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Another act of stupidity

2009-04-13T05:17:23Z

What kind of idiot do you have to be to want to appoint a pro abortion person as US Ambassador to the Vatican. The Vatican of all places.

Vatican sources told Il Giornale that their support for abortion disqualified Ms Kennedy and other Roman Catholics President Barack Obama had been seeking to appoint.

Mr Obama was reportedly seeking to reward John F Kennedy’s daughter, who publicly gave her support to his election bid. She had been poised to replace Hillary Clinton as New York senator, but dropped out amid criticism that she lacked enough experience for the job.

The Italian paper said that the Vatican strongly disapproved of Mr Obama’s support for abortion and stem cell research. The impasse over the ambassadorial appointment threatens to cloud his meeting with the Pope during a G8 summit in Itay in July.

What the hell was Obama thinking? Seriously, what kind of moron would think this would be OK with the Vatican?

Party of Elite

2009-04-05T03:59:35Z

Isn’t it interesting that the democrat party is always seen as the “party of the people”, always striving to help the little guy and the republican party is always seen as the party of the rich?

Then why is it that the democrat party is so full of rich people?

Top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers received about $5.2 million over the past year in compensation from hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from major financial institutions.

A financial disclosure form released by the White House Friday afternoon shows that Mr. Summers made frequent appearances before Wall Street firms including J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. He also received significant income from Harvard University and from investments, the form shows.

In total, Mr. Summers made a total of about 40 speaking appearances to financial sector firms and other places, with fees totaling about $2.77 million. Fees ranged from $10,000 for a Yale University speech to $135,000 for an appearance paid for by Goldman Sachs & Co…

Imagine that. But wait there is more!

David Axelrod, the president’s top political advisor, reported in his form that he will get $3 million over the next five years from the sale of his two media consulting firms, ASK Public Strategies, LLC and AKP&D Message and Media. In addition, Mr. Axelrod took a salary of $896,776 last year from AKP&D and reported $651,914 in partnership income from the two companies.

In total, Mr. Axelrod reported assets valued between $6.9 million and $9.5 million. Mr. Axelrod’s clients were mostly political campaigns, including those of Rep. Patrick Kennedy, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. He also reported receiving money from large corporations such as AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp. and the nuclear energy company Exelon Corp…

…Valerie Jarrett, assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs, lists a $300,000 salary and $550,000 in deferred compensation from The Habitat Executive Services, Inc., in Chicago.

Ms. Jarrett also disclosed payments of more than $346,000 for service on boards of directors that reflect her political ties, and work in Chicago real estate and community development.

She was paid $76,000 last year for service as a director of Navigant Consulting, Inc. a Chicago-based global consulting group with governmental clients. She received $146,600 for service on the board of USG Corporation, a building materials manufacturer, and $58,000 to serve on the board of Rreef American REIT II, a real estate investment trust based in San Francisco. The Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., paid her $34,444 to serve on its board.

Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon earned $3.9 million as a partner at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where his clients include Citigroup, Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Obama fundraiser and heiress Penny Pritzker.

Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change, disclosed earnings of between $1 million and $5 million from lobbying firm Downey McGrath Group, Inc., where her husband, Thomas Downey, is a principal. She states $450,000 in “member distribution” income, plus retirement and other benefits from The Albright Group, a lobbying firm whose principals include former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.

And yet this is the party that wants to soak the rich. Perhaps they are jealous, or just want power for themselves. Who knows, but I’m tired of hearing about the democrats being for the little guy. Bull Shit.

h/t Michelle Malkin

Get Ready For Another Ramming

2009-03-26T15:50:22Z

Not content to ram the stimulus and omnibus bills down your throat, the democrats are now looking to ram a health care bill down everyone’s throat by using a little congressional trickery.

From the AP:

Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Wednesday he’s willing to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a procedural maneuver that would block a GOP filibuster. The prospect of the controversial tactic has already ignited Republicans’ ire, and key Senate Democratic chairmen have said they don’t want to do it.

Reid, D-Nev., took a different position on a conference call with reporters.

“I think it’s something we need to consider,” Reid said.

At issue is a so-called reconciliation bill, which could pass with a simple majority of 51 votes and without Democrats fearing a GOP filibuster. Democrats would struggle to gather 60 votes needed to break a filibuster for something as complex as a plan to meet President Barack Obama’s goal of overhauling the nation’s health care system to cover 48 million uninsured Americans.

Revising health care via reconciliation has been viewed favorably by House Democrats. The House Budget Committee included language providing for the method in its annual budget resolution released Wednesday. Reconciliation is not favored by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and was not part of his committee’s plan.

White House officials reiterated Wednesday that it’s not their preferred method but they don’t want to take it off the table.

So basically they know their bill won’t stand on its own, they don’t care what the cost is going to be and they don’t want to hear alternatives and just want to force it upon the American people. Really starting to like this “Hope and Change”.

Mob Gets Their Wish

2009-03-26T15:46:20Z

As the protesting over the AIG bonuses continue, more execs are leaving the troubled company and I don’t blame them. From Hot Air:

Several more employees are leaving the controversial financial products unit that brought American International Group Inc to its knees last year, according to a person with knowledge of developments there.

The resignations are in addition to the “handful” of senior AIG Financial Products executives who have already given notice, said the person, who could not quantify the total number of departures.

To date, AIG said the situation at the financial products unit remains “manageable,” despite the departures. But if too many employees quit, Chief Executive Edward Liddy has warned it could be disastrous for AIG and, ultimately, for U.S. taxpayers who are the insurer’s majority owners. Employees there were promised retention payments more than a year ago, on condition they stayed long enough to wind down their areas of business, effectively working themselves out of a job.

But now some have changed their minds, fed up after 10 days of ridicule and scorn from lawmakers who broadly derided the bonuses, demonstrators picketing outside AIG offices and a threat by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to publicly name anyone who did not return the bonuses.

The employees still working are not the ones who caused the large losses and “are being unfairly persecuted by elected officials,” wrote Jake DeSantis, an executive vice-president for the Wilton, Connecticut-based financial products unit, in a resignation letter printed by the New York Times on Wednesday.

This is the problem with the mob mentality and an over eager congress and administration that wishes to hide their real problems. They don’t pay attention to the facts, or worse, the consequences of their actions.

Kiss your billions dumped into AIG good bye.

AIG Execs Should Tell Congress To Fuck Off

2009-03-19T19:55:22Z

No kidding. Who the hell is Congress to say that they can retro tax these people? They are all pissed of because AIG is honoring their contract with their employees and yet they waste hundreds billions of dollars of our money on their shit pet projects?

I can understand a little bit how people get upset they the execs are getting their money when the company needed a bailout. However, like the idiots that the public usually are, they fail to see that a) AIG made those obligations before receiving money and b) the administration knew about it.

I wish I was one of these execs. I would get in front of congress and them what fucking hypocrites they are and if they want to take my money away they should give up everything they’ve received from AIG (hello Chris Dodd and Obama), stop making deals they then turn around and renege on.

The march is on!

2009-02-23T20:16:12Z

All over the country people are protesting the stimulus bill. When was the last time you saw a republican-based protest?

More redistribution coming in the form of cap and trade

2009-02-22T05:06:26Z

As reported in the NYT:

Full details of Mr. Obama’s budget for the 2010 fiscal year will be released in April. The outline on Thursday will make clear that he intends to push ahead on promises to contain health care costs and expand insurance coverage, and to move toward an energy cap-and-trade system for controlling emissions of gases blamed for climate change.

Human Events shows the costs of such a system:

The potential costs to America from cap-and-trade policies are enormous. The Department of Energy estimates that S. 2191, the Warner-Lieberman cap-and-trade proposal, will increase the cost of coal for power generation by between 161% and 413%. DOE estimates GDP losses (see chart) over the 21-year period they forecast, at between $444 billion and $1.308 trillion, with particular damage to the manufacturing sector. (This gives some hope that organized labor will, in a rare occurrence, oppose Democratic leaders on this issue.) Winegarden estimates that this bill could increase unemployment by 2.7% or about 4 million jobs. In fact, companies are already preparing to avoid increased level and volatility of American energy prices by setting up factories and partnerships in countries which won’t be subject to cap-and-trade restrictions…proving with real-world behavior of producers that no carbon-limiting regulation can succeed if it is not universal.

Yep, 4 million jobs. Let’s face it, cap and trade is just another redistribution program. This time from one company to another. I suppose the idea is to make companies produce less emissions to solve a problem that doesn’t really exist. What it will do for sure is cost companies billions of dollars in a thinly disguised tax. Just what the economy needs isn’t it?

h/t GatewayPundit

Obama to Mayors: don’t waste what we stole

2009-02-20T19:20:46Z

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So Obama today told mayors across the country not to waste the money that he and democrats stole from the American people. With such hypocrisy as

“With that comes an unprecedented obligation to do so wisely, free from politics and personal agendas,” the president said. “On this I will not compromise or tolerate any shortcut.”

Free from politics and personal agendas? Really? Like that 8 billion Reid Railroad? or the 30 million mouse for Pelosi?

There is more though:

“If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money, I will not hesitate to call them out on it, and put a stop to it,” Obama said.

Now we’re talking!! Maybe that Millionaire Mouse won’t make it now!

FNC had it right:

The president did not specify how, exactly, he would call out one of his administration’s own agencies or a local government.

Pressure to remove Burris is heating up

2009-02-20T18:54:55Z

First it was the republicans, then it was black pastors, now it is his fellow senator from Illinois.

How much more can Burris take before he finally has to call it quits? Maybe he will go on a road show like Blago did. That would be entertaining.

More Do As I Say Not As I Do

2009-02-12T23:17:53Z

This is unbelievable. Obama is actually telling people to live within their means while he is stealing their money, their kids money and probably their grandkids money.

h/t GatewayPundit

Liberals continue to show their hatred

2009-02-12T19:49:44Z

Mike Malloy had this insightful thing to say:

“They’re worse than useless. These are terrorists. These are domestic terrorists. They want the country to fail, for God’s sake. They want exactly what anyone who attacked this country on September 11, 2001 wanted. The real internal terrorists are the Republicans, I mean, isn’t that clear? Rush Limbaugh is a bigger threat to this country than Osama bin Laden. He’s a bigger threat than anybody that the CIA can invent. He’s a bigger threat than any terrorist that ever leveled its sights against the United States, Limbaugh is, so why isn’t he arrested and sentenced for treason?”

Seriously, what is wrong with these people? What kind of drugs are these morons taking?

Why Illegal Aliens Should Be Shot

2009-02-09T19:54:34Z

Every citizen who lives along the border should be able to shoot on site. Period. The nerve of these fucking criminals to come into our country , destroy property of a LEGAL citizen and then turn around and sue that person? You have got to be kidding me.

The Washington Times says:

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.

His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as “the avenue of choice” for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.

Can you believe this shit? Their civil rights? What about the rights of the rancher and his property you are trespassing on, let alone destroyed?

Instead of rounding them up, he should have shot them instead. Anybody not coming into this country by legal means should be treated as invading this country and shot on site.

Democrats smoking gun revealed

2009-02-09T17:25:15Z

This is truly scary and if it is true, could drastically change this country for a very long time. The following is a transcript from a Chicago democrat that was told what this stimulus package is really for. Read and weep.

“I really feel that what I’m gonna give you here is a smoking gun.

I’m a conservative Democrat and I’m from Chicago… and I, I feel that I was betrayed.

I was in a meeting after Obama got elected and I was told by the Democratic officials in that meeting that we were gonna give billions of dollars that was gonna come down the pike, our way, and what we were to do with it was we were supposed to do with it…

We are gonna build an army of Democratic patronage jobs…. gonna completely freeze up the Republicans forever and ever…

It’s a job-capturing system, the same one they have in Chicago… everyone’s asking ‘why isn’t that money being released until 2011 and 2012?’

Because it needs to be released at a time that’s close to the election, so that they don’t go blow the money and spend it. So they’re gonna hold some back and that’s where… the real bucks will be spent, right up close to the election.

…It’s not a stimulus package, it’s not pork! It’s a job patronage system… there’s gonna be more [people] working for the Democrats in a patronage system than the United States Army…

And the jobs are gonna be camouflaged in a million different ways, whether you’re workin’ for the city, or workin’ for the state, but when the election comes around, you’re gonna be obligated to go out and get that vote… …like ACORN, except the jobs will be larger scale. I just wanted to say that, because I was really depressed when they told me, because I really thought they’d be different.

If I’ve done nothing else in my life, I’ve informed what that bill really is… it’s a job patronage system.”

here is the originating video:

h/t DirectoryBlue

Is this where we are heading?

2009-02-09T16:41:23Z

HotAir.com has a post about the impending collapse of the Venezuela government due in large part to Hugo Chavez’s spending on social programs and not paying the contractors that keep his one vital money maker flowing. oil.

What does this have to do with the U.S.? Simple. The U.S. is borrowing heavily from China to fund our social programs and at any time they could simply stop, or keep going to the point where we can’t afford to borrow anymore and worse, not pay anything back. What will happen then?

Here is my favorite part:

Chavez faces another key vote this year. If he stops spending money on his pet projects, he’ll lose the support of the poor, practically his only constituency now. If he doesn’t pay the contractors, though, his entire economy could collapse, creating a huge backlash against the man who claimed nationalization would cure all Venezuela’s ills. Chavez may soon reach the end of his rope, and as Benito Mussolini discovered when his dictatorship resulted in disaster, that’s not necessarily a figurative phrase.

Many in this country also think socialism is the way to go. Newsweek even claims we are already there, that we are just like France.

Will we fore go our failed social programs to save the country? Is that what it will take for people of this country to finally wake up and see what a mess government controlled social programs are and how they are slowing killing us? I’m not generally a pessimist, but I have no faith in the American public. This past election has proven how the ignorant and lazy can elect people into office whose only goal is power and corruption.

Obama hat tip to the unions

2009-02-09T01:41:27Z

In another move to give kickbacks to his union supporters, Obama signed legislation that says that only union-based companies can big on government projects. This move negatively affects 25,000 companies. So much so that The Association of Building Contractors has condemned the executive order.

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today denounced an Executive Order signed by President Obama that repeals Executive Order 13202, that prohibited federal agencies and recipients of federal funding from requiring contractors to sign union-only project labor agreements (PLAs) as a condition of performing work on federal and federally funded construction projects.

“Today’s decision to repeal Executive Order 13202 opens the door to waste and discrimination in federal and federally funded construction contracts,” said ABC President and CEO Kirk Pickerel. “This action removes the safeguards that prohibited discrimination based upon union affiliation in the awarding of federal contracts.

“Construction contracts subject to union-only PLAs are designed to be awarded exclusively to unionized contractors and their all-union workforces,” said Pickerel. “Absent the economic benefits of competitive bidding, union-only PLAs are known to increase construction costs between 10 percent and 20 percent and discriminate against minorities, women and qualified construction workers who have traditionally been excluded from union membership.

“Union-only PLAs drive up costs for American taxpayers while unfairly discriminating against 84 percent of U.S. construction workers who choose not to join a labor union,” added Pickerel. “All taxpayers should have the opportunity to compete fairly on any project funded by the federal government.”

Way to go. In a time of huge unemployment, let’s eliminate the possibility of putting some people to work. Combined with their so called “free choice act”, then unions will become the man behind the curtain running this country.

h/t GatewayPundit

Barney Frank wants more government control of private companies

2009-02-07T01:05:03Z

Not content with capping executives pay at $500k for companies that receive government funding, Barney wants to extend it to all companies regardless of if they get government help or not.

via HotAir:

Congress will consider legislation to extend some of the curbs on executive pay that now apply only to those banks receiving federal assistance, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said.

“There’s deeply rooted anger on the part of the average American,” the Massachusetts Democrat said at a Washington news conference today.

He said the compensation restrictions would apply to all financial institutions and might be extended to include all U.S. companies.

The provision will be part of a broader package that would likely give the Federal Reserve the authority to monitor systemic risk in the economy and to shut down financial institutions that face too much exposure, Mr. Frank said…

Mr. Geithner said he would consider “extending at least some of the TARP provisions and features of the $500,000 cap to U.S. companies generally.”

Nevermind the hatred that the public has for congress. Nevermind that BJ Barney helped get us into the mess we are in.

If the word gets out about this, expect to see companies jump overseas and massive amounts of money flowing into the Republican coffers.

Michael Steele cleaning house

2009-02-06T18:25:12Z

The new RNC chair has asked the entire RNC staff for their resignations, signaling a massive cleanup in the GOP.

From Ben Smith

A Republican source says newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has requested the resignations of the entire RNC staff and signaled a dramatic turnover at the party organization.

Some aides may be retained, though Republicans are under the impression that Steele will lead a large-scale changeover in the institution, which has about 100 staffers. Obama’s new team at the Democratic National Committee also requested mass resignations.

Many, including communications staffers, have been told their last day is Feb. 15

Quite frankly I think this is a good idea and needs to happen.

GM invests outside the US

2009-02-01T06:40:16Z

Back in November I mentioned what I would do if I was GM and got a bailout. Well, it seems like GM is starting down route by taking 1 billion they received from the government and investing it in Brazil.

From The Latin American Herald Tribune:

SAO PAULO — General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker.

According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the U.S. government and will be used to “complete the renovation of the line of products up to 2012.”

“It wouldn’t be logical to withdraw the investment from where we’re growing, and our goal is to protect investments in emerging markets,” he said in a statement published by the business daily Gazeta Mercantil.

While I don’t relish the thought of my tax dollars going to investment in another country, it isn’t like they spent $50 million on a new jet or something stupid like that. If anything it might help the US company stay afloat in the future, which is good for the US economy.

H/T Gateway Pundit

So much for no earmarks

2009-01-29T00:40:34Z

Didn’t Obama say he didn’t want any earmarks in this stimulus package?

So much for that idea, this so-called stimulus package is full of garbage:

Here are some numbers/items (remember, all in the name of “saving jobs, and saving America’s economy”):

Page 41: The Coast Guard wants more than $572 million for “Acquisition, Construction, & Improvements” They claim these funds will create 1,235 new jobs. Crunch the numbers and this brings the cost of “creating” each job to a staggering $460,000+

Page 23: $200 million for Dep. of Defense to acquire alternative energy vehicles.

Page 32: $1.5 billion (with a “B”) for a “carbon-capturing contest”

Page 64: $3.5 billion for higher education facilities. This is ridiculous as I know in Georgia the Board of Regents has imposed a “temporary” (yea right!) $75 fee per student during this economic crisis. The funds from this per-student fee stays at the school and is used to offset current budget shortfalls.

We at AASU are starting construction on our new student center, all paid for by student fees. No tax money has been used during any process of this planning. How about asking other higher education institutions to do the same, or hold off on any renovations, additions, etc.?

What is especially funny though is that during today’s press conference before the vote, Robert Gibbs was asked repeatedly about all these little pork projects. Over and over again he kept saying that we shouldn’t worry about those things and focus on the bigger picture.

The $75 million for smoking cessation was brought up several times by reporters and one even asked why that money couldn’t be better used for helping people out instead of this pork. Same response: don’t worry about it.

Well, given that the GOP all voted against the bill in the house, they are definitely making a statement that this is solely on the democrats lap and they will fall with it. Unfortunately we still have to pick up the tab.

GOP takes a stand on the stimulus

2009-01-29T00:27:05Z

The house republicans took a stand today and note one voted for the democrat stimulus plan. This despite Obama meeting with GOP leaders the other day. About time they took a stand.

Here is the vote count: