Barack Obama's Alternate Realities

All the “right” experts and political consultants are urging Republican office holders and candidates to “avoid the social issues.” No such advice is directed at President Obama and the Democrats, who, sensing weakness and lack of resolve, have stepped up their war on traditional values.

In a Tea Party Tribune post, the blogger Mr. Curmudgeon marvels at the spectacle of Barack Obama speaking to Planned Parenthood while the murder trial of grisly Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell unfolds.

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Posted May 1, 2013 on TeaPartyUnity.org

Obama's War on Reality

Language is the key to public perceptions. According to Tea Party Tribune blogger Mr. Curmudgeon, the President of the United States, as evidenced by his initial statement following the Boston Marathon bombing,  is fostering illusions for his own purposes.

President Obama is at war; not with terrorism but the average American’s perception of reality. Using the royal “We,” Obama insists federal, state and local police agencies are the sole and relentless gatherers of “facts.” That criminal courts, not the thinking public, are exclusively suited to discern these facts and render non-conclusion-jumping judgments, using their supernatural ability to divine the “motivations of these [jihadist] individuals.”

Obama’s assumption, then, is that truth is the sole domain of Washington’s ruling class, disseminated by the high, holy councils of authority to the unwashed masses below.

Terrorism, government-run health care, high unemployment, a contracting economy and the erosion of individual liberty, say the president and his supporters, are simple matters of perception … their perception. Those whose thinking deviates from the authoritarian hold of officially sanctioned reality are considered dangerous and outside the mainstream – extremists even.

Read more.  --Posted on Tea Party Unity on April 25, 2013

Boston Marathon Bombings and Obama's Phantom War on Terrorism

Tea Party Unity steering committee member Don Feder pulls no punches. In the following column, he takes an unvarnished look at the politics and media surrounding the Boston Marathon bombings and other incidents.

Barack Obama promised to get to the bottom of the latest terrorist incident – or his middle name isn't Hussein. Secretary of State John Kerry called the bombing in his hometown "simply unacceptable." (Hey, it worked with North Korea's nuclear program, didn't it?). Senator Dianne Feinstein says she's preparing a bill to ban large-capacity pressure cookers. (Really, do civilians need them?) Hillary blamed an Internet video mocking Muhammad for the carnage. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano deplored the "man-caused disaster" and DHS has begun rounding up the usual Christian suspects.

I thought of these possible headlines on Monday, while contemplating the "horrific act of violence" (in media-speak) about 20 miles from my home. What do we know about the Boston Marathon bombings and Obama's phantom war on terrorism?

       1. The date was significant. April 15 is the day Boston celebrates the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which marked the start of America's struggle for nationhood. It's also Israel's Independence Day. Muslim terrorists like to attack on dates with symbolic significance. (The Benghazi attack occurred on the anniversary of 9-11.) Would it be so surprising if they struck on a day special for the two nations they hate most in the world?

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Posted on TeaPartyUnity.org on April 18, 2013.

Why Tea Parties Are Skeptical about Establishment Republicans

Fisker Automotive, a “green” electric car company that absorbed $529 million in taxpayer subsidies, is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. Like Solyndra and other pork-laden companies before it, Fisker has made tax dollars vanish and laid off the majority of its employees.

In a revealing posting on TeaPartyTribune, “Obama, Electric Cars, Crony Capitalists and Establishment Republicans,” the blogger who goes by the name of Mr. Curmudgeon explores the story behind the story, which is the GOP establishment’s co-dependency in such ventures. 

Here’s an excerpt that wraps up the piece. For the full article, go to the end and click.

For far too long, the Tea Party has focused much of its ire on the person of Barack Hussein Obama. Whether it’s the debt ceiling, high taxes, expanding federal power or sweetheart deals showered on crony capitalists, establishment Republicans have been Obama’s ever loyal and constant companions. These same Republicans were furious when Mike Castle lost to Christine O’Donnell in 2010, denying them a possible majority in the Senate.

Castle’s good friend and Fox News political analyst Karl Rove had kittens the night of O’Donnell’s victory. “I’ve met her,” said Rove to Fox host Sean Hannity, “I wasn’t frankly impressed by her abilities as a candidate. One thing that O’Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn’t in the primary is her own checkered background.”

By all means, let’s examine the issue of checkered backgrounds. Republicans had majorities in both houses of Congress from 1994 through 2006. Did they use that majority to stop the explosive growth of government? No. Was the strength of their majority employed to stop the Government-

Sponsored Enterprises Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from infecting the global financial system with tainted mortgage-backed securities? No. Did they at any time attempt to reign in the Federal Reserve’s dangerous credit expansion that fueled America’s unsustainable housing bubble? No. The reason? Republicans like Mike Castle.

Castle happily wrote letters to Obama’s spendthrift Department of Energy to bring Delaware some green-energy bacon. He didn’t care that the underlying purpose of the enterprise was to reward Obama’s fundraisers at the taxpayer’s expense.

As the battle lines begin to form heading into the 2014 midterm elections, I want you to think of establishment Republicans as used electric car salesmen. They’ll smile, take you for a test drive, tell you to kick the tires and then ask you to sign on the dotted line. Don’t. It’s long past time we threw out the establishment bums. All of them.

Their continued success is Obama’s continued success. If you want to defeat President Obama’s agenda, you need to pull the plug on the political careers of the GOP’s worthless establishment lemons.

The thought of an establishment Republican shellacking at the hands of the Tea Party is, well, electrifying. 

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Posted by Robert Knight on TeaPartyUnity.org  April 12, 2013

Food Stamps Show Real State of the Economy

If the Great Recession ended in 2009, and the economy is so much better, then why are government assistance rolls going through the roof?

The short answer is that the economy is still awful, media cheerleading notwithstanding, and unemployment is still rampant. Businesses are wrestling with Obamacare and are reluctant to expand. The official unemployment number is just below 8 percent, but the real number, which includes people who have given up looking for jobs or are working part-time while looking for work, is closer to 15 percent.

The increases in public assistance have been truly stunning. Enrollment in food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has risen 70 percent since 2008, when 28.2 million collected food stamps. Now, nearly 48 million people get food stamps – 1 in every seven Americans.

Nearly two million people have been added to Social Security Disability. It’s what many people go on when their unemployment benefits run out. Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, has exploded from 45 million recipients in 2008 to 54 million.

Another reason for the boom in federal and state assistance is that the Obama Administration has been loosening requirements to get more people enrolled.  Seeing a new flow of cash from Washington, many states have gone along. 

In 2009, 17 states and territories eased eligibility requirements, “in some cases waiving any policy that restricted the assets a family could retain,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The change didn’t mean the majority of SNAP beneficiaries had large savings accounts. Rather, it meant that states were no longer checking, according to state guidelines and program officials.”

Remember how government pressure to virtually abandon eligibility requirements for mortgage loans induced millions of people to borrow money they could not hope to pay back? When the housing bubble burst and crashed the stock market in 2008, it sucked billions out of people’s life savings that were tied to stocks. 

Now, even as the economy is sputtering, the federal government is pumping up another huge bubble of debt, with taxpayers directly on the hook.

The trend toward making more people dependent on government aid –and expanding a reliable liberal voting bloc – is no accident. The Obama Administration has been aggressively pursuing this, even buying advertising to get people to sign up for various programs, especially food stamps.

As the Journal puts it, “by expanding the pool of potential applicants, they [government officials] are redrawing the landscape of government assistance.”

At the same time, they are accomplishing what Barack Obama promised five days before his inauguration in 2009:  “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

The only force capable of stopping this transformation of America from a self-governing republic into a socialist welfare state is the renewed energy and commitment of America’s Tea Parties.  Fearing retribution, several liberal U.S. senators have already announced that they won’t run for re-election in 2014.

They probably don’t want to have to explain why they backed Obamacare, which by then will be exposed as the expensive, dangerous monstrosity that gave birth to the Tea Party opposition – and will fuel another uprising in 2014.

--Robert Knight for TeaPartyUnity.org  March 28, 2013