LIB CIVIL WAR – Progressives Pi$$ed After Dems Fold on Pilfering More Cash From US Taxpayers

"Progressives Are Pi$$ed!

Libs are outraged after the progressive democrats folded on revenue adjustments tax hikes pilfering more cash from the American taxpayer to fund their socialist agenda.  News Alert pointed to this rant today by liberal leader Jane Hamsher:"

[GatewayPundit]

Marco Rubio vs. John Kerry on the debt crisis

Here is classic MARCO RUBIO ...... our U.S. Senator from Florida.  He talks about the Senate's behavior on the debt issue and takes on Sen. John Kerry in doing so !!!!  [clipper]

WHAT SORT OF DEMAGOGUERY IS THIS??

Harry Reid spouts vile accusations.  A true demagogue !!!!   [clipper]

"Right now the extremists have locked down this Congress,” Reid continued. “We’re doing nothing. The extremists have locked down the White House. They’re not able to do their work. The country is in an economic malaise and they want to keep this up.”

[CNS]

IMAGINE THIS .... A Flyable Airplene Created On A PRINTER !!!

World's First Flight of a Fully 3D Printed Airplane 

 

EVIDENCE of coordinated liberal media attack on Republicans

Here are 17 examples of simultaneous, liberal media use in their reports of common phraseology wherein they bash the Republicans.     I cannot be convinced that these 17 "news" sources independently came up with the "Americans held hostage" verbiage.   [clipper]

BIZARRE !!! DEMOCRATS FILLIBUSTER THEIR OWN BILL !!!!!!!!

"Senate Republicans want a 60-vote threshold for a debt-limit bill to pass the chamber, but it's actually Democrats who are enforcing the filibuster on their own legislation, insisting on delaying a vote until 1 a.m. Sunday morning.

Republicans offered to let the vote happen Friday night, just minutes after the chamber voted to halt a House Republican bill. All sides expect Democrats' bill will fail too, and the GOP said senators might as well kill both at the same time so that negotiations could move on to a compromise.

Mr. Reid said he would insist on the full process, which he said would show the country that Republicans were being obstructionist. "
[Washington Times]

An Innocent in America

"It's been quite a while since I came to this country as a refugee.  Over the ensuing decades, I have found my niche in American society; come to appreciate football as the greatest game of all; inured myself to some of the more unsavory aspects of the local culture (and no, try as I might, I have not been able to convince myself that rap is music); and learned enough about America to confidently consider myself a knowledgeable citizen of this great country.  Still I just can't fathom certain things about America -- or rather about American political attitudes.  Chalk it up to a foreigner's innocence.

My chief conundrum is why Americans put up with their political system and sometimes even consider it the best in the world.  Are they blind?  Can't they see it just doesn't -- and cannot -- work?"
[American Thinker]

It Begins… Politico Calls Tea Party “Full-Blown Terrorists”

Because conservatives want to STOP OUR DEFICIT SPENDING (as clearly shown below), they are being called TERRORISTS ??????

 

[GatewayPundit]

The birth certificate please! Subpoena to be delivered

"Computer scanning expert Doug Vogt and typesetting expert Paul Irey say they will accompany attorney Orly Taitz when she presents to the Hawaii Department of Health a subpoena that should allow her to examine Barack Obama's original 1961 typewritten birth certificate.

Vogt and Irey both told WND they are making travel plans to join Taitz in Honolulu when she goes to the state agency at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 8, to present the subpoena in person. 

"We will plan to hold a press conference late in the day of Aug. 8," Vogt said, "and if the document we see varies from the birth certificate documents the White House released, we plan to file criminal charges in Hawaii immediately." "

[WND]

Economy Grew Only 1.3% in Spring After Nearly Stalling in Winter

"The U.S. economy grew less than forecast in the second quarter, after almost coming to a halt at the start of the year, as consumers retrenched."
[MoneyNews]

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism

"NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.

When objective NASA satellite data, reported in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, show a "huge discrepancy" between alarmist climate models and real-world facts, climate scientists, the media and our elected officials would be wise to take notice. Whether or not they do so will tell us a great deal about how honest the purveyors of global warming alarmism truly are. "

[Forbes]

Cataracts, hips, knees and tonsils: NHS begins rationing operations

"Hip replacements, cataract surgery and tonsil removal are among operations now being rationed in a bid to save the [U.K.] NHS money.

Two-thirds of health trusts in England are rationing treatments for "non-urgent" conditions as part of the drive to reduce costs in the NHS by £20bn over the next four years."
[The Independent]

Boehner’s New Plan Doesn’t Cut Spending

WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!!!!

THESE ARE NOT SPENDING CUTS .......

THESE POLITICIANS ARE ONLY CUTTING THEIR PLANS FOR INCREASED SPENDING

"House Speaker John Boehner has revised his budget plan in response to an unfavorable analysis by the CBO. The CBO has examined Boehner’s new plan and finds that it would cut spending by $917 billion over 10 years. Of the total, only $761 billion would be cuts to programs. The rest of the savings would be from reduced interest costs.

Actually, the revised Boehner plan doesn’t cut spending at all. The chart shows the discretionary spending caps in the new Boehner plan. Spending increases every year—from $1.043 trillion in 2012 to $1,234 trillion in 2021. (These figures exclude the costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan)."

[CATO]

All You Need To Know About The House Republicans

"One week ago the entire conservative movement was unified behind Cut, Cap, and Balance as was both House and Senate GOP caucus — no small feat to be sure.

Then, because Harry Reid denied CCB a vote through a procedural motion, John Boehner produces a crackpot plan that rips the conservative movement apart at the seams and after taking two stabs at it, still can’t get to the promised $1.2 trillion in cuts he initially claimed it would have. "

[RedState]

LOVE those Texans !!!!

Why we need 'Cut, Cap, and Balance'

"In their famous 1981 commercial, Fram sold their ubiquitous oil filter with a simple, but true catch phrase. The ad featured two auto mechanics who advised drivers to buy the Fram oil filter from them — or face the massive cost of an engine rebuild somewhere down the line. “The choice is yours,” said one attendant. “You can pay me now, or pay me later.”

Paying later is always more expensive and more painful.

The same is true of America’s economy. We’ve stretched our economic engine to the breaking point by piling on mountains of new government spending and debt. During the debate over the nation’s debt ceiling, most ratings agencies have noted that they may downgrade our country’s AAA bond rating — not necessarily if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, but because the debt itself is too large and our ability to pay is too small.

In short, the ratings agencies want what we want: responsible behavior, which includes spending cuts now, enforceable spending caps, and a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. We’ve called it “Cut, Cap, and Balance.” It’s the only plan offered that solves America’s fiscal mess."

[Politico]

Tea Party Wants Boehner, Obama Fired

"If House Speaker John Boehner or his senior leadership team thought they had the support of the Tea Party movement, they better think again. An internal poll of the largest group in the movement, the Tea Party Patriots, found that they are dissatisfied with the House leaders, Boehner in particular, and simply can't stand President Obama."

[US NEWS]

In Defense of Holding the Line

"Now here we are the week before the deadline. John Boehner laments they should have done it sooner, but he refused to do it sooner. The Speaker has prevented the Republicans from submitting legislation to ensure we would not default so that he would have leverage over his own members to force them to take a deal. And now they are dealing.What is their deal?

Their deal creates another committee to look at spending — the 18th in the past 30 years. These 18 committees have never done anything except raise taxes. Their spending cuts are put off a decade and future congresses ignore them.

 

Boehner’s spending caps are easily waived as they’ll be rules, not laws. And they punt."

[RedState]

What I'm Worried About This Summer: Three catastrophes threatening America

"Watching the political elites in Washington and Europe this summer fail to deal effectively with current threats has convinced me that we are drifting toward three separate but mutually reinforcing catastrophes that will require our best effort to reverse.

The three threats I worry about are:........"

[Newt Gingrich]

One in eight small businesses get insurance cancellations after ObamaCare passage

" Despite his promise that passage of the health-insurance overhaul bill would allow people to keep their current health insurance, a new report from the National Federation of Independent Business shows that one in eight small businesses have had to stop offering insurance to their employees.  The Daily Caller notes that the change has not been voluntary:"
[HotAir]

Is 'fix' in to sink ratings for Rush, Savage, other conservatives?

"At the beginning of this year, a rash of stories popped up in liberal media, promising that the death of conservative talk radio was imminent – and this time, the critics of hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage insisted, they had the hard numbers to prove it.

The critics had latched onto a story that appeared in Crain's New York Business (a subscription-only newsletter), which announced: "A new Arbitron report shows Rush Limbaugh's ratings down 33 percent from a year ago and Sean Hannity down 28 percent over the same time period.

According to Pareene and others, the answer was a 2008 change in how ratings-tracker Arbitron determines listenership, away from the survey system to the Portable People Meter."
[WND]

The Unanswered Questions for GOP Leaders from Freshmen

"Forget the tax issue or the timetable for a moment; any proposed “spending cut” deal that fails to slash funding for discretionary spending and welfare programs to pre-Obama levels, as proposed in Paul Ryan’s budget, is worthless.  As Congressman Dennis Ross (R-FL) tweeted earlier today, “debt “deals” that count on 10 years worth of spending cuts are the Mr Snuffleupagus of budget tricks. No one sees them except pols.”

If House leaders fail to stand by their own budget, freshmen members like Ross might pose the following question: was the entire Republican majority of the 112th Congress a waste of time?"
[RedState]

House Republican Leaders Cave in Less Than 24 Hours

"On Fox News Sunday, John Boehner began the day saying that he wanted a deal that kept to the principles of “Cut, Cap, and Balance.”

He concluded Sunday by telling House Republicans that Cut, Cap, and Balance was off the table due to Senate opposition.

Twice the House GOP has staked out a position. Twice they have been shot up and beat to hell by the Democrats for daring to do so. Twice their leaders then threw in the towel on their plans. First on Paul Ryan’s plan and now this.

No wonder so many House Republicans are privately expressing so much anger at their leadership."

[RedState]

Among the Tax-takers

"I worked for the IRS and survived.  I learned about taxpayers, but the really interesting part of it was learning about tax-takers.

We generally knew that 47 percent of our population pays no income taxes whatsoever.  However, we didn't know, and I suspect that very few of you know, how much of your tax money is actually given to non-taxpayers -- in a lump sum, to do with as they please.

Like most anti-poverty programs, the Earned Income Tax Credit when enacted in 1975 was supposed to be temporary.  It was visualized as a tool to lift the working poor out of poverty.  It was quickly made permanent and has been modified numerous times over the ensuing 36 years.  In 2004, 20 million families received $36 billion.  The flower children assume that was $36 billion spent on food, shelter, and health care.  We who live in the real world know it was spent on big-screen television sets, 22-inch chrome wheels, and colorful tattoos."

[American Thinker]  

Is Your IRA Going To Be Raided?

If you don't think this is possible, read this article !

The Tea Party, Right About Everything

"The false narrative is that the Tea Party is a bunch of stubborn nuts, if not outright racists.  In truth, the Tea Party has been right about everything, while almost everyone else has been nuts, especially the "experts.""
[American Thinker]

GOP lawmakers officially announce “imperfect” plan, in which “no side gets what it wants”

A clear description of the current state of "plans"...... BE CERTAIN TO READ the last paragraph of this article.
[clipper]

... and you MUST read this:

The Absolution I Cannot Give

Super Congress - Where's That In The Constitution?

"So John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid have plotted a coup to shred the last remaining vestiges of the Constitution by forming a "Super Congress" which would consolidate legislative power into the hands of a Counsel of Twelve, thereby shutting out the input of the other 523 members of Congress."
[Left Coast Rebel]

Oslo Killer Plagiarized Unabomber’s Manifesto

This OSLO KILLER is NOT a right wing, Christian, conservative, fundamentalist.  He is a Ted Kazinski, UNABOMBER copycat .

HERE IS WHERE OUR FEDERAL SPENDING IS OUT OF WHACK

LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS !!!!!!!!!!

Why in hell are we spending almost ONE TRILLION DOLLARS every year on programs to support this?????

“In fact, the typical poor American had more living space than the average European — average, not poor. 

“When asked, most poor families stated they had sufficient funds during the past year to meet all essential needs.”

Study authors Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield cite U.S. Department of Energy data showing that in 2005, the most recent year on record:

• 62 percent of poor American households had a clothes washer in the home, and 53.2 percent had a clothes dryer.
• 65.1 percent had more than one TV.
• 54.5 percent had a cellular phone.
• 38.2 percent had a personal computer.
• 36.6 percent had an answering machine.
• 29.3 percent had a video game system.
• 25 percent had a dishwasher.
• 5.2 percent had a photocopier — and .6 percent even had a Jacuzzi.

The Difficulties of Learning to Speak American

"Why do so few immigrants from totalitarian countries, especially the Soviet Union, speak out about their experiences?" Let me suggest three reasons: different upbringing, lack of civic vocabulary, and conformity."

[Luba Sindler]

Speaker Boehner: “I Know the President Is Worried About Next Election But, My God, Shouldn’t He Be Worried About the Country?” (Video)

Disgusting. Dem PAC Caught Pushing Massive Lie – Completely Fabricates WSJ Quotes in New GOP-Bashing Ad (Video)

Read the ACTUAL WSJ article here.  Note that it explains   "Mr. Ryan's proposal would apply to those currently under the age of 55, and for those Americans would convert Medicare into a "premium support" system. Participants from that group would choose from an array of private insurance plans when they reach 65 and become eligible, and the government would pay about the first $15,000 in premiums. Those who are poorer or less healthy would receive bigger payments than others."  Those over 55 remain under existing Medicare.

[WSJ]

Sarah Palin: Obama Has Been Deemed a Lame Duck President

 

After listening to the President’s press conference today, let’s keep in mind the following:

This is the same president who proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days! This is the same president who is pushing our country to the brink because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” boondoggle. This is the same president who ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of fiscal sanity who proposed responsible plans to reform our entitlement programs and rein in our dangerous debt trajectory. This is the same president who wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! This is the same president who wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his reckless spending, but has threatened to veto a bill proposing a balanced budget amendment. This is the same president who hasn’t put forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable proposals that would tackle our debt. This is the same president who still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his big government agenda last November. As I said in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Tax Day Tea Party rally, “We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”

Now the President is outraged because the GOP House leadership called his bluff and ended discussions with him because they deemed him an obstruction to any real solution to the debt crisis.

He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.

His foreign policy strategy has been described as “leading from behind.” Well, that’s his domestic policy strategy as well. Why should he be surprised that he’s been left behind in the negotiations when he’s been leading from behind on this debt crisis?

Thank you, GOP House leaders. Please don’t get wobbly on us now.

2012 can’t come soon enough.

- Sarah Palin

Gold stays over $1600/oz.

Obama At His Most Sanctimonious [video]

"This is Obama at his most sanctimonious, demagogic, self-righteous and arrogant. And given the baseline it wasn't a pretty sight. Look, he started out by summoning the leaders of Congress -- summoning them -- at 11:00. Who does he think he is? In the American system, the executive and Congress are coequal. In a banana republic, the caudillo will summon the members of the Congress. The way he demanded their appearance in the Oval Office I thought was disgraceful. The branches are coequal."
[Krauthammer]

Class Warrior-in-Chief awash in cash from Wall Street, Fatcats

"President Barack Obama has relied more on well-connected Wall Street figures to fund his re-election than he did four years ago when he campaigned as an outsider and an underdog.

One-third of the money Obama’s elite fund-raising corps has raised on behalf of his re-election has come from the financial sector .

More than two years after President Obama took office vowing to banish “special interests” from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests.

Overall, 184 of 556, or about one-third, of Obama bundlers or their spouses joined the administration in some role. But the percentages are much higher for the big-dollar bundlers. Nearly 80 percent of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took “key administration posts,” as defined by the White House. More than half the ambassador nominees who were bundlers raised more than half a million."

[Patterico]

Sen. Rubio Talks Budget & Debt On Senate Floor

"Senator Marco Rubio spoke on the floor along with fellow Freshman Republican Senators about the seriousness of our massive debt and the need for a balanced budget."

Time Is on the Side of Tea Party Reforms

"Obama's rhetorical floundering is the sound of a bewildered politician trying to be heard over the long, withdrawing roar of ebbing faith in a failing model of governance.

From Greece to California, with manifestations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Illinois, and elsewhere, this model is collapsing. Entangled economic and demographic forces are refuting the practice of ever-bigger government financed by an ever-smaller tax base and by imposing huge costs on voiceless future generations."

[George Will]

The Worst Steward of the Economy in American History

"While the debt ceiling dance continues in Washington D.C. and the Republicans in the Senate are going wobbly, they need to understand they are dealing not only with an intransigent party in the White House but also someone that is the most incompetent president in modern history, and the worst steward of the American economy since the nation's founding.

The Obama sycophants often resort to the White House pre-packaged line that Obama inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, as a means of deflecting responsibility onto George Bush.  Like so many of the emanations from this administration that too is a fabrication. "

[American Thinker]

Experts: Registrar stamps confirm Obama forgery

"Evidence points to cut-and-paste sham, not actual copy of 1961 birth document

A close examination of the state registrar's stamp on the Obama birth certificate released by the White House indicates the document is forged, according to the preponderance of Adobe experts consulting with WND. 

There are two different registrar stamps evident on the Obama birth certificate: The date stamp, indicating April 25, 2011, and the text and signature stamp containing registrar Dr. Alvin Onaka's signature. 

Both registrar stamps appear to have been applied by a rubber stamp inked from a blotter.

 

The registrar stamps appear to be external objects that were imported into the document. The stamps were not impressions copied whole, the experts believe, but were created uniquely for the Obama document by a cut-and-paste process."

[WND]

House Probing Kagan's Link to Obamacare

"The House Judiciary Committee is launching a probe into Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s prior involvement with healthcare reform legislation that could determine she must recuse herself from future high court deliberations on Obamacare.

When President Barack Obama signed the healthcare bill into law, Kagan was still serving as his solicitor general and was responsible for defending the administration’s position in federal court cases."

[Newsmax]

'Irrefutable' proof of Obama forgery

"Unless the typewriter used to type Barack Obama's purported Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" in 1961 was magically capable of producing different size and shaped images with the exact same key, the document released by the White House April 27 is a forgery, says a professional typographer with 50 years experience."

[WND]

Look who Obama's hired for cybersecurity team

"Ex-Clinton staffer 'lost' thousands of White House e-mails, booted by DHS for faking credentials

In 2004, Callahan was forced to resign from Homeland Security after a congressional investigation revealed she committed résumé fraud and lied about her computer credentials.  Investigators found that Callahan paid a diploma mill thousands of dollars for her bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in computer science. She back-dated the degrees, all obtained between 2000 and 2001, to appear as if she earned them in 1993, 1995 and 2000, respectively. She landed the job of deputy DHS chief information officer in 2003."

[WND]

Vice President Marco Rubio?

"You may not have picked up on these political smoke signals yet if you live outside the Beltway or you are not fully engaged with 2012 Republican presidential politics. 

While there are many candidates running for the GOP nomination, there is one name that keeps coming up as the favorite vice presidential nominee.


Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

That would be Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

Now, don't get me wrong, I really, really like Marco Rubio. I think he is a great senator. I think he'd make a great governor of Florida. I think he is a forceful and articulate voice for the future. He would even be a great president or vice president – except for one fatal flaw: He is not constitutionally eligible for those offices."

[WND]

A Fling with the Welfare State

"Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt linked “freedom from want” to “freedom of speech” and “freedom of worship,” the left has been talking of everything that it thinks would be nice to have in terms of an utter and absolute right: a right to a job and a right to an income, a right to retire in comfort in Florida, a right to the most advanced health care without paying much for it, and a right to have your children taken care of while you work all day at your job. The problem is that these are all goods and services, though of varying importance, and goods and rights are not the same things. People tend to concur upon rights (except for the speech rights of those who oppose them), and they do not depend upon others to supply and pay for their rights. With goods, there is always a political argument: about the value of the good, who is to get it and who is to pay. And all this comes down to the question of “fairness,” about which there is no end of disputation and grief."

[Weekly Standard]

Twitter Kills the Most Important State Level Conservative Group in the Country

"[Empower Texans] do excellent work educating Texans on the men who go to Austin claiming to be conservatives only to turn left out of the eyes of their constituents.


And they use Twitter as part of their communication strategy. In fact, twitter is a key component of their outreach. Or at least it was.

Today, Twitter not only shut down the Empower Texans twitter feed, but it also shut down the twitter feeds of every individual who works for Empower Texans.

Twitter is a private organization. It can do what it wants. But I am very troubled that it did so without explanation and without anyone for Empower Texans to contact."
[Red State]

Thirty Problems with the “Gang of Six” Proposal

"Analyzing the six-page “Gang of Six” proposal for rewriting the federal budget is like measuring a bucket of water by holding the water in your hands.

Having said this, it looks like Coburn, Crapo, and Chambliss got their clocks cleaned."
[Red State]

The issue isn’t default but government shutdown

"Here’s a great chart from Goldman Sachs that shows how government revenues and obligations will likely match up in August:

 [REUTERS]

White House operative heading 'birther' smear campaign?

"Former Fannie Mae chief allegedly manages 100-strong attack team from Pennsylvania Ave"
[WND]

This guy, Johnson, ex-CEO of Fannie Mae is a HUGE player in the housing bubble explosion. He received MEGA-Bucks when he left Fannie Mae and has been an Obama operative for years.
[clipper]

MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT.

Pick a fight with a liberal ....... ask them:

If God really meant women to have careers as long, hardworking, and well-paid as men's, how come he gave them wombs, breasts, and nurturing instincts?

[Human Events]

Two 2012 Hopefuls Among 9 Republicans Voting No on Cut, Cap, and Balance

This is the sort of "spine" we need !!!!

"Some of the 9 Republicans joining 181 Democrats in voting against the ‘Cut, Cap and Balance” bill Tuesday said the legislation didn’t go far enough. Those nine include 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and Ron Paul (Texas).
“While I embrace the principles of Cut, Cap and Balance, the motion does not go far enough in fundamentally restructuring the way Washington spends taxpayer dollars,” Rep. Michele Bachmann said in a message posted on her Web site. Bachmann did call the bill “a step in the right direction.”

[VisionToAmerica]

MSNBC To GOP Congressman: "Do You Have A Degree In Economics?"

A typical, arrogant MSNBC info-babe steps into the proverbial bucket of ....

[clipper]

Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?

" For decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty,” but the bureau’s definition of poverty differs widely from that held by most Americans. In fact, other government surveys show that most of the persons whom the government defines as “in poverty” are not poor in any ordinary sense of the term. The overwhelming majority of the poor have air conditioning, cable TV, and a host of other modern amenities. They are well housed, have an adequate and reasonably steady supply of food, and have met their other basic needs, including medical care. Some poor Americans do experience significant hardships, including temporary food shortages or inadequate housing, but these individuals are a minority within the overall poverty population. Poverty remains an issue of serious social concern, but accurate information about that problem is essential in crafting wise public policy. Exaggeration and misinformation about poverty obscure the nature, extent, and causes of real material deprivation, thereby hampering the development of well-targeted, effective programs to reduce the problem."

[Heritage Foundation]

A detailed report presenting considerable data.................. 

clipper is back !

clipper has returned from a whirlwind trip to Greece, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Romania & Bulgaria. Following thoughts are based on VERY limited observation:

• Greece:  In serious trouble. Street rebellion and strikes punctuate daily life.
• Turkey: Appears thriving, but fiscal problems might be just under the surface
• Russia: A country still suffering from paranoia. Very difficult to get about without an official "guide".
• Ukraine: Appears to be successfully pulling itself up by its bootstraps after years of Soviet domination
• Romania & Bulgaria: Former Communist countries still struggling to move up.

No Gimmicks: Just. Cut. Spending.

"Republicans in Washington are gamely trying to prevent the debt ceiling debate from spinning out of control and becoming a defeat for the party. Currently there are two large-scale efforts on the table to resolve the immediate debt crisis. The first is the still-amorphous Gang of Six plan. It is nearly always wise to be wary of proposals negotiated behind closed doors by bipartisan groups of Senators; the Gang of Six plan, which exists only in outline form, appears to be no exception."

[Power Line]

This article describes The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of the "Gang of Six " plan. [clipper]

CLIPPER IS IN ODESSA, UKRAINE TODAY

Lights Out… Democrats Block Repeal of Lightbulb Ban – Vote Gives Jobs to China

"House democrats blocked the repeal of the light bulb ban. A majority of Americans oppose the government’s unpopular and unnecessary ban on incandescent bulbs and infringement on choice. On January 1 2012, 100 watt incandescent bulbs will become illegal, with lower wattages to follow."
[GatewayPundit]

Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job

"The report was written by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of three economists who were all handpicked by Obama, and it chronicles the alleged success of the “stimulus” in adding or saving jobs. The council reports that, using “mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus” (which it describes as a “natural way to estimate the effects of” the legislation), the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs — whether private or public — at a cost (to date) of $666 billion. That’s a cost to taxpayers of $278,000 per job. "

[WeeklyStandard]

American Boots Hit the Ground in Somalia After Drone Attacks

"Somalia is now the sixth country over which the United States is flying attack drones. Last month, the same Special Operations Command unit currently operating in Yemen carried out an attack on two leaders of the Somali militant group al-Shabab in a June 23 mission. The Washington Post reported the attack on Wednesday, and on Friday, Somalia's defense minister says that American military forces touched down to collect the bodies of the insurgents."
[LeftCoastRebel]

The Community Organizer Who Would be King

"Obama entered office on a groundswell of a disconcerting mania, a mania in which voters imagined on this blank slate of a candidate all sorts of truly fantastic abilities and policies, none of which were warranted in his paltry, truly shabby history.

The man with no available school records, for example, was painted as a genius and his brief time as a University of Chicago adjunct (basically teaching assistant) puffed up to a professorship in constitutional law. The guy who cannot speak a logical, coherent, grammatical sentence on his own was pawned off as a literary genius to unsuspecting, foolish voters. It was inevitable that the reality of his time in office could never match the dream. It was unfortunately equally inevitable that he would prove inadequate to the difficult job of the presidency."

[American Thinker]

U.S. forces STILL flying hundreds of bombing raids over Libya as Obama says America is only playing a limited role

"U.S. forces are still flying hundreds of bombing raids over Libya even though the Obama administration claims that American armed forces are only playing a limited role in the conflict.

Since NATO’s Operation Unified Protector took over from the American-led Operation Odyssey Dawn on 31 March, the U.S. has flown hundreds of strike missions, according to United States Africa Command (AFRICOM).

'Since 31 March, the U.S. has flown a total of 3,475 sorties...Of those, 801 were strike sorties, 132 of which actually dropped ordnance.'
[UK Mail On-line] 

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS LYING TO US !!!!!

Go West, Young Man!

"Go West, that is, if you live East of the Dakotas. Quite a few years ago, I read that North Dakota had more millionaires per capita than any other state, the consequence of agriculture and oil. And that was before the Bakken Shale development, currently the largest construction project in the United States. Daniel Gross (via InstaPundit) cites chapter and verse on North Dakota’s boom: the unemployment rate is 3.2%; one quarter of all the oil drilling rigs in the United States are operating in North Dakota; in Williston, McDonald’s restaurants pay entry level workers $12.50 to $15 per hour; North Dakota’s economy has grown 7.1% in the past year; and the state can’t find enough workers to man the jobs it is creating."

[Power Line]

WHO IS GOUGING WHOM ?

OIL COMPANY PROFITS LAST QUARTER

7 cents per gallon  = 2% of sale price*

GOV'T (U.S. + State) PROFIT (TAX) ON GASOLINE

40 - 60 cents per gallon = 11 - 16% of sale price*

and we need to tax these fat-cat oil companies more ?

""For every gallon of gasoline and other products we refined and sold in the United States, we earned about 7 cents," said a statement from Exxon vice president Ken Cohen. "Compare that to the 40 to 60 cents per cents per gallon that went to the government (state and federal) in gasoline taxes." 

[CNN MONEY]

* at $3.75/gal retail price

Barack Obama's Missing Girlfriends

A dissertation on Obama's missing love life during his ten years of bachelorhood before Michele.  Where are the women?  Why have none come out?

[clipper] 

"The blogosphere abhors a vacuum. So when the mainstream media (MSM) leave holes in a given narrative -- in this case, the biography of the president -- bloggers individually, incrementally, and indefatigably strive to fill in the blanks -- sometimes successfully, sometimes less so. "

[American Thinker]

Governor Doofus Shuts Down Minnesota

"At issue here in Minnesota (The Land of 10,000 Taxes) is a slightly goofy governor's proposal to foist an even higher tax on "the wealthy," tagging Gopher State sluggards with the second highest income tax rate in the nation. The rich. Who needs' em?

Besides the second highest tax brackets in the nation, Minnesota suffers from the third highest income tax on business income, too, at 9.5 percent at the top tier. High taxes are a legacy of the long-in-power Democrats' hostility to business in this bone-chilling state."

[American Thinker]

Senator Tom Coburn Rips Into Obama’s Failure of Leadership

“It’s about his next election. You know, all this is about is, this is a political campaign he’s in, rather than a policy campaign for what is best for our country right now.”

Senator Coburn’s remarks come on the same day Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shared the fact President Obama denied an invitation by McConnell to meet and discuss potential solutions to the looming debt ceiling crisis that will hit the nation in less than a month.  According to President Obama, who is preparing for another vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, such a meeting is “…not a conversation worth having.”
[NewsFlavor]

Bachmann Lived on Kibbutz, Staunchly Pro-Israel

"For Rep. Michele Bachmann, staunch support for Israel is a personal matter: Teenage Bachmann spent a summer working on a kibbutz in Israel."
[Newsmax]

Pawlenty: Might Be Good If Minn. Shutdown Lasted Awhile

"Tim Pawlenty speculates that it might not be all that bad if Minnesota’s government shutdown lasted awhile — if only to get a better deal at the end. He made the comment not as a GOP presidential candidate, but as the governor who was in office during the Gopher State’s previous government shutdown, in 2005, Politico reports."
[Newsmax]

Is Another Ballot Heist Coming?

Read about the probability that the Dems will hijack the 2012 election based on past history including a detailed report on the statistical evidence of such fraud in 2000 in Palm Beach, FL.

Rush Limbaugh: Obama, Other Liberals Are 'Burglars'

"Conservative firebrand Rush Limbaugh was in top form in reacting to President Barack Obama’s news conference Wednesday. The president is intentionally bankrupting the country for future generations, the radio talk-show host said.

[Newsmax]

It Begins. .......St. Louis Man Arrested For Flipping the Bird in Traffic

"A St. Louis area driver is fighting a ticket he received last week for giving another driver the one-finger salute.
The Florrisant man says the ticket violates his right to free speech."
[Gateway Pundit]