Michelle Malkin linked up to this assessment of Barack Obama's first 100 days. Some of it is just tongue-in-cheek, but the lion's share of it is extremely disturbing. It's unbelievable that Americans could have been hoodwinked into electing this guy.

Let me comment today on just the first 10 ...

1. "Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. 'Let there be no doubt, this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability,' Obama said." -- McClatchy, 3/11

This is no surprise. Obama was an "earmark" senator. Why would anyone be so foolish as to believe he wouldn't be an "earmark" executive?

2. "There is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means and we're going to have to make some adjustments." -- Obama during the campaign.

Oh he made adjustments all right. More of the same stuff that got us into this mess in the first place. Thanks a lot Barry.

3. This year's budget deficit: $1.5 trillion.

Thanks a lot, indeed. Especially given this guy's campaign complaints about the prior administration's deficit spending.

4. Asks his Cabinet to cut costs in their departments by $100 million -- a whopping .0027%!

Yeah - that's gonna help ...

5. "The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties." -- ABC News, 4/15

Try "in denial".

6. "Mr. Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the 'teleprompt president' over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech." -- Sky News, 3/18

Yeah right. An ... ummmmm ... well yeah ... an ... umm accomplished ... ummm .. orator umm ... yeah ... indeed.

BULLSHIT!

7. In early February, the 2010 census was moved out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House, politicizing how federal aid is distributed and electoral districts are drawn.

He can't guarantee his re-election by any semblance of decent governance, so he does it by controlling the census, thus controlling the structuring of the electoral districts. Sounds a lot like something Hitler would do.

8. Obama taps Nancy Killefer for a new administration job, First Chief Performance Officer -- to police government spending. But it surfaces that Killefer had performance issues of her own -- a tax lien was slapped on her DC home in 2005 for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help. She withdrew.

Americans will hold Obama's feet to the fire on this one. If we are expected to pay taxes, so shall those he wishes to have serve (with) him. Shame he didn't learn this the first time it happened.

9. Turkey tried to block the appointment of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as new NATO secretary general because he didn't properly punish the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Mohammed. France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel were outraged; Obama said he supported Turkey's induction into the European Union.

No free speech rights for a Danish cartoonist? This is a bad way to start building a record on human rights.

10. . . . and he never mentioned the Armenian genocide.

Why should he? The only thing Barack Obama cares about is amassing power. The examples of Washington and Jefferson have been thrown completely to the wind, as if they never existed.

Can anyone provide a single shred of honest evidence that this man is good for America, beyond the fact that he's waking the people up to the foolishness that's been going on for the last hundred years? Actually, that fact is going to loom large in any effort to save the Constitution and the country from these thugs. Without the people, this Revolution will fail, and America will run the way of the Soviets.

RWR

Some weeks ago, I came across this comment over at MichelleMalkin.com.

On April 8th, 2009 at 1:04 pm, Regulus said:
Perhaps the greatest sin in modern liberalism is to be guilty of hypocrisy. Most of the time when libs play “gotcha” games on conservatives, they’re trying to portray their target as a hypocrite.

Lost on all of them, however, is that a self-serving and blatant double standard is the ultimate expression of hypocrisy. By getting selectively indignant about others’ hypocrisy while being selectively indulgent of their own, they end up in the ridiculous position of being hypocritical about their hypocrisy.

You name it, and libs have a double standard for it:

- Filibusters by Republicans = an abuse of power; filibusters by donkeys = an exercise in a cherished Senatorial tradition.

- Deficits under Republicans = fiscal irresponsibility; triple-deficits under donkeys = an investment in our future.

- Warning of the dangers of terrorism = playing on our fears; terrorizing the public with horror scenarios of supposed economic catastrophe unless we pass a “stimulus” bill without even reading it = being proactive.

- Comparing Republicans to Nazis and Fascists = “speaking truth to power”; Questioning the Dear Leader’s policies = racism.

- George Bush visiting the troops = a cynical ploy to divert attention from his failures as a president; Hope-a-Dope visiting the troops = a master-stroke of politics and public relations.

It wouldn’t be so tiresome to deal with today’s liberals if they were consistent in their principles: a thing is good or bad in itself no matter who does it. But liberal hypocrisy makes that impossible, and ultimately produces people with no principles at all — only present-moment tactical positions that can and do reverse themselves on a dime.

I believe Rgulus is mistaken to equate Republicans with conservatives here, but it's amazing how Domecrats treat Republicans as if they were anywhere near conservative. It's an ingenious strategy that keeps both parties in power:

1. Portray people only slightly less liberal than yourselves as "conservatives" or even "extremists" so that people will be discouraged from voicing a truly conservative opinion.

and

2. In doing so, give them enough name recognition and financial opportunity that real conservatives believe the only way to secure power is through the Republicans.

There's much more to it, but that covers the lion's share.

There is a serious flaw in the strategy, though, and that's this: You can't call anyone anything much worse than what the Democrats already call their Republican accomplices now. Conservatives that make the push for power aren't going to be called anything worse than what the Republicans are now being called, nor will they be faced with anything worse than the Donks and Phants unifying to keep them down. That's nothing new, either.

Conservatives DO have a fighting chance.

RWR

It's been just over three years since I posted anything serious regarding religion, and even then it was a little "heretic". This morning, however, I found something special in the Gospel of John that I hadn't thought of before, and considered posting it here.

Every sermon I've ever heard regarding the reaction of the disciple Thomas to the news of Christ's resurrection seems to focus on us as believers who have not seen. One rather funny one involved the Pastor asking a few kids in the congregation if they would believe him if he told them he had a bunny under his vestments, then going into a whole "seeing is believing" discussion which ended with him pulling a bunny from under his vestments. You don't forget something like that in very short order, as it creates a memory that forever remains part of you and your life experience.

Today's sermon was no exception. It focused yet again on the concept of us as believers who have not seen. But I found a different perspective in the story today. I thought of all the evangelicals who set about bringing everyone they know to their faith, or to Christianity in general, and how many doubt because they haven't seen. Some come along eventually, while others do not. Still, isn't the real lesson of this gospel in the way Jesus actually deals with Thomas? Isn't the right way to confront those who disbelieve, for whatever reason, the real benefit of this story?

Think about it. We conservative bloggers show liberals the truth every day. If it's not me posting the truth, it's Misha or Ol' BC or Michelle Malkin or Moonbat Monitor or Delfts. The list goes on, and day in and day out, the liberals refuse to believe the truth, largely because they cannot conceptualize freedom and its importance in the success of the human spirit. There will be those who come around, and those who do not. Thomas came around, but scores of others did not. What is important is that we showed them, and that is the real lesson in the story of the Doubting Thomas.

RWR

I can't begin to compete with the excellent coverage bloggers are putting out there regarding Tea Party Day today.

Suffice to say I wore my tea bag on this my first day at the new job.

We're busy now trying to figure out just how deeply Washington and Trenton are into our pockets.

It's not looking good. What we have now is definitely NOT the America our Founding Fathers envisioned.

RWR

Harry Kalas
1936-2009

The greatest voice ever to call a baseball game has fallen silent. We wish Harry God speed, and ask him to please say hi to Whitey for all of us.

RWR

Yeah these guys are pro-America and pro-First Amendment.

I love the way they throw around baseless accusations of "incitement to violence" and "sedition".

Phht.

Have you ever come across a bunch of people so full of shit?

RWR

h/t - PJ Comix

Hey all!

I've been doing my part around the house and the blogosphere over the last week, and haven't been up to posting. There are some awesome developments that I've been following this week, and I really do need to take a minute to bring you up to speed. So, in no particular order ...

I. Tea Parties

A relatively new reader of ours invited me to a Tax Revolt Tea Party this past weekend, and I was unfortunately unable to attend. Despite my not being a person who does this sort of thing, I do believe I would have gone, just because it makes sense in this situation.

You see, liberals understand the language of protest demonstrations. They also know that conservatives don't pay protesters to come in and do their work for them, and that if a conservative protest has, say 500 people, that it's the equivalent of a liberal protest of a couple thousand. Even a small protest against their beliefs fills them with terror.

The MSM's reporting will always be skewed in favor of the liberals. For example, 2001 protesters will be reported as "over 2000 protesters" at a liberal rally, while at a conservative rally, 400-500 protesters will be reported as "over a hundred protesters". This has been the case for as long as I've been around, and the West Chester News Journal was no exception to the rule. Thank God for blogs.

Here are some good links about the Tea Party this past weekend in West Chester, PA:
Midnight Blue
GOE
American Sheepdogs: The Turnout
American Sheepdogs: The Speakers
American Sheepdogs: The Signs
Pajamas TV

Thanks to Trish for the report and the links. Oh, and don't forget to wear your tea bag on the 15th for the nationwide protest!


II. Lonegan Sets Record

Not only did Steve Lonegan set a new record for the number of signatures filed in petition for placement on the ballot, but he presented more signatures than his opponent Chris Christie and incumbent Kleptocrat Jon Corzine COMBINED! Check this out, from the Lonegan campaign's email newsletter:

LONEGAN FILES 11,220 PETITIONS -- A RECORD!!

TRENTON -- With nearly 7,000 additional signatures filed on Monday afternoon, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan has a total of 11,220 grass-roots voters signing petitions to get him on the ballot.

More than 300 volunteers in all 21 counties gathered the petitions. 432 booklets were collected.

That's more than 3,000 signatures greater than the number submitted by Chris Christie, a former Morris County Freeholder and U.S. Attorney and nearly 1,000 signatures more than both Christie and Governor Jon Corzine COMBINED.

"This record number of signatures shows I do not need the stale party machine to win this election. We’ve built our own party structure of men and women from all kinds of backgrounds focused on putting taxpayers first, not padding their pensions or getting a fat government contract," Lonegan said.

"My organization of fed up taxpayers will take me to victory in both the primary and also the November election regardless of what the party hacks do in the fall," Lonegan, the former three-term Bogota Mayor said. "By building my own team, I won’t have to rely on the people backing my opponent today in the primary in order to win in November."

"All over New Jersey people are responding to our conservative message of lower taxes and smaller government. This is just the beginning; we’ve got the momentum we need that that will send us to victory in the Primary, and send Jon Corzine to the retirement he so richly deserves in November," said Lonegan.

"Every day more and more people are realizing that the real story in 2009 is the Lonegan for Governor campaign, and our signature gathering effort -- a record for our state -- proves it," the conservative candidate added.

Now before you go jumping up and down about me supporting a Republican (which I don't do lightly anymore), check this out, from politickernj.com:

Conservative Party willing to shut down to help Lonegan win GOP primary; national party chairman slams NJ group

...

"The reason I take this action is because in these times of great economic turmoil, it is vital that all of us do their part to see to it that the best man for the job gets elected. I believe that Steve Lonegan is that man. His record of service as Mayor of Bogota, and then as Executive Director of Americans for Prosperity-NJ has shown him to be a true champion for the taxpayers," said Spinosa. "The prosperity, the solvency and the security of our state can only be served by nominating him in the primary, and then electing him as our Governor this November."

...

The Conservative Party is NOT some semi-conservative substitution for the Republican Party. It is a truly conservative faction with great ideas and the willingness to stand up for what is right. If the New Jersey Conservative Party is telling people to change their voter registrations to Republican in the interests of helping Steve win, and even going as far as to suspend operations for this campaign, says a lot about both the Party and Steve Lonegan (regardless of what the national party bosses have to say).

This man will bring about the kind of change New Jersey needs. Maybe once that task is completed we can send him to DC to be president so he can fix that mess as well.

For information on the Lonegan campaign, go to www.lonegan.com. This blog has been pro-Lonegan from the get-go, and will continue to be until Mr. Lonegan shows himself to be something other than the patriot he's shown himself to be over the course of his career. At that point, it will be praise for good and punishment for evil just like everyone else. Heck, it's that way anyway - he's just doing all good things right now.

Go Steve!

RWR

Well folks, it's time to admit defeat. The liberals have won, and won for good.

This dying blog has finally died.

I want to thank all of the great people who have come around to read my work over the past four years. Sadly, this has become a one-term blog.

Many thanks to my blog-father, Emperor Darth Misha I, my one and only blog-son, The Old Sage, and my absolutely most loyal reader, Ol' BC.

There is still hope for the conservative cause. Sadly, the RWRepublic will not be able to be a part of it. I'm not going to wait around for the Fairness Doctrine to shut me down. I'm going to clam up while I still have some pride left.

Farewell all! May the revolution succeed beyond our wildest dreams!

See you on the other side!

RWR