Here we go.

You know, this downgrade that happened, they didn’t downgrade us because America couldn’t pay its bills. They downgraded it because they felt that our political system couldn’t seem to make good decisions in order to deal with our budget the same way families deal with their budgets.

This is a lie. They downgraded us because of this.  That is the your work, Mr. Obama, along with Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Waxman, Wrangel, and the rest of Insane Clown Posse.

The Bowles-Simpson committee, this is a committee that I set up to look at our current fiscal situation to see what could be done. And it was a bipartisan committee; it was chaired by a well-known Republican, Alan Simpson, former senator, and Erskine Bowles, who used to be the chief of staff for Bill Clinton. And it had equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans, as well as business sector and private sector leaders

This is a lie. President Obama explicitly rejected the recommendations of the Simpsons Bowel Committee when he did not include any of the recommendations in his budget, subsequently rejected 97-0.

And basically what they recommended was what I’ve been talking about, which is a balanced approach in which we’re making some modifications to what’s called discretionary spending — that’s the spending we do every year on everything from farm programs to student loan programs to food stamps to you name it — that we cut defense spending in a sensible way, that we look at how we can make modifications that strengthen Social Security and Medicare for the next generation, and how we raise additional revenue so that we bring the overall budget into a sustainable place.
And the truth of the matter is, is that the commission recommendations are ones that not only I, but the so-called Gang of Six, these senators in the United States Senate, agreed to as well. And that was bipartisan; you had Democrats and Republicans.

This is a lie. President Obama has not accepted the recommendations of the Simpsons Bowels Committee. Unless now he is willing to propose

• 15 cent per gallon gasoline tax
• eliminating the home mortgage interest deduction
• eliminating the deduction for employer-provided healthcare benefits
• reduction in entitlements, including farm subsidies, civilian and military federal pensions and student loan subsidies.
• modifications to the Social Security program to raise the payroll tax and the retirement age.

You proposing any of these things Mr. President? How about lowering the Corporate tax rate by 25%?You up for that too?

I was concerned when I saw the Republican presidential candidates — somebody asked them, well, if you got $10 of spending cuts for every $1 in additional revenue, would you be willing to accept it, and all of them said no.

This is Chris Wallace’s lie (his father must be very proud). There was never an offer of $3 in cuts for $1 in new taxes. Ever. Wallace upped that fantasy to 10 to 1, but it is still a fantasy. Unless the Pesident wants to propose those cuts now? Hmmmmmm? Can we see the plan for those cuts Mr. President?

So the bottom line is this: I will be presenting, as I’ve already presented — I did back earlier this year — a plan that says we’re going to have spending cuts and we’re going to have revenue.

This is a lie. As he has aready presented? What plan, his budget? What is he talking about here? Any curiosity MBM?

We’ll have more spending cuts than we have revenue, but we’re going to have to take a balanced approach and everything is going to be on the table, including our long-term obligations, because the thing that is driving the deficit, if you look at — we had a balanced budget back in 2000. Here’s what happened. Number one is we decided that we would cut taxes without paying for it.

This is a lie, see this again. Is this misery tour over yet? He’s killing me.

Allan Lichtman, the American University professor whose election formula has correctly called every president since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election, has a belated birthday present for Barack Obama: Rest easy, your re-election is in the bag….Lichtman developed his 13 Keys in 1981. They test the performance of the party that holds the presidency. If six or more of the 13 keys go against the party in power, then the opposing party wins.

I can’t help but think Mr. Lichtman is shading his assessment in order to build the expectation that Obama will win. His analysis has Obama holding 9 keys. 4 of those are either too soon to say or wishcasting, leaving Obama 5 keys. “The keys have figured into popular politics a bit,” Lichtman says. “They’ve never missed. They’ve been right seven elections in a row. A number that goes way beyond statistical significance in a record no other system even comes close to.”

Obama is going to lose. Mr Lichtmann the academic would tell you so . Mr Lichtmann the political hack is pissing on your leg and tellng you it’s raining.

Short term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign. Here Lichtman declares an “undecided.” Just moronic. Obama loses this one.

Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy. “There have been major policy changes in this administration. We’ve seen the biggest stimulus in history and an complete overhaul of the healthcare system so I gave him policy change,” says the scholar. Another win for Obama. Probably confusing policy change with popular policy change. He lost the House due to one policy change, Obamacare, and the stimulus is widely regarded as a complete failure, $1T pissed down the tubes. Obama loses.

Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term. Says Lichtman, “There wasn’t any social unrest when I made my predictions for 2012 and there still isn’t.” Obama wins a fifth key here. Wait till next summer. Tossup for now.

Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal. “This administration has been squeaky clean. There’s nothing on scandal,” says Lichtman. Another Obama win.This should read “untainted by reporting of major scandal”. The MBM has successfully held the line on Fast & Furious, Pigford, NEA, Black Panther voter intimidation, etc., and will probably continue to do so .

Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs. Says Lichtman, “We haven’t seen any major failure that resembles something like the Bay of Pigs and don’t foresee anything.” Obama wins again. Between now and 2012, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Iran, none will show up as a major failure? Odds are against it, but tossup for now.

Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs. “Since Osama bin Laden was found and killed, I think Obama has achieved military success.” Killing Obama was great. It is not the kind of success that counts for this key: Americans want to see problem solved, soldiers home. Obama loses.

Your mother would be very proud Mr. Lichtmann. After all, the sacrifice of your intellectual credentials, your life’s work, is a small price to pay to keep a progressive in office.

Why pretend? The NAACP would never listen to a black conservative at one of their conventions, much less one that is going to beat Barack Obama for President in 2012. Those “leaders” have bought into a progressive or socialist vision of how Black people can and should advance in America that has been terribly, terribly ineffective. But their power and their livelihood depend on keeping that vision in place – government dependent citizens, government dependent public employees, government schools, government housing projects. Endless brain-dead social agencies, guilt-driven non-profits, and ineffective community organizers. This huge group of “leaders” have careers built on the poverty of black America, because they put their socialism, their ideology, ahead of their community.

They are wrong, and they know that they lose a fair and open argument. So they use their media power to keep people like me – a man of good faith, who has seen with his own eyes what works and what doesn’t, from talking to people like you – honest, hard-working people who want a better life for themselves and their children. That’s what I meant by brainwashing.

Here’s the hard truth: if Republicans had done to black Americans what the liberal/progressive welfare state has done to them over the past 40 years, Al Sharpton would be screaming genocide. For once he would not be wrong.

That’s what the gatekeepers don’t want you to hear. And that’s why I’m here and not at the real NAACP Convention. (pan out to reveal Mr. Cain standing at lectern in huge empty stadium) So let me say my peace. Let me say to you these hard truths.
Then you can take your power back, and free yourself.

(re-approach lectern, adjust the tie, maybe a raised eye-brow self-acknowledgement at a side camera ) MR. CAIN: Thank you for this opportunity to address this NAACP convention. I start by saying, with every fiber of my being, every ounce of my intellect and every drop of my God-given soul, that I believe that implementing my policies would dramatically improve the lives of Black people in America.

(switch to EXT., the gate outside the stadium, where a double line of SEIU type gatekeepers are lined up, looking at a leader with a bullhorn, and a small group of black Americans are outside the gate. In that group are CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHERS #1 and #2)  LEADER (quietly): Boo.
SEIU Team (loud, pumping fists, waving OFA printed signs): Boo! Boo!
CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #1 to CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #2: He thinks his policies will improve our lives, and they are booing already?

(INT.) MR. CAIN: No community ever got wealthy on civil service jobs. We need to own things. Own property! Own businesses! Buy and sell. All those things the socialists tell you are evil are actually the tools we need to build wealth, for ourselves and our community. That’s how everyone else has gotten wealthy. Reality, not ideology!… (fade out)

(EXT.) LEADER(quietly): Uncle Tom.
SEIU Team (not quite as loud ): Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom!
CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #2 gives CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #1 The Look, then says to SEIU TEAM: Quiet now, I want to hear what this man has to say. What’s wrong with building wealth for our community?

(INT.) MR. CAIN: The government schools have failed our community miserably and time is up! We will not lose one more child to the teacher’s unions. The first priority of our schools is supposed to be to educate our kids. In reality they exist to pay teachers and elect Democrats. If your child attends a failing school, you should have the same choice the rich white liberals have and the choice most school-teachers themselves take, to send your child to a school of your choice. Reality, not ideology!… (fade out)

(EXT.) LEADER(quietly): Racist.
SEIU TEAM looks at each other confused, THUG #1 to LEADER: Racist?
LEADER(though bullhorn, angrily): Racist!
SEIU Team (dispiritedly): Racist! Racist!
CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #1: Well I’ve had enough of these crazy socialists. Let me through!
The GRANDMOTHERS push through the gatekeepers, lead the small group outside the gate into the stadium, joined by a few of the SEIU TEAM who throw down their printed OFA signs. The view expands, other are streaming into the stadium from everywhere, all Americans, the crowd forms around MR. CAIN on stage.

(INT.)MR. CAIN: (fading in) Black people die young because of the welfare state! Black men go to jail because of the welfare state! Black people are poor and less educated because of the welfare state! I’ll debate and win that argument with any of these so-called black leaders, including our community-organizer-in-chief!

Here is the reality: They offer you the car-pool lane to perpetual poverty and government dependence, while we offer you a path to independence and prosperity. Thank you for opening your mind and your heart to a better way for our people and for all of America, and God Bless America.
(crowd cheers, super-impose Herman Cain 2012 contact slide, fade to black

The cheering ends, the CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHERS and THUG #1 walk away together. CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #1: Now Malik I have not seen you in church for a long time, but that’s between you and your God. I do hear that you have a young baby now, is that right?
THUG #1: Yes maam.
CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #1: I think that man Herman Cain made a lot of sense. One thing he didn’t say, regardless of what he or anybody else does or can do, is that nothing, NOTHING, will improve the life of that young baby more than you and her Mama raising her together. Education, poverty, jail, drug abuse: all of these things are much less likely with a man in the house.
CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #2: The grandmas, the aunties, we’re tired son.
CHURCH-GOING GRANDMOTHER #1: Accept your responsibilities and you will find that THAT is the first step to freeing yourself.

other notable possibilities

SCOTUS: Thomas Sowell, VDH
NLRB: CEO of Gibson Guitars, CEO of Whole Foods
Press Secretary: Pinko Jeopardy – Newt, Glen, Andrew, loser becomes Press Secretary.
EEOC – Linda Chavez, Ward Connerly, a middle-aged white guy, a teenage girl of Asian ancestry who watches less than 2 hours of TV a week

As your compatriots say, I love it when a plan comes together. 50 years of dedicated work, along dark, seemingly obscure paths, superficially un-related to our long term objectives, toiling quietly, putting on the clown mask occasionally, the Mona Lisa smile mostly, and the bare teeth oh ever so rarely. You, who, let’s face it, are a man of tremendous ego (and what historical shaper of mankind is not?) managed to develop the self-discipline, the inner acceptance, the wa, necessary to “lead from behind”, and it worked! They voted for you! You know it, we know it, he knows it. Dreams are your Dreams, they fell in love with you, your writing, your words, your Ayers Thought! And if there were any justice in this world, everyone would know that.

Well, there may be no justice now, but soon, comrade, soon.

I know you are very busy with the Endgame, but our experience is that this is the time to really start preparing for the After. You may be thinking, we have not broken through our core 15 – 20% support levels, and that support is based on the “lying socialist” community organizer paradigm. Once we strip away the mask, that core support will drop to 10% max. Remember, comrade: Will. Will to victory. Will to use violence. Will is the great force multiplier. You are fighting to destroy, they are fighting to uphold a fragile structure. 10% is plenty.

Anyway, back to preliminary thoughts on the After. There are two schools on this, our original model, massive violence against the group most likely to use the same tactics as you (the Left-SRs for us). We did have to “put down” quite a bit of talent, but Vladimir Ilyich knew long before old Uncle Joe all about omelettes & eggs. Anyway, that model doesn’t really apply to you, the folks nearest to you in ideology have no balls and will sing your praises on the way into the camps. No, your problem is those damn armed Constitutionalists. Very tricky. You just can’t let yourself get caught in a direct action confrontation with them until you’ve had a chance to disarm them. Fast and Furious did not work very well, eh? What did we tell you about believing your own bullshit, you can’t let affirmative action put incompetents in these critical positions. You have no choice but to continue with our Thousand Cuts approach. Maybe your Left Coast comrades can blaze a trail, stop open carry, require registration of long guns? Oh wait, I see we’ve got that just this week. You kids!

Anyway, start to think about the After. Your enemies aren’t going to put themselves up against the wall, are they?

Fraternally yours,

P

P.S. this little “c” comrade crap is kinda gay. I may have to take my shirt off and karate a tiger.

P.P.S. Humor impaired?

I understand people occasionally wager on the outcome of games. Which side would you bet on in this game? Would you be willing to bet your children and grand-children’s prosperity and freedom on the rube position in this game? Is there any reason you would voluntarily put yourself in the rube position?
CNN
Anderson Cooper
Karen Tumulty
Politico
Google
Charlie Rose
What, Sid Blumenthal was unavailable? Why don’t you just let Plouffe and Axelrod moderate? Maybe you could hose down someone from the Occupation to finger twinkle us what we should be discussing next?

It is important to understand that it is not just bias in the actual questions, or the Chris Wallace DC-gotcha bullshit, the Anderson Cooper religious tittie-twisting to provoke bickering that hurts us. What is really hurting us is allowing our opponents to define the overall limits of appropriate topics, the focus of our energy, the relative importance of our many problems. Is Anderson Cooper going to ask any of the candidates how our children are going to survive 25 years from now when these damn bills come due? Think Charlie Rose is going to ask about how to recover from the loss of American prestige overseas because of Obama? Sure, Tumulty will ask about Obama’s Jobs Bill, Jobs Bill, Jobs bill, when every conservative knows there is no Jobs bill, there is a tax bill spliced into Son of Stimulus, and that is damn annoying, but it is the control of our overall discourse willingly given by our candidates to their opponents that is really pissing me off.

For the love of God man stop letting the MBM moderate our debates! I don’t mean to imply that you and your media consultants have your heads up your asses, but really, take a deep breath, take a step back and look at what you are doing.  Please don’t tell me that I have to explain to you that there is no line between the Democrat party and the media, they are your opponent, they are all  in and of the Left and they despise what you stand for. They may like you personally, they may be warm human beings, but they are not operating by the traditional American idea of political fair play and they want to take you down.

I am not advocating you run from the press. There is plenty of time for them, but we also need a debate where conservatives ask questions that we would like to actually have answered. They are not designed to make you look bad, start a bitch-slapping session, limit the debate to Democrat approved areas of discussion, or make some pinko talking head look good at his next West-Ho GaGaPalooza. They would be designed to see who understands what is wrong now, what needs to be done, and how to do it.

2012 can be about mountains of debt left to our children, the corrosive effects of the entitlement society, and a bold vision for reducing massively over-grown government, removing the throttle on prosperity for all. But not if the questions are about Republicans blocking Obama’s Jobs bill and how funky those Mormons are.

Industry groups and their Republican allies praised the move, which leaves a far more lenient ozone rule in place for at least a year. But then they reeled off a dozen other proposed environmental, labor and health regulations they also wanted killed
Do industry groups not have Democrat allies? President Goldman Sachs could not be reached for comment. Far more lenient rule? You mean the current rule? What else do those Republicans want killed?

The ozone decision pitted Ms. Jackson, a Princeton-trained chemical engineer and self-described “New Orleans girl,” against the White House chief of staff, William M. Daley, a son and brother of bare-knuckled Chicago mayors who was brought in to help repair relations with business and Congress. It also shows the clout of Cass R. Sunstein
Princeton Chemical Engineer and New Orleans Girl against bare-knuckled politicians with clout.

While Mr. Daley has recently given up some responsibilities at the White House, he remains the administration’s conduit for business interests.
No one gives up responsibilities at that level. Obama took them from Daley and gave them to someone else. Have a business interest? Talk to the hand next man under the bus business conduit.

The business community and its Republican allies in Congress went to war. The ozone rule became a symbol of what opponents called a “regulatory jihad” and brought out a swarm of industry lobbyists and Republicans in Congress who identified it as one of their top targets.
Did I do this one already? Ah, now is it the business community that does not have Democrat allies. War. Those blood-thirsty bastards. Hell, it’s worse than war, it is all-out jihad. Fundamentalists, they’re all the same.

They claimed the rule would cost $90 billion a year — far above E.P.A.’s estimates — and put much of the industrial heartland out of business. Local and state officials complained to Congress and the White House that they lacked the resources to enforce the new rule. Even some Democratic lawmakers warned the White House that the regulation would damage their re-election prospects.
Your side claims, our side estimates. And an accidental truth telling – some people are concerned about jobs, some health, but the Democrat lawmakers only warn about damaging their re-election prospects.

Sunstein, on leave from teaching at Harvard and a onetime colleague of Mr. Obama’s at the University of Chicago Law School. One of the most respected liberal legal scholars of his generation,
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that Mr. Broder has never written a sentence with the phrase “respected conservative” anything.

They tried a hard sell, according to R. Bruce Josten, the chief lobbyist for the Chamber of Commerce, noting that the new rule would push hundreds of counties out of compliance with the Clean Air Act and force them to devise costly new air pollution control plans. They suggested she wait until the next review in 2013. “Lisa is very smart, cordial, friendly,” Mr. Josten said of Ms. Jackson. “She listened to us, but then talked about how important it was to do this, the lung thing, the asthma thing, the kids’ health thing. She felt it was important to go ahead.”
Did Mr. Josten call it a hard sell? There are no quotes there. Let’s imagine: I say this rule will cost jobs, and you respond with babies and asthma. Who’s throwing the hard sell?

For the West Wing gathering that day, Jack N. Gerard, the pugnacious head of the American Petroleum Institute
Pugnacious.

Mr. Daley listened politely, then asked, “What are the health impacts of unemployment?” It was a question straight out of the industry playbook.
A little slip there? Shouldn’t this be “critics say” or something?

The timing turned out to be terrible. The White House was locked in an ugly battle with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling, job creation had stalled and the presidential campaign was already under way with a singular focus on Mr. Obama’s stewardship of the foundering economy.
First mention the debt ceiling, then job creation stalling, implying causation and pinning responsibility for the lack of job creation on those pugnacious Republicans and their ugly jihad for their business allies. Then pretend that it wasn’t Obama that started the 2012 Presidential campaign.

They are all in, and they are relentless.

Europe’s leaders braced their nations for a turbulent year, with their beleaguered economies facing a threat on two fronts: widening deficits that force more borrowing but increasing austerity measures that put growth further out of reach.

Note the martial language, economies are beleaguered, they are facing a threat. Threats. The problem is that deficits are widening you see. That’s like a natural disaster or something, there’s really nothing people can do about it. It just is. And that is what causes increased borrowing. It’s like physics or math. It’s certainly not Obama’s anyone’s fault. Well, there was all that defense spending right? If anything that’s it.

Increasing austerity measures. Austerity. It really is the only approved word in discussing issues like this. Reminds one of a monocled 1%er so prim and proper one couldn’t pound a nail up his ass with a sledgehammer, eh? Increasing austerity measures. Now some might say postponing the European Union GLBT Green Summer Playhouse for Social Justice is too drastic of an austerity measure, as opposed to something really dramatic, like keeping overall spending flat or something even more draconian, spending fewer actual Euros next year than this.  Pish tosh, can’t be balancing the budget on the backs of the poor.

And of course, the punch line, the whole point of the lie sentence, is to say increasing austerity measures that put growth further out of reach. There we go. Growth is out of reach BECAUSE of austerity measures. Not running deficits every year forever, in the past and into the future. Not because the Greeks are lazy tax-cheats that make Chicago public employee union members look like a team of eager beavers. Nope, it is “austerity measures”. We’ve identified the cause of the problem, and of course we all know without even saying which yahoos are always pushing “austerity”.

Shorter Times: The TEA Party is killing the European economy too.

Sometimes you have to choose, between living on your knees, dying on your feet, or running away to fight another day. I will not live on my knees. I choose not to die on my feet, as I don’t see how that helps keep my daughter from having to live on her knees. There is no other day, and there is nowhere left to run, no state red enough, no country strong enough to stand up to the statists if America goes past the tipping point. Along that path we might, might have peace in our day, but our children and grandchildren would eventually become subjects, not citizens.

That is intolerable.

We have been maneuvered into battle conditions dictated by our enemies, and if we don’t change the dynamics soon we will lose. It is a Kobayashi Maru scenario, and we are expected to lay down and accept defeat. Gracefully.

The Captain knew what to do. When the game has been rigged against you, you have to change the game. The first step along that path is to reject the boundaries of the scenario; I reject the three alternatives above, and choose a fourth:

Victory.

I choose to win, to win big, and to win with a mandate for classical liberalism and fiscal sanity. House, Senate, Presidency. All of it. It is the only way to pull us back from the brink, if indeed that is at all still possible.

And when I say victory, I don’t just mean over the Progs. One of ours will be the Republican candidate and next president, and from there we will clean house at the RNC. We will win enough Republican primaries and then Democratic seats in 2012 to gain control of the House Republican Caucus, and we will then sweep the leadership posts clean. I want 60 seats in the Senate, and I want Marco Rubio as Senate Majority Leader. What else? Diane Feinstein is vulnerable this year, I want Chris Street in that seat. Doubling the number of people in Congress who actually understand our financial system might be helpful.

There. Clearly stated, well-defined, achievable goals.

Now on to changing the game.

(1) TOJAP = TOTUS, Obama, Jarrett, Axelrod, Plouffe; see CABAL