“Smokescreens Versus Accountability”

By William L. Garvin

If any additional proof was needed as to the idiocy permeating the Potomac, it was provided by Senate Leader Harry Reid.  The senior senator from Nevada refuses to close any post offices because “seniors love junk mail.”  In all your years, have you ever encountered a senior who waited breathlessly for the next postal delivery because junk mail “was their only contact with the outside world”?  What a bunch of…rubbish.  However, it is indicative of Washington’s patrician attitude that they know what’s best for the drooling, senile, out of touch, incompetent members of the senior country class.  It’s just another smokescreen to avoid focus on Senator Reid’s dereliction constitutional duty to pass a budget by April 15^th.  He has now failed to do so for over 1100 days.

 Then there’s the smokescreen “war on women” Democrats concocted to exploit the gender gap.  Boy did that one backfire!  Davids Axelrod and Plouffe don’t seem to be nearly the political geniuses when it comes to strategy this time around.  Of course, a few people finally seem to be doing some fact checking, unlike 2008.  How could they not have known that women are underrepresented on the presidential staff and paid approximately 18% less than their male counterparts?  How could they not have known that the President paid a lesser percentage rate of income taxes than his secretary?  How could they not have known that 858,000 more women have become unemployed during this administration?

Then Democrat operative, Hilary Rosen, fires her idiotic salvo at Ann Romney and stay at home moms.  Another smokescreen example of the patrician and statist attitude that confuses their education with their diplomas.  Anyone who thinks stay at home moms don’t work and don’t have enough intelligence to understand or comment on matters of importance epitomizes the height of condescension.  As one mom noted, “I wish I had an outside job—they’re required to give you a break!” 

Then there’s the “Buffett Rule” smaokescreen.  If the President wants to pay higher taxes, all he has to do is write a check.  All he has to do is stop taking deductions.  The same goes for Warren Buffett.  Plus, Warren can stop fighting the billion dollar back tax bill the IRS says he owes  The real smokescreen is that even if the Buffett Rule is enacted, it can be collected over the next 250 years and that will not even for the deficit the Obama administration ran up in 2011 alone!

Then there’s the smokescreen and fanning the flames by Al Sharpton and the increasingly dangerous racial warfare.  The vast majority of crime is black on black and white on white.  There is less white on black crime than the reverse.  Of course, the media never chooses to publicize those incidents.  Similarly, they never choose to publish photos of the atrocities committed by enemies of America.  They have an agenda that works hand in glove with the Washington establishment.  It is a symbiotic drive to control more and more facets of life in this country from an all-wise elitist pedestal.

The arrogance behind the GSA scandal, the Secret Service scandal, the extravagant bonuses handed out to “green energy” executives just before they go bankrupt, are just the tip of the iceberg.  A very simple analysis shows what’s looming underneath.  On January 31, 1981, President Reagan inherited a debt of $847, 695 billion.  Over eight years, he increased it by $1.6 trillion.  President George H.W. Bush inherited a debt of $2.448 trillion and increased it by $1.36 trillion in four years.  President Bill Clinton inherited a debt of $3.809 and increased it by $1.9 trillion over eight years.  President George W. Bush inherited $5.716 trillion of debt and increased it by $4.916 over eight years.  President Barack Obama inherited a debt of $10.632 trillion and in 3 years and 2 months (3/31/12) has already increased it by $4.906 trillion with no end in sight!

The economy continues to stagger and sputter.  Unemployment claims climbed over 380,000 for the second straight week.  The trillion dollar stimulus that was supposed to keep unemployment from reaching 8% can’t even get it down to that number.  Gasoline was $1.86 when the President took office. That’s a distant memory.  The housing market continues to struggle.  Bush tax cuts and the payroll tax cuts expire and Obamacare taxes kick in January, 2013.  Unless there’s accountability in November, we’ll all be needing food stamps and that’s no smokescreen.