Conservative Common Man

Newsmax.com has an article that states:

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is at the top of the list of John McCain’s possible running mates, according to a top McCain fundraiser with ties to his inner circle.

John McCain probably owes some debt of gratitude to Mike Huckabee for playing the role of useful idiot that helped McCain clinch the nomination over reasonable candidates. This isn’t to suggest McCain wouldn’t have been a reasonable candidate under the right (or better, left) conditions. Say for example, John had went with his urge and done the Republican Party a favor when he considered leaving the party earlier in the decade. In this scenario he could be running with his own crowd in the Democratic Primary. One could reasonably say that McCain would have filled the role of Kerry’s running mate (something he said he would consider) in 04 and therefore launched his bid in 08… from the appropriate party.

I have to give McCain credit for perseverance in his quest for what he seems to view as his destiny. Following the 2000 denial of his coronation and his bitter frustration for having to wait eight years, he stacked the deck this time around. McCain benefited from three key factors, in my opinion.

1. McCain-Feingold served its intended purpose to restrict donations and air-time to the true conservatives that would naturally not receive favorable coverage, or any coverage from the “parrot press” as Mike Church calls them.
2. Four key early primaries allowed “independents” to vote and keep McCain’s unlikely hope afloat. (Obama backers that take issue with Republicans voting for Hillary need only look at this circumstance before crying foul!)
3. Huckabee helped McCain get rid of Romney, the last reasonable candidate, and ensured that McCain finally reach the next step toward the ultimate gratification of his massive ego.

Factor number three is as good a reason as any for McCain to consider fellow liberal Republican Mike Huckabee as a running mate. Huckabee is good on abortion and… that’s about it. The V.P. doesn’t nominate judges, so that one positive is rendered insignificant. Huckabee was awful on the illegal alien issue until it was convenient to get tough and once McAmnesty is pushing his McCain Kennedy agenda again (he is already hinting at its return,) Huckabee could easily slide back into his comfortable , compassionate toward illegals role.

Huckabee also seems to be a good fit for McCain on this weeks liberal issue: anthropogenic global warming. From salon.com:

A conservative Republican and devout Christian, Huckabee believes he has a biblical responsibility to protect God’s planet from climate change, even though he’s not convinced that climate change is largely human-caused. But mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions make him squeamish.

He may have to get over the squeamish feeling, but I’m sure the opportunity to stick it to “big business” will be enough to entice the former governor to tag along with McCain’s economically treacherous plan.

From today’s Washington Post and the ever-left Juliete Eilperin, “McCain Breaks With Bush on Climate Policy.”

PORTLAND, Ore., May 12 — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made a sharp break with President Bush on Monday, saying that the United States should adopt mandatory curbs on greenhouse gas emissions as well as issue tradable emissions credits to polluters to spur technological innovation.

“The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington,” he said, speaking at a Portland training facility for Vestas Wind Technology. “We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.”

There we have it. Proof that McCain is joining whichever admitted Democrat wins the nomination in declaring war on American industry. Ignore the chilly April and May of this year. How does further crippling manufacturing and product processing help the little guy that these populist politicians pretend to serve? Is it that we will be better off without the jobs that will be lost due to the new and deadly regulations? Is it that we will spend what little money we can scrape together, more wisely since the cost of everything will be through the roof? Is it that the old Soviet-style economy was so attractive that those of us that weren’t fortunate enough to experience it, really, really deserve an opportunity to live the “Socialist Dream?” Perhaps it is nostalgia for “the good old days” that motivates power hungry imbeciles to try to recreate the era known as “The Great Depression.”

Is there any reason McCain shouldn’t pick Huckabee? I don’t think his running mate will matter at this point. McCain seems content to ride the hope that the disgruntled supporters of the losing admitted Democrat candidate will follow through with their promises to cast their votes for McCain in November. If McCain does not need the help of thoughtful conservatives, I say we give him what he needs.

I suggest that any Sirius Satellite Radio owner that shares my angst tune into Mike Church’s show on Patriot 144 (8-11am CST) for a daily dose of entertainment and perspective that is faithful to the vision of our founding fathers.

There is little chance that the three liberals running for president along with the other notable morons that preach the gospel of liberalism from their various pulpits will succumb to common sense and allow for the limited self-government our founding fathers intended. Perhaps it is not too much to ask that if they would lead, they do so by example. Demonstrated leadership would at least give these egomaniacs a shot (albeit a long one ) at credibility on their pet issues.

The Republican candidates inappropriately named “Straight Talk Express” must not have stopped to pick up his wife’s tax returns. Cindy McCain “will never” release her tax returns as a matter of privacy. Apparently face lifts can squeeze the brain if Mrs. McAmnesty doesn’t think the candidate’s financial situation is open for consideration. Does she actually believe that Teresa Heinz-Kerry is the ideal role model for potential first ladies? Call me crazy, but I believe it is important to know where a presidential candidate gets his money. McCain is the self-appointed model of propriety and believes money and influence should be removed from all politics. He went so far as to restrict the free speech of individual citizens by way of McCain-Feingold for the supposed purpose of preventing huge campaign contributions and expected favors in return. I contend that a motivating factor in the travesty known as McCain-Feingold was the hope that if all voices other than the media were restricted, the media’s favorite “maverick” could finally attain the object of his lust, the Republican nomination. The legislation has served its purpose, can we repeal it now? How about a little transparency Senator? Or is that one of those “do as I say, not as I do” items? The fact that the McAmnesty’s have always filed separate tax returns means absolutely nothing unless we are so stupid as to believe that the senator has lived off and only benefited from his own money! What kind of marriage is theirs? Do they live in separate houses, Cindy in one paid for by her, and John in one paid for by him? Is Senator McCain a kept man? The point is that Cindy McCain’s income and donations could indeed influence Senator or President McCain’s decisions and therefore should be open to scrutiny!

Yesterday’s Washington Post trumpeted: “McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer” and well they should. If McCain had any influence at all over the land swap that benefits one of his large supporters, his hypocrisy should be vetted. This is Mr. Clean, after all. This is the man who claimed his own weakness toward temptation inspired him to assume everyone lacked the character to respect his or her position of power, and thus we were sentenced with McCain-Feingold (giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming that its complete purpose wasn’t to assure his eventual nomination.) There is no reason or room for favors to donors by any public official, period!

Does LaRaza know that McAmnesty got the message on the border? Is that what he will address when he speaks to “The Race” later this year? He has been slipping “comprehensive immigration reform” back into statements and interviews lately, which only makes sense… since he has secured the nomination and can be at least a little more honest. Who believed that he would ever secure the border and not revive McCain-Kennedy? I think it was P.T. Barnum that indicated that one of you was born every minute.

This unusually cool May seems like a good time for McCain to plan a Global Warming campaign tour. I assume Senator McCain’s tour will be on an emissions-free bus? No, well I assume, at least he will not use electricity to magnify his voice. No? Well then, is he going to just solicit more donations from the base he detests in order to purchase offsets from Al Gore?

I continue to search for enough reasons to support McCain as the lesser of two evils, for that is the best case scenario at this point. Senator McCain continues to prove that the differences between him and his opponent are too minimal for comfort. So I humbly request that the campaign finance reform poster boy conductor of “The Double Talk Express” lead by example or shut the hell up!

I focused more on McCain than I originally intended, but he continues to apply the type of pressure that seems intended to break, or at least beat conservatives into submission. I also cling to the hope that The Republican nominee would at least be reasonable, thus the disappointment is magnified. Now to discuss the admitted Democrats, from whom no reasonable person expects anything reasonable.

Hillary Clinton wants to confiscate the “windfall profits” of the oil companies. (I was under the impression that the dollar wasn’t worth much these days, and if that is the case then the profits aren’t worth as much as the numbers would indicate if the dollar had value.) The oil companies are making a profit. Would they continue to supply oil if they were not allowed to profit? Unless Hillary “Chavez” Clinton intends to nationalize the oil companies and restrict supply, the answer is no. When Shillary screeches her artificial populist rhetoric, does she mention the $109 million she and Monica’s rapist boyfriend have made since releasing The White House from their clutches? The services of The Shrew and The Perjuring Rapist must be valuable indeed if none of that $109 million was profit! I’d ask Hillary to lead by example or shut the hell up, but Tuesday’s narrow victory in The Indiana Primary may have rendered her inconsequential and finally suffocated her air of inevitability.

Barack Obama, champion of wine and cheese tasters was recorded lamenting the fact that ordinary people don’t support him. In what could be described as a rare moment of “straight talk,” Barry O enlightened his upper crust supporters to the fact that, in his opinion the little people were bitter which would explain their clinging to “guns and religion.” The statement demonstrates the superficial quality of Barry’s “Christianity,” a religion he apparently uses for appearances and vote solicitation. This would explain how he could be so supposedly blissfully ignorant of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s radical orations. When Barack was in church, and assuming he saw no camera around, he probably put in his ear buds and read a little Marx to soothe his soul. His statement made it clear that religion is something hopeless people cling to because their lives are so miserable and worthless.

Barry holds his nose in the air at the thought that American citizens exercise 2nd amendment guaranteed rights to bear arms. Again this is something to which miserable commoners “cling.” Odd that he seems to be content with the notion of bombing The Pentagon, The Capitol, and police buildings to protest our own government. In fact, former domestic terrorist and member of The Weather Underground, Bill Ayers is just an English Professor at UIC in Barry O’s humble opinion. Sure they sat on a board together, and yes they gave a couple of speeches together, but what does that matter? Ignore the fact that in order to launch his campaign for The Illinois Senate in seedy Chicago politics style, Barry O had to appear at the home of Bill Ayers and his equally repulsive wife Bernadine Dohrn to seek their stamp of approval. One gets the impression that these terrorists are like royalty in Chicago politics and must knight any Democrat that hopes to succeed! The parents that pay tuition to UIC should probably be very concerned about the quality and substance of their children’s education.

Barry has one magic trick that he expects to play over and over to avoid the remote possibility that he might be expected to engage in the obviously beneath him activity of discussing issues, policy, and detailed solutions. This is actually a card trick, the Race card” to be precise. You may recall that he also told his elite San Fransicko supporters that the little white people have “antipathy for people who are different from them.” They are racist if they don’t support the candidate of “change,” who transcends race.

Maybe thoughtful commoners just recoil at the notion of supporting the most liberal senator in the U.S. Senate and one of the most despicable supporters of the most gruesome late term abortion practices in public office. From The Illinois Federation For Right to Life:

Democrats won control of the state Senate in November 2002, and when Born Alive was reintroduced for the third time in 2003, it was directed to the Obama-chaired, infamously liberal Health and Human Services Committee, where he simply refused to call it for a vote.

By this time Obama was running for U.S. Senate. He won his primary in March 2004, and Republicans recruited former U.N. Ambassador Alan Keyes, who lived in Maryland, to oppose him. It was Obama’s position against Born Alive that persuaded Keyes to run, as he stated in his announcement speech:

“When I was first approached about this possibility… I have to say that my reaction was negative…. What finally caught my eye, however… what finally arrested my attention and forced me to consider whether I not only had the opportunity to oppose him, but the obligation… was when I learned that (Obama) had actually, in April 2002, apparently cast a vote that would continue to allow live birth abortions in the state of Illinois … .

“We are talking about a situation in which, in the course of an abortion procedure, a child has been born alive — is out of the womb, breathing and living on its own — and he cast a vote against the idea that we should not stand by and let that child die!”

Obama’s cavalier attitude toward the unborn should come as no surprise to those that heard him refer to a potential grandchild of his as a punishment to his daughter should she make a mistake and find herself pregnant.For the sake of our children and our liberty, Barry please lead by example, or better yet, shut the hell up!

Run for the water! It is a scorching 53 degrees in southern Illinois and The Bulbous Goreacle’s prophecy of doom is becoming reality. Not even following Sheryl Crow’s one-square per sitting rule can save us now from the impending inferno!

Excuse me a moment, I need to go put on a sweatshirt.

Okay, now that I’ve warmed up, we need to figure out if we have any hope at all. What can be done to save the planet from boiling and who is going to take action? What we need is more than action… we need an ideology… we need communism. Fortunately there is no shortage of communists in the U.S. and they are more than willing to further the sham, I mean impending terror of anthropogenic global warming to impose their ideology on an unsuspecting populace.

The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin wrote a glowing tribute to Communist Seattle, Massachusetts, and California titled “Block by Block Communities Fight Global Warming.”

Officials in King County and other places are rethinking the way their communities grow and operate, all with an eye toward reducing their overall carbon footprint. After decades of policies that encouraged people to move out to the suburbs in pursuit of larger homes and bigger back yards, some policymakers are now pushing aggressively to increase urban density and discourage the use of private cars.

In Massachusetts, the state demands that developers calculate and disclose the climate impact of their projects. In California, Attorney General Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. has sued communities and power companies for failing to offset the greenhouse gases generated by their expansion plans. And Washington, D.C., officials are installing a new trolley line and bike rental kiosks in an effort to cut back on car trips within the city.

Juliet even writes about a real issue without even realizing it. The issue would be the cost of gasoline and who is really responsible for its rise:

But not without occasional resistance. Brown has sued entities as varied as San Bernardino County and petroleum giant ConocoPhillips to hold them accountable for the impact of their growth on the state’s greenhouse-gas releases. He reached settlements with both last year: San Bernardino officials agreed to estimate the county’s 1990 and current emissions levels, analyze how its land-use decisions will affect its emissions by 2020, and to develop a plan to cut emissions stemming from its land-use policies and government operations. ConocoPhillips agreed to pay the state $10 million to offset the climate impact of expanding its oil refinery in Rodeo, Calif.

Pop quiz that anyone whose brain has not been melted by the scalding 53 degree May 3rd temperatures could answer. From where does the money for $10 million dollar penalties come? Perhaps the people that buy gas share in funding the penalty! It is unfortunate that there isn’t a poll tax to fund all these communist politician mandated stupid and wasteful plans. This particular tax, of course would only be levied on the people that actually cast votes for those candidates with Marxist leanings.

This election year, we are fortunate (cough, cough) enough to have two candidates with openly, just not admittedly, Marxist leanings and a third candidate who isn’t much better. There shouldn’t be confusion as to the qualifications of the three candidates since there is a clear winner on this issue. From J. Taylor Rushing at The Hill:

An environmental activist group on Saturday cited the “sham” of a national gas tax holiday proposal in its endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president.

Friends Of The Earth Action (FOEA) said the holiday idea proposed by fellow presidential contenders Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was the key reason for its endorsement of Obama.

Showing the type of logic that permeates these groups, its president Brent Blackwelder made the following statement.

“The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won’t ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game,” Blackwelder said. “Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president.”

I’m apparently no Friend Of the Earth because I am having trouble seeing how paying more for something makes it more affordable. Of course I never claimed to have the intelligence of an Obama supporter.

The bottom line is that Hope-a-dope Obama out-Marxed Hillary on this one. Is this because he is so out of touch with the common man that he believes we are so stupid that we can’t see the benefit of keeping more of our own money as opposed to sending it to the Federal Department of Waste (otherwise known as the federal government?) The alternative is that he is too stupid to realize that the notion of paying less for gasoline might appeal to regular people.

I wonder if Karl Marx is looking up from his ultra-warm dwelling and watching with pride as his American disciples spread his message through stealth and in the face of the dreaded obstacle, sometimes known as common sense.

I have been trying to come to terms with the fact that there is no conservative candidate remaining in the race for the Republican nomination for president. The quest for acceptance of the current political situation is continually being undermined by Senator John McCain.

McCain said some good things in his economy speech April 15 at Carnegie Mellon University, but as I believe Mike Church pointed out on his Sirius radio show this week, the following statement would easily adhere to Marx’ “Communist Manifesto”:

Many retired Americans face the terrible reality of deciding whether to buy food, pay rent or buy their prescriptions. And their government should help them. But when we added the prescription drug benefit to Medicare, a new and costly entitlement, we included many people who are more than capable of purchasing their own medicine without assistance from taxpayers who struggle to purchase their own. People like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet don’t need their prescriptions underwritten by taxpayers. Those who can afford to buy their own prescription drugs should be expected to do so. This reform alone will save billions of dollars that could be returned to taxpayers or put to better use.

The statement has a very “to each according to his need, from each according to his ability” tone to it. This statement was made after he had railed against high CEO salaries and indicated that regular Americans were confused in the mortgage process (apparently needing government guidance as we are too stupid to support ourselves and our families.)

Then he chose to top off his week of Democrat politician emulation by pulling a shady tax return release move. “The Straight Talk Express” stops here (if it ever actually rolled, that is.) The 17th wealthiest member of Congress released only his last two years of tax returns and refused to release those of his wealthy wife. This ploy is disgusting on more than one level. I can’t help but wonder what this man is thinking.

• The “privacy” of his wife’s returns inevitably lead one to the conclusion that he is hiding something or at the very least, he wants to maintain a false public image of his financial situation. Either reason is dishonest and unethical.
• Perhaps he believes that given the state of the admitted Democrats contest, his best shot at wooing Democrat voters is to out-sleaze the two admitted Dems. This tactic might work since Democrat voters have shown a willingness to vote for candidates with shady pasts that seem to be actively engaged in public deceit.

I was trying not to question the man’s integrity. I knew many of his positions were detestable or half-hearted (like his pro-life stance,) but I tried to believe that he had integrity even though he was so often wrong. This tax return ploy dashes all hope that McCain is at least more honest than his remaining (big party) opponents. What is he trying to hide? Does he believe that his election is inevitable and he can get away with such an openly dishonest move?

It seems that McCain might get some perverse pleasure out of putting his party and his supporters into tough situations. He has a record of fighting his party and conservatism. How are his supporters to be expected to deal with this latest and obvious trap? He is the only Republican candidate, therefore Republican supporters and commentators have three choices:

1. Ignore the deceit and hope no one brings it up, because if it is brought up they will have to resort to choice number 2 or number 3.
2. Spin the “privacy” angle and try to cope with the intellectual dishonesty inherent in pretending that McCain’s wife is separate financially from McCain, himself. Of course there is also the ethical problem of the ridiculous and obvious double standard this argument would present.
3. Honestly express concern over this ploy and request that Senator McCain ascend to a level of honesty that would fit his “Straight Talk” mantra. Speak out against this deception by omission and fight for transparency.

Honesty in politics would be a refreshing change. Why is it that more people (even those who complain that politicians are liars and crooks) would not support a politician that didn’t come across as a salesman?

John McCain is wrong on illegal aliens, although now he says he will secure the border before granting amnesty to the 12 to 20 million illegals here. He is for further loss of manufacturing jobs in name of anthropogenic global warming reversal. John McCain is wrong on embryonic stem cell research and chose to defend his law restricting free speech against a Wisconsin pro-life organization. His McCain-Feingold free speech restricting campaign finance reform seems tailor made to give him the Republican nomination (which worked for him.) He is wrong on so many issues, a principled conservative must struggle to decide how he or she could support him. Continued assaults on the intelligence of the electorate only make the choice that much more difficult.

I am enduring an internal struggle, one that I believe is somewhat common among principled conservatives. A series of unfortunate events that would make Lemony Snicket cringe have occurred and left The Republican Party with John McCain as the presumptive nominee. John McCain is in many ways the adversary to conservatives, a role he seems to relish. We, as conservatives face a conundrum and there is no attractive resolution.

Some conservatives suspend intellectual honesty and support John McCain, period. He is the Republican nominee and if you are speaking ill of his record you are betraying your party. Some of these conservatives would guilt their conservative peers into silence by putting forth the American troops as victims (How could you subject them to President Shrillary or B. Hussein?) or they present The Supreme Court as a ticking bomb that only a Republican, no matter how liberal, can defuse.

John McCain the veteran and P.O.W. is beyond reproach… but separate from John McCain the politician and senator. The list will be shorter if I focus on his positives so here goes:

• He is more pro-life than the two socialists running for the Democrat nomination, even though his stance on embryonic stem cell research is deplorable and his fight against Wisconsin Right To Life was a disgrace.
• He is stronger on national defense than the wife of the rapist or Rev. Wright’s disciple, even though his defense of our nation only seems to exist overseas.
• With McCain we stand the chance to get constructionist judges nominated to The Supreme Court, even though this will likely be accidental if it occurs.
• He seems to be genuinely against wasteful government spending.

So what is one to do? The idea of a Clinton or an Obama presidency is incredibly frightening while the idea of a McCain presidency is potentially scary. While it is possible that Republicans in congress will fight against the policies of either socialist, there is no guarantee (just look at Republicans like McCain.) There is also the possibility that the next presidency is bound to be a disaster given the three remaining candidates and the opposition party might gain in the following election. If that is the case, a disaster with the Republican McCain at the helm benefits the left and further damages the conservative cause.

Obama and Clinton, in my opinion cannot be considered as reasonable choices for the presidency. I view either presidency as a great societal disease that needs to be prevented. This means that in my opinion, a John McCain presidency is an unfortunate side effect, something like the gas with oily discharge that is identified in the Xenical advertisements.

Members of the Democrat Party must find it comforting to be told to “relax and let this happen” by a known rapist. Of course, now there are Democrats that may not defend Bill Clinton against credible allegations of rape as B. Hussein Obama has captured the hearts and what passes for the minds of many Democrat dolts. So the rapist has a new target, his own party.

This time, at least, his victim isn’t innocent. The party that fights for abortion on demand, amnesty for illegals, defeat in Iraq, punitive taxing of the productive, and strangling regulation of business can not be viewed as a sympathetic victim. The Democrat Party strife is something of a consolation prize to some of us conservatives that are absolutely disgusted with the continued downward spiral of The Republican Party. It is tragic that our nominee fights for two of the previously mentioned pillars of leftist ideology.

So McCain-Feingold and open primaries ensured that The Republican Party would not have a conservative candidate, back to the admitted Democrats. What will it take to settle the nomination? Certainly Shrillary Clinton believes she has a right to the nomination and the office. She did not marry the rapist because she loved him and she definitely didn’t stay married to him for the sake of the junior campaigner (Chelsea.) I can’t imagine what would precede her concession. I doubt she could muster a concession. If B. Hussein Obama is declared the nominee I am envisioning a moment similar to the awarding of the gold jacket to Happy Gilmore and Shooter McGavin grabbing it and running away being chased by angry Gilmore fans. I hope she does not go down without a fight.

Aside from the entertainment value of the “Deathmatch” between Shrillary and B. Hussein, there may be a positive outcome for the nation. If the fight leaves the Democrat Party torn badly enough, the notion that there can only be two dominant parties might weaken. If The Republican Party can wake up to the idea that emulating the Democrat Party may not be in the best interest of itself or the country, we might eventually get decent representation. At the very least, a torn Democrat Party might allow a torn Republican Party to spawn a viable conservative coalition that can refocus the nation toward freedom and limited government.

It is incredible that I find myself wanting Shrillary to stay in the race. My hope that the two-headed big government party system may be broken as an unintended consequence of the Clintons’ latest rape may not have much chance of being realized, but at least I have some glimmer of hope. (Disclaimer: I did not get permission from B. Hussein’s campaign to use the word “hope.”)

I have been saddened to hear and read cries for the government to interfere in the personal lives of the people that live in this country. One such cry to emulate Hugo Chavez comes from the business section of the L.A. Times:

One way to balance government assistance to participants in the credit crisis — whether it’s branded a bailout or a rescue — is to link it to tighter regulation of lenders and borrowers.

These can include strict capital requirements for investment banks that have accepted Fed money, underwriting standards for mortgages and consumer loans to prevent imprudent lending and borrowing, and mandated disclosures of the risks of various loans and bundled securities.

The Washington Post takes a different approach, painting the mortgage situation as unfairly targeting poor hispanics that do not speak English (and apparently have no common sense.) In an article that should be read to sad violin music, titled “My House. My Dream. It Was All an Illusion.” the subtitle sets the tone:

Latina’s Loss in Va. Epitomizes Mortgage Crisis

I say we shouldn’t limit government interference to the current mortgage situation. People that entered into mortgages they couldn’t repay shouldn’t be the only ones to have their mistakes paid for by the taxpayers of this country. The possibilities for government interference see almost limitless. If we can just convince the federal and state governments to … well stay on their current paths, we can realize the socialist utopia that would make most Democrat politicians proud. Perhaps if the following suggestions are followed Michelle Obama might even be proud of her country.

I humbly ask that the United States government cut through the red tape and take the following actions (or interferences:)

• Some college students enroll in classes that are too difficult for them. Their grades might be lower than some of their peers. This cannot be allowed to continue! We need The Department of Education to commission a study to determine the best method for grade equalization. Once the commission presents its findings to Congress, a law should be crafted to ensure that sufficient funds are directed to these institutions of mediocre learning to enable them to assign every student identical grades.

• Some people lie on their resumes and accept jobs that they are not qualified to perform. Should these people be forced to leave those jobs once their incompetence is proven? Absolutely not! We are not humane if we allow these people to be cast from their positions by ruthless employers who expect to hire competent employees. The Department of Labor must commission a study to determine the best way to enable all job-seekers to use one universal resume. In addition, Congress must pass a law setting employment standards that eliminate qualifications as qualifications for employment.

• What about people that buy a dozen eggs at their local grocery stores only to get them home and drop them on the driveway? What is to protect their investment? The Department of Commerce should obviously make recommendations to Congress requiring that the retailer be responsible for the safety of the eggs until the moment of consumption!

• Some people fall victim to the climate and anthropogenic global warming when they purchase large ice cream cones that they cannot consume entirely before they begin to melt. Government action must be taken to ensure that the responsibility for the wasted ice cream and sticky hands be held by the predatory ice cream vendors!

We must take the steps necessary to ensure that we, the people bear no personal responsibility for any of our own actions. Working together we can ensure that we will all be wards of the state, taken care of and controlled by Mrs. Hillary-care Clinton or Mr. B. Hussein Obama.

There may be subtle differences between the top three presidential candidates but when it comes to saving the planet from the impending inferno created by the planet’s arch enemy, man, they are birds of a (red) feather. They see climate change as imminent doom and as they are in the elite class of super-citizens that can leap common sense in a single bound, they know it is up to them to take a stand. They must lend their illustrious names to whatever loony legislation is penned to cripple U.S. manufacturing and displace even more American workers. (How ironic that so many American workers support candidates that champion causes that endanger their jobs: illegal alien amnesty, greenhouse gas legislation, over regulation, and unfair trade.)

The following is a list of co-sponsors to S.280, Senator Lieberman’s “Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007:”
Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] - 1/29/2007
Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] - 1/26/2007
Sen Coleman, Norm [MN] - 5/21/2007
Sen Collins, Susan M. [ME] - 1/12/2007
Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] - 1/12/2007
Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] - 7/11/2007
Sen Lincoln, Blanche L. [AR] - 1/12/2007
Sen McCain, John [AZ] - 1/12/2007
Sen Nelson, Bill [FL] - 1/30/2007
Sen Obama, Barack [IL] - 1/12/2007
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] - 1/12/2007

McCain is in good company there. Too few seem to notice how comfortable McCain is with joining liberals to fight freedom and harm the average citizen (American citizen, that is, McCain does look out for the interests of citizens of other countries.)

The three little libs have decided that they must give we commoners protection from the weather. They, of course being God-like, can control the climate! If only libs had existed during the last ice-age, there wouldn’t have been one. Naturally once these disciples of the bulbous Gore-acle succeed in changing our climate they will address the climate of Mars, but that is for the future. We are residing in the present and these liberals have found the key to cooling our planet.

In the grand tradition of big government liberals, these molesters of the taxpayer have decided to bestow upon the unwashed masses… drum roll please… even more bureaucracy! Hooray! Weshall be saved the unpleasant feeling of sweating on a hot day by the following which would be established by the legislation sponsored by these morons:

-The Climate Change Credit Corporation

-The Climate Technology Financing Board

-A nonprofit government sponsored enterprise for providing investment in private sector technologies that show promise for climate change adaptation and mitigation applications

-A program of public-private partnerships for climate innovation

-A national program to ensure that lessons learned and best practices concerning energy efficiency and GHG emission reductions are available to the public

-A program to reduce GHG emissions through deployment of energy efficiency measures by large commercial customers by providing for energy audits

I’m growing weary, but there is more. If you are interested in the plans of big government fools please visit The bill summary at The Library of Congress.

I do want to mention that this bureaucratic boondoggle is not completely without merit. The genius motivators’ plan “establishes a National Medal of Climate Stewardship Innovation.” Imagine the pride of joining Al “Love Story Inspiration” Gore as a recipient of an award for furthering the myth of anthropogenic climate change! I now know what I want my children to be when they grow up. Oh wait, by the time they grow up there will be a new crisis.

If you are a real glutton for buffoonery you can check out another of McCain’s buddy’s bills: “The American Climate Security Act of 2007” S.2191. This bit of legislative travesty has provisions for dealing with employees displaced as a result of this bill. At least they are admitting that their efforts will indeed cost Americans jobs. Perhaps if we could just convince these liberal jackasses that all carbon producing activities are performed by illegal aliens, they would back off!

Imagine the scene is an Illinois Republican Party conference at a suburban Chicago hotel. A man walks up to one of the tables displaying campaign materials. This particular table is staffed by two Rudy Giuliani volunteers, each engaged in a cell phone conversation. As one of the volunteers closes his phone, the man picks up a brochure about “Team Rudy.”

Volunteer: “Have you signed one of our petitions yet?”

Man: “I don’t really know who I am supporting yet.”

Volunteer: “That’s ok, these are just to get Rudy on the ballot. There is no obligation to support him and you can sign petitions of multiple candidates.”

The man signs the petition and then asks: “What does Rudy think about ab…”

Before the man can finish his thought he is swarmed by an angry crowd of people screeching: “SINGLE ISSUE VOTER!!!” A well dressed lady kicks him in the shins and another hits him with her purse. A large man grabs his arms while someone else slaps him repeatedly with a stack of “Team Rudy” pamphlets.

Angry mob member 1: “How dare you vote based on a single issue?”

Angry mob member 2: “You just want Clinton to win!”

Angry mob member 3: “He was mayor of New York and he cut crime!”

Angry mob member 4: “You ignorant hicks shouldn’t even be allowed to vote!”

Angry mob member 1: “A president can’t do anything about abortion anyway!”

Angry mob member 3: “Clinton and Obama both like abortion more than Rudy does!”

Angry mob member 5: “Security! Security!”

Angry mob member 2: “Yeah Rudy is the only one that will give us security!”

Angry mob member 5: “No, I’m calling for security! We need to get this rabble rouser thrown out of here!”

Angry mob member 6: “It is absurd to not vote for who you are told over a single issue!” (He kicks the man in the groin just before security arrives to drag the beaten man from the hotel. The man is tossed into a waiting police car, where he is read his rights.)

As the police car pulls away from the hotel the man says to himself: “I just wanted to know what Giuliani thought about absentee ballots.”

The preceding scenario did not really happen, but it seems to me that many Republicans (especially Giuliani supporters) get nearly hysterical when it seems that someone may consider abortion or a candidate’s personal character when deciding who will receive his or her vote. Any mention of abortion is likely to elicit accusations of ignorance or of casting a vote for Hillary by default.

Abortion must be an important issue to be the one that garners the dreaded “single issue” label. Taxes, the war, the border, the economy, China, amnesty, socialized medicine, global warming, global cooling, earmarks, steroids in baseball, which channel NFL games are on, and any other issue, real or imagined all fail to inspire the “single issue” wrath. The only issue that is deemed important enough to stand alone as the “single issue” is the only one that is not to be considered when deciding for whom one will or will not vote. Wait, that isn’t entirely true, we are also not allowed to consider personal character indicators such as taxpayer funded adultery.

How low must we go before we are allowed to decide for ourselves? How much farther must we travel in the direction of increased governmental control and eventual socialism before we can voice our true opinions? How much thought control will be too much before we are allowed to exercise judgment?

I guess until we have had enough, we will be accused of being sophomoric if we express our disgust with our party in ways that our party would not approve. So be it. For those of you that think it is childish to vote one’s conscience I can only so:

“Nanny nanny boo boo, I may not vote the way you do!”

The Drudge Report has a link to an article in the Daily Mail about two women who lead by example in the fight prevent the spread of the new plague upon the planet. This plague has been spreading for thousands of years, but only now in these enlightened times are we aware of it. We now know that the most evil, despicable, premeditating, coldly calculating eco-criminals are… children. (In the interest of full disclosure I must confess to unleashing five of these on the unsuspecting environment.)

The first of the beacons is a lady named Toni who shudders with horror at the thought of having a child.

[Excerpt]

While some might think it strange to celebrate the reversal of nature and denial of motherhood, Toni relishes her decision with an almost religious zeal.

“Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet,” says Toni, 35.

“Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases, and adds to the problem of over-population.”

While most parents view their children as the ultimate miracle of nature, Toni seems to see them as a sinister threat to the future. [End excerpt]

The words “an almost religious zeal” seem to be a fitting way to describe the actions and ideals of these people. There seems to be self-loathing theme to most, if not all the “Godless” (by Ann Coulter) sects of the religion that defines liberalism.

In this case people are just bad for the planet and the other living things on it. The logic of these eco-nuts dictates that humans are the lowest form of life and should be limited or eradicated to benefit the other forms. Toni received top billing in the article because she did more to further the cause than the other lady. Toni, you see, had herself sterilized, but that isn’t all. Toni couldn’t find a doctor willing to sterilize her for quite a while and of course Toni wanted to have recreational sex. Toni used birth control which didn’t prevent her from becoming pregnant. Therefore Toni had the opportunity to partake in the ultimate sacrament of liberalism, abortion. This brave self-loathing icon has done her part to protect the earth from infestation by another carbon dioxide exhaling pollution producer.

Reducing one’s carbon butt-print via abortion can be rewarding, just ask Toni:

[Excerpt]“Every year, we also take a nice holiday - we’ve just come back from South Africa.

“We feel we can have one long-haul flight a year, as we are vegan and childless, thereby greatly reducing our carbon footprint and combating over-population. [End Excerpt]

I can’t help but wonder how they can justify their vegan lifestyle. Aren’t plants living things and part of the environment? Apparently these environmentalists don’t care much for the planet’s plant life given the fact that what they don’t eat they are attempting to starve of life-sustaining carbon dioxide. Perhaps they are not the eco-warriors they get credit for being. Perhaps they enjoy the publicity they get by hitting the benchmarks of liberalism and then telling everyone about it.