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Over and Over It’s Almost Over

Big Frick — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:34:27 +0000

It’s almost over.

The billboards. The TV commercials. The radio spots. The debates. The interviews. The handshakes. The photo ops. The auto-dialed phone calls. The full page ads. The political action committees. The rallies. The speeches. The political pundits along with their up to the minute opinion polls replete with graphs and charts. It’s all almost over.

With just about 24 hours left before the midterm election of 2010 it is a far different political landscape then it was just a short two years ago. Hope and Change have been replaced by the harsh reality of what those two innocuous transitive verbs really mean.

There has indeed been plenty of Change. And the Change that has transpired has begot many emotions. None of them even remotely resembling Hope.

Two years ago many of the self-proclaimed independent thinkers raced headlong into the polls to cast their vote for a fresh faced junior Senator from Illinois that said almost nothing, but said it in such an eloquent manner that almost nobody bothered to ask what any of his obfuscated rhetoric meant. But now just two short years into this Messiah’s four year term many of those same proud independents have come to the realization that talk is just about the only thing that has been cheap these first two years. The rest has been very expensive indeed.

It has been an election season rife with wild accusations of witchcraft and sexual misconduct. Of Aqua Buddha and illegal alien housekeepers. Of secret donations and not so secret strong arm tactics. The voting public has been made aware of just about every word ever written and every phrase ever uttered by both political veterans and newcomers alike. All this while most of the focus has been on the failed policies of a president that still hasn’t produced a valid copy of a birth certificate or allowed the review of even a single college paper.

The entire election process has been uglier than a Hillary Clinton pants suit and harder than Barney Frank at a Boy Scout jamboree. But what seems to have already lasted an eternity will be over very soon.

And for all the deep digging that has been done into the past actions and policies of those hopeful to make Washington DC their mailing address for the next few years the most important question is the one that has remained unasked. Lost in the circus of personal attacks and carefully phrased and spun repudiations is the only real reason to vote in this election.

Are you happier today than you were two years ago? Do you feel safer? Do you feel more confident in the country’s direction? Forget about the broken promises. Are you happy with the ones that have been fulfilled? Is your job more secure? Is your bank account in better shape? Is your future brighter?

If you can honestly answer yes to the above posed questions, or at least to most of them, then my honest suggestion is that you vote for more of the same and pull that voting booth lever for the Democrat. But if, like me, you are more scared today having seen the reality of what can happen when a neophyte community activist gains control over both Houses of Congress who are literally willing to sell the very soul of this country and those of our children and our children’s children to the economic devil of unsustainable debt and unbridled government spending then you have a chance to make it stop.

Forget about who is right with “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and focus on Asking the right question and Telling the Democrat controlled brain trust in congress your answer with your vote. Is this the direction our country should be headed? If it is than I guess the national celebration of Hope should have continued through the entirety of the past two years.

But it hasn’t.

Maybe that’s proof it’s time for the Change.

The Soul of Audacity

Big Frick — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:17:24 +0000

“Where does a self-made man go on Mother’s Day?”

Such were the rhetorical tidbits an old friend of mine’s father would come up with. He had a ton of them. The best I was ever able to retort in this battle of clever witticisms was a lame response like “Yea, well, you can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think”. Not quite on the same deep thought provoking level, but you go with what you got.

Old Mr. Atkinson’s quote has stuck with me through the years and it recently got me thinking about a different destination quandary. I know about Heaven and Hell, and thanks to my years of nun-enforced Roman Catholic tutelage I even know about the heavenly suburbs of Purgatory and Limbo. But what I don’t know is; where does a man go who has no soul?

I may not know the answer but I am fairly certain that wherever it is that the soulless unregenerate dwell to infinity and beyond, the dissembled demagogue of Hope and Change will one day be an eternal resident. And he won’t be alone. His close political minions, who for a myriad of self-serving reasons have chosen to abandon their own eternal souls as well, will join him in the perpetual chanting of “Yes We Can”.

We are all big boys and girls and even though we know the political winds of change are constantly howling down Pennsylvania Avenue there are some acts that are so brazen in their blatant and shallow attempt to gain favor that it is almost enough to cause one to lose his or her Quarter Pounder with cheese. Such are the recent desperate acts of this presidential purveyor of jackleg hyperbole.

While this campaigning commander never really stopped stumping, it will be important for all of America to remember that every single action, every utterance, every well scripted and tele-prompted ad lib is in fact being carried out for the sole purpose of gaining votes for the November midterm election.

After shunning the Israeli Prime Minister and refusing to even have his picture taken with him just months ago, this Gucci clad chameleon is now walking arm in arm with the leader of the Jewish state and pausing to wave goodbye at the end of the White House driveway like the closing credits from “The Beverly Hillbillies”, all in an effort to bolster the Jewish vote in November.

After failing miserably to serve and protect the citizens of Arizona from the raging drug warlords carrying out mass assassinations just blocks from the Arizona/Mexico border this fallacious fraud sends in the ominous power of the Justice Department and his “Nation of Cowards” henchman to sue the state, all in an effort to persuade Hispanic voters back into his corner. Never mind the cost. Never mind the damage. And then, in what can only be described as the ballsiest statement ever, this misguided megalomaniac tried to convince the country that this porous border is safer now than at any time in the last 20 years.

As the American economy continues to purge jobs at about the same rate as the yet uncapped BP oil gusher this sciolistic socialist and his foot-in-mouth fool VP take to the road to pronounce the trillion plus dollars spent on gangbanger tattoo removal machines and the Spotted California Teat Mouse is actually a grand success. All in an effort to convince…..Hell, even I don’t know who they think they can sway with that load of crap.

It is a dangerous time to be a Democrat. And it is even more dangerous to be the figurehead of the Democrat Party. Having risen so high so fast only to fall to the depths of political despair dragging an entire midterm ticket with him.

And it is even more dangerous for the country when the maligned Messiah has no soul or conscience. For at the depths he is at there is nothing that is beneath him.

ObamaCare and Old Pat

Big Frick — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:46:33 +0000

I have indeed known some real doozies in my life.

Like a fellow I knew named Pat that worked on a road building crew. He would go out every weekend and simply abuse himself to the point of a comatose like blackout. He always claimed he had a great weekend but he could never tell you where he was or what he did. What made it even stranger was that every Monday he would visit the job site Port-A-Potty and deliver what could only be described as the very brimstone of hell. It became almost a pay per view event because not only was the little gift package he left behind absolutely inhuman, it was, well….Technicolor.

Bright canary yellow, fluorescent green, deep purple, sky blue, shocking pink…. It was like a very gay interior decorator with a flair for the absurd had invaded his alimentary system. There were actually grown men who would intentionally follow this poor sot into the fiberglass commode to gaze in awe at the remarkable load of crap that he created. It was hideously offensive and completely disgusting, but believe it or not old Pat couldn’t have been prouder of it. He acted as if he was some sort of artist with a very unusual palette.

As I watch the Democrats celebrate their passage of the ObamaCare trillion dollar debacle I can’t help but be reminded of Pat.

Much like Pat this mess was truly something that Democrats were desperate to pass. And while they may all be standing around shaking each other’s hand at the historic nature of this unconstitutional boondoggle it is, none the less, a complete load of crap.

To her credit Nancy Pelosi was able to focus her minions on the remarkable palette of this load rather than the substance of it. Every political trick in the book was used to ensure passage because on its own the bill stunk to high heaven. But now that it’s passed Democrats are exiting the Halls of Congress with the same misguided pride my old pal Pat displayed and the same wry sense of accomplishment in saying “Hey look what I did”.

This bill will do nothing to improve healthcare, in fact the exact opposite will be true. It adds 35 million to the role of insured but does nothing to increase the number of healthcare professionals that will treat them. It will likely cause many in the healthcare business to reevaluate their business model, forcing some out of business entirely and forcing others to completely change the way they do business.

Seniors and those who will soon be seniors will likely be the first to see the change as more and more doctors will be financially unable to accept new Medicare patients and some will be unable to treat the ones they have. To foolishly claim $500 billion can be taken out of Medicare without reducing the level of healthcare provided is like saying you can buy a Filet Mignon for the same as a McDonald’s hamburger and not lose anything in the quality. The bill is so convoluted that even Barack Obama himself doesn’t understand it. He said this past week that “A year from now millions of adults who are currently uninsured will have insurance”. The fact is that the bills coverage for adults doesn’t start for another 4 years. The only thing that starts next year is the tax increase to pay for this pile of promissory poocaa.

As for my old pal Pat, well the years of unregenerate abuse finally caught up with him and he passed away. After years of unregenerate abuse heaped on the American public in the past and for the years of financial disaster this bill all but guarantees in the future I can only hope the political careers of those Democrats that voted for this disaster to our healthcare system will do the same.

Barack Obama got ObamaCare passed.

But still wouldn’t want to step in it.

Bye Bayh

Big Frick — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:27:59 +0000

What a difference a year makes.

Think back just 12 short months ago when the new popinjay Messiah was just installed into the oval office and Democrats were preparing for their one thousand year Reich. Nancy Pelosi was all-powerful in the House and Harry Reid was running the show on the Senate side. It was a dream team made in liberal heaven and after years of subjugation the Dem’s were going to show those mean old Republicans how a country is supposed to be run.

Now, skip forward one year and several trillion dollars later and look at the results of this liberal brain trust. The only graphs showing an increase are the ones detailing the national debt and unemployment. The filibuster-proof Congress has been incapable of passing any meaningful legislation other than massive spending bills like the near trillion dollar non-stimulating stimulus package and the front man in the White House of Hope and Change has been unable to fill the leadership positions of some of the most important governmental departments like the Transportation Safety Administration and the National Border Protection Agency.

And just when things were looking their bleakest for the Democrats, having just lost the most important battle to date in the defeat of the bloated and unworkable ObamaCare healthcare package, long time Democrat Senator from Indiana Evan Bayh announces his refusal to run for reelection.

And Bayh not only quit. He quit with a vengeance.

Bayh notified Barack Obama of his intent to quit and remained unwavering in his decision even after some good old fashioned arm twisting and cajoling by the president and his Chicago hit man qua Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. In a blatantly obvious snub, Bayh did not notify his Senate Leader Harry Reid prior to his public announcement. Further, in what can only be seen as intentional sabotage toward the Democrat Party, Bayh held off his announcement until just 24 hours before the deadline to submit petitions for a ballot spot. At the time of his announcement there was only one other Democrat candidate collecting signatures, a woman named Tamyra D’Ippolito, who owns a small roadside diner. D’Ippolito was just 1000 signatures short of gaining a spot on the ballot. She has since failed leaving the spot open for a Democrat Committee appointee to fill in.

Bayh made clear his reasoning behind the blockbuster announcement ending his 10 plus year run as Senator; the partisanship under the Democrat leadership of Congress makes it impossible to get anything done. “There is too much partisanship and not enough progress – too much ideology and not enough practical problem solving” he said. He went on to say that his decision should not be taken as a slam against Obama saying he believed the president’s agenda is “the right agenda for America”. Democrats were quick to portray this as tacit support for Obama. The fact is it was just another swipe at the feckless left-wing Democrat leadership currently running Congress. Bayh isn’t intent on hurting Obama, who isn’t up for reelection this November, but he certainly doesn’t intend to lend support to any of the congressional Democrats who are.

What Bayh is saying by his resignation and in his explanation is that even with the overwhelming popularity that swept Barack Obama from an obscure community activist into the seat of ultimate power, Democrats are too dysfunctional to enact policies that benefit anybody other than themselves. Trillions have been spent on pure pork projects and an entire year has been spent bribing congressional leaders to vote for an unworkable healthcare package, all to no avail. He is embarrassed to be part of it and he wants out.

While the president was quick to praise Bayh for his past service the White House’s official statement was terse and demeaning, claiming Bayh was “by nature a governor not a senator.” It is exactly that insulting elitist attitude that has Evan Bayh heading for the hills along with a passel of other long time Democrat Senators and House members.

Did Evan Bayh walk away from an assured reelection as senator for the possibility of a future run as president? Maybe so. Or maybe he believes the old adage that says “if you sleep with dogs you wake up with fleas”.

Perhaps Evan Bayh just got tired of scratching.

Pointing Fingers

Big Frick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:27:20 +0000

Yea, but he started it.

The childish antics of our elected officials continue. Republicans are being accused of maliciously blocking proposals by Democrats, Democrats are locking out Republicans from key negotiations and the president, who only spent enough time in the Hallowed Halls of Congress to have a cup of coffee, is clueless as to how to get anything done using the standard mechanisms in place in both Houses.

It has become obvious that this president’s first year, rapt in historic encomium and bolstered by a wave of nebulous hyperbole, was as good as it is going to get for this administration of Hope and Change and Inexperience.

Entering the oval office with a filibuster-proof majority in both Houses, Barack Obama looked to inflict his vision for America onto the voters that swept him into power. But Hope and Change means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It was the audacity of ambiguity that got him elected and it is that same audaciousness that is now causing many of his once-adoring supporters to turn against him. Even those Democrats who appeared to be unshakable in their support for this new Messiah are looking for ways to distance themselves and save their political skin to fight another day. The collapse of the once all but certain ObamaCare bill proves that the stalemate stymie currently paralyzing Congress can be traced directly back to the inept leadership coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

And just like a schoolyard fracas when the teacher shows up the bully who started the whole thing is all too eager to point his finger and claim victimization.

Barack Obama began his term as president with less legislative experience than most congressional interns. He had a totally new agenda in mind for the country which included some lofty goals and a supercilious socialist ilk. Quite frankly, had the country not been in such desperate need of an experienced leader who could focus his attention on the economic woes we faced, much of his exalted schema would have passed through congress with very little successful opposition. With his iron fisted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and condescending Senate Leader Harry Reid, Obama’s first major legislative act was a near trillion dollar stimulus package that was 99% earmarked payback pork. Next up was to be the complete destruction of the healthcare system as we know it to be replaced by the ObamaCare system of reduced choice and mandatory participation. Much like the non-stimulating stimulus package the Democrats needed no Republican votes to get this monstrosity passed, so Republicans were locked out of the process both literally and figuratively.

Because this community activist qua president lost sight of America’s priorities for the sake of his own, the support he once enjoyed both inside the beltway and beyond began to dwindle. And as the polls go so goes the support of the elected elite whose continuing employment depends upon public sentiment. With the impending mid-term election coming Obama tried his best to ram through an unworkably expensive and graft laden healthcare bill that made nobody happy. Following the directions of his Chicago machine politics advisors he used muscle instead of mediation. And as a result he not only lost the battle but a number of defectors amongst the ranks of his once faithful as well.

Now, instead of learning from his mistakes in both principle and process, Obama is satisfied to make yet another political grandstand play and call the Republicans to a special televised meeting where he hopes to portray his new commitment to bipartisan participation. The reason for this newfound love of live television is so he can ratchet up the blame game and call the now filibuster-able Republicans to task for what he and his remaining Democrat minions will depict as obstructionism.

The Republicans, who are still smarting from a year of complete legislative domination, are in no mood to lose their newly attained political momentum and will likely not give an inch to this neophyte negotiator.

It will all make for good television and even better political pundit fodder. But it will not make for a productive legislative session unless the focus turns to real solutions for the ailing economy, the painful unemployment rates and the unsustainable national debt.

As Democrats, Republicans and this quickly fading presidential phenom point fingers at each other the public will continue to become more disenchanted with the entire lot.

And in November many of those looking to extend their congressional stay will not like the finger we use to point back.

Dick Does What Dicks Do

Big Frick — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:48:23 +0000

Let’s pretend for a moment that you are one of the lucky ones to still be employed.

Now let’s pretend that your employer has a huge job to tackle that will likely mean the difference between the company’s survival if it succeeds or its agonizing and certain demise if it fails. This job will take all your skill and likely will mean many long nights working on projects to meet vital deadlines. The boss has made it clear that it won’t be easy but has made it equally clear that your ability and dedication to your chosen profession will be critical in the overall success of the company. In fact your personal participation will be particularly critical as you will be the second in command.

Now, having established the premise of this make-believe scenario, would you think it was proper to accept an additional full time position to perform in conjunction with all of your other duties?

While the scenario may be a fantasy the reality is that Illinois Senator Dick “Gulag” Durbin, the second in command of the Senate behind leader Harry Reid, has done just that.

In what can only be viewed as yet another thumb in the eye of the Illinois voters that sent him to Washington, Durbin announced today that he has accepted the position of campaign chairman for Democrat Senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias.

Giannoulias won the recent Democrat primary and will face off against Republican candidate and current US House member Mark Kirk. Both are vying to fill the US Senate seat rarely used and quickly vacated by Barack Obama, currently being kept dust free by Roland Burris. Burris has decided not to run for reelection after having been gifted the seat by the infamous former Illinois Governor and current celebrity Trump apprentice hopeful Rod Blagojevich. Though Burris has done less in the Senate than any other Senator except for Obama himself, he will receive a lifetime Senator’s pension at the taxpayer’s expense. Never mind that fact that the guy who gave him the job will likely also be living off the taxpayers very soon in a federal penitentiary.

But regardless of the history, the Democrats view this Illinois seat as yet another critical political possession. Even though there are countless political hacks in the Illinois Democrat machine that could serve with equal alacrity and ability, in order to keep this historically Democrat seat in the blue column Durbin has been tapped to run the little known and lesser financed Giannoulias campaign. The question that needs to be asked by all taxpayers that pay Durbin salary is; is this the best use of his time? I guess it depends on whose interest is being served.

Since losing the Massachusetts seat to Scott Brown the president has spent the last few weeks publically declaring his recently acquired desire for bipartisan cooperation. Headlines from this past weekend alone touted that “The President Braves Winter Storm” to rally his depressed party faithful in a special Capitol Hill visit. While meeting with Democrats Obama discussed how to revitalize his now failing agenda stating “We can’t solve all our problems alone”.

But now, with possibly the last best hope for meaningful bipartisan progress in the Senate, the Democrats give an excused absence to their Number Two man for strictly partisan political purposes. The Giannoulias campaign is woefully short of funds so from a strictly partisan political position, Durbin is the logical choice. He won’t need to be paid for his chairmanship as he is already being paid by the taxpayers to do his job in the Senate.

It is obvious that the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing about the outrage of the voting public. They just don’t understand that people are watching what they do and not listening to what they say. It’s just yet another example of a Democrat controlled House and Senate far more interested in staying in power than serving the people that sent them. And for that I agree with another of Obama’s recent quotes.

“Change can’t come quickly enough”.

Illinois – The Real Reality Show

Big Frick — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:43:32 +0000

Welcome to the reality show drama that is Illinois politics.

Primary election day has come and gone in Illinois. Voter turnout, which is historically light for primary elections, was about average for this state with a dysfunctional Republican Party and a powerful Chicago controlled Democrat machine.

But maybe, just maybe, Illinois Republicans are getting the message.

The Illinois Republican Party suffered greatly after the corrupt ex-Governor George Ryan was made a resident of the federal penal system. Ryan was a criminally corrupt Secretary of State selling drivers licenses to unqualified trucking firms and demanding political tribute (of the cash variety) from all of his many patronage employees. He successfully parlayed his illegal activities while serving as governor, crimes for which he was finally prosecuted and convicted after leaving office. The entire scandal left him in federal custody and the Republican Party scrambling to control the sizable damage done to the public confidence.

Illinois Democrats, with the aid of the well oiled Chicago Democrat machine, took full advantage and were able to sweep Republican lawmakers out of their elected positions pretty much across the board down to the level of assistant dogcatcher.

But then, like manna from political heaven, came Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was removed from office during his second term for blatant corruption and manifest stupidity. It is not unusual in Illinois to have a Democrat convicted and sent to prison as they control most of the political capital and even more of the political graft. But Blagojevich continues to walk the streets a free man while awaiting trial. And even in the face of overwhelming evidence, including undercover federal wiretap recordings, continues to seek any opportunity to get in front of television cameras to make a buck off his now infamous reputation. Big Rod did not elevate the Republicans but he did dig a deep enough hole for Democrats to make the Illinois GOP look taller, a job the GOP was too inept to do for themselves.

The primary ballot was stacked with hopefuls from both parties looking to become the next Illinois governor and lieutenant governor. The Democrat now acting as a temp behind the governor’s desk won his party’s slot with ease. So did a pawnbroker named Scott Lee Cohen who spent the unprecedented sum of nearly $3 million to campaign as Democrat Lieutenant Governor. Cohen won at the polls which is now causing the Democrat machine to spasm like a colon filled with day-old Taco Bell. You see Mr. Cohen has a documented history of sexual and physical abuse including holding a knife to the throat of his live-in girlfriend who was a convicted prostitute he met at a massage parlor. Honestly, can it get any better than that for Republicans?

Meanwhile, the Republican nominee for governor is still undecided with a mere 400 votes separating the two top candidates. These two hopefuls are current Illinois legislators who are acting remarkably civil to each other and allowing the Democrats dig themselves an even deeper hole.

Could it be that the Illinois Republican Party is actually wising up? With the voter’s negative sentiment at an all time high this could be the Republican Party’s race to lose. While the general election is still pretty far away and Illinois Republicans have historically shown a penchant for doing the remarkably stupid at just the right time, if they play their cards right and let the Dem’s continue to self-destruct we could actually get a fiscally responsible administration in the governor’s mansion.

But while the Chicago machine that honed the skills of Barack Obama and brought him his closest advisors is sputtering, it is by no means dead. This could turn out to be a political race worthy of national attention, if for no other reason than entertainment value.

And if Scott Lee Cohen does eventually drop out of the race maybe he could get a spot on MTV’s “Jersey Shore”. But he better move quickly. I’m guessing Rod Blagojevich already has his agent trying to cut a deal.

I Got The “Whatever Happend To’s”

Big Frick — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:45:33 +0000

I was just sitting back reminiscing some of the top stories of the past year or so and I got a case of the “What ever happened to’s”.

Like what ever happened to all the congressional hearings we were supposed to have investigating the price gouging being carried out by the major oil refiners and gasoline companies.

The Democrats marched the CEO’s of these companies before their committee and accused them of everything from price fixing to treason. Our favorite California Congresswoman Maxine Waters even threatened to have these private companies socialized (she meant nationalized, but the slip of the tongue was classic Freudian). Could it be that Congress decided not to allow the American public to study the fact that the federal tax on gasoline is twice the percentage of the refiner’s profits? Oh they talked about how they were going to rein in these mammoth profit machines and they certainly kept the headlines filled with sound bites for a while. They even put some toothless restrictions on oil futures trading. But I just don’t recall them actually doing much else to the focus of their wrath, the big oil companies, and now it’s old news.

Or, what ever happened to Nancy Pelosi and her claim that she was going to hold public hearings about being completely uninformed by the CIA about the enhanced interrogation techniques being used on the most hardened terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. She repeatedly stood before the press with cameras rolling and microphones pointed and called the CIA agents liars. Even the newly appointed CIA Director Leon Panetta was dragged into this cat fight in an attempt to protect the agents. Pelosi would have none of it. She swore she had never been told and was prepared to prove it. Right up until it was announced that lying to a congressional committee is a felony as was presenting false evidence. But Pelosi, at least publically, promised to get the whole story out to the masses and clear her name. It seems like this investigation is being handled by the same folks that work for OJ Simpson in his attempts to find the real killer. After over a month of outrageous claims it all just went away. How I do wish Pelosi would follow it.

And whatever happened to Special Middle East Envoy George Mitchell and his presidential mandate to “Push For Peace’? It was only a couple days into the Obama administrations term that the new Messiah introduced George Mitchell as his go to guy who was going to make it all better between Palestine and Israel. Obama had been campaigning for 2 years on the premise that if we just had open dialog on a fair and even basis with the terrorist groups Hamas and the PLO we will be able to break the cycle of violence and bring a lasting peace to this war torn region. Much was made of this by the press as this was actually the job of the new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But Mitchell was picked and with great fanfare sent on his way to the Holy Land. He has been back and forth several times to reinforce the Obama position of “Can’t we all just get along” but to no avail. There is no peace, there is no negotiation and as far as I can tell there is no Special Envoy George Mitchell anymore either.

Which leads us to our next “Whatever happened to” as in Hillary Clinton? During the Bush administration then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on every news show every day shown working on some major project with the executive branch or the military leaders. She was doing what she was supposed to be doing, acting as the country’s chief envoy in all foreign matters. After big promises and a few lesser appearances Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has all but been relegated to cutting the ribbon at Wal-Mart openings. She has made a few swings around the globe but other than presenting her Russian counterpart with a button that instead of saying RESTART was emblazoned with the Russian word for OVERCHARGE, can you think of any mission she has been on that could be considered even mildly successful? OK, how about this, in the past twelve months can you name any mission she has been on (other than the one where Bill picks up his drunken party girls)?

Oh, there are a few more that I will save for later in the week. Like Tom Daschle, Roland Burris, Increased Muslim Cooperation, The National Organization of Women (NOW) ,and how about that new age of diplomacy that was going to have the European Union eating out of our hand.

Much like beauty, success is in the eye of the beholder. You’d have to have some pretty poor peepers to find some in this administration’s first year.

Maybe that’s why the biggest “Whatever happened to” belongs to a free and truthful press corps.

BigFrick is off Thursday, but I will be back on Friday.

The State Of Dis-Union

Big Frick — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:39:14 +0000

Women and children first.

Captain Hope E. Changey delivered his first State of the Union address last night and basically gave a pep talk to all the terrified passengers who are scrambling for the rail of the severely listing USS Obama. Don’t panic, was his message, I’m still in control here. Unfortunately that is exactly why so many of his once ardent admirers are now looking for a new Messiah. Or at least a way to save their own skin while this captain goes down with his socialist ship into the turbulent and icy waters of public disapproval.

The president once again tried to tie his failures to the previous administration, laying out the deficit and unemployment numbers he was faced with on day one of his reign. He brought up the debt incurred by “fighting two wars” and also erroneously claimed the Bush tax cuts were responsible for the current deficit. The problem with the Democrats continuing to hang onto that “last 8 years” mentality is that if my memory serves me correctly George W. Bush got reelected during that time, fighting two wars and cutting taxes. Both of those issues were hammered repeatedly by his then opponent John Kerry who, having been soundly defeated by the voters, has since been sent back into both obscurity and the Botox Club waiting room.

The other problem with the Obama approach is that just hours after he arrived in Washington as a US Senator he began to campaign for the job he now holds. That campaign spanned two full years plus during which time he constantly beat the deficit drum claiming the Bush deficit would bankrupt the country. The American voters are not necessarily outraged that he has not eliminated the old deficit but rather that he has tripled it in less than a year. There was, of course, no reasonable explanation for those inconvenient mathematical truths other than to once again use magic numbers to create a deceptive figure of ambiguous heritage regarding the jobs supposedly saved by the hundreds of millions spent on rehabbing the habitat of the California jumping blue tit mouse and installing tattoo removal machines on the gang riddled streets of L.A..

"Somewhere along the line, the White House lost its way. Instead of focusing on solutions to help America’s families wade through the wreckage of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, Washington has wasted valuable time wrestling with partisan politics in an effort to rush through drastic reforms that do not directly address our most immediate needs."

That quote is not part of the Republican response to the president’s address. No, that quote comes from Democrat Congressman Ike Skelton of Missouri. Skelton added: "The president’s address has lent us all hope – hope that the administration is finally heeding our concerns. It’s about time." The comments of Skelton and other Democrats puts the exclamation point at the end of the sentence that reads – Things are not going well in the land of Pelosi and Reid!

Congressional Democrats are scared, as is their less than fearless leader Barack Obama, who displayed his concern by chiding Republicans to not use their newly elected vote in the Senate to thwart his agenda. An agenda so fraught with untenable spending and oppressive government restrictions that he was unable to accomplish it even when he had filibuster proof rubber stamp.

But the most telling moment for me came when the president scolded the US Supreme Court for their recent ruling on corporate campaign spending. With all the Justices seated right in front of him this say anything community activist qua president was caught in yet another bold faced lie when he claimed their ruling would allow even foreign companies to spend on campaigns without limits. "With all due deference to the separation of powers," he said, the Supreme Court last week "reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections."

Well, with all due deference Mr. President, if you’re going to lie about what somebody actually did it would be best of you did it without them sitting there on camera to reply “simply not true” as was done by an obviously perturbed Justice Samuel Alito.

No Mr. President, with all due deference, the Supreme Court acts in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.

You might want to try it sometime.

Buzz Buzz Buzz

Big Frick — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:59:14 +0000

Don’t you just hate it when the news media latches onto a new word and then beats it like a drum until all the meaning has been whipped out of it?

You can’t swing a cat in a TV newsroom, anchor desk or print media press room without hitting someone using the new buzzword “Populist”. It is simply all the rage. The country was anxiously waiting for another buzzword that could fit into just about every news story and fortunately, with the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, we have found one.

And just in time too. Most of our old buzzwords and catch phrases have died by the wayside. Global warming is now timidly called climate change, alternative energy and recycling is now green anything and everything, the phrase war on terror has been stricken entirely from our speech and the word terrorist has been replaced by lone radical, the term unilateral is no longer uttered even when the new president unilaterally chooses to send an additional 40,000 American troops to Afghanistan, healthcare now means insurance and change equates to socialism.

Be assured that every candidate from either party is going to present himself as a populist. The real key will be once they do will anybody ask them to define what that means.

The list of suddenly populist candidates is wide and varied. California liberal Democrat and ex Linda Ronstadt sweetie pie Jerry Brown is said to be looking to regain the governor’s job in that liberally doomed and union controlled state and is already claiming some newfound populist roots in his possible run against the likely Republican candidate, mega-millionaire and former CEO and founder of eBay Meg Whitman. Even Barack Obama, the Chosen One, is going to attempt to shed his elitist persona and present a new populist personality.

The fact that Jerry Brown or Barack Obama or any of the Democrats currently controlling the reins of Congress would even attempt to deceive the voting public into believing them to be pragmatic populists is stunning in its audacity and laughable in its absurdity. It only goes to show how little these liberals in populist’s clothing know about the definition of populism and moreover how very little they think of the intellect of the voting public.

The definition of a populist is a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people. It dates back in this country to the 1890’s when the Populist Party was formed to mainly address agrarian issues. The part the Democrats miss is that a populist represents the interests of the people but does not dictate to the people what those interests should be. A populist listens, a liberal Democrat, not so much.

Literally hundreds of millions of dollars are about to be spent by Democrats in an attempt to keep their coveted seat in the hallowed Halls of Congress. Without a doubt, most of those seeking reelection will be spending heavily on recasting their image in a populist mold. Even those that need not take up the populist banner will do so in an effort to show a unified and populist Democratic front. The Pennsylvania Avenue Messiah will become the lead populist in an attempt to rally the political troops and abate at least some of the political damage caused by his dismal failures thus far.

I believe this will be exactly the wrong strategy for these out of control tax and spend liberals to take as it will do nothing but alienate their liberal base and anger real conservative populists by attempting to insult their intelligence. The fact that Democrats explain away the loss of the Massachusetts US Senate seat to Scott Brown as being caused by voters still being upset with the Bush administration shows how truly clueless they are about the nation’s outrage as displayed by groups like the Tea Party movement and other true conservative populist believers.

It will be up to the voters in November to decide if we are going to buy the new and improved populist Democrat Party or if we are going to send the members of this faux-populist party packing.

Just the thought of that makes this old populist proud.