Signs Of The Times

The articles that I post is because I think they are of interest to someone else. By posting these articles doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree with every—or any—opinion in the posted article. ~~~~


Several private billboard signs beside a major highway near Chehalis, Washington that fairly well explains it like it is.

Arizona Truck

Do you think this guy is a little upset?

DISCLOSE Act Defeated in Senate

Thursday, September 23, 2010

The U.S. Senate today defeated the so-called DISCLOSE Act when it failed to garner the 60 votes necessary to overcome Republican objections to the bill. The final vote was 59-39.

Even though the exact same bill, sponsored by Chuck Schumer (D-NY), had been defeated just two months ago and was unlikely to pass, anti-gun Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) brought it up for another vote to "stir up" his left-wing base.

Instead of protecting the most important type of speech protected by the First Amendment -- political speech -- with this bill Congress attempted to force groups like GOA to "disclose" the names of donors in certain political advertisements.

Since Gun Owners of America will never disclose its membership lists to the federal government, it could be prohibited from running radio or TV ads exposing a federal candidate's voting record in the weeks leading up to an election.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) aptly summed up the bill when it came to the floor in July:

"This DISCLOSE Act is not about reform, it's nothing more than Democrats sitting behind closed doors [choosing] which favored groups they want to speak in the 2010 elections -- all in an attempt to protect themselves from criticism of their government takeovers, record deficits and massive unpaid-for expansions of the federal government into the lives of the American people."

With a lame-duck session of Congress looming after the election, anything is possible -- including another attempt to push through DISCLOSE. So please stay tuned.

Quote of the Century!

"We can absorb a terrorist attack." ~~ Barack Hussein Obama

What that quote tells me is; that Obama is saying that American lives are worthless in his view and that he does not care about people dying! Don't you feel safer already knowing this?  


I have heard a lot of talk about Obama being an excellent wordsmith and that's how he got elected to office. So with him choosing words like that, it has become apparent that it's all for him and has nothing to do with the American people.

Who Are The 81 Socialists In Congress?

Who Are The 81 Socialists In Congress?

Introduction:

Before we answer the question posed above, it is vitally important to understand that those within the radical left wing movement in America today no longer call themselves "socialists" or "communists" (or even "liberals" in some cases).

The radical left wing has rebranded itself as the "Progressive Movement" and "Progressives" are presently operating at the highest levels in our government and advancing their socialist ideology, while shielded from the vilifying labels of "communism" and "socialism". Why was rebranding necessary? Why do socialists and communists now call themselves "Progressives"? Part of the answer can be found in a recent PEW Research Center survey which indicated that 68% of Americans react positively to the word "Progressive" while only 23% have a negative reaction. On the other hand, 59% of Americans have a negative reaction to the word "Socialism" while only 29% have a positive reaction to the word.

But don't be confused by the name change. Slick marketing does not change the fact that the terms "Progressive" and "Socialist" are virtually synonymous in politics today; nor does it change the fact that the most prominent manifestation of the socialist (progressive) political machine today, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), presently holds the reins of power and constitutes the largest voting block of Democrats

in House of Representatives. This group of 81 representatives and senators has deep and long-standing ties to the socialist movement in America and is presently pushing its Marxist agenda into legislation, strategically dismantling the constitution in the process.
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"In more recent years, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has gone underground in respect to their connection to the Democratic Socialists of America. Their roster is no longer published on the DSA website and they no longer publicly acknowledge their loyalty to the socialist organization."

– Jeremiahproject.com [1]
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The most recent example of pushing this Marxist agenda into legislation is the passing of the so-called health care reform bill. CPC members pushed this bill, nurtured it and rammed it down our throats through parliamentary trickery in the dark of night… not to reform health care, but rather, to transform the United States into a socialist country. Throughout the rest of this report, we will examine the history and membership of the CPC (and a complete list of CPC members can be found at the conclusion of this report).

We will expose the CPC's deeply held socialist beliefs, and its close ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, (DSA) a group committed to neo-Marxist ideology. We will also expose the CPC's role in the dangerous, and perhaps treasonous, global socialist movement, and the CPC's ties to Socialist International (SI), whose members seek world domination.

              The Congressional Progressive Caucus – A Socialist Collective:

As previously mentioned, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is perhaps the most powerful, caucus within the United States Congress with over 80 declared members, and works to advance progressive issues and positions.

The Caucus is co-chaired by Representatives Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).

Of the 20 standing committees of the House of the House of Representatives, 11 are chaired by members of the CPC. [2]

The CPC's founding statement highlights a list of bold initiatives that are intended to consolidate power, out of the hands of citizens and into the grip of the government, and centralize the planning of our economy.

The founding statement of purpose also calls for so-called "social justice" and promotes the redistribution of wealth through higher taxation on corporations and wealthy individuals. Of course, placing such an unfair burden on successful companies is merely a means to an end.

Ironically, the ultimate purpose of such wealth redistribution is not to level the playing field for all Americans, but rather, to strangle productivity and legalize government meddling in all major industry, as we are currently seeing in the auto, banking, and oil industries. In short, the ultimate purpose is control. Another goal outlined in the CPC's founding statement is the re-allotment of military spending. At a time when our enemies are more determined and focused than ever, the CPC intends to weaken our military presence in the world. This makes perfect sense from the perspective of the larger goal of installing a global socialist regime to manage the affairs of the world. And for that to happen, the American military must be subjugated to the demands of the "common global good".

Another tenant of the CPC is to create an ever-growing government that seeks to control the everyday lives of American families. The founding platform calls for a "substantial increase in federal funding for social programs".

[2] Through instituting massive tax increases, the CPC seeks to control everything; the health care we receive… the food we eat… and even the manner in which we worship. Exemplified by the current government takeover of health care, this faction of congressional leaders is succeeding in penetrating into key facets of our lives. It has begun its intrusion into religion by seeking to legalize the perversion of marriage and criminalize speech which runs counter to the radical homosexual political agenda. This is also obviously a pruning of the cherished tenant of free speech. The non-profit organization most closely associated with the Congressional Progressive Caucus is the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation, which works to connect the caucus to progressives outside the Congress.

Although officially bi-partisan, the group's mission is to raise funds and support progressive legislation in the House of Representatives. [2] Additionally, the CPC is also populated by members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), whose agenda is markedly anti-capitalist, and ironically neither Democratic nor American.

The History of the CPC:

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) was established in 1991 by six members of the United States House of Representatives:
Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Ron Dellums (DCA), Lane Evans (D-IL),
Thomas Andrews (D-ME), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Maxine Waters (D-CA).

The founding members reasoned their agenda was necessitated by the economic hardshipimposed by the deepening recession. What better apparatus to use than the Democratic Party to advance the directives of the DSA? The CPC may soft-pedal its Socialist ideology in the new Congress, but a 1999 position paper on economic inequality clearly shows their rejection of capitalism and the free market.

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"On November 11, 1999, the Progressive Caucus drafted its Position Paper on economic inequality. It reads, in part, as follows: 'Economic inequality is the result of two and a half decades of government policies and rules governing the economy being tilted in favor of large asset owners at the expense of wage earners. Tax policy, trade policy, monetary policy, government regulations and other rules have reflected this pro-investor bias. We propose the introduction or reintroduction of a package of
legislative initiatives that will close America's economic divide and address both income and wealth disparities.'"[3]

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And clearly, CPC members in Congress have already taken advantage of the current financial crisis to push for the regulation of major industries, Wall Street, our health care system, the auto industry and seek to control just about every other industry through the promoting of so-called Cap and Trade legislation.

In 2005 the Progressive Caucus crafted its "Progressive Promise" document… a document which advocated the following positions:

-Establishing universal, government provided health care.
-Trade agreements that favor the rights foreign workers over Americans.
-The right of all workers to organize into labor unions and engage in collective bargaining.
-The abolition of the USA PATRIOT Act.
-The legalization of same-sex marriage.
-A complete pullout from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
-An increase in income tax rates.
-An increase in welfare spending by the federal government.

As you can readily see, many of these positions are being transformed into policy right before our very eyes; and additionally, these positions are extremely similar in scope and posture to those of the DSA.

The Democratic Socialists of America

The CPC has deep connections to the Democratic Socialists of America and openly promotes its ideology. The DSA is the socialist organization in America today with thousands of members working to bring about the end of our republic as we know it. In 1999 WorldNetDaily.com reported that the DSA hosted the website of the CPC.

Within days of the publication of this report, the CPC removed its site from the DSA server and information connecting the organizations was then washed from the websites of the CPC and DSA. Despite this cursory attempt to distance themselves for one another, the DSA and the Progressive Caucus remain intimately linked. 

Seventy of the 83 Progressive Caucus members also belong to DSA. [4]

Don't be fooled by the use of the word "democratic". It is really nothing more than a red herring meant to distance this socialist movement from its true leftist roots. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the socialist movement in American has stumbled forward achieving some small measure of success, at various times, in fits and starts. Of course, left wing radicals have never had an enduring socialist organization in America. The DSA was formed in 1983 from the merger of two foundering socialist groups, The New American Movement (NAM) and The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC).

To go even deeper and really take the mask off of the DSA, to reveal its true colors, we must also take a look at a group called Socialists International, (SI). The DSA is the American arm of this world-wide organization. Its agenda is basically to install a one-world order to manage global trade and environmental resources and impose
its will on all people regardless of national or regional government. "Ever since its inception in 1951, the Socialist International has made cosmetic efforts to distance itself from communist socialists. It continues to do so, sprinkling its calls for socialism and global governance with assurances of support for 'democratic' principles. However, its democratic bona fides and its supposed opposition to totalitarian socialism are as threadbare today as they ever have been."

NewAmerican.com [5]

Bolstered by the ear of a sympathetic regime which has usurped the White House, SI now has tremendous influence… the likes of which it has never enjoyed. In addition to the White House, SI, through the CPC, has the ear of more than 30 percent of the Democratic Majority in the House of Representatives… almost 20 percent of the entire House of Representatives.

Who Are The Socialists In Congress?

Some of the key players (past and present) in this hostile group (the CPC) are profiled below.

Nancy Pelosi was the chair of the CPC until she was elected Speaker of the House. She is also a member of the DSA. Pelosi's record attests to her anticapitalist, pro-union positions, winning her a 93% approval rating from the ACLU. Her socialist leanings are clear. Consider the following comments Pelosi made on property rights during an appearance on Meet The Press which are summarized below in an article appearing in Human Events.

[According to Pelosi] If we put offshore drilling on the table, we get to put a whole lot of other issues on the table, like tax breaks for oil companies, and even levying new taxes on oil companies for using the oil that "belongs to the American people." She went on and on for 5 minutes talking about how these oil companies profit off of oil that "is the American people's"... Nancy forgot, this country is based on ~240 years of PROPERTY OWNERSHIP, including mineral rights. [6]

Bernie Sanders is the mastermind and founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a self-described socialist. In 1990 Bernie Sanders, who ran for local office previously as a Socialist, was elected to the House of Representatives as an Independent. Sanders served eight terms in the House. In 2004 he won 69% of the vote against Democratic and Republican challengers and was elected to the senate. Just before his election to the U.S. Senate, again, as an Independent, the 65-year-old New York transplant was asked by a Washington Post reporter: "Are you now or have you ever been a Socialist?" Sanders replied, "Yeah. I wouldn't deny it. Not for one second."

Barak Obama is no longer an official member of the CPC since he is no longer a Member of Congress. Obama's socialist backing was a significant factor in his meteoric political rise. As reported by Cliff Kincaid with Accuracy in Media.

"Obama's socialist backing goes back at least to 1996, when he received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for an Illinois state senate seat .... Obama's stint as a "community organizer" in Chicago has gotten some attention, but his relationship with the DSA socialists, who groomed and backed him, has been generally ignored." [8]

Conclusion

With the sweeping changes that are coming about, forced on us by left wing ideological radicals who have taken over our government, it is easy to give up hope and believe that we should barricade ourselves in a compound with muskets and provisions. However if the people of America who believe in the founding principles of this country… who believe in the ideals of personal and religious freedom… who believe in the God given rights of liberty… can realize the true socialist threat that confronts us, we can expose it for what it truly is and defeat it. So feel free, now that you have this exclusive report, to distribute it widely. Print it out and share it with your friends and associates. Email it to those that you know. Together, we can spread the truth and the Truth shall set us free.

Current members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

Co-Chairs:

Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs:

Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Hon. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)

Senate Members:

Hon. Roland Burris (IL)
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
Hon. Tom Udall (NM)

House Members:

Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Judy Chu (CA-32)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William "Lacy" Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Alcee Hastings (FL-23)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jim Moran (VA-08)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Frank Pallone (NJ-06)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Jared Polis (CO-02)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-39)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)

Notable Past Member:
Barack Hussein Obama

Organizations Promoted On The CPC Website There's an old expression; you are known by the company you keep. The organizations listed below are listed on the CPC website as movers-and-shakers within the "Progressive political arena". While most of them are obscure, some names such as ACORN, the NAACP, MoveOn.org, LaRaza, the ACLU, Amnesty International, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club and a host of others are well known.

The listing of others, such as the American Library Association, might even surprise you. Again, the inclusion of these fellow travelers is not exhaustive, nor is it based on the personal opinions of the writers and publishers or this report. The organizations below are prominently listed on the CPC website as organizations which promote the "progressive" agenda.

State Progressive Caucuses

Kansas Progressive Caucus
http://www.kansasprogressives.org/
Arizona Progressive Democrats
http://www.progressiveazdems.org/
California Progressive Caucus
http://www.progressivecaucuscdp.org/
Colorado Progressives
http://www.pdcolorado.org/
Idaho Progressive Caucus
http://www.idahoprogressives.org/
Illinois Progressives
http://www.illinoisprogressives.org/pdi/
Kentucky Progressive Democratic Caucus
http://www.kentuckyprogressives.org/
Louisiana
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LAFCCS
Maine Progressives
http://www.mainecaucus.net/
Michigan - The Justice Caucus
http://www.justicecaucus.org/index.htm
Minnesota Progressives
http://progressivecaucus.net/
Missouri Progressives
http://www.missouridems.org/local.asp?g=ProgressiveCaucusofMissouri
North Carolina Progressives
http://greendogs.org/
Ohio Progressive Democratic Caucus
http://www.ohioprogressives.org/
South Carolina Progressive Caucus
http://www.scprogressive.com/
Texas progressives
http://www.texaspopulists.com/
Utah Progressives
http://www.udpc.org/
Washington State Progressive Caucus
http://www.waprogressives.org/
Washington State Progressive Caucuses
http://www.pdcw.org/index.php
The Progressive Democrats of Wisconsin
http://www.wisconsinprogressives.org/index.htm
Progressive Caucus of Democrats Abroad
http://progda.org/
Organizations
American Prospect
http://www.prospect.org/
Americans for Democratic Action
http://www.adaction.org
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
http://www.afop.org
Buzzflash
http://www.buzzflash.com/
Campaign for America's Future
http://www.ourfuture.org
Center For American Progress
http://www.americanprogress.org/
Center for Progressive Leadership
http://www.progressleaders.org
Citizen Works
http://www.citizenworks.org/
Common Dreams News Center
http://www.commondreams.org/
Hip Hop Caucus
http://www.hiphopcaucus.org
In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/
Institute for Policy Studies
http://www.ips-dc.org
League of United Latin American Citizens
http://www.lulac.org
Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/
Moveon.org
http://www.moveon.org
Moving Ideas
http://www.movingideas.org
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
http://www.naacp.org
National Council of LaRaza
http://www.nclr.org
OneWorld
http://www.oneworld.net
Progressive Democrats of America
http://www.pdamerica.org
Progressive Majority
http://www.progressivemajority.org
Progressive Populist
http://www.populist.com/
Public Citizen
http://www.citizen.org/
Public Interest Research Groups
http://www.pirg.org/
Rainbow Push Coalition
http://www.rainbowpush.org
The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/
The Progressive
http://www.progressive.org/
True Majority
http://www.truemajority.org
Budget and Taxes
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
http://www.cbpp.org/
Citizens for Tax Justice
http://www.ctj.org/
OMB Watch
http://www.ombwatch.org/
Civil and Human Rights
ADA Watch
http://www.adawatch.org/
Alliance for Justice
http://www.allianceforjustice.org
American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/
American Library Association
http://www.ala.org
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/
Child Labor Education and Action Project
http://clea.sit.edu
Human Rights Campaign
http://www.hrc.org
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
http://www.jointcenter.org/
People for the American Way
http://www.pfaw.org/
Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.splcenter.org/
Elections and Voting
Center for Voting and Democracy
http://www.fairvote.org/
Common Cause
http://www.commoncause.org/
Public Campaign
http://www.publiccampaign.org/
Environment and Energy
Friends of the Earth
http://www.foe.org
Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
Center for International Policy
http://www.ciponline.org/
Development Gap
http://www.developmentgap.org
Foreign Policy in Focus
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/
Housing and Hunger
Second Harvest
http://www.secondharvest.org/
Labor and Economics
ACORN
http://www.acorn.org
AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/
Center for Law and Social Policy
http://www.clasp.org/
CorpWatch
http://www.corpwatch.org/
Dollars and Sense
http://www.igc.apc.org/dollars/
Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/
Financial Markets Center
http://www.fmcenter.org/
Free the Children
http://www.freethechildren.org/
Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/
Jobs with Justice
http://www.jwj.org/
National Jobs for All Coalition
http://www.njfac.org/
National Labor Committee
http://www.nlcnet.org/
National Priorities Project
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/
The Multinational Monitor
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/

Sources

1. http://www.jeremiahproject.com/trashingamerica/progressive.html
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Remember January 3rd, 2007 The Day The Democrats Took Over!

I wonder how many people know this? The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 -- it was actually January 3rd 2007. The day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives & Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. "For those of you who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault," think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress: At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6% George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION! Remember the day. January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES! THANK YOU DEMOCRATS for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOS! (BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy). And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA & the Democratic Congress So when some idiot tries to blame Bush REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007 THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER! Bush may have been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were driving. "It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so." ~~Ronald Reagan

Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation

~~ by Gary Hubbel

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America 's future.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America . Here's why.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.

Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.

We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.

A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 "FANTASTIC" years--- the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. 


And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.

Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website, aspenranchrealestate.com

Reconciliation

The articles that I post is because I think they are of interest to someone else. By posting these articles doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree with every—or any—opinion in the posted article.

It's not about what the people want, it's all about what the royalty wants!

"What's Happened?" We Figured Him Out

WE FIGURED HIM OUT! 

~~By Ben Stein

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths: The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.

They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith. They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright. They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Why were we duped, you ask? Because it is in the character and personality of an ego-centered Narcissist to be believed. They accept no contrary opinions. They have a 100% conviction in their own opinion and beliefs. They typically are well spoken and have a certain amount of charisma. They are adept at twisting and spinning any thought into their own mold. He rallied much of the non-Caucasian and youth vote. Why? Because he preached change. This element of voters either feel they needed change, or in the case of the young voters, they didn't have enough experience to fully understand 'change from and to what' but the charisma and rhetoric sold this 'load of poles'.  

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the  Middle East, way beyond naiveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future. The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away. 

These are perilous times. Mrs.Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost , America is lost. Wake up, beloved  America.

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in  Beverly Hills and  Malibu. He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American Spectator.

The title "WE FIGURED HIM OUT!" does not apply to me. I knew all about him for over a year. I'm teed off at those who put him there, for being either too lazy or too stupid to know better.

They may have ruined my country and yours.

Obama Didn't Inherit the Deficit, He Helped Create It!

The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush, blah blah blah.  Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this nonsense.

So once more, I'll try a short civics lesson.

Budgets do not come from the White House.  They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.  They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011.  In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.  For FY 2009, though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office.  At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time?  He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.

Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period:

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets.  That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending.  After that, Democrats in   Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.  If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell,  what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

Keep Your Feet Off the Desk!

The articles that I post is because I think they are of interest to someone else. By posting these articles doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree with every—or any—opinion in the posted article.

Does this photo of President Obama in the Oval Office convey anything about his attitude and arrogance? Would you speak with the Chief of Staff, your Chief Economics Adviser, your Senior Adviser, or anyone, with your feet up on the Resolute Desk - a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880? This arrogant, immature, self-centered man has no sense of honor, or simple decency. While this posture is disrespectful in any culture, it is not appropriate in any executive setting. Further, in over half of the cultures of the world, it is recognized not only as disrespectful, but as an extreme insult. He thinks of himself as a king, not as a servant of the people, humbly occupying our White House for his term in office. Electing him was an enormous mistake and will cost us in many ways, for generations.

Urgent News 4 Bloggers Everywhere

The terrible news about the upcoming arrest of Lionheart UK reached my inbox in the wee hours of Friday, January 4, 2008:

Hi AOW

I just wanted to let you know that I am being arrested by the British police because of my blog.

As Pamela stated in her post on the topic at Atlas Shrugs,

[Lionheart] has been a warrior on the war on the jihad in the UK and exposed the drug running that funded Islamic jihad in Britain and posted on the tsunami of sharia enveloping his beloved country. The Brits have submitted to Islam and they mean to shut down anyone who speaks for freedom, justice and liberty. Silencing the daring truth tellers...."Hate speech" legislation is the club the political elites will wield to club us into submission.

From Lionheart's first post on the charges against him:

I am currently out of the Country and on my return home to England I am going to be arrested by British detectives on suspicion of Stirring up Racial Hatred by displaying written material" contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986.

This charge if found guilty carries a lengthy prison sentence, more than what most paedophiles and rapists receive, and all for writing words of truth about the barbarity that is living in the midst of our children, which threatens the very future of our Country.

What has become of my homeland, the land my forefathers fought and died for on the battlefields of the world when one of their children is forced into the position of facing years in prison for standing up for what is right and just within British society.

[...]

This arrest and potential imprisonment is what now awaits me at the start of 2008, and this is what now awaits every other blogger in Great Britain who writes the truth about the modern war that is now unfolding against us, our children and the British homeland by the State (Labour government) sanctioned and protected enemy that is living in our midst - The Islamic Kingdom.

Go read it all. And, for as long as Lionheart can continue to post, read the subsequent posts as well by visiting new posts at the top of his home page.

COPY THIS POST AND/OR LINK BACK TO IT. SEND OUT EMAILS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTENANCES. GET THE WORD OUT AS TO WHAT'S HAPPENING TO LION HEART UK!

Additional information: The Gathering Storm Radio Show's interview with Lion Heart UK (first half hour). We plan another interview with Lion Heart on January 18, 2008. Listen to the voice which is about to be silenced!

hattip: alwaysonwatch