OK, the Super Bowl is over and the two cities that sent teams – New York and Boston (New England) have huge lefty constituencies. Funny how they played in a Red State. But I digress, we talk politics here so let’s look at the Clint Eastwood Chyrsler ad that received flak for being pro-Obama. Of course Mr. Eastwood denies this was the purpose – OK, he was creatively used a by team that produced the two-minute minute spot for ad agency Wieden+Kennedy donated their personal time in 2008 to make pro-Obama art and privately supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election. Mr. Eastwood, you were duped.

Now we have two new ads, parodies that demonstrate the possibilities if you wish to promote the truth, the reality of the Chrysler bailout.

First we have Rush Limbaugh mocking the ad with seriousness and hilarity mixed in. At the end Rush ads his own little quip. Here’s the transcript followed by the audio:

“It’s halftime. Both teams are in their locker rooms, getting ready to win the first four years or a second term. It’s halftime in America, too. People are out of work and they’re hurting. And they’re all wondering what Obama’s gonna do to them next and they’re scared because he thinks this is a game.”

The parody goes on to say, “…all’s that matters now is that we come together as one great nation and kick his skinny butt back to Chicago. This country can’t be knocked out by one punk. We’ll get right back up again and, when we do, Obama’s gonna hear the roar of our engines. Yeah, it’s half-time America, are you ready to win?”

Next up Reality.TV added their version of an Eastwood-Chrysler ad:

Clint Eastwood is a Libertarian and registered as a Republican. His ad wouldn’t have caused such a furor if it didn’t come off as pro-Obama sending the false message that Detroit is back, the American auto industry is back.

Here are some facts. Chrysler manufactures many of their automobiles in Mexico and Canada. Chrysler is owned by Fiat, an Italian company. So the whole ad is filled with stench, with lies, and deceives the listener. How could have Eastwood missed all of this?

And let’s not forget that American taxpayers were left on the hook for $1.3 billion and this will never be paid back. Obama and his ilk will tell you their bailouts have been paid back in full. BIG LIE!

Yes America, it’s halftime and we’re at a precipice – freedom and liberty or tyranny? Barack Obama would choose tyranny but it’s time to push the US Constitution across the goal line and run out the clock on Obama and his Marxist ilk in Congress, in regulatory agencies and around the country. Wake up America, you’ve received your two-minute warning.

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Barack Obama is always talking about fairness, shared responsibility, shared sacrifice and justice for all and then he pit’s the so-called “haves” with the so-called “have-nots.” Life isn’t fair but in America you have the opportunity to make it more fair by working hard and trying to make something of yourself, to support your family and to improve your condition and place in life.

I ask, however, what is fair? Is it fair:

- that the wealthiest American’s pay 40-percent of the total federal income tax while the top 10-percent chip in two-thirds?

- that the wealthiest 10-percent of American’s pay more than any other industrialized country?

- that American companies pay a higher corporate tax rate than in any other industrialized country?

- that Barack Obama and many other politicians who write the laws send their children to private schools but deny free choice to the rest of us, particularly, those in poor districts with failing educational systems?

- that entrepreneurs and all private business owners must pay an estate tax of 35-percent, soon to rise to 55-percent after spending a lifetime working, building, hiring, paying taxes at the federal, state and local level when they pass away instead of leaving their earned wealth to family members?

- that self-proclaimed elitists such as the current Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, former Democrat Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle, former Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel failed to properly file and pay their taxes?

- that Obama policy such as Obamacare and massive regulations are making the poor poorer, inflicting pain on the middle class and well over 5.5 million citizens have lost their jobs?

- that 88-percent of all political contributions from television producers, reporters and others from the mainstream media went to Democrats during the 2008 election cycle?

- that three  counties with families with the highest median income in America are located in the Washington DC area?

- that so-called green energy companies including solar, wind and ethanol products received billions of dollars in federal subsidies without paying taxes while we oil and gas industry companies pay billions in taxes, supply the majority of energy to America and Obama complains they are “subsidized?”

- that working Americans, many who work multiple jobs, must pay taxes that support unemployment benefits for 99 weeks for those not working with many not looking for work at all?

- that people with legitimate mortgages, who responsibly pay them on time have their tax dollars used to subsidize others who want a housing bailout when then took mortgages on homes knowing they weren’t qualified, couldn’t pay, but acted with greed and deceit but now can’t pay?

- that Barack Obama won’t permit the Keystone XL pipeline which would immediately create 20,000 new American jobs and thousands of indirect jobs to appease to his base and the environmentalists?

- that many of Obama’s largest campaign contributors received enormous federal loan guarantees for investments for green renewable energy projects that went bankrupt?

- that federal employees receive as much as 50-percent more in benefits than their counterparts in the private sector, the people who must pay for those public sector jobs?

- that 50-percent of the federal budget will redistribute income from younger workers to the non-working elderly who are some of the wealthiest Americans?

- that in 27 states a person seeking work is compelled to join a union to get a job and pay dues and retain membership to keep their job?

- that 4 in 10 American households pay zero in federal income taxes a number is on the increase with Obama and his ilk in office?

- that private companies like Boeing are threatened by agencies of the federal government when they build a plant and create jobs in a right-to-work-state as opposed to one infiltrated with union thugs?

- that not only our children and grandchildren but children who have yet to be born will be required, without a vote, to pay on a rising $5 trillion debt accumulated during the current administration without ever receiving any benefits?

No, life isn’t fair, but in America a person by birth is entitled to make their own way, to succeed and have the freedom and liberty to pursue their goals.

Under Barack Obama your freedom and liberty will be encroached upon further. Four more years of Barack Obama will indeed be the end of the Constitutional Republic known as America.

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I’ve already discussed the Keystone XL pipeline situation here and here. It’s apparent the Obama administration has a problem with the oil and natural gas industry although they are deemed safe to the environment through mountains of impact studies and create thousands of new jobs.

A little reported lawsuit in which the US Attorney for North Dakota hauled seven oil and natural gas companies into federal court for killing 28 migratory birds that were found dead near oil waste lagoons last year has been ruled upon. Wind production companies were not found within this suit and not presumed “guilty” of similar circumstances. Imagine that.

Continental Resources was accused of violating the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act because “on or about May 6, 2011 in the District of North Dakota” the company “did take [kill] one Say’s Phoebe,” of the tyrant flycatcher bird family. Brigham Oil & Gas is accused of killing two Mallard ducks. The Class B misdemeanors carry fines of up to $15,000 for each dead bird and up to six months in prison.

Now, about the wind industry, which the environmentalists and Barack Obama are wild about. Each year the wind industry kills not 28 birds, or even a few hundred, but some 440,000, according to estimates by the American Bird Conservancy based on Fish and Wildlife Service data. At the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area Northern California, some 5,000 wind turbines each year kill scores of golden and bald eagles, which are highly protected under federal law. In fact, according to the September 13 draft of its new “Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would give the wind industry “assurances” of law enforcement discretion if it adheres to certain safeguards and then inadvertently kills birds.

Gas and oil had been prosecuted under the “Migratory Bird Act.” The criminal charges carried fines and potential prison sentences. A recent ruling by US district Judge Daniel Hovland contrasted “incidental and unintended” deaths during “legal, commercially-useful activity” with “hunting and poaching.”

The court rejected US Attorney Timothy Purdon’s “expansive interpretation of the law” because it “would yield absurd results”:

If the government’s case carried the day, “many everyday activities become unlawful—and subject to criminal sanctions—when they cause the death of pigeons, starlings, and other common birds.”

The court wrote that among the potential felonious bird-killing habits are cutting brush and trees, planting and harvesting crops, driving a vehicle, owning a building with windows and . . . “owning a cat.” The court noted that cats kill “hundreds of millions” of birds each year and cars kill 60 million, while windows kill 97 million to 976 million. In short, every American could be an unwitting criminal bird killer.

What we have here is “selective prosecution” by the Obama administration. Judge Hovland also pointed out that windmills kill “roughly 39,000 birds annually.” No lawsuits can be found against the windmill industry under the Migratory Bird Act.

Although I thought the Dodo bird was extinct it appears Obama and his ilk are the reincarnation of the bird. At least in name.

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Remember Obama telling us how we needed bailouts and TARP money to energize the economy and create shovel ready jobs? All we got were signs and orange barrels on the highways and byways of America but no crews working to improve our driving experience. To be fair, last year while driving through Michigan I did see some road work going on but mostly lane changes and those pesky barrels.

Times change but Barack Obama is consistent – he’s a pathological liar.

After 3 years of environmental review and a 60-day congressional deadline for a decision, the Obama administration ended the Keystone XL pipeline project that would bring tar sand oil from Canada to the US Gulf Coast and create thousands upon thousands of jobs – crude traveling 1,661 miles from Alberta to interconnections in Oklahoma and then to US refiners on the Gulf Coast. Shovel ready jobs and much needed oil in cooperation with our largest trading partner.

Obama complains he needs more time to make a decision. However, Keystone XL has been planned for years with TransCanada filing its application in 2008, and the State Department (State presided over the Keystone XL review because it would cross the 49th parallel) determined in 2010 and then again last year that the project would have “no significant impacts” on the environment, following exhaustive studies.

Then the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demonstrated why they need to be cut down to size or entirely eliminated. The EPA and Obama needed to appease the Leftist environmentalists while ending an economic opportunity for the country. Obama’s own Jobs Council disagrees with the administration and released a report that endorsed an “all-in approach” on energy, including the “profound new opportunities in shale gas and unconventional oil.” The 27 members handpicked by Obama recommended that he support:

“… policies that facilitate the safe, thoughtful and timely development of pipeline, transmission and distribution projects,” and they warned that failing to do so “would stall the engine that could become a prime driver of U.S. jobs and growth in the decades ahead.”

Obama has commissions (Simpson-Bowels) to recommend and advise him but when he doesn’t like the outcome of studies and analysis he goes in the direction he intended all along.

Shovel ready jobs for construction workers, pipefitters, mechanics, welders, electricians and “spin-off” jobs on the pipeline’s supply chain like skilled manufacturers and equipment suppliers, or still others who might work in oil refining and distribution have been killed by Obama.

Environmentalists seem to think they can prevent the development of Canada’s oil-rich tar sands, and that their rallies against Keystone XL will keep that carbon in the ground. They can’t, and it won’t. America’s largest trading partner will simply build a pipeline to the Pacific coast from Alberta and sell its petroleum products to Asia instead, China in particular.

These green advocates are merely delusional and Obama is pandering to them for money and votes. Real job creation is less important to Barack Obama than the people who make a living working for the green anti-industrial complex.

The Wall Street Journal called Barack Obama the “anti-jobs President” but he’s not my President. I call him the anti-American Marxist.

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Yes, Marxist! Or maybe you’d prefer Communist? Barack Obama has once again crossed the line and ignored the US Constitution. Let me be very clear concerning one thing – Obama is no scholar or expert on the US Constitution. At best he was a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago in the law department. He was not a Professor, he was only tenured in community organizing and a graduate from the “School of Saul Alinksky.” So forget that “expert” argument, it’s hold no weight.

If George W. Bush was referred to as the “Imperial President” for recess appointments than Barack Obama should be labeled “Tyrant.” At least Bush followed the rules and made legal recess appointments when Congress was officially out of session. Obama sees things differently. His arrogance precedes him. What did Obama do?

“The One” installed Richard Cordray, former Ohio Attorney General and current Comrade, as the first chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This latest Czar appointment is a result of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law. Isn’t it funny how both sponsors, Dodd-Frank, chose not to seek reelection after years in office? HA! That was a rhetorical question. Bad legislation sometimes has its way of catching up to the crooked politicians who get them passed.

Obama has the power to make recess appointments but he has a problem when he doesn’t get his way. The last clause of Section 5 of Article 1 of the Constitution says that “Neither House” of Congress can adjourn for more than three days “without the Consent of the other” house. In this case, the House of Representatives had not formally consented to Senate adjournment.

It’s true the House did this to block Obama from making recess appointments, but it is following the Constitution in doing so. How does Mr. Obama legally justify this?

Senate Republicans had blocked Mr. Cordray’s nomination “because they don’t agree with the law setting up the consumer watchdog.”

So like a schoolyard child he picks up his marbles, burns the Constitution and goes on the campaign trail with his new Comrade with a visit to Ohio. Congress is allowed to have a different position then Obama. New Flash! It’s still America!!

Obama didn’t stop with the Cordray appointment. He named three new members to the National Labor Relations Board, two Democrats and one Republican, effectively giving the labor board a quorum that it wouldn’t have had with the December 31 expiration of the term of previous recess-appointee Craig Becker. Obama only notified Congress of his intent to nominate them on December 15 and the Senate hasn’t had time to hold a single confirmation hearing.

The NLRB is supposed to be bi-partisan but has now become a partisan arm of Big Labor but appointee Sharon Block is the Labor Department’s Congressional liaison and former aide to Ted Kennedy and Richard Griffin is general counsel for the International Union of Operating Engineers. You can’t get much further Left unless you resurrect Vladimir Lenin and appoint him.

One additional item on the Cordray appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Dodd-Frank specifically states that the director or chief must be confirmed by the Senate to operate at full capacity in setting budgets and making rules. So without a full Senate confirmation for Comrade Cordray he remains illegitimate.

“The irony is that while this recess appointment may advance the White House’s political goals, it does nothing to advance the work of the CFPB. The statute creating the CFPB makes clear that only Senate confirmation of a director — not a recess appointment — can activate the new powers of this agency,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said in a statement.

Of course the administration disputes this assertion but I see a conflict between a recess appointments authority and what the law that person is operating under says.

There is a conflict but who cares, this is the Obama administration, illegitimate as well. Radicals like Obama make up their own rules, why let the US Constitution get in the way?

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Anthony Hardwick - Slave Laborer or Wimp?

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We have “Occupy Wall Street”, and occupy any other city misfits wish to pitch a tent in to spread their social vermin and diseases. We have people living off of nearly endless unemployment and statistics show a direct correlation to long unemployment and lack of desire to look for work.

You should be glad to have a job and if you need to work two jobs. It’s called survival and you do what you need to do to make it. Or you “occupy” a park with like-minded imbeciles and complain about capitalism.

Then we have one Anthony Hardwick, a part-time employee of Target in Omaha, Nebraska, home to Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway. You know, the same Buffet who believes in more taxes for everyone but himself.

Now CNN money is reporting that Mr. Hardwick is upset because Target is asking him to work on Thanksgiving Day. Actually, his shift starts at 11 pm but poor Mr. Hardwick will need to sleep on Thanksgiving to get through that early morning Black Friday shift. Poor baby.

I remember, as a very young man, (teenager actually) having to work holidays at US Steel. I would have to skip a Fourth of July picnic with the family or boating trip to Lake Michigan on Memorial Day. Poor me. I had to trudge off to work and collect a paycheck with Holiday pay attached to it. Whoa is me, how did I survive.

“My fiancee is sad because I was supposed to have Thanksgiving dinner with her family, and talk about wedding plans,” Hardwick said. “It’s kind of a raw deal,” he said.

How sad – maybe you should look on the bright side Mr. Hardwick – the extra money may come in handy. But here is the real kicker from the dissatisfied, ungrateful Target employee:

Hardwick started an online petition entitled “Tell Target to Save Thanksgiving,” in the hope that the retailer would push the store opening back to Friday to allow workers to spend more time with family. Working with online advocacy site Change.org, he has collected more than 80,000 signatures as of Tuesday.

Consider this my petition for Hardwick and the pathetic petition signers to get off their arses and defend employment and work. Defend collecting a paycheck or earning an income. Defend hard work and quit your crying.

Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said Hardwick is not currently scheduled to work on Thanksgiving or Black Friday. That’s interesting, maybe there’s been a scheduling conflict.

Target isn’t alone with early openings on Thanksgiving. We have Kohl’s, Best Buy, Macy’s, Toys R Us, and Wal-Mart all opening late Thanksgiving Day to get a jump on Black Friday.

“We have heard from our guests that they want to shop following their Thanksgiving celebrations rather than only having the option of getting up in the middle of the night,” Target said in a statement. “Target will offer holiday pay to all hourly team members who work on Thanksgiving Day.“

You see, a little extra for the Christmas stocking if you get off your duff and work. Imagine that!

I’m not the Thanksgiving Day turkey or Grinch. I know people would prefer to spend time with family, eat and eat, watch football. If you care about family and have a chance to earn some money? Don’t you sacrifice a little to survive?

You have defenders of the stores and defenders of the holiday but isn’t this splitting the child in half? It’s not the whole day and if you can get by on less beauty rest than go for it, decline to work or step up and take the job. You’re “free to choose” to quote the great economist Milton Friedman.

Keep in mind, the dear Marxist-in-Chief, Barack Obama has asked for shared sacrifice. Of course Mr. Obama is on the side of the Anthony Hardwick’s of the world.

My advice to those who prefer turkey over work with paid overtime – G.O.Y.A. Figure it out!

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What Happened to Shared Sacrifice?

Were voters in Ohio paying full attention? In Stark County (Canton) voters approved an increase in sales/use tax. Honest!

Statewide they voted against the Obamacare mandate but embraced public unions by voting against OH Senate Bill 5 on the ballot as Issue 2 which would have stripped the state’s 350,000 public employees of most of their collective-bargaining rights and forced workers to pay at least 15% of their health-care costs. Yes, Ohio voters believe public union employees should get a free ride and not contribute to their own retirement. Nice work if you can get it.

One major problem is Gov. John Kasich couldn’t sell his side of the story and unions poured huge amounts of money into scare ads telling voters how they would lose services, police and fire would not be able to respond and whoa’s me, you’re life may be in danger. This was a major lie campaign to scare voters and unfortunately not enough people were paying attention and unions got the vote out.

Ohio GOP House Speaker William Batchelder predicted the more palatable elements of the law, such as higher minimum contributions on health insurance and pensions, are likely to be revisited after the dust settles and it should. Unions want tax money to pad their retirements and could care less about balancing the budget. Fact is, this attitude had helped bankrupt states and the country as a whole.

In my opinion Republicans set the table too fast going after first responders who got a sympathy vote while teachers are getting off with more freebies. However, unions spent a whopping $30 million dollars to fight Issue 2. They’ve got that kind of money to throw around.

Unions argued that limiting bargaining to wages, hours and certain conditions of employment was unfair and could endanger citizens if public-safety unions could no longer bargain over such matters as how many officers ride in police cars. They opposed other changes such as a ban on strikes and making it tougher to collect dues from workers who opt out of a union.

But to listen to radio spots the unions spent their money to frighten voters with scenarios of people calling for help and being told police weren’t available so lock your bedroom door and wait it out when 911 received a call that a burglar was in someone’s house.

“Everyone’s making cutbacks…and you see government employees not really taking the cuts the average Joe American worker is taking,” said John Frederick, a 30-year-old manager of a nearby industrial laundry who favored the law.

Of course you have someone uniformed and armed with fiction having another opinion:

“The idea that fire fighters and teachers are overpaid is preposterous,” said Heather Reese, 25, a student at Ohio State University who voted to repeal the law.

I wonder if Heather has student loans she will want Democrats to help her with?

While the unions cry poor and don’t wish to contribute to their benefits a union-backed nonprofit called We Are Ohio raised $23 million from such donors as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees to fight the law. The National Education Association, which represents 128,000 teachers in the state, spent $10.2 million on television ads and other expenses.

How about a referendum on school vouchers and charter schools? Would Ohio voters agreed to better educate their children while unions and politicians continue to cry poor and fail to balance budgets while wasting taxpayer money?

Barack Obama and his ilk like to talk about “shared sacrifice” while they inundate their union pals with taxpayer money called “stimulus.”

When do the unions share in the sacrifice? When do the voters finally wake up?

Exactly what Reagan meant and how he was a supporter of capitalism and the free market system – something that Obama is not? Obama is blaming Conservatives and other Republicans for why his policies aren’t working. Obama claims:

“Twenty-six years ago, another president said some of these tax loopholes, and I quote: ‘made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary and that is crazy, it’s time we stopped it.’”

“You know the name of that president? Ronald Reagan.”

“Was that class warfare? I know people have short memories, but I don’t remember Republicans accusing Ronald Reagan of being a socialist or engaging in class warfare because he thought everybody should do their fair share.”

“Things have just gotten out of whack.”

“If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher or a bus driver makes me a warrior for the middle class, I will wear that charge with honor.”

What a novel idea – “Everybody should do their fair share.”

However, Obama is the real class warrior and very proud of it. Unqualified for his own job or maybe Obama is qualified if his whole purpose is to bring down the economic viability of America, destroy capitalism, free markets and individualism in favor of the nanny state.

The real problem with Obama rhetoric is it’s a big lie. Mr. Reagan cut taxes, created an environment for job creators to invest and grow while getting out of the way.

Fact is  this – Ronald Reagan call for tax cut and closing loopholes and credits that allowed companies like General Electric to go without paying taxes. Remember, GE is in bed with Obama and their CEO, Jeff Immelt is an advisor to “The One.”

Let’s listen to Ronald Reagan discussing those loopholes to see if he is a class warrior. President Reagan’s Remarks at Northside High School in Atlanta, Georgia:

If you spent 20 minutes listening to President Reagan you were treated to a real and genuine leader, without the teleprompter, filled with optimism, filling the room with promise and not invoking class warfare.

Mr. Obama, you’re no Ronald Reagan, not even close.

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First we have Obama out on the campaign trail well before the Republicans have a nominee telling lie after lie concerning his jobs bill. You know – “Pass the Bill!”

There is a problem with passing a bill Democrats refuse to bring to the floor for a vote in the Senate or even introduce to the House. Obama knows this is happening yet he is out telling American’s that Republicans are standing in the way of the bills passage.

On the Senate floor yesterday, Republican leader Mitch McConnell asked for unanimous consent to proceed on voting on the bill. Reid, who has struggled to find enough votes for the bill in the Democratic caucus, objected to the motion and killed the opportunity for a vote.

Blame Republicans!

About ten minutes later, Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, emailed this message to supporters:

President Obama is in Dallas today urging Americans who support the American Jobs Act to demand that Congress pass it already.

Though it’s been nearly a month since he laid out this plan, House Republicans haven’t acted to pass it. And House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is out there actually bragging that they won’t even put the jobs package up for a vote — ever.

It’s not clear which part of the bill they now object to: building roads, hiring teachers, getting veterans back to work. They’re willing to block the American Jobs Act — and they think you won’t do anything about it.

But here’s something you can do: Find Republican members of Congress on Twitter, call them out, and demand they pass this bill.

Here’s the big question -Will the Obama campaign be asking its supporters to “call out” Harry Reid and “demand” he and Senate Democrats pass the bill?

Next up we have Eric Holder, not only failing to tell the truth but maybe lining himself up for an investigation, indictment or impeachment. How nice that would be.

What does it say when you’re outed by the mainstream press and CBS news while be a staunch Marxist?

Recap:

1. Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress.
2. On May 3, 2011, Holder told a Judiciary Committee hearing, “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”
3. Yet internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before that hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos (and here) discussing Fast and Furious.

Pants on fire in the Obama administration would be an understatement – More like the whole house is burning down.

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Defending Romneycare, providing meaningless answers to questions, tap dancing and avoiding hard questions. This is what Mitt Romney seems to do best as candidate Romney.

One more glaring reflection on Mr. Romney is he seems to think the Department of Education is a good thing and that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has the correct mojo with the latest destructive federal takeover called “Race to the Top.”

Race to the Top is one more federal ploy, one more liberal policy intended to takeover state responsibility and pay off the union thugs with stimulus slush money for votes and power.

During a townhall meeting last week in Miami Mr. Romney touted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and praised Race to the Top which rewards state education systems for reaching specific goals.

“I think Secretary Duncan has done some good things,” he said. “I hope that’s not heresy in this room.”

Romney has some views but how do we decipher the conflicting statements?

1. Education should not be confined to a teacher’s union only. There should be involvement from parents, the state, federal government with the support of the teachers.
2. He supports the concept of ‘No Child left behind’.
3. Romney supports the elimination of Federal Department of Education and favored keeping educational reforms to the lowest level involving parents, teachers and community.
4. Romney supports a means tested school voucher programs which gives students opportunity to attend any public or private school of their choice.

I see a conflict here. Surprise, surprise! In bold print above you see contradiction. Romney wishes to involve everyone including the federal government while supporting the federal program “No Child Left Behind”, supporting the elimination of DOE all while praising Obama administration follies such as Race to the Top.

It’s time for Mitt Romney to come clean on his education stance and to tell the American public exactly what he would do to reduce the size of government, if he would dismantle the Department of Education and if he would turn education responsibility over to the states.

Much has been written about Rick Perry and his support for higher education and illegal immigrants in Texas. As Governor Perry said to Heritage in October 2010:

“Our reforms that we’re putting into place that have been fine-tuned for Texas and our very diverse population out there [are] working.”

Texas doesn’t need a one-size-fits-all plan from Washington, and its social studies standards are a good case in point. Governor Perry has reaffirmed Texas’s commitment to the principle of federalism in education.

I would hope Mr. Perry feels this way about other states and their individual state’s rights. Mr. Romney needs to leave the comfort of his special spin room and answer the questions specifically. Also, the other GOP candidates need to back off of Rick Perry and start pointing to Romney and themselves with more specifics on all their programs and how they will reduce the federal government and return to the principles of the US Constitution.

Race to the top or a race to the founding principles of America? Mitt Romney and all the candidates owe that much to American’s prepared to take America back in 2012.

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