“The Fierce Urgency of Pork”

I don’t care what anyone in the press has to say about BO. I care what my government officials are doing to my country.

All of you who live in a state with a law that says, the major political party must vet its candidate for POTUS for Constitutional eligibility; or the nominee of the party “shall” be eligible for the office sought, need to file fraud complaints with your AG. Nancy Pelosi signed a Certification BO was eligible for the job. (See the FACTS in my military Complaint.) But no one made her prove this. And, BO’s Answer to Berg’s Hollister Complaint confirms what I proposed in that military Complaint, that is, his strongest ‘evidence’ he is eligible is his old employer, Annenberg Political Fact Check. And that organization is de-bunked in my military Complaint. So, what did NP use to verify he was Constitutionally eligible?

Do not let your state officials off the hook. We know the party cannot have determined BO is a NBC, since he isn’t. And, by the way, the assistance given to political parties to get their candidates onto our state ballots comes with a price. In most states, if the party fails to ‘run’ a candidate in the general election – and this means, since BO is not a NBC, he was not really a candidate – the party is not entitled to get the name of their candidate on the next general election ballot. Check out your state elections laws and, policies from your state elections officials.

(Meanwhile, I am still working on drafting a civil fraud Complaint against NP.)

I read that Krauthammer piece too (even though he’s full of bull much of the time) and thought the same things. Like Rev Wright said so insightfully during the campaign about Obama: “Hey, he’s just a politician.”

Oh, God help us–he is on the damn television again.I am so sick of seeing his lyin eyes and listening to the bs. Come on, American people, wake up. Turn away from Dr. Doom. He is trying to lead us right off a cliff. And, btw, are we paying for these annoying news conferences?

It’s not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for new construction for Milwaukee Public Schools, which, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, have shrinking enrollment, 15 vacant schools and, quite logically, no plans for new construction.

Damn you, Pelosi, how much of this ’shovel-ready’ spending is for building stuff we don’t freaking want or need? That is the weakest stimulus you could possibly come up with. You could burn that money in a furnace to heat the poor and it would almost be better than building something we don’t need.

Sure, you hire some construction workers, and make a construction company wildly, i.e. wastefully, profitable for several months, or however long they can drag it out. But in the end, the government building or bridge to nowhere that noone wanted DOESN’T GENERATE GDP OR TAX-REVENUE. Creating new government offices and jobs generates no new tax revenues.

If you’re going to spend it on gov’t stuff, how about some power plants? Construction jobs now, and both jobs and cheaper energy for decades to come! Oh, I know Obama can’t bring himself to push for any thing that might, possibly, hurt the environment, so all the most efficient stuff is out the window, like coal, nuclear, and natural gas. But how about SOLAR. I know a little wind power is in there, but crap, we have to totally redo our power-grid just to make wind power kind-of, sort-of feasible.

Here’s another thought. How about a big space project. The whole $800 bn or $1Tn goes to NASA and private corporations, and a whole crap-load of manufacturing and high-tech jobs get created as we 1) put a giant solar collector out at the LaGrange points, built from metal we smelted from moon rock at bases we build on the moon, 2) send mining ships out to the asteroids to bring back mass quantities of raw materials, 3) build solar-shades to put the whole global warming crap to rest once and for all. (If the global temperature stops going DOWN and finally starts back up again, AND we find that that is actually a bad thing at some point, THEN we just shade the polar regions a bit, ice caps grow, and the world cools, with the added benefit that if we SHOULD have been worrying about Global Cooling all along, we can WARM the world instead.) The sunshades could also be simultaneously used to direct light to large cities and ground-based solar collectors in the early evening, cutting down on nighttime energy use for lighting, and making Solar energy even more feasible.

That’s just some ideas to prove that, yeah, it IS possible to think outside the box, and that NO, our elected officials are NOT capable doing it.

I just received the following email from a friend in CA. I share it with you for what it’s worth.

Eliminating Unsavory Language

Years ago when I sometimes used unsavory language, I often used the expression “Bull Sh**.” As I grew up a bit and discovered it was not necessary to use such crude language, that expression became “BS.”

Q. What did I really mean when I used those expressions?

A. I meant that something was ridiculous, or idiotic or a half truth or just stupid. It covered any number or negative formats. The dictionary defines it as: nonsense; especially, foolish insolent talk.

I have decided that I no longer will use either of those expressions in the future. In the future when I have the need to express those feelings, I will use the word “Pelosi.”

Let me use it in a sentence. “That is just a bunch of Pelosi.”

I encourage you to do the same. It is such a good word. It really packs a punch. We are no longer being vulgar, but it clearly expresses our feelings. If enough of us use it, possibly we can get the word in the dictionary. And that would be an excellent legacy for the Speaker of the House.

I was ranting to a friend about the pork in this stimulus bill and mentioned the $75M program to help people stop smoking. My obot friend actually said “I think it’s a good idea because it’s so hard to stop smoking.” WTF?! Are people really so up this guy’s arse that they are afraid to think critically?

barry
Well, tell your friend that BO will take the whole 75 million for his smoking cessation program and still be on the WH balcony lighting up.

Thanks for posting this article. I have been passing it around to all the Kool Aid freaks. The best line is the last one? I thought it would take 6 months but it only took 2 weeks. HAHAHAHHAH. Can you say the
bloom is off the rose?

Great post Amy. I can’t believe that our blogs are the only places I’m hearing objections to this stimulus swindle. I don’t hear it from family, friends, or co-workers. It is like silence. I’ve been emailing and faxing my senators and have been outraged about it. My best friend and her husband actually think it is going to erace their taxes. How very sad!

Krauthammer is one of the failures in the MSM who ignored the fraud and encouraged the ‘hope’ and now he claims he was waiting for the glow to fade? Thanks for NOTHING, Chuck (even though you are correct this time).

Nice BS hatchet job on Obama. I would expect no less for you to quote Krauthammer, who has been wrong on about everything for the last 8 years and his politics have just about ruined the country.

1) Where is all the pork in the stimulus bill? Why don’t you tell us exactly what you consider pork? The $17 billion of items you listed in your previous post represented less than 2% of the overall bill and most of it is out now. Not sure if you could even consider most of it “pork”. Roads, bridges, highways, environment, broadband, etc. Is that pork? I guess you could say any government spending is pork. So if that is the case we should just get rid of the government and live in anarchy then?

2) It seems something has happened over the last three months. The economy has fallen off a cliff. We “Hoped” for a change and we got it. We got rid of Bush. However, he handed Obama a crap sandwich and an economy beginning a rapid downward spiral, as he left office. So there is a lot to fear and I would rather have Obama talking about this than a Bush which brushed any talk about a tough economy under the carpet. I think Bush said at one point the economy was doing well, just like McCain said. So I have no problem with Obama being honest about “catastrophe”. It does not contradict his message of change and hope.

3) The guy appointed a few former lobbyists. So what? Out of hundreds that does not sound like a big deal. The reality is that Obama has done more to try and reduce the influence of lobbyist than just about any former president. He took far fewer dollars and had far fewer former lobbyist working in his campaign than either Clinton or McCain. He also set up the strongest rules to ban lobbyist from the Whitehouse than any previous president. And his screening procedure is also the strictest of any before. So what if he gave out a few waviers? It proves that things in Washington are hard to change. At least he is moving in the right direction. Obama is a very fresh change on lobbying versus the Bush admin where the Energy lobbyists wrote Cheneys energy bill and where Abramoff contacted the Whitehouse more than 485 times. The lobbyist and the right-wing think tanks ran the Bush adminstration.

4) Lets give credit to Obama for actually throwing out Daschle once it become clear about his tax issues and potential lobbying. His screening procedure worked. As for Geitner, it could have been an honest mistake. Paying taxes in the job he was in was not obvious and many have made that same mistake. And it is refreshing to hear a president admit that he made a mistake in attempting to bring Daschle into the government.

5) The stimulus bill was not rammed through a Krauthammer infers. It went through the normal process. Congress wrote the first draft, with some actual Republican ideas like a tax cut, then it went to the Senate (senate often re-write bills) where the republicans had the opportunity to be involved. Obama tried to reach out in a bipartisan way like few other Presidents before on this bill, but the Republicans were too busy playing politics. In the end three republicans negotiated the final senate deal. Now the bill goes back and forth between congress and the senate before the president signs. So plenty more opportunity for debate. However, the republicans would rather see Obama fail than for the stimulus to succeed. Sounds like NQ.

Kruthammer says there is “little more than backscratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism…” in the bill? that is complete BS. Why doesn’t he give us some actual examples of this very extreme and BS view. Great he cherry-picks $150 mm for livestock. As I said before less than 2% of the bill are for items that have been disputed and cherry-picked. Not very geniune to complain about a $800 billion bill when you only got less than 2% to complain about and with most of that now out of the bill.

Sure he points out that lobbyist were lobbying, but so what, that is what they do? What is important is if anyone is listening to them! There is no evidence whatsoever that any lobbyist influenced any of the stimulus bill.

Krauthammer actually quotes a no existing comment from the budget office about funds flows in 2011. This is a complete lie. The CBO has said they never issues a report that suggests anything about the timing of the stimulus. Most of the funds will flow in the next 18 months with the 3-4 million of jobs to be created by the end of 2010.

6) This only reason we are even considering this stimulus bill is because of guys like Krauthammer. He and his politics had run this country and this economy into the ground. Without guys like Krauthammer and his influence we would not have had a stimulus in the first place.

Once again Amy you hope that the crapola is cut out of the bill. Where exactly is all this crapola? Please show me? You may point to a few things “you” think is crapola, but how much of the total package does that represent?

Here is a copy of the bill as original written.

http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/PressSummary01-15-09.pdf

Alot of stuff you may think is crapola is out. Show me the crapola and pet projects?

You just sound like you are just regurgitating the Republican talking points! Makes sense to do this, given your hatred for Obama and you wanting him to fail.