Friday, April 08, 2011

Larwyn's Linx: The Democrats' Shameful Rhetoric

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Nation

The Democrats' Shameful Rhetoric: AT
DeMint: Dems want shutdown to distract from their failures: Cubachi
With Shutdown Looming, Obama Plans Weekend Getaway: GWP

Bombshell in WI as race swings to Prosser: Malkin
Declaring Victory: Ace
What Wisconsin's Judicial Election Means: AT

ACORN Guilty Again; Obama DOJ Still Won’t Investigate: JW
Bachmann to donate pay to military during shutdown: Freddoso
'Justice Kagan's First Dissent': Althouse

Economy

Attack of the Cash Register: Belmont
Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Starving Seniors’ Math Just a Little Off: Malkin
Am I making something of nothing or is this outrageous?: Bookworm

Illegal Aliens: Swamping America's Welfare System: RWN
Senate, Obama to Blame for Partial Fed Shutdown: Foundry
Obama buddy and union hack Trumka insists he's 'winning': WZ

Climate & Energy

Obama: Get Used to High Gas Prices: Instapundit
Obama: If You're Not Rich, You're S.O.L.: Line
Obama promised higher energy costs. He wasn't kidding: Tapscott

The California Green Debauch: Gilder
Obama On Gas Prices: Let ‘Em Eat Cake: Hayride
GOP Rejects Dem’s Global Warming Junk Science Bill: GWP

Media

Left Wing Media Matters Claims Vote Fraud Charges in WI Baseless--When They Thought Dem Won: VARight
Ann Barnhardt, Culture Hero: Kimball
Unexpected Racists: Blacks, Hispanics Less Supportive Of Obama: Ace

NY Times Notices That Using Food As Fuel Is Not The Best Of Ideas: RWN
Michele Bachmann: “I Think I Got President Obama’s Fortune Cookie Tonight”: GWP
Race Hustler: Budget Battle is American Civil War All Over Again: WZ

The Greatest Press Conference of All Time: Hot Air
ABC Locates Victims of Shutdown That Hasn't Happened Yet, Pleases President Obama: MRC
Levin blasts Obama for not funding troops: RightScoop

World

Hamas Is Moving Toward War With Israel: BRubin
Does America Have a De Facto State Religion?: Driscoll
Janet Napolitano: Borders Are Safe So Just Ignore Mass Graves Found In Mexico, Near The Border: SHN

Ahmadinejad: ‘A Mideast Without Israel and America Now Possible’: PJM
Mission Creep in Libya -- It Has Begun: RWN
Historic Day: Israel’s Iron Dome Defense System Intercepts Gaza Terror Rockets: GWP

Group Says Spies Have Found Secret Iranian Nuclear Facility: Dollard
GOP Freshmen Senators Led By Marco Rubio Pledge Support For Israel: WZ
Geert Wilders’ PVV Party Announces Fitna 2 Will Be About “The Barbaric Life And Sick Mind Of Mohammed”: WZ

SciTech

Law Firms Under Siege: DarkReading
Review: 2011 Chevrolet Volt: Autoblog
Real Life And Antibiotic Resistance: RWN

Cornucopia

Trump: I Have Investigators in Hawaii…’They Cannot Believe What They’re Finding’: BIN
Displace-Tra Can Help: Ingraham
Breaking: Obama 2012 Campaign Poster!: RWN

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QOTD: "Democrats are going out of their way to hurt our military... with the stroke of a pen, President Obama could ensure that America's warriors are paid during a government shutdown. Reagan did it. Clinton did it. Obama won't do it." --Mark Levin (MP3)

Thursday, April 07, 2011

'What I did for summer, fall, winter, and spring vacation'

Via Sad Hill News, remember when President Obama observed that "it would be so much easier to be the president of China".

Really?

President Obama also found time to hit the links as the massive disaster unfolded in Japan, so it's not fair to say he's unfocused.

His daily calendar proves it.


Is this the calendar of a man concerned with the budget, the shutdown of the government, our troops, unemployment or high gas prices?

Is this the calendar of a man concerned with anything other than enjoying the perquisites of office? Oh -- and I'm not cherry-picking. I went back, day by day, through this week and the week prior.









Does the Obama daily calendar strike you as representing a man concerned with unemployment? Or the budget shutdown and its impact on the troops? Or the yawning budget deficit? Our our bleeding borders and a nascent civil war in Mexico?

His own calendar paints Obama as a lazy ideologue, one concerned more with campaigning, enjoying the trappings of office, and demagoguing his political opponents.

Oh.

Right.


Update: FAA sets up no-fly zone for Obama's planned trip to Williamsburg.

The even newer Obama 2012 banner ads are here!







In between soirees, President Obama vows to cut off funding for the troops even as top General says they could be sent to Libya

Is this the schedule of a man worried about anything?

I have a busier damn schedule on the weekends -- and I'm a nobody!

Oh, but the President did have time for another fancy dinner party last night with master race-baiter Al Sharpton.

Amid desperate budget negotiations and a looming government shutdown, President Barack Obama came to New York City last night to speak at the twentieth-anniversary party for Al Sharpton's National Action Network. At the gala, Obama focused on the issue of education inequality, but only after palling around with Sharpton, teasing him for getting skinny ("But he hasn't lost his style.") and giving him "a rousing slap on the back," according to the New York Post. Then Obama got serious, speaking about his student loan reform. "Only a few years ago I was still paying off my student loans," said Obama. "It's true, I don't pump gas now, but I remember what it was like pumping gas. I remember!"

Later, Obama said he remembers "the end of the month. I remember that." He added, "We appreciate you all buying the book, Michelle and I. That's the college fund right there. That was not a given." His humility tends to be convincing, but he did make over $5 million in 2009...

Is this a man worried about a government shutdown, or coming up with a budget, or even working on plans to reduce unemployment? Eh, that was a rhetorical question.

As for the troops?

The White House blasted the GOP's Continuing Resolution (CR) designed to fund the troops until the end of the fiscal year.

The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1363, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes. As the President stated on April 5, 2011, if negotiations are making significant progress, the Administration would support a short-term, clean Continuing Resolution to allow for enactment of a final bill.

In other words, for this president, the troops come last. They are just another political chit to be used to advance the radical Left's agenda.

Oh, and one more bit of good news: "General: U.S. may consider troops in Libya."

This was not the change you were promised, drones.


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Larwyn's Linx: The Democrats’ Friends-N-Fat Cats Protection Plan

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Nation

The Democrats’ Friends-N-Fat Cats Protection Plan: Malkin
Gone, Wisconsin!: RSM
500 Votes Found in Waukesha County, WI: GWP

Wisconsin City Caught Destroying Ballots: PuPress
Evidence of Wisconsin Voter Fraud Emerges: PuPress
Kloppenberg Declares Victory, Based on 204-Vote Lead: Ace

Ryan's Tough Love vs. Dems' 88% Tax Increase: Babalu
Ann Barnhardt rakes Lindsey Graham over the coals!: HillBuzz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Head DNC: Malkin

Economy

The Real Scoop on a Government Shutdown: RWN
As Shutdown Looms, Obama Attends Gala in NYC: GWP
Furlough of federal workforce would only reduce it to 2008 size: TAB

Will Democrats Succeed in Demonizing Paul Ryan*?: GayPat
WI: Unions made election a Walker referendum...: AmPower
Silver, Gold: Sprott Sees Big Gains Still Ahead in '11: Yahoo!

Climate & Energy

He Doesn't Feel Your Pain: Driscoll
Senate Democrats Defeat GOP Efforts to Block the EPA from Destroying US Industry: GWP
Don't Let the Obama Administration Get Away with Backdoor Cap and Trade!: FreeWorks

Media

Washington Post and CBS Receive Nearly $2 Million In ObamaCare Subsidies: SHN
Goodbye Wisconsin, hello Kingdom of Dane: NRE
Red Reps 6: Larry Agran, Irvine, CA Councilor and Former Socialist Presidential Hopeful: Noisy

Birthers, Chicken Bones and Sedition: News from Park City, Utah: Dewey
NBC’s Brokaw: Saudis 'So Unhappy' With Obama They Sent Emissaries to China, Russia Seeking Help: CNS
‘I Can’t Believe My Best Friend is a Republican’: Driscoll

Why wouldn’t the Times publish the Goldstone Retraction?: BigJourn
Man Who Sent Assassination Threats To Maine Governor, Both Senators Arrested With Loaded Gun: Ace
Chuck Schumer Thrilled by Matt Lauer's Tea Party Bashing: NB

The Pied Piper of Voter Fraud: NewsReal
To Review Tina Fey Memoir, NPR Hires...Janeane Garofalo: NB
Sound Bite of the Day: Matthews Credits Soros Site for Beck’s Business Move: BigJourn

World

Moonbat Conception of Border Fence: RWN
Giants Fan Falls Victim to LA's Descent Into the Third World: MB
Great Moments In Multi-Culturalism: The Saudi Black Magic Edition: RWN

A Revolting Middle East Policy: Knish
France: Gee, This Libya Thing Is Complicated: Bruce
Ivory Coast Massacre: Obama-Supported Opposition Forces Slaughter Hundreds in Duékoué: GWP

Dispatch: Missile Strike in Port Sudan: Stratfor
Numbers Don't Lie: iOTW
Say, How’d Obama’s Libya Speech Work Out? #Fail: RWN

SciTech

Comcast leaps into tech support: Chron
Google Invests $5 Million In German Solar Power Plant: Crunch
iRobot’s UGV: DefTech

Cornucopia

Alternative Energy Source Discovered!: Cube
Budgeting a Deficit to WTF : MOTUS
Donald Trump Conducting Investigation Into Obama’s Birthplace: SHN

today’s SUPPLIES!!! fun facts: Sondrakistan
Two Crazy Mullahs From Cairo: C&S
Scandi Couple Survives 6 Natural Disasters on Honeymoon: Ace

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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Obama Finally Fulfills a 2008 Campaign Promise: 'Energy Prices Will Skyrocket Under My Cap and Trade Plan'

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." -- Barack Obama, 3 June 2008

In the late nineties, members of the UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were tasked with assessing the scientific validity of the Kyoto Protocol.

The Protocol was an international emissions reduction treaty which required signatories to cut overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The IPCC subsequently produced the Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry.

The report found that "carbon offsets" and "carbon trading" were viable ways to barter the right to pollute, because they would fund new forestry initiatives.

But one critical detail was never disclosed in the report.

That is: members of the IPCC, such as Pedro Moura-Costa (above) and Gareth Philips, had major conflicts-of-interest. They owned, created and/or worked for businesses -- such as Ecosecurities and SGS Forestry -- that would directly profit from the report's conclusions.

In fact, the IPCC panel members' companies were positioned to earn millions of dollars from the report. But the mainstream media did not report these conflicts and instead piled on the "global warming" and "carbon offset" bandwagons.

The carbon offset market quickly exploded. And, just as quickly, it became the subject of rampant allegations of fraud.

In 2009 the market was estimated to be $100 billion; it was so rife with questionable trading that the United Nations suspended the world's largest auditor of 'clean-energy' projects.

Put simply, a wide range of respected scientists, environmentalists, researchers, agriculturalists, and activists believe that carbon offsets are a "scam", "fantasy", "fiction", "nonsense", "fraudulent" and worse. And they've been saying so since 2000, though to read the daily fish-wrap you wouldn't know it.

The World Rainforest Movement, for example, investigated these bizarre financial ties and concluded that the IPCC report must "...be shelved due to their clear conflict of interest and a new report instigated which will be free of the taint of intellectual corruption."

To demonstrate the fraudulence of the carbon offset market, one need only request quotes from various carbon offset sellers. The price for offseting a flight from London to Toronto and back?
  • $85: from Climate Care (UK), which says 6 tons of CO2 must be offset.
  • $60: Carbon Neutral (UK), which says 4.3 tons of CO2 must be offset.
  • $195: Climate Friendly (Australia) asserts that 11.63 tons of CO2 must be offset.
  • $180: Green Seat (Netherlands) says 8.68 tons of CO2 must be offset.
Executive Summary: they're all making it up as they go along.

Whether you believe the world is warming or cooling, there is no arguing Democrats want more expensive energy for American citizens.

All that said, the real problem... is that Democrats’ political goal of reducing carbon emissions continues to trump their populist rhetoric on gasoline prices. The two stances are impossible to reconcile. Try as they might to blame oil companies for the pain Americans feel at the pump, the Democrats want higher prices for gasoline — and for all forms of energy that emit carbon. Economic barriers against CO2 emissions are a requirement for environmental progress in the Democrats’ view, and this is the entire purpose of the carbon cap-and-trade system... to create economic disincentives for emitting CO2.

Because of the falsity of its premise, cap-and-trade is intended to do one thing: allow Democrats to control industrial policy.

It all comes back to carbon offsets, which represent the currency for the "global warming" scam promoted by the UN's IPCC and the Democrat Statists in Washington.

Whether it's through unelected bureaucrats at the EPA, outright cap-and-trade, or John Kerry's 'compromise' climate plan, the economic toll on Americans will be devastating. Even in the latter case, estimated GDP losses of $2.1 trillion and consumer electricity price increases of up to 42% are estimated in less than two decades' time.

We see the results of the Democrats' efforts every day. Prices for energy -- and the goods and services dependent upon it -- are rising on a daily basis.

And the Democrats are as pleased as punch. After all, this is what Obama and his sycophants in Congress promised us in 2008. And they are delivering, no matter the impact on the poor, the middle class and seniors.


How to Smash the Liberal 'Tax Cuts for Millionaires' Marxist Class Warfare Talking Point Into Tiny Little Shards of Fail

Steve McCann, writing at The American Thinker, describes the reason we can't tax ourselves out of the deficit problem.

In 2011 the annual budget deficit will be nearly $1,665.0 Billion and in 2012: $1,100.0 Billion. If the Liberal Democrats in league with the Socialists, the Unions and the Communists, succeed in raising the highest marginal rate, how much more would Washington D.C. receive, assuming no change in behavior and a general eagerness to pay more?

If the highest rate of 35% were raised by a factor of 20% to 42%, then the additional tax revenue would be $43.5 Billion, not much of a dent in $1,665.0 Billion. So, let's raise the rate by a factor of 50% to 52.5%; the additional revenue would be $108.9 Billion. Still nowhere near enough, so let's just tax it at a rate of 100%, bringing in an additional $404.8 Billion. Unfortunately the country is still $1,260.0 Billion in the hole for the year.

Obviously by confiscating at 100% of all the income of the so-called rich above a predetermined level, there would never again be an incentive to earn above the highest tax rate threshold. So where will the Left have to turn next: where the money is, the middle class.

The Left knows the gullible among us easily fall for centuries-old class warfare rhetoric that demonizes the wealthy, yet they persist in doing the unconscionable, as it keeps them in power... What the Democrats are doing is entirely based on a lie. The United States cannot tax its way out of the present financial crisis, and from a cursory examination of Paul Ryan's proposal, his is the best plan yet presented and needs to be defended and promoted.

Increasing taxes on "the rich" by 20%, 50% or even 100% wouldn't do a damn thing to address the deficit. It would harm the economy, however, as there would be less capital for investment, new capital equipment, startups and hiring.

The next time you hear this class warfare claptrap -- this recycled rhetoric from the Soviet Union -- tell the lib this:

"Your disastrous Democrat leaders have dug us into a hole so deep, you could confiscate 100% of the income of the 'rich' and it wouldn't make a dent in the hole."

Don't use the suffix "dumbass", either, because some of them find it insulting.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Style Note to A.P.: It's Not 'Tea Party Purists' -- It's 'Constitutional Conservatives'

See if you can detect the spin.

Talks are intensifying on Capitol Hill on reaching a deal on long-overdue legislation to finance the government through the end of September -- and avoid a government shutdown...

..."There's no reason why we should not get an agreement," Obama said. "We have now matched the number that the speaker originally sought. The only question is whether politics or ideology are going to get in the way of preventing a government shutdown."...

This time, it's Obama who is exuding confidence as Boehner seems hemmed in by his hard-charging class of 87 freshmen, many of whom won office with backing from tea party purists.

"Tea party purists"?

Really? So you're a purist if you demand the government stays solvent for our children and grandchildren? That it pares back the trillions in debt rung up over the last three years, which every expert -- including Obama's own deficit commission -- calls 'unsustainable' and 'catastrophic'?

Folks, this is why the AP's "news reporting" is useful only as comic relief.


Larwyn's Linx: Awesome--Most Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare

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Nation

Awesome--Most Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare: JudWtch
The Government Shutdown Tournament: Malkin
Ryan's Plan: Necessary But Not Sufficient: Ace

WI: Prosser in Narrow Lead After 99% of Votes In: GWP
Clinton 2012?: AT (Cary)
Waiting for Gov. Palin: Con4Palin

Rolled out today: RaisingRed.com: Instapundit
Peter King Unloads on Eric Holder: JWF
Cain: Rep. Ellison Supports Sharia Law WZ

Economy

The 'Con-Temporary Economy': BizzyBlog
Emails confirm AFSCME boss pulled WI Fleebaggers' strings: RS
Ryan’s Budget Plan Gets The Job Done: IBD

And the Most Bankrupt State Award goes to...: RWN
Pelosi’s Predictable Response to Ryan’s Budget: Powers
Treasurys Fall As Inflation Focus Weighs: WSJ

Climate & Energy

Obama’s New Energy Policy: A Lesson in Stealth Socialism: PJM
Senator Boxer: Dangerously Ignorant on CO2: PJM
Global Temps Still Headed Down: WUWT

Media

Don’t Call It the Obama Economy: It’s Not His Fault: PJM (Blumer)
Glenn Greenwald: Mission Accomplished: Instapundit
Obama Holding Facebook Townhall a Possible Sign Robert Gibbs’ Job Interview Went Well: Malkin

Time Mag Editor: Koran Is ‘Directly The Word of God,’ Bible Just a Book ‘Written By Man’: RWN
By Chuck Schumer’s Definition, 48% of the Country is ‘Extreme’: Malkin
How Michele Bachmann Could Win: Chait

Obama Re-Election Campaign and the Cult of Personality: AT
Fake Astroturf at Think Progress: Line
Media Matters’ Potentially Lethal Distortions on Guns: BigGovt

World

Samantha Power's Power: Kurtz
Saudis To Execute Evangelist?: RWR
Illegal Alien Invaders Demand Access to Public College Education: WZ

Great Moments In Multi-Culturalism: The Saudi Black Magic Edition: RWN
“It’s always something — if it ain’t one thing, it’s another.”: Bookworm
Today In Britain Is Your Future Under Obamacare: RWN

The Rising Challenge to Israel's Legitimacy: AT
Federal Reserve Documents Reveal Massive Foreign Bank Bailouts: FreeWork
Saudi Arabia: Christian Man Jailed, Faces Death Penalty For Sharing His Faith With Muslims: WZ

SciTech

Facebook and Google Encroach on Banks' Turf: Bank Investment Consultant
Reducing Bribery by Legalizing the Giving of Bribes: Schneier
Marine's New Nickname: BigPeace

Cornucopia

Anniversary: 'Today, in 1933, FDR signed an Executive Order banning private ownership of gold': BlogProf
KSM back to Gitmo for some KMA: WTF?: MOTUS
Famous New York DJ Latest Target Of Secret NYPD Oral Sex Task Force: TSG (Language)

Image: SadHillNews
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QOTD: "Once upon a time, I developed a theory that we have much lower expectations for public-sector performance than we do for private-sector performance... consider what we tolerate from the US Postal Service (USPS) as opposed what we tolerate from firms like FedEx Express or UPS... Compare Amtrak to private transportation; the billions of dollars of taxpayer money wasted on producing the Chevy Volt (the only thing electric about this car is that it is shockingly bad) compared to its competitors; the standards applied to public-school students as opposed to those demanded in private and home schools; or the massive waste we accept in those federal transportation and 'farm' bills Congress passes every five years, regardless of the party in control." --Christopher Westley, "Why Are People So Forgiving of Government Failure?"

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

The new Obama 2012 banner ads are here!

For some reason, the click-throughs don't go to the Obama 2012 website, however.



I'm still working on that.


Write Your Own Laurence Tribe Op-Ed -- How the Constitution Empowers the Federal Government To Do Anything It Wants!

It's fun for the whole family! Simply choose the right words to build your own, bonafide Laurence Tribe op-ed -- just like the famous, left-wing Harvard Law Professor. Within moments you'll be well on your way to an op-ed in The New York Times or even a coveted slot in the DNC's other newsletter, The Washington Post!

THE lawsuits challenging the individual mandate in the HEALTH CARE LAW MANDATORY HOUSING FOR ALL LAW HEALTHY FOOD LAW CLOTHING LAW, including one in which a federal district judge last week called the law unconstitutional, will ultimately be resolved by the Supreme Court.

Since the New Deal, the court has consistently held that Congress has broad constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. By that standard, this law’s constitutionality is open and shut. Does anyone doubt that the immense HEALTH CARE HOUSING FOOD CLOTHING industry is an interstate market that Congress has the power to regulate?

Many new provisions in the law, like FORCING INSURERS TO COVER PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS FORCING BUILDERS TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR ALL FORCING GROCERY STORES TO PROVIDE FREE FOOD FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT FORCING WAL-MART TO COVER BASIC CLOTHING NEEDS FOR ALL AMERICANS are also undeniably permissible.

After all, no one can really choose to opt out of the HEALTH CARE HOUSING FOOD CLOTHING market. All must participate, sooner or later. For the system to work, all individuals must participate to the extent of their economic ability.

In this regard, the new law is little different from Social Security. The court unanimously recognized in 1982 that it would be “difficult, if not impossible” to maintain the financial soundness of a Social Security system from which people could opt out. The same analysis holds here: by restricting certain economic choices of individuals, we ensure the vitality of a regulatory regime clearly within Congress’s power to establish.

The decision about how to pay for HEALTH CARE HOUSING FOOD CLOTHING is a quintessentially commercial choice in itself, not merely a decision that might have economic consequences.

There is every reason to believe that a strong, nonpartisan majority of justices will do their constitutional duty, set aside how they might have voted had they been members of Congress and treat this constitutional challenge for what it is — a political objection in legal garb.

For it is clear that the founders intended the federal government to do whatever it wishes with the lives of its citizens.

Laurence H. Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School, is the author of "It's Living and Breathing, Bitches" and "Barack Obama, President of the World!"


Democrats: GOP's spending cuts so extreme that they could very well pay back one whole year of Obama's deficit spending

Writing at Ace of Spades, Geoff illustrates the true scale of the Ryan budget proposals that Democrats demagogue as 'extreme'. It turns out said cuts pale in comparison to those proposed by Obama's own deficit commission.

In FY 2011, we are running a $1.425 trillion deficit. This single year of spending will take our public debt from 62.1% of GDP up to 69.1% of GDP. Now, in our daily life, whenever we run up a debt the first thing we ask is: How long will it take me to pay this off?

So, how long will it take to pay off the debt we're adding just this year? Or, a slightly easier task: how long will it take to get the debt/GDP ratio back to what it was only 6 months ago?

Please understand that we're talking about money we're burning right now. We're halfway through the fiscal year, so we're right in the middle of running up this tab that we're going to have to pay off. And the Dems won't let us slow our spending to any significant degree.

So, how long? Let's point out right away that the White House budget never pays a penny of the 2011 debt back. In fact, the public debt keeps climbing and climbing, reaching 87% of GDP by 2021. So only the two budget reform plans are even trying to pay that money back. And just how fast are they hoping to do that?

...The gray line is where we were at the end of September 2010 ==> that's our target. The blue line is the Obama administration's baseline budget. As you can see, it sails off into the stratosphere. This is the budget plan the Democrats are defending.

The teal line and red line are the Deficit Commission and Ryan's plan, respectively. The teal line makes it back to the gray line by the end of 2022. Ryan's plan? Well, you'll have to wait another 10 years...

...This is what the President and his crackerjack economic team have wrought. A one-year deficit that is so large that it can only be paid back if everything goes exactly right. And if everything goes exactly right, we're still looking at decades before we can get back to the debt level we had only 6 months ago.

As Jim DeMint warned in yesterday's Examiner, we had better start cutting now and cutting deep. Because the country is flat broke.

It should ... be the policy of the entire Republican conference that we will not vote to increase the debt ceiling without first passing this balanced budget amendment.

If we are to save this precious Republic -- this fragile vessel of our ancestors' blood, sweat and tears -- it is time to sacrifice. Starting with the federal bureaucracy.


The Reviews Are In: Goldstone Will Still Rot in Hell [Dan from New York]

Dan from New York:

"The South African jurist delivered his mea culpa in a Washington Post op-ed that is astonishing for its self-justifying apologetics.”

-WSJ

“Goldstone opinion piece changes nothing at UN”

-Jerusalem Post

“Despite Richard Goldstone's thirteenth hour confession, his diabolical legacy demonizing the state of Israel lives on at the United Nations.”

-Eye on the U.N.

"By his own admission, the man stands revealed as at best an abject idiot and at worst a moral and judicial bankrupt.”

-Melanie Phillips

“Goldstone backed away from his report? Why didn’t anyone tell me?”

- NY Times subscriber

“Retraction? We don’t need your stinking retraction, shmuck!”

-Dan From New York


Courtesy of Neal Boortz

Papa B relays this bumper sticker from Neal Boortz.



Larwyn's Linx: Dear Secretary Geithner, With All Due Respect Go To Hell

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Nation

Dear Secretary Geithner, With All Due Respect Go To Hell: Mish
The ‘GOP Path to Prosperity:’ first reaction: RS
Two Futures: One Sustainable, the Other--Not: RWN

White House Retreats Again on Trying KSM in Civilian Court: Malkin
Steyn: Lindsey Graham Unfit for Office: RS
Cain: 'A Real Black Man May Run Against Obama': Tank

U.S. Spent More Than 8 Times Its Revenue in March: CNS
We must balance the federal budget, or we will go bust: DeMint
Ryan vs. Obama in Battle of Budget: Tapscott

Economy

ObamaCare Spreads Our Wealth to Obama’s Rich Backers: RWN
HHS grants more Obamacare waivers, mulls new scheme: Malkin
WI unions suddenly willing to negotiate: Ace

GM: This is What Government Ownership Looks Like: BigGov
High Court School Choice and Obamacare: WashExam
SCOTUS Supports Tax Credits for School Vouchers: AllAm

Climate & Energy

Obama's Incoherent Energy Policy: Flopping Aces
The Law of Unintended Consequences, Part 3,794: New “green” bulbs causing mercury pollution: Tatler
The New Eugenics: NiceDeb

Media

The NY Times Never Lets The Facts Get In the Way of a Good Blood Libel: Lid
Obama starts to make his case: Patterico
Politico's Roger Simon: 'Obama's The Greatest Orator Of Modern Times': NB

Don’t Burn the Bible, Or This Kitten Gets It: Patterico
A Union Even I Could Support: Huffpo-Aol News: RWN
New Obama campaign slogan... recycled from Romney: MR12

Reaching The Black Community: Anita MonCrief’s New Tea Party: RS
Tingles Compares Afghan Muslim Protesters Beheading UN Workers to GOP “Zealots at Home”: WZ
Jon Stewart Mocks Obama Campaign Video: From ‘Yes We Can’ To ‘You Know, Whatever’: Mediaite

World

Egypt Goes Islamic: Public Protests Banned, Break out the Burqas, Death to Israel: Uncov
Iran’s Supreme Leader: ‘We Have Won on the Nuclear Front’: PJM
Libyan Lunacy Roundup: Zilla

Has the Freedom From Religion Foundation weighed in on the Koran-burning/Afghan murders?: Troglo
Enough Already: Are Israeli Settlements Actually ‘Illegal’?: PJM
Latest Reason for Islamophobes to Murder: Ace

Will Libya Again Become the Arsenal of Terrorism?: Stratfor
Professors Call BS On Campus Anti-Israel Groups: Kesler
ElBaradei: If Elected President of Egypt I Will “Declare War Against the Zionist Regime” if They Attack Gaza: WZ

SciTech

Madden NFL 12 Will Show On-Field Concussions: Wired
Facebook Fires Employee for Insider Trading: Bits
Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About Facebook: TechCrunch

Condé Nast Got Hooked in $8 Million Spear-Phishing Scam: Threat Level
Zillow and Trulia Release House-Hunting Applications for Mobile: AllThingsD

Cornucopia

In Love with the Golden Gate Bridge: Ace
Frauland National Drill Team: C&S
Teacher suspended for alleged 'future criminals' Facebook post: CNet

Image: WSJ, via Ace o' Spades
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Monday, April 04, 2011

In the spirit of bipartisanship, Mr. Speaker, let the Senate Democrats shut the government down

Andrew Stiles reports that Senate Democrats are trying to force a government shutdown, a cold, political calculation that could very well backfire on them.

House Republicans are preparing a third short-term spending resolution in the event that a long-term compromise cannot be reached with Senate Democrats and the White House before April 8, GOP aides confirm. That scenario suddenly looks a lot more likely after a tense back-and-forth Monday between leaders on both sides of the debate. The measure would last for one week, cut $12 billion in domestic discretionary spending, but would include funding for the Defense Department until the end of the current fiscal year (September 30).

...Following a Republican conference meeting Monday night, House Appropriations Committee chairman Hal Rogers (R., Ky.) accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) of negotiating in bad faith and placed the blame for the recent breakdown in negotiations squarely at Reid’s feet, alleging that the Senate leader had abruptly instructed Democratic negotiators to cease negotiating over the weekend.

Several members expressed concern that Senate Democrats were angling for a government shutdown. “That’s the only possible interpretations of [Reid's] actions,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R., Idaho), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. “We’re doing everything we can to avoid a government shutdown. If the government shuts down it will be because Harry Reid refuses to sit and negotiate in good faith…it’ll be because that’s what they want.”

The problem is two-fold for Democrats.

Most Americans, who realize the government has a disastrous spending problem, support a shutdown of non-essential services.

Second, the longer taxpayers realize a shutdown actually benefits them -- and has no visible impact on their lives -- the worse a public relations problem it becomes for the Pelosi Party.

It ain't 1995, Mr. Speaker. In the spirit of bipartisanship, let the Democrats shut the government down.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

Vanity Fair's Joseph Stiglitz: Schmuck With a Pen

Joseph Stiglitz, writing at the execrable Vanity Fair (I read it so you don't have to!), regurgitates the old, tired Marxist script in his latest piece of agitprop entitled "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%."

The corporate executives who helped bring on the recession of the past three years—whose contribution to our society, and to their own companies, has been massively negative—went on to receive large bonuses...

And what of the corrupt politicians and judges, Stiglitz, who violated their oaths of office to create and then rob HUD, Social Security, Fannie Mae, Medicare, Freddie Mac and Medicaid?

Who took sweetheart loans from Countrywide?

Who paid themselves immense bonuses while concealing their own accounting skulduggery?

And, all the while, facilitated the financial crisis through unlawful, unconstitutional governmental policies that had the force of law?

...Some people look at income inequality and shrug their shoulders. So what if this person gains and that person loses? What matters, they argue, is not how the pie is divided but the size of the pie. That argument is fundamentally wrong.

Oh, bullcrap, you fraudulent old Trotsky-ite. Sure, we need less folks like Larry Page and Bill Gates. Hell, Page and Sergey Brin were sitting in a damn dorm room 12 years ago trying to figure out a better way to search the Internet. Now they're worth tens of billions apiece! But in your formulation, that sucks!

Directly and indirectly, they've created hundreds of thousands of jobs, a whole new ecosphere for Silicon Valley, funded dozens of new startups, created massive amounts of wealth around the globe, but in the Stiglitz formula -- they're too rich!

...growing inequality is the flip side of something else: shrinking opportunity.

Yes - more billionaires like Gates, more massive job creators like Page and Brin, more investments, more startups, more innovation... means less opportunity.

What I want to know, Stiglitz, is this: how do you have a freaking job?

...perhaps most important, a modern economy requires “collective action”—it needs government to invest in infrastructure, education, and technology.

Oh, you mean like a "Stimulus" program? How's that working out for ya', Sparky? Or the Department of Education? Working out swimmingly for low-income students? And that solar technology in which Jimmy Carter sunk billions of taxpayer dollars... that revolutionized our energy infrastructure, right?

What a kook.

We've bankrupted the Treasury with this collectivist excrement -- and it's failed like it's failed every other time in history. Central planning works -- if you're a delusional Marxist with a penchant for magic mushrooms. If you're not, the Politburo-style, command-and-control strategy has a perfect track record. Zero-for-Eternity.

Stop with the failed Marxist class warfare rhetoric already. You sound like a freaking idiot.

To paraphrase Milton Friedman: who are these angels on Earth that can redistribute everyone's wealth? Barack Obama? Nancy Pelosi? Barney Freaking Frank?

There isn't a corporation on Earth that can force you to pay it whether you want to or not.

There isn't a corporation on the planet that can throw you in jail for failure to adhere to its hundreds of thousands of pages of laws, regulations and dictates.

There isn't a corporation anywhere that can make you buy a one-size-fits-all health care plan, or a certain kind of light bulb, or low-flow toilet, or a certain size of car, and on and on.

There isn't a corporation anywhere that can command you -- the citizen -- to participate in multi-trillion dollar Ponzi schemes.

Only a giant, enormous, leviathan of a bankrupt federal government can do all of these things. And, then, only because a certain group of power-hungry, easily corrupted politicians, lawyers and judges have ignored our highest law: the Constitution.

Because they wantonly disregard thousands of years of human experience, facts, logic, and reason.

Our Framers created the Constitution to prevent the rise of an all-powerful, autocratic, authoritarian central government. Instead, the modern Statist -- like Stiglitz -- justifies his actions by claiming it will be different this time. If only he can have more of your money. If only he can have more power. If only.

But it wasn't the corporations that ruined the economy: it's the politicians who violate their oaths of office every day of the week. That's what the Tea Party is all about, dunce. And that's why every one concerned with the future of America should support Constitutional conservatism.

It's the only hope we have left.

Schmuck.