Lightning round …

The other day a good friend asked why I hadn’t written anything recently.

I told him there were just too many crazy things to choose from … it’s hard to pick a target. 

With Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats in general, Obama, Oprah, the Knock-Out Game, Census Bureau election hijinks, Martin Bashir and Sarah Palin, and the ObamaCare ads … there’s just an embarrassment of riches to work with. 

Rather than be the mule who starved between two bales of hay, here’s some quick hits …

Harry Reid

I can’t stand this insincere, lying, hypocritical pipsqueak.  He’s Obama’s Renfield (look it up) willing to do or say anything in the service of his master.  He revels in using the implied authority of his master to punish and humiliate his opponents.  Harry is what often happens when someone everybody always made fun of finally gets some power; he gleefully abuses it.  He’s vindictive, short-sighted and a downright nasty piece of work. 

His lasting legacy will be for going nuclear by recently overturning a centuries-old Senate tradition that protected the rights of the minority party from being run over by a majority party.  BTW, he had strongly defended that tradition when Democrats weren’t in control of the Senate.  This single move alone will increase polarization and result in even greater gridlock. 

Does Harry care?  Nope.  Just following orders …

Nancy Pelosi

The delusional Queen of the intellectually and ethically challenged, Nancy proved how completely nuts she really is in a recent interview with David Gregory.  When confronted with video of her own statements about ObamaCare, since unequivocally proven false, she continued to claim that what she said in those clips was true.  Gregory isn’t exactly a Republican shill by any means, so she was obviously caught off guard and seemed to get wackier and blinkier as the interview went on. 

Dennis Miller once said that she was so bat-shit crazy that he swore she must sleep upside down.   I agree.  Remember, she’s the one who said that the House had to pass the ObamaCare bill to learn what was in it.  Yep, that’s our Nancy …. 

Democrats in general

ObamaCare is a disaster.  When Obama said “If you like your plan you can keep it” and that if you liked your doctor you could keep them, too, he lied.  Plain and simple.  He lied.  Bald-faced and with not a single caveat.  He even punctuated those lies with “period.”  He knew he was lying at the time.  He knew that people wouldn’t be able to keep their plans, nor their doctors. 

In fact, the Democrats had to vote on a specific bill that very clearly stated that those existing plans must be cancelled by the insurance companies.  They also knew that people wouldn’t necessarily be able to keep their doctors either. 

So now they either claim they didn’t know – a convenient case of political amnesia – or that “technically” what they and Obama said was true.  They and Obama just weren’t as explicit or detailed as they probably should have been.  

More of them are sticking with the “technically” true argument these days.  They truly believe that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself. 

How delusional are they?  Well, after David Gregory eviscerated Pelosi recently on a Sunday talk show, the looney left blogs were full of praise for how Pelosi decisively debunked Gregory’s Republican talking points about ObamaCare.  And exactly what show were they watching? 

I’ve often said being a liberal Democrat is a form of mental illness.  This is more proof. 

Oprah

I admire how successful Oprah has become.  She’s so famous she only needs one name.  She’s made millions on her own merits, not because she’s black nor despite being black.  While she was skyrocketing to fame and fortune by attracting millions of loyal followers of all races, nobody ever cared about her race.  And they don’t care now. 

However, Oprah has now decided that she cares about race.  She thinks Obama gets a raw deal because of his race.  People don’t respect him as they should, simply because he’s black. 

Hello Oprah.  People don’t respect him because of what he’s done, not the color of his skin. 

He’s lied to the American people.  He’s abused the office of President.  He’s diminished the respect people have here and around the world for the Presidency by going back on his word and abandoning long-time allies.  He’s treated the Presidency as no more than a “cool job” with neat perks like rubbing elbows with celebrities and shopping trips to Europe for his family, rather than stepping up to what the job really entails.  As someone said, he likes being President; he just doesn’t like having to do the job. 

He’s an empty suit having the time of his life on what is the world’s most important stage.  The public doesn’t trust him.  World leaders don’t trust him.  Even politicians in his own party don’t trust him.

Note to Oprah:  It’s not because he’s black.  It’s because he’s deceitful and incompetent.    

Obama

I am both embarrassed and terrified by Obama.  

He is an insult to the high standards we should expect from someone who holds the most powerful office in the world.  With his waffling and “leading from behind” nonsense, he’s abdicated his role as leader of the free world.  He’s cutting deals with the enemies of our allies, and tossing those allies under the bus.  Nobody trusts his word.  Now Russia is more trusted; imagine that.

Truthfully, we can recover from all that.  We survived Carter, after all. 

What’s really scary is what Obama’s doing here at home.  The ObamaCare debacle and the food-stamp Presidency are small potatoes.  I suspect Obama – like many progressives since Woodrow Wilson – thinks our system of checks and balances is archaic and inefficient, and should be streamlined.  Everything he does is to diminish the power of the other two branches of government and increase the power of the Executive branch to near dictatorial status. 

This is unacceptable.  This is also unconstitutional. 

It’s now clear that he is trying to overthrow the structure of government outlined in the Constitution.  The result will be the culmination of the Progressive dream:  the creation of an enlightened ruling class unimpeded by the whims of a less enlightened populace.  This ruling class will make better, more informed choices for society because of its intellectual superiority.

If you don’t think that’s possible, consider the ever increasing power of Federal agencies these days.  Are they elected?  No.  The key people running these agencies are appointed to reflect the ideologies of the party in power.  So the rules they pass reflect the will of the Executive branch.  With the change in filibuster rules, the party in control of the White House and Senate can appoint whoever it wants to head these agencies. Now it can also close the loop by packing the courts who rule on the legality of the regulations they create.

Next, consider how Obama has already used Executive Orders to bypass Congress.  Consider how he’s decided that he has the power to determine what laws he will or won’t enforce, and what laws he can change any time he pleases.  Nobody is stopping him.  And every time he gets away with another of these power grabs, he’s setting precedent. 

Dangerous precedents are being set in stone.  The checks and balances are being knocked out, step by step.  It’s effectively a coup d’état if allowed to continue.   

If that doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what will. 

More to come …