Just back from Searchlight and our crackerjack tech team is working on the raw footage I took. We’ll have that up as soon as possible.

When I arrived in Searchlight at about 9:30 am, the line of cars waiting to get in to the site (which is no more than a cleared field in the desert right outside of Searchlight) stretched back more than a mile from the gate. Initially, the police were advising that anyone who parked on the shoulder would be ticketed and towed…but by the time a thousand or so people had engaged in a grand act of civil disobedience, those threats vanished. Bottom line – cars were packed in tight for a couple miles away from the gate. Got that? People parked their car and walked a mile or two to get in.

I have no count of the number of people who came but it greatly exceeded 10,000, and one unofficial estimate I heard was of 30,000. People just kept pouring in – at no time from the moment I arrived to the time I left (after Palin’s speech) was the road in clear…scores of people arriving every minute, for about three and a half hours.

The crowd ranged from infants to extreme elderly. Everyone was in a good mood and in spite of a diligent search for hatred and/or racism, I failed to detect even the slightest indicator of such. Either the haters stayed away, or the false-flag lefties who pretend to be hateful TEA Party activists didn’t want to make the trip out to the middle of the Nevada outback.

These are the folks. Just regular Americans – no one special. The backbone of our nation showed up and let their beliefs be heard.

Naturally, Sarah Palin generated a great deal of excitement. She gave a rousing speech which was received with frequent, thunderous applause as she outlined the crucial issues – whether or not we, the people, will control our own destiny. The strongest sensation regarding her appearance is that if she wants to run for President in 2012, she’ll not lack for enthusiastic volunteers.

As for the overall effect of the demonstration – it was astounding. I tried to record some video of the trip out to give an impression of just how “middle of nowhere” this place is. To say its off the beaten track is to put it mildly. And yet many thousands of people – on their own time and dime – took it upon themselves to make the long trip. This is an indicator of the depth of feeling of these patriots.

They will not fail. This sort of courage and determination will not be denied – and it certainly won’t be beaten by the corrupt, political machine headed up by Obama, Reid and Pelosi (aptly described as the three stooges on one sign). The left will hurl their invective; the elite will show their contempt – but in the voting booth, this November, these people will be heard.

UPDATE: Picture of the crowd about half an hour before Palin arrived. Please note the people still arriving – it was like that for hours, non stop.

UPDATE II: Fox News reports “more than 10,000”.

UPDATE III: MSM reports are up to 20,000 attended.

UPDATE IV: We finally got video up.

Cross Posted: Noonan for Nevada

He’s wrecking the nation. Maybe he doesn’t realize it – but conscious or not, he’s set us on a path to complete financial melt down:

President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation’s economic output by 2020, the Congressional Budget Office reported Thursday.

In its 2011 budget, which the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Feb. 1, the administration projected a 10-year deficit total of $8.53 trillion. After looking it over, CBO said in its final analysis, released Thursday, that the president’s budget would generate a combined $9.75 trillion in deficits over the next decade.

It can’t be sustained – and I’ll bet that the CBO numbers, themselves terrible, are likely to end up far more rosy than the actuality. It is not a matter of should we balance the budget but of must. And don’t think you can tax your way out of this – if you every last cent from the wealthy – and even if such an action didn’t kill the economy – then all you’d do is put off the day of reckoning a little bit.

And its not like it would be hard to balance the budget – just dial everything back to 2004 spending levels, and we’re back in surplus. And money can be moved around – if you liberals out there still insist on spending more on your pet projects, you can: but you’ll have to prioritize and pick a couple that you really want, and leave aside the others. It won’t last forever – balance the budget and keep it balanced for 5 or 10 years and we’ll at least be out of the worst of it.

Eventually there simply won’t be any money left in the world for us to borrow – save, perhaps, at ruinous interest rates. When that comes, we won’t be able to service our debt because we are essentially paying the interest on our debt with borrowed funds. Such an eventuality will require crisis budget cutting, economy-killing taxation and all sorts of financial melt downs as institutions holding US bonds seek to dump them as swiftly as possible.

I’m telling you, liberals: its either give up some of the social spending now, or be forced to give almost all of it up five years from now.

It just piles up – one corporation after another announcing the massive costs they’ll incur for ObamaCare.

AT&T Inc. will take a $1 billion non-cash accounting charge in the first quarter because of the health care overhaul and may cut benefits it offers to current and retired workers.

The charge is the largest disclosed so far. Earlier this week, AK Steel Corp., Caterpillar Inc., Deere & Co. and Valero Energy announced similar accounting charges, saying the health care law that President Barack Obama signed Tuesday will raise their expenses. On Friday, 3M Co. said it will also take a charge of $85 million to $90 million.

Funny, but the insurance and pharmaceutical companies don’t seem to be hurting all that bad. In fact, from what I can see, they are set to do pretty well. Almost as if ObamaCare is actually going to be a net benefit to them.

But that can’t be true, can it? I mean, Obama said we had to stop the big, mean, old insurance companies, right?

Or, are we just stuck in the biggest piece of political feces in human history?

Now just who is out there with the over-heated rhetoric?

At a time when most of America is celebrating historic health care legislation that’s been a century in the making, a few narrow-minded tea party nut jobs are trying to tarnish this great achievement.

But if you think these vile two-bit wing-nuts are just gonna slink back into whatever century they crawled out from now that health care reform is the law, think again…

…In fact, the slimy thugs at the Republican National Committee already raised $1,494,084 in their “Fire Nancy Pelosi” campaign…

…We gotta take this fight right to those Republican special interests and right-wing extremists determined to bring back the failed policies of the past…

…We already dealt those tea party crazies a big blow by putting health care reform into the history books…

Thanks,

James Carville

All of you liberals who complain about any thing we Republicans do: go jump in a lake. I don’t want to hear it.

UPDATE: Threats to murder Sarah Palin placed on Twitter. Lots of them.

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.