Prepare To Be Offended

Can you believe this? Gregory Craig is going to be the lead council for Obama. So who is this guy? Well of all things he presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family.

Yea everyone has a right to a good defense and all that good stuff, but would you as a President want an attorney that would possibly defend the very guy that tried to kill you? Probably not.

I guess it just goes to show that jump ship from one political power house (the Clintons) to another you get a good reward for it.

The Democrats really love to harp on how great the Clinton years were. The budget surplus. The prosperity. Ahh the good life.

In seeking to duplicate those great times, Obama is hiring most of Clinton’s old staff. As usual though, they seem to forget history or just choose to ignore the facts. So let’s look at how Clinton’s two terms really went.

Before Clinton took office, several innovations were in the works that were prepping the economy for lift off. For the most part, personal computing was really starting to come into its own. That lead to an enormous internet boom.

But let us back up just a minute. For the first three years of his office, the economy pretty much went nowhere. It wasn’t until the GOP took office, combined with Hillary’s failure to get her health care plan through and Greenspan’s loosening of monetary policy did the economy take off. The chart below says it all.

Source IBD.

What about that budget surplus?

As for the budget surpluses, they came as a complete surprise to Clinton economic forecasters, whose static models only predicted their tax hikes on the rich would narrow the budget gap, not get it into the black.

Their “deficit-reduction plan” didn’t create the surpluses at all. They were a direct result of a tidal wave of capital-gains revenues generated by the GOP-led stock boom.

Relieved that Washington would no longer threaten to take over 14% of the economy by socializing medicine or raise taxes even higher, the market took off like a shot at that point. And capital gains tax receipts exploded, flooding federal coffers.

Clinton’s own long-term budgets predicted no surpluses of any kind during his administration and beyond.

In 1993, Clinton made his first five-year budget projections based on the new tax and spending programs he was proposing. He forecast a budget deficit of $202 billion in fiscal year 2000. In fact, the Treasury produced a record surplus that year of $236 billion.

That’s a swing of more than $400 billion. So much for central planning.

Clinton either must admit to some of the worst forecasting in history or acknowledge that some other factors besides his record tax hike closed the budget gap. But he’s copped to neither.

So, if Obama wants to duplicate the “success” of Bill Clinton, he needs to wait until 2010 and pray that the GOP takes over congress and gets things straightened out.

Isn’t it amazing how the left is allowed to hate so viciously, and then claim that we are now “united” after Obama’s election?

Take this example of a school experiment where a girl wore a McCain t-shirt and was verbally attacked for it. She said that many kids told her to “die” and that she was a “filthy republican”.

Oh yea, that is the group of people that I want to be “united” with.

I’ve been telling my wife for a couple weeks now that what the Republican party needs is their own version of a MoveOn.org. Well, tonight on Hannity & Colmes, Dick Morris said exactly the same thing.

Well, turns out that something is in the works. Maybe not quite the scale of MoveOn, but something for us. I’m working with a few others in bringing it to light and hopefully will be ready soon.

I’ll keep you posted.

My apologies if you don’t get it

He actually said in his victory speech

I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face

Somehow I don’t think he knows what the term “honest” means.

I haven’t seen this sense of unity since 9/11, really, really, and 9/11 was this tragic experience that brought us all together and now we’re all brought together in the name of hope. Not since 9/11 have I experienced anything even kind of close to this.

Then Obama says this:

Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House – a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, We are not enemies, but friends though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn – I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.

Really? All I’ve seen is uniting hatred. Dividing the country between the “rich” and the “middle class”. That isn’t exactly the kind of uniting I’m looking forward to.

More:

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves – if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

I’ll tell you, our children will be bankrupt with a fat government gorging itself on money from the people, denying those that want to grow themselves in order to keep them down.

He is on now and claiming victory for himself. How nice and pompous. How in the world does someone like this get elected?? HOW??

All he has done is bring a lot of pork barrel spending, and he is proud of that. Go figure.

I have to agree a bit with Bill Hennessy. We need strong leadership in our party and we need it NOW. Newt Gingrich also mentioned the call for stronger Republican leadership in his book, Real Change.

We also need serious backing to make it happen. The question then, is who will step up? Who will fight the unions, the MoveOn.org’s, etc. Who??

7:41: Obama win Virginia. It is definitely over.

7:36: Reid and Pelosi speaking in Washington

7:34: FNC still won’t call Florida, but says it still looks really good for Obama

7:11: Iowa swings back to blue

7:04: McCain camp says “there doesn’t appear to any path”

7:03: Looks like the dems won’t get that magic number of 60 senate seats.

7:00: McCain wins Texas. No surprise.

6:50: Obama didn’t run as a liberal? Wow, that is a new one.

6:43: Obama is ahead in Nebraska. What is the world coming to?

6:18: Ohio is lost… Obama gets it. That pretty much means the country is going socialist.

6:11: Obama gets New Mexico. They must be looking forward to that $500 check!

6:09: Tom Udall takes a seat from the republicans

6:04: Bradley effect was real…

6:00: Obama gets Wisconson and New York

5:31: PA goes to Obama. Gonna be a long night…

5:26: Shaheen takes Sununu’s senate seat.

5:18: Newsmax.com has a poll about Sarah Palin.

5:13: Obama get NH.

5:09: McConnell keeps his seat. 51% to 49%. Dole loses her seat.

5:05: McCain gets TN

5:03: Biden gets to serve a 7th term as a senator. Lets hope that’s all he gets to serve as

5:00: Obama gets most of the north east, no suprise. McCain gets Oklahoma.

4:58: Florida is about to close their polls. Still waiting or the panhandle there.

4:50: McCain takes South Carolina (8EV)

4:47: Lieberman fears Democrats getting 60 seats in senate. Read Here.

4:40: Dick Morris says McCain’s win in KY isn’t good. That fact that he only won by 3 points suggests that Obama might win nationally by 6

4:33: Senate minority leader McConnell is at 51% but still TCTC

4:30: Several states still too close to call, including the all important Ohio.

4:27: McCain has West Virginia (5EV)

4:21: Seems I got a little Google loving for my Black Panthers doing what Democrats do best post. As I write this I’m 4th in results on the 1st page

4:10: McCain wins Kentucky (8EV) and Obama Vermont (3EV).