The Arrogance of Obama

The arrogance of Obama

Obama is finally coming home after his groveling tour among third world leaders. The only exception was at the beaches of Normandy, where he at least had the good graces not to say what he really thinks about the American military, then or now.

Obama flew home on Air Force One leaving his wife and children in Paris for an extra day of shopping. Apparently no one is raising any concerns about this.

Why is it a concern if they want to go shopping?

Perhaps they should consider this: Our country is hovering near 10% unemployment. If the Obamas want to do some shopping, how about shopping in this country. How about shopping and buying American made products? After all, some of the people who made those products actually voted for the teleprompter in chief.

But more importantly and never mentioned by the slobbering Obama-media, is the cost of this. When the first family is out and about, they have security costs. I do not complain about their security, because, no mater how much I dislike them, I do not want to see something happen to them. But, those costs are a lot higher when they are overseas than when they are here at home. Just as important, how are they going to get home? Some how, I do not see Michelle and the girls flying coach on a Delta transatlantic flight. My guess is Obama is either going to send the VC-25 (aka 747) back for them or a C-32 (Aka a 757). Either way, this extra day of shopping is going to cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions.

When Obama is not groveling in front of third world tyrants, his arrogance towards the American people is amazing. He stiffs us with debt that we may never be able to pay off and he celebrates by inviting cronies to the White House for Martinis and $100 a pound steak. He wants a cool photo of Air Force One so his office scares the daylights out of New York at a cost of at least half a million dollars. He wants a date with Michele, so what does he do? Rustles up an Air Force plane and takes it to New York at a cost of at least $250,000 and probably a whole lot more.

Obama’s attitude is typical of liberals. He seems to confuse the term public servant. It means he serves the public, not the public is his servant. We do not live and pay taxes just so he can gallivant around and have a good time. These are tough times for Americans. The teleprompter in chief should realize that and act accordingly.

Of course, in another 513 days we will give him an education on what the American people think of his arrogance.

My independence (from China) day

My independence (from China) day.

One of the things that has really grated on me for the last couple of years is how hard it is to find products that are made in America. I deliberately look to see the place of manufacture. Most of the time, if it is made in China, I take a pass. That has not been a hard and fast rule.

Until now.

I am not sure what set me off. I think it was the announcement that Hummer was being sold to China. Hummer is a big, tough, rugged, all American vehicle. Like the jeep of half a century earlier, it got it’s inspiration from the vehicle used by the American military. Yet this American icon will now be owned by a Chinese company. For the last twenty years, we have been selling out our manufacturing base to China and financing an absurd level of spending on a Chinese credit card.

No more.

At least not on my part. If it is made in China, I am not buying it. This is going to be tough, since my kids’ toys are mostly made in China. We will just have to find something else.

With the Obama administration bound and determined to destroy the American economy, there are few things we can do until the 2010 election. One of the few things we can do is to help our neighbors by buying American and not Chinese.

If it is made in China, leave it on the shelf!

Tea Party 2.0

April 15, was a wonderful day. Over a million people participated in tea party rallies across the nation on that day. It was our shining moment.

Three weeks later, that now seems like a distant memory. The national leadership has splintered and shattered and the scene has been repeated at many local levels. Where there was once unity, there is now chaos. And while this happens, the Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of fiscal evil continues to destroy the country.

I have been saying that we had until 2010 to stop the Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of fiscal evil. I no longer believe that. I believe we have to evolve the tea party movement into a potent political force now to change votes in congress before the big votes come up shortly on cap and trade, national health care, massive tax hikes, etc. We have to draw a line in the sand and stand and fight, while we still can.

I propose we start what I am calling tea party 2.0: The tea party minutemen. We need to target at least ten senators and up to 50 or even more congressmen to try and change their votes. The congressmen and senators we chose are those who can be influenced. Rinos, blue dog democrats and democrats in predominantly republican states or districts, particularly the senators who are up for election in 2010.

Once we target these Senators and Congressmen, we need activists in the area who can help coordinate protests, using such resources as talk radio (while we still have it) the internet, and other sources to message people about events. We need to stage tea parties in front of the offices of these Senators and Congressmen. Trust me, if 500 to 1000 or more protestors show up in front of the office, the staffers will be calling Washington. When these Senators and Congressmen come home for events, we are there with hundreds of protestors. Most politicians are cowards. They are thinking about either their reelection or moving up the political food chain. We need to put the fear of the American people into them so that they will think long and hard before voting for the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda.

In Tennessee, we have two RINO senators to target. Of the 9 members of the Tennessee congressional delegation, the 4 Republicans are more or less solid. 2 of the democrats are hopeless cases (Cooper and Cohen). But there are three congressmen in TN who I think are vulnerable. These three are from districts that either have been Republican or are trending Republican/Conservative.

We need to assemble members of our movement who are willing and able to come, sometimes on short notice to these offices to put pressure on these elected officials to stop the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda while we still can.

I have been asked, what do we need to do next? Here is the plan.

We need volunteers to help in particular states. We need to target Senators and congressmen who may be vulnerable and might buckle under some pressure.

As soon as we identify these senators and congressmen, we need to get people to start hitting them with faxes, emails, letters and calls. We need to start flexing our political muscles now!

There are several important bills coming up soon. The “hate crimes” bill, the silence talk radio bill, Cap and Trade, National health care, to name a few. There are more out there.

If you are interested in working in your State or Congressional delegation, please email me through this blog or come to TeaPartyNation.com.

Finally, while I claim credit for this idea, I do not own this idea, just as no one owns this movement. We need to act and we need to act now. That means it doesn’t matter which “group” you are affiliated with. Be it NTPLC, TPN, TPP, 9/12 or any other group, we need people to get involved now. If you have friends you know that might be interested, share this blog with them. Ask them to email me. I’m not trying to be the leader here, only the organizer. And if anyone wants to help with that, please email me at the blog or get on Teapartynation.com.

The Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of fiscal evil has not stopped, even though we have had a bad couple of weeks. We need unity NOW! We don’t have to all belong to the same group or even like each other. We do have to work together.

Why I am not afraid of the FBI

Why I am not afraid of the FBI

Word has leaked out today about the presence of the FBI at Tea Party rallies on April 15th. While I was helping put our rally on, someone came to me and gave me a heads up about the FBI observing our rally. I consider my source very credible.

Today, news emerged with significant details about the domestic spying that occurred on April 15th. While I am outraged that the FBI would be used for political purposes, I am not shocked.

Neither, am I afraid.

The FBI is one of the best law enforcement organizations in the world. They also know how to keep secrets. If they really wanted to spy on us, we would have never known about it. The fact his leaked out is evidence of one thing. Someone wanted us to know.

Who wanted us to know and why?

Those questions, I can not answer. Maybe the Holder Justice Department wanted to intimidate us. Maybe some of the professional people in the FBI ran this in such a way that it would become known and even let this information leak.

I do not know.

But I do know this. The Constitution gives us the right to speak and to petition our government. Men and women have died to give us this right. While I do not know what the Obama Administration is capable of, I do know this. We cannot be silent. If we are silent now, we lose our country and our freedom.

It is time to make our voices heard and to take America back.

Let’s roll!

Why we need Teapartynation.com.

Why we need Teapartynation.com.

On Monday, April 13 Teapartynation.com launched, two days before the nationwide, tax day tea party. Teapartynation.com is a conservative, social networking site, much like Facebook. It is a site where conservatives can gather and work together for the change we so desperately need in this county.

But it begs the question, why do we need Teapartynation.com?

The April issue of Fast Company gives us the answer. Fast Company, for those of you who are not familiar with it, is a business-oriented magazine that frequently has very good articles on business, the Internet and technology.

This issue features a hagiographic article about Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook. The article talks about Hughes’ two big successes: Launching Facebook, and most likely being the catalyst that made Barack Obama President.

The article discusses how Hughes used both Facebook and another social networking site he created for Obama to coordinate volunteers, concentrate efforts and catapult Obama in the early days, over Hillary and eventually to run circles around John McCain.

Conservatives have been seriously outclassed in the social media arena. Most of the major sites are owned and controlled by liberals. Conservative activists find their accounts deactivated on Facebook. On Youtube, conservative activists find their videos quickly banned. The Google guys give large amounts of money to hard left causes. The list goes on.

When you start listing the major conservative Internet sites, there are no social media sites. There is the Drudge Report, Freerepublic, Redstate and a large number of blogs.

The definition of insanity, we are often told, is trying the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. Success is repeating what has worked before and seeing the same results. Many years ago, a friend of mine said, “there is nothing new under the sun, you should steal a good idea as often as possible.”

The social networking media has already been created and been used to great success by the left. They have promoted their liberal causes on their sites and used their wealth to support those same causes. On the right, we need to replicate what they have done and take our political social media to the next level.

That is why we need Teapartynation.com.

President Pantywaist

President Pantywaist strikes again.

We all know what has happened. Obama went to Europe on the “we surrender” tour. As he left Washington from his latest round of epic failure, a North Korean sat on a launching pad. To no one’s surprise, despite the warnings from the Obama messiah, Kim Jong Il lit the fuse and sent his little missile flying into the Pacific Ocean.

At the time of the launch, the US Navy had two Aegis equipped, Arleigh Burke class Destroyers in the area. They were both capable of shooting down that missile. It is obvious that the President had order the Navy, before the launch, not to intercept the missile.

In response to the missile launch and our non-action, President Pantywaist when to the United Nations Security council and got…absolutely nothing. So to truly impress the mentally ill midget who runs North Korea, he announced a 1.4 billion dollar cut in our missile defense budget.

Between bowing to Islam’s equivalent of the Pope and not bowing to the Pope, Obama tried once again to destroy our security. We have three missile defense sites. They have a dozen launchers each. One is near Washington, one is in Alaska and one will be in Poland, unless Obama can manage to give that away, which he seems bound and determined to do.

Russia has hundreds of missiles. So does China. Missile defense will not stop them. Our nuclear deterrent will. What missile defense will do is stop a missile from a rogue nation, like, say, North Korea.

During Obama’s magical mystery tour of the G20 in Europe, the British media was merciless to him. One called Obama a “surrender monkey.” Had that been the American media, there would have been hell to pay. Unfortunately, the truth hurts.

Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here?

On April 15th, tea parties will be held across the country. Hundreds of tea parties with thousands and probably millions of people attending. But what happens after the tea parties?

Where do we go from here?

Since the tea party movement exploded two months ago, I have had a chance to speak with leaders of the tea party movement across the country. With some of them, you speak of the Republican Party, they step back in horror. I can imagine them like an old country priest, seeing an apparition of Satan, hurling holy water and crossing themselves at the mention of the GOP.

Folks, we need to have a reality check.

We have to stop the Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of fiscal evil. It is that simple. IF we do not win back congress in 2010, we will never do it. So with that in mind, what do we do?

The simple fact of the matter is in America, we have a two party system. The Democrats are wholly owned by George Soros, Moveon, Acorn and other radical groups. That leaves only the Republican Party. I know many will scream the Republicans got us into this mess. I agree. For conservatives, Bush was a disaster and the congress from 99-07 did the conservatives no favors. But if we just throw out the party, we will not stop the Democrats.

The left’s talking points are already out. One of them is that we are “just a Republican group.” Part of the strategy of this is to make us say, “No, we aren’t Republicans,” and make us decide to stand back and get away from the party. That strategy is called “divide and conquer.” It works. Just ask George H. W. Bush about that. Mention Ross Perot and see how history might have been different.

Where do we go from here? On April 16th, we need to be involved. I tell people I do not want the Republican Party to take over the Tea Party Movement. I want the Tea Party Movement to take over the Republican Party.

We have to act now to save America. If we do not, there maybe no America left to save.

The Murder of America

The Murder of America

“Great nations do not die. The commit suicide.”

I cannot remember who utter this great quote, but after recent events, perhaps we should say, great nations do not die. They are murdered. And we are watching the murder of America.

Since Obama, Pelosi and Reid formed the axis of fiscal evil, they have, at breathtaking speed, worked to destroy American prosperity and freedom.

Why would anyone do this? Are we not all taught that Americans love this country and only want the best for this country? Does not the drive by media constantly harp that the democrats are the one’s who really love this country?

The simple truth of the matter is that Obama and Pelosi are socialists. Reid is just a little beta male whose office is officially declared a testosterone free zone. Socialists love tyranny. They hate freedom. Tyranny means they keep power and that is what they are all about. Conservatives view fair elections as an election where the people get to decide what they want. Socialists view a fair election as an election they win.

We have now passed through the magical “first 100 days” of the administration. Let’s see what we have. We have the financial collapse of the banking industry. The selection of Tim Geithner, the only man who could do the job, and who we now find out supervised the disasters leading up to the current financial crisis. This same genius now wants the authority to seize any company which as a “risk of failure” which could affect the economy. Basically, he wants the ability to nationalize any company for almost any reason.

We have a 3.6 trillion dollar budget, which will give every American man, woman and child a $25,000 tax bill (without interest). We have the government now stepping into control banks. Even banks that do not want to be controlled are not being allowed to return the TARP money they received. Because of that, the government can now tell banks how much they can pay any employee. They may fire the CEO of the bank at will. They may tell the bank who to loan money to and under what conditions. Does anyone believe that this government would use the banks to help reward political supporters? Of course not. Barack “Acorn” Obama would never do that.

The government has now taken control of GM and Chrysler. Things are so bad for GM that as soon as Obama fired Rick Wagner and a new CEO came in, he promptly announced bankruptcy looked like an attractive option. Anything is an attractive option if it can get the government’s claws out of your business.

The latest bit of horrifying news coming out of Washington is the new “cyber-security” bill being introduced. You can tell any bill introduced by Jay Rockefeller is a bad idea and if is cosponsored by one of the famous “sellout sisters”, Olympia Snowe (RINO-Maine), you know it is a really horrible idea. The Cyber security bill of 2009 allows the government sweeping powers over the Internet. This new bill would allow access to Internet information and Internet networks “deemed critical” to the nation, “without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.” Perhaps someone should remind those “brilliant” liberals, that there is something in the Fourth Amendment in the Constitution that prohibits just what the congress wants to do.

In addition, there is another provision that allows the White House to disconnect from the Internet any critical infrastructure from the Internet, including private bank accounts, health information and presumably email and websites, if there is a “risk” of cyber attack. The power the government seeks is unbelievable.

Coming later this year, nationalized health care, a cap and trade energy policy that is going to add $3,000 or more to the average American’s energy costs, amnesty for illegal aliens and probably the opposition media suppression act, oops, I mean the fairness doctrine.

America is being murdered by its government! Unfortunately, there is no 911 the people can call.

Stealing the tea parties

On February 27, 2009, a tidal wave began in the United States. Across the county, thousands of people gathered for tea parties, protesting the insane tax and spend policies of the Obama administration that will bankrupt this country and destroy the future for our children.

The tea parties were a wild success. Since then, there have been other tea parties. A couple weeks ago in Orlando, 5,000 people gathered for a tea party. As the Tea Party Movement has gathered strength and success, there have been many who want to join.

Ten days after our first Tea Party in Nashville, I announced plans to have tea parties in all 95 Tennessee counties. After that announcement, interest across the state exploded. As of today, we have close to 50 tea parties that are in various stages of preparation and we will be adding many more next week. At the national level, many people have come on board, supporting the goals of the Tea Party Movement. People such as Newt Gingrich with American Solutions, have offered to help the national movement out and are doing so.

But then, there is the downside of success.

The American Family Association is run by the Reverend Donald Wildman in Tupelo, Mississippi. For years, they have been involved in various causes associated with the family. Now, they are trying to get involved with the Tea Party Movement.

While those of us who are leaders in this movement welcome most help, their help is most unwelcome. Why?

The AFA has announced they are sponsoring thousands of tea parties through out the country on April 15. The problem with that is, AFA is claiming to be sponsoring events they have nothing to do with. If you go on the AFA website, they list events that are sponsored by other groups. When I first heard about AFA’s efforts, I looked on their website and contacted several people they has listed as “organizers” of events. These people all told me that they had signed up to get more information about a local tea party. None were organizing one. Several were irritated about being listed as an organizer when they were not.

I am all for more allies in this cause. We need the American majority to rise up and stop the insanity and the tyranny coming from Washington. If the American Family Association wants to actually devote resources to helping the tea parties, then they would be welcome to join in. What we do not need is those who simply want to hijack the Tea Party Movement for their own purposes.

By claiming sponsorship of tea parties they have had nothing to do with, they are stealing the work of other people. It is a theft.

Perhaps the good Reverend should remember the Ten Commandments and review them, paying particular attention to, “Thou Shalt Not Steal.”

Depression and third world conditions: Coming soon to a neighborhood near you

“Great nations don’t die. The commit suicide.”

We are watching the American suicide. We are watching an arrogant and incompetent leader kill the golden goose. The American economy is the engine that drives world prosperity. All that is about to end thanks to the Obama/Reid/Pelosi axis of fiscal evil.

Later this year, the Obama/Reid/Pelosi axis of fiscal evil is going to push through three things that will help destroy the American economy. The first part is the $3.6 trillion budget. No one in their right mind, not even the nuts on the left, believes that this can be funded by debt alone. Massive tax increases are coming. Tax increases are a drag on the economy. These tax increases will tax the productive in society, decreasing their willingness or their ability to be productive.

Later this fall, the Senate will take up what is called the reconciliation bill. This is where bills from the House and the Senate, which have differences, are made identical. Under the Senate rules, a filibuster is not possible for the reconciliation process. All that is required is a simple majority vote to pass any legislation. Two pieces of disastrous legislation will emerge from the reconciliation process.

The first is nationalizing health care and the second is a cap and trade energy policy.

Our health care system, the best in the world, will be destroyed by government control. One sixth of the economy will now be controlled by the same bozos that have managed to destroy most of the financial services and banking industry. Do we really trust the same people that gave us the IRS?

The cap and trade system will be the greatest disaster. Two years after this is implemented, you will not recognize America. The cap and trade system, if you are not familiar with it, involves mandating “caps” on the amounts of green house gases that companies can produce. Of course, the market does not determine these “caps”. The government does it. If you exceed the cap, you either buy excess capacity from someone else or you are severely penalized. This is going to drive energy prices through the roof. Originally the government said this would add $500 to the average cost of an American’s utility bills. Now they are saying it will be closer to $2,000 per person. If the government is saying $2000 a year in extra costs, we know that it will be much greater. Americans will have to pay these energy bills, just to have electricity in their homes and gas in their cars. Remember, during the campaign, Obama said he wanted to bankrupt coal-fired plant and the only problem he had with $4 a gallon gas was the price had increased so quickly.

When the government controls any market, the end result is rationing. This is coming. Your health care will be rationed. Your energy will be rationed. And when there is rationing, there are shortages. In Canada, for basic health care, you have to wait weeks and sometimes months. In Britain, the nationalized health service will not pay for dialysis for anyone over 60. If you are over 60 and need dialysis, you either pay for it yourself or you are rationed to death. Literally! This is coming to America. In some third world countries, electricity is only available for certain hours a day. This is coming to America.

Soon, third world conditions will be in a neighborhood near you.