Europe's debt-crisis strategy is near collapse. The long-awaited recovery has failed to take wing. Debt ratios across southern Europe are rising at an accelerating pace. Political consent for extreme austerity is breaking down in almost every EMU crisis state. And now the US Federal Reserve has inflicted a full-blown credit shock for good measure.

A leaked report from the European Commission confirms that Greece will miss its austerity targets yet again by a wide margin.  The Greek think-tank IOBE expects GDP to fall 5% this year. It has told journalists privately that the final figure may be -7%. The Greek stabilization is a mirage.

Italy's slow crisis is again flaring up. Its debt trajectory has punched through the danger line over the past two years. The country's €2.1 trillion ($2.7 trillion) debt - 129% of GDP - may already be beyond the point of no return for a country without its own currency.

Standard & Poor's did not say this outright when it downgraded the country to near-junk BBB on Tuesday (7/09). But if you read between the lines, it is close to saying the game is up for Italy.  The game is up for all of Southern Europe.

We begin with 61 traitors in the Senate.  On Tuesday (11/27), they voted to bring a bill to the floor that exemplifies the pervasive trashing of the Constitution by our outlaw federal government.  Every single Democrat (except one who was not there but would have if he had been) voted Yes - but trashing the Constitution is what Dems do for a living, it's what their constituents pay them to do, thus that's normal.

So calling Dems traitors is just being redundant.  It's the 9 Pub senators who deserve our focused opprobrium: Kelly Ayotte (NH), John Barrasso (WY), Scott Brown (MA), Susan Collins (ME), Orrin Hatch (UT), Richard Lugar (IA), John McCain (AZ), Lisa Murkowski (AK), and Olympia Snowe (ME) all voted Yes.  There were 36 No votes - all Pubs.  Here's the roll call.

The vote was for a motion to proceed towards ratification of a UN Treaty called the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities or CRPD.  It uses crippled children as the excuse to advance UN Fascism and destroy US sovereignty.  The Dems want this.  Do those 9 Pubs?  Doubtful.  More likely they acted out of sheer cowardice, which is par for their RINO course.

Every one of the Brave 36 are being subjected to massive intimidation by the CorruptMedia.  Utah's Mike Lee is one.  Here's an article in yesterday's (11/29) Salt Lake Fascist Tribune, headlined Mike Lee Vs. The Disabled.

When Barack Obama announced that he again wanted to increase taxes on the top 2 percent of taxpayers, I would have recommended to Mitt Romney that he reply by saying:

"President Obama has called for a tax increase on job creators, which will only fund the government for eight days, while I have an economic growth program that will fund the government for eight years and beyond."

Mr. Romney is being justifiably criticized for not delivering a clear and concise description of his economic plan. Since he has not done it, I will give it shot.  I can make it so consise, in fact, I can put it on a bumper sticker.

What follows is an unedited interview with a recently retired member of the Secret Service who was assigned to guard the lives of several US Presidents and their families, regarding how he and his colleagues were and are being treated by Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Laura Bush, and President Bush ---JW

[Today, 7/01, President Zero continues his $100 million African vacation with a visit to Tanzania.  He is not going to, nor has he ever been to as president, the country of his alleged father - Kenya.  In response, this essay was published today in Kenya's most widely read newspaper, the Daily Nation, by Kenya's most prominent attorney and legal scholar.-JW]

President Barack Obama's visit to three countries in Africa has failed to excite, annoy or even disappoint. In fact, it is slowly passing out as a non-event.

President Obama is not Candidate Obama of five years ago. He is a pale shadow of the man who mesmerized the world with his oratorical skills, inspirational speeches and wide smiles. He is a limping version of the giant of a man who swept the world with his moving speeches, deep thinking and a great promise of a better tomorrow.

President Obama is not the man the American people gambled their fate with. Five years after his first election, Obama has shrunk so much in stature that he is barely recognizable in the global stage were it not for his black skin.

So how does one explain the dramatic metamorphosis of the giant into a dwarf in such a short time?

The Constitution gives Congress the exclusive right to tax Americans at the federal level. Yet Congress continues to give away this most fundamental responsibility to international organizations, the most dangerous of which is the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Most Americans probably would not approve of their tax dollars being used to support an international organization that undermines their fundamental liberties and promotes giving their hard-earned money to other governments, often run by corrupt or dictatorial regimes. This is precisely what the OECD is doing, with the blessing of the majority members of Congress.

The OECD has just released a report bragging about its "progress" in getting countries to engage in automatic sharing of tax information.  Entitled "Tool Kit for Automatic Exchange of Information," it states:

"The automatic exchange of information involves the systematic and periodic transmission of 'bulk' taxpayer information by the source country to the residence country concerning various categories of income (e.g., dividends, interest, royalties, salaries and pensions)."

The Obama administration is actively supporting this effort.

There’s the coolest buzz making the rounds in Washington’s power watering holes, and let’s cross every finger we have that it’s true.

To review the bidding, Hillary desperately wants to be POTUS. But if Hanoi John gets elected this November, he will obviously as the incumbent be the candidate in 2008. The earliest she could run would then be 2012, deep in her sixties and possibly ancient history. There is only one conclusion she can reach: Her only shot is to run in 2008 - which requires that George Bush be re-elected and John Kerry defeated in 2004.

You’re familiar with the term “October Surprise.” Right at the last moment, in late October, the parties try to pull a rabbit out of the media hat. The Dems sprung a decades-old DUI bust of GW a week before the election in 2000, the Pogo Press went into a feeding frenzy right on cue, and it almost submarined him on election day.

I wish Barbara Comstock running Oppo Research for the Republicans as much luck as it takes to figure out what dirty trick the Dems will try to spring this time. Yet while I’m sure they have an October Surprise planned - the buzz is that Hillary has one planned herself.

No one knows what it is - but we know four things about it.

I must admit that I remain in a state of total shock over November 6^th.  There is still a part of me that finds the results incomprehensible.  The actual results were within the margin of fraud, so the Dems stole it. 

At the Rendezvous, we had a world-expert on cyber-intelligence explain how "trivially easy" it is to hack into and rig voting machines.  Plus all the other voter-suppression tricks the Dems use in states with no Voter ID.

What Dems do is whatever it takes to win without any semblance of morals.  What Pubs do is blame each other, whine, and wimp out.  A perfect example is Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal on Monday (11/12) being a smart-ass ignorant jerk demanding IQ tests of Pub candidates.

He typifies the growing RINO chorus chanting the GOP must now capitulate on 1) abortion, 2) homosexual marriage, and 3) amnesty for illegals.  Why?  To get elected.  Power as an end in itself, not to politically accomplish something moral.  It is Stephens and his ilk who need to take an IQ test - as demonstrated by the evisceration of his argument for amnesty by Victor Davis Hansen on Tuesday (11/13).

Hansen's The Latino Vote Obsession is a masterpiece, simply a "must-read" this week.  Another masterpiece must-read is this interview with my dear friend Robert Agostinelli.  No one can tell it like it is like Robert.

Tea Party members are going to be very unhappy.

Many of the new members of the House and Senate that the Tea Party helped elect are already becoming part of the political class, as evidenced by their votes for continued farm subsidies, refusals to put reasonable limits on the growth of the food- stamp program, support for unaccountable international organizations, and on and on.

(To see how any Congressman is voting according to conservative principles, consider conservativevotingrecords.com, byThe Madison Project.)

Members of Congress vote for unjustified spending because they think the recipients will reward them with campaign contributions and praise while the majority of the electorate will never notice.  So how do we stymie the spendaholics -- when even Tea Party politicians are getting drunk on spending?