Even the slavish Dana Milbank disses Mr. Obama

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Sanely Insane

The President traveled at our expense to Cleveland, or, if you remember when Dennis “the Menace” Kucinich was mayor, “The Mistake on the Lake,” to deliver a “major” address on our economy, being what it is.

The contrast at the Washington Post office of the “state run media” between the objective “journalists,” Karen Tumulty and Amy Gardner (We Love Barry) and the paid unobjective opinionator, the insufferable Dana Milbank (Milbank balks) screams for medical intervention!

The girls breathlessly report that, “The president’s 54-minute speech here, which at times had the ring of a State of the Union address, represented an effort to regain his footing and reframe his argument for reelection after two weeks of dismal economic and political news.” ‘Two weeks!?”  No ladies, three and a half years!

Milbank, who is not paid to be objective, an adjective that befuddles WaPo “reporters” hit his head with the nail.  Milbank writes that he “had high hopes for President Obama’s speech on the economy. But . . . the president gave Americans a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy.” (Emphasis added.) Ouch!

He added, “The falsehood is that he has been serious about cutting government spending. The fallacy is that this election will be some sort of referendum that will break the logjam in Washington.”

It is one more sad day in modern “journalism” when “reporters” wave the Pom Pons, auditioning to replace the demoralized “Obama Girl” whose crush has ebbed, and the opinionizers analyze accurately even though not paid to be truthful . . . as Milbank most often shows.

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Barry Obama, Choom Gang Cool . . .

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Sanely Insane

President Obama is cool. He did drugs, especially marijuana, he drank, he was in a fog for his last two years of high school. (Which may explain much.) We know because he offered testimony in his biography ghost written by unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers and he has yucked it up with Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman, and other cool guys, bragging about, yet minimizing his illegal drug abuse. (Never mind that calling him “cool” according to the Congressional Black Caucus is racist.)

“So what?” argue Mr. Obama’s acolytes, it was years ago.

Well, “What” is that this President cavalierly waves off his “youthful indiscretions” as inconsequential yet he is  busy spending vast taxpayer resources to arrest, prosecute, convict, and house “criminals” for precisely the same behavior. Disproportionately they are young men “of color” as opposed to young men of pallor, young men for whom he allegedly has a special sympathy.

One could expect someone in the Mainstream Media to cite the rank hypocrisy,  extraordinary social costs, and serious consequences against the weakest among us. But, one would be stupid to do so. Mr. Obama is a “progressive” whose intentions are the measure, not his actions. To criticize him is racist.

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About those Teachers, Firemen, and Police Officers . . .

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post “Fact Checker” reviewed the claims of President Barry Obama and his unappealing surrogate David Axelrod who, among others, allege that our real need is more police officers, firefighters and especially teachers to drive our economy out of the ditch in which Mr. Bush parked us. Kessler correctly discerned that in the case of teachers, the numbers they stress are made up. They are worst case projected layoffs from future budget requests; they include all government-run school employees, not only teachers; and they do not account for any changes in school populations, altered teaching techniques or other changes that significantly affect the teachers/student ratio.

But especially the ratio of teachers to school employees is compelling. Kessler deduces that nationally 67% of public school employees are teaching.  In Montgomery County [Maryland] Public Schools the ratio, according to the “Schools at a Glance” fact sheet is about 50%:

 21,967 employees
 11,593 teachers

Only half of Montgomery County Public Schools employees teach . . . which may be a good thing. But, one can be sure that schools can economize first at many administrative levels before parents would allow teachers to be cashiered.

More important I think, and I’m surprised that no one is challenging the concept, is the notion that teachers, firemen and police are officers are the new Public Service Employment program revived from the Carter Administration and long ago discredited.

It was a farce in which federal spending for make work “youth” jobs – up to age 25 – ramped up in sync with unemployment, the theory being that it would hold down the unemployment rate and teach critical job skills to “at-risk” youth. What we got instead was 11.8% unemployment and many wasted billions on patronage jobs for extant politicians.

Municipalities all over America, large, small, and middling, were sued to recover funds that were illegally spent, and some politicians were jailed for their excesses. If only that could happen today!

So, about those jobs beyond just teachers: With the FBI reporting crime near all time lows, what is the rationale for more police?  Is there a spate of fires we have yet to notice? The common thread is of course that the three job categories are all public service union dues payers who will contribute through their bosses to Democrat politicians, especially Mr. Obama.

It is an endless disappointment that WaPo’s “reporters” and nearly all in the Mainstream are so incurious, often uninformed, clearly ideologically propelled, and simply don’t dig to get tot the root of these debates.  People may conclude that it’s good to over-employ in the public sector for any number of reasons. But, they should know who’s paying what to whom for what.

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Joe Scarborough gets spanked . . .

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Sanely Insane

When Liberal/Progressives call for “compromise,” invariably they ask for conservatives and right-thinkers to surrender principles and ideals.  That, we expect. We shouldn’t expect our side to willingly capitulate.

Guest blogger Kevin Putt in response to the intolerable Joe Scarborough – who is eager to betray his supposed right-side credentials – posted the following today:

Joe Scarborough is wrong and to follow his thinking is to lead the Republican Party and this nation down a dusty, dry road of compromise that leads to weakness. It makes good sound-bites to use Grover Norquist as the fall guy (big-talking bully tactic by a coward), but that misses the whole point (Grover is a side-show). I can appreciate the love of a father and take Jeb Bush’s comments for his admiration of his father for what they are. The truth is, 41 sold out the Republican party while reneging on his ‘no new taxes’ pledge and allowed Richard Darman to go to the DEMOCRATS first in the Congress to begin negotiating a tax increase to treat the budget deficit – a blatant insult to every Republican in Congress (Richard Darman = the ultimate RINO). It was this act that set up the 1994 contract with America, that allowed Joe Scarborough to aggrandize the conservative cause as his own.

Joe Scarborough was a following back-bencher in his short tenure in the Congress who did nothing of any note on his own there, and who was lured by the brighter lights of media and the narcissistic love of his own voice within the pontificatory echo-chamber in which he currently resides. He is the ultimate “false profit” and not to be taken seriously about anything regarding the future of the Republican Party.

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, as conservatives, didn’t start out compromising but led with their principles, about which they were very clear. Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers to state his principles and to send his message of no compromise. Margaret Thatcher did the same with her defense of the Falklands (as Ronald Reagan did with Grenada) and her tough budget decisions, and many other examples for each from start to finish. Only after each had solidified their principles did they work within the system to move forward. Each, through their courage and conviction, completely changed the terms of debate. That, my friends, is leadership.

Now is not the time to work together in the Congress. Now is the time to state principles and to hold to them and to declare them even if nothing gets done because the stakes are infinitely higher now than they were when our darling Joe was a nobody from northern Florida doing nothing on a back bench in Congress.

This country is in a crucial battle of what policies are the right ones. The slippery slope of incremental inertia toward government and bureaucratic control over our sovereignty (which George I and George II abetted – notwithstanding the goodness of their intentions) has got to stop.

Joe is wrong, and so is Jeb.

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Krugman gets a haircut with Occam’s Razor . . .

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Former Enron advisor, the elfin Paul Krugman is making an argument that President Obama embraces and which is being echoed by most of the looney-left. The premise is that Mr. Obama spoke correctly when he declared that “The private sector is doing fine,” and what we need is more public employment, specifically firemen, policemen and teachers.

Krugman has gone so far as to quantify what we would experience in a “normal” recovery, one in which evil Republicans weren’t arbitrarily starving state and municipal governments intending to put people at risk of limb, life and property . . . not to mention advancing illiterates through our government-run schools. (Oh wait! We do that already!) The inaptly named Joy Behar in characteristic liberal / progressive grace embraces Krugman (that’s an ugly thought) and suggests of Mitt Romney,  “I’d like to see his house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down.” During an interview with the liberal website Mediaite, Behar added, “Who’s he going to call, the Mormon fire patrol?” (It is impressive how Behar segued from arson advocacy to religious bigotry in one short breath.)

In Krugman’s view, we are 1,400,000 civil servants short of what a “normal” recovery would produce, the assumption being that public sector employment must rise relentlessly in relationship to private employment, economic growth, and tax collections and have no relationship to need, demand, or ability to pay. Professional welfare is  what we’ll call it.

Alas, the elbow in Krugman’s eye is that, as Senator Pat Moynihan is reported to have said, “You can have your own opinion but not your own facts.”  And the facts are that just last week, the FBI reported a sharp decline in crime throughout America including arson – even in Behar’s neighborhood. We simply have no need or demand for additional police and fire services.

Clearly Krugman is agitating for more civil servants not because we need them, but because they pay dues to their unions which are then recycled to Democrat politicians.  And our incurious President  pushes for Krugman’s reasons and because he simply doesn’t understand our economy, or any other.  But, as Scott Walker showed in Wisconsin, not a single teacher need be laid-off, although many should be in favor of those who really do teach.

Romney surrogates would be wise to emphasize that while we all love our civil servants – except those at the Motor Vehicle Administration – taxing private wealth creators for even one extra paycheck is inefficient welfare.

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Dinosaur Powered Cars

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Sanely Insane

In a surprisingly good New York Times (Shaky Battery Maker Claims a Breakthrough) article, the colossal failure of President Obama’s “investment” of our money is illuminated.

Rather than seeing 1,000,000 smug elites on the road in their Dinosaur powered political statements by 2015, Mr. Obama’s  goal, to date this year the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf have sold some 10,000 units. But, rest assured, an Energy Department spokeswoman comforts us that the demand will triple by 2017 . . . so, Mr. Obama will ask for 3,000,000 saps to buy cars they don’t want and some miniscule number of “progressives” will oblige.

This is merely one more example of Statists perverting John Maynard Keynes. Government spending can not create demand for products without utility.

It’s okay though, it costs you nothing. Your grandchildren will get the bill.

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Trevi Fountain crumbles . . . Blame Bush

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Itali’s Trevi Fountain (Trevi crumbles) and many other historic sites are in bad repair. The Italians blame a “freak” snow storm never mind that snow happens, and next they’ll blame George Bush.

But, in the meantime one would think that in a country with an ample supply of unemployed stone masons  would consider that in exchange for welfare checks, the state could make a modest demand: Work to save our historic sites that bring dopey tourists who overindulge to our advantage.

Alas,  with Italy adult unemployment hovering at 10% and under 25 unemployment at 35.90%, the government can’t ask for even modest work for welfare. Sadly, like in the United States, that would diminish their dignity.

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And we thought Janet el-RENO was a pitiful A.G.

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Janet Reno, famous for incinerating David Karesh and his disciples rather than arresting them, and for building a “Chinese Wall” between the intelligence agencies and the justice system to assure that they wouldn’t efficiently protect America and that resulted ultimately in the September 11, 2001 slaughter of nearly 3,000 un-Renos, was a God awful choice for Attorney General, simply in over her head. But, she must be thankful that her collaborator in some of her worst choices succeeded her. Eric Holder while working for Janet and supporting her regime, also contributed the pardon of Marc Rich – a notorious tax cheat, even larger than TurboTax Tim Geithner – granted in exchange for campaign cash to Billary’s coffers with a side order of sex for Bill.

Now along comes Eric to abandon charges against members of The New Black Panthers,  videotaped intimidating voters who may have thought about voting for a “white man;” who files frivolous suits against states and sheriffs for enforcing federal immigration laws; who condones a failed folly and prevents investigation of a fiasco called “Fast and Furious” in which he sold guns to Mexican drug lords who then killed an American border patrol agent; and who argues that it is pure, simply racism to ask voters to prove their identity.

Imagine: The Eric the Wreck has no idea that his visitors in his fancy office are required to produce picture identification (Holder ID) to see him, just as they are to access any federal building in the United States. Instead, he argues that our most sacred right, the vote, should have no restrictions imposed . . . vote early and often. And he’s NOT from Chicago!

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The private economy IS doing FINE!

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Sanely Insane

President Obama spoke the truth as he sees it. His view is simple and consistent with what we now know of his membership in the anti-America, socialist “New Party.” (Doubters enter here.)  In his estimation, it would be doing better if it were not growing at all and be a colossal success if it failed altogether.

Perhaps someday, one our clever members of the Fourth Estate will ask Mr. Obama directly how he proposes to pay the hordes of government “workers” absent a private sector, including evil “rich” people, to fund his wildest dreams.

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May God save the Queen . . .

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Especially because “Prince” Charles, as opposed to “The Entertainer Formerly Known as Prince,” is her successor.

What a force she is.

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