Saturday, October 31, 2009

SOMETIMES POLITICIANS MAKE A MISTAKE AND TELL THE TRUTH

It is in unguarded moments that our politicians actually say what they think. Take for example the comment by Obama on the campaign trail last year to Joe the plumber about 'redistribution of wealth'. Is there anyone who, at this point, has not come to the realization that he meant exactly what he said at the time?

The same can be said of the Barney Frank comment featured in the post immediately proceeding this one.

Thus we have the reportage below that catches Secretary of State and well established leftist Hillary Clinton speaking truth to power. When on script, politicians lie constantly.

But in those brief, unscripted moments captured on the public record, the rest of us get at least a glimpse at the truth. Why? Because it is impossible to lie at all times, in all places, to all people. At some point there will be a 'slip of the truth'.

Here is another one.

Daily Times - Site Edition	Friday, October 30, 2009

Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan: Hillary Clinton

* US taxes everything, and ‘that’s not what we see in Pakistan’
* Pakistan must start planning for challenges posed by population growth
* US secretary of state meets COAS

LAHORE: The leadership of Al Qaeda is in Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.

“I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” she added.

“Maybe that’s the case; maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know... As far as we know, they are in Pakistan,” Clinton told senior Pakistani newspaper editors in Lahore, AFP reported. “The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world... We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.

“You do have 180 million people. Your population is projected to be about 300 million. And I don’t know what you’re going to do with that kind of challenge, unless you start planning right now,” she said.

“If we are going to have a mature partnership where we work together” then “there are issues that not just the United States but others have with your government and with your military security establishment”.

Separately, Clinton also met army chief General Ashfaq Kayani and exchanged views on a host of security-related issues. afp/sajjad malik

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

RARITY: ANOTHER LEFTIST TELLS THE TRUTH

Sometimes they get so busy talking that they forget to lie. Here is just one more example.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

ADMIRAL BARRY BLACK: AN AMERICAN STORY

Another 'only in America' story brought to us all by the best nation in the history of the planet. There is such a thing as "American Exceptionalism" and real life stories like this one prove the point.

The far left likes to tear down this country but the truth is this could not and would not happen elsewhere. Take a look at Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, Latin America and South America and find a society that features people with black skin in high profile, important jobs like President, Supreme Court Justice, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, corporate CEO's, billionaires and the list goes on.

Those things only happen in the land of the free where liberty and justice prevail in the midst of a free market economy.

The left seeks to destroy such a place and sink the opportunities that people like Admiral Barry Black seize upon to achieve their potential.

Watch the video and carefully consider what it illustrates when you next go to the polls.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

RAISING THE DEBT CEILING WILL BE THE RUINATION OF A GENERATION

Americans need to play close attention to news like that which follows in the article below. This is being done in our names. It is becoming unsustainable debt that succeeding generations will never be able to pay down. The easily influenced young people who voted for the Obama crowd and the leftists in Congress will never be able to gain a lifestyle equivalent or improved over that of their parents because of the emotion based voting decision they made last November. At some point they are going to wake up with a morning after hangover that they will regret for the rest of their lives.

Live and learn!

Dems seek cover to boost debt limit By: Manu Raju
The Senate must soon increase the national debt limit to above $13 trillion — and Democrats are looking for political cover. Knowing they will face unyielding GOP attacks for voting to increase the eye-popping debt, Democrats are considering attaching a debt increase provision to a must-pass bill, possibly the Defense Department spending bill, according to Democratic and Republican sources. Adding it to the defense bill would allow Democrats to argue that they voted for the measure to help troops in harm’s way — and downplay that their vote also expanded the limit for how much money the country can borrow. The strategy has not yet been finalized, aides and senators said. The House already approved a debt limit increase of $925 billion — above the $12.1 trillion ceiling Congress approved as part of the economic stimulus package last February — but Democrats may seek to increase the limit further so they don’t have to revisit the politically treacherous issue until after the 2010 midterm elections. As of Tuesday, the debt stood at $11.95 trillion, staring at senators amid a roiling health care debate in which critics have seized on the potential costs of the overhaul. Unlike those of the House, the Senate’s rules do not allow it to automatically increase the debt with its adoption of the annual budget resolution. That puts senators in a tough position politically. And if the Senate balks at the increase, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned that the slow economic recovery could collapse, as investors around the world would sharply lose confidence in America’s abilities to meet its credit obligations. “This president inherited, in some ways, an economic fiasco,” said conservative Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana. “It’s not going to be a pleasant vote, but it may be necessary until we can get back on track.” Indeed, Democrats are quick to point out that President George W. Bush left President Barack Obama with a $10.6 trillion debt — and that the debt limit was increased seven times in the Republican’s eight years in the White House. But now Democrats are in charge of Congress and the White House; and the Treasury Department reported last week that the annual deficit for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 stood at a record $1.4 trillion, with that number likely to balloon under Obama’s policies. With the debt limit about to be eclipsed, Republicans are eager to force Democrats to find the votes to increase it among themselves, putting the majority party in a lose-lose situation and searching for a way to minimize public backlash. “Regardless of the political treachery, I’m more worried about the economic treachery and the monetary aspects of it with devaluing the dollar,” said Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.). Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), both told POLITICO that appropriators may add the language to must-pass spending legislation. Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), whose committee is in charge of the debt increase, said “oh yeah, it’s a possibility” of adding the debt-ceiling increase to the spending legislation. “I care less how it’s done so long as it is done,” Baucus said. And Conrad said he wants any debt increase to be coupled with language that would create a “comprehensive” process to force Congress to begin making tough choices to cut the debt — something akin to legislation he and Gregg proposed that would establish a commission to study ways to cut the deficit, whose recommendations would be fast-tracked through Congress. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, a centrist Democrat, said he wouldn’t support an increase in the debt limit “unless there’s some mechanism to start getting the deficit under control.” Bayh and nine other Democrats sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last week that called on Congress to approve a “special process” to control the deficit — warning that adding trillions more dollars to the country’s credit card could force a sharp rise in interest rates and cause the price of goods and services to decline while limiting the country’s ability to act on a range of pressing issues. But if that language is attached to a stand-alone bill to increase the debt limit, the House would be forced to vote on the amended version — a vote that House Democratic leaders are eager to avoid. Folding a method to control the deficit — with an increase in the debt limit — into a much larger bill seems to be a more politically palatable solution, several aides said. “Sen. Reid agrees about the importance of dealing with our long-term fiscal challenges and has been talking with Sen. Conrad, the administration and others in the Democratic leadership about the best way to proceed,” said Jim Manley, senior communications adviser to Reid. “Those discussions are ongoing, and the administration is evaluating what they may want to recommend.” Republicans are keenly aware that Democrats may try legislative maneuvering to avoid political fallout, with one senior GOP aide saying the defense appropriations route was under “active consideration.” Three Republicans — Reps. Jerry Lewis and Buck McKeon of California and Rep. Bill Young of Florida — sent a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Wednesday asking Democrats to keep the defense bill clean of extraneous items, including the D.C. Voting Rights Act and an increase in the national debt limit. A spokesman for Obey, Ellis Brachman, said he “couldn’t speculate on what will be in the final defense appropriations package,” which is awaiting action by a House-Senate conference committee. Rob Blumenthal, a spokesman for Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), declined to comment. Since conference reports cannot be amended, the GOP wouldn’t be able to offer amendments to a debt ceiling increase if it’s added to the defense bill. And GOP Senate leaders — who expect their 40 members to unite against the debt limit increase and force Democrats to find the necessary 60 votes on their own — are eager to have a protracted amendment process on the floor. “My guess is that we will try to offer some amendments to [the increase] because I think it’ll be a good opportunity for us to have a debate on spending and borrowing, and that’s obviously a debate that we want to engage in,” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), No. 4 in the GOP leadership. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the Senate’s biggest swing vote, said she was uncertain how she’d vote on a debt limit increase. “You absolutely have to make government run,” she said, “but I have to look at it.”
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

ECONOMY: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "JOBLESS" RECOVERY

Nothing like the facts to put the lie to what Team Obama tries to feed the American people. Here are the actual numbers, no bull.

Ways and Means

7 Months After Stimulus 49 of 50 States Have Lost Jobs
America Now Over 6 Million Jobs Shy of Administration's Projections

Washington, Oct 21 -

The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law (through the end of 2010) with the actual change in state payroll employment through September 2009 (the latest figures available). According to the data, 49 States and the District of Columbia have lost jobs since stimulus was enacted. Only North Dakota has seen net job creation following the February 2009 stimulus. While President Obama claimed the result of his stimulus bill would be the creation of 3.5 million jobs, the Nation has already lost a total of 2.7 million – a difference of 6.2 million jobs. To see how stimulus has failed your state, see the table below.

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

RARE OCCASION: A POLITICIAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH

Listening carefully to politicians when they make unscripted remarks can often get the listener closer to the truth than a room full of formal written speeches or notes.

This video is another example, in a long line of instances, when a politician come clean about the medical insurance proposals now before the Congress.

Politicians are by definition liars under most all conditions but every once in a long while they make the mistake of speaking the truth.

What follows is one of those rare occasions.