-Video: Future of the GOP? 11 year old girl gives inspiring speech at Tallahassee Tea Party

Sara Warmack, age 11, delivered an inspiring speech at the Independence Day Tea Party in Tallahassee:



If only all of our leaders had as much passion and love of freedom and country as this girl does.

-GOP Commercial: More Obama "contradictions", stimulus now, or stimulus later?

Another GOP ad against Obama and his spending bill:



The question is, why are these ads that the Republicans continue to put out rarely seen on television? If the ads reflected the actual actions and stances of the Republican party then they would be in a much better position than they find themselves in today.

But on the plus side, the ad does point out exactly what Americans haven't realized yet, and have not been told by the mainstream media, that Obama has clearly contradicted himself on this massive spending bill that put into motion the near-catastrophic spending spree that has characterized his administration.

Now is the time for the Republicans to gain back the faith of middle America in general, and put words into action. Oppose, with no exception, any future nonsensical bills.



h/t Mofopolitics

-Quote of the Day: The good ol' boy Joe Biden on bankruptcy

As with much of what our esteemed Vice President says, this speaks for itself:

“We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation,” Biden said.

“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you.”



UPDATE: A video is now available, courtesy of Gateway Pundit:

-Free Speech Under Attack: None for House Republicans thanks to Pelosi. You're next.

Surprise surprise, no reports on this. Not in the papers, not on the news. It's getting very repetitive and every single time there is a noteworthy story that may offend the sensibilities of liberal politicians, no one hears about it.

Monday night Democrats voted to shut down the U.S. House Representatives rather than allow a handful of Republican Congressmen to speak on the floor. What could have been so offensive or frightening about our discourse that Speaker Pelosi felt she had to protect her party by gagging free speech in the House?

In fact, we had planned to speak on the lack of transparency of the House since Democrats took control. We had planned to criticize Speaker Pelosi for repeatedly denying Members, the media, and the public to right to read legislation before it was voted on. We were set to discuss House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s statement last week that if his Members were required to read the Democrats’ healthcare reform package before it was voted on, it would fail.

So the Speaker obviously feels that if the public is truly aware of her party’s agenda, they will reject it. She is now making sure the public is kept in the dark by trampling the centuries-old democratic traditions of the House.

Thanks to Atlas for these quite pertinent Ayn Rand Quotes:

Ayn Rand said, "the principle of free speech is not concerned with the content of a man's speech and does not protect only the expression of good ideas, but all ideas. If it were otherwise, who would determine which ideas are good and where forbidden? The government?"

Rand further said at a lecture, Political Vacuums of Our Age", presented to a group of women in journalism in Indiana in 1961, "Once a country accepts censorship pf the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: don not give up the freedom of the press - of newspapers, books, magazines, radios movies, and other other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.

-House's Obama Health Care bill makes private insurance ILLEGAL

From Investors Business Daily via The Blog Prof

It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

One question: If this is on page 16, what is in the rest of the 1006 pages? Congress doesn't really care to find out, as they won't read it, just like Obama wishes. The below video ought to give you the creeps. Or a "thrill up your leg", if you're Chris Matthews.



The beginning of the end? Obama means it when he says you'll be able to keep your insurance if you like it. But you better like it forever because it's the last private policy you'll ever have. Unreal. Pray that this doesn't pass the House.

-Dick Morris talks about the frightening possibility of how Obama may fix future elections.

From The Silent Majority:

In the video, Morris points out that Obama will:

1. Legalize millions of illegal aliens

2. Use Acorn to “assist” with the next census


3. Eliminate secret ballot for labor unions

4. Neutralize conservative talk radio.


While never a huge fan of Dick Morris, I feel that his work with the Clinton political machine legitimizes what he has to say. Pray that he's wrong.



h/t Atlas

-Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" movie doesn't need to be made, because it's coming true today in real life.

I recently came upon an excellent opinion piece written in the Wall Street Journal by the brilliant Stephen Moore. The book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is becoming more and more relevant, even more so in the time since this article was written in January. If you haven't read Atlas Shrugged by this time, I not only encourage it, but believe it should be required reading in all schools and corporations that care about the future of their country. Not the mention politicians, but I fear that is a lost cause.

Many of us who know Rand's work have noticed that with each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic-stimulus scheme out of Washington, our current politicians are committing the very acts of economic lunacy that "Atlas Shrugged" parodied in 1957, when this 1,000-page novel was first published and became an instant hit.

Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated "Atlas" as the second-most influential book in their lives, behind only the Bible.

For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.

In the book, these relentless wealth redistributionists and their programs are disparaged as "the looters and their laws." Every new act of government futility and stupidity carries with it a benevolent-sounding title. These include the "Anti-Greed Act" to redistribute income (sounds like Charlie Rangel's promises soak-the-rich tax bill) and the "Equalization of Opportunity Act" to prevent people from starting more than one business (to give other people a chance). My personal favorite, the "Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Act," aims to restrict cut-throat competition between firms and thus slow the wave of business bankruptcies. Why didn't Hank Paulson think of that?

These acts and edicts sound farcical, yes, but no more so than the actual events in Washington, circa 2008. We already have been served up the $700 billion "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act" and the "Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act." Now that Barack Obama is in town, he will soon sign into law with great urgency the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." This latest Hail Mary pass will increase the federal budget (which has already expanded by $1.5 trillion in eight years under George Bush) by an additional $1 trillion -- in roughly his first 100 days in office.

The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That's the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies -- while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers. With each successive bailout to "calm the markets," another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as "Atlas" grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate "windfalls."

When Rand was writing in the 1950s, one of the pillars of American industrial might was the railroads. In her novel the railroad owner, Dagny Taggart, an enterprising industrialist, has a FedEx-like vision for expansion and first-rate service by rail. But she is continuously badgered, cajoled, taxed, ruled and regulated -- always in the public interest -- into bankruptcy. Sound far-fetched? On the day I sat down to write this ode to "Atlas," a Wall Street Journal headline blared: "Rail Shippers Ask Congress to Regulate Freight Prices."

The similarities are eerie.

-Democrats pushing their costly and complex socialized health care through under the noses of the American people

Bloomberg reporting on the "health care overhaul" that is going on under your nose but being hidden behind the Sotomayor farce.

President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican opposition doesn’t yield soon, two of the president’s top advisers said.

“Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview in his White House office. “If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a-wasting.”

...House Democrats today unveiled legislation totaling about $1 trillion that would expand health care to millions of Americans over the next decade by raising taxes on the wealthiest households. The Senate has yet to agree on a bill as Democratic lawmakers struggle to get Republican support.

The AP reported on how they are going to slam it through, without partisan support or even the knowledge of everyday Americans. Transparency be damned.

House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president's goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy.

"We cannot allow this issue to be delayed. We cannot put it off again," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, said Tuesday. "We, quite frankly, cannot go home for a recess unless the House and the Senate both pass bills to reform and restructure our health care system.

The legislation calls for a 5.4 percent tax increase on individuals making more than $1 million a year, with a gradual tax beginning at $280,000 for individuals. Employers who don't provide coverage would be hit with a penalty equal to 8 percent of workers' wages, with an exemption for small businesses. Individuals who decline an offer of affordable coverage would pay 2.5 percent of their incomes as a penalty, up to the average cost of a health insurance plan.

If this isn't socialism I don't know what is. Let's force people to pay for insurance even if they don't want it? It doesn't make sense for some people. There is a reason some small business owners don't have it now, and there will be those who don't want to support such a mockery of Democracy, but will be essentially forced to or get their money confiscated by Big Brother. Besides that, when government health care is soon to be all that's available, they're going to just pay for private clinics anyway, just like Canadians.

The liberal-leaning plan lacked figures on total costs, but a House Democratic aide said the total bill would add up to about $1.5 trillion over 10 years. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private calculations.

The 1,000-page bill is unlikely to attract any Republican backing, and business groups and the insurance industry immediately assailed it as a job-killer.

Yes, another thousand page bill. Do you honestly believe any member of Congress is going to read this travesty? Oh, and another 1.5 trillion dollars will be spent. Where are we going to get that kind of money? Not from the meager taxes imposed upon the "wealthy", that's for sure. And if you really think the Democrat-reported cost figure is at all accurate then you've got another thing coming.

This is the same government that can't even hand out driver's licenses without making it complicated. Look at the state of our public schools. Who wants that in your health care? And just in case you're still not convinced, here's a diagram of the bureaucratic nightmare that is government run health care: (click on the link for a PDF)

http://docs.house.gov/gopleader/House-Democrats-Health-Plan.pdf

-Quote of the Day: Joe Buck on Obama at the All-Star game

Joe Buck in the announcer's box at the game: "There won't be any bailout for the National League."

-Obama considering paying mortgages and giving a housing stipend to the deadbeats.

Don't think you give the government enough of your money? How about if they used your tax dollars to LITERALLY pay deadbeats' mortgage payments that they can't pay, while they get to pay rent? Lovely. Now ALL homes will be government housing.

U.S. government officials are weighing a plan that would let borrowers who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments avoid eviction by renting their homes instead, sources familiar with the administration's thinking said on Tuesday.

Under one idea being discussed, delinquent homeowners would surrender ownership of their homes but would continue to live in the property for several years, the sources told Reuters.

Officials are also considering whether the government should make mortgage payments on behalf of borrowers who cannot keep up with their home loans, tapping an unused portion of a $50 billion housing aid kitty.

As part of this plan, jobless borrowers might receive a housing stipend along with regular unemployment benefits, the sources said.

A housing stipend?! Are you kidding me? There is NO incentive to work hard and get a job! Why, when the government is giving you other people's hard earned money for everything? Maybe they should have been smart enough not to buy a home they couldn't afford in the first place. Predatory lending measures on the part of banks you say? The Clinton Administration had some say in that...

h/t Drudge

-Video: Steven Crowder goes undercover in Canada to find out what America's future health care under Obama will provide.

Don't get sick on Sunday! In fact, don't get sick at all...

-Obamunism running its course?

From To The Point News via Moonbattery

A sign prominently displayed in a store front window in Whiting, Indiana:

'WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA, NANCY PELOSI, HARRY REID, AND ALL THE ELITES OF CONGRESS, THE MASS MEDIA, AND HOLLYWOOD, THAN WITH ONE CONSERVATIVE AMERICAN!'

You are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory statement. However, we are a society which holds freedom of speech as perhaps our greatest liberty.

And after all, it is just a sign.

Nonetheless, you may ask what kind of business would dare post such a sign.

Answer:

The Owens Funeral Home. 816 119th St, Whiting, IN 46394. Sign posted by owner Tom Owens.

-Video: Russians refuse to shake Obama's hand...Biased Media doesn't report.

Pretty shocking...no one reported this, of course. Maybe the golden boy is starting to be seen for what he truly is.

-Obama appointed Communist "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones, unreported by the media. Added to extensive list of "czars"

So...apparently Obama has quietly appointed a Communist to a government position. The position of "Green Jobs Czar" is now held by admitted Communist Van Jones. Yes, this is news to us too. The media has more important things to concentrate on, like Michael Jackson.

From East Bay Express:

Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’” Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. “I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.” In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.”

Maybe it is time that the American people, Congress, and the Judicial branch stood up and demanded an explanation and accountability for this unconstitutional position creating of "czar" on the part of the Obama administration. We as the American people have no idea what these people even do or how much power they have. They answer ONLY to President Obama.

The definition of a Czar in Merriam Webster’s dictionary is the following: “One having great power and authority.”

Here is a list of Obama’s current and prospective Czar positions:

1. Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra.
2. Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
3. Copyright Czar: Not appointed yet.
4. Energy Czar: Carol M. Browner
5. Car Czar: Ed Montgomery.
6. Terrorism/WMD Czar: Gary Samore.
7. Health Care Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle.
8. Education Czar: Not appointed yet.
9. Economic Czar: Paul Volcker.
10. Mortgage Czar: Not appointed yet.
11. Urban Affairs/Housing Czar: Adolfo Carrion.
12. Guantanomo closure Czar: Danny Fried.
13. Great lakes Czar: Cameron Davis.
14. Stimulus accountability Czar: Earl Devaney.
15. Cyberspace Czar: Not appointed yet.
16. Border Czar: Alan Bersin (Former US attorney).
17. Intelligence Czar: Admiral Dennis Blair.
18. Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein.
19. Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
20. Iran Czar: Not appointed yet.
21. Tarp Czar: Herb Allison.
22. Middle-East peace Czar: George Mitchell.
23. Science Czar: John Holdren.
24. Green jobs Czar: Van Jones.
25. Afghanistan Czar: Richard Holbrooke.
26. Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration.
27. Mideast policy Czar: Dennis Ross.
28. Information Czar: Vivek Kundra.
29. AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley.
30. Faith-based Czar: Joshua Dubois.
31. Climate Czar: Todd Stern.

Obviously, many more czars have been added since the picture below, but you get the idea. There really is nothing like shredding the Constitution and completely bypassing the American people and Congress.



Sources: iReport, IHatetheMedia

-Video: Barack Obama's teleprompter and faithful companion crashes to the floor

Maybe it's a sign?

-Bruno: "Your king Osama looks like a dirty wizard or a homeless Santa Claus"

-Video: African journalist Nkepile Mabuse makes Obama adoring CNN reporter Don Lemon look stupid

Maybe they liked Bush because he dumped more money on their continent than Germany dropped bombs on London? Maybe someone should tell Lemon that there are black people out there who don't like Obama just because he's black...

-Oh no, Democrats in an uproar about Cheney's "evil plot" to assassinate....Al Qaeda leaders?

The Wall Street Journal reported on Leon Panetta wetting his pants when he found out, probably because Pelosi would kill him if she found out on her own. Turns out, when Congress authorizes military force against an enemy (Al Qaeda), that includes assassinating Bin Laden, who, lest we forget, claimed credit for murder our innocent civilians on September 11th. It's sad, but it seems liberals have forgotten. Let's just ignore Islam and its extremists, and make fun of people who bring up September 11th. Of course, I suppose we could just have Obama go apologize to Al Qaeda and forget the trouble of killing them. Anyway here you go.

A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter.

The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn’t clear, and the CIA won’t comment on its substance.

According to current and former government officials, the agency spent money on planning and possibly some training. It was acting on a 2001 presidential legal pronouncement, known as a finding, which authorized the CIA to pursue such efforts. The initiative hadn’t become fully operational at the time Mr. Panetta ended it.

In 2001, the CIA also examined the subject of targeted assassinations of al Qaeda leaders, according to three former intelligence officials. It appears that those discussions tapered off within six months. It isn’t clear whether they were an early part of the CIA initiative that Mr. Panetta stopped.

-An Obamanation

A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans. All the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.

The teacher asked Little Johnny why he had decided to be
different...again. Little Johnny said, 'Because I'm not an Obama fan.'

The teacher asked, 'Why aren't you an Obama fan?'

Johnny said, 'Because I'm a Republican.'

The teacher asked him why he was a Republican.

Little Johnny answered, 'Well, my Mom's a Republican and my Dad's a
Republican, so I'm a Republican.'

Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked,

'If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that
make you?'

With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, 'That would make me an Obama fan.'

-Parents of Mayara Rodrigues Tavares, seventeen year old daughter ogled by Obama and Sarkozy at G8, are furious

It is so fun to report on this story, if only because it makes liberals quiver to rage to think that conservatives have the sheer audacity to suggest that The Anointed One made an uncharacteristic(?) mistake. Apparently, the family of the seventeen (or sixteen both have been reported) year old girl mentioned previously is pretty furious about the viral photograph of Obama and Sarkozy ogling her daughter.


The Secret Service might want to put a new threat on its watch list: the mad-as-hell mama of the 17-year-old Brazilian beauty ogled by President Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit last week.

"If I were there, I would have boxed their ears," said Lucia Rodrigues, 37. "They should be ashamed of themselves."

Patriarch Eduardo Tavares, after finally getting around to seeing the famous photo of his daughter from behind, quickly changed his tune from proud papa to furious father.

"My daughter is not a model and she is not a sex symbol," he told The Post. "That photograph has ruined my whole family."

At the Italy summit last week, daughter Mayara Rodrigues Tavares, her long locks flowing over her curvaceous frame, became the momentary focus of the leering leaders as she took her place for an official group photo.

And the best line of the article:

"Thank God that [Italian playboy Prime Minister Silvio] Berlusconi was nowhere near her," he said.

Source: JammieWearingFool

-Afghanistan, bastion of liberal progressivity, now allows men to rape their wives and starve them if they do not give their consent.

This is the government that our boys are over there fighting and dying for to give complete control to? Where are the women's rights activists? The ACLU? Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed legislation which among other things, allows Afghan men to starve their wives if they refuse to have sex with them. The measure was an amendment to a law that was ALREADY IN THE BOOKS in which husbands have the right to force themselves on their wives, if they do not consent.

From the Norfolk Crime Examiner via Stop the ACLU

Some NATO countries have threatened to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan as a result of the measure.

Speaking to British newspaper The Independent, women’s rights activist Wazhma Frough said that hard line clerics pressured the Justice Ministry to retain the most outrageous parts of the original legislation. She said: “There have been a few little changes, but they are not enough. For example, if the wife doesn’t accept her husband’s sexual requirements then he can deny her food.”

Afghanistan’s Muslim law now allows rapists to go free if they offer to marry their victims. The same practice actually exists in Mexico and is known as ‘Rapto.’

The new law has touched-off riots in the streets of Kabul, as hundreds of women protested the law which would be unthinkable in a civilized society. However, groups of men from Kabul’s largest Shia madrassa also took to the streets and attacked the women. The event has been completely ignored by the American press.

Oh but the Muslim religion is so misunderstood and misrepresented in the media... Really? It seems clear. Oh course, this law has its basis in Sharia Law, which, if many Middle Eastern Muslims had their way, would be the only law of land.