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-Komrade ZerØ-- strikes again:

 

 

SAVING OR CREATING JOBS: 23,000 now expected to lose jobs after shuttle retirement. Let’s call this “creative destruction.” What went wrong with the Weatherization Assistance Program.

 

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82. Anna Robic:

#59 asked, “Does everyone in Europe get free dentures?”

Local Tea Party organizers in the Sacramento area remind us of three core principles: Small Government, Fiscal Responsibility, and Adherence to the Constitution.

 

80. Tcobb:

One of the most frightening things about our current political class is their scientific illiteracy. You can’t have reliable energy grids that die when the sun goes down or the wind quits blowing. And no, believe it or not, there currently is no really efficient cost effective way to store electricity. That day may come but it isn’t here now.

I wish every “green” political hack like Al Gore would be forcibly relocated to a camp in Alaska that depended solely upon solar and wind power for their essential power. After one winter we wouldn’t have to worry about them anymore–they would be dead.

Better them than us.

 

Check out the new movie, Generation Zero. http://www.generationzeromovie.com/about.html

 

Generation Zero goes beneath the shallow media headlines and talking head sound bites to get to the source of today’s economic nightmare. With a cutting edge style and haunting imagery, this must see documentary will change everything you thought you knew about Wall Street and Washington.

 

60. buddy larsen:

hyep –the looting has been at breathtaking speed and boldness. These guys are so bad, just their coming-on starting in the 2006 house and senate was plenty to “make shoo-er” (as they so often say) they had a Bush recession to mask the robbery. Also predictable: agencies running wild. being executive-branch critters under their own law (“administrative law”), they’re made to order for rule by (what amounts to) royal decree.

64. Tarnsman:

Re: Black Swans that tigger the collaspe. How about this one:

“within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected. It is shown that minima in the 80 to 90-year Gleissberg cycle of solar activity, coinciding with periods of cool climate on Earth, are consistently linked to an 83-year cycle in the change of the rotary force driving the sun’s oscillatory motion about the centre of mass of the solar system. As the future course of this cycle and its amplitudes can be computed, it can be seen that the Gleissberg minimum around 2030 and another one around 2200 will be of the Maunder minimum type accompanied by severe cooling on Earth…..We need not wait until 2030 to see whether the forecast of the next deep Gleissberg minimum is correct. A declining trend in solar activity and global temperature should become manifest long before the deepest point in the development. The current 11-year sunspot cycle 23 with its considerably weaker activity seems to be a first indication of the new trend, especially as it was predicted on the basis of solar motion cycles two decades ago. As to temperature, only El Niño periods should interrupt the downward trend, but even El Niños should become less frequent and strong.” ~ Dr Theodor Landscheidt just before his death in 2004. Seems his prediction is coming true given the longer and deeper than expected solar minimum between Solar cycles 23 and 24 as well as the record cold temperatures of late.

So how would this trigger the collapse?

81. Ari Tai:

re: energy. As Jerry Pournelle observes, the amount-of-energy-that-can-be-harnessed per $ multiplied by an individual’s (and an individual’s enterprise) freedom is directly proportional to prosperity. The more power costs, the more we sweat. We need power that costs more to meter than deliver. Where the unit of power under a citizen’s individual control is 10x-100x more than today for the same unit of work. Think megawatt months not kilowatt months. Where a (voluntary) vow of (energy) poverty may have value in the pursuit of a spiritual perfection (Thomas Aquinas et al) given the privations and sacrifice that accompany, but is not an issue for government.

re: power corrupts. I think the people want to spend 10% or less of their time on governance, and they want “not to be responsible” for others’ lives (meaning civil society, markets, etc. must allocate resources, not we-the-people). The anger today isn’t about a specific government issue, it’s that the federal (and many state) governments are so broke we have to stop what we are doing and pay attention.

Where we are so broke now (dysfunctional and bankrupt) that we’re likely to get at least a third of the population willing to do what it takes to put this beast back in the cage our founders’ conceived (and that’s roughly the same % of the population engaged/enraged that it took to succeed at the America revolution). Rather than a Band-Aid, we need to (re)create a distributed, layered, robust, system of governance that builds up from the local (rather than being dictated from the top) and disempower the center with a new Constitution that strictly limits the highest level of government to the common defense, a stable dollar, and a court-of-last-resort, with a framework that (continually re-)creates states of the average size of the original 13 (so we’d go from 50 states to a > 1000 states – redrawn regularly against changing populations and interests). Include a citizen’s, their enterprise (a form of assembly) and a state’s bill of (negative) rights. Insure tax and regulatory competition between the states, with the citizens having an absolute right to vote with their feet to reside in a states that appeals to their interests. With only a few constitutional constraints on how a state can choose to govern themselves (if the Amish have 300K citizens in a few geographic areas, they can create their own theocratic state if they so wish).

D.C. will become a shadow if its former self, similar to the hollowing out of most corporations in the 70s and 80s as the headquarters’ staff learned that if the divisions did not have a use for them, the CEO did not either. There are a lot of details to work out for a transition, to see that the common defense is adequately funded and accountable, and that the current debt and obligations are handled as a proper bankruptcy. Perhaps w/ these unfunded promises and obligations turned into notes that the new states can buy at severe discounts presuming they agree to meet the essence of the intent of the commitment (i.e. in return for liquidating a federal obligation for pension rescues and a bankrupt social security system, the new states offer to set up work farms, and public hospices for the infirm to house those that today’s government has abused by writing contracts that can’t be met). Not quite what these citizens’ expected, but far better than being homeless on the street with a worthless piece of paper from today’s bankrupt federal government (or the terrible alternative, future generations enslaved to contracts they did not write or sign).

I think this is what the tea party is about. It’s not about republican v. democrat, conservative v. socialist, it’s about 1/3rd of our citizens thinking “I’m as mad as hell… that the system has gotten so screwed up… and yes, I’m even angrier since I know my inattention (and at times selfishness) has contributed to this” and “I don’t want to have to deal with this again for another 200 years, so let’s fix it once and get back to the business of America” – which is a free people focused on their (free) enterprise more intensely, with more personal satisfaction and reward (which by definitions means personal responsibility – no “big sis” other than a voluntary helping hand from a concerned neighbor – Samaritan) than any other system for organizing society and its efforts ever seen before or attempted now in this world. Where this miracle document is no longer than the founders’. A statement of guiding principles very tightly written and easily measured against. Perhaps even a framework that can be simulated and tested against our past and current crises to test if we’ve met the intent of this century’s revolution, the return freedom (and it’s conjoined twin, responsibility) to the citizen, their enterprise and their voluntary associations.

Which suggests a federal government uniquely and supremely powerful in a way no other country can match (other than those organized similarly or who have joined our “clan’) in those things that absolutely must be done, and can only be done by the top of the pyramid. Where everything else is either “tough luck if you can’t manage it as an individual” or civil society (voluntary efforts of individuals organizing to accomplish something that can’t be done as individuals or purchased from their enterprise, but all without any power to coerce – a power reserved for the states), local institutions, neighborhood associations, etc.. where pretty soon we’ve reached the 300K sweet spot that’s the new state (which interestingly has the wealth and productivity of 10-100x the colonial state). Imagine trying to implement special interest pleading across 1100 states… if someone can get an issue raised and passed in 1100+ states, it’s not a special interest. Where a state can be non-contiguous (a union of interests).

Note each of these new states likely qualifies for a UN seat (given autonomy, degree of self-government, wealth and reach). Then if it turns out we need some form of world governance & concurrence to meet a global threat, bring it on.

85. Kinuachdrach:

Eggplant wrote: “I’ll close by reminding people that long term solutions are nuclear energy coupled with synthetic petroleum produced from coal.”

So true it is worth repeating.

Repeat This:

Healthcare Polling and Why It Matters

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Approval numbers, Healthcare Polling, Why healthcare polling matters |
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H/t Chrissy the Hyphenated

Dear HillBuzz,

Humans are tribal creatures. Most of us like to feel we belong, so poll results can influence our opinions. I’ve compiled some tips to help you sort out the good polls from the crappy ones.

February 27, 2010 at 11:01 am

From what they say at national review, the hard left Dems running the party are committed to a radical transformation of America and don’t care about getting killed in November. The goal is worth it. Perhaps the Dems at the top do feel this way, but I still think they are going to die on the death march through the Valley of Reconciliation.

I also think they severely underestimate Americans. WE ARE NOT going to tolerate the Swedenization of America. I don’t care if they pass Obamacare or not. If by some chance it does pass, Katie bar the door baby. It is going to get ugly in this nation. States will revolt, people will revolt. I cannot predict exactly what will occur, but we are not going to view the law as legitimate and it is going to be very ugly for the statists.

A TEA PARTY ANNIVERSARY:

Keli Carender has a pierced nose, performs improv on weekends and lives here in a neighborhood with more Mexican grocers than coffeehouses. You might mistake her for the kind of young person whose vote powered President Obama to the White House. You probably would not think of her as a Tea Party type. But leaders of the Tea Party movement credit her with being the first. . . .

She, like many Tea Party members, resists the idea of a Tea Party leader — “there are a thousand leaders,” she says.

Glenn Beck? “He can be a Tea Partier, but it’s not like the movement bends to him.”

Sarah Palin? She will have to campaign on Tea Party ideas if she wants Tea Party support, Ms. Carender said, adding, “And if she were elected, she’d have to govern on those principles or be fired.”

Indeed.

 

 

1,500 Rally at St. Louis Tea Party Coalition Anniversary Protest

Saturday, February 27, 2010, 5:05 PM

Jim Hoft

1,500 patriots turned out today at the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition Anniversary Celebration.

KMOX reported on the rally today:

A crowd of around 1,000 people gathered on the steps of the Gateway Arch, Saturday, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Tea Party movement in St. Louis and throughout the United States. Speakers talked of “sounding an alarm” in 2009 and following up by influencing the 2010 political races.

Speakers at the rally today included:
Michelle Moore
Stephanie Rubach
Jay Stewart
Dr. Gina Loudon
Dana Loesch
And tea party organizer Bill Hennessy.
Jonathon Burns did a great job as emcee. Adam Sharp, Jim Durbin and Patch took photos and blogged.

The Keyboard Militia has more photos. And, Doug posted photos and video here.

Bill Hennessy fires up the crowd at the rally.

Here’s my speech at the rally today. It’s dedicated to the tea party patriots and Charlton Heston.

Missourah.com has more great photos.

Urban Infidel has photos from the New York City tea party protest rally today.

Miami held their Anniversary Tea Party today, too. Here are photos.

And, the Temecula Valley Tea Party patriots held a rally today in California.

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Insiders, Outsiders and Unemployment. “I am more worried, however, about the long term consequences of creating a dual labor market in which insiders with government or government-connected jobs are highly paid and secure while outsiders face high unemployment rates, low wages and part-time work without a career path. . . . Moreover, once an economy is in the insider-outsider equilibrium it’s very difficult to get out because insiders fear that they will lose their privileges with a deregulated labor market and outsiders focus their political energy not on deregulating the labor market but on becoming insiders.”

 

Obama’s Weekly Address: Let’s Use That Olympic Spirit to Ram Obamacare Through Congress

Saturday, February 27, 2010, 4:16 PM

Jim Hoft

Barack Obama congratulated the athletes who participated in the Olympic Games today during his Weekly Address. Then he immediately pressed Republicans to use that indomitable Olympic spirit to ram Obamacare through Congress.
WhiteHouse.gov reported:

As the Winter Olympics draw to a close this weekend, I just want to take a minute to congratulate all the athletes who competed in these games. And I especially want to say how proud I am of all the American men and women have achieved over the last few weeks…

…The indomitable Olympic spirit that says no matter who you are or where you come from or what difficulties you may face, you can work hard and train hard and still triumph in the end. That is why we watch. That is why we cheer. That is why in the middle of an extremely challenging time for America, we’ve been able to come together as one nation for a few weeks in February and swell with pride at what our citizens have achieved.

Now, when it comes to meeting the larger challenges we face as a nation, I realize that finding this unity is easier said than done – especially in Washington. But if we want to compete on the world stage as well as we’ve competed in the world’s games, we need to find common ground. We need to move past the bickering and the game-playing that holds us back and blocks progress for the American people…

We need that same spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship when it comes to finally passing reform that will bring down the cost of health care and give Americans more control over their insurance. On Thursday, we brought both parties together for a frank and productive discussion about this issue. In that discussion, we heard many areas of agreement. Both sides agreed that the rising cost of health care is a serious problem that plagues families, small businesses, and our federal budget…

no final bill will include everything that everyone wants. That’s what compromise is. I said at the end of Thursday’s summit that I am eager and willing to move forward with members of both parties on health care if the other side is serious about coming together to resolve our differences and get this done. But I also believe that we cannot lose the opportunity to meet this challenge. The tens of millions of men and women who cannot afford their health insurance cannot wait another generation for us to act. Small businesses cannot wait. Americans with pre-existing conditions cannot wait. State and federal budgets cannot sustain these rising costs.

It is time for us to come together. It is time for us to act. It is time for those of us in Washington to live up to our responsibilities to the American people and to future generations. So let’s get this done.

Thanks for listening.

Let’s get this done = Let’s ram it through.

The AP added this on Obama’s message:

Obama and the Democrats reject the piecemeal approach sought by Republicans and have no intention of scrapping their 10-year, $1 trillion bill and starting over, as the GOP demands.

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"Can Obama not handle more than one thing at a time? It is healthcare all the time! WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OUT OF WORK AMERICANS? What about the homeless families? What about the seniors who did not get a cost of living increase this year but GM got billions! What about the corruptions that is filling the halls of congress with it’s infective slug? What about Rangel and the other office holding tax cheats? Huh? What about all that! What about the bank failures? I could go on but Dr. O can only handle healthcare and polish his teleprompter..."

 

Junk Scientist Al Gore Still Beating Dead Horse

Sunday, February 28, 2010, 12:31 AM

Jim Hoft

It was all a lie.

The Top Climate Scientist Admitted in February That Man-made Global Warming Was a Farce–

* The data for the vital ‘hockey stick graph’ had gone missing
* There had been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes

In February one of the chief scientists at the center of the “Climategate” scandal admitted that there had been no significant global warming in the last 15 years.

But, Al Gore is still beating that dead horse.
At least The New York Times will still publish his crackpot propaganda:

I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.

It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.

But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panel’s scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea…

…The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth, yet scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans, putting significantly more moisture into the atmosphere — thus causing heavier downfalls of both rain and snow in particular regions, including the Northeastern United States. Just as it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm.

Here is what scientists have found is happening to our climate: man-made global-warming pollution traps heat from the sun and increases atmospheric temperatures. These pollutants — especially carbon dioxide — have been increasing rapidly with the growth in the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and forests, and temperatures have increased over the same period. Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising. Hurricanes are predicted to grow stronger and more destructive, though their number is expected to decrease. Droughts are getting longer and deeper in many mid-continent regions, even as the severity of flooding increases. The seasonal predictability of rainfall and temperatures is being disrupted, posing serious threats to agriculture. The rate of species extinction is accelerating to dangerous levels.

OK. I’ll bring the tar. Who has feathers?

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Impeach Now-

Avoid the rush, later:

Favorgate: Obama Administration breaks federal law, offers job to Dem Senate candidate opposing Sen. Mike Bennett, D-CO.

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 105 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Crime, Democratic Party, Elections, Leftists, Politics, Progressives at February 27th, 2010 - 8:30 am

Here’s yet more proof that most democrats, starting right at the top with The Zero™, are criminals and have no problem breaking federal laws, and as usual the state-controlled media buries their collective heads in the sand and ignores it.

Favorgate
What did the president know, and when did he know it?
Posted by Mark Impomeni
Tuesday, February 23rd at 9:00AM EST

We take a break from the hyperventilating over the latest moves in the slow-motion kabuki dance that is the Obama Administration’s efforts to ram its federal takeover of the health care system down the throats of the overwhelming majority of Americans who oppose the various bills to take a look at what should be a much, much bigger story.

Last week, Democratic Senate Candidate Joe Sestak, a retired Admiral, let slip in an interview that someone in the White House offered him a position in the Administration if he would drop his primary challenge of Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania. Sestak wouldn’t elaborate on which job he was offered – speculation centers on Secretary of the Navy – but it hardly matters. As Jeffrey Lord points out, federal law prohibits anyone from offering, soliciting, or receiving any federal office in exchange for a political favor.

“Whoever solicits or receives … any….thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.” – 18 USC Sec. 211

It seems highly unlikely that this was a misunderstanding or exaggeration on Sestak’s part. It’s the second time in this election season that another Democrat has accused the White House of trying to buy them out of a Senate challenge with an offer of employment.

Last year, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s deputy, Jim Messina, reportedly suggested that Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff might find himself a position in the Department of the Interior if he dropped his prospective primary challenge of Sen. Michael Bennett. Romanoff, like Sestak, refused to be bought off.

The Sestak and Bennett incidents are potentially far worse than that. Republicans need to start asking very pointed, very public questions, right now. They should call for a Special Counsel to lead a Department of Justice investigation along the lines of Patrick Fitzgerald’s look at the Valerie Plame affair. Even if no wrongdoing is uncovered, the atmospherics of this scandal in waiting are bad for the Obama White House. The president would have to explain why relativley low-level staffers in his Administration feel empowered to offer high-ranking positions as plums for doing the Administration’s bidding without consulting their superiors.

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Where Liberal Domination Leads:

Nature begins to eerily reclaim the abandoned neighborhoods of Detroit

by Speranza ( 116 Comments › )
Filed under Crime, Economy at February 27th, 2010 - 11:00 am

There is something almost post apocalyptic about the city of Detroit. Up until 1962 Detroit was actually a pretty good town (I am told), but then the failures of liberalism (rising crime rates for instance) created the “white flight” that we are all too familiar with, combined with the race riots of 1967, confiscatory taxes, a hostile business environment, runaway welfare rates, poor city services, the failure of the auto industry and one party (guess which party?) rule -well you have late 20th century Detroit which is starting to resemble several of those destroyed European cities of world War II.

hat tip Tammy Bruce

by Dena Kouremetis

A daunting and surreal image of a city once bustling with activity is depicted by an anonymous blogger (because of his employment as a writer elsewhere) who writes DetroitBlog.org.

In his (or her) report about a city emptied out by the economy (the median home value there has been reported to be a mere $18,000), he writes, “The city of Detroit has a very strange, wild appearance, in some parts like a city of ruins many years older than it actually is, where nature reasserts itself in vegetation that spreads over the city’s crumbling structures.”

His eloquence is articulately haunting, “Detroit is far greener than most major cities, as seen in the runaway vines swarming old mansions in Brush Park, trees sprouting from the rooftops of skyscrapers, tall grass fields encircling the lone house still standing on a residential block, and abandoned homes swallowed by shrubs thriving unchecked.

Whole neighborhood blocks cleared of houses by arson and bulldozers have reverted to urban prairies, visible in satellite photos as unusually large green patches in the middle of the inner city. Sidewalks vanish beneath creeping grasses, while aluminum fences between homes become entwined with the branches of dozens of saplings growing as high as the droopy utility wires.

Alleys in parts of the city start resembling hiking trails as growth from the yards on both sides narrows their width. All around town, even smaller empty lots become thick, grassy fields, because the City doesn’t often mow in easements and right-of-way areas, allowing weeds to grow 3 feet high.”

He goes on to describe how half of Detroit’s population fled to the suburbs and rural areas over the last half-century, leaving behind an irony difficult to grasp: the city itself has become more rural, “with wild animals and lush green plants coexisting with an industrial, modern metropolis.”  Centuries of nature, originally driven back by civilization, have aggressively reasserted itself in recent decades, reclaiming abandoned land.

Wildlife normally fearful of suburban rural areas have now wandered inward, as homes in residential areas have become abandoned, fallen from non-use,  burned down or were demolished.  The writer describes entire blocks that lie empty in the middle of neighborhoods, while “ grasses, trees, wildflowers and vines have overrun the brick, wood and concrete that stood there for a century, leaving only crisscrossing streets as reminders that they were once fully inhabited.”

This blogger says it has gotten to the point that civic groups over the years have floated the ideas of farming some of these areas, “reminiscent of Detroit Mayor Hazen Pingree’s program that turned city plots into potato farms to feed the hungry in the 1890s.”

He goes on, “Abandoned industrial sites like the Fisher Body 21 plant, the Studebaker plant, the Continental Aluminum plant and the Detroit Screw Works plant have been overrun by trees growing through walls and roofs, impervious to the chemicals and toxins left behind.

Even downtown, abandoned skyscrapers, with windows left open to the elements, become giant pigeon coops, with upper floors covered in inches of pigeon droppings, as generation after generation of pigeons live uninterrupted by humans in the middle of a major downtown. Buildings like the Wurlitzer, the Lafer and the Broderick house hundreds of pigeons between them.”

He says that the most visible wildlife in the city are the roving packs of wild dogs in Detroit neighborhoods. “Groups of usually four to seven dogs, each litter progressively wilder and stranger-looking than their predecessors, roam through even well-kept neighborhoods, occasionally making the news when they attack someone, usually children or mail carriers.”

Even pheasants have become commonplace in some of the metro area’s grassy fields, along with foxes, opossums, turkeys, roosters and raccoons, many of which have been spotted deep inside the city,  bravely roaming through downtown locales.

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"I can sum up Detroit’s decline by something I saw last week. Two black dudes getting out of a range rover at the Mall. Rather than carry their white castle bag and paper cups to the garbage door and dispose of them, they just dumped it next to their car... They don’t give a shit about letting their city fall apart"

i knew Detroit was bad but this, and a read of http://www.detroitblog.org/ which was linked in the article, clearly shows that, even as horrible as i thought it was, was no comparison to the reality which is saying alot considering that i grew up 5 miles south of Watts/Compton. the top story at detroitblog right now is about a man who is trying to keep his neighborhood, or at least his block, safe from the detritus which would kill them all.

then i googled “abandoned home detroit” for images. it’s very sad. perfectly ordinary homes (even if they are old) which, if maintained in a safe neighborhood, could be decent homes to decent people.

"Life After Democrats."  " It’s not even a graveyard. It’s a trash heap."

...but it’s Bush’sWhitey’s fault, don’t you know...

Old news: House Speaker Pelosi Accused of Earmarking Funds for Husband’s Benefit, Media Mum

 

 

[backhoe]

How To Beat Leftists & Astroturfers

While lurking the web I ran across a set of videos that fall into the “must view” category for conservatives this year. Recorded during Conservative New Media’s workshop the videos focus on tactics used by leftists and astroturfers during the 2008 primaries and election, and methods to defeat them.

The first 8 minutes of Part 1 provide historical background, but picking up thereafter you’ll find practical information on tactics taken straight out the Left’s playbook ranging from pulling down videos and astroturfing protests to death threats. If you’re interested in defeating the leftists on the net and at the polls then these videos are for you

(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...

TRANSCRIPT: Sarah Palin's Inaugural Tea Party Convention Speech (History in the Making)

Muslim leader implodes on air

I hate to keep repeating myself, but...

For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:

Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up, and smell the Jihad...

Chile Reels From Devastating 8.8 Earthquake [Over 300 Dead and One Million Collapsed Structures]

Chile Earthquake - Photo Thread

And man is going to “destroy the Earth”, huh? Look at how nature brushes us aside like Lego pieces.

Some Fear California's High-Speed Rail Won't Deliver On Early Promises [$2.25B Stimulus Funding]

highspeed rail through earthquake country is about the dumbest thing I can think of to waste more money

 

Forensic Expert Dan Austin Explains The Golani .223 Elephant Rifle(Really Dumb GunGrabber)

This was being discussed over on AR15.com. General consensus is that this guy is a complete moron.

Worse, this lying FRAUD should be enough reason, all by himself, for retrials in all 300 cases he was supposedly an "expert witness" for.

“The world needs to know about the genocide that is happening today in Burma.”

Vermont: Update on Bill That Could Outlaw All Ammunition

Vermont goes from having the best 2nd Amendment position to dead last with a single bill.

Video: A Silent Rotor Blade Paves the Way for Super-Stealth Choppers

A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC

[backhoe]

Sky News' Dissembler and Propagandist

Kids these days (incompetent and irresponsible adult children)

43% of likely voters: Obama's approval hits new all-time low...
...and 52% were deluded in to voting for The Fool On The Hill...

For whatever it's worth around here, I remain convinced until this day that -Komrade ZerØ--

Was never intended to be elected in 2008-- it was supposed to be a dry run to introduce him, and give their side time to sanitize his background and prepare the public for his "descent from Heaven"--

Unfortunately for all of us, a lethal confluence of Media Hive enablers, white guilt, and black racism propelled this fool

far beyond his "level of incompetence..."

I also still believe Duh!1®, was "selected" by an unhappy confluence of "Mo Money" than the unfortunate Cap'n Queeg, the shadily-orchestrated meltdown of "The Economy" ( which still seems to be staggering along despite it all ) and the Ophra-ization of the masses. Aided and abetted by the dumbing down caused by Public Miseducation and too much Popular Culture, which is a cesspool of reaction shots, bumper-sticker slogans, and tits, and teeth, and asses. Literally, and figuratively...

American Idol and Survivor, writ large and smarmy...

Basically, Obama was "Marketed Better"- like soft drinks are...

...but still, he's just an empty suit:

for all those

Drinkers out there in TV land... "you gotta fall down, an' worship De Idol"--
( Old Negro Spiritual, "Shadrack, Neshack, Abendnego" )

But...

If we aren't all rounded up and re-educated at

Camp Obama

it should provide endless opportunities to hector, and catcall, and kibitz from the sidelines.

I hope all the MoonBats really, really, really enjoy having The New Little Big Fraud© at the helm. It's going to be quite a ride...

This guy really is Bad News.

And Then! There are his gullible, self-deluded camp followers:

Preview of Anti-Obama Documentary Outrages Left

John Ziegler didn’t know the kind of fury the left would unleash on him when he unveiled his web video “How Obama Got Elected.”

See his website and video here.

“The Zogby results were incredible and they were credible and the vast majority of enws media ignored it because it was their own malfeasance that created a massive amount of ignorance,”

See poll results here.

As I have mentioned here:

OBAMAO ... is America ready for a Marxist president?[ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

Nope, but we are about to get one, good and hard...

...so chroniclers like Yours Truly will be documenting every move he makes, every breath he takes... unless, or until, we are silenced by all that "tolerance & inclusiveness" he & his followers are already practicing.... ( "we in charge now" )

America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
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Most See Government as Threat to Rights

 

 

BLIZZARDS NO BARRIER: Hartford Tea Party attendance surges.

 

“STANDING ROOM ONLY:” A report from the first British Tea Party rally.

 

OLD STORY: New media just sponge off old media. NEW STORY: Old media just sponge off new media for tsunami coverage. “Much of the reporting was from citizen journalists via webcams, Skype, and Ustream. Meanwhile, anchors were regularly referring to information coming to them by social networking websites such as Twitter.”

 

Pelosi: Lawmakers Should Sacrifice Jobs for Health Care

OK...

Al Gore Comes Out of Hiding and Gets a Fisking

Here's why Dems keep pushing 'dead' Obamacare despite growing public opposition

Obama "had" the ultimate weapon, the race card.

If you dont play by his rules, the MSM immediately whips it out for him.

The trouble for Obama is that when people lose all they have because his policies are now causing a depression, they will gleefully take the race card and shove it up his a$$.

By November the people will want his hide. Anyone who promises impeachment will get elected.

5 posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:31:27 AM by PA-RIVER

Obama "had" the ultimate weapon, the race card.

If you dont play by his rules, the MSM immediately whips it out for him.

The trouble for Obama is that when people lose all they have because his policies are now causing a depression, they will gleefully take the race card and shove it up his a$$.

By November the people will want his hide. Anyone who promises impeachment will get elected.

[backhoe]

Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban [Flashback, 2009]

Weird how 2010 is shaping up to be like 1994. Unpopular Healthcare bill. Unpopular Assault weapons ban. Scandal involving the chairman of Ways & Means (Dan Rostenkowski and the House Post Office Scandal then, Charlie Rangel and his problems now).

Edwards epilogue: Does the press really vet presidential candidates? (Talk about a joke..)

George Soros Ready to Cash in on the Fall of the Euro

The Left Should Think Twice Before Charging ‘Racism’

 

Narcissism and Denial in the Obama Administration

Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away By: Kitty Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote.. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group — Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang “Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare: When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children.. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:

Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“Mercy Killing” Redefined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws: Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria . Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn’t destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn’t, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

“It’s true..those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

“After America , There is No Place to Go”

Please forward this message to other voters who may not have it.

6 posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:35:13 PM by ExTexasRedhead

Pelosi Not Prepared to Strip Rangel of Chairmanship After Ethics Violation (hypocrite and liar!)

Try Not to Laugh Watching This Video of Nancy Pelosi

Sure of my lines, no one is there

The lyrics of Stephen Sondheim’s Send in the Clowns captures the comedy of errors which the British establishment now finds itself in with regard to the Falklands. How could they have guessed that the man they had been waiting for, the person who they assumed would be so implicitly like them — their soulmate — would turn to be so different from what they imagined? UK pundits are still shock over the administration’s announcement that it will remain neutral in any dispute between Argentina and Britain over the Falklands. The London Times summarizes things succinctly:

Washington refused to endorse British claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands yesterday as the diplomatic row over oil drilling in the South Atlantic intensified in London, Buenos Aires and at the UN.

Despite Britain’s close alliance with the US, the Obama Administration is determined not to be drawn into the issue. It has also declined to back Britain’s claim that oil exploration near the islands is sanctioned by international law, saying that the dispute is strictly a bilateral issue.

As usual, the administration’s given reason for its actions is that “Bush did it”, only in this case it is “Ronald Reagan did it”, even though he didn’t. The Times continues:

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7. trangbang68:

Does Obama hate the UK because his ancestors in Kenya were humiliated by British colonial rule? Or does he despise America enough to utterly destroy our standing in the world and alienate us from every ally we have?

9. wretchard:

Confirmation bias powerully shapes how we interpret information. If you’re emotionally predisposed toward someone, such as Barack Obama, you miss all the warning signs that someone generates even when they are quite obvious. This works in the other direction as well. One can be blind to the positive as well as the negative. People who dislike the President can ignore his achievements as easily as those who adulate him can ignore his faults.

The President himself warned people this would happen. ‘I am a blank canvas on which people project their aspirations’. The boys at the Guardian will be surprised all the way to the end, not because anything was hidden, but because there are none so blind as they who will not see.

14. whiskey:

Obama can be predicted to a T by the degree to which he hates or likes people. Obama is Black Nationalist/Marxist with a dose of Islamism (due to his upbringing as a Muslim). He hates White people. Period. He hates Britain over imprisoning his Black Kenyan Terrorist Grandfather. Period. THAT will never change.

16. Alexis:

I am aghast that British politicians should have ever expected President Obama to have acted any differently.

Most European politicians as well as the vast majority of the British establishment were rooting for Obama back in 2008. They didn’t just root for Obama either; they practically demanded that we vote for him. To them, it was supposedly “racist” to oppose Barack Obama in 2008 or Jesse Jackson in 1988.

If British politicians had wanted an American president to back them to the hilt on the Falklands, what ever gave them the idea that Barack Obama would be on their side?

They got what they wanted.

Masters of the Universe

According to recent academic studies liberals are smarter than conservatives.  Conservatives can take some consolation in studies which show they are physically stronger, prone to anger and fond of aggression. That means they were useful once, when dinosaurs ruled the earth. But their time has passed.  Time’s John Cloud quotes a London School of Economics paper which says there’s evidence that “very liberal” adolescents have an average IQ of 106 and “very conservative” kids come in at only 95.  That’s a major difference. Cloud’s main doubt about the LSE study is that while there are ways to measure intelligence, there’s no way to accurately measure “liberalism” and “conservativism” except by self-identification. So it might just be cool for some people to call themselves liberals because it’s “in”, which might explain some curious things. Andrew Sullivan, for example, says he’s a conservative, but then again he might just be slumming.

The implicit assumption that liberals are more intelligent probably explains efforts to pre-clear SETI messages through an international advisory panel involving biologists, historians and ethicists who will ensure the right people are “waving on the beach” when the starships arrive. After all, we want the people sending messages to be as much like the aliens as possible. And if liberals are more intelligent than conservatives, then it follows that super-intelligences are super-liberal. So the best showing mankind can put up is to gather up the sum total of our liberalism and say, “Peace be unto you. Greetings from the persons and womyn of Gaia!” But science fiction author David Brin notes not everyone is believes this approach is valid. What if aliens are not like that? What if it isn’t true that the politically correct will inherit the universe.

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The science isn’t settled

Posted by chrissythehyphenated under Uncategorized | Tags: AGW, Anthropogenic Global Warming |
[46] Comments 

Dear HillBuzz,

Unsettled Science by Caleb Howe – February 27, 2010

http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2010/02/27/unsettled-science/

This is the best thing I’ve read on the topic to date. It sums up AGW and Climate-gate, then concludes:

Even if you are still fully on-board the AGW train, you cannot continue to claim the science is settled. Scientists around the globe are expressing their doubts, and even the chief architects of the IPCC report have admitted for the record that there remain questions about both the data and the conclusions. People. This is the very definition of not settled. If you grant that debate continues apace, and you can’t not grant that without checking out from reality in full, then you must grant, you MUST grant, that there is no consensus. You must grant that the science is not settled. And I urge you to never again judge the relative accuracy of a scientific theory like you are voting for the prom queen and king. Something is true, or untrue, regardless of how many of your friends think it’s super-keen. Just ask Copernicus.

One of the articles Howe links to is also worth a read.

Hot tempers on global warming By Jeff Jacoby – Aug 15, 2007

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/08/15/hot_tempers_on_global_warming/

Nearly three years ago, Jeff Jacoby was asking why AGW believers were choosing character assassination over scientific arguments to respond to AGW skeptics. He gives some telling examples, including:

Newsweek’s Aug. 13, 2007 cover story on global warming that paints skeptics as bought-and-paid-for lackeys of the coal and oil industries;

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s loud and public pronouncement that climate-change skeptics are committing treason against America and the human race and should be held accountable as traitors;

The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen’s suggestion that television meteorologists who dare question AGW be stripped of their American Meteorological Society certification;

various environmentalists and commentators who liken  global-warming “denial” to Holocaust denial and demand Nuremberg-style trials for skeptics;

and a public threat issued by the president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, Michael Eckhart, to a denier:

Take this warning from me, Marlo. It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America.

Hugs,

Chrissy

February 28, 2010 at 12:20 pm

A little bit more info on Heidi Cullen…

http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/12/i-promised-you-info-on-heidi-c.html

February 28, 2010 at 1:41 pm

Here comes the next bubble – carbon trading

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100003851/here-comes-the-next-bubble-carbon-trading/

Sunday Open Thread: February 28th, 2010

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized
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What’s on your minds this Sunday?

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Drudge Report is hitting the Church of Anthropogenic Climate Change HARD today.  Three different stories are linked exposing the fraud Al Gore and his “climatologists” committed, in a trillions-of-dollars scheme to redistribute Western wealth through a “carbon-trade” market.

* A Perfect Storm Brewing for the IPCC

* Committee to Review Procedures

* Here’s Al Gore’s (who had been missing for some time, but has apparently now been found) feeble excuse…he claims he and his “climatologists” only made “a few mistakes”.

Actually, ManBearPig, with all due respect, you made more than “a few mistakes”.

(1) Polar Bears are not going extinct.  There are more of them today than there ever were in recorded history.

(2) The Himalayan glaciers are not melting, as you claim.

(3) Sea levels are not rising, as you claim.

(4) The rain forest is not being destroyed by climate change, but by agriculture.

(5) Hurricanes are less frequent now than they were 60 years ago, which is the opposite of what you insist.

(6) Earthquakes are not caused by climate change, as many of your followers believe.

(7) Your 2007 UN Report is riddled with more errors than a Wikipedia entry written by a fifth grader.  It was not based on sound science, but on scare-mongering and wishful thinking on the part of “scientists” who stood to make a great deal of money by starting a global panic and manipulating Liberal followers into forming a new cult, all centered around yourself as the “Gore-acle”.

It’s a wonder the American media continues to get away with avoiding all reporting on the collapse of the Anthropogenic Global Warming cult. The Olympics have been the latests excuse not to report on this, but that ends today. Earthquakes of late is probably the next reason not to report on any of it…too busy talkin’ ’bout da ‘quakes.  Can’t do two things at once!

What it boils down to, though, as many articles state, is that the American media is 100% a member of Gore’s cult.  They BELIEVE his lies, so they won’t report anything to the contrary.  That makes it highly unlikely they will ever admit the truth, because in doing so they’d be forced to admit their own stupidity.  Do you really think that will happen?

So, on the grassroots level, regular people need to find a way to get the truth about the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming out to the public at large.

How can we do that?

It’s  a real test of new media and grassroots activism…to see if there is a way to effectively disseminate information that’s been embargoed by the news networks and publishing world.

CAN we do this?

How?

Any ideas?

***********

Narcissism and Denial in the Obama Administration

Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away By: Kitty Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote.. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group — Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang “Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare: When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children.. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:

Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“Mercy Killing” Redefined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws: Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria . Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn’t destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn’t, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

“It’s true..those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

“After America , There is No Place to Go”

Please forward this message to other voters who may not have it.

Try Not to Laugh Watching This Video of Nancy Pelosi

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Dems Call to Pass O-Care With Simple Up-or-Down Vote

Sunday, February 28, 2010, 11:38 PM

Jim Hoft

The radicals are going to ram it through…
Democrats called today to pass Obamacare and essentially nationalize one-sixth of the American economy with a simple up-or-down majority vote in the House and Senate.
The AP reported:

The White House called for a “simple up-or-down” vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama’s chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers.

In voicing support for a simple majority vote, White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle signaled Obama’s intention to push the Democratic-crafted bill under Senate rules that would overcome GOP stalling tactics.

Republicans unanimously oppose the Democratic proposals. Without GOP support, Obama’s only chance of emerging with a policy and political victory is to bypass the bipartisanship he promoted during his televised seven-hour health care summit Thursday.

“We’re not talking about changing any rules here,” DeParle said. “All the president’s talking about is: Do we need to address this problem and does it make sense to have a simple, up-or-down vote on whether or not we want to fix these problems?”

DeParle was optimistic that the president would have the votes to pass the massive bill. But none of legislation’s advocates who spoke on Sunday indicated that those votes were in hand.

Here is a website that lists the phone numbers of your Reps and Senators.
It’s time to act.

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"The governors that oppose this ought to propose a constitutional convention according to Article V specifically to reign in the abuse of power of this President and this Congress. Just getting this concept into the dialogue would at least signal that we are mad as hell and coming to the point where we aren’t going to take it anymore. "

 

If you want a clear, concise list of items for your letters and calls to your Congresscritter, check out this IBD editorial, which provides Congressman Ryan’s list from the healthcare conference last week:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=522446
“Rebuttals to Ryan? We’re Still Waiting”

 

Liz Cheney: It’s “Supreme Arrogance” that Dems Say They’re Going to Ram Through Obamacare (Video)

Sunday, February 28, 2010, 5:15 PM

Jim Hoft

Liz Cheney pointed out the “supreme arrogance” of the radicals in Washington today.
Thanks to Media Matters for the video:

Liz Cheney on FOX News Sunday: “You know I think it’s really supreme arrogance frankly. You know you’ve got a situation here where it’s absolutely clear the American people don’t support the bill. It’s absolutely clear they don’t support ramming it through using reconciliation. The Republicans, I agree with Juan, showed up at that summit and laid out very clearly the concerns about the cost of the bill and the substance of what’s in the bill and yet still the White House says we’re going to push this thing through. Speaker Pelosi this morning was out there saying, ‘Go ahead and vote for this even if it’s going to destroy your career– Which it will because the American people do not support it. So, it’s fascinating as a political exercise but it’s dangerous as an exercise in democracy.”

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ED DRISCOLL: “If Our Colleges And Universities Do Not Breed Men Who Riot…”

WHATEVER THEY CAN THINK OF, I’D SAY: What Taxes Will States Turn To Next? The notion of just spending less doesn’t even occur to them. . . "Call me crazy, but why why why don't states consider spending cuts as often as they consider tax increases. People are angry and this just makes them angrier..."

Related: DANIEL HANNAN LEADS 300 British Tea Partiers.

FROM ZOMBIE, a Tea Party anniversary roundup.

MORE:

MOE LANE: Keli Carender and the faintest whiff of panic from the NYT.

Plus, at the WaPo, “a tacit admission that the Tea Parties have pretty much brushed aside the existing, decades-old infrastructure of Lefty activist groups to become the standard by which community activism is judged.”

BRITAIN: OVERDUE FOR A TEA PARTY MOVEMENT. UK Digital Economy Bill will wipe out indie WiFi hotspots in libraries, unis, cafes.

DOG BITES MAN: Eric Boehlert blows it again.

Dead Cat Bounce Alert: Democrats’ Obama Bounce in California Disappearing. “Even Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, widely viewed just six weeks ago as a shoo-in for re-election to a fourth term, now faces the toughest race in her 28 years representing California in Congress.”

Deader Cat Counter-Bounce Alert:

Obama Visit Lost Reid 10% More Voters

February 28th, 2010

From a strangely discreet Las Vegas Review Journal:

What Transparency Looks Like to the Obama White House

...take a look at the CEQ’s response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request issued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in which the Chamber asked for the release of documents relating to agency records on global warming:

 

 

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/02/01/five-decades-of-federal-spending/

 

Think Globally, Act Irrationally: Recycling [oldie but goodie!]

Obama not born in Hawaii nor ever naturalized. He and Zeituni are illegal aliens in gov't housing.

Minnesota State-Funded Muslim School Accused of Intimidating Witnesses

 Affidavits portray TiZA as threatening

 

TELEGRAPH: British Labour Party “Infiltrated” By Islamic Radicals.

 

Rangel Had to Know of Junket's Corporate Sponsorship (& SEE TIMELINE)

REMEMBER, THE STATE IS ALWAYS RIGHT: SWAT Team Endangers Child, Parents Charged With Child Endangerment.

 

 WE CAN'T WISH AWAY CLIMATE CHANGE by Al Gore

Although I started it as documentation of the ClimateGate Swindle, I have plenty about The Coming Ice Age, err, Global Warming, err, Climate Change, err, what we used to call "having seasons," too--

--click the picture, goto the last "page," and scroll back:

"Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked –[epic fraud?]"

Click the picture:

---

And yes, it is a swindle- a fraud and a cheat and a scam-- a deliberately designed construct intended to con you out of things you hold dear-- money, and prosperity, and freedom... and a few other things, as well.

JOHN HINDERAKER ON CLIMATEGATE: The Big Picture.

When Responsibility Doesn’t Pay – welfare always breeds contempt

by Speranza ( 28 Comments › )
Filed under Europe, Politics, Progressives at February 28th, 2010 - 4:30 pm

Take a good look at Europe because that is the direction where we are heading as the entitlement mentality takes precedence.  Unions hold government’s hostage, people do  not believe in hard work, nobody has the incentive to achieve because in the end everyone is to be taken care of, and the most important decision in life is where you will take your 5 weeks vacation. To top it all of – the bureaucracy will decide when you can get that operation. Yes welfare breeds contempt, but it is the contempt that those who are receiving welfare have for those of us who are providing it. Read the rest: When Responsibility Doesn’t Pay

Obama to give Obama new emergency [cyber] powers

Look for the totalitarian control whammy in the Executive Order. There's ALREADY contingency plans and an entire new command in the DoD dedicated to cyber defense. Above and beyond what NSA etc were already doing.
Meanwhile, the Adminstration uses a non-citizen as Cyber-Czar.

http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/06/22/NEWS-Cyber-Command-still-developing.aspx

 

A MAINSTREAM MEME that cannot speak its name.

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Muslim World: The northern tinder box {Is 0bama ready for that 3am call?}

US government rescinds 'leave internet alone' policy...

Pelosi: ‘A Bill Can Be Bipartisan Without Bipartisan Votes’ (video)

Obama Signs Patriot Act Extension: MSM and the Left Silent

Oh Obama, You Silly Neocon!

VIDEO: Sarah Palin Tea Party Speech Zingers (5 minute montage of best moments w/ sound effects)

We Know Democrats Hate Sarah Palin, but Now We Know They Hate Her Down Syndrome Baby, Trig, Too

(Videos) Sarah Palin Endorses GENERATION ZERO

 

Our Educational System's Primary Failure

Education Is Too Important for a Government Monopoly; It's time to let parents choose

Cyber warriors gather as online battles rage

Home sellers finally get real (in pricing their homes)

Too Much Debt, Too Few Jobs

New Bill Would Make Vitamins Too Costly for Your Health [McCain/Dorgan]

VIDEO: SPECTACULAR ERUPTION [on far side of Sun]

 

Fierce storms in Europe kill 51, mostly in France

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The Ruins of Detroit

The I can't Believe I was in Laguna Beach Tea Party (pics)

Funny but makes a dramatic point. Who the hades are these beaurocrats to try and institute that screening mammograms for women are not necessary before age 50. I've known women in their 30's and 40's who have had breast cancer.

Brighton Tea Party packed out (UK)

New White House social secretary is prodigious Obama fund-raiser

 

Nation of Islam's Farrakhan blames 'white right' for Obama woes, predicts more troubles ahead

America, the fragile empire Here today, gone tomorrow -- could the United States fall that fast?

The REAL scoop on Obama's background (IMHO & referenced vanity)

Obama's Middle-Class Meltdown

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT

Fierce storms in Europe kill 51, mostly in France

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The Ruins of Detroit

The I can't Believe I was in Laguna Beach Tea Party (pics)

Funny but makes a dramatic point. Who the hades are these beaurocrats to try and institute that screening mammograms for women are not necessary before age 50. I've known women in their 30's and 40's who have had breast cancer.

Brighton Tea Party packed out (UK)

New White House social secretary is prodigious Obama fund-raiser

 

Nation of Islam's Farrakhan blames 'white right' for Obama woes, predicts more troubles ahead

America, the fragile empire Here today, gone tomorrow -- could the United States fall that fast?

The REAL scoop on Obama's background (IMHO & referenced vanity)

Obama's Middle-Class Meltdown

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT

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Back to the ObamaCare Future (price controls in Massachusetts)

It doesn't even count as an irony that former Governor Mitt Romney (like President Obama) sold this plan as a way to control spending. As with all new entitlements, the rolling cost crisis began almost immediately. For fiscal 2010 taxpayer costs are $47 million over budget, in part due to the recession, and while the $913 million Mr. Patrick requested for 2011 is a 5% increase over 2010, spending has grown on average 6.7% per year.

Meanwhile, average Massachusetts insurance premiums are now the highest in the nation. Since 2006, they've climbed at an annual rate of 30% in the individual market. Small business costs have increased by 5.8%.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...

Obama Believed He’d Reign Like Julius Caesar, But Will He End as Nero?

 

Drug Gangs Taking Over US Public Lands

Mexican drug gangs...

Commercial Real Estate: More Trouble Ahead (Nearly half are at present "underwater")

"And we still have simple minded Americans of both parties that believe King Obama and his corrupt communists are going to save America. Damn fools and believe me when I say we have passed the point years ago of saving America from total collapse. Revolution is on its way...add that Obama is going to add a medicare tax to rental income and increase the capital gains taxes and this year will be ugly."

Health Reform Would Now Fund Still More Abortions

"Is there any reason why people can’t pay for their own damn abortions? It should be paid for as any other elective surgery."

  

 

 

69. Tony: It’s Jimmy Carter all over again...One weak American President leads to decades of mischief and misery...

The Next American Tax Rebellion Has Begun

 

 

We Need Green Money, Not Green Jobs

Obama is Ending Welfare (Reform) as We Know it

Obama is failing and he knows it. He is in crisis. He knows his days are numbered before something removes him from office.

I say the Democrats start aligning for impeachment by summer, 2010.

Remember something...
We are dealing with a President who is a Radical SOCIALIST, who comes from the Chicago Black Radical ACORN Machine, that used to be the National Welfare Rights Organiztion, who’s goal was to sign up so many people on Government assistance that it BANLRUPTED AMERICA, forcing Radical Socialist “Change”

Torpedoing the Blue Water Navy

Five Reasons for Obama Fatigue

CNN catches up to Wenzel Strategies, “discovers” Americans feel threatened by Obama’s Administration

Lessons Learned Limited Chile Quake Damage (Quake was 500 times more powerful than Haiti's)

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To: All

Lead Story

Dems: Screw bipartisanship, full steam ahead on Obamacare hara-kiri

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 1, 2010 09:50 AM

Scroll for updates…GOP Rep. Deal resignation makes House magic number 216….

They’re all in — and they’ve convinced themselves that you do not care about the process. They’ve learned nothing from the Tea Party protests, the town hall revolts, or the Massachusetts election. The White House/Democrat message: Screw you!

The White House called for a “simple up-or-down” vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama’s chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers.

In voicing support for a simple majority vote, White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle signaled Obama’s intention to push the Democratic-crafted bill under Senate rules that would overcome GOP stalling tactics.

Republicans unanimously oppose the Democratic proposals. Without GOP support, Obama’s only chance of emerging with a policy and political victory is to bypass the bipartisanship he promoted during his televised seven-hour health care summit Thursday.

“We’re not talking about changing any rules here,” DeParle said. “All the president’s talking about is: Do we need to address this problem and does it make sense to have a simple, up-or-down vote on whether or not we want to fix these problems?”

DeParle was optimistic that the president would have the votes to pass the massive bill. But none of legislation’s advocates who spoke on Sunday indicated that those votes were in hand.

You remember DeParle as the overseer of the White House’s infamous Internet snitch brigade. More importantly, I’ve filled you in on her career as a Clinton-era health care bureaucrat-turned-corporate cash cow-turned Obama health czar in Culture of Corruption.

None of her lucrative corporate ties were mentioned, of course, as she posed as a crusading industry-basher on Meet the Press this weekend:

MS. DePARLE: I believe that the president will keeping fighting and that the American people want to have this kind of health reform.

MR. GREGORY: But you don’t have the votes yet?

MS. DePARLE: Well, look, the president will have more to say about that later this week, and he’s working with the Congress on how best to address that.

MR. GREGORY: Has he made a decision, especially given the results of this summit, that you’ve got to move forward with reconciliation, just go for a simple majority and, you know, losing the opportunity to try to bring some Republicans along?

MS. DePARLE: Well, look, he’s going to have more to say later this week about how he thinks is the best way to move forward. But I think what it’s important to remember here is that we have some fundamental problems with our insurance markets. We have insurance companies sending out premium increases of 39 percent out in California. These are problems that need to be fixed, and the president hears every day from Americans who are hurting because of that.

MR. GREGORY: Right. OK. But fixing those problems, you have to get through procedure to get there, and I’ve been told by several people the decision has been made. It’s reconciliation, go for the simple majority, or else the reforms you’re talking about simple won’t be possible.

MS. DePARLE: Well, I don’t know about that. But I do know this. The healthcare reform has already passed both the House and the Senate with not only a majority in the Senate but a super majority, and we’re not talking about changing any rules here. All the president is talking about is, do we need to address this problem and, and does it make sense to have a simple up or down vote on whether or not we want to fix these problems?

MR. GREGORY: A lot of talk at the summit about where public opinion is. And, and here’s one poll from CNN Opinion Research about how Congress should proceed, a similar bill, a new bill, or stop working on the bill. Nearly three-quarters of the public saying either start over or stop working. I wonder if you respond to Senator McCain who says the “unsavory deals,” in his words, that were made by this administration with pharmaceutical companies, the insurance companies, really hurt the president’s effort overall?

MS. DePARLE: Well, first of all, I’m not sure what he’s talking about with deals with insurance companies. If you’ve watched your network or any others, you’ve seen a lot of the ads they’re running to try to stop reform. And I think we know why. I think we know that right now insurance companies are making the rules and that’s part of what the president’s…

MR. GREGORY: Right.

MS. DePARLE: …trying to change. So…

MR. GREGORY: But they did agree to more regulation and to allow people with previous, you know, prior conditions, because they’d get access to a wider of market of people who would be insured.

MS. DePARLE: I don’t know that they agreed to anything.

MR. GREGORY: There was a deal with pharmaceutical companies.

MS. DePARLE: I think…

MR. GREGORY: There was a deal with the senator from Nebraska…

MS. DePARLE: Well…

MR. GREGORY: …and deals for Louisiana and Florida’s both with regard to Medicaid.

MS. DePARLE: And let’s, let’s, let’s talk about that. The, the Medicaid provisions in the president’s proposal that he put out last week are not the same ones. And, in fact, all states are treated the same with respect to Medicaid. But the more important question, David, is are we going to move forward here or just start over? What is that really code for?

MR. GREGORY: Right.

MS. DePARLE: Is that, is that just code for let’s not do anything? And I don’t think that’s what the American people want. That’s not the people that I’m hearing from every day.

MR. GREGORY: But where’s the evidence–the, the president has said that Americans don’t want to wait. But you see the poll that I just showed, and I’m asking where, where’s the evidence that Americans don’t want to wait, that they really want to move forward? The only protests you’ve seen publicly are on the right in opposition to the bill. Is it a problem of apathy among those who support it or is it not really there?

MS. DePARLE: No. I think it’s a problem partly of who has the power in this whole equation, and I think that’s part of the president’s fighting for is that, right now, the people that he hears from every day–I get notes from him about people that he’s hearing from when he’s there out talking to them and the letters he gets–who can’t get insurance coverage because their child has a pre-existing condition. They have asthma, they can’t change jobs, their premiums are skyrocketing. So I leave the polls to others. What the problem he’s asked me to work on is to try to get the best, most effective way we can to help Americans who are dealing with these problems.

MR. GREGORY: Right.

MS. DePARLE: The small business people who…

MR. GREGORY: But you can’t…

MS. DePARLE: …can’t afford to keep providing coverage.

MR. GREGORY: But you can’t separate the lack of public support for an effort as you move forward on, on the policy. Can this be passed through Congress without support from the American people?

MS. DePARLE: I think there is support.

This is the new strategy of the Dems — to keep repeating out loud that they have the support and they have the votes (even as they urge their members to commit health care hara-kiri and go down with the ship against the will of their constituents).

Pelosi is looking into her mirror and into the cameras and repeating: I have the votes.

They are counting on wearing down their opponents, catching them off-guard, and taking their silence as consent.

As year two of the Tea Party movement begins, job number one is to stop the Obamacare juggernaut, restore true deliberation to the deliberative process, and revoke the consent of the governed to the backroom deals and generational theft being crammed down our throats in the name of compassion and “reform.”

Call your congressional rep. Pound the pavement. Make yourselves heard. Again and again.

***

Update: I’ve been hearing from some very irate Georgia readers about this all morning…

An e-mail alert from Congress Daily:

Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Ga., announced today he will resign from Congress to devote his “full energies” to the governor’s race, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. One of seven Republicans seeking the GOP nomination for governor, Deal will step down from the House next Monday.

The earliest Deal would be replaced is probably late July, when Georgia holds its 2010 primary election.

Among other things, this means ObamaCare is one vote closer to passage. Democrats will now need only 216 votes in the House for a majority, and there is one less “no” vote. By Rep. Eric Cantor’s whip count, though, Democrats are probably more than ten votes short — for now.

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The Kool Aide Has Turned To Poison, Will The Democrats Still Drink It?

 

"Anyone who signs this bill should be tried for treason and imprisoned for the rest of his/her life. "

 

For everyone thats interested here is something:
http://www.onlinetaxrevolt.com/join/

 

Rangel to keep gavel in most ethical Congress evah.

 

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

Andrew Klavan on getting beyond the easy stereotypes.

Rand Simberg on commercial spaceflight safety.

A Tea Party Anniversary roundup.

Sexism from Suze Orman.

The growing threat of antibiotic resistant infections.

Five decades of federal spending.

Internet bullying backfires again.

Old media depend on new media for tsunami coverage.

Tom Smith fails to resist temptation.

Insiders, outsiders and unemployment.

Male reproductive rights.

On the occasion of his ethics slapdown, re-saluting Charlie Rangel.

George Soros got nothin’ on me.

Standing room only at British Tea Party rally.

quake photos from Chile.

CHILEAN QUAKE a warning to U.S. Northwest.

Y2Kyoto: The Gore Effect

Now is the time at SDA when we can only stand in awe....

New York Times, Feb.27th - It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

New York City, Feb.27th - A winter storm that pummeled New York City for two days broke a monthly record for snowfall in Central Park that stood for 114 years, according to the National Weather Service.

Posted by Kate at 12:48 PM| Comments (20)

 

Obama To Dramatically Reduce US Nukes

March 1st, 2010

From a giddy New York Times:

Huh. Here we thought the one blessing of the atomic age was that that the potential for nuclear annihilation would curb conventional warfare.

We must have been wrong about that.

Apparently, conventional wars aren’t so bad, after all.

By the way, where are we going to put all of the nuclear waste from these retired weapons?

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"Well, here is what we can say with certainty.

Nobody older than 17 is stupid enough to believe that other countries will disarm because we do. "

Question: Is Parkinsons’ Tested for in a Physical?

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Obama drinking, Obama medical records, Obama Parkinsons;, Obama smoking |
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In all that garbage left after the Inauguration, can anyone find Mary's medical records?

The White House released a blurb about the current president’s physical, where doctors told him to stop smoking and to start moderating how much he drinks at all those cocktail parties (over 300 so far) that are forever being thrown in “The People’s House” (which, frankly, seems more like Sidetracks by the way these people carry on).

We wonder if Parkinsons’ is tested for in these physicals.

We’ve had physicals before, and the doctors don’t test for everything under the sun, like Parkinsons’, at those things.

But, would someone who has Parkinsons’ be told to quit smoking and stop drinking so damn much?

Anyone with experience or knowledge who can shed some light on this?

March 1, 2010 at 3:35 pm

I posted a similar comment on another thread, but are you SURE he has Parkinson’s? If the person who saw Obama’s medication saw Deprenyl(which is used to treat Parkinsons), he may be using that to quit smoking.

Obama Liberation Movement

by coldwarrior ( 111 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Liberal Fascism, Progressives at March 1st, 2010 - 7:00 am

Submitted 26FEB2010

Speranza’s post on Obama’s destruction of the special relationship between the UK and US got me thinking. What is Obama trying to do? Why is he governing this way? His style seems so familiar. Sure, he’s a progressive, some would use stronger words like fascists or communist to describe him. His record indicates he is an affirmative-action promotion all the way through college into public life. He has been repeatedly promoted many times well over his abilities; get the promotion and look for the next gig and ride that white-guilt gravy train all the way to the top. He could alleviate some of this perception by showing some of his college and professorial writings; or maybe had he voted something other than ‘present’ over and over again there could be a real record to look at. But none of this really explains why he governs the way he does. Perhaps the explanation is that he is from the mold of the African Liberation Movements of the 1960’s forward.

...Destroy the system with its own hand. Print as much money as you can, ignore the will of the people, trample the ideals that built this country. The goal is to forever weaken the perceived evil, the unfair country, the target of loathing in the progressive mind,”Fundamentally Change America”.

"Barack Hussein Mugabe, mmmm mmmm mmmm..."

“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

Michelle Obama campaign speach @ UCLA.

Barack envisioned as an effing African potentate.

Democrats Rally Around Idea That They Have to Pass Unpopular Legislation to Prove They Can "Govern"

—Ace

This thinking is simply wrong. It's the claim of archliberals and Obama cultists (the two are mostly overlapping groups) who wish to influence skeptics and moderates to vote in favor of political suicide.

Obama and the leftist partisans have been pushing ObamaCare on us for a full year now. The public has listened to the arguments and understands the basic parameters of the deal -- and has rejected it, not only by 60% majorities in polls, but by a watershed election in Massachusetts. Not to mention New Jersey and Virginia.

The public doesn't want this bill. Passing it would not be proof that Democrats can "govern." Passing it would instead by proof they can't govern-- at least not govern in a manner that the majority of the public finds acceptable.

When Bill Clinton was dealt a setback in 1994, he proved he could govern by pursuing a more moderate course, as he'd promised in the campaign but quickly forgot about after his inauguration. That was actually a stab at governing in a broadly-acceptable (if still left-leaning) manner.

This current notion -- that to "govern," a party must exercise pure transitory political power in the face of stiff resistance from the public -- has liberals all wild-eyed. They like this formulation because it achieves two things:

1) It allows them to continue cheerleading for their boyfriend-hero Obama without considering other consequences, and it does that by...

2) Positing that there are no trade-offs involved here. Liberals love pretending their are no trade-offs in life. It makes things so much simpler to claim that not only is torture wrong, torture also only results in false information. And so once again they come up with a fantasy formulation, in which Democrats not only vote the way their Liberal True Believers wish them to, but profit from it politically, because, somehow, the public becomes impressed with their ability to "govern," also known as "defying their clearly-expressed wishes."

Any rational person would conclude that passing this bill is politically disastrous, but Obama's SuperFans don't want to acknowledge that. They don't want to acknowledge that a "win" for Obama here means a big loss for liberals down the law. They are talking themselves crazy into buying the proposition it's pure win-win. (Or "Win-Win-Win," as Michael Scott says.)

It's bad enough that James Carville is now propagating this lunacy. Yes, Carville is a partisan liberal, but he's also a partisan liberal, if you know what I mean -- he's a pollster, and understands hard numbers, and should understand that ObamaCare can badly hurt the Democrats for years to come. He should be warning Democrats off this abortion.

But he's not. He says health care might be Obama's Waterloo, but phrases it in the win-win sort of way that leftist lunatics are so bewitched by:

On 'GMA' this morning, James Carville wasn't as optimistic as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Not sure that Democrats have the votes to pass the President's plan, Carville is sure that failure will be the "Waterloo" predicted by GOP Senator Jim DeMint. “If it goes down" Carville said, "it’s gonna be a simple statement: the Democrats can’t govern. They came in with a majority promising health care and they came away with nothing.”

They came in with a majority promising very vague health care reforms, and furthermore promising that such reforms would cost those with insurance nothing -- that it would even put money in the pockets of those with insurance, by reducing premium costs while increasing the standard of care.

That last part has been exposed as the lie it always was. Obama had a "mandate," to the extent he had one at all, to pass a purely fantasy have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too health care reform that delivered everything while costing nothing. That reform doesn't exist -- as it never existed. So what mandate does he have to pass a reform that does cost 80% of the public something in the form of higher taxes, higher premiums, or reduced care?

As I said: A partisan but rational liberal should be making the case against this. But Carville's not -- the liberal base is too passionate about giving Barack Hussein Obama his all-important "momentum" and his stupid America-wounding victory to care about long- or even (mid-) term consequences. He can't speak honestly about this, just as Lawrence O'Donnell said of liberals a month ago: They are not free to speak the truth; they would be punished too much for daring to tell liberals that No, they can't ram an unpopular bill down the public's throat and remain popular with the public.

I've also noticed this change in Chris Matthews. Immediately after Scott Brown's election, he was arguing with Alan Grayson that reconciliation was virtually impossible with this bill, and that he ought to think realistically about Democrats' precarious political situation.

But now he's back on Team Obama, arguing that the Democrats must pass this, damn the consequences, just to prove they can "govern."

Dangerous. I'm getting worried again.

"They're Driving Themselves Crazy:" That's how Bill Kristol characterized liberals' talk of becoming even more out-and-proud liberal after their defeat in the 2002 polls. They convinced themselves that the path back to power lay not in moderation, but in being more overtly, honestly, and passionately leftist.

They did in fact pursue that course, sort of -- liberals became more liberals. But they only won Congressional seats because they nominated a bunch of centrists who could compete in red and purple states.

And Barack Obama won in 2008 because he was, the media insisted, a moderate -- more moderate than Hillary Clinton, and even closer to the center than noted firebrand ideologue John McCain.

Nevertheless, when liberals get into political trouble, their third course of action is always to convince themselves they just need to be more liberal.*

And recent history shows this isn't just talk.

* Their first course of action is to blame their candidates and call them incompetent -- putting the blame on the messenger, not the message -- and the second course of action is to blame the public for being too stupid to understand what they were saying.

Posted by Ace at 03:50 PM New Comments Thingy

2 Acting just to prove they can govern sounds like a tyrant randomly killing people to prove he is in control...

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Obama Plans to Eliminate ‘Thousands’ of U.S. Nuclear Warheads(How long until U.S. to be undefended?)

"Fistbump Baby!"

OBAMA’S AMERICA RESEMBLES DETROIT

LIST OF ISLAMIC ATTACKS AGAINST AMERICA…before 9/11

Some people ignore that Islamics have been attacking the United States long before September 11, 2001
(link).
Here is just a sampling:
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis: seizure of US Tehran Embassy, Iran (Nov 4, 1979 for 444 days)
1983 Bombing of US Beirut Embassy, Lebanon (April 18, 1983)
1983 Bombing of US Marine barracks, Beirut, Lebanon (Oct 23, 1983)
1983 Bombing of US Kuwait Embassy (Dec 12, 1983)
1984 Bombing of US Beirut Embassy (again) (Sept 20, 1984)
1984 Kuwait Airlines Flight 221 hijacked to Tehran - American passengers murdered (Dec 3, 1984)
1985 Hijacking TWA Flight 847 hijacked to Beirut (June 14, 1985)
1985 Hijacking cruise ship Achille Lauro, wheelchair-bound American is thrown overboard & killed (Oct 7, 1985)
1986 Bombing Berlin disco frequented by US servicemen (April 5, 1986)
1988 Bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, 100's murdered (Dec 21, 1988)
1993 First bombing World Trade Center, New York City, 7 Killed, 1,042 wounded (Feb 26, 1993)
1993 Foiled NY Landmarks plot by Omar Abdel Rahman to blow up the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and other New York City landmarks
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr. during visit to Kuwait (April 14, 1993)
1993 Black Hawk Down: shot down US helicopters in Mogadishu, Somalia, during Operation Restore Hope (Oct 3-4, 1993)
1994 Plot to assassinate President Clinton during visit to the Philippines
1995 Failed Project Bojinka by Ramzi Yousef to blow up a dozen US airliners over the Pacific (end in Jan 1995)
1995 Bombing US military headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Nov 13, 1995)
1996 Bombing Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, housing U.S. foreign military personnel (Jun 25, 1996)
1998 Bombing U.S. Nairobi Embassy, Kenya, Africa (Aug 7, 1998)
1998 Bombing U.S. Dar es Salaam Embassy, Tanzania, Africa (Aug 7, 1998)
1999 Foiled LAX Millennium plot by Ahmed Ressam to bomb Los Angeles International Airport
(Ressam was arrested at US Canadian border)
2000 Failed USS The Sullivans bombing that was refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen. (Jan 3, 2000)
2000 Bombing USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, 17 U.S. Navy sailors murdered (Oct 12, 2000)
(The USS Cole was not engaged in any combat during this period)
2000 Bombing plaza across from US Manila Embassy (Dec 30, 2000)
2001 9/11 attacks: World Trade Center, Flight 93, Pentagon, 3000+ murdered (Sept 11, 2001)

Where's the birth certificate?

Angry white racist rednecks filled with rage and fear

"After this, no one is going to let any black NEAR the White House for a century. Longer. I don’t doubt that Obama had a great chance to really prove that a black man could run this great country and he smashed it. "

Does President Obama even Understand Insurance ?

American Optimism Based on People not Politicians

The green jobs myth

Obama Now Underwater In Every Bush-State He Flipped to Blue in 2008

—Ace

I got a little pissed at myself last week for posting poll-post after poll-post. I wrote to Laura my funk is caused by their being less genuine news lately -- health care is basically now like Iran, as they busily continue building the bomb and we seem unable to stop them. And sort of have to just trust they're not completely insane.

I don't post stuff about Iran anymore because nothing has changed in this basic dynamic since the war in Iraq went sour and it became clear the American public had little appetite for any further warfare.

Anyway, health care sort of became like that. I thought the reconciliation thing was pure fan-service for the nutroots. Now I think they're really going to try it, with a real effort to actually succeed. (As opposed to "trying" with the starting intention of failing and saying, "Hey, we tried.")

Polling is sort of like that too. But here's a somewhat interesting if somewhat predictable twist on the polls:

Barack Obama now has a negative approval rating in every state he flipped from the Bush column to his in 2008. In each of those places his level of support is now in the 44-46% range. It’s probably a good thing he doesn’t have to run for reelection this year. He can only hope things start turning around for him once the midterms are in the rear view mirror, much as they did for Bill Clinton.

Posted by Ace at 05:29 PM New Comments Thingy

 

75

Yeah,

this one needs to be beaten down. All the stops need to be pulled; this IS the hill that is worth dying on.

I strongly believe that once legislation like this is passed, it never goes away. And I think the Dems know that it's better to ask for forgiveness later than to let this chance go away. Everyone says there will be a huge uprising and backlash if this is passed. I'm not so sure. Everyone is sick to death of it, of hearing about it, and of fighting it. People may be getting angrier, but maybe some are ready to throw up their hands.

 The MSM would laud passage of the bill as a great accomplishment. Whatever tiny crumbs are in the bill about malpractice or crossing state lines would be portrayed as gracious concessions and evidence of bi-partisanship by a strong President trying to do the right thing.

Our side would bitch and moan, loudly for sure; but to try to repeal it when the MSM is presenting the Republican position as trying to overturn good, socially conscious  legislation that was passed after a hard but fair and square fight? Not so easy. And do we really trust the 52% who elected him not to change their minds again and decide, "Gee, what was everyone so mad about, anyway? He's a good guy, it's not all that bad." 

Kill it now, burn it, and salt the earth from where it came.

Are We Tired of Obama?

—Dave In Texas

Yes. We are weary of him.

In a year we've endured the sublime rhetoric of his awesomeness, his amazing ability to do absolutely nothing, his appointments, his speeches, his appeals to his mandate.

And we've already grown tired of him. We Americans I mean. In one year.

In my lifetime, I have not witnessed this particular type of popularity cratering since Jimmy Carter. When Carter actually began to govern, with his milquetoast "sweater" admonitions and style, the nation cooled to him faster than penguins on ice.

He is still appealing to his personality and amazingness, to pass the most godawful piece of legislation to hit the pike, perhaps even as a "hey Hillary, here's how it's done" ramshackle FU to the majority of Americans who want no part of this garbage.

Ace has mentioned my concern, that given this confluence of events, the opposition is taking the long view, and the long view is "pass this piece of shit, it secures our future".

I would like to be wrong. I've been wrong twice today.

Don't think I'm wrong about this though.

tip from the Man of Substance

Posted by Dave In Texas at 04:43 PM New Comments Thingy

 

112 I think he is a one termer no matter what. After this first god awful year people will tell themselves: "I already proved I wasn't racist once".

 

‘America’s Coming For You, Congress!’: Tea Party Activists Explain Billboard Politics (video)

This secretive agenda must be taken seriously

Radical Muslims, in their unguarded moments, are unrepentant about what they believe to be their religious duty: the replacement of secular, tolerant and liberal democracy in Britain by a rigid theocracy, in which the country is governed by Islamic law...But it would be wrong to dismiss the extremists as insignificant...at least one such group has infiltrated parts of the Labour Party, and has taken over important aspects of the running of the London borough of Tower Hamlets.

If the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) was open about its aims, voters would be able to make up their own minds about whether they wanted its members in any form of government...But some members of the IFE demonstrate in private that they have an agenda that they are not willing to share...They have demonstrated that they are unwilling to abide by the procedures which are essential if elections are to be free and fair...Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Tower Hamlets, believes that the party has been infiltrated by radical Muslims...The IFE denies any such campaign. But its denials would be more credible if, in public, the IFE was not presented as simply a "social welfare organisation" while in private, it shows itself to be committed to replacing democracy by a theocracy based on Islamic law.

...Tony Blair ended up with no illusions about the degree to which extremist Islamic organisations could be expected to be committed to the values of secular democracy. But since Mr Brown came to power, both the Government's policies and its ministers have changed with bewildering speed. The one constant has been the provision of millions of pounds to organisations such as the IFE, in the hope that this will help prevent violent extremism. There has never been any good evidence this is effective...

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...

Spanish court says Venezuela helped ETA, FARC

Zapatero, Obama and Hugo are birds of a feather.

 

Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line

 

Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A.

Food-stamp fraud: Detroit-area stores swipe millions from aid program

More Guns, Less Crime (DC Murder Rate Drops 25%)

The loooooong road to regaining trust? ( AGW Scientists have much work to do )

FLASKBACK 2008 ClimateGate

Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes

Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A.

Food-stamp fraud: Detroit-area stores swipe millions from aid program

More Guns, Less Crime (DC Murder Rate Drops 25%)

The loooooong road to regaining trust? ( AGW Scientists have much work to do )

FLASKBACK 2008 ClimateGate

Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes

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Hopi

Changi:

RE-REALIGNMENT: Poll: Obama Approval Rating Now Negative In Every Red State That Flipped in 2008.

 

POLITICS GETTING UGLY: Jules Witcover takes a by any means necessary approach to health care, (“In any event, the political risk to Mr. Obama of appearing to be an inept leader cannot be underestimated if he fails to achieve the primary legislative goal to which he devoted his first year in office. He needs to employ whatever means are available to him now to get it.”) and Bill Quick responds in kind.

As a remedy, I recommend Bill Whittle quoting Lincoln. But stick around for the rest.

Posted at 5:13 pm by Glenn Reynolds 

 

"dr. anthrax" -- cross-dresser, fetishist, and ... zero voter [!!]

 

BROOKLYN D.A. SAYS “NO CRIMINALITY” IN ACORN TAPES, and ACORN is playing the victim card. But “not technically a felon” doesn’t really make them look much better, since they were clearly willing to assist.

 

KINDA DIFFERENT FROM THE “TEA PARTY” COVERAGE: Soft-focus reporting on the “coffee party.” Plus, from Allah, “Exit observation: I’m getting a distinct ‘beta male’ vibe from this group. Does that mean I have to root for them?”

UPDATE: Reader Aaron G. emails:

So the New York Times article describes the Coffee Party’s origin thus:

“The snowballing response made her the de facto coordinator of Coffee Party USA, with goals far loftier than its oopsy-daisy origin: promote civility and inclusiveness in political discourse, engage the government not as an enemy but as the collective will of the people, push leaders to enact the progressive change for which 52.9 percent of the country voted in 2008.”

Except the woman mentioned as starting it-Annabel Park-is not some Jane Shmo who got thrust into it by accident, she’s a career activist. A fact that is not exactly hidden either. The first results for her name on google bring up her Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/annabelpark .

Spoiler: the only private sector work listed is “Strategy Analyst: The New York Times”

Oops.

Double OOPS:  Revealed: Media’s Phony Tea Party Leader Is a Phony Soldier Too. “Even Mother Jones reported in January that Dale Robertson is not and never was a tea party leader and that the mainstream media had ‘lost its edge’ in linking Robertson to the movement. But, that didn’t stop liberal media hacks from repeating the lie that Robertson was a leader in the Tea Party movement.”

 

The latest on the Holder/DOJ national security cover-up

March 1, 2010 12:20 PM by Michelle Malkin

Conservative media outlets continue to chip away at the Holder stonewall on government-subsidized terror lawyers working at the DOJ.

Quin Hilyer at the Washington Times sums up the latest and asks the questions that need to be asked:

Over at The American Spectator, the mysterious Prowler breaks new ground not just on the identities of the Justice Department lawyers who may have done (perfectly legal) work for suspected-terrorist detainees, but on why DoJ has been so unwilling to release any information on the issue. In particular, this is news to me:

Ironically, say DOJ sources, while Holder and his staff continue to work hard to protect the identities of those attorneys who provided legal advice to suspected or convicted terrorists, several of the attorneys in question are believed to have been instrumental in the efforts of Human Rights Watch and CREW to leak to the media and Democrat supporters on Capitol Hill, the names of CIA interrogators of enemy combatants and suspected terrorists, as well as the locations of foreign-based U.S. secure holding facilities and various interrogation techniques used on terror suspects and enemy combatants.

Wow. And wow again. If these people are leaking the CIA names, they are clearly engaged in illegal activity, bordering on treasonous in the non-legal sense of the word. For that matter, where have all the lefties been who screamed bloody murder when Robert Novak and Richard Armitage innocently leaked the name of utterly desk-bound, high-profile, arguably not even covert Valerie Plame? Inadvertently leaking Plame’s name is far less of an offense than deliberately leaking the info about the CIA interrogators. Where are the calls for prosecutions? Where is the almighty Patrick Fitzgerald to put some more skins on the wall?

Cue the sound of chirping crikets…

41 Comments

 

"Sounds like treason to me...If it can be proved these lawyers did leak this information, these people should be in prison...Except they are the people who would have to prosecute themselves. Dictatorships have benefits…"

 

"There is so much corruption in this administration that I expect it to implode under its own tangles web of lies and deceit."

 

The Naked Progressive [Darleen Click]

No sooner than I had written on the conspicuous absence of Al Gore since the debut of ClimateGate, then he pops up on the pages of the NYTimes.

Al Gore speechifying is boring enough, but his writing is guaranteed to cause somnolence mere sentences in. However, wading through the drivel, that alternates between bullying and whining, one finds interesting nuggets. Great fiskings of the whole column by Jules Crittenden and Ace.

What stands out, though, apart from the whole Anthropogenic Global Warming hysteria, is the quote above. It’s a Gore throw-away line near the end of his column, but it reveals the essence, the raison d’être, of modern “Progressives” and why their principles are unAmerican.

Note, now, I’m not calling Progressives unpatriotic. While some Progressives may, indeed, “hate” America and wish its harm, I’m sure the majority of them would profess love of America. But their principles are not American principles. Progressives yearn for the transformation of America into their utopia, even though it is at odds with the principles of the Founding Fathers. Gore’s quote is just a distillation of what Obama said in 2001

[T]he Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution … the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement…

Obama advocates Government free of the Constitution and Gore wants to use The Rule of Law as an Government wielded instrument of redemption.

This is also what is so particularly galling about the Progressive’s use of the phrases social justice and economic justice; they have hijacked words which have a particular meaning in the context of American principles totally at odds with Progressive principles.

Engage in conversation with an average American who took a basic high school civics course (say 20 or more years ago) about Rule of Law and justice and basically you’ll get back an allusion to Lady Justice. Law as Constitutionally enacted, Constitutionally conforming, applicable to all individuals, applied and enforced without prejudice. Rule of Law as a minimal line of behavior beyond which an individual cannot cross.

Rule of Law as a floor under individuals; not a ceiling to be imposed on groups of Government hand-picked losers. For the Progressive, Lady Justice wears blinders and her thumb is on the scale for those in the Progressive’s good graces.

Al Gore’s choice of the word “redemption,” too, is not accidental. Progressives are hostile to religion in general, Western Judeo-Christianity in particular, because it is competition. To an American, “redemption”, is a private religious event, voluntarily entered into. It implies the freedom of moral agency. It is the realm of non-government, religious community. Again, like Rule of Law, redemption for the Progressive is a top-down, collective set of behavioral rules. Progressives would have Americans believe that the religious community, with no power but voluntary persuasion, is oppressive and should be abandoned, even legislated against. But the Progressive would have Government step into the void and enact behavioral rules through law, enforced by guns.

Over and over again, this fundamental difference between American Liberty and Progressive Statism is revealed. However, as we witnessed in the so-called Obama Healthcare Summit at Blair House, Progressives are not interested in supporting individual empowerment and they readily use the language of Americans to mean what they want it to mean. Witness the spectacle of Nancy Pelosi attempting to say TEA Partiers are just like me!

This is the case of the Purloined Letter, Progressives lay out their dogma in plain sight but depend on how their choice of words play in American ears to cloud their agenda.

Posted by Darleen @ 7:39 am
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Pelosi Gives Herself an “A” For Her Disastrous 2009 Performance (Video)

Monday, March 1, 2010, 8:01 PM

Jim Hoft

Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats tripled the national deficit in one year in 2009. They will almost certainly top that this year.

The unemployment rate soared to a record 9.7%.

Speaker Pelosi was asked yesterday to grade her performance in 2009.
She gave herself an A.

The Note reported:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave herself an “A” for effort, grading her performance in office. In a “This Week” interview, Speaker Pelosi told ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas, “I think I get an A for effort. And in the House of Representatives, my mark is the mark of our members. We have passed every piece of legislation that is part of the Obama agenda.”

Asked why nearly 300 bills passed by the House are stalled in the Senate, Pelosi blamed the “delaying tactics of the Republicans in the Senate.”

Like Pelosi, Obama gave himself a “Good Solid B+” for his disastrous year.

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"She speaks like a...  caricature of herself."

 

Question: Do doctors ever tell anyone but raging alcoholics to “moderate their alcohol intake”?

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Do doctors tell people to moderate alcohol intake?, Knock it off with the boozing, Obama's drinking problem |
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Just how much does Mary drink if doctors tell him to knock it the Hell off?

We have had very limited contact with doctors our entire lives, blessed with relatively good health and a considered lack of any major injuries. But, during spells when any of us have had health insurance, we’ve all had physical exams done, and at none of those visits did doctors tell any of us to moderate our alcohol intake.

We asked around yesterday, in a little email round robin to friends, if any of them had ever had a doctor, during a physical, tell them to start moderating their alcohol intake.

Only one of them ever had a doctor tell him this, and it’s because he is a raging drunk.  Not an alcoholic, because he doesn’t accept he has a problem, but he’s a man who spends his entire Friday paycheck by early Monday morning, boozing and coking it up in the trendiest bars in the Loop.  His face is forever splotchy.  He’s fully sober two or three days a year, tops.  The man’s a day trader and works from home, and does relatively well for himself, thinking his drinking helps keep him loose enough to handle all the pressure of those stock trades.  He fools a lot of people into believing he’s alright, but not his doctor.

The doctor knows he’s an alcoholic, and tells him every time he sees him to stop drinking so damn much.  Of course, the doctor puts this in a more judicious way.

IN FACT, the doctor says it the same way it’s apparently been said to our current president:  moderate your alcohol intake.

That, to us, means Dr. Utopia’s weekly cocktail parties in the White House, and general nonstop party atmosphere, is having a bigger effect on him than the White House wants to admit.

Do people with Parkinsons’ drink and smoke heavily to mask or mitigate the symptoms?

What effect does alcohol abuse and heavy smoking have on someone with Parkinsons’?

"I don’t begrudge the man his vices — it’s still a free country — but stop trying to tell everybody else how to behave."

 

Setting up a revocable living trust to purchase NFA /Class 3 weapons

 

The ATF's Form 4 requires a senior LEO sign off on your tax stamp application, as a way of vetting you / your application. Even in Shall Issue / Class3-legal states (most of the nation) there are often big city or urban or (il)liberal county officials who will NOT sign, even though you are clearly within your rights to own such firearms.

So the answer is to create a Trust / legal entity, which the ATF accepts as lawful applicant and owner, and which the local authorities have NO SAY in approving (or blocking).   After that, you've got your tax stamp paperwork and whatever item you chose to purchase under it, be it machinegun or suppressor.

Read more here -

http://www.arizonagunlist.com/How_to_buy_NFA_class3_weapons_with_a_revocable_living_trust_without_a_CLEO_signoff.html

 

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Hundreds of regulatory bodies under scrutiny by Gov. Christie (woohoo!)

This needs to be done at local, state, and federal levels all across the country...

I will never forget, when my Mom was dying and we were desperate to get help- any kind of help- paying the bills, driving all around and all across my city and county, looking for an agency to help us out.

What did I find?

No help, anywhere, but at least one-fourth to one-third of the office buildings county and city wide were staffed not with private businesses- but with “authorities...”

And “agencies”— of various governmental bodies.

Lit, heated, staffed with people ( who, no doubt, had their own medical plans and retirement plans, paid for with our tax dimes... ) who generated nothing but more paperwork.

Let’s try an experiment- cut government by half— 50%- and see what happens.

Bet you won’t see any difference except an improvement.

Gov't Dependents: The New Majority

"Hope" ya like that "change"--

More young adults moving back in with parents

Tar

Feathers

Blanche

 

Some assembly required:

Blanche Lincoln gets protested while filing in Arkansas Video Footage

Editorial: The Great Global Warming Hoax? ( Some good technical facts )

The First Rule of Fighting Climate Change: Don't Talk About Climate Change

Jihad and Black Nationalism and Islamic USAfrica and Obama

States May Ban Credit Checks on Job Applicants

( Dutch ) Mayor: Moroccan Teenage Criminals ( Da Yutes! Again... ) are "Internal Enemy"

THE FBI VERSUS THE KLAN

Let the disarming of America Begin!

Obama Seeking Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament

Obama's Virtual Colonoscopy

Givin' one to Ø-Merica...

Coffee Party Is Grassroots? How About Astroturf! (Started By A Pro-Obama, Pro-Democrat Party Person?

Mark Levin: Obama 'Biggest Disaster in Modern American History'

The Fall of Barack Obama

I Told You So (Lynn Forester de Rothschild on Obama)

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I "hope" you like that "change," Ø-Merica...

Napolitano : People tied to Terrorism Could ‘Potentially’ Enter USA, Thousands Already Have

Forbes: Democrat states giving new meaning to red white and blue as they steadily disintegrate

Obama's Drop (negative approval in every purple state)

A Blizzard Of Lies From Al Gore

Climate Fraud: Al Gore resurfaces in an op-ed to say that nobody's perfect, everybody makes mistakes and climate change is still real. And he has some oceanfront property in the Himalayas to sell you.

If hyperbole and chutzpah had a child, it would be the opening paragraph of Gore's op-ed in Sunday's New York Times. Gore surfaced from the global warming witness-protection program to opine that despite admissions of error and evidence of fraud by various agencies, we still face "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."

Perhaps he's trying to protect his investments as he knows them, for he is heavily involved in enterprises that deal with carbon offsets and green technology. If the case for climate change is shown to be demonstrably false, a lot of his green evaporates like moisture from the ocean.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...

When the conditions are ripe for a total takeover

When the conditions are ripe for a total takeover Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just announced that the Obama Administration would be working hand in glove with the UN to pass a new Small Arms Treaty designed to register, ban and confiscate firearms owned by private citizens.

VPC invents bizarre new justification to ban 'assault weapons'

Gun rights becoming mainstream

Upward Bound Is Down… Radical Sexual Indoctrination of Kids Is In

Health 'reformers' in wonderland

The Media, Extremists and Conspiracies, Part One

Why I Left Liberalism #5 - They Think We're Stupid: Obama's "I'm the President" Moment

 

NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day

Climategate hits Westminster: MPs spring a surprise ('Don't panic, carry on' isn't working)

 

ClimateGate

• ClimateGate Raw Emails: East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit searchable

• ClimateGate Updates: Continuously Updated 'ClimateGate' News Round Up from CLIMATE DEPOT

• ClimateGate Timeline History: "ClimateGate - 30 Years in the Making" from Joanne Nova in banner form on pdf file

• ClimateGate Analysis: ClimateGate: The Fix is In excellent overview article with references to the corruption of the climate peer review process

• ClimateGate Analysis: Lord Monckton’s summary of Climategate and its issues

• ClimateGate Analysis: Climategate: Leaked Emails Inspired Data Analyses Show Claimed Warming Greatly Exaggerated and NOAA not CRU is Ground Zero
  

• ClimateGate U.S. Senate Report: ‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy Feb 2010, 83 pages in pdf form

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• ClimateGate Inquiry: The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia to the U.K. Parliament, House of Commons, 54 memoranda links.

• ClimateGate Memorandum #39: Institute of Physics memorandum submitted to the U.K. Parliament concerning the shoddy science practiced by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the peer review process

• ClimateGate Memorandum #32: Stephen McIntyre memorandum submitted to the U.K. Parliament concerning data manipulation by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

3 posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:26:45 AM by steelyourfaith

Warming Alarmists turn to Science to explain cooling

 

ClimateGate

• ClimateGate Raw Emails: East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit searchable

• ClimateGate Updates: Continuously Updated 'ClimateGate' News Round Up from CLIMATE DEPOT

• ClimateGate Timeline History: "ClimateGate - 30 Years in the Making" from Joanne Nova in banner form on pdf file

• ClimateGate Analysis: ClimateGate: The Fix is In excellent overview article with references to the corruption of the climate peer review process

• ClimateGate Analysis: Lord Monckton’s summary of Climategate and its issues

• ClimateGate Analysis: Climategate: Leaked Emails Inspired Data Analyses Show Claimed Warming Greatly Exaggerated and NOAA not CRU is Ground Zero
  

• ClimateGate U.S. Senate Report: ‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy Feb 2010, 83 pages in pdf form

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• ClimateGate Inquiry: The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia to the U.K. Parliament, House of Commons, 54 memoranda links.

• ClimateGate Memorandum #39: Institute of Physics memorandum submitted to the U.K. Parliament concerning the shoddy science practiced by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the peer review process

• ClimateGate Memorandum #32: Stephen McIntyre memorandum submitted to the U.K. Parliament concerning data manipulation by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

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Lead Story

HERO REPUBLICAN BUNNING Again Blocks Irresponsible Dem Spending …Update: KY Tea Party Backs Bunning

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 6:18 AM

Jim Hoft

SUPPORT REPUBLICAN JIM BUNNING—
Call His Office today & Give Him Your Support 202.224.4343

At least there’s ONE REPUBLICAN who is willing to stand up to the out of control radicals in Washington DC…
Hero Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) blocked the libs again today.

Bunning and Senator Harry “This War Is Lost” Reid traded attacks this morning:

VIDEO at link!

“It is really hypocritical of the Democrats to argue for pay as you go, then to present a bill that is not only not paid for, not a little bit.”

NPR reported:

On the floor of the Senate, Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky just defended the position he’s taken that has delayed an extension of jobless benefits for the nation’s unemployed and has forced the furlough of about 2,000 federal workers.

Saying that he has blocked votes on the legislation to underscore his opposition to the ongoing growth in federal debt, Bunning read a letter from “Robert in Louisville,” who told the senator that even though he hasn’t been working regularly in the past two years he supports what Bunning is doing.

“This country is sooner or later going to implode because of the massive amount of debt run up over the past 40 or 50 years,” Robert wrote, according to Bunning.

Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats tripled the national deficit in one year in 2009. They will almost certainly top that this year.

They want to spend more. But, today anyway, Senator Bunning won’t let them.

Michelle Malkin has nothing but praise for Senator Bunning.

UPDATE: The Louisville Tea Party came out today in support of Jim Bunning.

UPDATE 2: This comes from Melany K.:

The reason the Dems are so furious is that Bunning called their bluff. They could use money already appropriated, but not spent, like the stimulous, but that’s being held for use in buying votes this summer and fall. The Dems don’t want that money wasted on unemployment, etc. (otherwise known as a black hole).

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8543897.stm

When the news media is always harping the same tune, you’ve got to start wondering about what they are not reporting.

“US President Barack Obama is planning “dramatic reductions” in the country’s nuclear arsenal, a senior US administration official has said.”

Destroys America’s economy – just putting on the finishing touches

Weaken America militarily – in the works

Sen. Bunning and the unemployment benefits debate revisited

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 2, 2010 01:38 PM

Scroll for updates…2:37pm Eastern reported deal reached on two amendments…

I’ve praised GOP Sen. Jim Bunning many times over the last two years for taking unpopular stands against massive, government entitlement expansions. He was the lone dissenter in April 2008 on a massive mortgage boondoggle. He was one of 25 Senators to vote against the TARP crap sandwich in October 2008. He voted against the UAW/auto bailout in December 2008. He was one of the fiscally responsible 14 GOP Senators who voted against the $6 billion GIVE/SERVE national service entitlement expansion in March 2009. And he has consistently grilled wrong-headed Fed chairman Ben Bernanke over his spectacularly wrong assessments of the housing bubble and the state of the economy.

As you all know, Sen. Bunning is now leading a lone filibuster effort against a Senate $10 billion jobless benefits/COBRA extension bill. (Good point: Ed Morrissey points out the inaccurate characterization of Bunning’s effort as a “filibuster.”) And the Dems are going bonkers.

GOP Sen. Susan Collins is trying to stop Bunning:

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) took to the floor Tuesday morning to ask that the Senate vote within hours on the bill so that thousands of furloughed federal highway workers could go back to work and the unemployed could see a resumption of their jobless benefits. Bunning’s filibuster, which he kicked off Thursday, caused those provisions to expire Sunday night. The retiring Kentucky Republican wants the measure paid for.

Bunning objected to Collins’ request, as he has to nearly a dozen requests from Democrats for similar rapid resolutions to the standoff.

Collins said she was proffering the request on behalf of herself and “numerous” other GOP Senators with whom she had spoken…

…But in objecting, Bunning took a shot at his own party and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as he read a letter from a constituent who praised his stand against the bill. McConnell and Bunning have a frosty relationship — it hit a low point last year as Bunning was deliberating over whether to seek another Senate term.

“It’s too bad Sen. Mitch McConnell and some of the elected officials on your side of the aisle do not have the backbone or your sense of decency when it comes to keeping their promises to the American people,” Bunning quoted his constituent from Louisville as writing.

Bunning is still insisting that the 30-day extension be paid for from stimulus funds before he allows a quick vote on the House-passed measure. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has offered to hold a vote on a Bunning amendment to offset the bill, but Bunning refused on the basis that his proposal would likely fail.

Video via C-SPAN from yesterday on the Senate floor:

Some weak-willed Republicans don’t want the GOP to be cast as the heartless Scrooges taking away “temporary” unemployment benefits that have become enshrined permanently.

You’ll remember that the Left went nuts when I made standard economic arguments last summer on “This Week” on ABC News when the issue came up:

The panel was dismissive of standard economic arguments against extending unemployment benefits (which I’ve been blogging about since last January, when the Bush administration embraced expanding the entitlement). Cynthia Tucker made the common error of mistaking my simple argument about incentives for some sort of moral judgment.

Question: Where do we draw the line? Laid-off workers can collect up to 79 weeks of unemployment in half the states. Democrats want to extend the benefits another 13 weeks:

Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington and chairman of the House Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, said he would introduce a bill in September to provide yet another 13 weeks of coverage in states with unemployment rates of 9 percent or higher. “Legislators will line up quickly when they start getting calls from desperate constituents,” he said in a telephone interview.

The cost would be $40 billion to $70 billion, but the expense would be temporary, Mr. McDermott said.

Treasury Secretary Geithner told Stephanopoulos the administration is open to such proposals. Well, hell, why not extend the benefits indefinitely?

There is no such thing as a “temporary” entitlement in Washington.

A reminder of the Heritage backgrounder I posted in January 2008:

“Temporary” Extended Unemployment Benefits?
History Tells a Different Story

The House on January 29, 2008 passed a bipartisan economic stimulus bill that did NOT include provisions to extend unemployment benefits. However, the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) has decided to add a “temporary” extension of unemployment benefits to its version of this legislation.

But does “temporary” really mean this program will operate only “through the end of 2008,” as the legislation’s proponents suggest? Looking back at the history books reveals a different story – of past “temporary” unemployment benefit programs that were repeatedly extended, operating for years and costing tens of billions of dollars more than originally expected.

Unemployment benefit program 1991-1994
Original proposed program length: 8 months
Original estimated cost $7 billion
Actual length: 29 months
Actual cost: $39 billion
Number of extensions: 5
Unemployment rate at start of program: 7 percent
U rate at end: 6.4 percent

Unemployment benefit program 2002-2004
Original proposed program length: 10 months
Original estimated cost $9 billion
Actual length: 29 months
Actual cost: $26 billion
Number of extensions: 2
Unemployment rate at start of program: 5.7 percent
U rate at end: 5.8 percent

Unemployment benefit program 2008
Original proposed program length: 11 months
Original estimated cost $10 billion
Actual length: ? months
Actual cost: ? billion
Number of extensions: ?
Unemployment rate at start of program: 5 percent
U rate at end: ?

1. SFC documents suggest the “temporary” extended unemployment benefits program would operate only through CY 2008 and cost $10 billion. But these sorts of programs never work out that way.

a. CRS reports that no “temporary” extended benefits program created since 1970 has expired without being extended.

b. Programs created in the 1980s and 1990s were extended 6 and 5 times, respectively.

c. The prospects a temporary program created today will expire at the end of 2008 as the SFC proposes – with the window of eligibility shutting two days after Christmas – is both dubious and would be without precedent in the last generation.

2. Even if it operated only as long as the “average” program created since 1980, a “temporary” program created now will be paying extended benefits in mid 2010.

a. The average duration of extended benefits programs created since 1980 is 30 months.

b. If a program started in February 2008 and paid benefits for 30 months, the final payments would be made in July 2010.

c. The total cost of such a program would likely be $30 billion or more.

3. If prior extended benefits programs began when the national unemployment rate was as low as 5.0%, these “temporary” programs would have operated for decades.

a. The U.S. unemployment rate was 5.0% or higher in every month between January 1974 and April 1997 – more than 23 years in a row.

b. Today’s 5.0% rate is below the average of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

c. During the Clinton Administration (1993-2000), the average unemployment rate was 5.2%.

d. According to a 2007 report by the Congressional Budget Office, today’s 5.0% unemployment rate is the same as the “natural rate” CBO will use “both currently and for the 10-year projection period through 2017.” Put another way, according to CBO today’s unemployment rate is “normal” not “high.”

e. Creating an extended benefits program now will create a precedent to repeat this action every time the unemployment rate reaches this historically modest level. That will cost billions of dollars and encourage more and longer unemployment.

Sen. Bunning’s move to unmask pay-go hypocrisy has been dismissed by the White House as “irrational.” His GOP colleagues are backing away.

But if Republicans can’t stand up and question the permanent Nanny State and can’t point out the unintended consequences of liberal intentions without folding like card tables, what good are they?

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bears repeating:

Obama signs ‘pay as you go’ legislation into law  "...the president praised so-called "pay as you go" legislation that he has just signed into law and that prevents Congress from approving new spending unless it is offset by budgetary cuts elsewhere."

 

"If the Republicans had any guts, they would join Bunning and phrase it in terms the public would understand. They should say that they have no objection to the extension as long as there is means to pay for it, you know, like pay-go. Put it right back in the Dems court. Instead they are running scared, afraid of being painted as those mean Republicans who want to let the people go hungry. They are letting the Dems set the narrative once again."

 

"He needs to be applauded. Something has to be done about the spending in DC. Obama just spent another 6B on green crap.

Where do they think this money comes from? They never care. They have ‘paygo’ but they never consider whether they have money for something before they pass it.

Unemployment benefits is now 2 years. "

BOB OWENS ON FALSE FLAGS AND TEA PARTY KNOCKOFFS: “A possibly fake Tea Party candidate may be looking to help Harry Reid, and a blatantly Astroturfed ‘Coffee Party’ gets a smattering of attention.”

More from Tom Maguire and William Jacobson. “It is very clear from Park’s background, and her own Tweets, that the Coffee Party simply is part of the perpetual Obama campaign, a means by which to subvert the real grassroots Tea Party movement by co-opting part of the message, but in a way which supports keeping Obama in power.”

For Obama and Pelosi, health care is ego trip.

ACTA UPDATE: A SECRET COPYRIGHT TREATY dirty laundry motherlode.  "It's facinating isn't? When Elected Democratic Governments who are to reflect the will of the people meet in secret to attept to enact unconstitutional laws. "

The list of senators on the finance committee is here:
http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/committee.htm

Even if you don't live in one of their states, write your senators, we need to let it be known that this is NOT okay.

Who is the MSM pushing today to lose to Obama in 2012? Mitt Romney!

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: GOP must stop allowing MSM to pick its nominee, Horsemen of the GOP Apocalypse, Mitt Romney, MSM manipulation, Sarah Palin |
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Mitt Romney, picture here at a book signing, for his new tome few outside of Utah will ever read.

We wonder if there will ever come a day when Republicans stop falling for this garbage.

READ IT ALL at the link

Sarah Palin is The Slayer

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: MSM and RNC join forces against Palin, Not on our watch, Palin 2012, Sarah Palin, The Slayer |
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The Slayer Comeths.

You know, it didn’t occur to us until reading this, but Sarah Heath Palin really is THE SLAYER.

One woman, in her generation, called to stand up to the forces of chaos and destruction and save this country from the terrible fate the Left plots for it.

What’s interesting is that Palin is being attacked by the Left with full-force, but is also being attacked by the “Vichy Repulicans”, oh they of the milquetoast, cucumber and mayonnaise Wonderbread sandwiches, with their burning desire for mediocrity and perpetual love of losing national elections.

Sarah Palin scares the living Hellmann’s out of these people.

We kind of love that.

If you love it, too, then you need to help us form a Scooby Gang to support Palin, our Slayer, and give her the backup she needs to save not just Sunnydale, but the whole country as we know it.

READ IT ALL at the link

How Free Market Economics saved Chile

by Rodan ( 20 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Politics, Progressives, Tranzis, World at March 2nd, 2010 - 11:00 am

Chile, which was recently hit with a massive Earthquake and is dealing with some chaos in the aftermath, is no Haiti. Unlike Haiti, Chile is a modern 1st world country that has a thriving economy. This is due in large part to Augosto Pinochet who removed the Totalitarian Progressive regime of Salvador Allende. He realized the way to remove the appeal of Progressivism was to modernize Chile’s economy. He did this by putting Chilean Economists of the “Chicago School” in charge. Chileans who learned economics in the University of Chicago at the hands of Milton Friedman.

Read it here: How Milton Friedman Saved Chile

 

 

RADLEY BALKO: 4.5 SWAT Raids Per Day: Maryland’s SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results.

 

Y2Kyoto: Like A Snowball Rolling Downhill

We are winning.

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The US Press Deserves its Darwin

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 12:16 PM

The_Anchoress

Ed Morrissey is wondering, as I have in the past, when or if the American press will begin to beat its breast over failing to learn from “the lessons of Iraq” when it comes to the Climate Change boondoggle. He wonders if they will ever kick into an grown-up journalistic mode and actually report on the collapse of the Global Warming movement they helped to build and sustain through their unquestioning support of the narrative.

In the years after the the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent failure to find WMD, the American media flagellated itself publicly over its lack of skepticism of Bush administration cassus belli claims . . . To this day, the American media still considers their self-described blind acceptance of claims about intelligence without sufficient investigation as an indictment on their industry — and a consequence of the Internet-driven changes to the media market.

After wearing sackcloth and ashes for so long, one might believe that the American national media would leap at the chance to show its newfound mission of skepticism and challenge to authority. Unfortunately, US journalists have missed a grand opportunity to demonstrate that it learned a lesson about swallowing a story from the government without question, if indeed that is what happened in 2002 on Iraq. We know this because their colleagues across the pond in the United Kingdom have not missed the chance to speak a little truth to power, both in their own government and to multilateral organizations that issued faulty analyses, false data, bad research, and hysterical demands for action. . . . The Australian and British press have eaten the American media’s lunch on the collapse of credibility at the IPCC and in the anthropogenic global-warming (AGW) movement.

I’m sure we all know the answer to Ed’s wondering, but let’s just say it outloud: The press has only learned its lesson about “swallowing stories whole” when they concern Republican administrations or candidates. I asked Ed’s same question back in the heady days of the 2008 campaign, wondering at what point in the Obama administration the press would start beating its collective breasts and saying, “we should have asked him more questions; we should have vetted him more thoroughly.”

The self-recrimination of the press on its failures to ask questions or do investigative work only applies in one direction. And if we ever see another GOP president, the press will go full-jackal on him or her, using both Iraq AND the Obama presidency as justification for their their fervent displays of doubt and skepticism.

However, even then, they will never accuse themselves regarding Global Warming; they will never say “we failed to ask questions,” because on that issue, it is personal for them, much in the same way that passing something called Health Care Reform has become “personal” for Obama and for Speaker Pelosi.

The press went “all in” on Global Warming hysteria specifically to give Al Gore an international platform that would act as both a “consolation prize” for his “stolen” presidency and a means of constant rebuke to President George W. Bush. Global Warming was a surfboard of hate the “global left community” could all ride together, and if the wave broke in favor of the accumulation of entrenched and far-reaching powers, internationally, all the better.

If the Great Big US Election Debacle of 2000 had not happened, the Great Anthropomorphic Global Warming Boondoggle would never have taken hold with the dramatic intensity it did, with the unquestioning international media support it enjoyed. And for the American press, admitting in any way that the thing was a hoax will cast doubt on every word they have written since at least 1999.

Over the last decade, the press’ credibility has taken a very palpable hit, due to their own excesses, and their collective inability to disenthrall themselves of their passionate, mostly adolescent emoting. Admitting, finally, that AGW was nothing more than program of sustained ego support for a mediocre and deranged toothache of a man, and a vehicle of boundless, and unfocused ambition, would be for the press to announce its demise from a self-inflicted mortal wound that was so stupidly wrought as to qualify the entire news industry for a Darwin Award.

Related:
Another toothache

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[backhoe]

Boehner backs Bunning's efforts (Whoa!)

“I think Sen. Bunning has a legitimate argument he’s making. The Democrats just passed this pay-go legislation, and not even a week after the president signed it into law, they want to exempt the first bill that comes to the Senate floor,”

 

Anatomy Of a Failing Presidency

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China 20.

--click here for full article.

The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama (An Important Read. It's The Liberal MSM View of Bad BO)

"I can’t read these without going a little nuts — the TOTUS-reader does NOT have a “gift for oratory” nor “soaring rhetoric.”

He umms and errs and stumbles through every sentence he says without a script and reads his scripts worse than a high school drama student.

His speeches were full of platitudes and trite sound bites.

America voted for an IDEA — the idea that if you are really, really nice then everyone will love you and all problems will be solved. And he was trotted out as the symbol of that “niceosity.” No one even glanced at the man himself ..."

Another Falklands showdown only this time Thatcher and Reagan are not around

DEADHEAD JIHAD

Davis calls on Rangel to give up tax chair (First CBC member to do it)

Climategate: The Final Straw ( But Phil Jones makes it hard to defend him anymore)

Poll: Majority of Ga. voters support hiking cigarette tax (71%)

Welcome to socialism, cig. tax is just a start, later it’ll be buck on a pound of coffee, buck extra for a jar of instant coffee, a buck on jar of tea, buck extra for shampoo, toothpaste, buck extra for EACH vitaman you buy, etc etc etc, that’s the way it’s done in Europe and the UK.

[MO] Supreme Court tosses red-light camera violation, says city ordinance violates state law

British winter was the coldest for 31 years

Al's Latest Global-Warming Whopper (Gore trying to resurrect the hoax)

Why Don’t Public Schools Do A Better Job?

Coffee Party Creator Is Former NYTs “Strategy Analyst” And Obama Partisan

EDITORIAL: Learning from the D.C. handgun ban--Getting rid of gun bans leads to less crime

Debunking Some Emerging ACORN Liberal Myths

3.7 magnitude earthquake felt in the Heartland (MO, TN, AR, IL, KY)

 4-5 More Great Earthquakes This Year

[backhoe]

Please, please- let The Evil Party and

-Komrade ZerØ--

be this Arrogant

Disconnected

and Stupid:

 

Obama: Dems Will Use Nuke Option to Ram Through Obamacare (Video)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 7:38 PM

Jim Hoft

Back in 2005 Barack Obama and the democrats in Congress vehemently opposed the nuclear option.
Breitbart TV reported:

VIDEO at link-

Via Naked Emperor News
But, that was when the radicals were the minority.

Tomorrow, Barack Obama will announce that democrats will use the nuclear option to takeover the health care industry.

ABC reported:

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial “reconciliation” rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the “fix” to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been awaiting the president’s remarks direction on how health care reform will proceed.

In his remarks, scheduled to be at the White House, the president will paint a picture of what he will say will happen without a health care reform bill – skyrocketing premiums, everyone at the mercy of the insurance industry as recently seen with the 39% premium increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross in California.

He will note that the “fixed” bill will include the proposal for a new “Health Insurance Rate Authority” to set guidelines for reasonable rate increases. If proposed premium increases are not justifiable per those Health Insurance Rate Authority guidelines, the Health and Human Services Secretary or state regulators could block them.

The plan to pass the bill includes having the House of Representatives pass the Democratic Senate health care reform legislation as well as a second bill containing various “fixes.”

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Barack Obama 4/25/05:

Obama, Biden, Clinton, Dodd & More Believe Reconciliation is Unconstitutional (ROFLLLL)

 

5 Ugly Truths Americans Will Have to Face

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2010/03/02/5_ugly_truths_americans_will_have_to_face?page=full&comments=true

The Obama Economic Death-Mobile Accelerates: 

No wonder Americans are livid.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/03/obama-economic-death-mobile-accelerates.html

“Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.” — Ambrose Bierce

Sarah Palin on Leno Open Thread

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Sarah Palin on Leno, Sarah Palin on Tonight Show |
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March 3, 2010 at 12:49 am

Sarah was simply awesome. She was brilliant. The monologue would have scared almost anyone else. But not Sarah Palin, she took the challenge with good humor and great fun and did an exceptional job.

Sarah Palin was simply Sarah Palin and that is one brilliant, smart, patriot, who happens to be very easy on the eyes.

March 3, 2010 at 1:49 am

Sarah rocked the house! She was warm, down to earth and funny as heck.
She really went after the LSM, which was awesome, especially since her ‘digs’ got a great response from the audience.

Another killer line…when Leno asked her if she gets advice from her father, she said that he doesn’t advise her about politics, but tells her what kind of ammunition to buy!

March 3, 2010 at 1:40 am

She TOTALLY rocked! Loved her standup routine. And did you catch the huge applause she got for all of her lines? Leno’s fans love Sarah like we do.

March 3, 2010 at 1:28 am

OMG!! the Tea Party Express needs to do a “notes on the hand” song...

SMART DIPLOMACY: “This is painful reading.”

Elections have consequences, folks...

Will Obama Still Be Blaming Bush in 2012? Bet on It.

BUSH LEAGUE ASTROTURF: Regarding my “Coffee Party” / Annabel Park post, reader Jennifer Pace emails:

The LInkedin link for Annabel Park (the one showing her as a Strategy Analyst for the NYT) has gone down the memory hole.

Any chance someone grabbed a screen shot of the page before it vanished?

Why, yes, I did. This came out of my browser cache:

Posted at 8:24 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NJ Gov. Chris Christie shows what leadership looks like

If you are sick of the fecklessness and fiscal responsibility fakers in Washington, here is something to lift your spirits.

Read Mish’s review of NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s austerity speech and action plan outlined at a meeting of the Garden State’s League of Municipalities here. I’ve been longing for a public official with the courage and audacity to say “suck it up”, take responsibility, stand up to the unions and the permanent Nanny State, and make the tough choices that other politicians keep pretending they don’t have to make or keep kicking down the road.

Chris Christie is the real deal. Partial transcript thanks to Mish. Read the whole thing:

In the time we got here, of the approximately $29 billion budget there was only $14 billion left. Of the $14 billion, $8 billion could not be touched because of contracts with public worker unions, because of bond covenants, because of commitments we made accepting stimulus money. So we had to find a way to save $2.3 billion in a $6 billion pool of money.

When I went into the treasurer’s off in the first two weeks of my term, there was no happy meetings. They presented me with 378 possible freezes and lapses to be able to balance the budget. I accepted 375 of them.

There is a great deal of discussion about me doing that by executive action. Every day that went by was a day where money was going out the door such that the $6 billion pool was getting less and less. So something needed to be done.

People did not send me here to talk, the people sent me here to do. So we took the executive action we did to stop the bleeding.

As we move forward, and we evaluate what we need to do three weeks from now in our fiscal year 2011 budget address, you all need to understand the context from which we operate.

Our citizens are already the most overtaxed in America. US mayors hear it all the time. You know that the public appetite for ever increasing taxes has reached an end.

So when we freeze $475 million in school aid, I am hearing the reverberations from school boards saying now you are just going to force us to raise taxes.

Well there is a 4% cap in place as you all know, yet school boards continue to give out raises which exceed that cap, just on salary. Not to mention the fact that most of them get no contribution towards the spiraling increase in health care benefits.

Now, we are going to reduce spending at the state level. And we are going to continue to reduce it because we have no choice but to do so. Our obligation to you is twofold. One, is to let you know that. So I’m’ letting you know that.

Second to work with the legislature to give you the tools helping you to reduce spending at the municipal level. Now the pension and benefit reform package that was passed unanimously in the senate this week begins to give you some of those tools.

But it is only a beginning.

Do we need to change some of the rules of arbitration to level the playing field to allow municipalities and school boards to have a more level sense of collective bargaining?

I think the evidence of ever increasing raises being given to public sector workers as a result of the arbitration system tells us that we do. [Applause From Mayors]

But you have to stand up and give the support to the legislators in this building to get them to do that. I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed. [Applause From Mayors]

Because we can no longer continue on a path where we say we are going to reduce spending at the state level but we are not going to give you any tools to do that at the municipal level and the school board level.

By the same token I am tired of hearing school superintendents and school board members complain that there are no other options than raising property taxes. There are other options.

You know, Marlboro, after a two year negotiation, they give a five year contract giving 4.5% annual salary increases to the teachers, with no contribution, zero contribution to health care benefits.

But I am sure there are people in Marlboro who have lost their jobs, who have had their homes foreclosed on, and who cannot keep a roof over their family’s head there is something wrong.

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world. The money does not grow on trees outside this building or outside your municipal building. It comes from the hard working people of our communities who are suffering and are hurting right now.

Posted in: Education, Politics, SEIU, Unions

 

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"Gov. Christie has identified one of the main problems keeping us in the recession, the utter disconnect between a recession-proof public sector and the real world around it. If we are to pull out of hard times, all must share the burden."

 

Yeah, sure, alright … handing over healthcare to the state is a marvelous idea [Darleen Click]

I mean, look how well they do with resolving “green” energy.

Air-quality rules in the region leave dairy farmers facing costly changes to generators used to burn methane to produce power. Some have put their renewable-energy plans on hold. [...]

[F]or dairyman John Fiscalini, the dung on his farm is renewable gold: He’s converting it into electricity.

At his farm outside Modesto, a torrent of water washes across the barn’s concrete floor several times a day, flushing tons of manure away from his herd of fuzzy-faced Holsteins and into nearby tanks. There, bacteria consume the waste and release methane, which is then burned in a generator capable of producing enough power to run Fiscalini’s 530-acre farm, his cheese factory and 200 additional homes.

Fiscalini’s resourcefulness should be drawing accolades, considering that state mandates are requiring California industries to boost renewable energy use and slash greenhouse gas emissions sharply over the next 10 years.

But efforts to convert cow pies into power have sparked controversy. State air quality control regulators say these “dairy digester” systems can generate pollution themselves and, unless the devices are overhauled, are refusing to issue permits for them.

You have two state entities that are grinding the dairies between them — state officials demanding that dairies “control the methane”, then other officials telling them that controlling the methane is secondary to air quality.

The mindset of bureaucrats is

The farmers “should have checked in with us first, before buying their equipment,” [Dave Warner, director of permit services for the San Joaquin Valley air quality district] added.

The Progg end-game: You check with them first before you make any decision about your life or livelyhood.

Posted by Darleen @ 7:37 am
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Just Damn...

 

American reliance on government at all-time high  "Fairly sure the obamunists have only been extending unemployment benefits long enough to keep the lid on while they ran their marxist power plays to irrevocably alter this nation. After they'd cemented socialized medicine, gutted energy, forced union controls and card check, then amnesty, they would have held power come November then it would have been 'tough shit, DIE Mr & Mrs Middle America'. Quite literally, DIE.

Now they overplayed the fearmongering to get into office, the deliberate bankrupting was a little too effective, the economy has stalled and opposition has been far greater than they anticipated. 'Healthcare' was supposed to be rahmed up our asses 9mos ago. By now they were supposed to be nailing our coffin shut with amnesty.  They stacked up all their domino plans - Healthcare -> Energy Tax -> Disarmament -> Amnesty -> and fucked up EVERY play.  They wanted to cram them all thru one on top of the other, crush us all under the onslaught, and we rose up and said NO.

Now they're machine is in pieces, each still trying to execute, but no longer in a coordinated leveraging fomented-crisis-leveraging manner, accomplishing next to nothing. With the core team of marxists in the White House still crying 'kill! kill kill!' at their minions, while looking for every Executive Order and appointee angle they can muster, as fallback. They didn't plan on havin gto be that blatant right at the start, thought their Useful Idiots would carry the water - Reid, Pelosi still are - but the rank and file aren't blindly following along. Look right now as Pelosi openly calls on them to politically suicide to accomplish the chief marxists' goals.

It's as plain as Mein Kampf and ultimately just as deadly. "

 

60+ Lawmakers 7 States Tell Obama; if you want on 2012 ballot, RELEASE THE RECORDS!

Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say ($7 gallon gas to meet Obama's targets for emissions?)

Better get a high-paying job:

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=forklift&l=Virginia&sort=date

http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/q-forklift/l-Virginia/sb-dd

http://jobview.monster.com/GetJob.aspx?JobID=86537066&WT.mc_n=jobscomview

http://jobview.monster.com/GetJob.aspx?JobID=86607481&WT.mc_n=jobscomview

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-va

Jan CMBS Delinquencies Hit Record $46 Billion, A 10.3% Increase And A 325% Increase Year Over Year

Racist incidents, protests spread at UC campuses

You just gotta love our new, improved Post-Racial, err, ahem! Most-Racial Society...

Obama File 98 Obama Science Czar Holdren's Pro - Soviet Associations

Victor Davis Hanson: Tomorrow’s Wars - Enormous, massively destructive engagements may again be...

Stroll down memory lane. A short look at The 9/12 March on DC.

I think Washington needs another visit from the America it cannot hear.

[backhoe]

Sarah Palin on Jay Leno, Part 1, Part 2 (Video)

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Anyone who downloaded and read that massive POS crap and tax bill can readily see why I call it a litmus test for conservatives and Republicans. You don’t have to be a “purity Republican” to say that anyone who voted for that POS is an outright Communist.

The green movement is big into "smart growth" urban planning, which comes directly from the Soviet Union. One of the goals of smart growth is concentration of the population into multi-family housing in dense urban areas. It makes sense that you can probably cut down on electrical useage if you cram people into small apartments: fewer rooms to light, fewer rooms to heat/cool, units above and below help to maintain the temperature of other units around them, etc. So how do you acomplish this? Jack up energy rates and encourage the construction of high rises while adding in draconian zoning restrictions designed to prevent "urban sprawl."

Plus, forcing people into urban areas encourages the use of mass transit, and massive excise tax increases on gasoline make it too expensive for most people to own a vehicle. So now you have people living where you want and with limited ability to pack up and move out because they don't have cars, and high interest rates will make it extremely difficult to buy or sell homes anyway. Throw in cradle to grave medical care and you have total control.

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Vic:  To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

The Heritage Foundation said electricity prices would rise between a factor of 2 and 5 based on congressional numbers. Hahahahaha, that means the most likely thing would be a minimum 5 and a maximum of 10. 

Of course Obama and the Democrat apparatchiks will be riding around in their armored SUVs and living in the heated gov building at 75°F at taxpayer expense."

25 "ADP: January Job Losses Were Actually TRIPLE What We Thought, And No, We Won't Blame The Snowicane""Nonfarm private employment decreased 20,000 from January to February 2010 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report®. The estimated change of employment from December 2009 to January 2010 was revised down, from a decline of 22,000 to a decline of 60,000. The February employment decline was the smallest since employment began falling in February of 2008."

Another new twist in birth certificate story: Hawaii "paper copy was destroyed in a fire"

Here's the referenced Sky News article.

There are other things he may have lied about — his education for example. A lot of those records cannot be located or verified.

Early on, I wasn't a “birther,” but as I watched this guy lie about EVERYTHING else, well, it just seemed he probably lied about his background too. He is a fraud and he's going through a lot of hassle and expense to keep everyone from finding out the truth.

23 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:49:28 AM by fatnotlazy

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64b_pwlrY7A

You can save this video with free software

http://download.cnet.com/Orbit-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10600926.html

Abuse of Power WSJ: Abuse of Power (A MUST READ!)

DEMINT: White House land grab

Why I No Longer Support Decriminalizing Marijuana?

Levels of Treason

It is now widely known that the during the paste decade the British Labour Party deliberately imported millions of new immigrants in order to change the social situation in the country and extend its hold on power. A Norwegian reader named Ola Olsen read the recent revelations and was prompted to send us the following essay:

Levels of treason
by Ola Olsen

After reading the Telegraph article about the deliberate plan to import millions of immigrants into Britain for political reasons, I realized that the expression “treason to your country” is too broad to cover all the different cases. After some thinking about it, I came up with a way to classify traitors against his/her country into three different levels:

Level 1:		A person who is actively preventing others from saving their country. A typical example in this regard is a newspaper editor who will not print articles written by those trying to alert the people to what is going on.
Level 2:		A person who is actively helping the enemy in damaging his/her country. This is the classical traitor who is a spy for the enemy.
Level 3:		A person who is actively trying to destroy his/her country’s culture and identity by replacing the original people with another. This would typically be through uncontrolled mass immigration to the extent that the original population becomes a minority, or by the more direct approach of genocide.

Labour politicians responsible for the mass immigration into the UK are Level 3 traitors. It is true that they have not initiated genocide, but the long-term effect of uncontrolled mass immigration from a hostile culture will be the same.

These politicians have put their own people in a terrible situation which may only be “solved” by extreme upheavals and civil war over many years. Their actions would have been less severe had they decided to bring in people from a compatible culture. Instead they elected to import from the most hostile and dangerous culture on the planet: Islam.

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The politically correct thought (and still think) that Muslims will “integrate” into Western societies. Sorry, it’s not going to happen, at least not the way we want. We’ve had Muslims in Western countries for more than three generations now, and it is to be expected that they should have been “integrated” into our culture by now, right? Instead we are observing the opposite: Muslims are becoming less “integrated” with their host countries each year.

Why? Is it us? What is the cause?

The cause, of course, is Islam itself. Fjordman is correct when he says that it cannot be modified successfully into something less lethal. The UK (and other countries) cannot sit around waiting for “moderate Islam” to emerge. By the time that happens, the UK (and everything else) will be gone. Instead we will see one Western country after another with high levels of Muslims become progressively more unstable and dangerous. No one knows what will happen in detail. But we know it’s not going to be nice.

At some point in the future, there will be a need for another Nuremberg trial, where the traitors of all levels will be brought to justice. Until then, if it happens that our culture survives, it is important that we collect evidence against them so their terrible crimes will not be forgotten.

The days of peace and safety are about to end for Western countries. We are moving quickly into darker days, thanks to our political traitor class. Therefore it is important for us to remember the 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not get away with it!”

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Betraying freedom in Latin America

 

Israel - What the Left Doesn't Know

 

Pakistan reveals the Taliban's secret underground cave network

New Jersey Governor Calls Out Alice In Wonderland Budgeting

We need to clone this guy:

Chris Christie says “The time has come where we have to hold hands and jump off the cliff.”

http://tinyurl.com/ydydzql

OMG! Even Michael Moore Sees it!?!

There's going to be another crash. The commercial real estate bubble hasn't burst yet. That's going to burst. The credit card debt is so huge right now, it will never be repaid. That's a house of cards waiting to fall. So the crash of '08 is going to look like coming attractions. And we're in for a much, much worse time.

When even Michael Moore sees that the Dems are fubarin', that the economy has NOT BEEN ADDRESSED by The One, and that we're likely headed for another, bigger recession/depression, ya gotta at least ask, WHY? Why has this fatass/walking advertisement for birth control given up on his years of 100% pure propaganda and lies aimed at nothing more than getting Dems to power? Why did he lose his undying, unchallenged, and unethical love for the Democratic Party? Sadly, it's not 'cause he's seen the light. He's always known the reality of the capitalist America that made him rich and well-fed. He's just denied it in favor of talking tough to power rather than truth to power. Now, it seems he's just frustrated that the Dems haven't picked up his anything-for-a-win attitude.

You know, I tell you, these Democrats are disgusting. Wimps and wusses and weasels. You know, get some spine. This is why I have to admire the Republicans. They at least stand for something.

Read more at floppingaces.net...

New ghost towns: Industrial communities teeter on the edge

You Have No Right to My Property

Connecting the Dots: How Bad Off Is the Real Estate Market?

Did Obama Attempt to Bribe a Congressman?

Cue the tape to the 1:10 mark:

 

High crimes and misdemeanors.

Lid blows off Obama's forgotten scandal

Save the planet: raise the gas tax to $7 a gallon

Southern Poverty Law Center Tries To ‘Alinsky’ The Tea Party Movement

FDR and Terrorists and Spies, oh my…

Another new twist in birth certificate story: Hawaii "paper copy was destroyed in a fire"

Here's the referenced Sky News article.

There are other things he may have lied about — his education for example. A lot of those records cannot be located or verified.

Early on, I wasn't a “birther,” but as I watched this guy lie about EVERYTHING else, well, it just seemed he probably lied about his background too. He is a fraud and he's going through a lot of hassle and expense to keep everyone from finding out the truth.

[backhoe]

Lead Story

Here comes the reconciliation “nobody” is talking about; Update: Oba-kabuki lab coat props reappear; “Make your voice heard;” McConnell: “National referendum”

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 3, 2010 12:05 PM

Scroll for updates…

Photoshop: Leo Alberti

It’s official. After months of threatening to push the button on the so-called nuclear option, reconciliation — the parliamentary maneuver that Harry Reid said “nobody” is talking about and that President Obama said Americans didn’t care about last week — is a go.

Politico this morning quotes Tom Harkin signaling the green light:

Sen. Tom Harkin told POLITICO that Senate Democratic leaders have decided to go the reconciliation route. The House, he said, will first pass the Senate bill after Senate leaders demonstrate to House leaders that they have the votes to pass reconciliation in the Senate.

Harkin made the comments after a meeting in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office including Harkin and Sens. Baucus, Dodd, Durbin, Schumer and Murray.

When asked whether the leaders had made the decision, Durbin said: “We are moving ahead with a version of the health care reform bill that we believe has a good chance of passing both the House and the Senate.”

He then put the onus on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to signal whether she can provide enough votes to pass the Senate bill, followed by a package of fixes through reconciliation.

Last night, Jake Tapper said President Obama was ready for reconciliation:

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial “reconciliation” rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the “fix” to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been awaiting the president’s remarks direction on how health care reform will proceed.

In his remarks, scheduled to be at the White House, the president will paint a picture of what he will say will happen without a health care reform bill – skyrocketing premiums, everyone at the mercy of the insurance industry as recently seen with the 39% premium increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross in California.

He will note that the “fixed” bill will include the proposal for a new “Health Insurance Rate Authority” to set guidelines for reasonable rate increases. If proposed premium increases are not justifiable per those Health Insurance Rate Authority guidelines, the Health and Human Services Secretary or state regulators could block them.

The plan to pass the bill includes having the House of Representatives pass the Democratic Senate health care reform legislation as well as a second bill containing various “fixes.”

The president will call for an up or down vote on health care reform, as has happened in the past, and though he won’t use the word “reconciliation,” he’ll make it clear that if they’re not given an up or down vote, Democrats will use the reconciliation rules as Republicans have done in the past.

The GOP is preparing for battle, according to Sen. John Thune:

Republicans are preparing to raise points of order and other roadblocks to the healthcare bill, a member of the Senate GOP leadership said Tuesday evening.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the fourth-ranking Senate Republican who serves as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, said the GOP is prepared for a number of scenarios in which they would seek to slow down or halt passage of healthcare legislation once it comes back before the Senate.

“I still think it creates a lot of problems when it comes back to the Senate because there will be lots of points of order that will lie against the bill in the Senate, and obviously, we will, hopefully, have the opportunity to raise some of those,” Thune said of the health bill during an appearance on Fox News.

At issue is the new bill of healthcare legislation changes the House is expected to pass under budget reconciliation rules. Under those rules, the legislation only has to achieve a simple majority in the Senate instead of the 60 normally needed to end a filibuster. Such a maneuver would effectively sidestep Republican opposition to the health bill.

“You know, I don’t want to concede that it’s going to pass for sure yet,” Thune said. “I still think that there’s a lot of clock left in this game.”

The NRCC has gone code red.

Hugh Hewitt says: Let a million amendments bloom.

Steve Ertelt reports that Pelosi is still lying about abortion funding.

Phone/contact list for target House Dems here.

Your handy video flashback of the day via Naked Emperor News/BreibartTV:

CBS Interview 11/2/04

My understanding of the Senate is that you need 60 votes to get something significant to happen, which means that Democrats and Republicans have to ask the question, do we have the will to move an American agenda forward, not a Democratic or Republican agenda forward?

Change to Win Convention 9/25/07

The bottom line is that our healthcare plans are similar, the question once again is, who can get it done? Who can build a movement for change? This is an area where we’re going to have to have a 60% majority in the Senate and the House in order to actually get a bill to my desk. We’re going to have to have a majority to get a bill to my desk. That is not just a fifty plus one majority.

Obama Interview with the Concord Monitor 10/9/07

You’ve got to break out of what I call the sort of fifty plus one pattern of presidential politics. Maybe you eke out a victory of fifty plus one. Then you can’t govern. You know, you get Air Force One, there are a lot of nice perks, but you can’t deliver on healthcare. We are not going to pass universal health care with a fifty plus one strategy.

Center for American Progress Conference 7/12/06

Those big-ticket items: fixing our health care system. You know, one of the arguments that sometimes I get with my fellow progressives, and some of these have flashed up in the blog communities on occasion, is this notion that we should function sort of like Karl Rove where we identify our core base, we throw ’em red meat, we get a fifty plus one victory. See, Karl Rove doesn’t need a broad consensus because he doesn’t believe in government. If we want to transform the country, though, that requires a sizeable majority.

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One more terrific reconciliation photoshop from Maksim at The People’s Cube:

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Substratum says conservatives must control the narrative on reconciliation. A reminder about Robert Byrd:

Control the narrative on Senate reconciliation and leveraged pressure against wavering House members is yours. Public knowledge of Byrd’s strong feelings against using reconciliation for healthcare as outlined here and here. This knowledge alone kills the meme that reconciliation is a harmless little fuzzy bunny that has been used before by Republicans and therefore it is perfectly acceptable to use it to overhaul 1/6 of the U.S. economy.

Ubiquitous public awareness the architect of Senate reconciliation is against using the procedural tactic to pass ObamaCare will cause vulnerable House members to reach for the Maalox and lose trust in both the process and the end result in terms of the blowback by their constituents and the unceremonious end of said Representative’s political career. Pelosi would find it even harder to garner support for ObamaCare; nobody is willing to fall on a sword for the queen of contempt. In short, House members will be tainted by the Senate procedure.

To state it another way, the Senate procedural maneuver will effectively scare away votes in the House. This will work if the GOP starts talking – and talking a great deal. Wide exposure on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, talk radio, and in the blogosphere will only aid our cause and the goal to kill ObamaCare for good. There will be an argument that reconciliation will only be used to pass “fixes” to the bill. However, if the bill will not pass without reconciliation, then it is clear that reconciliation is the means by which the entire healthcare system will be overhauled. The argument falls apart and reconciliation is once again front-and-center as the means by which ObamaCare will be passed.

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Update 1:54pm Eastern: Obama is on the tee-vee again, with white lab-coated doctor props flanking him on stage again.

Flashback October 2009: Spin doctors for Obamacare.

Obama claims that “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”

GOP House staffer Michael Steel responds:

If that line sounds familiar, it’s because it was a staple of the President’s rhetoric on health care last year.

We haven’t hear it in a while because it’s not true. Media outlets, including the Associated Press and ABC News debunked the claim thoroughly, noting that even White House officials acknowledged the president’s rhetoric shouldn’t be taken “literally.” Eventually, the White House press office took it out of the President’s speeches.

Why is it coming back now? Does the White House think reporters have forgotten it isn’t true?

2:11pm Eastern. “Make your voice heard,” Obama urges. Unless you’re a member of that Tea Party angry mob. Remember: The White House wants you people to shut up and get out of the way.

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WaPo” Defining “nuclear.”

2:46pm Eastern. GOP Sen. McConnell responds to Obama: “I would say to my Democratic colleagues, you ignore the overwhelming desires of the American people at your own peril.” If Demcare gets rammed down Americans’ throats, McConnell says midterms will be a “national referendum” on the issue.

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"Obama has effectively melded the administrative branch and the legislative branch into a functioning Marxist politburo and set the stage for his unique blend of fascism. Say goodbye to the “United States of America”, because it is no more."

 

If you all would take the time to learn about the Cloward-Pivens Strategy, this would make perfect sense to you.

 

"Even people who want universal healthcare should be appalled by this. (Of course, they aren’t — they’re too busy dancing in the street waiting for all of their free stuff.)"

 

The Reconciliation Nuclear Option Will Destroy Democrats: But Only If We Do Our Part

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: cut off the Democrats' funding, Identify and pressure major Democrat donors, Reconciliation, Use Alinsky Methods against Democrats |
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Since it’s been announced the White House, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid are going to ram the Healthcare Rationing bill through “Reconciliation”, an unconstitutional and illegal move, by the way, since Reconciliation was never intended for a bill as massive and nation-changing as this Rationing Bill, moderates, conservatives, and independents need to join forces to completely obliterate the current DNC.

They must not just lose in November.

It needs to be the biggest losses a political party has ever suffered in any election year.  Period.

To do that, we propose taking a tactic Republicans have never used against Democrats before, the equivalent of nuking the DNC for using the “nuclear option” in the Senate.

You might be tempted to start burning up the phones to tell Democrats in office not to go ahead with this.  We think that is a waste of time, since all elected Democrats in Washington are fully and forever committed to this madness.  Every last one of them needs to be booted from office come November.  They are not going to change their minds, or their votes, no matter how much you call or email them.

BUT, there is a way to get to these people, something that has never been done.

We need to launch a massive, coast-to-coast effort to identify and pressure the Democrats’ LARGE DONORS to put a stop to this madness.

Large political donors are vulnerable because they are people the public doesn’t know.  They are business men and women.  Socialites.  Wealthy people who fund political campaigns largely, in most cases, because it’s fun and something to do, and they like getting pictures with presidents and senators.

If these people suddenly found themselves on the receiving end of public ire, they’d stop writing the DNC checks.

If the DNC doesn’t get those checks, it can’t fund campaigns in the fall.  That means heavier Leftist losses.  Which means, come 2011, whatever makes it through Reconciliation can be repealed.

What we need to happen is this:  we need to convince other moderate, conservative, and independent sites to think outside the usual box and direct all activist power to identifying and pressuring Democrat donors to rein the office-holders in.  Instead of hitting the Senators and Congress critters directly, it will carry much more weight to have wealthy socialite donors make those calls for us — frantic — that their support for the people behind this madness has caused the public to start sending thousands of letters a day to their law firms and jamming their fax machines with endless letters demanding to know why they are the ones funding this madness.

It’s like a battlefield strategy to cut off the Democrats’ supply chain:  if we severe the money stream from large private donors, we can cripple the DNC.

It will be a lot of hard work.  We certainly can’t do this alone.  But, we all have fundraising experience here.  We’ve been on statewide Finance Committees.  We know how skittish donors are.  These people don’t want to be noticed.  They don’t want to hear from the public.  They don’t want to be questioned about why they’re writing big checks that directly led to the people they support enacting the “nuclear option” of Reconciliation.

Hold the donors accountable.

Cut off the DNC’s funding.

Cripple the Leftists.

Save the country.

Brainstorm in this thread how we can make it happen, and then let’s get to work tomorrow growing the plan and building the alliance we need across the moderate, conservative, and independent spectrum to MAKE IT HAPPEN.

READ ALL OF THIS: Posted by Ace at 01:18 PM New Comments Thingy

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Bla bla bla another fking speach by the one. More rhetoric and thus he vomits forth more lies.

It would be nice to hear him say:

My fellow Americans, we are going to nationalize healthcare and take over your life.  The Republicans are opposing me on this for political reasons so I am just going to jam it up theirs and your ass with the help of parliementary tricks and unconstitutional acts in the House and Senate.  Don't like that do you? hahahaha FU, I won.

Now that would be truth in advertising.  

AND THIS: Posted by Ace at 01:01 PM New Comments Thingy

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Why don't Senators on the floor read quotes like these during the floor debates?  They should read this obama quote and allow the dems to attack or rebut it, then reveal it was Obama that said it?  Why dont we have Senators with balls?  Time to take the gloves off folks.. our childrens future is at stake

How much longer will people remain asleep?  Our own Bastille day approaches....

Obama & Dems Ready to Ram Obamacare Down America’s Throat

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 12:16 PM

Jim Hoft

It’s for the greater good.
President Obama is holding a press conference today at 1:45 PM EST.
Obama rejected GOP calls to start over on the democrat’s health care bill today, saying the delay could last a decade or more.

He brought the lab coat props with him.

He’s going to ram Obamacare down America’s throat.

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CHANGE! To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

Uhh, remember- to get an accurate idea of what it will really mean, you have to at least double it:

$14.00 a gallon gas-- and heating oil...

Freeze in the dark, folks-- imagine what your electric bills will be...

 

SHOCKER: Detroit teachers unions opposing the very reforms that have vastly improved New Orleans public schools after Katrina. They don’t start teachers’ unions because they care about better schools. . .

 

A CALL TO fight web-censorship in Britain. It seems to me that large segments of the world’s political class are getting too big for their britches.

 

Fearmongering at the SPLC. “The group delights in finding tenuous ties between the tendencies it tracks, then describing its discoveries in as ominous a tone as possible.” They used to call that “McCarthyism,” didn’t they?

Plus, from the comments: “Don’t you guys know libertarians are dangerous? They are going to take over the government and leave everyone alone.”

PATTERICO: Debunking Some Emerging ACORN Liberal Myths.

[backhoe]

Obama, Democrats Make it Official: Reconciliation to Push Pro-Abortion Health Care

WSJ Calls Obama's Plan to Use "Reconciliation" to Pass ObamaCare an "Abuse of Power"

Video: Byrd compared 2005 'nuclear option' strategy to Nazi tactics

Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?

I hope someone is keeping an impeachment list.

Blizzard of bad jobs news to hit Friday

Illegal immigrants caught sabotaging American train tracks

Voters: Illegal immigration is killing the economy

The War's Not Over?

BREAKING: ‘Anti-Lobbyist’ Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell ‘Green Jobs’

Dobbs, Beck, Palin, Bachmann Share Blame For Rise in Right-Wing Extremism, Says Activist Group

Blood Money: A Documentary on Planned Parenthood

If the old Ways and Means chairman was crooked, the new one (Pete Stark) is crazy

A SAD DAY. WE LET OUR FELLOW FREEPER DOWN. THE OBAMA FILE IS NO MORE

Obama Administration Stabs UK in the Back . . .Again

Obamacare: Still a Threat to Your Life

[backhoe]

So much good writing and links, in the blogosphere today...

READ IT ALL

USE THEIR LINKS

READ THEIR COMMENTERS:

 

Just how angry are some Americans?

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 2:34 AM

The_Anchoress

Because all of his pronouncements are subject to sudden change, President Obama, who decried the use of reconciliation on much smaller matters than this, has decided reconciliation is the perfect vehicle by which to tell the American public to shut up and take what he’s giving them (language warning), and also take command over 17% of the economy.

And he’s doing it, all while pretending not to know that America is saying “no.”

Is that just Obama taking a stab at some plausible deniability? Or is he one of those guys who thinks a “no” is a coy “yes;” the sort of creep who sweet talks you past where you wanted to go, and then sneers, “you know you want it.”

As Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (who increasingly reminds me of someone who once got a laugh at another’s expense and thus considers himself a wit) declared today, “whatever it takes to get health care done,”, President Obama put the exclamation point to the sentiment by handing some judge robes to the brother of an undecided Democrat. If the timing of the appointment is merely co-incidental, you’d think the president would be attuned to the bad optics of it, but Obama doesn’t really care what anything thinks about what he does.

All of that has left Dan Riehl very, very angry. I mean, way beyond Marvin-the-Martian angry:

This neophyte, this joke we have in the White House has absolutely no idea of the force and the rage he is about to unleash on him and his entire political party. If there are not enough responsible adults left within his party to rein in this accidental, affirmative action jerk, this self-styled, extremely flawed little man, then his party is worthless to America. It deserves to be marginalized electorally and, ultimately, utterly destroyed, before being relegated to the dung heap of history with the rest of the marxist, socialist clowns Americans have dispatched before.

Reconciliation for this disaster of a destructive health care bill I doubt anyone on the Hill can fully define means all out war. The only question remaining is, whose side are you on?

Ehhhhmmm…yeeah. That’s…pretty…damned…mad. Obama campaigned promising that he would both “unify” and “remake” America. Seems he meant it, for better or worse. But many moderate Democrats, Independents and even some Conservatives thought Obama meant we’d all have a cookout and work on fine-tuning the American engine and polishing the fenders between bites of potato salad.

They apparently did not realize he meant a complete overhaul and redesign.

Those of us who did should not be acting too surprised, at this point.

Glenn Reynolds is concerned:

I’ve never seen Dan Riehl this angry. Is he an outlier, or a leading indicator? The Dems had better hope it’s the former. . .

I don’t the Democrats give a damn about it, they haven’t for a while, which tells me that they have their eyes on something so vast that the rest of us -riding on the back of the beast and thus unable to gauge its proportions- can’t even see the totality of it.

Whether Riehl is an outlier is a good question, though. My readers and penpals are mostly temperate sorts who are not quick to go all Yosemite Sam and a-haulin’ out their rifles. But I actually have had a few emails indicating that the Looney Tunes White House and the Democrats are crossing a line they ought not cross, if they’d prefer not to test the action/reaction theory.

VIDEO AT LINK...

Undoubtedly, there are some Americans who are feeling as angry as Reihl. There are people out there -you can read them in political forums and the comments sections of most internet-posted news columns- who are literally thisclose to saying, “the government has abandoned America and its precepts; they are the outliers, they are the ones bending the nation to the breaking point, and they must be stopped.”

By what means? Who knows.

People are feeling not just “fooled” but betrayed and disrespected by their elected leaders, who are supposed to be their servants. No one likes feeling that way. Many Conservatives and Independents sense that their hirees are out of control and dictating to them from on high; to them, America feels like a college campus occupied by a bunch of spoiled adolescents who are alternately calling their tuition-paying parents “stupid and bourgeois” or “stupid and oppressed,” depending on the day. They are bristling at the disdain and condescension they sense from their government. In his speech today, Obama seemed one rhetorical flourish away from saying, “don’t you know who I am?” And the sense I am getting is that Americans are ready to say, in return, “don’t you know who we are, who hired you?”

Centers are definitely not holding. The more cynical side of me, which I am trying to keep tamped down, even wonders if some in DC are counting on the threat of violence occurring, as a means to yet another end.

I took a “retreat” day, today; spent the whole day in prayer, reading, contemplation. Retreating from the daily hash of news and spin, I came back to “the world” more and more convinced that illusions are spinning like mad all around us, and that the only way to defeat them is to hold on to what we know is true, and not get sucked into a whirling vortex of emotion. Emotion is always the exploitable bugbear that lets things slip further out of control than they should; emotion is what Democrats seem to count on, and what conservatives are increasingly falling prey to, as they feel their principles are being dismissed, and the nation’s precepts are being steamrollered.

In an address to congress, Abraham Lincoln said that in order to save our nation, we had to “disenthrall ourselves” of our passions. That, of course, only works if all sides agree to do it. Nobody is agreeing to nuthin’ in 21st Century America.

My hope is that Riehl is an outlier. I suspect, though, that if he is, he won’t be for very long.

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"I’ve never seen Dan Riehl this angry. Is he an outlier, or a leading indicator? The Dems had better hope it’s the former. . ."

 

Dan is merely giving voice to concerns some of us- in less-known venues-- have had for a long, long time.

 

We tried to inform you, folks, and got called "RAAACIST!" ( Hattip: HillBuzz ) for our efforts.

 

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RESPONDING TO RECONCILIATION: I’ve never seen Dan Riehl this angry. Is he an outlier, or a leading indicator? The Dems had better hope it’s the former. . .

 

That this inexperienced travesty of a chief executive, Obama, more a byproduct of timing and media collaboration, than his own worth, or accomplishment, is personally advocating for the so-called nuclear option is the final straw.

It’s official. After months of threatening to push the button on the so-called nuclear option, reconciliation — the parliamentary maneuver that Harry Reid said “nobody” is talking about and that President Obama said Americans didn’t care about last week — is a go.

Reconcile this, you distasteful, malevolent little quisling punk - a timely reminder of some words I never thought would have such import during my lifetime.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The cause is well known and it is just. When the alleged leader of a democratic republic places his own wishes so above those of the complete body politic, he is no longer worthy of the title, leader, no matter what office he might occupy.

Only a fool with no clear appreciation of, or for, America past and present, would dare undertake what this pustule in the White House is attempting to do. It is contingent upon the Republican Party to undertake every step, every maneuver it can to bring this government to a halt.

READ ALL OF IT- at the link, dammit!

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Also, no one is 'Just a Mom,' or 'Just a Dad' or 'Just a Plumber' or just an anything else. Everyone has a skill, a talent, an insight or a bit of knowledge that the rest of us need to know and understand.

Get involved locally, at the neighborhood level, if not at the town council or county commission level.

Get to know your neighbors. Offer input, help, advice...you're really going to need one another before this is all over and done."

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Coverage of Teh One’s profoundly dishonest speech here:

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"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia"

OBAMAVILLES: New ghost towns: Industrial communities teeter on the edge.

POLL: Confidence In Economy’s Future Is At Lowest Point of Obama’s Presidency.

Five Reasons Sarah Palin’s Mark Burnet Deal Will Be the Most Brilliant Tactical Move in 21st Century Politics

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Five reasons, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton Senate, Sarah Palin Mark Burnet, Why Sarah Palin's strategy is genius |
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There are many times when we, as Hillary Clinton supporters, can speak directly to Sarah Palin supporters, as people who have been there, done that, and have the scars and experiential knowledge to prove it.  Today is one of those days, as the MSM and Left attack the Governor for her planned travelogue/documentary series featuring the Palin family traveling across Alaska, showcasing its wonders and teaching America about our last frontier and the great energy riches inherent there.

As usual, the MSM, DNC, and RNC elite conspire to breed Eeyores amongst the caribou and arctic foxes of Team Sarah.  Eeyores, for the uninitiated, are sad-sack, pessimistic, fat little rainclouds moaning DOOOOOM!  DOOOOOM! DOOOOM! because the MSM spins something Palin does in a negative way…and Eeyores foolishly fall for it.  Each and every time.

We, as Clinton supporters, dealt with this for the better part of a year, as the MSM constantly told Clinton “to shut up and quit” and bred Eeyores to moan and bray that there was “no way Hillary will win Massachusetts!” or “not a chance she’ll take Ohio!” and that “we’re DOOMED! DOOMED! DOOOOOOOOOMED! in Pennsylvania!”.  Eeyores?  More like jackasses, because we won every one of those states.  The MSM and DNC knew Clinton would win too.  That’s why so much effort was made to demoralize her supporters and make them second guess their commitment to Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, a woman we personally will always go to the very gates of Hell and back for.

One of the women we’d do that for…the other being Sarah Heath Palin.

Today, as many in Team Sarah doubt the benefit of Palin filming a TV project with Mark Burnet, we’re reminded of one of the most frustrating and asinine Eeyore-isms here in Hillaryland, which went on and on and on ad nauseum from December 2008 through, well, this day for some trolls.  ”She should have stayed in the Senate!  She’s marginalized! She should have never taken the State Department job!  Eeeeeee-yoooooor, eeeeee-yooooor, eeeee-yoooooor!  Waaaaaaaah!”.

Hillary Clinton made a brilliant tactical move in leaving the Senate.  It was genius for the following five reasons:

(1) Clinton was able to make the 17 million or so Democrat voters who picked Dr. Utopia and his Hope and Change parlor show over her in the primaries completely forget there was ever any animosity between her and their Lightbringer, while maintaining her own army of 18 million loyal Hillary voters.  In the Senate, she would have been a defeated adversary.  At the State Department, she took on a new role as Secretary of State that showed Dr. Utopia’s voters “what a team player she was”, making it impossible for “The One” to ever say a bad word about her again.

(2) Clinton was never going to get a major committee to chair in the Senate, because of seniority rules, so being in the Senate offered her no new experiences for any future plans she has.  Moving to State bolstered her foreign policy credentials.  If she runs for office again, it will not be as a former First Lady and Senator, but as a former Secretary of State who was a Senator before that, and a First Lady many, many years ago.

(3) Hillary Clinton did not have to vote on any of the crazy, demented, unconstitutional, and reckless nonsense the Left has forced through the Senate since January 2009.  She, thus, got out of Dodge before the whole place went nuts and the Kool-Aid Crazies took over.  The woman who was hamstrung by her Iraq vote in 2002 did not want to chalk up any more votes that would haunt her in the future…such as the vote on the Porkulus Wasteful Spending Bill, the Cap & Tax measures that were proposed, and this abomination of  Healthcare Rationing bill.  Traveling the world wherever she wants to go, Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to touch any of this madness with a ten thousand foot pole.

(4) Regarding Healthcare, the woman who was tarred and feathered for “HillaryCare” in the 90s has now watched Dr. Utopia make everyone forget her mismanagement of that policy process twenty years ago, because the bumbling and undemocratic hubris the administration is showing with this Rationing bill has eclipsed the mistakes Clinton made so long ago.  She has absolutely nothing to do with this disaster.  Nothing.  None of this is her fault.  It’s so bad, in fact, that people look back fondly on “HillaryCare” and wish we could all have that back on the table again today.

(5) Lastly, Clinton, at State, is out of politics for the time being. She, thus, does not have to travel the country campaigning to save all the many, many Leftists who will be obliterated in the November elections…many of whom are people who backstabbed her and pushed her out of the way so that Dr. Utopia could declare himself a “Lightbringer” and usurp her.  In Tel Aviv or London or Moscow or Paris or Beijing, Clinton gets to sit back and watch all of these fools and idiots implode as voters take back the Republic from these radical Marxists this fall.  She does not have to help them.  She is, in fact, by nature of her job, precluded from doing anything to save them.  ”Can’t interfere in politics, I’m Secretary of State now,” she gets to say.  ”Save yourself, Chuck Schumer.  Better yet, let Obama save you, since you wanted him to be president instead of me”.  You know that “cackle” Dr. Utopia’s followers accuse Hillary Clinton of having?  Well, insert said golden laughter here.

So, contrary to what so many Eeyores have repeatedly said about leaving the Senate being “a terrible move” for Hillary Clinton, we’ve consistently maintained, since Day One, that it was strategic genius of her to switch gears like this, and get out of the way of the runaway train she saw coming.

Similarly, we believe Sarah Palin is making perhaps the smartest, most brilliant, tactical move of 21st Century politics in pursuing the travelogue/adventure/exploration of Alaska series with Mark Burnet.  Here’s why:

(1) Sarah Palin will no doubt have complete control over how she is portrayed on the Burnet show.  She would never agree to such an undertaking if this was not true.  That would be ludicrous.  So every episode of the show will be what Sarah Palin wants America to see about Alaska, and Sarah Palin too.  She will control the narrative.  She will take viewers to places that have special meaning to her, and that showcase her many strengths and talents.  Every episode will be a campaign commercial without most Americans realizing it.  The grandeur of Alaska will unfold before their eyes, with Sarah Palin as their guide.  An emotional connection will form with her, the way those connections form between viewers and the people on Amazing Race or Survivor.  At home in Cleveland or Helena or Newark, people will see “their friend Sarah” out and about in exotic far-flung places, and they will share whatever adventures unfold with her.  They will get to know Alaska through her, and get to know her through Alaska…and the miracle of television.

(2) Palin knows Katie Couric and Tina Fey did damage to her name and image in 2008.  To this day, low-information Liberals parrot things they heard Fey, in particular say, attributing them to Palin.  We remember clearly in the closing days of the presidential campaign Fey appearing on Conan O’Brien or some other show claiming she “couldn’t wait to never do the Palin character again”.  In fact, she SWORE up and down she was just doing her Palin impersonation one or two times, then never again.  Well, here we are in 2010, and apparently Fey’s so desperate for attention she’s going back to her old stomping ground at SNL to do the Palin impression some more…because Palin is more popular and famous worldwide than Fey will ever be.  That’s really sad, actually, because it feels like someone in her 40s going back to grade school, sitting down in one of those teensy desks, getting out some safety scissors and playing sixth-grader again.  If Sarah Palin is not a very big deal, when why is Tina Fey, “star” of her own TV show, going back to her old ensemble show to portray the woman she claimed she’d never portray again?  Makes no sense…unless Palin remains a great and serious threat to the Left, and the MSM, DNC, and others need Fey to keep pumping out apocryphal nonsense low-information Liberals can then parrot back about Palin.  The way the Governor counters this is by filling the airwaves with her own images, her own impressions for the public to latch onto.  The more content Palin puts out there showing her in the best light, the harder it is for Tina Fey to invent nonsense.  We’d address Katie Couric here, but why bother? Couric’s being fired by CBS because of her dismal, unprofessional performance.  Apparently, she’s being replaced by the end of the year by Anderson Cooper from CNN.  So, Couric, indeed is irrelevant.  When Palin continues to hold more public fascination than ‘the perky one’ could ever imagine.

(3) The quickest way for Palin to end the attacks on her children by the likes of David Letterman and other Leftist agents is to show America how great the Palin family is.  Heroic Track is off in the Army serving his country and fighting hard in Afghanistan, so we don’t think he’d be part of the show, but Bristol certainly has shown immense strength and maturity beyond her years in recent months, so we bet she will be on the series helping Palin teach Americans about Alaska.  After reading Going Rogue, we’re certain spirited Piper will be right there at her mom’s side, since Piper’s been Palin’s sidekick since she was born.  Willow, who is apparently very smart and interested in history, would be an excellent guide on this series, and with Bristol would probably help take care of little Trig, who no doubt will quickly become America’s sweetheart.  We love that little guy, so we can’t wait to see him each week somewhere in Alaska with his family, exploring, learning, growing, and teaching Americans just how much a special needs little guy can do…and how much he can quickly come to mean to ALL of us.  Throw in stone cold fox Todd Palin, and you’re guaranteed even guys here in Boystown would want to watch.  It’s already going to be must-see TV in every female household in America, but despite the irrational hatred of Republicans here in Boystown, we bet even a good portion of our peers will be TIVO-ing to see what manly adventures the future First Dude gets up to each week.

(4) With Palin on TV all the time, it will essentially be like having free campaign commercials playing a year before the Iowa Caucus, when her boring, milquetoast, cucumber and mayonnaise on soggy Wonder Bread primary rivals like Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, John Thune, and Casper the Friendly Ghost all fade into the background, like xeroxes of mimeographs of tissue paper bathroom caulk color samples. Meanwhile, Palin gets to establish branding using all that Alaskan wilderness, all of those Alaskan animals, and all of that adventure, which more often than not will lead her to oil exploration areas, to places where Alaskans have struck out and created new business, and to wherever she thinks her policy points on national security, job development, and strengthening America can best be illustrated in her native state. She will combine policy with adventure in a way the American people will eat up.  Just like watching Amazing Race, viewers will LEARN something while being entertained and traveling to distance lands vicariously through the characters on TV they watch…but this time the characters on TV will be living in the White House in 2013.

(5) Palin, as the GOP nominee in 2012, will need to defeat the world’s biggest celebrity, a man who has the entire MSM at his disposal, working as his Ministry of Propaganda and carrying out orders from the DNC itself.  She’ll also have to face the RNC elite, which does not want to run a woman for president, and instead wants to send one of the Caspers up to bat: Pawlenty, Romney, Thune, Mitch Daniels, John Huntsman, or people even worse as national candidates like Charlie Crist, Bobby Jindal, or Haley Barbour.  So, for Palin to defeat first the RNC and then Dr. Utopia and his Maddening Media Machine, Palin must become a bigger celebrity and media force than anything her detractors and opponents can muster. A hit TV series in which she travels with her family, showcases Alaska, and teaches Americans her policy points while letting them get to know her and her family better might not be the only way to achieve that…but it sure will work.  You betcha!

So, Palin supporters defaulting to Eeyore mode and thinking this is a bad move for Palin, please listen to guys who have been going to bat for Hillary Clinton since one of us first wrote a freshman essay on her for speech class back in high school in 1990.  We’ve seen everything possible thrown at Clinton.  We know exactly what the MSM and DNC did to her in 2008.  We know exactly why she left the Senate and went to the State Department.  While we don’t know when she’ll run for President again, we know that she will do so.

We know Sarah Palin is running for President in 2012.  We know this show is part of her strategy for winning.

We think it is a brilliant tactical move.

Should, for whatever reason, the Palin Family Adventure Show find its way taping an episode in Chicagoland, we volunteer ourselves as Palin’s Boystown guides, and hope to watch every episode when it airs in 2011…at which time we hope to be coordinating ground efforts for Palin as she prepares to become the first woman to win the Republican primary in Iowa in early 2012.

This is a brilliant, brilliant move on the Governor’s part, people.  If you support her and believe in her, you have to learn to trust her…and shut down those Eeyores before they drag down her campaign before it can even launch.

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UPDATE:  Entertainment Weekly has more on the Palin-Burnet TV project over at EW.com.

A few things are interesting about this.  Right off the bat, for whatever reason, vile pig Ken Tucker didn’t write up his thoughts on this TV deal for Palin. Perhaps his hooves were too muddy to slam against the keyboard, so they had Lynette Rice write the piece, who is much fairer to Palin (and everyone else who is not a crazed Leftist, which are the only people Tucker supports). Why Tucker didn’t write this blurb on a TV development is beyond us, since he takes every opportunity he can to bash Palin.  Maybe the editor decided his particular brand of bacon-scented swinery was not called for this time…because the Palin-Burnet show is going to be a big deal.

In the EW article, more details come out about whom Palin is meeting with in Hollywood: it’s all broadcast networks.  That appearance on Leno seemed timed to coincide with her meeting with NBC…staggered a few days later so that Nielsens could come in and show what a draw Palin would be.  Very smart move for the ‘Cuda.

We like the “Commander in Chief” joke one executive told when asked what Palin was doing at the networks.  He said she was doing a sequel to the Geena Davis show from a few years ago, which we LOVED, about the first female US President.

We believe the 45th President will be a woman, and she will take office in 2013.  That woman will either be Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin, depending on whether or not Dr. Utopia does not run for a second term, in which case Clinton will be the president…or if he decides on foolishly trying to Hopey-change his way through another election, the Palins will move into the White House in January 2013.

A WOMAN WILL BE PRESIDENT…and she will kick ass and take names, and have one Hell of a time trying to clean up the mess the Utopias made of this country (and more likely than not, the way they throw parties with reckless abandon, the White House itself).

HEH: Tea Party Protesters Greet Unpopular Incumbent Blanche Lincoln As She Files For Re-Election. Video at the link.

 

ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE COURTESY OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR: From 200 in 2006, Retail Clinics Now Top 1,200 For First Time Ever; An Amazing 6X Increase in 3 Years. “At the same time that Congress and the President orchestrate a government takeover of America’s health care system and capture all of the media attention, a more silent revolution is taking place, as market-based alternatives like convenient, low-cost retail clinics are expanding daily, saving American consumers millions of dollars and putting Americans back in charge of their health care spending.” This must be squashed at once!

 

POLLS: “The more Obama talks about government takeover of medicine, the more Americans think the country is on the wrong track.”

 

MOST ETHICAL CONGRESS EVAH! Ethics committee investigating Massa’s alleged advances toward staffer. “Paterson, Rangel, now this guy: I do believe there’s a narrative a-brewin’.”

Not only did Obama not attend Columbia College...Harvard has no record of him either...nor Hawaii

 

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March 3, 2010 at 8:07 pm

Obama is bribing people for votes.
I am not even shocked anymore.

http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-now-selling-appeals-court-judgeships-health-care-votes

 

 

 

 

 

 

MARK STEYN: “Gee, prosecuting Geert Wilders for ‘Islamophobia’ in a politically rigged show trial seems to be working out just swell for the Dutch establishment.”

 

TWICE AS HARD: New Rules, MSNBC and MSM: Every Time You Call Us ‘Nazis,’ We’re Punching Back.  "A masterful display of all the dishonest pathologies of the Left in one handy clip. Posit something counter-factual (the Right wants to kill blacks and Jews and women) and then argue the premise?  Check. Rude and intolerant toward your guest?  Check.  Liberally throw around words like “racists” and “Nazis?” Check?  Get angry when confronted and challenged and then stalk off the set?  Check?  Conclude with a barrage of insults after the guest’s mic has been cut off? Check!"

 

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The Evil that Men Do

News that one of two children who killed a two year old toddler 17 years ago has been reincarcerated has shocked advocates of rehabilitation in Britain. James Venables, now 27, has been sent back to jail for unspecified violations of his conditions of release. The BBC reported that “one of James Bulger’s killers has been returned to prison after he breached the terms of his release. Jon Venables, 27, is back in jail after being released on life licence in 2001, when he was given a new identity. In 1993 he was detained with his friend Robert Thompson for the horrific murder of the two-year-old toddler in Bootle, Liverpool.”

The news was received with great bitterness in the Guardian, which campaigned to give Venable a second chance.  Alan Travis wrote “the recall of Jon Venables to prison is a big setback for the cause of reform and rehabilitation of child killers popularly branded as evil and beyond help. Venables and Robert Thompson have been held up as model case studies of the potential of the criminal justice system to turn around lives, even in the most difficult cases.” Travis quoted the hopeful worlds of  Lord Chief Justice said on that occasion.

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Democrat Eric Massa Lied… Hoyer Knew About Sexual Harassment Last Month

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 8:50 PM

Jim Hoft

Rep. Eric Massa dismissed reports today that he had sexually harassed a male staffer. Massa told Politico:

“When someone makes a decision to leave Congress, everybody says everything. I have health issues. I’ll talk about it [later]… those kinds of articles, unsubstantiated, without fact or backing, are a symptom of what’s wrong with this city.”

Eric Massa, Democratic Representative for New York’s 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. (AP)

However, Massa was not being honest about his predicament. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer revealed later today that he received a report last month of allegations of misconduct against a New York congressman.
The AP reported:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says he received a report last month of allegations of misconduct against a New York congressman who has announced he will not seek a second term.

A statement from Hoyer’s office late Wednesday says he was told the week of Feb. 8 about the allegations by a staff member in Rep. Eric Massa’s office. Hoyer directed Massa to report the allegations to the House Ethics Committee within 48 hours. Hoyer says he received confirmation within 48 hours that the Ethics Committee had received the report and would review the allegations.

Massa, a freshman Democrat who represents western New York, had announced Wednesday that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year. In a conference call, Massa dismissed a report that he had been accused of harassing a staffer.

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"Remember during the Mark Foley incident that they(Dems) tried to connect it all the way up to Speaker Hastert, even though Foley had resigned…It’s time for us to ask, “what did the Democrat Leaders (Pelosi and Hoyer) know, and when did they know it?”"

 

STOP THE MADNESS!… Stop Bob Corker & the Godawful Banking Bureaucracy Boondoggle

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 1:05 AM

Jim Hoft

Do Republicans Not Get It? Did they not pay attention to the thousands of tea parties this past year? Did they not see the hundreds of thousands of tea party protesters across the nation? Did they miss the million protesters who marched down the streets of Washington DC on September 12th?

(Photo via Instapundit and Mary Katharine Ham)
Are the Republicans really that blind? Do they Not Care? Even awful Speaker Pelosi is warming up to the Nazis tea party protesters.

After all of the posturing and preening and shouting and yelling and marching and tea party protesting, America is about to get the whole Democrat agenda shoved down our collective throat. Barack Obama announced today that Democrats are going to use reconciliation to jam Obamacare through Congress and essentially nationalize one-sixth of the US economy. And now, Republicans are about to offer them the rest of the American economy on a silver platter thanks to Senator Bob Corker. Congress is currently working to create a whole new consumer protection division within the Federal Reserve. This new division will give the Fed more power and focus on consumer protection. And, a Republican, Bob Corker, is for some reason leading the charge to create this whole new bureaucracy. The Wall Street Journal reported:

Several senior Republicans have joined negotiations with Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) over how to construct consumer-protection rules, potentially bringing more Republican votes to a broader revamp of finance rules—if Democrats can stomach more concessions.

“We’re very, very, very close to a deal,” Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) said in an interview.

The development came after a closed door meeting Tuesday night between Mr. Corker and Sens. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), Richard Shelby (R., Ala.), Judd Gregg (R., N.H.), and Mike Crapo (R., Idaho).

The meeting was called after a Wall Street Journal story Tuesday said Messrs. Corker and Dodd were near an agreement on a compromise to create a new consumer protection division within the Federal Reserve…

…On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett met with consumer and public interest groups and said new consumer protection rules would be formidable.

At the meeting, Mr. Geithner said it was an “empty argument” that safety and soundness regulation couldn’t be separated from consumer protection, someone familiar with the meeting said. Treasury officials also said they would only support new rules if the agency had an independent leadership, budget and decision making powers, and the power to set rules and enforce them.

Grassroots conservatives are rightly up in arms over Senator Corker’s game of footsie with far left Democrat Chris Dodd on President Obama’s effort to impose a massive new regulatory scheme on America’s economy. Dodd, of course, is one of the architects of the current financial crisis. His decades long support of ACORN, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Community Reinvestment Act should have disqualified him from these negotiations in the first place. But, this is Washington, after all, and apparently Bailout Bob was willing to look the other way and turn the other cheek.

This was even after the House of Representatives passed a similar bill in December, but it received no Republican votes. Close to two dozen Democrats voted against it.

The House passed financial reform bill, crafted by none other than Barney Frank (D-MA) contained a permanent bailout fund for banks and Wall Street firms and created a new agency of government that would be allowed to regulate any and all business in America. It received no Republican votes and close to two dozen democrats opposed the legislation. But, it is alive today thanks to Bob Corker.

The ironically named Consumer Financial Protection Agency will pile a new bureaucracy on top of an existing bureaucracy. It will spend hundreds of millions of dollars imposing job killing regulations on small business. It will have the power to strip consumers of their freedoms and restrict credit opportunities for small business. And, there’s more. Also tucked in the bill is a clause that gives the Federal Reserve the authority to bailout businesses to the tune of an astonishing $4 trillion.

The bill seemed to be dead until Corker decided to grab favorable headlines from the New York Times. According to news reports, Corker’s solution to the problem is to move the new regulatory agency to the Federal Reserve as opposed to leaving it a stand alone agency. Corker is misleading his colleagues and the public by telling them that this will some how save money.

Let’s be clear, the bill contains bailouts for big banks and Wall Street firms and new red tape nightmares for main street businesses. What difference does the location of this new uber-regulatory bureaucracy make? The only thing this bill will save is jobs, paychecks, yachts and third vacation homes for Wall Street bankers and irresponsible CEOs.

The fact is we need to reduce the size and scope of government not allow a government takeover of the financial sector of the economy.

The word from the halls of the Capital is Corker is still trying to cut a deal. But, honestly, what can conservatives possibly get from such a deal? If you strip out the bailouts and the new Washington bureaucracies and regulations, there is nothing left. So, any deal will be a bad one. A quick look at Corker’s financial contributors leaves one wondering whether Corker supports Wall Street more than Main Street. He is giving those at the top a handout while giving the middle class the bill. And as far as the tea party movement. Corker will forfeit any political ground conservatives have gained back recently.
Call Bob Corker and tell him to Stop the Madness. (202) 224-3344

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twas a Beautiful sight to see.. :-)

1 5 to 2 million march on Washington D C
Tea Party protest rally September 12 2009

You’d think the Obama administration is busy enough controlling the banks, insurance companies and automakers, but thanks to whistleblowers at the Department of the Interior, we now learn they’re planning to increase their control over energy-rich land in the West.
White House land grab

Proposal to seize land would favor animals over Americans

By Sen. Jim DeMint
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/land-grab-i-can-see-people-getting-shot.html

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He's deaf to only voice of reason in cult of lackeys

Dems at risk of decades in desert

'Hey, passing health- care reform may cost us the House or even the Senate this fall — but we'll get control back eventually, and the Republicans will never be able to repeal it."

That's what some Democrats are telling each other to justify the final push for ObamaCare. It might even be true — but it might also sentence the party to minority status for decades. Here's why:

ObamaCare isn't Medicare: Medicare's been popular since before it passed. It's an enormous boon to those it serves, at little noticeable cost to everyone else. "Health-care reform" will take a lot away from a lot of people — forcing them to change plans, hiking their taxes and more.

So passing ObamaCare will create a large, popular movement for repeal that Medicare never faced.

Fine, repeal will be even harder than passing the reform — and Republicans haven't had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate in living memory.

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Ever since that dividing line was crossed, the Democrats have seemed to be operating in a hermetically sealed political vacuum, impervious to the public's changing post-crash priorities and diminishing tolerance for big government solutions. The complex, sector-remaking cap-and-trade bill is a perfect example.(continued)

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Yep, gotta save trillions to pour on the 2010 equivalent

of MidNite Basketball...

 

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Read more at investors.com ...

 

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Read more at investors.com ...

Deaf To America: Why Democrats have lost the public's trust.

Ever since that dividing line was crossed, the Democrats have seemed to be operating in a hermetically sealed political vacuum, impervious to the public's changing post-crash priorities and diminishing tolerance for big government solutions. The complex, sector-remaking cap-and-trade bill is a perfect example.(continued)

Read more at forbes.com ...

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