Look Ahead

We all know what happened, the why and the how. That’s done. Let’s look ahead.

We have witnessed a tragedy. We ask those who contributed, to inflict no further harm. Primary results seem encouraging, yet lame duck radicals can still do a lot of harm. For these we can only hope they muster some strength of character.

Next, we must repair the damage. To accomplish that we need to reduce uncertainty, that key factor which has retarded a recovery. That is, restore a sense of reason; as Yuval Levin of National Affairs declares, restore some “...predictability where the Democrats’ hyperactive liberalism has created a crushing sense of uncertainty that has kept employers from hiring and investors and consumers from spending.”

Levin means that we need to kill the health legislation (families and businesses unsure of future expenses), that we need to iron in the Bush tax cuts. This is the first step.

Finally, new leaders will sculpt a resurrection. We told our family at the annual picnic in April not to worry. We meant it. One taste of extremism is enough for most Americans. A return to liberty, a regeneration of self respect and optimism as a nation, cannot come too soon.

Robert Craven

Off The Ship

See that guy standing in the middle of what used to be a trailer park after the big one that came out of nowhere? That’s your everyday liberal, deer-in-the-headlights. But it’s a free for all for the politicians; they’re not deer but rodents, rats leaving the ship in droves. Too much.

Most of us knew early on that bo’s agenda was bunk. Perhaps so did many of his fellow politicians, only keeping their fingers crossed. It didn’t work. Witness the mad rush to get as far away from this guy and as fast as their little feet will carry them. Take the health heist. From Kim Strassel in today’s WSJ, discussing the retreat, “Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright's ad explains he voted against ‘massive government health care. South Dakota's Stephanie Herseth Sandlin boasts she voted against the ‘trillion-dollar health-care plan.’

"But the prize," Strassel continues,"goes to former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes vying to get his old job back: Not only is ObamaCare ‘financially devastating,’ it is ‘the greatest failure, modern failure, of political leadership in my lifetime.’”

Hah!! Excuse us, but this is truly entertaining!

And not only the health heist; most of this bunch now realize that the “stimulus” was phony, that cap & trade is an expensive sham, etc. Again from Strassel's article, “‘I voted against Nancy Pelosi's energy tax on Hoosier families,’ explains Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly in an ad, echoed by North Carolina Rep. Mike McIntyre and Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmire. And the yes votes are rushing to argue that all they were really voting for was ‘renewable energy.’”

It was just this last April at the family picnic when so many fine folk there expressed the concern that our country might be changed forever through Obama, that, as best summarized in a WSJ editorial, “Democrats purposely used the recession as a political opening to redistribute income, reverse the free-market reforms of the Reagan era, and put government at the commanding heights of economic decision-making,”and that this might work, that we saw something else. Take heart dear cousins.

We secured an anchor that day. We knew that this country would be alright, that the ship would right itself, that we were not destined to become another Greece, that the far left will remain what they have been past years - abnormalities.

Looks like we were right.

Robert Craven

Deer in the Headlights

Our friends from the left suddenly have that deer-in-the-headlights look. They share a lot of the characteristics of deer now that we think of it, yet as opposed to deer, the chatterers actually sense that they are about to be rolled over. It’s just that most don’t yet know why.

We’ve noted before that Americans will forgive a lot. The unforgivable to Americans however were the gestapo tactics employed by BO to ram through the health heist. The process involved bribes and deceit; bo further endangered US military in Afg by promising an actual withdrawal date in a swap for votes. All of this would gag a maggot; it certainly gagged most of the electorate.

This was the bullet that did in the extremists.

Far lefties wanted a health deal so badly and for so many years that once they actually got traction they lost all sense of caution, all sense of self preservation. It was a frenzy.

This phenomenon is nothing new; it is in fact a common occurrence in the wild. When angling Hat Creek for example we have seen times when otherwise extremely wary native trout shed all sense of caution, all sense of self preservation. This will occur when enough of one variety of fat insect, say a salmon fly, floats overhead. They can't believe their eyes! Pretty quick the rainbow and browns get “keyed in” and there is a free for all. No longer shy of the fish hawk’s shadow, no longer keen to expel a false fly (vs the real thing) these fish commit suicide. In a very real sense they disregard tomorrow for their near term satiation.

This is the far left and health.

So yes, Mother Nature has seen this sort of thing before.

Oh, almost forgot - She’s also put deer on the face of the earth to be stupid.

Robert Craven

Accosted at the Nursery

We were accosted at the nursery today. Surrounded by a staff amply armed with garden tools, we were told that Bush is the cause of all our problems, especially our economic problems and that if we did not sign a statement to that effect, we’d seen our last sunrise.

After a harrowing escape we return to the keyboard.

Where to start? Why not at the beginning - ground zero, our heart of darkness. As we have explained at least two dozen times, the Democrats protected the mortgage twins in an effort to buy black votes. They falsely claim it was Bush’s fault the twins were not reformed. Bush tried. When he said in 2004 that Fanny and Freddy should be reformed or we’d have big trouble, the House blocked any attempt, led by Barney Frank, Pelosi, Waters, Rangel. Surprise. Surprise.

“Well, maybe,” say our nursery pals but how about Wall St? Bush refused to reform this bunch and that’s key to our problem, they pant. (We’ll admit that Wall St types are predators. So what? It’s legal.) Dem’s controlled both houses before BO became president. It was this majority who encouraged financial institutions to package bad loans - Frank and Obama (when senator) and the rest were gung ho because Wall St took the twins out of the garbage they originated.

“OK, maybe so,” say our little chattering buddies, but how about the earlier stuff? What about the deficit BO inherited? From the economist Thomas Sowell, “No president of the United States can create either a budget deficit or a budget surplus. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives and all taxes are voted into law by Congress. The deficit Obama inherited was created by the congressional Democrats, including Sen. Barack Obama, who did absolutely nothing to oppose the runaway spending. He was one of the biggest of the big spenders.”

Oh, that. Facts and names are such an inconvenience.

Sowell continues, “The only direct power that any president has that can affect deficits and surpluses is the power to veto spending bills. President Bush did not veto enough spending bills, but Senator Obama and his fellow Democrats in control of Congress were the ones who passed the spending bills.”

At this point we can just see our lefty friends - eyes averted, shoulders slumped, sorry sights to be sure. They screwed up big time.

Robert Craven

Generosity Time Is About Over

We mused in a Jan/19 sketch that Americas are generous with their leaders. They will forgive simple gaffs - 57 states, the "Austrian" language; they will even forgive outright lies - jobs "saved or created," Muslims inventing both the printing press and the Renaissance, "no more lobbyists in government," guaranteed transparency, Iran in compliance with the UN summit, the lie of airing the healthcare debate on C-SPAN, the phony deadlines on Gitmo, BO’s bribing of senators with taxpayers funds, making a lie of his promises to the contrary. Still, many folk simply looked the other way.

In that same sketch we continued: Americans will not forgive however Obama’s attempt to steam-roll their liberties, that drastic change in life style - the major insertion of government control of their lives, BO’s plans to remake the US using health, education and energy as vehicles - the unprecedented federal intrusion into American industry and commerce. That is something you just do not try on Americans. It will not work.

We predicted that Obama’s election would radically change the nature of the Democratic party.

We all know what happened. An element in control of the national party but never at the helm, gained the helm; the agent was Obama. Its agenda was/is radical. BO’s half color and a sick economy provided the propellent. Now that most Americans who pulled the trigger understand the implications of that foolishness, never again. The party will encounter reality Nov/3.

If the Democratic party intends to survive, it must obviously shed its radical ways. Look for such a change over the near term.

Robert Craven

GIRLY MAN

Where we grew up (cattle ranch) most males are men. We’re strong. We’re virile. We’re capable. We’re not feminized.

How may saw BO toss out the first pitch?

Enough said.

We know some pretty whimpy lefties (most, Eastern transplants). But then we know some pretty masculine lefties too - the nursery guys make the grade. These guys are fit, certainly they’re capable. And yet they continue to maintain that voting for this girly guy was not a mistake. What?

Obama is a gossamer creature - light, sheer, delicate and empty. He and Axelrod and Emanuel could no more see to things physical than walk on water. Turn a bolt, wield a chain saw, drive a tractor, mow the lawn, fix a dishwasher? You kidding? First to rescue a stricken woman and babe under an overturned car? Come on. Intervene with sheer physical strength, thwart a thug? Build something from nothing? Build a business? Build a campfire even? Ride a horse? Chop wood? Backpack the Muir? Handle a car, change the oil, change the tire. Defend their family from physical harm? Punch the bully in the nose when he insulted your sister, or, especially in Obama's case, your country?

America was not made from the likes of Axelrod and Obama. They and their kind have had zero input to the greatest of America. It was made from the likes of Lincoln, Teddy and Reagan, from the likes of Charley Goodnight, Henry Miller and Joshua Craven, my great grand father.

Of course the left responds in Pavlovian fashion - “So what if he can’t do stuff real men do? He doesn't have to. He’s bright.”

How many times must we re-learn this lesson. A high SAT does not hack it, especially when one is suddenly Commander-In-Chief.

As Vic reminds us, “If Bush was a supposed ‘cowboy,’ there at least was never doubt that his first and foremost interest was the U.S, not the ‘international community.’” But now we have a girly man president who is embarrassed about our history and culture (well, not quite embarrassed enough not to enjoy its material bounty) and who crosses his hands over his ??? while the national anthem is played.

Who would you seek out?

From Vic: “Americans would prefer to be in a foxhole with George Bush, who would swagger and announce as decider-in-chief at H-hour, ‘OK, pard, we’re going over the top together on this one.’ They wouldn’t want to be with Obama, who would stutter and give a long-drawn out exegesis why race and class had condemned us to such an unfair predicament, whose only solution is to go into a fetal position and condemn ‘them’ who did this awful thing to us.”

Robert Craven

Fun In The Archives

Save these blogs! Put ‘em in away with your jewels and most treasured documents.

Holy mackerel but we’ve been on a roll.

For example, just happened to land on INCEST this evening, the sketch of 2/12/10. Naturally you all remember it but just in case: We begin (quoting ourselves, offending the Eng dept) “Most of the left try to fathom the destruction of their party, acted out right in front of them. Literary types, the media, legals, academics, the nursery class - all in a state of despair. The far left is wondering why Americans are so stupid; the average Democrat is wondering just why Obama will not move to center.”

“Our readers know the answer and thus have an anchor - elitist types associating only with other elitist types - A CLOSED SYSTEM. It really borders on incest does it not? The result, as is usually the case with incest, is a dumbing down. BO is such a product; he is a run-of-the-mill ideologue who regularly postures as a saint while insisting his opponents are sleazy. He feels he is the chosen one, perched high above the unwashed. To him it’s all about his kind directing the herd. This is all very boring.”

We move in the piece to Noemie Emery, contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, who reveals that BO has misjudged both the times and the country and that in his ignorance, "he has created a nightmare for most in his party..." And this elitist class? "It is full of itself, and values too highly its skill sets, which are entertaining, but not on the optimum level of consequence. This class fooled itself, and much of the country, for which the country will not soon forgive it."

Ah but it’s lovely to witness this demise. Just lovely.

Readers will recall that in an even earlier sketch we predicted the end of the modern Democratic party, that which for 30 years has been controlled on the national level by the far left, those extremists who finally gained traction in the person of BO.

What came along? Consequences. These have sickened most Americans.

Don’t believe us? Better. BO has been nothing less than the agent to the end of his party. You will see that in November.

Robert Craven