Let me tell you who we conservatives are:  We love people. [Applause] When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don’t see groups. We don’t see victims. We don’t see people we want to exploit. What we see — what we see is potential. We do not look out across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this country work. We do not see that person with contempt. We don’t think that person doesn’t have what it takes. We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path like onerous taxes, regulations and too much government.

Booooooooooyah, CNN! What up noooow!  So much for Rush’s speech being “all about wanting the President to fail.” I’m waiting for the day the FCC can start fining these “journalists” for outright slander and libel.

Here’s more of Rush defining what it means to be a conservative and dispelling those caricatures the liberal media likes to skew us into.

Click here to view the embedded video.

And here he is closing it out. Sure does sound like your “typical-racist-homophobe-bigot-judgmental-crammingreligiondownyourthroat-conservative,” huh???  (rolling eyes)

Perhaps if our mainstream media oh, say, did their jobs for once there wouldn’t be the need for Rush to clear up the fundamental differences between conservatives and liberals.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Check out all the video at HotAir. And here is where the transcript is.

]]> http://www.unliberaledwoman.com/i-dont-stompi-battle/feed/ 0 http://www.unliberaledwoman.com/making-father-marx-proud/ http://www.unliberaledwoman.com/making-father-marx-proud/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:04:59 +0000 unliberaledwoman http://www.unliberaledwoman.com/?p=307 Change Socialism We CAN Believe In! Via (Hannity). I think John Boehner sums it up best after he reads the draft of the bill – Oh. My. God. That’s a freakin’ understatement, John.

Oh, no worries, Obama – I’ll be sure to give you AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLL the credit you so right;y deserve for sending us into a debt blackhole we may not see our way out of except through massive tax hikes. Cheerio! (I figured I should start talking British since we’re all socialists now. Maybe I can get linguistic lessons from Madonna).

Obama’s stance prior to the stimulus porkulus vote  (Also, try to just bypass the fact that in his quote he’s getting an F- in economic history when he makes the argument with the 90s Japan debate point – and, uh, I thought this guy went to Harvard):

Obama defended the role of government in the recovery process, saying that “with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life.”  “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.” He compared the situation to that of Japan in the 1990s, saying the Japanese, failing to act quickly enough, suffered a “lost decade.”  “This is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill recession.”

Now Obama change in tune this week after signing away our future earnings:

Things are not as bad now as they were in the 1930s or even the early ’80s when, Obama reminded us, he was still in college. Young people — by which he did not seem to mean the columnists aboard — are simply unfamiliar with hardship, he said.  “So for a huge number of people out there, they’re just not accustomed to seeing a bad economy with really high unemployment and very bearish markets. . . . What we’re going through now is nothing compared to what our grandparents went through during the Great Depression.”

There, there, there…now everything is okay.

Oh, but wait a minute, Barry – I thought on the campaign trail it was that this was “the worst time in the U.S.’ economic history since the Great Depression.” Pleeeeeeeease – that was just “campaign rhetoric.” No shit sherlock.

Most conservatives out there already knew this was a recession but that it was not on the verge of needing $1 trillion shot of govt. pork straight to the heart. My husband would constantly comment “If we’re in such a depression, how come I still have to wait an hour to get seated at any restaurant on a Thursday night?”  Ain’t that the truuuuuuuuuuf! 

But here’s what is going to happen to our economy now that we’re full of pork and having to PAY for it the rest of our lives (and our children, and probably grandchildren). I’ve illustrated it with as a heart getting clogged with more and more cholesterol.  Hmmmm – PORK it’s what for dinner for the next 25 years!

 I’m not saying there were not huge issues of credit and capital malpractice that needed to be fixed. But coercing, with fear tactics, support for the passage of a bill which will double our national debt only to provide a miniscule percentage of job growth makes you a manipulative politician praying onto people’s fears of the unknown, not a leader of the new bipartisan era. On the flipside, buying blindly into this politician’s facade makes you equally as guilty and possibly insane.

But at least McCain (R-AZ) and Pence (R-IN) are starting to be more vocal in their opposition (via HotAir.com) with logical debate points. On a side note, where was THIS McCain on the campaign trail? I would have liked to seen more of this, but I think he was fighting such a huge uphill battle as is. McCain did warn us in the debates about Obama’s spending habits with example after example of Obama’s history with proposed pork projects. Obama retorted back that he’s a “pay as you go” legislature. Heh.

In the first clip I love how Pence shuts down the commentary on the economist “supporting” the porkulus. Turns out economists are able to change their mind or that some liberal-biased media were trying to skew context to illustrate support where there is none. Is it me or I thought the campaigning/advocacy ended months ago. Honestly, when are the media going to get back to objective, investigative journalism? Or should we start calling Medill School of Journalism at Northwesterm Medill School of PR???

And McCain brings up a good point about what are we going to do when the bill comes due. Passing this down the line to the next generation doesn’t make us a very responsible nation. It’s like how the older generation of politicians put funding of the failed Social Security system on my generation and I don’t know one person my age who speaks favorably about that topic.

So what will our children and grandchildren think of our generation down the line knowing we purposely put them in a corner forcing them to pay off $1 trillion debt we didn’t need???  If it’s to create jobs, I don’t see justifying paying $600,000 – $200,000 per job created, the estimate on the ROI of job creation through this porkulus. That doesn’t make sense even from a business standpoint.  I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if this boondoggle extravaganza actually passes.

I dated a guy from Israel once, and although that relationship did not last I do believe I was meant to date him because had it not been for him I would not have had my eyes opened to how many Muslim-extremists in the Middle East actually behave when a CNN camera is not present. I mean he had loads of these truth-revealing documents and videos. Which brings me to today lesson on why jihadists deserve no sympathy, courtesy of Jihadist Joe: How to Properly Beat Your DisobedientWife (via AtlasShrugs). In this case disobedience means leaving the house or giving your husband an opinion he doesn’t agree with. Toooooooooooooolerance!!!!

I know these regimes were typically based in religion and people say we should let religion be. I get that, but it doesn’t make it right. If that was happening in our country it would make the national news. People outcry over when polygamists marry young girls but then also turn around and say we have no business helping women in other countries.  While we cannot change religious-extremists overnight we should at least support our troops who are doing what they can to install a stable government that is trying to create a society where at least many of these women can have a chance, just one chance to not be oppressed for the rest of their lives. What I don’t get though is when liberal politicians get up and talk about being the party of women’s rights but then turn around and defend creeps like this. Just some food for thought.

• $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
• $380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
• $300 million for grants to combat violence against women
• $2 billion for federal child-care block grants
• $6 billion for university building projects
• $15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
• $4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
• $1 billion for community-development block grants
• $4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
• $650 million for digital-TV coupons; $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”’

Also, if you look deep into the appropriations you’ll see that much of this porkulus for infrastructure projects is for much of the Beltway area. Super, so DC’s economy will be flowing with renovation and construction projects, but ummmm what about the rest of the country???  So goes DC, so goes the nation – is that our new motto? And while I’m all for infrastructure projects, as many people know they only make up a small, small portion of this entire bill.  The National Review’s got more:

• $150 million for the Smithsonian
• $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
• $500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
• $44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
• $350 million for Agriculture Department computers
• $88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
• $448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
• $600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
• $450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
• $600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
• $1 billion for the Census Bureau

I think this quote in the article sums it up best in my feelings on how far this porkulus will benefit our economy – The bottom line is that there is a way to fund government agencies, and that is the federal budget, not an “emergency” stimulus package. As Riedl puts it, “Amount allocated to the Census Bureau? $1 billion. Jobs created? None.”

There’s so much more I didn’t cover in this trillion-dollar boondoggle disaster. Read the article over at National Review to check out the full facts. Happy Govt. Frivolous Spending Day!

I first saw this video on PerezHilton.com, a very popular gossip site. While Perez Hilton is attempting to “inform” his readers it worries me that his 7 million+ readers/day are getting a one-sided view intentionally. But the thing I’ve learned from being a reformed liberal is that far-left propaganda is based on the assumption people will just run with the one-sided shock value and not get the full facts on the entire story. It’s like far-left propagandists expect you to BE STUPID because if you didn’t just listen to their skewed, misguided “facts” then you probably wouldn’t be behind their cause.

To get the facts, check out this article (via HotAir.com). Ed Morrissey has been writing on this for a while and I appreciate his objective presentation on the facts of this topic.

By the way, Palin’s strategy worked.  Biologists in the state’s Fish and Game Department estimate that the caribou herds increased to 6500 this year, thanks to the reduced threat from wolves.  The birth rate went from one calf per 100 cows to 39 calves per 100 cows, which will help herd growth for the next several years. Another season without the aerial hunt might have wiped out the caribou herds altogether.

Most importantly, this “controversial” initiative was enacted in 2003 (yes, prior to Palin’s term) and was done so to protect many other species – Caribou, Moose, etc. Are somehow wolves more important than the other wildlife? If you’re so opposed to this method, what then can you offer as a more cost-effective means to decrease the wolf population – waiting to catch them with our bare hands?  Come on people, be realistic! If Judd wanted to really do a public service she should either get educated on the facts or keep her mouth shut.

Yes, she said every month that we don’t have an economic recovery package the U.S. suddenly has 500,000,000 people out of work. Riddle me this, Pelotox, what’s that darn Census Bureau got the U.S. population at again?  Only 300 million? Oh, you made a mistake, Pelotox???  La-di-freakin’-DUH!  But thanks for not only never retracting any of your errors smears, but also serving as a glaring example as to why I don’t trust far-left politicians.

Call me crazy but I don’t know one single person who’s lost a job since this recession started.  It’s not to say I haven’t heard of companies cutting jobs or scaling back on their hiring efforts. I realize that this is happening, but the idea that the U.S. unemployment scare tactics are at the drastic levels politicians like Pelotox would have you believe is a farce.  All Obama and Pelotox are doing is their ABCs – Always-Be-Closing! They’ve got to sell this porkulus to the people because now it’s their reputation on the line. When (not if, when) this porkulus blows up in their faces they can’t effectively just blame President Bush like they did everything during the campaign and they can’t blame Republicans in Congress as they stand together opposed taking many Democrats onto their side.

I think FDR’s Treasury Secretary (the man who oversaw money distribution and revenue collection during The New Deal) says it best when he acknowledge the failure of FDR’s legacy

“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and now if I am wrong somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosper. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started. And enormous debt to boot.”- Henry Morganthau, Secretary of Treasury, in May, 1939.

To often economic policy on the left is defended by govt. spending = job creation and in order to help govt. fund “job creation” we need more taxes (but really only taxes on the “rich” aka the highest full-time workers/producers, not the wealthy). First, that’s an inaccurate picture because it’s only showing you part of it. That type of proposal forgets to consider what would happen in the economy if the money had stayed there and not taken by the govt. If you were planning an investment in your 401k, would you look at just one index you had shares in, or would you look at the entire portfolio? Henry Hazlitt, author of Economics in One Lesson, brings up this very point. In this book Hazlitt describe his broken window fallacy.  If you are looking for enlightenment on the realities of what govt. spending really doesn’t do for our economy get this book.

The Cato Institute has also put out a great video on why government spending is not an effective path to digging an economy out of a recession. My favorite “ain’t-that-the-truth part” – If government spending was the right path to economic growth, then North Korea would be a Nirvana.