High Ground Underground

When I heard that in Tucson a U.S. representative, and a Federal judge, as well as several other innocent bystanders had been shot and some killed, I hadn’t yet heard what the party affiliation of the representative (or judge) was, but felt immediately it was an attack against democracy, as any assassination attempt is. And it made me shocked and angry. That didn’t change when I learned it was a Democrat Representative. What did change, was when we almost immediately began to hear a tirade from almost every media commentator, and the Pima County sheriff, about how this was a result of the inflamed political rhetoric of the Right, the Tea Party, and certain conservative spokespeople. A sheriff, of all people, should rely more on evidence, and be circumspect about personal opinion. There was then, and there is now, no evidence whatsoever that the shooter was aligned with or listened to or influenced by any of them – in fact, perhaps that was his problem – talk shows could have kept h...

Here is Allysia Finley discussing her controversial Wall Street Journal Opinion article on "California: the Lindsay Lohan of States" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703506904575592612400443370.html#dummy). We have $70 B of general obligation debt, and $500 B unfunded pension liability. Her article says CA government is run by a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public sector unions & legislative bums. We're borrowing over $40M a day to pay for public employee pensions. Sound like Greece? Michael Barone noted that the GOP gained over 670 seats in state legislatures & governors, in addition to the gains in the US Congress.

The “Shellacking” Clearly Nov. 2, 2010 was a very good day for the country, in restoring some fiscal and constitutional sanity, with a historical 61 GOP seats gained in the House, and several in the Senate. We did, indeed, fire Pelosi, and I may now need to modify my byline – we’re now no longer completely out of power. Now they’d better do what they were sent there to do – lower spending & government growth, stop tax increases, and repeal the most egregious parts of Obamacare, if the entire bill is not found unconstitutional in the multi-state attorneys general case. But Obama & his cohorts appear to continue to be tone deaf in understanding the reasons for their reversal of fortune. And this does not bode especially well for the battles ahead. They believe, apparently still, that it was just some irrational fear & lashing out due to the poor economy, and the electorate’s ignorance of the greatness of what he’s done – maybe only in part because he hasn’t explained it w...

And here's Jerry Brown confessing "It's all a lie": http://www.megwhitman.com/media/video/11821/ In other news, Obama on Jon Stewart: "Yes, we can, BUT....." Obama & the Dems/Libs/Left denounce opposition to them & their agenda as based on irrational fear. Right, and who is it that invokes that ultimate fear of the Left by labeling us Nazis? Or fascists? Or that we'll be plunged into the Dark Ages if we return Republicans to power? If you think about it, though, staggering debts and alarming government growth are irrational things to be feared.

Here's my considerably revised letter to the editor, still trying to get published [update 10/29/10 -- it was published today in the local Daily Breeze]: "If ever there were a time to vote for change, it is now, for our formerly great state – before we can no longer dig ourselves out. Surely California can do much better than Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer, with their long, failed political careers and policies that have only exacerbated California’s economic crisis. The well-worn quote bears repeating until heard: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -- Albert Einstein. Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina provide exactly what the doctor ordered to turn around the exodus of businesses -- our tax base -- and citizens, and restore fiscal sanity. What gall, to accuse Fiorina and Whitman of making difficult business decisions to save their businesses in the very climate Boxer and Brown have fostered! Those taxes, extremist policies ...

Campaign 2010 is in now in full swing. Democrat die-hards and their media allies are pulling out all the stops and slinging mud . Incapable of taking on the real issues and defending their abysmal performance on the economy, etc., they have a whole army of information thugs digging up any dirt they can find on Republican and Tea Party candidates. More typical Leftist smear tactics. The things they’re coming up with clearly indicate their level of desperation. They ridicule O’Donnell for having hung out briefly in high school with friends dabbling in witchcraft, and say that’s beneath the dignity of Congress. And yet clowns like Al Franken and Steven Colbert are not? Or those who more than dabbled in drugs or terrorism in college, or more recently and to this day more than dabble in Marxism/socialism, such as a number of Obama’s cohorts? And for all their liberal tolerance and inclusiveness, are they really so willing to offend the Wicken vote? Maybe so, since they’re too smal...

From the Campaign Trail First, some observations from recent TV spots run by California Democrat candidates. Here’s a still-relevant statement by Bill Clinton during an earlier presidential primary race: “Jerry Brown continues to reinvent himself.” Now Brown's seen the writing on the wall of the Tea Party movement (and California’s financial disaster) and is touting living within our means! After championing living outside our means for many years. Of course, being liberal means never having to say you’re sorry, or wrong – you just go on like nothing happened. Liberals seem to have a blindspot when it comes to consistency, introspection & hypocrisy. Another example of that is when Barbara Boxer has the audacity and stupidity to blame Carly Fiorina for her outsourcing HP jobs abroad when she was CEO. Of course the rest of the story is that the Democrats’ negative business climate (taxes, regulations) has driven business and jobs out of California in droves, and forced bus...