Hennessy's View

A couple of years ago, I stopped doing internet radio. I had several reasons for my decisions, and I stuck to them.

When Mark Gillar of Tea Party Power Hour asked me to come onto his show, I broke my rule. Here’s why.

First, Mark Gillar’s professionalism and sincerity are spectacular.  His show is his mission to advance liberty and good government.

Second, Tea Party Power Hour has hosted some amazing guests–folks I’m very honored and very humbled to follow.

Finally, though, I appeared on the Power Hour because I’m so proud of what you’ve done in the St. Louis area. I wanted to spread the word around the nation: St. Louis hearts pump the life blood of this movement.

Please take a little break this weekend and listen to the Tea Party Power Hour.  And tell the world you’re listening on Facebook and Twitter.

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Dig this opening paragraph –>

As the marathon for the presidency, 1980, begins to quicken, the American electorate is in a singularly sour and pessimistic mood. Not only is the public naturally worried about the economy, energy and inflation, but it doubts things will improve much. The country is anxious to find strong leaders —the evidence is overwhelming—and the public has little faith that Jimmy Carter has the ability, let alone the programs, to solve the nation’s problems. Clearly, the search has begun for a candidate who is seen to have the sort of leadership qualities that Carter is thought to lack.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920594,00.html#ixzz1XEIEFbL6

September 10, 1979.  I remember that year, that month.  I owned St. Louis Cardinal Football season tickets, bought with money I earned cutting grass and shoveling snow. Ottis Anderson debuted with 190+ yard game against the Dallas Cowboys.  I was playing football, too, at St. Mary’s High School. My Epiphany baseball team had just lost the 1979 Junior Boys City-County Championship in the final game. (We won the following season.) And the Iranian hostage crisis was still two  months away.

Substitute unemployment for inflation, Obama for Carter, and 2012 for 1980, and this Time story could run tomorrow.

I blogged about the remarkable similarities between America’s worst president, and the man aspiring to succeed him, with Change Is All You Need, January 7, 2008. 

Carter was all about change. He offered an “outsider’s perspective” of Washington, a popular image two years after Nixon resigned. Carter spoke of reaching out to our enemies, a popular position one year after Saigon fell. Carter spoke of renewing American values, a popular sentiment as violent crime and drub abuse rates soared.

On Labor Day, Matt Stoller told Salon.com readers What Democrats Can Do About Obama. 

From the debt ceiling fiasco to the recent rescheduling of a jobs speech at the behest of Speaker Boehner, it has not been a good summer for President Obama. Like Chinese water torture, Gallup’s daily tracking poll has shown a steady and unrelenting drip of bad news. He has been in and out of the high 30s for his approval, and in the low to mid-50s for his disapproval.

Later, Stoller declared that “Obama has ruined the Democratic Party.”  He went to predict a possible future for Democrats under Obama:

If the economy worsens going into the fall, and the president continues as he has to attempt to cut Social Security, Democrats might be facing a Carter-Reagan scenario. Reagan, at first considered a lightweight candidate, ended up winning a landslide victory that devastated the Democratic Party in 1980. Carter wasn’t the only loss; many significant liberal senators, such as George McGovern, John Culver and Birch Bayh, fell that year.

Republicans, though, should avoid overconfidence.  In 1979, the GOP field sported a candidate unlike any other in generations.  Reagan already led Carter in opinion polls as of the September 10, 1979, Time edition. A new Reagan has yet to emerge from the apck of 2012 Republican candidates.  Plus, the GOP of 1980 had a stronger bench that its 2012 edition.  (By the same token, the Democrat Party of 1980 was still pro-American. I would not say the same for its current version.)

Still, this recent New York Times story seems to echo the 1979 story on Carter:

Americans are more pessimistic about the nation’s economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama’s first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Amid rising gas prices, stubborn unemployment and a cacophonous debate in Washington over the federal government’s ability to meet its future obligations, the poll presents stark evidence that the slow, if unsteady, gains in public confidence earlier this year that a recovery was under way are now all but gone.

The similarities between Carter and Obama grow stronger every day, as our nation weakens. It’s up to us to muddle through to the next election.  If we can, that shining city on a hill is still within our grasp. 

I think the Gipper would want us to try.

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We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on Tea Partiers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Unions. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about Tea Party people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the Tea Partiers of Missouri, and America. We’re going to win that war.

Rick Santelli, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong!

Did I say “Tea Party Leader’s message?” Sorry. I meant to say that was a paraphrasing of Jimmy Hoffa’s message to his Teamsters. Hoffa introduced President Barack Obama. That’s part of Obama’s new civil tone.

I swapped Tea Party and Tea Partiers with union and workers.  Had I or any Tea Partier actually said those words, the FBI would already be at our doors. But union crooks get applause from the President for calling for violence.

Isn’t it odd that a man whose father so famously failed at violence as a political tactic would use violence to get his (very unpopular) way?

**UPDATE** St. Louis Tea Party Coalition releases official response to Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa’s call for war on the Tea Party.

Michelle Malkin counts down union thuggery 2011.

Gateway Pundit: Warming Up the Crows for Obama

HotAir’s Allahpundit

Rockford Illinois Tea Party calls on Hoffa to resign.

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Maureen Dowd’s having trouble slathering make-up on her favorite pigs these days. Her President—the man for whom she surrendered all pretense of intelligence, wisdom, and self-control—is flailing.

And Maureen Dowd is going all wobbly.  Wobbly on Obama. Wobbly on America.  Wobbly on life.  Here’s an exceprt:

On the razor’s edge of another recession; blocked at every turn by Republicans determined to slice him up at any cost; starting an unexpectedly daunting re-election bid; and puzzling over how to make a prime-time speech about infrastructure and payroll taxes soar, maybe President Obama is wishing that he had thrown the game.

Maureen Dowd makes a big mistake in blaming Obama alone for America’s jobless carnival of mayhem.  It’s not all his fault.

Let’s not make the same mistake made by Dowd and her friends.  Barack Obama did not wreck the American Job Machine.

His Democrat Party did.

Face it.  When the Democrats took overwhelming control of Congress in 2007, unemployment was 5.5 percent.  When John Boehner pried the Speaker’s gavel from Nancy Pelosi’s dry, cold claw, unemployment stood at 9.9 percent.  (Source)

That’s a 44.4% increase in the unemployment number.

For two years, Democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House.  What did they do with that power?

They created a new entitlement.  Even after admitting that the existing spending programs were unsustainable, Democrats invented yet another new entitlement.

Sure, George W. Bush and the Tom Delay Republicans had their problems.  But they’re not around THIS TIME.

We are living under a 100 percent Democrat economy now. The GOP’s grasp on 1/2 of  1/3 of the government can’t undo 4 years of Democrat damage.

We have a Democrat in the White House and Democrats running the Senate.  It’s not the Republicans in the House preventing Obama from moving the economy forward; it’s the Democrats in the Senate and White House frightening natural risk-takers into keeping their job-creating money in their pockets.

I can see only one solution to the continuing unemployment nightmare facing people in America. That’s to finish the work started in 2010 by turning over the Senate and the White House.

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