THE OVAL OFFICE " ILLUSIONIST" DOUBLE SPEAKS AGAIN!

Yesterday in his usual dulcet tones the president spoke of the budget cuts that he was making. He said some people will think that 16.7 billion dollars is a small thing, but he thought 17 billion dollars was real money even in Washington.
Of course I am paraphrasing his actual words, but the essence of his speech was that he was making a real effort to cut the budget.
He didn't bother to tell the public, whose tax dollars he has spent at a $100 million per day rate for the first 100 days he has been president. That 3/4 of the cuts were in the National defense budget! This all takes place, when he just announced that he was sending 21 thousand more troops to Afghanistan, and the generals who are directing the war against the Taliban say they will need many more to defeat them.

Across the ocean in the Russian capitol the Russians were rattling their sabres by demonstrating their military might at the same time. Rows of missiles and tanks rolled through Moscow's Red Square and dozens of combat jets roared overhead in the Victory Day parade in the largest show of Russia's military might in its post-Soviet history.

Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, is Russia's most important secular holiday, and the parade reflected the Kremlin's efforts to revive the nation's armed forces and global clout.

In a speech opening the parade, President Dmitry Medvedev said the nation's armed forces are "ready to give adequate response to any aggression."

The parade displayed about 9,000 troops, more than 100 combat vehicles, including new Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles. For the first time, it featured the state-of-the art S-400 air defense missiles which Russian officials say are unrivaled in their combat capability.

Meanwhile,as Obama was announcing his budget cuts, he did not tell us that they amount to less than .0007 % of the 62.9 trillion dollar unfunded liability that the Federal Gov. will have for the next ten years servicing entitlement programs. The programs are estimated to cost 71 trillion dollars, but 62.9 trillion is the amount unfunded that will come in the form of futures taxes!
Not one of the cuts that Obama made and is "crowing" about are in the area of domestic agencies and funding!Source:Congressional record

This completes a trifecta of insults to those who serve our country that Obama is guilty of perpetrating since taking control as Commander In Chief.
Besides the cuts in the military budget that were part of Obama's debt reduction announced yesterday. There is this; the Obama administration is asking Congress to slash almost in half a 43-year-old Justice Department program that provides death, disability and education benefits to the families of slain police and public safety officers.

President Obama's 2010 budget reduces funding for the Public Safety Officers' Death Benefits Program from $110 million this year to $60 million for next year's budget.

And in keeping his campaign promises to the anti-Iraq war ilk. Obama will begin withdrawing troops from Iraq this June and complete withdrawal by August 2010.But this premature withdrawal will leave the elite forces like the Green Berets in a vulnerable position that is reminiscent of Viet Nam.
As the U.S. readies the pullout of its major combat units from Iraq, officials are concerned that the Pentagon's Green Berets and other elite anti-terror warriors staying behind won't have the helicopters, equipment and other logistical support they need.

The uniquely trained special operations forces are scattered across Iraq, generally carrying out the more secretive missions, pursuing AL-Qaida and other terrorist suspects. As they do that, they must rely on their brethren in larger, conventional military units to fuel their helicopters, fix their trucks, transport them from place to place and provide them with the support troops they need and even the food they eat.

Those support systems, however, will begin to drop off as combat brigades begin leaving Iraq later this year and are not replaced.
There are currently 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, including up to 5,000 special operators such as Army Green Berets and Rangers, Navy SEALS, and Marine and Air Force special operations units.

Ken McGraw, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Special Operations Command in Florida, said officials are aware that the elite forces will continue to conduct missions across Iraq and will need support from other military units.

"It is a responsibility of the operational commanders in Iraq to balance their capabilities to meet the requirements of the units that remain behind as others draw down," said McGraw.

Roger Carstens,said Roger Carstens, a retired Army Special Forces officer now with the Center for a New American Security who gathered information in Iraq and Afghanistan last year for a report on the status of the military's special operations forces, said commanders told him that such logistical worries are what keep them up at night. Teams in far-flung locations, he said, worry that they will have to leave those areas when the major combat units pull up stakes and leave, taking their motor pools, security guards, analysts, medical care and helicopters with them.

"The guys on the ground are concerned," said Roger Carstens, a retired Army Special Forces officer now with the Center for a New American Security. "They're not sure how this is going to play out. Everyone is worried and all they're trying to do is raise their hand early in the game before it happens.I believe the need to do more than "raise their hand". This betrayal demands a march on Washington before we have a massacre on our hands. The enemy is salivating at the opportunity to pick off these deserted warriors who will be left unsupported.

Is this the change we expected from Obama?

HAS OBAMA AND NEW DRUG CZAR SURRENDERED TO DRUG LORDS??

It is clear that the Obama plan for the United States is to move it from a free society to a "statist" cradle to grave collective, at least it is in my mind.
The fact that during the first one hundred days of the Obama administration, Obama and the Congress have spent 100 billion dollars a day to advance the welfare state in the disguise of saving the banks and the economy.What he and Congress has done to our children and grandchildren could be called economic child abuse!

Now he has selected a man who is the current police chief of Seattle, Washington for the new Drug Czar. Chief Gil Kerlikowske is a friend of Attorney General Eric Holder, and served in the Clinton administration, will no longer have Cabinet-level status,( Obama gave that to Biden) a White House official said, but Kerlikowske "will have a seat at the table( what table, when?) when important decisions are being made ... and full access and a direct line to the president and vice president."

In the Clinton administration, Kerlikowske worked on ways to monitor grants the agency gave to local police efforts, and he frequently emphasized analysis and data, looking for "ways to prevent crime rather than reacting to it," said Tim Quinn, the COPS program's acting director.

John Carnevale, an official in the drug office from its inception in 1989 until 2000, met Kerlikowske while working on ways to measure the agency's effectiveness. "He's big on accountability," said Carnevale. Kerlikowske's Washington and local policing background is a plus, particularly if other appointees bring a strong treatment and prevention background, he said.

Seattle activists who work on drug-reform issues called Kerlikowske smart and reasonable, and they noted that his police department has largely abided by a voter-approved initiative that made marijuana possession the city's lowest law enforcement priority.

Even at the city's annual Hempfest protest and festival, police arrested only a few people despite the open-air pot smoking, said Vivian McPeak, director of the event.

Douglas Hiatt, an attorney who defends medical marijuana patients, said the chief has tried "to do the right thing on medical marijuana. He's trying to get it across to his officers not to hassle patients." My question is what are people who he considers patients doing out on the streets rather than in treatment centers or hospitals. What these people are doing is sending a message to the drug lords that they have Cart Blanche because we will be targeting users of drugs rather than stopping the flow of drugs into our country.

Colleagues expect Kelikowski to ramp up efforts to stem demand for illegal narcotics by emphasizing prevention and treatment.
He comes from a state whose citizens voted not to enforce the federal law if marijuana is used as medicine. He also comes from a city whose people voted to make marijuana possession the lowest priority for police work.

Kerlikowske didn't support that measure, but he learned to live with it. His police force has been tolerant at Seattle's annual Hempfest.

Concerning the stronger drugs, Kerlikowske has tolerated needle-exchange programs. He has supported drug court, which offers treatment to low-level offenders as an alternative to prison. He has a son who has been arrested for drugs, so he has seen the drug war from that angle, too.

I suspect that this man will find opposition to his confirmation in the Senate from those who believe that treatment is fine, but stopping the flow of drugs at our borders is still more important. The recent violence in the border cities of Texas and Arizona that have claimed hundreds of lives and seen kindnapping escalate is a priority that the Obama seems to have ignored!

PORTER GOSS REVEALS THE "untruth" THAT PELOSI AND HARMAN TOLD US!

For those of you with short memory spans I will attempt to explain how the Speaker of the House of Representatives has changed he "tune" on National security and is lying about it.
This post includes two excerpts from different sources. The first is the detailed explanation by The Rasmussen Report of the Pelosi attempt to form a "hatchet" hearing on water boarding.Then the second quote is directly from a post by Congressman Porter Goss, who in 2002 attended a meeting with the CIA to be briefed on the steps that were being taken to extract information from captured AL Qaeda terrorists to protect the USA from another 9/11.
Mr. Goss, then a Congressman, attended the meeting as Chairman of the Congressional House Intelligence Committee. He was accompanied by The chairs and the ranking minority members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, known as the Gang of Four, were briefed that the CIA was holding and interrogating high-value terrorists.
Congressman Goss was also director of the CIA from September 2004 to May 2006. He was chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 to 2004.

The lie that Pelosi is trying to legitimize is that she was not properly informed how or when the "water boarding" was to be used as this quote from an article written by Debra J. Sanders in the Rasmussen Report will illustrate.
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a "truth commission"(aka,kangaroo court show trials) to investigate the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding -- until Republicans started shining the spotlight on Pelosi herself. Now she is not so adamant. The words in brackets are mine.Spokesman Brendan Daly told me that Pelosi wants a truth commission, "but she still realizes the political reality" -- as in the opposition of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The rest of the reality may well be this: Pelosi knew that White House lawyers had sanctioned waterboarding in 2002 -- and did not protest.

According to the Senate Intelligence committee, the CIA briefed Pelosi, then the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah -- who was waterboarded -- in 2002.

The Washington Post reported in 2007 that the 2002 briefing provided Pelosi and company with a "virtual tour" of interrogation techniques. At the time of the story, a congressional source speaking for Pelosi, however, told the Post that Pelosi thought waterboarding was in the planning stages. The source admitted Pelosi did not object.

Who then is Pelosi to go after Bush lawyers for sanctioning waterboarding, which she now refers to as torture? This is what Pelosi told reporters last week: "We were not -- I repeat -- we were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used." Yes, the Bush Office of Legal Counsel said the techniques "could be used," she explained, "but not that they would."

So Pelosi thought that just because the Bushies were sticking out their necks and authorizing the CIA's use of waterboarding, that did not mean the CIA would use it. And the Democrats called George W. Bush dim and ineffective?

Note that Pelosi used the term "enhanced interrogation methods" when referring to her CIA briefing. Not torture. On Tuesday, Pelosi added a twist to the story. She told CNN that the briefers "said they had a legal opinion they said they weren't going to use and when they did they would come back to Congress to report to us on that."

Daly added, "There's really not a whole lot you can do when you're being briefed" and you're a member of the minority. Then what is the point of having a bipartisan intelligence committee? Why not just buy a rubber stamp? Porter Goss, the House Intelligence Committee chairman in 2002 who went on to become director of the CIA has a different recollection. As he wrote in the Washington Post, he, Pelosi and the ranking Senate Intelligence Committee members were briefed extensively, "understood what the CIA was doing," and "gave the CIA our bipartisan support."



To counter the actions and statements that Speaker Pelosi( the marxist from the Bay)has used to try to "buffalo" the voting public. Mr. Goss posted this article.
"In the fall of 2002, while I was chairman of the House intelligence committee, senior members of Congress were briefed on the CIA's "High Value Terrorist Program," including the development of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and what those techniques were. This was not a one-time briefing but an ongoing subject with lots of back and forth between those members and the briefers.
Of course the Daily Kos followers and the rest of the far left will deny anything that the man they love to hate says. But here is what he has to say.

"Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as "waterboarding" were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.

Let me be clear. It is my recollection that:

▪ The chairs and the ranking minority members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, known as the Gang of Four, were briefed that the CIA was holding and interrogating high-value terrorists.

▪ We understood what the CIA was doing.

▪ We gave the CIA our bipartisan support.

▪ We gave the CIA funding to carry out its activities.

▪ On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda.

I do not recall a single objection from my colleagues. They did not vote to stop authorizing CIA funding. And for those who now reveal filed "memorandums for the record" suggesting concern, real concern should have been expressed immediately -- to the committee chairs, the briefers, the House speaker or minority leader, the CIA director or the president's national security adviser -- and not quietly filed away in case the day came when the political winds shifted. And shifted they have".

It is past time that "Queen" Pelosi be removed from her leadership role. She has demonstrated to me that she has only the interests of her left wing supporters in "Baghdad BY The Bay". Not the interest of the red blooded, God loving Americans who want this Country free and safe. She should be sent home to her house on The hill by the voters, but I doubt she will!

OBAMA AND THE ALINSKY CONNECTION

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” —Ronald Reagan

One of the stories that you will not hear or read from the "Propaganda" arm of the Obama administration(MSN), except the denial that is found on the ABC News Net site as reported by Jake Tapper. It is the claim that Obama operatives used extortion type pressure to force the main opponent of the Chrysler bankruptcy settlement to agree to Obama's plan. The story is that, "A leading bankruptcy attorney representing hedge funds and money managers told ABC News Saturday that Steve Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration's Auto Industry Task Force, threatened one of the firms, an investment bank, that if it continued to oppose the administration's Chrysler bankruptcy plan, the White House would use the White House press corps to destroy its reputation.
Thoms Luria , Global Practice Head of the Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Group at White & Case, told ABC News that Rattner suggested to an official of the boutique investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners that officials of the Obama White House would embarrass the firm for opposing the Obama administration plan, which President Obama announced Thursday, and which requires creditors to accept roughly 29 cents on the dollar for an estimated $6.8 billion owed by Chrysler.
Perella Weinberg Partners, Lauria said, "was directly threatened by the White House and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal under the threat that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy its reputation if it continued to fight. That’s how hard it is to stand on this side of the fence."

This story, if true, would be an illustration of the fact that Obama learned well the theories outlined by his mentor in Chicago, Saul Alinsky.
The president made the charge in his press conference that the Perella Weinberg firm was selfish because they opposed his structured "rapid bankruptcy" of Chrysler. He showed not only that he was willing to take sides in a pending court case. The first time any president did this! But was willing to demonize any one who opposed him!
His statement illustrates he is willing to lie and mis-represent the facts to accomplish his desired end as this quote will illustrate. ""While many stakeholders made sacrifices and worked constructively, I have to tell you some did not," the president said. "In particular, a group of investment firms and hedge funds decided to hold out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout. They were hoping that everybody else would make sacrifices, and they would have to make none."
Actually they were willing to settle for 50 cents on the dollar, whereas, they were offered only 29 cents!


I have included some quotes from various sources that describe the philosophy and rules for engagement as taught to his students and are found in his "Rules For Radicals". These qoutes illustrate that
Alinsky advises his followers that the poor have no power and that the real target is the middle class: "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority."Obama has made the middle class think he is there "savior"!

"Only two kinds of people can afford the luxury of acting on principle, those with absolute power and those with none and no desire to get any...everyone else who wants to be effective in politics has to learn to be ‘unprincipled’ enough to compromise in order to see their principles succeed.
The Radical may resort to the sword but when he does he is not filled with hatred against those individuals whom he attacks. He hates these individuals not as persons but as symbols representing ideas or interests which he believes to be inimical to the welfare of the people". (Alinsky 1946: 23)

Perhaps this quote from Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", best explains the mode of operation that Obama is using to "extort", threaten and coerce those who oppose his plans.
" Saul Alinsky points out, is that eight months after securing independence, the Indian National Congress outlawed passive resistance, making it a crime. In conclusion on the subject of the morality of means and ends, as Alinsky writes: 'Means and ends are so qualitatively interrelated that the true question has never been the proverbial one, 'Does the End justify the Means?' but always has been 'Does this particular end justify this particular means?" (Alinsky 1972: 47).
And the one rule that Obama has learned well and is using daily is this:"13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it (Alinsky 1972: 130).Alinsky would find out who the CEO is in a company that he wanted to "CHANGE", and hound that person. In the organophosphates debate it is one scientist that he targets and the validity of his findings. Obama uses this to demonize those who opposed his Chrysler deal, and you can be sure this will not be the last time he uses this tactic!