Rush: "For the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country" (UPDATE)

America, what's it gonna take for you to be so fed up and disgusted with having your common sense and intelligence insulted the way this government and this media do daily?

"We get worked up over $44 billion, that's the total amount of money, that will not be spent, that was scheduled to be spent this year. And in truth, we're gonna spend more this year than we spent last year. We're just not gonna spend as much as was  projected. It's all baseline budgeting. There is no real cut below a baseline of zero. There just isn't. And yet, here they come, sucking us in, roping us in. Panic here, fear there. Crisis. Destruction. No meat inspection. No cops, no teachers, no firefighters. No air traffic control. I'm sorry, my days of getting roped in to all this are over. We've had the media play along with all this. The ruling class, both parties, play along with all this. It's insulting. I don't know how else to describe it."



"It's the same stuff. It's the same threats; it's the same arguments over and over. Nothing ever changes. We just keep spending more money, we create more dependency, we get more and more irresponsible, one crisis to the next, all of them manufactured, except for the real crisis which nobody ever addresses, and that is: we can't afford any of this.

UPDATE: Rush explains his comments further on Friday...



Then suddenly on Thursday, shortly after Rush's initial comments, the media began to change their tune...

Rand Paul: 'Sequester only cuts the rate of growth, not real spending'

"It's a pittance."

As Rush said yesterday, you really gotta hand it to Rand Paul. He's out there explaining that the sequester only cuts the rate of growth, NOT the actual spending!



I really wish Obama could stand up for what's right, but then that would require him to set his demagoguery aside; and if he wasn't inclined to do that over the past four years, he certainly has no intention of setting any Alinskyite tool aside for the next four.

Oh, and Wolf, keep inviting articulate conservatives on to eviscerate those White House talking points. Appreciated!

Humpday highlights...

I've had little to no time today to blog, so just thought I'd post a few midweek highlights that I've run across today...

Pic of the Day: Rubio bumps water bottles with Netanyahu in Israel...of course, referencing 'water-gate', CNN.

Great!

Video of the Day: A mashup of Joe Biden, who apparently really wants you to buy a shotgun...



What a dope.

And finally, my AWESOME Senator!


Keep givin'em hell, with a little slice of Heaven, Ted!

Obama claims he’s cut the deficit

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.

As if the rest of this morning's lies and fear-mongering weren't enough...

CNSNews: President Barack Obama claimed today that since he has been president both parties have worked together to cut the federal deficit by $2.5 trillion—despite the fact that the national debt has increased $5.19 trillion during Obama’s presidency, which is more than it increased under all presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined.

“Over the last few years both parties have worked together to reduce our deficits by more than $2.5 trillion,” Obama said in a speech at the White House in which he called on Congress to avoid modest automatic cuts in anticipated spending that are set to begin on March 1.

“More than two thirds of that was through some pretty tough spending cuts,” Obama said. “The rest of it was through raising taxes, tax rates, on the wealthiest one percent of Americans. And together, when you take the spending cuts and the increased tax rates on the top one percent, it puts us more than half way to the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need to stabilize our finances.”

'Tough spending cuts'? What a freakin' joke. Obama and too many in Washington hope you never catch on to the gerrymandered con of baseline budgeting, a manipulative method that, like all federal schemes, also applies to the sequester. And there's no 'the rest of' as pertains to taxes...that's this joker's singular solution. Anytime his spending addiction is threatened, he rolls out the 'tax the rich' tagline with more damn lies and statistics.

H/t: R.B.

Langone: Obama's debt fix is 'generational theft of an enormous magnitude'

This is reminiscent of what Levin's been saying for years now...

CNBC: The nation's debt as a percentage of the economy is going to cause a fiscal storm, Home Depot (HD) Founder Kenneth Langone told CNBC on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama's roadmap to reduce the deficit and invest in the future is "generational theft of an enormous magnitude," Langone said in a "Squawk Box" interview.

"The fundamentals haven't changed ... And we don't know when the storm is going to hit," he predicted. "It has to happen. If you look at our debt to GDP, eventually you reach a point where there's no turning back."

He used an analogy to make his point. "If you had one meal left, and you had your grandchild with you, would you eat if or give it to your grandchild?"

He said all people would say "give it to my grandchild."

But pursuing the president's vision, he argued, "[Is] eating the grandchildren's breakfast, lunch and dinner right now. And the [grandchildren] haven't been born yet."



...good to hear a respected business leader project this vitally important message.

H/t: J.A.

Obama fear-mongers in the face of 'his' sequestration

As sequestration nears, the class warfare warrior brings more blatant lies to the table, and patently fear-mongers with the usual props positioned behind him...



If these cuts "are not smart, they are not fair, they will hurt our economy, they will add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls," then why the hell did he sign the sequester into law?!  You see, Obama agreed to these cuts, because he was fine with cuts to defense. It is the other half, entitlements, that he had no intention of upholding, even after signing sequestration into law. It was a gamble. And he knew he would have to do exactly what he's now doing (bullying, fear-mongering, dividing and lying) in an effort to get Republicans to once again cave to absolutely no cuts. Rather, Obama wants more taxes.

What the general public, particularly the low information voter, is not getting - and make no mistake, the media don't want them to understand - is that this sequestration is practically the only mechanism that places some semblance of restraint on the massive leviathan of Big Government right now. These cuts will affect Obama's public sector. If jobs are lost, they will be a reduction in government jobs, not the private sector. And the more you understand how faithless Obama is in the private sector, that everything should be amassed within government's control, then you'll understand his desperation to stop this sequestration.

This is leadership? No...

"He doesn't have the courage to lead." ~RL

ADDENDUM: Rush discussed this on Tuesday's program...



...as did Levin...

theRightScoop: Mark Levin completely obliterated Obama lies today that we can’t cut spending or else the country will fall apart. And he does it systematically by exposing a whole wasteland of government documented overspending and mismanagement that Obama refuses to fix. And it’s his government!

Be sure to LISTEN!

Obama administration winds down plan for 'uninsurables'

Winding down? Already? Well, like every other socialist idea, the eventuality of running out of other people's money came quicker than expected.

AP: The Obama administration is quietly winding down one of the earliest programs created by the president's health care overhaul law. It's a plan that provides stopgap coverage for uninsured people with medical problems who have been turned down by insurers. Administration officials broke the news to state counterparts in a teleconference on Friday.

They said the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan will stop taking new applications because of funding concerns. The suspension happens immediately in 23 states where the federal government administers the program, but states that run their own plans may have more time, depending on contract arrangements.

SOL? Naaa, this guy's got your back...

...and as Rush reminds us, " But once again don't expect this to be tied to Obama."

"Once again, this is some bureaucracy. Remember, Obama does not govern. He campaigns. So this is some government bureaucracy which has decided to torpedo the president's brave plan. Obama, if he wants to, can go out and campaign against this. Even though it's his plan that has run out of money, and it's his plan freezing people out. His name's not in story.

He's out there campaigning as though we still don't have Obamacare. He can go out there and talk about people still being shafted by the insurance companies. Insurance companies still won't cover people despite all this effort that he and his administration have committed to. So they're gonna have to double down and do even more. "Dastardly Republicans and who knows who else is denying these people what they were assured they were gonna get!" That's how this works, and yet it's his plan that is out of money. It's his Department of Health and Human Services that is winding down the program."

Why are the Feds loading up?

At a time when they're attempting to disarm us, this is beyond troubling...

IBD: In a puzzling, unexplained development, the Obama administration has been buying and storing vast amounts of ammunition in recent months, with the Department of Homeland Security just placing another order for an additional 21.6 million rounds.

Several other agencies of the federal government also began buying large quantities of bullets last year. The Social Security Administration, for instance, not normally considered on the frontlines of anything but dealing with seniors, explained that its purchase of millions of rounds was for special agents' required quarterly weapons qualifications. They must be pretty poor shots.

But DHS has been silent about its need for numerous orders of bullets in the multiple millions. Indeed, Examiner writer Ryan Keller points out Janet Napolitano's agency illegally redacted information from some ammunition solicitation forms following media inquiries.

According to one estimate, just since last spring DHS has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. That's sufficient firepower to shoot every American about five times. Including illegal immigrants.

Anticipating some kind of domestic insurrection? Levin thinks they're preparing for the collapse of our financial system and our society...

About President's Day

Here's a little history that explains why and how we celebrate President's Day in our contemporary era, when the original holiday was established (and still is 'officially') to celebrate George Washington's birthday, which isn't until the 22nd...

History: Presidents’ Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February. Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, it is still officially called “Washington’s Birthday” by the federal government. Traditionally celebrated on February 22—Washington’s actual day of birth—the holiday became popularly known as Presidents’ Day after it was moved as part of 1971’s Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the nation’s workers. While several states still have individual holidays honoring the birthdays of Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other figures, Presidents’ Day is now popularly viewed as a day to celebrate all U.S. presidents past and present.

So with that, I decided years ago to personally celebrate President's Day by acknowledging three of America's most liberating presidents, who all happen to have February birthdays, and who all made huge impacts in their respective centuries: George Washington, the first president who helped establish a nation's independence, freeing from foreign bondage; Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president who accomplished the realization of our founding freedom for all the citizenry, while preserving the union in the midst of civil war; and Ronald Reagan, the 40th president who reminded America of its exceptional place in the world, rejuvenating the belief in ourselves and the possibilities of a better tomorrow.

House overrides Obama, votes to freeze federal pay for third year

Let's end this week with something beneficial to the taxpayer citizenry for a change...

TheHill: The House voted Friday to freeze the pay of federal workers for the third year in a row over the objections of congressional Democrats and the Obama administration.

Members voted 261-154 in favor of the bill, which would also lock in a pay freeze for members of Congress. It exempts people serving in the military.

The bill won significant support from Democrats — 43 voted for it — while 10 Republicans voted against it.

The legislation is an attempt to override President Obama’s executive order in December that seeks to give federal workers a 0.5 percent pay hike in late March. That order incensed congressional Republicans, who criticized it as an attempt to seize control of an issue that has been left to Congress.

Another small battle won for responsible, limited government. We'll take any we can get these days...