Michael Steele On Kennedy: "Country Won't Be Guilted Into Health Care Reform"

Michael Steele on Abcnews's Top Line says Kennedy's passing shouldn't change anything


blogs.abcnews.com
On ABCNews.com’s Top Line RNC Chairman Michael Steele said he "can understand why the Democrats and particularly the left" are using Kennedy’s memory to urge reform, but said Kennedy’s passing shouldn’t change anything.

"I’m not of a mind to reform health care for the sake of anyone’s memory, because I’m concerned about how that impacts my mom and my dad,”

"While I admire the legacy of Sen. Ted Kennedy, I disagree with his view of health care for this country. That’s part of the debate. But I don’t want to see the county be guilted into a health care reform because of the passing – unfortunate passing of a great senator," he added. "Use that memory to stoke the debate of the clear distinction between Republicans, for example, and Democrats on this issue. Where we think individual should be in power to create a bottom-up, patient-centered system, versus a top-down, government-centered system that the Democrats are proposing."

Complete interview here at abcnews.go.com/video

Robert Gibbs Responds To Dick Cheney's Interview From Foxnews Sunday

Gibbs: "Cheney had his facts wrong"

Hey Bob, could you just show as much respect for a former Vice President as you do William Ayers? Is that too much to ask?

More at breitbart.tv

"I would add this: I'm not entirely sure Dick Cheney's predictions on foreign policy have borne a whole lot of fruit over the last eight years in a way that have been either positive, or to the best of my recollection, very correct"

These people don't just disagree with people on our side, they want to put them in prison, like they do in 3rd world countries...

Here's what these guys think of Dick Cheney, from the 60 minutes interview with Barack Obama, watch the expression on his face change when beginning to talk about Dick Cheney

He would never say this about Hugo Chavez...

Morning Joe On Lockerbie Bomber Release: "What Did The President Know And When Did He Know It"

There's no way the U.S. wasn't given a heads-up...

Buchanan: Hard to believe that they wouldn't give the White House a heads up as to what is coming down the pike..

Scarborough: "What's the link between Great Britian's Government and the U.S. Government? Anybody that works in Washington for more than a day knows the British government is not going to release a terrorist that killed American kids without getting the O.K. from the American government"

Scarborough: "If this did not end up, Mike Barnicle, at the White House, I WOULD BE SHOCKED" ....

The question we have to ask here is if the Obama Adm. cares? This is a President that reaches out to Hamas and Syria, gives a reset button to Russia, sends Happy New Year greetings to Iran, brings back the Ambassador for Venezuela and reaches out to "moderate Taliban"

Oh, by the way, within 30 days of Obama's Presidency, charges were dropped against the bomber of the USS Cole, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. So don't be surprised if Obama says one thing to the cameras and thinks another....


Some of the names on the Memorial for Pan-Am 103 were American...

Ted Kennedy And Jesse Helms NYTimes Obituary Side By Side

From Foxnews Sunday
Ted Kennedy NYTimes last week:
"Most storied families"

"Remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate"


Jesse Helms NYtimes July 5, 2008
"turned his hard-edged conservatism"

"against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday"


newsbusters reported on the absence of a polite obituary for Jesse Helms compared to Kennedy

They also reported about the double standard of the NYTimes

Liz Cheney On ABC This Week Takes On A Roundtable Of Libs On Holder Investigation

Liz Cheney goes up against Sam Donaldson

Liz Cheney takes on Sam Donaldson, Gwen Ifill and E.J. Dione & George Stephanopoulos and holds her own....
Liz makes the point that this has already been looked at by career prosecutors...

Listen to foolishness of Gwen Ifill's argument at the beginning of this video...
Hey Gwen, we know what an objective journalist you are...by the way, how is that Obama book you wrote doing? You released it on January 20th, the day of the Inauguration, just a coincidence I'm sure, you didn't want him to win, you're a journalist...

LIZ CHENEY ON THIS WEEK: “But this investigation has already been done. This was looked for five years by career prosecutors. They decided not to prosecute except in one case where a contractor has been convicted and is in jail. In the other cases Leon Panetta himself has laid out to his employees that they took disciplinary action where they felt it was necessary at the CIA.”

John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) responded to Dick Cheney blasting Eric Holder's decision to investigate the people who made the country safe on This Week with George Stephanopoulos with the usual Kerry partisanship....

Granddaughter Of JFK Flips Off Someone In Crowd At Kennedy Funeral

Not exactly a John John salute...

Maybe it was the Fox logo on the side of this guy's camera...

WFXT-TV: A woman that appears to be the daughter of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg gives the middle finger to an unknown crowd member during Thursday's procession.

myfoxboston.com

Our photographer just happened to be focused on the limo carrying the young Kennedy woman right when she made the obscene gesture near Fanueil Hall. The woman in question appears to be 21 year old Rose Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Edwin Schlossberg and granddaughter of former president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Our photographer was not close enough to know what happened to prompt Rose to do this, but it looks like she was responding to someone in the crowd.

When you live under the glare of the spotlight like the Kennedys, perhaps this funeral is even more stressful. But what was JFK’s granddaughter thinking? Cameras are always rolling when the Kennedys are around, especially when there’s a procession for Great Uncle Ted and tens of thousands of people turn out. What do you think? Inappropriate gesture on a solemn day or no big deal?

Lets see if the Lame Stream Media have the same interest in this as they did Jenna Bush sticking out her tongue in July 2004...

Foxnews Sunday Bill Sammon Blasts Myth That Eric Holder Is Independent Of President Obama

Foxnews Panel Plus


Before Bill Sammon spoke in this clip Chris Wallace had the others on the panel speak, if you would like to see Juan Williams make a complete fool out of himselft on the topic of torture, that video here at foxnews.com/video

Here's something that I found that I remember seeing in April, Jackpot...
MoveOne.org ran ads asking people to tell Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate abuses and appoint a special prosecutor...Here is that video from April 22

We have a President that is controlled by the radical fringe harcore left wing of the Democratic Party...

Here is the petition to Eric Holder that MoveOn.org had on their site:

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McCain On Face The Nation Shows Why You Simply Can't Count On Him

Spending all day around the Kennedy family and hundreds of Democrats can have an effect on your thinking...Here we have McCain again crossing over to screw our side.

Oh O.K. John, "The Attorney General has a unique position in the cabinet obviously, he can't be told what to do"
Yeah, John, this is Eric Holder on his own, launching an investigation and naming a special prosecutor against the strong wishes of a radical leftist President who is trying to appease his base...(Is McCain blind or his he naive?) Can I get my vote back?

Says the Abu-Graib helped Al Queda recruit terrorist, says our image in the world is damaged, more or less refuting everything Dick Cheney said earlier on Foxnews Sunday.

"I think the interrogations were in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the convention against torture that we ratified under President Reagan," "I think these interrogations, once publicized, helped al Qaeda recruit. I got that from an al Qaeda operative in a prison camp in Iraq... I think that the ability of us to work with our allies was harmed. And I believe that information, according go the FBI and others, could have been gained through other members."

Dick Morris says the very reason for the investigation is because Obama needs to appease the left wing base that elected him...


This is the same Eric Holder who was Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno in the Clinton White House, who by the way, gave Clemency to 16 FALN terrorists, screenshot from 1999

Holders firm Covington and Berling represented 17 of the yemeni detainees at Gitmo,
Hey Eric, which side you on here?

Dick Cheney On Foxnews Sunday Calls Investigation An "Outrageous Political Act"

An outrageous act that will do great long term damage

Dick Cheney says that the Obama administration possibly pursuing an investigation of lawyers from the Bush administration "an outrageous precedent to set," calling it an "intensely partisan politicized look back" at the prior administration.

"I think it's an outrageous political act that will do great damage long-term."

He added that the fact that the Obama administration is even thinking about such an investigation after their "track record of defending the nation" for eight years "offends the hell out of me."

He goes on to say that "advanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding were "absolutely essential."

Lockerbie Bomber Set Free Over A Multi-Million Dollar Oil Exploration Deal

Gordon Brown the worst P.M. in the history of Britian...

The names of the victims of Pan-Am Flight 103

timesonline.co.uk
The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.

Gordon Brown’s government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards.

The letters were sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who has been widely criticised for taking the formal decision to permit Megrahi’s release.

The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests.

Edward Davey, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: “This is the strongest evidence yet that the British government has been involved for a long time in talks over al-Megrahi in which commercial considerations have been central to their thinking.”

Rally Held In New York's Times Square For "TeddyCare"

This Lame rally started shortly after the Funeral for Ted Kennedy

Pre-made signs? Astroturfing?

wcbstv.com

About a thousand people rallied in Manhattan on Saturday in support of federal health care reform legislation.The event near Times Square began shortly after the funeral for U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, and took-on the feel of a tribute to the liberal leader.

One person carried a sign that said, "TeddyCare for all."U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney told the crowd the bill will lower health care costs for almost everyone. The New York Democrat also invoked Kennedy, saying the senator understood the need for change.Opponents say the legislation will cost too much and diminish the quality of care.

Last week, President Obama took to the airwaves to clear the air about what he does and doesn't want. "A lot of us feel that the federal government is just not equipped for the role – to be getting involved in delivering healthcare services," New York caller Susan said

.





Grassroots? Not quite...

Prayers From The Children At Kennedy Funeral: Health Care For All

Prayers of the Faithful from the Children-Health Care....

Info: The kid is 12 year old Max Allen, the son of Kara Kennedy, Ted Kennedy's daughter...
Does anyone think this kid wrote this himself, who handed the prayer to him, Barack Obama?

Kennedy received the very best of private health care right up to his very last
breath, so the prayers should be for Government run Health Care to fail....

On his radio show, Rush pointed out how it would be an insult to put Ted Kennedy's name on a bill where the Government makes the decisions on Health Care for someone like Kennedy.

GOP Weekly Address With Mike Enzi Talks About Health Care Rationing

"A Government monopoly just doesn't serve us best"

Sen. Enzi discusses how the Democrats are rushing a health reform bill through congress that will ultimately "raid Medicare", raise costs and increase the deficit. Sen. Enzi urges lawmakers to listen to what the American people are saying and scrap the Democrats' current plan in order to "enact common sense reform that will actually cut costs."

hotair

A leading GOP negotiator on health care struck a further blow to fading chances of a bipartisan compromise by saying Democratic proposals would restrict medical choices and make the country’s “finances sicker without saving you money.”

The criticism from Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., echoed that of many opponents of the Democratic plans under consideration in Congress. But Enzi’s judgment was especially noteworthy because he is one of only three Republicans who have been willing to consider a bipartisan bill in the Senate.

In the Republicans’ weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday, Enzi said any health care legislation must lower medical costs for Americans without increasing deficits and the national debt.“The bills introduced by congressional Democrats fail to meet these standards,” he said.

Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Under Fire For Making Joke About Hunting Obama

Republican Rex Rammell of Idaho

Says comment about hunting Obama was a joke...

ktvb.com

U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo has condemned a Republican gubernatorial candidate's comments about buying a license to hunt President Barack Obama, saying they merit an apology. Crapo, a Republican, said former elk rancher Rex Rammell's comment at a Twin Falls GOP rally this week undermines healthy debate over important issues.

Rammell is running in the 2010 Idaho GOP primary against incumbent Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter.On Tuesday, a GOP rally attendee shouted a question about "Obama tags" during discussion of Idaho's upcoming wolf hunt, where hunters must purchase $11.50 wolf tags.Rammell responded, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those."

Another report here from the idahostatesman

Here are 2 ads that Rex Rammell ran when was candidate for Senate,
They both are called monkey ads, not your normal commercial...


This one from Rex Rammell is off the charts...
I warned you....

Dick Cheney To Hit Obama Adm. Hard For Going After The Very People Who Made The Country Safe

Cheney knows we are dealing not with liberal Democrats, but fringe radicals...

"We had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from al Qaeda. The approach of the Obama administration should be to come to those people who were involved in that policy and say, 'How did you do it? What were the keys to keeping this country safe over that period of time?'" Cheney said.

"Instead, they're out there now threatening to disbar the lawyers who gave us the legal opinions -- threatening contrary to what the president originally said. They're going to go out and investigate the CIA personnel who carried out those investigations," Cheney added

It must be pretty hard hitting, this is Chris Wallace giving a little promo of Cheney on Foxnews Sunday, "Cheney very upset" Wallace says...


SUNDAY SHOW TIP SHEET:
• ABC, This Week: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Sen. John Kerry (D-MA); Liz Cheney, E.J. Dionne, Sam Donaldson, Gwen Ifill, George Will.
• CBS, Face The Nation: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA).
• CNN, State Of The Union: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT); James Carville and Mary Matalin.
• Fox News Sunday: Former Vice President Dick Cheney.
• NBC, Meet The Press: Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Bob Shrum, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Cop Makes Up Law Out Of Thin Air Against Town Hall Protester

"This used to be America" "It ain't no more"
Cop tell protester to take down his Anti-Obama sign because it had a picture

This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran's (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare (Howie Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA.

Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. School security officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not like my anti-Obamacare poster which used one of the gone-viral "Joker" graphics. When I said to Officer Cheeks, "This used to be America!" his response was: "It ain't no more, OK?"

Here is the sign that this guy had...


What are the chances Officer Cheeks was an Obama supporter?
Oh, I don't know, lets take a look....
2008 Presidential Election: Vote by race

Heritage.org: Obama's Tripling of the National Debt in Pictures

Publicly Held National Debt, Adjusted For Inflation....
Gonna fix those failed policies of the last 8 years...

America would accumulate more government debt under President Obama than under every President in American history from George Washington to George W. Bush combined...

blog.heritage.org
While President Obama claims to have inherited the 2009 budget deficit, it is important to note that the estimated 2009 budget deficit has increased by $400 billion since his inauguration, and the whole point of the “stimulus” was to increase deficit spending to nearly $2 trillion based on the unproven notion that would it alleviate the recession.

*The 22 percent spending increase projected for 2009 represents the largest government expansion since the 1952 height of the Korean War (adjusted for inflation). Federal spending is up 57 percent since 2001.

*In 2009, Washington will spend $30,958 per household–the highest level in American history–and under President Obama’s budget, the figure will rise above $33,000 by 2019.

*The White House brags that it will cut the deficit in half by 2013. The President does not mention that the deficit has nearly quadrupled this year. Merely cutting it in half from that bloated level would still leave budget deficits twice as high as under President Bush.

*The public national debt–$5.8 trillion as of 2008–is projected to double by 2012 and nearly triple by 2019. Thus, America would accumulate more government debt under President Obama than under every President in American history from George Washington to George W. Bush combined.

Job losses under Obama, -247,000 was considered a big victory for July...

Dem Rep & Communist: "Fidel Castro Was One of Brightest Leaders I Have Ever Met"

Would Diane be willing to go to Cuba for any kind of Medical treatment? Fidel Castro might be a fine leader to her, but he's been a absolute tyrant since 1959...

gatewaypundit writes:
LA Representative and Communist Diane Watson (D-CA) racebaits and praises Fidel Castro and the Cuban health care system at an Obamacare debate.The people of California must be very proud to have such an esteemed Marxist representing them in Congress.

kabc.com
KABC’s Michael Linder was the only broadcast reporter at Thursday night’s town hall health care debate at Wade AME Church when Rep. Diane Watson [D] made some astonishing comments including claims that those opposed to health care reform are attempting to destroy a president “who looks like me.”
Later, Watson praised heath care in Fidel Castro’s Cuba — and, it seemed, the Cuban revolution itself.

Fidel Castro: Great leader...But here she is in 2007 supporting the impeachment of George W. Bush at a Town Hall, but says we don't have the votes....

Complete utter disgrace...nuff said....

Rasmussenreports: 62% Like Tax Cuts Over More Government Spending

Poll released from Rasmussen

rasmussenreports.com

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Americans say it’s always better to cut taxes than increase government spending because taxpayers, not bureaucrats, are the best judges of how to spend their own money.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 20% of adults disagree, and 18% are not sure. The new findings mark a nine-point increase in support for taxpayers as the best judges of spending since January.

But then Americans by a two-to-one margin – 50% to 25% - believe that a dollar of tax cuts is always better than a dollar of public spending. One-in-four-Americans (25%), however, aren’t sure. Similarly, just 25% say public spending provides much more bang for the buck than tax cuts when it comes to economic policy and creating jobs. Fifty percent (50%) disagree that public spending is better for the economy than tax cuts. But again 26% are undecided.

Approval index at -8

President 2012...

nationalreview.com

LATEST POLL: Mitt Romney 30%, Mike Huckabee 22%, Sarah Palin 18%

Mitt Romney leads with 30 percent, and in a time of economic crisis, a preference for the entrepreneur is not surprising. Mike Huckabee is second with 22 percent, and that's about what one would expect. (Any chance he enjoys his Fox News show so much he decides not to run in 2012?) Sarah Palin comes in third with 18 percent; I'll be very surprised if she runs. Newt Gingrich is fourth with 15 percent and Bobby Jindal brings up the rear at 4 percent; due to the near-impossibility of managing both a national campaign and his gubernatorial duties and Louisianans' limited patience for a distracted chief executive, I don't think Jindal will run.

Michele Bachmann Town Hall: Man Worries That Obama Won't Leave Office in 2012 or 2016

President for life...


Michele Bachmann here talks about the disaster of the Britian Health Care system, and tells a man she has given birth "more times than than you sir"


twincities.com
The national debate over health care turned into a boisterous and sometimes angry argument Thursday afternoon in Lake Elmo during a town hall meeting hosted by Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Stillwater.

The auditorium at Oak-Land Junior High School was filled with Bachmann's passionate supporters and opponents, and they frequently erupted into shouting matches during an hourlong question-and-answer session.

The congresswoman is an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul health care, and when audience members attacked her for opposing the president's proposals, her supporters often shouted them down

Mary Landrieu Starts Town Hall Meeting To Chants Of "Kill The Bill"

Mary Landrieu Town Hall Meeting in Reserve, La


Landrieu gets question about if she will make a committment to not support a bill that has tax payer funded abortion in it..


nola.com

Senator Mary Landrieu has left the building after about two hours with a boisterous crowd at the Louisiana National Guard outpost Reserve. Crowd estimates at Thursday's meeting range from 500 to 650 people. There were a few more than 400 chairs set up, and it was standing-room only around the periphery.

Most of the questions were overwhelmingly in opposition to the general concept of "Obamacare," a pejorative label put on House Democratic plans for a health insurance overhaul. There were scores of other, less vocal attendees who sported stickers with messages like, "Health Care Now" and "We can't wait." Some were part of union organizing efforts. Others came with the encouragement of the White House's national field operation.

And another video report from wwltv.com

Laura Ingraham On Democrats Playing The Kennedy "Death Card"

Tonight's memo hits it right on the head...

Laura Ingraham, in for Bill O'Reilly, calls out Democrats for using the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy - a known health care advocate - to push President Obama's health care proposal. which she labels "emotional manipulation." "The Democrats are playing the death card again," she says, referring to 2002 when Sen. Paul Wellstone died.

Here is a video from March 6th, Rush Limbaugh on his radio show said that the Health Care Reform bill will be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Bill, and Bob Shrum called it "outrageous" and a tasteless guy who "appeals to haters"
Start the video at exactly 3:35

Now the entire Democratic Party is doing exactly that, and none of these same people are bothered in the least...

Whoops! Cash For Clunkers Payments Are Taxable

Pictured here is what everybody agrees is a "clunker" right? You won't believe what I found...

Remember, complete fools run our Government, scroll down....

businessinsider.com

Some of the drivers that bought new cars through cash for clunkers are learning that it wasn't quite the deal they hoped for. But many of those cashing in on the clunkers program are surprised when they get to the treasurer's office windows. That's because the government's rebate of up to $4500 dollars for every clunker is taxable.

"They didn't realize that would be taxable. A lot of people don't realize that. So they're not happy and kind of surprised when they find that out," Nelson said. We imagine that MOST people didn't know the rebates were taxable. We certainly didn't.

I heard about this, but it took me awhile to find it. In the CARS program the "clunker" is to be destroyed as everyone now knows, below is a truly disgusting video, the destruction of what appears to be a perfectly fine black Corvette...


Photos of this "Clunker"


This is utter complete foolishness, then I remembered a person with zero prior experience is President of the United States.....

Cable Ratings: Beck Interview Of Rush Limbaugh Beats O'Reilly In Demo

In the 25-54 key Demo, Beck beats the O'Reilly Factor...
Little info here...Almost no one beats O'Reilly especially from the 5:00p.m. timeslot



Total viewers: Beck hits 3 million, 5 1/2 times the audience of MSNBC slobbering over the Kennedy story

This is almost a million more viewers than Beck averaged in July
July: Beck averaged 2.05 million viewers
August: Beck has averaged 2.25 million viewers
Yesterday: 3 million viewers, it looks like Glenns audience didn't hear about the boycott...

Kennedy Greatest Hits From The Past, Never Ever Getting Into Personal Attacks...

David Shuster got this ball rolling by saying here that Kennedy didn't get into the petty personal attacks...

Really David? Lets take a look...

Kennedy smearing Robert Bork 45 minutes after Ronald Reagan nominated him

Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is -- and is often the only -- protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.

(Oh, By the way, we ended up with Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court instead of Robert Bork)

Kennedy said Iraq was George Bush's Vietnam and there was no military solution in Iraq

Sounds kinda personal to me...

Kennedy on Iraq War Spending,

Way more interested in undermining the President than winning in Iraq...

Kennedy on the Iraq surge, nearly screaming on the Senate floor...


From ABC, Kennedy was part of the left that called Iraq a quagmire and asked for Rumsfeld to resign...

And Ted Kennedy sided with the Anti War left to cut off funding for South Vietnam and Cambodia's Lon Nol government in January 1975. After U.S. funding was cut, the regimes of South Vietnam and Cambodia were quickly overrun by the communists, who would go on to slaughter some 2.5 million Indochinese peasants.

Kennedy worked with the Soviet Union to undermine Ronald Reagan's policy to deploy middle range nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe. It some circles it's called giving aid and comfort to the enemy. That letter to General Secretary Andropov from Ted Kennedy here at sweetness-light.com

You won't see this on the Liberal media who are currently rewriting his biography as we speak...

Ann Curry Ask McCain If He Is Willing To Reach Across The Aisle On Health Care

It's clear what side Ann Curry is on...

She is asking McCain if he is willing to reach across the aisle, however, McCain (at least here) didn't take the bait
The whole clip of Ann Curry being the morning mouthpiece for the DNC can be found here at msnbc.com

And it looks like the Democrats are going to use Kennedy's death to advance their agenda on Health Care

Just 3 days ago, McCain was booed for saying Obama respects the Constitution

Democrats Looking To Fast Track Kennedy Senate Seat Successor In Massachusetts

Funny how Democrats didn't feel the need to quickly seat Bush's nominees to the courts...

Democrats in Washington putting pressure on the Massachusetts Governor...
Deval Patrick (Obama bud) agreeing to change the law is the legislature approves.

nytimes.com

The push for swiftly naming an interim successor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy intensified Wednesday in the wake of his death, with Gov. Deval Patrick coming out strongly in favor of the idea and other top state lawmakers indicating they were reluctant to leave the seat vacant for months.

Wednesday, Democrats in Washington stepped up pressure on the governor to see Mr. Kennedy’s wish fulfilled, and state legislative leaders said they would immerse themselves in the issue after a mourning period for Mr. Kennedy.

Under current law, a special election could not take place until at least 145 days after a Senate seat opens, in this case, mid-January. Mr. Kennedy’s proposal would let Mr. Patrick, a Democrat, appoint a temporary replacement sooner.
The governor said he would sign a change in the law if the legislature approved it. He said it was important for Massachusetts to have two voices in the Senate as Congress prepares to vote on overhauling the health care system — contentious legislation whose passage may well require every Democratic vote.

“It’s a particularly timely request at a time when there are such profoundly important issues pending in the Congress,” Mr. Patrick told reporters outside the State House, adding that he had spoken with Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, earlier in the day about the importance of filling Mr. Kennedy’s seat. “I’m looking at the issues that are in front of the country right now and how important they are to all of us.”

The bostonherald reports that Governor Deval Patrick is behind both of his Republican challengers in the latest polls...

DefendGlenn: New Website Sets The Record Straight On The Boycott Of Beck's Show

Viewers certainly not boycotting Beck....


defendglenn.com
Gives list of loyal advertisers

60 Plus, ADT Security, Apple, Applebees, Aspercreme, Avodart, Binder & Binder, Brita Filter, Buy.com , Cinergy Health, Days Inn, DirecTV, Easy Water, Encore Dental, Forex.com, Golden Corral, HealthMart Pharmacy, HSBC Life Insurance, JoS A Bank, KFC, Lanacane, Liberty Medical, Lunesta, Lysol, Mercedes-Benz, Metastock, National Georgraphic Channel, Nexium, Pearle Vision, Pep Boys, Rapid Bath, Jarden Corporation, Red Lobster, Regions Bank, Scottrade, Subaru, Super 8 Motels, Superior Gold Group, Toughbook, Triple Flex, United Healthcare, UPS, Viagra, Wounded Warrior Project, Zero Water.

These companies have confirmed pulling their ads from Glenn:

Go to defendglenn.com for all the details

Final Tally: Clunkers Generates 690,114 Car Sales

Transportation Dept: "Came in under Budget"
Really? Didn't they have to add $2 Billion in funding just a few weeks ago?

Just like the housing market...How long until alot of these people who were driving a "Clunker" and are now driving a brand vehicle, suddenly can't afford their new car and start defaulting on the payments? Anybody? Did the Federal Government care to think that far ahead?...

We will look back on Cash for Clunkers and it will be seen as a disaster....

usatoday.com

Now that the government's cash-for-clunkers blowout is finally over, some fear a morning-after hangover of buyers' remorse and a sales drought for struggling auto dealers.
The offer of incentives to trade old gas guzzlers for new, more efficient vehicles resulted in 690,114 sales for which dealers applied for vouchers by the Transportation Department's Tuesday deadline. The taxpayers' cost will be nearly $2.9 billion.

Now there's a calm after the storm. Car-shopping service Edmunds.com says half as many people are researching a new car purchase on its website as were looking during the peak of the clunker frenzy. Traffic is even off 10% from June levels, ahead of the clunker kickoff on July 27.

Edmunds CEO Jeremy Anwy: "Cash for clunkers distorted the market in a way that benefited the industry for four weeks. Now, the payback begins,"

Autoguide reported that Ford had 5 of the 10 cars on the Clunkers list, and the 84% of the vehicles traded in were Trucks/SUV's

Eight of the top 10 new cars purchased through the program came from Honda, Hyundai, Nissan and Toyota, which claimed the top spot with its Corolla. The Corolla, Honda Civic and Ford Focus are manufactured in the United States.

By contrast, all of the top 10 clunkers turned in were made by a Detroit company, with the four-wheel-drive Ford Explorer SUV, Ford F-150 pickup and the four-wheel-drive Jeep Grand Cherokee taking the top three spots

Man At Redding Town Hall: "Go Back To Washington And Tell The Self Appointed King We Are Fed Up"

Wally Herger Town Hall Meeting in Redding Ca


More at hotair.com
Protesters says "I have been known to say things fishy, I been known to attend tea party protests, and I want to say I'm a proud right wing terrorist...You job begins when you go to Washington and tell the self appointed king and all the king's men that we are fed up and we don't Government in our face anymore"...

Wally Herger is a Republican from the 2nd District in California that includes the Chico and Redding area

Glenn Beck Interviews Rush Limbaugh + Glenn Beck's Growing Ratings

Rush Limbaugh on Glenn Beck talks about Free Speech

Beck continues getting huge audience ratings...
Total viewers for yesterday August 25, Beck almost getting the numbers Hannity gets at the 9:00p.m. timeslot. Glenn had Michelle Malkin on as a guest last night

Dem Vandal Who Smashed Windows At DNC Headquarters Was Previously Arrested At RNC Convention

Good thing there is the blogosphere, the liberal media wants nothing to do with this story...

Compare this to the girl in Pittsburgh that carved a "B" in her face during last year's Presidential campaign and blamed it on a Obama supporter, the Drive By media had no problems with pasting that story all over the news...

via gatewaypundit
Schwenkler was jailed at 2 AM on the last day of the RNC in St. Paul.He also canvassed for democrats in 2008 and was bankrolled by the Colorado Citizens' Coalition, a political 527 committee funded by the SEIU, labor groups and wealthy liberals.

The AP reported:

A suspect in a vandalism at the Colorado Democratic headquarters was once a paid campaign worker for a Democratic candidate for the Legislature, according to public records.Maurice Schwenkler, 24, was arrested in Denver Tuesday on a charge of criminal mischief after windows were smashed at Democratic offices.

Many of the windows displayed posters supporting health care reform, and (democratic) party officials called it political vandalism.The Denver Post reported Wednesday that Schwenkler was also arrested in St. Paul, Minn., on the last day of the 2008 Republican convention on a charge of unlawful assembly.

No details of that arrest or Schwenkler's activities at the time were immediately available.There was no phone number listed for Schwenkler and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.The Post reported Schwenkler was paid $500 in November 2008 to walk door to door in support of Democrat Mollie Cullom, a candidate for the state House from Centennial.

denverpost reports that she has made her first courtroom appearance and smiled as a dozen of her supporters gathered in the courtroom

On the RNC convention arrest: "A spokesman for the St. Paul Police Department said Schwenkler was one of a large group of RNC protesters arrested after they gathered on a city bridge and refused to disperse. Schwenkler's case was dismissed."

Rasmussen: 24% Say Democrats Should Pass Health Care Reform Without GOP Votes

Someone send this to Obama and Chucky Schumer


rasmussenreports.com

Democrats agree on a health care reform bill that is opposed by all Republicans in Congress, 24% of voters nationwide say the Democrats should pass that bill.

But a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% believe the Democrats should change the bill to win support from "a reasonable number of Republicans." Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure what congressional Democrats should do.

Republican voters overwhelmingly think the bill should be changed, and so do 62% of those not affiliated with either major political party. However, Democrats are more conflicted. Forty-one percent (41%) of those in the president’s party believe their legislators should pass the bill without any GOP votes, while 34% disagree and think the legislation should be changed to attract Republican support.

Most liberal voters (52%) say that Democrats should pass the legislation without the Republicans. Most moderates (55%) disagree. In its question, Rasmussen Reports did not quantify what constitutes "a reasonable number" of Republican votes.

Liberal Group Releases Chart on "Who's Paying To Kill Health Reform"

Playing off the Health Care chart Republicans made earlier about Health Care

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ourfuture.org writes:

"In watching town hall after town hall, many of us have looked at attendees frantically spouting nonsense about "death panels" and comparing the public health insurance option to Hitler and wondered, "where do they get these people? Inspired by John Boehner and friends, Campaign for America's Future brings you this chart"

Foxnews Breaks Into Programming To Report Ted Kennedy Death

This during the re-run of Greta...

NBC broke into network programming at 2:00a.m. for a Special Report, however I do not remember NBC doing the same when Jessie Helms died...

One of the lowlights of Kennedy came here, when he called Iraq "George Bush's Vietnam" at 2:30


And this, when Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court...
Within 45 minutes of Robert Bork's nomination to the Court, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) took to the Senate floor in a nationally televised speech, saying

"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens."

Chaos At Howard Dean Town Hall Meeting As Randal Terry Is Forcibly Removed

Liberal Jim Moran calls out Randall Terry by name..
Complete video of the incident, start the vid at 1:20

Randal and his group shout "we won't pay for murder"
Randall Terry is the founder of Operation Rescue and a few months ago was arrested for protesting at Notre Dame for Barack Obama's visit..

He protested in front of the White House a few weeks ago against Obamacare funding of abortions, it was posted on youtube

Michelle Malkin And Glenn Beck Discuss Radicals In White House + Ratings: Viewers Not Boycotting Beck

What do the people in the White House believe...

Talks about how ACORN and the SEIU operate and how it is similar to these radical groups

hotair writes..

Day two in GB’s expose of Color of Change founder turned “green jobs czar” Van Jones, this time with an assist from the boss. Beck’s focused on the deeper questions here but as a case study in big media’s double standards towards Republican and Democratic appointees, you simply can’t do better than this. They gave The One a pass on Wright and Ayers during the campaign when McCain would have been crucified for similar relationships, ostensibly because those dealings were in the past and wouldn’t affect the way he governed.

Rating released today for Glenn Beck's return show a significant increase in viewership, this is for yesterday's show, but it will be eclipsed tomorrow as Glenn Beck has Rush Limbaugh on for an interview...
Total Viewers Monday: Never seen before ratings for a 5:00p.m. timeslot

Gallup: Obama Approval A New Record Low, Weakest Among Seniors

New record for Gallup, Keep it up Barry...


gallup.com
PRINCETON, NJ -- President Barack Obama's most recent weekly job approval rating is 52% for the seven-day period ending on Sunday, similar to the 54% reading from the previous week but down significantly from 59% a month ago. His average disapproval rating during the past week is 41%.

Obama losing seniors, Age 65+ Now at 43% approval, Obamacare playing a big part in those numbers

Independents at less than 50%
Second column: Approval by race, Blacks still at 91% approval

Obama Job Approval Trends by Age:

McCain Gets Booed At Town Hall For Saying Obama Respects The Constitution

This is the McCain that drives people crazy...

And we nominated this guy? (not really, it was the people crossing over in open primaries i.e. New Hampshire)

Flashback: McCain on the campaign trail tells a crowd Obama is not a person that you should be scared of, and then takes the microphone away from the lady that said Obama was Arab...

Simply amazing, candidates on our side sing the praises of Barack Obama, and Obama returns the favor by wanting to put Bush officials behind bars...

Barack Obama, bringing a divided country together...

Change? ye suckers...

Dick Morris Says Democrats Could Lose 100 Seats In Next Election

via gatewaypundit

Talks about a double dip recession

Hannity: "What is the political fallout of that scenario unfolding"
Morris: "It's a disaster for the Democrats, you could literally at this point just see 100 seats changing"

While 100 seat might be a little much, half of that could be a possibility, Dick Morris was around in the Clinton White House when Bill Clinton got crushed in the 1994 mid term elections.

Republicans picked up 54 House seats and 8 Senate seats, also beating a Speaker of the House Tom Foley for the first time in many years, Republicans also picked up another seat a few months later when Ben Nighthorse Campbell switched parties.

Republicans were moving full steam ahead on their agenda until the Oklahoma City bombing and the Government shut down changed the dynamic of the electorate, Democrats were successful in blaming the incident on the "extreme right wing" with help from their willing accomplices in the press.

A wounded Clinton made his way back when the Government was shut down in 1995, and on television, some of those federal workers that were furloughed suddenly had a camera and a microphone in front of them, all of them by the way received their back pay. Clinton was seen as the one protecting the little guy from those rascally Republicans..

Congressman Gets An Earful From Protesters At Tennessee Town Hall

Town Hall meeting last night with Rep. Bart Gordon

"Mr. Gordon, you and this guy we got in the White House now are taking us headlong into socialism"

Young guy in the crowd who knows the Constitution get a standing ovation...

Bart Gordon is in Tennessee's 6th Congressional District. This Health Care town hall was at MTSU Tucker Theater. It was held on August 24, 2009, with the maximum allowable of 1000 in attendance.

White House Blog: Jared Bernstein Explains How To Pay For Health Care: Obama Making Cuts

A vacationing Obama sends out his Shamwow guy to sell Obamacare...

Bernstein: "Alot of people have been raising the question as to whether we can afford Health Care Reform in America without busting the budget, I'm here to tell you the answer is yes, we absolutely can, but I would actually take it considerably further, we can't afford not to fix this problem...

Somewhere in the fray, a very important point in that regard has gotten lost, President Obama pays for Health Care Reform, he pays for it fully and it is deficit neutral. He does so by squeezing some very expensive inefficiencies"

Does anyone think the most fiscally irresponsible Administration in history is gonna put a "squeeze" on spending? The same President who kinda just missed the debt projections by $2 Trillion over 10 years?

Oh, by the way Jared, you're speaking here without a teleprompter, you called it Health Care Reform, did you not get the memo? it's Health Insurance Reform, it polls much better, good thing the White House snitch website was taken down, someone would have reported that as kinda "fishy."

So a President who spends $787 Billion in the first 30 days in office is suddenly gonna make sure Government run Health Care is deficit neutral....OK
This from gatewaypundit

New Ad Targets Palin Facebook Supporters, Tells Her To "Stop Lying"

Palin Derangement Syndrome follows private citizen Sarah Palin:

cbsnews.com

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin set off a frenzied debate about health care reform when she accused President Obama of planning to establish "death panels" via health care reform. Now, proponents of the president's health care agenda are taking to Palin's preferred medium to attack her claims, with a Facebook ad asking Palin to "stop lying." The labor-affiliated group Americans United For Change is running the Facebook ad directly targeted at the more than 800,000 listed "supporters" of Palin on Facebook, according to Greg Sargent of the Washington Post blog the Plum Line.

americansunitedforchange writes on their homepage:
If we don’t confront the outright lies and liars as we did in 2008 then we allow the health insurance industry and their Republican supporters to swift boat health care reform. Take a minute to send a personal letter to Sarah Palin asking her to stop lying about health insurance reform.

Here's what appears on facebook

Former Marine David Hedrick Interview On Hannity

Marine from the Town Hall Meeting with Brian Baird


Here's something I found on Rep. Brian Baird, he was against (of course) the troops surge in Iraq, and against "Bush's war," said in the video below Bush was "not honest, and was sacrificing the lives, the bodies and the families of our troops"

Obama Newest Diversion: Eric Holder Appoints Special Prosecuter To Investigate CIA Interrogations

"Hey, we're losing bad on Health Care, lets change the headline," I'm sure Obama had nothing to do with this, the AG is independent right?, kinda like Janet Reno and Clinton...

Notice how many times Rick Sanchez says the word "threatened"

cnn.com

Attorney General Eric Holder has asked federal prosecutor John Durham to examine whether CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists were illegal, the Justice Department announced Monday. President Obama wants the FBI to question terror suspects from now on, sources say.

The move came as senior administration officials said President Obama had OK'd a special interrogation unit to be housed within the FBI, and as a redacted CIA inspector general's report on interrogation methods was made public for the first time.

Holder said he reached his decision to expand Durham's mandate after examining reports from the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility as well as a classified version of the 2004 CIA inspector general's report into questionable interrogation techniques, among other documents. Watch what tactics a rights group calls 'illegal' »

"As a result of my analysis of all of this material, I have concluded that the information known to me warrants opening a preliminary review into whether federal laws were violated in connection with the interrogation of specific detainees at overseas locations," Holder said in a written statement.

Notice the word "threatened." The people who we are interrogating behead their victims and hold them up to the camera, our officials "threatened" the detainees, which is much, much worse to a liberal..


Here's a little info on what kinda of AG were dealing with, Eric Holder was Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno during Clinton who granted Clemency to 16 FALN Terrorists, this is a photo of him getting questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1999...

And to point this out about Eric Holder, shows that we are just a nation of cowards..

CIA Director Leon Panetta Threatenen To Quit After Shouting Match With Senior White House Staff

Leon, you signed up to work not with liberal Democrats, but with left wing fringe radicals who have in their interest putting their opposition in prison...You should have known...

Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers...


abcnews.go.com

A "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com.

Amid reports that Panetta hadthreatened to quit just seven months after taking over at the spy agency, otherinsiders tell ABCNews.com that senior White House staff members are alreadydiscussing a possible shake-up of top national security officials.
A White House spokesperson, Denis McDonough, said reports that Panetta had threatened toquit and that the White House was seeking a replacement were "inaccurate."

According to intelligence officials, Panetta erupted in a tirade last month during a meeting with a senior White House staff member. Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers broke the law in carrying out certain interrogation techniques that President Obama has termed "torture"

When it says he erupted in a tirade "with senior White House staff member," I'd have to think there's a good chance it was Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel