Fizzle factor

The Morning Mistake -- as longtime politico Daughtry Towers used to call it -- has to be embarrassed over the audit of Florida State College operations.
After trying for months to get President Steve Wallace ousted, the paper thought it had him in the crosshairs.
Talk in the newsroom was that he would be "gone by October." I'm sure they were preparing the Pulitzer entry forms.
Then came the audit.
It was stupefyingly mild. Any audit will note a few glitches in any operation. This was no different.
But the big finding was a recommendation to redraw the organizational chart. This is what bureaucrats do when they tire of playing Angry Birds. It rarely accomplishes anything substantive.
Oh, yes, and some people in a survey didn't like Wallace's "management style." Golly, gee whiz.
The paper went on this witch-hunt at the behest of the union crowd at the college, I'm certain, and with constant input and attaboys from the agitators. Unionists live for the purpose of be-deviling and when possible beheading college presidents and administrators. Then they can say to prospective members, "See how powerful we are?"
All they need are gullible editors to make their jobs easier.
One unionist tried to take a victory lap via a letter to the editor. But it was as soggy as the stories were.
This story never amounted to much and was way oversold.
If Wallace does decide to move on to a more appreciative venue it would not be surprising. But it would be Jacksonville's loss.

How to ruin a nation

It is easy to understand why union bosses, environmental wackos, residents of other nations who are in America illegally and communists would vote for Barack Obama, but they are far from a majority and why any other American would vote for him is beyond me.
He has done more to tear down America in four years than any president I remember and every indication is that he will be even worse if kept in office.
At present, our descendants are in hock to the tune of $16 trillion as a result of his policies and the only reason it isn't more is that he used accounting tricks to delay the impact of his health care takeover.
So many jobs have been lost that a record number of people have quit seeking employment. Obama's plan is to keep doing what is causing the problem.
Almost as bad as his economic polices are the way he conducts foreign policy.
He was to bring peace and harmony to the world. Instead, the Mideast is in flames.
The attack on the consulate in Libya was a prime example.
Obama doesn't bother with his intelligence briefings. If he had, he might have noticed that 48 hours before the attack there were credible reports of an attack, according to news stories.
The Marines on guard were unarmed -- another Obama administration policy, so as not to offend the barbarians who want to murder as many Jews and Americans as they can.
The Libyan guards entrusted to protect our diplomats apparently were in on the plot, and ran when the shooting started.
It was also clear that the barbarians knew the location of a safe house for our diplomats.
All of it was timed for Sept. 11.
The cover story was supposed outrage over some goofy movie. That just doesn't fit the facts.
The mobs burned and looted the building, taking secret documents that may expose Libyans who have helped America, and other vital information, to our enemies.
Afterward, a confused Obama, trying to bluster his way through, said Egypt was not our ally, which his own State Department had to "clarify." They are.
This Keystone Kops performance would be funny if it were not for the lives lost.
That makes it kind of like the "Fast and Furious" scandal, another fatal blunder by this administration.
The attorney general still is stonewalling the investigation into that case.
I'm not sure what else Obama could do to convince voters that he was completely unprepared and unqualified to be president.
The Libyan episode only lends further credence to the book and movie asserting that Obama is now and has been all his life devoted to the cause of anti-colonialism, which sees Europe and America as the cause of the world's woes.
We've had the "historic" moment of electing someone with dark skin. Now maybe it is time to elect someone who loves and respects America and will work to make it prosperous and peaceful.

Flexible definitions

Politicfact is a Web site that purports to evaluate the truth about statements politicians make.
In fact, it more often is a liberal remolding of the truth.
Often, it evaluates opinions, rather than facts. Opinions cannot be true or false.
Recently, it found to be "false" a statement by Mitt Romney that Obamacare would slash $500 billion from Medicare.
Politifact said:
"Medicare spending is still set to increase, just not at as high a rate as originally anticipated. The difference, about $500 billion, is being used to help fund other provisions in the new health care law."
This is laughable because liberals ALWAYS call any reduction in planned spending increases as "cuts." But they are not cuts, it seems, when applied to something Obama claims he will do.
In fact, the cuts are phony because they are double-counted; in effect, spent twice, as various authorities have reported.

Lib logic on display

Libs, trying desperately to explain away the president's colossal display of ignorance about the law, have created a laughable template.
They say the Republicans have flipped and now support "judicial activism."
Obama said it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare because it was passed by Congress.
But that's the Supreme Court's job, which has been recognized since 1802 -- even by non-lawyers.
Libs claim conservatives now support activism became they want the law overturned.
But they want it overturned because allowing it to stand would, in effect, expand the powers of Congress so that it could virtually control every American's life.
That clearly is not the intent of the constitution. It was written to limit government, not make it omnipotent.
No Republican has urged the court to make up new law and upholding the constitution is not activism. This is simply another attempt to distract from the issue.

Memo from the staff

White House
March 25, 2012
To: The Boss
From: The Re-election Campaign
Subject: Update on Cloward-Piven Strategy

1. Create economic crisis and overwhelming public debt.
Done
2. Drive energy prices through the roof.
Done
3. Ignore growing foreign problems until they are a crisis.
Done
4. Put nation on a path towards socialized medicine.
Done
5. Create a phony "war on women" and blame the opposition.
Done
6. Create racial strife and conflict throughout America.
In progress
Our advisers say this strategy should result in a frightened, divided populace embracing the incumbent for a second term. It is modeled on the successful effort by the New Deal, which extended and worsened an economic recession while implementing policies closely resembling those of the Stalin and Mussolini regimes, both of which were studied and admired by Roosevelt's "brain trust."

The agenda

By now, everyone in America should understand the Obama Agenda.
It is:

1. Amass personal power and wealth for himself.
2. Weaken American militarily.
3. Strengthen government control over the individual.
4. Create an ongoing fiscal crisis via excessive spending and borrowing.

Everything he has done since taking office has furthered those goals. Voters are free to speculate on his motives. They don't really matter. It is the results that matter.
If he succeeds, America will devolve into European socialist status, if not Third World status.
If he gets a second term, he will redouble his efforts to succeed.
It should be clear to everyone why Rush Limbaugh said he hoped Obama would fail.Anyone who agrees with Ronald Reagan that America is the last, best hope of the world should agree.
We'll find out in November how many of those Americans there are.

Fiscal facts

It is fun to watch the libs go nuts over finding that the public schools had a large cash carryover, but they are dead wrong when they accuse the bureaucrats of having "hidden" funds.
It says very clearly in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report that: "The General Fund total fund balance was $164,674,911 as of June 30, 2011, and represents an increase of $30,576,299 or 22.8 percent as compared to the prior year’s balance of $134,098,612.  This increase reflects the District’s commitment to be fiscally sound by the preservation of fund balance due to the uncertainty of near-term revenue streams."
Finding that fact certainly was no great feat of investigative journalism.
I've been looking at the fiscal facts lately and reporting on them, telling folks what the newspapers never do, which is that the local schools have spent more money every year and the total spending increase has been more than 30 percent over 10 years.
Other pertinent facts about the cash carryover:

• The schools have an annual independent audit, as required by law. It did not criticize the size of the cash carryover, (also called fund balance).
• The state requires the schools to have a 3 percent fund balance for emergencies. Art classes are not emergencies.
• The superintendent and his crew knew the fed spigot was likely to turn off at some point and wanted to be ready, without beating the taxpayer to death.

The state and city governments also have a cash carryover every year. It is standard practice. Only the arcane accounting of the federal government is different. Budgets mean nothing in Washington and follow no standard accounting principles. The government simply spends what it wants to whether it has the money or not.
Greedy libs want to spend every dime they can get, federal government style, whether it is fiscally prudent or not.
School board members who complain of being duped simply were asleep at the switch.
I'm rarely on the side of the bureaucrats but in this case, the superintendent, who is getting booted, did nothing  wrong, in my humble opinion and based on the facts presented to date.