Why Stan is My Friend
July 27th, 2010In an era where the governor of Illinois will find out next week whether he will join the previous governor in prison, it’s hard to find anyone who has credibility. Our President tells us we can keep our doctor under his health care bill, but he knows, and we know he knows, many will not. Charlie Rangle is going to trial for ethics violations. Mark Kirk, Republican candidate for the Obama senate seat, tells tall tales about his military career and even an ordeal on a sailboat in Lake Michigan when he was a kid. His Democratic opponent made loans to gangsters and broke his bank. Great choice on that ticket.
Where have all the honorable people gone? Who stands for anything today? Whose word is worth anything, handshake is good enough to take to the bank?
All my life I have tried to avoid people like Rob Blagojevich, Mark Kirk, Barack Obama, Charlie Rangle, and people like this. I’m proud I have friends like Stan.
Stan was playing in a golf tournament. They were giving a car away for a hole in one. When Stan got to that hole, he asked his caddie, you want to risk your tip on me making this shot? The caddie said my car is a piece of crap, sure, I’ll do it. Stan said give my a six iron. The caddie said, I’ll give you a five iron. Stan knocked the shot in the hole and turned to the caddie and said, son, you just won a new jeep.
How many politicians do you think would have kept their deal with the caddie with a new car at stake? Bill Clinton was a notorious cheater at golf. Most politicians I’ve played with were. That’s why I don’t play golf with politicians anymore.
It makes me proud to be a friend of Stan’s. I just wish we had more Stan’s in this world today.
Tags: Blago, Clinton, hole-in-one, Kirk, obama, Rangle
Posted in Tea Party Member, best conservative blogs, political commentary | No Comments »
Sarah Palin is Appealing to Women Voters
July 26th, 2010Why do women like Sarah Palin? She is adding millions of new conservative women voters. What is her appeal?
First discount the elitist women with Harvard degrees and their Harvard wanna be counterparts. Discount the left-wing female journalists who hate her. Discount the female recipients of your redistribution of wealth. Add all of these up and they don’t comprise a very big percentage of the voting female population.
It leaves grandmothers who raised kids and did it on a budget. It leaves working and non-working mothers who are trying to raise a family and make ends meet in a bad economy. It leaves young women just out of college who can’t get a job.
You see women tend to be less risk averse than men. They tend to believe a family and a country should live within it’s means. They don’t like to see red ink in the family budget. They will shop to save. They will clip coupons to stretch the budget. They will sacrifice so the kids can get those trendy shoes. They put family first.
Sarah Palin talks directly to them. They get her message. She has been there, done that. Until she hit the jackpot, she lived modestly. She went to a no name college. She had nothing handed to her. She is raising a family and doing it while she manages her career. She says she will cut government spending and women believe her. They accept she ran a family budget, ran a state budget and kept them balanced. She’s a real mom, a real person, and speaks a language mainstream women understand.
No one in this country, except Barack Obama, is doing more to convert Independent women and Democratic women to the tea party, which is predominately female, and to the conservative movement.
Whether she can gain enough support to run for and be elected president remains to be seen. But, she does show, like Chris Christie in New Jersey that there are millions of Americans who want straight talk. The fancy rhetoric of Obama is passe. No more lies. No more big slogans like Hope and Change.
Speak plainly and carry a big axe. One that will slash the federal government to chips.
Tags: Republican Party converts, Sarah Palin, tea party, women voters
Posted in Tea Party Member, best conservative blogs, political commentary | No Comments »
Did You Vote on GM Purchase of AmeriCredit?
July 25th, 2010As a taxpayer you own part of GM. You own your share of the $45 billion you helped give GM to bail them out. They have $30 billion in cash. Until they go public, you will continue to own part of GM.
Did the Financial Reform Act give you the option to vote on big transactions GM makes? Of course not.
GM announced they will spend $3.5 billion of your tax dollars to buy Americredit, a company that makes loans to sub prime buyers. Here we go again. The government had to bail out GMAC, the former financial arm of GM because they made bad loans, not only to car buyers, but to home buyers. Now GM plans to make leases and loans to sub prime car buyers. They won’t be allowed to make mortgages, but don’t despair, the FHA, which you also own, is doing that at a stepped up pace. The FHA has replaced Freddie and Fannie, which you also own, as the company that learned least from the housing meltdown.
Your car company is going to sell cars to people who can’t get loans elsewhere with this great new acquisition.
You and I can write the future outcome of this today. We know GM will be drowning in bad paper in no time. Just as it was an entitlement for every American to own a nice house, it is still an entitlement by your government for every American to own a Cadillac.
The government mortgage bailout, the deal where you help your neighbor who can’t pay the mortgage, pay the mortgage, isn’t working. The few who qualify are mostly behind on their refinanced mortgage.
We have a government that is out of control. The government that can’t run anything, is running GM. That government will repeat the mistakes of the past. That government voted for you and your tax dollars and approved the GM acquisition. Now, you have to vote that government out of office and replace them with rational people who will not let GM orbit out of control and maybe, just maybe, help you get some of your money back from the GM bailout.
Tags: AmeriCredit, Fannie, FHA, Freddie, GM, GM purchase of AmeriCredit
Posted in Tea Party Member, best conservative blogs, political commentary | No Comments »
You Can Attend the Obama Birthday Party
July 24th, 2010On August 5 you can attend a birthday party for President Obama in Chicago. But, you must write a check for $30,000 to the Democratic National Committee.
The money, however, will go to support the campaign of Alexi Giannoulas, candidate for the infamous senate seat that was Obama’s then went on the auction block by Blagojevich, then was filled by Roland Burris, now to be put on the ballot, since Burris may have never legally been a senator. Obama’s home state may have two elections for the same senate seat. One to replace Burris, who may have been there illegally. That electee would serve between November and January, when the duly elected senator would take his seat. Confused? Remember, this is Illinois, the state that gave you Obama, Emanuel, Axelrod, and Jarrett.
This birthday party begs several questions? Why would anyone pay $30,000 to attend this party? Because there are fat cat Democrats who just want to be in the presence of the president? Or, is it to buy favors from Alexi? Once again, remember, this is Illinois.
Mr. Giannoulias is a good friend of President Obama. He helped him get elected to the senate.
Mr. Giannoulias is typical of many of Obama’s friends. Tarnished goods. His Broadway Bank loaned millions to Michael “jaws” Giorango, a convicted bookmaker and well as other crime figures. This was while Mr. Giannoulias was the senior loan officer. The bank went broke. He has mismanaged the Illinois college saving progam as Treasurer of the state. He is a young Blagojevich on steroids. Just the kind of young man you would hope your president would support for a senate position and come out and charge lobbyists $30,000 a pop to get in line for favors from Giannoulias or Obama.
Remember the old mob movies where the Feds filmed the funerals and got the license plates of the people who attended the funeral? The Feds should do the same thing at this birthday party. The attendees will be testifying at the next Federal prosecution of Giannoulias should he be elected senator.
Obama is president of the wrong country. America is done with him, he needs to be president of Chicago, replacing Daley.
Tags: Axlerod, Daley, Emanuel, Giannoulias, Jarrett, Obama's Birthday Party
Posted in Tea Party Member, best conservative blogs, political commentary | No Comments »
Tony Hayward Gets the Boot
July 28th, 2010In the corporate world you pay when you fail to perform. The oil leak was on Tony Hayward’s watch. He failed to measure up to his promise of laser attention on safety. Then, he failed to demonstrate the leadership required of the CEO job. He did not do and say the right things to give people the impression that he was making the Gulf oil leak top priority and had appropriate empathy for the people who were harmed by the act. He deserved to be fired, and he was. It’s easy to say he walked away with millions, so who cares? He cares. He worked his way to the top of a huge corporation and leaves in disgrace. He would give most of those millions back to have the oil leak erased.
In the world of US politics, you do worse than Tony Hayward did and you suffer no consequences. No one did more to destroy the US economy than Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. Dodd is retiring rather than suffer a defeat in the November elections. Barney will be reelected and go on with his mischief. Both proudly stood behind President Obama when the signed the abortion of a Financial Reform Act into law. Smug as peacocks. The Financial Reform Act that ignores Freddie and Fannie like they don’t exist.
Dodd and Frank supported Freddie and Fannie to the end and beyond. Without these two organizations there would not have been a housing meltdown. Taxpayers have dumped over $100 billion into these two organizations to cover up their mistakes. The men who ran Freddie and Fannie into the ground walked away with millions in bonus payments, but the AIG people got the public attention. They still sit on billions in bad mortgages and the bailouts for them are not over.
Who are Dodd and Frank kidding. They should have been fired for far more reasons than Tony Hayward. They kept Freddie and Fannie out of Financial Reform because they want the Freddie and Fannie problems kept under the rug. They don’t intend to answer to anyone for their culpability in the mess. They don’t want reform in Freddie and Fannie because they want them to keep doling out mortgages to people who can’t pay. They still believe home ownership is an American right.
Will either Dodd or Frank ever face justice for their injustice to the US taxpayer? Will they even have to answer to the media for their failures?
In a media culture where 400 high-level journalists were sharing e-mails on how to get Obama elected during the campaign, it can’t happen. If you were a TV producer or a newspaper editor, would you fire a journalist in your employ who was blatantly using his job to promote his political ideology? Have any of the 400 been fired for participating in the little cartel to elect Obama? None that I’ve read about?
In the private sector, you mess up, you get fired. In the government, you mess up, nothing happens. In the media world, you mess up, nothing happens.
Tags: barney frank, Chris Dodd, Fannie, Freddie, Tony Hayward
Posted in Tea Party Member, best conservative blogs, political commentary | No Comments »