The Tea Party represents all the people working, producing, and PAYING for everything, while the Occupy movement represents all the people wanting to TAKE things from those who have earned them.

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I confess to not liking Herman Cain that much. He is 100000% better than Obama, but he bugs me. He is supposed to be a scientist – having a degree in Math, doing Ordinary Differential Equations as a mathematician for the Navy, then he got a Masters in Computer Science, and held various IT positions as he climbed the corporate ladder.

But he doesn’t talk like a scientist. His thoughts and speech patterns seem chaotic and he wanders all over answering questions, when he answers them at all.

I understand his attraction to the typical conservative. And I’ll vote for him, but I have concerns, and it seems like yet another “blah” candidate option in the decades long failure of our political process to actually offer up decent people.

I was once accused of sexual harassment. Although almost 20 years ago, I remember it quite clearly, because I was first, mad, and second, a bit scared.  The woman in question had been fired for poor job attendance and drug use. She retaliated by bringing a lawyer and an accusation hoping to fish for $.   After hearing our presentation and documentation on why she was fired, the lawyer apologized and bowed out.

For Cain to not “remember” the details of the accusations and their legal aftermath smacks of flat out lying, or frankly, cover-up.

Now, given my experience, I can readily believe that some money grubbing slacker female decided to attempt legal extortion. I can REALLY believe that is the case.  What I can’t believe is Cain doesn’t remember it happening.

I also can’t believe he didn’t dump this to a friendly reporter months ago.  It smacks of continued amateurism.  I don’t want a smooth politician, but I wouldn’t mind a hint of competence.

Oh… and I never liked Godfather Pizza’s pizza.

1. Ineptocracy
*_Ineptocracy_****(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least

capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the

members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded

with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number

of producers*

Via Instapundit

Greeks – even those fiercely opposed to Pasok from the left and right – are resigned to the fact that the country faces years of painful restructuring. The real question at issue is a) under whose control and b) in whose interest?

Those are the questions for Greece. But they apply to us as well. Greece is just farther along the failure trajectory.

Obama, to me, isn’t really a socialist. Well, he is, but that isn’t what drives his decisions. He is a cronyist acting on behalf of his cronies, financial supporters and voters.  He is willing to accelerate our failure as long as his team does better than the others.

So, under Obama, and the DemocRATs,  failing solar companies, General Electric, unions, public employees, will get larger slices of a shrinking pie.

It makes no economic sense. But economic value isn’t his standard.

Two views on what “government should give”

Ace describes the difference pretty well:

As someone said, both groups don’t like crony capitalism, but OWS wants to keep the cronyism and ditch the capitalism. The Tea Party, the opposite.

That sums it up well.  I, too, don’t like the Wall Street shenanigans, but it only matters when I can’t say NO to it.  I can fire a Wall Street business, except when they are spending government money taken from me, given to them, in return for campaign support.

I really only worry about things I can’t say no too – government being the only large example.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my plan to fool gullible Utahans again.

Orrin’s been a changed man since the Tea Party started. Why yesterday he even threw us gun enthusiasts a bone:

Recognizing the need to revamp outdated and restrictive gun laws, U.S Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) have introduced the Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act. The bill allows for the interstate sale of firearms and removes several antiquated and unnecessary restrictions imposed on interstate firearms transactions.

Well gosh Orrin…you’ve been a Senator what… 30 years? And now, when you face a strong primary challenge, you start to worry about the Constitution?

No thanks. Enjoy your retirement. 

The odd thing is that she posts to a site wanting MORE government.  Could she be so crass as to want more government but not to pay for it?  Hmmm… maybe.

My suggestion… try marriage.  Maybe give estmen.com  a shot….then all this is HIS problem. (-:

I left college with no debt and excellent job prospects in the worst recession since the depression (the one before this one).  Admittedly we had a President that actually liked the country, so maybe I did have an easier go of it.

Who is the dunce in this story?

http://takimag.com/article/the_obama_family_circus/print#axzz1X6ksy9BA

Sure his family is full of leeches, illegal immigrants, and shysters. So Barry is the successful one, being only 2 out of 3 on those counts. 

I’m convinced there story says more about us than him.

We let them be illegal here. We let them drive drunk repeatedly. We PAY them to live in our free housing.

It proves… we are stupid I guess.

H/T Bro

Sums it up, doesn’t it?

H/T: The Corner

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I reserve the right to change my mind… but of the folks running now I’d pick Michele Bachman for President, and Rick Perry for Vice-President.

Why not reverse?  Why not 14 years Texas Governor Perry on the top of the ticket?  I don’t trust him to not to something REALLY stupid on immigration. I do, however, trust him to attack Washington D.C. where it deserves.   If he weren’t for amnesty he’d have my full support based on his results in Texas.   The last thing we need is Perry getting rolled by lying Democrats and trading 25 million new Mexican Democrats for fake spending cuts. Nope… I’ve read that book, don’t need to try the sequel…

And I definitely think Bachman will hold the line on things I care about. No compromise. That is over!  It never worked, and it just made things worse. No MORE!

Oh sure, I’d rather have Gary Johnson, but hey, if he can’t even force himself into the debates, how is he going to force his way through Democrats on the Hill?

or:

I’m spurred into t-shirt purchasing action by my disbelief as Obama threatens Social Security checks so he can get a deal that pushes this debt ceiling issue past his re-election.  Is there nothing he won’t do for his own self-interest?   Is 4 more years of a job he clearly hates and can’t perform in worth trashing our credit rating, and senior citizens well being?  Apparently so. Schmuck!

Shame on you if you still like the guy. He’s a narcissistic danger to all of us.

Why? Because CNN doesn’t like him.

http://volokh.com/2011/06/07/exclusion-of-gary-johnson/

I’d say a 2 time governor who has filed for the office should be a pretty much automatic inclusion. Don’t you?

And I like the author, Ron Nielson’s, facts on this:

Consider: In early 1991, then-Governor Bill Clinton was in 11th place in presidential primary polling with 2%. By November of 1991, he was only at 6%, a fact which led one commentator to later observe: “If the front runners in the 1992 Democratic primary had been successful in excluding all the “non-serious” candidates, Bill and Hillary Clinton would have never made it to the national stage.” The “frontrunners” in 1991, by the way, were Mario Cuomo and Jerry Brown.

Here is the difference…. those guys were liberals who loved to tax, spend, borrow, let men marry men,  and kill babies.  In other words they were “qualified” to be President in CNN’s warped view.

I hope CNN re-considers.  Not that I’ll watch it.

BTW: Learn more about his policies here:

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/issues

Note to Gary… the Economy should be FIRST on your list, not Foreign Policy.

The key to defeating the socialists is having a coalition focused on just that.  If we let country clubbers like Huntsman, or social policy drive this, then the socialists, with their united “steal from everybody else” front will win.

Johnson ain’t perfect, but he’s the best I see in the field now. And he is a LOT better than anything the Rats have to offer.

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-05-22-Jon-Huntsman-campaign-president-obama-New-Hampshire_n.htm

Just say no. He must have been in China too long, as I doubt he would even carry Utah. And he certainly wouldn’t win in a primary here.  I don’t know any of my Republican friends that like him. Most despise him and his country-club Republican, spend spend spend, compromise with Socialists approach.

I’ve eaten at Shorty’s in New Hampshire. And many other places in the state.  When you live in or near New Hampshire you always have Presidential wannabees in town.  Its oversided effect on the Presidential process used to be okay before a lot of Massholes moved in, making the state purple at best.

Via Drudge…