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Goodbye Chrysler:

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April 29 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama plans to announce tomorrow that Chrysler LLC will be placed into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, leading to an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat SpA, people involved in the matter said.

An alliance with Fiat is a literal death-knell for Chrysler or, as I quantify it, the Euro blind leading the American blind.

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President #44: His First 100 Days

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Mr Obama ends his “first 100 days” — and much is apparently made of this so-called benchmark. Not that it’s particularly important in itself, but I’ll observe nevertheless.

I submit, however, that it’s not about Mr Obama’s 100 days; it’s about the nation’s 100 days.

In my opinion, these past 100 days bode poorly for our future (see the New York Post’s “100 Days, 100 Mistakes“). Much of this prognostication stems, I am first to admit, from policies and decisions made under the prior Bush presidency. Yet, for someone claiming to desire “change” it appears that change is not what Mr Obama desires on many levels.

And the growing of the government continues not just unabated but abetted absolutely geometrically — to the point where it frightens not just the bulk of US citizens but those in other nations. In no economic text or theory does it state or imply that one may spend oneself out of debt or recession. This single example personifies a complete lack of economic understanding, much less common sense, and brings to question every other policy and decision of Mr Obama.

Change involves taking steps that may not be in keeping with the public’s wants. The public, more than at any other point in our history, wants its Free Cheese — though it has clearly been beaten, over the years, into this belief by its educational and political systems.

The Left and Greens speak and write repeatedly of “sustainability.” Our ecosystems, they say, and resulting human policies must be “sustainable.”

I completely concur. Because our current path of government expansion with its concomitant requirement for greater taxes, and the dwindling pool of those paying into the system vs those taking from the system — this model is completely UNsustainable.

On another level, more than at other time in our nation’s history, Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” are in effect and very broadly utilized by those on the Left, specifically Rule # 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Meaning: attack the individual. And, more importantly, label the individual. These labels customarily include the words “racist,” “sexist,” and “hater.”

And instead of possessing the ability to discuss, at length, any series of issues we are to the point where one almost cannot even disagree publicly with a Left agenda — witness Miss California and her recent opinion regarding gay marriage.

Sadly, it satisfies the Left completely to eradicate public discussion or verbal or written opposition; witness the various pushes to create “hate speech” and the proposed crushing of free market thought and speech in radio. And, at the same time, witness the collapse of many of the Left’s favorite media organs such as newspapers, television, magazines.

The Left fails to realize that the more it pushes, the harder it pushes, the more opposition is being bred. This is a massively important concept to comprehend — particularly in regard to consequences or what I call the “logical extension.”

Our Constitution and its Bill of Rights are under fire. From without and within. And when you erode our very foundation — the rest of the entire house quivers.

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RINO to DINO

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That Arlen Specter, he was one loyal Republican, eh?

Oh wait, that’s right, he switched engines today:

WASHINGTON — Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched parties Tuesday with a suddenness that stunned the Senate, a moderate’s defection that left Democrats one seat shy of a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority with many of President Barack Obama’s key legislative priorities on the horizon.

Yes, we lost a seat but, in essence, what has the GOP really lost, eh?

First, before we can much care as Conservatives, we have to be convinced the GOP can even manage to rally around more than a single issue — the recent Obama budget.

Sadly, I remain unconvinced.

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I Think I’m Liking The Swine Flu

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The swine flu may turn out to be our friend in disguise:

Lawmaker wants border closed over swine flu
By Molly K. Hooper
Posted: 04/25/09 11:28 PM [ET]
The “swine flu” that has infected more than 1,000 people in Mexico has led a lawmaker on the House Homeland Security Committee to call on U.S. officials to close the southern border.

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) said the border should be closed until the threat is resolved.

That’s the first Demorat who’s had a good idea in a long time.

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Asking Your Government To Pay BACK Loans

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Fornicalia Representative Tom McClintock (hey, my district!) has had to draft a bill to force the Secretary of the Treasury to accept repayment, by banks, of TARP funds.

Mr McClintock said:

Mr. Speaker: Many Americans have been shocked in recent days to learn that banks seeking to repay TARP money have been told the treasury will not allow them to do so.

Taxpayers were promised that this money was only to be used to buy up toxic assets and that it would be repaid to the treasury as soon as humanly possible.

And yet, when several banks have attempted to do precisely that, they’ve been told that the treasury will not allow them to do so.

This is a travesty. Just a few weeks ago, many members of this House reacted to the AIG bonus fiasco by saying, “We want our money back.” And yet when some banks have attempted to do just that, they’ve been turned away at the treasury gates.

M. Speaker, today I have introduced legislation to require the Secretary of the Treasury to accept TARP repayments unconditionally and immediately when they are presented. I hope that I can count on the support of all those who promised constituents these funds would be repaid at the earliest possible opportunity.

Did you ever think you’d see the day there would have to be a bill requiring the federal government to accept loan paybacks? This merely indicates the issue isn’t about the ability of an agency or entity to repay; it’s about the federal government insisting that it keep control of the agency or entity requesting the funding in the first place.

Agencies and entities deciding, on their own, that the don’t care for the strings attached to these loans.

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