Alec Baldwin Laments Obama's Lack of Spending

Alec Baldwin: Financial Crisis Has ‘Crippled’ Obama, Preventing Him From ‘Doing Any New Spending’ | CNSnews.com

We have Alec Baldwin, the Left's political go-to guy, to thank for summing up the Democrat Party's take on the role of government.

When asked by reporters if he thought Obama has lived up to his expectations, this was Baldwin's reply:

"Well, I mean, I think so because I think that when you come into office and you want to put your mark on things -- this is just my opinion, when you want to put your mark on things, you want to be able to spend. And what’s crippled Obama's administration, as far as I’m concerned, is the financial crisis and it’s prevented him from doing any new spending.

"He’s not able – if the country was as flush as it was under Bill Clinton and he had money -- these things cost money -- he could have made more of a mark," said Baldwin. "I think right now he’s had to do a lot of counter-punching; a lot of back peddling. He inherited this crisis from Bush and Paulson. He had to extend the TARP. I think it’s been very difficult for him to spend his whole first term trying to, you know, correct our course financially. I think a second term of Obama, we’ll see a lot more of what we want to see from him."

The mental giant and Kevin Spacey were in Washington pressing the government to continue spending the taxpayers' money to fund the National Endowment for the Arts.

Obama Works on His SNL Schtick for 2012 Campaign

Obama mocks Trump's presidential ambitions - Yahoo! News

At the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner, Obama used his stand up act in front of his jack-booted press to hone his campaign skills and lambaste Donald Trump over the whole birther issue. Aside from the obvious display of petulance and the lack of anything even remotely resembling presidential behavior, Obama showed us all just how the 2012 campaign is going to look.

The upcoming presidential election won't be about the economy, jobs, immigration, or foreign policy. It will be a campaign made to order for Comedy Central types, Hollywood leftists, and union thugs. In other words, it will be a campaign of character assassinations, bold-faced lies, and really lame attempts at humor.

The Second Amendment and Amnesty

Justices affirm gun rights - Los Angeles Times

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment is, indeed, constitutional. For some of us that was an obvious no-brainer. But grasping the obvious has always been hard for liberals, especially when it goes contrary to their agenda.

So, while constitutionalists around the country do the Happy Dance, I'm stuck pondering this question, "Does this mean that when the Democrats grant amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens in this country, those aliens-turned-citizens will have the right to bear arms?"  The answer is, "Yes. If we uphold our Constitution, it does." So, while the Court's decision is good news constitutionally, it does serve as a sobering reminder of what we face if Obama's "Get Out the Vote" campaign called Amnesty is successful.

For all practical purposes, nothing has changed. The court only upheld what we all (sans liberals) already knew-Americans have the right to keep and bear arms. But, once amnesty is passed (deemed, shoved through, imposed in the dark of night) the rights that legitimate Americans have fought for and died to protect will be awarded to illegal aliens who, from the looks of it, really just want the freebies.

Aside from being here illegally (and, really, isn't that reason enough?),  I have a couple other areas of concern.

For starters, there are those among the illegal alien crowd in this country who have no problem flaunting their illegal-but-entitled status. From protest marches and burning the American flag to mailing bricks to congressmen and defacing public property, this crowd has invaded our country with one hand out and the other hand brandishing the driving finger. This isn't exactly how industrious, grateful people conduct themselves. In fact, it is tantamount to breaking into my basement window and then protesting about not having any clean towels. So, while the Supreme Court's ruling is good news for American citizens, the thought of these disgruntled illegal-potentially legal- aliens having the "right" to keep and bear arms makes my blood run cold.

And, for grins, let's not forget that there are more than a few illegal aliens who are members of the Mexican drug cartel. The Second Amendment will apply to them as well. Nothing says constitutional like a Mexican drug lord having the right to bear arms.

I'm not saying the Second Amendment's slim victory Thursday was a bad thing. I am saying, however, that the Second Amendment is for legitimate American citizens only.

Ignorance and the Party Line: A Liberal Conundrum

It started with this:

If this woman hasn't been given a few cardboard boxes in which to place her belongings, then the Dems are behind schedule on this intervention. The modus operandi for the Party when one of their own, especially a rookie lemming, looks overtly ignorant is to distance themselves. Once this is passive-aggressive avoidance technique is accomplished, the unwitting (that's "witless") offender gets the sudden urge to change vocations.

I'm giving her about two weeks to decide a career in the culinary arts is more her speed.

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Obama: The Cyber-Messiah

Obama 'Internet kill switch' plan approved by US Senate panel - Techworld.com

In a nutshell, this bill will grant Obama the power to "take emergency action" in the event of a cyber-emergency. A cyber-emergency? Seriously?

OK, I know we've had some pretty serious security breaches in the past, and there are those rogue countries who would like nothing better than to hack into Rush Limbaugh's email or the codes to some missile silo, but let's be honest, serious as the cyber security threat is, it isn't the real reason for this new Democrat power-grab. This is just another crisis that, in the words of Rahm Emanuel, shouldn't go to "waste". Crises that really exist get short shift with this regime. But a crisis they can reinvent and use to their advantage? Well, that's cause for celebration and preemptive, liberty-stripping legislation.

When Democrats start talking about protecting us from emergencies, that is really code for, "Grab your ankles". What most American's consider an emergency, like...say...airplanes being flown into buildings killing thousands of innocent Americans; illegal aliens slithering across our borders at break-neck speed; or oil spewing into the gulf for two months and counting, are, in fact, not emergencies to the Obama Administration. They are merely opportunities for political advancement and an avenue by which to further strip us of our individual liberty.

Emergencies that require immediate intervention from our ass-kicking (his words, not mine) president and his jack-booted Democrats are things like the use of the incandescent light bulb; the concept of actually working for a living; and, most dangerous of all, the ability to stay informed. Which brings us to the impending "cyber-emergency, because that is what this is really about. Cloaked under the guise of protecting our cyber space from enemy hackers is the slimy underbelly of this bill - the shredding of the First Amendment.

Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with protecting this country's cyber interests and everything to do with making sure the Democrats can operate with zero scrutiny or impunity.

A Convenient Oil Spill

The oil spill in the gulf has our occupying president, cap and trade groupies, and various other left-wing mental giants pointing their fingers and screeching that it's all Cheney's fault. Gee, no one saw that coming.

OK, wait, everyone saw that coming.

But a cursory look at the BP Oil Disaster Of the Century timeline is leading me to point my driving finger in another direction.

February 17, 2010: BP, Conoco Phillips, and Caterpillar pull out of climate coalition.

Just like his Amnesty For Votes in 2010 campaign is nothing more than a head fake to America's Latino population, Obama's pretense to love all things oil back in March was nothing more than a head fake to the Drill Now crowd. The only thing that was going to come from Obama siding with big oil ...after they gave the climate coalition the Heisman, was him gaining sole control over America's oil industry via a very convenient disaster. (Latinos might want to stop and ponder that for a moment.)

The pattern with this guy and his regime is that they'll pretend to be sympathetic to an ethnic group, demographic, or industry right before they go in for the kill. It's some pretty sociopathic maneuvering, but it seems to be working.

So, to recap: BP pulls out of the climate coalition in February. Obama stumps for drilling in March. Then, in May, BP has a "catastrophic" oil spill that has leftists downing shots of wheat grass while hailing the rise of Green Energy. Coincidence? I think not. All that's left to complete the pattern is for Obama to come in and....wait for it...save the day by controlling America's oil supply.

"Life and Death in America" - Will We Heed History's Voices?

I love Rush, Ann, Glenn, and Dinesh, but nothing beats history for giving us a glimpse of things to come if radical Democrats are left unchecked.

It is with absolutely no apology that I post more from Nien Cheng's book, Life and Death in Shanghai.

"One day, I was told by one of my remaining students besides Da De that Zhang Chunquiao, the Party boss of Shanghai, a Politburo member and a longtime associate of Jiang Qing [Mao's wife], had said, "We would rather have socialism's lower production figures than capitalism's higher production figures." The radicals in the rural areas took up his statement and proclaimed, "We would rather have socialism's poor harvest than capitalism's abundance." Not to be left behind, other radicals declared, "We would rather have have socialism's trains that are behind schedule than capitalism's trains that are on time." In such an atmosphere, the workers became fearful of doing too much, the peasants became reluctant to go into the field, and drivers of trains, buses, and even mules deliberately slowed down so that they could arrive behind schedule. The already strained economy took another tumble."

After reading this, one can only stand back and, with a scratch to the head, say, "No way." But before we castigate the Chinese for being hapless Kool-Aid drinkers, we need to take an honest look at the Kool-Aid consumption in the United States these days.

For hapless and Kool-Aid one need look no further than the Huffington Post. According to them, there is a Bright Side to Unemployment. Nothing beats having filthy rich liberals espousing the virtues of unemployment. The New York Times, bless their fiscally dwindling souls, has Living With Less: The Human Side of the Global Recession. Here people can share ideas, like recipes, for how they are faring during this global crisis. If you’re looking for a cheaper way to live large while still professing to live green, the Times site won't help. You'll have to go to AlGoreGoesGreen.com.

Don't get me wrong. I'm all about the occasional penny-pinch and scaling down thing, but only when it's my idea. Once the government tells me (via the media and unconstitutional taxation) that I've got to live with less, that's when I start thinking someone's being a tad intrusive.

So, are Americans as gullible as the Chinese were...are? The jury is still out. I'm holding out hope that, since we have been a very blessed and prosperous nation, the vast majority of Americans simply won't put up with much more of the Obama Regime's nonsense. China, on the other hand, hadn't bathed in prosperity before the Cultural Revolution. For some, any change was welcome. And it was their lack of prosperity that, like sugar to yeast, fed the opportunistic Mao.

Which brings us to the underlying agenda behind every Democrat’s plan: Take away prosperity. Once prosperity is handily gotten rid of, the little bit the government will allow will seem like an abundance. You say, "This can't be. This won't happen in America." Don't be so sure.

Rush is right, the Democrats are destroying this country for a purpose, and that purpose is to secure power. This isn’t new. This isn’t change. This is tried and true, old-hat despotism. The only reason Obama got away with calling his version of socialism “change” was because, to an uneducated populous, it was.

So far it's been pretty easy going for liberal Democrats. Oh, there have been a few glitches in their master plan-Reagan comes to mind-but for the most part, their Marxist ideas have metastasized throughout mainstream America with little resistance.

All the Democrats have needed to pull off their power-grab is a couple generations that don't know squat about history (and, for all practical purposes, judging by last year's election, that day has arrived). With their agenda-driven, liberal greenhouse called public education, this has been an easy coup for the Left to pull off. Using huge doses of guilt for even being American and revisionist history lessons as fertilizer, these little greenhouse saplings grow up to raise more little saplings who have zero cognizance of their own country's past greatness. Once all lingering notions of American exceptionalism have been scrubbed from the brains of these future minions, socialism's lower quality of life will, indeed, seem better than capitalism's greedy abundance. Bottom line: They won't know any better.

These generations firmly in place, the conundrum of socialism versus capitalism will be moved from the theater of ideology to the theater of morality. To be a socialist will be morally right. To be anything else will be punishable. To work toward prosperity will be morally wrong. To barely scrape by will be noble. To stand in line for health care will be a privilege. To harbor a secret notion that you deserve better will be a sin. To be part of the collective herd will be patriotic. To think like an individual will be anathema. All that's missing from this scenario is a pod of goo and a plug in the back of everyone's heads Matrix-style.

Sure, I paint an Orwellian picture, but I might not be too far off. When in high school, I was told by a youth pastor that there would come a day when we wouldn't be allowed have Bibles on school grounds. "Yea, right," I thought. Those were the days when the Gideons still had access to the front lawn of our school to pass out Bibles to students every spring. America would always be America, I thought. I can be carefree, maybe even a little reckless at times, because I know there are responsible adults running this show.

Those were the days.

One can only hope that, unlike the Chinese, American's don't start buying off on the Democrat lie that socialism’s intrusions are better than capitalism’s freedoms.

Update:

This from Rush:

New York Preps For Ban Against Salt

This from Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai:

When Da De came a few days later, I said to him, "It's ages since I took you to a restaurant."

"We musn't go to a restaurant now. In any case, all the good dishes have been taken off the menu. They are to be served only to visitors from abroad," he told me.

Just sayin'.