Billboard seen along U.S. Hwy. 93, in Wickenburg, AZ. Clickable image taken by The Better Half.
As President, Dubya wasn’t exactly the conservative I thought he should have been (i.e. Harriett Myers SCOTUS nomination, Shamnesty immigration bill) but he was several orders of magnitude better for Country and Constitution than the Obamination will ever be.
Despite his shortcomings, I do miss the Bush Administration, but not as much as the Reagan days.
Shamelessly purloined from an idea in a Cafe Press advert via Wizbang.
On our way home from a family visit today, Marine One, a flight of three, passed almost directly overhead as we were driving about seven miles southeast of LAX. The Obamination was leaving town after another wasteful political junket to La La Land.
Last week, the Better Half and I observed two C-17s on approach to LAX. I wondered at the time why that might have been and now I’m assuming they carried the motorcade and security vehicles into the Airport for this week’s careless waste of taxpayer money.
Clickable image - the third aircraft was in trail of these two helicopters.
From the weird shit files: I dug out this photo I took a couple of years ago of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile. It didn’t occur to me at the time, but today - Tax Day - you could say it symbolizes the treatment of the American Taxpayers by this Congress and the Obamination - giving us the big weenie . . .
Paraphrasing the great Ronald Reagan: Conservatives think every day is the Fourth of July and liberals think it is April 15th.
Michael Barone via The Patriot Post”
Over the past 14 months, our political debate has been transformed into an argument between the heirs of two fundamental schools of political thought, the Founders and the Progressives. The Founders stood for the expansion of liberty and the Progressives for the expansion of government. It’s an argument that has been going on for a century but was largely dormant over the quarter-century of low-inflation economic growth that followed the Ronald Reagan tax cuts. It’s been raised again by the expand-government policies of the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders. Those policies, thoroughly in line with the Progressive tradition, have been advanced by liberal elites in government, media, think tanks and academia. The opposition, roughly in line with the Founders tradition, has been led by the non-elites who spontaneously flocked to tea parties and town halls. … The conservative rebellions of the late 1970s and middle 1990s were focused on taxes. The tea partiers are focusing on the expansion of government — and its threat to the independence of citizens. … By passing the stimulus package and the health care bills, the Democrats produced expansion of government. But voters seem to prefer expansion of liberty.
According to columnist Charles Krauthammer:
[Vice President Joe Biden] is the man who, perhaps without intending, has given historical context to this presidency. After all, Obama sees himself as a successor to FDR and Truman, so now we have the historical procession: the New Deal, the Square Deal, and the Big [expletive] Deal. It would make a great T-shirt.
Anything you say, Charles. Here’s my attempt at a realization:
This is an important 7½ minute message from Judge Andrew Napolitano . . .
“Medicare - broke. Social Security - broke. Medicaid - broke. Amtrak - broke. The U.S.Post Office - broke. Who in their right mind would give healthcare, with that track record, to the same people who have broken everything they’ve tried to manage?”
View the entire video.
Cross-posted at Cap’n Bob
Now that the Obamination has taken over General Motors, the GM management is embracing the sort of horseshit near and dear to the left. As a consequence, their sales have fallen off dramatically in spite of the Obamination’s attacks on Toyota. GM’s latest entry into the auto sales fray is a two-person electric piece of shit - not unlike the Segway®
“We were the S.U.V. company, and we accept that,” said Larry Burns, vice president for research and development and strategic planning at G.M. at the time. “We want to become the U.S.V. company — known for ultra-small vehicles.”
U.S.V., also known as “Un-Safe Vehicles.” Imagine a collision between the POS above and the SUV below. Which one would you like to be in?
Reportedly, the SUV market is playing a big part of Ford’s success. Their SUV and truck sales have topped new vehicle sales across the board, with Ford’s F-150 trucks leading the way.
On Tuesday, the Ford Motor Company announced that its sales rose by 43 percent in February, enabling the automaker to outsell General Motors and become the best-selling carmaker in America for the month, but not by a lot.
Ford sold 334 vehicles more than G.M. Ford’s Mercury brand sells roughly that many vehicles every day. In 2009, General Motors outsold ford every month by an average of approximately 33,000 vehicles.
G.M.’s sales also increased, 12 percent from the same month in 2009, and 32 percent for the four auto brands G.M. is holding on to: Cadillac, Chevy, Buick, and GMC. Nevertheless, it dropped behind Ford, which announced a 54-percent increase in the sales of passenger vehicles.
Thus far in 2010, Ford’s sales are up by 34 percent, compared to only 13 percent for General Motors.
Via Planet Gore
