Sunday, September 26, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Winston Churchill on Barack Obama
The greatest statesman of the 20th century comments on the biggest pipsqueak ever elected President of the United States, with apologies to Jimmy Carter:
"A good many of those gentlemen who have delightful rosy views of a noble and brilliant future for the world are so remote from hard facts of daily life and of ordinary politics that I am not very sure that they will bring any useful or effective influence to bear upon the immediate course of events.”
Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, 14 May 1908
“Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State…This State is to be the arch-employer, the arch-planner, the arch-administrator and ruler, and the arch- caucus boss.”
London, 04 June 1945
“The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Commons, 22 October 1945
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”
Perth, 28 May 1948
“Socialism is based on the idea of an all-powerful State which owns everything, which plans everything, which distributes everything, and thus through its politicians and officials decides the daily life of the individual citizen.”
London, 21 January 1950
“You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty.”
Commons, 12 March 1947
“We shall not allow the advance of society and economic well-being of the nation to be regulated and curtailed by the pace of the weakest brethren among us. Proper incentives must be offered and full freedom given to the strong to use their strength in the commonweal. Initiative, enterprise, thrift, domestic foresight, contrivance, good housekeeping and natural ability must reap their just reward. “
Blenheim Palace, 04 August 1947
“I warn you solemnly, if you submit yourselves to the totalitarian compulsion and regimentation of our national life and labour, there lies before you an almost measureless prospect of misery and tribulation of which a lower standard of living will be the first result, hunger the second, and a dispersal or death of a large proportion of our population the third.”
Blenheim Palace, 16 August 1947
“State Management has proved, in every case where it is applied, to be cumbrous, wasteful, and incompetent. Moreover, the wage-earners in all these nationalized industries are rapidly finding out how far more flexible and comprehending compared to the all-powerful, remote and sullen control of the State was the private employer.”
Woodford Green, 10 July 1948
“Rich men, although valuable to the revenue, are not vital to a healthy state of society, but a society in which rich men are got rid of, from motives of jealousy, is not a healthy state.”
Commons, 24 April 1950
“The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage-earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country, who, if they add something to its culture, take much from its strength.”
Royal Society of St. George, London, 24 April 1933
"A good many of those gentlemen who have delightful rosy views of a noble and brilliant future for the world are so remote from hard facts of daily life and of ordinary politics that I am not very sure that they will bring any useful or effective influence to bear upon the immediate course of events.”
Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, 14 May 1908
“Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State…This State is to be the arch-employer, the arch-planner, the arch-administrator and ruler, and the arch- caucus boss.”
London, 04 June 1945
“The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Commons, 22 October 1945
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”
Perth, 28 May 1948
“Socialism is based on the idea of an all-powerful State which owns everything, which plans everything, which distributes everything, and thus through its politicians and officials decides the daily life of the individual citizen.”
London, 21 January 1950
“You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty.”
Commons, 12 March 1947
“We shall not allow the advance of society and economic well-being of the nation to be regulated and curtailed by the pace of the weakest brethren among us. Proper incentives must be offered and full freedom given to the strong to use their strength in the commonweal. Initiative, enterprise, thrift, domestic foresight, contrivance, good housekeeping and natural ability must reap their just reward. “
Blenheim Palace, 04 August 1947
“I warn you solemnly, if you submit yourselves to the totalitarian compulsion and regimentation of our national life and labour, there lies before you an almost measureless prospect of misery and tribulation of which a lower standard of living will be the first result, hunger the second, and a dispersal or death of a large proportion of our population the third.”
Blenheim Palace, 16 August 1947
“State Management has proved, in every case where it is applied, to be cumbrous, wasteful, and incompetent. Moreover, the wage-earners in all these nationalized industries are rapidly finding out how far more flexible and comprehending compared to the all-powerful, remote and sullen control of the State was the private employer.”
Woodford Green, 10 July 1948
“Rich men, although valuable to the revenue, are not vital to a healthy state of society, but a society in which rich men are got rid of, from motives of jealousy, is not a healthy state.”
Commons, 24 April 1950
“The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage-earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country, who, if they add something to its culture, take much from its strength.”
Royal Society of St. George, London, 24 April 1933
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Stand Up, Chuck!
The top ten reasons why nobody will assassinate Barack Obama, ever:10) "I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. … When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway." --Joe Biden, providing handy tips to protect against the swine flu and freaking us out, "Today Show" interview, April 30, 2009
9) "If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong." --Joe Biden, speaking to members of the House Democratic caucus who were gathered in Williamsburg, Va., for their annual retreat, Feb. 6, 2009
8) "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." –Joe Biden, mistakenly referring to Justice John Paul Stevens, who swore him in as vice president, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009 (Watch video clip)
7) "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." --Joe Biden, Athens, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2008 (Source)
6) "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008 (Watch video clip)
5) "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me." --Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 2008 (Source)
4) "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!" --Joe Biden, at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama after being announced as his running mate, Springfield, Ill., Aug. 23, 2008 (Watch video clip)
3) "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." –Joe Biden, referring to Barack Obama at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Jan. 31, 2007 (Source)
2) "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking." --Joe Biden, in a private remark to an Indian-American man caught on C-SPAN, June, 2006 (Watch video clip)
...and the number one reason? (Drumroll, please.)
1) "Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." –-Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair, Columbia, Missouri, Sept. 12, 2008 (Watch video clip)
Friday, February 5, 2010
What a Difference a Year Makes!
On 20 January 2009, Barack Hussein Obama assumed the Presidency of the United States of America amid a frenzy of adulation unexcelled by Elvis, the Beatles, returning astronauts or Miley Cyrus. His millions of hypnotized followers accepted every word he uttered with an unquestioning, nearly religious enthusiasm (which prompted my dubbing him Priest-King) and those words were transmitted just as enthusiastically by the legacy Left-wing media, especially his blistering attacks on George W. Bush for his handling of the economy, and the facts seemed to support him. When he took office, Barack Obama inherited an economy in recession. Unemployment stood at 7.6% with 2.6 million jobs lost in the previous twelve months. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was growing at an anemic rate of 0.4% for 2008 and worst of all, Mr. Bush's spendthrift policies (embraced by his Republican colleagues in Congress) had nearly doubled the national debt to $10.7 trillion, a nearly incomprehensible figure that refuted the Republicans' traditional claim that they are responsible stewards of the people's money. He would do better, Priest-King promised; he would do whatever it took to put people back to work, reverse the recession and ignite a new wave of prosperity that would lift every American's standard of living, what he called "sustainable growth." This was his promise and his adorers believed him, with a passion.
So, one year later, how high has Priest-King lifted us? To the very stars themselves and beyond? To the clouds? Surely to the snowy summit of Mount Olympus, at the very least? Please let there be proof, let there be boatloads of evidence, facts, figures and data to more than substantiate Priest-King's promises because surely he would not lie:
20 January 2009 unemployment rate: 7.6%
20 January 2010 unemployment rate: 10.0%
20 January 2009 - 20 January 2010 total jobs lost: 3.4 million
20 January 2009 inflation rate: 3.85%
20 January 2010 inflation rate: -0.4%
20 January 2009 GDP rate of growth: 0.4%
20 January 2010 GDP rate of growth: -2.4%
20 January 2009 national debt: $10.7 trillion
20 January 2010 national debt: $12.2 trillion
This...this can't be right. After a solid year of Priest-King's unmatched leadership, unemployment has actually increased? Over three million Americans who were employed on his Inauguration are now looking for work? Inflation and GDP growth are both negative, indicating a contracting economy, not a rocket ship? This is insane! We've passed a $789 billion stimulus package and a $1 trillion bank bailout package (added to the $160 billion stimulus of Spring 2008 and the $700 billion TARP package under President Bush), and Priest-King has requested a 2011 Federal budget of $3.75 trillion. Are we saying that massive spending, massive tax increases and massive deficits hurt the economy? That Priest-King not only failed to stop the recession but actually accelerated it? That would mean that Priest-King is either absurdly incompetent or...or... lying.
...or absurdly incompetent and a liar with an ulterior motive. Barack Hussein Obama couldn't care less about the economy or jobs or recovery or even helping people but he cares intensely about restructuring America into a true socialist state. He cares about transferring huge amounts of wealth from people who earned it to people who didn't, about dismantling the free enterprise system and installing a giant government-run construct that would regulate every facet of human life, about ensuring that his constituents - Big Labor, radical environmentalists, Leftist one-worlders - are sumptuously and permanently supported by the top ten percent of Americans who already pay 65% of all Federal income taxes. To him, the reason why his spending programs haven't yet triggered a recovery is because he hasn't yet spent enough, and so he seeks to spend even more, even faster. Why would he devote so much time and effort to his ridiculous health care reform bill when the economy was bleeding so badly? Because health care reform would get him where he wanted to go: The conversion of the world's oldest and greatest democracy into a feeble soup kitchen, Finland writ large.
But here's the thing: We have all the proof we need. Failure can register just as well as success, and after a year of overwhelming power in the White House, Congress and state legislatures, Barack Obama has failed to deliver. THERE IS NO RECOVERY. Deficit spending, huge taxes, more regulation, government takeovers and printing money have increased unemployment, throttled the economy, intimidated businesses and built a mountain of debt that will crush our great-grandchildren. (The economy grew at a rate of 5.7% during the last quarter of 2009 while the unemployment rate reached 10.2% at its worst, indicating that businesses were shedding jobs and more productive with the workers they still had. If Priest-King wants to claim credit for improving GDP by scaring the hell out of people, let him try.) And I'm not alone in seeing the truth. The American people reacted to Priest-King's imperial takeover through the TEA parties, the angry town hall meetings and the Republican victories in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, and by driving his approval rating from 65% to 50% in a single year. They see what's he's done, they see what he wants to do and they want no part of it. They love their liberty and they're willing to fight for it, hard. What a difference a year makes.
Source: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/02/03/obama-continues-down-road-to-greater-job-loss-less-freedom/
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Vox Populi
It's been a terrible week for the American liberal. First, Martha Coakley blew a thirty-point lead in the polls to lose Ted Kennedy's Senate seat - or as the victor Scott Brown properly called it, the People's seat - to a Republican unknown, giving the GOP the one vote they needed to filibuster President Obama's health care hijacking bill. Next, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that restrictions on corporate political advertising are a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and thus unconstitutional, reversing 35 years of liberal-driven legislation designed to throttle non-union participation in the political process. Last, Air America, the libs' supposed answer to Rush Limbaugh, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection and will air its final broadcast tomorrow the 25th. What's a liberal to do?
Well, for one thing, Priest-King wasn't willing to surrender the political momentum quite yet and spent Thursday lashing out at the banking industry (kneeing the markets in the groin yet again) and repeated himself at a town hall meeting in Ohio on Friday. In his deluded, socialist true-believer mind, the defeats in Massachusetts and the Supreme Court weren't rebukes of his policies but the result of a dark conspiracy between evil Wall Street bankers, die-hard conservatives and "special interests," by which he means special interests who support his opponents, not him. He cannot accept that ordinary people simply disagree with him, that they object to his radical agenda and the candidates he's endorsed, whether in Massachusetts or New Jersey or Virginia. As I have remarked repeatedly in this space, Priest-King sees himself as an epic figure standing above history, law and politics, whose vision is glorious and whose will should be obeyed as holy writ, thus his frustration when that self-image is rejected. His victory in 2008 closed the debate as far as he is concerned so he sees further discussion as not only unnecessary but rebellious. Watching him on television on Thursday, one could see the indignation seething out of him as he lambasted the financial industry, as if the TEA parties, the town hall meetings and the recent conservative electoral victories were insubordination rather than legitimate political expression. Capitalism is evil and must be destroyed, thinks Priest-King, public opinion and Scott Brown be damned.
But the voice of the people must prevail. As the people chose Barack Obama in 2008, they have chosen Scott Brown, Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell now. Instead of corrupt incumbents engineering their re-elections by strangling political speech they can't control, the people can freely support issues through their businesses just as trade unions have been doing for decades. And instead of listening to the hysterical rantings of Leftist hacks on the radio, the people tuned into Rush Limbaugh and left Air America to its fate, a bankrupt failure in the market and as an idea. Vox populi.
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