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ECONOMY:

Protectionism on the rise.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

How Bernanke made the recession worse.

The Fed wants to determine salaries of bankers.

SPENDING:

The Heritage Foundation predicts Obama will spend twice as much on welfare as Clinton - $10 trillion over 10 years. Ouch! We should end welfare, not expand it.

Obama has sparked the revenge of Ross Perot. Perot must have been a racist to oppose Obama's policies before Obama supported them.

HEALTH CARE:

Cato blasts the Baucus plan.

The Baucus plan is public option lite. It would make insurance more expensive and care lower quality.

45 percent of doctors say they would consider quiting if Democrats pass health care oppression. Some actually will quit, but I doubt it would be anywhere near 45 percent.

87 percent of companies would reduce benefits if Democrats pass health care oppression.

Republicans need to take the blame for not fixing health care when they were in power. All they did was create the biggest entitlement in history - Medicare Part D.

Both parties support the third party payer system which is the root of our health care problems.

The White House sent out Michelle Obama to make the case for health care reform. Now those of us who oppose it are both racist and sexist. Obama has stooped to another new low. He dragged his wife into the fray, and now she's fair game. But when critics go after her, you know Obama, the Democrats and their mainstream media press team will cry foul.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Obama administration reports its tax and trade plan will cost taxpayers $200 billion per year. That's $2 trillion over 10 years. And those are Obama's numbers, so you know the cost will be significantly higher. I wonder if he put this info out to make health care oppression look less expensive.

New fuel economy standard pushed to 35.5 MPG. This will make cars much more expensive and dangerous. Lovely.

Save the reindeer!

Obama can use the EPA's ruling that CO2 is a pollutant to put limits on it and drive up energy prices without tax and trade legislation.

"Now that cap-and-trade has so spectacularly failed in the legislature, it is a sure bet that Obama will direct (or has directed) EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to issue her own cap-and-trade protocols. Look for something concrete out of EPA before the U.N.’s climate change confab in Copenhagen in early December. (That “something” may even include a new fuel economy standard of 35.5 miles-per-gallon—though it would be lower, of course, for the inefficient cars produced by government-owned General Motors.)"

Good prediction.

POLITICS:

Obama's press secretary Gibbs says Obama doesn't think opposition to his policies is based on race. Good for him. He's right. Too bad the Democrats, mainstream media and liberals in general can't figure that out. Or maybe it's not. The more Democrats accuse the opposition of being racists, the more they hurt their own cause, so maybe it's a good thing. This is probably the first time I've ever supported Obama twice in the same blog entry.

Democrats are destroying the meaning of the word racist as well as their party.

Pat Buchanan blasts Jimmy Carter for claiming the resistance to Obama's agenda is based on racism.

And since slandering the opposition as racists isn't working, Nancy Pelosi plays the crying card. Just when you thought politicians couldn't get any more pathetic and disgusting.

FOREIGN POLICY:

The Poles and Czechs feel betrayed because Obama killed the missile shield. I'm sure they do. They came to our aid in Iraq. No doubt they want to think America will go to war with Russia to protect them. But that's never going to happen, and it shouldn't happen. It was never a smart policy to put the missile shield up on Russia's border. It was never a smart policy to expand NATO to Russia's border. We should have abolished NATO, not expanded it. Bush put us in bad situation, and Obama, for once, did the right thing. Great quote from the Wall Street Journal:

"President Obama promised he would win America friends where, under George W. Bush, it had antagonists. The reality is that the U.S. is working hard to create antagonists where it previously had friends."

But again, the problem was created by Bush pushing American hegemony where it doesn't belong like the US has infinite resources and is the king of the world and every nation has to bow down to us. Obama fixed the problem, but it will have consequences.

"The Administration's likelier motive for scrapping the interceptors is that it hopes to win Russia's vote at the U.N. Security Council for tougher sanctions on Iran. Maybe the Russians have secretly agreed to such a quid pro quo, though publicly they were quick to deny it following yesterday's decision."

Given the ineptitude of Obama and his administration, I sincerely doubt any quid pro quo is in place. Obama is surely hoping, but I doubt those hopes will be fulfilled.

"The European switcheroo continues Mr. Obama's trend of courting adversaries while smacking allies. His Administration has sought warmer ties with Iran, Burma, North Korea, Russia and even Venezuela. But it has picked trade fights with Canada and Mexico, sat on trade treaties with Colombia and South Korea, battled Israel over West Bank settlements, ignored Japan in deciding to talk with North Korea, and sanctioned Honduras for its sin of resisting the encroachments of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez."

Nice summary.

Maybe Obama is getting something back for killing the missile defense bases after all. But probably not.

Russia to help Venezuela develop nuclear energy? Energy? I doubt it. Why does oil rich Venezuela need nuclear energy? This is where we should check Russian influence, not in Europe. Europe can take care of itself. We don't need Venezuela in our backyard becoming the next Iran.

MEDIA:

In a huge blow to the mainstream media, John Stossel is leaving ABC for Foxnews. Wow. Foxnews wins again. How bad is the network news that it can't outcompete Foxnews for an incredibly popular journalist like John Stossel?

MISC:

Obama out to destroy competition between financial regulators. Yeah. Competition is the problem.

GM is now advertising a 60 day money back guarantee. GM can do that because it's funded by tax dollars. Ford can't. This is just one step in the process of putting Ford out of business. I also heard the Federal government will buy only GM cars instead of splitting between GM, Ford and Chrysler as usual. That's another step in putting Ford out of business. Government is going to destroy our domestic auto industry just like Britain's government did.

Arlen Specter, who was against card check when he was a Republican, introduces new card check bill now that he's a Democrat. Specter is consistently a snake.

Barney Frank wants to expand the Community Reinvestment Act - the law that forces banks to make subprime loans. Have I mentioned that Barney Frank is a corrupt moron? How'd the last subprime mortgage crisis work out for us?

From boortz:

"Next week Ahmadinejad, Castro, Chavez, Gaddafi and other thugs will be coming to the US to speak to the UN General Assembly. However, the new president of Honduras has been banned from entering the US. "

You've got to be kidding me.

Why prosecutors bring charges when they shouldn't. That's how they get re-elected.

In praise of Sarah Palin's decision to quit as governor of Alaska and become an internet political maverick. This is funny and insightful. It's disturbing to think that twitter might become powerfully influential in politics. I think a a communication mechanism that limits messages to 140 characters might turn out to be the most culturally degrading phenomenon since MTV.

Reason interview with the host of Red Eye:

"I became a conservative by being around liberals and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives. You realize that there’s something distinctly in common between the two groups, the left and the right; the worst part of each of them is the moralizing. On the left, you have people who want to dictate your behavior under the guise of tolerance. Unless you disagree with them. Then the tolerance goes out the window. Which kind of negates the whole idea of tolerance. That’s the politically correct moralizing. Then when you become a conservative, the other kind of moralizing comes from religion. But if you remove both of those from the equation, what you’re left with is libertarianism."

Like I said, a liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet, and a conservative is a libertarian who hasn't been harassed by the police yet.

Michelle Malkin exposes ACORN's illegal alien home loan racket.

ACORN is a nationwide criminal organization and should be investigated as such, but RICO, at least the part allowing the government to seize assets before a conviction, is unconstitutional.