That’s Right Nate

Sarah Palin has again emerged as a Republican hero.  She told the lawmakers in Wasington, “Thanks, but no thanks” on their education to nowhere.   Palin accepted only $530 million of the $914 million appropriated to Alaska as part of the recent economic stimulus plan.  The biggest chunk of the funding that she rejected was $160 million for education.

As Governor Palin  told reporters, “I told congress thanks, but no thanks on that education to nowhere.  It doesn’t take a lot of fancy book learning to drive a snow mobile or shoot a moose.  If the people of Alaska want our kids to learn something, we’ll teach them ourselves.”  Palin did accept the parts of the stimulus for programs to build bridges, roads, and aviation projects which she deemed far more useful.

Of course, we at Thatsrightnate.com enthusiastically cheer Sarah Palin as an opponent to wasteful spending on things like text books and vocational training.   You don’t need vocational training in Alaska just go find something to shoot and feed your family with it.   This was a wasteful spending project that would simply confuse Alaskans with a lot of book learning.  People forget that having attended 7 different colleges and universities, this is one governor who knows a lot about education.

8:00  Already Obama is late.  You know Chuck never keeps me waiting.  What makes Obama think he can?

8:03  I knew if Obama became President people would be waiting in line for food banks.

8:04 Obama claims that the federal government is the only organization that can hire these people, but what about Amway?  They’re always hiring?

8:06  Sure, more jobs and all these programs sound like good things, but does Obama reallize it will cause government to get bigger?  Isn’t that more important than a couple sick hungry kids?

8:09 Half of the job loss has taken place in the last 3 months.  What happened 3 months ago?  Hmm, that would have been the first week of November.  Nope, can’t think of anything.

8:12  Obama still can’t accept that FDR was wrong to start the New Deal.  Philosophical need for small government trumps unemployed people.  Everybody knows that.

8:15 Obama is sabotaging the commode business with his demands on corporate spending at banks getting bailouts.

8:21 If Obama is bipartisan, wouldn’t he have Republican votes?  Republicans are always willing to compromise as long as you do what we tell you to.

8:23 I love the term Rush coined–Its Porkulus.  Just like Spartacus.

8:26 We need a stimulus program to teach doctor’s better penmanship.

8:27 They don’t build schools like they did in 1850, that’s for sure.  It sounds like a landmark to me.

8:28  I miss that old broad who used to get first question.  What was her name?  Helen?  Helen Thomas maybe?

8:29  Obama blames everybody for the economy, but himself.

8:32 Obama adapts to circumstance, Bush stuck to his guns.  Which sounds more like a leader to you?

8:32 No such thing as a free lunch?  I thought that was in the stimulus plan.

8:36 Nice job demanding that Obama show proof that his plan is working.  The press never would have let Bush do something like go to war with no way to know we were winning when he was President.

8:40 I’m with this reporter, we want to see the bodies.

8:46 Obama seems to be spending a lot of time explaining what Biden meant.

8:48 Finally we got to Alex Rodriguez’s steroid use.  I hope somebody asks him about interleague play and the designated hitter next.

8:49 Helen!! She made it.

8:51 Who cares about nuclear weapons.  What about A-Rod?

8:58 What’s wrong with just blowing up the public school systems?

8:59  McCain had economists advising him?  I didn’t think he did.

9:00 “What this town needs is an enema”

I just wanted to let everybody know that I’ll be live blogging Obama’s speech tonight at 8PM Eastern time tonight.  I have a toothache and I’ve been alternating vicodin and bourbon which is helping, but I am in no mood for any Obama fish oil salesmanship.  I have no doubt that if he was still in power, Bush would have ended the recession by now.  He was that good.

I am livid am I’m not alone.  Since the Presidential Election, Barrack Obama has arrogantly been acting like he has a mandate to change our entire system of economics from the one that has served us so well for the past 8 years.   He honestly believes that he has the right to give away a trillion dollars and  call it stimulus without listening to where the Republicans want the money spent.

On January 22 and January 23, Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity joined with me in decrying Obama adviser Robert Reich for saying that he didn’t want the economic stimulus to only go to white construction workers, but “includ[es] women and minorities, and the long-term unemployed”.   Excuse me, but white construction workers built this country.  There is absolutely no reason that the bailout shouldn’t be limited only to white construction workers–they work very hard in all kinds of weather.   If Obama really wants to stimulate the economy he will cut my taxes.   When I have extra money I’m a very big tipper and my tips will trickle down to our service economy.

Last Friday, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) told the president that the Democratic plan to give a tax credit to those who don’t pay income taxes isn’t a tax cut, but rather, a check. Obama responded that this was a common point of debate during the presidential campaign — McCain/Palin called Obama’s plan “welfare” — and voters were not swayed by Republican arguments. “I won,” Obama told lawmakers.  Excuse me?  Obama acts as if by winning the election has won some kind of political capital that he can use to do whatever he wants regardless of what the Republicans dictate.   This is policy.  We weren’t running on policy.   We were running on Joe the Plumber, Pitbulls, Hockey Moms, and Mavericks.  If we had known he was going to try this stunt, don’t you think we would have ran on something more substantial?

We need to act now.  Call your congressman and if he’s a Democrat tell him that you want him to listen to the Republicans and that you will not vote for a Democrat until they start following Republican principles.  If he’s a Republican tell him to get in there and fight.  If we don’t stop this now, over the next 4 years Obama will be making decisions that will affect all of us.