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The most powerful man in the free world just made the Republican Grand Ol' Party Debate scheduled for Wednesday, September 7, 2011 disappear. Politico and NBC News sponsored the debate scheduled for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library at 8 PM. For this enchanting evening, eight challengers for the prized GOP Presidential Belt planned to enter the ring. The Breakfast of Champions assemblage included heavyweights Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, middleweights Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, lightweight Ron Paul and waterboy, Jon Huntsman. Yet, all of them sustained a Technical Knock Out (TKO) when President Barack Obama asked congressional leaders, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), to forgo watching AMERICA'S GOT TALENT-WEDNESDAY and convene a joint session, at which he will deliver a major economic speech. Hocus-Pocus! O Snap, Mr. Prez has a new plan that will stir the economy faster than Anthony Bourdain can teach Paula Deen to cook. (By the way, Tony, as a southern conservative, I don't have to travel the world to recognize great food! Give me a Paula Deen anything and not only will I be full, I will be satisfied. Paula, if you are reading, I'll be the big man with the knife and fork in hands at your Southern Cooking Bible Book Signing at the Wegmans in Fredericksburg, VA on the 13th of October. Please don't tell my wife!)
I digress. Back to the affair at hand. Close your eyes and walla, look a new economic plan. What is the promise to those that have suffered double digit unemployment, $4 trillion in overspending in 2 and 1/2 years, a loss of our AAA credit rating and $10 million in spending by the First Lady Evita Peron? According to the Associated Press, "With the economy on the rails and Republicans on the attack, the much-anticipated speech is expected to include proposals for economic growth such as tax credits and infrastructure spending along with calls for shrinking the deficit." Yeah, I know that you feel that right about here you've opened the refrigerator and smelled Sunday's meal from TGIFriday's attempting to hold a press conference before you:
MEAL: Hey, if you are hungry then, you need go no farther. I was good enough for Sunday. I will be good enough for you today. YOU: But, you don't smell like you did Sunday. Will eating you today solve my hunger or create more problems? MEAL: I am glad that you asked me that question. Listen, let me be clear. I was want you wanted me to be on Sunday. I assure you that I will be what you need of me today. That smell is the fragrance of maturation. I have grown since last you bit into me. I have watched the decay of food around me and I know what I can do to fix that problem. It will be a more effective strategy that whatever you have planned.
YOU: Let me ask that another way. Are you new? Are you fresh? MEAL: I am glad that you asked me that. I've spoken with the Chinese food and they are willing to lend us their rice because they have faith in my ability to turn your taste buds around. Let me be clear, I have spent a great deal of time discussing with the pickle and lettuce how to move forward in pleasing you. Now, the meat in the freezer has demanded that you throw us out and start anew with it. But that's the type of uncivil discord that takes us away from solving this problem of freshness. Of newness. While I won't be as audacious as the Olives that have spoken out against the Meat Party, I believe that we can compromise. I can offer a bi-partisan approach of my ideas that you will accept. My plans are as fresh today as they were Sunday! Doesn't that make you feel just peachy all over. I just know after weeks of golf and fine-dining on Martha's Vineyard that we will have strident ideas that will bring the "hang 'em from a tree" Tea Party that Congressman Andre Carson knows and loves and the wine tasting, noble cause fanatics that obsess over the government's poverty like Nancy Pelosi. Let's see what the always secret yet transparent Obama Administration has leaked to the polling press. “As I have traveled across our country this summer and spoken with our fellow Americans, I have heard a consistent message: Washington needs to put aside politics and start making decisions based on what is best for our country and not what is best for each of our parties in order to grow the economy and create jobs,” the president said. “We must answer this call.” Urban America needs only three things from this administration in the next 627 days. Reach into your magic hat and find them please. One, keep Obama on the golf course. Men of great wisdom are best served in places where they can bemuse themselves with the prodding of intellectual inquiry and sophisticated resolutions. It is apparent that this administration is doomed to call tax and spend or Urban Leninism by a new name developed in the Ivory Tower of the 19th Hole. Listen, do us all a favor and do nothing. The greatest revenue builder in American capitalism is confidence. Consumer confidence deteriorated sharply in August, as consumers grew significantly more pessimistic about the short-term outlook. Consumers claiming business conditions are "bad" increased to 40.6 percent from 38.7 percent. Justin Lederer, an interest- rate strategist at the primary dealer Cantor Fitzgerald LP in New York observed, “The world continues to want safety, given the numerous uncertainties at home and abroad, with the economy weakening and the Fed on hold even longer.” If you have only the desire to lead from behind then, stay on the course. Confidence in the economy may improve if left on autopilot and crisis created from noble interventions will be averted. If you choose to lead, from the front, then, this recommendation may well fall by the wayside. Urban America does not need jobs. It needs liberty. It needs freedom from exhaustive overspending and reprehensible regulation. Washington spends more than it takes in through tax revenues, resulting in a projected budget deficit of almost $1.35 trillion in 2010, or 9 percent of GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office. A study conducted at the Tax Policy Center found that Washington would have to raise taxes by almost 40 percent to reduce -- not eliminate, just reduce -- the deficit to 3 percent of our GDP, the 2015 goal the Obama administration set in its 2011 budget. That tax boost would mean the lowest income tax rate would jump from 10 to nearly 14 percent, and the top rate from 35 to 48 percent. For the poor people at home praising Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters, if the Bush Tax Cuts are eliminated then, your income tax rate will jump from 10% to 15% overnight on January 1, 2013. If Congress and the White House do not extend the cuts, poor people will receive a serious smack down on their paychecks. What if we raised taxes only on families with couples making more than $250,000 a year and on individuals making more than $200,000? The top two income tax rates would have to more than double, with the top rate hitting almost 77 percent, to get the deficit down to 3 percent of GDP. Let's just say, "Not gonna happen!" Let me be clear, Michelle says this country's obesity problem is epidemic. No, Evita, overspending is epidemic. If it's not overspending, it's over-EPAing! According to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final "Cross-State Air Pollution Rule" (previously known as the "Transport Rule"), despite an analysis showing that the regulation, in combination with other EPA rules, would be among the most expensive ever imposed by the agency on coal-fueled power plants, dramatically increasing electricity rates for American families and businesses, and causing substantial job losses. The National Labor Relations Board stopped Boeing from creating jobs in South Carolina because the state was not "union friendly". Mr. President, what union does the worker who has been unemployed for three years and has exhausted his or her benefits belong? House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent a memo Monday to Republican members about tackling “10 job-destroying regulations” in the remainder of the congressional year. Shelby and I talked about this economic travesty on The Exceptional Conservative Show on ACNation Radio on Monday as well. Only liberty frees enterprises from the constraints of tyranny and enable them to produce at a profit and hire labor. The less spending and regulation that you have the better the economy will grow. The last thing that Urban America needs is a calibration of its moral compass. America has been indoctrinated to believe that it can not survive without the full faith and confidence in the politicians that run this nation. Long ago, a great nation was founded on the strength and wisdom of men that pursued at all risk greater things. Their faith was not in the risk that they took nor in the discoveries that they uncovered. Their faith was in their Creator. It was not enough to be given a title to a distant land as a homestead. One had to overcome the natural and spiritual trials and tribulations that came with their pursuit of life, liberty and personal property. Sometimes getting on trains to Kansas City, Chicago or Los Angeles with only $10 in their pocket and a bologna sandwich, they were not assured an outcome only that they would have the blessing of a great nation in the pursuit of their dream. When things went awry, where there was a neighbor, their was help in the time of storm. Well, yes, some had to carry the burden upon their shoulders however, they never carried it alone. Their faith was in a Creator who loved them through their circumstances. As men and women grew more modern and began to pursue power through ambition rather than humbly serve the rule of law, they began to seek insurance where God would only provide assurance. They sought sought schools to indoctrinate in rather than educate in. They sought a government that would insure that everyone had a house even if a man's wealth or desire could not sustain it. They sought the government to heal them of tehir pains and sorrows those natural and some wholly spiritual. They sought the government to accept them in wrong-doing and in exchange what support their servant, now leader, in wrong-doing. Rather than give, we learned to take. Rather than pursue Grace in fear, we began to pursue Eternity in fear. America's moral compass needs a dial back option. The prescription of the thief is not greater crimes but humble repentance and pursuit of a better life, not merely seeking his gain but respecting the achievements of his fellow man. The District of Columbia is an excellent example of the largesse succumb to and at times merely given over to cultural statists. The Mayor is under federal investigation for electoral deficiencies. More than half of the City Council is under some form of federal or state investigation for abuses as small as illicitly ordering two (2) expensive Cadillac Escalades using government funds to stealing over $300,000 from a children's trust run in partnership with the state and private industry. I ask you, "Which of these serves his neighbor?" Obama if you do us some good in your last days then, pull these three out of your magic hat with all of the sincerity of our founding fathers. If you do then, you will not have to concern yourself with Election 2012. You would have gone from Off Broadway magician to Vegas Superstar in a matter of pen swipes. Comment at ACNation.com
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