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

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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.

Editor-in-Chief

Bailouts = Payola

Goldman Employees Donated $1 MILLION to Obama Campaign

By John McCormick - Apr 20, 2010

U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias pushed his Republican opponent in Illinois to give back donations from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. without saying whether President Barack Obama should return almost $1 million that bank employees contributed to his White House bid.

Obama, a political mentor and basketball buddy to Giannoulias, received the money from employees and their family members, making Goldman Sachs second only to the University of California as his biggest single source for donors in 2007 and 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Mark Kirk, the congressman competing against Giannoulias for the seat once held by Obama, ranks sixth for donations from Goldman employees, the center’s data shows. The top five are Democratic Congressman Michael McMahon of New York, Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, and three other New York Democrats: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Representative Scott Murphy and Senator Charles Schumer.[More]

Crooks all. Republicans and Democrats alike. Give back the money NOW and keep your grubby hands out of the financial market. Whatever legislation they pass will do absolutely NOTHING to keep them from getting their hands greased again and again.

To Sir: Where is the Love?

Rochester, MN, Willow Creek Middle School EBD Teacher Scott McDonald has no love for the Tea Party Movement. Last Friday he sent the following email to all of his fellow Independent School District 535 instructors:

From: MACDONALD, SCOTT
Sent: Fri 4/9/2010 12:06 PM
To: *ELEMENTARY TCHRS; *MIDDLE SCHOOL TCHRS; *HIGH SCHOOL TCHRS
Subject: Protest

If you are interested in combating the lies and ignorance of the Tea Party Movement, they have scheduled a rally April 15th at 5:30 pm at Soldier’s Field of all places. I will have an air horn and a few extra signs to spare but feel free to bring your own. Hope to see you there.

Problem is, McDonald used the school district's email system to disseminate his politically charged message. The Rochester P-B reports that Superintendent Romain Dallemand "plans to investigate the matter." We'll see. This is further evidence of the power of the Tea Party Movement and how unhinged the opposition has become.

Parenthetically, I think it's funny that McDonald would have "a few extra signs to spare." Astroturf, anyone?

We're NOT Democrats: Steele Must Go!

Republican National Committe Chairman Michael Steele's silence and inaction over illegitimate, inappropriate and immoral reimbursements on the RNC's dime followed by his cowardly insinuation that criticism of him is at least partially based on racism have no room in the fiscally conservative, family values party.

Mike Benson: An Adult for House District 30B

Take Back the 20!

We're "The Party of Hell, No"

Barack Obama and their media minions are doing their darn worst to falsely characterize recent acts of vandalism and threatening messages as acts coordinated by Republicans and the Tea Party Movement, particularly former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Far from being intimidated, Palin has come out swinging as she paraphrased Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's description of the Republicans not as the "Party of No" but the "Party of HELL NO!"

The administration and media attempts to shame and smear conservatives is blowing up in their faces. The more they smear principled Americans who dissent from Barack Obama's and Congressional Democrats' abuses, the more their ranks swell.

Meet Jim Engstrand

Jim Engstrand is a veteran who has served in combat areas and wants to serve First District with the same honor and distinction with which he served the country in uniform.

Jim Engstrand is a 22-year Armed Forces veteran who is seeking the nomination for First District Congress. He has reserved space at Whistle Binkies North and South for a meet and greet with delegates and potential supporters on Thursday, March 25 at the following times and locations:

South Binkies 5:30– 7pm

247 Woodlake Dr. SE

Rochester, MN 55904

507-424-1227

North Binkies 7:30– 9pm

3120 Wellner Drive NE

Rochester, MN 55906

Their website is http://www.whistlebinkiespub.com/

Bend Over, America!

Stupak Payola

Obama Administration Awarded Hundreds of Thousands in Airport Grants to Stupak’s District Two Days Before Vote

Was this Yet Another Backroom Deal to Force Obama’s Bill Down the American People’s Throats?

Three airports in the district of infamous fence-sitting and ultimately kowtowing Democrat Bart Stupak were awarded $726,409 in grants by the Obama Administration just two days before a vote on Obama and Pelosi’s government takeover of healthcare.

Did Stupak compromise his supposed principled stand against taxpayer funding of abortion in exchange for taxpayer dollars for pet projects?

See the list of payola projects here. For all of Stupak's self-righteous posturing about being a "pro-life" Democrat, as if such an animal existed outside the realm of his delusional fantasy world, before Sunday's vote, his mind was made up for him two days prior to the health care showdown.

Washington was corrupt enough before Obama but now his "Chicago Way" has brought a new brand of rot and moral decay to the nation's capital.

Doctor Obama Will See You Now

"This is What Corruption Looks Like"

Judas Stupakariot

In his most shameful quid pro quo yet, Barack Obama bought off the votes of Rep. Bart Stupak and his supposedly pro-life Democrat coalition with the promise of issuing an executive order barring the use of federal funds for abortions once the socialist health care distortion bill is approved by the House of Representatives.

Barack Obama has done something that even Bill Clinton, the most shameless president in American history until up to a little over a year ago, never dared to do: he threw Planned Parenthood and the abortion obsessed base of the Democrat Party under the bus.

Democrat Candor: "If you don't tie our hands, we'll keep stealing."

Obama's Health Care Lies

"I don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate. What I can tell you is that the vote that's taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don't think we should pretend otherwise. And if they don't, if they vote against it, then they're going to be voting against health care reform and they're going to be voting in favor of the status quo."

~ Barack, The Liar

The pretense comes from Obama and his minions in Congress. The truth is altogether different from what the president claims. The procedural rules that would circumvent the Constitution have Obama's stamp of approval on them. Moreover, if Obama and Pelosi have their way, the House won't vote on the bill at all. If the "Slaughter Solution" is approved, the senate version of the Democrat's healthscare bill would go to Obama for signature without a single vote taken in the House.

Notice how Obama tries to dodge the question as to whether crooked deals like the "Louisiana Purchase," the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the "Gator Aid" are part of the final bill.

Kudos to FNC's Bret Baier for not allowing Obama to filibuster answers.

Obamacare's "Final Solution": Slaughter the Constitution

Louise Slaughters the Constitution

House aid confirms Slaughter Solution never used before; Still, 'they are moving down that road'

By: Mark Tapsc

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have never before been asked to pass legislation by "deeming" it approved under a House rule instead of following the process required by the U.S. Constitution in which they actually vote on the proposal itself, according to a senior aide to House Republicans.

The procedure - dubbed by critics as the "Slaughter Solution" - is the brain-child of House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, who, at the request of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, is trying to fashion a rule that would allow the House to move toward passage of a health care reform bill without a recorded vote on the Senate version.[More]

Meanwhile, the Constitution, that ever-evolving document in the socialist's feeble mind, states the following:

U.S Constitution, Article I, Section VII, Clause II. Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively...

What the "Slaughter Solution" essentially means is an end run on the Constitution of the United States of America for the sake of Big Brotha's shameful legacy. The Chicago Way has infected Washington under the auspices of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Tea Party Power!

First District Republican candidate Jim Engstrand

1,046 Days to Go: Hang in There, America!