Tax "Cut" for The Rich Lies of the Left Exposed.

The DREAM Act is a nightmare for Americans

PASS THIS ON:...."Illegals are using a toll free number to call the senate to ask them to vote for the dream act and we can use it to ask them not to. And at the same time we will be blocking their calls. The number to call is 1-866-996-5161. This will be more effective then calling the senator office."

Don't allow Barack Obama, Democrats and illegal immigrants to hijack America. Fight back!

GROPE and Change

Get America Back on Her Feet: Vote!

A man gets on his knees next to a car carrying U.S. President Barack Obama as he pulls away from Valois restaurant in Chicago, October 31, 2010.

REUTERS/Larry Downing

Paleocon's 2010 Electoral Picks

Minnesota Governor: Tom Emmer

First Congressional District: Randy Demmer

House District 28B: Steve Drazkowski

House District 30B: Mike Benson

House District 30A: Charlie O'Connell

Senate District 29: Dave Senjem

Senate District 30: Carla Nelson

House District 29B: Mike Rolih

House District 29A: Duane Quam

Rochester School Board Seat 2: Gary Smith

Rochester School Board Seat 4: Susan Nee

Rochester School Board Seat 5: Terry Throndson

Rochester School Board Seat 6: Anne Becker

Olmsted County Sheriff: Dave Mueller

Olmsted County Board: Mark Stadtherr

Rochester Mayor: Pat Carr, my only protest vote

Rochester City Council Ward 3: Dean Rich

Rochester City Council Ward 5: Shaun Palmer

Are Conservatives "Extremists?"

Four Weeks! The Writing in on the Wall

The Omen

Eco Nazism: "No Pressure"

"No Pressure," a "10:10" global warming ad campaign partially funded by the British government, was scrubbed almost immediately after its release. It has been taken offline as its producers issued an apology.

CAUTION: GRAPHIC. The ad depicts people getting blown up for not agreeing to abide by a pledge to reduce their carbon footprint even though the pledge was supposedly voluntary and there would be "no pressure" for them to do so. If you are uncomfortable with the sight of cinematic reproductions of blood and gore, please refrain from watching this video.

Obamacare in Action: Told You So

The Anatomy of a Hostile Government Takeover

Obamacare at six months

by James C. Capretta

National Review Online

During the long national debate over the future of American health care, President Obama frequently chastised his opponents for launching exaggerated attacks on his plan for “reform.” He took particular exception to the criticism that the changes he was pushing amounted to a government takeover of the whole health sector. He knew full well that this kind of criticism might derail the entire effort in Congress, because most Americans recoil at the thought of a distant and bureaucratic federal government running the health-care system for everyone. So Obama vigorously denied that his program would lead to any such thing. In his Aug. 8, 2009, radio address, he described the “takeover” accusation as “outlandish” and characterized his approach as a mainstream and moderate attempt simply to reform the nation’s private health-insurance system.

It’s now been six months since Congress passed Obamacare — not a long time given the sweeping nature of the legislation and the long phase-in schedule for its most significant provisions. Even so, it is already abundantly clear that Obamacare’s critics were dead right: The new health law has set in motion a government takeover of American health care, and a very hostile one at that. The Obama administration’s clumsy and overbearing behavior since its passage proves the point. [More]

REBEL or be marched into the Obamacare gulag!

For the Bug Boy

Mark Dayton's Wealthy Hypocrisy

THE LIE: "Class Warrior"




THE TRUTH: "Wealthy Trust Fund Baby"

The Choice: "Unfit for Office"

And Now, Words from a REAL President ... II

I've had my share of victories in the Congress, but what few people noticed is that I never won anything you didn't win for me. They never saw my troops; they never saw Reagan's Regiments, the American people. You won every battle with every call you made and letter you wrote demanding action.

Well, action is still needed. If we're to finish the job, Reagan's Regiments will have to become the Bush Brigades. Soon he'll be the chief, and he'll need you every bit as much as I did.

Finally, there is a great tradition of warnings in presidential farewells, and I've got one that's been on my mind for some time.But oddly enough it starts with one of the things I'm proudest of the past eight years: the resurgence of national pride that I called "the new patriotism." This national feeling is good, but it won't count for much, and it won't last unless it's grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge.

An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?

Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American, and we absorbed almost in the air a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family, you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that too through the mid-'60s.

But now we're about to enter the '90s, and some things have changed. Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer in style.

Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom--freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise--and freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important: Why the pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. You know, four years ago, on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who'd fought on Omaha Beach. Her name is Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did. Well, let's help her keep her word.

If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I am warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit.

Let's start with some basics--more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual. And let me offer lesson No. 1 about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

~ Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, Farewell Address, January 12, 1989

FAIL!

Congress Republicans wary of Obama economy plan

Tue Sep 7, 2010 2:33pm EDT

* Obama under pressure to create jobs

* To lay out plan on Wednesday

* Control of Congress in play at election

By Thomas Ferraro and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress showed little willingness to help President Barack Obama approve $350 billion worth of measures to boost the economy with midterm elections less than two months away.

Obama's plans for billions of dollars in tax breaks for businesses are policies that Republicans typically embrace, but the party has little motivation to give the Democratic White House a win with polls showing them gaining seats in Congress -- possibly winning both houses.

Obama will announce his plans to stimulate the sagging U.S. economy -- including the tax breaks and new spending on transportation projects -- in a speech on Wednesday in Cleveland.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday there was little appetite for new economic proposals from Obama, arguing that the $814 billion stimulus that the president already pushed through Congress in early 2009 has not had the desired effect.

"After the administration pledged that a trillion dollars in borrowed stimulus money would create 4 million jobs and keep the unemployment rate under 8 percent, their latest plan for another stimulus should be met with justifiable skepticism," he said.

Obama needs support from the Republicans, who are far outnumbered by Democrats in Congress but are nonetheless able to block legislation. [More]

Obama Goes Berserk Over "Birthers" and Beck

"Network of Misinformation": the New "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" Returns

Flash back:

Flash forward:

Obama blasts "lies," "disinformation"

By GLENN THRUSH 8/29/10 7:11 PM EDT

Updated: 8/30/10 9:22 AM EDT

President Barack Obama dismissed a recent poll showing that a third of Americans don’t know he’s a Christian – and blamed an online campaign of misinformation by his conservative enemies for perpetuating the myth that he’s a Muslim.

Obama, speaking with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Sunday afternoon, was equally dismissive of conservative talk show host Glenn Beck – saying he didn’t watch the Fox host’s Saturday rally in Washington but wasn’t surprised that Beck was able to “stir up” people during uncertain economic times.

Continue Reading“I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” quipped Obama, who took a deep breath to gather his thoughts when asked if the poll reflected his inability to communicate with voters.“The facts are the facts. We went through some of this during the campaign — there is a mechanism, a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly,” said a visibly annoyed Obama, referring to “birthers,” who have waged a guerrilla campaign questioning either the existence or the validity of his Hawaiian birth certificate.

Former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton must be beaming with pride.

Flash back:

Will Nancy Pelosi "Drain the Swamp?"

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson violated rules, steered scholarships to relatives

By TODD J. GILLMAN and CHRISTY HOPPE

The Dallas Morning News
tgillman@dallasnews.com
choppe@dallasnews.com

Longtime Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide's two children since 2005, using foundation funds set aside for black lawmakers' causes.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)

The recipients were ineligible under anti-nepotism rules of the Congressional Black CaucusFoundation, which provided the money. And all of the awards violated a foundation requirement that scholarship winners live or study in a caucus member's district.

Johnson, a Democrat, denied any favoritism when asked about the scholarships last week. Two days later, she acknowledged in a statement released by her office that she had violated the rules but said she had done so "unknowingly" and would work with the foundation to "rectify the financial situation."

Initially, she said, "I recognized the names when I saw them. And I knew that they had a need just like any other kid that would apply for one." Had there been more "very worthy applicants in my district," she added, "then I probably wouldn't have given it" to the relatives.

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Johnson awarded nine to 11 scholarships a year from 2005 to 2008, the most recent years for which information was available. Each of those years, three or four winners were related to her or her district director, Rod Givens. Johnson said she divided the available funds equally among recipients, and every qualified applicant got a scholarship.

The foundation asks applicants to certify that they aren't related to those associated with the caucus or the foundation, but it does not specify which relationships that includes.

Scholarships have gone to two of the congresswoman's grandsons,Kirk and David Johnson; to two of her great-nephews, Gregory and Preston Moore; and to Givens' son and daughter. Givens did not respond to requests for comment, and none of the scholarship recipients could be reached.

[More]

Let's hear it for Democrat "culture of corruption."

To be fair, Speaker Pelosi vowed to fight the "Republican" culture of corruption.

Sarah Palin's Keynote Speech at Glenn Beck's "Restore Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. today

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Krugman Admits Obama, Biden, Bernanke are Lying About Economic Recovery

OK, so Paul Krugman, in his most recent snow job poorly disguised as an op-ed column in the NY Times, neglects to mention that both President Obama and Vice President Biden have not missed an opportunity to tout "The Summer of Recovery" for months now. Krugman, a one time cheerleader of the Obama administration before he realized that they aren't quite as radical for his Bolshevik tastes, is downright frustrated:

[W]e can safely predict what [Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke] and other officials will say about where we are right now: that the economy is continuing to recover, albeit more slowly than they would like. Unfortunately, that’s not true: this isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters.

Krugman decries the fact that Obama's initial "stimuls," which opponents have dubbed "porkulus," was not quite big enough (GASP!). The NY Times chief Obama economics apologist has a couple of suggestions for the administration. Hold for laughter.

[The Obama administration] can use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored lenders, to engineer mortgage refinancing that puts money in the hands of American families

Excuse me, but aren't Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac responsible for the mess we are in to begin with? There is nothing to "revamp." "Engineer mortgage refinancing?" Didn't they already engineer a scheme that brought the housing market to its knees and precipitated the current economic crisis? Lending money to people who can't possibly pay it back is stupid. Keep doing it and it's criminal.

[The Obama administration] can finally get serious about confronting China over its currency manipulation: how many times do the Chinese have to promise to change their policies, then renege, before the administration decides that it’s time to act?

What moral authority does Obama have to confront China about anything, much less monetary policy? We are indebted to the Chinese up to our eyeballs, Paul!

Krugman is telling us that there is no recovery. Perhaps it's time he realizes his remedies are what's killing the patient, in this case, the American economy. How many more times does the Keynesian lunacy have to fail before Krugman gives up on it?

I Have Been a "Runaway Slave" for Years and Didn't Know It

The Smell of Liberal Fear in the Air

Primary election results across the country have Democrats shaking in their collectivist boots. The NY Times, a propaganda tool of the Obama administration masquerading as a news organization, is throwing down the gauntlet:

Much of the G.O.P’s fervid populist energy has been churned up by playing on some people’s fears of Hispanics and Muslims, by painting the president as a dangerous radical, by distorting the truth about the causes of the recession. Far too many Republican leaders have eagerly fed that destructive anger.

And where are the Democrats in all of this? Last time we checked, they were fleeing solid accomplishments on health care, financial reform and the economy. President Obama and his party have little time left to gin up enthusiasm and a lot more committed voters. [More]

What's "angry" about dissenting from the party line? If Democrats have had such "solid accomplishments," 10% unemployment, revolving bailouts, deepening debt and skyrocketing deficits among them, why are they "fleeing?"

Be Careful What You Wish For ...

The voices in Mark Dayton's head have been telling him to denounce Republican trackers for disrupting his events and limiting or blocking the access of voters to him even though it has not happened. The DFL candidate for Minnesota Governor has suggested that the trackers wear shirts that identify them as such and they have happily complied.

Real Men Detest Barack Obama

Obama's Approval Hits All-Time Low of 39 Percent Among Men, Says Gallup

Tuesday, August 24, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama’s job approval rating among American men has fallen to a record low, hitting 39 percent in the week of Aug. 16-22, according to the Gallup Poll.

The week of Aug. 16-22 also marked the first time Obama’s average weekly approval rating dropped below 40 percent for either gender. His approval rating among American women was 46 percent for the week.

When Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, his job approval rating was 64 percent among men and 69 percent among women, according to Gallup. That was the highest his approval ever hit with men. [More]

This is Who Olmsted County DFLers Are

My second grader came to my wife this afternoon to inform her, in an alarmed voice, that someone had written the "F-word" on the Tom Emmer for Governor sign we have in our yard. Here's the coward's handiwork:

After I took these pictures, my second grader asked me if I was mad. It became an opportunity to teach an important lesson. "No, I'm not mad," I said. "This only confirms what I have known and told you about these people all along."

DFLers are desperate and they are vulgar. Whoever has defaced our sign would never have the courage to knock on my door or the intelligence to articulate a reasoned position against Tom's candidacy. It's easier to stick a sharpie in his pocket, wait until no one is around and scribble profanities on a lawn sign for elementary school children to read than take the high road, be tolerant of other people's point of view and respect their property.

And Now, Words from a REAL President ...

Out-of-touch Obama: "Social Security is Not in Crisis"

Social Security has become a campaign issue this August, as Democrats have hit their Republican opponents for supporting privatization, and as Congressman Paul Ryan, the GOP's current fiscal idea man has suggested we privatize Social Security and make some drastic changes to Medicare.

It's undeniable that Social Security faces some big challenges, with baby boomers retiring and with fewer workers paying into the system to support them. But President Obama reassured a small crowd in Columbus, Ohio today that the situation isn't so dire.

"Here's the thing," Obama said when asked about privatizing Social Security by a woman in the audience. "Social Security is not in crisis."

Obama has opposed privatizing Social Security, and he told the crows that privatization is not on the table. "Social Security should not be privatized, and it will not be privatized as long as I'm president," he said.

"We're going to need to make some modest adjustments to strengthen it. There are some fairly modest changes that can be made without resorting to any newfangled schemes that would continue Social Security for another 75 years," Obama told the crowd. [More]

I love this bit:

"What we've done is we've created a fiscal commission" to propose deficit-reduction measures, some of which could include adjustments to Social Security, Obama said. The commission is being headed by former Republican House Whip Alan Simpson and Clinton White House aide Erskine Bowles. It will issue policy proposals in December; if the commission can agree on legislative language, Congress could take it up for a vote.

IF the commission agrees on legislative language? Congress COULD take it up for a vote? Like more bureaucracy would really fill the Social Security bottomless hole.

Keep Talking, Joe!

More "Sham" Than "Wow"

Obama's MSNBC lamestream media cronies are disappointed in their master's oil spill address from the Oval Office last night.

Obama's @$$-kicking Song

So, Who's LYING? Sestak or The White House?

Barack Obama's Environmental Incompetence Evident Even to Liberals

Greece, anyone?

Padded Pensions Add to New York Fiscal Woes

By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH and AMY SCHOENFELD

In Yonkers, more than 100 retired police officers and firefighters are collecting pensions greater than their pay when they were working. One of the youngest, Hugo Tassone, retired at 44 with a base pay of about $74,000 a year. His pension is now $101,333 a year.

It’s what the system promised, said Mr. Tassone, now 47, adding that he did nothing wrong by adding lots of overtime to his base pay shortly before retiring. “I don’t understand how the working guy that held up their end of the bargain became the problem,” he said.

Despite a pension investigation by the New York attorney general, an audit concluding that some police officers in the city broke overtime rules to increase their payouts and the mayor’s statements that future pensions should be based on regular pay, not overtime, these practices persist in Yonkers.

The city has even arranged for its police to put in overtime as flagmen on Consolidated Edison construction sites. Though a company is paying the bill, the city is actually reporting the work as city overtime to the New York State pension fund, padding future payouts — an arrangement at odds with the spirit of public employment, if not the law.

The Yonkers experience shows how errors, misunderstandings and wishful thinking are piling hidden new costs onto New York’s public pension system every year, worsening the state’s current fiscal crisis. And the problem is not just in New York. Public pension costs are ballooning everywhere, throwing budgets out of whack and raising the question of whether venerable state pension systems are viable.

In fact, the cost of public pensions has been systemically underestimated nationwide for more than two decades, say some analysts. By these estimates, state and local officials have promised $5 trillion worth of benefits while thinking they were committing taxpayers to roughly half that amount.[More]

Does anyone think that this practice is sustainable? There aren't enough "rich" people to pay for government corruption, abuse and excess.