As if there isn’t a mounting debt crisis, at all:

A recent Gallup poll shows the mounting debt tops American fears and yet Congress continues to pursue legislation that would deepen the debt crisis. This week the House will move to consider legislation intended to increase the availability of credit to small businesses but with a price tag of $33 billion with no offsets made to pay for the program it will only grow the level of our unsustainable debt. Additionally, one should question the necessity of this measure when it clearly duplicates efforts made in the original $700 TARP bill. Also on the docket for the week is the FY 2010 War Funding Supplemental bill meant to pay for on going operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The total cost of the bill is $84.3 billion dollars, although only $33 billion is actually war funding and the rest is a whole list of other “emergency” priorities including $23 billion to bailout the states…

Why are we bailing out the States? Because if we don’t, then a lot of State and local employees will be laid off – a double whammy for the Democrats as it would increase unemployment and cut down union donations in an election year. Can’t have that – so, driving the United States in to bankruptcy is a small price to pay for Democrats to keep the political money flowing and attempt to save their bacon in November.

This is the type of government we’ve got under the Democrats – a government which is of, by and for the party of government. They don’t care about the people – not in the least. They only care about their power and wealth and are doing everything they can to protect it.

If you wonder why I want a complete overturn of our government elite, this is your answer.

As Nancy said, we needed to pass the thing to find out what’s in it – now we’re doing just that. Remember that endlessly repeated promise from the President that we’d be able to keep our health care plan if we like it? Well, turns out not to be the case:

Over and over in the health care debate, President Barack Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it.

But an early draft of an administration regulation estimates that many employers will be forced to make changes to their health plans under the new law. In just three years, a majority of workers—51 percent—will be in plans subject to new federal requirements, according to the draft….

Liberal spinmeisters are trying to cast this as a good thing – hey, you’re just going to get a better plan! Trust us, the new government regulations will make everything better for you. No one with any sense will believe that – and, most importantly, we were repeatedly promised that if we liked what we’ve got, we’d keep it. Yet another Obama lie.

Now, it was a lie when he spoke it and, furthermore, all of us on the right side knew it was a lie. Obama might as well have promised that his health care reform would cure depression and acne – it would have just been two more lies to place on the pile of lies used the unsuccessful attempt to sell the bill to the public (in the end, of course, it was muscled through, public be darned).

No truth being told. No enemy being thwarted. No friend being helped. No jobs being made. This is Obamunism – a complete failure on every level.

Your allies, liberals – they are traitors to America and proud of it:

Details over at Noonan for Nevada. Seems that AIG has been using some of its taxpayer money to comply with Islamist notions of Sharia law.

Which is called “football” in the rest of the world because, well, the rest of the world doesn’t have the grit to play real football – but, at any rate, our boys tied it up…I guess because foreigners never heard of “sudden death overtime”:

A howler by goalkeeper Robert Green gifted the United States an equaliser as England struggled to a disappointing 1-1 draw in their opening Group C game at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Saturday…

The news:

Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.

In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran.

To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert…

This is impossible to confirm, but it makes sense – no nation in the middle east wants a nuclear-armed Iran.

To be sure, if Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear sites (or if we were to do so) the whole Moslem would would be free with condemnations…but also with quiet sighs of relief. Its good to keep in mind that there is a great deal of falsity in the middle eastern stew. Positions have been taken up which are stupid and/or laughably false – but once taken up it is felt they can’t be set down. Officially, the whole Moslem world has taken up hatred of Israel as a matter of policy – but in reality, many Moslem nations have the same interests as Israel…in other words, if “hate Israel” wasn’t something now carved in to Moslem stone, Israel and Saudi Arabia would long since have had a military alliance for mutual defense.

But such is not to be – reality is not allowed to be noted in public. And so we might well see Saudi Arabia temporarily turning off its air defense system to allow Israeli jets to fly alone on a mission vital to Saudi Arabia’s national security and which, indeed, the Saudi air force (equipped much as the Israeli air force is) could render great service in the mutually desired goal of a non-nuclear Iran.

Strange world. Back a few years ago, President Bush tried telling some truth about the whole mess over there – most notably when he broke with Arafat – but it wasn’t pressed forward given the number of other issues which came up. Obama has fallen all the way back to 1979 and is counting on the absurdity of a “peace process” to carry the day. Some day, hopefully, we will get a President who will just tell the whole truth and refuse to allow the other players to maintain their lies…a bit of truth would unravel the middle eastern knot pretty quickly, if someone would just have the courage to really try it.

One former Moslem thinks so – as a measure of self defense:

Born Muslim in Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, fleeing to the Netherlands at the age of 22 to escape an arranged marriage. Ten years later, she was elected to the Dutch parliament. A prominent feminist and critic of Islam, she received numerous death threats when she renounced her faith following the 9/11 terrorist attacks…

…Q: One of your more startling arguments in Nomad is that Christian churches should proselytize in immigrant communities to try to convert Muslims.

A: Look at the amount of money Saudi Arabia spends on coming into Muslim communities in America and Europe, building schools and also taking leaders and training them in Mecca and Medina, then replanting them. It’s surprising that no other group of people is targeting the same communities. If you look at Western civilization, at the institutions [and movements] that were engaged in changing people’s hearts and minds—the Christian Church, humanists, feminists—they are doing next to nothing in these Muslim communities. When I was in Holland [recently], I heard about a Christian mission that had been proselytizing in Morocco. The government kicked them out and sent them back to Holland. I thought, “You don’t have to stop proselytizing—just go to the Muslim community in Amsterdam west and carry on there.” But of course there, they’re not only going to face the radical Muslims as opponents, they’re also going to face the multicultural opponents, saying they’re not supposed to be telling people to leave their religion.

Q: So how would they do it?

A: Next to every mosque, build a Christian centre, an enlightenment centre, a feminist centre. There are tons of websites, financed with Saudi money, promoting Wahabism. We need to set up our own websites—Christian, feminist, humanist—trying to target the same people, saying, we have an alternative moral framework to Islam. We have better ideas.

Which is all a very good idea, but most liberals don’t believe in their own ideals, and neither do most Christians. Not to the point of being willing to present those ideas without apology to non-believers. What startles about some of the Christians who do preach in public is not what they say so much as that they are saying it in public. Proclaiming that Christ is Lord is all fine and dandy behind closed doors on a Sunday…but try that in a park almost all Christians within hearing will wince and turn away rather than offer an “amen”.

You have to believe in something in order to offer it so another. And you have to at least try to live your faith in order to be in any way credible as a witness. Feminists who slander someone like Sarah Palin; liberals who are fabulously wealthy; Christians who won’t lend a hand – these are not the sort of people a doubter will listen to. But an Islamist who offers a quick and easy explanation for all the ills of the world and who appears to live a devout life (easy in Islam as there isn’t much externally to being a Moslem, other than the requirement of prayer) can sway someone who is miserable (even if through personal failure) and wants a purpose in life.

I’m afraid that we are first going to have to re-convert ourselves. Then we’re going to have to convert our surrounding culture. Only then will we have a good alternative to offer the Islamist rank-and-file.

From Rasmussen:

Most voters continue to believe it would be better for the country if the majority of Congress is thrown out this November, but they also remain unconvinced that a Republican takeover will make a noticeable difference.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 19% of voters think it would be better for the country if most incumbents in Congress were reelected this November. Sixty-five percent (65%) disagree and say it would be better if most were defeated. Sixteen percent (16%) aren’t sure.

There is a political tsunami out there for the asking – and we’ll have to see if the GOP can craft a message which resonates. If the GOP can do this, then the anti-incumbent fervor – the utter contempt Americans increasingly hold for Congress – will result in a blowout win for the Republicans.

If, on the other hand, Republicans hope to just cruise to victory on anti-government animus, then they’ll just have some modest wins. What the GOP does between now and November will make the difference between a 35 seat GOP House win and a 70 seat win. We’ll have to see if Steele and the boys (and all our very great girls recently shot to stardom) can do it.

Guess they got tired of draining the swamp:

The Office of Congressional Ethics, a powerful symbol of Democrats’ promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, is in danger of having its power stripped after the midterm elections.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have led the charge, airing complaints about the aggressive, independent panel in a private session with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month, and they’ve drafted a resolution that, if approved, would severely curtail the panel’s power…

There are a few Republicans who are making noises against the Office – and I’d like to see them booted out of office, tarred and feathered for sheer stupidity. Democrats created this thing, it is causing them no end of headaches and all Republicans should just stand silent and allow the Democrats to screw themselves over by attacking their own creation.

The Democrat party is hopelessly mired in corruption – this is because, as Matt and I pointed out in Caucus of Corruption, Democrats are never punished for corruption. They created this new Office as window dressing for their alleged campaign against the “culture of corruption” in DC, never thinking that anything would come of it. Trouble is, corruption is so endemic among Democrat ranks that the New Media was bound to find some, and thus force action. Now that they realize the Office is causing trouble, they want it to go away.

Of course, in addition to being corrupt, they are also cowards – so they won’t move on it until after the mid-terms.

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