Media Abet Obama's Aloofness on Tough Issues

"Over the past five months, the Republican presidential candidates participated in 13 debates where they fielded dozens of penetrating questions on every major issue facing the nation, and some not so major.

The nationally televised and/or Internet-streamed forums each drew an average of 5 million to 6 million viewers, along with breathless wall-to-wall coverage, commentary and criticism from the news media, radio and TV talk shows, Internet blogs and partisan websites.

Yet, during all that time, the man they hope to defeat next November has rarely been asked by news reporters about many of these issues

No questions on immigration, no questions on Iran or Iraq or Afghanistan or Israel or North Korea -- global trouble spots the GOP candidates have been queried about repeatedly. Moreover, he was not asked about what spending cuts he would make to reduce the deficit, nothing about Medicare and Social Security reform or his health care law, all familiar questions for the Republicans seeking his job.

Obama’s ability to avoid tough questions, skate above the fray and look presidential while his potential successors appear to be futilely flailing is not by accident. It is by White House design, abetted by a press corps that seems content with being shut out by the president and being spoon-fed the message of the day, rather than clamoring for more chances to ask him questions during this critical time."

[Real Clear Politics]

Video: Newt gets emotional

A counterpoint to all the ANTI NEWT crap political ads ...... the guy IS REAL ! [clipper]

Obama Request for $1.2 Trillion Debt Limit Increase Delayed

This guy, our "Dear Leader" has asked for ANOTHER $1.2 Trillion increase in our debt limit. Rather than CUT SPENDING he keeps on borrowing, borrowing, borrowing. He'sINCREASED the debt in just THREE years by TWICE as much as Bush (and a DEMOCRAT CONGRESS) did in Eight years. Remember his words on the campaign trail just four short years ago?

[clipper]

Data-Crazy Department of Education Throws Privacy Out the Window

"Data is king in the progressives' world. The more they have on you, the more they can control you.

In a final version of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy statute published on December 2, 2011, the DoEd, within the space of 57 pages, effectively and comprehensively wills itself to be chief facilitator of state gathered data of public school children Pre-K through college."
[Ann Kane]

The Democratic Party's War on the Poor

"The city of Medellín, long known as the home of one of the world's most notorious drug cartels, built the people of Comuna 13 six sets of escalators. One column up, one down, both outdoors, both designed to carry the poorest of Medellín's poor back up to their miserable hovels...at a cost to the taxpayer of some USD 6.7 million.

Now, why do we turn to a foreign country for an example of the critical failing of the American Democratic Party? Because the way American conservatives and liberals react to this story of misguided social programs is the American economic debate in a microcosm."
[American Thinker]

Despite GOP opposition, light bulb standards will phase in on Jan. 1

"New light bulb efficiency standards will begin phasing in on Jan. 1 despite intense opposition from conservatives, who have blasted the rules as a textbook unnecessary federal regulation.

While Republicans secured inclusion of a measure blocking funding for enforcement of the standards in a year-end spending bill, energy efficiency groups say the provision will have little practical impact. The Energy Department rules will nonetheless go into effect at the start of 2012."

[The Hill]

White House lawyers who drafted secret Awlaki kill memo were critics of Bush’s war powers

"Not the first time that the left’s anti-war legal heroes have morphed from civil libertarians when Bush was in office to war-power expansionists once they went to work for The One. Remember when Harold Koh convinced Obama that he didn’t need to bother with congressional authorization after all if he wanted to wage war in Libya? Good times.

The latest converts to the church of It’s Okay When We Do It: OLC lawyers David Barron and Martin Lederman, who, it turns out, co-authored the legal memo last summer arguing that the killing of Awlaki was legal, notwithstanding the fact that he was an American citizen."

[Hot Air]

Islamo-Coverup: Lib Media Forgets to Mention Santa Killer Was Muslim & Murders Were Likely Honor Killings

"On Christmas Day Aziz Yazdanpanah shot his family dead. He didn’t want his daughter dating a non-Muslim.

Today Reuters and Yahoo wrote about the vigil for the victims in Dallas. They forgot to mention the killer was a Muslim anbd his murders were likely honor killings. Of course, if we weren’t so used to this we would be shocked."

[Gateway Pundit]

‘Your Tax Dollars at Work’ Update: Shrimp on a Treadmill

"Reports of $500,000 of taxpayer funds to study a project that has shrimp running on a treadmill hit the headlines early in 2011. A recent report now shows that $682,570 in grants has been awarded to the research effort.

According to the National Science Foundation (NSF) website, the money has been granted to the “Taking the Pulse of Marine Life in Stressed Seas” research conducted by biology professors Louis and Karen Burnett at the College of Charleston. The research page describes the professor’s “big question” as “How are human-made marine stresses affecting the marine life that we need?”

[Michelle Malkin]

Obamacare Kicks In: Tax On Your Insurance Policy Begins 2012

For those of you who believe that Obamacare is a benign health care program..... here is yet another reminder of it's draconian impact on our lives. Beginning 2012 at $1 per person, up to $2 per person in 2013, thereafter "rising with inflation", the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute collects taxes from us. The insurance companies pay this tax (right !) which is to fund GOVERNMENT research on which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best. This is the beginning of the government first - telling us - then - ordering us - treated with what and by whom they designate. And people thought "DEATH PANELS" was too strong a phrase!

We know that with the camel's nose in the tent, the next step for this outfit will be to "recommend" which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments will be allowed. The next step after that, as this government created agency continues to grow, will be to forbid insurance payment for drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments which are not approved. By 2034 (the 50th anniversary of "1984", George Orwell's masterpiece foretelling the oppression of nanny-statism) we wll be in full-blown government control of our medical care and therefore our lives.

The Washington lap-dog Associated Press has the audacity to report to us that "Major insurers already are carrying out their own effectiveness research, but it lacks the credibility of government-sponsored studies." DOES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT STUDIES ARE MORE CREDIBLE THAN PRIVATE INDUSTRY?????

[clipper]

Obama to ask for debt limit hike

So here's what failure of this summer's bi-partisan committee to reach agreement has brought !!!

$1,200,000,000,000
more to borrow from the Chinese

"President Barack Obama is expected to ask for authority to increase the borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion, part of the spending authority that was negotiated between Congress and the White House this summer.

Under the agreement struck in August during the showdown over the government's debt limit, the cap is automatically raised unless Congress votes to block the debt-ceiling extension. Lawmakers have 15 days within receiving the request to vote, which is largely symbolic because the president can veto it and Congress would be unlikely to muster the two-thirds majority to override it. Moreover, the U.S. House of Representatives also is in recess until January 17"
[Reuters]

Princess Pelosi Sacrifices For The 99%'ers

Princess Nancy, fair maiden in the court of Dear Leader Obama, is spending her Holidays at her usual Hawaiian resort at $10,000 per night. I'm sure she is struggling into the late hours, daily, planning on how she can help the masses huddled in their tents in the Zucotti parks of our country. .... [clipper]

Sen. Harry Reid's Unicorns: Fact Checking a Whopper

"How can we take Congress seriously when the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, makes patently inaccurate, outrageous and bizarre claims on an important tax-policy issue without any heads being turned?"
[Forbes]

Living the Good Life: The Good Old Days Are Now

"As much as we hear about declines in median income, economic stagnation, the disappearance of the middle class, falling real wages, increasing income inequality, the data tell a much different story: The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting richer. "
[Carpe Diem]

Saved by Christmas

"Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas first and foremost as a tribute to materialism. These increasingly agnostic and secular societies have chosen to ignore the existence of God and have instead placed more and more trust in man. The consequence of this misguided reliance and the reality of God's outstretched helping hand is embodied in the story of a young boy from the streets of a nameless city in an unknown country."

[Steve McCann]

Queen Michelle Orders Dear Leader To Hawaii

"Michelle Obama insisted on the pricey Hawaiian holiday while her husband had said he preferred a short trip to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., The Daily Mail reported Friday, citing news accounts.

The trip to Hawaii is expected to cost taxpayers almost $4 million, and is the latest example of Michelle Obama's skyrocketing spending, sources told the National Enquirer, according to The Daily Mail."
[Newsmax]

An Example Of Mind-Blowing Liberal Court Rulings Driving America To 3rd World Status

"In Montana’s Finley Basin there are known tungsten deposits. An Australian company wanted to bring revenue and jobs to the state by developing the resource. While the property was successfully drilled and recognized by Union Carbide in the seventies, it is now about 200 yards inside a roadless study area. The Forest Service was willing to offer a conditional drilling permit. Among the conditions were these requirements:

• The drill sites must be cleared using hand tools,
• The drilling equipment and fuel must be transported to the site by a team of pack mules
• The mules must be fed certified weed-free hay, and
• Drill site and trail reclamation must be done using hand tools.

The company gave up.

Let’s face it. Liberals hate this country and want you to live in mud huts."

[Gateway Pundit]

This is the sort of picayune bureaucrat regulation that drives conservatives and those who want to move America ahead absolutely up the wall. [clipper]

Fighting Stereotypes in the U.K.

"In the Telegraph, Damian Thompson has an interesting short piece titled “When Islam met the diversity industry.” He notes the incongruous compatibility between British Muslims and the heretofore aggressively secular diversity industry.

Thompson focuses on the Islamic Diversity Centre in Newcastle. Much could be said about this group’s activities, but I want to focus on just one observation. The IDC’s stated purpose is challenging stereotypes of Islam. It is therefore rather stunning that when the group introduces its staff to readers of its web site, the most persistent stereotypes are abundantly confirmed.

Check out the IDC team page, which describes the individuals on the organization’s staff." [Power Line]

Note the "diversity" in the images of their female staff !!!! [clipper\

Obama’s DOJ Strikes a Blow

Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General and undercover Democrat Voter Fraud Commander, has announced he will fight state laws which require voters to identify themselves at the polling place! .... it looks like Obama is going to fight state-by-state to prevent voter ID.

The Supreme Court just ruled this week that Indiana's voter ID law IS constitutional.
[clipper]

The Deceptive White House $40 Payroll Tax Campaign

Obama LIES again !!!!!

The payroll tax increase he said threatens average working Americans wages to the tune of $40 per week is an outright LIE! A 2% increase in the payroll tax of a $50,000 per year salary amounts to $1,000. With 52 weeks per year, the tax increase would have amounted to $19.21 per week!

Exaggeration, obfuscation, misrepresentation ........ that's the Obama game.

[clipper]

Circulating 'round the Internet.........

Note the 1949 date !!!!!

Did Bo Return From Hawaii for Dear Leader’s Photo Op?

"Bo Obama Dear Leader was supposed to be in Hawaii. Instead, he showed up at President Obama Dear Leader’s side Wednesday shopping for treats at PetSmart

According to Michelle Obama Dear Leader’s press office, the first dog was planning to go to Hawaii with the first lady and the Obama Dear Leader daughters. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that he in fact had gone there. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser quoted an eyewitness who said he had seen the Portuguese Water Dog having his walk.

So what is Bo doing back in Washington shopping at PetSmart?"

[White House Dossier]

Move On Dot Org: Flaming Hypocrisy or Selective Amnesia?

"Got an email from Moooove On dot org this AM. And "Flaming Hypocrisy or Selective Amnesia" (or both) came to mind.

Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday the tea party-led House voted mostly along party lines to increase taxes on 160 million people starting January 1.1 In other words, "Happy Holidays from the Tea Party." Bah, humbug!

Republican members of the House have caused the "Tea Party Tax Increase" of 2012 by ignoring the needs of the 99% in order to score political points. They rejected a bipartisan Senate compromise that extended the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance, and prevented cuts for doctors who care for Medicare recipients.

Now they've left Washington for their holiday vacations, giving middle class families a tax increase for the holidays. It's critical that Rep. LaTourette hear from you today before his office closes for the holidays. If he doesn't act, the Tea Party Tax Increase of 2012 goes into effect on January 1."

[Left Coast Rebel]

When you know thw history of this bill and the FACTS surrounding its non-passage (The Republican House ORIGINATED the bill and passed it calling for ONE YEAR of tax cuts .... the DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED SENATE rejected that House one-year bill and reduced it to a ridiculous two months) you cannot help seeing the HORRIBLE HYPOCRISY of the Left's spin-meisters. [clipper]

Smoke Screening

"As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts."
[Vanity Fair]

Even Before Fast and Furious, They Had Guns on Their Minds

"What Obama administration officials, including the president, knew or didn't know about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' 2009 Operation Fast and Furious has little to do with what they should have known.

Attorney General Holder, Secretary Clinton, President Obama, and Secretary Napolitano each declared that he or she did not know about Fast and Furious until 2011. But what should they have known about a federal program that eventually led to mass murder?"

[American Thinker]

Analysis: Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers $250,000 Per Vehicle

"The Audi president called the Chevy Volt a “car for idiots,” but because the average Volt owner earns $170,000 a year and the average American couldn’t afford to buy it if they wanted to, it sounds more like the taxpayers are the ones who have been played for fools:

Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy."


[Michelle Malkin]

Supremes Uphold Voter ID Laws

"The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws."
[Left Coast Rebel]

Liberal Darien, CT Mounts an "Occupy" Protest

Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy .... VP Joe Biden

"So who’s trying to kill us? Who’s imposing Sharia law, denying women basic human rights, driving out Christians, burning churches, and beheading those who oppose them? “The Taliban engage in attacks against the civilian population. According to a report by the United Nations, the Taliban were responsible for 2,477 civilian casualties [in Afghanistan] (76 percent of all casualties) in the first six months of 2010.” Al Qaeda also supported the Taliban with regiments of imported fighters from Arab countries and Central Asia."
[Godfather Politics]

SEIU Job Description: Train & Lead Members to Occupy State Buildings & Takeover Banks

"If there was ever any question whether the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a radical and militantly Marxist union, this SEIU job description for a Senior/Lead Internal Organizer, Home Care, posted on the SEIU’s website should remove all doubts.
[RedState]

Among the job duties (screenshot below the fold) listed includes the training of members in civil-disobedience, peaceful resistance (how to get arrested), as well as the occupation and takeover banks and state buildings [emphasis added]

How About A Romney / Rice Ticket?

"America’s first black female secretary of state is quietly positioning herself to be the top choice of the eventual Republican presidential nominee, ready to deliver bona fide foreign-policy credentials lacking among the candidates. The 56-year-old has recently raised her profile, releasing her memoir in November and embarking on a month long book tour."
[Washington Times]

The Shades at Osawatomie

"On August 31, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave a revolutionary speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, and a couple of weeks ago President Barack Obama visited Osawatomie and wrapped himself in the mantle of Roosevelt's revolutionary progressivism. Thomas Jefferson saw it coming.

Jefferson did not predict that Roosevelt would make a speech at Osawatomie. He merely predicted the subject of Roosevelt's speech. Jefferson feared that at some point social and economic change would call into question the character of the American republic, portending a revolution that would change it fundamentally. He feared this because he talked to a French peasant woman. "

[Letters from an Ohio Farmer]

Did Pelosi Commit Blackmail?

"House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi recently said that if Newt Gingrich is the Republican nominee, she will disclose what Americans do not now know about him out of confidential House Ethics Committee investigations. Newt noted that this was an ethical violation itself, which caused Pelosi to back off her earlier threat, but there is more at issue than just House Ethics Committee rules.

The House Democrat Leader may well have committed blackmail. Consider the common-law definition: "Blackmail is gaining or attempting to gain anything of value or compelling another to act against such person's will, by threatening to communicate accusations or statements about any person that would subject such person or any other person to public ridicule, contempt or degradation." Is not that precisely what Pelosi did? "

[American Thinker]

The Hitman Cometh: America to be 'War Zone'

"An old adage reads, "If it quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck." The push by the Obama Administration to progressively strip Americans of basic liberties in the pursuit of political objectives has now taken on more draconian overtones, and no one seems to have noticed.

The broad and ambiguous language found in the PATRIOT Act gives the president, whoever that may be, the power to determine what is and is not "terror." Section 411, G, vi, II of the PARIOT Act defines a terrorist as anyone "designated, upon publication in the Federal Register, by the Secretary of State in consultation with or upon the request of the Attorney General."

Everything that follows is contingent on this loose definition -- i.e. warrantless wiretapping, warrantless entry, human tracking, access to bank statements and phone records, access to internet records, "enhanced" interrogation, and now assassination.

The founding fathers had a word to describe the events transpiring in America today, the disregard of the Constitution, the centralization of power in a few hands: tyranny.

This will either be a nation of free men and women, or it will be the next in a long line of tyrannies. There is no one to save America if America falls. This generation must decide the fate of American liberty. "

[American Thinker]

Government statistical agency helping NC Democrat

Someone is BREAKING THE LAW ...... BIG TIME !!!!

"The Carolina Journal, published by the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation (for which I’ve given paid speeches on occasion) reports that staffers in North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue’s office have been getting advance word on monthly unemployment statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is highly illegal under federal law and violates what I have understood to be a strong tradition in the BLS and other government statistics that no one—no one at all, not even in the White House—gets advanced word ahead of the public announcement of government statistics.

There’s obviously good reason for this: someone with advanced word could place bets in financial and community markets and make lots of money. That’s why Congress provided for penalties of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for early release of this data."
[Washington Examiner]

West to Holder: It’s not about your color, it’s about your competence

"Florida Republican Rep. Allen West told The Daily Caller on Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder’s use of the race card as a way to attack those who are criticizing him is “reprehensible.”

“I think this is absolutely the last card in the deck, and that shows how weak their ground is,” West said in a phone interview. “But, what that means is they want to make white individuals afraid of continuing to put the pressure on Eric Holder because they don’t want to be seen as racist, and that is something that we have got to move beyond.”"

[Daily Caller]

Mr. President – Put Up or Shut Up!

"The controversy over Barack Obama’s legal eligibility has been going on for three years and it is still not resolved. Obama says that there are no grounds for a controversy and he wishes it would go away.

The White House has produced three separate pieces of documentation, each of which has only added more doubt to the issue rather helping to resolve it. That latest documentation, a photocopy of a Hawaiian birth certificate that has two different type sets used on it along with wording that was not used until years later.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is one of those demanding to see the real records before he will authorize Obama’s name to be placed on the 2012 ballot in his county. Maricopa County is Arizona’s largest county with nearly 4 million people. Instead of providing Sheriff Joe with access to the documentation in Hawaii, Obama has instructed the Department of Justice to go after Sheriff Joe and do their best to discredit him and force him out of office."

[Godfather Politics]

The brave women of the Middle East

"After being viciously beaten by a 10-strong mob of Egyptian male soldiers, this woman lies helplessly on the ground as her shirt is ripped from her body and a man kicks her with full force in her exposed chest."
[UK MAIL]

Vaclav Havel, RIP

"One of the last giants of the victory over the Soviet Union at the end of the cold war has left us. Vaclav Havel, the author of the “Velvet Revolution” in the former Czechoslovakia in later 1989 that overthrew the Soviet-backed communist regime without a shot being fired, has passed away after a long illness, at 75 years old.

Godspeed, Mr. Havel. You taught us that freedom matters, and that it succeeds over totalitarianism when those who love freedom do not succumb to despair. “Thank you” seems entirely insufficient."
[Hot Air]

Vaclav Havel was both a political and an intellectual hero.

[UK Telegraph]

Congressmen can't say 'Merry Christmas' in mail

"Looks like the PC police have threatened members of the House of Representatives against wishing constituents a "Merry Christmas," if they want to do so in a mailing paid for with tax dollars."
[Washington Examiner]

Scintillating Chutzpah: Obama at Reform Judaism's Confab

"In a display of scintillating chutzpah, after bidding everybody "Shabbat Shalom," Obama linked himself to the biblical Joseph -- the chief character in this week's Torah portion. When Joseph's father Jacob told him to join his brothers in their pasturelands, Obama pointed out, Joseph stepped forward and obediently said one word, "Hineni" - " Here I am."

And, with his own spin on this week's biblical liturgy, Obama went on to note that "Hineni" was also the response of Abraham to God in the binding of Isaac, and of Moses when summoned by God from the burning bush.

At that point in his speech, you knew what was coming next: Obama assured his audience that he also was ready to declare "Hineni" in responding to Israel's struggles and other parts of his agenda. Quite an oratorical feat to put oneself in the same company as Joseph, Abraham and Moses. But Obama never opts for a bit of humility."

[American Thinker]

Obama Backs Down on Keystone Veto Threat

"Sometimes you watch Obama and think “is he smarter than me? Is he playing some deep game that I don’t understand?” Trust your instincts; you understand perfectly well, but he is not terribly bright."
[Gateway Pundit]

Feds Go After Arpaio For Civil Rights Violations Read more on Newsmax.com: Feds Go After Arpaio For Civil Rights Violations Important: Do You Support

"The Department of Homeland Security is cutting ties with Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff accused of a wide range of civil right violations, effectively stripping him of the ability to enforce immigration laws.

Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday the department is ending an agreement with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office that allowed trained deputies to enforce immigration laws.

It's also restricting the office's use of the Secure Communities program, which uses fingerprints collected in local jails to identify illegal immigrants."
[Newsmax]

Is there anything wrong here?

Executive Order 13589 -- Promoting Efficient Spending

Michelle’s Solo Hawaii Trip Likely to Exceed $100,000

President Obama to stay in D.C. while Michelle Obama, daughters head to Hawaii

Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich Speaks at Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition

Here is a MUST SEE Gingrich address.....

Vladimir Putin's Divided Russia

"Moscow is not a city of ghosts, but on Saturday, tens of thousands of figures were seen marching in the Russian capital chanting, "We exist! We exist!" That might seem like an exercise in the obvious. But the crowd thought a reminder was in order for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has generally regarded his critics as though they were invisible."
[Reason]

This is an interesting development for clipper, in that the protest reflects what I observed in two separate visits to Russia in two vastly different regions this summer. In each place, the two or three Russians we asked "How do you like Putin?" they either boldly or discretely expressed their dislike. Later, one of our Russian visitors to our home here in the U.S., when shown our "Occupy - - - - -" protesters.... and asked if they ever saw such a thing in Russia, responded ... "Oh No, that is NOT ALLOWED IN RUSSIA"........ Well.... it's now happening. This is a seismic event! [clipper]

The Missing Fast and Furious E-mails

"The Department of Justice continues to conceal documents.

Incredibly, just last week, the Obama administration even had to formally withdraw a letter it sent to Congress last February that falsely claimed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) didn’t watch guns “walk” into Mexico.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.) brought up this withdrawn document.

Holder said, “First let me make something very clear, in response to an assertion you made, or hinted at: Nobody in the Justice Department has lied.”

Sensenbrenner demanded, “Then why was the letter withdrawn?”

Holder answered, “The letter was withdrawn because there was information in there that was inaccurate.”

So Sensenbrenner asked, “Tell me what the difference is between lying and misleading Congress in this context.”

Holder replied, “If you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind, and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that can be considered perjury or a lie.”

[National Review OnLine]

Bipartisan plan for premium-support reform of Medicare?

"A Democratic senator, Ron Wyden of Oregon, and a Republican member of the House, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, unveiled a bipartisan plan on Wednesday to revamp Medicare and make a fixed federal contribution to the cost of coverage for each beneficiary. …"
[Hot Air]

The Full Alinsky – a wall of noise technique

"O'Reilly featured Caroline Heldman, a woman from the far Left. He asked Heldman why the “Democratic” Party objects to photo identification being used to reduce voter fraud. Then it was off to the races. Heldman insistently asserted voter fraud was not a problem, and that as many people are struck by lightning as will commit voter fraud (thus showing the “Democratic” Party is not even slightly interested in proper election procedure). She went on to assert that voter identification laws were being promoted by the Koch Brothers, which made them a bad idea. O'Reilly tried to make her explain the reference to the Koch Brothers (which makes no sense), but Heldman shouted him down."
[Resistance and Life]

Click "play" button, wait for the 30 sec. advertisement to end .... then watch the video.

OBAMA's Navy Forced To Buy $16/gal Fuel !

"Ecofanaticism: SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon."
[Investors Business Daily]

'You can't even go home!' Feds go bonkers on border agent ...

"The wife of former U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Diaz, who was jailed over his treatment of a drug smuggler, says she's outraged that the government has told her husband he won't be allowed to return home to be with her or associate with any other law enforcement-linked member of his family while on probation."
[WND]

What if instead of "The Rich," we called them the Jews, or the lawyers, or the bourgeoisie?

"It is not good for our country when a president of the United States singles out one group and tries to get the public to blame that group for the terrible problems facing us. Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much politically. These days, we can't even agree on the basic proposition that scapegoating is destructive. Scapegoating tears a country apart. It distracts us with false solutions when we are facing an economic emergency and have no time to waste. And it raises the specter of violence -- actual physical violence, with businesses destroyed and people hurt and killed. Yet Democrats applaud President Obama's scapegoating rhetoric."
[Karin McQuillan]

Skills gap hobbles US employers

"The idea there is something structurally wrong with the US workforce is controversial among economists but has a certain resonance with the public. Since the emergence of Japan as a technology and manufacturing powerhouse in the 1970s, Americans have been anxious that they were losing their competitive edge to better-educated, harder-working rivals.

The authors suggest companies may not be trying very hard to fill jobs, while workers in receipt of unemployment insurance may not be trying that hard to find them."
[Financial Times]

Rahm looks for more power, ability to deputize during G8

"Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants big new powers to help stage the NATO and G8 summits here in Chicago next May.

WLS Radio’s Bill Cameron reports from City Hall that the mayor is asking the aldermen to give him temporary authority to close all of the city’s parks, playgrounds and beaches at 11 p.m. during the NATO and G8 summits.

.... (AND HERE'S THE REAL KICKER !)..... (he) also requested has the ability to give him more freedom to execute contracts for goods and services connected to the NATO and G8 summits. "

[WLS Radio]

TIME Magazine's Person Of The Year

I kid you NOT....... TIME magazine has made the Occupy Protester's, like the one below, their "Person Of The Year".....

I wonder if he used a page from TIME to clean up.......

JustiaGate: 'Natural Born' Supreme Court Citations Disappear

"Did Justia.com deliberately aid Barack Obama in 2008 by helping to hide the one legal case that might prevent him from legally qualifying for the presidency?

On October 20, 2011, New Jersey attorney Leo Donofrio accused online legal research behemoth Justia.com of surgically redacting important information from their publication of 25 U.S. Supreme Court opinions which cite Minor v. Happersett, an 1874 decision which arguably contains language that appears to disqualify anyone from presidential eligibility who wasn't born in the country to parents who were citizens. According to the decision in Happersett:

At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. (Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167 [1874])"

[American Thinker]

Amd This Person Votes in OUR Elections?

This is unbelievable. You can't believe there are such stupid people having a voice on the air! ...... or at our ballot boxes!

KATHLEEN PARKER: Anyone but the guy who could win

"You don't get more un-Romney than Gingrich. Imperfect and untidy, he's the serial husband with whom anyone could feel comfortable sharing a beer. Or a keg. A sinner like the rest of us, he's familiar and comfortable as an old sofa.

But no one other than Callista Gingrich thinks her husband can prevail in a general election. That is, no one in Washington thinks he can win, and that's where Gingrich is known best. Former colleagues are going out of their way to politely say, "He can't lead." "

[Sacramento Bee]

The Omnibus: 3 x 24 = 72

"The House is set to pass a trillion dollar spending bill. Sources say we can expect the bill to be posted online sometime close to midnight tonight. I have no doubt that the bill will include all kinds of hidden earmarks and spending gimmicks. But the clever bill writers will make these hard to find. This is why it is so important that the public and Members of Congress have a chance to read the bill before it comes to the House floor.

Here is Speaker Boehner himself promising “a 72 hour review period for all major bills”

The big spenders understand that, like dead fish, the longer these bills sit in the sun, the more they stink. This is why they have the bill locked in a file cabinet somewhere and will keep it there until the very last minute in hopes that the public will not discover the shenanigans until the bill is already signed into law."

[Red State]

Obama Administration Coordinating With Left-Wing Groups on Voter Fraud?

"So you can see how this will all come together. The Democrats will use their constituent organizations to whip up a frenzy of opposition to “voter suppression,” while DOJ launches, or threatens to launch, legal challenges to selected state statutes. This will energize the Democrats’ base by pretending that Republicans are trying to disenfranchise voters. It also may succeed in increasing the illegal votes that Democrats rely on at the margins of close elections."
[Power Line]

How to cut the 15 trillion dollar debt

The Root Cause of Market Failure In Higher Education

"A little noticed Associated Press news story last week reported that China now plans to phase out college majors that consistently produce unemployable graduates. Any program in which 60% of the graduates failed to find work for two consecutive years would face funding reductions until supply was brought back into balance with demand.

This Chinese hand may not be invisible, but it would be one that Adam Smith would recognize. Isn't it amazing that even self-identified communists are figuring out that markets only work when adjustment mechanisms act to reduce surpluses and shortages? Destroy those mechanisms and unemployable college graduates pile up as fast as unsold electric cars."

[Real Clear Markets]

Newt: The Civil Warrior

"Over the last couple of days, several well-regarded Republican pundits have taken it upon themselves to educate Republican primary voters about the many shortcomings of Newt Gingrich. As I read them, I was reminded of Abraham Lincoln's reaction to the series of military and political experts who warned him that Ulysses S. Grant was an overly ambitious, incompetent drunk. When these experts demanded Grant's removal after the then-unprecedented casualties at Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, Lincoln acknowledge Grant's shortcomings but responded, "I can't spare this man; he fights.""

[American Thinker]

Obama Fools CBS, Says: “I’m Not Redistributing the Wealth”

"Barack Obama told Joe the Plumber back in 2008 that he wanted to “spread the wealth around.”

That’s exactly what Obama did. That’s all he’s ever done. “Spreading the wealth around” is all he knows how to day. Even his #Occupy Wall Street movement is based on “spreading the wealth around.”

This week Barack Obama told “60 Minutes” that he is not redistributing the wealth."
[Gateway Pundit]

Obama 101

"In the last three years, the president has taught us a great deal about America, the world, and himself. .....

Few American presidents have dashed so many popular, deeply embedded illusions as has Barack Obama. And for that, we owe him a strange sort of thanks."
[Victor Davis Hanson]