Progressive Mob Anthem - Pink Floyd, 'Mother'

In Pink Floyd's The Wall album, 'Mother' is big government, who'll take care of her little babies' every need, but at a price.

Lyrics

Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother, do you think they'll like this song?
Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Ooh ah,
Mother, should I build the wall?

Mother, should I run for president?
Mother, should I trust the government?
Mother, will they put me in the firing line?
Ooh ah,
Is it just a waste of time

Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry.
Mamma's gonna make all of your nightmares come true,
Mamma's gonna put all of her fears into you,
Mamma's gonna keep you right here, under her wing.
She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing,
Mamma's gonna keep baby cosy and warm.
Oooh babe, Oooh babe, Oooh babe,
Of course Mamma's gonna help build the wall.

Mother, do you think she's good enough, for me?
Mother, do you think she's dangerous, to me?
Mother, will she tear your little boy apart?
Ooh ah,
Mother, will she break my heart?

Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry.
Mamma's going to check out all your girlfriends for you,
Mamma won't let anyone dirty get through,
Mamma's gonna wait up until you get in.
Mamma will always find out where you've been,
Mamma's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Oooh babe, Oooh babe, Oooh babe,
You'll always be baby to me.

Mother, did it need to be so high?

Ben Shapiro Whips Progressive Bully Piers Morgan On 2nd Amendment

by CarterFliptMe

In case you missed it, this is how one defeats Progressive bullying in the media. Well done, Ben Shapiro, Editor at Breitbart.com, Syndicated columnist, Editor-At-Large, co-host on KRLA/KTIE, Harvard Law, Freedom Center Fellow, author of Bullies - How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.

Mitch McConnell Summarizes Democrats' Terrorizing The American People With Fiscal Cliff Inaction

by CarterFliptMe

It was only a few years ago that bills were negotiated, submitted, amended, resubmitted, amended, and eventually were either passed or rejected. When it came to spending, the federal government was constitutionally bound by a budget, which was negotiated in Congress, and steered by the President with the threat of veto. The current band of radicals (Progressives) who've taken over the Democrat party have seen to it that Washington DC no longer operates according to the Constitution.  The people have elected Republicans to the House of Representatives to bring some balance and accountability, but these Republicans refuse to even attempt to hold Congress or the Executive branch to their supposed constitutional limits.

The Democrat party uses orchestrated and manufactured crisis as a gun held to the heads of the American people. They make unreasonable and unconstitutional demands, propagandize via Progressive mass media accusing the GOP of the intolerable crime of refusing to meet their demands.  All the while Democrats are threatening the American people with calamity unless the Republicans in Congress surrender.

These actions are not going unnoticed by those of us who care to pay attention, including Democrats, Progressives, Republicans, Tea Party supporters, and the so-called journalists in traditional news media. Those who still support Progressives fully knowing that what they are witnessing or participating in is not constitutional, honest, or beneficial to the basic freedoms of the citizenry, are equally guilty for the damage being inflicted on this great nation. I hold them all accountable, and further placation, negotiation, or otherwise respectful treatment of these persons is intolerable.  Progressives and their supporters have, through their actions, declared war on the Republic of the United States, the Constitution, rule of law, and my (our) individual liberty granted by God. Whether we like it or not, we are at war, because they are at war with us. It's high time our 'leaders' recognize this fact, and act accordingly.

Anyway, here's another 'keep it real' moment from Senator Mitch McConnell, where he has summarized the inaction on the part of Senate Democrats and President Obama over the 'fiscal cliff' non-negotiations.

Sheep

by CarterFliptMe

Obama voters, the citizens of the United States, are sheep being led to slaughter.

Sheep by Pink Floyd

Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away;
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
You better watch out,
There may be dogs about
I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen
Things are not what they seem.
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now things are really what they seem.
No, this is no bad dream.

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by.
With bright knives He releaseth my soul.
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.
He converteth me to lamb cutlets,
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger.
When cometh the day we lowly ones,
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate,
Lo, we shall rise up,
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.
Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told.
Get out of the road if you want to grow old

Progressives Are Enemies of the Republic (Updated)

by CarterFliptMe

Radical Tactics Of Progressives

1.) Free speech of opposing political or social viewpoints canot be allowed. Opposition must be silenced, whether they be private citizens or mainstream media outlets. (Media Matters, #StopRush, Koch Brothers Targeted By Progressive Group's 'Greed Agenda' Bus Tour, Sen. (NJ) Frank Lautenberg Takes On The Koch Brothers, Obama's Nixonian "White House Enemies List")
2.) Political, social, and philosophical opposition is dangerous, obstructionist, and harmful. New Hampshire Democrat Legislator: We Need To 'Restrict Freedoms' Of Conservatives - DC rhetoric - Fairness Doctrine The First Amendment right of free speech is not guaranteed under Progressive rule. Anti-Muslim Filmmaker Arrested 3.) Win by any means necessary. (We Can't Wait) (Dems Flee, Boycott the Process, Campaign Lies) Even if the tactics harm the economy and US citizens. Mitch McConnell Summarizes Democrats' Terrorizing The American People With Fiscal Cliff Inaction -- Obama, Clinton and Rice Knew Benghazi Attack was Al Qaeda on 9/11/12
4.) Rule of law and Constitutional limits have no meaning. Progressives routinely violate law and Constitution in order to force their agenda without a vote, without the input of The People. (Gutting of Welfare Reform Law, Bypass Congress, Fast & Furious, Illegal New CFPB, and NLRB 'Recess' Appointments) One of their most successful methods to circumvent the will of the people is to challenge laws in the courts. Recently in Wisconsin, they've used liberal judges in Madison's Dane County who overturn state law without any legal or state constitutional basis. (Judge Eviscerates Reforms, Sanctions Liberal Ideology, Dane County Judge Who Struck Down Voter ID Law Signed Walker Recall, Wife A Circulator)

5.) Elections are not the end-game of representative process. Lost elections trigger mob-rule and exploitation of weakness in the system in order to seize power back. Wisconsin Progressives in Recall  - Violence at the Michigan union protests: The fallout for Big Labor

Shortly before November 6th Election, Obama mentions 'revenge', presumably against American citizens? During another of his infamous ad-lib moments, he says, "Voting is the best revenge."  This is not rhetoric you'd expect to hear from somebody who is trying to do what's best for all the people of the United States.

• Progressives are not Democrats in the traditional sense of the word.
• Progressives are not interested in adherence to the Constitution, or our representative form of government.
• Progressives are not part of the American process as we have known it, but are a radical attack on it from outside the process.

Progressives have overwhelmed the economic system, Congress, the media, and the people, with illegal and unconstitutional acts. This tactic is key in the Cloward-Piven Strategy: Forcing Political Change Through Orchestrated Crisis. The chaos Progressives have brought is the purpose of Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals, made infamous during the riots and violence of the 1960s, and still an important reference for today's Progressives. Michelle Obama said that when she first met Barack, he quoted Saul Alinsky and it captured her heart.

Thanks The Union News for highlighting this video

The Moment Obama Became A One Term President

by CarterFliptMe

This moment in the second Presidential debate at Hofstra University, when Barack Obama, with the assistance of CNN's Candy Crowley, brought into sharp focus that deception is just a matter of course for Progressive Democrats and the liberal media.  They exposed themselves in the debate, and showed the world that they know that in politics, perception is reality.  To them, however, perception is more important that reality, as long as it helps them obtain or retain power.  It became crystal clear that truth, honor, and integrity have no place in the Progressive Democrat Party, and their perception-spinning process.

As usual, Progressives think the American people are so uninformed and gullible, that they would not realize they were witnessing Obama and Crowley lying.  They were trying to deceive The People about the administration's handling of the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Stevens, in Benghazi, Libya.  The Obama administration attempted to push a narrative that Benghazi was a spontaneous protest gone haywire, and that the reason for the protest was a B grade anti-Muslim film that virtually no one had ever heard of.

It was bad enough that the administration was lying to the American people about what really happened to our people in Benghazi, but to lie in order to try to avoid political damage to Obama's campaign for President showed America that Progressives have no concern for anything but power, and advancing their radical ideology.

This moment in the debate was the moment that cemented Barack Obama's fate as a one term President.

Here's Why the Obama Campaign Is Desperately Screaming, "Romney Lied!"

by CarterFliptMe

Here are some blistering ads from the Republican National Commitee

Obama Won't Tell Anyone, And The Media Won't Ask. But What Is Obama's Plan For a 2nd Term?

Jaw-dropping, breathtakingly shockingly Marxist, authoritarian, and statist:  What Progressives plan to do, if allowed, show absolute contempt for The People.

Obama's Second Term Transformation Plans - American Thinker

Amazingly, The Washington Post even did an editorial about how Obama's agenda is 'hazy', but doesn't think to ASK him: Mr. Obama’s hazy agenda for a second term - Washington Post

If You Think Obama’s First Term Was Bad, Imagine a Second - Bloomberg

Obama's second-term agenda will prove devastating to U.S. - Fox News Opinion
7 Nightmare Scenarios for Right-Wingers If Obama Wins a Second Term - Steven Rosenfeld

What Will An Obama Second Term Look Like? - Breitbart

Fool Me Twice -- Obama's Devastating 2nd Term Plans Revealed - Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott

Blistering Ad Shows Obama Using Recycled Speeches From 2008

by CarterFliptMe

If Obama and the Democrat party cared at all about the American people, wouldn't you think they'd at least write some new speeches? They could maybe... oh I dunno... try to work in some current events into those new speeches.  But, as anyone who has the ability to think clearly already knows, Obama never speaks about current events unless he can demonize Americans that he disagrees with.

Anyway here's the video featured on BreitbartTV

hat tip to Doug Stryker

A Tribute to Union Leadership, Progressives, and Barack Obama

by CarterFliptMe

Music and lyrics by Pink Floyd - "Pigs (three different ones)" from the album Animals

Big man, pig man
Ha, ha, charade you are
You well heeled big wheel
Ha, ha, charade you are
And when your hand is on your heart
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost a joker
With your head down in the pig bin
Saying 'Keep on digging'
Pig stain on your fat chin
What do you hope to find
Down in the pig mine?
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry

Bus stop rat bag
Ha, ha, charade you are
You ****ed up old hag
Ha, ha, charade you are
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost worth a quick grin
You like the feel of steel
You're hot stuff with a hatpin
And good fun with a hand gun
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry 

Hey you, White House
Ha, ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse
Ha, ha, charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
You're nearly a real treat
All tight lips and cold feet
And do you feel abused?
You got to stem the evil tide
And keep it all on the inside
Mary you're nearly a treat
Mary you're nearly a treat 

But you're really a cry

Debunking Obama's Latest Falsehood: Romney Tax Plan

by CarterFliptMe

Once again, the Obama campaign is hanging its hat on a report done by hyper-partisan Progressives.  This time it's the Tax Policy Center, who have a long history of being in opposition to any kind of tax cuts.  The Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute are well-known liberal organizations and have teamed up to produce Obama campaign material.  This is nothing new; Conservatives have their own 'think tanks' that do research and reports on taxes, social policy, education, the economy, etc.  The network media, however, have portrayed the Tax Policy Center as being non-partisan, which is patently false.  The Obama campaign stressed this falsehood when they cited a report on Mitt Romney's tax plan done by the ultra-liberal Tax Policy Center.

Thankfully, the Wall Street Journal has ripped the report as being completely without merit.

The following is their opinion piece from August 8th, 2012, entitled, The Romney Hood Fairy Tale - The false, invented analysis behind Obama's tax claims.

As he escalates his class war re-election campaign, President Obama has taken to calling Mitt Romney's economic plan "Robin Hood in reverse" or "Romney Hood." The charge is that even though Mr. Romney is proposing to cut tax rates for everybody across the board, Mr. Romney will finance this by imposing a tax increase on the middle class. His evidence is a single study by the Tax Policy Center, a liberal think tank that has long opposed cutting income tax rates. 

The political left always says Daddy Warbucks gets all the tax-cut money. So this is hardly news, except that the media are treating this joint Brookings Institution and Urban Institute analysis as if it's nonpartisan gospel. In fact, it's a highly ideological tract based on false assumptions, incomplete data and dishonest analysis. In other words, it is custom made for the Obama campaign. 

Video: Editorial board member Steve Moore on President Obama's claim that Mitt Romney's tax plan would raise taxes on middle and lower class earners. 

By the way, even the Tax Policy Center admits that "we do not score Governor Romney's plan directly as certain components of his plan are not specified in sufficient detail." But no matter, the study plows ahead to analyze features of the Romney plan that aren't even in it.

The heart of Mr. Romney's actual proposal is a 20% rate cut for anyone who pays income taxes. This means, for example, that the 10% rate would fall to 8%, the 35% rate would fall to 28% and all the brackets in between would fall as well. The corporate tax would fall to 25% from 35%.  

The plan says these cuts would be financed in a revenue-neutral way. First, by "broadening the tax base," which means reducing or eliminating tax deductions and loopholes as in the tax reform of 1986. The Romney campaign doesn't specify which deductions—no campaign ever does—but it has been explicit in saying that the burden would fall most on higher tax brackets. So in return for paying lower rates, the wealthy get fewer deductions.

Second, the Romney campaign says it expects to increase revenues by increasing the rate of economic growth to 4%, up from less than 2% this year and in 2011. (Separately from tax reform, but clearly relevant to budget deficits, Mr. Romney says he'd gradually reduce spending to 20% of the economy from the Obama heights of 24%-25%.)

The class warriors at the Tax Policy Center add all of this up and issue the headline-grabbing opinion that it is "mathematically impossible" to reduce tax rates and close loopholes in a way that raises the same amount of revenue. They do so in part by arbitrarily claiming that Mr. Romney would never eliminate certain loopholes (such as for municipal bond interest), though the candidate has said no such thing.

Based on this invention, they then postulate that Mr. Romney would have to do something he also doesn't propose—which is raise taxes on those earning less than $200,000. In the Obama campaign's political alchemy, this becomes "Romney Hood" and a $2,000 tax increase.

The Tax Policy Center also ignores the history of tax cutting. Every major marginal rate income tax cut of the last 50 years—1964, 1981, 1986 and 2003—was followed by an unexpectedly large increase in tax revenues, a surge in taxes paid by the rich, and a more progressive tax code—i.e., the share of taxes paid by the richest 1% rose. 

For example, from 1980 to 2007, three tax rate cuts brought the highest marginal tax rate to 35% from 70%. Congressional Budget Office data show that when the tax rate was 70%, the richest 1% paid 18% of all federal income taxes. With the rate down to 35% in 2008, the share of taxes paid by the rich doubled to 40%.

The Tax Reform Act of 1986, which chopped the top income tax rate to 28% from 50%, was probably most similar to the Romney tax proposal because both were designed to lower rates and broaden the tax base. CBO and Martin Feldstein of the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the 1986 tax reform increased the share of taxes paid by the rich (to about 25% from 21% before the reform), in part because their reported taxable income rose as they lost tax shelters. Many businesses also changed their tax status from corporations to Subchapter S companies, thus paying taxes at the individual rate. This also increased the reported share of income declared, and tax paid, by the rich.

So on four separate occasions what TPC says is "mathematically impossible"—cutting tax rates and making the tax system more progressive—actually happened. Hats off to the scholars at TPC: Their study manages to claim that what happens in real life can't happen in theory.

The TPC analysis also fails to acknowledge how highly dependent the current tax system is on the very rich. As the Tax Foundation explains in a recent report based on CBO data: "The top 20 percent of households pay 94 percent of federal income taxes. The bottom 40 percent have a negative income tax rate, and the middle quintile pays close to zero."

This reality is treated as a state secret in Washington because it refutes Mr. Obama's campaign theme that the rich are undertaxed. The same crowd that has been howling that the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes now touts a study concluding that cutting taxes will only benefit the rich. Well, which is it?***

Another reality is that more than one-third of Americans pay no income tax. Many in this group contribute payroll taxes, but for most their only connection to the income tax is to receive refundable tax credits (in the form of a check) that are effectively government payments. This is the basis for the Tax Policy Center's wild claim that the Romney plan raises taxes on those who earn less than $30,000—a group that now has a negative tax liability.

The claim is that reducing various refundable tax credits that are cash payments from the government are a "tax increase." By this logic, reducing unemployment benefits or food stamps would also be a tax increase. Even the CBO and Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation acknowledge that refundable tax credits are government outlays not tax cuts.

The study's claims also rest on the assumption that tax cutting doesn't increase economic growth. The study's authors expose their own bias on this point by asserting that "the effects of tax rate reductions are likely to be small or even negative" over 10 years.

It's certainly true that not all tax cuts have the same economic impact. But nearly all economists save for the most partisan liberals agree that cutting tax rates at the margin has the most bang for the buck. So how can the Tax Policy Center claim that cutting tax rates to increase incentives to work and invest has a "negative" impact? Not even the Keynesian economists who gave us the failed stimulus plan argue that the effect of tax cuts is negative.

Harvard economist Dale Jorgenson recently testified before the Senate Finance Committee that "a tax reform similar to the Reagan effort of 1986" would raise economic output over the long term "by $7 trillion in 2011 dollars."


You can argue that Mr. Romney's expectation of 4% GDP growth is too rosy, but the recent White House mid-session budget review predicts 4% growth in both 2014 and 2015 despite a huge tax increase next year. The Romney plan is far more realistic than that wish in the dark.

The Tax Policy Center's claim that it's impossible to make the numbers add up is also refuted by President Obama's own Simpson-Bowles deficit commission report. The Romney plan of cutting the top tax rate to 28% and closing loopholes to pay for it is conceptually very close to what Simpson-Bowles recommended.

And here's the kicker: Simpson-Bowles assumed that the top rate could be cut to 28%, loopholes could be closed, revenues as a share of GDP would rise to 20% and the deficit could be cut by close to $1.5 trillion. The difference is that the Romney plan caps tax revenues at about 18% of GDP so that taxes don't have to rise on the middle class. If Mr. Romney's numbers don't add up, then neither do those in the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles plan that the media treat as the Holy Grail of deficit reduction.***

What the Obama campaign and its acolytes at the Tax Policy Center are really saying is that tax reform that reduces rates and makes all income groups better off is impossible. This is a far cry from what Democrats used to believe, going back to Jack Kennedy in 1964 and in the 1980s when prominent Democrats Bill Bradley, Dick Gephardt and Don Rostenkowski helped to write the 1986 tax reform. The Obama Democrats, by contrast, favor income redistribution and raising rates on the wealthy for their own partisan political sake, no matter the damage to growth, the cost in lost revenue, or a less progressive tax code as the rich exploit loopholes.

The great irony is that the candidate most likely to raise taxes on the middle class is Mr. Obama. He could raise every tax on the rich he proposes and still not come up with enough revenue to finance the increases in spending he wants in a second term. Where do you think he'll turn then?

A version of this article appeared August 8, 2012, on page A14 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: The Romney Hood Fairy Tale.

Mark Belling of WISN News Talk covered this story today (August 8th, 2012) on his show, and I felt this opinion that sets the record straight, needed to be highlighted. Hat tip to the great Mark Belling!

Mayor Bloomberg Gives Us a Glimpse at Life Under Control-Freak Progressive Rule

by CarterFliptMe

Out of control nanny state government has a new poster boy: Mayor Bloomberg of New York City.  When will people wake up and reject this intrusion of government into people's decisions regarding their children, health, and daily lives?  Who decided that Mayor Bloomberg, with his Progressive fetish for control over people, should have this kind of power?  The Mayor of New York will be easily defeated the next time he is up for re-election.  I guarantee it.

Check out his article from the New York Post that describes how the New York 'Mayor Knows Breast':


Mayor Bloomberg pushing NYC hospitals to hide baby formula so more new moms will breast-feed


Related:
Latch On NYC


Locking Up Baby Formula? Bloomberg Slammed For Newest Breastfeeding Initiative


Breastfeeding Activism: Information and Resources

Desperate Democrats: Polls Reveal Why

by CarterFliptMe

These are just some of the signs of desperation from the DNC, whose narrative is being dutifully spoon-fed to Americans by liberal network news media.

• Progressives pushing the Ann Romney horse narrative. 
• Demand for additional tax records from Mitt. 
• Accusations From Obama campaign that Mitt Romney is a tax evading felon. 
• Fabricated wars on women. 
• The daily drumbeat from Media Matters' network, MSNBC, and the rest of the network media news, that anyone who disagrees with wild-eyed Progressive radicals is a racist homophobe. 

Rasmussen polling data of likely voters reveal the reasons for the obvious desperation in the Democrat party, and to be sure, the DNC's own internal polling is telling them much the same.

These polls, released in the second half of July, show a rejection of not just Obama, but of Progressive Democrats' policies and governing philosophy.

Romney Takes 5 Point Lead
Declining Views of the Economy Put Obama's Reelection at Risk
Long-Term Optimism About U.S. Economy Falls to New Low

More Than 60% of Likely Voters Say The Country is On The Wrong Track

Consumer Confidence at All-Time Low Among Likely Voters

50% trust Romney more to handle the economy, while 42% trust the president

Confidence in Housing Values Falls to Lows for the Year

47% Say It's Too Easy To Get Food Stamps

45% Fear Federal Government Will Do Too Much To Help Economy
Parents Think Their Children Will Be Worse Off Than Their Parents

Weather Underground - These Are The Progressives Who Run The Country

by CarterFliptMe

Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn jump-started Barack Obama's career in Chicago.  They are unrepentant and remorseless sixties radicals.  They were the leaders of Weather Underground, terrorists who used bombs and violence to try to push their 'revolution'.  Their intent was, in their own words, to "overthrow the United States government".

Watch this video and note the parallels and similarities between the SDS, Weather Underground, and the present day Occupy operation.  While watching this video, you'll begin to understand why Obama and the Progressive Democrat party govern the way they do, push for the kinds of things they do, and why they follow no rules.

This is only a small bit of evidence that proves that Progressives who've taken over the Democrat Party are enemies of the Republic of the United States of America.

Former FL Dem Party Leader Barney Bishop Slams Progressives, Endorses Romney

by CarterFliptMe

The former executive director of the Democrat party in Florida, Barney Bishop, sees the way Progressives have pitted themselves against the rest of the country.  He wrote in the Sunshine State News that he is supporting Mitt Romney for the presidency in November, for the good of the country and its future.

By: BARNEY BISHOP Posted: July 13, 2012 12:00 PM

In 1992, I was the executive director of the Florida Democratic Party. I managed political operations for the Democrats in one of the largest swing states in our nation.

Our nominee, Bill Clinton, went on to win the presidency, and he fostered eight prosperous years in our nation’s history. He delivered balanced budgets and surpluses that reduced the nation’s debt.  Clinton was the type of Democrat I’ve supported my whole life, fiscally conservative while still focused on the needs of the hard-working middle class. Clinton famously declared, “The era of big government is over.” Barack Obama is a completely different kind of Democrat.

In every challenge that faces our nation, Obama sees a solution that can only come with another government-spending program. He fails to harness the ingenuity of entrepreneurs; instead he actually places obstacles, like burdensome regulation, in front of their path to progress.

Top Ten Violations of the Constitution by Obama

by CarterFliptMe

From the Cato Institute and posted on The Daily Caller Posted by Ilya Shapiro

1. The individual mandate
2. Medicaid coercion
3. The Independent Payment Advisory Board
4. The Chrysler bailout
5. Dodd-Frank
6. The deep-water drilling ban
7. Political-speech disclosure for federal contractors
8. Taxing political contributions
9. Graphic tobacco warnings
10. Health care waivers

For descriptions of what makes these things so constitutionally bad, read the whole thing.

Obama's Economy Was Never Intended to be Successful

by CarterFliptMe
 
The extreme failure of the U.S. economy to rebound from the 2008 recession has brought harsh criticism of the President and the Democrat party, much of it claiming that they don't know what they're doing.  Some critics claim they don't understand free market economics, or that they are only concerned with growing government at the expense of the economy and the American people.  I say that the President does know what he's doing.  He and the radical Progressives who control the Democrat party have never intended for their economic policies to succeed.  Their intention has been exactly the opposite.

I don't claim to be an economist, or an expert in finance and investment.  However, I remember learning that, to the best of anyone's knowledge, recessions are cyclical, and are the result of market correction after a 7 - 9 year period of sustained growth.  I've heard conspiracy theorists speculate that it's the Fed that purposely induces recession in order to reap gains from the shift in favorable assets and investments that recession causes.  Those further out on the fringe have said that recessions are orchestrated by globalists pushing for a New World Order.

Whatever the cause(s), recession has normally been dealt with in responsible fashion by reining in government spending, lowering capital gains taxes to spur investment, lowering investment restrictions, and other traditionally conservative fiscal measures.

The Obama administration has employed the complete opposite measures that are known to have been successful in the past.  The Left's goal has evolved into a quest to bring an extreme loss of confidence in capitalism and free market economics by the American people, and by domestic and foreign investors.  If they could accomplish this loss of confidence during a time of extreme economic crisis, they could use the crisis as an excuse to seize control of banking, lending institutions, housing, health care, education, transportation, etc., all in the name of emergency crisis control.  The frightened American people would not object if they had lost confidence in the traditional ways of doing things.

To achieve this loss of confidence and mistrust, the Obama administration has put a 'wet blanket' on every single aspect of the economy, and killed every single area that shows promise for growth in the private sector.  Meanwhile, they blame Republicans, corporations, the Tea Party movement, and anyone else that wanders into their sights.

The most notable 'wet blanket' application has been on energy production.  Another is Dodd-Frank with it's burdensome regulation layers on investment.  Obama's and Democrats' constant threats on 'Corporate Fat Cats', and the passage of the ObamaCare Law (and uncertainty that still remains over it) were others.  Obama's first high profile act that has been the most fundamentally effective has been the bailouts to banks and lending institutions to ease the shock of the bubble bursting in the housing market because of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.  This has prolonged the housing and lending problem, and has kept the market from self-correction.  Economists agree that, as the housing market goes, so goes the US economy.

To make matters worse, the effect that the sustained housing depression has got lending institutions wary and holding cash and assets to as they struggle to stay afloat.  Loans are harder to obtain now than any time in recent history.

These, and every other move Democrats have made since then, have prolonged the housing problem, the lending problem, the jobless problem, and the energy problem.  They all remain broken, or frightened into inaction, to this day.

I believe the reason that the Left's goal has radically changed during this recession, is that they saw opportunity to collapse the system when they saw the swollen debt left by the Bush administration.  Combined with the 'crisis' caused by the predicted and known collapse of Fannie/Freddie, they saw the opportunity for unprecedented spending for bailouts that it provided.  I believe they saw this as an opportunity to, with just a little more 'emergency' spending, push the whole works over the edge.

Support Governor Walker Rally: Our Stroll Through Obamaville

by CarterFliptMe

I was here in Madison during the protests in the spring of 2011, when Governor Walker and Wisconsin legislators signed the collective bargaining law.  At the 'Recall Walker' rally on November 19th, I noticed a couple of things that were very different.  This time the protesters seemed very well-trained.  While going through these photos, notice the abundance of 'smiles'.  When I'd point a camera at someone, they'd go from shouting and harassing, to serene and smiling in a split second.  Another thing I noticed was that the 'blue fist' signs were gone, for the most part.  In previous protests in Madison, the blue fist signs were everywhere.  Evidently union leadership has decided to abandon it, since it associated their cause with Communism.

The public union hasn't changed, and either has their 'in-your-face' and 'win by any means necessary' attitude.  But they have become much more media savvy. They have learned from their past mistakes.  It seems like union leadership has taken some lessons from Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood when it comes to dealing with media coverage.

Please click on the image to go to Picasa site where you can see the tags on individuals in the photos

Daily Show Exposes Progressive Elitist Bullcrap

by CarterFliptMe

This is the most comprehensive display of Progressive bullshit I've ever seen! The fact that their own hypocrisy is lost on these Elitist, university educated, psuedo-intellectuals proves that Liberalism isn't a thought process or a philosophy.  It's an indoctrination. The fact that they are indoctrinated to the point that they refuse to even acknowledge the reality that lies in front of their very eyes makes them dangerous as hell!

Occupy Movement and ObamaProg Attempted Overthrow of US Gov't Underway

by CarterFliptMe

Occupy-generated violence and chaos is being allowed to fester in Oakland by Progressive Democrat Mayor Quan. Why are Progressives allowing this violence, disruption of business, and negative media coverage to continute? They want the chaos to intensify and spread across the country.

Police actions in response to the chaos are going to be used by Progressives and the Obama administration to try to fuel public sympathy for the unlawful actions of the movement. We're already hearing the blame the police drumbeat coming from Leftist media. When sufficient public sympathy is generated for the movement, I think that either some catastrophic event such as a bombing or other attack of Occupy protesters, will occur.   Perhaps the protesters themselves will escalate the violence to extreme levels. If there is an attack, the media will try to make it appear as though it came from Tea Party members, or some conservative person or persons. Obama and Progressives will then claim that drastic measures are necessary to ensure the public's safety and to regain control of the streets.  In the course of President Obama's drastic measures, the 2012 elections will be suspended, and they'll claim it will only last until order is restored.

The entire purpose of the Occupy movement, besides the simple application of pressure through chaotic conditions, is to suspend the elections of 2012.  Once the elections are suspended, it will be the end of our Constitutional government. Progressives will not restore the election process until their political opposition (the Republican party and the Tea Party Movement) is marginalized and/or destroyed.  Meanwhile they'll use this opportunity to begin making fundamental transformational changes to our governmental processes for 'the good of the country'.

We the people, as citizens of our free society, will be forced to revoke the Executive Branch's dictatorial power, and regain our God-given freedom either through force, or other drastic measures of our own.  Unless, that is, we are able to stop the momentum of the Occupy movement before all this is allowed to occur.  As of today, I see no such effort underway.

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