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It Failed Because it was PASSED

It Failed Because it was PASSED

 The President and his minions have been running around blaming Republicans for everything.  This isn’t shocking; both sides do it.  The Democrats have essentially been saying, “Republicans and Democrats weren’t unified. We couldn’t get together. He didn’t get to finish all the things he wanted to do, etc, etc, bluh, Bluh, BLUH.” On September 14, 2012, future Vice President Paul Ryan was speaking at the “Values Voter Summit” in Washington and, I feel, he nailed it with the following line:

RYAN:  It is true that President Obama, he had a lot of problems not of his own making.  But he also came in with one-party rule and the chance to do everything of his own choosing.  The Obama economic agenda failed not because it was stopped, but because it was passed.

AUDIENCE: (applause and cheers)

RYAN: That’s a key distinction.

(I didn’t take the time to figure out how to shorten the clip, and just show the part I wanted, so here is a link to the entire speech.)

 

 

“WHOA, WHOA, WHOA,” my liberal friends scream, “look what Obama inherited.”

Well, look what Mitt Romney will inherit.

 

Seriously, look at those numbers.  Ask yourself: Are you really better off than you were four years ago?

Giving credit where credit is due, Obama isn’t all bad.  I think trying the soft hand approach when it comes to the Islamic countries, after Bush and Cheney, was the right thing to do.  At first.  It obviously didn’t work, yet he continues the policies.  I like the fact that the President is killing terrorists like it is his job.  I REALLY like the fact that he is using drones to do it.  Kudos to the President.  But at the number one issue–the economy–he is HORRIBLE.  Again, look at the numbers.

Do you wanna know the main difference between Clinton and Obama, from my little brain? During the first two years of the Clinton administration, he pushed a hard leftist social agenda.  It was rejected by the American people in the 1994 midterm elections when the Republicans took over the house for the first time in 40 years.  Almost the exact same thing happened with Obama.  What did Clinton do?  He worked with Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.  He went from a hard left President to a moderate.  Together they reached agreements on welfare reform, a capital gains tax cut, and a budget deal that led to four straight balanced budgets.  Under Obama’s leadership (or lack thereof) the senate hasn’t HAD a budget for almost four years!!

Obama ran as being a unifier. He has been a divider.  He is an ideologue; it is his way or the highway.  Come November, let’s send him packing.

It’s time for someone else to take the wheel.

“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”

–         President Barack Obama, February 2, 2009

 

LIFEZILLA: Seriously, I make crippling depression look good…

 

 

Get Confident, Stupid!!

 Get Confident, Stupid!!

  I gotta tell ya, I have recently come to the realization that the best time to start any project, preparation, plan, personal policy or kidnapping, is exactly five years ago. My brain is constantly being inundated with things I wish I would have written about.

It’s really annoying.

Imagine filtering through the mod podge/ collage of songs, silliness, movies, phrases, family, dumbery, full frontal nudity, political philosophy, the Wangdoodles, Hornswogglers, Snozzwangers, or the rotten, Vermicious Knids that are constantly bombarding my brain.  I have to sift myself through a buttload of groan-inducing and mediocre crap to find the one little gold nugget I want to write about.  I could easily compare it to mining for diamonds in a gigantic grotto filled with fossilized bat dung.  Because that is exactly what it’s like.

Again, it’s really annoying.

So I have been thinking about this off and on the last few years.  It is something that really bothers me.  I primarily see it in the media, but it extends into everyday life with normal people too.  I don’t know if I’m special (my mom says I am) or if my brain is just wired weird.  I just don’t have a problem with people having their own points of view.  In fact, I welcome it.

Let me explain.  About three years ago we had the introduction of “the tea party.”  A group of people who were sick of “business as usual” in Washington, who felt like we, as Americans, were Taxed Enough Already and wanted to rein in the out of control spending in Washington.  A very noble goal.  Of course, you had the few fringe weirdos who wore the colonial clothing complete with the three cornered hats.  I have no problem with those guys either.  When watching the news every once in a while you would see a sign that said something like, “I am John Galt”, or “Vote for John Galt.”  I had just recently finished reading Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand so I knew exactly who John Galt was.  I also remember for a short time, the media trying to vilify Ayn Rand.  I was watching a reporter interviewing Congressman Paul Ryan.  The reporter asked Mr. Ryan if he agreed with Ayn Rand about something.  Mr. Ryan said he did.  The reporter then said (something along the lines of) “so you don’t believe in God?” (I’m doing this from memory – I tried for just a minute to find it on Youtube, but got bored.)  The reporter tried to draw the conclusion that because Ayn Rand was an atheist, and because Congressman Ryan agreed with a facet of her philosophy that suddenly Ms. Rand was elevated to godhood where everything that falls from her lips was and is the gospel truth.  If she didn’t believe in something, then clearly he didn’t believe it either.

That, my dear reader, is what bothers me.  It happens time and time again.

One more example, again, from a few years ago.  Shortly after a new group of Tea Party approved congressmen/women were elected, I was watching an interview with Speaker of the House John Boehner.  Between bouts of sobbing he was flippantly asked by the reporter (who looked like he would more likely be a member of the Saturday Night Live cast, than a reporter) something along the lines of why he (Boehner) couldn’t get House Republicans to “march in line.” (Again this is from memory – I’m sure it was worded better than that).  I don’t remember exactly what Boehner said, because four words into his pansy reply I started screaming at the TV.   (I’m really brave at home, in my room, with the door locked, under my bed, holding my blankie, with the lights on).  I know Boehner’s reply was pansy because he is holding out hope the media will one day realize Republicans are great people.  He should have said, “Do you even understand how our Government works?”  Then go on to explain that the beauty, and pure brilliance, of our system of government is that it was designed by men who knew the biggest danger to our freedom was the power of other men.  The founders designed a government of limited, enumerated powers, whose formation was intended to make the accumulation of power by a group (or by individuals) difficult and short lived.  Then, they brilliantly added a list of rights which were inviolable no matter who was in power.  In other words, you cute little reporting bugger you, the Republicans are not robots.  They don’t march.  Obviously there are certain principles you would like them to unite against (or for) but on everything else they need to vote their conscience.  If Boehner wanted to REALLY hit a home run, he could have continued and explained that our Founders insight into human nature explains why Marx’s “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” crap can never work.  Marx’s theory assumes people are able to be honest about their needs and abilities, when, in fact, most people overestimate both.

But Boehner blew it.

In business, if you have two people on a team who agree with each other 100% of the time, one of them isn’t necessary.  Wouldn’t the same be true in government?

So if I listen to Glenn Beck every once in a while it doesn’t mean I’m buying gold, stockpiling weapons, and burying food in the back yard, preparing for the post apocalyptic world (I would be buying gold if I had a pot to piss in.) I can enjoy his commentary and filter out what I don’t think has value all by myself. Thank you.

When I was in High School I used to watch Bill Maher on ABC’s Politically Incorrect.   I thought he was funny and insightful.  Now I think he’s an ass.  I disagree with almost everything that spews out of his pie hole.  But I believe he has a right to say what he wants.  And if you, or someone you know, thinks he is funny and insightful I don’t automatically think you’re an ass (although let’s be honest, you probably are.)

Granted, being part of a group makes it so that SOME of your goals, ideas, values, or principles are the same, be they be political, social, religious or intellectual.  The individual is the most important.  Groups can be swayed.  We are all capable and should practice individual thought, and should recognize, and respect this ability in others.