Don't Worry, Obama's Got a Plan

Obama's 68th Round of Golf

Lest the reader assumes that the plan is to use a 7 iron in lieu of the 5 in order to lay up short of the trap on the 15th-hole approach, that is not it. While it is difficult to resist the notion that it may be the best plan he can come up with, Obama's plan actually has to do with his job. I think.

After almost two-and-a-half years in office, Obama is still campaigning as though he were not the incumbent, still declaring how he will "fix" the nation's ills. In those two-and-a-half years, as the economy has floundered, as our international standing has plummeted, and as gas prices have soared -- along with the cost of everything else -- Obama has dithered.

But he's got a plan!

Perhaps that plan is not golf-related but rather a plan to party like it's 1999. There have been extravagant family vacations to Hawaii and Spain. There have been myriad soirees in the White House, and there has been general mirth on Pennsylvania Avenue, all while the people struggle to stay afloat. And the endless spending binge is destroying America from within, pushing us inexorably closer to the precipice of utter ruin.

But Obama's got a plan!

That's a Lot of Speed Bumps

Is that plan to slow down while passing over those "speed bumps" he mentioned so that he doesn't bottom out in The Beast? If one is to take Mitt Romney's campaign ad literally, one would hope that Obama would at least swerve to avoid those speed bumps, which are representative of Americans.

The "speed bumps" Obama was referring to, it must be noted, were all constructed by Obama and his party. And despite his veiled umpteenth blaming of the Bush 43 administration in his internet and radio address last Saturday,  the economy was humming along under Bush despite the calamities that it faced, 9/11 most notable among them.

To be certain, Obama did inherit a sinking economy, but he was part of the problem as a member of the 110th Congress of the United States. It was in the 2006 elections that the Democrat Party regained control of Congress. Not coincidentally, it was also the beginning of the dive. Even before they had control, however, the Democrats, led by Barney Frank, posed a formidable resistance to Bush's dire warnings on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Yet now Obama continues the claim that it "took a long time to get here". From his Internet and radio address on 6/11:

"I wish I could tell you there was a quick fix to our economic problems. But the truth is, we didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight."

True, it didn't happen overnight; it took the Democrats less than two years to destroy Bush's hard work and tarnish his legacy. One would think that if they could undo six years of relative prosperity in record time, then once they had total control, they could have had it all fixed better than new in even less time. Not so.

But Obama's got a plan!

After flailing futilely at the problem for two-and-a-half years, Obama's  now reached into the Herbert Hoover bag of tricks. Speaking in North Carolina today, Obama offered a more modern version of Hoover's "chicken in every pot" premise, telling the crowd that he wants everyone to have a good job with security. Hooray! Such a brilliant man, he actually said:

"We're falling behind in the very fields we know are going to be our future. ... We must do better than that. I will not be satisfied until everyone who wants a good job that offers some security has a good job that offers security."

Somehow I doubt he'll lose sleep or a single tee time in the interim, even as tomorrow the media is likely to hail his determination. If George W. Bush had ever said, "I won't be satisfied until every last terrorist decides that they don't want us dead", I'm sure the press would have slammed him as an idiot. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to see how the media receives Obama's new "all hands on deck" approach, but don't expect any surprises.

After all, Obama's got a plan!

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About That "Civilian Security Force"

Guns and Learnin'

Perhaps the most difficult task of the thinking person is to try to reconcile the logic and rationale of the Left in America with any semblance of sanity. Where pacifism and education are concerned, the lines become blurred when combined with the Liberal notions of enforcement and learning.

For example, our classrooms today are cesspools of festering violent tendencies, where teachers fear that their best intended lessons will suddenly fall victim to an unwieldy student upset by his single mother's choice of bedmate the night before. In saner times, that teacher would be well equipped to either handle such a disruption or be assured that someone who could would be within ear shot. In this insane era, however, discipline by the teacher is forbidden, and corporal punishment is met with career death.

The United States Education Department (ED) was created as a stand alone Cabinet level department in 1979 when President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96-88, which split the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services.   Ever since, Republican candidates have vowed to dismantle the department. President Ronald Reagan tried but failed with an opposition-controlled Congress, while both Bush's preferred to keep it with modifications. Both of them were wrong. Here's why.

The ED is not only about helping the kiddy-poos. What was once the smallest Cabinet level department has grown into a powerful arm of the federal government. Most people believe that the ED concentrates its efforts on better education for the children and also believe that the increased funding sought by every Democrat in office is designed toward that end. Fact is, there is much more that ED requires funding for now that it has grown beyond its conceived purpose.

One of the expenses of the ED is guns. Yes, guns, as in the shotguns with fourteen inch barrels they purchased a year ago. The law enforcement arm of the ED -- the Office of Inspector General -- purchased twenty seven brand new Remington Brand Model 870 police 12-gauge shotguns. If you're thinking that the acquisition of such serious firepower is somewhat incongruous with a department dedicated to learning, pat yourself on the back and give yourself a hand.

According to a blog piece by Valerie Strauss in the March 11, 2010 edition of the Washington Post the Office of Inspector General responded to her inquiry into the purchase by referring to the following statement by the office:

“The Office of Inspector General is the law enforcement arm of the U.S. Department of Education and is responsible for the detection of waste, fraud, abuse, and other criminal activity involving Federal education funds, programs, and operations. As such, OIG operates with full statutory law enforcement authority, which includes conducting search warrants, making arrests, and carrying firearms. The acquisition of these firearms is necessary to replace older and mechanically malfunctioning firearms, and in compliance with Federal procurement requirements. For more information on OIG’s law enforcement authority, please visit their Web site at : www.ed.gov/oig” 

Okay, so we're now thinking, "what would the Education Department need with these guns"? Considering that the department is now President Barack Obama's, the question bears closer scrutiny, particularly when one recollects then-candidate Obama's notion of a "civilian security force" that would be just as powerful as the United States military.

On July 2, 2008, Senator Obama gave a campaign speech in Colorado Springs, CO. A quarter of an hour into the speech, he uttered these words:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." 

Ah, a clue then! What would the well-funded Education Department need with deadly weapons? Perhaps the answer lies in the recent story of a Stockton CA man who met those guns -- and the "educators" wielding them -- in his home at 6:00AM.

Kenneth Wright looked out his window one morning and saw fifteen uniformed officers on his lawn. According to the resident, the garb they wore caused him to think they were a S.W.A.T. team, although he had no criminal record and therefore no reason to expect that they would be concerned with him, so imagine his shock when, descending his stairs in his boxers to investigate, the officers kicked in his door and hauled him outside by the neck.

These "policemen" were not S.W.A.T. at all, but officers of the Office of Inspector General. They were seeking Kenneth Wright's estranged wife for delinquent student loan payments. Let's reiterate this; fifteen heavily armed and armored officers from the Education Department kicked in a citizen's door and forcibly removed him from his home. They cuffed the resident in his underwear, woke his young children (3,7,&11) and tossed them in a patrol car with their bound father and left them there for six hours while they searched the premises.

The perpetrator (Wright's wife) of their focus was not at the premises, and they never knocked to show the warrant. The worst aspect of the entire affair is not the tactics of the invasion team, however; the true travesty is the fact that the "crime" was delinquent loans, and that the offender was not even at the location.

Or maybe the true shock is that this operation was carried out by Barack Hussein Obama's Education Department. Is that segment of our federal government now the "just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" force to which Senator Obama alluded on the campaign trail?

To be fair, perhaps not. Yet.

But who would dare to oppose funding for "education"? It is a sanctuary program for a potentially nefarious cause. I have seen little or no mention of the Stockton incident, though, which gives me great pause when considering such a prospect as the ED becoming Obama's secret police force.

Something to ponder.

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The Gathering Storm

The Liberal Establishment Poised to Explode

Despite the best attempts by Hollywood elites to present themselves as the "mainstream" of America, it's never really been a big secret that the Land of Glitter is perhaps the biggest bastion of Liberal group-think on the planet. Oh sure, there is a large segment of the population that absorbs the messages emanating from the Left coast just as naturally as vegetation does sunlight, but cognizant people have always rolled their eyes even as they may have chuckled at a sitcom or two.

The denizens of Hollywood, both behind and in front of the camera, have carefully cultivated the perception that they are caring, intelligent people who want to help the world's downtrodden and less fortunate. A significant component of that image has been attained at the expense of Conservatives, who are usually cast as the cold, uncaring, greedy types. And despite the claims that they are so tolerant, Hollywood Liberals are anything but, although they will deny such an accusation publicly and unanimously.

With this in mind, the next three weeks should prove to be quite...entertaining, if you'll pardon the pun. Traditionally, Liberals have ruled the roost in the television industry, imposing their will on America while ostracizing any Conservative who dared to step onto the playing field. We've known this even while the perpetrators would never openly acknowledge it. Now they are about to be exposed, and in their own words.

Primetime Propaganda Author
Ben Shapiro

The author of a new book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV,  is poised to blow the cover off of the Liberal elite establishment, and its members are not likely to be very happy about it. Ben Shapiro, the book's author, interviewed television directors and producers on camera with their full knowledge that he was doing it, thus implying consent. Regardless, the subjects will no doubt claim that they were somehow "waylaid".

As part of his promotion for the book, Shapiro will be releasing various interview videos in the next three weeks, sometimes coinciding with events involving the targets of his subjects' ire. For example, the first video released was on Hannity last night, on which Shapiro was a guest. As you might have guessed, it involved a Hollywood Liberal attack on Sean Hannity.

Another video interview due to be released soon will accompany the release of Ann Coulter's new book on June 7th. Ms. Coulter is also a favorite target of the Left. As Shapiro said, "I have two people ripping her by name, so I’ll release those the day Ann’s book is released". Shapiro hammers home the point through the videos and in the book that Conservatives aren't welcome in Hollywood. Perhaps that is because they would never aid in the indoctrination of the viewing audience but would, rather, spoil the whole darned thing for the Liberals.

To listen to Susan Harris speak, there could be yet another reason that Conservatives are walled out of the inner circle of the entertainment industry. The creator of Soap and The Golden Girls, Harris thinks that Conservatives are "idiots" and have "medieval minds", a rather convenient position for someone who peddles excrement to the unthinking masses.

The Left has invested an enormous amount of time, patience and cunning in their insidious quest to transform the country that made it possible for them to destroy it, an irony too rich to be ignored. It began in the public school system, graduated to the university level, and professionalized in the modern media of the time; television. How fitting that Mr. Shapiro may succeed in using a more modern form of media to rip the tarps off before the project of Socialism is complete.

There are two predictable ways in which the stars of these videos will react. One is that they will utilize the tried and true tactic of merely chuckling while waving off the attempts of a "Conservative Neanderthal", which would play favorably with the Liberals' mind-numbed audience. The other is that they will come out with gale-force winds in an attempt to rip Shapiro to shreds. That is where the "entertainment" factor would come in to play, for the smooth veneer that Liberals often hide behind would offer suffer the effects of such a fury, thus revealing their true side.

I'm counting on option number two. I'd wager that Ben Shapiro is, as well.

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