Don’t Be Fooled, It’s Just More Obama Trickery

Let it be said as we head into 2012: Barack Obama is no fool. He’s pretty darn slick in fact.

However, this qualification coming from the EUG doesn’t give BO the ability to lead this country toward greatness. His many failures in this regard are already proven.

Obama’s ideology of what America is all about and why the country’s economy has been so spectacular over the past 235 plus years has obviously been short circuited through liberal progressivism and Marxist attrition. Given today’s economic stagnation and increase in social divisiveness, why he continues down the same path toward destruction becomes clearer each day.

Yes, the Obama’s left for Hawaii and are now likely basking on the beaches and on the golf courses. This, of course, being the umpteenth vacation, and one that BO said he wasn’t going to take due to a Congress in crisis over an undoable, two-month extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits.

The U.S. House and Senate continue to posture with the thought of which party will be the winner in 2012 dancing in their heads. If Obama and his cronies really believe Americans can’t see through his campaign strategy and Reid’s bogus ultimatum, they are truly trapped in Beltway narcissism.

This week’s war games on Capitol Hill will ultimately come back to bite Dems in the butt.

Peter Ferrara, the author of America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb and former policy advisor to Ronald Reagan, sheds a bit more light on the current president whose economic policy and tax and spending fantasies have been instrumental in moving this nation to the brink of collapse. He thoughtfully asks his readers to lift up the hood, and take a closer look at why this country remains on the brink of collapse after three years of Obama lip service.

Ferrara explains in Our Marxist Wizard of Oz, “Instead of the American capitalist model maximized by Reaganomics [which worked!], Obama tells us to look at the basic infrastructure spending of other countries as the model that works. But American economic growth is not suffering because of a lack of basic infrastructure like a third world country. It is suffering because Obama is so doggedly pursuing the opposite of every policy that would free the economy to produce and boom. Under such Obamanomics, soon enough America will be suffering from the lack of a reliable energy grid like a third world country.”

I think the biggest tragedy is that none of this had to happen, or at least it could have been prevented. If only Americans had asked more questions of Obama and received factual answers from mainstream media.

Ferrara explains in no uncertain terms, “What Obama is peddling to America on tax policy is only the ugliest example of his well-established rhetorical style of calculated deception. It is based on what he thinks the average voter does not know and will not know, and can be manipulated to believe to Obama's political advantage. For the picture he is painting of the rich getting away without paying their fair share while working people bear most of the tax burden is the opposite of reality.”

“This [calculated deception] all adds up to a brew for another recession in 2013, unless the American people force a change in course in 2012,” Ferrara adds.

My bet: a tidal wave of commonsense change and a flushing of Congress next year.

Gingrich Fawns Over FDR, One of the Most Liberal Democrats of 20th Century

Yeah, Gingrich can expound and debate with the best. However, it's still important to look under the hood before you buy. I am not sure I like a lot of what is coming out of Newt's mouth including his position on immigration. Either way, it's still important to get it all out on the table, don't you think?!

EUG's Ode to Pearl Harbor Day

Not sure about other bloggers but I know there are some days and weeks that just give my mind craps. Nothing flows, the brain is jammed.

I was having one those weeks. Until I abruptly remembered tomorrow was Pearl Harbor Day.







Coincidentally, my almost 16-year old son came home last week and announced he got his FIRST choice of May interim trip at his private school — Oahu!

My first reaction: Oahu, are you freaking kidding me?! 
Let me add a precursor to this story, my son’s private school is wonderful, don’t get me wrong. We pay the price and it’s worth it. It’s a school that prides itself on the extracurricular and advanced curriculum it offers its young minds.

Despite the glowing PSA, I was still shell shocked by the trip and cost. I was expecting maybe Moab (Southern Utah) or maybe something equally as magnificent. More importantly, I was expecting a trip that was a lot less expensive.

For the record, we are still deep in recession despite what Obama would have you believe about the economy he single handedly rescued from end-of-world doom in 2008.

And, regardless of whether you are the 99% or 1%, the economy and job growth still, as my son would say, suck.

Okay, I digress. Then it occurred to me as we dive into December that my son was going to Oahu and would be visiting the Pearl Harbor Memorial. This so-called “interim” trip, it appears, might not just be about surfing, sun and bikinis after all. Culture and learning might just take place despite the ocean breezes.

I thought about the experience my son will have next May as he walks through the spectacular memorial on the water that honors the thousands of lives that were lost and injured on December 7, 1941.

I’ve never visited Oahu or the Pearl Harbor Memorial, and I am kind of sad about it. But, my son will and that’s what matters most to me especially as we so desperately try to regain America’s honor and pride in itself.

Despite his youth, my son will hopefully achieve a deeper level of understanding about the magnitude of what these brave men and women did that day to protect America from further harm despite the surprise attack.

My hope is that he takes his time and inquisitively wanders by the plaques, listens to the stories about the heroes and soaks up the World War II history of a nation that despite the daunting odds, fought back on two sides of the world for freedom and won.

Star Parker: A Shining Star for “…One Nation Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All”

I am not sure which excerpt from Star Parker’s Nov 21 blog post, “The Declaration of Independence defining our principles” was more poignant and inspiring.

Initially, I felt sure it was Parker’s question to readers: “Is it not sad that most basic violations of individual liberty are not intuitively obvious to so many citizens and members of Congress?”

Yeah, I thought after reading this, we are a fabulously rich nation whose intuition for freedom and understanding of what it means to be truly free appear to have violently short circuited somewhere along the line.

But then, I kept reading Parker’s blog and found this insightful tidbit: “Perhaps what the ongoing saga of American history is about is the struggle to understand and apply our operating manual -- our Constitution --in a manner consistent with the principles of our nation’s founding.”

We are a nation subversively compromised by an anti-Americanism creep through the core institutions that fundamentally rely on the dogma of the U.S. Constitution and The Declaration of Independence to survive: family, education, and economy.

I agree with Parker’s conclusion that there’s a massive disconnect between our Constitutional “operating manual” and founding principles. I also contend that we need look no further than our education institutions to place a certain level of blame.

I just hope as a country and society inherently steeped in freedom that we are able to blend these two exceptional guiding epistles before it’s too late for our children’s and grandchildren’s sake.

While 2012 and America’s future is somewhat uncertain, what I can tell you for certain is Star Parker, and her knack for being intuitively right on the mark, makes her this week’s EUG Cool Conservative.

Horowitz & Newt On OWS Protestors: Back to Back Totally Awesome Smackdowns

It makes my heart sing when someone with the stature and knowledge of David Horowitz, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and editor of FrontPage Magazine, has the courage to come right out and tell it like it is: “They are idiots!” The OWS protestors are idiots, no joke. However, it’s a very sad protest and on several levels.

Watch the David Horowitz video if you need a little more convincing.


To make matters worse, these protestors appear to have no idea how played they are —since birth—by the very same liberal ilk Horowitz used to be part of years ago and knows so well.

As the angry in New York and nationwide continue to chant on behalf of far-left, progressives such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the POTUS, all of whom ironically belong to the 1 percent, and are rapidly driving the U.S. Constitution into the ground, the President continues to travel around the world campaigning. Let’s face it…he continues to avoid the ire of the American people and Congressional foes from the very tangible destruction he has brought on this nation.

In my opinion, it’s the unabashed hypocrisy of OWS that is the most daunting right now. It’s never been so open and so in our faces. The virulent outburst by media and entertainers such as Jimmy Fallon and the cowardly, musical smack down of Michele Bachmann’s entrance on his show last night are just more of the same liberal desperation and the bubbling up of a nation in serious distress without a leader who truly wants to solve the problems for all Americans.

No, Obama has not made things better. He’s made them exponentially worse and the facts, numbers and the Occupiers smacking down policeman and those willing to put in a hard day’s work exist today to prove it.

I think Newt said it best this week, telling Occupy Wall Street, “go get a job after you take a bath.” Newt further broke it down for those in a PC stuper by adding Thomas Jefferson’s and John Smith’s warning to American settlers that they could not eat if they did not work. This, Newt emphasized, embedded a “deep sense of responsibility” in the American psyche.

In contrast, Newt argued that the Occupy movement was grounded in entitlement stating, “…all the Occupy movement starts with [is] the premise that we all owe them everything.”

We don’t.

As I prepare food for Thanksgiving and look forward to dining with friends this Thursday, I continue to be thankful for the men like Newt and Horowitz (and the many women) who dare to speak the truth.

When Is Enough, Enough?!

I find myself scratching my head in disgust over some of the most insanely inane acts of random stupidity. Or…are these acts calculated, political power moves? If the latter, these moves are even more horrendous in my book of life plays.

I have come to realize politics aren’t meant for the light-hearted or over-sensitive. I’m reminded over and over by political heavy hitters to “get legs” and man-up or rather woman-up.

I vacillate between the idea “hey, it’s just politics…” and “why do politics have to be this way?!” on almost a daily basis. What would it be like if we told the truth and dealt with the consequences as they came and the all mighty dollar or favor weren’t factors?

Can we even imagine what it would be like? Would it be boring…or maybe not? Either way, it’s a scenario that I find interesting to dream about.

Okay, I digress. I’m a relatively tough person having worked all my life, run a business for over 16 years and dealt with the good, bad and ugly clients (for the record: mostly good for any client out there reading this blog!).

I admit I haven’t fought in war or served in the military but I do come from a long line of tough cultural stock in that I am Armenian and one whose grandparents witnessed their immediate families slaughtered right before their eyes, yet survived to immigrate to the United States (legally too I might add!).

Not a pretty story of the past but a part of my life’s fabric and a huge influence on who I am and how I process ideas and events to this day.

Now with that backstory, I take you to my original point in writing this blog post in the first place. When Is Enough, Enough? When is a “thank you” okay instead of a gift? When is paying for a service enough without having to grease the provider with a massive tip (justified or not)? When is a sentiment like a thank you or get well card kept just that, a sentiment and not recast into political folly?

I was watching TV the day Gabby Gifford was shot in Tucson and her staffer was killed. Gabby is an incredible story of survival and comeback, her staffer a sad and tragic story of loss.

However, her astronaut husband Mark Kelly (who BTW left on a mission while she was still fighting for her life) ripped on Boehner for only sending a get well card and not visiting while in Houston. Maybe a biggey to Kelly, but I think this cheapens Kelly’s timely book launch, his name and his character.

Hey, Mark might be a great guy, but using the Team Gifford Kelly book tour to slam a person for not sending a big enough gift or saying “Get Well” loud enough is in my opinion simply ungracious and downright wrong.

What, not enough? 

Today’s Focus: Pursuit of A Good Laugh In the Face of Lunacy

It’s official! Occupy Salt Lake City is over, momentarily anyway. It appears Salt Lake City Chief of Police Burbank finally found the intelligence to move the protestors out of Pioneer Park due to the discovery of a dead protestor in one of the tents. Very sad.

When will the sorely misguided and souls of Occupy Wall Street figure out they should be moving their tents to the White House?!

In the meantime, I just figured I’d continue to search out and share the hilarity in this overtly hypocritical and unsightly movement, which only in America it could occur openly because of the incredible Constitution and the First Amendment, which protect Americans' right to free speech and other inalienable rights.

Have fun with the always funny Steve Crowder take on #OccupyRacism!!!

More Federal Spending Mismanagement on the Backs of US Taxpayers, NO THANK YOU GOP!

This quote pulled directly from a Fox story is frightening:

“And in the middle of a week chock-full of dire warnings about the direction of the committee and the consequences of failure, House Speaker John Boehner conceded that a final deal could include revenue increases, though ‘there clearly is a limit.” Oh, those eyes!

While I understand we are in a mess as a nation and compromise is required in most instances, I am also cognizant that the idea of tax hikes on all Americans when additional spending cuts and the reduction and / or elimination of redundant and corrupt Federal agencies isn’t fully considered by the current administration is absolutely wrong for both parties. And especially wrong for those in the GOP party like Boehner who allegedly adhere to conservative party principles.

U.S. taxpayers have been footing the bill for messed up banks tied to government cronyism since 2008, and I believe most are over it. A great example is Prop 103 in Colorado which went down in flames! Yeah for voters in Colorado!

The over $700 billion in government stimulus that we so desperately needed to keep unemployment from exceeding 8% didn’t work. And, adding more fuel to the fire, Obama is pushing GOP to now pass through another asinine “Jobs Bill” to further expand the public sector.

All Americans should be wary! This is no overarching economic stimulus plan. This is just more government spending and public sector growth dressed up in sheep’s clothing.

According to a USA Today story on the federal pay scale published just two years ago, federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses were counted. Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector (i.e., where the real stimulus and economic growth comes from). Fast forward two years, and I think the looming recession has now cost us closer to 10 million jobs…ouch!

With so many currently out of work and rank #OWS protestors filling and defiling parks nationwide, it’s time for GOP to get on the offensive and let Americans know what the long-term consequences truly are if Obama is allowed to pass more bogus social justice stimulus legislation.

What most folks don’t get is that the GOP’s blocking of the third jobs bill matters. And, it isn’t about pandering to the 1% as Obama’s BFF SEIU would have you believe. It’s time GOP leadership let Americans know why there is more to this ideological battle than meets the eye and reenergize and set the Republican brand right as Peggy Noonan so eloquently shared in her recent Wall Street Journal column, Happy Days Aren’t Here Again.

Oh and hurry it up GOP (yeah you Establishment GOP and Tea Party conservatives) because I can already see the 2012 light at the end of the tunnel!

Occupy Wall Street: America's Most Ignorant

Watch recent GBTV exposé on Occupy Wall Street protestors while biting your tongue!

U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan Takes No Prisoners During Heritage Foundation Speech

I am not sure exactly which part of Ryan’s speech I liked the best because there were many poignant anecdotes to choose from.

His power-packed speech presented this week at The Heritage Foundation was a breath of fresh air. I hadn’t been hearing much out of Ryan lately and was getting a bit worried. Where had the House Budget Committee Chairman gone? I now know his media absence was not for naught. He’s been working on multiple economic-related bills to jump start the economy. The problem is, they are now sitting on “Dirty Harry” Reid’s desk in the senate apparently in stalemate mode.

Ryan’s speech theme, “Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy and the Politics of Division,” was the type of political sparring that makes you believe something good might just happen in 2012 despite the Hillary Clinton / Joe Biden bait-and-switch scenario toying with the psyche of mainstream media.

Come on folks. Mrs. Clinton is our illustrious Secretary of State! I don’t know about you, but I would have to say that the foreign relations results over the past three years coming out of our State Department figurehead haven’t exactly been world-peace stellar.

Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Arab Spring, you name it. Oh, and we shouldn’t dismiss today’s breaking news about the terrorist shooting in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia.
We are in the middle of pure chaos and it feels almost never ending between coverage of the 99% ranting and pissing in parks nationwide. When does the liberal progressive, politically correct madness end? This is the million dollar question nagging in the minds of most Tea Party Movement, American loving citizens.

My belief and answer to the question, when more like Paul Ryan and others who have the guts to tell the American people like it is are in control of the White House and Congress.

These are dire economic times, don’t be fooled. The campaign trail divisiveness Obama has promoted from East to West is reprehensible, but he continues to create ill will among Americans. I am convinced that 2012 must be the year of the “Veto Proof Congress” or pardon my French we are up Shit’s Creek with no paddle.

I have to believe Ryan and I suspect many of his Congressional colleagues feel much the same; and this belief became clear to me when I heard him say to onlookers:

“The American Idea is not tried in times of prosperity. Instead, it is tested when times are tough: when the pie is shrinking, when businesses are closing, and when workers are losing their jobs.

Those are the times when America’s commitment to equality of opportunity is called into question. That’s when the temptation to exploit fear and envy returns – when many in Washington use the politics of division to evade responsibility for their failures and to advance their own narrow political interests.
And yet, nearly three years into his [Obama’s] presidency, look at where we are now:

•Petty and trivial? Just last week, the President told a crowd in North Carolina that Republicans are in favor of, quote, “dirtier air, dirtier water, and less people with health insurance.” Can you think of a pettier way to describe sincere disagreements between the two parties on regulation and health care?
•Chronic avoidance of tough decisions? The President still has not put forward a credible plan to tackle the threat of ever-rising spending and debt, and it’s been over 900 days since his party passed a budget in the Senate.

•A preference for scoring cheap political points instead of consensus-building? This is the same President who is currently campaigning against a do-nothing Congress, when in fact, the House of Representatives has passed over a dozen bills to help get the economy moving and deal with the debt, only to see the President’s party kill those bills in the do-nothing Senate.”

Nicked from Dicken’s famous novel Tale of Two Cities about French and English class warfare and modified just a tad: these certainly are the best of times and worst of times.

The Lone Star State Hall of Famer Named Cool Conservative of the Week

Did You Know Cool Conservative’s Play Sports Too?!

Of course you did. Stymied by who I should honor this with the EUG honor, I thought why not an athlete, a professional athlete. Then, as luck would have it, I sauntered into our TV room, caught the Texas Rangers beating St. Louis Cardinals out of the corner of my eye and it came to me.

In honor the Rangers taking the lead in the Series (at least for now), this week’s Cool Conservative is Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr., nicknamed “The Ryan Express,” the former Major League Baseball pitcher and currently the principal owner, president and CEO of the Texas Rangers.

Oh yeah, and a Conservative Republican to boot.

During Ryan’s major league record 27-year baseball career, he pitched in 1966 and from 1968 to 1993 for four different teams: the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.

During election years in the late 1990s, Ryan’s name would frequently come up in the news as a potential candidate for some statewide office. Ryan is an ardent Republican but has never run in any race; lucky for him and his sanity these rumors have quieted. He has appeared in print ads for the National Rifle Association’s “I'm the NRA’" campaign (yeah a 2nd Amendment guy).

While not running for office himself, in 1996 Ryan campaigned on behalf of Ron Paul in the Texas’s 14th congressional district election. Hmmm, so Ryan has Libertarian leanings.

And it gets even better. Ryan married his Alvin High School sweetheart, formerly Ruth Holdorff, on June 25, 1967 and they are still married today. They have three children, Reid, Reese and Wendy, all seemingly athletes in their own right.

It’s fun to find conservatives in all types of nooks and crannies, but even better when they are the headliner of a MLB World Series. Go Nolan, Go Rangers!

America’s Insatiable Cronyism

At the local Salt Lake City ABC affiliate yesterday, I fell into some incredibly fascinating political discussion by pure happenstance. In the station to support ABC4’s weekly 2012 election cycle panel, I was lucky to talk with a few bright conservative activists including a U.S. Congressional candidate, a Libertarian 10th Amendment advocate, a Utah economic development leader as well as a thoughtful professor from Westminster College.

While various tentacles of discussion ended mostly with an admission of “let’s agree to disagree” before going back in front of the TV cameras, there were some fascinating thoughts shared and at times, as preposterous as it might sound, agreement did occur.
One of those kumbaya moments occurred when the topic of discussion turned to the basis for today’s attrition of America’s economic and social foundation. While individual reasoning came into question, it became obvious to me they all felt the same: today’s American Dream meltdown has been directly connected to expansion of money in politics (and subsequently greed) regardless no matter party affiliation.

And it’s true. It’s next to impossible for a candidate to make a policy decision purely on behalf of the people when foreign interests, global corporations, massive non-profits and their respective lobbyists are stuffing dollars in the political coffers.
Of course, a more naïve person may choose to believe it can be done. But for those willing to face the facts and break out of denial, it’s a no brainer. Humans are an imperfect species. They will eventually succumb if pressured long enough with high enough stakes.

In my “under the glass” opinion, it’s simple. Once you owe someone or something no matter the entity or organization, you immediately comprise your ability to make clear and objective decisions. When debt becomes master, and not the constituents you serve, all clarity and objectivity vanish. This is the very reason why I had to respectfully disagree with the economics professor who felt ratcheting up a bigger deficit in the short-run might get our country out of recession.

At this stage in the trillion dollar national debt game, literal and figurative solvency must become king. While it may be a hard pill to swallow, solvency is but a small price to pay to ensure future generations of Americans can live and thrive in a country that can protect itself, its constitution and support economic growth, and is why who wins the White House in 2012 is so incredibly critical.

The man or woman who is able to turn this country’s psyche around and undo Obama’s damage will be the winner.

With this said, nothing hit home harder than coming back to my home office desk and finding this MSNBC video in my inbox.



I am so happy my friend shared this rare media moment with me. Watching Dylan Ratigan telling it like it is on his show was refreshing. The pent up frustration with Congress being bought was outstanding and reticent of what many of us are feeling now. Yeah, I know…it’s MSNBC but don’t let that stop you from watching.

Herman Cain: A Refreshing Change from Politics As Usual

Over the past several months, I’ve had this gnawing in the pit of my stomach over the current GOP nominee lineup.

Romney is a smart business man and a relatively savvy debater. And, it appears the GOP power brokers love him. However, Rush isn’t buying it. He’s no fan stating this past week that Romney is not a conservative. I must admit, these factors do make Romney a tentative pick. The thought of another “GOP elite” in office for four years sends a chill up spine much like the thought of Obama getting reelected.
Then there is Rick Perry. I hear he’s running to save the soul of this nation. Also a smart man and specialist when it comes to U.S./Mexico border relations, Perry’s wife Anita embraces the Christian crusade message, maintaining her husband was called by God to run for president. It has been noted by several media that more than once, she has cast the presidential battle in spiritual terms. Not sure I have a problem with this and don’t understand why others do. Making the decision to run for President of the United State is huge and seeking spiritual guidance is no joking matter.

I must admit there are aspects of Perry that fascinate me even though my dear brother-in-law and his wife, the first being politically neutral and the latter more conservative, are not in love with their Texas governor. No matter his jobs growth record, he still appears to take a questionable stance when it comes to some aspects of immigration reform.

Then there is Michele Bachmann. I like her, I really do. I like much of what she stands for and has said over the past year with some social issue exceptions. I like that she has signed the border security pledge. However, “signing and doing” are two very different things. I am reading between the lines carefully this next election cycle because 2012 will be a game changer.

I continue to thank God every day for 10 years of Reagan. Regardless, the 90s under Clinton and the last decade or so of government expansion under both Bush and Obama, along with too few spending cuts and the inability by the Feds to balance the budget, have taken their toll.

It’s now time for out-of-the-box thinking. And, I don’t use the term “out-of-the-box” lightly. Maybe I should be more specific and qualify the box I am speaking of as a “pizza box” because Herman Cain, the former president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, is someone that could just bring about the paradigm-shift change this country needs to get back on track toward prosperity.

Cain brings an air of “no BS” to the campaign trail that the others in the pack just don’t right now. And while I fully understand the art of crafted messaging, he’s still not like the other candidates in a good way.



Cain can keep up with the intelligentsia but speaks with an air of honesty that not only resonated with Floridians during the September straw poll but has now piqued the interest of Americans nationwide. What sets Herman Cain apart: he’s not your typical politician.

Cain appears to speak the truth directly to the people and does so with an energy that has been lacking to date. In my mind, these character traits are more than enough reason to honor him as this week’s EUG Cool Conservative. 

Occupy Wall Street: Exact Opposite of Tea Party Movement

Okay, I am back from vacation daily liberal absurdity provides so much fodder it’s difficult to decide where to start.

With so much swirling in my mind, I was relieved last tonight as I watched Hannity to hear Brent Bozell of Media Research Center (passionate despite a bad cold) say exactly what I have been trying to get out for the past week or so as I watch media try to compare the Tea Party Movement with some of the most vile and empty protesting I have ever witnessed: Occupy Wall Street is the Exact Opposite of Tea Party Movement.

It’s a simple statement, and Bozell is right on the mark. I have tried hard to wrap my mind around how mainstream media so desperately tries to parallel Occupy Wall Street (aka we’re not sure why we are here just give us money?!) and the Tea Party Movement. How can this be? Occupy Wall Street whiners are about government entitlement and sour grapes while Tea Party types are about smaller or less government, or the weakening of government, which Reagan so eloquently told America had to happen before our country could begin to get back on its feet toward prosperity and growth.

To even try to tie the two movements and their respective rallies together is nothing less than a joke. Adding more credence to my stand that the two movements are polar opposites, a friend recently summonsed up more support for exactly why the Occupy Wall Street movement is so hypocritical at its core in his response to the Salt Lake Tribune about their Op Ed story on the four levels of responsibility for the subprime mortgage chicanery:

“…you along with countless others in the media, fail to report the whole story. It is too convenient to exclude the roots of the problem going back to the Clinton years' efforts to make home ownership easier for all. You fail to mention Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac's lack of oversight when anybody and everybody could qualify for a loan. Granted, Wall Street, Countrywide, et al. do have some culpability in the mess. Shame on the lenders and institutions for allowing all the bad paper to be generated at all, but the facts go back further than you portray in your piece. As a news source, you need to present all the facts and moreover, not skew facts into a would-be opinion on the Opinion section of your own paper. There is shame in that as well.”

The comment trolls who did chime in on the editorial certainly did not spare my friend. Their harsh rebuke of Danny’s thoughtful letter riddled with questionable source URLs was in my opinion uncalled for but expected given today’s lack of liberal civility or rather a hall pass seemingly only handed out to liberal, left-wing progressives without coherent messages.

But hey…you got to love the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment, which apparently has been interpreted by today’s disgruntled youth in Zuccotti Park as: if it has an engine, poop on it; if not, why not have sex with it!

I am with Godfather Politics: Occupy Wall Street makes me want to yell at my TV!

Cool Conservative Duo of the Week

50 Years of Cool Conservative Influence Against the Odds

I was initially going to skip writing the blog this week and relax. But, then I had a chance to think more about Monday and my Cool Conservative post, and knew exactly who I had to feature — my parents!
This first week in October is a truly special week for me and my entire extended family. We will be celebrating my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary on Friday October 7 at a beautiful guest ranch in California.

Some might consider celebrating a milestone anniversary like this a rarity given today’s outrageous divorce rate, but not me. If you knew my parents and their loyalty to each other, you would know that getting to the 50-year mark was simply inevitable.

But, there are a few other aspects of reaching 50 years in their marriage that I believe deserve some reverence: their belief in a conservative way of life and underlying familial compatibility.

My Dad and Mom are Armenian; this makes me and my sister homogeneously Armenian. Our Armenian heritage doesn’t come lightly, given the suffering my grandparents endured during the Armenian genocide while watching parents, siblings, aunts, and uncles killed at the hands of the Turkish. Their excitement and pride over the opening of the Armenian Library and Museum of America and the recent donation of images by the famous Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh was uncontainable, an additional tribute to their cultural perseverance.

I am convinced catastrophic tragedy builds a character like no other. For survivors like my grandparents instilling the importance of education for success no matter how that success is defined by the individual and forgiveness against those to trespass against us would be defining influences on my parents, and in turn, on me and my family. Life-long learning and the positive mantra of forgiving to overcome professional and personal challenges were inherent, naturally fostering a more Conservative mentality of working hard to contribute to society, assimilating as a U.S. citizen and voluntarily giving back when possible or so desired.

So, regardless of my formative years being shaped while living in very liberal progressive, Blue States (New York City, NY and Massachusetts), my parent’s commonsensical knowledge of what it meant to give their children the tools they would need to achieve, innovate and prosper are why they are my most beloved Cool Conservatives of the Week.

Desperately Seeking Anti-Political Correctness Vaccine for Country Gone Rabid

What would it be like if there were a rabies vaccine for political correctness that could snuff out the insane chronic denial that’s gone on in the U.S. for the past 60 years or more?
It seem of late, almost every day I am bombarded with more insanity, crazy stories like the Christian pastor in Iran who may very well be executed this week or next for not denouncing his Christian faith while our “Campaigner and Chief” Barack Obama and his crony cabinet and private sector buddies stand by mute.

Mainstream media, where are you? This is your chance to vindicate yourself from the lame, biased storytelling that’s been going on for decades. Yes, that’s you ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post and Huffington Post.

If media don’t start reporting the facts and leaders don’t start leading with American Exceptionalism top of mind, we’ll never find a cure for today’s political and cultural malady.

What today’s mainstream won’t report on, Glenn Beck will. His inherent ability to share the truth with listeners and viewers is what makes him invaluable in 2011 when truth and transparency are at an all-time low and divisiveness and chaos are at an all-time high.

For those frightened by Beck’s genuine character on-air, my warning: be more scared of leaders who read from carefully crafted scripts off teleprompter with little to no trace of blood, sweat or tears invested.

For those seeking the truth despite mainstream media’s compulsive state of reporting bias, a story that got little play aside from ABC.com last year resurfaced for me via a close and highly intelligent yet pragmatic friend who works for the U.S. State Department. While he will never be featured as a Cool Conservative due to the classified nature of his job, for his undying loyalty through emails and thought-provoking conservation, I name him an honorary and eternal EUG Cool Conservative in anonymity.

While many continue to stew in their own political ideology juices about the 2012 election, acts of treason within our borders much like that of Cuban spy Kendall Myers and his wife Gwendolyn Myers, who was spared and given a shorter sentence due to health issues, go on right under our noses without remorse. Even more egregious, these insidious treasonous acts, which carry with them unimaginable national security implications, go under-reported and glossed over saturating Americans with a false sense of security.

In my State Department friend’s very own words, I leave you with simple yet powerful thoughts to ponder until my next post: “…I assure you there are more commies like him where I work. Perhaps an asshole, but McCarthy wasn't completely wrong.”

California Dreaming Influences This Week’s Cool Conservative Pick

I am not sure other bloggers get writer’s block, but boy, I sure had a bout of the “nothing’s firing my writing synapses” this past week. Maybe it’s because I am getting to take my first real vacation of the year. Soon to be lounging and riding at the incredibly beautiful and understated Alisal Guest Ranch located in the slightly quirky town of Solvang California. 

Seriously folks, Alisal is one of the coolest and most restful places I know. The once working ranch turned guest ranch is nestled in the gorgeous and sprawling Santa Ynez Valley right near Reagan’s ranch. What could be more cool and conservative?!

I suppose my longing for next week and some downtime as the GOP election cycle picks up in Utah with redistricting announcements just around the corner have forced me to think West, Horses (my most favorite animal), Hollywood and Conservative all at once. For this reason, I have decided to focus my brainwaves on Robert Duvall, one of my all-time favorite actors.

I liked him Godfather but loved him in Lonesome Dove. Not sure if it was the cool, sometimes cold air of confidence he portrayed through the mini-series as Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae. It could have been his ability to use so few words but get the job done, or maybe it was his acts of kindness toward the women he loved, protected and cared for from Lorie to Clara. It’s hard to say. I think, however, my knowledge of Duvall’s equestrian expertise and knowing he generally did most of his own riding in movies throughout his career helped seal the deal.

But, what made the entire Cool Conservative choice so sweet was finding out that Robert Duvall is a life-long Conservative. While some say Duvall holds a more Libertarian view of the world, it’s no matter to me. I’ll take Libertarian / Conservative over morally bankrupt Liberal Progressive any day of the week. With this last pot shot, I officially name Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931), the American actor and director, EUG’s Cool Conservative of the week.

Obama: A Rigid Ideologue Out of Step with America

After listening to Hannity on Friday, I rekindled a tidbit of warmth for a man who I had essentially written off as a GOP presidential nominee, New Gingrich. I suppose some would ask why?
Gingrich’s insight about Obama being a rigid Ideologue and how this fact stymies the president’s ability to learn, listen or change hit the mark for me. Newt gets it. Obama has tried so hard to label himself a pragmatist, but only to disguise a deep and disturbing ideology he knows a majority of Americans could never digest.

As it turns out, and a shame for those who hung their hats on the idea Obama was going to be the “hope and change” savior, the 44th president is not only completely out of synch with what Americans desire for this great county (as a majority of mainstream polls are showing) but continues to remain in a denial bubble lashing out and using his liberal progressive allies, union thugs and mainstream media army to deflect factual criticism.

Needing more source information to satisfactorily connect the dots in comparing ideology versus pragmatism, I stumbled upon an interesting story by Jonah Goldberg as I poured over Real Clear Politics.com. In “Obama Appears Blinded by His Own Ideological Biases,” Goldberg dissects the idea of pragmatism and the ideologue. In step with philosopher Bertrand Russell, Goldberg concludes there's nothing within pragmatism to delineate the proper and just limits of pragmatism. Therefore, we must look outside pragmatism for those limits: we must ultimately call on ideology — values, customs, traditions and principles.

But here’s the sticky part. Obama’s values, customs, traditions and principles are so blatantly anti-American, he has no choice but to lean on pragmatism. Obama doesn’t believe in American Exceptionalism. If he did, he would stop the global apology tour. Obama doesn’t appear to believe free-market Capitalism fosters economic prosperity and freedom. If he did, Soylndra management wouldn’t today be taking the fifth. And it’s not that he doesn’t get it, it’s that he refuses to learn.

Obama’s rejection of the U.S. Constitution and belief in Americans has culminated in his decline, further supporting the theory that Obama is an out of touch ideologue.

For political pundits like Rick Perry who went “deer in the headlight” during the recent Fox / Google debate exclaiming to viewers that “Obama must just not get it” and act like the president is somehow naive, shame on you! Of course Obama gets it. While he is an incredibly misguided ideologue, he is also a smart man who has spent years influenced by radical socialists.

The sooner Americans wake up and smell the coffee, the sooner an 2012 opponent will materialize who can rally the hearts and souls of this country. Only then can we defeat Obama's anti-American agenda and resuscitate this country.

EUG Takes Note of An Interesting Conservative Women’s Movement

I missed my Monday Cool Conservative deadline by two days. Weekend travels to the East, reunion with old college friends, and catching up at home and at the desk. I realize for most dedicated bloggers, missing the regularly scheduled post is a sin and for this I do sincerely apologize.
I will have to take the “humans aren’t perfect” pass this week.

However, what the two-day reprieve from blogging bought me was some additional Internet trolling time. I definitely lined up a few more websites for future Cool Conservative review. And, and of course, I couldn’t pass up re-watching some of those funny as hell YouTube videos like “I am Fucking Matt Damon” by Comedian Sarah Silverman and the more relevant “Kathy Brock’s Booger” (Disclosure: Brock is the evening news anchor for ABC affiliate in Chicago, and soon-to-be-wife of my dear college friend’s ex), which I watched with horror and glee with my five dearest and goofy college friends over the weekend.

Truly gives new meaning to the famous idiom “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” coined by pop artist Andy Warhol.



The two YouTube videos named (only one vid posted due to ugly language / suggestive behavior in Matt Damon video) are clearly demonstrative of just how wonderful, scary and crazily creative the Internet can be. Of course, I only include the Brock booger video in this post because it has just a smidgen of personal relevance. Oh yeah, the Matt Damon guy just doesn't do all that much for me despite the fact we're both from Boston.

Oh my friends and I laughed, we laughed real hard.

My intense YouTube hunt and findings, while seemingly inane at first view, did however unveil a video jewel worth showcasing. While I get that many Conservatives "In the Know" will likely conclude I have been living under a rock, I am willing to shrug off the glib jabs, admit my Conservative ignorance and move on to study this interesting, conservative women's political movement further — TheKitchenCabinet.us. How about you?



Not sure exactly where the Kitchen Cabinet lies on social issues but sometimes neither do I to be perfectly honest. Positions both social and economic are an evolving ideological process for me. In meantime, I am free to name TheKitchenCabinet.us this week’s Cool Conservative “thing” of the week and will most definitely be trolling this site and movement deeper in the days to come.

Is it just me…or does this Obama observation also make you snicker?!

In Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind’s "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and The Education of A President,” due out next week, Obama observes that he and fellow Democrats Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter "all have sort of the disease of being policy wonks.

At first I giggled, and then I kind of winced. While the statement about “all being policy wonks” is likely true, there is an ironic and kind of creepy similarity that permeates all of the Democrats aforementioned: they all pooped out a heap of bad policy that has subsequently put the country in a more precarious economic and security position today than ever before.

So here I am, trolling the Internet for blog story ideas, filtering my way toward focus, and I notice yesterday’s AP story about Suskind’s new book that offers an insider's account of the White House's response to the financial crisis, which goes on to openly state U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ignored an order from President Barack Obama to reconstruct several major banks.

Don’t get me wrong, I am no fan of Geithner but this theme of overriding the president’s decision making process was a story I could not resist looking into further especially given this week’s rebuke of Obama and the current GOP leadership’s cherry picking of Stimulus #4: the American Jobs Act.

It wasn’t only Geithner who said “hell no” to Obama back in the early days (three short years ago). Apparently, many of the President’s other senior advisors also trumped his final decision along the way.

Larry Summers, the former White House economic adviser, is also quoted in Suskind’s tell-all as lamenting that he and others felt "home alone" and that mistakes made under Obama would not have happened under President Clinton, for whom Summers also served.

Okay, Obama has been an economic policy blunder who has surpassed even Clinton’s policy blunder count.  However, we must also remember that Clinton presided as president during a relatively quiet and uneventful time that was supercharged by the Internet boom pre bubble burst. He wasn’t under the same presidential duress as Obama. While many believe Clinton’s IQ rivals that of President Obama’s, Mr. Bill was in my opinion no national security policy poster child either based on empirical evidence.

Remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 1995 attempted crashing of plane on White House, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya / Tanzania and 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen? Yeah, all went down under Clinton.

So, while many still continue to point fingers at Cheney and Bush cajoling them with “war criminal” or even better “baby torturers,” let’s take a more factually objective look at the domestic and overseas human suffering that occurred under the Clinton and has already occurred under the Obama administrations?! Didn’t the national headline read, “America reaches highest rate of poverty on record,” just this past week?

Yeah, there’s a disease going around Washington D.C. all right but I am not so sure it is as much “Policy Wonkitis” as it is a bad case of Beltway Power Gout and a touch of Private-Public Cronyism — Solyndra anyone.

Monday's Late Night Cool Conservative Opine

Libertarian versus GOP

While I don’t as a rule look to Libertarians for the EUG Cool Conservative column, there are a few definitely worth noting for their wisdom.

Of course, here comes the EUG disclaimer: it’s a bit difficult for me to embrace the Libertarian purist such as John Stossel, Ron Paul and others because at the end of day I don’t see eye-to-eye on some pretty high-level issues, illegal immigration and border control being two of them.
However, on many issues we do agree. With this said, it’s impossible and wrong to ignore this political demographic.

So, I have decided to think outside the “glass” (yes, pun was intended) and name John Stossel as this week’s EUG Cool Conservative / Libertarian (I am just not feeling it for Ron Paul and tonight’s debate didn’t help matters). John might not fully appreciate the honor right now, but hopefully he has a sense of humor and grace to accept the honor with a grain of salt.

I heard a lot about the undoing of burdensome and loop-hole ridden regulation during tonight’s Tea Party Debate. Seriously, Michele was on fire attacking Perry for HPV vaccine executive order and left no stone unturned. And, I was also pleasantly surprised to watch Romney light up with expression and smile as he talked about Perry, creating jobs in Texas and poker. I was happy he didn’t come off as the “weird” Mormon candidate the Obama folks are trying so very hard to portray through their transparent attempt to assassinate his character. He might not be the perfect candidate, but he certainly is a better choice for leader than Obama.

All of the GOP presidential candidates did a decent job of answering the questions tonight. I only wish it had been John Stossel moderating and asking some of the questions and not Wolf.

Certainly Wolf tried his hardest on behalf of CNN (just like the last debate) to pit Romney against Perry, or everyone against Perry for that matter. Sorry, Wolf, it’s getting old.

Had Stossel been moderator, I imagine he might have repurposed and directed his recent blog post, Regulation and the Unseen, at one or all of GOP (and one Libertarian) debaters. Certainly his opine on the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill would have been poignant tonight: an epistle of approximately 2,300 pages that is so complex that Stossel charges it can’t possibly make life better for consumers. And then goes on to add,

“…Yet politicians constantly create more rules. They think they know how to manage our lives better than we do. They are ignorant and arrogant…”

Imagined or not, my guess is he would have rocked the debate floor had he moderated. For this reason, John Stossel (the Libertarian) is EUG’s Cool Conservative aka Libertarian of the week.

Less Is More Post the Day After the American Jobs Act Blubber Fest

Just two words: For real?!

Author's Note: On Friday morning September 9, 2011 I woke up mentally exhausted. Knowing I had little time and brain cells left after listening to Obama’s “Pass it, pass it now” jobs speech to the entire Congressional ensemble, I felt a picture and two poignant words were worth more than a thousand words. So goes today’s abridged post. I just keep scratching my little old head whenever I drive by the rare car and see this 2012 sticker on the bumper. A word to the GOP wise and Elite GOP in Washington, keep the essence of the Tea Party movement high on mind and don’t take Obama’s stimulus bait (aka government-controlled socialism), or we will all be very sorry in 2012.

EUG’s Cool Conservative Labor Day Special

Despite Beltway Rebuke Rush Continues to “Tell It Like It Is”

First and foremost for those still working, retired, supporting their families or proactively trying to find a job: Happy Labor Day!

Despite the dismal U.S. job market and 9.1% unemployment rate, there are many out there who continue to sing the praises of U.S. free-market innovation, ingenuity and exceptionalism while courageously warning Americans to remain vigilant in their fight against government-centric, corporate cronyism.

However, this week, one person in particular comes to mind, and it may be because he so eloquently pushed back on the recent, over-the-top story by The New York Times’ Daniel S. Hamermesh about the empirical albeit questionable idea of discrimination against ugly people and the progressive left’s dire need for new legislation to apparently combat the beauties from the beasts.

This unflappable conservative is none other than Rush Limbaugh. In fact, just last Friday during his open-mic radio show, Rush disparaged the idea of discrimination legislation for the less attractive. While a seemingly silly topic based on face value, the topic struck a chord with me. It was Rush’s secondary line of questioning about who would ultimately decide ugly eligibility that sent me for a loop. (Hint: she was finally proud of America for the very first time when her husband was elected president.)

So much for the generational saying: beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
What I believe Rush was trying to tell listeners is that because beauty is completely subjective on many levels among varying societal demographics it would be farcical to consider passing protection legislation.

Needless to say, while the suffocating fact that government intrusion still appears to reign along the Potomac, Rush continues to “Tell It Like It Is” without falter. For this reason, Rush Limbaugh — already deemed by many as America’s Number #1 Conservative — took this week’s Cool Conservative honor.

For those not able to find work or find your pot of gold, and feel it’s directly connected to the pizza face quotient, I hear tax deductions for plastic surgery are just around the corner! (A joke…I think?!).

America Sings the Blues…Go Gibson Go!

Wow, yet another news laden week! Two major private sector business stories became breaking news and both on the same day to boot. Not good news for Obama or his upcoming jobs speech to Congress.

First let’s discuss the iconic Gibson guitar company. OMG came to mind when I listened intently yesterday to the interview between Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz and Glenn Beck. The guitar executive’s explanation of how U.S. federal agents bluntly informed company officers that they’d be better off shipping their manufacturing labor overseas produced in me an eerie feeling of doomsday foreshadowing. And then it got better. The Feds went one step further and told the Gibson CEO (in writing nonetheless) that the Company’s “problem” could go away if Gibson shipped its manufacturing to Madagascar. Holy government collusion Batman!

But then you have to wonder…is this really so out of the ordinary?

Considering how embroiled the Federal government has become in private sector business, it’s really more of a surprise that stories similar to this don’t rise to the surface more often.

Okay, I could launch right into blaming today’s media and its inherent denial of how destructive Obama’s policies are—but that’s another post altogether.

Then there’s the story of Obama’s environmental energy darling Solyndra.Just 12 months ago the President told us Solyndra was going to be the next best thing. What a big fat bummer; this solar company sweetheart has been forced to file for bankruptcy leaving 1,100 people out of work and taxpayers obligated for $535 million in federal loans. That’s right, we — as in you and me — paid them to fail. How’s that for stimulus?

The comments under The Washington Post Solyndra story are replete with passion. Ranging from statements like “Renewable haters! Now's your chance to cackle and dance around the cinders decrying "libs" whatever those may be,” to “Buying votes, stopping pollution, throwing around our taxes and federal stimulus money so he looks and sounds good to liberals is not only a waste of money it is killing real jobs and real companies. These ‘green’ jobs need to stand on their own as viable economic companies not subsidized tax-payer boondoggles. Wake up America, vote all these Democrats, Marxist liberals (and Republican Rhinos too) out of power. We cannot afford another 4 years!!”

Making an already dreary situation even worse, ‘this unbelievable stretch of bad economic luck’ (according to some of my more liberal friends) comes less than one week before Obama’s infamous jobs plan, where he’s scheduled to talk (yet again) to America and the joint branches of Congress.

Big question: does EUG have the stomach to watch the Obama jobs plan press conference next week? It’s been some time since I watched the Prez speak at Americans so I just might dial in. I hear he might focus his jobs plan speech on rebuilding schools.

It’s an ironic topic coming from the former IL Senator who ignored the elementary school children in Cook County who asked for a normal-length school day (days shortened but Cook County public school teacher salaries apparently not so shoddy). Looks like the unions won that battle, big surprise.

I suppose if I am not thoroughly and mentally exhausted after the GOP debate on Wednesday night I will watch. Can’t wait for Obama’s justification for today’s breaking news: no jobs added in August, unemployment still at 9.1%. (Hint: it’s all Bush’s fault).

Kruiser Control Catches EUG’s Eye

Okay, some weeks it’s harder to get creative and witty than others and this is mine. So, like all good social media geeks, I check all channels before brainstorming my Cool Conservative blog column for this week, which in fact needs to be posted NOW!

So I am thinking about some of the heavy conservative hitters I could spotlight as the next EUG Cool Conservative such as Rush, Ann Coulter (who my good liberal friend this past weekend kept saying I was just like as I hazed him about Bernanke presenting his plan for the Fed and the future of our delicate economy with the pristine Americana backdrop of Jackson Hole supporting his spin), Laura Ingraham, The Donald, and thought I will save them for a rainy day.

Weekend with family in Jackson Hole hiking around Jenny Lake will heal the soul even if surrounded by liberal friends — come on! Some have to play the part of the liberal. In all seriousness, this friend is a very good man (my son says he has lots of Steez) who almost made me wet my pants when he put these two words together in the same sentence: liberal and sensible.

Sorry, I digress. Let me give you a better idea of how I actually research and hunt down Cool Conservatives. First, I find someone who is saying something politically poignant, someone funny, someone with Steez (Style & Ease) who I feel could likely stop or at the very least diffuse a liberal rant in 25 words or less.

And, this is exactly how I found today’s Cool Conservative. Well sort of. First, I checked my Gmail and was surprised and elated to find that Stephen Kruise was following the Elephant Under Glass (aka EUG). Much like any logical conservative, I check his Twitter stats! WOW!!! He’s got some Twitter stalkers. Immediately clicked on his blog and the rest is history — I had finally stumbled upon Kruiser Control Bonus Clips. Even though Stephen is apologizing for posting too many bonus clips and not enough original blog posts, I had a hard laugh at his 8/26/11 monologue on Jon Huntsman.

It was his ability to crack me up while being right on the mark that Stephen Kruiser became EUG’s Cool Conservative for this week. If you are hankering for more Kruiser Control wit, check out Stephen on Twitter!

Say it Ain’t So Warren!

Despite Obama’s inability to stabilize Wall Street fears, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. announced yesterday that it would invest $5 billion in Bank of America Corp., a much-needed vote of confidence that sent the beleaguered bank's stock soaring 9 percent.

While some may be surprised, this this elephant (and many others) aren’t buying it. It seems the Buffet has taken his BFF relationship with General Electric Inc. and Goldman Sachs to a new level. As supporter of commonsense, free-market principles, I don’t believe ill will is in order for this billionaire. However, I am cryptically weary of his underlying intentions.

According to the ABCnews.com story, in late 2008, before Buffett made his investment in the company, Goldman Sachs' stock had fallen nearly 50 percent from its peak of $247.92. It jumped 5 percent immediately after the deal was announced. Buffett's investments in Goldman and GE paid annual dividends of 10 percent, and wound up paying off. Berkshire made close to $1.8 billion from the Goldman investment alone.

However, unlike yesterday’s Bank of America deal, those companies approached Berkshire with their friendship bracelet offerings, seeking financial support and Buffett's stamp of approval.

I don’t know about you…but it all feels just a bit too cozy and convenient. It’s no
secret that Washington D.C. politicos have had an incestuous relationship with Wall Street for decades. Do you know who the leading beneficiary from Goldman Sachs is?

If you guessed President Barack Obama, you’re right. No other candidate has benefited as greatly as Obama did from Goldman Sachs employees in 2008. Contrast the billions banks got from American taxpayers over the course of Obama’s administration, and the millions of dollars Obama and Democrats have received from Goldman Sachs over the years and your stomach just might just turn inside out. Yes, Republicans have received GS $$ too but not the same staggering amounts given to our fine Democratic Party — how’s that redistribution of wealth sitting with you now?

As of yesterday, Buffett had made a profit, on paper, of $357 million thanks to a surge in Bank of America's stock price after the deal was announced with the stock jumping up 66 cents, or 9.4 percent, from $6.99 to $7.65. Again, I scratch my head hmmm. I guess it’s okay for Buffet, Washington elites and his private sector BFFs to make change. But what about Obama’s economic mantra: there are some who have made enough money. This could be where Buffet’s “billionaire guilt complex” stems from. It’s a shame, because it shouldn’t.

A little birdie told me Bernanke is in Jackson Hole Wyoming speaking on the Fed’s future plans but again not giving specifics. Of course he isn’t. How could he?! I am sure Buffet and his friends are biting their nails. Honestly, I think America has witnessed enough Fed carnage, don’t you? If I were Ben right about now, I’d be taking a long walk around Jackson Hole’s Jenny Lake, staring at the Grand Teton and thinking about retirement in 2012. Then I suppose he, Buffet and Obama can take that long awaited vacation – oh that’s right, President Obama just came home from one.

Michelle Malkin Tops EUG’s Cool Conservative List

On Best Day “Constitutional Conservatism” More Liberating than “Liberalism”

At a recent meeting with a very fair-minded AP reporter, I blurted “You know what I think? Conservatism is more liberating than liberalism!” Yep, this crazy thought that I had kept hidden deep for the past several years? just came out of mouth in between sips of my skinny vanilla latte. Wincing and waiting for the reporter to laugh, I realized he actually was interested in my comment.

From there, I cautiously but enthusiastically explained my theory in support of the constitutional conservative platform including the support of free will, individual choice, and true diversity fostering a freedom that no liberal progressive agenda has ever come close to fulfilling. Then, as luck would have it, I stumbled upon Michelle Malkin’s 8.19.11 blog post smacking down progressives of pallor and more specifically the closing paragraph.

Said Malkin: “I’ve heard more than 20 years of this oppressive wind-baggery from do-gooder liberals who treat my unhyphenated American brothers and sisters and me as treacherous puppets for The Man. Their smug refusal to acknowledge free will, individual choice and true diversity of thought confirms that race-obsessed liberals remain the most unrepentant and odious racists of all.”

Wow! Why re-write commentary in support of my theory when it has already been communicated so well? The only two reasons I can think of are:

1) Try and persuade the misguided progressives of pallor demographic to shake off the denial and embrace reality

and

2) Honor Michelle Malkin for her candid, courageous and unapologetic conservative commentary as EUG’s Cool Conservative #5!

[Photo credit: Don Irvine]

Just had to have the last laugh…

Some days you just need to laugh out loud. And today for me was one of them.

It's been a long, hot week for the EUG in the land of Zion.

Launched a fabulous female U.S. Congressional candidate on Tuesday, worked on other political campaign strategy during the week, wrote web content for various business clients, worked with some wonderful mom bloggers, met and emailed with some great reporters on various topics including oil / gas exploration, immigration, why conservatism is more liberating than liberalism and, oh yeah, met with the Utah Governor to cap it all off. It was an informative first-time meeting - the Governor is a kind and level-headed man. He reminded me a bit of my dad actually.

In honor of this week in review that included my first stately office visit at the Utah Capitol, the slightly odd call for press to join Utah's West Valley Police in Ely Nevada to further investigate the disappearance of Susan Powell that happened almost two years ago, and the hilarious exhibition basketball-game-gone-wild debacle between Georgetown University and China (which, OMG, I watched via a kid's iPhone today lying on a PT table and boy I have never seen chairs thrown so hard) and a good old fashion verbal argument about how screwed up America is right now with my 15 year old son (it would be fair to say we disagreed on much and agreed on a few issues), this video is most definitely for me but also for you, my slow but steadily growing community of EUG readers.

Have a Friday laugh on me!

Mark Steyn EUG’s Cool Conservative #4

Mark, you had me at “Marinated children of dependency…”
It’s a dirty little secret but someone had to spell it out and Mark Steyn certainly did just that. Steyn won this EUG over during his talk with Neil Cavuto this past Saturday while discussing the riots in London and the failed and wicked socialist state.

Not sure, but I think a shiver may have just gone up my leg. (ewww!!)

Straight from his new book After America, a frightening but witty commentary on America’s demise by heading down the same doomed path as other failed European economies, Steyn uses the word “marinate” in way that will ever change my concept of barbequing. The concept of the socialist nation endgame equated to a marinated lot of dependent people has changed my outlook on the future of American society forever. If the Federal government and legislators we elect don’t get it right in 2012, the American Dream is toast as we know it!

Steyn astutely explains the dire consequences — and policy solutions — if downsizing of the Federal government and its spending addiction don’t occur sooner than later.

Despite George Soros’ ties to over 30 mainstream news outlets which have tried so very hard to destroy the credibility of anyone who doesn’t believe in the liberal progressive agenda, Steyn’s message about the “marinated children of dependency” resonates loud and clear, and IMHO should be a key high-level message for all GOP presidential candidates.

For this reason alone, EUG honors Mark Steyn as this week’s Cool Conservative. Watch and forever be enlightened.