That’s Right Nate

One thing that has been omitted from the main stream media’s reporting of the current Tiger Woods marriage fiasco is exactly what President Obama knew and when he knew it.  It would be pure folly to assume that Wood would automatically confide in Obama beause they are both black.  However, their connection is far closer than that.   Remember, while both Woods and Obama have ties to the black community, they also have ties to the Indonesian community.  It is quite possible that like Obama, Woods may also be a secret Muslim for all we know.

As other conservative blogs have pointed out, the similarities between Obama and Woods are astounding.   In the case of Tiger Woods, he was packaged by the media as one of the greatest golfer’s of all time, but turned out to be a bust because of his infidelity.   While Obama has appeared to be faithful to his wife, he was falsely held up as a great public speaker.  However, I’m not as interested in their commonalities as I am in their shared background.  I believe that there can be no doubt that Tiger Woods and Barack Obama have confided in each other.   The only question is what did Obama know about Woods’ affairs and when did he know it?

If Obama did know of Woods’ infidelity he had a responsibility to share this with Tiger’s wife and the American people.  By remaining silent Obama has caused a national tragedy–one that the Bush administration was able to avoid.  At this point, only a special prosecutor can get to the bottom of this tangled web of deceit and lies. If, as I suspect, Obama has confided in Woods about his nationality and Muslim beliefs, it may well be a matter of national security that a special prosecutor be appointed to look at the Woods affairs and subsequent cover up.   Could his stonewalling of police been to protect President Obama?  I would not be surprised.

I make no secret that I am politcally conservative and while I try to hear both sides to every issue, I do tend to vote Republican.   I don’t think that’s such a bad thing because I am extremely open minded and would definitely try to praise the democrats on issues we agree on like education.  Conversely, I would criticize the Republicans if they ever did something I didn’t approve of.  I hold myself to high journalistic standards for fair and balanced coverage of important events.

For those reasons, when I graded President Obama on his first 200 days, I looked at the state of his Presidency with an open mind.   I can’t tell you how much it pains me that I find myself not only giving him a grade of F, but in stating categorically that he may be the worst President in the history of the world.   Let’s look at Obama’s failures:

• The economy is a shambles
• We are at war with two different countries at the same time.  Afghanistan looks like a real quagmire
• North Korea and Iran appear to be ready to develop nuclear missiles
• The moral leadership of the President has been so lax that senators and even governors are having affairs
• There is tremendous outrage over his health care initiative

Now, President Obama will probably somehow try and blame all his shortcomings on George Bush.  I find that so tedious.   You know who didn’t blame his troubles on other people?  Baby Jesus.  It would have been very easy for him to grow up to be a bitter community organizing after being born in a manger and everything.  It seems the only thing Barrack and Baby Jesus have in common is not being born in this country.  To me that’s just sad.

Obama is bankrupting this country.   Do you know how much it cost us to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? $0 dollars.  If you don’t believe me check the budgets sometime.   George Bush also found a way to create a $900 billion prescription program for seniors without having to pay for it.   That’s the kind of sound financial management that Obama is clearly lacking.

I also graded the Congressional Republicans and I’m happy to say, they get an A.   Not only have they made witty music videos and pithy symbolic use of tea, they also have refused to take part in an evil agenda:

• Have refused to support euthanizing seniors to harvest their organs
• Have refused to support fast tracking illegal aliens as government doctors
• Have refused to support Supreme Court Justices who support repealing the second amendment
• Have refused to support the stimulus package until money was going to their district and then they sort of took credit for it.

This is a great time to be a Republican.  Our leaders in congress are the type that Henry Clay and Daniel Webster would have been if they had Youtube to work with.   Thank goodness, they’re watching out for us.

The RNC launched a new website and talking point today and I think they’ve got a winner!  They caution that Obama’s healthcare program is a risky experiment with America’s future.  In fact they go on to say that Obama’s entire Presidency has been one experiment after another.   This to me is not only truthful, it’s also brilliant.   You know who does experiments? scientists.  You know who doesn’t have to? Jesus.

Barack Obama is like one of those scientists.   Always trying to figure out what to do next?  When there’s a problem or worse yet, a crisis Obama tries to figure out exactly what series of actions he takes will lead him to the right answer.   This is known as the scientific method and includes the following steps:

1. Ask a question
2. Do basic research
3. Construct a hypothesis
4. Test hypothesis with an experiment
5. Analyze results
6. Draw conclusion
7. Report results

This is the same type of thinking that brought about crackpot science like evolution, the big bang theory, global warming, and astronomy.  I do not trust people who think in this kind of orderly processed way.

By contrast George Bush was a man of faith.  If he wanted to know what to do, he was guided by his Republican principles and God.   With George Bush you never had to wonder if he was experimenting with you or even if he was tracking the results.  President Bush knew that if his faith told him to do something, that was what to do.

I don’t know.  Maybe some folks one some kind of egghead reasoning machine as President, but I don’t.  Give me a decider any day of the week and I’ll leave the experiments for the science guys.

People, it’s time to stand up for your rights.   The Socialists…I mean Democrats seem bound and determined to put a public health care plan in place to compete directly with our good old American private insurance companies.   At patientpowernow.org, they come right out and say it, “If the “public plan” is so good, show, do not tell.  Show us by creating a better product on the the (unfree) market, and let consumers decide.  Do not tell us it’s better and make it a crime for taxpayers not to fund it.”

That’s a clear and concise summary of the issue.  If the government can make such a great plan, then why should tax payers fund it?   The always insightful Heritage Foundation claims, “The likely incentives for government officials would be to set rules to advantage the government’s own health plan and to disadvantage the private health plans, including setting the government’s health plan premiums artificially low, reducing or eliminating cost-sharing requirements, or more heavily subsidizing certain benefits to make the government health plan more attractive than the private health plans. These plans would operate without incurring any of the normal financial risks that private health plans must bear.”

I couldn’t agree more.   We can’t expect a publicly funded enterprise to compete fairly with a privately funded one.  What’s odd though is that the Heritage Foundation is also a big advocate for increasing charter schools in this country.   Since charter schools are privately run schools  that compete directly with public schools in a system with public school districts are player and umpire in pretty much exactly the same way.  Of course the answer is simple–eliminate public schools in this country and let the charters provide education in a free market system.  We know that charters are better than public schools, but they score poorer on standardized tests than their public counterparts because it’s the public school districts that create the tests through the State Boards of Education.

It’s already troubling that UPS and Fed Ex are expected to compete with the United States Post Office, but the increased funding in the stimulus plan for public transportation is only going hurt the auto industry’s attempts to rebound.   Why would anybody buy a $50,000 car and fill it with expensive gasoline when you can ride on the tax payer’s back plus a buck or two?  Don’t even get me started on public broadcasting.

I’ve never even liked government funded roads.  I believe that the government went way above their Constitutional powers when it built the first national road in 1806.  Privately funded roads like the Lancaster Turnpike were doing just fine before the government got involved.   Let’s get the government out of businesses better left to private companies like roads, mail delivery, education, transportation, security, and insurance.   Socialism is not the American way.

Today, Obama got a bit more forceful about Iran saying, “We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people.”  Unfortunately, he uses large words and by the time it gets translated into Farsi, it’s going to read as having the same impact as telling a waiter that you ordered your steak medium and he gave you medium.  The key to being forceful is to to call Iran evil.   For 8 years it worked quite well for George Bush and that’s why Republicans like myself are so disappointed to see Obama do away with the Bush strategy.

The key to being successful when dealing with Iran is to use strong language–exactly what Obama is avoiding.   Another technique is to threaten.   Obama refuses to do this because he doesn’t reallize that you don’t actually have to carry through on a threat for it to be effective.  Tell Iran that if another protester is so much as touched, we will be dropping a nuclear bomb in the center of Tehran.  We don’t actually need to do this, but that kind of rhetoric will get the Iranians to quickly cave.   Threaten them that we will send a massive army to conquer the country.  It doesn’t matter that we don’t have troops to spare.

I learned these lessons from my father.   One of the best parts of growing up was when my sister and I would get in trouble.   My dad would always tell us he was going to kick us out of the house or that he wouldn’t let mom give us food anymore.   The threats would get larger and larger and so totally preposterous that even at 7 I didn’t believe them.  I knew the odds of putting all my toys on a rocket ship and shooting them off into space was well beyond my father’s capabilities.  Still, the threats were great.   Eventually my sister and I would look forward into getting into trouble just so we could hear what threat my dad came up with next.   We used to love telling our friends about them.   This is exactly the approach that we Republicans want Obama to take with Iran.  Let’s make this a Happy Father’s Day in Iran by letting some good threats fly.

Notre Dame's picturesque campus is known for gargoyles and Touchdown Jesus

[I normally don't repost articles, but Congressman Jack has been kind enough to let me repost his open letter to the University of Notre Dame.   He graduated from there in 1985 and while I am not fan of papists, his letter shines a lot of light on what a let down Notre Dame's decision to award an honorary degree to Barack Obama is to some alumni.   I will post again tomorrow, but today I'm busy with Tea Party 2.0.   If you would like us to tea bag you over the phone, its going to cost $1.99 per minute.   GOP operators are standing by and all major credit cards are accepted.]Dear President Father Jenkins,

As a 1985 graduate of Notre Dame, I have many fond memories of my time spent in our lady’s hallowed halls. Since graduating I have always remained proud of my alma matter and I have applied the moral training that I received at Notre Dame to my career in public office. As a member of Congress I am often called on to make tough moral decisions and it is my faith and the influence of Notre Dame and Ronald Reagan that allow me to make the tough choices.

It is for this reason I am writing to you to protest in the strongest terms your decision to have President Obama speak at this year’s Commencement Ceremony. A graduation speaker must uphold the values of the University he is speaking at and President Obama does not do this.

I remember my own graduation very vividly. When El Salvadoran President Juan Napoleon Duarte spoke to us, we knew that he was approaching us as a fellow Catholic and Notre Dame alumnus and that his faith had carried him through difficult times. When those nuns were murdered in his country by right wing death squads under his leadership he must have felt awful, but like Job in the Bible he persevered to continue fighting against socialism and for Catholic ideals in El Salvador.

My grandfather graduated from Notre Dame in 1942 and while World War II was in everybody’s thoughts, it was speaker J. Edgar Hoover who told the graduates about a world where law and order would be strictly enforced. This was another moral man who spoke with the convictions of our beautiful university. What Obama must understand is that the decision of Earl Warren (Commencement Speaker 1957) and his Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade is an anathema to Catholic teaching

Through the years, Notre Dame has had war heroes like William T. Sherman and politicians like President Bush speak at graduations and they have always been men of the highest character. How hypocritical is it of our great university to now ask somebody like Obama, who is quite probably secretly a Muslim, to speak. To go from a great fighter of socialism in Juan Napoleon Duarte to a socialist like Obama in the span of just 25 years is distressing and I fear for the future of Notre Dame. I am suspending my $20 annual contribution until this matter is rectified and a new football coach is hired.

Sincerely,
Representative Jack Kimble (Class of ’85)

7:02 – Fox is airing Lie to Me Instead.   Nobody gets Irony like Fox

7:03 – Did Obama really just tell those lazy goldbrick employees of mine to stay home when they’re sick?

7:04 – I’m sorry, but building an economy on maxed out credit cards is the American way.

7:06 – Yeah we get it.  You can pronounce nuclear correctly.  Big deal.

7:07 – Rewarding drive and innovation sounds like Obama code for socialism

7:11 – Obama is actually taking credit for having drugs on the Mexican border.  That’s like taking credit for having ice in Alaska

7:15 – Two word solution to Detroit’s problems — Monster Trucks!!

7:18 – OMG! Obama just admitted he wanted our cities to be bombed to smithereens

7:23 – It occurs to me we could combine the waterboarding with hand washing and protect ourselves from both terrorism and swine flu

7:25 – As far as I’m concerned Obama is just the opening act. I’m setting my DVR for the minute Governor Jindahl comes on screen for his response.

7:26 – Why is he asking Obama if we could secure Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal? This sounds like something to ask Tom Clancy

7:29 – CBS wins for best hair

7:30 – With the Democrats controlling the Presidency, they’re already able to ride roughshod over the Executive Branch. Where is the balance there?

7:37 – How can Notre Dame have a speaker who agree with the Warren (graduation speaker 1957) court on abortion? Except for Condi anyway.

7:38 – Did I miss something or did Facebook send a reporter to this thing?

7:43 – Yes President Obama if you could be a tree, an animal, a super hero, and a member of the Beatles? Which would you be? As a followup if you forward your answers to 10 friends in the next 10 minutes you will have an important policy initiative pass this week.

7:54 – We should drop Chryslers on al-qaeda and kill two birds with one stone

7:58 – “Rising up to the challenge of our rivals.  And the last known surivivor stalks his prey in the night  And his fortune must always be Eye of the Tiger,” Survivor.

8:00 – What the heck?  Where’s Bobby Jindahl?

At a time when Mexico’s government is rapidly falling into disrepair, I was outraged as an American citizen to see our President bowing and shaking hands with the President of Mexico’s dog.  While I understand that the recent summit was supposed to bring good will throughout the Americas this has gone to far.

Throughout Latin America, petty tyrants will use this image to give legitmacy to their governments and to their pets as well.  Congressman Jack Kimble (R-CA) called the Obama handshake, “a contemptible piece of foreign naievte.  I couldn’t tell the breed of that dog, but with the problems going on in Mexico, shouldn’t he have been sniffing for drugs?”

Say what you will about George Bush, he never failed to stand up for America’s place in the world.  His dealings with foreign dignitaries were above all dignified.  What we have in Obama is a man who will shake hands and bow with the pet of a foreign leader and that is not something this country can afford.

Despite only being in office for 10 weeks, President Obama never disappoints in his ability to disappoint.  The Obama’s family choice of  dog is no different.   They could have picked a good old American dog, perhaps a dalmatian in recognition of their years of service to the nation’s fire departments.  Instead they went with a foreigner–a Portuguese Water Hound.  One thing I noticed right away is that the dog has no eyes.  It seems incredibly cruel to me to give the girls a blind dog, but whatever.

Bo, the new “First Dog, ” got his start at the home of Art and Martha Stern, a couple from Boyd, Texas. The Sterns have bred Portuguese Water Dogs since 1997.  Is there a more elitist way to pick up a dog?   When I got Emily’s puppy, I picked it up as a private home as well.   The woman took me around and showed me the 50 or so dogs she had in cages and though a few of them had passed away by the time I got there, I had plenty to pick from.   She was a sickly dog, but extremely loyal.   After a couple of years we decided she had earned her freedom and set her loose in the forest preserve.  It was a tearful goodbye for a great dog.  I would have felt much better about the Obama dog if they had done it that way.  The puppy mills in this country are hurting and this would have been a great chance to set an example.

Once again, I am live blogging an Obama Press Conference. I know that I can’t count on the mainstream media to ask the tough questions so it looks like it is up to me to hold his feet to the fire.

7:02 – The first thing Obama does is to deny his responsibility for HIS economic crisis.  How surprising.

7:06 – The Road is Long….He’s Not Heavy, He’s Obama – I need to record this.

7:08 – Excellent first question.  If the banks won’t tell us how they’re spending their money and not spending it the way we want, should we really try to regulate them?   Awesome question for a chick.

7:10 – Chuck Todd has an excellent point.  All Obama wants to do is raise our taxes and then not ask for any sacrifices from us.   Maybe we could all cut our standard of living or something.

7:14 – So we’re just supposed to take Obama’s word that Americans are making sacrifices?  None of the network news anchors are seeing any sacrifices and neither am I.  Don’t just ask the poor folk.  Reach out to the upper class.

7:15 – Who is Jake Tapper?  I think I had a fake ID that said Jake Tapper when I was in college.  Jake…Jake Tapper by day he’s a private eye, by night he’s a lady’s man.

7:19 – Chip Reid – do you have to have a cool name to be a reporter?

7:19 – Jim Cramer can probably tell you what the economy will be like 10 years from now.  The man is a genius.

7:24 – I find it very hard to believe that the budget deficit is the result of health care and not AIG bonuses and pork projects to study volcanoes.

7:26 – We need to keep Mexico’s problems in Mexico.  Those gangs there are horrible and they ship their drugs to this country.  Not only that, they buy guns at gun shows in this country to wage their wars depriving American gun collectors, the chance to buy those firearms.

7:29 – The Stars and Stripes reporter is a mumbler in an out of date suit, I bet Chip and Jake give him the business.

7:32 – Following up on Chip and Jake.  Ed Henry is such a wannabe.

7:35 – Why wasn’t he publicly outraged before he knew what he was talking about.  Trust your feelings Barrack.

7:38 – The Australian government’s stimulus plan consists of putting another shrimp on the barbie.

7:39 – By the way Major Garrett can join the cool name reporter club.

7:41 – I wouldn’t give money to charity, but if I did I certainly wouldn’t do it if I had to donate at 28% instead of 39%.  Let the middle class write off 28%.

7:44 – Hello?  If these children are homeless how are they supposed to be watching this press conference?

7:46 – Straight outa Compton comes a question about race.  Michael Steele would have a field day with this.

7:51 – Obama has been blinded by science.  Bush never touched the stuff.

7:54 – Obama loves bragging about his parties

7:58 – I love the way that Fox News can put the whole speech in to simple terms.

Well that’s it.  I pretty much agree with the analysists on Fox News’ panel.  He wasn’t fooling anybody.