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Thứ Tư, 27 tháng 10, 2010

Hey, West Virginia Voters: Remember When Joe Manchin Endorsed Barack Obama and Covered Up For His Promise to Bankrupt the Coal Companies?

On 2 November 2008, WSAZ-TV in Huntington, West Virginia reported that Gov. Joe Manchin (D) was a huge proponent of presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Manchin... says he believes "West Virginia is going to be the sleeper for Barack Obama."

...He believes Obama could win the state in Tuesday's election and that he will be our next President.

He says Obama is the better man to help the nation's struggling economy.

How did that endorsement work out, Mountaineers?

In January of that same year, the San Francisco Chronicle interviewed candidate Obama about the future of the coal industry.

If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

Did Machin condemn those statements as the presidential election wound to its close?

Of course not, he defended the destruction of the coal industry.

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin appeared on CNBC Monday to discuss the coal controversy... Governor Manchin says he believes Obama's statements were taken out of context.

As recently as July of this year, Manchin endorsed ObamaCare and Obama himself.

...Manchin said that he would vote for the health care bill if he were a congressman. The panel's moderator, journalist Karen Tumulty, asked Manchin and other governors on the panel, "If you were a House member ... and you've got your choice: vote up on the Senate bill or vote down on the Senate bill, how do you vote?"

"I'd be for it," Manchin replied. "You have to move this ball forward. ... I have never, since I've been in the legislative process, and since I have been governor, I have never got a perfect bill."

Manchin went on to praise Obama--who has a 35 percent approval rating in West Virginia, according to Rasmussen--for devoting so much time and energy to passing the health care bill:

"You need to praise this president and this administration for sticking with this as long as they have. I'm not seeing this much commitment in anything else that we've gotten in the political process. We could have easily - and he could have easily - folded his tent... For that you've got to give him credit."

Joe Manchin can say whatever he wants now.

But -- in the crucible -- Manchine melted into traditional Democrat mush.

And if is sent to Washington, he'll be the low man on the Democrat totem pole. That means he'll have to toe the party line if he expects to get any plum committee assignments.

Which means he'll be voting for the Democrat agenda. And the continued destruction of the coal, oil and gas industries in this country.

West Virginia: it's Tuesday or never. Support John Raese for United States Senate.

It's official: world's most powerful financier calls the Obama-Pelosi-Reid spending spree the most brazen Ponzi scheme ever

Since Nancy Pelosi took over the federal purse-strings in 2007 and promised 'no new deficit spending', the Democrats have added $5 trillion to the national debt.

And investor Bill Gross believes America's debt-financing days may be nearing an end. Only he doesn't say it that nicely.

One more thing: Gross runs Pimco, the world's largest bond house. It oversees assets totaling more than $1 trillion. Yes, with a 't'. So he is arguably the world's most powerful financier.

Wednesday is the day when the Fed will announce a renewed commitment to Quantitative Easing – a polite form disguise for 'writing checks.' The market will be interested in the amount (perhaps as much as an initial $500 billion)...

...the American people should recognize that Wednesday, even more than Tuesday, represents a critical inflection point in determining our future prosperity. Of course we’ve tried it before, most recently in the aftermath of the Lehman crisis, during which the Fed wrote $1.5 trillion or so in “checks” to purchase Agency mortgages and a smattering of Treasuries. It might seem a tad dramatic then, to label QEII as "critical," ...

...Check writing in the trillions is not a bondholder’s friend; it is in fact inflationary, and, if truth be told, somewhat of a Ponzi scheme. Public debt, actually, has always had a Ponzi-like characteristic. Granted, the U.S. has, at times, paid down its national debt, but there was always the assumption that as long as creditors could be found to roll over existing loans – and buy new ones – the game could keep going forever...

Now, however, with growth in doubt, it seems that the Fed has taken Charles Ponzi one step further... One and one-half trillion in checks were written [by the Fed] in 2009, and trillions more lie ahead. The Fed, in effect, is telling the markets not to worry about our fiscal deficits, it will be the buyer of first and perhaps last resort. There is no need – as with Charles Ponzi – to find an increasing amount of future gullibles, they will just write the check themselves. I ask you: Has there ever been a Ponzi scheme so brazen? There has not. This one is so unique that it requires a new name. I call it a Sammy scheme, in honor of Uncle Sam and the politicians (as well as its citizens) who have brought us to this critical moment in time...

...The Fed wants to buy, so come on, Ben Bernanke, show us your best and perhaps last moves on Wednesday next. You are doing what you have to do, and it may or may not work. But either way it will likely signify the end of a great 30-year bull market in bonds and the necessity for bond managers and, yes, equity managers to adjust to a new environment.

Which is precisely why we must elect Constitutional conservatives -- who will stand for limited, fiscally responsible government.

We must slash the unconstitutional federal bureaucracies, we must outlaw public sector unions, and we must begin spending within our means.

But we must start on Tuesday. If not, I fear the great American experiment may be near its end.

Stop-Action Photos: MoveOn Activist Attacked Rand Paul, Jamming a Protest Sign into His Head Twice Before Being Forcibly Restrained

RedState has an exclusive video that conclusively captures the attack on Rand Paul by MoveOn activist Lauren Valle.

The following stop-action photos demonstrate, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that: (a) Valle's account was a complete fabrication; (b) she easily might have been charged with assault; and (c) had she tried doing so with a Secret Service detail, she could have ended up dead.

Here is a photographic sequence, thankfully not Zapruder-esque in outcome, that depicts Valle's bizarre behavior.

Paul's SUV pulls up to the crowd.

Paul is seated in the front right passenger seat and his window is rolled down.

Wearing a disguise, Valle (in red and wearing a blond wig) runs toward Paul carrying one or more signs.

The sign goes into Paul's window.

An observant Paul supporter rushes the woman while she jams the sign in Paul's face.

Before being restrained, the sign is flipped and she again tries to push the sign into Paul's face.

She's pushed away.

Here's the same sequence in a tighter camera angle.

You can clearly see that the paid leftist twice jammed her sign into Paul's face, which likely qualifies as assault.

Paul is seen here, moments later, closing his car window.

...as the video clearly demonstrates, Valle was there to do more than simply “hold a sign,” and Paul supporters were not reacting to a mere dislike of her message.

As we noted at the beginning of the article, none of that is any excuse, nor even mitigating circumstances, when it comes to Profitt stomping on Valle’s head.

However, what it does demonstrate is that the idea that Valle was the victim of an angry mob who simply “didn’t like her message” is demonstrably false. The idea that Rand Paul’s supporters are a rabid single-minded, conspiratorial crew is also demonstrably false.

So please, condemn head-stomping. Condemn violence. But don’t let the media and the left create a fiction of violent mobs of right-wingers. They’ve been pitching that line since the health care town hall meetings last summer. It has yet to be true.

I wonder what would have happened if some right-wing extremist had tried shoving a "Change" sign into the face of either Obama, Pelosi or Reid?

Somehow I don't think the left or the right would defend that behavior. But that's the difference between the two sides of the political spectrum.

When it comes to the left, the end always justifies the means.

Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

Larwyn's Linx: ObamaCare and the Constitutional Crisis

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Thứ Ba, 26 tháng 10, 2010

Gee, how come Kenny Gladney didn't get all of this attention?

When Kenny Gladney -- a black conservative -- was beaten, kicked and called racist names by members of the SEIU (also known as the Democrat brownshirts, which I'm told is the term they prefer), the progressive blogs and the legacy media raised nary a peep.

That seems to run a bit counter to what we're seeing when some paid moonbat activist lunged at Rand Paul and was then tossed to the ground and held for police. But some campaign worker ground his foot on her shoulder and, briefly, on her head. Which was idiotic, to be sure. But certainly nothing like the beating administered to Gladney.

So I was kinda surprised -- not -- to see the difference in coverage of the two incidents.

The double standard is obvious.

That's why the legacy media is melting away before our eyes, kinda like that Nazi boss in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Yeah, I threw in another Nazi allusion. 'Cuz Rob Reiner said it's okay.

Remembering Bush's Extreme and Divisive Rhetoric

In the heat of the final days leading up to the midterms, I'd like you to remember when President George W. Bush used the sort of unacceptable, extreme and divisive rhetoric that the nation ultimately rejected.

• When Bush told Democrats to "sit in the back of the bus."

• When Bush admonished Christians and Jews to "punish their enemies."

• When Bush told his political supporters to prepare for combat, screaming that "if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun!"

• When Bush challenged his campaign workers to "get in their faces" and "hit back twice as hard!"

Remember all of those nasty, demeaning threats by President Bush?

Neither do I. Because those are President Obama's statements.

The office appears to be way too big for #44.

Images: EIB Network.

I've Got Mail!

A delightful individual using the moniker "Further than you" offers his well wishes for the coming election.

This kind of trivial focus on a similar video style when there are HUGE issues not being addressed by the RIGHT, is exactly why the entire country (and world) are laughing at the conservative (bowel) movement. All you "patriots", listen up:

We have an insane amount of "patriots" in this country talking about "watering the tree of liberty with blood" and carrying guns to rallies, exuding hate, intimidation, and calling their opponents traitors, socialists, communists, nazis, whatever damning title they can think of, all while dancing perfectly as their puppet masters planned, in order to distract us all from their constant game of bubble inflation and fraudulent profiteering that left our country in shambles. A few crooks deregulating markets to buy a few islands to retire on is simply criminal. But a systematic raping of our nation's wealth, a calculated funneling of money from the poorest to the richest, from Americans to foreign entities, resulting in class wars and violent division? That's called TREASON. And those that defend said treason, through blind ignorance or willful greed, are enemies of the state, in my book.

THIS MEANS YOU, ignorant teabagger, protesting Dems who want to tax companies for sending our jobs overseas. YOU ARE A TRAITOR.

THIS MEANS YOU, conservative sycophant, crying about Obama's wasteful spending (which keeps teachers in the classroom trying to teach your smug offspring something besides the bible) whilst on YOUR watch, spending reached UNPARALLELED HEIGHTS in order for your puppet masters to rake in oil profits and war contracts and tax cuts for the richest. YOU ARE A TRAITOR.

THIS MEANS YOU, forgetful republican: YOU whine about freedom while constantly treading on others'. YOU rave about your founding fathers, who started this country to have religious freedom for all, then fail to uphold that same freedom for others based on your own bigotry and fear. YOU support wars to "spread democracy" with a boot heel on one neck and a bullet in the other, exponentially increasing the very terror you claim to be fighting against. YOU preach Christian Family Values while engaging in a never-ending parade of scandals, affairs, molestations and sex acts that you rail against. YOU clap as your elected frauds block every single move to improve the damage they did during BUSH, not because they truly believe it's the right thing to do, but because crippling America into a panic-turned-hate-fest is the ONLY way to make enough of our country forget how HORRIBLE 2000-2008 was for your team to win back seats. And that's their only chance of winning. And you lick every bit of that s--- right off their boots, like starving retards at all-you-can-eat s--- buffet.

YOU ARE ALL TRAITORS.

YOU are endangering OUR country's global standing and future, our health care needs, our financial safety , and the rights of our women. And OUR PERSONAL LIBERTIES, which you SCREAM ABOUT, are most at risk when YOU are in charge.

We are a family in America. And you are the senile grandpa who's storming about the house with a loaded rifle, threatening the children. Too stupid to see the damage you cause, too blind to glimpse your own role in the travesty that enrages you . We no longer care if it's because you were raised that way or you're just brainwashed by Faux Noose or whatever. If you don't pass away from natural causes soon, we may have to put you down for the safety of everyone.

So when it comes time for blood to water that tree of liberty, WHO'S BLOOD DO THINK WILL BE SPILLING? Because all fingers (and sights) point at YOU, TRAITOR.

Breathtaking!

I know I shouldn't bother, but let's clear a few things up -- not for the rocket scientist author -- but for the (thankfully) few Democrats remaining that have a willingness to learn.

• Yes, I blame those gun-carrying teabaggers, too. Carrying all of their guns at rallies (shhh, humor him), exuding hate and intimidation by begging their representatives not to pass thousand and thousands of pages of massive new entitlements sight unseen... quite unseemly, that. As for calling people Nazis, you're right. Unlike the tolerant left, conservatives are awful, nasty extremists.

• Yes, I blame deregulation, too. That is, if George W. Bush had actually created Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the FHA, OFHEO and every other job shop for well-connected Democrats that completely destroyed the housing market by manufacturing a trillion-dollar market for subprime loans.

• Say, and about that spending that "keeps teachers in the classrooms"... how are those Blue State Utopias of California, Illinois and New York doing? Oh. You say they're bankrupt? And the federal government's bankrupt? Well, gee-zel-pete, who's gonna pay the tab? You say we should let our grandchildren pick it up? Oh. Okay.

• And you're right -- that "never-ending parade of scandals, affairs, molestations and sex acts" by those hypocritical Republicans are awful. Can't think of any recent ones, but you're right nonetheless. I like it that liberals don't have any family values or moral principles. That way they can't be considered hypocritical when they, say, get fellated in the Oval Office, then perjure themselves and end up disbarred! Or when they run a male prostitution ring out of their condo. Or when they abuse a series of male Congressional pages. And they don't suffer any reputational damage! Genius!

And speaking of "trivial focus", why concentrate on a wide stance when we can discuss illegal immigrants canvassing for votes, ACORN, Project Vote, the New Black Panthers, Black Liberation Theology, crushing charter schools, increasing the power of public sector unions at the expense of the taxpayer, paying off trial lawyers and increasing the Democrat core constituencies of felons, illegals, and the dead?

• And you're so right. President Obama has greatly improved our "global standing and future, our health care needs, our financial safety, and the rights of our women." It's our allies' fault that they think our relationships are at new lows. And who cares if Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are at least $50 trillion dollars underwater -- we've got wealth to redistribute in the form of socialized medicine -- the better to control the populace with. And it's Bush's fault that even though Nancy Pelosi vowed "no new deficit spending" in January of 2007, she's added $5 trillion to the national debt. As for the "rights of our women" -- yes, that abortion clause in the Constitution is a real page-turner.

As for the idiotic threats? Well, given that you're a doughy Internet troll who lives in Mommy's basement, it's kind of touching, really. But I'll offer nonetheless: three rounds in the ring or the octagon. Your call.

Thứ Tư, 27 tháng 10, 2010

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