It is truly amazing how far we have come in terms of leadership in this country. With this oil spill now going on 50+ days its interesting to compare how our two most recent presidents have handled crisis. While Obama wanders aimlessly around the gulf looking for someone’s ass to kick in his own backyard George W. Bush was kicking the Taliban’s ass up one side of Afghanistan and down the other within 50 days of September 11, 2001.
Obama runs around looking for a BP executive to lynch and while there is certainly enough blame to go around, including officials within the Department of the Interior, that’s not fixing the problem. Where has all this government regulation landed us? Our tax dollars are funding departments like the Interior and we still get oil washing up on beaches? This isn’t supposed to happen with all the government oversight, this isn’t supposed to happen while Obama is president. He cares, remember? These things are supposed to magically go away I thought.
Smelling blood in the water Mitt Romney goes around telling the media we need a leader not a politician. We couldn’t agree more, but we also need a leader and not an ambulance chasing opportunist like Romney.
So first of all I will state and Conservative Matters isn’t advocating, condoning, or inciting violence by anyone or any group.
So the headline on Drudge read “DEMS FEAR VIOLENT BACKLASH”. Really? They weren’t fearing the backlash when they thought it would be contained to the ballot box… Why, because they’ve stolen enough elections in the last 100 years that they have insulated themselves fairly well. They have career cronies now running nearly every federal department. Even when the voters wise up for a couple of years and vote them out of power the opposition never gets very far because the socialists run the government not the people…
But now things are changing, the people (or at least a vocal group of them) are standing up to the socialists in power and going with what may truly be the last patriotic stand in America. From here forward the path will be set, we’ll either be on an ever faster path to full blown communism culminating in very violent revolution somewhere down the road. Or we’ll listen to few patriots and begin to take back our government.
Liberals, Socialists, Communists, Democrats, only fear one thing and that is losing power. Losing power is no longer defined as who controls congress or the white house. They’ve seen that happen and have succeeded in losing that only temporarily. Their true power is in the courts that they control, the education system that they control, the media they control, the various government agencies that they control. These people secure socialism everyday.
The extreme far left leadership in congress and at the white house have only fear now. They believed that they were doing what the people wanted in spite of the fact that every poll was against them. Now they’ve rammed something down the throats of the people and they expect the people to just take it like they have for 80 years and just accept one more incremental step towards complete government control. The people seem to be standing up this time, only time will tell if they have the strength to stand up to the rest of this agenda.
For those of you that consider yourselves moderate Obama voters, for those of you that didn’t vote in 2008 because you didn’t like either candidate, and of those of you that now are part of the majority in most every poll that “disapprove” of Obama’s handling of the country, this is what you wanted. You are as much to blame, accessory’s, co-conspirators, etc. You are at least partially to blame for this mess, with your inability to make educated, rational decisions you have allowed the federal government to become one of the top five employers in the US. You have allowed the federal government to thwart the constitution at every turn.
We can only hope that many of you who have created this mess feel some of the pain perpetrated by those you have selected so that you may be educated and learn from this experience so that you not don’t make the same mistake again but help educate others to not make the same mistakes. In the mean time we’ll pray that there are still a few people strong enough to hold back the tides of socialism a little longer, but there are cracks in that dam and water is beginning to seep through….
It’s interesting to see the contrast between former President George W Bush and President Barrack Obama in the way that they handle crisis. After September 11, 2001 Bush squarely lays the blame at the feet of the terrorists who carried out the attack along with some blamed reserved for the bureaucracy of government.
President Obama lays the blame for this UNSUCCESSFUL terrorist attack not on the terrorists and counties that aided them. No he lays the blame on the intelligence community, the very people who are not allowed to defend themselves. He takes no blame himself, he pins no blame on the bureaucrats he has leading those intelligence agencies.
President Obama is proving constantly what conservatives knew before he was elected. He, and the Democratic Party, are only interested in power and are more concerned in bestowing rights on terrorists than protecting the American People.
How many brave American’s will die at the hands of a ruthless enemy because of poor leadership from America’s political leaders? How long will they fight an enemy abroad so that enemy can be treated as a common criminal Americas courts? How many tax payer dollars will be spent on lawyers, housing, trials, etc? How long, assuming these terrorists are convicted, will these terrorists be alive exhausting all their appeals in America’s judicial system? How many brave Americans will die abroad during the trial?
How many Americans will be beholden to the establishment running Washington because they collect a check from the government? How many of these Americans will have the wherewithal to vote against the people handing them money they didn’t work for? How many millions must we spend in the largest expansion of government power ever in the history of our nation? How many duplicate government agencies will we continue to fund?
How many people will transition from private employers to government employment? How many will quit working altogether with the belief that government will support them? How long is the road to socialism, are we there yet, will we know when we get there? How long before they run out of other peoples money? How many leaders, elected or otherwise, will stand up against the socialist tide?
How long until people of courage take back our government? Who will be the Jefferson, Adams, and Washington of the next revolution? Who in congress will put country before party? How long until the other 50% of the electorate see the similarities between our current leaders and Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler, and Hugo Chavez?
How many will die needlessly? How long will revolution take? Who will lead us from the perils of socialism?
If not you, who? If not now, when?
The title of President of the United States has long been referred to as the most powerful man in the world. This was largely based on the persons role as Commander in Chief of the most powerful military in the world and the fact that this person holds the keys to the deadliest nuclear arsenal ever conceived by man.
In ten short months though it is apparent that Obama is bent on consolidating his political power. He maintains an enemies list that dwarfs the one that drove Nixon from office. He appoints Czars that seem to have unchecked power over all aspects of the private sector. His pay Czar is asserting that he has the power to force private businesses to pay their employees what ever he thinks is “fair”. His minions at the FCC propose to take over control of the internet.
It is clear that Obama strives to control his population in ways that even Hugo Chavez would envy. When will we have a media Czar? He already controls 90% of the media, he has al but declared war on FoxNews. How long before he decides that FoxNews is “threat” to his security and orders them shut down?
How long before he decides what phones you can have, how long before he orders phone companies to remove access to websites that he thinks are against his message, he already has a rubber stamp congress that is telling car makers what cars they can build and sell. He already owns two of the three car companies in the US.
There is no industry that he doesn’t seek to regulate. The price of oil is headed back up again, when it reaches $150 a barrel again next spring we’ll be treated to the obligatory stories about how obscene the oil companies profits are and probably have an energy Czar to determine what is an acceptable level of profit for oil companies as well as the pay for oil company executives.
There will always be certain segments of the population who think that just because it doesn’t affect them it’s ok to regulate it. Sooner or later it affects everyone.
A poll by Rasmussen paints an interesting picture. It paints a picture that Huckabee is leading the horserace to be the GOP nominee in 2012 against Obama. I find this interesting simply because Huckabee is the most like John McCain. Seems like the media is already trying to secure a weak field for Obama in 2012.
Rasmussen’s poll shows Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at 18% behind Huckabee and Romney who really shouldn’t bother running again. Yet Palin draws thousands everywhere she goes and Huckabee has a hard time drawing a crowd at the county fair. Huckabee draws support from the moderate middle of the road republicans that secured a win for Obama by giving the nomination to McCain in 2008. I doubt that will hold as conservatives will be out in force and the only potential candidate that has shown core conservative beliefs so far is Sarah Palin.
She brings a no nonsense get it done mentality to politics that people identify with. She doesn’t speak like a lawyer like Romney, she doesn’t come off as a kook like Huckabee. She is the only reason that McCain didn’t lose every state except Arizona, and without her he might not have carried that one.
So when the pollsters ask about who should be the GOP nominee they really should be asking who is best prepared to take back America from the grips of socialism, who is best to take back our country from state run media that is rooted in communism? From what I see that clearly is Sarah Palin, she has that unique ability to bring common sense and plain spoken values that people connect with. She doesn’t come off as just reading from talking points like Romney does. She talks to people, talks with people, not at people like they are subjects. She is a great communicator something that we haven’t seen in thirty years.
The media has been working hard to ignore Sarah Palin for the last several months, they are deathly afraid of her as they know she has the ability to beat Obama and that the usual liberal playbook of labeling her a racist won’t have much effect. We don’t need 2007-2008 all over again where we have a field of over ten candidates with only one conservative among them and he gets bounced out after South Carolina. We need get behind Sarah early, we need to make certain that we don’t dilute the voting with more candidates than should really be there.
I have seen some speculation that Rush Limbaugh could sue for libel and defamation but that’s really not Rush’s style. Sure he could and he would have an uphill battle but it could be done. There are however a couple of other options that would be more interesting…
Rush could get angry and put together his own investment group to counter Mr. Checketts bid. Rush has the contacts with enough people who would be able to put together a bid for any NFL team out of petty cash. He could put together a bid to blow any other completely out of the water and then really force the hand of the NFL. Would the NFL really turn down a high bid for a team because it included someone who the NFL deems politically incorrect? Rush could be the majority owner and outright run the team and be the face of the St. Louis Rams. Yes Jerry Jones’ ego would have to take a back seat but that’s probably a good thing.
The NFL has long overlooked and forgiven law breakers, animal abusers, wife beaters, drug problems, etc. The NFL doesn’t have a problem with that but they won’t allow a minority owner who makes his living in a completely legal way, who dares to speak the truth about the racism that exists in sports media.
Rush could also take the high road and use this experience to drive him to push even harder on the 2010 elections to remove some of the mindless idiots from Congress that are part of the problem, and the 2012 elections to remove Obama from office.
The fact remains that Rush is still the most powerful man in media and can affect elections, maybe it would have been better for Obama if Rush was busy as an NFL owner and less focused on defeating Obama and his mind numb robots running congress…
For eight years former President George W. Bush and his administration worked hard at trying to keep terrorists out of our country. Oh what a difference ten months makes, we go from a strategy of killing terrorists around the world to promoting terrorists (in Honduras) and willfully bringing them into the country. The Democrats in Congress claim that people are more worried about the economy and healthcare. Really, are there truly that many Americans willing to trade security for an improved economy and healthcare?
I guess so, after all that’s what the majority has voted for. I am certain that these terrorists will be tried in New York, Chicago, San Francisco. Places where they are certain to receive a “fair” trial by impartial, yet highly liberal, anti war judges and juries. All so in the end they can parade these poor terrorists in front of the cameras so they can tell how Bush falsely imprisoned them for all those years. After which they will return to Pakistan to resume planning the next attack on America.
At the rate we’re going the terrorists might actually have a chance. They’ve weakened America to the point where we not only let them back into the country but we spend tax payer dollars to fly them here. This is the same 1990’s thinking that led to the attacks on 9/11.
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
– GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
After 233 years haven’t we as a society reached a point where can end discrimination? Why must people be segregated based on race, religion, social status, or politics? The new head of the NFL Players Association seeks to bar a private citizen from investing his money in an NFL team for what reason? Simply because this citizen dared to exercise his first amendment right of free speech and pointed out the hypocrisy of the sports media in America and their hype of a quarterback in Philadelphia simply because of his race.
So Rush Limbaugh was asked to participate in a perspective ownership group looking to buy the St. Louis Rams. He’s a private citizen; he has made his money legally. Rush has no ties to gambling or other entities that are barred by the NFL unlike other owners whose family businesses include gambling. St. Louis gets a part owner with ties to the area, someone that has done more for the sport than most of the people in it. That’s not enough apparently, today to be an owner you have to be liberal. You have to promote the socialist policies of a President and a Congress that seeks the destruction of everything the country was founded upon.
Rush had made a comment on ESPN back in 2003 referencing the quarterback in Philadelphia that the medias interest in this quarterback was because they wanted to see a black quarterback succeed. The statement wasn’t racist, in fact it Rush was pointing out the racism by the sports media. They are overtly racist, were then, are now. That hasn’t changed. In the years since we were treated to glowing stories about Tony Dungy being the first black coach to win Super Bowl. We weren’t treated to the stories of how wonderful a coach Tony Dungy was and the masterful a job he did at not only building the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization that went on to win a Super Bowl the year after he was shown the door, but the job he did in rebuilding the Indianapolis Colts into a Super Bowl Championship team a couple of years later. The focus was only about his race and not his skill and that is a shame.
Who did Tony Dungy owe his success to, his own hard work, his players, his staff, the ownership group that supported him, the fans. Not just those who happen to be black.
Rush has been successful in an entirely different field. Does he owe his success only to himself, only to the white members of his hard working staff, only to his white listeners? No Rush owes his success to his hard work, his hard working staff of all races and genders, and his listeners, millions of listeners who are White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc.
I have heard Tony Dungy speak about success, and race is never part of that but the media doesn’t hear that they only look at his race. I have heard Rush Limbaugh speak about success, race isn’t part of that either and again the media doesn’t hear. The media has been in the business of speaking so long that they have grown tone deaf to what the people actually think and believe.
Much like our government.
