Open Letter to Dear Leader

I heard about this on the radio this morning. A little poking around found the full text (and even Snopes says it is true).

Lou Pritchett, former VP at Procter and Gamble, wrote an open letter to The Messiah. He sent it to the New York Times, which of course refused to publish it. Pritchett is quite well known in business circles, having written the book 'Stop paddling and start rocking the boat". Follows is his letter in it's entirety. I interject some of my comments in parenthesis. Again, we do the job the NYT refuses to do.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

By Lou Pritchett

Dear President Obama:

• You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
  
  
• You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. (Where has the press been?)
  
  
• You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. (Again, the press is missing in action)
  
  
• You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
  
  
• You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll. (But now you think you can run GM, and Health Care? And you think a 'pay czar' to regulate the compensation of private business men is a good idea)
  
  
• You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core. (And you don't understand the nature of evil - that makes the military necessary)
  
  
• You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others. (And would you please hire a decent Protocol adviser so you will stop embarrassing yourself with other world leaders? And embarrassing us)
  
  
• You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail. (And you have adopted socialist policies to usher in that failure)
  
  
• You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad. (I wonder why you is not proud of America? We know your wife isn't)
  
  
• You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
  
  
• You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one. (Please look at Canada and Britain for lessons in what does not work)
  
  
• You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves. (All the time trying to convince the gullible that it has something to do with reducing our dependence on foreign oil)
  
  
• You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world. (I suspect it is so you can exert more control over what is left)
  
  
• You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations. (Karl Marx, call your office)
  
  
• You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals. (Why would they? your goals are aligned with their goals)
  
  
• You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people. (You said you would - but you lied .. yes, I said LIED)
  
  
• You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient. (Why do you think we call you the Messiah?)
  
  
• You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do. (Nuf said)
  
  
• You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view. (Look for the Fairness Doctrine - by some other name)
  
  
• You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. (Karl Marx, call your office)
  
  
• Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years. (Wonder if I will be able to keep my blog? Will I need a 'license'?)

Lou Pritchett

Finally

Finally someone has put action behind the widely held belief (at least among those that are paying attention) that the Federal Government's 'bailout' of the auto industry is, shall we say, questionable.

Back in 2008 Congress passed the TARP bill. (I doubt the Constitution allows this - but the Constitution does not seem to matter anymore in this country). This authorized the government to spend up to $700 billion to purchased 'troubled' assets from FINANCIAL institutions. The common understanding of 'financial' institutions would NOT include, for instance, General Motors. Later, the House passed a bill (which the Senate rejected) a bill to authorize money to bail out the car companies.

So, this raises the obvious point: Since congress tried to specifically authorize an auto bail out - they knew it had not already done so under TARP.

John Spratt, Chair of the House Budget committee said back in April:

“I would think that for a government officer to extend a warranty that will create a liability for the government, an act of law would be required,”

The 'warranty' of which he speaks is the government backing the auto warranties of GM. It creates a liability for the government. This is something congress must authorize - it in NOT in the President's authority to do so on his own.

Fast forward to now. The State of Indiana is challenging the use of government funds on the Chrysler bailout on both legal and/or Constitutional grounds. Finally!! The State is representing the interests of a couple of State Employee pension funds that held stakes in Chrysler. These 'working families' have gotten hosed in the deal. The secured creditors (bond holders) were treated unfairly.

If this suit succeeds - and it SHOULD - what happens? Well, first the Chrysler bail out will be derailed. This is fine - bankruptcy court awaits.

The more interesting question is the already completed GM fiasco. It the suit succeeds, it will lead to the de-facto conclusion the The Messiah acted ILLEGALLY in the GM situation. He will essentially be found to have violated the LAW. No, we do not hold out much hope that this will matter. But, it certainly will shine the light more directly on the inappropriate nature of His Highness' actions.

This interference in private business must be stopped. I hope this suit is part of the weaponry to do so. If we don't stop this, the days of a booming private sector economy are numbered. We will start to look like England back before Margaret Thatcher righted their ship.

As always - when you are a Democrat - It's different

Unless you have been living in a cave with Bin-Laden, you know that far-left Sonia Sotomayor was recently nominated to the Supreme Court by the far-left Messiah.

I personally strongly object to this nominee. Not so much that she is a leftist, though, of course this does not thrill me. Elections have consequences - this is one of them.

My objection has to do with her judicial philosophy. It can be summed up in one candid comment, caught on video:

The court of appeals is where policy is made

Now, we have always known this. When the Left cannot get their ideas implemented at the ballot box - they revert to the courts. The Right is always complaining about 'Judicial Activism'. By this they mean the court making policy from the bench - that has the full force of law. Their proper role is to simply judge whether a law is in line with what the Constitution actually says (as opposed to what one might wish it said).

Despite the fact that she WILL be confirmed, I shall make a couple of brief observations.

• She said that a Latino woman, with her rich experience, would make better LEGAL decisions than a white man without those experiences! Can you imagine had a White man said a similar thing? How about 'White Men with their superior upbringing will make better decisions than a black raised in a housing project'? . So, the judge is a RACIST.
  
  
• She is a member of the Hispanic group 'La Raza'. Their motto - 'For the Race (Hispanic) everything, outside the Race, nothing'. How does that strike you? Sounds like something from the KKK. So,she is STILL a racist.
  
  
• Of the 6 opinions that she has written that have been reviewed by the Supreme Court - 5 have been overturned. Awesome. She is out of touch with the realities of modern juris prudence.
  
  
• She dismissed, in ONE paragraph, the race discrimination suit by a group of fire-fighters from New Haven. The case is interesting because the fire-fighters are white. The city gave a promotion test - and not 'enough' minorities passed. So, the city CANCELLED the promotion. The lead plaintiff, Ricci, suffers from Dyslexia. It took tremendous effort for him to pass(he got the 6th highest score). But, in effect, the Judge said since Ricci was not black, it did not matter. Court watchers expect the current Court to concur with Ricci and re-instate the test and promotion.
  
  
• This one is not her fault. All I heard the first few days after the announcement was 'rich life experience' and 'empathy from the bench'. Bull. The Dems did not care about Clarence Thomas' life experience. Nor did they care about that of Doris Rogers Brown. And since when is 'empathy' a qualification for being on the Supreme Court? The legislatures are where 'empathy' is expressed. The Supreme Court is to simply rule as to whether that 'empathy' violates the Constitution. So - she lacks rigor.
  
  
• Even the Liberal legal analysist Jonathon Turley noted that Sotomayor does not have the intellectual firepower to sit on the Supreme Court. It appears she lacks intellectual heft (or gravitas).
  

Make no mistake - she will be confirmed. She is Hispanic, has female genitals, and is a Liberal. So the rest will not matter. This is simply an affirmative action nominee.

Folks - this is what you get when you elect a Leftist, Statist, Marxist for President. And as he said in a recent speech: 'You ain't seen nothing yet'. It will take a generation or more to undo the damage that this guy is visiting on us.

Just the same old liberal bias - what is funny for them is 'insensitive' for us

Ok - this is the story about two attempts at humor.

1) Wanda Sykes at the White House correspondents dinner. Now, Wanda can be funny, but not always. Try these on for size"

• Indicating that Rush Limbaugh wanted the country to fail - just like Osama bin Laden (her words). To set the facts straight - Limbaugh said he wanted The Messiah to fail in his attempts to bring socialist policies to the US.
  
  Distortion or lie, your choice
  
  
• She said he probably did it when he was strung out on Oxy.
  
  I thought the Left thinks all addiction is a disease. Not very PC of Wanda! (Just holding them to their own standards.)
  
  
• She the said she hope Rush's kidneys would fail.
  
  And the left gets in SUCH a lather if someone on the Right were to say something as
  'mean-spirited'.
  

What makes what Wanda said newsworthy? Well, The Messiah himself was there to hear it. And laughed right along with everyone else at every line. So much for 'lowering the partisanship' and 'healing our souls'. Right on there Barack.

2) In comparison, the golf announcer David Feherty wrote a column, which said in part:

"From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though, despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death."

And now, bowing to pressure, he is apologizing!!! BS. For what? For telling the God's honest truth? That there are legions of people in this country who have the same feeling - that Queen Nancy is a traitor. Notice the Mr. Feherty did NOT wish a bad fate on the Queen - he was simply pointing out the obvious TRUTH - there are people who dislike Ms. Pelosi's policy choices.

I for one am embarrassed for the people of California for electing that retard to office...again and again.

This all just proves once again (as if it were needed) - that 'when you are a Democrat, it is different'. It is different because you can say what you want, insult who you want, lie about who you want,...and wish death on who you want. You will get zero negative feedback from the 'watchdog' press - zero.

Things must be much worse out there that we conservatives even realize.

Something else you will not see on ABCCBSNBCNPRCNNMSNBC

Not to worry - we bring you updates the big boys are too afraid to touch. In this story, we read about one of the circumstances that makes us Pro-Gun and Pro-2nd Amendment.

Turns out two dirtbags broke into an apartment full of students. The assailants were masked and armed. Their apparent reason was robbery, rape, and probably murder.

Luckily - a heads up student retrieved a gun from his backpack and killed one of the assailants. He was probably prohibited from legally carrying in campus. So, hiding in the backpack was probably a more discreet idea. Wish more students would do this - only makes sense in this day and age. Oh - The second scumbag jumped out a window and escaped.

This brave student stopped the 'cycle of violence' - just like the Left is always squawking about. Of course, killing the guy that started the violence is probably not what they have in mind. Screw them then. If they want to get raped and murdered because they don't want to fight back against the 'misunderstood' bad guy --- Have at it.

For me and my house - we will defend our lives if needed.

A bit more on the cost cutting front

In a previous post, I was pointing out the scam that The Messiah was trying to pull by cutting 100 Million dollars out of a Three TRILLION dollar budget. As wonderful a job as I did trying to explain how ridiculous this was (and I did do a bang up job!) - The kid that made this video tops me easily. Kudos to him.

ACORN in the news again - Will Obama ever care?

ACORN is in the news once again. It seems over the last months this has been the case numerous times. They are being indicted for voter registration fraud. And lest you think this is some vast right wing conspiracy, Even John Conyers, a DEMOCRAT is suggesting they be investigated. An interesting blog focused on ACORN abuses can be found here.

What is ACORN? They describe themselves as 'community organizers'. Remember, that was Obama's main experience prior to being in the Senate - a 'community organizer'. ACORN is a way-left organization that has come to prominence for their activities in Democrat funding voter registration efforts. They have been the target of various criminal probes in at least 11 states. Their alleged activities have centered around fraudulent voter registration drives. These are said to have resulted in tens of thousands of bogus voter registrations.

They also recently orchestrated 'spontaneous' protests to prevent police from evicting people from houses that they had illegally occupied after the owners were foreclosed on.

They also have ties to The Messiah, going back a decade or more.

Why does this matter? Well, they have been hired by the Obama White House to provide temporary workers to 'help' with the upcoming census! The whole census is already a mess. It is normally run by the Commerce Department. But, for reasons one can probably easily guess, The Messiah has put the control of the 2010 census in the hands of his Chief of Staff, Rahm (who said 'Never let a good crisis go to waste) Emanuel.

So, we have:

• The census under direct control of the White House.
  
• We have ACORN deeply involved in the census
  
• A long history of The One's relationship with ACORN (or organizations directly affiliated with ACORN)
  
• A multi-year, multi-state record of alleged corrupt activities by ACORN
  

What can we infer from this?

• The Messiah is getting ready to try to sway the census
  
• He is doing so by using an organization with a long history of corruption
  
• This can well cause an illegal tilt in the head count
  
• The census is used for determining the number of House seats a state gets, as well as the funding that goes to cities within a state.
  
• We can expect a huge over-counting in areas that already lean Democratic.
  

Folks, this is corruption of a breath-taking scale. BHO is subverting one of the foundations of our system. He is utilizing a criminal organization to do so.

Where is the outrage? And - where the HELL is the PRESS. If a Republican tried this we would already be hearing about Articles of Impeachment being drawn up.

Is anyone awake out there anymore?