Isaiah 43: 8-9—Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, and the deaf, even though they have ears. All the nations have gathered together so that the peoples may be assembled. Who among them can declare this and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses that they may be justified, or let them hear and say, “It is true.”

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Isaiah 43: 8-9—Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, and the deaf, even though they have ears.  All the nations have gathered together so that the peoples may be assembled.  Who among them can declare this and proclaim to us the former things?  Let them present their witnesses that they may be justified, or let them hear and say, “It is true.”

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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4: 6)

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SnyderTalk Commentary: Hillary Clinton’s perspective is interesting.  To her, burning a Quran is a “disgraceful act”.  What about the US military burning Bibles in Afghanistan to avoid offending the Afghan people?  What about the Islamofascist Gestapo denying Christians and Jews the privilege of praying on the Temple Mount?  What about governments in most predominantly Muslim countries arresting people for having a Bible in their possession?  I’m not weighing in on the Florida Quran-burning case.  I’m simply pointing out the blatant double standard.

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“News that a crackpot minister at an incredibly tiny church in Florida may burn a Koran is a global story. The man’s plan is condemned by just about everyone, though some point out he has a constitutional right to do so.”

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“What happened to Barack Obama’s once vaunted political machine? The outfit that put upwards of 8 million volunteers on the street in 2008—known as Organizing for America—is a ghost of its former self. Its staff has shrunk from 6,000 to 300, and its donors are depressed: receipts are a fraction of what they were in 2008.”

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“The nation faces a nasty dual deficit problem: a painful jobs deficit in the near term and an unsustainable budget deficit over the medium and long term. This month, the Senate will be debating an issue with significant implications for both — what to do about the Bush-era tax cuts scheduled to expire at the end of the year.”

“Yesterday, former White House budget director Peter Orszag made big news by appearing to break with the Obama administration over the Bush tax cuts in an Oped for The New York Times. Orszag argued that we should ‘extend the tax cuts for two years and then end them altogether,’ a claim that was widely interpreted as being at odds with Obama’s desire to end them now.”

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“The Democrats will probably suffer historic losses in both the House and Senate in less than 60 days. The 11th-hour campaigning of the now-unpopular Barack Obama on behalf of endangered congressional candidates will not change much. In fact, most embattled Democratic candidates don’t want the president to even set foot in their districts.”

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“Not for the first time, a president and commander-in-chief has proclaimed the end of America’s combat role in Iraq.”

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“A scorpion asked a camel for a ride across the Nile.”

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“I’m going to try this one more time because I believe the RINO faction of the Republican party is still of the collective mind that they can beat Democrats in November with nothing more than cynicism.”

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“The left always is lecturing us conservatives on moderation. It would do us good, the left says. If only we were moderate, we might win the fall elections.”

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“In order to understand the last nine years you must understand the first 24 hours of the war—and recall your own feelings in those 24 hours.”

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“As a candidate for the U.S. presidency, Barack Obama touted himself to foreign audiences as a “citizen of the world.”  As President, Mr. Obama is determined to make sure we are such citizens, too.”

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“Nov. 2 is likely to be marked as the official start of Phase Two of the Obama presidency, but in some respects, the turn to the right that will mark his tenure became visible in this first week in September.”

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“The libretto of this operatic election season, understandably promoted by Democrats and unsurprisingly sung by many in the media, is that Republicans have sown the seeds of November disappointments by nominating candidates other than those the party’s supposedly wiser establishment prefers. This theory is inconvenienced by two facts: South Carolina’s Nikki Haley and Tim Scott.”

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“When conservatives hold to their convictions about, say, sound economic policy, liberals in the media and in Congress label them ‘ideologues.’ Should they refuse to compromise their position when offered the chance to do so by liberal Democrats, they are then referred to as ‘fanatics’ or in today’s preferred pejorative word, ‘tea baggers.’”

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“Americans, says Time magazine, are too dumb to appreciate the wonders of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion ‘stimulus’ package. Gobsmacked by polls that show Americans don’t believe government is smart enough to take money from taxpayers and give it to those it considers deserving, Time says: Voters tell ‘pollsters that even programs that have clearly helped (emphasis added) the economy, like the $787 billion stimulus, did no such thing.’”

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“’Democrats choose Death Panels…’ announces the Comedy Channel’s Jon Stewart with mock horror, ‘…for themselves!’ It’s a very funny bit. The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty plays it straight as she reports: ‘Ultimately, some candidates, including incumbents, will have to be left for dead so that the parties can spend where it might still make a difference.’”

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“Having plunged the nation into a deep financial crisis with his wild and unrestrained spending of money we do not have—on things the nation does not need—President Obama is now proposing to spend even more, claiming that this time it will work.”

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“You may recall Barack Obama claiming that the original stimulus plan didn’t need any more tax cuts or ‘piecemeal’ measures. To suggest so was to engage in ‘politics as usual.’ And trust me; you don’t want to be caught going there.”

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“Democratic leaders and their supporters approach the November elections with a lumpy mix of messages. It can’t be as bad as it looks (it is) and maybe losing the House would be a good thing for Democrats (it isn’t) and Americans are spoiled, ungrateful brats (not really an electoral winner). The president shifts from issue to issue in a kind of ADD without energy, managing to be frenetic and uninteresting at the same time.”

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“In his economic speech in Cleveland, President Obama mentioned House Minority Leader John Boehner by name seven times—a striking change from the president’s speech in Milwaukee Monday in which he referred to Boehner only as ‘the man who thinks he’s going to be Speaker.’”

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Paraphrasing Yogi Berra, “President Obama’s latest stimulus proposal is déjà vu all over again.”

President Obama is asking for more money for infrastructure projects as a way to stimulate the economy.  See the article below for details:

Now, think back to 2009.  The president came to the American people and sold his stimulus program by focusing on what?  You guessed it— shovel-ready infrastructure projects:

Truth is our infrastructure does need work.  That includes roads and bridges, water and sewerage treatment, air traffic control systems, and a host of other projects.  But we’ve been down this road before.  President Obama took more than $1,000,000,000,000 of our money and used most of it to pay off his 2008 campaign supporters.

Unions are a perfect example.  We the taxpayers borrowed money from China and other countries to support inefficient and overpaid unionized autoworkers in the United States, for instance, who have benefits that the rest of us don’t even dream about.  Their benefits packages would even be attractive in Europe, and that’s saying a lot.  Those “investments” will eventually fail because when the economy rights itself, the inefficient auto producers will experience the same competitive pressures that they handled so poorly before 2009.  In other words, we poured our hard-earned money down a rat hole.

You would think that President Obama and his elite, Ivy League brain trust could come up with a better plan than to do what he already told us he would do and then didn’t.  It’s as though he sold us beachfront property in Arizona when he took office, and now he’s back again trying to sell us the very same piece of property.

Obviously, President Obama thinks he knows more than anyone else, and he is determined to shove his plans down our throats whether we like it or not.  His latest proposal goes even further.  It insults our intelligence because he must think that we don’t know we’ve been sold a bill of goods, or worse, that we know and don’t care.

Still, our infrastructure needs are massive and the economy may need a jolt, but more of the same just won’t do.  Take cash for clunkers, for instance.  It failed for the same reason that most government programs fail.  Competitive markets are going to find their own bottoms.  There isn’t one thing you and I can do about it.  In the final analysis, the cash for clunkers program did 2 things:

  1. It caused people to buy cars that they would have purchased anyway without any help, but they bought them a little sooner than they had planned.  That created a problem down the road since those car buyers won’t be in the market for new cars when the economy starts rolling again.
  2. The cash for clunkers program required the destruction of those so-called clunkers, thus taking them off the used car market, restricting the supply of used cars, and driving up used car prices dramatically.

If the economy does need additional stimulus spending, this Congress is not the one to do it.  Let’s wait until after the mid-term elections before we even consider new proposals.  Many of the people who helped to create the problems we’re facing now will be gone in 2011.

I think we’ll have a better Congress after the election, a Congress that knows it is answerable to the people.  That’s something President Obama and his Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate seem to have forgotten.  In fairness, many Republicans forgot too.  I hope they will be gone as well.

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