More Moral Inversion

The Obamabots that comprise the dinosaur press heaped praise on soon to be departing Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Paul Stevens yesterday. They lavished garlands on him for his staunch opposition to the death penalty while heralding his strong pro-choice stanch. So in the minds of the leftists who gladly serve as Obama's flacks, preserving the lives of the most heinous murderer is a great virtue but protecting the most vulnerable and innocent life, the developing human fetus, is a vice. So the supposed Republican who moderate President Ford placed on the court turned out to be a leftist in the making, using his judicial robes to hide his inner radical. Barack Hussein Obama will not try to mask his wolf in sheep's clothing but will nominate an outright activist, liberal jurist to the highest court. Some Republicans in name only, members of the Gang of Fourteen, particularly Lindsey Graham might even endorse Obama's presumptive Justice on the grounds that no matter who Obama nominates, he is entitled by his Presidency, all his nominees will be liberal, and Steven's replacement will not shift the ideological balance of the court. Just because all Obama's appointees will turn out to be liberal horrors on the court, there is no reason GOP Senators have to go along with them. Advise but do not consent and soon we will have both chambers of the Congress back.

Reject Obamaism Outright

November will be the first chance for most of us at the ballot box to reverse the direction with ever larger and more intrusive government at home and weakness that invites aggression abroad where Obama is taking the country. If you are in an area represented by a supposed Blue Dog Democrat perhaps someone who talks the talk and sounds like you, remember that they are closet Obama henchmen who permitted Nancy Pelosi to become their Majority Leader and "Light-Brain" Harry Reid to lead the Senate. If you want to see ultimately where Obama policies lead, look at the European Union in general and Greece in particular. The EU is wailing under the weight of her own market manipulation by means of taxation and Greece has become such a cradle to grave dependency basket case that only a rescue package from the International Monetary Fund can stave off the calamity of collapse complete with renunciation of debt that would probably spark worldwide depression. Greece through an over-generous social safety net destroyed her own productive capacity and that is precisely where Obama is taking us and no one is big enough to bail the US out when we face our own reckoning if these quasi-Marxist policies are allowed to continue. When you vote in November, pull the lever or push the button for conservative candidates who know government must take its hands off the throats of business and permit the markets to work, to find and restore their own equilibrium and bring America back to the free market capitalism that created our prosperity.

Every Last Bit

From monetizing US debt to begging to borrow from our Red Chinese adversaries, the Obama administration seems to want to milk or bilk every last productive resource from the US private sector which has become the target of  this administration and its Democrat handmaidens. Paying for the non-stimulating stimulus would have been hard enough, but add the Obama health scheme, and possibly cap and trade facilitated through the Environmental Protection Agency without even seeking a Senate vote and we have a fiscal train wreck, an unrecoverable economic disaster in the making. 

All Credit Due

Surprising only the so-called experts, first time unemployment claims rose yet again "unexpectedly". This should really be a shock to no one as American society  is being forced to bear the cost of items it neither wants nor needs with resources that it does not possess, but this is not a recipe for recovery, nor does it facilitate growth in the private sector, nor is it long sustainable. And that is what we are now encumbered with- the burden of government metastasis, of stimulus that only stimulates more bureaucracy and ever-expanding governance and it will break US.

All Due Credit

The United States never permitted the Soviet Union  or her successor states to dictate our defense posture under any previous President. US defense policy was predicated on our needs and the requirements of our allies. President Barack Hussein Obama promised change, and he is definitely different. Obama has allowed Russia to dictate terms to us and in so doing, has sold out the Czech Republic which had pledged to host our missile defense at the cost of angering Russia during the last Bush administration. Obama who is now an honored guest of the Czechs at a signing ceremony with Russia that makes us less secure, pulled the rug out from under the Czech Republic, an ally who willingly took a risk for us. This should be instructive to Israel about Obama's sense of loyalty, as the Jewish state is being asked to "take risks for peace", of course, with no Palestinian interlocutor who truly wants or can deliver peace. Once again, we see a situation where Obama demonstrates moral inversion with twisted values that make us all less secure. The lesson of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and START was that any nation with whom you need an arms control treaty with is likely to violate said treaty at the first opportunity and subject you to verification procedures that it will not accept for itself or will reserve a right for itself to back out. Worthless signatures on papers with which only we comply and that ultimately only cost us are the almost inevitable result. And that was the beauty of Reagan- he recognized that there could only be peace through strength, making him the anti-Obama. No Cold War victory (the fruits of which Obama is now bent on squandering) could have been possible without Ronald Wilson Reagan. Reagan was the essential leader. Not the Solidarity resistance led by Lech Walesa, not the moral authority of Pope John Paul II, or even the alliance with the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher- though all certainly contributed, certainly not Gorbachev who receives credit fashionably in the dinosaur media and academe, but who without the push from Reagan would have been content as just another strongman commissar. Reagan won the Cold War, not through compromise, but by spending the Soviet Union into oblivion withe the Strategic Defense Initiative. Whether the leftist apologists at the Union of Concerned Scientists realized it or not, Reagan's strategy was not necessarily  to create an impervious barrier to Soviet missiles, but to force the  flagging Soviet economy suffering under central planning to compete with our research and development expenditure, a strategic premise that Reagan knew their moribund system could never survive under- and it did not. We won, the West triumphed; through strength, Reagan prevailed. 

An April Fool

A Qatari diplomat evidently took an unauthorized smoke break on a commercial airliner bound from Washington D.C. to Denver,  and then joked about it, prompting F-16s to scramble and endangering the passengers, crew, and innocents on the ground with his ill-considered and irresponsible attempt at humor after his flagrant disregard for our rules and law. The US should pressure Qatar to remove his diplomatic immunity and prosecute him to the full extent of the law. In failing that, he must be declared persona non grata and expelled from the country. Civil suits should be brought against him by the airline, the airline's personnel who were placed in needless jeopardy, and his fellow passengers, and he or the government of Qatar should be made to pay the cost of the entire exercise. It is long past time that  arrogant, wealthy, spoiled Arab diplomats are allowed to trifle with our lives and our nation. 

The Genuine Article

On these pages, I have exercised the chance to articulate much of what I oppose. I now welcome the opportunity to declare someone who I am for- Lonnie Spivak for US Congress, to unseat Obama rubber stamp Jim Cooper, who no longer holds Tennessee values or his constituents' interests dear. Lonnie Spivak is the candidate that best represents the original principles of the Founding Fathers, a family man and common sense conservative, who recognizes smaller government means more freedom and wants to end the free spending D.C. orgy and return the US to the path of fiscal sanity. Lonnie has had enough of politicians going to Washington to become entrenched and ossified in self-perpetuating incumbency, no Robert Byrds for Tennessee, and Lonnie favors sensible term limits. Spivak reflects and represents all that is good about Tennessee. Let us send him to Washington to help return the country to one that Washington, Adams, and Jefferson would recognize, not one where Jim Cooper pretends to serve us while helping Barack Obama become our master. Vote Lonnie Spivak.