Most folks know only three things about lemmings: 1) they’re sometimes in a hurry, 2) it’s always for a collective enterprise, and 3) a precipice is generally involved.

Answers to these questions are sometimes baldly, offensively obvious. The stock-in-trade of Congress is the political deal promising appropriations to a district, as in the case of (non-defensive) Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.  Personal reward also looms large, especially for the soon-to-retire.  Michael Barone in The Washington Examiner pointedly observes that a $174,000 Congressional salary is easily exchanged for upwards of $741,000 made by trade association leaders.  Alternatively, there is the use of threat, now alleged to have reached terrifying proportions, as Nebraska’s Sen. Ben Nelson finds Offutt Air Force Base (of SAC fame) on the altar.  National Security be damned.

But only one motive is weighty enough to drive this bizarre stampede, and that is CONTROL.  A good wrestler knows that the difference between final victory or defeat may depend on one more inch of leverage achieved by his left elbow.  When the tipping point arrives, the leverage is sufficient, and it’s checkmate. “We are in a define-or-be-defined occupation”, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  ANY healthcare bill that scrapes by will redefine the terms of the healthcare debate for all time - with the Government in charge.  Once freedom is gone, it’s gone.  Mop-up operations may be done at leisure.   

Administration: The Carter Administration

Agency Created:   THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Goal: TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

 31 Years Later:

Department of Energy Budget: $24.2 Billion (FY2008)

Staffing: 16,000 Federal Employees

Labor: 100,000 Contract Employees

Progress toward Goal:

          - Zero new refineries.

          - Zero new homeland drilling projects.

          - Almost zero new offshore drilling (net increase of 40 active wells).

          - Stalled Alaska natural gas pipeline (initiated under Carter).

          - Zero construction of nuclear power plants.

          - $700 Billion annual wealth transfer to Saudi Arabia, 

                           Venezuela, and other oil exporters.

          -   Crushing oil and gas prices in the USA.

FY2009 Budget Request:

http://www.cfo.doe.gov/budget/09budget/Content/Highlights/Highlight2009.pdf

The Obvious Conclusion: This governmental agency has set a new standard for effectiveness which is hard to match. Your Bureau of Motor Vehicles pales in comparison.

Should similar agencies regulate BANKS and HEALTHCARE?

 Barack Hussein Obama needs your vote! To date, he has only the support of:

51 percent in the polls

Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards. Gen. Colin Powell ( – “a transformational figure”. – “electrifying…”)

President Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton (sort of). President Jimmy Carter.

The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The LA Times, The Washington Post.

The mainstream media (to a fault). CBS, MSNBC (orgasmic), ABC, CNN. Al-Jazeera.

Virtually 100% of Hollywood luminaries

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

George Soros. Warren Buffett.

Sen. Barney Frank, Sen. Chris Dodd, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid

The Association of Trial Lawyers. 10,000 lawyers have volunteered to “monitor elections” and decertify ballots with minor flaws (generally military mail-in ballots)

The unions - ($100 million allocated - from obligatory union dues - for an independent mobilization, since Obama promised to eliminate the secret ballot in Union elections.)

Planned Parenthood, MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, ACLU, The Daily Kos, SEIU

Opponents of nuclear energy and drilling for oil.

The gay community.

Rep. William Jefferson; Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Wade Rathke, Michael Klonsky, Prof. Rashid Khalidi, Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour, Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton

The Socialist Party. The Communist Party. (Saul Alinsky and Frank Marshall Davis - from the grave).

ACORN, plus quite a number of dead people

Illegal aliens, as many as can be registered

Registered felons, virtually to a man

U.S. Muslims - ("I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." - The Audacity of Hope); also www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw -Sept. 7, 2008 -“my Muslim faith” (only a slip of the tongue)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Bashar al-Assad, Muammar Qaddafi, Kim Jong-il

HAMAS, Hezbollah, The Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, FARC

$190 million of unidentified contributions.

$63 million dollars from overseas, much of it from the Middle East. Included 11,500 foreign donations by Oct. 1; many more since.  520 of the donors list their country as "IR", which is Iran.  Millions from "Palestinians".

With 10% of Obama's money coming from overseas, for the first time in American history, foreigners will influence the outcome of a presidential election. 

All of Western Europe. (Eastern Europe, with a different historical perspective, is very nervous about him. Albania, Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia are ardently pro-McCain.)

Russia.  China. Iran. Syria. Libya. Sudan. Nigeria. Kenya, of course.

The entire Middle East, excluding Israel. (Iraq too close to call).

Chicago.

Don’t let him fail from disadvantages of a one-page CV, 145 working days in the Senate, no legislative accomplishments, no executive, military, or foreign policy experience.

Consider: Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried. The National Socialist Party (“Nazi”) didn’t work in Germany. The Communist form didn’t work for the Soviet Union or China. People joked that it couldn’t produce a toaster, and mocked its automotive accomplishments with the “Yugo”. Even Scandinavia is now backing away from socialism in its more moderate forms.   Doesn’t it deserve another chance? Shouldn’t the U.S.A. now lead the way to fairness, equity, and distributive justice?

Even more critical is Islam’s crisis of legitimacy. In Europe there are early signs of rejection of Shar’ia law for the banlieues, and some deportations. No amount of terrorism seems able to confer worldwide acceptance of this ideology and way of life.

Louis Farrakhan has referred to the articulate junior senator as “The Messiah”.  But in order for this hope to be realized, Barack Hussein Obama needs your vote!