January 16, 2013 - 12:19 am
- Standing Up for Our Future, by Allen B. West. Former Congressman Allen West joins PJ Media to lead our Next Generation programming. Visit http://NextGeneration.TV, and sign up for the weekly newsletter to stay informed on our work to preserve the American dream for future generations.
- Political Change — Revisited, by Roger L Simon. How do you change someone so successful in LA, DC, or the MSM, someone who has wealth and power while feeling so inordinately good about him or herself?
- The War Rages, The White House Ducks, Death Abounds, by Michael Ledeen. Maybe some Senator has the gravitas to ask Messrs Kerry, Hagel and Brennan about these matters.
- On Civil Disobedience, Then and Now,by Michael Walsh. That Texas Republican who’s threatening legislation to jail any gun-grabbin’ federales in the Lone Star State actually has history on his side.
- The Imaginary Rabbi and the Dead End Kid: Another Evening with Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla, by Kathy Shaidle. The talk radio titan and standup comedy king keep the show going.
- Will Obama’s Gun Package Include Bypassing Congress on ATF Director? By Bridget Johnson. Gun-control advocates including Bloomberg are urging a recess appointment for the nomination that’s long been stalled in the Senate.
- A Parable of a Broken Bully, by Bryan Preston. Are we depriving boys of the chance to become men?
- With Mass Murderers, a Different Profile, by Neo-Neocon. These killers generally come from intact homes.
- WI School Teaches Diversity Course on ‘White Privilege,’ by Rick Moran. Is there any value in teaching a class about white “oppression?”
On the debt ceiling–and a whole lot of other stuff–it has finally become clear to me how offended Obama was by Reagan growing up, and frustrated by Clinton. That means any time he can twist the screws, he will–because in his eyes he’s been a very patient man with people of small character (hence his disdain for Romney–thinking Romney led *purely* a non-noble life, not recognizing the community building work he did as a deacon, and frankly, as a businessman).
Obama is blowing up the deficit because it *offends* him that there is not, say, a 50% or 70% tax rate, and it *offends* him that Reagan may have tried to blow up the deficit to cut entitlement programs, and keep defense. Obama is thus playing for revenge, and is trying to set into stone a Progressive template, finally, irretrievably, using his minority status as a shield.
People are seriously going to have to think about splitting apart, because there is no counterwieght to this man in academia or the press. They disdain us as well.
To reiterate the point–it is my view that, above all else, Barack Obama is just plain offended at a world where there are rich and poor, and he has decided the United States will tax at a rate at 50% or 70%, because that’s right in his eyes. And thus, to insure that happens–budget busting things, expecting the people to vote for the goodies at other’s expense.
He’s quite willing to risk the entire economy to do so. That’s why they truly fear the debt ceiling–conditions are not yet far enough advanced to get them where they wish to go. Stop him at the debt ceiling, and you’ve stopped him.
To expand–the number of extraordinary proposals coming from the Left, to find a way around the debt ceiling–giving the White House unilateral authority, the coin trick, etc.–indicate to me they view it as a genuine problem to their long range plans that probably does not poll in their direction. It is thus the best weapon in the arsenal of Liberty, and the GOP should be willing to take considerable short term damage to employ it, if needs be.
Everything about the Left for the last four years indicate they fear having to say “no”, that government has limits, on the record, more than anything else. Perhaps because it scuttles the plan for higher taxes (and hence hierarchy of virtue), perhaps because they wish some sort of nationalization, perhaps because the support they have is more ephemeral than realized. I do not know. I do know this–Push them on it. It is clearly a weak spot.