About comments

I've been talking with Barracuda Babe and Dots for Dummies and a few other friend bloggers about their comments.

Every single comment we get from Obama types includes something so nasty about John McCain or Sarah Palin that we can't publish their comments.

I don't have a problem posting opposing views, that's what makes for a good discussion. Intelligent, respectful disagreement is perfectly fine. I'll get a really good thought from someone on the "other side" but it's surrounded by vicious personal attacks that I wouldn't say about my worst enemy, much less allow the comment. Most, but not all, come from individuals known only as "anonymous".

What is it about Obama supporters that they have to be so ugly? Is that the mindset that wants to run our country? Is that the kind of people that are attracted to this man? I have never experienced such hate before. I know how my mother felt when she used to say she needed to wash someone's mouth out with soap. Some brains need to be scrubbed!

I'm so glad these blogs have the ability to monitor comments.

Team Sarah Commercial for Sarah Palin -- Wink! Wink!

I love Sarah's wink. She has charisma, personality, enthusiasm, principles, values, backbone, strength... I could go on and on about here attributes. McCain picked THE perfect running mate and you know how I know for sure he did that? Because the media has made it their mission to tear her down! If she were the cream puff they make her out to be they wouldn't be bothering, they'd let her lose it on her own. But no, she's a smart cookie and they have to pull out all their arsenal of crap to try and change her image. Ha.

We're going to WIN!!!

This is it, the last push and you are needed to get our Sarah and John McCain elected on Tuesday. Most early voting is over, although in some states they vote through the weekend. Now we have three days, just three short days, to get to those who are undecided. Strange as it sounds, there are some who still haven't made up their minds.

I heard on the news yesterday from someone, they all start to run together, that the undecided aren't really undecided, they just don't want to say they're not voting for Obama.

I know that is happening in some cases as I have two friends who have told me confidentially that they're voting for John McCain but they're black and they would never live it down if they admitted to their family and church body that they don't support Obama.

In the privacy of the voting booth, not that there are real booths anymore, many will be pushing the McCain-Palin spot in secrecy.

I'm excited as I hear all the good news coming from our friends across the US, and even some of the media hype seems to be getting a tad, a tiny tad, more honest and favorable.

I got this from the McCain campaign and had to share:

The State of the Campaign

If your television is tuned to cable news as frequently as ours are here at campaign headquarters, you have seen the pundits say John McCain and his campaign are done. And, if you've followed this race since the beginning, this is clearly a song you've heard before. I wanted to take some time today to give you some insight on the state of the race as we see it.

An AP poll released this morning revealed a very telling fact:

ONE out of every SEVEN voters is undecided.

That means, if 130 million voters turn out on Tuesday, 18.5 million of them have yet to make up their mind. With that many votes on the table and the tremendous movement we've seen in this race, I believe we are in a very competitive campaign. Here's why: All the major polls have shown a tightening in the race and a significant narrowing of the numbers. In John McCain's typical pattern, he is closing strong and surprising the pundits. We believe this race is winnable, and if the trajectory continues, we will surpass the 270 Electoral votes needed on Election Night.

National Polls: Major polls last week showed John McCain trailing by double-digit margins - but by the middle of this week, we were within the margin of error on four national tracking surveys. In fact, the Gallup national tracking survey showed the race in a virtual tie 2 days this week.

State Polls:

Iowa - Our numbers in Iowa have seen a tremendous surge in the past 10 days. We took Obama's lead from the double digits to a very close race. That is why you see Barack Obama visiting the state in the final days, trying to stem his losses. It is too little, too late. Like many other Midwestern states, Iowa is moving swiftly into McCain's column.

The Southwest - It is no secret that Republican candidates in the Southwest have to focus on winning over enough Latino and Hispanic voters in Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado to carry them to victory. John McCain has overcome challenges Republicans face, and has made up tremendous ground in these states with these voters. For these voters, the choice has become clear, and you have seen a big change in the numbers. John McCain is now winning enough voters to perform within the margin of error - putting these states within reach.

Colorado - Barack Obama tried to outspend our campaign in Colorado during the early weeks of October and finish off our candidate in Colorado. However, after our visit early this week, we saw a tremendous rebound in our poll position, and Colorado is back on the map.

Ohio and Pennsylvania - Everyone knows that vote rich Ohio and Pennsylvania will be key battlegrounds for this election. Between the two: 41 electoral votes and no candidate has gotten to the White House without Ohio. Senator McCain and Governor Palin have been campaigning non-stop in these key battleground states and tonight Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has pumped up our campaign at a rally in Columbus. Our position in these states is strong and undecided voters continue to have a very favorable impression of our candidate.

Obama campaign faces tremendous structural challenges in the final days of this campaign

Obama has a challenge hitting 50%: Barack Obama has not reached the 50% threshold in almost any the battleground state. He consistently is performing in the 45-48% range. When we look closely at the primary votes, we see a history of a candidate whose Election Day performance is often at or behind his final polling numbers. If this is true, our surge will leave Obama with even or under 50% of the vote on Election Day.

Early Vote: The Obama campaign has promised that their early vote and absentee efforts will change the composition of the electorate. They have sold the press on a story that first time voters will turn out in droves this election cycle. Again, the facts undermine their argument. In our analysis of early voting and absentee votes to date: The composition of the electorate has not changed significantly and most folks who have voted early are high propensity voters who would have voted regardless of the high interest in this campaign.

Expanding the Field: Obama is running out of states if you follow out a traditional model. Today, he expanded his buy into North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona in an attempt to widen the playing field and find his 270 Electoral Votes. This is a very tall order and trying to expand into new states in the final hours shows he doesn't have the votes to win.

The Final Barnstorm

On Monday, we will have a 14 state rally with our candidates crisscrossing the country trying to turn out our voters and sway the final undecided voters. Governor Palin will hit Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada and Alaska in the final day of campaigning, while Senator McCain will travel from Tampa, Florida, to Virginia, then Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Mexico, Nevada and finish the night in Prescott, Arizona. T

he enthusiasm and excitement we generate on Monday will be the electricity that powers our "Get Out the Vote" efforts on Tuesday.

On the Ground

Our field organization has tremendous energy and is out-performing the Bush campaign at the same time in 2004. This week our field organization crossed a huge threshold and began reaching more than one million voters per day, and by week's end will have contacted more than 5 million voters. Our phone centers are full and our rate of voter contact is significantly out-pacing the Bush campaign in 2004. We have the resources to do the voter contact necessary to support the surge we are seeing in our polling with old fashioned grassroots outreach.

On the Airwaves

In the final days of the campaign, our television presence will be bigger and broader than the Obama campaign's presence. The full Republican effort - the RNC's Independent Expenditure and the McCain campaign will out-buy Barack Obama and the Democrats by just about 10 million dollars.

In short: the McCain campaign is surging in the final 72 hours. Our grassroots campaign is vibrant and communicating to voters in a very powerful way. Our television presence is strong. And, we have a secret ingredient - A candidate who will never quit and who will never stop fighting for you and for your families. In these final hours, Senator McCain and Governor Palin are counting on you - they are counting on you to knock on doors, to make turnout calls, to contact your friends and neighbors. Get our voters to the polls and help John McCain fight for your and for our country. This is our last mission on behalf of John McCain and I have no doubt I can count on your effort and energy to carry us across the line to victory.

Jewish World Review Offers Money for L.A. Times Tape!

GET US THE TAPE THE L.A. TIMES REFUSES TO RELEASE, AND WE'LL GIVE YOU CASH!
By Binyamin L. Jolkovsky
JewishWorldReview.com For the last week, this site has been receiving mail -- lots of mail -- asking that we somehow shame the Los Angeles Times into releasing a videotape they admit to having that shows then Illinois state Sen. Barak Obama praising Rashid Khalidi, the one-time PLO spokesman/adviser during a 2003 farewell party in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, he became the head of the Middle East Studies Department at Columbia University.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1008/video_bounty.php3

Poll fluctuations

I don't have a clue why anyone would believe any poll. Have you seen the fluctuation these past few days and at other times, too? One day there's an 11 point spread, the next two. Who are they polling? The village idiots? They can't be polling the same people each day when they call their 200 or 5000 person sampling can they?

I think there's some tom-foolery going on out there. It's an underground movement to discredit the polls.

I remember when they used to have those boxes on top of the television to do the TV ratings. We had one for a while and we used to have fun turning on programs we weren't watching, sitting in front of the television for programs we hated and doing other things we thought would mess it up. Yes, we were silly.

It's human nature to play games, and to try and be something we're not. It's cool in some circles to say you'll vote or to say you'll vote for Obama. When your spouse, who thinks you're going to vote one way, is sitting on the couch while you're polled, how are you going to answer?

If the people who are out there being polled are really swinging from one party to the other that wildly, we need to change our voting requirements because we have idiots electing those who run our country.

Here's what I really think is going on:

There are close to 200 polls being done (I think the actual number being reported on is 177) as apposed to about 1/4 to 1/3 of that number in past elections.

It's harder to reach people.

People are giving up land lines and going to cell phones only, which I understand costs more to call and poll. Plus I'd imagine it's harder to find the numbers.

Some of the respected pollsters have changed their methodology. They've been wrong so many times they're trying to find their way to accuracy and as you see by polls that continue to fluctuate like the tides, they're not there yet.

There are a lot of people who've never voted before who have signed up and thus are considered to be "likely voters". A lot of them are new, easily led, unsure of the process, don't value the importance of their vote, and some flat out like to tweak pollsters.

I'm feeling a ground swell for John McCain and Sarah Palin. I think Joe the Plumber, spread the wealth, Ayers, Wright and all the other associations are eroding the support for Obama among the moderates and independents. I think they're seeing things like the wild attacks on anyone who crosses Obama's path and seeing a glimpse of the future. I don't know if it's too little too late, but I have hope that we're going to see the true comeback kid pull this one out on November 4th.

I pray that the intelligent voters come out and all the village idiots stay home through November 4th. The dummies can vote on Nov. 5th.

Go Sarah!

Sarah is getting ready to get off the plane in Bangor, Maine. There is a huge crowd waiting to see her and hear her speak.

Mainstream media has their heads up their you-know-whats when it comes to this superb lady. Liberals only love liberals!

I only wish John McCain had been able to unveil Sarah earlier! I understand that it wasn't possible and that part of her charm is the surprise of having her, but she has brought such energy to McCain's campaign.

The media and Democrats got off on the wrong foot when they came out in such meanness against her. They've revised their strategy and it is having an affect on the easily led, however you can see by the crowds she's attracting that it ain't workin' near good 'nuff. She has armour that makes Barack Obama's look like aluminum foil.

Not that Obama ever has to worry about the media going after him a fraction as bad as they have against Sarah Palin. Obama can't even handle tough questions posed by Fox News. Fair questions that should be asked by all of the media if they weren't so in love with the idea of Obama. Wait until he turns on them if he's elected. By the time they realize what he is and what he's doing their voice will be nothing but his.

Love Sarah Palin! She is so REAL. I'd have her over for dinner in a heart beat.

Just another day in Obamaland. Odinga, ODM.

Send this to your local newspapers!!! Send it to your friends!!!

INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND

It was W.A.M. cofounder who did the original in-depth investigation of Obama's connection to Odinga's ODM party, campaign tactics and the broader terrorism movement they both represent. This was done with some degree of anonymity due to security concerns. Now, months later the truth of that research piece is now reaching mainstream America - but only those who happen to watch Fox news. Yesterday's piece in the Washington Times, by a well-known journalist draws from that original report. It is vital that this information now spread throughout the mainstream press- because it, ultimately exposes the true nature and connections and plans of the Obama campaign!

Go to the following links for one of many reprints of that original 3 Part Expose: "Obama the ODM Candidate for President." Be aware many video and document-verifying links in the full Article may no longer be available - because the Obama campaign has continued their ongoing Constitutional violations of scrubbing the Internet of public information on these facts. Even so, you will still get a clear picture of the overall, previously hidden facts. The American voting public needs to Wake Up and fast- to what Obama has planned if he succeeds - or if he doesn't success, through his disinformation campaign, in taking the White House.

Here is the reprint: http://logisticsmonster.com/2008/10/08/connections-corsi-obama-odinga-kenya-odm-candidate/#comments

In addition, see this recent verification of Obama's ongoing connection to Odinga and Obama's role in Odinga's genocidal campaign, including an audiotape regarding this further evidence of collusion: http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/did-soetorobama-campaign-advise-his-cousin-odinga-on-how-to-overthrow-the-us-backed-kenyan-government/

Wake Up America Movement

IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
October 13, 2008
Untangling The Web - what Obama's Change Campaign really Means

Following the above background information is the Washington Times feature, Sunday, October 12, 2008

All responsible members of the US Press should be reporting on this story. That includes you!

Thank you for your attention to this matter of vital public interest. http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/print

Sunday, October 12, 2008
HYMAN: Obama's Kenya ghosts
Mark Hyman
COMMENTARY:

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.

The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.

By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.

Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.

The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.

Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.

Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statue of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.

Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, "Barack Obama's father is my maternal uncle."

President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.

Mr. Obama's judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.
Mark Hyman is an award-winning news commentator for Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.

CNN Says Obama's Relationship with Bill Ayers is "Much Deeper" than Obama said!!! CNN!!!

"But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said." -- CNN's Drew Griffin

I can't believe CNN is actually reporting this...

Send Sarah to Michigan!!!

We need to start a movement to get Sarah and Todd to Michigan! Can you imagine the impact it would have if the McCain camp decided in the next week or so to use Sarah to move Michigan into the red column?

I understand marshaling your resources and a strategy to hold and conquer those with highest chances, but I hate to concede Michigan (not that they are, but it seems that way now that they've made such a big deal out of it).

Barack Obama pulled out of a number of states (5 I think) quietly and it made few headlines. John McCain openly announces he's pulled out of one state and you'd think the world had come to an end.

However, if handled right, sending Sarah to Michigan and having huge rallies up there would make a world of difference to Michigan voters. It would be a shot in the arm.

I've been in states and counties where candidates made strategic decisions to move their resources elsewhere. It hurts moral and makes it that much harder to get the enthusiasm needed to win.

We need to support Michigan and we need to start a movement to get Sarah and Todd to hold a few rallies there before November 4th! I know it will be tough because they are going to be going everywhere and will be stretched thin, but I think it's worth the effort if the campaign can make it happen!

Ohio and Florida

The Democrat Obamanitties are making a huge push in both states (among others). In Ohio they are using a law that allows absentee voters to register at the time they vote and they're going after college students. In Florida Bill Clinton is holding rallies and the Dem operatives are pushing to get everyone they can registered by October 6th (deadline).

Whatever state you're in, check to see what the voter registration rules are and if you have time before the deadline passes (if it hasn't already) get out there and register your kids friends, your neighbors and your church members. Get your friends to do the same!

I remember when I was college age and how easy it was to be swept up in the dynamics of whatever was considered cool. I thought I knew it all or at least I didn't exactly listen to anything outside my perceived cool range . You're spoon fed crap at that age and swallow it whole thinking you're changing the world for the better. A lot of these kids who are being swept into the Obama camp, smart as they are in some ways, are going to someday look back and realize they made a huge error in judgement. Hopefully they won't be looking back and regretting it because they made a difference and took the country to ruin by putting Obama in the White House.

I don't mean to sound like chicken-little, but with the country on the verge of nationalizing our financial markets giving power to Obama is about the worst thing I can imagine. We may as well tear up the Constitution if he gets elected.

On last night's debate

I was impressed with John McCain last night. He definitely held his own against Mr. So-Called-Smooth-Talking Barack Obama. Why anyone thinks Obama is a good speaker is beyond me! All those hesitations and "let me be clear's" distract the heck out of me. But then again, he really never seems to say anything of substance so I guess it doesn't matter that much.

All the pundits said Obama was going to come out swinging and try to make John McCain look bad. I think it backfired on Obama because he sure did look put off a number of times. He also never got the best of McCain!

Great debate and I'm glad Kissinger came out and said Obama was wrong when he tried to say he (Kissinger) had supported Obama's assertion that we should talk with terrorist nations without pre-conditions.

Did Obama get the date of the Depression wrong in the first part of the debate? I could have sworn he was off by ten years, but I haven't had a chance to go back and view it again. I guess if he did have the dates wrong that someone would have called him on it by now. No biggie if he did I guess, anyone can make a mistake like that.

Here's one funny I heard Thursday or Friday: Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate for President, said she'd debate Barack Obama if John McCain didn't attend! I would love to have seen that one, wouldn't you? I think there would have been a shouting match before it was all over. But I'm sure Obama would have backed out if that's the way it went down. I liked the idea some floated of having Sarah Palin stand in for Senator McCain if he couldn't do it!

Team Sarah, Red State Feminists, Joe Biden and David Letterman

Team Sarah (.com) is a great new website and an easy way to meet other supporters of Sarah. I've been over looking around but haven't joined yet. I will.

There are some excellent sites cropping up in support of Sarah Palin all over the net. One of the new members on our network is the Red State Feminists (.org).

What are we all going to do after Sarah and John McCain win on November 4th? I think Sarah will need our support more than ever in the coming years. If we think the media is full of nasty now, wait until she's in office. There will be more bad jokes and stabs than ever I believe.

I am excited about her debate with Joe Bidenism. They are probably working so hard to try and keep him from adding to the list of Bidenisms that it will be impossible for him not to make another!

Did anyone see David Letterman Thursday night? Talk about being hot under the collar! I can't exactly blame him for being mad, but he did get a bit carried away. If I had invited someone to my show (or house) and they cancelled and told me they had to hop a plane, then I saw them talking to another show host (or at a friends party), I would be angry. I don't know why it was handled like that but I would imagine something changed at the last minute. Talking serious matters to a newscaster is a lot different than cracking jokes during a financial crisis, but a phone call to let Letterman know things had changed would have been a nice gesture.

I haven't read McCain's side of things, but having Letterman as an enemy is not good. Then again, when Letterman likes you it can be pretty darned uncomfortable, too. I've never cared for Letterman's politics or some of his humor, but he is someone who has a lot of followers who can be influenced by his comments.

Newt on the Economy, Debates and Other Issues

The Economy Can't Wait, Change Friday's Debate: Candidates Should Focus on Economic Priorities
By Newt Gingrich

This week I will bring you up to date on the latest plans for Solutions Day, this Saturday, and spell out the dangers of the Paulson bailout/power-grab plan now being debated in Congress. But first, a word about Friday's presidential debate:

Senator McCain should call for Friday's debate to be about the economy

We are seeing a meltdown in our financial system because our political system - the Congress and the President - has refused to confront how big the challenges are and has refused to enact real change.

We do not need a series of gimmicks and bailouts which leave us weaker and more in debt than ever. We need a serious, pro-growth plan for America's long-term economic health.

The economy is in crisis. The Paulson bailout will fail.

Senator McCain should seize this moment and demand that Friday's presidential debate focus exclusively on a pro-growth economic plan for America.

Foreign policy can be covered in a future debate.

You are invited

This Saturday at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, Georgia, we will unveil a four-part action plan for the American economy. You can see it at SolutionsDay2008.com, on DISH Network #219 and DirecTV #577.

This will be our second annual Solutions Day workshop. We will outline solutions for the economy, for energy, for education, and for health.

Why Solutions Day? Because America Needs Fundamental Change, Not Gimmicks and Bailouts
Solutions Day is inspired by our belief that America needs fundamental, long-term change to get on the right track.

One of our greatest challenges is energy security. We need real change in our energy policy to keep most of the $700 billion we send overseas each year for energy here at home. Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams is going to help outline what America needs to do.

In addition my new book, Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, is just out with a comprehensive energy solution.

Michael Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner, to participate in Solutions Day.

Our New Film, "We Have the Power" Will Premiere

The last part of the Solutions Day workshop will be the premiere of a new documentary film Callista and I have made with Dave Bossie and Citizens United entitled "We Have the Power." The film both points out that we, the American people, have the power to force government to change and we, the American nation, have more energy than any other country.

In addition to energy we are going to deal with fundamental change in education. We're very excited to have former Democratic Governor and head of Ed in 08 Roy Romer join us.

We're also going to show a small part of "Two Million Minutes", Bob Compton's remarkable film about high school in India, China, and America.

Economy, Energy, Education, and Health Will All Be on the Table

The long-term health of the economy requires rethinking our health system. On Saturday the Center for Health Transformation will provide a series of health reform solutions. Former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro (a cancer survivor) will speak to her passion for ending cancer as a cause of death and suffering and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (a heart-lung transplant surgeon) will also speak.

In addition, NBA star Dominique Wilkins will report on a very compelling diabetes and obesity project underway in Columbus, Georgia, and we will report on a very important Alzheimer Study Group co-chaired by former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey and with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Please join us for Solutions Day. You can attend in person Saturday at the Cobb Galleria, or watch on the Internet, Dish TV or to DirectTV. Get more details at SolutionsDay2008.com.

Now to the Paulson Disaster

One of the reasons that Solutions Day has taken on such importance for me is this: We are living through one of the most challenging periods in modern America.

I cannot remember any time in my lifetime when we have had such a combination of big challenges, bad policies, and bad political leaders.

After a summer of failing to solve our energy problems, failing to solve our economic growth problems, failing to get federal spending under control, failing to modernize the health system, we now have an absurd and dangerous proposal to give a former Chairman of Goldman-Sachs $700 billion of our tax money to bail out Wall Street.

Treasury Secretary Paulson had two years to get ahead of the financial problems and failed.

Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us

We were told this summer that when the terrible $300 billion-plus housing-bailout bill passed the Congress it would solve the problem.

It didn't.

President Bush signed a housing bill that gives $500 million a year to ACORN, a very leftwing political organization, because it was going to solve the problem.

It didn't.

Now we are told the next $700 billion spent by Secretary Paulson will solve everything.
It won't.

No Economic Growth = No Recovery = No End to the Financial Decay

The most important thing to remember is that without economic growth there will be no end to the downward spiral.

Without economic growth there will be another bailout next year and another bailout the year after.

The number one goal should be to restore economic growth.

Only through economic growth can we generate the resources to soak up the bad debt and heal the broken institutions which litter the landscape.

In the 1930s, faced with an immediate crisis of bad debt, the government adopted a series of bad ideas - tax increases and regulatory interventions that allowed the Depression to extend until World War II.

If we're not careful we're going to allow bad politics in Washington to lead to bad policies and the result is going to be a long period of weak growth and massive indebtedness.

In other words, politician, lobbyist, bureaucrat and lawyer generated economic decay.

Pro-Growth or Pro-Decay: Silicon Valley or Detroit as America's Economic Future

The stunning difference between a pro-growth and pro-decay policy was driven home by the three days I spent in Silicon Valley late last week.

While Washington and Wall Street were in a panic, the venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and creators of new technologies, new solutions and new wealth in Silicon Valley were too busy inventing the future to worry about Secretary Paulson.

I drove a Tesla, a new electric sports car that goes 0 to 60 in 3.8 seconds. It is a Silicon Valley invention built in San Jose. It is telling that it was not designed by the old auto world or produced in Detroit.

While Silicon Valley has been creating new wealth, new technology and new products, the city of Detroit has been decaying. In 1950, Detroit had 1,800,000 people and the highest per capita income in the United States. Today Detroit is below 900,000 people (the first major American city to drop below a million) and ranks 62nd in per capita income. Half the housing stock in Detroit is unneeded. Imagine what that does to the value of the rest of the housing supply.
Silicon Valley is a product of a combination of science, technology, entrepreneurship, venture capital and very educated people.

Detroit is the product of two generations of bad politicians, bad bureaucracy, high taxes and crime.

We are at a crossroads between Silicon Valley and Detroit.

The Paulson bailout would move us one step further toward Detroit and a failed future.

Secretary Paulson, Meet Lord Acton

In the mid 19th century, Lord Acton warned that "power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Note that he dropped "tends" in the second sentence.

Secretary Paulson's proposal for a $700 billion grant of power with no legislative oversight and no judicial review is a fundamental violation of Lord Acton's principle. It is an invitation to corruption and tyranny.

If Russian leader Vladimir Putin had written the plan, I would have understood it. But having an American Secretary of the Treasury write such a plan is such a fundamental violation of our constitutional processes that it makes you wonder how Secretary Paulson can serve in the Cabinet.

Danger One: Crony Capitalism

The first danger of the Paulson bailout proposal is that it will create crony capitalism. People who are failing in business will hire lobbyists and curry favor with politicians to protect them from their own mistakes.

You cannot have capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down.

You cannot create a welfare state for rich investors.

Danger Two: Bureaucratic Capitalism

The other great danger of the Paulson bailout is that to avoid crony capitalism we will create bureaucratic capitalism.

Already there is talk of salary caps and other government regulatory requirements which would drive the "private" out of "private enterprise."

Bureaucratic enterprise is no replacement for free enterprise - it's a contradiction in terms.
The Paulson bailout holds the potential to slow down American economic growth for another decade.

Or, as in the case of Detroit, forever.

What Should We Do?

As I wrote on Sunday on National Review Online here are four immediate steps we can take:
Eliminate the "mark to market" accounting provision which is driving companies into bankruptcy unnecessarily.

Repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley law which failed in every case this year and which burdens new companies with a $3 million-a-year accounting fee.

Join China and Singapore in eliminating the capital gains tax and watch money pour into the system from private investors at no cost to the taxpayer.

Pass a strong energy bill to return at least $500 billion a year in energy money to the United States.

If we had an extra $5 trillion in energy spending in our economy in the next ten years with a zero capital gains tax and a liberated entrepreneurial sector no longer crippled by Sarbanes-Oxley we would generate the wealth to absorb all the current losses.

A No-Growth Bailout Just Sets the Stage for More Bailouts

Congress should pass no bailout without attaching a powerful economic growth component to it.
A bailout in isolation simply sets the stage for more bailouts.

In the absence of economic growth the economy will decay and debts will decay and they will be back next year for even more of your money.

Economic growth is the only way to get America on the right track.

Action item: Call your Congressman and Senator today and demand they vote "no" on Paulson and "yes" on economic growth.

Your friend,
Newt Gingrich

P.S. -- A Super Hero in Tights, a Rap-Rocker, and a 3-Year-Old from Kentucky: What do they have in common? Any one of them will win a year supply of free gasoline on September 27th. And your vote will determine which one.

All you have to do is cast your vote here.

On August 13, we started a video contest called "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Nothing" as part of our "Drill Here, Drill Now" petition effort. We asked people to send in short, creative videos demonstrating support for a "Drill Here, Drill Now" approach.

American Solutions sorted through all the submissions and chose the Top 3. All this week, you can watch all 3 and vote for a winner, to be announced at the end of Solutions Day on September 27th. Please take a few minutes to watch the Top 3 videos vote for a winner at AmericanSolutions.com/VideoContest, where you can also read a bit more about the people that submitted them.

P.P.S. -- News From the Center for Health Transformation: The Center for Health Transformation held its 4th Annual Creating a 21st Century Medicaid System Meeting. State healthcare leaders from across the country discussed both the challenges and successes they face with the Medicaid system. In other panels, numerous CHT members provided solutions available making Medicaid more transparent and more efficient system which ultimately benefits the American taxpayer (watch the archived webcast for more details). In the coming weeks and months, I'll be outlining my "Health Based Health Reforms" which will bring real change to our healthcare system on a massive, innovated scale.

(There were photos in the newsletter with captions, I tried to delete the captions but may have missed one or two. Just mentioning in the event something above doesn't quite read correctly...)

On a roll tonight! Savage Savages Caller...

I'm not a big fan of Michael Savage. He's just a bit too, too, in your face for my tastes. This video is definitely in the "in your face" category but it so shows how ignorant and pied-piper blind some people are in their worship of Barack Obama. Logic out the door. Common sense follows.

McCain ad Jim Johnson

From John McCain on Friday

In Wisconsin, John McCain Outlined His Plan To Reform Our Financial Markets. To ensure that people are able to stay in their homes and safeguard the life savings of Americans by protecting our financial system and capital markets, John McCain is calling for the formation of a Mortgage and Financial Institutions Trust (MFI). The MFI will be a vital element in managing the current financial crisis.

The Purpose Of The Mortgage And Financial Institutions Trust (MFI):

The MFI Is An Early Intervention Mechanism That Will Help Financial Institutions Avoid Bankruptcy And Expensive Bailouts While Protecting Their Customers. The MFI will minimize the use of taxpayer money by having an orderly process to address the market crisis. Working with the private sector and regulators, the MFI will help identify troubled institutions and take action to strengthen them before they become insolvent.

The MFI Will Provide Troubled Institutions With An Orderly Process To Identify Bad Loans, Provide Funding And Eventually Sell Them At A Profit. This will get the Treasury and other financial regulators in a proactive position instead of reacting to one troubled institution after another.

The Structure Of The Mortgage And Financial Institutions Trust (MFI):

The MFI Will Be Part Of The U.S. Department Of The Treasury. The MFI will be managed by a board of directors consisting of at least the Secretary of the Treasury, Federal Reserve Chairman, Chairman of the FDIC and two public members. The Secretary of the Treasury will be Chairman of the Board. Under the MFI process:

· Troubled institutions will voluntarily come to the MFI.
· The MFI will provide liquidity loans at reasonable interest rates. The MFI will receive warrants for controlling interest in troubled institutions.
· Troubled financial institutions that enter the MFI will keep operating as private companies with the help of the MFI.
· The MFI will supervise the sale of loan assets at market prices and purchase them as necessary.
· The MFI will eventually, and at its discretion, sell the loans to the private sector.
· The MFI will have a predetermined tenure during which to dispose of the loans.
· The MFI will return all profits to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and taxpayers.

Democrats, do your patriotic duty. Send a check to the government.

I think Joe Biden has hit on something.

Since this is such a great patriotic thing to do, then all the Democrats who support Obama should just go ahead, line up, cut checks to the government and hand them over.

Why wait until Obama is elected (please no!) to do your patriotic duty? Patriotism has nothing to do with your Party. If you love your country you should not want to wait for Obama to take office! Show your support for Obama by sending your donations to the government rather than to Obama. Go ahead and figure out what your new tax rate will cost you and send it now.

If you don't want to send your money to the government then just find some folks you want to support and start sending them a monthly check. If enough people chose to follow Joe Biden's patriotic lead then we could do away with Welfare, homelessness and all that ails our country.

Oh wait, did I hear that Joe Biden gives next to nothing to charity? Does Joe Biden send money to the government or does he take it from the government?

I watched Joe Biden when he tried to make paying taxes a patriotic duty. Giving more money to politicians to spend on bridges to nowhere is patriotic? Give me a break. Although I'm not in the tax bracket he was referring to I'm intelligent enough to know that if my boss takes a tax hit then my next raise is toast and maybe my benefits will get cut or something similar. No one voluntarily hands over money to the government.

There is nothing patriotic about giving hard earned money to the government. If they would cut their spending we could cut taxes!



I accidentally spelled patriotic "partiotic". Ya know what Google's spell check picks for first choice substitution? Pathetic. Do you think someone on the Blogger / Google staff is trying to send a message? How does one transposed letter trigger the word pathetic? Not close enough guys.

This is so horrible! We can not elect Barack Obama

How can any caring human being do this to another? How can any human being support this? I think everyone who supports this should be forced to hold a child as it dies. If they then support something this cruel, they are not human. If you don't want to take a chance on getting pregnant then there are a lot of things you can do to ensure that doesn't happen. Barack Obama does not deserve anyone's vote.

Sarah Palin with Sean Hannity and Town Hall Meeting

They just did a little bit with Sarah on Fox at a Town Hall meeting with John McCain, from Michigan. In about twenty minutes she's going to be on Fox News with Sean Hannity which should be pretty good. I've seen some promos already and she looks a lot more comfortable.

What do you think about the email hackers getting into her Yahoo account? What a bunch of yahoos.

One thing I heard on some show this evening is that Obama is coming up a little in the polls because of the financial crisis.

I just updated the sidebar with all the new blog members! The Read My Lipstick Network is a-growin' and I for one am thrilled.

Comparing Sarah Palin to Barack Obama

You'd think Sarah was running for President instead of Vice Prez the way the media is going after her! They are vetting her better than they ever vetted Barack Obama! When put on the spot they say something about John McCain's age or something about the public vetting Barack Obama for the entire campaign. What a crock.

Let 'em go after Joe Biden like that and the storm would be ferocious! Especially since there's a lot to go after with his long record.

Barack has done nothing of note. I can't believe the public is eating him up like they are doing! Of course, this is the public that bows down at the altar of Hollywood and Jerry Springer, so who am I kidding? They're begging for someone to lead them like the Pied Piper.

It's funny, every time I write something in this blog I wonder how long I'll be able to say something negative about Barack Obama and be allowed? I wonder if someday I'll be traced and the thought police will be knocking on my door. Where is this country headed when the people who say they want free speech protest and beat up people who speak things they don't agree with?

Sarah Palin is a breath of REAL fresh air in this mixed up world of politics. I love it that she speaks her mind and I sure with she didn't have to be hobbled during the election. I can see she's listening real well to the handlers and towing the party line for now. But when she and McCain get to Washington there's not a doubt in my mind things are going to change.

Listen closely to what Barack Obama is saying people. He isn't saying change, he's saying more of the same. He bent to the Party wishes by picking Joe Biden, the 'safe' choice thinking he'd give him credibility. He listened to his wife (I think) and didn't pick Hillary Clinton. She'd have put him over the top and it would have been fun seeing Hillary and Sarah debate, wouldn't it?