CART WILLIAMS

Always crusty, sometimes cranky,
forever on the right, seldom if ever wrong
yet hardly ever dangerous.

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

People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?"

Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.

Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do.

Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily.

Barack Obama, however, has pulled off the ultimate switcheroo: He's diminishing America from within — so far, successfully.

He may soon bankrupt us and replace our big merit-based capitalist economy with a small government-directed one of his own design.

He is undermining our constitutional traditions: The rule of law and our Anglo-Saxon concepts of private property hang in the balance. Obama may be the most "consequential" president ever.

The Wall Street Journal's steadfast Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that Barack Obama is "an alien in the White House."

His bullying and offenses against the economy and job creation are so outrageous that CEOs in the Business Roundtable finally mustered the courage to call him "anti-business." Veteran Democrat Sen. Max Baucus blurted out that Obama is engineering the biggest government-forced "redistribution of income" in history.

Fear and uncertainty stalk the land. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says America's financial future is "unusually uncertain."

A Wall Street "fear gauge" based on predicted market volatility is flashing long-term panic. New data on the federal budget confirm that record-setting deficits in the $1.4 trillion range are now endemic.

Obama is building an imperium of public debt and crushing taxes, contrary to George Washington's wise farewell admonition: "cherish public credit ... use it as sparingly as possible ... avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not ... inconvenient and unpleasant ... ."

Opinion polls suggest that in the November mid-term elections, voters will replace the present Democratic majority in Congress with opposition Republicans — but that will not necessarily stop Obama.

A President Obama intent on achieving his transformative goals despite the disagreement of the American people has powerful weapons within reach. In one hand, he will have a veto pen to stop a new Republican Congress from repealing ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank takeover of banks.

In the other, he will have a fistful of executive orders, regulations and Obama-made fiats that have the force of law.

Under ObamaCare, he can issue new rules and regulations so insidiously powerful in their effect that higher-priced, lower-quality and rationed health care will quickly become ingrained, leaving a permanent stain.

Under Dodd-Frank, he and his agents will control all credit and financial transactions, rewarding friends and punishing opponents, discriminating on the basis of race, gender and political affiliation. Credit and liquidity may be choked by bureaucracy and politics — and the economy will suffer.

He and the EPA may try to impose by "regulatory" fiats many parts of the cap-and-trade and other climate legislation that failed in the Congress.

And by executive orders and the in terrorem effect of an industrywide "boot on the neck" policy, he can continue to diminish energy production in the United States.

By the trick of letting current-law tax rates "expire," he can impose a $3.5 trillion 10-year tax increase that damages job-creating capital investment in an economy struggling to recover.

And by failing to enforce the law and leaving America's borders open, he can continue to repopulate America with unfortunate illegals whose skill and education levels are low and whose political attitudes are often not congenial to American-style democracy.

A wounded rampaging president can do much damage — and, like Caesar, the evil he does will live long after he leaves office, whenever that may be.

This example is a footnote, for me, the tragic mindset Left leaning people consider the aforementioned quote to be applicable to themselves. Not the burning books of course, but many instances they, and WILL live yours.

And no one cares. Certainly, they don’t seem to have their cars impounded if/when they are caught for going the wrong direction because they can’t read English signs, or using the same rules of the road they used to in merry old Albania.

So I’m wondering to myself more and more as the years go by why on earth am I still carrying hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of car insurance. Now, that the courts are telling cops they’re not allowed to ask for ID when they stop someone, even more I’m thinking, “so if the brown guy doesn’t have to produce ID when stopped, why do I have to?”

Reader, let us walk through the new immigration labyrinth:

(a) the federal government has chosen not to enforce, or cannot enforce, immigration law, evident by the continual residence of over 12 million illegal aliens, and an annual influx of some 500,000 to 750,000 more;

(b) neither the federal government nor states (nor the courts) can demand enforcement of an existing federal law;

(c) those states that pass laws emulating federal immigration statutes will have their legislation either voided by the court or neutered by the federal government;

(d) but those cities who pass sanctuary laws in direct violation of federal illegal immigration statutes will have their legislation either validated or ignored by both the court and the federal and state governments.

Conclusion? The federal government and federal courts prefer to ignore laws that violate their own, but void those that copy them.

We know roughly the politics of illegal immigration: the open borders libertarian and corporate right wanted access to cheap workers, with the ensuing social costs born by the state.

As taanstafl said, the tea parties are all about people in flyover country paying attention and not liking what they are seeing. There are a lot of us paying attention…but we’re not a large percentage of the population out here.

The tea parties are a reflection of the strategy of the rabidly anti-war leftists, in a way. The antiwar folks are/were also a small minority, but they got headlines by being loud and obnoxious (and having the media on their side didn’t hurt.) The tea party is doing the same thing.

Thing is, I believe that while the tea party is a small minority in that they’re actually paying attention, they are in the majority (at least in flyover country) in their take on DC and the various shenanigans that have been going on.

I mentioned upthread that my friends don’t pay attention to national and world politics much. That is not because they’re stupid or ignorant. In most cases, quite the opposite is true.

It’s because they are very focused on their work, their families, and in general just living their life.

Out here, there has been very little from DC or elsewhere that materially impacts our lives in perceptible ways…and people here are nothing if not practical. Why worry about some nebulous bill working its way through congress when there’s wheat rust on the back 40, or you have to get ready to fix the potholes on 5th street, or you’ve got to ramp up sales of speedboats or tractors?

The elite have been using this inward focus of ours for a long time…we’re the frog in their pot, and they’ve been slowly turning up the heat for some time now. Obama has gained a lot of hubris through that history of us not really reacting, and now he’s “transforming” America. The big changes haven’t hit us yet, but they will soon. And the moment that they do is the one I’m afraid of.

Because it will be too late then to turn back the clock, and the legal framework has already been laid.

People out here are used to living their own lives without a lot of government interference. When that interference starts to be enforced…that’s when we’re going to see fireworks.

Because while many–maybe even most–will bow to government authority, there are at least a large plurality of people out here who won’t stand for it. I personally know several who are even now on a hair-trigger.

These are people out here who (correctly, in my view) view the second amendment not as a guarantee that they’ll be able to hunt or even necessarily as something that will protect their right to defend themselves against lawbreakers, but as the point of law that legitimizes their right to fight back against the government when it ceases to be recognizable as a legitimate governing authority.

More than usual there are people around where I am, watching what happens with the Arizona illegal immigrant thing. I’ve filled some of them in on the back story. More than once I’ve been asked “what about the term ‘illegal’ don’t they understand?” People here aren’t against immigration. They’re against ILLEGAL immigration. Yet time after time, in the MSM they leave out the ILLEGAL part.

Case in point: my husband worked at a startup that imploded about 6 months ago. He has since picked up all the revenue-making contracts that they had. At peak, they had 24 employees. They claimed they couldn’t run the contracts they had with less than 12.

But husband has managed to do so by himself, with a bit of contract sw work on a temp basis for a few other folks.

His wife (that is, me) does all of the HR work and accounting and the rest while running the home, the 2 kids under 5, and her own non profit. Us two manages where previously it took 24, and then they were sure it couldn’t take less than 12.

Why? Because we have critical thinking skills, personable skills, initiative, desire to learn, ability to handle competing interests, willingness to travel where the work is, etc.

MS word is not enough. You’re going to have be willing to empty the trash, answer that pager call at 2 AM, seek out new clients, get on that plane to Asia on a minute’s notice, seek out new business partners, etc. then you’re not going to have a career.

I’ve always liked the way Robert Heinlein put it:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

The US political system has seen this sort of conflict many times before. If a political class gets run out of town on a rail it will be seen as a return to the proper operation of the system, not its overthrow.

The unrest we see today has still so far barely nibbled at the edges of what would be required to make real change happen.

For example, even the most strident opposition to public sector pensions is currently about making changes which would apply to new hires only, decades in the future, not about cutting benefits for existing retirees or for the senior guys still in government today.

The same is true of tenure among college professors.

Nor is there a serious popular effort at present to make congressional representatives subject to the laws they make for the rest of us, make them use the healthcare they impose on the rest of us, or put a cap on the retirement income and benefits they award themselves.

The Democrats in particular still see an economic depression more as an opportunity for them than a threat, because if they get to re-run the 1930’s they run just about everything at the same time as they write their own history.

Then they literally get to teach that to kids in school so that future generations end up grateful and subscribe to the idea of Social Security as if it were tablets from Moses, instead of the Ponzi scheme it always was.

If the old system is cutting its own throat, fogging itself up in a kind of self-induced Alzheimer’s, then you can’t save it because it doesn’t want to do anything but keep gassing itself. You can only stand back in dismay and brace for impact. Little enough but it may make all the difference.

“Our collective fate was sealed when the states ratified the Constitution. The Constitution is a beautiful instrument – for providing a legal framework for oppression & theft.

At a certain level, the naivete of framers & citizens is stunning and pathetic. They seemed to have really, really believed that evil people would just let them live out their lives in peace as they enjoyed a system of self governance.

WRONG!

Once a legal construct existed, it was merely a function of who would control the law.

You continue to moan, groan & complain about the “middle class”, as if their concerns & troubles bothered the PTB in the slightest bit. LOL. Brother, they could hardly give a shit about who is the middle class; in fact, they are busy replacing complainers like you with a brand new crop of complacent serfs. And how are they going about doing this? Via the LAW! (Read AZ judicial decision.)

Look, if you want to survive & thrive, you need to understand how to mirror the footsteps of the PTB.

The law is a vehicle for theft & oppression. Use it to your advantage – stay if you’d like, or have a bug out spot identified in another country. But, for your own personal sanity & the safety of your family, understand how the world works, and why the US was the most perfect vehicle for theft ever constructed.

Knowledge transcends race, religion & nationality. The club is comprised of those who know.

You have two options, join or fight – apparently you have decided to fight. Unfortunately for you, you fail to understand that any effective fight goes way, WAY past silly Tea Party games.

The only way this “problem” gets fixed is if we collectively once again go through the very process which forged our important founding documents in the first place. Unless you’re willing to go there, you might as well join the others at the trough.

It’s amazingly simple – the sheep have no clue and willingly allow themselves to be raped. Over time, a certain level of disdain is developed to the point one figures they deserve their treatment.

Anyone with above avg intelligence who bothers to study/understand history/philosophy will come to the stunning realization that the flip side to good is evil.

We take an important social contract like the Constitution, duly ratified & approved by the respective states via their elected representatives, and viola’, we have an instrument of potential terror if held in the wrong hands.

Once you figure this out, you have two choices: (a) sound the alarm to your “former” allegiances; or (b) dig in & grab as much loot as possible. No one has to meet, plan & coordinate – there are no secret handshakes. There is just a gleam in the eye as you silently acknowledge the others while bent over the trough.

Very few, even here at Belmont, will admit that now, so this’ll have to be one of those things that looks obvious in hindsight.

Ferguson says that people don’t see this because they think of history as a cyclical thing. I agree, and it’s easy to do if it has been for your entire life, especially with an historically ignorant population like we have in the US.

We’ve lived the good life, it’s about to come to a screeching halt, and we don’t know if our population will be able to handle it. We don’t know how the world will react when the US is unable to hold things together. Will they be tough enough? will I be tough enough? I think so, because there will be little alternative.

The problem is that there is no unifying theme now. Once the SHTF, the first instinct for most people will be to expect the Federal Government to come to the rescue, because that’s the default answer for every problem at the moment.

When it becomes obvious that the Feds are helpless people will look to other entities, whether it’s their State Governments, Charity, Churches, or whatever.

They just are convinced they know everything they NEED to know, and don’t want to be confused with contrariwise views.

And that, my friends, is what we’re up against, on an unthinkably grand scale.

Trying to awaken people who’ve been living in an artificially supported delusion for all their lives — actually for all their parent’s and grandparents’ lives — is a task that will take miracles and great upheaval to demonstrate the fallacies they firmly believe.

The problem with the idea that Ruling class collapse doesn’t harm those underneath so much is that in most of those other cases, there was no liberty for anyone underneath in the first place.

Nor are they the product of naïve theories they genuinely thought would make things better.

They are not bugs.

I doubt it will be practical to wall off the cities, but don’t doubt that people will start shooting each other in a true disaster scenario. People do funny things once they start to get hungry enough. Or even if they just sense that they’ll be able to get away with it.

No doubt by now you’ve noticed that while real enough, “Minnesota Nice” doesn’t run very deep.

It wouldn’t surprise me for rape and murder to become a way of life in the cities if enough people got the idea that they could get away with it easily. As K said in Men In Black: “People are stupid, dangerous animals and you know it.” We may be Minnesotans, but we’re still people. At least I think we are.

Don’t get me wrong; I greatly admire Reagan, and am thankful for what he was able to accomplish. But his greatest feat will not be fully appreciated for another 100 years:

He bought us 25 years.

And that will make all the difference.

Had we re-elected Carter, or elected Mondale, we would now be in a world of hurt. There would be no way back, and we would be living in a very dangerous, very uncertain, very unproductive world. The average person would be much worse off.

But in the 25 years he won for us, the internet was born and expanded, newspapers have gone from all-powerful to all pitiful, and enough wealth has been generated to provide the resources necessary to overthrow the Ruling Class.

Still, we don’t need another Reagan. We can’t be “saved” by a President of the United States. Any POTUS, no matter how virtuous, no matter how smart, no matter how determined, cannot turn back the tide.

Let’s face the brutal facts:

The American people cannot outsource politics anymore. We cannot limit our political activities to voting in general elections and making campaign contributions.

We cannot free ride anymore. We have to invest our time, our talent, and our treasure. And we have to convince our fellow Americans to do the same.

The only way to break the Ruling Class is to break the cycle of incumbency, and the only way to break the cycle of incumbency is to beat incumbents in primary elections, and the only way to beat incumbents in primary elections is to mobilize large groups of otherwise unengaged voters to unite behind and vote for challengers.

Why break the cycle of incumbency? Because the Ruling Class protects its position by inducting the most powerful politicians into the Ruling Class (if they’re not there already; see Dynasty, Kennedy). And the most powerful politicians are long-term incumbents. They get all the best committees, and have the most stroke. They also know how to manipulate the bureaucracy (see Frank, Barney). Incumbency is the cornerstone of the Ruling Class.

Why by winning elections? Because the Ruling Class has blocked all other ways. Term limits were passed in 21 states before the SCOTUS (the pinnacle of the Ruling Class, BTW) killed them on a 5-4 vote. So the only way to break the cycle of incumbency is to win elections. Which means the voters must do it the old-fashioned way: with more votes.

Why primary elections? Because it’s the only way to put all of the incumbents in play. 80-90% of races are in one-party districts; the winner of the primary determines the winner of the general election.

For instance, in Texas there are 150 State Representatives and 31 State Senators. This election cycle, there are at most only 20 competitive House races, and NO competitive Senate races. Plus, so few people vote in primaries relative to generals, it takes fewer voters and less money to influence the outcome.

A State Rep primary is decided by a few thousand votes. And since 40-50% of voters don’t vote in either primary, there is a huge pool of voters who could be educated to make their vote really count (which it doesn’t if all they do is vote in primaries).

Why unite behind a single candidate? Because if you don’t, the incumbent will win. The Ruling Class will stay united. We must unite behind one candidate in each primary to get rid of incumbents – both Republican and Democratic. Unifying also enhances accountability, because if the newly elected official strays off the reservation, he or she knows that the people will unify next time behind their challenger.

And, remember, you don’t have to beat every incumbent to win. If you can show that you can beat any incumbent at will, they will do what you ask. Their desire for self-preservation is their motive force.

So, while 2010 is an important election for stopping the progress of the Ruling Class, the MOAB will be truly fought in 2012.

By then, the Tea Party movement will have matured, and they will understand (because we’re going to help them see it) that the path to victory goes through primaries – both Republican and Democrat.

And the beauty of this strategy, and the reason that I can just lay it out in public, is that victory is entirely up to us. If we execute this strategy, there is nothing the Ruling Class can do about it.

Why? Because we’re a 30D/40I/30R nation. There are more non-primary-voting general election voters than there are Republicans or Democrats.

All we need to do is educate voters on how to make a change, and turn out our supporters, and we will win. As Codevilla points out, there are more of us than there are of them.

In short, money bombs can be neutralized; voter bombs cannot.

No, the key to reform is not to be ruled by another Reagan. The key is to bring back self-governance so that we can begin to once again rule ourselves.

What can you do? Organize your neighborhood. Spread the word, where you live and on the web. Go to an American Majority activist training session. Join a Tea Party. Start a Tea Party. Learn how the system works, and get involved. The Ruling Class rules only because we allow them to.

Can we do this?

YES WE C….

Because what I see now is different. I see that Minnesotans live for the lake. The economic woes are not so severe here, not because people aren’t out of work, but because it seems as an outsider, that everyone thinks that no matter how bad it gets, they will just to go off to the lake.

Public sector unions robbing us blind? Eh, we’ll go to the lake. Education of our children so poor that none will be able to compete in college? eh, they’ll just work up at the lake. There is a sense that when the big world out there is too scary, family just retreats to the lake. It’s okay to come home and stay home.

There don’t appear to be alarm bells ringing because no one honestly believes they’ll starve or be homeless.

What would animate them for something far away?

It’s phenomenal. It argues quite persuasively that through the lens of history, we don’t see or speak of any real distinction between the Republic of Rome and the Roman Empire; likewise, historically, there is no real distiction between the British Empire and the American experiment–the torch passed from one to the next, but the same elements animated both, and the truth of the English speaking peoples in that they’ve been a superb empire for nearly 300 years.

I’ve often thought it was astonishing how aptly phrased Churchill was with his “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth[5] last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.”

Because it *was* Britain’s finest hour. There would be no rising again of that Empire, and he saw it already too keenly. British decline was okay, though, because everything great had been taken in by America.

So perhaps we’ll be lucky, and the move to Australia as the great power will be as seamless.

People and leadership material are in a holding pattern until something shows up.

Realize however, that the bigger you are the less willing you generally are to make a public fool of yourself.

Policy wise they sure aren’t but politically if the Tea Party movement grows and truly touches an anti-Ruling Elite nerve across the political spectrum, nervous alarm bells should be clanging loudly in Georgetown tonight in anticipation if they had any sense.

If the divide ceases to be Democrat/Republican or Liberal/Conservative and becomes the self perceived middle class commoners versus the Elite Ruling Aristocracy, the Ruling Elite will be swept from power with shocking speed.

The more self serving, corrupt and incompetent the Ruling Elite appears in this time of grave hardship for the average American family, the more that commoner/elite divide will come into focus. A critical mass will recognize the Ruling Elite con, where before they could not. And the anger will grow and begat more anger, and then it will happen.

The pain is spread across all consumers, as the purchasing power of their dollars falls. (Congress can carve out special benefits to help other RC members through this difficult time.)

This approach also takes advantage of the natural desire of consumers to consume now; rather than save and wait to make a purchase, there is a strong incentive to borrow and spend now.

To begin with, our enemies are not nearly so well-defined. Who can really say whether China is an ally or an enemy? Intelligent arguments can be made both ways…though if you listen to our diplomats they’re our tightest friend. Same thing with most of the middle east and South America, as well as elsewhere.

Our enemies are also much more numerous, if also much smaller and less powerful. Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and terrorist organizations whose number exceeds that of the stars in the Milky Way.

Combine that last with the idea that “suitcase nukes” could be passed to any one of them, and after the detonation inside our borders we might or might not be able to identify the provenance of the weapon, but would almost certainly never know who was really responsible.

So much for the geopolitical setup. Add to that the insane debt and yearly deficits we’re looking at. The banks seem to have decided that laws don’t apply to them. The SEC just was exempted from FOIA requests in the recent financial “reform” law. The derivative market is a powder keg waiting for a match. On and on and on. We’re sitting on a financial time bomb, and nobody knows what the clock on it reads.

Add to all that the fact that, as I see it, our society and culture are at an all-time low of readiness for real hard times. Only the older among us (significantly older than me, and I’m middle-aged) recall a time when things were really hard.

Millions of us have no skills besides filing paperwork or diddling with Microsoft Word or juggling bank accounts or writing reports or other things that, when you get right down to it, don’t add a whole lot of value anywhere that’s crucial.

During the last depression, nearly everybody knew how to farm and fix their own clothes and build things and so forth. How many do today? I know many who can that are in their 70s or older. I don’t think I know more than one or two that can do those kinds of things that are younger than 30.

And we live in a culture where people riot when their team hosts a championship game, WHETHER THEY WIN OR LOSE.

They riot if they see one instance of cops beating up a black man. They are accustomed to being backstopped by social security, unemployment insurance, WIC, food stamps, heating assistance and a galaxy of other federal, state and local programs.

How are these same welfare-state addicted people going to react when something happens (like huge cuts in social security or other programs, big hikes in their taxes, or whatever) that actually materially affects them in a negative way?

And the kicker: who is the next Ronald Reagan? I look at the Republicans today and I can’t find anybody that looks significantly different from the pack. Even if you include the Dems in “the pack”.

Yes, we’re seeing a situation that I don’t recall ever seeing before, either personally or in a history book. It feels to me like we’re currently in a holding pattern, while the geniuses behind the curtain are jockeying to see if they can find a solution. I think there are probably people in a position to know who are panicking right now and ticking through their last options before they throw in the towel and leave us to our own devices.

I hope I’m wrong, but fear I’m not. I think we have as little as a few months left before big changes come…but they’ve fooled me several times up to this point, so maybe they’ll keep all the balls in the air for another 3 or 5 years. I have a hard time seeing it go longer than that without going kablooey.

Washington, Jul 29 - Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement after offering a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives calling on Congress not to hold a lame duck session after Election Day for the purpose of passing hugely unpopular legislation like a national energy tax, enormous deficit spending bills, and the kickback to Big Labor known as “Card Check.”

“Americans are sick and tired of their elected leaders making backroom deals to ram through unpopular, 2000-page bills that no one has read,” said Chairman Price. “They are sick of out-of-touch politicians, and they are tired of being ignored. A number of Democrats, including members of their leadership, have recently expressed a desire to ignore the public will and use a lame duck session to pass liberal legislation Americans do not want. Today I gave my Democrat colleagues an opportunity to show they are finally ready to listen to the American people.

“Our system of government rests upon the consent of the governed, but it is quite clear that Democrats no longer have Americans’ consent. The public’s trust in this Congress has been repeatedly broken. Voting for a national energy tax and other items on the liberal wish list in a lame duck session would shatter it beyond repair. Republicans are fully prepared to do what is necessary to restore Americans’ trust in their elected representatives. We know it will be a long road, but it is one well worth traveling.”

Five years ago the ideas in it would probably not have occured to him. Had he written the essay as little as two years ago he would have been laughed to scorn.

Charles Rangel’s problem is that the old world has picked this moment to suddenly die underneath him. He won his last race with 89% of the vote, as big a margin as you can get outside of North Korea or Syria. Now he faces 13 counts at the hands of colleagues who are his ‘friends’, but maybe not ‘friends’ enough to lose their next election on his behalf. It’s unfair in a way.

Nick Nyhart of the Huffington Post says that because the “whole system” is guilty, Charlie Rangel shouldn’t be singled out for punishment. He wants the Republicans on trial too and hopes Rangel doesn’t have to face ethics charges.
“Rep. Rangel may be the one in the spotlight today, but it’s the whole system that’s guilty.”

Think of Spain in the 17th century: already by 1543 nearly two-thirds of ordinary revenue was going on interest on the juros, the loans by which the Habsburg monarchy financed itself.

Or think of France in the 18th century: between 1751 and 1788, the eve of Revolution, interest and amortisation payments rose from just over a quarter of tax revenue to 62 per cent.

Finally, consider Britain in the 20th century. Its real problems came after 1945, when a substantial proportion of its now immense debt burden was in foreign hands. Of the pound stg. 21 billion national debt at the end of the war, about pound stg. 3.4bn was owed to foreign creditors, equivalent to about a third of gross domestic product.

Alarm bells should therefore be ringing very loudly indeed in Washington, as the US contemplates a deficit for 2010 of more than $US1.47 trillion ($1.64 trillion), about 10 per cent of GDP, for the second year running.

We have a mass media that isn’t interested in facts and truth, and is completely uninterested in protecting the vital interests of this nation, we have a judiciary uninterested in protecting the rights of our citizens, (although they seem to be more than willing to break their invisible spines bending over backward to protect the rights of those non-citizens who intend to harm us).

Together, they have helped elevate an administration that is openly hostile toward a large segment of us.

And yet, I read some comments that suggest that “they all” are sowing the seeds of their own destruction? It will come back to haunt them.

Really? How, specifically?

If this Doltin’ Bolten decision is upheld in the 9th Circuit (book it, bank on it, bet the south 40 that it could ONLY get worse when they are done…not better), off we go to the Supreme Court. When? Months and months and months from now.

What happens in the meantime? The ninth circuit’s robed rogue Democrats will time the decision to MOST impact the voting in November…and the date of their decision will be heralded as a “great victory”. For whom? For every single voter that could be inspired by the intent behind the democrats crass political football they have made of this issue.

What happens then? A trip to the Supreme Court? (it’s inevitable). How will that play out? If, the Supreme Court (with the democratic operatives there probably in high dudgeon and full dissent, led by …I would venture a guess…the “wise Latina”) stating that the Court’s majority decision is pandering to our “worst elements”…you know…those bitter clingers and racists.

This administration can say “Look how hard we tried…but THOSE PEOPLE are how they are. Mean. Racist. Stupid. Don’t vote for them ever again. They are blocking all this progress we ALREADY MADE…AND NOW THEY ARE TAKING IT AWAY”

You see, this administration has it figured out. If they win…they win. If they lose, they win. They will have a “foil” to point the blame at. EVERY failure, EVERY disaster, EVERY blunder…will be the fault of THOSE GUYS.

And the mass media will promote the virtues of the leftists and spew their vitriol at the rest of us. And the judiciary will crush the will of the people and the democratic operatives will line their pockets and call you a racist for uttering a mild complaint. And the JournoKlan will plot to throw the truth through a plate glass window.

The majority of whites didnt vote for Obama. And he was still elected.
Think about that long and hard. Thats a first in US history.

And the message is..YOU DONT MATTER. And this is doing to start happening withgreater frequency. Because thats what mass immigration both legal and illegal means..the permanent change in demographics in this country. Race doesnt matter?

Than the election of Obama doesnt matter..and your unhappiness with the results of that election doesnt matter.

Whites are told over and over and over that RACISM is the ultimate sin. And they believe it..they stumble all over themselves to disavow any racial identity. Race doesnt matter..race is …racist.

Hispanics dont believe that.. Blacks dont. Muslims whose entire religious ethos is based on hatred of the infidel, the kuffar the Dhimmi..dont believe it. But whites cant apologize enough.

Cant give their land away fast enough. Reduced to 7% of the worlds population they call themselves The Majority..and seek to give what little they have away. Its a suicide cult led by Jim Jones-like President, and a Liberal priesthood of

Why descend into lawlessness like your enemies who are trying to kill you?

Because you aren’t fighting for approval or self confidence, you are fighting for everything. When you fight for everything, you fight with everything you have. Unless, of course, you are John McCain and resolve to lose your campaign with honor and dignity. Which he did.

No, if there’s going to be a fight, you should strive to be at least as well armed as your opponent. This is the lesson taught by winners for the last few thousand years, and this is no time to try changing reality.

Hey, Suicidal,

I wouldn’t say that John McCain’s loss was with honor. Anyone who has read Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” has seen how McCain’s campaign machine threw Sarah under the bus, ostensibly to blame the loss on her.

They apparently fabricated personal stories and fed them to the media, which denigrated Sarah with the fabricated stories. What I can’t imagine is why she now supports McCain for reelection against a good conservative, J.D. Hayworth, especially now when we don’t need to keep another RINO like McCain in office to work out compromises with Democrats that are apt to be unconstitutional and damaging.

Los Angeles area alone admits to 3-4 million illegals. That leaves Houston Texas, San Antonio,Albuquerque, Fresno, Chicago, NYC, Wash DC NOLA, Atlanta, Buffalo NY,…etc etc.

THERE ARE 30 MILLION ILLEGALS in the USA.

THERE ARE 23 MILLION NON WHITE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS..of which 11 Million are on permanent welfare.

There was a time when the understood Congressional job description included "bringing home the pork".... the more the better.

It's obviously still the game with big banks, unions, environmentalists, and lobbyists, but the attitude of the People, has changed.

We clearly understand the implications of the crushing debt, continued spending, and wildly malignant growth of government.

Politicians facing the November elections, claim to have "got religion", and are oh, so concerned about the debt.... but NOT the spending. As usual, they intend to enhance revenue through higher taxes!

Their goal has nothing to do with cutting spending or reducing the debt.... they will spend every dime they steal from the "rich", the productive, and every man, woman and child in this country.

If there's a chance that Harry Reid can retain his Senate seat, after his appalling performance, then, it's all over. Nanny government is here to stay.

I don't have a problem with only 60% of the American people bothering to vote. If they are uninformed, apathetic, and uninvolved.... they should stay home!

One need only look at the landslide victory of Alvin Green in SC, or the appallingly ignorant Milwaukee councilwoman, who opposed the Arizona illegal immigration law, but didn't know where Arizona was... to surmise that a frightening percentage of those who DO vote, should stay home and watch the View or soaps.

The next two elections will decide the fate of this Constitutional republic. If we return the free spenders to the Hill, elect morons, or statists/socialists, then the "people" will have spoken.

Individual liberty, opportunity, and infinite possibility, will be voluntarily traded for a govt check and equality of mediocrity.

The Roman Empire lasted for centuries. The American one collapsed overnight.

Rome’s corruption became the strength of her enemies, and the Western Empire was overrun.

America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy.

Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many.

Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed.

Opponents say the current system works. They are concerned about a possible scenario where Candidate X wins nationally, but Candidate Y has won in Massachusetts. In that case, all of the state's 12 electoral votes would go to Candidate X, the candidate who was not supported by Massachusetts voters.

That means that now there will be an additional $437,000.00 available to the bureaucrats in Massachusetts to provide milk to tens of thousands of starving babies in the state.

That is unless the senator was lying about paying the sales tax the same way he lied about releasing his complete military and medical records during his presidential campaign.

It was further reported that the senator agreed that he would pay the additional tax resulting from complying with Massachusetts law requiring payment of approximately $70,000.00 annualy in Franchise Tax durrently due and in future years.

With that money, the state will be able to provide shoes to additional tens of thousands of poor children who had previously gone to school barefooted.

It’s time to close that gap with an honest airing of ideas, a heated and potentially divisive debate, and a last-ditch attempt at resetting the fiscal course of the nation. Rinsing and repeating another cycle of the last 20-30 years isn’t going to cut it.

I frankly could care less if any or all of this is “politically difficult.” So was ending slavery or defeating Communism. The people who argue for “politically doable” deals are the same intellectually flaccid hacks who got us into this mess.

The administration is now betting that the strength of the opposition will dissipate. But as Obamacare’s onerous and rising costs are imposed on Medicare beneficiaries and taxpayers, and as employers begin signaling their plans to dump costs into the government’s lap, all of the fears that were on display last August will be validated.

Obamacare was destined to become a costly government takeover of American health care, and voters knew it as soon as they were given a chance to see it in black and white.

Democrats riddled it with budget gimmicks and sleights of hand to create the illusion of a fully financed program; but what it really does is redistribute resources within the health sector away from those who have good coverage today.

The New York Times whitewashed Stalin’s genocide. Cronkite misreported the significance of the Tet Offensive to say the Vietnam War was unwinnable. Dan Rather, Cronkite’s replacement, began his career falsely reporting that Dallas schoolchildren cheered JFK’s murder and ended it falsely reporting on forged National Guard memos. The Rodney King video was misleadingly edited; the Tailwind story was not true. And that’s only a snippet of the list.

The media environment today is dizzying not because of one revolution but two complementary ones. First there’s the churn of the Internet, from Wikileaks to wilding bloggers. But there’s also a second revolution that amounts to consumer backlash against the House of Cronkite. It has fueled the rise of Fox News and the new alternative media.

...according to leading Habeas Corpus lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights. Systematic denial of Red Cross access to prisoners remains. The use of dogs remains. Segregation and isolation are still used routinely and systematically – including an initial period of at least 4 weeks "to enhance and exploit the disorientation and disorganization felt by a newly arrived detainee", only terminated at the behest of interrogators.

Both manuals assert that detainees will be treated in accordance with the "spirit" of the Geneva conventions "to the degree consistent with military needs", but never assert that the conventions are actually being followed at Guantanamo.

To be called racist these days is equivalent to being called a heretic or witch in the middle ages, a communist in the 50’s or a pedophile. It is a great way to suppress debate. Racism has come to mean any criticism of Obama.

Obama has always used race to insulate him from criticism and to advance his career – from the time he was a young boy, through college, through Harvard, through his ‘community organizer’ days. It’s a basic, essential component of Obama’s tactics of controlling other people.

And control people he must – Obama has long ago removed himself from direct interaction with people and events and insulated himself from accountability by misinforming others, manipulating them..and using race as a shield and climbing rope. These tactics are not going to change.

I predict that race will be used more and more as the criticism of Obama increases. Obama has trapped himself. He’s used misinformation (lies) and manipulation to get into office, to get ‘his’ policies through Congress. Now – he’s facing criticism of both his policies and his process.

Obama can’t handle criticism because it means, psychologically, that he feels he’s losing control of other people. So..he uses race. You criticize him, according to Obama, because you are ignorant or biased. Politically and/or racially biased.
White people are therefore going to be more and more attacked by the Obama administration as ‘racist’; this is a tactic to reject valid criticism of Obama’s policies and procedures.

Obama is thus retreating to his ‘racist’ base: blacks and hispanics. This does a great disservice to both groups and he shouldn’t count on their support. He’s counting on them to see the world in a racist manner! That’s insulting to them.

There’s something else to consider in Obama’s psyche, and his need to control people. That’s his rejection of Congress, or The People. Obama rejects Congress as the voice and Power of The People. That’s because he cannot deal with other people having power. Psychologically he cannot handle such a situation. Since Obama’s first day, he has sought to reduce the power of Congress. These include his utter rejection of the requirement to read and debate bills; Obama insisted on Congress passing His bills..without reading or debate.

Now, Obama is going to throw Congress ‘under the bus’ in the November elections. That is, Congress will take the criticism from the people while Obama removes himself yet further and further from accountability.

Last time around, I was motivated to elect a Republican senator from Wisconsin only to have the national Republicans starve the state for campaign funding to support the strategic goal of electing the critically important Arlen Specter. How did that work out for ya?

Peter Fitzgerald was a first term Republican senator from Illinois. Senator Fitzgerald was a public minded go getter who was a force opposing corruption in Illinois. He was behind getting Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate Governor Ryan who was subsequently convicted and imprisoned. The Illinois Republican Party decided to shove him aside rather than support him for re election. Seems like it had something to do with protecting their phony baloney jobs.

The Republicans ran Alan Keyes who lost the senate race to Barack Obama which means that the Illinois Republican Party was responsible for putting Obama on the path to the White House.

Consider the fact that most of the above distinguished Republicans voted for the hardcore racist Sotomayor. Scott Brown seems to be fashioning a career as Harry Reid's 60th vote on other issues, and I have no hope that Centerfold Boy will suddenly remember why voters sent him there in the first place.

Snowe and Collins gave us Obama $1T pork bill. McAmnesty and Gramnesty have pushed for amnesty for illegals and global warming cultism - two massive unforced errors that help Democrats only.

What kinds of hideous reparation tumors are now being launched, nurtured, proliferated and metastasized under this race-pimping POTUS?

Rest assured, an army of commie, er community organizing filth is infecting every stratum of government infrastructure.

Only a storm of epic proportions will wash the clogging filth away. More and more, America’s future path seems divided between tyranny, brought on through Marxist infiltration, and civil war.

Sadly, I don’t see this disease fixed in the ballot box.

And as monstrous as it seems, civil war may be the least bad option. Worse, I’m not sure there are enough Americans who would fight to their death to vanquish the cancer of tyranny.

All the multi-cultural degradation and victim pimping, under both Republicans and Democrats, seems to have robbed a once great nation of her greatness.

For more than a generation, whites have been bludgeoned and guilt tripped into self-loathing ignorant idiots, and the many racists among the “victim” races have only proliferated exponentially.

Well said indeed. May I add a few additional thoughts?

(1) I suspect that most Americans, watching one of Rev. Wright’s theatrical, posturing racist diatribes–to say nothing of the euphoric, lunatic response of his congregation–were initially stunned, but quickly asked themselves “What are you–black Americans–doing? You’ve won the civil rights war. Racists are no longer welcome among decent people and haven’t been for decades. We’re more than OK with that. We want to judge others by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, we expect that everyone wants to do that, just like Dr. King dreamed. Don’t you know that you’re shooting yourself, and an entire people, in the foot?”

Mr. Obama did not help himself when, during an interview with Bill O’Rielly, he admitted attending Wright’s services at least 500 times yet denied that he had any idea that Wright was, well, what Wright is. And the wheels of the Obama bus went thumpity thump.

(2) Van Jones is exactly like Mr. Obama: A man famous for being famous, well known for being well known, a man whose accomplishments are as ephemeral as his employment record. However, the absolute devotion of both men to socialist/marxist ideology is rock solid and well documented, not least by their own words and writings.

In a rational presidential administration, adults would tell even a committed radical like Mr. Obama that it would be insanity to even consider hiring someone like Jones. However, they are all, in every way that matters, just like Mr. Obama.

There are some people who have superficially impressive paper credentials, but there are few or no adults. Oh they were present in the Clinton Administration too. Recall the female defense department functionary complaining that those darned Marines were just too aggressive and something would have to be done about that.

But the Clintons were politically pragmatic leftists so such comments were far more under wraps than those of Obama true believers who cannot understand in advance that such thinking does not please most Americans. Van Jones? Thumpity thump. But there will be many more, and the wheels keep turning.

(3) Cowards? By the thinking of Mr. Holder and those like him, of course. Cowardly because most of America isn’t fixated on racial grievance mongering, nor are they prone to think of such things or speak of such things as those in the Obama Administration routinely do. Mr. Holder has made it clear that he is a black Attorney General rather than an AG who happens to be black. Most Americans don’t like that at all.

Most Americans are long past that kind of thinking. They’re too practical, too hard working, too optimistic. “Wise Latina?” Most Americans recoiled because they knew instinctively that a wise Latina–a wise anybody–would never think such a thing, let alone say it. And they also realized that it is irrelevant. What matters in a Supreme Court Justice is experience, knowledge, and an unswerving devotion to the Constitution, regardless of the political consequences of a given decision.

Most Americans know that this is commonly found in the judicial nominations of Republican presidents and virtually never found in the nominations of Democrat presidents. The Sotomayor debacle was a gratuitous reminder of the narcissism and of the disdain the self-appointed elite hold for most Americans.

All of the rest and far, far more to come are merely an indication of how very far the expectations of the American people of their president in particular, and of all public servants in general, have fallen. Statements and actions that not many years ago would have brought legitimate howls of outrage and demands for resignation or impeachment now merely provoke a disgusted shake of the head and a muttered “Geez. What next?” So egregious are they, so many are they, so outlandish and insane are they that we are numbed.

(4) See #1. Thumptity thump. Ooops! Pull her back on the bus. Who is next to go thumpity thump for embarrassing The One (to the very limited degree that he is capable of embarrassment)?

(5) What outrages most Americans is unthinking, destructive radicalism. Hire more blacks and minorities? What?! Hire qualified, competent and capable people for real jobs, not made up jobs–who gives a boatload of dead rodents what color or gender they are–and let them do the job, whatever the job is.

This adherence to the PIO Loop (be practical, industrious and optimistic) will stand any politician from either side of the political spectrum in good stead.