Gibson Guitars, Barack Obama, and Gangster Government

By Gary P Jackson

Barack Obama is a thug. A Chicago street thug, and nothing more. In case you really don't know what a "community organizer" is, at least as far as democrats go, they are like mob enforcers. Groups like ACORN, where Obama used to work, and the purple shirted SEIU union leg breakers, are nothing more than thugs for hire. They are paid mobs who show up where ever they are told to to intimidate whoever is being targeted. Often violence occurs.

This is the environment Barack Obama spent his formative years working in.

There are many examples of the Obama regime targeting specific businesses and organizations for destruction. The latest is Gibson Guitars. The regime has been hassling the company over the exotic woods it uses for it's fretboards. The same wood other companies use without any problems whatsoever.

Last week the regime's Justice Department went after Gibson again, over their use of Indian rosewood. It should be noted the Indian government, as far as we can tell, has lodged no protests or asked for any investigations. Again, other guitar companies use the same exact wood, and the regime has no issues with them.

It should also be noted that Gibson's CEO Henry Juszkiewicz is a Republican and support's Republican candidates. Also Gibson is a non-union shop. These tactics are an obvious attempt to intimidate Gibson in the fine tradition of another famous Chicagoan, Al Capone.

Dana Loesch interviewed Henry Juszkiewicz for her radio show:



This wood must be certified before it's used, and according to Juszkiewicz the wood Gibson is using has been certified as good to go.

The plot gets thicker, as it always does with the regime. John Nolte at Big Hollywood reports:

One of Gibson’s leading competitors is C.F. Martin & Company. The C.E.O., Chris Martin IV, is a long-time Democratic supporter, with $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the DNC over the past couple of elections

Nolte goes on to point out Martin uses the exact same wood Gibson does. Read more about this here.

This is how Obama and the regime work.

The story of how Obama and his campaign chief-of-staff Pete Rouse, along with Phil Munger, recruited Alaska bloggers and other malcontents to harass Sarah Palin during the 2008 elections, and after she returned home, filing dozens of bogus ethics complaints, as well as planting false stories in the media, is well documented. Once in office, Rouse ran the operation out of the West Wing of the White House. In case you're not familiar with all of this, here's our latest on the subject.

This is not the only attempt by Obama to intimidate Governor Palin though. In 2009 Obama decided to target the surviving members of the Alaska Territorial Guard, the brave men who defended Alaska when the Japanese invaded during WWII. The group is now known as The Alaska Defense Force. We're talking a handful of men, 26 in all, but Obama cut off their pensions, citing priorities for a military spending bill. There was no reason for this, other than to mess with Alaska. As Commander-in-Chief of the ADF, Governor Palin took quick action, fought the regime, and got these men reinstated. She also signed into law a bill that insured they were paid by Alaska while all of this was going on.

This was a thuggish and childish act. The regime has tried to stop Governor Palin's gasline, as well.

There are plenty more examples: Also in 2009, when the regime basically took over the Chrysler Corporation, breaking centuries worth of contract law in the process, it was noted many of the dealerships forced to close were owned by Republicans. Mark Tapscott reported:

Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Republicans. What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere has gathered some steam today with revelations that among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and closing of competitors to a dealership chain partly owned by former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty.

The basic issue raised here is this: How do we account for the fact millions of dollars were contributed to GOP candidates by Chrysler who are being closed by the government, but only one has been found so far that is being closed that contributed to the Obama campaign in 2008?

Read more here.

Of the the action by the regime, Todd J. Ziwicki wrote:

The rule of law, not of men -- an ideal tracing back to the ancient Greeks and well-known to our Founding Fathers -- is the animating principle of the American experiment. While the rest of the world in 1787 was governed by the whims of kings and dukes, the U.S. Constitution was established to circumscribe arbitrary government power. It would do so by establishing clear rules, equally applied to the powerful and the weak.

Fleecing lenders to pay off politically powerful interests, or governmental threats to reputation and business from a failure to toe a political line? We might expect this behavior from a Hugo Chávez. But it would never happen here, right?

Until Chrysler.

We all remember the huge floods that devastated Nashville and the surrounding areas. Obama was nowhere to be found. And when half of Texas was on fire this year, the regime flat out refused to send disaster relief.

The regime is going after Boeing because they dared to build a new aircraft in the Right-to-Work state of South Carolina, out of the reach of union thugs.

One could fill an entire book with instances of Obama's gangster government intimidating businesses and groups. It's evil, and immoral.

I know one thing, if you are looking for a new guitar, check out Gibson's line-up. They could use our support. Don't let the regime get away with bullying them!

Let's end this with one of our favorite Gibson guitar slingers, Carolyn Wonderland from Austin, Texas, as we think about Obama's judgement day, which will come real soon:

Obamanomics: Half-Million Dollars Creates Exactly 1.72 Jobs

By Gary P Jackson

The best of both worlds in this story. Government waste at it's worst, and "green jobs" all combine for exactly the kind of failure that is destroying the nation.

Oh and there is this little nugget as well:

The grant also funds Spanish-language training for Hispanics in the landscaping and tree care industry to "develop employability skills and increase job retention."

Conrad could not say how many, if any, jobs were created by that training.

I can't help but wonder why Americans, or legal immigrants, would have the need to learn basic English. I also wonder why it's the Clark County Urban Forestry Revitalization Project's responsibility to train them. I'm all for helping those who want to better themselves, and learning English will help them tremendously, but all of this stimulus money was supposed to create jobs.

A lot more than the 1.72 that it has.

From Peter Griffin at Fox News:

A federal stimulus grant of nearly $500,000 to grow trees and stimulate the economy in Nevada yielded a whopping 1.72 jobs, according to government statistics.

In 2009, the U.S. Forest Service awarded $490,000 of stimulus money to Nevada's Clark County Urban Forestry Revitalization Project, aimed at revitalizing urban neighborhoods in the county with trees, plants, and green-industry training.

According to Recovery.gov, the U.S. government's official website related to Recovery Act spending, the project created 1.72 permanent jobs. In addition, the Nevada state Division of Forestry reported the federal grant generated one full-time temporary job and 11 short-term project-oriented jobs.

It also resulted in the planting of hundreds of trees -- which critics say is about the only good thing that came out of this stimulus project.

"Looking at the failure of the stimulus to live up to its promises, not just in Nevada, but throughout America, I think the question becomes ‘is there any good use of stimulus money?'" said Douglas Kellogg, communications manager for National Taxpayers Union, in an email to FoxNews.com.

A Nevada state official has a simple explanation for the low job growth.

"If the question is ‘was this a job-creating project?’ the answer is 'no, it wasn't,'" said Bob Conrad, public information officer for the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. "It was one of a number of projects that we do believe helped improve natural resources in the state."

Conrad said the $490,000 is being used for a number of projects. Those projects include tree inventories, salaries for staff at the nurseries through the Nevada Division of Forestry, plant material and plant supplies.

"The goal obviously was to make trees available to local government entities, parks, schools, things like that, at our state nursery," said Conrad. "We basically grew and provided about 2,000 trees to these local entities."

The grant also funds Spanish-language training for Hispanics in the landscaping and tree care industry to "develop employability skills and increase job retention."

Conrad could not say how many, if any, jobs were created by that training.

"We had to put together projects within very specific parameters. If the particular project you're referring to didn't create jobs necessarily, that's really something that's beyond the parameters of the program and it's really something you'd have to ask the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service."

Repeated calls by FoxNews.com to the U.S. Forest Service were not returned.

A project summary provided by Conrad showed an even lower amount of full-time jobs, with 1.37 full-time employees at the Las Vegas Nursery.

Conrad explained that the number of full-time jobs is low because most of the tasks, such as planting trees or driving plants from the nursery to participating schools or parks, are given to individuals on a short-term basis via a temp agency. For example, 11 people were hired temporarily for different aspects of the project, such as planters, trainers, drivers, and individuals to develop programs.

"You're not going to hire a driver full-time for this entire project if the driver is only needed for a limited number of hours," said Conrad. "It wouldn't make good business sense to hire a full-time person to do something that's really just a short-term need for the project."

Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, which, according to latest U.S. Department of Labor statistics, stood at 12.9 percent in July.

Kellogg said that the low job growth from this project could rub taxpayers the wrong way.

"Job-killing taxes, or more debt for a downgraded nation, are not likely to bring relief to our unemployment crisis," said Kellogg.

Conrad said that only 60 percent of the stimulus money has been used so far and of that amount, 90 to 95 percent of it is already allocated to salaries, sub grants, and other projects.

"The project isn't done," said Conrad.

But Kellogg believes it's a bad use of taxpayer money during these tough economic times.

"The president may well propose new stimulus efforts when Congress returns from recess," said Kellogg, "and those who learn from past stimulus debacles will not be fooled again."

I'm stunned. How was Nevada growing trees before this deal came along? Did the American taxpayer really need to pay a half-million dollars for this?

It's time for the Obama regime to get out of America's way and let us do what we do best. If Obama would take his boot off the neck of the American entrepreneur he and she will create more jobs than anyone can imagine.These stimulus programs are worthless.

Obama's New World Record of Debt: $4,247,000,000,000 in just 945 days!

Please, no one tell President Obama what comes after trillion!

~ Sarah Palin

By Gary P Jackson

There's not a whole lot one can say here that doesn't involve an unnecessarily long, multi-sylable curse word filled rant! Obama is a menace. His record setting spending, along with record setting debt, is immoral and downright evil. He is enslaving generations with this. For the first time in the history of the United States, this generation won't be able to pass on to the next the prosperity and Freedom, it has known.

Since the founding of our great nation, every new generation has had it better than the previous. Thanks to Obama, that is no longer the case, and if someone doesn't stop him, it well never again be.

Obama and his radicals have spent out children's future. Their children's and their children's children's future as well. All to fund Crony Capitalism. Under Obama his rich supporters get richer, and the rest of us get poorer.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Swallow all liquids in your mouth before reading any further.

Updated numbers for the national debt are just out: It's now $14,639,000,000,000.

When Barack Obama took the oath of office twice on Jan. 20, 2009, CBS' amazing number cruncher Mark Knoller reports, the national debt was $10,626,000,000,000.

That means the debt that our federal government owes a whole lot of somebodies including China has increased $4,247,000,000,000 in just 945 days. That's the fastest increase under any president ever.

Remember the day the Democrat promised to close the embarrassing Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within one year? That day the national debt increased $4,247,000,000. And each day since that the facility hasn't been closed.

Same for the day in 2009 when Obama flew all the way out to Denver to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill that was going to hold national unemployment beneath 8% instead of the 9.1% we got today anyway? Another $4,247,000,000 that day. And every day since, even Obama golfing and vacation days.

Same sum for the day Obama flew Air Force One nearly four hours roundtrip to Columbus, Ohio for a 10-minute speech about how well the stimulus was working in the politically crucial Buckeye state. Ohio's unemployment rate just jumped to 9% from 8.8% anyway.

Or last week's three-day Midwestern tour in the president's new $1.1 million Death Star bus? National debt went up $16,988,000,000 while he rode around speaking and buying ice cream cones.

Numbers with that many digits are hard to grasp, even for a Harvard head. So, let's put it another way:

One billion seconds ago Bill Clinton was nearing the end of his two terms and George W. Bush's baseball collection was still on the shelves in the Austin governor's office.

The nation's debt increased $4.9 trillion under President Bush too, btw. But it took him 2,648 days to do it. Obama will surpass that sum during this term.

Read more here.

I'm sure Obama and his people will tell us that if we just borrow [and spend] a few trillion more, it'll all be fine.

Sarah Palin on Greta: Obama Tickling His Toes and Burying His Head in the Sand

By Gary P Jackson

Governor Palin talks about President Obama's inability to lead, wrong headed ideas, and his vacation from reality. Reminds us what makes America great, and how we can get back on track.

Greta and Sarah also talk about another round of stimulus, and how she and other Conservative governors vetoed attempts by their legislature to accept all of these funds in 2009, because of the strings attached.

Note, the difference on this, as Governor Rick Perry not only accepted TARP funds, but as chair of the Republican Governors Association, teamed up with his counterpart in the Democrat Governors Association, Joe Manchin, and was begging Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for TARP to be passed.

Greta asks Sarah about bi-partisanship, and Sarah say both parties have their issues, and for the good of the nation, should embrace the Tea Party and the American people.



In the second video Greta and the Governor talk foreign policy and how Obama was too busy packing for his 10 day vacation at Martha's Vineyard to worry about it, sending Secretary of State Hillary Clinton out to comment on the latest developments in Syria. Sarah also speculates that at this point, if they had a do-over, democrats might just chose Clinton over Obama, as Clinton was far more presidential in her appearance that Obama has ever been.

Greta can't figure out why candidate Obama was so good and President Obama sucks. Sarah never misses a beat and pounds home the point Obama was never vetted and the corrupt media covered for him, never pressing him on the issues.

As we see an effort by some in the Republican Party to quell any attempt to vet their candidate's record.

Finally Sarah talks about the American spirit and how we can get things back on track. How we don't need government to do it for us. Speaking to the Tea Party event on September 3, Labor Day weekend, says she wants to help empower Americans to do what they must ti get our country back on track.

Video courtesy of SarahNet

Sarah Palin Talks to Lou Dobbs

By Gary P Jackson

Jobs, stock market, and 2012. Governor Palin talks about the need to vet our candidates. Says the candidates need to take their gloves off.

Video courtesy of SarahNet

Think ObamaCare is Bad? Rick "Open Borders" Perry Wanted a Bi-National Plan That Would Include Mexico

Texas Governor Rick Perry with former President of Mexico Vicente Fox discussing the virtues of open borders.

By Gary P Jackson

Legislation authored by border legislators Pat Haggerty and Eddie Lucio establishes an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance. This study recognizes that the Mexican and U.S. sides of the border compose one region, and we must address health care problems throughout that region.

That’s why I am also excited that Texas Secretary of State Henry Cuellar is working on an initiative that could extend the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border.

~ Rick Perry

As a Texan, born and bred, I like to think we lead the world in all things that matter. Texas is one of the most beautiful, and diverse places on earth. Big country. Texans have big fun. If you can't enjoy yourself in Texas, you are incapable of the emotion! We have a rich heritage of hard won Freedom and Liberty.

Unfortunately, sometimes we lead on the wrong things. Rick Perry most certainly has. Right from the start, when Perry assumed office, to finish out George W. Bush's second term, he started leading the way for an open border between the United States and Mexico. And while he may be trying to sound tough on border control now, as late as 2006 he was attempting to steal a half million acres of some of the best land in Texas to build a superhighway [complete with high speed rail] that would run from the Texas-Mexico border in Laredo straight through the state and eventually to Kansas City.

When Governor Jan Brewer signed Arizona's common sense immigration bill into law, Perry was quick to say it "wasn't right for Texas."

Texas and Mexico do have a special relationship. The great Mexican heritage of Texas is loved and respected. Texas wouldn't be Texas without it. That said, illegal immigration is killing our state, and as Governor, Rick Perry has put in place many policies that encourage it. Perry signed into law the Dream Act, that would give illegals the right to pay the same tuition as Texans. The legislation floating around Washington resembles Perry's law.

Before there was there was RomneyCare and before there was ObamaCare, Rick Perry was pushing for a bi-national health insurance plan that would serve both Texans and Mexicans. Americans, and Mexicans.

On August 22, 2001, almost 10 years to the day of this article, Rick Perry spoke at a border summit. Below is the transcript of the speech from Governor Perry's official state government website.[Emphasis mine]

Thank you Senator Lucio. President Nevarez, UT-Pan American is to be commended for its vision and leadership in hosting this unprecedented border summit in the beautiful Texas town of Edinburg. My friends from Mexico, including Governor Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba of Tamaulipas, and Governor Fernando Canales Clariond of Nuevo Leon, it is an honor to be in your presence. I want to extend my gratitude to our Mexican neighbors for hosting me this July as I sought to learn one of the world’s great languages, Spanish. I enjoyed your hospitality, and was grateful for your patience as I worked on my vocabulary. No longer do I refer to "la verdad" as "la verdura." I am delighted to see friends from the U.S. side of the border as well, including our distinguished members of the Legislature, and our county and city leaders along the border.

Today we begin a new dialogue about our shared future, a future of promising potential if we work together to solve the challenges we both face. It is fitting that we convene this summit where the great, meandering river known as the Rio Grande – or the Rio Bravo – forms the long border between Texas and Mexico. In years past, that famed body of water has been seen by many as a dividing point, If you were to walk along its banks and look to the other side, based on the stereotypes of the past, you would think you were seeing things a million miles away, instead of a stone’s throw away. But I am here today to say that while we have honest differences, there is more that unites us than divides us. The Rio Grande does not separate two nations, it joins two peoples. Mexico and the United States have a shared history, and a common future. And it is along this border where we will either fail or succeed in addressing the education, health care and transportation needs of our two peoples.

Critical to our future is meeting our border infrastructure needs. We must get traffic moving along the border so that businesses along the border and thousands of miles away can deliver products on time, and continue to grow. Companies from Spokane, Washington to Concord, New Hampshire depend on Texas highways and Texas bridges to move their products south. Seventy percent of all U.S.-Mexico truck traffic goes to, or through, the Lone Star state. Fifteen of our twenty-seven border crossings with Mexico are located in Texas. Fifty-four percent of all U.S.-Mexico trade crosses just between Brownsville and Laredo. This year the Texas legislature appropriated approximately $1 billion more in transportation funding. But more can be done.

With Texas serving as the Gateway to Mexico, it is time that we receive congressional funding that reflects the instrumental role our state plays as a port of entry. With a Texan in the White House, I believe there is no greater opportunity to end the funding discrimination that crippled Texas infrastructure under the previous administration. Good infrastructure is essential to the free flow of commerce. It is a matter of economic fact that free trade lifts the tide for all the boats in the harbor. U.S. trade with Mexico has increased by 500% since 1994. Exports and imports between Texas and Mexico now exceed $100 billion dollars annually. Thousands of jobs have been created for Texas and Mexican workers, confirming the indisputable fact that trade with Mexico is big business for Texas.

The fruits of NAFTA have just begun to ripen. At the same time, we must not allow the roots of the tree to become poisoned. The NAFTA agreement not only signaled a new era of economic possibility, but a new era of bi-national cooperation. That is why it is wrong, and inherently detrimental to our relationship with Mexico for the U.S. Congress to pursue a protectionist policy that forbids Mexican trucks from U.S. roadways. It is bad public policy, and it violates the terms of the NAFTA agreement we agreed to. Mexican trucks that meet our safety standards should be given the same access to U.S. roads as our Canadian neighbors to the north.

Mexico, too, must be vigilant in realizing its treaty obligations. For more than half a century, under the 1944 Water Treaty our two nations have cooperated so that the water needs of both countries are met. But as of late, Mexico is behind in delivering the water it has promised to the U.S. A Mexican judicial injunction now threatens the livelihood of our Rio Grande Valley farmers, and has become a source of contention between our two nations. It is time to end this dispute. I would ask that the Mexican government meet its obligation under the treaty, Texas growers are depending on it.

There are other challenges that require a unified approach, especially in the area of health care. A lack of preventative medicine means conditions that could have been eliminated through childhood immunizations show up in disturbing numbers later in life. Limited availability of medical specialists means conditions like heart disease and diabetes go untreated at alarming rates. In Texas, we recently placed a strong emphasis on preventative care when we expanded access to Medicaid for more low-income children by making the Medicaid enrollment process simpler. We allocated an additional $4 billion to the Medicaid program, and more than $900 million to the Children’s Health Insurance Program. I urged legislators to pass a telemedicine pilot program that will enable, through technology, a sick border resident of limited financial means to receive care from a specialist hundreds of miles away. But the effort to combat disease and illness requires greater cooperative efforts between our two nations. It is a simple truth that disease knows no boundaries. An outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis, for example, endangers citizens of both our nations. We have much to gain if we work together to expand preventative care, and treat maladies unique to this region.

Legislation authored by border legislators Pat Haggerty and Eddie Lucio establishes an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance. This study recognizes that the Mexican and U.S. sides of the border compose one region, and we must address health care problems throughout that region. That’s why I am also excited that Texas Secretary of State Henry Cuellar is working on an initiative that could extend the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border.

As a compassionate state, we know that for our children to succeed, they must not only be healthy, but educated. The future leaders of our two nations are learning their fractions and their ABC’s in classrooms all along this border. Immigrants from around the world are being taught in Texas classrooms, and our history is rich with examples of new citizens who have made great contributions. We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, "we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there." And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders, the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.

We also know that poverty is not unique to either side of the border. Some of Texas’ poorest citizens live in colonias all along the border. They often lack basic infrastructure many of us take for granted. Just today, the North American Development Bank announced it will provide $6.3 million in funding to hook up colonia residents in six border cities to water and wastewater lines. More than 18,000 residents will benefit from these water or wastewater hookups. And this November, by approving Proposition 2, Texas voters can ensure that their neighbors in colonias have quality roads so that school buses, emergency vehicles and postal trucks can reach residents, and residents can get to a job or a school reliably.

President Fox’s vision for an open border is a vision I embrace, as long as we demonstrate the will to address the obstacles to it. An open border means poverty has given way to opportunity, and Mexico’s citizens do not feel compelled to cross the border to find that opportunity. It means we have addressed pollution concerns, made substantial progress in stopping the spread of disease, and rid our crossings of illicit drug smuggling activity. Clearly we have a long way to go in addressing those issues. At the same time we must continue to deepen our economic ties, expanding opportunities for Mexican and U.S. companies to do business on both sides of the border. The outlook is promising, even if the road to prosperity is a long one. We share a bond as neighbors, and we find our culture north of the Rio Grande to be increasingly defined by the strong traits of people of Hispanic descent. Texas has long enjoyed a unique identity, an identity forged by an independent spirit, and the convergence of many different peoples. We must welcome change in the 21st Century as we have in every century before it.

Today, as we look to the south, we see a rising sun. It is perched above a people whose best days are in front of them. Let us endeavor to make the most of this new day through a new dialogue. Let us work together to combat disease, expand trade and provide educational opportunities. If we do, there are no limits to what we can accomplish for the betterment of all of our citizens. Thank you, and God bless you.

Can you imagine the disaster we'd be seeing had Rick Perry's vision of an international insurance been fulfilled? We all know who would be footing the bill for it!


In case you don't speak Spanish:

The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede

Perry is saying "education is the future" and throwing in a praise that Socialist Caesar Chavez was fond of, and Barack Obama adopted for his very own: "Yes we can" Si se puede indeed! Now Perry is right education IS the future, however in Texas their future is unclear.

English is the universal language of business, and the predominant language of the United States. However, in Texas, children of illegals, many of whom only speak Spanish, are greatly disabled by the state, which has decided to teach them in their native language, rather than immerse them in English classes.

Chapter 29 of the Texas Education Code declares: "English is the basic language of this state." In 1982 the United States Supreme Court ruled that Texas MUST educate all children, even illegals. An educated people is better than an uneducated one. Thing is, if we are going to educate them, why not make certain they know and understand the prevailing language of the nation they are in?

Illegal immigration is a modern form of slavery. Because they are in this country uninvited and unannounced, illegals are forced to work for lower wages, live in deplorable conditions, and are subject to the whims of those who employ them, rather than the law of the land. By not educating their children in English, we are sentencing them to slavery as well.

Rick Perry, as Governor of Texas has put policies in place, like the Dream Act, that do nothing but encourage more illegals to come to Texas and end up in bondage.

In 2010 Somos Republicans, a Hispanic group named Rick Perry "Number One Hispanic-friendly U.S. politician of the year." saying: [Emphasis mine}

Governor Rick Perry has proven his executive leadership as he had to confront the slow economic growth during the great recession much like the rest of the nation; however, Texas’ decline has been milder than the rest of the country. More importantly, when asked about the harsh Arizona anti-immigration law, Governor Rick Perry said such a law "would not be the right direction for Texas" and would distract law enforcement from fighting other crimes.

The organization believes Governor Perry should be recognized for making a courageous statement with regard to the controversial immigration law during a time in which extreme anti-immigrant messaging has been on the rise. They are encouraging the rest of the GOP to embrace and emulate such a "courageous" position. Somos Republicans strongly believe Governor Perry should receive recognition for being the #1 Hispanic-friendly 2010 politician in the nation, because he did not cave in to perceived popular sentiment. Latinos who have remained as registered Republicans have been worried as they have watched Hispanic support for the Republican Party decline by almost 15 points.

This praise comes from knowing Perry is an open borders guy, and his "courageous" stance against Arizona's popular common sense immigration bill. I never knew it took so much "courage" to pander as hard as Perry does.

As a Texan, I can say Hispanics have made this state what it is. There are no better people on earth. But even most Mexicans in Texas are against open borders, and those who immigrated legally from Mexico vs being born of the Texas soil, are dead set against illegal immigration. Legal immigrants are often the most outspoken against those who refuse to follow the law.

Texas has a very special relationship with Mexico that is similar to that of the United States and Great Britain. We fought a bloody war in order to gain independence from Mexico. But since that fight we have become trading partners, and share a lot of culture and traditions. It's a beautiful thing.

That said, an open border policy with Mexico, especially now that we are seeing such violence on our borders is suicide. As Governor, Rick Perry has done everything to promote open borders, and almost nothing to stop illegals.

In his speech, Perry advocates a bi-national health plan because as he put it "disease knows no boundaries." Well guess what, neither does the violence and crime that illegals bring with them. That's a disease as well. It's just one Perry hasn't spent much time trying to cure.

Conservatives had the fight of their lives when George W Bush was President. He was pushing hard for amnesty for illegal aliens. Bush had a Republican House and a Republican Senate, plus a democrat party that was literally chomping at the bits to vote for it. It's an absolute miracle that enough people rose up and spoke out.

If Rick Perry is elected President, you can bet amnesty for illegals, as well as a national version of his Dream Act, will become the law of the land in short order. Perry has embraced the open borders policy with a lot more zeal than Bush ever did.

We fought George W Bush on this with him setting in the White House. We can fight Rick Perry at the ballot box and make sure we won't have to fight him in the White House!

Ray Stevens: Obama Money

By Gary P Jackson

Washington's problem set to music. God Bless Ray Stevens!

H/T: Granitepaw

Unreal: Mitt Romney Flip-Flops On Debt Deal and Gives "President Downgrade" Aid and Comfort To Boot!

By Gary P Jackson

Human windsock Mitt Romney is at it again. Back on August 1st we noted that Romney, Profile in Courage that he is, waited until the debt deal was a fait accompli, and seeing the rage from the American people against it, did what he always does and shouted: "Me too!"

Sarah Palin took Romney to task in her interview with Sean Hannity a day later, licking her finger and sticking it in the air to symbolize Romney's "leadership" style.

Well now it seems Romney has flip-flopped on his "courageous" stance. From the Wall Street Journal:

CONCORD, N.H. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said on Monday that Standard & Poor’s downgrade of America’s credit rating was not just President Barack Obama‘s fault, stepping back a bit from a statement he issued Friday.

"I don’t think it’s simply the president’s fault," Mr. Romney said in reply to a question at a Chamber of Commerce meeting here. "I’m sure there are many people to share responsibility for the excessive spending in Washington over the past couple of decades."

But Mr. Romney said the president should have found a way "to work with Republicans, to work with Democrats to establish a relationship of trust to determine what can and couldn’t be done politically." And he added that Mr. Obama "is primarily for responsible for the failure of this economy to re-ignite."

He also suggested he was referring to Republicans of years’ past, not the crop of tea party-leaning freshmen elected in 2010.

Doesn't think it's the President's fault? Really Mitt? Really?

Holy crap.What a gutless milquetoast this guy is,

Oh, and it gets better:

Also on Monday, Mr. Romney released another statement contrasting S&P’s rating for Massachusetts while he was governor and its handling of the U.S. rating under Mr. Obama, and sought to link the president with one-term Democratic President Jimmy Carter. "The president’s failure to put the nation’s fiscal and economic house in order has caused a massive loss of confidence that resulted in an embarrassing downgrade, " he said. "In the Carter era, it was called ‘malaise.’ Under President Obama, it’s called meltdown."

On Friday, Mr. Romney squarely blamed Mr. Obama for the downgrade, issuing a short statement:

"America’s creditworthiness just became the latest casualty in President Obama’s failed record of leadership on the economy. Standard & Poor’s rating downgrade is a deeply troubling indicator of our country’s decline under President Obama.


His failed policies have led to high unemployment, skyrocketing deficits, and now, the unprecedented loss of our nation’s prized AAA credit rating. Today, President Obama promised that ‘things will get better.’ But it has become increasingly clear that the only way things will get better is with new leadership in the White House."

Read more here.

This is incredible. At this point I think flip-flopping is pathological with this guy. And there is plenty of evidence to back this up!

This Mitt Romney has absolutely no core values and no core convictions. He's not a leader or really even much of a follower. He's like a rudderless ship that just floats around from position to position on the map with no real discernible direction whatsoever.

Romney mentions Massachusetts' AA credit rating from S&P on his watch. It's also AA under tax and spend Governor Duval Patrick. Knowing what RomneyCare is doing to the state's budget, one wonders how long that rating would hold.

Speaking of credit ratings, Contributing Editor Stacy Drake reminds readers that because of Governor Sarah Palin's superior ability to manage debt and liabilities, and the policies she put in place, Alaska was rewarded the highest rating [Aaa] that credit rating agency Moody's gives a state.

One thing about it, Mitt Romney cannot be trusted to maintain any position on any subject. The guy is all over the place. we need solid, steady, and consistent leadership from someone who has a set of core values and never compromises them. We know who that is, and it sure ain't Mitt Romney!

A musical dedication to Mitt:

Sarah Palin Lays Out Her Platform To Revive, Restore, and Renew America

America must regain its optimistic pioneering spirit again. Our founders declared that "we were born the heirs of freedom." We are the heirs of those who froze with Washington at Valley Forge, who held the line at Gettysburg, who freed the slaves, carved a nation out of the wilderness, and allowed reward for work ethic.

We are the sons and daughters of that Greatest Generation who stormed the beaches of Normandy, raised the flag at Iwo Jima, and made America the strongest and most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. By God, we will not squander what has been given us!

~ Sarah Palin

By Gary P Jackson

This may be the most powerful thing Sarah Palin has ever written. She hammers a very deserving Barack Obama, and she points out that she has been warning everyone about the disaster that has befallen us since day one. [and at a time when the GOP presidential wannabees were silent]

This document is much more than that though. It's forward looking and optimistic. We have real problems. Dire problems. Sarah offers some real solutions to these problems while reminding the everyone that the American spirit can never be defeated. We are the same people who beat the most powerful army on earth to win our Liberty and Freedom. We are the same people who fought a civil war and emerged even stronger and more united. We are the people who fought two world wars to ensure the entire would wouldn't be engulfed in tyranny and oppression.

It won't be easy to attain, nothing worth having ever is, but as Americans we can all unite and overcome the disaster the Ruling Class has gotten us in.

Sarah Palin's strong record proves she is the one to unite behind. She's been down this road before, in Alaska. The scale of our national problem may be larger, but the job is the same. Governor Sarah Palin excelled at the job.

At the end the Governor implores all Americans to get off the couch and get involved in the process saying:

Please get engaged in 2012 electoral politics and support experienced, vetted, pro-free market fiscal conservatives who will dedicate all to preserving our Republic and protecting our Constitution.

Readers should note that, thanks to the rabid left-wing media, Sarah Palin is quite possibly the most vetted person in U.S. history.

From Sarah Palin:

Conquering the Storm

In the coming days we’ll sort through the repercussions of S&P’s downgrade of our credit rating, including concerns about the impact a potential interest rate increase would have on our ability to service our suffocating $14.5 trillion debt.

I’m surprised that so many people seem surprised by S&P’s decision. Weren’t people paying attention over the last year or so when we were getting warning after warning from various credit rating agencies that this was coming? I’ve been writing and speaking about it myself for quite some time.

Back in December 2010, I wrote: "If the European debt crisis teaches us anything, it’s that tomorrow always comes. Sooner or later, the markets will expect us to settle the bill for the enormous Obama-Pelosi-Reid spending binge. We’ve already been warned by the credit ratings agency Moody’s that unless we get serious about reducing our deficit, we may face a downgrade of our credit rating." And again in January, in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address I wrote: "With credit ratings agency Moody’s warning us that the federal government must reverse the rapid growth of national debt or face losing our triple-A rating, keep in mind that a nation doesn’t look so ‘great’ when its credit rating is in tatters."

One doesn’t need a Harvard Law degree to figure this out! Just look across the pond at Europe. European nations with less debt and smaller deficits than ours and with real "austerity" plans in place to deal with them have had their ratings downgraded. By what magical thinking did we figure we could run up perpetual trillion dollar deficits and still somehow avoid the unforgiving mathematics of a downgrade? Nothing is ever "too big to fail." And there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Didn’t we all learn that in our micro and macro econ classes? I did at the University of Idaho. How could Obama skip through Columbia and Harvard without learning that?

Many commonsense Americans like myself saw this day coming. In fact, in June 2010, Rick Santelli articulated the view of independent Tea Party patriots everywhere when he shouted on CNBC, "I want the government to stop spending! Stop spending! Stop spending! Stop spending! STOP SPENDING!" So, how shamelessly cynical and dishonest must one be to blame this inevitable downgrade on the very people who have been shouting all along "stop spending"? Blaming the Tea Party for our credit downgrade is akin to Nero blaming the Christians for burning Rome. Tea Party Americans weren’t the ones "fiddling" while our country’s fiscal house was going up in smoke. In fact, we commonsense fiscal conservatives were the ones grabbing for the extinguishers while politically correct politicians and their cronies buried their heads in what soon became this bonfire.

With S&P and others now warning that we could face another downgrade if we don’t get serious about our debt problem (i.e., recklessly spending money we don't have), Washington needs to wake up before things get worse! We’re already hearing murmurs about QE3, which is just madness and will further debase our currency at a time when the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency is already being questioned. The loss of the dollar’s reserve currency status would adversely impact us in every conceivable way. Our standard of living would decline as imports become more expensive (including imports of foreign oil), government wouldn’t be able to finance deficits as cheaply, and American corporations – employers – would lose a competitive edge. It would be another crack in our status as a financial superpower.

Last May, I gave a speech at Westhills Community College in Lemoore, California, to an audience that included farmers from California’s Central Valley. I tried to paint a picture for them of where all of this was heading. The following is an excerpt from my prepared remarks:

Now we’re all getting hit with rising food prices too. Back in November of last year, I predicted this would happen when the Federal Reserve dropped a $600 billion money bomb called QE2 on us! That’s short for "quantitative easing 2." It’s a fancy term for running the printing presses and creating money out of thin air – which drives down the value of the dollar and makes the price of everything more expensive.

As I predicted six months ago, these policies will lead us down a path where for the first time in our history our fate will be taken out of our own hands and placed in the hands of the world’s capital markets. They will force us to make the responsible decisions that our leaders are unwilling to make. Just as the destinies of the Central Valley farms have been taken out of your hands by the federal government’s overreach into your water rights, so the destiny of our nation will be taken out of our hands because our leadership has failed to get our financial house in order.

This isn’t some theoretical threat any more. It’s already happening. The world’s biggest bond investment fund PIMCO announced last month that it was dumping U.S. Treasury bonds. The head of PIMCO, Bill Gross, one of the world’s preeminent debt investors, warned that the U.S. is in serious risk of default with our trillion dollar deficits and no end in sight. And last week, credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded our credit outlook to "negative" – that’s the first time that has happened to us since the attack on Pearl Harbor. The IMF has even given us formal notice that, unless we do something to deal with our debt problem, we could tip the world economy into another recession.

It is a disgraceful and embarrassing situation when the United States finds itself justifiably chastised in the same tone normally reserved for near-bankrupt economies.

And in this, like in shutting off your water, the federal government has failed you. Their reckless spending and destruction of the dollar will make access to available credit for farmers and small business owners harder to get. And it will make transportation costs higher because it will hit everyone at the gas pump. You see, because the Obama White House won’t let us drill domestically, we’re forced to import oil that we pay for in dollars. So, when the value of the dollar drops, the price of gas goes up. And if you think $4 a gallon is bad, wait till you see what life is like at $6 or $7 a gallon.

Last November, the so-called smart people all laughed at me when I warned them of this. They told me not to make such a big deal about rising prices. Well, guess what – it became a big deal all on its own.

In fact, there was an editorial in the New York Sun that said – and I quote: "As gasoline is nearing six dollars a gallon at some pumps, the cost of groceries is skyrocketing, and the value of the dollars…has collapsed to less than a 1,500th of an ounce of gold. Unemployment is still high. Shakespeare couldn’t come up with a better plot. But how in the world did Mrs. Palin, who is supposed to be so thick, manage to figure all this out so far ahead of the New York Times and all the economists it talked to?"

Well, I’m sure the New York Times writers will remember the famous line: "You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." And right now the American economy is in the howling, hot headwinds of a gathering storm. We’re printing up and buying up our own notes at an unprecedented rate, and the Fed is artificially holding interest rates down to nearly zero. Anyone with commonsense could see what was coming. Unfortunately, common sense is in short supply among our leaders. It’s like they never believe that the rules of common sense apply to them. They think somehow we'll escape from the consequences of their policies. It’s the same magical thinking that allows them to run up trillion dollar deficits and still think that we can "win the future."

Every other generation has weathered recessions by sacrifice and belt tightening. But our leaders today decided that they could magically paper over the tough decisions by running the printing presses. A little history lesson might have showed them how well that worked out for Germany in the 1930s. The Weimar Republic inflated its currency so much that it took a wheel barrel full of paper money to buy a loaf of bread. That might be the main thing I remember from Mr. Crum’s history class at Wasilla High, but it told me all I needed to know about the inflationary dangers of a weak currency and why we must avoid it. What a shame Mr. Crum didn’t teach at Harvard.

That was just three months ago, and things have already gotten worse. We have to face this storm head on. It won’t be easy, but there are real solutions to grow our economy and reduce our debt.

First, we need to get serious about our deficit. No more accounting gimmicks. No more cuts in "out-years" that never materialize. The permanent political class in D.C. might be fooling themselves with these Enron-like accounting games, but they’re not fooling the world’s capital markets. And we don’t need any more happy talk from the White House about "investing" in solar shingles and really fast trains. The White House shouldn’t even bother floating these new spending programs. We can’t afford them. Period. We need to stop this deficit spending, balance our budget, repeal Obamacare, cancel all unused stimulus funds, and reform our entitlement programs. We have to have an adult conversation about our spending commitments; circumstances have changed, and we must adapt. I know none of this will be easy, but, "thick" or not, the average American outside the D.C. politico bubble knows that we no longer have a choice! We will have entitlement reform and a balanced budget; it’s just a matter of how. We can do it ourselves in a calm, methodical, and responsible manner, or we can wait for the world’s capital markets to ram it down on us. Let’s be responsible and do it ourselves. And let’s get serious about reducing the size of government across the board and rooting out waste. How many more reports (that today are destined to merely gather dust on the shelf) do we need about duplicative and unnecessary programs before we actually do something about government waste?

We need to get this economy moving again, and the real stimulus we’ve been waiting for is domestic energy development. We must reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil by responsibly developing natural resources here. This will provide good paying jobs, reduce our trade deficit, increase federal and state revenue, ensure environmental standards, and actually stimulate our economy without incurring any debt. That’s real stimulus! Affordable, plentiful, and secure energy is the foundation of every thriving economy. Let’s make it the foundation of ours. Let’s do the opposite of President Obama’s manipulation of U.S. energy supplies. Let’s drill here, build refineries, and stop kowtowing to foreign countries in asking them to ramp up energy production which makes us even more beholden to them as we rely on their foreign product. Let’s move on tapping our massive domestic natural gas reserves. Natural gas is the perfect "bridge fuel" to a future when more renewable sources are available. It’s clean, it’s green, and we’ve got a lot of it. Let’s drill. Let’s build an infrastructure for natural gas cars and power plants. Energy development can help kick start our economic engine.

In addition to energy security, I embrace a pro-growth agenda that can make American corporations far more competitive on the global stage. (I will be writing more about this in the coming days.) We need to tell the world, "America is open for business again!" And let’s welcome industry by reducing burdensome regulations. The Obama administration keeps strangling businesses in red tape. From the EPA’s rulings to that nightmare known as Obamacare, the Obama administration is hanging one regulatory albatross after another around the private sector’s neck. Let’s get government out of the way and give the private sector room to breathe, grow, and thrive. We can provide businesses confidence to expand and hire Americans in a stable environment.

Be wary of the efforts President Obama makes to "fix" the debt problem. The more he tries to "fix" things, the worse they get because his "solutions" always involve spending more, taxing more, growing government, and increasing debt. This debt problem is the greatest challenge facing our country today. Obviously, President Obama doesn’t have a plan or even a notion of how to deal with it. His press conference today was just a rehash of his old talking points and finger-pointing. That’s why he can’t be re-elected in 2012.

Our economic news is disheartening and the task before us can seem daunting, but we must not lose our sense of optimism. People look around today and may see only the negative. They see a culture and a nation in decline, but that’s not who we are! America must regain its optimistic pioneering spirit again. Our founders declared that "we were born the heirs of freedom." We are the heirs of those who froze with Washington at Valley Forge, who held the line at Gettysburg, who freed the slaves, carved a nation out of the wilderness, and allowed reward for work ethic. We are the sons and daughters of that Greatest Generation who stormed the beaches of Normandy, raised the flag at Iwo Jima, and made America the strongest and most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. By God, we will not squander what has been given us!

Our destiny is still in our own hands if we pick ourselves up and act responsibly and quickly. We must all get involved. Concerned Americans must seek truth, work harder than ever, and be willing to sacrifice today to ensure freedom tomorrow. Please get engaged in 2012 electoral politics and support experienced, vetted, pro-free market fiscal conservatives who will dedicate all to preserving our Republic and protecting our Constitution.

- Sarah Palin

Is WaPo's Jonathan Capehart Calling On Barack Obama To Murder Every Tea Party Member, and Their Families?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is Liberty.

~ Thomas Jefferson

In the past week members of the media and the democrat party [yes I KNOW, they are one in the same] have called the American people "terrorists" and compared us to al Qaeda, just because we want responsible government that will stop spending our children's, grandchildren's, and even our great grandchildren's future.

Even the Vice President of the United States called us terrorists, and it was former Treasury Secretary [under George W. Bush] who compared us all to al Qaeda.

The rhetoric has been way over the top, but as we've learned, that's how democrats roll. They are a violent bunch.

Never forget that Barack Obama's best buddy, Bill Ayers, and his group, the Weather Underground, waged war on the United States, and planned to murder as many as 25 million Americans, the number they expected to resist their communistic utopian vision of America that would have emerged from the aftermath of their destruction.

Here Larry Grathwohl explains it all:



I bring this up because Ayers and his ilk have mainstreamed themselves, and their sort of thinking is quite prevalent in the democrat party. Calls for violence against anyone who disagrees with their destructive ideas are quite common.

Remember the SEIU thugs that beat up Kenneth Gladney, a black man, simply because he was selling Gadsden flags and other patriotic gear? How about the Union thugs who trashed the Wisconsin Capitol building and made death threats against Republican law makers because the Governor and legislature wanted to regain control of the budget?

In 2008, Barack Obama, trying to sound tough, pulled out a quote from the movie The Untouchables.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight?

That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night.

Just days before the 2010 elections, Obama, talking to Latinos, told them to "go out and punish your enemies," implying Republicans were their enemies.

Well, the Washinton Post's Jonathan Capehart takes violent Hollywood imagery as political rhetoric up quite a few notches with his latest steaming pile: Time for Obama to be feared by the Tea Party

It his disgusting piece, Capehart quotes another hate filled liberal democrat, Ruth Marcus, who compares the American people to "car jackers" and then writes:

If they try it, Obama must introduce their "carjacker" to his "Keyser Söze."

Keyser Söze being the mysterious and violent underworld mastermind from the movie The Usual Suspects.

In case you don't get where this thug Capehart is coming from, he links to Wikipedia which describes how Keyser Söze came to be. We've included a movie clip for clarification as well:



From Wikipedia:

Söze’s past is unknown, but the story told by Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey) has Söze as a low-level drug dealer beginning his criminal career in his native Turkey. The entity that is Keyser Söze is truly born, however, when rival Hungarian smugglers invade his house while he is away, rape his wife and hold his children hostage; when Söze arrives, they kill one of the children to show him their resolve, then threaten to kill his wife and remaining children if he does not surrender his business to them.

Rather than give in to their demands, and to prevent his family from having to live with the memory of what has happened, he murders his loved ones and all but one of the Hungarians, whom he spares, knowing that the survivor would tell the mafia what has happened.

Now, if you STILL don't get what this violent thug Capehart is suggesting, he goes on to say:

If you’ve seen the brilliant movie "The Usual Suspects," you know who this diabolical character is and what he did to gain mythical status. Suffice it to say that Söze so out-crazied the crazies that he became a person not to be messed with — a symbol of fear and grudging respect.

Nice talk huh.

He goes on:

In the coming fights over the next budget, unemployment benefits and payroll tax cuts, I want Obama to show the Republican Party in general and the Tea Party in particular that he isn’t afraid to out-crazy the crazies. If that means vetoing bills, taking the fight to individual districts, shutting down the government, so be it.

Something tells me that paragraph was added more as a CYA rather than anything else. I'm sure Capehart wants you to believe he only links to the story of Keyser Söze killing absolutely everyone, only as a metaphor for "getting tough."

Sorry, I ain't buying it. This increasing violent rhetoric coming from democrats can no longer be tolerated. These thugs must be called out and dealt with. These thugs want to incite violence. They know they have already lost the debate. They have nothing else to lose.

The American people now fully understand that liberalism is a failed ideology, and they want no more of it. In fact, the American people want to scale back government considerably.

The bottom line is Capehart, thuggish bastard that he is, wants the American people to fear Barack Obama. As Thomas Jefferson said, when the people fear their government, they live under tyranny. Capehart is advocating a tyrannical government, the very antithesis of what our founders created. I suggest Capehart and his ilk move to Cuba, Venezuela, or Iran, they will find the exact sort of tyranny they long for.

As for me and mine, I'd rather the government fear us, and fear us greatly, because then, and only then, can there be Liberty and Freedom!

Dear Leader Barack Obama Blames "Democracy" For His failures

By Gary P Jackson

Barack Obama is the worst president in the history of the United States. It's long past the time to think he is simply inept, or doesn't get it. The man is a committed Marxist, and in my opinion is following the Cloward-Piven strategy of manufactured crisis in order to destroy America as we know it, and create his communist utopia.

At a fundraiser celebrating his 50th birthday Obama blames "democracy" for all of his problems. Yeah, it's a real shame that pesky Constitution doesn't allow for a dictator, instead of a President and two other EQUAL branches of government!

Destroying a nation is hard work, eh Obama?

By the why, one of my real pet peeves is someone calling the Unites States a "democracy." We are not a democracy. We are a Representative Republic. Historically democracies have always failed, then led to anarchy, then some form of dictatorship. That's why our founders chose the form of government they did. They were smart enough to foresee the sort of trouble someone like Obama could cause if left totally unrestrained. It's a shame our spineless Congress and Supreme Court are asleep at the wheel, and not restraining Obama further.

Anyhow, Dear Leader speaks:

"It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet. When I said 'change we can believe in' I didn't say 'change we can believe in tomorrow.' Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy," President Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday night.

Noted Palin Hating Whack-Job Malia Litman Hammered By Alaska's Attorney General

By Gary P Jackson

As you know, when Sarah Palin came back to Alaska after the 2008 presidential campaign operatives for Team Obama, guided by Pete Rouse, from the West Wing of the White House, attempted to do anything and everything to hamstring Palin's government, to make it impossible for her to lead, and hopefully drive her out of politics forever.

As Dr Phil would say:"And how is that working out for ya?"

We all know the results of their efforts. These losers cost the State of Alaska a taste over $2 million. Even though all of their "ethics complaints" were ridiculous, the state was required, by law, to investigate every one. This cost time and money. Lots of money. As the state, by law, did not protect the Executive Branch from these frivolous lawsuits, not only was Sarah and her family exposed to 100% of the cost to defend herself, so were her staff, who were also targeted by the Alaska Mafia with bogus complaints. Alaska has since changed the law, protecting the Executive and their staff from this sort of harassment by crazies. That law went into effect in late 2010.

Now most of our readers know the names of these people involved, most notably Obama's then campaign Chief-of-Staff, now White House adviser [and once temporary WH Chief-of-Staff] Pete Rouse. Also participating in the scheme was Phil Munger, Shannyn Moore, Jeanne Devon, Linda Biegel, and a host of supporting characters. These people are vile and disgusting. They used the connections given to them through the White House to spread lies, and illegally publish details of their phony complaints to the world, all in an attempt to stop Sarah Palin.

It seems their plan was a bit flawed, as Sarah Palin is stronger than ever, and they are still nothing more than miserable, bitter, little ankle-biters who are of no value to society whatsoever.

Then there is Obama shill Malia Litman, a Texan. Malia has a serious case of Palin Derangement Syndrome, and desperately wanted to be part of the Alaska Mafia, even taking the trouble to file bogus "ethics complaints" against the Governor, further illustrating how screwed up Alaska's ethics laws are.

Anyhow, Litman, who teeters back and forth between semi-sanity and bat-shit crazy, is so nuts even the Alaska Mafia wanted nothing to do with her!

A little background on Litman. She's made a cottage industry out of hating Sarah Palin, and written several books, including Rebuttal to the Rogue currently ranked number 292,567 on Amazon's "best sellers" list. The bio for her book says:

Malia Litman was a registered nurse, and a Senior Trial Partner with a major law firm in Dallas. After 12 years of establishing herself as a successful trial attorney, Malia opted out of her profession to stay at home to ensure the success of her children and her marriage.

Fifteen years later Malia was still happily married, and her children were happy but the country was failing to thrive. For the first time in her life, Malia became involved in politics, volunteering for the Obama campaign. Malia never aspired to be an author, but Sarah Palin changed that.

Now I point this out because reading Litman's blog has convinced me she is one of the stupidest people mankind has ever spawned, and here are a couple of examples:

Now remember, this woman claims to have been a "successful trail attorney" which means she has to pass the bar exam, and yet, she thinks there are TEN Supreme Court Justices! [there are nine] In a laughable piece entitled: Palin’s Attack on the Supreme Court is the Pinnacle of Stupidity Litman goes after Sarah because she called out the hate-filled loons from the Westboro Baptist "Church" who protest military funerals and spew vile rhetoric at all those nearby. "Trial attorney" and aspiring "constitutional scholar" Litman had this to offer: [emphasis mine]

Sarah Palin tweeted this comment from her blackberry:

Common sense & decency absent as wacko "church" allowed hate msgs spewed@ soldiers’ funerals but we can’t invoke God’s name in public square

The absurdity and the stupidity of her comments are only rivaled by her suggestions that we should build dikes to solve the Gulf Oil Spill or that we have "North Korean Allies". A few observations are significant, even for those of average intelligence, and even if you never attended law school.

1. Constitutional Law is the most complicated and challenging of all courses offered in law school. As an example, Howard University Law School requires 6 hours of Constitutional Law credits, which is more than any other course, including contracts, property, torts, and civil procedure.

Most people who had never taken a Constitutional Law Class would be hesitant to attack the United States Supreme Court for any decision, without careful consideration. Sarah Palin lacks the insight to appreciate just how foolish she appears. She commented from her blackberry as soon as the Court Ruled. Does anyone believe that Palin even read the 15 page opinion, the 3 page concurring opinion, and the 14 page dissent on her Blackberry?

2. Nine of ten U.S. Supreme Court Justices agreed that the people of the Westboro Church had the right to protest in the way that they did. None of the Justices based their decisions on the basis of "common sense" and "decency". Their decision was based on the Constitution itself, and a careful consideration of decades of case law.

Now Litman did get the facts right, the Justices were compelled to follow the law. And frankly. it's the speech that angers us the most, that should be defended the strongest. As vile as the Westboro bunch is, they have the right to spew their crap.

What Litman doesn't get, is Sarah wasn't so much criticizing the Court for protecting free speech, as showing the frustration of tens of millions of Americans who can't get past the fact hatemongers can be allowed to spew, but the same Court says speaking God's name in the public square is not allowed, or can be severely restricted.

Sarah didn't even get into the hypocrisy of allowing "hate speech" and "hate crime" laws to exist, as they obviously favor special groups over the population as a whole. But another argument for another day!

Instead, let's focus on Litman, and why we should take her seriously, as she calls Sarah Palin stupid, uneducated and uninformed, when she doesn't even know the correct number Justices on the Supreme Court? Especially since she's a freakin' lawyer! Who knows what they teach in school now, but back in the day, we learned about the three branches of government in grade school!

Litman proves she would be a losing contestant on Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader!

Litman LOVES to use Sarah's children as a weapon against her. Yeah, she's that low rent. A quick run through her blog will show just how deep this woman's psychosis goes. On one of her rants she rips into "GOP Family Values" taking on Republicans in general, but attacking Sarah and her kids in a particularly nasty way, even claiming both Sarah and Todd had extra-marital affairs. She also goes nuts about Sarah's TV show, her books, wearing a flag pin, etc. Oh, she even goes down the "her 5th child may not be her's dirt road to insanity. Just full-on crazy stuff.

Anyhow, reading this nut-bag's rant I found this gem:

If McCain and Palin had been elected, it would have been the first time the Vice President’s illegitimate grandchild would be living in the white house with her.

Litman's readers are, at best, as stupid as she is, so they missed this deal. It's trivial, of course, but the Vice President does not reside in the White House. Never has. The VP and his or her family reside at the Naval Observatory. From the White House's official site:

Located on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory (USNO), the white 19th Century house at Number One Observatory Circle in northwestern Washington, D.C., was built in 1893. Originally intended for the superintendent of the USNO, the house was so lovely that in 1923, the chief of naval operations kicked out the superintendent so he could move in himself. Historically, Vice Presidents and their families lived in their own homes, but the cost of securing these private residences grew substantially over the years. Finally, in 1974, Congress agreed to refurbish the house at the Naval Observatory as a home for the Vice President.

Three years passed before any Vice President actually lived at Number One Observatory Circle. Vice President Gerald Ford acceded to the Presidency before he could use the home, and his Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, only used it for entertaining. Walter Mondale was the first Vice President to move into the home. It has since been home to the families of Vice Presidents Bush, Quayle, Gore, and Cheney. Vice President and Dr. Biden currently reside there.

Vice Presidents have welcomed countless guests to the residence, including foreign leaders and dignitaries. Still, the Naval Observatory has continued to operate. Scientists observe the sun, moon, planets and selected stars, determine and precisely measure the time, and publish astronomical data needed for accurate navigation.

Read more here.

Now that we have established that Malia Litman is a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance [for more examples read ANY article on her blog] let's look at why she was smacked down by Alaska's Department of Law.

As you know, most states, and even some major cities, offer incentives to the film industry so they will make movies there. These incentives usually come in the form of tax breaks. It's good business. The production companies show up, spend money on food and lodging, hire local workers, and have a positive impact on the economy. Every nickel in tax incentives comes back to the community dressed up like a dollar.

Texas has a booming film industry. A lot of big movies are made here, including the recent remake of True Grit. The City of Austin has a vibrant film scene. Again, it's good for business.

Alaska, one of only 5 states that did not have any sort of film incentives, found itself in a strange position. Because of it's location, and the expenses involved to film there, many projects using Alaska as the setting were actually being filmed elsewhere. Most notably was the hit TV show Northern Exposure. The story was set in the fictional small town of Cicely, Alaska, but actually filmed in Roslyn, Washington.

To rectify this, Alaskan lawmakers created legislation similar to that of other states, creating tax incentives for film makers, and documentarians. Senate Bill SB 230 was signed into law by Governor Palin on June 6, 2008 and went into effect September 2, 2008. Please note two things: These incentives were created by the legislature, not Governor Palin, and she signed them into law well before she was chosen to be John McCain's running mate. I say this, because when she signed this into law, she had no idea that within months she would become a political superstar and a world leader.

This legislation has been wildly successful too. If you watch the Discovery Channel, The History Channel, or National Geographic, for any amount of time, you'll see a show produced in Alaska. Hit shows like Ice Road Truckers, Alaska State Troopers, The Deadliest Catch, and of course the top show in TLC history, Sarah Palin's Alaska, are just a few.

This is where the star of our little drama, Malia Litman comes in.

Alaska ethics laws regarding the Executive are strange. One of them being a former Governor can still be held liable for violations for up to two years after they leave office. Taking advantage of this, Litman, a precinct captain for Barack Obama in 2008, filed an ethics complaint on June 6, 2011, alleging Governor Palin violated the law by working on Sarah Palin's Alaska. One has to wonder why someone with such a sharp legal mind as Litman's took six months after the show ended to realize there was a "violation."

This also reveals a serious flaw in Alaska law. How is it a Texan, who is totally and completely unaffected by anything Alaska lawmakers come up with, can file a complaint against the Alaska Governor?

Sadly, state law forced the ethics department to investigate this nonsense. People like Litman, filing these complaints for no other reason than to harass the Governor, have cost the State of Alaska well over two million dollars. Money that could have been spent on roads, schools, or anything of real benefit to Alaskans. But loons like Litman, and the members of the Alaska Mafia need a hobby, and couldn't care less if they harm the Alaskan people, while they indulge themselves in their jihad against the Governor.

We know for a fact the Obama White House coordinated the attacks on Governor Palin while she was in office. No clue whether Litman was asked to do this, or was working on her own though. The lady needs serious psychiatric help either way. As we pointed out above, Litman has allowed Palin Derangement Syndrome to eat her alive.

To see the letter Alaska's Department of Law sent Litman, click here.

Governor Palin's attorney, John Tiemessen issued the following statement:

The Alaska Attorney General’s office has dismissed yet another frivolous ethics complaint filed against Governor Palin by a leftwing political blogger. This particular blogger is from Texas (where she volunteered as a precinct captain for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign), and yet her dismissed complaint against Governor Palin has cost the State of Alaska time and resources because no matter how absurd the complaint is, the state must respond to it. These complaints also cost Governor Palin personally to defend herself. This small band of leftwing bloggers have dedicated their lives to spreading lies, half-truths, and failed legal analysis about allegations of "corruption" against Governor Palin. This dismissed complaint is just the latest example of their destructive strategy to harass a political leader they disagree with.

This particular complaint alleged that Governor Palin violated Alaska’s Executive Branch Ethics Act because the production company that made "Sarah Palin’s Alaska" received a film tax credit from the State of Alaska related to its expenses in making the series. It should be noted that Governor Palin never received any direct money or compensation from this tax credit. The legislation that created this tax credit was crafted and passed by Alaska lawmakers and signed into law by Governor Palin. In dismissing this complaint, the Alaska Attorney General’s office outlines the illogic and absurdity of exempting former governors from complying with statutes they signed into law for two years after they leave office.

You can read the Attorney General’s opinion here.

- John J. Tiemessen, attorney for Sarah Palin

Undeterred, Litman is still pursuing the matter, and posted a copy of the letter she wrote back to the Department of Law, which you can read here for some comic relief.

These people are stalkers, nothing more, nothing less. They have devoted their entire lives to the harassment of someone they disagree with. A political rival. They all should be forced to pay the state back for all expenses incurred investigating these bogus complaints. They should also be restrained from further harassment.

By the way, Litman who has gleefully discussed filing this complaint, actually violated Alaska law herself. Of course, so has every other ankle-biter. You see, it's against Alaska law to discuss these complaints until they have been resolved.

The Alaska Mafia, through their many media contacts, would often have the news about the complaints out to the national media within minutes of complaints actually being filed. This was the real goal anyhow. They didn't care if they won the cases. Most were so absurd only a real fool would think they had a chance.

The real goal was to create a headline that Governor Palin was "being investigated for ethics violations." They wanted to create the narrative that Governor Palin, the woman who cleaned up massive corruption in Alaska, was herself, corrupt. Even though all of these complaints were dismissed, the damage was done.

Oddly enough, the way the law worked was if someone filed a complaint against a lawmaker, then made that complaint public, the complaint was dismissed straightaway. No such protection for the Executive.

Malia Litman is a nut case, but she, and people like her, are exactly why it's so difficult to get good people to run for elected office. These democrats, filled with vile hatred and rage, will make their life a living hell if a person even tries to do right by the American people. Few want to endure all of this.

Sarah Palin is a rare breed. Not only can she endure all of this, she can thrive. That makes her an exceptional leader, and America is better for it.

Sarah Palin: It's Time For Us All To Unite

If we were really domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us wouldn’t he?

I mean he didn’t have a problem with paling around with Bill Ayers back in the day when he kicked off his political career in Bill Ayers apartment, and shaking hands with Chavez and saying he doesn’t need any preconditions with meeting dictators or wanting to read US Miranda rights to alleged suspected foreign terrorists.

No if we were real domestic terrorists I think President Obama wouldn’t have a problem with us.

~ Sarah Palin

By Gary P Jackson

Sarah Palin was strong on the Sean Hannity show Tuesday night. She went after the Obama regime, specifically Joe Biden, and reminded viewers if Tea Party patriots really were terrorists, Obama would likely be their best friend, seeing as he started his political career in the living room of two unrepentant, murdering domestic terrorists whose only regret is they didn't do more!

Sarah also hammers Mitt Romney for being the typical unprincipled "finger-in-the-wind" hack politician with no political convictions whatsoever.

In the interview Sarah also says it's time for the Tea Party Americans to come together and united for the fight ahead. As she says, 2012 can't come fast enough.

Video courtesy of SarahNet.

Thank You Obama: Cuba About To Drill Off Florida Coast, Put Coastline In Danger

By Gary P Jackson

We've reported before that Cuba and China are teaming up to steal our oil. They look to "slant-drill [drill sideways] in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and tap into oil and natural gas reserves that belong to the United States. Thanks to Obama's war on energy production, these two communist nations are doing this unchecked and unchallenged.

Lefties are worried about the environment, but support Obama's moratorium on drilling. As the National Journal points out, this has dire consequences. No one has a better safety record than American drilling companies, and they are forbidden to do business with Cuba, so chances of a BP type oil spill, with disastrous results are almost a given. And unlike BP, the U.S., short of going to war, won't be able to hold Cuba, or China, responsible.

Castro wins

From National Journal:

Sometime over the next three months, if all goes according to plan, Cuban workers on a Chinese-built, Spanish-owned rig will start drilling for oil in the mile-deep waters just off the north coast of Cuba, 70 miles from the Florida Keys.

If the drill hits a major oil deposit—and all geologic signs indicate it will—the discovery will unleash a cascade of developments with profound political, environmental, and economic consequences.

The Cuban government has long wanted to extract the rich reserves of oil and natural gas believed to lie off its shores. Estimates for oil range from 5 billion to 20 billion barrels, while the estimate for natural gas is 8.6 billion cubic feet. Unlocking that oil could jump-start a nascent Cuban offshore-oil industry—and free the island nation from its energy and political dependence on Venezuela, from which it imports 60 percent of its oil today. A newfound independence from its socialist neighbor and its mercurial president, Hugo Chavez—coming at a time when the Cuban leadership is facing change with the eventual demise of Fidel Castro—is an appealing prospect to the United States.

But the potential of a closer relationship with Cuba comes with a terrifying specter: An oil blowout in Cuban waters could reprise the nightmare that was last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and send crude spewing to the beaches of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. And the likelihood for such a disaster is very real, say oil industry experts, thanks in part to Washington’s 49-year-old embargo on Cuba.

Because of the embargo, U.S. companies cannot drill in Cuba, supply equipment to Cuba, have any say over safety regulations in Cuba, or even take part in helping control a blowout and spill in Cuba. As the island prepares to begin offshore drilling, it has signed contracts with oil companies from Brazil, India, Italy, Russia, and Spain—and is in talks to lease major portions of its coastal water to Chinese companies (continuing China’s pattern of pursuing oil exploration in countries where U.S. drillers aren’t welcome).

Under the embargo’s terms, the oil drilling and safety equipment used by those companies must be less than 10 percent U.S.-made. But all of the most technologically advanced equipment for drilling and preventing or stopping oil spills is made in the United States or by U.S. companies.

Read more here.

It's incredible to me that we, as a sovereign nation, would allow this to happen, but it underscores why Barrack Obama and every democrat up for re-election must be defeat soundly in 2012. Though a lot of what they stand for harms America and her people, the left's hard line stance against energy development is evil, and immoral.

We've mentioned this numerous times, but it bears repeating: We have over 300 years worth of recoverable oil and natural gas right here in this country. Chad Stafko wrote The President's Oil Reserves Lie for the American Thinker and spells it all out. Read it here.

If all of the areas were opened up, a million jobs would be created in very short order and gasoline prices would drop significantly. Most importantly though, our national security would be enhanced. Being energy secure means we would never again be held hostage by international affairs that threaten supply or production.

There is only one person with the will to make this happen, and that's Sarah Palin. There are many reasons why it is essential that she become our next President, but energy security and national security is the most important. With Sarah Palin leading the charge from the Oval Office, the United States can become the most prosperous and secure nation in history. That would be her lasting legacy, as well as America's.

Meanwhile, we all have to stand by as foreign governments steal our resources and our feckless president and the losers in Congress allow it to happen, without the slightest word of protest. This is the Obama legacy, and the legacy of the Ruling Class.

Thanks to the Obama regime's drilling ban: