Unlikely Card (no, not a race card)

This is my Christmas Card to Barack Hussein Obama (pictured left in the photo above), to Senator Harry Reid and to Representative Nancy Pelosi. It's my humble way of showing that I follow your track record in office and understand what you're doing.

A Run-Away Senate

The Democratic Majority in the US Senate (poorly led by Sen. Harry Reid - NV) made some last minute changes to the Rules of the US Senate so that their healthcare act can't be repealed by a majority vote in a future Congress.

How do YOU feel about that?

The fundamental purpose of Senate rules is to prevent a tyrannical majority from trampling the rights of the minority or of future Congresses.

How do YOU feel about the buying and selling of swing votes with a fortune in taxpayer money?

Yes, I admit that it's typical of the hope and change that President Barack Hussein Obama promised. He did deliver on change, he brought Chicago politics to the White House - who can doubt that?

How we, THE PEOPLE deal with this situation is going to be telling on our own generations and future generations as well. Clearly, there must be a re-shuffling of personnel at the top. Several people I know have called for an ENTIRELY new Congress. At first, I thought that attitude to be a bit extreme. I don't feel that way anymore. A vote of "NO CONFIDENCE" needs to be put forward by the American People.

When things seem too obvious to me, I worry that I may be over simplifying a problem. Unemployment in America is not a function of government except to the extent that financial decisions are based on predictability. The Administration of Barack Hussein Obama is anything but predictable. Capitalists who risk for profit don't want to put money into something where they are bound to loose.

(a) Cap and Trade

(b) ObamaCare

(c) Barack Hussein Obama's promise to raise taxes on anyone making over $250K per year.

All three measures will impact business. The people who start, expand and run businesses want to know what the bottom line will be before they move back into the market and invest (which leads to jobs).

Harry Reid's Snake Oil

Harry Reid is now saying that America is in the grip of an "Insurance Holocaust".  I guess he's banking on fooling all the people all the time. Those of us who oppose the Public Option have been branded as "political terrorists" by Indiana Rep. Baron Hill, who sent SEIU thugs to demonstrate outside Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman's private residence and derided senior citizens questioning President Obama's fuzzy math savings claims (California Rep. Pete Stark: "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine.").

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led Democrats deeper into demagoguery by likening Republicans who object to socialized medicine to slave masters, enemies of women's suffrage. Blustering in his uncomfortably rasping voice, Reid lectured we who stand in the way of Barack Hussein Obama (mmm.mmm.mmm): "When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down. It's too early. Things aren't bad enough.' When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted, 'Slow down. There will be a better day to do that. Today isn't quite right.' When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today."

Well, Mazza Harry, you have it wrong and will have a chance to feel how the slaves feel in 2010 when you're up for re-election.

The more the public learns about the choice-limiting, debt-exploding, bureaucracy-multiplying health care takeover, the more opposition increases---and the more unhinged the Democratic majority gets.

Treaties

On December 4, NATO's foreign ministers decided Dec. 4 to extend a Membership Action Plan to Montenegro, a country of some 700,000 souls. The country is roughly as large as a medium sized American city. It split from Serbia in 2006. By all accounts, it's a pretty country.

Under the terms of NATO membership, an attack on Montenegro would be treated as an attack on the United States, Canada, Germany or any other NATO nation's home soil and we would be obliged to react appropriately.

The only country that considers Montenegro strategic is Serbia, since the port of Bar (a city, not a pub)  which the Serbian government is trying to purchase, is Belgrade’s only link to sea lanes since the collapse of Yugoslavia.

In 1999 NATO conducted an air war against Serbia, so it may be said to be hostile. However, as improbable as it seems, However, the Serbian military frequently trains with the Ohio National Guard (don't ask me why because I don't know).  

My question is WHY? With respect to the people of Montenegro - I don't know any of you and if I did, I'm sure I'd like you, I don't want to go to war if you decide to do something stupid. Why do we want to link ourselves by treaty to Montenegro? 

Who Could HE Love More?

The question is, Dignity of the Office of President? I'm sure it can be regained at some point, but today, on the absolute scale of dignity, we have to be somewhere around zero.

Federal Reserve Concerns = Obama

I'm drawing the bulk of comments below from the Minutes of the Federal Reserve Meeting November 3-4, 2009. It's too much to post on a blog. I'm also relying on an analysis by Investor's Business Daily.

The unemployment rate varies from region to region. The Federal Reserve expects that it will remain in the 10% range nationwide through 2010 and won't drop much in 2011. Small businesses are not powering the "recovery" because credit is tight, there are fears of what the Obama Administration will do (taxation, more regulations, etc.) and the demand for goods and services has not rebounded. The Federal Reserve believes that the US economy will be slow in recovering, and are currently predicting a return to normal in five years, if we don't face another serious national crisis that interrupts the cycle.

"The Democrats...will be heading toward the midterm elections hoping to preserve their 81-seat margin in the House. Vulnerable incumbents will be clamoring for more economic stimulus, but the Obama administration will be constrained by the huge budget deficits needed to bail out the economy."  (IBD)

The Federal Reserve addressed its concerns for the US economy. I'll extrapolate a bit here but it's all in the meeting minutes: Corporate Bail-outs unfairly distributed billions in taxpayer dollars and added to a blooming national debt that is out of control. The "Stimulus Package" didn't stimulate much beyond serving as a vehicle for election day pay-backs. Congress continues to fiddle while Rome burns and wants to tack on $2 trillion in medical costs for a government boondoggle that many of us feel is completely unnecessary. Healthcare reform doesn't mean a public option. It means tort reform, portability, access to markets and common sense measures that won't cost the taxpayer a nickel. 

People understand that Barack Hussein Obama's agenda is all about forced redistribution (theft) of wealth with an eye toward establishing the US as a utopian socialist nation. Business understands where he wants to go and they aren't happy about it. So they'll avoid hiring, they'll avoid maintaining unrealistic inventories and they'll try to survive as best they can. That means no bonuses, no growth and no RISK.

The Fed struggled to answer the basic question that is haunting administration policymakers: Why has unemployment remained so high, even as the economy has started to grow again and the stock market has been on a tear?

The Fed's answer is that businesses, having been burned by the recession, are wary about adding more workers or making new investments. Like consumers who have just discovered the virtues of saving, their prudence — however sensible on an individual basis — is a collective drag on the economy. (IBD)

"Business contacts reported that they would be cautious in their hiring,"..."Indeed, participants expected that businesses would be able to meet any increases in demand in the near term by raising their employees' hours and boosting productivity, thus delaying the need to add to their payrolls." (Federal Reserve)

Now there is a way out. Barack Hussein Obama wouldn't take this course - but there is a way:

* Reduce the size of government. Relinquish to the States the things best handled by the States and focus on dealing with the core issues of greatest concern to the nation as a whole.

* Withdraw the US Military from Afghanistan. Continue the phased withdrawal from Iraq. Consider our national military strategy in terms of our vital interests and avoid "adventurism".

* Focus national resources on eliminating our dependency on foreign oil.

* Become a loyal ally to our friends and a scourge to our enemies. There is a difference between the two and Barack Hussein Obama doesn't understand the concept.

* Reduce federal regulations and return to a free market system. Allow businesses that can't make it to fail. Once those businesses fail the unions won't be happy because the people who buy the bones and build them back up may not have a place for union bosses at the table.

* Avoid knee-jerk reactions to the left wing whackos' dire warnings. Global Warming comes to mind.

* Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security - it's a joke to all who understand its workings. Reconsider what we do and how we do it with an eye toward eliminating massive (expensive) bureaucratic overhead and allow the legions of drones to try to find honest work. America has legitimate security concerns, but that Department, along with the Department of Education, has outlived any usefulness it might have once had.

* Allow the CIA to be the secret intelligence service of the United States once again. It's degraded to the point of redundancy and needs to be rebuilt. It will take years, but best start now.