Most of you have probably seen the 1978 movie "National Lampoon's Animal House." In one scene Dean Wormer has just informed the wayward misfits of this frat house that he is tired of their juvenile antics so if they make one more plunder, misstep or mistake they would all be out on their… ah… ears. But instead of acting like responsible mature adults in heeding this last warning to straighten up and fly right, as soon as Wormer leaves they decide it is time to "Toga! Toga! Toga!" Of course the next scene is a drunken toga party held at the frat with all the debauchery of their collective, infamous misguided mayhem. Now while this is funny in a movie, in real life it is a bit disturbing and tiresome, especially if the taxpayers are footing the bills.

So when it comes to such antics in our government, well last week was a real pi… ah… doozy.

Now just as the movie "Animal House" had to show its' audience some of the frat boys' shenanigans before this last warning made any sense, we will have to look at a quick review of what our 'leaders' have done in the last five months, money wise that is. First, of course there were the billions in bailouts that were then followed with more billions in bailouts. I don't know how many billions anymore and I just don't care to look it all up again, it's depressing. We also won't even mention that some of these billions are now gone and unaccounted for because, well nobody seems to know where they have gone or can they account for them. Ah, its just money, right?

Secondly this group of real life frat house misfits that we call Congress stuffs a 787 billion dollar stealfromus bill down our throats, and that of our children's, our grandchildren's, our great grandchildren and so on until finally if this burden ever does get paid off nobody is even going to be around to remember our names! Again we won't mention that even though we were told that to immediately help our economy this stealfromus bill had to be passed "Right Now!" and without being read by the signers, only one half of one percent of this money has been released into our economy after four long months! Do you think maybe someone is making a killing on the interest? Maybe the banks have put a six-month hold on these checks, you know just to make sure that the money is there. This money was supposedly for what was called "shovel ready jobs." But so far the only shoveling that has been done is to deepen our financial graves.

Now after all of these billions of dollars our elected college educated idiots are on a roll! So within just two weeks of spending 787 billion dollars they pass the 410 billion dollar Omnibus bill that was filled with so much pork you could hear it squeal all the way from DC to Alaska and smell the stench from this porker clear out here in Phoenix! This money was specifically spent for the special interests and pet projects of the Congresspersons themselves. Most of this money went to the Senators' or Representative's home districts to fulfill their campaign promises that they would bring some money home, whether it was needed or not. The way to look at this 410 billion dollars is as one really big taxpayer campaign contribution to help re-elect the bandits. So if you live in one of these districts then great, you just got a new bridge, road or schoolhouse. If not then you're supposed to shut up, pay up and vote in a better thief for your district.

Drunk on this new Democratic majority power base our crazed elected brats decided to stop messing around with these petty billions and go for the really Big Bucks! So they passed a 3.55 trillion dollar fiscal budget for 2010. I mean by now when all they have to do is ignore the millions of voters who were calling in, sending letters or e-mails and holding Tea Parties in a effort to stop this madness, who can possibly stop these elected imbeciles or call them on the carpet? The American taxpayer does not have a Dean Wormer to tell these misfits they're out. Certainly our 'never vigilant watchdog' media are not going to do anything about it. Those clowns are too busy praising Obama and his minions while sugar coating the insanity in the vain attempt to get us all to swallow it with a smile while shouting, "Thank you Sir, may I have another?"

In the few months following Obama's coronation and the embedding of a Democratic majority in Congress we have been repeatedly told that we must all make sacrifices and that we are all in this together. Right. About the only thing we everyday Americans have in common with these elected self appointed aristocrats are the times. While we are sacrificing, losing our pensions, homes, jobs, savings and retirements these party hardy fanatics have taken worldwide trips and crisscrossed our own country in private jets at our expense. Just the photo op flyover by Air Force One past the Statue Of Liberty cost the taxpayers $250,000.00. Or at least that is all the White House has admitted to. But then that is mere peanuts to this regime. Obama takes Michelle on a 'promised' date to New York on the taxpayers' dime and the White House has refused to disclose how much that little night out cost! You can bet it was at least as much as that Liberty flyover as the Obama's flew to NY in Air Force One. Bush was constantly criticized for taking time off to play golf, go fishing or just go home. Yet if the last five months are any indication of how the Obama's party down, the American taxpayers were getting off cheap for a round of golf and some fish bait now and then by Bush.

No matter what your political leanings you cannot hide the fact that this new administration has been one big party and spending spree since the Obama Inauguration extravaganza made the mall of the Lincoln Memorial look like a disaster area. During this time of deep recession through their legislations this administration has already spent more money than all of the other Presidential administrations in our history combined! Think about that for a moment. Two hundred and thirty-three years of often wasteful federal spending surpassed in less than six months. Don't try to blame it on inflation rates either. Again, no matter how you slice your political views, this type of irresponsible spending resulting in an unequaled American generational debt is insanity.

So with unemployment climbing close to 10%, Wall Street still struggling, the housing market still in shambles, the auto industry illegally confiscated by the federal government, with interest rates on the rise while banks refuse to loan money to anyone anyway, half the world looking to replace the dollar standard, and irate voters jamming up the telephone switchboards and the Internet with demands to, "Stop spending our money!" what does our elected frat brats do?

"Luau! Luau! Luau!"

Last Thursday the Obama's threw an extravagant Hawaiian luau for the members of Congress and their families. You might say it was a party fit for the King and his Court. That of course is grossly un-American but it seems to be a sign of our times. The luau was complete with grass huts, traditional Hawaiian dancers and entertainment, exotic Hawaiian drinks and of course roasted pork with all of the traditional Hawaiian trimmings catered by a Top Ten restaurant. Instead of cutting all the 'pork' in Washington as Obama had promised, now they not only shamelessly push it through legislation, they eat it. Poi, oh poi do they have some nerve or what?

Dressed up like a Hawaiian tourist from Kansas, Obama opened the party by saying, "Aloha! I wish I could have given you a trip to Hawaii. Given our budget crunch, we can't do that, so at least we can bring Hawaii to you."

Translation: Well hey, maybe next year gang we can all jump on those private jets and hit the real beaches of Oahu, but right now we just have to grin and bear it for the sake of some semblance of fiscal responsibility, real or not. Ha, ha.

By the way, we have a budget crunch because of Obama and this Congress, a Congress that is virtually the same as the last few years of the Bush administration. The reason the crunch is still crunching is because these fiscal nincompoops won't stop spending!

I wonder if this bringing Hawaii to you is what they mean by making sacrifices and if Michelle had on a new pair of six hundred dollar sneakers? Also, does Obama consider Hawaii the 50th State or the 57th?

I find it particularly galling that after his highness has spent so much of the taxpayers' money he, or anyone else in DC, has the audacity to even mention the word "budget." But then he wrote a book about audacity didn't he. Or at least someone wrote it (Bill Ayers) and Obama put his name on it. So you see he does have something in common with JFK after all!

I tried to find out how much this 'picnic' cost the taxpayers but it seems no one is disclosing that information, again. Instead all I could find were loving, glowing, fluffy reports by the media about what great hosts the Obama's were and how much fun everyone had. Why they even had a dunk tank featuring White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. How nice, but couldn't we just water board him instead?

Now I know that this is an annual event but don't you think that in these hard times it could have been a bit less overstated? Surely they could have served a more reserved menu other than flying in a famous chef who owns a Top Ten restaurant. By the way that is one of the Top Ten restaurants in the world, not just Hawaii or the US. The only figure that was given in any of the reports was for ten grand that was spent just to bring in the Hawaiian dance troupe. But do the math. When you consider the cost of flying these folks from Hawaii to Washington and back, lodging, wages, agents and whatever, than this figure was probably less than what was really spent to see real live hula girls perform on the White House lawn.

When the Obama's are already holding cocktail parties every Wednesday night and having date nights in New York and Paris don't you think they could give the taxpayers a little break when it comes to such an elaborate and expensive display of arrogance such as this luau? But then it is the American people who are supposed to make all the sacrifices. Why you can almost hear Queen Michelle saying "Let them eat cake."

To add insult to injury the House passed the infamous cap and tax bill the very next day on Friday. This bill is the biggest tax EVER pushed upon the American people. You would like to believe that they passed it due to being hung over, but unfortunately that is not the case. These folks really want to put it to the American people! While our leaders do the hula and eat pigs they plan to raise the costs of all of our energy so we won't use as much and have to walk. If this bill is passed in the Senate it won't matter what your political views are as it will cost you more than you can afford and it will change life as we have known it in America. When gas prices go over five bucks a gallon, the number one question in America will become, "Is that a Schwinn?" And the Sun will still determine how hot the Earth becomes.

Fridays in Washington are beginning to be a big problem for the rest of us during this administration as members of Congress have now passed two very expensive bills on that day before rushing off for the weekend. The other time was when the Senate passed the stealfromus bill late one Friday evening. If this trend continues Americans might have to change TGIF to TGINF! Like the stealfromus bill this cap and tax bill was passed without a single member of Congress even reading it. Of course this time the members of the House had a good reason not to stay at home to read it the night before passing it, they had to go party at the luau! Our congressional members are lot like those bad frat boys of Animal House who couldn't stop partying long enough to study. Likewise as the AH bums were partying at college on mom and pops dime our 'leaders' are all partying on the taxpayers' dollars.

At the end of the Animal House movie we are told what these professional college 'students' went on to become after their drunken school daze were over. The last to be shown was one John 'Bluto' Blutarsky who was the worst of the lot. Bluto was the biggest drunk, the worst student and the most ill mannered, unkempt misfit of this anti-social group. He also had an IQ that hovered just above zero. Fittingly it was stated that Bluto went on to become a US Senator. Undoubtedly he was probably re-elected more times than Ted Kennedy.

With the nonsense that has been spewed forth by this administration and this Congress, such as:

1) Stopping all further oil explorations within America's shores and the very next day telling Americans that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
2) Any and all of the bailouts.
3) Telling us companies like AIG are too big to fail.
4) Passing all of these spending bills.
5) Putting money in the hands of banks, corporations and foreign countries instead of in the taxpayers' pockets where it would really boost the economy.
6) Running up a nation deficit of historical proportions.
7) Placing our troops in harms way for political reasons.
8) In the name of a false Global Warming scare pushing a cap and tax bill that will break every middle and lower income family in America
9) Insisting on national health care that America does not need nor can it afford.
10)  Lying over and over again.
11)  Partying their butts off while we are asked to sacrifice.
12)  And countless other stupid statements and actions.

I have to wonder if our 'leaders' do not share the same IQ as the fictitious Senator John "Bluto' Blutarsky? Two things I'm sure of, Bluto would fit right in at Congress, and Congress would feel right at home in the Animal House.

And finally here is the Liberal dilemma of the week:

Liberals adamantly believe in gun control and they are also vehemently against capital punishment. Every night before they drift off into their Utopian dreamland they sit in the Lotus pose to chant 100 times, "People don't kill people, guns kill people."

But the Liberals' dilemma is that they also obstinately believe that anyone who smokes, in private or in public, should be shot on sight. Well, that is of course with the exception of their Anointed One, when he lights up it is just so doggone cool!

God Bless America

Semper Fi,
Mike

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