What have we learned this week?
September 27th, 2010 . by joelWhat a week for Barack Obama and the Democrats? I think they really revealed themselves in a most dastardly fashion.
Obama is revealed; by of all people the liberal pundit, author, and Sunday morning mainstream media favorite Bob Woodward, as demonstrably ambivalent about the Afghanistan War and in fact only cares about how the so-called “good war” will play out politically for him and his runaway agenda.
Even though he campaigned furiously about the importance of winning in Afghanistan, Woodward, who was given free rein to wander the halls of the White House and to talk to anyone without restriction, portrays a president thinking only of himself and his place in history. That campaign tough talk was all a ruse, a fake, a fraud. It was all “so Obama.” Why am I not surprised.
The ramifications of Obama’s dysfunctional coldness and narcissism does not much interest me here because the real issue that every American should feel and care about is how could he order over 100,000 American troops into harm’s way when all he cares about is spending more money on his failed domestic policies? The American’s presently fighting this war are someone’s sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, or fathers and mothers, or loved ones and friends and represent real people who have their own lives to lose. How could he possibly send them to a place where they can easily be killed when he doesn’t give a hoot for the mission to which he clearly falsely claimed was a war that must be won? He lied, he lied, and in a very real and horrible way, people have literally died. Literally. What kind of person does that? How did we let that happen?
But there’s more.
Earlier this week, a former Voting Chief for the Civil Rights Division of the Barack Obama-Eric Holder Justice Department, testified under oath before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, that the DOJ is purposely ignoring civil rights cases that involve white victims. What the fudge is that all about? In fact, Christopher Coates, formerly a top attorney for the ACLU and once the lead attorney in the New Black Panthers Party case, for crying out loud, even called the dismissal of charges against the Black Panthers a “travesty of justice.”
Coates stated that Obama political appointees dismissed the case because they are opposed to enforcing civil rights laws in a racially neutral fashion. Coates testified that he was reprimanded by Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King when he asked attorneys in job interviews if they could enforce the law equally. He claimed King took offense because she does not support equal enforcement of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
To repeat, all of that was testified to by Coates under oath.
That testimony corroborated earlier testimony by J. Christian Adams, also formerly a high level attorney at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, that Obama political appointee Julie Fernandes made it clear that the Voting Section at the Justice Department would not be bringing any more cases against “traditional national racial minorities”, like the members of the New Black Panthers Party.
So the Democrat Party, the party of inequality and blatantly racist preferential treatment, strikes again. It’s clear the DOJ will not enforce the laws which it does not agree with. If that’s not a definition of tyranny, what is? What kinds of people do that? How did we let that happen?
But there’s more.
There does not appear to be a single Democrat running for reelection this year who is embracing the “achievements” of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi legislation of the past 20 months. If anyone knows of a Democrat running toward that agenda, please let me know.
So here are the Democrats, virtually every single one of them, who voted for $862 Billion in stimulus money even though the recession had ended in July 2009, before any stimulus money had even been spent, for Cap & Trade “Soviet-style” industrial central planning, for ObamaCare legislation that could only be passed by deception, coercion and malfeasance, and for takeovers and bailouts, for turning their backs and pretending they had absolutely nothing to do with it. Somehow all of that economic destruction happened all on its own. They don’t know about it, they weren’t anywhere near the Capitol Building when it was passed, it must have been someone else, the dog ate their homework and on and on.
The point is the Democrats in Congress are unprincipled leaches on our civil society. I suppose there are some Republicans that are just as disgusting, but at least virtually none of them had anything to do with the stuff that has generated over $3 Trillion in new debt in just 20 months, forced a record number of Americans onto Medicaid and Food Stamps, generated the most housing foreclosures in history, grew unemployment from 7.5% on January 19, 2009 to 10% today with the unofficial unemployment rate actually at almost 18% and to over 20% in some states, and have taken over the health decisions of every American. No, that’s just the Democrats, they did that, it’s all on them and none of them will take responsibility. How did we let that happen?
And what about the voters? I think there really is something to the old saying that you get the government you deserve. Just look at what’s about to happen in New York State, for example.
They have Andrew Cuomo running for Governor and he is ahead in his race by about 8 points or so. What makes that so difficult to believe is that it was Cuomo, while head of Bill Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development, who instructed banks, under pain of law, to make loans to people who could never afford to pay the loans back. It was Cuomo who decided that welfare payments and unemployment payments must be called income and included in the calculation for the purposes of determining mortgage approval. It was Cuomo who went to Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno to demand actions against banks that did not accept Cuomo’s lending requirements. But New Yorkers are still favoring Cuomo and will likely elect him to Governor of their bankrupt and mismanaged state. Go figure!
And then there’s Kirsten Gillibrand running for Senator and leading her opponent by about 10 points. It was Gillibrand to whom Cuomo turned while he was at HHS to find ways to make it easier for otherwise ineligible people to get mortgages. It was Gillibrand who developed the infamous “no-income” mortgage and infamous “no-proof” mortgage. She was one of the leaders of the policy that lead directly to the mortgage and financial crisis our nation is presently suffering through. But New Yorkers will likely make her a Senator for another 6 years. You can’t make this stuff up.
But wait, let’s not leave out Senator Chuck Schumer, also running for reelection and is leading his opponent by a whopping 23 points or more. It was Schumer, along with Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, who objected to reigning in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and making sure only Democrats like Franklin Raines, Frank Johnson and Jamie Gorelick were allowed to lead these entities and take bonus and salary in the millions. Raines actually took over $90 million in salary and bonuses while Gorelick took over $20 million. But Schumer has a complete lock on reelection bestowed upon him by admiring New Yorkers. That’s bullcrap!
When that kind of constituent thinking permeates the Democrat party you know our country is in mortal danger.
And isn’t that what we’ve learned again this week? That it doesn’t take much to turn our great nation into a near Third World backwater?
These people have got to go. Voters need to wise up.
Regardless of your lifetime political persuasion, this time you need to do something positive for the future of our country. This time you need to do something positive for your family’s future, for your children and grandchildren. This time you need to vote like your very life depends on it.
This year you need to vote Republican.
And that’s all there is to it.