Shellings from the Peanut Gallery

There are times when one can no longer remain confined.
It matters not that one agrees or disagrees.
It matters only that the shell that binds be cracked and thrown off.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Systematically Destroying the GOP:
John McCain vs. Ron Paul

How the TEA Party has been co-opted
and is displacing the Conservative base

Part I


There is something very nefarious occurring in our land and no one is seemingly aware of it…or they simply do not care. Perhaps the drumbeat is being drowned out by the cacophony we have been subjected to since President Bush won the South Carolina primary in 2000, effectively ending John McCain’s bid for the presidency at that time. The ongoing and massive campaign to malign, castigate and absolutely destroy President George W. Bush should disturb any citizen who has a concern for his country. Allowing the blatant falsehoods, misrepresentations and abject lies -- not only to stand, but to be cultivated and expounded on -- is simply mind boggling. At least that was the case until this week.

On Friday April 23, 2010 a rather innocuous article from the Wall Street Journal titled; “Miss Me Yet? The Freedom Agenda After George W. Bush,” was posted on freerepublic.com, regarding President Bush’s ongoing work on his “Freedom Agenda” through the newly formed Bush Institute at SMU. Of course, the thread devolved into comments and attacks on the first part of the title -- Miss Me Yet? -- totally ignoring the latter portion.

I followed a poster on the thread at FreeRepublic.com. He was a weird and nasty sort of chap, never giving any sort of sourcing to support his fragmented, inane statements, but continued to reiterate his nonsense with an air of superiority and arrogance not seen in anyone other than Obama. There were of course, those who came on the thread to voice their sentiments in regard to missing President Bush, as well as his on-going mission to assist those seeking freedom throughout the world. Vicious, vitriolic attacks were launched on long time members of FreeRepublic and were tolerated for six days before the eventual banning of said poster.

The above was included as a precursor to the story line indicated in the title.
Fortunately, before he was banned -- or zotted as they say of FR -- he managed to post what I believe is a key to understanding the unprecedented onslaught against a good and courageous man who has more honor and integrity in his little finger than most will ever possess collectively.

What was it the weasel said that finally made my brain engage and connect the dots that have been bouncing around inside my head?

“… I’m opposed to deifying Bush’s record.
The MSM defined him as a “far right conservative”, but he was anything but.
Continued defense of that record provides cover for other soft-socialists in the GOP.
If we want to retake the GOP, that liberalism must be expunged.”

These few lines speak volumes that will surely take time to examine and research, thus Part I in a continuing series to unravel the mysteries of such a vile attack on President Bush, the GOP, America and all who care about our great country.

In dissecting these absurd statements, let me begin by stating unequivocally that no one is attempting to deify the record of President George W. Bush. We are simply undertaking the massive task of providing an honest and legitimate accounting of his presidency. Although the same cannot be said for those vilifying his record with baseless accusations and lobbing gratuitous insults -- not only at the President -- but the whole of his supporters.

In the irony of all ironies, the poster referred to the “Main Street Media” has having defined President Bush as a “far-right conservative” -- which he claims the President was not. I will concede the point…to a degree. President Bush may not have been a “far-right” conservative, but he was most certainly a conservative. That he was not as conservative as some would have preferred, is irrelevant. The problem I have is basing anything on what the alleged “MSM” has to say.

Continuing to play defense to a medium that has lost much of their influence -- not to mention profit margin -- is ludicrous. My contempt is aimed at those who continue this practice as opposed to launching an all-out offensive to restore truth and accountability. The media -- especially the media of today -- have labeled themselves as our enemy by their actions and their faux reporting. They have become the Enemedia…or maybe they always were the enemy and only through the internet, conservative talk show talent, and the plethora of conservative print media that have sprung to life over the past two decades, are we finally waking up to that fact.

To continue appeasing the Enemedia by defending their incongruous charges against President Bush -- in whole or part -- is ridiculous. The GOP and the conservatives who identify with them -- for lack of another outlet -- should take a few pointers from the DemonRats. First…deny, deny, deny…their obscene charges. Second…coalesce around the intended target of the attacks. In this case…President Bush. As an example, think Bill Clinton. Third…demean and ridicule those making the statements.
Finally, follow up with concise irrefutable evidence to defuse the lies of both the Enemedia and those repeating them, regardless of which side of the isle they resent.
Seeking to assist in the destruction of a good man that led with dignity, honor and love of country in one of the worst scenarios in which any President has had to cope, is reprehensible. Doing it to play defensive games with a known enemy, while promoting one’s own agenda makes it all the more deplorable.

There is far more to applaud in President Bush’s record than that for which to castigate him. Most of the charges in relation to his “alleged socialism” can be correctly and easily explained – something I will do in a follow-up article. At the top of the list would be that the President of the United States of America is not a king, a dictator nor a tyrant. Well…at least he wasn’t until January 20, 2009. Most Presidents must work with Congress, whether they are hostile or friendly. To affix all blame on the President is to ignore the 535 people that actually write and promote their signature pieces of legislation and along with themselves -- John McCain being a perfect example of such behavior.

Those that declare President Bush is a liberal socialist and he and his kind must be “expunged” from the GOP if there is any hope of retaking the party, are working on an agenda of their own, with their own “leaders” and time-tables. This agenda and those behind it are who and what must be exposed.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010

COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK

What a profound little paragraph that says it all:

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation."
"You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 ~~~


To illustrate:
An economics professor at a local college made the statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

It could not be any simpler!



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HOW TO STOP THE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER OF AMERICA

STOP referring to the media as mainstream. They are not!
Giving them credibility by courting them as mainstream does nothing to further the cause of freedom and liberty. They have proven time and again they are the enemy, spreading the enemy’s propaganda.
They are the ENEMEDIA!

STOP watching television and most especially the news, aka propaganda. Why would any freedom loving American subject themselves to the misinformation and outright lies that constitute what some call news? Why does anyone want to give ratings to the so-called entertainers, actors, writers, and media moguls that insult you whenever they seize an opportunity to do so? It is a consumer driven market...quit consuming!

STOP using verbiage which confuses the masses.
It is not Marxism. One is not a Marxist.
It is COMMUNISM and one is a COMMUNIST.
The everyday man on the street, along with many educated and extremely intelligent folks, have no idea what Marxism or a Marxist is or what it represents. Some know the name Karl Marx, but few have a clue exactly why they know his name.

STOP allowing the enemies of America to define us and our actions.

STOP using oxy-morons such as “Pro-Life Democrat” -- there is no such thing as we so painfully learned on Black Sunday, 3-21-10.

STOP with the cutesy, civility and respect for those who are working non-stop to destroy our way of life and our nation. Respect is an earned honor, not to be given freely or demanded. I don’t care who they are -- so-called elected representatives, powerful organizations, your neighbors and friends, millionaires, Hollywood nuts, the pooooor, or the average communist on the street -- stop befriending, supporting and associating with them.

And most of all --

STOP calling the islamo-fascist, foreign-born, illegal, illegitimate, unconstitutional communist bastard currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the president. He is not!

I fully support “calling those things that are not as though they are” in the Biblical sense, but when it comes to calling enemies friends, or politicians respectable, the fringe elements and propagandists mainstream, a tyrannical usurper the president, we have gone way too far with the courtesies.

Unless and until We the People reclaim our language and our culture, as a nation we will fall. We need to consistantly and tirelessly be on the offense and quit playing defense. If someone calls you a rascist, laugh at them and walk away shaking your head as in disbelief. If one of the communists attempts to engage you in conversation, simply say; "I don't talk to commies" and walk away.



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Suddenly it is All About the Constitution

Having just finished reading my e-mails and my favorite conservative news sites, I must say I am more disgusted than ever…and that’s pretty daggone disgusted. So it is best that I come here to vent my anger and frustration than on someone else’s site where I could be attacked or booted off. No one comes here to read, so it is my safe place.

Frankly, the screaming about trampling, trashing, shredding, burning, and walking all over the Constitution has grown quite old and quite tiresome.

Every group -- from the Christian organizations, to the values groups, to the liberty and/or patriot dot coms, to the tax gangs, to those claiming to represent my rights, to all the so-called conservative groups, and those crazy libertarians, along with many of the new media organizations -- are up in arms and telling me I must fight.

Yes, I simply MUST call, fax, write and harass my congress critters and yours as well.
Why? Because they are trampling, trashing, shredding, burning, and walking all over the Constitution, that’s why. And if I could send a few bucks to help them fight the new atrocity of the day that would be swell.

Don’t get me wrong -- I completely agree that the Constitution has suffered all the adjectives they care to throw out into cyber-space to sensationalize their claims. In fact, I have contributed to many of them in the past. So what’s my problem?

Where the hell have they been for the past two years?!?!

Where were they in April of 2008 when John McCain was being subjected to cavity searches in order to prove he was a natural born citizen -- eligible to serve as President of the United States of America? Anyone that knows me realizes I loathe McCain. No, I really despise the puke. He falls third on my detestable meter -- directly under Obama/Soetoro and John Kerry. But I digress.

Why was McCain subjected to a Congressional interrogation and issued a Senate resolution declaring him a natural born citizen, but NOT ONE QUESTION was asked of the one person running for president who stated in his own autobiography, or whatever he called it, that he was a British subject at birth. WHY?!?!

As the drumbeat continued to get stronger and louder throughout the summer -- until August 2008 when the first lawsuit was filed questioning Obama/Soetoro’s constitutional eligibility to serve as president -- WHY were these groups not sending vast numbers of e-mails and snail mail urging us all to demand proof of his eligibility? Why were there no demands that the Senate…or the House…or the DNC…or the Secretaries of State certify this unknown apparition?

WHY???

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Monday, April 19, 2010

PRESIDENT George W. Bush hosts visit by Jordan's King Abdullah II

Alan Peppard
12:00 AM CDT on Monday, April 19, 2010

Last week's Dallas visit by Jordan's King Abdullah IIwas relatively subdued as visits by reigning monarchs go. (Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah set the high water mark a few years ago by renting the entire Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek and installing his own bidet.)

The Jordanian ruler was in town to visit with George W. Bush and, according to the Jordanian Times, he met with Bush family consigliere (and former secretary of state) Jim Baker to discuss attracting foreign investment to Jordan.

His Majesty was traveling without his wife, the beautiful and glamorous Queen Rania. On Thursday, he checked into the Four Seasons Hotel & Resort in Irving, accompanied only by a security detail.

But that evening, when he headed into Dallas, a 40-officer police escort joined him.

Dallas was part of a U.S. trip for the king that included last week's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., followed by a visit to Chicago and then on to Texas.

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Well, one can certainly understand why the King would want to visit with our President Bush after being subjected to the low class, ridiculous circus in D.C.
Hope the President and the King had a good visit.
Thank you for reporting on our wonderful President. He has certainly been busy lately.





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What He's Doing Now
- Kathryn Jean Lopez -
The Corner on National Review Online

Pictured from left to right are Ernesto Hernández Busto (Cuba); Oscar Morales Guevara (Colombia), Visiting Fellow, George W. Bush Institute; President George W. Bush; Mohsen Sazegara (Iran), Visiting Fellow, George W. Bush Institute, and Ahed Al Hendi (Syria).
Photo Courtesy of the George W. Bush Institute


James K. Glassman, Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, issued a statement today prior to start of the Institute’s Conference on Cyber Dissidents: Global Successes and Challenges. The conference is being held in conjunction with the human rights organization Freedom House, on the campus of Southern Methodist University.
“Today’s conference launches the George W. Bush Institute’s initiatives in human freedom. It features several dissidents from around the world who are using tools made possible by Internet technology in their important work of advancing democracy and freedom. Dissidents are participating from such nations as Venezuela and China, and dissidents in exile elsewhere in the world from such nations as Cuba, Syria, and Iran. This is a historic event. We believe it is unprecedented for freedom advocates of such talent and courage, from so many nations, to gather in one place to discuss the use of new technology. At few times in history, has work like theirs been more important. But is it being fully appreciated? It is here in Dallas.”


Once again the President, President George W. Bush, is a world leader encouraging and helping those who seek freedom and advancing democracy in far reaching corners of the world. God bless you President Bush. I miss you so very much!

Read the rest of the article at the link.



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Sunday, April 18, 2010

The Court and Congress Expected the Other to Resolve the
Obama Eligibility Question

"A Place to Ask Questions to Get the Right Answers" blog has an interesting analysis on the April 15, 2010 testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the issue of the composition of the United States Supreme Court by Justice Clarence Thomas.

An excerpt from Mario Apuzzo, Esq. analysis:
Rep. Serrano did not like Justice Thomas blaming Congress for the mishandling of the matter so he shoots back at Justice Thomas by telling him the Court failed to answer the Obama eligibility question when it should have but now is answering the question of whether someone who is not born in the United States can sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. From this comment we can conclude that Congress did not believe that it was its job to answer the question of whether Obama is eligible to be President and expected the judicial branch of government to answer that question.

Frankly, I'm not sure I agree with Mr. Apuzzo's analysis. All that can be gained from my perspective would be that we will have a school yard type volly of "it's your fault" ... "no it's not, it's your fault" until the usurping poe currently soiling the People's House continues to dismantle the USA and make enemies of the rest of the world.

During the 2008 campaign when the first lawsuits began to be filed in August, all one could hear over the din was how the Constitution does not disqualify anyone from RUNNING for POTUS, but only from SERVING as POTUS. We were told he must first win the election before there would be standing to file a lawsuit.

When he was proclaimed the winner of the election in November we were told the election had not been certified by the electors, therefore he had not officially been declared POTUS, thus the “president-elect” title was used for the following 2.5 months. Consequently, there were no valid reasons to object to his election.

Electors met in December to select the president and vice president. The electors sign, seal and certify packages of electoral votes and immediately send one set of votes to the President of the Senate. However, we were told unless and until the electoral votes are certified by a joint session of CONgre$$ there is no official winner of the election.

In January electoral votes are counted and tabulated before a joint session of both houses of CONgre$$, after which it is officially declared who has been elected President and Vice President of the United States of America. It is here that objections may be raised by members. Out of 435 criminals, not one SINator nor one (non-)representative had the … ummm … ahhh … errr…GUTS to object or question the eligibility of the poe. Consequently, on January 8, 2009 the poe and his side-kick were “officially” declared elected. But…but…but…he hasn’t actually been sworn in yet, so it is not official and he is not yet SERVING as potus became the battle cry for the next delay.

Then on January 14th, obama/biden paid a visit to the supreme court. Considering there were cases in the pipeline challenging obama’s constitutional eligibility to SERVE as president, this little “visit” remains highly suspect, IMHO, and our fate was sealed.

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January 20, 2009 the biggest fraud in the history of the world was perpetrated not only on the USA, but the world.
SO -- now the illegal, ineligible poe is the SERVING potus. Many lawsuits have been filed only to now be told they have no standing.

What the hell does that mean? No standing? I am an American citizen -- a natural born American citizen -- as well as a taxpayer. Why do I not have standing? How is it that ONE person has standing to get prayer removed from schools? ONE person has standing to all but abolish Christmas in our schools and public forums? ONE person has standing to challenge “In God We Trust” on our currency or “One nation under God” in our pledge of allegiance, but NO ONE seems to have standing to challenge the constitutionality of an unconstitutional, illegal, ineligible person residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C.?

And we sit here and bitch and regurgitate ad nauseam all the information we have had for two years while the poe systematically destroys the USA and every ally we have ever had, while bowing and scraping at the feet of our enemies.

I think I’ll just go back to bed and cover up my head. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll awake to a sane world once again.


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Thursday, April 08, 2010

DO NOT SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED!

February 25, 1996

A Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity:
Employment and Survival in Urban America

Guess WHO was one of the panelists at this meeting sponsored by the University of Chicago Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section, Chicago Democratic Socialists of America?

ACORN Political Action Committee Endorses Obama

From his own mouth on his own website:
When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said,
"I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That's what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”


May 29, 2008
Inside Obama’s Acorn by Stanley Kurtz
Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America.
This is a story we’ve largely missed. While Obama’s Acorn connection has not gone entirely unreported, its depth, extent, and significance have been poorly understood. Typically, media background pieces note that, on behalf of Acorn, Obama and a team of Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal “motor-voter” bill. In fact, Obama’s Acorn connection is far more extensive.


What Mr. Kurtz fails to reveal in this piece is another lawsuit Obama, along with a team of attorneys, sued and won another case on behalf of ACORN. This time it was against Citibank and ?????

In reading this article we learned about:
ACORN's Anti-Capitalism Agenda --
Acorn’s radical agenda sometimes shifts toward “undisguised authoritarian socialism.” Fully aware of its living-wage campaign’s tendency to drive businesses out of cities, Acorn hopes to force companies that want to move to obtain “exit visas.” “How much longer before Acorn calls for exit visas for wealthy or middle-class individuals before they can leave a city?


ACORN's "In Your Face" tactics:
Hmmmm, where have we heard those words before? Oh yeah...
I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
Obama, September 17, 2008

ACORN's “Non-Partisan” Facade and the highly taunted “Project VOTE” organizing in 1992 by Obama in direct partnership with ACORN.

Foundation Money -- and how sitting on the boards of the Joyce Foundation and and the Wood's Fund emabled him to direct "tens of millions of dollars in grants” to various liberal organizations, including Chicago Acorn.

Radical Obama ... the larger point is that Obama’s ties to Acorn — arguably the most politically radical large-scale activist group in the country — are wide, deep, and longstanding.

Overall, the article is a brief, but enlightening, overview of the radical Obama.

5/30/2008
OBAMA’S RADICAL POLITICAL ALLIANCES
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2008/05/30/obamas-radical-political-alliances/

June 2, 2008
Barack Obama sought the New Party’s endorsement knowing it was a radical left organization
http://www.erickerickson.org/blog/?p=4975
Onward to the Socialist Utopia
The New Party was designed as a loose confederation of unions, socialists, communists, and black activists who shared common values, but often had different goals. According to John Nichols, its party platform included:
full employment
a shorter work week
a guaranteed minimum income for all adults and a universal “social wage”
full public financing of elections with universal voter registration
“the democratization of banking and financial systems”, which included public control and regulation of banking
a more progressive tax system
reductions in military spending and an end to unilateral military interventions.
[Looks to me like they are well on their way to accomplishing their goals]

June 03, 2008
Obama's Alliance with Marxists [aka COMMUNISTS]
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/obamas_alliance_with_marxists.html

October 7, 2008
Obama is Hiding a Radical Past!
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/07/obama-is-hiding-a-radical-past/
Conclusion
Barack Obama has a long-term and sustained relationship with the Chicago DSA, an affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America, and with the Chicago New Party. He participated in multiple membership meetings and in DSA-sponsored events, repeatedly sought their endorsement….. [Might want to read the entire article]

10/10/08
Obama and the Chicago New Party
http://www.redcounty.com/sarasota/2008/10/obama-and-the-chicago-new-part/
A pic of Obama after his IL state senate win with other commies at this link ^
This article also contains a link to the Chicago Democratic Socialists update discussing the Chicago New Party and Obama. Here is the direct link:
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html#anchor792932

NEW PARTY (NP) Background on the NP found at this site:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434
Marxist political coalition
Was active from 1992-1998
Endorsed Barack Obama for Illinois state senate seat in 1996

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Was the Bush TARP Program a Mistake?

by Gregory Hilton
March 28, 2010

Gregory Hilton posted another great article on the TARP Program almost exposing the truth behind the action. It is imperative the American people learn what really happened in September 2008 ... and hopefully one day the culprits that caused the near collapse of the US economy will be exposed and prosecuted.

Many Republicans who supported the Bush Administration’s Toxic Assets Recovery Program (TARP) are now encountering GOP primary problems. Some of these GOP voters are lumping TARP into the same category as the Obama stimulus (which was opposed by every Republican), the $3.6 trillion budget, the costs associated with health care reform and the use of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to subsidize irresponsible lending. Some of these voters do not realize that there was a major difference in how TARP was administered by the Bush and Obama administrations.

Some of “these voters” are being deliberately ignorant of the major differences, not only in the administration of the TARP funds, but of the administrators themselves. Once it became fashionable to belong to the BDS Club of America, many so-called conservatives and republicans simply cannot give up their favorite past time -- bashing President George W. Bush and placing him in the same category as the communist Obama/Soetoro.

The voters have already inflicted punishment on TARP backers. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) was called “Kay Bailout” by her primary opponent, and was defeated in her attempt to win the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination. TARP is also a major issue in the primary battles confronting Sen. John McCain (AZ) and Bob Bennett (UT).
Hutchison may have been called “Kay Bailout”, but there are many other grievances against her besides her TARP vote. The gutting of the The Secure Fence Act and her love of the illegal alien invasion come to mind.
Rep. Gresham Barrett (SC) is feeling the heat in his gubernatorial primary, and was booed of a stage because of his TARP support. Many Republicans supported TARP which was proposed by the Bush Administration. In 2008 it was endorsed by McCain and then Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) said supporting TARP was difficult for any Republican but it was the “correct and courageous” thing to do.

Romney went on to say:

"I hate the way TARP was administered, but I can tell you that we were on a precipice unlike anything we have known before in modern history with the potential of a complete collapse of our currency system and our financial system. Had we not taken action, you could have seen a real devastation. . . TARP prevented a systemic collapse of the national financial system. . . It was intended to prevent a run on virtually every bank and financial institution in the country."

“I hate the way TARP was administered” -- is this the new way of showing non-support of one’s support? For years so-called republicans and conservatives gave us a daily rant of “we support the WOT, just not the way it was fought.” It got old then with that issue and the non-support support has run its course. Enough all ready. President Bush is gone -- no need to continue smearing him.
And PLEASE…DO NOT think McCain is being opposed strictly for his endorsement of TARP. His vote and support of TARP is the least on a long list of offences against the republicans, conservatives and the American people!

Nicole Gelinas of the free-market Manhattan Institute noted: “We were never going to escape this debacle without pumping massive amounts of taxpayer money into the financial system.”
The first $350 billion TARP installment was spent by Bush and the second $350 billion installment went to the Obama Administration. TARP passed the Senate on October 1, 2008 on a 74 to 25 vote, and the House approved it on October 3 by a 263 to 171 vote.
TARP was supported by 34 Senate and 91 House Republicans, but public opinion was always strongly against TARP. TARP was designed to address the subprime mortgage crisis, and it was enacted during a year of tremendous upheaval on Wall Street
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The only real problem I see with TARP was leaving $350 billion to what would become the Obama administration. If President Bush only needed $350 billion to stop the bleed, that is all that should have been appropriated. The next administration should have had to request additional funds if necessary. Of course, Obama did not care about stopping the drain, and is in fact doing everything in his power to undo the good that was done via the TARP funds.
This difficult year included the sale of investment banks Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, the failure of Lehman Brothers and the government rescue of the American International Group, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. None of this halted the panic on Wall Street.
TARP was a capital investment in the financial system to prevent a huge collapse. It was essential to save the financial markets because they have an enormous impact on pensions, savings, investments and mortgages. In the fall of 2008 many experts said the worldwide banking system would collapse within days without TARP.
Mr. Hilton, you really should not have left out the September 11, 2008 run on our banks via a $5.5 Billion draw down of mutual funds within 1 hour. Granted that tidbit of information did not become public until February 2009, but it still amazes me how no one will talk about it.

After Lehman Brothers failed in mid-September of 2008, all commercial credit in the United States came to a halt. With the credit markets frozen there was tremendous volatility in the stock market. Bush was told by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, that a failure to act decisively could plunge our nation into another Great Depression.
They said without a massive government intervention, America faced a total financial collapse because of lost confidence in the banking system. Bush said, “I readily concede I chucked aside some of my free-market principles when I was told by my chief economic advisers that the situation we were facing could be worse than the Great Depression.”

Here again the $5.5 Billion draw down had a massive impact on our financial stability. Rep. Paul Kanjorski also said:
“The Treasury opened up its window to help and pumped a105-billion into the system, and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts, and announce a guarantee of $250k per account so there wouldn’t be further panic out there, and that’s what actually happened. If they had not done that, their estimation was that by 2:00 that afternoon, $5.5 TRILLION would’ve been drawn out of the Money Market system of the US, would’ve collapsed the entire economy of the US and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.”

This information made public by Rep. Paul Kanjorski in 2-09 was probably known by most, if not all, members of congress at the time and very well may have been the basis of the statements you cite below.

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) spoke for many of the GOP TARP supporters in September of 2008 by saying “We’re on the cusp of a complete catastrophic credit meltdown. There is no liquidity in the market. We are out of time. Either you believe that fact, or you don’t. I do.”
Former Sen. John Sununu (NH) is one of the two Republican members of the TARP oversight panel. He says the program “did help to stabilize financial markets during the critical period of November and December in 2008.”
Republican primary voters are now attacking lawmakers in their own party for supporting a program that A) was created at the behest of a Republican President and B) was central to saving America from a serious depression.
The infusion of $350 billion by the Bush Administration was the best way to slow the nation’s slide to the financial edge.
The program worked and the Republicans should be glad it did.

Couldn't agree with you more, Mr. Hilton. However, the spineless republicans continue to bow down to the the dictates of the enemedia, which insists President Bush was the worst president ever and they should do everything in their power to distance themselves from him. Consequently, they claim they were lied to or at minimum misinformed. They think the American people are as stupid as they are!



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So You Say You Want a Revolution?

So You Say You Want a Revolution?



American Thinker posted this article by Matt Patterson on March 30th.
It is a good article with very good ideas, but there are a few points I would like to make. I make them here, as I no longer "join" any internet forum. Most so-called conservative forums have gone squishy when we needed them most and I don't have the time or patience for that nonsense any longer. We need to stand up and fight NOW, or we will lose the right to do so.

From the article ...
How are the people to react to the erosion of liberty that is the Obama health care regime? To be sure, lawyers will challenge it in the courts, and November is right around the corner, giving opportunity to punish those traitorous politicians who acquiesced to the debasement of our Constitution.

This is all to the good. But we cannot count on lawyers and politicians. God help us if we do. We the people in our righteous anger must take matters into our own hands: It is time for a strike.


1. The erosion of liberty by the Obama regime began long before the diabolical Death Care bill was passed. Less than 30 days into this current regime the gigantic Porkulus bill, aka Stimulus II, was passed. If anyone is paying attention, there have been outrages on a daily basis since January 20, 2009.

2. Yes, lawyers will challenge the Death Care bill in the courts -- if they are given standing. Again, anyone paying attention know what I mean by that.

3. The real laugher is the idea that the elections in November give us an opportunity to do anything other than waste our time going to the polls. When there is video tape of militant Black Panther members intimidating and turning away voters, yet there are no charges filed … ooops there were charges filed, only to be dropped by the new administration. There are many more vote fraud stories to be told over the past 10 years that I am aware of, but I digress.

4. How anyone can refer to the debasement of our Constitution in this day and age is amazing. There is a fraud currently residing in the People’s House that rendered the Constitution null and void on January 20, 2009. Where were all these people when that “debasement” took place? Where have they been every day since? Silent, that’s where!

5. No, we absolutely cannot trust lawyers or politicians. If we could there would have been one member of the US House of Representatives and one member of the US Senate with the gonads to question the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, PRIOR to the certification of the electoral college.

6. While a nationwide strike by the productive class is a good idea, I believe the American people are ignorant of what is truly happening in our country, or they are quite simply, just stupid and/or lazy. Another choice would be the segment of the population who are part of the problem -- the socialists/communists/fascists -- who consider it perfectly acceptable for them to sit on their asses and be cared for by others who fork over their hard earned wage at the point of the federal gun to care for others in the name of "social justice".


... it may be our only recourse should elections and lawsuits fail us.


HELLO!?!? Elections and lawsuits failed us throughout 2008 and 2009! What are we waiting for? The time has come to stop talking and begin action to stop this national nightmare!


Yes, abslutely, strike on April 15, 2010! If you have the wherewithal to get to Washington, DC, by all means do so and attend the ...

National Tax Day Tea Party
Thursday APRIL 15, 2010
The Washington Monument from 7pm to 10pm.



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[President] Bush’s $350 Billion TARP
is About to Break Even

by Gregory Hilton
March 27, 2010

The Obama administration announced today that over the next year it will begin to sell the government’s 7.7 billion shares in Citigroup. The Citigroup shares are one of the last remaining legacies from Bush administration’s first installment of the Toxic Assets Recovery Program (TARP). The sale means the Bush outlay of $350 billion in TARP funds will break even, or result in a profit.

All of the major financial institutions which received funds from the Bush administration have been able to meet the requirements established by the Treasury Department. Over 80% of these funds have now been repaid with five percent interest, and the government earned $19 billion. All six of the biggest U.S. credit-card issuers have also returned their bailout money, and these initial TARP funds were repaid about a year after their distribution.

Citigroup was one of the hardest hit banks and they received $45 billion in bailout money, more than any other financial institution. The Treasury paid $3.25 a share for its stake in the bank during the 2008 credit crisis. The good news for the taxpayers is that the shares have increased steadily in value, and the government will receive a hefty profit of between $8 and $10 billion.

The remaining major question mark from the Bush TARP funds is the insurance giant AIG, which has been rapidly selling its assets. The taxpayers could still lose $12 to $20 billion on their AIG investment. If that does happen, it will be subtracted from the $29 billion in profits which were received from Bush’s TARP.

Once again, the bottom line is that Bush’s TARP will break even or will result in a small profit. This is a far different outlook than what was predicted during the final months of the 2008 campaign.



I would personally like to thank Gregory Hilton for the articles in regard to TARP. There was so much misinformation and blatant lies about TARP and the necessity for the funds, it is good to see someone attempting to set the record straight.



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Cesar Chavez Day

Presidential Proclamation - Cesar Chavez Day

A PROCLAMATION



The rights and benefits working Americans enjoy today were not easily gained; they had to be won. It took generations of courageous men and women, fighting to secure decent working conditions, organizing to demand fair pay, and sometimes risking their lives. Some, like Cesar Estrada Chavez, made it the cause of their lives. Today, on what would have been his 83rd birthday, we celebrate Cesar's legacy and the progress achieved by all who stood alongside him.

Raised by a family of migrant farm workers, Cesar Chavez spent his youth moving across the American Southwest, working in fields and vineyards, and experiencing firsthand the hardships he would later crusade to abolish. At the time, farm workers were deeply impoverished and frequently exploited, exposed to very hazardous working conditions, and often denied clean drinking water, toilets, and other basic necessities. The union Cesar later founded with Dolores Huerta, the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), still addresses these issues today.

After serving in the United States Navy, Cesar Chavez became a community organizer and began his lifelong campaign for civil rights and social justice. Applying the principles of nonviolence, he empowered countless laborers, building a movement that grew into the UFW. He led workers in marches, strikes, and boycotts, focusing our Nation's attention on their plight and using the power of picket lines to win union contracts.

"The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being, but it is also the most true to our nature," Cesar Chavez once said. Since our Nation's earliest days of independence, we have struggled to perfect the ideals of equal justice and opportunity enshrined in our founding documents. As Cesar suggests, justice may be true to our nature, but as history teaches us, it will not prevail unless we defend its cause.

Few Americans have led this charge so tirelessly, and for so many, as Cesar Chavez. To this day, his rallying cry -- "Sí, se puede," or "Yes, we can," -- inspires hope and a spirit of possibility in people around the world. His movement strengthened our country, and his vision lives on in the organizers and social entrepreneurs who still empower their neighbors to improve their communities.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2010, as Cesar Chavez Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate service, community, and education programs to honor Cesar Chavez's enduring legacy.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.


BARACK OBAMA

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There simply are NO WORDS to express the disdain I hold toward this fraud who has inserted himself into the highest office in the land. His utter contempt for the United States of America, the American people and the foundation on which we were formed is stunning, to say the least.



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