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As Scott Brown votes to move forward with the bloated democrat jobs bill, we feel sorrowful that the “conservative” who took over Kennedy’s seat may not be who we thought he was. This is our own fault. Not that Brown is going against the ideals that he campaigned on, but because we thought he would actually follow through with the promises that he made. It’s really saddening to think that we vote in support of a representative’s ideas, and then he gets to Washington and doesn’t vote in su pport of his own values. (or supposed values) The problem here is accountability that is completely abandoned when politicians reach office. Why did we actually believe that he was the conservative he said he was? We want so hard to believe that we can trust politicians that we forget the simple truth; that politicians are untrustworthy. If you can count on more than one hand politicians that you actually trust to be whom they say they are then I believe you are living in a dream world. For thousands of years we’ve known that politicians are usually corrupt, but we are quick to trust one at election time. We hear all the time people saying that they voted for Obama because they believed in what he said.
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Proud to be your friend, Dalai Lama! |
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 When we look past the political rhetoric, this nation’s severe deficiency of leadership is blatantly obvious. The signs of this deficiency start in the White House and cascade all through Congress, and down through all levels of state and local governments.
The appointment of dozens of czars by President Obama has added to the bureaucratic mess in trying to get the right things done in Washington. And appointing a Deficit Reduction Commission a year after being in office is not a sign of good leadership, especially when the president said in December 2008 that “deficits don’t matter”. When both chambers of Congress spent a year addressing a manufactured health care crisis to end up deadlocked with two terrible proposals is a sure sign of leadership deficiency. Many members are still in denial that they are working on the wrong problem despite a majority of the voters trying to tell them otherwise.
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Why do Democrats love dependence? Because everything else is their competition |
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It’s often said that the Democratic Party is anti-business. In a sense, that’s true, but it’s ironic. The Democratic Party may be the biggest and most sophisticated business in America. And it acts like most other businesses. The objective of a business is to convince as large a market as possible to purchase a product or service, and this is generally done by convincing the people in that market that their lives won’t be as complete without whatever it is you’re offering.  The Democrats offer any number of things that might be categorized as “benefits,” a description that holds insofar as it describes things that purportedly either make your life better or, at the very least, protect you from some sort of catastrophe you couldn’t handle if left to your own devices.
The reason Democrats are anti-business, therefore, is that private-sector businesses compete with government – and thus, with Democrats, the party of government – to provide the goods, services and benefits that make your life better.
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Politics, cars, golf and TV game shows |
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Either television’s star is rising again or this is the final nova, exploding into the Internet black hole. It doesn’t matter. Forget prime time. Stay glued to your sets for the Daytime Olympics. Or at least set your DVR. The television spectacular began last Friday, as we cringed while watching that golf automaton mechanically recite the contrite words and phrases his advisers had programmed into him. It was eerily amazing to see how human he almost seemed to be. On Tuesday, we can observe Toyota’s dynastic leader and the members of his court while they do the same kind of thing as they try and prove that their conduct has not been inhuman. In this instance the charges are that what Whooziz did to a few dozen groupies, Toyota did to millions of customers.
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There has been much debate whether or not Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should have been read his Miranda rights when he was captured aboard the Detroit-bound Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day after attempting to explode a bomb he hid in his underpants. Proponents and critics alike make it appear that once someone has been Mirandized there is no turning back; that it’s an all or nothing proposition. How wrong they are. In a USA Today Op/Ed piece last week, John Brennan, the Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, defended the FBI’s decision to Mirandize Abdulmutallab after only 50 minutes of “interrogation.” Mr. Brennan wants you to believe that the FBI dispatched its most highly skilled interrogators to verbally work over Abdulmutallab, and that the agents gleaned highly actionable intelligence that the military can use to kill or capture other terrorists around the world. In reality, if you’re the new guy right out of the academy at the local FBI office, you will be the on-call duty agent on Christmas. The more senior agents are enjoying the holiday. New agents pay their dues by working on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day and other federal holidays as well as long boring stake outs after midnight. Mr. Brennan and pundits don’t seem to realize this.
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