Dan Rather Wouldn't Buy Watermelons From This Man

Barack Obama's War on Jobs: Mission Accomplished

Payrolls fall by 36,000; U.S. jobless rate steady at 9.7%

By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. nonfarm payrolls declined for the 25th time in the past 26 months, falling by 36,000 in February to a seasonally adjusted 129.5 million, the Labor Department estimated Friday.

The nation's jobless rate was steady at 9.7% as the number of people employed rose by 308,000, according to the household survey.

Severe snowstorms during the survey week may have depressed the payroll count, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics said it could not quantify the impact. Read the full report on the Labor Department website.

Ahead of the report, economists cautioned against reading too much into the data, in light of the likely impact of the storms. It'll take until April before a clean count can be given. [More]

Wait until April and they will revise the unemployment rate upwards more likely. Blaming the weather for the 9.7% unemployment number is voodo. There is absolutely no way they can blame one factor on the disappointing report.

We are being lied to. Again. And for the sake of propaganda.

How's the president's "focus" on jobs working for America?

Obama is the reverse Midas. Everything he touches turns to crap.

"No Fingers Left to Wag": Corrupt Democrats and Their Hypocrite Leadership Exposed

Democrats Mired in Swamp They Vowed to Drain
Thursday, 04 Mar 2010 06:35 PM

A rash of ethics lapses has given Democrats an election-year headache: how to convince skeptical voters that they're any cleaner than Republicans they accused of fostering a "culture of corruption" in 2006.


From the conduct of governors in Illinois and New York to backroom deals over President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, Democrats are drawing their own criticism when it comes to the ethics of public officials.


The party that pledged to "drain the swamp" if given control of Congress finds itself sinking in the muck nine months from Election Day, when every member of the House and 36 Senate seats will be chosen.


The sword of sanctimony cuts both ways, warns a Republican felled by his own scandal in the weeks before the 2006 elections, as then-Rep. Nancy Pelosi led the campaign cry to end "the culture of corruption that has thrived under this Republican Congress."


"If you claim that you are going to hold a group accountable, as she professed, then it requires you to really be serious about that and not make excuses when members of their own party don't meet those same standards," former Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned weeks before the 2006 election because of allegations he pursued former House pages, told The Associated Press.

Anyone who believed Speaker of the House self-righteous pronouncements that she and the Democratic Party majority were going to change the Republican "culture of corruption" in Congress are either woefully or wilfully ignorant of the morally bankrupt recent history of the the socialist party itself.

While peddling a crusade against "The Culture of Corruption," Pelosi managed to secure "A Monopoly on Corruption" for her party and administration. From Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's tax evasion to Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd's sweet mortgage deal from Countrywide, corruption and wrongdoing have been the hallmark of Pelosi's tenure and Obama's presidency.

And now, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, is forced to "temporarily" give up the chairmanship of the tax-writing arm of the United State Congress because he has cheated on his taxes. You can't make that up, folks.

Obama's audience for health care: House Democrats

A group of health care professionals watched President Obama's speech yesterday at the White House; cable television networks also tuned in.

But neither the live crowd nor the television viewers appeared to be his primary audience. Instead, Obama seemed to speaking to wavering House Democrats -- particularly the more conservative Democrats -- who hold the keys to the "up-or-down" health care vote that the president demanded.

It won't be easy. For example, Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., told ABC's Good Morning America, he will oppose the president unless anti-abortion language is included in a final bill.

One of the arguments Obama presented in order to convince "wavering" Dems that they should pass his health care abomination bill is that "government can work." Notice he didn't say that it does, only that it "can." Sounds like even he admits it hasn't yet.

Dems are not "wavering." They are scared spitiless and won't fall on their swords for Obama.

Obamacare 2.139

Time to act on health care, Obama declares

Mar 3 02:59 PM US/Eastern

By ALAN FRAM
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote "up or down" on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster.

"I don't see how another year of negotiations would help. Moreover, the insurance companies aren't starting over," Obama said, rejecting Republican calls to begin anew on an effort to remake the health care system.

The president made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress surveyed their rank and file for the votes needed to pass legislation by majority vote—invoking rules that deny Senate Republicans the right to block it through endless stalling debate. Obama specifically endorsed that approach

GOP leaders were unmoved, despite Obama's declaration that he had incorporated a few of their proposals into his revised legislation.

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said a decision by Democrats to invoke rules that bar filibusters would be "met with outrage" by the public, and he said Obama was pushing a sweeping bill that voters don't want.

"They've had enough of this yearlong effort to get a win for the Democratic Party at any price to the American people," McConnell said on the Senate floor.

At its core, Obama's proposal would extend health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans while cracking down on insurance company practices such as denying coverage on the basis of a pre-existing medical condition.

With his remarks, delivered at the White House, Obama took the lead in a bid by congressional Democrats to mount a party-line rescue mission for the health care legislation that appeared on the cusp of passage late last year, only to be derailed when Republicans won a Massachusetts Senate seat that gave them the ability to block it.

There is still no certainty about the outcome—or even that Democrats will agree to the series of changes that Obama said represented Republican contributions.[More]

It's the totalitarian way. Al Gore said the same thing about "global warming" when he unilaterally declared that "the debate is over." Obama has declared that everything that needs to be said about health care reform has been said and that he will be the final arbitrer. The man's arrogance has no limits.

Obama's challenge continues to be his own corrupt party's inability to coalesce around a single bill. December elections are weighing heavier on Democrats' minds than Obama's legacy.

Democrat Culture of Corruption

“In order to avoid my colleagues having to defend me during their elections, I have this morning sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence until such time as the ethics committee completes its work.”

~ Self-serving congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) on the deep ethical doodoo he is in.

Rangel Steps Aside from Post During Ethics Inquiry

By CARL HULSE and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

WASHINGTON — Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York announced on Wednesday that he would temporarily step down from his powerful post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in an attempt to avert a politically bruising fight over permanently stripping the gavel from his hands.

But Republicans on Wednesday afternoon said they had received a ruling from the presiding officer of the House that Mr. Rangel’s decision had indeed permanently removed him from the helm of the committee, which exerts enormous legislative influence in the House as it controls legislation involving taxes and revenues.

The events set in motion intense jockeying for advantage just as the House and Senate Democrats try to accelerate action on health care legislation.

“In order to avoid my colleagues having to defend me during their elections, I have this morning sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence until such time as the ethics committee completes its work” on a number of accusations against him, the congressman said in a hurriedly scheduled meeting with reporters.

The ethics committee admonished Mr. Rangel last week for violating Congressional gift rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean in 2007 and 2008.[More]

Ironically, later in the NY Times piece, we read the following:

"Mr. Rangel’s announcement came as Republicans were pressing for a vote calling for his ouster, while several Democrats had already made clear that they would no longer support Mr. Rangel."

Democrats were not going to defend Mr. Rangel during the next election. They would rather throw him under the proverbial bus sooner rather than later, i.e. during the thick of the midterm elections. And don't even get me going on the sham of "temporarily stepping down" from the powerful chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee," the tax writing arm of Congress. Rangel is a crook and a cheat.

Wasn't Pelosi going to deal with the "culture of corruption" in Congress? Instead, she's become an enabler.

Annie, Get Your Gun: It's Open Season on RINOs

“I think the message is pretty clear: conservatism has never been stronger than it is today, and we are taking our country back.”

~ Texas Governor Rick Perry, during his gubernatorial primary victory speech after defeating RINO senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for the Republican nomination.


Hutchison Concedes Texas G.O.P. Primary to Perry
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and CLIFFORD KRAUSS

HOUSTON — A year ago, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison had all the advantages when she laid her plans to run for governor: a high popularity rating, a party shaken by President Obama's victory, a big bankroll and, most important, the backing of influential Republicans, who felt the incumbent governor, Rick Perry , was too divisive and too conservative.

But by the time Republican voters went to the polls here in a primary on Tuesday, the political ground had shifted under Senator Hutchison, who lost in a three-way race to Mr. Perry.

Early on, he had courted the Tea Party movement and had wooed social conservatives worried about abortion and right-wing Republicans fed up with Congress. Throughout the campaign, Mr. Perry had run against Washington, portraying Ms. Hutchison as a spendthrift who had supported pork barrel projects and the bailout for the banks.

Speaking to supporters on Tuesday night in Driftwood, Tex., the governor said the election had proven the conservative movement in America was alive and well despite the Obama presidency.

“I think the message is pretty clear: conservatism has never been stronger than it is today, and we are taking our country back,” Mr. Perry said.

So strong was the anti-Washington sentiment here that a political neophyte from the far-right wing of the Republican Party, Debra Medina, came in third in the race with a respectable showing, despite having only a fraction of the money of Mr. Perry and Ms. Hutchison.

The senator called the governor and conceded defeat at 9:30 p.m. Central time, when the returns showed she was losing 31 percent to 52 percent, putting Mr. Perry over the mark he needed to avoid a run-off. She thanked her supporters, including former President George Bush, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Vice President Dick Cheney .

“It has been a long road and a hard-fought campaign, but tonight we fell short,” she said, calling on the party to unite behind the governor.

Mr. Perry will face Bill White, the former mayor of Houston, in the general election. Mr. White cruised to an easy victory over six other Democrats.

“You have got to give Rick Perry and his team a great deal of credit for being the longest-serving governor in Texas history and still running a campaign as an outsider,” said Mark Sanders, a Republican consultant. “Outsiders are what people want right now.”

The Republican primary in Texas reflects the grass-roots rebellion among conservatives against moderate Republicans and Democrats that has shaken up politics across the country, beginning with the defeat of the Democratic candidate for Senate in Massachusetts by Scott Brown, a Republican.

RINOs and Democrats beware! The American people are coming for you.

Parenthetically, Perry knows that the Tea Party Movement is instrumental in restoring fiscal and political sanity to the government.

Update: The NY York Times update the headline for the story above. It now reads, "'Yes for Governor Is 'No" to Washington." I guess they figure the story was about Perry's victory, not Hutchison's defeat. There may be hope for the lamestream media yet.

Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Forum at the Ramada Inn, Rochester, Minnesota

Over 100 people attended tonight's Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Forum featuring leanding contenders Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Delano) and Marty Seifert (R-Marshall). The forum was moderated by the indefaticable author, historian and political commentator Tom Ostrom.

Keynote speaker and former First District Congressman Gil Gutknencht exorted those in attendance not to be overconfident in the face of the Obama admnistration's recent failings and weaknesses, reminding them that the purpose of a political party is to offer superior ideas. He also asked three very pointed questions for reflection:

"Are Republicans prepared to win the seats Democrats are expected to lose?"

"How long can Minnesota continue to export wealth and import dependence?"

"Are we consigning future generations to a lower standard of living?"

And following Minnesota Republican Party Chair Tony Sutton's rousing speech regarding the unique electoral opportunities before Republican candidates this fall, the forum began with a series of questions:

GMAC: What do you know about it?

Seifert: Voted to deconstruct the program and move the beneficiaries to other programs. GAMC is growing above and beyond capacity to pay for itself.

Emmer: The wrong idea at the wrong time. $400 million dollars every two years for 40,000 people. You can not continue to make deals on things that do not work.

Pull government out of those programs. It's time to negotiate outcomes that are based on less government. More government is not the solution.

Q: How would you prioritize the state budget and balance the books?

Emmer: Tax cuts alone are not the answer but you have to attack the structural size of government. Redefine priorities and redesign government. Create an economy that attracts business to Minnesota. Attract new horses to pull the wagon of Minnesota.

Seifert: Reduce taxes, paperwork and costly mandates that keeps business away from Minnesota. Cut government. This state is spending $2-$3 million dollars more a day than it takes in. Prioritize people over bureaucracy.

Q: How would you have approached the bonding bill that the governor vetoed?

Seifert: Minnesota government is broke. When it comes to these projects, the bonding bill costs $1 billion plus $400,000 in debt services.

Not just line item; stop the spending.

Emmer: We should have taken this opportunity to address the structure of government. After six years in office, I have yet to see a bonding bill that prioritizes the needs of Minnesota.

Q: Should the state of Minnesota mandate that a certain amount of energy be produced by renewable sources?

Emmer: Cap and trade is already here. I offered a bill to repeal it. We want to be good stewards of the environment but not at the expense of our children's future.

Seifert: I voted for the bill in 2005 but would veto it if it came to my desk. I voted for the bill but it's the wrong priority. My plan is to lift the nuclear ban, import clean coal and promote market based energy policies.

Q: What is your plan to keep Minnesota competitive in the job market and how would you change state law to make it happen?

Emmer: Redesign a smaller government, bring taxes down, eliminate licensing and costly mandates and requirements for businesses and health care. The 68 mandates in health care raise the cost for every one of us. You must have tort reform for contractors: loser pays. Workers compensation reform to bring costs down.

Seifert: We need to downsize, right size and economize state government. Worker compensation reform. Reduction of fees that make Minnesota less competitive. Tax, fees, licenses have to be reformed and sometimes done away with.

Q: Would you oppose the implementation of President Barack Obama's health care reform and how?

Seifert: The best health care provides in the country are in Minnesota and the federal government wants to screw that. We need to say "no" to Obamacare and exercise our 10th Amendment rights. We need to push back because it is the right thing for the people of Minnesota.

Emmer: I have been doing that already. I offered a bill that provides government cannot pass a law that interferes with an individual's ability to chose one's doctor. Make sure we maintain the best care and drive the cost down ourselves. Deduct cost of their health care insurance, reduce mandates and encourage competition.

Q: What is your voting record on tort reform?

Emmer: We need comprehensive tort reform, not pick and choose who it applies to. Caps are part of the answer. Tort reform based on best practices.

Seifert: 100% in favor of reform. Voted for every tort reform bill that has come across the legislature. Caps on attorneys fees are a good idea. Judges should not be allowed to go above what the compensation is.

Q: Will you honor the endorsement process and ensure a unified party?

Seifert: Yes, I will abide by the endorsement. I believe very firmly that we have to be united as a party. I have no backup plan. I feel very confident that I will be the candidate.

Emmer: Yes. It's about leadership and decisions that affect people's lives.


Closing Statement:

Emmer: Jackie and I have been blessed with 7 children, 6 boys and one beautiful girl. I have been in the legislature for 5 years. Jackie and I were dumb enough to believe this was a part time job. What we did in the early 70s was to make this an every other year proposition. It has become a career. Decisions are now made based on what is going to be best for the next election. It is no longer community service.

People are fed up with the growth of governemtn and career politicians. We need to put up authentic people who do what they say they are going to do.

Seifert: An opportunity to right size, downsize and economize government. They believe now that they are the boss and the people are servants. Elected officials feel entitled to teach teachers how to teach, farmers how to farm and business owners how to conduct their business. I don't want us to become a colder and smaller California, where people leave at a rate of 1,000 people a day. 1,000 people a month move to Minnesota for welfare purposes.

As Republicans, we must prioritize. When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. It's not about limiting government but cutting it. Repealing laws, not creating more.

Questions from the audience:

Q: How do we deal with the situation with education?

Seifert: The federal government to stay out of local education. Children should be treated equally despite of where they live. Children spend less time in school today than they have ever had before even though we spend more money on education than ever before.

Emmer: Adress funding disparities. Tie the funding to the child. Parents are the ones who need to make the best educational decision for their children. The future in this state is moving to a public charter school model. Reward good teachers and let the poor ones go.

Q: Would you work to make voter ID a reality?

Emmer: Yes! WE should have voter ID.

Seifert: You need a photo ID to get a library card, a credit card, etc. It must be included as a reform item.

Q: If you could take back one vote, what would it be?

Seifert: The energy vote was the one in which the governor of my party cleaned it up but it wasn't the best of both worlds. An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Emmer: There isn't one. I read everything before I vote. I base my decisions based on life, liberty and property. I have been applying those principles from day one.

Tea Party Patriots: More Diverse Than MSNBC

Stupid Does as Stupid Is

With Absolute Power, Team Obama Grows Stupid

By Michael Barone
February 11, 2010

How could such smart people do so many stupid things? That question, or variations on it, is being asked in Washington and around the country about the Obama administration.

The same people who directed the campaign that defeated Hillary Clinton and routed John McCain, a campaign that raised far more money and attracted far more volunteers than any before it, have within a year come up with a legislative program that is crashing in ruins and that, to judge from recent polls, has left the Democratic Party weaker than I have seen it in almost 50 years of closely following politics.

The 2008 campaign was an impressive achievement. So, in a negative way, is the 2009 legislative program that has left the Democrats in such woeful shape in 2010. [More]

The Obamanoids came in declaring they were intellectually superior to every previous administration. What they have done, however, proves what many of us knew from the start: they were stupid to beging with. Their actions prove their stupidity regardless of what they said and continue to say.

Joe Biden: Barack Obama's "Effin' Retard" VP

Joe Biden update: Iraq One of Obama's "Great Achievements"

Who knew?

Thank goodness, Vice President Joe Biden went on CNN to chat with Larry King Wednesday night. So many think things are not going so well for the Democrat administration, as The Ticket chronicled here.


Many Americans recall the ex-Sen. Biden's Democratic primary plans to give in to Iraq's fractious factions and carve the country into three territories. And even more probably recall Biden's boss' plan to halt the Iraq war years ago. As long as it got started anyway without the permission of the then state senator. [More]

Just when Barack thought it was safe to let him out of the White House alone, Joe "Stand up, Chuck! Let 'em see you" Biden goes off script again.

Biden, who built a second career out of criticizing the Iraq war and the surge in troops that followed it, now wants to take credit for the relative stability in that Middle Eastern country and count it as one of Obama's nonexistent "great accomplishments."

Can't necessarily blame Biden on this one. Obama has had a year of failures. From health care to the economy to unemployment, Barack's many failings and inadequacies for the office of President of the United States of America are self-evident. What's left other than taking credit for a policy of the administration that he does nothing but vilify. Pathetic.

Here are some of Biden's shining moments. What a moron.




Stand Up, Chuck!:






Biden's "Iraq Plan":



Biden: "Break up Iraq!"

Go, Sarah!

Sally Jo Sorensen: Tim Walz's Flunky Blogger from the 7TH (!) District

You know Tim Walz, Nancy Pelosi's favorite Congressman, is in serious trouble when his 7th congressional district toadie blogger goes on her smear rampages. Sally Jo Sorensen, of Bluestem Prairie infamy is at it again. This time she is firing in all directions as the number of worthy Walz's challengers grows.

"Ollie Ox," her appropriately bovine pen name, is busy these days besmirching the character of better men than her beloved and embattled First District Congressman. As I research the causes of her newfound fears, please enjoy the following video clips. They will shed light on who Sally Jo Sorensen is (the short answer is, "Nobody!") and why her posts are so despicably full of lies (hint: Do the words "low self esteem" ring a bell?).

Here's Sally Joe, Tim Walz's "Overzealous Flunky":


Congressman Walz Uses Blogger to Attack Constituents. - The best free videos are right here



And here's the guy for whom she is going to bat. Birds of a feather flocking together?


Tim Walz: D.U.I. - More amazing video clips are a click away

Tim Walz is on a script and won't answer any questions that will deviate him from it.


Congressman Tim Walz Dodges Question of Constituent!! - Watch more amazing videos here

Truth to Abusive Power: Rep. Michele Bachmann in Rochester

Birds of a Feather?

Osama bin Laden joins Al Gore in fighting manmade climate change

Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore found an unlikely ally in his mission to save the world from the ravages of global warming – Osama bin Laden. In a new audiotape released by Al Jazeera, the terrorist warns that it is industrialized nations that are to blame and urged “drastic solutions" to solve the climate change crisis.

Bin Laden echoes many who believe the manmade climate change theory saying, "Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact." The comments are akin to the oft-repeated ‘the science is settled’ argument.

It is the industrialized world and of course primarily the United States that is to blame for global warming. “All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the crisis of global warming," he says on the tape.

According to bin Laden, it is the rejection of the Kyoto Protocol by the United States that has caused global warming to impact the world. He said, "Bush the son, and the [US] Congress before him, rejected this agreement only to satisfy the big companies." [More]

Bin Laden's rhetoric is indistinguishable from Al Gore's and global warming alarmists of his ilk. Watch them scramble to set themselves apart from the Big Daddy of Terrorism.

Parenthetically, notice that bin Laden also does a "blame Bush" routine, which echoes Barack Obama's mantra whenever his ongoing failures and blatant inadequacies become evident.

Chris Matthews, "Seduced" by Barack Obama, Forgets that the President is Black

Justice Alito to Obama's SCOTUS Criticism: "Not True"

It would appear that former Constitutional Law professor and now President Barack Obama is unfamiliar with the concept of "trias politica" or "separation of powers." Criticizing the Supreme Court of the United States in the presence of its members is a new low even for Barack Obama.

The Obama Presidency: A Deficit of Trust

NO Quarter Given

Dodd: Dems Might Need a Month Off from Reform

Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd said today that Democrats may need to take more than a month off from the health care debate to regroup, saying it is up to President Obama to lead the way.

Dodd is the first congressional Democratic leader to suggest such an extended break, signaling that Democrats’ may be much further from a workable endgame strategy than they have suggested in the days since Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat and ended the Democrats’ 60-vote majority.

The comments are sure to raise questions about whether Democrats are giving up on reform. A month-long break would almost certainly kill any momentum health reform has left, making it that much harder to pass.

"Maybe we do need to take this time — look, it didn't work, this process — and say ‘Look, I want all of us to take a month,’” Dodd said. “It isn't as if you'll have nothing to do around here. There's a lot of other issues that could fill up the time of the Congress while we sat down and see if there wasn't some way to resolve these differences and come up with a health care bill."

No time out. No break. No respite. No truce. No compromise. Democrats can't be trusted. They want to scurry back to their socialist hole in order to fight another day.

And, Dodd said, it’s going to take presidential leadership to get it
done.

Good luck with that, Countrywide.

Kiss of Death

Obama Plans Campaign Stop for Reid in Nevada

By ADAM NAGOURNEY

The White House is about to make another big gesture demonstrating its support for Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader under fire for remarks he made about President Obama’s race.

In February, Mr. Obama will head to Nevada to appear with Mr. Reid, who is facing a tough reelection battle there, aides said today.

The decision by the president to fly to Nevada for the majority leader comes as the Reid operation has made an all-out effort to rally Democrats and African-Americans around Mr. Reid, and to head off a crisis that
has grown amid crucial health care negotiations and his own campaign. Several Republican officials – including the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele – called on Mr. Reid to resign.

Mr. Reid made clear he would not.

In an interview for a new book, Mr. Reid said that Mr. Obama would be able to become the first African-American president, because he was “light-skinned” and because he did not speak with a “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” Mr. Reid’s aides said he thought he was in a private conversation when he made the remarks to John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, for their book, “Game Change.”

Obama is such a great campaigner. I'm sure his appearance on Reid's behalf in Nevada will put the Senate Majority Leader over the top. Just ask Martha Coakley.

The People's Seat!

Boston Tea Party II: The End of the Beginning of the Obama Administration

GOP's Brown Wins Massachusetts Senate Seat in Epic Upset

Glen Johnson And Liz Sidoti, Associated Press Writers

BOSTON – In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.

The loss by the once-favored Democrat Martha Coakley in the Democratic stronghold was a stunning embarrassment for the White House after Obama rushed to Boston on Sunday to try to save the foundering candidate. Her defeat signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

"I have no interest in sugarcoating what happened in Massachusetts," said Sen. Robert Menendez, the head of the Senate Democrats' campaign committee. "There is a lot of anxiety in the country right now. Americans are understandably impatient."

Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of his agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama's swearing-in, the election played out amid a backdrop of animosity and resentment from voters over persistently high unemployment, Wall Street bailouts, exploding federal budget deficits and partisan wrangling over health care. [More]

It's "pants on the ground" for Obama and Congressional Dems.

BTW, Happy First Anniversary, President Barack Obama!

On MLK Day: Obama Fails on Race Relations

Fewer Think Obama Advanced Race Relations

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Fewer Americans now say they think President Obama has advanced race relations than a year ago, a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday indicates.

In poll, about four in 10 people said they thought Obama, as the first black president, advanced race relations, compared to last year's poll in which nearly six in 10 people said they thought Obama would improve racial ties.

The falloff was notable among African Americans, pollsters said. In January 2009, about 75 percent of blacks said they expected Obama's presidency to help race relations. In the latest poll, 51 percent of African Americans say he has helped.

Three in 10 African Americans said Obama's election didn't represent broader change, the Post said. About two-thirds of respondents said they Obama's election was indicative of progress for all blacks in the United States, unchanged from last year, the Post said. About half say his time in office hadn't made much difference in race relations, while one in eight respondents said it hurt. [More]

One more check mark on Obama's "fail" column.

R.I.P?

It's so bad, but so bad, for Democrat Senate Candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts that not even Ted Kennedy is going to vote for her.

Socialists Beware: America is Rising!

Queen Michelle

First Lady requires more than twenty attendants

By Dr. Paul L. Williams Monday, July 6, 2009

If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michele are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:

1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
5. Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
11. Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
14. Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
18. Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
21. Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
22. Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

Michelle's got money to burn. Too bad it's ours, not hers.

Cojones

"With all due respect, it's not the Kennedy's seat, it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat."

-- Massachusetts Senate candidate Scott Brown

Harry Reid: Socialist Racist Hypocrite

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and, his words, "light-skinned" African American and "Negro" dialect-free Barack Obama.

``There is this standard where the Democrats feel that they can say these things and they can apologize when it comes from the mouths of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it's racism.''

~ Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele on reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) referred to then-Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a "light-skinned" African-American who spoke without a "Negro dialect," unless he "wanted to have one."

G.O.P Chairman Pressures Reid on Obama Remarks

By JEFF ZELENY and JOSEPH BERGER

Published: January 10, 2010

Michael Steele, the Republican Party chairman, called Sunday for Harry Reid to step down as U.S. Senate majority leader in the wake of revelations of Mr. Reid’s remarks in 2008 about Barack Obama’s skin color and dialect.

A new book about the 2008 campaign quotes Mr. Reid as predicting that Mr. Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” On Saturday, the senator issued a public statement apologizing for the remark. He also expressed his regret for the comment in a phone call to Mr. Obama, who accepted his apology. But Mr. Steele, who is black, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that an apology was not enough and “there has to be a consequence” for “anachronistic language that hearkens backs to the 1950’s and 1960’s.” Asked by the moderator, David Gregory, whether that consequence should be Mr. Reid’s resignation as majority leader, Mr. Steele said, “I believe it is.”

The statement suggested that Republicans would not let the controversy pass quietly, while Democrats, from Mr. Obama himself to the Rev. Al Sharpton, worked to put the matter to rest.

“There’s a big double standard here,” Mr. Steele said. “When Democrats get caught saying racist things, you know an apology is enough.” He recalled that Trent Lott had stepped down as Republic majority leader in 2002 after making a racially tinged remark. Had a similar statement been made by Mitch McConell, the Senate minority leader, Democrats would be calling for his head, he said. Mr. Steele made many of the same statements on “Fox News Sunday.”

As if any further proof of the rampant racism that infects the Democrat Party at the highest levels was needed. Speaking of hypocrisy, it looks like Al Sharpton will give his bullhorn a break on this one.

Silent: the "Reverend" Al Sharpton's bullhorn

Liberal Racist Hypocrisy Update I:

DemocRATS Abandon Sinking Obama Ship

Departures Shake Democrats

By PETER WALLSTEN and NAFTALI BENDAVID

WASHINGTON -- A string of unexpected retirements by several senior Democrats this week demonstrated the daunting obstacles facing President Barack Obama's party in this year's midterm elections.

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) announced from his home in Connecticut Wednesday that he was in "the toughest political shape of my career" and wouldn't seek a sixth term. A day earlier, Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota bowed out of his re-election, sending party officials scrambling for a viable candidate to take on the state's popular Republican governor, who is expected to run. Colorado's Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, also said Wednesday he won't seek reelection.

"It is a challenging time."

~ Political genius and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association Delaware Gov. Jack Markell.

C-SPAN Broadcast of Health Care Negotiations: Another Obama Lie

In spite of Barack Obama's lofty campaign rhetoric, health care reform "negotiations" are being held in secret and behind closed dooors.

Candidate Obama was lying then, President Obama is lying now.

As If Suicide Vests Weren't Bad Enough ...

Accused Bomber Abdulmutallab's Underwear, Explosive Packet and Detonator

Exclusive: Photos of the Northwest Airlines Bomb

By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
Dec. 28, 2009

A singed pair of underwear with a packet of powder sewn into the crotch, seen in government photos obtained exclusively by ABC News, is all that remains of al Qaeda's attempt to down an American passenger plane over Detroit. [More]

Barack Obama's "briefing" this morning was woefully inadequate, monumentally embarrassing and hopelessly devoid of credibility .

Obama vows to use power to thwart terrorists

Philip Elliot, Associated Press Writer

HONOLULU President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to use "every element of our national power" to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner was "a serious reminder" of the need to continually adapt security measures against changing terrorist threats.

But even as Obama spoke, word came that a State Department warning had failed to trigger an effort to revoke the alleged attacker's visa. And officials in Yemen confirmed that the would-be bomber had been living in that country, where terrorist elements quickly sought to take credit for his actions.

Remember Barack Obama's vows of government transparency? Or the vow that he wouldn't sign a health care "reform" bill that added "one dime" to the deficit?

Obama’s vows are worth NOTHING. If anything, they will embolden underwear bombers. They know Obama is all talk.

Later in the AP piece we read,

The White House said Obama’s low-key response was carefully calibrated.

Don't these "mainstream" media types tire of carrying the water for this corrupt and dangerously ineffective administration? Actually, the president's "low-key response" was another indication that Obama does not take terrorism seriously. He is bothered by the fact that his vacation is being disrupted by something he deems insignificant and unworthy of his divine attention.

Tennis games with Michelle, golf outings and gourmet dinners is what he is focused on right now, not underwear bombers or the security of the American people.

Janet Napolitano is a Threat to National Security and MUST be FIRED ... IMMEDIATELY!

Official Bungling Led to Plane Attack


Examiner Editorial December 28, 2009

Nearly 300 passengers and crew members of Northwest Airlines flight 253 came within a heartbeat of being incinerated on Christmas Day because 23-year-old Nigerian Jihadist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab somehow smuggled explosives past sophisticated anti-terrorist security measures in Europe. That the passengers and crew members survived is because of Jasper Schuringa, a brave man from Amsterdam who prevented Abdulmutallab from detonating a bomb sewn into his underwear. The device was made of pentaerythritol tetranitrate, an explosive that has been around since before World War I. Three more factors in this near-tragedy deserve particular attention:

First, President Obama should demand the resignation of Secretary Janet Napolitano and fire her if she refuses to resign. It is clear from her comment that "the system worked" that Napolitano lacks the first clue about what is required to ensure safe commercial airline travel in an era defined by the war on terrorism. The system failed because an individual with known terrorist links successfully smuggled explosives on board a loaded commercial jet bound for the U.S. He did so by defeating screening measures in Amsterdam that mirror those used elsewhere in Europe and across the U.S. [More]

Obama will not fire Napolitano. That would be an admission that his choice for Homeland Security Secretary was yet another one of his miserable failures as president. She may be pressured to resign in order to take the focus away from Obama's own failure but he is not man enough to do it himself directly.

This is really offensive:

Security System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges

By ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANE
Published: December 28, 2009

WASHINGTON — The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit -bound airliner represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not the success she and other administration officials had portrayed in comments over the weekend.

Ms. Napolitano said Monday on NBC’S “Today” that her remark the day before — “the system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days” — had been taken out of context. “Our system did not work in this instance,” she said. “No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way.”

As criticism mounted that security lapses had led to a brush with disaster on the Christmas holiday, President Obama ordered a review on Sunday of the two major planks of the aviation security system — watch lists and detection equipment at airport checkpoints. Some members of Congress urgently questioned why, more than eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks, security measures could not keep makeshift bombs off airliners.

The White House press office said early Monday that President Obama would make a statement within hours from the Kaneoho Marine Base in Hawaii, according to The Associated Press.

The family of the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said Mondaythat they had been trying to locate him for weeks and had sought help from Nigerian and American officials. They said they would cooperate with an investigation.

His father, a prominent Nigerian banker and former government official, phoned the American Embassy in Abuja in October with a warning that his son had developed radical views, had disappeared and might have traveled to Yemen, American officials said, but the young man’s visa to enter the United States, which was good until June 2010, was not revoked.

Instead, the officials said Sunday, embassy officials marked his file for a full investigation should he reapply for a visa. And when the information was passed on to Washington, his name was added to 550,000 others with possible terrorist connections — but not to the no-fly list. That meant no flags were raised when he used cash to buy a ticket to the United States and boarded a plane, checking no bags.

So, Abdulmutallab boards a U.S.-bound airplane after paying CASH for the ticket and checking NO bags and "no flags were raised?" That spells "SYSTEM FAILURE" to me and anyone with a minimum of good judgment.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is a danger to the security of America. When she said just yesterday that the system had not failed, it was nothing but propaganda that flew so batantly in the face of reality that she was forced to lie about what she had said the day before. This is more than simply "backtracking." Secretary Napolitano's previous assertion that she was "taken out of context" when she said that the system had not failed is plain pathological. And the American "mainstream" media will let the Homeland "Security" Secretary get away with it.

Nuff said!

Capitol Hill: The Best Little Whorehouse in Washington, D.C.

Capitol Hill's Top "Earners":

Mary Landrieu (D-LA): reportedly got $300 million in extra funding for Louisiana in exchange for her vote for Obamacare. When reporters first asked her whether she had voted with the Democratic leadership in exchange for $100 million dollars, she was eager to set the record straight: “It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it and will keep fighting for it." Landrieu is obviously beyond anything slightly resembling shame.

Christopher Dodd (D-CT): managed to extort $100 million in taxpayer money for hospitals in his home state, particularly the University of Connecticut.

Ben Nelson (D-NE): got the federal government to use money from taxpayers of every other state in the nation to pick up Nebraska's Medicaid tab in perpetuity in exchange for his vote to cut off debate on the Democrat's abominable socialist health care "reform."

Fortunately, many are not taking this abuse of power lying down. Individuals and even some states are considering legal action based on the unconstitutionality of the "deals" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has cut with his corrupt Democrat colleagues.

Harry Reid's "Bribes" to Senators Landrieu, Nelson for Their Healthcare Votes Are Unconstitutional

Senate Candidate Bill Parson Cites Article IV Sections 1 & 2 as Prohibiting Reid’s Payola Ploy

MOAPA, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Retired Marine and former energy industry Project Manager Bill Parson, a Constitutional Conservative candidate for the Republican nomination to remove Harry Reid from the U.S. Senate in 2010, has denounced Harry Reid’s “purchase” of the votes of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) as unconstitutional under Article IV, Sections 1 and 2 of the United States Constitution.

“By granting citizens of those two states special taxpayer-funded rights unavailable in Nevada and 47 other states, the Senate has violated the Constitution and broken faith with the American people.”

“Setting aside the question of blatant public bribery – using taxpayer funds – it is clear that the “deal” that bought Senator Ben Nelson’s vote, and the earlier deal that bought Senator Mary Landrieu’s vote, are unequivocally unconstitutional,” Parson said from his home in Moapa, Nevada. Article IV Section 1 states that the: ‘Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.’ Constitutional scholars report that this clause is routinely applied to both the laws of the states being honored by other states, as well as to Federal laws that are expected to be applied equally in all states.

“However,” Parson pointed out, “the more specific constitutional prohibition against these one-state bribes – which give the citizens of one state privileges and tax-funded benefits unavailable to other states, Article IV Section 2 – reads: ‘The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.’ This provision clearly states that benefits such as those bargained away in the middle of the night to buy Senator Nelson’s decisive 60^th cloture vote, the one that broke the filibuster and paved the way to a power-grab that will take over one-sixth of the entire U.S. economy, was unconstitutional as well as potentially illegal. [More]

7 State Attorneys General Probing Nebraska's Health Care

(Columbia, SC) -- Seven Republican state attorneys general are thinking of suing over U.S. Senator Ben Nelson's health care politicking to benefit his home state.

The Nebraska Democrat wrangled a deal in exchange for his vote to overhaul the nation's health care system.

The Democrats need all 60 votes to break a GOP filibuster, and Nelson held out for both stronger anti-abortion language and some cash for Nebraska.

A provision in the Senate version of the bill calls for the federal government to reimburse the Cornhusker state 100-percent of its Medicaid costs.

Other states get only 91-percent. [More]

Health Care "Reform": Brought to You by the Democrat Party of Nonsense, Corruption, Sleaze and Payola

Rep. Ben Nelson (D-NE): King of Sleaze and Abortion Sellout

Healthcare Pork: Senate Bill Laden with Favors, Pet Projects for Democrats

Read the Senate’s mammoth health care bill closely and what you’ll find is a special interest bonanza rewarding thousands of Democratic pet projects across the nation and punishing industries and areas that didn’t have the clout to purchase pork. Among the winners: states like Nebraska, Massachusetts, Vermont and Louisiana, whose Democratic senators secured hundreds of millions of dollars for Medicaid expansion.

Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont and Massachusetts. These states are getting more federal help with Medicaid than other states. In the case of Nebraska — represented by Sen. Ben Nelson, who's providing the critical 60th vote for the legislation to pass — the federal government is picking up 100 percent of the tab of a planned expansion of the program, in perpetuity. Vermont and Massachusetts get temporary increases in the federal share of their Medicaid tabs. In Louisiana, moderate Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu negotiated $100 million for 2011 before announcing her support for the legislation.

Buying votes is Obama’s Chicago Way. Corruption is the name of the game. Nelson got Barack to pay Nebraska’s Medicare tab. Did Franken also get some kind of payola for shutting down Lieberman or did he do it for free?

Also, didn’t Obama say that people making $250,000 or less were not going to get hosed? Rep. Joe Wilson was right: Obama lies.

Ironically, the socialists are not happy themselves. They don’t think that whatever abomination behind which they have lined up (remember, Harry Reid and George Soros are not done writing the actual language behind closed doors) goes far enough down the totalitarian path.