You would think that radical liberal groups would be as happy as donkeys in DC, but they’re not.  You can never go left enough for some groups.  The radical Left will not be happy until George Bush is tried and convicted for war crimes, whites are humiliated and subjugated to all other ethnic groups, and drugs, abortions, and free love are available on demand in a vending machine on every street corner.

As if for no other reason than to prove my point, the ACLU launched an advertising campaign attacking… President Barack Hussein Obama.  The crazies who run the American Civil Liberties Union are upset with our Commander in Chief for publicly musing that he may possibly be thinking about considering the potential for maybe trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) in a military tribunal.  In case you’ve forgotten in the nine years since, KSM is the professed mastermind behind the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States of America.  He planned the 9/11 attacks, and he’s proud of it.

For 99.99% of Americans, a bullet to the back of his head would be fine.  To virtually every man and woman in the US, KSM is a disgusting sub-human who should be removed from this world as soon as possible, but the nut-cakes at the ACLU are not virtually every man and woman in the US.  They happily will tell you how they are more evolved and wiser than the rest of us mouth-breathing breeders.

So, the ACLU, the fringiest of of all the fringe Left, want to convince the liberal president that he should ascribe to their way of thinking on the KSM case.  Their weapon of choice in the ideological war between Left and Lefter?  Comparing President Obama to the predecessor he so loathes, George W. Bush.  In the New York Times, no less.  This is going to get ugly… uglier.

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A) President Obama graciously invited the Republicans to participate in a Health Care Summit. He did so with the honest and optimistic intention of opening a constructive dialogue to solve the impasse stalling his comprehensive Health Care Bill, which would provide affordable health care to all Americans. The Republicans, however, showed up with only obstruction in mind, disdaining his attempts at open discussion in favor of partisan complaining political posturing.

B) President Obama dragged key congressional Republicans away from their work to host a staged show of posturing for the TV cameras. Although the Republicans made sincere efforts to alert the out-of-touch Democrats to the fact that the American people do not want their version of health care foisted upon them against their will, the president met their overtures with scorn and derision. He arrogantly refused to discuss the concerns of Republican leaders, barely hiding the fact that this was just a dog and pony show before he rams through the bill without any Republican input.

Sadly, I think the truth is a mixture of the negative portions of both accounts. I don’t think anyone in attendance had any intention of coming to any kind of agreement. President Obama himself seemed impatient and irritated from the get go. He tapped his pen, stroked his chin, and generally conveyed his best “I don’t have time for your nonsense” body language throughout the televised conference. He did everything but his infamous “scratch my eye with my middle finger when I talk about you” maneuver from the campaign trail.

Maybe the highlight was John McCain’s mention of the president’s back door deal making, which he offered “with respect”. I looked up “with respect” in my Political Speak to English translation dictionary and apparently it means, “I can’t believe the people elected an arrogant jerk like you over me.”

In the final analysis, I think each party achieved what they wanted out of the summit. Too bad what they wanted was to make the other side look bad instead of trying to fix the real problem.

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Anyway, the Democratic Party of Florida took advantage of Wikipedia’s openly-editable model to make a little opinionated change to his entry. In case you don’t know what Wikipedia is, go buy yourself a computer. This isn’t the first time that a political hack job has been done on Wikipedia. Rush Limbaugh’s page infamously was changed a few years back. The price of an open source encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone is that it can be edited by anyone.

The big difference here is that this was not some basement dwelling malcontent with a grudge doing the editing. It wasn’t some left wing extremist working alone to vent his misanthropy. This was the work of the Democratic Party. The same group who is now opposed to protests is proudly using unsavory tactics and abusing the public trust to smear a campaign opponent.

It could have been anyone, you say? How, you may ask, can I be so sure that the Florida Democratic Party was behind the attack? THEY MADE SCREENSHOTS AND DISTRIBUTED THEM TO THE MEDIA. The party of the people has abandoned all pretense of civility to attack Polk County’s favorite son. Not that there’s a lot of competition for the title. Second place goes to NASCAR driver Joe Nemecheck, in case you were wondering.

Now that the Democratic Party of Florida has reached a new low, it probably won’t take long for someone from one side of the aisle or the other to burrow even deeper. I wonder if the press would be so quietly amused if someone changed Barbara Boxer’s or Nancy Pelosi’s Wikipedia entry. I’m thinking not so much.

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Watching the opening weekend of the Winter Olympic Games has been like watching one long infomercial for Canada.  Oh, the majestic mountains and icy lakes.  Tom Brokaw, who left Canada to come to the United States where he became a multi-millionaire, managed to work in a snarky comment about Canada having a more solid economic foundation than California.

I can’t help but wonder: If Canada is so great, why doesn’t anyone live there?  Canada is larger than the U.S., but its population is 1/10 ours.  Why are Mexicans passing through the US on their way to Canada?  Why are refugees from all over the world flocking to our northern neighbor to overcrowd their national health care system?

Don’t get me wrong.  I want to state clearly that I like Canada.  They’ve been a good neighbor and partner to us for many years.  But let’s not forget that they are the junior partner.  Canada is the Robin to our Batman, the Tonto to our Lone Ranger.  To paraphrase the great philosopher Chris Tucker: The US is Michael Jackson; Canada is Tito.

So, why is it perfectly acceptable, nay, encouraged, for any other country to boast, but not for the US?  Is it just because we have the most to boast about?  Our First Lady has stated publicly that she has NEVER been proud of her country until her husband became the Democratic nominee for president!  What a shameful disgrace that is.  Yet we accept her stance because she’s black, and the rest of us just can’t understand the hardships that an educated, filthy rich black woman has to go through.

Canada, by all means you should enjoy your moment in the spotlight.  I don’t begrudge you one bit for bragging on your landscape, your people, and your economy.  Even though I think it is weird that your official head of state is the Queen of another country, I accept your for who you are.  Just remember that we’ve got bragging rights, too.

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Sarah Palin inserted herself back into the news cycle this week by allowing that she would consider running for president in 2012. Everyone on earth knew that she would at least consider it ever since she quit her gig as Governor of Alaska, but now it is out on the table. In retrospect, it was pretty wily of Governor Palin to wait until now to acknowledge what we all knew.  If she had just said so when she was already in the center of the news, she would have wasted a prime spotlight opportunity.  She may be more politically astute than anyone has given her credit for.

The thing that really surprised me this week was President Can-Do-No-Wrong taking another shot at trips to Las Vegas.  He already did that one, and the whole state of Nevada got worked up into a tizzy.  It happens once, and I think he’s just speaking his mind without the aid of a teleprompter or speechwriter.  But twice?  Why he’d take another slap at Sin City now is beyond me.  Even his dearest pal Harry Reid is expressing his displeasure.  We’ve already seen the President and Nancy Pelosi at odds recently.  Now Harry, too?

On the other side of the spectrum, the Tea Party seems to be suffering from its own brand of internal dissent.  The fledgling organization is struggling to define itself, and a fight is looming between the fiscal conservatives and the “Birth Certificate” fringe.

This can’t be good for party unity.  Fortunately for us, anything that is bad for the unity of either party makes for great political theater.  And there’s this added bonus: when the politicians are busy fighting with each other, they don’t have much time to muck up our lives with their “helpful” legislation.

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Part 1 - I’m a fiscal conservative.

The President opened his speech by staking out a position that normally would be held by a Ronald Regan conservative: cut spending, eliminate waste, only spend what you can afford (of course, if you look at the results, not even Ronald Regan was actually a Ronald Regan conservative when it came to spending).  Despite my ingrained distrust of a man who has kept precious few of his campaign promises, I was kind of digging what he was saying in the early going.  If he holds true to those values espoused during the first twenty minutes of the State of the Union, I honestly could be voting to reelect Obama in 2012.  That’s a big ”if”.

Part 2 – It’s all Bush’s fault.

President Obama continued his ongoing campaign against President Bush, despite the fact that he was elected over a year ago and that he never actually ran against Bush (remember old John McCain?).  The economy is Bush’s fault.  It would have been worse, except for the sage actions of President Obama.  The wars are Bush’s fault.  They would be worse now, if not for the wise and decisive action of Obama.  Even your distrust of the government is Bush’s fault.  You just don’t get how wise and wonderful Obama has been in the last year.

Part 3 – I am the king, and the king can do no wrong.

Also known as the great chastisements, the third section of the speech was a delightful assault on everyone in sight.  It reminded me of the scene in Taledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby where Ricky thought that you could insult someone in the most awful way as long as you said “with all due respect” first.  The Supreme Court is wrong, the Democrats are lost and spineless, the Republicans are obstructionists who do nothing but stand in his way.  Obama let loose on anyone and everyone who ever crossed him or who may consider crossing him at some hypothetical point in the future.

Good speech.  Good political theater.

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Last week I wrote that Brown could not win in Massachusetts. I was convinced that the people of the Bay State were toying with the pollsters, just like their cousins in New Hampshire did two years ago. I was certain that the bluest of the blue states would not hand over the seat that the beloved brother of the more beloved brother of the most beloved brother held for almost half a century. In fact, that seat has been held by a Republican for exactly six years since 1926.

I was wrong.

Brown won, and convincingly. All sorts of theories abound – his populist image resonated with voters, Coakley’s unlikable stiffness cost her the race, Coakley wouldn’t listen to the DNC, the DNC wouldn’t help Coakley, George Bush’s Global Warming melted the brains of the Massachusetts electorate. Any or all of those may have contributed (OK, not the last one), but in the end, this was a referendum on the universal health care.

In fact, no one seems to have much to say about Brown himself. I heard a lot about why people didn’t like Coakley, I heard even more about why people wanted to derail the Democrat’s smug domination of the national discourses. But I didn’t hear much about what makes Brown the ideal Junior Senator for the blue bloods in Massachusetts.

Now, reporters and political junkies are asking if Brown has presidential aspirations. Really? He hasn’t been sworn in as Senator yet, and we’re jumping that gun already? My advice to conservatives is this: Don’t Obamatize Scott Brown. Don’t get so far ahead of yourselves that you’re pushing an untested, unready neophyte into the most powerful position on earth. We’ve got a rock star president now. In three short years, it will be time to trade in the rock star for a statesman.

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The second reason that this is such a big deal is that Coakley’s election would guarantee the Democrats a filibuster-proof super majority in the Senate.  That would mean that the Democrats could continue to force through any legislation that they choose without regard for the opposition’s stance.  Which is kind of funny, considering the utter lack of achievement one year into the Era of Democratic Dominance.

A Brown victory, by contrast, would enable the Republicans actually to participate in the process of crafting legislation, to a degree.  They still would not be able to actually propose any legislation that did not meet the approval of the Democratic machine, nor would they have enough votes to deny the Democrats any bills that they set their sights on.  The only power the Republicans would gain is the ability to filibuster until the Democrats either gave up or caved in.

No less than President Obama himself is stumping for Coakley.  He knows, his advisors know, everybody knows that this election is bigger than just the claim to be the Junior Senator from the great state of Massachusetts.  This is a referendum on health care.  This is a proxy battle for the direction of the country.  This is big.

And the Republicans don’t have a chance.  We’re talking about Massachusetts after all.  Polling doesn’t mean much in New England.  Did we all forget New Hampshire a year ago?  This race was over before it began.  The best the Right can hope for is the moral victory that comes from keeping the race closer than anyone would have thought possible.

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Still, this one gets to me.  Because it was a shot at the Untouchable One.  Because it involved a variation of the Unspeakable N-Word.  Because the same media that made a maelstrom over a non-issue with Rush Limbaugh’s supposedly racist comments overlooks a truly racist remark when it suits their agenda.  Because it is such a brazen double standard.  Because they’ve given up even the pretense of impartiality.  It merits one more mention.

The rich, bigoted elitists who control the media don’t care about you.  They don’t care about racism or poverty or fairness or any of the other things that they want you to think are important to them.  They care about controlling the system and getting even richer.  They care about embarrassing the Republicans at every opportunity, simply because they hate the Republicans.  They probably don’t even know why, they just do.

I’m sick of it.  I’m swearing off the major news networks.  I’ll get my information from the web and my local paper (until the death of print takes that option away).  I’m tired of the Obama Age already.  I’m tired of the Fairness Doctrine and runaway spending (which, I’ll admit, was alive and well during the Bush Presidency).  I’m tired of a government that is no longer for the people or by the people.  Year after year we choose the lesser of two evils, and we feel powerless to do anything about it.

Harry Reid makes an utterly inexcusable racist comment.  A year and a half later, we find out about it.  Now, we’re supposed to just ‘get over it’ and move on.

Then again, this is the same Harry Reid who once rejoiced in the fact that he was far enough removed from the people that he no longer had to ’smell the tourists’.  Maybe he’s not a racist.  Maybe he just hates us all equally.

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The current Democratic President, He-Who-Can-Do-No-Wrong, could learn a thing or two from his predecessor.  And I just don’t mean in the picking up chicks department.  Or the getting aforementioned chicks to keep their mouths shut department.  I’m referring to the showing empathy for the working man department.

While we are mired in the worst economic climate since the Great Depression, The Wise and Benevolent Ruler of the USA is living large in a $4,000 a night beachfront rental home in Hawaii.  It’s his right, I suppose.  He’s a very wealthy man (I’m not sure how that happened, unless being a community organizer pays much better than I think it does), and he can spend his dough as he sees fit.  He even can spend a good chunk of our hard earned tax dollars at his discretion.

I’m not accusing the All Knowing One of doing anything wrong (I know many of you Democratic party faithful think him incapable of doing any wrong anyway).  I’m just saying that it may not send the right message at this time.  The folks who just scrimped through Christmas because they’re living on one income in a two income world, the families who are wondering how they’ll be able to make their next mortgage payments, the small business owners hoping that they can stay afloat for a few more months – it will be a tough sell for the Great One to convince them that he feels their pain when speaking from a veritable palace in Maui.

President Obama should take a lesson in empathy from the Secretary of State’s husband before his free pass runs out.  The mid-term elections are just around the corner, and We The People may have a thing or two to say to him at that time.

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