Indecent Proposal

The President's recent job proposal was designed for one purpose. Unfortunately that purpose was not to put people back to work, or, at least, that wasn't it's primary purpose.
Struggling with independent votors the President has given the Republican's an offer they basically can't accept. While announcing a $450 billion plan that contains some Republican ideas and a whole lot of Democratic ideas he also added a poison pill. He is paying for it by taxing the Rich. The whole concept is basically a campaign commercial. Do you want congress to give you a job, or protect a tax break for corporate jets?
I've got to give Obama one thing, he has no clue how to run an economy, but, he is a master of demagoguery. In major trouble and having exhausted his class warfare card on the Bush tax extensions and at the debt debate, he basically went and invented himself a new way to play the soak the rich argument. He has actually tried this so many times that if you had to guess a theme for the first four years of his presidency it would be "the Rich (supposedly) paying their fair share".
Regardless, the jobs bill can't be passed. The super committee can't fund this, the Republican's can't take debt hit or the tax increases, and even if it passes it is very likely to have the same effect as Stimulus 1. The only thing this job bill does is give Barack Obama one more way to nail home his electoral platform of class jealousy.

California Deserves Jerry Brown

As a conservative it is rare that I root for a liberal candidate for anything. Up until now that was the case, however, there is one exception that I am about to make. I want Jerry Brown to win Governor in California.
California is the canary in the coalmine for the Progressive agenda. It is the shining star in the liberal universe that is sinking into an abyss of debt. Out of control public unions, massive debt, overzealous environmental regulations, and high taxation make it the most inhospitable place to do business in the USA. Yet, it is the pinnacle of progressive policy and thought.
Meg Whitman, who is an established and successful businesswoman has way to much common sense to head up the zoo in Sacramento. If she wins, she will have an impossible job, yet, she might just do enough to stave off financial disaster.
What would be best for the USA is not if California is turned around by the skin of it's teeth. It is best that it go down in bright flames as a warning that progressive policies don't work. It is the bellweather for where liberal Democrats want to take the country. It is necessary for the rest of the country to see what a disaster that the progressive agenda can be if implemented to it's logical conclusion and California, by the grace of god, will act as that example.
So it is my conclusion that, for the sake of this country, this blog wholeheartedly endorse Jerry Brown for Governor of the bankrupt state of California. They may luck into Whitman, but, they wholeheartedly deserve Governor Moonbeam.