A Rasmussen poll shows that 77 percent of Americans view governments’ unwillingness to cut spending as a bigger problem than voters’ resistance to tax hikes. This underlying mistrust of the uses governments make of public monies may explain why even a very liberal state like California saw voters rejecting proposed tax increases by a nearly two-to-one margin in the May referendum.

Despite the poll results, however, there seems little possibility of a change in policy at the federal level. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) disputed the significance of the poll results saying that “uninformed voters are not going to divert us from our course.”

The Speaker contended that “a biased media is preventing the proper message from getting through. As we all know, government spending is the life’s blood of our economy. It must be sustained and increased where necessary to combat the recession.”

Pelosi attributed voter rejection of tax hikes to “greed, pure and simple. These voters would put personal gain ahead of the national interest. We cannot afford to let frivolous and haphazard private squandering of crucial resources get in the way of the government’s more rational allocation of the nation’s wealth.”

“Fortunately, the federal government cannot be thwarted by recalcitrant voters,” Pelosi boasted. “Congress doesn’t need to offer referendums on our spending plans. And, if need be, the Federal Reserve can just create any needed funds to cover whatever spending we enact.”

School Board Institutes Mandatory “Gay Studies” for Kindergartners

The Unified School District of Alameda California has ordered its kindergarten curriculum to incorporate a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) lesson for grades kindergarten through five. The lesson is to be compulsory. That is, parents will not have the right to opt their kids out of the program.

Ron Mooney, the School Board Vice President, explained that “the curriculum had to be made mandatory in order to provide a balanced education. Our society is saturated with heterosexual propaganda and social pressure. Some of the worst of it comes from children’s parents themselves. To let parents take their children out of class during this lesson would reaffirm their absolute authority to impose their views on their children.”

Mooney said that “forcing all children to participate liberates them from parental mind-control and the bigotry it spawns. Children need to be exposed to alternative lifestyles before they become ‘hard-wired’ to conform to so-called social norms. We need to reach them when they are ‘plastic’ enough to receive new ideas so they can freely choose their lifestyle without undue outside interference.”

Gates Defends Policy Flip-Flops on North Korea

Within the space of a few days, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has stated that North Korea is a threat and isn’t a threat to global peace.

First, Gates enumerated North Korea’s recent actions—nuclear bomb tests, missile launches, termination of the 50-year ceasefire agreement with South Korea that ended the 1950s war, and threats to attack ships of countries that support UN sanctions on North Korea—that he said were a threat to peace.

Later, Gates shifted course and declared that “no one in the Obama Administration thinks North Korea is a threat.”

Later still, Gates announced at an annual security summit in Singapore that North Korea is a threat and that the United States will not allow a nuclear armed North Korea.

If you’re confused about where the US stands on this issue you’re right where the Obama Administration wants you to be. Gates explained that “the rapid shifts in policy are intended to confuse the North Korean government. They won’t know what we intend to do. We might attack them at any minute. Or we may rollover and play dead. This will keep them off-balance and increase the chance that they will make a fatal mistake.”

The erratic policy is intended to, as Gates says, “drive Kim Jong-il crazy. We want him to know that he’s not the only one who can act irrationally. We too can play that game.”

Gates called the risk of open hostilities being sparked by this heightened uncertainty “tolerable.” “There’s no way Kim can think he can win a war against the United States,” Gates assured. “But even if he starts one the spending needed for us to fight could, like World War II did, help pull the US economy out of the doldrums.”

Obama Comfortable with Sotomayor's Views

Though Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s record has raised some eyebrows, President Barack Obama rose to her defense saying “we are essentially on the same page on important policy matters.”

Two items of major concern in some circles are Sotomayor’s statements contending that “Latino women make better judges than white men” and that “courts are where public policy is made.”

Critics have argued that the first of these controversial statements is racist and the second misconstrues the role of the judiciary in our scheme of government. “Imagine if President Bush’s nominee Samuel Alito had said that white men make better judges than Latino women,” wrote former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. “His appointment to the Supreme Court would never have been approved by the senate.”

President Obama insisted that comparisons like Buchanan’s aren’t fair. “Old white men have ruled America for 500 years,” Obama said. “The notion of a ‘blind’ justice is an artifact of a regime created by white men. Rigid adherence to its prized ‘impartiality’ merely entrenches white rule and impedes change. So, in that regard, I would have to agree that a Latino woman would be a more reliable agent of change.”

“Likewise, who can really dispute the fact that American courts have evolved to be makers of policy under our living Constitution,” Obama added. “We need judges who are fit to carry out this enlarged role in the governing process. Judge Sotomayor is particularly well-suited for this role.”

The President did concede that Sotomayor’s choice of words in expressing her views has not always been the best. “Not every white man is old, dirty, or a rapist,” Obama admitted. “But from a ‘person of color’s’ perspective, I can certainly see how it might seem that way. I just wish Sonia had chosen less harsh and more eloquent words to express these thoughts.”

Obama Press Secretary Dismisses Birth Certificate Controversy

Despite the fact that over 400,000 people have petitioned President Barack Obama to authorize the release of his long form birth certificate, no disclosure of this document is forthcoming. Instead, Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mocked those requesting this document.

“It astounds me that so many people are continuing this futile quest,” Gibbs remarked at a recent press conference. “We’ve already posted all we intend to post on the Internet, where anyone of these 400,000 petitioners is free to download it.”

At best, the document posted on the Internet is a brief “Certification of Live Birth.” It does not include details like the name of the hospital or attending physician. The state of Hawaii has issued similar certifications of live birth to persons not born in the state. So, by itself, this document does not resolve the issue. Worse yet, many are not convinced that the posted document isn’t a forgery.

These objections to the Internet document failed to move Gibbs, who characterized the continuing questions regarding the President’s place of birth as “laughable.” “Look, the most powerful man in the world has said we must be satisfied with what he has told us,” Gibbs argued. “That’s good enough for me. It ought to be good enough for any loyal American.”

President Explains Broken Promise on Bill Signings

As part of his pledge to increase government’s transparency, presidential candidate Barack Obama promised to post all bills passed by congress on the Internet for a minimum of two days prior to signing them into law. The idea was to allow citizens the opportunity to scrutinize the would-be laws before they, in fact, became the law of the land. President Obama has routinely failed to keep this promise.

This broken promise was cast as “an act of mercy” by the president. “People don’t have time to read these bills,” he contended. “Most of those in congress who voted for these bills didn’t read them. I didn’t read them before signing them. It would be placing an inordinate burden on the American people to ask them to shoulder this responsibility when we who govern them have ducked it.”

The President counseled voters not to fret over the situation saying, “We’ll all find out what’s in the legislation once it goes through the courts, where experienced jurists can clean up any errors we made in the process.”