A young girl was trudging along a mountain path, trying to reach her grandmother's house. It was bitter cold, and the wind cut like a knife. When she was within sight of her destination, she heard a rustle at her feet.

Looking down, she saw a snake. Before she could move, the snake spoke to her. He said, “I am about to die. It is too cold for me up here, and I am freezing. There is no food in these mountains, and I am starving. Please put me under you coat and take me with you.

“No,” replied the girl. “I know your kind. You are a rattlesnake. If I pick you up, you will bite me, and your bit is poisonous.”

“No, no,” said the snake. “If you help me, you will be my best friend. I will treat you differently.”

The little girl sat down on a rock for a moment to rest and think things over.

Suddenly, she said, “I believe you. I will save you.

The little girl reached over, put the snake gently under her coat and proceeded toward her grandmother's house.

Within a moment, she felt a sharp pain in her side. The snake had bitten her.

“How could you do this to me?” she cried. “You promised that you would not bite me, and I trusted you!”

“You knew what I was when you picked me up,” hissed the snake as he slithered away.

Remember, when politicians tell you to trust them, and that they only have your well-being at heart, they are acting naturally and being normal politicians. You should know what they are and never trust them with your life, your freedom or your money. They will bite you every time.

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Obama's economic policy is a one-trick pony

Barack Obama has a plan; a big economic plan to fire up business and create jobs. He will of course, unveil his brainchild after returning from Martha’s Vineyard for a much-needed vacation from campaigning. He thinks that lolling with his liberal high rollers ($50,000 per week rent) and breathing some Atlantic saltwater air should completely clear any proven methods for job creation that might have contaminated his mind.

The country has lived with this President’s incompetence and anti-growth policies for nearly three years and knows his economic plan is a one-trick pony that grows more tiresome by the day. He rides out on his little red pony almost daily in a comical attempt at convincing people about having an economic clue. His overly staged fundraisers, speeches, and folksy chats appeal to the gullible and his far-left allies. In the face of reality, however, Americans looking for the light of economic growth, see his words splatter like shadows of darkness into a political black hole.

Obama’s discussions on economics are case studies in absurdity and show clearly, why his policies fail. Likewise, his pretentious ramblings shine the spotlight on the ineffectiveness of his Presidency. Every provable economic idea registers a big zero on his Marxist meter, and unfit for his big-government, anti-capitalist, class warfare narrative.

A mere nine hours after blustering that he would not rest until everyone wanting a job can find a job, he announced his get-away, which to date, has been a godsend for the American People. Without his daily rants, the Dow is taking a much-needed respite, as well. One noted short speech by Obama ripped over 200 points from the Stock Market. Incredibly, he boasted at another fundraiser, “Make no mistake. We are moving in the right direction.”

An old commercial claimed when E. F. Hutton speaks, people listen. When Obama speaks they also listen; except the stock market drops like a rock at the sound of his foolishness.

If the American people could convince him to stay on Martha’s Vineyard, do nothing, and refrain from giving speeches, hundreds of comedians might be out of work, but the country could recover from its freefall and survive until the 2012 election. Unfortunately, a hurricane blew him back into the spotlight; and worse yet, back to pressing for his economy-destroying programs.

Killing jobs by taxing and regulating businesses and financial institutions, then ranting about the rich, is inconsistent with reason, logic and common sense. Then again, if one’s primary goal were to bring down our form of government by using a Cloward and Piven strategy (of collapsing the system), it would make perfect sense. It would also explain his promise “to fundamentally transform America.” To be successful in this plot, he must first destroy the American economy.

An economy with over 14 million unemployed, tens of millions more underemployed and 46 million on food stamps (up by a third in two years), and millions more on public assistance, proves that he is well on his way to a welfare state. Inconceivably, for the first time in American history an administration touts increasing the dependency on food stamps, welfare, and unemployment benefits as a means of stimulating the economy.

Republicans have a budget and job’s plan sitting on Harry Reid’s desk. Meanwhile, a trade agreement lies untouched on the President’s desk. The agreement that Obama blamed Congress for ‘not passing’ never left his desk. It remains in that undisturbed pile of known cures for a lousy economy. Possibly one call from the golf course asking an aide to place the agreement in his inbox might jog his memory. One less fundraiser or round of golf should free enough time to submit it to Congress when he returns and create those 70,000 jobs he says are waiting.

Excuses and blame are the shifting foundations upon which failures are built, and Barack Obama is the excuse and blame President. His Presidency consists of building a straw-house economy then blaming others when the soft breezes of normalcy blow it asunder. Predictably, he spends every waking moment compiling and rattling off a litany of excuses for his incompetence, and formulating a blame list for his chronic failures.

On the other hand, Obama, “The New Normal” President finds extraordinary success at striking fear into businesses, financial institutions, and into the hearts and wallets of the American people. This apprehension about spending, investing, and lending in an Obama economy, and anxiety over the strong regulatory arm of his administrative bureaucrats, led directly to this government-induced crisis.

The free enterprise, capitalist system awaits the trillions of investment dollars that lie closely held in ‘fear of Obama accounts’. A positive business climate would unleash these funds and create millions of new jobs.

Obama wants to take those trillions of dollars and continue his Marxist ways of “spreading the wealth around” by investing in even more government. He uses one of his favorite leftist ploys, class warfare, to appeal to his political base and the most gullible of independents.

Alan Krueger, another academic economist believing in more government spending, and the genius behind the Cash-for-Clunkers program is now Obama’s new economic adviser. President Barack Obama’s new economic plan will be exactly the same one-trick pony with a new rhinestone saddle; a Princeton liberal-progressive.

Jim Mullen

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This must be the year to stop the onslaught

This could be the most decisive year in the history of the United States. The American people will determine our standing as the leader of the free world and redefine our struggle for independence from a repressive federal government now entrenched in Washington. Will we become subjects of power-hungry corrupt politicians, or regain control of our government and live our lives as the Constitution and founders intended? The answer to the November, 2012 election question will determine our fate.

Our national security and the safety of our citizenry are in the hands of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. This administration has no concept of how to achieve an honorable peace through strength. Obama, the “apologist,” is a weak, naïve, inexperienced joke in the international theater. Ceding U.S. power to the United Nations and NATO is his concept of foreign policy. Obama’s penchant for treating foreign terrorists as common criminals and a Congress that decades ago abdicated its responsibilities of war, peace and border security, leaves our country at the door of destruction. We have a country sinking into an abyss that may never again rise to world prominence or enjoy the national security that we have long taken for granted. Americans are no longer secure within our own borders, and our leaders are doing nothing to remedy the circumstances. Rather, they do everything in a reactive, politically-correct manner that causes greater damage. The President writes his own laws while Congress shrugs with indifference.

It is utterly essential that we unite, coordinate, and network with conservatives across this great land. Every group regardless of size, location, name or political party affiliation, must come together as one conservative voice at the ballot box. Whether or not you’re a member of a group of patriots, if you fervently believe in the U.S. Constitution, free enterprise, the capitalist system, and our Republic, we must unite. We must seek the truth and become millions of modern-day Paul Reveres, spreading the word.

We also must create a network of millions of conservatives using social-networking sites, local meeting halls, media, telephones, computers, and person-to-person contacts so extensive as to create a tidal wave of reaction to all political chicanery and oppression by our constitutionally challenged leaders. If every conservative in our nation would lock arms and march as one, no power in Washington could stop us.

The liberal, progressive agenda will be in overdrive this year from the media, politicians, and bureaucrats. They realize this may be their last opportunity to enact their left-wing policies. Progressive extremists control the Senate and a “wannabe dictator” and his henchmen direct the White House. They must promote and justify the corrupt and unconstitutional laws and dictates that they enforce upon the American people. In addition, they must do so before the November election to energize their base. Living within the bounds of our Constitution is not an option for leftists, and they will viciously attack anyone standing in the way of their dictatorial philosophies.

The massive graft, corruption, and payoffs accepted as the norm by this Congress, always trumps the wishes of the American people. Nancy Polosi epitomized many in Congress when asked where in the Constitution does Congress get the authority to enact the Healthcare debacle, she deadpanned, “Are you kidding me?” Are you kidding me?”

Barack Obama has repeatedly shown his contempt for the Constitution and the traditional citizenry. He and Congress display their arrogance daily with the help of a compliant media. Their scheduled press conferences have degenerated into propaganda sessions of talking points and lies. Reporters who dare question the administration or Congress encounter scorn and contempt, as do voters who assemble peacefully in the streets or town-hall meetings and question their government officials. They characterize voter dissent as “just a bunch of racist, ignorant, rednecks” or “shills controlled by business.” We are obliged to stand up to these attacks and resist with the same ferocity that we see from this country’s radical left-wing.

The President is the epitome of arrogance reading his speeches from his scripted TelePrompTer. In true Hollywood style, he poses with his nose and chin in the air, camera shooting upward to portray an air of greatness and superiority. He bounces his head from side to side like a Charley McCarthy dummy. His mouth moves, but you know someone else controls the movements, writes the script, does the talking, and pulls the strings. This does not mean, however, that he is any less treacherous. He is the most dangerous politician ever to hold office in this country. When he talks off script, he often reveals his leftist ideas and tendencies. The very fact that media hoisted him atop their liberal, progressive shoulders because he gave them a “tingle” with his charisma and Marxist principles makes him ever more dangerous.

Neither Congress nor Obama believes the conservatives have the numbers to affect change in their extreme leftist agenda. Liberals spent generations paving the road to socialism with millions of government dependents and believe they have a system in place and most of their programs passed, to “fundamentally change” this country. They trust their base of government, subservient voters, is large enough to sweep away the annoying constitutionalists. All they must do is organize the turnout at the polls. Remember, they will accomplish all of their goals using taxpayer’ money.

The coming months of race baiting, class warfare and media blitzkrieg will set a vicious tone unseen in our country. November stands prominently as one of the most important dates in our history. If Barack Obama and liberals retain the Presidency and the Senate, it could be a death knell for our Constitution and our Republic.

We will face sleight-of-hand, behind the back, and ambush techniques. Liberals’ ranting, raving, and screaming lies will sorely test conservatives’ will to continue the fight. We are obligated to continue building our informational highway locally and nationally. Let us use our connections and resources to respond instantly to the political machine’s propaganda and lies. By increasing the information flow, we can slow down their run-a-way totalitarian takeover of our country and taste victory in November!

Jim Mullen

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Copenhagen, Obama, and America's sins

Obama to set EPA upon the American people

Our own wannabe dictator, President Obama - who believes his country is so evil he must personally seek atonement from the world - has blessed the climate summit in Copenhagen with his presence. He not only seeks to transform and reshape America, but the world, as well. He is most eager to redistribute our wealth and cede our sovereignty to the United Nations. With the entire world as his stage, he must bow and apologize profusely to all of the other dictators, communists, Marxists, and fascists, for America's worldly sins.

Sins like building the greatest, freest country in the history of civilization, and then inviting the abused, the wretched, and forgotten of the world to share in our bounty and share our home, as well. All that this country asked in return for living here was that people come by legal means, work hard, love their new country, and prosper. Most did so and quickly became a part of the greatest and most successful experiment in government in the history of civilization.

The ones not coming were nonetheless recipients of our sinful generosity. They soon forget the billions of dollars in foreign aid that have flowed from the pockets of hard-working Americans to feed the unfortunate and the disadvantaged of the world. When natural disasters occur anywhere in the world, Americans are the first to delve deeply into their own pockets for money to buy food, essential supplies and send emergency workers. Our money enriches the coffers of every insignificant dictator who ever donned a uniform and goose-stepped over his own people. Yet, we paid and paid and paid.

We then committed the unpardonable sin of staining the beaches and fields of their countries and filling the oceans of the world with the blood of our young men and women. They answered every call to fight and die defending people in nations around the world who allowed themselves to become weak and complacent. Weakness led to appeasement and appeasement led to enslavement. We sinfully became involved in the affairs of other nations and freed the ingrates. Still, we pay.

The nations of the world will thank us once again for our generosity and sacrifice with that same old, enduring, and relentless whine for "more"... give us "more".

Obama has stated publicly that he will submit to the summit a "politically binding commitment" from the U.S. on carbon dioxide emissions. In other words, he intends to enforce it even if the Senate fails to ratify the treaty. He also stated he might go further in the talks than had been expected because of lagging U.S. legislation on climate control, thus firing a shot across the bow of Congress and issuing a direct threat to the American people. Obama has added another weapon to his arsenal by holding the EPA sledgehammer over our heads. He is threatening to come down on us with this bureaucratic behemoth to regulate carbon emissions, thus making our lives even more unpleasant if he does not get his Cap and Trade bill passed.
This treaty and his proposed Cap and Trade legislation seek to control the way we conduct and live our lives. They both would redistribute American taxpayer's wealth to the federal government and to "poorer" countries. Manufacturing jobs will continue their flight to third-world nations and China. Crippling taxes will follow, and our energy prices will as Obama stated, "Naturally skyrocket."

The liberal progressives of the world have taken the naturally occurring phenomenon of global temperature fluctuations that have been occurring for millions of years and are using it to enrich themselves, their friends and anyone else willing to manipulate numbers, ignore facts and torture statistics until they scream for mercy.

Facts known by thousands of scientists for years have surfaced. Numbers do not fit the alarmists' computer models or their agenda, and the "settled facts of global warming" are not facts at all. The left-wing scientists and liberals have been cooking the books and engaging in a massive cover-up. This giant conspiratorial fraud is strangely eliciting more outrage from the perpetrators than from the victims. Much like a small child when caught in an act of misconduct or lying, their protestations become more animated and forceful as evidence of their misdeeds unfolds.

Without alternative energy sources or fuels and only a politician's promise of what we will use in the future, there will be enormous price and tax increases and shortages. Decades will pass before the development of appropriate "clean" solutions.

No sensible person believes that China, Russia, India, or any emerging country will observe this treaty. The U.S. taxpayers and workers will suffer irreparable harm in this international power grab by the United Nations. Our apologist-in-chief Obama is placing the world's noose around America's neck and tying our hands.

When will the paying cease? Only when there is a taxpayer revolt.

Jim Mullen

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America's deadly addiction to
government

Government dependency is replacing the illegal drug trade as the most destructive force in our country. Politicians are the counterparts to the drug kingpins, as are their appointed bureaucrats to the pushers and enforcers. We welcome them into our homes, neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and allow them to infiltrate every corner of society. The pushers and enforcers that feed our addiction to big-government money, exhibit many of the same traits and tactics as drug dealers. The idea of getting more and more people hooked is the same; assuring millions of mindless users for life. Not to mention, they offer career employment opportunities for the kingpins and pushers.

Chemical dependency, the devastating conventional drug problem in this county, pales in comparison to the mind-numbing and incapacitating enslavement to government. It has laid waste to entire generations of families and turned them into uneducated, slothful zombies waiting and begging for their next fix of “government money.”

This addiction renders them unappreciative of life and unmindful of the real joys of self-esteem, self-sacrifice, and accomplishment that one realizes in the pursuit of a fulfilling life without the mind-altering effects of a welfare state.

Politicians convince society that government has a constitutional obligation to provide for the lifelong, paternalistic support and care of Americans. Regardless of effort, preparation, education, or work ethic, many believe that politicians should strip money and property from the rightful owners and use it to make the leeches of society more comfortable in their little self-made, ideological world. However, in reality, they enslave themselves to government and live their lives in fetid ghettos of their own minds.

Likewise, institutions of learning forgot how to educate children properly when they bowed to the federal money bonanza that awaited only their submissive compliance to governmental demands and bureaucratic rules. Government-run schools teach children this same dependency by getting them hooked on the free ride. Since intrusion by the federal government and infusion of federal money into the process began, the educational system has been in a complete free-fall.

When dependence upon and subservience to the state replaced teaching of critical and rational thinking skills, indoctrination replaced education. The remaining dregs of the public educational system, from kindergarten to graduate school reek of failure. The result is, woefully unprepared young people enter society lacking the skills and knowledge needed to function and survive on their own.

The hunters, gatherers, and entrepreneurs of free-willed, independent people are quickly being supplanted by beggars and unmotivated hoards of whining miscreants. They prefer to accept the federal government as the ultimate power over their economic and personal lives, and in turn, mortgage their future and their children’s futures for more government induced euphoria.

Most animals instinctively teach their young how to survive before sending them into the world. Unfortunately, our instincts have devolved into teaching dependence.

We see the finished product of nanny-state incompetence with the “tantrum crowd” demonstrations on Wall Street demanding even more government. They whine about the evils of Capitalism and the free-enterprise system and call for the dismantling of both. Acting like escapees from a liberal-progressive animal farm, these mostly college-educated, “life-skills” challenged, young people are products of decades-long indoctrination and addiction. Awash in a Marxist sea of economic and constitutional ignorance, they bob aimlessly along demanding the tides of government transport them to some left-wing, Garden of Eden.

Additionally, corporations, businesses and mega-farm owners spend more money, manpower, and toil in the pursuit of favorable treatment and money from government than they do in producing goods and services. Lending institutions are under such massive control by government, they lost sight of lending money to people and businesses for the good of a healthy economy.

The kingpins and pushers learn their lessons well and know all the tricks in keeping the dependency spiraling. They know that many in our country would rather remain on their knees begging for government handouts than to stand up, shake the subordination to government, and return to the principles of American exceptionalism.

As with all uncontrolled, untreated drug problems, the government addiction eventually proves fatal to individuals, families, businesses, and the Republic. Our country and its people are dying a slow death; deprived of its lifeblood of liberty and stripped of its backbone of responsibility.

Liberals and Marxists fall into two basic categories: The first group is incapable of thinking and acting for themselves and want government to provide for their needs. The second, mistakenly believes they are capable and, indeed, ordained to think and act for everyone else. The second group is the destroyer of free society.

We must relearn the American lesson of prosperity by producing, not by government seizure of assets and redistributing the fruits of the industrious. Until Americans awaken and realize we are addicts to government, we will continue our decline and fall. A country in a mindless stupor awaiting the next feel-good injection bears no resemblance to the Founders vision for this great land.

The American dream is there for those who follow the history lessons of America and embrace the dream. Far too many go through life looking under every government rock in search of grubs when they could enjoy the Feast of America. They remain caught up in a quest to steal the dreams and assets of the producers.

If we allow destruction of the fruit-bearing trees of our nation, we will follow Marxist Europe into the depths of despair. The nanny-state will win or the Republic shall stand; they cannot coexist.

We can realize the dream only by kicking the habit of government and embracing liberty. Acceptance of Barack Obama’s “dream-like” liberal-Marxist ideas, and his Balkanization of our country, will lead to ruination and we will never awaken from this American nightmare.

Jim Mullen

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Barack Obama clad only in heavyweight demagoguery

Barack Obama came into office hoisted by a gushing mainstream media to his lofty, exalted throne formally known as the Presidency of the United States.

Jingoistic slogans, sweet words of “hope,” and chants of “yes we can,” permeated the blogosphere, filled the airways, and joyously leaped from the pages of the print media. Songs of “change we can believe in” filtered and cleansed the socialist filth from his message. The liberal world rejoiced. The Obama campaign pulled their strings, and the puppet media did the song and dance.

Flat, sour notes hit by this media darling, however, went unheard or disregarded in Obama’s political symphony. “Spread the wealth around,” “my idea of Cap and Trade,” “the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties,” and “social justice,” were just a few of his off-key screechings.

Obama found it appalling that the U.S. Constitution says what the state and federal governments cannot do to you but does not say what they must do on your behalf. This, of course, was exactly the framers’ intent; protecting the people from oppressive government like Obama’s redistributive change. Every glimpse into his leftist dogma should have been a harbinger of the looming economic and constitutional crisis on the horizon.

Admonitions about Obama having the most liberal voting record in the Senate, and a radical left-wing economic philosophy went unheeded. Likewise, warnings of his lack of business knowledge and executive experience fell flat. However, he was the left’s candidate of a lifetime and sent a thrill up the collective legs of the media. The progressive, left-wing had their way and their messianic nominee arose to the Presidency, largely because of activist media’s complete failure to vet Barack Obama.

Obama found his soul mates in an ego-stroking, left-wing Congress joined at the ideological hip. They felt entitled to run roughshod over the American people and the fundamental transformation of the Republic was underway. Rants of racism quickly extinguished all dissent.

The poisoned fruit of today’s economic disaster comes from seasons of suffocating weeds of government interference and blocking freedom’s sunshine and nourishment from our free-enterprise system. Barack Obama’s ideology overrides every economic tenet and his failed policies leaves tens-of-millions of Americans without jobs. Long unemployment lines, welfare, and food stamps replace his promise of “hope.”

‘Obama the destroyer’ of jobs and middle-class America now claims the mantle as the warrior for the middle class! If there were a Nobel Prize for pure, chutzpa and arrogance, Barack Obama would be a two-time prizewinner – and deserving of the second. His unconstitutional assault upon the states and people of this country is equaled only by his affront upon their intelligence.

In the final analysis, did this country really choose a man to represent unions at the exclusion of the rest of the nation’s workers and citizens? Did we know creating government jobs would cripple the private sector?

Did we elect a President to oversee our Executive branch of government, overrun with 60’s radicals, Maoists, and far-left extremists, setting policy for the greatest nation on earth?

Did we place a man in the White House to declare war on the states and their citizenry and cause the American people to fear their own government?

Did we vote for a man who rules by executive decree when Congress and the people reject his Marxist ideas?

Did we recognize Obama the “globalist” was intent upon ceding United States power to world organizations and then would repeatedly apologize to them for America’s sins?

After promises of “Obama would be the great uniter,” did we bargain for a President, who deliberately divides the country by race, religion, social status, income, national origin, and wealth? Subsequently, did we foresee the unabashed pandering to each group and driving wedges to foment hatred and distrust?

If history teaches us anything, we should recognize that every despot, dictator, and tyrant in history employed these Obama strategies and tactics. Unfortunately, even for those with masterful knowledge of history, knowledge does not necessarily translate into learning and understanding.

Behind the veils and the facades, when finally we stripped all the trappings and flowery speeches to lay bare the real man, we as a nation were unable to recognize a lightweight man clad in heavyweight demagoguery. The warnings were all there; they all read danger!

Other presidents with illusions of grandeur and duplicitous motives have occupied the White House and each left an indelible stain on the presidency, and weakened the country.

Let us hope that our knowledge of the now unmasked, real Obama will translate into understanding by next November.

Jim Mullen

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Obama jobs speech
just another political stunt

Picture from Scotty Starnes's blog http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-campaigner-in-chief-brings-back-an-oldie-but-goodie-the-gop-will-bamboozle-you/

In another Barack Obama bizarre performance, he left a joint session of Congress and the American people stunned by his empty, unimportant triviality. His jobs speech ended as it began, an eloquent oratory to economic nowhere.

This latest political stunt diminishes another long-held tradition of using a joint session of Congress for vital American interests. He brings time-honored national traditions and the office of the Presidency down to his level of classless Chicago, street politics.

Once again, the President used his tax-and-spend monotone, replete with words of class warfare. His code words and phraseology always crowd the message anytime he opens his mouth. “Paying their fair share”, “investment”, and “winning the future”, are favorites. He tried to disguise his economic sameness by changing the inflections of his words but presented nothing new.

There is nothing new to an ideologue who believes all job creation begins and ends with big-government financing and regulatory control.

This entire dramatic exercise was political grandstanding at its worse, intent on distracting American voters from the sheer folly and dismal failure of his policies. What's more, the plan pumps stimulus money into his base to coincide with next year’s election. It is a plan to buy an election, pure and simple, by using bailouts and payoffs.

If it wasn’t bad enough for the country to suffer through another vintage Obama speech of artful dodging of the truth, more deception and rope-a-dope, he followed that performance with another Rose Garden ceremony staged with life-like Democratic mannequins and puppets, praising the genius of their benefactor.

All of Barack Obama’s speeches follow a script feeding his own self-importance. What better way to stroke his giant ego, than with feigned applause and fawning, adoration of a Congress held captive to his whimsical fantasies. We should take this exercise as seriously as a comedian should take canned laughter to a monologue of jokes.

Seeing his approval numbers spiraling down the economic drain, he knew he must quickly shift his Marxist-mobile into a higher gear and press the accelerator on his class warfare, anti-capitalist rhetoric.

In one of his best theatrical performances, he delivered a clear warning to Republicans for all Americans to hear; get in step and follow him into his Marxist abyss, or you stand in the way of job creation.

Hanging like a pall through the capitol and over the airways, we heard the dreaded words to which Obama is infamously attached - the snake-oil salesman’s favorite – “You must act now!” Precisely, the words he used to foist the Obama-care disaster, the first stimulus, the banking debacle, and all the bailouts upon an unwilling country. All of which resulted in the massive unemployment and miniscule growth of the economy we are experiencing nearly three years into his administration.

The American people and their Republic are in mortal danger from Obama’s unbounded arrogance and ineptitude. For the first time in American history, we hear an American President deny American exceptionalism to the world, repudiate free enterprise and then glorify Marxism.

Brazenly, he tries hammering another stimulus program through Congress and steamrolling a populace long tired of his trillions of dollars of debt piled on future generations of Americans.

The last stimulus of nearly one trillion dollars for two years was a payoff to the public-sector unions and bailouts of irresponsible, debt-ridden states. The bank-breaking bill furnished a provisional, temporary extension of jobs and benefits to positions already on the superfluous chopping block. All of these temporary jobs were created at exorbitant costs to taxpayers and allowed states to maintain their Cadillac plans for public-sector union benefits and salaries.
Obama’s Stimulus-2 proposal is a mirror image of Stimulus-1. However, instead of one trillion dollars for two years, this nightmare is a half trillion dollars for one year. As with all of this President’s proposals and policies, there is nothing to diminish the burden on the real job creators, the private sector, or to mitigate the cost to taxpaying Americans and their families.

The President spoke not a word about reversing his ill-conceived and dangerous energy policy that consists of polishing the solar panels of his friends with billions of taxpayers’ dollars. Thousands of real jobs wait on the wrong side of his leftist ideology. Likewise, his steadfast opposition to drilling and to all fossil fuels contributes mightily to unemployment and high prices. These policies act as a brake on the economy and cause job losses that will imperil the country for decades if not reversed.

Obama offers no offsets or means to pay for his latest boondoggle other than tax increases. He promises to repay in ten years for a half-a-trillion-dollar stimulus today. The plan, of course, is to pump the stimulus dollars into his base to coincide with next year’s election. In short, he wants to use an increase in taxes to help fund his reelection campaign.
One of Obama’s most insidious tax increases involves eliminating much of the deduction for charitable contributions for many Americans, which will result in millions of dollars in losses to charities. The idea of a totalitarian like our President is to redirect all money to the centralized authority, where they will, in all their infinite wisdom, make better financial decisions.

When Obama speechifies about jobs, he invariably means increasing the size and scope of government. In other words, he means public-sector, union jobs. One must always remember that Obama and unions represent unions, not American workers. The only way to create permanent, private-sector jobs is to create a business-friendly environment by reducing taxes and regulations; the exact antithesis of the Marxist philosophy espoused by this President.

Obama and the left-wing Democrats are officially in panic mode. Their attacks on the Tea Party and anyone believing in Constitutional principles and smaller government are cries of ranting, delusional, desperation.

President Barack Obama has one chance for reelection. He must ask the voters a simple question, “Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?” He must then go into a full attack mode by telling the most outlandish lies, defending the indefensible and demonizing Republicans.

This speech and his new jobs plan are just chapters in the Obama reelection saga. Prepare for the onslaught of nonsense, hyperbole, and brazen lies by the administration, leftist Democrats, and the Obama mainstream-media machine. We will never again witness such extremes in the art of blaming others and making excuses for utter incompetence.

Jim Mullen

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Government calculates that if a twelve-ounce hammer is good for driving a finishing nail, then a ten-pound sledge should be about right. This explains just about everything that is wrong with government.

Jim Mullen