Anyone who actually thinks other countries will pay attention to our bleats about human rights, women’s rights, the environment, nuclear weapons, etc., when we are totally disengaging from that world is just plain stupid. There is just no other word for it. And these people - Democrats - are in charge. Great.

Democrats in control and Obama in the WH - change for the worse that you can believe in.

Democrats - always a couple centuries behind, in education, trade, business, freedom, understanding….

Question: How long will it take for America to recover the lost economic opportunities and the lost wealth and the lost freedom from just a few short months of Obama, and one Democrat Congress?

Here’s an update from the Wall St Journal:

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A world of trade deals without the U.S.

President Obama heads for Asia this week to talk about U.S. economic recovery and reform, and one theme that we expect he’ll hear from Asian leaders is this: America is leaving itself behind as the rest of the world tries to liberalize trade.

The numbers tell the story. At least 266 bilateral or regional trade deals are in force, according to the World Trade Organization, and there are roughly 100 more of which the WTO has not yet been formally informed. The U.S. is a party to only five of the 64 trade pacts that have taken effect since 2005—with Australia, Morocco, Bahrain, Oman and Peru.

In contrast, eight of those 64 deals involve the European Union (plus a round of EU expansion) and Japan has signed nine. Overall the U.S. has trade deals with only 17 countries including Canada and Mexico under Nafta. The EU has struck 29 deals on trade ranging from customs unions to larger free-trade agreements with 40 economies.

Of the deals the WTO knows about, an average of seven took effect each year in the five years after the WTO’s founding in 1995. For 2004-2008, the annual average rose to 15. Another 12 have kicked in this year. New Zealand and Malaysia signed a pact last week, for instance, and China and India are in talks. Oh, and there’s also the newly signed EU-Korea trade deal, and the one signed last year between Canada and Colombia.

These deals are proliferating for many reasons. Some countries are losing patience with the Doha round of global trade talks that has dragged on for eight years. Others view bilateral deals as a way of liberalizing beyond what Doha would accomplish—including areas like intellectual-property protection. These deals can also firm up alliances or build political influence, which is one reason China is aggressively pursuing trade deals with its neighbors.

The danger is that U.S. companies could find themselves on the wrong side of deals negotiated among other countries. The EU-South Korea pact, for example, will tear down almost all remaining tariff barriers between the two sides. It will also address such technical barriers as the excessive safety standards that Seoul has long used to block imports, and it will open Korea to European services. The U.S. has long tried to address these hurdles so American companies could gain better access to the world’s 13th-largest economy. The EU is now beating Washington to the punch—largely by copying the trade deal the Bush Administration negotiated with Seoul but that Congress refuses to ratify.

The same holds for Canada’s deal with Colombia. That deal eliminates Colombia’s average 12% tariffs on nonagricultural goods from Canada; U.S. exporters will still have to pay those tariffs even as Colombians keep tariff-free access to the U.S. under an earlier agreement. Over time Canadian farmers will gain tariff-free access to Colombia for most of their agricultural exports while farmers in Iowa or Nebraska will be stuck with tariffs of between 5% and 80%.

Bilateral trade deals are far from ideal as a way to promote global growth. Far better for governments to lower their own trade barriers unilaterally to all comers, or for all governments to sign a multilateral deal like the Doha round. A complex web of bilateral and regional trade deals can saddle businesses with the costs of complying with multiple sets of rules. This “spaghetti bowl” approach also distorts economies to the extent that businesses make trade and investment decisions based more on where they can get trade preferences than on the highest return on capital.

But when the U.S. sits on the sidelines, the rest of the world is going to find its own trading way, however imperfect. The nearby table shows some of the benefits U.S. companies will be missing.

A start to getting the U.S. back in the game would be for Congress to ratify the pending deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. Mr. Obama and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk need to rethink their emphasis on trade “enforcement,” which is code for introducing higher barriers, and instead renew the push for more deals. Mr. Obama could also become a leading voice pushing for progress on Doha. Especially as other countries expand their own trading opportunities, the costs of Washington dithering are growing every day.

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Yep - they even told the site owner (a lefty aggregator of lefty articles and columns already published elsewhere)  ”not to disclose the existence of this request” - a gag order - on a journalist - from the LEFT! Trying to gag her from telling people what a Lefty government is trying to do to a Lefty news site!!!!

How cool is that!

I keep telling you the Left generally, and Obama in particular, are totalitarians… Need any more proof?

The site reporting it? CBS News - not NewsMax or some Righty organization…. a “news” organization trusted by the Left!

Change you can believe in!

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As the two largest state budget items are Education and Medicaid, and since the Pelosi/Obamacare bill will put huge new requirements on states for additional Medicaid funding, the only way to get those funds will be for the states to lower the amount of money spent on education (most states have constitutional requirements of balancing their budgets).

By expanding Medicaid in the health care bill, Congress will set off political tornadoes across the country that will leave governors and state legislators to clean up afterward.  The math is simple, says Heritage:

• State revenues are still in a slump and will continue for a least a few more years.

• The two largest state and local expenditures are education and Medicaid.

• If you have to balance a budget, which nearly every state does, and you cannot touch the entitlement to Medicaid, where will you turn to fill the budget gap?

• There will be little choice than to go after education.

According to The Fiscal Survey of States, published by the National Association of State Budget Officers:

• Some 31 states cut higher education and 26 states cut K-12 education in 2009.

• Even with additional federal funding for Medicaid, 25 states still made reductions in Medicaid by cutting reimbursement to providers.

• Next year will be more of the same; some states are already reporting higher Medicaid costs due not only to increased enrollment because of higher unemployment but also because of packed emergency rooms due to the swine flu.

• Governors of both parties are wondering whether Washington really knows what is going on around the country.

(California will be an exception, opting for complete bankruptcy as the voters there again return to office in 2010 the same idiots who now are destroying that once-Golden State. And as Californians are aware, the voters passed a proposition (Prop 98 in 1998) several years ago requiring a set percentage of the General Fund to go to Education. So… if that goes to Education, and if Pelosi/Obama care passes, requiring a huge increase in state outlays for Medicaid… then where will the state get billions more money than it can now find? Simple: It won’t. Remember - Pelosi is a Californian who has just passed legislation that will utterly destroy California… )

Intelligent people understand why lowering education funding is not a problem for the Democrats ramming unwanted healthcare down the throats of current citizens (soon-to-be-subjects): Democrats rely on ill-educated voters to remain in power.

Simply, intelligent, educated people don’t vote for Democrats or support Democrat programs. (We’re talking about education here, not degrees… At Harvard, for example, the average grade is a B+. Not much education goes on at a school where the average grade is a B+…)

Intelligent people understand that the reason the standard of in living in most European countries would rank below the U.S. average is because of the kinds of programs Democrats keep trying to pass.

Intelligent people understand the Obama’s economic policies, like FDR’s before him, are turning a recession into a Depression.

Intelligent people understand that the only reason the West remains free is that the Free-Market economy of the US creates enough wealth to pay for the defense of the West – and to allow all other Western countries – and Japan – to be able to spend their tax revenues on unsustainable social welfare programs rather than their own defense.

Intelligent people understand that, in a Constitutional republic, the Constitution matters – and those in government under the American Constitution, a government of limited powers, are not empowered to take over the private sector or grab the healthcare system

If teacher unions were outlawed and we again actually educated the voter franchise (as we did before Boomer parents allowed unions to mal-educate their children, resulting in every succeeding generation being less-educated than their parents, for the first time in American history), the Democrat party of today would disappear. Of course, so would the fringe of the GOP - both VERY GOOD THINGS.

So once again, Democrats have proved beyond a shadow-of-a-doubt that they are the party of totalitarians – that what We the People want, and what the Constitution does and doesn’t allow – are of no moment to the tyrants of the Totalitarian Left as they move ever-forward in destroying America, our future, and the future of our children and theirs.

In a Democrat paradise, we all look like Europe (and here and here and here).

• Europe is the utterly failed demi-continent that has never ceased killing each other in tribal wars except when sandwiched between NATO and the Warsaw Pact from 1945 – 1989.
• Europe is the utterly-failed demi-continent that has created virtually no jobs in over three decades.
• Europe is the utterly-failed demi-continent, each country of which is in demographic decline – all are drastically losing population, some irretrievably so, such as Spain and Italy, who cannot recover from the lack of children in which these policies have resulted.
• Europe is the utterly failed demi-continent that has invented nothing scientifically, medically or culturally in nearly a century.

Those of you supporting Obama/Pelosi care need to understand that doing so means you also are supporting a lowering of the quality of your kids’ education – and of all other kids in the US. This, of course, will result in an increase in H1B visas as more and more businesses conclude they cannot find enough educated Americans to fill their jobs. Which will, of course, mean fewer jobs for your kids when they graduate from college.

With the general tax increases Obamacare will require, more and more of these companies, rather than trying to find foreigners willing to come here, uninterested in paying the ever-increasing taxes of the Obamians, unable to convince themselves that any financial plans will withstand another year or two of Congressional malfeasance in constantly changing the rules and the playing field, and unable to see how the trillions of dollars of deficits Obama is promising for the next ten years ever will be repaid, simply will move to other countries.

And of course taking even more jobs with them as they go.

So – as long as you have no kids (Blue states – Democrats) and don’t care that the continuation of these policies not only will bankrupt the states but drive all job creation offshore (as European job-creation went to America in the past few decades, along with all innovation), as long as you just don’t give a crap about the future of America, the environment, freedom, human rights… then you should continue to support those in the White House and Congress who want to be – and whom you are allowing to become – our Rulers.

You should be so proud.

States will of course, have alternatives: They can raise taxes – which has worked so well for CA, NY and MI that they are losing intelligent voters in droves – and their tax base with them, becoming even more broke  – as those intelligent voters move to Red states with sane economic, regulatory, tort reform and tax and spend policies.

Another, arguably better alternative is this: states with intelligent voters (Red States) should just secede.

If the Blue states want to continue to lower the standard of living of the intelligent people making good decisions, in order to raise the standard of living of illegal immigrants, gang-bangers, hip-hoppers who don’t go to school, and babies having babies, and everyone else making poor decisions and who thinks those decisions should not have real-world consequences,  fine.

But no reason exists for intelligent people to support these idiocies.

If Blue states want to raise taxes and kill jobs and continue unionized mal-education of their children (the few they have, all Blue states being in net population decline), no reason exists that Red staters should have to lower their standard of living, their wealth, their jobs, their futures (we DO have children) to support them.

If Blue-staters really think that their policies will result in a better future - let them try them out without the safety net of Red-state tax revenues redistributed to those Blue states as they fail.

Civil War? Naah… In your wildest dreams you can’t imagine Kos or Babs or Kerry or Gore or Pelosi supporting the spending of blood or treasure to keep Red staters in the union. Besides – the Red states have all the big National Guards, the gun owners, the agriculture, large seaports and airports, internal communications (railroads, roads, telephone circuits, etc.), and most of the gorgeous scenery. (We’ll need to get visas to visit Yosemite, but that’s about it). Blue states? They have the big 19th-Century cities, ancient smokestack industries, unions, bad schools, urban rioting, uneducated masses, little food, no innovation – and all the lawyers.

Blue staters? They’ll have to cross America (the real, Constitutional America) to get from coast-to-coast. They’ll have to buy food from us. They’ll have to get a visa to visit Yellowstone, ski in the Rockies, and see the Grand Canyon.

And think of the trade we can do with the Blue states, and the profit we can make from feeding them. Red states are self-supporting; Blue states other than CA? Nope. And CA soon will be bankrupt.

There will be a problem in regard to those counties that vote Red but live in Blue states. I’m sure a bit of boundary re-ordering would be fine with the Blues – they don’t like those in Red geographies anyway, so we’ll just take them along. Blue folks living in Boulder and Albuquerque? Sorry – but you probably will have to move to a state that, like you, wants to destroy their future. Bye!

And Blue America? CA, NY, MI and the rest of them? They can just go down the economic toilet they so demand they be given the chance to do.

But we don’t need to sacrifice OUR kids to their idiocy.

So…  let’s leave – the sooner the better.

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Leaving aside the idiocy of using the liberty and freedom that exist only in the West to criticize the West, and leaving aside the FACT that nothing of note since paper (pre-Islamic Egypt) or gunpowder (pre-communist China) has EVER been invented in a non-Western culture, specifically in a non-European culture, the “Multiculturalist” still must explain how to celebrate this non-Western behavior.

Aren’t facts fun?

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Junk Science Returns to the White House

By Bill Frezza

Regardless of your tribal affiliations, were you cautiously optimistic when our new president promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in the formulation of public policy? Were you embarrassed by the prior occupant’s politicization of issues that should have been decided on a more scientific basis? Did you assume that Barack Obama would surround himself with apolitical science advisors unencumbered by embarrassing anti-science baggage and free of culture-war axes to grind?

To paraphrase a once famous mayor of New York - So how’s he doing so far?

You’re probably aware that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine supply has fallen dangerously short of the level required to protect the most vulnerable among us. In the spring Federal officials predicted that as many as 120 million doses would be available by now, as opposed to the 16 million doses that actually arrived. Flu vaccine is tricky to make under the best of circumstances, but there are scientifically safe and proven ways to stretch supplies. Are you aware that the Federal Government refuses to allow the use of adjuvants that can be used to produce twice as many doses from the same vaccine stock? This despite the fact that over 40 million doses of flu vaccine containing adjuvants have been dispensed in Europe over the past dozen years without any indication of a safety issue. Some people denied shots because of this decision are going to die. Does this policy sound scientific or political?

You’re probably aware that a mercury-containing preservative called thimerosal was removed from children’s vaccines in 2001 to mollify activists promoting the theory that thimerosal causes autism. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there was then and is still now no scientific evidence linking thimerosal to autism. Despite numerous peer-reviewed studies as well as the empirical fact that autism rates have not plunged since the 2001 thimerosal ban, as one would expect if the preservative were a leading cause of this heart breaking illness, the administration recently made a decision that further reduced the supply of H1N1 vaccine. It switched our country’s emergency H1N1 vaccine order from multi-dose to single-dose vials, causing production chain backups as vendors scrambled to accommodate the last-minute switch. Why the change? Because single-dose vials contain a lower concentration of thimerosal. Some people denied shots because of this decision are going to die. Does this policy sound scientific or political?

Did you know that despite the melting ice cap there are estimated to be five times as many polar bears wandering the northern regions of our planet today than there were fifty years ago? Studies indicate that the biggest threat to polar bears are not present climate conditions but forecasts of future conditions made by climate models. These are the same models that have been unable to explain why the hottest year on record was actually 11 years ago despite increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and that the world’s oceans appear to be cooling. This has not stopped the administration from proposing that 200,000 square miles of land, sea, and ice along the northern coast of Alaska be designated as “critical habitat for this iconic species.” Does reading this statement make you wonder whether polar bears are genuinely endangered or merely charismatic? Does this policy sound scientific or political?

Did you catch the recent peer-reviewed article by Princeton’s Tim Searchinger in Sciencemagazine on the impact of biofuels on global warming? The authors found that “corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years. Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50%.” Has the White House called for a halt on ethanol subsidies and blending mandates? Is Obama asking legislators to heed the scientific evidence and pull back from this widely recognized economic and ecological blunder? No. Does this policy sound scientific or political?

Have you looked at the background and track record of the chief scientist the president chose to advise him? In a book co-authored earlier in his career with Population Bomb alarmist Paul Erhlich, Presidential science advisor John Holdren discussed the merits of adding a sterilant to public drinking water supplies to reduce population growth. The book goes on to note that “compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution.” You see we, dear readers, are not citizens meant to be served by our government. We are pollutants. Does this policy sound scientific or insane?

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You  know.. WORK!?

Does he realize he’s American’s President?

He’s played more golf in 9 months than Bush did in 3 years.

He’s done 5 talk shows on one Sunday…

He has time to go on TV comedy shows like Letterman – he of the how-many-female-aides-can-I-have-an-affair-with-before-I-get-caught-and-since-I’m-a-celebrity-will-anyone-care fame.

He has time to take his wife to dinner in NYC (the White House Chef isn’t good enough for these two rubes from Chicago?) on the taxpayer’s dime – while we are sinking in joblessness and debt thanks to his policies of spend-spend-spend:

In the midst of his faux “reset” of relations with other Great Powers he snubbed Sarkozy’s request to dine and instead, again, took his wife to dinner.

He has time to take the wife – n – kids to Chicago for a weekend….

He’s bringing in all kinds of bands to play for himself and his Court – at the expense of taxpayers whose unemployment is reaching 10% - the highest since our last hard-left, do-gooder idiot, Carter.

This clown is the President. He asked for the responsibility – he begged for it… he spent nearly a billion dollars and who knows how much corruption to get/buy it…. He’s not there to vote “Present’ or take his wife on a date or fly home for the weekend or take his wife to dinner in NYC or Paris.

Do you think he understands the difference between a “Ruler” and a “President”? Does he understand his job entails more than just showing-up?

Because I don’t think he does…. It sure doesn’t look as though he does, does it?

He can spend our money doing all of this. He can ignore the report of his hand-picked General in Afghanistan. He can ignore that he, as Commander-in-Chief, can send men and women to their deaths everyday in a war he called “Important,” yet he can’t take the time to read McChrystal’s report on needing more troops. Why can’t he read it on the way to dinner? Why can’t he skip a golf game to read for a few hours?

This Obama moron has ZERO background in …  well, in anything at all… but certainly not in military matters, yet here he is thinking he can responsibly act as Commander-in-Chief during a war and NOT READ HIS OWN GENERAL’S REPORT!

The economy is getting worse since his appallingly stupid “stimulus” package that instead of creating jobs – as a tax cut would have done – and like JFK, Reagan, Bush all did to successfully revive the economy, and now he is talking about a second “stimulus.”

Evidently we didn’t destroy the future of American’s economy enough by borrowing $787B from the Chinese and ruining our children’s futures through this truly ignorant socialist…now we need to go back to the Chinese to borrow yet more… As though they will continue funding the atrociously spoiled adolescent, his partner-in-crime Pelosi and their continual DEMAND for yet MORE money to play with… forever!

Oh, yeah – and while our taxpayers are broke and laid-off and unemployed and need some help (like a tax cut that ALWAYS creates jobs…) and while Obama the Usurper is jetting-off taking his fat wife to dinner or going to Copenhagen on a 24-hour jaunt to gaze at the no-longer-adoring crowd to get turned-down for the Olympics (and while he is NOT going to Berlin to participate in the 20th Anniversary of the Fall-of-the-Wall).. and while HIS economy is tanking even faster than anyone thought nine months ago. He’s been in office now longer than was Bush at 9/11… It’s HIS economy.. it’s HIS war… isn’t it time he ACTED like it?

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What is Obama doing other than playing golf and taking his fat-butt wife to dinner?

Easy - he is devising ways to transfer yet MORE of our tax dollars to the “religion of peace” intent on killing Americans and destroying the West, our freedoms, our liberties, our future… in the name of an idiotic 7th-Century tribal form of government that some people IGNORANTLY insist on calling a “religion” and treating it as such in our – uniquely TOLERANT American and West, and giving its adherents the freedom to kill us as they want.. .and now our own President is aiding and abetting them.  He wants to give them money in a technology fund?

To fund what? Better IEDs? More and easier ways to kill Americans? Do the Saudis and Iranians and just not have a few mill to spend on developing their OWN people, their OWN economy? Their OWN futures? Or are they just too busy spending their money keeping their women out of the driver’s seat and out of the voting booth? Or are they just unable to find a spare couple mill while they are doing this?

Or is the Muslim future bent on destroying the West, destroying freedom and liberty, destroying women’s and children’s and gay rights (DUH), and Obama is just helping them along? Will Obama and the Muslims world not be satisfied until the West is destroyed and the 7th Century brought back to reality? OF COURSE! THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF JIHAD AND NOW OBAMA IS FUNDING THEIR TECHNOLOGY!!!

Because that’s sure what it looks like if you’re paying attention to what this idiot is doing – and not just listening to what he is saying – although THAT’S DUMB ENOUGH!

Does Obama yet understand it’s HIS economy now and he needs to GET TO WORK to fix it?

Does he understand he is President of the United States – AND WE COME FIRST?.. BEFORE HIS RELIGION.. BEFORE HIS SOCIALISM… BEFORE HIS SELF-ADMITTEDLY COMMUNIST ADVISORS… who worship the greatest mass-murderer in history as a role model for their philosophy…  AND BEFORE HIS GOLF GAME AND DINNER DATES?

BUT… he can’t even read the report from his General as American’s are being sent to war and out on patrol and being KILLED? EVERY single DAY?

Here’s your answer: This moron of a disengaged, haughty, holier-than-thou president of ours DOES understand what he is doing. He DOES understand he is destroying America, the Middle Class, the West. He DOES understand American sons and daughters are dying as he plays golf rather than reads the reports of HIS military…

… and he WANTS IT THAT WAY.

THIS MAN IS AN ENEMY OF AMERICA AND MUST BE STOPPED.

If you don’t see that, if you don’t see that he is destroying our future, that he is destroying everything that is America, that he is destroying the chance that our kids and grandkids will have for anything even CLOSE to the freedom we have taken for granted….

THEN YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION.

“Don’t it always seem to go / That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” - Joni Mitchell.

It once was a song. Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Emmanuel-Murtha-Rangel-Frank-Dodd-Schumer… are making it a destructive reality.

What are YOU going to do about it?

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To the contrary, Rush has done some very good things for the country. The only ones who lack this understanding are those trying to turn America into something it is not and never has been (and one hopes never will be), and those believing (unwilling to listen or to think for themselves) the stereotype fashioned by a media unable to compete with Rush in historical knowledge, popularity, ratings, ideas and the ability to articulate them to America.

So – what’s the “problem”?

He can do so much more – right from the Golden EIB mic. I’m not asking that he run for office – heaven forbid!

Rush has tremendous energy and ability. But if there is an overall strategy other than anecdotally pushing-back on the media and Liberals daily, I don’t see or hear it.

He has a great time doing what he does, and he accomplishes quite a bit with his tactics. Many feel he was in large part responsible for the 1994 GOP takeover of Congress – and he’d only been national for a few years then. He is alot of fun to listen to, even when one disagrees with him, simply because he has such a great time going to work every day and doing what he does.

But I don’t hear or see an overarching strategy to take-down the anti-American Left in such a way that it is not just momentarily defeated, but pushed into history’s dustbin where it truly belongs.

For this can be done. The anti-American Left can be made to disappear from the American political landscape in any form more important than the Lyndon Larouchers. But it will require sustained attack. It will require a strategy of years. It will require programming designed to accomplish the goal of ridding America of the idiocy of the these people.

One can rant and rave and joke and play soundbites and laugh all day at the idiocies of the “Progressives” (not!). In fact, for those with critical thinking skills and an understanding of history, it is increasingly difficult not to do so.

But these people still vote. These people continue to return true idiots to office year-after-year.

Barney Frank comes to mind. He almost singlehandedly destroyed the global financial system, causing trillions of dollars to evaporate, and now wants to loosen credit requirements again for those who can’t pay for the loans they are given (the cause of the financial melt-down to begin with) – and he now wants to do it AGAIN….  –  yet he doubtless will be re-elected.

Obama comes to mind. Here is a man with no experience at, well, at anything…  who has never held a job – any job, not even a lemonade stand – who demonstrably has no concept of Western history or culture, the Enlightenment, the Reformation, the Rights of Man, of economics, foreign policy, defense policy, cannot think on his feet or articulate ideas absent a teleprompter and a speech written by another, who is as close to a  psychotic zealot as anyone ever in public office in America at any level (one cannot answer, as he did during the campaign, if he “ever” has doubts about his ideas and policy, with an immediate “No,” unless one is a zealot, has a God complex, or both).

BUT WE VOTED THIS GUY INTO OFFICE!! The most powerful position in the history of the known universe!!!!

Educated people wouldn’t vote for an Obama or a Frank. Or a Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Schumer, Rangel, Stevens, Cunningham. (It isn’t as though this lack of education is a partisan issue – there are idiots on both sides).

Ours is a big, complex, dangerous world requiring adults to deal with it. Why do Americans continue to vote for these unintelligent people?

Simple.

Because for two generations in most of our major cities and states, a rent-seeking union has mal-educated the children who now are voters. Not il-educated. Not non-educated. Mal-educated.

It is not a coincidence that American political parties were captured by the extremes on both sides as soon as the first union-educated cohort made it to the voting booth.

True… but what has this to do with Rush?

If Rush acknowledged the damage done to America and, given our place in the world, to the world, by unionized teachers, if he spent an hour a day presenting anecdotes, studies, interviewing people such as Dr Carolyn Hoxby (African-American, Harvard PhD in Economics who studies public education), if he spent … an hour a day…  hammering the teacher unions – he could rid America of uneducated voters over time – simultaneously ridding America of the current iteration of “Liberal” (which is anything but), “Progressives” (ditto), and move forward all of America.

Yes, that’s one-third of his show. An hour a day; five hours a week.

Yes, it will be a generational change as intelligent teachers take the place of the ill-educated majority now in the classroom. But it’s a process that must start - or America is done.

It is a strategy with a true long-term payoff. Nothing Rush is doing now can come close to accomplishing the same. He has an enormous audience. They are the grassroots of America. They can move forward the change only Rush can foment at this point in history.

Am I pushing a one-party rule by the GOP? No.

If you read my posts you will find that I oppose many GOP policies and persons and that I hold the Right culpable in much of what has gone wrong in America over the past 50 years. Why? Go read the posts, and start here, here, here, and here. There are more.

An educated populace, an educated voter franchise would not necessarily all agree with one another – and that is not what I am pushing. Prior to the political rise of the Baby Boomers and the extremes capturing both parties, our two-party system was alive and well. JFK disagreed with Nixon – but both were strongly pro-America, pro-defense. Truman viscerally hated the GOP – but no one doubts he would defend America – he dropped two nukes on Japan, after all…

That America comes first no longer can be said honestly of any of the Left with the possible exception of Sen. Lieberman.

Prior to the advent of the teachers unions and their mal-educated students, no serious politician wanted to turn America socialistic. Once our adults understood that socialism ALWAYS brought poverty to everyone but the privileged – VERY – few. Now an entire Party wants socialism in America. Educated people would NEVER accept this ahistorical, poverty-inducing claptrap. And, no, education is not measured in degrees on the wall… it is measured in historical knowledge, cultural knowledge, critical thinking and the ability to communicate clearly.

In the mid-1980s the Dean of the Boston College School of Education penned an OpEd for the Wall Street Journal noting that those in American ‘Schools of Education’ were laughed at by the real students on campus, that these were the “dregs” of the campus academically, that based on the research output of these Schools, only about half of these Schools even should exist.

Nothing has changed. At least not for the better.

Look at Dr Hoxby’s research – the speed and degree of unionization of a school district relate DIRECTLY to the increase in dropout rates.

Yet every election season we get to hear the various NEA-affiliated teacher unions advertise requesting more money for schools, about how much education matters, about how the teacher unions are doing their best and just need a bit more money. And every year they get higher salaries to turn out less-educated people – future voters.

Yes, education matters. It matters more than anything else. And our unionized teachers are NOT educating our future voters. They are, in fact, the reason our society is yelling and flailing around rather than dealing with a hard world in an educated, adult way.

Reality check: Americans were far – FAR – better-educated before teachers were unionized. And our government was NOT in-thrall to the extremes of both parties.

Do you realize that for the first time in human history, we are turning out generations of people less well-educated than their parents?

Think about that. The first time in human history…

It isn’t as though the world is becoming less complex. It isn’t as though our challenges are less than those of our grandparents…

But America’s voters – and those we elect – are far less educated than voters of a less complex age. I’m only in my 50s, but I look at the reasoning, writing and speaking skills of those who have worked for me over the past 20+ years and am appalled. I look at what my kids are asked to do in 8th Grade in 2009 and see what my generation was tasked with in 4th Grade in 1964!

That not only is absurd – it is dangerous.

If Rush is serious about saving America from the anti-American Left, and I think he is, he needs to attack the core of the idiocy that winds up in the voting booth. And that is the hold of a rent-seeking union over the education of our future voters.

It isn’t as though there is any lack of material. It isn’t as though he can’t afford the researchers to go and get it and program it.

It isn’t as though it doesn’t matter… at the end of the day in a democracy, nothing matters more than the education of the voters.

The teacher unions have abnegated their duty. The media – populated mostly by those who couldn’t get a real job because they just weren’t smart enough – have done the same with their duty to the continuing education of adults.

Rush can – and should – must if he really cares about our future – use his Golden EIB mic to take down the unionized teachers.

Or America will not be what most of us still want it to be… within his lifetime.

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The issue isn’t whether it’s better elsewhere, but rather the degree of change that is coming to America and the drastic changing of expectations.

A New Zealand, for example, already is fairly socialistic with regard to the US. BUT - people live on expectations, and expectations there are pretty set — here they are in enormous flux.

Absent changes in expectations people don’t get confused, angry, violent - they get what they get and they know what that is and will continue to be.

If Obama and Pelosi continue down the road they are on, the expectations (freedom, liberty, free-market wealth-creating capitalism) of tens of millions of Americans will not be met – and there will be no pre-announcement of this failure. That will be a problem – a big one.

America no longer will be a Great Power, we will be hugely taxed, the next generation won’t have jobs, America will be starting (has started?) into a repeat of the 1930s in which FDR’s policies made the Depression far, far worse and longer-lasting than it otherwise would have been.

Obama is ramming down our throats FDR’s same Keynesian policies on steroids… and I think the result will be far worse - unless, again, we find some adults to run the country and toss a large portion of Congress in Nov 2010. Unfortunately these are not reasonable assumptions given the utter failure of our union-run public schools to educate the voter franchise, and given the complete enemy to education, intelligent policy discussion and freedom that the media have become.

In a New Zealand, for example, or some other out-of-the-way democracy, the American problem of tens of trillions of dollars of debt and the logical hyperinflation that will follow, to say nothing of what happens when the Chinese cease funding that debt, not having any desire to be repaid in worthless currency, is not an issue.

Maybe intelligent Americans should move there?

It isn’t just the worthless currency issue with China, either. China and the US are in a global resource competition in the 21st Century, and China soon will see no reason to continue to fund the defense of its primary adversary; it is a dangerous fantasy to think that China will continue doing so, but evidently beyond the ability of Democrats – and those who vote for them - to consider.

Americans supporting the insane economic policies of Obama and Pelosi and their ilk either are oblivious to this or ignorantly discount the consequences.

More than anything else, those still believing in self-reliance, individual responsibility, individual liberty and freedom are becoming scarcer here - but they still number in the tens of millions. When Obama succeeds in destroying America - and when the world figures it out… do you REALLY want to be part of a former Great Power that declines to irrelevancy in less than a generation? Do you REALLY want to be around - or have your kids around - for the inevitable violence accompanying the anger that rises when those who believe in America finally fight back against the Democrats?

And I’m not talking about “fighting back” at the ballot box, either.

American hyperinflation may well cause a civil war. Russia, China and India will take advantage of that - natural selection works - and America will be selected OUT of the Great Power game, to the detriment of smaller states globally.

Red staters not only believe in America, they believe in the 2nd Amendment and will fight to protect and defend America and our Constitution – something the military gives an oath to do but from which for unknown reasons now is refraining. But if the Blue staters continue with their statist and economic insanity, the Red staters may just decide that seceding and cutting their losses means defending the futures of their families in a Constitutional America – just in a smaller geography.

America may well split - actually I am fine with that but would prefer it to happen peacefully - with the two Americas formed from the split at huge odds with one another, and totally inwardly-focused, to the detriment of the rest of the world, but to the vast appreciation of Russia and China.

As we collapse India will nuke Pakistan (good), or perhaps China will – and take it over at the same time. Remember – China has 20MM Muslims and almost no terrorism… they don’t put up with it (good).

Russia may nuke Iran (good), take their oil and annex them as the warm-water port Russia has ALWAYS wanted (since way before the USSR), there being no America to stop them, and no European power, well… actually… no European power - at all. This also will make Russia the leading global oil supplier… arguably causing China to grab Saudi Arabia as well as continue its global oil exploration – including off the American continental shelf near Florida, off of Brazil, and elsewhere – Vietnam comes to mind.

With Russia, China and India fighting for oil, do you really think anyone will care about an enfeebled America’s need for oil?

Israel will nuke Iran (good), if Russia doesn’t, but Putin’s announcement yesterday of a complete willingness for pre-emptive nuclear strikes basically puts Iran on notice: “We’ll help you with nuclear power for civilian purposes and we won’t mind if you slap America around a bit - but if you think you’re going to be allowed to develop nukes as you fund Islamist terrorist separatists in former USSR Republics, you’re freaking crazy and we’ll kill you in a Moscow minute. You may or may not believe the limp semi-threats emanating from the pantywaist West… but you had BETTER believe ME because I don’t screw around. Are we clear?”

Or Russia will just invade and take them over as above, and not have it to worry about at all.

This American split, actually, could be a good thing - especially if it is peaceful. I will move to a Red state in a heartbeat, Red states will stop funding the failed social policies of the Blue states, the Blue states will collapse once they no longer have tax revenue sent to them from the Red states.

The Red states also have all the guns and the big national guards, the ICBMs, enough seaports to get by comfortably, internal lines of communication and transportation, the largest hi-tech R&D center (Austin, TX), and the Blue states can go suck hind tit.

Why Red staters still agree to lower the standard of living for which they work, to raise the standards of living of the idiots who vote for Blue-state policies is completely beyond me.

Perhaps because it has not been explained to them that this is EXACTLY what they are doing: Depriving their own families to raise the standard of living of kids having kids, of high-school dropouts getting married with no job prospects, of midnight basketball for gangbangers, etc. But doing so is just dumb.

Once the Red states secede the Blue-state voters will learn the costs of their policies and internal (Blue-state) violence will follow when the moochers learn there is nothing left to mooch. A Red state goal will be to keep that Blue-on-Blue violence within Blue geographies. This ought not to be too hard; Red states actually believe in border control.

Will we have a re-run of the Civil War?

Can you even in your wildest dreams imagine Blue-staters paying treasure or blood to keep Red-staters in the union? Not a chance.

Individual liberty will be on the rise in the Red states and the Constitutionally-based Red-state America will survive, albeit smaller. The non-Constitutionally-based Blue-state America (for there is no difference between a constantly-reinterpreted “living” Constitution and no Constitution at all – as in Britain, for example) may or may not survive, but Red staters won’t have to fund its idiocies or demise.

This will be historically analogous to America splitting from Europe. RS-America (Red state) splitting from BS-America (Blue state) will enhance personal liberty, progress, and the entire future of those who value liberty - just as did the American Revolution when those believing in personal liberty split from Europe.

And those who desire statism and the nanny state can stay behind.

Democrats like Europe; non-Democrats don’t, other than as a tourist destination (and even then people are remembering a decades-old Europe, not the failing social-welfare states with no children and no future, barely scraping by today with entire areas of large cities being no-go zones even for armed police).

Red staters KNOW it’s a worthless demi-continent full of people who have NEVER stopped exporting disaster, who have NEVER stopped killing one another since 1648 and the Treaty of Westphalia establishing the nation-state (and before).

Remember - the ONLY 45-year period in all of European history in which Europeans were not killing other Europeans was between 1945-1989, while clamped between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. As soon as the Pact disintegrated, Europeans AGAIN began killing each other until America AGAIN wasted time and treasure separating them from themselves.

(Tangent: BY FAR the dumbest thing America EVER did was to get involved in Europe’s wars. (Thank you, Woodrow Wilson (D) ) By orders of magnitude we have never done anything even close to this stupid.)

Epiphany: There is little if any difference other than of degree between the Palestinians on the one hand and Europeans on the other – this is why Europe is pro-Palestinian. Both groups are tribal peoples intent on everyone acting THEIR way or being destroyed. Look at the EU Constitution… a tyrannical document if ever there was one. Even the “Constitution” of the USSR provided more liberty; it wasn’t followed by their ruling party - as ours no longer is by our rulers (no longer our government, but our ‘rulers’ – just observe their rhetoric and actions), but it was more democratic than what the EU elites are stuffing down the throats of their subjects. (Armed residents of a country are “citizens,” unarmed residents are “subjects.” Guess which Democrats want Americans to be?)

With Obama and Pelosi in ascension, the folks who once came to America to get away from the stifling authoritarian European governments… will have to move to another free democracy, such as New Zealand,  unless we secede. Should we do so free people will come to RS-America, which will thrive as a free-market America always has done…. and BS-America will terminally decline and collapse from their self-induced lethargy and nanny-state policies with none to pay their bills.

Who will collapse? If you look at any Red-state/Blue-state map by county, of course, there are millions of Red-state voters trapped in Blue states. California, for example, has 58 counties, of which 25 voted Red and 33 voted Blue. California is not unique. Perhaps the citizens of those states need to adjust their borders, as well, splitting these states into more cohesive political entities, joining the appropriate RS- or BS-America. And if the residents of Boulder and Albuquerque want to move to CA - have at it.

The authors of this article published in June, 2009 in Esquire, make the point that with the added mobility of Americans (due to our wealth, which is due entirely to free-market capitalism), Americans may be moving based on political ideology. If so, this will solidify the Red-Blue antagonism, secure the seats of the more radical representatives of both parties, bode poorly for present-day America, but bode well for a peaceful secession once we agree that we will NEVER get along, that those who believe in personal responsibility and individual liberty (traditionally American traits) will have to split from the larger electoral college states that, rather than personal liberty and individualism, believe in statism, groupthink, class warfare, socialism, racism, and equality of outcome regardless of cost (traditional European traits).

Worse things could happen… like the takeover of the entire US by the Nanny statism class of ignorant socialists represented by Obama and Pelosi.

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While interesting and thought provoking and garnering lots (lots!) of comments, the columnist misses the main issue.

The thrust is that the voters basically won’t let Congress pass this monstrosity because of the downstream costs, and the Congress will figure out the surest way to unemployment is to vote for this anti-American, anti-liberty bill.

What is missed by the columnist is that the voters won’t be paying enough attention to know this until too late. Until it begins hitting their pocket books the voters are going to just listen to the media and Obama and Reid and Pelosi lie to them… and believe those lies.

Just like the Left and Center weren’t paying attention to Obama, his lies of post-racism and post-partisan and his utter and complete (and appallingly ignorant) core belief that socialism will solve the world’s problems - rather than its total and complete 100% history of making everything worse…

…until it was too late.

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Who are the Great Powers of the coming Century? Easy:  Russia, China, India.

Who are no longer Great Powers due to their unwillingness to understand and deal with the world as it is? What former Great Powers are not acting as adults policing their domestic responsibilities – through sane budgets and stable and valuable currencies, or their international responsibilities – by remaining stable and reliable senior partners in world conflict?

America, Europe (the EU generally, but any of the formerly powerful European countries: France, Germany, Britain).

The world is not Western. Multiculturalists demand that we recognize it is not – and at the same time demand that we treat others with Western conceits.

The world does not believe in equal rights, in turning the other cheek, giving the other guy the benefit of the doubt, supporting the underdog, hoping against history that the other guy will grow up and reach a common understanding of “universal” human rights and values in a timeframe that magically fits a Westerner’s preconceptions. Only the West believes this – and it is the reason the West is in decline and the reason the West will die unless adults begin to govern.

Not a single Western country of moment currently has adults in-charge. The most powerful Western country, the most powerful country in history, the country truly indispensable to the West, also is the country most governed by childish fantasies: America.

Those aggressive countries which never have been nor will ever be Great Powers (North Korea, Iran, Venezuela), are rattling sabers, making noises and moving – or not – toward confrontation with the Great Powers who will dominate the globe. These countries will be dealt with by the reigning Great Powers as soon as their actions bother those Powers and their interests enough to warrant the time and money necessary to deal with them. The confrontations will be brief and brutal – but leave the people of the rest of the world – billions of people, by the way - better off more quickly than the weak and failed ways in which America and Europe have insisted on dealing with problems for the past several decades… basically since the union- (mal-)educated Baby Boomers took the stage.

Bad actors – those countries and failed states providing no positive value to the economic or trade structure of the world, or to their own citizens, but able to disrupt citizens across the world, ensuring a lack of progress for some large portion of the planet’s population for some time - include Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the MidEast generally (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen), likely also will be dealt with by the Great Powers at the appropriate time and in the appropriate manner. Any conflict between the reigning Great Powers and these bad actors will be just as Hobbes described life in the natural world: nasty, brutish and short… just as Russia has just announced.

Israel will likely be forced to act as a Great Power in her own defense – by brutally attacking Iran, a bad actor wishing Israel’s destruction and quickly building (with Western acquiescence) the means to accomplish it. How the Great Powers will respond to this coming Israeli attack is an unknown. It is this unknown, more than anything else, which has kept Israeli nukes in their bunkers this long – but not much longer.

The shorter the conflict, the fewer people die and the more quickly life gets back to normal and moves forward. The incessant and appallingly childish Western view that a long, drawn-out counterinsurgency is a good thing in any way shape or form is so utterly ahistorical that it beggars belief.

Patton - the most aggressive commander in the largest war in history - moved more men farther, faster and with fewer losses – to BOTH SIDES – than any commander in history. The result? Peace in Europe. Truman nuked Hiroshima and Japan. The result? Far fewer lives lost in two instants than would otherwise have been lost in what was being planned as a war that would continue until at least 1949 – four YEARS longer than it ultimately took. And a Japan at peace and a stable ally of America.

There will be a cost to create a more peaceful, stable world in which civilians can move about in peace with no thought of suicide bombers or rocket attacks intent on indiscriminate killing to regress civilization 1400 years. This cost may be – likely will be - a hundred thousand or more killed in nuclear strikes on Al Qaeda and the Taliban, perhaps on Iran’s nuclear facilities, as well.

An America unwilling to accept that cost, willing, instead to let Russia, India, or even China accept what likely is a necessary cost, cannot expect to sit at the table following these necessary actions. An America unwilling to accept that with Great Power status comes great responsibility has no reason to expect to be listened to by five billion people on the planet who desire peace and a modern future.

Russia has just defined her way of dealing with bad actors when necessary, doing so as the American Secretary of State was departing Russia, unable to secure a meeting with the Russian President even following the craven surrender by Obama of the futures of Poland and the Czech Republic to the designs of Russia. By so doing, Putin made it crystal clear that the Great Power view of America is as a has-been, declining power, not someone to be reckoned with as the world re-structures.

Ten years hence an America deeply in debt, whose currency no one will buy or hold, enfeebled by the coming decade of worship of the failed policies of socialism (which has always failed and always left poverty in its wake), could be a broken country, a failure of historic proportions to its citizens, and to the people of the world who counted on good decisions, historical and global awareness, sound economic, tax and foreign policies, but who instead were disappointed by the mal-educated, utterly spoiled Baby Boomers with NO grasp whatsoever of the world beyond the crib they refused to outgrow.

Too bad. The world has been generally at peace for the 70 years of American hegemony ushered in by Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, Nimitz. And now billions will pay the price of the infantile Boomers and those they have elected to enfeeble an America whose success somehow embarrassed those Boomers at the same time they demanded everyone else in the world treat its citizens, children, women, environment, the same way that only a country of enormous wealth, privilege and uniquely Western philosophical underpinnings – America  – actually could.

America consciously chose to squander her wealth of Western philosophy, capitalism, liberty and freedom of which they were so ashamed.

It is not too late to turn this around. It is not too late to grow-up and deal with the world as it is. But we need adults in charge. We need Democrats and Republicans thrown out of office. We need as President an independent, historically-aware adult.

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