Omnibus Bill

It’s shocking to hear as gifted and prestigious an economist, such as Dr. Williams, ‘officially’ stamp the Obamination a totalitarian government. Even though I had our young Mr Obama pegged as a totalitarian well over two years ago. I haven’t been a bit shy in saying it since.

Dr. Walter Williams

Today, something spectacular happened in the people’s House. You, you my patriot friends and neighbors, stood together and turned aside the Marxists’ pork-laden seventeen hundred page omni-disaster bill with something like 6,600 earmarks.

It was an instantaneous reaction by the selfsame patriots we’ve been describing in the column all along. It’s you, you the American patriot, that jammed the Capitol switchboards with your calls, your e-mails and visits. It’s as though every word I’ve been saying about our oversight of Congress has enabled us to react, and react quickly.

What turned the liberal stampede aside wasn’t just all the calls and e-mails. What did the trick was that they were targeted. Republicans who had not been retired and who were up for re-election in this next cycle received a lot of attention, as did self-described (now) moderate Democrats. How an election does make for true believers. Well, enough of these folks, well aware that they were being stared down by millions of activist citizens who organized and acted virtually overnight.

I’m not suggesting that our Patriot Movement was entirely responsible for the omnibus spending monster’s demise, but there’s no doubt in my mind that we changed enough minds to affect the outcome.

Pretty much all of the country realizes that we are witnessing an entire government out of control, threatening our freedom from many directions at the same time. This is an outlaw government, totally unresponsive to the people… the citizens of this great land. This government is operating outside the Constitution and must be stopped.

We won a victory today. A small one in this war for America’s life. If the politicians know we’re looking right over their shoulders, prepared to act, a lot of these RINOs won’t be nearly as ready to get up to their usual sellouts and betrayals.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

AMAZING. First the increase in spending limits that the Senate Oinkers approved, and which Obama signed on to, has the Larders scrambling for more and more PORK. In the same breath Obama is encouraging banks to issue more risky loans, for which he intends to use TARP money to back up. Once again in clear violation of the law. Our public debt grew by one trillion, three hundred and ninety seven billion dollars. Uh, that was last month folks.

Senator Barack Obama, “RAISING AMERICA’S DEBT LIMIT IS A SIGN OF LEADERSHIP FAILURE”. March16, 2006. Then, without a blink, the House approved the MASSIVE FY10 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which according to Representative Jason Chaffetz, (R) Utah, provides massive funding increases for INTERNATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING, domestic family planning and condom promotion.

Rep. Chaffetz, “We are in debt up to our eyeballs, living on a credit card, and hemorrhaging jobs. Subsidizing condoms is hardly out top priority”. “This Omnibus Bill is bad government at its worst”. “This bill spends nearly half the discretionary portion of the federal budget on just six federal departments”. “It was debated for just one hour”. THAT’S SEVEN POINT FOUR BILLION DOLLARS SPENT PER MINUTE OF DEBATE!!

While on the subject. Federal employees earning over $100,000.00 per year jumped to a full 19% from 14% at the beginning of the recession. Not bad work if you can get it. This leads me to state again that in Barack Obama’s world the only growth sector IS government. It’s the classic communist model…diminish the middle class to feed the coffers of the elite rulers in charge of redistribution.

I’ll say it again. It’s a darn good thing for these politicians and their bureaucratic leaches that the American people actually believe in the rule of law…something our so-called leaders ignore entirely. If this was one of those third world ‘Republics’ that the left is so enamored with, we’d have long since burned the damned Capitol down around their ears…BUT WE’RE NOT. So we’ll take them apart at the ballot box. This bunch is heading for the what will probably be one of the great political blood lettings in American history. DON’T LET UP!! KEEP AFTER THEM!! DINGY HARRY IS SCRAMBLING FOR COVER. Nowhere to hide Harry.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2009

by  Lance Thompson

My switch from analog to digital photography occurred last summer, and my new computer came with Photoshop, so all this instant photo retouching is a revelation.  Now, instead of waiting for photo processing, the results are immediate.  Retouching can be done in the camera.  Manipulation of the photos is a breeze on the computer.  I can combine elements, erase them, even draw and annotate.  The power is intoxicating.  Reality is mine to shape and distort as I choose. 

Of course, with absolute power comes the temptation to go too far.  Not content with removing red-eye or simplifying distracting backgrounds or improving lighting, my tampering crossed the line of good judgment.  I intensified colors to neon brightness, multiplied waterfalls with reckless abandon, dramatized historical photos with modern special effects.  It was a disaster.

But the makers of Photoshop, in their wisdom, included an insurance policy.  It is a function called “Undo,” and it allows the user to erase all the ill-advised modifications he has made when his good sense catches up with him. 

Similarly, the president’s first legislative initiatives, the stimulus and spending bills, which send the national debt to Marianas Trench-like depths, afforded Democrats the same kind of sudden unlimited power.  The president was selling crisis to the public, Pelosi and Reid weren’t letting anyone read the bills, and there was an opportunity for every Democrat to have his legislative wishes granted.  Cost was not a factor–rub Obama’s magic lamp and your fondest earmark will become reality.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the stimulus and the omnibus spending bills had “Undo” buttons?  A hundred million to ACORN, the organization that creates votes out of thin air and will soon be helping to tabulate the Census.  UNDO.  Insuring honey bees and farm raised fish for another $150 million.  UNDO.  $850 million to bail out Amtrak.  UNDO.   Nine thousand earmarks from Democrats and Republicans. UNDO.

As the nation plunges into record-breaking debt, with the only response from the White House and Congress being to spend more, Americans are beginning to see the onrushing train at the end of the tunnel.  Obama’s own nominee for commerce secretary, New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, compared Obama’s economic plan to that of a banana republic, and called the level of debt that will result “unsustainable.”  Many Americans who supported and voted for Obama may be wishing there was an UNDO button on their ballots.

In fact, there is.  There’s an UNDO function coming in Election 2.010.  The UNDO button won’t apply to Obama–he’s not due for an update until 2012.  But every member of the House and one third of the Senate will be up for re-election in 2010.  It’s not as easy as voting Republican instead of Democrat.  Several courageous Democrats in the House voted against the stimulus bill, and three imbecile Republicans in the Senate voted for it.  So you’ll all have to do your own research.

If the Senator or congressman who represents you voted for trillions of dollars in spending, and is sending you the bill, your choice is clear.  UNDO to others as they have tried to UNDO our economy.  It’s as simple as the push of a button.