The Peggster Finally Gets It

I have avoided posting/talking about/referencing Peggy Noonan for two years.  She fell for the Obama rhetoric like a bowling ball off a high-dive, labeling him a "gifted politician," and an "extraordinary intellect."  While she still hasn't come back in the fold, she is starting to realize that the Bamster is incompetent.  Her weekly column over at the Wall Street Journal titled "He Was Supposed to be Competent," brings her back with baby steps and is worth the read:

The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen. This is a terrible thing to see in a political figure, and a startling thing in one who won so handily and shrewdly in 2008. But he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with the center. The heart of the country is thinking each day about A, B and C, and he is thinking about X, Y and Z. They're in one reality, he's in another.

Work with me here, Peggy.  Why do you think he behaves this way?  We are supposed to have eliminated "stupid" from the option list a long time ago, so that can't be it.  Could it be that he has another agenda and he doesn't give a damn about the American people, the United States in general and certainly not our Constitution??  And why is it a "terrible thing?"  The American people, including you Ms. Noonan, were hoodwinked in 2008 - remember "hope and change" and the "sea levels falling?"  Those of us not seduced by the smooth as Essolube rhetoric kept asking the hard questions, that only now are people of your ilk starting to formulate:

• Who is this guy?
• What does he really believe, because when we look at his associations from Father Flager to Rev. Wright to Bill Ayers, there seems to be a disturbing pattern?
• What are his qualifications?  We do need qualifications don't we?  Does voting "present" most of your political career prove you are a good leader?

I could go on and on - go back into the Rumbler archives to the summer and fall of 2008 and you will see that folks like us were on the job.  She goes on:

In his news conference Thursday, President Obama made his position no better. He attempted to act out passionate engagement through the use of heightened language—"catastrophe," etc.—but repeatedly took refuge in factual minutiae. His staff probably thought this demonstrated his command of even the most obscure facts. Instead it made him seem like someone who won't see the big picture. The unspoken mantra in his head must have been, "I will not be defensive, I will not give them a resentful soundbite." But his strategic problem was that he'd already lost the battle. If the well was plugged tomorrow, the damage will already have been done.

I actually gagged through the news conference yesterday and swung between yelling at the screen and grabbing the trash can to vomit.  When he opened with the line about "we were in charge from the very beginning..." I knew the lie-fest was on. The White House should have just hung a sign over the teleprompter that read "It's not my fault."  Of course the blowout wasn't his fault, no sentient human being could suggest that...neither were 9/11 and Katrina Bush's fault.  Anyone with any appreciation of the complexity of the problem created by the blowout could imagine the President/Federal Government swooping in with a magic wand and making it all better.  It was his detachment and finger pointing that was sickening.  It's the vacations, fund-raisers and golf games that are pi..ing people off. He's a year and a half in power and he still, reflexively, blames Bush...amazing!

The disaster in the Gulf may well spell the political end of the president and his administration, and that is no cause for joy. It's not good to have a president in this position—weakened, polarizing and lacking broad public support—less than halfway through his term. That it is his fault is no comfort. It is not good for the stability of the world, or its safety, that the leader of "the indispensble nation" be so weakened. I never until the past 10 years understood the almost moral imperative that an American president maintain a high standing in the eyes of his countrymen.

I weep for the people of Louisiana and other affected Gulf states.  The marshes will die, thousands of jobs will be lost, and when the next big hurricane comes the barrier islands will not be able to protect cities like New Orleans, Gulfport and Mobile.  But I do not weep at all for the political end of this poser we have as President...he is "weakened" and he is definitely "polarizing," but he has served one extraordinary purpose in his short reign: he has awakened the American people to the reality that our freedom can easily be put in jeopardy.   In this he has been unifying.  I know a number of people who swooned and voted for the Bamster from whom the scales have fallen from their eyes and they see.  This tragedy in the Gulf and the immature response of Dear Leader have no doubt driven even more from their cult-like adoration of "the One."  This, Peggy, is how America works and if we have a crippled leader for a couple of years, we will overcome it.  Remember, it took the lowness of Jimmy Carter to get us Ronald Reagan.  Yes, the country will pay a price internationally - it already is - and I am not at all happy about that, but maybe, just maybe, this generation of Americans will learn that their vote matters and we should always place hard facts above wished-for utopias.

History Repeating Itself? Let Us Pray

May 27 is a great day in our nation's Constitution.  On this day in 1935, the Supreme Court of the United States in a ruling in the case of "Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. the United States" declared the "National Industrial Recovery Act" unconstitutional.  From Wikipedia:

The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), officially known as the Act of June 16, 1933 (Ch. 90, 48 Stat. 195, formerly codified at 15 U.S.C. sec. 703), was an American statute which authorized the President of the United States to regulate industry and permit cartels andmonopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery, and established a national public works program.^[1][2] The legislation was enacted in June 1933 during the Great Depression part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislative program. Section 7(a) of the bill, which protected collective bargaining rights for unions, proved contentious (especially in the Senate),^[1][3] but both chambers eventually passed the legislation and President Roosevelt signed the bill into law on June 16, 1933.^[1][4] The Act had two main sections (or "titles"). Title I was devoted to industrial recovery, and authorized the promulgation of industrial codes of fair competition, guaranteed trade union rights, permitted the regulation of working standards, and regulated the price of certain refined petroleum products and their transportation. Title II established the Public Works Administration, outlined the projects and funding opportunities it could engage in, and funded the Act.

The Act was implemented by the National Recovery Administration (NRA) and the Public Works Administration (PWA).^[2][5] Very large numbers of regulations were generated under the authority granted to the NRA by the Act,^[6][7] which led to a significant loss of political support for Roosevelt and the New Deal.^[2] The NIRA was set to expire in June 1935, but in a major constitutional ruling the U.S. Supreme Court held Title I of the Act unconstitutional on May 27, 1935, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935).^[2] The National Industrial Recovery Act is widely considered a policy failure, both in the 1930s and by historians today.^[1][8][9] Disputes over the reasons for this failure continue, however. Among the suggested causes are that the Act promoted economically harmful monopolies,^[6] that the Act lacked critical support from the business community,^[10] and that the Act was poorly administered.^[10][11] The Act encouraged union organizing, which led to significant labor unrest.^[12] The Act had no mechanisms for handling these problems, which led Congress to pass the National Labor Relations Act in 1935.^[13]

Great article this morning in the Wall Street Journal by Dan Danner, the head of the National Federation of Independent Businesses titled "ObamaCare vs. Small Business."  The same logic of poor administration, harmful policy, harmful to business that got NIRA overturned could well be the death knell of ObamaCare.  It is over-reaching, harmful to the creation of the very jobs that are needed to save the economy and it is unconstitutional.  Let us pray that this-

goes the way of this:

Great New Resource Being Launched

Blogger pal, Blue Collar Muse, and some other right-minded Tennesseans are launching a great new venture called "Tea Party HDTV."  From their press release:


TeaPartyHD is principally engaged in the development, production and worldwide distribution of news programs, television programs, television broadcasting, cable network programming, IPTV programs,  Internet TV and Mobile TV. The unit’s studios, production facilities and film and television library provide high-quality creative content while its broadcasting and cable networks provide extensive distribution platforms for the Company's programs. In 2010, TeaPartyHD bought TeaParty.TV, a company that began in 2007. TeaPartyHD has incorporated Tea Party TV assets and products into a robust offering for all tea lovers.


In the famous words of The Who, after Team Bamster's very effective 2008 campaign, conservatives are making sure we "don't get fooled again!"

Think These Might Be Related?

Well lookee here - we're officially over $13 TRILLION in debt!

Hmm, could it be that this big number (biggest spread yet) is related:

What our Boy President and his Congressional Juntistas don't realize is that the American people get it...they don't want to be in debt like this and they want the madness to stop.  Dan Heninger over at the Wall Street Journal really drives that home :



"Rightful rage at misgovernance."  Exactly.

They're Going to Have to Bail Them Out...

Hat Tip SP.

Oil Pollution Act of 1990

Mark Levin picked up on this yesterday...enough already with the Obama administration doing the Sergeant Schultz with the BP oil spill:




The Bamster and the Chicago Mob may not like it, but they ARE in charge...from the Federal Register's overview of the  Oil Pollution Act of 1990:

In addition, the OPA provided new requirements for contingency planning both by government and industry. The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) has been expanded in a three-tiered approach: the Federal government is required to direct all public and private response efforts for certain types of spill events; Area Committees -- composed of federal, state, and local government officials -- must develop detailed, location-specific Area Contingency Plans; and owners or operators of vessels and certain facilities that pose a serious threat to the environment must prepare their own Facility Response Plans.

The emphasis is mine, but it's pretty clear.  Levin has much more of this point on his site, but what is becoming glaringly obvious is that there is no one in this government right now that has a clue about how to handle a national emergency.  They are allowing BP to continue its efforts because they don't have any ideas nor do they have the management expertise to bring to bear to help solve the problem.  The nation is realizing that we have elected Toonces as our President:

Down, Down, Down

And it's not just the stock market:

Jimmy Carter is happy, very happy.