Tuesday, Janauary 13, 2009

Today’s top Political News:

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warns a fiscal stimulus won’t be enough to spur economic recovery and the government may need to buy or guarantee banks’ tainted assets to revive growth.

“Fiscal actions are unlikely to promote a lasting recovery unless they are accompanied by strong measures to further stabilize and strengthen the financial system,” Bernanke says

Bernanke’s remarks indicate he may be seeking to influence deliberations among lawmakers and President-elect Barack Obama’s economic aides on how to deploy the next $350 billion of the financial-rescue fund approved in October.

 While some Democrats have focused on offering aid to troubled homeowners, the Fed chief’s comments show he’s more concerned about a continued choking off of credit to companies and households.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ab2o7GekQXwo&refer=worldwide

Secretary of State appointee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband's foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found.

The overlap of names on former President Bill Clinton's foundation donor list and business interests whose issues she championed raises new questions about potential ethics conflicts between her official actions and her husband's fundraising.

Clinton began her confirmation hearing Today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Under an agreement with President-elect Barack Obama, Bill Clinton recently released the names of donors to his foundation, a nonprofit that has raised at least $492 million — including millions from foreign governments — to fund his library in Little Rock, Ark.

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/clinton_letters___dollars

The head of the Alabama NAACP demands Mobile's Azalea Trail Maids to stay home on Inauguration Day, claiming the group reminds him of slavery.

"These are not just regular costumes.  These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind," Edward Vaughn said in a phone interview.

Vaughn went on to say the group would be the laughing stock of the Inauguration.  County leaders say nothing could be further from the truth.

Organizers stand behind the tradition, but opponents say tradition is the problem. We needed something that could show Alabama's great progress rather than something that shows a shameful past," Vaughn said.

Does Obama’s presidency open wide a door to a new era of virulent racism and racial hatrerd?

http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9655036&nav=menu33_2

Opinion:
From someone who says he is a law student today.

Given the leanings of the legal fraternity in general, and groups such as the Trial Lawyers in particular, we have seen a sad spectacle of this vital element of our society corrupted – but then we’ve also seen other vital elements such as academia and our media being likewise corrupted.

We are also told our young people are receiving steady doses of left wing crapola in schools and universities.   However, as my college-aged son points out, a significant group of his peers remain conservative, and remain patriotic and devoted to those values that have made our country great and have protected liberty and freedom for millions for generations.

It is especially reassuring, then, to see in his own words, the feelings, reflections, and understanding of our young expressing an attitude we all share.

I thus surrender the microphone:

Buddy

A Modest Proposal

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce.  I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course.  Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right, so let's just end it on friendly terms.   We can smile; slate it up to irreconcilable differences, and go on our own ways.

Here is a model dissolution agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. 
 
After that it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.  We don?t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.  You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell (you are however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move them).

We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies, and illegal aliens.   We'll keep the hot Alaskan Hockey Moms, greedy CEO's, and Rednecks.  We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

You can make nice with Iran, Palestine, and France, and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protestors. When our allies or way of life are under assault, we'll provide them job security.

We'll keep our Judeo-Christian Values..  You are welcome to Islam,20Scientology, Humanism, and Shirley McClain. You can have the U.N. But we will no longer be paying the bill. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars.  You can take every Subaru Station Wagon you can find.

You can give everyone healthcare, if you can find any Doctors (who are practicing,) Howard Dean) who will follow to your turf (sic).
We?ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.

We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem.  I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach  The World To Sing, Kum Ba Ya, or We Are the World.

We'll practice trickle down economics, and you can give trickle up poverty its best shot.

Since it often so offends you we'll keep our History, our Name, and our Flag.

Would you agree to this? If so please pass it along to other likeminded patriots, and if you do not agree just hit delete and hang on.

In the spirit of friendly parting, I?ll bet you ANWAR on who will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,

John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
 
P.S.  please take Barbra Streisand...and Jane Fonda…and Susan Sarandon…and Madonna…well you know all of them…time and space do not allow me to list all of them. 

Today’s top blogs:

1.

David Bonior, intellectual midget, and Obama's economic freak show

David Bonier* is a former Congressman from Michigan who is Barack Obama' chief economic adviser. Before the 2008 election, Bonier was best known for his controversial and well nigh treasonous trip to visit Saddam Hussein on the Iraqi intelligence service's expense account.

Put simply, Bonier is an ideological buffoon whose intelligence was overshadowed, for a time, by Anna Nicole Smith. Consider his support of "reparations payments" (apparently the 700,000 Union dead in the Civil War constituted only the down payment).

Or his repeated support of the Marriage Tax Penalty, which is statistically proven to increase single-parent families and crime.

And he staunchly opposes school vouchers despite demonstrated success around the country.

2.

Former Pentagon Chief Perry: Iran Crisis Soon

William Perry, who headed the Pentagon during a 1994 nuclear standoff with North Korea, predicted on Thursday that President-elect Barack Obama will soon face a nuclear crisis with Iran.

Iran is "moving inexorably toward becoming a nuclear power," with ominous implications for the Middle East, Perry said.

"It seems clear that Israel will not sit by idle while Iran takes the final steps toward becoming a nuclear power," Perry told a conference on foreign policy challenges facing the incoming Obama

dministration. The former Clinton administration defense secretary held out hope that more vigorous U.S. and international diplomacy could reverse North Korea's nuclear weapons program. But he was less confident about stopping Iran's ambitions.

"President Obama will almost certainly face a serious crisis with Iran," Perry said. "Indeed, I believe the crisis point will be reached in his first year in office. So on the nuclear front, President Obama will face a daunting set of problems, none of which can be solved unilaterally."

3.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/print/

Obama climate czar has socialist ties
Stephen Dinan (Contact)

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

By Thursday, Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available.
Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world's social democratic political parties such as Britain's Labor Party, says it supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies.

The group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization's action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce consumption and commit to binding and punitive limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr. Obama, who has said action on climate change would be a priority in his administration, tapped Mrs. Browner last month to fill a new position as White House coordinator of climate and energy policies. The appointment does not need Senate confirmation.

Mr. Obama's transition team said Mrs. Browner's membership in the organization is not a problem and that it brings experience in U.S. policymaking to her new role.

4.

Obama's Conflicting Goals
 David Limbaugh

President-elect Barack Obama's enormous stimulus package would be scary enough without learning the details. To inject the same staggering amount of government-created or borrowed money into the economy as has already been spent or set aside for the government bailout when there's no proof it will jump-start our economy and no thought given to how we're going to recoup this money is madness. But when you hear some of the uses he has for this money, it is way beyond madness.

Let's put aside for a moment our valid objections to the Keynesian idea that the government can create prosperity simply by printing and distributing money as if it were "Monopoly" money. If that were true, the only limit to our sustained prosperity would be the amounts of paper and ink we could produce.

Let's also put aside the enormity of the liberal hypocrisy of railing against deficit spending for the past eight years, as Obama stands blissfully poised to dwarf those records.

http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2009/01/13/obamas_conflicting_goals

Now for the details:

1.

David Bonior, intellectual midget, and Obama's economic freak show

David Bonier* is a former Congressman from Michigan who is Barack Obama' chief economic adviser. Before the 2008 election, Bonier was best known for his controversial and well nigh treasonous trip to visit Saddam Hussein on the Iraqi intelligence service's expense account.

Put simply, Bonier is an ideological buffoon whose intelligence was overshadowed, for a time, by Anna Nicole Smith. Consider his support of "reparations payments" (apparently the 700,000 Union dead in the Civil War constituted only the down payment).

Or his repeated support of the Marriage Tax Penalty, which is statistically proven to increase single-parent families and crime.

And he staunchly opposes school vouchers despite demonstrated success around the country.

Bonior's genius was on display this morning on Meet the Press, wherein he spent his scant on-air seconds hawking the most ludicrous and ruinous strategies that today's Left has to offer using a breathless imitation of Billy Mays.

David Bonior: Well, from my perspective we’ve got to get a hold of this inequality we have in this country today on, on wages and income, and this Bush tax cut piece is a, is a big part of that. The top–over the last 20 years, the top 10 percent took 90 percent of the income gains in this–in the country. And the top 1 percent took roughly 60 percent. And the top 1/10th of 1 percent took 35 percent of that. I mean, it’s skewed the wrong way. And what we need to do is focus in on not only monetary policy and fiscal policy, as we have talked this morning, but we’ve also got to talk about where we want to end up.

Gee, I thought it was a good thing to have super-rich guys like, say, Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft. Microsoft employs roughly 100,000 people around the world, helped create millions of jobs, and whose efforts helped manufacture literally tens of thousands of millionaires.

Or Larry Ellison (Oracle), Larry Page (Google), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Kevin Rose (Digg), John Chambers (Cisco), Pierre Omidyar (eBay), Craig McCaw (McCaw Cellular), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Ted Waitt (Gateway), or any number of other entrepeneurs who risked everything to start companies that produced hundreds of billions in revenue, millions of jobs, and entire new industries. All since the Reagan revolution, mind you.

Say, Bonier, if you heavily tax all of those highly successful people, I wonder whether they'll still be able to invest in new ventures that might, for example, turn into the next mega-employer like Microsoft?

But that would require understanding a difficult concept called "Economic Mobility." It's a complicated subject, Bonier. It requires that you you understand America, where those at the bottom of the economic ladder can climb into the middle and often, the upper, classes with amazing rapidity.

And it requires that you read a 2007 Treasury Department study, which shows income mobility in the U.S. works down as well as up; and that mobility over the last decade is more vibrant than ever.

But I suppose that's all to difficult for Bonier to understand. Just believe government can do it better, peons!

Like creating "green collar jobs" (whatever the hell those are) and other big government programs bound to be just as successful as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, "The War on Poverty", and the hundreds of other "progressive" programs that have left our children with $54 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

And that's before the Democrats socialize medicine.

Like "make work" infrastructure projects destined to emulate Boston's Big Dig and other multi-billion dollar boondoggles.

Bonier is a blinkered ideologue -- with an extremely low IQ -- who uses meaningless "inequality" statistics as a means of reducing opportunity and increasing poverty.

Let's go back to the videotape:

MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.

REP. BONIOR: And the way we end up with helping actually people is to give them the chance to bargain collectively at the table. With 7 percent unionization in this country, you’re not going to get the dispersion that you need. We were successful in this country–after the second World War, the three most profitable decades for working people. Shared prosperity occurred after the second World War because unionization was at 35 percent. The Employee Free Choice Act is an important piece of legislation that President-elect Obama and Biden support, the Congress support, 60 percent of the American people support, and that will help share in the benefits and the bounties of the country.

I'm speechless. So, Bonier believes that the post-World War II economy thrived not because of Eisenhower's "Dynamic Conservatism" -- which emphasized reduced federal spending, balanced the budget, ended wage and price controls, and lowered farm subsidies -- but because of Union membership.

Yes, those would be the same Unions led by officials who've helped bankrupt the automobile companies. And have a troubling history of ties to organized crime. And have fought numerous successful efforts at implementing meritocracies (such as Charter Schools).

On the talk show circuit, Barack Obama demands "sacrifice from every American."

Sacrifice for everyone except government bureaucrats, that is.

Heaven forbid someone ask Government to downsize, to allow citizens to keep more of their earnings, or to incent investment. But those concepts are above David "Dumb-as-a-Rock" Bonier's pay-grade.

What a freak show.

Update: Melissa was depressed by Bonior's pathetic diatribe.

When pronouncing Bonier's name, the i is silent.

2.

Former Pentagon Chief Perry: Iran Crisis Soon

William Perry, who headed the Pentagon during a 1994 nuclear standoff with North Korea, predicted on Thursday that President-elect Barack Obama will soon face a nuclear crisis with Iran.
Iran is "moving inexorably toward becoming a nuclear power," with ominous implications for the Middle East, Perry said.

"It seems clear that Israel will not sit by idle while Iran takes the final steps toward becoming a nuclear power," Perry told a conference on foreign policy challenges facing the incoming Obama administration. The former Clinton administration defense secretary held out hope that more vigorous U.S. and international diplomacy could reverse North Korea's nuclear weapons program. But he was less confident about stopping Iran's ambitions.

"President Obama will almost certainly face a serious crisis with Iran," Perry said. "Indeed, I believe the crisis point will be reached in his first year in office. So on the nuclear front, President Obama will face a daunting set of problems, none of which can be solved unilaterally."

Iran denies that its nuclear program is intended to build weapons. The Bush administration, while dismissing Iran's claims of pursuing only peaceful uses of nuclear power, declined to negotiate directly with Iran.

Obama has said he favors "tough and direct diplomacy with Iran without preconditions," and that his administration, working with allies, will seek a comprehensive settlement with Iran to end its nuclear ambitions.

Perry was Pentagon chief when the U.S. negotiated a "framework agreement" with North Korea that froze its nuclear weapons program. In exchange, the U.S., Japan and South Korea agreed to provide the North with two reactors that would produce electricity but pose a lesser risk of nuclear proliferation. Perry has said the U.S. came close to a military conflict with North Korea before the deal.

The agreement came undone during the Bush administration; North Korea now claims to have a nuclear arsenal.

Perry is a mathematician and engineer who played a role in both government and industry in developing nuclear-capable weaponry during the Cold War. He issued a passionate warning about the dangers of failing to reverse the spread of nuclear weapons capability.

"If North Korea and Iran cannot be contained, we face the real danger of a cascade of proliferation" of nuclear armed-states, he said. "Indeed, I believe that today we are clearly at the tipping point of nuclear proliferation. And if the world does tip, it will be irreversible and dangerous beyond the imagination of most people."

Perry is chairman of a bipartisan commission created by Congress to study an array of strategic issues including the future of U.S. nuclear weapons. In its interim report to Congress last month, the panel asserted that the spread of nuclear weapons to North Korea and other countries raises the danger that a terrorist group eventually could get its hands on a nuclear weapon and use it against the United States.

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3.

Obama climate czar has socialist ties
Stephen Dinan (Contact)

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

By Thursday, Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available.
Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world's social democratic political parties such as Britain's Labor Party, says it supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies.

The group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization's action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce consumption and commit to binding and punitive limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr. Obama, who has said action on climate change would be a priority in his administration, tapped Mrs. Browner last month to fill a new position as White House coordinator of climate and energy policies. The appointment does not need Senate confirmation.

Mr. Obama's transition team said Mrs. Browner's membership in the organization is not a problem and that it brings experience in U.S. policymaking to her new role.

"The Commission for a Sustainable World Society includes world leaders from a variety of political parties, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who succeeded Tony Blair, in serving as vice president of the convening organization," Obama transition spokesman Nick Shapiro said.
"Carol Browner was chosen to help the president-elect coordinate energy and climate policy because she understands that our efforts to create jobs, achieve energy security and combat climate change demand integration among different agencies; cooperation between federal, state and local governments; and partnership with the private sector," Mr. Shapiro said in an e-mail.

Mrs. Browner ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President Clinton. Until she was tapped for the Obama administration, she was on the board of directors for the National Audubon Society, the League of Conservation Voters, the Center for American Progress and former Vice President Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection.

Her name has been removed from the Gore organization's Web site list of directors, and the Audubon Society issued a press release about her departure from that organization.

Republicans said Mrs. Browner's work with Socialist International raises questions.

"Does she agree with the group's positions on global governance - that the United States should abdicate its international leadership to international organizations? Does she support its position that the international community should be the ultimate arbiter of climate change policy?" said Antonia Ferrier, a spokeswoman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican.

"These are questions that merit answers - especially when you consider this group's deep skepticism about America's ability to be a force for positive change in the world," she said.

An aide on the Obama team said its information shows that Mrs. Browner resigned from the organization in June 2008. The aide, who asked not to be named because he was discussing internal matters, said the transition team was aware she had been a member of the group when she was vetted.

The Socialist International Web site didn't have a copy of her June 30 speech, but the agenda for the meeting had her scheduled to speak as part of a panel on "How do we strengthen the multilateral architecture for a sustainable future?"

Other panel participants were Sergey Mironov, speaker of the Russian legislature's upper chamber and a close ally of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin; Zhang Zhijun, vice minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee; and Jesus Caldera, a former Minister of Employment and Social Affairs of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

A woman answering the phone at Socialist International's headquarters in London said all officers were traveling.

Nobody from the organization returned a message left Friday.

Socialist International bills itself as the world body of democratic socialist movements. It includes members ranging from Israel's Labor Party and France's Socialist Party to Angola's MPLA, which won the 1970s Angolan civil war with the aid of Soviet arms and Cuban troops.

The organization distinguishes itself from violent or revolutionary communist parties. However, some such groups, including the Chinese Communist Party, have been invited to its events as guest organizations.

The Democratic Socialists of America, not the Democratic Party, is listed as the group's U.S. representative. But Mrs. Browner was listed as an individual member of Socialist International, but not a member of the DSA.

While agreeing with Mr. Obama on the need for action to address climate change, the organization wants more draconian policies than the president-elect's preferred solution.

During the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama called for a cap-and-trade system to control carbon emissions. He argued that such a system is efficient and lets the free market determine where it's easiest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Socialist International says such "flexible mechanisms" do not clamp down hard enough on polluters.
The organization often takes a decidedly critical view of the U.S.

At this summer's meeting, the group issued a statement on economics that blasted the "neo-liberal market ideology and the unilateralist, U.S.-dominated approach in the global economic system," and attacked the U.S. for dominating international financial institutions.

At its meeting earlier in 2008 in Santiago, Chile, Socialist International endorsed "global governance" as the solution to the world's problems of peace and climate change.

At a July meeting in St. Petersburg, the commission said developed countries "should think of decreasing current consumption levels" - which would mean shrinking their economies - in order to help the environment.

Socialist International regularly blasts the construction of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. The fence was approved by both houses of Congress, including with Mr. Obama's vote in the Senate.
Socialist International was congratulatory when Mr. Obama won the election, issuing a statement noting that "the sky may seem a bit brighter today" but warning still that "there are enormous global challenges that must be addressed effectively and without delay."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/print/

4. 
 
Obama's Conflicting Goals
 David Limbaugh

President-elect Barack Obama's enormous stimulus package would be scary enough without learning the details. To inject the same staggering amount of government-created or borrowed money into the economy as has already been spent or set aside for the government bailout when there's no proof it will jump-start our economy and no thought given to how we're going to recoup this money is madness. But when you hear some of the uses he has for this money, it is way beyond madness.

Let's put aside for a moment our valid objections to the Keynesian idea that the government can create prosperity simply by printing and distributing money as if it were "Monopoly" money. If that were true, the only limit to our sustained prosperity would be the amounts of paper and ink we could produce.

Let's also put aside the enormity of the liberal hypocrisy of railing against deficit spending for the past eight years, as Obama stands blissfully poised to dwarf those records.

Instead, let's just examine Obama's inflexible commitment to two conflicting goals, as evidenced in his interview on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos:

1) spending the "Monopoly" money in a way most likely to stimulate the economy (assuming here the validity of Keynesian theory) and

2) spending the money in a way most likely to satisfy liberal social planners.

Obama said: "Here are a few things we're going to do. We are going to double alternative energy production. We are going to weatherize 2 million homes. We are going to create a much more efficient energy system."

Can someone explain how these ideas, apart from constitutional objections, are going to do much more than lower utility bills for those the liberal planners decide are worthy and please the High Church of Al Gore? But stimulate the economy? Please.

But Obama was just getting warmed up. "I think," he said, "we can create a new green economy. And that's going to be one of the keys to the 21st century." Perhaps someone can provide Mr. Obama and his advisers with some history textbooks detailing the miserable failure of the Soviets' various five-year plans, assuming such texts haven't been burned.

Obama further promised to use some of the "Monopoly" money to invest in health care and education, as if throwing play money at these problem areas has worked or will work to improve their quality or reduce their costs -- much less stimulate the economy. But who can doubt that they will make leftist planners happy?

Moving on, Obama, to make doubly sure to mollify his leftist critics out there, quickly dismissed the notion that tax cuts, even targeted ones, are as dear to his heart as spending. When Stephanopoulos asked him whether the tax cuts would really create jobs or he was including them just to get Republican votes, he said: "Well, let's look at the package as a whole; the bulk of the package is direct government spending."

Boy, that's a relief -- knowing that most of this stimulus package will be based on failed theories.
Obama continued, "(Tax cuts) may not help as much as some of the direct spending projects do, but they still provide a stimulus, especially if they are targeted towards people who are really in need."
OK, we get it, Mr. Obama; you believe market-driven economic growth is inferior to government-induced growth.

But could you please enlighten us as to your counterintuitive and counter-logical position that targeting tax cuts toward people "who are really in need" will provide the greatest stimulus?

It sure makes for lofty sound bite material and gets you major points with the compassion police and the decriers of "trickledown economics," but it will take more than a profession of good intentions to square this circle. If you have the audacity to implement this plan, we'll see just how well "trickle-up" works.

As Obama's first term unfolds, it will be interesting to observe whether and how Obama will make adjustments to his campaign rhetoric as reality hits him squarely in the face, as it already has with the Guantanamo prison. He now admits Gitmo won't be as easy to close as he glibly indicated before. He would have us believe he's just now coming to grips with the fact that there are "a bunch of dangerous folks" down there. Oh, boy.

I must confess that I would be far less concerned if the worst we could say about Obama were that he was a dishonest campaigner and that now that he's elected he'll do the right thing.

But I'll have to leave such sanguine expectations to others and remain prepared for him to expand government beyond our wildest nightmares.

And while I know this may shock many of us who have basked in freedom our entire lives, there is a tipping point, folks, and I fear we are approaching it.

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http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2009/01/13/obamas_conflicting_goals
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