Michelle Malkin has a good list of ideas. She also offers this:
There is no time to lick wounds, point fingers, and wallow in post-election mud.
I’m getting a lot of moan-y, sad-face “What do we do now, Michelle?” e-mails.
What do we do now? We do what we’ve always done.
We stand up for our principles, as we always have — through Democrat administrations and Republican administrations, in bear markets or bull markets, in peacetime and wartime.
We stay positive and focused.
We keep the faith.
We do not apologize for our beliefs. We do not re-brand them, re-form them, or relinquish them. We defend them.
We pay respect to the office of the presidency. We count our blessings and recommit ourselves to our constitutional republic.
We gird our loins, to borrow a phrase from our Vice President-elect.
We lock and load our ideological ammunition.
We fight.
Exactly. We fight. We must stand up for our country and help rebuild our fallen and broken party.
As we all know now, the polls were indeed correct. Barack Obama is our new President-Elect, and will assume the office in January. We hoped and prayed that by some miracle John McCain and Sarah Palin would pull this one out of the bag. It was illogical to think that they had a chance. My heart was in it for the last few weeks, but my brain kept telling me otherwise.
Barack Obama will become the first black President of the United States. This is certainly a remarkable thing. It is history making. While I do not think he was the correct black man for the job, I am filled with pride that race did not decide this election. This should mark the official end of the most dark chapter in our country. We are not a racist country, and have not been for a long time. We are a country that clings to hope for a better future for our children, and holds ideals that are greater than ourselves close to our hearts.
The race baiters should now be put to bed. We saw Jesse Jackson crying last night. He may have been crying because a black man finally got elected President, or he may have been crying because his racist shyster ass is out of business.
So, this is the good aspect of Obama’s win. The bad aspects are nearly innumerable, and we will discuss these in length for years to come no doubt. This post is a shout out to all the blacks of America. Congratulations. You have one of your own in the highest office in the land. This should be a proud moment, and should inspire you all to elevate yourselves just as Obama has through hard work and dedication to your goals.
Even though my guy did not win, I am proud to be an American today, and see myself as part of the loyal opposition that is being formed right now.
I just can’t do it today. While working on a post about Obama’s fake support for marriage, I realized that I can’t write that kind of stuff today. We stand on the edge of the cliff, and I fear that our fellow citizens are going to grab our hands and jump off the cliff with us tomorrow. I fear of what is to become of our Republic under a democratic super-majority.
We could awake Wednesday morning to find that we are now led by the unholy troika of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama. That is indeed a scary thought.
All will hopefully not be lost however if this turns out to be the case. The Democrats will actually have to run the country. I am predicting that they will be totally inept as usual, and the Republicans will regain control of the legislature in two years, and the White House in four. This is the best scenario of course.
I don’t want to think about the worst scenario right now.
While I think GOA is a bit crazy, I like the way this guy thinks! I may just have to write him in, seeing as I have the luxury of living in a totally Red state. Time for some more research.
Edit: Meh, he seems to be a gold standard, north american union, new world order, nutter type. That’s a shame.
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D. Toledo) whipped the crowd up before Mr. Obama took the stage yesterday telling them that America needed a Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, health care, homes, an education, and a fair playing field for business and farmers.
This is an unbelievable quote. Thanks to Random Nuclear Strikes for posting about this little tidbit of pure communism. This is the definition of totalitarian communism as practiced by, the USSR, Cuba, North Korea, and others. The only way government can guaranty a job, health care, a home, an education, and “a fair playing field for business and farmers” is for the government to own it all, and force you to take this great government job that will not reward you in any way for working harder than the guy next to you.
“Fair” or “fairness” is liberal democrat code for taking away everything you have worked for and giving it to some shmuck who has spent their miserable life sitting on their ass.
The democrats are freaking communists pure and simple.
Update: Here is a video.
Here is the letter the Toledo Blade wrote to Senator Obama.
So, this all stems from our original Socialist in Chief, FDR. What a shock. This is the change we are going to get America. More failed socialist policies that have already doomed us to overwhelming debt, that will make us look back to today and smile fondly. Change my ass.
Update: Meh, this turned out to be complete BS. Apparently the girl scratched herself in the face while looking at a mirror, and was not at the ATM at the time she said the robbery occured.
Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive.
House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-California, and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Washington, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, are looking at redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute.
This is just infuriating. Now they want to socialize our retirement savings even further. Never mind the fact that Social Security is an abysmal failure. More of the same should fix the problem. There’s real HopeChange for you.
A plan by Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic-policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, contains elements that are being considered. She testified last week before Miller’s Education and Labor Committee on her proposal.
At that hearing, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, Peter Orszag, testified that some $2 trillion in retirement savings has been lost over the past 15 months.
Welcome to the free market and freedom. The markets go up and down. Government involvement is usually the reason for them going down, as we have recently seen in this downtrodden market.
Under Ghilarducci’s plan, all workers would receive a $600 annual inflation-adjusted subsidy from the U.S. government but would be required to invest 5 percent of their pay into a guaranteed retirement account administered by the Social Security Administration. The money in turn would be invested in special government bonds that would pay 3 percent a year, adjusted for inflation.
The current system of providing tax breaks on 401(k) contributions and earnings would be eliminated.
So, our “subsidy” would be a $600 tax break. Keep it. What good is that going to do me? What is that in real money for an average guy, $150? Get real people. Under our current 401(k) plans we can save up to $15,000 a year, tax free.
Now, we get to the very evil part of this whole plan. You read it correctly. They want to take another five percent of your income, and force you to put it in an account ran by the same people that have already ruined social security! Really? That is the plan? Please take that plan and keep it. We don’t want that rotting corpse.
These accounts would supposedly earn a guaranteed 3% interest. That’s right, three measly percent. That means when you actually got your money back it won’t be worth what it was when you put it in.
The sham of the whole thing is in the details. First of all, guaranteed means that we taxpayers are on the hook for the bonds that are going to earn all this lame interest. So if it doesn’t work, we get to pay for it! So on top of our overwhelming obligations to social security, this idiot economics professor wants us to give the government more of our money to throw down the same rabbit hole.
Secondly, remove the tax-incentive for comanies to match 401 contributions and the match goes away. You just killed a massive chunnk of wealth right there.
Finally, what do you think the market is going to do if this happens? Their cash cows, the vehicle most Americans use to invest in the market is going to dissapear. If you think we have a problem now, just wait until that happens. The markets will crash for real then, and those government bonds won’t be worth crap with no one around to buy them. This plan is just plain stupid.
“I want to stop the federal subsidy of 401(k)s,” Ghilarducci said in an interview. “401(k)s can continue to exist, but they won’t have the benefit of the subsidy of the tax break.”
Under the current 401(k) system, investors are charged relatively high retail fees, Ghilarducci said.
“I want to spend our nation’s dollar for retirement security better. Everybody would now be covered” if the plan were adopted, Ghilarducci said.
I sent this woman an email and told her that subsidy is the wrong term. Under the current 401(k) system we actually get to keep our own money if we invest it for the future. This is not the government’s money it is ours. Socialists always paint a tax break as government spending. The truth of course is, it is not government spending. It is our cash not hers, or “the nation’s”. This is a freedom thing here. This plan is nothing short of totalitarian seizure of our retirement savings.
Her last statement was especially egregious. Please FOAD lady! Leave OUR money alone you socialist hack! Go back to Notre Dame and drink another Manhattan and complain about how stupid we peasants are to your friends. We bitter clingers also cling to our money, so keep you damn hands off it!
I was going to comment on the rest of the article, but please just go read the whole thing. I can’t take it anymore. These damn communists are going to force us to revolt if they keep it up! I will be following this one closely.
