Back Talk

The cavalcade of crooked Democrat politicians continues: John Conyers, Head of the House Judiciary Committee, is embroiled in his politician wife, Monica Conyers', criminal indictment - she has plead guilty to accepting bribes. Conyers has been in the House of Representatives for 44 years, which is 44 years too long. He spent most of the last eight years trying to convince the Congress to bring impeachment charges against George Bush instead of tending to the nation's business. This parade never seems to end. We had the Louisiana congressman, cold cash Jefferson, who accepted bribes and actually had $85,000 stashed in his freezer. We had the lurid episode of Democrat Party fundraiser Norman Hsu's conviction of violating campaign law with donations to John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and others. Several others should be serving time instead of office. Crooks such as Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings who is the only impeached judge, sitting in the U.S. Congress and the Democrat head of the U.S. Senate, Harry Reid, for his involvement in the Nevada land deal swindle. More recently, we witnessed the struggle that the new Democrat administration had in successfully coming up with candidates for the new offices, who had not cheated on their taxes. How much more of this DemPol criminal exposure would we see if the party didn't have the media firmly in its pocket?

It is possible that Obama is purposefully lying to the American people when he is delivering one of his glib sermonettes, for example when he told us the unemployment rate would never reach 8 percent or that there would be no tax increase for anyone earning over $250K. On the other hand, he knows that he has a subservient media and a cult following that will swallow anything that he merely feels free to say whatever comes to mind. In any case, extreme Liberals such as Obama have proven they are devotees of the philosophy that the end justifies the means, because they are so convinced of their views that they are without reservations about lying, because, in the end - utopian equality for everyone - things will work out perfectly. The liar-in-chief told us that the Cap-trade act that the Democrats forced through the House would cost each American family only a measly $175 per year. Given the same data, the most extensive study so far, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysis, estimated it would cost each person $3000. Statisticians sometimes lie with statistics; liars just plain lie. More telling, the study found that the affect that Cap-trade will have in reducing the carbon footprint would be only 2 percent in 100 years. Moreover, this fiasco would result in a net loss of jobs, not a gain.

The Democrat politicians now in control of Congress have done it again: taken another big step in destroying the American economy by handcuffing business. They did their trick of passing through another partisan bill without allowing the members and the public to read and debate it by narrowly passing the cap-and-trade legislation Friday evening, 219 to 212. It is the most destructive and misguided bill that the mindless Nancy Pelosi and her left-wing zealots have yet forced upon Americans. Clearly, this law will increase the cost of electricity, energy, and all other energy-related bills for everyone and will be particularly severe for lower income people. Practically, this is a tax increase for every American constituting another Obama lie to add to the growing list; he vowed not to raise taxes for anyone making under $250,000. He also says the energy bill will increase "green" jobs; possibly, since the bureaucrats will use taxpayer funds to subsidize green jobs and create artificial programs. The net effect wil be a loss of jobs throughout the energy industry. Obama also lied to us when he said the outrageous stimulus package would create millions of jobs and would prevent unemployment from rising above 8 percent. We have lost 1.6 million jobs since the misguided bill and unemployment is running between 9 and 10 percent across the country. The liar-in-chief says we are developing alternative energy and will be heavy into solar and wind. He is either ignorant that those alternatives are more costly to develop than fossil fuels. We develop only 1 percent of our energy from solar and wind; after the incompetent, corrupt bureaucrats get a grasp on the technology, we will develop 2 percent.

The Banking Queen is back
Somebody please tell me I am not dreaming. Remember the Community Reinvestment Act instructing banks to make sub-prime loans with the government securing those ill-advised loans. Remember the legislation that Bureaucrat Banking Queen Barney Frank spearheaded to force tens of thousands of risky mortgage loans to unqualified buyers and that, inevitably failed and brought down the entire market and the economy along with them. Incredibly, the same Barney Frank is demanding that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac relax their recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums. In a letter to the two companies, Frank, who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner told the banks to "make appropriate adjustments" to their underwriting standards for condos, that will make loans more available. This is an example of the most maddening thing about politicians like Barney Frank: regardless of how egregious, dishonest, or crooked their actions, they stare into the public eye and deny, deny, and deny. They shift the blame in very convincing terms; then they often boldly repeat the same bad acts. Several years ago, authorities found that a male prostitution ring was operating out of Frank's house. He suffered a little minor embarrassment, used his power and influence to avoid prosecution, and walked away unscathed - a major player in today's corrupt, unethical Democrat party along with the impeached judges, influence peddlers, and bribe-takers.