Un-Liberaled Woman

Uh, I take a one-day break from posting and look at what I miss. All the crazy antics from my hometown.

As some of you may not know, I’m a native of Peoria, IL.  Yesterday our Prophet President (saaaaave me, Obama, saaaaaaaaaave me!) made a stop at the Caterpillar plant to help close the deal on the U.S.Stinker knows as the porkulus. Now growing up in Peoria, you soon realize that literally everyone and their dad AND uncle works for Caterpillar. So the company’s dealings are a pretty big deal in P-town and people take it seriously.  Outside of my grandfather, I think my family is like one of 20 that doesn’t have a direction connection to the company. 

So here’s the scoop (via Black & Right). Obama gets up and gives his speech to the factory works…no worries, the preacher voice was in tow. Here’s what he says -

President Obama today repeated the claim we asked about yesterday at the press briefing that Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., “said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” Caterpillar announced 22,000 layoffs last month.

And theeeeeeeeen, cue the CEO of Caterpillar.

Well, apparently, Obama IS the only one who thinks so. Oooops – that’s a fucking understatement.  What an embarrassment – but during the circus start of this administration I’m not really surprised.

Oh, where are you going, folks? Where aaaaaaare you going? I didn’t say the fun stopped. Oh no.

Turns out Obama also tried to invoke some bipartisanship play some bully politics with the freshman Congressman Aaron Schock  (who represents the Peoria district). I guess things didn’t go according to plan (via HotAir).  During Obama’s grandstanding in Peoria, the President said the following:

“Aaron’s still trying to make up his mind about our recover package,” Obama said to the employees in the crowd. “And so we know that all of you are going to talk to him after our event, because he’s a very talented young man.  I’ve got great confidence in him to do the right thing for the people of Peoria.”

Congressman Schock showed his “appreciation” today on the House floor.

Today Rep. Schock said on the House floor that “I found it very interesting that after the president finished his speech and I stayed around, not one employee at that facility approached me and asked me to vote for this bill.”  In fact, said Schock, “I have received over 1,400 phone calls, e-mails and letters from employees alone asking me to oppose this legislation.”  Why!? Because, Schock said, “They know that this bill is not stimulus. They know that this bill will not do anything to create long-term, sustained economic growth. This bill is too big to get it wrong.”

There’s more in the video. Classic. P-town is calling out the President! Represent! (Okay, I’m officially a dork.)

These celebrities are just too much. I can’t get enough. (Via Flopping Aces & Protein Wisdom) Too. freakin’. much.  Bouts of idiocy at this magnitude take yeeeeeeeeears from developing one’s true craft. On that, the award goes to….

Best Delusion:

Alec Baldwin (but honestly, in his defense, the academy just awarded this as more of a lifetime achievement).

Everyone seems to be on this “First Hundred Days” trip. What’s Obama gonna do to clean up these disparate, enormous messes? Put out all the fires?

Give it a rest. A plane load of Saudi sociopaths hit the World Trade Center and the Congress, the country and the world gave W. a pass for eight years. Whatever he wanted. They gave him the MasterCard. The result: priceless.

He literally said that. The guy who was ranting and raving about moving to Canada if GWB won in 2004 – is NOW saying everybody gave GWB a pass and kept their mouths quiet. Clearly Alec had his hearing, eyesight and intelligence impaired the last eight years. Oh, my mistake just his hearing and eyesight. His intelligence has never been up far enough to be considered down the tubes.

Best Over Blown Ego:

And then there’s the future, self-proclaimed Governor of New Mexico, Val Kilmer. This is honestly too much. The ego alone is astonishing but is it really still surprising that celebrities are this full of themselves.

[Klosterman]: You mean you think you literally had the same experience as Doc Holliday?

Kilmer: Oh, sure. It’s not like I believed that I shot somebody, but I absolutely know what it feels like to pull the trigger and take someone’s life.

[Klosterman:] You understand how it feels to shoot someone as much as a person who has actually committed a murder?

[Kilmer] I understand it more. It’s an actor’s job. A guy who’s lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. He’s some punk. Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that’s why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn’t get on the football team, couldn’t finagle a scholarship. They didn’t have the emotional equipment to handle that experience. But this is what an actor trains to do. I can more effectively represent that kid in Vietnam than a guy who was there.

Nope. Still surprising.

Awww, the irony of today. Via Ace, check out the comment from Jack Straw – hitting it right on the nose.

One time I had an extremely hard time dealing with somebody saying I didn’t support women’s rights because I was pro-life. Me of all people – the college-educated, career-driven, independent, direct and brass woman. But this is a liberal myth that many women have a hard time getting beyond. Because they are put in a situation where they are brainwashed to think that being pro-life means denying a woman her right to choose, and being a woman why would you be against denying women a choice??? But really and honestly, when you get down to the actual act and discussion of rights, that’s not what the issue of abortion is really about. I now this know because I had to dissect this issue for years in order to know the real truth.

Then I came across this video today – man, where was this wise girl when I was going through all of that? She would have just probably been learning to form sentences, but come on, isn’t she a millennial. Slacker. Kidding!!! Anyshowoff, the girl in this video gives a honest take on the pro-life stance, delivering the hard truth in a most articulated fashion. Wise beyond her years and delivering sound, logical arguments to this highly-debated political issue. Watch the entire thing – at the end you’ll be in awe that she’s only 12.

Couple of awesome quotes. At the end:

If you walk away with anything from this speech, walk away with the words of Horton. You know him, the elephant that risks his life to save that little speck. Remember him and his famous quote. “Even though you can’t see them or hear them at all, a person’s a person no matter how small.”

And from earlier in the vid:

“We must remember that with our rights and our choices come responsibilities. And we can’t take someone else’s right away to avoid our responsibilities.”

Abortion is always touted as “women’s rights” and being pro-life means you are somehow denying a group of people (in this case that group is women) a right. That is such a manipulated myth that it is just ridiculous. Just ask, Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, who is now a pro-life advocate. But too many people miss the picture on this. It’s not about someone’s right over what to do with their body. It’s about another person’s right to life. A person who doesn’t have the capability for anyone to hear them. For those people who cannot voice their desire or will for life, it’s our responsibility as human beings to respect that right (despite whether we are ashamed or humiliated by that person’s right). And supporting that right to life doesn’t make you any less of a supporter for human or women’s rights. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a moron and don’t waste your breath arguing with idiots. Need a visual of the kind of morons I’m talking about. Here’s one of my favs all hopped up on her soapbox:

The Messiah phenom is back and instead of wine at this supper it’s a glass of kool-aid for everyone AROUND! Can you feel it! Halllllllelujah! Praise Obama!

Okay, so Obama has been going out to the folks (imagine me saying “TO THE FOLKS” in my best preacher voice) to spread the fear about what would happen if the stimulus wouldn’t get passed. Ignore the fact that the economy would work itself out on its own after cutting back some or that tax cuts would do the economy wonders. Don’t think about those realistic scenarios. We need to get back to speaking in vague, . Plus, people need their free shit now, Obama! I mean we’ve got promises to keep, remember???

So Obama got the revival started up again in Florida (via Michelle Malkin). The first is Julio – college student, works at McDonalds, communications major with very odd speaking voice that plans to make it in radio (self-delusional doesn’t even begin to describe it). When Obama asks if Julio has healthcare, Julio somehow forgets that paying tuition at college gives him healthcare already. But the govt. is going to give him unnecessary assistance, so, Praise Obama!!! Oh, and Julio forgets that he is not the ONLY college student who works while going to school to pay the bills like rent, food, beer. Somehow millions of other college students can survive, but Julio needs the Messiah to come down and saaaaaaaaaave him from this terrible situation. You know that “terrible” situation where he has the opportunity to actually work AND go to college. I mean, it’s soooooo unfair. The government should have just automatically made him a millionaire on his 18th birthday. Good grief.

Anydelusion, here’s my shoutout to Julio – I worked three jobs and went to school full-time during my college years. And the only handout I ever got was a student loan, which I’m currently paying back now with interest. I didn’t need a free lunch at the expense of someone else’s income through taxes.

Now, the revival keeps going, folks. Can’t stop the Kool-Aid flowing euphoria because Henrietta needs a house. I mean it’s everybody’s right to have a house in the U.S., right? Ummm, WRONG. It is not a constitutional right to own a home in the U.S. You have to earn it – through keeping good credit, through earning income, through going to school (and doing well in school) so that you can gain employment to earn that income. I know, such hard mandates that every other citizen can abide by except poor Henrietta – I’m sure it’s just that she is a “victim” of choices SHE has made in her life.

Here’s my counter to these stupid people. When my company lays me off because they have that much more to collect in taxes to buy Henrietta a home or handout Julio double the amount of healthcare, does that mean I can come crash out Henrietta’s place? Can Julio pay for my healthcare since I won’t have insurance anymore (being unemployed) and he’ll have two times more than me (from his school & the govt.)?

People should think twice before just turning to government blindly for handouts because the money has to come from somewhere – taxes from your friend, family member, boss or neighbor. If it’s a crime for you to steal money from them, why support the government doing the dirty work then?

I’m not saying I don’t feel for these people. Life sucks. It’s hard and we work hard for what in the end seems so little. But that’s life – it’s not fair. But that doesn’t mean we should force the government to take money from hard-working citizens because you or I cannot face adversity in our lives. What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. So pick yourself up and keep working toward that better tomorrow. It may be cheesy, but guess what it’s true. You’ll get there, but it just takes times. Some of the greatest successes in history happened only AFTER the greatest failures.

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” ~ Henry Ford

I know, how dare we expect our senators and representatives to actually read the freakin’ bills they pass. I mean, especially when we are talking about mortgaging the future incomes of our children and grandchildren.

(Side rant: If you question this, please tell me who the heck is going to pay this bill??? It gets paid through taxes. Who pays takes – only citizens. Businesses or the rich do NOT pay taxes. Look. it. up.) 

Anylazyass, here’s turncoat of the day Arlen Spector (R-PA). Megyn Kelly calls Specter out on his contradiction of supporting the bill because it has provisions he has opposed in th past.  Specter says they aren’t going to allow the problematic provisions to be included in the bill but funny thing – the porkulus passed (Specter voting for it), provisions still in tact. Super.

Specter complains about not having meetings called to give Senators a chance to properly review the bill.  Call me crazy but doesn’t he have the power to request this as a Senator????  Couldn’t he have not voted for cloture to get more time to review the bill???? Do people in Washington think we are stupid, inept citizens who don’t know any better beyond what politicians just tell us???  Answer - yes, yes, and YES! 

Watching him in this video it’s pretty apparent this is the first he’s hearing about this because he probably didn’t read the fucking bill. Thanks for selling your principles down the river, Arlen! Continue proving why Congress has that low approval rating.

This is what President Obama said the other night during the press conference to sell us on the idea of massive government spending.

I think that what I’ve said is what other economists have said across the political spectrum, which is that if you delay acting on an economy of this severity, then you potentially create a negative spiral that becomes much more difficult for us to get out of.

We saw this happen in Japan in the 1990s, where they did not act boldly and swiftly enough, and as a consequence they suffered what was called the “lost decade,” where essentially for the entire ’90s, they did not see any significant economic growth.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-!

Countered straight from his advocacy newsletter, The New York Times:

Economists tend to divide into two camps on the question of Japan’s infrastructure spending: those, many of them Americans like Mr. Geithner, who think it did not go far enough; and those, many of them Japanese, who think it was a colossal waste.

Among ordinary Japanese, the spending is widely disparaged for having turned the nation into a public-works-based welfare state and making regional economies dependent on Tokyo for jobs. Much of the blame has fallen on the Liberal Democratic Party, which has long used government spending to grease rural vote-buying machines that help keep the party in power.

So I may not have a crystal ball, but let me take a wild guess that if that same situation plays out here like it did in Japan, geeeee, which party is going to be ousted they way my dad would through our cat out if it peed on the carpet???  Secretary (ehhh, shudder) Geithner, who said this kind of massive spending would work while failing to pay his fair share in avoiding, err, cheating his taxes.  Or will the actual citizens be right? You know,  like the ones who have to live through the failures of these policies, like in Japan, who probably are still cursing those politicians who turned their economy into a “welfare state.”  

Office pool question: Does Geitner get ousted in 2010 or 2011?

Side question: Does this qualify Obama for a Governance FAIL on the fail blog? Probably not but a girl can dream.

Yesterday on the Senate floor, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) grandstands his [and fellow Democrats] ego of power.  What is really scary is that he is probably right in this little gem.

In this pop-cultured, short-attention spanned society that is America the majority of people won’t care about the wasteful spending. Yeah, they may bitch about it, but two weeks after the bill gets passed they won’t give it a second thought (because then they’ll be focused on some dumb celebutwat doing something stupid and scandalous)….

Oh, until 2011 when their taxes skyrocket to pay for this porkulus then they’ll give that deer-in-the-headlights look and scream “WTF!” to the additional income withheld from their paycheck.  I mean do people honestly think the federal govt. has a separate revenue stream other than withholding money (taxes) from our paychecks??? Oh, apparently they do.  According to a poll, 49% of people believe the government gets funding from a separate revenue other that citizens paying taxes. Seriously? These people believe this? Now I’m like WTF!  This is probably the same 49% that voted for President Bambipants – super.

And I like how Schumer calls those pork earmarks “little, tiny amendments.” Umm, call me crazy, Chuckles, but don’t those tiny things add up to one big sum and its the one big sum with no explanation that has people pissed off.   Some village is honestly missing their idiot.

Here’s a brief list from Hotair.com that they just randomly pulled out. It’s not even getting close to all the pork items. Added it up – over $63,000,000,000. Yeah, that’s just chump change, Chuckles.

• $2 billion earmark for FutureGen near zero emissions powerplant in Mattoon, IL
• $39 billion slush fund for “state fiscal stabilization” bailout
• $5.5 billion for making federal buildings “green” (including $448 million for DHS HQ)
• $200 million for workplace safety in USDA facilities
• $275 million for flood prevention
• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges and libraries
• $650 million for the DTV transition coupon program
• $307 million for constructing NIST office buildings
• $1 billion for administrative costs and construction of NOAA office buildings
• $100 million for constructing U.S. Marshalls office buildings
• $300 million for constructing FBI office buildings
• $800 million for constructing Federal Prison System buildings and facilities
• $10 million to fight Mexican gunrunners
• $1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for “science” at NASA)
• $100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program
• $10 million for urban canals
• $2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars
• $1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140 (though section only authorizes $1 billion for five years)
• $300 million for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees
• $198 million to design and furnish the DHS headquarters
• $255 million for “priority procurements” at Coast Guard (polar ice breaker)
• $500 million for State and local fire stations
• $180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities
• $500 million for wildland fire management
• $110 million for construction for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• $522 million for construction for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
• $650 million for abandoned mine sites
• $75 million for the Smithsonian Institution
• $1.2 billion for summer jobs for youth
• $412 million for CDC headquarters
• $500 million earmark for NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD
• $160 million for “volunteers” at the Corp. for National and Community Service
• $750 earmark for the National Computer Center in MD
• $224 million for International Boundary and Water Commission – U.S. and Mexico
• $850 million for Amtrak
• $100 million for lead paint hazard reduction

Yes, that is the sound I imagine Helen Thomas making before she opens her mouth at every press conference. You’ve got to admit it actually sounds better than the biased crap that actually comes out of her mouth. She once said that to be a journalist “you have to be a liberal.” Umm, no Helen, to be a journalist you have to be objective.

During tonight’s press conference, Helen once again proved why she is clearly biased to the far left (via HotAir) and assured me there’s a good reason my political views don’t side with the grainy old witch out of the Hanzel & Gretyl story – yeah, that’s right I went there.  Her question was almost the top eye-roll-inducing question of the night, but luckily she got upstaged by “How do you feel about Arod admitting to using roids?” question guy.

And reading the post at HotAir makes me miss Tony Snow – now that was an incredible press secretary. He knew how to handle the press unlike our current fabulous and transparent appointment at secretary.  Here’s a glimpse back at being a great press secretary. RIP, Tony!

Okay, so it’s a campaigning extravaganza today! What? What? You tell me the campaign ended in Nov. Ummm, well could somebody pass along the freakin’ memo. I’m thinking Barry forgot that it’s time to start governing and quit campaigning.   I guess when things don’t go the way you want them, you stop doing your job and start spending your time trying to convince people that you’re doing your job. Sound confusing? No shit.

It’s like I work in marketing so if I sense that people are catching on to the fact I cannot do my job effectively, as I promised when they hired me, then I’m going to stop trying to work harder getting the job done. I’m now going to spend more time in my boss’ office kissing ass and throwing up smoke and mirrors to convince her I’m doing a good job or what is “necessary” for our dept. to be successful in the company. Ed at HotAir.com has the scoop.

During the campaign, critics and opponents noted that the only real track record Obama had built in thirteen years of politics was campaigning for something else.  Three weeks into his new administration, he’s found governing to be difficult, especially when trying to shove a partisan porkfest down the throats of an increasingly skeptical public.  Time to go back to campaign mode!  It apparently beats pulling the bill back for a chance to offer Republicans some input to get a bill that would generate easy support and passage.

I can’t get over this. Scratch that – YES We Can! We can believe that our president would do this because he is an inexperienced political leader who’s main experience has been campaigning and not standing up to make decisions in the name of bipartisanship. I’m growing tired of these speeches. It seems more like a pathetic attempt to try and convince people you’re doing the right thing instead going back to work with Congress to actually DO the right thing.

And since we’re talking about campaigning, let’s take a minute to remember what our president promised:

SCHIEFFER: But you’re going to have to cut some of these programs, certainly.

OBAMA: Absolutely. So let me get to that. What I want to emphasize, though, is that I have been a strong proponent of pay-as- you-go. Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches…We need to eliminate a whole host of programs that don’t work. And I want to go through the federal budget line by line, page by page, programs that don’t work, we should cut. Programs that we need, we should make them work better.

You read that right – “pay as you go” “programs that don’t work, we should cut.” Umm – can someone explain to me how the proposed porkulus is “pay as you go” or how $160 million for “volunteers” at the Corp. for National and Community Service is “a program we need” OR why are we giving $850 million for Amtrak, a failing program???  I thought if programs don’t work under President Obama we would cut them, not reward bad management with $850 million of taxpayer’s money during a time when they may need it. But why am I getting caught up in facts and stuff – we’ve got mortgages and gas bills to pay, right:

UPDATE: Press conference just got done – big surprise no real questions were answered, just the same old talking points. Like why can no top ranking Democrat or the President answer how do can you justify spending $600,000 per job created with this bill? Or what measures will be put in place to make sure the stimulus is actually creating jobs? Will there be incremental measurements that will make Congress retreat on the bill’s spending if jobs are not being created at the rate originally projected?

Honestly, if you’re going to spend so much time supposedly answering the questions of the American people, then get around to actually answering the questions folks have. Otherwise, you’re just putting on a charade, insulting everyone’s intelligence and wasting people’s time. Hope ‘n Change!