Month: September 2011

Is obAMATEUR a liar or just bad at math?

tiredoflibbs36 Comments

obAMATEUR has been caught in a lie yet again.  A liar is a person who knowingly says false statements  if they know those statements to be untrue at the time they utter them.  This brings us to some usual class warfare screen from the obAMATEUR.  Was it ignorance (he has an adequate supply, after all) or was he lying.

On multiple occasions, the obAMATEUR has stated that he should not be paying a lower effective tax rate than a teacher.  Here’s just one specific example (among several):  At a recent town hall meeting in Mountain View, California, the obAMATEUR said, “Somebody who’s making $50,000 a year as a teacher shouldn’t be paying a higher effective tax rate than somebody like myself.”

That’s a pretty bold claim on the part of the obAMATEUR.  FactCheck.org did the math, and you don’t have to guess at what they found … obAMATEUR’s claim that he pays a lower tax rate than a teacher earning $50,000 a year is FALSE (not surprisingly).  Here are the details from FactCheck.org.

A single taxpayer with $50,000 of income would have paid 11.9% in federal income taxes for 2010, while the Obamas paid more than twice that rate — 25.3% (and higher rates than that in 2009 and 2008). And if the $50,000-a-year teacher were in Obama’s tax situation — supporting a spouse and two children — he or she would have paid no federal income taxes at all.

The outcome is the same whether we count payroll taxes or not, and even if we look at what the $50,000 earner will pay on 2011 income. Whatever the assumption, the rates Obama paid were higher — and usually much higher.

The obAMATEUR has made it crystal clear that his 2012 reelection campaign is going to be based on the exploitation of wealth envy.  He has and will continue to resort to flat-out lying in order to pander to the dumb-masses (liberal drones to you slow witted leftists) who don’t know any better.  The obAMATEUR is creating his own reality – a reality where the rich don’t pay their “fair share” and he pays taxes at a lower rate than middle-class Americans  (A reality where many liberal simple-minded drones reside – some of them post here).  None of his statments are true, yet he will continue to push these ideas until people actually believe that they are true.

Me personally, I will go with liar.  These statements are untrue, he knows them to be untrue, and he knows them to be untrue at the moment he makes them.  That makes him a liar.

The obAMATEUR’s own campaign team has acknowledged this strategy of focusing on wealth envy, because he has zero accomplishments when it comes to the economy (and most other aspects of his presidency).  His advisors say, “He needs to shift the focus from his stewardship of the economy to the stark choice confronting voters about the nation’s political leadership.”  Yep, he can’t run on “FOUR MORE YEARS” or “ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN WHEN I WAS ELECTED?”   So now jobs are no longer the focus for the obAMATEUR.  I guess he got tired of “not resting” until he fixed the economy and created the jobs he promised.  Screw jobs, because the obAMATEUR knows that he doesn’t know how to solve that problem.

Instead, let’s focus on his leadership (in reality the lack thereof).  An obAMATEUR campaign advisor says, “Most Americans are very concerned about the future and the direction we’re going to take.”  I don’t see how the obAMATEUR  administration thinks that this is going to work in their favor considering the latest Rasmussen polls show that just 17% of Americans say the country is heading in the right direction.

So what direction does the obAMATEUR want to take this country?  Toward a redistributive society where the government seizes money from the Haves and gives it to the Have-Nots; toward a society where political leaders, not the private sector, decide where new economic growth will and will not be, and where new jobs will be created and where they will be eliminated.  The LATimes reports, “Obama is tapping into resentment over the growing concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.”  They say this “helps the president forge an emotional connection with his base, especially minorities and working-class voters who have been falling behind.”

Does this re-election strategy inspire you to work hard or risk your savings to start the business of your dreams?  If the obAMATEUR manages to pull this off based on a re-election campaign of wealth envy, then the achievers in this country better bend over and grab their ankles.

Ethics Was Not A Favorite Subject of Obama’s

Matt Margolis34 Comments

It’s certainly not a favorite today either.

President Barack Obama told an audience of high school students in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday that he was “not always the very best student” and that ethics “would not have made it on the list” of his favorite subjects.

“I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school,” Obama said, speaking at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School.

He ought to release his school records so we can see just how bad a student he was.

Obamacare and 2012

Matt Margolis7 Comments

An interesting perspective from the Washington Examiner‘s Stephen Smith about Obamacare’s pending SCOTUS ruling on Obamacare.

It may sound counterintuitive, but here’s betting that President Obama wouldn’t be at all upset if the high court rules that his health plan is unconstitutional.

By urging an expedited review by the U.S. Supreme Court, the president knows that the politics cuts his way. If the court strikes down the plan, then Obama won’t have to defend it in the fall campaign, robbing the Republicans of one of their two lines of attack, the other being the moribund economy. He could rally his base by arguing that he had pushed through a great “progressive” reform only to be foiled by the conservative-leaning Supreme Court. People, like markets, hate uncertainty, and the presumed swing vote by Justice Kennedy could settle the issue.

If Obama wins the judicial appeal, it will still be a win for him along the lines of today’s conventional thinking. He will be able to argue that the Administration always knew Obamacare was constitutional, and the expedited review will muffle the issue in the general-election campaign.

Here’s my thoughts.

First of all, should Obamacare be ruled unconstitutional, as it most likely will be, that’s a pretty big defeat for Obama. When your signature achievement is declared unconstitutional by the highest court in the country, that’s hardly a rallying point for voters to support, especially the coveted moderate vote. It’s hard to find victory out of a defeat like that. And even if a defeat energized his base, it won’t energize moderates.

Second, the biggest issue of the election will be the economy. Obamacare may be an issue in 2012, but regardless of a SCOTUS ruling or lack of one, Obama will be judged primarily on his failure to fix economy… or more accurately his success in making it worse.

Your thoughts?

A Three Dollar Dinner With Obama?

Matt Margolis6 Comments

So, apparently it only costs $3.00 to have dinner with Obama.

I don’t think it’s worth it. I mean, sure it’s cheaper than a gallon of gas, really, I don’t even think I could be paid to break bread with Obama.

Of course maybe it be worth it for the chance to heckle him. But I’d think of something better than calling Obama the Antichrist, that might inflate his ego even more.

Nah, I’ll use the money for gas.

Blogging Hiatus

Mark Noonan23 Comments

Ladies and gentlemen, I must announce at this time that I am going on a blogging hiatus.  I do appreciate all of you here on Blogs for Victory – and especially those who go all the way back to Blogs for Bush.  But it has just become impossible for me to blog at the rate that I have been (its got to be more than two entries per day, on average, for each day of the last 8 years).  It has been taking too much time away from my other responsibilities, especially to my wife.

So, this will be my last entry for a while – at least 6 months.  If I do come back to blogging, it will only be to make weekly or maybe bi-weekly entries.  I hope that you can all forgive me for leaving you so suddenly and with such little warning, but it is just the way it has to be, for now.  As an aside, if any of you have wished to write for a blog, this would be a good time to contact Matt…I don’t know what his firm plans are, but he may wish to keep this blog going and as both he and I found out over the years, that takes a lot of doing.

God bless you all and good luck and I do hope to see you in the blogosphere in the future.

Sincerely,

Mark Edward Noonan

Bible Banned at Christian Cafe

Mark Noonan3 Comments

So, a customer comes in to a Christian cafe – in to a Christian cafe – and gets offended that there are Christian statements posted and complains to the police.  The cops, instead of laughing at the fool, actually go to the cafe (I guess there wasn’t a single murder, rape, robbery or jaywalking case to occupy the police in Blackpool that day) and demand the statements be removed.

This is, of course, from Britain…but it is what liberals want to bring here, to America.  Mark my words, they will make it illegal to in any way, shape or form express Christianity in the public square, if they can.

HAT TIP:  Catholic and Enjoying It

Liberal Fascists on Parade

Mark Noonan13 Comments

Example 1 comes from The New Republic:

…To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic… – Peter Orszag, former Obama Administration OMB Director

Example 2 come from the News Observer:

You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It’s a little bit more contentious now but it’s not impossible to try to do what’s right in this state. You want people who don’t worry about the next election. – Governor Bev Perdue (D-NC)

There are two fundamental reasons, I think, for this:

1.  Democrats are very worried they are going to get clobbered next year, so not having elections or transferring power to non-elective bodies (which Obama can appoint prior to be booted) is a means for them to retain power no matter what the voters want.

2.  Liberals, by their actions, show an inborn contempt for the people of the United States.  In President Obama’s exquisite phrasing we, the people,  are a collection of knuckle-dragging morons who bitterly cling to guns and the Bible (I guess I’m only a half-moron – I still don’t own a gun, but I am ever more fiercely clinging to my Bible.  In fact, I just read the Gospel of Mark today…).  We are not whom our liberals want to have to consult in matters of policy.  We are tiresome.  We just get in the way.  If we would just do as we’re told, all would be well..liberals would be rich and in charge and enjoying a lavish, taxpayer-funded lifestyle while the rest of us would be poor…but equally poor, so its all good.

To me, this is ultimately just one more sign of a Ruling Class growing more worried and desperate.  We’ll see how things come out – but I think that we, the people, can look forward with confidence to 2012…they’re on the run.

Disband the Congressional Black Caucus

Mark Noonan31 Comments

Roger L. Simon makes the argument:

Nothing is worse for Black Americans, African-Americans, Afro-Americans, soul brothers and sisters, people of color, non-ofays, or whatever you choose to call that particular minority segment of our society than the Congressional Black Caucus…

…We’re in the era of Herman Cain, people, not Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, the stultifying Travis Smiley, or that man who has put a generation of Harvard and Princeton students into perpetual narcoleptic sleep — Dr. Cornel West.

And while we’re at it, all other caucuses based on race, religion, creed, or national origin should be put out to pasture along with it. Such groupings are so reactionary and self-destructive they make your eyes roll back in your head, collide with each other, and shoot out again like pinballs, destroying half your brain from the cerebellum to the medulla oblongata in the process. They divide us and help no one. They have no justification any more, if they ever did.

Racism is dead. Or as dead as it’s ever going to be…

Groups like the CBC, though, get to feast on un-earned power and wealth by playing the race card.  That is all it is really about.  If the people in the CBC cared about black Americans then, quite simply, people like Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel would not be members.  An organization which had in mind doing good things for others rather than doing well for themselves would have expelled such people.  Race-baiting is good business…just ask people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

At the very minimum, groups like the Congressional Black Caucus should be afforded no funding or facilities by the United States government.  If they want to live on private donations and hold their meetings in private facilities, that it their business.  But a government of all the people of the United States should not permit a specifically race-based organization to have any semblance of official sanction.  To put it in to perspective – supposed someone decided to create the Congressional Catholic Caucus?

Racism has no place in America…whether its for oppression or for con jobs.

A Challenge for Morgan Freeman

Matt Margolis5 Comments

My friend Ali A. Akbar found Morgan Freeman’s recent comments about the Tea Party to be quite disturbing, and as a Tea Party activist, has challenged Morgan Freeman to experience a Tea Party rally.

I’ve attended dozens of tea party events. I’ve helped organize them, and I’ve even spoken at a few. The tea party is not what is often depicted in the news. It is people of all colors who are terribly concerned about the direction that America is heading. We don’t trust big government to make decisions for us. And we fear that the present administration’s spending is going to lead our country down a path to insolvency, much like what Greece is currently facing.

Your comments about the tea party have caused me physical pain. You’ve rekindled the old painful paradigm of Uncle Tom – that any black man who votes Republican is some kind of sellout. It’s not true. I work hard, pay my taxes, love Jesus, and I’m good to my family and community. In effect, your comments have stereotyped an entire group of people. And I know in my soul that you must regret that on some level.

There’s already plenty of groupthink among American blacks. Over 90% of us vote Democrat with religious regularity, and we have been doing so for over fifty years. For a short time, I was one of them. I realized a few years ago that the Democrats’ promises of equality bestowed by government wasn’t working and will never work. I came to believe that redistributionist policies with the goal of social justice was essentially creating a new plantation within the federal government. Scraps might be thrown our way, but dependence on the plantation would be the inevitable result.

I urge you to read Ali’s entire piece.

Ali and I have been good friends for quite a few years now, and our backgrounds are very different. Even our politics, while at the conservative end of the spectrum, are different. I dare say that if we reviewed all of our positions he’d probably be more conservative than I am. However we got to where we are politically, our beliefs are genuinely our own. We both believe enough in our politics to have walked the walk and not just talked the talk. And it is a shame that celebrities like Morgan Freeman or Janeane Garofalo use their celebrity to stereotype roughly half of Americans and insult minorities just because they don’t conform to their close minded belief that black Americans are traitors to their race if they lean to the right, or that Republicans are inherently racist. Those attitudes do more to hurt race relations in this country than they realize.

I’d like to see Morgan Freeman take up Ali’s offer to attend a Tea Party event in Tennessee. Perhaps a little open-mindedness can usher in a new era of civility.