Read Obama's Lips: No New Taxes

On April 15, tax day, thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest wasteful government spending and high taxes.

President Obama's response to the event was to say that he's cut taxes..."You would think they'd be saying thank you"

Why should we?  Yes, Obama has cut some taxes, but he's raised others.  And if Obama truly was a tax-cutter, then maybe the press would actually call him on all of his Bush-blaming.

Then, mere days after his snide remark, the news comes out the president is considering a Value Added Tax.  Now, there are few ways that Obama could damage our economy more than through a VAT, which would raise prices for consumer products across the board. 

Obama's spending has already been so bad that the Democrats have decided to wait until after the November elections to vote on the budget.  As idiotic as his policies are, the President isn't stupid.  He knows that he'll have to raise taxes in order to pay for all of the entitlements & bailouts that have embodied his agenda.

The question is, why does Barack Obama seem to assume that the people of America are all stupid?  We know what tax cuts are.  We know what fiscal conservatism is.  We know that Barack Obama isn't moving our nation toward either one.

The Left has made a game out of minimizing and slandering the Tea Party movement, but they do so at their own risk.  The voters can see who is right and who is lying, and right now, the President and the Democrats are lying almost with their every breath.

This November's elections should be very interesting, indeed.

Why Shouldn't Blacks Be Conservatives?

From a story (surprisingly) coming from the AP (via Breitbart), black conservatives are taking heat...for being black conservatives.

The story actually focuses on blacks who support the Tea Party movement, but this kind of thing has been going on for some time.  Colin Powell was routinely criticized for being a black man working for the Bush administration.  Condoleezza Rice came under similar criticism.  Michael Steele was also criticized (and reportedly attacked with Oreo cookies during his run for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland).  It didn't matter that their positions within the government were "historic" (a word that the Left just loves to throw around).  They're black, and don't conform to what the Left sees as the norm for black people, and that in itself is enough to earn them the Left's vitriol.

From the article, quoting Timothy F. Johnson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation:

"Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks,"

This is what continually astounds me on the issue of African-American conservatives.  Liberals are the ones who say we should move beyond race.  Liberals are the ones who urge us to avoid labels.  But when the rubber meets the road, the Left is all talk and no action.  They are the first ones to look at race.  They are the first ones to apply labels.  They are the ones who blindly enforce their stereotype that all minorities should, by default, be Democrats.

Conservatives, on the other hand, are the ones who are more willing to look beyond race.  One of my favorite political conversations of all time was when I watched a conservative African-American woman take on a white liberal man who said he planned to vote for Barack Obama because he would be the first black president.  For conservatives, it's not about race, it's about ideals and ideas.  It's not about race, it's about policy.

The defining line from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have A Dream" speech states:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. 

The Left has made it abundantly clear that they have no intention of living up to this, the defining ideal of the Civil Rights Movement that they purport to treasure so dearly.  Whenever the Left says they want racial equality, the first thing they do is focus on skin color, judging and stereotyping people arbitrarily based solely on the color of their skin.  

Those on the Left love to engage in race-baiting, but in the final analysis, it's very clear who the real racists are. 

Obama Tells The Right To Tone It Down

In an interview with CBS News, President Obama was asked what he thinks of his critics on the Right.

From Politico's coverage of the CBS story:

"I’ve been listening to talk radio, the kindest of terms is a socialist, worst of which I’ve heard is you called a Nazi, are you aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves about you?" asked Smith.

"Well I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it's pretty apparent, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out," said Obama. "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious, but that's not the vast majority of Americans. I think vast majority of Americans know that we're trying hard. I want what's best for the country. They may disagree on certain policy issues but I didn't buy all the hype right after inauguration where everybody was only saying nice things about me and I don't get too worried when things aren't going as well because I know that, over time, these things turn.

"I do think that everybody has a responsibility — Democrats or Republicans — to tone down some of this rhetoric, some of these comments. …It used to be that someone who said something crazy, they might be saying it to their next door neighbor or it might be on some late night AM station at the very end of the radio dial and now with the blogs, it ends up getting a lot more attention and you guys end up covering it a lot more. It's not as if there haven't been a lot of crazy things said out and about over the years, it's just that it gets much more magnified much more quickly."

In a nation that was founded on values of Freedom and Liberty, where the nation was born when the people rose up in revolt against government tyranny, excessive taxation, and a government that would not listen to the people, we have seen the government increasingly spending more and more money on wasteful programs, redistributing wealth based on their arbitrary standards of who is deserving and who isn't, taking over private industry, and constantly increasing the size and power of government.

The Right has been criticized for not standing up in opposition to George W. Bush like they have stood against Barack Obama, even though they are committing many of the same offenses against the Constitution.  Well, Barack Obama is to many on the Right what Abraham Lincoln was to the South.  The difference between then and now is that when Lincoln was elected, the South secceeded because they believed in their right to own slaves.  Today, the Right is standing against the government's attempt to enslave the populace.  The government has been buying the people off, little by little, through government programs and so-called "entitlements."  It has gotten so bad that today, large portions of the population will support a candidate solely on the basis of what handout they can expect that candidate to give them - bribery for votes, all with taxpayer dollars in the name of compassion and charity.

The leftist progressives in our government, with the aid of the mainstream media's pro-left propaganda machine, have set themselves up as the modern-day Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor.  They seem to forget the fact that in the tale of Robin Hood, the rich were the fat-cats in government, and the poor were the citizenry living under oppressive taxation.  Over the long run, all their socialist policies will lead to is a universally poor populace, enslaved by the government, while those in power live as kings.  We've seen it before - the only difference between modern America and Soviet Russia is that while Russia transformed their society very quickly through revolution, the United States is going about it more slowly, through the use of propaganda and government policy.

And now, in the face of a socialist revolution undertaken and led by those in the government who will benefit the most from their own policies, we are told to tone it down.  Never mind that we see more and more of our freedoms slip away on a daily basis, this kind of "vitriol" has no place in American politics.  Never mind that those on the Right are constantly made out to be racists, bigots, and even criminals because of our opinions, it's wrong for us to speak our minds.

When George W. Bush was president and the anti-war activists were shouting all kinds of crazy things, up to and including comparing Bush to Hitler and expressing how they would like members of the Bush administration to die, we were told by the Democrats that "protest is the highest form of patriotism" (Nancy Pelosi herself said paraphrases of this several times).  Now that the Left is in power, protests are no longer patriotic.  Protest is dangerous, insidious, and wrong.

As freedom-loving Americans, we should not allow this kind of rhetoric from the President to slow us down.  We have just as much freedom of speech as the rabid leftists who turned out in droves to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have First Amendment rights, whether those in the government like it or not - after all, the whole purpose of the First Amendment is to protect the people when the government doesn't like what they're saying.

If you live on an island, watch out!!!

This video is all over the internet today, mainly because the idea of someone this stupid being elected to Congress is just so outrageous!



This is Congressman Hank Johnson, a Democrat from Georgia.

Now, I've heard various excuses for why Congressman Johnson made these horrifically stupid remarks, among them:

• He has Hepatitis C and is heavily medicated.
• He was joking.
• He is being taken out of context.

Now, if he has Hep C and is so heavily medicated, what is he doing at this hearing?  If his judgment is this impaired, he should probably be taking some time off.

Also, was he this high on Hep C meds when he voted for Obamacare?  If so, shouldn't his vote not be counted since his judgment is obviously impaired?

If he was joking, why is there no laughter?  You can see some people in the audience laughing, and the Admiral is quite obviously struggling to not bust up, but the Congressman doesn't even crack a smile.  He wasn't joking.

The clip is almost 3 minutes long, most of which is filled with the Congressman's nonsensical ramblings leading up to his insane "tip over and capsize" remark.  After that remark, he keeps going!  There is plenty of context.


It's only a matter of time before the race card is played in defense of Congressman Johnson (if it hasn't been played already).  This is not racism - it would be just outrageous had Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, or even my own Congressman, Kevin McCarthy said it.

And this is not the first time that Johnson has made himself appear insane.  After Congressman Joe Wilson shouted "You lie" at President Obama during Obama's speech to Congress several months ago, Johnson claimed that Wilson's remark would lead to the return of the Ku Klux Klan.




It's pretty obvious that Hank Johnson does not possess the mental capacity to effectively execute his responsibilities as Congressman.  The question is, will anything be done about it?

After all, the current Democrat leadership is full of criminals, tax cheats, and liars.  Getting one insane man out of Congress really won't do all that much...but, as they say, every little bit helps.