Enough of Obama's contempt for Congressional oversight. Here is the conservative agenda for 2011.
Post Prologue: Read to discover why we say this: "This president has spit in the face of congress over and over again. He rules without consent and seems insulted when someone demands that he get permission to act. Venezuela is where we are headed if we do not solve these problems."But first, this introductory thought from the AP
WASHINGTON – The Republican agenda for the new Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than on the lives of Americans in the next two years.
Republicans promise to cut spending, roll back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and prevent unelected bureaucrats from expanding the government's role in society through regulations that tell people what they must or can't do. Getting this agenda through the House may be easier than in the Senate, given the GOP's 241-194 majority in the House. Getting the Senate to act will be a challenge. Democrats still hold an edge there, though smaller than the one Obama had during his first two years in the White House.
Even if the next two years end in gridlock, Republicans will have built a record for the next election that they hope will demonstrate to voters that they can get it right.
House Republicans also pledge to hold tough investigations and hearings on the president's programs and policies, ending the free pass that Democratic committee chairmen gave the Obama administration the past two years. READ THE FULL STORY HERE >>>>
With the capture of the House of Representatives by the GOP, Congress can get back to task of supervision, something that has not been the case for two years. In addition to the investigative/supervisory duties of the House [think "subpoena power" ] , there will be a written budget and the passage of the 13 appropriations bills as required by law, to run our government; again, legislative requirements not met by the Democrat Congress during the fiscal year of 2010.
Attention will be given to legislation that will stimulate the creation of private sector jobs, another issue not given attention by the 111th Congress. Let's not forget the Obama statement of two weeks ago in which he said, Obama Press conference, Dec. 22, 2010
"And I think we are past the crisis point in the economy, but we now have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth."**
We need to diminish the power of the presidency. For example, he can have all the staff (czars) he wants but they must not be allowed to make laws or create legislation or appropriate new spending. They are staff, for heavens sake. They must be limited to the advisory roll "staff" was created for. No more "executive orders" without the review and purview of Congress, period. Executive Orders are decisions made by the president having the force of law. That has to stop or the purpose and use of executive orders must be sorely limited. No more land grabs, no more circumventing the Congress.
Finally, the regulatory powers of our federal agencies must be limited to the enforcement of Congressionally approved laws and regulations. No more governance via regulatory fiat.
This president has spit in the face of congress over and over again. He rules without consent and seems insulted when someone demands that he get permission to act. Venezuela is where we are headed if we do not solve these problems. Obama has mounted the greatest assault on Congressional powers in the history of our nation and it time to admit that, get him out of office, and start playing by the rules.
**End Notes:
Obama continues to promise attention to jobs creation. Remember the jobs forum back in 2009? Whatever became of that? And there is more:
November 2009: 11,000 jobs lost
• “President Obama announced Thursday that he would convene a jobs conference at the White House next month…The jobs forum in December will include business leaders, small-business owners, labor union leaders and others. It marks a pivot for Democrats as they head into next year's midterm elections.” (The New York Times, 11/13/09)
• “After months in which his focus has been on a health care overhaul and foreign policy issues, President Obama will pivot later this week to the economy…” (New York Times, 11/30/09)
December 2009: 85,000 jobs lost
• “Obama promises to keep focus on job creation” (Associated Press, 12/4/09)
January 2010: 20,000 jobs lost
• “President Obama pivots to jobs as key theme.” (Politico, 1/8/10)
• President Obama: “What they can expect from this administration, and I know what they can expect from you, is that we are going to have a sustained and relentless focus over the next several months on accelerating the pace of job creation, because that's priority number one.” (Remarks to House Democrats, 1/14/10)
• ABC White House correspondent Jake Tapper: “Every week we’re told that there’s going to be a hard pivot to talk about jobs, and then every week something else happens.” (Fox Business Network, “Imus in the Morning,” 2/17/10)
February 2010: 36,000 jobs lost
• “An embattled President Obama will focus on jobs and small businesses at a New Hampshire town meeting today meant to reconnect with angry middle-class voters… The Nashua event ‘is part of the post-Massachusetts plan to recalibrate Obama’s focus,’ said Larry Sabato, director of the center for politics at the University of Virginia. ‘They’re trying to pivot him away from health care and towards jobs.’” (Boston Herald, 2/2/10)
• CNN White House Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux: “Well, Kiran, certainly what's at stake, you mentioned this is really the finish line for the president. This is his top domestic priority and he’s been trying to get this -- move the ball forward for a whole year now. He would like to pivot to focusing on jobs.” (CNN, 3/8/10)
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Again, all counts are for the last six months of the
year. The actual totals are nearly double the
stated counts but, again, we weren't counting
until July of 2010.
Our Headliner Page count:
First and foremost, is our Home page with 19,801 hits since July of 2010. We are especially proud of this number. We have been blogging for three and a half years, but on December 26 of 2010, we were shut down by Google without notice. We lost all our intellectual property and were not given any warning or notice. So, we began with new year, 2010, from zero and here we are, a year later with more than 30,000 hits for the entire year (an estimate since we did not start counting until July).
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Again, all counts are for the last six months of the
year. The actual totals are nearly double the
stated counts but, again, we weren't counting
until July of 2010.
Midknight Reviews Top Ten Stories for 2010 (since July )
Understand that not everything submitted for your consideration is of our own creation. Google keeps tabs on what articles receive the most attention. We created the widget, they did the work. So it is with some pleasure that the two top stories on our blog, since July of 2010, are submittals written by our humble editor (that would be me - J David Smithson).
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Midknight Review's Most Disgusting Story of 2011
Bret Favre after the Weinie Cam scandal. Note how many teammates are standing around the man, how much the center of attention is this super star. Tiger Woods should take the cake on this one but we were not big fans of the man. However, Bret Favre is another story. We have followed him for years and considered him to be a man's man. After all, there is that "iron man of football" thing, playing through one injury after another. He would have fit into our family just fine. This editor has three sons, all freestyle state wrestling champions, all full of life and good times -- kind of like we saw Bret Favre.
Then came "weinie cam" and our review of his manhood went down the drain. A 40+ year old man sending pictures to a hot babe (well, he did get that right) with his wee-wee hanging out (did I just lose my manhood for writing "wee wee"?).
Not a word in all this scandal has been directed at his family situation, which cannot be good. And he made such a big deal about being a family man. Turns out he was more the Huge Hefner family man type than anything else.
And there he was, last weekend, standing around on the Minnesota Vikings sidelines, not being the center of attention, with no one asking for autographs, no one slapping him on his back . . . . . just an old, worn out football warrior with his weinie floating all over the web (I guess). Does he apologize to the young lady who wanted the apology; no money, just an apology? Heck no!!
Did he in anyway own up to this embarrassment ---- you know, like Tiger Woods did? Not a chance. Rather, he will pay a $50,000 fine for non-cooperation !! And here is the conclusion in the NY Times about the NFL's dealings on this matter: "The N.F.L. said it found no evidence that Favre’s behavior toward the woman, Jenn Sterger, violated league policy on workplace conduct. " Hugh ??!! Look, either his weinie is hanging out or not. The pictures are on her cellphone for heavens sake, pics sent to her by a very nicked Bret Favre. No evidence? It appears that we are dealing with more than one moron in this matter.
Bret is the same age as my oldest son. Believe me, I would have had plenty to say if he had been my kid. And he would have owned up to the story. But Bret's dad passed on a few years back, maybe for the best. I will bet that this would have broken the Old Man's heart.
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Avoid unsafe internet sites by using these "search and determine" analysis sites
Use any or all of these analysis sites to determine if your journey on the net, in terms of specific location, is or will be a safe journey as regards computer infections. Understand that porn is not the only internet avenue rife with spyware and general "infections." Sports sites, gambling sites, even religious sites can be huge for virus infections.
Two specific examples: I was infected from on a New England Patriots site when I hit "Tom Brady." I run a site called "Meet Sarah Palin." I have to be especially careful surfing for pictures of the Governor.
It appears that subject matter is not the criteria. Rather, the volume of traffic is the prime consideration.
You can go to any or all of the following, type in the URL of interest, and BAM, you will have an answer as to safety. Understand that nothing is fool proof.
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Two specific examples: I was infected from on a New England Patriots site when I hit "Tom Brady." I run a site called "Meet Sarah Palin." I have to be especially careful surfing for pictures of the Governor.
It appears that subject matter is not the criteria. Rather, the volume of traffic is the prime consideration.
You can go to any or all of the following, type in the URL of interest, and BAM, you will have an answer as to safety. Understand that nothing is fool proof.
♣ http://www.siteadvisor.com
♣ http://www.mywot.com
♣ http://safeweb.norton.com/
♣ http://www.browserdefender.com/
kk
Palin's Candidacy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
One of our favorite pictures of the Governor. The reason why her opponents are so committed to her demise? First, she believes in God and the existential secular Marxist community (that would be the Democrat leadership) does not. Secondly, they know exactly where she is coming from in terms of policy. In Palin, conservative politics are well defined, if not beautifully packaged. "What you see is what you get" is not more true than in our consideration of Sarah Palin. With Obama, after two years, we still do not know all that is to be known about this novice in our White House. Our editorial review of Palin, Obama and the 2012 elections. Happy News Year
Indeed, there is a poll out there that puts Sarah Palin 22 points behind Obama. We have talked about this particular circumstance before. Of course, she is not 22 points behind. Why are we confident in making that assertion? Well, for starters, that polling number (from Quinnipiac) is one that stands alone. No other major poll is even close. More than that, the construct of the single polling question giving us this number is nowhere to be found; neither do we know the demographics of this poll (18-30 year olds vs 30-55 and seniors; percentage of Dems vs Republicans; working class citizens vs the entitlement crowd; citizens vs illegals). We dismiss this poll with gusto . . . . . but !!! , we do admit she is running behind Obama in all polls. That's the ugly.The bad: she is running near at the top of most polls with regards her place in GOP politics. Understand this , the "major media" is busy in its effort to frame the coming election.
Within minutes of the midterm "shellacking" of Obama and his Marxist Radicals, the press was calling him "the come back kid." We expect this silliness to continue for the next two years. Obama will be credited as being the "bipartisan" Washington influence, the man in the middle working to bring both sides together. Never mind the fact that the New GOP, in the Senate, left him no choice when it came to several issues that confronted Obama in the Lame Duck congress. Never mind that he held only three meetings with GOP in the past two years not including the Lame Duck session. No president in history has exemplified this degree of partisanship. He and his Marxist buds ruled as if the other side did not count. Fine, but we must not forget this unmitigated fact.
At the same time, the Marxist media will pursue its strategy of journalist collusion against Sarah Palin. They call or write each other daily. They take talking point cues from the Wash Post and NY Times. They radicalize their opposition with junk journalism such as ThinkProgress, the Daily Beast and the Huffington Post. They popularize their assault on the Governor in the accepted network media (NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, HLN, AND MSNBC). And they are not afraid to lie and do so as a collective.
The good
Back to Sarah. It may come down to this, a decision by no one but Sarah as to the historicity of the 2012 elections. Winning the nomination is one thing. Winning the election is something very different and much more important. After is it all said and done, Palin may have enough support to give her the nomination but not the election. If that is true, she is the only one who can stop the Palin Express. She, and she alone, may have to make one of the most important political decisions in American modern history. There is no doubt that Establishment Republicans are seriously concerned about her candidacy. As things stand at this writing, she may be the front runner for the nomination but without the ability to beat Obama. The readership , here , is reminded of our support for the Governor, but reality is reality. What is critical, here, is Palin's understanding of both the importance of this coming presidential election and her role in the election. In the end, she may be the only one to stop Palin, at the National Convention in May, of 2012.
Does she refuse the nomination if the polling does not improve? That is a question only she can answer, of course. Her decision is complicated by the fact that polls are never the final word, nor are they always accurate projections of what is about to happen in a particular election. I am reminded of the Dole/Clinton election. Dole got the nomination when everyone in the GOP knew he was not going to win. At least, that was the commonly held perception. Election Eve, ABC put out a poll that carried over into election day: "Clinton up by 22 points." Dole lost by 8%. In my mind, there will always be the question of the media's role in the devaluation of Dole's viability. Could he have won had the press stopped with their lies and fake polling numbers? Probably not, but we will never know, will we. But, for certain, the media will play the same game with Palin or whoever the GOP candidate is.
I do not think Palin can win the election without committing to a head to head confrontation with Obama. Debate is one avenue. I believe she would do quite well in a series of debates with Obama. He is wrong on so many issues and critically so. And she did just fine against Joe Biden.
If she were to win the nomination, we cannot overstate the importance of her acceptance speech. Anyone remember Richard Nixon's acceptance speech? I hated the guy but that particular speech was one of the best of all time. Seriously. Can she give that kind of speech. Ohhhh, you betcha !! She has proven herself in this regard with her acceptance speech for VP in 2008. In fact, most believe that speech was the highlight of the entire conference.
By the way, while the Establishment GOP has their diapers all in a bunch over the Palin nomination, they should not forget that it was the Establishment GOP that gave us John McCain and Robert Dole, losers from "the get go" in the past two presidential elections.
A third avenue of confrontation will be the nature and scope of her public appearances. Will she get the kind of media coverage she will deserve as the GOP candidate? Will there be those in the major media who "cave in" and give her ideas and stated policies serious credit (Hint: that has already happened in some liberal circles,folks) ? Palin "shoots from the hip." As a consequence, her commentary is not as "smooth" as Obama, but it is honest and original -- two aspects of Obama's speech technique that are lacking for Der Slickmeister. Will this help are hurt her candidacy? Only time will tell.
A fourth confrontational factor will be the impact of the conservative media. This is not being considered by anyone who is forecasting 2012 election results. Understand this: Palin may need 65 to 70 million votes to win. McCain got 60 million versus Obama's 69.5 million. The TEA party should bring in at least 30 million votes. Limbaugh's crowd is around 25 million. Hannity's is 17 million. Mark Levin and Huge Hewitt and Michael Savage and et al come in around 10 million on average, each. Total these up and you come up with 100 million people. Of course, there is great overlap with these groupings. The question, then, is "how much?" Are there 70 million different voters in these totals? Conservative punditry is vast and organized and will play a major role in the coming election. Meet Sarah Palin and Midknight Review are two proud members of the conservative bloggosphere that intends to make a difference.
Conversely, how many will Obama have? It will not be 69.4 million. That is one thing of which I am most confident. Let's put his victory into context as we consider Palin's viability, shall we? The vote differential of the 2008 election was 9.6 million. That is close to a 7% victory margin. A "swing" of just 5 million votes from Obama to Palin would win this election for our FeNom. More than that, his 2008 victory cost him three quarters of a billion (with a B ), more than double the McCain contributions of $370 million. Since that election, Obama has lost as much as a million votes in the Jewish community. These will not be swing voters but their disappointment in Obama will cost him. He has lost 5% of his white male vote or 3.5 million swing votes, 12% of the white woman vote, 15% of the Hispanic vote, 15% of the "youth" vote, 6% of the Black vote, 5% of the Asian vote and 20% of the Independent vote.
A final demographic consideration, one that receives absolutely no press, is the fact that somewhere between 6 and 10 million conservatives, McCain haters all, stayed away from the polls in 2008. These are the folks that saw the GOP as a party having lost its way. This is no small factor. The coming election will see these people voting and voting as a conservative block. They were nowhere to be found in 2008, sending a message to the Liberal GOP Establishments that went something like this: "Go ahead and try winning an election without us conservatives." As much as the Trent Lock/ John McCain/Romney types think conservatives have seen their last days, the Establishment "Conservatives" do not get to play their deceptive games without being put on notice. The GOP is the Conservative Party. That is a lesson that has not been fully embraced by the Establishment, but it is a lesson that will be a factor in the coming years.
With all of the above, with Palin as the nominee, the 2012 election is up for grabs, no matter what the Marxist pundits say. Obama is one of the most feared politicians in American history, one of the most partisan in American history, one of the most committed socialists in American history, and one of the most dishonest presidents in American history. Let's not pretend that he is a lock for 2012 if Palin is the nominee.
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