THE ROAD AHEAD IS SERFDOM. (Bloomberg) — “President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a ‘debt super cycle.'”
It’s also a reaffirmation of the thesis of Vox Day’s book, The Return of the Great Depression. This depression is going to be worse than the first because of unprecedented levels of debt—government, business, household.
Barack Obama, Ethics, Government, Law, Morality, Politics, Republicans
The Joe Sestak “scandal” is nothing but garden-variety politics routinely practiced by both parties. Yet as Rome burns, such quid pro quo is what is consuming the Republican Party’s bobbleheads. The signal dishonor of which Obama operatives stand accused, via Sam Stein, is offering a job to “Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn) in exchange for him not entering the Pennsylvania Senate primary.” The act has “seasoned political observers, historians, and lawyers responding with veritable yawns”:
American presidential history is littered with quid pro quos, implicit and explicit secret job offers, and backroom deals, so much so that the Sestak offer may be more the norm than the exception to it.
“It is completely unexceptional,” said Dr. Russell Riley, associate professor and chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia. “I read some place today that this is evidently illegal, which was shocking news to me. I don’t know what the statutes are that would bear on this… it just doesn’t seem to me to particularly rise to the level of being newsworthy in the first place and the fact that it’s spun out into a scandal has been surprising.”
George Edwards, a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies at Texas A&M University, says: “There is no question whatsoever that presidents have often offered people positions to encourage them not to do something or make it awkward for them to do it. Presidents have also offered people back-ups if they ran for an office and lost. All this is old news historically.”
The complete column is HERE.
Note, this is not to say the shenanigans of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and President Bill Clinton were legal. They could very well be illegal. They are certainly morally dubious. But politicians are by definition immoral. By blowing the scandal du jour out of proportion, an unspeakably crooked class is made to sweat the small stuff only.
I guess Republicans have a stake in perpetuating this state-of-affairs.
Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats, IMMIGRATION, Justice, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Liberty, Morality
The following is from my new, WND column: “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?”
“Nothing is going to happen to me, man.”
“Those were immortal words of an inebriated illegal alien who rear ended an ass—Democratic State Rep. Michael Moran of Brighton, Massachusetts—in what was described in the press as a ‘serious car crash.’
Welcome to our world, Mr. Moran.
The suspect was as spirited as he was high. The soused 27-year-old Isaias Naranjo was decked up in a Mexican costume. And, as the local Fox 25 channel reported, Naranjo laughed when he was ‘told of the serious charges he would be facing’ (lies). ‘Nothing is going to happen to me, man,’ he taunted the cops (true). I’m ‘going back to my home country, Mexico.’
He might have been drunk and deadly, but Naranjo was dead-on about the joke of a ‘system’ he would be facing. …
Moreover, the merriment of the miscreant Naranjo is perfectly justified—and logical.”…
The complete column is “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?”, now on WND.COM.
Read my libertarian manifesto, Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Society.
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UPDATE (May 29): MORE MORON MATERIAL. The imperious president has refused to grant Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer an audience. Fox reports:
Brewer will be in Washington to meet with other governors. She said Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration
The pioneering Gov. Brewer ought to have sold Obama on a visit by saying she only wished to kiss the president’s papal ring.
Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats, IMMIGRATION, Justice, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Liberty, Morality
The following is from my new, WND column: “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?”
“Nothing is going to happen to me, man.”
“Those were immortal words of an inebriated illegal alien who rear ended an ass—Democratic State Rep. Michael Moran of Brighton, Massachusetts—in what was described in the press as a ‘serious car crash.’
Welcome to our world, Mr. Moran.
The suspect was as spirited as he was high. The soused 27-year-old Isaias Naranjo was decked up in a Mexican costume. And, as the local Fox 25 channel reported, Naranjo laughed when he was ‘told of the serious charges he would be facing’ (lies). ‘Nothing is going to happen to me, man,’ he taunted the cops (true). I’m ‘going back to my home country, Mexico.’
He might have been drunk and deadly, but Naranjo was dead-on about the joke of a ‘system’ he would be facing. …
Moreover, the merriment of the miscreant Naranjo is perfectly justified—and logical.”…
The complete column is “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?”, now on WND.COM.
Read my libertarian manifesto, Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Society.
The Second Edition features bonus material and reviews. Get your copy (or copies) now!
UPDATE (May 29): MORE MORON MATERIAL. The imperious president has refused to grant Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer an audience. Fox reports:
Brewer will be in Washington to meet with other governors. She said Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration
The pioneering Gov. Brewer ought to have sold Obama on a visit by saying she only wished to kiss the president’s papal ring.