Placebo cures by polling for our national ills

Polling is invaluable tool in a campaign where time is compressed.

Polling, as a mechanism to lead a nation as this president does, is a cheap finger to the wind to gauge what is popular.

It is a poor way to lead a nation which is what is happening to our nation under the Obama Administration because Obama's handlers are leading Obama which means they are the true leaders behind the child throne.

As defined through action by this administration, this government fiat through an advertising tool which is used as a bludgeon because it is what an informed populous wants. Unfortunately the populous is not only uninformed as to who President Obama is, the populous is also uninformed about the purposely made complicated matters vexing our nation. It as the administration and Congress wants it.

An ignorant electorate is far easier to rule.

Inside Obama's polling operation
As President Barack Obama works to sell the American people on a sweeping agenda of domestic spending and policy changes, he’s relying on three men who have gone through neither Senate confirmation nor cable news spin cycles.

Data from pollsters Joel Benenson and Paul Harstad has become increasingly important to shaping the White House’s message as the crucial battle over the president’s budget intensifies.

“The pace [of polling] is picking up,” said one source familiar with the data.

In addition, David Binder, a San Francisco-based focus group expert, also has been traveling the country taking the national temperature on issues like energy and health care, others close to the White House said.

Presidents have long pooh-poohed polls while privately conducting them. Jimmy Carter had Patrick Caddell, Reagan had Dick Wirthlin, and Bill Clinton relied on Mark Penn for weekly, personal briefings on the numbers.

George W. Bush, reacting against Clinton’s perceived reliance on polls, sharply cut back the practice, according to spending tallies. His main pollster was the no-profile Jan van Lohuizen, but Karl Rove still conducted six major surveys a year, a senior Bush White House staffer said, and employed an aide to pore over the growing pile of publicly available data.

Obama, too, has denounced polling, promising in one high-profile Iowa speech to lead “not by polls, but by principle,” even though he employed six campaign pollsters.

Would the visionary leaders we have been graced with in the past please wake the politically bludgeoned populous to say simply, "This isn't leadership. It is a bitter placebo enveloped in jelly to make you feel maternal love feels your pain and has a cure when in fact you are getting sicker."

Obama: Dictator of Detroit, Baron of Banks & Sultan of Stocks

Tim Geithner: Court Jester

He's told Wall Street what to do. He's ordered banks to disregard the foolish lack of detail by his Treasury Secretary and now Obama is firing CEOs, talking mergers and guaranteeing warranties in Detroit. Is he the man for all seasons? No, he most certainly is not that.

I think it time that someone ask Obama, "Just who do you think you are? Dictator? President? Businessman? Wall Street wiz? Actually, who are you, because you are failing across the board."

Obama has betrayed the his base, the left, he has betrayed business, he has betrayed CEOs and he's betraying pretty much everybody else left.

People that voted for him are suddenly quiet about him. People who didn't, but wouldn't help Republicans are obviously shamed into silence, as they should be. People with children and grandchildren feel scared. People with parents and grandparents watching their savings, investments and options dwindle are angry. People involved in the stock market just want him to at least shut his mouth. Our allies are angry and confused. Hell, that pretty much leaves communists, dictators, the ignorant and the stupid left with a smile on their face.

Here, on Jenkins Hill, Obama appears to be not stupid, yes, ignorant, yes, naive, but a man with a vision that he cannot communicate or dare not communicate.

He is the Hugo Chavez of North America with all of the bravado, the swagger and the inability to convince anybody that he knows what he is doing, outside of dragging this country down. He does seem to be doing that pretty well. I guess in his relative world that is something.

It is time for Republicans to form a solid line to block and to not just say no, but to offer alternatives when he spouts off, but better yet, offer alternatives before he spouts off. It can only be Republicans that can save us from this mess and bring sanity back to Washington, DC. They must unite their members, all of them (hear that Specter, Collins, Snowe, etc.?), and they must unite their Party and they must unite the people.

That's change and hope that can save this nation.

We The People Stimulus Package

Bravo!

John Boehner's rebel, Thaddeus McCotter

Rep. John Boehner, Minority Leader, is fighting the good fight to keep America a shining beacon to the world, but more importantly, a shining beacon to us, the citizens which is what will keep us strong, focused and making our country better each day. His job is made easier by his surrounding himself with absolutely outstanding individuals.

One such individual is Thaddeus McCotter, Republican representing the 11th District of Michigan. Geez, who knew there were still Republicans in Michigan. Well, outside of Mr. Cat Scratch Fever, Ted Nugent.

McCotter is my new hero. He knows who he is and from whence he came.

Thaddeus McCotter: Five Principles

1) Our liberty is from God not the government
2) Our sovereignty is in our soul not the soil
3) Our security is through strength not surrender
4) Our prosperity is from the private sector not the public sector
5) Our truths are self-evident not relative

These are five good places to start.

On the Stimulus Bill Republicans stuck to their principles and offered a plan that would create twice the jobs at half the costs.

I'm going to start following this guy like white on rice, but, as McCotter would say, I hope there are no pictures.




He also has a wicked sense of humor.

Two Months Too Much

Two months of "change has brought us a world of change that most voters haven't even noticed, because they are not paying attention or, worse yet, they are believing the bankrupt news media.

In 2006 the Democrats took charge of Congress and began portraying Republicans as heartless hoping the charge would pile on top of their baseless and jaded charges that the Bush Administration was guilty of "crimes." The media jumped on this pile head first laughing all the way to the bank, they thought.

Republicans did little to counter these charges and offered up a "maverick" for the presidency while Rep. Barney Frank, Sen. Chris Dodd and their financial backers at Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac continued to force lenders to give mortgages to people who could not afford them. When President Bush and some Republicans questioned this practice, Democrats were quick to divert attention away from the facts by crying "racist." Most Republicans sat on their hands, too cowardly or worse yet, they agreed with liberals, to do anything.

Their moment of triumph came with the election of Obama.

Obama's 4 million jobs? Who is going to hire? In the midst of this manufactured financial crisis Obama comes up with a tax plan that raises taxes on the very people that hire people. To add insult to injury, Obama trod his own path, saying what he thought worked well on the campaign trail and sent the stock market to the tank. Some change.

Health care will be a joke unless you're someone who wishes abortion on demand or want to see embryos used in stem cell research.

Obama is now addressing the real crisis, which is education in this country and, as usual, he wants more spending and more government control. This is the very policy that has driven our education system downward which has made the system totally incapable of producing the leaders we need in industry, research and development and sensible policy.

This administration has a plan for the Middle East. Just ask them. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is confused and scared about what this policy may or may not be. The terrorists operating in Iraq and Afghanistan have been given hope because they believe in Obama's "change" and in thanks to Obama have set off fire works killing dozens, sending shock waves of fear through those countries.

This is not change unless you like the dumber twin of Clinton policy or the oafish stupidity of a Carter. It is a naive and dangerous attempt to be all things to all people. The only thing we have to show for all this work is a president said to be "tired", in fact too tired, to act presidential to the leader of one of our most important allies, Gordon Brown.

Stalin once said "A Capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with." I am beginning to doubt that can happen know. Obama will make sure that we are too poor, too stupid, too sick and too scared to make, sell or receive the rope.

Republicans need to once again to act Republican and stop this ridiculous drama of hoping and caring. It is neither.

The New Economics Of Bad Economics And You

For the last eight years conservatives have been able to say, "At least we didn't get attacked again."

We did get attacked. Financially.

First, Republicans forgot that: one, they were Republicans; 2, their base; 3, their popularity was not more important than America.

Renaming a trash dump, The (enter elected officials name) North Nowhere Recycling Facility, may get their name in the news and may make some people feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but it is self-aggrandizement at the expense of the country and it is still a trash dump.

Second, when Democrats took control of the Congress and the administration moved into the White House complex, the real financial attack on America began. LBJ and his Great Society was a piker and FDR and his New Deal was just a tad bigger compared to BHO's monster coming out of the dark and shadowing our every waking moment. Darkness at noon, so to speak,

Now, the feel-good ignorance of the last few elections is going to be the new hard reality of big government being that, big government. Big government is expensive, ineffective and totally so not cost effective. Plus it comes with bureaucratic oversight as an extra kick in the ass. Try getting your local tax bill corrected and now try to deal with any federal bureaucrat to fix any problem. After running the maze for months you will find yourself back at the beginning and having to start all over, but then it will be a newer maze.

Vocal Minority has a great article about those that got that famous tingle all up their leg and the real cost of fiscal irresponsibility.

To All You Well-to-Do Liberals/Democrats: Bend Over, Here It Comes!
Question: What do you call the driver of a BMW, Mercedes, Lexus (or any such high-end vehicle) with an Obama bumper sticker on it?
Answer: Fool. Or sucker, take your pick.

That was one of the messages on the Mark Levin Show last week. All you wealthy Blue State liberals with the big houses and fancy cars and Ivy League educations who think you participated something historic by voting for President Golden Calf: You’re about to have your tuchas handed to you by the very guy you put in office. Your taxes are going up. Your home value is going down. And it will be your fault.

It’s a textbook example of constituents voting against their best interest.

I recently visited a friend matching the above description and told him straightforwardly: You’ll be lucky if you still have this house in four years. He replied, Well, your guy [i.e., Bush] didn’t do much better!

You know what? He had a point. Toward the end, Bush was really screwing up the economy. But you know why? Because he was behaving like a Democrat! The downturn that happened in Bush’s last years in office weren’t the result of conservative economic principles! It was liberal Democrat big government socialism through and through. Even Bush said it himself: “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”

The late Molly Ivins would probably have disagreed with me, but that was the stupidest thing George W. Bush has ever said as president.

Fiscal responsibility is the red headed step child in the halls of Congress. It has been so for a number of years and nobody will claim to even notice the child frantically running from hall to hall trying to knock on doors to get someone's attention.

It's time to give the little fellow a hug and invite him in.

Fiscal Responsibility In The Coming Years

Life as a Republican has been rough of late. As it should be. Spending billions of dollar can cause a hangover the size of Texas that is as pleasant as Washington DC on a sultry August day when the temperature and the humidity are competing with each other. Then comes the Obama.

Obama, like most rookies playing a part, is looking to some of those in Congress for guidance who are showing how to spend some serious money. Trillions. More money than we have in the United States some say. It is a good thing that our most prestigious and respectable Secretary of State had the opportunity to crawl the halls of Beijing begging for more cash. No need for us to sell the rope to to our enemies as Stalin said of capitalists. We'll just give it to the Chinese Communists, with interest. It's easier that way.

Republicans had their day and a good day it was, but unfortunately they stayed to long at the ball and started acting like Democrats. Reagan and Newt Gingrich gave Republicans the weapons and the power to stay in control for a good while. Unfortunately, they did because Clinton got the credit for budget surpluses while Republicans spent money like drunken whores in Tijuana using our checkbooks. They handed the issue of fiscal responsibility back to the Democrats wrapped in pretty paper with a bow as if a gift and it's a gift that keeps on giving when you look at the last two elections which tumbled Republican power out of the House, the Senate and out of the White House.

Now the Obama has come.

He is whispering, stating aloud and shouting that he must spend, spend, spend in the name of fiscal responsibility. Oh, he will cut some things, taxes aren't one of them, but look for a fire sale at the Pentagon. The Brass will have to hock their gold just to keep the doors open.

Republicans know this and have answered appropriately. At least in their minds. They are responsible for approximately 40% of the nearly 9,000 earmarks just passed in the Pelosi-Reid-Obama-Soros (PROS) legislation this week.

The Republican Party and its elected legislators stretching across the country have a golden opportunity to return to their roots, which will bring the base back, to once again be the party of fiscal responsibility. This isn't done with lip service to principle nor by the copious display by aging legislators of photographs with Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan.

Fiscal responsibility is cutting budgets, cutting taxes and shrinking the size and scope of government.

A long ago Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, once said, "Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master." That today's Republicans have forgotten this is not only a loss of Party identity, but a loss for our country and our society.

Jenkins Hill was bucolic pasture land for cattle when President Washington made it part of the permanent capital of the United States of America and specifically, Jenkins Hill the location of the Capitol itself. This capital with its Capitol Building soon became the shining city on the hill that was the guiding light for freedom around the world. Now it has become just another dull Euro-Socialist style home to a legislature that sees itself as a caretaker of society instead of a legislature leading a vision of a free and prosperous world. It's become a giant social service office afraid of the rod and spoiling the child. Think 435 nannies with lots of support staff.

Republicans helped take the luster off that shine and they need to repair not just their party, but the Capitol and the nation by being a true loyal opposition and bringing fiscal responsibility, real fiscal responsibility, back to Capitol Hill.

Otherwise, give the damned hill back to the cattle. They'll graze, digest and leave something less odious than what is there now.