Listen up, Republicans! ~ By Burt Prelutsky

Burt reads the riot act to the Republicans, especially John McCain, for their coziness with the Democrats, and for not doing anything about health care when they controlled the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office between 2001 and 2007. Had they done things like tort reform or allowing health insurance to be purchased across state lines, the Democrats would have had no reason to take over another 1/6th of the economy.

If you're going to run in 2010, I, for one, want you to sign a written pledge regarding where you stand and how you'll vote on everything from Iran to the Second Amendment, and I'd like it notarized.

Frankly, if I had to choose between, say, an Arizona Democrat or a fellow like John McCain, who's in favor of shutting down Gitmo, opposes waterboarding Islamic terrorists, opposes drilling for oil in ANWR and, until he fell back in the polls, pushed amnesty for illegal aliens, I'd have to say, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Palin, but I'd rather stay home and alphabetize my canned goods."

By Burt Prelutsky

Posted: April 16, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

I am as irate as anyone at the way Obama and Pelosi, like a pair of old-time bootleggers, strong-armed members of Congress into voting for Obamacare. But just because the Republicans fought back, I'm not as prepared as some to give them a pass.

Several years ago, when a current left-wing congressman was still serving in the California assembly, we were discussing the recently enacted Proposition 13, the so-called Jarvis amendment, which put a cap on property taxes. He was bemoaning the fact that it would permanently cut state revenues, while I argued that of all the taxes on the books, property taxes were the worst.

I pointed out that a lot of homes were bought by returning GIs and other newly married couples shortly after the end of World War II. They were bought for seven or eight thousand dollars. But, 30 years later, when the mortgages were finally paid off, these same people were being charged more in annual property taxes than the house had cost in the first place. Except for maybe a paint job, a renovated kitchen and some aluminum siding, these were the same modest 1,300 square-foot homes they had moved into, but now they could no longer afford to live in them.

I argued that if at some point during those three decades, the politicians had done the right thing, something as draconian as Prop. 13 wouldn't have been necessary.

In much the same way, I would say to GOP politicians, you had control of the House, the Senate and the Oval Office from 2001-2007, but you didn't do a darn thing about health insurance. It's only now that the liberals are gobbling up one-sixth of the economy that you're suddenly all for tort reform and allowing insurance companies to compete across state borders. When you had the power, all that people like John McCain and the rest of you punks did was cozy up to people like Feingold and Kennedy, like a bunch of school girls hoping the liberals would ask you to the prom.

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Trading liberty for tyranny ~ By Alan Keyes

Commentary from WorldNetDaily.  As always, Alan Keyes writes to stimulate your thought process with careful reading. I'll start this one with the good news:

As I argued many months ago in one of the little thoughts posted on my blog, the Obama faction's spending schemes have mainly been a stimulus toward tyranny. They have had one unintended and potentially beneficial result, however. They have stimulated deep outrage and resistance from Americans unwilling to cap the prospects of their future by giving liberty in trade for elite domination. Such people can hardly wait until November rolls around. Then they will have their say.

By Alan Keyes

Posted: February 19, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

It turns out, of course, that the much vaunted so-called "stimulus" legislation that was supposed to create jobs as it pulled the economy out of the "great recession" isn't working. Evan Bayh, the now-retiring senator from Indiana, has famously admitted as much, saying, "If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months."

Surprise, surprise! Government spending doesn't create jobs, at least not without a war on. This fact has to be especially hard for a Democrat to admit. The official mythology of the Democratic Party rests on the tacit assumption that New Deal government jobs and public works programs pulled America out of the Great Depression. This assumption goes unquestioned among rank-and-file Democrats despite overwhelming evidence that the Depression ended only after the United States geared up for round two of the 20th century's Great World War. Fortunately, absent some profiteering motive, sane people would agree that that particular remedy comes at too high a price. Robert Higgs makes a good point when he quotes Ludwig von Mises ("War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.") in the course of substantiating the point that war creates a demand for more workers by literally shipping large numbers of able-bodied individuals off to the slaughterhouse. Just ask G.I. Joe how Rosie the Riveter came by her first job.

Unfortunately, like the Melanesian people who built their hopes on a classically fallacious post hoc, propter hoc observation, Democratic and RINO Republican voters have been suckered by their political exploiters into building false hopes for prosperity on the observation of the delivery of tax dollars to the party bosses and their cronies. (There are surely some folks in ACORN and other favored elements of the Obama cult who will testify to the return of prosperity in the wake of the stimulus legislation.) Meanwhile, the Obama faction's Democrats seem willing to imitate only one element of the factual basis for the end of the Great Depression. Their fanatical promotion of abortion (and other practices inimical to human procreation) has proliferated slaughterhouses throughout the land, culling innocent lives that would otherwise have contributed to an expanding work force. The perennial and intensifying financial crisis of the Social Security system is one result.

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Arena roundup: Dobbs applauded

From Politico

“Lou Dobbs will be able to better capitalize elsewhere on the demagogic persona he has invented for himself — a serious news network was never a fitting venue for his nativist, anti-immigrant pep rallies,” wrote Andres Martinez of the New America Foundation. “As for Time Warner, kudos for cleansing itself. Offering Lou Dobbs a coveted perch every night proved corrosive to CNN's overall integrity, suggesting that the network was willing to succumb to the standards of Fox News.”

By DAVID MARK & ELIZABETH MENDES | 11/12/09 6:18 PM EST Critics of illegal immigration in Congress Thursday offered praise for departed CNN host Lou Dobbs, suggesting he would affect the debate no matter what he does next. “There is no question that Lou has had a significant impact on public policy debates over the years. He was instrumental in leading the insurgency that resulted in the defeat of the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), ranking Republican on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, in POLITICO’s Arena. “There are a lot of voices in the immigration debate who are incredibly passionate about the issue and I have no doubt that Lou will continue to be among the most vocal participants leading the discussion moving ahead,” said Issa. Rep. Lamar Smith (Texas), the top GOP lawmaker on the House Judiciary Committee, said Dobbs reflected the views of a majority of Americans on immigration, even if he was often pilloried, even by colleagues on his own network. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]