Posted by
thekeenobserver on Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:49:00 PM
What can possilbly be more fun these days than getting the latest Washington D.C. news? What a party! Were facing a perfect storm of problems.
And thank God for our liberal leftist media, who soundbite us to death with an unending parade of who they would have us believe is to blame. But we're a free country...we're Americans! We can do anything if we just put our minds to the task. We'll all just roll up our collective sleeves, and get to work, and things will be rosy again in no time.
Sorry Charlie; not this time. Not until our media starts to 'fess up and reveal the real story. Meanwhile, we'll continue to fly blind. Were descending rapidly into a sea of ignorance and disinformation; and if we crash, the rescue might not arrive for generations to come. What? Disinformation? This isn't the Iron Curtain. We have freedom of the press! After all, its found right in our Constitution. But does anybody (especially our beloved Congress) even bother to look at the Constitution anymore? Apparently not.
Our Founding Fathers had it right from the beginning. The Constitution was written over 200 years ago. And it's only taken less than 2 years for a Katrina-sized storm of leftist liberalism to bring it to near extinction. How? Just pick up any major newspaper; or tune into almost any newscast (not Fox). See the endless stream of reports, pundits, newscasters, analysts, etc. who are nearly unanimous in slanting the blame on, "the present administration that's been in power for the last eight years"...oh, and don't forget "in bed with big oil".
And they never let up! It's like they all graduated from the Stepford college of broadcasting and journalism. Is there ever a day when you won't hear about "big oil", or..."the failed policies of the Bush Administration?". Well up until about the middle of 2007, things weren't all that bad. Actually they were pretty good. But what happened after that?
For this answer, we turn back to the wisdom our most brilliant Founding Father, Thomas Jeffferson, who once said ..."WHERE THE PRESS IS FREE, AND EVERY MAN IS ABLE TO READ, ALL IS SAFE". Man did he ever get it right. Too bad we couldn't have saved a sample of his DNA and clone Jefferson back to life. He was a man of uncanny foresight. Today our free press is suppressing the real news, and not every American is able to read it; they're too busy working two or three jobs, so they and their families can survive.
But could Jefferson have foreseen that a near majority of Americans now read at an 8th grade level, and have zero depth about the news? He couldn't imagine people downloading postings on Face Book, or watching out-of-context TV soundbites. These are ideally suited for slanting and bias. Newspapers are becoming passe'. The result? Just as Jefferson foretold...a subtle brainwashing of the people. All is not safe!
But the majority of Americans seem not know any better. They'd rather let Letterman, or the hallowed staff of reporters on Comedy Central form their political opinions. Try asking a younger voter why they like Obama..."He's cooler than McCain". Ask them why the gas prices are so high, and they'll say "Uh, big Oil"...or..."Bush"..."Cheney"..."Halliburton!" Duh
Yes folks, ignorance is truly blissful, especially when your own elected officials in Congress are surreptitiously usurping every one of your rights, one by one, in fine anti-Constitutional style. But aren't we supposed to be a democracy? Not if Nancy Pelosi remains unchecked. In the brief time she's been Speaker of the House, she's literally eclipsed everyone in DC in raw political power, (even Bush), mainly because 95% of what she does goes unreported by the media.
For each day that has gone by since her ascension as House Speaker, she has flaunted the Constitution, and defied the will of the majority. She has turned the average middle class person's life into a slow-motion nightmare of worry. If Our Founding Fathers were around today, they would have re-written the Constitution.
There are no checks and balances for House speaker. Pelosi knows it. She is second in line for President, but she wields authority with the ruthlessness of a banana republic dictator. She knows the rules of the House intimately. She sets the entire legislative agenda. She can bury any bill, no matter how important to the country. With her subservient Democratic majority, she can pass ANY new legislation to suit her intentions.
The results have been calamitous! Our nation is at the verge of financial default. If insolvency were to befall our country, she would probably assume even more stature on Capitol Hill. This is all courtesy of our leftist liberal media, who lie to the public by omission.
If there's a deep recession, Pelosi can blame Bush. If there is a second Depression, she can say that..."the free market has failed us" (i.e. more regulation is needed). Then the blizzard of new government expansion will commence, and she will really consolidate her power. If the economy recovers, she can claim the credit for her party, who took control of Congress in Jan 2007.
Examine the root cause of any of our problems. Except for the hurrricanes, she's lurked behind it all. It's the Pelosi domino effect. Higher gas prices began the very month she assumed the speakers podium. Commodity traders (not big oil) who set the world price for crude, all went long on oil (bid upward) because they knew of her political intentions to block all new U.S. drilling. Now the economic perfect storm had begun (Hurricane Nancy).
After gas prices rocketed past 3 dollars, it was the breaking point for the ENTIRE economy. Auto sales collapsed. Retail tanked. Grocery prices and inflation took off. No more discretionary spending. Second hand clothing stores began selling out their inventory.
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But Pelosi trumpeted away about the stimulus package that she had "pushed through" last spring, and showed incredible political savvy, letting the people think that she and the Democrats were for "working families". She had stabbed the middle class in the gut, and made them feel happy for the band aid she would be applying.
Now the lay offs began. Unemployment jumped. Pawn shops flourished. Even the wealthy from the upper strata of society were coming in with their jewelry. It didn't take long before people, just barely making their house payments, were now faced with either tapping their 401K, or foreclosure. We were exporting $60 billion a month to OPEC. Horrible.
Now the dominos began to fall faster. Foreclosures hit 10,000 a month. The investment banks on Wall Street began to crumble. Large and small commercial banks failed. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were next. Mysteriously-valued mortgage securities were held everywhere. Now, since no one bank really could know what their assets actually were worth, credit dried up, and all domestic economic activity slowed down, which in turn, affected the entire financial world.
All the while, our beloved speaker Nancy, sat dutifully in Washington, writing her book, and thinking up new environmental reasons for blocking drilling: "So what if we have to send OPEC $700 billion a year? I'm trying to save the planet". Good girl! Hurricane Nancy saves earth...destroys American Middle Class. Thanks for the memories. Put those in your book.
You can lovingly write in your memoirs that you knew how you held the safest seat in the House (San Francisco congressional district)…about how you knew that if the price of oil stayed high, your large position in the Boone Pickens alternative energy company would make a killing. Write about the one million Americans who could have gotten new, high paying domestic drilling jobs, but you kept exploration illegal. And definitely don't leave out that the current economic disaster that we face, is a direct result of the high oil prices that you so steadfastedly were able to defend, using your unchecked political power.
Meanwhile what was happening on Main street? People were screaming at their congressional representatives, "We want cheaper gas...why can’t we drill for our own oil?" The heat was on. The voters would no longer stand for it. Forget the polar bears. The democratic vassals hurried back to lord Nancy, and reported that their seats were in jeopardy. Uh-oh!
Suddenly, dear Nancy seemed to forget about saving the planet. She cared only about keeping the party going. She quickly drew up a bill, that would allow drilling, but only past fifty miles offshore, where no infrastructure existed, and no tract had ever been explored.
It was Hurricane Nancy at her political best. The deceptive bill passed easily in the House by her democratic majority. The nasty pro-drilling Republicans had been outwitted, and all the good Democrats wrote home that they had indeed, passed a drilling bill, and could resume their merry work in the House, without fear of reprisal from any snooping media, who were all on their side.
So it was more happy days to come. Everone knew they would all get re-elected, and carry on their patriotic duties, defending their constituents from knowing what was actually happening on the House floor. And as long as the House remains status quo, Pelosi will continue to thwart the will of the majority, extend regulations over business, and tax the people left right and center, in the name of liberalism and bigger government.
Can she be stopped? She suddenly has dropped all her opposition to all offshore drilling. But what happened to saving the planet? But have faith; ole Nance hasn't softened. No way. It's just another example of her political ingeniousness,
Nance sure knows how to time things: drop all the bans on offshore drilling,..placate the angry voters... all democratic seats are safe, and then re-instate the ban next year after the election. And without the press to worry about, the cluelesss electorate will bend to her will. If Machiavelli himself was a Republican opposing her, the smart money would be on Pelosi.
Unfortunately for us all, the only people who aren't fooled are the ones that really count: the commodity traders. They know there won't be any new U.S oil production with Hurricane Nancy at the Speaker's helm. The irony is unending. Oil prices will stay high, the cost of living will remain ridiculous, the middle class will shrink, America will continue to enrich OPEC, the nation will remain starved for capital. and the trillions of dollars of wealth we have in the ground offshore, in ANWAR, and the shale in the West, will literally remain illegal.
Thomas Jefferson...where are you?