"Stimulus" Bailout Brilliant Politicial Move by Dems

Republicans and Conservatives Will Pay For It!

It's halftime at a good basketball game, and I was sitting doing what I often do at halftime, when I had a giant epiphany.

The so-called "stimulus" bill and the literally hundreds of billions of dollars it will pump into the coffers of big time Dem supporters, such as ACORN, AIDS clinics, teachers' unions and the like, is a brilliant political move by the Dems. It's more big government/taxpayer money to pay big salaries to people running big, useless government programs, given to people who always vote Democratic!

But that's only half of it!

Not only will Dems get all the benefits, and all the cash, but Republicans and their political brethren will be the only ones pay all the bills! The Dems won't have to pay the extravagant repayment costs, because an overwhelming majority of Democrat voters don't pay federal income taxes! If they do pay income taxes, they often receive offsetting welfare benefits that more than compensate for the income tax they pay. Of course, if inflation hits us all, as it will, their "entitlements" will go up too!

This is a brilliant political move on the Dems part!

It's as if you and your school teacher-neighbor went out and bought a new Cadillac together. But you have to make all the payments, you pay for the insurance, gasoline and maintenance…. and your neighbor is the only one who gets to drive the car!

I know I am probably the last peerson on the block to comprehend the double whammy political and monetary benefits to the Democrats of this plan, but I marvel at Obama, Reid and Pelosi's brilliance. They make Nero, Evita and Al Capone look like rank amateurs!

Welfare class Dems get the gold mine…. and we get the shaft…. and they will keep electing Dems because of it!

The Coming Civil War!

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Government is the epitome of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption

By Ron Ewart Monday, January 26, 2009

If you are a hard-working, responsible, self-reliant and successful American, how do you like billions of your taxes paying for bank, business and ne'er-do-well homebuyer bailouts, homebuyers that were encouraged by government to buy homes they couldn't afford? How do you like your government using trillions of your tax dollars for ill advised stimulus packages that won't work and aren't working?

How do you like paying for education, health care, housing and safety-net benefits for illegal aliens that are streaming into America by the millions? How do you like our open border policy and the lack of enforcement of existing laws that have become the magnet for those millions to come here in the first place? And how do you like the fact that politicians in both parties purposely allow these things to happen, for the sole purpose of increasing their base of future voters? To make matters worse, under the current regime, (socialist administration) amnesty for illegals is coming our way very soon, no matter how most Americans will object. After all, these politicians know what is best for us, don't they?

How do you like individuals being appointed by the new president to become Secretary of the Treasury, who will oversee the IRS, when the appointee has cheated on his income tax, hired illegal aliens as house keepers and some other little misdeeds he was purported to have committed? How do you like an individual (Holder) with an avowed mindset against individual gun ownership, being appointed to the top American Justice official, attorney general of the United States?

How do you like your tax dollars being used in foreign aid, that is given to dictators, despots and other cretins who use our money for their own enrichment and trickle only a few of our dollars to their "subjects"? Did you know that your current socialist president is now pushing for 0.7% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP - $14 Trillion) to be paid out in foreign aid, because that is what the United Nations says is the fair amount for America? Did you know that 0.7% of GDP is just shy of $100,000,000,000 (billion) dollars of our tax money going offshore, and for what? This is nothing more than government forcing you to be charitable to the entire world, at the point of a gun. (Don't think so? Try not paying your taxes.)

National Health Care is coming whether we like it our not. Did you know that Obama's current stimulus package of almost $1 Trillion dollars, sets aside $600,000,000 to prepare for National Health Care? If they are spending this kind of money for preparation, you can bet we will get National Health Care.

How do you like government telling you what to eat, what to wear, where to live, where to work, what to drive, or being forced to not drive at all and paying for government mega-projects that always come with huge cost overruns, where they have to go back to the taxpayer for more money to finish the project? Happens every time. Government is the epitome of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption.

How do you like your government telling you that you have to get off of oil, drive your car less and decrease your carbon foot print to save us from the dire predictions of the fraud that is man-caused global warming? How will you like the cost of everything increasing because of government's headlong drive to decrease man-caused CO2 emissions and engage in the insanity of cap and trade policies? How do you like your government telling you that you have to subsidize highly inefficient wind and solar power, that is but a small fraction of what oil and coal produce? How do you like the fact that environmentalists and government have stood in the way of clean nuclear energy for 30 years?

How do you like government telling you what you can or cannot do with your land? And you rural landowners, how do you feel about being asked to bear almost the entire burden of environmental protection, while your city brethren get off virtually scot-free? These same city folks who have the majority votes to elect the politicians that pass the environmental laws that only affect rural landowners. That's fair, isn't it? No it isn't fair and in fact, violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

How do you like your federal government sticking their fingers into local public schools and mandating, with federal law, socialism, radical environmentalism, multi-culturalism and the one-world-order being taught to your children in those schools? How do you like the fact that the federal government prints the books that teach our children about our form of government, but those books teach that our form of government is a Constitutional Democracy, not a Constitutional Republic? The distinctions between a Democracy and a Republic are a canyon wide. Does brainwashing and indoctrination come to mind?

How do you like the fact that the injustices that were being inflicted on the colonials in 1776, that caused them to revolt against the tyrannical rule of England, are now the very same injustices Americans are being accosted with, by their own government, for the last 80 to 100 years? How do you like the fact that under the current Obama administration and a very liberal congress, those injustices will increase at an accelerated rate?

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The giant question is, how long will freedom-loving Americans take it? How long will the producers put up with paying for the non-producers and outright billion-dollar gifts in foreign aid? How long will those brave Americans who are embedded with the song of liberty, take the theft of their sweat, blood and tears, before they say, enough is enough? Which of the injustices we are now enduring, will be the trigger that will send a large percentage of these Americans over the edge and declare civil war against the non-producers, who leverage government with their majority vote, to fill their government-sponsored "pig trough"? Or, how long will it be before the producers of our society, either "check out", or declare war on their own government for these injustices?

The current direction of America will and is producing mediocrity, self-loathing and a decline in production and morality. These cultural maladies will only get worse on this path we take.

Predictions of future events is a dicey game. Many have tried but predictions, throughout history, turn out to be mostly inaccurate ..... the Mayans, Nostradamus and a few others have been given marginal credit. But we will take a stab at some general predictions. The hard truth is, we are headed for a civil war. Nevertheless, rest assured, this will not be the civil war of 1861, wherein brother rises up against brother and state declares war against another state or states. This war won't be fought with larger-than-life generals, unless nationwide anarchy ensues.

As the liberals in the current administration squeeze Americans with their socialist, radical environmental and one-world-order agenda, as they work towards dismantling American sovereignty, even more so than previous administrations have done, small armed revolts will begin to appear in isolated areas. These small revolts will be immediately squashed by local law enforcement. Even so, the small revolts will grow and become larger ones. There will be individual attacks on other individuals for perceived threats or revenge for acts of violence. Occasions of Hatfield and McCoy feuds will grow. There will be attacks by individuals on government institutions, as more and more folks let their growing frustrations morph into violent acts. There will be individual and multiple violent attacks on illegal aliens.

Still, other non-violent revolts will come in the form of silent and noisy protests. Some revolts will come in the form of disobeying the law and withholding taxes. These are already happening. Some will come in the form of increased lobbying of politicians and rising numbers of court cases to undo what the liberals have done and are doing. But even worse, some will come in the form of wholesale cheating. The prevailing attitude will be, if the government can cheat, abuse our trust and their power and corrupt our institutions, why should individual Americans be any different? A breakdown in morality, honesty, integrity and honor will accelerate. This breakdown is already well underway.

Large infusions of borrowed or printed dollars for government stimulus packages and outright handouts, will accelerate inflation and/or end up in hyper inflation. This will lead to rising hunger as it takes more dollars to buy the necessities of life. Rising hunger will trigger more government intervention and the requirement for more taxes. Taxes will rise accordingly. More banks will fail. A deep depression could be just around the corner.

In some of these occurrences, the government will declare martial law and they will suspend constitutional protections, like Habeas Corpus, as did President Lincoln during the Civil War.

All these things will come to pass in one form or another, because "We The People" have allowed government to become all powerful and corrupt and this corruption has infected a large percentage of the American population. Should we not return to the principles of our constitution, should we not re-claim our morality, and soon, as a country and as a free society we are doomed to fail and ultimate disintegration. If were trying to fail, we are doing an excellent job.

In spite of these dire predictions, there is still time to save America, if only the millions of Americans who cherish freedom, will rise up individually and collectively and get involved in the hard work of preserving, protecting and defending our Constitution and giving aid and comfort to those organizations that are working valiantly on their behalf. And to that end, have you GIVEN YOUR DOLLAR FOR FREEDOM today?

Sorry to be a party pooper

MELANIE PHILLIPS: I can't share this swooning Obama hysteria

Has everyone lost their marbles? The inauguration of President Obama is being treated like the Second Coming.

The coverage is so gushing we might all drown. Of course it's a great thing that America, with its history of slavery and segregation still a shockingly recent memory, now has a black President; the palpable joy of African-Americans is entirely understandable and deeply touching. And there's no doubt that Obama is a highly charismatic and attractive personality.

But what's more than a wee bit troubling is that the swooning hysteria reflects the fact that people appear to believe that as of today the world will be saved. Swords will be beaten into ploughshares, peace will be brought to the Middle East, Iran will be pacified, every American will have health insurance, poverty will be eliminated and utopia will have arrived.

Crowds: Thousands of people have been waiting through the night to gain access to the National Mall for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama

Sorry to be a party pooper but I'm afraid I must register a small note of dissent. It's not just that people have projected onto the person of Obama expectations that - especially given the world financial crisis - cannot possibly be met.

I think that the desperate dangerousness and complexity of our world and a profound terror of what properly facing up to its problems would entail have led people to believe a cartoon version of why we're in such a state - and to have invested their hopes similarly in a fantasy figure of hope, to such an extent that they have shut their ears to some very loud warning bells ringing from his past history.

People believe that Obama represents a renunciation of an America that throws its weight around the world. And they think it's that 'war-mongering' characteristic, represented in particular by President Bush and the war in Iraq, which has caused so much global trouble and resentment.

 

I believe that's a dangerously false analysis which fails to grasp the extent to which western civilisation is under attack from a world-wide enemy that intends to destroy it, and which further fails to distinguish between true aggression and true self-defence.

Like the hydra, the enemy now waging war on the west has many heads - but it is one enemy, and it feeds in particular on the perception that the west is weak and is no longer willing to defend itself by military means.

The very reason that so many in the west are so entranced by Obama is thus the very reason why our enemies are today rubbing their hands in satisfaction.

Obama stands for 'soft power' - the replacement of military action in defence of his nation by talking, negotiation and compromise. But with people who have non-negotiable and unconscionable agendas - such as Iran's genocidal intention to wipe Israel off the map and destroy the west - such an approach merely plays into their hands while catastrophically undermining more moderate regimes and allies.

And there's a still more troubling aspect of America's new President. For his whole career has been solidly embedded in an ultra-radical tradition which believes in revolution from the grass-roots up - and which teaches that to gain power, an activist must pose as a centrist while pursuing his real agenda of radicalising the people and revolutionising society.

 

Everything Obama has done, both in pursuit of the presidency and since his election, fits that programme for radical action to the letter.

Cleverly drawing upon the little-observed fact that the appeasement-minded folk who took control in the second, terminally weakened stage of the Bush administration have an approach to the world's conflicts which is strikingly similar to anti-war left-wingers, he has neutralised concerns about his supposed radicalism by assembling a governmental team which appears to be so centrist it is merely carrying on much as before.

A more careful look at all his appointments, particularly those in the second tier, reveals however a rather different and more troubling picture.

But that's all for the future. Today, no-one can predict just how the Obama presidency will turn out. He may indeed be constrained not just by current difficulties but by events not yet forseen. He may change his mind about a lot of things as a result. He may on the other hand opt for expediency until an opportunity presents itself for the kind of 'change' he dreams of. He may even turn out to be well-intentioned but hampered by inexperience and naivety. Who knows? All we can do is watch and hope that this new President does not plunge us all into even greater peril yet.

Saul Alinsky, the immensely influential far-left ideologue who invented the role of grass-roots 'community organiser' that Obama filled for so many years,  laid out in his book Rules for Radicals that the revolution could only be brought about by stealth politics.

This is what he wrote: 'This is the job for today's radical - to fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame to fight. To say, 'You cannot turn away - look at it - let us change it together!' 'Look at us. We are your children. Let us not abandon each other for then we are all lost. Together we can change it for what we want...it is a job first of bringing hope and doing what every organiser must do with all people, all classes, places and times - communicate the means or tactics whereby the people can feel that they have the power to do this and that and on

'Tactics must begin with the experience of the middle class, accepting their aversion to rudeness, vulgarity and conflict. Start them easy, don't scare them off...Tactics such as stock proxies and others are waiting to be hurled into the attack...'

'Change' and 'hope': does that strike a chord with anyone? Just bear this in mind when you hear today's soaring rhetoric as America's 44th president is sworn in.

Sleep soundly, Global Warming cure coming.

Waxman promises quick action on climate

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of a key House committee said Thursday he will move "quickly and decisively" to push legislation curbing greenhouse gases with a goal of passing climate legislation out of his committee before Memorial Day. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., opening the new Congress' first hearing on the threats from global warming, said inaction on the climate issue is causing uncertainties that make it more difficult to emerge from the recession. "Our environment and our economy depend on congressional action to confront the threat of climate change and secure our energy independence," said Waxman. "U.S. industries want to invest in a clean energy future, but uncertainties about whether, when and how greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced is deterring these vital investments." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., another strong proponent of moving climate legislation, has given no indication how quickly House action might come. But given the broad impact that regulating greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, would have, it is widely viewed that any legislation will require substantial bipartisan support, especially in the Senate. To dramatize the business community's growing consensus that the climate issue must be confronted, Waxman invited to the first hearing 14 corporate executives and environmental leaders who have pressed for an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050. The 14 executives and environmentalists sat shoulder to shoulder across at a witness table spanning two-thirds of the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing room. Dealing with climate change "will not be cheap and not be easy," warned James Rogers, chairman of Duke Energy Corp. But he said coupling a short term stimulus package with a long-term climate plan, "we have the ability to stimulate greater confidence ...(and) put the recession in the rear view mirror." Earlier the group, the 31-member United States Climate Action Partnership, outlined its blueprint for limiting greenhouse gases, calling for an 80 percent emission reduction by mid-century with half of that coming by 2030. It calls for a ramp up of 20 percent reduction as within a dozen years. Carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing about 1 percent a year since 1990. The group endorsed a cap-and-trade system where greenhouse gas emissions would be limited, but pollution allowances would be provided by the government, especially for carbon intensive industries such as utilities with coal burning power plants. And it would provide incentives for coal plants that capture carbon dioxide. The business group's plan does not go as far as what President-elect Barack Obama has proposed, nor one that Waxman has floated. Obama has called for an 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels, meaning greater reductions would have to be made. Obama also has opposed giving industry free emission allowances, saying that 100 percent should be auction and the proceeds used to promote clean energy, energy efficiency and carbon capture from power plants. The coalitions plan would phase in auctions. But the proposal outlined by the business and environmental leaders is expected to be a starting point. "This is the model to solve the problem," Rep. Jane Harmon, D-Calif., told the group. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., who chairs the subcommittee that will write the initial legislation and chairs a separate committee on climate, said a consensus for mandatory emissions reductions is clear. "Now the hard task of enacting global warming legislation is before us," said Markey. That point was demonstrated by Texas Rep. Joe Barton, the committee's top Republican, who said the cap-and-trade plan threatens jobs. And he recounted how each of the companies represented by the witnesses had recently suffered dramatic declines in the value of their stock. "You cannot tell me if we adopt mandatory cap-and-trade it's going to help your stock prices," said Barton. Among the executives were the chairmen of ConocoPhillips, General Electric, DuPont and electric utilities Exelon, NRG Energy Inc. and Duke Energy. Environmental groups included Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Conservancy and World Resources Institute.

Dems won the battle but may have lost the war.

The following is an editorial from the left leaning liberal Jackson Sun newspaper. They get it. Judy Barker doesn't.

 

When you are elected with some Obion County Republican support, your first official act shouldn't be a stick in the eye of the majority party.

 

Judy, remember the old adage, What goes around, comes around.  When you place the State of Tennessee in the control of a man whose word means nothing, you jeopardise ALL citizens.

 

I'm sure your thug friend, Jimmy Naifeh, will reward you for voting for a trator to his own party.
 

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Tennessee House Democrats have won the battle for House Speaker on Tuesday, but they might have lost the legislative cooperation war in the process. By sabotaging plans to make heir-apparent Jason Mumpower the new speaker, replacing Jimmy Naifeh, they have undermined whatever fragile trust existed between the parties and may have ultimately derailed their agenda.

Democrats nominated Kent Williams, an Elizabethton Republican, as speaker to oppose Mumpower. Then, they banded together to support him. When Williams voted for himself, it gave him the votes needed to become the new speaker. Then, Lois Deberry, a Memphis Democrat, was re-elected as speaker pro-tem.

Clearly, Democrats pulled a fast one on the unsuspecting GOP majority. But while they may have gotten what they wanted in the short term - someone of their choice as speaker and favorable committee assignments - they likely have hurt themselves in the long run.

By sabotaging Republican plans, they have destroyed the already tenuous trust that existed between the parties. How does that help them when they have a legislative issue they care about and need Republican help to advance? It doesn't. How does it help manage the serious financial problems facing the state that need bipartisan cooperation? It doesn't.

Tennessee is facing a deficit of at least $800 million. Serious cuts have already been made, with more possibly on the way. Considering that the legislature's one responsibility each year is to balance and pass the budget, it will be a lot harder to do that when the parties don't trust each other.

With their political sleight of hand, Democrats have created hard feelings and opened the door to political get-backs. One thing they can count on is that the Republicans will retaliate somehow, somewhere. And so it goes, a tit-for-tat battle that didn't have to be.

The real losers in all this are the people of Tennessee who aren't being served by the partisan bickering and political gamesmanship. But then, the people were the furthest thing from the Democrats' mind in their rush to goad the Republicans. And it will be the people who will be hurt as this political drama plays itself out during the legislative year.

He's Got No Peeps

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By Mike Farquhar

Watching our President-elect attempt to put together a working cabinet, it finally dawned on me what he was struggling with. He's got no peeps!

Having sprung so suddenly and so successfully onto our national – even the world stage — he's been abruptly confronted with success he for which he is woefully unprepared. So he went on vacation.

In the course of a normal politician's life, he or she would have come up through the ranks, serving at local and state level—perhaps even in the military or in law enforcemen— before seeking national office. Then that candidate, with a full résumé of experience and accomplishments, would seek the presidency. That candidate would have a very big Rolodex of trusted friends who could be called upon for higher office when the candidate won.

But Mister Obama has no large Rolodex of friends, outside of the corrupt streets and back-alley dealings of the Chicago Democratic machine - and of course his very special group of preacher friends.

Now, with no actual experience with the inner workings of the Federal Government, he will be running it in just days. He is scrambling to find people who he can trust—and who are willing to work for him.

And that's a tough decision for many of the folks he's talking to, since with his zero leadership record, nobody out there has a clue what kind of a boss or commander-in-chief he'll actually be.

Many who have survived and even prospered after serving Carter and Clinton are reluctant to risk another thankless tour of government service in the ruthless spotlight of Washington today. And with the memory of how fast The Messiah reversed himself and flung Reverend Wright under the bus, anybody contemplating working for His administration knows they will always be just one hiccup or crisis away from becoming road kill.

With no peeps of his own, Mister Obama has resorted to the whisperings of the Clintons—and is picking and choosing from amongst their shopworn former retainers. Thus the selection of Governor "Pay to Play" Richardson to lead Commerce. As it turns out, some of his "commercial dealings" are being scrutinized by a grand jury. Ooops!

Would it be too cynical to suggest that ~ just maybe ~ the Clintons might misguide The Messiah enough to crack open the door to 2012? Naah, they wouldn't sink that low!

And with his well-known disdain for our military and intelligence services, it is little wonder that he picked retired Clinton budget wonk Leon Panetta to become his chief spymaster. Obama already believes he knows all the answers, and can resolve all disagreement by face-to-face negotiations. So what does he really need a functioning intelligence agency for anyway? Simply plug a proven old bureaucrat into General Hayden's empty chair, and everything will be just fine.

Now a callous or skeptical observer might conclude that this is really a plot to resume Jimmy Carter's dismantling of our intelligence services. I would never believe that of such a patriotic man as our President-elect, even if he doesn't render customary honors to our flag, and wants a new "less warlike" national anthem.

No, Obama's problem is that he and his Faithful Followers are just full of ideas about how things should be run, what laws need to be passed, and what our government should look like. But none of them have ever actually ever run anything of a serious nature.

Mrs. Clinton once worked as an attorney in Arkansas—but managed to lose her billing records in the move to Washington in 1993. And her legal assistant, Vince Foster, killed himself just six months later. Throughout her marriage, she was unaware or unmoved by her husband's serial philandering which led to his impeachment in 1998. Now, she will help formulate, direct, and deliver our nation's foreign policy, and oversee some 288 embassies and missions worldwide, always keeping tabs on subtle nuances in the positions of all of our friends and foes? She is just so well qualified!

Governor Richardson was once our high-profile ambassador to the UN—but no amount of diplomacy will get him out of his pending legal problems. His idea of Commerce is "Pay to play" with a list of his favorite projects delivered to contract bidders. His decision to "withdraw his nomination" will not end the scandal, or absolve Obama from the burden of another public display of poor judgement.

Even political wizard and campaign genius Rahm Emanuel is connected to too many Chicago politicians of questionable virtue, and who today knows for sure what US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has on tape? When before in history has a president-elect and his chief of staff been questioned by law enforcement weeks before taking the oath of office?

We could have seen this coming. When he picked the village idiot – Joe "Lying Lips" Biden to become his official stooge, we should have seen that The Messiah was preoccupied with getting elected, and hadn't given a moment's thought to actually governing. He certainly wasn't thinking about our country in the event he died in office.

Why doesn't Mister Obama have good people around him—qualified, trustworthy people?

The American press and the American voters should have been asking this throughout the election cycle. But the huge crowds of adoring worshipers, the Obama T-shirts, the bumper stickers, and the highly successful web-based campaign hid a fatal shortcoming—Obama doesn't make friends easily. He's not that kind of person. He doesn't need friends. He needs mirrors, microphones, admirers, worshipers, sycophants, fawning adulators, and supplicants . . . but not friends.

He is almost a textbook case of narcissism. His two books were about himself, planned packaging for his eventual presidential run. He wrote nothing about his vision of how to run the country, beyond the basics of Socialism. Was he keeping it a secret, or was there really no detailed vision?

Who are this man's close friends and buddies? Who are his wife's close friends and buddies? Is anybody close to this most unusual man? Nobody asked these questions throughout the campaign. They just felt chills running up their legs, they worshiped, and they voted.

And now we have a president-elect with no close trusted friends, and no people around him that he's known for years who are qualified for key high-level appointments. Since most of you reading this can think of at least one person far more qualified to be our next spymaster than "Save the Seals" Panetta, why couldn't Barack Hussein Obama?

Anybody worried yet?

/s/ Iron Mike
Old Soldier, - Still Good for Parts!

Predictions for the New Obama "Presidency"

by Kit Lange

Now that America has shown us all that affirmative action even works in politics, I've compiled a list of things that you can probably expect to happen. These predictions are 80% gleaned from information all of us have access to, and 15% gut instinct based on many years of research, historical study, and being glued to current affairs. The other 5% is just anger at my countrymen's stupidity--I admit it.

• Websites and mass emails offering "free grants," courtesy of the government and "Obama's wealth redistribution." Actually, this one's a freebie, because I have an email with a date and timestamp of literally minutes after Obama was declared the winner, offering exactly that.

• Israel will understand this election was the end of any type of assistance, military or otherwise, from the U.S. , and will stop holding back their defense at the request of the American administration. Look for a first strike on Iran soon, as well as increased activity by the Israeli military in general. Israel is on her own now, and God help us all because of it.

• Look for Iranian retaliation--against American targets. That goes doubly for other terrorist organizations. We just elected a man with the full endorsement of every major terrorist group in the world as leader of the free world. It's the political equivalent of hiring a child molester to babysit your kids while you leave for the weekend. Not only is HE going to have fun with your child, but he'll probably sit and watch while his friends come over and do it too.

• Look for far-left justices appointed to the Supreme Court, effectively tying up the entire government in a trifecta of liberal humanism, the buzzwords of which remain empty platitudes like "hope and change," and the ultimate goal of which is socialism--and soon, sharia law.

• Military cases of troops being tried and convicted for killing the enemy in combat will continue to rise--and the conviction/plea-bargain rate will stay at nearly 100%, as the government seeks to use the best men and women this country has to offer as sacrificial lambs on the altar of global appeasement. Those brave and honorable men who currently reside in prison cells across the country, stripped of their rank, their careers, families, and their good name, will not taste free air again for many years. Their sacrifices and their stories will be forgotten by the general public, remembered only by those of us who continue to fight for them.

• Look for the slow but steady erosion of rights you have enjoyed for your entire lives--all the while being told it's "for your own good." Restrictions on gun ownership, home schooling, encouraged dependence on the ever-growing federal government. More nanny-state provisions will be put into place to protect the "disadvantaged" and the "poor," (read: lazy, uneducated, unwilling to better themselves) even while groups like the unborn, the mentally handicapped, elderly, and terminally ill are slowly pushed toward euthanasia. Of course, this will be done with feel-good phrases like "death with dignity," "not wanting to be a burden," and "merciful release from suffering," all of which ignore the basic fact that we are killing people without their consent for the "good of the people." Before you tell me I'm crazy, let's just remember that Barack Obama was the ONLY senator in the Illinois state senate to vote against providing medical care for babies who were inconsiderate enough to survive an abortion. Also, look for taxes to go up. Yes, they'll go up.

• You think the economy is bad now? Just wait. You'll have the most expensive "free" health care ever. Bread lines aren't just for Russians anymore.

  We have traded experience for color, freedom for slavery--and the irony is that the average American sheeple thinks their vote somehow righted an ancient wrong, somehow ENDED the spectre of slavery and ushered in some beautiful era of liberty. In reality, we are about to be less free than you ever thought possible.

  I watched the faces of those crowded into the mob (excuse the pun) in Chicago. They stared at Obama like he was a god, an idol, a panacea to their every want and need. We have truly failed as a nation if we are at the point where we feel we must look to one man to take care of us all, to be our father figure and our sugar daddy. We have lost not only the "can-do" attitude of past generations, but the "MUST-do" attitude of our forefathers. We have allowed ourselves to become reduced from Patrick Henry's proud cry of "liberty or death" to the sniveling, whining idea that we are owed something. We have gone from being the honorable defenders of freedom, to being told we are the problem.

  The eyes of Obama and McCain were also telling. McCain acted with class and grace in his concession speech , offering the most honorable response I've seen yet. I don't agree with all of McCain's positions, but it cannot be denied that the man has served his nation--at permanent and severe detriment to himself--for half a century.

  His eyes were clear and sincere, honest. His speech underlined the very reasons why, of the two men offered, he was hands down the best choice.

  On the other hand, Obama's eyes were cold, calculating. His manner was smug and still carried the arrogance he has always had. His facial expression was one of barely disguised disdain for everything people like me believe in. His body language was smooth, polished--too much so. He talked of patriotism as though it is a value he is familiar with--and yet, his horrifying attitude toward the country he now leads is as well-documented as his friendships with those who seek its demise. He is charismatic to those who don't know what to look for, and he is inspiring to those who cannot or will not think for themselves. However, too many who voted for him are guilty of the most dangerous kind of hypocrisy. You see, we are told daily that we must not see color, just mankind. (We are all family, you know--or so we're told.) And yet Barack Obama was handed the White House on a silver platter by a fawning media, a bevy of foreign donors (who, to this day and in violation of U.S. election laws, remain nameless and unaccounted for), and a populace who voted based on color instead of right and wrong--even in the face of the most damning evidence against a Presidential candidate in many years, perhaps ever.

  It is said that the people receive the government they deserve. Sadly, I fear that's correct. We have become complacent, unwilling to see the writing on the wall, content to frolic in the warm water without bothering to notice that it's been getting hotter by the minute. We are two seconds from a rolling boil--and perhaps it is already too late.

  So, liberals, enjoy your victory. Jump around. Have a party, file for your free grants. Scream "Gimme my handout!" and make fun of those of us who fought to make sure your "messiah" didn't get access to the most powerful position in the world. Just remember when it all comes crashing down: You own the White House, the Congress, and soon the Supreme Court. You have no one to blame but yourselves for the mess you just created.

  As for me, I'm buying my handguns this week so I have an answer for those who will come try to take them.

  Kit

Kit Lange is an Air Force veteran and military writer who specializes in investigating murder cases stemming from actions in combat. Her work was used as evidence in the Lt. Ilario Pantano case, and has been quoted extensively in other news publications for other cases. In 2005, she co-wrote a 10-part series disproving war crime allegations against an elite Army unit; her blog, EuphoricReality.com, was named as one of the top 10 milblogs of the year. She is also the National Web Coordinator for Gathering of Eagles, a nationally-recognized troop support organization. Kit holds a degree in Aircraft Maintenance Technology from Spartan College of Aeronautics, and is currently working on a second degree in Aviation Technology Management. She resides in Tulsa, Oklahom