Newt Says Uncle/Obama Announces New Titles


PCW Politics is War on P-SPAN Recap
Huntington Civic Center
Huntington, WV
Thursday April 26th, 2012

PCW Extreme Political TV Main Event: Yamamoto Tanaka (R) w/ Mitt Romney (R-MA) vs. Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
The bell rang and Gingrich, to his credit, took the fight right to Tanaka and promptly ate a powerbomb.

Tanaka, to his credit, dispensed with the gratiutious destruction of Mr. Gingrich and merely dragged him up to the top rope for the cursery Japanese SuperDestroyer. With Gingrich splayed out on the mat, Tanaka put his foot on Gingrich’s chest and the referee could have counted to three hundred and the result would have been the same.

Newt Gingrich (R-GA) hobbles out and talks with the ‘Voice of PCW’ Johnny Suave.

Gingrich: Fine.  I’m suspending my campaign.  Are you happy now?

Then Gingrich limps off.

(1) World B. Peace def. PBR w/Chief
PBR is about to hit the Blue Ribbon Blast when Peace snaps ands elbows PBR in the head, knocking him out cold.  Peace makes the cover for the easy pin.

PCW CEO Barack Obama Addresses World B. Peace
Two men come out and unroll a white carpet to the ring steps. Dancers then dance. Ballet dancers…ballet? Little children walk up the white carpet and drop rose petals.
Someone lets loose some pigeons…not sure just how they’ll get out of the building. The crowd stands as PCW CEO Barack Obama appears. Behind Obama walks Joe Biden.

Obama says he wants to address the whole World B. Peace thing.

Last Night: World B. Peace vs. Richard Headd of Guys With Unfortunate
First Names Given Their Surnames.
Peace swept into PCW earlier in the night with a message of love and peace. Then Headd accidently collided with him and Peace uncorked a nasty elbow to the back of his head and knocked him out cold for the win.

Peace then apologized afterwards and blamed the incident on a sudden outbreak of acne that irritated his face.

Suave: You mean to tell me that the reason he decked him with that elbow is because World Peace broke out?

Biden takes the microphone and says it’s time to heed the timeless advice from Teddy Roosevelt: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ End of quote.

Biden: I promise you, the president has a big stick.

Pause for the requisite flurry of snickering from the crowd.

Obama: Joe, don’t say that.

More snickering from the crowd.

Obama then announces that ‘he’s had enough’ of the extreme nonsense in PCW.
First, he’s suspending World Peace for two weeks.

Suave: Wait.  Can someone actually suspend World Peace?  Well, besides actually declaring war and such…

Obama then clarifies that he’s suspending the wrestler- World B. Peace.  Then he turns to the big announcement.

Obama: Tonight, just like the NFL is doing in New York, PCW is having a draft.  Democrats and Republicans will get to choose wrestlers to compete for the “Blue” belt (Democrats) and the “Red” belt (Republicans).

Obama added as a special treat, the draftees also get to go to Saturday night’s ‘nerd prom’ aka the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Backstage, PCW Investigative Reporter Woodward Bernstein asked Obama spokesperson Jay Carney what about the Independents and those not drafted.  Carney shrugged and walked away.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

In the ring, PCW CEO Obama stands behind a podium a la NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell with Democratic Leader Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to the left of him and Republican Leader Rance Priebus to the right.

The draft then began…

PCW Draft
Round One:
Democrats- PCW Champion The Sanderman; Republicans- Yamamoto Tanaka

Round Two:
Republicans- Scott Walker’s Rangers: Ronnie and John Walker; Democrats- Big Union: Big Labor and James the Jeep Worker with Union Maid

Round Three:
Democrats- Kathryn Randall Collins; Republicans- ‘Texas Cowgirl’ Haley Dallas

Round Four:
Republicans- Corporate Might: Big Oil and Kirk Walstreit; Democrats- Felcher and Felcher- Extreme Attorneys

Round Five:
Democrats- Green World Order: “Radishing” Rick Rube- Agronomist, ‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee, GreenPete, PeaceNick, and Peta from PETA; Republicans- Religious Right: Rev. Oral Hinnrich and Rev. Buddy Flambe.

Round Six:
Republicans- Kalee Jones- Eskimo Queen and Lani Harlot; Democrats- Women for Women: Code Pink and Emily S. List

Round Seven:
Democrats- PCW Television Champion ’The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism; Republicans- Arizona Rough Justice: D.B. Ruff and Connor
Justice

The first seven rounds provided little drama.  It was the final round that raised a few eyebrows.

Round Eight:
Republicans- RINO- The Wonk Machine

Suave noted that Mitt Romney’s influence may have pushed that pick.

Then the Democrats stunned everyone.

Democrats- former PCW Champion Daniel-San.

As Daniel-San walked up to the podium, John Creese and the Cobra Conservatives attacked and set off a brawl between the Republicans and Democrats.


For Romney to Win: Part 1 (The Size of Government)


Frank Luntz recently had an article in the Washington Post about five myths regarding conservative voters. This may very well be a starting point for a winning strategy for Romney in this year’s general election campaign if he can accurately and forcefully articulate the message. In short, he has to delineate a vision, based on pragmatic conservative ideology, that separates him and the Republican Party from the Democrats and Obama. No matter how one views anything, this country was, is and shall continue to be a right-of-center country. This does not infer that the country is the embodiment of the Liberal caricature of the conservative voter. Those views from the left, best exemplified by ignorant comments like people “clinging to their Bibles and guns,” is the traditional view of conservatives held by Liberals. Certainly, there may in fact be a segment that does “cling to Bibles and guns,” but even at that, why should it be the source of mockery?

Instead, the true conservative voter, as the unofficial polling by Luntz suggests, is more pragmatic than ideological. Originally, I was researching an article on the evangelical vote and it became evident early that the traditional view that evangelical voters are like bleating sheep following a Republican leader was itself a myth. Clearly, the fundamentalist voter is more apt to vote Republican, but to state that Republicans can take for granted the evangelical vote every four years is false. The same is true of conservatives. Even in 2008, some 20% of self-described conservatives voted for Obama, up from the 15% of that vote that went to Kerry in 2004.

There is so much talk about the establishment versus the Tea Party or insurgent candidates. In fact, they should be working together towards a common goal, the first of which is getting Obama out of office. The “enemy” is Obama and his liberal policies. He can no longer run on a campaign theme of “hope and change.” He is not some blank slate unknown with a silver tongue. He has a record now upon which he must run and one which he must defend. The fact he was resorted to a campaign of divide and conquer is indicative of the fact that this record cannot be defended. Being your typical liberal, he has resorted to diversionary tactics. One week, we have the “war on women,” the next the “war on the poor,” followed by the “war on youth,” etc. Inevitably, we will have the “war on senior citizens.” He takes advantage of the angst over income inequality by pitting Wall Street against Main Street.

Some amongst the conservative ranks have resorted to bombastic remarks and policy proposals, but they are few and far between. Some have called for the absolute abolition of the Department of Education, or Energy, or the EPA. I, as a conservative and Republican, have problems with these entities also. In past articles, I have not called for the abolition of the Department of Education, but a reform of it whereby they get out of K-12 education and leave that to state and local governments where it was for years without federal intervention with greater outcomes. The Energy Department clearly is in need of reform, yet there has to be a national entity to coordinate national priorities when it comes to energy policy. However, they should not be picking the winners and losers when it comes to energy exploitation or sources. The EPA should be forced, through changes to the laws that formed that agency, to do cost/benefit analysis when making regulations, something they are not required to do by law as it stands now.

This is the first area to look at when it comes to the Luntz article: the myth that conservative voters care most about the size of the federal government. The current size of the government is a reflection of the regulatory state. Years and years ago, Alexis de Toqueville noted that bureaucracy was the greatest threat to the emerging American democracy. To read the Constitution- a guide to the role of the federal government- one would expect only a Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice Department. Instead, we have numerous executive departments, agencies, commissions, authorities, and boards. Unfortunately, the growth of the federal bureaucracy and the regulatory state is not unique to liberals and Democrats as Republicans have been guilty of the practice. The only difference is that Democrats and Obama in particular have taken it to a gross new level.

Instead, most conservatives want a government that works better with less waste. Dating back to at least 1964, implicit in the Democratic agenda is that local and parochial interests should be subordinated to the national interest. Although never totally subordinated, it did come to the center of politics and the result to breaking gridlock that inevitably occurs was not through compromise as the Constitution dictates, but through legislative deal making: “I’ll support your crop subsidy if you support my beach replenishment project.” An unpaved road in Mississippi becomes a national problem when you have a national Transportation Department. Urban blight in Detroit or Newark becomes a national problem when you have a HUD. Low SAT scores in Alabama become a national problem when you have a Department of Education.

In 1995, the GAO discovered that over $350 billion was wasted on duplicate programs yet that same state of affairs exists today. In 1879, the US Geological Service was created to map the nation’s natural resources. Some 133 years and over 300,000 maps later, I think they have done their job. Today, they are tasked with establishing stations to monitor global warming despite those maintained by private interests, academia and numerous thermometers on back porches throughout America. We have 14 programs for foreign study abroad, 17 offender re-entry programs run by five different agencies, over 20 programs to identify and eradicate invasive plant and animal species and nine programs spending over $300 million annually on biofuels. It is estimated that the federal bureaucracy spends over $400 million every year producing reports, studies, files and forms. The GAO reports we spend over $123 billion annually on programs with no effect on the targeted populations. And the Defense Department is perhaps the poster child of government waste and abuse.

Citing these facts and taking action are two different things. Once the bureaucracy is formed, it is almost impossible to get rid of it. But, three facts remain. First, a more efficient, less wasteful government will require political fortitude, someone willing to to make the tough decisions and follow through on those decisions to the end. Whether Romney is that person, we really do not know. We can surmise all we want from his business record, or leader of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee, or Governor of Massachusetts. But we do know one thing: Barack Obama is not that person and that is something we can all rally around. Second, there will undoubtedly be hardships along the way that will be exploited by liberals and their allies in the media. But it should also be remembered that liberals will be the flies in the ointment regardless. They are an innocuous (and obnoxious) minority of the electorate. Third, a more efficient and less wasteful federal government will necessarily result in a smaller government. Hence, it is incumbent upon conservatives to hold Romney’s feet to the fire. I also venture that this basic philosophy will appeal to the equally important moderate/independent voters.

A winning strategy will be to highlight the shortcomings of the Obama Administration in this area. Despite his assertions of cleaning up waste and abuse in the federal bureaucracy on the one hand, he expands the bureaucratic state on the other hand through nonsense like a run-amok EPA, Obamacare and Frank-Dodd, among other acts. Despite protestations to the contrary, we have the examples of the GSA scandal, Fast and Furious, and the Secret Service scandal occurring on his watch. They are merely symptoms of a broader problem with government in general. No one said it better than Mitch Daniels, the outgoing Governor or Indiana who turned a budget deficit into a surplus while lowering taxes and decreasing the state bureaucracy: “You’d be surprised how much people really don’t need the government.”


Hear Energy Expert Dr. Daniel Fine on the I Spy Radio Program discussing energy speculation, the future of Shale Gas&Oil,Elections 2012


Hear Energy Expert Dr. Daniel Fine on the I Spy Radio program talking energy speculation, Shale Gas&Oil,Elections 2012

This Week on I Spy on Salem

So who’s to blame for those high gas prices at the pump? Obama? George W. Bush? Oil speculators?

But a much larger puzzle is America’s energy resources and our energy policy. We talk with Dr. Daniel Fine, an associate with the New Mexico Center for Energy to get a handle on all of this.

What role do speculators have in the oil prices? Is it all just more of the “blame game” by Obama? But what role does he have in it?

And if Republicans are secretly hoping high gas prices might hurt Obama’s re-election campaign, find out why they may be in for a big surprise.

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Resources & Links from the Show
Below are links to our guest’s websites, articles, and other information mentioned on the show or for more information.

Guest & Links mentions on the show

  • Dr. Fine’s article on the effect of oil speculators
  • Another great article (not mentioned on the show): America’s Energy Disaster from the National Review Online
  • Dr. Daniel Fine is a Research Associate at the Mining and Minerals Resources Institute, MIT. Dr. Fine is also a current Policy Adviser on Non-Conventional Oil and Gas. He is co-editor of Resource War in 3-D: Dependence, Diplomacy and Defense, and has contributed to Business Week, the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Washington Times. Dr. Fine participated in the Atlantic Council Workshop on Central Asian Policy and the Hudson Institute Russia-United States Relations Project. He has given testimony on strategic natural resources before the U.S. Senate Committees on Foreign Affairs and the Energy and Natural Resources. Dr. Fine was a member of the Domestic Energy Production Issue Team of the Center For The Study Of The Presidency and Congress “Strengthening America’s Future Initiative.” He has participated as a panelist on energy public policy at the Rocky Mountain Global New Energy Summit.

Unemployment Drops Twice as Fast in States Under GOP Control


In his de facto Republican presidential nomination acceptance speech this past week, Mitt Romney took the Democrat’s favorite playground-taunt cum campaign slogan and threw it back at them.

[B]ecause [President Obama] has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It’s still about the economy” — here he paused for effect — “and we’re not stupid.”

James Carville, who coined that hippest campaign slogan of them all “It’s the economy, stupid!” for Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential race, oddly yet somehow appropriately accused Romney of “stealing” his line.  (For a man who is a walking caricature of a campaign strategist, one would think he would appreciate a good send up rather then reacting with foot-stamping petulance.)  But Romney was simply acknowledging the undisputed role that the economy plays in most elections, particularly presidential ones.  This year is no different, and the depths of the country’s economic woes may have already sealed the fate of the Obama administration.

For this reason, the weekly unemployment figures and monthly unemployment reports are two of the most closely watched economic bellweathers. The jobs numbers are the public’s most accessible proxies for the nation’s overall economic health.  President Obama is well aware of the fact that as the New York Times reported in 2011, “No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent.”  As of this March, the rate stood at 8.2%, and few would make the case that the rate will drop more than a percentage point by election day.  Even the President himself in December was less than confident that the rate would even break 8% by then.

What then is President Obama’s economic silver lining?  A look at the state-by-state unemployment numbers over the past three years suggests ironically enough that the silver lining may be Republicans.  My analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment reports for 2009 and 2012 and the current political party makeup of state governments plus the District of Columbia (raw data here) yields rather lopsided results.  (For purposes of my analysis, “control” is based on a party holding at least two out of three of the following: governorship, upper legislative house, and lower legislative house.  ”Complete control” means holding all three.)

  • 9 of the 10 states with the lowest current unemployment rates are under Republican control, including six under complete Republican control, one of which is North Dakota with the lowest rate of 3%
  • 5 of the 10 states with highest current unemployment rates are under Democratic control, and the four worst are all under Democratic control, one of which is Nevada with the highest rate of 12%
  • 8 of the 10 states with the greatest improvement from 2009 to 2012 are under Republican control (and 7 of those are under complete Republican control)
  • 7 of the 10 states with the worst performance from 2009 to 2012 are under Democratic control
  • 10 of 17 states with current unemployment rates greater than the national average are under Democratic control
  • The state with the greatest improvement from 2009 to 2012 (36%) is Michigan, under Republican control
  • The two states with the worst performances from 2009 to 2012, Louisiana and Idaho (the rates actually went up,) are under Republican control, but their current rates are still less than the national rate of 8.2%
  • States under Democratic control saw an average decrease of 7.7% in the rate of unemployment
  • States under Republican control saw an average decrease of 15.3% in the rate of unemployment, virtually double the improvement of states under Democratic control

If the decrease in the national unemployment rate had matched that of Republican controlled states, it would already be under 8%.  Conversely, if it had followed the Democratic controlled states, it would still be at 8.6%.  There are some anomalies: Vermont is under complete Democratic control and yet has performed very well; and four states under complete Republican control are included in the states with the highest 2012 rates.  There are obviously other factors at work in the states economic and employment situations, but the big picture is clear.  States under Republican control scored nearly double the improvement of states under Democratic control – the correlation is unmistakable.

Republicans find themselves in the position of helping the President nationally by virtue of economic and fiscal policies implemented at the state level, but what may seem a political handicap on the surface can be turned to the Republicans advantage.  The challenge will be making the case to the American people that a Mitt Romney administration will work in tandem with Republicans at the state level rather than erecting obstacles in their path as the Obama administration has done for the past three years.  Given the Obama team’s dismal record and discredited economic theories, it should not be a hard sell.

Also posted at Speak With Authority


Romney All But Ends It


PCW Pennsylvania Punditry
Red Crown Bowling Center
Harrisburg, PA
Tuesday April 24, 2012
Play by Play: ‘The Voice of PCW’ Johnny Suave

Newt Gingrich (R-GA) came out and said the race isn’t over until he says it over.  Since no one else in the back is willing to wrestle for him, he’ll take on Mitt Romney‘s
(R-MA) wrestler ‘The Japanese SuperDestroyer’ Yamamoto Tanaka (R) himself if he
has to.

Romney comes out and immediately agrees to the match.

(1) ‘PCW’s Queen of Extreme’ Valora Salinas def. ‘Tin Cup‘ Ray McAvay of the Tea Party

Valora tuned up for her upcoming match against ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism (D) for the PCW Television Champion by destroying McAvay.  Chism watched the match with Code Pink and Emily S. List but did not intervene.  After the match, Chism and company left.

Former PCW Women’s Champion Kathryn Randall Colllins (D) came out and demanded an immediate rematch against new champion Miss USA.

Replay: Miss USA’s victory over KRC last Thursday on PCW Politics is
War on P-SPAN

KRC again petitioned the PCW Competition Committee for relief.  Leader of the Competition Committee John Boehner (R-OH) came out and told her that he would bring it up for a quick vote.

(2) Tom Tebow- Tim Tebow‘s Long Lost Black Sheep Brother He Never Knew He Had w/Suspended St. Louis Ram Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams def. Ronnie Walker (R) of Scott Walker’s (R-WI) Rangers.

Tebow tried to take out Walker’s knee but John Walker (R) made the save.  After the match, Tebow and Williams went back and met PCW Tag Team Champions Big
Union (Democrats ‘The Self Proclaimed Savior of the Middle Class’ Big Labor and
James the Jeep Worker) to collect their bounty.

Big Union refused on the basis that Tebow didn’t get the job done and a scuffle broke out before security jumped in.

PCW Competition Committee Meeting
Eric Cantor (R-VA) held a meeting for Republicans and tried to rally the troops against sanctioning the match between Yamamoto Tanaka and Newt Gingrich.

Cantor: All right.  I don’t care what you think of Newt, this match should not be sanctioned nor take place.  Those of you who will oppose this, raise your hands.

Only a smattering of hands go up.

Cantor: No, seriously.  Who’s against this match?

Again, only a slight few raise their hands.

Cantor: Oh, come on.  I know Newt has his moments but still…let’s try again.  Those who will oppose this match raise their hands.

Yet again, only a few scattered hands go up.  Meanwhile, on the Democratic side…

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): Okay, those in favor of sanctioning the Tanaka-Gingrich match raise your hand-

Immediately, hands are thrust into the air.  Some put both hands up.

‘The Voice of PCW’ Johnny Suave: HOLY CRAP!  WE’VE GOT BIPARTISAN CONSENSUS!  SOMEONE MARK THIS DOWN ON THE CALENDAR!

(3)  World B. Peace def. Richard Headd of Guys With Unfortunate First
Names Given Their Surnames.

Peace swept into PCW earlier in the night with a message of love and peace.  Then Headd accidently collided with him and Peace uncorked a nasty elbow to the back of his head and knocked him out cold for the win.

Peace then apologized afterwards and blamed the incident on a sudden outbreak of acne that irritated his face.

Suave: You mean to tell me that the reason he decked him with that elbow is because World Peace broke out?

Hello?  Is this mic on?

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Before the main event, Leader of the PCW Competition Committee John Boehner
comes out and announces that former PCW Women’s Champion Kathryn Randall Collins will indeed get her rematch with Miss USA for the women’s belt- at PCW Loose Cannons Unleashed 8 in June!

Plus, Boehner announces that due to the events earlier tonight that the Competition Committee has voted that Scott Walker’s (R-WI) Rangers: Ronnie and John Walker (R) will meet PCW Tag Team Champions Big Union:  ’The Self Proclaimed Savior of the Middle Class’ Big Labor and James the Jeep Worker (D) for the tag team belts at Loose Cannons Unleashed 8.

MATCHES SIGNED FOR JUNE’S PCW LOOSE CANNONS UNLEASHED 8
PPV:
-PCW Television Title Match: ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism (D) (c) vs. Valora Salinas
-PCW Tag Team Title Match: Big Union: ‘The Self Proclaimed Savior of the Middle Class’ Big Labor and James the Jeep Worker (D) (c) vs. Scott Walker’s Rangers: Ronnie and John Walker (R)
-PCW Women’s Title Match: Miss USA (c) vs. Kathryn Randall Collins (D)
-PCW Title Match: The Sanderman (D) (c) vs. Yamamoto Tanaka (R)

Plus, PCW Hall of Fame Inductions of:
Wrestlers: ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido (I) and Starz N. Stripes (also known as ‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott) (R)
Politicians: ‘The American Screamer’ Howard Dean (D-VT) and ‘The Mastermind’ Karl Rove (R)

(4) Main Event: Yamamoto Tanaka (R) w/ Mitt Romney (R-MA) vs. Newt
Gingrich (R-GA)

Gingrich came out first and milked the moment for all it was worth.  He spent what seemed an eternity walking around the ring and trying to shake peoples hands until he finally got annoyed and grabbed the mic to berate the crowd, specifically the Democrats. He said he wouldn’t let any Democrats down here touch his calves, which was odd and completely out of character.

Tanaka and Romney came down next.  The bell rang and Gingrich, to his credit, took the fight right to Tanaka and promptly ate a powerbomb.

Tanaka, to his credit, dispensed with the gratiutious destruction of Mr. Gingrich and merely dragged him up to the top rope for the cursery Japanese SuperDestroyer.  With Gingrich splayed out on the mat, Tanaka put his foot on Gingrich’s chest and the referee could have counted to three hundred and the result would have been the same.

WINNER: Yamamoto Tanaka (R) @ :23

So, now it’s on to PCW Politics is War tomorrow night.
- PCW CEO Barack Obama will make what is being called a big announcement
- Newt Gingrich to also make an announcement


Shame on Nancy Pelosi for Trying to Limit Free Speech


˙ʇuǝɯpuǝɯɐ ʇsɹıɟ ǝɥʇ ɟo ʞɔɐʇʇɐ uɐ uo sʞɹɐqɯǝ ǝɥs ‘sɐǝpı pɹnsqɐ ʎןqıpǝɹɔuı ɟo ʇno unɹ pɐɥ ısoןǝd ʎɔuɐu ʇɥbnoɥʇ noʎ uǝɥʍ ʇsnظ

Yes folks, the woman who suggested passing a bill to find out what is in it now wants to inhibit free speech. During a Democratic forum to discuss amending the Constitution earlier this week Pelosi promoted her “clear agenda” to limit free speech of corporations in an effort to control special interest campaign money, according to Hot Air.

As usual, Pelosi is working on a far-left liberal agenda which is anything but transparent. The limits on free speech and political spending would apply to businesses but not unincorporated unions.

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Miss USA v. KRC in Women’s Showdown Plus Ted Nugent Shoots the Breeze


PCW Politics is War on P-SPAN Report
Mayo Civic Center Arena
Rochester, MN
Thursday April 19th, 2012
Host: Johnny Suave

The show began with a 10 bell salute to Dick Clark and Levon Helm.

The Band- “Up on Cripple Creek*

PCW Women’s Champion Kathryn Randall Collins (D) again pleaded with Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to have her title defense against Miss USA called off.  Pelosi told her that she couldn’t stop the match but that “she wouldn’t be alone.”  Pelosi added that  the women of PCW would rally around her and she’d still be the Women’s Champion after tonight.

(1) NRA of Politically Incorrect w/Ted Nugent def. PeaceNick of the Green World Order

After the match, Nugent met up with PCW Secret Security to discuss Nugent’s (R) comments on Monday’s PCW Extreme Political TV about PCW CEO Barack Obama (D-IL) and went into an office to talk.

PCW Investigative Reporter Woodward Bernstein talked with the Japanese SuperDestroyer Yamamoto Tanaka (R) through an interpreter.  Tanaka, a 3 time PCW champion, says he came back to PCW to be dominant and the Democrats weren’t letting him be that.  That’s why he’s joined the Republicans and ‘The Massachusetts Redblood’ Mitt Romney (R-MA) and that’s why he says he will be the next PCW Champion when he defeats The Sanderman at PCW Loose Cannons Unleashed.

Romney comes in and agrees, adding that once Tanaka becomes the PCW champion that people will see that his judgment is stupendously marvelous and that will put him over Obama for the PCW CEO job in November.

Backstage, Nugent and the PCW Secret Security guys are kicking back and having a few beers as they talk.  One Secret Security guy brags about checking out ‘The Alaskan Pitbull’ Sarah Palin and they all share a laugh.

(2) Big Oil def. Mitch Thomas- The American Taxpayer

Post match, Big Oil hits the American Taxpayer again and again with the Oklahoma Driller.  Finally, Daniel-San runs out and flattens Big Oil with a steel chair.

Then John Creese and his Cobra Cons attack Daniel-San.

Followed by Charlie Blackwell of the American Heartland Coalition and his Les Miserables who swarm all over the Cobra Cons and kick them out of the ring.  Mike the Mechanic joins Blackwell in the ring.  Mike gets on the mic and tells the crowd if no one else is going to stand up for the American Taxpayer then the American Heartland Coalition will.

Backstage, Obama’s aide de camp Joe Biden chats with suspended NFL Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams and New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton about the whole bounty thing going on with Tom Tebow- Tim Tebow’s long lost black sheep brother.  Biden warns them to knock it off.

In the ring, Johnny Suave talks with PCW Champion The Sanderman (D).  The Sanderman says Tanaka is a force and he knows what he’s capable of.  But he swears that he’s going to PCW Loose Cannons Unleashed 8 with the intention of fighting for his title.  The Sanderman rips on Mitt Romney as using Tanaka as his conduit.  “Tanaka doesn’t care what you people think.  Tanaka just wants to hurt people and like the Republicans will go to extreme lengths, like torture, to acheive their ends.  The Sanderman says Tanaka’s only purpose is to replace him with a Republican as the PCW champion.

Next, Nugent and the PCW Secret Security guys leave their meeting joking and slapping each other on the back.  “We’re cool,” one of them says and then thanks Nugent for an autograph.

There’s a quick recap of the KRC- Miss USA feud:

On Monday night, PCW Investigative Reporter Woodward Bernstein talks with Miss USA about the upcoming match. Miss USA tells Bernstein that she’s going to prove that a woman can be a mother and hold a career and the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

Last week, KRC compares Ann Romney to Miss USA giving up her career for over a year to have a baby with her husband. KRC says Miss USA’s decision to put her family over her career is an affront to the women’s movement.

(3) PCW Women’s Title Match: Kathryn Randall Collins (c) w/Hilary Rosen, Code Pink,
and Emily S. List (D) vs. Miss USA w/the Mercenaries: Dawn McGill and Svetlana Kovaleviski.

Before the match even starts, the Angry Left Wing Bloggers (Markos Moutilsas of the Daily Kos, Katrina Vanden Huevel from the Nation, Professor Paul Krugman of the NY Times, and the Huffington Posts Arianna Huffington come to the ring with the leader of the Democrats Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

KRC and Miss USA battle back and forth with the Angry Left Wing Bloggers liberally interfering on the PCW Women’s Champion’s behalf.  That brings down the Right Wing Brigadiers (Michelle Malkin, Tucker Carlson of the Daily Caller, Glenn Beck, and Laura Ingraham) and now we have a brawl going on around the ring with KRC and Miss USA battling inside the ring.

Miss USA hits the Patriot Missile on KRC and covers.  But there’s another commotion.  Mitt Romney’s dog is loose inside the arena and distracts the referee when the dog jumps into the
ring with Ann Romney chasing from behind.

In the confusion, Code Pink sneaks into the ring and tries to hit Miss USA with a glitter bomb.  But Dawn McGill tackles Miss USA and Pink nails KRC instead.  Miss USA hits a second Patriot Missile and makes the cover…1…2…3.

WINNER AND NEW PCW WOMEN’S CHAMPION: Miss USA

MATCHES SIGNED FOR JUNE’S PCW LOOSE CANNONS UNLEASHED 8 PPV:
-PCW Television Title Match: ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism (D) (c) vs. Valora Salinas
-PCW Title Match: The Sanderman (D) vs. Yamamoto Tanaka (R)

Plus, PCW Hall of Fame Inductions of:
Wrestlers: ‘No Frills’ Chris Escondido (I) and Starz N. Stripes (also known as ‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott) (R)
Politicians: ‘The American Screamer’ Howard Dean (D-VT) and ‘The Mastermind’ Karl Rove (R)

MATCHES SIGNED ALREADY FOR NOVEMBER’S PCW EXTREME ELECTION NIGHT 2012:
Ohio- Sherrod Brown (D) vs. Josh Mandel (R)
Virginia- George Allen (R) vs. Tim Kaine (D)
Massachusetts- Scott Brown (R) vs. Elizabeth Warren (D)


White House – Home of the Scam Artists


Are they two faced, or could they be worrying about job security? Republicans and Democrats have joined hands to expose the GSA pretending to worry about taxpayer’s money.

Now, the GSA team will be tarred and feathered for their abuse of taxpayer’s money and that a good thing, but this opens up a whole new can of worms for the Republicans and Democrats. The GSA will be the sacrificial lambs that Republicans and Democrats are offering to the people – it’s probably their one and only good deed for 2012 in fact for the past 3 ½ years.

Where were they when our stimulus money was handed out to Fannie, Freddie, AIG and GM? Why did they allow Obama and George Soros to collaborate on the distribution of our stimulus money? Soros and Obama thru a few under the table smooth moves managed to pad Soros Empire via Government contracts.

Now that they’ve come out of hiding, what will they do with Leon Panetta’s brazen misuse of American’s tax dollars? Leon added 860,000 to taxpayer’s charge card almost matching GSA in total amount of government waste and theft. Leon’s excuse was feeble and almost laughable if we could afford his extravagant tastes – it was spent to give him some downtime and recharge his battery. Will Panetta be sent to his room
indefinitely or will he just have to stand in the corner until it’s time to hop one of our jets and head home? I don’t care how he travels from now on – bus is fine with me, just stay out of our money Panetta.

It’s quite evident that Republicans and Democrats will pick and choose who they wish to put on public display as the culprits in Government Waste – Obama and his Administration are off limits. The fact that Obama stole from taxpayers and committed treasonous acts against our Nation will be relegated to the ancient history shelves never to surface again.

Americans should demand transparency and not another dollar of our money spent unless we are the decision makers. There should be an online website since Obama likes the Social media so well called Obama’s Accountability. Americans have the right to know how much of our money Obama is using for his Presidential Campaign – I don’t care how much Reagan, Clinton or Bush used in previous years; this is 2012 and we’re broke.

Does it really make any sense that we’re footing the bills for an extreme radical who has harmed our Country financially, economically, socially and emotionally? We need transparency and we need it now – this is our Country, not Obama’s and it’s time for us to take our Government back. Enough is enough!

Eric Holder is Obama’s boy and neither Democrats nor Republicans removed him from office when he orchestrated one of the worst crimes and scandals in the history of our Country. The question never was if he’s guilty or not – the Government knows beyond a doubt that he was the engineer behind the Fast and Furious gunrunner operation.

He started this operation in April 2009 and three years later he’s still the chief law enforcement officer of our United States. Check the DOJ website for hard facts!

He’s not even on a short leash anymore – Obama uses him as his pet watch dog to attack the States on voter ID laws, sue States who are being devoured by the drug cartels and illegal aliens and his biggest assignment from Obama is keeping a lid on Obama’s eligibility issues. The House of Representatives should have impeached Holder and Harry Reid’s Senate should have been forced to try Holder for treason, and other high crimes.

It’s time to put the House of Representatives and the Senate on notice that they have exactly 6 ½ months to get our house in order or they’re going to be removed one stinking politician at a time. We want accountability, transparency and Government Waste stopped.

Here’s but one example of waste – easy come, easy go what about that single bush in San Fransisco that cost 205, 075 for removal and we call these politicians responsible? They aren’t safe to send to the store for a loaf of bread!

May God Bless America
As Always,
Little Tboca


Romney vs. Obama Set Plus Ted Nugent Shoots


PCW Extreme Political TV
Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
Rapid City, SD
Monday April 16, 2012
Host: Johnny Suave

Nancy Pelosi’s Office
PCW Women’s Champion Kathryn Randall Collins barges into Pelosi’s office and demands that she get the PCW Competition Committee overturn the stipulation from last week that gave Miss USA a title chance.

Replay: The Mercenaries: Dawn McGill and Sventlana Kovalevski vs.
Code Pink and Emily S. List- if the Mercenaries win Miss USA gets a title shot
against KRC
KRC then interjects herself into the match by dragging Kovalevski out of the ring and List locks McGill up in the Abdominal Stretch. List, seeing McGill’s daughter ringside, starts taunting her. Then she lifts McGill up to body slam her and feels a sharp pain in her derriere. She drops McGill and turns around to see McGill’s 2 year old daughter smiling. List,
distracted, then gets walloped by a kendo stick shot by McGill and that’s all.

McGill gets the pin and Miss USA gets her title shot coming up Thursday night on PCW Politics is War on P-SPAN.

Pelosi doesn’t make any promises but tells KRC she’ll see what she can do.

Suave starts the show in the ring with the PCW Champion The Sanderman (D).  Democrats Harry Reid (D-NV) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accompany him ringside.

Replay: The Sanderman’s win over former PCW Champion Daniel-San at a
PCW House Show to win the title.

The PCW Champion says there is not one second  that he ever thought he was going to lose once he got in the ring with Daniel-San.  The Sanderman says he had the Democrats behind 100% his win proves that a true champ retains the will to win even through their most disappointing setbacks.  He says he hasn’t been in PCW all that long but he wondered how everyone would react after he won the belt.  The crowd cheers.

The Sanderman blasted Daniel-San for lashing out and making excuses. The crowd chants “What A Loser.”  Suddenly, the crowd roars as Yamamoto Tanaka (R) and Mitt Romney (R-MA) appear at the top of the ramp.  Tanaka strides down the ramp and climbs into the ring.

Suave announces that the main event for June’s PCW Loose Cannons Unleashed 8 PPV will be Tanaka vs. The Sanderman for the PCW title!  The crowd roars again.

Tanaka nods and then offers The Sanderman a handshake.  The Sanderman accepts and then Tanaka boots him in the stomach.  Powerbomb.  Then he drags the champion to the top turnbuckle…JAPANESE SUPERDESTROYER!  Romney claps and then gets on the microphone to tell PCW CEO Barack Obama (D-IL) to ‘start packing.’

MATCHES SIGNED FOR JUNE’S PCW LOOSE CANNONS UNLEASHED 8
PPV:
-PCW Television Title Match: ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism (D) (c) vs. Valora Salinas
-PCW Title Match: The Sanderman (D) vs. Yamamoto Tanaka (R)

MATCHES SIGNED ALREADY FOR
NOVEMBER’S PCW EXTREME ELECTION NIGHT 2012:
Ohio- Sherrod Brown (D) vs. Josh Mandel (R)
Virginia- George Allen (R) vs. Tim Kaine (D)
Massachusetts- Scott Brown (R) vs. Elizabeth Warren (D)

(1) Daniel-San defeats Brad Company

Company, still waiting for the PCW Super Court to render its decision concerning health care, falls victim to the Labell Lock.  Post match, John Creese and the Cobra Conservatives attack Daniel-San again.

Mrs. Miyagi and Halitosis race down to make the save again.  But then…


Tom Tebow- Tim Tebow’s long lost, black sheep brother

Tebow and suspended St. Louis Rams Defensive Co-ordinator Gregg Williams hit the ring and attack Halitosis.  Williams throws Mrs. Miyagi from the ring and Tebow then uses a lead
pipe on Halitosis’s knee.  Then he blasts him in the head with the lead pipe and then leaves with Williams after collecting a bounty from Creese and the Cobra Conservatives.

PCW Competition Committee Meeting
Pelosi makes the case that the stipulation giving Miss USA her title shot this Thursday night should be vacated.  Predictably, John Boehner (R-OH) is against it.  They vote and defeat
Pelosi’s measure largely along party lines.

Undaunted, KRC vows to take it to the PCW Executive Committee.

Suave talks about the recent controversy involving Pippa Middleton and the driver of a car she was riding pointing a gun at paparazzi.

M de Soultrait: “Pippa is a very good friend of mine and this gun affair is very silly. It was a children’s toy that the driver had in his car. Pippa thought it was funny. It is fine in France to do that and the police are not investigating,”

Suave: Ahhhh.  That explains France’s performance against the Germans in World War 2- toy guns.

Then famed rocker, ‘The Motor City Madman’ Ted Nugent strolled out with the other members of Politically Incorrect.


Politically Incorrect (from left): NRA, Andrea Doria (up), Al Cahall (down), and Nic Koteen

Nugent says the whole French thing is overblown and another reason that if Barack Obama is still the PCW CEO after November, he will be dead or in jail.

Suave: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Nugent: Our CEO, and legal counsel, our second in command, Hillary Clinton — they’re all criminals.  We’re Americans because we defied the king. … We are patriots, we are bravehearts. We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November like those Frenchy types did during the French Revolution.

Suave calls Nugent’s comments ‘strong’ (a vertiable understatement) and wonders if that will get the attention of PCW Secret Security force.

Box Suite Above the Arena
PCW Secret Security parties hard with members of the GSA.  Even Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is there swigging beers and dancing around.

Suave: Or maybe not…

(2) PCW Tag Team Non-Title Match: Scott Walker’s Rangers: The Walker Brothers- Ronnie and John (R) def. Tag Team Champions Big Union: ‘The Self Proclaimed Savior of the Middle Class’ Big Labor and James the Jeep Worker

Post match, both teams continue to brawl with Ronnie Walker and James the Jeep Worker fighting into the crowd while John Walker and Big Labor fought in the ring.

PCW Executive Committee Meeting
Harry Reid makes the case to vacate the stipulation giving Miss USA her title shot Thursday night.  But the Republicans filibuster the measure and the Democrats can’t get the 60 votes
needed to stop it.

KRC angrily walks out of the room.

Backstage
PCW Investigative Reporter Woodward Bernstein talks with Miss USA about the upcoming match.  Miss USA tells Bernstein that she’s going to prove that a woman can be a mother and hold a career and the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

Ann Romney walks out to join the conversation.  Mrs. Romney offers to be in Miss USA’s corner Thursday night.  Bernstein notes that Hilary Rosen (D) is going to be in KRC’s corner for the match.

Miss USA turns Ann Romney down and says she doesn’t want to make this a political battle.  Besides, she’s got all the back up she needs in…


The Mercenaries: Dawn McGill and Svetlana
Kovalevski

The Three Stooges Appear
Larry (Sean Hayes), Curly (Will Sasso) and Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos) come out and entertain the crowd with their eye gouges, the nyuk nyuks, the open handed slaps and the other forms of physical comedy.  Suave wonders if the Three Stooges movie can unseat ‘The
Hunger Games at the box office.

Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss in the movie ‘The Hunger Games’) walks out and whips out her bow and shoots three arrows striking each Stooge.  The trio fall to the ground.

Suave: Guess that’s a no.

Why should you buy this book?

Jesusland v Progressiveville isn’t the usual predictable partisan trashing of the other side like other political books. J v P doesn’t pander to the fringes of both sides like most books do.

Jesusland vs Progressiveville parodies the very ones responsible for over the top devisive political discussion: Markos Moutilsas, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Ann Coulter, Ed Schultz, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Alec Baldwin among others.

The cover with Sarah Palin and Keith Olbermann sums up just what our political discourse has become.

Brought to you by the same demented bunch behind Political Championship Wrestling and not bought and paid for by big corporations or either political party, Jesusland vs. Progressiveville is a political satire that would be f#$@ing hilarious if parts of the book wasn’t painfully true about the abject dysfunction in American politics.

Available at Amazon.com and other online bookstores.

Back in the ring, Suave talks with Mitt Romney and Yamamoto Tanaka.  Romney says he is going to introduce the new face of PCW—a man who will carry the PCW banner for years to come.  The crowd boos as Tanaka raises his hands.

Tanaka, through an interpretor, thanks Romney and gets more boos from the audience.  Romney says Tanaka brings legitimacy back to PCW and he’s immediately interrupted by the PCW Champion The Sanderman (D).

The Sanderman doesn’t even bother with pleasantries as he charges Tanaka and a brawl ensues.  Romney bails as both men unload on each other.  PCW Security hits the ring to separate the two as the show ends.


Hilary Rosen-Ann Romney Catfight plus Pippa Middleton


PCW Never a Dull Moment in Denver Recap
Ogden Theater
Denver, CO
Saturday April 14th, 2012

The show began with ‘The Massachusetts Redblood’ Mitt Romney (R-MA) coming out and taking an ad-hoc victory lap around the theater to celebrate his presumed coronation as the Republican opponent for PCW CEO ‘The Political Natural’ Barack Obama (D-IL) in the fall.

Newt Gingrich then stormed out and demanded a one on one match against Romney.  Gingrich then was grabbed by security and then forcibly dragged out of the building while shouting “THIS IS ALL FOX NEWS’S FAULT!”

(1) The Green World Order: Radishing Rick Rube- Agronomist and ‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee w/GreenPete, PeaceNick, and Peta from PETA def. Politically Incorrect: NRA and Nic Koteen w/ Al Cahall and Andrea Doria with Guest Referee MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow.

NRA nearly had the Extreme Vegan pinned but Maddow pulled up before finishing the three count.  Rube then broke a flower pot over NRA’s head and Brock Cole Lee hooked the legs for the pin.

After the match, the GWO forced the crowd to watch those hideous anti-smoking ads that’ve been playing on TV…

Anti-Smoking Commercial 2012

Charlie Blackwell of the American Heartland Coalition came out with his Les Miserables and offered his own graphic, hard hitting commercial.

1) A family leaves their house after it’s been foreclosed on by the bank
2) A husband and wife fight because money is tight and the bills aren’t getting paid
3) An employee is informed that he will not be getting a pay increase this year and should be just thankful he has a job.
4) The printing press keeps on printing money because Republicans and Democrats continue to spend it at record levels and run up huge federal deficits and debt.
5) Finally, the most disgusting part of the commercial, Republican and Democrat special
interest groups feeding from a large Federal trough paid for by the American Taxpayer.

Democrats The Sanderman- also PCW Champion and  ’The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism- PCW Television Champion run down to the ring at the same time the Republican Establishment (Corporate Might’s Big Oil and Kirk Walstreit) do.  They bump into each other and an awkward moment ensues.

Why should you buy this book?

Jesusland v Progressiveville isn’t the usual predictable partisan trashing of the other side like other political books.  J v P doesn’t pander to the fringes of both sides like most books do.

Jesusland vs Progressiveville parodies the very ones responsible for over the top devisive political discussion: Markos Moutilsas, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Ann Coulter, Ed Schultz, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Alec Baldwin among others.

The cover with Sarah Palin and Keith Olbermann sums up just what our political discourse has become.

Brought to you by the same demented bunch behind Political Championship Wrestling and not bought and paid for by big corporations or either political party, Jesusland vs. Progressiveville is a political satire that would be f#$@ing hilarious if parts of the book wasn’t painfully true about the abject dysfunction in American politics.

Available at Amazon.com and other online bookstores.


Tom Tebow- Tim Tebow’s long lost, black sheep brother

(2) Tommy Tebow def. SNAFU in a hard hitting, hardcore showdown.

Post match, Tebow went up to former New Orleans Saints Defensive Co-ordinator Gregg Williams and collected a bounty for knocking SNAFU out.

PCW REWIND: May, 2011


Pippa Middleton dances in her bra for the PCW crowd.

Hilary Rosen (D) accompanied the PCW Women’s Champion Kathryn Randall Collins (D) to the ring.  Rosen points up to the box where Mitt Romney is celebrating with his wife Ann and mocks Romney saying his wife helped him understand the economic challenges women face.

Rosen: “Guess what?  His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.  She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing, in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and why do we worry about their future.”

KRC then compares her to Miss USA giving up her career for over a year to have a baby with her husband.  KRC says Miss USA’s decision to put her family over her career is an affront to the women’s movement.


Miss USA

Out walks Miss USA flanked by the Mercenaries…


The Mercenaries: Dawn McGill and Svetlana Kovalevski

McGill, holding a kendo stick in one hand and her daughter’s hand in the other, and Kovalevski, carrying her son, challenge Code Pink and Emily S. List (D) to a match with a stipulation- if the Mercenaries win, KRC must put her PCW Women’s title on the line against Miss USA.  If they lose, Miss USA, McGill, and Kovalevski will leave PCW.

KRC accepts and the match is on.

(3) The Mercenaries: Dawn McGill and Svetlana Kovalevski w/Miss USA vs. Code Pink and Emily S. List w/PCW Women’s Champion Kathryn Randall Collins (D)

Code Pink goes for the glitter bomb early but it backfires – literally.  Pink blinds herself and she’s on the shelf for the rest of the match leaving List to fend for herself against McGill and Kovalevski.

Hilary Rosen tries to intervene but out of nowhere Ann Romney runs to the ring and tackles her. Rosen and Romney roll all over the ring causing ‘The Voice of PCW’ to shout:

Johnny Suave: “CAT-FIIIIIIIIIIGHT!  CAT-FIIIIIIIGHT!

KRC then interjects herself into the match by dragging Kovalevski out of the ring and List locks McGill up in the Abdominal Stretch.  List, seeing McGill’s daughter ringside, starts taunting her.  Then she lifts McGill up to body slam her and feels a sharp pain in her derriere.  She drops McGill and turns around to see McGill’s 2 year old daughter smiling.  List, distracted, then gets
walloped by a kendo stick shot by McGill and that’s all.

McGill gets the pin and Miss USA gets her title shot coming up Thursday night on PCW Politics is War on P-SPAN.