Defeat Obama Week in America

I've discussed the need for us to use powerful images and symbols in the crusade to defeat Barack H. Obama. The image below is one of the most powerful I've ever seen. I hope Gov. Palin visits Israel soon to show her solidarity with the Jewish people.

"It's better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness." (Farther Keller of "The Christophers," in the 1960s and 1970s). In the face of the Obama juggernaut, some people may feel helpless. In fact, we're only helpless if we succumb to emotional and spiritual paralysis.

Much is going on in our nation -- and not all of it is bad (believe it or not). I'll be writing more about positive developments in the days and weeks ahead. We will defeat Obama, his congressional supporters, and their media minions by taking creative -- but relatively simple -- actions.

I'd like to ask you to do two things that can help turn out country in the right direction.

First, please go to Jim Tedisco's web page. He's the New York assemblyman running for the open seat in New York's 20th congressional district (Albany/Hudson Valley area). He's seeking the seat recently vacated by the woman (Kirsten Gillibrand) who took Hillary's old Senate seat.

This is a race Jim can win -- and must win if we're to start the long journey back to competitiveness in Congress. If you can make a small contribution to Jim's campaign (say, $10-$20), it will be much appreciated. (Tedisco led the fight against former Gov. Spitzer's bizarre plan to grant drivers licenses to illegal aliens.) http://jimtedisco.com.

Second, please participate in the 8:30 p.m. ET teleconference call held tomorrow (Thursday) by one of the best activist groups in the country: WAMToday (Wake Up America). The group is leading the fight against the Obama-Pelosi-Reid "plan" to bankrupt the country in an orgy of government spending.

To get the information necessary to participate in the call, click on the joinwam@wamtoday link below. "If not now, when? If not us, who?"

For anyone not yet signed in to WAKE UP AMERICA MOVEMENT:RSVP by reply EMAIL: to joinwam@wamtoday - for your confidential Call in Code. Include your name and state with your RSVP.

Information about WAM below:

WATCH WASHINGTON - SPECIAL TeleEvent

Feb. 26 THURSDAY 8:30 PM/ETSPREAD THE WORD to WAKE UP AMERICA: FORWARD THIS INVITATION TO SPREAD THE TRUTH

Come to this special TeleEvent for CRITICAL new FACTS that have now come to light!Americans need to wake up fast from Mass Media misrepresentation of current and planned legislation. It is up to US to watchdog the new Administration, research the real facts and spread the Truth. Current chaos and confusion about what's really happening in Washington garbles facts with rumors. This Thursday's TeleEvent will sort out the real issues the Obama Regime doesn't want you to notice.

WAM TeleEvents offer free access to up-to-the-minute (and astonishing) facts on what's really happening on Capitol Hill and On the Air - along with networking strategies to INFORM the public and ACT on Washington. In our current crises - on multiple fronts - AMERICA can only rely on active engagement at a grass roots level to defeat Obama's agenda for "Change". MoveOn is now moving into fast forward to mislead and propagandize the public via ads, Mass Media and the internet.

YOUR HELP is needed to Wake Up America at this critical juncture. To GET INFORMED AND GET INVOLVED be part of this Thursday's Truth in Information WAM TeleEvent! TOGETHER WE CAN SHIFT the Balance of Power back to the American People where itBelongs!

Get on the inside track of what our "leadership" is up to - and get in on the ground floor of URGENT new ACTIONS to stem the tide of even more dangerous legislation! Please POST this INVITATION on your blogs, forums and forward to your email list.For any not yet signed in to WAKE UP AMERICA MOVEMENT:


RSVP by reply EMAIL: to joinwam@wamtoday - for your confidential Call in Code. Include your name and state with your RSVP.

Obama Stimulus: Lies, Fear, Cynicism

Clearly, Sarah Palin is the woman who can bring the real change that Obama promised -- and has no clue how to deliver . . .

Below you'll find Dr. Charles Krauthammer's brilliant -- and devastating -- criticism of the abominable Obama Stimulus legislation, which represents the same orgy of over-spending and borrowing that put the nation in the current economic mess. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is a classic definition of insanity. Here's the link to the piece, which appeared in the Washington Post and is featured below.

http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/news.jsp?key=347827&rc=op&npc=op

By Charles Krauthammer

Updated: Friday, February 06, 2009

"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."-- President Obama, Feb. 4.

Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.

And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high positions. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn't understand the payroll tax provisions in his 1040. Followed by Tom Daschle, who had to fall on his sword according to the new Washington rule that no Cabinet can have more than one tax delinquent.

The Daschle affair was more serious because his offense involved more than taxes. As Michael Kinsley once observed, in Washington the real scandal isn't what's illegal, but what's legal. Not paying taxes is one thing. But what made this case intolerable was the perfectly legal dealings that amassed Daschle $5.2 million in just two years.

He'd been getting $1 million per year from a law firm. But he's not a lawyer, nor a registered lobbyist. You don't get paid this kind of money to instruct partners on the Senate markup process. You get it for picking up the phone and peddling influence.

At least Tim Geithner, the tax-challenged Treasury secretary, had been working for years as a humble international civil servant earning non-stratospheric wages. Daschle, who had made another cool million a year (plus chauffeur and Caddy) for unspecified services to a pal's private equity firm, represented everything Obama said he'd come to Washington to upend.

And yet more damaging to Obama's image than all the hypocrisies in the appointment process is his signature bill: the stimulus package. He inexplicably delegated the writing to Nancy Pelosi and the barons of the House. The product, which inevitably carries Obama's name, was not just bad, not just flawed, but a legislative abomination.

It's not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It's not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for new construction for Milwaukee Public Schools, which, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, have shrinking enrollment, 15 vacant schools and, quite logically, no plans for new construction.

It's the essential fraud of rushing through a bill in which the normal rules (committee hearings, finding revenue to pay for the programs) are suspended on the grounds that a national emergency requires an immediate job-creating stimulus -- and then throwing into it hundreds of billions that have nothing to do with stimulus, that Congress's own budget office says won't be spent until 2011 and beyond, and that are little more than the back-scratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism that Obama came to Washington to abolish. He said.

Not just to abolish but to create something new -- a new politics where the moneyed pork-barreling and corrupt logrolling of the past would give way to a bottom-up, grass-roots participatory democracy. That is what made Obama so dazzling and new. Turns out the "fierce urgency of now" includes $150 million for livestock (and honeybee and farm-raised fish) insurance.

The Age of Obama begins with perhaps the greatest frenzy of old-politics influence peddling ever seen in Washington. By the time the stimulus bill reached the Senate, reports the Wall Street Journal, pharmaceutical and high-tech companies were lobbying furiously for a new plan to repatriate overseas profits that would yield major tax savings.

California wine growers and Florida citrus producers were fighting to change a single phrase in one provision. Substituting "planted" for "ready to market" would mean a windfall garnered from a new "bonus depreciation" incentive.

After Obama's miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie.

The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be seen as a fairy tale that all presidents tell -- and that this president told better than anyone.

I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks.