Where does it stop with this fool? A serious local issue, he makes national. I think it’s great. The Jackasses are going to love answering these questions on the stump. All ready some are being Scozzafavaed (NY-23). Pin the tail on the asses!

Obama’s comments take mosque story national

President Barack Obama on Saturday sought to defuse the controversy over his remarks on plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero, insisting that he wasn’t endorsing the specific project but making a general plea for religious tolerance toward all. [snip]

Already, though, Obama’s comments on the Ground Zero mosque have transformed an emotion-laden local dispute in New York into a nationwide debate overnight, setting nervous Democrats on edge and creating potentially dramatic political implications in the upcoming midterm elections.

Key Republicans had leapt to criticize Obama’s over his comments Friday on the controversial plan, with House Republican leader John Boehner calling them “deeply troubling.”[snip]

How many more reasons do you need?

The NEA is going to face the same knife as the British art scene is experiencing now. Here in Proggy Land, let the pompous and haughty Left scratch under their sofa cushions for the coinage to drop in the turnstiles at the Met, MOMA or the National Gallery. This will give them some measure of humility

The first program to cut is PBS. Let the Lefty swells pay for their precious Lehrer News Hour. The same goes for NPR; A Prairie Home Companion takes on real meaning when it’s your phone call during pledge week footing the bill. .Besides, paying for their own programming will give them a sense of accomplishment, heretofore lacking in their bereft lives.
The following is from the WAPO.

British government moves to dramatically cut public funding for the arts

[snip]
But now cash-strapped and desperate to slash the largest budget deficit in Europe, the new ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats is moving to close the curtain on an era of what they describe as excessive government patronage. [snip]

The move underscores the profound changes in the role of government that are taking place from Greece to Spain to Britain. It happens as European nations scramble to rein in runaway spending, in part by slashing public funds to sectors that came to survive — even thrive — because of them. [snip]

Panicked curators, artistic directors and art critics are warning of London’s potential fall from the vanguard of the global arts scene. In danger, for instance, are the same government-funded institutions that helped produce such films as “The Last King of Scotland” and “The Constant Gardener” as well as Broadway- and Hollywood-bound stage works such as “Jerusalem” and “War Horse.” The Royal Shakespeare Company has warned that it might be forced to scale back or do away with international productions altogether.

Alistair Spalding, artistic director of London’s cutting-edge Sadler’s Wells dance theater, said it may have no choice but to abandon the kinds of projects that helped redefine London’s street art scene. Those include recent pieces like “Electric Hotel,” which turned an abandoned plot of land into a venue where passersby became voyeurs as dancers moved behind transparent walls. “There is a crisis and cuts need to be made, but the arts are being singled out,” he said. “This is going to seriously damage the image of London as a cultural hub.”

If this production is so moving, such a must see that travelers flock to London, just for that, put up veiled translucent walls and CHARGE ADMISSION!

The cuts are set to be so deep that some observers say even the famously free London museums might need to consider admission fees, potentially affecting the pockets of millions of tourists who flock to the British capital each year. [snip]He insisted that the best works, regardless of their subject matter, would find sponsors. He noted the case of “Enron,” a British play that started in government-supported theater before finding private backers for a commercial run in London’s West End. This, he said, despite what he called the work’s “anti-capitalist themes.”

“To be honest,” he said, “I think we should spend more time recognizing that [the private sector] is prepared to fund the arts because they believe it’s the right thing to do, and less time implying this will bring with it some form of censorship.”

If there is actually something of artistic quality produced, getting private funding isn’t all that difficult. Some of the-er-ah-performance art being foisted off as “brilliant-a phenom-strikingly forward” and all the other garnishes applied to the usual drek will die a deservedly quick death.

You know the kvelling mantra. If you don’t buy-look-fawn over-donate-approve-talk about the Left’s socially correct ART, you are guilty of CENSORSHIP.
TSK-TSK-TSK, You certainly are in need of re-education at one of the camps of a stricter regime.

You know what happened with housing, the banks and the markets, now…

In THEIR words, with pictures, all the lies!

Starring, as Chief Liar,
Ole Round Mouf Barney hisself.

Getting the “Fair Share”

 [snip]
A House ethics subcommittee says Waters, 71, improperly intervened in 2008 with federal regulators to help get bailout funds for a bank that her husband owned stock in and on whose board he once served, said NBC and other media reports. Waters also once held stock in the bank. [snip]

As a Financial Services Committee member, Waters often called Paulson. He agreed to arrange the requested meeting, the Times reported last year.

$250,000 in stock
Paulson did not know at the time that Waters’ husband, Sidney Williams, owned stock at least $250,000 worth of stock in and had served on the board of Boston-based OneUnited, whose chief executive turned the Treasury headquarters meeting into a special appeal for bailout assistance, the Times said.[snip]

The executive from OneUnited, one of the nation’s largest black-owned banks, asked for $50 million in federal aid, the Times reported.

OneUnited got $12.1 million in TARP money soon after a second meeting, The Washington Post reported Friday. [snip]

…[]…the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog agency, began an inquiry, the Times said. The office referred the matter to the ethics committee.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have complained that the OCE has unfairly and disproportionately targeted them, and many have signed onto a legislative effort to de-fang the office, Politico reported.

Wonder why they’d wanna do that?

Your faithful reporter and photog went to great lengths to get a photo of the Ethics Committee and the Infamous “Wheel of Justice” so hated by the Black Caucus.

This is their image of the group!

Of course EVERYBODY knows how this plays out. We have 4 Republicans sitting on this board crammed with honkitude and none of them will vote for a wrist slap.

All these years of serving the people of Harlem and L.A. and trying to get them their “fair share”, this is what happens. allegedly Rangel and Waters both moaned.

“He indicated there was some sloppiness” in his official papers, Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., told reporters, “but, you know, there’s no criminality here.”

House rules and credibility — not criminality — were the reasons cited by more than a half dozen House Democrats known to have called for Rangel’s resignation by late afternoon Friday. [snip]

“Too many politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have fallen victim to the idea that they are ‘different’ than regular folks and nothing could be further from the truth,” Kirkpatrick said in a statement.”It is our job as members of Congress to hold each other accountable to a higher standard regardless of party,” she added. “If the serious charges against (Rangel) are accurate, he needs to resign.” [snip]

It is totally amazing how these hacks got religion so quickly. It is as if the Angel of Death, wielding the flaming sword, held up a calendar with the date of the Trump on it, showing NOV 2, 2010.

No testament takin’ preacher converted so many in such short a time.

In the scheme of the working day, you put in the hours and expect recompense for your labors. Is it your money? Obama doesn’t think so. Neither does the Congress. Together they’ve spent your money faster than all combined can earn it to cover the incurred debt.
Obama’s belief is the government prints it so that makes it the owner of it anyway.

To prove this premise January 1, 2011, the roll back of the Bush tax cuts take place which absolutely rip the individuals making less than $50,000 a year. Their tax bill doubles.
Thank the Jackass Party for that, and yeah the RINO’s too. The GOP is as complicit in this mess as the Donkeys.
Brace for a real mess in the economy, even Bernanke said leave the Bush tax cuts in place.
Obama won’t. He wants to wreck the country.

The Tax Tsunami on The Horizon

Fiscal Policy: Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will put the country back on the right track. But unless something’s done soon, the New Year will also come with a raft of tax hikes — including a return of the death tax — that will be real killers.
Through the end of this year, the federal estate tax rate is zero — thanks to the package of broad-based tax cuts that President Bush pushed through to get the economy going earlier in the decade.

But as of midnight Dec. 31, the death tax returns — at a rate of 55% on estates of $1 million or more. The effect this will have on hospital life-support systems is already a matter of conjecture.

Resurrection of the death tax, however, isn’t the only tax problem that will be ushered in Jan. 1. Many other cuts from the Bush administration are set to disappear and a new set of taxes will materialize. And it’s not just the rich who will pay.
The lowest bracket for the personal income tax, for instance, moves up 50% — to 15% from 10%. The next lowest bracket — 25% — will rise to 28%, and the old 28% bracket will be 31%. At the higher end, the 33% bracket is pushed to 36% and the 35% bracket becomes 39.6%.

But the damage doesn’t stop there.

The marriage penalty also makes a comeback, and the capital gains tax will jump 33% — to 20% from 15%. The tax on dividends will go all the way from 15% to 39.6% — a 164% increase.

Both the cap-gains and dividend taxes will go up further in 2013 as the health care reform adds a 3.8% Medicare levy for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and joint filers making more than $250,000. Other tax hikes include: halving the child tax credit to $500 from $1,000 and fixing the standard deduction for couples at the same level as it is for single filers.

Letting the Bush cuts expire will cost taxpayers $115 billion next year alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and $2.6 trillion through 2020. [snip]

Not all Americans may fully realize what’s in store come Jan. 1. But they should have a pretty good idea by the mid-term elections, and members of Congress might take note of our latest IBD/TIPP Poll (summarized above).

Fifty-one percent of respondents favored making the Bush cuts permanent vs. 28% who didn’t. Republicans were more than 4 to 1 and Independents more than 2 to 1 in favor. Only Democrats were opposed, but only by 40%-38%.

The cuts also proved popular among all income groups — despite the Democrats’ oft-heard assertion that Bush merely provided “tax breaks for the wealthy.” Fact is, Bush cut taxes for everyone who paid them, and the cuts helped the nation recover from a recession and the worst stock-market crash since 1929.

Maybe, just maybe, Americans remember that — and will not forget come Nov. 2.

In all fairness, I would like to give the readers of this blog reasons to look at and possibly vote for Democrats in the upcoming midterms. Here are 11 reasons, you probably can find more.

Hi, I’m here to reclaim the Kennedy seat from that upstart that stole it from Martha Croakly Cooakly Cookly the Bozette.
Elect me In Nov an know I’ll fit right in with the old methods and backroom deals. Just write in my NAME…

Actually, my family is willing to move to any New England State and represent our views as yours in DC.

You’d think that Obama would be one of the first to honor these workers.
Not a peep from him or from Bernie Sanders, a great paladin of the United Workers Party.

How strange that the socialist Germans
would honor the deaths of 125 workers killed
be the government in putting down these protests in 1953.

 

Germany commemorates 1953 workers’ uprising

BERLIN (AP — Germany is marking the anniversary of a failed worker-led uprising against East Germany’s communist rulers that was crushed by Soviet tanks.[snip]

Overall, more than 1 million people took part in some five days of pro-democracy unrest. Historians estimate that some 125 protesters were killed — shot or crushed by tanks — and as many as 15,000 arrested.

The uprising peaked on June 17, with street battles in East Berlin between the workers and Soviet troops and East German police.

How uncaring of the Bamster not to walk the walk after he flaps those lips in pious speechifying. A true liberal er, ah Proggy liar.

Obama promised this from the moment he started campaigning; so did the prevaricatory pair leading Congress.
Transparency was to be the operative word in all thought and deed, so much for that blather.
Substitute faces as you desire, Pelosi or Reid work just as well in the Portrait of Dung.

Perhaps cards like the old Topps Baseball Cards is are in order; the Horse Pucky League, with a picture on the front, stats on the back works.

List the peccadilloes, assaults, DUI’s, ethics violations, diddling interns, you know minor infractions that the media can’t be bothered covering.To make the packaging Politically Correct, include sugar free gum.

Today’s kids need HEROES, where better to find them than the duly elected Democrats in Congress.

 From the Office of the Bunghole:

Washington, DC, Jun 14 - U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-Lillington) released the following statement on the viral video which appeared on the internet today:

“I have seen the video posted on several blogs.  I deeply and profoundly regret my reaction and I apologize to all involved.  Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect. No matter how intrusive and partisan our politics can become, this does not justify a poor response.  I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.”

Rep. Bob Etheridge (NC-02)

His final sentence is a total mockery of his actions.

He lucked out getting a limp willy, newly feminized metro-sexed male.
Grabbed anyone not raised in that femmed out mind rot, his genitals would have given him a double chin.

Another Helen Thomas type, coarse and ugly to the core, a typical liberal.

Being a DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN,
You get to do things like THIS!

Now if you were a GOP House Member, the MSM would be climbing ALL OVER this story.

Obama shows America how to cut costs, give EVERYONE health care with OBAMACARE™ by modeling his plan on Canada’s wildly successful free medical for all.

Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model

 TORONTO (Reuters) – Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada’s provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system. [snip]

British Columbia is replacing block grants to hospitals with fee-for-procedure payments and Quebec has a new flat health tax and a proposal for payments on each medical visit — an idea that critics say is an illegal user fee. (emphasis added)

And a few provinces are also experimenting with private funding for procedures such as hip, knee and cataract surgery.

It’s likely just a start as the provinces, responsible for delivering healthcare, cope with the demands of a retiring baby-boom generation. Official figures show that senior citizens will make up 25 percent of the population by 2036. [snip]

“At some stage we’re going to hit a breaking point.” [snip]

Healthcare in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded system, which covers all “medically necessary” hospital and physician care and curbs the role of private medicine. It ate up about 40 percent of provincial budgets, or some C$183 billion ($174 billion) last year.

Spending has been rising 6 percent a year under a deal that added C$41.3 billion of federal funding over 10 years.

But that deal ends in 2013, and the federal government is unlikely to be as generous in future, especially for one-off projects. [snip]

Kiss any idea of one-on-one with a doctor good-bye.
Medicine will be as good as the oil clean up under Obama.

 The answer to “The Springfield Intruder” Post,

Don’t Hate Arizona for Enforcing Our Immigration Laws

 IS

 I want to see how they form up.
With the Obama Administration, I believe they’ll form a funnel shape allowing a safe travel zone for the criminal trespassers.
In LIB-SPEAK improving border security is never defined as for whom it is being improved.

Lawmaker: Obama to send 1,200 troops to border

PHOENIX (AP) - The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it will send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to improve border security, an Arizona congresswoman said.  [snip]

I’m knocked for six, it isn’t the Canadian border.

I prefer the Czarist solution.

Here is the full text of John L. Perry’s column on Newsmax which suggests that a military coup to “resolve the Obama problem” is becoming more possible and is not “unrealistic.” Perry also writes that a coup, while not “ideal,” may be preferable to “Obama’s radical ideal” — and would “restore and defend the Constitution.” Newsmax has since removed the column from its website.

Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention

By: John L. Perry

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:

You can read the details. If you thinks this is improbable, remember that military officers take an oath to UPHOLD the Constitution, not the Community Organizer.

# Officers swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to “obey the orders of the president of the United States.”

# Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.

# They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office. [snip]

If the Lefty radicals don’t like it, let them take to the streets-saves rooting them out.