THE DAILY FISH 14 FEBRUARY 2009 - "Valentine's Day Massacre of the Constitution"

My Dear Friends and Fellow Patriots.

Alea Iacta Est.

To no one’s surprise, the Senate voted for the trillion-dollar waste of our money last night. Coming on the heels of approval (or is it the approval by the heels) of the House, only the President’s signature is needed to make this law.

For the second time, the House Republicans banded together and not one voted for this truly dangerous bill. For the second time, three despicable alleged Republicans voted for it making it veto-proof.

One expects lies, prevarications, amelioration of fact, self-loathing and an undercurrent of Anti-American feelings by the Democrats, but to be thrown under the bus by Snowe, Collins and Specter is truly disturbing.

(To be fair, they are not exactly strong Republicans. Proof of this is their being referred to as “moderate Republicans” in the press. This is the same as calling the reptilian Reid as a “moderate Democrat.”)

I would be more forgiving, more understanding and more accepting of the passage of this pile of offal if those voting for it could defend their vote.

The ink was hardly dry on the document when it was sent for a vote. At over a thousand pages it tests credulity that any of the Member of Congress read it in its entirety. It is unlikely that many, if any, had their staffs divvy up the tome and have it read by committee.

It is equally likely that there are some dangerous, critical and threatening aspects included in the agate print of this disaster. Truly, at this point I am less concerned about raising spending 30% as to what is actually in this bill.

No, I have not read it. No, I do not know all the particulars about it. No, I can not cite one sentence to prove my point. And neither have the 535 people who voted on it. Or, is it 537? (More on that statement soon.)

But, I will read it, and I will not be shocked by its contents. Yet, we all will be affected and effected by it and by now it is too late. (And remember, I am the optimist.)

By now many of you are thinking that I am unfair, that I am being over-critical and that I have taken leave of my senses.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Take for instance the lies of Sen. Schumer. (For some reason, his office does not like it when I refer to him as Sen. Schemer. I advise that was a function of my spell-check.) (How many of you have just typed “Schumer” and spell-checked it?)(Told you) One day, he says that there is no pork in the bill, the bill that is nothing but pork and bribes. The next day he says that the American Sheeple do not care if there is a little pork. Which way is it Chuckie-baby? No pork, some pork, either way you lied at least once. Even though I have called the Senator on his aversion to truth, he refuses to contact me, debate me or sue me. I wonder why.

But, he is just the poster boy for the miscreants and malcontents masquerading as legislators. I would take up too much of this particular FISH if I listed them all.

Yet, as reprehensible as Schumer is, he is a piker compared to my personal bête noire, Harry Reid.

I would have more, any actually, respect for Reid if he had the gonadature to advise of all that was in the bill and give the Senators a few weeks to read over and digest the bill. The haste that he created in getting this piece of junk to vote makes one suspicious. And even with all the haste he delayed the voting until the very big liberal Sherrod Brown of Ohio to return from his mothers wake to cast the vote that would seal the deal. (My condolences go out to the Brown family. The death of a family member is always a sad occurrence.)

Even this was not without politics. The White House arranged a plane to fly Brown back and forth from Ohio as there were not commercial flights available for his being able to make the trip and return in time for Reid to break another promise.

(So, it is OK to charter a Member of Congress to ensure that an anointed piece of legislature gets passed and it is swell that Queen Nan of San Fran gets her own jumbo jet for her use but the Big 3 had to give up their jets? Jets that were actually earning money for the auto makers. And people wonder why this country is sliding down a slippery slope to servitude?)

You see, Reid promised that there would be at least 48 hours for inspection of the bill. Evelyn Bleeding Wood could not read a thousand-plus page pile of legislative legerdemain and make heads or tails out of it. However the best politicians that money can buy were given roughly 10-12 hours to become familiar with all its points, nuances and the like. Thanks for the 48 hours, Senator.

Makes little difference, it is all moot. Reid is pulling the levels and his Democrat minions are marching in lock step. All it took was a little arm-twisting of Snowe, capitalizing on Collins subnormal intellect and $6.6 Billion dollars for Specter’s pet projects to seal the fate of our Country. That’s all it took. The White House is putting us in the Poor House.

The “genius”, easily manipulated, self-proclaimed war “hero”, serial wealthy-woman marrier, John Kerry made one of the more scary speeches, even for him, in recent memory.

In a nutshell, he sold his and our souls to socialism. Bloviating that the bill was necessary, nay critical, because We the Sheeple are just too damn stupid to know how to spend our own money. He opined that giving back or letting us keep our hard-earned dough would not satisfy the needs of the new four-year plan.

Ya know, he is right.

I would do something silly like make a house payment, buy groceries, get more tailored shirts that I do not need, perhaps a new TV (since my presidentially promised plasma has not arrived) instead of doing something really productive for the state such as build new buildings for gov’t agencies (even though the gov’t owns thousands of empty buildings already that the gov’t can’t sell or even knock them down, it’s blocked by, you guessed it, Congress), or millions for fire houses (not one of the enumerated legislative things found in the Constitution), or spend hundreds of millions on hybrid cars (and at the same time dumping hundreds of millions of dollars worth of good used cars that the gov’t is currently using on the used car market, further depressing that market and impacting the Big 3 to whom they just gave billions) or other such frivolities.

Indeed, We the Sheeple are too stupid to spend our own money, these knuckleheads do a far better job at it than we!

And Kerry said it, he actually said the gov’t knows how to spend money for us better. He actually said it!

But this is just small potatoes (is that the correct spelling, Mr. Quayle?) compared to what is coming next. Other than the possibility of naming up to three justices for the SCOUTUS, other than doing an end-around the Constitution (yes, that same pesky document that keeps almost getting in the way of all the great plans the administration wants to do against We the People –see: Article 1, Section 8, P17) to give DC representation in the House, the President is looking to add to Rahmbo’s already full plate.

When not teaching disadvantaged kids how to curse (this was actually said by Shecky Obama) Rahmbo might be tasked with redrawing the Congressional Districts after the 2010 Census is delivered. I guess since they can not find any one honest enough or dumb enough to take the Sec Commerce gig, someone will have to gerrymander the CD’s.

But, that is food for a FISH for some other day.

Please pass this on to your Liberal friends, it is doubtful that they are aware of any of this.

I am John and I approve this message!

Br strong, keep the faith and pray. (While you can.)

God Bless

John

American-American

PS: As always, I appreciate and welcome your thoughts, ideas, comments, criticisms and remember, it’s only a trillion dollars. So far. Distribution with attribution, please. To be added to THE DAILY FISH, please send an email to: Jaksavin@aol.com with the words “ADD TO FISH” in the comment subject line (and anything else you care to write in the body.) To be deleted, same address with “DELETE FROM FISH” in the subject line. Thanks!

Obama's Rhetoric Is the Real 'Catastrophe'

(Compiler's note: A must read article)

By BRADLEY R. SCHILLER

President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.

AP

In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today's economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.

This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics. It is bad history because our current economic woes don't come close to those of the 1930s. At worst, a comparison to the 1981-82 recession might be appropriate. Consider the job losses that Mr. Obama always cites. In the last year, the U.S. economy shed 3.4 million jobs. That's a grim statistic for sure, but represents just 2.2% of the labor force. From November 1981 to October 1982, 2.4 million jobs were lost -- fewer in number than today, but the labor force was smaller. So 1981-82 job losses totaled 2.2% of the labor force, the same as now.

Job losses in the Great Depression were of an entirely different magnitude. In 1930, the economy shed 4.8% of the labor force. In 1931, 6.5%. And then in 1932, another 7.1%. Jobs were being lost at double or triple the rate of 2008-09 or 1981-82.

This was reflected in unemployment rates. The latest survey pegs U.S. unemployment at 7.6%. That's more than three percentage points below the 1982 peak (10.8%) and not even a third of the peak in 1932 (25.2%). You simply can't equate 7.6% unemployment with the Great Depression.

Other economic statistics also dispel any analogy between today's economic woes and the Great Depression. Real gross domestic product (GDP) rose in 2008, despite a bad fourth quarter. The Congressional Budget Office projects a GDP decline of 2% in 2009. That's comparable to 1982, when GDP contracted by 1.9%. It is nothing like 1930, when GDP fell by 9%, or 1931, when GDP contracted by another 8%, or 1932, when it fell yet another 13%.

Auto production last year declined by roughly 25%. That looks good compared to 1932, when production shriveled by 90%. The failure of a couple of dozen banks in 2008 just doesn't compare to over 10,000 bank failures in 1933, or even the 3,000-plus bank (Savings & Loan) failures in 1987-88. Stockholders can take some solace from the fact that the recent stock market debacle doesn't come close to the 90% devaluation of the early 1930s.

Mr. Obama's analogies to the Great Depression are not only historically inaccurate, they're also dangerous. Repeated warnings from the White House about a coming economic apocalypse aren't likely to raise consumer and investor expectations for the future. In fact, they have contributed to the continuing decline in consumer confidence that is restraining a spending pickup. Beyond that, fearmongering can trigger a political stampede to embrace a "recovery" package that delivers a lot less than it promises. A more cool-headed assessment of the economy's woes might produce better policies.

“Islam in America’s Classrooms: History or Propaganda?”

An Eye-Opening Report

Dear Sarah,

I’m delighted to announce that the Mission Viejo (California) chapter of ACT! for America, in partnership with the United American Committee, have just completed a concise, well-documented, readable report on how Islam is being presented in our public schools.

This is a great service to all of us, and an exciting testimony to what is happening in the ACT! for America citizen action network. I am so proud of our chapter leaders and what they are doing!

This is a report you absolutely must read!

In this report you’ll learn how the violent history of Islam is being whitewashed in our public schools…how the claims of Islam are presented as facts…and how students are required to participate in activities such as memorizing verses from the Qur’an. I discuss this in detail and give examples of schools across America in my book They Must Be Stopped.

Click here to view or print out the report.

In addition to reading the report yourself, please forward this message to everyone you know who would be concerned about what’s being taught in our schools.

I want to thank and commend the ACT! for America Mission Viejo Chapter and the United American Committee for a job well-done.

Always devoted,



Brigitte Gabriel
www.actforamerica.org

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