Meet the foot-soldiers of the Democratic Party.
Via Secular Stupidiest:
Monday, February 28, 2011
GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch on Obamacare: "It really is an awful piece of crap.”
Sen. Orrin Hatch sure has a way with understatement.
(The Hill)- “Every state has different demographics, every state has different problems,” Hatch said, according to a Utah Statesman report published Monday. “It’s good to allow them to work out their own problems rather than a one-size-fits-all federal government, dumb-ass program. It really is an awful piece of crap.”
That Spinning Object Seen in Washington is President Obama
A Florida judge has struck down the individual mandate in Obamacare after 26 states sued. Some Republican governors are now planning to refuse implementation of President Obama's socialistic takeover of our health care system. President Obama seems to be throwing them a one.
WASHINGTON — Seeking to appease disgruntled governors, President Obama announced Monday that he supported amending the 2010 health care law to allow states to opt out of its most burdensome requirements three years earlier than currently permitted.Or is he? Could it really be a liberal plot to expand to a single-payer system?
In remarks to the National Governors Association, Mr. Obama said he backed legislation that would enable states to request federal permission to withdraw from the law’s mandates in 2014 rather than in 2017 as long as they could prove that they could find other ways to cover as many people as the original law would and at the same cost.
(Politico) — Jennifer Haberkorn reports that President Obama’s move to allow states flexibility in spending health care funds is the “most significant change” since the law was enacted, and a potential gesture toward critics.
But a source on a White House conference call with liberal allies this morning says the Administration is presenting it to Democrats as an opportunity to offer more expansive health care plans than the one Congress passed.
5 months after officially ending drilling ban; Obama Administration approves a deepwater drilling permit
It only took 5 months after the drilling ban and a $1.46 per gallon increase to get Team Obama to approve a deepwater drilling permit.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US government has awarded its first permit for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico since a moratorium was lifted after the BP oil disaster last year, a senior official said Monday.
Michael Bromwich, head of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy, said the permit was approved for US firm Noble Energy after a thorough vetting process and marked "a significant milestone" for Gulf operations.Higher gas prices are causing worry of a double-dip recession. If the economy tailspins back into recession, President Obama's reelection chances are dismal and none.
"Noble Energy's application has met the requirements of our new safety regulations and information requirements," Bromwich said in a conference call with reporters.
Will U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson Halt Obamacare Implementation?
According to this report, the smart money says U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson will stop Obamacare implementation in the26 states that brought the suit.
(Politico) — U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson has already dealt the Obama administration a staggering blow on health reform, and this week the administration may get another one from the fiery Florida judge.
Obamacare
The Justice Department asked Vinson to clarify his ruling that struck down the law as unconstitutional. Justice must file its brief on the motion by Monday, and Vinson has said he would rule quickly after that. At issue is whether Vinson meant to stop reform implementation in the 26 states that brought the suit.
The smart money says Vinson will halt implementation, and legal observers are wondering why Justice would take that risk.
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan is still buddies with Moammar Gadhafi
It figures.
ROSEMONT, Ill. – Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan says Moammar Gadhafi has always been a friend and he won’t distance himself from the Libyan dictator.
Farrakhan spoke Sunday at the Chicago-based organization Saviours’ Day convention.
Farrakhan didn’t talk specifics about the deadly uprisings in Libya, but the 77-year-old said no leader has been loved by 100 percent of his people.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Judicial Watch: Ted Kennedy was a brothel frequenting commie lover?
That shocking conclusion could be drawn from previously redacted FBI documents that Judicial Watch now has.
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained previously redacted material from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file of the late Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy, who died in August 2009 from brain cancer...
- “While Kennedy was in Santiago he made arrangements to ‘rent’ a brothel for an entire night. Kennedy allegedly invited one of the Embassy chauffeurs to participate in the night’s activities.”
- “[I]n each country Kennedy insisted on interviewing ‘the angry young men’ of the country. He wanted to meet with communists and others who had left-wing views. . . . Ambassador Freeman, Bogota, said the first person whom Kennedy wanted to meet was Lauchlin Currie.” (The document subsequently identifies Currie as a person who “had been mentioned in Washington investigations of Soviet spy rings.”)
- “[I]n Mexico Kennedy asked Ambassador Mann that certain left-wingers be invited to the Embassy residence where interviews could be held. Mann took the strong position that he would not invite such people and stated that if any such interviews were to be conducted, all arrangements should be made by Kennedy himself.”
Guess who opposes tax breaks for corporations that give poor students scholarships?
Guess who opposes tax breaks for corporations that give poor students scholarships? It is teacher associations and teacher unions. In light of this revelation, this question must be asked, "Whose best interest do public school teachers and employees have in mind? Is it students or themselves?" I think you already know the answer to that question.
(WaPo)- But the Virginia Education Association, Virginia PTA, the Virginia Association of School Superintendents, the Virginia School Boards Association and the Legislative Black Caucus, except for Howell, were opposed, saying the state should restore public school funds before granting tax breaks to corporations to send children to private school. Read more here.
Another Union Thug Assaults a Teapartier
What eve happened to the new civility? Are only Conservatives expected to be civil?
KXTV-TV: An amateur videographer caught a shoving match on tape. The video showed a face to face argument right before Richard Andazola, 28, of Stockton, shoved a tea party activist.
“He bum rushed across the street, came right at us, swung his bullhorn at me, hit me in the hand and then put his hand around my throat and started choking me,” Rodney Stanhope of Placerville said.
The video doesn’t show the choking incident, but clearly shows the shoving. Because of it, Sacramento Police officers cited Andazola for battery…(Read more)
Are Liberals Mentally Deranged? (video)
Are liberals mentally deranged? If you think this a a ridiculous question, just watch this video of a self-identified liberal at a Chicago protest in support of public-sector unions.
Shameful: CBS Drama “The Good Wife” Names Palin-Supporting Tea Party Character “McVeigh”
CBS has conjered up images of violent right-wing radicals by naming a Tea Party member in their drama “The Good Wife” McVeigh.
(Fox News) — The CBS drama “The Good Wife” has raised a few eyebrows by naming Gary Cole’s character, a ballistics expert, Tea Party member, and Sarah Palin supporter, “Kurt McVeigh,” a not so subtle comparison to Timothy McVeigh, the man behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings.
So was the writing an attempt to discredit the former Republican Vice Presidential candidate by drawing links to Timothy McVeigh, or was it a simple artistic decision?
“Calling a character ‘Kurt McVeigh’ conjures up unmistakable images of mass murdering terrorist Timothy McVeigh. Hollywood screenwriters don’t live in a cultural vacuum; they help to create American culture,” Matthew Vadum, senior editor at the Capital Research Center in Washington D.C told FOX411’s Pop Tarts.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Finally: President Obama Says Moammar Gadhafi Must Go
Reverend Wright seen wiping away a tear.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi must leave now.
Obama made the comments to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a private telephone conversation Saturday as they discussed the violence in Libya.
Video: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Says Obama Doesn’t Deserve 2nd Term if He Does Not Join Union Protesters
Is someone losing that "Hope and Change" feeling? MSNBC’s Ed Schultz said Obama doesn't deserve a second term is he doesn't get out his comfy shoes and walk the picket line with protesting Wisconsin union members.
DNC chairman Kaine claims: 'We're going to play for the big win' in 2012 election
Let's hope Democrats keep pushing more government spending, large deficits and higher taxes. That should work. Well, it should work for the GOP.
(The Hill)- Kaine, speaking to party members in Washington at the DNC's Winter Meeting, said that the president's reelection would kick off sometime in the second quarter of 2011.
That campaign wouldn't be looking, though, to eke out just enough electoral votes to put Obama over the top.
"We're going to play for the big win," Kaine told DNC members, to cheers. "We're going to play in every corner of this country."
Gas prices are skyrocketing. What is the story with the drilling ban being lifted?
President Obama did "technically" lift the drilling ban 5 months ago, but no new drilling has taken place. He placed conditions on new drilling permits no one has been able to meet. The drilling ban lift was all for political show. You have to actually issue drilling permits to create jobs and add new petroleum to the supply chain.
Though The White House lifted the official moratorium on drilling last October, no new permits have so far been awarded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, part of the US Interior Department. Officials are insisting that the industry must be able to clearly show that it has the capacity to contain an offshore spill before it grants any permits.
On Friday, Ken Salazar, the Interior Secretary, met in Houston with Marine Well Containment, a consortium from the oil and gas industry working on containment plans.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Best way to Create Jobs is raising Taxes
President Obama is seen nodding in approval. The rest of us are dumbfounded.
(Yahoo! News) — What’s the best way to get Americans back to work?
Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending. “We need a dedicated source of revenue to create infrastructure in this country,” he tells Aaron Task in the accompanying clip.
“We need to create jobs. The best way to do that is through infrastructure development.” Simply maintaining the existing infrastructure in this country will cost $2.2 trillion over five years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. That doesn’t include Obama’s objective of high-speed rails and green energy projects.
The Party of No
I am not talking about the Republican Party. Democrats have become the 'Party of No'.
No tax cuts for many Americans.I could continue, but you get the idea.
No serious Federal Budget cuts.
No entitlement reforms.
No reigning in of budget busting public employee unions.
No serious tort reform.
Newt Gingrich:The Rule of Obama
President Obama has decided to abandon his Constitutional and sworn duties by stoping enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act. Former House Speaker and likely 2012 Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has some interesting observations on this outrageous decision by the Obama administration. (accent is mine)
(NewsMax)- "Imagine that Governor Palin had become president. Imagine that she had announced that Roe versus Wade in her view was unconstitutional and therefore the United States government would no longer protect anyone's right to have an abortion because she personally had decided it should be changed. The news media would have gone crazy. The New York Times would have demanded her impeachment."Here is a video of Gingrich's comments.
Gingrich's comments mark the first time a significant Republican leader has raised the specter of impeachment against Obama.
"First of all, he campaigned in favor of [the law]. He is breaking his word to the American people," Gingrich says.
"Second, he swore an oath on the Bible to become president that he would uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States. He is not a one-person Supreme Court... Read more here.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Jerome Corsi interviewed about his new book "Where's the Birth Certificate?" (video)
This book won't be out until May 17th, but it is already climbing on the best seller lists. Dr. Laurie Roth interviews Jerome Corsi about the demonizing of "birthers" and his new book "Where's the Birth Certificate?
"Where's the Birth Certificate?-Jerome Corsi
Video: Protesters in NJ compare Gov. Christie to Moamer Kadhafi
This new civility thing is really working well. NJ protesters equate Gov. Christie with Libyan Dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
Obama plans futile gesture in response to Libyan crackdown
Via Politico:
The White House came down hard on Muammar Gaddafi on Friday as it announced sanctions on Libya intended to send the message that the regime needs to stop hurting its people and start listening to them.The exact nature of the sanctions will not be announced until Monday, but there is little we sell of value to Muammar Gaddafi; except for some aircraft parts and non-lethal military equipment. Lethal hardware is already banned. We currently buy next to nothing in oil from Libya. White House press secretary Jay Carney claims sanctions are effective.
Sanctions on regimes like Libya's "have been shown to have an effect," he said.Sanctions have been shown to be effective on dictatorial regimes? Well, they worked so well on former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. and they have worked well getting Iran's President Ahmadinejad to abandon his nuclear weapon ambitions.
Demo Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper gets "giddy' in the presence of Obama
Well, at least he didn't get a tingle down his leg.
(Politico)- Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper gushed over his meeting with President Obama — he was part of a group of Democratic state leaders who convened at the White House on Friday.
He told POLITICO’s Mike Allen that he gets “a little giddy” in the president’s presence, “just because he is such a good communicator and he has such a clear vision. It gets misinterpreted so frequently, but he is very focused on, you know, ‘How do we make those hard decisions?’”
Global Warming Scam: Follow The Money
If you ever wondered how so many politicians and alleged scientists could sign on for the anthropogenic global warming scam, just follow the money. The money started pouring into global warming research and technology during the early 1990's. Scientists are now getting hundreds of millions for research projects as long they push the global warming agenda along. Politicians are dumping money into global warming groups and projects. Then, they leave and take high paying jobs with the groups or companies their funding made possible.
(Washington Examiner)- George Soros — whom we’re always told is not serving his own economic interests at all by promoting liberal politicians and big-government policies — is launching a new investment fund that plans to profit off of the “green energy” boom, which is entirely dependent on government subsidies supported by the groups Soros funds....
The press release casually mentions whom Soros is hiring to run this new fund: Cathy Zoi. As Cadie Thompson at CNBC’s NetNet (edited by my brother John Carney), puts it, Zoi was Barack Obama’s “Acting Under Secretary for Energy and Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.” An Al Gore acolyte, Zoi was Obama’s point-woman on subsidizing green tech. Now she’s going to work for George Soros to profit off of subsidized green tech.
Gay Sensitivity Training Headed For Battlefield
Don't our fighting men and women have enough to worry about? Now they will have to add failure to be politically correct about gays.
(Washington Times) — American combat troops will get sensitivity training directly on the battlefield about the military’s new policy on gays instead of waiting until they return to home base in the United States, the senior enlisted man in Afghanistan said Thursday.This new gay sensitivity training will go great with this new Marine recruitment video.
The Pentagon is launching an extensive force-wide program to ease the process of integrating open homosexuals into the ranks, including into close-knit fighting units.
Army Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, the top enlisted man in Afghanistan where 100,000 U.S. troops are deployed, said that the sessions on respecting gays’ rights will go right down to the forward operating bases, where troops fight Taliban militants.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Flashback: Ronald Reagan Called Gadhafi the “Mad Dog of the Middle East” ( Video)
Muammar Gaddafi has brutally cracked down on his people for trying to oust him as dictator. Hundreds have been killed. President Obama has failed to condemn Gaddafi by name. Obama has proven himself to be a spineless leader who has close ties to Gaddafi. How did a strong leader and believer in freedom and the American way view Muammar Gaddafi? Watch former President Ronald Reagan tell it like it is in this video.
Rasmussen: Obama loses 10 points in one month
Rasmussen has found a new low of only 37% of likely voters thinking President Obama is doing a good job. That is a ten point drop since his SOTU address.
(Rasmussen)- A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 37% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the president is doing a good or excellent job as a leader. Forty percent (40%) rate his performance as poor. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Last month, right after the president’s State of the Union speech, 47% of voters viewed his leadership positively. At that time, the number who gave Obama poor marks (33%) fell to its lowest level since September 2009.
CBO: Stimulus Jobs Saved or Created Cost $228,055 Each
Can you imagine how many jobs could have been created by putting that much money in the hands of small businesses? Many of the jobs turned out to be temporary anyway.
(CNSNews.com) — The jobs created and saved by the economic stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed on Feb. 17, 2009 cost at a minimum an average of $228,055 each, according to data released yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
In a report released Wednesday — “Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from October Through December 2010” — the CBO said it now estimates the stimulus law cost a total of $821 billion, up from CBO’s original estimate that the stimulus would cost $787 billion.
Mind-Exploding Hypocrisy: Ahmadinejad Condemns Gaddafi for Using Violence Against Protesters
Iran's Ahmadinejad,
"It's hard to imagine a person who could kill their own people or bombard them..."
Ahmadinejad seems to have forgotten what happened in Iran a little over one year ago.
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said.
At least five people — with reports of as many as 10 — were killed.
Obama's Ties To Muammar Gaddafi
President Obama's response to the ongoing revolution in Libya has been very muted. He was much more outspoken about Egypt, even though that revolution was fairly peaceful. In contrast, Gaddafi has cracked down brutally and hundreds are dead. Many people are wondering what is the difference? One difference is some of President Obama's buddies have close ties to Col. Gaddafi.
JERUSALEM- Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of Obama’s longtime Chicago church, went with Farrakhan to visit Gadhafi in 1984.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Wright himself noted the trip could cause problems for Obama.
“When [Obama's] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli to visit [Gadhafi] with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”
Farrakhan, a close friend and associate of Wright, has been financed by Gadhafi, including with a $5 million interest-free loan in 1985.
Push-back: Restaurant Refuses To Serve TSA Agents
Reaction to the TSA groping and porno-scanning of air travel passengers has left the front page but it is still a simmering issue. A Seattle restaurant has posted signs saying TSA is not allowed.
She says that whenever a TSA agent attempts to dine at the restaurant, "we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave... Their kind aren't welcomed in our establishment."
The restaurant claims that 90% of its patrons are in agreement with their stance and that the local police have actually helped escort TSA workers of the premises.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Oh My! 'Rent Is Too Damn High' Candidate is Now a Republican! (video)
Jimmy McMillan, rent is too damn high candidate, has switched to the GOP. He discovered "the Democratic Party sucked." He is running for for the office of President and has a new slogan, “The deficit is too damn high.” Hmm...
Coming to Airports: Body Cavity Scanners
If you thought regular body scanners were too invasive, Australia is set to trial a new X-ray technology that can reveal your internal cavities.
(news.com.au)- NEW X-ray technology that can reveal drug smugglers' internal cavities will be trialled at airports under a plan to fast-track security searches.
Legislation before Federal Parliament would enable customs officers to use new body scanners instead of sending suspects to hospital for internal X-rays ordered by a doctor, reported the Herald Sun.
Weird News: Two sisters released from prison for kidney transplant are too fat for surgery
The two sisters were in prison for armed robbery. They got sprung because one sister needed a kidney transplant and the other was to be the donor. The surgery has been postponed until they can lose a combined 160 pounds. It is unclear if Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour will have them returned to prison. He seems to be avoiding the question.
PENSACOLA, Fla. — A proposed kidney transplant that won two Mississippi sisters their freedom from prison can't take place until one quits smoking and they lose a combined 160 pounds.Jamie and Gladys Scott had served nearly 16 years of their life sentences for an armed robbery when they were released from a sprawling prison in central Mississippi on Jan. 7. Gov. Haley Barbour granted Jamie Scott an early release because she suffers from kidney failure, but he agreed to let Gladys Scott go on the condition she follow through on an offer to donate a kidney to her sister.
UN Asks Hollywood To Propaganda Anthropogenic Global Warming Fraud
More people are coming to the realization that the science behind anthropogenic global warming really isn't settled at all. The UN is now asking Hollywood to help pull the wool back over your eyes by adding global warming propaganda to your TV shows and movies.
(LA Times)- It is a mutually beneficial arrangement. Hollywood stars grasp at gravitas; the U.N. pushes for publicity.
Now the beleaguered multi-national agency, fresh from a disappointing round of climate negotiations in Cancun, wants something more concrete: actual story lines in movies, television and social media drawing attention to the dangers of global warming.
Obama Finally Speaks out on Bloodbath in Libya, Fails to Condemn Gaddafi
President Obama finally speaks out on the bloodshed in Libya, but he fails to condemn Gaddafi or call for his resignation.
(ABC News)- President Obama said the bloodshed in Libya was “outrageous and unacceptable,” but he declined to directly censure Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi who has been blamed for much of the violent crackdown.
“The suffering and bloodshed is outrageous and it is unacceptable, so are threats and orders to shoot peaceful protesters,” Obama said in his first televised remarks on the situation in Libya. “These actions violate international norms and every standard of common decency. This violence must stop.”
Chris Matthews reviewed Obama's speech.
“This statement could have been put out by the first President Bush. It has the aspect of an Arabist statement. I shouldn’t be too strong here, but it doesn’t have any dignity. I mean – Ronald Reagan – to his credit, said ‘evil empire’ before the fall of the wall.”
Wisconsin Republicans Moving Voter ID Bill Through Senate. Meanwhile, AWOL Democrats Try To "Phone It In"
The situation in Wisconsin is get more surreal everyday. Direct deposit for AWOL Democrats has been cut off and Republicans are starting to move other bills Democrats oppose that don't require the two-thirds quorum. In particular, they are moving a voter ID bill. No one who is against voter fraud should object to a voter ID bill, but Democrats do. I think you know the reason why.
(Investors.com)- Also today, the Republicans moved forward with a voter ID bill that Democrats oppose, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Republicans believe they can strip the bill of the quorum-requiring financial provisions and get it through while the Democrats are out of town...
Regarding the voter ID bill, GOP Sen. Mary Lazich, chairwoman of the committee handling the bill, refused to let missing Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach literally phone in his vote. The scene was pretty surreal, as Erpenbach was allowed to listen in by conference call, but that was it.
“I won’t extend courtesies for unethical behavior,” Lazich told Erpenbach.