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Political Humor - Top Ten List of “No’s”

Democrats have made a key strategic error in painting their opposition as the party of ‘No.’ There really are some ‘No’s that the public wants, such as ‘No’ Inflation, ‘No’ unemployment, ‘No’ high interest rates.   This trifecta buried Jimmy Carter in 1980.  It is now staring the current President in the face.  The only problem for the country is that Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter on steroids.

After Obama’s launch of the most ambitious Presidency since FDR, the party of ‘No’ is looking better and better.  While refusing to take responsibility for extending the current recession, President Obama ignited a monumental spending spree with no idea how to pay for it.  Like closing Guantanamo detention center where the decision was taken without a plan for execution, the President now has to come up with one and reality is setting in.  Even university economists are now predicting rapid inflation once His spending hits high gear in 2010, and – gee whiz what a surprise – voters apparently don’t want trained killers from Guantanamo in their homeland, so the federal government is buying off folks in Bermuda so we can dump them there.

Carter’s foreign policy ineptitude may also be overshadowed by that of the current President – and perhaps with even more catastrophic results.  Soon to embark on an Apology Tour to the middle-east, the President will re-promote the idea of a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.  Only the radical Islamists are thinking that the two states involved will be Iran and Iran.  Jimmy Carter had some success in middle-east peace.  The only problem was that one of the participants in that process wound up on the receiving end of some significant Islamic ‘ill-will.’   Obama will have to do much more than rely on his magnificent oratorical skill and a working teleprompter to achieve a meaningful result.  And while Obama talks, Iran builds nuclear weapons.

After watching the current President kick-off his term by extending the recession and endangering the lives of Americans as well of those of America’s allies, the prospects for the ‘party of No’ are improving. The duty of an opposition party is to –of course – say ‘No.’ Liberals in the media ridicule the strategy as out of synch with the mood of the country.  On many issues, saying ‘no’ is just what adult Americans want.

Below is the current Top Ten list of items Americans want somebody in government to say just say “no” to:

10.  Guantanamo Prisoners moving to the US – Obamamaniacs believed that because “He won” the election, that He could do what he wanted.  Supporters of the President mistook an election win for an appointment to the throne.   (The media have a problem with this distinction as well.)  His plan to move trained murderers from where they are safely held at Guantanamo Naval Base to locations in the United States has sparked an outcry of opposition – even from Democrats.  Americans want someone in a position of authority to say ‘no.’ Moving the prisoners onto US soil ensures that at least one liberal judge will find a reason to release some of these lunatics onto the street.   The unbelievable surprise to all this is that Team Obama was surprised at the level of resistance. 

9.  Unemployment – Instituting an economic policy requiring expansion of the money supply will necessarily extend inflation and thereby unemployment.  Although economists that work for universities disagree, those economists that have real jobs understand that companies will resist hiring until the economy – including inflation – stabilizes.  By over spending and over borrowing, Obama will produce the opposite result of what he intends.  The party of ‘no’ needs to step in and stop the over spending and over borrowing.  They would be a fabulous campaign issue in 2010 and beyond.

8.  Auto takeover – President Obama proved his worth as a CEO by driving two major US Corporations into bankruptcy – perhaps never to emerge.  In fulfilling a campaign promise to his Union thug supporters, Obama intervened to take over Chrysler and GM, only to find that this was real work.  (Democrats hate real work and few have experience at it.)  Paying so many UAW members for not working is un-American.  Americans want someone to say ‘no.’  

7.    Opening borders – Schools, social services and medical institutions are overwhelmed by demand from persons here without permission.  Americans are simply tired of paying for services to people who arrived illegally.  Although the Bush administration had some trouble understanding this, American voters burned down the Senate telephone system during the last immigration debate and the GOP finally got the message.  Most of those in the GOP that didn’t are now on the unemployment line with the rest of us.

6.  Prosecution of interrogators – Democrats automatically prosecute those in government that achieve results.  After 9/11, the federal government focused on protecting the country as they were sworn to.  They achieved their objective.   Now, leftists want to prosecute those that achieved such wonderful results.  After all, Democrats can’t have a government without a crisis to escalate.

5.  Nancy Pelosi – A surprise addition to the Top Ten list, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was such an embarrassment last month, that key Democrats are looking to throw her under the bus.  The issue centers on whether or not Pelosi knew of the enhanced interrogation methods used by the CIA to protect America after 9/11.  It is clear now that she did know.  She pitifully tried to deny this in a widely covered press conference where some in the media actually asked challenging questions.  The GOP is sitting on the sidelines except to point out that the Speaker has no problem lying in public.  Pelosi’s real problem is with the lunatics in San Francisco that were shocked to learn that she knew of the ‘waterboarding’ process and raised no objection to it.  The hypocrisy of railing against ‘torture’ while she was an accomplice to these treatments won’t find support in the heartland.  The Pelosi solution to the entire episode is to just declare the issue ‘closed.’  CNN seems happy with this.

4.  The Deficit – One of the key economic disasters staring at Obama across the Oval Office desk, the deficit will prove one of His biggest problems primarily because these are bills that have to be paid.  Team Obama has no problem spending or extorting money from those it doesn’t agree with.  There just isn’t enough money to extort and still pay off all His bills.  Once again, the party of “no” is being called on to show some adult level leadership and stop Him from handing off such huge bills to US taxpayers.

3.  Spending – Of course the core problem with the deficit is spending.  Researching the habitat of field mice or guppies might be interesting but it is not going to provide the kind of jobs that will sustain an economy.  Spending on ridiculous programs must be stopped if the public is to have any prospect for a growing economy.  Americans understand that a growing economy is the ONLY avenue to upward mobility for its citizens.  Obama is establishing a European caste system to replace America’s system where ambition and production are rewarded.

2.  Cap and Trade – As payoff to his environmental supporters, the President is pushing a Cap and Trade system to restrict the ability of energy companies to produce enough fuel and energy to keep America warm next winter.  Interestingly, liberal voters in New England looked at their heating bills and determined that they are already paying enough to heat their homes.  The GOP needs to lead the charge to kill Cap and Trade.  They should find enough northern Democrats in the House and Senate that don’t want to wind up unemployed, to join them in saying ‘no.’

1.  Health Care –Obama approached health care takeover in the same fashion that He approached closing Guantanamo – with no plan and no idea how it would actually work.  An Obama takeover of health care would have the same positive result as the takeover of General Motors.  While the costs of health care have steadily increased, Team Obama has ignored the two main reasons – shortage of delivery options and increased costs to insure health care practitioners.  Without reining in the legal costs of delivering health care and without increasing the supply of practitioners, costs will only increase. Even University economists understand this.    Team Obama has determined that they want to provide free health care for all Americans.  They have no idea how much ‘free’ will cost.  The GOP needs to say ‘no’ to this disaster as well.