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Obama Makes Government Take A Quick Left Turn

Well I knew that Obama was going to do things that will not be good for our country,  our businesses,  our faith,  and the unborn.    It still is jarring though.   We no longer have a president that supports the right to life.   Scary. 

Even though most foreign countries oppose abortion even more then we do,  Obama reversed the Mexico City Policy.    U.S. taxpayers will now once again be forced to  fund abortions abroad.      He waited until 7:00 pm last Friday evening to lower press coverage of the order to help cover his tracks.   Shameful,   how he knows how unpopular that policy will be, that he does it late on a weekend.  

Today he will help continue bankrupting the auto industry by piling on more regulations.    He will force auto makers to make more fuel efficient before they are ready to do so and before consumers want them.    It will lead to fewer cars that people want,  so sales will not rise.   It will lead to another generation of lousy cars (remember those horrid cars of the late 1970's early 1980's) that will make people lose more confidence in American cars.  

I was hoping that reality would slow or give Obama pause on doing things like the things above. I was hoping that moderation would win out,  with Obama knowing that many people who did vote for him, don't want these kinds of changes.  I was dead wrong.   "I won" was the answer to the criticism of his policy changes so far. 

If the first week is any indication  he will do his best to pull the country left at all costs. 

Its going to be a long four (or eight) years. 



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Counting to the seconds that remain until Obama leaves office.   (provided we aren't that dumb and reelect him)

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Pelosi Just Doesn't Get It: Misses the Point Bill Young Is Making In Proposing Reopening Alcatraz For Gitmo Detainees

Pelosi just doesn't get what Bill Young and other Republicans are making with the proposal to reopen Alcatraz for holding Gitmo detainees.     Closing Gitmo is as as unrealistic  an idea as it is to reopen Alcatraz.     She and other Democrats are totally missing the point.  

Most Americans oppose closing Gitmo.   Our leaders are missing it totally.   Bringing the Islamic terrorists and placing them in American prisons will only bring more problems to our already out of control prisons.   It could lead to further radicalizing inside our prisons.   A very bad idea.  

We knew Obama wanted to close Gitmo.   It still is the wrong decision,  unfortunately one of many we are going to be seeing over the next four years. 



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Most Mindnumbing Weird Obama Article Yet!

If the Obama coverage wasn't weird enough already,  you have got to see this!



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If You Have Been Wondering What Else Has Been Going On In The World Lately

Due to the wall to wall 24/7  coverage of Obama,  other things have been going on in the world and nobody noticed.   You may have known that Israel has left Gaza once again.  However you probably haven't known of the "peace" (as in pro-Hamas) protests that have turned into riots in a number of cities around the world. 

Read about it here

Liberals always talk about becoming more aware of world events and problems.   However they are so into this Obama thing,  they missed out on a story that will become one of Obama's big problems.   Figures!


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New York Governor: Kennedy Had No Chance For New York Senate Seat

Wow, Busy Day.   Well it looks like the real reason for Caroline Kennedy withdrawal   from getting Clintons New York Senate seat is out.   The New York Post has the story.    She has Tax,  Nanny and Marriage Problems.   I guess I shouldn't be surprised.   Its the usual liberal political problem. 


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Meanwhile on the National Mall: Annual Pro-Life March Receives Little to No Network News Coverage (Or Much Coverage at All)

Yes, its time for the annual March for Life on the National Mall.    Sure wouldn't know it from the "mainstream media"  would ya!

In a article in the Washington Times notes just that.   Pro Life marchers lose attention.   I don't know when they had it,  except for some brief negative pieces and hit jobs  here and there.    It just shows how out of touch with reality that the press has gotten into.  

A "conservative" based story (not that abortion is just that)  is only worth of a brief article  in the Washington Times and a short piece on Fox News website.   Right to Life Movement Rallied by Freedom of Choice Legislation.   

Compare with the wall to wall,  24/7 Obama coverage.   Even my local paper (which had endorsed McCain) had nearly the entire world and national news sections completely Obama.    If anything else happened you sure wouldn't know about it. 

How about the 58 million of us that voted for the other guy?  Or how about the vast majority of Americans who are pro-life.   The Life March is the largest protest on the Mall every year.   You would never know it,  if there wasn't other news choices. 

We are in need of new news organizations.    The mainstream "media"  is unredeemable.



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Washington Post: The Trash Was Historic, Too

I guess I am not surprised to see a article like this.   The Trash Was Historic, Too.    The Park Service is cleaning up the National Mall after the Obamafest (formerly known as the inauguration).    There is way more trash then they probably were  expecting.   130 tons as of the writing of the article with more to be collected. 
 

Quoted from the Washington Post:  "More than any Fourth of July, more than          any event we've seen," Park Service spokesman William Line said. 

The Post noted that "The detritus included handwarmer packets, bottles, food, newspapers, blankets, gloves, coolers and a table or two, in addition to items bought from street vendors."

Also Quoted by the Post "They left behind Obama hats, Obama bags, Obama socks," said Mafara Hobson, spokeswoman for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D). "People left behind a lot of trash. A lot of it was the vendors along the parade route, too."

"There was so much trash left behind. Piles and piles," Nancee Lyons, a Department of Public Works spokeswoman. "When all those people were there, you didn't realize how bad it was. But once they left, we saw the work ahead."
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Sigh,  the hypocrisy of the liberals know no bounds.    After proclaiming the Obama Inauguration the most green ever,  it merely turned the National Mall into a landfill.  The crowd had no respect for anything,  either the departing President Bush (they booed him) and they trashed the Mall with Obama junk. 

The huge cost to the taxpayer of the Obama presidency has begun!



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Thank You President Bush

I wish to express my thanks to President George Bush for a job well done. 

I know that many are glad to see you go,  and you had to put up with a lot of nonsense and stupidity  during the eight years.    It seemed like a thankless job at times,  with a lot of high and lows.    I hope you enjoyed the highs and the fun parts of the job. 

History will see you much better then you are seen now.   The people who have slandered you will be forgotten in time.   You were the right person to be President on September 11, 2001.    We didn't need to worry about where you stood.   

I hope you enjoy your retirement from public life.   You may not believe it now, that many will miss you being President.    We live in a amazing nation where we don't need to worry about the transfer of power and you will likely very happy to be heading home today anyway.

I know you will probably not see this but this is to show that many think you were a fine president and a good man.     Peace to you and Laura. 
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An Inconvenient Poll: People Aren't Causing Global Warming

Today Rasmussen Reports release its latest poll.   The poll shows that a majority of Americans don't believe people are causing global warming.    Although no surprise to this blogger,  many in the liberal community will try their best to bury this report. 

At least they allowed people to note "weather"  or not that they believe that global warming  even exists.     27% of Republican voters,  4% of Democrats,  19% of unaffiliated,  say that global warming isn't even a problem.    Most of the time with polls like this there is no option to chose if you aren't a true believer,  which in my opinion  makes for a one-sided, nonsensical  and inaccurate poll.   

Global Warming is the snake oil of science of our time.   We will make fun of those duped (more then we already do)  by the likes of Al Gore.   The only thing that worries me about "global warming" is what they will try to make us do.    Hopefully we will come to our senses before we destroy our economy.   

See also Josh Painters post on this poll.   A short and fun read.


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The Bush Years In Review Part 1

I will not be reporting on the Obama media-love in  for the next couple of days,  since I am sure you are as sick of it as am I.   I want to barf if I see yet another smiling picture and positive feel good story of the anointed one.   I don't know what is more annoying:   the negative Bush hit pieces vs the over the top positive Obama ones.   Hopefully only four years!!!  Hopefully only four years!!!  Hopefully only four years!!!


Well,  there will be lots of stories about the Bush legacy for the next couple of days.   It will not be noticed much with all the Obama hype,  but thats OK since most of the "mainstream" media will only note the negative.   

There is plenty to be disappointed about of course,  but my disappointments will be different from the ones said by the nit-wit fourth estate.    They take plenty of the blame for Bush's failures. 

Namely the failure of Social Security Reform.   We had the best chance at real reform and ownership of our retirements in decades.     But opposition from the enlightened  media and the  Demorat clowns in congress doomed it.    So it will have to go bankrupt and many will never get to retire someday due only to morons in government.   

The incredible amounts of money wasted by the government in the eight years.  Especially now with the recession going on. Granted the next two to four years will dwarf the last eight.  But you would have thought Democrats were running Congress the whole eight years not just the last two.    President Bush should have used the veto far more often.   For petes sake he only used it once in his first term!   He signed everything!

But for his disappointments,  a spine-less Gore would have been far worse.     It's harder to be a Republican president.   The elite,  the media and hollywood hate you,  granted that not many people but they sure are loud, annoying deadbeats that are hard to ignore.    You have to clean up all the messes left behind by Democrats, and undo all the nonsense that they set up.   And thats has to be done before you can do anything you want.  

The biggest successes of the Bush years!   Beating back Islamic terror.    Setting Iraq free from Saddam.   Showing the world we have spines.    Tax cuts (which will unfortunately will expire).    Rebuilding the military.    part 2 to come!    
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Why the Property Tax Cap Must Stand in Gary Indiana

The elected governmental officals of Gary, Indiana are crying poor.  They claim that basic services like public safety are threatened.    Why is that happening now, you may ask?

The state of Indiana has recently instituted property tax caps.   It is a significant reform that nobody really seems to understand.    It was in order to prevent large increases in property taxes from happening.   This is the way all taxes should be.  It protects taxpayers from government intent on spending too much of the taxpayers money. 

The caps are lower then almost every communities current spending.   So cuts are in order.   Most towns are coping by cutting back in some area.   But Gary has other ideas.     it has appealed to the distressed area board to raise the cap in Gary.    It proposes to raise the property tax on the few businesses left in Gary. 

Gary is the poster child of a failed urban area.   The rest of Indiana's economy is far better then the surrounding states like Illinois,  Ohio and Michigan.   Except for Gary.   It has a intrenched Democrat city government (also unlike the rest of mostly Republican Indiana).    Plenty of reform is needed in Gary.    It isn't going to come from the current leadership.   

The current mayor doesn't seem to get the idea that he needs to cut the budget.  The city just leased a new HUMMER for the mayor to drive.   The city has a official full time photographer!    They just don't get it!  Or they don't want to.  

To top it off,  they go to the few businesses that have stuck it out in Gary with their hands out for MORE!    What business would even consider locating in Gary with leadership like that.   Businesses  are not governments piggy bank.    The tax cap finally placed Gary on a level tax rate of property taxes (they are currently higher then all the other Lake county towns) with the rest of the county ,  but they want to put them back up high.     There is no reason anyone would want to pay more for Gary, it has nothing to offer that would warrant a higher cost.   If anything it should be lower to attract new business to the city. 

What is so hard to understand about basic economics?   

If the state lets Gary out of the cap,  what good is it?   Cities like Gary are the reason tax caps are needed by the taxpayer.    When city leadership refuses to live within its means,  what other option does the taxpayer have?   There is plenty to cut before getting to important things like fire and police.    Its the city government that is holding the city hostage.  It cannot move forward,  its been stuck in a rut for almost forty years now.   Gary will never improve if the current leadership continues to not use common sense and not think outside the usual Democrat way of mismanaging a city. 

I call on the state to make the tax caps stay in place (not that its there yet),  forcing Gary to do the right thing and spend less.     Why can't Gary live with basic city services like the rest of the county?    Its time to give the taxpayers and business a break for once.   It is not a easy place to live and work,  don't let the city leadership continue to ruin the future of the city.

Tax caps could help Gary more then anything tried for long time.   But only if the politicians are made to go along with it.


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Tom Hanks: Open Mouth, Insert Foot

Today's "winner" of Open Mouth, Insert Foot is Tom Hanks.   I do like many of Tom's movies and enjoy his acting.   Unfortunately he is as biased against religious people like far too many in Hollyweird.  

His statement is as ignorant as it is telling about how one can be so insulated from the majority of Real America.  He believes that he is in the majority when he opens his mouth politically.    Although many of his movies place him in a role of an mainstream American,   he is not personally. 

Far too many Hollyweird Actors and Actresses express themselves politically,   but their politics are so much the same in their isolation from reality.    Don't get me wrong, they have every right to talk politics,  but I wish they would think  and get more information before they talk.  

Its clear that Prop-8 is supported by the majority even in liberal California.   Many of the same people who voted for Obama also supported Prop-8.    Many liberals now hope the courts will once again go against the will of the people and remove Prop-8.   Hanks calling Mormons un-American is uncalled for and should be condemned.   Singling out one group out of many that supported prop. 8 is especially  ignorant and biased. 

Religious rights are slowly eroding in this country.     Statements like Tom Hanks only increase the bias against those with religious faith (not just Mormons).   Hollyweird actors often think they are on the forefront of  civil rights issues but they are not in this case.   Gay rights are not a civil rights issue.   They are a small special interest group looking to have more rights then the rest of us.   They have fooled many in Hollyweird and the liberal community. 

Hollyweird actors and actresses should consider more about what they say and get more information before they speak out.   I think twice about going to movies with people that I disagree with.   I don't want my money going to support issues I don't support.    Most movies seem relatively uninfected financially by those in them,  but that may not continue forever.   They should remember that.

 -Side issue- The witch hunt against people in the arts that supported  prop.8 is also very cruel.   Taking their jobs is blacklisting pure and simple.   I thought that actors were against blacklisting!!!    If anything Tom Hanks should be calling for those peoples jobs to be restored.   Losing your job because of your beliefs is more un-American.

Prop 8 Supporters Say They’re Being Harassed; Challenge Campaign Finance Rules

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I Was Wondering

I was wondering the first time Obama was noted on my blog here at Townhall.   It was Thursday, October 19, 2006.   The other person noted in that post is Marvin Scott,  a conservative African-American  politician here in Indiana.  He ran against Evan Bayh for the Senate seat that Bayh is still in.   Scott has fallen off the face of the planet politicly.    Barrack Obama and Marvin Scott.    One is now going to be president,  the other one you never heard off.   Pity

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Change We Can Believe In: How Will History Think of This Statement?

I think this overused statement from the Obama campaign will someday haunt the Obama presidency.    Republicans already ridicule  this really grandiose sounding statement.   It is also kind of a scary group think to say,  like Obama is far more then a man and the presidency, almost god like.    It is really ridiculous to think that Obama will bring any meaningful change, or even change we even want.

Will this statement haunt Obama someday like the first President Bush's statement "Read my lips, no new taxes".    I think it will.

History will think little of this statement and the Obama Presidency.    It will become a joke on late night TV.   Jay Leno will get a lot of mileage out of this one.   Jimmy Carters presidency started out with plenty of promises that couldn't be fulfilled. We know how well that worked out for him.  Will Obama's be the same?

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