This morning the Republican Party has formally unveiled, at a Virginia Hardware store, their Pledge to America.

Of course, this 21 page document is in homage to The Contract With America, drawn up by Republicans for the 1994  Midterm Elections that swept their party into power.  It’s introduction was very impressive:

As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.

That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

The Pledge’s introduction is pretty impressive, also. 

The need for urgent action to repair our economy and reclaim our government for the people cannot be overstated…

…With this document, we pledge to dedicate ourselves to the task of reconnecting our highest aspirations to the permanent truths of our founding by keeping faith with the values our nation was founded on, the principles we stand for, and the priorities of our people. This is our Pledge to America.

Here are some quick bullet points from the document:

Jobs:

– Stop job-killing tax hikes

– Allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income

– Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit

– Repeal small business mandates in the new health care law.

Cutting Spending:

– Repeal and Replace health care

– Roll back non-discretionary spending to 2008 levels before TARP and stimulus (will save $100 billion in first year alone)

– Establish strict budget caps to limit federal spending going forward

– Cancel all future TARP payments and reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Reforming Congress:

– Will require that every bill have a citation of constitutional authority

– Give members at least 3 days to read bills before a vote

Defense:

– Provide resources to troops

– Fund missile defense

– Enforce sanctions in Iran

There is only a slight whiff of deja vu’ in the air.  There are marked differences between The Contract and The Pledge.

The Contract included “The Fiscal Responsibility Act”.  This imposed a Constitutional Amendment requiring a balanced budget . It also included the “Personal Responsibility Act,” otherwise known as welfare reform. Perhaps the most-contentious part of The Contract, this proviso slashed welfare spending and prohibited assistance payments to teen mothers. Opponents railed against this plan, calling it “Draconian.”

Republicans showcased their legislative compact not on the Capitol steps, but 45-minutes away at a lumber warehouse in northern Virginia. No GOP House contenders were wandering about seeking photo ops among the two-by-fours and six-by-eights.  Instead, a group of 12 Incumbent House Republicans laid out a broad policy agenda culled from their “America Speaking Out” program. America Speaking Out was a dialogue House Republicans engineered to solicit ideas from the public about policy solutions.

There was no pomp and circumstance as with the signing of The Contract. Only a press conference and a conversation with small business owners. The “Pledge” is comprised of specifics on health care, the economy, taxes, Congressional operations and national security. But the agenda is not distilled into a Constitution-inspired document like the one 16 years ago.

It seems that the Republican Party establishment wants to embrace the elements of a Contract With America-esque roll-out. But not go too far. They want to draw comparisons between the electoral anxiety of 1994 with the discord of today. But the similarities stop there.

Today’s Republican Establishment seems to be having a problem remembering what made the Reagan Revolution the nation-changing force that it was.  Reagan Conservatism not only embraced fiscal responsibility but also carried an emphasis on personal rights and responsibility based on the Judeo-Christian system that American was founded on.  The emergence of the Tea Party Movement is a reminder of the success of Reagan Conservatism.  If today’s Republican Party remembers that, they will be successful.  If all this is just a stage show to mask an elitist ideology, the American public will reject them, in the same manner that they are rejecting the Progressives that they are campaigning against.  The Republican Party needs to remember Proverbs 29:23, scripture which the President and his Progressive minions forgot a long time ago:

Arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.

It was a beautiful fall afternoon and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini were taking the field for their first home game of the college football season.  Our national anthem was peformed and there was a flyby of American jets roaring over the top of the stadium.   Over 15,000 college kids, parents, and supporters started chanting USA! USA!  Thinking about it gives you the chills, doesn’t it?  Not this nimrod:  University of Illinois “Academic Professional” (And I use the term loosely) David Greene whined:

The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.

The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.

The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.

And this invertebrate is teaching American college students.   Jellyfish like this individual define normal American Patriotism as Jingoism:  : extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.

“Professor” Greene exhibits the symptoms of a disease that I’ve noticed that most of the Far Left exhibit:  Narcissistic-Reality-Denial-Over-Educated-Beyond-Their-Intelligence Syndrome.  The patient tends to rely on his self-assumed superior intellect, denying the reality of the world around him to the point of forsaking both his allegiance to and concern for the people of the country that has provided him with both his livelihood and his well-being.

Here’s an example of someone with this syndrome from Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s War.  

Woodward’s book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, Obama said:

We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.

Notice how the patient distances himself from the 3,000 innocent lives lost, in an effort to boost his own self-esteem.

This syndrome seems to be extremely pernicious in academic and political figures. The patient actually believes that he is an expert on everything, to the point where he can write and distribute instructional theses to seasoned professionals while lecturing them in a didactic manner.

In this patient’s case, frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama came up with his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page “terms sheet” that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports.

Per Woodward’s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives.

Obama told White House aides as he laid out his reasons for adding 30,000 troops in a short-term escalation:

This needs to be a plan about how we’re going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan.  Everything we’re doing has to be focused on how we’re going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint. It’s in our national security interest. There cannot be any wiggle room.

Obama rejected the military’s request for 40,000 troops.  He thought that expanding troops would lead to America being stuck in Afghanistan for a very long time.  Obama told Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a meeting on Oct. 26, 2009:

I’m not doing 10 years.  I’m not doing long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion dollars.

This syndrome causes patients to contradict themselves once they have committed others’  lives to a cause or mission.  It is all a part of the denial of reality, along with a self-imposed aloofness caused by feelings of superiority.

The only treatment for Narcissistic-Reality-Denial-Over-Educated-Beyond-Their-Intelligence Syndrome at this time is “refudiation” and isolation.  The people who are being affected by these individuals must, in a clear and over-whelming  manner, let the patient know that they do not accept their attitude or actions and put them in a “time-out”.  November 2nd, 2010 is the day scheduled for the start of this treatment.

President Barack Hussein Obama  (mm mmm mmmm) did not have a very good day yesterday, as he appeared at a Wall Street “Townhall” and was actually expected to answer tough questions about his policies after the worst U.S. recession since the 1930s was declared over by his inept administration.

As audience members at the meeting told him that they were fed up with and disappointed in his administration, and one woman said she was “exhausted” from defending him, Obama told them that he understood that they were frustrated.

Obama told the meeting, hosted by CNBC television (managed by one of his closest personal advisers, Jeffrey Immelt):

Even though economists (on his payroll) may say the recession officially ended last year, obviously for the millions of people who are still out of work … it is still very real for them.

Obama’s Democrats are scheduled to be swept out of power by an electoral tidal wave in November congressional elections by voters worried by U.S. unemployment, stuck near 10 percent, and by the horrible state of the economy.

The first lady to apporach the audience microphone explained to Obama the way that the cow ate the cabbage:

I’m one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly I’m exhausted. I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now.

A visibly shaken Obama refrained from having a tantrum, and instead argued that the measures he had undertaken since taking office in January 2009 were slowly pulling the country back to health.

Yeah, Scooter.  At this rate, we ought to be there by the year 10, 058.

The leader of the Regime pontificated:

My goal here is not to try to convince you that everything’s where it needs to be — it’s not. That’s why I ran for president. But what I am saying is … that we’re moving in the right direction.

Right direction?  For what?

The National Bureau of Economic Research, the official arbiter of the U.S. business cycle, said on Monday the longest downturn since the Great Depression ended in June 2009.

I did not know that the government allowed drinking on the job.

Reality disagrees.  Recovery has remained largely below the level needed to quickly replace the millions of jobs lost in the recession, and recent economic indicators show marginal growth at best in the past couple of months.

According to Scooter, the deep economic hole that America is in is NOT HIS FAULT.  I’m shocked:

Something that took 10 years to create is going to take a little more time to solve.

Polls are now suggesting that Republicans may well capture the U.S. House of Representatives and have an outside shot at the Senate.

All 435 seats in the House and 37 of the 100 Senate seats are up for grabs in the Midterms.

With his poll numbers tanking rapidly, Obama’s disillusioned supported warned him that he was losing the communications battle with Republicans and urged him to fight back.

The Kool-aid seemed to be losing its flavor for a small business owner from Pennsylvania:

I need you to help us understand how you can regain the political center, because you’re losing the war of sound bites. You’re losing the media cycles.

According to pollster Cliff Young of market research firm Ipsos, Obama has a very slim chance of changing the narrative about the economy in time for the November election:

It doesn’t matter what he says right now. People have tuned out in some ways because they are not feeling the positive impact in daily life.

Obama told Americans that the $814 billion emergency spending bill in February 2009, known as the Porkulous Bill would boost economic growth. It has failed spectacularly.  Additional spending attempts by Obama  to use fiscal policy (i.e., our tax money) to try to jumpstart the economy have been blocked by Republican lawmakers concerned about the record U.S. budget deficit, predicted to hit $1.47 trillion this year.

The administration wants to spend a further $180 billion over the next 10 years to renew U.S. infrastructure, boost research and encourage corporate investment.

Obama also says that he wants to help consumer spending by making Bush-era tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year permanent, while allowing them to rise on richer Americans. The problem with that is that no American was ever hired by a poor person.  Republicans want the tax cuts extended for everyone.

The majority of the American business community feel that Obama is vilifying them and this sense of outrage is shared on Wall Street, which was dead-set against the political pandering shake-up of financial regulations that became law earlier this year.

One man who runs a hedge fund addressed Obama at the Townhall meeting yesterday:

I represent the Wall Street community.  We have felt like a pinata. Maybe you don’t feel like you’re whacking us with a stick, but we certainly feel like we’ve been whacked with a stick.

This was an understatement.  Hard-working Americans feel like a baseball hit by Albert Pujols, thanks to this president, his inept administration, and his sycophants taking up space in what might possibly be the worst Congress in American history.  November 2nd will be our turn at bat and the American people are going to hit it out of the park.

 

 President Barack Hussein Obama’s  (peace be unto him) political advisers, desperately trying to avoid the Conservative political tidal wave that is scheduled to wipe out the Democratic Party in the Midterm elections, are floating a bunch of half-baked ideas, including national advertisements, in an attempt to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists.

White House and Congressional Democratic strategists are frantically looking for some way to energize dispirited Democratic voters over the coming six weeks, in hopes of minimizing the party’s losses and keeping control of the House and Senate.  The “smartest people in the room” believe that they see an opportunity for exploitation after a string of Tea Party successes split Republicans in a number of states, culminating last week with developments that scrambled Senate races in Delaware and Alaska.

According to one anonymous Democratic strategist:

We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party.

Democrats are a house divided unto themselves. The party’s House and Senate campaign committees don’t want to do anything that calls attention to high unemployment and the drop in Obama’s popularity  Endangered Congressional candidates want to grab any money that is out there for their localized campaigns.

Late Sunday night, White House advisers denied that a national ad campaign was being planned:

Senior Obama Adviser David Axlerod said:

There’s been no discussion of such a thing at the White House or the Democratic National Committee.

The Democrats that want to do it say that a national ad campaign, most likely on cable television, would complement those individual campaigns and give Democrats a chance to redefine the stakes. The afore-mentioned Democratic strategist said voters did not now see much threat to them from a Republican takeover of Congress, even though some Tea Party-backed candidates and other Republicans have taken positions that many (Liberal and RINO) voters consider extreme, like shutting down the government to get their way, privatizing Social Security and Medicare and ending unemployment insurance.

So far, Scooter has largely limited his campaigning to fundraisers and small events. That will change soon as he tries (a last-ditch attempt) to rally the flagging faithful, officials said.

To try to re-capture the messianic allure he had for younger voters who supported him in 2008, Mr. Obama will hold four big campaign-style rallies, the first Sept. 28 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, with satellite transmission to campuses in other states. The later rallies will be in Ohio, Philadelphia and Las Vegas. He also will send e-mail and record robocalls to spur voters, and conduct a national “town hall” Webcast in October.

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, said:

These events are about activating the Obama grass roots to help organizationally in terms of volunteers for get-out-the-vote efforts.  We’re not going to get all the 2008 Obama voters out. We may not get most of them. But in close races, it can be decisive.

Obama will also step up his efforts to draw contrasts between the parties, in particular by pounding away on his call for extending the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, except for “millionaires and billionaires.” You know, the people that actually create jobs.  Republicans want the tax cuts extended for people of all income levels, not just incomes below $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for families, as the president has proposed.

Republicans strategists remain steadfast in their belief that they will make big gains in November, even as the establishment states their belief that they are unlikely to win the Senate race in Delaware after the victory in the Republican primary there of Christine O’Donnell, a Tea Party-backed candidate, over Representative Michael N. Castle, a professional “moderate” Republican, of the the “reach-across-the-aisle” variety.  Also last week, Alaska’s Senate race became convoluted when Senator Lisa Murkowski, who lost the Republican nomination to a Tea Party adherent, Jeff Miller, mounted a write-in candidacy against him, saying:

Alaska is not fair game for outside extremists.

John Weaver, a Republican Party consultant said:

While we may have a handful of nominees out of the mainstream, the American people have come to the conclusion this administration and this Congress are out of the mainstream.

Remember 1994?   Democrats were in power and became similarly confident when Republican primaries yielded candidates that all the “experts” said were too far right for the general election. Yet the tidal wave against Democrats that year was strong enough to carry those newcomers into office and put Republicans in control of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

With the exception of Ms. O’Donnell in Delaware, Republican nominees that Democrats like to whine about as extremists, including in Senate races in Nevada, Colorado, Kentucky and even blue-state Connecticut, are even with their Democratic rivals in polls or ahead.

And even as Obama and his minions feverishly scurry about in the confines of the White House situation room, trying to figure out a strategy for the final Midterm campaign push, advisers are having to cope with the expected exit of the chief of staff, Rahm Rahmbo Emanuel, to run for mayor of Chicago. Rahmbo, who as a member of Congress helped engineer the Democratic takeover of the House in 2006, is among his party’s foremost strategists when it comes to Congressional elections.

Peter M. Rouse (who?), one of Mr. Obama’s closest advisers, has assumed additional responsibilities. Rouse, who is intensely private, does not want the high-profile job of chief of staff; instead he is helping Scooter vet names. Leading candidates are said to be Thomas E. Donilon, the deputy national security adviser, and Robert Bauer, the White House counsel.

On top of the concerns about Rahmbo leaving,  the strategy discussions with Congressional Democrats come after 21 months of battles over the legislation that Obama has railroaded through against the wishes of the American people.

Democrats on Capitol Hill are complaining that Obama aides, including  David Axelrod, and Jim Messina, the deputy chief of staff, do not consult with them enough and are more concerned with positioning Mr. Obama for his 2012 reelection race than with re-electing Democrats now.

Uh oh.  Trouble in paradise.

At the Democratic National Committee, aides already have started work on a database to link the most controversial statements of the Tea Party-backed candidates to possible Republican presidential aspirants.

The database will point out, for example, that Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney are supporting the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, who once said that victims of rape should make “what was really a lemon situation into lemonade,” and Ms. O’Donnell, who has said that having women in the service academies “cripples the readiness of our defense.”

Mitt? Republicans don’t even know from day-to-day where he stands on the issues.  How can the Dems?

The tactic of linking potential Republican rivals to such statements was already in evidence last week. After Ms. O’Donnell’s victory, a party spokesman told reporters:

The fact that Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin would put their name behind a candidate that believes women who serve our country ‘cripple the readiness of our defense’ make them unfit to be commander-in-chief.

Meanwhile, on Conservative websites, you can read the ramblings of those who claim to be loyal Republicans, savage those Tea Party candidates who dared to win their primaries over their “moderate, establishment” opponents. 

These “‘concerned” individuals are about as helpful to the cause of Conservative victory in the Midterm elections as the Vichy French were to the liberation of France in World War II.

President Barack Hussein Obama pleaded with black voters on Saturday to regain the passion they felt for his unprecedented presidential campaign two years ago and turn out in force this fall to repel Republicans who are ready to “turn back the clock.”

In a Malcolm-esque speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, Chicken Little, errr, I mean Obama, warned that Republicans hoping to seize control of Congress want “to do what’s right politically, instead of what’s right — period.”

The King of the Teleprompter Obama said to cheers from a black-tie audience at the Washington Convention Center:

I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, to go back to your workplaces, to go to the churches, and go to the barbershops and go to the beauty shops. And tell them we’ve got more work to do.  Tell them we can’t wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now.

This fiery piece of rhetoric was an acknowledgment of what pollsters have been warning Democrats for months:   that blacks are among the key Democratic groups who right now seem unlikely to turn out in large numbers in November.

Scooter tried to throw another log on the rhetorical fire:

It’s not surprising given the hardships that we’re seeing across the land that a lot of people may not be feeling very energized, very engaged right now.  A lot of folks may be feeling like politics is something that they get involved with every four years when there’s a presidential election, but they don’t see why they should bother the rest of the time.

But, Obama pleaded for more time, explaining that he’s just begun rolling back a devastating recession that’s come down “with a vengeance” on African-American neighborhoods that were already suffering:

We have to finish the plan you elected me to put in place. (Pretty please?)

In an attempt to force the audience to recall the joy many blacks felt at the election of the first African-American president, and borrowing the words of the late actor and activist Ossie Davis, he declared:

It’s not the man, it’s the plan.

Actually, Scooter, both are pretty weak.

Obama was given several standing ovations in the darkened cavernous Convention Center. Joining the pandered-to crowd: first lady Michelle Obama, dressed in a floor-length burgundy cocktail dress.

But as the hall got quiet, Obama tried a little race-baiting:

Remember, the other side has a plan too. It’s a plan to turn back the clock on every bit of progress we’ve made.

Obama did not have the courage to speak the name of the Republican party, but repeatedly referred to its policies.  However, he did name its House leader, Rep. John Boehner, a favorite target of Scooter and the Democratic Party lately.

Members of “the other side,” Obama said:

…want to take us backward. We want to move America forward.

To Socialism.

With polls showing the Democratic Party facing a wide “enthusiasm gap” with the Republican Party, the kid raised in an Indonesia private school and by his grandparents in Hawaii tried to appear down with the struggle.

What made the civil rights movement possible were foot soldiers like so many of you, sitting down at lunch counters and standing up for freedom. What made it possible for me to be here today are Americans throughout our history making our union more equal, making our union more just, making our union more perfect.  That’s what we need again.

The Black Congressional Caucus has its own problems.  The group is reeling from ethics charges against two leading members, Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California.  Republicans are currently producing  TV ads spotlighting the cases, even though House trials have been postponed until after the November election.

Obama avoided mentioning either case in his 27-minute speech.

Obama has spent the last week in a concerted outreach to minority supporters, a traditional wellspring of Democratic strength, capped off by the caucus dinner at the Washington Convention Center last night.

The smell of desperation is in the air, isn’t it?

Do you remember back during the campaign when “the smartest people in the room” were promising us that Scooter would be the first post-racial president?

What happened?  Dr. Thomas Sowell, noted Black Economist, and one of the smartest people in America, explains:

Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a “post-racial” era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of our history behind us.

That is quite understandable. But it takes two to tango. Those of us who want to see racism on its way out need to realize that others benefit greatly from crying racism. They benefit politically, financially, and socially.

Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades. He found it expedient to appeal to a wider electorate as a post-racial candidate, just as he has found it expedient to say a lot of other popular things– about campaign finance, about transparency in government, about not rushing legislation through Congress without having it first posted on the Internet long enough to be studied– all of which turned to be the direct opposite of what he actually did after getting elected.

President Obama, apparently, has never learned the lesson taught to the young lad who got a kick out of crying WOLF! over and over again.  Eventually, people will ignore you and you will be devoured by your own game.

Why, hello, Mr. President.  It’s good to see you.  Please sit down.  Waitress, a glass of sweet tea and a Hueyburger with cheddar cheese and steak fries for President Clinton, please.  Bubba, welcome back to the Mid-South.  Don’t worry, I won’t tell Hil about you breaking your diet.  It’s been some kind of week, huh?

You always said that you were a man of the people.   So, as a man of the people, I know you can appreciate what’s going on.  Tuesday night, in that little state up north called Delaware, they fired a shot hear around the world.   They elected Christine O’Donnell in the Republican Primary, over a guy that had been a professional politician for 42 years.  You must have chuckled, watching the Republican Establishment freak out over the situation.

But then, I’m sure, just like the rest of your party and the Beltway Insiders, it hit you like the ’94 Elections.  The American people are torqued off.  Ever since your party took control of Congress in 2006, things have been going downhill like a skier on Mt. Everest.  What was supposed to be the most ethical Congress evah, turned out to be The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight.  By the way, have you talked to Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters lately?

Anyway, as you well know, some unknown yahoo named Barack (don’t say his middle name) Obama came out of the cesspool known as Chicago Politics to grab the Democratic nomination away from your beloved Hil.  So, you and Hill made a deal with the powers-that-be for her to be his Secretary of State.  Man, whatever do you do with yourself while she’s on those long trips out of the country?  Oh….never mind.

So, in comes this guy, riding on the campaign promise of Hope and Change, and he gets himself elected by fooling 52% of the country into believing he’s a moderate, like you pretended to be after the ’94 Election.

Since his ascension to the throne along with his faithful sidekick, Plugs, he’s been in full-speed Alinsky mode, attempting to turn American into something it was never meant to be:  a full-blown Socialist Utopia.

Not that the Republicans have been blameless in this whole deal.  They started spending like there’s no tomorrow under Dubya and got way too comfy sitting on their reserved barstools at the Beltway Elite Country Club.

When the Regime ascended to the Throne and started implementing their plans for radical change, that stubborn ol’ streak that Americans possess, known as patriotism and individualism, started kicking in.  Y’see, Bubba, we really resented Scooter apologizing for us to our enemies.  You probably need to tell your wife that.  We weren’t very thrilled about that Porkulous bill that he had his buddies at the Apollo Foundation draw up for him, either.  Then, while spending our money to create the largest federal deficit in American history, Plugs said that paying more taxes was patriotic.  Are you kiddin’ me?

So, Americans from all walks of life and every part of the country started getting together and formed something called The Tea Party Movement.  Your buddies in the Main Stream Media and the members of the Beltway Elite Country Club all had a big laugh at that one.

Then, “us peons” started getting into the faces of our elected representatives at Townhall Meetings and the unthinkable happened.  A Tea Party Rally in Washington, D.C. drew what looked to average Americans like a million people, all fed up with the people they elected working for nobody but themselves.

Meanwhile, your buddy Barry was holding hand-picked pep rallies, closed to the public, seemingly oblivious to the wishes of average Americans.  He exhibited an unparalleled tone-deafness that presented itself in a Captain Ahab-like quest to pass a National Healthcare bill that the majority of the American people wanted no part of.  After a 10 minute Christmas Eve Senate vote to approve this unwanted albatross, which followed a House vote of 220-215 on November 7th,  Congress passed Obamacare on March 21st, 2010. 

Americans were left with the image of Speaker Pelosi, with a giant gavel, walking with her fellow Democrats through protesting Americans, grinning like a mule with a mouthful of yellowjackets.

While Beltway politicians have been trying to figure out new ways to spend our money, Americans have been struggling  just trying to pay their monthly bills, Bubba.

We’re being laid off, right and left, and some of us are so down, we’ve just given up on trying to find a job.  Folks are doing whatever they can, including clearing out their attics and getting a booth at the flea market.

Bubba, all the Establishment politicans, pundits, and so-called journalists on either side of the aisle have no right to be surprised by what’s going on.  They’ve severely underestimated the American people.  The pendulum has swung back to Reagan Conservatism for a reason:  it works.  Socialism never has.

All the “smartest people in the room” had better figure this out quickly or they are going to be competing with you for gigs on the Professional Speakers’ Circuit.

By the way, have you heard from Monica lately?

Democrat Congresscritters have a big problem:  If they don’t extend the soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts, nearly all their constituents back home will be hit with the biggest tax increase in American history.

According to a new analysis by Deloitte Tax LLP, a tax consulting firm, a family of four with a household income of $50,000 a year would get slapped with $2,900 more in taxes in 2011.  The same family making $100,000 a year would see its taxes rise by $4,500.

The folks that actually run businesses and hire Americans face even bigger tax hikes. A family of four making $500,000 a year would pay $10,800 more in taxes. The same family making $1 million a year would get a tax increase of $53,200.

The estimates are based on total household income, including wages, capital gains and qualified dividends. The estimated tax bills take into account typical deductions at each income level.

Democrats have been whining for the last ten years that tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 under former President George W. Bush were nothing but a windfall for the wealthy.  While they did help the wealthy, they also reduced taxes for the working poor, the middle class, and just about everyone in between.

Those tax cuts are gone at the end of this year, just in time for a high-stakes debate leading into the Midterm Elections in November.  If this less-than-competant Congress fails to act, families at every income level will see more taxes being withheld from their paychecks come January.

The tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 reduced marginal income tax rates at every level. They also provided a wide range of income tax breaks for education, families with children and married couples.

Taxes on capital gains and dividends were reduced, while the federal estate tax was gradually repealed, even if it was only for this year.

President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) wants to extend  the tax cuts only for individuals making less than $200,000 and joint filers making less than $250,000 in adjusted gross income. That’s income from wages, capital gains and dividends, before standard deductions and exemptions are subtracted.

All you evil wealthy capitalists (except for Mr. Soros, who wants the rest of us to be the Proletariat) MUST be punished, even at the cost of Americans’ livelihoods.

Republicans and a growing number of Democrats in Congress (who actually possess a spine) want to extend all the tax cuts, at least temporarily.

On Thursday, House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio said he wants an up-or-down vote on extending all the tax cuts before congressional elections in November.

Boehner said:

Raising taxes on anyone, especially small businesses, is the wrong thing to do in a struggling economy.  On the issue of job killing tax hikes the American people are not going to accept anything less than the vote that they deserve.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., trying to save Democrat seats in the House, refused to commit to vote on any tax proposals before the election. She did, however, pledge to address them by the end of the year.

Pelosi told reporters Thursday:

The only thing I can tell you is that the tax cuts for the middle class will be extended this Congress.

Can you say:  LAME DUCK SESSION?

According to a new Associated Press-GfK Poll, more than half the country backs raising taxes on the richest Americans,  The survey showed that by 54 percent to 44 percent, most people support raising taxes on the highest earners.

39 percent agree with Obama, while 15 percent favor raising taxes on everyone by allowing the cuts to expire at year’s end. Still, 44 percent say the existing tax cuts should remain in place for everyone, including the wealthy.

In contrast, a poll conducted by RasmussenReports.com shows that 51 % of Americans favor extending the Bush tax cuts for everyone.

While Obama’s plan would spare about 97 percent of Americans who actually file tax returns, it would mean huge tax increases for the wealthy.

According to the afore-mentioned analysis by Deloitte Tax, under Obama’s plan, a family of four making $325,000 a year would get a tax increase of $5,400, while the same family making $1 million a year would get a tax increase of $56,300.  A family of four making $5 million a year would get a tax increase of $325,600.

San Fran Nan whines that the nation cannot afford to extend tax cuts for top earners:

I see no justification for going into debt to foreign countries to underwrite and subsidize tax cuts for the wealthiest people in America.

What part of the fact that these are the people who actually start businesses and hire people, don’t you understand, Madame Speaker?  Gimme that gavel.

According to congressional estimates, making all the tax cuts permanent would add about $3.9 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. Obama’s plan would cost a little more than $3 trillion over the same period.

So, basically, Scooter and his minions are ignoring the economic growth that lower tax rates have been proven to create (please research a guy named Ronald Reagan), while proclaiming a  savings of 900 billion.

This information is coming from an administration and congress that have run up the biggest national debt in U.S. History. 

Hey, Scooter.  Considering your fiscal irresponsibility, using the defense of saving money in order to burden American taxpayers with the largest tax increase in American History is a bit disingenuous, isn’t it? 

Yesterday was an interesting day in America.  Across our great nation, the heads of Democratic and Moderate/Beltway Republicans were exploding, like the computer Landru in the old Star Trek episode.

They just could not figure out why Americans in Delaware, New Hampshire, New York, and all over the country are rejecting their philosophy of Washington politics as usual, in favor of old-fashioned American common sense and values.  All those who proclaim themselves to be “the smartest people in the room”  found out yesterday that they actually aren’t.

With the victory of Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate, for the Delaware Senate nomination, the meme by those “in-the-know” that old-fashioned Reagan Conservatism was passe’ got thrown out the window.

Ms O’Donnell’s victory on Tuesday night, boosted by an endorsement from Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, sent shock waves through the Republican establishment, which now finds itself as much under siege as the Obama administration.

Ms O’Donnell defeated Mike Castle by 7 % of the vote.  Castle, who had been in office seemingly forever, had been endorsed by most of the establishment Republicans.

David Frum, noted Canadian commenter, who has been a messenger boy for the Moderate/Beltway Republicans, was inconsolable:

The Republican party is getting dragged further and further to the right and that is good news for people like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich.  But for Mitt Romney it spells disaster.

In an ordinary electoral cycle, Mitt would be the favorite for the 2012 Republican nomination, in the dynamic tradition of Bob Dole and John McCain.

But because of the re-birth of Reagan Conservatism in the Republican Party, Mr Romney’s success in pushing through a healthcare reform in Massachusetts that is slightly to the left of “Obamacare” will likely prove fatal to his chances.

On Wednesday, Mitt remained true-to-form and exhibited one of his political talents:  pandering. Despite Beltway insiders, such as Karl Rove, George W. Bush’s former electoral manager, and Charles Krauthammer, the columnist, proclaiming Ms O’Donnell as someone not worthy to carry the Republican banner in Delaware, Mitt donated $5,000 to her campaign and desperately tried to distance himself from her critics in order to ride the crest of the Tidal Wave before it pulls him under.

Ms O’Donnell’s victory was not welcome news for the few Moderate/BeltwayRepublicans  left in Congress, particularly the handful of senators, including Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, who will be facing re-election in the next two or four years.

Polls still show the Republican Party will take control of the House in November.  Don’t be surprised if they take the Senate, also, despite what all the “experts” say.  The Republican leadership on Capitol Hill will have to learn how to get along with a new intake of lawmakers who have run on a ticket of contempt for the way it does business.

Norm Ornstein of the conservative American Enterprise Institute said:

Out go the country-club Republicans like Mitt Romney, in come the grass-roots revolutionaries like Sarah Palin.  America just became a lot more ungovernable than it already was.

If you mean unwilling to put up with business as usual, you’re right.

Speaking of business as usual, the Democrats unveiled a new party logo yesterday:

Can you believe that they actually paid somebody for this?

After the events of this last couple of days, I’ve decided that I want to be a Consultant, a Political Pundit, or a Weatherman.  They have the only jobs where you can be wrong the majority of the time and still remain employed.

Sarah Palin caught the mood of Americans with a blunt Tweet:

Lamestream media: Listen/Learn/Don’t underestimate the wisdom of the people. Times, they r a’changin!

Underdog Christine O’Donnell upset 42 year incumbent Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary tonight,giving the tea party movement a major victory and, according to the professional hand-wringers, giving Democrats an unexpected chance to hold the First State seat.

O’Donnell, making her third run for the Senate in as many elections, received support from several national figures, from the Tea Party Express to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, providing a much welcome boost to a shoestring campaign against the seemingly unbeatable Castle.

O’Donnell proclaimed in her victory speech:

The people of Delaware have spoken.  No more politics as usual.

The O’Donnell victory, considered an extreme long shot as recently as a month ago, is seen by the so-called pundits, professional and otherwise, as a major boost for Democratic hopes of holding the seat once held by Vice President Joe Biden. New Castle County Executive Chris Coons was unchallenged for the Democratic Senate nomination.

Prominent Republican strategist Mike Murphy said:

I’m sad to say the Delaware primary results tonight are straight out of Harry Reid’s dream journal.

Well, Mike, if Castle had opposed the Porkulus Bill and Cap and Trade, he might not have been a loser.

While the Delaware race received the most national attention last night, it was far from the only one being contested as seven states and the District of Columbia voted in the final major primaries of the 2010 election.

In New Hampshire, former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte held a narrow lead over attorney Ovide Lamontagne in the battle for the Republican Senate nomination. The winner will take on Rep. Paul Hodes (D) in the race to replace retiring Sen. Judd Gregg (R).

In New York, in a district where they evidently like graft and corruption, Rep. Charlie Rangel crushed his competition in a crowded Democratic primary field in the 15th district while Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D) cruised in a primary challenge from businesswoman Reshma Saujani in the 14th.

Also in New York, tea party favorite Carl Paladino crushed former Rep. Rick Lazio in the fight for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Paladino will be a major underdog this fall against state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is heavily favored in the fall.

I see a pattern forming here.

But, there is little doubt that O’Donnell’s victory is what will dominate the news today.

Scared by Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski‘s (R) primary defeat late last month, Castle decided to go extremely negative against O’Donnell in hopes of using his financial advantage to define her in the eyes of likely voters.

However, that effort was evidently too little, too late for Castle whose political career, which began when he was elected to the Delaware state House in 1966, ends in a shocking defeat.

According to Vin Weber, a former Minnesota congressman and GOP lobbyist:

This shows that conservative energy at the grassroots is at tidal wave levels. It may well cost us the Delaware Senate seat, but the same phenomenon will help Republicans, particularly in House races in November.

State and national Republicans have attacked O’Donnell’s personal finances and public misstatements in order to further Castle’s campaign meme that she is close to unelectable.

National Republican Senatorial Committee executive director Rob Jesmer wrote the following in a less-than-pleased statement released after the race was called:

We congratulate Christine O’Donnell for her nomination this evening after a hard-fought primary campaign in Delaware.

According to all the pundits, the Delaware result is also a major blow to Republicans’ hopes of winning back the Senate majority this fall. To do so, the GOP needs a net gain of 10 seats, which, with Delaware now supposedly going to the Democrats, would mean that Republicans need to close to a clean sweep in states like California, Wisconsin and Washington.

The O’Donnell situation reminds me of another true story:  The legendary Groucho Marz and his family were invited to a ritzy country club.  They were at poolside and Groucho was about to go swimming in the pool.  The manager of the snooty country club came up to him and said: 

I’m sorry, sir. Jews are not allowed to swim in our pool. 

Groucho replied, without batting an eye: 

Well, since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go wading up to her waist?

The last few days, I’ve watched in fascination and horror as Conservative posters re-enacted the Civil War on Conservative websites over a Delaware Primary Election.  What they seemingly forgot, was that Tea Party Movement is not tied to a single political party.  It was formed by people wanting less taxes and less government intrusion of their lives.  Since the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag has been adopted by the movement, it seems appropriate that all these winds of change were felt last night in 3 of the original 13 colonies.

There will definitely be a lot of hand-wringing seen today from amateur political strategists.  The truth of the matter is, if these politicians had held to Conservative principles, they would not have lost.  Unfortunately for the career politicians and political pundits, last night, for the voters, principles mattered more than strategy.