An Election to Remember

Trump's Red Nation - a President for all (not just NY and LA)

Last Tuesday was definitely an affair to remember.  The evening started out with even Fox News stating that Hillary would probably win and started examining what her presidency would focus on first.  Then suddenly Florida was in doubt and everyone freaked out.  I remembered four years ago Romney really didn't last long into the night at all - and I thought he was going to win.  This time with Trump hanging around we finally had some election night excitement.  I flipped from station to station, emailed friends in Texas and texted others locally.  It was even late out here on the West Coast when they finally called it at 11:45 PST.  What a ride, what a night and what a victory.  And, for the record, there are a ton of us out here on the left coast who are deleriously happy with the result (we just can't talk about it....shhh).

Loser Leader Hates New President More than Terrorists

Incapable of anything.

Obama's ongoing petulant tone in governing the most free country in the world hit a new low yesterday when he blamed Republicans, conservatives and probably Trump, for the shooting in Orlando - while also sounding confused and bewildered - and generally just being pissed off.

The tenor of his speech is best described in this piece from the New York Post.  This man has the temperment to be commander-in-chief?  What a joke.

Tone-Deaf President Hears Criticism

Narcistic boob just can't figure it out to protect his muslim pals.

President Barack Obama gave a speech today which was to give an update of where we were on efforts to contain ISIS after a meeting with his Security Council. Instead he gave a very defensive talk about why he hasn't called this obvious terrorist activity "radical Islam".  He went on and on, which is more ammo to show this man is a very thin skinned narcisistic boob.  On and on, bitching and whining about all sorts of people - instead of focusing his anger on what had really happened - a muslim whacko, who pledged allegiance to ISIS during the attack, shot up at least 50 gay patrons of an Orlando club.  But he blames guns, Trump and anybody else.  C'mon Democrats - don't you see this man as the most spineless loser of all time.  Is he defending LGBT rights when he supports muslims and their beliefs.  I mean, c'mon.

He also went on to say that calling this movement "radical Islam" was going to anger them - but this is the same man who called them the "JV team".  What is it Barry?  How can ANYBODY support this utter loser?

But Trump actually has it right.  Obama has been waffling on this forever.

The Greatest?

Artful Dodger

Ok, I will go ahead and say it - especially when it appears no one in the press will as they are fawning over Ali's death as if Jesus just died again. Why are we celebrating this man in such a demonstrative way? As a boxer and pop icon - yes, I agree. But on ESPN and other news stations they make it sound like Ghandi died again.
Let's face it - this man was a draft dodger - he was a fighter, but he wouldn't fight for his country. Elvis did. Gary Cooper did. Jimmy Stewart did. But this guy didn't - and somehow he's a hero. I never got it back then and still don't get it now. The Greatest? Pfftttt. He certainly wasn't a patriot.
As for fighting - I hated the 'rope-a-dope' - just because he could take a punch he would let us watch 10 rounds of unwatchable boxing before he would score points at the end over a exhausted boxer. Good boxing? No thanks.
There is no question that he was a remarkable pop icon and sports hero all meshed into one during an amazing time in America. No question. But he was no hero to me. And this over the top memorial over the weekend is pathetic. (If you want to remember him show some boxing - not air tired tropes from talking heads everywhere).

The Next President....(lives in Wisconsin)

He knows how to fight and win - not just talk about it.

Here is the next President - a man who has fought the good fight for economic freedom and has won (several times, even as powerful forces have tried to drag him down) - and exactly who we need now.  And if you are still undecided read this.  It tells you all you need to know - and why the Democrats are so scared of him.

Get on board.

Not That There is Anything Wrong with That....

"D'uh!"

Or is there?

The Real Watergate wasn't 40 years ago - it's Now!

Here's the real liar.

Just saw CNN's second edition of their series "The 70's"  - this one was covering Watergate.  Based on what I saw and recollected - if Watergate happened today in Obama's White House, no one would notice.  Not like the hysteria shown on this show this evening.

In fact things MUCH WORSE then Watergate HAVE happened under Obama's watch.  Let's just take the IRS refusing tax exempt status to conservative groups prior to his re-election campaign.  IRS chief Lois Lerner definitely lied to Congress - I mean everybody knows the President used the IRS to get political advantage against his foes - but what has happened?  NOTHING.  Was he impeached.  Of course not.

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton then lie about the source of the violence in Benghazi unprecedently killing the Ambassador - blaming it on a video when the government knew issues were occurring there.  LIED!!!!  Nothing done about it yet.

And let's just mention the many executive orders given by this President that flaunt the Constitution.

Obama is the man who should have been impeached and had his name tarnished forever.  Instead as of this writing he is golfing on a California golf course that cannot afford the water.

Good Bye Pig

I used to be a fan - a BIG fan.  But then Dave let his wildly leftist flag fly denigrating a sitting president during war and then attacking the children (basically calling them sluts) of a VP candidate - among  many, many other things.  Did Johnny Carson do that?  Did Jay Leno do that?  Did Jack Paar do that?  Add in chasing interns at his show around (married ones at that) - why he's no better that Bill.  And for some reason that makes some Americans sad that he is leaving?  He's a pig.  Period.

The Pathetic Pliance of the US by the Press

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/13/reports-islamic-state-releases-video-of-hostage-beheading/15595887/On our local news in LA, I heard at minute 17 of a 30 minute news broadcast that "another person was beheaded by ISIS".  That's about all they said - like, oh and it will be sunny tomorrow.

This is pathetic.  The mainstream press does not care about dangers affecting our country and others. It would rather comment on Ray Rice, Kim Kardashian and other nonsense.

We are Rome.  And it's burning.

Hillary on ABC

What difference does any of this make?

I've watched just five minutes and I want to vehemently projectile vomit on the TV.  Hillary is full of non-sequitors, women-issue defensive language and just middle of the road krap.  What a load.

And as for Benghazi?  She sluffed it off saying she "hired experts" to handle that.  In fact, she handles this whole part of the interview frankly badly   It's embarrassing.  We know what she did - and knew.

President Incompetant

Anything for a photo op...when I'm in trouble
 

President Obama announced on Saturday in the Rose Garden that he traded 5 major Taliban terrorists for a suspected deserting PFC held captive for 5 years.  With him were his parents, one who seemed to support releasing all Gitmo prisoners and also thanked Allah.  Just on the face of that photo op - this seemed somewhat perplexing.  They even broke into "I Love Lucy" (an LA Saturday afternoon staple) out here to bring us this news.  The initial reaction was "man, this guy won't stop for any photo op".

And of course the preceding month leading up to this had Congress establishing a special committee to investigate Benghazi (where we did leave military people behind), the economy contracting by 1% in the first quarter of this year and the explosion of the VA scandal (an issue that Obama claimed that he substantiated his Presidency on - but which he has done nothing).  On Friday his VA Secretary was fired and his Press Secretary stepped down.  Not a good time.  (And Obamacare is still bad, the IRS scandal is still there, Russia is in Crimea, et al). 

So Saturday he trots out these poor parents and announces this swap for five terrorists?  I couldn't even believe this was on TV!  And they thought this would be good news?  The press is all over this massive miscalculation and tone-deafness in this administration.  He traded 5 high ranking radicals for a deserter?  His fellow army corpsmen have come on TV saying he should be court
martialed or even face the firing squad!  Six soldiers lost their lives looking for this fool.  And even on Sunday morning that purveyor of truth Susan Rice said he served with "honor and distinction"!?  Who gave her the "talking points" this time?

Later asked about this, as he made his way abroad to Poland, Obama claimed that the " US leaves no man behind"  Tell that to the Benghazi victims.  This man is unbelievably incompetent - and for this act alone - and his cavalier approach to the world stage and our security - should be now be seriously considered for impeachment.  The man cares nothing for the country at all - and is a disgrace to the office.

Obam Takes Presidency to New Low

Continuing to debase the Presidency, 24/7

Flexing U.S.'s Muscles

That will show 'em....

'Nuff Said

Yup.

Bad Music Awards 2014

She can sing damn good....

The Grammys 2014 - and the pop music scene in general - were (and are) so bad that I actually switched to see the Batchelor wedding of Sean and whatshername from time to time on ABC.  Even while the music scene has had its immeasurable lows recently you could almost always count on a great Grammy's show as they have strived to place great performances on stage - usually with impressive team-ups of performers you wouldn't expect to play together.  It wasn't all awful - but it was a pretty uninspiring bunch - and when a bunch of DJ's win best album - well what does that tell you?

But Taylor Swift was just fantastic.

Happy Thanksgiving: The Price of Politics



No joke: This is what you pay for...

I encourage everyone remotely interested in our country to review this article by Jay Cost entitled The Price of Politics.  Mr. Cost very neatly pinpoints the nature of today's politics as it has generally degenerated from the vision the Founding Fathers gave to us.  He says that since its inception every administration has tried in some way to trample on its principles and the very nature of what national government was supposed to be.  He argues that America was never set up to establish benefits for public welfare but over time that barrier has been pushed and pushed to a point now that we have the inevitable unworkable debacle - Obamacare.

His other major point is how politics today is not so much about "messaging" and "what voters in this part of the country think" or any other "political talk" that you will hear on the Sunday shows.  Its all about cutting deals with prominent stakeholders so that you can get whatever you want done. In this case Obama cut deals with unions, insurance companies, big Pharma, AARP, you name it.  They even lied to the American people so they wouldn't rise up en masse.  But who got cut our?  People who buy insurance on the private market.  They aren't "organized", so they didn't have to be paid off.  That is today's politics.

Mr. Consistent

And so what's the price for this?  Well look at what happened yesterday - we find out Obama lied again (man, he is nothing but consistent).  The nuke deal with Iran - that was trumpeted last weekend as a major breakthrough - well it really isn't a deal at all.  Iran is already saying that the US is lying about what they agreed about.  I remember seeing this news breathlessly broadcast on local TV like the Berlin Wall was coming down and fully understanding that no such breakthrough occurred.  Anyone following this knows that we did not win any major concession during these talks and it was just a 6-month respite before they started up again - all the while Iran keeps on doing what we are supposed to be arguing against - development of nuclear capability!  Well, its all a sham - just days after Obama declared this as a major achievement!

Yup, just like Obamacare.  He cut another bad deal so he would have something to get O-care out of the news (and for only a day). That's your price of politics - bungled  diplomacy with a terrorist state - just to mask your other disastrous failings.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody - Gobble, gobble!

The Peyton Pile On

Why does this guy get so plowed upon by the press?  Oh I get it.  He's a Republican.

Just kidding. But seriously.  The man has severe neck injuries - gets dismissed by the club he REMADE.  Has to go to another team - remakes them. And when he goes to play another team and has a win in his sites, he loses  again.  Doesn't matter that they lose because a guy misses a pass or a guy blows a punt.  Its all his fault.  And for some reason the press piles on him again and again and again.. And meanwhile Tom Brady is brilliant.  A guy who fumbled a ball in a playoff game and they gave it to him and called it the Tuck rule.

This is bullshit.  Period.

The Clueless President

"I didn't know...even though I campaigned every day on it..."

Last week the President of the United States gave a press conference where he discussed the shortcomings of his signature legislative achievement - Obamacare.  While trying to insinuate that this was a administration glitch that he would take full responsibility for - he prattled on in a rather startling display of seemingly unawareness as he conceded that 1) buying IT projects at the government level was an administrative nightmare, 2) building a website with multiple options was "hard" and 3) buying insurance "period" was "difficult". 

Gee Mr. Omniscient President, the "smartest man to every hold the office" - maybe that is something you and the rest of your Democratic cabal should have thought about before you tried to remake 1/6th of the nation's economy!  He then went on to say that there is no way he would have promoted the roll-out of the program if he knew the website had problems.  That is now, a week later, being debunked as well.  He basically said he was too smart to promote it if it wasn't working - so he could not know - but why wouldn't the most powerful man in the world know about the likelihood of his crowning achievement could work or not?  Inexplicable.

What is clear is that if the President isn't just blatantly lying, he is then unbelievably incompetent and frankly reckless with the goodwill of the nation's people who have blindly elected him twice based on his lies and the nation's general economic health as well.  In fact, the President may have just destroyed the health care system for at least the upcoming year with his unbelievable arrogance and inevitable narcissism.



2014 Campaign Poster

The Obamacare debacle just keeps getting worse by the day - and even Democratic supporters are now calling for its repeal.  This after years and years of conservative voices predicting how this was an unworkable premise. Even if you believed the idea of government run healthcare did you believe it could be put together by a ragtag bunch of politicos and lobbyist hacks?   And, you know, they only had three years. But no one every thought this rollout would be such a tremendous disaster of these proportions - we just learned this week that they haven't even developed a payment function for the website!  And still Obama seemingly ordered it to go forward on Oct 1 anyway. 

Liar?  Or incompetent?  Either is untenable for this great nation.

"There's Trouble in River City..."



"We got trouble, my friends..."
 

"There’s trouble in River City my friends – with a capital “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for Pool.”  That was Professor Harold Hill’s plea to the good citizens of fictional River City when he started to sow the seeds of chaos, so he could eventually sell the gullible townsfolk band instruments to its kids before he skipped town with the loot.  And that of course is the plot from the infamous musical “The Music Man”.

 

Well, we have another professor trying to scam us now as well – and it is as obvious as hell.  And we have trouble my friends, with a capital “T” and  that rhymes with “P” and that stand for pathetic.

Find me one liberal out there that can defend this chaos – this pathetic level of incompetence.  Where are you – you know the ones that have the Obama stickers on their car, have his picture in their kitchens and maybe even posted his family’s picture on their website praying for all the good things they were going to do.  This man is incompetent.  And that starts with “I” and rhymes with “why”?

Why did you fall for this idiocy?  Oh we can throw a 1/6^th of the nation’s economy in the federal government and it will just be great!  We have HIGHER PRICES, less ACCESS, people KICKED OFF COVERAGE, insurance for services WE DON’T NEED, doctors FLEEING the system, growing DEFICITS, a dismal WEBSITE rollout and, wait for it…..DEATH PANELS!  Lets face it – it’s a disaster.  And this is after three years.  In fact it was supposed to roll out last year but they delayed it because Obama knew it was a disaster and didn’t want it to harm his election.  How obvious is this?  Even the liberal press is turning.

Obama promised you could keep you existing insurance – wrong.  300,000 just got kicked off their coverage in Florida alone.  Obama said you could keep your doctor – wrong.  Doctors are saying they will turn away many patients including Medicare.  Obama said your premiums would go down by at least $2,500 – wrong. In many cases the premiums have tripled along with increasing deductibles.  Obama said it would decrease the deficit – wrong.  The CBO said it would significantly increase the deficit and contribute to the national debt yearly.  None of our other entitlement programs are doing well – why are we adding another ill-managed one?

This man is incompetent – pure and simple.   And so is the complacent national media who have cheerleaded this disaster to reality.  Many are comparing his “infomercial” for Obamacare last week in the Rose Garden with the ShamWow guy – funny, I did that back in 2008.

You reap what you sow liberals.  Man are you guys dumb – with a capital “D”, and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “Pool’!

Breaking Bad Finale

Go softly into the night Walter White....

Absolutely love this show.  It doesn't even matter what it was about.  The camera angles, the barren but ordinary nature of New Mexico, the pedestrian haunts, the foreshadowing of events, the music... all divine.  The fact of the matter is how this show - about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher who decides to make meth to support his family in his dying days - captured the attention of this fairly attention-deficit-disordered populace is fairly impressive.

Someone said to me that they didn't see the show but heard it was too violent.  The show was not about violence per se, but about the transformation (as the ads during the weeklong marathon kept telling us) of a man who wandered into something out of necessity but then became a kingpin of its landscape - which was scattered with many who he would never have ever crossed paths with before.  But Walter White got to use his incredible smarts for something other than having to corral incorrigible students in chemistry class - he was able to create an industry in his neck of the southwest.  He became the man.  He was taking care of business. And, as he admitted in the final show, he liked it.  A lot.  "I was good at it" he told his wife before his final showdown the next day.

And the music - how many "blue" songs were there to reference the hue of the main product here (and some of my favorites - Crystal Blue Persuasion, Baby Blue......?)  I was just eating it up the final episodes.

Great show, great ending. Thanks Walt and Jesse. I'm going to go get my car washed now.