GOP leaders seek to distance themselves from Michael Steele – TheHill.com

Ahh, to be a great man; to live the life of which others can only dream,  to walk with your head held high,to survey the landscape from your perch of power, and watch the little ones as they scurry to meet your every wish;  to feed your puerile interests with other people’s money, to inflame those around you with your self immolating actions.

There are few lthings in life more destructive to those around you than egoism, and Michael Steele has a severe and deadly case of the same.  It is astonishing to me that the party of  “family values” does not knock the knees out from under this man.   If they wish to do well in November, they would do well to put this behind them and put it behind them quickly.  Michael Steele, hale and farewell!

GOP leaders seek to distance themselves from Michael Steele – TheHill.com.

The Democrats Rejoice

I don’t always agree with David Brooks,  and coming from a man with a viewpoint more liberal than mine,  this piece on the current health-care legislation is very insightful.

Op-Ed Columnist – The Democrats Rejoice – NYTimes.com.

Just Another Step on the Road to Perdition

It’s over…  Obamacare is here.

I give the man credit.  His clinkers are definitely more substantial than I had imagined… I truly believed that he would not risk his presidency on such monumental legislation.  Nor did I believe he had the political will nor power to succeed.   Well I was very, very, very wrong.

When A policeman confronts an armed criminal, when a fireman steps into a burning building, when a president is instrumental in enacting such legislation, there are risks involved.  I do not believe that the American citizenry wanted this bill.  Mid-term elections will tell the tale.  If republicans win big in November, Obama might be served up as a lame duck… just in time for thanksgiving.

News Analysis – Obama’s Health Care Victory Carries a Cost – NYTimes.com.

Do You Know Any al Quaeda Sympathizers?

For  a little dose of libertarian “tongue in cheekiness”, you must take this short quiz.  This is worth your time.  I laughed quite heartily.

Unconfirmedsources.com.

G.O.P. Chief Opposes Ideology Tests for Candidates – NYTimes.com

For those out there who think otherwise, I’ve got news for you…  There is such a thing as a reasonable republican!

G.O.P. Chief Opposes Ideology Tests for Candidates – NYTimes.com.

Is America Moving Right? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Pat Buchanan believes that Ron Paul’s ideas are what Americans are looking for.

Is America Moving Right? by Patrick J. Buchanan.

Is America Moving Right? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Pat Buchanan believes that Ron Paul’s ideas are what Americans are looking for.  I hope he’s right

Is America Moving Right? by Patrick J. Buchanan.

Treasury Resisting TARP Transparency, Oversight

700 Billion dollars… Real money, folks, and the banks can’t tell us what they did with it?  They seem to understand my mortgage pretty well.  Accountancy on gifted funds from the Fed must not be as important as the loans they make to the small fish like me.

Big business, big government, big problem, I’m thinkin’.

Read this article.  If you can come away without the understanding that BIG GOVERNMENT IS NOT OUR FRIEND, well… good luck comrade.

Treasury Resisting TARP Transparency, Oversight | Mother Jones.

RealClearPolitics – Election 2010 – Massachusetts Senate – Special Election

Who’d’a thunk it?  In one of the most liberal states in the nation,  Republican Scott Brown may be successor to one of the most liberal Democrats to ever sit in the Senate.  Ted Kennedy held his seat for 46 years, and certainly must be turning over in his grave at the possibility of this, what some might call, inconceivable notion.

RealClearPolitics – Election 2010 – Massachusetts Senate – Special Election.

Bubble Warning

It’s not just the “wackos” Peter Schiff and Gerard Celente that are talking about the current asset bubble and its implications for our economy… It’s  major magazines like The Economist that are forecasting a continuation of our economic problems.

2007 was a bad year with 2008 and 2009 only a little better, but that does not mean that our economy is on the road to recovery.  The worst may be yet to come folks.  2010 looks bad for America as well.

Japan’s market has languished for nearly twenty years.  Are we in for the same?

Markets: Bubble warning | The Economist.

It was the easy money policies of the Fed that created the market ambiguities that caused the current economic mess we are in, and more easy money policies and economic stimulus will not repair it.  That is like giving more poison to the already poisoned man in the hopes that it will cure him.

The Federal government and its central bank are this very day driving us deeper and deeper into an economic hole.  The Federal Reserve Bank is the primary reason that we are in this mess.  Its power over the money supply has given politicians the wherewithal to grow the authoritan government immensely, to finance its wars and social programs, and serve the needs of the banker/market/oligarchs on Wall Street.

Andrew Jackson killed the Bank of the United States, and we need to kill the Federal Reserve Bank. Jackson believed that the Bank of the United States was a threat to the liberty of the people.   The  threat of the central bank has not changed.  There is no greater threat to our liberty than the FRB.