Take Away Their Bullet

... before they shoot themselves in the foot-- again

Anyone who remembers the days of the old Andy Griffin show will certainly remember Barney Fife, the bumbling deputy to Sheriff Andy, who had to carry his  bullet in his shirt pocket and any time he would load his gun he managed to shoot a hole in something but not usually what needed shooting.  Barney would then have to surrender his gun and any bullet that he may have retained for "good measure".

Looks like the newly elected Republican Congress needs to have their bullets taken away from them 'cause they done been shootin' holes where they don't need to be a shootin'.


The new Republican Congress took their seats today in essences with gavels being exchanged between Nancy Pelosi, who has no regrets(more on that another day) and Bohner (Mr. Sobs and Tears) but what will they do tomorrow and the next day, etc, etc.  That is  a BIG question.

Given the lack of leadership shown either in the House or the Senate(Mitch McConnell (K) and the actions taken during the Lame Duck Session it is not boding well for those who had such high expectations. In fact here is what today's Rasmussen Poll had to say:

The new Congress, with Republicans in control of the House, isn’t even seated yet, and voters are already expressing more likely disappointment than they did around Election Day.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of Likely U.S. Voters – two-out-of-three – think it is at least somewhat likely that most voters will be disappointed with Republicans in Congress before the 2012 elections. This includes 37% who say it is Very Likely.

Only 25% believe most voters will not be disappointed in the congressional GOP when the next national elections roll around, but just five percent (5%) say it’s Not At All Likely. 

At the beginning of November when a GOP takeover of the House on Election Day appeared inevitable, 59% of voters said it was likely most voters would be disappointed with Republicans in Congress by 2012, with 38% who felt it was Very Likely.

The newly elected Freshmen, who indeed are acting like Freshmen with their lack of decorum and unwise choice of a time to PARTY has only given the Lame Stream Media and the Democrats a HUGE CLUB to begin the beating about the head and shoulders with for the next 24 months.

“If incoming GOP freshmen were hoping to bring fiscal responsibility and ‘family values’ to Washington, they may have gotten off to an interesting start,” conservative blogger Matt Lewis noted,  citing the event’s steep ticket prices, as well as Rimes’s confessed extramarital affair and her recent appearance in a “Sexy Santa” outfit at a gay men’s chorus Christmas performance.

But the grumbling doesn’t seem to have dampened the enthusiasm of the man behind the event — incoming Rep. Jeff Denham of California — for becoming a rainmaker for the 87-member GOP freshman class.

I am not sure what kind of rainmaker Denham is suppose to be but raining on  your own parade and spoiling the party for everyone else ain't what one wants to do. The "liberal smog" from the left coast perhaps has effected his mind for he certainly is not acting like a conservative in the true sense of the word. But that is no excuse.

 Here is a list of those confirmed who will attened. Please notice if anyone from your state is taking part in this fiasco. The Sunlight Foundation's "Party Time" site confirms, the list of all the participating members-elect includes:

Jeff Denham, R-Calif.
Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn. (Tea Party)
Robert Dold, R-Ill. (Tea Party)
Renee Ellmers, R-N.C. (Tea Party)
Jeff Landry, R-La. (Tea Party)
Tom Marino, R-Pa.
Tom Reed, R-N.Y.
David Rivera, R-Fla.
Jon Runyan, R-N.J.
Steve Southerland, R-Fla. (Tea Party)
Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind. (Tea Party)
Kevin Yoder. R-Kan.

 Then there is the newly elected David Rivera with a cloud hanging over his head prior to election now comes aboard to really give the LSM and the Democrats something to cheer and point to MORE OF THE SAME AS FOUR YEARS AGO and they are going to have a hey- day with this one.

David Rivera of Florida. A magnet for bizarre accusations, he is already under investigation by Miami-Dade prosecutors for a $500,000 contract he negotiated and helped carry out for his godmother's marketing firm. He claims he received no money for it. Rivera created tremendous ambiguity over his personal income and work history during the campaign that has never been clarified. At one point, he claimed to have worked for USAID, which the agency denied.

He now admits to the mess.

Incoming Congressman David Rivera has admitted receiving $137,000 in undisclosed loans from a company co-owned by his mother -- a company now under criminal investigation over secret payments from the Flagler Dog Track during its campaign to bring slot machines to Miami-Dade pari-mutuels.

Rivera, a Republican from Miami, had never previously disclosed any loans from Millennium in financial statements filed as a congressional candidate, or during his prior tenure in the Florida legislature.

Question is--How did he get a pass on this?  Another HUGE CLUB to be used by the Dems and the LSM!

Cal Thomas recently wrote:

"The lapdog big media will predictably question everything the new Republican House attempts to do, characterizing it as 'insensitive,' pro-rich and even inhuman. They will be helped by unions, which will stage demonstrations against any program cuts or attempts to reduce the size and reach of government. ... As Byron York correctly noted in The Washington Examiner, Democrats will again cry 'Washington is broken' after Republicans take control of the House and improve their numbers in the Senate. To them, Washington 'works' only when it is passing bills authored by Democrats that cost and tax more, while expanding the size and reach of government. Washington is 'broken' when Republicans say 'no' to more dependence on government and yes to liberty, opportunity and personal responsibility. The message from the November election was about ending Obamism, not expanding it. You wouldn't know that from the drooling big media, which is already trying to re-establish the liberal narrative that everything Democrats do is good and everything Republicans do is evil."

And now they have all of the above to use against the Republicans and use it they will to draw away from the underhanded shenanigans that they are sure to continue to try to pull as well as those already pulled.



It is not a very good start, is it?

A Re-Do on Why Oil Is So High

With the price of gasoline rising daily across the country as well as heating oil and other oil products I decided to dust off one of my old blog post from June of 2008.  It seems that the same question continues to be asked regardless of the year or years and that is, Why is oil so high?  In January of 2008 the cost was $84.70, the highest in history, with the record high of $126 a barrel coming in June and July of that year as shown in the post. You can see how the cost has risen from the early 70's here.  The answer remains the same as it has since the 70's.

My friend Mustang on his blog, Social Senses ,makes some astute observations as well on this same subject.Oil Prices Set to Escalate   Take time to read both articles then decide if anything has changed.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Why Oil is So High

I received an e-mail from a friend yesterday about why the price of oil is so high and how this has been allowed to happen. (Regardless of the validity of the e-mail it remains food for thought.) I then ran across a headline this morning saying that the price of oil is now $126 a barrel, and the dollar grows weaker.

The Europeans are preparing to raise interest rates later this year, and this sends the dollar falling even more. Of course, the price of gasoline and oil are rising all over the world as the demand from China and India grows at unprecedented rates.

We were warned of this trend in the 70s, but our Congress has yet to act in a positive manner. They have postured and finger pointed while allowing the environmentalists to control our future through lawsuits to stop drilling; expansion of oil refineries; development of alternate fuels, especially nuclear, which is the cleanest and the most proven of all the other alternatives, including wind.

I know some will want to jump on wind being cleaner, and while that may be true, it is still unproven and requires more land resources and can be harmful to migratory birds. Alas, the enviro-nuts will not admit to this while touting wind as the wave of the future.

Some areas of the country are not suited to wind at all, as we are here in Texas and other parts of the west, but all areas are suited for nuclear power plants. Europe has proven their reliability for many years now, but our government drags their feet in allowing the expansion of this safe and clean source of power, all in the name of political expedience. Some will disagree, but I will be waiting for them to present a more proven alternative. We have wasted enough time. It is now time to build the reactors that will provide the power for America’s growth.

It is time to drill and to develop the shale resources into oil as well, instead of being held hostage by terrorists.(and now our Leadership in the WH) Terrorists held our Embassy people hostage beginning in November 1979, and America has been held hostage to their oil production since that era. It is time to break the hostage situation by declaring war on the lack of initiative by our government in development of alternative fuels other than the ridiculous grain-based Ethanol that is so loved by the enviro-terrorists, and demanding that drilling begin yesterday in areas where we have known oil deposits.

Now read the e-mail that I received and see if it does not speak volumes of truth.
Our country has all of the resources we need if we were smart enough to use them.

(HatTip to classmate and friend Chuck Jones for the e-mail)
Subject: Think about it
 
The OPEC minister will look you in the eyes and state: 

"We are at war with you infidels. Have been since

the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you

haven't even recognized it. You have more missiles,

bombs, and technology; so we are fighting with the

best weapon we have and extracting on a net basis

about $700 billion/year out of your economy. We will

destroy you! Death to the infidels!

While I am here I would like to thank you for the

following: Not developing your 250- to 300-year supply of oil

shale and tarsands. We know that if you did this, it

would create millions of jobs for US citizens,

expand your engineering capabilities, and keep the

wealth in the US instead of sending it to us to

finance our war against you bastards.
 
Thanks for limiting defense dept. purchases of

oilsands from your neighbors to the north. We love

it when you confuse your allies.
 
Thanks for over-regulating every segment of your

economy and thus delaying, by decades, the

development of alternate fuel technologies.
 
Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in

Alaska, and anywhere there is a bug, bird, fish, or

plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your

people suffer! Glad to see our lobbying efforts have

been so effective.
 
Corn-based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham

program! Perhaps you will destroy yourself from the

inside with these types of policies. This is a gift

from Allah, praise his name! We never would have

thought of this one! This is better than when you

pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Have them use

more energy to create less energy, and

simultaneously drive food prices through the roof.

Thank you US Congress!!!!
 
And finally, we appreciate you letting us fleece

you without end. You will be glad to know we have

been accumulating shares in your banks, real estate,

and publicly-held companies. We also finance a good

portion of your debt and now manipulate your

markets, currency, and economies to our benefit.


THANK YOU AMERICA!"

Oh Say Can You See?

               Oh Say Can You See By The Dawns Early Light


As we come into a new year I am sure that we all understand that there is much work to be done to preserve and restore our country.

After all that has happened we should be able to appreciate how Francis Scott Key must have felt as he watched and then penned the words to what would become our National Anthem. Indeed we have endured the attack on our nation but as the song says, Our flag is still there. Our country still stands, battered and torn but she still stands. Now it's time to get to work with even more determination.

It would appear that we have found our voice once again as evidenced by the 2010 elections but we must not celebrate too early.  At this point there is no real leadership within the Republican Party or frankly within the Tea Party. 

It is time for leadership to step up and in fact they should have already stood up and started banging the Left for the debacle of the Lame Duck Congress. 

The Left used this time as an opportunity to cram through some of the most radical and worst of Obama's agenda with barely a squeak from the leadership of the Right. Oh , there was a little noise, some tears and snot slinging by the new leader of the House but for the most part it was quite-- to quite folks. There should have been fireworks going off that would have sounded like the roar of cannons.

Waiting until January to begin was what the Left was hoping would happen. The parts of the radical legislation that they could not cram through, such as Crap and Tax, has been handed off to the EPA and other agencies with only threats and promises made by the leadership of the Right to stop it in January, as soon as they are seated.

Once the regulations are in place it's too late, the damage will have already been done.

So don't begin the celebration just yet my friends, there's still much work to do and if we do not insist that those we elected in November of 2010 do their job then we will deserve the mess we get dropped on us by the Left.

 So as not to sound too dour, we can allow ourselves a bit of celebration in the fact that many of those who needed to be removed from the Left and the Right are now packing their bags for early retirement.

We can celebrate perhaps that a number of those on the Left are abandoning the Leftist ship but neither of these events guarantee the Right a shoo in victory in 2012. Only "We The People" can do that.

Let's get to work by telling our friends and family that our flag still waves and will continue to do so only if we end the bombardment of Marxism from the Left.