On Friday, former president Bill Clinton delivered a speech at the seven-year-old Center for American Progress, a left-wing advocacy organization based in Washington, in a symposium on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing and what lessons can be drawn from this tragic event.

In his address, Clinton proved why he is still the George Jessel of American politics, mixing just the right proportions of disingenuous self-deprecation and “good old boy” Southern charm with presidential gravitas in a 6,000-word political mint julep. And not unlike a good strong mint julep, you may think it tastes pretty good while it’s going down, but before long you realize you’ve been slipped a mickey and are nursing quite the skull-cruncher.

Throughout his speech, Clinton consistently returns to the theme that “the words we use really do matter.”  Toward the end of his oration he reiterates: “words have consequences just as much as actions do.” (Italics added.)

Really, Mr. President? Just as much? But that flies in the face of what I learned at my mother’s knee: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” (more…)

It’s a notion commonly peddled by both Democrats and the MSM that President Obama is a “master communicator.” This notion is repeated by liberal television pundit and scribe ad nauseam apparently in the belief that endless repetition can turn Wish into Truth.

Yet empirical evidence and closer scrutiny suggest that Mr. Obama is actually less Great Communicator than Serial Monologist, in the vein of Jerry Seinfeld, the late George Carlin (sans profanity), or even (brace yourself) Glenn Beck. And frankly, all three of them talk rings around him.

For those who doubt my doubt of the President’s rhetorical prowess, consider the following. The April 13 press conference—a short one consisting of only 8 questions, all quite understandably on the nuclear security issue—was the first solo presser since July 22, 2009.

That’s a 265-day desert without presidential communication. Or 51 days longer (20%) than George W. Bush’s 214-day stretch (April 4-Nov. 4) of logophobia back in 2004. Bush emerged from his silence two days after the Nov. 2 presidential election, suggesting his self-imposed gag order was mainly a bit of “strategery”—an incumbent with the lead, playing ball-control so as not to make a fatal gaffe in the final quarter.

Which begs two questions. First, why is the President ducking the press conference Q&A arena? And second, what makes a “Great Communicator” great? (more…)

If there was some way to check the eligibility of every voter showing up at the polls on Election Day, would the Democrats be in power today? Every attempt to legislate safeguards against voter fraud has been stymied by them with charges of racism being hurled.

On the same day that the House of Representatives was voting for the evil health care reform bill, there was a rally calling for immigration reform and the call for amnesty was heard over and over.

Although the crowd at the rally appears to be mostly minority protesters, it might surprise many to learn that there are many Hispanics who are against illegal immigration and amnesty. They are however invisible to the mainstream media.

The president of NY ICE ((New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement) is a Hispanic woman, Joanna Marzullo, known to us as Progress Rose. She picked up the following Spanish language voter registration form in Manhattan and you will note the highlighted question translated : Were you born in North America? (more…)

Holy Mackinac Bridge, Batman. The blogosphere is calling Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) a “cheap date.”

Considering what it took to get him to vote for the U.S. Senate health care bill, that’s a fitting way to describe Slick Stupak. According to Stupak, he struck a deal with President Obama, trading his ‘yes’ vote for a ‘worthless, non-binding’ executive order prohibiting federal funding for abortions.  And perhaps an airport or three.

Can you say ‘smoke and mirrors’? As a Stupak constituent (He’s also Michael Moore’s rep., believe it or not.), I can.

I have no doubt that the congressman from the UP would have voted for the bill anyway. Late last year, I attended one of those health care forums – you know, the ones where the annoyed politician comes face to face with a throng of peasants, armed with verbal pitchforks – in Petoskey, Michigan where, none other than Bart Stupak was the moderator: (more…)

Nobody has to read the 2,310 pages of the health care bill to know why it will ruin health care in America. You don’t have to go any further than page 49, which marks the end of Subtitle E, “Governance,” to understand what’s coming. Subtitle E creates the office of the “Health Choices Commissioner,” the person charged with putting into effect all of the wonderful regulatory mechanisms that H.R. 4872 demands. But, in the regulatory sense, the Commissioner is not a person. The Commissioner is rather an institution, one that will have powers and responsibilities unprecedented in American history.

Even if Obamacare immediately did all of the things that the president claims it will (which I don’t for a minute believe); even if lowered the deficit, reduced the cost of health care, improved the quality of that care and increased access to it, does anyone who has ever dealt with any of today’s bloated, creeping, undead regulatory agencies of government actually believe that such a happy situation would last? If there is one thing that those of us who deal with government bureaucracy know, it is this: government bureaucracy never gets better, never increases in efficiency and never costs less. Never.

In my business, the environmental industry, the EPA has a position analogous to Health Choices Commissioner: EPA Administrator. Practically everything that the EPA does, on the federal and state levels, flows down from the power granted to the EPA Administrator. A president can appoint a marvelous Administrator, or a terrible one (Obama’s choice, Lisa Jackson, falls into the latter category) but it really doesn’t matter. The choice of the figurehead sitting on top of the pyramid is merely the difference between the thousands of thousands of bureaucrats on the bottom – the people who actually interact with the regulated community – creating a pile of obstacles the size of Mt. Everest to obstruct industry, or a pile the size of Mt. McKinley. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, because you can’t get over, around, under or through the obstructions. (more…)

I am calling to all of you freedom-loving Americans to come once again to Washington D.C. to gather on the Capitol steps on Saturday, at 12 o’clock noon.

We must come by the thousands.

Speaker Pelosi will stop at nothing to fulfill her corrupt conquests. She will bring all of the corrupt ACORN liars to try to bully all the Democrats that may be having pangs of guilt knowing quite surely what their votes can and will do. If they’re bullied into saying “yes,” it will destroy America.

Join me and Rep. Michele Bachmann in Washington DC at 12 noon EST so we can give all the Democrats who know what the end result will be the courage to say: “No, do not pass this destructive bill.” (more…)

The most infuriating thing about our mainstream media is the utter ignorance of their so-called “journalists.”  When little miss anchorwoman, Katie Couric, interviewed the president last Sunday on his sudden, desperate invitation to Republicans for ideas on healthcare reform, he told her this:

I want to look at the Republican ideas that are out there. And I want to be very specific. ‘How do you guys want to lower costs? How do you guys intend to reform the insurance markets so people with preexisting conditions, for example, can get health care?’

Ms. Couric was so ignorant of the past year-long healthcare debacle that she offered no challenge whatsoever to this latest whopper by President Obama.  If she had known the issues — which is the job for which she is supposedly paid $14 million a year, or $300,000 per week — then she would have immediately challenged the president with the fact that very specific ideas from Republicans have been on the table – in writing – since early last summer.

Over and over again, the president and his “people” go unchallenged on every whopper they tell. Either our MSM is a bunch of ignorant boobs, or they are, once again, indulging their penchant for left-wing ideology.  Whatever the case, their coverage of the president on his healthcare-reform shenanigans has been nothing short of disgraceful.

Doing the job, our MSM refuses to do – for whatever reason — here is the other half of the story on healthcare reform efforts: (more…)