BloggeRhythms

Haven’t mentioned the Chris Christie traffic story because I didn't consider it worth the keystrokes, but the media doesn't seem to want to let it go.

 

As far as the closure of traffic lanes to punish a political enemy goes, however, I wonder why that particular area was chosen. I’ve travelled the GW bridge countless times over many, many years and have never seen it without major traffic jam-ups. Consequently, unless someone went to the press to point out the political plot, I doubt any experienced drivers would even notice the delay as being out of the ordinary.

 

What also intrigues me are those who think the traffic tie-up  will damage Christie’s presidential hopes, because they claim he deceived the public by denying knowledge of the situation. But, if they truly believe that responsibility rises to the top regardless, how they can possibly justify the incumbent’s remaining in office.

 

In the governor’s case, highway lanes were closed which he knew nothing about, but is still at fault and, according to detractors, should be precluded from running for higher office.

 

But, how does that compare to the following partial list compiled by Mark Landsbaum of the Orange County Register on-line, of things the president claims to have been unaware of before they occurred: "The NSA spying scandal, domestic and foreign; multiple warnings about the Obamacare website disaster prior to its launch; IRS targeting his political opponents; millions who will lose their health plans and doctors despite his promise otherwise; Department of Justice spying on journalists; the flawed security at Benghazi; ATF running guns to Mexico. Finally, and perhaps the one destined to generate the most backlash, that Obamacare will result in tens of millions of insured Americans losing their current plans and being forced to replace them with policies costing exorbitantly more."

 

So, its my guess that if Dem’s really want to pursue the Christie issue, it will result in a huge negative backlash on them. Which means, if you look at their record, there’s no doubt they’ll keep moving ahead on the topic.

 

In the meantime, according to Fox News on-line: “The House has passed a bill that would impose new security requirements on the Obama administration's implementation of the health care law.

 

Democrats say the bill is designed to scare Americans from enrolling for coverage.

 

The administration opposes the bill, which stands no chance in the Democratic-led Senate.”

 

Thus, here we have another case where politics override common-sense and simple, every-day logic. Because its practically a sure thing that security will be breached again, hacking’s becoming more sophisticated continually. Target's a perfect example. But rather than give Republican’s any kind of credit, Dem’s chose to paint themselves into a corner again. 

 

Along the same lines, I wonder what Susan Rice will say if she ever faces the press again. Because today, also according to Fox, “The State Department on Friday for the first time blamed specific groups and militants for the 2012 Benghazi attack, designating them as terrorists -- a move that further undermines initial claims the attack was spontaneous.”

 

Therefore, like everything else the bungling administration attempts to deny, distort or alter, sooner or later facts eventually surface. And when they do in the Benghazi case, hopefully the incumbent will follow Governor Christie's example and fire the incompetents like Ms Rice, and then point out his former Secretary of State, Hillary, as another lying disgrace.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms

Two items today, both from Chris Stirewalt’s column on Fox News on-line, present significant opportunity for Republicans, if they use the situations properly.

 

The first concerns the incumbent’s strong desire for passage of a $6.4 billion unemployment benefits extension. And since the extension’s so important to him, he seems willing to negotiate which permits several  Republicans to sense an opportunity to trade for progress on the Keystone Pipeline XL.

 

While there’s little doubt that reducing the cost of oil would quickly and significantly boost the economy all by itself, a meaningful uptick in employment would also result, making the situation win/win on all counts. However, what’s critical to Republicans in the matter is getting full credit for their persistence and ingenuity.

 

Along the same lines, Washington Examiner’s David Drucker points out why House Republicans are reluctant to support an extension of jobless benefits, as follows:

 

“If Republicans can successfully reframe the debate over unemployment benefits for voters, a crucial component of the Democrats’ election-year strategy could be upended…Republicans argue that Obama's strategy won't box them into a political corner. Instead, they said, the president's insistence on the dire need for additional jobless aid sends the message to voters that five years of his Democratic stewardship has failed to revive the economy.”

 

So here we have another case where the incumbent’s policies haven’t ever worked, and much like everything else he’s touched, require a bailout. But, while the problems he’s created are crystal clear to anyone having an iota of economic sense or business knowledge, the vast majority of the electorate are just as uneducated economy-wise as he is.

 

Consequently, there are huge opportunities here for the opposition to help substantially in solving the problems. However, since unfortunately it’s the way the political game is played, it’s paramount that Republicans also devise a way to profit for themselves at the polls.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios 

BloggeRhythms

Democrats, especially the hard left, are truly amazing as a group whereas they rarely have viable ideas or constructive thoughts, thriving instead on tearing the successful down. Their major stock and trade is seeking out the gainful, striving to force sharing with those that are not.

 

However, what’s most odd about Dem’s is that although they can’t survive without those who attain any level of wealth or success, they despise, demonize and denigrate them every chance they get.

 

An example of this lunacy appeared today in a short item on Fox News as follows: “Virginia Democratic state Senate candidate Jennifer Wexton is taking to the airwaves comparing Tea Party Republicans to violent rapists in her bid to replace Mark Herring¸the Democrat who won a cliffhanger race for Virginia attorney general last November. In the  ad Wexton exclaims, “…as a prosecutor I put violent offenders in prison. In the Virginia Senate, I'll fight just as hard against Tea Party Republicans…”

 

In reality, though, looking up a simple description of what the Tea Party actually strives for, this one appeared in The Hollywood Reporter via Drudge: “The Tea Party started as a group that [the government] could make go home to bake meatloaf at any point in the last three years by simply doing two things: Stop raising taxes and stop stealing their money.”

 

So, I guess if you  have nothing to offer as a candidate and must grasp at straws, one might as well try to smear competition any way they can. However, that means running the risk that more voters are unaware of the truth than those that are. 

 

In the meantime, while low level Dem’s distort facts to make their case, the one at the top has far bigger problems at present. Because while his health care tax needs oxygen and a former Secretary of Defense infers presidential military incompetence as global freezing sweeps the nation, washingtontimes.com/news reports more bad news, as follows:

 

“Although the president often rails against income inequality in America, his policies have had little impact overall on poverty. A record 47 million Americans receive food stamps, about 13 million more than when he took office.

 

The poverty rate has stood at 15 percent for three consecutive years, the first time that has happened since the mid-1960s. The poverty rate in 1965 was 17.3 percent; it was 12.5 percent in 2007, before the Great Recession.

 

About 50 million Americans live below the poverty line, which the federal government defined in 2012 as an annual income of $23,492 for a family of four.

 

In spite of the administration’s anti-poverty efforts, however, the government reported this week that poverty by some measures has been worse under Mr. Obama than it was under President George W. Bush. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 31.6 percent of Americans were in poverty for at least two months from 2009 to 2011, a 4.5 percentage point increase over the pre-recession period of 2005 to 2007.”

 

So, as suggested many times in the past, the best way for Republicans to help themselves is to do nothing at all. Because the current group of incompetents in office don’t need an iota of assistance in their self-destruction as their total incapability proves itself over and over, all day long.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms

Trying to always read carefully, to be certain of grasping what’s been written, I frequently wonder if proof-readers, editors and others responsible for checking text ever really read anything closely they publish at all.

 

This morning, digital politics editor for Fox News, Chris Stirewalt’s column included the following: “The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is hitting hard at Republicans in the battle over unemployment benefits. In a release the DSCC slams the GOP saying, “Because of Republican Senate candidates and the reckless economic agenda they have embraced, long-term jobless insurance has expired for more than 1 million Americans who have been looking for work for at least 26 weeks, denying families the crucial relief they need while costing the economy an estimated 240,000 jobs.”

 

Now, after re-reading the preceding several times I shook my head in confusion, wondering how could “denying families the crucial relief they need" cost the economy an estimated 240,000 jobs, when by definition, the million jobless one’s haven’t been working at all.

 

Then there was this one from Politico’s Patrick Gavin, who writes that “Democratic Leadership Council founder Al From is out with a new book, “The New Democrats and the Return to Power,” that both examines the success of the ideology most prominently practiced by former President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and lays out From’s vision of where Democrats need to go next.”

 

In his book, Mr. From writes about Hillary and opines that, “She needs to take the core principles that under girded Bill Clinton’s principles, the New Democratic principles of opportunity, community and responsibility, but understand that there are new challenges and come up with a new agenda,” From said. “If she lays out a vision for the future of the country with specific ideas, I think she’s going to be unstoppable. … I think that when people look back on eight years of peace and prosperity, some of the personal things that may have gotten in the way at the end of his administration, people forget that. But I think people will look back at the 1990s as a pretty good time in this country.”

 

And here again, reading carefully illustrates that people don’t always think through what they write while trying to make a point, because the facts frequently prove something else entirely.

 

In this case, what Willy did was to leave Alan Greenspan, Republican economic wizard, in charge of the Fed. And it was Mr. Greenspan’s management of the money supply that not only kept the nation financially humming for the Clinton years, it helped downplay all the other mistakes, including infidelity, because nobody wanted to rock the economic boat.

 

So, if Mr. From truly believes it’s best for the nation to return to the 1990’s, what’s paramount to success again is insuring that Republicans are in charge of anything having to do with the economy.  And if Hillary’s elected president, she should be allowed to have an affair with any guy in the White House because she’ll have plenty of time on her hands just like Bill did back then when Republicans really ran the show for him.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms

Giving some thought to the incumbent’s return from his incredibly expensive 17 day golf junket in Hawaii, which cost taxpayer’s somewhere around $4 million bucks, it just might be cheaper in the long run to have him stay there full time. 

 

The premise makes sense because when here he ruined the health care system, which comprises 20% of the economy. And since the nominal GDP was estimated to be $16.6 trillion in June 2013, that means he damaged a $333 million market. 

 

Then there’s the 60 Minutes show that “details how huge government spending on environmentally friendly energy sources turned into a massive bust. “

 

According to the program, “[President Obama] committed north of a $100 billion in loans, grants and tax breaks to Cleantech.  But instead of breakthroughs, the sector suffered a string of expensive tax-funded flops. Suddenly Cleantech was a dirty word…Over half a billion dollars went to a solar-panel company named Solyndra to build a factory.  When solar was undercut by low prices in China, Solyndra died. Another half billion in loan guarantees went to Fisker, a clean car startup that promised to open a plant in Delaware, but went bankrupt.  And in other cases production was ramped up before there was any demand.”

 

And then of course, there’s his new favorite, global warming, as reported by nbcchicago.com/weather this way: "Excessively high temperatures" are "already" harming public health nationwide, Pres. Obama declared on Nov. 1, 2013, two months before today's assault by record low temperatures.”

 

The short news item can be read at this link:  Obama Warned of 'Excessively High Temperatures' in November

 

As  fate would have it, however, today not only are record low temperatures being set nationwide, one of the coldest spots in the U.S. is his hometown, Chicago where, “At 7 a.m., O'Hare International Airport recorded a temperature of -15, breaking a record low of -14 set on this date in both 1894 and 1988. By 8:30 a.m., the official Chicago temperature had dipped another degree, to -16.

 

With the wind chill factored in, Monday's temperatures were predicted to be in the -40 to -50 degree range and even lower across the Fox Valley.”

 

So, as suggested at the start today, proofs exist at every turn that the current administration is not only consistently wrong in their decision-making and overall agenda, the costs to taxpayer’s is outrageously enormous. Therefore, it makes absolute sense that keeping the incumbent on a golf course thousands of miles away at a cost of mere millions is far cheaper than having him here in DC wasting hundreds of  billions instead.

 

That’s it for today folks

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms

Although writing about the incumbent almost daily, I truly have no idea what his agenda really is, or who he represents. However, I’m quite certain his major concerns aren’t the welfare or condition of the American people.

 

 I’ve reached that conclusion because of the frequency of articles such as the following by Joel B. Pollak of Breitbart on-line via Drudge.

 

“President Barack Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha left their vacation in Hawaii on Saturday, but left First Lady Michelle Obama behind on the islands, according to news agency reports. The president reportedly let his wife stay on in Hawaii with friends as a "birthday present." Michelle Obama will turn 50 years old on Jan. 17.

 

It is a birthday present whose costs, in separate travel and security expenses, are likely to be borne, in part, by taxpayers. On a previous occasion, when Mrs. Obama left for a Hawaii vacation in advance of her husband, the additional cost to the Treasury was estimated to be at least $63,000, and potentially upwards of $100,000.”

 

So, after causing four and a half years of economic stagnation where half the population requires some kind of governmental financial aid or support and the rest face significant loss due to rising health care tax costs, this guy goes out and blows $4 million bucks on a golf trip, and then adds another hundred K on a birthday “present” for his wife.

 

And that’s why I feel as I do, whereas its one thing to feel damaged by one’s who harm you on purpose, but quite another when they continually insist on rubbing salt into the wound they’ve created.  

 

That’s it for today folks.  

 

Adios

BloggeRhythms

Not a very good day for the golf pro from the White House. Aside from his health tax disintegrating rapidly, two other of his shams are falling apart as well.

 

While the administration’s captive news outlet, the New York Times, is trying desperately to rewrite history by claiming Al Qaeda wasn’t behind the attack in Benghazi, Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon via Drudge provides a totally different story.

 

According to Mr. Gertz: “The U.S. government is trying to apprehend an al Qaeda terrorist wanted for his role in the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans.

 

The suspect, Muhammad Jamal, was imprisoned in Egypt last fall and in September was being held by the Egyptian government. His current whereabouts could not be confirmed, said U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. One official said Jamal remains in Egyptian custody, contrary to reports that he was in Yemen.”

 

So, here we have a newspaper grasping at straws by telling its steadily shrinking audience that they have the facts on a situation where the government itself is pursuing a perpetrator from a group the paper steadfastly claims wasn’t involved at all.

 

Which, I guess, illustrates how blind faith can not only overtake logic and fact, but delude followers to the point where although their own image is destroyed, they believe its worth the price. Therefore, its no surprise at all that fewer and fewer read the gibberish in what used to be one of the world’s leading news organizations.

 

On another front, there’s additional information in a story by Lewis Page, of The Register, also via Drudge, who writes that: “Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey say that the melting of the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf in Antarctica has suddenly slowed right down in the last few years, confirming earlier research which suggested that the shelf's melt does not result from human-driven global warming.

 

The Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica and its associated sea ice shelf is closely watched: this is because unlike most of the sea ice around the austral continent, its melt rate has seemed to be accelerating quickly since scientists first began seriously studying it in the 1990s.

 

Many researchers had suggested that this was due to human-driven global warming, which appeared to be taking place rapidly at that time (though it has since gone on hold for 15 years or so, a circumstance which science is still assimilating).”

 

Consequently, I think that while out on the links and having plenty of time between shots to contemplate his agenda for the next three years, perhaps the incumbent ought to give some thought to changing his administration’s goals and objectives. 

 

Because, just like golf, politics is a competitive endeavor. And the way things have worked out so far for him, although the Republicans would love to have an easy path to victory in the coming election, even they would prefer to compete in some kind of a contest instead of having their rival continue to destroy his party himself

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios