Republican’s on the right.

Republicans are fond of implying that President Obama is a big-spending socialist. But the House GOP recently offered a spending cut plan that was able to find savings worth less than one percent of Obama’s budget.

~GOP 99% Socialist Posted by Chris Edwards

Those stupid Republican’s just can’t get it together!  At least the Democrats stand for something, it might be suicide but at least it’s something. 

Come on! It’s not like their aren’t some BIG pork barrel spending things going on right now that could be cut!  Medicare and Social Security to name a few are gigantic wastes!  But it would take somebody with courage  to tackle this (Obama’s taking it on although completely a$$ backwards)!  So what about elimination of some useless government agencies such as the The Office of National Drug Control Policy, The Department of Agriculture, The Department of Education, The Department of Health and Human Services, The Department of Housing and Urban Development, or The Department of Labor.  There is a list of some of the most wasteful and useless entities to man in all of human history! But nope Republican’s can only find 1% spending cuts.  If they are to cowardly to do this why don’t they cut some quasi-government agencies which opperate wrecklessly independent like the FTC, FCC, FRS, the African Development Foundation, or the EPA to name a very few! 

Me? When faced with two evils will continue to choose neither.  I’d better get to work though as our government is flushing us all down the preverbial “s#!%er”.

“North Korea defied world powers and carried out an underground test Monday of a nuclear bomb Russian officials said was comparable to those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
     Associated Press, May 25, 2009.
     Hat tip: AmericanMissive.com

Today and tomorrow President Obama has an opportunity – deal strictly and harshly with North Korea. 

Liberals and peace loving democrats mount up!  North Korea is arming itself.  Nuclear proliferation is on the rise.  Michael Moore it’s time for another documentary this time on the evils of nuclear weapons and their proliferation! Jane Fonda it’s time to head overseas and protest the aggression of rogue nations! 

It is a time of opportunity.  Will North Korea be allowed to arm itself and proliferate nuclear weapons.  For decades the West has been disarming and dismantling nuclear weapons at the behest of peace and liberal ideology.  This aggression should not be allowed to stand.  Obama can use North Korea as an example of how liberal democratic ideals halt nuclear proliferation. 

None of what I mention above will happen.  I predict a lot of talk and some UN (meaningless) paper resolutions.  As the world looks on they (Iran, Syria, and others) will realize that nuclear proliferation treaties are meaningless and while Obama is head of the world police state the police are on a (4 to 8 year) donut break. 

No action will be taken.  We will see further increase in nuclear states.

Today is Obama’s opportunity.  But I fear the world has just gotten more dangerous.

• Spend trillions (9.3 trillion and counting)
• Expand TARP
• Continue Bush’s spending programs
• Lead a pork laden government program and spending bill and call it a Economic Recovery Bill
• Spend more money in the standard OMB spending bill
• Raise taxes on American’s (But lie and say, “They were tax cuts.”)
• Show America’s fealty to a Muslim king
• Act weak on Korea’s missile program
• Join the Hugo Chavez book club
• Apologize to Europe for America’s bad behavior while failing to get European support for Afghanistan
• Call succesful people lucky
• Have horrible troubles getting a cabinet with resignations and the such
• Give bad gifts to foreign dignitaries
• Appoint an idiot Treasury Secretary who is in fact a documented tax cheat
• Pretend that capitalism is to blame for the economic bubble instead of saying it like it is; when it is human greed and government incentive
• Snub his nose at our top allies
• Allow the Department of Homeland Security to label Right-Wing people and vets as potential violent terrorist that should be monitored
• Fire CEO’s in private corporations in line with Fascist economic principles
• Attempt to overload the US & Russian relationship
• Promote abortion globally by using tax dollars to expand abortion in the US and internationally
• Release CIA and military interrogation methods further empowering our enemies
• Bailout poorly run states and locals
• Pretend that our interrogations methods are torture
• Sign blatently Unconstitutional bills of attainder
• Pretend that torture is always wrong
• Slow down military spending
• Act like he is going to prosecute those that ok’d approved torture methods to politicize our military and intelligence gathering industrial complex
• Allow the military to shoot a few pirates
• Spend more money funding illegal immigrants and call it economic stimulus

Well, his first 100 days are now behind us.  What lays in store? More spending, more tax increases, more bad leadership, more erosion of American strength, etc. 

He will also continue to talk and talk, while lying through his teeth, (with the aid of his teleprompter) knowing that the majority of American’s will get their news in sound blurbs and never take the time, like I have, to look at his policies.  Therefore, his approval rate will remain high as we head down this wide path and through the wide gate.  What of Obama’s policies do you like? Which ones do you dislike?  Anything to add?

This is what you voted for it’s time to own it!  You may like these policies or you may dislike these policies; but we as a nation have to own them.

I agree with the Mr. VanNuys 110%.  The plan seems reasonable but in light of our current spending Obama is trying to have it all.  The reason I agree 110% is Obama is wrecking us financially faster then anybody else would have. 

However, I’d like to point out that things wouldn’t have been much different under Republican leadership.  In fact, Republican leadership as pointed out in the Washington Times would do even more in Afghanistan. 

As far as the spending goes Obama is just the Republican party on steroids.  In the Omnibus bill Republican’s had 40% of the earmarks, McCain infamously took time off his presidential campaign to go to Washington and support the Pelosi, Paulson, Bush Wall Street bailout.   Further, for all of McCain’s talk of limiting earmarks this is just politics as well.  Read any of the great minds of today and they will tell you to focus on the top 10 to 20% of the problems that create 80% of the results.  McCain and other conservatives focus on limiting earmarks is just politics.  Earmarks only account for a small percentage of spending compared with the overall spending.  True leadership along the lines of what Stephen Covey, Jim Collins, Peter Drucker, or Jack Welch would call for would be true meaninful reform. 

This is the problem.  While I agree with those at American Missive I’d take it a step further.  What is the alternative a slow decline or a fast decline?  A slow decline surely gives us time to change.  But we aren’t changing for the better I don’t see any swinging of knowledge or understanding of the principles that would make this country stronger.  A fast decline would hurt but maybe it would shake us up sooner rather then later.  With four young kids for their sake I’d rather be stuck with the burden of the hard life so I could leave them with a better world.  One could almost be justified in supporting Obama on this ground.  Although personally faced with two evils like the Republican party and Democratic party I will choose neither.  The ends do not justify the means. 

I wonder do those at American Missive see as large a lack of leadership in Washington as I do?