Nancy Pelosi (House leader) warns against the rhetoric being used by small government capitalist a couple weeks ago. A total exaggeration. Then this:

Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, under fire for conservatives for describing the gist of their health care plans as "die quickly," is not exactly backing down from claims he's crossed a line of civility. Just now on the floor, he called on members of the House to pass health care reform in the most extreme terms possible: "I apologize to the dead and Fltheir families athat we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America," Grayson said.

By Ben Smith 04:28 PM 80% plus of Americans want the current senate Baucus health care bill to be put on the internet. Democrats wont do it. Don't read it. Don't debate it. Just pass it. Its only your health and your money, you racist. Gore Vidal was recently interviewed. I think he agrees with Andy Williams. ...Last year he famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the Democratic nomination process for president. Now, he reveals, he regrets his change of heart. How’s Obama doing? “Dreadfully. I was hopeful. He was the most intelligent person we’ve had in that position for a long time. But he’s inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters. He’s acting as if Afghanistan is the magic talisman: solve that and you solve terrorism.” America should leave Afghanistan, he says. “We’ve failed in every other aspect of our effort of conquering the Middle East or whatever you want to call it.” Another notable Obama mis-step has been on healthcare reform. “He f***ed it up. I don’t know how because the country wanted it. We’ll never see it happen.” As for his wider vision: “Maybe he doesn’t have one, not to imply he is a fraud. He loves quoting Lincoln and there’s a great Lincoln quote from a letter he wrote to one of his generals in the South after the Civil War. ‘I am President of the United States. I have full overall power and never forget it, because I will exercise it’. That’s what Obama needs — a bit of Lincoln’s chill.” Has he met Obama? “No,” he says quietly, “I’ve had my time with presidents.” Vidal raises his fingers to signify a gun and mutters: “Bang bang.” He is referring to the possibility of Obama being assassinated. “Just a mysterious lone gunman lurking in the shadows of the capital,” he says in a wry, dreamy way. Vidal now believes, as he did originally, Clinton would be the better president. “Hillary knows more about the world and what to do with the generals. History has proven when the girls get involved, they’re good at it. Elizabeth I knew Raleigh would be a good man to give a ship to.” Gore also mentioned his hate for Bush, and republicans. And his support for Timothy McVeigh. Here is the link: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece

Priorities. Core beliefs.

Obama has put all his energy into rushing some universal health care program, while he wont make a decision on troops in Afghanistan, nor has he picked a church.

Byron York wrote

So far this month, 38 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan. For all of 2009, the number is 220 -- more than any other single year and more than died in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 combined.

With casualties mounting, the debate over U.S. policy in Afghanistan is sharp and heated. The number of arrivals at Dover is increasing. But the journalists who once clamored to show the true human cost of war are nowhere to be found.

Andy Williams, a lifelong Republican, and close friend of Bobby Kennedy, recently said:

"What a tragedy. Had he lived, I think Bobby (Kennedy) would have been a great president."

But Williams had a less favourable opinion of the current president.

"Don't like him at all," he said, "I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.

"Obama is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail."

KISIT21 tends to agree.

Meanwhile, European Socialism weakens. NY Times: German voters clobbered the Social Democratic Party on Sunday, giving it only 23 percent of the vote, its worst performance since World War II. AND... The president of the World Bank said on Monday that America’s days as an unchallenged economic superpower might be numbered and that the dollar was likely to lose its favored position as the euro and the Chinese renminbi assume bigger roles.

“The United States would be mistaken to take for granted the dollar’s place as the world’s predominant reserve currency,” the World Bank president, Robert B. Zoellick, said in a speech at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins. “Looking forward, there will increasingly be other options to the dollar.”

Bill Clinton bought up the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" again (Hillary did it 1st, of course) on Meet the Press. This is the same guy who accused Obama's team of using the race card against Hillary, and now says Anti-Obamunism is race driven. Sad. He is everything that is wrong with politics.

As I watch Iran test missiles and admit to another secret nuclear plant, I remember a friend complaining that Bush didn't try to talk to his adversaries. Interesting that Obama recently did 5 Sunday morning news programs and excluded FoxNews. He excluded me.

Patrick Gaspard, considered one of the most powerful figures in the Obama White House, is a "longtime ACORN operative" and former union official, according to a report posted Monday on the American Spectator's online blog.

Today it was reported that Social Security will pay out more than it takes in. Fortune Magazine recently wrote a cover story about how this recession will a much quicker demise to the program as we know it. Contributions will have to go up; distributions will have to go down; money will have to be printed.

60 Minutes did a report on the war in Afganastan. According to Lt. Gen. Stanley McCrystal we have been doing it wrong for 8 years, and that without more troops, we will not win. The same program highlighted the many crimes of Bernie Madoff (SEC did a great job on that one). If only we had more regulation...

Its a wonder with all the great things government does, so many are against them running our health care system.

AP 9/25

BOSTON – A Massachusetts assistant attorney general has moved to dismiss a case in which the state Republican Party is trying to block the swearing-in of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's interim replacement.

Assistant Attorney General Peter Sacks said in a court filing Friday that Gov. Deval Patrick was within his authority to appoint Paul Kirk and make the appointment effective immediately.

He says the judge hearing the case cannot delay Patrick because of the separation of powers principle in government.

Lawmakers passed a bill this week giving Patrick the power to appoint an interim replacement. Laws usually take 90 days to go into effect, but Patrick signed an emergency letter.

Republicans allege he exceeded his constitutional authority.

Kirk was sworn in Friday.

KISIT: Ha Ha. Kirk was sworn in Friday. This is related to jamming the Health Care bill through quickly. The Dems wouldn’t use this political capital for a 3-4 month interim replacement if they didn’t need the vote.

Boston Globe

A large military spending bill moving through Congress contains a little-noticed outlay for Boston that has nothing to do with national defense: $20 million for an educational institute honoring late Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

The earmark, tucked into the defense bill at the request of Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, requires US taxpayers to help the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate realize its goal of building a repository for Kennedy’s papers and an accompanying civic learning center on the University of Massachusetts at Boston campus in Dorchester, next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.

The item is drawing fire from fiscal watchdog groups, who assert that military funds should not be raided to pay for an institution that has nothing to do with improving military readiness.

Beyond raising questions about the practice of slipping earmarks into bills in Congress, the provision also presents a potential ethical question for Paul Kirk, the longtime Kennedy aide Governor Deval Patrick appointed to fill the late senator’s seat yesterday.

Kirk, who stepped down yesterday as chairman of the JFK Library Foundation, has also served as a member of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute board and has played a key role in helping plan and raise funds for the new center. If he casts a vote in favor of the defense bill, he also will be voting in favor of an institute to which he has had close personal and professional connections.

Using the national defense budget for such earmarks is considered a particular affront by those advocating for fiscal discipline in the midst of two wars that are straining Pentagon coffers. Overall, the Senate version of the bill includes 778 earmarks worth $2.65 billion, including a number that have little or nothing to do with military matters.

KISIT21 – I wonder why our soldiers are under funded and our government can’t control spending.

Two days after Obama said no country is better than another, the New York Times reports:

PITTSBURGH — President Obama and leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years.

Obama also said: “those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world’s problems alone.” After eight years of President Bush’s unilateralism... maybe we’ll find out why Bush acted unilaterally.

Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.

The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors Inc., purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Tesla is a California startup focusing on all-electric vehicles, with a number of celebrity endorsements that is backed by investors that have contributed to Democratic campaigns.

Today I watched a video created by the Tides Foundation that has apparently been used in our public schools. It is called The Story of Stuff. It is anti-corporation, anti-capitalism, and anti-american. It is propaganda designed for children, and it is full of distortions. I am all for solving problems, but I think this is best accomplished with an honest discussion.

At the same time, ACORN is being outed as a vote stealing partisan group, and supporter of criminal behavior. Hannah Giles, 20 years old, is being sued for $5 million by acorn for exposing there corruption. See biggovernment.com

Government growth is at a pace that can't be supported, and there is a hurry to get a $1-2 trillion dollar health care program started pronto.

No main stream media organizations are reporting this stuff.

Glenn Beck said:

And then, behind it all, there is the Tides Foundation. Their founder describes it as this: "Tides was created to provide comprehensive flexible services and tools to those dedicated to lasting progressive social change."

And while they do legitimate things, they are also involved in the nasty of the nastiest. Take the Rathke brothers — both in ACORN, one embezzled, the other didn't. The founder of Tides gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to make it all go away.

That's what Tides does — just like when you leave footprints in the sand — they wash things away.

And you'd never know anyone was ever on the beach.