Showing posts with label Jonah Goldberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonah Goldberg. Show all posts

Sunday, October 6, 2013

In the immortal words of Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"

Can't we just stop all this fighting? In the immortal words of Rodney King, "Ca-ca-ca-can't we all this just along?"

The Republican house of representatives has voted 4 times to fully fund the government, everything except Obamacare. It's not the Republicans keeping people out of the World War II
memorials.
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Update: Check out the latest National Review editorial: "Vindictive Shutdown Theatre". This administration going so far as to block roads leading to Mt. Rushmore so you can't even view it. These types of shutdowns are labor-intensive and require more manpower, effort and dollars than keeping the monument or memorial open to the public.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/360591/vindictive-shutdown-theater-editors
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As Jonah Goldberg writes in the National Review, "Obama has always had a bit of a vindictive streak when it comes to politics…President Obama and the Democrats deserve the lion's share of blame for not only prolonging it (for the government shutdown) but also making it as painful as possible…The National Park Service which has somehow become the unofficial goon squad of American liberalism, reversed course and let American World War II vets visit the WWII memorial in Washington D.C."

It actually costs the government MORE money to try to keep WWII vets out of an open-air memorial than to just let it be. But this is how liberals typically make their point--they want to inflict as much pain as possible on the American people.

Between 2500 & 5000 American soldiers were killed during the D-Day
Invasion. There is still no exact count of how many GI's lost their lives
during the initial invasion.
Maybe you saw the news story of American tourists who had traveled to Omaha Beach in Normandy, France to pay their respects to friends and loved ones who are among the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Here's what is despicable about
all this: We can find the money to send workers to these memorials to keep people out, even under threat of arrest, but we can't come up with the dough to keep these most hallowed memorials open. And these are OPEN-AIR memorials which require little or no upkeep. What kind of supervision do you need over the visitors who want to visit the memorial graves at Normandy?

Normandy American Cemetery, shut down by Obama administration
But this is typical of this White House which loves to inflict pain on the American people. Remember, this is the same White House which still finds the money for travel, vacations, and White House concerts but trying to make a statement about the seriousness of the sequester, they closed down White House tours.


The President and the Democrats are blaming the Republicans for holding America hostage. But it's really the President who refuses to negotiate with the Republicans, who is truly enjoying this government shutdown. This is having zero effect on his golf game. But to the dismay of those tourists who have planned for months to visit the memorials of loved ones who gave their lives in the fight for our freedom and liberty, this is no game, it's another example of a President who takes delight in bringing pain and disappointment to the American people, even on foreign soil. 

Monday, February 25, 2013

Obamageddon arrives this Friday, March 1


In case you haven't heard, Armageddon arrives early this year, on Friday, March 1, when the Sequester kicks in. The President is out campaigning trying to paint this as a crisis of epic proportions, and his willing accomplices in the media are helping him spread the message of "doom and gloom." These catastrophic cuts will mean that people will be dying in the street, children will go hungry and we will be forced to buy rancid meat at the market, and there will be intolerable suffering--or at least that's what the President and the media want us to believe. 

Here's how Liberals play this game of cuts. As Jonah Goldberg points out in his column, if an agency has a billion-dollar budget, and someone proposes cutting a dollar from their increase in funding, that dollar will be earmarked for the screw needed to keep a bridge from collapsing on a grade school's Thanksgiving parade. You see this played out in public schools all the time. If there is any decrease in funding, instead of cutting some unnecessary program that will affect very few students, the first cut they make is to the athletic program--no more sports, and no more after-school programs. 

By the way, this sequester was Pres. Obama's idea, and Gloria Borger (TIME Mag., CNN) said last weekend on CNN's Newsroom with Wolf Blitzer that this was a manufactured crisis, manufactured by Obama himself. No kidding, she actually told us the truth and actually said that this was Pres. Obama's manufactured crisis--his own doing.

Here are just a few of the cataclysmic consequences, assembled by ABC News, that we will suffer if the Sequester goes into effect:
  • Air travel disruption
  • Longer security lines
  • Greater risk of wildfires
  • A nationwide shortage of meat and poultry
  • 175,000 would be at risk for homelessness
  • Longer waits for disability payments
  • The nation will be at greater risk for terrorism. Less surveillance
  • One-third cutback in the Pacific naval fleet
  • The FBI would have to use broken equipment.
  • No maintenance for some ships and airplanes
  • Fewer OSHA inspections. Greater risk of injuries and deaths.
  • Less nuclear waste cleanup
  • Greater risk of suicides
  • No matinees at the movie theaters during the week.
  • Schools will have to cut 2-hours from their school day.
  • You guessed it--no more school sports programs.
  • Garbage will only be picked up once every other week.
  • There will be 2 fewer hours in the day, and fewer days of summer.
  • More cloud cover and greater chance for solar blackout.
  • More electrical blackouts
  • No toilet use during the afternoon hours from 1-4 pm.

All of this because the Sequester will cut barely 2% of the federal budget. Have you ever had to cut 2% from your budget? Families and businesses do it all the time. It's a fact of life. But with the government, it turns into Armageddon, or the Day After. The fact is: President Obama doesn't want to cut a single dime. Instead he wants more taxes and MORE spending, and guess who will pay for it? Your kids, your grand-kids and your great grand-kids. They will be stuck holding the tab for all the debt and wasteful spending that Obama and the Democrats (along with help from many Republicans) have saddled on future generations.