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Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth From the Wall Street Journal today. Is there a possibility of compromise and getting things done or will it be more of the same? America has indicated time and again it's displeasure with governmental gridlock and continual kicking the can done the road. Immediately after the results were in, the White House and GOP leaders called for cooperation on trade, tax and other major issues. But the sides have since clashed, most notably over Mr. Obama’s executive order shielding millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. The White House also has announced plans with China to curb greenhouse gas emissions and called for new regulations on broadband providers, all to the dismay of Mr. McConnell and other Republicans. Mr. McConnell said he has no objection to negotiating with the White House and gets along with Mr. Obama. “We don’t have any personal problems,” he said. “There is however a deep philosophical difference.” Full article ...

 by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Artur Davis, articulate, intelligent, honest, and spot on in his criticism of both Vice President Joe (Dufus) Biden and President Obama. ( CNN ) - Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama, said Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden was propagating "racial viciousness" when he said Mitt Romney's regulatory policies would "put y'all back in chains." Biden made the comments Tuesday to a predominantly black crowd in Danville, Virginia, a city with a long history of racial tension. In May Davis announced he was switching to the GOP, leaving the door open to a future political bid as a Republican. Skip Davis, who is black, said the comment smacked of a type of divisiveness he said was all too common in the South. "It brought back memories for me," Davis told Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room." "It brought back memories of th...

BY" Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Reasonable? Plausible? Likely? You, the reasonable American people be the judge. Via: Memeorandum

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Sometimes I really do think the President is clueless. What he is really, really, really saying here is that he believes the already Leviathan federal government needs to grow even bigger, more intrusive, and more regulating. Look to Europe to see how all that is working out for them. Real Clear Politics - Question: What about the Republicans saying that you're blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies? President Obama: The truth of the matter is that, as I said, we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone. The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government. Oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, Governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don't have the same kind of flexibility as the federal ...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Rodin - The Thinker I was asked recently by a Rational Nation USA regular about President Obama and if he could possibly be compared to Mao, China's tyrannical and brutal communist leader. After a period given to clarifying my thoughts on the subject I decided to respond. My response I hope reflects intellectual clarity and is absence right leaning hyperbole. First I will present the question as advanced followed by my response. The question : Les, sometimes I wonder if what Obama wants by fairness would ultimately become very much like it is in Communist countries. China under Mao may be a good example. I never hear anyone comparing it so I wonder if I am far out in left field. Am I? My response : Obama is a product of the "democratic socialist" movement. I often use the term statist which essentially means a belief that the state through it's elected representatives and senators has the p...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny I have been trying my best to cut the President some slack. Even going so far as to give him a pass on the very questionable speech he gave in Kansas the other day . Then his administration decides to downgrade the Fort Hood massacre of 13 United States military personnel by a Islamic Extremist to workplace violence. Even the mild mannered very liberal Republican Senator from Maine, Susan Collins has blasted the Obama administration for its, yes I'm going to say it, abject stupidity. The President's obvious inability to call Muslim extremists exactly what they are, and identify and name the driving force behind them, which is radical Islam , is as chilling as it is frightening. Fox News - Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed...

By: Pamela D. Hart Here we go again! Obama wants to stimulate the economy and create jobs with…yep you guessed it, STIMULUS! And we know how well THAT worked in 2009! Those Shovel Ready jobs weren’t as shovel ready as they expected, we found out two years later, although, those of us on the Right knew they weren’t, but hey, why listen to us, we only wanted jobs created by the private sector, not TAX dollars. And that’s what Obama is proposing now…or so the “leaked” info says. According to the information “leaked” to the press , once President Obama returns to the White House after his vacation, he’s going to propose targeted tax breaks for companies that hire, mortgage relief for struggling homeowners and infrastructure deals…um didn’t we do that in 2009? Wasn’t that part of the almost one trillion in so-called stimulus? This is déjà vu! And it’s going to be déjà vu all over again with results. We NEED private sector jobs, NOT jobs created by tax dollars. Even Jan Sch...

By: Pamela D. Hart President Obama released his long form birth certificate yesterday and said , "This issue has been going on for two, two and a half years now. I think it started during the campaign. I have watched with bemusement, I've been puzzled at the degree at which this thing just kept on going." He’s correct, the issue has been going on since the campaign, and during that time-frame, no one, not even lawyers, have been able to get the President to release his birth certificate. Then, Donald Trump comes into the arena and the media gobbled up and promoted him and the Birther movement because he packaged it with a pretty bow and powerful words, which gave it serious momentum, and ultimately forced the President to release that mysterious piece of paper that those Birthers were certain had invisible script which proved Obama was an alien from outer-space. This entire Birther movement is ridiculous to me in more ways than one. First, I do NOT believe tha...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Historically wars between nations have been waged because the rulers of one country wished to expand their economic power and political influence at the expense of another country(s). The desire for increased wealth and power has always been the motivating force behind war. As Ayn Rand correctly argued, the only justification for military action (war) is in response to an act of aggression by one country against another. In other words in defense of your national sovereignty, or self defense. Makes perfect sense to me. I believe most people would agree. So I can't help but wonder why our national leaders {since the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan] keep getting our nation involved either in civil wars (Korea and Vietnam, or military engagements for the purpose of "regime change." Other than our military response to 911, which falls under - in response to an act of aggression -...

President Obama and Representative Pete Hoekstra both attended a ribbon cutting for a battery manufacturing plant in West Michigan last week Holland, Michigan (CNN) - Is it bad form to attend a ribbon cutting celebration when you voted against paying for the project? Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Michigan, sat smiling in the front row today as President Obama marked the groundbreaking of a new stimulus-funded project in Holland, Michigan. ( CNN ) Liberal toadie CNN reports the truth... Just not all of it. They omitted The President’s money quote: But during his remarks, President Obama made an un-presidential remark towards Hoekstra, saying:  "Some made the political calculation that it's better to obstruct than to lend a hand. Now that doesn't stop them from being at ribbon cuttings, but that's OK." ( Hoekstra Press Release ) ( RCP - President’s Remarks ) Just what we’ve come to expect from the Community Agitator in Chief.  The new business is i...

"In five days we are going to fundamentally transform America." And there it is. I did not make this up. I did not misquote Mr. Obama. I am not crying "wolf". This is fact: Mr. Obama wishes to fundamentally transform America. And I, for one, am done with playing nicely with Obama and his progressives. I blog. I write. I protest. I preach Conservatism and the US Constitution. I have made the proper financial preparations for my family's future. I have served my Country, fought for Freedom, and sacrificed much in my 41 years this side of Heaven. And all I see in Congress and in the White House are those who would seek to marginalize, dismiss, ignore, condescend, and belittle me. Their goal is the sure and purposed dismantling of our Nation as intended by our Founders, the death of Capitalism, and the rape of Liberty and Freedom. Enough. Mr. Obama, you have made your intentions painfully obvious. Please know, however, that there are those ...