Today’s top political news
No formal action has been taken to fill the independent oversight posts established by Congress when it approved the bailout to prevent corruption and government waste.
$290 billion of the $700 billion has already been committed.
Coming, as it does, in an interregnum of government – Bush going out, Obama coming in, the process is in a state of chaos.
It’s just money - -but it’s taxpayer money. Who’s minding the store?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111202846_pf.html
Democrats, drunk with power, scheme and plot to investigate the Bush Administration
“The Bush administration overstepped in its exertion of executive privilege, and may very well try to continue to shield information from the American people after it leaves office,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, who sits on two committees, Judiciary and Intelligence, that are examining aspects of Mr. Bush’s policies
Democrats fear Bush may employ a Truman strategy that claims immunity from subpoenas continues even after a president has left the White House.
The Democrat plot is clearly a partisan effort to damage the Bush administration and Republicans in general. Of course honest coverage of this conspiracy will not be provided by today’s media/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/washington/13inquire.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
MSNBC and others are forced to admit their story identifying a “Martin Eisenstadt” as a McCain spokesman who claimed Palin had called Africa a “country” is a total lie. Never happened, the quote is from a character who never existed
A pair of obscure filmmakers say they created Martin Eisenstadt to help them pitch a TV show based on the character. But under the circumstances, why should anyone believe a word they say?
They say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere
The real story is the media was duped, printed lies and is actually willing to admit it. Too bad they are seldom that honest.
Opinion:
Frustration is a common sentiment among normal Americans everywhere,
No wonder normal America is frustrated.
We are probably clinging more to religion than Obama feels comfortable with, since he attacked us for that very thing during his now famous secret financial pitch in Frisco.
‘Famous and secret” are usually conflicting terms. Not in this case, Obama THOUGHT it was secret, but someone with a tape recorder revealed to the world what he really said and how totally insulting and dismissive he is of normal America.
It’s time now to get by what has passed, learn from the mistakes and move ahead. After all, the Senate is still in play. Democrats are again stealing votes in Minnesota in order to send an extreme left wing comedian to the world’s “greatest deliberative body”. On December 2. Georgia will have a special election pitting Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss against an Obama Democrat.
Politics never ends and those who care must confront the madness and danger we now face. The frustration of real America was well expressed by a friend:
Comment:
”I don't know of anytime in my life that I have felt so hopeless, helpless and disillusioned about the USA.
We are a country of laws. I grew up being taught to respect our laws, seniors, leaders and Grandma's apple pie. Now, it seems our leaders do not respect our laws,seniors and our leaders do not respect themselves. Grandma's homemade apple pie is fattening and off limits, but tasteless tofu is in.
I'm so confused! Illegal aliens are insisting on no more raids, after all, we are tearing their families apart. (Did they not leave their families to come here...oh yeah, some brought the whole damn family with them). They are already after Obama to grant them paths to citizenship.
Can you spell 'illegal'?
Texas has declined to issue drivers license to illegal aliens, insisting they must produce papers certifying they are here legally in order to get a license and they must produce proof of insurance in order to drive and register a car.The nerve of state officials to question an illegal's status! Now,
Texas DPS is being told they can not conduct traffic blocks to check all drivers licenses and proof of insurance because it could be perceived as targeting illegal aliens (profiling). Why ta hell not, I ask? Well, seems our State DPS officers are not to be enforcing Federal Immigration Laws.
Illegals have killed and maimed many US Citizens, DPS is charged with protecting the safety of US Citizens. My head hurts to even think about this. Isn't it a Federal crime to kill a FBI agent. I guess a Texas DPS officer should not arrest an on the run murderer of a Federal Law enforcement officer too uh?
But wait...we lock up our Federal Immigration agents for shooting criminal illegal alien drug smugglers in the butt for while fleeing instead of halting as ordered?
There was a time when the law was the law. If one violated the law, law enforcement enforced the law across the board! Our country is faced with terrorism. We are tying our officers hands behind their backs while paying them to protect our country.
Heck, Obama is even turning the terrorist loose and closing Gitmo. Politicians don't worry about the desires of the citizens since they can just steal elections! Politicians ignore laws on campaign financing, financing their homes while making deals under the table. After all, liberal Judges will justify their criminal actions making decisions that are not based on our constitution, but creating new law from their opinions.
Yep, my head hurts. I'm so confused and I feel so hopeless!
Ethylene”
We cannot abandon hope. We must use the outrage we all feel about ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, and the fact Obama hid the truth of his birth to generate a feeling of anger and determination. It wont be easy, but we need to begin now – right now – planning and working to retake this nation and to preserve its real values – honor, duty, country.
Obama’s hoards don’t share those sentiments, he sneers at them.
Fight back. Join us.
Buddy
The Morning’ Top Blogs
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GOP Comeback? Been There, Done That
Michael Medved
Pouring over the numbers in the Presidential and Congressional elections of 2008, there’s an eerie parallel that deserves far more attention than it’s received.
In races for the House, the Senate and the Presidency, the final totals match almost precisely with the results of the last Democratic sweep in 1992.
That election gave the Democrats 57 Senate seats to 43 for the Republicans. So far, with three races yet to be decided in 2008, Democrats (and the two independents who caucus with the Democrats) control 57 seats and the Republicans control 40. Assuming that the GOP’s Norm Coleman hangs on to win his seat after a recount in Minnesota, that Saxby Chambliss wins his run-off election in Georgia, and that Ted Stevens (or a GOP replacement) secures the seat in Alaska, the Senate lineup will match exactly with its contours in 1992—57 to 43. Even if the Republicans lose one of the undecided seats, it’s possible that Independent Joe Lieberman will decide (or find himself forced) to caucus with them, still giving them the same 43 seats they won in ’92.
On the House side, the resemblance is similarly close to the line-up sixteen years ago. After the Clinton landslide (beating President George H. W. Bush and eccentric “Reform Party” contender H. Ross Perot), the Democrats nabbed 258 seats in the House and the GOP controlled 176. At this point in 2008, the Dems have secured 255 seats and the Republicans 174, with six seats unsettled. The most likely outcome of the races yet to be decided would be an exact replica of the House of Representatives that convened in 1993.
As to the Presidential race, sixteen years ago Bill Clinton cruised to victory with 370 electoral votes to 168 for President Bush (Ross Perot drew 18.9% of the popular vote but, like most third-party vanity candidates, earned no electoral votes). In 2008, assuming that John McCain carries the officially undecided state of Missouri (where he’s maintained a slight but steady lead) the final outcome will be an Obama victory by 365 to 173 electoral votes--- just a five vote difference from the 1992 race. In the popular vote, Obama prevailed by a margin of 6.5%, while Clinton beat Bush sixteen years ago by a strikingly similar margin of 5.5%.
The resemblance in election outcomes between the triumph of Clinton Democrats in 1992 and the resounding win by Obama Democrats in 2008 ought to fill disheartened Republicans with determination and hope.
Just two years after the electoral disaster of ’92, the GOP came roaring back to capture both houses of Congress in the “Contract with America”/Newt Gingrich revolution. And six years after that epic triumph, Republicans recaptured the White House under George W. Bush in the impossibly close election of 2000.
For several reasons, the election of 2008 left Republicans in an even better position for a quick comeback if they handle their opportunities intelligently.
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2008/11/12/gop_comeback_been_there,_done_that
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Cheat.gov
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Fraud: Many millions in dubious campaign donations to Barack Obama are going unaudited. Meanwhile, Minnesota's Senate race is ripe for the stealing. When elections lack integrity, the people no longer rule.
We may have found something on which the two most powerful black men in the U.S. government (as of next year) — President-elect Obama and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — agree.
Thomas differs with the rest of the high court on the issue of public disclosure of campaign contributions. Noting that the Federalist Papers "are only the most famous example of the outpouring of anonymous political writing that occurred during the ratification of the Constitution," Thomas contends that "it is only an innovation of modern times that has permitted the regulation of anonymous speech."
In the age of modern communications, it takes a lot of money for speech to reach enough voters to have the kind of effect the Federalist Papers had two centuries ago. So in Thomas' view, the 2002 McCain-Feingold law, with its spending limits on broadcast ads, "directly targets and constricts core political speech, the 'primary object of First Amendment protection.' "
How could Obama disagree? He took hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of "speech" from anonymous sources and used it to saturate the airwaves. Someone once again drove an armored car right through a campaign finance law loophole. Ironically, it was the author of the campaign law, Sen. John McCain, who was run over.
Having reneged on his pledge to accept public financing, Obama will likely escape an audit by the Federal Election Commission — which the heavily outspent loser, McCain, must undergo because he took public funding. So much for those filthy-rich Republicans taking advantage of a system supposedly skewed in their favor.
What all this means is we might never get to the bottom of who the thousands of fictitious donors were with names such as "Test Person" and "Doodad Pro." We might never know if the next president of the United States intentionally took money that exceeded the limits allowed under law, or money from foreign powers.
For more on this story, go to:
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=311299906174221
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Communist Party ecstatic over '08 election results
Voice of Marxism announces, 'hard work is just beginning'
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Hailing Barack Obama's win as a victory for the "working class," the Communist Party USA is calling on the president-elect to carry out his promises, including his noted commitment to "spread the wealth."
An editorial by the People's Weekly World said the victory was for "workers of all job titles, professions, shapes, colors, sizes, hairstyles and languages."
The newspaper, which boasts of its "partisan coverage," identifies itself as "a national, grassroots weekly newspaper and the direct descendant of the 'Daily Worker.'"
"We are partisan to the working class, racially and nationally oppressed peoples, women, youth, seniors, international solidarity, Marxism and socialism. We enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views," the publication states.
The paper said Obama's victory is "important … not only for people here in the U.S., but also for our sisters and brothers around the world."
"The election outcome represents a clear mandate for pro-people change on taxes, health care, the war in Iraq, job creation and economic relief, union organizing and the Employee Free Choice Act. Reform and relief are in the air. Their scope and depth will be the arena of struggle. The best thing the coalition that won this victory can do is to stick together and help the new administration carry through on its promises," the editorial said.
The rest of the story can be accessed at:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80663
4.
Liberal Censorship and Its Roots
David Limbaugh
The most unnerving aspects about the Democrats' sweeping victory Nov. 4 are their intolerance for dissent and their willingness to censor and otherwise suppress their opponents. Consider:
We keep hearing that Sarah Palin's criticism of Obama for "palling around with terrorists" increased death threats against him, which is bogus in the extreme but consistent with the inveterate liberal tactic of chilling conservative speech by saying it incites violence.
Ohio state employee Vanessa Niekamp said she was ordered to run a child-support check on Joe the Plumber, the man who asked Barack Obama an innocuous question about redistributing taxpayer income. Niekamp doesn't remember ever having checked into anyone else without having a legitimate reason to do so, such as discovering that someone recently came into money.
Democratic prosecutors in St. Louis threatened criminal prosecution against candidate Obama's critics. In Pennsylvania, lawyers for Obama wrote intimidating letters to TV and radio stations that aired unflattering ads documenting Obama's anti-gun record. The Obama campaign complained to the Department of Justice about the American Issues Project's ad tying Obama to William Ayers. Obama supporters flooded Chicago radio station WGN with harassing calls during its interviews of conservative writers investigating Obama.
On election night, Philadelphia police arrested a man who dared to wear a McCain-Palin '08 T-shirt at an Obama celebration rally. What's scarier is that the Obama crowd reportedly chanted with joy as cops arrested the man for exercising his freedom of political expression. According to the liberal worldview, arresting someone for disagreeing with you is not censorship, but implying someone is not patriotic is.
Obama has made no secret of his plan to pass "card-check" legislation, which some have described as the most radical revision of labor law since 1935. It would permit unions to eliminate secret ballots -- against the wishes of 78 percent of union members -- which would represent a radical blow to democratic principles.
Democrats fully intend to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, a euphemistically named regulation aimed at shutting down conservative talk radio, which Sen. Chuck Schumer has compared to pornography. Remember that conservatives have never advocated government action to suppress or censor the liberal media monopoly, which has existed for decades and still dominates mainstream media today. Their answer was the alternative media.
But what is even more frightening than the sinister schemes of liberal politicians to silence and criminalize political opposition is the apparent eagerness of rank-and-file liberals to go along with them, as witnessed by the many examples I've cited and numerous gleeful e-mails I get taunting me about the imminent re-invocation of the Fairness Doctrine.
For more of this story, go to:
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2008/11/11/liberal_censorship_and_its_roots
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Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers Meet for First Time
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, two men whose reputations had dogged the Obama campaign this year, met for the first time this weekend at a "State of the Black Union" event at Northwestern University , where Wright was the keynote speaker, the Daily Northwestern reports.
The event was hosted by the black student group For Members Only, which invited Wright to speak after Northwestern rescinded an honorary doctorate the university planned to give the Trinity United Church of Christ pastor. The group also invited Ayers—the Weather Underground founder—to attend because it was "only fitting," considering the pair's treatment by the media.
Ayers said he felt a "huge connection" to Wright and criticized the Northwestern administration for disinviting the pastor from commencement. "What possible reason could they have except pressure by alumni, pressure by others?" Ayers said. "It's freedom of speech, freedom of thought. Without that, academics is dead."
He added, "Both Reverend Wright and I were brought up as cartoon characters in this campaign because of disinformation and dishonest news. . . . I did not suffer as much as he did, but we both got out of it with a certain amount of dignity."
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