Because this is how I want the President of the United States to sound…

I just watched a video of a speech by the new Republican Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. Wow.

This guy gets it. Christie knows why the voters sent him to the Garden State Capital and he’s doing what they wanted/expected him to do.

The video isn’t embeddable but I can point you to it. Click the image below to watch it. It’ll blow your mind.

Dr. Charles Krauthammer once again says so eloquently what many Americans are thinking. Obama can try to spin the Scott Brown victory into an anti-Bush vote all he wants but the American people aren’t stupid.

In his new column, Krauthammer makes his point crystal clear.

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 14, five days before the Massachusetts special election, President Obama was in full bring-it-on mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his health-care reform. “If Republicans want to campaign against what we’ve done by standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and businesses, that is a fight I want to have.”

The bravado lasted three days. When Obama campaigned in Boston on Jan. 17 for Obamacare supporter Martha Coakley, not once did he mention the health-care bill. When your candidate is sinking, you don’t throw her a millstone.

After Coakley’s defeat, Obama pretended that the real cause was a generalized anger and frustration “not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”

Let’s get this straight: The antipathy to George W. Bush is so enduring and powerful that … it just elected a Republican senator in Massachusetts? Why, the man is omnipotent.

And the Democrats are delusional: Scott Brown won by running against Obama not Bush. He won by brilliantly nationalizing the race, running hard against the Obama agenda, most notably Obamacare. Killing it was his No. 1 campaign promise.

Bull’s-eye. An astonishing 56 percent of Massachusetts voters, according to Rasmussen, called health care their top issue. In a Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates poll, 78 percent of Brown voters said their vote was intended to stop Obamacare. Only a quarter of all voters in the Rasmussen poll cited the economy as their top issue, nicely refuting the Democratic view that Massachusetts was just the usual anti-incumbent resentment you expect in bad economic times.

Brown ran on a very specific, very clear agenda. Stop health care. Don’t Mirandize terrorists. Don’t raise taxes; cut them. And no more secret backroom deals with special interests.

Read the rest here.

BONUS VIDEO: Here’s Dr. K “hammering” the point home on Special Report last night. Bottom line? “This was an election about substance and the Democrats lost on substance.”

First we had the election of Scott Brown, Republican, to the United States Senate in Massachusetts. He made his initial trip to Washington, DC today.

Now we have New York Times writer Paul Krugman saying in a recent blog post, “I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama.”

Progressives are desperately in need of leadership; more specifically, House Democrats need to be told to pass the Senate bill, which isn’t what they wanted but is vastly better than nothing. And what we get from the great progressive hope, the man who was offering hope and change, is this:

“I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. SNIP Now I think there’s some things in there that people don’t like and legitimately don’t like.”

In short, “Run away, run away”!

Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House leadership. Barney Frank seems to have thought better of his initial defeatism. But I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.

In a third and equally shocking piece of news, House Democrats are suddenly suggesting that maybe it’s a good idea to extend the Bush Tax Cuts. Say whaaaatttt?????

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Some Capitol Hill Democrats want President Barack Obama to extend tax cuts for wealthy Americans now scheduled to expire at the end of 2010, arguing that a tax increase could hinder economic recovery.

“I think there is a certain logic to leaving well-enough alone for now, given the fragility of the economic recovery,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D., Va.). ” It’s a question of prudent judgment and timing.”

White House officials are preparing to unveil their 10-year budget plan on Feb. 2, which will include a decision on what to do about the pending expiration of tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush.

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Scott Brown is his own man.

Beautiful and just…

And I say that as a proud member of Generation X.

Generation X, those of us born somewhere between the Vietnam War and the Iran Hostage Crisis, have spoken truth to power pretty consistently. When Gen X was young and angry, we distrusted the Reagan Administration. Between trips to the video arcade to play Space Invaders or hours long MTV watching marathons, back when MTV played music videos, we grumbled amongst ourselves about the old man running the country who seemed out of touch with us and our interests. It’s only in recent years that many of us have come to realize how well Ronald Reagan was actually looking out for us, our freedom and our safety.

Generation X was suspicious of the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration. Many of us had fathers, uncles, cousins and brothers who were Vietnam Veterans and when George Bush announced Operation Desert Storm, there were those of us who feared a repeat of Vietnam.

Then to DC, came Bubba and his frau. Clinton made an effort to connect to young people, appearing on MTV, wearing sunglasses and playing the saxophone. Lots of Gen Xers bought it but plenty of us didn’t.

Gen X was never a friend to W.

Now we have Obama and I find more and more people of Gen X disillusioned if they voted for him and ever more suspicious if they didn’t.

The point is, with Gen X our suspicion has never been tersely left or right as much as it was a general distrust of government. A natural predisposition to Libertarianism which is itself a member of Gen X, since the Libertarian Party was born in 1971.

Generation Y is doomed.

Generation Y is marching in lockstep with Obama. They voted for him, they like him, they want what he wants and they’re working to help him pass his agenda. They are naive and if they don’t figure out how grandly they’re shooting themselves in the foot and placing the handcuffs on themselves they will live to regret it.

For Gen X, rock and roll is about being anti-establishment. For Gen Y, rock and roll is about being part of the herd, celebrating the head of our government on the cover of Rolling Stone and clinging to Bush hatred even though Bush has not uttered a single word since Obama took office.

Gen Y somehow thinks they are anti-establishment. They actually believe they are anti-establishment as they nod their heads, donate money and work for Obama – The establishment!  No one has clued them in that W. is no longer “the man” who is taking away their liberties and crushing their idealistic dreams.

Gen Y is gullible and way too trusting of the new “man” in DC. It’s embarrassing to watch. In cases like the video below where MTV hipster types “pledge” to Obama, I become sick to my stomach. In fact, I couldn’t even make it through this entire video.

I look forward to the day when Gen Y figures out what they so eagerly signed up for. Many of them will be living in their first home, working in their first good-salary job, maybe raising their first kid. Suddenly, they’ll start noticing what a nuisance it is when the government can tell them what to do and how much of their money they can keep.

It’ll be like a bunch of kids who sat down for a large meal at a fancy restaurant and then go into an angry panic when the bill comes and they realize they should have just gone to Wendy’s.

I suspect there will be hell to pay. Unfortunately for them, their name will be the only one on the tab.

Democrats seem to think the government is entitled to half of your stuff. When you die, anyway….

“The House approved Thursday a measure making the current estate tax rate permanent, overcoming the objections of an unusual coalition of liberal and conservative critics.”

“The bill passed, 225 to 200, with 26 Democrats joining all Republicans present to vote no. It would make permanent the current estate tax rate of 45 percent, with an exemption of $3.5 million per individual. If Congress does not act, the estate tax would disappear altogether in 2010, then return in 2011 under the higher rates — 55 percent and a $1 million exemption — that existed before President George W. Bush took office.”

“The Senate faces a Dec. 31 deadline to address the issue, but it’s not clear when that chamber will find the time to do so in the midst of its marathon health-care debate. It’s also unclear whether the House’s approach on the estate tax could garner the 60 votes necessary to move forward in the Senate.”

“Some Democrats in both chambers would prefer to see higher estate tax rates, arguing that the pre-2001 levels were fair and provided the government with much-needed funds. Making the current rates permanent will take a bite out of the federal treasury, with the government estimated to lose $234 billion in revenue over the next 10 years.”

“Most Republicans, meanwhile, don’t want any estate tax at all, opposing the concept on philosophical grounds.”

“Death should not be a taxable event,” said Rep. Dave Camp (Mich.), the top Republican on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. “Death should not force the sale of family farms or the dissolution of small businesses.”

NOTE: This method of screwing Ohio taxpayers only works if you’re a Democrat whose salary is paid by the people.

Step 1. Use your position, while on taxpayer funded time, to dig for dirt on a private citizen. The private citizen should be an innocent person who simply asks any question that makes your preferred candidate look bad.

Step 2. After using your resources to search private information on said citizen, get the info out to the nutroots in an effort to discredit and smear the innocent citizen. You can also do this on taxpayer funded state time.

Step 3. When said private citizen sues you, use your resources within the Democrat sleaze machine to have your legal defense fees paid for by the taxpayers. – You know… the very people you screwed in the first place.

Repeat as necessary.

Hopefully, everyone’s up for it because that’s exactly what we’ve got…

“It’s another record-high for the U.S. National Debt which today topped the $12-trillion mark. Divided evenly among the U.S. population, it amounts to $38,974.34 for every man, woman and child.”

“Technically, the debt hit the new high yesterday, but it was posted on the Treasury Department website just after 3:00 p.m. ET today. The exact calculation of the debt is a 16-digit tongue-twister and red-ink tsunami: $12,031,299,186,290.07″

Anyone care to explain to me how we can afford ObamaCare?

Anyone?

(crickets)