Back to Basics

You gotta love Speaker Boehner.

At Newsmax, “Boehner: Obama Creating ‘Fake Fight’ Over Student Loan Rates.” And from Yahoo, “Boehner Asks Angrily, ‘Do We Have to Fight About Everything?‘”

And progressive hack Joan Walsh takes umbrage: “John Boehner’s Blues.”

Rep. Allen West’s comments about alleged communists in Congress have led to what West calls “A lot of buzz and inaccurate reporting” in the media. Some reporters have nitpicked West on whether he has concrete proof of actual card-carrying members of the Communist Party USA in the Congress.

Politico called him a McCarthyite and actually quoted a spokesman for the Communist Party as saying that West didn’t know what he was talking about.

But the alternative media, led by www.rebelpundit.com, have been covering the story of how the international communist movement, responsible for about one hundred million dead, is very much alive and has collaborators in the U.S. Congress. Rebel Pundit is the work of Jeremy Segal, a disciple of the late Andrew Breitbart who produced the recent video of Rep. Danny K. Davis being honored by the People’s World at the Communist Party U.S.A.’s headquarters in Chicago for a lifetime of “inspiring leadership.”

Davis serves on the Homeland Security Committee where his subcommittee assignments are the Subcommittee on Transportation and the Subcommittee on Oversight. He is also a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

When Segal started questioning the congressman outside the party headquarters, CPUSA members and a Davis handler wearing an Obama jacket tried to intervene to protect Davis from further questioning, with one person calling Segal “disgusting.” Segal protested, “Don’t touch me!”

But rather than highlight the case against Davis, who has represented the Chicago-area 7th Congressional District of Illinois since 1996, Chicago Tribune columnist and editorial writer Steve Chapman called West “an embarrassment to the party” for his anti-communist remarks and suggested that he be condemned or expelled from the GOP caucus in the House.

In a brief telephone interview, Chapman, who is labeled a “conservative” by the Townhall website, told AIM that he had never heard of or seen the Davis video, which was originally released through a Breitbart website on March 12. He said he would determine whether it is newsworthy if a link to the video was emailed to him. It has been done.

Although the Davis video got some coverage locally in Chicago, on Fox News and by Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), Segal said he wants to see more media pick up the story, especially because of its national security implications. “This is something that should be front page on the Chicago Tribune,” he said. Instead, however, Tribune columnist Chapman claims no knowledge of the video and bashes West for using inexact language in calling attention to the problem.

“I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party,” West had said. “It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.” Though serious, he was apparently using the term communist in a loose way, to suggest a far-left or radical “progressive” approach, and also to identify what have traditionally been called “fellow travelers” of the CPUSA.

Indeed, there is abundant evidence of members of Congress cooperating and collaborating with the Communist Party and its front groups, with Davis being only one concrete example. But the major media won’t cover the information because of their apparent fear that such coverage would itself be labeled McCarthyite.

America, we have an enormous problem. And, it’s a quickly expanding one. Fueled by the palpable fear of We-the-People that is now observably apparent from arrogant elected members of both the Executive and Legislative branches of the US government, Orwellian bills denying the American people their Constitutionally-protected rights are now being routinely crafted and passed by an increasingly draconian “ruling — not governing — political class.”

For the first time in the history of the United States of America, its people are being reigned over and reined in by thoroughly totalitarian and an almost completely corrupt set of individuals…individuals whom we elected.

The USA has been heading for Leftist rule for many decades. The markedly minority Marxists and Maoists have been incessantly and, for years, feverishly working to take over our country and install a Stalinist/Hitlerian-styled government. In fact, in 2010 at least 70 members (we suspect there are probably more) of the US Democrat Party were listed as members of the American Socialist Party. But, this is the first time they have claimed the unconditional power to do so.

In the past, we were able to keep these subversive and patently destructive elements at bay. The way in which we were able to effect our continued survival as a free country was via the Republican Party. Tragically, those days appear to be gone. The “Republican Establishment” (aka “Rockefeller Republicans,” Global Elitists or New World Order followers) is now firmly in control of the GOP and it has no intention of releasing its iron grip.

Note: Leftists are leftists wherever they deign to appear.

Recently, leftist John McCain (R-AZ) — one of the GOP “Sleeper Cell” members? — partnered with leftist Carl Levin (D-MI) in greatly increasing the Executive branch’s power over the American people. The ‘McCain-Levin US citizen Imprisonment Bill’ effectively does away with the Fourteenth Amendment’s “due process (under the law)” clause which mandates: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Obama signed the bill as quickly as possible and then immediately issued a signing statement outlining his new powers. In it, he states: “I have concluded that section 1022 provides the minimally acceptable amount of flexibility to protect national security. Specifically, I have signed this bill on the understanding that section 1022 provides the executive branch with broad authority to determine how best to implement it, and with the full and unencumbered ability to waive any military custody requirement, including the option of waiving appropriate categories of cases when doing so is in the national security interests of the United States.”

In other words, although Section 1022 provides a bare skeleton structure (one sentence) “protection” for US citizens and legal resident aliens, Obama claims he can (and I suspect will soon) affect its subordination-to-his-will and use the “national security” excuse to eliminate due process for those who oppose him and his policies. He claimed this “power” with his signing statement.

Imagine you live in Indiana. Now image that you really want to get to New York City. But instead of asking how to get there, you ask for directions to Los Angeles. Do you think that you are going to get the right answer to the question you really wanted to know the answer to? Of course you will not.

Politicians act this way all the time. If there is a problem, but it is a problem they do not want actually solved, politicians often ask the wrong questions in order to prompt the wrong answers to come forth. Take your pick of Republicans or Democrats, among their ranks are gaggles of politicians asking the wrong questions in order to get the wrong answers. Admittedly, there are fewer Republicans than Democrats that do this. All Democrats seem to constantly do nothing but ask wrong questions. However only a blind fool does not see that many Republicans do it all the time as well. And, to be honest, all of them do it from time to time.

Which brings me to Representative Paul Ryan (R – WI). Yes, Mr. Ryan is back again with another budget proposal which he and many conservatives are agog over and chittering about how it is such a great blue print to solve our looming debt crisis. And as typical, hard core left-wingers are tossing up their lunch at the thought of having to cut one bit of spending which they need to spend to bribe their constituents to vote for them.

After examining Mr. Ryan’s proposal I find that there are many good ideas within it. Simplifying the tax code, for example is a grand idea. However, keeping the concept of an income tax still rubs me the wrong way, as it should any freedom loving American. Giving the federal government a claim to a portion of a worker’s paycheck before that worker even touches the money is not an American idea. His budget also starts to hack and slash through a lot of the unconstitutional stuff our federal government does every year. But it leaves a lot of the nanny state, socialist welfare state in tact as well which is bad. His budget spends less than President Obama would have us spend as a nation. Yet it continues to spend more money than the federal government brings in and swells our national debt for years to come.

There is no doubt that his plan is better than anything a Democrat could come up with without rending his or her garments in disgust at what they had done. Better does not mean “good” or “should be supported” however. Ryan’s budget compared to the left-wing’s idea of what the federal budget should be is more like agreeing to cut off just both our hands rather than both our arms to describe it accurately.

The reason why Paul Ryan’s latest budget is not a good idea or should not be supported is because he and other Republicans started out when crafting it by asking the wrong questions. Whether these wrong questions were asked because of stupidity, ignorance or cowardice will have to be debated. But the fact that these wrong questions were asked at all is not in doubt. To demonstrate just one example of Mr.

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Representative Walter B. Jones Jr. (R-N.C.) introduced a bill to impeach President Barack Obama.

Commenting on my Wednesday column, Congressional Irrelevance, commenter James asked why I had not yet written about the Obama Impeachment Bill recently introduced in Congress by Representative Walter B. Jones Jr. (R-N.C.). Quite simply, I had not planned to comment upon it all.

A bill of impeachment is irrelevant political theater, just as it was during the Bill Clinton Presidency. Congress is a criminal enterprise and a good ole boys club. No bill of impeachment will go anywhere, because the fox is guarding the henhouse. Congress members have no fealty to the Constitution. But if they did actually believe and abide by the oath they took, they would never consider removing the first black President because of the riots and unrest that would erupt in the black community.

But it doesn’t matter. Their fealty, and President Barack Obama’s, is to the banksters and big business and the New World Order: in other words, fascism. Until the fascist system collapses, an impeachment trial would serve only to gin up the ire of both the right and left and reinforce the false left/right paradigm. If you hold your breath until a Congress that won’t even discuss the poser President’s ineligibility to hold office decides to move with impeachment, you will be dead and buried many times over.

Besides, should the House deign to consider an impeachment bill and it pass along to the Senate, a Democrat-controlled Senate would never bring it up, no matter how egregious the charges — and using offensive military force without a declaration of war is an egregious Constitutional violation.

Congress is too busy ripping the Constitution to shreds (NDAA, TSA, HR 347, USA Patriot Act, etc.) to consider trying to uphold it.

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Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) appeared stunned during a March 7 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when first Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey and then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the Administration of President Barack Obama needed only an international legal basis to go to war, and Congress would be an afterthought.

What’s truly stunning is that Sessions would be surprised. Congress has been derelict in its duty for some time and has essentially allowed the President to function as an emperor. It ceded its authority after 9/11 when it allowed President George W. Bush to engage in the vaguely defined War on Terror and send American troops around the globe. Obama upped the ante in Pakistan and Libya and may be on the verge of doing so in Syria and Iran.

Congress has become a ceremonial body. Its 535 members are more interested in lining their own pockets and passing legislation to benefit the banksters and large corporations than in Constitutional governance.

Did Rush Limbaugh get elected to Congress and I missed it? Democrats seem to think so.

First the set-up:

Democratic lawmakers appealed to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday for Republicans to rebuke conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh after he called a Georgetown University law student a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

Limbaugh came under fire from Democrats on Wednesday after he attacked the student, Sandra Fluke, for her testimony in a hearing about President Obama’s contraception mandate. He stood by those comments on Thursday’s show…

Do Dems have to take Rush’s bait every time? I guess they do.

I found this part hilarious:

“This kind of direct attack on a private citizen is unacceptable,” the Democrats’ letter stated. “Mr. Limbaugh is as free as any American to speak his mind about the political and social issues of our time, but using his radio show as a means for blatantly insulting a hard-working American with obscene and indecent language because he disagrees with her personal choices is an abuse of the public airwaves.”

A “direct attack on a private citizen” is unacceptable? That from the people who haul corporate executives in front of them on a regular basis in order to bash them publicly for the crime of having worked hard and made money, and have in their ranks congressional leaders who have referred to the Tea Party — hard working private citizens concerned about the country their kids will inherit — as swastika carrying Nazis and highly dangerous individuals?

Boehner’s response to these Dems should be “bite me.”

As for the “somebody else should pay for my birth control” woman, my thoughts on contraception boils down to two choices (and what good liberal isn’t pro-choice?): If a woman can’t afford it, A) Tell the guy he has to pay for it, or B) If he won’t pay for it, don’t have sex.

I know, I know… personal responsibility is sooo old fashioned.

Update: Good question, by way of Twitter:

Update II:
President Obama is focused like a laser on jobs and is in no way attempting to take advantage of the situation.

Update III: The White House, sensing this situation was in dire need of more humor, would like to remind you that Fluke’s name is pronounced “Fluck.” I kid you not.

Mail containing white powder was delivered to the Capitol Hill offices of  U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday, according to officials with the Capitol Police. One U.S. Senator’s home office in Indianapolis reportedly received suspicious mail, as well.

The Senate Sergeant at ArmsTerry Gainer sent out an email warning House and Senate staffers to beware of letters containing “a suspicious powdery substance.”

Garner’s email said a Senate State office and a House District office received on threatening mail that contained the suspicious substance.

The names of the lawmakers who were targeted have not yet been revealed yet.

According to the Capitol Police, the letters received were tested and the enclosed substance found to be harmless. But there may be more threatening letters containing powdery substances still to come, said law enforcement sources.

The Senate’s Sergeant at Arms Gainer stated that his office was in constant communication with both federal law enforcement and local police during the continuing investigation.

As chief law enforcement officer of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms is charged with maintaining security in the Capitol and all Senate buildings, as well as protection of the members themselves.

The Sergeant at Arms serves as the executive officer of the Senate for enforcement of all rules of the Committee on Rules and Administration regulating the Senate Wing of the Capitol and the Senate Office Buildings and has responsibility for and immediate supervision of the Senate floor, chamber and galleries.

The Sergeant at Arms is authorized to arrest and detain any person violating Senate rules, including the President of the United States.

In addition to the Capitol offices, a suspicious white powder was found in an envelope mailed to the downtown Indianapolis office of Sen. Dan Coates (R-IN) also on Tuesday, according to WRTV Channel 6 News.

The Indianapolis Fire Department Hazardous Materials Team was dispatched to the office in the Key Bank building, Field tests showed the powder was negative for hazardous materials, but the powder will undergo further testing at the Indiana State Board of Health Lab .

Last week, a terror suspect had been arrested near the Capitol as part of an FBI anti-terrorism investigation. Amine El Khalifi, 30, was nabbed by the FBI  following a one-year undercover investigation. He was carrying what he believed to be explosives — including a bomb vest –to launch a suicide attack on the Capitol building and its occupants.

Here’s a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it?

It’s always a disturbing experience when you’re accosted with a picture of Harry Reid, as I was upon logging on to Drudge last Monday afternoon. But at least his image bore a fitting caption: “MOST FUTILE EVER.” I then clicked the link and found myself at The Washington Times – normally a quite sane organ of the media – and learned the meaning of the caption: the Times was lamenting a do-nothing Congress and presented Reid as its poster boy. Writes the paper, “It’s official: Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills – fewer than during any other session since year-end records began being kept in 1947.”

Writes Duke, “It’s official: conservatives are completely confused about what begets big government.”
The paper then expanded on its theme, pointing out that Congress set a record for “legislative futility” according to something called the “futility index.”

I’ll tell you what’s futile: complaining about a loss of freedom while chastising legislators for not spawning enough bills.

Perhaps I’m missing something, but my understanding is that a “bill” that’s signed by the president becomes a law. I also have this goofy notion that, except for certain housekeeping measures and repeals of old legislation, a law is by definition a removal of a freedom, as it states that there’s something you must or must not do. Ergo, enslaved as I am by the old math, my figuring informs that the more laws we have, the less free we are. It then seems to follow – at least using my white male linear logic – that since we continually enact more laws but hardly ever rescind any, every year the progressives make us progressively less free.

Thus, when I see “do-nothing” and “Congress” in close proximity, it occurs to me that “do” has many definitions. And when government doeth, I think of the definition in the following Lord of the Flies dialogue: “The Chief and Roger…. They hate you, Ralph. They’re going to do you.”

So if you complain about a do-nothing Congress, I ask, what is it exactly that you want them to “do,” whom do you think they’ll “do” it to, and what do you think will be done to you? Our current Congress passed 80 bills. How many more do you want and how many more until we’re done for?

The good news is that many of 2011′s bills were simply housekeeping measures – such as spending reauthorization acts or extensions of already existing laws – so we probably didn’t lose as many freedoms this time around as the bod…er…bill count would indicate. Really, though, what does it say about third-millennium America when Uncle Sam disgorges 80 pieces of legislation and we, like good little masochists, bend over and say, “Thank you, sir! May I have another?”?

The reality is that we should want a do-nothing Congress. In fact, we should want a do-nothing president, do-nothing bureaucrats and hope that our military, police, firefighters and judges have to do little. And let’s just think about where we’d be today if we actually had a do-nothing government for the last many years.

First and foremost, we wouldn’t have ObamaCare.

On the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Act,” comes another draconian bill designed to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for virtually any reason it deems necessary. Stephen D. Foster, Jr. has the story.

“Congress is considering HR 3166 and S. 1698 also known as the Enemy Expatriation Act, sponsored by Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Charles Dent (R-PA). This bill would give the US government the power to strip Americans of their citizenship without being convicted of being ‘hostile’ against the United States. In other words, you can be stripped of your nationality for ‘engaging in, or purposefully and materially supporting, hostilities against the United States.’ Legally, the term ‘hostilities’ means any conflict subject to the laws of war but considering the fact that the War on Terror is a little ambiguous and encompassing, any action could be labeled as supporting terrorism.”

Foster goes on to say, “I hope I’m wrong, but it sounds to me like this is a loophole for indefinitely detaining Americans. Once again, you just have to be accused of supporting hostilities which could be defined any way the government sees fit. Then the government can strip your citizenship and apply the indefinite detention section of the NDAA without the benefit of a trial.”

See Foster’s report HERE

Ever since Congress passed the Patriot Act back in 2001, it seems the floodgates have been opened for more and more intrusions and abridgements of those fundamental liberties expressly protected in the Bill of Rights. From the Patriot Act, to the Military Commissions Act, to the NDAA (Indefinite Detention Act), and to now the Enemy Expatriation Act (EEA), these big government toadies in Washington, D.C., are clearly and unmistakingly declaring war on the American people.

I invite readers to see my column on the NDAA HERE

Have we forgotten the MIAC report out of the State of Missouri back in 2009? In that official State report, supporters of Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin were identified as potential dangerous “militia members,” and Missouri State law enforcement officials were notified to be on guard. Beyond that, anyone that identified themselves as being pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, anti-Federal Reserve, Christians who believe in the return of Christ, and even returning Iraq War veterans were likewise targeted as potentially dangerous to Missouri State law enforcement personnel.

After the MIAC report surfaced, Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and I sent a letter to the governor of Missouri demanding that the report be removed and that the State of Missouri repudiate the report. After a firestorm of outrage by thousands of Americans all over the country (not just in Missouri) the State of Missouri did indeed remove and repudiate the report.

Totalitarian regimes throughout history have attempted to marginalize those people that the state intended to target for persecution. Once a group or groups of people had been sufficiently marginalized, it wasn’t long before public condemnation and then military retaliation took place.