Creating a Land of the Blind…so the 1-eyed man can be King

Only in the Land of the Blind could Harry Reid sell his snake-oil.

Today, he stood on the Democrat-controlled Senate floor – sadly, now a place where House legislation comes to die – and blasted House Republicans for taking a Christmas recess rather than staying in Washington and working a deal to avert the ‘fiscal cliff’.

Claiming the Senate was working, Reid said House GOP members should be there now to make a deal, so “middle class Americans and small businesses don’t get hurt”.

Really, Harry? So why are forty bills passed by the 2012 Republican-controlled House, all written to help middle-class earners and small businesses, presently hidden away by Democrat Senate tyranny? Harry Reid refuses to let them be considered.

Repeat – Reid and Senate Democrats REFUSE to consider 40 pro-growth House bills, including a tax rate extension bill, that would help America’s economy get back on its feet, and help the all-but-forgotten unemployed get urgently needed jobs.

(Why, you might ask? Because with the media’s help Dems want to make it look like all the economic troubles we’re going through are caused by… obstructive Republicans.)

Only in a Land of the Blind could this pathetic excuse for a Senator get away with a claim that the Senate’s working…unless he meant working to deceive Americans!

And a deceitful mainstream media has created this Land of the Blind, by bending their version of reality around the rocky path of hard truth, to suit Harry Reid’s intentions.

So the Blind – receiving this ‘news’ – feel the way must be smooth and right…

…’cuz with the media’s help, that’s the way the 1-eyed King sees it.

 

Is it too much to ask for honesty…at a funeral?

Say it ain’t so, Mr. Obama…? Blatant dishonesty…at a funeral… to bash Republicans?

It’s no secret BlueCollar is not a fan of Barack Obama and his Big Government ideas, but we are in awe of America, and respectful of the elected office of President. So its a sorrowful thing when that office is dishonored and disrespected by its occupant.

Several blogs ago, BCP expressed dismay that a United States President would use that office, during a funeral, to maliciously attack an opposition political party.

Now comes a story that Mr. Obama wasn’t just being mean-spirited when he used that solemn occasion to bash Republicans, but had to make up the story to get his digs in.

Obama stated point-blank that his vivid memories of Hawaiian Senator Inouye were prompted by invoking the spectre of Watergate hearings, viewed as a child on a series of motel tv’s during family vacation travels on the mainland. But a Breitbart.com article points out that the Watergate hearings were in 1973, and it’s already been proven that the family vacation Mr. Obama referred to was a year earlier, in 1972.

So an inconsiderate act by a U.S. President – at a Senator’s funeral – not only disrespected and dishonored the recently deceased, but evidently required a completely fabricated untruth as its foundational structure…

Watergate was a black mark against Republicans, and Senator Inouye was a key player in the hearings. Obama could have stirred up that muck at any number of press conferences or Rose Garden mud-slinging events, but…

…during the funeral memorial…? …using debunked untruths to do it…?

Democrats must be so proud.

 

 

Is another village missing it’s idiot…?

If the co-owner of your company recommends you for a raise, but his partner refuses to act on it, whose fault is it when you don’t get the raise?

Open message to E.J. Dionne, Jr. – it’s the partner causing the problem.

For reasons unknown, Mr. Dionne’s allowed to write Washington Post opinion articles. We say ‘reasons unknown’, because usually to write for large news publications one would think fact, integrity, and logic should prevail…but in his case…?

Harsh words, maybe, but how else do you describe a ‘learned’ writer who ignores ‘fact, integrity, and logic’? His latest article about the fiscal cliff is a case in point.

Dionne cites a ‘crisis in our political system’, leading us to a ‘constitutional crackup‘ which will see our ‘country fall into chaos‘…because dastardly House Republicans refuse to ‘avert a fiscal nightmare‘ by doing their job and accepting political realities. But when something that nightmarish – by his own standards – is seen heading toward us, shouldn’t relevant information be on the table?

Uuhhh, Mr. Dionne, H.R. 8, a House Republican bill extending the current tax rate (and, OMG, averting a ‘fiscal nightmare’) has been hidden since Senate Democrats refuse to allow discussion, procedures to amend, or otherwise vote on it… one way or the other.

Oh…did we mention HR8 has been jailed in the Democrat Senate dungeon since August 1st? So, when you wail for Congress “to be allowed to work its will”, it would seem Democrats have…by imprisoning legislation for months, rather than crafting it!

Mr. Dionne, the next time you mention politicians “who would rather see the country fall into chaos than vote for anything that might offend their ideological sensibilities…”

…Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid better be the target of your wrath.

Otherwise, in our opinion that village got lucky, pawning you off on the Post.

Smell tests being what they are…

Sadly, there’s never a polygraph machine around when you need it…

Friday, the President used a solemn venue to speak on his favorite subject…himself.

And – true to form (being the classy guy that he is) – wasted no time bashing political opponent Republicans by invoking the Watergate hearings as a childhood memory.

And that’s when a BlueCollarPerspective (BCP) polygraph machine would have come in handy.

Taking his most notable comments (as posted on the White House blog)…

“I learned how our democracy was supposed to work…”

BCP – so, Mr. President, you’ve said your election is proof of a mandate…but the 230+ House Republicans – who also won their elections – don’t have a mandate? Is that your idea of how a democracy works – your election counts… theirs doesn’t?

“…that we had a system of government where nobody is above the law…”

BCP – Mr. Obama, does that exclude tax-cheating cabinet members like your Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner? Does that exclude Black Panther members found guilty of voter intimidation, yet inexplicably exonerated by your Attorney General? Does that exclude you, ignoring the Constitution by making illegal recess appointments…?

“…where we have an obligation to hold each other accountable…”

BCP – Sir, you’re hiding your involvement in Fast-&-Furious gunrunning behind your Attorney General; you’re hiding your Benghazi, Libya failures and deceit behind the skirts of U.N. Amb. Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Accountability?

“…these things that we stand for, these ideals that we hold dear are bigger than any one person or party or politician…”

BCP – Mr. President, you’ve trampled 200 years of property rights for union cronies, threatened to send intimidating hooligans to private business leaders’ homes, and incited supporters to consider members of the loyal opposition party as ‘enemies’…

Do you honestly believe that decent Americans hold those ‘ideals’ dear…?

Hearing this narcissistic self-serving, dishonest patter, you wouldn’t have known the President was speaking at a funeral…

Is it too much to ask that a United States President at least act…presidential?

And, please…who has fond memories of Congressional hearings… as an 11-year old?

Thank you Rush Limbaugh…!!!!

During this morning’s monologue, Rush Limbaugh endorsed the same idea BlueCollar posted on Dec 07, http://bluecollarperspective.net/?p=44.

The context involved how to fight a media and controlling Democrat party led by Barack Obama, who insist on calling the imminent tax increase coming Jan 01 a tax cut‘, in essence painting Republicans as the bad guys screwing over the middle- and low-income earners if they refuse to raise taxes on high-income earners.

We suggested that House Republicans pass a ‘Bush tax rate extension’ bill, with an amendment reducing tax rates even further for the middle-&-low income earners, then dare Senate Democrats & the President to ignore the bill, or vote down/veto it.

On today’s program, Mr. Limbaugh suggested the same “make it a REAL tax cut” idea.

We welcome Mr. Limbaugh to the exclusive “make some REAL tax cut legislation” club.

While we’re not sure our blog reaches him, we hope Mr. Boehner was listening today.

http://bluecollarperspective.net/?p=44

Hiding in plain sight….

Hidden truths… and the newspapers that hide them.

No less than the New York Times reports today that the House Republicans failed to pass “fallback legislation to avert a fiscal crisis in less than 2 weeks…in an embarrassing defeat”.

And, wasted no time stating in that same article, “What he (Speaker Boehner) could not do was blame Democrats…”, implying automatic tax hikes on Jan 01 would be the fault of Republicans.

Sorry folks, in light of forty (40) House bills now molding away in the Democrat-controlled Senate, it’s a media-perpetuated myth that’s Just.Not.True. Specifically…

We refer journalist Jonathan Weisman and his NYT editors to House Bill H.R.8 and its House roll call 545, passed on 256 ‘yay’ votes (including 19 Democrats) August 01 2012, which (among other things) extends the Bush tax rates.

Did you know the House of Representatives passed legislation to extend the Bush tax rates? Did you also know that Harry Reid’s Democrat-controlled Senate refuses to allow this bill to be voted on in the Senate, all the while blaming a ‘do-nothing’ House GOP?

How could you know? And (of course), nowhere in this article are those inconvenient facts noted. Why let facts get in the way of blaming Republicans?

Sorry, Mr. Weisman, “fallback legislation” has been available to “avert a fiscal crisis” since August! The Democrat Senate refuses to vote on it!

Implying some ‘new’ legislation is the only answer, when stalled legislation that would avoid tax hikes has existed for over 5 months, is nothing less than journalistic malpractice.

And stating Democrats can’t be blamed is craven pandering.

But then…it is the New York Times…

 

“What law would have stopped Sandy Hook childkiller..?”

TheBlaze journalist Will Cain asked that question on a CNN panel yesterday.

For days after the Sandy Hook tragedy, mounting demands for new laws are an hourly occurrence. 3 CNN panelists joined the chorus, prompting Cain’s pointed query.

But it does beg the question…

There are laws against: assault, theft, illegal possession of firearms, illegal transportation of firearms, grand-theft auto, breaking and entering school grounds, aggravated assault, murder, mayhem…

Lanza broke them all, to perpetrate his evil horror.

So, congrats Mr. Cain, on asking the Question of the Day.. “what law would have stopped Adam Lanza?”

And, the inevitable follow-on “what NEW law would have stopped this evil?”

(updated) Profiles in Cowardice…

Open response to Nolan W.’s email, asking if BCP has ever seen a more weak-kneed display in a politician than House Speaker Boehner on this fiscal-cliff deal…

As a matter of fact, Nolan, yes:

AG Eric Holder, refusing to come clean on Fast-&-Furious…a gun-walking program that left 2 Americans dead, and is still killing hundreds of civilians in Mexico…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid & cohort, violating law by failing to produce a budget for 3 years, for fear of voter backlash if their out-of-control spending’s revealed…

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, using alias email addresses to dodge agency transparency, and refusing to answer Congressional inquiries as to motive…

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, invoking the ‘concussion amendment’ so she can avoid testifying before Congress about her agency’s fatal Benghazi failures that left 4 Americans dead, and countless others wounded…

And last, but by no means least, President Obama, who to this day refuses to answer why he and his administration did NOTHING to help those Americans in Benghazi, and lurks behind ‘executive privilege’ so his role in Fast-&-Furious will stay hidden.

Compared to these Profiles in Cowardice, Nolan…? Really?

(update) The reason only Democrats are listed, Connie, is because they are in power of the elective branches of government, controlling the Senate and the Presidency.

Their actions most directly affect the day-to-day life of Americans, and should be held to account accordingly. If any FACTS are available to rebut, by all means present them…

Stop feeding the lie, Speaker Boehner…

In a press conference today, the President revealed his true agenda.

He’s been pushing the false concept that the Bush tax rates were behind our country’s economic struggles, when we all know the crisis started with a Democrat-created subprime mortgage crisis…and stretched out due to a wild Democrat spending spree.

So, today he claims that Speaker Boehner has conceded that tax rates should go up on higher income earners, as if that was the problem for the last 4 years…despite the fact that the CBO shows 2008 spending was $2.5 trillion, and we’re facing 2013 spending of $3.5 trillion – an increase of 40% over the 4 years DURING our economic crisis!

Sadly, we know the media will help him push his ‘tax-rates-did-it’ lie.

Speaker Boehner, it’s time to do the right thing.

As noted in the Dec 16 BCP article ‘This Isn’t A Zero-Sum America, Mr. Boehner’, the American electorate gave House Republicans a mandate in November.

Pass legislation that 1) extends the Bush tax rates, or 2) makes them permanent.

Tax rates aren’t the problem – $3.5 trillion in SPENDING is the problem!

Stop playing games with a media-supported lie. Do.Your.Job.