By LARRY WILKE

What’s the rush? It’s only the BUDGET.

According to Politico, Congress is “poised to miss its April 15^th deadline for finishing next year’s budget without even considering a draft in either chamber.” (“Congress sees no budget rush” 04/12/10) With that “Congressional Mulligan” as my outline, I am “poised” to miss the IRS’ “April 15^th deadline” without considering filling out their ridiculous and repetitive forms. I am a proud and un-hyphenated American citizen as opposed to one of our “Congressional Potentates,” how well do you think that that plan will work out for me?

Lost within the hubris and sarcasm of the liberal Congress missing an April 15^th budgetary deadline, it isn’t difficult to figure out why this one will go by the boards. Congress and all of its lemmings and lackeys are too busy poking and probing the returns of ordinary citizens in order to bankroll any number of progressive programs and pogroms meant to penalize the productive. After all, Obama has a “scamulus” bill, a “health scare” bill and a “controversial” globaloney warming/climate change bill that are in dire need of the disposable and non-disposable income of the nation’s middle (and soon to be lower) class.

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By FAIRFIELD “PINPOINT” EDWARDS

Editor’s Note: Unconventional Wisdom is a new series designed to unravel the misleading “conventional wisdom” of our times.  In this edition, the Clinton Surplus Myth is examined by the numbers.

Everyone is aware of the perception that the Clinton years were a golden age of fiscal management and economic genius.  First, let it be said that there was indeed an impressive period of surplus revenues during the Clinton years, especially in light of recent American history since the Great Depression and the New Deal.  However, the entire set of numbers show a more complete picture and put the surpluses in their proper perspective.

Without further ado, here are the statistics (in millions because the numbers are so outrageously large):

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Editor’s Note: In this interview, J.D. Hayworth discusses his primary campaign for U.S. Senate against John McCain, his distaste for  Big Government, the need for border security, his “involvement” with the Birther movement, and more.

ALL RIGHT MAGAZINE: Congressman Hayworth, you have a monumental task ahead of you, namely defeating the 2008 Republican standard bearer in the 2010 primaries.  What is it that has changed in a year and a half that gives you confidence in this race?

J.D. HAYWORTH: What continues to change more than anything is John McCain, who I actually campaigned for way back in 2000.  He continues to abandon core conservative principles and the voters in Arizona have noticed.  There was a poll last year that showed that more than 60% of Arizona Republicans felt that John McCain did not share their conservative values.  After that, there was a Rasmussen poll that showed he and I running neck-and-neck in a hypothetical matchup.  Then you have to add the wonderful reawakening of this country’s patriotic base.  Obama has shown us what the future looks like if we do not get our act together and elect real, consistent conservatives to office.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

As the economy constricted from the latest bubble, what have we done?  On an individual basis, unless we have an economic death, wish we cut back spending, increase saving and pray we don’t get downsized, rightsized or thrown under the bus to free up capital for someone else’s bonus.   As a business owner we follow the same pattern.  People wonder why banks aren’t loaning money to small businesses.  Don’t mistake a symptom for the disease.  Banks aren’t loaning because businesses aren’t borrowing.

Businesses aren’t expanding; they’re trying to survive.  With the re-making of America still an enigma wrapped in a riddle on the horizon, no one knows how to make an educated guess as to what the future holds.  Without a clear vision of what will be required tomorrow, it’s impossible to plan today.  From Main Street to Wall Street people are keeping their heads down hoping if we click our heels enough times we’ll end up back in the America we know and love hoping we won’t have to admit this transparent collectivist shell game is the New Normal.

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By NANCY MORGAN

Uncle Obama has gotten a hold of your credit card. And he’s amassing charges on it that – you – not he – are liable for. You can call the fraud line, you can call the police, you can call any politician or government agency, and they will all tell you the same thing. Shut up and pay up.

Since misery loves company, you might feel better knowing that you’re not the only one being extorted. Uncle Obama and his buddies have the credit and debit cards of every man woman and child in America. And they’re charging up a bundle. So far, each of us has a $38,000 tab that we are personally liable for. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, which by the way, isn’t melting.

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By LARRY WILKE

The continual compost that has been coming from Obama and his cadre of communists in Washington has the nation in need of at least hip waders. Always on the alert to slither between the cracks and as predicted in “Making Government Run” (NLTZ 10/23/09) the liberals want to surreptitiously raise their debt ceiling to $1.8 TRILLION. The goal is to make the whole deficit talk disappear as they attempt to once again hoodwink the American public, this time in 2010. It should be our goal then to talk continually of Obama’s deficit.

This leftist three card Monte was called “bold but risky” in Politico’s “Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash.” You will note that this chicanery wasn’t called “brilliant and effective.” What is the reasoning for the sleight of hand? They want it raised “before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections.” It should have been called “transparent” as it exposes the liberals’ concern for holding office alone, not curing the problem that the Demokrats themselves have manufactured.

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By LARRY WILKE

After all of the trips that he has made of late, when Obama gets around to cashing in his “frequent LIAR” miles, he will be entitled to scads of free flights that he can take once he is unemployed in 2012. Heaven forbid that any of the “impartial global warming scientists” who have been busy of late destroying evidence that disproves their hilarious hokum should back away from their paper shredders and try to calculate just how big his collectivist carbon footprint is.

He isn’t done yet, for he now needs to wing his way back to Washington in order to “rally Senate Democrats.” Obama’s “rally” is actually more of a thumb twisting session with promises (bribes) for any liberal holdouts, bribes that would make the amounts Harry Reid recently handed out look like spare “change.” This all comes to light in the Bloomberg article entitled “Obama Seeks to Rally Senate Democrats on Final Health-Care Plan.”

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

A mass email carried a message from President Obama after his address to Congress. He asked people to contact their representatives urging them to support his healthcare plan.  Since the Democrats have the votes in both houses to pass any legislation they agree upon, why does he need our help to convince anyone of anything?  Was he speaking to the nation, or was he trying to rally his Democrat troops to toe the line and pass his bill?

The mass email also provides a link to President Obama’s bill.  His bill isn’t a thousand pages long.  It isn’t even one.  It’s one half- page in three columns with bullet points, which means Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the Regulatory Czar will fill in the blanks.   It “Offers a public health insurance option to provide the uninsured and those who can’t find affordable coverage with a real choice” No trigger.  No equivocation.  The President proposes a government option.

The plan limits several ways insurance companies have of making money while requiring them to perform certain services at no cost.  And in the new Exchange these hobbled insurance companies have to compete with a non-profit government insurance company.  How’s that going to work?

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Stating the obvious passes for folk wisdom in remote tribal areas such as the Southside of Chicago and since we now live in the Chicago-on- the-Potomac, perhaps we should start to take some of this obvious wisdom into account.  Take statistics; here is a science that’s used to make judgments and to justify actions.  And what’s statistics? Just numbers, and what’s in a number?  And as the Chicagoism goes, “Figures don’t lie but liars figure.”  How does this help us understand our new Omerica?

Contrary to popular belief as nurtured by the Mainstream Media, President Obama is not the most popular president in history.  His poll numbers are now lower than President Bush’s were at the same place in his first term.  He’s even tracking lower than the almost universally repudiated President Carter was at the same point in his first term.  The media’s initial announcement that “Voter turnout in 2008 shattered all records,” and “2008 Could Mark Highest Voter Turnout Rate Since 1968”was trumpeted on the all-liberal-all-the-time news networks, making Obama’s victory appear a sweeping mandate for change.  However, the follow-up reporting which found “That huge voter turnout?  Didn’t happen” and “Voter Turnout in 2008 Lowest in 12 Years” didn’t receive the same 24/7 wall-to-wall coverage.

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