Monday, December 13, 2010

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS ON CAPITOL HILL - 2010

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the White House not a lobbyist was stirring, not even a member of the House. The bags of the Liberals were packed with care because they had taken a beat down by the voters this year. The Republicans were snug in their beds with visions of repealing Obama-Care dancing in their heads.

Mamma Gibbs in her kerchief and Robert in his cap. They had settled their brains for a long winters nap, praying that they wouldn’t see Santa this year. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter. He jumped from his bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window, he flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.

Roberts eyes filled with terror at the appearance of a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer. With a little old driver so lively and quick. As he feared, it was St Nick. Then he heard him yell out his name; Robert Gibbs you are still completely insane.

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet an obstacle and take to the sky. So up to the roof top the coursers they flew. With an empty sleigh and St Nickolas too.

And then in a twinkling. He heard on the roof, the prancing, and pawing of each little hoof. As he drew his head in and braced for the worst as he turned around down the chimney came St Nickolas with abound.

Santa was dressed in fur from head to his foot. His clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. No bag of toys flung over his back. Robert knew once again that he was going to be sacked.

You still speak for our leaders on Capitol Hill and you’re still telling the voters to TAKE THE BLUE PILL. Don’t you see America is ill. There are no stockings hung on the sills. Americans have lost all hope. The bureaucrats in Washington are all dopes.

Santa looked at Gibbs with an evil stare. Gibbs ducked behind his favorite chair. Then Santa said; Robert you have been very bad this year remember I warned you what would happen last year and this administration doesn’t really care.

Santa said, with a scowl on his face I didn’t think things could get worst. I fear that the Republic that stood all these years will soon be taken away in a hearse. The administration is tearing this Land I love apart and I’m beginning to think Washington doesn’t have a heart. Even as we speak, our President is doing the Ali Rope-A-Dope; even his supporters have lost all hope.

You said the people across this land are stupid and dumb you have called the conservatives terrorists and bums. The voters have sent Washington a message you don’t understand. Now the Democrats are trying to spin it to keep the power in their hands.

As Gibbs peeked around the chair; Santa spoke not a word, but went straight to his work. He grabbed all the present and replaced them with coal then grabbing the tree he disappeared as if he were swallowed up by a black hole.
@The room went silent Gibbs hung his head He decided it was time for him to go back to bed, in the hush of the night Robert Gibbs realized Rush is right.

Santa sprang to his sleigh, saying “away from this wretched place” he gave his team a whistle, and away they all flew like the down of a thistle. The Secret Service heard him exclaim, as he flew out of sight, "Merry Christmas to all, and to the Liberals that were kicked out of office good-night!"

Bill Thresher: Wichita Kansas

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Dem’s still pushing Health Care

President Obama will not put health care on the back burner even though the majority of states are fighting back with state constitutional amendments to ban health insurance mandates. Surprisingly the biggest supporters of the free market health care system in the US, seem to be the Canadian officials.

February 03, 2010 The Courthouse News reported, "President Obama encouraged Democrats on Wednesday to finish the job on health care, and chastised Republicans for gumming up the legislative system. We said we were gonna change it, he said. Well here we are, with a chance to change it."

Speaker Pelosi vowed she would pass Obamacare regardless of the obstacles "We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed..."

The Huffington Post reported, "Schwarzenegger told Meet the Press host David Gregory this was tantamount to saying I'm holding out my vote, unless I get some extra kind of benefits here. The governor went on: I mean if you do that in Sacramento, you know, you'll be sued. It is illegal to do that, to buy votes,” referring to government mandated health care.

The Wichita Eagle reported, "Although President Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states — including Kansas — are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. The proposals would assert a state-based right for people to pay medical bills from their own pocketbooks and prohibit penalties against those who refuse to carry health insurance."

The Washington Post reported that Danny Williams, "ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland -- The premier of Canada's east coast province is undergoing heart surgery in the United States this week because the treatment he is seeking was not available in his home province." The news director of CTV Ottawa referring to Premier Danny Williams, "If he stayed, he'd have to wait, he'd be under tremendous pressure to continue to do the job that he's doing. He'd also be under tremendous pressure if he jumped the line, which he obviously couldn't do." Province's deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale said, ''Ultimately we have to be the gatekeepers of our own health.''

President Obama has made it clear he has not given up the health care fight and along with Speaker Pelosi; it will not be over until they ram Obamacare down our throats. Although the Democratic armada is starting to sink, Harry Reid is becoming critical of the Presidents statements on Las Vegas, "When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college." Reid fired back, "Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further."

In the past year since Obama became President he has demonized the banks, Wall Street, the aircraft and tourism industries just to name a few. The unemployment rate is at ten percent. The only two cards he has in his deck are the class warfare and the Bush did it card.

Senator Reid, the President is not just bringing down Las Vegas he has brought down the entire country. Vegas was not the first casualty of the Obama administration. It started with the aircraft industry when President Obama demonized the auto executives for flying to Washington in their corporate jets. The President’s remarks caused companies across America to cancel their orders for private jets thus ten thousand workers in Wichita are jobless and you, sir were in on it.

Senator Reid on behalf of the 10,000 frustrated laid off aircraft workers in Wichita, Kansas I want to welcome you to Obamaland. Land of the destitute and home of the impoverished.

Bill Thresher: Wichita Kansas, formally known as the Air Capital of the World

Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Democratic Strategy

In the wake of President Obama’s unprecedented, attack on the Supreme Court ruling on campaign financing during the State of the Union address, the far left is screaming foul while the far right is touting it as reaffirmation of the Constitution and free speech. The democratic strategy is and has always been to demonize or destroy anyone or thing that obstructs their agenda.

When President Obama criticized the Supreme Court by saying, "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections," Obama said. "Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong." (1)@Politico reported, that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words "not true."

The New York Times reported, "The ruling represented a sharp doctrinal shift, and it will have major political and practical consequences. Specialists in campaign finance law said they expected the decision to reshape the way elections were conducted."

Business Week reported on the Supreme Court’s decision, “Corporate campaign-spending restrictions is a disaster." said Andy Stern president of SEIU. He went on to say, “This is a moral disaster, it is a policy disaster and it is a practical disaster. This is going to bring an onslaught, if nothing changes, of an unlimited corporatization of our economy.”

The Huffington Post reported, "Depending on the details, such a ruling could lay the groundwork for wealthy interests to press their rights further in future cases and argue they should be able to give money directly to presidential and congressional campaigns."

Frum Forum reported, "Franklin Roosevelt at the 1938 State of the Union address blasted the Supreme Court on its ruling on the steel seizure case saying, The judicial branch also is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful. The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government."

David Frum wrote, "The Supreme Court delivered a stinging rejection to the Truman administration in the steel seizure case of 1952. Truman had nothing to say about it in his 1953 SOTU. It looks like here’s another first for Obama: the first president to criticize a specific court decision in a State of the Union address – and certainly to do so in terms that, if not outright untruthful, were certainly misleading."

Rush Limbaugh said, “It’s nothing short of revolutionary. Here's how I add up the possible consequences: It adds to Republican chances of pickups in red states with small, cheap media markets. It turns the cottage industry of campaign consulting into a Hollywood-lucrative major media sector. It reduces candidates and political parties to mere appendages in their own campaigns."

With the far left at odds with the far right over Supreme Court ruling, the facts are that the left fear that big corporations will outspend the unions and the special interest groups. The far right is praising it as a victory since the big corporations can put the country back on track.

The latest Polls show the Tea Party is viewed more favorable than either the Democratic or the Republican Parties. If the left gets their way and the ruling is over turned, it will not matter. SEIU found out in Massachusetts when they threw away $900,000 on the Coakley campaign. If the Supreme Court ruling stands who will police the cooperate bureaucrats on Capitol Hill and keep them in line? The Tea Party of course.

We are winning the war but the evolution of the Tea Party is just beginning. Our grassroots organization can become the most powerful Lobbyist group Washington has ever seen but unlike the others, our power will be used for the good of the country and not self-serving organizations catering to a small segment of the population.

Bill Thresher; Wichita Kansas: Using my powers for good and not evil

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Reply to the State of the Union

With thirty million unemployed workers in America, President Obama in his speech gave little reassurance that relief is on the horizon. Over the past year, the Obama administration has pushed health care as the fix all for the economy. On the other hand, there were some bright spots in his speech last night. Overall, it appears that the President is still in campaign mode and pushing his agenda with a no holds barred attitude.

Feb 26, 2009 Charles Krauthammer wrote “The Obamaist Manifesto,” He laid out the three top priorities President Obama wanted to achieve on his watch, (1) "Obama wants to be to universal health care what Lyndon Johnson was to Medicare. (2) Beyond cradle-to-grave health care, Obama wants cradle-to-cubicle education. (3) Obama wants to be to green energy what John Kennedy was to the moon shot, its visionary and creator."

He gave us a sneak peek at his agenda with Joe the plumber. Candidate Obama said, "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

In the Washington Post the President stated, “But this recession is different. This recession was not caused by a normal downturn in the business cycle. It was caused by a perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street.” In his speech last night he bashed the Bush administration for cutting taxes and causing the mess we are in. "The problem is, that's what we did for eight years. That's what helped lead us into this crisis. It's what helped lead to these deficits. And we cannot do it again."

Where did it start? In Jimmy Carter's State of the Union Address 1979 he stated, "No American family should be forced to choose among food, warmth, health care, or decent housing because the cost of any of these basic necessities has climbed out of reach." In other words people have a God given right to own a home. These started the government low-income loan program and with further deregulation, today are known as sub-prime loans. No President since has stopped the deregulation. Last year these loans blew up wrecking havoc on the worldwide economy.

President Obama said, "steps taken by the Administration over the past year have saved or created about 2 million jobs so far.” Robert Gibbs said, “saved or created 1.5-million jobs." Later on he said "[a]s of the fourth quarter of 2009, the (Act) has raised employment relative to what it otherwise would have been by 1 ½ to 2 million." and David Axelrod commented that they "created more than – or saved more than 2 million jobs."

The Washington Examiner reported, "Give the mainstream news media some credit: They have diligently dug into President Obama's fanciful boasts of job creation. When Obama claimed earlier this month that his $787 billion economic stimulus package had "saved or created” 640,000 jobs, a dozen news organizations pounced. They soon highlighted some of the most egregious cases of sketchy job creation in about 20 states."

The president outlined job growth by tax cuts incentives and increasing exports but he wants to combine green jobs/cap and trade. Maybe they will cancel each other out and be job neutral. He justified health care as the fix all for the economy. Being that I am one of the thirty million unemployed, given the choice between a job and insurance, it’s a no brainer. With a good paying job, you get health care.

In the State of the Union Address, President Obama echoed Capital Hill's incompetence over the past year once again blaming the Bush administration. The Bureaucrats have wasted the past year on a socialist agenda rather than fixing their past mistakes.

The Washington Post reported in an interview with Diane Sawyer that President Obama said, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” In other words “Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead.”

President Obama is hell-bent on pushing his own personal agenda at any cost even if it means one term in office. His legacy is his agenda. Last night he said, "I have embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan." Mr. President you are no John F. Kennedy and you could never be a Reagan conservative.

Bill Thresher; Wichita Kansas: Sighing out from the Heartland

Monday, January 25, 2010

Democrats New Plan

In the wake of the Massachusetts, election Washington is in a tailspin. Every liberal on Capitol Hill is backpedaling. The elitist are running around like a chicken with its head cut off. The Progressives are in a panic running for their political lives. The Democrats have not formulated a new plan yet but they are working overtime on one.

The New Republic article: “Dear Nervous & Frustrated House Democrat...” it said, You’re depressed: Brown inherits the seat that once belonged to Ted Kennedy, who had made health care reform a lifelong crusade. You’re angry, either for taking politically difficult votes or compromising your ideals in order to move the process along. Let’s face it, you’re scared. If a Democrat can lose in Massachusetts, any Democrat can lose anywhere. That includes you. The temptation will be to drop health care, change the subject, and hope for the best.”

Politics and Poppycock reported that, “Bill Moyers was quoted. How is it that the people who are responsible for the mess that Obama inherited are getting away with demonizing him when he’s only had less than a year to clean it up. Let me show you just a sample of commentators railing against the President. RUSH LIMBAUGH: President Obama and the Democrats are destroying the US economy. They are purposefully doing it, I believe.”

The Democratic Strategist gave its advice, “The president must also decide how to proceed with health care legislation. Here I find myself in a paradoxical position. In this publication and elsewhere, I have argued since October of 2008 against beginning the new administration with an ambitious agenda that included comprehensive health reform. Nonetheless, I believe that the president and congressional Democrats would be ill advised to shelve the effort at this point.”

CNN News reported, “In Ohio, President Obama said, “folks in Washington are in a little bit of a frenzy over Republican Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts.”

Arianna Huffington throw in her two cents, “What we need is Hope 2.0. If the votes aren't there, the people need to create them.” My favorite union elitist Andy Stern President of SEIU said, “Why should anyone believe that knocking on doors, making calls, or donating another dollar changes anything if with 60 votes they cannot deliver real reforms?"

Broward Politics reported that U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is planning to switch parties. She issued a statement saying, “I am a lifelong Democrat, as was my father and grandfather. I am leaving the Democratic Party because my Democratic party has left me. I will soon be a member of the Republican Party.”

As of this weekend, the Tea Party is celebrating. The liberal Media is consoling depressed Democrats and defining President Obama. Arianna Huffington wrote, “We need Hope 2.0. If the votes aren't there, the people need to create them.” President Obama says Massachusetts, is no big deal. Andy Stern is asking why we helped the Democrat’s in the first place. The stunner for the week is Robert Gibbs was on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” and the Obama White House says Fox is not a ligament news network.

Seventy-seven percent of U.S. Investors, view President Obama as having an Anti-Business administration. The White House has been complaining about negative press for the past year. Maybe they should have a Media subsidy, pay us not to criticize the Obama administration, since they like to throw taxpayers money away anyway. The plan would require each journalist to sign a nonaggression treaty and then swear allegiants to the White House. Would I do it? Yes, being the capitalist I am. Then I would take the money and move to Massachusetts, change my name to Beck Limbaugh and start writing again. Why do Democrats always accuse conservatives’ of not having a plan?

Bill Thresher: Wichita Kansas,
Soon to be: Beck Limbaugh: Salem, Massachusetts

Friday, January 22, 2010

HEY WASHINGTON: PULL YOUR HEAD OUT!

Washington; pull your head out of the sand, before this great nation becomes a third world banana republic. I have realized that Washington is in a parallel universe where you leave all reason and intelligent thoughts behind. You are not in The Twilight Zone. Our leaders should run the government like a business so let’s go back to school.

BUSINESS 101: Your main concerns should be to turn a profit, encourage growth, make the stockholders happy, and protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers. Instead our county/company has an unemployment rate of 10%, the national debt is $12 trillion, the taxpayers are not happy and the terrorists are trying to destroy the USA and our way of life.

How do you encourage growth? Quit taxing our companies, they are moving overseas. Cut their taxes, give incentives, and make America the cheapest place in the world to produce their products. When they come back home the 10% unemployment rate will magically disappear. The US has the best workforce in the world. Any leader with business sense knows the bottom line is money; it is why our country has survived and prospered for over 200 years. My parents told me when I was growing up work hard and the sky is the limit, you can do whatever you set your sights on.

How do you make the stockholders happy? Quit spending money and cut taxes. Do not spend more then you make. A joke I always tell people; “I used to make $20,000 a day but then the government took my printing press”. If you keep printing money, the Dollar will not be worth the paper it is printed on. Washington: do we need to take your printing press away from you? Remember who gave you the power you enjoy so much. The voters put you in office and we can vote you out.

How do you protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers? Let’s take a lesson from history. In the late seventies, no self-respecting Hijacker in His right mind would take an Israeli hostage. Why, because if the Hijacker took an Israeli hostage: they would hunt him down then kill him, his family, and his pets, then burn his village to the ground. The Hijackers learned do not mess with Israel. The price was too high. This brings up the question; as the most powerful nation in the world, do we want to be feared or respected? I say; I want to be feared by my enemies and respected by my allies.

When the terrorist attacked New York on 9/11 we became one nation, one voice, we set aside our differences, and that sleeping giant awoke. We went to war, avenging the 6000, Americans that died that day and to defend our freedoms we cherish. We sent a message to the world; DO NOT MESS WITH THE USA! I have been fortunate in my working life to travel overseas. As Americans, we enjoy more freedoms and have the best standard of living in the world. Washington, do not blow it, we are awake and watching you.

Bill Thresher Wichita, Kansas

The unemployment rate rises, D’oh

January 21, 2010 Fox News reported, “The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for unemployment insurance rose by 36,000 to a seasonally adjusted 482,000. Wall Street economists had expected a small drop.” This left economic analyst that predicted the economy had hit bottom with a Homer Simpson moment D’oh.
@November 18, 2008 President Obama said at Global Climate Summit, “My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process.”

On December 14, 2009 on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Christina Romer, “The president has always said, and what I firmly believe, is you’re not recovered until all those people that want to work are back to work”.
@President Obama in a press conference called for tougher regulations on the banks to combat economic collapse. Minutes after his announcement the Wall Street reacted with a 200 point drop in the market.

There are 31 million unemployed in America and being one myself, I can honestly say the economy shows little improvement over last year. None of the companies that I have been in contact with says things are getting better. The most frustrating thing for the unemployed is to watch the news and hear the economic analyst say, the economy is picking up. At least the experts have a comfortable job that aloes them to pull number out of thin air them report them.

My Way News reported, “China shook off the global crisis as growth surged to 10.7 percent in the final quarter of 2009 but inflation picked up, adding to pressure on Beijing to cool rising prices without disrupting the recovery.” Maybe this is where millions of green jobs are going that the Obama promised during the campaign.

The average worker in China makes 200 dollars a month. Washington must wake up. We are losing jobs overseas on a daily bases. The Obama administration must create a corporate friendly environment in our country so companies will thieve thus turning the US economy around. Washington must cut taxes immediately in order to stop the outsourcing of American jobs, if not the US will become a third world banana republic.

Bill Thresher; wondering if China is hiring