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TASK FOR INDEPENDENTS — DO NOT TRUST IVY LEAGUERS:
Ivy league Republicans (George Will , David Brooks , Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley, and Kathleen Parker and war cheering Democrats (led by Christopher Hitchens ) are acting out against Sarah Palin. Why?
Might war-cheering Democrats, in light of the financial meltdown brought on by excessive Big Government, now long for less international activity by the U.S.? Might ivy league Republicans, ruing Big Government, now prefer that Democrats be elected to suffer blame for mismanaging any recovery? Might ivy league Republicans also fear hints of common sense in Sarah Palin, as if she may dare to question blue blood Republican rationalizations of outrageously disproportionate allocations of wealth, nearing levels of Mexico? On social issues, might blue-blood, self-ingratiating Republicans be more aligned with far left Democrats?
If so, consider:
1) Is the threat of Islamofascist pursuit of nuclear dissemination substantial? If so, compare the costs of retreat.
2) Are ivy leaguers conditioned to “justify” their hiring out to help in the farming of all other Americans, as if we should be reduced to be satisfied with chicken feed? If so, why?
Bottom Line: Look behind the words of “elites;” consider who and what they work for and stand for; do not just assume their “educations” are grounded in fellow-empathy or in good judgment derivative of actual experience. Do not just assume their words are grounded in wisdom as opposed to shallow opportunism --- no matter what their political stripes!
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MCCAIN — Work-Out, Bail-Out, or Loan-To-Insure-Out:
Snippets from http://www.newsmax.com/morris/mccain_against_bailout/2008/09/29/135431.html:
McCain Should Not Support Bailout
Monday, September 29, 2008 10:05 AM
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
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The game is the same: Loans or grants fund the deficient debt service on the defaulted mortgages until homes can recover their value in the cyclical real estate market.
But it makes all the difference in the world politically if this task is accomplished by buying bad debt or by lending the bankers the money to cover their current losses while they keep their bad debts on their books and by insuring them against future losses.
Loans are politically viable. Purchase of bad debt with tax money is not.
The Democrats and our politically-challenged president have failed to appreciate the difference between spending and lending. Treasury Secretary Paulson can be excused for not realizing it. Politics is not his thing.
But John McCain must realize the crucial distinction and must use his leverage to stop a taxpayer-funded bailout, insisting instead on loans and insurance.
If McCain stands firm, the Democrats will either have to pass the bailout package on their own, without Republican votes, and rely on Bush's signature on the bill to provide a fig leaf of bipartisanship, or they will have to cave in and pass the Republican package.
Either way, McCain comes out ahead.
If he gets his way, he gets credit for the bailout. If he doesn't, he can spend the campaign attacking Obama and the Democrats for spending $700 billion of taxpayer money.
If the Democrats don't adopt either course and play a game of chicken with the Republicans, their congressional status as the majority party dooms them to taking the blame for any ensuing collapse.
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RESTORING RESPECT:
How Leftists Restore Respect: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/obamas_foreign_policy_appeasem.html.
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DIRECT CURES FOR ECONOMY:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/accounting_and_fdic_reform_bet.html:
Another direct fix for frozen credit markets would be an FDIC program to restore bank capital that has disappeared in the downward market spiral. Former FDIC Chairman William Isaac suggested last Saturday in a Washington Post op-ed that this could take the form of "net worth certificates" issued by the FDIC to troubled banks that need time to work out of their problems. This approach worked well in the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/10/021665.php:
There are a number of measures that can be taken to address the liquidity crisis; some already have been. Revision of the SEC's mark-to-market rule should help considerably to free up banks' lending capacities. Likewise, extension of the FDIC limit from $100,000 per account to $250,000 will help prevent runs on banks. Other relatively modest regulatory measures are no doubt available that will also make incremental contributions toward freeing up national and international credit markets.
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Liberal tolerance of dissent --- see: http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2008/11/11/liberal_censorship_and_its_roots.
10 comments:
The Real Thought Censors:
Someone needs to get Palin ready to slam this back at 'em, when she is asked at upcoming debates about her alleged library censorship:
See http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/you_tube_pulls_a_popular_antid.html:
Burning Down The House:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/you_tube_pulls_a_popular_antid.html
See http://www.breitbart.tv/html/184803.html.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6fuFrdCJY
"Burning down the house":
http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2008/09/28/easy-to-understand-video-explanation-of-what-and-who-caused-the-financial-meltdown-video-embed/
I found two videos on youtube. "democrats covering up fannie ........."
one from nakedemperornews and the other from themouthpeace
http://www.youtube.com/TheMouthPeace
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/watch-this-video-before-youtube-obamites-censor-it/.
Youth Vote:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/challenging-the-young-vote-to-come-of-age/:
John McCain is in a unique position to describe the duties and responsibilities of being a citizen in America and the pride that comes with honoring her founding principles. In urban areas at a minimum, few of the young have heard this call clearly made. For those seeking a direction and meaning for the rest of their lives, a call to seriousness might just be a siren’s song.
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“In the cold light of reality, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, and self-identity are not the most important things. Life and liberty, the love of family, freedom, security, and your fellow man are. Very little has been asked of you for the sake of your country and it is good that these gifts were able to be given to you by those who worked hard to make it so. But we are all moving along life’s unstoppable cycle and the time for you to step up and take your place has arrived.”
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Interesting comment by Dr. Mark:
Jeff, spare me the lib talking points. Your insistence on catastrophizing the current situation in the U.S. is typical of the left. The left has successfully (through liberal faculty)indoctrinated young folks like you into a form of pervasive negativism that blinds you to the true evils of socialism that will unfold with an Obama presidency. You should research how well regulation worked in the Soviet Union, not to mention the heavy handed gov’t interference with the mortgage industry. A couple of questions? What do YOU know about “true national securities”? You are parroting what every leftist poli-sci professor spews to his students. I like your use of the term “Masses”, right out of Marxist ideology. Hey, you forgot the proletariat and the bourgeois. Get a job, serve your country in uniform (as I have for 20 years), pay some taxes, raise 3 kids (two of them serving now)and then come back and tell us about the horrors of the last 8 years. You are another reason that full voting privileges should be extended only to property owners and those over 35.
MCCAIN — Work-Out, Bail-Out, or Loan-To-Insure-Out:
Snippets from http://www.newsmax.com/morris/mccain_against_bailout/2008/09/29/135431.html:
McCain Should Not Support Bailout
Monday, September 29, 2008 10:05 AM
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
....
The game is the same: Loans or grants fund the deficient debt service on the defaulted mortgages until homes can recover their value in the cyclical real estate market.
But it makes all the difference in the world politically if this task is accomplished by buying bad debt or by lending the bankers the money to cover their current losses while they keep their bad debts on their books and by insuring them against future losses.
Loans are politically viable. Purchase of bad debt with tax money is not.
The Democrats and our politically-challenged president have failed to appreciate the difference between spending and lending. Treasury Secretary Paulson can be excused for not realizing it. Politics is not his thing.
But John McCain must realize the crucial distinction and must use his leverage to stop a taxpayer-funded bailout, insisting instead on loans and insurance.
If McCain stands firm, the Democrats will either have to pass the bailout package on their own, without Republican votes, and rely on Bush's signature on the bill to provide a fig leaf of bipartisanship, or they will have to cave in and pass the Republican package.
Either way, McCain comes out ahead.
If he gets his way, he gets credit for the bailout. If he doesn't, he can spend the campaign attacking Obama and the Democrats for spending $700 billion of taxpayer money.
If the Democrats don't adopt either course and play a game of chicken with the Republicans, their congressional status as the majority party dooms them to taking the blame for any ensuing collapse.
COMMENT:
Even if Obama is defeated, his radical Alinsky cohorts are in place, everywhere.
Defeating them will take years.
Meantime, their media will hackle and grackle on.
Enjoy.
See http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?secid=1501&status=article&id=307579834298611&secure=1&show=1&rss=1.
MCCAIN:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/time_for_mccain_to_name_names.html:
When folks are this angry, there is hell to pay and "hell to pay" includes figuring out who to blame. For all of McCain's wanting to stay "above the fray" and his too-clever-by-half comment that now is not the time to assign blame, he is not hearing the public. It is indeed time to assign blame. With this kind of financial destruction on the part of most American families, someone is going to get blamed. You can count on it.
Let me repeat. Someone will get blamed. You will either enter that debate or you will lose that debate. Period.
See http://perotcharts.com/2008/09/emergency-financial-rescue-plan/.
See http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/bidens_big_lies_all_14_of_them.html.
See http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/NBC_profiles_obama_mccain/2008/10/02/136606.html?CFID=25287&CFTOKEN=56312077.
Reform: See http://sweetness-light.com/archive/bush-called-for-reform-17-times-in-2008.
ABANDONING MCCAIN-PALIN:
Snippets from http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/jumping-ship-2/:
October 12th, 2008
Jumping Ship…
Victor Davis Hanson
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Obama, as I have said ad nauseam, has brilliantly prepped the battlefield to such a degree that a Farrakhan endorsement or surrogates calling Palin a quasi-Nazi or a bimbo, or smearing McCain as near senile is irrelevant; yet one screamer in a crowd of tens of thousands is proof of McCain’s and Palin’s racism and hatred.
Again, most conservatives know this paradox, but for some being outraged, as the conservative voice of reason, at McCain’s supposed low road ensures a CNN spot, or some future rehabilitation during the expected Obama regnum of the next eight years. I think should I write a column suddenly taking the “high road”, praising Obama’s wit, taste in books, and metrosexuality, I would be dubbed principled rather than cynical, ‘even-handed’ rather than self-serving, and a maverick rather than toadish.
Yet for a self-acclaimed conservative to vote Obama would mean that higher taxes, larger government, more entitlements, more of a UN-centered foreign policy, dialogue with an Iran, less coal,oil, and nuclear energy production at home, more “oppression” studies and “reparations”, leftish Supreme Court judges, open borders (I could go on) were the truly conservative positions, or perhaps suddenly truly the ‘right’ positions. And as far as ethics go, in fact, a cursory review of the past Obama campaigns would reveal a ruthlessness never seen in any of McCain’s efforts. Obama’s record is far more left than McCain’s is far right. Obama the healer has proven to be the most partisan in the Senate, McCain one of the most bipartisan.
Yet to believe that truth would be–if we remember that scene in Tolkien’s The Two Towers--to trust the grating harsh voice of Gandalf detailing the dangers of Saruman rather than the mellifluous charm of the latter who in soothing tones outlines his own victimhood.
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