From Corey James -- a Truly Historic Presidency

I don't actually know who Corey James is, but I never use other people's writings without attribution, and besides, this is a great list of appalling firsts that Prez B.O. has rung up.

 

Corey James wrote "Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. He has an impressive list of accomplishments:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number belonging to another man, from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office.

First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.

 First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences." Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs. Arizona).

 

 

I simply MUST find out who Corey James is!

Lessons for the Tea Party I Labels, Research, and the NY26 Special Election

At least publicly, all factions in the Republican Party claims to revere President Ronald Reagan.  Very heart-warming, but rather inaccurate, at least if you define "reverance" as emulating his leadership techniques and strategies.  This is rather galling in the case of the Tea Party, which claims to be the intellectual heirs of the great RR, one of the two great Republican Presidents of history.  (The pachyderm party has given us several very good Presidents, as well.)  In many ways President Reagan would be appalled at the political ineptitude and arrogance of many in the Tea Party movement.

Being a surviving Young Reaganite (my first presidential vote was for RR, which is a happy reflection), I would like to point out a few instances when our Ron up in Heaven watched we capering clowns here below and shook his head deploringly.

(Before I continue, I wish to note that I will be mentioning Jim Quinn and Rose Tennant frequently in this post.  I do not do this because I consider them exceptionally "bad" - I do not - but because they are rather representative of TP opinions and actions, and because I listened to them on our outstanding regional talk show channel, WYSL in Avon NY before they were fired by clear Channel in what appears to be a naked act of partisan retaliation by the new EVP for Clear Channels political involvement, who happens to be former Senator and Democratic leader Tom Daschle's son.  I hope they find another gig soon.  I often disagree with them, but they host a popular show and deserve to be allowed to pursue their careers with being axed by a commissar.)

For all of their patriotism and enthusiasm, I have noted that TPers of all ages seem to share some less than desirable traits.  Since many of them are products of our public school system, many do very slipshod research.  They trust "heros" of the movement  like Ron Paul and Andrew Napolitano far more than they deserve to be trusted.  Do your own research, TPers.  Check sources based on original documents.

Many libertarians claim that several states reserved the right to secede from the Union when they ratified the Constitution.  Many other libertarians parroted these statements, and spread them far and wide.  It took the efforts of Claremont Institute Fellow Thomas Krannawitter to blow this theory out of the water.  By the simple process of actually reading the records of the various ratification conventions and the ratification declarations they produced, Krannawitter discover that in fact not one of the states had reserved the so-called "right".  (His book Vindicating Lincoln is reviewed here.)

I could pursue this further, but that's another essay for another time.  I'm concerned with errors the TP is making in the present.  After looking like an irresistible wave in 2010, many of their more recent efforts have broken up into a foam of recriminations against others an a total inability to detect, let alone correct their own mistakes.

 An ugly premonition of what was to come came early in 2011 when my own idiot New York State Republican congressman, Chris Lee, decided that being a Congressman made him attractive to women (after all, there had been the pudgy Mr. Magoo with a Jimmy Swaggart wig, Bill Clinton), and ignited a scandal that blew him right out of Congress.  Having learned their lesson from the DeeDee Scozzafava fiasco, the Republican Committee Chairmen chose Jane Corwin to run for the suddenly vacant seat in a traditionally Republican district.  The Democrats chose as their candidate a lockstep liberal from the Buffalo area, Kathy Hochul.  The choice should have been clear, since Jane Corwin had compiled the second most conservative voting record in either the State Senate or the Assembly.

At this point, however, a complication arose.  Jack Davis, another radical Democrat who had run for this same seat previously, decided to make another run as a third party candidate.  this should have split Hochul's vote, but Davis took advantage of a peculiarity in New York election law which allows a party which gathers enough petition signatures to obtain a line on the ballot to name that line anything they want, as long as the name is not being used.

Davis called his line on the ballot the Tea Party.

Here the real Tea Partiers fell into a trap.  Enough of them were not alert enough to look beyond the Tea Party name and look at the candidate behind it that they voted for Jack Davis (with whom they disagree on EVERYTHING) instead of Jane Corwin to enable Hochul to win the race.  this was despite the fact that the national Tea Party leaders hurried to Rochester when they realized what was happening.  They called a press conference to expose the fraud, which of course the local media studiously ignored.  Even so, Jack Davis had enough of a record that any conservative/Tea Partier should have been able to discover his real character with a minimum of digging.  Sadly, too many TPers did none.

After the election, TPers started calling locally-carried political talks shows to alibi for their laziness and their ignorance of Jack Davis. They claimed that Jane Corwin was another DeeDee Scozzafava, a liberal Republican unworthy of their support.  This was quite simply false.  They also berated the Republican chairmen for choosing a candidate instead of holding a primary.  Ignorance again, this time of the law - New York law does not allow a primary for a special election.

The Democrats learned the lesson of NY26 and the value of running a spoiler candidate under a false flag to split their opponents vote, and they demonstrated this in Virginia's recent governor's race.  The TPers and their cousins the Libertarians simultaneously demonstrated they have still not learned their lessons, either from NY26 or from last year's presidential electian, to which I will turn next.

 Next up: Mitt Romney, Gary Johnson, and What's in a Name?

The Crab signs on as Advisor to Israel -- First Entry

If I were an advisor to the Israelis, I would advise them to institute the death penalty for terrorism.  As it stands now, every terrorist imprisoned becomes an invitation for Arab terrorist hostage-taking and kidnapping.  What's worse, the Israelis lose these exchanges because they value the lives of their people more than the Arabs do theirs.  Thus they always give up more terrorists that they get back soldiers and civilians.  This is a long-term, slow-motion national suicide attempt.

My idea is that for every person killed or captured by the terrorists, one Arab terrorist should be executed.  This is in addition to the efforts to find and wipe out the kidnappers.  If you start winning the body-count war against violent terrorists, I'll bet they'll figure out that they are no longer playing a game with the cards stacked in their favor.

As for international opinion, of course they will vilify you.  They're doing that already, so what's to lose?  And for God's sake don't tell Obama; he'll warn his terrorist brothers.

Short subjects from the last living Reaganite (Me)

New York City has long been a baffling collection of boroughs.  During the "secession winter" of 1860-1, when the Civil War loomed, NYC Mayor Fernando Wood proposed that New York City detach itself and become its own republic.  This lead then-President Elect Abraham Lincoln to remark dryly that he had never before heard of the front porch proposing to set up in business for itself.

Things aren't a lot brighter now.  After having years of good governance under Rudy Giuliani, and then years of nannyish but tough-on-crime governance under Michael Bloomberg, the "greatest city in the world" has elected a thorough communist, Bill DeBlasio, to be its mayor.  DeBlasio is already declaring that the New York City Police, the greatest success story in the NYC revival, will have their policy weapons dashed from their hands, and that things will go back to the bad old days of the buffoonish David Dinkins and similar clowns.

The citizens of New York City have voted to become Detroit.  Maybe we were too hasty rejecting that independence idea...



Isn't a one-size-fits-all, mandated, fine-you-if-you-don't-sign-up federal health insurance plan sort of an odd thing to receive from "the party of choice"?  The "choice" offered under B.O.Care rather resembles that which Henry Ford used to offer his customers - "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black."  HHS Secretary Kathleen "the Reaper" Sebelius absurdly claimed while testilying to Congress that "for the first time", people will be able to go to one website and pick the health care plan that suits their needs.  Cruella, I do that every year when I sign up for my benefits.  My employer always offers 6-8 medical plans, 2-4 dental plans, vision coverage, and Health Expense Savings Accounts as well.  It's a pity you're a career politician -- things work differently out here in the real world.



New definition of futility -- making any member of the B.O. administration tesify under oath.

When he was running for the Senate in Nevada, when the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository was first being seriously proposed, Chic Hecht promised that if he were elected, "there will never be any nuclear suppositories in Nevada!"

Maybe so, but (or is that butt?) Obamacare is pretty close.