Close, but no coronation

Well, I had a few details wrong in the last blog, though the main points were all correct.

It was three judges in Texas who asked Eric Holder to explain the policy of the executive branch regarding the judicial -- asking for a 3-page response outlining exactly why it is that the judicial branch can and has struck down legislation that violates the strictures of the Constitution.

FYI, the three branches of government, Congress, the Supremes, and the White House, have equal authority. None of them rules the other, though they each have the power to undo what the other does. The framers set up the government this way so that it would likely destroy itself long before it destroyed the nation as a whole -- and WE, THE PEOPLE, would have time to make a few of our own corrections before the situation got too desperate.

Apparently Holder complied with the Texans' demands -- I mean you can buy academic papers about this online -- admitting that the Comrade was simply strutting his marxist stuff and pretending to be a dictator for the benefit of a bunch of editors and publishers from the AP wire.

Curiously enough, the Comrade himself made a feeble effort to take back his attack on the Supreme Court. Unusual for him to admit to any errors in judgment. Apparently his ego can't stand to be corrected.

Showed his hand, huh? His blind ambition for absolute power and and his contempt for the United States showing through.

He's wise to wait until if and when he wins a second term to put that kind of stuff on display. Then, at least in his own mind, he can do whatever he damn pleases with the nation because he won't have to pay any attention to voters at all. Not lilke he  has so far.

On Fox yesterday, Judge Napolitano noted that the Comrade is moving dangerously close to seizing dictatorial power. Like... hmmm... Napolean, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Chavez.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed.

Anyone who votes for the Comrade in November very likely has masochistic tendencies or suffers from Stockholm Syndrome. That's pretty clear.

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Is the Comrade lying? Are his lips moving?

I've said it before: Don't listen to what people say. Rather, watch what they do. Especially the president.

So the Comrade is in Oklahoma today, no doubt trying to convince people down that there he's all in favor of the Keystone Pipeline. But here's the real story:

The Nebraska EPA and everyone else approved all sections of the Keystone Pipeline from Canada. The proposal, with all approvals, impact statements, yaday-yada-yada, went to the US EPA or DOE or some b.s. agency inside the DC Beltway. Those regulators decided Nebraska needed to come up with a different route for tbe pipeline.

So the Comrade nixed the pipeline, claiming, "Hey! Ain't my fault! Nebraska needs to submit a plan!!" A second plan, butthead, after your folks nixed a perfectly good plan, and don't think we don't know it.

Now gasoline is upwards of $4.00 all across the country. This is an assault on the public from every direction -- it kills commuters whether you drive yourself of take public transportation -- which also burns fuel and fares will, of necessity rise.

How much fuel is used in producing basically ANTYHING? All costs for that go up. How much to deliver corn from Iowa to upstate New York? And a lot of corn, by the way, is being burned as ethanol, so the price of corn is absolutely ridiculous.

So suddenly the nation turned on the good ol' Comrade like a pack of snarling dogs. He still pretends that none of this is his fault. He is, as usual, blameless.

You see, as president, the Comrade does absolutely nothing. So he's not responsible for anything. He says "no" to everything.

Including domestic oil and gas exploration and development.

But it's an elction year. So Comrade Butthead has a problem. He's got to somehow convince people that he's done everything possible to improve the USA's fuel stores. While he was golfing, kissing Muslim butt, and entertaining movie stars.

"We're drilling more oil today than ever before," he says. Yeah, and that IS George Bush's fault -- Bush approved those projects before he left office, and most of the drilling on privately-owned land, not under supervision of the federal government.

In fact, a half-dozen more oil contracts were sitting on the desk in the Oval Office the day the Comrade took possession -- AND HE CANCELLED ALL OF THEM. Opting insread to dump about $5 billion down a rat-hole called Solyndra, because, you know, the guy who ran Solyndra was a big campaign donor. The Comrade owed him some public money. My money, your money. NOT THE COMRADE'S MONEY. Easy to pay people off with other peoples' money, isn't?

So Comrade Gutless-Wonder-Wannabe-Re-elected has tried his best to back-pedal his position on the Keystone Pipeline. "Go ahead with the pipeline," he says.... "Build it from Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast."

What the hell that will accomplish in the process of carrying crude from Canada? It only seems to emphasis the Comrade's total ignorance about North American geography. Wonder if he's figured out yet that the USA does not and never has included 57 states.

So as the Comrade is in Oklahoma, taking credit for the "pipeline to nowhere," the DOE or US EPA or one of those anal retentive commissariats has issued an edict that will now review oil drilling and exploration contracts on privately-held property. Where it is clearly none of their goddamn busines.

But, you get it? On the one hand, ol' Comrade Blockhead is out there flapping his jaws, trying to convince citizens he's working for them. Meanwhile, he's taken hold of that knife in our backs and is slowly twisting it in, deeper and deeper. He's blissfully unaware -- or delighted -- that we're bleeding out.

So don't even both listening to what this major league marxist liar says. Instead, watch what he does. AND VOTE FOR ANYONE ELSE THIS COMING NOVEMBER.

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How do unions benefit?

So the Comrade's supposed big speech is scheduled for tonight. Yawn. I don't expect any surprises and apparently no one else does either, not even the dems. On top of that, everyone knows the speech is just a big political game to try to dump the blame for this economy on Congress.

Are there any voters out there who aren't aware of this? I mean, who does the Comrade think he's fooling?

Well, maybe the unions? Are union members that stupid? Or is it just their leaders? Power-mad, greedy thugs?

I've said before, I've been in two unions due to "closed shop" laws in Illinois. That is, if you don't join the union, you don't work. I haven't really said which unions they were. I'll say it now, it was SEIU before the communists took over and then later, the Teamsters.

I didn't quite see any advantages from membership in either one. The Teamsters was the worst though. Very high dues withheld from our checks, and our steward was intimidated by the "guys downtown" and wouldn't even ask them any questions. Apart from taking our money every month. the Teamsters had absolutely no impact whatsoever on that job, conditions, days off or anything. But our management bosses were scared poopless of them, too.

So I'm just thinking, what are union members getting out of the Comrade's regime? Are they working? Maybe for six months, 12 months -- for as long as the first stimulus lasted. But now even the US Post Office -- employing the largest aggregate union in the country apart from public school teachers -- even the Post Office is facing serious cut-backs. There's even talks of shutting it down all together.

When I was in the SEIU, leadership tried to donate a whole bunch of money to the dem candidate running for president that year -- and he had promised a "guaranteed income" for everyone. That is, every American would be guaranteed X-amount of income if they worked or not, or whatever their situation might be. The SEIU leadership wanted to support this guy's campaign. But there was such a rage about that... "You mean I gotta work my ass off 40 hours a week plus any overtime I can get and these lazy assholes just sit back and collect?" I think in the end, the SEIU didn't donate any money to anyone that year. As I said, it was before the communists took it over.

During the Reagan presidency, I knew several -- actually dozens -- of union members who became very staunch Republicans. Just like the "solid South," which heretofore had been solidly democrat in protest of Lincoln and abolition.

So union leadership doesn't always reflect the values and beliefs of the people they represent. I'm sure not every SEIU member is a marxist, as that organization's leadership is.

And the Teamsters? Having heard snippets of Jimmy Hoffa Jr's tirade against the Tea Party, I'd guess Hoffa is about as brutal, thuggish and corrupt as his old man. And he'll probably end up buried under a stadium in the Meadowlands, too. Or whatever. Wonder how many Teamsters are also Tea Party? Something to think about, Junior.

Much more recently, as a journalist, I watched the demise of an industry partially due to union pressures. The industry was automating. The union represented only maybe a quarter of the people employed in businesses nationwide, and then usually only in the larger businesses. As technologies changed and the industry shrunk just due to those developments (consumers could do their own work, rather than go to one of these businesses to have it done), the unions started screaming and hollering, demanding better pay, blah-blah-blah. The industry union got so small that it's now joined itself to either the Teamsters of the AFL. I forget which.

One company was the largest in this industry in the world. The union began ranting and raving, lying and trying to generate all kinds of bad publicity, lobbying for things Card-Check (that's the first time I ever heard of it, in the 1990s), and also trying to organize its union internationally. The union apparently believed this huge, huge company was the place to start. Many of its facilities were already organized and the company had always got along pretty well with its unions. Until the harrassment started.

So this biggest company in the world started selling off and shutting down its plants all over the world. It took its remaining capital and restructured itself into a succesful business in a different industry. And there's about 30,000 one-time employees who don't work for them anymore. The unions were just too much trouble to deal with. So the corporation cut and run while it still had something left to start over somewhere else.

Anyways, now I'm rambling. But I just hope the union membership takes a step back and thinks about all this before they get on the bus, drink the Kool-Aid, and start beating up bankers or Tea Party members or whatever Junior and Trumpka wants them to do. The membership are Americans, too, after all. Once a free and proud people. Are they still?

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