Should Republicans become Democrat-lite to get more votes, or should more Republicans vote?

I’ve been listening to the various excuses the media and conservative talkers are making for the Republican loss, and they range everywhere from women want abortions to Hurricane Sandy. But the most logical ones in my opinion are Republicans lost the 18-29 demographic which has a higher opinion of socialism than capitalism according to a Pew Report, and we lost the minority vote even though they are more likely to have traditional values, and many Republicans, particularly Christians, just didn’t vote.

Here’s the problem. Republicans can’t promise more free stuff—Democrats have that plan covered, and we know that when Reagan passed amnesty in 1986 (IRCA), it actually decreased the number of Hispanics voting Republican. We’ve learned that blacks will vote by party and race, no matter the black candidate or his record.

Black Republicans lost races to far less capable white Democrats with Obama money backing them. Also, those races won by Republicans for Congress or at the state level were won by the conservatives, not the traditional moderate Republicans, who are doing the hand wringing and saying Republicans need to be more like Democrats.

Yes, Rush, Democrats do discuss changing their spots when they lose—Monday Memories

I recall listening to a panel in 2004 moaning about John Kerry losing the presidency. I think Ohio's Ted Strickland, a former Methodist pastor, was on the panel. You know what they came up with? Democrats need to go after the "values" voters, Republican territory. And they did. They went after Evangelicals with that "hope" message in 2008, got Rick Warren and other evangelical pastors even the Vineyard appearing with Obama and surrogates, supported traditional marriage, didn't mention abortion, put Soros funding in the right places and they won.

What has Obama done for blacks?

After the election results showed 95% of blacks voted right down racial lines for Obama, someone observed, "But he hasn't done anything for the black community!" Oh, but he has. What do blacks with an unemployment rate of over 14% need most? A job, or course. What has he done for them? Given them free stuff and guaranteed they will be right where he needs them to be while he's off partying with black celebrities at the tippy top of the 1%.

What is harder to imagine is what has he done for evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics.  And yet, many voted for him.  Maybe 50% of Catholics.  They are voting to destroy the finest social system in the world with a network of schools, hospitals, training programs, social workers  through the tearing down of the first amendment rights of all Americans.

Not only have we become America, the land of the takers, but even the givers won’t be allowed to help those in need. The government wants all the power, all the control, all the values.  It’s name is statism.

God is pro-choice . . . pro right choice

A New York priest, Father Rutler of Church of our Savior, writes his parish letter without heat and power after the storm, after the election:

"Those who oppose Christ have their day, but it does not last long, and soon they also have their night, when they shrink away into dark corners. In the great challenge of our culture, we are free to choose light or darkness. God is pro-choice: He has given us a free will. But He is only pro right choice. The exercise of choice is not self-justifying. Only the choice of the light of Christ can save us from the darkness of Satan. And what better authority can we have for this than our holy God Himself? “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19)."

http://www.oursaviournyc.org/pastors-corner/from-the-pastor-1

Welcome to the economy of Obama’s second term

“A number of groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, expect a rush of new regulations now that President Obama has won a second term:
CEI expects the EPA to move ahead on delayed rules on everything from greenhouse gas emissions to ozone standards. “Rules from the health care bill and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill will also likely make themselves known in the weeks to come," the group said on its website”

A lot was put on the shelf the last two years, frustrating Obama’s leftist base, but as he told the Russians, after his reelection he would have more flexibility.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/6125-proposed-regulations-and-notifications-posted-last-90-days-average-68-day

List of job losses since Obama’s reelection

Obamacare is the law of the land—John Boehner says so. If companies lay off workers, cut hours, don’t expand or close, Oh Well.  It’s the will of the people. At least 50% of them. 

November 10 , 2012

Update: DuPont Co in Richmond VA - 64

TMX Group Ltd. - 100

Penn Refrigeration - 40

Wilkes-Barre PA - Layoffs Possible

Standard Bank Group Ltd. - up to 15% of Staff

The Art Gallery of Windsor ( International ) - 12

American Coal - 54

New Energy Corp. Indiana - Idles 40

November 9 , 2012

Mills Manufacturing NC - 68

TECO Coal Corporation - 90

Energizer Holdings Inc - 1,500

Update: Exide Technologies in Laureldale - 150

Southeastern Container - 15

Update: UtahAmerican Energy Inc - 102

The SCA plant in Barton - Plans Staff Reductions

Plexus Corp - Contract Loss Could = Layoffs

Yakima Regional Medical Center Washington - 10+

Crouse Hospital Syracuse NY - 70 Jobs

November 8 , 2012

Eagle-Tribune in North Andover - 21

Ameridose LLC - up to 650 Layoffs

EMD Millipore St. Charles - Some Layoffs

Groupon - 80

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne - 100

Slidell La. - Warns of Possible Layoffs

Westinghouse Anniston - 50

Research in Motion Ltd. HQ - 200

Lightyear Network Solutions - 12+

The Providence Journal Co. - 23

Hawker Beechcraft - 240 Layoffs + Facility Closings

November 7 , 2012

Boeing - 30% of Executives at Defense Unit

CVPH Medical Center - 17 Pink Slips

U.S. Cellular - 980

Commerzbank ( German ) - up to 6,000 Layoffs Possible.

Spanish airline Iberia - up to 7,000 Possible

Momentive Performance Materials - 150 Temp, Layoffs

Brake Parts LLC - 75

Gameforge Berlin - 20

Vestas Wind Systems - 3,000 More Job Cuts

Husqvarna AB - 600

ING - 2,350

Ericsson ( Sweden) - 1,550

SRA International Inc - 222 in Arlington Va.

PerkinElmer - 66 Layoffs During 3rd Quarter

Majestic Star Casino and Hotel - About 80

Center for Hospice / Palliative Care NY - 40 Temp. Layoffs

Expect more global warmists fear mongering

            

Sandy was a terrible tragedy for many.  Lives. Property. Memories.  The climate will be blamed for “changing,” but not the federal government which has encouraged wealthy home owners to build in areas that need to remain barriers for normal outcomes of bad storms.  The poor aren’t the only ones addicted to government hand outs.

I’ve looked over the maps of Lake Erie going back hundreds of years  where we have our summer home, and right now the lake is very low.  But when we first vacationed there in the 1970s it was so high it was eating up many vacation homes built close to the water.  Artificial barriers were built to hold back the water.  That worked well—simply gouged out the beaches behind the barriers.

Historically, insurance companies have been wary of offering flood insurance to homeowners because the risks associated with flood insurance are difficult to forecast, so any private insurance that had been offered was prohibitively expensive for average homeowners.

But in the 1960s, frequent flooding of the Mississippi River was driving up the costs of federal disaster-relief programs. In an effort to reduce these costs, Congress set up the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to provide flood insurance to the general public and promote effective floodplain management. Under the program, homeowners in certain areas of the U.S. are required to buy flood insurance, and communities that hope to benefit from the program have to enforce city-planning regulations set out by FEMA, which manages NFIP.

Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/10/30/should-the-federal-government-be-subsidizing-flood-insurance/#ixzz2BwvKGIty

Al Gore has made millions on his climate scam, and Sandy will only encourage him. In 1502 Columbus warned the Governor of Hispanola of a coming storm, and he was ignored. Within two days the storm struck in the Mona Passage between Hispanola and Puerto Rico, and sank 21 of his 30 ships, and killed approximately 500 sailors. Nasty stuff, that global warming.

Check out this site for the listing of the terrible hurricanes of the 1950s-1970s http://www.raptureready.com/time/Hurricane.html

Some Twits don't understand economics

It seems there is a discussion on Twitter that some Twits are upset that restaurants might have to consider lay offs because of Obamacare.  Libs think that is “punishing” people because of the election results.  Really?  I guess if there is $80,000-$100,000 less in the budget, they should just expand anyway, or keep giving raises?

“Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter was hammered with Twitter abuse after informing shareholders and franchisees in August that implementing Obamacare would necessarily increase costs of running the business.” 

Doh!  Didn’t Nancy Pelosi promise this when she said we’d have to wait to find out what was in the bill?  Some bold Twits are calling for a boycott.  Now that should really help restaurant employees, but that’s what liberals know about economics.

Sunday morning news

Watching  EWTN this morning and Bishop Fulton Sheen talk about scientific research advances--in 1956. It's in B&W and his hair was still dark. He's trying to make it interesting by joking about how dull the subject is. He must have launched a hundred religious TV preachers, but I don't think anyone has matched him. Conclusion: scientists don't invent, they discover. God does the inventing. God has put all the laws out there. But he was right--it was rather dull. Psalms say the same thing.

Switched to the national news—two weeks after Sandy and the people in New Jersey and New York are practically rioting.  It’s a good thing Obama put in an appearance the day after the storm.  It certainly helped, didn’t it?  This will all be used for his new regulations to stem climate change.  See item above—especially Psalms.

Hmm.  Long lists of lay offs are coming out. I feel badly for the workers; they not only lose income, but their social support, especially women who are more likely than men to depend on work friends. But hey, they’ve got free birth control for voting with their lady parts instead of their check book. This will be Obama’s legacy—same as the first term.  Higher unemployment,  more on food stamps, and the poor getting the shaft with Obamacare.  Yes, this is what America, or 50% of us, voted for. In 2009 eligible people were signing up for SNAP benefits at an average rate of 20,000 a day. This year, the rate increased to 22,000 a day. Why is that since according to the chief, jobs are coming back and unemployment is believe 8%. I think it may be because more people were hired with ARRA money to recruit recipients.

And General Petraeus’ lover got nasty with some other woman and that’s how the investigation got started?  Did she drive somewhere wearing a diaper?  What makes lovers/mistresses think they have more rights than wives? Hey, he’s already been proven unfaithful.   We’ll never know about his testimony on Benghazi.  It will be behind closed doors, and our ever vigilant press won’t be able to find a single leaker.  When his tell all book comes out, Americans will be busy watching the latest White House reality TV show, Dancing with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Big explosion in Indianapolis destroyed 14 homes, and 2 dead.  I’ll have to check with the relatives.

Will the media cover the Petraeus story for the sex/gossip angle?

This commenter on Krauthammer makes a lot of sense—both about the media and the so called “legacy” angle that some people think will moderate Obama’s behavior the next 4 years.

“Obama and the media today do not play by the rules of the past. Obama is not going to be cowed by concerns for his legacy -- he's already loved by those who voted for him and he's not going to get more love from them by trying to win anyone else over. In addition, he's a hard-core ideologue, despite his pretensions otherwise, and he knows there's more legacy benefit in pushing the ideology button than doing what's good for the country or the public as a whole. He's playing the Rushmore Annex card here, looking to get a spot next to FDR.

As for the media, likewise they do not play by the rules of the past. To prove this, you need look no further than how the media, largely en masse, has ignored Benghazi, which is, by any measure, a huge, juicy scandal. So, I do not believe that the media will cover this story unless Petraeus drops a nuclear bomb on the administration in his upcoming testimony. But then, his testimony -- if it even happens -- is behind closed doors, so again, that's unlikely.”

Massive layoffs begin

I wonder how many of the employees of these companies voted for their own pink slip?  I’ve seen lists longer than this one.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2012-presidential-election/2012/11/09/obama-reelection-triggers-massive-layoffs-across-america

The biggest losers in Obamacare are the poor

“The biggest losers are Medicaid and the poor. Very quietly, the Affordable Care Act introduced a revolutionary change: All poor people in America would get Medicaid. The new law would have extended Medicaid to everyone with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line ($23,050 a year for a family of four). Aren’t the poor already covered? That depends on where they live. In New York, most adults up to 150 percent of the poverty line are covered; in Texas, Medicaid reaches only to 26 percent of the poverty line — a family of four is not eligible if they earn, say, $9,000 a year. The court ruled that Congress may not require states to expand Medicaid. States can stick to their old Medicaid programs. Stingy states may choose to stay stingy. That part of the decision flew under the media radar. But it is a significant blow to liberals who had a simple way to grow benefits by expanding programs.”  James Morone, Seven consequences of the health care ruling. New York Times

Ohio’s bills will be going up, Indiana and Michigan’s bills will go down.

For my troll named Dave

You need some new lines, Dave.  Are they in macro ready to plop?  Do you grace all conservative bloggers with your words of wisdom, or am I special?  Until you can actually counter my facts with your facts, you won’t be published in my comments. You’re beginning to sound like the broken record you are.

Here’s one comment from my Facebook page messaging feature a few minutes ago:

“Ever since the election I have read almost everyone of your posts and am listening to Rush more often. Just so you know that you posts are being read.”

Profiting from poverty—the alliance between the federal government, banks and corporations

Banks and retailers make a lot of money from poverty, but not in the way you might think. The unemployment figure is not that much higher than four years ago, but under Obama SNAP was $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion just four years before. Banks which manage the cards charge the poor fees just like they charge us. The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) reports:

"SNAP benefits are accessed via an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card that is processed using electronic funds transfer technology. EBT cards look and operate like bank-issued debit cards. SNAP benefits are accessed by swiping the EBT card on a point-of-sale (POS) terminal at an FNS retailer location and entering a personal identification number (PIN)."

It's a sweet deal. The poor go to the polls to reelect their savior believing he's helping them, and the corporations that make money from poverty funnel money into his campaign to keep them poor.  Ignore the fact that this report I cite is anti-big business and successful retailer like Wal-Mart.  The problem is the government, not capitalism, which is supposed to make a profit.

http://www.eatdrinkpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/FoodStampsFollowtheMoneySimon.pdf

There are 210,000 SNAP-authorized retailers nationwide, ranging from liquor stores to superstores to farmers markets. But there are rules--yes, you buy the food with the EBT card, and the alcohol and cigarettes with cash.  They may be poor, but they certainly aren’t stupid.  And as long as a liquor store also sells appropriate food items, it can accept EBT cards.

As unemployment decreased during the recession (which actually ended in June 2009), food stamp enrollment (SNAP) increased. From 2010 to 2011, enrollment jumped from 40.3 million to 44.7 million.

Free stuff. Works. It buys votes.

Pro-Choice? That’s a laugh—or a good cry

"Choice" is a bad joke for about 60% of the girls/women who find out they are pregnant. They are pressured into abortions by boyfriends, husbands, parents and peers. "That night, I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and he was not happy at all. He cussed me up and down and repeatedly said I should have an abortion. I had just turned 17 and really didn’t know much about abortions, except for what it meant would happen to the baby. I told him I wouldn’t have one, that he could leave me, but I was having the baby with or without him." . . . Then her dad who had raised her kicked her out. . .

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/04/gift-of-life-teen-mom-chooses-adoption-over-abortion/

The battle people my age will lose

Obamacare’s victory sets off a stiff competition for taxpayer dollars between Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare. It’s a battle that the elderly, in particular, are likely to lose.

I wonder if those 18-29 year olds who voted for Obama and his massive health care package are prepared to stay home and take of Mom and Dad?  Or Mom and step-dad and Dad and significant other?

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/aroy/files/2012/11/obamacare-vs-legacy.png

It’s only been 4 days and it’s amazing what has been revealed, uncovered, sniffed out since Nov. 6

A number of lay offs in major corporations, told to keep silent until after Nov.6

Iran shot down one of our drones (and how many others since this is Obama’s way to expand the wars) earlier in November.

Major failures by FEMA not reported  in depth until Nov. 7 by the lapdog media, after Obama already benefitted from the photo ops after Sandy.

General Petraeus told not to tell what he knows about Benghazi or Obama would tell what he knows about his affair, so Petraeus took away his power over him by telling, embarrassing both his wife and mistress.

Secretary Clinton decides she doesn’t want to be an Obama toady anymore and would rather go back to being a bootlicker to another president.

Attorney General Holder decides he’s had enough of keeping his stories straight about fast and furious gun running to Mexico so he resigns, too (or plans to).

Students celebrate Obama’s reelection shouting Karl Marx and Obamaphone outside the White House

Although I suspect they are drunk, stoned and acting like kids, I do hope I’m not paying for their college loans.

Congratulations Democrats, you won, now you own it

There are a number of versions of this floating around e-mail and the internet blogs, some add the name of the state, or the United States at the end.  This one added a reference to GW Bush at the end.

Congratulations to the Democrats and Young People! You now own it.

The next terrorist attack you own it.

Can't get a job after graduation, you own it.

Sky rocketing energy prices due to Obama's EPA shutting down the energy producing states, you own it.

A nuclear Iran, you own it.

Bowing to the Soviet Union , you own it.

Another severe recession, you own it.

A volatile border with Mexico , you own it.

Trouble getting good health care, you own it.

Higher heath insurance costs and health care costs, you own it.

No budget, you own it.

Our allies’ mistrust, you own it.

Another trillion of debt, you own it.

More Benghazi situations, you own it.

No one willing to join the military, you own it.

Trouble getting a loan to buy a home, you own it.

More dependency on food stamps, you own it.

Trouble finding good employment, you own it.

Several part time jobs instead of a good job, you own it.

A World Government, you own it.

The UN governing the United States instead of ourselves, you own it.

A Senate that will not bring any legislation to the table rather it is "Dead on Arrival", you own it.

China controlling our world trade trampling all over us, you own it.

Loss of our freedoms as we have known it in the past, you own it.

A dictatorship instead of a democracy that follows the Constitution, you own it.

Less take home pay and higher living costs, you own it.

Driving a car that looks like a toy, you own it.

More government corruption and lies, you own it.

More toleration of extreme and fanatical Islamist, you own it.

Terrorist attacks called work place incidents, you own it.

Your revenge instead of love of country, you own it.

President George Bush is out of it now, and there is not another good man for you to vilify and lie about. In a way I am relieved that another good man will not be blamed when it was impossible to clean up this mess you voted for.

Have a good day. God bless the United States !!! God is our only hope now.

http://sonoranalliance.com/2012/11/08/congratulations-to-the-democrats-hispanics-and-young-people-that-voted-for-obama/

Election thoughts for Christians who read this blog

The election is history, and who knows if we’ll be around for the 2016 edition. The whole process begins at the grass roots level, or used to, and to even influence the county committees is virtually impossible, or so I’m told by people who’ve tried to make a difference about who gets on the ballot. Even so, at the national level, it’s now all about technology and who has the right smart phone apps, the databases of who lives where and of course, the PAC money for internet ads. Here in Ohio where we get nothing but political ads for 6 months, it’s hard to believe that millions fewer voted this week than in 2008. Most of the loss in people believing voting mattered was Obama voters, but he won anyway because of the 18-29 year olds and the Hispanics.

But the big loss is the American people. If I vote in 2016, will there be anything or anyone I recognize? Will California belong to Mexico as LaRaza believes the whole southwest should? Will Louisiana secede? Will 75% of the people be dependent on government instead of 50%? Will we be like the Roman masses in pre-Christian days of Europe satisfied with games and goodies just as long as it is fun and someone else pays? Who knows, but the Democrats have been taken over by the ugliest big government philosophy--whether you think that’s socialism or progressivism or crony capitalism, it makes no difference. The Republican party as it exists now will probably expire in a gasping death, the party of Lincoln who desperately wanted to keep the country together, now seems to be factions of RINOs, Libertarians, Christians and patriot groups who barely speak to each other because the other isn‘t pure enough.

People who read my blog and Facebook entries seem evenly divided between believing I’m a modern day prophet calling people to wake up and see the evil of abortion and statism, and those who think I am evil and don’t represent anything they recognize as Christian or prophetic.

I choose to think that if you had lived in the 1850s you would have been helping with the underground railroad even if you had to be silent with your neighbors or at the market as you assisted fleeing slaves get to Canada. Even if you couldn’t look at a black woman in rags and see yourself, I hope you would have seen her humanity. I like to think you might have marched with the suffragettes, or tried to close down the saloons that were causing workmen to drink their pay and their children to starve. I choose to think that if you had lived in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, you would have told your children that they shouldn’t hate their Jewish classmates as told in school, or that you would have given money to help those whose businesses had been destroyed by the state, even as you grieved for sons and brothers lost in the battle for the Fatherland. I will continue to believe that if you had overheard plans to bomb a black church in Mississippi, you would have found a way to warn people, even if the sheriff was your friend and would not stop it.

Every generation faces social problems that can only be addressed by the clear word of the Lord. I have chosen abortion and those who support it, fund it, ignore it, and who try to silence me as the one I tackle. The pebble thrown in the pond has huge rings, and there is an all encompassing view of life and creation that over arches my views that goes far beyond the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. I know my views are not popular or even common among most Christians today, and that some are extreme, like believing a child conceived in incest or rape still is a citizen and a child of God. But I am not going to be quiet. While I still have first amendment rights as an American citizen, I will speak out. I have God’s written and living word on which to stand. And You?