Attention: John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Mike Pence Turn in your Ronald Reagan Pins

Behold what a man with courage sounds like!

Yes, We Can -- Without The Government



I don’t feel good about our prospects for the upcoming mid-term elections this November.

Why?

Because we have a very serious leadership problem in the GOP.

I could put up Ronald Reagan clips on this blog from now until Election Day in November and it won’t make a damn bit of difference if leaders like John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Mike Pence capitulate to false premises set by Democrats.

As far as I’m concerned these fearful men don’t have the right to call themselves Reagan Republicans ever again because of their treatment of a true patriot like Joe Barton.

How can we expect to set this country right again with feckless leaders like these who have become so bound by political correctness?

These men have become 21st century Neville Chamberlains for appeasing Democrats and the Left by acquiescing to PC rules of speech.

Democrats said that Joe Barton had the nerve to apologize to BP.

Instead of Republicans promptly refocusing the debate back to a proper criticism of Barack Obama circumventing our constitution by acting as judge and jury without giving BP due process, Republicans quickly accepted the false premise and appeased the Democrats without a fight!

How can the Republicans win any debate when they let the Dems set the rules of what can be said and what can’t be said?

Barack Obama’s approval ratings is in the 40s and Boehner, Cantor and Pence are still are afraid of their own shadows!

We need leaders that have the intestinal fortitude to totally ignore PC rules. Kick it in the ass! Rip it up and throw it away, and say what you mean and mean what you say.

That to me would be the first sign of audacity.

And though that man or woman will be savaged by Democrats and aided by their willing hookers in the press, the amount of public support that strong leader would receive by tens of millions of Americans would be like nothing you’d ever seen before.

Who has that kind of bravery?

I know who doesn’t!

Newsweek Editor Julia Reed Says Barack Obama “Out of his cotton pick’en mind.”

I already have this vid on a prior post, but it deserves a post of its own because Reed is so dead on in her knocking Obama for stupidly shutting down all oil drilling in the gulf and throwing thousands of people out of work.



I don’t hear that expression much here in New York. The last time I heard I think was a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon I used to watch as a kid.

Julia, count me in as your newest fan.


Some background stuff on Reed

Julia Reed is senior writer at “Vogue” and a contributing editor at “Newsweek.” She also writes for “The New York Times Magazine,” among other publications, and is the author of “Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena” (2005).

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Obama Hits Golf Course with Biden on another Hot, Humid Weekend

Yesterday Gateway Pundit reported that Obama said that he won’t rest rest until the leak in the Gulf is stopped. Then he promptly goes off to see a baseball game, the Washington Nationals vs his Chicago Whute Sox.



Now, as you know I’m a baseball fan too. And I won’t begrudge Obama taking in a game. But, when he makes these high sounding pronouncements and then doesn’t miss a party, a game and a round of golf, it rings very hollow and nobody can take the guy seriously anymore.



Oh, I hope Obama keeps right on playing his golf and shaking his booty on the dance floor.



You’re doing a damn fine job, Mr. President!





Video courtesy Gateway Pundit



From The Hill:



President Barack Obama hit the golf course Saturday with Vice President Joe Biden.



The White House pool report noted that Obama left at about 1 p.m. for the course at Andrews Air Force base, and his golfing parters included White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson and David Katz, the energy efficiency campaign manager at the Department of Energy.



Obama left the course shortly before 6 p.m.

Nicholson and Katz, along with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, joined Obama for four hours of golf last weekend.



The Republican National Committee released an ad



soon afterward taking aim at Obama's golfing during the ongoing BP oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

The temperatures in the Washington, D.C., area Saturday were similar to last weekend, in the low 90s and humid.



Obama attended the Washington Nationals game Friday night wearing a cap for his hometown Chicago White Sox. Sources told the pool reporter that Obama sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and left in the ninth inning, before the White Sox edged out the Nationals 2-1 in the 11th.



Via The Hill



Via Memeorandum



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Shakedown Politics: Conservatives Speak Out Against Obama’s Government Ineptness and Other Tyrannies

Conservatives are making their voices knows and re-affirming Joe Barton’s correct charge that President Barack Obama circumvented the rule of law and acted as judge, jury, and executioner by extorting $20 billion dollars from BP.

The president and his regime committed a crime!

We need to stand up and say so otherwise our republic is in great danger. If some elected officials are too timid to defend the rights of American citizens against the makings of a tyrannical government, then we need to replace those officials with more capable replacements who love liberty more than political correctness.

Left Coast Rebel posted these videos that are well worth watching and learning about what’s happening to our country. Visit Left Coast Rebel for his wonderful commentary on this topic.

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Joe Barton WAS RIGHT!!! Obama Shook Down BP for 20 Bil and GOP Too Damn Timed To Call it What It Is

Cowardly Republicans

We are a nation of laws and Rep Joe Barton is absolutely in the right for calling out President Obama who has no legal authority to extort monies from BP the way he did without the benefit of due process.

This is the United States!



I am so sick and tired of these spineless, gutless, pussy-livered Republicans like Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) who always, always, ALWAYS at any sign of media-driven criticism, fold each and every time.

They are too fucking PC-conscious to ever be effective against this Stalinist president who wouldn’t hesitate to cut their throats, pull the race card, or call them defenders of the big mean and greedy oil company.

Instead of calling for Barton to step down for what he said, Jeff Miller and John Boehner should just put on a skirt and panties and let Sarah Palin, Jan Brewer, and Michelle Bachmann wear the pants because I see no reason for these guys to continue the pretense of being men!

From The Hill:

Pussy # 1 Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), said:

"I condemn Mr. Barton’s statement. Mr. Barton’s remarks are out of touch with this tragedy and I feel his comments call into question his judgment and ability to serve in a leadership on the Energy and Commerce Committee,"

Joe Barton said:

“It is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation [BP] can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion dollar shakedown,”

Jeff Miller additional comments:

“I am shocked by Congressman Joe Barton’s reprehensible comments that the government should apologize for the ‘shakedown’ of BP. BP has caused the greatest ecological and environmental disaster our nation has ever seen. They are the responsible party and they should pay for losses and damages, not the taxpayer. I am optimistic and hopeful that BP acted in good faith by opening the $20 million escrow account, as several of us have requested."

Pussy # 2 John Boehner (R-Ohio) comment:

"I have said since the beginning that BP ought to be held responsible for every dime of this tragedy. And they ought to be held accountable to stop the leak and get it cleaned up as soon as possible.”

BP has said all along that they are responsible for the spill, but that’s not the issue here. If these weak-kneed GOP politicians don’t have the stomach for the fight to point out when the president oversteps his authority, then pack up and GO HOME!

WE NEED FIGHTERS, NOT COWARDS!

Via The Hill

Via Memeorandum

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Kevin Costner Says Early Use of Oil-Cleanup Machine Could Have Kept Gulf Oil Spill Offshore

I don’t know why people give Kevin Costner a hard time. I guess he somewhat fell out of favor after Water World.

But, so what?

If his machine can clean up the oil, then that’s a blessing as far as I’m concerned. And it once again would show that “free market” solutions and not government is the answer to problems.

On second thought, maybe that’s why congress is giving Kevin a hard time.



From CNS News:

Actor Kevin Costner said yesterday at a press conference on Capitol Hill that if a machine produced by a company he is a partner in had been used earlier to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, “we would be keeping that [the oil] offshore.”

The machine, which Costner invested more than $20 million to develop, can separate oil from water to clean up oil spills.

Costner said that BP, the oil company whose damaged well is the source of the spill, had recently placed an order for deploying 32 of the machines.

“We’re coming to this fight very late,” said Costner. “I think everybody would recognize that. And so we’re going to do the things that we can do but this company is poised to mobilize in order to step this up and to create an environment where people can go back to work. There is a single moment that exists right at this moment and that is there are people out of work. There’s a moratorium and there’s no way to lift that unless I believe the government feels that people can operate in a safe way. This represents that pivot point.”
Full story



Via CNS News

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London Mayor Boris Johnson To Obama: Shut Your Yapper, Stop Bashing BP

On an earlier post, Another Obama Mistake-Lawsuit Talk BP, I argue as an investor, there is a school of thought that encourages stock holders to sell their holdings if their company gets hit with a serious class action lawsuit that may really put a hurting on the business.

As such, it’s my opinion that the reason BP has lost so much market value is because many stock investors are trying to preserve the capital they’ve invested in BP.

Left Coast Rebel, one the best political blogs on the net raises similar questions over Obama’s handling of BP.

From London Evening Standard:

Mayor Boris Johnson demanded an end to “anti-British rhetoric, buck-passing and name-calling” after days of scathing criticism directed at BP by the President and other US politicians.

Former Conservative Party chairman Lord Tebbit branded Mr Obama's conduct “despicable”. And with the dispute threatening to escalate into a diplomatic row, Mr Johnson also appeared to suggest that David Cameron should step in to defend BP.

He spoke as the US onslaught against the firm became a “matter of national concern” — especially given its importance to British pensions, which lost much of their value today as BP shares plunged to a 13-year low.

Left Coast Rebel writes:

Interesting.

This got me thinking.

Why is it that Obama Justice is suing BP and potentially driving them into bankruptcy in the middle of the entire nightmare?

Who will pick up the tab if the Thug-in-Chief community agitates BP into chapter 11? Who pays for the cleanup then, liberals?

I'd like to hear an answer to that.

LCR, so would I.

If I was in Obama’s place, the last thing I would do is pursue BP with lawyers and kill the stock price, especially when BP is the only entity that can solve the problem and pay off claims. You’re killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

How dumb is that?

But, Obama doesn’t know a damn thing about any of this.

Via Left Coast Rebel

Via Memeorandum

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Obama asleep at the Swith Concerning Gulf Oil Leak

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