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Palin: ‘Conservatives Must Stay Engaged’

Posted on | January 1, 2013 | 27 Comments

by Smitty

Best wishes to everyone for a happy New Year! In the coming days there will be a great deal of debate about the goings-on in the political arena and the shenanigans in Washington. Constitutional commonsense conservatives must stay engaged and hold our “leaders” accountable to the voice of average everyday hard working Americans or we will very soon become an enslaved, bankrupt former nation of greatness. So, please keep the faith heading into this new year. And for now, remember to be grateful for the blessings and opportunities God has given us as independent individuals, as caring members of families, as honorable businesses and communities, and as countrymen who understand this most exceptional nation’s foundations of strength. We’ve been given all this for yet another year; let’s not take it for granted. In this new year, as jobs change with doors closing and opening, kids growing, relationships evolving, and life throwing curveballs, may you resolve to stay engaged and optimistic. May you pick your battles wisely. And may you live life vibrantly! God bless you all and God bless our great country as we promise to live out 2 Chronicles 7:14. Here’s to liberty!

– Sarah Palin

It’s easy to succumb to despair and anger, get emotional, throw a fit. Fine get it out. Call them all everything under the sun. Block out a “pouty day”.

Then, if all of your efforts thus far meant anything, get up and get back in the fray. A huge chunk of the battle was showing up. Another chunk is having the stamina to outlast the Godless Commie enemies of liberty. I’m not saying be detached and high minded. You’re not Mitt Romney or George W. Bush, sufficiently insulated from all this that you can buy privacy and gaff off the moocher hordes that rejected limited government.

The bad guys want you to give up. Deny them joy.

Category: Sarah Palin

Fiscal-Cliff Kabuki Nears Final Scene UPDATE: House GOP Wants More Spending Cuts Before Final Vote

Posted on | January 1, 2013 | 13 Comments

Excuse my failure to comment previously on the Glorious Passage of the Great Compromise in the Senate, but I’ve been working on an American Spectator column about this shameful travesty while waiting to see what the House does. Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and other House Democrats just gave a press conference demanding an up-or-down vote on the Senate bill. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Senate bill would provide a pathetic $620 billion in additional revenues over the next decade, while providing an even more pathetic $15 billion in spending cuts. (Insert punchline here.) Sen. Rand Paul sums it up:

“Mark my word, you will raise tax rates and you’ll feel good because you went out there and you got those rich people. . . . You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country, and you’re going to stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get any more revenue. You may not get any more economic growth. But you can say, ‘I stuck it to the rich people.’”

 

Damn the Democrat Party. Damn them all to hell.

UPDATE: In the interests of bipartisanship and the Starbucks “Come Togther” spirit, I’ll quote Tom Blumer’s PJ Media column:

What Breitbart understood, and what all too many establishment Republicans and even conservatives don’t, is that there is no accommodating the left . . . The left is hellbent on fundamentally transforming the country into a socialist utopia which has never succeeded anywhere it has been tried, and the press is determined to help them do that. Folks, no matter what you do, they’re going to hate you . . . So you might as well do the right thing and follow your beliefs and principles.

Damn the Republican Party. Damn them all to hell.

UPDATE II: Oh, wait, CBO has re-calculated its estimate:

The Senate deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff” will add roughly $4 trillion to the deficit when compared to current law, according to new numbers from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). . . .
The CBO says the budget agreement will lead to an overall increase in spending of about $330 billion over 10 years. . . .
White House officials and lawmakers who voted for the bill argue the bill would raise $620 billion in new tax revenue compared to current policy.

Which is to say, they lied. Damn them all to hell.

UPDATE III: The ritual kabuki dance continues: House Republicans are demanding that additional spending cuts be added to the Senate bill, and the amended bill would then have to be sent back to the Senate for yet another vote

This is screwing up my plans to file my American Spectator column and be done with this godawful mess. Damn them all to hell.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Rand Paul, Senate, Taxes

Penetration, However Slight

Posted on | January 1, 2013 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Legal Insurrection

The bill raised taxes by over $600 billion, in addition to Obamacare taxes already coming on line, yet the Senators can claim it was a massive tax cut because the vote took place after midnight, so technically the Bush tax cuts already had expired.

Oh, Senator Warner, you’ll be facing some questions come 2014, sir.

Update: and Moe Lane says Virginia is ‘low risk’. Well, we’re just going to have to set about changing that, then.

Category: Virginia

Sneaky Tea Party Extremists!

Posted on | December 31, 2012 | 24 Comments

The latest news from Manhattan rural Oklahoma shows the danger posed by Harvard graduates racist hillbillies joining Occupy Wall Street Tea Party extremists and engaging in violent terrorism:

The privileged daughter of a prominent city doctor, and her boyfriend — a Harvard grad and Occupy Wall Street activist — have been busted for allegedly having a cache of weapons and a bombmaking explosive in their Greenwich Village apartment.
Morgan Gliedman — who is nine-months pregnant — and her baby daddy, Aaron Greene, 31, also had instructions on making bombs, including a stack of papers with a cover sheet titled, “The Terrorist Encyclopedia,’’ sources told The Post yesterday.
People who know Greene say his political views are “extreme,” the sources said.
Cops found the stash in the couple’s West Ninth Street home Saturday when they went there to look for Gliedman, 27, who was wanted for alleged credit-card theft.
A detective discovered a plastic container with seven grams of a white chemical powder called HMTD, which is so powerful, cops evacuated several nearby buildings.
Police also found a flare launcher, which is a commercial replica of a grenade launcher; a modified 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun; ammo; and nine high-capacity rifle magazines, the sources said.

Sounds like these Harvard graduates Oklahoma trailer trash were planning real trouble. Imagine how angry liberals would be if Naomi Wolf Pat Buchanan was defending the “civil rights” of these terrorists.

Category: #Occupy, Terrorism

‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal Rumored; Obama Supporters Cheer Tax Increases on Rich

Posted on | December 31, 2012 | 20 Comments

Ace has examined the reported terms of the deal, which would raise taxes on those earning more than $400,000, if indeed it is a deal, but deal or no deal, President Obama refused to be distracted from his most important second-term priority, scapegoating Republicans:

Barack Obama held a last minute press conference today to bash Republicans and gloat about his election victory. At one point in his speech he bragged about how he’s going to be able to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.
His supporters cheered — as if they earned it.

Happy New Year, America. This is what you voted for.

 


Category: Ace of Spades, Barack Obama, Budget, Taxes

The Chicago Way: Obamaland Reports 500 Homicides (So Far) This Year

Posted on | December 31, 2012 | 19 Comments

“The city’s latest homicide occurred around 9 p.m. Thursday when Nathaniel T. Jackson, 40, an alleged gang member with a lengthy arrest record, was gunned down . . .
“Jackson was shot in the head outside Noah Foods at Augusta Boulevard and Lavergne Avenue, police said. . . .
“Jackson grew up on the West Side, a few miles from where he was gunned down, and had been released from prison this past summer after serving a sentence for robbery.”
— Chicago Tribune, Dec. 28

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy are shocked — shocked! — to learn drug gangs don’t obey gun-control laws:

The rising homicide toll, 500 as of Friday, a 17 percent increase in slayings over last year — has been a looming shadow over Chicago, plaguing residents and the city’s leadership for much of the year. . . .
Experts warn not to put too fine a point on year-over-year increases in homicides, but Chicago’s tally this year is the highest since 2008. . . .
In McCarthy’s view, the proliferation of guns on Chicago’s streets, which he said is unlike any other city in the country, and the division of gangs into smaller factions are to blame for the homicide surge.
Many of these factions, or “cliques,” run low-level narcotics markets on street corners and flaunt their activities on YouTube and other social media websites, sometimes to taunt other factions or members of rival gangs. That often leads to violent skirmishes on the street, he said. . . .
Police statistics show that roughly 1 in 4 of this year’s homicide victims were affiliated with the Gangster Disciples — Chicago’s largest street gang that has gradually splintered into about 250 factions.

Hmmm. So, if you could subtract the Gangster Disciples from the equation, you would immediately achieve a 25% reduction in homicides. This raises the question of why Chicago police haven’t done a better job of identifying members of the Gangster Disciples before they’re shot dead.  Why is it that cops in Chicago can’t figure out that someone is a Gangster Disciple until he’s wearing a toe-tag in the morgue?

The Gangster Disciples aren’t a social club or a political activist organization. Criminality is the entire purpose of the gang, and all of its members are criminals, as the name of the gang rather emphatically implies. So it would therefore seem to be in the interest of Chicago law enforcement to (a) identify members of the Gangster Disciples, (b) subject these gang members to heightened police scrutiny, (c) arrest gang members if they so much as violate a city ordinance against littering or jaywalking, (d) prosecute them to the maximum extent of the law, and thereby (e) steadily reduce the number of Gangster Disciples who are out on the streets and killing people.

Repeat after me: Crime is a people problem. Read more

Category: Chicago, Crime, Rahm Emanuel

Maybe We Should Send Charlie Sheen to the University of Maryland

Posted on | December 31, 2012 | 9 Comments

Charlie Sheen was on stage at the opening of his new bar in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, when he he asked the crowd, “How we doing?”

The crowd gave a small cheer — not good enough for Sheen, who then said, “Lying bunch of faggot assholes! How we doing?”

This made headlines because Sheen had used a “homophobic slur.”

The University of Maryland would be so disappointed:

The University of Maryland (UMD) allocated $15,000 in 2012 to combat the use of language deemed by administrators to be “insensitive.”
The “words have power” campaign’s goal is to deploy posters, buttons and other promotional materials to help foster an environment on campus that is not offensive to illegal aliens, homosexuals, or other minority groups.
“Non-inclusive language can offend or make spaces uncomfortable for people who are excluded by that language,” one of the campaign posters reads.

Probably “lying bunch of faggot assholes” would be considered “non-inclusive.” The State of Maryland had a $1.4 billion deficit in 2012. Maybe you can think of some non-inclusive language for that.

 

Category: Celebrities

NSFW Video Gives It Back To Hollywood For ‘Demand A Plan’ To Grab Guns

Posted on | December 31, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Apparently our sanctimonious betters in Hollyweird put out Yet. Another. Hypocritical. Ad. demanding a plan to DO SOMETHING. That something apparently involves stripping Constitutional rights from innocents as a sacrifice to an as-yet-unidentified God Who Prevents Bad Things. I guess.
The video makes the point well, splicing the smarmy, overpaid buffoons with footage of them putting rounds downrange in various ways:

America, 2013 marks 100 years of Progress since Woodrow Wilson’s fell swearing-in. The only good that can come of this climax of idiocy is if the non-koolaid drinkers use this as motivation to vote out the gungrabbers and liberty haters in 2014.

#OccupyResoluteDesk sounds like he is going to make an ‘unexpected’ 180 degree pivot from his stated position pre-election. Obama is indeed conservative about a good crisis. Let this one be a bridge too far for him.

via Drudge

Category: Celebrities
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