Here are just a smidgeon of stories I linked to today. There are major and outright flagrant flauntings of "don't listen to what I say, watch what I do" from President Obama and his administration. His far, far left policies are making their way to and through Congress blindly. Evidence? How about the 3/4 trillion dollar stimulus bill? It contained thousands of pork projects 'saved up' by the Democrats over years of Republican control. Where are all the jobs this bill would create by summer for the rebuilding of our infrastructure? The idiots in Congress did not put in any controls over the money, nor accountability. They didn't even read the fucking bill before voting on it.

Since Obama has taken office, in less than 8 months... he has doubled the deficit and promised to quintuple it before he's done; he has proposed revamping the entire health care system which is adequate now for 80-85% of the population for the 15-20%; he has taken ownership of General Motors, the Chrysler Corporation, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and several banks; he PROMISED transparency but we get Van Jones and how many people in his cabinet had to cough up back taxes? We've got a pair in Obama and Biden who have given less than 1% of their money in charitable contributions (prior to running for current offices) -- fully devoted to their obvious philosophy that the government can take care of everyone. And I haven't even mentioned the visits to the Middle East where he got snubbed, the gaffs of not knowing the culture of which he visits, and Biden's ridiculous-ness.. (I made that word up!)


We've got all of that before the first snowfall... and the best argument the Democrats (especially the ever-irrelevant Carter)... the best they can come up with is the Race Card.

ROFLMFAO






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FROM THE CBS NEWS WEBSITE:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/16/obama-wh-collects-web-users-data/


The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.

A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year. At the upper end of the administration's estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year.

A second memorandum, which was prepared for Obama's transition team after the November election, says this about climate change policies: "Economic costs will likely be on the order of 1 percent of GDP, making them equal in scale to all existing environmental regulation."

The documents (PDF) were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute and released on Tuesday.


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FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES WEBSITE 9/16/09
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/16/obama-wh-collects-web-users-data/

The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.


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FROM BLOOMBERG.COM
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601074&sid=agUnJfnW_IBU

Concerns of Black House Members Helped Spur Rebuke of Wilson

By James Rowley and Brian Faler

Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A plea by California Representative Laura Richardson that House Democrats respond after Republican Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” at President Barack Obama last week helped spur her party’s leaders to action.

The “careful but passionate” words delivered at a House Democratic caucus the morning after Wilson’s outburst by a black lawmaker who rarely speaks at such meetings carried such an impact that “you couldn’t ignore that message and that input,” Representative John Larson, the Democratic caucus chairman recalled yesterday.

Larson, of Connecticut, made his comment after the House voted 240-179 to admonish Wilson for his interruption of Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress. The vote was largely along party lines, with 12 Democrats opposing the resolution while seven Republicans supported it. Five Democrats voted “present.”


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FROM CNN.COM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/15/carter.obama/index.html?section=cnn_latest

(CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that racial politics played a role in South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress last week and in some of the opposition the president has faced since taking office.
Former President Carter tells "NBC Nightly News" that racism has surfaced in opposition to President Obama.

Former President Carter tells "NBC Nightly News" that racism has surfaced in opposition to President Obama.

"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American," Carter told "NBC Nightly News." "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shares the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans."


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FROM THE ABC NEWS WEBSITE
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/09/dem-senator-warns-of-big-big-tax-on-middle-class-in-baucus-bill.html

Dem Senator Warns of 'Big, Big Tax' on Middle Class in Baucus Bill

It's not every day that you hear a Democratic senator charge that a fellow Democrat is proposing to raise taxes on the middle class, but that is what happened on Tuesday when Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., ripped into the health-care bill developed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mt., the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

The Baucus proposal would impose, starting in 2013, a 35 percent excise tax on insurance companies for "high-cost plans" -- defined as those above $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family plans.

Health economists believe a tax on high-priced benefits could help slow the growth of health costs by making consumers more sensitive to prices.

The tax contemplated by Baucus is also a big revenue raiser. It is expected to raise $200 billion, money that Baucus is hoping to use to pay for subsidies for the uninsured.

Given how much money this kind of tax can raise, Rockefeller says he understands why it is "tempting."

The West Virginia Democrat worries, however, that a lot of middle class workers, like the coal miners in his state, will end up facing "a big, big tax" under the Baucus bill because they currently enjoy generous employer-provided health care benefits which they receive tax free.

Referring to Baucus, Rockefeller said, "He should understand that (his proposal) means that virtually every single coal miner is going to have a big, big tax put on them because the tax will be put on the company and the company will immediately pass it down and lower benefits because they are self insured, most of them, because they are larger. They will pass it down, lower benefits, and probably this will mean higher premiums for coal miners who are getting very good health care benefits for a very good reason. That is, like steelworkers and others, they are doing about the most dangerous job that can be done in America."

"So that’s not really a smart idea," Rockefeller continued. "In fact, it’s a very dangerous idea, and I’m not even sure the coal miners in West Virginia are aware that this is what is waiting if this bill passes."

Rockefeller made his comments on a conference call with reporters which was sponsored by the liberal Campaign for America's Future.

Rockefeller, who sits on the Finance Committee, said that he cannot support the Baucus bill unless it receives major improvements during the amendment process.



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