Obama should take his own advice

Obama tells high school grads not to make excuses for their failures and to take responsibility for their own actions. I think it's time Obama takes his own advice and stops blaming everyone else for his own short comings.

President Barack Obama is telling high school graduates in Michigan not to make excuses, and to take responsibility for failures as well as successes.

In excerpts of remarks to be delivered Monday evening at Kalamazoo Central High School, Obama said that it's easy to blame others when problems arise. "We see it every day out in Washington, with folks calling each other names and making all sorts of accusations on TV," the president said.

He said the high school kids can and have done better than that.

The 1,700-student high school in southwest Michigan landed Obama as its commencement speaker after winning the national Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge. It was among three finalists picked through public voting on the schools' videos and essays, and the White House made the final selection.

Since Obama has been elected everything that has gone wrong has been everyone else's fault. What ever happened to the buck stops here Mr President? You've been President for a year and half yet the economy is still Bush's fault? Sorry Obama, but you own this economy. It's your failed socialist policies causes this prolonged recession.

Imagine if a Republican...

Used a slur when talking about a group opposing him. How would the media treat Bush if he used the "N" word while talking about Jesse Jackson and his flock? Granted calling the Tea Partiers tea-baggers isn't quite the same. But this just shows how classless Obama is. Obama is supposed to be the President to the country not just to his special interest groups. Degrading a group of Americans like this is just something a President should never do.

The term "tea-bagger" is like uttering the "n" word, some say. Though he aspires to promote civility, evidence has surfaced thatPresident Obama has added "tea-bagger" to his public lexicon, though it's considered a cheap and tawdry insult by "tea party" activists. Watchdogs at Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) barked when they saw the proof, tucked in a sneak peak of Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter's new book, "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," to be released May 18. Indeed, it appears the president joined certain partisan critics and the liberal media, and took the tea-bag plunge

This is exactly why I'm pro-life

Not because of any religious affiliation. I've never gone to church and while I think there is a God, or at least some higher power, I don't exactly worship anyone or anything. I'm pro-life because I think it is cruel. Especially when I hear stories like this.

The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled

However, the infant survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, and was left by doctors to die.

He was discovered alive the following day – some 20 hours after the operation – by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body.

He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.

The priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neo-natal unit at the neighbouring Cosenza hospital, where he died on Monday morning.

Italian police are investigating the case for "homicide" because infanticide is illegal in Italy.

The law means that doctors have had an obligation to try to preserve the life of the child once he had survived the abortion.

I know the Feminazi's will say this is no big deal and abortion of demand is all that matters. But how can any sane person say this isn't cruel?

Imagine if a Republican...

Obama said he is counting on the young, blacks, latinos and women for votes in November. I guess us white males mean nothing to him. Now imagine if Bush said I'm counting on you white males to get me elected. Totally ignoring another race or all other races. The racism cry would never end.

But Obama is basically saying he doesn't care about white males and no one bats an eye. Of course this is nothing new with the liberal media. Supreme Justice Sotomayor made a racist comment that she can make better decisions because she is a wise latino and no one in the media cared. But of course if Justice Roberts would have said he can make better decisions because he is a white male that would have automatically disqualified him from service.

Obama will never raise taxes on those of us making less than $250,000

What a load of crap. What does he think a Value Added Tax would be? It would raise the tax of everyone, including the poor. So if he was honest, which we all know he isn't, VAT wouldn't still be on the table.

President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days.

Before deciding what revenue options are best for dealing with the deficit and the economy, Obama said in an interview with CNBC, "I want to get a better picture of what our options are."

After Obama adviser Paul Volcker recently raised the prospect of a value-added tax, or VAT, the Senate voted 85-13 last week for a nonbinding "sense of the Senate" resolution that calls the such a tax "a massive tax increase that will cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America's economic recovery."

Obama is trying everything he can do to cripple the American economy and to keep everyone miserable. I really don't think Obama has ever taken a basic economics class. What does he think will happen if they enact a VAT? Prices for everything will raise. Most companies add any expense on to their product. But I think Obama knows this and wants this. He wants everyone to be equally miserable...it's the socialist way.

Real leadership the GOP can believe in

I really hope Chris Christie puts his hat in the 2012 Presidential election. I've said this a few times and I'll keep on repeating myself. This is the kind of leadership we need.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said voters next week should reject school budgets in districts where teachers refuse to accept pay freezes.

Employees in 11 of 588 school districts have so far agreed to accept no increase in wages, Christie, 47, told reporters today in Princeton. The governor has urged the concessions as one way to offset $820 million in education cuts in his proposed state spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

“I just don’t see how citizens should want to support a budget where teachers do not want to be a part of the shared sacrifice,” Christie said. “That’s my view on it.”

New Jersey is one of the bluest states in the Union. Not only did he urge the districts to reject the budgets they listened in an overwhelmingly margin.

New Jersey voters took a stand on school spending and property taxes Tuesday, rejecting 260 of 479 school budgets across 19 counties, according to unofficial results in statewide school elections.

In the proposed state budget he unveiled last month, Gov. Chris Christie slashed $820 million in aid to school districts and urged voters to defeat budgets if teachers in their schools did not agree to one-year wage freezes. The salvo ignited a heated debate with the state’s largest teachers union.

New Jersey, like many states and the nation, are in a financial mess. Obama is spending money like it is going out of style. Our national debt is out of control and the budgets just keep on rising. This country needs a leader like Christie who isn't afraid to cut the budget and control spending. This is a very rare trait that no liberal has and only a very few Republicans have.

This would have solved a lot of the problems

But to me this is like voter fraud. I think when you go in to vote you should at the very least have to show your id. I know the liberals think that is "racist" or some whatever ism they want to attach to a common sense idea they can't argue against. Liberals are only good for a couple things, raising taxes, growing government and calling people names they know they can't win against.

I for one don't think Obama is a Kenyan. I think he is naturally born US citizen and as such he should have no problem showing his birth certificate and so doesn't the Arizona Legislature. They just passed a bill that would require any US presidential candidates to prove they are a US citizen to be on their ballots.

The Arizona House on Monday voted for a provision that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot when he runs for reelection.

The House voted 31-22 to add the provision to a separate bill. The measure still faces a formal vote.

It would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.

I can't wait to hear how racist they are. How discriminatory this is. But this doesn't effect just Obama. People on the left were questioning McCain's naturally birth citizenship because he was born in an army base in another country. But because it was an army base technically that's US soil.

Post Partisanship from Obama

Remember when Obama was running for President and everyone thought he was going to be the first post partisan President. He'd be the great uniter. I guess Obama's idea of uniting the people is by mocking them.

Obama told a fundraiser in Miami that he's cut taxes, contrary to the claims of protesters.

"You would think they'd be saying thank you," he said.

At that, many in the crowd at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts stood and yelled, "Thank you!"

Not only is he mocking the Tea Party Protesters, who are a group of ordinary citizens who want actual change in this country, he is flat out lying. What taxes have you cut Obama? It won't be long until Obama's approval rating is in the 30s.

All I have to say is Hell No

As much as I like Sarah Palin there is no way in Hell I'd support her if she ran with Mitt Romney. We've tried to run the big government Republicans before. They aren't winning candidates, especially Mitt Romney. I wouldn't mind seeing Palin running for President or Vice President in 2012 but if she thinks a winning ticket is with Mitt Romney I just lost a lot of respect for her.

Conservative superstar Sarah Palin opened the door yesterday to joining forces with Mitt Romney for a 2012 White House run - a hot ticket that has some Republicans licking their chops at the prospect of unseating President Obama.

“Sounds pretty good,” Palin declared at yesterday’s Tea Party Express rally on the Common when asked about pairing up with the former Bay State governor - giving the idea a big thumbs-up as she left the stage after her headline speech.

Last night, as Palin stopped for cannoli at Mike’s Pastry in the North End, she said she was “serious” about the idea.

Hopefully she was just being nice since she was in Boston for a Tea Party Rally.

This country is going to vote for the Constitution this November and again in 2012. Even a recent Rasmussen poll has Ron Paul in a statistical dead heat with Obama right now.

Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is – virtually dead even.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

I'm not a huge supporter of Ron Paul for President. I think he makes a fantastic Senator and I hope his son Rand Paul gets elected to the Senate too. But this just goes to show you how the public has swayed. We don't have any more big government politicians to run our country.

My new front runner for 2012

Forget Sarah Palin. Forget Tim Pawlenty. Forget Mitt Romney.

Welcome Gov Chris Christie from New Jersey.

This is the kind of leadership we need in DC. Someone who isn't afraid of fiscal responsibly.

Gov. Chris Christie is taking $65 million, the entire allocation, from the state's global warming fund, and $5.9 million, from the toxic waste site cleanup program, to help close the over $10 billion deficit in his $29.3 billion 2010-11 state budget, the state environmental protection commissioner said Monday.

In discussing the Department of Environmental Protection's proposed $380.6 million budget before the Assembly Budget Committee in Trenton, Commissioner Bob Martin said he hopes the loss of the $65 million, funding for the state's role in a regional effort to combat global warming, will only be for one year. He told the committee that DEP staff will continue to attempt to work against global warming and so-called greenhouses gasses despite the lack of money.

Martin said while he does not anticipate that DEP employees will be among the 1,300 state workers Christie plans to layoff in January, the commissioner does intend to move to save $1.4 million at that time by reducing the workweek of employees, at least those in management, the state parks, and Highlands Permitting from 40 hours to 35 hours.

He knows man made global warming is a bunch of crap anyways. So why fund something that just hassles business for nothing?

Major tax hike from Obama

I guess when Obama says he will never raise taxes on anyone making under $250,000 he really means he'll never raise the taxes when he is in office. ObamaCare is going to raise the taxes to the middle class by the billions to try and pay for ObamaCare by 2019.

Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 a year will pay roughly $3.9 billion more in taxes — in 2019 alone — due to healthcare reform, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's official scorekeeper.

The new law raises $15.2 billion over 10 years by limiting the medical expense deduction, a provision widely used by taxpayers who either have a serious illness or are older.

Taxpayers can currently deduct medical expenses in excess of 7.5 percent of their adjusted gross income. Starting in 2013, most taxpayers will only be able to deduct expenses greater than 10 percent of AGI. Older taxpayers are hit by this threshold increase in 2017.

Once the law is fully implemented in 2019, the JCT estimates the deduction limitation will affect 14.8 million taxpayers — 14.7 million of them will earn less than $200,000 a year. These taxpayers are single and joint filers, as well as heads of households.

"Loss of this deduction will mean higher taxes for 14.7 million individuals and families making under $200,000 a year in 2019," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told The Hill. "The new subsidy for health insurance would not be available to offset this tax increase for most of these households.

Welcome to "free" health care.

Health Care Problems?

I thought ObamaCare was going to fix everything? With ObamaCare health care would be far cheaper and better. Just further proof how right we were and how wrong the left was. ObamaCare doesn't put a stop to huge increases in premiums. In fact with ObamaCare premiums, especially for the young and healthy, are going to raise through the roof.

Public outrage over double-digit rate hikes for health insurance may have helped push President Obama's healthcare overhaul across the finish line, but the new law does not give regulators the power to block similar increases in the future.

And now, with some major companies already moving to boost premiums and others poised to follow suit, millions of Americans may feel an unexpected jolt in the pocketbook.

Although Democrats promised greater consumer protection, the overhaul does not give the federal government broad regulatory power to prevent increases.

Many state governments -- which traditionally had responsibility for regulating insurance companies -- also do not have such authority. And several that do are now being sued by insurance companies.

"It is a very big loophole in health reform," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said. Feinstein and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) are pushing legislation to expand federal and state authority to prevent insurance companies from boosting rates excessively.

They call it a very big loop hole. We call it very horrific legislation. But of course I think this is how they planned it. The left wants to make private health care so outrageously expensive that the only place people can turn to is government run single payer health care.

To make things worse, not only are premiums going to sky rocket, but we are also going to face doctor shortages too.

The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors.

Experts warn there won't be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

That shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000.

The greatest demand will be for primary-care physicians. These general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians will have a larger role under the new law, coordinating care for each patient.

The U.S. has 352,908 primary-care doctors now, and the college association estimates that 45,000 more will be needed by 2020. But the number of medical-school students entering family medicine fell more than a quarter between 2002 and 2007.

A shortage of primary-care and other physicians could mean more-limited access to health care and longer wait times for patients.

Isn't this everything the media and the left said we were just crazy and nuts to mention? Just like the UK, Canada and other countries with national health care, we will have the same problem. Lack of good doctors and a long wait for any service.

To make things even worse. Lawmakers still don't know what is in the bill.

In a new report, the Congressional Research Service says the law may have significant unintended consequences for the “personal health insurance coverage” of senators, representatives and their staff members.

For example, it says, the law may “remove members of Congress and Congressional staff” from their current coverage, in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, before any alternatives are available.

The confusion raises the inevitable question: If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?

The law promises that people can keep coverage they like, largely unchanged. For members of Congress and their aides, the federal employees health program offers much to like. But, the report says, the men and women who wrote the law may find that the guarantee of stability does not apply to them.

Because it would have made too much sense to actually read the bill before voting on it.

Obama does it again

I'm not sure about most Americans but I'm for sure sick and tired of him bowing to every foreign leader. He is just showing how week he is every time he bows. American Presidents aren't supposed to bow to anyone. We are the leader of the free world.

Every now and then Obama gets something right

And this is one of the few things he has gotten right.

The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.

Mr. Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and spent years in the United States as an imam, is in hiding inYemen. He has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was linked to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in November, and then to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25.

American counterterrorism officials say Mr. Awlaki is an operative of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the affiliate of the terror network in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They say they believe that he has become a recruiter for the terrorist network, feeding prospects into plots aimed at the United States and at Americans abroad, the officials said.

I'm glad to see Obama on the right side of National Security for once. Unfortunately it doesn't happen all to often. I just wish he would have the same thought for the terrorists he wants to try as civilians. Instead of trying them he should just order them dead.

Where do I sign up for ObamaCare?

You can't make this stuff up. It's just like the ObamaZombies in Detroit thinking they were getting money from Obama's stash.

Now people are trying to figure out how to sign up for free ObamaCare.

Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them.

Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors' offices, human resources departments and business groups.

"They're saying, 'Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do I sign up for that?' " said Carrie McLean, a licensed agent for eHealthInsurance.com. The California-based company sells coverage from 185 health insurance carriers in 50 states.

McLean said the call center had been inundated by uninsured consumers who were hoping that the overhaul would translate into instant, affordable coverage. That widespread misconception may have originated in part from distorted rhetoric about the legislation bubbling up from the hyper-partisan debate about it in Washington and some media outlets, such as when opponents denounced it as socialism.

"We tell them it's not free, that there are going to be things in place that help people who are low-income, but that ultimately most of that is not going to be taking place until 2014," McLean said.

Adults with pre-existing conditions are frustrated to learn that insurers won't have to cover them until 2014 (though those under 18 will be protected in late September); then they become both hopeful and confused upon learning that a federal high-risk pool for them will be established in the next few months. "Health insurance is so confusing. You add this on top of it and it makes it even more confusing," McLean said.

There is just no making free loaders happy.

Obama is full of crap

He can pretend to be a baseball fan all he wants but he proved he is full of crap in this sound cut.

I'm sorry but if you ask any real baseball fan who his favorite player he'll give an answer with out thinking. You can ask me who my favorite Redsox player from any era and I can give you an answer.

Maybe Obama could take some lessons from these ladies on how to throw out the first pitch too.

Imagine if a Republican...

Judicial nominee "forgot" to disclose over 100 of his speeches and other background material. What would the media say? They'd be asking the question, what is he hiding? Is he a closet nazi? Is he a racist? Homophobe? Bigot? What could possibly be so horrible that he'd try and hide it?

But when an Obama nominee does it, it is just Republican obstructionism getting in the way of the messiah.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday slammed one of the Obama administration's most controversial judicial nominees for failing to initially disclose more than 100 of his speeches, publications and other background materials -- an omission the Republicans called unprecedented and a possible attempt to "hide his most controversial work."

They said Goodwin Liu's nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is in "jeopardy" in light of the problem.

The complaint came after Liu, a Berkeley law professor, gave the Senate Judiciary Committee a bundle of supplemental material that contained 117 things he left out after his February nomination.

Among the items disclosed were several speeches on affirmative action and his participation at an event co-sponsored by the Center for Social Justice at Berkeley and the the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group.

In response to the new information, all seven Republicans on the Judiciary Committee fired off a letter to its chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., demanding that Liu's hearing be postponed again.

Outside of Foxnews I'm sure this won't be reporting by the main stream media. For once I'd love to see some intellectual honesty. I'd love to see Chris Matthews or any of the MSNBC Obama lovers to criticize Obama for the same thing they would have bashed Bush for.

Pedal-vision

I love Sheriff Joe's ingenuity. He is going to make inmates pedal on stationary bikes to generate electricity if they want to watch TV. Sounds great. But I still have a problem with this. I don't think inmates should be allowed to watch TV. I don't think they should get any luxuries. What ever happened to embarrassing inmates. They should be ashamed and embarrassed to go to prison. So ashamed they would do whatever they could to not go back.

If it was up to me I'd take away everything for inmates. No gym, no tv, no electricity, no recess, no nothing. All they would have the bare necessities to live. Bread, water, and a blanket. That's all the scum of the Earth deserve.

This is a protest I might have missed work for

Too bad I didn't hear about this before. A group of women marched topless to protest the inequality of the sexes.

About two dozen women marched topless from Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park this afternoon in an effort to erase what they see as a double standard on male and female nudity.

The women, preceded and followed by several hundred boisterous and mostly male onlookers, many of them carrying cameras, stayed on the sidewalk because they hadn't obtained a demonstration permit to walk in the street. About a thousand people gathered as the march passed through Monument Square, a mix of demonstrators, supporters, onlookers and those just out enjoying a warm and sunny early-spring day.

After the marchers reached Tommy's Park in the Old Port, some turned around and walked back to Longfellow Square, but most stayed and mingled in the park. Some happily posed for pictures.

Police said there were no incidents and no arrests – nudity is illegal in Maine only if genitals are displayed.

Ty McDowell, who organized the march, said she was "enraged" by the turnout of men attracted to the demonstration. The purpose, she said, was for society to have the same reaction to a woman walking around topless as it does to men without shirts on.

I can't believe they are actually surprised. I'm sure the majority of men would be all for women being allowed to walk around topless. I know I would be.

This will make our enemies scared

Really Obama? Do you really give that little crap about our national security? Have you ever played poker in your life? You don't show your hand until the end. So what's the point of telling everyone we won't use our nukes against non nuclear states. What if those non nuclear states use biological weapons that kill millions of Americans? This is just showing how weak you are. You are a weak leader with absolutely no backbone to speak of.

President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.

But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.

Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.

Mr. Obama’s strategy is a sharp shift from those of his predecessors and seeks to revamp the nation’s nuclear posture for a new age in which rogue states and terrorist organizations are greater threats than traditional powers like Russia and China.

It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the cold war. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.

I don't care about the Constitution

How can this man be a Congressman if he doesn't care about the Constitution? I bet he has never read the Constitution either.

How did this General not bitch slap him?

Seriously? And how can someone so apparently stupid get elected to Congress? Well actually I already know the answer to that one. But really? He thinks Guam will turn over and capsize if we relocate 8000 troops and their family there?

That damn global warming

For the first time since 2001 the Artic Sea will hit the "normal" ice line. Whatever the Hell that means. All I know is if we were experiencing global warming there wouldn't be more ice there would be less ice.

Further proof that global warming is a complete fraud and those to still try and profit from it should be tarred and feathers and made complete asses of. Because they are completely and utterly full of crap.

Credit where credit is due

There hasn't been much that Obama has done that I've thought was good. Actually the one thing I can think of is when he killed that fly on national tv. Pretty sad huh? But if Obama follows through with his proposal to allow off shore drilling off the east coast.

In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska.

Obama's plan offers few concessions to environmentalists, who have been strident in their opposition to more oil platforms off the nation's shores. Hinted at for months, the plan modifies a ban that for more than 20 years has limited drilling along coastal areas other than the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama was set to announce the new drilling policy Wednesday at Andrews air base in Maryland. White House officials pitched the changes as ways to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and create jobs - both politically popular ideas - but the president's decisions also could help secure support for a climate change bill languishing in Congress.

I'm sure this will piss off the majority of the environmental wackos who despise the oil companies but this will do a lot better job stimulating the economy. This will create more jobs than any of the billion dollar "jobs" bills that he has signed.

Drilling is good and the Republicans in the House and Senate should support drilling. But if this is going to be a compromise to get Cap and Trade passed then they better not compromise on that.

Obama getting more aggressive?

How much more aggressive can he get at tearing down the Constitution? He has already signed into law a bill that is blatantly Unconstitutional and he wants to get more aggressive? His disapproval number has hit 50% for the first time in his administration and he thinks this is going to energize people to vote for Democrats?

President Barack Obama, after a year of fitfully searching for compromise, is taking a more aggressive tack with his Republican adversaries, hoping to energize Democratic voters and possibly muscle in some Republican support in Congress.

On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, "Go for it." Two days later, he made 15 senior appointments without Senate consent, including a union lawyer whose nomination had been blocked by a filibuster.

At a bill-signing event Tuesday, he is set to laud passage of higher-education legislation that was approved despite Republican objections through a parliamentary maneuver that neutralized the party's filibuster threat.

On Thursday, Mr. Obama will be in Maine, home state of two moderate Republican senators who opposed his health-care plan, to promote the health law.

This is just further proof to me at least that Obama hates this country and wants to change it into an European style socialist "utopia. "

The so called Supremacy Clause

All you need to know about the"Supremacy Clause"

In his words, “That language is clear that federal law is supreme over state law, so it really doesn’t matter what a state legislature says on this.” Now that Barack Obama has signed healthcare legislation into law, almost a dozen States have filed suit against the federal government, with Idaho in the lead. Battle lines have been drawn. Unfortunately, the question of State sovereignty and the true meaning of the “supremacy clause” may be swallowed up in the ensuing debate.

Engstrom’s opinion is held by a majority of constitutional law “scholars,” but he is far from correct, and Idaho and the thirty seven other States considering similar legislation have a strong case based on the original intent of the powers of the federal government vis-à-vis the States.

The so-called “supremacy clause” of the Constitution, found in Article 6, states, “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding [emphasis added].”

The key, of course, is the italicized phrase. All laws made in pursuance of the Constitution, or those clearly enumerated in the document, were supreme, State laws notwithstanding. In other words, the federal government was supreme in all items clearly listed in the document.

A quick reading of the Constitution illustrates that national healthcare is not one of the enumerated powers of the federal government, so obviously Engstrom’s blanket and simplistic statement is blatantly incorrect, but his distortion of the supremacy clause goes further.

The inclusion of such a clause in the Constitution was first debated at the Constitutional Convention on 31 May 1787. In Edmund Randolph’s initial proposal, called the Virginia Plan, the “national” legislature had the ability to “legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent…” and “to negative all laws passed by the sRandolph replied that he “disclaimed any intention to give indefinite powers to the national legislature, declaring that he was entirely opposed to such an inroad on the state jurisdictions, and that he did not think any considerations whatever could ever change his determination [emphasis added].” James Madison, the author of the Virginia Plan, was not as forthcoming as to his sentiment. Ultimately, Madison preferred a negative over State law and wished the national legislature to be supreme in call cases. But he was not in the majority.everal states contravening, in the opinion of the national legislature, the Articles of Union….” John Rutledge, Pierce Butler, and Charles Pinckney of South Carolina challenged the word “incompetent” and demanded that Randolph define the term. Butler thought that the delegates “were running into an extreme, in taking away the powers of the states…” through such language.

Read the whole article. It will blow most peoples minds.

This is just sickening

Israel is the only Democracy in the mid-east. They are our best ally in that area and our first line of defense if WW3 breaks out in that area. So why is Obama dead set on seeing the death of a great ally? How can an American President not veto any UN resolutions that is anti Israel?

The US is considering abstaining from a possible UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, sources suggest to the BBC.

The possibility surfaced at talks in Paris last week between a senior US official and Qatar's foreign minister.

The official said the US would "seriously consider abstaining" if the issue of Israeli settlements was put to the vote, a diplomat told the BBC.

US officials in Washington have not confirmed the report

Hopefully the American Jews, who typically vote Democratic, will see their mistake finally. They should see Obama for what he is, anti Israel. Regardless of whether this particular story is true or not, since it is an "unnamed US official" which has the credibility of Michael Moore. This story would never even be a possibility under President Bush who was strongly pro Israel.

Tea Partiers smarter than Congress

Well no duh! Most members of Congress are blithering idiots who probably don't even know what the Preamble is. Obviously they don't even have a basic understanding of the Constitution either otherwise they wouldn't pass the majority of crap they do now including ObamaCare. So it's no surprise to me that the majority of the people think we Tea Partiers know more about the issues than Congress.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of U.S. voters believe the average member of the Tea Party movement has a better understanding of the issues facing America today than the average member of Congress. Only 30% believe that those in Congress have a better understanding of the key issues facing the nation.

When it comes to those issues, 47% think that their own political views are closer to those of the average Tea Party member than to the views of the average member of Congress. On this point, 26% feel closer to Congress.

Finally, 46% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is more ethical than the average member of Congress. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say that the average member of Congress is more ethical.

You know a law is good

When Fidel Castro endorses it. That should make Democrats feel good at the Unconstitutional ObamaCare they just passed. It is so great even the communist dictator in Cuba loves it.

It perhaps was not the endorsement President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress were looking for.

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform "a miracle" and a major victory for Obama's presidency, but couldn't help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago.

"We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his (Obama's) government," Castro wrote in an essay published in state media, adding that it would strengthen the president's hand against lobbyists and "mercenaries."

But the Cuban leader also used the lengthy piece to criticize the American president for his lack of leadership on climate change and immigration reform, and for his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, among many other things.

And he said it was remarkable that the most powerful country on earth took more than two centuries from its founding to approve something as basic as health benefits for all.

"It is really incredible that 234 years after the Declaration of Independence ... the government of that country has approved medical attention for the majority of its citizens, something that Cuba was able to do half a century ago," Castro wrote.

I'm pretty sure if Castro was elected President he would be acting the same way as Obama.

By trying to defend the Constitution we are aiding terrorism?

This is exactly how the loony left thinks. They think we are the terrorists. They are more afraid of those who want to uphold and support our founding father than they are of those in the Mid East who would strap bombs onto themselves to kill innocent lives. This just plain sickens me.

We knew this was an absolute joke

I still don't understand how people actually believed anything Obama said during his campaign.

...What I want to emphasize, though, is that I have been a strong proponent of pay-as- you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.

When do liberals actually propose and support spending cuts. Oh wait. Unless we are talking about military cuts. Then maybe I could believe him.

Most want the Republicans to keep on fighting ObamaCare

Of course they do. This is a center right country. We don't want it to turn into a socialist cesspool. The vast majority agree so. They want the Republicans to continue the fight.

That is actually bipartisanship. The media always cries about the lack of bipartisanship so now we have a demand by the party to actually do so.

I'd like to see a poll on an Article 5 Convention.

Need more proof this is about control?

Rep Dingel

I will not support any Republican

Who thinks we can fix ObamaCare rather than repeal it. This blows my fucking mind. This is why I hate most Republicans. They talk a big game, pretend to be conservatives, but legislate like pansies with no fricken balls. Grow a set Cornyn. Obamacare doesn't need to be fixed. It needs to be repealed.

In the wake of the passage of health care reform, nearly the entire slate of Republican senatorial candidates seems ready to run on a repeal of the bill. But now, the lawmaker overseeing their election strategy is softening the message. Rather than promising to scrap the bill in its entirety, the GOP will pledge to just get rid of the more controversial parts…

“There is non-controversial stuff here like the preexisting conditions exclusion and those sorts of things,” the Texas Republican said. “Now we are not interested in repealing that. And that is frankly a distraction.”

What the GOP will work to repeal, Cornyn explained, are provisions that result in “tax increases on middle class families,” language that forced “an increase in the premium costs for people who have insurance now” and the “cuts to Medicare” included in the legislation…

The senator’s comments on Tuesday also included a push to restore funds for Medicare Advantage — an odd political moment, considering the GOP’s self-promotion as the party that trims the fat off entitlement programs.

Cornyn isn't exactly a RINO either. Which pisses me off even more. But if he doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to repeal this Unconstitutional law than screw him. He no longer deserves any support from the conservative base. He is making his bed and he will have to sleep in it.

Pansies like him just makes the Article 5 Convention that much more important.

Article 5 Constitution Convention

I've said since ObamaCare was passed that this is our best chance of repealing it. State attorney generals have already promised to sue the federal government over the passage that might not be enough. If states are willing to sue over ObamaCare they should be willing to call for an Article 5 Constitutional Convention like Congressman Louie Gohmert is calling for.

Rep. Gohmert stated, “The usurpation of the rights of the states and of the people perpetrated by the U.S. House last night is blatant, arrogant, and cries out for action. A potentially bankrupting ‘mother of all unfunded mandates’ needs to be stopped. The courts may or may not do it, but the states are not helpless. Article V of our U.S. Constitution anticipates a time when states perceive a looming crisis and provides an avenue for amending the Constitution. It makes clear that if two-thirds of the states are fed up with the federal government’s abusive action, then they simply apply for a convention, and the Congress SHALL call such a convention for proposing an amendment.”

Ever since the safeguard of State legislatures electing U.S. Senators was removed by the 17th Amendment in 1913, there has been no check or balance on the Federal power grab for the last 97 years. Article V requires a minimum of 34 states to request a Convention which in this case, would be an Amendment Convention for only ONE amendment.

“That one amendment would put a check and balance back on Federal usurpation of rights reserved to the States and people under the 9th and 10th Amendments. When drafted, the amendment would require ratification by only 38 states. We already have 39 states and that number will, no doubt, grow as people become aware of the foundational damage being done to the country,” said Gohmert.

Now is the time to act. Now is the time to defend the Constitution.

More government control to come

Now that the Democrats have passed the Unconstitutional health care reform what's next?

Democrats are debating whether to spend political capital earned by passing healthcare reform or hoard it so it pays dividends in the midterm elections.

Liberals argue the new momentum offers a rare opportunity to pass top priorities, such as immigration reform and climate change legislation, and warn that the party is likely to see its large majorities in the Senate and House diminished next year.

The Democrats just want total government control of everything. They won't stop until we are a mirror image of a European Socialist country.

If the Republicans have any backbone they better show it now. They have 41 votes in the Senate and can block any proposed legislation. There better not be one Republican who sides with any proposed bill until November. If any Republican even considers it they should be voted out of office as soon as possible.

This should tell you all you need to know about ObamaCare

It's so great Congress exempted themselves and their staff.

What else do you need to know?

States to sue over ObamaCare

This is a good first sign that we can over turn ObamaCare. The more states that sue the better our chances will be. We, as American citizens who care about individual freedom, need to keep ObamaCare as the main issue going into the 2010 elections. I know it's hard to keep up the emotions we all have had over the last few months debating ObamaCare but that is our only hope.

Florida's attorney general will file a lawsuit with nine other state attorneys general opposing the healthcare legislation passed by Congress, a spokeswoman said on Monday.

"The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty," Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican, said in a prepared statement announcing a news conference.

"On behalf of the State of Florida and of the Attorneys General from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Pennsylvania, Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota and Alabama if the President signs this bill into law, we will file a lawsuit to protect the rights and the interests of American citizens."

Virginia's attorney general said he plans to sue the federal government over the healthcare reform legislation, saying Congress lacks authority to force people to buy health insurance.

Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, a Republican, said on Monday that Congress lacks authority under its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce to force people to buy insurance. He said the bill also conflicts with a state law that says Virginians cannot be required to buy insurance.

"If a person decides not to buy health insurance, that person by definition is not engaging in commerce," Cuccinelli said in recorded comments. "If you are not engaging in commerce, how can the federal government regulate you?"

Well it happened

Congress passed ObamaCare last night 220-211. They are lying to us saying that this is now going to go back to the Senate for reconciliation. But that isn't going to happen. This bill is going straight to Obama's desk to get signed. Welcome to the United Socialists States of America.

As a country we only have 3 options. Firstly there are going to be lawsuits all over the place starting with Mark Levin and his Legal Landmark Foundation. I'm sure ObamaCare will be put in front of the Supreme Court. Since this bill is Unconstitutional it should be over turned. But I don't have much faith and I'm a little afraid of that option. The same Supreme Court upheld McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform which was also Unconstitutional.

Secondly there are going to be quite a few states protesting this new law starting with Idaho and Virginia. I'm sure Texas and other conservative leaning states will join in protesting against ObamaCare. According to the Constitution states are supposed to have the power to over turn the Federal Government if it becomes to intrusive. Which ObamaCare is. There are up to 38 states who have pledged to oppose this. That is enough to make a Constitutional Amendment to get rid of ObamaCare.

If those two options don't work. The only thing else we could hope for the Republicans to take over the House and Senate in 2010 and 2012 and repeal ObamaCare. I have the least amount of faith in this. The Republicans have proven over and over again they are spineless cowards. Maybe this will be the one time they prove me wrong. And I really hope they do. ObamaCare is going to bankrupt the country much like RomneyCare is bankrupting Massachusetts.

Well I guess there is always a 2nd revolution.

Wonder how many jobs this will save or create?

Caterpillar says if ObamaCare passes the house it will cost the company $100 million in the first year alone. This is exactly what Caterpillar needs in this booming economy. The only way Caterpillar can of set this cost is by laying off employees.

Caterpillar Inc. said the health-care overhaul legislation being considered by the U.S. House would increase the company's health-care costs by more than $100 million in the first year alone.

In a letter Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio, Caterpillar urged lawmakers to vote against the plan "because of the substantial cost burdens it would place on our shareholders, employees and retirees." Caterpillar, the world's largest construction machinery manufacturer by sales, said it's particularly opposed to provisions in the bill that would expand Medicare taxes and mandate insurance coverage. The legislation would require nearly all companies to provide health insurance for their employees or face large fines.

The Peoria-based company said these provisions would increase its insurance costs by at least 20 percent, or more than $100 million, just in the first year of the health-care overhaul program.

"We can ill-afford cost increases that place us at a disadvantage versus our global competitors," said the letter signed by Gregory Folley, vice president and chief human resources officer of Caterpillar. "We are disappointed that efforts at reform have not addressed the cost concerns we've raised throughout the year."

I hope they are having all their employees call their Congressman to vote against this bill.