Democrats Desert the Sinking Ship of Tax And Spend… At Least, the Ones Getting Voted Out.

The candidate was outraged – just outraged – at the country’s sorry fiscal state.

“We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet,” he fumed to a roomful of voters. “In my view, we have nothing to show for it.”

And that was a Democrat, Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who voted “yes” on the stimulus, the health-care overhaul, increased education funding and other costly bills Congress approved under his party’s control.

Faced with a potential wipeout in November’s midterm elections, candidates such as Bennet are embracing budget cuts with the enthusiasm of Reagan Republicans.

So says an article in the New York Times owned  Washington Shaft… errr.. sorry, the Washington Post.

One thing that the article never suggests however, is the culpability of these selfsame Democrats for getting us into this position in the first place.  That it was in fact liberal policies of tax and spend that got us into this mess.  Indeed, the article then goes on to suggest that cutting taxes is not the way to go. in essence, The Post defends the policies of tax and spend. given their Liberal innings of the past, they should surprise absolutely nobody:

Some Democrats are looking to the debate over taxes to show voters they are serious about their conversion to fiscal restraint. President George W. Bush’s tax cuts, enacted in 2001 and 2003, are scheduled to expire this year. President Obama has called for extending the cuts for all but the wealthiest taxpayers, with the additional $700 billion in revenue going to deficit reduction.

Republicans support a permanent extension of the tax cuts. The National Republican Senatorial Committee begins its daily digest of campaign news with a countdown to Dec. 31, the day “the Democrats slam voters with the largest tax hike in American history.”

But extending all the cuts would increase the deficit by $3.9 trillion over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

That figure by the CBO and does not take into account the increased revenue that occurs during economic growth.  Supply side works.  Reagan proved that .  The WaPo will never admit it, nor will Democrats… but I repeat myself.

It also assumes that revenue as a percentage basis will remain constant during periods of high taxation.  Of course, you wouldn’t expect to see the Washington Post admit anything of the sort.  After all, one  might actually get the idea that cutting taxes cutting spending and getting government out of the business of damn near everything is the only actual solution to the problem.

It’s time for the Democrats to admit that they and their policies are the proximate cause of our current problem. Yes, I know it’ll never happen.

Of course, recent polling suggests that this is something that the American voting public has already determined, which is precisely why the Democrats are scrambling to get off this sinking ship at least in terms of being identified with the policies they voted for and supported… policies which are thye direct cause of our current dilemma.

I suggest that for all but a paltry few of American voters this Democrat  feint toward “austerity”  budgets, won’t change any minds about voting Democrats out in November, and for that matter in November of 2012.  Democrats are busy saying what they think Americans want to hear, but the fact that they haven’t admitted their culpability in getting us in this position with their policies, should be a clue that they’re going to latest right back down the same path once the current emergency has passed.  No, I’m not talking about the fiscal emergency passing, I’m talking about an emergency of far greater importance to Democrats; the next couple of elections . The American people know full well  assuming Democrats are not removed from power,  that as soon as the election’s over the talk of austerity budgets will cease and we will see more of the same.  Tax and spend, tax and spend. Or more recently, Obama’s plan of spend then tax.

What economic recovery?

Billy Beck as usual nails it:

“It is time to pop the tea baggers’ favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever. I am not offering the cash myself, but I will broker the deal and/or raise the money for what you bring to the table. (And it better be good.)”

The Freedomist records the proposition by Beau Friedlander which was taken down by The Huffington Post.

Billy Beck

This is a descent at which some will be appalled and bored, at once, in their understanding of the straight-up Soviet dimension of it.  It bears a special sort of knowing leer; the elbow-in-the-ribs bet on universal human depravity that will save us all if only we just sink to it.

Of course, it wouldn’t do to simply offer to have him killed, which would be most un-civilized, and nevermind about all that “remove from the public eye forever” jazz: get your mind out of those concrete overshoes.  No.  It would suffice to have the witch burned metaphorically, because sneers have been the fuel of the revolution for longer than almost anyone remembers now.

I repost the whole thing first because it does not excerpt cleanly. That’s due as much to Beck’s density of language as it is my outright laziness.
I do it secondly because I’m taken with the idea that the sneers, as Billy puts it, the derision, is certainly a tool of the Socialist, and have been since the days of Stalin. Billy’s right. Now of course, I should make reference to Rule number 5 of Saul Alinsky’s 1971 Rules for Radicals

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”

That aside, however, the real reason for all of this is the refusal on the part of the left to actually enter the debate with the man.. or anyone from the right. Morons such as Friedlander are invariably more snarky than intelligent and their arguments, both written and spoken tend that way. Vacuous in the extreme, such people consider it more advantageous to their cause to play like Glenn Beck is somehow beneath discussion.

Talk about role reversal.

Thing is, as the rally in Washington showed, people are starting to pay attention to our nation’s founding principles again. That, it would seem is the left’s biggest fear…

Michelle Malkin, in reax to “The Speech”

Barack Obama, 2002:

What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.

That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

Barack Obama, 2010:

In a radio interview with CBS News, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said President Obama will emphasize that “We are putting the Iraqis in control of their history and their future. They’ll have responsibility for security and responsibility for providing for the citizens of that country. That is a milestone worth barking.”

Just hours before the president speaks from the Oval Office, Gibbs said the speech would emphasize “the milestone of the end of our combat mission,” and said Mr. Obama will say, “The story of the Iraqis will be written by the Iraqis.”

…While Iraq has seen political turmoil for months, Gibbs insists the caretaker government is stable. He predicts “in very short order” the Iraqis will have a government in place. The spokesman said the president will tell Iraqis, “with our help as allies, you will be able to chart your future and your course as you determine.”

Gibbs also had a terse response to Republicans challenging the president to give credit to the troop surge ordered by former President George. W. Bush — a move opposed by then-Senator Obama.

Gibbs acknowledged that “the surge improved security conditions in Iraq.” But, he added, “I think the only question that matters for them (Republicans) today — we can look back in history, but the question that matters today is, where are you on bringing more than 90,000 troops out of Iraq right now? Do you support the president’s timeline for ending our combat operation in Iraq? That’s the question I’d like to hear answered by those Republicans.”

President Obama will also call George W. Bush today for what Gibbs describes as an “appropriate time” to thank him for his “love of country as we end the combat mission.”

Michelle Malkin

No word on whether Obama will apologize for his past political hackery and cynical attacks on those in the Bush administration who supported the troop surge that made his speech tonight possible.

You know better than to expect that, don’t you Michelle?

It seems yesterday that I suggested a Bill Clinton trait was to oppose something until the thing gets beyond your control to oppose, then get out in front of it like it was all your idea. Looks like this is a trait Obama shares.

From Politico:

Democrats thought things couldn’t get much worse on the electoral front — and then they went home to campaign.

A new Gallup poll released Monday shows Republicans with a record 10-point edge over Democrats on the “generic ballot” test — the question of whether voters prefer a Democratic or Republican congressional candidate. It’s the largest GOP polling edge at this stage in the 68 years of the generic ballot poll.

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One reason so many people doubt Dumbo, a/k/a Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama is a Christian is that he does not act like a Christian,   From Glenn Thrush, Politico:

[NBC News Brian] Williams, sitting under a tent in a rain-soaked New Orleans, where the First Family commemorated the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, asked Obama why so many people were uncertain about something so fundamental as his faith.

“I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” quipped Obama, who took a deep breath to gather his thoughts when asked if the poll reflected his inability to communicate with voters

When questioned about faith, what would Jesus do?   Christian convince skeptics by displaying Christian virtues.   When questioned about his faith, Dumbo acts like well an infidel.   As I understand Christian faith, if Dumbo accepts Jesus Christ as his savior,  he needs no others blessing.

Something on the order of a million people show up to a rally on the national mall , a large number of which are the minorities which the Democrats try so desperately, and so falsely to claim they represent.

As Doug Powers writing over The at Michelle Malken’s blog, says:

The challenge: to trivialize this in order to dismiss it as irrelevant:

The first method of trivializing it, of course, is minimizing the number of people who actually showed up.  Most mainstream news accounts had the numbers in the thousands.  A look at that picture will suggest otherwise.  The fact is, that something on the order of a million people showed up.  That’s a fact that you’ll never see the left admit to in a million years.

Another claim that you’ll see floated is that there weren’t many minorities there.  apparently we are to believe that the whole thing was set up by a couple of thousand angry racists.  Anyone who saw the event on C-Span or the well over 100,000 who watched on the Facebook links Saturday knows damned well that’s not true, either. They probably didn’t notice that Alveda King spoke as well as a whole string of black leaders.  FWIW, I fully anticipate that the C-Span coverage will be available for some time on their website, though admittedly I haven’t even looked yet.

Doug goes on on several levels to point out that the Democrats have failed miserably to trivialize it, and make it go away.  The article he posts is worth a read.

Others will try to trivialize the events on Saturday by suggesting the whole thing was political in nature.  Again, anyone who actually watched the event will say otherwise.  Certainly, the event has political ramifications, but it was not overtly political of itself.  If you’re going to consider the event on Saturday to be overtly political, perhaps your objection is that the speakers and the attendees unanimously suggest that your politics are without honor.  I can understand how that would make some folks uncomfortable.

The left is now in full retreat.  They are confused, and angry.  They are in trouble, and they know it.  Every poll, every public event, every public discussion, all say the same thing.  The left is toast.  They are trying to minimize that trouble by minimizing the overall effect of those banding together to reestablish America as such… such asd the rally on Saturday.   Frankly, even they know it’s not going to work.  It’s going to take a few days for them to start screaming in unison, but until that time, it’s the differences in their commentaries and in their finger pointing which will be most revealing.

In the New Paltz Journal:

Bob Tyrrell wraps up the case against this flagrantly obscene move on Ground Zero in Manhattan:

There is nothing irrational or bigoted about thinking that a mosque does not belong at Ground Zero or at the Pentagon or on the Pennsylvania countryside where United Flight 93 crashed.  Americans traditionally raise on such sites monuments to freedom, to courage, to the sacrifices of those lost. Now the Ruling Class wants to place a mosque at the site of September 11. It is the only time I can recall the Ruling Class ever being in favor of placing a religious manifestation anywhere. Yet in favoring this mosque, the Ruling Class does put itself squarely in opposition to the Country Class, so it does have a logic to it.

Note that Tyrrell has adopted some of the terms (Ruling Class and Country Class) from Angelo Codevilla’s recent assessment of the approaching Dark, America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution, which is a prolonged but important read.

As for the mosque in downtown Manhattan, it will win no favor for Muslims, not an iota. I consider this a grace period, while there is still opportunity to cancel the construction. But the moment that the first wrecking ball hits the building that is currently there with the intent of taking it down to build the mosque, not another dime of mine will go to a Muslim-owned business anywhere.

I suspect this is absolutely correct.  And that is as it should be.
I have largely been holding back on the topic of this mosque, other than to suggest that allowing it to go up is the wrong move.  The constitutional rights involving Muslims or anybody else being able to correct any building they see fit on any piece of property they own is beyond question. But that it is a bad idea in the extreme at least from the standpoint of Americanism, is also beyond question.  This is Cultural exploitation and expansionism on a level which should not be tolerated by our society.

Constitutional rights however only involve government, and restrictions on its reaction to the actions of individuals or groups of Americans.  I suggest there is no clear-cut way for government per se’ to deal with such issues. Nor, I think should there be.  I suppose the subject of zoning ordinances will come up, but frankly , I’m with Billy on this point, it strikes me as anti-freedom.

The proper reaction to such things, is as New Paltz  suggests. I have been saying for the last decade and longer, where are all that good Muslims?  Let’s see some of them stand up and say this monstrosity is exactly that a monstrosity and a bad very bad idea.  Barring that, they don’t deserve any trust in our society.  I’m not suggesting governmental action  at all…. I’m suggesting that they be shunned at a societal level.

I think most people would be surprised how effective that treatment can be.

Hey, Billy:

Glenn Reynolds:

“Personally, I believe that ‘fairness’ consists in the fruits of my labor not being taken by corrupt hacks to redistribute to their cronies in exchange for votes.”

Oh, yeah?

Well, dear professor, let me only point out that ‘fairness’ consists in the fruits of my labor not being taken. <=fullstop

Get it?

Oh, I suspect he does.  That’s probably why he put “fairness” in quotes in the first place.  He seems to me to be suggesting that anybody who would take the fruits of his labor for redistribution purposes is a hack.  Frankly I agree with that assessment and I can’t see your disagreeing with it either.  I have my disagreements with Reynolds as well, but I have to say this isn’t one of them. 

Nothing too shocking here, really.

(Reuters) – The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

The Democratic comptroller’s spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack.

“If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we’d certainly consider it,” Sieber told Reuters.

Spokesmen for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and the Islamic center and were not immediately available.

If some Christian group, or some Jewish group, were to apply for the same funding scheme, we would see a number of people screaming about the separation of “church and state”.  Apparently, that doesn’t apply to “mosque and state”.

Two people were injured when two fuel tanks exploded and a truck caught fire at Monroe County’s alternative fuel station.

Around 12:50 p.m. Thursday, a fuel tank was being exchanged for another at the green fuel plant on Scottsville Road. A spark ignited both tanks and the truck.

61-year-old Robert Scruggs of Geneva, Ohio, was burned on his hands and face and was taken to the hospital.  He is listed in satisfactory condition.  A 20-year-old woman working at the Burger King across the street suffered ear injuries from the loud blast.

(Details and Vid)

Now granted, these are government workers and government as we all know will screw up anything it touches. Thing is, these people are supposedly the experts and how to handle this stuff.  Does it strike anybody has he been close to reasonable that Bob and Brenda Citizen  are going to be able to do a better job ?  Is there even a small chance that we’re not going to see incidents like this a cross the country should our direction beat word hydrogen and away from gasoline?

More than granted , there have been incidents with gasoline.  But my guess is the list of such incidents won’t even come close to what surrounds what is being touted

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Some accumulated notes

• The more I drive the more I’m firmly convinced most people shouldn’t.
• The first point includes, I’m afraid, the police.  I have observed on several occasions now, a cop winding up their full sized car to 30  and 40 mph over the limit. Sometimes, they’re actually in pursuit of someone driving 10mph over the limit… a speed most people drive at anyway. Can someone explain to me who it is these morons are protecting us from?
• Data plans (mobile internet) are great so long as you have coverage and you aren’t actually mobile. Therein lies an explanation to those watching this place closely.
• Noted in Buffalo: The Amigone funeral home. Also noted in Suburban Kenmore: Bury and Roberts funeral home. I spent 30 years thinking… mostly from some sour personal experience surrounding the place… that the people there were a humorless lot. On the other hand, any group of people who can consistently re-elect slime like Chuckles Schumer must have some kind of humor about them. Or at least, they’re funny.
• Driving for a living gives you lots of time to think and to formulate ideas, but very little in the ways of capturing such thought. If I could do that I suppose and expect this blog would write itself. The aforementioned connectivity issues don’t help much either.
• When you’re out here, you hear things.  There is a lot more anger against Obama and his administration than there ever was at Bill Clinton, bad as he was. The discussions you hear in truck stops, businesses and on the CB while on the road all tend to bear this out.  Certainly,  I will grant that truck drivers as a rule are an independent type of persona and so will lean that way anyway. But one must assume that the reason for this added anger is that Obama is Clinton on steroids, both in terms of his liberalism and his corruption.
• Are liberalism and corruption the same thing? I think and argument can be made for that and some weekend I’m going to explore that with an article.  For now, it strikes me that liberalism by its nature, demands the corruption of the original purposes of government… purposes I have explored here many times.
• The numbers of people who like myself are driving truck instead of doing the job they’d been trained for and doing for decades,  most of them making the transition following the most recent election is flat out amazing….  People who are forced to work for far less just to keep their heads above water… and some of them still aren’t making it. And some that are now making it  are going to find themselves out of work when the new CSA 2010 comes into effect. I suppose the fact that Obama policies have led to the demise of their former professions is cause for a lot of the anger I’m hearing.
• The old trucking hands are for the most part a pure joy to encounter. When I explain I’m still pretty green they’re always willing to help,and to make you feel one of the group. In my travels I’ve met quite a few. A few of them remind me of my uncle who drove for many many years, and didn’t pull the pin till he was well into his 70’s. With the changes in the industry and the effects of time on us all, I fear that the old hands are a dying breed. When they’re gone, we will have lost something very special.

The Obama White continues it  inane push to convince the gullible that Dumbo,  a/k/a Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama is a Christian, from Eleison Group:

Washington, DC (August 25, 2010)—Over 70 prominent Christian leaders and denominational heads from across the ideological spectrum joined together today to call for a stop to the misrepresentation of President Obama’s Christian faith.  In an open letter, these Christian leaders called on the media, public officials, and their fellow Christians to stand with them in opposing those who continue to insinuate that the President is a Muslim, not a Christian.

This is one dumb push back.   If Obama were in fact a Christian, it would show, and the American people would see it their own eyes.   No paid parade of clerics is going to convince anybody that a person who displays no outward indication of being a Christian, is one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7957664/Computers-that-read-minds-are-being-developed-by-Intel.html

From the article:
Unlike current brain-controlled computers, which require users to imagine making physical movements to control a cursor on a screen, the new technology will be capable of directly interpreting words as they are thought.

Intel’s scientists are creating detailed maps of the activity in the brain for individual words which can then be matched against the brain activity of someone using the computer, allowing the machine to determine the word they are thinking.