Does Complicity in Passage of Fiscal Cliff Bill Really Shield Republicans from Blame?

By John W. Lillpop


In 2010, the American people sent a message, loud and clear, to Democrats and Barack Obama: Stop out of control spending!
Even so, the Tea Party and other conservative influences were unable to prevent Barack Obama and the Democrats from sabotaging the process that was supposed to address the $16.4 trillion deficit and the uncontrolled spending that threatens to sink the republic.

Astoundingly, Republicans in Congress countenanced a bill that will actually increase the deficit by $4 trillion dollars over the next 10 years.

It is true that the Democrats are mostly to blame for the financial train wreck that is ruining America. Barack Obama and his allied liberals have never genuinely intended to cut spending one iota, except in the area of national defense which most liberals abhor.

Still, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, Republican leaders in the House and Senate respectively, have let conservatives and the nation down by agreeing to the tax and spend mania practiced by Obama and the Democrats.

Boehner and McConnell were reportedly afraid of being blamed for allowing the nation to go off the fiscal cliff. So they copped out and were complicit in an idiotic farce that will increase the deficit even more.

However, Boehner and McConnell are sadly mistaken if they presume to have escaped the wrath of the American people.

Indeed, future wrath is already building and will most certainly include anger at Republicans who aided and abetted Barack Obama in this latest dereliction of fiduciary responsibility.

The reckless and irresponsible fiscal mismanagement of America cannot, and will not, last forever. The day of reckoning will come, and, unfortunately, Republicans will be held as complicit in the financial devastation of what used to be the greatest society in human history!

Obama’s Failed “Reset” Initiative Leaves Russian Children Without Hope!

By John W. Lillpop


Another devastating policy failure by Barack Obama made the news recently. In the latest Obama fiasco, the promised “reset” of US relations with Russia has failed utterly, leaving thousands of Russian orphan children in the lurch, and denying hundreds of American families the opportunity to adopt orphans in need of good homes.

As reported at the reference:

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Friday a measure that bans the adoption the Russian children by U.S. families effective January 1.

The action could affect hundreds of U.S. families seeking to adopt. Americans adopted close to 1,000 Russian children last year, according to U.S. State Department figures.

Though the number has been dropping in recent years, Russia remains the third-most-popular country -- after China and Ethiopia -- for U.S. citizens to adopt.

The U.S. State Department said it "deeply regrets" the law announced by the Kremlin.

"The Russian government's politically motivated decision will reduce adoption possibilities for children who are now under institutional care," it said in a statement. "We are further concerned about statements that adoptions already underway may be stopped and hope that the Russian government would allow those children who have already met and bonded with their future parent to finish the necessary legal procedures so that they can join their families."

The announcement was a wrenching one for Aaron and Jenny Moyer, coming in an adoption process that was well under way for them to become parents of a Russian orphan named Vitali. They carry photographs of them and Vitali together during their visits to Russia.

"He's our son," Aaron Moyer said. "In our hearts, he is our son."

The couple, who have two biological children and one adopted American child, said they are relying on their faith to see them through the uncertainty.

"We want not just our son, but all the kids over there to have families and to grow up and know the love of a mom and dad," Aaron Moyer said.

The Russian measure also bars any political activities by non-governmental organizations receiving funding from the United States, if such activities could affect Russian interests, Russia's semiofficial RIA-Novosti news agency said.

And it imposes sanctions against U.S. officials thought to have violated human rights.”

Good heavens, it appears as though Obama’s reset scheme is driving US-Russian relations back to the cold war era!

This is yet another reason why the American people must not elect—or reelect—naïve, inexperienced, clueless community organizers to high public office!

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/28/world/europe/russia-us-adoptions/index.html

French Supreme Court Rules “Millionaire- Tax” Unconstitutional! Can Obama Learn from Hollande’s Blunder?

By John W. Lillpop

Who said the frogs are a nation of socialist wimps, so pathetically to the left as to be pitied rather than emulated??

At least when it comes to France’s  Supreme Court, there is a hint that common sense and fairness are still alive (barely) and tolerated.

As reported at the reference, this is so because the high court has shot down the anti-success, discriminatory, unequal, punitive tax which is the hallmark of the tyrant Hollande :

President Francois Hollande’s 75 percent millionaire-tax is unconstitutional because it doesn’t guarantee equality for taxpayers.

Hollande’s plan would have added extra levies of 18 percent on individuals’ incomes of more than 1 million euros ($1.32 million), while regular income taxes and a 4 percent exceptional contribution for high earners would have been based on household income, the court said today in an e-mailed statement. 

         As a result, two households with the same total revenue could end up paying different rates                depending     on how earnings are divided among members of those households, which runs counter to a rule of equal tax treatment, the Paris-based court said.

The tax, one of Hollande’s campaign promises, had become a focal point of discontent among entrepreneurs and other wealth creators, some of whom have quit French shores as a result. Movie star Gerard Depardieu, 64, said he was leaving France “because you consider success, creativity, talent, anything different are grounds for sanction.”

“Politically, this has an impact because it was a symbol for French public opinion, and was considered abroad as the emblem of French tax excess, of French tax hell,” said Dominique Barbet, senior economist at BNP Paribas SA in Paris. “In deficit terms, it’s truly negligible.”

Might the French experience provide a teaching opportunity for Barack Obama and his Marxist pals in Congress?

Or is America doomed to replicate the idiotic mistakes of Hollande?

The sad fact is that Barack Obama is so consumed with hatred and a desire for revenge against those who have achieved success that America may be forced to repeat Hollande’s misjudgment..


Ref http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-29/french-court-says-75-tax-rate-on-wealthy-is-unconstitutional.html

Christian Firm to Honor Religious Beliefs, Defy Unconstitutional Dictates of ObamaCare!

By John W. Lillpop


When it comes to cow-towing to the evil excesses of ObamaCare, a private company called Hobby Lobby is refusing to buckle to the religious busting abuses of the Obama administration!

As reported at the Reference:

Hobby Lobby and religious book-seller Mardel Inc., which are owned by the same conservative Christian family, are suing to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills.


The companies claim the mandate violates the religious beliefs of their owners. They say the morning-after pill is tantamount to abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from becoming implanted in a woman's womb.


On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied the companies' request for an injunction while their lawsuit is pending, saying the stores failed to satisfy the demanding legal standard for blocking the requirement on an emergency basis. She said the companies may still challenge the regulations in the lower courts.

Kyle Duncan, who is representing Hobby Lobby on behalf of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said in a statement posted on the group's web site Thursday that Hobby Lobby doesn't intend to offer its employees insurance that would cover the drug while its lawsuit is pending.

"The company will continue to provide health insurance to all qualified employees," Duncan said. "To remain true to their faith, it is not their intention, as a company, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs."

Hooray for Hobby Lobby, —and may their stand on principle be rewarded with a favorable final ruling in the courts!
http://www.newser.com/article/da3ee7s01/attorney-hobby-lobby-to-defy-morning-after-pill-insurance-requirement-while-lawsuits-pending.html

Top 10 Reasons Why Liberals Hate Christmas

Satire by John W. Lillpop





Most liberals hate Christmas for the following reasons:



The real messiah was born 1961 years after Christ in a mud hut somewhere in a Kenyan village just a few thousand miles outside of Honolulu;

Christians cannot produce a valid birth certificate for Jesus Christ; therefore, He is not, has never been, and never will be, eligible to serve as president or messiah;

Turning water into wine is nothing compared to Obama’s ability to turn paper (dollar bill) into precious metal (silver dime);

Nativity scenes are offensive because Joseph and Mary were not married;

Singing Christmas carols in public is not protected free speech because none of the founding fathers were exposed to Silent Night, O Little Town of Bethlehem, or any other of the violent anti-Muslim lyrics so popular these days;

Biblical accounts concerning the birth of Jesus are clearly flawed because there were not so many as three wise men in all of the Middle East back in those days, and continuing to this day;

Christmas trees are bad for the environment, are a serious violation of separation of Church and state, and piss off both Muslims and Jews;

Tolerance is essential, except when it comes to gap-toothed, Bible thumping red necks who actually believe that a baby Jew was born to a virgin just to save the world;

Children should be protected from Christmas nonsense like Santa Claus and his elves, whereas teaching the young about Obama and his minions in Congress is an essential part of a quality education


There you go: Liberal insanity at it best at Christmas!