Washington Post says Rangel should step down

The Washington Post has joined the New York Times in calling for Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to step down as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in light of new ethics charges that emerged earlier this week.

The Times reported Tuesday that Rangel helped preserve a valuable tax loophole for an oil and gas drilling company while the company’s chief executive, Eugene Isenberg, was pledging $1 million to the Charles B. Rangel School of Public Service at City College of New York.

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/washington-post-says-rangel-should-step-down-2008-11-29.html

What if it turned out that the Obama that everyone said nobody knew was a really centrist Democrat in a Southside Chicago left-wing suit?

Nor would Mr.Gates likely stay on to oversee drastic bone-cutting budget cuts to the military or even the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” for gays in the military. After all, even a patriot of Gates’ standing would likely respond that radical departures from current defense policy are best handled by somebody new and more in tune with President Obama’s thinking. Which leaves one to wonder whether any of these liberal notions were ever really part of Mr. Obama’s thinking.

What if it turned out that the Obama that everyone said nobody knew was a really centrist Democrat in a Southside Chicago left-wing suit?


http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/11/26/rmiller_1126_gates/

Dear NYT..there is this little thing called THE CONSTITUTION!!

Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/opinion/22collins.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Go tell it to Obama!

Tell Barrack Hussein Obama what’s important to you!

The uninformed voters elected him, but perhaps the rest of us could direct him. We know he was somebody's puppet during the election; let's make him our puppet!

President-elect Obama's Transition team is inviting Americans from every walk of life to share their stories, experiences, and ideas.

Here is a place to "suggest" all of the change that will soon be coming from Washington.... if you think we need change or the status quo. This is a place that might reach our media savy new president. Could be that these folks have a BIG DELETE KEY that will zap each in-coming message; but, maybe not...........

Let’s flood B.O.’s inbox with sensibilities! Bitchin’ about change is the liberal way… Being proactive is the CCRWS way!

http://www.change.gov/yourvision

AMERICA - THE LAST MAN STANDING?

AMERICA - THE LAST MAN STANDING?

"In a generation or two, the United States will ask, 'Who lost Europe?' "These words set the stage for a powerful and sobering speech on September 25th by Geert Wilders, chairman of the Dutch Political party, Party for Freedom. The speech was delivered in New York and I strongly urge you to click on the link and read it in its entirety. It's not very long but it's extremely important.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022867.php

Jefferson Prophecies

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson

Very Interesting Quote In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

SUCKUP — the Seemingly Unlimited Cash Kitty Under Paulson

Let’s see. There’s Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s “bailout fund.” There’s also the AIG money that’s separate from the bailout fund. Then there are the “efficient car” loan guarantees already on schedule to be provided for Detroit’s Big Three automakers. And don’t forget the “cash injections” heading to the coffers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Oh, and do you see that long line stretching around the block? Those are all the entities, public and private, accompanied by their lobbyists, wanting in on the action. K Street has never had it so good.

It’s all one big SUCKUP — the Seemingly Unlimited Cash Kitty Under Paulson.

More:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/that-giant-suckup-sound-in-washington/

KO in one Minute

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How Obama Got Elected

Film-makers taking on our 'global warming hysteria'

Film-makers taking on our 'global warming hysteria'

A new Irish film claims that climate change guru Al Gore is an alarmist and that those who think they are saving the planet are only hurting the poor

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/1115/1226408678797.html

Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole

"My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the internet is this: it's not newspapers that might become obsolete. It's some of the editors, reporters, and proprietors who are forgetting a newspaper's most precious asset: the bond with its readers," said Murdoch

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10098194-60.html

The world has never seen such freezing heat

The Debate is settled?!?!?

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever". In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml

The Worst is yet to come...

Until now most attention to a Barack Obama presidency has focused, rightfully, on the likely socialist policies to be enacted during the next four years. Opponents have unsuccessfully tried to inform Americans about changes in the tax law to “spread the wealth” from the so-called “wealthy” to lower income voters. Though under the current progressive” tax system this already occurs; President Obama will enshrine and expand the tax policy toward the Marxist ideal.

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http://vincentgioiasblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/worse-is-yet-to-come-under-president.html

Red Dawn Over America: Defeat & Despair

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944, and 1948

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http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/l_fairchok/2008/11122008.htm

Proposed FCC Rule a disguised 'Fairness Doctrine'

In the end, the effect would be exactly the same as the Fairness Doctrine; conservative talk radio would end up subsidizing liberal programming due to the left's inability to develop mass market appeal in the medium.


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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/proposed_fcc_rule_a_disguised.html

Another Assault on Freedom of the Airwaves

Another Assault on Freedom of the Airwaves

As free speech advocates gear up to oppose revival of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” another Orwellian-named government effort to dictate the content of radio and TV news and opinion has been hatched by the Bush administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC). So far, there’s been much less focus on the “localism rule” – even though it would have a similar chilling effect on First Amendment rights.

Under the FCC’s proposed regulations, owners of radio and TV stations would become subject to permanent advisory boards whose members – aka “community organizers” - would be chosen according to politically correct multi-cultural nostrums requiring representation of all “stakeholders.” These boards would be empowered by the FCC to decide if stations were airing a “sufficient amount of community-responsive programming”- with neither “sufficient” nor “responsive” defined. A negative advisory board finding could mean loss of a station owner’s broadcasting license.

The proposed regulations would also require broadcasters to maintain a 24/7 physical presence at broadcasting facilities, limit their use of celebrity “voice tracking” and network programming, require them to fund journalism schools, and give their music playlists to the FCC. Whatever else might be the FCC’s intention with this proposal, it is clear its application would vastly increase the cost of operating a station, while reducing the economic and editorial freedom of the owner. To what end? Experts warn that such rules will kill talk radio – one of the few mass media that favors conservatives. But more is at stake here than protecting the right of 12 million Americans to continue tuning in to Rush Limbaugh on the radio.

If this proposed regulation is adopted, political activists with ideological agendas on advisory boards will be able to dictate content by producing allies to complain that their interests are not being considered. Christian radio stations will be forced to air programs advocating abortion and gay marriage, which they oppose as a matter of religious conviction. Conservative talk radio stations will be forced to subsidize liberal programming that can’t attract commercial support. Failing to do so would mean loss of the broadcast license. This proposal is clearly antithetical to the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and religion. It will undermine an uncensored, independent press in a free society as a tool for holding politicians and bureaucrats accountable, and make government the arbiter of acceptable religious doctrine.

Source:
http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/Another_Assault_on_Freedom_of_the_Airwaves.html

Obama Ready to “Rule” and End Opposing Views

The grossly misnamed “Fairness Doctrine” (FD) is also now on the docket to be reinstated. It was and is misnamed because there was never anything fair about it. It was and has always been a ploy to ensure that no Democrat-opposing viewpoints occur on Radio. When the doctrine was removed under President Ronald Reagan, overwhelmingly conservative talk radio began and has continued to flourish. It flourishes because huge audiences want to hear it.

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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6221

Forgotten Man Author: Dont Repeat Mistakes of the New Deal

"THE historical model that the Democrats are choosing to hold up as they ponder our financial crisis isn't Harry Truman's Fair Deal or Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. It is Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. At least three economic reforms under discussion now were also central in the New Deal package. Trouble is, these reforms didn't necessarily work well when they were first tried - and some failed outright."

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/11102008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/dont_repeat_errors_of_new_deal_137967.htm

Behold: An “auto czar”

The Master and Overlord Obama is ready to appoint an Auto Czar.

And the lame-duck George Bush is going along.

God save us from bipartisanship.

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http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/12/behold-an-auto-czar/

Obama's Windfall Oil Tax Falls Apart

The only silver lining that has developed economically in the past 3 months is the consistently falling oil prices due to the fear within the industry that the economy will continue to slow and global demand will fall. As of this morning October 10th, oil prices had fallen by over 40% to just under $83 per barrel. Although this is welcome news for the American Public as gas prices continue to fall to near $3/gallon in many area, the political impact is not being discussed.

Falling oil prices have essentially destroyed Senator Obama's theoretical funding for his Energy policy and should once again highlight a brutal truth about his call for a Windfall Profits Tax. Obama's energy policy is based upon 2 ideas:

#1) A $150 Billion investment in the green industry, and

#2) A $500/person energy rebate that would cost $75 billion.

In March, Obama proposed that he would pay for his $150 billion green investment through a Windfall Profits Tax. His economic advisers suggested that the tax would generate around $15 billion per year. But when oil prices spiked during the summer, Obama changed his rhetoric and began promising a $500/person energy rebate that would be paid for over a five year period by the same windfall profits tax.

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http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/as-oil-prices-fall-obamas-windfall.html

The American Dream Goes On

"Partly because some have moved up, as economist Stephen Rose points out. There are 12 percent more households earning in excess of $100,000 than 20 or so years ago. And those making less than $30,000 have not increased. So virtually the entire "decline" of the middle-class group has come from people moving up the income ladder, not down."

http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/06/13/the-american-dream-goes-on.html?PageNr=1

Check out Stu's post on Glenn Beck for more links


http://www.glennbeck.com/content/blog/index.php?page=post&blog=stu&post_id=110

Wiretapping-gate?

I cant wait for the hearings and parade of Bush admin staff up to the hill to be paraded on TV as "criminals" while the congress wont touch Rangle (taxes), Dodd or Frank (Freddie / Fannie).

Wired Mag
Bush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In

"If new whistle-blowers do emerge, Fredrickson hopes the additional information will spur Congress to form a new Church Committee -- the 1970s bipartisan committee that investigated and condemned the government's secret spying on peace activists, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other political figures.

But even if the anticipated flood of leaks doesn't materialize, advocates hope that Obama and the Democratic Congress will get around to airing out the White House closet anyway. "Obama has pledged a lot more openness," says Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation"

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http://www.wired.com/print/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/11/obama_wiretap

Too big to fail....

See my upcoming predictions post.

More Darkow cartoons here:

http://www.columbiatribune.com/Darkow/

Can We Now Dispense With Some Myths?

Welcome to the wilderness, how long do you want to stay there?

We got the results I feared. I was hoping for a different result, but in the end the pollsters were again correct and it was a 5 point win for Obama, with a devastating down ballot result. When you end the night being glad that Ted Stevens might eek out a victory, that is a bad sign.

So here are some things that I think we now know for the future. If we want to get this country back on the right track, we better learn these and act on them:

1) People are not afraid of Socialism, it is an acceptable political outcome. I'm going to be thinking a long time on why this is, but I think that it is a combination of lack of education within the electorate, a generation has passed since Carter, and the illusionary success of European socialism in our globalized economy.

2) Bi-partisanship is a waste of time. You can't make nice with the political enemy and expect them to play fair or support you in any meaningful way. The PUMAs were interesting to listen to, but they weren't a political factor. The fact that McCain and Hillary are friends means nothing, and just serves to cheapen our positions. By the same token, mavericks should be marginalized, not given our nomination.

3) Image, charisma, and articulation matters. If our candidate doesn't make the people who watch Access Hollywood say, "Hey! He/She is really hip and cool!", then we are toast. This goes for ALL of our leaders, not just our presidential candidate. We need people who can articulate our positions in terms that the voters can understand and resonate with. It took an Ohio plumber to put in simple words what was wrong with Obama's tax plan, and it came too late. At the end of the day, none of our candidates really stood a chance with this dynamic.

More:

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/dave_in_fla/2008/nov/05/can-we-now-dispense-with-some-myths/

The night we waved goodbye to America...

"I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts."

Ouch!

Full article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084111/PETER-HITCHENS-The-night-waved-goodbye-America--best-hope-Earth.html

Please Rise For Our National Anthem

VDH: Upside Down World

"This is the 21st century, not the 19th. Those who makes $40,0000 or $80,000 or $1,000,000 per year all pretty much have hot water for their showers. Their tap water doesn’t sicken them, and they watch about the same TV shows and mostly have cell phones. Mass consumerism, easy credit, and technology have blurred the distinctions between wealth and poverty. That I buy a Wal-Mart sweat suit to ride a bike in the winter for $20 does not mean that I am any colder than the Manhattan exec who buys one with a designer label version for $150 at a boutique on Park Avenue. His $20 million-dollar penthouse apartment is no warmer or cooler than my Selma farmhouse. As far as the private jet, the yacht, the 5 homes, I’d prefer to fly commercial, rent a kayak, and have trouble enough keeping two toilets running and the hot water heater from silting up without worrying about either 50 of them or a staff of 5 to oversee them all.

So the advantages of wealth are more of a status thing and free choices of recreation or more leisure time than a vast difference in material conditions. For all the talk of the uninsured, one can buy catastrophic health insurance for $200-300 a month. And at the local rural health clinics in my area, many people, a year or two after arriving from the third word in Oaxaca, find good dental care, prenatal attention and major medical treatment pretty much free, something, for example, unheard of in rural Mexico."

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http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/361/

Agenda disappears from Obama Web site

How conveeeeeeenient....CCRWS question: Is this because it's not deliverable or is this because they dont want to scare the crap out of everyone....or both??

Washington Times
EXCLUSIVE: Agenda disappears from Obama Web site

Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site.

Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items - everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy - all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/11/exclusive-obama-deletes-agenda-from-transition-web/

BHO on the 2nd Ammendment

O'Donnell - GOP Celebrates Ignorance

"Slightly Creepy"

Creepy! Go figure we hear it now.

Six ways Obama can show he'll be a different kind of president.

4. Increase disclosure and transparency. Obama founded his campaign on removing the influence of special interests. "They have not funded my candidacy, and they will not run my White House," he has said repeatedly. To match this message immediately, Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, has a tidy little to-do list for the candidate who has promised unsurpassed ethical standards:

• Disclose donors who gave less than $200.
• Disclose the amounts and professions of bundlers who helped him raise gargantuan sums.
• Disclose donors to his "Obama Transition Project."
• Disclose immediately online those who give to the inaugural committees.
• Promise not to raise funds anonymously for the presidential library until the end of his term.

More:

http://www.slate.com/id/2203761/

The Numbers

This was NOT a mandate or a landslide. Don't let the in the tank media convince you otherwise. Want proof: Look at how close many states were coupled with the fact that the national popular vote was only 7 million votes apart. Consider this:

less than 1 million votes spread across 8 states got Obama Elected.

Obama should finish with 364 electoral votes.

Vote diff (electoral college value)

Fla - 190,000 (27)
Ohio - 209,000 (20)
VA - 156,000 (13)
Iowa - 141,000 (7)
NM - 115,000 (5)
Col - 139,000 (9)
In - 23,000 (11)
NC - 12,000 (11)

That is about 985,000 votes total. Flip those and McCain is President. Of course, flip those numbers and were in lawyer / police in riot gear hell last Wednesday morning!!

If this were a landslide - this would have been a Reagan / Mondale moment where McCain would have only carried Arizona and maybe Texas. The country is NOT as left as the media will portray.

Relative to this.....one major downside to this election is the campaign finances. Will the next go around produce a billion dollar campaign for one candidate? Anyone think that barrier to entry is getting set pretty high?

When you think someone's Moses, you expect him to part the seas.

Some wonder if Barack Obama is a hard leftist or more a pragmatic politician who simply rose in leftist precincts (that would be you, Hyde Park, Chicago). A less charged way to put the question would be: Is he a strict modern liberal, or possibly a man of some considerable moderate instincts? The obvious answer is: We're about to find out.

More:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122600597583706149.html

Aftermath

SNL Roasts Matthews

In the Tank!

Well there you have it....gas tanks filled and mortgages paid

Where is Joe Biden??

I was talking to someone who shall remain namless....and her question was....Where is Joe Biden anyway?



Im thinking the old hook came out and Joe was tossed into a closet for a couple weeks until last Tuesday when BHO won the election

I'm Voting Democrat

Would release have mattered?