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Lady Lynn Speaks Out! (OPEN THREAD)

By Steve_in_KC on August 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM in Current Affairs

You know how much I love Hillary Clinton.  I mean as a voter, a political writer, a heterosexual man… well, hell, excuse me for my honesty!

Reuters/Pascal Rossignol Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

But I have to admit, I’m equally in love with the lady in this pic, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild.  This is a woman after my own heart, as the cliché goes.

Lady Lynn, as you may recall, was a MAJOR Hillary Clinton supporter in the 2008 presidential contest.  She was a very outspoken, and highly intelligent spokeswoman, for those of us who desperately wanted Hillary to win the nomination.

In a short article published yesterday at Salon, she spoke music to my ears.  I think I agreed with every word she said.  I am spellbound!

I think the guy that interviewed her, Justin Elliott, did a nice job of asking questions that didn’t imply his own point of view, and gave her a nice set-up to speak her mind unflinchingly.  Nice job, Justin!

I’ll leave his questions intact as I cite a few segments, to keep things in context and to give Justin his due.  The first question and her response…

You’re not supporting Obama for reelection. Where do you think he has erred in the last three years?

In 2008 as a Democrat, I tried as hard as I could to say that it mattered that Barack Obama did not have the experience to run this country. In the last three years we have seen absolutely that that is the case. The man is lost. The man is a loser. The man is not listening to people who might help him. And four more years of Barack Obama will be devastating for the country.

Oh, yes!  She gets it!  “The man is a loser.”  HAHA!  Gotta love that one!

I’m kind of sad that there is no video of this, but he interviewed her by phone.  She happens to be in Martha’s Vineyard!  I wonder if there’s any connection of some kind, what with the Obama family also being on the island.  It makes me wonder who placed this phone call!

Anyway, it’s a pity there’s no video because it seems that’s the only medium where we get audio, and I love, I mean LOOOOOOOOVE the sound of this woman’s voice.  It just gets to me!

Gee, I hope my wife doesn’t read this one!

Ahem!  So anyway, back to the interview…

Are there policy areas where you think he has gone wrong?

Where he has gone wrong is the disgraceful fact that there are 14 million people unemployed and 25 million people underemployed or who have given up work. That is a disgrace. That’s number one. This man cannot say it was given to him. I believe it was cravenness and vanity that caused him to do Obamacare, giving us an entitlement program that costs at least $1 trillion, before he fixed the economy and brought people back to work. To have done healthcare without dealing with the cost curve, and without giving us ultimately what we should have — like the British have, which is a single-payer system — is an outrage. He’s created a monster; he has taken healthcare, which is 17 percent of GDP right now, and has expanded it to another 30 million people. He is going to bankrupt America. He’s so vain and he’s so convinced of his own transcendence as a solution to everything that he’s incapable of doing the right thing for the country.

OOOPH!  Take that, BO!  POW!

She doesn’t pull any punches, does she?  She puts a big old smile on my face when she talks like that!

It’s too bad this is such a short piece.  If I quote much more of it, there won’t be much left.

But I can’t resist plucking a few more nuggets.

The Times reported recently you hosted a fundraiser for Jon Huntsman. What do you see in him?

I really like Jon Huntsman, I think he is exactly the president we need right now. Number one because he is a knowledgeable and experienced fiscal conservative. He knows how to create jobs though reducing regulation and reducing taxes. At the same time he understands the important and constructive role government has in making our society fairer and better. When he as governor of Utah came out in favor of civil unions, it showed how deeply this man is committed to social justice and fair treatment for all people. That’s the combination that I really admire in him. Whether he can win the Republican nomination I don’t know. If he won it, he would beat Barack Obama in a heartbeat.

I agree again.  If there is one Republican in the race so far that I feel I could truly support as an independent voter, and not just an anti-Obama vote, Jon Huntsman would be that candidate.  Especially after I saw him playing electric piano in a video clip, doing the Ray Charles classic, “Hit The Road, Jack.”  The singers were awful, but Huntsman held his own, grinning all the way.  Sorry, but as a musician, I like that kind of thing in a candidate.  It makes them more “human” to me, if that’s possible.

OK, can we do one more quote from her?  I think we can.

A lot of people know you as a prominent Hillary supporter in 2008. Going from Hillary to Huntsman — have you changed ideologically?

You know, if I were able to pick the president, it would be Hillary Clinton. I still consider myself a Clinton Democrat. But the Democratic Party has been so cowardly in standing for the things that Bill Clinton did that made the country so strong in the 1990s, that I have no time for the Democratic Party anymore. Their failure to stand up to the Chicago-dominated Democratic Party is appalling. The only person who is really doing it is Andrew Cuomo. I think Cuomo is a really unique thinker, and he is outside of the Chicago boys Democratic Party of Barack Obama that everyone else just falls in line with. Obviously the Republicans don’t offer me everything, but I also refuse to demonize the Republicans. I think John McCain is a great and very courageous man. I think that Eric Cantor, who is so demonized, if you look at what he actually says and believes in terms of the economy, he is actually a very constructive person.

Oh, yeah!  More music to my ears!  “Clinton Democrat.”  I tend to think of myself that way when I forget I’m an Indy.

“…the Chicago boys Democratic Party of Barack Obama.”  Heheheeee! I just love hearing someone, ANYONE, say those words.  They just sound sinister, don’t they?  But when SHE says them, even in print, I get flushed!

Lady Lynn, I wish you had a talk show!  I would DVR it every day and just stare and listen and swoon!!

I think my blood pressure is spiking!  I’d better go kick back in my recliner and watch the Travel Channel or something soothing.

  • Ferd_Berfle

    I really love your stuff, Steve and look forward to reading what you have to say. However, I just don’t have time anymore for HRC. She put Barky before party and party before country. I was a one-time staunch supported of hers but she has really done herself and her supporters, former and otherwise, a great disservice by staying with this corrupt-beyond-redemption administration that should be investigated unde RICO once it is relegated to the shitcan of history. Her antipathy towards the Arizona law concerning illegal immigrants still sticks in my craw. She could have done many other things but working for That One is a resume buster.

    • Anonymous

      I’m on the same page with you, Ferd.  Lady Lynn loses me because of her continued idolizing of Hillary, though it’s nice to see some of the scales falling from the eyes of yet another Dem.

      As for Huntsman, I think he’s a go-along-to-get-along type who would compromise too much to repair the damage Obama has done.  That pretty much describes media darling and suspected closet liberal Mitt Romney, too.  We need someone with a much stronger style if we’re going to reverse the harm done over the past years.  Someone with the instincts of a pit bull.  Someone who’s been through the fire and emerged unburnt.  Someone who achieved their success through their own efforts.

      Gee, I wonder where we could find such a person.

      • Anonymous

        Welcome back, Creeper! Hope the fishin’ is good up your way.

        • Anonymous

          Hi, Cindyindie!  Fishing hasn’t been too bad.  The river his about four feet higher than its usual August average.  It lets me get into the backwaters easier to fish. 

          The high water is probably due to a wetter-than-usual summer.  I ran up to the dam yesterday in my boat and all the rollers were open, so it’s not a case of the Corps of Engineers keeping the water back.

          Grass is a huge problem, even in the channel.  Had to stop every fifteen minutes and clean off the propeller.  That’s the result of the backwaters created by the lock and dam system seventy years ago silting in.  Fish like some grass beds but when the backwaters get totally overgrown it drives the fish out.

          An Asian carp almost jumped into my boat.  That was fun. 

          • Anonymous

            Creeper—Oh, lucky you….sounds divine (except for too much grass) I’ll tell hubby—he’ll be jealous, but happy for you.

    • Anonymous

      Ferd, I deeply appreciate the compliment.  And I know you and others disagree with me on the issue of Hillary.  That’s fine, we can all be friends and still disagree strongly on some issues and people.

      I have another piece coming up on this subject, and I’m sure you’ll be unswayed, but I do hope you will not refuse to consider what I have to say on the subject.  I trust that underneath your bluster — and nobody blusters quite like you, Ferd! — there is a reasonable man who will always consider all points of view. 

      I do have one question for you, Ferd.  What actor would you like to portray you in the movie version? 

      • Anonymous

        Oh, I know! I know!  Hugh Laurie (from TV’s “House”) plays Ferd–pisses everybody off, but you want him around him when the going gets tough.  (I can think of a very few others of that description who have unfortunately left NQ, hopefully temporarily.)

        • Anonymous

          oowawa—Bill Murray as Ferd! And Ferd, if you’re reading this, that is the ultimate compliment, IMO! I love that guy, and will watch almost anything he’s in ( “Meatballs” is still one of our family favorites because–
          “It just doesn’t matter!!” LOL)

          • Ferd_Berfle

            katmoon says I should be played by Sam Elliot. But then it would have to be a Western.

            • Anonymous

              “katmoon says I should be played by Sam Elliot.”

              What a compliment that is, Ferd.  That’s a macho dude!

            • Anonymous

              Sam Elliott’s best film, ever IMHO

              “Off the Map”  with Joan Allen. Outstanding flick, and Sam’s performance flawless.

            • Geoff C. The saltine

              Sam Elliot’s mom was my english teacher in high school. The girls went nuts when he came to see his mom. You would have to have one bad ass mustache.

            • Geoff C. The saltine

              Sam Elliot’s mom was my english teacher in high school. The girls went nuts when he came to see his mom. You would have to have one bad ass mustache.

            • Anonymous

              Sam Elliot would be perfect. Wouldn’t have to be a Western, I lose all thought of the movie just at the sound of his voice. Even listen intently to commericals he does for the same reason.

            • Anonymous

              Then Kat would have to be played by Katherine Ross, Sam’s actual wife. How cool is that?

          • Ferd_Berfle

            I loved his line in Tootsie where he called Michael/Dorothy a slut. The deadpan timing was perfect.

        • Anonymous
          • Ferd_Berfle

            LMAO. If I only had his talent.

        • Anonymous

          Or Ferd could play himself…

      • Ferd_Berfle

        Thanks, Steve. See response to Cindy below. Actually I’m probably more of a curmudgeon than a blusterer.

        • Anonymous

          Actually I don’t “see” you as either a curmudgeon or a blusterer. I see you as a concerned citizen who is fed up to the eyeballs with the crap that’s going on in this country and has the “balls” to say so. That’s not “bluster”, that’s honest outrage. And we would be better off for a lot more of it IMO!

    • FembotsForObama

      Ferd, I can understand how you feel.  It took me awhile to get over Hillary’s seeming support of Obama, and riding on his coattails in the shadows.  Makes my blood boil every time I hear her refer to him as POTUS.  But, Hillary has proven more than she ever could by just challenging him from Day 1. By taking the position of SOS, excelling at it, and above all has being able to stay protected while allowing the POTUS to prove our knowings about him (as PUMAs and other Obama nonsupporters) correct while the disillusionment sets in for the rest of the electorate.  It was only a matter of time until Obama’s narcissistic ineffectiveness would become obvious to others; he has proven that he has nothing but utter contempt for his enemies, and more importantly CANNOT work with them effectively — the essence of politicking and governing.  Hillary has proven that she can work effectively with someone who she had great confrontation with and rise above those feelings and difference of opinion, yielding great results in the process.  Who else could have done that?  What greater way to prove her chops to her detractors?  

      • Ferd_Berfle

        I take your point, but as far as I’m concerned her work as SoS, while good for the country in one sense, has been bad in that it tends to prop up both the tinhorn in the WH and the most corrupt administration in my memory, and I include the Nixon and Dubya WH in that mix. This administration operates more like a criminal enterprise than an administration and that has rubbed off on HRC by proxy.

    • Anonymous

      Double ditto, Ferd.

  • Anonymous

    The Democratic Party has gone so far to the left that I am not sure it can be brought back.

    Among the more notable comments was her praise of Andrew Cuomo. we had thought we were going to get a weaker generation o Cuomos but he has come to office and has masterfully used the honeymoon period to enact sensible budget measures to bring the state back in line. He has shown that he governs from a very pragmatic center and understands what it takes to grow business in New York.

    He is not a showboat like Christie. He simply makes things happen.

    I have no doubt he is working toward consideration of a run for President after Obama is out of office. If Obama is convinced not to seek a second term and Hillary declines to run in his place, Cuomo would be a competitive fit.

  • Anonymous

    The Democratic Party has gone so far to the left that I am not sure it can be brought back.

    Among the more notable comments was her praise of Andrew Cuomo. we had thought we were going to get a weaker generation o Cuomos but he has come to office and has masterfully used the honeymoon period to enact sensible budget measures to bring the state back in line. He has shown that he governs from a very pragmatic center and understands what it takes to grow business in New York.

    He is not a showboat like Christie. He simply makes things happen.

    I have no doubt he is working toward consideration of a run for President after Obama is out of office. If Obama is convinced not to seek a second term and Hillary declines to run in his place, Cuomo would be a competitive fit.

    • Anonymous

      The Democratic Party must repopulate itself with people who never supported Obama in the first place.  Nothing else will do.  Does Cuomo fit that description? 

      • Anonymous

        I live in NYS  and admire Cuomo..tentatively……
        I think he will be his own man as far as he is able with this Chicago Machine.
        I was surprised that he was able to settle the NY  Teacher’s contract without a WI or NJ meltdown…Of course, it didn’t hurt that he called himself a Dem. Maybe no one noticed the difference.
        I do not know if he will run for President anytime or anytime soon. He may take a lesson from his father.

        • Anonymous

          I agree – “tenatively.” He has been a surprise.

          His father chose not to run when he was very popular because of some skeletons in his family closet. While they were not his directly, perception is everything.

          The one troubling thing about Andrew is that it was on his watch at HUD that the proliferation of bad mortgages began to happen. I think that could be a major issue if he ever chose to run for President.

          Right now I’m just pleasantly surprised at his performance  – tentatively.

    • Anonymous

      The DNC is has not only moved way to the left its fallen off the cliff into some demonic socialistic river….
      The DNC and most of the Dems are actually scary with not only their agenda, but their viewpoint of America and us citizens…
      Lately its seems the Obama and the Democrats are doing more fighting for the rights of those who aren’t even here legally, along with fighing for the rights of those who have admittily commited atrosidies against the US.

      • Ferd_Berfle

        The DNC is has not only moved way to the left its fallen off the cliff into some demonic socialistic river….
        ===============
        That would be the river Styx, where Maxine Waters holds court.

  • Anonymous

    The Democratic Party has gone so far to the left that I am not sure it can be brought back.

    Among the more notable comments was her praise of Andrew Cuomo. we had thought we were going to get a weaker generation o Cuomos but he has come to office and has masterfully used the honeymoon period to enact sensible budget measures to bring the state back in line. He has shown that he governs from a very pragmatic center and understands what it takes to grow business in New York.

    He is not a showboat like Christie. He simply makes things happen.

    I have no doubt he is working toward consideration of a run for President after Obama is out of office. If Obama is convinced not to seek a second term and Hillary declines to run in his place, Cuomo would be a competitive fit.

  • Dhl2330

    Ditto to Ferd.. I live in Arizona, and we have problems that you wouldn’t believe !!Gov Brewer is beating herself to death trying to get things done , but she is alone !! The illegalshere just flaunt their status, and I am getting tired of it  I guess we need another Sam Houston to take care of the Mexican problem !! 

    • Anonymous

      Dh123390—-Y’all need another Sam Houston? I’ll work on it! ( I’m in Tejas)

      • Anonymous

        Maybe we can at least get a fence around The Alamo….

        • Anonymous

          oowawa–A fence? Call me old-fashioned, but I was thinking more along the lines of a phalanx of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. (felons, illegals and Democrats HATE that type of woman! LOL)

    • ObamaIsToast

      Dhl, could you please expound on how the illegals flaunt their status where you are?  I really am curious and not being snarky.  I’ve just learned that they really can qualify for Welfare in WI; have been receiving monies beyond just healthcare.

      • Dhl2330

        When the snowbirds return to such places as Yuma Az for the winter, they have a hard time getting a PO Box, the illegals have them, thats how they receive their checks from the State of AZ.  As a former Federal employee, I have had State workers explain to me how they are told to turn a blind eye to whats going on with the illegal problem.  Walk into a hospital emergency room in Tucson or Nogales and look who is there sucking up the benefits.  Illegals cross the border everyday to send their kids to Nogales schools, the Santa Cruz county taxpayers are on the hook for this cost of education of the illegal kds.  The school administration loves it , they get to hire more teachers .It fust goes on and on, with our moron president and justice department, nothing will change.  The pandering to these idiots is obnoxious. .

    • Scottymac54

      Gov. Brewer is a very smart, courageous woman.

    • Anonymous

      The problems in Arizona are actually escalating to many major agricultural areas on the west coast, southern states and Mexican border. 
      Reason is that many of these agricultural areas have turned blind eyes to them for so many years that its hard to tone down the the now escalating problems that have been created with in many towns…
      The gang problems in many small and medium sized agricultural towns is primarily hispanic youths.  Hispanic youths whose parents are here illegally and sometimes the gang members are here illegally.

      • Anonymous

        Monterey County in CA has the largest population of illegals in the state.  They’ve turned “Steinbeck Country”, Salinas, into a cesspool.  Crime has escalated every year with break-ins, shootings and car-smash-grab and runs.  The ag business and the middle class along with the wealthy have been harboring these crooks for years…housekeepers, hotels, restaurants, construction, landscape and agriculture has pretty much been taken over by illegals.  Some are beginning to wake up that these “workers” around your abode often pass on information to their cohorts about your house, car, possessions.  Recently my grandson was hired to maintain a garden on the ocean front…she decided she’d rather have someone “who spoke English”…translation:  She’s frightened she will be be robbed while she’s out at the market.

        The disparity couldn’t have been more clear last weekend…the annual Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach is the biggest event of the year.  Millions of dollars for classic cars change hands at the auction…$9million this year for a sought after Mercedes.  There are also booths set up for luxe merchandise.  One of the vendors we know brought his line of Italian shoes from LA; they stocked the booth and went back to the van (can’t park close to the booth) for their reserve stock only to find empty boxes.  Now just who do you think cased the joint?  Innocent looking groundskeepers, bellmen, etc. We were shocked to learn that this happens to vendors every year yet there’s nothing reported in the papers…It wouldn’t be good for tourism, the real estate market and year round retailers doncha know.  This is pay-back for bringing in an uneducated, poor, work force then rubbing their noses in gross affluence.  So many of the out of towners spoke of their various houses; many have their 2nd or 3rd house in Carmel.  I don’t believe in re-distribution of wealth so long as the wealth is gained honestly.  I don’t agree but I understand the mind set and justification a poor person talks themselves into becoming a thief or worse.  I am for no-nonsense enforcement of border control and deportation.  It’s the people caught in the crossfire who deserve sanctuary not illegals.  Every once in a while a child is killed or shot in Salinas in a gang retaliation on the streets and they get upset and have a march…why bother?  Nothing less that the National Guard will clean out that rat’s nest.

        • ~JustMe~

          Hear you Madame.

          They’ve turned “Steinbeck Country”, Salinas, into a cesspool.

          However it is slowing moving up to the various towns beyond Salinas…We have had 2 drive bys in our town recently. Along with car-smash-grab etc. Morgan Hill, that was known as “Morgatge Hill” when house prices were sky rocketing, has seen an huge upturn in gang related crime!

          • beachnan

            I hear you Just Me and Madame.  I used to feel sorry for those less fortunate.  I used to go to school with a lot of kids whose parents had come a generation before, but these kids all spoke English and they wanted to integrate into our culture.  Now, the kids don’t learn English and they  stare you down with disgust in their eyes. They have taken many of our jobs, so when people say they are only talking the jobs that Americans won’t do-it is just bullshit!!! They openly flaunt the Mexican flag, while flipping off the US and I no longer feel sorry.  We have to do something about our borders.

  • J.J. (the P.U.M.A.)

    I’d like to defend Hillary.  She played the game the way it had to be played by backing Obama once he got the nomination.  And, I think she did put country first in taking the position of Secretary of State.  Put me 100% in agreement wit what Lynn had to say. 

     

    • Anonymous

      Thanks for your support, J.J.!

      I have another pro-Hillary piece coming up soon, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.  The points you bring up are part of it.

    • Stray Yellar Dawg

      Agree, J.J. This is how U.S. politics work. There are only two parties that ever gain power. If you want to be in the driver’s seat, you have to belong to one of them. Hillary knows full well how to bide her time. And how to work behind the scenes.

    • Anonymous

      “She played the game,,,”

      Precisely.

    • MaxRidge

      I’d like to defend Hillary, as well.  But, that’s not possible.

       She took that job the night BEFORE the Convention.  She had a secret meeting at her house w/ Obama.

       She had asked her supporters to call the supers.  People were scrambling to make calls all the way up to the Convention.  She was making it clear to them that she was going to a fight and not just a Convention. That didn’t happen.

      She stopped just short of the finish line.  She should have gone to the Convention and made it clear she was putting this country first.  She had already put herself first.

      Had she gone and fought and lost and then been offered SoS then absolutely, she would have taken the job as a way of saying that she was putting country first.

  • annie65

    I agree with most everything that she says except the part of Huntsman ………….

    • Anonymous

      Speaking as someone with a miserable record as a prophet, Huntsman’s candidacy ain’t going nowhere . . .

  • Anonymous

    Wow Steve TY for bring that too us…I have to agree with just about everything that she said…
    The Democratic Party is not what it was or even what many think it should be.
    Like many others Huntsman does not ring my chimes either.
    So far I’m a Perry or Cain fan…
    In my opinion the rest of the GOP runners in the race so far are just a bunch of DC career politicians…
    Hey I was interested in Bachmann in the beginning but I think she has been blowing it too much..And I’m not talking the tough question blowing it like many were saying about Hillary or Palin.
    In my opinion Bachmann seems to be trying to straddle the fence too much..One day its one way and the next week I have to do research on her previous statements, because she jumped the fence again. And usually I find that my memory was correct in how she had stood politically just days or weeks before.
    What is sad is that every time I feel that anybody even Mickey Mouse could beat Obama in 2012, more of the Democratic Chicago Machine is revealed.
    To beat Obama in 2012 its going to take someone who is not afraid to Fight and I mean FIGHT Palin fought as much as she was allowed to, while McCain just whimpered in the corner.

    • Anonymous

      kinthenorthwest… thanks for your comments.  I guess I like Huntsman because he has such great credentials, making him pretty much the antithesis of Obama!

      But I don’t think Jon Huntsman has the charisma and grit to win the Republican nomination, so he’s kind of a moot point.  I just like him personally, and I haven’t found a Republican candidate that I can get behind just yet.

      • Anonymous

        The candidate we need to oppose Obama, male or female, needs to look something like this:

        • Anonymous

          oowawa…The candidate has to be willing to put all the cards on the table and make Obama do the same.
          The candidate has to not back down no matter who or what the other side pulls out of their crazy hats.
          The candidate needs to push all issues, including Obama’s locked up past all the way to the wall..
          The candidate needs to be willing to be vetted about every second of their life since they started breathing(this includes their family and any close associations….So that they can ask for the same of Obama..

    • Anonymous

      Bachmann’s a loose cannon.  I joined a phone forum with her a couple of weeks ago.  The first words out of her mouth were, “When I am president I will unlock our energy reserves and INSTANTLY CREATE MILLIONS OF JOBS.”

      Clearly, she has descended the rabbit hole.

      • Anonymous

        I think the Tea Party endorsement got to her head.
        She is starting to remind me of Pelosi…Pelosi’s blew up big time when she became speakeI think Bachmann’s head has gotten too big with the Tea Party backing..

  • Anonymous

    Steve—Always appreciate your posts! I no longer revere Lady Lynn
    (is that the NE elite version of Loretta Lynn?  LOL—-it’s so easy to confuse the two) and I no longer revere Hillary….but I appreciate your posting this interview—we might not have known of it, except for you.
    Thanks!

    • Anonymous

      Lady Cindy, don’t you think she should drop that “Lady” stuff?  It’s especially bad when it’s followed by that “Rothschild” surname.  And Steve, I hope your wife gives you a good slap for going for this “Lady Lynn” stuff!  “Steve in KC” + Lady Lynn sitting in a tree–K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!!”

      • Anonymous

        Oh, thank you for that coveted title, Lord Oowawa!
        Yes, IMO she should drop “lady” ( and I have my reasons for saying so, but don’t want to offend any here)
        And you really don’t need to spell-out obscene words in front of us….we’re all adults here- (LOL)

      • Anonymous

        I was thinking the exact same thing—”Lady and the Tramp”–LOL
        You’re such  a scream, oowawa.

  • Nobama4me

    I agree for what concerns Obama. I disagree with the Hillary love. First of all, Hillary never said, to my knowledge, that she would give us single payer: that is a no starter for me and I wouldn’t have supported her if she did. I come from a Country with single payer and I wouldn’t wish it on my greatest enemy.As I understood it at the time, she said she wanted everyone in the US to have what Congress has,healthcare-wise, and I don’t think Congress has single payer or anything resembling that.
    Also, that she agreed to forward Teh Won agenda, especially about Arizona being denounced to the UN as intolerant (or was it racist?), tells me she and O are cut from the same cloth. Totally unforgivable. So I am looking forward to her retirement and being a good grandma to her daughter’s baby, when and if a baby comes.

    • Anonymous

      Well, Hillary did talk about mandatory health care…and garnishing wages of anyone resisted.

      • Ferd_Berfle

        And That One criticized her for it. Then his POS plan comes out and voila–penalties. That is a two-faced liar.

  • olivia98

    I will never support a Democrat again at least not until they bring the head office back from Chicago to Washington were it belongs. Then clean up the party.  No one can carry a Socialist Party of America and a Democrat card at the same time like those 74  or so that sit in Congress now

    • Anonymous

      There have been a few times since 2008 where the choice between the Dem and Rep running was like which one was less evil…Even thought the Rep might have a few more strikes I too cannot vote Dem.
      Reps seem to not stick their foot in their mouth claiming party loyalty like the dems always seem to do now a days.
      It seems to never fail  with any Dem running to say something that shows you that Party is first over our country and citizens.

      • Ferd_Berfle

        Along those lines, KitNW, the democrats obamacrats have been notorious for saying one thing and then doing something entirely different and then explaining it away by redefining the words of the original. At least with Republicans, when they say they’re going to do something, they make an effort to get it done. The only difference between my view of Republicans today and my views previously is that they are closer to my point of view now than are democrats obamacrats who have moved far, far away from my POV. The same thing happened to others, too, including one Ronald Reagan. Interesting.

        • Anonymous

          I keep remembering Obama and Hillary speaking to AIPAC professing their undying support for Israel.  Total BS.

  • murray

    Rhetoric, Schmetoric….I want someone solidly pro-Israel.  I thought Cain might be it, but then he started waffling…
    The most solidly pro-Israel candidate is Palin.
    -I’m all in-

    • Anonymous

      Compared to Obama, Abbas is pro-Israel!.

      Given the inevitable fact that the Middle East at the end of this Arab Spring will be anti-West and ruled by Sharia Law, I think any of the candidates (except Ron Paul) will be pro-Israel.

      Every 4 years, the Washington Post prints an article listing all of the campaign advisors for each primary candidate. In 2008, it was the usual suspects – no sirprises – except Obama – but who ever thought he would  be the candidate then? Every one of Obama’s foreign policy advisors were well documented anti-Israel foreign policy advocates with established histories.

      • Anonymous

        So sad that the media just covered for him.
        If the media had vetted Obama is 25% as much as they did Palin I dont think Obama would have even been a fly on the wall after a couple of state primaries in 2008.

      • Ferd_Berfle

        Every one of Obama’s foreign policy advisors were well documented
        anti-Israel foreign policy advocates with established histories.
        =================
        And these people were pointedly anti-Israel, you know, the invincibly ignorant types and arguers against facts, who say Jerusalem isn’t the capital of Israel even though it lies within Israel’s current borders and they say it is their capital.

  • candymarl

    Here’s an equivalent example.  When MLK Jr. started out many black people felt he was moving too far too fast and we should just wait.  He met quite a bit of resistance because he did it his way.

    Hillary has met resistance because she joined this admin.  Does that mean she doesn’t see what’s really going on?  I think not.  Just as Bill explained the economy while Obama went to a Christmas party maybe Hillary is trying to keep us from total disaster.

    Can I prove it? No. But those that have dealt with Hillary, Republican and Democrat alike, admit she would have been better and maybe could right our ship of state.  

    Many have publicly towed the party line while trying to fix things behind the scenes.  Heck, even the Black Congressional Caucus sees the problems here.  What’s holding them back?  Fear of a backlash that’s facing Tavis Smiley and Cornell West.

    I’ve talked to black folks here down south and they still think the criticism of Barack is mostly racism.  The suffering of their fellow AA’s, for whatever reason, hasn’t reached them.
    How  to wake  them up? Short of total collapse of their way of life?  I honestly think that’s what it will take. 

    • Anonymous

      candymarl wrote:
      “Hillary has met resistance because she joined this admin.  Does that mean she doesn’t see what’s really going on?  I think not.  Just as Bill explained the economy while Obama went to a Christmas party maybe Hillary is trying to keep us from total disaster.”

      I absolutely agree with your point of view, candymarl, and I think this paragraph says it extremely well!  Thank you!

      • Anonymous

        I’ve argued exactly this point before on NQ.  Now, I’m not so sure.  Too much water under the bridge.

        • Ferd_Berfle

          I agree with all you’ve said. Well done, oowawa.

        • Patience

          Ditto oowawa. 

          Plus, look what’s been happening in the ME — I hope I’m wrong but it seems as though it may be turning into one big Iran.  So I don’t agree with those who think HRC has been an effective SoS.  Granted, only time will tell.

          And (in anticipation of criticism) so what if she has no choice but to follow the directive of the POTUS?  

          I like Huntsman but I don’t see him getting anywhere.  He doesn’t seem to be trying very hard — does he expect it to be handed to him, like his former boss does? 

        • Scottymac54

          I understand folks feeling alienated from the Dems….I felt the same way in 2008.

          But we don’t support political parties because of personalities, we support and identify with them because their values and positions line up somewhat with ours.

          How is it possible to “flip the script” and permanently align with the opposition, without turning your back on everything you believe in?

          • Madame deFarge

            You are right. So how have you managed to justify the theft of the primary for the extreme Left? How ’bout them values?

        • Anonymous

          Agreed oowawa.  That ship has sailed.

        • Anonymous

          100% in agreement oowawa. Too much water under the bridge for me too. Right or wrong I now associate her with the Oblahblah Administration and I cannot, will not support anyone who is part of it.

          I like and admire Lady Lynn. I also think that she espouses many of the far left ideology that I cannot support. Thus while I respect and admire her in many ways, her loyalty to Hillary Clinton is certainly admirable, I simply do not agree with many of her positions.

        • JudyinNC

          Forgive me…I need to be reminded of what PUMA stands for.  I think I WAS one and that Hillary wore orange to the farce called a “convention”, but I just can’t recall what the letters stood for.

          • murray

            Judy – at the Democratic National Convention, the powers that be, installed Obama as the DNC presidential candidate.  This was in spite of the fact that Hillary got more votes (and I’m NOT talking about the bought-&-paid-for “pledged delegates.”)

            The Hillary people discovered that they and their votes had been betrayed. 

            The DNC responded by telling Hillary’s supporters to “get over it.”  The DNC then proceeded to release multiple press releases stating that the Democratic Party was now united behind Obama.

            Thus, PUMA’s:  Party Unity, My Ass.

    • Anonymous

      You are probably right about Southern blacks and the race card. in many places the blacks still are screwed around with in the south so I can’t really blame them..
      As for Hillary I think the whole primary mess ended up being a backroom Chicago blackmail mafia deal of some sort. I think this was true for not only Hillary, but Richardson, Edwards and many other noted Democrats and so called associates of Obama.. Some were thrown under the bus and some are still being used.
      For some reason I think Bill was dragged in screaming since he was quite unhappy for many months after, to the point of threatening to spill the beans in Jan of 2009.. In fact I don’t think Bill is completely on board yet..
      Something went down that shut up the Clintons during that secret meeting in DC. If only we had a blabber mouth fly who had been on the wall of that meeting.

      • Anonymous

        I don’t believe for one minute Bill Clinton has either forgiven or forgotten. I think that some of the Judases got their karmic deserves because of the long arm of Bill Clinton, and I believe he’s biding his time for his revenge. All the rest is just for show…..

        • Anonymous

          Bill Clinton knows that revenge is a dish best tasted cold. And he has patience, unlike the current occupant of the White House. God help Obama when Bill decides the time is right to strike, because no one else will.

          • ~JustMe~

            Bill stated way back in 2008 he would speak out……and yet many still wait
            with baited breath……

            That dish is now rancid and needs to be tossed out along the wayside with
            Obama in the up coming GE!

            Revenge is sweet some say, but lets ask Americans how SWEET it’s been
            suffering under Obama, while Bill sits on the sidelines watching the whole
            fiasco waiting to pounce!

            Bills ship has sailed, right alongside Hillary’s as far as many are
            concerned! Words just Words!

            Thousands of Americans are not looking for words regardless how cliche they
            may be…They are looking for action a way out of the jobless situation to bring
            America back from the brink……Many are simply not interested in what Bill has
            to say on Obama, they too have sat watching it over the time “O” has been in
            office……speaking out now or later will have no significance on all the
            suffering they have endured!

            • Anonymous

              Speak out now?? You aren’t very good at political timing, are you? If he speaks out now, Obama has a year and two months to explain it, let people forget about it, let it get talked to death on the web until it is an old piece of gristle and not a reason to get rid of him. No matter which way it goes, the timing is wrong.

              The timing was wrong right after he was elected and still everyone’s darling, which was when many people demanded that Bill speak out. It was wrong during the many crises and lousy solutions to them that this administration has gone through, Congress would have had to impeach and convict to get rid of him. That wasn’t, and isn’t, going to happen.

              The best time to let it out is right before the election, next year. Close enough so that Obama must either explain it, or deny it. No time for people to forget about it and then roll their eyes when it is brought up again. Close enough so that it is uppermost in the minds of the voter when they go to the polls. For it to be effective, it has to be timed properly. And Bill Clinton knows this, even if you don’t.

  • HELENK

    Lady Lynn was a great Hillary supporter and I do respect her for that.
    She took a lot of heat for her support. She is a very smart lady.

    My only problem was her being advertised as the original PUMA.
    She was not. That title belongs to a commenter at the Confluence.
    on May 31 2008  SM77 posted this

    P party
    U unity
    M my
    A ass

    No one has ever thanked her for that, but many have used the title

    For me the democratic party died that day, and I can not picture myself ever voting for a democrat again. It is not just about Hillary Clinton, that day the democrats told thousands that they had no voice  in the party and selected the worst president ever, who made statements like   we just need the checks, we don’t need the people
    and to this day attacks American citizens for standing up and speaking out

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

    • Anonymous

      Party Unity My Ass–not a political party or a movement–a state of mind….

      • Ferd_Berfle

        Agreed unless one considers that there was something of a movement by many from (D) to (I). I consider myself among them.

      • Anonymous

        Indeed oowawa, same as a 5/31/08 Independent. 

    • Anonymous

      “that day the democrats told thousands that they had no voice  in the party”

      They didn’t tell “thousands”, they told 18 MILLION Democrats that they weren’t wanted or needed. Basically told them to support Obama or go. So they went. And that is going to come back and bite them in the ass come the next election.

  • William L. Donlon

    HILLARY TOLD EVERYONE HE COULDN’T HANDLE THE 3 A.M. PHONE CALL!!

    MOVING RIGHT ALONG!

    Paul Ryan just said “No!”

    Watch Ben Bernanke in Jackson Hole.

    Out Of Ammo??

    QE 3?????  New Stimulus???? ——– NaDa????

    The Budget fight (Due Oct. 1st) starts the day Congress returns from Aug. Recess.

    The House has passed the “Ryan Plan” Which the Senate is sitting on.

    What is everybody hearing “back home” this summer????

    Obama plans to role out his “Job’s Plan” by Sept. 15th

    Sept. 17th is being billed as the “Days (note the “s”) Of Rage” when Acorn and SEIU plan to demonstrate in several cities and on Wall Street. 

    Obama just had dinner on the Vineyard with the CEO of Comcast, to discuss Brian, Larry, Rachel and Ed’s “script” for September’s events.

    Could get ugly and violent.
    It is rattling around the “Web”  that “Holder’s AK47s” laundered through the Mexican Cartels, are “ready and waiting”.

    Be very careful, The inner cities are a tinder box that only need a spark.

    Things are much easier to get into than to get out of

    By  Feb. 2012 The Democrats will be putting pressure on  Obama to withdraw from the 2012 contest.

    Andrew Cuomo, and maybe Hillary, are waiting in the wings?

    In this uncertain election year one thing is VERY certain —–

    Like 1860 and 1968 —- IT WILL BE DIFFERENT!

  • Anonymous
    • HELENK

      backtrack and bunch say it is for  job creation ?

      propaganda distributors

      stenos, typists?

  • Anonymous

    From MOTUS
    Ugly is as ugly does:

    • Geoff C. The saltine

      M Obama’s Mirror is a great site. I see lots of you fashion mavens there.

    • Anonymous

      Key-rist Almighty!  They’re on a million-dollar vacation, paid for by us, and they can’t even smile?

  • Helen

    Steve, Thanks for your piece.  I loved Lady Lynn when I saw her interviewed during the campaign. And I like the whole long in your face title.  I’m a bit of a snob when there is a hint of nobility in the house  As for Hillary, I think she had to do what she had to do.  Going back to the Senate and objecting to Obama’s moves would have put her in an impossible position.  Instead she is out of there and a reminder to the world of what their own crazy adulation passed up. She represents intelligence and a semblance of stability in an otherwise demented administration.  Sometimes I think all this is according to plan and I expect civil disturbance at some point is part of it. It’s the only reason O acts as if he doesn’t give a damn.  He knows what’s coming down and that the Chicago boys will take care of things.  Or maybe he got the word already, and Michelle knows too – because they act like they are cleaning out the till before they leave.  

    • Anonymous

      because they act like they are cleaning out the till before they leave. 

      And doing a damn good job of it, too….

    • Anonymous

      “because they act like they are cleaning out the till before they leave.”

      I hope somebody took an inventory of the silverware….

  • Solara9

    Go Jon Huntsman!  He’s the only Republican who can beat Obama.

    • Anonymous

      “He’s the only Republican who can beat Obama.”

      He’s the only Republican who can be Obama.

      • Anonymous

        Hillarious oowawa. I actually thought that Huntsman WAS Obama..lol

        • Ferd_Berfle

          Huntsman is Obama-Lite

          Same filling, tastes just as bad.

          • Anonymous

            Bo is uglier:

          • Anonymous

            Trust the Obots to jump on the Huntsman train.

            • Guest

              Someone must have told him you need a majority to win…

            • Dorinda

              I beg to differ Ms. DeFarge.  I’m no Obot, never voted for the man and never will.  Please don’t throw around those comments just because I support someone different from you. 

            • Madame deFarge

              Dorinda, my comment was not directed to you. However, some ‘new’ posters do exhibit classic ‘concern troll’ behavior. It’s a mute point though because Mr Huntsman cannot win the nomination. I didn’t peg you as a Bot, merely naive.

            • Guest

               ~ Wow ! Such arrogance ! ~ 
              Huntsman fortunately seems to be comfortable with the long odds. But if Romney stumbles, there is no reason he cannot cobble together a coalition of moderates and anti-Romney voters. IMO.

        • Anonymous

          His White side I presume.

      • Guest

        Definitely. He’s smarter with a better record of experience in economics and knows foreign affairs better than anyone. All the other candidates have is charismatic rhetoric or distorted statistics. I’m sensing this pro-science theme could be an important breakthrough. 
        Go Jon ! 

      • Anonymous

        “only one who can be Obama”

        wow–zap! Good one!

      • Anonymous

        Well, Huntsman I think is more qualified.  But he’s sooo boring.

  • Anonymous
    • Anonymous

      Oh, the flowers are blooming, the birdies are tweeting, a young man’s fancies are turning to jihad–must be the Arab Spring!  Let’s all get involved!

      • Anonymous

        Spring is gone…someone tell the Arabs.

        • Anonymous

          Someone tell Obama.

          • Anonymous

            “someone tell Obama”

            Does the Muslim Brotherhood have a phone tree?

            • Anonymous

              LOL!

          • Anonymous

            Same thing.

      • Anonymous

        oowawa—I’m laughin’ my fanny plumb off at that last word visual—hilarious!

  • Scottymac54

    I dislike this woman so intensely that I cannot objectively comment on what she has said, and her past support of Hillary.

    However, I thank you for your post, which is favorable toward Hillary, and thank you for being a vocal supporter of Hillary, as I am.

  • Anonymous

    Prisoner Abuse?
    Latest hurricane track favorable for #Guantanamo, to sweep north.
    Free-of-charge outdoor movie tonight at Navy base cinema: Captain
    America

    • Anonymous

      Do the prisoners get free popcorn?

      • Ferd_Berfle

        Oh no, not the popcorn box.

        • Anonymous

          Only if they praise “Captain America” 
           I heard that the movie’s name changes in some countries…It’s only fair.

      • Geoff C. The saltine

        Yep, and a shower.

  • Dorinda

    Steve,
    Thanks for writing about this article and Lady Lynn.  Though there are plenty on this list who say they gave up on Hillary when she agreed to step into the SoS role, I feel as you do, Steve.  Sure I was disappointed that she’d become tainted by an Obama administration but at the same time, I was comforted that she was taking one of the most important jobs in government.  At least, Obama couldn’t put one of those Chicago Democrats in the job.  Hillary has worked tirelessly for this country, not for the Obama administration.  I don’t believe that she put party before country in any way. 

    As for Huntsman, he is the only person currently running for president that I would vote for, period.  Unless someone primaries Obama and there are very few of those I could vote for.  The very hard right candidates are going to be the ones to keep Obama in office. Bluster and angry rhetoric make the headlines but, without substance, don’t do much to allow someone to govern a country.

    • Scottymac54

      “The very hard right candidates are going to be the ones to keep Obama in office. Bluster and angry rhetoric make the headlines but, without substance, don’t do much to allow someone to govern a country…”

      Agree 100%, Dorinda.     

  • Stray Yellar Dawg

    Lady Lynn also speaks to my heart. And reminds me, quite fondly, of my many years as a proud Democrat. That party exists no more. And it’s hi-jacking makes me more angry then just about anything else I have faced in my lifetime. Seriously.

    All the “Travel Channel” in the world can’t make me forget. Cuz I’ve pretty much gone to the other side. And you know what they say about elephants….

     

    • Geoff C. The saltine

      Yep. Thats the way I feel too.

    • Anonymous

      me too. I can’t believe what’s happened to the Democratic Party that I so loved. It’s been taken over by thugs and a really bad element. Also, it has been taken over by a totalitarian faction that believes that if you don’t parrot to the letter what they want you to say that you will suffer mightily for it. I haven’t gone over to the other side, but I don’t dislike them the way I used to. Much of what the R’s stand for is good. At least they stand for something. This lockstep thing from the D’s scares the crap out of me…

      • Anonymous

        Me too jeannie10. I am an Independent who will support the Dems when they support things that I can support. Until then, well there are many things which I do not agree with the Republicans about but at this point in time there are many more that I cannot and will not support the Dems.

      • Anonymous

        Me too jeannie10. I am an Independent who will support the Dems when they support things that I can support. Until then, well there are many things which I do not agree with the Republicans about but at this point in time there are many more that I cannot and will not support the Dems.

  • HELENK
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4L4GL7QOPBASIVI53K2VEQZOY4 Hank

    http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2011/08/19/211653.htm#
    Chicago Must Hire 111 Black Firefighters; Distribute $30M in Back Pay

    • beachnan

      Thanks Hank.  This is what is wrong with America.  Test scores no longer matter.  Ridiculous!

  • Anonymous

    Desperation On Rise

    Investor’s Business Daily,
    by Staff   
    8/22/2011

    Economy: In another sign of how lousy the president’s so-called recovery’s been, millions of desperately unemployed are now
    threatening to sink Social Security’s disability lifeboat. This year, 3.3 million people are expected to apply to Social Security for disability benefits. That’s 700,000 more than in 2008, and a million more than a decade ago. As a result, the Congressional Budget Office expects the program to run out of money in six short years. Social Security’s disability program is meant for those who,
    because of a serious handicap, are unable to…..

    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/582344/201108221840/Desperation-On-Rise.htm

  • Anonymous

    Huntsman: The Man Without a Party

    Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S.
    Tobin   

    8/22/2011

    Jon Huntsman entered the Republican presidential race
    claiming to be the champion of the party’s moderate-conservative wing. But,
    despite the applause of some elite figures like George Will and flattering press
    coverage from liberal media such as the New York Times and, more recently,
    Vogue, the main focus of Huntsman’s campaign has been his animus for virtually
    everyone else in his party. The former Utah governor and Obama administration
    ambassador to China has been reluctant to criticize the Democratic incumbent too
    harshly, but it has been readily apparent the people he really doesn’t like are
    his GOP rivals.

    • Guest

      Elections are decided in the middle, not the fringes. Huntsman knows that, and each time he distances himself from the extreme views of his rivals, he attracts people wanting common-sense and maturity from their politicians.

      The DNC sent out a video of Huntsman criticizing his GOP rivals. Then This campaign made their own video, of Huntsman criticizing Obama. At last, Huntsman has started out on the path that could win him the nomination­.

      • Scottymac54

        “Elections are decided in the middle, not the fringes. Huntsman knows that, and each time he distances himself from the extreme views of his rivals, he attracts people wanting common-sense and maturity from their politicians.”

        This is true.

        There’s a lot about him I’m guarded about, but I have NEVER heard him calamity-howling about “socialist” intentions, nor have I heard him babble on about “Islamofascism” or nonexistent terrorist concerns.

        The dialogue in this country has deterioriated to the point where this seems positively refreshing.

        Sad.

        • Guest

          Let the other candidates fight over the extremist vote. Jon is trying to galvanize support and stay differentiated with conduct in the campaign– reasonableness on scientific issues; direct, calm demeanor, etc. What I am looking for now is a follow through on the logic of his philosophy that would indicate an openness to meaningful compromise on some issues. 
           

  • Anonymous

    Soros:
    The Market Has All But Guaranteed
    A U.S. Double Dip

    Business Insider,
    by John Carney   
    8/22/2011

    George Soros is interviewed in Der Spiegel and says all sorts of entertainingly outrageous things, but my favorite line is about
    whether the U.S. will have a recession. “The indebtedness of the U.S. is not all that high, but if a double-dip recession was in doubt a few weeks ago, it is less in doubt now, because financial markets have a very safe way of predicting the future. They cause it. And the markets have decided that America is going to see a recession, particularly after the recent downgrade of the U.S. by the rating agency Standard & Poor’s,” Soros…..

    http://www.businessinsider.com/soros-the-market-has-all-but-guaranteed-a-us-double-dip-2011-8

  • BINKY

    If this has been posted, I apologize;  but I want to be sure to post the new White House Insider here so we can all dream together.  Meaning I can dream that the WH Insider is the real deal.
    http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three-2/

    • Anonymous

      I’m really skeptical about the WH Insider.  But that article rings so true it’s staggering.  Consider this..a description of what you find when you go to brief the pResident:

      “The scenario being played out these days is pretty much the same
      regardless of the particulars.  You knock on the door – it’s always
      closed.  Always.  Often you have to knock for some time before being
      given approval from inside to enter.  The big screen will be on – the
      volume loud.  You can easily hear it from outside the door.  The sports
      channels are the ones most commonly playing, though sometimes the
      channel will be set to music, or Fox News.  Sometimes Valerie Jarrett
      might be there, but most often it is just the president and his personal
      aide.  A large leather chair will be facing the television – it’s well
      worn.  Not part of the White House furnishings but something the
      president must have brought in from back home.  That’s where you’ll most
      often find the President of the United States – the most powerful man
      in the free fucking world.  He often sits with one leg draped over one
      of the chair’s arms and the other leg stuck straight onto the floor. 
      Shorts, sweats, a t-shirt, and like I said, no shoes or just those
      sandal things that so many of the younger people like to wear these
      days.”

      If the WH Insider isn’t for real he’s a hell of an imposter.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Pride’ vs. Patriotism

    Washington Times, by Matt Barber   

    8/22/2011

    To the modern Democratic National Committee, the
    mainstream media and other “progressive” outfits such as the American Civil
    Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the words “patriot”
    and “patriotism” have become synonymous with “right-wing extremism.” It’s little
    wonder why. Context is everything. When your point of view

    • Scottymac54

      There is nothing “progressive” about the ACLU or the SPLC.

      They are agents of the control grid, enemies of the right to free speech.

      This transcends all artificial boundaries of the false left/right paradigm.

      If they come for one, they will eventually come for all.

  • Anonymous

    National debt has increased
    $4 trillion under Obama

    CBS News,
    by Mark Knoller   
    8/22/2011

    The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch. The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion. It’s the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president. The national debt increased $4.9 trillion during the eight-year presidency of George W. Bush. The debt now is rising at a pace to surpass that amount during Mr. Obama’s four-year
    term. Mr. Obama blames…..

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20095704-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

  • Anonymous

    Obama: Stop selling pickup trucks

    The Washington Times, by Staff   

    8/22/2011

    The U.S. auto industry wouldn’t exist today if it
    weren’t for President Obama, or so he says. According to the White House, the
    2009 $80 billion auto bailout – of which at least $14 billion was lost – not
    only saved the American auto sector but preserved 1 million jobs. If you believe
    that one, he has a $45,000 electric Chevy to sell you.  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/22/obama-stop-selling-pickup-trucks/

    • Ferd_Berfle

      Guess he doesn’t know that Ford is an American automobile company. Fords are all I own.

  • yttik

    Good post, Steve! I like Lady Lynn, too. She’s plain speaking and not afraid to say what she thinks.

    I think Hillary is wonderful and I can’t even imagine the foreign policy nightmare we’d be in right now if she hadn’t taken the position as SOS. It’s hard to imagine what’s worse then the chaos we have now, but I have visions of WW3, with China siding with Iran and all sorts of horrors. Look at what domestic conditions are right now in the US, and expand that kind of mismanagement into the powder keg that is the ME, and I think we’d be in real trouble, much bigger trouble than we’re already in.

    But that said, I’d never vote for Hillary again as a part of the Dem party. I think she’s wonderful, but my goal is to get the Dems out and force them to think about what they did to their former party members and ultimately to the whole country.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    EPA’s Looming Blackouts

    Investor’s Business Daily,
    by Staff    
    8/22/2011

    Energy: It won’t matter which light bulbs we use as the administration’s implementation of cross-state pollution rules shuts down coal plants across the country. Where will the jobs
    be when the lights go out? It’s called the Cross-State Pollution Rule, announced last month, and its implementation over the
    next 18 months will likely result in the loss of a fifth of the nation’s electricity-generating capacity. The result will be likely power
    shortages, skyrocketing rates and inevitable brownouts and rolling
    blackouts.

    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/582343/201108221840/EPAs-Looming-Blackouts.htm

    • Anonymous

      The gov. has to control everything…..

  • Anonymous

    Huntsman says he could join
    Bachmann as VP candidate

    The Hill
    [Washington, DC],
    by Justin Sink   
    8/22/2011

    Republican presidential candidate and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman won’t rule out joining the Republican ticket as a vice
    presidential nominee — even if it means partnering with a Tea Party candidate like Michele Bachmann. Huntsman told CNN’s Piers Morgan that “if you love this country, you serve this country” in an interview set to air tonight.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/177809-huntsman-says-he-could-join-bachmann-as-vp-candidate

  • Anonymous

    Report: Chaffetz won’tchallenge Hatch in 2012GOP Senate
    primary

    The Hill [Washington DC], by Michael
    O’Brien   

    8/22/2011

    Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) will announce Monday
    that he won’t challenge Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) in a 2012 primary battle.
    After months of saber-rattling by the conservative, second-term lawmaker about a
    potential challenge to Hatch, Chaffetz will say later today that he won’t run,
    The Salt Lake Tribune reported this afternoon.Chaffetz’s decision follows
    diligent work by Hatch in recent months to shore up conservative support in
    order to fend off a primary challenge.

  • Anonymous

    Gold Tops $1,900 for First Time

    Bloomberg News, by Phoebe Sedgman and Debarati
    Roy   

    8/22/2011

    Gold extended its rally to a record above $1,900 as
    mounting concern that the global economy is faltering spurred demand for bullion
    as a protection of wealth. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lowered its forecast for
    U.S. growth in 2011 on signs that the recovery in the largest economy lost
    momentum. German Chancellor Angela Merkel attempted to shut the door on common
    euro-area bonds as a means to solve the debt crisis, saying she won’t let
    financial markets dictate policy. Gold is in the 11th year of a bull market.
    Prices have more than doubled since the end of 2008

    • Anonymous

      BO and the BOYZ are probably hoarding it…

  • Anonymous

    Allen West not running for Senate

    The Hill
    [Washington, DC],
    by Cameron Joseph    
    8/22/2011

    Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) definitively will not run for the Senate,
    he announced Monday afternoon in a press release.

    “I have been given one of the highest honors to serve in the House of Representatives and I will continue to serve the citizens in that capacity,” West said. “I will not seek the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 2012. With regard
    to my future, the only goal I have is to do my very best to represent the constituents of the Congressional District and to restore the exceptionalism of our nation.”

    http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/177773-allen-west-not-running-for-senate

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    KMA in Libya costs $1b so far
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/us-military-intervention-in-libya-cost-at-least-896-million-.html

    When I downloaded this link, my security noted that ABC had made a high alert intrusion attempt on my computer.

  • Anonymous

    In the 1960s the Mormon Church was going  bankrupt , the Rothschild family bailed the Mormon Church out. One of the Rothchilds from Switzerland joined the Mormon Church around the time of the bail-out they gave to the Mormon Church. 

    • Anonymous

      Check your history. The Rothschilds have been bailing out not only churches, but entire countries for a couple of centuries. It’s what they do. They are international bankers par excellence. They bankrolled the English during the Napoleonic Wars and steadied the French economy after the French Revolution. They have branches in almost every major economy in the world, and they have always been a good thing to have on your side. Bailing out the Mormons is just business as usual for the Rothschilds, has nothing to do with their political stances, which are usually neutral.

      • Jorge_B

        Gee, then I wish they  would tell them to stop abusing so many women and kids.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    The Mormon church leaders in Salt Lake City dictates who will run for office. .   OB can easily be controlled by the influence the LDS church in Washington has.

    See, posts by Jeff Foli on Blogs for Brownback regarding Jeff’s experience with Salt Lake City and when he did not go along with legislation SLC wanted he was excommunicated. 

    • Anonymous

      Reid is a Mormon…seems he is not towing the line on quite a few Mormon principles.

      • Anonymous

        I disagree with you on that, Reid stopped the investigations into the tortures and any investigation in Mormon Judge Bybee.  Reid will do as SLC wishes. 
        Playing good cop and bad cop one still serves the same master.

  • Anonymous

    This post is in response to the Mormon guy to backed down from running against Hatch in Utah

  • Cynthia Ruccia

    I understand how people are disappointed with Hillary and how she has seemingly been backing up Obama. But in reality, I believe she did this to live to run another day. I hate it as much as anyone seeing her say anything positive about O. But it was for her political survival. It’s up to the rest of us to say the things she can’t say. One of the reasons I stuck my neck out in 2008 as a Democratic Party insider of 40 years is that there were so many of my friends, elected officials, who were as sick as the rest of us about the sexism and thuggery coming from the Obots but who just couldn’t speak up. They didn’t speak up not because they lacked courage. They didn’t speak up because they couldn’t afford to lose their jobs. Some were their family’s sole source of support or because they were the only ones carrying health insurance in a family where there were uninsurable people without their job-related insurance. How many of us would have acted the way we did out of conscience if we stood to lose everything? I had sustantively little to lose by speaking out and I felt that my friends needed a voice. We need to remember that had Hillary burned all her bridges, she wouldn’t live to fight another day. I was mad about things for awhile listening to her kowtow to O. But I’ve gotten over myself. Hillary was the best of the bunch in 2008 and in my eyes, no one has her gravitas at this point. 

    • Stray Yellar Dawg

      Agree with your appraisal, Cynthia.  Hillary lives to fight another day. And… get even she will.

      Rise, Hillary, Rise!

    • Anonymous

      They didn’t speak up because they couldn’t afford to lose their jobs.
      Some were their family’s sole source of support or because they were the
      only ones carrying health insurance in a family where there were
      uninsurable people without their job-related insurance. 
      _________________________________________________
      Thank goodness Lady Lynn understands that you get FREEDOM with Single Payer. Freedom to change jobs, to risk losing your job by speaking up. You only lose your job, not your life.
      She also understands that we are in competition with all the other countries where the governments subsidize our competition by taking the big expense of health insurance off the backs of the employers.
      GM said employee health added another $1500, per car to for them to be made in the US versus Canada.

  • ~JustMe~
  • Mattes Gerber
  • Anonymous

    Obama Is a Robot ThatNeeds Reprogramming

    Creators Syndicate Inc., by David
    Limbaugh   

    8/23/2011

    President Obama’s legacy is shaping up to be a
    recurring cycle of rhetorical failures chasing policy failures, an endless,
    stupefying effort to convince us of the wisdom of pursuing — again and again —
    policies that have already failed. (Snip) From all appearances, he’s not
    fretting over the grim jobs reports and hints of creeping inflation; he’s not
    meditating or seeking advice about a new direction he could propose to navigate
    us out of this malaise. He’s thinking about his abysmal approval ratings,
    wondering how he can fob those off on President Bush, too. And he’s thinking
    about how he

  • Anonymous

    How Democrats Hurt Jobs

    New York Times,
    by Joe Nocera   
    8/23/2011

    The airplane’s aft section arrived early Monday morning. That’s what they’d been waiting for at the final assembly plant in
    North Charleston, S.C. They already had the wings, the nose, the tail — all the other major sections of Boeing’s new 787Dreamliner.
    With the arrival of the aft, the 5,000 nonunion workers in the plant can finally begin to assemble their first aircraft — a plane three years behind schedule and critical to Boeing’s future.

    (Snip) The Obama administration, however, has a different plan. In April, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Boeing…..

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/opinion/nocera-how-democrats-hurt-job-creation.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

    • Anonymous

      Cannot believe that this was printed in the NYT. Were all the editors on vacation?

  • Anonymous

    Is Obama’s “specific” plan
    now just an outline?

    Washington Examiner [DC],
    by Philip Klein   
    8/23/2011

    Last Monday, President Obama made news by promising to give a speech in September detailing, “a very specific plan to boost the
    economy, to create jobs and to control our deficit.” But has that
    “very specific plan” already been downgraded to an outline? That is, at least, the impression I got watching Obama advisors Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod on yesterday’s Sunday morning shows.
    “The president is going to outline a short-term plan to accelerate
    the economy,” Axelrod said on ABC’s This Week, “in the face of the hits we’ve taken, because of the Arab Spring and oil prices…

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obamas-specific-plan-now-just-outline

  • Anonymous

    Professor Obama Holds Forthon the Mandate

    American Spectator, by David Catron   

    8/23/2011

    One reason the supporters of Obamacare were initially
    overconfident about its supposed invulnerability to legal challenges was their
    belief that the man who signed it into law was an expert on the Constitution.
    This misplaced faith was based on statements Obama himself made during his first
    presidential campaign. At a 2007 fundraiser, for example, he told his admirers,
    “I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president
    I actually respect the Constitution.” This claim turned out, of course, to be
    one of Obama’s trademark shadings of the truth. He was never a
    “professor”

  • Anonymous

    That Federal Bank Bailout in 2008
    Was Bigger Than We Knew.
    A Lot Bigger

    American Thinker,
    by James G. Wiles   
    8/23/2011

    Thanks to some hard digging and a willingness to engage in litigation by Bloomberg News, we now have the benefit of their truly astonishing analysis of the scope and dimensions of the federal government’s fall, 2008 bailout of the American and European banking industries. Remember the TARP, the U.S. Treasury Department’s highly controversial, $ 500 billion
    Troubled Asset Relief Program? That was only the tip of the iceberg. Think: $ 1.2 trillion.

    (Snip) Turns out America actually was facing a total economic
    collapse.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/that_federal_bank_bailout_in_2008_was_bigger_than_we_knew_a_lot_bigger.html

  • Anonymous

    The Liberals’ Reality Problem

    American Spectator, by Ron Ross   

    8/23/2011

    A basic problem for liberals is their rejection of
    and discomfort with reality. That attitude, unfortunately, creates a number of
    problems for them as well as for the rest of us. There is, for example, much
    about human nature that bothers liberals. They do not like the fact that
    self-interest is the prime motivator in human decision making. This is at the
    root of why they speak so disdainfully of profits. The profit motive makes them
    cringe. For liberals “profits” is a four letter word. They would prefer people
    to be motivated strictly by charitable impulses and altruism. http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/23/the-liberals-reality-problem

  • Anonymous

    Obama Baits the Dependency Trap

    American Thinker,
    by John T. Bennett   
    8/23/2011

    The Obama administration is busy expanding the exact type of vicious, ungrateful underclass which recently exploded in London. An administration program will expand free school meal coverage to millions of young people who are not even supposed to be eligible. A stated goal of the program is to eliminate the stigma of getting a free lunch. But that stigma is one of the only things separating dignified free people from wretched government
    dependants. There is a lot of gray in between, but the Obama program would take students from a young age and nudge them in the…..

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_baits_the_dependency_trap.html

    • Anonymous

      I read this article and it left me shocked into silence. (That’s not easy to do.) How can anyone think this is a good idea?

       Even the left can’t believe that we should be handing out free lunches to those who can afford to pay for them? Can they? Are they that stupid? Especially in this economic climate?

      • Anonymous

        Years ago, free lunches were given to any “children” here who showed up at the summer recreation program around noon. When some of us asked why, the reason was explained as “equal rights”. No one could be denied.

    • Anonymous

      They claim they’re doing this to remove the “stigma” of the free lunch.  If 40% of the students in a district are eligible for the free lunch, how much “stigma” can there be?

      Black is white.  Up is down.  We are screwed.

    • Anonymous

      Perhaps it’s because they can’t get anyone to buy the inedible meals concocted by the First Lady’s healthy lunch program. They figure if it’s free, some of it might get eaten instead of ending up in the trash. And it would add a campaign advantage..”Vote for me, I feed your children. Everyday. And they are healthy meals!!” It’s a two-fer and has nothing to do with feeding anyone, actually. It’s for the campaign.

  • Anonymous

    Stock markets rise on hopes
    of more US Fed stimulus

    BBC News [UK],
    by Staff   
    8/23/2011

    Stock markets and gold have rallied, while the dollar has fallen, as markets anticipate further stimulus measures by the US Federal
    Reserve. European markets rose 1%-2% in morning trading, while gold hit a new record. The Fed’s chairman, Ben Bernanke, is widely expected to discuss further stimulus actions at a keynote speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday. This may involve more “quantitative easing”–buying up US debt to inject more cash
    into the financial system. The Fed has already carried out two rounds of quantitative easing (QE), to stabilise the 2008-09 financial crisis, and more recently to boost the flagging…..

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14625918

    • Anonymous

      Yep, Bernanke is about to sing his aria on Friday, and the theater is packed with fat cats, sure he will throw some more money their way . . . QE3! QE3!! QE3!!!  Print it, Ben!  Print the money right now!  We need fresh cash!  Print Print Print!  Stimulate us, Ben!

  • Anonymous

    How the American Left Will
    Help Defeat Obama in 2012

    by Ron
    Radosh

    Attacks on his policies and his leadership ability by former allies might doom the president to one term.

    ALSO READ:
    Will Obama Quit Rather
    Than Lose Re-election?

    http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2011/08/22/how-the-american-left-will-help-defeat-obama-in-2012/

    • Anonymous

      Stupid lefties see the media coverage of Barry’s supposed “compromise” with conservatives and ignore the fact that he’s doing everything they want through the EPA, Justice Dept., Homeland Security, etc. 

      Methinks all this whining from the left is a smoke screen.

  • Anonymous

    New national debt data:I
    t’s growing $2.95 million
    a minute, even during his vacation

    Los Angeles Times,
    by Andrew Malcolm   
    8/23/2011

    Swallow all liquids in your mouth before reading any further. Updated numbers for the national debt are just out: It’s now
    $14,639,000,000,000. When Barack Obama took the oath of office twice on Jan. 20, 2009, CBS’ amazing number cruncher Mark Knoller reports, the national debt was $10,626,000,000,000. That means the debt that our federal government owes a whole lot of somebodies including China has increased
    $4,247,000,000,000
    in just 945 days. That’s the fastest increase under any president ever.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/08/obama-national-debt.html

  • Anonymous

    New national debt data:I
    t’s growing $2.95 million
    a minute, even during his vacation

    Los Angeles Times,
    by Andrew Malcolm   
    8/23/2011

    Swallow all liquids in your mouth before reading any further. Updated numbers for the national debt are just out: It’s now
    $14,639,000,000,000. When Barack Obama took the oath of office twice on Jan. 20, 2009, CBS’ amazing number cruncher Mark Knoller reports, the national debt was $10,626,000,000,000. That means the debt that our federal government owes a whole lot of somebodies including China has increased
    $4,247,000,000,000
    in just 945 days. That’s the fastest increase under any president ever.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/08/obama-national-debt.html

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s
    ”Industrial Sabotage”
    Devastates the Gulf

    Power Line,
    by John Hinderaker    
    8/23/2011

    Kevin Mooney tabulates the damage that the Obama
    administration is doing to the Gulf economy, and to the energy industry generally: Ten oil rigs have left the Gulf of Mexico since the Obama Administration imposed a moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in May 2010 and others could follow soon… The rigs have left the Gulf for locations in Egypt, Congo, French Guiana, Liberia, Nigeria and Brazil. It gets worse. Several of the remaining rigs could be relocating soon, according to the report.
    These include the Paul Romano, the Ocean Monarch and the Saratoga. Moreover, eight other rigs that…..

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/08/obamas-industrial-sabotage-devastates-the-gulf.php

  • Anonymous

    EPA’s Looming Blackouts

    Investor’s Business Daily,
    by Staff    
    8/22/2011

    Energy: It won’t matter which light bulbs we use as the administration’s implementation of cross-state pollution rules shuts down coal plants across the country. Where will the jobs be when the lights go out? It’s called the Cross-State Pollution Rule, announced last month, and its implementation over the next 18 months will likely result in the loss of a fifth of the nation’s electricity-generating capacity. The result will be likely power shortages, skyrocketing rates and inevitable brownouts and rolling blackouts.

    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/582343/201108221840/EPAs-Looming-Blackouts.htm

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Stimulus Helped Equip Climate ResearchFacilities–In Maldives,
    India and Australia

    Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr

    8/23/2011

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last
    week that it has used $60 million of the $1.2 billion given to the agency in
    economic stimulus funds for purchasing “advanced-technology research
    instruments” to study climate change. Some of this equipment was deployed at
    facilities in the Maldives, India and Australia. The DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation
    Measurement, or ARM program, was launched more than two decades ago as a way to
    improve scientific models for climate research and weather prediction. In a
    statement released on Aug. 18 on the Recovery.gov Web site –

  • Anonymous

    Back-Door Amnesty Backfires:
    Obama’s Approval Hits New
    Lowof 44% With Hispanics

    Cybercast News,
    by Terence P. Jeffrey
    8/23/2011

    In the same week that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department was going to review the cases of 300,000 illegal aliens in deportation proceedings and allow ”low priority” cases to stay in the country and receive work permits–a move House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith called a ”back door amnesty”–President Barack Obama’s approval dropped to an all-time low of 44 percent among Hispanics, according to Gallup…..

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/back-door-amnesty-backfires-obama-s-appr

    • Anonymous

      FROM THE COMMENTS:

      Everybody who wants to stop this back door amnesty needs

      to go to NUMBERS USA and send free faxes and emails to

      congress supporting the halt act which would solve the

      problem     

  • Anonymous

    Daily Presidential Tracking Poll -Tuesday, August
    23

    Rasmussen Reports, by Staff   

    8/23/2011

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking
    Poll for Tuesday shows that 19% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the
    way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent
    (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of
    -26 (see trends). This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for
    President Obama. The previous low was -24 reached yesterday and also in
    September 2010.

  • Anonymous

    Daily Presidential Tracking Poll -Tuesday, August
    23

    Rasmussen Reports, by Staff   

    8/23/2011

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking
    Poll for Tuesday shows that 19% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the
    way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent
    (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of
    -26 (see trends). This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for
    President Obama. The previous low was -24 reached yesterday and also in
    September 2010.

  • Anonymous

    Did Liberals Choose the Wrong Messiah?

    American Spectator,
    by Aaron Goldstein
    8/23/2011

    When Barack Obama was elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008, liberals were literally dancing in the streets. The Anointed One was going to move into the White House to excise the demons cast by the big, bad George W. Bush and bring about a New America. For liberals, it was as if The Messiah had finally arrived. Anticipating that Obama’s ascendancy would come to pass, a few days before the election I began writing a poem which I planned to read at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts the night after the election.

    http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/23/did-liberals-choose-the-wrong

  • Anonymous

    “Rick Perry Is A Dope,
    Michele Bachmann Is A Joke, And
    MittRomney Is A Fraud”

    Business Insider,
    by Zeke Miller   
    8/23/2011

    The Republican intellectual class—led by the Wall Street Journal editorial board and the page of The Weekly Standard—can’t find a
    candidate to support among the current crop of GOP contenders to take on President Barack Obama next year. POLITICO’s Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith write that “To many conservative elites, Rick Perry is a dope, Michele Bachmann is a joke, and Mitt Romney is a fraud.” Washington Post columnist Charles
    Krauthammer and Weekly Standard editor William Kristol have been among the most outspoken in support of another candidate to enter the race.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-perry-is-a-dope-michele-bachmann-is-a-joke-and-mitt-romney-is-a-fraud-2011-8

  • Anonymous

    Buffett, a Kinder, Gentler Soros

    Canada Free Press, by Doug Patton   

    8/23/2011

    “The largest single barrier to full employment of our
    manpower and resources, and to a higher rate of economic growth, is the
    unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power,
    initiative and incentive.” – President John F. Kennedy in a special message to
    Congress on tax reduction and reform Jan. 24, 1963 It is one of the great
    political lies of modern American life that the ultra-wealthy are all
    conservative Republicans. If only it were true. Take Warren Buffett, for
    instance. He is one of the wealthiest men in the world, with a…..http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/39694 

  • Anonymous

    Huntsman’s Anti-GOP Strategy

    Wall Street Journal,
    by Paul A. Gigot
    8/23/2011

    When Joe Manchin wanted to save his U.S. Senate campaign, the West Virginia Democrat loaded a rifle and put a bullet through a sheet of paper labeled “cap and tax bill” in the most memorable ad of the 2010 campaign. As Jon Huntsman tries to save his GOP presidential bid, he’s decided to embrace global warming as a wedge issue. Mr. Manchin had the better strategy.

    Mr. Huntsman, the former Utah governor and ambassador to Beijing, began his candidacy stressing his resume and his attractive family.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903461304576524481403241372.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h

  • Anonymous

    Huntsman’s Anti-GOP Strategy

    Wall Street Journal,
    by Paul A. Gigot
    8/23/2011

    When Joe Manchin wanted to save his U.S. Senate campaign, the West Virginia Democrat loaded a rifle and put a bullet through a sheet of paper labeled “cap and tax bill” in the most memorable ad of the 2010 campaign. As Jon Huntsman tries to save his GOP presidential bid, he’s decided to embrace global warming as a wedge issue. Mr. Manchin had the better strategy.

    Mr. Huntsman, the former Utah governor and ambassador to Beijing, began his candidacy stressing his resume and his attractive family.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903461304576524481403241372.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h

  • Anonymous

    Sarah Palin and Rick Perry Friendship:
    Will It Stop the’Mama Grizzly’ From Running?

    ABC,
    by Shushanna Walshe and
    Michael Falcone   
    8/23/2011

    Rick Perry launched his presidential campaign with a headline-filled week on the stump. Sarah Palin is still undeclared, but
    seemingly giving it serious thought. Her most recent move — a video released by SarahPAC reprising her trip to the Iowa State Fair earlier this month — looks a lot like a campaign commercial. She’ll also be returning to Iowa Sept. 3 to headline a Tea Party rally.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-rick-perry-friendship-stop-mama-grizzly/story?id=14359204

  • Anonymous

    Sarah Palin and Rick Perry Friendship:
    Will It Stop the’Mama Grizzly’ From Running?

    ABC,
    by Shushanna Walshe and
    Michael Falcone   
    8/23/2011

    Rick Perry launched his presidential campaign with a headline-filled week on the stump. Sarah Palin is still undeclared, but
    seemingly giving it serious thought. Her most recent move — a video released by SarahPAC reprising her trip to the Iowa State Fair earlier this month — looks a lot like a campaign commercial. She’ll also be returning to Iowa Sept. 3 to headline a Tea Party rally.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-rick-perry-friendship-stop-mama-grizzly/story?id=14359204

  • Anonymous

    Palin sets the record straight

    Daily Mail [Charleston, WV], by Don
    Surber   

    8/23/2011

    Readers know that if I have my druthers, the 45th
    president will be Sarah Palin. She is the Timex watch of politics: She takes a
    lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. Whether she runs is up to her. Whether she is
    nominated is up to Republicans. She will announce on her own schedule and the
    pundits provide more heat than light by speculating on a September 3
    announcement. That may happen, but generally, I allow the news to happen before
    I react to it. Not so people such as Karl Rove and media outlets such as the New
    York Times. http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/40767

  • Anonymous

    From Drudge on statue of MLK
    Martin Luther King Jr. memorial unveiled…
    Made in China…
    FLASHBACK: King family charged $800,000 to use words, image…

  • ~JustMe~

    Obama Labor Dept to Re-Define term Employer’ To Exclude Union Bosses-
    Eliminates Union Disclosure.Any day now, the U.S. Department of Labor, under former Big Labor treasurer and now Obama’s current Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, intends to announce a new definition for the term “Employer” that will protect her union boss friends.When the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) passed, Congress defined the term “Employer” very broadly as “any employer or any group or association of employers engaged in an industry affecting commerce … an employer within the meaning of any law of the United States relating to the employment of any employees.” (Emphasis added)Pretty broad definition: “any law of the United States;” and yet, John Lund, the union labor consultant who heads OLMS, intends to exclude all labor unions from the definition of employer, no matter how many employees the union has. There is one exception to DOL’s proposed rule, and that is that if the union is trying to organize employees of another union or influence its own employees, then the word “Employer” would pertain to union bosses.

  • Anonymous

    Obama Attacks Nutrition

    Canada Free Press,
    by Alan Caruba   
    8/23/2011

    While watching a television commercial for some prescription medication, have you ever wondered why something it states may kill you or cause serious side effects ever was permitted to be marketed to the public? For decades I have taken a full range of vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements every morning. I don’t get head colds or any unwanted side affects.

    In my seventh decade, I enjoy exceptional good health. An annual physical check up is always the same. I am fine. Millions of Americans benefit from a daily regimen of vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements.

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/39686

  • Anonymous

    Is Jon Huntsman
    BarackObama’s
    Secret Weapon?

    Big Government,
    by Andrew Mellon   
    8/23/2011

    Many have wondered why Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a former Obama
    administration official as Ambassador to China, climate-change believer, ally of Harry Reid and all-around anti-Tea Party candidate is running for the Republican presidential nomination. Were the 2012 Republican primaries your typical RINO race (not that there aren’t abundant RINOs in the current field, at least in this author’s view), it would be clear that Huntsman would be setting himself up as the establishment, “civil,” “grown up” candidate, in the mold of a more liberal Mitt Romney. However, primaries are determined by the most…..

    http://biggovernment.com/amellon/2011/08/23/is-jon-huntsman-barack-obamas-secret-weapon/

    • Anonymous

      Maybe he will be BO’s VP…

    • Anonymous

      Maybe he will be BO’s VP…

  • Anonymous

    Former Ohio Congressman suing because he lost his seat in 2010 on abortion issue.
    http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=1416392

  • ~JustMe~

     
    Hedge fund traders had a great year in 2008. That year, hedge fund short sellers were instrumental in the spike in fuel prices, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the banking crisis, and the stock market collapse. While extremely wealthy hedge fund traders engineered each of these calamities, and made billions of more dollars short selling each one, the American people collectively lost trillions of dollars in the value of their homes and savings.

    And, as amazingas it is, no one went to jail. Why? Well,
    perhaps it is because in 2007 the perpetrators had some laws changed to their
    liking. And perhaps it is because these people are politically connected to the
    Obama Administration and Congressional liberals. Our government is protecting
    them, and there needs to be a public investigation into this matter.

    The hedge fund short sellers who were at the root of the
    mayhem are found primarily at the Managed
    Funds Association (MFA), the so-called “voice of global alternative investment
    community.” MFA members include George Soros, John Paulson, Jim Chanos, James
    Harris Simons, and others.

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/39693

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  • Anonymous

    Wall St. backers switch to Romney…or so “they” say
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/former-wall-street-obama-backers-switch-to-romney/

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  • carlaforhillary

    Thanks Steve for the great post. Love Hillary.

  • carlaforhillary

    Thanks Steve for the great post. Love Hillary.

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain Responds toJaneane Garofalo andKeith
    Olbermann

    Big Hollywood, by John Nolte   

    8/23/2011

    Classy response from the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO
    and GOP presidential candidate.Bottom line, Janeane Garofalo doesn’t believe a
    Black man can or should think different from her, and if he does, he’s either
    corrupt (taking a pay off) or crazy (suffering Stockholm Syndrome); and that
    kind of thinking makes Garofalo the one with serious racial issues.Of course,
    both she and Keith Olbermann have gotten away with this because our corrupt MSM
    is too busy screaming racist at those on the Right who use such sinister phrases
    as “basketball,” “food stamps,” and “dark clouds.”

    • Scottymac54

      Read the comments, LOL!

      Conservatives are such dumbasses.

      They fall into the trap every time.

  • Anonymous

    5.8 earthquake in VA, 34 miles from Richmond, 56 miles from DC
    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00lqe6x3.php

  • Anonymous

    5.8 magnitude earthquake in VA, 34 miles from Richmond, 87 miles from DC:
    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00lqe6x3.php

    • http://www.facebook.com/mary.cusack Mary Cusack

      must be all the veterans in Arlington rolling in their graves over what Obama is doing to the country they died fore

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    • Scottymac54

      Could Americans finally be waking up and realizing that our true security threats are not located overseas, but in our own backyard?

      (No, I’d better watch out what I wish for, or the security services will start shaking down nuns at airports, arresting Amish farmers, and staking out the local VFW posts..)

      False Alarm!  All Is Well!  All Is Well!

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  • MG

    From NYTimes…http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/opinion/nocera-how-democrats-hurt-job-creation.html?_r=2

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