'Anyone but Cornyn' takes to the Overpasses

Sometimes, God just puts you in the right place at the right time.

Earlier tonight, we were crossing I-35 on the 11th street overpass near Downtown Austin.  As we got closer, we saw that there was a group of folks holding 'Cornyn Funded Obamacare' signs.  They recieved a surprisingly positive reaction from drivers passing underneath.

We also met William Brown from Republic of Texas TV:

It was an awesome and welcome sight to see such an unexpected grassroots uprising in the heart of Downtown Austin.

Breitbart.com's disappointing anti-Rand Paul straw man

I clicked on Breitbart.com this morning and found this disappointing headline:

Rand Paul Threatens Filibuster Of Defense Bill to Release Potential Terrorists.

 Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it?!?

When you read the article, however, you discover:

He's threatening to filibuster Defense funding unless he gets a vote on an amendment that would curtail indefinite detention of potential terrorists.

In other words,  Rand Paul is talking about repealing the NDAA, not releasing Islamic Terrorists.

Disappointing; Breitbart.com can and should do better.

Obama's Record on Radical Islam

Today is the anniversary of the Ft. Hood jihadist attack workplace violence.  Obviously, tomorrow is election day.  Given this juxtaposition, now is an appropriate time to review his record.

One Note: Whoever wins tomorrow, we need to reconfigure our strategy in this conflict.  Obviously, Obama's approach has been a treasonous disaster, but the alternatives advanced by George W. Bush and Ron Paul aren't satisfactory either.  I've outlined broad principles here.

Barack Obama has:

• Appointed Muslim Brotherhood linked operatives to numerous National Security positions and generally abetted Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the United States government.

• Attempted to give Khalid Shiekh Mohammed, the architect of (the first) 9/11, a civilian trial in New York City.

• Failed to support the Green Revolution in Iran.

• Failed to stop the Ft. Hood shooter or properly define him; refuses to declassify the military after-action report.

• Failed to stop the Christmas Day 2009 pantybomber despite having been warned by the guy's father six weeks before the attempted attack; despite this, Janet Napoletano said 'the system worked.'

• Dithered in Afghanistan for a year then failed to give the military what they'd asked for.

• Condemned Israel's Gaza flotilla raid.

• Supported the Terrorist Victory Monument Islamic Cultural Center at Ground Zero.

• Had multiple members of his administration attempt to silence the counter-Islamic speech of a Pastor in Florida.

• Supported the Muslim Brotherhood over a longstanding American ally in Egypt.

• Launched an illegal war against a quasi-American ally in Libya without Congressional authorization, and that's just what he did in 2011.

• Dragged his feet on the bin Laden mission for a year, then revealed sources and methods to the enemy.

• Joined with the Organization of Islamic Conference to promote criminalizing counter-Islamic speech.

• Lectured Israel to return to the Auschwitz lines.

• Failed to renegotiate our Status of Forces agreement with the Iraqi government, squandering America's hard fought victory in Iraq.

• Shown no willingness to do anything difficult to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuke; blabs incessantly about the few steps he has taken.

• Signed a law allowing him to detain indefinitely U.S. citizens that we don't need to fight terrorism.

• Speaking of which, don't get me started on how much worse the TSA has gotten under Obama; the silver lining is that, in Barack Obama's economy, people can't afford to fly anywhere in the first place.

• Failed to secure a border where Islamic terrorists are working with Drug Cartels.

• Blamed a YouTube video for a series of coordinated attacks against U.S. embassies.

• Benghazi-gate continues getting worse.

• Stonewalled Congress regarding 80 boxes of discovery material provided to the defense in the Holy Land Foundation trial.

I did this list off the top of my head, so I've probably missed some stuff; feel free to add your 'favorites' in the comments.

On Republican "Obstruction"

One of the pieces of tripe I expect the Democrats to push at their convention is the canard that the mean Republicans have obstructed our poor little manchild President.  Bull-crap.  Except for cap-and-trade (*), Barack Obama has gotten every major legislative priority he set.

• Barack Obama got his $800 billion stimulus.

• Barack Obama got Cash for Clunkers.

• Barack Obama got Sonia Sotomayor confirmed to the Supreme Court.

• Barack Obama got his corrupt, destructive, Health Care law.

• Barack Obama got Elena Kagan confirmed to the Supreme Court.

• Barack Obama got his Financial reform law that doesn't do squat to end 'too big to fail'

• Barack Obama got his disastrous arms control treaty with Vladimir Putin.

• Barack Obama got his debt ceiling increase.

• Barack Obama didn't have his war in Libya defunded.

• Barack Obama got his indefinite detention law.

• Barack Obama got his payroll "tax cut" extension.

Republicans haven't obstructed squat.  Obama has accomplished his entire legislative agenda (except cap-and-trade).  The results speak for themselves.

* Even cap-and-trade was killed by Democrats.

Reviewing Obama's Record

Last night, I got into a conversation on Facebook about the election.  In the discussion, I listed all the elements of Barack Obama's record that he has to defend.  Looking over it, it's incredible how much Barack Obama has to defend.

Feel free to keep this post in your back pocket.  Anytime you need to refer back to Barack Obama's record, it'll be here.

Under Barack Obama, we've:

• Added 5 trillion dollars in new debt, for the net result of 41 months of unemployment over 8%; and this doesn't even get into the fact that unemployment would be closer to 11% if the administration wasn't cooking the books.

• Passed the largest tax hike in human history to ration health care with the final result being a protection racket for an insurance cartel he's given further protection from competition.

• Passed a corrupt financial regulation law that does nothing to unwind 'too big to fail' but does micromanage every consumer financial transaction in the country.

• Presided over skyrocketing violence on our Southern border and done nothing to stop it except running guns to Mexican Drug Cartels.

• Launched a war on the development of cheap and abundant energy while funneling our money to corrupt green energy companies that everyone knows are a crony capitalist scam.

• Added more Americans to food stamp rolls than ever before.

• Shredded 1000 years of bankruptcy law to to handover private automotive companies to a favored political constituency.

• Failed to Support the Green Movement in Iran.

• Taken a winnable situation in Afghanistan and, through failing to commit sufficient resources to ensure success, turned it into a killing field for our troops.

• Turned a blind-eye (in fairness, this continued a Bush policy) to an angry Jihadist in the U.S. Army who killed 13 people; after incident, covered up FBI report.

• Attempted to bribe a sitting member of Congress to stay out of a U.S. Senate race with a Federal Job.

• Re-appointed Ben Bernake.

• Interfered in attempts to end the Gulf Oil Spill in order to advance a radical environmental agenda.

• Squandered our hard-fought victory in Iraq.  This hasn't gotten nearly enough coverage in the media.  We're going to have to go back.

• Lost Egypt to the Jihadists.

• Launched an Unconstitutional War in Libya without Congressional Authorization.

• HAD OUR CREDIT RATING DOWNGRADED (and have I mentioned he re-appointed Bernanke?!?)

• Passed a Defense Authorization that, even if some of the internet conspiracy theories are untrue, still gives the government waaaaaaaaaay too much leeway to detain citizens without cause.

• Turned a blind-eye (at best) to the ongoing infiltration of the U.S. government by operatives of the Muslim Brotherhood. 

• Enabled a newly aggressive Russia by caving on missile defense, unilaterally disarming our nuclear weapons, and promising greater flexibility in a second term.

• Lectured Israel to return to the Auschewitz lines.

• Usurped the Constitutional authority of Congress to make recess appointments when Congress wasn't in recess.

• Enacted an abortion mandate, as part of the a fore mentioned Health Care law, that represents one of the greatest assaults on faith in American history.

• Insulted our allies in Great Britain, Czech Republic, Poland, Canada, and Colombia.

• Halted Production of a pipeline that would lower energy prices and create tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of jobs.

• Declared an amnesty for selected illegal immigrants that usurps Congresses' legislative authority.

• Leaked crucial National Security information for political purposes; our enemies read this stuff.

• Launched unprecedented Federal Interference in State elections.

• Grounded firefighting planes in the middle of the Colorado Wildfires for no good reason.

• And, by the time November rolls around, Iran could have the bomb.

On the other hand, Obama DID stay out of the Navy Seals' way long enough for them to kill bin Laden, after he made them write a memo covering HIS ass if the mission went bad.

This is the record Obama has to defend.  Feel free to refer back to this as you need over the coming months.

In the meantime, PLEASE share this on FB and Twitter.

Update: Feel free to list anything I missed in the comments.