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Sarah Palin: “If we were real domestic terrorists I think President Obama wouldn’t have a problem with us.”

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Best quote of the week:

If we were really domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us wouldn’t he? I mean he didn’t have a problem with paling around with Bill Ayers back in the day when he kicked off his political career in Bill Ayers apartment, and shaking hands with Chavez and saying he doesn’t need any preconditions with meeting dictators or wanting to read US Miranda rights to alleged suspected foreign terrorists. No if we were real domestic terrorists I think President Obama wouldn’t have a problem with us.

And here is the video…

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* Shamelessly lifted from Threedonia

For Democrats, Being Forced To Read The Constitution Was Torturous

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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

James Madison

The Constitution has never been read aloud, on the floor of the House of Representatives since it was ratified in 1788 until today. As expected, most Liberals (Democrats) began screeching loudly about the idea.

They complained that reading it was a waste of time. They called it political theater and generally mocked the idea.

One example of sneering elitism comes from Democrat Jerrold Nadler of New York, who thinks us simple folk don’t even know what the Constitution is:

Nadler agreed. “A lot of the tea party people, I wonder how many of them have read the Constitution,” he said. “A lot of them, they seem to think the Constitution is the Articles of Confederation.”

Nadler said he anticipates a raft of “idiotic amendments” from Republicans, such as an effort to allow states to nullify acts of Congress, that would blatantly violate the Constitution.

Suspicious and mocking as Nadler was of the Republicans’ motivation for reading aloud what he affectionately characterized as “a long, dry, boring document with details about how Congress will have power to lay imposts and taxes,” he agreed with other constitutional experts, and even the tea party, that there was a potential benefit.

“Maybe,” he said, “it will be a little educational.”

It was uncomfortable for Liberals (Democrats and some Republicans) to read aloud the Constitution because it reminds everyone that there are strict limits to the reach of the governments power.

The best quote about today’s reading of the Constitution goes to Rush Limbaugh:

Thinking about the Democrats, I was watching a little bit of the Constitution being read today on the floor of the House and I said, “This has gotta be like waterboarding to these Democrats.” It has to be torture, because the Constitution is anathema to them, the Constitution limits the power of the government, limits the size, limits the role of government, and to have to not only sit there and listen to it, but to share in the punishment of reading it. I’m sure that’s how they’re looking at this. They wouldn’t have to do this if they’d won the election. They lost, so they’re being punished. They have to read the Constitution, tantamount to waterboarding.

Why The Democrats Lost

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I think this is the best reason I’ve read.

The Democrats decided to insult the American people leading up the the mid term elections:

Why do the Democrats think they lost? Here’s President Obama’s observation, delivered last month at a Democratic fund-raiser: “Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country is scared.” Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who also knows a thing or two about losing elections, had this to say to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce: “We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in.” Kerry also told reporters: “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on, so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”

Then finally there was one of the great Democratic politicians of our time, Bill Clinton, who said of Harry Reid’s close race in Nevada: “The only reason this is a tough race is because it’s a tough time. People are having a tough time and they’re frightened and confused and they’re mad. It’s hard to think.”

According to Democrats, the American people are not smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand the brilliance of their progressive agenda.

It’s one point of view. Of course, there is another. It could be–it seems just possible–that the “truth and science and facts” that these Democrats talk about are really only schoolhouse theories that have no bearing on reality; that they are tried-and-failed progressive fairy tales that could only continue to be believed by people who have spent most of their adult lives glued face-first to the public tit. It’s possible that the best-informed populace in history has risen up in a truly spontaneous grassroots movement deeply connected to the nation’s founding principles and prudently given the heave-ho to a bunch of spendthrift, incompetent, supercilious, and self-deceived buffoons who mistook their college degrees for wisdom.

That about sums it up.

After Democrat Gary Peters Wins Re-Election He Now Wants To Listen

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According to the Freep (Detroit’s more liberal paper), Gary “I thought I was voting for a jobs bill” Peters is on a walking and listening tour of his district.

He dressed in suit, tie and the lapel pin that marks him as one of the 435 members of Congress.

“How’s it been lately?” he asked Leo’s Coney Island shift manager Lina Abdo, 26, of Farmington. “Is it getting better?”

“Some days it’s better, but not all,” she replied, looking out over the nearly empty Royal Oak diner.

Peters didn’t listen to his constituents when he voted in favor of Obama’s failed stimulus bill. He didn’t listen to his constituents when he voted in favor of ObamaCare and didn’t listen to his constituents when he voted in favor of Cap and Trade.

So why not start now?

Next, Gary Peters tips his hand and shows the partisan tact he is going to take during the next session of Congress.

“The American public and Michigan are frustrated that things aren’t getting done,” Peters said. “There has been this gridlock in Washington and the Republicans are in charge now. They can’t just say no anymore.”

No, Gary we are not frustrated that things aren’t getting done. We are fustrated that too many were done.

And they are all bad for for the economy and personal freedom.

California’s Green Energy Result

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Treehugger is happy that California is sticking with its 2006 ‘clean energy’ mandate:

The best climate and clean energy news to come out of yesterday’s election is that California voters roundly rejected Proposition 23, a ballot initiative sponsored by out-of-state oil companies that would have overturned the state’s 2006 climate law. It serves as a resounding referendum on California’s trailblazing commitment to clean energy and climate action — and is a major victory for clean energy supporters in the face of a well-funded campaign by fossil fuel interests.

With 93% of precincts reporting, Prop 23 has been rejected by a pretty wide margin: 61% voted against it, and 39% in favor

Of course, Treehugger is cheering the ‘green energy’ jobs.

The defeat of Prop 23 allows California to prove to the rest of the nation that having good clean energy and climate laws won’t crash its economy — and show that it’s possible to reduce emissions, stimulate innovation, and create jobs at the same time.

I wonder where Claifornia would be without all those ‘green energy’ jobs…

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California is finding out what Spain knows.

Wednesday Night Links: The Mid Term & Looming Inflation Round Up

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As I was perusing the internet today, looking at the various takes on the last night’s election results, very good friend of MCT (and all around smart guy), theCL (aka Mike) sent me a link to this article discussing the very inflationary move that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke made today:

The key is to realize that supermoney can have a multiple impact on the money supply. In 2008, just before the financial crisis broke out, the multiplier impact on M2 was 10. Got that 10? Although, I don’t necessarily expect it to go that high at this point (there are all those excess reserves). A multiplier impact of 2 or 3 is certainly not out of the question. That would put the M2 money supply increase in the range of $1.6 trillion to $2.7 trillion. In other words, an annualized money growth rate of over 20%. And this is conservative. If the multiplier is higher and money starts to flow out of excess reserves, you could see M2 grow and record high rates, possibly 30% to 40% on an annualized basis.

Folks, the dollar is now securely on the road to major devaluation. Price inflation at the consumer level by the end of 2011 will be well into double digits. Way, way into double digits.

Its like they planned this all along. Spend trillions of dollars, get nothing for it then create massive amounts of inflation to pay for it all.

It’s a move that any Third World leader would make.

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According To Chris Cillizza Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Just Right

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The WaPo’s Chris Cillizza is trying to spin a Goldilocks story regarding Obama’s latest Pew poll numbers:

Asked whether they would like to see Obama run for a second term, 47 percent said they would while 42 percent said they would prefer he not. (While the question is somewhat irrelevant — Obama is running for reelection — it does serve as a basic gauge of enthusiasm both for and against him.)

Those numbers may not look like much but when compared to the showing of past presidents on the question, Obama looks relatively strong.

Bill Clinton, for example, at this time in 1994 had 44 percent of people saying they would like him to run again and 47 percent saying they would prefer he not. Ronald Reagan’s number were far more dismal; 36 percent wanted him to run for a second term while 51 percent didn’t in August 1982.

The two ex-presidents who rated the highest on that question in the Pew poll — Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush — both went on to lose reelection. In the fall of 1990, 53 percent of people wanted Bush the elder to seek a second term. He did, and lost to Clinton. Ditto Jimmy Carter who, in the fall of 1978, had a solid 50 percent saying he should run for reelection. Reagan bested him two years later.

I never liked porridge.

“We don’t want to be the first one to drop benefits, but we would be the fast second.”

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There are more rumblings from employers, that they are weighing the possibility of dropping Employer funded health benefits. Via the Huron Daily Tribune:

Yet at least one major employer has shifted a greater share of plan costs to workers, and others are weighing the pros and cons of eventually forcing employees to strike out on their own.

“I don’t think you are going to hear anybody publicly say ‘We’ve made a decision to drop insurance,’ ” said Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. “What we are hearing in our meetings is, ‘We don’t want to be the first one to drop benefits, but we would be the fast second.’ We are hearing that a lot.” Deloitte is a major accounting and consulting firm.

And by the way, the ‘government run plans’ will not be so great either:

Another wrinkle: the health insurance tax credits available through the law are keyed to relatively Spartan insurance plans, not as generous as most big employers provide. Send your workers into the insurance exchange, and valuable employees might jump to a competitor that still offers health care.

There is a hidden “benefit” when we are all covered by ObamaCare. We the people will get the bi-annual privilege of listening to politicians drone on endlessly about how they are “fighting for us” to improve our health coverage while their opponent wants you to suffer and die.