Victoria Jackson Speaks Truth To Power

Down is Up, Unfair is Fair and Ignorance is Bliss

I woke up in the middle of the night and realized the trick.

You see, evil doesn’t just show up. It disguises itself as something nice; so you’ll let it in. It tricks you.

Murdering babies is called Pro-Choice. Unfair Censorship is called The Fairness Doctrine. Outlandish Taxes and the Death of Freedom is called Cap & Trade. Sounds like Fish & Chips. You gotta figure out the trick.

Victoria, I think you're absolutely correct. Hitler was a statist. Stalin was a statist. Obama and today's leftists (masquerading as "liberal") are statists. They all place the sovereignty of "The State" over the individual. They all eschew individual liberty. If that means you or I need to do without electricity for 10 hours a day - so be it. If that means the State needs 99% of your income in order to "do good" - so be it. If that means a baby, or the sick, or the old need to die for the good of the State - so be it. They won't ever say it in such blunt terms, but that's what their "welfare" and "choices" and "compassion" boil down to.

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Elecciones Por Hugo

We interrupt the death of Michael Jackson to bring you some slightly more important information.

Need to win an election by hook or by crook? Call Hugo Chavez.

Honduras Defends Its Democracy

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress [...]

Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. The Honduran Congress met in emergency session yesterday and designated its president as the interim executive as stipulated in Honduran law. It also said that presidential elections set for November will go forward. The Supreme Court later said that the military acted on its orders. It also said that when Mr. Zelaya realized that he was going to be prosecuted for his illegal behavior, he agreed to an offer to resign in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Mr. Zelaya denies it.

Many Hondurans are going to be celebrating Mr. Zelaya's foreign excursion. Street protests against his heavy-handed tactics had already begun last week. On Friday a large number of military reservists took their turn. "We won't go backwards," one sign said. "We want to live in peace, freedom and development." [...]

For Hondurans who still remember military dictatorship, Mr. Zelaya also has another strike against him: He keeps rotten company. Earlier this month he hosted an OAS general assembly and led the effort, along side OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, to bring Cuba back into the supposedly democratic organization. [...]

The struggle against chavismo has never been about left-right politics. It is about defending the independence of institutions that keep presidents from becoming dictators. This crisis clearly delineates the problem. In failing to come to the aid of checks and balances, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Insulza expose their true colors.

This was not a coup against Zelaya. It was the prevention of a coup by Zelaya. The military refused to help him improperly change the constitution. The Congress, Attorney General, and the Supreme Court all said the President was acting illegally. Now Congress has constitutionally appointed the next President according to the line of succession, and the next elections will not be disrupted. If anyone was attempting a "coup" it was Mr. Zelaya and his "Ballots by Hugo." Just look at who's supporting him: Chavez, Ortega, Castro, and the Obama administration.

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And The Winner Is....

Kim Jong Il Re-Elected as Leader of North Korea

This was a REAL cliffhanger of an election wasn't it? I bet you were on the edge of your seat all day waiting for the returns to come in. Maybe we should send him a present, like a booby-trapped iPod with some of Obama's speeches on it? But since he won't want to listen to those we put an innocuous file on it like "Madeline Albright - Topless!" and when he chooses that - kaboom! It goes Taepodong on his axis-of-evil.

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Don't Blame Me - I Voted Against Him

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America's First Post Apocalyptic City

Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline

Two French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on film

Photographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

via Dr. Sanity

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A Bad Case Of "Now What?" Syndrome

Via Reuters Vaunted Obama Message Machine Is Off-key

At the White House, spokesman Robert Gibbs reacted defensively, saying Obama has only been in office seven weeks and it should be no surprise that "all of the problems that took many years to take hold haven't necessarily been solved."

Obama, at Tuesday's education event, rejected criticism that he is trying to do too many things at once, citing three predecessors who managed to juggle challenges on many fronts --Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy.

"President Kennedy didn't have the luxury of choosing between civil rights and sending us to the moon. And we don't have the luxury of choosing between getting our economy moving now and rebuilding it over the long term," he said.

What was it Lloyd Bentsen said about John F. Kennedy?

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Obama's New High Inquisitor Of The Economy

Obama economist more bullish than CFOs

The designated chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers predicts the economy will see "positive growth by the end of this year."

This assessment by Christina Romer, made at a "Credit Crisis on Main Street Summit" in Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, is more optimistic than the view held by private-sector chief financial officers.

Romer told summit attendees an anecdote that illustrated the pressure Obama's economic advisers face. She joined Obama's transition team after Thanksgiving, and personally gave the president-elect the news about the 500,000 jobs the economy lost in November.

"I'm so sorry," she told Obama. Obama replied, "It's not your fault -- yet."

At least it BETTER show positive growth by the end of 2009... or else!

Delores Umbridge comparison courtesy of Dr. Sanity.

I thought exactly the same thing the first time I saw Umbridge... uh, I mean Romer... I better be careful, or it'll be the blood quill for me.

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Venezuela Is Now Officially A Dictatorship

Chavez Wins Referendum to Eliminate Term Limits

President Hugo Chavez won a referendum to eliminate term limits Sunday, paving the way for him to run again in 2012 — and beyond — and push through his vision of a socialist Venezuela.

I certainly hope the Venezuelan people enjoyed this election because it's probably the last legitimate one they'll have for a long, long time. The country is now the personal fiefdom of a communist thug.

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Am I Missing Something?

Ashton Kutcher, Taking Your Pledges Now

Ashton Kutcher isn't at Sundance just to push "Spread," director David Mackenzie's ... morality tale about a gigolo whose life of wealth and excess is turned upside down when he falls for a waitress.

In fact, Kutcher will be taking a time out from his promotional duties to do some work for President-elect Barack Obama. As part of a collaboration between MySpace and Kutcher's Katalyst Films, Kutcher, wife Demi Moore and their celebrity friends will recruit users to pledge service to Obama by recording videos of their pledges and uploading them to MySpace.

I thought our elected and appointed government officials were supposed to serve us? Anyone else find Ashton's "recruiting" scary?

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Yet Again...

US Government Steps In To Save Citi

Where does this end?

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Obama Wants To Bankrupt The Coal Industry

Want to pay more for electricity? Vote Obama:

Let me sort of describe my overall policy.

What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted. [...]

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.

The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

Here's the audio:


If you vote for Obama, remember him every time you pay your skyrocketing energy bills... if you have any money left to pay them with after THE ONE redistributes your income.

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Runh!? WTF?

Does this scare the bejeebus out of anyone else?



A civilian national security force? Like this one, or this one, or this one, or this one?

h/t: Drudge

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You Have Offended THE ONE! You Are Banished From His Presence!

Purge: Skeptical Reporters Tossed Off Obama's Plane

Obama spokesman Bill Burton confirms Drudge's report that two right-leaning papers, the Washington Times and the New York Post, have lost their seats on the Obama plane, along with the Dallas Morning News.

"We're trying to reach as many swing voters that we can and unfortunately had to make some tough choices. but we are accommodating these folks in every way possible," he said.

The Post and the Morning News are both read primarily in states that aren't in play, but the Washington Times is read in Northern Virginia.

Burton said the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times had returned to the plane, and confirmed that Ebony and Jet magazines have seats on the plane. (The Tribune has had a reporter on the plane for most of the cycle, but recently added a photographer.)

He's not even trying to hide it anymore, is he? The campaign did suggest they try and get a seat on Biden's plane, but that's sort of like being told to sit in the back of the bus isn't it?

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Hey Barry, What Was That You Said About Spreading The Wealth?

Obama's Aunt Found Living In Rundown Boston Neighborhood

Barack Obama has lived one version of the American dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Obama's best-selling memoir "Dreams fFrom My Father," lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

A second relative believed to be the long-lost "Uncle Omar" described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a "sawed-off rifle" while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom apartment for failing to pay $2,324.20 in bills, according to the Boston Housing Court.

Maybe you should take care of your own house before you start trying to take care of the country.

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If We Could Only Tax Bullsh-t...

Obama could pay off the national debt by himself...

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No, No, No! Don't Redistribute MY Wealth!

Blatantly stolen from North Dallas Thirty

From Cafe Hayek:

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read 'Vote Obama, I need the money.' I laughed. Once in the restaurant my server had on a 'Obama 08' tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference -- just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need -- the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight. I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful. At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient needed money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

h/t to John in IL

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Moving The Goalposts

Feeling confident enough to write his acceptance speech and plan the parties, Obama has decided to just go ahead and start reneging on his campaign pledges. Remember that $250,000 that was the limit for the tax increases? Guess what...



There it is in... uh... black and white, straight from the Obamessiah's mouth. It's now $200,000. Down and down and down it goes,where it'll stop nobody knows...

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Again Obama's Own Words Betray Him

Barack Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but noted in his own memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college:

Obama's affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

Obama's interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."

After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for what he described as "a Ralph Nader offshoot" in Harlem.

"In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of "Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia," Obama wrote in "Dreams," which he published in 1995. "At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."

Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how "carefully" he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: "I am a Marxist." [...]

Obama has managed to cultivate the image of a political moderate in spite of his consistently liberal voting record. In 2006, he published a second memoir, "The Audacity of Hope," that leaves little doubt about his adherence to the left.

"The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact," Obama wrote in "Audacity." "Much of what I absorbed from the sixties was filtered through my mother, who to the end of her life would proudly proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal."

National Journal magazine ranked Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate. The publication is far from conservative, employing such journalists as Linda Douglass, who resigned in May to become Obama's traveling press secretary.

Obama's own words and choice of comrades forgo any claim that he isn't exactly what he says; a socialist is as a socialist does...

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The Socialist Dreams Of His Father...

B. Hussein Obama, Jr. comes by his political and economic beliefs honestly. He learned them from his father B. Hussein Obama, Sr.

Via IBD Editorials: Like Father, Like Son:

Writing in a 1965 scholarly paper, Obama's late father slammed the administration of then-President Jomo Kenyatta for moving the Third World country away from socialism toward capitalism. He chafed at the idea of relying on private investors — who earn "dividends" on their venture capital — to develop the country's fledgling economy.

"What is more important is to find means by which we can redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all," said the senior Obama, a Harvard-educated economist. "This is the government's obligation." The "means" he had in mind were confiscatory taxes on a scale that redefines the term "progressive taxation."

"Theoretically," he wrote, "there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed." [...]

His son is also pushing massive taxes and "investments" in social programs — at the expense of free enterprise. Sen. Obama wants to raise the top marginal income-tax rate to at least 39%, while increasing Social Security taxes on those with higher incomes by completely removing the payroll cap. That means many entrepreneurs would be paying 12.4% (6.2% on employer and 6.2% on employee) on Social Security payroll taxes alone, plus the 2.9% on Medicare taxes, for a total federal tax rate of 54%.

In addition, Obama wants to jack up the capital-gains tax rate and reinstate the death tax.

Echoing his father, he argues that the government should impose "tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth."

And likewise, he asserts that the nation's wealth ought to be rechanneled by government into "investments" in the economy and welfare programs that create "a new American social compact."

It's getting more and more clear just how far left Barry leans.

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We Can't Say Obama Didn't Warn Us He's A Socialist

ht: Gateway Pundit

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