As you know by now the Senate voted on Christmas Eve to move this crappy piece of legislation a few steps closer to becoming law.  Over at the American Spectator (http://bit.ly/8NC541) Phillip Klein shows how Dingy Harry and Barry are doubling dipping so to speak with the accounting numbers on this bill.

• Barry won the Nobel Peace Prize.  That is like Russell Shepard (the highly recruited qb who plays for LSU) winning the Heisman.  He has never started a game and giving him this award for doing nothing is just silly. He has done nothing to prove it.  Sort of like someone else....hmmm
• Attack Fox News and not Al Qaeda.  That is the mantra of this administration.  Why listen to your hand picked general on the ground when you can listen to twinkle toes (Rahm Emanuel) and I play the race card (David Axelrod).  These two doofs obviously know best .
• Roger "yellow belly" Goodell decided to make comments about Rush Limbaugh being part of group to buy the St. Louis Rams.  The same guy who has a man who killed dogs (among other things), a man who killed a person while drunk driving (Leonard Little who ironically plays for the Rams), and a few drug users/wife beaters. 
• Joe Wilson screaming you lie still resonats in my mind.  As the healthcare bill is negotiated behind closed doors "the most transparent administration eva" proves Congressman Wilson right.
• Nancy Pelosi stated that the Dems won last weeks election.  This woman wouldn't know the truth if it offered her half off on her next botox injections.
• I heard a Congressman say that Nancy thinks bipartisan support includes having 1 Republican vote for her healthcare bill. The real bipartisan support was in opposition to her bill (all but one Republican voted against along side 39 Democrats).
• The thought that there is a Republican Governor in New Jersey gives me hope living in IL.
• After visiting Detroit for the first time (maybe my last) I see what was once a great city.  It appears the Democrats and the Unions really know how to destroy things.

• I end with this, which is stronger: Barry Obama or the cheap hangers from your local dry cleaners? The cheap hangers of course. They work all the time and they can hold their own .

To all who have missed me, I apologize.  I have a little one now and I have no idea of where the time goes.  I have noticed a lot of lies that are being told by the left on subjects ranging from health care to taxes.  I want to expose a few:

LIE - there are 47 million uninsured in the US.
Truth - This number that is thrown around like a hot potato breaks down like this

• 12 million are illegal aliens (estimate)
  
• 18 million have incomes over $50K a year and choose not to purchase. They most likely feel that they won't get sick.
  
• 8 million are under the age of 18.  Their parents could sign them up for some other plans that already exist.
• 9 million are poor and can already be covered by Medicaid and for whatever reason have not signed up.
  

LIE - Barry says he wants to work with Republicans
Truth - Barry has not met with Republicans leaders on health care since April

LIE - Republicans don't have any ideas or any health care plan options of their own
Truth - If Barry didn't notice (I did and I was watching in standard definition) the Republicans were waving bills at him during his "speech" or lie fest.  I saw them Barry, didn't you?  One example (my favorite) for starters would be to allow insurers to sell across state lines.  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas could sell in California and BCBS of IL could sell in NY, etc..

LIE - This bill would be deficit neutral
Truth - Surely you jest.  The CBO states we are looking at adding about one trillion dollars to the deficit.

LIE - You will not lose your current health care
Truth - The Lewin Group estimates that about every 2 out of 3 workers will lose their coverage.  Why should employers pay for your insurance when they can just pay a fine and let you go the route of the public option.

LIE - The government would do a better job of managing health care.
Truth - (Really?)  Is it easier to manage 1/6th of our economy than the Post Office, Medicaid/Medicare, or Cash for Clunkers?  That is equivalent to saying that you were a horrible cashier, but you would make a great CFO of a major corporation. The truth is if the government struggles with those mentioned above, how in the world can we trust them to get this right?

LIE - This is an oldie but goody. Joe Biden stated that wealthier Americans should pay more taxes, because it is their patriotic duty.
Truth - Does Plugs not know that the top 5% already pay more than 50% of all federal income taxes?  Democrats don't believe what they preach.  Tim Geither is no fan of taxes and he oversees the IRS.  You will remember that he had to amend his taxes from 2001-2006.  Charlie Rangel (Chairman of the Weighs and Means Committe) writes tax laws, but does not pay them.  He forgot he had an account with $250K in it (I would never forget such a thing), did not report the income on his villa in the Caribbean, and last but not least he forgot to report income on the sale of a property that netted him as much as $1.3 million dollars.

These are just a few of the many lies from the left.

RR

After hearing that George R. Tiller had been shot I was shocked, but I was even more shocked to find out that he was an usher in his church.   While I don't agree with abortion (especially partial birth abortion) I do not support killing doctors who perform these heinous acts. 

My son will be here in 2 weeks. I am excited and scared.  Looking at the sonogram when our son was just 9 weeks changed my view forever. I have been a conservative all of my life, but did not give much thought to the "life" issue. After watching Baby J moving around on that screen, I knew he was alive. It wasn't my "choice" to determine when Baby J was alive. (some out there believe the the child is not alive until it is born)  He moved and moved and moved some more. He was alive and well. It is not my job to judge those who perform abortions, but it is my job to pray for them.  Mr. Tiller, I never met you, but may you rest in peace.

RR

First off I would like to give credit where credit is due.  I got the idea of random thoughts from one of my favorite people on Townhall: Thomas Sowell.  Now let us begin:

• The investigation into the Bush administration regarding enhanced techniques against terrorists is coming back to bite Nancy Pelosi.  Eventually this will bite Barry and his administration.
• After living in Chicago for almost 5 years, I now know for a fact that Mayor Daley is a crook.  Sorry it took so long, but I like to give people a chance.
• I noticed that liberals think jokes are really funny when they talk about Republicans.  Take for instance Wanda Dikes talking about Rush Limbaugh.  If the same thing had been said about Randi Rhodes the libs would be in an up roar.  I am sick of the double standard.
• The most recent Fed Auction brought something to mind that I told my wife a few months ago.  Eventually the Treasury Department is going to have to increase the interest to get people to buy our bonds.   When you are right you are right.
  
• The planet is now cooling.  Instead of saying that, libs have changed their slogan to climate change.  It appears that Time magazine asked the question "Another Ice Age?" 35 years ago.  (can't use global cooling)
  
• Bush's billions.  When we talked about the budget during the Bush administration we threw around the "b" word (billion) a lot.  Barry has been in office just over a 100 days and we are throwing around trillions (literally throwing).
• Community Organizers make bad business people.  Just look at Barry offering Chrysler bond holders $.30 on the dollar, but offering the UAW 55% of the company.  Oh yeah UAW was one of his biggest supporters.
  
• The UAW has encouraged me to buy foreign cars.
  
• Words cannot express how offended I am that Barry did nothing more than sign a document for the National Day of Prayer.
• Speaking of prayer, where are all of the black pastors who voted for Barry?  They were so happy to have a black man running for President, that they put aside their Christian values regarding issues such as homosexual marriage, abortion, and self responsibility.
• I need to let James Carville know two things in regards to the Democrats ruling for the next 40 years.
  

                       1. Do not count your chickens before they hatch. 
                       2. Republicans are like zombies, we always come back!

As Barry's budget passed both houses, something hit me.  "From George to George!"  Barry's budget has a price tag of around $3.6 trillion dollars.  If you couple this with the "stimulus bill", that was over $700 billion, plus a bailout here and there we are staring at $10 trillion with interest (by some estimates).  That is a lot of debt for my unborn son to have to payoff.  This year alone our nation will have a deficit of over $2 trillion dollars.  (on a side note, when did the word "trillion" ever get tossed around so much)  I know that George Washington must be rolling over in his grave now.  George Bush on the other hand must be disappointed that he got this monstrosity of a ball rolling with these bailouts.  The really sad part is that it took Barry less than 100 days to spend more than any of his predessors.  From George to George.

RR

Barry Obama and his gang of merry men (Reid, Pelosi, Durbin and Emanuel) have said that the stimulus plan would save or create jobs.  I actually thought long and hard about this.  Save or create, that is the question.  Let us define these two words. 

• Save- to rescue or deliver from danger or harm; to spend less money; to avoid unnecessary waste or expense

• Create - to produce or bring about by a course of action or behavior; to make or bring into existence something new

A few weeks ago Barry was present in Ohio for the swearing in of 25 police officers.  Before the stimulus package was signed these officers were told that they would be laid off before they even joined the force.  After the package was signed the city had the necessary funds to hire them.  So Barry has saved 25 jobs thus far.  Not bad for an $800 billion dollar investment.  Let's not forget that the stimulus bill (I use the term loosely) has less than 10% that will actually stimulate anything.  Unless you believe the economy can be stimulated by $650 million in coupons for set top boxes, $150 million for the Smithsonian and $1 billion for Amtrak who has not turned a profit in 40 years. So, Barry saved 25 jobs, but will someone from this administration tell me how they are going to create jobs.

I believe this quote found in the AP sums it up best.

"You created a situation where you cannot be wrong, "the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Montana Democrat Max Baucus, told Geithner last week.

"If the economy loses 2 million jobs over the next few years, you can say yes, but it would've lost 5.5 million jobs.  If we create a million jobs, you can say, well, it would have lost 2.5 million jobs, "Baucus said.  "You've given yourself complete leverage where you cannot be wrong, because you can take any scenario and make yourself look correct."

Well if Baucus only knew that Barry's administration intends on making themselves look correct on everything they do, no matter how wrong they might be.

RR

As a black conservative in America my feelings about having the first black president are mixed at best.  I understand that this is a momentous occasion in our Nation's history.  The problem I have is no one seems to care about his policies or his character, but only that he is black.  I am an American and  Americans come in all different colors.  I just happen to be a black American.  In addition, I am also a Christian Conservative.  I did not and would not for Barry Obama.  I am not sure if that makes me a racist, but to some if not all here in the city of Chicago I am probably considered a sell out.  Well if voting for what I belive to be true, then so be it.  It is said that over 95% of blacks voted for barry.  I know I didn't and Dr. Sowell didn't so I am in good company.  If the same number of whites voted for or supported a white canidate, then they would be considered racists.  The same applies to blacks.  I understand it is historic (although I did not listen to his speech) that a half black man has been elected.  I just wonder where the hell some of these same people were when Michael Steele ran for Lt. Governor or when Dr. Sowell got his Ph.d.