Had a real busy Monday and I’m just wiped out – there area a lot of interesting things to write about, but I’m too dog tired to write at the moment. I’ll try to have something good up for you a little later.

Meanwhile, you can still discuss just how badly Obama sucks as President or whatever else comes to mind.

All I can say is that the more I hear from him, the more I like him – and the more irritating become things like Hewitt urging the GOP to freeze candidates like Cain out of the GOP primary debates.

Cain has the take no prisoners attitude of Donald Trump without all the baggage. He has the intellectual acumen of someone like Gingrich without the over-theorizing which leads to freakishly weird things like slamming the Ryan plan. He is an outsider who understands how the political game is played. He is a practical, experienced man at a time when career politicians are in bad repute. He’s got the great, personal narrative which shows he knows how regular Americans have to live and struggle. In some respects, he is ideal…

So, why hold back? For me, it is an unwillingness to commit to anyone this early. But what about the rest of you? Are their objections to Cain which I haven’t thought of? Other good things about him I haven’t learned? Can he win the nomination and beat President Obama?

What are your thoughts?

And Threedonia proves it by unearthing Grover Cleveland’s 1893 inaugural address – to quote:

…Manifestly nothing is more vital to our supremacy as a nation and to the beneficent purposes of our Government than a sound and stable currency. Its exposure to degradation should at once arouse to activity the most enlightened statesmanship, and the danger of depreciation in the purchasing power of the wages paid to toil should furnish the strongest incentive to prompt and conservative precaution.

In dealing with our present embarrassing situation as related to this subject we will be wise if we temper our confidence and faith in our national strength and resources with the frank concession that even these will not permit us to defy with impunity the inexorable laws of finance and trade. At the same time, in our efforts to adjust differences of opinion we should be free from intolerance or passion, and our judgments should be unmoved by alluring phrases and unvexed by selfish interests…

…The verdict of our voters which condemned the injustice of maintaining protection for protection’s sake enjoins upon the people’s servants the duty of exposing and destroying the brood of kindred evils which are the unwholesome progeny of paternalism. This is the bane of republican institutions and the constant peril of our government by the people. It degrades to the purposes of wily craft the plan of rule our fathers established and bequeathed to us as an object of our love and veneration. It perverts the patriotic sentiments of our countrymen and tempts them to pitiful calculation of the sordid gain to be derived from their Government’s maintenance. It undermines the self-reliance of our people and substitutes in its place dependence upon governmental favoritism. It stifles the spirit of true Americanism and stupefies every ennobling trait of American citizenship.

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people…

Do read the whole speech.

More than a century has passed and the Democrat party was handed off to Bryan and Wilson and FDR and LBJ…to reach final degradation in the hands of Bill Clinton. Obama will always remain a unique, historical figure in that he is the first non-white person to be elected to our highest office…but in policy he’s just mindlessly following the dictates of those who took a party of the people and turned it in to a corrupt agglomeration of special political and corporate interests. There was a reason my great-grandfather, grand-father and father were Democrats – with Dad only switching his registration in 2008 in order to participate in the Nevada GOP caucus; and he died in April of 2009. The reason is that the Democrat party was once upon a time an American political party – not the plaything of grasping special pleaders.

Do keep in mind that the GOP was also wrecked in the course of history – the party of Lincoln, abolition and the free market became, in its turn, the party of the vested interests. But our party was rescued by Ronald Reagan….himself once a Democrat. Our party was wrested from the hands of corrupt, special interests (though, to be sure, the rear-guards of these forces continue to linger on, hoping against hope to take it back, and make it just another tool of the Ruling Class) and became a party of the people…an American party, dedicated to the ideals which make America the greatest nation in human history.

Who will rescue the Democrat party? Who will articulate for the Democrats what Reagan did for the GOP? Who will reach back across the chasm of history and revive the spirit of Cleveland? I don’t know – I don’t see any one or any group…but if someone doesn’t come along, then the Democrat party is ultimately doomed, because the American people will – and already are – rejecting it as a vehicle for American aspirations.

From Zero Hedge:

…Despite talk of a recovery, the economy is badly underperforming. Growth last quarter came in at just 1.8 percent. We’re not even creating enough jobs to employ new workers entering the job market, let alone the six million workers who lost their jobs during the recession.

The rising cost of living is becoming a serious problem for many Americans. The Fed’s aggressive expansion of the money supply is clearly contributing to major increases in the cost of food and energy.

An even bigger threat comes from the rapidly growing cost of health care, a problem made worse by the health care law enacted last year.

Most troubling of all, the unsustainable trajectory of government spending is accelerating the nation toward a ruinous debt crisis.

This crisis has been decades in the making. Republican administrations, including the last one, have failed to control spending. Democratic administrations, including the present one, have not been honest about the cost of the tax burden required to fund their expansive vision of government. And Congresses controlled by both parties have failed to confront our growing entitlement crisis. There is plenty of blame to go around.

Years of ignoring the drivers of our debt have left our nation’s finances in dismal shape. In the coming years, our debt is projected to grow to more than three times the size of our entire economy.

This trajectory is catastrophic. By the end of the decade, we will be spending 20 percent of our tax revenue simply paying interest on the debt – and that’s according to optimistic projections…

You should read the whole thing, but that covers the central problem – our debt has risen to the point where we will entirely collapse unless we stop adding to it. That is what Democrats do not wish to do – because whatever might have been the original purpose of Big Government liberalism, the current point of the exercise is to keep the government funds flowing because they, in turn, are filtered through government unions in to Democrat campaign coffers – lather, rinse, repeat. Cut down the size of government and Democrats lose the ability to bribe people in to voting for and donating to Democrats. Their political life is at stake…and thus the demands for more debt in an already bankrupt nation.

Cuts, cuts and more cuts – that has to be our aim. But not just a shotgun – we need precision guided political weapons. Keep digging up the worst aspects of government waste and present it continually to the American people. Combine that with routine reminders of just how boneheaded President Obama is (case in point: his statement that he wants the USA to be a good customer for Brazil’s offshore oil), and we can not only beat Obama and his Democrats next year, but crush them…and thus gain the power necessary to save our nation from collapse.

From Zero Hedge:

Those seeking the spark that will set off the next middle east conflagration can finally rest easy. Reuters reports that Shi’ite-ruled Iran sent a flotilla to Bahrain on Monday to show solidarity with mainly Shi’ite Muslim protesters, escalating tensions with the island kingdom that is home to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. As a reminder, Barhain is the nation that imposed a total and complete media blackout, going so far as to expel a Reuters correspondent, while most likely continuing its atrocities against protesting Shi’ites, which has raised the specter of a possible war erupting on the tiny island home, so critical to the US navy, and situated only 60 miles away from the world’s largest Gwahar oil field…

And now you know why everyone wants to keep a lid on this – why no one seems to be really reporting on it. We’ve got pretty good coverage of Libya; coverage of Syria is regular; even Yemen gets a lot of news….but not so much about Bahrain…because there the trouble is not just about having a ruling class tossed out, but having an Iranian-backed ruling class move in…and right on the border with Saudi Arabia…and right next to some of Saudi Arabia’s biggest oil fields, which seem to be in a heavily Shiite area of the country.

This could get very dicey…and the bad news is that Obama will handling whatever American response might prove necessary.

It is perfectly meaningless – remember that as our liberals get all breathless and call us irresponsible for not jacking it up. The only reason to raise it is in order to go further in to debt – not raising it does not put at risk of default: going further in to debt, does.

All we need to do is cut spending, and we’ll be in good fiscal shape – failure to cut spending is what puts America’s future at risk, not failure to become even more indebted.

From ABC:

After a roller-coaster flirtation with a presidential bid, Donald Trump bowed out of the 2012 contest in true Trump fashion, sayng that while he would not be a candidate this year, if he had run, he would have been able to win the primary and the general election.

“I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election,” Trump said in a statement. “I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.”…

Probably the best decision – and now Trump is free to be “rabble-rouser-in-Chief” of the anti-Obama forces. He can now devote time and resources, if he wishes, to advancing the cause of America…and calling out both GOP and Democrats when they screw up.

From Accuracy in Media:

A Washington Post story about Catholic professors challenging Rep. John Boehner’s Catholic faith with an open letter to the House Speaker ignores the role of one of the key signers in a George Soros-funded group.

The letter to Boehner says, “Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.” Ignoring the Catholic tradition of subsidiarity, or decentralized government, and voluntarism, the letter claims Boehner’s votes against expansion of the federal welfare state are anti-Catholic.

Letter signer Stephen F. Schneck of the Catholic University of America (CUA) is a board member of the Soros-funded Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG)…

It seems, at times, that you can’t scratch a liberal group without revealing the Soros link. Soros really does seem determined – and, poor man, he seems to think that if he backs what others have told him are good causes it will some how perfume the way he gained his wealth. This is a pretty typical outcome – and what, I think, Chesterton had in mind when he wrote:

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

But it can work out well for you – after all, you get to be a very rich man living in the lap of luxury and merely by writing a few checks to the correct groups, you are awarded the title of a moral man. That such a title from such groups isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit doesn’t matter to people like Soros – he’s lauded for his good works, day in and day out; and will be as long as he keeps the checks coming. The day Soros actually gives himself away is the day he comes to real morality…and it will also be the day when all the liberals who laud him for his goodness will suddenly round on him as an evil capitalist.

But, meanwhile, here they go – people who wouldn’t know Catholic social justice if it fell on them using it to attack a faithful (though certainly flawed) son of the Church. Just amazing. Or, more accurately, it would be amazing if this wasn’t the zillionth time they’ve pulled this sort of stunt. It is such a common tactic – and while our liberals will be horrified at it, all they are doing is being small-time heretics. What is a heresy, after all? It is the taking out of a part of Christian truth and holding it up as the only part that is true. They are abusing Catholicism – using what parts they like as a handy club or crow bar to attempt to advance distinctly un-Christian things. In this case, the Christian duty to succor the poor – taken entirely out of context – is being used to advance the cause of Big Government..the same Big Government which has a vested interest in keeping as many people poor as possible, lest the reason for having Big Government disappear right along with poverty.

I’ll start to take such statements from Soros-backed groups seriously the same day a Soros-backed group comes out with a demand for a ban on abortion. That is part of Catholicism, too – and, indeed, it is arguably far more important than the parts about helping the poor. Life comes first of all – because without life, there is nothing to be done. Don’t try to pass off to me a criticism of Boehner – or any other conservative Catholic/Christian – unless you are prepared to adhere to the whole run of Christian theology…and I mean all of it. If you aren’t prepared to do that, then pitch your criticism on some other level, but don’t deny the cross and then condemn a Christian for not properly taking up the cross.

As for those of us on the right, wariness is required. Especially as 2012 heats up and every liberal from Soros on down works to re-elect Obama, more and more such groups and events will crop up. There will be a full court press to try and divide and confuse Christians – and they will use our own against us. But don’t fall for it – the first time someone says, “Republicans must do such and such because Christianity demands it”, ask them how they view abortion and gay marriage…if they stray from Christian truth in such areas you can rely on it that their claims to be moving a Christian view are false.

Just amazing the EPA doesn’t get hot on this – from Catholic Vote:

…another new study reported by the Wall Street Journal affirms that the cocktail of chemicals women put into their body also screws up women’s natural tendency to be attracted to men. Or at least to the sort of men nature indicates are right for them.

What’s next? Only time will tell, but when you start messing around with something as delicate and beautiful and important and powerful as the fertility of woman, nothing should surprise us…

Come on, liberals – where are you? You went nuts over the bogus stories about Alar on apples; then there was all the stories running around about how vaccines were causing autism; and you won’t let go of your anthropogenic global warming fad no matter what…why so silent on the way Big Pharmacy is dumping tons of chemicals in to female bodies with untold, long-term effect on their health? Oh, I know – these chemicals are specifically designed to put a block on human life…and that is a good thing to our liberals.

Shows two things – human death trumps all other things liberals wish to accomplish and all their shrieks about chemicals and such in the environment is just a blind designed to gain power and wealth for themselves. And if this weren’t the case, then liberals would call for a ban on the pill…

Great ad:

That is the way to hit him – and just keep on hitting him with it right through to election. Not only is Obama beatable, but is he easily beatable, if we just keep attacking the idiocy of Obamunism.

HAT TIP: The American Catholic