The “Beck Effect” on American politics.

Are you within 300 miles or so of Las Vegas, NV? Then why not come out to the Showdown in Searchlight on Saturday? Step One in kicking Reid out of the Senate.

Democrats using bogus threats as a means for fund raising. No more proof needed that the Democrats are likely behind the actions.

Social Security will start to go bankrupt – in 2010.

US bond sales are sluggish. No surprise: with SS going broke and Obama piling on the debt, an investor is going to want much higher rates of return…and so our bonds will go begging until we offer it…which means, of course, that we’ll spend even more in paying interest on our debt, which means even less money for other things. Its a terrible thing – and all done because Democrats are dunderheads who can’t see that the party is over.

Liberal fascist on MSNBC wants to extend liberal fascism to talk radio. They really want us to go away, boys and girls.

In an act of liberal love, pro-life offices are getting nasty calls from pro-abortion fanatics. We shall pray for them.

Father Groeschel Reflects on the Healthcare Vote.

Interesting:

…A new CNN / Opinion Research Poll out this afternoon of 953 registered voters nationally finds Obama tied at 47% with any Republican candidate. Gee, if only Wendell Willkie was still around.

The same poll also finds a clear majority of Americans now believe that Obama is a one-term president.

Other than that things are looking great for the 14-month-old Democrat administration, which is still celebrating Sunday’s passage of a massive healtcare bill that most Americans don’t seem to like…

The real kicker: 20% of Democrats think a new candidate might be a good idea.

Keep an eye on Hillary, Barry, old buddy…and don’t turn your back on her!

Its an economic catastrophe, boys and girls – a slow motion fiscal train wreck:

Not many people noticed amid the Democrats’ struggle to jam their health care bill through the House, but in recent weeks U.S. Treasury bonds have lost their status as the world’s safest investment.

The numbers are pretty clear. In February, Bloomberg News reports, Berkshire Hathaway sold two-year bonds with an interest rate lower than that on two-year Treasuries. A company run by a 79-year-old investor is a better credit risk, the markets are telling us, than the U.S. government…

…Democrats … may have been soothed by the Congressional Budget Office’s report that it would reduce federal deficits over the next 10 years. But bond buyers know that the Democrats gamed the CBO system to get a good score.

The realities, as former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin pointed out in The New York Times, are different. The real cost is disguised by the fact that the bill includes 10 years of revenue but only six years of spending. It includes $70 billion in premiums for long-term care that will have to be paid out later. It excludes $114 billion in discretionary spending needed to run the program. It includes nearly half a trillion dollars in unrealistic Medicare savings.

Holtz-Eakins’s bottom line: The bill will not lower deficits, but will raise them by $562 billion over 10 years. Treasury will have to borrow that money — and probably pay much higher interest than it’s paying now…

We’re already looking at $10 trillion in deficits over the next ten years – ObamaCare will increase this by at least 5%. Good job, Democrats! A bankrupt nation now has another massive, new spending program to cover.

Do you utter fools on the left have any conception of what you’ve done? In service to an antique ideal – things like government health date, as a concept, to the 1870’s – you have put the United States, already up to its ears in debt, further in the hole. And your predictions of improved care are just as stupid as your predictions of financial savings – go to the DMV: that is what health care will be like once ObamaCare is fully up and running.

Which is why we are going to repeal it – maybe not all at once, but in the by and by all that you have done to health care will have to be undone. There is simply no other way around it – we’re not about to destroy our nation because some dim wit of a liberal got a fixation about universal health care in college and won’t let facts or experience get in the way of a dream.

The news:

Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight committee, told CBS News Wednesday that he will call for a special prosecutor to investigate the White House if it does not address Rep. Joe Sestak’s claim that he was offered a federal job in exchange for dropping out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary.

“If the public doesn’t receive a satisfactory answer, the next step would be to call for a special prosecutor, which is well within the statute,” Issa (pictured) told Hotsheet.

The California Republican has been pushing for the White House to provide details of conversations between Sestak and administration officials in the wake of Sestak’s comment during a radio interview last month that he was offered a high-ranking administration job in exchange for dropping his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter.

Tip of the iceberg, as far as I can see – wait until we really find out who was paid what to get ObamaCare passed!

Corrupt. Dishonest. Un-Constitutional: things you can call a Democrat and never be wrong.

And this is a poll of adults, which probably understates GOP strength by 5-10 percentage points:

A CBS News poll released Wednesday finds that nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress to continue to challenge parts of the health care reform bill…

…The poll finds that 62 percent want Congressional Republicans to keep challenging the bill, while 33 percent say they should not do so. Nearly nine in ten Republicans and two in three independents want the GOP to keep challenging. Even 41 percent of Democrats support continued challenges.

Democrats and their MSM stooges are out with the talking points and their poll – claiming that now the bill is passed, it is the GOP which is rocked on its heels. The “Party of No” is totally confused and doesn’t know where to turn – they’ve missed out on helping to pass the most stupendous bit of legislation in a generation! Democrats are going to campaign, hard, on all the good stuff the bill has while the poor, pathetic Republicans will just be wallowing in defeat…

So much for the Democrat talking points. All of it is pure fiction. The fact is that, really and for sure, a strong majority has been against ObamaCare since last Summer and there has been nothing done since that time to increase popular support – in fact, the way the bill was finally passed just made things worse.

For the GOP, the only question now is just how to present our opposition to the American people – and just what alternatives we’ll pledge to provide. Helping us along is such things as the error in the bill – natural when its 2,700 pages long and written by lobbyists and legislative aides – which actually puts off pre-existing condition protection until 2014. Obama was hyping that up when he signed the bill – and this shows that even he doesn’t know what the heck is in there…I guarantee that once its gone through with a fine toothed comb, we’re going to find errors, omissions and all kinds of corrupt deals.

The real election season doesn’t start until the end of Summer, of course – right now we’re just in the preliminaries. Such things as the rally in Searchlight, Nevada this Saturday – gearing up and setting the stage (I’ll be there, by the way – I hope to capture some video of it, but will certainly get photos…it’ll be up on B4V and Noonan For Nevada by Sunday, at the latest though I hope to get it on a lot faster…that will partially depend on Searchlight’s internet connections). Its message-crafting time; recruitment time; fund raising time…

Gonna be a really fun year.

Goodness, Canada really is done for – the very last ounce of Vimy Ridge has been squeezed out of it:

A couple of days ago, I mentioned François Houle, the leftist apparatchik and provost of the University of Ottawa who threatened Ann Coulter with criminal prosecution before she’d even set foot on Canadian soil.

M. Houle warned Miss Coulter not to “promote hatred”. As this young lady points out in her report from the university, the only hate-promoter here is the buffoon Houle, whose barely veiled threats led to a gang of menacing Houligans (le mot juste) getting the event closed down. Alliances between the state’s ideological commissars and street mobs are a familiar feature of certain kinds of societies, and I suppose Canada will soon get used to its membership of this unlovely club. Ann Coulter says of her experience in the Great White North:

This has never, ever, ever happened before — even at the stupidest American university… Since I’ve arrived in Canada, I’ve been denounced on the floor of Parliament — which, by the way, is on my bucket list — my posters have been banned, I’ve been accused of committing a crime in a speech that I have not yet given, I was banned by the student council. So welcome to Canada!

In one of the oldest settled democracies on the planet, freedom of speech flickers very dimly…

The article goes on to quote a Canadian feminist to the effect that Canadians don’t think freedom is important – much more important is group conformity and permanent terror of falling in to Thought Crime. Sure, I paraphrased her – but that is what she said, when you get down to it.

Point blank, there is no freedom in Canada. What you can say and think is determined by narrow minded, leftist bigots. You can’t be partially free – you either are, or you aren’t. Right now, Canada isn’t.

The news:

Greece will default on its bonds “at some point” as the euro region fails to deal with its first major economic crisis, said Paul Donovan, deputy head of global economics at UBS Investment Bank.

“I think it’s in an impossible situation,” said Donovan, who is based in London, in an interview with Bloomberg Radio today. “Europe has failed to clear its first serious hurdle. If Europe can’t solve a small problem like this, how on earth is it going to solve the larger problem, which is the euro doesn’t work. It’s a bad idea.”

And:

Portugal’s credit grade was cut by Fitch Ratings for the first time, underscoring growing concern that Europe’s weakest economies will struggle to meet their debt commitments as finances deteriorate.

The rating was lowered one step to AA- with a “negative” outlook, Fitch said in a statement today, adding that further economic or fiscal underperformance this year or in 2011 may lead to another downgrade. The euro extended its decline, dropping against all but one of the 16 most-traded currencies. Portuguese stocks and bonds fell.

Its because you can’t borrow, print and spend your way in to economic prosperity. You also can’t afford bloated, socialistic welfare programs. The Euro-zone is starting to unravel – it can’t sustain itself and only a radical de-socialization of the continent will fix the problem…but the European populations have grown addicted to welfare and probably lack the spirit to try living as free men and women, again.

This is what the Democrats want to bring here – and with ObamaCare and the massive deficits, they want to fast-track us.

I call BS on all such stories. We know the stories of racial epithets at the Capitol on Sunday were false, and its my contention that all the more recent accusations are also false.

Yes, this includes Stupak’s voice mail – unless you can provide forensic evidence linking someone to it who has voted Republican in every election since 2004, I won’t believe its an actual conservative/Republican/TEA Party member doing it. Absent such proof, my presumption will be that its either a flat-out lunatic or, more likely, a false flag operation…such as has already happened many times since the Democrats first started to tremble in fear of the TEA Party.

Furthermore, we know from experience – and Matt from personal experience with union thugs – that the violence comes from the left. Unable to win an argument and knowing that if patriots get the truth out, they’re cooked, it is natural for the left to try either intimidation or slander to derail the opposition. They’ve tried intimidation, and it didn’t work – now they’re trying slander.

We’re on to your game, liberals, and we’re not having any of it.

Obama will sign Benedict Arnold’s executive order in private…makes sense: Stupak knifed the pro-life movement in the back behind closed doors and might as well collect his 30 pieces of silver behind that same door.

Have at it, boys and girls.

The two biggest boys on the Asian block rub uncomfortably together:

By sheer demographics, it’s the world’s most important relationship. China and India comprise 40% of humanity and boast economies that are expected to loom large over the 21st century. They also represent two of the world’s fastest-growing militaries, armed with nuclear weapons, and are expanding their spheres of influence across oceans. Jonathan Holslag, a Brussels-based scholar of Chinese foreign policy and author of the recent book China and India: Prospects for Peace, is among a growing number of observers who have dismissed the idea of “Chindia” – a term once often invoked, expressing optimism over the joint geopolitical rise of the two Asian giants. He spoke to TIME about the fault lines between the two neighbors, Washington’s place in the region and how tensions could escalate into war.

Do read the linked interview as it is a good nutshelling of basic issues between China and India.

When World War III comes about, it will involve Chinese aggression. This is not because China is heading towards American-style hyper-power but, actually, because China is a basket case masquerading as a functioning State. A hyperventilating economy with massive over capacity served by a population in desperate demographic straights is not a recipe for good times – and made worse because China is governed by a corrupt oligarchy which does not want to surrender power. When push comes to shove, the Chinese government will choose foreign adventure as an alternative to democratic reform.

This does not mean that China will attack us in a Pearl Harbor manner (though, they might) but that China will fuel the fires by striking at Taiwan, or inducing North Korea to attack Japan, or stirring up trouble in India – or any combination of these or a host of other provocations ready to hand. But once China heads down such a road, war will become inevitable because China’s government won’t be able to stop – once nationalist expansionism is uncorked, the government which tries to re-cork it will be turned out by revolution. And so, off we’ll go.

India already has a substantial military force, but in order to curb Chinese ambitions, it needs an American-quality military. At least three American-quality aircraft carrier battle groups; a strategic bomber force; nuclear submarines (attack and “boomer” – armed with nuclear-tipped missiles); an army trained and equipped up to our standards. That sort of force on China’s southern border just might do the trick to preserve peace – or make the war relatively short, if that fails.

Now, this does mean that we renounce our interests in south Asia – including at least as far west as Iran and the Persian Gulf, as well as east Africa. India takes over the imperial responsibility for that part of the world. But, that is ok – it’ll make it easier for us to deal with China, directly, in east Asia and the Pacific.