On November 2nd, 2010. Conservative Americans sequestered themselves in voting booths across the land and sent what we thought was an unmistakable message to the rascals in Washington, D.C. 

Either it wasn’t as clear as we thought, the Progressives are in denial, or their Progressive ideology trumps their oath of public service.

In the following video clip from the House of Representatives on Monday, the presiding speaker was California’s Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson.

Indiana Republican Rep. Steve Buyer sought to be recognized to speak for five minutes about some pending veterans legislation. The dense Democrat, after conferring with someone unknown, said no.

He then revised his request to one minute.

Richardson, obviously clueless and getting directions from someone off-camera, said no again.

Buyer grew outraged that one sitting representative was highhandedly refusing to recognize another, even for one minute.

Exasperated, he declared to this waste of a House seat:

This is why the American people have thrown you out of power.

Here’s the video.  You need to watch this:

The Democrat/Liberal/Progressive cluelessness extends all the way up to the highest office in the land.  No surprise, I know.

President Obama and Republican leaders met yesterday in the much-ballyhooed (at least by the White House) Slurpee Summitt. The spin resulting from the meeting is that it was productive even though there was no agreement reached on extending tax cuts for Americans or ratifying the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the top two items on the agenda.

President Barack Hussein Obama reported after the meeting that:

Today we had the beginning of a new dialogue that I hope — and I’m sure most Americans hope — will help break through the noise and help produce gains. And as we all agreed, that should begin today because there’s some things we need to get done in the weeks before Congress leaves town for the holidays.

Scooter wants Turbo Tax Tim Geithner and Lew Clark to work with Republicans on a compromise to extending the tax cuts. He also wants Congress to extend unemployment benefits that expired yesterday, and he said that they also discussed tax credits for college tuition, tax breaks for working families and a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers.

Obama said:

None of this is going to be easy. We have two parties for a reason. There are real philosophical differences, deeply held principles to which each party holds.

Although the atmosphere in today’s meeting was extremely civil, there’s no doubt that those differences are going to remain no matter how many meetings we have. And the truth is, there will always be a political incentive against working together, particularly in the current hyperpartisan climate.

We understand these aren’t times for us to be playing games. … I think there was a sincere effort on the part of everybody involved to commit to work together and try to solve the problems.

You should know a lot about the “hypersensitive climate” in Washington, Scooter.  Your personal arrogance and blindly ideological Far Left political mission that you have forced down the nation’s throats, is responsible for it.

Two weeks before the election, gallup.com issued a poll stating that 54 % of Americans were Conservative, 27 % Moderate (Independent), and 18 % Liberal.

For Obama and the Dems to continue pushing a Far Left, socialist agenda in the wake of the crushing defeat that they suffered on November 2nd, is an exercise in self-deluding arrogance that even Narcissus himself would be proud of.

Obama’s spin on the Midterm Electoral Massacre of his political party is that Americans want more co-operation in Washington between their elected representatives.  By co-operation, Obama means co-operation in passing his ideologically driven agenda designed to turn American into some sort of Nanny-State Socialist Utopia where everybody “shares the wealth”.

In other words:  “I’m smarter than you, so shut up”, he explained.

This arrogance manifested as cluelessness does not provide a flattering image of the president to Americans or the rest of the world.  His poll numbers continue to plunge, as more examples of his amateurish leadership abilities continue to surface.  His Alfred E. Newman (What, me worry?) response to the Wikileaks Document Dump and his tone-deafness as to the real wishes of the American people, show to the world and the people that he was elected to serve, that he does not intend to take the Midterm shellacking to heart and move to the middle, as Bill Clinton did in 1994.

He remains a Far Left ideologue determined to radically change America…regardless of the wishes of the American people.

Strother Martin said it best in Cool Hand Luke:

Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart reported two “Well, Duuh” statements concerning the administration’s reaction tho the latest Wikileak Document Dump masterminded by girly man Julian Assange.

First, according to Breitbart, the White House on Monday said WikiLeaks and others behind the release of a flood of confidential diplomatic memos were “criminals” and that President Barack Obama was decidedly “not pleased.”

Press Secretary Baghdad Bob Gibbs said the people who released some 250,000 classified State Department memos were “criminals, first and foremost” who had committed a “serious” offense.

Gibbs said:

This is a serious violation of the law, a serious threat to individuals that both carry out and assist in our foreign policy.

According to his Press Secretary, Obama was decidedly “not pleased” by the release.

Second, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that his department will prosecute anyone found to have violated U.S. law in the leaks of classified government documents by online whistleblower WikiLeaks.

According to Holder:

This is not saber-rattling.

Holder said at a news conference yesterday, that the Wikileaks Document Dump, puts at risk the security of the nation, its diplomats, intelligence assets and U.S. relationships with foreign governments and

To the extent that we can find anybody who was involved in the breaking of American law, who put at risk the assets and the people I have described, they will be held responsible; they will be held accountable.

He went on to call the WikiLeaks probe “an active, ongoing criminal investigation.”

According to Assange, his crusade to release  America’s classified information is only beginning and these recent documents were meant to expose “lying, corrupt and murderous leadership from Bahrain to Brazil.”

Assange wrote an e-mail to ABC News from an undisclosed location, saying:

We’re only one thousandth of the way in and look at what has so far being revealed. There will be many more.

Assange brushed aside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement that the dump of secret documents “puts people’s lives in danger”:

U.S. officials have for 50 years trotted out this line when they are afraid the public is going to see how they really behave. The facts are that we wrote to the State Department asking for a list of any specific concerns that might have. They refused to assist, and said they demanded everything, including those documents that revealed abuses, be destroyed.

So, why hasn’t the Federal Government already taken care of this weasel, who seems quite pleased with himself for endangering the lives of Americans and our allies?

In her latest post on Facebook, Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin asks some pretty sharp questions about this situation:

…what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a “journalist,” any more than the “editor” of al Qaeda’s new English-language magazine Inspire is a “journalist.” He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?

What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks? Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?

Most importantly, serious questions must also be asked of the U.S. intelligence system. How was it possible that a 22-year-old Private First Class could get unrestricted access to so much highly sensitive information? And how was it possible that he could copy and distribute these files without anyone noticing that security was compromised?

The White House has now issued orders to federal departments and agencies asking them to take immediate steps to ensure that no more leaks like this happen again. It’s of course important that we do all we can to prevent similar massive document leaks in the future. But why did the White House not publish these orders after the first leak back in July? What explains this strange lack of urgency on their part?

We are at war. American soldiers are in Afghanistan fighting to protect our freedoms. They are serious about keeping America safe. It would be great if they could count on their government being equally serious about that vital task.

Yes, ma’am.  It would be great.  Unfortunately, we can’t.  In the past, Mr.  Assange would possibly have already met with a mysterious end, such as a fatal case of cranial lead poisoning, and Pfc. Manning would be the recipient of a military trial, followed by a blindfold, a cigarette, and a 21-gun salute.

While it is true that Manning is indeed locked up in a military jail, facing a trial, with this Administration, anything can happen.  And unless Obama and his minions suddenly acquire some testosterone-driven fortitude, Assange will not receive the punishment he so richly deserves.

Y’know, it’s almost like this Administration doesn’t mind Assange’s denigration of America’s stature among the nations of the world that much.  Hmmmm.

The big news from the weekend is the new classified material dump from Wikileaks.  A quarter of a million U.S. Government Documents were distributed around the world, courtesy of girly man and serial rapist Julian Assange.

Sunday, the White House issued a statement, saying:

We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.

According to The New York Times, the Documents include revelations such as:

• A dangerous standoff with Pakistan over highly enriched uranium, presently in a nuclear reactor.
• American and South Korean officials have discussed the prospects for a unified Korea, should the North’s economic troubles and political transition lead the state to implode.
• Bargaining to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison.
• Suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government.
• A global computer hacking effort: China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January.
• Mixed records against terrorism: Saudi donors remain the chief financiers of Sunni militant groups like Al Qaeda, and the tiny Persian Gulf state of Qatar, a generous host to the American military for years, was the “worst in the region” in counterterrorism efforts, according to a State Department cable.
• Vlad loves Silvio: American diplomats in Rome reported in 2009 on what their Italian contacts described as an extraordinarily close relationship between Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian prime minister, and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister and business magnate, including “lavish gifts,” lucrative energy contracts and a “shadowy” Russian-speaking Italian go-between.
• Cables describe the United States’ failing struggle to prevent Syria from supplying arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which has amassed a huge stockpile since its 2006 war with Israel.
• Clashes with Europe over human rights: American officials sharply warned Germany in 2007 not to enforce arrest warrants for Central Intelligence Agency officers involved in a bungled operation in which an innocent German citizen with the same name as a suspected militant was mistakenly kidnapped and held for months in Afghanistan.

Wikileaks gave 251,287 cables,to the Times on the condition of anonymity. Many are unclassified, but, according to the Times,  none are marked “top secret”.   But some 11,000 are classified “secret,” 9,000 are labeled “noforn,” which is government-speak for documents considered too sensitive to be shared with any foreign government, while 4,000 are designated both secret and noforn.

The individual who supplied the documents to Assange, Pfc. Bradley Manning, is a certifiable wacko. That’s a medical term.

Even during his schooldays in his hometown of Crescent, Oklahoma, Bradley Manning clearly walked a different path than the other kids. He preferred hacking computer games instead of playing them, according to his former neighbors.   They also said that he was mouthy and hard-headed about politics, religion, and even about keeping religion out of politics.

He once derisively wrote in an e-mail, that his hometown had “more pews than people”.  While in school, Manning refused to recite the parts of the Pledge of Allegiance that referred to God or do homework assignments that involved the Scriptures. And if a teacher challenged his views, former classmates said, he gave them a bunch of lip back.

According to friends, Manning enlisted in the Army in 2007 in order to find some sort of direction for his life and to help to pay for college.

Somehow, he received a security clearance and trained as an intelligence analyst at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., before he was assigned to the Second Brigade 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y.

While deployed in Iraq, he was far less than a model soldier, receiving reprimands twice, once for assaulting an officer. He even wore custom dog tags that read Humanist…and he kept a fairy wand on his desk.

Per an article on wired.com, Manning said that he was lip-syncing to Lady Gaga as he downloaded all of the documents to Wikileaks.

I really do not wish to even think about what he might have been wearing at the time.

Manning was arrested for leaking classified information to unauthorized persons. He was brought into custody in Kuwait last June.

This last round of leaked documents presents to the world  a U.S. President whose Foreign Policy Initiative, in both concept and delivery, appears more disjointed than a rag doll.  As if the recent economically-driven trips by Obama to Asia and Europe were not embarrassing enough, now Hillary Clinton is having to apologize to all of our allies about the content of the sensitive material, now being plastered on the web and television sets, and in newspapers around the world.

The spin has already started from the Administration, in a feverish attempt to contain and diminish the damage that the two little weasels, Manning and Assange, have caused.  Obama’s problem is:  It’s too late.   He can’t put the Genie back into the bottle.

Now, this false messiah who was going to make the oceans rise and fall, and gather all the world’s nations onto a hillside and lead them in a chorus of I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing is being labelled as the most incompetent and ineffectual President that the world has seen in quite some time. 

On behalf of average Americans everywhere, all I can say to the rest of the world is: 

Welcome to the party, pal!

Ed. Note:  I realize that Assange is a citizen of Australia.  However, he has endangered that world’s safety through his actions, including that of his country.

The march toward a government-run single-payer National Health Care System Continues…and some Republicans want to help!  As we speak, proposals for the oft-delayed Federal Budget are being mulled over that will shrink or do away with the tax breaks that help make employer health insurance the leading source of coverage in the nation and an integral part of a middle class household budget.

According to a bunch of pin-headed economists, who seem to live in an alternate reality, these proposals will not only raise revenue for our oversized Federal Government, but will

…finally turn Americans into frugal health care consumers by having them face the full costs of their medical decisions.

Yeah, like many of us are having to choose to pay bills and buy food for our families rather than carry Health Insurance.

Welcome to our new Nanny State as engineered by the smartest people in the world. Excuse me, sir. Can I have some more? (Oliver!)

Such a re-engineering was rejected by Democrats only a few months ago, at the height of the health care overhaul debate. But Washington has changed, with Republicans returning to power and widespread fears that the burden of government debt may drag down the economy.

According to former Senate Majority Leader Tom “Puff” Daschle, a leading Democratic adviser on health care:

There is no short-term prospect of enactment. However, in a tax reform (and) deficit reducing context in the long term, the prospects are much better.

He opposes repealing the tax break by itself, but claims that he would be “willing to look” at it with other changes that improve access to quality health care while reducing costs.  Yeah, right.

Labor unions thought that they had intimidated the Democrats into pulling this stuff off the table. Now, it looks like they’ll have to send “the boys” to the Congressional offices again.

Tampering with health care tax breaks is “a terrible step in the wrong direction,” said Mary Kay Henry, the new president of the Service Employees International Union, (Obama’s friends) which represents many hospital workers.

Employer-provided health insurance is part of a worker’s compensation. Unlike wages, it isn’t subject to income and payroll taxes.

If our elected representatives are stupid enough to repeal the tax break, that action would raise several hundred billion dollars a year, depending on the way that they do it. Many of those pin-headed economists stupidly believe that employers would boost pay if they didn’t provide health care. Those who favor doing away with the tax breaks are calling for some sort of tax credit to offset their theft of our money.

There is some light at the end of tunnel. After the 112th Congress is seated in January, they will begin, in the first weeks, to discuss a repeal of Obamacare. Repeal will probably pass in the House, but is considered to have no chance of passing in the Senate, which is still controlled by Democrats.

Then, our elected representatives will start prosecuting political wars over specific parts of the bill, including the tax money needed to make it work. That, in turn, could lead to arguments on spending bills, which could lead to aa shutdown of the federal government.

The major argument will be over the unconstitutional requirement in Obamacare that almost all Americans carry health insurance. In a McClatchy-Marist poll released this week, only 29 percent of those surveyed wanted to keep the individual mandate, while 65 percent called the requirement unconstitutional.  Other polls trend higher toward the mandate being unconstitutional, as does the actual, real-world opinion of the American people.

This argument is liable to end up in the Supreme Court, as several states are trying to opt-out of Obamacare, not interested in co-operating with the benevolent Regime that is presently trying to rule our daily lives.

The results of November 2nd, 2010, sent a very plain message to this administration by the country that they are supposed to be serving, not ruling.  Evidently, somebody is not listening,  President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) thinks that Obamacare is

…a lasting legacy that I am extraordinarily proud of.

This is that same pin-headed, I’m smarter than you are attitude displayed by the economists earlier in this article who think that we need to be taught a lesson as to the real costs of Health Insurance. 

It appears me and an overwhelming majority of the American people that those who need to be a taught a lesson are the tone-deaf, imperious professional politicians and academicians who are making Americans’ lives miserable and running our beloved nation straight into the ground.   If  Obama and his minions did not learn their lesson after the results of the Midterm Election, then, evidently, they need to be taught another one in 2012. 

It is going to be a long, contentious two years.

The FBI arrested a Somali-born Islamic Terrorist about to attempt to detonate a bomb in a van, just 18 minutes before Portland, Oregon’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Yelling “Allahu Akbar!”[Arabic for “God is great!”],the Terrorist tried to kick agents and police after he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors.

What Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, of Corvallis, a U.S. citizen, did not know what that the supposed explosives in the van were supplied to him by FBI Operatives.

Mohamud was arrested on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The arrest ended a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.

According to the FBI, the public was never in danger.

Mohamud will appear in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday.

The FBI stated in an affidavit that the case began in August 2009 when Mohamud was e-mailing an unindicted Islamic Terrorist overseas.  In December 2009, while the unindicted Terrorist was in a frontier province of Pakistan, the two of them discussed the possibility of Mohamud traveling to Pakistan to participate in violent jihad.

The Islamic Terrorist then referred Mohamud to a second Islamic Terrorist overseas and provided him with a name and e-mail address. In the months that followed, Mohamud made several unsuccessful attempts to contact the second Terrorist.

Ultimately, an FBI undercover operative contacted Mohamud in a June 2010 e-mail, pretending to be an associate of the first unindicted Terrorist.

Mohamud and the FBI operative met in Portland a month later. Mohamud told the FBI operative that he had written articles that were published in Jihad Recollections, an online magazine that advocated holy war.

It sounds like a Hallmark moment, doesn’t it?

Mohamud also indicated he intended to become “operational”. That meant that he wanted to put an explosion together but needed help. The two got together again in August 2010 in a Portland hotel.

According to the FBI affidavit:

During this meeting, Mohamud explained how he had been thinking of committing some form of violent jihad since the age of 15. Mohamud then told (the FBI operatives) that he had identified a potential target for a bomb: the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square on Nov. 26, 2010.

The FBI operatives even played big brother to the young Terrorist, warning Mohamud several times about how serious his planned actions were, and reminding him that there would be many people, including children, at the event. They told Mohamud that he could abandon his plans at any time with no shame.

An FBI operative asked the Islamic Terrorist:

You know there’s going to be a lot of children there? You know there are gonna be a lot of children there?

Mohamud told him that he was looking for a

huge mass that will … be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.

According to the affidavit, Mohamud wasn’t concerned about law enforcement, explaining that

… It’s in Oregon; and Oregon, like, you know, nobody ever thinks about.

After a meeting on November 4, where they gave him the phony explosives, FBI operatives quizzed Mohamud about whether he was capable of looking at the bodies of those who would be killed in his planned Portland attack.

Mohamud reportedly told the FBI operatives:

I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured.

The religion of peace, indeed.  He evidently had not heard about the upcoming remote cameras in American cities, the airport nekkid Body Scanners, or Big Sis Napolitano and her touchy feely TSA Agents, or he would have been appropriately afraid.

While average Americans were getting scanned and groped in our airports and the FBI was thwarting a  Terror…oops…a man-caused disaster, where was the Leader of the Free World?

The guy who was supposed to be the smartest U.S. President evah, was getting his lip sewn up after playing a pick-up game of basketball. 

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released a public statement nearly three hours after the incident.

The White House would not initially name the person who caused the injury, but later Friday indentified the elbow as belonging to Rey Decerega, director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

No, the Secret Service Agents did not tackle the offending elbow and throw it to the ground. 

Scooter received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor’s office on the ground floor of the White House after getting back home. Doctors used a smaller filament than usually used in these cases, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and leaves a smaller scar.

Y’know, it seems awfully self-centered for a President of the United States to risk his health by playing a contact sport as a hobby while serving our nation.  Why, it almost seems like he puts his own agenda above his service to America.  Hmmm.

The city of Houston, Texas is in the process of installing 250 to 300 cameras at downtown intersections for the stated purpose of preventing and fighting crime and terrorism. The cameras are part of a security initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Houston began installing the cameras last summer. According to the city, they have already been able to catch car thieves in the act. The city also says that the cameras will be useful in identifying perpetrators after they’ve committed their crime.

More than 50 cameras already have been installed around the George R. Brown Convention Center, Discovery Green Park, the theater district and Minute Maid Park. Every downtown intersection will be equipped with a camera. A city spokesman says that the cameras will allow police to monitor any scene from several viewpoints at once rather than having to staff events with officers surveying the scene in binoculars.

Big Sis is doing her thing again.

Houston has spent about $14 million in federal grant funding on the camera program, which it expects to finish by the end of January. The money comes from Urban Area Security Initiative funds doled out annually by Homeland Security to regions across the country.

In recent years, Houston has received an estimated $18 million to $20 million, money to spend on initiatives to prevent and detect terrorism.

Meanwhile, at America’s airports, The TSA continues to become intimately involved with America citizens.

And, while President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and his concerned minions tighten security on us average American Citizens, for our own safety, guess what they’re doing about securing our borders? 

Compared to everything they’re doing to us, not a whole heckuva lot.  There is some good news, though.

Yesterday, American authorities found a sophisticated tunnel used to smuggle drugs between Mexico and San Diego, the second such discovery in the region in less than a month.

The half-mile tunnel runs from a house in Tijuana to a warehouse in San Diego’s Otay Mesa area, according to the San Diego Tunnel Task Force.

The statement that they released went on to say that Federal border patrol, drug enforcement, immigration, and customs enforcement agents in the task force arrested several suspects and seized an undetermined amount of marijuana in a tractor-trailer on U.S. soil, the statement said.

Authorities believed more marijuana is still being stored inside the tunnel. Agents are working with the Mexican military on the investigation.

Officials are going to release further details of the probe this afternoon.

Earlier this month, federal agents made one of the largest pot busts in the United States when they confiscated 20 tons of marijuana they said was smuggled into the country through another tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of California’s border with Mexico. Mexican authorities seized more than four tons of pot from the warehouse south of the border.

The secret passageway ran the length of six football fields and had lighting, ventilation and a rail system to send loads of illegal drugs from Mexico into California.

And, is a related story, Obama is pushing Congress to pass the DREAM Act.  The DREAM Act is a piece of legislation introduced by Sen. Orin Hatch [R-UT] and Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL].  It is supposed to offer a six-year pathway to citizenship for the offspring of illegal aliens, which involves either a college or military commitment.

Per U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, the legislation actually breaks down this way:

1. The DREAM Act Is NOT Limited to Children, And It Will Be Funded On the Backs Of Hard Working, Law-Abiding Americans

2. The DREAM Act PROVIDES SAFE HARBOR FOR ANY ALIEN, Including Criminals, From Being Removed or Deported If They Simply Submit An Application

3. Certain Criminal Aliens Will Be Eligible For Amnesty Under The DREAM Act

4. Estimates Suggest That At Least 2.1 Million Illegal Aliens Will Be Eligible For the DREAM Act Amnesty. In Reality, We Have No Idea How Many Illegal Aliens Will Apply

5. Illegal Aliens Will Get In-State Tuition Benefits

6. The DREAM Act Does Not Require That An Illegal Alien Finish Any Type of Degree (Vocational, Two-Year, or Bachelor’s Degree) As A Condition of Amnesty

7. The DREAM Act does not require that an illegal alien serve in the military as a condition for amnesty, and There is ALREADY A Legal Process In Place For Illegal Aliens to Obtain U.S. Citizenship Through Military Service

8. Despite Their Current Illegal Status, DREAM Act Aliens Will Be Given All The Rights That Legal Immigrants Receive—Including The Legal Right To Sponsor Their Parents and Extended Family Members For Immigration

9. Current Illegal Aliens Will Get Federal Student Loans, Federal Work Study Programs, and Other Forms of Federal Financial Aid

10. DHS Is Prohibited From Using the Information Provided By Illegal Aliens Whose DREAM Act Amnesty Applications Are Denied To Initiate Their Removal Proceedings or Investigate or Prosecute Fraud in the Application Process

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has tentatively scheduled a vote for this Monday on the Dream Act. 

So, allow me a moment to try and grasp this.   Americans are being treated like non-citizens by this administration and non-citizens may be granted the rights of a citizen of the country that they illegally entered by this same administration and its minions? 

Is it just me or is there something awfully screwy going on around here?

According to Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary, the intimate, intrusive actions that average Americans are experiencing at the hand of the TSA in our airports could be put in place on buses, trains, and boats.

Big Sis’ excuse is that [Islamic] Terrorists will continue to look for cracks in America’s security, making tighter security standards necessary.

Appearing Monday night on The Charlie Rose Show on PBS, Big Sis said:

[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through.

 I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?

It is no coincidence that she made these comments one day before one of the nation’s busiest travel days. She made these comments in spite of a widespread public outcry over newly implemented airport screening measures that involve intimate body scanning and pat downs.

Of course, Napalitano justified the new security measures as necessary to the stopping of terrorists. Funny, Israel does not use them, and they are a prime target, also.

In response to the question: “What will they [terrorists] be thinking in the future?”, Napolitano said that her agency is now looking into ways to make other popular means of travel safer for passengers and commuters.

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, introduced legislation this past September in favor of testing of body scanners at some federal buildings.

The nekkid body scanners are already being used at a Florida Federal Courthouse, where some 35,000 images have already been saved.

John Pistole, who heads the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has been hitting the cable News channels defending the new measures.

On Monday, Pistole said that while he understood everyone’s concerns (yeah, right), the new measures would remain in place.

Members of both the House and the Senate have complained that the public should have been informed before the pat-downs and body-imaging techniques were put into practice.

Because of the outcry by American citizens, any move to implement new security screening measures for other modes of mass transportation is going to be met with a lot of resistance.

According to Big Sis, we just need to analyze the poor widdle Islamic Terrorists and try to figure out what makes them so mean:

The long-term is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack? I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.

We don’t know much. (I’ll say.) If you were to try and devise a template about what connects this terrorist to this terrorist and how they were raised and what schools they went to and their socioeconomic status, or this or that, it’s all over the map.

I’ll give you a clue…STUDY ISLAM AND PROFILE.

I think there’s some important work that’s being done on that but…the Secretary of Homeland Security cannot wait for that.

This administration, time and time again, has shown that they perceive the American public as a bunch of ignorant sheeple, to be cared for from cradle to grave and led around by their shepherd’s crook.

The Administration did not announce these new security measures, because they thought that Americans would just passively go along with them.

Remember the story about putting a frog in a pan of water and placing it on a stove?   The story explains that if you turn the heat up gradually, the frog adjusts to the conditions and stays in the pan, until it is eventually par-boiled.

That’s what is happening to us, America.  Obama and his bunch expected us to simply adjust to these new security measures without saying a word. 

Between the unwanted usurpation of America’s wishes that is Obamacare, to Obama’s new touchy feely Draconian Security measures, he and his administration are attempting to lead the country around like a bunch of ignorant sheep.

What they did not count on and still do not understand, is the American spirit.  We are a stubborn lot, or in Biblical terms, a stiff-necked people.

The spirit that flowed through our pioneer ancestors, still resides in the people of this nation.  That’s what sets us apart for other nations.  That spirit of freedom that caused America to be carved from a hostile wilderness, the faith that Americans can overcome any obstacle that is thrown against us, thanks to the inalienable rights bestowed upon us by Our Creator.  Our rights do not come from some totalitarian idiot who insists that we share our wealth and give up our freedom for the greater good of the state.

This Administration can double-down on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals all they want.  They can preach government expansion and anti-capitalism until they are blue in the face.  The American people have awakened and aren’t buying it.  Please reference November 2nd, 2010, if you do not believe me.  That’s why President Barack Hussein Obama’s popularity has hit 39% in the Zogby Poll this week.

And that’s also why the symbol of our country is not a frog.  It’s an eagle.