Hey gang, just popping in for a minute.  Sorry I’m not around much these days, but I have the Redskins stuff taking pretty much all of my time.

I wanted to come on to tell you, the good people of Virginia, New Jersey, and New York 23 to make sure you get out to vote tomorrow. 

I have been saying since March that there is a groundswell return to conservative values out there, and tomorrow is the first chance there is to demonstrate it.  Send a message in these elections.  this could very much echo on the hill where health care is being debated.

Make us proud.

When I saw this I was livid.  Almost 24 hours later, I still am.  I showed this to J-Mack, a self-proclaimed liberal.  He was appalled. 

“We don’t do things like that in America,” he said.

This smacks of the indoctrination of our children, and is utterly and completely inappropriate.

And the ultimate insult is that they have the children sining to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Replublic.

For those of you educated within the last 15 years in this country, this was the battle song sung by elements of the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War.  In modern times, it is immediately associated with the Union, you know, the folks that sacrificed 360,222 of their sons so that all men might be free.

How dare anyone try to place one man on par with such a struggle. 

This country was built on the notion that individuals are equal.  We fought a war over it.  We don’t suffer royalty, and we don’t idolize our leaders.  We don’t bow to them, or hold them in higher regard than that of the common man.

We are a nation of, by, and for the people.

If Obama had a rally and 2 million Americans showed up, do you think we would hear about it on the news? 

Yea, I think we would.

But when 2 million conservatives show up in Washington to protest Obamacare, taxation, and the march towards socialism; you get estimates of tens of thousands in the American press. 

Thank you UK media for doing your jobs.

Here’s the thing; I could not be more proud of what my fellow Americans did today on the mall.  The press may not give it the coverage it deserves, but don’t think the politicians are not aware of what went on today.

In case they are not, here is the basic message for the folks in Congress and the White House:

Continue this nonsense of government takeovers of private industry, massive expansion of government, assumption of the health care industry, and cap & trade taxation on a scale never before seen, and your jobs are in jeopardy.

Ol’ Van jones was making funny back in February.  I don’t think the brother is laughing now. 

Today Jones quit his Green Jobs Special Advisor position in the Obama Administration.  Jones claimed lies and distortions led to his resignation, but it is hard to misrepresent clips like the one above. 

And let’s be clear, he was told to resign.  No matter what the administration says, Obama and co. couldn’t stand the heat on it anymore.

Here was an avowed communist, a cop-hater and black nationalist, one who had made the mistake of attacking a private citizen in Glenn Beck because Beck was being critical of the administration.  Once Beck turned the tables and started highlighting anti-American comments and philosophies Jones espoused throughout the years, it created an uproar, one that Obama could not abide.

Jones is small potatoes however.  The larger point is how the administration is starting to squirm in the face of public outcry over Obama’s policies, associates, and vision for the country.  With poll numbers in the toilet, the president is looking to do a reset with the people in order to get some form of health care legislation passed and his numbers up.

Obama thinks he can do a few things here and there and the people will love him again.  He still thinks the people adore him.  He is wrong.  Obama probably doesn’t realize that his campaign represented the perfect political storm last fall, rather than a real groundswell of support.  The country had Bush and war fatigue and the economy tanked at just the right time to get him into office.  The people (some people) ignored associations with the the likes of Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers and others, as well as warnings of a tax-and-spend liberal, thinking it to be political spin.  

These people fell in love with the idea of Barack Obama, not the reality.

They see it now.  Obama has been president for over seven months and Americans have gotten a taste of what he stands for.  They see the massive spending that to date has stimulated little.  They see his vision of larger government in the form of health care, and massive government regulation and taxation in Cap & Trade.  In town halls across America, and letters and calls to the White House and Congress, they have told him how they feel about it.

They don’t like it.

They also don’t like seeing a guy like Van Jones in a made-up government job calling people A-holes.    

Thankfully, that is one thing we don’t have to worry about anymore.

This here man is not being candid with you or me.  In fact, he just lies his ass off.  This is not unexpected of a White House press secretary.  But in Gibbs’ case, he is taking it to the next level.

Yesterday, Gibbs asserted that the challenges the U.S. is facing in Afghanistan are the blame of former President George W. Bush.  Of the war Gibbs said; “This was underresourced, underfunded, undermanned and ignored for years.”  

This was interesting for two reasons.  The first is that if I recall correctly, the U.S. won the war in Afghanistan back in 2002.  In 2003, Nato assumed control of the effort.  The situation worsened under their watch, not Bush’s and the U.S.  Granted, the U.S. is the major player in the fight, and now must find a way to get the situation under control, again.  But to cast it at the feet of Bush is a typical abdication of responsibility from this administration. 

Like last week when their revised budget numbers on the deficit were announced to be in the toilet, and they somehow found a way to blame Bush, even though they committed trillions of dollars in federal obligations in their first seven months in office. 

If Gibbs wants to talk about the war being underfunded, maybe he should bring up the fact that Obama voted against an appropriations bill to fund it in 2007. 

The second reason it is interesting however, is that Gibbs speaks as if the White House actually understands how to win a war.  If history is any guide, this president makes poor decisions on these matters.  For instance this president was wrong on Iraq.  Dead wrong.

“I personally think that, if there are ways that we can constrain and condition what the president is doing so that, four to six months from now, we are beginning a phased withdrawal while making sure that the troops on the ground have the equipment that they need to succeed, then that is going to be the area that I’m most interested in supporting,” said Obama in January of 2007.  This was when Bush annouced the surge in Iraq.  You know, the surge that was responsible for winning the war. 

Had we listened to Obama then, or his idealogical daddy Ted “Let’s Cut funding for Iraq” Kennedy, we would have pulled out of Iraq and ceded control to the terrorists who were there at the time.  Thanks to the surge, we killed the terrorists and established democracy.

Now the war in Afghanistan is getting sticky and will require a firm commitment from the U.S. in terms of troops and money.  Barry’s friends on the left don’t like this.  Despite the characterization of Afghanistan as the “good war” during the election, the fact is the left wants no part of it.  But Obama cannot be seen as the guy who lost it, so he has to do whatever is necessary to come out victorious.

So he will follow the recommendations of the Pentagon (after all, what the hell does he know?) while having his mouthpiece above blame Bush for everything that goes wrong.

Barry has been getting his ass thoroughly kicked this last month on health care.  That much is clear.  So, being the deft politician he is, Obama did what anyone would do in his place; he got the hell out of town.  Before departing however, he left instructions with his administration to change the subject.

First we have the report that the White House is going to form a special interrogation unit that will be run by…the White House.  This is interesting.  I have just one question:

What the hell does the White House know about interrogating terrorists? 

Don’t bother, I’m going to answer the question:  A heck of a lot less than the CIA. 

But, after demonizing the CIA, B.O. couldn’t give it them. 

I have a prediction to make.  I predict that there will be NO CHANGE in tactics, despite the administration’s assertions. 

Second, the news just broke the Eric Holder will appoint a special prosecutor to look into the CIA and contractor and their interrogation techniques in order to determine if there was torture.

I can answer that as well:  Who the hell cares?  If waterboarding and discharging a weapon in proximity of a terrorist mastermind is torture, than do it more if it saves American lives.  These people walk away from this stuff. 

Why don’t you ask Daniel Perl about our enemy’s treatment of prisoners?  Oops, can’t do that; they cut his head off.  What about those brave women who voted and then had their fingers cut off last week in Afghanistan?  What about the Iranian security forces pulling people out of their homes at night to be beaten, raped, and in some cases killed for daring to speak out? 

Where is the hue and cry from the administration?  This administration has done more to condemn American citizens at town halls and the CIA than they ever have our enemies.  In fact, both of these stories are probably a net-benefit for our adversaries.

But this is no surprise.  This is the prez throwing some pink meat to his leftist base.  This is about appeasing his constituents while changing the subject from health care.

Yesterday President Obama told a conference call of Rabbi’s and other faith-oriented people that in reference to the health care bill; “‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.’” 

Really, you don’t say.

It is interesting that Obama would go there with people of faith.  I don’t presume to speak for The Lord, but I wonder how much God wants a partner in a party that vigorously promotes things like abortion and euthinasia.  Is that what we call being ‘partners with God in matters of life and death?’

The Lord said “be fruitful and multiply.”  How does this tie-in with the policies of this party, who in addition even tried to stimulate abortion?

Don’t get me wrong; I am not trying to provoke the debate on these policies.  But for Obama to relate his massive power-grab of the U.S. health industry to a higher calling is hypocrisy in the fullest.

It is disingenuous and deceitful as well.  The democrats attempt to seize health care is not intended to improve health care, or even ensure coverage for the uninsured, there are more effective and cheaper ways to do this.  What I believe it is intended to do is assume a major portion of the economy.