Mischief

In Forbes, Dinesh D’Sousa, pres of Kings College, NYC writes of a, “... philandering, inebriated African socialist who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, (who) is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son.” D’Sousa reflects on dad Obama and his campaign against colonialism; the US being the only superpower, that must now mean us and our prospering on the backs of others. And indeed, Obama junior’s actions do seem to fit - the tearing down of American greatness, the obsequious posturing to thugs offshore. D’Sousa continues, “A anticolonialist believes that since the rich have prospered at the expense of others, their wealth doesn't really belong to them; therefore whatever can be extracted from them is automatically just. Recall what Obama Sr. said in his 1965 paper: There is no tax rate too high, and even a 100% rate is justified under certain circumstances.” BO’s tax policy!

Well, likely Dinesh has something. His central point is that at first dad Obama appears a strange choice for the inspirational hero BO repeatedly claims him to be, until one understands that it was dad’s ravings about the cause of anticolonialism that provided the inspiration. It’s certainly not dad’s character or family values, which are down right scary, actually tabloid. This polygamist was a habitual drunk driver who murdered a man in one accident, severed his own legs in another and finally smacked into a tree, thus ending his fine career, which included wife beating. One of BO’s half brothers, also a polygamist and 52, just married a 19 yr old, nearly putting Jerry Lee to shame. We could go on with the fun, but won’t.

So yes, “In the anticolonial view, America is now the rogue elephant that subjugates and tramples the people of the world.” Seems a fit with Obama Jr.

Before encountering the D’Sousa article this pm we had earlier pondered what might be the key giveaway to BO’s real intent, his domestic agenda (taking the flip side of D’Sousa’s piece). We arrived at one single sentence, uttered by Obama Apr/29/10. Most we are sure recall the comment - “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” This statement got a good deal of press early on but it was mostly surface feeding. In fact we believe it is this sentence that telegraphs more about BO’s corrosive intent on American greatness, about his role as he sees it than an other single clue. Dinesh may agree.

These words my friends can only belong to a committed planner. We know from history (and China, India and half of S America from experience) that planned societies fail. They fail because no one single individual can be that smart. And even if he were, he’s human, thus has pals and enemies. Planning fails because planning involves decision making to arbitrarily exclude some and include or reward others. It follows that power over individual freedoms is gathered in the planning office. It always begins in benign form (ex., BO’s health heist) and ends in more execrable form such as communism or fascism. In fact, Hitler began this journey through national health care.

There can be only one final outcome of a planned society - a police state.

From Hayek’s The Road To Serfdom we read that, “In Germany and Italy the Nazis and Fascists did, indeed, not have much to invent. The usages of the new political movements which pervaded all aspects of life had in both countries already been introduced by the socialists. The idea of a political party which embraces all activities of the individual from the cradle to the grave, which claims to guide his views on everything, and which delights in making all problems questions of the party was first put into practice by the socialists.”


We know, we know, “no way in the US,” you say. But in fact there is a way and it is Obama. The statement, “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money,” is chilling in its implications and a perfect fit to behavior described by Hayek. One individual, seemingly ordained by some greater power to decide just when and to where you are to redirect your income stream. That is, he knows and you don’t what is good for you. He will make that decision. This is how this guy thinks folks! Ponder this for a moment. We don’t know for sure if it’s due to his old man’s inspiration but it’s there and it’s poison.

Earlier such a thing has resided in America only in the abstract, in faculty rooms or at the nursery, never operational. It now resides in substantive form in the White House, diluted perhaps by events of Nov/2 but still potent and dangerous.

Robert Craven

WRONG

Josiah Whitney was chief of the CA Geological Survey from 1860 - 1874. Whitney maintained that Yosemite Valley was created by a cataclysmic sinking of the valley floor. John Muir maintained that the valley was carved by glacial action. Whitney derided Muir as an “ignoramus” and a “mere sheepherder.” Whitney's survey reports suppressed evidence of glaciers, and he never abandoned his viewpoint despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Whitney was more than stubborn and wrong, he was vindictive and a slanderer.

What we witnessed tonight was a similar refutation of an earlier mistaken view. As was Whitney, how could so many be so obviously wrong for so long? Easy. They were at half traction until two years ago. The nursery types, the far left, were never before held accountable, their dogma never closely examined. Suddenly it gained footage. Next were the repercussions. This is what gagged most Americans, exposing the lie.

Muir first, then most other grounded observers saw the fraud of Whitney’s argument. But to admit to a failed career? Whitney could not summon the courage. Nor can our lefty friends. Instead, as did Whitney they strike out.

Too bad. They will remain for years to come only outliers, ignored, bitter and forgotten.

Robert Craven

An Education, Sort of

Most of us are not economists nor historians. Yet a surface familiarization with both disciplines provided a mighty assist in understanding, in fact in predicting recent events in national politics.

The “dreamers,” the feel-good types ignore both; these who dismiss historical economic precedent and so never bother to consider policy result have just received an education, gratis of Obama.

Given the escape from McGovern there’s been nothing like it, not FDR, not Wilson. Obama-like policy wreaked havoc with the UK post WWII, and then most of Europe; yet lessons learned there went unheaded in America on election day, 2008.

Most one-time Obama supporters have now seen first hand the object of the warnings of von Mises, Friedman, Hayek and others. Obama's threatened their personal liberty; he's hit - and this really counts - their pocket books. With the exception of a few far-left looney tunes the rest will never again pull the trigger for a statist. Well, maybe never-ever but at least not until they or their kids forget, falling prey once again to what seems the easy way out.

For now we are about to fetch a grounding; damage is to be undone, repairs to be made.

Robert Craven

Don't Blame Us

Sen Kerry this morning, “We're in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in....” Oh, but of course, another case of insufferable moral superiority. They’re just so wise these types, so given to profound insight - the anointed. What a crock.

Us know-nothings. Right. You mean those of us who knew nothing about the gov’t creating jobs on net, except that it can’t? You mean those of us who knew nothing about a health bill except that it was flawed, and then complained as it was jammed down our throats? You mean those of us who know nothing about business except that it is being hurt by BO’s legislation; you mean those of us who know nothing about the economy, except that a recovery is stalled because of the uncertainty surrounding energy policy, health care, housing and your outlandish spending, that economy and those businesses, that we nothing about? You mean those business leaders who know nothing at all about business but who without exception condemn your policies?

And by the way John. Us know-nothings also know perfectly well that your problem is not the Tea Party types nor the Republicans; your problem is with your own kind; it is the Democratic rank and file you and BO have ostracized, the thousands of careers you and BO have ended.

Don’t blame us.

Robert Craven

The Fire of a Thousand Suns

What we will witness next Tues is the measure of rage - the fire of a thousand suns -of those who have been taken, those who voted for Obama. Being disappointed is one thing; being made out to be a fool is quite another.

It is true the BO prevaricated just a tad in the primary; almost everything he said was in conflict with his past. The fawning types believed it anyway. Big problem. BO was a run-of-the-mill Chicago politician. Every body knew that, or should have. When he ran for the Ill senate in 1996 he sued to remove opponents from the ballot. In his campaign for the US Senate in 2004, the divorce records of both his primary and general election opponents were mysteriously leaked, Chicago style.

But then we all knew that. And we all knew that in the Senate his voting record was the most partisan of any senator, either side, that there wasn’t a spending bill he didn’t embrace nor an entitlement, nor a union payoff that he didn’t endorse. And we all knew that he blocked every effort to reform the twins - ground zero.

Still, folks pulled the trigger. One was Maureen “Moe” Tucker, former drummer for the Velvet Underground. Peggy Noonan highlighted her experience the other day in the WSJ. "Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about Sarah Palin, Bush, etc., has made quite the presumption. I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream be paid for?”

So there you have it. Moe just figured out she’s been had. It was fine to argue lefty politics when in the abstract; once these policies gained traction, became reality, Moe and the rest are hunting for the covers.

The rest of us - simply amused.

Robert Craven

A Lesson From The Rescue

"It was like the Chilean miners, but he, being the man he is, rolled up his sleeves and said 'I am going to get us out of this hole,'" Sen. Reid (D-NV) said in Las Vegas on Sunday, referring to Obama.

Quite the contrary is true. It was not like the Chilean miners; BO in no way is going to get anyone out of any hole. Only profit-driven innovation got the miners out. Obama has buried the US, not saved it, by trying to kill the very same.

Daniel Henninger writes that there was nothing Obama-like about it; it was in fact all about the Center Rock drill bit. “This is the miracle bit that drilled down to the trapped miners. Center Rock Inc. is a private company in Berlin, Pa. It has 74 employees. The drill's rig came from Schramm Inc. in West Chester, Pa. Seeing the disaster, Center Rock's president, Brandon Fisher, called the Chileans to offer his drill. Chile accepted. The miners are alive. The Center Rock drill is in fact a piece of tough technology developed by a small company in it for the money, for profit. That's why they innovated down-the-hole hammer drilling. If they make money, they can do more innovation.”

Henninger notes that Chile’s health minister never knew that this, nor the rest of the high tech devices which saved these guys, even existed. He continues, “In an open economy, you will never know what is out there on the leading developmental edge of this or that industry. But the reality behind the miracles is the same: Someone innovates something useful, makes money from it, and re-innovates, or someone else trumps their innovation. Most of the time, no one notices. All it does is create jobs, wealth and well-being. But without this system running in the background, without the year-over-year progress embedded in these capitalist innovations, those trapped miners would be dead.”

And yet on the campaign trail just last week BO mocked our “blind faith in the market.” The basic idea said this clueless individual, “is that if we put our blind faith in the market and we let corporations do whatever they want and we leave everybody else to fend for themselves, then America somehow automatically is going to grow and prosper."

Well, ya, that’s right.

BO and his companion levelers are soon to be shown the door.

Robert Craven

Castor Oil

From the left, specifically from Mark Halperin, political columnist for TIME.com. “... there is a growing perception that Obama's decisions are causing harm — that businesses are being hurt by the Administration's legislation and that economic recovery is stalling because of the uncertainty surrounding energy policy, health care, deficits, housing, immigration and spending.”

Certainly all of our cousins have know this stuff for months because they are encouraged to take this blog along with their castor oil. Instead of a cure for acne, ring worm, constipation, cerebral palsy and hair loss, our product merely provides a boost for those deficient in matters of history and economics.

And we see from our pal Halperin that the rest are now catching on, including most of BO’s once-fawning supporters. Take your medicine now kiddies.

Obams’s agenda of resuscitation had to fail, by definition. We all know why. ("Only businesses can create jobs via private investment, while economic-stimulus measures will fail to lower unemployment rates," says FedEx CEO and Chairman Frederick Smith.)

And of course the stimulus disaster was compounded by the health heist. Health was merely the vehicle anyway. There are no savings; 60% of Americans oppose the bill. That’s not the point. The point is control.



And so we have it. An extremist party that finally gained traction nearly put the US out of business; it most certainly put itself out of business.


The remedy need not be complex. To repeat, first, stop the damage - November. Next, make repairs - 2011. Finally, restore the Republic - 2012.



Robert Craven