The NRA says Obama The First wants to take your guns. Obama The First has sent his lawyers after TV stations running the ad, threatening their licenses. That’s shades of the Nixon White House when the former president  threatened Post-Newsweek’s TV station licenses here in Florida.

Here’s the ad they don’t want you to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-syKgz4D4g

Congress

No to Taxpayer Funded Bailout: Join the Coalition
Let the market decide, Americans have paid enough

Santa Cruz, CA –  ­ With over 1,000 signatures within 24 hours of its launch, NoCashforTrash.org <http://nocashfortrash.org/> is a new website geared as a coalition to ³stop the taxpayer-funded bailouts.² By linking to numerous organizations and politicians in opposition to the bailouts and providing a real time stream of media news and individual commentary on the proposed financial system bailouts, the site is a hub for the anti-bailout movement. It is created by Terra Eclipse, Inc.

³The proposed bailout is wildly unpopular. If the vote passes today, you know there is a critical disconnect between the American people, and the Washington elite.” Martin Avila, CEO of Terra Eclipse. ³Using new media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Digg along with traditional netroots calls to action, at NoCashforTrash.org <http://nocashfortrash.org/> have built a growing coalition from across the political spectrum. Our goal is to highlight those organizations and individuals who champion the American taxpaying public’s wishes.²

NoCashforTrash.org <http://nocashfortrash.org/> will continue to work through any bailout decision to highlight the effects on American families. This includes holding politicians directly accountable for their final decision. Today, NoCashforTrash.org has launched the ³Rep. Tracker <http://track.nocashfortrash.org/> showing all 535 Members of Congress and allowing users to post their representatives position on the bailout. This tool will foster and encourage user participation, allowing for site users to track calls, email communication, and news coverage of their representatives in regards to the bailout.

³People are flooding the congressional switchboards opposing this legislation. It’s time to get beyond the rhetoric and scare tactics used by those in the White House and on Capitol Hill. If politicians are going to
vote for this legislation, their constituents want to know why. Our tool will allow American’s to record interactions with representatives and their staff. American’s deserve to know, from each politician, how this is going to help them if their representatives vote in favor of this legislation.² Martin Avila continues.

Any organization wishing to join the coalition is encouraged to email info@nocashfortrash.org

Featured members of Nocashfortrash.org’s non-partisan coalition include the National Taxpayers Union <http://www.ntu.org/main/> , Freedom Works <http://freedomworks.com/> , Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty <http://www.campaignforliberty.com/> , William ³BJ² Lawson for Congress <http://www.lawsonforcongress.com/> , UnitedLiberty.org <http://www.unitedliberty.org/> , and Doug Cloud for Congress. <http://www.dougcloud.com/>

Terra Eclipse, Inc. is a political new media strategy and development firm based out of Santa Cruz, California. They were vital in the production of the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign web presence, raising a primary election record $6 million in a single day.

For more information visit, www.NoCashforTrash.org <http://www.nocashfortrash.org/> and www.TerraEclipse.com <http://www.terraeclipse.com/>

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Tin Cup

We’ve seen welfare reform for individuals.  Now we need welfare reform for corporations.  The big boys are lining up with their tin cups outstreatched.

The $700-billion dollar bailout is only the beginning.  I don’t know whether to call this socialism or facism, but our early 20th century ancestors would recognize it.  The government is here to save you.

General Motors, probably soon to be followed by the others, wants government help, too.  For years it made cars that people wouldn’t buy, sold them through a system that put the customers through a wringer, instituted a system that set minimum sales requirements for dealerships that put small town dealers out of business, and generally made cars that broke.  They allowed Walter Reuther and the United Auto Workers force them into the grand experiment of Big Company Socialism.  Now, the company is having to pay benefits to large numbers of retired employees without the income to support it.

The housing bailout will do nothing except support artifically high home prices.  I’ve been looking at foreclosed and lower priced homes.  What I see are banks allowing the homes to sit empty and deterioriating rather than sell at what I would consider a reasonable price. For instance, I looked at one house that sold for $84k ten years ago.  It sold for $90k six years ago.  Then two years ago, it was refinanced for $179k.  Of course, the owner was unable to pay and the bank foreclosed.  Now the bank wants close to it’s financed amount for a house than is not worth nearly that amount.

So what happpens now?  The bank recoups it loss from the taxpaper and the absurd price is supported.

Ridiculous.

Newt Gingrich

Early in his administration, I said that George W. Bush reminded me of President Nixon more than anyone else.  Not the paranoid Nixon of Watergate, but the big government Republican Nixon. Now we see President Bush and the national government making a grab for a huge amount of power – the bailout of the financial industry.

i personally resent it.  No one bails out ordinary people when they make bad decisions.  They could once seek bankruptcy protection, but that was largely eliminated just a couple of years ago.  Who benefitted?  The same financial industry that’s seeking a bailout now.

The Amen chorus in the talk radio industry is at this point leaning towards accepting the huge power grab.

Newt Gingrich is not one of my favorite politicians, but he his right a lot of times.  He’s right when he writes on The Corner

Congress had better ask a lot of questions before it shifts this much burden to the taxpayer and shifts this much power to a Washington bureaucracy.

Imagine that the political balance of power in Washington were different.

If this were a Democratic administration the Republicans in the House and Senate would be demanding answers and would be organizing for a “no” vote.

If a Democratic administration were proposing this plan, Republicans would realize that having Connecticut Democratic senator Chris Dodd (the largest recipient of political funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) as chairman of the Banking Committee guarantees that the Obama-Reid-Pelosi-Paulson plan that will emerge will be much worse as legislation than it started out as the Paulson proposal.

If this were a Democratic proposal, Republicans would remember that the Democrats wrote a grotesque housing bailout bill this summer that paid off their left-wing allies with taxpayer money, which despite its price tag of $300 billion has apparently failed as of last week, and could expect even more damage in this bill.

But because this gigantic power shift to Washington and this avalanche of taxpayer money is being proposed by a Republican administration, the normal conservative voices have been silent or confused.

Newt goes on to ask four questions Congress should be asking, and he goes on to give his answers.  You should really read them.

I’m calling this the give up Congress.  Harry Reid has said he has no idea what to do. Nancy Pelosi has already made her millions.  They both seem to be the kind of people who seek power for power’s sake, then have no idea what to do with it when they get it.  They remind me more of city aldermen than national political leaders.

We are indeed at a crisis, but the crisis is in the multiple failures of government.