Charles Krauthammer is opinion maker with whom I often agree. His power is mighty. Jack Abramoff types have to work hard to bundle votes, approaching lots of people to move their cause. Charles Krauthammer can split the sea of the political discourse and line the crowds with 30 second sound bite. Such influence makes me say something every time I disagree with him. Here comes my little squeak on the Net.

…Then came the most remarkable political surprise since the 2010 midterm: The struggling Democratic class-war narrative is suddenly given life and legitimacy by . . . Republicans! Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry make the case that private equity as practiced by Romney’s Bain Capital is nothing more than vulture capitalism looting companies and sucking them dry while casually destroying the lives of workers…

The president is a very smart man. But if he wins in November, that won’t be the reason. It will be luck. He could not have chosen more self-destructive adversaries.

- Charles Krauthammer,  Washington Post

Bain Capital business is legitimate and lawful but some parts of it are very uninspiring.  Making money by loading dead firms with debt (which later will be discharged through bankruptcy), while letting tax-payers take over pension liabilities is the kind of thing that you would expect from somebody keeping their funds offshore.

Nominating Mitt Romney is like nominating a mortician. We all appreciate their work and hope to get the most skilled one when it is time to face them, but we don’t want in October 2012 to debate President Obama over best practices in handling dead bodies.

The republican establishment chose to stand behind a person who keeps part of his money on the Cayman Islands while auditioning to handle tax-payer dollars. Mitt Romney has no courage to keep his money in America, but wants to steer the US economy. It is like appointing the Captain of the Italian Titanic Cruise to command USS Ronald Reagan.

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As unaffiliated voter and Governor Rick Perry supporter I watched with regret how the Republican Party was able to get rid of my favorite candidate months before anybody had a chance to participate in our North Carolina open primaries.

Contrary to the popular talking points, the establishment killed the Perry presidency long before the Oops debate disaster. They gobbled him over the in-state tuition for kids that don’t have US citizenship, but are about to receive it in few months. The vicious attack on children trafficked inside the US by their illegal parents included the newborn babies getting American citizenship.

Now that the vultures ripped the last meat off the Rick Perry presidential campaign, folks are supposed to sit back and enjoy the sound of Mitt Romney Spanish speaking ads and pretend that the Republican Party is this loving family that is reading the Constitution in a big tent. Whatever…

The pundits were able to destroy the reputation of the longest serving republican governor by spilling manure of bigotry on illegal immigration in disregard with his actual and very impressive record on border security.

The Washington DC establishment, represented by Mitt Romney, almost sent granny off the cliff, using the democrat’s talking points, to portrait Perry as the Social Security killer.

“Tea Party” favorites like Nikki Haley and Chris Christi cuddled close to their masters and hopped on the Romney wagon despite the help they got from Perry when he was Chair of the Republican Governors Association during the 2010 sweeping election. In two years, however, the re-election time will come and these two republican stars will face the party base again.

Christi and Haley will have to answer for their support for Mitt Romney at a time when major Wall Street banks placed bets against America when provided with inside information about the downgrade of the US credit rating. Apparently Christi and Haley dream about their own career on the national stage. They will need the Wall Street money in the future, so they are investing in new friendships today.

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Republican establishment is positioning successfully Mitt Romney to win the presidential nomination and is destroying the enthusiasm for the party in the process.

The low turnout at the republican Iowa caucuses is not an exception but apparent trend in the last few months. The defeat of Governor Kasich’s attempt to reform labor laws in Ohio was the major warning sign for the Republicans of disenchantment with their brand. Forcing people to buy health insurance was rejected by the voters in the same special election. The republican establishment favorite will have to defend the most hated measure in the ObamaCare law, because Mitt Romney was the one who started it all in Massachusetts

The independent folks who stood in the wave that in 2010 delivered the shellacking of the Democrats realized that the Republican Part is dysfunctional (judging by their erratic behavior in Congress) and unwilling to change (standing behind Mitt Romney, whose vision for the future is copy/pasted from the Bush policy books) .

The Romney presidential candidacy, pushed hard by the party elite, may be the wet blanket that will discourage the grass-roots to give their best in some swing states. The low turnout in Iowa yesterday, the losses in Ohio and North Carolina in the 2011 special elections predict trouble for the GOP and must worry the representatives fighting for re-election in Congress this year and the Wisconsin Governor Walker, who is facing recall efforts.

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is ‘blessed’ with Meg Whitman charisma and looks like defective Bush Sr. clone suffering permanent heartburn. He wants to be commander-in-chief and send other people’s kids to war, but he raised five sons and none of them served in the military.

The majority of voters in the republican primary understand that Mitt Romney is unelectable. He won the Iowa caucuses with the lowest percentage of votes in the recorded history. Unfortunately, the party also failed to produce electable conservative alternative. So the protest vote will go in three directions: some disappointed folks will stay home, some will join the Ron Paul Revolution, and some will cast protest votes for third party candidates.

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Support Rick Perry for President in 2012!

Rick Perry will start with abolishing the Department of Energy to make sure he does not forget about it again. Opening the road to American energy independence will make the OPEC countries really unhappy. We need Commander-in-chief in Washington DC, who will defend the interest of the United States first. The American people expressed in many surveys through the last decades that they crave to see the country becoming self-sufficient and not dependent on foreign oil. Rick Perry is the only candidate who is committed to this goal and whose governing experience in Texas proves he is capable to achieve it.

Rick Perry will stop the Bush/Obama attempt to force centrally imposed standards in science and education. Washington DC is not interested in education, but in regulating the trillion of dollars that circulate annually in that industry. Centralizing power in education may provide future politicians with easy access and ability to force doctrines on whole generations of kids with disregard to the diversity of opinions in the country. Education should remain a matter managed by the states and communities closer to the kids.

Rick Perry will take the federal government out of the Kindergarten and refocus its efforts on national security and sound monetary policies, which happen to be the main functions intended for Washington DC.

Governor Rick Perry successfully balanced the diversity of interests in the Great State of Texas for decade now. He approaches the Mexican border issues without hatemongering, but with good will, responsibility, and commitment to the rule of law, protecting the standard of living and national security.  Rick Perry’s guarantee about securing the border in twelve months is one which many Americans, who want to see the problem resolved, are ready to vote for.

The tax-reform proposed by Rick Perry is realistic one and can be easily achieved. Optional flat tax will help small businesses save time and money by removing excessive paperwork. The direction toward simplifying the tax code by reducing the tax-rates paid with eliminating of deductions and subsidies currently has bipartisan support as evident by the Simpson/Bowles commission.

The First Lady of Texas, Anita Perry is committed to defeating ObamaCare and returning the decision of the way the medicine is done in America back to the health care providers and away from bureaucrats in DC. As a daughter of a doctor it is a personal matter to her and we can count on Anita Perry to remind her elementary school sweetheart, now husband, Rick Perry, to work for the repeal of the big government reform passed by the democrats under leadership of President Obama.

Rick Perry served in the Air Force, he is an Eagle Scout, graduate of Texas A&M, he knows honor, bread and butter, and beef too.

After listening to all candidates in the Republican primary, Rick and Anita Perry are still the people we want to have beer with in the White House. Cheers and Good Luck!

Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union the Russian TV is running spectacular documentaries analyzing the turbulent times when we were young. It is fun to watch. Here come the pictures from the old TV program Vzglyad. In English it translates as The View. The American Vzglyad is like Soviet The View turned upside down. During Perestroika we were addicted to those young men who were sitting around the table pushing freedom of speech and market economy. During Hope and Change era The View is populated by menopausal women pushing socialism and political correctness.

It is like Opposite Day on TV.

The main problem for both reformers-in-chief, Gorbachev and Obama, is deficit. However, the word has opposite meaning in both transitions. The Perestroika people had money but there were no products to buy. The Hopey-Changey stores have plenty of stuff on the shelves, but folks ran out of credit.

It is like Opposite Day at the bank.

During Perestroika low oil prices were killing the Soviets. During Hope and Change high oil prices are pushing the limits of the US economy.

It is like Opposite Day at the gas station.

During Soviet War in Afghanistan the US was funding the resistance in the mountain regions of Pakistan. During the Hope and Change War in Afghanistan the US is droning what was created twenty years ago.

It is like Opposite Day at the CIA.

Gorbachev’s grandpa was tortured for two years by communists because he was accused of being individualist who wants to keep his property. President Obama’s grandpa was tortured by colonialists for supporting movement to nationalize private property and natural resources. One President wanted to make communism more like capitalism, the other wants to make capitalism another step closer to socialism. The first kicked the bucket for the USSR; the second is shaking the foundation of the USA. Yet Obama and Gorbachev, both Nobel Peace laureates, circle in the same crowd of friends.

To understand how this is possible one should take a look at the doctrine of Convergence (which is another word for Change and Perestroika).

So let’s follow the idea.
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For the sake of daily brain exercise, have you ever wondered: will the people of power govern differently if they know that in the political afterlife they will walk unprotected among the governed?

Imagine if in 1969 Muammar Qaddafi was able to see in a crystal ball the images of his death. May be he would have spared the life of thousands of his countrymen and moved away from politics after four to eight years in power.

Why is it that the dictators never learn? Qaddafi didn’t have to see the future knife coming inside his behind to govern humanely. The history is decorated with slayed ruler’s heads.

Hosni Mubarak and the Assads didn’t believe that those who take the sword shall perish with the sword. After all, Stalin and Mao killed millions of people and got away with it. Seems the Middle East dictators picked the wrong idols. I wonder if any commander-in-chief ever truly believed in Jesus’s advice, including faith abiding George W Bush.

Vladimir Putin seems obsessed with power. He is trying to climb back into the Russian President’s throne despite the nauseating perception of dictatorship gone official. He just can’t give it up. Is it because Putin narcissistically believes that he is the only man for the job or is he scared for his life if he loses power? It could be that the former KGB agent, President and Prime Minister can’t just retire. The ghosts of the souls he walked over on his quest to the top are surrounding him waiting Putin to walk down to Earth. Sometimes he probably wishes to retire in a fancy dacha like Khrushchev, but then some horrible heart attack may come his way. Putin is not the kind that wanders around Europe like Gorbachev, who is hiding from his countrymen for decades now. Historically there is no life after power for the Russian autocrats, so Vladimir Putin is doing his best to stay in power until his last breath. His second run for the Presidency is supposed to make him seem all powerful. Instead Putin seems pathetic and paranoid and it is kind of spooky that nobody in his circle would challenge him for the leadership role.

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In case of collapse of the Euro a look in history makes us bet on German mark, not backed with gold, eagle with one head turned west, no crown.

The Eurozone countries are floating in an ocean of debt holding to the last straws and hoping for a miracle that will convince the world their situation is not dire. The US Congress Super Committee may provide that miracle by putting America in the spot light instead. If the ideologues prevail over the common sense folks, the inability of the US government to deal with its $15 trillion debt in orderly fashion will give another impulse to the stock market roller-coaster.

Busy with countless wars and covert operations around the world the US military ignores the enemy at home: class of radical ideologues in President Obama’s circle of friends, who are committed to reducing the power of the US in the world for the cause of ‘world peace’ and the chance to be in charge of a new global currency to replace the US dollar.

If the Congress pulls the trigger, the Super Committee failure will cause not only defense cuts, but also drastic reduction in Medicare funding. Seniors will be losing their social benefits and their retirement savings (in the turmoil of the markets)at the same time. Do you really think they will support re-instating military funding before Medicare?

The anti-war sentiment in America is so strong that the operation in Libya had to be handed over to NATO and the Uganda activities were briefly announced and never discussed with the public to avoid poking the fire.

America is so tired of warmongering that the conservative republican presidential candidates keep talking about future of the war as a series of covert operations. They wish the public will believe that special ops the type of Captain America jumping along Optimus Prime will take care of the world and the line of coffins carrying men and women killed in third world hell holes will disappear.

In the case of Congress pulling the trigger on Wednesday, the US military leaders will find themselves in the situation similar to what their Soviet counterparts experienced right before they surrendered to Gorbachev – realization that they lack the support of the people.

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