Saturday, January 30, 2010

Memo From Democrats To Massachusetts Voters: F You

Eleven days. It has been eleven days since Scott Brown turned the Democrats' world upside down by wresting away the seat that the Democrats, specifically the Kennedys, had viewed as their own personal property since 1952. The election result was a clear repudiation by Massachusetts voters of both the Democrats' policies at a national level, and the Democrats' arrogance, greed and corruption locally. Are you listening Coupe Deval and Beacon Hill? So, how do the Democrats react to the peasants daring to vent their anger? A slap in the face, and a great big F you. Scott Brown's victory has still not been certified by Massachusetts Secretary of State, William Francis Galvin. Why the hell not? The answer likely falls into the category of "all of the above."

First of all, the nobility of Massachusetts - Democrat politicians - is very upset that the peasants grabbed their pitchforks and sickles and stormed the castle. Where do these unwashed peasants get off upsetting the divine order of things? We decide who serves in Parliament! We decide what taxes you pay! We rule you! So, in an arrogant snub to both the peasants and the man they chose to represent them, they are tring to delay his seating in Washington by delaying the certification of the election results.

This has nothing to do with the logistics of an election. In 2007, Niki Tsongas was elected to Congress in a special election. The very next day, she was sworn in and voting on the House Floor (surprise, surprise, to spend more money.) Just last November, New York congressman Bill Owens, only two days after he "won" a special election fraught with voter fraud, and even though he had not even yet been certified, was sworn in by Bela Pelosi who needed his vote to pass Obamacare in the House. Yet somehow, Scott Brown's election is special, its different, we can't rush this.

The next reason to delay the seating of Scott Brown is that it gives Democrats the ability to play some (relatively) minor shenanigans. They want to get as many things done before they lose their super majority in the Senate. For example, on Thusrday, the Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling by a further 1.9 trillion dollars - a vote that would not have succeeded were Scott Brown in the Senate. Do you feel the loogie on your face, voters of Massachusetts?

A third reason to delay the seating of Scott Brown is that it gives Democrats the biggest possible window to pull off major shenanigans, the biggest being the shoving of Obamacare down our throats in spite of the will of a vast majority of Americans, and in spite of the message sent by the voters of Massachusetts. It sounds far-fetched, since this would set off a political nuke that would blow away the Democrats in November. Remember though, we're talking about Democrats. They're not the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree, and if there's one thing that they have shown in the last eighty years, it is that they excel at shenanigans.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Obama Makes My Day

Well, all of the pundits (not named Olbermann and Matthews) said it. Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts have forced Obama's hand. Americans are upset with his far-left policies, and he has to pull a Clinton and at least pretend to move to the center. If not, he will cause a massive power shift in Congress in November that will cost his party dearly. So what does the Narcissist-in-Chief do? He chucks a big 'ole middle finger to Americans.

You don't like Obamacare? Too bad, I'm not giving up! You don't like my far-left ideology? Gays in the military it is! You're finally catching on to the scam that is "Climate Change"? Too bad, Cap and Tax, here we come! You're afraid of the massive debt I'm running up? Tough, I'm going to propose spending hundreds of billions more! Oh, OK, just to make the peasants happy, here's fifteen billions dollars in cuts - starting next year . . . maybe.

I don't know if he is serious, or if he is just trying to rally his far-left base with another campaign speech (I hope it is the former because it will make my day, year and maybe even decade). I do know this: New Jersey and Virginia were shots across his bow. Massachusetts was grapeshot fired into his rigging. If he is serious about continuing to steer America to port, Americans in November will greet him with a broadside of 64-pounders.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy


P.S. - A few folks have asked why I've been focusing less on Iggy's proclivity to stick his foot in his mouth, and more on current events.

Well, first of all, I believe that this is a crucial point in America's history. If we can keep up the momentum, we will have a major paradigm shift in American politics. Not yet another shift from Democrats to Republicans, or Republicans to Democrats, but rather a shift to a country where voters hold politicians accountable for both their campaign promises and their actions. If the Tea Partiers can commandeer the Republican party (the Democrat party was commandeered by Marxists long ago). it can happen,

Second, Iggy has been very muted of late. My guess is that this is partly because of the defeats the Democrats suffered so quickly after his messiah began his thousand-year reign, and also because he subconsciously is starting to realize that the anointed one is nothing more than an empty suit. Maybe there is still hope that we can turn him away from the Dark Side. There's still good in him, I have felt it - or maybe that was just gas.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Obama Reaches For His Pitchfork

No, I'm not insinuating that Obama is Satan - though I'd wager he's friended him on Facebook. I'm referring to Obama's transparent, pathetic attempt to co-opt the anger of Americans. Real, patriotic Americans are angry. They are angry at their government's attempt to shove socialized medicine down their throats. They are angry at their government for spending trillions of dollars on bailouts for failed companies and on a bogus pork bill which would not look like a stimulus package no matter how much lipstick was smeared on it.

Most importantly, Americans are angry because rather than focusing on the economy, their government is wasting precious time and resources on important things like Global Warming, getting Chicago the Olympics and hosting beer summits to cover his case of foot-in-mouth disease. So, faced with an angry crowd at the gates of the castle, what does the leader of this anger-inspiring  government do? He grabs a pitchfork and torch and tries to join the crowd!

Faced with voter anger, the Obama regime is trying to claim that the voter anger which swept in a senator promising to oppose the policies Obama holds most dear - was actually a show of voter support for Obama and his policies. I get it, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln because he loved him!

As if that wasn't insulting enough, the annointed one is now going to propose an across the board freeze - except for the things that actually cost us a ton of money - on budget increases for the next three years. These budget cuts (and remember, to Democrats, failing to increase the budget is a budge cut) will slice right to the BONE. Why, this could result in $250 billion dollars in savings over ten whole years! This guy spends trillions of dollars the way most people buy morning coffee, and this is supposed to make us rejoice? Cal Thomas said it perfectly; Obama championing fiscal responsibility makes as much sense as Madonna heading up a sexual abstinence program.

So watch tomorrow night, as our Charlatan-in-Chief launches his campaign to convince us that all of a sudden, he's a fiscally responsible chap concerned with the well-being of ordinary citizens. Watch the State of the Union address, and pay attention to the number of times he says the following buzz phrases:
  • Middle Class
  • Fighting For You
  • Greedy, or Evil Corporations
  • Fat Cat Bankers
  • Inherited Problem
Pay attention to the number of "average, everyday people" like teachers, cops and plumbers that Obama has as guests,a and references them in his speech. Pay attention as he tries to pull the wool over your eyes. Don't be fooled; this is nothing more than wolf's meat. America's iggyots will gobble it up, but clear-thinking individuals will not. You can take the president out of his socialist base, but you can't take the socialist out of the president. Put down the pitchfork and torch, Mr. President. Americans have seen the enemy . . . and he is you.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Hillary Ad Portas!

I weighed writing this column because though I mulled the idea over Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Rush Limbaugh actually put forth virtually the same premise during his Wednesday afternoon show. So while some folks might not believe that this is original material, I'll hope that you will have faith in the premise that great minds think alike.

Following Hannibal Barca's ravaging of Italy and killing of hundreds of thousands of Romans during the Second Punic War, the phrase "Hannibal ad portas" (Hannibal is at the gates) was used to indicate imminent danger to Rome for centuries afterward. As I analyzed the aftermath of Tuesday’s Scott heard 'round the world, I realized that overlooked among the winners, was Hillary Rodham Clinton. Like Nosferatu in a 1930's black and white movie, she stands poised to resurrect her presidential ambitions.

Whether friend or foe, everyone knows that she is still seething about being abandoned by the Democrat party's left wing for a candidate even farther left than her. Everything about 2008 was breaking perfectly for whoever was the Democrat nominee - and it was yanked out from under her. Surely no one believes that she has given up on her life-long dream? Her decision to take the job as Secretary of State, was a calculated, political move. She could not afford to be seen as a senator with a personal agenda sabotaging Obama, so she joined his staff to show the far left that she supports him. This put her in a position to politically profit whether Obama failed or succeeded. Taking on a position that will give her a great deal of foreign policy cache was icing on the cake.

The Axis of Socialism’s (Obama, Reid and Pelosi) insistence on following a socialist agenda, on the mistaken premise that the 2008 elections represented a veering to the far left by Americans, has cracked opened the door for her. Remember, she actually won more delegates in the primary than Obama. He only got the nomination because under the guise of punishing them for moving up the dates of their primaries, Michigan and Florida had their delegates excluded by the far-left party elite, who had already fallen under the spell of our messianic charlatan-in-chief.

Ironically, Hillary would have been a better candidate than Obama for both America and the Democrats. Because of her 1993 health care disaster her first time in office, as President, she could not and would not have gone down the Obamacare road. It would have been "here we go again" for everyone. She would have focused on the economy, probably using some more moderate stimulus and (small) tax-cut legislation. The economy would likely already be on the road to recovery, Wall Street would not be dropping 200 points every time Obama opened his mouth, and the country overall would be in better shape - causing voters to have a better perception of Democrats.

It is a fait accompli that the Republicans will pick up seats in both houses of Congress in the November elections. The only question is how may? That, and Hillary’s course of action, is up to the Axis of Socialism. Should they choose to recognize their miscalculation, and steer America back to the center, then they can limit the damage, I would estimate at worst, they would lose 20-25 seats in the House, and 2-3 seats in the Senate. They would still have a majority in both houses, and given an eventual economic rebound, Obama would likely win re-election in 2012.

If, however, they choose to continue full steam to the left – as they have so far indicated, and as I pray they do – then November will be a rout. The Republicans would easily win back the House, picking up 40-50 seats, and would likely pick up 6-8 Senates seats, with an outside chance of gaining the full 10 seats required to take back the Senate. This rout would fling the door wide open for Hillary. Some time after the 2011 State of the Union address, she will resign as Secretary of State, and later in the summer, announce that she will challenge Obama for the 2012 nomination. She will be able to cover her back with the far left Democrats, claiming that "I served Obama well, but I can not continue to serve under someone bent on destroying our party." She will also be able to tell the party bosses "I told you so, you iggyots! You should have nominated me in the first place."

I’m not sure if she would succeed, but I think she would have no choice but to go for it. If not, she's looking at being a 69-year-old candidate in 2016, facing either a sitting Republican if Obama loses in 2012, or a population of Democrated out voters if Obama wins in 2012. Neither is an appealing option. So, maybe, just maybe, we will soon see her standing at our gates.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy

Friday, January 22, 2010

Let The Good Times Roll

The good news just keeps pouring in for freedom-loving Americans. First, after wins in Virginia and New Jersey in September, Scott Brown pulled off the unthinkable on Tuesday. Then, on Thursday morning, the Supreme Court took a machete to that unconstitutional abomination known as McCain-Feingold. Finally, on Thursday afternoon we learned that Air America is going the way of the dodo. Boy did that come as a shock, huh?

Remember the predictions that this liberal venture was going to succeed because this time the proper people were in charge, and becauset Americans were hungry for what they were serving up? Begun in April of 2004, it did not even last five years. Better yet, the only reason it managed to hang on that long, is because of multiple infusions of millions of dollars by the George Soros types who have money to burn when it comes to destroying America. Five years. tens of millions of dollars, and all it had to show for itself was that it helped Al Franken steal a senate seat in Minnesota.

NPR aside, because we are forced to pay for it with tax dollars, once again, liberal ideology was put on trial in the marketplace of ideas, and once again, it was found guilty. Guilty of not being able to stand on its own when faced with facts and reasoned arguments. Guilty of being the ideology of a small, fringe segment of the population who can do nothing but scream Bush, Cheney, Haliburton and Big Oil!. Guilty of having what support it does have come from people used to getting things paid for by someone else, and therefore not be able to attract advertising dollars. Guilty, as charged.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Massachusetts Serves Up An Obamacare Tea Party

As I sit basking in the glow of a massive bitch slapping of Obama's far-left policies - and a single malt scotch - all I can think of is Everett from Brighton last Friday. As usual, he spewed a litany of lies and propaganda, the biggest being that the polls showing Scott Brown leading 50%-46% were just plain wrong. Well, he was right! With 95% of the precints reporting in, he is actually ahead 52%-47%; which means if you factor in the stolen ACORN votes, Brown really won the race by seven to eight percentahe points.

Was this just wishful thinking on the part of the Boston Globe (Democrat), or were they trying to actually sway the election?

Don't get me wrong, I know this is no embrace of the Republican Party, which got us into this mess with its liberal spending policies through most of the Bush Presidency. As I am not a Republican, I am more than fine with that. This is a repudiation of the assumption that Obama's election meant an embracing of his policies. Obama's election was merely a backlash against Bush's policies, and Scott Brown's election is merely a backlash against Obama's policies. I would even give 2-1 odds that Brown does not even win re-election in 2012. This was a simple message to Obama, Pelosi and Reid; veer back to the center, or else. I hope that they do not get the message.

Some absolutely hysterical Democrat responses to this cataclysmic defeat? (Paraphrased)

Howard Dean - Democrats have not been tough enough, they need to be tougher to get Obamacare passed.

Juan Williams - This is not going to stop the Obama administration, they are going to double down and go full steam ahead with health care. (Oh God, please make the Blue Dogs dumb enough to support Obama.)

Keith Olbermann just said something so vile and pathetic, I will wait to hear a replay so that I can quote him verbatim. What a frakking a-hole. He is so bitter, its pathetic.

Here's his quote: "In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees." The whole clip is here. What is really ironic is his follow up that: "In any other time in our history, he would have been laughed off the stage." That so deliciously describes Obama's 2008 candidacy.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy

Monday, January 18, 2010

If You Can't Beat Them . . . Rob Them!

In September of 2008, I sat in the Eaglebrook Saloon in Norfolk, MA with about a dozen or so friends. As we discussed the upcoming election, one of our group (you know who you are Tom) needled me about a poll showing Obama moving ahead of McCain. I told him that I was not surprised, and that I felt certain Obama would win. Shocked, he asked me if I was serious. I said I was, and that within six months, America would have the biggest case of buyer's remorse in history. He laughed off my prediction, but slap my grits and call me Nostradamus - I was right.

It started with the Tea Parties over the summer, was evident in New Jersey and Virginia in September, and with the grace of God, will manifest itself tomorrow in the biggest political upset since America overthrew King George III in the first place. Win or lose, the simple fact that this race was anything other than a blowout win for a Democrat in Massachusetts running to replace Ted Kennedy is sending shock waves across the entire country.

Blue Dog Democrats should realize that if Scott Brown can get this far in the bluest of states, what will happen to them in November when they face far more conservative voters in places like Nebraska, North Carolina, Indianna and Colorado? Quite simply, unless they desist in supporting the unpopular, far-left policies of Obama, Pelosi and Reid, American voters will throw them out of office faster than you can say cadillac tax exemption.

How deliciously Shakespearean that the state which was the cradle of the American Revolution, may well provide us with a means of saving America from the insane, unconstitutional attempts by the left to commandeer a massive segment of the private sector. So what is the left's response?

We already know that organizations like ACORN, SEIU and public employees who gorge themselves at the tax troughs (aka Govenor Patrick appointees) are going to do everything they can to steal this election. Dead people will vote, people who moved out of the state years ago will vote, illegal aliens will vote, and many legitimate voters will vote more than once - if they're voting for Coakley, of course.

How do we know this? History. Democrats have been stealing elections this way for decades. Hell, its even being prescribed as a course of action by the moonbats in the elite media. Oh Bob, Schultz and Matthews were just using hyperbole to stress the importance of this election. Right, and if this was Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh making the same comments about Scott Brown, there wouldn't be congressional hearings created to determine how they tried to illegally affect the outcome of an election. I was born at night, but not last night baby.

If that fails, then you will likely see legal challenges forcing recounts and vote exclusions until the numbers finally show a Coakely "win". Its what Democrats tried to do in Florida in 2000, and succeeded in doing in Minnesota in 2008 when they literally stole a Senate seat from Norm Coleman for the bridge troll known as Al Franken.

Failing to do that, in a final act of desperation, the Democrats' will attempt to delay the seating of Brown in the hopes of cramming Obamacare down the throats (among other orifices) of Americans. For hate's sake they will spit their last breath a thee, voters of Massachusettes! To paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables, summing up the Democrats' strategy in a nutshell: that's the Democrat way.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Pay no attention to the icebergs in Miami

With a relatively neutered Iggy of late, I decided to take an opportunity to point out how Americans are viewed as morons by leftist elitists. A couple of years ago, "global warming" magically became "climate change". Keeping in mind that in a political context, "global warming" means "man-made planetary warming caused by evil American capitalists", the scam artists who created and perpetrated this lie realized that the mean global temperature had not risen since 1998. In fact, global temperatures began to drop in 2007.

Faced with some very uncomfortable facts, their solution was typically liberal; when you lose an argument, change the argument! So, global warming became climate change; voila! If its 104 degrees in Miami in August, its because you drive an SUV you capitalist, American pig. If its -37 in International Falls in January, its because you want to keep your house at 70 degrees, imperialist swine! No matter what happens, the solution is to subvert America's prosperity and sovereignty - and those idiot Americans won't be able to see the truth through their tears over dying polar bears - just as long as they don't find out that the polar bear population is actually on the rise.

It now seems that the planet, without any help from us, has already entered a cooling period. As one of the leading climate change frauds, it must have really pained Professor Mojib Latif to report this as such. My guess is that the recent Climategate scandal forced his hand.

"Latif, a professor at the Leibniz Institute at Germany's Kiel University and an author of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, believes the lengthy cold weather is merely a pause -- a 30-years-long blip -- in the larger cycle of global warming, which postulates that temperatures will rise rapidly over the coming years.

At a U.N. conference in September, Latif said that changes in ocean currents known as the North Atlantic Oscillation could dominate over manmade global warming for the next few decades. Latif said the fluctuations in these currents could also be responsible for much of the rise in global temperatures seen over the past 30 years.

So let me get this straight. The decrease in temperatures projected over the next 30 years is unrelated to humans, being caused by ocean currents. It will only be a temporary blip on the way to future, man-made, higher temperatures - even though the the same currents may have caused the rise in temperatures over the past 30 years. As Kevin Kline would say; "What was that middle part again?"

For other, more committed frauds, apparently circular logic is not enough!

"Has ocean variability contributed to variations in surface temperature? Absolutely, no one's denying that," said Mark Serreze, senior research scientist with NSIDC. But the Center disagrees with Latif's conclusions, instead arguing that the cold snap is still another sign of global warming.

"We are indeed starting to see the effects of the rise in greenhouse gases," he said.

Just like a socialist who claims that socialism has never worked anywhere its been tried because the "right people" were not in charge, not only can Serreze not admit defeat, he goes on the offensive. Our greenhouse gas emissions are causing . . . global cooling! Such a statement would have been totally ridiculed; before global warming became climate change.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain . . . you stupid iggyots.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy