It’s not their fault, it was the snow storms (where is global warming when you need it?).

So now we know it’s either God’s fault or George Bush’s fault but never liberal policies. Really?

The previous administration dealt with both the 9/11 attacks and Katrina. These represented the most devastating back-to-back disasters America has endured in generations, and yet from 2001 to 2007, the economy produced millions of new jobs.

Only after the Progressives took control of the legislative branch in 2006, did we see an end to the robust job market. They immediately announced they would allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and since gaining unfettered power in DC, have proposed massive new taxes to support the government’s take over of the healthcare and energy sectors of the economy.

Don’t blame it on the snow…it’s the taxes, stupid.

Recently the Speaker of the House implored her party to pass Obamacare even if it costs them their jobs. In her plea she held up Social Security and Medicare as examples of unpopular bills that have become popular.

She failed to say these programs are bankrupt. They represent a $34 trillion unfunded liability, the government has committed $34 trillion it cannot pay. If we add this healthcare monstrosity to the list, the unpayable debt we pass on to future generations becomes even more obscene.

General Douglas MacArthur, the Army commander in the Pacific in WWII, said 60 years ago, ”There can be no more monstrous an immorality than to pass on to our progeny an overwhelming burden of public debt extravagantly created to better our own conditions of life-with little thought to theirs.”

Imagine what he would say if he could see us now.

Recently the liberals in the Senate went into orbit in mock concern for 400,000 Americans who would not receive their unemployment benefits because one conservative Senator blocked a vote to spend $10 billion to extend their coverage.

Hold your judgment. Here the “rest of the story”. Congress feigning concern for their unsustainable deficits, passed a “Pay-Go” bill saying that any further increases in spending would have to be accompanied by corresponding cuts—they must “pay as they go.”

On the very next spending bill, a $10 billion bill to extend unemployment insurance, they waived their own requirement to find offsets for the new expense.

Senator Jim Bunning who is retiring after this session refused to simply go along. He stopped the bill and called attention to the hypocrisy of the Pay-Go Congress. He was mauled in the press.

Principled stand or meaningless gesture…you decide.

Soon your government will mandate that gays be allowed to serve openly in the military. You will hear lots of arguments for and against the proposition. None will address the moral issues, but that aside, there is one over riding reason gays should not serve.

Historically, in a battlefield environment, the soldier beside you may very well become your blood bank, necessary for your survival. When gays are serving, that emergency battlefield blood bank is contaminated.

There is a reason that the Red Cross will not allow people engaged in homosexual activity to donate blood, because their blood will contaminate the nation’s emergency blood supply. This screening is not discrimination, there is a very real threat from HIV/Aids.

So, unless Congress is ready to require the Red Cross to take blood from anyone who volunteers, neither should they allow homosexuals to serve in the Armed Forces.

If you said no, you’re in good company. Only 6% of Americans believe the 1000 page bill establishing the presidential slush fund has succeeded in stimulating jobs, unless you’re in a government union.

You may remember that the bill was brought forward in the dark of night and
there was no time to read it let alone hold public hearings; it had to be passed immediately in order to keep unemployment at 8%.

The bill was presented as so urgent a need that any delay in its passage would be a disaster, and even though unemployment has since surged to 10%, the administration has only spent approximately 1/3 of the money appropriated and most economists would agree that very little of the more than $300 billion was spent on anything resembling job creation projects.

So, remind again me why passage was so urgent?

Of course not! Our government controlled media had no interest in reporting the victory of the rule of law in the tiny country standing against Chavez led, US supported coup to overthrow their government.

Last summer the elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, with the support of Chavez, attempted to unilaterally alter the constitution to suspend term limits which prohibited him from being reelected.

The Honduran Supreme Court upheld the removal of Zelaya from office for constitutional violations. To our shame, our government backed the deposed president.

The Honduran government withstood the international pressure led by Chavez and our Secretary of State. They held their scheduled national elections in December and have now installed their new constitutionally elected leader.

Although we inexplicably supported the colonial interests of Hugo Chavez, we have declared our support for the new president.

Congratulation Honduras!

Earlier this decade, a reliable study showed a link between abortion and breast cancer. The study showed that women choosing to have an abortion before they had carried a child to term were increasing their risk of breast cancer later in life. This original study was discounted by the abortion industry.

One of those early doubters, Louise Brinton, has now acknowledged the link. Her 2009 paper on the subject maintains that abortion is “a known or suspected risk factor” for breast cancer, concurring with earlier studies.

Given the significant physiological changes involved in pregnancy, it seems reasonable to suspect that to begin these changes and then stop them short of fulfillment could result in unintended consequences.

Makes you wonder why those who say they are concerned about women’s health issues don’t want women to have this information when considering abortion!!!

There has been a movement to eliminate the penny from our currency. The argument is that the penny is really worthless and we can function well without having this meaningless coin in circulation.

Whatever your position on the issue, what the government did last year with the penny is a picture of the problem with big government and the way it spends your money.

Last year was the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the penny, so to commemorate the anniversary, the government spent $70 million to redesign and reintroduce the penny.

So, today there are 5 billion pennies in circulation worth $50 million dollars, that cost the government $70 million to design, mint and distribute.

Private industry would never undertake a project of dubious value that would result in a $20 million dollar loss, but then no one has ever accused the government of understanding efficiency or return on investment.

They claim that asking for stimulus money for their constituents after voting against the bill is blatant hypocrisy.

What a farce! Opposing a frivolous 1000 page pork-laden bill posing as a jobs creation package when given less than 24 hours to read it was an act of conscience for any fiscal conservative…but, having lost the vote, asking for some of the pork is not hypocritical.

That is, unless somewhere in the bill, the constituents of those voting against the bill were excused from paying the taxes required to support it.

If the taxes required to support this major liberal slush fund are to be borne equitably by all Americans, then all Americans should be allowed space at the trough.

The hypocrisy is the liberals’ insistence that all should pay but only a chosen few may benefit.

Rank partisanship refuses to acknowledge any positive achievements by the opposition. Honest political discourse requires giving credit when and where it is due.

I am a strong critic of this administration’s positions on deficit spending, the national debt, the idea that big government is the answer, in criminalizing terrorist acts…the list seems endless; but integrity compels me to give the President credit on several fronts.

His use of drones to disrupt and terrorize al Qaeda leadership is yielding good results. His decision to add troops to Afghanistan was the right thing to do. And, his strong support for building new nuclear power facilities in America is exactly on target.

Well done, Mr. President.

To deny these positive decisions in favor of constant criticism would be to become like our protagonists–so blinded by their agenda that they ignore any positive achievements.