There are 12 days to go before a national election which the enitre liberal media insist is already a “done deal —
Republicans might as well pack their bags to head home.”
To which I say: “Dewey Beats Truman!”
Some personal observations based on having spent a good deal of the past month interviewing local Nevada political candidates:
Has the time finally come to talk about racial prejudice in the current presidential race?
“Prejudice” has a specific meaning. It does not mean “holding the black man down” — though it has certainly had that effect, over our history.
The Oct. 7 metting between half the presidential candidates who will be on your Nov. 4 ballot — that was two blabfests ago, if you’re counting — was dubbed a “town hall” debate, signifying that in this particular rigged show, the two halves of the incumbent Republicrat Party — no candidates who disagree with the “Big Banker Bailout” were allowed — determined Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dumber should remain standing and field questions carefully chosen and sequenced by a member of the Democratic mass media, but read aloud by members of a carefully screened peanut gallery of docile Tennessee hillbillies, a pathetic attempt to create the impression a couple of tax thieves who haven’t been out of their moving bubble of federal protection for years were “interacting spontaneously with the plain folk.”
In that debate, John McCain said health care is “a responsibility.” Barack Obama said “health care is a right.”
The impact of tacking the generally common-sense Sarah Palin onto the bottom of the GOP ticket has clearly not been enough to rescue John McCain from himself.
First, the Alaska governor has been muzzled when it comes to debunking the idiot contention that we need to cripple our industrial economy to prevent “man-made global warming” — which she knows is ridiculous but has clearly been forbidden to openly challenge. Then, she was encouraged to join Mr. McCain’s “I can be as big a statist as them” chorus, celebrating the fact that she, too has been willing to “punish greedy big oil” with extra, add-on taxes up in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Two interesting stories on facing pages of the Review-Journal today.
On page 9A, Kevin G. Hall of McClatchy Newspapers reminds us “Stock prices reflect future expectations about the U.S. economy, so the continuing avalanche on Wall Street signals tough times ahead. … The Federal Reserve has shoveled bout $800 billion in short-term loans into banks and other financial firms since March to keep the banking system functioning. Yet it hasn’t been enough.”
If the job is spending money, who you gonna call?
The federal government.
In 2003, the Elko Daily Free Press reported Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Supervisor Bob Vaught — pressed by a local lawmaker and others protesting the Forest Service’s actions in closing off access to the public lands in Jarbidge Canyon — admitted spending $15,000 to hire Enviroclean Septic Service out of Twin Falls to swoop in by helicopter and clean a single outhouse at Snowslide Gulch at the end of South Canyon Road, in lieu of accepting an offer by Assemblyman John Carpenter, R-Elko, and local contractor Mike Lattin to arrange for the work to be done by citizen volunteers for free.
Published in Shotgun News
As this is written, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has recently named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, and the bi-coastal socialist press is going after her like the final frenzied holdouts on some Japanese-occupied Pacific atoll, shrieking “Banzai!” as they level their bayonets and charge the machine guns in their loincloths.
None of this matches what the Democrats actually say, which is that the choice of the “inexperienced” Western governor is such a poor one that the election is now essentially over; John McCain might as well fold his tents and go home.
“Quite a coincidence that you’re interested in this one,” the salesman says. “Another lady was just in here wanting it and she ran home for her checkbook. I can’t guarantee it’ll still be here in half an hour.”
Eleven days ago, the entire government of the United States — OK, no one invited the Supreme Court — sat in the White House in front of the gathered cameras and played used car salesman. From Bernanke of the Fed to Paulson of the Treasury; from Harry Reid to Nancy Pelosi; from Chris Dodd to John McCain to Barack Obama to their docile front man George W. Bush, the government sat there stern-faced and swore in all earnestness that the nation was in an economic crisis — a LIQUIDITY crisis (despite the fact the Fed has been printing up and handing free money to the big bankers all year, by the billions.) Congress was going to have to hand to the nation’s rich, fat cat bankers — who have already salted away their billions in bonuses and stock options for slicing up and reselling 13 years worth of bad mortgages — a big new IOU payable by America’s struggling taxpayers.
Who’s to blame for the current meltdown of the financial sector, caused by the dependence of so many corporate balance sheets on defaulting home mortgages?
Since the White house has been occupied by a Republican — and one with low approval ratings, at that — for the past eight years, many may be inclined to agree with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the fault lies with “failed Republican do-nothing policies.” (She would have said “laissez-faire,” but she knows her constituents would assume she was referring to a kinky new sex club.)
Let’s say you want to reverse the American industrial revolution, restoring America’s technology and economy to something much closer to the way they functioned before the Civil War.
In fact, let’s say you’re such a radical Luddite that you oppose even the “green” technologies of wind turbines and solar energy farms, since they have to be put where the wind and the sunlight are — not where the energy users are — thus requiring massive transmission lines, which don’t fit into your plans for restoring the country to the way it looked in 1850.
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