◼ Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Speech
Includes links and transcripts
Saturday, February 28
/ sarc ?
Headlines on Drudge:
CNN INVESTIGATES: How to get First Lady's toned arms...*
TIME MAG INVESTIGATES: The Obama Team's Drink of Choice? Coke, Not Pepsi...
Think he's tryin' to tell 'em something? Like... hard news and investigative reporting just isn't what it used to be!
* note, no mention of the freebies scandal
And don't forget the New York Times writer who dreams of having sex with Obama.
CNN INVESTIGATES: How to get First Lady's toned arms...*
TIME MAG INVESTIGATES: The Obama Team's Drink of Choice? Coke, Not Pepsi...
Think he's tryin' to tell 'em something? Like... hard news and investigative reporting just isn't what it used to be!
* note, no mention of the freebies scandal
And don't forget the New York Times writer who dreams of having sex with Obama.
Labels:
Food For Thought,
NO JOURNALISTIC ETHICS
Thursday, February 26
going too far
A carnival float depicting a flying U.S. President Obama with Europe being dragged along is seen during the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. Rose-Monday-Parades in the carnival strongholds of Duesseldorf, Mainz and Cologne are watched by hundreds of thousands of revelers and mark the highlights of Germany's carnival season. (source) h/t: Drudge
Labels:
Just Funny
How drunk would you get
if you took a drink every time the people trying desperately to defend Obama's spending orgy use the word "TRANSPARENT?"
"It's going to be open and transparent... just go to recovery.gov, open and transparent, transparent, Obama has said it wil be transparent..."
We first learned about "talking points" during the Clinton years, and the two of them certainly perfected the art. The Democratic party has taken it to a whole new extreme that will ultimately result in Dictionaries being rewritten.
Transparent = LIE. Tranparency = Bigger LIE.
"It's going to be open and transparent... just go to recovery.gov, open and transparent, transparent, Obama has said it wil be transparent..."
We first learned about "talking points" during the Clinton years, and the two of them certainly perfected the art. The Democratic party has taken it to a whole new extreme that will ultimately result in Dictionaries being rewritten.
Transparent = LIE. Tranparency = Bigger LIE.
Proof
It's just a ☛ TS letter to the Editor of a local paper
***
We received a letter from our son's baseball league. Apparently the three forms of “proof of residency” given at sign-ups were not sufficient to prove that he lived in the geographic boundaries of the city and would thus be eligible. The league is requesting one more proof since the address on a form did not match up.
A discussion with a friend arose recently about what an outrage it is that it is easier to vote in this country than to sign up for baseball.
We realize that a few have cheated the Little League system and caused disqualifications of teams elsewhere in the country. Due to this, thousands of families across the country must pay the price of inconvenience and jump through the hoops of bureaucracy to prove age and residence; the many pay the price for the few. It is important to be careful and accurate so as to make sure all information is truthful.
Funny, I'd think the government might want to be as careful.
When we registered to vote, we were never asked to show any proof of residency or identity. On Election Day, we are never asked to show proof of who we are.
Ironic that we can vote without proof of residency, but not play Little League baseball.
It would be nice if our Legislature were as careful and diligent as the local ball clubs so as to make sure legal residents were the only voters in the booth come Election Day.
Scott and Christine Williams
Eureka
***
It's especially rich given that Obama has something like 5 teams of lawyers fighting to keep from showing his birth certificate...
***
We received a letter from our son's baseball league. Apparently the three forms of “proof of residency” given at sign-ups were not sufficient to prove that he lived in the geographic boundaries of the city and would thus be eligible. The league is requesting one more proof since the address on a form did not match up.
A discussion with a friend arose recently about what an outrage it is that it is easier to vote in this country than to sign up for baseball.
We realize that a few have cheated the Little League system and caused disqualifications of teams elsewhere in the country. Due to this, thousands of families across the country must pay the price of inconvenience and jump through the hoops of bureaucracy to prove age and residence; the many pay the price for the few. It is important to be careful and accurate so as to make sure all information is truthful.
Funny, I'd think the government might want to be as careful.
When we registered to vote, we were never asked to show any proof of residency or identity. On Election Day, we are never asked to show proof of who we are.
Ironic that we can vote without proof of residency, but not play Little League baseball.
It would be nice if our Legislature were as careful and diligent as the local ball clubs so as to make sure legal residents were the only voters in the booth come Election Day.
Scott and Christine Williams
Eureka
***
It's especially rich given that Obama has something like 5 teams of lawyers fighting to keep from showing his birth certificate...
Labels:
Just interesting,
Obama,
OBirth Certificate
Wednesday, February 25
Sarah Palin's wardrobe
Remember the hue and cry over Sarah Palin's wardrobe costs?
I expect we will hear the same over Michelle Obama Accepting Fashion Freebies... what's that you say? Not a peep out of Olberman? Couric? Behar?
<For years, the press excoriated Nancy Reagan for borrowing clothes and jewelry from designers. Yet Michelle Obama has been doing the same thing — without any outcry from the media.
Accountants say that the first lady’s practice of borrowing both clothes and jewelry raises major tax and disclosure issues, not to mention ethical questions.
“The transactions are clearly taxable,” says Richard Rampell, a Palm Beach, Fla., accountant whose clients include several of the island’s billionaires. “The designers are indirectly paying Michelle Obama to go and display their wares. And they get a huge economic value for it, just as if they were paying a model to do this. If they are paying her in this indirect way by lending her their clothes, then she is actually performing a service for the designer, and she should have to recognize as income whatever the value is of the clothes that she got.”
Aside from the tax implications, Obama is obligated to report the value of the clothes she has received free of charge on government forms mandated by the Ethics in Government Act.
The items Obama has either borrowed or received free have included a $17,313 pair of Loree Rodkin diamond earrings and clothes and gowns worth $1,000 to $6,000. In some cases, Michelle Obama’s representatives have said she will donate the items to the Smithsonian.
That makes no difference, Rampell says.
“If somebody gives her a dress and it’s worth $6,000, and she’s not expected to return it, then she has $6,000 worth of income, or she’s received a $6,000 gift,” he says. “I’m sure that the company is deducting the cost of that dress — the cost of manufacturing, the design, the materials and all that other stuff. And then when she gives it away to the charity, then she gets a charitable contribution for it.”
While some articles in the press have reported that the clothes or jewelry were given to her free of charge or lent to her, none has criticized Obama or compared her practices with Nancy Reagan’s. Instead, the articles have swooned over her fashion sense.....
“All Hail the Leader of the Fashionable World” was the headline on a Jan. 21 Washington Post story. In the 14th paragraph the story mentioned that the diamond earrings had been lent to Obama. The story quoted Katie McCormick Lelyveld, the first lady’s press secretary, as saying she paid for her inauguration clothes. But a subsequent Feb. 12 New York Times story quoted the designers themselves as saying they did not charge the Obamas.
Unlike Nancy Reagan, Michelle Obama has been funneling her acquisition of clothes through an intermediary, Ikram Goldberg, who has been mum on her role and on whether she receives anything of value for her services.
Basically - the Obama's can do anything and say anything, and no one is going to say anything. Hypocrites of the highest order.
***
You won't see it on CNN, or MSNBC, ABC or CBS, but it is getting some attention:
◼ the fashionable first lady the world’s been waiting for…waiting for her to pay for her fashions
What's more: “Besides clothes for the first lady, the Obama family has received custom-made clothing for their two daughters from J. Crew. J. Crew also supplied Michelle Obama’s green gloves and other items. On the day that was announced, the company’s stock increased by 10.6 percent. The firm says it will send invoices for the items and that Mrs. Obama will return any unused items.”...
...why is Obama always talking about responsibility but doesn’t walk the walk. He tells us to turn down our thermostats but he sits in a sweat box of an oval office. He talks about people who were irresponsible and didn’t pay their taxes, or bills, but appoints a cabinet full of tax evaders.... “Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama’s victory celebration in Grant Park — despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.”
There’s yet another new report of Obama campaign/DNC unpaid bills — this one from Springfield, Illinois. Obama owes the city at least $65,000 for overtime and other costs.
Barack Obama spent a record $760 million getting himself elected president. But his campaign, Obama for America, still owes Philadelphia nearly $24,000 for several pre-election events, and the cash-strapped city hasn’t given up its collection efforts.
$6,000 dresses, millions in campaign expenses - that ain't nuthin' - millions are so yesterday. We're into trillions upon billions now. Obama's record of pay for play is in full swing now - taxpayers grant funding will pay off all his debts.
I expect we will hear the same over Michelle Obama Accepting Fashion Freebies... what's that you say? Not a peep out of Olberman? Couric? Behar?
<For years, the press excoriated Nancy Reagan for borrowing clothes and jewelry from designers. Yet Michelle Obama has been doing the same thing — without any outcry from the media.
Accountants say that the first lady’s practice of borrowing both clothes and jewelry raises major tax and disclosure issues, not to mention ethical questions.
“The transactions are clearly taxable,” says Richard Rampell, a Palm Beach, Fla., accountant whose clients include several of the island’s billionaires. “The designers are indirectly paying Michelle Obama to go and display their wares. And they get a huge economic value for it, just as if they were paying a model to do this. If they are paying her in this indirect way by lending her their clothes, then she is actually performing a service for the designer, and she should have to recognize as income whatever the value is of the clothes that she got.”
Aside from the tax implications, Obama is obligated to report the value of the clothes she has received free of charge on government forms mandated by the Ethics in Government Act.
The items Obama has either borrowed or received free have included a $17,313 pair of Loree Rodkin diamond earrings and clothes and gowns worth $1,000 to $6,000. In some cases, Michelle Obama’s representatives have said she will donate the items to the Smithsonian.
That makes no difference, Rampell says.
“If somebody gives her a dress and it’s worth $6,000, and she’s not expected to return it, then she has $6,000 worth of income, or she’s received a $6,000 gift,” he says. “I’m sure that the company is deducting the cost of that dress — the cost of manufacturing, the design, the materials and all that other stuff. And then when she gives it away to the charity, then she gets a charitable contribution for it.”
While some articles in the press have reported that the clothes or jewelry were given to her free of charge or lent to her, none has criticized Obama or compared her practices with Nancy Reagan’s. Instead, the articles have swooned over her fashion sense.....
“All Hail the Leader of the Fashionable World” was the headline on a Jan. 21 Washington Post story. In the 14th paragraph the story mentioned that the diamond earrings had been lent to Obama. The story quoted Katie McCormick Lelyveld, the first lady’s press secretary, as saying she paid for her inauguration clothes. But a subsequent Feb. 12 New York Times story quoted the designers themselves as saying they did not charge the Obamas.
Unlike Nancy Reagan, Michelle Obama has been funneling her acquisition of clothes through an intermediary, Ikram Goldberg, who has been mum on her role and on whether she receives anything of value for her services.
Basically - the Obama's can do anything and say anything, and no one is going to say anything. Hypocrites of the highest order.
***
You won't see it on CNN, or MSNBC, ABC or CBS, but it is getting some attention:
◼ the fashionable first lady the world’s been waiting for…waiting for her to pay for her fashions
What's more: “Besides clothes for the first lady, the Obama family has received custom-made clothing for their two daughters from J. Crew. J. Crew also supplied Michelle Obama’s green gloves and other items. On the day that was announced, the company’s stock increased by 10.6 percent. The firm says it will send invoices for the items and that Mrs. Obama will return any unused items.”...
...why is Obama always talking about responsibility but doesn’t walk the walk. He tells us to turn down our thermostats but he sits in a sweat box of an oval office. He talks about people who were irresponsible and didn’t pay their taxes, or bills, but appoints a cabinet full of tax evaders.... “Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama’s victory celebration in Grant Park — despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.”
There’s yet another new report of Obama campaign/DNC unpaid bills — this one from Springfield, Illinois. Obama owes the city at least $65,000 for overtime and other costs.
Barack Obama spent a record $760 million getting himself elected president. But his campaign, Obama for America, still owes Philadelphia nearly $24,000 for several pre-election events, and the cash-strapped city hasn’t given up its collection efforts.
$6,000 dresses, millions in campaign expenses - that ain't nuthin' - millions are so yesterday. We're into trillions upon billions now. Obama's record of pay for play is in full swing now - taxpayers grant funding will pay off all his debts.
Labels:
NO JOURNALISTIC ETHICS,
Obama
Understanding Joe Biden's embarrassment
◼ CBS Anchor: "By the way do you know the website?"
Joe "the plagiarist" Biden: "You know I'm embarrassed --- do you know the website number --- uh You know I should have it in front of me, and I don't, I'm actually embarrassed ------- excuse me -- it is recovery.gov."
It's not that big a mystery - you just have to understand HOW MANY websites Obama has. No doubt there is a list. Is "recovery.org" number three? Or number twenty-five? I mean, which website do you mean? I'm actually embarrassed.
What's amazing is how he is using the .gov sites, and the number of others, and the continuous pleas for more money - from a guy who still owes the City of Chicago 1.7 mill for his big party.
Joe "the plagiarist" Biden: "You know I'm embarrassed --- do you know the website number --- uh You know I should have it in front of me, and I don't, I'm actually embarrassed ------- excuse me -- it is recovery.gov."
It's not that big a mystery - you just have to understand HOW MANY websites Obama has. No doubt there is a list. Is "recovery.org" number three? Or number twenty-five? I mean, which website do you mean? I'm actually embarrassed.
What's amazing is how he is using the .gov sites, and the number of others, and the continuous pleas for more money - from a guy who still owes the City of Chicago 1.7 mill for his big party.
Labels:
"Progressive" politics,
Economy,
Obama
Tuesday, February 24
Barack’s Geniality Is Not Enough
◼ Barack’s Geniality Is Not Enough
By his words shall ye know him: “In order to address our fiscal crisis, we have to be candid about its scope,” Mr Obama said. “For too long, our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception, a series of accounting tricks to hide the extent of our spending and the shortfalls in our revenue.” and thus he continues, saying one thing and doing another. get's the nice quote in the paper for the devotees though.
By his words shall ye know him: “In order to address our fiscal crisis, we have to be candid about its scope,” Mr Obama said. “For too long, our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception, a series of accounting tricks to hide the extent of our spending and the shortfalls in our revenue.” and thus he continues, saying one thing and doing another. get's the nice quote in the paper for the devotees though.
He doesn't inhale, errr, I mean, swallow
◼ Newsom sneaking around and sipping out of a bottle?
Another one for the "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" reprint...
"The Mayor occasionally slips"!!! Boy is that an understatement.
h/t: Althouse
Another one for the "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" reprint...
From sfgate: This week, the City Insider spotted an almost empty case of bottled water in the back of Mayor Gavin Newsom's hybrid sport utility vehicle as it was parked in front of City Hall. At least one full bottle of Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water remained under the plastic covering.
This from the mayor who in June 2007 issued an executive order directing city government to no longer purchase bottled water, saying the containers clog landfills while the city owns a pristine reservoir in the Sierra Nevada that produces some of the country's best-rated tap water.
...Because of that, the mayor generally declines bottled water at any event or meeting, lest he be photographed with an offending bottle....
But...
The mayor occassionally (sp) slips, said his spokesman, Nathan Ballard. But in this case, the bottled water belonged to the mayor's security detail and wasn't purchased with city funds, Ballard said.
He needs a spokesman to talk about this? Hilarious.
"The mayor will be the first to admit that he occassionally indulges in bottled water," Ballard said. "It's not something he's proud of."
Each sentence is better than the last!
Well, no one's perfect.
"The Mayor occasionally slips"!!! Boy is that an understatement.
h/t: Althouse
Closin' the Barn Door after the horse is gone
or - putting the cart before the horse, you decide....
Obama put on a good show today - the Fiscal Responsibility Summit – billed as "a frank conversation with experts from across party and philosophical lines about the long-term fiscal challenges we are facing."
Like - that shouldn't have happened BEFORE Congress was forced to sign the Massive Spending Orgy he calls a "Stimulus"? Like NOW they have time to consider what OUGHT to be done, when it is too late? They already passed the thing without anyone who voted on it knowing what was in it. Or is there going to be ANOTHER ONE?
It gets better - the man who couldn't eat a meal cooked by the 6 chefs we pay for, the man who hopped in Air Force One to take a little junket to Chicago for a Valentine's Day Dinner date with his wife, and then couldn't sign the spending orgy in his office, flew to Colorado for that, the man who hasn't turned down his own thermostat, hasn't paid his $1.7 million dollar bill to the city of Chicago, hasn't asked Legislators to tighten their own belts - this man now gets preachy about FISCAL RESPONSIBILTY.
Hey, Barack - how about CUTTING SPENDING. That is the DEFINITION OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Don't worry, though, he's put his man, Joe (the Plagiarist) Biden on the job.
And you wonder why the Market is tanking?
Obama put on a good show today - the Fiscal Responsibility Summit – billed as "a frank conversation with experts from across party and philosophical lines about the long-term fiscal challenges we are facing."
Like - that shouldn't have happened BEFORE Congress was forced to sign the Massive Spending Orgy he calls a "Stimulus"? Like NOW they have time to consider what OUGHT to be done, when it is too late? They already passed the thing without anyone who voted on it knowing what was in it. Or is there going to be ANOTHER ONE?
It gets better - the man who couldn't eat a meal cooked by the 6 chefs we pay for, the man who hopped in Air Force One to take a little junket to Chicago for a Valentine's Day Dinner date with his wife, and then couldn't sign the spending orgy in his office, flew to Colorado for that, the man who hasn't turned down his own thermostat, hasn't paid his $1.7 million dollar bill to the city of Chicago, hasn't asked Legislators to tighten their own belts - this man now gets preachy about FISCAL RESPONSIBILTY.
Hey, Barack - how about CUTTING SPENDING. That is the DEFINITION OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.
Don't worry, though, he's put his man, Joe (the Plagiarist) Biden on the job.
And you wonder why the Market is tanking?
Labels:
Economy,
HYPOCRISY in motion,
Obama
Monday, February 23
Glenn Beck, "What If?"
This is the one that had Little Green Footballs all upset. I guess now it is verboten even to speculate. I hadn't seen it when I read the Footballs thread. Now that I have, I really don't get what all the fuss was about. This isn't anything near as inflammatory as even the discussion at the coffee shop in the morning.
Certainly nothing we haven't been discussing since I was in grade school. We all figured we would have to survive a nuclear attack from Russia. When the Berlin Wall came down, the world seemed to settle down, and we thought maybe war was a thing of the past. Little did we know there were terrorists fomenting a war with us while we slept peacefully and blissfully unaware. The 9/11 happened, and we have had to face that possibility again. Now, with the world financial markets in meltdown, talking about the "What if?" scenarios is certainly worthwhile, even as an academic exercise.
And face it, being prepared for a disaster is something you ought to do anyway - an earthquake here, a tornado or hurricane there - even the windstorm we had here a few years back left power outages that lasted for weeks, and the shelves at Safeway were completely stripped within a couple of days. It doesn't take much.
Here's the rest of the segment:
Labels:
Earthquake,
Economy,
Food For Thought,
The Gathering Storm
Matthews gets hit AGAIN!
Got the kids at KOS all upset! Nasty old Chris Matthews!
◼ Chris Matthews Must Go!
...At the end of Chris Matthews show I felt downright depressed! He had Jim Cramer and some other "expert" of whom he asked very leading, anti-Obama questions....
...During this segment Chris Matthews made some of the most over-the-top statements I have heard in my life.
"Obama should stop running around giving speeches and disappear somewhere so as to study the problems."
"Obama has no idea what to do."
"The people are beginning to get angry at Obama."...
...MSNBC should be ashamed of itself. Allowing Chris Matthews to use his program to plunge the country into even more despair. Chris Matthews clearly has no idea how to use his one hour constructively. Sickening!...
Just goes to prove - you can't win for losing! Matthews has nowhere to go now. Kissing up to Obama and raving about Obama and getting a thrill up his leg, all that for naught, his self respect gone, his journalistic integrity gone, and they spit on him anyway.
Priceless.
At the end, 220 voted that he is Irrational, 90 say he is sickening, 85 say he is DISGUSTING. Whaddya know! Common ground!
Related: You have GOT to be kidding me!
◼ Chris Matthews Must Go!
...At the end of Chris Matthews show I felt downright depressed! He had Jim Cramer and some other "expert" of whom he asked very leading, anti-Obama questions....
...During this segment Chris Matthews made some of the most over-the-top statements I have heard in my life.
"Obama should stop running around giving speeches and disappear somewhere so as to study the problems."
"Obama has no idea what to do."
"The people are beginning to get angry at Obama."...
...MSNBC should be ashamed of itself. Allowing Chris Matthews to use his program to plunge the country into even more despair. Chris Matthews clearly has no idea how to use his one hour constructively. Sickening!...
Just goes to prove - you can't win for losing! Matthews has nowhere to go now. Kissing up to Obama and raving about Obama and getting a thrill up his leg, all that for naught, his self respect gone, his journalistic integrity gone, and they spit on him anyway.
Priceless.
At the end, 220 voted that he is Irrational, 90 say he is sickening, 85 say he is DISGUSTING. Whaddya know! Common ground!
Related: You have GOT to be kidding me!
Obama says POLITICS should NOT play a role in the "Stimulus"
Do you hear that SENATORS? CONGRESSMEN? GOVERNORS?
If you were listening, Obama set the Democratic members of the Legislature FREE. He said explicitly that politics should not enter into the Spending Orgy discussions.
In other words, those Dems are now FREE to say what they really think, which could include "Stop, Slow Down, give us time to at least read the thing!" to "Hey, that doesn't have anything to do with "Stimulus" get it out of there!" to "You can't spend your way out of a financial crisis."
If you are the Democratic Governor of a State, you are now FREE to join Bobby Jindal in a critical and independent analysis of the funds being offered to you.
You can now say, "I will not saddle the people of my State with your unfunded mandates, therefore I am rejecting these funds, no matter how much I wish I could take them."
In short, if you believe he meant what he said, you are free to do the moral thing, not the party thing.
But we know what he really meant. He meant Republicans better cave, and the 7 dems who did take a stand better get back in line. That's the sad thing.
If you were listening, Obama set the Democratic members of the Legislature FREE. He said explicitly that politics should not enter into the Spending Orgy discussions.
In other words, those Dems are now FREE to say what they really think, which could include "Stop, Slow Down, give us time to at least read the thing!" to "Hey, that doesn't have anything to do with "Stimulus" get it out of there!" to "You can't spend your way out of a financial crisis."
If you are the Democratic Governor of a State, you are now FREE to join Bobby Jindal in a critical and independent analysis of the funds being offered to you.
You can now say, "I will not saddle the people of my State with your unfunded mandates, therefore I am rejecting these funds, no matter how much I wish I could take them."
In short, if you believe he meant what he said, you are free to do the moral thing, not the party thing.
But we know what he really meant. He meant Republicans better cave, and the 7 dems who did take a stand better get back in line. That's the sad thing.
Sunday, February 22
It's not free money
No uh uh uh uh uh uhs.
◼ The Atlantic Jindal's Stimulus Stand: Won't Take Unemployment Benefits From Feds
...His reasoning: the federal government won't pay the money forever, so taxpayers and businesses would have to foot the bill for the bigger dole. Jindal, in the statement, urges other states to take a look at the provision...
◼ RBO Bailout? Rescue? Call it what you will. It’s still pay-to-play
◼ Wapo Columnist Takes Obama To Task On Stimulus
Judged by his own standards, President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus program is deeply disappointing....
..."Obama is gambling that his flawed stimulus will seem to work well enough that he’ll receive credit for restarting the economy — and not be blamed for engineering a colossal waste.” (Obama's Stunted Stimulus)
Labels:
Jindal
Saturday, February 21
Friday, February 20
Being President is a step DOWN?
"I like to say that, in some ways, Barack Obama is the first President since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office." "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran
From? From Community Organizer? From Candidate? From Junior Senator for a couple hundred days? From being a God?
Why are reporters, for whom every word matters, so easily fooled by words, just words?
From? From Community Organizer? From Candidate? From Junior Senator for a couple hundred days? From being a God?
Why are reporters, for whom every word matters, so easily fooled by words, just words?
Labels:
Can't take it anymore,
NO JOURNALISTIC ETHICS,
Obama
Whaddya think of Barbara Boxer?
(photo source)A partisan animal. Incapable of independent thought. Though a ranking Senator, unable to stand up and ask for time to read a bill before she signs it. Willing to piss away her constituents' future without reading what she signed, without knowing what she signed, without CARING what she signed.
She doesn't need to show up for work, no need for her to ever step onto the Senate floor. We know how she will vote, and we can fill in her vote without her ever needing to lift a finger, or have a thought.
And here's what she has to say about her vote:
________
"Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R.1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. I appreciate hearing your views on this critical bill, which has passed Congress and was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009.
There is a very simple, urgent reason for this legislation: We need to save jobs and we need to create jobs. We need to act quickly and boldly because at the rate we are shedding jobs, we are heading into deeper economic turmoil.
This is a time when the nation must come together. In my view, the Senate had three choices:
One was to do nothing. Doing that, to me, would be a hostile act because it continues the dangerous status quo. Our second choice was to wait for the perfect bill, and of course each Senator would write his or her perfect bill and we'd stall. Or our third choice was to pass the compromise; that is the choice Congress made, and I believe it was the only common-sense choice before us.
I also want to point out that without Republican votes in the Senate, a Republican leadership filibuster would have succeeded.
The Republicans who voted for the bill did so out of a deep concern that doing nothing is unacceptable.
H.R.1 will inject $787 billion into our economy through tax cuts and spending on projects to save and create jobs. It will make significant investments in vital infrastructure projects, give much-needed aid to our states, and help to create and save millions of American jobs.
This legislation is far from perfect. But we are in a deepening economic crisis, and I believe it was necessary for Congress to move swiftly to stop it from sliding further. California's unemployment rate is an unacceptable 9.3 percent, and nearly 600,000 jobs were lost nationwide in January alone. Now is the time to invest in our country and our people.
We know that this package alone will not solve the entire problem; we must also address the housing and financial crises, and we will do so.
Again, thank you for writing to me on this important issue. Be assured that I will keep doing all I can to help get America's economy back on track. I will continue working with the Obama Administration and my Senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle to enact legislation to stimulate growth, create jobs, and make American businesses more competitive in the global economy.
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator"
Help me with my response. I'll send her our comments.
Thursday, February 19
WE don't RIOT in the Streets over cartoons
Or do we? Mr. Sharpton?
8 years of calling the President chimpyBushMcHilter, and NOW you get upset? Over this?
◼ Going ape over the New York Post
◼ More Sanctimonious Leftist Bullshit
8 years of calling the President chimpyBushMcHilter, and NOW you get upset? Over this?
◼ Going ape over the New York Post
Al Sharpton and his race racketeers went ape over New York Post staffer Sean Delonas’s anti-stimulus editorial cartoon involving that famous crazed chimp. They picketed the News Corp. building, organized boycotts, targeted advertisers, floated a challenge to Rupert Murdoch’s FCC license — and now the New York Post has apologized.
Oops. Can I say “went ape” anymore? How about “going bananas?” Shall I refrain from asking the race demagogues to quit “monkeying around?” Do I erase “It’s a jungle out there” and “It’s a zoo” from my lexicon? How about “beastly?”
◼ More Sanctimonious Leftist Bullshit
...The only group who ought to feel insulted by the Delonas cartoon in the New York post are chimpanzees. Can you think of anything more insulting than to have your image be used to illustrate the base nature of a member of Congress?...
The Women of Afghanistan's Plains
...When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier....
The Young British Soldier
By Rudyard Kipling
(Born December 30, 1865, Died January 18, 1936)
And here we are today.
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier....
The Young British Soldier
By Rudyard Kipling
(Born December 30, 1865, Died January 18, 1936)
And here we are today.
The market has dropped more than 2000 points since Election Day (it is now down a total of 2159).
The Dow closed down today at it's lowest level in 6 years. 2/19
A simple experiment would prove the point that Obama is doing exactly the wrong thing to jump start the economy. If the president announced tomorrow that he was cutting the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%, and lowering each individual tax bracket by 5%, it is very likely the market would jump at least 2,000 points within a week. Tax cuts mean more jobs and more money to purchase goods and services, all of which serve as the primary engine of our economy. But Obama won't do that.
So, is time to start affixing blame where it belongs.
Wall Street seems to have done just that.
President Obama’s 2,000-point tumble 2/17
On Nov. 4, after Barack Obama clinched the White House, the market closed at 9,625.28.
In mid-morning trading... the day President Obama signs his massive Generational Theft Act into law and a day before he unveils a massive new mortgage entitlement, the Dow dropped to to 7,606.53.
***
From Hillbuzz:
When Obama talks, the Market drops
This is very interesting to keep an eye on: but whenever Obama talks about the economy, the Market drops the next day.
Nov. 5, 2008 (Wednesday after Election Day): -486 (5.0%)
Jan. 9, 2009 (one day after Obama speaks at George Mason University on “need” for $800 billion stimulus package): -143 (1.6%)
Jan. 20, 2009 (Inauguration Day): -332 (4.0%)
Feb. 10, 2009 (one day after Obama declares that without a stimulus, “an economy that is already in crisis will be faced with a catastrophe”): -382 (4.6%)
Feb. 17, 2009 (market opens for the first time after Congress passes $787 billion stimulus on Feb. 13; Obama signs bill into law, declaring, “The stimulus lets Americans claim destiny.”): -298 (3.8%)
Feb. 19, 2009 (one day after Obama announces potential mortgage relief plan): -90 (1.2%)
Feb. 25, 2009 (one day after Obama’s first speech to the full Congress): -80 (1.1%)
***
Mar. 5. 2009 -281 (4.1%)
Update: March 5, 2009: The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) fell 281 points, or 4.1%, to close at 6,594.44, ending at the lowest point since April 15, 1997. The Dow has now fallen 14 of the last 18 sessions.
A simple experiment would prove the point that Obama is doing exactly the wrong thing to jump start the economy. If the president announced tomorrow that he was cutting the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%, and lowering each individual tax bracket by 5%, it is very likely the market would jump at least 2,000 points within a week. Tax cuts mean more jobs and more money to purchase goods and services, all of which serve as the primary engine of our economy. But Obama won't do that.
So, is time to start affixing blame where it belongs.
Wall Street seems to have done just that.
President Obama’s 2,000-point tumble 2/17
On Nov. 4, after Barack Obama clinched the White House, the market closed at 9,625.28.
In mid-morning trading... the day President Obama signs his massive Generational Theft Act into law and a day before he unveils a massive new mortgage entitlement, the Dow dropped to to 7,606.53.
***
From Hillbuzz:
When Obama talks, the Market drops
This is very interesting to keep an eye on: but whenever Obama talks about the economy, the Market drops the next day.
Nov. 5, 2008 (Wednesday after Election Day): -486 (5.0%)
Jan. 9, 2009 (one day after Obama speaks at George Mason University on “need” for $800 billion stimulus package): -143 (1.6%)
Jan. 20, 2009 (Inauguration Day): -332 (4.0%)
Feb. 10, 2009 (one day after Obama declares that without a stimulus, “an economy that is already in crisis will be faced with a catastrophe”): -382 (4.6%)
Feb. 17, 2009 (market opens for the first time after Congress passes $787 billion stimulus on Feb. 13; Obama signs bill into law, declaring, “The stimulus lets Americans claim destiny.”): -298 (3.8%)
Feb. 19, 2009 (one day after Obama announces potential mortgage relief plan): -90 (1.2%)
Feb. 25, 2009 (one day after Obama’s first speech to the full Congress): -80 (1.1%)
***
Mar. 5. 2009 -281 (4.1%)
Update: March 5, 2009: The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) fell 281 points, or 4.1%, to close at 6,594.44, ending at the lowest point since April 15, 1997. The Dow has now fallen 14 of the last 18 sessions.
So, What Could Porkulus(1) Buy?
◼ So, What Could Porkulus(1) Buy?
◼ Pay off all US student debt;
◼ 1,210,769,230 3 day packages to Disney World. If we bump up the price to include airfare and food where necessary, every single American could go and still have money for the t-shirt;
◼ 47,725,894,481.5 Papa John’s $16.49 large pizzas with 1 topping and parmesan breadsticks delivered to the White House. Tip not included.
◼ ________________________________
◼ ________________________________
◼ Pay off all US student debt;
◼ 1,210,769,230 3 day packages to Disney World. If we bump up the price to include airfare and food where necessary, every single American could go and still have money for the t-shirt;
◼ 47,725,894,481.5 Papa John’s $16.49 large pizzas with 1 topping and parmesan breadsticks delivered to the White House. Tip not included.
◼ ________________________________
◼ ________________________________
Labels:
PORKULUS
Bi-Partisan? Or Activist TakeOver
At a private White House cocktail reception last night for leaders of major progressive groups, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle appealed to these leaders and signaled that their groups would play a key role in driving the big progressive changes at the heart of the White House’s legislative agenda, an attendee tells me.
The message was that these groups would be valuable as a kind of progressive outside “echo chamber,” as the attendee puts it.
The party — which was organized by top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett — signals that the White House is moving forward with efforts to build coordination with outside progressive groups in order to drive the White House’s message and beat back its foes. As I reported recently, Jarrett is at the center of those efforts. ◼ Obama And Michelle Ask Progressive Groups For Help Driving White House Agenda
Is that what the people thought they were voting for? As Obama pretended to be "centrist?"
Is that what our elected representatives are? Is that what those who disagree with him are? FOES?
Once elected, Mr. Obama YOU are supposed to be a President FOR ALL the people. ALL of us are YOUR PEOPLE.
Why is it that YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT?
The message was that these groups would be valuable as a kind of progressive outside “echo chamber,” as the attendee puts it.
The party — which was organized by top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett — signals that the White House is moving forward with efforts to build coordination with outside progressive groups in order to drive the White House’s message and beat back its foes. As I reported recently, Jarrett is at the center of those efforts. ◼ Obama And Michelle Ask Progressive Groups For Help Driving White House Agenda
Is that what the people thought they were voting for? As Obama pretended to be "centrist?"
Is that what our elected representatives are? Is that what those who disagree with him are? FOES?
Once elected, Mr. Obama YOU are supposed to be a President FOR ALL the people. ALL of us are YOUR PEOPLE.
Why is it that YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT?
CNBC: Telling it like it is
◼ Trader Buzz & Rick's Rant
“The government is promoting bad behavior, because we certainly don’t want to put stimulus forth and give people a whopping eight or ten dollars in their check and think that they ought to save it…
Listen to the cheering around him!
Follow up:
◼ Politico WH lashes out at CNBC's Santelli
◼ Gibbs
Doesn't include the part where he says the White House guys sat around "laughing" about being "lectured" by a trader.
"Read the President's Plan," he says.
◼ NetRightNation When the Solution is Part of the Problem
And some of it is a little more sinister, implying that Santelli may be about to get the Joe-the-Plumber/Sarah Palin treatment with hordes of ACORN workers pawing through his garbage and trying to dig up dirt to discredit him...
Taking Hold! The Tea Party Revolution is sweeping the Nation!
◼ Organize a Tea Party in Your Area
Labels:
Economy,
The backlash
Tucked into the Porkulus Spending Spree is this little gem
◼ Tucked into the 1,073-page stimulus bill, creates something called the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board — the RAT Board, as it’s known by the few insiders who are aware of it.
First, let’s ask ourselves how this stimulates the economy. Why include this in an emergency stimulus bill when it has nothing to do with stimulus or economics? This rule change should have come in separate debate in Congress — like so many other portions of Porkulus.
It does, however, have everything to do with Hope and Change. What the RAT Board can do, as York points out, is direct or quash investigations by Inspectors General throughout the federal bureaucracy. Until now, IGs have had independence of action in order to avoid charges of politicization (remember that word?) and to conduct probes without interference from the Department of Justice, the White House, or Congress. Now they will answer to Congress not on general performance, but on the specifics of their probes.
How did it get into Porkulus? Grassley says it wasn’t in the original bill passed in the Senate, and it suddenly appeared in the conference version. No one has claimed ownership of the RAT Board yet,
Read the rest at Hot Air
First, let’s ask ourselves how this stimulates the economy. Why include this in an emergency stimulus bill when it has nothing to do with stimulus or economics? This rule change should have come in separate debate in Congress — like so many other portions of Porkulus.
It does, however, have everything to do with Hope and Change. What the RAT Board can do, as York points out, is direct or quash investigations by Inspectors General throughout the federal bureaucracy. Until now, IGs have had independence of action in order to avoid charges of politicization (remember that word?) and to conduct probes without interference from the Department of Justice, the White House, or Congress. Now they will answer to Congress not on general performance, but on the specifics of their probes.
How did it get into Porkulus? Grassley says it wasn’t in the original bill passed in the Senate, and it suddenly appeared in the conference version. No one has claimed ownership of the RAT Board yet,
Read the rest at Hot Air
Labels:
Corruption,
Obama,
Serious shit
Tuesday, February 17
You have GOT to be kidding me!
The Case Against Chris Matthews circa 2006
From the Huffington Post: "The case against Chris Matthews is simple: he is not neutral. He channels a right-leaning perspective. This wouldn't be an issue if he and his employers acknowledged it, but a viewer who doesn't have the time or resources to analyze Hardball's content may well assimilate the pro-GOP spin unwittingly."
View Media Matters' new report on Matthews: '"Hardball for the left, softball for the right: Conservatives dominate on Hardball."
Huh? Has the worm turned?
Update! Deja Vu all over again! ◼ Chris Matthews Must Go!
Even after all the Obama love, after the thrill up his leg! Poor Chris tries to do his job - and BAM! "MSNBC should be ashamed of itself. Allowing Chris Matthews to use his program to plunge the country into even more despair. Chris Matthews clearly has no idea how to use his one hour constructively. Sickening!" say the KOS kids....
Quote of the day
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws, and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
-Judge Learned Hand
h/t: ORD
Much is made of Constitutional protection. "Oh that could never happen" because we are protected by the Constitution. Are we? Or is it something that can be thrown aside and stomped upon, and easily yanked from underneath a nation? Trampled underfoot as easily as Bill Ayres stomps on the flag.
Will you know when it is happening? Or is it like the proverbial frog in the cooking pot?
◼ HR 45 Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009
◼ "OBAMA REGIME ALREADY GOING FOR PRIVATELY OWNED FIREARMS!"
More Failure to disclose
◼ RAHM’S ‘RENT’ IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
News broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) - and failed to disclose the gift, as congressional ethics rules mandate. But this is only the tip of Emanuel’s previously undislosed ethics problems.
Is there ANYONE connected to Obama that is clean?
News broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) - and failed to disclose the gift, as congressional ethics rules mandate. But this is only the tip of Emanuel’s previously undislosed ethics problems.
Is there ANYONE connected to Obama that is clean?
Monday, February 16
Better to owe than to save
...we are seeing the most marked redistribution of wealth in our recent history. The erosion of home equity and, especially, the 20-30% decline in 401(k)s— followed by nearly $1 trillion in additional entitlement spending (“stimulus”)— mean essentially that much of the capital in the hands of those who owned property and had stocks and mutual funds was destroyed and will be recreated by transferring monies to others. How odd that the printing of billions of new paper dollars to spread he wealth is offset by the virtual destruction of billions of old paper dollars in savings and home equity. Maybe that will slow inflation (e.g., some of us figuratively had money burned up at about the same amount that more was printed afresh). In any case, we live in the age of the debtor—low interest, soon to be high inflation, all sorts of plans to alleviate debt, and government transfers favoring those who owe rather than those who saved.
Labels:
Economy,
Meet Reality,
Obama
Hurry up and wait!
Hurry! Hurry! We have to pass this bill NOW, can't wait, can't stop, can't take time to read it.
Now it's passed - last week, actually.
And Pelosi flew off to Rome.
And Obama flew home to Chicago for a swanky Valentine's Day dinner, with the AP gushing that President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are spending Valentine's Day at an upscale restaurant in their hometown.... Obama is spending a long weekend in Chicago for their first real break since taking the presidency on Jan. 20. (Poor baby!)
And word is he will leave Washington AGAIN to fly to Denver for a ceremonial signing of the Porkulus Rip-Off on Tuesday.
Never mind the campaign promises of openness and transparency, of posting any proposed pork so people would have a chance to stop it - 5 days he promised - never mind that - if he can wait til Tuesday to sign it, the legislators could have had a few more days to READ it. BEFORE they SIGNED it. Ya think?
Disgusting, Despicable, and Unforgivable.
◼ Michelle Malkin My restaurant recommendation for the Obamas
Doesn’t President Obama listen to himself? We are living in catastrophic economic times. We must all engage in shared sacrifice. We can’t afford to do business as usual.
Yet, he cranks up the White House thermostat and splurges on Oprah’s chef’s upscale restaurant in Chicago for Valentine’s Day.
Next time, make it Sonic — America’s Drive-In.
◼ Air Force THREE Nancy Pelosi's $220,000 a week perk. In these tough economic times, as she lectures us, has she sacrificed anything?
Now it's passed - last week, actually.
And Pelosi flew off to Rome.
And Obama flew home to Chicago for a swanky Valentine's Day dinner, with the AP gushing that President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are spending Valentine's Day at an upscale restaurant in their hometown.... Obama is spending a long weekend in Chicago for their first real break since taking the presidency on Jan. 20. (Poor baby!)
And word is he will leave Washington AGAIN to fly to Denver for a ceremonial signing of the Porkulus Rip-Off on Tuesday.
Never mind the campaign promises of openness and transparency, of posting any proposed pork so people would have a chance to stop it - 5 days he promised - never mind that - if he can wait til Tuesday to sign it, the legislators could have had a few more days to READ it. BEFORE they SIGNED it. Ya think?
Disgusting, Despicable, and Unforgivable.
◼ Michelle Malkin My restaurant recommendation for the Obamas
Doesn’t President Obama listen to himself? We are living in catastrophic economic times. We must all engage in shared sacrifice. We can’t afford to do business as usual.
Yet, he cranks up the White House thermostat and splurges on Oprah’s chef’s upscale restaurant in Chicago for Valentine’s Day.
Next time, make it Sonic — America’s Drive-In.
◼ Air Force THREE Nancy Pelosi's $220,000 a week perk. In these tough economic times, as she lectures us, has she sacrificed anything?
Labels:
Obama,
politics not so light
Sunday, February 15
Friday, February 13
Thursday, February 12
Let them eat cake
“You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.
Barack’s approach is that the short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good. And it may even feel good that first month when you get that check. And then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings.”
Who said this? ◼ answer here
Barack’s approach is that the short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good. And it may even feel good that first month when you get that check. And then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings.”
Who said this? ◼ answer here
Wednesday, February 11
Obama amps up the war
against his own people
"American's United for Change" plays attack dog for Obama, going after recalcitrant Republicans, trying to force them to sign on to the horrific Orwellian named "Stimulus" bill - with Obama it's My-Way- Or-The-Highway, and he is taking the politics of personal destruction to a whole new level.
It took the left wing think tanks about a week to gain their footing after they realized support for this thing was tanking, but they are all on message now, and the many tenacled groups are touting the message, blistering the country with propaganda.
How long will people fall for it?
They see the same old retreads getting appointments standing in stark contrast to the talking points of 'getting away from the tired old ways of the past' - they see the tax cheat in charge of the treasury standing in stark contrast to the claims of purity - they see massive spending and borrowing - and for all the claims of transparency, they see Obama holding staged press conferences.
This Emperor has no clothes. NO clothes. NO jewels. NO fine silks.
"American's United for Change" plays attack dog for Obama, going after recalcitrant Republicans, trying to force them to sign on to the horrific Orwellian named "Stimulus" bill - with Obama it's My-Way- Or-The-Highway, and he is taking the politics of personal destruction to a whole new level.
It took the left wing think tanks about a week to gain their footing after they realized support for this thing was tanking, but they are all on message now, and the many tenacled groups are touting the message, blistering the country with propaganda.
How long will people fall for it?
They see the same old retreads getting appointments standing in stark contrast to the talking points of 'getting away from the tired old ways of the past' - they see the tax cheat in charge of the treasury standing in stark contrast to the claims of purity - they see massive spending and borrowing - and for all the claims of transparency, they see Obama holding staged press conferences.
This Emperor has no clothes. NO clothes. NO jewels. NO fine silks.
Poland to 'Punish' Taliban Who Beheaded Polish Engineer
Poland pledges to capture and "punish" the Taliban militants who beheaded a Polish engineer in Pakistan on Friday before delivering a video of the attack to the media, the Times of London reports.
Piotr Stanczak was reportedly kidnapped four months ago while working in the Attock district — a region close to Pakistan's lawless North West Frontier Province.
A video released to media outlets Sunday shows the beheading of Stanczak just minutes after he appears on tape urging the Polish government not to send troops to neighboring Afghanistan.
On Monday, Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said the video had been authenticated and pledged to bring the terrorists to justice, according to the Times of London.
"The cassette of the execution, this bestial execution, is authentic and unfortunately it confirms the worst," Sikorski reportedly said in a statement. "Now we can no longer save our compatriot, we are going to try to punish his killers." ◼ Report: Poland to 'Punish' Taliban Who Beheaded Polish Engineer
Labels:
Terrorism
Monday, February 9
Reactions to the Office Of The National Nightmare PRESS CONFERENCE
◼ Open thread: The “If we don’t spend a trillion dollars then the terrorists have already won” presser Hot Air
◼ Live-blogging Obama's first press conference. Althouse
◼ Obama the Malaise-MasterThe Anchoress
◼ Savior holds first fear-mongering press conference Michelle Malkin
◼ The Narcissist Spaketh– Obama Speaks to the Sheeple (Press) Conservative Meanderings
◼ Obama Press Conference Ace of Spades
◼ Ohhhhh, NOW It Makes Sense! riverdaughter
◼ Obama Speaks LGF
◼ Obama Speaks 2 LGF
◼ Obama Speaks 3 LGF
◼ Live-blogging Obama's first press conference. Althouse
◼ Obama the Malaise-MasterThe Anchoress
◼ Savior holds first fear-mongering press conference Michelle Malkin
◼ The Narcissist Spaketh– Obama Speaks to the Sheeple (Press) Conservative Meanderings
◼ Obama Press Conference Ace of Spades
◼ Ohhhhh, NOW It Makes Sense! riverdaughter
◼ Obama Speaks LGF
◼ Obama Speaks 2 LGF
◼ Obama Speaks 3 LGF
Labels:
Obama
IT ISN'T JUST $800 BILLION.
◼ Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages.
NINE POINT SEVEN TRILLION.
NINE POINT SEVEN TRILLION.
Labels:
Economy,
politics heavy
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge
Or - The Barack Obama model spending.
◼ Wikipedia overview (seems to be missing Stanley Kurtz's files, otherwise contains extensive links
Stanley Kutz's investigation:
◼ Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown? Cover up, denial of access
◼ Founding Brothers
◼ Obama’s Challenge
◼ Wright 101
◼ What We Know About Obama
Obama’s troubling associations are more than isolated friendships or instances of bad judgment. His ties to Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Michael Pfleger, James Meeks, ACORN, the New Party, and the Gamaliel Foundation all reflect Obama’s sympathy with radical-left ideas and causes — wealth redistribution prominent among them. At both the Woods Fund and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, for example, Obama and Ayers channeled money into ACORN’s coffers. ACORN, a militant group pursuing economic redistribution, succeeded in undermining credit standards throughout the banking system, thereby modeling the New Party’s plans to tame capitalism itself. So the association with Ayers is not an outlier issue, but part and parcel of a network of radical ties through which Obama’s supported “major redistributive change.” Via ACORN, that project has already nearly wrecked our economy. What will happen when it’s generalized?...
...Following well-worn organizer strategies, Obama knows how to wrap ideological radicalism in the soothing rhetoric of “pragmatism” and classic American values. There is a kernel of truth to the pragmatism, however. Radical though his ultimate goals may be, Obama follows classic organizer strategy — pursuing his ends in tiny, incremental, and cumulative baby-steps.
◼ Planting Seeds of Disaster ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party
Others
◼ The Chicago Annenberg Challenge - The Fog Thickens
◼ The Obama-Ayers connection: Chicago Annenberg Challenge
◼ Chicago Annenberg Challenge Explained Huffington Post.
◼ Backers Say Chicago Project Not 'Radical' Education Week
◼ Obama, Ayers, Karanja — The Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Chicago School Reform Collaborative (Updated) the Real Barack Obama
◼ Obama/Ayers Update: Chicago Annenberg Challenge Donor Revealed NoQuarter
There was clear warning of the way Barack Obama handles other people's money, clear evidence of his willingness to use it to fund activist causes with no results - you're seeing it play out again on a national scale - to the tune of Trillions of dollars now with no end in sight, being rushed through, with no analysis, no time to stop and think or plan.
When history is written, someday, blame the Teacher's Unions. For they could have warned us. And chose not to.
◼ Wikipedia overview (seems to be missing Stanley Kurtz's files, otherwise contains extensive links
Stanley Kutz's investigation:
◼ Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown? Cover up, denial of access
◼ Founding Brothers
◼ Obama’s Challenge
◼ Wright 101
◼ What We Know About Obama
Obama’s troubling associations are more than isolated friendships or instances of bad judgment. His ties to Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Michael Pfleger, James Meeks, ACORN, the New Party, and the Gamaliel Foundation all reflect Obama’s sympathy with radical-left ideas and causes — wealth redistribution prominent among them. At both the Woods Fund and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, for example, Obama and Ayers channeled money into ACORN’s coffers. ACORN, a militant group pursuing economic redistribution, succeeded in undermining credit standards throughout the banking system, thereby modeling the New Party’s plans to tame capitalism itself. So the association with Ayers is not an outlier issue, but part and parcel of a network of radical ties through which Obama’s supported “major redistributive change.” Via ACORN, that project has already nearly wrecked our economy. What will happen when it’s generalized?...
...Following well-worn organizer strategies, Obama knows how to wrap ideological radicalism in the soothing rhetoric of “pragmatism” and classic American values. There is a kernel of truth to the pragmatism, however. Radical though his ultimate goals may be, Obama follows classic organizer strategy — pursuing his ends in tiny, incremental, and cumulative baby-steps.
◼ Planting Seeds of Disaster ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party
Others
◼ The Chicago Annenberg Challenge - The Fog Thickens
◼ The Obama-Ayers connection: Chicago Annenberg Challenge
◼ Chicago Annenberg Challenge Explained Huffington Post.
◼ Backers Say Chicago Project Not 'Radical' Education Week
◼ Obama, Ayers, Karanja — The Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Chicago School Reform Collaborative (Updated) the Real Barack Obama
◼ Obama/Ayers Update: Chicago Annenberg Challenge Donor Revealed NoQuarter
There was clear warning of the way Barack Obama handles other people's money, clear evidence of his willingness to use it to fund activist causes with no results - you're seeing it play out again on a national scale - to the tune of Trillions of dollars now with no end in sight, being rushed through, with no analysis, no time to stop and think or plan.
When history is written, someday, blame the Teacher's Unions. For they could have warned us. And chose not to.
Mary Jo Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne
Link to extensive coverage of the circumstances surrounding the infamous accident at Chappaquiddick July 19, 1969
That's what I think about when I see the name Ted Kennedy.
Sunday, February 8
Saturday, February 7
ABC Denounces Executive Order That Discriminates Against 84 Percent of the Construction Workforce
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today denounced an Executive Order signed by President Obama that repeals Executive Order 13202, that prohibited federal agencies and recipients of federal funding from requiring contractors to sign union-only project labor agreements (PLAs) as a condition of performing work on federal and federally funded construction projects.
"Today's decision to repeal Executive Order 13202 opens the door to waste and discrimination in federal and federally funded construction contracts," said ABC President and CEO Kirk Pickerel. "This action removes the safeguards that prohibited discrimination based upon union affiliation in the awarding of federal contracts. ◼ read the rest...
"Today's decision to repeal Executive Order 13202 opens the door to waste and discrimination in federal and federally funded construction contracts," said ABC President and CEO Kirk Pickerel. "This action removes the safeguards that prohibited discrimination based upon union affiliation in the awarding of federal contracts. ◼ read the rest...
America -- What Have You Done?
◼ spectator.co.uk/
President Obama has had, by general consent, a torrid First Fortnight. To put it another way, it has taken precisely two weeks for the illusion that brought him to power to be exposed for the nonsense that it so obviously was. The transformational candidate who was going to sweep away pork-barrel politics, lobbyists and corruption has been up to his neck in sleaze, as eviscerated here by Charles Krauthammer. Despite the fact that he came to power promising to ‘ban all earmarks’, his ‘stimulus’ bill represents billions of dollars of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections -- which have nothing to do with kick-starting the economy and everything to do with favouring pet Democrat causes.
He has been appointing one tax dodger, lobbyist and wheeler-dealer after another....
...Tax cheats, pork-barrel politics, ancillary child abuse, incompetence, chaos, treachery and infantilism. America – what have you done?!
God help us all.
President Obama has had, by general consent, a torrid First Fortnight. To put it another way, it has taken precisely two weeks for the illusion that brought him to power to be exposed for the nonsense that it so obviously was. The transformational candidate who was going to sweep away pork-barrel politics, lobbyists and corruption has been up to his neck in sleaze, as eviscerated here by Charles Krauthammer. Despite the fact that he came to power promising to ‘ban all earmarks’, his ‘stimulus’ bill represents billions of dollars of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections -- which have nothing to do with kick-starting the economy and everything to do with favouring pet Democrat causes.
He has been appointing one tax dodger, lobbyist and wheeler-dealer after another....
...Tax cheats, pork-barrel politics, ancillary child abuse, incompetence, chaos, treachery and infantilism. America – what have you done?!
God help us all.
Labels:
Obama
Reality sets in
◼ Daily Presidential Approval Index
He has a chance - a big one - to make a major impression by stopping this stupendous spending spree, ordering everyone back to the drawing board, and commanding that there be NO Democratic party retreats or caucusing on this issue. That everyone honestly works together. That the first step be to clearly identify the problem. the second step to recommend possible solutions coupled with analysis as to why they might work, and what the results would be, and then to choose the best steps to move forward WITHOUT spending Trillions of dollars. Careful, intelligent, responsible instead of partisan chickens with their heads cut off.
He could do it. Surprise everyone. Show he truly is a man for all the people.
But he won't. His performance at the democratic spa shows us who he really is.
Labels:
Obama
The trials of our son's killers have become a heated political debate, and a political weapon
that the liberals are using to get back at the past Bush administration, and the republican party. While the victims murders go unanswered, and the feelings of their families are taken on a emotional roller coaster ride....
◼ Father of murdered USS Cole sailor explains why he didn't meet with Obama
◼ Mother of USS Cole Victim Blasts Obama for Dropping Charges Against Terror Mastermind - Video 2.6.09
Somehow, I think if her son were a community organizer who accidentally got hit by a car during a protest, Obama would oversee a National funeral and be demanding justice. It's a question of where your values lie.
◼ "We've already waited eight years for justice. Justice delayed is justice denied," - Fmr commander of USS Cole to Obama
◼ BEGGING FOR TERROR
◼ Father of murdered USS Cole sailor explains why he didn't meet with Obama
◼ Mother of USS Cole Victim Blasts Obama for Dropping Charges Against Terror Mastermind - Video 2.6.09
Somehow, I think if her son were a community organizer who accidentally got hit by a car during a protest, Obama would oversee a National funeral and be demanding justice. It's a question of where your values lie.
◼ "We've already waited eight years for justice. Justice delayed is justice denied," - Fmr commander of USS Cole to Obama
◼ BEGGING FOR TERROR
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Friday, February 6
Apocalypse Now
Obama's "I have a Nightmare" speech in his Democratic war room/spa retreat.
No more "Hope." No more "working together."
He has declared war on the Republicans. Knocked off his stride this week by the enormous groundswell of questions about his Porkulous/Spendulus Bill, he had nothing to say.
But the Think Tanks have gotten him his talking points and the campaign is now in full swing. Marginalize anyone who questions the bill, characterize them as the dangerous thinking of the past. Claim a mandate. And shove it down their throats. Agree, capitulate, or else.
Disaster, catastrophe.
"He Plays On Your Fears!" And sets out to bankrupt the country.
◼ The Fierce Urgency of Pork
"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."
-------- President Obama, Feb. 4.
Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
◼ TOP 10 REASONS TO OPPOSE THE STIMULUS
◼ CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul
...CBO, (the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office) the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing...
No more "Hope." No more "working together."
He has declared war on the Republicans. Knocked off his stride this week by the enormous groundswell of questions about his Porkulous/Spendulus Bill, he had nothing to say.
But the Think Tanks have gotten him his talking points and the campaign is now in full swing. Marginalize anyone who questions the bill, characterize them as the dangerous thinking of the past. Claim a mandate. And shove it down their throats. Agree, capitulate, or else.
Disaster, catastrophe.
"He Plays On Your Fears!" And sets out to bankrupt the country.
◼ The Fierce Urgency of Pork
"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."
-------- President Obama, Feb. 4.
Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
◼ TOP 10 REASONS TO OPPOSE THE STIMULUS
◼ CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul
...CBO, (the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office) the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing...
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Obama
Wednesday, February 4
Irridescent Peacock Dragon
◼ Color Blind 9 Contest Rules... at worth1000.com
◼ Bizarrchitecture: Treehouse Edition
lots more fun Photoshoppy stuff
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Art
Tuesday, February 3
Monday, February 2
WHAT HAPPENED TO T. BOONE PICKENS?
Was that all just a scam? Part of Barack's secret weapon? Delude the people into thinking something was going to be done?
What happened to Warren Buffet? All that access to brilliant talent? The best financial minds the world has to offer? All we're getting is a bunch of criminal tax cheats getting appointed to the highest offices in the land.
Does Barack know anyone who's "clean?" (Boy was Biden wrong about that.)
Change? Is that what this is?
So, do we all get to play along? Can you stop paying your taxes?
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Corruption,
Just disgusting,
Obama
Sunday, February 1
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