Stupid Politician Tricks #5

The Republicans are proposing $32,000,000,000.00 in budget cuts out of a $3,700,000,000,000.00 federal budget that already exceeds federal revenues by over $1,500,000,000,000.00.  Let's see, that's less than 1% of a budget that needs to be cut by more than 40% to be balanced.  Story here.

That is like throwing a bucket of water on a house afire.

Why not just vote for more spending and throw us over the cliff that we are precariously perched on?

I'm tired of waiting for the apocalypse.  The Republicans should just join the Democrats in finishing off the Grand Experiment, rather than jerk our chains with this faux fiscal responsibility. We have been in need of a good revolution since 1913.  Bring it on.

Balancing the budget is not impossible, but a lot of sacred cows will have to take a one-way visit to McBurgertown.  John Stossel has a plan to make a lot of hamburger, but it would result in a balanced budget.

Too bad our politicians are too busy playing stupid tricks on us to save our great-great-great-great-granchildren from crushing debt.

Stupid Politician Tricks #4

The morons-that-be our Congresscritters have decided that some television commercials are too loud. Congresstwit Anna Eschoo (French for "the house is collapsing around my head, but I'm getting new carpeting"), D-CA (what else would one expect?) had drafted a bill to ensure that television commercials are not noticeably louder than the accompanying programs.

Joining Congresstwit Eschoo is Senaturd Tim Johnson D-SD (again, what else would one expect?) He claims that this problem has been nagging South Dakotans for years. The three of them have apparently been been driving him nuts with the issue.

Let's see, the country is on the verge of bankruptcy, we are at war on multiple fronts with Islamists, and the Democrappers are trying to turn what is left of the country into a Commie paradise. Why in the hell do we need to worry about the volume of commercials? The only benefit of this would be if politicians speeches and all MSM news were to be considered commercials and were required to be muted.

If this is truly a problem, let the free market (what is now left of it) deal with the problem. Oh, wait! Years ago Magnavox introduced Smart Sound to do just that! Has anyone even seen a Magnavox brand television lately? Case closed.

Anna Eschoo and Tim Johnson should be tarred and feathered. Or better yet, be the first enrollees in Obamacare.

Stupid Politician Tricks #3

Stupid Liberal Politician Trick: Ignore the facts; the police are always wrong

Harvard Peoples' University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested after breaking into his own home last week. From most of the media reports, one would think that Gates was arrested simply because he is black. Actually, he was arrested for disorderly conduct after failing to cooperate with police and exhibiting "loud and tumultuous behavior".

Gates' longtime Comrade, President Barack Hussein Obama, took the usual left-wing wacko view of any incident in which a black man is arrested: The police are wrong. Quote from BHO:

"the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home"

This, after admitting that he did not have all the facts. Like a typical stupid politician, Comrade Obama failed to realize that his position of authority as Messiah of the Great Republic carries some weight in the minds of the simple-minded buffoons who elected him. This was a great disservice to Police Sergeant James Crowley, who appears to have just been doing his job, according to the police report narrative of Officer Carlos Figueroa.

Kudos to Sgt Crowley, who isn't taking such crap from BHO. Fox News story here.


According to liberal politicians, the police are always wrong when a black man is arrested. Another stupid politician trick to gain favor with their favored constituency: the irresponsible, "police are out to get me", crybaby, allegedly discriminated against, whiners.

Stupid Politician Tricks #2

The Goracle compares fighting global warming to fighting the Nazis.

WHAT A FRUITCAKE!

Albert Gore, Jr., has-been former Vice President of the U.S. and former Senator from Tennessee, and self-appointed Godfather of the radical, left-wing, tree-hugging, global warming freaks, has compared the battle against climate change to the battle against the Nazis. Gore stated that the danger of climate change is as urgent as was the threat from Nazi Germany in the last century. Fox News story here.

WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!

First of all, the threat from Nazi Germany was real, and most free nations recognized the danger, even if they could not agree on what to do. As to "climate change" and "global warming", there is no consensus among scientists that any ongoing climate change is anything but the cyclical changes that the Earth goes through. As to global warming, most data show that the Earth is actually cooling and has been for over ten years. The only consensus is among left-wing nut-cases like Al "the Goracle" Gore who want Americans to give up freedoms, pay more taxes, and live in a stone-age environment.

Second, there is a huge irony in Gore's comparison. National Socialism (Nazism) was a left-wing movement in Germany. It was a movement with an inflexible, destructive, and scientifically unsound ideology which it's politicians placed beyond questioning by the public. Openly questioning National Socialist dogma would result in severe punishment and possible death. Global Warming is a left-wing movement in the United States largely pushed by Democrats and other far-left groups. It is a movement with an inflexible, destructive (to the economy and our way of life), and scientifically unsound ideology which it's leaders (such as Al Gore) have placed beyond questioning by the public. Openly questioning the left's global warming dogma results in severe punishment in the form of being publicly ridiculed and labelled the equivalent of a "holocaust denier".

To me, a conservative being called "worse than Hitler" by any leftist is a supreme insult, because it insinuates that the insulted person has a political ideology as far to the left as Barack Obama, Barney Frank, and Sonia Sotomayor.

Equating the current left-wing cause to the left-wing sins of the past century is one doozy of a Stupid Politician Trick.

Stupid Politician Tricks #1

Connecticut Senate Approves Machine Gun Ban for Children

"HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Connecticut Senate on Thursday approved a measure that would ban children under 16 years old from handling or shooting machine guns."

As usual, the idiocracy of the nanny state was in full display:
"For a young person, a minor, to handle an automatic weapon ... it's like saying that it's OK to pick up a rattlesnake and that it is somehow going to be safe," said Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn. "It's not going to be safe and it should not be legal and I would think that a lot of folks would be shocked that there was not a law.""

But there was a law, already:
"Three men, including Pelham, Mass., Police Chief Edward Fleury, whose business promoted the gun show, and two men who brought the Uzi, have been charged under Massachusetts law with involuntary manslaughter. Fleury was also charged with four counts of furnishing a machine gun to a person under 18."

And, as usual, the voice of sanity was in the minority:
"Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford, who also voted against the bill, said he doesn't think a new law banning children from handling machine guns is necessary and said the government can't always stop the risks of life.

"We've got kids on dirt bikes riding all over the place. We've got them on skateboards doing all kinds of things that are high risk," he said. "You can't take all of the risk out of life. When we drove here this morning, we all took a risk.""