HIS DEAL IS BAD FOR AMERICA
President Obama promised to bring change to DC in 2008. The Republicans promised to bring change to DC in 2010.
While it’s good news that people are talking about how much to cut instead of raising taxes, things haven’t changed enough. (more…)

I was watching CNN and just about fell out of my chair when this commercial came on.  It’s sponsored by a group called Crossroads GPS.   I found it eerily reminiscent of the famous “Daisy Girl” ad which ran only once, on a Monday night September 7, 1964, during the ’64 Johnson vs. Goldwater campaign.  The timing couldn’t have been better.  Harry Reid had just finished his latest ‘can’t we just get along’ spiel.

(h/t freedom1781)…Out here in proverbial politico flyover country, we little folk are watching the debt ceiling debate with great interest and concern. Today I re-read the open letter I wrote to Republican Freshman Members of Congress in November 2010, just days after they were ushered into office in an historic landslide victory due in large part to the activism of commonsense patriots who are considered part of the Tea Party movement. I respectfully ask these GOP Freshman to re-read this letter and remember us “little people” who believed in them, donated to their campaigns, spent hours tirelessly volunteering for them, and trusted them with our votes. This new wave of public servants may recall that they were sent to D.C. for such a time as this. (more…)

(Mark America)h/t AFinch…It’s clear enough that the GOP establishment has a basic contempt for its base.  Let me explain to you folks, to whom Mark Levin refers as ‘Re-Pubics’ or ‘RINOs,’ what it is that you seem not to have noticed: You can’t have any lasting electoral victory without the base of your party, and that base is decidedly conservative and a bit populist, and even those who are not members of the TEA Party certainly have firm sympathies and common principles with them.
Today, those of you in the DC ‘leadership’ of the GOP may have sealed your electoral fate in 2012.  Rather than take on the President, and simply shrug and walk away from all the deal-making, you went on the attack, not against Obama, and not against Harry Reid and his band of thugs in the Senate, but instead, you went to war with your base.  You did the same thing in 2005.  You continued the practice into 2006.  You lost your majority.  I suppose you think this is a winning strategy, but I’ve got news for you, since you seem incapable of learning it otherwise:  It can’t work.
Give it up. (more…)

(Mark America)…(h/t PhillyCon) It’s become so commonplace lately that I’ve basically conceded the fact that Fox News is losing its luster as a more objective media outlet. No individual on the network highlights this fact more thoroughly than the utterly estimable Bill O’Reilly. It isn’t that Mr. O’Reilly’s ever been anything but a crude buffoon, paying lip-service to his audience’s presumed fervor-of-the-moment, while basically servicing the inside-the-beltway crowd, but it is his increasing hostility to ‘folks on the right’ that has me most thoroughly troubled. This time, Mr.’O’ has stepped over the line (more…)

I’m having ‘feelings’ today… special feelings for someone I call the ‘Eight pm’er’.  What better way to save my memories than in a ‘Kodak’ moment?   All I need is a little help from some Treepers…help in coming up with just the right caption.

The following proves once more that birds will fly,  fish will swim, and duct tape will still fix just about anything.  
(Daily Caller)…“Congratulations to Barr for moving from the farm team to The Show.”  Jim Treacher
A Politico reporter who often penned stories about Sarah Palin and other Republicans has quit journalism to work with the Democratic Party in Arizona, sources tell The Daily Caller. (more…)

Yesterday afternoon, PhillyCon left me the link to a very interesting review along with the following words of encouragement.  “To everyone fighting the good fight:  sometimes we don’t see the fruits of our labor immediately, it happens when we least expect.”  The link she referred me to perfectly  illustrates her point.  The following report comes from the Essex & Orange 1773 team from San Francisco, California…via Barbaric Thoughts.  (more…)

Since most New Yorkers think the world revolves around their city, consequently few of them have an accurate idea of what the Unites States of America really looks like.   Anyone who doesn’t live in Los Angeles or New York City doesn’t really matter, has no meaningful opinions, or doesn’t exist other than in some weird Amish/Deliverance kind of lifestyle.
News Flash:  Minnesota is not Southern Canada.  E-I-E-I-O is not a zip code. And, there is no East Jesus.
Below is the Map of America….as seen by the average New Yorker.  (more…)

(Daily Mail)…For decades it lay in the bottom of a secretary’s desk drawer, its purpose unknown. But now, 123 years after it was made, the secret of this bent metal ring, which was found in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, has finally been uncovered. Scientists have found that the microscopic grooves on the ring make up the tune of ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ and mark the world’s first attempt at a talking doll and the dawn of America’s recording industry.
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