The Ugly Americans.

I’m not the only one that can’t seem to get over the really lame shenanigans that pass for decision and policy making in the nation’s capital.



I’m speaking, of course, of the Republican leadership and most particularly the Senate Republicans, who seem to me, at least, to be in full suck-up mode, tripping over each other in their efforts to lose whatever small strategic advantage we had regained since Boehner and company fell for Obama’s first budget and reduction gambits back in January and February.

That should have been a harbinger of things to come, because every single time we’ve had Obama on the mat they’ve let him back up and we lose a little more credibility. We elected warriors… we got wimps. These people are afraid of their own shadows. They are too timid to fight. They are too timid to stand up for this country, its Constitution, its principles and its people.

The sheer ineptitude of the Republican leadership is demonstrated by their seeming inability to weld a cohesive message and one clear concise policy on the debt and government binging.

This madness has to stop, and stop now. None of us sees a bit of humor out here. All I see is anger… a growing, seething anger, with more and more people speaking out and voicing their displeasure with the Republican establishment who has once again managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Obama was as good as hung out to dry, and you… yes, you, the Republican so-called leadership, handed him an out. The DeMarxists haven’t submitted one word, not so much as one word, about a budget… balanced or otherwise, in over two years.

In the space of one week we, instead of forcing Obama’s hand, send him not one but three proposals for him to pick apart and demagogue, while he still does nothing. Meanwhile, the anger in the country gets stronger every day.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2011

Ryan’s Express.

I really like this guy… extremely articulate, crystal-clear thinking. Paul Ryan’s presentation of the Republican budget proposal was a blockbuster. It was just exactly what the Tea Party Patriots have been demanding all along. Over six trillion dollars in cuts, over the next ten years. The left is in absolute apoplexy.

Paul Ryan, R-Wis, flanked by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., right, with Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, at left.

It’s absolutely hysterical watching them sputter and stutter, and drag out their shopworn 1960s slogans. The same old Marxist saws we’ve heard every single time someone wants to enact some meaningful reform… “We’re starving old people and li’l children”… “we’re forcing granny to fight the kitty for his salmon dinner”. It’s not going to be nearly as productive for them this time.

The American electorate has had plenty of time to examine the Marxists’ language and tactics during the regimes’ mad rush to absolute power. We’ve seen them go through the routine time and again… from granny and the kids, to minorities, to sob-stories for the illegal aliens. We’ve watched as the Democratic Party suborned the democratic process through lies and trickery… so sure of their superiority that they no longer bothered to cloak their evil.

Well, we were watching… and waiting… and we were heard loud and clear last November. Now, this is the Patriots’ (like Ryan) clearheaded approach to the problem which treated less seriously will, not might, completely destroy this country. These measures are clear and very well considered. If enacted they would eliminate the debt by 2020 or so.

They are by no means as draconian as the DeMarxists are trying to make out. The federal government is so huge and so bloated you could carve away half of it and never know the difference. Think about it… what function does the federal government have in most people’s day to day existence? For most of us it’s very little, and for the most part government is an impediment rather than an asset. I saw a ‘Tweet’ that asked, “If non-essential services can be cut with little effect, why do we pay for them in the first place?” Why, indeed?

Too bad that Ryan won’t run for president. But then, he promised his constituents and he’s honoring that promise. He is, after all, a man of honor. Something we could use a lot more of.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2011