Podcast Show Notes

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer (D-NY) creates a run on the IndyMac bankwith wreckless comments leading to the second largest bank bail out in American history.

The troubling decision of Senator Obama to consider Chris Dodd for the national ticket. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

Barack Obama goes back on a promise to debate Senator McCain anytime, anywhere on foreign policy.

Obama throws himself under the bus on bilingualism.

Obama’s tax plan contradicts his own voting record.

A broken promise in Illinois provides insight into the type of President Obama would be. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

McCain attacks Obama for missing a vote McCain also missed.

Do Democrats have a new tune on energy production?

Liberal group ACORN chooses to leave an embezzler on staff for 8 years and not report his theft of nearly $1 million. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

Plus gun owners defend their lives and property in our 2nd Amendment Update.

A British woman is convicted for defending a World War 2 memorial from clueless vandalizing teens. (Hat Tip: Right Wing News.)

Wolives in sheep’s clothing push abortion in the Black Church.

A woman who begged for euthanasia changes her mind.

An Atheist blogger plans to desecrate a communion host as a matter of free speech, but doesn’t like people speaking up to ask for him to be fired.

A heart warming animal adoption story from the Netherlands.

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Neil Stevens has risen in defense of that most defenseless group, the Club for Growth in regards to their attack on Governor Bobby Jindal:

Hairs shot up on the necks of a great many Republicans. At least, among those who took Governor Mike Huckabee’s side against the organization, Club for Growth’s subdued, objective comments about the recall seemed an implied attack on Jindal. Jindal was The Next Target of the Club For Greed™.

However I saw no such thing. Certainly CfG wasn’t jumping to Jindal’s defense, but they are a single interest group. It’s not their job to get awed at the way he wantonly tears down the corrupt, fascist Kingfish legacy. In fact, if Jindal were to raise the tax burden of his state way up, I’d appreciate it if CfG were to warn us before we go and nominate Governor Jindal in 2016.

Why the posts, though? Soloveichik says that CfG is attempting to follow the news on all the leading prospects for Senator McCain’s running mate, and of course that includes Jindal. CfG is also looking at the economic records of each candidate, just as they did for the Presidential candidates.

I believe it. Governor Jindal does not have much of a record yet. It’s not his fault, but he hasn’t been in office for even a year yet. So naturally, Club for Growth has little to work with in evaluating him, and so when they count the pay hike as a strike against him, they don’t have much else to balance against it. But just the same, they’re not treating this one thing the same as, say, Governor Huckabee’s long record which included multiple substantial tax and spending increases.

One wonders what Huckabee people they’re responding to. As Leon at Red State linked to my piece cross-posted at the Next Right, I’m assuming they mean me.  To quote Robert DeNiro, “I don’t see anyone else here, so you must be talking to me.” 

Anyway with Club for Growth, it’s not what they tell you, It’s what they don’t tell you.

They were correct about Huckabee’s tax and spending increases. What they didn’t tell you is that Huckabee’s veto could be overridden by a majority vote and that he had a Democratic legislature that’s 70-90% Democratic through his entire tenure in office.

They didn’t tell you that there were 2 court rulings that forced additional money to be spent on Education and Medicaid.

I wonder what conservative here could have done better than Huckabee did under those circumstances?

As for Jindal, the idea that his record is short is notable except during his brief time in office, he accomplished a school choice program and introduced and gained passage of a tax cut for business.

His educational accomplishments has been given short shrift, and I’ve seen no mention in recent discussion of his vitally needed business tax cut.

They’ve gone after his Congressional record, but somehow failed to note his 98% anti-pork performance on the 2007 RePork card. Their own report card! And they didn’t bother to mention it when trying to explain that his record was uninspiring among their list. I don’t know, I consider someone with a 98% anti-pork record to be fairly inspiring.

I didn’t come out for Huckabee until after Super Tuesday. But then I began to research this, I became angry. The Club for Growth didn’t lie, but they sure as heck deceived me with incomplete information. They’re doing the same thing with Bobby Jindal.

The nomination of John McCain can be laid at the feet of the Club for Growth whose obsessive compulsive campaign against Mike Huckabee gave John McCain the South Carolina Primary and the nomination. Where we’ll their economic puritanism lead in 2012 or 2016?

I still read the Club for Growth blog and they find stories I use on my blog or website,two or three times a week. I have two currently endorsed CFG candidates, Lt. Governor Sean Parnell and Congressman Paul Braun (R-GA) on my slatecard, along with former CFG candidates, Rep. Bill Sali (R-Idaho) and Michelle Bachmann (R-MN). There’s no denying that CFG does some good work, but their recent antics have caused me to view their statements with a far-more skeptical eye.

It’s a gas:
The greatest nation on Earth
Sinks to its knees
In a puddle of oil.
Fuel-starved masses sit immobile.
Four dollar Gas,
Ripping the heart out of the middle class.

It’s a gas:
We’re dying of thirst
Two feet from the reservoir.
One hundred and thirty billion
Barrels of oil sit untapped
Within our borders
And off our shores,
As the working man is strung up
By green red tape.

It’s a gas:
The Donkey party brays
Against the oil companies,
Making them the scapegoats
For our pain at the pump,
And plan to increase their taxes,
As if increasing the cost of making gas
Will make it more affordable
For the working class. .

It’s a gas:
Great men made the world smaller,
Bringing us closer together.
Freedom for the common man to travel
Where he pleases on any highway or street.
But a few fools can take us back
To the 19th Century.
Now our urban planners dream and scheme
Of a rising cost of freedom,
To squeeze as many people
As they can onto cramped buses,
Herded like cattle,
Moving at the schedule of government
Rather than their own speed.

It’s a gas:
I got a letter the other day from a Senator,
Who self-righteously preened and posed
As he was hugged by the Sierra Club
For his obstructionism of an Arctic Oil venture
That could have helped alleviate this crisis.
He asked me to reach into my gas-strained pocket,
To help his campaign.
He even kindly suggested amounts:
$25, $50, $100, $250, or even $2300!
Now that’s a gas.

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Podcast Show Notes

One Obama supporter suggests that Obama’s story should be added to the Bible. (Hat Tip: Reformed Chicks Babbling.)

A Christian PAC forms in support of Obama.

While Obama learns a new Commandment regarding his new religious youth organization, “Thou Shalt Not Rip Off a Legal Defense Association.”

One Congressman withholds his endorsement from Obama.

Ron Paul plans a counterconvention while McCain continues to struggle with religious conservative voters.

The voters are speaking on drilling for oil but neither candidate is listening. (Hat TipL: Club for Growth.)

Congress once again fights crime and secures the border–for other countries. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

While voting for the government to take over everything else, the Senate privatizes its own restaurant.

Voters wise up: most don’t even believe the media is trying to be objective. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

The ACLU raises more than $300 million to expand its far left operation. (Hat Tip: Stop the ACLU.)

The abusive Canadian Human Rights Commission strikes again and orders a pastor to not speak against homosexuality.

A West Virginia Mayor opposes a pay raise for himself.

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As the price of gas continues to rise to nose-bleed levels our freedoms are being compromised. How many of us are being stripped of activities and freedoms we used to enjoy? It’s easy to point the finger at “greedy” oil executives but that honestly isn’t the problem. It comes down to the basic supply and demand tug o’ war. As supplies decrease our demands haven’t changed a bit. It takes a change in behavior to lessen the demand on oil. We have heard so much yada yada yada of efforts to lower prices of gas and it keeps us all hoping that they will fall. That’s where the danger lies—because it give us just enough hope to keep us from making any efforts to change our consumption. Seriously, have we ever seen prices at the pump fall to where we all breathed a sigh of relief? Seriously!

Investors Business Daily estimates there are 1 trillion barrels of oil trapped in shale in the U.S. and Canada. Retrieving just a 10th of it would quadruple our current oil reserves. There is a pool of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that is estimated to be as large as any in the Middle East. There is an equally large pool believed to be in Alaska.

The Chinese are attempting to tap into the Gulf oil by drill diagonally from Cuba! They don’t have the environmentally safe technology that the US has. What is our predominately Democratic Congress going to do about it?

We have environmentally safe ways to extract oil from shale and drilling in Alaska and the Gulf. Our Democratic Congress continues to block those efforts. Last week the Senate voted to block extraction from shale in Colorado. They essentially voted to keep gas prices at present inclining levels, and airline tickets rising with even more job losses in the industry expected, and to make heating our homes at comfortably temperatures an option for most.

I’m pretty hot about this topic. I think I’ll go cool off in a carpool!

Podcast Show Notes

How U.S. Government environmental regulations have created our oil crisis.

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Finally! A New Refinery

Robert Reich celebrates Poor Americans Being Forced Into Mass Transit (Hat Tip: Outside the Beltway.)

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Not too long ago before the elections that resulted in a Democrat favored Congress, all we heard were the voices of those Democrats pleading for our votes and promising to get quick solutions to rising gas prices. Remember Pelosi? It’s now been years.

I got a message from a friend recently and he is serious about the issue. Mitch McConnell is motivated. He’s also a Republican so he’s swimming against the current and could use our support. I felt compelled to share this with my F3 family. We need more leaders like him; making things happen. He writes;

Dear Dan,

I hope you received my email last week about our petition urging the Democrat-controlled Congress to take real action to lower gas prices.

I have sponsored legislation in the Senate that would:

• Permit environmentally responsible exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Allow limited deep sea exploration off of the U.S. Coast to take advantage of available resources
• Repeal bureaucratic barriers to innovation which can lead to less expensive sources of energy, including oil from shale and new hybrid batteries
• Support development of coal-to-liquid fuels, using America’s most abundant energy resource to replace Middle Eastern oil
• Promote new conservation and “green” sources of fuels

A new Gallup poll released last week found that a majority of Americans support measures like these to increase energy production here at home. The poll found that found that 57% of Americans favor “allowing drilling in U.S. coastal and wilderness areas now off limits.” Increasing energy production in the U.S. will create jobs and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

While the American people support real solutions to high gas prices, Washington Democrats are trying to pass tax increases that will only further increase prices at the pump. I need your help in the fight to lower gas prices. Please sign the petition and encourage Congress to support American innovation and energy exploration.

Thanks again for your help.

Mitch McConnell
Senate Republican Leader

P.S. Please take a moment to sign the petition at www.TeamMitch.com/energy. If you know of any friends who feel like you do that it is past time for Washington to get serious about our energy needs please forward this email to them and encourage them to sign the petition as well. Together we can make a difference.

So what does Exxon and other oil hogging giants do with all their oil profits?

One avenue that helps their chances at minimizing operating costs and other related expenditures (to increase a relatively low profit margin 10.83%, to be fair…but why, 11% at $4/gallon?) is to contribute to people in congress who will vote in their favor to keep laws and restrictions from hindering their abilities to achieve these record breaking goals.

Well, now there’s a little tool made available to us by the people at the Center for Responsive Politics. It’s a game called “follow the oil money;” a game you and I can’t win.

To play, just click this link, enter your zip code and find out how much your congress people are getting from big oil profits.

In words that almost quote John Wayne…”It’s re-gosh-darned-diculous!”

I don’t want to point fingers but let’s point fingers.

First let’s look at the Speaker of the House.

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA08)

She accepted $36,800 from the oil and gas industry since 2000. She supported the industry in 22% of selected votes. From this she doesn’t look all that evil, but evil is as evil does, right?

• All contributions since 2000: $36,800
• 110th Congress (2007-2008): $9,200
• 109th Congress (2005-2006): $25,100
• 108th Congress (2003-2004): $0
• 107th Congress (2001-2002): $2,500
• 106th Congress (1999-2000): $0

Let’s use my former Governor turned Senator as another example, Senator Voinovich. This is what he has received since 2000.

Yeah, I’d be smiling too.

Senator George Voinovich (R-OH)

He accepted $176,117 from the oil and gas industry since 2000. He supported the industry in 100% of selected votes. 100%!!!

• All contributions since 2000: $176,117
• 110th Congress (2007-2008): $23,450
• 109th Congress (2005-2006): $12,200
• 108th Congress (2003-2004): $90,850
• 107th Congress (2001-2002): $34,150
• 106th Congress (1999-2000): $15,467

Do you think he’s feeling this petroleum crunch? Here are the specifics.

The total of the contributions in this table may be less than the overall total because some contributions have been hidden by the filtering options.

It’s just disgusting. I urge you to send this link to everyone you know. Let’s expose corruption for what it’s become…and that’s congress.

…one small unnoticeable piece at a time.

They’ve sickened and killed our pets, they’ve poisoned our children with lead based paints, they’ve illegally subsidized corporations to lower cost and undercut American manufacturers while devastating our economy. And now we are watching them drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

As congress hesitates to allow the U.S. to drill in its own coastal waters in the Gulf, the Chinese are taking advantage.

And people, they don’t care about consequences and they aren’t even equipped to handle an ecological disaster should there be a spill.

Reports have been made of the Chinese using tactics of slant drilling off the Cuban coast into the Florida Straits. They are tapping into U.S. oil reserves estimated between 5 to 10 billion barrels. This is like digging into the vault of a bank from a neighboring backyard.

This oil stash compares to the 4 to 10 billion barrels in An-war where tree huggers, more specifically caribou lovers, are holding a proverbial gun to congress’ head. Experts say drilling in An-war would not harm or endanger the caribou. Permission to drill failed by only two senatorial votes.

In Michael Reagan’s article titled, Put The Blame Where It Belongs he says,

We’re in the mess in which we find ourselves because of a small handful of people… three individuals two who are located in New York City. If you want to drill in Alaska or the Gulf of Mexico or in the continental U.S. — where billions of gallons of petroleum are just waiting to be tapped — or build refineries, these three people stand in your way; John Flicker of the National Audubon Society, Frances Beinecke of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Trip Van Noppen of the organization Earthjustice.

Reports have also stated that there is more oil in Alaska than there is in Saudi Arabia. But the caribou are endangered. This is wacky, people. We’ll slaughter millions of unborn babies because of convenience but won’t dare inconvenience the caribou to save our nations oil dependencies.

We need to wake up; stopping hitting the snooze button. And by all means, quit worrying about the latest “buzz” in Hollywood, or the hottest fashion trend. And being politically correct is disabling our abilities to discern right from wrong.

Bottom line: Buy American on every level. We’re supporting foreign government subsidized companies that don’t give a damn about the war on terror. Don’t buy another piece of Chinese made junk with their name on it. Send a message to these corporate greed-driven CEO’s.

Read Michael Reagan’s full article for contact information to those three knuckleheads and let them know how you feel. Keep on eye on what your congress representatives are voting on by going to http://www.govtrack.us/.

And support your local farmers markets. We’re paying higher produce prices because a lot of what you put in your belly comes from Mexico. This puts a strain on demand for fuel, driving costs even higher.

And pray for our authorities. You may not like them but they are there and part of a bigger picture we cannot see. Romans 13:1 says, Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

Podcast Show Notes

The fall out from Obama’s former pastor’s latest tirade has created problems and despite Obama’s unbelievable denials and attempts to disassociate himself have left many on the left concerned (see here.) while Rush Limbaugh puts a pause on Operation Chaos. Can this be Hillary’s big break as recent polls in Indiana and Kentucky show her up. Can she come back and complete Obama’s collassal collapse with her new Moderate image?

While advocating for an earmarks moratorium, Hillary Clinton asks for $2.3 billion worth.

Republicans question ethanol subsidies and turning food into fuel.

The President can tell the truth about the enemy we battle, why can’t the rest of the government?

And a four year college degree? You might not need it. (Hat Tip: World on the Web.)

Guest Hatton Humphrey.

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