Lessons Learned from Wisconsin Recall

This past Tuesday's Wisconsin Recall taught a number of lessons to Unions and to taxpayers as well.  It taught the unions to never pick a fight if you are not 100% sure you can win.  It taught taxpayers to never be intimidated by big labor unions.  It taught me that there is still hope for this country.  Financial accountability is not a thing of the past.  Out of control spending will cease to exist if the current occupant in the Oval Office vacates the premises on January 20, 2013.  Regardless of who is the President on that date, the spending spree, by both Democrats and Republicans, will come to an end.  This country cannot sustain the kind of debt it now has for much longer.  At some point, we will reach a tipping point of which we will be hard pressed to recover.  Both parties share responsibility for this debt.  It just appears the Democrats do not care about the debt being passed on to our children and grandchildren.  When you have a Bob Beckel saying "....there's nothing wrong with the debt.  We print our own money," then you have to acknowledge there are people on the Left who are out of touch with reality.  The same can be said of some on the Right and, of course, the big labor unions who refused to pay more of their medical costs in Wisconsin.  Some unionists will say, of course, that is not the reason for the recall. They will say it was all about collective bargaining rights. Whatever.

Some of the lessons I learned from the Wisconsin Recall Election is that even in a truly blue state, there are people with a conscience.  These people realized that it is not fair for public sector employees to pay far less (medical costs and pension) than their private sector employee counterparts.  I also learned that the Democrats are eating a lot of crow today. Democrats and unions alike said this was going to be a big election for "the middle class" of America.  We were told it would be a harbinger of things to come for the Presidential Election in November.  Of course, they would still be saying those things if they had won.  Governor Scott Walker won by a bigger spread than he did the first time he won. But, all those things they said are true.  Just not for the reasons the Leftists had hoped.  I had hoped the 2010 mid-term elections would have been a wake-up call for President Obama.  It did not deter him on his Leftist agenda.   It is far too much to hope he can change this late in the game.  The Wisconsin Recall was a stake in the heart of a big spending congress and President.  Will they listen to the voters this November?  We'll see.

Bob Beckel Strikes Again

Monday night on Sean Hannity, Bob Beckel proved once and for all what a loud mouthed, profane, vulgar lout he is..  Ok, some will say he didn't know he was on air.  That is all beside the point.  He had no right to verbally attack the Tea Party activist Jennifer Stefano.  She simply stated that "Head Start" spending was completely out of control and ineffective.  This lady had a right to her opinion.  But, what she did not deserve was Bob Beckel crudely yelling, "You don't know what the fuck you are talking about!!!"  That is vintage Beckel.  He is presented with facts and he replies with vulgarity.  But, he is a Leftist.  That is the way they roll.  Beckel at first refused to apologize because he did not think he was on air.  He finally realized he yelled the vulgarity on air and then, like any liberal skirting personal accountability, blamed Sean Hannity!  So typical of the liberal mindset.  It is always somebody else at fault, not us.  You know, kind of like Obama blaming all the ills and mistakes of his administration on George W. Bush.

At the end of the hit Fox News show Tuesday afternoon, "The Five," Bob Beckel had a chance to be a man, to apologize for the crudeness of character he displayed on Monday night.  But, no, he did not have the guts to do that.  Instead he came up with comic relief by placing money in a swear jar.  Why is Bob Beckel given such leeway?  I don't get it.  It is like there are rules for everyone else and then rules for...oh wait.  That is the way of the liberal, isn't it?  Rules don't apply to them, just to everyone else.  What little respect I had for Fox News is gone over this.  They should have fired Beckel's ass.  They ran off Glenn Beck.  But, they keep a vulgar fat man like Bob Beckel.  Someone needs to explain that to me.  I'm done with Fox.

Editor's Note:  This will be my last rant for about two weeks.  I will be taking some time off from this blog and another one I write.  I don't want to get burned out like I did about two years ago. 

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.