Wisconsin senator Rob Johnson is tired of hearing the pile on for big government. He has decided to start making videos that illustrate how government interference has hurt average Americans.
Here’s a clip:
It’s about time our side started playing offense, not defense. Let’s get back to the attitude Reagan had. “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Here’s Senator Johnson’s clip:
With O, it’s all about the I.
The Reagan coalition reported:
At Senator Inouye’s funeral, Obama took the time to tell his life story. He talked about how the Senator was his own and how his family voted. He reminds us about his childhood in Hawaii even though he spent a significant amount of his youth in Indonesia.
Is anyone surprised?
Here’s a clip:
A lot of people are anguishing whether Mitt Romney will begin delivering broadsides against Barack Obama.
Mitt certainly didn’t hold back against his fellow Republicans. In the primaries, he hit them all hard, especially Gingrich and Santorum, until they were out of the way. Last week when Romney was vacationing much of the conservative media began criticizing him for his tepid responses to the ruling on Obamacare, Bain capital attacks and overseas financial accounts. I listened as Fox News, the Wall St. Journal, Bill Cristal, Laura Ingraham, and about every talk radio host lambasted him.
Is Romney being lax? This morning Ace of Spades noted:
In a conference call Monday morning, senior staff said Romney’s surrogates would stop shying away from the word “lie” in responding to Democrats’ attacks on his business record, and plan to go on TV to call Obama a “liar,” the source said.
“They are very fed up with these attacks,” said the source…
“The feeling was that nobody is watching this right now,” said the source. “They had a time frame to respond to the Bain attacks… But today the counterattack with the surrogates is going to begin.”
He continues, reflecting that the Reagan/Carter election polls which showed Carter ahead for a long time, were suspect. Ace also comments:
But what if the country were doing well under Carter, and Reagan turned in the same charming, reassuring debate performance? Would the debate have turned the election then?
This gets to my point about underlying factors being crucial, and nearly determinative, to predicting election outcomes.
Yes, voters may have seized upon Reagan’s debate performance as a reason to vote for him… but due to underlying factors (economy, hostage crisis) they were already looking for a reason to vote for him.
I’m not sure if his debate performance was a game-changer so much as a justification for people to do what they were already inclined to do.
When couples divorce, there’s usually some precipitating event — a singular event — which spurs the actual decision. “The last straw,” as they say. But the last straw was the last straw only because there were so many hundreds of straws before that one.
I believe in the concept of preference cascades and tipping points. I think the country is poised for a preference cascade; I think most undecided voters are looking for a reason to vote against Obama.
Whether it’s a debate, or some Obama gaffe, or a charming Romney appearance on some news show, or a global depression… When you’re looking for an excuse, you’ll eventually find one.
Obama usually gets 46-48% support, in polls. But I consider 5-8% of that support either nominal (I’m saying I support him, but I really don’t) or extraordinarily fragile (I’ll give him one last chance).
It’s an unhappy marriage. The public is very disappointed in Obama, and by the all gods of Hyboria, is Obama disappointed right back at a public too stupid to understand his awesomeness.
Everyone’s looking for an excuse to get out of this unhappy arrangement. Including, I think, in his heart of hearts, Barack Obama.
They’ll find that excuse. I don’t know what it’ll end up being, but they will find it.
And then, in 20 years, the Story of the election will be “Oh right, Romney put the election away when he picked [Insert Candidate Name Here] as Vice President.”
But that won’t be the truth of it. The election was actually all but decided when the third sub-100,000 jobs report came down, way back in early July.
Many times elections hinge on one comment that rubs the public the wrong way. Or an unforeseen event. Sometimes a man gets elected president that no one even particularly likes (think Nixon in 1968). It’s still too early to tell in my opinion.
If Romney were way ahead in the polls right now, it still wouldn’t be much comfort. Leads can collapse and often do. Think of the Kentucky Derby. The favorite rarely wins and the one out front at the start usually finishes way behind the others.
One of the tactics Obama and the media will employ is to discourage us. They will tell us Obama is ahead and make it look desolate for the Republicans. We can’t believe this. It’s not over until election night. Well, hopefully election night.
Barack Obama has decided he had a role in American history. Not just has, but had.
True, he made history by being the first black man elected president. Apparently this is not enough for him if the White House website is any clue. His sycophantic trolls have decided to go back in American history, rewrite it and insert him in every administration from Calvin Coolidge onward. At whitehouse.gov his minions have taken the biographies of presidents to make them reflect each one’s historic prelude to the Obama administration.
There are bullet points that “explicitly outline the various history making torches the president is carrying,” says the New York Post. “Obama popped up in every single presidential biography since Coolidge, adding fun facts about his efforts to one-up our previous commanders-in-chief,” they write. “Some examples:
* “On Feb. 22, 1924, Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission. President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.”
* “In a 1946 letter to the National Urban League, President Truman wrote that the government has ‘an obligation to see that the civil rights of every citizen are fully and equally protected.’ He ended racial segregation in civil service and the armed forces in 1948. Today, the Obama administration continues to strive toward upholding the civil rights of its citizens, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, allowing people of all sexual orientations to serve openly in our armed forces.”
* “President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965 — providing millions of elderly health-care stability. President Obama’s historic health-care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, strengthens Medicare, offers eligible seniors a range of preventive services with no cost-sharing, and provides discounts on drugs when in the coverage gap known as the ‘donut hole.’ ”
* “On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today, the Obama administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations.”
* “In a June 28, 1985 speech, Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.”
Modest, isn’t he?
But why stop there? O’s impact is much more long ranging and historical than these. Might I suggest:
In 1789 the French people stormed the Bastille. They’d had enough of oppression by the upper classes and went for liberty, equality and fraternity. Today the efforts to make sure no one has more money than anyone else have been continued by the Obama administration in their constant class warfare rhetoric. Occupy Wall Street follows this tradition of blaming the rich for every problem you have.
When Obama’s parents joined the march in Selma in the sixties, they were joining a burgeoning group of Americans concerned about civil rights. President Obama has continued their work by admitting that he’s for gay marriage. Sure, he might not start any reforms in that area, but then again, we’re not sure any relative of his marched in Selma. Except, perhaps, virtually with a time machine.
Don’t forget the O.J. Simpson trial. He was found not guilty in 1995 and today, Obama’s Justice Department under Eric Holder is continuing the practice of ignoring all evidence if there is a racial component to the crime. For instance, the Black Panthers intimidating voters outside a polling place in Philadelphia in the 2008 election were released from the bondage of prejudice even though the evidence – and their billy clubs – showed they weren’t there to offer cookies to skeptical white elderly voters.
And, in 1848 when Karl Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto urging a classless society, he obviously worried about equal health care rights for the proletariat. President Obama has continued this struggle by passing the Affordable Care Act. Now the proletariat can have equal, yet terrible, medical care at a very high price to all. Marx would be proud.
Yes, I don’t know why Team Obama stopped with just American history. He’s been on the forefront of international history, too. And why stop there? Surely the Ten Commandments need some updating. As Obama found the Constitution a source of negative rights and would like to add positive ones such as the right to free health care and the right to unionize, he probably thinks similarly about the Ten Commandments.
After all, he has his own temples like the convention one in Denver and his own altars. The media pays homage to him faithfully every day.
God’s been around, well, forever, and he’s not with the times. He could use some updating. And BO is just the one who’d like to help Him.
Midtown has a Democrat as our representative on the Memphis City Council, but he is a Democrat who gets it when it comes to property taxes.
In today’s Commercial Appeal, Strickland pens an op ed entitled “Memphis can’t afford a property tax hike.” How right he is, in both senses of the word. He points out that Memphians pay the highest property taxes in the state. “Our rate is 30 percent higher than Germantown’s, 75 percent higher than Nashville’s, and 235 percent higher than the rate in Somerville in Fayette County.
“The owner of a $150,000 house in Memphis pays $2,703 a year in taxes. If you move about 25 miles east of Cordova to Somerville, you will pay only $806 in taxes for a house of the same value.” And they want to raise it.
Mayor A C Wharton’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins in July, which the City Council will review over the next six weeks, would be the largest budget in the history of Memphis if it is passed as the mayor presented it — $628.3 million. It is $22 million higher than the current year’s budget.
“In 2008, over my objections, the council greatly increased city government spending to $616 million. And despite the fact that the administration claims the mayor’s budget proposal includes $24 million in cuts, the amount spent in operating city government has increased. Any money saved with reductions in one part of city government is spent on a program or job in another area of City Hall.
“If the council approves the mayor’s proposed 47-cent one-year increase in the tax rate, Memphis’ tax rate for the coming fiscal year will be 38 percent higher than Germantown’s, 86 percent higher than Nashville’s and 257 percent higher than Somerville’s. For the $150,000 house, the Memphis owner will pay approximately $2,900 compared to an owner in Nashville paying $1,500. Almost twice as much.”
Strickland sees that the end result of all of this is an exodus to Mississippi and our rural environs. We can’t sustain the loss of so many citizens and operate Memphis efficiently.
I can add that I don’t see, ethically, why a home owner should pay for his home once and then, through property taxes, pay for it again. That is a gouging our founding fathers would rail against.
Strickland is taking a very Reagan approach to the issue against his fellow Democrats. I agree with him; “the future of Memphis rests upon our (the council’s) decisions.” If they allow greed or greedy constituents to win the tax fight we will all lose.
Ann Coulter was speaking at a Republican Lincoln Day Dinner and in less than three minutes managed to slam Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Republicans in general and Fox News.
Additionally she seems to have forgotten what took place in the Democrat presidential primaries in 2008.
She is so in the tank for Mitt Romney she has forgotten Reagan’s commandment not to knock other Republicans.
Mark Levin slaps her down:
From Shelby GOP comes an explanation of how the presidential primary will work.
Your first vote is for a Presidential Preference, or who you want to be the Republican nominee for President. It is the results of this vote that is used to determine how many delegates each Presidential candidate gets out of Tennessee.
Some states are “Winner-take-all”, but Tennessee’s delegates are allocated proportionally (unless one candidate were to get 2/3rds of the vote) so several candidates are likely to receive statewide delegates or delegates in any of our 9 Congressional Districts. A Presidential candidate must get at least 20% of the vote in either jurisdiction in order to get any delegates.
Here is an example using some previous Republican Presidents:
Let’s say the statewide result were something like this:
Tennessee Republican Primary – Statewide vote
Lincoln, Abraham 30%
Reagan, Ronald: 28%
Eisenhower, Dwight 22%
Ford, Gerald 15%
Hoover, Herbert 6%Ford and Hoover would not receive any delegates because they did not meet the 20% threshold. Delegates would be allocated based on the votes recieved by Lincoln, Reagan, and Eisenhower. Since 12 delegates are available statewide,
6 delegate spots are for Lincoln
5 delegate spots are for Reagan
3 delegatee spots are for EisenhowerEach Congressional District also elects 3 delegates. Essentially the first place winner gets two and the second place finisher in that district gets one delegate spot.
Tennessee Republican Primary -
9th District ResultsOnly
Eisenhower, Dwight 36%
Reagan, Ronald: 31%
Lincoln, Abraham 22%
Ford, Gerald 8%
Hoover, Herbert 3%Additionally, Fourteen delegates are chosen by the Tennessee Republican Party’s State Executive Committee and the three RNC members (our State Chairwoman, National Committeeman and Committeewoman) also attend the convention as delegates. These delegates are pledged to a candidate and are based on the statewide results, so you don’t have to worry about them on your ballot. This will make a total of fifty-eight Tennesseans that will represent all Tennessee Republicans at the National Convention in Tampa.
Voting for DelegatesAfter you have chosen your Presidential preference, the Republican Party lets the voters decide which individuals get to represent their favored candidate at the Convention.
Essentially, delegates pledged to each Presidential candidate are running against one another in order to get a ticket to represent their man at the Convention. If, using the above example, Lincoln gets 5 statewide delegate spots, the top 5 vote-getting delegate candidates pledged to him will go to the convention.
Do I have to bother voting for delegates at all?
You do not have to vote for any delegates in order for your Presidential Preference to count.
What if my Presidential preference doesn’t have 12 statewide delegates (or 3 Congressional district delegates) to vote for?
You can just vote for the ones that are there, or vote for delegates for other Presidential candidates. It will not hurt your Presidential preference.
Can I vote for delegates for other Presidential candidates?
You have the option to vote for delegates who are pledged to candidates other than your own. Using the example above, lets say you are a Reagan supporter but you have a friend from church who is running as a delegate pledged to Lincoln. You can vote for Reagan, which helps him get more delegate spots, and vote for your friend under “Delegates pledged to Abraham Lincoln” to help him/her win the right to represent Lincoln at the Convention.
From Legal Insurrection blog on Romney:
We are on a path to nominate someone who campaigned against Reagan, campaigned against the Contract with America, campaigned against those who are pro-Life, campaigned against 2d Amendment rights, campaigned against conservatism, and designed and enacted the precursor to Obamacare from which he will not back away.
News junkies know that it’s not always what is reported that is noteworthy. Sometimes what isn’t shown is more important.
Case in point, Obama’s 60 Minutes interview last Sunday. What they didn’t include in their segment was what Obama said about himself. That was left on the cutting room floor.
Steve Kroft asked him what he would “consider your major accomplishments? What have you accomplished?”
Obama replied, “I’ve got five more years of stuff to do. But not only saving this country from a great depression. Not only saving the auto industry. But putting in place a system in which we’re gonna start lowering health care costs and you’re never gonna go bankrupt because you get sick or somebody in your family gets sick. Making sure that we have reformed the financial system, so we never again have taxpayer funded bailouts, and the system is more stable and secure. Making sure that we’ve got millions of kids out here who are able to go to college because we’ve expanded student loans and made college more affordable. Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Decimating al Qaeda, including Bin Laden being taken off the field. Restoring America’s respect around the world.
“The issue is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R. and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.”
Yes, the current resident of the White House considers himself on the level of F.D.R. and Lincoln. I guess what George Washington did in his first years doesn’t measure up to Barry’s level of competence. Reagan? I guess his years of prosperity and curbing the power of the Soviet Union was slackard, too.
Johnson? Really? How’s that War on Poverty done? I believe we are in the same state or worse than when he began pouring money down that rat hole.
Evidently CBS News still has a few vestiges of decency left them to ax this part of the interview. Even they couldn’t swallow this pant load.
“I can’t think of a significant Republican primary that was lost over immigration. McCain, Bush, Bush and Reagan were all nominated with a position left of the alleged consensus of the party,” writes New Media strategist Soren Dayton at Politico’s Arena.