Bob Beckel on The Five

 
I admit that Glenn Beck was getting on my nerves with his 5PM (Eastern) show.  I like Glenn Beck.  But, the constant gloom and doom was making me very weary of him.  Thing is, I could not find myself disagreeing with much he had to say.  But, I felt like I did when I was a child waiting on my father to give me a whipping when he got home.  Beck was having that same effect on me.  He's gone now and replaced by 5-7 regulars on  Fox News "The Five" show. The Five is a round-table format with four conservatives and one liberal.  I really feel that is unfair.  There should be at least two liberals.  I just like to see things evened out.  I enjoy the show for the most part.

Eric Bolling is probably the most conservative of the conservatives on the show.  He is insightful, and makes many good points on the show.  I just wish he would get over this great love he has for Rick Perry.  Bolling seems reasonable for the most part except for this one fault of gushing over Perry.  Kimberly Guilfoyle is a former prosecutor who was on Court TV every day.  I had no idea she had such great legs.  That aside, she is in her element when discussion is about the law.  I enjoy her commentary.  She is probably the friendliest of the people on that program.   Andrea Tantaros is another beauty whose intelligence and education is shown abundantly on the show.  She is probably the most conservative female on the show.  That brings me to Dana Perino.  I think she is at least the equal insofar as intelligence of anyone on the show.  What irks me about her is her CONSTANTLY reminding everyone that she was a "former White House spokesperson in the George W. Bush Administration."  I do not think a day goes by that she doesn't remind the audience of this fact.  Dana, we get it, you're kind of a big deal, ok?  Geez.  Like her former boss, she is a big government Republican.  Greg Gutfeld tries desperately to be the funny guy on the program.  He usually fails at this. He does make some good zingers when things get a bit too serious.  Otherwise, he just works on the "tortured metaphors" thing he enjoys so much.

The one who I think is a total abomination is Bob Beckel.  He is vulgar, obtuse, belligerent,  combative and a Socialist.  He would be ready to fight if you told him to his face he is a Socialist like his hero, President Obama.  Both men are obviously Socialists.  Beckel hates Capitalism and, sometimes, I get the impression he generally just hates Democracy...period.   He gets angry easily which is what liberals do when confronted with facts.  Eric Bolling is usually the target of Beckels ire.  Reason for that is easy to understand; Bolling brings facts to the debate and liberals just hate that.  It is rarely a day that goes by in which Beckel does not say a vulgarity on the air.  Why Fox keeps this guy on the program, I will never understand.  Juan Williams would do much better in the role of being the token liberal on the show.  He actually brings facts to support his position at times.  Imagine that coming from a liberal!  Back to Beckel....he tries to pretend his personal remarks to Eric Bolling are just a joke.  You can see this guy just seething below the surface when people start pointing out the fallacy of his left-wing viewpoint.  His antics get tiresome.  But, you know what?  Bob Beckel is just your typical liberal.  The majority are like him;  he argues from a position of emotion, not with facts and figures.  Bob Beckel thinks the Debt is not important because "...We print our own money."  I scarcely know how to respond to such stupidity.  Still, I believe Fox News could do better than this man.  His act is tiresome, but I suspect I will continue to tune in despite the childish act known as Bob Beckel.

Romneycare Gives Benefits to Illegal Aliens

Governor Rick Perry, whose campaign for the Republican nomination has hit the rocks, has hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most; Romneycare gives benefits to illegal aliens.  Governor Perry's campaign stated, "Governor Romney’s government-mandated healthcare plan provided free care for illegal immigrants in Massachusetts, establishing just the kind of illegal immigration magnet Governor Romney claims to oppose,” Perry spokesman Mark Miner said.  The Perry Campaign also stated that citizenship is not required under the rules of the Health Safety Net which allowed anyone without insurance (including illegals) to go to any medical clinic or hospital to receive medical care at practically no cost.  The Romney Campaign countered that the Health Safety Net Fund was made long after Governor Mitt Romney left office in Massachusetts. However, Perry Campaign spokesmen stated that the Massachusetts Free Care website was updated three days after former Governor Mitt Romney signed the law. In fact, the law clearly states “Your citizenship or immigration status does not affect your eligibility.” 


I must say I find Mitt Romney to be the big hypocritical, flip-flopper that those of us on the Right have always thought him to be.  I have no interest in Rick Perry due to his love affair with illegal aliens in Texas (instate tuition for one thing, heartless if you don't agree is another).  Romney has been blasting Perry for his pandering to illegals  with the instate tuition thing.  All while doing this, Romney had a provision in Romneycare that basically gave free medical assistance to illegal aliens.  I'm really sick of both of these candidates.  Not just due to the fact they are both RINOs.  It goes deeper, to the very core that both men are just big government Republicans in the same manner as Rockefeller,  Nixon and both Bush presidents.  Cain is mopping up both right now according to the latest polls.  It may be, in due part, to his being civil in the debates.  Part of it is that people like the fact he is considered an outsider.  Whatever the reason, Herman Cain is resonating with Republican voters.  Both Romney and Perry better get themselves together.  We get they both like the idea of cheap labor that illegals provide.  What we don't get is why they both are being such hypocrites over the issue of illegals.

I had thought that the economy is what the core of the argument would be in the Republican nomination process.  Right now, it appears that illegal immigration is wounding both Perry and Romney.  Herman Cain?  He's reaping the benefits of the Romney-Perry War.

Herman Cain in Trouble

Herman Cain's less than stellar performance in Tuesday night's GOP debate has seen some chinks in his armor.  None are what you could consider mortal wounds at this juncture.  But, he has had to clarify at least three comments he has made before and during the debate.  One, he obviously made a joke about having an electrified fence about twenty feet high on the Mexican border.  But, he should have known that the news media is very politically correct.  They were not going to let that one pass by.  Cain made it clear he was simply joking.  If it were financially feasible, I would personally like to see some sort of fence that would make illegals think twice before attempting to cross.  His "999" plan was viciously attacked from the outset by Romney, Perry and even an obviously finished Michelle Bachmann.  He said it was like comparing "apples and oranges" without really clarifying what consisted of apples and oranges in his tax plan.  Cain also got into hot water with his less than clear message on abortion.  He initially made it sound as if he were personally against abortion, but felt the government should not intrude on such a personal decision.  That put him on par with people such as Joe Biden, Barack Obama and a host of other liberals.  Cain later stated he was categorically against abortion regardless of consequences.  Taken one by one, the issues were not to be considered hurtful for Cain.  But, taken as a sum of parts, it points to some troubled times a head for Herman Cain.

Herman Cain has to be more clear in explaining his positions on issues.  He states he wants to bring common sense to politics.  But, he is muddying the waters with his vague statements that are important to conservatives such as illegal immigration, taxes and, of course, abortion.  It was not a bad night for Cain.  This has not been what you could call a bad week and debate for Cain.  But, at the same time, one can't say this had been a good week either.  I have been leaning in the Herman Cain direction.  But, I will never again vote for a man whom I know little about.  No, I did not vote for Obama.  But, I wager a lot of people who voted for Obama not only regret that vote, but regret not delving into his past positions on issues.

Like Obama, if Cain is elected as President, he will be a novice in Washington D.C. politics.  He has to learn to avoid the landmines that are there in his path.  Americans want a President who has a clear, concise message.  Herman Cain has shown this week he has work to do to convince the American voters he can be that man.  I believe Mr. Cain can come back.  He has to go on the attack at those who feel his 999 plan is unworkable.  Right now, Herman Cain is on the clock.  His polling is showing people trust him.  But, if he continues to be unable to clarify his positions, those polling numbers will drop like a rock into the ocean.  It definitely is time for a change in American politics.  But, not more of the same as we have seen in Obama.  Cain has to change that perception of himself.

Rick Perry Fading

Tuesday night was another GOP debate in a seemingly endless line of debates.  It seems they have been having debates every week since January.  Once again, the frontrunners, Herman Cain or Mitt Romney, were at center stage, facing withering attacks from third-tier candidates such as Rick Santorum and, alas, Michelle Bachmann.  One former frontrunner, Rick Perry, was also be at the debate.  He must be a glutton for punishment.  He has made himself look foolish, ill-prepared and nonchalant about the whole thing.  True enough, Rick Perry has around $17 million in his war chest.   But, what good is all that money if his poll numbers remain in single digits? 

I've stated before on this blog that Rick Perry's decline can be linked from the time he started supporting illegal aliens.  His Texas Dream Act was unknown by most people (and probably by those people who have contributed money to his campaign).  I don't know how he can make a comeback now.  He can't change what he is and what he is, is a RINO.  He claims to be a fiscal and social conservative.  He is anything but either of the two.  He is George W. Bush Part II in my opinion.  We simply don't need another RINO in the White House.  Barack Obama is a known evil.  We know where he stands on the issues.  But, another character flaw in Perry is that he is not absolutely concrete on where he stands on some issues.  Sure, we know he is all for helping children of illegal aliens.  He made that clear to us with his "heartless" comment.  Again, that was a moment that helped to define the Perry campaign.  It was an ill-advised comment that has continued to haunt him.

I'm not on the Herman Cain bandwagon.  I'm certainly not on the Mitt Romeny bandwagon.  I would vote for either of those two if they were the Republican nominee.  However, if Rick Perry somehow makes a miraculous comeback to win the Republican nomination, I would have to look elsewhere to cast my vote.  I find Perry to be all fluff and no substance.  Furthermore, if he can't stand up to the attacks from Republicans in a debate, how well would he handle attacks from Democrats in Congress  as President?  I don't think we will have to find out.  Perry is done.

Barney Frank and the Housing Crisis

 
Poor Wall Street.  They can't catch a break.  It's bad enough they have caught hell from the Obama Administration (The same Obama they gave millions in campaign donations to in 2008)  for the financial crisis of 2008.  They also must contend with whiny Leftists  aka Occupy Wall St. who despise Capitalism and want a "piece of the action."   They must now contend with sociopath Tim Geithner, alleged Treasury Secretary, who is promsing more punishment for Wall St. CEOs for their crimes in 2008.  You see, in today's climate, if you make too much money ($100 million according to nitwit Rosanne Barr), then you are considered the anti-Christ.   With that thought in mind, Geithner is promising more punitive actions against Wall Street.  I can't say I am surprised.  The Obama Administration had to throw a bone to the anarchists of OWS.  Obama and his pals support the protests by these Leftists.  Obama's only regret is that he can't actively go and join them.  That's the community organizer in him. 

What I do not understand is why are there no protests toward the real villain of the financial meltdown.  The recession started with the Housing Crisis.  Who was it that pushed for sub-prime loans to banks for people who were not financially able to really buy homes?  Who was it that pushed these sub-prime loans on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?  None other than Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts.  Frank was at the helm in the House when he was warned about these loans by Republicans.  He considered them racists and ignored them.  So, when these people were unable to make the mortgage notes on all these thousands and thousands of home mortgages, the banks were stuck with the note.  It led to nearly a nation-wide collapse of the banking industry.  Yet, little is said of Barney Frank and his responsibility behind the Housing Crisis.

Liberals refuse to discuss this aspect of the financial meltdown.  To do so would be to infuriate a voting bloc of people who were simply ill-prepared to pay for a home mortgage.  Barney Frank pushed this to the limit.  But, he refuses to take any personal responsibility for the financial meltdown in 2008.  The Housing Crisis ignited the fire of the current recession and unemployment.  Nothing is said about Barney Frank's involvement in this crisis due to his belief that people with poor credit should be extended the "right" to own a home. “We made a mistake,” said Frank, “when we equated providing decent housing for everyone with giving everyone the right to own a home.” This is the true mindset of the liberal.  In their world, there are no checks and balances.  Just do what is right, and damn the torpedoes!  So, now, with massive unemployment and home foreclosures not seen since WWII, we as a nation are on the verge of default. 

So, who does Barney Frank blame?  President Ronald Reagan.  That's right.  A man who has been dead for over seven years and out of office since 1988.  “Reagan’s central idea,” said Frank, “was ‘Government is not the answer to our problems—government is the problem.’ His philosophy is why we’re here today.”  Isn't that just like a liberal?  Pass the blame to everyone but themselves.  Even to a dead man. 

Perry's Do or Die Debate

It is do or die time for Rick Perry.  The one time right-wing favorite and darling is barely holding on after two lackluster debates and his seemingly out of touch with reality position on illegal immigration.  It did not help Rick Perry when he told a Republican audience they were "heartless" if they didn't agree with him on providing instate tuition to children of illegal aliens.  Since that comment, he has gone from front-runner to a candidate who is taking a standing eight-count.  Tuesday night's debate in New Hampshire is going to decide if Rick Perry remains in the campaign...or falls out gracefully.  There is simply no room for margin of error in the debate Tuesday night for Rick Perry (author note:  this post is being typed up just prior to Tuesday night's GOP debate).  There can be no "heartless" comment in the GOP debate Tuesday night.  Perry simply can't sit idly by and watch Romney and Cain tear him to shreds on illegal immigration and his economic polices as governor in Texas.  To do so would be political suicide.  The Romney and Cain campaigns smell blood in the water.  I suspect both will try for an early knockout punch in this debate. 

I'll make a prediction here (really going out on a limb here);  I think Rick Perry will give another lackluster performance Tuesday night.  Perry will forever be known as an inferior debater.  It will be a moniker he will never be able to live down.  If he blows up in the debate Tuesday night, I suspect it will forever kill any presidential aspirations by this Texas governor.  Really, Perry has no one to blame but himself.  He should not blame his campaign people, he should not even blame his campaign manager who many will criticize.  Perry went downhill when he started making it known he is a big supporter of illegal aliens and their children.  What Perry, and people like him, fail to recognize is that the American people have to foot the bill for these children of illegal aliens.  Why should we do that?  Don't we have enough problems trying to care for our own children?  Perry took a calculated gamble that his support of instate tuition for these children of illegals would go over well.  It did not work.  As much as he has made a fool out of himself in the debates, his position on illegal immigration has been his downfall.  To their credit, Herman Cain and Mitt Romney have taken advantage of this weakness.  I think they will go after him again Tuesday night on this same issue of illegal immigration to the USA.  Perry will stumble and fumble again on this issue.

Perry started out with such great promise.  Many of his positions on spending and tax cuts are very popular with Republicans.  He seems to have the charisma that many people seek in a presidential candidate.  But, every presidential campaign will reveal a weakness if a candidate has one.  Perry's weaknesses of being a poor debater and coddling of illegal aliens has proven this point.  Now, Rick Perry could prove me wrong.  He could turn it around to have a great debate performance. But, he can't make himself into something he isn't overnight.  He poor performances in the debates aren't going to magically change Perry into Abraham Lincoln.  He can't backtrack on illegal immigration.  Perry would be doing the one thing that is a weakness for Romney right now; he would be characterized as a flip-flopper.  Perry simply doesn't need that accusation at this point in the campaign.

Rebels Without A Clue - Occupy Wall Street

I've refrained from commenting on this latest cause célèbre of the Left.  Occupy Wall Street is the latest "heroic" action that Leftists are taking up without a real goal or even a platform.  Usually, we see those on the Left with a stated goal.  In the 60s, it was to end the war in Southeast Asia.  In the 70s and on into the early 80s, it was about stopping nuclear power.  In the late 90s and to the present, it has been about the biggest scam ever undertaken by the Left; global warming aka climate change aka anything we want to call it.  But, the new "cause" is breathtakingly asinine.  Reporters ask many of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters just exactly what they are protesting about.  At least half don't have any idea.  The other half offer a myriad of reasons.  From corporate greed (a never-ending straw man by the left) to banks foreclosing on delinquent mortgages (without even looking at the real reason...Barney Frank) to supporting Barack Obama's reelection bid.  Yes, you read that correctly.  There is that hidden agenda that is not spoken when talking about OWS.  They seem to overlook (or are oblivous) the fact Wall Street donated heavily to the election of President Obama in 2008. 

Next time you see the OWS protesters on TV, take a good look at them.  They are using iPads, iPhones couttesy of the recently deceased and capitalist entrepreneur, Steve Jobs. They are wearing designer jeans, boots, jewelry all courtesy of grand-mommy and grand-daddy, most likely the 60s Leftists who wanted to drop out of society.  Today, those 60s radicals are mostly venture capitalists.  Like all Leftists, they speak from a position of emotion and not facts.  For example, one of the "demands" of these out of touch with reality OWS protesters is "across the board debt forgiveness for all."  Let that sink in for a moment.  What do you think that would do to even a healthy economy?  Then think what that would do to a poor economy?  It would devastate the private sector. Leftists would counter that banks, car companies and Wall St. were given "debt forgiveness."  To quote an old car rental commercial;  not exactly.   That money has to be paid back.  But, never confuse Leftists with facts.  They don't want to hear it.  Another demand is "$20.00 minimum wage."  The biggest employer of minimum wage earners are small businesses.  Small businesses are already devastated by Obamacare and are unable to hire new workers due to not knowing how they can pay the health care insurance premiums of new employees.   What would a triple increase in the minimum wage do to the small businessman?  It would turn him from small businessman to a unemployed small businessman.

This is just another example of the loony tunes dumbasses that simply don't understand that in the real world you have to live within your means.  If you decide not to do that, then you incur debt.  And when you incur debt, you have to pay it back.  These Occupy Wall Street kids and 60s gray-hairs will never understand a simple fact; there is no such thing as a free lunch.  You have to work for what you get in this world.  They want a Socialist world whereby everything is given to them by a strong, central, federal government.  If any of them had paid any attention in college, any attention at all, they would know that Socialism has never worked anywhere in the world.  Show me a Socialist nation and I will show you an economy in ruins.  But, Leftists, as usual, never let facts get in the way of a good protest.  Protesting is what Lefties do best.  In fact, it is the only thing they know how to do.

Food Stamp Nation

 

I give President Obama credit for one thing; his term as president is breaking all kinds of economic records.  One such example is the number of home foreclosures.  It is a record that has stood since WWII.  Congrats are in order to our esteemed President Hope and Change.  But, I guess the one record that adequately illustrates the ineptness of this administration is the number of people on food stamps.   An estimated 45.3 million people are on food stamps in just the third year of President Obama's administration.

President Obama's Illegal Uncle

 
President Obama's illegal uncle, Onyango Obama, appeared in Framingham District Court to face charges of driving under the influence (DUI).  He had been scheduled for deportation in 1992, but apparently never showed up in court.  Gee, I wonder why.  He also reportedly had a "valid" drivers license and social security number.  Just how in the hell does an illegal alien obtain a valid drivers license and, even worse, a social security number?