Big Brother Socialism Begins

Attack our Second Amendment........that's the ticket.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1

Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban
Previous Ban Expired in 2004 During the Bush Administration

Dumb Idea Phase II

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aOqVquIsiZcc

Obama’s Planned Tax Would Hit Highest Earners Hardest (Update2)
By Ryan Donmoyer and Aliza Marcus

Why We Look So Stupid

Come on now. It is enough that Democrats get the label of being "stupid" when it comes to the economy. That is because WE ARE SO STUPID! Does this lamebrain president, we, The Party of The People, chose as our messiah, really believe this stupidity will fly. The public cannot be this stupid. Why, oh why, do we look like idiots? Because we are being led by one.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561551065378405.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

The 2% Illusion
Take everything they earn, and it still won't be enough.

President Obama has laid out the most ambitious and expensive domestic agenda since LBJ, and now all he has to do is figure out how to pay for it. On Tuesday, he left the impression that we need merely end "tax breaks for the wealthiest 2% of Americans," and he promised that households earning less than $250,000 won't see their taxes increased by "one single dime."

This is going to be some trick. Even the most basic inspection of the IRS income tax statistics shows that raising taxes on the salaries, dividends and capital gains of those making more than $250,000 can't possibly raise enough revenue to fund Mr. Obama's new spending ambitions.

Lose This Loser

Can anyone take him seriously anymore?

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/gore-pulls-slide-of-disaster-trends/


Gore Pulls Slide of Disaster Trends
By Andrew C. Revkin Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Former Vice President Al Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation. When Mr. Gore addressed a packed, cheering hall at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago earlier this month, his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling-high spike in disasters in recent years. The data came from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (also called CRED) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels.

Real Committment Here Hippicrats

Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black. I hate to admit it when I must call a Democrat a hippicrate but here if living proof. We want to seek ways to help the auto industry but, in the mean time, we will drive non-American cars.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090223/AUTO01/902230327

Auto team drives imports
Fed task force has few new U.S. cars
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- The vehicles owned by the Obama administration's auto team could reflect one reason why Detroit's Big Three automakers are in trouble: The list includes few new American cars.
Among the eight members named Friday to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and the 10 senior policy aides who will assist them in their work, two own American models. Add the Treasury Department's special adviser to the task force and the total jumps to three.

"F" for Obama? Are You Kidding Me?

"F" for Obama? Are You Kidding Me? No. You are probably just right. But, how dare you speak out against the Messiah.

http://www.wowowow.com/post/liz-peek-barack-obama-economy-stimulus-214454

Liz Peek: Stock Market Gives Obama’s First Month An 'F'
By Liz Peek

Today marks the one-month anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration. In his brief time in office, the president has overseen three massive new spending initiatives — the $787 billion stimulus bill, the trillion-dollar financial stability initiative and, most recently, the $275 billion mortgage assistance program.

That’s a lot of activity, and a ton of money, but so far the reaction to the new administration’s programs has been decidedly negative. Investors, among others, have panned the plans; the stock market is off nearly 10% from the day before the inauguration, or more than 800 points on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Yesterday, in fact, we crossed a truly alarming divide. The Dow Jones average closed at its lowest point since October 2002, the bottom of the last bear market. The S&P 500 fell to 779, barely above the intra-day low of 741 of last November. For many market analysts, if the market crashes through that recent benchmark, it will next move significantly lower. Ouch.

Human Right and Hillary

I don't know whether to be shocked here or not. Democrats are usually the voicebox of human rights. Unless, when we are in power, then it resorts to same-old, same-old.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090220/pl_afp/usdiplomacyasiachinarights

Activists 'shocked' at Clinton stance on China rights

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China.

Paying her first visit to Asia as the top US diplomat, Clinton said the United States would continue to press China on long-standing US concerns over human rights such as its rule over Tibet.

"But our pressing on those issues can't interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis," Clinton told reporters in Seoul just before leaving for Beijing.

T. Kumar of Amnesty International USA said the global rights lobby was "shocked and extremely disappointed" by Clinton's remarks.

"The United States is one of the only countries that can meaningfully stand up to China on human rights issues," he said.

Can't Stand the Heat; Get Out...

Who would have thought that the Obama band wagon couldn't take criticism. They sure dished it out. You if can't take this heat, then please leave now.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96FI8300&show_article=1


White House objects to 'rant' on its housing plan

Feb 20 04:43 PM US/EasternBy BEN FELLERAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday dismissed a cable television reporter's criticism of President Barack Obama's housing bailout plan as the ranting of an individual who "doesn't know what he's talking about."

In a report on CNBC on Thursday, Rick Santelli animatedly accused the Obama administration of "promoting bad behavior" with its $75 billion lifeline to millions of Americans on the brink of foreclosure.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs poked fun at Santelli by inviting him to come to the White House to read the details of Obama's plan. "I'd be happy to buy him a cup of coffee," Gibbs said. In a nod to Santelli's caffeinated style, Gibbs then wryly added: "Decaf."

Santelli took the critique in stride, saying Gibbs had hardly offered tough words.
"I think this is terrific that this has been opened up to national debate," Santelli said in an MSNBC interview shortly after Gibbs' daily briefing wrapped up. "I think it's wonderful he invited to me to the White House. I'm really not big on decaf, though. I think I'd prefer tea."

Same "culture of corruption"

It is so sad when we become the hippocrats. For years, democrats viciously attacked the Republicians over ethic issues. It is sad the chickens have come home to roost so quickly. We hang our heads in shame. Is this the "Hope" and "Change" we were promised?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j44ku9zUM9IEdkkoWbIYStDVE6SwD96EH4JO0

Analysis: Democrats self-destructing over ethics
By LARRY MARGASAK

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly handing over to Republicans the same "culture of corruption" issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.

Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is only the latest embarrassment.

Senate Democrats accepted Burris because they believed what he told them: He was clean. Burris now admits he tried to raise money for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who authorities say sought to sell President Barack Obama's former Senate seat.

"The story seems to be changing day by day," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday.
The political mess for the Democratic Party, however, isn't Burris' conduct alone; it's the pattern that has developed so quickly over the past few months.

_The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is the subject of a House ethics investigation. It's partly focused on his fundraising practices for a college center in his name, his ownership financing of a resort property in the Dominican Republic and his financial disclosure reports.
_Federal agents raided two Pennsylvania defense contractors that were provided millions of dollars in federal funding by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.

Fairness Doctrine

Many Democrats want to limit free speech by bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. How is that fair you ask? Well, it isn't. Radio stations live on profit and that profit comes from its sponsers and listeners. Listeners do not want liberal radio or they would vote with their feet. Let's let freee speech ring.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/18/white-house-opposes-fairness-doctrine/

White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival
A White House spokesman tells FOXNews.com President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine.

President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a spokesman told FOXNews.com Wednesday.
The statement is the first definitive stance the administration has taken since an aide told an industry publication last summer that Obama opposes the doctrine -- a long-abolished policy that would require broadcasters to provide opposing viewpoints on controversial issues.
"As the president stated during the campaign, he does not believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated," White House spokesman Ben LaBolt told FOXNews.com.

Stimulus Bill

And we thought the stimulus bill would be our savior.


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/62082.html

Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no
By Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The compromise economic stimulus plan agreed to by negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate is short on incentives to get consumers spending again and long on social goals that won't stimulate economic activity, according to a range of respected economists.

"I think (doing) nothing would have been better," said Ed Yardeni, an investment analyst who's usually an optimist, in an interview with McClatchy. He argued that the plan fails to provide the right incentives to spur spending.

Broken Promise II

Not another one.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30697

SURPRISE! Dems Break Promise: Stimulus Bill to Floor Friday
by Connie Hair 02/12/2009



In a press conference Thursday, the House Republican leadership spoke candidly about being kept out of the House-Senate conference on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid so-called “economic stimulus” bill. They confirmed they had not yet seen the text of the bill as of 4 p.m.

Throw in the Towel

I am finally ready to throw in the towel on Pelosi. I must now finally admit she is the WORST Speaker of the House ever. What a disgrace she is to the Party of the People.


http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpr.htm

HURRY, FELLAS, LET'S VOTE, I AM OFF TO ROME!
Fri Feb 13 2009 09:18:52 ET

Rep. John Culberson, TX claims the "stimulus" bill must be urgently voted on today -- because Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leaving at 6:00 PM for an 8 day trip to Europe! Culberson made the charge on Houston's KSEV radio. Pelosi is hoping to lead a delegation to Europe; there's a meeting with the Pope and an award from an Italian legislative group. Calls to Pelosi's spokesman went unreturned. In the rushing, Democrats have now broken their promise to have the public see the $790 billion bill for 48 hours before any vote. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) predicted that none of his Senate colleagues would 'have the chance' to read the entire final version of the 1,071-page bill before it comes up for a final vote. Developing...

NO WAY!

Say it isn't so. Democrats complained about Bush and how we wanted "openess." Now the President is pre-selecting questions? How dare he. If this is true, let's drop-kick his sorry behind out in 4 years. This is a hippicrate at it's finest. I hate being lied to and deceived. At least be honest with the people.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431418276770899.html

Obama's Press List
Membership shall have its privileges.
FEBRUARY 11, 2009

About half-way through President Obama's press conference Monday night, he had an unscripted question of his own. "All, Chuck Todd," the President said, referring to NBC's White House correspondent. "Where's Chuck?" He had the same strange question about Fox News's Major Garrett: "Where's Major?"

The problem wasn't the lighting in the East Room. The President was running down a list of reporters preselected to ask questions. The White House had decided in advance who would be allowed to question the President and who was left out.

Presidents are free to conduct press conferences however they like, but the decision to preselect questioners is an odd one, especially for a White House famously pledged to openness.

We doubt that President Bush, who was notorious for being parsimonious with follow-ups, would have gotten away with prescreening his interlocutors. Mr. Obama can more than handle his own, so our guess is that this is an attempt to discipline reporters who aren't White House favorites.

Hillary in Dependency

It doesn't look good for Hillary. Was it a bad decision to give in so easily? This is her reward for unity?



http://thehill.com/dick-morris/hillarys-incredible-shrinking-role-2009-02-09.html


Hillary’s incredible, shrinking role
By Dick Morris 02/09/09 06:23 PM [ET]


Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is finding that her job description is dissolving under her feet, leaving her with only a vestige of the power she must have thought she acquired when she signed on to be President Obama’s chief Cabinet officer.


Since her designation:
out foreign policy as his turf. His visit to Afghanistan, right before the Inauguration, could not but send a signal to Hillary that he would conduct foreign policy in the new administration, leaving Hillary in the role of backup.


• Richard Holbrooke, the former Balkan negotiator and U.N. ambassador, has been named special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He insisted on direct access to the president, a privilege he was denied during much of the Clinton years.
• Former Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine), negotiator of the Irish Peace Accords, was appointed to be the administration’s point man on Arab-Israeli negotiations.

Fairness Doctrine: Did a Liberal Say That?

I cannot believe I hear a liberal Democrat railing against the Fairness Doctrine and actually make sense.


http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/02/11/stimulus/

A rocky first few weeks
By Camille Paglia

Speaking of talk radio (which I listen to constantly), I remain incredulous that any Democrat who professes liberal values would give a moment's thought to supporting a return of the Fairness Doctrine to muzzle conservative shows. (My latest manifesto on this subject appeared in my last column.)

The failure of liberals to master the vibrant medium of talk radio remains puzzling. To reach the radio audience (whether the topic is sports, politics or car repair), a host must have populist instincts and use the robust common voice. Too many Democrats have become arrogant elitists, speaking down in snide, condescending tones toward tradition-minded middle Americans whom they stereotype as rubes and buffoons. But the bottom line is that government surveillance of the ideological content of talk radio is a shocking first step toward totalitarianism.

Someone's Predicting Failure Already?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ebea1b8-f794-11dd-81f7-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

Why Obama’s new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks
By Martin Wolf: February 10 2009 18:06

Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed?

In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger.

Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it. Today, it can offer solutions; tomorrow it will have become the problem. Today, it is in control of events; tomorrow, events will take control of it. Doing too little is now far riskier than doing too much. If he fails to act decisively, the president risks being overwhelmed, like his predecessor. The costs to the US and the world of another failed presidency do not bear contemplating.

Thank You Democrats

The bailout plan is a bust and everyone knows it. It is a feel-good program that will not amount to anything but greater debt in the long run. Thanks alot Obama. Your plan is crashing us.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29119665

Stocks Tumble as Bailout Plan Is Unveiled

US stocks fell sharply Tuesday in a broad-based decline as the government announced details of its latest bailout plan.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 300 points after Treasury Secretary Tim Geither revealed details of the bank-bailout plan. Earlier, the blue-chip index was down less than 100 points.

Old School

Who doesn't remember a teacher, or nun, giving a good beatdown when you were a kid. In almost every case, I remember the kid deserving of it. Maybe that is why we all turned into pansy democrats. Teachers hurt our feelings as well as our bottoms.

Get a grip kids! If you act properly and your parents were actually "parents," maybe there would not be these situations.

http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/Painful.Lessons.Abuse.2.931134.html

'Painful Lessons': Abuse At Chicago Schools
Hundreds Of Kids Beaten, Whipped, Even Choked By Teachers, Coaches

Hundreds of students have allegedly been beaten by teachers, coaches and staff at Chicago Public Schools. 2 Investigator Dave Savini continues his ongoing investigation involving the illegal use corporal punishment.

Treveon Martin, 10, is afraid of a teacher at his school. "I've seen him hit five of them in the classroom," Martin said. Martin says he and others have been hit, grabbed and even struck with a belt. "He's threatened almost all the kids in his classroom," Martin said. He says it happened at Robert Emmet Academy in November but a Chicago Public School investigator didn't talk to him until last week - 70 days after the case was reported, and not until after we started asking questions.

Biden Gives Odds

Biden is very sure of the Democratic agenda isn't he?

http://www.cq.com/flatfiles/editorialFiles/temporaryItems/biden_gives_odds_on.html?docid=3026783

Biden Gives Odds on Messing Up
By Edward Epstein, CQ Staff CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWSFeb. 6, 2009 12:15 p.m.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is nothing if not optimistic. So it was a little surprising when he hedged a bit earlier today, telling House Democrats there is "30 percent chance we'll get it wrong."
He was referring to efforts by the new administration and the Congress to address what he called a "constellation of crises" at home and abroad that pose great risks for the nation.
"If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30 percent chance we'll get it wrong," he told the lawmakers at their policy retreat in Williamsburg, Va.

Biden, who stopped at the meeting on his way to an international security conference in Munich, said "not since World War II, at least, has a caucus gathered with so much at stake for our country, with the stakes so high." He listed the economic crisis and ongoing fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as the most pressing issues.

Another Broken Promise

Hippocrate on the rise



Obama's promise of ethics reform faces early test
By Peter Baker Published: February 3, 2009 http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/03/america/03lobby.php

WASHINGTON: During almost two years on the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to slay the demons of Washington, bar lobbyists from his administration and usher in what he would later call in his Inaugural Address a "new era of responsibility." What he did not talk much about were the asterisks.

The exceptions that went unmentioned now include a pair of cabinet nominees who did not pay all of their taxes. Then there is the lobbyist for a military contractor who is now slated to become the No. 2 official in the Pentagon. And there are the others brought into government from the influence industry even if not formally registered as lobbyists.

"This is a big problem for Obama, especially because it was such a major, major promise," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "He harped on it, time after time, and he created a sense of expectation around the country. This is exactly why people are skeptical of politicians, because change we can believe in is not the same thing as business as usual."

Obama on his first day in office imposed perhaps the toughest ethics rules of any president in modern times, and since then he and his advisers have been trying to explain why they do not cover this case or that case.

Thanks for Manning Up

Tom, you did the right thing.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D964904G0&show_article=1

Daschle withdraws as nominee for HHS secretary

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination on Tuesday to be President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services secretary, dealing potential blows to both speedy health care reform and Obama's hopes for a smoother start as president.
"Now we must move forward," Obama said in a written statement accepting "with sadness and regret" Daschle's surprise request to be removed from consideration. A day earlier, Obama had said he "absolutely" stood by Daschle in the face of problems over back taxes and potential conflicts of interest.
Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader and a strong backer of Obama's presidential bid, said he would have been unable to operate "with the full faith of Congress and the American people."
"I am not that leader, and will not be a distraction" to Obama's agenda, he said.

"Forgot" to Pay?

How do you fail to pay taxes when you are a democrat? This is the party of tax and spend. Yet, Daschle failed to pay his and wants you to pay yours. Let us not stand behind this loser. He is an embarrashment to the Democratic Party -- a hippocrat at best.

Daschle apologizes for failing to pay taxes
Feb 2 12:43 PM US/EasternBy KEVIN FREKINGAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trying to salvage his nomination, Tom Daschle apologized Monday for delinquent tax payments as President Barack Obama and a top Senate chairman stood by him as the choice to lead the Health and Human Services Department.

Following a weekend of revelations about taxes and potential ethical conflicts, Daschle expressed remorse to the Senate Finance Committee, the panel that will decide his fate, saying he was "deeply embarrassed and disappointed" about failing to pay more than $120,000 in back taxes.