Steve Poizner's Bandini Touch

Everything Steve Poizner touches turns to scheisse.

He tried to position himself as the conservative candidate in the California Republican primary for governor, but he angered conservatives when he refused to help fund the part-time legislature initiative from his multi-million-dollar personal fortune. And his newfound "conservatism" seems like a convenient political ploy in this year of populist conservatism as he regularly supported tax increases in the past.

Poizner thought his personal fortune might buy him the governor's mansion, but then he ran into Meg Whitman's much bigger personal fortune. She leads him 63-14 in the polls. That is not a typo.

His latest political gimmick is a book to promote the fact that he spent a year teaching in a poor school (itself obviously a transparent political ploy). How's that working out? Not so well.

Poizner, who spent a year teaching at the school, donated thousands of dollars to help its students and recorded his experiences in the book, has been told he is no longer welcome there. He touts the publication in his campaign to show his commitment to fixing a failed education system, but many who teach and learn at Mount Pleasant say it's a caricature of their community intended to advance his political ambitions.

Throughout the pages of "Mount Pleasant," released Thursday, Poizner sprinkles details about his guest stint at what he characterizes as a rough urban school starting in late 2002, two years after he sold his high-tech company for $1 billion.

He was relieved, he writes, to find his Lexus safe in the parking lot after his first visit. He built a lesson around the corporate history of Kentucky Fried Chicken rather than that of Apple, thinking Col. Sanders would hold more relevance for the students than Steve Jobs.

He ruminates that the underprivileged and, often, uninterested teens on the fringe of Silicon Valley would never match the achievements of young people from his own affluent town of Los Gatos, in the heart of high-tech country.

Martha Guerrero is an associate principal who has worked at Mount Pleasant for 24 years and sent two children to the school, including a son now studying aerospace engineering at UC Irvine. She says Poizner exaggerated the school's problems to serve his narrative.

Rich white guy spends a year slumming in a minority school to make himself look good. The last guy that did that was at least a little more interesting.

Last fall I wrote favorably about Jerry Brown. Since then, I've learned that he's refusing to prosecute the CARB scandal wherein drastic new regulations were imposed based on a fake report by a fake scientist. And Brown actively supports the AB32 Global Warming Act which will further drive businesses and jobs out of California. And he is also the governor who unionized the state workforce, which is the root of the state's financial disaster.

I'll probably vote Libertarian, but eMeg is looking like the best of the major candidates.

Dirty Fed loaded up on crap assets, now in deep doo-doo with no exit strategy

Read all about it at JDA and Jesse.

And this is probably the first time I've ever agreed with angry drunken dwarf Robert Reich:

First, only Congress is supposed to risk taxpayer dollars. The Fed is not part of the legislative branch. Its secret deals, announced almost two years after they were done, violate the democratic process, if not the Constitution itself. Thomas Jefferson put a stop to Alexander Hamilton’s idea of a powerful central bank out of fear it would be unaccountable to the public. The Fed has just proven Jefferson’s point.

Second, if the Fed can secretly bail out big banks, the problem of “moral hazard” – bankers taking irresponsible risks because they know they’ll be rescued – is far greater than anyone assumed after Congress and the Bush and Obama administrations bailed out the banks. Big banks will always be too big to fail because they know the Fed will secretly back them up if they get into trouble, even if Congress won’t do it openly.

As we said, No Exit.

A Congressman Admits He Doesn't "Worry About the Constitution, to be Honest"

Then he sees the guy with the video camera and looks at it with an expression that says, "Oh....I am SO....Busted". See the video below.

[at 0:42]
Cameraman: "Where in the Constitution...?"

Democratic Congressman Phil Hare from IL:
"I don't worry about the Constitution, to be honest."

Cameraman: "Jackpot, Brother!"

Democratic Congressman Phil Hare from IL:
"I care more about the people who are dying everyday because they don't have health care."

Cameraman: "You care more about that than the U.S. Constitution you swore to uphold?"

Democratic Congressman Phil Hare from IL:
"I believe that it says we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Constituent: That's the Declaration of Independence.

Democratic Congressman Phil Hare from IL:
"It Doesn't matter to me."

[cut to 1:24]
Cameraman: "Where in the Constitution does it give you the authority...?"

Democratic Congressman Phil Hare from IL:
"I Don't Know".


Democratic Congressman Phil Hare of IL goes on to claim that he read the entire Health Care Bill not just once, not just twice, but THREE TIMES. The Cameraman asks, "at 8100 pages, reading 1 page per minute, and trying to comprehend it all, how long did it take you?" See Hare's response.

After you've seen it once, go back and freeze the video at 0:51 and check out that face. Phil Hare is a Democrat from Illinois, the most corrupt state in the nation. He has those two things in common with the President.

A message from Sarah Bond

... co-founder of the Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition:

PAINTING US AS VIOLENT RACISTS...BRING IT!

90% of Tea Party organizers are women because this movement is clearly a sexist attempt to put females back in the kitchen where we belong. And a rainbow of speakers of all ethnicities who have graced the Tea Party stage nationwide are, what...a statement of white power? And all those mothers who showed up with strollers and babies (myself included) to our last protest in San Diego on March 20th...clearly a frightening show of potential violence.

Absurd. All of it. We all know the false accusations of racism, hate and violence are a transparent attempt at shutting down our efforts as activists.

But here’s the thing...every time the left and the media tries this, it only swells our numbers. Remember the DHS report? Best recruitment tool we’ve ever had. As good, law abiding, taxpaying Americans we are offended at these accusation...and we will NOT be cowed by them.

As for violence and hate...there are PLENTY of examples from the from the left which we have listed here at our website:

http://www.socaltaxrevoltcoalition.org/30.html

Please take the time to look over these examples and use them when confronted by the ugly slander that is being thrown our way.

April 15th is only a couple weeks away...it is our opportunity to show the entire WORLD that we celebrate non-violent assembly...and that we are not afraid to be visible with our principles, opinions, issues, and patriotism.

Stay Ahead of the Media. Cap and Trade is Up to Bat.

Everyone by now should have realized that the media take up about an issue/cause per week. All those channels of 24 hour news, and yet they all cover the same things. Democrats own the media and play it like a fiddle. So let's look ahead a bit. You'll notice that right now, Obama is beginning the sales pitch this week for Cap and Trade legislation. This is as big and bad as Health Care Reform. As Obama tries to lay the intellectual groundwork, by obfuscating the issue as only he can, confusing masses of people into supporting or only half-heartedly opposing Cap and Trade, Pelosi is sharpening her brass knuckles.

Dems know they might not have their majority after November, so they're going to aggressively try to ram through as many of their big-ticket agenda items as possible before then. They're emboldened by passage of Health Care Reform, and they're now even openly admitting they are "Socialists" and that the Health Care bill was really just a form of "Redistribution". Those are words that, for some reason, they didn't use during the debate leading up to passage of the bill. Why admit to it now? Because they think they are indestructible and can do anything they want. With Amnesty also on the agenda, they might have another 15 million voters, so why would they worry about upsetting us with overly strident legislation? Heck, even the Dems' precious Card Check is back on the agenda (which allows anyone to easily unionize and removes secret ballots for that decision), after taking a year off, out of public view. Only this time they're going to try to achieve it by means of regulation, not legislation.

So, there is your guide to the next 7 months of radical leadership in D.C. Cap and Trade. Amnesty. Card Check. Along with Health Care Reform, if they manage to pass all those other items, they'll rank up there with the most radical and productive Congressional-Presidential teams the U.S. has ever had. I'd say get involved early and start calling your representatives right now, but we've seen proof that they fundamentally do not care what their constituents think.

Hope and change

20.3% underemployment.

Rep. Hank Johnson on the Guam Crisis

Yes, these are the people who just took over our health care system by force. Hope you don't need a doctor!