18. May 2009 by David A. Peterson.

Have you ever looked at someone and thought “there is something wrong with that person, I can’t put my finger on it but there is something not quite right?” I believe we saw that look last week with the escalating war of words from our Speaker of the House.

In-case you didn’t notice the person 3rd in line, the one that will lead the country if a catastrophe happens is… Nancy Pelosi our Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Yep she is the same person who looked into the cameras last week and lied through her teeth. Something is just not quite right with her.

Politicians in general garner a little suspicion when they speak about any topic. You typically have to take what any politician says with a grain of salt. This time you can throw out the salt and skip the suspicion, the Speaker of the House, the 3rd in line to the Presidency has been caught in a sensational lie.

What makes it sensational is that she is such a bad liar. You can look at her and tell she doesn’t even believe what is spewing from her own mouth. Her bottom lip starts twitching and you about have to tie yourself into the chair to keep from falling to ground from laughter.

B, b, b, ba, ba, ba, blah, blah, blah! This poor person is so shook she can’t get 3 words out that sound like an actual sentence. Imagine if she ascended into the Presidency through some despicable act. Can you image how she would handle her 1st crisis?

Is this person ready to lead?

Her greatest problem is that she looks back and blames Bush for everything. Never mind that President Bush and his Executive Branch was only 1 of 3 legs of our national government. She has been our nation’s 3rd in line to the most powerful post in the world for several years now, she has been at the top of the 2nd leg of government for a very long time. But she takes NO responsibility for the country’s past direction.

Her 2nd greatest problem is that she now says that she distrusts the CIA. The CIA is the group that looks forward for potential threats. This is the group that works behind the international scenes trying to predict who, what, why, and when.

So she has a suspicious view of history, and she now has no one to help her predict the future. Yet the Democrats think she is fit to lead if a catastrophe happened?

This person is 3rd in line and obviously not ready to lead.

Ms Pelosi could have stood up a few weeks back when the torture/interrogation questions aroused and stated that she knew everything and at that moment in time the “torture” or “enhance interrogation techniques” were appropriate.

Or she could have said “Yes I knew, but I believed that these were despicable techniques. I should have spoken up.”

She could even have said “Yes I thought I heard them say it but I must have miss heard them because no one in their right mind would do such a thing to another human.”

Instead she said B, b, b, ba, ba, ba, blah, blah, blah, lie, lie, lie.

Had she done any of the above three I would be writing and entirely different article. I still think that she has radical far left views but she and her fellow Democrats were elected. Fair and square she won her party’s top spot in the House. Had she not lied and stood up for what she believed was right at the moment then this would be an entirely different post.

No kidding I wanted to write about the debt this week but no… Ms Pelosi opened her mouth a little too wide and I couldn’t ignore it.

The difference in my thinking now is that she may not be capable of leading. That’s being too nice. There is no way this person could lead the country until the next general election if a catastrophe happened.

Let’s face it, if Leon Panetta will not go to bat for her and the current President is conveniently unavailable for comment then the Democrats have already figured out what to do: Dump the dummy and move on.

Republicans need to stay out of this. I’m sure she has enough enemies in the Democratic Party to finish her off. Republicans need to sit back and let them clean their own house (no pun intended).

Really, there is no way that any one from the Democratic national leadership can think that this person can stay 3rd in line. No way - no one is that ignorant. They know it… She has got to go.

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20. April 2009 by David A. Peterson.

Just last week I wrote about the Atlanta Tea Party event. Since then there has been a lot of chatter from the media trying to dissect exactly what happened on 4/15/2009.

The general questions are:

• What were those Tea Party events?
• What are those people complaining about?
• What types of people attended those events?
• Who organized the events?

From the “fair and balanced” Fox News to the ultra liberal NBC News the media in general just doesn’t get it. You can tell by the articles being written and the news programs being aired that this new grassroots movement is being misunderstood.

The people being interviewed for commentary on the Tea Parties are struggling to wrap their arms around the events. I can understand the problem with defining the movement. When you have hundreds of thousands of people trying to be heard all at the same time the message gets lost in the translation. 

It’s like 250,000 10th graders trying to define “amore.” To a 10th grader amore is pizza. The Tea Party activist are trying to define exactly what America is to its people. Try wrapping your hands around that!

As an example - here is a clear translation problem:

Yesterday Fox News reported that David Axelrod who is a senior Obama advisor said “The thing that bewilders me is this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. So I think the tea bags should be directed elsewhere because he certainly understands the burden that the people face.”

I have heard that exact statement several times since the tea parties occurred. It must be a new White House talking point because it is repeated over and over again. The funny thing is every time they (they = other than tea party activist) use that statement it DRIVES home the point that another tea party event is needed.

Let me make one point before I continue… The people at the tea parties are not misguided and do understand the policies being proposed by today’s politicians. Their direction is clear, however the movement has not found clear leadership. Once the national leadership is in place the message can be clearly translated and then properly delivered.

I’ll give you a reference point to begin the translation…

Last week I wrote that the 4/15/2009 events had a message of “Shut up and Listen. You work for us, we don’t work for you!” But what are “we” saying? (We = those attending and participating in a Tea Party event).

Much has been written that the “we” in last week’s events included Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Moderates, and Conservatives. Within those groups there are a multitude of programs and policies that each individual group would like to see occur.

Some want a strong national defense, some want entitlement reform, some are strict constitutionalists, some may even want universal health care -  the list of wants goes on and on.

So what are “we” saying in this initial translation… The message is not what we want; the message is what do we need. The Tea Party activists realize that socialist ideas, even the ones that sound good to certain groups of Tea Party attendees, cost money. And even though some in the crowd may want some of the programs, every single person in the crowd knew… we don’t need any new programs and we certainly can’t afford them.

The people in the crowd understand how government and life in general works. You can’t get something for nothing. If you plan on buying something, a road, a bridge, universal health care, social security, then you need to find the money - and “we” in the crowd don’t want our kids paying for unsustainable inefficient programs.

The crowd understands that even if the Obama administration took employer and employee payroll taxes to 0% you still would have had Tea Party events around the country. The crowd understands you would still have to get the money somewhere to pay for the new programs.

The crowd understands that holding expenditures on entitlements at today’s dollars for a period of 5 years is not a tax cut. That raising the taxes on a pack of cigarettes is NOT cutting taxes for 95% of Americans. That asking federal department heads to cut programs while allowing their overall budgets to increase is not a “savings.”

The crowd understands that a Cap and Trade energy policy is a TAX not a policy.

The initial translation from the Tea Party crowd is every time our government open’s its mouth to propose a new program we are getting taxation with misrepresentation. Now that is a whole lot different than taxation without representation.

The Tea Party activists are trying to say that there is a difference between wants and needs, a difference between a tax and a tax cut, and there is a clear difference between representation and misrepresentation.

To all Tea Party activists in the crowd, have a heart and keep pushing. The thought that “they” don’t get it doesn’t mean that “they” won’t get it. In a representative government they work for us, they just don’t know it yet.

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