Full Mexican Employment

Obama web cast his grand plan for economic revival promising 2,500,000 jobs by 2011. These make-work positions are destined to be filled almost entirely by Hispanics as Obama is offering school construction, roads, and bridges. With his open borders amnesty, even if it is called comprehensive immigration reform, the number of Latin Americans, who already dominate the construction trades, will only go up. Obama promises to green America with solar and wind power while using carbon trading credits to drive the coal industry out of business. On the destroying business front, I have no doubt Obama will make great strides. The old New Deal efforts will only prolong economic misery.

Ammo Be Gone

Obama and his minions may not even try to take our guns. If he can ban ammunition, as has happened before with the Black Talon being withdrawn from the market, he need not physically remove the firearm from our cold, dead hands. He can simply cease civilian sale of bullets, shotgun shells, make re-loading supplies illegal to deprive hand-loaders, or place such high taxes on these items as to make them cost prohibitive (just look at the cigarette tax and see what can happen). We may have a Second Amendment in writing but no effective right to use it.

Arrogance and Ignorance

Obama and the Democrats made much of American unilateralism-Bush the go it alone cowboy, during the campaign. Yet, when invited to the G-20 Summit with the world's most powerful economies gathered to work their way out of recession, Obama deigns not show up. Reportedly. he has sent two representatives including former Secretary of State Madeline Halfwit. Is Obama so almighty and infallible that he need not listen to the constructive ideas of other world leaders? Or could it be the case that Obama does not want to betray his ignorance on matters economic to so many luminaries? In either case, Obama and the US could benefit from solutions like the one offered by Gordon Brown-certainly no rightist Prime Minister, for global tax cuts to stimulate economic growth. Obama has no intention of listening to anyone who doesn't promote his brand of socialism.

Who is Paulson

Our prospective bailout was passed precipitously, without due deliberation by Congress, and was ill-conceived. The plan has not been implemented with Secretary Paulson today changing direction. Just who is this man given unprecedented budgetary authority and the reins over $700 billion in new spending? This is a figure that would make Midas blush, Croesus cry, and even get Bill Gates' and Warren Buffet's attention. Never in history has such power been left in the hands of one man, no matter how carefully vetted. And as today's events illustrated Paulson has an evolving position which only militates towards a greater erosion of confidence in the markets. But for far too long, it appears our economy has been in the hands of confidence men.

Told You So

An AP poll headlined this morning heralds that the public seems ready to wait on tax cuts. Obama was never going to cut taxes. His redistributionist nature is opposite of that. Now, Obama has the cover of this poll and similar manipulations to come that will indicate that the public is not clamoring for tax relief and recognizes the deep hole Bush left us in. This will be Obama's built-in rationale and excuse for massive tax increases and for the deep and prolonged recession that Obama will exacerbate and might turn into a depression. There is blame to go around-the bets on bets of the derivative markets that mocked fiduciary responsibility and duped buy and hold investors, executive compensation packages and golden parachutes that bore no relation to performance, and the aggressive hunt for redlining that forced banks to make loans that could never be paid back. Borrowers who overbought, developers who overbuilt, unions who made company breaking demands all fed the fire. There is no facile solution to where greed has brought us, indeed there may be no solution at all. Hang on C.W., it's going to be a rough ride.

Worst Case Scenario

Perhaps, Senator McCain will be happier in defeat than facing an unprecedented economic crisis that he or Obama or anyone else will find unmanageable. Pat Robertson reported that $300 trillion are at risk in the derivative markets-a figure of such an astounding magnitude as to dwarf the US, indeed the world economy. No actions by a single government or the world's governments acting collectively may stave off the collapse of currency. Stories abound of people with wheelbarrows of money going to buy bread in late Wiemar Germany. The same situation exists today in Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Don't be confident that a similar calamity could not happen here. Middle class families who have never known privation or hunger could face it soon. If someone does not grow there own crops, have a barterable skill, or have a tangible asset(gold, diamonds, something illiquid not fungible but with real inherent worth), they may not eat. Concerted action now to save banks or automobile producers may be necessary but who could be certain of the value of paper printed by governments that have overseen the avalanche of negative financial news and not been able to staunch it. Ultimately, we must follow the advice printed on our currency "In God we trust".Those who seek temporal satisfaction are too often blind to eternal truths. Those who cleave to God are never hopeless, for their faith is salvation.

Fade to Black

If the Republican party wishes to follow the path of the dodo, they should embrace and follow the Chris Shay's model. Ronald Wilson Reagan had no cult of personality like our recently elected leader. He had a better idea and was able to articulate it. Reagan Democrats did not follow Reagan to the middle but saw the common sense manifested in the smaller, less intrusive government and lower taxes of the right. Abandoning core conservative values (opening borders, raising taxes after "read my lips" pledges) has served the GOP well. If they don't see the error in their ways, they will force the rise of a third, conservative party.

The Waning Hours

As the Bush administration slips into the loaming, the sword of Damocles hangs over 43's head. He has never gone out of his way to defend himself or his team from the rants of the left. Now, every challenge Obama faces will be blamed on Bush and Republicans. If Bush now speaks up which is admittedly unlikely as he has clung to the "new tone", he will only create momentum from vindictive Democrats for endless Congressional investigations (a certainty), special prosecutors(a likelihood), or even war crimes charges (let's hope not). The Daily Cosers, Huffington harlots, and even Senator Boxer have called for this. A night of long knives could descend on any Republican who doesn't rubber stamp Obama's leftist lunacy.

Victory's Broken Wing

The fortune of soldiers/ The failure of war/ Coming home with less parts than one had before/ The glory of blindness/ Elan d'morte/ Whether in Iraq or at Donelson's Fort/ The cries for mother/The blood and fear/ That dead young heroes and cowards share/ The bomb blast, the bayonet, the rpg/Is this for freedom when no one is free?

Weakness Invites Aggression

A parallel may be drawn between the nascent Obama foreign policy vis-a-vis disarmament in time of war, talking to our enemies and Senator McCain's campaign. Senator McCain refused to bring up Reverend Wright, never spoke of Obama's drug use as admitted in his autobiography, and would not even mention his opponent's middle name. All this as Cindy McCain was called a drug addict and John Lewis called McCain supporters Nazis. Taking options off the table in a campaign or as regards our national defense is a losing proposition. Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Flee in Droves

Investors are headed for the exits with the largest ever post-election drop and the biggest two day plummet since 1987. They know socialism-a doubling of the capital gains tax, increase in marginal tax rates for those earning as little according to Joe Biden as $150,000, and allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire prevent any chance of recovery and might precipitate a depression. Obama will have a cursory meeting today with Warren Buffet and his other economic gurus. These people are window dressing-dupes to cover the vicious redistributionist nature of the cabal that has taken over. Obama's team said they would pressure China on the artificial valuation of the Yuan. What a joke. Red China was just insulted by freedom-lovers protesting as their representative talked trade matters in Taipei. China in short order will cross the Straits of Taiwan and seize Formosa and the weak Communist sympathizing Obama will not do a thing about it beyond calling a U.N. meeting and a strongly worded protest. Russia just deployed short-range missiles in Eastern Europe and will move by fiat against her former republics and the weakling in the Whitehouse won't do a thing about it. He will however send American forces to the Democratic Republic of Congo where we have absolutely no strategic interests. U.S. forces will after all be pretty busy at home seizing our guns.

Captives of Darkness

Through the millennium, man sought to raise the heel of the oppressor/ In '76, by blood and fire, the boot was lifted./ In 2008, the foot fell hard to trample the rights of man./ Purchased at a cost so dear/ And relinquished with many a tear./ Look back and remember how sweet the sip of liberty/ Recall the taste of freedom

Know Thy Enemy

Jimmy Carter is a self-righteous fool but not a radical. Barack Obama is not a fool but is a self-righteous radical. That is what makes him dangerous. John Lewis said we had a revolution last night. The revolution is just starting. A tidal shift that will destroy property rights, religious rights, the right of armed self-protection will sweep the country. A friend told me, "C.W. just imagine if John Brown had won at Harper's Ferry. Well, C.W.-he just won last night and he threw in a dash of Lenin just to spice things up. I fear for our nation, C.W."

Recrimination and Regret

The author is dismayed to report the ascendancy of our leftist leader. He gratuitously included homosexuals in tonight's remarks supporting my contention in this blog that he intends to overturn traditional morality by force of law. He pretends inclusion, but his victory portends at the least, the marginalization of those with religious values who would bridle at the idea of gay marriage and privileges in employment for the practitioners of this profligate lifestyle. According to ABC's Brian Ross, Obama and his national security team (a sad oxymoron) intend a hasty draw down in Iraq to focus on Bin Laden. Bin Laden is a figurehead in whose name acts of terror will only increase if he is martyred or caught. The real enemy is expansionist Islam whether in its Sunni Wahhab incarnation or Iranian Shia form. Obama offers no answers either domestically or abroad, only demagogic platitudes and chants of collective delusion and hysteria. "Yes we can" bankrupt the Treasury, destroy business, and invite attack. God save America.

Humanity's Best Hope

Obama speaks of hope. Behind the electrified fences of concentration camps, the inmates hoped and prayed for American soldiers to storm the gates. Behind Festung Europa and in the Asian Co-Prosperity, those enslaved by totalitarianism sought US liberation. Anne Frank wished for rescue by the forces of freedom. Behind the Iron Curtain, the subjugated whispered of the aspirations to loose the chains, jump the Wall, and revel in the freedoms of the West. In 1956, Hungarians briefly broke the chain and awaited the protection of NATO forces streaming in to uphold liberty. So it was in 1968 in Prague Spring, and in Tiananmen Square as the Goddess Liberty was crushed under the tread of tanks and soaked in blood. The oppressed and dispossessed the world over seek US aid or entrance to our land of hope and opportunity. The Democratic nominee does not appreciate our unique position as the cradle of liberty. He sees many Americans as "bitter, clinging to their guns and religion with an antipathy towards those that are different from them." Michelle calls us a "mean country in 2008." His twenty (20) year minister damns us, and his mentor in whose home, he started a campaign tried to blow us up. A vast multitude of immigrants, too many illegal and even at the risk of their lives, try to enter our polyglot, tolerant, prosperous polity. They don't harbor the same resentments as the Obamas. They don't abhor our way of life and as the Obamites seek to inextricably alter it. Elect a third class candidate, get a third world nation.

Legacy and Loss

Obama's grandmother passed away. We are all diminished with the loss of any decent person. We must also concern ourselves now with the loss of freedom. Obama has spoken of creating a civilian defense force with the same resource and scope of the military. The US has this already. It is law enforcement at the local, state, and federal level. The proposed new force would be a tool of repression. With civilian leadership of the armed forces, huge forces in the national guard and reserve, and existing police agencies, the new force is neither necessary nor proper. It should be feared. It is mourning again for America.

Caveat Emptor America

Obama is nothing more than a doctrinaire hyper-leftist, not a liberal in the American tradition. Obama views capitalism as a vice. The junior Senator is strikingly arrogant, dogmatic, but not really capable of understanding the economic dislocation his policies will cause. He aptly delivers a speech from a teleprompter or script and has been prepared by his Goebbels handlers to hide the degree of his Marxist leanings, a rhetorician who conceals more than he reveals. The major media is in sympathy with him and has protected him when he does make a fool of himself. If McCain had said there were fifty-seven(57) states, the lead story for days would have been this gaffe, with questions about his age and senility or Alzheimer's. Today, some of Obama's venom against business slipped out with his promise in San Fransisco recorded in January to bankrupt coal-fired plants. America leads the world in coal reserves and clean coal technology. Thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia will be lost when Obama fulfills this pledge. Incumbency entrenches itself organically, and there is no guarantee that Obama will not bend the Constitution to his whim and stay in power ad infinitum or appoint a nominal replacement as Putin did with Medvedev and retain his hold on power. This hubris-filled peacock will alter America in ways we can't imagine now and may never be able to recover from.To paraphrase an author with whom Obama is well-versed-Americans-you have nothing to gain but Obama's chains.

Nostrum Tantum Spes

Our only hope is Senator John McCain.

There is Smoke

Obama refuses to release his birth certificate, his academic records, his doctoral thesis. If there is not something amiss, why hide them? Was he born abroad, registered as a Muslim, was his education financed by Saudi coreligionists? We may never know. When George Bush I was running, he was accused of making an SR-71 flight to Paris to persuade the Iranians to retain their American hostages until Carter left office. Preposterous, of whole cloth, but reported and investigated by the media and Congress. Governor Palin has been raked over the coals for "Troopergate" while the media has deliberately underplayed allegations that Palin's ex-brother-in-law had tasered a ten(10) year old boy and had threatened the lives of Palin's parents. What should be investigated is why the Public Safety commissioner would allow such a man to retain his authority. The media has supposed public interest groups on today to tell voters how to enforce their voting rights and where to report violations. Republican voter suppression is a myth designed to inflame. Democrats in Fairfax county in this election have thrown out 98% of military absentee ballots just as they discarded military votes in Florida during Bush/Kerry, real voter suppression. This is a military that may well be asked to disarm law-abiding gun owners in this country. Obama will overturn posse comitatus and just as Red China has done, bring troops from different regions in to enforce the abolition of the Second Amendment. Will soldiers, sailors, and marines who have been denied their vote obey these repugnant orders. Under Obama, our military will be asked to disarm not defend the homeland.

The Final Furlong

The old warhorse and the colt are nearing the finish line. The feedbag of hope and change may overwhelm experience and wisdom. Hope for what and change how? Economies are cyclic and capitalism has served America well. A cascade of redistribution and ever more intrusive regulation will not cure our ills. Rationed care will stifle research and prevent expensive treatment and transplants. A cascade of bureaucracy and hiring of multitudes of government workers to administer it will break small business. The 143 day wonder will crumble if Red China moves against Taiwan and Putin will be able to assert Russian hegemony at will. If Barney Frank's 25% drop in the military budget is adopted (a peace dividend with no peace), reenlistment will dry up and volunteers will shy away. This will necessitate conscription. Jihadism will be redoubled by our precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. Our First and Second Amendment will be compromised with national laws against hate speech, mandating of hiring of homosexuals by religious organizations, silencing of preaching against alternative lifestyles, forced acceptance of homosexual marriage by the various and several states, and enough regulation of guns and ammunition to make protecting one's family next to impossible. Obama will introduce sentencing reform that will release thousands of prisoners and unleash them on the ever more defenseless public. Obama will end free, fair trade, alter NAFTA, and open our borders to hordes of illegal immigrants and inevitably some of those crossing will be terrorists and drug dealers. Fortunately, some of the foreigners will self-deport with America's rapid decline. Companies will move abroad or close, unemployment will skyrocket, and many working Americans will be forced on the dole and the ignominy of government rationing of food which will become more scarce with the mandated production of more ethanol to fight the global warming bogeyman. Our flagging education system will slip further into the realm of leftist indoctrination with charter schools and vouchers ending. On July 4, 1776, our forefathers brought forth our perfect union. On November 4,2008, try not to ruin it.