During his press conference yesterday, Diner-in-Chief Obama seems to have indicted himself and Congressional Democrats during an answer to NBC’s Chuck Todd query.

Trying to hang the debt-ceiling question on Republicans, Obama waxed metaphorical, stating “…you don’t go out to dinner and then, you know, eat all you want and then leave without paying the check.”

Message to Obama…only you and your Democrats were sitting at that table!

That ‘dining tab’ (translation, Democrat spending bills) excluded Republicans, shut out of the ‘restaurant’ during the 2008-2010 Democrats-only legislative feeding frenzy.

What Republicans are saying now, AFTER finally being let into the ‘restaurant, is that they didn’t order what is now being served at the table.

And if any ‘feeding frenzy’ occurs by Obama, Reid, or Pelosi, the Democrats slobbering at the trough should stay and wash dishes if they don’t have money to pay for it…

File this under “A Modern Proposal” – Let those who voted for the system, pay for it.

Spender-in-Chief Barack Obama stated plainly in his Monday press conference that  “raising the debt ceiling does not authorize more spending. It simply allows the country to pay for spending that Congress has already committed to”.

Since all of the spending bills Obama refers to were legislated by Congress Democrats when they were in total power prior to 2011, and since all of the new House Republican spending bills have been held up during 2011-2012 by a Democrat-controlled Senate, it’s obvious that Obama et al does not believe in, or plan on, representing all Americans.

They only believe in representing those Americans who voted ‘Democrat’. Fine, since “words matter”, let’s invoke those principles most favored by this regime…

• 1) “We won”, and
• 2) “Fairness”.

Campaign finance laws being available to guide the way, let’s suggest that – since the minority are not allowed representation under this Democrat administration – then, only those people and groups who donated to the Democrats ‘winning’ 2012 election should have to pay for Democrat spending, which only they ‘racked up’.

After all, it’s only ‘fair’…

(Update – Sandy S objects to the use of Obama’s name without the honorific ‘President’, stating that omitting same is disrespectful. For those who wonder or object, please refer to the new ‘Honorific’ page added to the BCP site. Essentially, we reserve the respect of such Constitutionally-bestowed titles for those who actually respect that Authority…and their oath of office.

In. Plain. Words…Those who disrespect the very Authority that makes their title of office possible don’t deserve that respect for themselves.)

News sources advise Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid  is pushing Mr. Obama to go around Congress to hike the debt ceiling to avoid dealing with out-of-control spending.

Never mind that the Constitution states that Congress shall have that responsibility…

Never mind that Reid’s Senate oath (sworn in January) states he “…will support and defend the Constitution…” and he “…will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…”

Never mind that he also swore he would “…well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: so help me God.”

By this act, Reid violates EVERY SEGMENT of his oath of office, and the Constitutional document that invests him with a political office.

But then, this isn’t the first time he’s broken the law to hide his party’s spending spree…

(Note to Byron York: BlueCollar would argue that you’re wrong about Harry Reid being able to get away with breaking the ’74 Congressional Budget Act law because of that law not having ‘an enforcement mechanism’…

…in our world, that’s what’s known as an ‘oath of office’…)

“…well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: so help me God.”

Aahh, what’s the big deal…they’re just words…

“If Congress Doesn’t Raise the Debt Ceiling, Nothing Disastrous Will Happen”

Speaking truth to Power, Dean Kalahar makes a series of powerful points comparing a family unit’s finances to a ‘government family’s’ finances. Each point is followed by the logic that “the economics of government is no different” than that of a regular family.

Conclusion: with Character and Integrity, a family’s choices will save the day.

Mr. Kalahar’s article very convincingly shows us why no Disaster looms…

Character and Integrity in government…what a relief – we thought we were in trouble.

File this under ‘Brass Cojones!’ In what amounts to a huge admission of Democrat Party culpability, Obama administration regulators introduced first-time banking rules on Thursday, to ensure “that borrowers can afford to pay their mortgages”.

Never mind that common-sense would dictate such a concept in money-lending.

Never mind that the private sector had worked out that necessity since 1190 AD, when mortgages were believed to have first been created.

To hear him tell it, it took Obama’s appointed consumer-protection czar Richard Cordray and regulator cronies to impose lender restrictions and obligations… such as reviewing a borrower’s financial situation to make sure they can afford mortgages they apply for.

What he won’t say so publicly is that the financial lending practices were turned upside down by Bill Clinton’s team in the ’90’s. They took a little-known Jimmy Carter-era CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) bill, injected with Janet Reno ‘regulation-steroids’, and FORCED lenders to relax mortgage-lending requirements…or face federal blowback.

Democrats did this in the name of ‘Home Ownership For All’, but their unspoken intent was to get votes under the guise of championing the low-income voter constituency, which primarily consisted of racial minorities normally unqualified for such loans.

Forcing banks to make risky sub-prime loans put those institutions in a shaky situation, so banks did what they could to protect themselves, bundling the loans in designated mortgage-backed securities and reselling them to investors. All perfectly legal.

We repeat – all perfectly legal. For, while you may regularly hear news outlets vilify the ‘predatory lenders’ and ‘fat cat’ bankers, what you won’t hear is that the banking industry is one of the most HEAVILY REGULATED industries in the United States!

Why doesn’t the average American know this? Because the regulations are made into law by Congress, and Democrats have dominated that legislative body for decades.

We apologize for this brief historical excursion, but it was necessary. Policy followed by a private sector free enterprise system, Obama attacks regularly now. Obama’s team isn’t breaking new ground here – it was self-imposed common sense for centuries…

…until Congressional Democrats created the sub-prime mortgage crisis they now try to foist off on others, by forcing the risky lending practices they now purport to solve…

When Mr. Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, and the news media suggest or make efforts to restrict our right “to keep and bear Arms” – violating our United States Constitution in the process – they’re telling us we’re all Adam Lanza.

Mr. Obama should either fulfill his oath of office – “I do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, PRESERVE, PROTECT, and DEFEND the Constitution of the United States” – or renounce the title… as he renounces that authority which confers it.

It’s ironic that the man who clings to this Constitutionally-established high office, and willingly took that Constitutionally-mandated oath of office, now is the same man who dismisses said Constitution as irrelevant… when it pertains to the rights of others.

And for those other ‘legislators’, news media, and celebrity personages screaming for our guns, we remind them that there’s a reason why it’s called a “Bill of Rights”.

We are not all Adam Lanza, and it’s an egregious insult to imply otherwise.

BlueCollar finds it ironic in the extreme that disingenuous forces will exploit the evil deeds of a mentally unbalanced killer – who slaughtered 20 innocent children in one day – in order to confiscate our legally owned firearms…

…yet those same forces support government-funded efforts of Planned Parenthood, when they announce 333,964 achieved abortions – of the innocent unborn – in 2011.

Talk about Perspective…

Round 1. Last week, Rush Limbaugh called CNN economist expert Ali Velshi a “Low Information Reporter” for ranting that “Republicans continue to use this (debt ceiling) language that somehow it’s to control spending. And it’s just incorrect”.

Rush was demonstrably incredulous that a CNN ‘economic guru’ would make the statement that the debt ceiling had nothing to do with spending, or spending control.

Round 2. Today, in the rematch, Ali Velshi threw what he may have considered his best counter-punch, in support of his original claim: “But let me explain again to Rush…the debt ceiling law was established to give Treasury the flexibility to borrow chunks of money without going to Congress to get approval every time a law was passed…it’s as simple as that Rush”.

Hardly a crushing blow. We anticipate Mr. Limbaugh’s comeback…’Unhh, Ali, can we interpret your reference to a “law” as meaning a SPENDING bill?’ (Besides, if Congress actually spent less than the government took in, who needs to raise the debt ceiling?)

Why is it we see this as a fight Mr. Velshi cannot win…?

(update) In response to an email from Kirsten H, BlueCollar notes that even though couched in coded terms, the foundational principle as suggested by Rush Limbaugh applies…debt rises as spending expands beyond available revenues.

Anyone with a credit card knows you’ll never hit its limit if you DON’T use the card.

CNN’s Velshi can code the word ‘spending’ in terms such as “every time a law was passed” or “every time a bill involving money was passed”, but no matter what flowery prose is used…they all mean SPENDING.

In the immortal words of Howard Cosell…”Down goes Ali…!!”

Bill Murray’s famous ‘Dr. Venkman quote’ from Ghostbusters truly captures the essence of the following information: as America slides down a tax-hiking Socialist chute into a 3rd world economic cesspit of stagnation, guess which country has a flat-tax rate that’s 1/3 our corporate rate…using it to balance their budget and double tax revenues?

Russia.

What other country is using radical tax-cuts to help boost it’s economic growth…?

China.

BlueCollar isn’t suggesting an airfare purchase…but anyone who doesn’t see the irony of this juxtaposition either works at the New York Times…or 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Rivers and seas boiling…40 years of darkness…you be the judge.

Really, aren’t elected ‘leaders’ sent to Washington to keep our nation on the right track?

Yet, in an era where America has become ‘the Land of the Taxed and the Home of the Over-regulated’, as a result of the laws these so-called ‘leaders’ create, we’re subjected to one crisis after another. A ‘fiscal cliff’ averted, now we’re faced with a ‘debt bomb’.

But sleep easy…that crisis isn’t scheduled for two more months.

With the arrival in movie theaters of this latest drama on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a serious discussion on the methodology of acquiring critical intelligence is needed.

For all those who rant against ‘torture’, it seems many have forgotten the images of desperate men and women jumping out of 83-story windows to escape the implacable firestorm raging through the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11/2001.

For, if they did remember, and maintained that perspective, would they still object to enhanced interrogation techniques, had those falling bodies been their mom or dad, son or daughter…? Would they object if such techniques could save a loved one?

Inconvenient as it may be to those claiming the moral ‘high ground’, the fact is that evil elements in society have perpetrated vile acts against humanity on our homeland…and declare their intent to continue their despicable acts against America, and Americans.

Faced with that unrelenting evil, it seems curious in the extreme to allow a ‘moral high ground’ to be used as a death warrant for your mom or dad, son or daughter…or ours. And, for those who claim ‘there’s a better way’…do you honestly believe those methods aren’t being used as well? Is your opinion of our culture and values that low?

In your final closing arguments with those who hold such low opinions of our American values, ask if they have a loved one. Invoke the image of a plummeting body, hair and clothing on fire, experiencing unbelievable pain as the ground rushes toward them..

Do they really believe that a moral high ground justifies that terrifying reality…?

Because, inconvenient as it may be, that’s a reality we saw firsthand, on Sept 11th.