Imagine if a Republican...

Improperly accepted funds and got reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee. The media would say how unethical he is. How could such an unethical person hold a seat in the House? It would be a storm to get said Republican to resign.

This scandal has been getting investigated for months and it has barely gotten any news. Why? Because Charlie Rangel is a Democrat. Who chairs the Ways and Means committee. He, more than anyone else, knew what he was doing was wrong. But he just figured he'd get away with it because he is one of the beautiful people.

The House ethics committee has admonished Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) for improperly accepting reimbursement for trips to the Caribbean in 2007 and 2008 and has ordered him to repay the costs of the trip.

Rangel, who chairs the powerful Ways and Means Committee and has served in the House for more than four decades, has been under investigation by the ethics committee for two separate matters for more than two years.
The ethics committee empaneled two subcommittees to look into allegations against Rangel. One focused on charges that he improperly used his office to raise money for an academic center at City College of New York named after him and allegations that he failed to pay taxes on rental income from villa he owns in the Dominican Republican, among other charges.

Democrats tried to push through a pro-terrorist bill

Luckily the Republicans wouldn't let the bill go through. Just shows all of us how serious the Democrats are about defending America. They care more about the terrorists than they do about us American citizens.

What’s more, the proposed bill is directed at “any officer or employee of the intelligence community” conducting a “covered interrogation.” The definition of “covered interrogation” is sweeping — including any interrogation done outside the U.S., in the course of a person’s official duties on behalf of the government. Thus, if the CIA used waterboarding in training its officers or military officers outside the U.S., this would theoretically be indictable conduct under the statute.

Waterboarding is not all. The Democrats’ bill would prohibit — with a penalty of 15 years’ imprisonment — the following tactics, among others:

- “Exploiting the phobias of the individual”

- Stress positions and the threatened use of force to maintain stress positions

- “Depriving the individual of necessary food, water, sleep, or medical care”

- Forced nudity

- Using military working dogs (i.e., any use of them — not having them attack or menace the individual; just the mere presence of the dog if it might unnerve the detainee and, of course, “exploit his phobias”)

- Coercing the individual to blaspheme or violate his religious beliefs (I wonder if Democrats understand the breadth of seemingly innocuous matters that jihadists take to be violations of their religious beliefs)

- Exposure to “excessive” cold, heat or “cramped confinement” (excessive and cramped are not defined)

- “Prolonged isolation”

- “Placing hoods or sacks over the head of the individual”

Naturally, all of these tactics are interspersed with such acts as forcing the performance of sexual acts, beatings, electric shock, burns, inducing hypothermia or heat injury — as if all these acts were functionally equivalent.

Sad...just so very sad.

How is it possible to even compare the two?

Senator Harkins thinks passing Health Care reform is the same as desegregation and the Civil Rights bill. That is just a horrible comparison.

The fight for health reform is akin to the fight for desegregation and other civil rights, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Thursday.

"We don't allow segregation on the basis of race," Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said at the White House healthcare summit.

"And yet we still allow segregation today in America on the basis of your health," Harkin added. "Why should we allow that to happen?"

Harkin has been one of the most vociferous proponents of healthcare reform in the Senate, and has been a top proponent of the public option. (He did concede in recent days, though, that a measure establishing a government-run health plan was unlikely to pass.)

He is doing a disservice to what the blacks had to go through back then. The NCAAP should be going after Harkin. I'm not even sure how they are even similar in the least.

No one in America is denied health care. If anyone is sick, hurt, dieing or anything they can go to the emergency room. It is illegal for the ER to turn anyone down. It's nothing like before the Civil Rights were blacks weren't allowed in white only schools or white only bathrooms.

Harkin is just a fear mongerer. He is trying to scare people into Health Care reform that will bankrupt our country.

This is how Democrats think bipartisanship should be

Obama called for a bipartisan meeting to discuss a health care bill. And this is how he runs it.

President Obama pledged to "listen" at the outset of his much-ballyhooed bipartisan health care summit on Thursday. Turns out he meant he'd be listening to his own voice.

By the end of the televised event, Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes - nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 Republicans. The 21 Democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes, giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes, according to a "talk clock" kept by GOP aides.

From the beginning, no one could agree on anything, even how much time each side had used. When a miffed Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, pointed out early on that Democrats had controlled 52 minutes to Republicans' 24, Mr. Obama jumped in to dispute even that.

This is great bipartisanship for Democrats. Actually it's better than what they usually give us. Of course Obama got the crap kicked out of him when the Republicans did talk. So it is no surprise that Obama and the Democrats kept them quiet for as long as possible.

But of course Obama thinks he is above everyone else. Since he is the Messiah. He should be held on a pedestal above everyone else.

The proof is in the pudding

If you raise taxes government revenue will go down. It's just common sense. If you raise the cost of something people will go else where. So if you raise the taxes on the rich they will just move.

Montgomery County officials are wondering where all the millionaires have gone, as the shrinking pool of wealthy taxpayers is wreaking havoc on the county's finances.

County officials recently pegged the budget deficit for the next fiscal year at $761.5 million. Much of the gap is caused by a drop in income tax revenue, and much of that drop is tied to a small number of wealthy county residents who lost money in a poor economy, died or fled the state's new millionaire tax.

Montgomery lost $4.6 billion in taxable income from tax years 2007 to 2008. More than 82 percent of that drop comes from taxpayers with incomes of $1 million or more, county records show. During that period, the number of income tax returns above $1 million fell from 3,172 to 2,321, a 27 percent decrease.

A weak economy that ate away at capital gains and slowed the growth of small businesses can account for much of the drop. But there's been a fierce debate since the state raised taxes for millionaires to 6.25 percent from 5.5 percent in 2008 whether millionaires are fleeing en masse for states with lower tax burdens.

Same principles go for businesses. If you lower taxes and make it easier for companies to do business they will produce more. Because of that the government revenue will go up.

If states want more millionaires and businesses to come to them they should lower taxes. It is an extremely easy and quick fix. But the Democrats never learn. They'd rather raise taxes and regulations to harm the rich. It is typical class warfare. They want to make everyone equally miserable instead of trying to make every happy.

With all due respect. Yes it is

House GOP says it isn't hypocrisy to ask for "stimulus" money even thought they voted against it. Well I totally disagree. The House GOP should be doing everything they can to try and reverse the so called stimulus and not waste the tax payers money. Which only hurts the economy more.

Amid mounting criticism, House Republicans said this week it is not hypocritical to vote against the stimulus and later seek money from it for their districts.

After standing united in opposition to the president’s economic stimulus bill a little more than a year ago, many Republicans have touted the benefits of that measure back in their districts, according to a comprehensive list compiled by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
Citing the stimulus and other measures, the DCCC claims that 91 House Republicans are talking out of both sides of their mouths.

In recent days, former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) have echoed the DCCC claims.

But key House Republicans argue that a vote against the stimulus bill should not prevent them from writing a letter on behalf of constituents seeking grants available from the $787 billion measure. Some of them do say, however, that Republicans should refrain from attending photo-ops.

This was one of the reasons, us on the right, were so angered by Scott Brown's vote earlier in the week. The Republican Party is supposed to be the fiscally responsible ones. The minute we start taking the stimulus money for pet projects that puts our fingers on it. Makes the Republicans just as responsible for ruining our economy.

It's a good start

And hopefully the youngens among us are starting to smarten up.

The "Millennial Generation" of young voters played a big role in the resurgence of the Democratic Party in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but their attachment to the Democratic Party weakened markedly over the course of 2009. The Democratic advantage over the Republicans in party affiliation among young voters, including those who "lean" to a party, reached a whopping 62% to 30% margin in 2008. But by the end of 2009 this 32-point margin had shrunk to just 14 points: 54% Democrat, 40% Republican

It is still a sad state that so many people are brainwashed into the notion that socialism actually works. But it's better than I expect considering that high schools, college and the media are predominantly liberal. It takes a lot of courage to think on your own and go against the grain.

This is a testament to the Tea Party movement. With out them a lot of people wouldn't have got the message and been educated to the conservative movement. I've said this thousand of times before, this is a center right country. The American public is attracted to a conservative view. They just need to here it articulated correctly. Which the tea partyers are doing.

This is what the Republican Party and the conservative has lost over the years. They did a great job getting their message out in 1994. But they stopped getting their message out after they were elected to a majority in Congress. They made the mistake thinking they had a mandate and could stop educating the public. I just hope, after the conservatives take over Congress in 2010 and 2012, that they don't stop educating the public.

I thought the Patriot Act was a horrible thing

Created by evil Republicans to terrorize and spy on American citizens? Isn't that what most Democrats said when Bush enacted it? So if that's the case, why are the Democrats trying to extend it?

Senate Democrats are pushing for a short-term extension of key provisions in the Patriot Act as part of a package of must-pass measures.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is planning to ask for unanimous consent to pass an extension for a host of measures set to expire February 28, according to Senate sources. The request could be made as early as Tuesday night.

The large package of bills includes a year-long extension of three provisions of the anti-terrorism law known a the Patriot Act, as well as extensions for expiring tax provisions, including unemployment insurance, COBRA, flood insurance, the law governing the highway trust fund, the federal flood insurance program and a measure governing satellite television signals.

Like most issues, the Democrats don't care about National Security. Well actually, let me rephrase that. They don't care about National Security when the Republicans are in charge. Now that they have the White House it is a priority. To them it is just like any other political issue. They take what ever side will garnish them more votes. The fact that they might endanger American lives doesn't enter into the equation. It's all about power to them.

Guess Obama thinks money just grows in trees

I understand the fact that there are problems and concerns about the current embassy in London but we are in the middle of a recession here at home. Mostly from over regulations and taxation from the Federal government. When we are struggling at home who in their right mind would think it is right to unveil a plan to build a 1billion dollar to build a new embassy in London.

The United States has unveiled plans for its new $1 billion high-security embassy in London — the most expensive it has ever built.

The proposals were met with relief from both the present embassy’s Mayfair neighbours and the residents and developers of the Battersea wasteland where the vast crystalline cube, surrounded by a moat, will be built.

The decision to abandon the former site in Grosvenor Square by 2016 came after a prolonged battle with residents angered by the security measures demanded after the September 11 attacks. More than a hundred residents took out a full-page advertisement in The Times to oppose tighter measures that they said would leave the area more vulnerable to attack.

The new embassy, on a former industrial site behind Battersea power station known for its gay clubs, will be designed by Kieran Timberlake, the Philadelphia architect.

Obama is so out of touch with the average American I'm sure he really doesn't care what we think. People are struggling just getting by pay check to pay check and the government, instead of cutting costs, is proposing another billion dollars in spending.

This is what we think liberals are un-American

I'm not sure what everyone else would call it but if I see someone laughing at the thought of saying the Pledge of Allegiance before an union meeting I'd call it being anti-American.

A Republican candidate for Congress in California is calling on U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra to "clarify his reaction" after the Democrat was caught on a YouTube video laughing at a suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited prior to a union meeting in Los Angeles.

If the Pledge of Allegiance is a laughing matter, then the joke may be on a California congressman.

A Republican candidate for Congress in California is calling on U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra to "clarify his reaction" after the Democrat was caught on a YouTube video laughing at a suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited prior to a union meeting in Los Angeles.

The 46-second video was captured by an unidentified staffer who accompanied candidate Ari David to a Service Employees International Union meeting on Saturday. By early Tuesday, the video had been viewed roughly 10,000 times.

This is the entire problem with the Democratic party. In my opinion this isn't the exception but this is the norm with the leadership in the Democratic Party. If a Republican was caught laughing about the Pledge he would have already been forced to resign and not from the media but from the constituents and leadership of the Republican Party. But of course, most of the media, probably doesn't see a problem with what this Congressman did and it won't make the news.

The great Canadian Health Care

Summed up in one quote.

"I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."

What more do we need to know about National Health Care?

I agree with him. But it's politicians like Danny Williams who supports Canada's system. And they are hypocrites. They want one rule for all the peons and another for themselves. Most Canadians can't afford, probably from over taxation for the "free" Health Care, to go to the United States to have a procedure as he got.

Imagine if a Republican...

Was in the White House right now. Imagine how differently the media would be treating the current administration. If Bush ordered a strike that killed civilians the media would be going wild over it.

U.S. Special Operations Forces ordered an airstrike that killed at least 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan and the soldiers may not have satisfied rules of engagement designed to avoid the killing of innocents, Afghan and coalition officials said Monday.

The airstrike Sunday hit a group of minibuses in a remote part of the south near the border between Uruzgan and Daykundi provinces. The area is hundreds of miles from Marjah, where the largest allied offensive since 2001 is now in its second week. But the airstrike nonetheless illustrated one of the major problems for coalition forces as they try to win over civilians in Marjah and across Afghanistan: figuring out who is a civilian and who is an insurgent—and not killing the civilians.

And do you remember the death count tracker the media had for 8 years under Bush. Everytime there was a new milestone it was all over the media.

Icasualties.org said 54 U.S. troops were killed this year in Afghanistan, raising the casualties to 1,000, compared to eight in Iraq, where the total has reached 4,378. The rise to 1,000 dead coincides with one of the biggest offensives against the Taliban, a NATO-led assault in the Marjah district of Helmand, Afghanistan's most violent province.

The operation is an early test of U.S. President Barack Obama's troop surge strategy aimed as wresting control of Taliban bastions and handing them over to Afghan authorities before the start of a gradual U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011.

Where are the Cindy Sheehan's of the world protesting? Where are the Democrats calling for war crimes against Obama?

Tea Party and the Republican Party

The Tea Partyers have single handily saved this country from going down the road of socialism. The media declared conservatism dead after the election of Obama. There was no hope what so ever for us on the right according the liberal elitists. Obama was so popular, so transcendent, so wonderful, nothing could possibly stop him from pushing his agenda down the throats of every American. But like the Phoenix, out of the ashes, arose the Tea Party movement.

They were so outraged by the socialistic views of Obama, they formed, rallied and took down a perceived popular newly elected President. With out the up swell of conservatism from the Tea Partyers who knows what we might have now. It was bad enough we got the "porkulus" bill that has done far more damage to this country and has prolonged the recession but with out the Tea Party movement we very well could already have Socialized Medicine, Cap and Trade and be going down the road to full fledged Socialism.

With all that said, if the Tea Party Movement is serious about stopping Obama's socialist agenda they must join the Republican Party. But not just join it. They must take it over. Vote out all the week kneed Republican elitists like John McCain or Charlie Crist. Which is well under way in both cases. They must take over the leadership from the fake conservatives like Mitt Romney and my exodus the likes of Colin Powell. It won't be an easy job, but that's what needs to be done.

If the Tea Party tries to form their own political party they will not only fail they will also help destroy this great nation of ours. This country has already seen what happens when a 3rd party candidate runs. We elect a President like Bill Clinton. That will happen over and over again. It sounds great in theory to start another political party but it isn't possible. It will just lead to the total opposite of what we all strive for, freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The Tea Party movement has already done so much good for this country. Forming a 3rd party will put and end to all the good it has done. The election season is right around the corner. Now is the time to join the Republican Party and in every primary vote out the likes of the Crist's and vote in the Rubio's. That's how we will save this nation.

Stop lieing McCain

You were not misled. You were not duped. McCain is just afraid of losing in his primary race to an actual conservative.

Under growing pressure from conservatives and "tea party" activists, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government's massive bailout of the financial system

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In response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the Aug. 24 Republican primary, the four-term senator says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown.

"Obviously, that didn't happen," McCain said in a meeting Thursday with The Republic's Editorial Board, recounting his decision-making during the critical initial days of the fiscal crisis. "They decided to stabilize the Wall Street institutions, bail out (insurance giant) AIG, bail out Chrysler, bail out General Motors. . . . What they figured was that if they stabilized Wall Street - I guess it was trickle-down economics - that therefore Main Street would be fine."

Nearly 15 months later, commercial lenders still are in shaky condition and the commercial real-estate industry is in trouble, he said. On Friday, President Barack Obama announced $1.5 billion in funding for new measures to help Arizona and four other states hit hard by the tanked housing market and by joblessness.

But McCain stopped short of calling the TARP a mistake.

"Something had to be done because the world's financial system

was on the verge of collapse," he said. "Any economist, liberal or conservative, would agree with that. The action they took, I don't agree with."

All McCain had to do was listen to the Republican leadership in the Senate or the conservative media to know what TARP was all about. The problem wasn't that he was misled. The problem is McCain is pretty far from a conservative.

This should be a warning to all you wishy washy RINO's. If you want to continue getting elected and supported by the Republican base start acting like a conservative. The Republican elitists like McCain hate the tea party movement because of that.

The proof is in the pudding. McCain is losing in the polls in Arizone. Rubio is leading Crist in Florida. Most importantly Scott Brown won "Ted Kennedy's" seat in Massachusetts. This country has always been a center right nation. Finally the people are becoming more active and voting out those who don't fit that mold.

More regulation. Just what a flat economy needs

Well if you want an Universal Government run Health Care this is exactly what I'd do. There is no better way to bankrupt an organization than to regulate it to death. Which is exactly what Obama wants to do with insurance companies. Allowing the Fed to regulate rate increases will destroy insurance companies.

President Obama will propose on Monday giving the federal government new power to block excessive rate increases by health insurance companies, as he rolls out comprehensive legislation to revamp the nation’s health care system, White House officials said Sunday.

The president’s legislation aims to bridge differences between the bills adopted by the House and Senate late last year, and to frame his debate with Republicans over health policy at a televised meeting on Thursday.

By focusing on the effort to tighten regulation of insurance costs, a new element not included in either the House or Senate bills, Mr. Obama is seizing on outrage over recent premium increases of up to 39 percent announced by Anthem Blue Cross of California and moving to portray the Democrats’ health overhaul as a way to protect Americans from profiteering insurers.

Congressional Republicans have long denounced the Democrats’ legislation as a “government takeover” of health care. And while they are likely to resist any expansion of federal authority over existing state regulators, they will face a tough balancing act at the meeting with the president to avoid appearing as if they are willing to allow steep premium increases like those by Anthem.

Profit is not an evil word contrary to what most Democrats believe. If you take away profit there is no incentive to work. As more and more insurance companies stop offering health insurance the government, under Obama, would be more than happy to fill the void.

Like most Democratic ideas, they are death to politicians, so the only way to get them out there is through backdoor processes like this.

So much for the most open administration

Another broken promise from Obama.

President Obama, who pledged to establish the most open and transparent administration in history, on Monday surpasses his predecessor's record for avoiding a full-fledged question-and-answer session with White House reporters in a formal press conference.

President George W. Bush's longest stretch between prime-time, nationally televised press conferences was 214 days, from April 4 to Nov. 4, 2004. Mr. Obama tops that record on Monday, going 215 days - stretching back to July 22, according to records kept by CBS Radio's veteran reporter Mark Knoller.

The president has seemingly shunned formal, prime-time sessions since his last disastrous presser, when he said police in Cambridge, Mass., "acted stupidly" by arresting a Harvard professor who broke into a home that turned out to be his own. The off-the-cuff comment took over the news cycle for a week, overshadowing his push for health care reform, and culminated in a White House "Beer Summit," where the president hosted white police officer James Crowley and the black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

"He does seem a little snakebit on the whole presser thing," said Julie Mason, a longtime White House reporter and board member of the White House Correspondents' Association.

"At his last big press conference in July, he lost control of the message with his response to the Gates question, and then returns six months later with an unannounced, five-question avail in the briefing room - on a snow day. Was it something we said?"

Maybe, just for fun, Obama should actually keep one of his promises. Sadly he isn't capable of keeping all his promises, it is a hard thing to do when you promised everything to everyone. This is just one example of many of his dishonesty.

Obama is the great campaigner of our time. His teleprompter can make most people believe his lies over and over again. But when it comes to actually delivering on his promises he has failed just about every time.

War in Iraq

Oh wait sorry. Operation New Dawn, as it is being renamed now. It is pretty sad, the Democrats, including Obama, have spent the last 5-6 years calling for the end of the war. Yelling at Bush for being a war mongerer. But now that they have the White House, the war hasn't ended, and they are changing the war's name to make it their own.

ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq -- currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom -- a new name.

The new name: "Operation New Dawn."

In a February 17, 2010, memo to the Commander of Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the "requested operation name change is approved to take effect 1 September 2010, coinciding with the change of mission for U.S. forces in Iraq."

I just want some intellectual honesty here. I'm glad the Democrats are finally, half assed, starting to support the war. They should have been since the beginning. But like everything else they just think "how is this going to effect me politically?". They don't think "how is this going to effect America?".

Now it behooves now to, in my opinion, pretend to support the war in Iraq. Even though they have been against the war for as long as I can remember. It's going to take a lot more than a name change for me to believe the Democrats are serious about national defense.

Imagine if a Republican...

Was President. This would be front page news over every news paper through out the country. The TV anchors would start their programs off with "are the Republican policies causes homelessness in America?" But because Obama "cares" and "hopes" and "change" the media loves him.

Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits—a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," in one official's eyes.

"We are seeing many families that never before sought government help," said Greg Blass, commissioner of Social Services in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island.

"We see a spiral in food stamps, heating assistance applications; Medicaid is skyrocketing," Blass added. "It is truly reaching a stage of being alarming."

The federal government is again counting the nation's homeless and, by many accounts, the suburban numbers continue to rise, especially for families, women, children, Latinos and men seeking help for the first time. Some have to be turned away.

It's pretty sad that homelessness is only a problem when a Republican is in the White House.

Maybe when things get so bad that the media can't ignore it anymore we can get the old Jimmy Carter misery index back.

Jobless claims surge

Unexpectedly of course. I'm not even a paid economists and I could have told you uneployment is going to continue to go up. But of course Obama and Biden were out yesterday yelling about how their stimulus has saved America from recession. Which couldn't be further from the truth.

The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economy's recovery.

Initial claims for state jobless benefits increased 31,000 to 473,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Financial markets had expected them to fall slightly.

Another report from the department showed prices paid at the farm and factory gate rose a faster-than-expected 1.4 percent from December as higher gasoline prices and unusually cold temperatures helped boost energy costs.

In fact, just like under FDR, all this federal spending is putting us in a prolong recession. The stimulus didn't even give our economy a temporary boost that Obama and company said it would. It just makes things worse.

You can't run an economy off the government. It just isn't feasible. Money doesn't just grow on trees and if it did we'd just have double digit inflation...oh wait. That's what Obama is doing now, printing money we don't have and in turn we will have double digit inflation in the coming years if it doesn't come under control. Which is a beautiful way to ruin an economy.

The only way to grow an economy is through the private sector. If there is no private sector there is no money, through taxation, for the government coffers. So all the federal jobs they are creating now will be lost if there is no money to pay the employees. Unless, like I said before, they just print more and more money and cause more and more inflation.

Bought and paid for

That's exactly what Unions want and expect. And when you don't comply with their wishes they will ask for their money they donated back.

Labor leader says groups feel betrayed by voting record of Rep. Griffith

Angered by his voting record in Congress, Alabama labor groups that contributed to U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith's 2008 campaign demanded Monday that Griffith return their money.

"Parker Griffith, we feel you have swindled us," said Al Henley, secretary-treasurer of the Alabama AFL-CIO.

This is exactly why I hate Unions. They are nothing but a branch of the Democratic Party now. They don't represent the working people they represent a political philosophy that wants to kill the American economy.

Best quote from a Democrat

In a long time. Evan Bayh finally has some intellectual honesty.

“If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.”

Only took him quitting the Senate to say it.

Of course Bayh also said he is quitting because he can't stand the partisanship in Congress. But yet he was a guaranteed vote for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. If he was more than a self promoting douche bag of a politician he would have said this before he retired.

Who does Obama care more for?

The trial lawyers or the American people? We already know the answer, the trial lawyers.

President Barack Obama wants a bipartisan deal on health reform, but trial lawyers don’t want him to deal on a top Republican priority: tort reform.

Trial lawyers defeated President George W. Bush’s push for medical liability reform and successfully lobbied to water down tort reform provisions in healthcare reform bills this Congress. But the battle is far from over.

If Obama was serious about reforming Health Care and controlling the costs involved, this is the first thing he would reform. But Obama is not serious about reforming Health Care for the good of the American people. He just wants to reform it to give the Democrats and his allies more power.

Reason number, well too high to count the number,..

Why I hate political correctness. This is just unbelievable, well I guess with liberalism nothing is unbelievable. But I've long said the TSA agents should be focusing on those who have tried to blow us up in the past. Which are Muslim men aged 18-34, not disabled children aged 4.

Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in.

Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn't allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces?

Unfortunately, it's no joke. This happened to Bob Thomas, a 53-year-old officer in Camden's emergency crime suppression team, who was flying to Orlando in March with his wife, Leona, and their son, Ryan.

So why would anyone with an once of common sense think this is right? Was this little boy really a threat? How many 53 year old cops have tried to hi-jack any planes? I mean really?

Imagine if a Republican...

Like Dick Cheney, and imagine if his motorcade had killed, injured and been in 4 accidents in the first year in office. The media would be calling for his resignation. They would be asking the question "is Bush/Cheney just trying to intimidate the American public"? But of course Joe Biden's motorcade has been in 3 or 4 crashes, killed a person, and it barely makes the news.

Biden's motorcade is no stranger to accidents. In November alone, the vice presidential motorcade was involved in three: one in which NYPD at the head of his security detail crashed with a cab, injuring three; another in which a pedestrian was struck and killed by two Secret Service employees in Temple Hills, Md.; and another in which a sheriff's deputy was hit by a car while escorting Biden's motorcade in New Mexico.

How many more people does Joe Biden's motorcade have to hurt before we ban it?

This has been true since the invention of America

I don't know why this is even surprising to anyone that most Americans are unhappy with the government. That's what makes America so great, among other things, is our great distrust of the government. Which leads to the people governing themselves rather than being ruled by a dictator.

Two-thirds of Americans are "dissatisfied" or downright "angry" about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every tax dollar they send to Washington is "wasted."

Next they are going to find a poll that most Americans think the sky is blue

Obama was against bonuses before he was for it.

More wishy washy double speak from liberals. Although I expect Obama to flip flop on issues wherever it might help him. But it's still fun to point out his hypocrisy. It was only last March when Obama said bank bonuses were a violation of our fundamental values.

Now fast forward a year later and this is what he has to say about big bonuses.

“I know both those guys; they are very savvy businessmen,” Obama said in the interview yesterday in the Oval Office with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free- market system.”

Sounds like a total 180 to me. I wonder why he has had such a huge change in thought? Maybe he is starting to understand that you have to pay to get the best. But I think it is a lot more fickle than that. Since Obama has been trashing the banks they haven't been donating to Democrats. And why should they?

I think this is all about campaign money. Obama isn't a principled person the media would have you believe. All he cares about is power and how him and his party can get more of it at any cost. The willing media will comply and not call him on his hypocrisy because Obama is one of the "special" people.

Imagine if a Republican...

President and the Press Secretary openly mocked a private citizen. Just imagine if Tony Snow or Ari Fleischer went in front of the press and mocked Chris Matthews or any one private citizen not in government. The media would be calling for the press secretary's resignation. Would be calling for Bush's impeachment. The talking points would all be about how childish the Bush's administration is. But of course if Robert Gibbs openly mocks Sarah Palin, who is a private citizen now. She isn't even elected as a dog catcher any where right now. She isn't running for anything at the moment. She is just a private citizen who the President is so afraid of he is having his press secretary mock her in front of the press.

At yesterday's daily briefing, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs said he also had written some things down on his hand. Breaking off from a question on health care reform, he said he planned to make pancakes for his son if the snow in Washington continued. "I wrote 'eggs', 'milk', 'bread', but I crossed out 'bread.' Then I wrote down 'hope' and 'change', in case I forgot."

But when you are one of the elitists you get special treatment.

Global warming idiocy

So do you remember all during the 90s and 2000s when all the environmental wackos were spouting "there is no snow because of global warming"? I always heard them say back in our day they'd get snow by the feet not inches like today. But of course these environmentalists are so determined to destroy the American economy every time they get debunked their argument changes.

But now the new mantra is how global warming causes extreme snow. They just can't make up their minds.

Brace yourselves now — this may be a case of politicians twisting the facts. There is some evidence that climate change could in fact make such massive snowstorms more common, even as the world continues to warm. As the meteorologist Jeff Masters points out in his excellent blog at Weather Underground, the two major storms that hit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., this winter — in December and during the first weekend of February — are already among the 10 heaviest snowfalls those cities have ever recorded. The chance of that happening in the same winter is incredibly unlikely.

But of course during the 1970's we were causes global cooling. The truth is these environmentalists are just reformed communists. They are just using the environment as their new tool to enact their views. They know the people will reject their ideals on face value. But if they disguise their views as "protecting the environment" people are easily tricked. People are starting to see what a sham man made global warming is.

You can trick all people some of the time, you can trick some people all of the time, but you can't trick all people all of the time.

How to fix the schools

Get rid of the unions. It is that simple.

Three strikes and he wasn't out.

At the beginning of his 32-year career as a math teacher in Queens, Francisco Olivares allegedly im pregnated and married a 16-year-old girl he had met when she was a 13-year-old student at his Corona junior high, IS 61, The Post learned.

He sexually molested two 12-year-old pupils a decade later and another student four years after that, the city Department of Education charged.

But none of it kept Olivares, 60, from collecting his $94,154 salary.

Imagine what the school system in New York could do with that $94,154 salary he is eating up doing nothing. I'm sure it could buy a lot of books or even pay for a teacher who could, you know, actually teach the students?

But this isn't a single incident. It's much worse than that.

Most of the 660 rubber-room teachers on the city payroll are awaiting disciplinary proceedings, but Klein has exiled "a handful" of duds like Olivares even though they have been legally cleared to return to class.

Last week, The Post reported that typing teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 64, was banned from the classroom in 2001 for allegedly making lewd comments to and leering at girls at IS 347 in Queens. Raking in $100,049 a year, he has spent time in a Brooklyn rubber room working on his law practice and overseeing more than $7 million in real-estate investments.

But of course these "teachers" are protected by the Union. And the school officials can't get rid of the bad teachers.

The real reason why the Colts lost

Obama is bad luck.

President Barack Obama says the Indianapolis Colts "have to be favored" in the Super Bowl, even though he has a "soft spot" for the New Orleans Saints.

Obama's Super Bowl prediction was based on his opinion that the Colts have "perhaps the best quarterback in history."

"Peyton Manning is unbelievable," the president told CBS' Katie Couric during a live pre-game interview.

Still, Obama says he has a soft spot for New Orleans, "mainly because of what the city has gone through over these last several years" since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

Obama says he may be biased against the Colts, since they beat his hometown Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl in 2007.

Who ever Obama gets behind and supports ends up losing. That makes him 0-5 in my count now.

I wonder what the liberals would think of this?

Justice Thomas recently defended the Supreme Court ruling about campaign finance reform.

ustice Thomas responded to several questions from students at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla., concerning the campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. By a 5-to-4 vote, with Justice Thomas in the majority, the court ruled last month that corporations had a First Amendment right to spend money to support or oppose political candidates.

“I found it fascinating that the people who were editorializing against it were The New York Times Company and The Washington Post Company,” Justice Thomas said. “These are corporations.”

The part of the McCain-Feingold law struck down in Citizens United contained an exemption for news reports, commentaries and editorials. But Justice Thomas said that reflected a legislative choice rather than a constitutional principle.

“Go back and read why Tillman introduced that legislation,” Justice Thomas said, referring to Senator Benjamin Tillman. “Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.”

Well I guess I shouldn't be surprised Democrats support a law that was originally introduced to hurt blacks. I think it is a very sad thing it took over 100 years to repeal this law. But it's hard to over turn corrupt law when the liberals stand in the way.

Universal Health Care is so great in Canada

The Newfoundland Premier is coming to America to have his heart surgery.

Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States.

Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed the treatment at a news conference Tuesday, but would not reveal the location of the operation or how it would be paid for.

But I thought Universal Health Care was the best thing since slice bread? All I've heard from the Socialists here is how great Canada's system is. So why would the Premier come here for surgery?

I guess the truth comes out when some one of "importance" has a health care emergency.

Imagine if a Republican...

Like Karl Rove, when he was Bush's adviser, or any other elected Republican called Obama supporters "f*cking retarded". Imagine what the media would be saying? They would be going on and on about how insensitive and uncaring the Republican was. The media would scream, Special Olympics and other organizations would protest until they resign. But not because Rahm Emanual, Obama's Cheif of Staff, was the one who said it. Only Sarah Palin is calling for his resignation.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is calling on the White House to fire Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for using the word "retarded" in a strategy session last year.

In a posting on her Facebook page Monday, Palin blasted Emanuel for calling an idea from some of President Obama's supporters "f---ing retarded" during an August meeting with liberal groups and White House aides.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Emanuel made the remarks after some participants said they planned to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were critical of Obama's health care agenda.

Palin, whose youngest child, Trig, has Down Syndrome, wrote that Emanuel's expletive was "heartbreaking" and said his "degrading scolding" has been "completely ignored by the White House."

"Just as we'd be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the "N-word" or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities -- and the people who love them -- is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking," wrote Palin.

"Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic," she continued.

Emanuel reportedly apologized for the remarks in a phone call last week to Tim Shriver, CEO of the Special Olympics, which has launched a campaign to end use of the "R" word.

I don't think Rahm should resign over this. But it is just funny that if a Republican would have said the same thing everyone in the media would be calling for their resignation, if not worse.

Innocent until proven guilty?

If we are giving rights to terrorists and giving them civilian trials than how can Robert Gibbs, Obama's press secretary, say we are going to execute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I want him executed so that isn't the problem with me. The problem is if we are going to treat them like citizens and give them rights won't this influence public opinion and then they won't be able to get a fair trial?

The Obama administration said Sunday it would consider local opposition when deciding where to hold Sept. 11 terror trials and pledged to seek swift justice for the professed mastermind of the attacks.

"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice and he's going to meet his maker," said President Barack Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs. "He will be brought to justice and he's likely to be executed for the heinous crimes that he committed in killing and masterminding the killing of 3,000 Americans. That you can be sure of."

It is kind of hard to have a "fair" trial, like they want to do, if judgment has already been made. This is why they should be tried in a military tribunal where everything will be done in secret. It won't be made a public spectacle. And not only that it will be hundred of millions of dollars cheaper.

Obama still trying to stimulate the economy

By raising taxes on the middle class...

The Obama administration's plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.

In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year -- effectively a tax hike by stealth.

While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases.

The targeted tax provisions were enacted under the Bush administration's Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Among other things, the law lowered individual tax rates, slashed taxes on capital gains and dividends, and steadily scaled back the estate tax to zero in 2010.

If the provisions are allowed to expire on December 31, the top-tier personal income tax rate will rise to 39.6 percent from 35 percent. But lower-income families will pay more as well: the 25 percent tax bracket will revert back to 28 percent; the 28 percent bracket will increase to 31 percent; and the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36 percent. The special 10 percent bracket is eliminated.

That's a great way to stimulate the economy by making people pay more in taxes and have less to spend. Just brilliant.

Obama's going to raise energy costs in the middle of a recession

The brilliance of the Democrats astounds me. If you raise taxes on a company they are just going to raise the price on whatever they are selling. That's elementary economics. Common sense a 5 year old should know. But yet Obama wants to end tax cuts to all the energy companies. Aren't the people already suffering enough? It doesn't matter that people are already stuggling to pay their oil, gas and electric bills. But now Obama is going to raise their taxes and in doing so going to raise the price people have to pay.

The White House calls for the end of nearly $40 billion in tax beaks for oil, gas and coal companies in its budget proposal released on Monday.

The tax effort is sure to prompt outcry from industry groups, which have long argued that ending the subsidies will stymie investments in domestic energy production.

The fiscal year 2011 budget plan calls for repealing $38.8 billion worth of tax breaks for oil, natural gas and coal companies over a decade, according to the White House.

President Barack Obama’s first budget plan a year ago called for cutting $31.5 billion in oil and gas industry incentives, including a repeal of the industry’s ability to claim a lucrative domestic manufacturing tax break.

But I wouldn't expect anything less from a socialist like Obama. The more the people suffer the more people like him like it. The harder it gets the more people will become dependent on the government. Once everyone needs to government for survival Democrats will never lose an election.

Guess which Democrat said this?

Sounds like Al Gore, but who is it?

"The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent,"

Washington's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said "are the true criminals against the global climate" and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving "tens of millions into poverty and unemployment."

"The world is held hostage by major corporations, which are pushing it to the brink," he said. "World politics are not governed by reason but by the force and greed of oil thieves and warmongers and the cruel beasts of capitalism."

To stop global warming, he called for the "wheels of the American economy" to be brought to a halt. "This is possible ... if the peoples of the world stop consuming American goods."

"We must also stop dealings in the dollar and get rid of it as soon as possible," he said. "I know that this has great consequences and grave ramifications, but it is the only means to liberate humanity from slavery and dependence on America."

Sounds an awful lot like the Democratic talking points. But the big question still needs to be asked? Who actually said all that?

Wasn't Al Gore, wasn't Barney Frank, wasn't any DC Democrat.

It Was Osama Bin Laden.

Maybe he should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. That's the same environmental nonsense Al Gore spouted off to win it. It's pretty sad that even Bin Laden knows the way to destroy America is to attack our economy. But yet that is the same thing the Democrats are trying to do with cap and trade and Universal Health Care.