Can the Donkeys count on McCain to carry their water?

Obama has expressed confidence that John McCain will help him “reach across the aisle” to garner support for his policies, but McCain had an experience with trying to work with Obama before the presidential campaign kicked off.

Excerpt from my copy of Case Against Barack Obama

“In a February 2006 meeting, Obama convinced McCain of his reform credentials by promising to work with him seriously on bipartisan lobbying and ethics reform package.

…McCain, Obama, Susan Collins (R, Maine) and Joe Lieberman (Connecticut) met to discuss how they could work together to pass something.

…Apparently McCain thought they had an agreement.

Then Obama’s party leaders took him aside and set him straight. They had an election plan, and they weren’t about to have him ruin that by working on both sides of the aisle to accomplish something substantive in 2006.

…Obama insinuated that McCain was trying to bypass the traditional committee process in a partisan manner.”

The Case Against Barack Obama, David Freddoso, pages 98 and 99.  

Apparently – and I hope this is true – McCain has no plans to become Obama’s water boy.

Stimulus bill, pork fest and union approved

Stimulus bill is loaded with pork. IBD says no discretionary spending until 2010.

Despite the disparaging voices of the Liberal MSM cheerleaders, hailing the Stimulus bill as a bipartisan effort, the GOP did the right thing to oppose the union label, pork laden stimulus bill.

Thanks to IBD editorials

ACORN Payoff

GOP must oppose the Obama/Saul Alinsky socialist crew ACORN getting a share of the stimulus $$$  if they are to retain credibility with conservatives.

The new John McCain

As for John McCain:  Cooperation with the new administration does not mean surrender! Remember you intend to make another run for Senate.

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update

RNC Chair – Michael Steele wins!

I like Steele very much-he held the  crowd in the palm of his hand at the GOP national convention  and is a fine motivational speaker. I’m concerned that he is a tad  liberal, but willing to give him a chance.

Congratulations and best wishes to Steele as he takes on this new role.

Michael Steele

Many thanks to Mike Duncan for a fine job.

Opinions can get you prosecuted

Geert Wilders is to be criminally prosecuted by by Dutch court.

His specific crime: “statements that he has made about “Muslims and their belief.”

Contrast this with the recent Muslim in major cities around the world – marches that are vocal and violent.  Bystanders have been attacked and cars burned. Signs showing swastikas and expressing holocaust slogans, “like Jews for the ovens” have been seen in their parades.

One woman, (who prefers to remain anonymous), a member of the LiberalHawks listserv group, was threatened by a Muslim man. He threatened to “rape her fifty times.” He, and several other men, walked right through the barrier that had been erected to separate the two groups. Muslim parade marchers also photographed the protesters–a method of intimidation, a threat that they are being watched and might be stalked or worse. The police ended up having to protect the small band of protesters. In my time, it was the police who photographed the demonstrators, the demonstrators and counter-demonstrators did not photograph each other (unless they were FBI or CIA agents disguised as demonstrators or protesters). http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/10/13/an-ill-wind-manhattans-muslim-day-parade-plus-much-more/

Muslim protesters are protected and can say what they want–like Jews for ovens – why isn’t Geert Wilders protected?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1c_1231576844

See more like this at Atlas Shrugs

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That reminds me- I’d better find out what’s going on with the Fairness Doctrine – to those of you who may not know, it’s the vehicle Congress wants to use to silence the conservative voice.

Tim Geithner taxes, different standard and rules

Taxes different standard for Tim Geithner

On October 16 and for some weeks after, Samuel J Wurzelbacher aka Joe the Plumber was skewered by NYT, ABC, MSNBC and a host of others along with blogs across the blog-o-sphere for owing a little less than $1200 in taxes. Nine out of ten articles condemned him. (He has since paid the taxes) The fact that Ohio State officials violated state rules and went rummaging around the Ohio state database to find dirt on him didn’t really figure in the MSM smear reporting of Joe the Plumber.

Tim Geithner has no worries…Obama wants him in his cabinet. $34,000 is a “little mistake” that can be forgiven…if you’re one of theirs.

Charles Rangel made bigger “mistakes” on his taxes, but he was re-elected as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

“I’m a lucky old son of a gun,” Rangel said, flashing a grin, “and ain’t nothin’ gonna stop me from gettin’ back here next year.” NY Daily News

During the same time Joe the Plumber was being raked over the coals…LA Times reported: “Martin Nesbitt, the treasurer of Obama’s campaign, has tax liens. So do his companies.“

You’d think that matters more than the tax liens of Joe the Plumber, wouldn’t you? But good luck finding a Big Media story about Nesbitt’s liens. http://webofdeception.com/nesbitt.html

Yeah, “We are One.“  BUT -don’t ask inconvenient questions, and please pay your taxes if you’re an average “one” like Samuel Wurzelbacher.

Geithner and Rangel have friends in high places…

Ohio officials -their actions speak loud and clear!

Inauguration or federal disaster day?

Inauguration declared a federal disaster area?

There are also “prostitution free” zone signs posted in DC this year. Does that compare to past inaugurations?  It’s funny (amazing) how things change almost overnight.

You and I need to read two books to get a better grasp of what’s happening today.

Rules for Radicals,  by Saul Alinsky  ( handbook of Chicago community organizers) The Obamas have paraphrased some of these quotes in  speeches.

Big Plan for America, by Rahm Emanuel or the government has plans for your 401k, and your servitude.  YOU OWE IT. 

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Inaugural Disaster By Mark Steyn

In just about his last act as president, George W. Bush has declared Washington, D.C., a federal disaster area.

“I don’t know if anybody’s ever done that,” said Dana Perino, the White House press secretary.

Indeed. One reason why nobody’s ever done that before is that a presidential inauguration is not (to be boringly technical about it) an “emergency.” It’s penciled in well in advance-in this case, so well in advance that for years Democrats have been driving around with “1-20-09″ bumper stickers on the back of their Priuses. Emergency-wise, that’s the equivalent of Hurricane Dan Rather wrapped around a lamppost in his sou’wester hanging there in eager anticipation every night for half a decade. Generally speaking, changes of government are “emergencies” only in the livelier banana republics, where this week’s president-for-life suddenly spots the machete-wielding mob scrambling over the palace walls so nimbly he barely has time to dial the Liberian branch of FEMA and put in a request for extra Portapotties and a rope-line management team.

FEMA was created in the 1970s initially to coordinate the emergency response to catastrophic events such as a nuclear attack

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGFlMzQ2NDA2MWFmOTMwMjAxYzZhOWI4ZGU5NTAzNzU=

It’s hard to imagine a Lincoln inaugural theme-since Lincoln was more like Bush than Obama regarding war.

Lincoln is in the Bush family tree and Bush is related to Cheyney who is related to Obama according to some news reports. Amazing how the same relatives show up in the elections. Bush was also related to John Kerry.

Enjoy the inauguration – aka federal disaster day

Mexico bails out NYT

The New York Times has a bailout of $250 million investment by Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim Helu.

Banco Inbursa and Inmobiliaria Carso for $125 million each -invested in the *gag* – “fair and balanced” NYT .

Now would be a good time for Cindy McCain to sue NYT for allowing their reporter to go on Facebook and interrogate Brigette’s McCain’s teen friends hoping to find smear ammunition against Cindy.

Russia’s playing field

A New Playing Field

Many “progressives” believe the US should withdraw all our troops from around the world and play nice. They want to be “loved” by the rest of the world and for them it’s impossible to see the geopolitics.

You don’t see many comments from progressives about how Russia is supplying missile parts to Iran, or playing war games along side Argentina, or forging new alliances with China and the Middle East.  Russia is expanding and re-emerging as a major world power.

These same progressives don’t show concern about Hamas instigating trouble from inside their bunkers in Gaza or Hezbollah buying up loyalty from Lebanon and Syria with health care clinics and other services meant to win them over.

The Moscow Times » Issue 4066 » News

Naval Bases Planned for Libya, Syria 19 January 2009 Russia has decided to establish naval bases in Libya, Syria and Yemen within a few years, a military official said Friday, in a sign of Moscow’s growing foreign policy ambitions. “It is difficult to say how much time it will take to create the bases for our fleet in these countries, but within a few years this will be done without question,” the unidentified military official told Itar-Tass. “The political decision on this question has been taken,” the official said.

Why “Country First” couldn’t win the presidency

John McCain isn’t blind or stupid to the current political culture.  He’s been around Washington too long to be naive and he had to know the forces working against him in the last presidential election.  (Maybe he was even complicit)

He didn’t fight back vigorously and he had ammunition he didn’t use. Palin fought and was gunned down by the media. The mainstream media aren’t paid to tell the truth in a “fair and balanced” way. They’re journalists educated in the liberal media of our educational facilities.

Before Obama became the front-runner and while Hillary Clinton appeared to be the favorite candidate, the media printed negative stories of Obama routinely –but as soon as the labor unions and influential global elitists lined up for Obama – the negative stories all but disappeared.

Take the story of Samuel J Wurzelbacher aka Joe the Plumber for instance. MSM vilified him in national press concerning taxes owed, while ignoring Obama’s committeeman Martin Nesbitt and the tax liens against his properties. Joe owed and paid a little over $1100 dollars to bring his account up to date.

Charles Rangel tax woes are rarely mentioned in the press and Obama nominee Tim Geithner made a “common mistake” on his taxes -both are well connected–yet Ohio state officials went to war against Joe using the Ohio state database to find something on him that MSM could use to take him down.  Reason: He asked an “inconvenient” question of Obama.

Tim Giethner is well connected:

Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of NBC parent company General Electric (GE), is on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose president is Timothy Geithner.

It is also interesting to note that a subsidiary of GE, GE Capital, is getting some of the federal bailout money that Geithner, if he is confirmed, will have a role in managing. Conflict of interest, anyone?

“Country First” campaign couldn’t win because the powers behind the press and the political parties decided that Obama would be the one who would lead us into a New World Order.  Kissinger was advising McCain while Zbigniew Brzezinski advised Obama– McCain surely had to know what the outcome would be?

George HW Bush and Bill Clinton both spoke of the New World Order.  You can find them on youtube. Political parties and ideology lose significance when a bigger agenda is present. Kissinger boldly spoke out for the need for a New World Order recently.

On January 5, 2009, Henry Kissinger was interviewed by CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.  His voice still raspy and spoken with a thick accent, he responded to a question about President-elect Obama’s first actions as President:

“he can give new impetus to American foreign policy … I think that his task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a ‘new world order’ can be created. It’s a great opportunity. It isn’t such a crisis.”

Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Paul Volker are original members of the Trilateral Commission. They’ve served in Republican and Democrat administrations since 1973.  I’m not sure (yet) if Reagan’s administration was populated with Trilateral members, but they were involved in all others. In addition August Review listed Susan Rice,Tim Geithner, Diane Feinstein…and Charles Rangel among others.

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Henry Kissinger calls for a New World Order

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aROay5kufxc

Zbigniew Brzezinski

August Review states: Obama’s top foreign policy advisor has been Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller.

In 1974, Brzezinski stated,

“We need to change the international system for a global system in which new, active and creative forces recently developed – should be integrated. This system needs to include Japan. Brazil, the oil producing countries, and even the USSR, to the extent which the Soviet Union is willing to participate in a global system… the reality of our times is that a modern society such as the U.S. needs a central coordinating and renovating organ which cannot be made up of six hundred people..”

For the uninitiated, “six hundred people” refers to Congress: Replace it with a Socialist/Communist central coordinating organ.

Sampling of the global press

Indeed, the chorus for a New World Order is being heard around the world.

• Africa: Time for a new world order
• Australia: We need a new world health order
• Canada: A new world order rising?
• China: Hu urges revamp of finance system
• India: Plotting India’s route in the new world order
• Japan: New financial order will emerge from crisis
• Malaysia: Groups to call for new world order
• Quatar: Islam to emerge as the new world order

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It may be too late to “change” this course – some of us are glad we’ve lived most of our lives already, but we worry about our children and grand children.

For your reading: http://www.trilateral.org/

Global Elites openly call for New World Order

We’ve been hearing about it for years, at least since the early 1970s – when I read RCP the other day and saw that Henry Kissinger was openly calling for a New World Order- I figured we were almost there.

Kissinger is a long time member of the Trilateral Commission.  Does anyone wonder what they were doing and thinking while the manufactured housing and oil bubbles were bursting??  The global elite want to rule now–but what did they know about the economic disaster before it happened??

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January 13, 2009

The Chance for a New World Order

By Henry Kissinger

As the new U.S. administration prepares to take office amid grave financial and international crises, it may seem counterintuitive to argue that the very unsettled nature of the international system generates a unique opportunity for creative diplomacy.

That opportunity involves a seeming contradiction. On one level, the financial collapse represents a major blow to the standing of the United States. While American political judgments have often proved controversial, the American prescription for a world financial order has generally been unchallenged. Now disillusionment with the United States’ management of it is widespread.

At the same time, the magnitude of the debacle makes it impossible for the rest of the world to shelter any longer behind American predominance or American failings.

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In the end, the political and economic systems can be harmonized in only one of two ways: by creating an international political regulatory system with the same reach as that of the economic world; or by shrinking the economic units to a size manageable by existing political structures, which is likely to lead to a new mercantilism, perhaps of regional units.

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Chorus call for New World Order

Thursday, 08 January 2009 | Patrick Wood

In economic and financial desperation, leaders around the globe are openly calling for the creation of a “New World Order,” including prominent “old guard” members of the Trilateral Commission.  Is the baby about to be born?
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Trilateral commission membership

August 2008

http://www.augustreview.com/knowledge_base/getting_started_with_globalism/trilateral_commission_membership_-_2008_20081010103/

Future cars mean no need for ethanol?

The US government subsidizes the ethanol industry to the tune of $17 billion per year.  The big three automakers are still moving in that direction as they try to pull through a sluggish economy and the UAW demands.

There are new alternatives on the horizon. Cost is a problem for those of us who don’t have more than a hundred grand to spend on a new car, but the technology is here.

World’s first flying car prepares for take-off

by Mark Harris  at wattsupwiththat

Is it a car? Is it a plane? Actually it’s both. The first flying automobile, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the air next month.

If it survives its first test flight, the Terrafugia Transition, which can transform itself from a two-seater road car to a plane in 15 seconds, is expected to land in showrooms in about 18 months’ time.

1. Hydrogen can be used in a modified internal combustion engines, or in fuel cell cars. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are due out in late 2009.  Hydrogen gives cleaner burning and higher average mpg.  Other companies are converting regular combustion engine vehicles to hydrogen but the cost is very high.  A modified Shelby Cobra will cost you $149,000.

2. Tesla Motors: 100 percent electric roadster can go 244 miles on the highway or 231 miles with city driving without charging the battery. Downside: It’s a beauty if you can afford it, estimated base price of $109,000.

3.  MDI, Air Car-with Guy Negre the former Formula One guru at the helm, has a car close to mass production that uses compressed air and gasoline to obtain 106 miles per gallon. It uses far less gasoline than ethanol mixes, and will give fewer carbon emissions than both standard ethanol mixes. Last price quoted was expected to be around $18,000.

4. The Aptera: This is an exotic looking 3-wheel vehicle that’s registered as a motorcycle. It can get 300 mpg according to the web site. It is available in electric or  hybrid. The range for electric is 120 miles and 600 miles for the hybrid version. It resembles a very small airplane without wings. It doesn’t fly though. Cost is about $30,000. I would want to see crash test results.

For price, value, and economy, Guy Negre’s Air car wins for me.  It’s not aesthetically pleasing like the Tesla Roadster, in fact you might say it’s ugly, but most of us can afford it and 106 mpg is spectacular.  MDI plans to mass-produce in 2009.

If manufacturers bring the prices to affordable levels on all these models, we have some great choices ahead.

Based on the technology of the future cars, ethanol seems very outdated, but watch the big three automakers plod ahead with biofuels while the US government provides subsidies far into the future.

Tesla Roadster