• Barack Obama,  Democrats,  Mitch McConnell

    No GOP Roll Over Beethoven for Democrat/Obama Economic Stimulus Package

    Mitch McConnell November 2008

    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in November 2008 in Washington, DC.

    Looks like “The Idiot of the Highest Order”, Senate GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is finally growing a pair.

    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voiced skepticism today about the emerging economic stimulus plan, applying a brake to Democratic plans to quickly pass up to $850 billion in spending and tax cuts soon after President-elect Barack Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

    “As of right now, Americans are left with more questions than answers about this unprecedented government spending, and I believe the taxpayers deserve to know a lot more about where it will be spent before we consider passing it,” McConnell said in a statement, which will be publicly issued later today.

    No more bailouts until there is a clear outline as to the Obama economic plan and the Congress decides what the hell it is doing besides throwing cheap money at a perceived problem.

    41 votes go a long way, now don’t they?


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  • Igor Panarin,  United States

    The United States to Disintegrate in 2010?

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    Political graphic from the Wall Street Journal

    A Russian Preforessor, Igor Panarin, has predicted the demise of the United States as we now know it.

    For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument — that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. — very seriously. Now he’s found an eager audience: Russian state media.

    “There’s a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur,” he says. “One could rejoice in that process,” he adds, poker-faced. “But if we’re talking reasonably, it’s not the best scenario — for Russia.” Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S.

    Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian control.

    How do you spell Soviet-style disinformation campaign? Please.

    Americans have their disagreements and batter each other in free elections but always resolve their differences for the betterment of the country. The balance of power in government created by the country’s founders assures united government.

    The United States has already weathered a disastrous Civil War because of slavery. Abraham Lincoln’s words at the time ring true today: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

    The United States is going nowhere.

    And, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will continue to see Russia across the sea from her house.


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  • Caroline Kennedy,  Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir December 29, 2008 – Words Matter!

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Caroline Kennedy is an “empty suit” but is she significantly different than many Democrat Senators?

    Not really.

    Flap looks forward to her financial disclosure forms and revelation as to how much of her family fortune came from her grandfather Joseph’s trade in bootlegging, arms smuggling and illegal trade with the Nazis.

    Let’s have some airing of the Kennedy laundry?

    Or is it all water under the bridge?

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    • McCarthy added that it’s also time “for President-elect Obama to start acting on the promises he made to the LGBT community during his campaign so that he doesn’t go down in history as another Bill Clinton, a sweet-talking swindler who would throw us under the bus for the sake of political expediency.” And “for LGBT folks to choose their battles wisely, to judge Obama on the content of his policy-making, not on the character of his ministers.”
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      Not going to happen. Obama, The One is against Gay Marriage – end of story
    • But some of Saltsman's rivals responded more mildly. Former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael S. Steele, one of two black candidates for the job, said Saltsman's "attempt at humor was clearly misplaced," adding that the leadership of the party needs to "be a lot smarter about such things and more appreciative that our actions always speak louder than our words."

      "Our actions and our words are oftentimes used to define who we are as Republicans," Steele said in a statement.

    • After weeks of criticism that she had not opened up to the public or the press, Ms. Kennedy has embarked on a series of interviews. But in an extensive sit-down discussion Saturday morning with The New York Times, she still seemed less like a candidate than an idea of one: forceful but vague, largely undefined and seemingly determined to remain that way.
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      Please please appoint this empty shallow person to the US Senate.
    • While all around him prospective candidates for governor are pulling out checkbooks and fattening up campaign war chests, lame-duck Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gives mixed messages about what he might do next.

      Whatever he does, he says he won't be doing any more acting and he will be pushing environmental causes and clean energy.

      So it's a bit ironic that he has not totally ruled out running for the U.S. Senate seat now held by three-term Democrat Barbara Boxer, the Senate's leading advocate of those very causes
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      Arnold would have to run as an independent because he will not win a GOP primary election. In any case, a three way race for Boxer spells trouble.