CART WILLIAMS

Curmudgeonly, crusty & cranky.
Always on the right, seldom if ever wrong
yet hardly ever dangerous.


On a mission to impose a hundred and
eighty degree course correction on a confused and
divided nation headed in the wrong direction.

He is afraid of one-world government, which will turn once proud America into another France.

He is afraid that Obama "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" — which doesn't mean, he hastens to add, that he actually thinks "Obama doesn't like white people."

He is afraid that both Democrats and Republicans in Washington are deeply corrupt and that their corruption is spreading like a plague.

“I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw … I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco,” Pelosi said, choking up and with tears forming in her eyes.

And then something strange and quite unexpected happened.

The Democrats nominated a charismatic African-American, won the presidency, after obtaining large majorities in Congress, and suddenly became the Establishment, demanding respect for the Commander in Chief in direct proportion to their efforts to deny respect to his predecessor. Then just as suddenly two tropes appeared after January 20th of this year:

One—cannot we all get along? We deplore this resort to barbarism and crudity.

Two—if you dare sound off like we just did, then you are now a racist.

Try everyone from Al Gore to John Glen to Robert Byrd to Sen. Durbin), employed every Nazi/brown shirt slur they could conjure up. NPR’s folksy old Garrison Keiler was indistinguishable from mean-spirited Michael Moore in that regard.

The New York Times gave a discount for a disgusting “General Betray Us” ad. The Democratic Party head Howard Dean flatly said he “hated” Republicans.

Hilary Clinton all but called Gen. Petraeus a liar in a congressional hearing.

The New Republic ran an essay on hating George Bush (not opposing, not disliking, but “hating” the President).

It is time to move on, ignore criticism, and offer something that most can work with; instead, after 9 months we are getting a ‘they are mean to me’ whine at about every speech and photo-op, in the manner of biblical prophets who lash out at doubters.

Obama never gives many concrete details, nor gets precise and concise, and now one wonders whether it is because he simply thinks he can go to the hope and change / soar like an eagle mode, and we will once more get mesmerized, or he has nothing to say at all, or both.

The protesters descended on Washington with a long list of grievances against a government that many complained is racing toward socialism. "Health care is not listed anywhere in the Constitution," said Brian Burnell, 45, who owns an insurance company on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

"How Is That Hopey Changey Thing Workin' Out For Ya?" his placard read.

"You want socialism?" said Susan Clark, a District resident marching with a bullhorn. "Go to Russa!"

Participants in the demonstration spanned the spectrum of conservative anger at Obama, including opponents of his tax, spending and health-care plans and protesters who question Obama's U.S. citizenship and liken his administration to the Nazi regime.

The developments reflected a renewed focus on the issue in the days since a Republican congressman's outburst during President Barack Obama's health care speech to Congress on Wednesday night. Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted "You lie!" as Obama said illegal immigrants wouldn't be covered under his health plan.

Democrats had pointed to provisions in House and Senate legislation that prohibited illegal immigrants from getting federal subsidies that would be offered to lower-income Americans to help them buy insurance.

Education Secretary Lamar Alexander was called before a House committee.

The National Education Association denounced Bush.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Steve King today reacted to a tape released by an independent filmmaker showing Baltimore-based ACORN workers assisting a man and a woman claiming to be involved in a prostitution ring.

According to FOXNEWS, “Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.”

“Taxpayers should be outraged that their money has gone to an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate prostitution,” King said.

“As this video confirms, ACORN continues to operate as a criminal enterprise.

Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Barney Frank and other Democrats on Capitol Hill continue to protect and fund ACORN while blocking Congressional hearings on ACORN’s operations and finances.

Nothing about Obama's penchant for government by radical, unaccountable czars is the least bit surprising.

There can be no demands of action contrary to one's conscience. What I want is that at the end of your deliberations, you should follow me and those who think like me as far as you can in the direction of freedom. Do your best, but get moving right now.

If these things are to be provided as rights to people, then the question becomes: who must pay for them?

Van Jones can do his “whup ass” through corporate benefactions, but not on Joe Sixpack’s weekly tax deductions. At least I think that is what the controversy is all about.

Had Jones been white, Asian, or Hispanic, and in his many diatribes just substituted the word “black” when he employed “white”, and replaced “Bush” with “Obama,” then the Left would really have conducted a smear campaign.

It is theoretically possible that Obama could turn the situation around with a strong speech on healthcare to Congress this week, but after a summer of grisly hemorrhaging, too much damage has been done.

There's no more meat to pluck off the bones of taxpayers to pay for this monstrousity

What's funny is the bluedogs are opposing this not because they're conservatives but rich people in their districts not wanting to pay for it.

Everybody wants free healthcare but nobody wants to pay for it, especially rich liberals.

Amid the phenomenal spending on the financial mess here, they tried to pass a cap-and-trade bill whose centerpiece was an auction of carbon credits to flow trillions of dollars toward the bureaucracies.

Besides, I thought the MSM complaint on the Jones affair was not that Jones is a radical, but that he got railroaded out by an out-of-control, "unfiltered" alternative media.

Now, which is it, boys? Is Jones an unacceptable radical who was properly exposed by the alternative media doing the job you wouldn't do? Or is he a hapless mainstream guy victimized by a bunch of radical righties?

See what I mean by the MSM's sputtering incoherence?

To borrow your terminology, Mr. Brokaw, society – mainstream America, at least – is indeed standing up and saying: "This is crazy.

We just can't function with an extremist president trying to turn America into a socialist and insolvent state and installing a cadre of unconstitutionally appointed, immensely powerful and wholly unaccountable Marxist czars at the highest levels of our government.

As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon and others have argued, such policies include giving all individuals the same tax benefits received by those who get coverage through their employers; providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage; reforming tort laws to potentially save billions each year in wasteful spending; and changing costly state regulations to allow people to buy insurance across state lines. Rather than another top-down government plan, let's give Americans control over their own health care.

Democrats have never seriously considered such ideas, instead rushing through their own controversial proposals.

After all, they don't need Republicans to sign on: Democrats control the House, the Senate and the presidency.

But if passed, the Democrats' proposals will significantly alter a large sector of our economy. They will not improve our health care. They will not save us money. And, despite what the president says, they will not "provide more stability and security to every American."

All the old wisdom, the old reverence are going by the wayside, replaced by a brave new world in which we will be the same in spirit and outlook, committed to replace truth with orthodoxy, roughly equal in ability, neither successful nor failures, neither rich nor poor, nothing “exceptional” at all, mere happy cogs in the brotherly redistributive wheel—mouthing platitudes about diversity and being green, clueless as to their meaning, but clued in to the necessity of chanting such mantras.

And given the President’s rhetoric, and the media as our new ministry of truth— we will be more or less happy idiots, as the old fades and the new absorbs us.

In America of 2009 the following are “true”:

The Arabs invented the printing press, and spurred us on to the Enlightenment and Renaissance.

Muslims in Cordoba advised the brutal Christians to show tolerance during the Inquisition.

Slavery ended in America without violence.

The Berlin Airlift was a worldwide effort.

The Americans liberated Auschwitz.

There are 57 states.

FDR was President in 1929 and gave television addresses. We can either drill offshore or inflate our tires properly.

There are no terrorists or a war on same, but only overseas contingency operations and man-made catastrophes.

Those who object to health care are ungodly, and the nation’s children must go to school and see the messiah address them en masse on state-run television screens.

Nazis, brown shirts, a mob, insurance lackeys, Brooks brothers elites, etc. all go to Town Halls.

Doctors chop off limbs and gleefully take out tonsils for profit.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Obama announces that he's backing off the public option, it's a signal that he's launched his end run strategy and that it's time to ratchet up our opposition.

If he were the bipartisan exemplar certain naive pseudo-conservatives would have us believe, he would not be attempting to indoctrinate schoolchildren in support of Obamacare, nor would he be appointing one neo-Marxist after another as his czars.

Let's be clear: This is a fall, not a collapse. He's not been repudiated or even defeated. He will likely regroup and pass some version of health insurance reform that will restore some of his clout and popularity.

But what has occurred -- irreversibly -- is this: He's become ordinary. The spell is broken. The charismatic conjurer of 2008 has shed his magic. He's regressed to the mean, tellingly expressed in poll numbers hovering at 50 percent.

For a man who only recently bred a cult, ordinariness is a great burden, and for his acolytes, a crushing disappointment. Obama has become a politician like others. And like other flailing presidents, he will try to salvage a cherished reform -- and his own standing -- with yet another prime-time speech.

"They're developing a shadow government that (does not) answer to the American people," Broun said.

At a town hall meeting in Clarkesville last month, Broun called Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a "socialistic elite" and agreed with a constituent who said they might use a flu pandemic to declare martial law.

I recall one specific episode when I came home and tore into my stoner roommate for not having his share of the rent. His solution to his lack of rent was simple. See, the real problem wasn’t his lack of money, but my reaction to it.

I was far too stressed about the situation. What we should do, to solve the rent problem, was grab a couple of drinks at the Cafe Formosa on Santa Monica and then head over to Crazy Girls, a local gentleman’s club. After that excursion, I would calm down and stop harshing his gig over the unpaid rent.

I am worried about future elections, should we be lucky enough to have them.

The Republican party is partly at fault for the disaster we have in the White House.

When John McCain was selected as the Republican candidate for the presidency, I knew this country was in deep trouble. I question whether the other Repubs in his party who selected him ever intended for anyone but Obama to win. A lot went on behind closed doors that we may never know about.

McCain and his people stabbed Sarah Palin in the back even though she saved him from a totally humilitating loss. A great many of us wouldn't have voted for him were it not for Sarah.

He suspended his campaign and showed what a total fool he was to help head up the disastrous stimulus and voted for it while Obama stayed conspicuously silent.

Every time a legitimate question arose regarding Obama he always stated that we should just be quiet and leave it alone. Now he makes excuse after excuse for Obama. It infuriates me to see him trot out on the news and speak for the Repubs. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he's not a Democratic thug in reality.

Maybe I'm wrong, but there's just too much about him that stinks. I have never seen a presidential candidate practically stand on his head to give away an election before. He surrendered before the fight even began.

American democracy is teetering on the edge, and has been ever since the Clintons got elected in 1992. So far we've been lucky -- but not smart. Millions of empty-headed voters fell for the Clintons twice in a row, suckered by the media and a pair of sleazocrats. Last year they did it again.

They could show up in September and endorse the Coburn health care bill in the Senate and steal all the credit for it.

They could show up next week and fight with all their might to not allow the tax rates to skyrocket in 2010.

They could decide to scrap cap-and-trade and re-think the use of public money for a true job-based economic stimulus.

But I'm not holding my breath, and I'd advise you against it as well.

They've awakened the American worker, the American small-business owner, and the American voter.

This is the dream of all the global social engineers — a massive tax on wealth that could be used by unaccountable international bureaucrats for their grand schemes to make a better world.

But getting other people killed so that you can feel puffed up about yourself is profoundly immoral.

In ways large and small, domestically and internationally, the West is surrendering on the installment plan to Islamic extremists.

What does it say that the modeling that guaranteed disastrous increases in global temperatures never predicted the halt in planetary warming since the late 1990s?

(MIT’s Richard Lindzen says that “there has been no warming since 1997 and no statistically significant warming since 1995.”)

What does it say that the modelers have only just now discovered how sunspots make the Earth warmer?

These things aren't unique to this semester's bunch. The concepts they harbor were in the previous classes, but the one that jumps out at me this early in the semester is the issue of government spending.

They don't appreciate the incontrovertible fact that government at any level has no money of its own. They somehow think that there is a treasury filled with gold doubloons that a benevolent government strews out to the hungry populace.