Sad: since Dems can't win on the battlefield of ideas they resort to soliciting "YouTtc

More lies about transparency: White House officials meet lobbyists at coffee houses so they don't have report them in the visitor log.

Looks like Elena Kagan has lied and made up science just to support partial birth abortions. Evil.

People like Cali Rep. Pete Stark are an insult to any intelligent American. We MUST fire all these people in Nov.

Elena Kaga, Revealed

Let me pick apart Elena Kagan’s opening remarks at her confirmation hearing. She said “what the of law does is nothing less than to secure for each of us what our Constitution calls "the blessings of liberty" - those rights and freedoms, that promise of equality, that have defined this nation since its founding. And what the Supreme Court does is to safeguard the rule of law, through a commitment to even-handedness, principle, and restraint.” First off, nowhere does she acknowledge WHERE the writers of our Constitution and Declaration of Independence knew these “blessings of liberty” came from: God. She also chose to use the word “restraint”, although by some of her own statements and writings, her idea of restraint is anything BUT. Restraint SHOULD be exercised on the part of government, particularly the Judicial branch which, over the past few decades from the SCOTUS on down, has actually been quite activist in creating new and unreasonable definitions for laws already on the books and the Constitution itself. What is also troubling is her turn of the phrase “promise of equality”. This over-generalized concept flies in the face of fact. We are CREATED equal by God, but we are NOT all actually equal. She has, and will, choose to interpret her mandate impose the progressive perspective of “equality” upon those who have the “misfortune” of not actually being equal, as if not rising to the same status as one’s neighbor is somehow unjust.

Kagan also referred to a promise of a “fair shake for every American”. What exactly IS a “fair shake”? The Progressive mindset is that it’s not “fair” if you make too much or come from a “minority” or other group perceived as having less status. The conservative mindset is that it is not “fair” if you have unequal obstructions to life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness.

She then said that “no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom”. I find this most insulting. Truth is, by definition, truth. Wisdom is the revelation of truth and how to apply it. Wisdom can be measured by degrees, but truth is truth. To say no one has a “monopoly on truth” is to say that truth is not absolute…what’s true for you may not be true for me. Which is absolutely garbage. In that context, Kagan says that we “make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.” Progress toward WHAT? Truth? Wisdom? I suppose if you judge truth as a matter of popular will or majority rule, then she’d be correct. I contend that you make progress toward wisdom by seeking the absolute truth, REGARDLESS of your political or ideological bent. Truth is truth EVEN IF NOBODY AGREES WITH IT.

Finally, she said, “I’ve learned that we come closest to getting things right when we approach every person and every issue with an open mind.” That is simply incorrect. You come closest to coming to CONSENSUS when you do that. You do NOT come closest to “getting things right”. As a Supreme Court Justice your responsibility is to judge the merits of cases brought before the Supreme Court IN THE CONTEXT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. That’s it. It is a travesty that we have allowed precedence to circumvent a lot of what our founding fathers, the authors of the Constitution, originally intended. You do NOT arrive at what the authors intended by looking at other countries’ laws or even at what laws we’ve mistakenly authored in more recent years. As a Supreme Court Justice I believe you can only place any degree of reliability upon writings of those who originally penned the Constitution. Anyone who claims the Constitution is a “living document” outside the flexibility of changing it as detailed within the document itself is dead wrong. The very idea that its meaning “flexes” with the morality of the society of the time is insulting.

Great news: 2nd Amendment rights restored by SCOTUS for Chicago residents! Btw, last week there were 54 shootings, 10 dead in the gun-ban city.

More On The Failure Of Obama...With Caveats

I was watching the Hannity show and he, predictably, ranted on and on about how Obama is nothing but incompetent regarding the oil disaster in the gulf. Okay, let me say up front that while I agree with Hannity's politics and most of his positions, one thing that annoys me is that he sounds like a broken record. I can usually predict which phrases he's going to gravitate toward when criticizing any given Democrat.

Now, Hannity and others keep complaining that the President was way too slow to act, that there were all these opportunities to step in and he didn't. To a large extent, that is certainly true. Obama has largely hidden behind technicalities in law that he, as President, can waive via Executive Order, and there are a number of other things he could have done up front. But what I disagree with Hannity about is exactly what Obama should have been responsible to do. I absolutely think that the Obama administration, which granted BP prior to this incident recognition for they way they were operating, and even previous administrations are guilty for not more closely examining the operations of all offshore drilling platforms. However, ultimately, this is BP's fault. But what Obama is doing is finding every way he can to punish BP -- and through various bits of proposed legislation -- every other oil company for this screw up. Obama pretends to be angry, insults us by using language unbecoming a President, and gets everyone hopped up to go after BP and other oil companies. Lies and deception, that's all he seems to be capable of. He hasn't behaved like the President since the day he took office. What he has done is spent all his time jet-setting, golfing and CAMPAIGNING for his causes. His response to this entire oil disaster has been dismal. Various companies and countries offered all sorts of assistance--like miles upon miles of containment booms. But he declined. People like Hannity believe Obama should have used any and all available/offered means to control this disaster. I don't entirely agree. Here's what should have happened:

The moment the Administration recognized that this oil spill was getting out of control Obama should have immediately met with the top guy at BP. He should have told him -- publicly -- This is your mess and it's getting out of control. We will waive any restrictions preventing you from obtaining whatever resources you need to contain and fix this and you will either engage them ASAP, at your cost, or WE will do it. If WE do it, you will pay dearly because the American people are not going to bear the burden of your mistake. GET TO WORK.

This means that the U.S. wouldn't have been out the cost of any of the cleanup/repair effort, but would have cleared the way--and provided incentive via negative reinforcement--for BP to try everything to keep the spill from escaping into the open gulf. There's no way I would have even hinted that the American people might have to foot the bill on this. But, you see, Obama will not let a good crisis go to waste. I'm convinced he's been calculating his response to this in order to push forward more of his agenda. Toward that end, he's obviously very adept. But when it comes to being Presidential and understanding how to execute policy and influence industry without actually taking it over, the man IS inept.

This is yet another example of how I could have done a much better job than Barrack Obama....as could a great many other conservatives.

Obama Is A Failure

Yes, I said it. Barrack Obama is a failure in nearly every sense of the word when it comes to the Presidency. Just look at the numbers, which have been on a pretty steady decline after the initial, disgustingly mushy honeymoon. 42% Strongly Disapprove of the President's performance and only 25% Strongly Approve. Lest you think that this nation has suddenly become more conservative, let me point out that these numbers reflect both conservatives who think he's completely blown off the ideas of our founding fathers as well as liberals who think he's not blown them off enough. And months after his socialist health care law was shoved down our throats through every sneaky trick in the books (and even some ones created just for the affair), there's still 58% of the population who favor repealing the law. And while I wouldn't equate the BP oil disaster with the Katrina disaster, most do feel that this is "Obama's Katrina" and his response to it is actually far worse than Bush's. By comparison, Bush was more immediate in his acknowledgment and comment on the problem, but up front Bush stated that he couldn't authorize anything until the governors of the affected states made the request. The governor of Louisiana at the time, Ms. Blanco, sat on her rear end and claimed she had it all under control...until it was obvious even to her that it really wasn't. That's not to say Bush couldn't have done much better. But Obama has cavitated around proclamations of "anger", being in control or various and sundry verbal attacks on related industries. What has been left in the wake has been shallow words and efforts that bubble to the surface and pop with a resound lack of positive effect.

The latest news--unsurprisingly ignored by the lamestream press--is the realization that prominent Keynesian economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs admitted on MSNBC, when asked twice whether or not he conceded that Obama's stimulus had not worked, "It did fail". Personally, I just don't see how anyone with a reasonable amount of intelligence can actually believe the Keynesian economics could ever work--given that it never has worked in human history.

But if all these efforts, which are declining in popularity almost daily and many of which were in direct contrast to the will of a sizable majority of the populace, were suspect from the beginning and are now all but certain failures, why have Obama, Pelosi and Reid all pushed so hard? Because it was never about improving this nation. It was about power, dependency and the elitist attitude that seems to be innate with those who wholeheartedly subscribe to the socialist mindset. I can draw you parallel after parallel to some the most disastrous examples in history, and so many books written by the very people Obama and company espouse quite publicly. Bill O'Reilly has it correct. This is truly a culture war. As a Christian, I would also argue that this is a kingdom war. And the movers & shakers on both sides absolutely know this, even if the rank and file of either side are clueless. Just read the elitists' books. It's quite clear that in the same breath that they malign believers as backward, under-educated and superstitious, they also recognize that, different from religions that rely on violence or mysticism, Christianity, at its heart, is extremely powerful and influential. They do understand that we DO view this as battle between principalities and powers, that it is absolutely a spiritual war. They know and admit, to a small degree, in their writings that in order to propel their ideology they must smother and diminish Christianity and every virtue that it stands for. Even they know that you cannot serve two masters...and Progressives are just pompous enough to believe they know better than God.

Progressives and their liberalism is a false religion. They believe they are enlightened beyond us and that three things can ultimately help them achieve their goals. Push Christian ideas and values into the recesses, manufacture or exploit every crisis, and get as many people dependent upon them as possible. This always causes a nation to fail, but almost always results in these people getting power. Look throughout history...Russia, Germany, the list goes on.

We must turn the tide. We can turn the tide. But it won't be with the old guard, the self-proclaimed conservatives who squandered the opportunities they had, but rather got drunk on the power. We need the common man, people like Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Franklin, Washington, who were all just like us. They had a deep reverence for God, understood His nature and His Word. They had businesses, farms, families...lives. They knew there was a need for a unifying government, but that its hold on states and individuals must be light-handed, and that it best respected ALL individuals by not respecting individuals over each other....just as God is no respecter of persons. There were no "protected classes", and if you needed assistance that's what your peers, the churches, your communities made themselves responsible for. But if you refused to work, you didn't eat. If you needed something you paid for it or you worked for it or through the benevolence of others it was provided to you. It wasn't the responsibility of governments to take care of you...and it still isn't. It is impossible for any government to do this successfully. Obama refuses to see this. He is a failure, and he is perfectly willing to continue paving the road to hell with his good intentions.