John Edwards...Quite A Guy!

What kind of a guy has an affair, knocks up the dumb slut and then asks other people to foot the bill to try to hide said slut from his wife and the tabloid media all while running for President? Keep in mind that this guy has a fortune estimated at between 30 and 40 MILLION DOLLARS!

That of course would be John Edwards!

                                   What kind of a numnuts smiles for a mug shot?

Now the trail lawyer turned politician is trying desperately to get out from under a Federal case charging him with circumvent campaign finance laws when he asked a couple of wealthy campaign donors to pony up nearly a million bucks in secret cash to try to hide campaign videographer and not too bright slut Rielle Hunter from the prying eyes of the National Enquirer and his cancer stricken wife Elizabeth.

Edwards’s lawyer filed an armload of motions in a North Carolina court room today to try to cut the legs out from under the government’s case. Edwards’ mouthpiece Abbe Lowell is claiming that the “Silky Pony” knew nothing about the payments and that the cash never made its way through the campaign coffers.

You’ve got to wonder what kind of people become so enamored with a politician that that would be willing to stroke checks for huge money to help the guy cover up his indiscretions? Makes you wonder what the expectations were for a quid pro quo if the second tier Edwards miraculously could have pulled off the election win?

Seriously, this whole episode could have been avoided, if Edwards had just sucked it up and took the hit or easier still would have funded his own slut fund out of his own fortune. Makes you wonder not only about his character, but also his lack of intelligence.

Debbie Does Dumb

Just when you thought she couldn’t get any more stupid, Democrat National Committee chair, Florida Congresswomen, Debbie “Dumbasshit” Shultz rides again. Schultz insisted to CNSNews.com yesterday that “anyone’ can see that the economy is improving and sought to interpret what Pres. Obama really meant when he admitted Monday that Americans were not better off today than four years ago.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz proudly displays her IQ...on two hands

“Well, what President Obama said was that certainly since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, that Americans are not better off,” Wasserman Schultz told CNSNews.com. “That was specifically the president’s comment. I thought. And I think anyone who looks at the economy knows we have come a long way.

Really? Anyone? I wonder if this clueless, drooling, moron would like to ask the nearly 116 thousand Americans that lost their jobs last month, the largest number in two years, if they think things are getting better?

Does this women really think that all of the American people are as stupid as the voters who elected her? So much for the best and the brightest.

What’s the Common Thread Here?

While President Obama was touring lily white flyover country in his Canadian built bus, talking up buying American to put people back to work, the Congressional Black Caucus led by Congress-monster Maxine Waters have been conducting a jobs fair tour in places like Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.

Waters made headlines at the Detroit stop when she was quoted as saying; “We don’t put pressure on the president,” said Waters to cheers and jeers as people interrupted at will and yelled at her. “Let me tell you why. We don‘t put pressure on the president because ya’ll love the president. You love the president. You’re very proud…to have a black man [in the White House] …First time in the history of the United States of America. If we go after the president too hard, you’re going after us.”

She then told the fired-up crowd that voters must “unleash” the Democrats on Obama before criticizing him for not visiting any “black community” during his bus tour: “When you tell us it‘s alright and you unleash us and you tell us you’re ready for us to have this conversation, we’re ready to have the conversation. The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president too. We‘re supportive of the president but we’re getting tired ya’ll…we’re getting tired. And so, what we want to do is…we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he’s prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity…but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is. We don‘t know why on this trip that he’s in the United States now, he’s not in any black community…we don’t know that.”

I thought it was kind of interesting that the CBC chose these five cities to hold their job fairs. What do these five cities have in common? They have largely been run by Democrat Mayors for much of their history!

Look at the amazing electoral history of these cities and it’s easy to grasp the long term problems faced by their residents. The tour kicked off in Cleveland Ohio, a city that elected a Democrat 8 out of the past 10 Mayors, dating back to 1946; including Dennis “Spaceman” Kucinich! Need I say more?

Detroit, has had a Democrat Mayor for the past 49 years, dating back to 1962. Miami has had a Democrat Mayor every year since 1947, 64 years. Atlanta has elected 9 Mayors since 1942, all of them Democrats. Oddly enough it’s Los Angeles that has the most varied Mayoral past mixing both Democrat and Republican Mayors, but with the 20 year tenure of Tom Bradley dominating the cities recent history.

If you have any common sense it has to raise the question, why would voters, facing long term, deeply ingrained problems like unemployment, crime, drugs, poverty…you get the idea; continue to elect Democrats, hoping for a different outcome? Isn’t that the definition of insanity?

Dumb and Dumber

Just when you thought liberals couldn't get any dumber comes this from Obama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: "Well, obviously, it's putting people to work. Which is why we're going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we're going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that's never happened in this country -- something that we think is exciting in terms of job growth.

Yes...this really is Obama's Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack. Amazing.

I should point out, when you talk about the SNAP program or the food stamp program, you have to recognize that it's also an economic stimulus. Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times."

Can Anyone Really Be This Stupid?

At the daily press gaggle at the White House, Obama’s mouth piece Jay Carney got into it with a Wall Street Journal reporter and had this to say about unemployment checks

“It is one of the most direct ways to infuse money directly into the economy because people who are unemployed and obviously aren’t running a paycheck are going to spend the money that they get. They’re not going to save it, they’re going to spend it. And with unemployment insurance, that way, the money goes directly back into the economy, dollar for dollar virtually.”

Following this twisted logic; given all of the people who have been collecting unemployment checks during the Obama presidency, if unemployment checks really did create jobs, then wouldn’t our unemployment rate be below 5% rather than hanging where it’s been for months, above 9%?!

Can anyone really be this stupid?

 Oh…wait a minute…then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said this of unemployment benefits back in July of 2010… “It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”

I guess the short answer is…yes…Democrats really can be that stupid!

If unemployment checks really created jobs…then why work? Don’t you want to help the economy?

Baltimore Mayoral Candidate Proposes Increase in Crime

It’s is an age old political practice for candidates for office to talk about their plan to deal with violent crime, but a Baltimore, Democrat, Mayoral candidate has a visionary plan that amounts to proposing an increase in crime!

Otis Rolley has rolled out The Rolley Plan to Make Every Neighborhood in Baltimore Safer, an eight page manifesto that includes the cornerstone plan “to impose a $1 per bullet tax (or about $50 per pack).” The genius of Mr. Rolley’s plan reasons that the tax “will increase substantially the financial cost of committing a crime and, unlike guns, bullets cannot be shared after their initial use.” Pretty tough to argue the reuse point…even with Rolley’s habit of referring to himself in the third person throughout the document!

Like most mind-numbed gun control types, Mr. Rolley deludes himself into thinking that average dirt bag criminals all head down to their local gun shop or sporting goods store and fill out all of the government forms and get the necessary clearances and permits to purchase a gun and therefore would head to said weapons purveyor to dutifully pay the buck a bullet tax before committing a crime spree. Since the pack of bullets now features an excessive government tax, the crime problem is solved! Much like the delusional democrats who think you can tax your way to prosperity, this nitwit thinks you can tax your way to safety!

In reality, what this moronic plan will do is make it more expensive for actual law abiding, gun owners to purchase ammunition that they can use to defend themselves from scumbags who want to do them harm! The result will be an increase in violent crime, because the criminals, who more often than not steal their guns and ammunition, will realize that it’s less likely that the potential victim will be less likely to be able to defend themselves!

The problem with Liberal thinking often ends up being the unintended consequences of the actions they take. Eco-geniuses had us ban DDT use in 1972 to allegedly protect endangered species; and the unintended consquences include by some estimates tens of thousands of deaths do to malaria.

Hopefully Mr. Rolley’s political career will amount to a failed run for Mayor, so we don’t have to start a countdown on the unintended deaths caused by his ridiculous plan.

Common Sense Vs. Politi-speak

I love politi-speak. More often than not politi-speak comes about when liberal politicians need to use words to fashion a more voter friendly message. As the debate over raising the debate ceiling continues to rage we have been inundated by calls from President Obama and what passes as leadership of the Democrat party for a solution that includes;

“an increase in revenues.”

Washington claims they need more money, so what better way to get more money than to “increase revenue” right? This poltii-speak has become very popular with the media; with members of the drooling moron media from MSNBC, CNBC, CNN and the like latching on and repeating the term with regularity.

The problem is, not one of the drooling set has called this politi-speak what it really is; an increase in taxes! The Democrats know full well that they can’t come out and tell the American people that they want to raise taxes!

Concerned that there might be a handful of folks who can see through the ruse of “revenue increase” the Democrats have also taken to painting this tax increase as “closing loopholes” in the tax law that give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations for private jets.

That sounds good too, right? Stick it to those greedy bastards and their luxury items. Once again the drooling moron media buys into this line of crap too. Hey even “Republicans” like Joke Scarborough from Morning Joke on MSNBC has labeled this idea as “common sense.”

Here’s the problem, you may think it’s absolutely stupid to give corporations and billionaires tax breaks for buying private jets, but think about it this way; not about who buys these planes, who builds these planes? Add to that who sells these planes? Add to that what goes into building those planes?

Think about it? There has to be millions of parts; plastic, metal, fabric, rubber, the list goes on and on that goes into the building of an aircraft. All of those parts and pieces are built by somebody, sold by somebody, engineered by somebody, manufactured by somebody, sold buy somebody. These somebody’s have JOBS! And they pay taxes! Yes they contribute revenue to the Federal Government!

If we follow the “common sense” thinking of Morning Joke, what is the likelihood that billionaires are going to cut back on buying new or additional planes? If this so-called loophole in the tax law encourages them to take advantage of savings and buy a plane, then that loophole is doing something the Obama administration has failed miserably to do; it’s created jobs!

Instead of closing this alleged loophole, maybe we should look at additional ways to encourage billionaires and corporations to spend more money! The same fundamental flaw exists in the Democrats “increase revenue” strategy. The U.S. economy is consumer driven, when you raise taxes, you not only take money out of the system that could be spent on goods and services, you also create an environment of uncertainty so consumers, businesses and even greedy billionaires stop spending.

This isn’t brain surgery! If you don’t buy that widget, then the guy who builds the widget doesn’t need to make more, and the guy who sells it, sells less and the guy who supplies the pieces of the widget sells less, and needs to build less, and the guy who supplies the raw materials for the widget sells less…and so on. In the end if you sell less then you may need less people, which means more unemployment and less revenue to the Federal Government.

So the genius of the Democrat strategy is to actually create more unemployed people during one of the most difficult economic periods in our history. Instead of raising taxes, what we really need Washington to do is to CUT SPENDING! and CUT TAXES!

If you cut taxes, you will increase revenue to the Federal Government! If you just swallowed your tongue: follow the logic. Tax cuts equal more spending which equals more goods needing to be manufactured, equals more people to make the stuff, equals MORE TAX PAYERS! Now look at history; every time tax cuts have been tried, it has resulted in an increase in revenue to the Federal Government. EVERY TIME!

Think about it; would you prefer a system that relies on a small number of people contributing to the tax base of a country or would you prefer to spread the responsibility of funding government over a wider group of people? What is a more stable foundation for anything; something that is an inch wide and a mile deep or something a mile wide and an inch deep? Spreading the responsibility over a wider range is truly COMMON SENSE!

Federal Budget Debate Really Not That Hard…it’s simple stupid!

There has been a seemingly endless debate about the Federal government budget, debt and spending cap that has dominated the news. I hate to think about all of the money that has been wasted on endless studies and “expert” economists to try and come up with an solution to the problem.

Based on all of this chatter, discussion, debate and brain power, you would think that this is an insurmountable problem. Well I am here to tell you…it’s not. Forget about all of the battles and numbers and boil the problem down to two pretty basic numbers and you can see exactly where the problem lies.

In the 50 years between 1960 and 2010 the revenue coming into the federal government is 20 times greater. In other words the dollars we took into the Federal government coffers is 20 times the amount of money that we took in back in 1960.

The other number is based in that same 50 year period…spending by the Federal government in 2010 is 42 times! greater than it was in 1960.

If you can’t figure out what the problem is, based on those two basic numbers, you’re either not trying, you’re lying or you’re stupid. It’s really that simple.