Saturday, July 25, 2009

Here's how authoritarian dictators like His Majesty's buddy, Hugo Chavez, operate.


Despite the policy of appeasement followed by His Majesty (just like George W. Bush) towards Hugo Chavez -- which under His Majesty has been ratcheted up to the point of actually taking phone calls from Chavez and thereafter doing Chavez's bidding (see first link below) when it comes to restoring Chavez-backed Zelaya to power in Honduras -- Chavez spouts today that "what the government of the United States and its allies want is simply for the [Honduran] coup [leaders] to consolidate themselves and be recognized, if not by law, then de facto." Now, when I saw this quote, my first question was WHERE did Chavez say it. Since Majesty and U.S. are bending over backwards to help Chavez and Zelaya these days, Chavez could only possibly be making such statements in his own country, where beating the constant drum of anti-Americanism is a lot of what has driven him to (and kept him in) absolute power. And sure enough, I see (second link below) that such statements were made to his own Venezuelan national assembly, i.e. these were words meant for the ears of his own folks, not us. In other words, they were pure propaganda for the Venezuelans to digest -- because they certainly have no basis in the truth, not given how His Majesty has done about everything in his power (absent sending American troops or the CIA to help Chavez and Zelaya) to be a good little agent of Hugo Chavez. As stated previously in this space, and in contrast to the path taken by years of past republican presidents in this country, I would like us to stay the HELL out of central and south american affairs. Which likewise means that we don't follow policies of appeasement with respect to authoritarian dictators down there and we most certainly don't take their phone calls and then play their requests in the days that follow (first link below).


Friday, July 24, 2009

I have to give His Majesty credit for one thing tonight: He is one hell of a politician.


I'm not sure how complimentary that really is, because it's also about the best thing you'll hear come out of my mouth for Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan as well. But I digress. Majesty the other day did something that he basically never does. He made a stupid political mistake in commenting on the Massachusetts Gates arrest. Not only is commenting on such a local matter very un-Presidential (as noted in this space yesterday), but moreover Majesty made assertions concerning the propriety of the incident when he had no factual basis for doing so. (Additionally fueling the fire, obviously, was the fact that the officer is white and Gates is black.) In short, Majesty's comment on the event was just plain dumb. Initially, he tried to stand by the comments yesterday, but this thing just kept getting worse and worse for him yesterday and today. But, like any great politician, he realized that fact and he followed his rare dumb political act of the other day with what I think was a stroke of political genius today by (1) expressing some regrets about his earlier statements, (2) phoning the officer and Gates, and (hear's the real kicker) (3) getting them to agree to come together to the White House to meet him and talk this over. This story was turning very bad for Majesty today, but he has now likely diffused the situation almost entirely (we'll see) or at least to a significant degree. Yeah, this man is one hell of a politician. And that's a lot of what makes him so dangerous to the country I know and love, in my humble estimation.

Oba-ttoming Out, Part 3: Free Fallin' -- His Majesty hits 49%.



New Rasmussen polling reports that Majesty's approval rating stands today at 49% -- the first time it has ever dipped below 50%. Significantly, 63% of Independents now disapprove of Majesty's job performance. Simply put, you've lost us, Majesty, and it's highly unlikely that you'll ever get us back. The way these numbers are falling, it's little wonder that the dems are making noise today about forcing a House vote on the health care reform bill next week -- a health care reform bill that is highly unpopular with a majority of the country. Like I said a few days ago, His Majesty is essentially behaving like a tyrant, and the congressional dems are his "little dictators" (to borrow an FDR phrase), tasked with carrying out the tyrant's bidding. What's occurring in Washington these days is unprecedented, folks. I just hope you have your eyes and mouths open on it.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Hey Majesty: Someone vandalized my car -- Care to comment?


Also, here in KC we have an ongoing feud between the mayor and the city council. Any comment, Majesty? And I saw the police arresting some dude on the side of the road as I drove to work today. Any comment on that? What about this local gas station that got knocked over last night? Comment? I forgot to renew my car tags. What say you?


"President Obama today stood by his comments that the Cambridge, Mass., police department acted 'stupidly' in its arrest of Henry Louis Gates."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=8153681&page=1

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Please allow me to introduce, His Majesty the TYRANT!


As an Independent who despises more than anything seeing ultra-left or ultra-right politicians try to ram things down the throat of the non-agreeing majority of this country, I've finally reached my breaking point tonight with His Majesty. He is basically a TYRANT. It doesn't matter that in the polls a majority of the people in this country oppose such massive, huge government pieces of legislation as the health care reform bill and the cap-and-trade energy tax -- His Majesty the TYRANT doesn't give a rat's behind about the Will of the People. No, he only cares about his little, hateful, tiny-minority far-left world view that people are stupid, need to be taken care of, and need to have as big of a federal government as possible -- It's called liberalism. And folks, this ain't some conservative talkin' at ya -- those far-right freaks, Rush Slimebaugh and all the rest of 'em, can go **** themselves too. I'm as fed up with the Tyrant's crap as I can be. Enough! You don't represent any of us, Tyrant! Stop trying to dictate to us your far left world view and agenda! "Tell me something, it's still We the People, right!?!?"

More ridiculous "Mission Accomplished!"-type rhetoric today from His Majesty's White House regarding the economy.


Today Rahm Emanuel proclaims that over the past 6 months, "We have rescued the economy from the worst recession!" This follows recent and multiple similar statements from His Majesty himself as well as Biden about how the stimulus bill has "done it's job" and other like sentiments. You know, the more I see these people operate, the more I'm convinced that apart from ideology, they are absolutely no different from George W. Bush -- just more of the same slimey, disingenuous politicians. As I like to say, hardly "Change We Can Believe In!"

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Why is His Majesty being criticized today for admitting that he's "not familiar" with a key provision in the health care reform bill?


Hell, no one else has read this massive bill either, nor will any dem bother to read the entire bill before voting in favor of it. That's just business as usual in Washington these days -- the tragic result of complete one-party control of the entire federal government.



Monday, July 20, 2009

Has His Majesty officially become Hugo Chavez's agent?


Follow me through the timeline:

4/18/09: His Majesty visits the Caribbean for the Summit of the Americas and is pictured (as above) glad-handing and yucking it up with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

6/28/09: The Honduran Supreme Court has the military kick Chavez-backed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya out of the country and a provisional president was sworn in. Zelaya was given the boot because of Chavez-like (and inspired) violations of the Honduran constitution.

6/29/09: The very next day, His Majesty calls for the return of Zelaya to power.

7/9/09: With Zelaya still out of power, Chavez makes a personal phone call to His Majesty's state department in order to ask for further help in restoring Zelaya to power.

Thereafter, the U.S. continues exerting "enormous pressure" for Zelaya's return, culminating with today's statements from His Majesty's state department threatening cuts in economic aid to Honduras if Zelaya is not returned to power (the state department phrases it in terms of the provisional government reaching a "resolution" of the current crisis with Zelaya, but a return to power is the only "resolution" that Zelaya and Chavez would ever accept).

Now, if His Majesty is not truly Chavez's new agent (although you could have fooled me), then at the very least Majesty is doing his best impersonation of George W. Bush, who began this policy of appeasement towards Chavez during the Bush years. I'm not advocating that we go around sticking our noses or the CIA into the affairs of Venezuela and Honduras, or that some ill-conceived Neo-Con approach be followed in any way. But I do favor restraint in this situation (although the train's already left the station there), and I also know that the U.S. has no business doing the affirmative bidding of authoritarian dictators like Chavez or of apparent Chavez-clones and puppets like Zelaya. This is ugly stuff, folks.

Obama-Loo?



Today His Majesty rejected Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) recent comment that the defeat of the health care reform legislation being pushed by Majesty and congressional dems would be akin to Napoleon's famous Waterloo defeat. Two points here: First, I think that this kind of over-the-top rhetoric from a senator is fairly inappropriate. You should stick with the substance of your opposition to the legislation, senator. While bloggers like me might like to have a little fun with such comparisons (see above), we're also not elected officials.

Second, and much more significantly, if Majesty's health care reform legislation does fail to pass, my worry is that such defeat won't be Majesty's Waterloo in that other pieces of costly, massive legislation (or potential legislation) still loom on the horizon for Majesty and the dems to try to ram through Congress (e.g., cap-and-trade and a second stimulus bill). It appears now that there is a very distinct possibility that Majesty's desired health care reform legislation is either going to face outright defeat or else will not get through Congress before the absurd August 7 deadline that Majesty has purported to set for it. But do repubs like DeMint really think that's going to be the end of this stuff?

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Look at the old fart from Kansas City!


59-year-old Tom Watson leads the British Open after three rounds.

He would be the oldest major champion by eleven years. But even if he doesn't win tomorrow, what a great story. I don't care who you are or where you live in the U.S. -- tomorrow's final round is must-see TV.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Oba-ttoming Out, redux; Current polls show substantial disapproval of His Majesty's policies.



Majesty's personal approval rating continues to tread water around 50% (today it's 52% according to Rasmussen), but his policies are taking a real beating in the polling numbers this week. A Rasmussen poll on Wednesday reported that 62% of voters say the country is moving down the wrong track -- the highest level since February.

Turning to the health care reform issue, Rasmussen's new poll today reports that 50% of voters oppose (and only 35% of voters support) the creation of a government health insurance company, as is now being proposed in the health care reform plan of His Majesty and congressional dems. A Rasmussen poll on Monday similarly reported that 49% of voters oppose the health care reform plan in general, while only 46% favor it.

On the cap-and-trade bill, we'll hopefully see a new poll in the upcoming days. On June 30, Rasmussen reported that 41% of Americans oppose the cap-and-trade bill, with only 37% of Americans saying they support it. I think there's a very good chance that such disapproval figure will be up even higher once some new numbers come out (sorry Jeeves for ending a sentence on a preposition).

So, to circle back to a point I made earlier in the week: This huge rush to ram the massive health care reform and cap-and-trade bills through Congress appears to this observer to be purely a reaction to the declining poll numbers of both Majesty and his policies. They want to get this stuff passed before most Americans ever know what hit them.

Party Time! On YOUR Dime.



Yeah, I've been critical of ABC News from time to time, but a good journalistic get on their part this week with the story about the Federal Government spending $700,000 of OUR money so that federal employees can go get all liquored up and party & dance it up in a big way in Arizona (check out the video on the below link -- the pic above does not do this outrageousness justice)! All on OUR tab, all in the name of a so-called "stress reduction conference." I mean jeezal peezal, folks, that's the worst false pretense I've heard since Weapons of Mass Destruction. And the dems want to turn over the health care industry to this Federal Government? That makes about as much sense as a potpourri burner in an Alabama $hithouse.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

D'OH!



Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf testified today that the dems' health care reform bill "would increase, not reduce, the burgeoning long-term health care costs facing the government." Methinks Elmendorf better watch out he doesn't get sent to the Tower.

State of Missouri does its best impersonation of the deranged mayor from Jaws.



Missouri DNR officials for 4 weeks put the kibosh on releasing a report showing unsafe E. coli levels in the Lake of the Ozarks around Memorial Day. They did so "because they were concerned about the impact it would have on tourism and the public." As for the impact on tourists' better health and welfare? Not so important, apparently.

Our favorite flunkie sidekick mascot speaks! "Iran will bring down the West!"


Ooooh, Mama, me so scared over here. Now settle down and go get me another beer, lackey.

Only a leftist could make the wealthy appear somewhat sympathetic.


"Terrifying 57% tax looms for biggest earners" if Majesty's health care reform legislation becomes law.


And just for good measure, let's slam small business owners and entrepreneurs too -- we need to take what you've earned and let it trickle down (errrr!, restribute it), through massive spending and ultra liberal legislation, to us poor feeble-minded white men from towns of 9000 who listen to country music.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Health care reform bill: Hey Majesty, what's the rush?



His Majesty has purported to set an August 7, 2009 deadline for Congress to pass a health care reform bill (House dems unveiled their version of the bill yesterday). And dems are talking about the possibility, if necessary, of a strictly 60-40 party line vote on a health care reform bill in the Senate.

So what's the big rush? Actually, many of us know precisely what the rush is. His Majesty wants to ram-rod right down our throats every piece of massive ultra left-wing legislation that he possibly can before his poll numbers drop much further (low polls = high public pressure on dems in Congress not to vote for Majesty's bills). Cap-and-trade is another one that Majesty desperately wants to force through the Senate in the very near future. A second stimulus bill will probably be the next monster to creep out of the swamp.

And be sure to look for Majesty and the dems to choreograph as many distractions as they can over the next month to try to keep your attention off of these bills. You can expect, for example, more of the Pelosi/CIA soap opera, more talk about investigating Bush administration officials, and more efforts to keep fringe right-wingers like Palin and Slimebaugh at the top of the headlines. People, the world view of liberals is basically to think that you are an idiot. So don't be one -- recognize what's going on in Washington right now, and recognize the dangerous state of affairs that's been created as a result of one-party control of the entire federal government.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Goodbye My Darlin', Hello Socialism.


Today comes word that His Majesty is considering a plan for the federal government to make mortgage payments for homeowners who can't afford their payments (or, alternatively, a possible "rental option" under which some such homeowners would turn over ownership -- presumably to the federal government -- and start paying rent). "As a part of this plan, jobless borrowers would cannot keep up with their home loans might receive a housing stipend along with regular unemployment benefits."

Meantime, the proposed health care reform bill unveiled by House dems today will include a surtax on millionaires of 5.4%, which is 3% higher than the surtax previously discussed by the dems. And apparently only members of the upper class (those making more than $350,000 annually) will be paying any surtaxes under the dems' bill.

I will give Majesty credit for one thing: When he says "redistribution of wealth," by God he means it. And to think that I used to scoff at all the right-wingers who called Majesty a socialist. Them days be over.



Monday, July 13, 2009

Can You Take Me Higher???





Today the federal budget deficit tops $1 Trillion for the first time.

High Enough.

CNN.com today: "Anderson Cooper interviews Obama in castle".



...which cries out for a very simple response: Where else?



M-a-j-e-s-t-y! M-a-j-e-s-t-y!


http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/13/interviewing-president-obama-in-ghana/

GO **** YOURSELF! Gosh, now I feel a lot better.



















A new UK study (link below) finds that getting angry, cursing up a storm, and ranting and raving actually have positive effects upon the swearer, such as reducing pain, increasing pain tolerance and "self-regulating the emotions" (whatever that means). So from now on, I'm not even going to give it a second thought; rather, I'm just going to let the expletives fly!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

What's the plan, man? Four more American troops dead today in Afghanistan.





And all we get from His Majesty today is just more of the same in the form of vague, superficial references to "our mission" in Afghanistan -- a "mission" that has never been clearly articulated or explained to the American people. Meantime, we just continue to ratchet up troop levels over in that absolute hellhole and continue to lose American troops seemingly on a daily basis. "Change we can believe in"? No, just more of the same.

And unlike the hypocritical American left -- which by and large refuses to say a word about Afghanistan since wars without objectives are O.K. to the left as long as a democrat is in the white house -- you won't hear me shutting up about this stuff.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE56A2Q420090712?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true