Canada Free Press: Laser-like Focus

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Michael Oberndorf, RPA

The election of a president in this country has become anything other than a contest among qualified executives willing to work as a public servant to the American people, for four arduous years. Instead, it has become a) a huge, years-long distraction, used by the left to take attention away from the continuous flow of destructive bills, executive orders, regulations, administrative rules, and legislation disguised as judicial rulings from judges at every level of the judiciary; b) a huge business worth several billion dollars, that ties up thousands of people who should be doing something productive, but in fact, do even less of value than the “green energy industry;” and c) as a result of a) and b), keeps people from expending the time and attention needed to elect honest, capable, Constitution-supporting senators and representatives. A quick look at the current Congress and the state of the country should leave not a shadow of a doubt in anyone’s mind that this is true.


The simple truth is that it really doesn’t matter much who is president, if Congress has a majority of members who are honest, honorable men and women who actively support adherence to the Constitution. They are the ones who produce and pass legislation and budgets, not the president. All the president can do is make suggestions and sign or veto what is passed. Indeed, even “executive orders” can be neutered by Congress by refusing to authorize the funding to implement them. With a solid majority in Congress, vetoes can be over-ridden, and corrupt and lawless officials can be impeached, something which the current Congress seems to have completely, and with cowardice aforethought, forgotten.

To illustrate how worthless Congress has become, there are some 28 bills passed by the House, aimed at solving all sorts of budgetary and economic problems, that are trapped by Harry Reid and his lock-step (or should I say goose-step?) Democrats, in Senate committees. Other than some perfunctory and very subdued whining by a few House Republicans, no effort has been made to generate the country-wide public outrage needed to force the Senate to get these bills to the floor for a vote. Claiming that the Senate will only vote the bills down is another phony, misguided concept, used to justify craven inaction. If Democrats and their RINO running dogs vote against bills that contain real solutions to real problems, this becomes – if nothing else - a lethal political club to bludgeon them with in the 2012 elections.


Another fact that has just come out is that in just the past 10 months, the Republican-controlled House, many of whose members got elected on a platform of reducing the deficit, stopping the addictive borrowing and spending, and cutting the budget, has instead, voted to increase spending, and thus the deficit, by over a trillion dollars. Clearly, Obama-Soetoro and the Marxist mafia are not the only ones lying to We, the People. Republican misleaders Boehner, McConnell, et al., and the running dogs in the Republican establishment appear confident that we believe anything they tell us, and that we really weren’t serious about wanting the country to remain a free, capitalist, constitutional republic.

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GOP PRESIDENTIAL RACE--TWISTS and TURNS

Election 2012: Obama 47%, Santorum 37%--Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum earns his highest level of support to date but still trails President Obama by double digits in their latest hypothetical Election 2012 matchup.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/archive/election_2012_archive/december_2011/election_2012_obama_47_santorum_37

RIGHT FACE: HERE WE GO AGAIN! IS JEB BUSH BACK IN THE GAME? WHAT ABOUT SARAH PALIN? 85% THINK THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED!
Jeb Bush wrote an opinion article Monday for the Wall Street Journal where he discussed Capitalism and Economic Freedom. That the Freedom to Succeed and the Freedom to Fail MUST be allowed in the American economic system. Rush Limbaugh praised Bush's article as something he would have written or Ronald Reagan saying, "In fact, I have written this!" Here is some of what Bush said...” Think about it. We talk about the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to assembly. The right to rise doesn't seem like something we should have to protect. But we do. We have to make it easier for people to do the things that allow them to rise. We have to let them compete. We need to let people fight for business. We need to let people take risks. We need to let people fail. We need to let people suffer the consequences of bad decisions. And we need to let people enjoy the fruits of good decisions, even good luck. “
http://www.rightface.us/forum/topics/here-we-go-again-is-jeb-bush-back-in-the-game-what-about-sarah-pa

How about a Bush/Palin ticket?  hmmm....That would be interesting!  ~Lynn

Thomas Sowell: The Past and the Present

TOWNHALL.COM

December 20, 2011

If  Newt Gingrich were being nominated for sainthood, many of us would vote very differently from the way we would vote if he were being nominated for a political office.

What the media call Gingrich's "baggage" concerns largely his personal life and the fact that he made a lot of money running a consulting firm after he left Congress. This kind of stuff makes lots of talking points that we will no doubt hear, again and again, over the next weeks and months.

But how much weight should we give to this stuff when we are talking about the future of a nation?

This is not just another election and Barack Obama is not just another president whose policies we may not like. With all of President Obama's broken promises, glib demagoguery and cynical political moves, one promise he has kept all too well. That was his boast on the eve of the 2008 election: "We are going to change the United States of America."



Many Americans are already saying that they can hardly recognize the country they grew up in. We have already started down the path that has led Western European nations to the brink of financial disaster.

Internationally, it is worse. A president who has pulled the rug out from under our allies, whether in Eastern Europe or the Middle East, tried to cozy up to our enemies, and has bowed low from the waist to foreign leaders certainly has not represented either the values or the interests of America. If he continues to do nothing that is likely to stop terrorist-sponsoring Iran from getting nuclear weapons, the consequences can be beyond our worst imagining.

Against this background, how much does Newt Gingrich's personal life matter, whether we accept his claim that he has now matured or his critics' claim that he has not? Nor should we sell the public short by saying that they are going to vote on the basis of tabloid stuff or media talking points, when the fate of this nation hangs in the balance.


Even back in the 19th century, when the scandal came out that Grover Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock -- and he publicly admitted it -- the voters nevertheless sent him to the White House, where he became one of the better presidents.

Do we wish we had another Ronald Reagan? We could certainly use one. But we have to play the hand we were dealt. And the Reagan card is not in the deck.




MORE:
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/12/20/the_past_and_the_present

David Limbaugh: About Those Self-Evident Truths

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident..." What truths? What has happened to our passion for liberty? I am concerned that we conservatives, instead of making our case as fearless champions of liberty, are too often on the defensive, preoccupied with trying to prove we aren't the demons the left says we are. In the GOP primary contest, you'll hear one candidate scolding the others for lacking compassion, another demagoguing a rival for advocating essential entitlement reform, and another shaming an opponent for being too wealthy.


CONTINUED:http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/12/16/about_those_selfevident_truths

Rick Perry’s New Campaign Promise: ‘I’ll End Obama‘s War on Religion’

I like this ad--why is Perry always better in the ads then on interviews and debates?
Has President Barack Obama declared an open war on religion? While some would say with certainty that he has, others would openly defend the president’s purported personal faith and devotion to the Almighty.


But GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, for one, believes that Obama has been less-than-friendly to people of faith in America.

In fact, in a new campaign advertisement running in Iowa, Perry takes some hard jabs at the president’s faith record, while attempting to rally evangelicals. The 30-second spot starts with Perry saying, “I‘m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian.”

VIDEO AND MORE:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rick-perrys-new-campaign-promise-ill-end-obamas-war-on-religion/

Heritage Foundation Asks: Which Presidential Candidate Will Protect America?

Heritage Foundation and CNN will co-sponsor Presidential Debate on Defense and Foreign Policy--Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 8:00 pm on CNN

http://www.heritage.org/

Iowa Thanksgiving Family Forum today at 5pm ET

By Nate, on November 19th, 2011

Six GOP candidates will be participating in a forum focused on social issues hosted by The Family Leader this afternoon at 5pm ET. The event takes place at the First Federated Church in Des Moines, Iowa. There will be no television broadcast since C-SPAN reversed its decision to broadcast the event citing budgetry reasons. Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman were also invited, however, both declined the invitation.

Live Stream: CitizenLink.com (Around 5pm ET)
Audio Stream: Bott Radio Network (Around 4:30pm ET)

Participants: Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Paul, Perry, Santorum

Details from The Family Leader:  http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/

Democrats Introduce Legislation to Seal Obama’s Presidential Records

In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats has introduced legislation to create an official process that will allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office.


Ironically, Obama revoked a similar George W. Bush order in one of his first official acts as president. In 2001 Bush penned an executive order severely limiting public access to his presidential records. Shortly after swearing in, Obama killed it as part of his much-ballyhooed commitment to government transparency. At the time, the new president claimed that he was giving the American people greater access to “historic documents.”

CONTINUED:  http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/oct/dems-want-law-keep-obama-records-secret