Wednesday, February 25, 2009

God Bless America

It’s easy to be dragged into the muck and mire of political discourse. After all; we each have our political leanings and predilections. Much of our leanings are based upon upbringing, education and perspective. Glaringly absent in our poly-sci extrapolations are the documents attributable to our founding and the intentions of the men who penned those documents. Even if such considerations are given we, “the electorate” struggle with the intent of the founding words and look for hidden meanings. Simple folly; when apprised of the reams of historical writings that define their intent and the role of the federal government as truly defined within the text of our constitution.


A simple reading of the first three articles of our constitution would forever cease the chattering class and end all debate as to such straw dogs as nationalized healthcare, stimulus plans, the Federal Reserve, Medicare, Medicaid, and other such nonsense.


Thomas Jefferson and James Madison being duly elected President and both have the “distinct honor” of penning our constitution vetoed spending bills that would have taken federal monies for the Erie Canal. Jefferson said, “Enumerated powers require the federal government to promote the general welfare; not to provide for it”. These men knew the intent of our constitution; they authored it. They abided within that text that the federal government had only three separate and limited powers delegated to it; that being to provide for a common defense, negotiate international treaties and settle disputes between the “various” states within the realm of interstate commerce.


I find it unseemly and disgraceful that men; elected to our federal bureaucracy, would stand on that hallowed ground in Washington, a city burned to the ground in 1812, and denigrate those men that pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to found a country; A country born of divine providence and dedicated to personal freedoms, love of country and love of God.


And yet; we see these modern day Benedict Arnolds adulterate what so many of our patriot forefathers fought and died for. That being; limited government and personal responsibility.
Take pause; and humor me for just a bit… for I doubt this edification has been visited upon you. And; bear with me, as we revisit those men; those brave men… who borne a country. Let’s begin with our constitution and go forth unencumbered by such modern day distortions and biases.
Governor Morris of Pennsylvania was put in charge of the committee to draft the final copy of the Constitution. Other men who had much to do with writing the Constitution included John Dickinson, Edmund Randolph, Roger Sherman, James Wilson, and George Wythe.” Why they don’t matter? These men, “though competent” were scribes, merely 18th century Dictaphones. The more apt question, in my mind is, “who authored our constitution?”

How many high school graduates could answer that question? How many of you can? If you don’t know, you will soon, I’ll tell you. Before I do there are other, equally important things you should know.

Thomas Jefferson is widely credited with authoring the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was asked to write the declaration article in early June, 1776 and finished it in less than three weeks. Jefferson, along with 54 compatriots on a very hot day in July affixed their signatures to the document. It is widely known that Jefferson had an account at the tavern across the street from the Graff House, “Declaration Hall” an account that grew to some size even with Jefferson’s means. As Jefferson was a man endowed with a great moral character this tidbit in insightful. Jefferson knew that by authoring this document he was daring the British to hang him. Had they caught him they surely would have.

Thomas Jefferson finished his document and it was signed by the delegates on July 3, 1776. Don’t send me mail you history buffs. The signing was on the 3rd, it was printed on the 4th.
Jefferson and the signers declared that we should be a sovereign country. George Washington made it happen.
Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him.

When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years.

Washington had not the best temperament as a commander. He routinely ordered the whipping of troops in his command for insubordination and other infractions of military decorum. He was a hard man. What isn’t widely known is that Washington personally financed, “to the extent possible” much of the expenses incurred by the continental army. Washington suffered many a demoralizing defeat at the hands of the British and caused Thomas Paine, “the Rush Limbaugh of his time” to write, "These are the times that try men's souls." The deciding battle came as Washington crossed the Delaware to surprise the Hessians. It was a bold act and energized the continental army and our country. The rest is history.

George Washington secured our sovereignty yet not our freedom from government. Our constitution did so, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The Virginian version of our constitution was authored by James Madison whom later became our fourth president and commander in chief during the war of 1812. Madison worked most directly with Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Paine and John Adams in the construction of our constitution as we know it.
Our constitution was created with the declaration in mind, that we are endowed by our creator. In literary form it is practically without fault; an inspired document.

All of this historical documentation leads me to ask a question, a pertinent one. Were it possible to know, what would the framers and those that fought for this countries sovereignty and freedoms think; if they could witness the functioning state of the country they borne?

Our framers envisioned a country whereupon rugged individualism and personal freedoms made us distinctly dissimilar and exceptional. In the Federalist paper # 39 James Madison describes the difference between Federalism and nationalism. He noted, “That it will be a federal and not a national act, as these terms are understood by the objectors; the act of the people, as forming so many independent States, not as forming one aggregate nation, is obvious from this single consideration, that it is to result neither from the decision of a MAJORITY of the people of the Union, nor from that of a MAJORITY of the States. It must result from the UNANIMOUS assent of the several States that are parties to it, differing no otherwise from their ordinary assent than in its being expressed, not by the legislative authority, but by that of the people themselves. Were the people regarded in this transaction as forming one nation, the will of the majority of the whole people of the United States would bind the minority, in the same manner as the majority in each State must bind the minority; and the will of the majority must be determined either by a comparison of the individual votes, or by considering the will of the majority of the States as evidence of the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these rules has been adopted. Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.”
What Madison so eloquently put forth is that we can all rally around a national flag yet; the power of our government must remain with the states.

My favorite amendment is the tenth. Wherein; “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.” Sadly, the tenth amendment has been adulterated by the commerce clause with attribution to the Supreme Court.

I’ll admit conscribing a return address that reads, “Illinois” is a hard sell wherein I conjoin with the 10th. Yet imagine this; our federal government is restricted to abiding by the constitution and the real legislative power belongs to the states as written by our framers. The results are states that actually have to compete for residents. If the tax burden in state X is too high you could move to state Y. If the job opportunities are greater in state X then state Y is apt to model its census in negative terms. As is; in a national form of government, “never intended by our founders” there is no escape.

I ask you again; what would our framers say?
George Washington served two terms as President and the country wanted to make him King. Though Mount Vernon lay in ruins Washington never drew a salary as president saying, “It is unseemly.” He retired from political life and died just three years later from throat cancer.
James Madison also died shortly after leaving office. “In a note opened after his death in 1836, he stated, "The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated."

What would they think? …Really, ask yourself. Is the form and substance of government we are today compelled to abide with the imaginings of those great men upon whose dreams for greatness we were founded. Ask yourself, and then ask those who have adulterated and obliterated the documents upon which we were founded. God Bless the framers and our elected officials we must currently abide should be ashamed and should ask themselves what I asked. What would the framers think?


Conservative Springfield Staff Writer 26FEB09

Monday, February 16, 2009

Democrats Own This Economy!

In a strange way it’s somewhat amusing to watch Democrats and idiots, “terms not mutually exclusive” as they endeavor to rewrite history. It’s as if they have to, somehow, pin this financial tail, “and tale” on George Bush’s donkey or risk mental imbalance and a shift in the earths rotation.

I heard as much from a local, raving, idiot just this Monday morning. WMAY’s resident rabble rouser railed resoundingly about the financial meltdown and concluded in his usual pompous profundity that all of this countries fiduciary folly was foisted upon its populace by that rascally wabbit George Bush.

Since the bar on political commentary has been so lowered I feel more than qualified to respond and set the record straight; once and for all. Pencils down; eyes front.

There was a congealing of several policies that brought about financial ruin, from Wall Street to Main Street. First was the, “Community Reinvestment Act” of 1977. This was Jimmy Carter’s attempt at social engineering and home ownership for deadbeats. Fortunately; Carter was too busy destroying the economy and trying on sweaters to implement much beyond gas lines, the misery index and lusting in his heart.

Thankfully, Jimbo was a one term wonder so let’s never speak of him again. For the next twelve years the sky was blue, the birds sang and all was well with the world. Reagan, as did Kennedy, cut taxes and grew the economy while increasing revenues to the government. Life was good.

Enter Arkansas huckster Bill Clinton. Bill, “the stainer” let Janet Reno off her lease, dusted off Carter’s dusty act and went after the banks with a vengeance. With help from their willing thugs at, “ACORN” Clinton Inc. sued, threatened and cajoled lending institutions into giving home mortgages to drifters, derelicts and drug addicts; not to mention the all important illegal alien demographic, introducing into the American lexicon a shiny new term; “Sub-prime Loans”. Every hamburger flipper, busboy, shelf stocker and illegal with a pulse now qualified for a sub-prime loan and as many as 5 million illegal aliens took advantage of it in spades.

Two liberal bastions of refuge made this unholy lending possible; the evil twins that are Fannie and Freddie, along with the Federal Reserve, which, is in no way federal.
Lesson; cheap money will always find a home. As the Fed lowered interest rates to 1% in 2001, Freddie and Fannie ramped up the sub-prime market into high gear. Pets and livestock were getting loans for homes they would never be able to afford, not to mention every employee of the golden arches.
To facilitate even greater abuses, the evil twins began selling mortgage backed securities; financial paper whose worth was based on the illiquid assets of their diabolical deeds, pun intended.

Enter Wall Street; one of the greatest myths perpetrated upon the great unwashed is that those carnivorous Wall Street executives are dyed in the wool Conservatives who run over puppies and eat babies. Check their donors list, “I have” you’ll find a lot more “D’s” than you will “R’s”. Sorry to bust you’re bubble.
That’s right; and whodathunkit? Those corporate giants of wealth and mirth are liberals. And yes; they played a supporting role in the monetary debauchery. Hedge fund managers and investment banks bought perfidious paper from Freddie and Fannie, bundled it with other such deceitful instruments of mortgage backed bull; applied an algorithm wherein a computation of 6% growth was extrapolated into infinity, scammed those good folks at Moody’s and the S&P into granting a AAA rating, then sent the Armanti suits out to sell these, “AAA” rated bundles to the world.

Unfortunately; extra white teeth and Armanti suits spread like the plague and all was well until 2006; when the traditional growth in housing resumed to 1.5% annually.
It was then that these monetary paper products began to lose their luster. After all; 6% was simply a bubble produced by Freddie, Fannie, Wall Street, Armanti suits, the Fed and Barney Frank, “A.K.A. the banking queen”.
On that subject, lest we forget; it was George Bush who came to congress, “no less than twelve times” to ask for more strident restrictions on Freddie and Fannie. It was the Republicans who brought the insolvency of those twins to the attention of congress. By the way; just for the record, this “Republicans controlled congress” argument is a straw dog. The right never had the sixty votes necessary to conjoin the senate to any house resolution.
In 2007, when home prices actually fell, “think balloon popping” this house of cards came tumbling down.
The most common denominator in this fiasco is housing. And; when you think housing, think Democrat. It’s just that simple. Really, it is indisputable. The congressional tapes of the banking committee are on YouTube. When regulators warned Democrats of the impending doom at Fannie and Freddie the house Democrats attacked the regulators. There is no ambiguity. There is no wiggle room. Democrats own this meltdown and trust me; they will go to hell for it.
Conservative Springfield 17 FEB 09

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Bailouts for Dummies and Democrats

Democrats are running around like Richard Simmons on Crack and I think I know why.

Let me guess; this entire financial crisis, “meltdown talk” has you more confused than Barack Obama trying to his balance his checkbook? I thought so. Terms like the Libor rate, securitization, liquidity and fiscal stimulus leaves you feeling just plain stupid. So; you ask, am I that friggin stupid? Well, yes, yes you are. Your first clue should have been that short bus your parents put you on as they stood on the curb and waved like monkeys as some nurse ratchet strapped a helmet on your big ole water head. But hey; that’s all in the past… your past. Anyway, water head, that’s why I’m here. To convert the simple into bite sized nuggets of special Ed. Just for you Skippy!

The Libor is the rate of interest banks charge each other; if they loaned to each other. Since they don’t, and probably never will again; let’s just… never mind, doesn’t matter. Now; this is important so pencils down; all eyes on me. Oh; and set up straight, after all, humpbacks and water heads can only get work in Romanian towers atop gargoyles. So… posture matters. Anyway, the “fiscal stimulus” you’ve been seeing on television, “between Jefferson re-runs”. Actually it’s not that difficult. Think of it this way; Barney Frank spent too much time sidling Freddie’s Fannie and this made your $100,000.00 house worth about what a “happy meal” costs. Which; when you think about it, is kind of ironic considering you have to be up at 4:00 A.M. to start making happy meals. By the way; “Ironic” means it’s a hoot for everyone but you. Makes you wish you’d paid more attention in math class instead of drooling over Sally with the braces and jumbo ears.

Okay; now your, “happy meal” house is mortgaged to the hilt and because of the downturn in the economy there’s no overtime for you at those golden arches. And; you’re too damn lazy to pickup cans and too stupid to rob banks. What’s a liberal idiot to do? Well; you may have an out that doesn’t get you off the couch or cause you to miss “Weezzie” giving George what for. That is if you were lucky enough to finance your house with either Citigroup or Bank of America. Because; if you did, if you pinned your tail on either of those donkeys, then guess what Billy Joe Bob? This is your lucky day! Go ahead and crack open another Falstaff, kick your dog and kiss your cousin cause you just got luckier than an adopted kitty outside a Korean restaurant.

Why? I’ll tell you why, because they are insolvent. Our benevolent government, “benevolent is what your sister is when she lets you sleep one off, on her back porch” whipped out the federal credit card and bought both banks for ten times what they are worth. And, now, between them, they couldn’t finance fifteen minutes with the Spitzer girl if they both had a buy one get one free coupon.

I’m sorry; I just realized that you’ve probably stopped scratching your ass and now have your, “butt hand” scratching your head, wondering; just what the hell is, “insolvent”? Let me explain it this way… remember when you spent your whole paycheck at the jingly bar, “one dollar at a time” and couldn’t pay the rent on your double wide? You had to sleep in your truck and dumpster dive for dried cheese, off pizza boxes. You were insolvent! Now… solvent is what you drink when you’re out of beer money.

Here’s what you need to know. As an uneducated, democrat rube, you have all the qualifications for stimulus. And; I don’t mean what happens to you when your 250 lb. cousin bends over in front of you. Obama has a promise for you. He won’t rest until he finds a productive citizen to take from so your lazy ass can continue producing offspring with buck teeth and rickets. Hellavu country isn’t it?
Conservative Springfield 12 Feb 09

Saturday, February 7, 2009

From our Founders to Obama

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury, “Think Barry’s BBQ ribs in every pot and home ownership for deadbeats”. “The result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy is always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two-hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence back again into bondage.”
—Alexander Fraser Tyler, 1700 Quotation found in SYNERGY Server [Note: The Professor wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over a thousand years ago this when America was a British colony.]

I begin this most prescient posit quoting Professor Tyler primarily for his profound ability to stand askance as to the execution of government when the enumerated powers loaned to the federal government are ignored and/or adulterated. Thomas Paine, “the Rush Limbaugh of his time” said, “Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one”. This is the state of governance we are compelled to tolerate and endure.

“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” — James Madison, {general author of our constitution}

“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

These quotes from our founders; “whom I believe were rooted in divine inspiration” have been totally filed under, “I” for irrelevant and looked upon by our present day congress and the executive branch as merely a super sized roll of Charmin® three ply in the same men’s room formerly occupied by the toe tapping, wide stance Senator from Idaho; A.K.A Larry, “men seeking men” Craigslist.

When James Madison said that the text of our constitution specifically states that no where in that document was there a codicil or even the intent that our federal government has purview over the distribution of charity; Or taking income from those engaged in productivity and transferring it to baby machines and winos whose preference is to suckle at the teat of earners.

After all; it was James Madison who actually wrote the constitution with the help of Thomas Paine; thus answering once and for all the intent of this sacred parchment.

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

Abraham Lincoln, “the object of Barry’s man crush” also had thoughts about spreading the wealth, though his thoughts were diametrically opposed to the temporary lease holder of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties”.-President Abraham Lincoln.

As the ratings for the Obama sitcom dwarf those of American Idol; thanks in large part to the Presidents decisions to close club Gitmo and relocate its clients to a halfway house in Crawford Texas, while rescinding the water sports portion of their daily entertainment and limiting the questioning of these misunderstood, peaceful reformers, “ who accidentally go BOOM” on occasion to, “ how can we make you more comfortable” or “ would you like President Obama to sign your Koran” ? We the people are treated to an administration most reminiscent of a three stooges re-run…Nyuk, Nyuk!

Meanwhile; back at the White House, “where the black guy lives”, Obama spends most of his time rating female interns from 1-10 yet, has found time to jimmy the government cash register and pilfer $1 gazillion greenbacks to finance Ass Chaps on Rabid Nuts, or “ACORN”. Abortions for European cheerleaders, their mothers, unwed sheep and that mother in California that just gave birth to eight children; now possessing a football team, complete with backups.

And; as Obama plays Santa Clause for every mega-liberal wet dream, he intends to pay for this shopping spree by placing his picture on the dollar bill and stenciling in twelve zeros next to the $1. That and combining his fight against obesity by taxing Americans by the pound, sending jackbooted IRS thugs out to literally make change by hoisting citizens by their ankles and shaking them; dislodging the change from their pockets, appointing Bernie Made-off as confiscator of wealth from the wealthy, changing the mission of the peace corps to picking up aluminum cans, unionizing the homeless, taxing sex by the inch, “Democrats would be allowed to estimate” taxing children’s allowances and playing the lottery. I’m reminded of the words of very wise men and thier thoughts on taxes.
“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
—Winston Churchill

“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. [To approve such spending] would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”
—President Franklin Pierce (1854)

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built”.- Abraham Lincoln

So why the historical perspective, why the history of those great men who not only conceived this document, “our constitution” a document we conservatives consider to be divinely inspired and sacrosanct; A document that these great men pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, under the penalty of death? Why? Because my friends it is being dismantled, one section at a time, under our very noses.

Sadly; we have become a politically correct, Oprah watching, spoiled, fat, sassy, entitled, lazy, sappy, microwaveable, remote control, blasphemous, fast food, Hollywood worshiping, selfish, non-voting, politically illiterate, government dependent, credit card, sub-prime, ignorant sheep. Quick; what is enumerated in our tenth amendment? What are the names of all nine Supreme Court justices?

These questions were put to a cross section of college seniors with predictable results. Less than 10% could name even five justices, less than 1% could paraphrase our tenth amendment. None of the participants could give even a basic explanation of economics.

Perhaps it’s just my conspiracy, black helicopter, and grassy knoll, nature that believes this is but coincidental and arbitrary. Though, After all; were our founding documents ingrained into our young skulls full of mush, along with a basic understanding of economic principals; the democrat party would be extinct and exhibits of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, ET. Al., would be featured in the Smithsonian next to the Neanderthals.

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power”.- Thomas Jefferson

The Rhetorical dagger I most often use when skewering you Lilliputian, liberal, bootlicking lackey loons from the left as I Lionize conservatives and belittle the salmonella tainted, peanut size frontal lobes possessed by you water head, short buss, Forrest Gump’s, Is simply common sense combined with my inherent, unequaled, unqualified brilliance.

Even with your diminished liberal mental faculties; I have but one question for you special ED, Special Olympics flunkies. And; it is this. Even taken for granted that the majority of you lack of the gray matter to form a coherent thought, tie your shoes or chew gum at the same time you must accept the gold standard of substantive recumbentibus pertinent thelemic freedoms that we are indeed endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights that do not come from government; but no, our rights are God given and simply loaned to government as a temporary note.
Meaning; what government hasn’t the authority so enumerated to that body in the text of the constitution, they have not the authority to exercise. There is no federal, constitutional, powers which would allow government to empower the treasury secretary to allocate funds, to collect earnings from one taxpayer and deliver them to a slacker, to regulate states exploration of energy, to bailout anyone or anything, to fund abortion, to set, “CAFÉ” standards, to fund education, to apply federal taxes to any goods or services, to regulate anything that does not involve a commercial dispute between the states, or the thousands of duties our federal government has taken upon itself.
Our constitution is clear and unambiguous. The federal government is charged with three and only three duties and is limited by the tenth amendment from straying into other legislative arenas. Those authorities are; to provide for a common defense, to negotiate international treaties and to settle disputes between the several states, only in the context of interstate commerce. All other governing responsibilities reside with the states.
These weren’t simply suggestions postulated by those great men whom born this country by sacrificing blood and treasure. No; our founders actually put quill to parchment and specifically enumerated those edicts as governing principals to be adhered to. And; lest there be any doubt they also affixed their John Hancock’s to their document and swore an oath to protect and defend the principals within the text. By the way; this is the same oath taken by our President and congressional representatives.
Perhaps, just perhaps, it’s time for those elected, spoiled, greedy corrupt bastards and bitches who have made a career out of screwing the people they are supposed to be working for, just maybe they should dust off the constitution and give it a look see. For those career politicians with the courage to do so I would expect a speedy resignation. For the document they swore to protect and defend, they have adulterated and defiled.
Conservative Springfield 09FEB09

Monday, February 2, 2009

GOD BLESS KENTUCKY

To watch the mainstream media, “from our Illinois perspective” one might conclude that Kentucky is merely struggling a bit amidst a winter wonderland of sunshine and lollipops. Having visited the bluegrass state over the weekend I can attest to the complete disaster visited upon them a full week ago.



Kentucky was victimized last Monday by an ice storm, “3 inches” that effectively shut the state down. To date; there remains gas lines, food shortages, water outages and almost 300,000 households without electricity. Kentucky’s Governor, Steve Beshear, Democrat, has been quick to complain about everything except the federal response.



Yet, the residents we spoke to railed against FEMA and the federal response in general. Megan Gore, of the Paducah area noted that as soon as FEMA showed up, the gas and kerosene dried up. Electric generators ceased to exist, electronic purchases halted and even the local WAL-MART had to have security usher twenty-five shoppers in at a time, to a store without power.



Here in Springfield we confirmed that only one store had generators in stock and their supply was dwindling to three units. We were told that every generator was headed to Kentucky. And; they weren’t being purchased by FEMA.



It’s little wonder that the freshly minted Obama administration hasn’t broken a sweat for a state he lost by twenty points and it’s even less of a surprise that the Democrat Governor hasn’t taken the leader of his party to task for his inaction. After all; there’s infrastructure money for the states to be had and it’s a safe bet Governor Beshear doesn’t want to lose his place in line.



Still, as of today, at least twenty deaths are attributed to the after effects of the storm, Many due to ill vented kerosene heaters and hypothermia. But, as residents in Graves and McCracken counties told us; wait until they go door to door.

Much of Kentucky is rural and elderly. Many of these people have been living without electricity, water, food or heat for more than a week. They expect the death toll to go much higher.



All the while Governor Beshear puts lipstick on this pig; as people die. What we want to know is this; Where are the Charlie Gibson’s, the Katie Couric’s, the Shepard Smith’s crying on the overpass asking where are the FEDS? Where is Obama’s FEMA and where’s Obama?



The only positive in this story are the people of Kentucky themselves. Antidotal as our observations were, we suspect what we noticed is in fact statewide. Nobody was waiting for FEMA and it’s a good thing. We saw people with chainsaws, neighbors helping each other and a grit unseen in New Orleans. We saw Americans; we saw what founded this country and made it into what it is today. We saw spirit and guts. We saw.



Conservative Springfield Staff 02FEB09