Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Yesterday brought one of the few bright spots for our side in a while when we heard that Judd Gregg had turned down Obama’s empty offer to appoint him as Commerce Secretary. Conservatives felt a surge of satisfaction that the Senator from New Hampshire had experienced a “St Paul on the road to Damascus” type awakening and realized he was deserting our team at a very critical moment.
There was speculation that Gregg had second thoughts about trusting the Democrat Governor of his state to actually appoint another Republican as his replacement – as if that ever had a chance of happening.
The “story” from Gregg was that he could not see eye to eye with the President on major issue such as the so-called stimulus bill. At least we were spared the old politician’s moan of “wanting to spend more time with my family.”
Maybe the truth is that as a Cabinet designee Senator Gregg would have problems explaining his actions as regards the huge amount of bailout money he was able to deliver to the banking industry. This would have given his “good friends” from the other party a chance to roast him in the public vetting he would have been put through. This is because as of last Thursday he held $3 million in Bank America stock, as he did while he was crafting ways to use TARP to pump $ billions our tax payer dollars into the banking industry’s hands.
Under Commerce Department ethics rules as its Secretary, Gregg would either have to place his holdings in a blind trust( not very wise in this climate) or sell his shares outright.
It’s hard to overlook these facts and say Judd Gregg stood on principle when he declined the offer.
Politicians take care of themselves first and always.

Never the “stand up” leader willing to be gracious in defeat, of course Barack Obama blames Gregg saying it was HIS idea to join Team Obama. Gregg disputes that and with the lies from the White House piling up, I’ll go with Gregg on this one.
Gregg apparently wandered into the trap and was willfully blinding himself to the “Chicago Way” of smash mouth politics the Democrats have brought with them. Then at some point he realized they would bring up his banking connections if he complained about the “census issue.”
He probably began to have second thoughts about how his confirmation hearing would go. That gave him reason to fear Democrat questions. Given the damage he was about to do to the GOP, he had to fear the Democrats running the hearing would allow angry Republicans to trash him as well. It’s tough to get a lobbying gig when you leave office under a toxic cloud.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

We all have heroes, my Dad and Ronald Reagan where mine. It’s obvious Obama’s heroes must be his socialist mother and Lenin. Stanley ( yes Stanley) Obama would be so proud of her- eh Hawaiian born son. As an active socialist Stanley might even be nominating her little Barack for a Lenin Peace Prize in Economics for his thinly disguised scheme to deliver America to Marxist control.
Stanley would have thought her floppy eared little boy certainly would walk off with a “Lenin.” He fits the eligibility requirements perfectly: “Anyone, anywhere, who has contributed to the Soviet version of peace.”
An old Russian encyclopedia added: “Winners are usually communists, those sympathetic to communism or to Russia, or simply leftists more tuned in to the aims of the U.S.S.R. than to those of capitalist countries.”
Stanley would have swooned to see Barack receive the “…. 100,000 rubles, a diploma, and a gold medal engraved with Lenin’s bust” for his “wonderful work.”
What probably would have cinched Obama’s Lenin are the many socialist features in the TARP bill: socialized medicine opening the door to euthanasia; nationalization of America’s banks, driving religion from our colleges, rigging the census and of course funding the socially destructive ACORN.
Nevertheless, the keen eyed judges would not have missed one of the Soviet’s favorite methods of controlling an economy: their old standby the salary cap.
To control our economy our Congressional Marxists are using our money to buy companies so they can beat the individualism out of them with stifling caps on salaries. To fool to Obama’s dimwitted followers, they “only” want to cap “Executive fat cat” salaries – keeping the boys on the loading dock safe. It won’t be long before “executives” ARE the “boys on the loading docks.”
That’s how you earn a “Lenin Peace Prize.”

This is a very serious situation. We must fight this bill with all of our power. Call Democrats especially the phony so-called “Blue Dogs.” Get the facts and act!

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

As I’ve said, this stimulus package is a TRAP! It’s filled with pork and ever increasing government controls. The cognitively challenged voted for this Stalinist so we all have to suffer, but we don’t have to take it.
Government controlled socialized medicine is in this bill. It creates a new government bureaucracy: the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology which will be entrusted with ALL of our medical records. Eventually bureaucrats will adopt Tom Daschle’s “Meaningful user” designation to separate out those who will no longer receive health care because, by government standards, their terminal illness makes them unworthy of such treatment.
“Meaningful user” means your doctor will have to justify your treatment when you’re declared “terminally ill.” It means a bureaucrat can say you don’t deserve further medical care; go home and die.

What does terminal mean?

In 1984 (ironic?) Colorado Governor Richard Lamm called dying a “DUTY” for terminally ill seniors!

At that time prostate cancer meant go home and die. Today it’s frequently a minor interruption of a man’s life.

Where else can this lead?

Last year England told 4000 “terminally ill” people to die because, they weren’t worth the expense of the drugs to keep them alive.
In 2008 Oregon told a “terminally ill” cancer patient the same thing, but her letter included a pamphlet on committing suicide!
Princeton’s Peter Singer’s dreams could come true. This monster recommends parents of Down Syndrome newborns be allowed (up to 2 days) to “bring the infant back” so the baby could be conveniently surgically murdered Soylent Green /1984 style.

Obama voted for letting miracle abortion survivors die neglected and alone on a cold steel table in a broom closet. Anything is possible now and “terminal” might soon mean “Let them die.” Let’s fight this outrage!

More on this awful bill

It is a redo of Hillarycare where “offending” doctors and hospitals who dare to treat private patients would be punished.
You WILL be under the control of government health care. The bill says “every individual in the United States” will be in the federal system.
The bill allocates more for health care than what we now spend on our entire military.
If the recommendations of Tom Daschle are followed, and they will be, seniors will be told to stop complaining about everything, shut up and suffer with the aches and pains that come with old age because “you will get nothing from the government.”
Since “only cost effective” proven treatments will be allowed, medical experimentation and advancement will stop.

More than this, Daschle’s plan is modeled on the failed English system that has rules like this: if you have macular degeneration you have to wait until you are blind in one eye before you will be given drugs to save your other eye. Thankfully this one was over turned, but you get the idea.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Three weeks ago, even before Obama was Inaugurated this column said “The Chicago hoax may be unraveling.” It was already evident the wheels might be coming off Barack’s signature legislation: The Troubled Asset Relief Program known as TARP, but correctly understood as TRAP!
The basic wisdom of the American people always shines through the thickest political mud. WE recognize this scheme and hear TRAP as in “Socialism TRAP” instead of the gobbledygook Obama is saying.
Writing as “Poor Richard” Ben Franklin said “Necessity never made a good bargain.” The self delusional Democrats in Congress can fool themselves and think they’re tricking the American people with TARP, but Americans instinctively understand the wisdom of Franklin’s line and we don’t want to be herded into something we can’t undo.
The basic elements of TRAP are frightening overkill, and everybody outside Washington knows it. Americans are developing a growing awareness of the true aim of TRAP, hogtying America and stamping “SOCIALISM” on our forehead.
The numbers have reached the tipping point. Those that hear TRAP not TARP now outnumber the lemmings still clinging to the empty promise of socialism by enough that this monster may still be tamable.
What remains now is for America’s grownups to continue pressuring the liberal psychos in the House and Senate so we can start peeling off the few remaining decent Democrats. We must call them and talk sense to them.
We were asleep at the switch last November when a band of Marxist/socialist children flipped our country upside down. Now we have to fight back.
There are some good ideas on the table. Let’s look at just cutting taxes; demanding Congress get its snout out of our pockets. America’s the greatest country in the world. We can figure this out but EVERYBODY has to get involved.
Get the facts before you call your representatives. Go to our “Coach’s Favorites” page, read Tom Coburn’s breakdown of the TRAP, find a line that ticks you off the most and call. They listen to people who have their facts straight.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Barack Obama’s recession will soon turn into Great Depression II. Rinos and Democrats have conspired to produce a ridiculous scheme to spend and tax America’s way to prosperity. Never mind that this has never worked. Forget the enormous problems with this $800 billion “stimulus” package. Hold aside the crushing $ 1.5 TRILLION weight it produces when added to the totally ineffective $700 billion the Congress shoveled at this problem last fall. Now Congress will spend $ 1.5 TRILLION of our money and we have only Obama’s assurances “THINGS WILL GET WORSE FOR YEARS TO COME” to build our dreams on.

As evidenced by its provision forcing any college receiving federal funds (read 99% of schools) to push religious clubs off its grounds, this monstrosity is a Marxist wish list of their darkest plans for America.

This sour witch’s brew, pieced together by Barney Frank and other criminally partisan Democrats, uses our money to turn attention away from the Fanny and Freddy mess they made.

Instead of making things better this pile of sludge will cause us to beg for money from the Chinese. So these idiots will be handing our economic security to our largest competitor and “hoping” for the best.

We’ll have to print more money with nothing to back it up. That will produce Jimmy Carter style inflation as a precursor to the popping of our economic balloon. That my friends will give us world-wide Depression II.
Huge governmental spending produces huge government dependence; this is the Democrat’s purpose. It will make us prisoners in the once Land of the Free. The Bible proscribes a time for everything including weeping. This bill is a time for weeping at what they’re doing to our America.

SENATOR COBURN’S EXCELLENT ANALYSIS IS ON THE “COACH’S FAVORITES” PAGE. ACT ON IT!
No amount or Orwellian newspeak can explain away the shameless pork packed into this bill. The Democrats have proved they are the enemies of the productive class of our nation. Those who voted for these people who should have known better ought to be ashamed of themselves.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Obama looks like he’s on the ropes and his media cheerleaders can’t help him. America’s grownups are awake and getting angrier by the day.
Obama’s approval ratings are dropping quickly because we won’t let him socialize America. He’s started running away from his White House duties. Instead of doing America’s work, he’s reading Fairy Tales to schoolchildren. He can’t face his problems because we’re turning up the heat.

Can’t a brother get ANY love? Well not this brother!

Labor spent millions to elect their socialist hero. Now they want their payoff. They want their share of the plundered American economy; their White House lapdog better hand it over quickly. They want THEIR “card check “ scheme passed now, before Obama’s political capital is wasted on HIS socialist “BACK TO THE THIRTIES” spending scheme.
Union thugs know 80% of Americans hate unions. They’re not stupid. They know the window for passing card check , which will take away workers’ rights to secret ballots on workplace unionization, might be closing before it even gets opened.

We might be winning this fight!

Americans know unions kill jobs, grease Democrat pockets and hurt our economy. Obama will have to decide where to use his dwindling political capital. We have to see he doesn’t use it on this scheme.
Because Americans are speaking up and fighting back, the card check scam is in big trouble.
Leading the charge to sneak this scheme by us is Comrade Congressman George Miller ( D- Calf).

In 2007 Miller got 232 slugs to co-sponsor “card check” which failed. Today Miller has NO cosponsors.

Labor wants to sneak this fraudulent scheme into law before all of Obama’s political capital is gone. We can’t let that happen.

Keep up the fight.

Go to the site below, find your Senator and scream.

If card check gets passed, besides no secret ballots on unionization votes, more money will be wrung out of American workers’ pockets in a number of ways.

Management people will find themselves reclassified as wage laborers subject to forced union membership.

ALL government workers – maybe even our military could end up unionized. Holland has a unionized army and we know how much Democrats idolize anything European.

Companies that are hit with strikes won’t be allowed by federal law to remain open. They would have to remain closed until they caved into union extortion; the unions would decide when a company could be open and when it must be closed. The unions would pack their puppets onto the National Labor Relations Board so no fair hearing of labor/management disputes could ever happen again.
Write your Senator. If you live in a leftist state do it over and over. Tell these slugs we don’t want Obama’s pile of dung passed. If you live in a Red State call and support those who are fighting for us. You can’t sit on the fence anymore. Get up and fight.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Last Sunday Iraq held new elections. There was no violence so it’s doubtful you heard much about the way they went. Things went too smoothly for our phony media to be bothered reporting this story.

The Collins Report was forwarded an E mail from a highly placed American military commander expressing his delight at how the day unfolded. Here’s what he reported.

In Anbar Province the news was positively exhilarating. There were no suicide bombers blowing voters up; no Marines had to battle terrorist skunks trying to stop democracy by killing Iraqi voters.

The thought of participating in their very first free and honest election even brought out Anbar’s Sunnis by the tens of thousands.

Because security concern s shut down the roads to vehicular traffic, people walked for miles to get to the polls. None were shot at or harassed by terrorist thugs; all walked heads up and confidently.

The commander reported traveling 200 miles and seeing nothing but smiling faces and purple fingers. He stopped and spoke with ordinary Iraqi citizens and heard only positive reports. As the day progressed he became more and more secure in the belief that an honest and free election, “.. almost unthinkable a year ago” was happening.

By 4:30 PM the even greater news reached him: the polls were so busy they had to be held open for another ninety minutes!

Contrary to old media reports, the commander reported seeing almost 100% voter participation.

He closed with, “…. I’ve always said … we came here to
“give” them democracy. . what I saw today, [taught me] .. People are not given freedom and democracy – they take it for themselves. The Anbaris deserve this credit.”

Yes sir they do, but the media will never give them or America any credit.

Our blood and treasure have bought Iraqi freedom.

Another “boots on the ground” message echoed this cheerful depiction of the events of the Iraqi people’s big day of Freedom. In part, that one read as follows,

“I thought you would like to know that the Iraq provincial elections went very well — better, honestly, than we had dared to hope they would go. The vote-counting, and potential for assassination of elected candidates aside, Iraq has had its first successful election not to -establish- but to peacefully -change- a government.”

Asking why we haven’t seen this reported anywhere is a waste of time.

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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Barack Obama has sent a letter to Ahmadinejad that amounts to having America bend over and grab our ankles.
This fool is asking the Iranians to be our friends because of all the wonderful benefits they will enjoy once the west’s “harsh” label of pariah is lifted from them.
Obama presupposes Islamist want to live like westerns which they do not. Their aim is to bring about the violent fiery end of the world so on Judgment Day God will give them 72 virgins and condemn us to hell. He thinks he can talk this threat away. He can’t.
The fact that the letter was worked on since November tells us the writers have done their research and understand Islamists while Obama doesn’t.
Predictably Ahmadinejad smelled the fear and incompetence Obama brings to the table and his reply was a mocking attack which was conveniently hidden in Saturday’s papers.
The Iranian thug called Obama’s offer to talk an example of America’s failing policies saying it is America that must change.
Obama’s offer to “unclench” America’s fist has led to a middle finger in our eye, but the fe ckless Obama doesn’t understand this. He has handed Ahmadinejad an opportunity to embarrass America which he has gleefully taken. Ahmadinejad is demanding Obama apologize for America’s crimes against Iran because he knows Obama will bend over and give him one.
Although Obama has refused to rule out a military strike to halt Ahmadinejad’s nuclear weapons program, I don’t think Ahmadinejad believes him; do you?

Obama doesn’t recognize Ahmadinejad’s November 29, 2006 “letter to the American people” fulfilled the Islamist’s requirement to warn enemies of impending attack. This clears their conscience to have at us.
Islamist law commands giving enemies every opportunity to “repent their wickedness” before attacking them.
Obama’s supremely naïve letter is supposed to “allay” Iranian suspicions and pave the way for America to engage Ahmadinejad in direct “peace talks.” In truth Ahmadinejad will be lulling away any fears Obama might have about the intentions of the Islamist terrorists toward America. Obama is willfully ignorant and the worst part is he seems proud of his ignorance.
Obviously Obama doesn’t recognize Iran is evil and means us harm. Sycophantic fawning by an American president compromises our ability to be taken seriously by people who understand only military strength not New York Times “symbolism” or “political nuances.”
People this is serious stuff. BOHICA folks; BOHICA!
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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Obama campaigned on: “I will launch the most sweeping ethics reform in history to make the White House the people’s house.”
Instead he lied Chicago gangster style. PR pictures for his administration should come with front and side view angles.
Hillary Clinton still has never answered for a 2000 Senate race fraud characterized by a Constitutional lawyer as “.. the largest campaign filing report violation in history.” Clinton never reported over $1 m illion in contributions from an August 2000 fund raiser in Los Angeles. Watch and see for yourself.

Within a week of his Inauguration, in direct violation of his own rules against having lobbyist in his administration, Obama waived his “no lobbyist” rule for William Lynn a Raytheon lobbyist to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Wall Street lobbyist Mark Patterson to assist tax cheating Treasury Secretary Geithner.
Now Tom Daschle Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services, is trying to explain away his failure to pay $140,000 in back taxes and interest because he “didn’t understand” he owed taxes them. But this okay we are told because like Tax Cheat Timmie Geithner Tiny Tommie Daschle is “So embarrassed.”
Bill Richardson, another sticky fingered hack quietly slithered away from the vetting process for Commerce Secretary when his pay-to-play schemes in New Mexico surfaced. In the liberal thieves’ handbook he’s being punished enough since he can’t go on extorting contractors in Santa Fe.
Eric Holder the new Attorney General is another tax cheat who couldn’t quite get his arms around the concept of universal responsibility to pay taxes. The Democrats in Congress whose job it is to examine and reject people like Holder for offices of trust asked him no hard questions nor media has asked any questions about this hypocrisy.

The video tapes alone should have kept Hillary Clinton out of any governmental office. She has defeated every effort to indict her and the media has helped her. Richardson, Geithner and Holder should never have even been considered by the very ethical Barack Obama.
Obama is laughing at those of us who knew what he was and refused to vote for him. He is well satisfied with the braying jackasses who did vote for him, because he knows they’re not smart enough to catch on. This is why we have to do everything we can to derail his plans. Stay informed and be ready to do battle with his robotic fools at every chance.
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By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Since our dimwitted president isn’t half as bright as his smile, some things need to be explained to him.

Twice last November this page warned Barack Obama he would make a serious mistake by joining the “Blame America first” crowd closing Guantanamo.

A November 18 essay warned that sagging oil prices would cause Russia to pull a stunt to heighten world tensions and drive the price back up. Given the worldwide recession Russia’s manufactured “crisis” with Georgia went largely unnoticed; like the tree falling in the desert. As this page noted Fidel Castro wants to meet with Obama on “neutral territory” signaling the nervy little slug denies Guantanamo is sovereign American territory.

As predicted, to the delight of the Russians, useful idiots in America’s Leftist media have pressured Obama into closing Guantanamo.

A November 28, Collins Report predicted the closing of Guantanamo Bay would occur and lead to Castro demanding its return to Cuba:

“When Obama closes Gitmo he will pull a Jimmy Carter and hand it back to the people of Cuba as a goodwill gesture to make up for the misuse of their territory. Castro will be very happy to then sell the base to the Russians who will have a nuclear missile launching pad 110 miles from Miami. Obama is spineless and will lose this new “Cuban Missile Crisis” putting us all in grave danger.”

These predictions have been realized. People demanding economic improvements have started marching in Russia’s streets. Without oil money Russia will collapse.

On January 29 Reuters reported Castro demanded Obama return Guantanamo to Cuba “without conditions.”

Next Castro sells Russia Guantanamo which she uses to foment a crisis and skyrocket oil prices. The very foolish Barack Obama’s poor judgment has started a chain reaction that will endanger Americans for generations to come.

Recognizing none of the “steel” in Obama’s spine Joe Biden says he sees, Castro the legendry tyrant, had the gall to cite “principles of international law” and a lack of respect for Cuba to justify the immediate return of the American Naval base now housing the worst terrorists in the world.

Like Ahmadinejad, Castro knows Obama does not have the guts to stand up for America. Regardless of the media’s shameless attempts to portray him as a cross between Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, Obama is more of a cross between Bella Abzug and Gus Hall and that’s the truth. Obama would be laughable if our safety wasn’t in his hands.

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