Obama Gets A ZERO!

September 6, 2008 | Filed Under Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Race, Religion, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, War on Terror | No Comments

-By Dan Scott

The master of rhetoric, Barack Obama has been talking up a storm how he is going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans, create jobs with alternative energy and give everyone affordable health care among other things. The great Democrat gift bag is to be opened with something for everyone. Of course he is going to do all this by raising taxes on the rich and the oil companies. One would think by his effervescence and popularity that he has been a great success helping the poor with an impressive track record to show for it. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth as it seems Obama is as hazy as a projected image upon a screen. Without the prompts of a teleprompter and a fawning media, Obama is just an empty suit.

I came across a very interesting website by CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality. http://www.stopwaronpoor.org/home.aspx To my surprise they had a very Republican message for a group that is normally a Democrat Party constituency. Did anyone know they had a demonstration on July 28th? Why did the MSM ignore them? What’s their message?

An excerpt from Chairman Roy Innis’ speech:

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The Cost Of The Drilling Ban

September 5, 2008 | Filed Under Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Energy, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Taxes, War on Terror | No Comments

-By Dan Scott

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the US imported 3,661,404,000 barrels of crude oil in 2007. That’s royalties the US Treasury didn’t collect, directly added to the annual budget deficit and ultimately the national debt. So how much money did the Democrats with their drilling ban cost the US Treasury last year? The bigger question is how much would the price of oil drop to if the US Congress had gotten it’s act together and stopped playing politics as our friends at CORE are so upset about?

According to Representative John Peterson (R) of Pennsylvania’s 5th District, the current going royalty rate is 15.17% on the cost of barrel of oil. (See PDF file)Before we start, the essential premise of Representative Peterson’s claim of $ 2.5 trillion over five years is based on the recent peak cost of oil and natural gas projected into the past. He was using the past five years of consumption by keeping the drilling ban thus denying the rest of the world that oil for their use.
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Patronizing Or Pandering

September 1, 2008 | Filed Under Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Taxes | 1 Comment

-By Dan Scott

Since John McCain’s announcement of Sarah Palin as his choice for VP, we have been assaulted with a disgusting display of hypocrisy by the Democrats and their mouth pieces, the MSM. One would have hoped at the beginning of the Twenty First Century, the boorish sexism of the 40’s and 50’s would no longer be on display.

How many years of executive experience as governor or mayor is sufficient to qualify a person as ready to be president of the US? Two years, four years, eight years? It appears that neither Barack Obama, Joseph Biden or Hillary Clinton ever served as governor or mayor of any jurisdiction. Yet the Democrat Party was ready to consider a woman as President in Hillary Clinton who has arguably less experience than Sarah Palin in running a government bureaucracy. Hillary Clinton has zero foreign relations experience as well unless you want to count that faux sniper story landing in Bosnia or some such place. If anyone is going to claim Hillary has foreign policy and executive experience due to her being first lady, you should be laughed out of the room and worse, you open the door for her to accept equal blame for the Clinton Administration’s foreign policy disasters. It wasn’t because the world loved us that we were attacked around ten times or that they conceived, plotted, trained and financed the 911 attacks DURING the Clinton Administration. It certainly wasn’t respect the US earned either given Osama Bin Laden’s comments after Somalia.

When we look at the qualifications between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama we see that she clearly has more experience as US Senator and legislative accomplishments than him. However, having said this, the Democrat Party did not nominate Hillary Clinton, a woman, but Barack Obama, a man. It appears on the surface a pattern is developing, one of patronizing women by finding some excuse to say they are not ready or maybe the reality is the Democrat Party is not ready for a woman President.

Claiming Palin is not ready to be President is sheer hypocrisy on the Democrats part since clearly Obama is even LESS qualified than Palin. What this really says is the Democrat party has been patronizing to women for years with absolutely NO intent on treating them equals. Therefore the reason why Hillary Clinton did not get the Democrat nomination is strictly due to SEXISM. It’s time for the Democrat party to fish or cut bait, EITHER women are EQUAL to men or they are SECOND CLASS CITIZENS. Which is it? John McCain and the GOP BELIEVE that WOMEN are EQUAL and this was demonstrated by his choice. The fact that Palin thanked Ferraro as being the first woman ever to be nominated as VP shows she has class versus the MSM and Democrats who demonstrated they do not. Ferraro when interviewed by Sheppard Smith of FNC even said no Democrat ever (in over 20 years!) thanked her publicly as Palin did. What experience did Geraldine Ferraro have when she was the first woman nominated as VP? More or less than Palin? So was it pandering when John McCain nominated Sarah Palin as VP in 2008? Careful how you answer that and consider this? So was it pandering when Mondale nominated Ferraro in 1984 during the period of the Cold War?
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John McCain And The GOP Base

August 30, 2008 | Filed Under Dan Scott, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture | No Comments

-By Dan Scott

John McCain has made a sensible choice in Gov. Sarah Palin for VP. According to her bio she is a member of the National Rifle Association, making her John McCain’s version of Dick Cheney, but it’s not likely she will miss the lawyer when she goes hunting. Her executive experience running a city and state bureaucracy is more than McCain, Obama and Biden combined. Her stances on various issues goes a long way to mollify the conservative base that what we have in Sarah Palin may be access to McCain’s ear and that is a good first step to energizing the base with enthusiasm. But as the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

The GOP platform has been firmed up to reflect the beliefs of the party base. But, there is a problem, John McCain does not reflect some of the important values held by the GOP base. We don’t expect 100% agreement, however, there are significant points of disagreement on which neither John McCain or the base have agreed to disagree. That is, the base up to this point does not have an assurance from John McCain that when he becomes President of these United States, he will not seek to implement his own agenda contrary to the wishes of those who elected him. This is ordinarily a pitfall of any elected official but more so with John McCain as he is a known self professed maverick and does not reflect the majority of GOP member’s values in these very divisive areas.

Those areas of extreme disagreement are AGW, illegal immigration and embryonic stem cell research. Each one of these areas carries huge dollar outlays in the billions by their implementation and we consider these to be frauds perpetrated upon the taxpayers. So let’s examine them one by one to flush out what’s at stake and unless both sides can agree to disagree with the firm understanding that there will be no unilateral implementation on John McCain’s part without dire consequences to the unity of the GOP backing him. It should go without saying, but it seems it needs to be said, there will be consequences to a McCain administration if it feels it can govern without the express consent of the governed. Those consequences will be zero political support from the base and obstruction from Representatives and Senators who better reflect the values of the GOP base. If people think the last eight years of the Bush Administration were difficult due to the shrillness of the MSM and obstructionist tactics of the Democrats, we promise four years of misery in spades to McCain.
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Liberal Policy Failures

August 27, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Energy, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture | 1 Comment

-By Dan Scott

I always find the audacity of liberals amazing when they spout their pantheon of myths like, oil free economy, the US has no energy policy, the economy is in recession, illegal immigration is good, unions protect workers, health care is out of control, the rich aren’t paying their fair share of taxes or terrorism is worse than ever. Ironically, each of these myths have a basis in fact that directly indicts the liberals for their own policy failures.

One of my favorite liberal myths is the oil free economy panacea based on alternative fuels. As I pointed out liberals are great at selling things as long as you don’t look too deeply under the surface of their advocacy. When we look deep enough what we really see is a liberal agenda to control the economy and manipulate people for their own ends at everyone’s expense. As we saw with the myth the US has no energy policy, in actuality we see 30 years of liberal pandering and incompetence via drilling bans artificially restricting the US and by extension the world’s energy supply. The inevitable effect of any restriction on a commodity is to force up the price of the commodity. Of course not one drop of oil was saved by the drilling ban, all oil not procured domestically was outsourced form foreign sources. The recent drop in consumption is not as a result of a “more efficient economy” it is as a result of an economic slow down with a recession in the offing if current energy policies don’t change. Saving oil via an economic slow down is not conservation, it is total incompetence, the point is supposed to be to use less oil for greater economic output.
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Energizing the Base

August 25, 2008 | Filed Under Abortion, Dan Scott, Elections, GOP, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Religion, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War on Terror | 1 Comment

-By Dan Scott

While John McCain is considering his choices for Vice President (the lucky one to be named on his birthday) he still has not energized the base of the Republican Party. Within my memory, there has not been a GOP nominee that has so created an environment of malaise in the base as this current election season. So far, John McCain’s only saving grace in this campaign is the hatred that Obama and Clinton supporters feel for each other. Essentially, whether John McCain wins on November 4th will almost entirely depend on which group of Democrats are the most offended by the other’s favorite nominee so they either stay home on election day or vote for McCain out of spite for the other. That’s not saying much for McCain since he doesn’t really seem to be capitalizing on the energy issue the Democrats basically gifted him with a nicely wrapped present, bow tie and card saying congratulations, you’ve won!

To say the least, it seems John McCain so far has approached this election with the intent of fighting with one arm tied behind his back. He has taken the conservative base for granted thinking they won’t vote for a Democrat or consider staying home on election day so they’re stuck with me. Well John, right back at you! This perceived attitude of McCain is a serious lack of leadership on his part. Whether the perception is real or imagined, the point is John McCain hasn’t demonstrated leadership to the conservative base otherwise they would follow his lead. Eisenhower laid out some basic principles of leadership:
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Egg on Their Faces

August 13, 2008 | Filed Under Congress, Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture | 2 Comments

-By Dan Scott

The Edwards scandal has revealed for public viewing many things about today’s politics which those more cynical among us knew instinctually. We held back because we didn’t want to come off as conspiracy loons like Mel Gibson in the movie, Conspiracy Theory. Most of us who follow the political drama are continually cataloging the various pieces of the puzzle to connect the dots as it were to look ahead to the final game plan.

This week the dots are falling into line as we arrange more of those seemingly disconnected stories. The stories of note are the ones where John Edwards finally admits the obvious and Harold Wolfson spills the beans. Back in February I noted the clever game being played by the media using the Deselection process to eliminate candidates they didn’t like.This deselection process choked off undesirable candidates by smothering much of the coverage they should have gotten. The MSM excused their actions by claiming they only needed to cover the more popular candidates and not clutter the airwaves and pages with no name candidates they deemed the public had little interest. Now it seems the MSM kept one candidate (Edwards) in the running to deliberately siphon off votes from another candidate (Clinton) they wanted to loose.

The NE (National Enquirer) followed up on a tip regarding John Edwards having an affair. The NE’s reporters did some good old fashioned investigative journalism, which seems to be an oddity these days and found that indeed John Edwards was committing adultery, inappropriately using his position to hire his paramour, arranged substantial monthly payments, it seems fathered a child with a woman not his wife and then lied about it when confronted. Now there is nothing of great news worthiness in and of itself regarding a philandering politician. However, this year being an election year anything regarding a candidate is newsworthy and especially if the candidate presents themselves as the clean cut moral edifice as John Edwards has. However, we should not be too quick to focus on John Edwards because he is not the real story here, but how the story was handled.
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