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Its not what you might think. Mike Shedlock links to a video of Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) giving a speech to New Jersey’s mayors on the need to cut spending. Here’s a quote:

In the time we got here, of the approximately $29 billion budget there was only $14 billion left. Of the $14 billion, $8 billion could not be touched because of contracts with public worker unions, because of bond covenants, because of commitments we made accepting stimulus money. So we had to find a way to save $2.3 billion in a $6 billion pool of money.

When I went into the treasurer’s off in the first two weeks of my term, there was no happy meetings. They presented me with 378 possible freezes and lapses to be able to balance the budget. I accepted 375 of them.

There is a great deal of discussion about me doing that by executive action. Every day that went by was a day where money was going out the door such that the $6 billion pool was getting less and less. So something needed to be done.

People did not send me here to talk, the people sent me here to do…

…There’s no time left. We have no room left to borrow. We have no room left to tax. So we merely have room left now, to do this. We are all reaching the edge of a cliff. And it reminds me a bit of that part of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where the had a seminal decision to make. So what did they do? They held hands and they jumped off the cliff.

We have to hold hands at every level of government, state county, municipal, school board. We have to hold hands and jump off the cliff.

I firmly believe we will land and we will be fine. It does not mean it will not be a scary ride on the way down. And it does not mean there won’t be moments of fear and moments of apprehension.

But for certain, the troops of the decades of overspending and overborrowing and overtaxing have gained on us. So the ruination of New Jersey’s economy, and of the quality of life we want all our citizens to have, is certain if we do not take this course.

Liberals believe we can’t swim (if you’ll recall the line from the movie) – that without massive and continual government spending, our whole economy will fly apart. You can hear it from Obama on down – if they hadn’t spent all that money in 2009 (and if they don’t spend more in 2010), then things would have been worse.

To be sure, the most recent GDP numbers would have been worse – but for the millions who have lost their job after Obama promised his spendulus would save their jobs, it could not have got worse. For the millions who’s home values have dropped like a rock, it could not have got worse. For the small businesses which had to close up shop, it could not have got worse. For the construction workers, it could not have got worse. On and on – sure, Obama’s banksters are riding high as are government employees. It could have got worse for them, that’s for sure.

You feel better that it didn’t?

It is time, in Governor Christie’s excellent phrasing, to hold hands and jump. It is time for us to dare to balance our budget – even if it means a massive number of programs will have to be cut, and half the employees of the federal government will have to be let go (if we did, it still wouldn’t equal even 1/6th of the private sector employees who have lost their jobs).

We can do this, Americans. If we could endure a Civil War and Great Depression and World War Two, then we can handle balancing our budget. Sure, it will be a bit frightening, for some – but the results will be good. I promise you, no one will starve, and no one will lack the basic necessities of life (and real necessities – the poor of America are currently very strange poor, as a very large number of them have computers and flat screen tv’s and late model cars): we Americans, holding hands, will take care of each other.

All we need is the political courage to do it – we need a President with the guts shown by Governor Christie, and a Congress willing to back the President up.

Against the slaughter of the African-American future at the hands of the pro-abortion movement:

The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is coming to the defense of a pro-life congressman who said last week that abortion has hurt the black community worse than slavery. She follows another pro-life African-American leader who says Rep. Trent Franks got it right.

Franks, who has sponsored legislation responding to the high rate of abortions in the African-American community, released a video last week.

“Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?” he says in it.

Franks has come under attack from abortion advocates and the mainstream media, but Dr. Alveda King, whose uncle was the famed civil rights leader, told LifeNews.com today that Franks has a good point.

“Congressman Franks’ comment that ‘far more of the African American community is being devastated’ by abortion ‘than were being devastated by the policies of slavery’ makes a quantitative distinction,” she said. “It’s not a judgment as to which of the two brutal, inhumane practices is worse, but rather which has impacted more people.”

Who is racist? The liberal who wants to government to pay for a black woman to have an abortion, or the conservative who wants to welcome the black child in to the world? Rhetoric vs Reality – and the stark, disgusting reality is that liberals are and have long been the bane of America’s black community.

You can talk all you want about “social justice”. It doesn’t matter to the aborted baby. You can talk all you want about using affirmative action to correct historic wrongs. It doesn’t matter to the aborted baby. You can talk all you want about what wonderful things you’ll do for minorities. It doesn’t matter to the aborted baby. Only if someone is allowed to live does it matter – until liberals become uniformly pro-life, all their talk of helping the downtrodden is just so much garbage.

This seems to be spreading:

We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives.

Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush…

The author, Chris Hedges, goes on for a bit on how Obama was supposed to stop all those evil, wicked and mean Bush policies – you know, how we became this fascist dictatorship wantonly blowing up the world for no good reason. The usual tripe from “progressives” about Bush and the Republicans. But its clear that he’s disappointed in his man Obama – and as he puts Obama’s lies first (with, of course, a dig at President Bush – who didn’t lie, but such basic facts don’t matter on the left), prior to running down the list of alleged Bush sins to be corrected, I think we’re seeing a real crisis on the left.

What I’m wondering is if the people on the left are finally waking up to the fact that their leaders are only in it for the power, prestige and wealth it brings them? When you have people who devote their whole lives to politics – such as Obama, Reid and Pelosi – you naturally get people who will do just about anything to stay in power, and increase their power, and rake in a few bucks, in to the bargain.

Back a century ago, American progressives – they were more honest them, and called themselves socialists – were a much more respectable group. Their leader – Eugene V. Debs – was an honest man who lived the spartan life one would expect from a dedicated socialist. Today’s leaders of the left are either born to great wealth (Ted Kennedy) or mysteriously manage to amass great wealth (Harry Reid) while serving in office.

The progressives just don’t figure it out – never figure out just why most liberal leaders don’t go near leftist rhetoric in an election year: they want the votes and the donations, but only because they gets them in to power, or higher up in power. And, sure, they’ll fund liberal programs like no tomorrow – but only because buying votes with taxpayer money is one of their ways of winning election.

One wonders: did they really think that Obama was going to go after the banksters? Really shut down the magnificently successful Bush anti-terror policies just because some rank-and-file liberals had been conned in to thinking that the people were being spied on and terrorists were being tortured? Really conduct a transparent government when such transparency would spill the beans about just how liberal leaders conduct themselves?

Given the anger we’re seeing, I have to figure they did. They believed the Hope and Change mantra. They believed in Obama – that is hard for us on the right to understand, as we saw through his scam early on – and nothing is more heart-breaking than to have an icon collapse.

What will come of it? Hard to say – progressives do have a very sheep-like mentality and they may just gripe but follow…or, they may split the Democrat party. Time will tell.

Fighting the good fight:

On the floor of the Senate, Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky just defended the position he’s taken that has delayed an extension of jobless benefits for the nation’s unemployed and has forced the furlough of about 2,000 federal workers.

Saying that he has blocked votes on the legislation to underscore his opposition to the ongoing growth in federal debt, Bunning read a letter from “Robert in Louisville,” who told the senator that even though he hasn’t been working regularly in the past two years he supports what Bunning is doing.

Guess what, Democrats? There isn’t an infinite amount of money – not if we fired up the printing presses full time and borrowed every red cent from the Chinese. Life isn’t a fairy tale with pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – its about trade-offs and priorities.

Bunning, after all, is just holding you to your own words – you said you wanted to pay as you go. Well, here’s your chance. None of us want the unemployed to go without benefits, but as there isn’t a magic money tree, we have to decide what do we want more:

Unemployment benefits, or funding for PBS?

Unemployment benefits, or Bureau of Land Management?

Unemployment benefits, or Department of Energy, Environmental Management?

Unemployment benefits, or Department of Labor, Training and Employment Service?

Unemployment benefits, or Corporation for National and Community Service?

Remember, you can’t have everything. Its just not possible. Time to grow up and be big boys and girls and realize that some hard choices need to be made.

Of course, you won’t. You’ll instead go on a whine about how mean we Republicans are. Trouble for you is that the majority isn’t buying that nonsense, any more. We know the scam – if we don’t immediately give you want you want, people will die. We know its all BS – you just don’t want to set priorities. Well, we’ll set them for you – starting on January 3rd, 2011.

You’re turning our Blue States, Red:

Barack Obama now has a negative approval rating in every state he flipped from the Bush column to his in 2008. In each of those places his level of support is now in the 44-46% range. It’s probably a good thing he doesn’t have to run for reelection this year. He can only hope things start turning around for him once the midterms are in the rear view mirror, much as they did for Bill Clinton.

Only took a bit more than a year for our erring sisters to figure Obama out – and now these States are receding rapidly from Obama; and they won’t be back in 2012, even if the economy improves. All that political polarization is just going to get stronger, thanks to Obama’s relentless liberalism. Its very hard to switch a negative view back to a positive one.

This doesn’t mean Obama can’t win in 2012 – but it does mean that its back to Ohio and Florida calling the shots. For now. Obama keeps going like this and we might get a repeat of the last Carter Administration…

Makes me wonder just how long it has been since someone advised her of the difference between truth and lies:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted on Friday that the Senate health care bill does not allow tax-funding of abortion, and added that she had spoken with “Catholic bishops” about the issue. However, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told CNSNews.com that anyone who had spoken to the bishops about the legislation should know that it does fund abortion and that the bishops oppose the bill.

Dishonesty, thy name is Nancy.

Who is she trying to impress? The folks back home? I doubt that pleasing Catholics is high on the San Francisco agenda. I can only guess that she’s hoping to limit Catholic voter defections in November – as the Church has gotten ever more forthright on the moral duties of politicians who claim to be Catholic, it has become ever harder for such politicians to try and split the moral difference. The days of Ted Kennedy getting away with it for decades are over.

In addition to that, I do wonder why liberals are so determined to insert at least some sort of abortion funding in to ObamaCare? Is the bill not quite unpopular enough? I know the abortion industry lavishes money on the Democrats, but is pleasing them worth angering political moderates who are opposed to federal funding for abortion?

Or, is it that they are just insane? So convinced that they deserve their power and can’t lose it that they just don’t care? I guess time will tell on that.

All in the name of faux science:

Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their daughter and her toddler brother before killing themselves.

Their son Francisco, two, died instantly after being hit in the back.

However, their unnamed daughter cheated death after the bullet from her father’s handgun missed her vital organs.

Police were alerted by worried neighbours who discovered the massacre three days after the shooting and the girl was taken to hospital.

The youngster is recovering in hospital in the town of Goya in the northern Argentine province of Corrientes, where doctors say she is out of danger.

Her parents said they feared the effects of global warming in a suicide note discovered by police.

So not only have Algore and the warmers cost our society untold billions of dollars in wasted money, people are now committing suicide, feeling themselves unworthy of life itself as a result of the failed religion of global warming.

Despite the fact that the data behind the faux science of global warming have been fudged, disproved, and outright falsified, the high priest of the Church of the Global Warmers, Algore, remains a bitter clinger:

I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.

It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.

But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.

Or is that unhinged?

Word to “Reverend Al”–not only are people bankrupting themselves–they’re starting to kill themselves over your faux religion.

Think you can tone down the rhetoric?

**Update**

In response to Mark’s comment regarding Algore’s carbon credit scam, the NY Times bio for Algore says it all:

Al Gore, the vice president from 1993 to 2001, is the founder of the Alliance for Climate Protection and the author of �Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.� As a businessman, he is an investor in alternative energy companies.

You know the news is going to be bad when the White House is preemptively making excuses for the numbers.

White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Monday winter blizzards were likely to distort U.S. February jobless figures, which are due to be released on Friday.

“The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics. So it’s going to be very important … to look past whatever the next figures are to gauge the underlying trends,” Summers said in an interview with CNBC, according to a transcript.

Construction activity was hit particularly hard by the storms, but many restaurants and stores also had to close, putting the brakes on hiring plans and temporarily throwing some employees out of work.

My guess? We’re back to 10.0% or more unemployment.

He’s keeping his gavel:

When campaigning in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said that a vote for Democratic control of Congress would bring the “most ethical Congress ever.” Now that one of their leadership has been caught violating ethics rules about accepting travel from lobbyists — precisely the kind of scandal Pelosi exploited in 2006 in the Jack Abramoff debacle — what does she plan to do about it? Er … nothing:

The House ethics committee decision to admonish Rangel for taking two corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean has turned up the heat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman — with even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying that Rangel’s actions don’t pass the “smell test.”…

…But the speaker also said that Rangel’s participation in the corporate-sponsored trips wasn’t something that had “jeopardized our country in any way,” and she made it clear that she has no intention of taking away Rangel’s chairmanship…

Because Nancy Pelosi rose to power by being corrupt. Because Rangel simply will not be punished by his constituents – and, ultimately, because liberals do not hold their own to account. As Matt and I pointed out in Caucus of Corruption, the only thing which makes Democrats move against one of their own is if there is a risk of electoral loss. Absent that, and Democrats will stand by their corrupt members.

And the rank and file will never abandon their liberal leaders – because they do as they’re told. Servile in mind and spirit and lacking skill in independent thinking, liberals just swallow whatever feces their bosses shove at them.

We will put an end to this – Rangel can keep his dirty mitts on that gavel, for now. But the day of reckoning is coming.

Pelosi to House Dems: “I’m in a safe seat and my pollsters are still telling me that there will be a Democrat majority after November – so the rest of you wavering Democrats darn well better vote for ObamaCare“.

Feingold in trouble?

Obama Greece-ing the skids to our own financial collapse.

Illegal funding of Planned Parenthood by the Colorado government – because, for liberals, abortion is more important than the law.

Take that, Tojo!

Farrakhan rambles on like a nut, but even more so than usual.

Latest entry in the Death of Civilization Watch: group nude photo of 5,200 people.