Solis Senate Session Postponed in Wake of Husband's Tax Lien Revelations
A Senate committee today abruptly canceled a session to consider President Obama's nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be labor secretary in the wake of a report saying that her husband yesterday paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business -- including liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.
The report, by USA Today, came just before the Senate's Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee was slated to meet to consider Solis's nomination, which had been delayed by questions over her role on the board of the pro-labor organization American Rights at Work. A source said that committee members did not learn about the tax issue until today.
I think we should all pitch in to buy and send a copy of Turbo Tax to the White House. It couldn't hurt.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Obama Paid $76 B Too Much For Stock, But Not A Dime For Families
Watchdog: Treasury overpaid for bank stocks
A government watchdog group says the federal government overpaid for stocks and other assets from financial institutions under its $700 billion rescue program.
The chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the bailout funds told the Senate Banking committee Thursday that Treasury in 2008 paid $254 billion and received assets worth about $176 billion.
The figures were reached by extrapolating the results of a study of 10 government transactions.
They haven't cleaned up the last mess and right now 16 senators are closeted behind closed doors, where voters can't see or hear what they're doing, deciding how to spend the next trillion dollars. And because it is so important and needs so much consideration and thought, they want to pass the 'stimulus' package by tonight. Fast thinkers, they. Faster talkers.
Way to go Congress. You are hellbent on screwing up big time.
A government watchdog group says the federal government overpaid for stocks and other assets from financial institutions under its $700 billion rescue program.
The chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the bailout funds told the Senate Banking committee Thursday that Treasury in 2008 paid $254 billion and received assets worth about $176 billion.
The figures were reached by extrapolating the results of a study of 10 government transactions.
They haven't cleaned up the last mess and right now 16 senators are closeted behind closed doors, where voters can't see or hear what they're doing, deciding how to spend the next trillion dollars. And because it is so important and needs so much consideration and thought, they want to pass the 'stimulus' package by tonight. Fast thinkers, they. Faster talkers.
Way to go Congress. You are hellbent on screwing up big time.
Obama Admin: Get ready, $4 Gas Will Be Cheap!
You may not be able to save your job or your house, but you'll be saving Mother Earth! At least that is what you are being told.
Drilling here and drilling now will create more jobs that any stimulus plan coming of of the District of Calamity. We won't see any new jobs in our energy sector unless we count the paper jobs of the green movement.
Will different forms of energy that pollute less be created? Yep, you bet, but will government create them? Nope, you can bet on that too. To continue to destroy petroleum based energy at this point is to help destroy our economy.
Via Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancelled oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of land in Utah. This will most likely end the possibility of any drilling and hope for any income or new jobs in the area.Rather than develop domestic resources of energy here at home, the Obama Administration just cancelled development of oil and gas reserves in Utah.
The problems with "new energy" are momentous and will not be solved in the near future.
If Obama wants to create real change, he could stop the government from being hijacked by enviro-mental wack job groups as a start to get our country moving again.
On the other hand, maybe Obama is beholding to the groups that started this hysteria in the first place for his election. That would be more likely.
Drilling here and drilling now will create more jobs that any stimulus plan coming of of the District of Calamity. We won't see any new jobs in our energy sector unless we count the paper jobs of the green movement.
Will different forms of energy that pollute less be created? Yep, you bet, but will government create them? Nope, you can bet on that too. To continue to destroy petroleum based energy at this point is to help destroy our economy.
Via Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancelled oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of land in Utah. This will most likely end the possibility of any drilling and hope for any income or new jobs in the area.Rather than develop domestic resources of energy here at home, the Obama Administration just cancelled development of oil and gas reserves in Utah.
The problems with "new energy" are momentous and will not be solved in the near future.
If Obama wants to create real change, he could stop the government from being hijacked by enviro-mental wack job groups as a start to get our country moving again.
On the other hand, maybe Obama is beholding to the groups that started this hysteria in the first place for his election. That would be more likely.
Obama Liberal Building Federal Winchester House
The work never stops. The workers never grumble because the money is great, they just keep hammering and never ask any questions. They build stairs to nowhere. The put in doors that open to a neck breaking drop. There is no master plan outside of never stop building. Money doesn't matter. Guilt builds this house. Guilt from people never known, but the guilt of others drives a structure costing huge amounts of money to build a structure that is utterly useless except to assuage the guilt and be a monument to stupidity that others can gawk at.
The useless stairs might have a simple explanation; the stairs were likely a part of the original house that Mrs. Winchester bought, and when she started adding on to the home, she covered up the stairs. Whether it was accidentally or on purpose, Mrs. Winchester usually covered up her mistakes by just continuing to build around them. Because she had no master plan for the house, her architectural ideas didn't always work out. Since she had no deadline for completion, she'd either tear down the mistake or cover it up with something else.
Tall towers that look good, to some, but have no use other than to delight those that would never see the mess hidden by brick-a-brack and other eye candy..
Rooms that went on and on, some which a visitor might not know how to get out of, while others seemed to have no purpose.
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Huge rooms with echoes of grandness which unfortunately others would never see.
The Winchester House, built ceaselessly by money others made, but expended for guilt, is the perfect example of government spending that few really understand, never think that they will bear the cost of and often only benefits those that work in the echoing halls as mere bureaucrats, legislative carpenters, and seldom helps those it is purported to be built for.
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Obama is just a new chapter in the age old fairy tale that government is 'change' that will help ordinary citizens. This change is just selfishness by those practicing it with other people's money.
Nicotine Addiction Will Fuel Democrat Addiction To Spending
Congress today passed a bill expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, allocating an additional $32.8 billion in funding for the program over the next four and a half years. President Barack Obama plans to sign the bill into law in a White House ceremony later this afternoon.
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The measure, which passed the House by a vote of 290-135, including 40 Republicans supporting it, calls for a 62-cent increase in the federal tax on cigarettes, bringing the total tax to $1 per pack.
As with most addictions, like blue dress babies in the Oval Office, Obama could just not wait to get his fix. And I am not talking about smoking in the boys room even though I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that boy could hot box a butt in one drag.
Obama's five-day rule: Broken again
Yet one of Obama's campaign promises -- the "Sunlight Before Signing" pledge -- was that he would not sign any non-emergency bills without offering the public five days to review and comment on the legislation.
Just tell the children that the addictions of others will pay for them. Isn't that like the drug dealer on the corner who justifies his trade by saying that the people need it and he's just filling a need?. Now there's a message we should all give our kids. What's next, government pimping to stop global warming?
Does that make Obama the 'sunlight' messiah or the main man, the pusher?
If you can't lie no better.........
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The measure, which passed the House by a vote of 290-135, including 40 Republicans supporting it, calls for a 62-cent increase in the federal tax on cigarettes, bringing the total tax to $1 per pack.
As with most addictions, like blue dress babies in the Oval Office, Obama could just not wait to get his fix. And I am not talking about smoking in the boys room even though I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that boy could hot box a butt in one drag.
Obama's five-day rule: Broken again
Yet one of Obama's campaign promises -- the "Sunlight Before Signing" pledge -- was that he would not sign any non-emergency bills without offering the public five days to review and comment on the legislation.
Just tell the children that the addictions of others will pay for them. Isn't that like the drug dealer on the corner who justifies his trade by saying that the people need it and he's just filling a need?. Now there's a message we should all give our kids. What's next, government pimping to stop global warming?
Does that make Obama the 'sunlight' messiah or the main man, the pusher?
If you can't lie no better.........
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
The Feds $26.8 million Bribe For Ohio - Seatbelts
The nanny state continues to grow. Each year the federal government offers bribes to states to do as the fed tells them and this year it is that all Ohioans must wear seat belts or the cash poor state of Ohio won't get the big bucks.
Cash-strapped states mull seat belt law changes
Drivers better buckle up or pay the price: More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists just for not wearing their seat belts.
More than a dozen states that are considering making the switch to primary seat-belt enforcement laws need to do so before July to be eligible for millions in federal money.
One of those states is Ohio, which would get $26.8 million if it changes its law. Currently, officers in the state must first have some other reason to stop drivers over before issuing seat-belt citations.
States without primary seat-belt enforcement that want the federal money must pass a bill and have it signed by the governor by June 30 - and begin issuing citations by Sept. 30 - to qualify for federal funds, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The federal money attached to seat-belt enforcement can only be spent for highway-related projects.
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Still, the proposed change faces obstacles in states like Ohio, where many Republicans - who control the Senate - oppose it because of libertarian philosophies.
"People ought to be able to decide whether they want to drive 75 mph without their belt on," said House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder, a Republican from Medina.
And some lawmakers are hesitant to hand police more authority to stop motorists, believing that would lead to violations of Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure, Batchelder said.
It is nice to hear the new Minority Leader in the House speak as a Republican should. The fact that he is a conservative makes it even better.
Bribe or no bribe, get government out of my life as much as possible.
Cash-strapped states mull seat belt law changes
Drivers better buckle up or pay the price: More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists just for not wearing their seat belts.
More than a dozen states that are considering making the switch to primary seat-belt enforcement laws need to do so before July to be eligible for millions in federal money.
One of those states is Ohio, which would get $26.8 million if it changes its law. Currently, officers in the state must first have some other reason to stop drivers over before issuing seat-belt citations.
States without primary seat-belt enforcement that want the federal money must pass a bill and have it signed by the governor by June 30 - and begin issuing citations by Sept. 30 - to qualify for federal funds, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The federal money attached to seat-belt enforcement can only be spent for highway-related projects.
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Still, the proposed change faces obstacles in states like Ohio, where many Republicans - who control the Senate - oppose it because of libertarian philosophies.
"People ought to be able to decide whether they want to drive 75 mph without their belt on," said House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder, a Republican from Medina.
And some lawmakers are hesitant to hand police more authority to stop motorists, believing that would lead to violations of Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure, Batchelder said.
It is nice to hear the new Minority Leader in the House speak as a Republican should. The fact that he is a conservative makes it even better.
Bribe or no bribe, get government out of my life as much as possible.
If The 'Stimulus' Bill Scares You, Here's Why
The stimulus bill is breathtaking in it's stupidity and in it's blatant power grab by Democrats. If you wonder who wrote this bill you might be onto why the bill is one of the ugliest and unAmerican bills ever introduced in the United States Congress.
The 647-page bill was introduced by Rep. David Obey, D-Wisc., as well as Reps. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., among others.
The bill, as odious as it is, seems to be just a start for the seemingly never ending power of the government to take over business and every other part of our country. Now, our glorious leader, hot off his nominee successes and standing next to tax genius, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, stomped his foot, held his breath and announced what he will and will not allow:
"For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste. It's bad strategy. And I will not tolerate it as president," he said.
How special. He will not tolerate it. He knows more about business than anyone else in the world and he will not tolerate it. What a special moment for all the self-righteous know-it-all wanna-be bureaucratic nannies of the world. Ah, if he were only emperor....
Back to those that crafted this ugliest baby ever born in Congress.
Davis Obey, a wackjob liberal known for his civility when he's not trying to rip the nuts off someone he disagrees with.
Charlie Rangel, beloved by all halfwit bad criminals world wide.
Henry Waxman, an expert on the invisible markings on the black helicopters flying over his house at midnight, who hates corporations and those that make money when he can't.
Barney Franks, what does one say about Barney? How about he was, in a very large part, the reason we are in a financial mess right now. That and that he's like the maiden aunt who believes a succubus is in the basement wishing to do unmentionables to her.
Could this really be the change Obama promised us? It looks more like an incompetent rookie reaching too far with the help of people that don't get out enough. That is a combination that scares me a lot.
The 647-page bill was introduced by Rep. David Obey, D-Wisc., as well as Reps. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., among others.
The bill, as odious as it is, seems to be just a start for the seemingly never ending power of the government to take over business and every other part of our country. Now, our glorious leader, hot off his nominee successes and standing next to tax genius, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, stomped his foot, held his breath and announced what he will and will not allow:
"For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste. It's bad strategy. And I will not tolerate it as president," he said.
How special. He will not tolerate it. He knows more about business than anyone else in the world and he will not tolerate it. What a special moment for all the self-righteous know-it-all wanna-be bureaucratic nannies of the world. Ah, if he were only emperor....
Back to those that crafted this ugliest baby ever born in Congress.
Davis Obey, a wackjob liberal known for his civility when he's not trying to rip the nuts off someone he disagrees with.
Charlie Rangel, beloved by all halfwit bad criminals world wide.
Henry Waxman, an expert on the invisible markings on the black helicopters flying over his house at midnight, who hates corporations and those that make money when he can't.
Barney Franks, what does one say about Barney? How about he was, in a very large part, the reason we are in a financial mess right now. That and that he's like the maiden aunt who believes a succubus is in the basement wishing to do unmentionables to her.
Could this really be the change Obama promised us? It looks more like an incompetent rookie reaching too far with the help of people that don't get out enough. That is a combination that scares me a lot.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
French Gothic Castle
Near Vladimer, Russia Home of V. Khrapovitzky
Architect P. S. Boitzov
Built before the Communist Revolution in Russia, the home was a french style Gothic castle. It has been decaying since the Bolsheviks seized power.
The owners died penniless in France.
Biden Laughs At Chief Justice, World Laughs At Biden
Jabberin' Joe never has had control of his verbal diarrhea. He just had to make a joke at Chief Justice Robert's expense, which didn't make The Obama happy, but sometimes what goes around comes around.
Biden flubbing up with a new senator
Biden flubbing up with SOS Clinton
Biden flubbing up with a new senator
Biden flubbing up with SOS Clinton
Daschle Out: Obama Bus Carnage Grows
Posting a catcher with a big mitt under the bus is now standard practice in this administration to handle those thrown under the bus by Obama. Daschle is said to have decided on his own. So did Richardson. So did Nancy Killefer. Oh never mind, you get the drift, don't you grandmother.
Maybe it's time to simplify our tax code such as cutting the amount and type of taxes in place at the IRS.
Maybe the Democrats will just start holding tax classes for their candidates and nominees. After all, they are the party of taxation.
UPDATE: Gibbs just said that the Obama administration has set the ethics bar higher than any other administration. Yep, at just the right height to knee-cap their own people.
Maybe it's time to simplify our tax code such as cutting the amount and type of taxes in place at the IRS.
Maybe the Democrats will just start holding tax classes for their candidates and nominees. After all, they are the party of taxation.
UPDATE: Gibbs just said that the Obama administration has set the ethics bar higher than any other administration. Yep, at just the right height to knee-cap their own people.
Obama's Administration Looking Bad
Or, those pictures in the Post Office.
Obama chose Jeffords to bolster his campaign promise call for bipartisanship, even if the necessary reach forJeffords was really only part way across the aisle. Another promise was that no dirty low-down scummy bad-for-America lobbyist would play any part in his administration. Oops. About 17 in top positions right about now.
Obama also called for a cleanup of Washington, DC. Unfortunately, the swamp has been enlarged and deepened by Pelosi, not drained. Baltimore meet Chicago. How's that "most ethical Congress ever" thing working for you now?
Growing list of 'honest mistakes'
What does it take to disqualify Democrats from public service? Suborning forgery? Sen. Joseph Crisco, D-Woodbridge, did it, but was neither arrested nor sanctioned by his colleagues. Sorry, honest mistake, he said.
Divert campaign money multiple times to pay personal expenses? Sen. Thomas Gaffey, D-Meriden, did it, but has not been censured by his colleagues, which was the punishment Congress imposed in 1967 after Sen. Christopher Dodd's father got caught doing it. Sorry, honest mistakes, Sen. Gaffey said.
Tax evasion? It wasn't enough to derail Timothy Geithner's appointment to run the Treasury Department, including the Internal Revenue Service. Didn't pay $43,000 in federal taxes? Sorry, honest mistake, he said.
It wasn't enough to end Al Franken's run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. Didn't pay $70,000 in taxes and penalties in 17 states and $25,000 in workers' compensation insurance to New York? Sorry, honest mistakes, he said.
It wasn't enough to cost Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairmanship of the House tax-writing committee, let alone his seat in Congress. Didn't declare tens of thousands in rental income from his Caribbean villa, tens of thousands in profit from the sale of his Florida condo and more than $10,000 in fees he saved by parking his vintage Mercedes in a congressional garage? Sorry, honest mistakes, said the man who helped write the tax code.
Maybe Obama will name an Ethics Czar". I hear William "Freezer" Jefferson is available.
Obama chose Jeffords to bolster his campaign promise call for bipartisanship, even if the necessary reach forJeffords was really only part way across the aisle. Another promise was that no dirty low-down scummy bad-for-America lobbyist would play any part in his administration. Oops. About 17 in top positions right about now.
Obama also called for a cleanup of Washington, DC. Unfortunately, the swamp has been enlarged and deepened by Pelosi, not drained. Baltimore meet Chicago. How's that "most ethical Congress ever" thing working for you now?
Growing list of 'honest mistakes'
What does it take to disqualify Democrats from public service? Suborning forgery? Sen. Joseph Crisco, D-Woodbridge, did it, but was neither arrested nor sanctioned by his colleagues. Sorry, honest mistake, he said.
Divert campaign money multiple times to pay personal expenses? Sen. Thomas Gaffey, D-Meriden, did it, but has not been censured by his colleagues, which was the punishment Congress imposed in 1967 after Sen. Christopher Dodd's father got caught doing it. Sorry, honest mistakes, Sen. Gaffey said.
Tax evasion? It wasn't enough to derail Timothy Geithner's appointment to run the Treasury Department, including the Internal Revenue Service. Didn't pay $43,000 in federal taxes? Sorry, honest mistake, he said.
It wasn't enough to end Al Franken's run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. Didn't pay $70,000 in taxes and penalties in 17 states and $25,000 in workers' compensation insurance to New York? Sorry, honest mistakes, he said.
It wasn't enough to cost Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairmanship of the House tax-writing committee, let alone his seat in Congress. Didn't declare tens of thousands in rental income from his Caribbean villa, tens of thousands in profit from the sale of his Florida condo and more than $10,000 in fees he saved by parking his vintage Mercedes in a congressional garage? Sorry, honest mistakes, said the man who helped write the tax code.
Maybe Obama will name an Ethics Czar". I hear William "Freezer" Jefferson is available.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Leftist Hypocrisy About Prop 8 Donors
"You can hate and discriminate in plain site, please:"
Prop 8 Donors: Find Out Who Backed California's Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
Somehow I think they might appear a tad disingenuous if they do not, hot on this fabulous victory for them, demand the same transparency, say, about all those unrecorded and prepaid credit card donors to the Obama campaign and also demand that all those liberal 527s cough up their donor lists as well.
Their response will be sadly predictable.
Prop 8 Donors: Find Out Who Backed California's Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
Somehow I think they might appear a tad disingenuous if they do not, hot on this fabulous victory for them, demand the same transparency, say, about all those unrecorded and prepaid credit card donors to the Obama campaign and also demand that all those liberal 527s cough up their donor lists as well.
Their response will be sadly predictable.
Daschle: $128,000 In The Hole For Us Because He Cares So Much He Forgot
As usual, it's everybody else's fault. Last time Turbo Tax and this time a temporary clerk. It's never their fault.
Daschle Regrets Tax ‘Errors,’ Gets Nod From Baucus
“deeply embarrassed”
Daschle amended his returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007, and paid $140,000 in taxes and interest.
Daschle refiled his returns Jan. 2 to add unreported consulting fees, unspecified charitable contributions and a car and driver provided by Leo Hindery Jr.
Daschle, 61, was aware in June that his free use of a car service might be taxable, according to a report to the Senate Finance Committee.
Daschle’s accountant decided in December that Daschle’s tax returns had to reflect use of the car, after the presidential vetting team raised the question of whether certain charitable donations were deductible, Daschle wrote in the letter.
‘Imputed’ Income
Daschle also hadn’t reported a May 2007 consulting payment of $83,333 from InterMedia, which paid him that amount each month. The tax forms provided to Daschle by InterMedia for 2007 didn’t include the payment because the money was transferred by a different method that month by a temporary clerk, InterMedia officials told the committee.
“something made him think that the car service might be taxable.”
John Kerry on the same program called the tax problem an “innocent mistake that doesn’t affect one iota his ability to do the job.”
Daschle earned $220,000 from health care industry
That was just a portion of the more than $5.2 million the former South Dakota senator earned as he advised insurers and hospitals and worked in other industries — real estate, energy and telecommunications among them, according to a financial statement filed with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Obama has said that no one in his administration who has lobbied on a set of issues within the past two years can deal with the same subject matter. The president has already approved a few exceptions, one of them a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist picked to be chief of staff for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Daschle, however, is not a registered lobbyist.
Liberals can't seem to pay the taxes they promote as a "patriotic duty" nor can Obama not find exceptions he cannot ignore for putting his early supporters and buddies in positions of power.
Obama seems to be in some rough water as seen below with his picks. His life is going to get worse with Nana Pelosi stabbing him in the back and Reid boring people to sleep at every turn.
Daschle
Geithner
Richardson
Clinton(s)
Holder
George Obama
Ray LaHood
Leon Panetta
Hilda Solis
Neal Wolin
William J. Lynn III
Sanjay Gupta
Lisa Jackson
John Brennan
Jamie Gorelick
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over," Obama said in November 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. "I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."
Daschle Regrets Tax ‘Errors,’ Gets Nod From Baucus
“deeply embarrassed”
Daschle amended his returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007, and paid $140,000 in taxes and interest.
Daschle refiled his returns Jan. 2 to add unreported consulting fees, unspecified charitable contributions and a car and driver provided by Leo Hindery Jr.
Daschle, 61, was aware in June that his free use of a car service might be taxable, according to a report to the Senate Finance Committee.
Daschle’s accountant decided in December that Daschle’s tax returns had to reflect use of the car, after the presidential vetting team raised the question of whether certain charitable donations were deductible, Daschle wrote in the letter.
‘Imputed’ Income
Daschle also hadn’t reported a May 2007 consulting payment of $83,333 from InterMedia, which paid him that amount each month. The tax forms provided to Daschle by InterMedia for 2007 didn’t include the payment because the money was transferred by a different method that month by a temporary clerk, InterMedia officials told the committee.
“something made him think that the car service might be taxable.”
John Kerry on the same program called the tax problem an “innocent mistake that doesn’t affect one iota his ability to do the job.”
Daschle earned $220,000 from health care industry
That was just a portion of the more than $5.2 million the former South Dakota senator earned as he advised insurers and hospitals and worked in other industries — real estate, energy and telecommunications among them, according to a financial statement filed with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Obama has said that no one in his administration who has lobbied on a set of issues within the past two years can deal with the same subject matter. The president has already approved a few exceptions, one of them a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist picked to be chief of staff for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Daschle, however, is not a registered lobbyist.
Liberals can't seem to pay the taxes they promote as a "patriotic duty" nor can Obama not find exceptions he cannot ignore for putting his early supporters and buddies in positions of power.
Obama seems to be in some rough water as seen below with his picks. His life is going to get worse with Nana Pelosi stabbing him in the back and Reid boring people to sleep at every turn.
Daschle
Geithner
Richardson
Clinton(s)
Holder
George Obama
Ray LaHood
Leon Panetta
Hilda Solis
Neal Wolin
William J. Lynn III
Sanjay Gupta
Lisa Jackson
John Brennan
Jamie Gorelick
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over," Obama said in November 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. "I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Obama: We're At War? Let's CUT The Pentagon's Budget 11%-$55 BILLION
Hey brave fighters, screw you! But remember, those changing Democrats love you, the troops!
To pay for the payola to all the people thatpaid worked so hard to get Obama elected, Obama feels like he needs to trim the Pentagon's budget in a time of war without regard for our troops. This is a move he planned all along. That he and the media, his media, have portrayed our economic woes as worse than the Depression is all the smoke screen he needs to start gutting our defenses. Karl Levin (D-MI) has stepped up to the plate for Obama and asked for cuts in our anti ballistic missile shield that protect us.
RED ALERT: A trillion in pork, but Pentagon must cut 11%!
President Obama wants to spend a trillion dollars on welfare, condoms, international STD prevention, 600,000 new government jobs and handouts for illegal immigrants... but negative funding for the very mission his Presidential Oath required.
The media isn't reporting this. To them the cuts are rightly inevitable, not news, because they believe the military unnecessary, if we would only sit and talk with our enemies. If we do, presto! They're no longer enemies, but our comrades.
It is bad enough that bribery is being paid, it is even worse that the leftist groups receiving the payoffs will use it to strengthen themselves, but it is unconscionable that this is all being done at the expense of our soldiers, our country and those around the world that need our protection.
How very progressive. How very Obama.
To pay for the payola to all the people that
RED ALERT: A trillion in pork, but Pentagon must cut 11%!
President Obama wants to spend a trillion dollars on welfare, condoms, international STD prevention, 600,000 new government jobs and handouts for illegal immigrants... but negative funding for the very mission his Presidential Oath required.
The media isn't reporting this. To them the cuts are rightly inevitable, not news, because they believe the military unnecessary, if we would only sit and talk with our enemies. If we do, presto! They're no longer enemies, but our comrades.
It is bad enough that bribery is being paid, it is even worse that the leftist groups receiving the payoffs will use it to strengthen themselves, but it is unconscionable that this is all being done at the expense of our soldiers, our country and those around the world that need our protection.
How very progressive. How very Obama.
Friday, January 30, 2009
MSNBC's Morris Reid: Buckwheat, Alfalfa & Obama
Buckwheat, Alfalfa and Obama.
In a stunning display of stupidity and bias MSNBC aired this piece from three morons.
O'DONNELL: Well, I want to play what she said yesterday. Because she did talk to reporters for about eight minutes. Specifically, it's the second sound bite we have here and it is about this dinner. Because she was asked if, in fact, she was heading to this dinner. And the reason it's interesting is because her staff denied to reporters, like myself, that she was actually going to this dinner. And then, she came out and revealed it. Listen to what she had to say about why she wanted to come here to Washington for this dinner.
PALIN: Alfalfa dinner, yes. In fact, that's because President Obama is scheduled to be there. And how often will I have an opportunity to have dinner with the president. I will take up that offer to do so, yeah.
O'DONNELL: Morris, didn't she call him a terrorist on the campaign trail?
MORRIS REID: Well, I think she called him a terrorist among other things. But listen, the woman's hungry. She's got to eat, Norah. We got to feed the woman, don't we.
[ O'DONNELL LAUGHS LOUDLY THROUGHOUT]
REID: You know, she lives in public housing, we got to feed her on the public doll. She got a bridge to nowhere. We love Sarah Palin on the Democratic side. We can't get enough of her.
FEEHREY: You know, Norah, there's nothing like having dinner with 2,000 of your closest friends and the president. So it's going to be a small intimate dinner.
O'DONNELL: However, it is not 2,000 people.
REID: I think -- I don't think she knew -- I think she -- Norah, I think she thought it was just her, and Buckwheat, and Alfalfa, with the president at dinner. She's just clueless, it's ridiculous.
O'DONNELL: Well, she is meeting also with a number of senators, including the Republican leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell, as well as, I think, some -- Senator Snow, there's going to be a private dinner for her at Fred Malik's house. So she is doing a little bit of courting. Many people think that could mean she's gearing up for 2012.
Morris Reid, John Feehery, great to talk to both of you. Thanks so much.
Now, NoraO'Donnell has never been described as the sharpest tool in the shed, but she has to be the only person in DC that didn''t know that Palin was going to the Alfalfa Dinner. That she, Reid and what'shisname got a good chuckle repeating lies about Gov Palin is only indicative of just how brown their noses are. I'd recommend to them that in polite company that they use a Depends as a face mask so as not to offend anyone more than they already do.
Buckwheat, Alfalfa and Obama indeed. A real howler.
Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the h/t
In a stunning display of stupidity and bias MSNBC aired this piece from three morons.
O'DONNELL: Well, I want to play what she said yesterday. Because she did talk to reporters for about eight minutes. Specifically, it's the second sound bite we have here and it is about this dinner. Because she was asked if, in fact, she was heading to this dinner. And the reason it's interesting is because her staff denied to reporters, like myself, that she was actually going to this dinner. And then, she came out and revealed it. Listen to what she had to say about why she wanted to come here to Washington for this dinner.
PALIN: Alfalfa dinner, yes. In fact, that's because President Obama is scheduled to be there. And how often will I have an opportunity to have dinner with the president. I will take up that offer to do so, yeah.
O'DONNELL: Morris, didn't she call him a terrorist on the campaign trail?
MORRIS REID: Well, I think she called him a terrorist among other things. But listen, the woman's hungry. She's got to eat, Norah. We got to feed the woman, don't we.
[ O'DONNELL LAUGHS LOUDLY THROUGHOUT]
REID: You know, she lives in public housing, we got to feed her on the public doll. She got a bridge to nowhere. We love Sarah Palin on the Democratic side. We can't get enough of her.
FEEHREY: You know, Norah, there's nothing like having dinner with 2,000 of your closest friends and the president. So it's going to be a small intimate dinner.
O'DONNELL: However, it is not 2,000 people.
REID: I think -- I don't think she knew -- I think she -- Norah, I think she thought it was just her, and Buckwheat, and Alfalfa, with the president at dinner. She's just clueless, it's ridiculous.
O'DONNELL: Well, she is meeting also with a number of senators, including the Republican leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell, as well as, I think, some -- Senator Snow, there's going to be a private dinner for her at Fred Malik's house. So she is doing a little bit of courting. Many people think that could mean she's gearing up for 2012.
Morris Reid, John Feehery, great to talk to both of you. Thanks so much.
Now, NoraO'Donnell has never been described as the sharpest tool in the shed, but she has to be the only person in DC that didn''t know that Palin was going to the Alfalfa Dinner. That she, Reid and what'shisname got a good chuckle repeating lies about Gov Palin is only indicative of just how brown their noses are. I'd recommend to them that in polite company that they use a Depends as a face mask so as not to offend anyone more than they already do.
Buckwheat, Alfalfa and Obama indeed. A real howler.
Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the h/t
Nanna Pelosi NonPartisan
Oh, please.
Nana Nonpartisan:
“I didn’t come here to be partisan. I didn’t come here to be bipartisan. I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest.
The president’s agenda is reflected in this legislation. It’s — I mentioned, some of the priorities that were there about creating jobs, cutting taxes, helping states through this difficult economic time, and to do so in a fiscally sound way.
People vote for what they believe in. Clearly, the Republicans did not believe in the agenda that I just described for you, and that’s probably one of the reasons they voted that way. I think they probably voted their conscience and they couldn’t support that. …
We reached out to the Republicans all along the way, and they know it. And they know it. They were part of the original bill, with the — some of the tax provisions were their suggestions. They had what they asked for in terms of committee mark-up. They had the rule on the floor that gave them plenty of opportunity to make changes. They just didn’t have the ideas that had the support of the majority of the people in the Congress. ”
Nana Nonpartisan:
“I didn’t come here to be partisan. I didn’t come here to be bipartisan. I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest.
The president’s agenda is reflected in this legislation. It’s — I mentioned, some of the priorities that were there about creating jobs, cutting taxes, helping states through this difficult economic time, and to do so in a fiscally sound way.
People vote for what they believe in. Clearly, the Republicans did not believe in the agenda that I just described for you, and that’s probably one of the reasons they voted that way. I think they probably voted their conscience and they couldn’t support that. …
We reached out to the Republicans all along the way, and they know it. And they know it. They were part of the original bill, with the — some of the tax provisions were their suggestions. They had what they asked for in terms of committee mark-up. They had the rule on the floor that gave them plenty of opportunity to make changes. They just didn’t have the ideas that had the support of the majority of the people in the Congress. ”
Obama's Election Signals Full Frontal On Capitalism Worldwide
The pot dots are in high dudgeon world wide over perceived wrongs done them.
At the moment, those on the left here in America have their marching orders to attack Rush Limbaugh and it is humorous to read and hear the dire predictions and see their outrageous puffery from high to low screeching and lectures are coming from mostly unread blogs here in Ohio all the way up to President Obama. All seem to be on the same page, same note, but as usual, all are off key, but feeling mighty empowered by it all. Man the barricades, dudes, the fight is on. Power to the people!!
The unions are sniffing victory in the wind with Mr. Change snugly in the White House and Reid Pelosi in the power palace of poverty. By the way, Congress is just down the street in DC from the marble temples to the working man in which the union leaders are directing their people to express outrage at how corporations have destroyed them. I love the irony that the press, union members themselves, can't seem to see that it is the unions and liberal policy that have caused the whole mess. Defend the market system just to watch the apoplexy attack in a liberal.
Riots in France, the poster child for union absurdity, and Germany caused Guy Ryder, the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), to whine about a time bomb of crisis and other incendiary images to warn of soaring crime. As if a union needs an excuse. His real point is that the unions will get what they want or they will destroy governments and forms of government, especially:
“We are on the road to serious social instability, which could be extremely dangerous in some countries to democracy itself.”
He said: “Davos does not make me at all confident. I don’t see any of the leadership here that is needed to get us out of this crisis . . . There is very little contrition here.”
I'm sure Mr. Ryder feels contrition as he flies first class and rides in his limo.
From Australia we get this twisted spin on economics:
Sharan Burrow, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said that the world was now witnessing the human cost of “casino capitalism” as the impacts of rising unemployment and home repossessions and of plunges in savings and pension funds hit millions of families.
Ms Burrow said: “Why shouldn’t working people be angry? Their money is being used to stabilise the financial system, but it is their wealth, their jobs and the welfare of their children that is being stripped away.”
Ms Burrow might want to take a deep breath and realize that the financial system is their financial system and working together, instead of being adversarial, might help the markets recover. Like that's going to happen. She likes her little perch of power too much.
Mr Ryder, always good for a headline, went further:
However, Mr Ryder issued a blunt assessment of this year’s World Economic Forum. “The certainties that have defined Davos for the past ten years have collapsed,” he said. “We are witnessing the collapse of an entire system of ideas.”
Capitalism is strong. Is it strong enough to face down this worldwide assault? We'll see, but it will be those that won't be bullied that will right the ship in the end, as always. The specter of this 'change' will grow, but who will tell of the horrors in the history of this brave new world in which whole classes of workers sink into despair and a gray gloom as the mechanics of 'change' turn the screw just one more notch, because then it will all work, don't you see?
It's history tragically repeating itself as the purveyors of hope tell tales of human brotherhood uniting in a great revolution where all people are equal. Equally out of work or equally working meaningless nationalized jobs and are equally, but fairly you see, poor.
What a nightmare of unhappiness being dreamed by the unhappy for the rest of us to share that we do not want.
At the moment, those on the left here in America have their marching orders to attack Rush Limbaugh and it is humorous to read and hear the dire predictions and see their outrageous puffery from high to low screeching and lectures are coming from mostly unread blogs here in Ohio all the way up to President Obama. All seem to be on the same page, same note, but as usual, all are off key, but feeling mighty empowered by it all. Man the barricades, dudes, the fight is on. Power to the people!!
The unions are sniffing victory in the wind with Mr. Change snugly in the White House and Reid Pelosi in the power palace of poverty. By the way, Congress is just down the street in DC from the marble temples to the working man in which the union leaders are directing their people to express outrage at how corporations have destroyed them. I love the irony that the press, union members themselves, can't seem to see that it is the unions and liberal policy that have caused the whole mess. Defend the market system just to watch the apoplexy attack in a liberal.
Riots in France, the poster child for union absurdity, and Germany caused Guy Ryder, the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), to whine about a time bomb of crisis and other incendiary images to warn of soaring crime. As if a union needs an excuse. His real point is that the unions will get what they want or they will destroy governments and forms of government, especially:
“We are on the road to serious social instability, which could be extremely dangerous in some countries to democracy itself.”
He said: “Davos does not make me at all confident. I don’t see any of the leadership here that is needed to get us out of this crisis . . . There is very little contrition here.”
I'm sure Mr. Ryder feels contrition as he flies first class and rides in his limo.
From Australia we get this twisted spin on economics:
Sharan Burrow, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said that the world was now witnessing the human cost of “casino capitalism” as the impacts of rising unemployment and home repossessions and of plunges in savings and pension funds hit millions of families.
Ms Burrow said: “Why shouldn’t working people be angry? Their money is being used to stabilise the financial system, but it is their wealth, their jobs and the welfare of their children that is being stripped away.”
Ms Burrow might want to take a deep breath and realize that the financial system is their financial system and working together, instead of being adversarial, might help the markets recover. Like that's going to happen. She likes her little perch of power too much.
Mr Ryder, always good for a headline, went further:
However, Mr Ryder issued a blunt assessment of this year’s World Economic Forum. “The certainties that have defined Davos for the past ten years have collapsed,” he said. “We are witnessing the collapse of an entire system of ideas.”
Capitalism is strong. Is it strong enough to face down this worldwide assault? We'll see, but it will be those that won't be bullied that will right the ship in the end, as always. The specter of this 'change' will grow, but who will tell of the horrors in the history of this brave new world in which whole classes of workers sink into despair and a gray gloom as the mechanics of 'change' turn the screw just one more notch, because then it will all work, don't you see?
It's history tragically repeating itself as the purveyors of hope tell tales of human brotherhood uniting in a great revolution where all people are equal. Equally out of work or equally working meaningless nationalized jobs and are equally, but fairly you see, poor.
What a nightmare of unhappiness being dreamed by the unhappy for the rest of us to share that we do not want.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Obama's Serving The World's Most Expensive Steak 'Shameful' and the 'Height of Irresponsibilty'
A tin ear administration spent $170 million on Obama's coronation.
Obama slams Wall Street over bonuses...
'Shameful'...
'Height of irresponsibility'...
Now, the Obama served Waygu steak, costing $100 per steak, at his White House arm twisting session over the need for a stimulus package that America cannot afford, but has to have because Americans are suffering so much. Maybe the champagne was cheap. You know, as an offset.
Japanese steak to address what an American Congress has done to us. Just who is marinated here? I mean we're cooked, but O's admin has to be lubed.
Shoulda been ribs soaked in Jack and rubbed with cane and served with a cold Bud with some serious slaw, baked beans and Chess Pie. Serve that and you can talk the Devil outta his own tail afterwards.
Nice job Barack. Fortunatelt, DC ain't quite yet Chi Town.
Obama slams Wall Street over bonuses...
'Shameful'...
'Height of irresponsibility'...
Now, the Obama served Waygu steak, costing $100 per steak, at his White House arm twisting session over the need for a stimulus package that America cannot afford, but has to have because Americans are suffering so much. Maybe the champagne was cheap. You know, as an offset.
Japanese steak to address what an American Congress has done to us. Just who is marinated here? I mean we're cooked, but O's admin has to be lubed.
Shoulda been ribs soaked in Jack and rubbed with cane and served with a cold Bud with some serious slaw, baked beans and Chess Pie. Serve that and you can talk the Devil outta his own tail afterwards.
Nice job Barack. Fortunatelt, DC ain't quite yet Chi Town.
Stimulus Package: Socialized Medicine, Socialized Education And Outright Bribery
The Pelosi Obama Reid (POR) stimulus package is an outright power grab to give into the hands of the federal government medical care and public education and entire sections of the voting public into the hands of the Democrat Party.
Morning Bell: The Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan
What Hillary Clinton couldn't do as First Nurse years ago, this bill will make government the default care giver for the unemployed and 3/4's of children in the United States. Recap: socialized medicine.
The bill will place the federal bureaucracy in charge, not parents and local school boards, of our children's education. "The New York Times reports today, the bill will “profoundly change the federal government’s role in education, which has traditionally been the responsibility of state and local government.”" If federal bureaucracy was already in charge we'd have Al Gore's global warming bilge, without any questions, being taught as sound science.
Then you get to the pretty littlebribes baubles, called spending priorities:
$1 billion for Amtrak - a money pit that still can't run on time or full - bring back the smoking cars
$2 billion for child care subsidies - federal control for an early age
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts - government has ruined the arts
$400 million for global warming research - better to research the coming ice age
$2.5 billion for clean coal - private business could do this for less and faster
$650 million for even more digital TV conversion coupons - 5 years lead up, so postpone and raise cost
$600 million for new government cars - won't save Detroit from Washington
$7 billion for modernizing federal buildings - tear down half of them for new business
$150 million for the Smithsonian - government shouldn't be in there
$54 billion for Economic Office and Small Business Administration programs - what a waste and both proven failures
All of the above programs (and many more not listed) are ineffective and in some cases even harmful to the country and business, but POR wants to throw good money after bad as payback to their people.
Morning Bell: The Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan
What Hillary Clinton couldn't do as First Nurse years ago, this bill will make government the default care giver for the unemployed and 3/4's of children in the United States. Recap: socialized medicine.
The bill will place the federal bureaucracy in charge, not parents and local school boards, of our children's education. "The New York Times reports today, the bill will “profoundly change the federal government’s role in education, which has traditionally been the responsibility of state and local government.”" If federal bureaucracy was already in charge we'd have Al Gore's global warming bilge, without any questions, being taught as sound science.
Then you get to the pretty little
$1 billion for Amtrak - a money pit that still can't run on time or full - bring back the smoking cars
$2 billion for child care subsidies - federal control for an early age
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts - government has ruined the arts
$400 million for global warming research - better to research the coming ice age
$2.5 billion for clean coal - private business could do this for less and faster
$650 million for even more digital TV conversion coupons - 5 years lead up, so postpone and raise cost
$600 million for new government cars - won't save Detroit from Washington
$7 billion for modernizing federal buildings - tear down half of them for new business
$150 million for the Smithsonian - government shouldn't be in there
$54 billion for Economic Office and Small Business Administration programs - what a waste and both proven failures
All of the above programs (and many more not listed) are ineffective and in some cases even harmful to the country and business, but POR wants to throw good money after bad as payback to their people.
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