RNC Convention Excellent

Lordy, get me out of here!

Best Quotes from the RNC Convention

For the next week until the end of the DNC convention I will run a quote or two from the RNC.  I may even compare a DNC quote with an RNC quote

“Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn’t put his arm around him and say ‘let me take care of you.’” –- Ted Cruz.

“And on a personal note – a little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham – the most segregated big city in America – her parents can’t take her to a movie theater or a restaurant – but they make her believe that even though she can’t have a hamburger at the Woolworth’s lunch counter – she can be President of the United States and she becomes the Secretary of State. Yes, America has a way of making the impossible seem inevitable in retrospect. But of course it has never been inevitable – it has taken leadership, courage and an unwavering faith in our values.” — Condi Rice

  

Some thoughts on the RNC Convention

Seeing the speakers and the Romney Ryan team at the RNC I am reminded of the business saying that first rate people hire first rate people.  Second rate people hire third rate people.  Compare Paul Ryan with Joe Biden.  

I thought the convention was terrific.  We saw a big and diverse GOP with stories about success with the explanation “this is America.”  It seems the GOP has a much bigger and more diverse bench, one that comes from talent, not affirmative action. 

   

The Democrats have a hard act to follow.  The Republicans focused on success, the economy, jobs, taxes and spending.  We heard a lot of complaints from DNC people about the negativity, but this appears to be more of an inoculation to protect themselves from criticism when them come forward trying to convince the American people that to paraphrase Marco Rubio when he said the President wasn’t a bad man but a bad president, that in fact, Mitt Romney is the devil on earth.   

The other point you heard from the left was there wasn’t enough details of the plans the GOP had to address the economy, jobs, taxes and spending.  It will be interesting to see what kind of specific we will hear from Mr. Obama.  

I with the majority of Americans watched the convention on FNC.  I did go over to CNN and MSNBC to see what their commentators had to say between speakers.  MSNBC is fantasyland for liberals.  Any connection with the truth seems to be purely coincidental.  

I thought Clint Eastwood was too slow but he did level what was probably the most criticism of President Obama.  The empty chair with a teleprompter was very clever. And it appears the White House's thin skinned occupant had to answer it.

Does seem like something a confident candidate would do

To which critics with Photoshop answered his answer.

The Best and Worst at the RNC Convention

Who do you think gave the best speech?  What was the best joke?  Who was the worst gate crasher or the worst sport?  Read about it here.

Peggy Noonan chimes in with her views of the Convention.  It’s interesting to see what she saw as the game changer. 

It’s official.  Bush is to blame

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, was stumped this afternoon when ABC’s Jake Tapper questioned him about a new study that showed that under Obama household median annual incomes have fallen 4.8% since the recession technically ended in 2009.

Carney weaved in and out over several vague platitudes, blaming the previous administration for plunging the economy into a recession.

It appears Romney is to blame here

President Obama announce he will go to New Orleans on Monday after Romney announced he was going there today.  

“You didn’t build that”

Many moons ago, I spent a couple of years in a fiction-writing program at a local university. I never finished the novel I aspired to write, but I did learn some valuable lessons. The most important: “It doesn’t matter what you meant. What matters is what you conveyed.”

Great New Crossroad’s Ad

Faded pictures on the wall.

Fact checkers for Obama

It seems the official fact checkers can’t tell the difference between a fact and something they don’t like. 

AP found Ryan’s Janesville GM plant story to be false saying the plant was shut down in December 2008, even though that contradicts AP’s story of the plant’s shutdown in April 2009.  What the old saying?  Is AP lying now or were they lying then? 

In the meantime, this article finds PolitiFact to be high on Political but very iffy on facts. 

Liberal film critic Roger Ebert thinks Clint Eastwood was sad and pathetic

Well it does take one to know one.

Others have different opinions.

RNC Protests

Despite what little attention they got, they weren’t young, they weren’t many, and they weren’t effective.

Obama: When you need help who should you turn to?

Campaigning at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio last week, President Obama raised quite eloquently -- okay, succinctly -- the question of where one should turn for help in pursuing one's happiness.  The answer: government,"applause"; family, "booo."

This may explain why unmarried women are strong supporters of the Democrats while married women are strong supporters of the Republicans (they have their families to take care of).

Obama:  President or King

We have seen over the past 3 ½ years an embolden President ignore the Constitution and do more and more questionable things by executive fiat.  It has become epidemic this election year as he has given more goodies to the groups he’s counting on for their votes.  From free birth control, to green cards, to supporting gay marriage Obama seeks to gain support by tearing us apart.  

Speaking of Dog Whistles

The left seems to think everything can be construed as a hidden racial slur including the words “Chicago” and “golf.”  So how do they react when one of their own crosses the line? 

Bush and other Progressive nightmares

Rethinking George Bush?

Do you miss him yet? It appears the answer more and more is yes.

Former president George W. Bush left office with the lowest approval
ratings since Richard Nixon. So, for nearly two years, Pres. Barack Obama won
easy applause by prefacing almost every speech on his economic policies with a
“Bush did it” put-down.

But suddenly Bush seems okay. Last week, the president did the
unthinkable: He praised Bush for his past efforts to reach out to Muslims. Vice
President Joe Biden went further and blurted out, “Mr. Bush deserves a lot of
credit.” Biden topped that off with, “Mr. President, thank you.”
What’s going on?

For one thing, recent polls show an astounding rebound in the
former president’s favorability — to the extent that in the bellwether state of
Ohio, voters would rather still have Bush as president than have Obama by a
50–42 margin. Nationwide, Obama’s approval ratings continue to sink to near 40
percent — a nadir that it took years for Bush to reach. IT HAS BECOME BETTER POLITICS TO PRAISE BUSH THAN TO BURY HIM.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/246688/rethinking-george-bush-victor-davis-hanson


It’s the spending, Stupid

When Bill Clinton was running for the Presidency, he focused his campaign with a sign that hung in his office, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Unfortunately for the Democrats, the man who should be reading the “It’s the spending, stupid” is not up for reelection and he doesn’t seem to “get it.”

Look at the astonishing numbers in the Rasmussen poll released last
week. Nearly seven in 10 respondents (68%) want a smaller government, lower
taxes and fewer services. The party breakdown: GOP, 88%; Democrats, 44%; and Other, 74%. In short, the independent voters who decide national elections have
moved into the anti-spending column. I don't think they'll leave any time soon.

In a note on last week's poll, Rasmussen points out that the only
time it recorded a higher shrink-the-government number, at 70%, was in August
2006. That was just ahead of the famous off-year election in which Republican
voters withheld support for their party's free-spending members in
Congress

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703743504575493953591176476.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

When Progressives attack

Here’s a tale that actually happened in this country. It is a story of crime and punishment

With his responsibilities as a father of four, Maged should have shunned a
life of crime. Instead, he advertised his criminal activity with a placard in
his shop window, promising to press men's suits for 35 cents. This he did, even
though President Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers, who knew an amazing number of things -- his economic aides were not called a "Brains Trust" for nothing -- knew that the proper price for pressing a man's suit was 40 cents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091505090.html

More bad news

UCLA Anderson Forecast predicts 'very sluggish growth' accompanied by high unemployment
What no recovery in time for the 2010 elections? Not good news if you are a Democrat.
California's recovery will be weaker than rest of nation's

In its third quarterly report of 2010, the UCLA Anderson Forecast predicts
"very sluggish growth" for the foreseeable future as the U.S. economy continues
to recover from the recession. As for the California economy, the state is
looking at a difficult period ahead as it attempts to regenerate not only the
1.3 million jobs lost during the recession but also create additional jobs
needed for new entrants into the job market over the past two-and-a-half
years.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-anderson-forecast-predicts-171752.aspx

Tolerance – Liberal style

A Michigan couple is crying unsportsmanlike conduct after their
6-year-old daughter was removed from a flag football
cheerleading team because they complained that one of the team's chants was too
risque.

"Our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we shake our booties
from left to right."But instead of seeing their concerns with the cheer
resolved, the Tesches saw their little girl booted from the team.

Don’t you just love the tolerant left?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/15/year-old-girl-removed-cheerleading-team-complaint/


Tax cuts for the Wealthy

Washington (CNN) – Thirty-one House Democrats, most of whom face tough
re-election bids this fall, have signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging them to extend expiring tax breaks for all income levels, including the wealthy.

The letter–written by Utah Rep. Jim Matheson, Illinois Rep. Melissa Bean, Virginia Rep. Glenn Nye and Michigan Rep. Gary Peters–states that after listening to economists, small businesses and families over recent weeks they are concerned that "raising any taxes right now could negatively impact economic growth."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/15/more-democrats-break-with-obama-on-tax-cuts/

I believe the phenomena you are seeing is the breaking of ranks which normally is followed by complete disarray.

Obama and other subjects that drag down the Democrats

Obama’s record on Civil Liberties

So you were expecting a Chicago machine politician to show an enthusiasm for civil liberties?
This keeps happening. Ah, but remember when you now-disappointed Obama supporters were lecturing us about the fierce moral urgency of change? With such overbearing self-righteousness? Even as you resolutely failed to look at what was going on, or to inquire into what Obama was actually like?

Obama campaigned on the promise to end torture and shut down the gulag, but
the infamous prison camp at Guantanamo remains, trials for accused terrorists
have yet to be conducted and the "extraordinary renditions" reportedly continue.
(We don't know for sure because they're done in secret.) Equally troubling, the
White House reportedly has authorized U.S. intelligence agencies to kill Anwar
Awlaki, an Islamic clergyman turned jihadist who was born and raised in the U.S.
and is now hiding in Yemen. The summary execution of a U.S. citizen is something not even Bush and Cheney authorized.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0911-rutten-20100911,0,4174733.column

It’s the other guys fault

Another example of Barry (not my fault) Obama attacking the rule of law.

'As a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health
care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs—we knew that," President
Obama said at his press conference Friday in response to a question about rising
health spending.

That wasn't how he sold the plan, but, anyway, that's a truism.
Here's another: The White House was always going to blame insurance companies
for any cost increases, even when its own policies cause them.

Witness Kathleen Sebelius's Thursday letter to America's Health
Insurance Plans, the industry trade group—a thuggish message even by her
standards. The Health and Human Services secretary wrote that some insurers have been attributing part of their 2011 premium increases to ObamaCare and warned that "there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and
unjustified rate increases."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597204575483900330728436.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

As Ohio goes…

Things not looking good for the Democrats

But some in the invited audience, handpicked by Democratic state
officials, were unconvinced. Jackie Capasso, 50, works in the accounting
department of a manufacturing facility outside Cleveland that remains open but
has downsized significantly and went through a closure scare. Capasso said she
has never voted for a Republican for president and normally votes for Democratic
candidates. But not this year.

Capasso said she is expecting to vote for former Republican congressman John Kasich for governor over Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland.
"We've lost way too many jobs, and whether it's right or wrong he's going to
take the fall for it," Capasso said of Strickland.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/12/as-ohio-goes-so-go-the-midterms-and-possibly-2012/?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C170164

The Rule of Law Suffers Another Blow from the DOJ

A lawless Justice Department?

I have written extensively in many outlets including Pajamas Media
about the outright lawlessness emanating from the Civil Rights Division under
Eric Holder’s leadership at the Justice Department. Whether it involves
rewriting military voter protections, refusing to sue defendants because of
their race, or ignoring the Motor Voter requirements, the rule of law is
endangered by this DOJ. The latest example may be the Division’s defense of a
lawsuit filed by Shelby County, Alabama, challenging the constitutionality of
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-rule-of-law-suffers-another-blow-from-the-doj/


Night night, sleep tight, “Don’t let the bed bugs bite.”

I focus the discussion on the bigger issue of malaria, but bed bugs were obliterated by DDT early last Century.

CHURCHVILLE, VA—3 Billion and Counting is a new documentary film on the
awful human cost of banning DDT. The film’s producer, medical doctor Rutledge
Taylor, circled the tropical world, finding that malaria has claimed some three
billion human lives throughout history—and the toll of needless deaths is
continuing to mount by perhaps 1.5 million per year.Moreover, it permanently
debilitates millions more. Taylor says malaria treatment is a “tangle of red
tape, misguided prevention policies and treatment that is ineffective in the
face of continual re-infection.” Above all, he found “willful deafness to the
pleas of local populations to help them eradicate the mosquitoes that deliver
the deadly cargo.” (Dennis Avery, CFP)

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/27591

What did Obama actually inherit from Bush?

This is a good article. I recommend it because I absolutely agree with it from the question of who is responsible for deficits or surpluses to the root cause of the financial crisis.

President Barack Obama boldly proclaims, “The buck stops here!” But,
whenever his policies are criticized, he acts as if the buck stopped with George
W. Bush.

The party line that we are likely to be hearing from now until the
November elections is that Obama “inherited” the big federal budget deficits and
that he has to “clean up the mess” left in the economy by the Republicans. This
may convince those who want to be convinced, but it will not stand up under
scrutiny.

No President of the United States can create either a budget
deficit or a budget surplus. All spending bills originate in the House of
Representatives and all taxes are voted into law by Congress.

http://www.gastongazette.com/articles/obama-50703-mess-actually.html

British teen, Luke Angel, banned from United States for life for offensive e-mail to President Obama

Drunk-dialing can get you in trouble with your girlfriend.

Drunk e-mailing the President of the United States, however, can
get you banned from the country - permanently.

That's what apparently happened to Luke Angel, a British teen who
sent a curse-laden message to the White House directed at President
Obama.

"The individual had sent an email to the White House which was full
of abusive and threatening language," a police spokesperson told the British
newspaper, Bedfordshire. On Sunday, Officers visited Angel at his home in Silsoe, a town in Bedfordshire, England, during which time the teen admitted to sending the
e-mail, although he couldn't remember what he wrote.

"I don't remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk," he told The Sun. "But I think I called Barack Obama a pr---. It was silly - the sort of thing you do when you're a teenager and have had a few."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/09/13/2010-09-13_british_teen_luke_angel_banned_from_united_states_for_life_for_offensive_email_t.html#ixzz0zR9aGTvl

Can't we just blame Bush?

If it’s Obama’s economy, why does he keep blaming Bush?

Last year, President Obama took ownership of the economy. So why do we keep hearing Bush's name in all his speeches?

During a July 14, 2009, address in Warren, Mich., Obama said, “Now, my
administration has a job to do, as well, and that job is to get this economy
back on its feet. That's my job. And it’s a job I gladly accept. I love these
folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, ‘Well, this is
Obama’s economy.’ That’s fine. Give it to me. My job is to solve
problems, not to stand on the sidelines and carp and gripe.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/115271-a-year-after-claiming-the-economy-his-own-obama-points-finger-




'Extreme' Democrats will pay the price in November

Why is tough to be a democrat this year.

Democrats head into the midterm elections facing a tidal wave
of bad news and ominous portents.

In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, two thirds believe the economy has yet to hit bottom and two thirds of those would prefer a Republican Congress. Sixty percent said the performance of the current Congress, dominated by Democrats, was below average or one of the worst. The Obama administration scored poorly on all the major issues — health care, the war in Afghanistan, the economy and the budget deficit.

For Democrats, the picture is similarly gloomy in other polls,
which consistently show the Republicans holding a solid advantage on intensity.
Real Clear Politics, which compiles an average of major surveys, said the GOP edge on the generic congressional ballot was 6.4 percent, a new high.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/21/2165581/extreme-democrats-will-pay-the.html#ixzz0xLHbr0ZL


Obamacare a Disaster?

Forthcoming for public release shortly will be my extensive study of
the Obamacare legislation, "The Obamacare Disaster: An Appraisal of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act" (Heartland Policy StudyNo. 128, The
Heartland Institute, August 2010), available shortly at the Heartland Institute website. Following Nancy Pelosi's dictum that we will have to pass it first to know
what's in it.


The bottom line is that you will lose your health care under this
legislation, if not your job, your country as they bankrupt America, and maybe
ultimately your life or the life of a loved one.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/08/18/the-obamacare-disaster

It would be illegal if they decided to pass a law to make it illegal

From today’s NYT editorial on the Justice Department’s decision not to bring charges against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay comes this gem:

Mr. DeLay, the Texas Republican who had been the House majority leader, crowed that he had been “found innocent.” But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.

Well, yes. That’s the way it works.

http://volokh.com/

Cameron backs out of a Climate Debate.

After issuing a challenge to global warming skeptics saying "I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads." It appears Gary Cooper has snuck out of town. Cameron has called off a scheduled debate.

ASPEN COLORADO: Hollywood director James Cameron challenged three high
profile global warming skeptics to a public debate at a global warming and
energy conference. But Cameron backed out of the debate at the last minute after
environmentalists "came out of the woodwork" to warn him not to engage in a
debate with skeptics because it was not in his best interest.

Cameron challenged Andrew Breitbart, Climate Depot's Marc Morano and
filmmaker Ann McElhinney of 'Not Evil Just Wrong.' The debate was already in the
program for the Aspen American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) summit. The website program described the agreed to debate as “AREDAY Climate Change
Debate: Reality or Fiction?"

After setting up the public global warming debate, Cameron
and his negotiator then changed formats multiple times and initially
said it would be open to the media and then said he would only participate if it
was private with no recording devices. The skeptics agreed to all the changes.
According to AREDAY organizers, activist Joseph Romm of Climate Progress urged Cameron not to go ahead with the debate as well.

Actually I agree with Romm and the others who urged Cameron not to debate. Warmists don't do well in debates. In fact it is quite a lot easier to poke holes in their case than it is to make their case. Also, Hollywood types are not scientist, engineers or in the case of Cameron even a college graduate.

Racism

Racism?

Jon Stewart can be very funny. Here is a exerpt where he makes fun of the Democrats and the race card. It seems the race card has limits that have been reached. http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/08/11/jon-stewart-the-race-card-is-maxed-out/

And Jonah Goldberg dissects what all of this means. His conclusion is

And that's what Waters and Rangel are doing now, the former explicitly, the
latter implicitly. Both are demanding an immediate trial, before the November
elections, which would hammer even more nails into the Democratic coffin. In
effect, they're saying, "Let us off the hook or we'll take you all down with us in a racial spectacle."

http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2010/08/13/race-card_payment_coming_due/page/full

Grim Voter Mood Turns Grimmer

As in recent polls, Americans are split on President Barack Obama's job
performance, with 47% approving and 48% disapproving. But a majority disapproves of his performance on the economy. And six in 10, including 83%
of independents and a quarter of Democrats, say they are only somewhat or not at all confident that Mr. Obama has the right policies to improve it.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704901104575423674269169684.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

Democrats role in Financial meltdown

We keep hearing from Barack Obama that the Republican drove us into a ditch. It turns out the Republicans had a chauffer with the car they were in, and his name was Barnie Frank.

As Stuart Taylor put it in 2008:

The pretense of many Democrats that this crisis is
altogether a Republican creation is simplistic and dangerous. It is simplistic
because Democrats have been a big part of the problem, in part
by supporting governmental distortions of the marketplace through
mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose reckless lending
practices necessitated a $200 billion government rescue [in September 2008]. ... Fannie and Freddie appear to have played a major role in causing the
current crisis, in part because their quasi-governmental status
violated basic principles of a healthy free enterprise system by allowing them
to privatize profit while socializing risk.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/ini-bush-vobama-ibush-wins-in-a-rout-15497

Time for Obama to take Responsibility

Here's a message from the voters to President Obama, "Stop blaming Bush." It appears even the members of the Democrat party feel it's time to abandoned this tactic.

Despite more voters faulting former President Bush's policies for the country's economic woes, most American voters think it is time for President Obama to stop blaming Bush.

Nearly half of voters — 47 percent — think Bush's policies are mostly to blame for the economic difficulties the country is having today, compared to 32 percent who think Obama's policies are to blame.

Even so, fully 76 percent of voters think it is time for the Obama administration to start taking responsibility for the condition of the economy. That's more than four times as many as think it is right to continue to place the blame on Bush (18 percent).

A majority of Democrats, who overwhelmingly think Bush is responsible for the economy (82 percent), think it is time for Obama to quit blaming Bush (57 percent).

Overall, 55 percent of those who think Bush's policies are to blame think it's time for Obama to take responsibility

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/12/fox-news-poll-percent-say-time-obama-responsibility/

10 Reasons Obama’s Presidency is in freefall

Can it get any worse for President Obama? Undoubtedly yes. Here are 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in serious trouble, and why its prospects are unlikely to improve between now and the November mid-terms.

1. The Obama presidency is out of touch with the American people

Read about all 10 at:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100050412/the-stunning-decline-of-barack-obama-10-key-reasons-why-the-obama-presidency-is-in-meltdown/

Top Ten Things Obama should write on his palm

When the left saw the writing on Sarah Palin's hand, they went nuts. To them it showed she was stupid. Nothing was said about BHO's habit of reading not notes but a script everytime he wanted to say something. But a script sometimes isn't enough. You need to have note for things you have trouble remembering or things that are just too important to forget.

With this in mind I've put together a top 10 list of things President Obama should write on the palm of his hand.

10. It's the economy, stupid.
9. Do not use the teleprompter in grade schools
8. Keep head level. The chin up looks too much like Mussolini.
7. Do not laugh when you tell reporters you are not an ideologue.
6. There are 50 states, not 57.

Now for the top five.

5. I am focused solely on jobs (note--try not to laugh).
4. It's now insurance reform not healthcare reform.
3. Put hand over heart during National Anthem.
2. Core-man not Corpse-man

And the number one note that Obama should write on his hand.

1. Blame Bush!