When you go around criticizing Sam incessantly, apologizing for Sam over and over again, publicly hound Sam on his past failings it should come as no surprise that the people who see this behavior would conclude: “This guy is really not a fan of Sam.” And that’s precisely what Rudy Guiliani did this past week. He called it as he saw it when he stated that he doesn’t believe Obama loves America. This, as you can imagine, caused the Oblunderphiles in the media and elsewhere to go into frenzied huff.  “Sad to see what a lunatic Rudy Giuliani has turned into”, “BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani still a terrible human being,” or “Rudy Giuliani dives into Dinesh D’Souza’s anti-Obama dumpster”.   Oddly when Senator Obama said President Bush was unpatriotic, it was met by the same press and the progressives elsewhere with a giant yawn. Go figure.

Big deal a private citizen thinks Obama doesn’t like America.  Why the foot stomping hissy fit? 

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In a tweet the US State department asked for “solutions you think are critical to countering violent extremism.”

This is the State Department so I’m assuming they do not mean countering the TEA Party, or Right to Life, or Right to Work, that sort of thing.

Senator Tom Cotton correctly took them to mean the ISIS variety of extremism, and made time to Tweet back a few suggestions of his own.

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EPA CO2 Regs ‘The Most Fundamental Transformation’ Of US Power

The head of a major U.S. utility said EPA rules to fight global warming will fundamentally transform the way America generates and delivers electricity to millions of residents.  Gerry Anderson, Chairman and CEO of the utility DTE Energy, told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that the EPA’s Clean Power Plan “is the most fundamental transformation of our bulk power system that we’ve ever undertaken.”…And much of this must be done by 2020 — five years from now.

Phfft – so what.?  You guys just haven’t learned your lessons.  Jst like in Afghanistan – wait for Obama’s pullout and you’ll see the Taliban take over just like Obama’s retreat in Iraq let ISIS up.  BE the Taliban in action – Obama, McCarthy, and all the other Totalitarians who believe Government exists to DEMAND that we live our lives their way.  They’ve got less than two years – just wait them out.  Stall, prevaricate, sue and tie it up in the courts – act like your own Community Organizers.  Five years?  They have less than two. 

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Essentially, that is what she has said to America – my your children will only know what I allow and then they will LOVE it!  I read FAR more posts from around the blogosphere than what I can ever write about so I’m in the process of going back to some of those old ones and if they are still relevant; this one from The Hill still has a bad ring to it like when I first read it (emphasis mine):

First lady Michelle Obama is “confident” that controversial changes to school lunch programs undertaken after her lobbying will “eventually be embraced by kids.”

In an interview with Cooking Light magazine to mark the fifth anniversary of her Let’s Move initiative, the first lady says that she sees the effort as “generational.” Eventually, Obama argues, schools will be filled with children who never knew meals that did not conform to new nutritional standards.

“We’re really thinking about the kids who are kindergartners today,” Obama said. “If all they know are whole grains and vegetables, by the time they’re graduating from high school, this will be their norm; they won’t know anything different.”

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From the Union Leader, this snippet whose main thread drives Progressive / Liberals / Democrats nuts:

…The tax rate cut will allow businesses to keep $37.2 million they otherwise would have paid in taxes. That’s a positive development. We should look for more opportunities to let businesses keep more of their money so they can use it to expand, hire, invest or save.

But whenever Republicans propose cutting business taxes, Democrats usually portray the cuts as money taken from the government. It isn’t tax cuts “save businesses” x amount; it is tax cuts “cost government” x amount.

They (the Democrats) have an overbloated and overly developed sense that Government comes first – after all, people can’t do it right for themselves, Government must do it for them (ignoring the fact that these same people are seemingly adult enough to be earning the money that the Government is taking from in the first place).  As I have already said earlier tonite, they just don’t trust the ordinary person to do the right thing or band together voluntarily to solve problems that are bigger than themselves.  And with that lack of trust, the overblown disdain for those same people keeping their own fruits of their labor.  Su peso es mi peso.  Todos pesos.  Ahora! 

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TMEW and I just finished re-watching Atlas Shrugged (Part 1) as we are going to march through them all (far less time than rereading the sometime heavy and boring tome of the same name).  It ended on the note where one of the power hungry and greedy socialists, Wesley Mouch,  had just proclaimed the Equalization of Opportunity Law (which said that one person could only own 1 company – to “let” others have more opportunity) which was meant to “ration” that opportunity (and provide a better platform for politically connected Crony Capitalism).  And then I remembered that I had bookmarked this – where real life Progressives (aka, incremental socialists) who always pooh-pooh the ideas expressed in the book are actually proposing it under the rubric of  (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Liberal think tank floats plan to revive Appalachian coal communities

One liberal think tank has an idea for helping hard-hit Appalachian coal communities: Raise the royalty rates for federal mines in the West.

The Center for American Progress [a very Left leaning one – Skip] said that federal Powder River Basin coal in Wyoming and Montana amounts to a market distortion that’s made Appalachian coal less attractive to extract. The think tank proposed ending what they called favorable terms for private companies to “balance” the coal market.  “Powder River coal companies we believe are not paying a fair share,” said CAP counselor Ted Strickland, the former Democratic Ohio governor who is exploring a Senate bid against Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

So, is this perennial professional Lefty going to call for the high cost of one brought down to that of the lower cost one?  If you believe that…

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The tasty part is at the bottom of this Concord Fishwrap piece:

Under the bill, that money would be returned to ratepayers. It comes out to a savings of roughly 16 cents per month for the average ratepayer.

So what is this about?  The Big Govt people are always telling us that the new program’s cost (or higher spending in general) will only “cost” me a cuppa coffee a day.  Or two.  Problem is, now that we’ve had decades of Bright Ideas passed that “only cost a cuppa” a day to the point I now feel like I’m hauling a couple of tanker trucks full of coffee around – and they never stop asking (or more often, demanding, more).  So, I am ABSOLUTELY in favor of a bill that if even it won’t give me a whole cup, it will finally gives me back a few sips:

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