet no one from the FDR administration was threatened with criminal prosecution. What has happened to the Democratic party? Are they so driven by hatred that they cannot rationally see what is in the countries best interests? Now it turns out that Nancy Pelosi knew everything about the enhanced interrogation techniques and never questioned them. In fact it has been reported that congressional members wanted to know if there was anything else they could do to help extract more information. Now she has been caught lying about this for political reasons. She should be the one who is prosecuted for putting her own self political power ahead of the interests of the country.

When KSM was questioned about future attacks his statement was "soon you will know". What does that statement mean to the radical left? To me it means time is of the essence and we can't just sit back and let another attack occur without doing everything in our power to prevent it including waterboarding the piece of Islamic extremist garbage. For a sitting President to make unilateral statements that weakens our ability to protect Americans is totally naive and should be questioned.

Just to put things in perspective here is another loony left response to the argument that the waterboarding of three Al Queda terrrists actually resulted in the stopping of terrorist attacks and the apprehension of numerous Al Queda operatives.

gommygoomy at 07:52 AM - April 22, 2009
What's your point? Waterboarding could have saved the world from an Alien Invasion, and it would STILL be the worst thing that ever happend. Because George Bush did it. Who CARES how many LIVES were saved? Have you noticed what it's done to OUR IMAGE? I know. I know. We lost a lot of people on 911. Women, children, Moms and Dads. All MURDERED in COLD BLOOD. But don't you see? Don't you remember how it brought us all closer together? The WORLD was on our side. They felt pity for us. It was wonderful. Then George Bush went and started doing things to stop another attack. He started FIGHTING BACK. Why couldn't he just leave well enough, alone? Fighting back only makes them madder. Bombing, and shooting? That's not gonna win you any friends. Yeah, we got some information from all of Bushs' TORTURE CHAMBERS, and it probably saved THOUSANDS OF LIVES, but it didn't feed one hungry child. This all could have been accomplished with an apology. I wanna be loved again. Don't you?

It is always about President Bush for these lunatics. Just like the release of the torture memos and now the photographs. When is the left going to learn that he is not President any more and that it is time to MoveOn?

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Cheney can't keep mouth shut ! YOU LOST

Normally, when a Vice President leaves office with a disastrous legacy and the support of less than one quarter of the public, I'd expect him to keep out of the spotlight.But with the Republican "Party of No" out of ideas and without any new leaders to provide real solutions, failed leaders like Dick Cheney and Karl Rove have once again taken the helm of the GOP. While Cheney has been busy bashing the President in nationally-televised interviews -- warning about a "vast expansion of the deficit" and agreeing with Sean Hannity that the President is "naive." This all from a man who after eight years in office left the country with two wars, a sky-rocketing deficit, rising unemployment, and an unprecedented financial meltdown.

The Continuing Collapse

The GOP is becoming a smaller, more regional party. That said, I don't think the Senate is truly more "Filibuster proof" today than it was yesterday. Specter will vote as he sees fit.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/specter-to-switch-parties.html?hpid=topnews
Bush's Timid 100 Days - The New York Times

Monday, April 27, 2009

Every Real American

Mr. Obama:

I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.

I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe ? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?

Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States ? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia . You don’t show Great Britain , our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia . How dare you, sir! How dare you!

You can’t find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don’t want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey . You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What’s the matter with you?

I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.

You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it. ;

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members – on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven’t said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn’t!

Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been a warded $51 million – not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven’t you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now.

I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

Sincerely,

Every real American

GOP

I would just love to get on one of those big national talk radio shows and scream (like the nutty doctor Dean did, to his credit)...I'm from the Republican wing of the Republican party.

We are not Democrats lite, we are Conservative Republicans who want limited government and personal freedom.

We keep nominating these "moderate" muddled message dopes who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag (see J. McCain).

I give the liberal wackos their due, they did not hide their intentions, nominated an ultra liberal who won.

We need to declare our principles and stick to our message, instead of letting the other side define us. What a joke that we have been portrayed as the party of intolerance.

Previously Mark lamented that we should get back to the important stuff of budgets and national safety. Mark, we whistle past the grave yard.

We have important, inclusive and relevant things to say about abortion, Gay Marriage, gun control, Welfare, immigration and a host of other issues, but if we keep nominating idiots and letting us be defined by the harshness of talk radio, then we will be a permanent minority party. Hell, we cannot even win in a Republican district in NY or AZ for that matter. Where is the party leadership?

Minimal government and personal freedom...it is that simple.

Another GOP Defeat - WSJ.com

Terry could have been the coauthor.

What is the difference between the drivel described in this book and the "new" "O" class warfare?

O 'Grady: The Idiot 's Bible - WSJ.com

She is making a comeback.

'Atlas Shrugged' author sees resurgence - CNN.com

Sunday, April 26, 2009

How are we doing now

Bet a lot of you ou there are glad you are not a CIA agent or a James Bond type trying to protect our country...looks like the security forces we have around the world will be taking an extended vacation due to the new rules and now PICTURES that could be released. I mean how friggen stupid can this Admin get. AHHHHHH DUHHHH Obama
Riegels Rant

Saturday, April 25, 2009

OK lefties, you are in charge

Honestly, is the left as represented here by the two Richies and Terry naive enough to truly believe that the terrorists at war with this country will modify their behavior if they like us? If they like our President? If he apologizes (time after time after time)?

Heaven help us that these fools are running our country.

Hats off to Mark for his brilliant posts on this issue. To be clear, I will stand at the gate, pitchfork in hand protesting any torture done for political gain or even in "unclear" circumstances. This clearly does not appear to be the case. We are at WAR with a dark, hiding enemy which obeys no rules and who, given the opportunity, would use a weapon of mass destruction within this country.

Now, I ask a question of my liberal, pacifists bloggers. Now, damn it, answer don't obfuscate.

How exactly would you fight the war on terror? The whole thing! Remember, they start with, (as Rush Limbaugh-Gasp) our death.

For those who care to offer an answer...Military or Criminal? Does it end if we catch OBL? Do we enforce a doctrine once we announce it? Honestly, besides criticism, what does the left offer?

I honestly would like one of you to give this a try, because the logical extension of your silliness will be to "reason" with them and treat them as criminals. Mark and I are just waiting to take a swing at that soft ball.

And let me answer one right off the bat. OK, we don't invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, I know, I know. But there will still be prisoners, there will still be terrorist plots, there will still be Afghanistan. There will still be Spain, Bali, London. Terry! Stuff is coming, you are in charge. Protect us!

Friday, April 24, 2009

Not my own prose/

A Provacative Piece by Dershowitz

I maintain the view that we do not need to torture to be safe. I also believe that torture is a violation per se of the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Here is a different view from a brilliant civil libertarian.

http://www.alandershowitz.com/publications/docs/torturewarrants.html

More on the reasoning for releasing the "agressive interrogation" memos while redacting the results

According to the Washington Post the current adminstration actually held a debate to help in deciding whether or not to release the memos.


http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics2/58_say_release_of_cia_memos_endangers_national_security
* 58 percent of voters say the Obama administration's recent release of DOJ memos "endangers the national security of the United States." Fewer than half as many 28 percent, think it "helps America's image abroad." Ooops!
* 70 percent also say America's legal system either does a good job of weighing security against individual rights, or puts too much emphasis on individual rights at the expense of security. Only 21 percent say the legal system is "too concerned about protecting national security."
* Only 28 percent want the Obama administration to investigate how the Bush administration treated terrorists. 58 percent want no such investigations.
* Obama's decision to close Guantanamo Bay is now disapproved of by a 46-36 margin, with support for Obama's action declining. (Oh well making absolute statements as the President some times can bite you in the behind.)

Well I see here that Rich is passing on lies he did not research again about waterboarding

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15886834

http://www.japanfocus.org/-Kinue_TOKUDOME/3024

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjNkYmU2NWVlOWE4MTU5MjhiOGNmMWUwMjdjZjU2ZjA=

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Torture

There seems to be a big brouhaha going on (primarily from former Vice-President Cheney) about the value and results of torture; in other words, does torture produce any valuable information or intelligence.It doesn't matter. That's not the point. Why doesn't he get That?

So Far, So Good

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090423/D97O490O0.html

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Folks go ahead and post your long ones.

New policy, they will be left for about a day then moved to the comment section.

Length of time depends on my golf schedule:),

Still no Hair!, or Gary the sissy.

So much for the statement that "coercive techniques" do not work

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22blair.html?_r=1

This article is from Pravda so they are bending backwards to try to spin the facts.

A very well written and reasoned article

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124035759650041105.html#mod=djemEditorialPage

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

So far, mission accomplished...I guess


Now for the most important world issue

Did Miss California, Carrie Prejean, lose the Miss USA pageant because of her answer to a question posed to her by an openly homosexual beauty pageant judge?

When one of the judges, the before mentioned gay Perez Hilton--put aside, for a moment, the question why he was a judge of the Miss USA contest--asked Miss California her opinion on gay marriage. Ms. Prejean answered the question straightforwardly: "I think that marriage should be between a man and a woman." This answer has been called "controversial" in almost every media outlet. Huh? Isn't this the opinion that the majority of Americans have as evidenced every time it has been asked at the polls?

Watch it for yourself and decide. Please pay attention to the look that the homosexual gives after the answer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMvviFbkf0

Many observers have speculated that Miss California's "controversial" answer on gay marriage cost her the title. Ms. Prejean herself endorsed that theory, and added: "I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that's all I can do." The afore mentioned homosexual judge, Perez Hilton, who posed the question, called her a "bitch," for which he later apologized. That was after having voted, of course. Perez has now retracted his apology, explaining that he really meant to call Miss California a c***. Which doesn't explain, of course, why an openly gay male was chosen to judge the Miss USA contest. I am sure you will all agree with me that the gay judge is a real class act.

Can someone please tell me why a homosexual male should be included on a panel that is judging a female beauty contest? Don't you find it a little ironic that a question from a gay man would decide a female beauty pageant? I am not making this stuff up. If she had lied in answering the question and answered using the left wing mantra instead she would have won. It looks like the liberal fringe has even taken control of female beauty pageants now. The moral decline and fall of the America I grew up in continues.

Rich said that the Republicans should move away from the Tea Party protests

Since Rich is always quoting polls to us I am sure he wants to see how the actual public not the left wing talking heads feel about the Tea Party protests.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics2/51_view_tea_parties_favorably_political_class_strongly_disagrees

It is also very interesting to see that the "political class" views the protests unfavorably. No wonder since the whole issue is the "political class" taking taxpayer money and wasting it on frivilous government spending.

Another one that might surprise our good friend Rich.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/environment/energy_update
which means that the majority now believes that there is nothing that humans can do to counteract the cycles of the Sun. Duh!

Words and actions have meaning

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_domestic_terrorist

It sure is funny that coming on the heels of the anti-combat veteran report put out by the Obama administration Department of Homeland Security the FBI comes out with the latest list of their 10 most wanted. Can you believe that a left wing extremist is now number 1 on the FBI list. Those damn Republicans. They must have politicized the FBI.

Handshakes and "Bows"

The GOP is a group of very poor losers led by the loud Rupert Murdoch and the large Roger Ailes. They can't find much of substance to criticize, so they go for picayune, petty and personal matters. Fox News is able to create an "issue" out of nothing. Remember the campaign and the "lipstick on a pig" controversy? Now, the dimmer bulbs among us want to talk about handshakes and bows.

Larry Sabato observed last night that our two party system is turning into a one and a half party system. If the GOP goes down the road catering to the Tea Party attendees, they are history. They have lost the middle and they are beginning to eat into their base. 

 

Monday, April 20, 2009

This Puts the Lie to the Bipartisan Teabagger Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B9RFj3EPj4

Hair says...

So Hair (someone who follows the blog but is too chicken to write), comments that the only reason we (Conservatives) do not want "O" to succeed is that if he does, it will invalidate our economic theories.

I say that is wrong, but a great topic of debate.

Debate ensues.

Barney and the Harvard Law Student

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYt4yrsj38

You watch and decide for yourself. Is this the methodology that Rich learned of how to dodge a question? This is an elected official who refuses to answer one simple question. Did you have any responsibility for the subprime loan crisis? Listen to the student carefully and then listen to Barney use the tried and true Democratic method of dodging and accusing others without actually answering a direct question.

Janeane Garofalo And Keith Olbermann Calls Tea Bag Protesters"Racists"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAiXkw-7PxQ

Watch the idiocy of the left wing fringe coverage of the Tea Bag anti-government spending protests that CNBC presents as legitimate reporting. Also pay attention to how Rich and the left try to make fun of the Tea bag protests by using language which refers to practices of on eof the other groups that Barney Frank belongs to.

Rich and Terry do you guys actually think like this?

The Administration about to make us far less safe

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31513

Well after having to listen to how Bush lied and how the Bush Administration rewrote things to justify the Iraq War, which arguably has made us much safer by killing large numbers of Islamic Extremists and their leaders in their own lands, it now has come to light that our current administration is telling an inter-agency group to rewrite reports so they can justify releasing terrorists from Gitmo into the US.

After Barry promised to close Gitmo, the White House ordered an inter-agency review of the status of all the detainees. The inter-agency committee -- comprised of all the national security agencies -- was told to start with what the current administration believed to be the easiest case, that of the seventeen Chinese Muslims, known as Ughurs, who were captured at an al-Queda training camp. The inter-agency panel found that the Ughurs weren't "the ignorant, innocent goatherds the White House believed them to be." The committee determined they were too dangerous to release because they were members of the ETIM terrorist group, the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement," and because their presence at the al-Queda training camp was no accident (realistically, how it could have been, the ignorance of these Pinko Kool-Aid drinkers is stunning).

Sources in the Defense Department say that "the White House legal office has told the inter-agency review group to re-do their findings to come up with the opposite answer." The current administration is now instructing government agencies to lie to the American Public in writing so that they can justify their ultra left wing policy of making America less safe. This flys directly in the face of the Executive branch's most important function which is defending Americans from harm. It will be interesting to see how these idiots spin this one.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

So I get a call tonight from Julie, the wife of our beloved Rich B. Says McCain, wife and Lieberman are dinning at a local Mexican restaurant. She asks what I think, I say, ask him why he did not do a better job!

Then I read the following article. I imagine she was able to stay still and not wander around the stage when speaking (like unfortunately her Papa did). She also makes a lot of sense.

Meghan McCain GOP Civil War

From MTP today as quoted by former Rep. D. Armey

As Milton Friedman said, "The real rate of taxation is the rate of spending." It's going to be pay me now or pay me later, but eventually every dime's worth of government spending is going to be

A Very Selfish Bunch

See Comment 1

Friday, April 17, 2009

So much for the impression that Barry made on Sarkozy

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6106250.ece

Some key exerpts from the article:
Mr Sarkozy was quoted yesterday as telling an all-party group of MPs that Mr Obama was inexperienced and indecisive. “Obama has a subtle mind, very clever and very charismatic,” the French President said. “But he was elected two months ago and had never run a ministry. There are a certain number of things on which he has no position. And he is not always up to standard on decision-making and efficiency.” (he should have said that Barry has never run anything and is clearly underqualified)

Mr Sarkozy was also reported yesterday to have cracked a dubious joke about Europe’s “Obamamania”. According to L’Express news magazine, he mentioned Mr Obama’s planned visit to Normandy for the D-day anniversary in June, saying: “I am going to ask him to walk on the Channel, and he’ll do it.”

This jaundiced view of Mr Obama may have been prompted by the US President’s heartfelt welcome at the G20, Nato and EU summits. “The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media,” wrote Claude Askolovitch, a commentator close to the Élysée Palace.

Welcome to our club Mr. Sarkozy!

More grandstanding by the Obama DOJ

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/nytint/docs/justice-department-memos-on-interrogation-techniques/original.pdf

These are the memos that our current DOJ released about torture. 80 pages that Barry released with these words “Baring what he called a ‘dark and painful chapter in our history,’. Was it really a dark and painful chapter in our history? Certainly painful due to the loss of lives on 9/11 and maybe dark but coming from an administration that has been consistently lying to us this is more political grandstanding and trying to play to his extreme left wing base that they knew would be extremely upset because the DOJ will not prosecute the CIA. If you do read the memos you will actually see striking things: the concern that is shown for the health and well-being of the detainees; the very limited circumstances under which harsh interrogation techniques were used (only when the CIA had reason to believe that the detainee had knowledge about pending terrorist attacks, among other limitations), and confirmation of the fact that thousands of American servicemen have been waterboarded and subjected to the other techniques in question, as part of their training--a practice that continued at least up to the dates of the memos.

The DOJ came to the only legal conclusion that they could here, that the likelihood of getting a conviction would be nil since the CIA agents in question relied on these legal memorandums. The other facts that have been shown, which are contrary to what the left through their useful idiots in the media are trying to sell, is that this "coercive questioning" not torture as the left calls it, were very successful. The CIA officials who extracted valuable information from captured Al Qaeda leaders--information that we have every reason to believe prevented successful terrorist attacks--are heroes. Their task was a thankless one, but, based on all the information we have now, including the newly-released DOJ memos, they performed it well.

Let us wait and see how pure this administration can stay when the shoe is on their foot. Just changing the name of the War on Terror is not going to solve the issues or make Islamic extremists love us. If you actually believe that these type of issues are not going to raise their ugly but necessary head in the future than you are more than naive. Just keep singing Kumbya and drinkiing that Pinko Kool-Aid and it will all be better tomorrow.

The biggest idiot Nobel Prize winner since Al Gore

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=ydprIrpr4z

Krugman states that we can sell another 10 trillion of debt before we have a problem. What an idiot. What country is going to buy it? Another left wing attempt to down play the massive debt that this administration has heaped on the terrible spending during the Bush administration.

Tea for Two

Rich please read the comments so that you get an understanding as to why there are tea parties and the shameful left wing media coverage. Just keep telling yourself there is no liberal bias in the media especially after you read the CNN coverage.

Teabaggers: Is this a Morning Coffee Poster?

Thursday, April 16, 2009

When one of my good friend says somethinng stupid.

Blogger Gary said...

Please do not ever use the words WalMart and thoughtful corporations in the same paragraph. Or the same planet. We pay dearly for those low prices, including some who've paid with their lives because WalMart wouldn't offer health care to their employees.
Sorry.


Well... it remains stupid.


Gary, my pseudo-conservative friend, must know that in a free country, corporations don't need to be nice or thoughtful or any damn thing.  They just need to make money and obey the law.  Capitalism, wonder that it is, takes the drive and ambition of those willing to work and turns their products and services into the great emancipators of our society.  Walmart, Exxon, Intel and the corner Bakery have provided more benefits, including our unparalleled standard of living, than any other system in existence.  How can you look at our great societies and say otherwise?


And Walmart...poor Walmart of low prices, better standard of living, providing thousands of jobs.  No one is forced to work there Gary. 


Terry is too far gone...but Gary, come on!

Why are all the Secessionists Right Wingers?

We all know that Todd Palin, husband of the Republican 2008 VP candidate, was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party. He changed his registration in 2002 when it became politically inconvenient.

Now we have the sitting Republiucan governor of Texas suggesting secession as well. Tom DeLay and Sean Hannity have both supported Perry's rhetoric.

I am a proud American, very patriotic, and I take great offense to such crazy talk. Why does it always come from the right? Are you more concerned about low tax rates than your country? When you lose at the polls, big time, is it time to walk away from your nation?

God Bless America!!!

In case you had any doubt there is a left wing attack against returning veterans

This is a training video from Penn State University. They have since removed it after the public outcry. This goes to the mind set of those in power at this University which is not near a lot of other even further left leaning Universities. Now you know why so many college age kids came out to vote for Obama. They have been brain washed by years of liberal reeducation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhLq9NPLv0M

As you can tell April 15th has passed and I have been saving a lot of this material in the back of my mind.

Another whopping lie by the White House

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=ydSUqGkU6U

The White House says President Obama is "unaware" that the Tea Party demonstrations are going on. Is he clueless, out of touch or simply lying?

Shame on this administration and the left wingers they are putting in place all over government

As reported extensively on Fox News and probably no where else i give you the most shameful study ever. http://www.gordonunleashed.com/HSA%20-%20Rightwing%20Extremism%20-%2009%2004%2007.pdf

This so called threat analysis provides absolutely zero documentation of increased recruitment of returning military combat veterans what so ever It clearly appears to be heavily influenced by the political views of its (unidentified) authors. The central theme of the report is this:
"The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has "no" specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists "may" be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment." Note the strategic word smithing using No and May.

I quote from the report:
"The current economic and political climate has some similarities to the 1990s when rightwing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs, and the perceived threat to U.S. power and sovereignty by other foreign powers. ...
Growth of these groups subsided in reaction to increased government scrutiny as a result of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and disrupted plots, improvements in the economy, and the continued U.S. standing as the preeminent world power. "

Wait a minute. In 1995, the economy was booming. Nor is there any obvious similarity between the "political climate" now and in the 1990s, except that we have a Democratic administration in power. I suspect that's what the authors are really worried about, although they never quite come out and say so.

A lot of this defamation of military combat veterans who have fought for this country is based on a "prominent civil rights organization". Guess what, this prominent civil rights group is the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center. The real numbers:
"A review of FBI white supremacist extremist cases from October 2001 to May 2008 identified 203 individuals with confirmed or claimed military service active in the extremist movement at some time during the reporting period. This number is minuscule in comparison with the projected US veteran population of 23,816,000 as of 2 May 2008, or the 1,416,037 active duty military personnel as of 30 April 2008. ...
According to FBI information, an estimated 19 veterans (approximately 9 percent of the 203) have verified or unverified service in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

I again say shame on this administration. They owe the military an apology for ever allowing an attack piece like this to be published. It goes to the obvious liberal lie of the last 8 years. "We support the troops but not the war". If so many liberals support the troops than why do they fight so hard to keep military recruiters off of college campuses?

Obama's pirate war

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/world/africa/14pirates.html?_r=1

“People are talking about this as a piracy issue,” Mr. Feingold, the Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, said in a telephone interview. “That is not the core issue here. It is a symptom of a disunified government.” Mr. Feingold called central authority the ultimate solution to piracy.

Somalia has veered between lawlessness and rule by warlords for most of the past two decades, providing a haven not only for pirates but also for Islamic militants.

“Every country will be treated the way it treats us,” Abdullahi Lami, one of the pirates holding a Greek ship anchored in the pirate den of Gaan, a central Somali town, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying in a telephone interview. “In the future, America will be the one mourning and crying.”
Pirates have also vowed violent revenge against French ships and sailors after French commandos stormed a private yacht seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, an action in which two pirates and one hostage died while four hostages were freed and three pirates captured. “The French and the Americans will regret starting this killing,” a pirate identified only as Hussein told Reuters by satellite telephone on Monday. “We do not kill, but take only ransom. We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American from now.”

It appears that our President's plate is getting fuller. Feingold lends a lot of support to what Rush Limbaugh had to say earlier. I believe the future will show that Limbaugh was correct in his analysis and that we will end up having to deal with this problem in a way that will not please our President's most fervent supporters.

The arrogance of Obamamessiah continues to move to new heights

Our current President gave a speech on the economy at Georgetown University. The text of the speech is here. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/14/a_new_foundation_for_the_economy_obama_48911.html

Read it critically for yourselves before the spinners go to work.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Something All Teabaggers Should Know

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/opinion/13krugman.html?_r=1

Are we at war and are there enemy's of the state?

Rush Limbaugh (gasp) ponders an important question. Terrorists, pirates, dictators... are they enemy's of the state or criminals? The little boys that "O" had waxed...participants in an act of international war or just some mixed up kids in need of guidance counseling?

The whole reason that there is a resurgence of piracy, which is something that was thought to have been stamped out a couple of hundred years ago, is precisely because idiots like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama think pirates and terrorists -- and this is terrorism -- are criminals, not enemies. This goes back to Jamie Gorelick and the wall and the Clinton administration wanting to prosecute terrorists as though they are citizens of America with constitutional rights. Prosecute them as criminals, the same as bank robbers. Of course, the leftist takeover -- or majority population, if you will -- of the US judicial system, is seen to be just that, when discussing, say, the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay or anybody else. They gotta be released, and released within the United States! Lawyers must defend them, as though they are criminals, not battlefield enemy combatants. So now the Obama administration and Clinton herself is looking at these people not as terrorists but as criminals, not enemies. If you start talking about these people being criminals then you gotta Mirandize them. Have the pirates been Mirandized? Have they been given their Miranda warnings? No! They need to be wiped out. This administration does not get it. The left in this country does not understand the concept that this country has enemies. Well, they might understand that we have enemies. What they're wrong about is why.

The best article.

Terry is busy this week. Were he to have time to read, I would enjoy his populist comment about: According to the CBO, those who made less than $44,300 in 2001 -- 60% of the country -- paid a paltry 3.3% of all income taxes. By 2005, almost all of them were excused from paying any income tax. They paid less than 1% of the income tax burden. Their share shrank even when taking into account the payroll tax. In 2001, the bottom 60% paid 16.3% of all taxes; by 2005 their share was down to 14.3%. All the while, this large group of voters made 25.8% of the nation's income.


Ari Fleischer Says It's Bad for Our Democracy to Exempt Half the Country From Income Taxes - WSJ.com

HEALTH CARE AND THOUGHTFUL CORPORATIONS

We need only look to WalMart to see that effective and affordable solutions to health care costs can be put in place for medications. They offer over 300 medications at $4 per month! This solution was brought about through thoughtful corporations doing what was in the best interest of their employees and customers, and yet being able to be profitable in the process.
Personally, I go back to the Federalist Papers and the discussions our forefathers had regarding the role of the government in the lives of those governed. It is not the place of the Federal government to dictate to anyone that they should have healthcare or not. That is not the purpose of the Federal government. The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution clearly states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” What does that mean in reality? That this issue should be addressed First by the PEOPLE (i.e. be responsible for your own health needs), and Secondly, by the States. Never should it be dealt with by the Federal Government. I am amazed I said that. Now if we had thoughtful Doctors, and thoughtful insurance companies and thoughtful lawyers, you get the point.

Friday, April 10, 2009

The problem with the bow

Personally I am not going to get worked up about the fact that Barry bowed to Saudi King Abdullah. What is troubling about it is how the White House propaganda machine is trying to tell us in a Goebbel's like way that what we have all seen with our own eyes is not really what we saw. He obviously bowed to King Abdullah and all of the bull that is being spewed by the White House now goes to their level of dishonesty. How arrogant can people be? The arrogance of this administration is beyond comparison in US history. They have passed being Clintonesque with this obvious lie. For anyone to believe that Barry was simply stooping to shake hands would require the complete suspension of the sense of sight. I have read posts in the past about how refreshing it is to finally have an administration that is willing to admit a mistake. Well this lie over something so minor has to make everyone wonder how much they are lying to us about the big things!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Cap and Trade is Dead in this budget

One thing that Barry has done for the Conservative movement is unify us in a way we have not been in a while. His agenda is so radical and anti-American that he has managed to wake up some of those who have been sitting on the sidelines.
The Republicans managed to score. The most notable was the amendment offered by Mike Johanns to prohibit use of the reconciliation procedure for "climate change legislation involving a cap and trade system." The point of this amendment is that the administration will not be able to slide cap and trade through the Senate with 50 votes as part of the budget bill. Rather, it will have to follow a normal process, which leaves open the possibility of a filibuster.
Johanns' amendment passed on a 67-31 vote, with a considerable number of Democrats joining the Republicans. They were largely, but not entirely, Midwesterners who were not prepared to see their states' economies devastated by this foolish environmental measure. So for now, at least, it looks as though we have dodged the carbon tax bullet.
It just goes to show the lunacy of this left wing agenda especially during these economic times. Thank goodness there are still some rational thinkers left in Congress. Especially given the fact that this lunacy is based on non Science and erroneous computer modeling.

The facts are that the earth's climate has been cooling for the last decade, something that was not predicted by the global warming alarmists' computer models. When models make predictions that are falsified by events, it proves that the models are wrong. Good thing reason stepped in before the lunatic fringe was able to destroy the economy further with their slavish devotion to Al Gore and his now discredited theory.

Monday, April 6, 2009

North Korea + Iran

We'll see what our new administration does. FWIW, I support doing whatever is necessary to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state and to pull North Korea back from that status. Whether through diplomacy (including concessions to Russians and Chinese) or a continuing storm of Cruise missiles, these countries cannot possess the bomb, period. If they successfully join the club, it is only a matter of time until a nuclear bomb goes off in Manhattan or an EMP in our western skies. Either situation is a Roman style, existential threat.

I think Obama is just what the doctor ordered in this regard. The past administration badly fumbled both accounts. 

We Are Not a "Christian Nation"

So said the president today in Turkey. It is refreshing to hear our president sing the praises of secular government - especially within a majority Muslim nation. 

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Terry: Our former President did not rush us into war. Any cursory look through the nations papers reveals a long buildup of thought, anguish and controversy. However, there was a UN resolution authorizing the use of force and a vote of the US congress supporting the same.

Our former Presidents view, articulated days after 9-11 was that any regime that supported terrorism would be viewed as a hostile regime. He meant what he said which was the point of the post from earlier today. You conveniently forget that part of the issue with Iraq was that they would not willingly comply with UN inspections and sanctions after demonstrating hostility. Just like N. Korea is now.

Lastly, you never acknowledge that almost every Democratic Presidential candidate supported the resolution. Except of course Mr. Courage, who stood on the sideline and make fancy speeches. The point of his liberal beginnings and due is...were the war to have gone smoother, Hillary would have been the candidate and "O" would be but a concept.

But now the rubber meets the road and he must make difficult decisions, "words matter, rules must be followed". How hollow these words must ring to our enemy's, they know when previously faced with the same issue, he put politics before country to serve the left base and now remains their servant.

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE SCENE; Joint Congress Transformed Into a United Showcase of Courage and Resolve - The New York Times

''From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor and support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.''

And as we all remember

At times visibly nervous, at others appearing to hew so closely to prepared answers that she used the exact same phrases repeatedly, Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of “anticipatory self-defense.”

THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE PRESIDENT; Bush Presses U.N. to Act Quickly on Disarming Iraq - The New York Times

THREATS AND RESPONSES: INSPECTIONS; U.S. Says Iraq Retools Rockets For Illicit Uses - The New York Times

THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE; Lawmakers Make Their Cases as Votes on Use of Force Draw Near - The New York.


He turned his attention to the administration's new national security strategy, which argues that the threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction are so dangerous that the United States should not hesitate to act alone and pre-emptively. Mr. Kennedy drew a distinction between pre-emptive action such as Israel took when Syria and Egypt massed troops on its borders in 1967 and what he called ''preventative military action,'' or strikes against a country before it has become threatening.

Finally the truth

Gingrich thrashed Republicans for allowing increased spending during the Bush administration and for not doing enough to block President Barack Obama’s early initiatives.
Remember, everything Obama’s doing, Bush started last year,” Gingrich said. “If you’re going to talk about big spending, the mistakes of the Bush administration last year are fully as bad as the mistakes of Obama’s first two.

Words must have meaning

So says the "O" today when chastising N. Korea over launching a missile. He also said "rules must be followed" as a terrorist state illegally launched a missile with capabilities to reach America.

One wonders what this phrase means to the left? Our previous President was pilloried for saying, and meaning, that states that harbor terrorists would be treated the same as terrorist states and that states must comply with UN sanctions or face consequences.

So what do words mean in the new age of "O"? We speak harshly? We say "don't do it again"? Or do we mean what we say and take action?

I predict Baxter response II (the blame Bush model) to excuse the "O" tepid response.

When you have been elected by the left, the options of response are limited. The US, I guess, can speak but cannot actually do anything. Words mean...nothing.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Let's take a moment for a little flash back.

The utter fallacy of the creation of "Green Jobs"

Obamamessiah has consistently stated that the creation of "green jobs" will somehow offset the obvious damage that will be done by his cap-and-trade system and other measures that will make conventional energy sources more expensive. He has pointed specifically to Spain as a country whose experience with "green jobs" should be emulated.

Well let us examine this proposition. An empirical study has just been done by Dr. Gabriel Calzada of Juan Carlos University in Madrid. http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/03/31/running-of-the-bull-us-green-jobs-rhetoric/

Let us examine a few of the more salient points.

* The U.S. can expect 2.2 jobs to be destroyed for every 1 renewable job financed by the government.
* Only 1 in 10 of the jobs actually created through green investment is permanent.
* Since 2000, Spain has spent €571,138 ($753,778) to create each "green job," including subsidies of more than €1 million ($1,319,783) per wind industry job.Those programs resulted in the destruction of nearly 113,000 jobs elsewhere in the economy.
* Each "green" megawatt installed destroyed 5.39 jobs in non-energy sectors of the Spanish economy.
* The total over-cost--the amount paid over the cost that would result from buying the electricity generated by the renewable power plants at market prices--between 2000 and 2008 amounts to 7,918.54 million Euros ($10 billion).
* The total subsidy spent and committed to these three renewable sources amounts to €28,671 million ($36 billion).
* Consumer energy costs in Spain would have to be increased 31 percent to repay the debt generated by the green jobs subsidies.

So based on these findings one must ask is our President really this dumb that he actually believes the obvious BS that he keeps on spewing about "green job" creation? Or is this part of the Rahm Emanuel line of "taking advantage of a crisis" by having the government take complete control of the American economy by deciding what kind of companies will succeed and what kind will fail through the use of massive governmental spending programs? There must be more to this because you certainly cannot make an economic case for this line of thinking based on Spain's real world experiences. Is this really "The Change" that a majority of Americans voted for?

Our President the real narcisist

Well we now really have a sign of what all of the adulation for our current President has accomplished. It is no wonder he thinks he can run auto manufacturers and banks even though he has no actual business experience.

As reported earlier the Obama's gave Queen Elizabeth a custom iPod. It turns out that loaded on the iPod besides the Queen's beloved Broadway show tunes are photos of the ONE's inauguration, audio of his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and audio of his 2009 inaugural address. I have to wonder why he forgot to include the recording of himself reading "Dreams From My Father" or "The Audacity Of Hope".

Rich and Terry, maybe Apple will start offering this iPod to the public so that you guys can view your savior whenever you want.

A reknown Professor from Columbia fingers Fannie and Freddie

Dr. Charles W. Calomiris, the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business stated during a recent speech he made at New York's Harvard Club that actions by the CEO's at Fannie and Freddie had a major role in the devastating financial spiral we find ourselves in.

"During the economic expansion of 2003 to 2007, lenders accumulated a large portfolio of risky investments." "One particularly large category of these investments were the $3 TRILLION worth of risky mortgage loans given to U.S. borrowers with poor history and little or no down payments." That is right the number is 3 TRILLION!

Question: who forced these banks to make these loans? Can you say Congress led by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd?

Dr. Calomiris went on to say that "despite strongly voiced opposition from risk managers to Fannie and Freddie, the CEOs pushed ahead, largely because of their desire to please CONGRESS". This statement was made based on his review of internal e-mails between Freddie's and Fannie's risk managers and their CEOs during the time period in question.

We know it is a fact, having watched the Congressional testimony linked in earlier Blog Entries that Barney and Chris along with some other Democrats did everything in their power to block any increased regulatory scrutiny of Fannie and Freddie and in fact made statements to the effect that nothing was wrong at either financial institution when in fact the House of Cards was beginning to collapse.

Now Barney is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. You can't make this stuff up! What is wrong with this picture when the people who are directly responsible for helping to create the mess are the ones in charge of fixing it!

Too cool for chess?

St. B. Clinton did think ahead. This guy does seem to be a bit over his head. Can the Democrats affort to lose MI?

DickMorris.com

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Now boys don't fight, I'm back

Lots going on with the blog these days.

Lots of discussion about cars and global warming

Both sides are valid, of course.

Mark says global warming, now  known as climate change, because, well, things are not warming, says that it is a bunch of bull.

Rich says, no we must be concerned because it might someday be a problem (yes, he admits, they have predicted 10 of the last zero's apocalypse), and we use too much gas and oil.

Of course this is supported by the folks who pretty much want global income redistribution.


The administration just changes the rules if they don't agree

Well we are getting the exact behavior I knoew we would from our new underqualified AG. But we knew this going in based on the pardon of Marc Rich.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123863025435480649.html#mod=djemEditorialPage

A new and gracious administration?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862834153780427.html#mod=djemEditorialPage

Triumph!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040200297.html?hpid=topnews

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

A New and Gracious Administration

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/us/politics/02stevens.html?hp

The new car czar in Europe

Well as our new car czar tries to sell the G-20 some snake oil they are sure to resist many of his suggestions. The hate America crowd combined with the blame America crowd are doing their very best to frame the global economic crisis as one that is solely to blame on the US. The Europeans are sure to use this thought process in a way to undermine the car czar. This line of thinking is factually not true.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/wm2369.cfm

I just do not understand why so many in this country are so intent to become like Europe and to adopt European systems and economic policies that are clearly not working. Why have so many forgotten the fact that this country was established mostly by Europeans fleeing Europe for a better life highlighted by a system that featured individualism, freedom of choice and the ability to accomplish something by working hard and concentrating on an education. Now we have an administration that wants to bring us down to Europe's level. Please explain to me why so many liberals are so invested in worrying about how Europe views us.

Not surprisingly, the Europeans are attempting to leverage their false narrative into global policies that will favor their interests. Thus, they are calling for a global regulator with a mandate to ensure the stability and balance of the world economy. In other words if you cannot beat someone under fair competition than change the rules to bring them down to your level. We should all be worried about statements like the one the head of the IRS, who is incapable of using Turbo Tax, made when he said that he was quite open about going to a global currency. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/3/25/geithner-quite-open-to-idea-of-global-currency.html Of course this was a day after he said he was against it. http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Economy/idUSTRE52N52420090324 Turbo Tax Tim is in so far over his head that he cannot even remeber what he says from day to day.

Between the car czar and Turbo Tax Tim we need to be really worried about the US capitulating to European wishes and then lying to us using their useful idiots in the left wing dominated main stream media to try and sell the American public about how a capitulation is good for us. We are in big trouble!

The new government owned automobile repair and maintenance facilities

Well the man that was elected to run the American Automobile industry has guaranteed all new car buyers of GM and Chrysler that their warranties will be honored.

"If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been because, starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty."

I guess this will be some of the new jobs that the new auto exec will be creating with taxpayer dollars.
We as a nation are now being asked to trust this administration to run financial institutions, automotive manufacturers and who knows what the future holds. The arrogance of these clowns is simply astounding! I guess this is what happens when a population of idiots elects a man for arguably the most important job in the world who has the thinnest resume ever for a Presidential candidate. Please point out to me our new auto chief’s past business experiences.

And I quote "In this context, my administration will offer General Motors adequate working capital over the next 60 days. And during this time, my team will be working closely with GM to produce a better business plan. They must ask themselves have they consolidated enough to profitable brands. Have they cleaned up their balance sheets, or are this still saddling with so much debt that they can't make future investments?"

I am willing to bet that he doesn’t even understand a balance sheet. In his apparently boundless self-confidence, our new car czar in chief evidently thinks that he knows better how to run an automobile manufacturing company than the management of GM or Chrysler. What about his crack team? http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090223/AUTO01/902230327 Can anyone please point out someone on this list that has some experience in running a major manufacturing company?

I believe his arrogance is best explained by an a priori conviction that government always knows best. Let's take a second to analyze this thought.Can anyone point to anything that government has done well with taxpayer money?

Have we won the war on poverty yet? It seems to me that all we have succeeded in doing is create an entire class of needy individuals with no desire to work because they believe they are entitled to government aid due to the fact that they are still breathing oxygen.

How about the education battle that we have poured untold billions into? Nope we are losing this war as well.

The War on drugs? I don't think so.

I could go on all day.

I really feel bad for all of the people who have their lives tied to the automotive industry in this country. Once GM and Chrysler declare bankruptcy I am sure that our new car czar in chief will guarantee the lifetime benefits both financial and medical to all of the retired employees of these once great companies just like he did with auto warranties.