2010 Elections

A Rahm Set Out To Pasture

Let’s say you run a Presidential Administration that takes on some water. It takes on water in a manner reminiscent of The USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. It’s not over after the Germans get done bombing, but things are looking pretty bad there. Somebody has to fall on the gladius and take the blame. Pearl Harbor Day for this administration appears to be scheduled one month early this year, and the lucky guy getting to do the sword plant appears to be none other than Rahm Emanuel.

Yet this operation isn’t just as simple as whacking someone in the private sector. After all, this is Rahm “Effing” Emanuel were talkin’ about here, not some stinkin’ Jabroni. You can’t just leave the gun and take the cannoli. Rahm is a man of respect, he has to be properly taken care of.

Now it just so conveniently happens that Mayor Daley of Chicago has decided to hang up the spikes. That Rahm Emanuel leads a life of serendipity. It just so happens that Rahm Emanuel would love to be the Mayor of Chicago. Daley wants to move on, Rahm has been encouraged to leave DC, what do you think the likelihood of such a bizarre yet fortuitous coincidence occurring on Earth would be?

It somehow seems like this is Rahm’s place to lie down and peacefully die. It’s a perfect little Romania upon which he can unleash his inner Ceausescu. Now if he can just train his secretary the way Boss Man Bill from Arkansas had ‘em trained….

Yet all may not be tranquil in paradise. A few members of the family want to alter the deal. According to Jim Geraghty at NRO, an organization called The Progressive Change Campaign Committee issued the following fatwa against Rahm Emanuel.

“Rahm is unfit to represent Democrats in office. He’s a cancer on the Democratic Party. Democrats’ current 2010 situation is due to a weak Rahm Emanuel mentality that says water down real reform at the urging of Republicans and corporations, thus making Democratic reform less popular with voters than the real deal would have been.”

I almost hope Barack Obama has to actually endorse Rahm Emanuel for this job. It would be about the most stinging rebuke imaginable. It would also garun-frikken-tee that this is lights out for Emanuel’s political career. The City of Chicago would no longer be a temporary sinecure, but would instead be his Office by the River, in The Japanese Corporate sense.

Let Rahm Emanuel actually become a liability to the Democratic Party, let his bowing out at the White House become a national joke, and people will then become reminded of just how charming a person Mr. Emanuel has been throughout his glorious tenure of service to our great nation. I can’t imagine anyone with even a remotely kind thought for Eric Massa willingly stumping in ChiTown for Good Old Rahm. I can’t imagine anyone even remotely cognizant of what a raging fustercluck Fannie Mae truned into not being tempted to ask Rahm how he liked earning several million dollars as a managing director of that august organization.

Karma owes Rahm Emanuel. Payback may well come with full interest. Yet sadly, the world we live in has no such finely-honed sense of justice. Rahm will simply be parked there, in charge of his own urban Bulgaria. Let him stare at his portrait of Dorian Grey as he rots in peace. It’s better that than having that evil basilisk of a human being in charge of anything of national import or significance. Enjoy your retirement you vile son of a Rottweiler.

Don’t Be Complacent. Get Your Liberty On

Labor Day is traditionally when the regular folks start to become interested in the upcoming elections. The larger than usual turnout in the GOP primaries makes me think this interest about the upcoming elections started earlier this year. We can’t get complacent and let the enthusiasm wane before November 2. There are no foregone conclusions, and nothing is really won or lost until after the votes are tallied on Nov. 2. We also have to do things in the right sequence. Before we work on changing the leadership of the GOP establishment Republican candidates need to win in the General Election. You are really putting a GOP candidate in an untenable spot when you demand of him to denounce the current GOP leadership. Please wait until December to talk about any of that stuff. The Democrat incumbents are going to fight to hold on to the reins of power, and they are going to try to project themselves as outstanding servants to their constituents. Do not allow them to lie about their voting records. Show people the grade each of them received from Liberty Central.

Liberty Central just completed a video contest, Get Your Liberty On, on Sept. 1. Below are the grand prize winner and runnerup. Below that is an awesome video by C&W duo, Tichenor Clark. So enjoy Labor Day, don’t be complacent, and get your liberty on.

Liberty Central grand prize winner was submitted by AJ Roach, of Pleasant Grove, Alabama:


Are you inspired yet? If not, check out this moving reflection from a veteran, and resident of Liberty Nebraska, Ralph Bodie.


One more video created by Jamie Teachenor and Ben Clark for a new song, Never Gonna Stand For This:

Liberty Central Grades the 111th Congress

I love the Liberty Central website as an excellent place for me to use for political research. I especially like the legislative scorecards they did for the 111th Congress. All 535 members of the US House and US Senate received a grade from A to F. They based the grades on 12 House votes and 14 Senate votes that they decided had the most effect on their five principles of liberty. These grades make so much more sense to me than any scorecard I have seen by ACU, CFG, or NTU. I like it so much that I crunched some numbers from it to create this diary. I took the results for 5 incumbent Dem Senators and 27 incumbent Dems in the US House that the experts are calling toss-ups. The grades they have received do not provide a reason to call these races toss-ups for anyone except possibly Bobby Bright. We need to remember these important votes, and not allow anyone to distract us from the fact that the votes are really what matters most. When a Susan Estrich opines that that there are fissures and divisions in the Republican Party what she is actually saying is that she will be less bummed about a Democrat losing to a liberal Republican. I say let her be bummed. Let's nominate and elect Republicans who can earn an A from Liberty Central instead of an F. We can do this as long as we GOTV and don't allow our enemies to distract us. They will be trying. They are very trying.

Liberty Central compiled scores for all Senators, in order to determine which Senators have the most respect for five principles: limited government, individual liberty, personalresponsibility, free enterprise, and national security.

The 14 Senate votes measured

Dodd-Frank Conference Report*
Murkowski Resolution*
Border Fence*
Financial Reform*
Earmark Moratorium*
Health Care*
SERVE/Americorps*
Stimulus*
Sanctuary Cities*
Terrorist Trials in Civilian Courts*
Lilly Ledbetter*
Repeal DC Gun Ban*
TARP Rescission*
School Choice*

Scores were calculated as follows.

1 point for each vote that contradicted our five principles (e.g., growing the size of government, weakening our national defense, or taking measures against the free market).

1 additional point for sponsoring or co-sponsoring one of the aforementioned bills, since the Senator proudly attached his or her name to that measure.

1 point for opposing legislation that supports the five principles.

In other words, the higher the score, the worse the Senator. Tallied points for each Senator and assigned grades based on the following scale: A=0 to 1 points, B=2-3 points, C=4-6 points, D=7-8 points, F=9 and above.

Incumbent                                         Grade         Score
Bennett, Michael (D-CO)                       F               12
Boxer, Barbara (D-CA)                          F                15
Feingold, Russ (D-WI)                          F                15
Murray, Patty (D-WA)                            F                15
Reid, Harry (D-NV)                                F                15

Liberty Central compiled scores for all Representatives, in order to determine whichRepresentatives have the most respect for five principles: limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and national security.

The 12 House votes measured

Don't Ask Don't Tell*
Financial Reform*
Student Loan Takeover*
Cap and Trade*
Health Care*
Stimulus*
SERVE/Americorps*
Lilly Ledbetter*
Hate Crimes*
DISCLOSE*
TARP Rescission*
Missile Defense*

Scores were calculated as follows.

1 point for each vote that contradicted the five principles (e.g., growing the size of government, weakening our national defense, or taking measures against the free market).

1 additional point for sponsoring or co-sponsoring one of the aforementioned bills, since the Representative proudly attached his or her name to that measure.

1 point for opposing legislation that supports the five principles.

In other words, the higher the score, the worse the Representative. Tallied points for each Representative and assigned grades based on the following scale: A=0 to 1 points, B=2-3 points, C=4-6 points, D=7-8 points, F=9 and above.

Incumbent                                         Grade         Score
Arcuri, Mike (D-NY24)                            F                12
Bishop, Timothy (D-NY01)                     F                 15
Boucher, Rick (D-VA09)                        D                  8
Bright, Bobby (D-AL02)                         B                  2
Carney, Christopher P. (D-PA10)          D                  8
Connolly, Gerald E. "Gerry" (D-VA11)   F                14
Foster, Bill (D-IL14)                               F                12
Giffords, Gabrielle (D-AZ08)                  F                15
Hall, John (D-NY19)                             F                 15
Heinrich, Martin T. (D-NM01)                 F                15
Hill, Baron (D-IN09)                               F                  9
Kagen, Steve (D-WI08)                          F                13
Kirkpatrick, Ann (D-AZ01)                      F                  9
Klein, Ron (D-FL22)                              F                14
Marshall, James (D-GA08)                    D                  8
McMahon, Mike (D-NY13)                      F                11
McNerney, Jerry (D-CA11)                    F                 12
Mitchell, Harry (D-AZ05)                       F                   9
Murphy, Patrick J. (D-PA08)                 F                 16
Nye, Glenn C. (D-VA02)                       F                   9
Rodriguez, Ciro (D-TX23)                     F                  12
Schrader, Kurt (D-OR05)                      F                 12
Shuler, Heath (D-NC11)                       D                   8
Skelton, Ike (D-MO04)                          F                  11
Space, Zachary T. (D-OH18)                F                  10
Spratt, John (D-SC05)                          F                  12
Sutton, Betty (D-OH13)                        F                   15

Lifeless Daniels truces won’t produce majority reports

With Beck as an Avatar – Because Leadership Challenges Hate a Vacuum.

When James Howard Kuntsler gets hammered on Sunday night, it makes for great Monday morning blogging over at ClusterBleepNation.com. This morning he asks us if we would prefer “One Lump or Two?” From this ejection of vomit and venom, I learn that Mr. Kuntsler has a hilariously low opinion of Glenn Beck and his remarkably successful “Restoring Honor” Rally at the Lincoln Memorial. It was nice of Mr. Kuntsler to put the bottom line up front.

Here come the Corn Pone Nazis! Fox News entertainer, former drug addict, and professional weeper Glenn Beck took center stage at the Lincoln Memorial exactly forty-seven years to the day after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech for a rally dedicated to “restoring honor,” which is tea party code for the otherwise unutterable idea: get that (Expletive deleted) out of the White House!

(HT for the comedy value: James Howard Kuntsler).

Personally, I don’t think Mr. Beck knows sheet from shingle about fixing modern America. He’s a demagogue playing a real man’s game and is in over his head as soon as he leaves the kiddie steps and lets go of his rubber ducky. Similar sentiments could be fairly leveled against Saint Joan of Arc back when things were rotten. She shouldn’t have been charge of an entire French Army either.

Beck took charge because eventually, someone had to report for duty and no one else was willing or able. He’s Bucky “Bleeping” Dent at bat in Fenway Park. This morning, James Howard Kuntsler sounds like a Red Sox fan. Beck may not be my ideal of a leader, but he correctly identified an evil state of affairs and attacked it.

For the better part of the last forty-five years, the bulk of governmental action has been in response to special pleadings. Well-organized special interests roll the majority of the population. They get special deals, special exemptions, and special carve-outs. Average, working Americans pay all the taxes, while the Goldman Sachs, the AIGs and the Senator Kerrys always know which strings to pull and where to park the yachts.

Glenn Beck has figured out that a critical mass of these hard-working Americans is not composed of mindless drones. They get tired of being told to pony-up for others who they don’t exactly see pulling too hard on the oars. When he went to The Lincoln Memorial and cynically co-opted decades’ worth of Civil Rights imagery, he was sending the message that the America that pays for this BS equalitarian fantasy has rights as well. The America that makes America work will not continue to be guilt-tripped into letting charlatan’s use their ass-holes as an ATM without a withdrawal limit.

Brett Stevens of Amerika.org describes the frustrations that Beck has tapped into.

Beck has tapped into the outrage of middle class white America by pointing out the obvious: for the last 40 years we’ve been on a manic quest to take care of every non-majority group — blacks, Asians, gays, Hispanics, potheads, Muslims, polygamists — while doing so at the expense of white suburban middle-class America, which we assume will just keep trucking along and footing the bill.

Now these people are waking up, and people do wake up very slowly, to find America transformed. It’s no longer the happy world of the 1950s. It’s a crime-ridden, third world state with corruption, devalued currency, a crazed Nanny State kicking down doors, constant combat in its cities.

(HT: Brett Stevens)

Sarah Palin began to sense this smoldering anger in 2008, but couldn’t take control of the ticket from the VEEP slot and run on populist rage. Jacksonian America does not want to be used as a mule. They’ll give you the 40 acres, but they’ll be damned if they get thrown in as the mule. They seek and desperately need an avatar for that frustration. They need the spokespeople to join their point of view to the national political conversation.

But they keep on getting slapped down. James Howard Kuntsler, the only man alive who likes Sarah Palin less than Levi Johnson or Andrew Sullivan, gives voice to the “Progressive” hubris below.

Glenn Beck’s sidekick nowadays, Sarah Palin, is exactly the kind of corn pone Hitler that America deserves: a badly-educated, child-like, war-mongering opportunist easily manipulated by backstage extremist billionaires who think they don’t have enough money yet.

(HT: Kuntsler as previously cited)

What Kuntsler is too arrogant to understand, is that Glenn Back is doing America a favor. He’s not just doing his fans or his career one. Representative Democracy is only meta-stable at best if not all the people are represented. Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin stand between his White, Yuppie, Liberal Ass and the pitch-forks. Kuntsler is too busy arguing ad-Hitlerum to figure that out.

In a way, Beck’s choice of venue was condign for reasons beyond that of partisan sniping. Martin Luther King, Jr led a genuinely aggrieved minority to call on the government and receive attention. If you read any of the early speeches by Malcolm X, you know well that we are fortunate that Dr. King finally received a respectful hearing of his people’s grievances.

As the followers of Glenn Back grow poorer, less secure and more resentful towards those who govern our nation, maybe, just maybe the political leaders who actually represent the likes of James Howard Kuntsler should give some thought to inviting Mr. Beck or Mrs Palin to engage in a more rational conversation.

Somewhere between 87,000 to 300,000 people (depending upon the partisan affiliation of the crowd-counter) came out to cheer for the Corn-Pone Hitlerette. Perhaps the arrogant and dismissive Mr. Kuntsler could end up actually living in the world he wrote about in his dystopic World Made By Hand. That happened to a whole bunch of Russians once when the Boyars were too arrogant to heed the desires of the people in 1917.

2010 GOP Candidates Are Proof of another Lefty Lie

The left lies so often that sometimes it is hard to know where to begin. One of their big lies has been that Republicans are racist, sexist, islamophobic homophobes who only want to make the rich folks happy. They say women and minorities are hardest hit, and so they can not be or vote for any Republicans. Why that would make them a traitor to their own. Democrats and their cheerleaders indulged in puffy analysis about how Republicans were demographically doomed because their base was old, white, and male. In this realignment narrative, Democrats were ascendant because they were the choice of women, gays, younger voters, Latinos and independents. Our holiday from history is over. The country faces threats, crippling government expansion at home and transnational Islamic extremism, that arouse conservative instincts and concentrate the conservative mind no matter what your gender or race is. Now the main reason I wrote this diary is for the photo selections that prove how much of a lie it is by the left about women and minorities being elected by Republicans. Actually the Republicans really stepped up in 2010 to compete in more contests than ever before, and the women and minority Republicans really stepped up. A record number of Republican women have sought federal office this year: 129 GOP women in House races and 17 in Senate races. There are still a lot of primaries left on Sept. 14th, and even more women and minority GOP candidates will be added to the November ballot then. So check out the photos, and if you click on a name it will take you to their website.

Alabama

Martha Roby CD 2

Arizona

Jan Brewer Gov

Janet Contreras CD 4  Ruth McClung CD 7

               

Arkansas

Beth Rankin CD 4

California

Meg Whitman Gov                                Carly Fiorina Senate

  

Jerry Hashimoto CD 9  Mark Reed CD 27  Mattie Fein CD 36  Star Parker CD 37

                              

Mary Bono Mack CD 45  Van Tran CD 47

                      

Colorado
Ryan Frazier CD 7

Connecticut
Linda McMahon Senate

Ann Brickley CD 1  Janet Peckinpaugh CD 2

            

Florida

Marco Rubio Senate

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen CD 18  Karen Harrington CD-20  Mario Diaz-Balart CD 21  Allen West CD 22

                                                               

Bernard Sansaricq CD 23  Sandy Adams CD 24  David Rivera CD 25

                                

Georgia
Liz Carter CD 4

Idaho
Raul Labrador CD 1

Illinois
Isaac Hayes CD 2  Israel Vasquez CD 4  Teri Newman CD 12  Judy Biggert CD 13

                            

Indiana
Jackie Walorski CD 2  Marvin Scott CD 7

        

Iowa
Mariannette Miller-Meeks CD 2

Kansas

Lynn Jenkins CD 2

Louisiana

Joseph Cao CD 2

Maryland

Robert Broadus CD 4

Michigan
Candice Miller CD 10

Minnesota
Teresa Collett CD 4  Michele Bachmann CD 6

         

Mississippi
Bill Marcy CD 2

Missouri
Robyn Hamlin CD 1  Vicky Hartzler CD 4  Jo Ann Emerson CD 8

                              

Nevada
Brian Sandoval Gov           Sharron Angle Senate

          

New Jersey
Anna Little CD 6  Henrietta Dwyer CD 13

          

New Mexico
Susana Martinez Gov

Jon Barela CD 1

New York

Michel Faulkner CD 15  Ann Marie Buerkle CD 25

              

North Carolina
Renee Ellmers CD 2  Virginia Foxx CD 5  Sue Myrick CD 9  Bill Randall CD 13

                               

Ohio
Jean Schmidt CD 2

Oklahoma
Mary Fallin Gov

Oregon
Delia Lopez CD 3

Pennsylvania
Pia Varma CD 1  Melissa Haluszczak CD 14

           

South Carolina
Nikki Haley Gov

Tim Scott CD 1

South Dakota
Kristi Noem CD-AL

Tennessee
Diane Black CD 6  Marsha Blackburn CD 7  Charlotte Bergmann CD 9

                              

Texas
Kay Granger CD 12  Eddie Zamora CD 15  Bill Flores CD 17  Quico Canseco CD 23

                                 

Donna Campbell CD 25  Roy Morales CD 29  Stephen Broden CD 30

                         

Virginia
Chuck Smith CD 3

Washington
Jaime Herrera CD 3  Cathy McMorris Rodgers CD 5

               

West Virginia
Shelley Moore Capito CD 2

Wyoming

Cynthia Lummis CD AL

Cross-posted at RedState

Did Jim Cramer Just Channel Rush Limbaugh?

There are things in life that just make you say “Huh, FTW?” If Cramer’s latest column, “Bad Data Has a Silver Lining” was a desperate bid for attention, it worked! He leads off with a good, provocative question.

Has “bad” turned good? Are we now rooting for crummy housing numbers, miserable housing data, weaker consumer confidence, and, yes, unfathomably horrible employment numbers? Do we now secretly lust for negative numbers?

Cramer goes on to say that the investor class now roots against the short-term health of the economy so that Barack Obama and the Democratic Party will die a thousand deaths on Election Day. He openly claims that people who seek to earn long-term wealth through equity investments are happy to see any piece of news that makes Barack Obama’s continuation in power a more precarious circumstance.

But if you are an owner of stock, any stock, if you are using the stock market for retirement or for savings to put your kid through school or to augment your paycheck, I think you are now beginning to see the silver lining of the miserable economic news: change in Washington. In fact, every time we see a downtick in the popular polls for the administration or Congress the large stockholders I know secretly cheer.

This sentiment is radical. It is too radical for even crazed Right-Wingers like moi. When the economy is bad, people have a really hard time selling their home if they want to move. They are probably attempting to move so that they can find a job. I wish them luck, they will need it! David Rosenberg, for example, sees the distinct possibility of 4 to 5 million jobs being taken out if current trends continue.

I totally understand the desire to see Barack Obama fail. I wish he had failed to pass either healthcare reform or the stimulus package. Both are malinvestments tantamount to state-endorsed brigandage. Thus, I’ll admit that seeing die-hard left-wingers like Joe Weisenthal having to write the following political analysis of the latest InTrade numbers.

There’s really very little for Democrats to be hopeful about come November, and the party’s odds of holding the House (under Democratic control since the 2006 midterms) has fallen to 25% on InTrade.

(HT: Business Insider.com)

Another interesting part of Cramer’s column regards the fear so many people in business seem to have of Barack Obama. When Jim Cramer compares our current president’s anger to the wrath of Richard Nixon, that says a lot coming from a man with Jim Cramer’s political beliefs and worldview.

Rich Karlgaard writes of his friends’ reaction to Jim Cramer’s assertion that people in business and finance feel a fear to speak out. Karlgaard was told the following.

Cramer is so right. And the only reason people will not speak out is because they fear [Obama] will hunt them down.

(HT: Forbes magazine)

Barack Obama has lived the Populist dream of getting to shove around and intimidate Big Business. He clearly chortled while telling America’s most powerful banking executives that he was all that separated them from the pitchforks. His motto regarding his relations to corporate America could be similar to that of Caligula’s: oderint dum metuant.

Jim Cramer, who once endorsed Barack Obama with the catchphrase “Obama’s a recession, McCain’s a depression,” now seems to have buyer’s remorse. Better yet, he has shown the courage to speak out when others have cowered. Yep, Jim Cramer just done said it!

Expect the ever-reactionary Jon Stewart to lampoon and ridicule Jim Cramer some more. I’ve taken shots at the man myself, while blogging the current state of our economy. However, this time, I commend the man’s courage.

Tyranny is destroyed when honest men speak out. Cramer may be wrong more often than right, but he can no longer ever be accused of being a boot-licking coward. Perhaps, Cramer’s fresh acquisition of courage is the harbinger of the end for these “Progressive” neo-fascists. Only through raw intimidation does their horrendous stupidity withstand the light of day.

Sager knows Texas tea best for Florida-05

Oil made the sun shine on more than just gators in the Sunshine State

Land O’ Lakes  is a long way from New York City. New Yorkers vacationed in the Hamptons when horses and buggies were atop Dow Jones’ transportation index . The beaches Floridians understandably want to protect wouldn’t be an economic engine if oil weren’t drilled somewhere.

Moreover, given the puny effect of the recent “worst oil spill in American history”, and only the third newsworthy oil spill since it first gushed out of a Pennsylvania well in 1859, even “tanning king” George Hamilton couldn’t seriously argue against drill, baby drilling for the substance that fuels the modern world.

Yet, rarely do we find Florida politicians (and Democrats anywhere) who dare utter such obvious truths, even when they are nationally-known tea partier darlings named Marco Rubio. But, after this Gamecock combed the beaches south of our adopted Peach State roost with our DeVine-ing rod, we found a better brand of tea.

Fresh orange juice vs. Frozen-in-cans establishment-endorsed pulp

Political newcomer Jason Sager (CAN-R-FL-05) opposes President Barack Obama’s moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling, and thinks Florida and other Gulf Coast states should chase BP in federal court for damages related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

By contrast, Hernando County Sheriff Rich Nugent, endorsed by outgoing incumbent GOP Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, supported President Obama’s initial job-killing measure, as well as the administration’s Temporary Restraining Order-defying second oil drilling measure.

“Let’s find out what went wrong before we start drilling again,” Nugent said.

Nugent’s timid approach would have banned Model-T manufacturing until the nail was found that caused Great Gatsby’s first flat tire on the way to East Egg.

Who knew that a President could unilateral shut down the Pursuit of Happiness?

The liberty and rule of law promised in our founding documents made our young nation the greatest in the 5000-year recorded history of Earth. The greatest threat to our united trek was exposed by the 1861 firing on Fort Sumter by those intent on preserving the cheapest of all labor via involuntary servitude by rendering the City on a Hill asunder.

This southerner thanks God that President Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t limit the Free World’s defense to a plain fruited with five Canadas instead of a Fruited Lower-Forty-Eight Plain.

Now, we face a great threat to our prosperity not from Palmetto States, but rather from latest successor to the Great Emancipator’s executive office. The problem is that Barack Obama wants only to emancipate government power at the expense of We the People’s power over our own lives.

Obama and the Democrats’ policies bail out banks, states and labor unions populated by their pals, but won’t let Americans bail themselves out, i.e. make money to eat!

Why has no oil company sued Obama for contempt of court?

After the BP oil spill attracted Obama’s attention as a potential crisis not to be wasted that could advance his high-energy tax agenda, he issued an executive order imposing a moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Federal law imposes strict standards on such draconian action that immediately puts people out of work. One must prove a likelihood of success on the merits when all the evidence is later presented to a trial court and that irreparable harm will result absent an immediate temporary restraining order (TRO).

The Obama Administration failed to meet those standards, resulting in a federal district court order lifting the moratorium. The Rule of Law seemed to have prevailed.

Then came the all-too-familiar-after-GM-CEO-firings and the like, Rule of Obama. Attorney General Holder’s Just-Us Department changed a few insignificant words in the first moratorium and issued a SECOND moratorium the day after they lost an appeal attempting to reimpose the first moratorium.

Significantly, no company harmed by the moratoriums have brought a contempt action against the administration. Instead, drilling companies are streaming out of the Gulf to points south and east. Why would that be?

Because whether the federal courts would stand up to Obama or not, they have seen his pitchforks sicked on other similarly-situated corporations daring to make a profit outside of legal processes, and figure that if they must operate in a world devoid of an American Rule of Law, they would just as soon risk the tender mercies of non-American Rule by Men happy to have the business.

This time, the attack on America is coming from Washington, D.C.

The only way it doesn’t end up requiring nullification, succession and massive reconstruction this time, is if we send people like Republican Jason Sagar to populate a Congress presently dominated by Democrats happy to have Obama impose the liberal will over their heads.

[h/t to Redstate's BigGator5]

Mike DeVine

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Charlotte Observer, The Minority Report and Examiner.com archives

www.devinelawvista.com

Democrats Are Running From Obama Like Crazy….

Enjoy this new ad from the RNC titled, “Crazy”. It is absolutely hysterical because, like most good satire, there’s a serious kernel of truth to it.

PS–Consider this an open thread.

This diary is cross-posted on Hillbillypolitics.

Guns and Rose for DE-AL House Seat

There are three GOP candidates for DE-AL, Rose Izzo, Michele Rollins, and Glen Urquhart. Any of them will be more conservative than Mike Castle. Rose has the smallest amound of money for the campaign, but I like her spunky Brooklyn accent. The so-called experts think this is a seat that is likely to flip from R to D, but none of them are projecting this as a safe Dem. seat. I hope you enjoyed watching the videos as much as I did. In one respect Delaware is like Arizona. That is the campaign for the US Senate seat beween Mike Castle and Christine O’Donnell is sucking up all the air in the room. I favor Christine O’Donnell, and I also think the contest for the House seat is important. If you would like to learn more about Rose Izzo then please visit her website.