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If They Do It Then It's Our Turn

more to come in the days and weeks ahead . . .

But first, let's watch and see how these Democrats vote. Remember, November isn't that far off for these House members.

 

This Bigger-Than-Life Soap Opera Will Find A Familiar Fate

remember the shower scene from "Dallas" . . .

Anyone else out there thinking this Obama-Pelosi-Reid Healthcare take over is playing out like a bad soap opera? The CBO report is being trumpeted this morning by the Leftists as if it actually said something substantially. It didn't. The CBO said it can only make a preliminary analysis on Obamacare because it doesn't have all the information. 

So folks, just take a deep breath. We've seen this soap opera before and we know how that ended. It went on and on and on and lost what little credibility it had and in the end, it too was ultimately canceled and put out of its misery.

The Moment of Truth is Approaching . . . Well Maybe

is the bloom finally coming off the Obama rose for Democrats . . .

Pelosi now is saying March 21st is when the vote on Obamacare will occur in the House. Ok, thought the 18th but apparently they don't have the votes. But will they on the 21st?

There appears to be some rumblings, finally, from rank and file Democrats in the House. Maybe, just maybe these folks are finally tired of sacrificing their political future on Obama-Pelosi-Reid policies that the vast majority of American don't favor. I still think they will fall in line but then again, maybe political cartoons like the one below have some legs and just maybe, Dems are finally ready to just say no.

The Mass Chaos of Obamacare

large egos on steroids are involved and so we just keep going on and on and on . . .

This whole mess better known as Obamacare has gone beyond ridiculous to absolute insanity.

If you didn't get to listen to House member Bart Stupak(D-MI) last night on FOX and Greta Van Susteran, then you MUST listen to this short interview thanks to blogger Gateway Pundit.

It will make you say: there is no place like home, there is no place like home because the Munchkins are scurrying around at the White House and in Pelosi's office to find the yellow brick road. And these folks will stop at nothing and I think that is why Stupak did the interview because he and like minded Democrats  know that Obama-Pelosi-Reid are just leading them right off the cliff. This is political cover  by Stupak. Amazing . . .

Tree Huggers Reduce Tax Revenues Across The Country

who'd of thunk it . . .

It's finally happening, Americans are driving less and do so in more fuel efficient cars and we have our friends in the Environmentalist Wacko movement to thank. Yes, they have finally gotten what they have dreamed of for years, heck generations.

I think we can all agree that it's good that we are improving our fuel efficiency, I don't think anyone quibbles with that goal.

Now, I'm sure what is coming as quite a shock to our friends on the Left is that they also are responsible for cutting tax receipts through their efforts! Yes, let that one sink in for a second. The Left who worship at the alter of the almighty Tax Increase reduced tax receipts? 

You see automobiles are more fuel-efficient, people are driving less and, increasingly in many parts of the country, they are driving automobiles that aren’t powered by petroleum at all. The result is less fuel being used consequently less tax being paid. Add in the Obama-economic-malaise that we are still in and you will find states across the country and Mr. Obama's and his Democrats in Congress scrambling in the wake of large revenue shortfalls into the various state and federal highway coffers.

So what an interesting web we weave. The Left pushes for efficiency never realizing that in doing so it reduces the mother's milk of it's movement - TAX RECEIPTS.

So it will be interesting to watch the Left's allies in Washington and throughout the state legislatures try to find a solution to this revenue shortfall. In Washington, they might want to start by ending the current diversion of 25% of the gas-tax funds to non-highway building projects such as Amtrak and metro busing; streetcar and subway budgets. These are all local responsibilities not federal but then again, Obama and the Dems think everything is Federal because they are smarter than the rest of local folk.

How ironic this all is.

The map below is from last fall. I would imagine that some of these numbers have increased as state legislatures try to find ways to close the fiscal deficits that each is facing.

Visuals of Obama/Reid/Pelosi's Drunken Spending Madness

I'm a visual person so these graphs are great . . .

Found these graphs at the blog Hillbuzz and thought they were just great as they show very clearly what Obama along with the Dems in Congress are doing to this country. 

What is also good is to see the years prior to Obama, in particular years 2008 and 2009 in the "Deficit" graph. It shows the impact of a Democrat Congress has on a budget. Yes, Bush should have veto the heck out of it.

Also look at the impact the Republican Congress had in 1994. Republicans need to keep this in mind if and when they take control of Congress and remember that they can reduce the deficit. Unfortunately, Republicans got drunk on power in the mid-2000s and forgot why they were there.

And the final graph is just chilling . . . 

Nelson Next Redemption Step is Obamacare SAY WHAT!!!

Nelson afforded prime opportunity to show Nebraskans he hears us . . .

It now appears that Obama, Pelosi and Reid have a new plan to get Obamacare passed and signed into law. And according to WashingtonExaminer.com Pelosi's own staff isn't being very quiet about it. 

And folks, this is where our Democrat Senator Ben Nelson comes into play. On first blush, I have a feeling that this is Nelson's worst nightmare. Obamacare, his Waterloo. Cornhusker Kickback, folks are still mad as hell about that and now Obama-Reid-Pelosi are bring that all back up again. Not good especially after Nelson just started down the redemption path with his recent support of the Republican filibuster against Obama's leftist wacko nominee for the National Labor Relation's Board.

So I'm sure that he is peaking around the corner right now and can't believe what he is reading and hearing that Obamacare is ALIVE!!!

So after Mr. Nelson stops shrieking, there is an opportunity that is presenting itself to him, but will he take it?

Nelson can take another step down the redemption path by playing hardball with Obama, Pelosi and Reid. He can gather other nervous Democrats(you can't turn around in a Democrat caucus meeting without running into one of those!) in the Senate and they should march up to the White House and let Obama know that if they try this "trick" as Pelosi's own staff member called it, to get Obamacare passed, then Nelson and his group will hold up every nomination that comes down to the Senate. They will join the Republicans and filibuster every Obama agenda item and they will be out in front of television cameras blasting Obama, Pelosi and Reid for bastardizing the legislative process. 

Bottom line, they should make it very clear, they will bring the Capitol to a complete and utter standstill if Obama-Pelosi-Reid forge ahead on Obamacare.

Now, the question is, how bad does Ben Nelson want to get back in the good graces of Nebraska voters?

I guess time will tell. 

New Unemployment Numbers Re-enforce Business Unease

the uncertainty is for real and Obama and team better wake up . . .

It's always good news when you see the unemployment rate decrease and that's what the latest figures  show that came out today. The drop from 10% to 9.7% is good news for families across the country. Ed Morrissey over at HotAir has written a concise, easy to understand article on what's all in this latest drop. 

The bottom line on unemployment is that it will not start showing marked improvement until:

1. Obama and the Dems cut taxes on the job creators

2. Obama and the Dems stop all the regulations and new leftist programs

Business does not like uncertainty and right now Obama and the Dems are doing nothing but providing uncertainty-on-steroids to the business community. Consequently, companies of all sizes, but particularly the small businesses which are the backbone of our economy, can not do any long range planning.

It's become very clear how ill-prepared these folks are in leading this country when this White House has so few of its staff and cabinet leaders who have ever run a business or been involved with the daily operation of a business.

I believe that we will not see any marked improvement in the unemployment level until after November and that's only IF Republicans retake the House and Senate and they actually legislate like Conservatives this time around. It would be the balancing act that I think would provide business with some calmness and allow them to at least realize that nothing to much was going to happen with a Conservative Congress and a Leftist President fixed in a stalemate.

Until then, well, I hope it gets better but the environment is just not business friendly right now. 

Obama 2011 Budget-Is This A Joke?

Obama and Congressional Democrats can't be serious . . .

Did Massachusetts not happen? Did Virginia and New Jersey not happen? Are the Democrats in Congress and in the White House living in a dream world?

The President just released his proposed 2011 budget and folks around the country have to be shaking their collective heads in disbelief.

Here's just a couple of the mind boggling numbers:

• Establishes a new single year record for spending of $3.8 trillion
• Establishes a new single year record for a deficit of $1.6 trillion
• Establishes a new overall record of total debt of $9.3 trillion

The so-called spending freeze that Obama so loudly proclaimed in his State of the Union address is at  best a reduction of $20-billion over last year coming from about 14% of the overall budget. Now some may say that's progress but consider that Obama and Democrats injected over $260-billion in so-called stimulus dollars last year plus increased their overall budgets by an additional 14% last spring in the Omnibus spending bill. You end up with each of these agency starting it's budgeting at an overall 84% higher level than the prior year. I would hope they could find a few bucks to reduce.

How many households got an 84% increase in their budget last year? This doesn't sound like much of a freeze to me. 

One final thought on this so-called freeze. Last year, Democrats in Congress and Obama agreed on $6.9 billion in spending cuts mostly in defense. They then took that "savings" and spent it and much, much more in non-defense spending which I outlined above. So don't hold your breath on this freeze happening either.

The end game is this. President Obama is showing early in year two that what happened in year one was not inexperience, it was who he is, i.e. a big time Liberal who fully believes that more Government not less is the answer.

In the end, as Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation points out this F.Y. 2011 budget will "over the next decade, pass $75,000 per household in additional debt into the laps of our children and grandchildren".

Voters now have a clear picture of who Obama is and who the Democrats are. Apparently Massachusetts wasn't enough of a slap in the face for Mr. Obama and his party, I guess it now goes to Colorado, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New York and even California . . .

If This Isn't A Red Flag

the Dems are having to spend campaign cash in Jan. & Feb. of a non-election year in Nebraska???

Found this little gem this morning about our Democrat Senator Ben Nelson and who is financing all those TV ads that we are having to endure. 

The problem with these ads is as I mentioned before, Nelson has become THE JOKE throughout the country whenever the subject of abuses occurring in Washington comes up whether it be on talk shows, late night shows or during the special elections like those in Massachusetts and today in Illinois.

Once the public gets a vision of you, it's really difficult, if not impossible to change and Ben Nelson and the "Cornhusker Kickback" are the first words that roll off people's tongues whenever the subject turns to what's wrong in our Nation's Capitol. 

Boy, that's a legacy I'm sure Nelson must be proud of. I wonder if that will go on his newly erected statue out in McCook . . . Governor, U.S. Senator and face of the now famous phrase "Cornhusker Kickback"