Wisconsin Integral in Steele's RNC Win

Many may not know it, but Wisconsin played an integral role in getting the new RNC Chair, Michael Steele, elected.

RPW Chairman Reince Priebus was the Steele Campaign chair.

“Today the Republican Party took a major step toward renewal with the selection of Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee. I believe in Steele’s ability to move our party forward and I am extremely proud to have led his successful campaign for chairman.

Michael is committed to our conservative cause, has strong leadership skills and the ability to connect with and energize our grassroots supporters. Our core fundamental principles remain strong and mirror those of the majority of Americans so we must improve our outreach efforts in order to grow as a party.

Michael Steele will be a great new voice and outstanding leader for the Republican Party. As we work diligently to take our message to the people throughout Wisconsin and America, I look forward to continuing my partnership with him and at the RNC.”

-- Reince Priebus

Priebus is leading the RPW and a key player in the RNC's new direction of bringing our Conservative values back to the GOP.

Steele's Acceptance Speech

Steele Wins!

Whew- it was a nailbiter!

Go Steele

The GOP is currently voting on the next RNC chair.

Third round Michael Steele, my pick, is currently leading. Second place is Duncan, the same ol' same ol'.

We need a little hope and change of our own.

Hopefully the leaders of the RNC will see this and start moving the party towards our principles again!

Watch it live here.

When VP Joe Biden is out covering one of your gaffes...

When VP Joe Biden is out covering one of your gaffes, you know you are having a bad day.

Gaffe master VP, Joe Biden, is out covering our new treasury secretary's butt:

The Obama administration backed off Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s
statement last week that China is “manipulating” its currency.

Speaking of manipulating money, isn't that what Treasury Secretary Geithner did when he cashed checks from his company to pay his taxes, but never bother to pay his taxes?

Hat Tip Hot Air

Reaction to Ashley Judd dissing America

John Rich from "Big n' Rich" was on Vicki McKenna's show today. He heard about Ashley Judd's comment trashing America :

Judd: "It's so nice to live in America again".

Rich:"talk about your out of touch elitist attitude".

John Rich actually stumped with Fred Thompson in the beginning of the primaries.

Listen here

A Moment we can be proud of

Yeah, we got crushed in the final vote tally. Still, all in all, this was a great day to be a Republican.

Not one single Republican voted for the stimulus (bailout) bill. Not a single one.

I am proud of each and every one of them.

Yes, the Congress does need to act fast to get a stimulus package together.

But the package presented was no stimulus package.

It is a pork laden, furiously expensive package filled with political gifts to Democrat causes.

What we saw yesterday was a team of Republicans who spent a lot less time worrying about their political careers and amazingly put the interests of their country first.

We saw Republicans stand on their principles, not on their political careers.

Still the porky palooza bill passed the House.

This is a Democrats only bill.

President Obama attempted to reach across the aisle and he should be admired for that. I believe that Obama's heart is in the right place. I believe his politics and policies are wrong.

I know that some people misunderstand the Republican opposition. The opposition that folks see is not with Obama, the opposition is with his politics and policies. That is the way we should keep it.

The time for opposing Obama is over, he won the election. The battle has just begun against socialism and government power.


We must protect our families, our pocketbooks and our rights against a government that will take and take and take from us.

I am also not interested in a "no" vote only, the Republicans must offer credible alternatives. They also did that. In fact, quickly looking over the bill that was proposed, you can easily see with the tax cuts alone that the Republicans version of a stimulus may have gone a lot further towards stimulating the economy that the garbage that actually did pass the House yesterday.

Yesterday Republicans took a big step towards regaining their credibility with the folks and I pray this continues.

Now on to the Senate.

Where's the door?

Go get 'em Republicans!

We spend so much time beating on the Republicans, especially so over the last year.

Well, when we see them standing on the side of good, we need to cheer them on.

Sure it has taken them a little time to find there legs, but they are moving now...

Let me here you Republicans, can I get an AMEN on the following statement?

The counter-package would shift focus entirely from spending to tax relief. Though a full House vote on the Democratic package is expected in a matter of hours and President Obama said he's confident it will pass, GOP lawmakers are hoping their substitute proposal at least influences the final product.

I like this statement too:

"If government spending was going to get us out of this mess, we'd have been out
a long time ago, because that's all we've been doing," said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. "This is not going to work. That's why we've got a bill we think will work."

Too bad the Republcians did not figure this out in 2005, they may not have lost control of the House and Senate in 2006.

If the Republicans cannot get the Dems or Obama to listen to there plan, then every single Republican needs to vote against the Obama/Reid/Pelosi plan.

It is bad. The stimulus is nothing more that payback to their political friends and will not stimulate the economy in the least.

For more details of what is in the plan, visit Fred's blog.

You will especially like know that the Dems/Obama will be spending $726 for an after school snack program. Not dinner, lunch or breakfast...snacks!

Now I ask you- how many jobs will be created by children eating snacks?

Sorry-kiddies, Mom and Dad would be at home to give you your after school snacks and your condoms, but they are busy working overtime to pay for an extra $1.2 trillion dollars of Democrat/Obama debt!

I wonder if they will pass out the condoms and the after school snacks together? Boy that might save us a few million dollars!

The Obama Debt Act of 2009

We all know that the folks at the Wall Street Journal loves to make money. If they felt the stimulus plan would get the economy going again, they would jump in.

They agree- the frustrated Democrats are using this plan to enact every single liberal payout they can find.

Americans sit down, you are no longer welcome to eat at the Obama/Reid/Pelosi dinner table. Special interests go ahead and slide your chair up to the liberal greed fest.

On tonight's menu for you special interest groups : Pork Palooza, served with a side of hope and change

Check this out:

We've looked it over, and even we can't quite believe it. There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There's even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.

In selling the plan, President Obama has said this bill will make "dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy." Well, you be the judge. Some $30 billion, or less than 5% of the spending in the bill, is for fixing bridges or other highway projects. There's another $40 billion for broadband and electric grid development, airports and clean water projects that are arguably worthwhile priorities.

Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus. And even many of these projects aren't likely to help the economy immediately. As Peter Orszag, the President's new budget director, told Congress a year ago, "even those [public works] that are 'on the shelf' generally cannot be undertaken quickly enough to provide timely stimulus to the economy."

No better words have of advice to Republicans has been given:

This is supposed to be a new era of bipartisanship, but this bill was written based on the wish list of every living -- or dead -- Democratic interest group. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "We won the election. We wrote the bill." So they did. Republicans should let them take all of the credit.

$1 Trillion

The House votes today on the $1.2 TRILLION bailout. (Yes, with interest, the bailout will be well over a trillion dollars)

For those of us in Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District ...Email Congressman Paul Ryan

http://www.house.gov/ryan/email.htm

The joke of a stimulus bill will probably easily pass Congress but will fail in the real world that we all live in.

Vote NO!

Just hearing the tapes are not enough

Apparently, just hearing the tapes is not enough, the Illinois state senate also needs visuals.

I kid you not, this sign was entered as evidence in the Blago senate trial...

Still think Obama is going to lead from the middle?

Hey conservative elitists and moderates, still convinced that Obama will lead from the middle????

Less than a week in office, our new President has given terrorists at Gitmo the same rights as every American citizen. Not to mention, he has promised to close the prison in a year- where are the terrorists going to go?

What do you think? Should we release them all in DC, they can live right next to all of the Democrats running the place, huh?

I am guessing that some of you must really be loving paying for abortions in foreign countries, huh? That is really middle of the road, right? Darn it all, it is not like we are having a nationwide financial crisis or anything???? We have plenty of money to pay for abortions in foreign countries.

Oh, today’s little gem… Obama decided to impose green restrictions on our automobile industry. Didn’t we just bail out the automobile industry? Well, I am thinking that there is no faster way to kill our US auto industry than Obama imposing mandates that the automakers cannot possible adjust too in the next year and a half.

Hey autoworkers, this was your guy…you voted for him! When you lose your job, don’t blame me, blame your new “governing from the middle” President, okay?

But, hey Obama believes in state’s rights, that is why he did this.

Hey…how about the newly imposed socialism package known a stimulus? Not to worry people, Obama will “create” a job for you, dictate your health care and take away those nasty SUV's you should not be driving anyway. Too bad you will have to sacrifice your freedoms and your future for that job, but hey... Obama scoffed when he was called a socialist, so he must not be one.

How about nominating a tax cheat to lead the IRS and then trying to snowball people into thinking it is no big deal? The person picked to run the IRS is also supposed to lead us out of our economic crisis. How is he going to do that? Teach us all how to avoid paying your taxes?

Yep- leading from the middle!!!! That is our new president!

By the way folks, America just elected the most liberal President in American history. As he tells it, he was raised by a very liberal mother, launched his career in the home of unapologetic domestic terrorist, was a liberal state senator in one of the most politically thuggish environments in the US and was the most liberal Senator in the US Senate.

Well, conservative elitists...you told us just to give him a chance...now what? You helped him get elected.

Obama adivisers not out of the woods yet

I hate to say it, but I agree with the crazy man occupying the big house in Illinois. Blago will not be able to put on a defense. Since Blago cannot call any witnesses involved with the selling of the Obama senate seat, he cannot really put on a defense.

Blago released a bunch of paperwork on Friday showing that indeed Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett are indeed still part of the Fitzgerald investigation.

So it should be interesting where this trial leads.

The trial begins today.

Now I am also fully convinced that Blago was not only trying to seel the senate seat, but he has been involved in many more schemes in Illinois.

However, everyone deserves a fair trial, and I am not sure the Illinois state senate cares about that. It is like the senators are trying to distance themselves and are not worried about fairness.

I want some TARP

No laughing

Seriously, no laughing.

Former French President Chirac hospitalized after mauling by his clinically depressed poodle

What would you laugh at first, anyway?

The fact that a 200 lbs grown man cannot fend off a 8 pound poodle?

Or is it that the "clinically depressed" poodle?

PS. The poodle is medicated. I did not realize that "puppy Prozac" existed.

PSS. Hey I can tell you are laughing, stop that!

No rescue for America

Funny how this story is released into the public domain the day Obama is sworn into office.
Washington Post-

WASHINGTON -- It will take years before an infrastructure spending program
proposed by President-elect Barack Obama will boost the economy, according to
congressional economists.

The findings, released to lawmakers Sunday, call into question the effectiveness of congressional Democrats' efforts to pump up the economy through old-fashioned public works projects like roads, bridges and repairs of public housing.

Less than half of the $30 billion in highway construction funds detailed by House Democrats would be released into the economy over the next four years, concludes the analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. Less than $4 billion in highway construction money would reach the economy by September 2010.

The entire bailout of the American economy, priced at $825 billion called an "economic stimulus" is no stimulus at all.

Hat Tip- Charlie Sykes

Details from Powerline:

A Dozen Fun Facts About the House Democrats' Massive Spending Bill

1. The House Democrats' bill will cost each and every household $6,700 additional
debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.

2. The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government.

3. President-elect Obama has said that his proposed stimulus legislation will create or save three million jobs. This means that this legislation will spend about $275,000 per job. The average household income in the U.S. is $50,000 a year.

4. The House Democrats' bill provides enough spending - $825 billion - to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.

5. $825 billion is enough to give every person living in poverty in the U.S. $22,000.

6. $825 billion is enough to give every person in Ohio $72,000.

7. Although the House Democrats' proposal has been billed as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, in actuality only $30 billion of the bill - or three percent - is for road and highway spending. A recent study from the Congressional Budget Office said that only 25 percent of infrastructure dollars can be spent in the first year, making the one year total less than $7 billion for infrastructure.

8. Much of the funding within the House Democrats' proposal will go to programs that already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which already have $16 billion on hand. And, this year, Congress has plans to rescind $9 billion in highway funding that the states have not yet used.

9. In 1993, the unemployment rate was virtually the same as the rate today (around seven percent). Yet, then-President Clinton's proposed stimulus legislation ONLY contained $16 billion in spending.

10. Here are just a few of the programs and projects that have been included in the
House Democrats' proposal:

· $650 million for digital
TV coupons.
· $6 billion for colleges/universities - many which have billion
dollar endowments.
· $166 billion in direct aid to states - many of which
have failed to budget wisely.
· $50 million in funding for the National
Endowment of the Arts.
· $44 million for repairs to U.S. Department of
Agriculture headquarters.
· $200 million for the National Mall, including
grass planting.· $400 million for "National Treasures."

11. Almost one-third of the so called tax relief in the House Democrats'
bill is spending in disguise, meaning that true tax relief makes up only 24
percent of the total package - not the 40 percent that President-elect Obama had
requested.

12. $825 billion is just the beginning - many Capitol Hill Democrats want
to spend even more taxpayer dollars on their "stimulus" plan.

TARP on steroids

On the day Obama was inagurated, it did not take long to see the rumblings of more bailouts headed our way.

No- I am not talking about the second $350 billion from TARP that was approved last week for Barack Obama.

No- I am also not talking $850 billion Obama bailout of local and state governments( Obama calls it a stimulus package)

What I am talking about is another bailout of the markets:

“Congress isn’t going to step up and say, ‘Hey, can we give away another
$700 billion?’” said an aide to a second Democratic House member. “But there’s a
growing sense among people who are really watching this closely, I think, that
it is entirely possible, six months from now, maybe even less, the
administration is going to come back and say, ‘We need more; we need ... more of
the same.’”

Politico

The first $700 billion is not enough. The second $850 billion will not be enough. Now we are on to the next version of TARP, probably another $700 billion.

It's TARP on steroids.

Then after reading this sneaky little comment in Bloomberg yesterday when they were talking about the largest market drop in American history as a new president was being sworn in, I am more convinced than ever, that we will be bailing out the markets once again in a few months:

“All the banks are going to have to recapitalize,” said Greg Woodard, portfolio
strategist at Manning & Napier Advisors Inc., which manages $16 billion in
Fairport, New York. “That’s not done. That’s in front of them, and we don’t want
to try to get in front of that trade.”

Yep, when they start talking about recapitalizing- I begin wondering how many billion(or is it trillion) dollars we will need.

My pledge...

I did the best I could and I held out as long as I could. It was not until i go home tonight that in a day of ridiculous headlines, I found one headline that made me laugh out loud.

Now- I have held my tongue all day. Even at work, where dozens of liberals goofs continued the taunts about GW Bush, I still held my tongue.

I know what a moment in history this is. America and Barack Obama broke the color barrier. A barrier created by our forefathers in a nation that claimed freedom for all Americans even as they held certain portions of the population with a different skin color and a different gender under their thumbs. Eventually, America will break the gender barrier also. I firmly believe that it will be conservatives that break that barrier.

Anyway, this was a monumental day.

Even as monumental as it was, some of the headlines I have been reading all day got me to wondering what in heaven's name must be in the koolaid the media and others must be drinking.

Check out these headlines:

Obama raises hand, lifts a nation
CNN

Oh good grief. And the waters will rise and the land will heal!

Change comes to Washington
CNN

Yeah- we already know this is not true. Already some of Obama's buddies are under indictment or about to be indicted. The Clinton retreads are all back in Washington. What change?

An unbroken sea of humanity witnesses Obama taking oath
The Miami Herald

Another oh good grief. Even Obama recognizes that there are a few things broken. To Obama's credit he sees this and is talking a good game about bringing people together. Honestly, I believe Obama is sincere. I think Obama's biggest problems will be Reid and Pelosi. I don't think it will take long before they start slapping their own divisive politics all over the Obama administration.

Masses share in Obama's reward
Boston Globe

Reward? Seriously? AFter spending millions upon millions to win the presidency, and we find out that it will be the masses that spends trillions to bail out everyone under the sun- where is the "reward" for the masses?


The following two headlines together got me to giggling. After the stock market tanked, the biggest tank in American history on the day a new president was sworn in, these two headlines came out:

Markets down despite Obama
Real Clear Markets

The Obama era dawns on Wall Street
MarketWatch

These two articles are headed in separate directions.

Still the one headline that had me busting a gut laughing was written by Ashton Kutcher. Yes, the "Punked" goofball, Ashton.

I pledge to serve President Obama
Ashton Kutcher, Huffington Post

I guess we have become a monarchy now! That is going to over well with the American people "I pledge allegiance to Barack Obama..."! What a goofball!

Even as I caught site of this headline, I saw another article titled:

I pledge to ridicule celebrities
Andrew Breitbart

Finally, someone with some perspective. The next few years are going to be hard, for everyone. Not just conservatives, not just liberals, but all Americans. We may end up with double digit unemployment and double digit inflation. Still these celebrities will go on making millions off the backs of hardworking Americans.


Breitbart has the true perspective on the Hollywood elitist liberals:

This video illustrates that the current celebrity class are not citizens but serfs. They need a leader to put their minds in the right place to do the right thing. They are not heroic individualists seeking to extend America’s promise but conformists who chose to sit out and complain during the tough years in order to ensure their guy got in the next go-around.

The celebrity decadence during the “oppressive” Bush years was world class. The clubs raged. The boutique hotels rocked. The private jet industry at Van Nuys airport flourished. The party never stopped. And only a precious few (Thank you, dearly!!!) stepped up to support the American troops who have been valiantly fighting for Hollywood’s right to do lines off of each others’ buttocks at $10 million Hollywood Hills mansions.

They never spoke up against the movies that demonized our military.

They never made movies to counter the libel.

They took the easy route. And blamed Bush for everything.

So while Hollywood elitist liberals goes back to doing coke, the rest of us, including Barack Obama, have some serious issues to face.

My pledge is similar to and inspired by Andrew Breitbart:

I pledge to ridicule and taunt the Hollywood liberals elitists and the fawning mainstream media until they get a grip on reality. We are a capitalist nation that believes is freedom for all! We don't believe in socialism, marxism or spending our lives working for the government. We believe in family, friends and our right to carry a gun to protect ourselves. We don't believe in a handout or a bailout. Most importantly we do believe in God, country and freedom.

I believe and I could be wrong, that under this nation's current leadership, that our core values of God, country and freedom will take a backseat to a government controlled populace. Obama's intentions are good, but there is such a thing as helping people too much. It is a fine line.

The first official Obamablunder

From Pres. Obama's speech:

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath.

For all you public school kids there have been 43 Americans who have taken the presidential oath. Grover Cleveland was President 22 and 24.