The Leveller: A modern day regulator

Out in Disgrace, a little bit.

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Ain’t that something? He get’s at least some legit legal trouble before leaving office. Not the total disgrace that it should be and far from consolation, the guy deserves in my opinion to rot in jail, Cheney the coward, I don’t care about Alberto as much.

Ted Stevens is out too.

The Republicans are now a minority in Congress after losing their asses.

Bush is no more soon.

These are all good things.

So now we will begin turning attentions on an inept majority of Democrats. Soon their own little wars will be waged. Their own little criminal enterprises, just like Cheney’s financial dealings.

Remember, people use this government to grant licenses, monopolies, and subsidies to favored industries. How do they become favored? Lobby or know someone in the government. This is all nothing new of course. But should not be ignored either.

Cheney et al duped enough lemmings along so that they will still not be held accountable. Whatever, its a mess. Perhaps something will come of this prison thing.

However, something more odious is on the horizon. The Bush government leaves the place in tatters. And have gathered more power to be left in the hands of devout liberals. While the Bush government presided over more of a Facist leaning government real damage has occurred that any new government can not fix any time soon. Even with true fiscal conservatives at the helm.

In this case however we have another president that is using Lincoln as a model. America’s first dictator is inspiring to the president elect. This does not bode well.

Obama is of course a much brighter bulb than Bush we will soon see the tyranny of good intentions. This guy will really think he is helping by continuing the onslaught of bigger government that Bush started.

Paulson is willing to bailout based on his own biases towards the financial community just because he believes his friends at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are too big too fail garbage.

Now these guys, Bush & Cheney, have created a monster that no one can control, and unleashed a fury of new big government that will collapse due to its own weight. All we can do is watch in near disbelief and hope we don’t get crushed.

Post election thoughts

After the election the media is doing the usual in applauding the “team” for their genius in winning the election. “Brilliant” and other such adjectives are employed by the media outlets that support the winning party. 60 Minutes for example recently interviewed the winning team, and other biased media participates in this congratulatory celebration. In 2004 it was Fox news and a few other media sycophants that praised Rove for his genius architecting a win for Bush. The same way Ed Rollins was praised in 1984 or Jim Baker in 1988, Obama’s team is being congratulated and praised for it’s campaign smarts.

The reality is the Dems could have nominated Howdy Doody and won this thing. General opinion seems to suggest that McCain was the only viable candidate from the Right who had a shot at defeating the Dems. I disagree with this general assessment.

Apart from the Dems nominating Hillary, the right’s best chance at victory rested with the typical formula I will write about in the forthcoming Musket! release, “Einwanderung FeuerTeufel”. For now let us just say that no brilliant strategy put Obama in the Oval Office. Neither did such a thing keep Bush there in 2004 or win it in 2000.

The ’92 Clintonesque victory for Obama was due to as usual, the economy and therefore “Change”. Nominating anyone but Hillary was a virtual lock on the presidency for the Dems.

More importantly I take away from the post election synopsis the observations on some die hard Conservatives that continue to defend Palin. They are quick to criticize McCain for his undue title of “maverick” that by the way let him flounder as one but are almost overzealous in defending Palin by painting a picture of her that belies the ostentatious stupidity.

Before the tell alls or heart to hearts were seeing the light of the day recently one could arguably criticize her for sounding, speaking, and acting like a 10th grader. But if she really didn’t know Africa was a continent this should put any disagreement to rest. And affirm that she truly does represent Joe six-pack and is representative of the kind of ignorant college kid being produced by America’s college system today, another sad reality insofar as a symptom of the great consumer fraud.

What is more illuminating is to observe the pathology of the die hard Conservatives that have come to her defense. One notable is Michelle Malkin who continues to ride on top of a wave of average Joe-the-plumber ignorance. It is easy to stand out in a sea of Republican mediocrity but her narcissistic pathology outshines the rest when defending Palin.

She writes: “The anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by blabbermouth McCain aides who are leaking to Fox News is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.” read here

I have a few thoughts for you Michelle. The McCain campaign was doomed. Palin didn’t help it and if the aides are telling the truth, is this still trashing? You say yes but isn’t it also a sign of a bad nomination of both McCain and Palin.

But of course you are defending the Party in your own unique way.

The first symptom of your pathology is denial whereby you avoid awareness of some painful aspect of reality by negating sensory data. And it is what you are avoiding in these most likely truthful and honest criticisms of Palin.

Second the argument in your comments about the 2nd Amendment and Palin’s pro-life stance are more of a distortion in which you are grossly reshaping reality to suit your inner needs using sustained feelings of delusional superiority or entitlement.

Lastly, you are projecting which is the process of perceiving and reacting to unacceptable inner impulses and their derivatives as though they were outside the self. On a psychotic level this defense mechanism takes the form of frank delusions about external reality and are usually persecutory, as poor Sarah is now being persecuted, and includes both perception of one’s own feelings in another and subsequent acting on the perception also known as a psychotic paranoid delusion.

Again, as first noted the campaign that wins is celebrated as brilliant and genius. The losing campaign is described as fumbling and foolish. Both are distortions and thank you Michelle Malkin for proving the point because your ego can not let you be associated with a losing, fumbling and foolish party. Therefore you deny, distort, and project on to Sarah Palin a false sense of entitlement or security that will entice her to run or seek other office on a national stage.

She will fail because the American people by and large may not be as bright as you but in fact are smart enough to sense that they want someone smarter than themselves running the country in calamitous times like these.

"might have to serve a little time in jail."

“Corruption conviction doesn’t daunt Sen. Ted Stevens”

Glad to see at least one politician end up where he belongs. This 84 year old senator has been a disgrace for a long time. Most people just didn’t know it.

But this hardly is evidence that our system of government is doing the right thing. There are many more like him. But it is the individuals that are acting not above the law but those that act within their own interpretation of the law that I think are more ignominious.

By and large most of the members of Congress fall into this latter category.

PBS has been running a program on the Constitution recently interviewing current members and the response is shameful indeed. Clearly, these politicians either do not understand what the Constitution means or have decided to interpret it unwisely.

Hawaii ending universal child health care

Why?

“People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free”

I hope this foolish notion of universal health care does not see the light of day under an Obama administration. This is unlikely since he advocates for strong government intervention. But since this initiative in Hawaii was signed into law by a Republican governor what is the chance whoever is elected?

Another example of how easily a perspective can be appropriated regardless of party affiliation. Republicans can be as pro government as a Democrat and vice versa. In fact that is the reality. If all things were the same over the last 4 years but put a dem in as president, democrats would be crying out “give democracy a chance in Iraq” while republicans would be decrying the nation building effort.

But like the massive fraud that is called a free market here in the US after the largest increase of intervention has occurred so to will the fraud of a free market in health care begin to see its proportionate growth of government planning.

The problems we are facing, economic, and health care and so on are exactly because of government interference and are more so symptoms of a dying nation. It surely can not withstand the weight of so much central state planning.

But with both parties promising to do more we are certainly doomed with these prospects.

Read the delicious link on this hawaii universal child care deal. Yes, all children should have health care coverage. Just like abortion. Most people I think are against having abortion I mean who is proud of having an abortion? It is something all of us would avoid. But I don’t think government should be in the role of decision maker and enforcement of such things.

They shouldn’t force people to not have an abortion. And likewise they shouldn’t force people to have health care coverage, which is what “universal health care” ultimately amounts too.

But both parties and supporters fail to see their own absurdity in politics but only from their own narrow perspective.

I refuse to pay taxes so someone will have healthcare they otherwise wouldn’t pay for themselves and I refuse to pay taxes to bailout out anyone on wallstreet. Let these propositions fail. Yet I am forced too under threat of the gun that is in control of the relentless Leviathon that people continue to support by voting!

TSA is Pathetic

I always argued the TSA was another abomination of government. Everyone jokes, including Sean Hannity, at how inept the government is at running things. The TSA is just another example.

The nation receives nothing for this charade of alleged increased security but a hard time. The latest “publc” item of note is in the delicious links.

TSA agent steals $200K worth of gear, resells it on eBay.

This is something of late we the public get to find out about. But what of the things we don’t hear is what bothers me.

I participated in a cyber security conference in NY recently where mostly government types paraded around and lectured to each other.

The DHS has a subdepartment uses a security product I’m familiar with. I also know the vendor and had numerous discussions with them about the service. Through those discussions I also learned how inept the IT staff for the DHS really is at using the product.

One anecdotal example from the vendor intimated to me that they such a hard time working with the staff to get the product setup that once it was partially setup they just let it run. The details I won’t bother going into, the product is not really very good but takes considerable effort to make work well.

One Friday the IT staff at the DHS needed to call in for support because something on the product quit working. Basically the agent called in and said look its about 4:30 (on a Friday afternoon) and unless you can get this fixed in about 5 minutes for me well have to call you another time, I have to run a catch a train in about 5 minutes.

We are talking about homeland security here? So we also already knew the DHS was just another abomination of government but with everything else it only matters that people “feel” good about their security efforts.

No new president will be able to abolish this entity for fear of the political cost. This organization does very little if anything to help the nation be more security and in fact may inhibit it, because people think it obviously is a needed entity to defend the homeland from terrorists. And no political person understandably wants to be associated with decreasing this nations security.

What good is the DHS. Some of us know the truth.