Retiring, not running for re-election, whatever. More than anyone, along with Chris Dodd, the architects of the housing bubble burst and unlimited political corruption.

GTFO

From Cato and Daniel J. Mitchell, here

From Ron Paul's Straight Talk:

These are frustrating times for the President.  Having been swept into office with a seemingly strong mandate, he enjoyed a Congress controlled by members of his own party for the first two years of his term.  However, midterm elections brought gridlock and a close division of power between the two parties.  With a crucial re-election campaign coming up, there is desperation in the president’s desire to "do something" in spite of his severely weakened mandate.

Getting something done is proving to be a monumental task.  This may be news to the supposed constitutional scholar who is now our president, but if the political process seems inconvenient to the implementation of his agenda, that is not a flaw in the system.   It was designed that way.  The drafters of the Constitution intended the default action of government to be inaction. Hopefully, this means actions taken by the government are necessary and proper.  If federal laws or executive actions can’t be agreed upon constitutionally- which is to say legally- such laws or actions should be rejected.

The vision of the founders was to set up a government that would remain small and unobtrusive via a system of checks and balances. That it has taken our government so long to get this big speaks well of the original design.  The founders also knew the overwhelming nature of governments was to amass power and grow.  The Constitution was to serve as the brakes on the freight train of government.

But the Obama administration, like so many administrations in the 20th century, chooses to ignore the Constitution entirely.  The increasingly broad use and scope of the Executive Orders is a prime example.  Executive Orders are meant to be a way for the president to direct executive agencies on the implementation of congressionally approved legislation.  It has become increasingly common for them to be misused in ways that are contradictory to congressional intent, or to bypass Congress altogether in enacting political agendas.  The current administration has unabashedly stated that Congress's unwillingness to pass the president's jobs bill means that the president will act unilaterally to enact provisions of it piecemeal through Executive Order.  Obama explicitly threatens to bypass Congress, thus aggregating the power to make and enforce laws in the executive.  This clearly erodes the principles of separation of powers and checks and balances.   It brings the modern presidency dangerously close to an elective dictatorship.

Of course, the most dangerous and costly overstepping of executive authority is going to war without a congressional declaration.  Congress has been sadly complicit in this usurpation by ceding much of its war-making authority to the executive because it wants to avoid taking responsibility for major war decisions, but that is part of our job in Congress!  If the President cannot present to Congress and the people a convincingly strong case for going to war, then perhaps we should keep the nation at peace, rather than risk our men and women's lives for ill-defined reasons!

This administration certainly was not the first to behave in ways that have defied the Constitution to overstep its bounds.  Sadly, previous administrations have set precedents that the current administration is only building upon.  It is time for Congress to reassert itself and its constitutional role so that future administrations cannot continue on this dangerous path.

Its high speed rail to places that no one wants to go to or get from. And now California's attempt to bring it to the proletariat has tripled in price - and won't be ready until 2033.

These leftists still don't care that they are running out of your money to spend on pieces of shit stuff..

That's because it is typical leftist hypocrisy. I get tired of "if this was Bush" but its just plain true. Now our Kenyan(?) president sends troops next door to Uganda and not a peep of protest. He was given the Nobel Peace Prize and he keeps fighting the war in Afghanistan, now says he took the "lead" in Libya, and then send troops to Uganda.  Some peace prize winner - which, of course, he did ZERO to earn anyway.

"The president's new Afrika Korps demonstrates how the "Defense" Department only rarely does defense these days. Most money goes for offense --intervening hither and yon for reasons having nothing to do with protecting America or Americans. With a world filled with various guerrilla bands, separatist factions, and terrorist groups, the potential for more wars is almost infinite.

The world would be a better place if evil was eradicated. But war has proved to be a very poor humanitarian tool. The Obama administration should be pulling U.S. troops out of wars, not intervening in more conflicts."

From The American Spectator...

But its more a Washington problem. Obama just happens to be prez...

Yes, indeed, life IS good in the capital of corporate cronyism. From Cato and Bloomberg News:

"Beltway Earnings Make U.S. Capital Richer Than Silicon Valley." According to the latest Census figures, Washington, D.C. is now the wealthiest metropolitan area in the United States."

The looters now make more than the producers. Washington produces nothing except restrictions. The modern day Robin Hood takes from everyone (taxes, contributions, etc.) and gives to themselves.

From the article:
"Unequal wealth can be a just result of free and fair exchange, where talented Americans reap rewards from providing goods and services their fellow citizens greatly value — as in the case of Steve Jobs—in which case, there's no injustice to remedy.

Or it can be the result of "predation by political elites," in which case, it's the predation that should be tackled directly, Wilkinson argues, so "the fire is the problem, not the alarm."

That the hometown of the political class has passed the home of the creative class in wealth and influence is genuine cause for alarm. Washington, D.C. is the capital of Crony Capitalism — and it's only growing richer. That inequality is worth worrying about."

Looters and moochers, and Democrats are only a little bit worse than the Republicans...

Its just election campaign time so The One is trotting out all the wonderful things he's going to do, even the ones that are actually meaningless...

"In other words, this is exactly the same kind of Cash for Clunkers approach that Barack Obama has taken with economic policy all along, He will spend tens of billions of dollars to play the string out a little longer without actually changing conditions in the market."

This new attempt at pretending to "fix" the housing market is more crap. Here's the article...

He wanted to change America. Well, no President has changed it more. But just not America, look at the whole world: everything from Libya going Islam, the economy, wars continue, Occupy Wall Street - mostly those who voted for The One - European Union going down the tubes, housing market takes another price dump, and headline after headline of negative crap happening everywhere.

But he is The One! How could this be? The world's ocean levels were supposed to abate, people were supposed to love one another, EVERYONE was supposed to get along because The Messiah had come to bridge the gaps of black and white, the haves and the havenots, the U.S. and the world!

Bullshit. It was always total bullshit. This man, this Socialist, this whatever religion and philosophy and political mongrel that he is has almost ruined the world. And he's had plenty of help from Democorrupts of every stripe.

Its called Obamageddon... and its here for a long time

I, of course, am talking about Harry the Moron Reid. Here, judge this quote all by yourself:

“The massive layoffs we’ve had in America today are of course rooted in the last administration," Reid said on the Senate floor on Wednesday. “It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about."

Really, Harry? You are already the stupidest, most corrupted... just a total fucking idiot!!! God, the only way you can be the head dude - or even in the damn Senate - is to be in someone's back pocket. You and Pelosi are total embarrassments - or typical politicians as there is no difference.

Here's the rest of the article... IDIOT

I have been a REALTOR for over 34 years now. The National Association of REALTORS is our membership body. You have to be a member of NAR to be a member of the state associations (MAR), the local real estate boards (in my case, North Oakland County Board of REALTORS), and most importantly the multiple listing service (MLS).

In the October issue of REALTOR Magazine, the Editor in Chief, Stacey Moncrieff opined of her belief in government and how it basically takes care of us: clean water, air, safety, and other things. My email response:

Where to start? The problem with most pro-government people is that you assume that without government nothing gets done and people can't or won't take care of themselves, or will DIE. What arrogance. Clean drinking water? I'm pretty sure that I would have clean water sources, like my well, without governmental help. Clean air? Supposedly its so bad now WITH government that pollution and climate change is going to kill us all. Combat poverty? You mean the nearly $5 trillion dollars that has been confiscated from the haves and thrown at the have-nots (well, the have-not's bureaucracy anyway) since Johnson's administration isn't doing the job? That's government at work. Keep us safe? Been to Chicago lately or the southern border, or want to have some home protection that the 2nd Amendment guarantees but the Obama administration is doing its best to get rid of? That's government at work right now, too. Smart policies? The law requiring landlords to go through testing and licensing before they can remodel a home is totally preposterous. Where was NAR on that one?

Every time Washington, Lansing or the local village council passes something they tout as a positive the negatives outweigh those same positives. Every law they pass is another restriction on some one or some thing. Does Cash for Clunkers ring a bell? Go check out the prices and availability of used cars. Bailouts? Stimulus packages? Rousing successes. Obama's joke of a jobs bill? Designed to a) retain the teacher and union vote that we non-union independent contractors pay for, and b) a tool to blame Republicans for even though its his own Senate Democrats who won't bring the bill forward. A joke - and this is your faith in the current government.

The biggest NAR critics take issue with NAR's present and past policies because with almost every issue NAR has come down on the side of more government. In the past NAR has cheered every lowered interest rate (artificially low thanks to the Fed), which led to ever increasing up-tick in sales and prices which led to the bubble not just bursting but exploding, made sure the MID stays in place (subsidized by non-homeowner tax payers), and fought anything meaningful in the tax reform area (flat tax). NAR now has joined the 35,000 other lobbyists (influence peddlers and buyers) to help the politicians (moochers, looters, and crooks) make the "right" decisions (passing laws that help those who contribute the most to their campaign).

Not once, in my memory, and during my 34-year membership, has NAR pushed for ANY type of governmental reform that wasn't replaced with more and bigger government.

Ms. Moncrieff, you give your own views away - clearly - by stating you were "insulted" by Reagan's nine words. Now you laugh. But there are many people who get up at 6:30 every day to get an early start at work - to pay up to half of their hard-earned income to pay taxes to a corrupt and over-reaching government. A government that has grown way beyond its useful scope.

I guess the biggest irony of all is that NAR has forever been in bed with government, far too intrusive at all levels, while representing one of the biggest groups of rugged individuals who are hard-working, with no benefits, few demands, and only a desire to be left alone to pursue their goals and dreams on their own terms, make our own decisions of where and on what we spend our 16 hour workday commissions on, and keep the government out of our pockets.

If NAR wants to do something for real estate AND the country they should begin to back sound fiscal policies, not this big-government Keynesian crap, and lead us to a much-needed overhaul of the bloated, corrupt and ready to explode bubble that is the U.S. Federal government.