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The liberal Left depressed over Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachussetts election have now begun to categorize Brown’s supporters as mostly the jobless who will soon be saying to themselves “What did I do.” Talk about getting it backwards. I supported Scott Brown over Martha “Marsha” Coakley and I have a job. In fact I have what I consider to be a fairly respectable job as a police Lieutenant, in this career for 25 years. I would love to see the left provide facts or statistics to support their claim that most of Scott Brown’s supporters don’t have jobs. But that’s not as misguided as their belief that those who voted for Scott Brown should be saying “What did I do.” The fact is if Coakley had won, it would be those who supported and voted for her who would be saying ‘What did we do” when they learned of her history of corruption and flawed judgment. Let me school ya folks.

Coakley has quite a history. Back in 1984 the infamous Fells Acres daycare sexual abuse case led to the daycare sex abuse hysteria of the 1980’s. Fells Acres was the infamous case of alleged sexual abuse of children at what was then the highly respected family owned daycare run by the Amirault Family Massachussetts. The allegations included that one of the owners, the man plunged a butcher knife up into the rectum of a child, and the knife got stuck and he had to force it back out again. Another child was allegedly tied to a tree by one of the women and sodomized with a stick they called the “magic wand.” Guess what – no physical injury, ANY INJURY to either child. Listen to that again – a butcher knife stuck up into the rectum of a small child so far that it got stuck before being forcibly pulled out – NO INJURY or any physical evidence. I spent several years of my career as a detective investigating sex crimes against children, and for a child to have a butcher knife thrust into his rectum and twisted and pulled out and leave no injury whatsoever – read my lips: IMPOSSIBLE. Nevertheless, astoundingly the prosecution moved forward with the case based solely on the disjointed and coashed statements from young toddler children.

The Amiraults were sentenced to lengthy terms but the case began to utterly disintegrate on review. One of the harshest hanging judges in Massachussetts known for giving out long sentences stated even he never witnessed such flagrant prosecutorial misconduct in the courtroom, with every dirty trick in the book used by the prosecutor. The case was widely and overwhelmingly recognized to have been a classic case of witch hunting for the political advancement of the prosecutor, and the Parole Board voted 5-0 to commute the sentences of the Amiraults. But as the Attorney General, Coakley even knowing the case was a sham, in an effort to advance herself as a guardian of justice, worked harder than ever before to convince the governor the same guardian of justice agenda as Coakley, who was seeking re-election overruled the Parole Board and an innocent man remained jailed.

A letter to the editor of the Boston Herald by Margaret Hagen, a professor of psychology at Boston University and author of the book, Whores of the Court, sums up the case against Martha Coakley.

“The cynical manipulation by the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office of the child witnesses against Gerals Amirault, who are now young adults makes it depressingly clear that the office of prosecutor is intended by its occupants to serve their political ambitions and not the cause of justice. Martha Coakley and her cohorts and precursors know full well that children who were 3, 4 and 5 years old at the time of the Fells Acres trials some 15 years ago – 15 years filled with constant reasertions by prosecutors and parents of the validity of the original claims – do not, cannot and will not ever be able to have untainted memories of their experiences. Hauling these innocent young people out for a press conference was disgraceful.

These children were victims of politically ambitious and woefully ignorant prosecutors who chose to disregard the coercive interrogations by the inexperienced graduate student assigned to dig the “truth” out of the children, to ignore bizarre claims that defied all rationality (e.g. sodomy with lobsters and knives) and to close their eyes to the utter lack of substantiating physical evidence.”

In the time since the Fells Acres case and the malicious persecution and prosecution of the Amiraults we have seen many changes in the laws governing the way the police are allowed to obtain testimony from children and how that testimony can be used in court, and many of these laws come about specifically as a result of the prosecutorial misconduct by Coakley and prosecution team in that infamous landmark case. “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.”

But that’s not the end to the Coakley story. Turn the clock ahead to 2005. A Massachussetts police officer Kieth Winfield sodomized a child with a curling iron. In this case physical evidence of injury to the child supported the arrest, but Coakley who disingenuously holds herself out to be tough on these crimes resisted seeking an indictment, and only eventually did so because of intense public outrage over the case. But despite this, Coakley still recommended Winfield be released on his own recognizance without the need to post bail. Thankfully, Coakley’s successor picked up the ball and won a conviction and two life terms for this deviant.

Why did Coakley resist doing her job to get Winfield convicted? Was Winfield’s father being a union representative with ties to Coakley’s campaign a factor? Does it matter? Is that who hard line Massachussetts Democrats want to be their Senator? This is the history of “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha” Coakley, and Kieth Olberman has the temerity to publicly label Scott Brown as the candidate who is “an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against women? Huh?

And the left will have trouble swallowing this too, but this also wasn’t a party line vote. Republicans and probably most Democrats voted the way they always vote – no surprises, so that didn’t win the election. The Republican candidate won this one because Independents and even growing numbers of Democrats recognized Coakley for what she is, and in the larger picture because they are beginning to get more than a little uncomfortable with how much government is looking to take control of their lives, exactly what the founders of this country fought against.

For liberals to suggest that Republicans and conservatives with no jobs are the cause of this election outcome and every other problem is bazzarro world, up is down, day is night denial. We have always had the upper, middle and lower classes, but now we have slowly been adding the new and exponentially growing jobless Democrat feeding parasite class. The difference between jobless conservatives and jobless liberals of the parasite class: the conservatives who are jobless actually want to work. The Democratic Party plan is to provide the parasite class with everything they need to survive and be taken care of without having to do a thing for themselves which is what the parasite class wants. It’s a marriage made in heaven. And in return, the really ingenious part of the Democrat Party plan is that the Democratic Party gets a lifetime of indentured voting servitude from the parasite class who will be glad to oblige.

If the Democratic Party could remain in control long enough with enough consecutive presidential and congressional election victories, that plan might be more worrisome. Thankfully however, because the presidency and control of congress historically always reverts back to the other party after the sitting president leaves office, neither party retains control for longer than an 8 year stretch anymore, thus the Democrats probably could never hold power long enough for their plan to come to fruition. Nevertheless, the disturbing emerging Democrat fed parasite class has arrived. Where’s the Orkin Man when we need him?

Finally, the slickest liberal deflection tactic in reaction to Scott Brown’s victory came from Barak Obama with his assessment that the Massachusetts election was a result of voter anger over the last 2-8 years while managing to completely omit what has happened in this country in the LAST 12 MONTHS under presidential and congressional control of Democrats! Not to mention that for the last 8 years, make that 50 years, that Massachussetts seat in particular has been held by a Democrat. Trying to confuse everyone with confusion, what a clever ploy! Arrogantly insulting the intelligence of all of America has been Mr. Obama’s strategy from the moment he began his run for the White House, and this demonstrates that he intends to stay that course. Clearly he and the rest of his machine have failed to notice that his approval rating has plummeted farther and faster than any other president in history in his first year in office, and gathering speed with each passing day. But then arrogance does that.

Ted Silberstein
Florida Cop

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BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday he is “very close” to a decision on boosting troop levels in Afghanistan and would make an announcement “in the next several weeks.”

In a transcript of the interview seen by Reuters, Obama said he did not want his successor as president to inherit the Afghan conflict, adding that a “multi-year occupation” would not serve the interests of the United States.

Barry has now been dragging his feet since August. On
August 30, 2009 General Stanley McCrystal submitted his Commander Initial Assessment

You can view it here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19995042/Commander-Initial-Assessment-McCrystal

General McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London the last week of September.

The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where Barry had arrived to pitch Chicago’s unsuccessful Olympic bid.

Remember that back in March Obama unveiled his “comprehensive new strategy . . . to reverse the Taliban’s gains and promote a more capable and accountable Afghan government.” The Dimwit in Chief pledged to properly resource this “war of necessity,” which he also called during the 2008 campaign “the central front on terror.” Barry then sacked his war commander, who had been chosen by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in favor of General McChrystal, an expert in counterinsurgency.

In June, General McChrystal launched his assessment of the forces required to execute the Obama strategy. His confidential study was completed in August and sent to the Pentagon. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Michael Mullen told Congress that more troops would be needed, and a figure of 30,000-40,000 was bandied about.

The figure has clearly spooked the Administration. Soon after, General McChrystal’s confidential report was leaked to the Washington Post The report said that the U.S. urgently needs to reverse a “deteriorating” security situation. Soon the full retreat began in Washington, led by a vocal group within the Administration that wants to scale back the mission. The White House told the Pentagon to hold off asking for troops and General McChrystal not to testify to Congress. Obama asked on the Sunday talks shows, “Are we doing the right thing?”

So now we are coming up on November and Barry is still thinking about it. What more is there to think about?

By the time this week is over, Barry will have visited twenty countries.
Exotic destinations across four continents. War zones. Palaces and ancient wonders of the world. So many invitations, so little time.

Instead of playing rock star, maybe Barry should think about BEING a president and staying home and taking care of the country.

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I did not write this and I give no opinion other than to share it for opinions.

Who is Really Running the Country?

I have been having a nagging intuition lately that something is not quite right about Barack Obama. I am not suggesting there is something wrong with the man, per se. Nor am I talking about the crazy, even dangerous, policies coming out of the White House. No, lately, I have been wondering if Barack Obama is, in fact, the person who is actually functioning as President of the United States.

I mean, there’s no doubt that he fills the position of POTUS but is he really the one in command? The man actually seems lost at times. He seems to be reacting to ideas about which he does not really have a clue. He has left the writing of this health care bill to Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives and she, in turn, has farmed the writing out to several fairly radical community action groups. When questioned about health care, he seems not to know or understand the details and even with his silver-tongue seems unable to demonstrate any leadership on the issue.

With respect to Afghanistan and the rest of our foreign policy, he seems equally lost. Especially when it comes to dealing with other world leaders. He makes beautiful speeches but seems to be unable to cut deals which benefit our nation. He seems to be acting as a pawn of much more clever world leaders.

The more I watch the man, the more I see a person who appears to be the “face” of some other entity or group. He seems like a “front man”. And it is becoming clear that his strings are being pulled by someone else. He does not appear to be the man in command of the ship of state. At least, he is not in the driver’s seat.

You might recall that people said about Bush that he was a front man for the neo-cons and that it was really Dick Cheney that was running the show. It turns out that Dick Cheney was not as influential in Bush’s second term as many thought but, perhaps it is true that the neo-cons, whoever they may be, were pulling some of Bush’s strings.
On the other hand, with Obama, it does not appear that there is anyone who is visible to ‘we the people’ or the media who is pulling the strings. If they are there, they are not in elected positions as Cheney was. They are better hidden than that.

We know that he has been and remains surrounded by life-long radicals, professed communists and anti-capitalists, some of whom he has even appointed as czars in his administration. Thirty six czars, to date. But is it Obama who is picking the czars or is it the czars who are running the show and propping up Obama as their front man?

I know all this may sound crazy but, really, when you look at the man without the idolatry and media worship, does he really look like he knows what he is doing? Does he seem to have a direction? Firm convictions? Something he deeply believes in? The more he talks now, the more his words seems empty of content. Platitudes about America and the American people which, when he says them, simply do not ring true. They are words being mouthed but not believed by him.

Okay, so maybe he is really clever, is firmly moving the ship to the left while mouthing the words of a centrist but I don’t think so. What I used to think was that he was a really slick conman who was making us watch his left hand while he was manipulating us with his right. But, now I don’t think that so much. I think the man is more plastic than real. Now I begin to see him as the “Great and Powerful Oz”: a fearsome presence who is being manipulated by men behind the curtain. And while Obama does not have strong convictions, the men behind the curtain do. And they are moving this country down a dangerous path. All the while, we are being distracted by Obama and what he says and does.

Okay, maybe I am simply a mildly paranoid conspiracy theorist. Why, you might ask, have Obama up there? Why not have one of the actual people behind the curtain run for President. Well, being a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I can come up with an answer to that question. Those other people behind the curtain have backgrounds that are so radical that they would never have made it past the first few days of a campaign. Additionally, they are life-long community organizers and they know what kind of face can be effective if you wish to radically change the nation. First, you need a black man to gain the support of the vast black minority. Second, you need a pale skinned black man so as not to be too much of a threat to white Americans. For the same reasons, you need a mixed race man who allies himself with the poor and down-trodden.

And you need someone who speaks well enough to co-opt the language of the right and appear to be a uniter, not a divider. Someone who sees, or at least can articulate, both sides of an issue. This is the kind of man you would pick to be your front man so that while you move things drastically and dramatically left, the vast majority of Americans will not believe that was the intention of the moderate appearing front man.

Yes, Obama was a community organizer. Yes, he could be clever enough to have this all be his idea. But he really wasn’t a community organizer for that long. And when he was, he didn’t do anything truly radical. It was more a time during which he was being trained than a time when he was driven by a personal sense of commitment to anything in particular. There are people who are now in his government who have been community organizers and radical left wing activists for 20-30 years. These people have deeply ingrained commitments to changing the system and have been actively trying to do so for all that time. Obama is not one of them.

In my view, Obama has been trained and used as a puppet by others for a long time. His successes seem to have come too easily, as if they have been orchestrated. His life appears to have been pre-planned. I mean, Harvard Law Review without publishing a single paper of note. That is unusual. A community organizer for a short time, a State legislator for a few years, a freshman US Senator, a convention key-note speaker, and then POTUS. How does that happen? A person with zero governmental administrative experience is running the entire government of the United States.

How do 1,017 page documents get developed and put out in such short order? Who is writing all these proposals? Does it not seem that something is just not quite right here? Forget about the specifics of the policies for the moment. Have you seen this level of activity in the first few months of any other administration in your lifetime? Does Obama seem like the kind of person that could manage this level of activity in so short a time? Too much does not make sense here.
So, slowly but surely, I am becoming convinced that it’s not Barack Obama who is running the show. The White House has been captured by a group of people who are using Barack Obama as their front man. He is nothing but an articulate but empty suit. We have to start looking behind the curtains to find out who is really controlling the “great and powerful Obama.”

Something to think about….

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The White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January, including lobbyists, business executives, activists and celebrities. Under the Obama White House’s policy, most names of visitors from Inauguration Day in January through the end of September will never be released. However, the Whitehouse Blog is saying that releasing this small list “marks a major milestone in government transparency–and an important lesson in the unintended consequences of such vigorous disclosure.” “Transparency like you’ve never seen before”. read the entire blog entry here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/10/30/transparency-you%E2%80%99ve-never-seen-0

Give me a break! This is the most non-transparent administration to hit Washington since Richard Nixon. The only thing transparent about this administration is the lying about being transparent. Even MSNBC has called them out on it.

So why are they not releasing the entire visitor log even though two Federal Courts have ordered them to? What could Barry and Da Boyz be hiding? Hmmm…. I’ll leave that for you to think about.

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This video is a must watch! It really delves into WHY Obama is such an empty suit and a danger to this country.

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I just read a column entitled Peace prize not worth the fight printed in the Daily Commercial (Leesburg, Florida) and I had to laugh. There I was all ready to take him to task until I finished the column and found that other than the word fight appearing in its title, he never really claimed that conservatives have mounted an actual fight over Obama’s Nobel Prize, and that more likely than not, the column was meant in humor. Ya got me!

Yes, conservatives have certainly been abuzz with their opinions about Obama’s Noble prize being an empty award, but no one has actually considered it to be enough of blip on anyone’s radar to actually fight it or mount an effort to have it withdrawn and such. In fact many liberals and even Obama himself have not denied that they find themselves equally bewildered at the award. To that end, I do think it’s a bit unfair to classify the bewilderment at Obama’s prize as “conniptions by the right-wing crank community” without taking an equal look at the conniptions of the “left-wing crank community.” Let us look the history of the past few weeks for some comparisons and see just who has been having the conniptions.

When Joe Wilson blurted out his “liar” comment during the President’s speech, didn’t the left-wing crank community go berserk? To be sure, Wilson’s shouting out “liar” during the speech was clearly disrespectful and violated the decorum that should be afforded any president during an address to the nation, though I suppose if he had shouted the words “that’s not true” it wouldn’t have raised much of an eyebrow. Those words essentially say the same thing as “liar,” but the word “liar” is admittedly a far more personal characterization, and is out of line. But at least Wilson quickly apologized.

Yet despite Wilson’s apology the democrats/liberals actually took up congress’ time and energy, seeking formal resolutions and censures – an actual formal, official, organized left-wing partisan movement in congress over what amounted to nothing more than a single split second inappropriate rude comment.

Ah, but then came Alan Grayson and his incendiary comments about Republicans “wanting you to die quickly,” and comparing healthcare in America to the Holocaust. And not only did Grayson refuse to apologize, he has continued with one more despicable comment after another, day after day. When asked if the Republican’s intended to seek the same kind of censures for Grayson as the Democrats did for Wilson, the Republican leadership said no, and other than a few head shakes and eye rolls, just shrugged off Grayson and his self marginalizing oral flatulence with barely a nod.

Given the partisan reactions to both the Wilson and Grayson episodes I would ask you which party behaved like the “crank community having conniptions?”

Now having said all this, you probably think I’m sitting here doing my version of a victorious NFL end zone celebration having just pinned Reg Henry with my dazzling display of “Gotcha.” Worry not Reg, I’m not that naive either. When it comes to political hypocrisy, I’m well aware that neither party has the corner on that market over the other, the tradition is grand on the part of both Democrats and Republicans, and liberals and conservatives. At best, this little “gotcha” of mine probably doesn’t even make the greatest hits album – it’s simply current.

What this humorous article does do though is further illustrate that the ever widening schism between liberal and conservative ideology will not soon close. To this end, for your enjoyment I’d like to share with you my own humorous Mythical Proposition from Conservatives to Liberals. It’s just a little something I started awhile ago, that I keep up dating from time to time. Yes it has a conservative slant, guilty as charged, but that’s because I’m a conservative, but that shouldn’t stop a liberal from enjoying it too.

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In the spirit of getting along with the Liberals, the Left, the Democrats, whatever you call them, on behalf of Conservatives, the Right, Republicans, I offer this mythical proposition:

You seem to believe that we are the ugly America, responsible for the disdain that so many nations and cultures around the world have toward us. You seem to believe that it is our responsibility to make the first gesture to reach out to these cultures and plead guilty for all our mistakes and pledge as Mr. Obama has done on his global mission apologizing for America, to be a more understanding America, and that we should demonstrate the spirit of this new America by laying our nation open by dismantling our military defenses, missile defenses, throwing open our boarders to any and all. You believe that we must not only discontinue the tough interrogation methods on our enemies, which even at its harshest pales by comparison to the horror and barbarism of the methods used by our enemies against American captives, we should even prosecute our intelligence operatives for using them during a time of war. You seem to believe that only in this way can we change the image of America in the eyes of our enemies and be embraced and beloved by those cultures who now hate America.

Very well then, here’s the proposition:

We, the Conservatives, the Right, the Republicans whatever you call us, agree to try it your way first. We agree to support the wishes of the Liberals, the Left, the Democrats and support America being the first to blink, to make the first gesture to reach out to all those who hate everything America stands for and who believe it is their duty to their god to cut our throats and the throats of our children; and promise to be a better more understanding America, accepting of our enemy’s ideologies; to disarm our national defenses and to fling open our boarders without restriction; never to use interrogation techniques against our enemy combatants which offend your sense of morality; and when American citizens are kidnapped in the Mideast, (like the three wayward journalists who recently wandered into Iran and got themselves captured – for Christ sake do they ever pick up a paper or even listen to their precious NPR and know where might not be a good place to go these days, these hippie-crites who probably regularly denounce our military as criminals, but who are now no doubt praying for our military to save them from the beheaders) yes instead of using military operations to rescue them from the beheaders we’ll send – Greenpeace . Yes we will agree to support all of this.

In return, You, the Liberals, the Left, the Democrats shall agree that when after we extend our open arms in these ways to the cultures who are committed to our extinction, AND IT FAILS, when after America makes this first grand gesture of open arms, open minds and open boarders, and these cultures still tell America to go take a flying roll in a donut, which they will and we will know it very quickly (Footnote: Despite the fact that he as already reached out to the world in exactly all of these ways, in just the past 3 weeks again the Taliban called Obama their number one enemy, Bin Laden again called Obama weak; Zawahri called Obama a fraud, Ghadafi called Obama his son; Armageddonjahd again denied the holocaust and got caught red handed building a nuclear weapons plant,- so how’s that worked out for you); You, the Liberals, the Left, the Democrats, yes when it fails, and if we are lucky enough to still be alive when it does, You shall agree to accept the fact that we gave it a try, and be satisfied knowing that America took your moral high road and tried it your way and we were still despised. You shall now agree to support the wishes of the Conservatives, the Right, the Republicans and support strengthening our military, enhancing our missile defense systems, closing and securing our boarders, beginning the rounding up of all 15-21 million illegal immigrant s in America and deporting them and a 10 year moratorium on even legal immigration, and you will support the interrogation tactics necessary to save innocent American lives including – yours. Oh yes, and you also agree to support that the second any of our known aggressors tees up a rocket of any kind or gets caught red handed building a nuclear weapos facility, especially in the very midst of our President’s speeches in front of the world warning them not to as has now happened thrice), we get to blow them off their lovely little landscapes.

Do we have an agreement?

P.S. – Do we have an agreement? is a Yes or No question calling for a Yes or No answer, and a 20 minute bashing of George Bush (normally the only way any liberal knows how to answer any question) IS NOT a Yes or No answer!

P.S. #2 – The reason this is a Mythical proposal of course is because we would never ever in our right minds ever try it your way first because if we did none of us would be left alive to try it our way

P.S. #3 – When it comes to the sewage bilge pump otherwise known as anti-semitic Alan dis-Grayson’s mouth (I should know, he’s my congressman) if he doesn’t see the reason why why comparing healthcare in America to the holocaust is so repugnant, I have 6 Million reasons for him!

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Jack Webb pretty much sums it all up in this scene from Dragnet. It’s too bad Obama and Da Boyz don’t take a look at this:

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House Democrats narrowly won a key test vote Friday on sweeping legislation to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Republicans said the bill included “the largest tax increase in American history.”

The vote was 217-205 to advance the White House-backed legislation to the floor, and 30 Democrats defected, a reflection of the controversy the bill sparked. To ensure final passage, the bill needs 218 votes.

You can STOP them by contacting your Congressman HERE.

You can read the entire text of the Bill here. It now weighs in at more than 1,300 pages. How many of these dweebs actually read it?

The legislation would impose limits for the first time on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, factories and refineries. It also would force a shift from coal and other fossil fuels to renewable and more efficient forms of energy. Supporters and opponents agreed the result would be higher energy costs, but disagreed widely on the impact on consumers.

President Obama has made the measure a top priority of his first year in office. The president, along with White House aides and House Democratic leaders, scrambled for the votes to assure passage. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has pledged to get the legislation passed before lawmakers leave on their July 4 vacation.

The Senate has yet to act on the measure, and a major struggle is expected.

In the House, the bill’s fate depended on the decisions of a few dozen fence-sitting Democrats, mainly conservatives and moderates from contested districts who feared the political ramifications of siding with the White House and their leadership on the measure.

Democrats left little or nothing to chance. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to an administration post, put off her resignation from Congress until after the final vote on the climate change bill.

“The bill contains provisions to protect consumers, keep costs low, help sensitive industries transition to a clean energy economy and promote domestic emission reduction efforts,” the White House in a statement of support for the legislation.

Republicans saw it differently.

This “amounts to the largest tax increase in American history under the guise of climate change,” said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.

While the bill would impose a “cap-and-trade” system that would force higher energy costs, Republicans for weeks have branded it an energy tax on every American.

But Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said there was a “moral imperative to be good stewards of the earth.”

The legislation, totaling about 1,200 pages, would require the U.S. to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and about 80 percent by the next century.

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are rising at about 1 percent a year and are predicted to continue increasing without mandatory caps.

Under the bill, the government would limit heat-trapping pollution from factories, refineries and power plants. It would distribute pollution allowances that could be bought and sold, depending on whether a facility exceeds the cap or makes greater pollution cuts than are required.

Obama on Thursday called it “a vote of historic proportions … that will open the door to a clean energy economy” and green jobs. “It will create millions of new jobs,” Pelosi insisted.

Both Obama and Pelosi preferred to focus on the economic issues rather than on what environmentalists view as the urgency of reducing carbon emissions blamed for global warming.

The Rust Belt coal-state Democrats who have been sitting on the fence worry about how to explain their vote for higher energy prices to people back home — and how the vote might play out in elections next year.

Republicans have been quick to exploit those concerns.

“Democratic leaders are poised to march many moderate Democrats over a cliff … by forcing them to vote for a national energy tax that is unpopular throughout the heartland,” Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said.

There was widespread agreement that under this cap-and-trade system, the cost of energy would almost certainly increase. But Democrats argued that much of the impact on taxpayers would be offset by other provisions in the bill. Low-income consumers would qualify for credits and rebates to cushion the impact on their energy bills.

Two reports issued this week — one from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the other from the Environmental Protection Agency — seemed to support that argument.

The CBO analysis estimated that the bill would cost an average household $175 a year; the EPA put it at between $80 and $110 a year.

Republicans questioned the validity of the CBO study and noted that even that analysis showed actual energy production costs increasing $770 per household. Industry groups have cited other studies showing much higher cost to the economy and to individuals.

The Senate is expected to be voting on this as well. Tell them no!

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Time to break out the Brown Shirts ladies and gentleman.

According to Merriam-Webster Fascism means:

1) often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2) a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

King Barry has gone beyond Socialism and has turned our Constitution-based federal republic into a Fascist State! On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

The Director of Communications at the White House Office of Health Reform is Linda Douglass, who worked as a reporter for ABC News from 1998-2006.

Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:

Dear Mr. Westin:

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC’s astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.

Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party’s views to those of the President’s to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party’s opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.

Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff

ABCNEWS Senior Vice President Kerry Smith on Tuesday responded to the RNC complaint, saying it contained ‘false premises’:

“ABCNEWS prides itself on covering all sides of important issues and asking direct questions of all newsmakers — of all political persuasions — even when others have taken a more partisan approach and even in the face of criticism from extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. ABCNEWS is looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue.

“ABCNEWS alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience.”

ABC is refusing to air paid ads during its White House health care presentation, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, including a paid-for alternative viewpoint!

The development comes a day after the network denied a request by the Republican National Committee to feature a representative of the party’s views during the Obama special.

Conservatives for Patients Rights requested the rates to buy a 60-second spot immediately preceding ‘Prescription for America’.

Statement from Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients Rights:

“It is unfortunate – and unusual – that ABC is refusing to accept paid advertising that would present an alternative viewpoint for the White House health care event. Health care is an issue that touches every American and all potential pieces of legislation have carried a pricetag in excess of $1 trillion of taxpayers’ money. The American people deserve a healthy, robust debate on this issue and ABC’s decision – as of now – to exclude even paid advertisements that present an alternative view does a disservice to the public. Our organization is more than willing to purchase ad time on ABC to present an alternative viewpoint and our hope is that ABC will reconsider having such viewpoints be part of this crucial debate for the American people. We were surprised to hear that paid advertisements would not be accepted when we inquired and we would certainly be open to purchasing time if ABC would reconsider.”

So Barry and Da Boyz have now taken over just as Hitler and Stalin did back in the 1930’s. God forbid anyone should disagree with Barry and his opinions. He has been shoving his plicies down the throats of America since January 20th. And now he also wants the Supreme Court Justice nomination pushed through by July 13th! Does this give Congress enough time to really dig into Sonia Sotomayor’s background and history? I think not.

And then there was the firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin.
After being briefed today on President Obama’s firing last week of Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said the president did not abide by the same law that he co-sponsored – and she wrote – about firing Inspectors General.

“The White House has failed to follow the proper procedure in notifying Congress as to the removal of the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service,” McCaskill said. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal.”

McCaskill, a key Obama ally, said that the president’s stated reason for the termination, “Loss of confidence’ is not a sufficient reason.”

She added that she was “hopeful the White House will provide a more substantive rationale, in writing, as quickly as possible.”

Facing bipartisan criticism for the firing, Obama sought to allay congressional concerns with a letter to Senate leaders Tuesday evening explaining his decision. In the letter, White House Special Counsel Norman Eisen wrote that Walpin was “confused” and “disoriented” at a May board meeting, was “unduly disruptive,” and exhibited a “lack of candor” in providing information to decision makers.

“That’s a total lie,” Walpin said of the latter charge. And he said the accusation that he was dazed and confused at one meeting out of many was not only false, but poor rationale for his ouster.

“It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled — based on one occasion out of hundreds,” he said, adding that the administration is grasping at “non-existent straws” to explain its actions.

“I would never say President Obama doesn’t have the capacity to continue to serve because of his (statement) that there are 56 states,” Walpin said, adding that the same holds for Vice President Biden and his “many express confusions that have been highlighted by the media.” Obama mistakenly said once on the campaign trail that he had traveled to 57 states.

So for those of you who are still drinking the Kool-Aide, I hate to say I told you so. But we are in for a very difficult time ahead.

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