God I love Rush Limbaugh! Now there is a man that should run for President of the United States. I was watching a video clip of Rush Limbaugh addressing the CPAC convention the other day and he really did a great job of pointing a few things out. He was quick to defend his stance that he hopes President Obama fails. While the liberal media, or drive by media as Rush would put it, would like you to believe that Limbaugh's wishes of an Obama failure are unpatriotic and treasonous, the thinking man comes up with a completely different viewpoint. To me, an Obama failure means that TRILLIONS, yes I used the T word, of wasteful spending will not get the country on the path to recovery and success. It would mean that the Democratic Party had failed to silence the voice of the right, which they will try to accomplish via the "Fairness Doctrine. An Obama failure would be a failure of socialism in the United States and would therefore be a victory for the long- term stability and viability of the country. Now, when it comes to protecting our country from terrorist organizations, I hope to God that Obama can take a page from the George W. Bush playbook and prevent another attack like the one that was orchestrated on 9-11. However, when it comes to Obama's economic plan, I am willing to suffer through four more years of pinching pennies if it means that the quasi- socialist Democratic Party that is running this country has to tuck its tail between its legs and walk into the sunset. One needs only to look back to the Great Depression for signs of hope and encouragement. During the Depression, the United States government did not pump trillions of dollars into the economy and we came out just fine. A little patience and self- control will get us out of this economic funk that we find ourselves in. Remember that kid you went to high school with who always drove a brand new vehicle that their mom and dad bought them? They always wore designer clothes that their rich parents paid for while you were stuck wearing your older sibling's hand me downs? Our nation has become that spoiled teenager. Our parents, the government, want to make sure that they give their children (the poor) everything they want without making them earn it. I, personally, am embarrassed that our country has come to this. That kid in high school will be dependent on his parents for his whole life. He will grow up having no idea how to function on his own after high school. The people that are going to receive all of these Obama handouts will be no different. The government will rob them of their dignity, self- respect and ability to take care of themselves and their family. And, according to Obama, it will all be done in the name of fairness! Some lessons in life are learned the hard way. For those who have had to foreclose on their homes, I feel bad for you. That said, next time do not commit to something that you cannot fulfill. For the hard working person who has paid every payment on time and will be taxed at a higher rate because of their personal success, I feel bad for you too. You have done everything you had to do to make sure that you fulfilled your commitments but will still have to deal with the trillions of dollars that your country will be in debt after our attempt at socialism. The lesson for the person who bought the house they could not afford is to spend only what you can afford to. To the person who is responsible with their money, the lesson is to make sure you do your part to educate your friends and family on the issues to ensure we do not elect another socialist to run this country. So, in the end, a failure on Obama's part would be a long- term victory for the great nation in which we live. Thank you Rush for saying what so many of us are thinking!

I just cannot believe that this is what we have become. When I was growing up, my Dad got up early, went to work, worked all day, came home, ate dinner, went to bed and then got up again the next morning to do it all again. My Mom woke up, served us kids breakfast, sent us off to school, cleaned the house, paid the bills, took us to ball practice, served us dinner, sent us to bed, relaxed for a few hours before going to bed herself so that she could wake up and do it all again in the morning. We were the typical family. My parents knew what they had to do to provide for their children and that is exactly what they did. Did they enjoy every second of it? Probably not, but they knew that they had RESPONSIBILITIES! Did my parents wine when they had to pinch pennies in order to make the house payment? I never heard them if they did. Did my Dad complain that he was getting screwed by the system? Not that I can remember. Did my Mom complain that she wasn't afforded a life of luxury? Nope. Our family operated like a family is supposed to operate. Take on as much as you can personally afford to take on, work hard to make sure that you can afford what you have decided to take on, keep your mouth shut and do not, I repeat do not rely on someone else to pay your way. There is a word that describes the way that my parents raised their family. A word that should be re-taught to every American who thinks that the government should be a form of income to finance their lifestyle that they all of a sudden cannot afford. The word is pride. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as if many people have it anymore. I was lucky enough to receive a very important piece of advice from my high school baseball coach that has stuck with me for my entire life. He once told me to keep my mouth shut, my eyes and ears open and hustle all of the time. It seems like a very simple -minded piece of advice, but taken in the correct context, is a piece of advice that would do our country some good right now! The only thing that most kids hustle for these days is the couch or the video game controller. The only time they keep their eyes shut is during church service and their ears are incapable of hearing any logical ideas because they are usually so full of piercings that occasionally they have to be peeled off of the refrigerator door. It is a sad road that our country is traveling right now and is a road that seems to be getting longer the more we travel it instead of shorter.  By merging the advice I gained from watching my parents live their lives and raise their family with the advice that was spoken to me on a baseball field, I am able to come to a pretty logical conclusion. What will get us down this road in one piece? One simple word........PRIDE! If you have it, hustle all of the time so that we can get down this road a little faster. If you don't, then just keep your mouth shut!

It is coming, fellow Americans, it is coming. We are fast approaching a time in which the federal government will control nearly every aspect of our lives. They will continue to take more of our money to "help" those in need as we are left to rearrange the lifestyle for which we work so hard. They will continue to ignore the wishes of their constituents while they line their pockets with our tax dollars as well as the millions of dollars in lobbying favors. And, alas, they will try to control what we have the options of listening to on our very own radios! Yes, you read that last one correctly. The Democrats within our government are soon going to try to revive the "Fairness Doctrine." Yet another misleading title among the liberal socialist bills that we will be forced to live with for generations. What this bill attempts to do is ridiculous. At it's core, the Fairness Doctrine makes sure that there is equal representation of liberal talk shows amongst all of the conservative talk shows on the radio. Our Democrats Socialists that are sitting in Congress do not care that liberal talk radio has failed every time it has been tried. Don't believe me? Ever heard of the program Air America? If not, that is probably because it was a liberal talk radio program, hosted by Al Franken, that failed miserably. Did it fail because they were not given the chance to succeed? No, they failed because nobody listened to it! Current law does not prohibit stations from starting liberal talk shows. It does not mandate that radio stations host only conservative talk shows. No, the stations host conservative talk shows because they succeed, and they succeed because people CHOOSE to listen to them. This word CHOOSE confuses liberals socialist because they could not imagine people CHOOSING to relate to their political beliefs. They are used to forcing us into a liberal socialist way of life. Any liberal Socialist could start a radio show, as long as they had the means necessary. For that show to survive, it would have to act like any other business within our free market. They would have to attract and keep customers or, in this case, listeners. The problem with that is the fact that most people who listen to talk radio are generally well educated and informed citizens, which as we have all learned by now, is  not a description that fits most of  the democrats socialists clientele. All liberal talk radio shows have to do under the current rules to succeed is attract listeners and keep listeners. However, since they have failed to do so in the past, the federal government has decided to make them succeed, by reinstating the fairness doctrine. Our liberal socialist government knows that most people will not voluntarily choose to listen to liberal socialist radio shows, so they will make us do so! How American! As the old adage goes, give them an inch and they will take a mile! The problem is we have already given them miles and they are looking to take even more. Please write or call your elected officials and tell them how ridiculous you think the fairness doctrine is! It is not a matter of Democrat Socialist or Republican! It is a matter of common sense and the interest of the American people! Well, I gotta go, my favorite radio show is coming on, Fireside Chat with Barack Obama and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Talking Through Our Problems. Gotta go get the popcorn!! 

Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm.

Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.

William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.

William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.

David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.

Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.

Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.

Mona Sutphen, deputy White House Chief of Staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.

Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.

 

Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.

 

Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.

If you are dumb enough to beleive that saying one thing during a presidential campaign and then doing something totally different once you are elected is a CHANGE, then you probably voted for Obama, and if you voted for Obama the only CHANGE you will be doing is changing your underwear when you see what this guy is really about! How long before Obama sends you shopping for a new pair of undies?  Stay tuned!

The mainstream media gave him a free pass, the American citizens gave him a free pass and the voters gave him a free pass. That would have been fine if Barack Obama's plans and desires were not so muddy. He said that he was only going to increase the taxes of the rich while eliminating the taxes of anyone living at the poverty level. It sounded too good to be true. And, like mom and dad always said, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is! You cannot eliminate the tax burden of any segment of the population. It is impossible. Let me explain. Federal income taxes are not the only tax burden that the average American faces. Our tax burden is actually much higher than the bottom line of your income tax return. Much higher, indeed. Everytime that you purchase an item, from a pack of cigarettes to a new car, there are embedded "corporate" taxes that you must pay on top of the sales tax that you are hit with. The phrase "corporate taxes" is very misleading. A business or corporation pay no taxes. You pay the taxes for them. The business simply collects the "corporate tax" from the consumer and passes them on the Washington. Dr Dale Jorgenson, the Chairman of the Harvard Economics Department, conducted a study in which he came to the conclusion that the consumer pays an estimated 22 percent embedded tax on everything that they buy. That 22 percent covers the tax burden on every company involved in the manufacture of that product. Lets take a pair of jeans as an example. The company that manufactures the jeans must first purchase their textiles from a textile company. Embedded in the price of the textiles is the tax burden of the textile manufacturer. That company has to pay a tax on their payroll, a portion of every employees social security and medicare taxes and a tax on the products that they buy to manufacture the textile. They then embed these taxes into the price of the textile so that they can mantain their profit margin on the textile. So, when the jean company purchases that textile, they are paying approximately 22 percent more for the textile, in the form of embeded taxes. That said, the jean company is not simply going to pay that 22 percent and not pass it on down the line. That would be bad for business. Instead, they pass that 22 percent right on down the line. Where is that end of the line? The consumer. That 22 percent that started at the textile manufacturer ends up coming out of your wallet. The consumer gets stuck with the bill. You pay more than sales taxes everytime you push a cart through a checkout line. The sad truth of that statement? Most people do not even realize that they do! Now, back to Barack Obama's free ride to the White House. He made the illusion that only the rich and the corporations would pay more in taxes. A few honest questions by the mainstream media would have brought to light the fact that an increase in taxes on corporations means an increase in taxes on the consumer. Unless only rich people buy things in this country, which we know to be a falsehood, every single American will see an increase in their taxes. Rich and poor alike. Since, however, Americans have been trained to view their tax obligations only as the bottom line of their tax returns, most will never realize what the anointed one is doing to them. He may well lower their income tax burden but will raise their taxes in other areas to compensate for their savings! He will lower their taxes while raising their taxes at the same time. Another example of Barack's dishonest lowering of taxes on the poor is the fact that he plans to raise the taxes on cigarettes by 61 cents a pack. Back in the early 1900s, this may well have fit into the "tax the rich" philosophy that Barack was and still is touting. Today, however, the lower income individuals actually smoke more than the higher income folks. The quote that came right out of Barack Obama's mouth concerning this increase in the cigarette tax sums up everything. "Everybody's going to have to give," he siad. Finally, the truth straight out of the anointed one's mouth. Too bad it came after the election. The only change I have noticed so far is a "change" in Barack Obama's rhetoric. Stay tuned everyone, there will surely be more truths and "changes" in rhetoric to come!

Somehow, both of these ballots were counted in Franken's favor. The problem does not reside in the physical recounting of votes during a tightly contested election. A recount can actually help to restore confidence in our election system. However, when a board is established to decide "voter intent," the problem starts to become quite evident. When you couple that with the fact that ballots are being looked at in a non-consistent manner and you have the workings of a blatant fraud! You can make your own vote as to what you think about the Minnesota scam. However, when casting your vote of public opinion, please do not mark your oval with an "X". Welcome to the United States Senate Mr. Smalley!

And they're off!! The Democratic controlled congress is already salivating at the prospects of their opportunity to raise taxes. Rest assured, though, because Mr. Obama said that the Democrats only want to raise the taxes on the rich, right? Don't count on it! Currently, a federal commission created by congress is urging lawmakers to raise the current tax on gasoline and deisel fuel by fifty percent. They want the tax on gasoline raised by ten cents a gallon and the tax on diesel fuel raised by about twelve cents a gallon. I guess, if you believe everything Barack said during his campaign, only "rich" people buy gasoline and diesel fuel. Us poor folk, according to this new proposal, still take the old horse and buggy to work. Well, at least their not raising the taxes on the poor man's fuel, horse feed. We knew the options that we had back in November and we decided to give both houses of congress, as well as the White House, to the Democrats. Their promises sounded great, but a little investigation told us that their hopes had no historic precedence in the Democratic Party. In order to come through with their promises of national health care, they will have to raise taxes on all of us, and this new gas tax is only the beginning. Soon, the average income will be taxed more and so will your capital gains, inheritance and social security! Once again, if you voted for Barack, thanks! Thank you for believing everything you heard on the television and not checking with other sources of information to get other points of view. Thank you for voting for "change" but not asking anybody what the "change" would be. Thank you for making sure that the average Joe is paying for the neighbors health care and, most of all, thank you for not being a Republican. I would hate to think that the people who share my political affiliation were responsible for encouraging an increase in the fuel tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and social security tax. You know, the taxes that only the "rich" people pay. I just hope that someday I can be a multi million dollar rich guy who can buy one of those expensive motorized vehicles I see in the movies! Man, the chicks would dig it! I even heard that you can listen to real bands and rock stars when you drive it down the road. Ahhh, to be rich! And to think that Barack fooled a majority of United States voters. Goes to show you that we ain't as smart as we says we is!

I keep wondering what that knot in my stomach is. It burns, makes me belch at weird times and has even given me a case of heartburn. Could it be the looming presidency of Barack Obama? That's what Web-MD has diagnosed me with. They call it "normal," whatever that means. Anyway, my health behind us all now, let's talk about yet another way that Barack Obama will make you feel like he is looking out for you. This trick will come at the expense of hedge fund managers. Currently, the manager of a hedge fund is able to get away with paying only fifteen percent of their income in taxes, while the rest of us are forced to cough up as much as thirty five percent of our income into the government coffers. The way they do it is pretty simple. Since the manager of a hedge fund is in charge of investing other people's money, they are able to claim their piece of the pie as capital gains. Even though this is their main source of income and the capital gains are not theirs, they are still able to climb through the massive hole that is in the tax code. They claim that they should be able to claim their income as capital gains because of the fact that capital gains are taxed at a lower rate because of the risks involved in investing money. What they forget to tell you is that the risks involved in their investments are the risks of their clientele, not their own. The Democratic party has had the past several years, as they had control of the congress, to get legislation in place that would require hedge fund managers to pay the normal tax rate on their income. The problem is that hedge fund managers have donated more than five million dollars to federal lawmakers, just during this election cycle. You do the math. Hedge fund managers donating millions of dollars to lawmakers + loophole in the tax code that congress refuses to close = billionaire hedge fund managers paying a paltry fifteen percent income tax. It simply doesn't add up to me. Barack Obama will close this loophole at some point during his presidency and will let the media display all of the anger that this will cause on the part of billionaire hedge fund managers. The common citizens will see these billionaires upset at Barack Obama and will assume that the republicans must support these billionaires who have ripped off the country. They will not realize, nor will the mainstream media tell them, that the democrats refused to close the loophole sooner because they were too busy receiving two thirds of all the money that the hedge funds were spending on the political campaigns. The democrats loved the money and didn't care how they got it. Now that the election is over, the Barack Obama camp will try to deceive people who get all of their information from the internet. They will think that Barack Obama is the modern version of Robin Hood. He is simply taking from the rich and giving to the poor. The only bad thing is that these rich people that Barack is demonizing paid for the seat that he will be sitting in come January twentieth. Hope you're comfy Barack, that's a pretty expensive seat. Man, you gotta love all the change that's in the air! Oh, in case you were wondering, to get over my case of the "normals," Web-MD reccomends two hours a day spent watching CNN, MSNBC and some guy named Keith Olbermann.