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"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position"
Geraldine Ferraro

During Obama’s fraudulent run for the presidency he attacked Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman ever to run as VP, as a racist. It was an early indication of how low Obama was willing to go to complete the biggest political scam in U.S. history.




Now we’re stuck with a complete incompetent as president.

By the way, Geraldine was on point!

RIP Geraldine.

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Well, if we have a president that wilfully ignores court orders, why not a governor?

Good for Scott Walker and the hard working taxpayers of Wisconsin that are trying to right the ship. These “entitlement minded” public sector unions have to learn that it’s the taxpayers who are their bosses.

Go Scott Walker!


JS Oline reports that in a stunning twist, Gov. Scott Walker's legislation limiting collective bargaining for public workers was published Friday despite a judge's hold on the measure, prompting a dispute over whether it takes effect Saturday.

The measure was published to the Legislature's website with a footnote that acknowledges the restraining order by a Dane County judge. But the posting says state law "requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to publish every act within 10 working days after its date of enactment."

The measure sparked protests at the Capitol and lawsuits by opponents because it would eliminate the ability of most public workers to bargain over anything but wages.

The restraining order was issued against Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette. But the bill was published by the reference bureau, which was not named in the restraining order.

Laws normally take effect a day after they are published, and a top GOP lawmaker said that meant it will become law Saturday. But nonpartisan legislative officials from two agencies, including the one who published the bill, disagreed.

"I think this is a ministerial act that forwards it to the secretary of state," said Stephen Miller, director of the Legislative Reference Bureau. "I don't think this act makes it become effective. My understanding is that the secretary of state has to publish it in the (official state) newspaper for it to become effective."

Walker signed the bill March 11. Under state law, it must be published within 10 working days, which was Friday.

It hasn't been printed in the Wisconsin State Journal, the official state newspaper, as other laws are. Late Friday, State Journal publisher Bill Johnston said in an e-mail that the notice for the law had been scheduled to run but had been canceled. He did not elaborate.

La Follette urged caution Friday, saying the measure has not been published yet by his office. He said he believes the law cannot go into effect until he directs the State Journal to publish it, which he has not done.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) said it didn't matter that it hasn't appeared in the paper.

"It's published," Fitzgerald said. "It's law. That's what I contend."

Fitzgerald and Miller met Friday. Miller said Fitzgerald asked him to publish the law and, after reading the statutes, Miller agreed that he could do so. He said he had never published a law without being given a date by the secretary of state during his 12 years of running the reference bureau.

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I love Bachmann because she has more balls than John Boehner and Eric Cantor combined. She’s a strong conservative and a constitutionalist.

The Blaze reports Strategist Ed Brookover said Thursday that the Minnesota lawmaker could create a presidential exploratory committee as early as May. The first debates are May 2 in California and May 5 in South Carolina. Brookover says those events are factors as Bachmann decides when to make a campaign official, but adds the debates alone are not going to make her decision.

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Here’s an important clue as to the viability of the Bachmann candidacy. The more you see state run media attack and mock her is the best indication that they consider her a force to be reckoned with.

Do you see the media making a fuss about Tim Pawlenty? Of course because he’s a lightweight. But, Bachmann is a heavy hitter that would bring sanity and fiscal responsibility America needs.

For the past for days since military operations have begun in Libya, I’ve been screaming that GOP leaders have been missing a great opportunity to become the “anti-war” party and tie that message to spending cuts.



But, thus far that crying boob, John Boehner and his equally inept sidekick, Eric Cantor, stay silent.



Where the hell are their brains?



While these silent movie actors say nothing, here come this bit of news from The Hill that all those drip here and drip there spending cuts the GOP is making through these ridiculous CRs may be swallowed up by the U.S. entering its 3rd war.



Frick and Frack (Boehner and Cantor) need to wake the hell up because they’re both failing the American people miserably.





The Hill reports that U.S. military operations in Libya could wipe out a significant chunk of the budget cuts won by congressional Republicans in recent weeks, defense analysts say.



GOP leaders have trumpeted enacted spending reductions that amount to more than $285 million per day since the beginning of March.



But defense analysts say the Pentagon could be burning through more than $100 million per day in Libya, putting those budget savings at risk.



In separate briefings on Monday, the Defense Department and the White House said they do not yet have a projected price tag for the military action that began on Saturday. Defense officials said they are still “collecting” and analyzing early costs.



With Congress determined to rein in federal spending, the cost of the U.S. intervention is sure to become a top concern on Capitol Hill.





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What was the point of the mid terms victory if these guys don't have any balls to do the right thing?

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Opps, did Obama forgot he said that?

The Blaze reports that now that Obama has committed to military action in Libya, it will be interesting to see if Democrats and anti-war pundits line up to criticize him. Considering an interview today with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), maybe, just maybe, it will happen.

Appearing on Fox News today, Kucinich opened up his interview by reading a quote from none other than Barack Obama, who back in the day criticized President Bush for military action in the Mideast:



Again, I have to re-iterate that the GOP leadership is wasting a golden opportunity to argue against this military action against Libya and make it a spending issue.

Does the GOP have to be a bunch of weak pushovers everyday of the week?

This one instance I agree with Lugar. Getting involved in Libya is a mistake and the GOP don’t have the stones to go into “anti war” mode and tie it into a cutting spending message.

What’s the hell wrong with these guys?

The Politico reports that Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) warned on Sunday that the U.S. is starting a treacherous descent down a slippery slope of international diplomacy by getting involved in Libya.

It doesn't make sense, he said, for the U.S. to help Libyan civilians when the citizens of countries like Bahrain, Yemen and Syria are also being oppressed.

"We had better get this straight from the beginning," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation," "or there’s going to be a situation where war lingers on, country after country, situation after situation, all of them on a humane basis, saving people."

Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has helped broker key nuclear weapons reductions with former Soviet Union countries, is one of the few Republicans who's spoken against using force in Libya. He said Sunday the success of the airstrikes against Moammar Qadhafi's air defenses hasn't convinced him that getting involved there is a good idea.

Lugar warned that the U.S. is investing huge sums of money in a foreign endeavor at a time when the domestic economy is still struggling."It’s a strange time," he said. "Almost all of our congressional days are spent on budget deficits, outrageous problems. Yet, at the same time, all of this passes, which is a very expensive operation."

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That’s the same point I made on a n earlier post. This is just more spending and for what? The GOP leadership is asleep at the switch for not being against going into Libya and pulling troops out of Iraq and Afghestan. Beome the anti-war party now because we’ve spent enough blood and treasure in the Middle East.

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I’m just saying…

I think Gadhafi is pretty much laughing at President Obama and the international community for coming up with a U.N. resolution 2 weeks too late. He’s nearly taken back all the territories previously held by rebel forces.

And who exactly are these rebels anyway? They may be worse thn Gadhafi himself and we’re gonna help them out?

Also, what sense does it take for Obama to immediately take ground forces off the table? I’m sure Gadhafi is very happy about that. Bombing airfields and establishing a “no fly” I think won’t accomplish much.

Casey Stengel once said describing futility, “Does anybody know how to play this game?”

The Blaze reports President Barack Obama demanded Friday that Moammar Gadhafi halt all military attacks against civilians and said that if the Libyan leader did not stand down the United States would join in military action against him.

Still, Obama also said the United States “is not going to deploy ground troops into Libya.”




Guess whose laughing in the desert?

This is marginal congressman Anthony Weiner from my beloved state of New York. He hasn’t really accomplished much in his life besides getting elected to congress out of New York.

Let me tell ya’, that’s not much of an achievement considering NY polticos, both Republicans and Democrats, are a pretty depraved bunch.

But, there is something that Weiner knows how to do quite well, avoid debating an issue on the merits and instead ignore the facts, change the subject and name call. Whenever Weiner is in “mocking mode” it’s a spot on indication that he has no clue how to defend his position.

Most Democrats are good as that. But, Weiner is Hall of Fame material.

The Blaze reports that in another epic rant from the floor Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., unleashes his sarcasm to mock House Republicans for calling an emergency session to vote on a measure defunding National Public Radio (NPR).






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Marco Rubio appeared on Sean Hannity and talked how the GOP has to make the spending cuts to solve the country’s outrageous debt.

Nice work if you get it.

This is a story that will fall through the cracks. I’m probably the only blogger on the Net talking about it. But, it’s worth highlighting if only to point out the cesspool that is the New York state legislature.

In Albany, both parties, the Democrats and the Republicans seen to be in competition to out sleaze each other. Both sides take money from public sector unions and each are not in a hurry to pass ethics reform.

New York Post reports that State Sen. Shirley Huntley likes to keep the campaign cash close to home.

Huntley's campaign committee paid her daughter $50,700 for three months of work on the Queens Democrat's 2010 re-election bid.
Pamala Corley raked in the money from July to September 2010 -- $1,000 as a consultant, $37,300 for wages, $10,000 for polling costs and $2,400 for office expenses. She got another $1,200 for office expenses in November 2010, campaign-finance reports show.
Huntley (pictured) and her ties to two nonprofits, including one run by her daughter, are the subject of an investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the Sunday Post revealed.

The US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn is also reviewing the case, according to a source familiar with that probe.

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Shirley Huntley is far from the worse in the bunch. But, she typical of what passes for a NY politico these days.

Throw’em all out!

Speaking as an American to my British cousins, how can a nation be part of the EU and still maintain its cultural sovereignty? The EU was a horrible idea to begin with and should be abolished immediately.

Collectivism doesn’t work and it’s high Europe learns that lesson.

So, get the hell out the EU if you can and don’t look back. Be a great nation, again!

Daily Mail reports that a major political campaign will be launched today aimed at securing a historic referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU – or quit Brussels for good.

The cross-party ‘People’s Pledge’ campaign aims to pile pressure on party leaders and MPs to support a poll that would settle the divisive question of EU membership once and for all.
It hopes to emulate Barack Obama by harnessing the power of the internet to mobilise support in every constituency.

Polling for the campaign launch shows that 61 per cent would like a referendum on whether Britain should remain within the European Union, with just 25 per cent against. A majority of supporters of all three parties back the idea.

It means support for a referendum on the EU is more than double the level for the referendum on changing Britain’s voting system planned for May 5.

Voters will now be invited to sign up to the ‘People’s Pledge’, promising to only support candidates at the next election who vow to support a referendum.

The pledges will be registered by constituency on the campaign’s website – allowing MPs and rival candidates to see the level of support in their area. The aim is to focus initially on the 100 most marginal seats, where campaigners believe their number of supporters could quickly exceed the majorities of serving MPs.

Prominent Left-winger Mark Seddon, director of the campaign, said the initiative had the potential to tap into ‘huge latent demand’ for a referendum. He added: ‘Our message is simple – if you believe that the people, and not politicians, should decide the UK’s relationship with the EU, sign the People’s Pledge.

‘There is huge latent demand for this, as our polling shows. People are fed up with this denial of democracy in which they are given a referendum on whether there should be extra powers for Wales, but not on the issues they care about because they are deemed too hot to handle.

‘We want to put as much pressure on political parties as possible to agree to hold a referendum. They keep on making promises about referendums but they never deliver. If you are under 54 you have never had a chance to vote on this.’

In 1975, the public voted ‘Yes’ to the question of whether the UK should remain within the then European Community.

But campaigners say the EU has changed beyond all recognition since then – making an overwhelming case for a fresh vote on the issue. Since then five major EU treaties have been passed without a poll, handing Brussels power over huge swathes of British life.


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Look at how the EU treats the Britain.

Michele Bachmann is bringing the heat on Speaker of the House John Boehner and others in the GOP leadership who still hasn’t defunded newly recently discovered funding that was hidden withing the nearly 3,000 page ObamaCare law.

I agree with Michele!

It’s time for these guys to “man up” and do what needs to be done and stop acting like scared rabbits.

MinnPost reports that Michele Bachmann said Friday she was “a little disappointed” with House GOP leaders over their not insisting on the full rescinding of $105 billion already authorized to fund the health reform law, telling a crowd of activists here that “you don’t win if you don’t fight.”

Bachmann asked Republican leaders this week to refuse outright any bill that continues funding the federal government unless it also defunds the health reform law – including pulling back the $105 billion that was already authorized for implementation in the law itself.

However, when the latest three-week continuing resolution was released Friday morning, it contained $6 billion in cuts but didn’t include the defunding provision. Bachmann deemed that effort unacceptable, saying they just got a “tiny little cut for three weeks,” and pledged to vote no.

“When will we start the battle? I’m not seeing it, I don’t know about you. President Obama did a press conference today, and he was on offense. We need to get on the field.”

Bachmann has pledged to vote against any further government funding bills until the health reform law is fully defunded or overturned, saying Republicans must use their leverage in holding the House and risk a government shutdown if necessary to insist on the cuts.

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The margin of the GOP victory in the November midterm elections is a strong indicator that the American people expect House GOP to rip the guts out of ObamaCare. If these men continue to act act like punks, then they’ll be in for a rude awakening the next election cycle.

This has been the problem with the Washington GOP types for years. For the most part, they’re not fighters, but a bunch of “me too” Republicans

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This is a huge victory for Republican Gov Scott Walker who stood firm on behalf of Wisconsin taxpayers.

This law will break the unholy alliance between the Democrat Party and public sector unions who were bleeding the state dry with their bloated benefit packages.

It’s a victory for the middle class taxpayers, who after all, pay the salaries of every public sector worker in the state of Wisconsin.

This law will become a template for every other state suffering similar circumstances if their governors and state legislatures have the courage to stand up to union bullies.

Journal Semtinel Gov. Scott Walker signed his bill Friday repealing most collective bargaining by public employee unions, dealing a blow to the labor movement that turned out massive demonstrations in an effort to kill the proposal.

But a lawsuit filed Friday by Dane County officials immediately sought to block the signed bill from being published and taking the force of law, arguing that the bill had not been properly passed.

Dane County Circuit Judge Amy Smith on Friday denied the request to grant a temporary restraining order that would have blocked the bill from taking effect. But Smith, however, ordered the county and the state to come back to court on March 16.

The Republican governor signed the budget-repair bill privately in the morning and will hold a news conference later in the day to tout the signing and talk about the tumultuous past few weeks. Also Friday, Walker directed the Office of State Employment Relations to rescind layoff notices because the Legislature had passed the bill.

In a statement, Walker said jobs were saved by passing the bill, which solves part but not all of the state's budget shortfall for the fiscal year ending June 30.

"The Legislature helped us save 1,500 middle-class jobs by moving forward this week with the budget repair," his statement said. "The state will now be able to realize $30 million in savings to balance the budget and allow 1,500 state employees to keep their jobs. The reforms contained in this legislation, which require modest health care and pension contributions from all public employees, will help put Wisconsin on a path to fiscal sustainability."

But even with the battle won by Republicans, a wider war now remains for both sides, one expected to be fought in the courts and through recall efforts against 16 state senators.

"It's just the beginning," said Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar). "This is the civil rights issue of this century."

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This is how the deranged Left mischaractizedd the whole debate. You may not know Ed Schultz because he doesn’t have many viewers. But, nonetheless we have to understand how desparate the Left is.



Notice how Schultz uses the same old tired class warfare arguments that most people don’t buy anymore. But, at least he’s good for a laugh.

This is cool, clam and collected Scott Walker.


This man could be president one day!