Jindal: Make Congress a Part Time Job
Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has a terrific idea on how to cut spend: keep Congress out of session so they can’t make work for themselves. Because if they are in their office, they are looking for ways to spend money.
“Make them part-time, give them term limits,” Jindal told Human Events. “Don’t let them become lobbyists. When they have to live under the same rules and laws they pass for the rest of us, maybe you’d see some more common sense coming out of Washington, D.C.”
Love this guy.
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The Real Reason Bristol Was on DWTS
As you know, and the left also knows but won’t admit, anything to do with Sarah Palin or anyone connected to her, is a ratings bonanza. She’s like the Beatles of politics.
Hence, the invitation from the producers of Dancing With the Stars extended to Bristol Palin – who was the only participant this season not a trained entertainer or athlete. Though criticized because she was not a “star” or “celebrity,” it turns out that Bristol was absolutely the reason more viewers tuned in to the show this season:
From Nikki Finke: “The final Nielsen ratings for last night [Monday Night] are in, and the Bristol Palin-fueled Dancing with the Stars (23.7 million, 4.9/13 in adults 18-49) posted the strongest results for a Dancing performance finale in six seasons, since the fifth cycle’s Monday finale in November 2007. (Dancing airs two cycles every broadcast season.) Versus last year, the show was up by 3.3 million viewers and by 23% in 18-49. The strong ratings for Dancing followed a wave of publicity surrounding Palin’s ability to escape elimination despite so-so marks from the judges and make it all the way to the finals. She was also at the center of several threats, including one that involved a letter laced with white powder that was received at Dancing’s production offices over the weekend. Meanwhile, the premiere of the Dancing spinoff Skating with the Stars wound up with a final tally of 2.4/6 and 9.4 million viewers, holding onto less than 50% of its Dancing lead-in. Other adjustments in the finals: CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 gained a tenth to a 3.3/9, while Fox’s Lie to Me dropped a tenth to a 1.7/5. “
Congrats to Bristol and her dance partner, Mark Ballas, who came in a very respectable third. Jennifer Grey of “Dirty Dancing” fame and daughter of stage and screen dancer/actor Joel Grey, won as planned expected.
It’s Muslim Terrorists, Stupid
When was the last time an American terrorist got on a commercial airliner and attempted to blow it up mid-flight?
The answer is never.
The 19 hijackers of the 9/11 airplanes were all foreign-born Arab Muslims. They passed through airport screening despite having box cutters on their persons. My suspenders have set off that machine. Now you can’t even carry on nail clippers. Who has ever attempted to seize an airplane with nail clippers?
Read Alan Caruba’s take on the new lunacy the Obama adminstration is subjecting Americans to at canadafreepress.com.
Barnes: Never underestimate Sarah Palin
Fred Barnes, host of The Beltway Boys on Fox News Channel and executive editor of The Weekly Standard, is a good little inside-the-beltway conservative most of the time but he snarked on Sarah Palin’s presidential chances and that hurt him with his audience. Last week, he changed his mind … not that she would be a good candidate or president, but that her chances were as good as any other name Republican.
Barnes said the following at the Alabama Policy Institute:
When moderator and API president Gary Palmer asked the panelists for their take on potential 2012 presidential candidates, Stephen Moore, economics editor and member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board, brought up the names Chris Christie, Paul Ryan and Mike Pence.
“Moore forgot Sarah Palin!” exclaimed Barnes, who said that Palin is the most solidly conservative possibility with a tremendous following. While he considered Jim DeMint to also be a good potential candidate, Barnes said “Never underestimate Sarah Palin.”
And why do they keep bringing up Chris Christie? How many times does he have to say no, he’s not running in 2012?
Sarah Nails it Again
She’s got a good grasp on policy issues, although the left keep calling her stupid. Here is Sarah Palin’s Letter to the Editor at the Wall Street Journal:
While on a United Airlines flight from New York City to Los Angeles this week, a fellow passenger handed me a copy of the The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15 op-ed by Alan Blinder—”In Defense of Ben Bernanke“—and suggested that I write a letter to the editor if I disagreed with the Princeton University professor’s claims. Having read the piece, I told the passenger over my shoulder, “You bet I will.”
Prof. Blinder seems blind to the clear and present dangers of QE2. Instead of seriously discussing these dangers, he takes us on an excursion to a Keynesian utopia, a mythical land in which endless government spending is an amazingly effective job creator and investors’ confidence in U.S. Treasury bonds somehow increases as we sink ever deeper into debt while the Fed has its printing presses working overtime.
Here are some cold, hard facts from the real world: The first is the 8.7% 2012 unemployment rate predicted by the Survey of Professional Forecasters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. It seems the Obama administration’s record spending binge won’t result in job creation, but in unacceptably high long-term unemployment. The second fact is that long-term interest rates have actually gone up following the Fed’s recent QE2 announcement. The markets took one look at the Fed’s pump-priming plans and decided they had to increase interest rates—probably in order to compensate for the expected rise in inflation.
None of this should come as a surprise. Blinders off, common sense engaged, it’s time for us to “refudiate” the notion that this dangerous experiment in printing $600 billion out of thin air, with nothing to back it up, will magically fix economic problems that were caused in large part by the government’s interfering with our free market system in the first place, and then made worse by the government’s reckless spending experiments with our children’s fiscal future. Instead of the tired, old Keynesian ideas behind Obamanomics, we need to turn to time-tested practices that are pro-free market rather than pro-big government. Some call this “free-market populism.” It’s based on the realization that the best way to get the economy moving again is to get government out of the way, let the free market dictate winners and losers, and allow the private sector to grow our economy one job, one paycheck and one American dream at a time. It’s the only way we can restore much needed confidence and certainty in our economy. This is the only way we will all be able to soar from New York to Los Angeles and throughout the heartland.
Sarah Palin
Wasilla, Alaska
Obama is Partisan, Incompetent and Ruining the Country
What took these democrats so long to see what the rest of us saw two years ago when Obama said he was going to ‘fundamentally transform this country”?
I have talked…Again, I wish that I could give their names because a lot of skeptics out there would understand how Washington… Democrats in Washington… have been horrified by this president’s handling of things for a year and a half now. But just look at the chart, the top Democrats in the United States Senate have all told me individually this guy has no idea of what he’s doing. You pull people in. These Democrat chairmen of the Senate where saying, ‘They’ve got to get us all in the room; they got to get Republicans in here. You lock arms before you do these things.’ And they said the president…Mike they said the president just won’t do it. —Joe Scarborough
Creatingorwellianworld-view-alaphiah.blogspot.com.
Obama is also punk-drunk, bored, tired, whiney, and lacking the right stuff to be president.
MSNBC Openly Discusses Obama as Incompetent
The kool-aid the left-wing media is drinking must be watered down right now. They are actually criticizing Obama and relaying information that top – “TOP” – democrat Senators, at least seven of them, have told several journolists that Obama “doesn’t know what he is doing” and often remark the same shocked thing we do everyday – “Do you believe what [Obama] is doing today?”
Very interesting clip:
AP: Palin is Popular for Some Reason
A new poll out by the Associated Press shows that the favorability rating for former Governor Sarah Palin is the highest it’s ever been.
Oh, they still take pot shots at her – constantly using the term “divisive” in the same sentence whenever mentioning her name, but at least they have to admit that her favorables are climbing.
FROM THE AP: Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee, is the best-known and most divisive of the bunch. In the wake of her high-profile role in endorsing candidates all over the country, 46 percent of Americans view her favorably, 49 percent unfavorably, and 5 percent don’t know enough about her to form an opinion…
In terms of winning the 2012 nomination, the question is how Republican-leaning Americans view the contenders. Palin comes out on top. Among adults who identify themselves as Republicans or GOP-leaning independents, 79 percent view her favorably, and 17 percent unfavorably.
These findings worry many Republican officials. The poll suggests Palin might be able to win the nomination. But among independents they could be the deciding factor in the general election — just 43 percent hold a favorable view of Palin, compared with 61 percent with a positive view of Obama.
Since it is the left-leaning AP, consider the poll to be skewed by a margin of 5% – 7% with more dems getting asked than indies or repubs.
And still, Palin is the ONLY major figure talking about what Fed chairman Bernanke is up to. Not Romney. Not Huckabee. Not Gingrich. She’s fighting every day for Americans, getting smeared by the media, while Mitt and Huck only come out when its safe. The AP needs to realize that people are beginning to develop respect for Palin after all the crap she’s been through for 2 years.
Oh, and the financial gurus are in agreement with her that QE2 is a bad idea. In a Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday, the editors noted the degree of sophistication that Governor Palin brings to the table as she attempts to focus the nation’s attention on the upcoming financial disaster that the Federal Reserve is about to unleash on us.
Dream Come True: Ron Paul to Oversee the Fed?
Congressman Ron Paul, who has been talking about the need to abolish the Federal Reserve, or at least audit it, may be in line to do just that! This should warm your heart…
The Politico reports:
Paul is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology on the Financial Services , which oversees the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Mint and American involvement with international development groups like the World Bank. Unless someone bumps him, he’s next in line for the subcommittee gavel.
Paul is critical of all the institutions he would oversee. He’s long called for killing the Federal Reserve, and this year tried to get an audit of the Fed into the Wall Street reform bill. He’s asserted that the dollar should be tied to the gold standard in order to keep it from losing its value.
GOP Should Fear Disappointing Tea Partiers
Economic Suicide Scheduled for This Week
NEW YORK (TheStreet) – The question being asked all across the world of business news is: Will QE2 be successful? Because this policy is literally economic suicide, the question becomes: Will the Federal Reserve be successful in the assisted economic suicide of the U.S. government? I find this an utterly appalling question — which highlights the intellectual bankruptcy of government policymakers and the bankers who goad them onward.
Quantitative easing is nothing more than a euphemism for printing money out of thin air. Its one-and-only purpose is to destroy the currency being printed. It is pure dilution and absolutely no different than a corporation vowing to improve its fiscal performance simply by printing a lot of new shares.We can illustrate the inherently evil nature of this monetary abomination by working through the “mechanics” of this policy. First, the explicit goal of QE2 is to increase inflation. By now, all readers should be familiar enough about “inflation” to know that it is literally nothing more than the speed with which our currencies are being destroyed.
While Sarah Palin is urgently writing on this topic, urging Ben Bernanke not to do this, President Obama hasn’t said a word. Think about that.
