The Debt Ceiling

The Obama administration, rapturous with celebration that would hold its own with Nero, is giving "raise the roof" a whole new meaning. While unemployment hovers near ten percent, some economists, factoring in discouraged job-seekers and those whose benefits have already run out, contend the true rate of unemployment is six percentage points higher. With the foreclosure crisis continuing to defy Obama's stimulus fix and many millions upside down on their mortgages (they owe more than the current value of the home), the fiscal catastrophe is being further exacerbated by the Obama administration's spending spree which is accompanied by a mad grab for power that will enable Obama, his bureaucrats and minions to intrude into, influence, and even control aspects of your lives where hitherto, decisions were your own, from the energy you consume (that cap and trade could alter) to your medical choices (that health care reform could take out of your hands). Obama is letting us eat cake (that we and our future generations will be paying for) and raising the national debt limit by three trillion dollars. The Obamaites attempt a built-in excuse, citing the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush administration which raised the national debt limit to ten trillion dollars. So what is a mere three trillion dollars more mean between friends? The Obama crew is deliberately dismantling the nation as we have known her. Obama's social engineers are busy assailing marriage as the cultural norm that has bound society together with the family as the basic unit with pickaxes carving out homosexual union. The Congress has just attached a special protection measure for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered to an unrelated defense appropriation bill that perversion-advancer Obama will gladly sign into law. Abortion on demand is law of the land with Obama carving out easier access to family-planning services (read foeticide) and forcing those who oppose it on religious or even humanist moral grounds to pay for it in the new "hell care" plan. The few members of the fourth estate that dare question face concerted attack with FOX News being brought under the Obama administration microscope, Rush Limbaugh excluded under Obamaite pressure from normal commerce (purchasing part of an NFL franchise), and with Mike Savage, an independent conservative firebrand talk show host, forbidden from entering Great Britain on a list with murderers and terrorists because he had the temerity to question establishment politics. No one in the US government has spoken on behalf of Savage who even if you disagree with him, should enjoy the rights and protection of every other US citizen. The patrimony of America and more broadly, the West, is under assault, with the ivory tower elite in academia dumbing down the curriculum by supplanting the traditional canon of Western Civilization, with Third World nonsense. Today's didacs largely believe nothing of validity or value has ever been created by dead, white men. Our roots as a Christian nation (and I say this as a believing Jew) are being undermined by Obama's leftist handmaidens and the ACLU with their cadre of Marxist professors behind them, falsely claiming deists had a significant role in the founding of our republic. All but a couple of the Founding Fathers were deeply believing Christians and those who were not as faithful still followed Judeo-Christian moral constructs with both the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution being framed with great consideration being given to Biblical precepts. Obama tears at traditional morality (even seeking to end don't ask, don't tell to damage the good order and discipline of our overstretched military), insults Christian believers (those gun and Bible clingers), and finds American exceptionalism that has liberated much of the world and fed the rest, to be something worthy only of deep mortification and constant apology, particularly made while the President is abroad. Our forefathers hewed out a divinely-inspired, exceptional enterprise that has so far lasted as our United States of America. Obama is determined to change us after his own image and he is delivering the transformation he promised with astounding alacrity, from erasing our patrimony, to squelching our liberty, to devaluing our currency, which raising the debt limit advances, Obama denies noble heritage and contribution unmatched by any other nation. I am in no way sanguine that legitimate election will be allowed to reverse this course of decline, noting the Franken "victory" in Minnesota's US Senate race, the dubious election of Washington state's Democratic governor, the non-intervention of Federal authorities in Philadelphia, where members of the New Black Panther Party intimidated whites in the last Presidential election to keep them from the polls, and the reach, scope, and evident corruption of ACORN and other similar vote-manufacturing organizations that the left will facilitate even if ACORN is curbed. Obamaism is self-perpetuating and accomplishing the left's demented goals. "As strong as the dollar" used to be uttered with pride. Soon our children and grandchildren will know the dollar which in our time was the world's reserve currency as toilet paper. Our nation which was the beacon of freedom will become the toilet.

Chavez Bans Baths

The unctuous BBC presenter, with his feminized little mannerism, reported on Venezuela's tyrannical Hugo Chavez banning baths as "counter-revolutionary". Chavez has taken a nation which enjoyed relative if uneven prosperity and turned it into a socialist nightmare of shortages and blackouts, in spite of having Latin America's largest proven oil reserves. Unlike Castro's Cuba, Venezuela has no US boycott to attempt to blame her economic downfall on, only the implementation of a central planning, collectivist economy can be the cause. Chavez has had no trouble punishing Venezuela's job creators, the formerly rich who in many cases, have picked up roots and physically fled the country to escape the growing repression. A rising Marxist has no trouble knocking the wealthy off their perch, but this in no way raises the level of prosperity for the rest of the people. Sinking a yacht, never raised an ocean. Every nation on earth has strata of classes and up to this point, rising in America has been easier than anywhere else. Even North Korea has a privileged class, even if it only embodies the Dear Leader and his immediate courtiers.  A couple of years back, after President Bush spoke at the UN in New York, Chavez rose to the podium and notoriously said he "smelled sulfur". Chavez claimed the US leader had left the trail of the devil behind him. Now, we know it was merely the three minute shower Venezuela strongman imbibing his own emanations. Venezuela's decline should be instructive to Americans, Obama can certainly tax the rich into misery here but that will only diminish prosperity and bring us closer to the standard of living of a Cuba, Venezuela, or God-forbid- Zimbabwe.