Save America

July 28, 2010 By Save America

A head-on collision is approaching as the age of information and the Obama administration barrel along at full speed toward each other. Who’s to say whether the Afghanistan/Pakistan wikileaks are appropriate….internet realities are here to stay and nothing hides for long. Obama’s promise of transparency has long ago become a cliché, but it has become the rule of thumb in the information age. The question of what’s necessary to keep secret will be tested until there’s a valid answer.

Certainly politician’s taxes and business dealings aren’t top secret as we are about to see with Charlie Rangel,  nor their aggression toward masseuses as Gore displayed, nor avoiding taxes as Kerry just showed all of us on his 76 foot New Zealand built yacht by keeping it registered in Rhode Island . So, how will the  this administration respond to the information age players who become expert at uncovering lies and deceit? In a very real sense, they are dependent on the lies and deceit, if they lose control of information, they lose power.

Will Obama and his entourage become reactionary and begin to regulate websites that uncover information which threaten their power…more than likely. There needs to be a proactive resistance to the possibility of this type of looming censorship. A counter campaign is necessary for a healthy and free society, because they will use their best minds to begin rationalizing the need to regulate and control information.

Some of the liberal online activists who helped elect Obama to the White House aren’t happy and this last weekend at the Netroots Nation convention in Las Vegas they were not shy about airing their gripes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, consoled the liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the health care law assuring them there would eventually be a public option. Ahh….the resurrection of the public option.

“We’re going to have a public option”, Reid voiced, “it’s just a question of when”.   Transparency, right…more like we’ve shoved through a lot of stuff, but we still have a lot more..so campaign for us again.

So, is Obama out on a campaign to satisfy the liberal bloggers who helped elect him?

Most progressive activists have been quick to voice the need to push the agenda harder. So Obama was quick to address the convention acknowledging come of their concerns. This annual convention,  once known as the YearlyKos,  has become the signature event for the Democratic calendar to meet with the progressive bloggers whose influence grows stronger every passing year. With a critical push for the democratic base to come out and vote given the uphill battle their candidates are facing in the coming midterm elections,  subjects on this year’s agenda during the convention were panels on “blogging a red state to blue” and “beyond the tweet”.

Typically, slanting us to look at the right hand so you don’t see what the left is up to, drafted out of public view the left wing lobbyist move to  ram through Congress the “Disclose Act”, while bypassing committee hearings finance legislation earlier this week.

“At a Rose Garden press conference on Monday, President Obama decried the influence of “shadow groups” on elections and urged the Senate to pass the “reform” sponsored by N.Y. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. But the loophole-ridden package exempts large nonprofits with 500,000 or more members. Behemoth labor unions get preferential treatment. Bradley Smith, former Federal Elections Commission chairman, noted that the law places radical speech-squelching restrictions on companies’ ability to run independent political ads: “(I)f you’re a company with a government contract of over $10 million (like more than half of the top 50 U.S. companies) or if you’re a company with more than 20 percent foreign shareholders, you can’t even mention a candidate in an ad for up to a full year before the election. … There are no similar prohibitions for unions representing government contractors or unions with foreign membership.”

During Tuesday’s debate before the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell  coined it as a “transparent attempt to rig the fall elections”.  He went on to diagnosis it as, “jobs protection bill for entrenched incumbents more interested in protecting their hides than the Constitution”.  Lib chieftain Sen. Schumer vowed to resurrect this issue when the cloture vote fell three votes short of the 60 needed. This is just another example of the Democratic majority’s endless hide and seek hypocrisy up on the hill.

While Obama and his minions want to feign alarm over the proliferation of fake rightwing grassroots groups surging across the nation,  here are a few more that purposely won’t appear anytime soon on his teleprompter:

-Consumers Organize for Reliable Electricity: David Axelrod formed this front group to push for a massive utility tax hike championed by Commonwealth Edison in his hometown Chicago.

-Health Care for America Now: Funded by George Soros and SEIU, this liberal lobbying conglomerate projects itself as street-based “grassroots”.

-American Public Policy Committee: This is an umbrella group whose mission is to attack tea party activists by a group of union and progressive lobbyists run by Craig Varoga supported by big Washington bucks.

-Americans for Stable Quality Care: This coalition funded by Big Pharma, AARP, AMA and SEIU with $150 million for pre-Obama health care ads all while passing themselves off with the illusion of grassroots support.

-American Rights at Work: Which is the far-left, pro-big labor lobbying group who Hilda Solis (Obama’s Labor Secretary) served as treasurer, while as a congresswomen – which she failed to disclose while lobbying for the Big Labor card-check bill she was sponsoring.

Two years of Obama and his allies touting about transparency…filled with backdoor kickbacks, midnight floor votes, big labor deals, C-SPAN camera evasion, etc….. while they promised America’s right to know and championed open access. Yeah right…….. remember this: http://www.changefor2012.com/2009/09/the-soros-connection/ ?

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time…..but, you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln