ELECTIONS! HAVE! CONSEQUENCES!

Obama administration will accept no more public input for federal fishery strategy:

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters. That’s a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning.

Wouldn’t be the first time this administration has LIED to us, damn sure won’t be the last!

Led by NOAA’s Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling, but its indifference to the economic, social and biological value of the sport has been deafening.

Additionally, Lubchenco and others in the administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.

Apple pie, Chevrolet and fishin’ — real Americana — what’s not to like?

That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry.

As more evidence of collusion, the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force’s recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February. Fishing advocates had no idea that this was coming.

These elites in Washington don’t want you to be able to fish the rivers, lakes and streams of America. Out here, California is letting the entire central valley agricultural zone wither and die from lack of water — just to “save” the Delta Smelt. After all, to these enviro-ideologues Mother Earth is a hell of a lot more important than humans. We are the stain, the virus, the planet’s scourge that will be the end of all . . .

Morlock fears that “what we’re seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There’s no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate.

“Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It’s all just an excuse to put us off the water.”

After all, it’s just fishin’ — won’t hurt nobody to hang up the ol’ rod and reel and instead sit in front of the tube and chant praises to the Obamessiah. Nah — nuthin’ wrong with that . . .

You will submit — You will obey — You will like it!

After all, as they say, “We won — get over it!”

Victoria Jackson — gotta LUV her for tellin’ the truth.

With what’s going on today — the Dems deciding to use reconciliation to pass their onerous Health Care bill regardless of the will of the American People, Jackson’s little ditty takes on more gravitas than would normally be granted. November can’t get here fast enough!

Here’s a great Reconciliation PhotoShop from Maksim at The People’s Cube:

However, the tone-deaf folks on the Demmish side of the isle aren’t listening, don’t give a whit, or both! Paul Ryan (R-WI) schools the Prez on why double-counting and offset time frames don’t exactly give one a clear picture of reality.

You can almost see that Obama is playing that scene in The Untouchables where Robert De Niro as Al Capone beats one of his competitors to death with a baseball bat at the meeting’s round table in his mind as he sets his jaw and listens to Ryan score points.

Ha!

Still, bottom line was that Obama threw down the gauntlet and has given the Repubs 4 to 6 weeks to come around and embrace Obamacare or they’ll shove it up our ass via reconciliation! The way to stop this is to convince those Dems that are most vulnerable this Nov. that to vote for the Senate bill — the necessary first step toward that reconciliation process — is political suicide. Hugh Hewitt has the contact list.

Obamacare can be stopped — but it’s sure not dead yet . . . Let’s kill it!

It’s over at Big Journalism. It’s important. Read it!

A word from Michael Yon:

The War in Afghanistan has truly begun. This will be a long, difficult fight that is set to eclipse anything we’ve seen in Iraq. As 2010 unfolds, my 6th year of war coverage will unfold with it. There is relatively little interest in Afghanistan by comparison to previous interest in Iraq, and so reader interest is low. Afghanistan is serious, very deadly business. Like Iraq, however, it gets pushed around as a political brawling pit while the people fighting the war are mostly forgotten.

Don’t be one of those that forgets . . .

Yesterday I was totally blown away while watching Glenn Beck’s CPAC keynote speech. Intending to have Fox News on the tube for background noise as I cleaned the fridge and put away the marketing purchases, I simply had to stop, sit and watch this nearly 1 hour tour de force. Leaving very few, if any, stones unturned while castigating both Democrats and Republicans alike for their profligate-spending and ignorance, or pure indifference to our Constitution, Beck delivered the goods.

I like Beck, am thoroughly entertained by his antics on his show and am loving his book. However, I had no idea that he could deliver such a powerful alter-call for coming back to true Conservatism. Anthony Del Pellegrino over at the Politics section of Gather.com puts it this way:

Beck’s almost hour long keynote address was both eloquent and hard-hitting. It was packed with intelligent humor, powerful prose as well as inspirational poetry. From beginning to end, the speech was brutally honest and profoundly accurate.
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Beck touched just about every fundamental aspect of life in America that we have twisted and turned into a politically correct, dysfunctional society that attempts to put a cap on success and deem competition a sin. He drew a clear picture of a nation that is being steered by a government of nearsighted drivers who are more concerned with the sights and sounds along the side of the road than they are with what is right in front of them.

Spend an hour with Glenn Beck — it just might be the most important hour you experience this year.

The Left’s newest meme is that our government is broken, that the way the legislative branch is setup, especially on the Senate side, makes it impossible to get anything done. Barack Obama’s agenda has crashed and burned with more debacles happening every day. So, obviously if the Obamessiah can’t shove his pet projects down our throats and up our collective asses — something drastic must be done. Something like, oh, well, how ’bout just eliminating the filibuster in the Senate ’cause everybody with a brain knows that this is just allowing the “tyranny of the minority” to keep the Democrat majority from creating Heaven right here on good ol’ terra firma.

Bullshit!

As Charles Krauthammer patiently explains in his Washington Post column today, Obama is whining like Carter instead of kickin’ butt like Reagen and Clinton.

It turned out that the country’s problems were not problems of structure but of leadership. Reagan and Clinton had it. Carter didn’t. Under a president with extensive executive experience, good political skills and an ideological compass in tune with the public, the country was indeed governable.
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It’s 2010, and the first-year agenda of a popular and promising young president has gone down in flames. Barack Obama’s two signature initiatives — cap-and-trade and health-care reform — lie in ruins.

Desperate to explain away this scandalous state of affairs, liberal apologists haul out the old reliable from the Carter years: “America the Ungovernable.” So declared Newsweek. “Is America Ungovernable?” coyly asked the New Republic. Guess the answer.

The rage at the machine has produced the usual litany of systemic explanations. Special interests are too powerful. The Senate filibuster stymies social progress. A burdensome constitutional order prevents innovation. If only we could be more like China, pines Tom Friedman, waxing poetic about the efficiency of the Chinese authoritarian model, while America flails about under its “two parties . . . with their duel-to-the-death paralysis.” The better thinkers, bewildered and furious that their president has not gotten his way, have developed a sudden disdain for our inherently incremental constitutional system.

Yet, what’s new about any of these supposedly ruinous structural impediments? Special interests blocking policy changes? They have been around since the beginning of the republic — and since the beginning of the republic, strong presidents, like the two Roosevelts, have rallied the citizenry and overcome them.

Hard-core ideologues of either stripe can’t rally the citizenry — they turn off the majority who see them for what they are and won’t put up with being bullied. As many are commenting, instead of this being a flaw, a glitch, it’s how the system is supposed to work. What’s truly pathetic is that with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, a huge majority in the House, radical Leftists controlling both of those bodies plus a Weatherman’s wet-dream of a radically-progressive President in the Oval Office they couldn’t get anything done!

Nada! Nuttin’! Big. Fat. Effin’. ZERO!

Except of course the passage of the humongous Porkulus Stimulus Package his first month in office, but hey, the country was so freaked out by the economic collapse last Fall that even many Republicans supported that nightmare of a budget buster which my kid’s grand kids will still be payin’ off when they’re my age!

What scares me just a bit is that the Carter administration was trying to figure out how to fundamentally change the government — again as Krauthammer notes, “The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary system of unitary executive control.” The Obama administration is going the way of Carter — who knows what political nightmares this hard-Left crew is dreaming?

It’s becoming ever more critical for the GOP to take back control of Congress this November and plan for an unbeatable bid for the 2012 Presidential race. After that, we need to hold our own guys’ feet to the fire and not let them go the way of the Grand Ol’ Party during the Bush 43 era. If they don’t do the will of the people — kick their asses out!

Do that enough times in a row and even a politician will finally get the memo!

My category for these posts is “Global Warming B.S.”, but baloney is just as appropriate a term. There has been so much of it piling up for the last few decades that we could eat Global Warming sandwiches for eons and still not make a dent in it. However, if that be your culinary jones, better get as much as you can ’cause the Anthropogenic Global Warming movement is unraveling faster than an ol’ sweater left with a pack o’ cats — or somethin’ like that!

Yesterday, in Britain’s Mail Online we find out that Climate Scientist and Climategate-email-participant Professor Phil Jones is a really lousy records keeper, possibly if not probably has lost the original data records that were used for the infamous Hockey Stick graph, not to mention — but I’ll do that anyway — he concedes that there probably hasn’t been any statistically significant warming in the last decade and a half. What’s up with that?

Asked about whether he lost track of data, Professor Jones said: ‘There is some truth in that. We do have a trail of where the weather stations have come from but it’s probably not as good as it should be.

‘There’s a continual updating of the dataset. Keeping track of everything is difficult. Some countries will do lots of checking on their data then issue improved data, so it can be very difficult. We have improved but we have to improve more.’

He also agreed that there had been two periods which experienced similar warming, from 1910 to 1940 and from 1975 to 1998, but said these could be explained by natural phenomena whereas more recent warming could not.

He further admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming, although he argued this was a blip rather than the long-term trend.

And he said that the debate over whether the world could have been even warmer than now during the medieval period, when there is evidence of high temperatures in northern countries, was far from settled.

Don’t ya just LUV it when those that have been screaming for over a decade that the science of man-caused Global Warming is settled, that there is a scientific consensus devoid of rational dissent on the issue, that Global Warming deniers are as loony as Holocaust deniers finally have to pull their heads out of their asses, breath some real non-global-warmed air and admit that, well . . . maybe the science isn’t really settled after all. Hate to break it to them poor, misunderstood Global Warming Hysterics, but when you find yourself caught in a shit storm, the stuff just keeps flyin’ at ya! Like this for instance:

“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
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The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to collect temperature data over the past 150 years.

These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.

Christy has published research papers looking at these effects in three different regions: east Africa, and the American states of California and Alabama.

“The story is the same for each one,” he said. “The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.”

Uh, yeah! Let’s keep the weather stations where we collect temperature data to support our religion theory of man-caused Global Warming next to heat sources and on heat-generating land fills. That’ll teach them pesky deniers to doubt that Gaia’s having a big-time mankind-caused hot flash! Over at Hot Air Ed Morrissey comments:

These revelations come on top of a series of embarrassing disclosures about the IPCC report. Another research team at Loughborough University may expose even more. Terry Wills will publish a paper in Climatic Change that will argue that the IPCC misread its data, and that the temperature fluctuations it saw are just as likely to be random weather than any systemic trend, whether caused by greenhouse gases or not.

The struts have begun to collapse under AGW hysteria.

Michelle Malkin has a great roundup of information and sources and ends her post with this, “Eco-hysteria doesn’t deliver world peace. It threatens it.” The Anchoress has needs, and a request that I totally agree with:

I want me freaking incandescent bulbs back, and I want them now. And I want the space program refunded with all this global warming hoo-hah money.

Stop the man-caused Global Warming nonsense NOW! Can we do that”

Yes, we can!

Did I really just write that?

Sheesh!

Happy to deliver!

Yeah, yeah . . . I misspelled her name: “Missy da Schnoodle” it should read. Sheesh!

[Update: Found it on YouTube]

This is almost criminal, or maybe just more Obama administration lies. Sure, homeowners will be able to get loan modifications — “Trust Us!”

I wish that I could embed this, but that option’s not offered. Still, you really owe it to yourself to go and watch this video at Think Big, Work Small, wherein they ’splain it to us how One West Bank is makin’ BANK with a super-sweetheart deal from the F.D.I.C. that involves a whole lot o’ your tax dollars.

Poor George Soros . . . he really needs a hug or something — or maybe just MORE of your tax dollars!

After saying a good dozen or so times during the ‘08 Presidential campaign that families making $250,000 or less would not see a penny of tax increase under an Obama administration, he now says that he’s ‘agnostic’ about doing exactly that to cover the out-of-control spending that he’s already implemented plus the new spending the Dems want to pile of top of that. Over at Business Week we get the skinny:

President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.

Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”

Obama repeatedly vowed during the 2008 presidential election campaign that he would not raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 and households earning less than $250,000 a year. When senior White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner suggested in August that the administration might be open to going back on that pledge, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs quickly reiterated the president’s promise.

Of course, it’s all Bush’s fault — Anyone besides me getting tire of hearing this tired ol’ shit from our President all day, every day? I warned everyone to stock up on the KY, ’cause the American taxpayer is gonna get a hard-core life lesson in what it’s like to drop the soap in a prison shower.

Just sayin’ . . .