From The Daily Caller:

In response to recent comments made by Indiana Democratic Rep. Andre Carson and California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters that denigrate the TEA Party movement, Florida Republican Rep. Allen West — a member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the TEA Party Caucus — sent a letter to CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver Wednesday requesting that the body condemn such remarks.

“As Chairman of the CBC, I believe it is incumbent on you to both condemn these types of hate-filled comments, and to disassociate the Congressional Black Caucus from these types of remarks. Otherwise, I will have to seriously reconsider my membership within the organization,” West wrote. (OPINION: Andre Carson: Serial racebaiter)

The freshman congressman declared, “It is unconscionable when a fellow CBC Member, Congressman Andre Carson, comes to South Florida and claims that some in the TEA Party would love to see black Americans ‘hanging on a tree.’ It is appalling to hear another CBC colleague, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, say ‘The TEA Party can go straight to hell.’”

Further:

West added that Carson’s comments, which caricature the TEA Party movement as a group of racists, are “baseless” and “desperate.” West reiterated that the movement is focused on fiscal responsibility and American Exceptionalism and wrote that the the CBC should be working to end the “Balkanization” of America. (RELATED: Rep. Allen West decides against campaign for Senate)

Finally, Representative Allen West stated:

As a member of the CBC, I look forward to working with you to help end this practice. All of us, especially Congressman Carson, Congresswoman Waters and others who have engaged in racially-motivated rhetoric, should follow the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., not the example of Reverend Jeremiah Wright,” West added, concluding that he hopes to work with the CBC to bridge divides.

Rep. Allen West states the obvious. He needs to seek higher office. Much higher.

As most of my readers already agree.

BZ

Mr Obama, at the point of the Perfect Storm economically, is proposing even MORE regulations which would cost billions and billions of taxpayer dollars. From The Washington Times:

President Obama told Speaker John A. Boehner in a letter Tuesday that his administration is considering seven regulations that would each cost the U.S. economy more than $1 billion per year, although he added that these rules are “merely proposed.”

All told, the seven proposed rules cited by Mr. Obama would cost companies at least $38 billion per year and could cost as much as $100 billion annually.

“Before finalizing any of them, we will take account of public comments and concerns and give careful consideration to cost-saving possibilities and alternatives,” Mr. Obama wrote to the Ohio Republican.

Right. Just as you gave massive consideration to the electorate before you shoved ObakaKare down America’s throat in the middle of the night. Just as you crowed about “transparency” in your administration. Just as you decreed there would be days and days of posting on the internet — for public consideration and scrutiny, in the name of fairness and transparency — before any bill would be passed.

And we should, of course, believe you now?

To continue:

The president listed four proposed Environmental Protection Agency rules and three in the Department of Transportation as having the high potential cost. An EPA regulation on air quality standards could cost between $19 billion and $90 billion per year.

And this on top of the EPA regulations regarding coal-fired electrical generations stations which go into effect this coming January 1st — regulations that Texas says will cause rolling brownouts in the state? I wrote about that here, on August 22nd.

Demorats and Leftists just don’t “get it” and they never will. It’s not to say that some of what the Demorats do or want don’t have merit. But in times such as these, there has to be a line that won’t and can’t be crossed — and we have crossed it. Way crossed it.

The Demorats want to both extend that line and, further, absolutely explode beyond it.

All for the sake of votes and power, with no thought given to potential current and future consequences and national conditions.

More taxes! More regulations!

Where does it end?

BZ

I have to admit, up front, that I am a child of the 60s and early 70s.

I grew up on my college radio station WWSU, then WHIO, then an accumulation of literal “albums” from that point on. When albums consisted of flat, 1′-round, vinyl LPs.

When I was pushed into an “airshift” on WWSU because one DJ had to attend one class.

And I liked it. Quite frankly: absolutely LOVED it.

He was gone. I took his place. Rathskellar popcorn. My waiting tables there — at Wright State University in Ohio. Then an airshift that turned into The Grunge.

I was the only DJ that got shut down, physically, by the WSU police by playing Frank Zappa’s “Penis Dimension” over the various halls’ speaker systems.

From WWSU, I migrated to WHIO and to WDVR and to the west coast.

From thence to my California State University’s KEG (AM) and KSSU (FM).

In the very early 70s, myself and Randy Bobo ran one of the absolute first “two-up” radio shows in history.

WAY before they were “popular.” We used to eat breakfast on the air. And we called ourselves the “Dr Fong Radio Travesty Of The Air.”

We would play parakeet training records. Or we would mix The Section with a sound effects record of a Cessna homing into its airport.

I played Black Sabbath with Foghat with Budgie with Yes with King Crimson with Steppenwolf with 801 with Neil Young with Cactus with Captain Beefheart with Dust with Deep Purple with ELO with so many others.

If I could do it all again?

I would wrap it all up in spades with KOZT – FM.

In Ft Bragg, Fornicalia.

You simply can’t get any better than that.

Mr Obama continued with his Deflection Tour this month.

Everyone and everything else is responsible for our current terrible state EXCEPT Mr Barack Hussein Obama:

We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. “But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.” Obama listed three events overseas — the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises — which set the economy back.

Nothing at all, of course, to do with his previous, current and future anticipated policies, eh?

Along with his current worst ever approval rating of 38%. Something like the very tail end of President Bush’s second term.

It’s all simply due to a “run of bad luck.”

Right.

BZ

P.S.

Note to Mr Obaka: you might also mention sunspots, tidal pull, mission creep, bad Tarot cards, increased flatulence, prevailing westerly winds and rust that never sleeps. Those things are likewise equally responsible, eh?

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, ‘the buck stops here.’

Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

— Senator Barack Hussein Obama, March 2006



BZ