All Posts Tagged With: "President Barack Obama"
Timing, priorities, political capital, and why Brian Pierce should be patient
At the risk of inflaming the Rainbow Panther brigade, Brian Pierce should simmer down about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, (”DADT”) at least for a little while. Even the most strident gay rights advocate should be able to see that the progressive cause is facing more pressing national priorities right now, like health care reform and the global economic crisis. Taking up DADT right now would be a distraction that would cost the Obama Administration too much political capital. Read more…
Yes we can? Ok I am still waiting.
So beloved leader is starting another Hate America tour, kissing the butts of our enemies and fair weather friends in the middle east while alienating our only true alliance. great! meanwhile, have you noticed gas is creeping back up, 2.70 per gallon in town today. And we have drilled exactly no new oil wells, broke ground on exactly no new refineries, developed exactly no coal shale technology, built exactly no new nuke plants, developed exactly no new natural gas fields, run exactly no new pipelines from Anwar, let’s see – what we have done is spend a butt ton of money, not sure on what —– Oh probably our new attack submarine fleet, oh no, maybe new fighter jets? no we are cutting back on those, probably our new satellite defense system, – no, well maybe it is on our revitalized space program, well no not that either. I don’t think we have even built new levies for those leeches in New Orleans who are too stupid to know better than to build their town below sea level! But we are ok if Iran develops nuclear technology as long as they cross-their-hearts-and-hope-to-die promise no to use it for weapons. How many Trillions, or Bazillions, (or gaggles or googles or whatever) have we spent? (no not on date night with Michele but on making America the greatest nation on earth?) Easy answer – exactly none
With the money we are spending we could build coast to coast high speed railroads, develop a fleet of natural gas cars and trucks, hell we could build a tunnel to Brittan! A new power transmission grid fed by new advanced nuclear reactors, all dangerous spent nuclear fuel should be safely buried a mile deep in solid bedrock below Nevada at Yucca Mountain. We should be completely energy independent from the nuts in the Middle East. Lets revitalize our steel industry. A nation that doesn’t make its own steel is in decline. Let’s measure this “great” administration’s success by how much they BUILD (lest Atlas shrugs and all the builders go away). Crap, I’d settle for a fleet of Zeppelins!
Santelli’s Chicago Tea Party
If you watch CNBC, you know Rick Santelli. He reports from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. I love his fire. The polemicist goes nuts in the video below about the recent bailout bill and its socialist implications. He proposes a Chicago Tea Party and the idea has some traction.
I find it sad that we forget the values that have made us the most powerful nation in history – economic liberty and limited government intervention – when fear overwhelms logic. Our economy is too complex for the federal government to micromanage it. If America maintains its dominance during China’s rise, it will be because of inefficient and corrupt intervention in the marketplace from the Chinese government. Markets require extensive regulation to prevent them from self-destructing, but market intervention is distinct from market regulation. Economists still debate whether FDR’s Keynesian spending programs hurt or helped the economy. Markets fluctuate and we must learn to accept years of recession. We cope with recessions because in the long-run free markets will generate a far greater abundance than enslaved markets. Big government spending tends to create moral hazard, be inefficient, create abundant opportunities for corruption and create a network of perverse incentives.
A Facebook group and a website have been started to organize the Santelli revolutionaries. I have joined the Facebook group.
While I agree with many of Obama’s social views, I chose not to vote for Obama because I fear his faith in the slimy squid tentacles of the federal government and his lack of faith in the system of economics that has created an abundance of wealth, health, education, universities, food, luxury, travel, philosophy, art, music and film – all of the things that make us human.
Perhaps after reading this post you will no longer doubt my conservative credentials.
President Obama’s Inaugural Address
Hit the jump for the full text of the speech. Please post your thoughts on his speech on this thread. Read more…