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You thought Obama-Care was bad; wait until you hear about Obama-Ed!

9th District Republicans are delighted to announce that 

Lindsey Burke, Education Policy Expert

from the renowned Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC

will address our public forum on Obama-Ed

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012

7 PM, doors open at 6:30

Bloomfield Twp Offices Auditorium
4200 Telegraph Rd, Bloomfield Hills
(south of Long Lake, west side of Telegraph)

Come learn from this foremost education policy expert how the Obama Administration is over-reaching its authority to impose nationalized standards and curriculum for K-12. Join us to hear about the costs to our state and to educational liberty posed by national common core standards and tests; learn why state leaders should reject this federal over-reach!

What will this mean for the future of education…for the future of America?

For more information, click here.

The following is an open letter Lou Pritchett, former vice-president of Proctor and Gamble,
wrote to President Barak Obama.

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike
 any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure,
I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive
 Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no
 visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth
 Growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience,
and thus
 don’t understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to
 publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’
 crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style
 country where the government sector dominates
instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system
 with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly 
capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose
 that lays the golden egg which provides the
highest standard of
 living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics
 against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
 challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.



You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider
 oppposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass
on everything
 you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the
 Limbaugh’s, Hannitys, O’Reillys and Becks who offer opposing,
 Conservative points of view.



You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will
 probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

~Lou Pritchett~

 

Mr. Pritchett confirmed that he was indeed the author of this much-circulated “open letter” quoted above: 

 I did write the ‘you scare me’ letter. I sent it to the New York Times, but they never acknowledged or published it. However, it hit the Internet and, according to the ‘experts’ has had over 500,000 hits.

This letter certainly is a very succinct statement of what hard-working Americans feel concerning President Obama and his policies.

President Obama to Focus on U.S. Military Presence in Australia

The plan would like involve beefing up U.S. Naval operations and give troops access to Australian facilities. The cost of the initiative is unclear, and no one’s saying if these troop reassignments are Jobs Created or Saved. Some are especially critical of the move as the Defense department is facing steep cuts, and even more if the Congressional so-called super committee fails to reached a deal next week.

Back on October 21st President Obama made it clear that US Troops would be leaving IRAQ in 2012. Obama’s statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the U.S. would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011. He never mentioned the tense and ultimately fruitless negotiations with Iraq over whether to keep several thousand U.S. forces in Iraq as a training force and a hedge against meddling from Iran or other outside forces.

Today, President Obama

addressed the United Nations Assembly.

In President Obama’s speech, he praised the many regime changes that occurred over the past year, citing how change does not necessarily need to come by violence.  Specifically, the portion of text from his speech to the U.N. Assembly was…

“So this has been a remarkable year. The Qaddafi regime is over. Gbagbo, Ben Ali, Mubarak are no longer in power. Osama bin Laden is gone, and the idea that change could only come through violence has been buried with him. Something is happening in our world. The way things have been is not the way that they will be. The humiliating grip of corruption and tyranny is being pried open. Dictators are on notice.”

Here again, is the same text,

parsed with snippets of news reports of the day.

“So this has been a remarkable year. (The unemployment rate in the United States was last reported at 9.1)

The Qaddafi regime is over.(Libyan rebels on Monday said they had sent more fighters and weaponry to Tripoli…)

Gbagbo, (Toure says no U.N. troops were involved in Mr. Gbagbo’s capture which he says was carried out by fighters…)

Ben Ali, (The departure came as a dramatic climax to weeks of violent protests against Ben Ali’s rule in the north African nation…)

Mubarak (It was a moment they had anticipated throughout long days of relentless demonstrations — sometimes violent — that demanded Mubarak’s departure….)

are no longer in power (Rockets pound ghost city as allies say Gaddafi must go…)

Osama bin Laden is gone, (The president called the killing of bin Laden the “most significant achievement to date”…)

and the idea that change could only come through violence has been buried with him.

Something is happening in our world. (The crowd I saw and spoke with were well informed, and deeply concerned Americans about the direction their country was headed. They were polite, courteous and above all–patriotic.)

The way things have been is not the way that they will be. (“We’ve come to take our government back,” Paul declared to a cheering throng.)

The humiliating grip of corruption and tyranny is being pried open. (A federal jury found former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich guilty of 17 of the 20 counts…)

Dictators are on notice. (President Barack Obama is rapidly advancing an executive dictatorship)

The only question that remains is,

“Who will write the history”?

Water sports, golf, picnics, garden, family time? All of the above?

Good for you, that’s what summer is for when you are a normal person; when you don’t think about politics all day long.

But what do you do when you have the fire in your belly to radically change the United States of America from a sleazy, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, imperialist backwater to a European Socialist state where we live to serve the government? What do you do, in other words, if you are a liberal?

Take a look at this video to find out what they’ve been up to this summer:

We’re not trying to kill the fun. Go ahead, enjoy your summer, enjoy your families, enjoy the good weather and God’s great creation. But beware that the other side is working all this summer. So when you come back to the Tea Party in the Fall, be ready to engage.

Well, it’s here.  Another “Historic Moment.”   Heritage Foundation’s Morning Bell notes that we have achieved an “all-time high debt” and points out some scary, but untrue, predictions made by Pres. Obama and Tim Geithner – cheerleaders from the school of  Keep Spending.  Writing in his post Myth-Busting the Debt Limit, Mike Brownfield lays out that default is not inevitable, and he is a sorely needed voice of sanity and responsibility:

President Obama’s prophecies about the debt limit obscure an underlying truth: The U.S. government must find a way to get control of spending. Simply raising the debt limit and allowing the United States to borrow more money, unchecked, will not make that happen. 

 Click to read the entire article at

We as a country need to change the behaviour of the spenders in Congress, who have excelled themselves by meeting and exceeding every spending ceiling that has been imposed on them.

For our generation “Return of the Jedi” was more than a silly movie; it was a clarion call, a summons, to those who believe in freedom, liberty and human dignity against the constant onslaught of the dark forces. These past few weeks we have started to see a new ripple in the pond that we can only hope becomes a giant wave as we move into 2012. Specifically, it is a ripple of energy from those on the forefront of job creation, free markets and sound economic policy that says “We’re not going to take this anymore, we’ve been the punching bags for too long and now we are ready to take up the fight.” It comes not only from business leaders, but from the grass roots and from actors across the political spectrum. Let’s take a look at just a few of the stories from this past week:

Boeing Corporation, our country’s only manufacturer of large aircraft, was ambushed by the Obama Administration’s National Labor Relations Board which took the decision that Boeing does not have the right to open a new manufacturing facility in South Carolina because it’s a Right to Work state (meaning that an individual worker cannot be forced to join a union).This is ostensibly a big negative, bit what was enormously encouraging was that the CEO of Boeing, Jim McErney, wasted no time in confronting the Administration in the pages of The Wall Street Journal:

(The NLRB) claims we improperly transferred existing work, and that our decision reflected “animus” and constituted “retaliation” against union-represented employees in Washington state. Its remedy: Reverse course, Boeing, and build the assembly line where we tell you to build it.

The NLRB is wrong and has far overreached its authority. Its action is a fundamental assault on the capitalist principles that have sustained America’s competitiveness since it became the world’s largest economy nearly 140 years ago. We’ve made a rational, legal business decision about the allocation of our capital and the placement of new work within the U.S. We’re confident the federal courts will reject the claim, but only after a significant and unnecessary expense to taxpayers.

More worrisome, though, are the potential implications of such brazen regulatory activism on the U.S. manufacturing base and long-term job creation. The NLRB’s overreach could accelerate the overseas flight of good, middle-class American jobs.

In Obama’s first two years how many times did you hear a public pushback from the business community? Pretty rare, right? Let’s hope this is just the first shot in a long battle.

Oil executives came under fire again this week as well for their corporate tax carve out. The obvious answer here is to simply lower the corporate tax rate significantly or get rid of it entirely. Congress, never one to take the obvious path, would rather keep a high tax rate and then pass carveouts for every industry from farming to mining to general manufacturing to oil and gas exploration. Then when the industry of the day makes a profit they can be pulled before the high court of Congress and belittled. The oil executives fought back this time, as did Senator Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana:

This will not reduce gasoline prices. So why are we doing it? Will it create jobs? No. It will actually hurt job production in the United States,” Landrieu said. “Why don’t you help us produce more, because we can do it, but we get shut down by bureaucracy, moratoriums, permatorium, rules, regulations, EPA, refuges. We can’t even get free to produce the energy that we can produce for this country

Rick Snyder’s business tax passed the State House and Senate this week, though the Senate was as narrow as it gets. Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves that the state that twice elected Granholm has now come full circle and decided to end the idiotic hand outs to the film industries and embrace general business tax cuts and, more importantly, simplification. A few more years of this and we might just get to the place where we start to realize in Michigan that it is businesses, started by entrepreneurs willing to take risks, that pays for everything else – EVERYTHING ELSE!

Lansing voters said no to a four millage increase in their property taxes. Yes, the very home of America’s angriest mayor, Virge Bernero, learned about the tax millage vote language and said no thanks. Read this article and learn about how to fight tax increases.

Classified under “It must be in the water,” Massachusetts’ Democrats have now started to move legislation that would prevent public sector unions from negotiating for health care benefits. Yes, not Wisconsin but Massachusetts. We are not making this up.

California Lifeguards are the latest casualty of the state and local government bankruptcy  quagmire that we find ourselves in. It was just a matter of time before it came out that many of them make over $200,000 a year and will enjoy million dollar pensions. You can just imagine the Dems lining up to defend the baywatch boys!

All in all, the past week, in fact the past few months, have been good ones. We have focused the nation’s attention on debt, taxes and the need for a growing economy. Call it the Return of the Jedi, in the person of the tea party patriots!

Two events of the past week could not be more different and unrelated, and yet they have a strange connection.

Last week, after a lot of prodding from Donald Trump, President Obama released his actual long form birth certificate, showing, unless you are completely deranged, that the Barack Obama was indeed born in Hawaii. He’s a real American. Then on Sunday night just as we were getting ready to settle down to the latest edition of National Review,  we hear that the President will address the nation shortly. About 80 minutes later, we learn that Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a strike by US Special Forces. That’s awesome. Couldn’t have happened to a better target. So Mr. Obama is indeed a real American, and perhaps he has now started to act like a real American.

Over the first two years of his presidency, Mr. Obama seldom looked like a fellow American to many of us. Most of us were never interested in his birth certificate and never gave the entire topic any thought at all until the Donald brought it up. But many of us had a hard time trying to understand the man in the Oval Office. He didn’t seem to sound like and American, like we do, like our parents did, like our grandparents did. He seemed separate and distant, like he was a little embarrassed by the rest of us. He was the urban metro-sexual who can’t believe that the entire country doesn’t live in New York, Chicago, San Francisco or Los Angeles. We were near do wells clinging to our bibles, guns and heritage, while the anointed one drifted across the landscape feet barely touching the ground.

The Sunday night announcement made us recall a fascinating article by Dorothy Rabinowitz in The Wall Street Journal, from June of 2010: “The Alien in The White House.”

A great part of America now understands that this president’s sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.

For the first two years the administration, top to bottom, acted like 9/11 was a story we made up:

Far greater strangeness has since flowed steadily from Washington. The president’s appointees, transmitters of policy, go forth with singular passion week after week, delivering the latest inversion of reality. Their work is not easy, focused as it is on a current prime preoccupation of this White House—that is, finding ways to avoid any public mention of the indisputable Islamist identity of the enemy at war with us. No small trick that, but their efforts go forward in public spectacles matchless in their absurdity—unnerving in what they confirm about our current guardians of law and national security…

Did Mr. Holder think that in the last three terrorist attempts on this soil, one of them successful (Maj. Nidal Hasan’s murder of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, preceded by his shout of “Allahu Akbar!”), that radical Islam might have played any role at all? Mr. Holder seemed puzzled by the question. “People have different reasons” he finally answered—a response he repeated three times. He didn’t want “to say anything negative about any religion.”

After the raid on Bin Laden what does the future hold for Mr. Obama’s presidency? It seems that he has an opening here to make a ‘right’ turn toward a more normal American posture that puts our values, heritage and future at center of the conversation. Can Mr. Obama shake off Columbia and Harvard Law and reconnect with the American People, or will we continue to see him as he seems to see himself: Self-appointed World Leader?

It may be more difficult for the President to make this turn than we realize. First he, the administration and his base need to come to a more realistic view of the world and our place in it. Like it or not, it was the counter-terrorism apparatus put in place by Mr. Bush that produced the raid that killed Bin Laden. It was enhanced interrogations at Guantanamo that produced much of the evidence, and it was warrantless wiretaps by the NSA that produced the lynchpin to the whole operation. Just like he had to eat crow on closing Guantanamo, the President must now take a serious look at what works and make sure it continues working. His successor at the White House needs the same tools and actions that Mr. Bush left him.

Also, the Administration could use a little more consistency. How do we square the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder wants to give the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Mohammed an American jury trial in Manhattan, while the President sends our special forces to execute Bin Laden inside a sovereign nation without notifying them? This doesn’t make sense Mr. President, and if you were to align your policies we could at least start to see you and understand you as an American leader. We approve of the President’s action against Bin Laden; we simply wish we had seen more actions like these the past few years, and hope we see more like it in the future.