By Tim Philbin
Who would have thought that the warranty on new cars would be guaranteed by President Obama and his administration?
Yes that is what the President said today. In fact his exact words were, “let me say it as plainly as I can -- if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warrantee will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been. Because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warrantee.”
Does that mean you will have to drive to the White House or the Senate garage to get your oil changed? I haven’t seen the fine print yet.
All of this comes about after the President rejected the latest offer by General Motors and Chrysler to restructure their companies in an effort to get more tax payer money to bail ‘em out.
Mr. Obama fired the head of GM, Rich Wagoner a man with over 30 years with the company and effectively took over the private company.
I don’t claim to be a constitutional scholar but what section of that revered document allows the President to fire the head of a private firm and seize control of the company?
This latest grab for power should have even the old Bush critics (of too much power in the presidency) sitting up and taking notice.
Well maybe not.
After all Mr. Wagoner in part of that newly hated group of corporate executives and “rich people” that are now the new enemy of the state.
Who or what is next?
God help us.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Finally My Voice In The Wilderness Is Heard
By Tim Philbin
What a bunch of phoneys!
I watch in amazement as each takes a turn showing their sorry faces on TV to express their contrived outrage over the now notorious bonuses paid to AIG executives.
The thieves in congress should be reminded that THEY are responsible for our money and any miss appropriation of our money is their fault. They gave AIG the money (our money) and should have known, attached strings, questioned management, or found out how this money way going to be spent.
Here’s what one columnist, Michelle Malkin wrote on the subject.
“Over the weekend, cloaked in their finest populist costumes, the Beltway's hair-sprayed and powdered politicians and White House aides took to the airwaves to inveigh against $165 million in employee-retention payments made by the government-backed insurance giant.
The checks were mailed Friday, but the March 15 bonus deadline had been on the Capitol Hill radar screen since December.
But it wasn't until last week that the hapless court jester of the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, scrambled to rein in the payments.
AIG Chief Executive Edward Liddy basically told him to buzz off.
Geithner, the primary architect of the original $85 billion AIG bailout last fall, "reluctantly" approved the bonuses.
And now his outraged boss has ordered him to scour every legal nook and cranny possible to get the money back.
Spare me President Obama's finger-wag. He's "outraged?" Meh.
Two weeks ago, Team Obama forked over another $30 billion for the basket-case company after it reported $61.7 billion in fourth-quarter losses.
That's on top of the first $85 billion round and the second $38 billion round under George W. Bush - both of which Obama supported. (Obama, by the way, collected more than $101,000 in AIG campaign contributions.)
Don't talk to me about how the Obama administration opposes rewarding failure. And don't talk to me about all the politicians stampeding to tax AIG's bonuses.
Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, the corporate crony who is the largest recipient of AIG donations, is now leading the charge to tax the retention payments in order to recoup the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial-products unit.
But Dodd, it turns out, was for protecting AIG's bonuses before he was against them.
Fox Business reporter Rich Edson pointed out that during the Senate porkulus negotiations last month, Dodd successfully inserted a teeny-tiny amendment that provided for an "exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009," which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are seeking to tax.
Pay no attention to what his left hand was doing. Dodd's right fist is pounding mightily, mightily for the sake of the taxpayers. The hypocritical indignation on the Hill is bipartisan.
On his Twitter page last night, Sen. John McCain huffed, "If we hadn't bailed out AIG = no bonuses for greedy execs."
Well, if the GOP presidential candidate had held fast to his opposition to such doomed corporate bailouts in the first place, maybe bailout-a-palooza wouldn't have spiraled into the gazillion-dollar mess it inevitably became.
If Washington's newfound opponents of rewarding failure want to do taxpayers a favor, how about giving back their automatic pay raises? How about returning all their AIG donations?
How about taking back all the bailout money to all the failed enterprises, from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to AIG, the automakers and the big banks? Barry? Harry? Nancy? John? Chris? “
Thank you Michelle, finally someone else has heard my rants or the last few months and is paying attention.
What a bunch of phoneys!
I watch in amazement as each takes a turn showing their sorry faces on TV to express their contrived outrage over the now notorious bonuses paid to AIG executives.
The thieves in congress should be reminded that THEY are responsible for our money and any miss appropriation of our money is their fault. They gave AIG the money (our money) and should have known, attached strings, questioned management, or found out how this money way going to be spent.
Here’s what one columnist, Michelle Malkin wrote on the subject.
“Over the weekend, cloaked in their finest populist costumes, the Beltway's hair-sprayed and powdered politicians and White House aides took to the airwaves to inveigh against $165 million in employee-retention payments made by the government-backed insurance giant.
The checks were mailed Friday, but the March 15 bonus deadline had been on the Capitol Hill radar screen since December.
But it wasn't until last week that the hapless court jester of the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, scrambled to rein in the payments.
AIG Chief Executive Edward Liddy basically told him to buzz off.
Geithner, the primary architect of the original $85 billion AIG bailout last fall, "reluctantly" approved the bonuses.
And now his outraged boss has ordered him to scour every legal nook and cranny possible to get the money back.
Spare me President Obama's finger-wag. He's "outraged?" Meh.
Two weeks ago, Team Obama forked over another $30 billion for the basket-case company after it reported $61.7 billion in fourth-quarter losses.
That's on top of the first $85 billion round and the second $38 billion round under George W. Bush - both of which Obama supported. (Obama, by the way, collected more than $101,000 in AIG campaign contributions.)
Don't talk to me about how the Obama administration opposes rewarding failure. And don't talk to me about all the politicians stampeding to tax AIG's bonuses.
Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, the corporate crony who is the largest recipient of AIG donations, is now leading the charge to tax the retention payments in order to recoup the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial-products unit.
But Dodd, it turns out, was for protecting AIG's bonuses before he was against them.
Fox Business reporter Rich Edson pointed out that during the Senate porkulus negotiations last month, Dodd successfully inserted a teeny-tiny amendment that provided for an "exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009," which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are seeking to tax.
Pay no attention to what his left hand was doing. Dodd's right fist is pounding mightily, mightily for the sake of the taxpayers. The hypocritical indignation on the Hill is bipartisan.
On his Twitter page last night, Sen. John McCain huffed, "If we hadn't bailed out AIG = no bonuses for greedy execs."
Well, if the GOP presidential candidate had held fast to his opposition to such doomed corporate bailouts in the first place, maybe bailout-a-palooza wouldn't have spiraled into the gazillion-dollar mess it inevitably became.
If Washington's newfound opponents of rewarding failure want to do taxpayers a favor, how about giving back their automatic pay raises? How about returning all their AIG donations?
How about taking back all the bailout money to all the failed enterprises, from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to AIG, the automakers and the big banks? Barry? Harry? Nancy? John? Chris? “
Thank you Michelle, finally someone else has heard my rants or the last few months and is paying attention.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
They're Looking For You!
By Tim Philbin
The following has just cleared the wires. Obamaniacs will take to the streets to seek out supporters (and non supporters alike). Of Mr. Obama's Socialist agenda.
Are names to be taken? What happens if you don't pledge your support as the article reports?
Does this not remind you of Chairman Mao and his army of volunteers parading around with The Little Red Book. My God is this the beginnig of the end of America?
Warn your friends and neighbors, call every talk show you can think of, write to every nespaper (if they will print it) and warn them of this gathering of information on all Americans. This is like a nightmare happening before our very eyes.
Prepare yourself my fellow patriots
"US President Barack Obama mustered his powerful campaign army on Monday, calling on his millions of supporters to lobby on behalf of his budget and economic plan.
The appeal to back the president was made in an email and video sent out by "Organizing for America," the organization which morphed out of Obama's campaign machinery to push his agenda when he entered the White House.
In the video, Mitch Stewart, the director of Organizing for America, urged the president's supporters to take part in the "Organizing for America Pledge Project."
"The pledge project is an ambitious effort to map out and identify support for President Obama's economic blueprint across towns and communities in America," Stewart said.
"We're doing that by asking people to pledge your support for the broad initiatives outlined in President Obama's economic plan.
"Once you do, we will ask you to build support in your own communities by forwarding this pledge by email, by knocking on doors and by making phone call," he said. "We will show in every state, in every congressional district the hunger, for leadership and long range thinking that's in too short supply here in Washington."
Stewart said Obama's budget provides a "bold blueprint for our country's future.
"It addresses three of the most pressing challenges facing our nation: health care, energy and education," he said.
"That's the good news. The bad news is that as a result the special interests and the old habits in Washington will dig in even more.
"It's up to you to make sure that they don't stand in our way.
"By pledging and building support you will be taking the first steps towards establishing a nationwide grassroots network, neighborhood by neighborhood, standing side by side with President Obama as we bring about our agenda for change."
The appeal to grass roots supporters closely follows the tactics used by Obama during his triumphant election campaign and is another sign that the president plans to use the organization to help pass difficult legislation.
Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, has stressed that Organizing for America is not aimed at twisting the arms of members of Congress but meant to keep activists engaged on issues such as health care, energy and the economy"
The following has just cleared the wires. Obamaniacs will take to the streets to seek out supporters (and non supporters alike). Of Mr. Obama's Socialist agenda.
Are names to be taken? What happens if you don't pledge your support as the article reports?
Does this not remind you of Chairman Mao and his army of volunteers parading around with The Little Red Book. My God is this the beginnig of the end of America?
Warn your friends and neighbors, call every talk show you can think of, write to every nespaper (if they will print it) and warn them of this gathering of information on all Americans. This is like a nightmare happening before our very eyes.
Prepare yourself my fellow patriots
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"US President Barack Obama mustered his powerful campaign army on Monday, calling on his millions of supporters to lobby on behalf of his budget and economic plan.
The appeal to back the president was made in an email and video sent out by "Organizing for America," the organization which morphed out of Obama's campaign machinery to push his agenda when he entered the White House.
In the video, Mitch Stewart, the director of Organizing for America, urged the president's supporters to take part in the "Organizing for America Pledge Project."
"The pledge project is an ambitious effort to map out and identify support for President Obama's economic blueprint across towns and communities in America," Stewart said.
"We're doing that by asking people to pledge your support for the broad initiatives outlined in President Obama's economic plan.
"Once you do, we will ask you to build support in your own communities by forwarding this pledge by email, by knocking on doors and by making phone call," he said. "We will show in every state, in every congressional district the hunger, for leadership and long range thinking that's in too short supply here in Washington."
Stewart said Obama's budget provides a "bold blueprint for our country's future.
"It addresses three of the most pressing challenges facing our nation: health care, energy and education," he said.
"That's the good news. The bad news is that as a result the special interests and the old habits in Washington will dig in even more.
"It's up to you to make sure that they don't stand in our way.
"By pledging and building support you will be taking the first steps towards establishing a nationwide grassroots network, neighborhood by neighborhood, standing side by side with President Obama as we bring about our agenda for change."
The appeal to grass roots supporters closely follows the tactics used by Obama during his triumphant election campaign and is another sign that the president plans to use the organization to help pass difficult legislation.
Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, has stressed that Organizing for America is not aimed at twisting the arms of members of Congress but meant to keep activists engaged on issues such as health care, energy and the economy"
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