What do money markets, antiques, gold, corn, wheat, and stocks in companies like Google or Apple have in common? They?re bought by speculators.

And yet speculators, especially in oil, have become the bogeyman of economics. On tomorrow?s I Spy Radio Show (11-noon, kykn.com), we talk with Dr. Daniel Fine about America?s energy resources and energy policy. What role do speculators have in the price of oil?

And find out why those who think high gas prices might hurt Obama?s re-election may be in for a big surprise.

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Dr. Daniel I. Fine works with the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy. He is a longtime research associate at the Mining and Minerals Resources Institute, MIT. Fine is also a policy adviser on nonconventional oil and gas. He is co-editor of Resource War in 3-D: Dependence, Diplomacy and Defense, and has contributed to Business Week, the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Washington Times. Fine has testified on strategic natural resources before the U.S. Senate committees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Natural Resources. In this speech, he discusses ?Shale Gas Wars: From Pennsylvania to North Carolina.?

PCW Politics is War on P-SPAN Report
Benton Harbor High School
Benton Harbor, MI
Thursday April 5th, 2012
Host: Johnny Suave

REPLAY: End of Tuesday Night’s PCW Wild in Wisconsin
Olbermann again starts going off about various things.  Finally…

*Def Leppard’s Tear It Down plays*

Suave: YES!

‘The Extreme Equalizer’ Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Suave: IT’S THE EXTREME EQUALIZER- WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!

Tear it down – There’s got to be a better way
Tear it down – I can’t wait another day
Tear it down – There’s got to be a better way
Tear it down – If only you could stay
All night long

Crowd: What the @#$#!…What the @!##!

WTF: Keith.  You’re fired.

WTF grabs Olbermann by the throat…lift…CHOKESLAM!

Crowd: PCW…PCW…PCW!

*Fleetwood Mac‘s “Don’t Stop” begins to play*

‘The Extreme Environmental Hardcore Icon’ Al Gore (D)

Suave: “IT’S HIM! HE’S HERE! THE TREE HUGGIN’, MOCHA CHUGGIN’, TOBACCO COMPANY BUGGIN’ ALPHA MALE AND ENVIROMENTAL EXTREME HARDCORE ICON…

The crowd sings the chorus “Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow.” Gore holds up his mocha, inside an environmentally friendly biodegradable container of course, and chugs it down. Then he spews it out of his mouth into the crowd and then crushes the paper container on his forehead in a manly fashion.

The Environmental Extreme Hardcore Icon walks down the steps to the main floor. At the bottom of the steps, Gore pulls out another container of mocha, guzzles it down, spews it into the crowd, and then smashes the container on his forehead. Gore then wades through the main floor crowd to the ring.  He climbs up on the apron, pulls out yet another cup of mocha, guzzles that one down, spews it into the crowd, and then smashes the container on his forehead.

Gore in the ring.

Gore: I suppose you all want to know what went down between Keith Olbermann and Current TV.   All I can say is that Mr. Olbermann, who was paid a lot of money for showing up periodically to do his show and didn’t keep up his end of the bargain, apparently wants tens of millions more for not working.  As the old adage says, when the law’s on your side you argue the law.  When the law and the facts aren’t on your side, you pound the table.  Let’s just say that Mr. Olbermann is well versed in pounding the table.

Voice: Hold on a second, Al!

Keith Olbermann and the minions of his Olbermann Broadcast Empire, formerly known as  FOK, David Schuster and Shannyn Moore, walk out.

Olbermann: The Mets put Andres Torres on the DL today. That seems to have as much relevance to my lawsuit as anything you just said, Al.

Gore smiles and hands Olbermann a piece of paper.

Gore: This has plenty of relevance, Keith.  Consider yourself served.

Suave: OLBERMANN JUST GOT SERVED…OH, SUIT PAPERS!

Olbermann’s face turns red and he tackles Gore.

Suave: CAT-FIIIIIIIIIGHT!  CAT-FIIIIIIIGHT!

The OBE try to separate the two.

BACKSTAGE
‘The Massachusetts Redblood’ Mitt Romney talks with PCW Investigative Reporter Woodward Bernstein.

Romney: It’s time to get going.  It’s time to start focusing on November’s PCW Extreme Election Night 2012 and PCW CEO Barack Obama (D-IL).  It’s enough to make you think that years of flying around on Air Force One, surrounded by an adoring staff of true believers telling you what a great job you are doing, well, that might be enough to make you a little out of touch.

Bernstein: And?

Romney: And…that’s all.

Bernstein: Oh.  You’re not going to screw up the aftermath of a victory again?

Romney: Not this time.

(1) Daniel-San vs. Steve Torino- Used Car Salesman- no contest

Daniel-San was about to slap on the Labell Lock when former allies John Creese and the Cobra Conservatives came out and attacked the former PCW Champion.

The Cobra Cons stomp away at a helpless Daniel-San until the crowd roars and Mrs. Miyagi sprints out with Halitosis- The Insane Luchador with the even more Insane Breath,  to the ring.  Halitosis uses his lethal breath to knock out the Cobra Cons and Creese escapes through the ropes.

Daniel-San sees Mrs. Miyagi and tries to shake her hand.  Mrs. Miyagi turns around and leaves before he can do so.

Bobby Petrino Motorcycle Accident
Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino shuffles to the ring.  He admits that he didn’t fully disclose the fact that there was a 25 year old female passenger riding with him after his recent motorcycle accident.

Petrino: I have been in constant pain, medicated and the circumstances involving the wreck have come out in bits and pieces. That said I certainly had a concern about Jessica Dorrell’s name being revealed.  In hindsight, I showed a serious mistake in judgment when I chose not to be more specific about those details. Today, I’ve acknowledged this previous inappropriate relationship with my family and those within the athletic department administration.

Suave: Apparently, Jessica Dorrell turned down riding First Class to her upcoming wedding and rode Coach… *rimshot*

Petrino then added…

Petrino: Do you know who I am?  This is the freakin’ SEC.  I’ve won 21 games at Arkansas over the past two seasons…

Arkansas Razorbacks fan: Y’all, there’s two college football coaches better than anyone else in the country- Nick Saban and Bobby Petrino.   Sooooo-eeee.

Suave: Bama is ‘Roll Tide.’  Petrino is ‘Stop, Drop, and Roll.’

(2) Scott Walker’s (R-WI) Rangers: Ronnie and John Walker (R) def. Flavin and Tony Dreamboat

The Walkers win when Flavin tried to clock Ronnie Walker with the oversized clock around his neck and missed.  Ronnie then got the roll up pin for the victory.

Post match, the PCW Tag Team Champions Big Union: ‘The Self Described Savior of the Middle Class’ Big Labor and James the Jeep Worker (D) attacked the Walkers.  Once again, Rebecca Kleefisch (R-WI) is cornered- this time by Union Maid, and bombarded with invectives from both Big Labor and James.

*’Can You Hear the People Sing’ from Les Miserables plays*

Charlie Blackwell and Mike the Mechanic aka The American Heartland Coalition run out and make the save for Kleefisch.  Big Union leaves the ring but Blackwell tells them to wait.

Blackwell: The number one problem with PCW is that both the Republican and Democrats have sold their souls to their special interest groups at our expense.  The number two problem is that both Republicans and Democrats have a virtual monopoly on the political processes and have effectively excluded the American people a choice. As of right now, the PCW is going to be stuck with making the following choice for PCW CEO: a Democrat  who promised change but delivered the same hardline political partisanism that he was supposedly against and a challenger foisted up by a Republican establishment totally out of touch with Main Street America.

Big Labor takes a step towards the ring but he’s blocked by Blackwell’s Les Miserables.

Mike the Mechanic:  Charlie’s right.  That’s not democracy. And both parties are so far out of touch with what’s really going on with average Americans that voting for either candidate in the fall when gas prices are ridiculously high, housing values have decreased, jobs aren’t coming back, is basically a coin flip. You can vote for one party who does the bidding of their special interest groups or you can vote for the other. Partisans win- the American people lose.

Suave: Earlier in the night, PCW Television Champion ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism quietly signed off on the contract to face PCW’s Queen of Extreme Valora Salinas in June at PCW Loose Cannons unleashed 8.

REPLAY: Tuesday Night’s PCW Wild in Wisconsin
Chism: What did I tell you?  Valora’s a chick.  She’s not a real chick though because everyone knows real chicks support Democrats.  She knows there’s no way in hell that she can beat me.  She’s probably back home washing the dishes or cleaning the house-

Out of nowhere, Valora jumps Chism and blasts him in the head with a lead pipe.

Suave: HOLY CRAP!

Valora busts him open with a second lead pipe shot and then puts the Katahajime on him.

Immediately, Harry Reid (D-NV) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) race to the ring and start shouting for help.   Code Pink and Emily S. List run down.  Valora lets go of Chism and then decks both with a double clothesline.  She rams Code Pink’s head into the corner turnbuckle.  Then she flings List through the ropes to the floor.

Chism tries to get up.  Valora hits a running dropkick and Chism goes right back down.  Valora drags the PCW Television Champion to the table and puts her finger in the bloody cut on Chism’s face.  Then she signs the contract with Chism’s blood and as PCW security hits the ring, slides out and heads to the back.

Suave then reports on the Brad Company-Health Care- PCW Super Court situation.  Following arguments made before the Super Court, the matter was now in the hands of the Super Court justices to make their decision.

PCW Hall of Fame Class Announced
Suave announced the inductees to the PCW HOF:
Wrestlers: ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido (I) and Starz N. Stripes (also known as ‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott) (R)
Politicians: ‘The American Screamer’ Howard Dean (D-VT) and ‘The Mastermind’ Karl Rove

The class will be inducted at PCW’s Loose Cannons Unleashed 8 PPV in June.

House Show Highlights
Suave reveals that there was an incident last night at a PCW House show between PCW Women’s Champion Kathryn Randall Collins and Miss USA.

KRC came out to cut a promo and then described Miss USA having a child as a ‘career killer.’

KRC: Her career will never be what it should have been because of the choice she made.

Miss USA than ran out and another pull apart brawl ensued.

Suave: It’s going to happen…sooner than later.  KRC vs. Miss USA.

Tom Tebow- Tim Tebow’s long lost, black sheep brother

Tebow is in the ring and rips Peyton Manning once again.  This time, Manning walks out and challenges Tebow to a match.  Tebow accepts but Manning then sends down the Japanese SuperDestroyer Yamamoto Tanaka (R).

Tanaka wins in short order with Manning cheering him on with the Japanese SuperDestroyer.

On the ramp clapping- New York Jet QB Mark Sanchez??????

Points Standings (from Real Clear Politics):
Romney- 655
Santorum- 272
Gingrich- 140
Paul- 67

And anybody who tells you that you can get money out of politics is either deluded, lying, or possibly both. Exhibit A: the upcoming Democratic convention in Charlotte, NC. The Democrats piously declared that of course no dirty, dirty corporate/lobbyist money would be allowed to be spent on putting the convention together. And everybody cheered… only, it’s now 2012 and there’s potentially a looming shortfall in fundraising. And lo! – here are some lobbyist and corporate donors.

Sure, they can’t contribute… under the old rules. But rules are flexible things, are they not? A corporation can’t contribute directly. But it’s all right for their executives to write large personal checks, or contribute the equivalent in goods and/or services, or launder it through a corporate charity. As for lobbyists… well. The DNC likes to see its friends happy – friends being defined as ‘people who bundle together a lot of personal contributions and/or corporate in-kind donations’ – and if VIP access and nice hotel rooms make friends happy, then that warm, happy feeling would be its own reward, yes?

I’m actually not particularly upset at the idea that the Democrats were dumb enough to take a policy position that would inevitably force them to become hypocrites. Aside from the sheer pleasure of watching them tie themselves in knots like this, there’s also the opportunity to make the whole thing into a teaching experience. To wit: money cannot be gotten out of politics. It never has in the past; it’s certainly not out of politics now; and it won’t be in the future. As soon as one way of injecting money into politics goes away, another one opens up. Because people want to inject money into politics, and they rather outnumber the people who do not.

This fact annoys certain elements of the Left no end. But not as much as the fact that the Right has noted that the standard progressive response to speech that they don’t like is some variant of a lynch mob; which fact is the primary pragmatic reason why we’re not moving towards an environment of greater transparency in donations. I may think that anonymous donations may be a truly regrettable necessity, but that does not mean that I don’t recognize that it is, in fact, a necessity.

None of this excuses the Democrats for their hypocrisy, of course. If you’re going to take the position that a donation is not a form of free speech explicitly protected by the Constitution, then you really should live by the implications of your own belief system. If you cannot, please do not insist that I live by them, either.*

(H/T: Instapundit)

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: You cannot get money out of politics.

*Mind you, I may not feel like living by the implications of your belief system even if you can, too.

Ohio liberal lawmakers opposed to reasonable voter reform laws are biting off their nose to
spite the face this week. Misguided Democrats and the League of Women Voters
are upset House Republicans are willing to delay a vote and discuss repeal House Bill 194, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Republican lawmakers offered to give their peers across the aisle another week to review the bill and negotiate changes
instead of continuing with a costly referendum vote.

The bill is perfect as it is, but Republicans deserve credit for thinking of the voters instead of personal
political gain. If the referendum has enough support to overturn the reasonable
reforms initiated to ensure fair and organized elections, it would change a
multitude of election board and voting procedures between the primary and
general election. Governmental agencies are not known for speediness and the
confusion that would occur to change policies once again would hinder the
election process.

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PCW Nightmare in New Orleans Recap
Saturday March 24th
Lakefront Arena
New Orleans, LA
Host: Johnny Suave and his lifesize cardboard cut-out of Shania Twain

PCW traveled to the land of Mardi Gras last night for another big show on their ‘Roadshow Across America’ tour.

Replay from Tuesday night’s PCW Chi-Town Collision Show…
A-Bomb hits Tanaka with the crotch slam.   A-Bomb slaps a bearhug on Tanaka. The referee checks…Tanaka  fights and then escapes.  A-Bomb tries for a snap suplex but Tanaka avoids it.  Tanaka turns it around- gut-wrench powerbomb on A-Bomb.  Then another Powerslam! And another Powerslam! And a third Powerslam! Tanaka mounts him on the mat and punches A-Bomb repeatedly.

Suave: A-BOMB’S IN TROUBLE AND THERE’S NOTHING RICK SANTORUM CAN DO ABOUT IT!

Tanaka shoulder tackles A-Bomb and then drags him to the top rope.  Tanaka picks A-Bomb up and hits the Japanese SuperDestroyer to the mat below.

Suave: THAT’S IT!  HE AIN’T GETTING UP FROM THAT ONE.

Tanaka covers A-Bomb hooking the leg.  The Referee counts the pin. …1 …2 …3

WINNER: Yamamoto Tanaka (R) @ 15:26

Romney hits the ring and he’s ecstatic.

‘The Voice of PCW’ Johnny Suave and his lifesize cardboard cut-out of Shania Twain

Suave calls Tuesday night a big win for Tanaka and Romney.  Can A-Bomb…

A. Tom Bomb (R)

…bounce back tonight?

Mitch Thomas- American Taxpayer Promo
Thomas said he was exhausted from working 70 hours between two jobs to help make ends meet for his family.  He said regardless, he would come out tonight and give it everything he had against his opponent even though the deck was stacked against him.  Thomas said both sides (Republicans and Democrats) care more about pushing their special interest groups than they are ordinary, average Americans and then went to the ring.

(1) Jordan Metzger of ‘The Bureaucracy’ (D) w/Kendra W. Wallace def. Mitch Thomas- American Taxpayer
Metzger is the lead member of the Democrat‘s Bureaucracy stable and used the ‘Red Tape’ submission on Thomas, already choking on a national debt that’s increased as much in 3 years under Barack Obama than it did in 8 years under W, to win the match.

Metzger then took the American Taxpayer’s wallet, removed more money from it, and began to leave when Charlie Blackwell of the American Heartland Coalition ran out and decked him.  Blackwell locked Metzger up in the Katahajime and then took Thomas’s money back from the Bureaucracy and gave it back to the American Taxpayer.

PCW Executive Committee
The PCW Executive Committee had a moment of clarity and unity as it came together to vote 74-22 on a Transportation Package.

Said Barbara Boxer (D-CA): “I am very humbled by that because Lord knows it’s hard to find those moments when we can come together.”  James Inhofe (R-OK) agreed, admitting that he and Boxer worked closely on the project even though the two were ‘opposite extremes on many issues.’

The package was sent to the PCW Competition Committee.

Politically Incorrect (from left): NRA, Andrea Doria (up), Al Cahall (down), and Nic Koteen

(2) NRA and Nic Koteen of Politically Incorrect (R) w/Andrea Doria def. Brad Company and Halitosis (I) w/Mrs. Miyagi
Koteen ‘Smoked’ Halitosis out for the win.

Post match, Politically Incorrect was confronted by the Green World Order (Radishing Rick Rube- Agronomist, GreenPete, Extreme Vegan Brock Cole Lee, PeaceNick, and Peta from PETA.  The GWO came out to introduced PI to their new ‘ace’- Radishing Rick Rube, by having Rube, GreenPete, and Lee attack NRA and Koteen.

PI’s Andrea Doria and the GWO’s Peta from PETA also got into a…

Suave: CAT-FIIIIIIIIGHT!  CAT-FIIIIIIIIGHT!

Finally, ‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott (I) raced out to even the odds and chased the GWO out of the ring.

Doria then got on the microphone and announced that Scott had joined Politically Incorrect.

Suave Talks with David Axelrod (D)
Suave discusses the disappointing turnout at several big PCW shows during the ‘Roadshow Across America Tour.’  Axelrod blames it on the Republicans and their lackluster candidates for PCW CEO.  Axelrod says it’s clear that the Republicans are trying to rig the process to make sure a Republican remains the PCW champion and that’s why no one is coming out to the shows.

Out comes the Sanderman (D) who challenges any Republican in the PCW locker room to come out.  He’s less than thrilled when RINO-The Wonk Machine strolls out.

(3) The Sanderman def. RINO-The Wonk Machine (R)
RINO gets attacked on the way to the ring by Big Union: Big Labor and James the Jeep Worker (D) who deliver a double Scabbuster to the Wonk Machine.

RINO then limps to the ring and gets bludgeoned by The Sanderman who uses his left fist wrapped in sandpaper to rip open RINO’s face.

PCW Competition Committee
The PCW Competition Committee struggles to find consensus to pass the Transportation package.

Tea Party members ‘Tin Cup’ Ray McAvay and Average Joe object to the high cost of the package along with the ‘Club for Growth’ and Leader of the PCW Competition Committee John Boehner (R-OH) can’t muster enough votes to call the proposal up for a vote.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

Peyton Manning- Denver Bronco
Peyton Manning, surrounded by his entourage, holds up his brand spanking new orange Denver Bronco jersey and handles an interview with PCW Investigative Reporter Woodward Bernstein with the same careful phrasing and polish of a politician.

Then…

Pat Robertson (R)

…Pat Robertson weighed in???   Robertson says that Broncos treated Tim Tebow ‘shabbily.’

Robertson: Peyton Manning was a tremendous MVP quarterback. But he’s been injured, if that injury comes back, Denver will find itself without a quarterback. And in my opinion, it would serve them right.

Manning tries to laugh it off but then he’s attacked by…who?

Tom Tebow- Tim Tebow’s long lost, black sheep brother

Tom Tebow attacks Manning from behind but is dragged off the quarterback and tossed out of the ring by Manning’s entourage.

Suave: That was weird.

(4) Main Event: Yamamoto Tanaka (R) w/’The Massachusetts Redblood’ Mitt Romney (R-MA) vs. A. Tom Bomb (R) w/Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Daisy Cutter-Bomb
Tanaka, riding high after his big win Tuesday night, gets cut down to size by A-Bomb.   After Mitt Romney tries to interfere by swinging an Etch a Sketch at A-Bomb but potatoes Tanaka instead, A-Bomb uses several successive Atomic Powerbombs to subdue the Japanese SuperDestroyer and get the win for Rick Santorum.

BACKSTAGE
Tom Tebow approaches two men backstage and holds out his hand.   The two men turn around…

Suave:HOLY CRAP!  IT’S SUSPENDED NEW ORLEANS SAINTS COACH SEAN PAYTON AND SUSPENDED ST. LOUIS RAM DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR GREGG WILLIAMS!

Williams hands Tebow cash and then both Payton and Williams leave.

Points Update:
Romney 565, Santorum 256. Gingrich 141, Paul 66

Without a doubt Bill Maher is one of the most obnoxious disgusting TV hosts in our Country. He is a blood sucking leach preying on women, religion and those patriots who want to “Take Back Our Country.” Why bother with a person who uses fowl lascivious language – why not let Obama and the Democrats address this “potty mouthed” creep? Obviously they are struggling with this issue.

Bill Maher appeared at the Winspear Opera House and said Sarah Palin was a “c**n” and”there’s just no other word for her.” A real man would not stoop to such levels to increases his viewer ratings.

Obama speaking in Tucson, Arizona 20 January 2011 after the Tucson massacre is demanding a new era of civility. He is absolutely condoning Bill Maher by default, because he has refused to return the million dollars that Maher donated to pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action.

Obama senior campaign strategist David Axelrod who was scheduled on Maher’s show has started back peddling and is now running from Maher with his tail between his legs. Although, David has attempted to soft peddle the million dollars he will not participate in Maher’s kind of sadistic humor.

The Alabama Democratic Party has scrubbed a web page advertising its upcoming fundraiser with HBO’s Bill Maher – the Alabama DEMS don’t want any part of this vulgar mouthed sexist.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/08/alabama-democrats-scrub-bill-maher-fundraiser-off-website/#ixzz1q4EGYLWQ

Maher is using his first Amendment right, which we’re fighting for 24/7 and there really aren’t too many options available at this time. We can quit promoting him and ignore him and not make him headline news. None of us have to listen to him or respond to him, but at this time he’s laughing all the way to the bank, because he knows our hot buttons and how to illicit a response from us.

Maher’s response is that we need to learn to coexist and says that’s pretty easy to do… I think what’s important to look how far we’ve allowed our Nation to go down the road of immorality and that is a result of the evolution of the “norm.”

Over a span of many years we have watched the morality of our Nation disintegrate. The “Spock” theory that advocated setting our children free was one of the most crippling eras of our lifetime.

Children assumed the dominate role in families and parents became the gophers. Parents struggled to keep up with the “Joneses” to buy their kids love not mentor them – it’s so easy to put the blame at the feet of the parents. Actually the rapid advancement of technology can be viewed as the culprit here…

The high tech age was suppose to free the working population up – instead it was the ravenous monster that created longer working hours, more commuting and less time to attend to a family. Millions of children fell victim to this freedom and lacked discipline and mentoring – teenage pregnancies, youth crime and a lost generation evolved. But, it’s not all doom and gloom – parents are starting to assume their roles as parents and a new generation is on the horizon.

So the real problem isn’t people like Bill Maher, the Chris Matthews or Debbie Wasserman Shultz they’re only senseless distractions – the real problem for 2012 is taking back our White House, removing the Obama Administration, taking over the Senate majority and removing the Old Republican establishment.

As I’ve said many times “God” is alive and well if we but ask he will help us restore our beautiful America. FYI Obama’s money can’t buy “God” he’s not for hire!
May God Bless America
As Always,
Little Tboca

V.P. Joe Biden is probably the only Democrat who threatened to stand toe to toe with his Commander in Chief without flinching or begging for forgiveness or is he?

Joe Biden considers himself an authority on the separation of powers in Constitutional Law and Joe said he’d lead impeachment proceedings if a President didn’t get the approval of Congress before placing our Military in danger.

In an interview with Chris Matthews, Joe Biden said, the president had no constitutional authority to launch an attack without congressional approval against a nation that hadn’t attacked or threatened imminent attack on the United States. Biden also insisted that doing so is an impeachable offense.

This interview was during the time that Joe Biden was merely a Senator, before he moved into the prestigious position of VP of the United States.

Now it appears that Biden is back peddling or maybe has lost the Constitution. Article I of the Constitution clearly gives Congress, not the president, the “power… to declare War.” The Founding Fathers sought to avoid a situation where one man had the power to commit the nation to war on his own initiative.

Reps. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Donna Edwards (Md.), Mike Capuano (Mass.), Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), Maxine Waters (Calif.), Rob Andrews (N.J.), Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas), Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.) “who questioned the Constitutionality of Obama’s decision to attack Libya were quickly smacked soundly and sent to their rooms.

Many Democrats are fed up with Obama and tired of his lack of interest and lack of disengagement, but they’re between a rock and a hard place at this time. No doubt Democrats are power mongers not dedicated to promoting Obama’s false ideology, but. Obama owns their souls at this time. There only choice is to follow him or go job hunting.

In light of Obama’s dismal record the past three years there is another option open to Democrats at this time. It’ called Vetting!

Pelosi pulled a fast one on them in 2008 by doing her own personal vetting whatever that might have been – she actually certified that Barack Obama was duly vetted and filed the role for the Democratic nomination for President. Nancy and the Liberal News Media slid Obama into the office of Commander in Chief without vetting him.

Pretty slick on Pelosi’s part – but disastrous for Democrats.
In 2012, the Democrats have time and the legal capabilities to vet Obama from head to toe, because anyone who spends so many millions hiding their past is probably an “Illegal alien.”

Next they have time after vetting Obama to choose a Democrat for the Presidential candidacy who is legal and has the necessary requirements to actually be the “Commander in Chief” of our Nation.

They’re in a sink or swim situation because many Hispanics, Jews, young adults and women have definitely decided not to vote for Obama again. Obama’s ratings are plunging dramatically.

Even George Soros has his doubts, George said, I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros told Newsweek. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. Yahoo News

In closing, impeachment isn’t about to happen, Democrats are in limbo, Biden is a “fluke,” and Congress is twiddling their thumbs as usual on our dime. So Americans it’s up to us to “Take Back Our Country.”

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. Ronald Reagan 40th President

May God B less America
As Always,
Little Tboca

http://littletboca.com

How come Democrats are the only Ones seemingly Capable of Matching Romney’s Negative Ads with ones of their own.

Over at Politico, Alexander Burns lays the problem out in the most simplistic manner.

Burns plainly asks – “Remember that shocking moment on the debate stage, when Santorum confronted Romney with his 2009 USA Today op-ed highlighting the individual mandate as a possible element of national health care reform?”

“Or when Gingrich called out Romney for inaccurately claiming that his investments in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were made through a blind trust?”

“No, you don’t. And neither does anyone else because — thanks to the total failure of Romney’s opponents to do basic research and preparation — they never happened.”

Burns also asked, “When Gingrich was asked at a New Hampshire event in December about the role Planned Parenthood played in Romney’s Massachusetts health care law, it appeared to be the first the former House speaker had heard of it.”

This is indeed sad, because these are the very things that cause conservative activist to recoil from Romney in the first place. What does one think the voters would have done with this knowledge? There is a good chance that many of them do not know this stuff, not when the only right leaning Television news source [Fox News] has gone out of its way to white wash all of it. Knowing that the voters would not come to like Romney if they knew he once told a Pro-Choice group that he would serve as an the agent provocateur of pro-choice causes in the Republican Party.

In the video up top, you can clearly see that Romney has spent a lot of time deceiving the Republican voters; we can all say with confidence that he supported the mandate [those who deny it just look foolish doing so].

Romney may not have ever uttered “I support a federal mandate to purchase health insurance.” Look at his record; it is difficult to infer that he did not support copying the Massachusetts plan at the federal level, which would mean the mandate is in whatever bill that would have passed if he would have been in charge. This is exactly what Democrats did with ObamaCare.

Let us match Burns earlier critique of Romney’s opponents with my own captious remark.

Remember when Obama said this: “Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn’t have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages “free riders” to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others. This doesn’t cost the government a single dollar.”

You probably do not remember this quote, because it too never happened. This was written by Romney is an op-ed in the middle of the health care debate. Except for the first part, Romney actually said that Massachusetts could serve as the model for the rest of the country.

It is all about the tax [liberal version] or the penalty [reality], and Romney clearly favored/favors the tax insensitive. I often hear his supporters saying that even though Romney did support the mandate, so did many other Republicans.

While Ben Collinscontends that Romney never supported the mandate, he then points readers to a quote where Ronald Reagan supposedly did. Like somehow, if a person such as Reagan made the mistake of supporting the mandate, that it now excuses Romney of lying about supporting it now.

 The liberals and Romney supporters always seem to say some Republicans have supported the mandate in the past.To which I always say, “So what, that is indicative of the problem within the Republican Party, not the excuse that should be used to defend past transgressions.”

Call it a flip-flop, call it a mistake, it does not matter because Romney is not admitting it. He says it was the right thing for his state, but he would have never pushed it nationally. As if most people do not encourage other states to take actions that have worked before. First thing wrong with that is that it has not worked; it has been a drag on the state of Massachusetts, causing prices to rise, while not giving little benefit[it would be better to let Levin handle this].

The simple question is how conservatives are going to defend Romney against ads like the one I have posted up top. It is not as simple as just repeating team Romney’s talking points. I do not know about you, but I am not looking forward to saying, “yes Romney is a panderer, and a flip flopper; yes he has been on two sides of every major issue, but he still is better than Obama.”

That sounds like a horrible argument, and one conservatives should not have to make.

I was looking forward to arguing from a place of strength this election cycle, but that is not going to happen if Romney is the best we have. The desiderata of excitement, this is what we are looking forward to. How did we get here, and is there anyway we can stop this before it is to late. Maybe since Romney is running out of money, he will not have the ability to buy the rest of the delegates.

You know, I have a problem with the way that somebody ambushed Randi Rhodes and got her to make racist and prejudiced comments about the governors of Louisiana and South Carolina. It’s just… cruel to do that to an alcoholic on a bender; when you have somebody with an existing history of being found face down in the gutter with the recent contents of her stomach spread out around her in a semi-particulate spray, taking advantage of that by shoving a microphone in her face and asking her to spout off some good, old-fashioned racism is simply not very civi… wait, hold on. She talked this trash on the air?

“Bobby Jindal even converted from Hinduism — Nikki Haley, too — in order to be acceptable to the conservative South in Louisiana and uh — [about a five second pause] Georgia! I mean, that is crazy that in order to be acceptable to the party you have to, you know, pretend that you’ve given up your religion!”

While sober?

Well, then.

OK, let’s start with some remedial ethnology for Randi Rhodes, and any other bitter, racist drunks out there. As Tim Graham noted in his own contemptuous smack-down: Bobby Jindal converted long before he entered politics (guess Rhodes thinks that there’s a Mystical Hindu Conspiracy out there*); Nikki Haley was a Sikh, not a Hindu (I further guess that they all look alike to Rhodes); and she also happens to be the Governor of South Carolina. You know. The state that just elected African-American Republican Tim Scott to Congress with 65% of the vote.

And that’s the real problem for Rhodes, isn’t it? Jindal and Haley are just representative of a larger threat to her favorite narrative. Those awful racist Republicans are infuriatingly – to Rhodes – happy to nominate and elect blacks and Indians and Latinos and women and South Asians; and, worse, they’re doing it in both statewide races and majority-white ones. Ask Artur Davis how much white Democratic support he got in the Alabama Governor’s primary. Ask Kendrick Meek how it felt to watch Florida Democrats pick Charlie Crist over him. Check with every ambitious urban African-American politician in America to see how much they enjoy having to wait until an Approved Minority Member of Congress dies of old age before they can compete for a seat.

Or not. After all, the Democratic establishment visibly is indifferent to the sensibilities of its token minority ‘leaders;’ why should we not follow suit?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Please note that ProFlowers – and other companies – think that this sort of thing is somehow more acceptable speech than, say, Rush Limbaugh’s. Keep that in mind the next time that you need to send someone flowers.

PPS: One of my colleagues privately notes and worries that bringing this sort of thing to the attention of the public might in fact provide Randi Rhodes with free publicity. I note the legitimacy of said worries in general – but would point out in this specific case the publicity involves not only the woman’s inherent racism, but her inherently incoherent racism. Rhodes doesn’t even know the most elementary details about the people that she hates, bless her heart; I’m happy to put a spotlight on that, honestly.

*Almost refreshing: her ilk usually blames the woes of the world on the Jews.