The Democrats Debt Scam

Tyler Durden over at Zero Hedge nails it:

In case one is wondering why the House Democrats attached a document to the emergency war supplemental bill that “deemed as passed” a non-existent … budget, which basically allows the ruling party to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the constraint of an actual budget, here is the answer: on June 30, the US closed the books with just over $13.2 trillion in total debt, an increase of $210 billion in one month, or $2.5 trillion annualized. There is just $1.1 trillion left on the ceiling. As we have long been warning, at the current run rate, the ceiling will be breached in under six months, or just around November 2…

You catch that? We’re piling up debt at a rate of $2.5 trillion this year. No, this doesn’t mean that the deficit will be that large, but I bet it will be a heck of a lot larger than was projected early on – and that the 2011 deficit will astound the world. Right now, Democrats are just trying to fix things to last past November 2nd – no stock market crash, no unemployment above 10%. They’ve taken to hiding things as an expedient.

In the long run, I don’t know what they expect – anyone with any sense at all in Democrat ranks has to realize that the piper will have to be paid. There is not much left in the bag of tricks to mask the true state of affairs. There are rumors our there that the Federal Reserve will print a couple trillion more and buy up more bad assets – and that might put off the crash by 6 months or a year, but it only puts it off…and putting it off for a year from now means it hits a short 16 months before the voters judge Obama.

Its all become a rather sick joke, watching all this – one just sits back, laughs grimly and wonders how long they can keep the ball in the air.

Suing Arizona

Here’s the news report. The allegation from Holder’s racist and tyrannical “Justice” department is that the Arizona law violates the US Constitution. I’ve got $50 for anyone who can find me the provision of the US Constitution violated by Arizona’s law – here is the Constitution. Have at it.

I’ll be keeping my $50, of course – Holder’s claims are as bogus. The purpose of this exercise is to convince a segment of the hispanic population that only Democrats are on their side…and they’d better come out and vote Democrat in droves come this November. The laws of the United States are now conscripted to serve the needs of Obama and his Democrats.

Can’t get these cretins out of office fast enough…

UPDATE: RNC Chairman Michael Steele responds:

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement today:

“It is unfortunate that President Obama and his administration would rather wage a costly legal battle with Arizona than allow the state to take the concrete steps necessary to secure its border. Arizonans are fed up with waiting for the help promised by Washington that never seems to come. The state of Arizona has the right and the responsibility to provide security and stability for its citizens when the federal government fails to do so. Not only will a lawsuit not solve the problem, it is just another instance of hollow, political gamesmanship from a White House unwilling to take the bold action necessary to solve one of the country’s most pressing issues.”

Out and About on a Tuesday Morning

Religion of Peace Update.

Slander, 101.

$1,333,333.00: the cost of an Obamunism “green job”.

The rains in Spain may fall mostly on the plains, but the Spanish banks seem set to fall on their bad home loans.

Dogpile on the RNC Chairman: GOProud joins chorus for Steele’s resignation. I agree that his comments about Afghanistan were off the mark – but I’m not ready to go that route at this time.

More on RNC: Lowry opines on his plight.

What am I on about in economics? Here ya go.

Iowahawk strikes again – “When no one is looking, make non-profit organization profitable”

Liberal Fascists at DU Suppress Dissent

From the Washington Examiner:

…Case in point is Democratic Underground (aka DU), a liberal discussion forum started in 2001 that, up until recently, was united in its hatred for former president George W. Bush. But now that many Democrats have withdrawn their support of Obama, DU responded last week with regulations on how its users may express opinions about the current occupant of the Oval Office and Democrats generally.

It turns out Democratic Underground is a safe haven for all Democrats too faithful to their party to say anything beyond “constructive criticism” of Obama or other Democrats in office. The last thing they need is another voice telling them that maybe Obama should have factored hurricanes into the oil cleanup plans. Oh, and don’t you dare think about calling our president “Barry.”…

Barry would be proud – the kooks at DU now fully understand that with the Cult of Personality comes the Dictatorship of the (leftwing) Blogitariat.

DU is free to make whatever rules they like – freedom of speech does not mean that people can write whatever they want in blog comments. But I do recall the rather vile anti-Bush sentiments expressed at DU on a regular basis and it is a bit surprising that even mild criticism of Obama is being purged. You’d think they’d have tougher skins over there – I mean, once you’ve called the President a war criminal, any other sort of criticism directed at the Chief Executive becomes relatively mild. Even when we were Blogs for Bush, we allowed a wide range of criticism of President Bush to appear on the blog.

The true believers are hunkering down – getting in to mental bomb shelters, ever more disconnected from reality. It’ll make the November results all the more entertaining – always love it when liberals are shocked by election results.

Poll: 60% Want ObamaCare Repealed

So much for the DNC talking point that ObamaCare is getting more popular:

Sixty percent (60%) of voters nationwide favor repeal of the recently passed health care law, including 49% who Strongly Favor repeal.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 36% oppose repeal. That figure includes 24% who are Strongly Opposed…

The big question: is the GOP really listening? We need to actively campaign on a repeal of ObamaCare. Highlight its horrors and the corruption surrounding its passage, while offering a replacement which will actually put people in charge of their own health care. On this issue as on immigration, the conventional wisdom that the GOP should stay away is wrong – the people are not open to our views, but are actually marching far ahead of where the GOP plan is.

Liberalism thought it has won another 60 years of political dominance in 2008 – that was a crucial error. They could have got it, had they moderated their plans and worked with the center – but, they went flat out and have now discovered that the tilt to the left was in response to GOP failure, not support for liberal plans.

We have to hammer them – every day; liberalism is becoming political kryptonite again.

The Scrappy Grandmother vs the Majority Leader

For all you non-Nevadans out there, we like her for the very reasons the left and the political elite hate her – George Will on Sharron Angle:

… when asked where she was born, she is on message: “I was conceived in Lovelock [Nevada] but — if you’re not pro-life — I was born in Klamath Falls [Oregon].” During her four terms in Nevada’s 42-seat Assembly, many votes were “41-to-Angle.” She wears as a badge of honor having been voted Nevada’s worst legislator, a disparagement she says is always bestowed on a conservative because the voters are members of the press and the political class (the legislators and their staff).

Her favorite legislators? U.S. Sens. Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann…

…Angle is somebody nobody sent. Nobody in the upper reaches of national or even Nevada politics, that is. But voters may not be finished sending her places.

We are entirely realistic. We know she’s not as smooth as Sue Lowden would have been. We know she’s taken controversial positions that we true-blue conservatives cheer but which some might misconstrue (especially with the left deliberately misrepresenting said positions). We know she’s inexperienced in the hammer-and-tongs electoral battle Reid will give her. We know she could lose whereas if we had voted for Lowden, it might have been a walk over.

And we don’t care about that.

She’s one of us. We know that if we get her in to the Senate, she’s going to remain loyal to the principles she proclaims and to the people who elected her. We expect that we’ll be throwing a political hand grenade in to the “collegial” (ie, “corrupt”) Senate. We want a pistol-packing, rural grandma who won’t roll over for career politicians.

And, we think she can win – and win rather handily. Obama and his Democrats claimed they were who we had been waiting for – Sharron Angle really is.

McCain Hits Afgan Withdrawal Timetable

Showing, once again, that the best man doesn’t always win – from Breitbart:

US Senator John McCain Sunday slammed the July 2011 target for beginning to pull US troops out of Afghanistan, saying setting a firm date for withdrawal would raise questions about US commitment there.

“I’m concerned about the perception of our friends and our enemies as well as the people in Afghanistan, as to the depth of our commitment,” McCain told ABC news in an interview from Kabul.

The Republican lawmaker and former prisoner of war said the policy of announcing a planned draw down date was a “bad idea,” and that the United States should only leave Afghanistan when the country is stable enough to maintain a strong government.

Which is the only sensible thing to do – but good sense is in short supply in DC these days. I recall watching a short bit of the Petraeus confirmation hearings where I believe it was Sen. Leahy (D-VT) who said that time tables proved their worth in Iraq. A statement more at variance with the facts would be harder to find – it was because President Bush stubbornly resisted Democrat attempts at setting a time table that we were able to win, at all. Obama’s July, 2011 time table just sets the date for our defeat.

The enemy is just waiting until we leave and our friends – actual and prospective – in the area are trimming their sails to the withdrawal date. This is what bin Laden was on about when he talked of strong and weak horses – the strong horse isn’t necessarily the fastest or more muscular horse, but the horse with the greatest endurance. Right now, we’ve set a limit to our endurance, and our enemies are determined to last just one day longer.

General Petraeus has signaled that he doesn’t mean to hold to the July, 2011 time table, and that is good. But the ultimate decision isn’t his, it belongs to President Obama. The President must, in public, set aside July, 2011 and commit to victory…which may, by the way, come sooner than July of 2011 if we show that we’re not going to quit. People would much prefer a peace based upon our ideals than upon the Taliban’s – but they’ll swallow the Taliban if there is no other choice.

Right now, for them, there is no other choice – we must change that.

Poll: 52% of New Yorkers Oppose Ground Zero Mosque

From Quinnipiac:

New York City voters oppose 52 – 31 percent a proposal by a Muslim group to build a mosque and cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Another 17 percent are undecided.

Opinions about the proposed mosque range from 46 – 36 percent support among Manhattan voters to 73 – 14 percent opposition in Staten Island, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds…

It is just plain and simple wrong-headed for any Moslems, anywhere, to think that a mosque in proximity to Ground Zero is a good idea – and the fact that a Moslem group is trying to do it demonstrates the level of contempt they have for America.

This, in turn, stems from the way Moslems view non-Moslems as, in varied hues, scum of the Earth. Remember, no non-Moslem is to be allowed in Mecca. The very presence of you, dear reader, is an intolerable pollution. Small wonder that Moslems would want to deliberately insult the memory of the non-Moslem dead by building a mosque close to Ground Zero.

I don’t care how it gets stopped, but it must be stopped – no mosque at Ground Zero, not now and not until the Moslem world ceases to view non-Moslems as filth…until, as I’ve said before, a church is freely operating in Mecca.