Media is puling out all stops in keeping the American peoples focus on the presidential race. Stories about presidential candidates, poll results, and just about everything else connected to the presidential race outnumber all other stories by 3 or 4 to one. Even stories about major corruption like Solyndra and ATF sending assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels, inevitably end up as fodder for Husseins reelection chances rather than actually punishing the bureaucrats who are responsible for those disasters. Other than an occasional detour to report the usual tragedies talking heads cant stop talking about presidential wannabes Romney and Perry. Months ago I said that conservatives should place their emphasis on congressional races. The details in todays column by Phyllis Schlafly point out the need to concentrate on congressional races; especially the US Senate: Before Bush Sr. left the White House, however, he attended the 1992 United Nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro, signed the UN Climate Change Treaty and rammed it through the Senate for ratification. It's now available for Obama to use as one engine in his plan to "fundamentally transform the United States." That treaty would never have been ratified had enough Senators been loyal to this country instead of the United Nations and the New World Order crowd. Control of the Senate in the hands of Senators who put America ahead of the International community is more essential than ever in order to prevent more UN treaties from being ratified. If not control, then enough votes to block ratification of all treaties. Finding 34 Senators who put America ahead of the UNIC wont be easy. Far too often it is RINO who betray the country as was the case with the recently ratified New START Treaty: Alexander (R-TN) Bennett (R-UT) Brown (R-MA) Cochran ( R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Gregg (R-NH) Corker (R-TN) Isakson ( R-GA) Johanns ( R-NE) Lugar ( R-IN) Murkowski ( R-AK) Snowe ( R-ME) On the bright side UN-loving Lugar who is up for reelection in 2012 appears to be in trouble in Indiana: http://www.wthr.com/story/13883661/lugar-faces-tea-party-challenge Even without Lugars love of UN treaties he is the natural heir to Senators Kennedy and Biden in the harm long-serving Senators inflict on the country. Lugars been there for 36 years; he wants to make it 42. Minor good news is that Lamar Alexander stepped down from his leadership role in the Senate although he plans to remain in the Senate. Presumably, he will continue to vote for destructive treaties: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/182837-alexander-exit-shuffles-top-of-gop Should you read Phyllis Schlafly s piece you will see this: Meanwhile, Obama is working with the UN to fundamentally transform America with a new global tax. His appointee Marisa Lago is attending UN meetings to design a proposed global tax to build a "Green Climate Fund." This fund is designed to pay for greening the global economy, estimated to cost $1.9 trillion annually for the next 40 years, or $76 trillion. This is happening even though the global warming fraud has been exposed time and time again. Worse still, most Americans believe that manmade global warming is a dead issue. Hussein and the UN say otherwise. Put the Green Climate Fund in prospective by imagining what 76 trillion dollars in the UNs hands will do this country. Schlaflys final sentence offers a clue: It will be an indirect tax, making it impossible to opt out, although the UN is planning to reimburse Third World countries in another underhanded device to transfer U.S. wealth to Third World countries. Finally, every presidential wannabe jumps at the opportunity to talk about the economy, jobs, and taxation, but Ill bet you a dollar to a doughnut not one of you can tell me how they stand on Husseins Green Climate Fund? Ditto every US Senator. Phyllis Schlafly High Costs of Green Jobs 9/21/2011 We are now beginning to grasp the definition and the scope of the words "new world order," an expression inserted into the U.S. political vocabulary by the first President Bush. He never defined it, leaving that task to his successors, and President Barack Obama is only too glad to expand its meaning. Before Bush Sr. left the White House, however, he attended the 1992 United Nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro, signed the UN Climate Change Treaty and rammed it through the Senate for ratification. It's now available for Obama to use as one engine in his plan to "fundamentally transform the United States." Of course, the climate changes. Many changes are due to factors over which humans have no control, such as winds, ocean currents and sun activity. But the liberals want us to believe that climate change is also caused by gases expelled when humans burn so-called fossil fuels. The UN created an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to push the UN's political agenda wrapped up in climate-change ideology. The first UN Earth Summit was held in Stockholm in 1972. At the second UN Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the dominant figure was Canadian Maurice Strong, a good friend of Mikhail Gorbachev. Strong called for social justice, saying, "Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable." Sustainable development became the buzzword to require government approval for almost every activity by almost every individual, business and organization. While President Bush Jr. was more focused on building a North American Union without borders between countries, during his two terms, the two Democratic presidential candidates he defeated, Al Gore and John Kerry, became key players in the UN's climate change politics. It soon became obvious that UN climate change was an attack on the American standard of living as well as on our sovereignty. Gore and Kerry attended several UN climate change meetings. Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change advocacy. Kerry used his wife's mega-wealth to wine and dine university and school officials to get them to skew academic curriculum. This was supposed to make students believe that climate change is a terrible threat, and that we must abandon our current energy sources. By the time Barack Obama became president, it also became obvious that UN climate change politics are not only a vehicle to serve his goal of "fundamentally transforming the United States," but also his goal of spreading the wealth. Obama seeks to spread the wealth not only from taxpaying to non-taxpaying Americans, but also from America to Third World countries. Government's entry into the field of trying to control climate by regulations, taxes and handouts is a convenient cover not only for deliberately lowering our U.S. standard of living, but also for imposing socialism on America. So most of the $800 billion Obama stimulus was dedicated to exchanging America's dependable energy sources (set ital) from (end ital) coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear (set ital) to (end ital) less efficient, less dependable and more expensive green energies such as wind and solar. A case in point is the scandal of Solyndra Inc. This California-based company is a very politically correct green firm making solar panels. So Obama, a true believer in green energy, as well as in socialism's fantasy that government can and should pick winners and losers in the economy, gave $535 million dollars of stimulus money to Solyndra. It didn't hurt Solyndra's application that some of its investors were donors to Obama's political campaign. The trouble with green energy is that it simply can't exist without government subsidies. And Solyndra can't exist, even with this massive government grant. Just as soon as it received the stimulus money, Solyndra filed for bankruptcy. How could any business think it could survive when it cost Solyndra $4 for every watt of power it produced and China produces panels at 75 cents per watt? Meanwhile, Obama is working with the UN to fundamentally transform America with a new global tax. His appointee Marisa Lago is attending UN meetings to design a proposed global tax to build a "Green Climate Fund." This fund is designed to pay for greening the global economy, estimated to cost $1.9 trillion annually for the next 40 years, or $76 trillion. Initially, it is expected to raise at least $100 billion a year, but if the UN's tax design is approved in December at a UN meeting in Durban, South Africa, it could increase exponentially from $100 billion to $1.9 trillion annually, or more. It will be an indirect tax, making it impossible to opt out, although the UN is planning to reimburse Third World countries in another underhanded device to transfer U.S. wealth to Third World countries. http://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2011/09/21/high_costs_of_green_jobs
Obama's got tax increases hidden like a million Easter Eggs. We've GOT to get him out and start healing our country from the damage. We've got to reverse what he's done.
Further advancement of the eco-Marxist/progressive lefts environmental agenda... will continue to erode the disposable/discretionary income of the very people the frauds pretend to champion....the poor and middle class.... which increases the numbers who must turn to central government "benevolence" to survive... which forever favors big government, dependency pimp collectivists at the ballot box. "Bloodless revolution 101"
I'm afraid that, due to inflation, you're going to have to retire that expression as doughnuts frequently cost more than a dollar these days.
To Trinnity: I love the Easter Egg description of Husseins many tax schemes. Alas, reversing is infinitely more difficult than is stopping. Example: Repealing the healthcare bill should be a snap. It wont be. I have serious doubts about repeal, and I certainly am not betting the Supreme Court will overturn it. To webrockk: Should Hussein & Company succeed in enforcing the Green Climate Fund they will have taken a major, major, step towards establishing a global welfare state funded by the worlds most productive people and countries. To sunnyside: Consider it retired.
I too miss the bad old days of allowing cons like Bush to cause our many serious problems and run away and let the new guy clean up the mess. It was the new American way, for some... and has become the norm for cons.
You can keep blaming Bush, but it's SO lame and laughable. NO ONE has EVER screwed this country like Mr. Obama.
Said the guy whistling past his own con graveyard. You list your's of Obama's wrongs, and I'll list mine of Bush's, K? You'll see how Bush keeps on a'givin long after his slither off to Crawford. go
