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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/20/2013 8:33:00 PM
From: Wayners	7 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

Uh huh. Here is Obammy the Clown Liar signing the Sequester into Law. He likes it!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/20/2013 8:58:48 PM
From: jlallen	8 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

Its the Obamaquester.......no question about it......O can spin all he likes.....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/21/2013 7:51:12 AM
From: chartseer	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224755

How can it ever be too late for the facts? nice try though.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/21/2013 8:08:27 AM
From: TideGlider	8 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

With you and your party it is all about blame whether or not it is correctly assigned. It demonstrates a total lack of respect for the electorate you are attempting to confuse. This is done quite successfully with the assistance of the press. Who does at Democrat point at if he is alone in an elevator and farts?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/21/2013 8:08:35 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224755

Ben Carson: Yes, he can! Exclusive: Jane Chastain offers pair of diagnosing docs for president and VPby Jane Chastain Thursday, February 21, 2013 wnd.com It is becoming clear that the Republican successor to Ronald Reagan may not come from Congress. He may not have executive experience as a governor of a state, though these are the roads most often traveled to the White House. There is a new name on the lips of the politically engaged. To the uninitiated he might appear a most unlikely candidate. Benjamin Carson is a physician, a gifted neurosurgeon who has a way with words as well as a scalpel. In fact, many say his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 7, cut the president of the United States, who was seated just a few feet away, to the quick. Some, like conservative commentator Cal Thomas, called his remarks “inappropriate.” Others say they were a breath of fresh air, a lesson in economics mixed with biblical truths that are indisputable. The truth is that Dr. Carson, a devout man, did not direct his remarks to the president. He has been writing and speaking about these issues for some time. However, he did not pull any punches in this venue simply because Barack Obama chose to attend. For far too long people of faith have tiptoed around politicians who quote the Bible and appear at religious events when it suits them, all the while promoting an unholy agenda. For far too long, we have stood silent while being lectured on the dangers of trying to legislate morality. News flash: There is no such thing as a value-free piece of legislation. Every law we have represents someone’s set of values, and if you aren’t electing people to represent you who believe in your values, somebody is! Dr. Caron’s speech was gutsy. Not since 1994, when Mother Theresa delivered an impassioned speech on the evils of abortion in the presence of Bill Clinton at this same venue, have we seen a president so eloquently and deservedly undressed at a public gathering. The following day, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial with a title that was on the minds of all those in attendance, “Ben Carson for President.” His speech went viral on YouTube. A few days later, his latest book, “America the Beautiful, Rediscovering What Made this Nation Great,” was catapulted to Amazon’s best-seller list. On Friday, Fox New’s Sean Hannity ran an hour special on Dr. Carson complete with a Frank Luntz focus group that seemed ready to draft him on the spot. In just two weeks this modest man, who is the director of pediatric neurosurgery at prestigious Johns Hopkins, has become a household word. There has never been a doctor in the White House. Perhaps that is just what is needed at such a time as this. Carson told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on the network’s premier news program, “This Week,” that he doesn’t consider his remarks to have been particularly political. He went on to explain, “You know I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.” When asked about a possible White House run, he said, “That’s not my intention,” but added, “I’ll leave that up to God.” What were the problems diagnosed by Dr. Carson that hit a nerve? •Political correctness – the attempt by those in power to muzzle anyone who dares to disagree with them; •Our $16 trillion national debt; •The tax system, which leaves many people with no skin in the game; •A health-care system where people have no incentive to conserve and the government controls life-and-death decisions. Dr. Carson didn’t simply diagnose these problems. He offered simple solutions anyone can understand – solutions that can cut across party lines – much the way Ronald Reagan did three decades earlier. So move over Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal. The doctor is in! We’ve had our fill of politicians. Where did that lead us? Off the fiscal cliff. Statistics show that the longer they stay in office, the more they compromise and the more of our money they waste. We simply can’t afford them anymore! Doctors operate in the real world. They base their decisions on facts, not political expediency. Yes, we could use a doctor – or two – in the White House. A Ben Carson/Tom Coburn ticket perhaps? Coburn is a true citizen legislator, the kind envisioned by our Founding Fathers, who goes home every weekend to see patients. To make sure he does not become part of the Washington culture, Coburn term-limited himself and often takes his own party to task. This could be a winning combination!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/21/2013 8:13:01 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

'They don't rule us ... they don't give us rights' New NRA ad targets Obama, Clinton gun comments with fiery civics reminder Thursday, February 21, 2013 Video.... wnd.com (The Blaze) The National Rifle Association (NRA) is continuing its push-back against recent gun control proposals. In a new ad called “We are America,” the organization takes aim at controversial comments made by President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. Using quotes from both politicians, the organization’s new video lambastes perceived assaults on the Second Amendment. After sharing quotes from Clinton and Obama that seemingly denigrate gun owners, the NRA ad goes on to make some bold proclamations, calling the aforementioned comments arrogant and encouraging Americans to stand up and defend their right to bear arms. Additionally, the voice-over delivers a fiery “reminder” to the nation’s leaders.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/21/2013 11:43:21 AM
From: longnshort	8 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

BUSTED: Team Obama Directly Implicated in Major NC Voter-Registration Fraud After we learn of a morally-crippled poll worker named 'Melowese' voting for Obama at least six times in Ohio, now a report comes out that has the Obama regime itself workingdirectly with like-minded scum at the North Carolina Board of Elections (BoE) to illegally register 11,000+ people. They also paid a company per registration to scrape-up voters, a blatant, in-your-face violation of federal law... The Examiner: North Carolina's Civitas Institute has revealed that the NC State Board of Elections and the Obama campaign conspired to register at least 11,000 people via the internet in violation of state law. This has been confirmed through records requests filed with all of North Carolina's 100 counties. The counting is not yet complete. North Carolina does not allow online voting, but according to Civitas, SBE staff authorized an Obama campaign website, Gottaregister.com, to use a web-based registration program. The SBE's chief lawyer responded to the charge with a plainly disingenuous 1984-newspeak answer: Wright repeatedly denied that the SBE allowed online voter registration, insisting that it was “web-based voter registration” instead, as if there could be a “web-based” process that wasn’t online. The technology from Allpoint Voter Services uses remote-control pens to transmit “signatures” over the Internet, according to techpresident.com. After entering voter information in an online form, the citizen “signs” it with a stylus or a finger. The Allpoint technology records the signature and then transmits it to one of two autopens – one in California, the other in Nevada. One of the pens transcribes the signature on to a paper voter registration form... To say this is not “online” registration but “web-based” is like saying a certain vehicle is not a car, it’s an automobile. The point of having a “wet signature” – one in ink – is to provide a universally accepted way proving that a prospective voter is affirming in person all the facts on the form. To have an auto pen inserted at one point in this long computerized process is a far different thing... Why all this voter fraud in North Carolina? No voter-ID law, for one: add those 11,000 live specimens (illegally registered) to the 30,000 dead voters found registered in this very same North Carolina, and it's a wonder Romney carried the state. But just 'cuz Obama didn't win there doesn't mean it's OK to let it slide again- it's not: this crap needs to be fought tooth-and-nail by our side, from now-on into 2014/16. And if ossified Gee Oh Pee fossils like Boehner and McConnell won't do it, something -with $ behind it- needs to happen at the grass-roots level, and quick... More at The Examiner

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/21/2013 11:44:39 AM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

Obama Vowed To Use Veto To Keep Sequester From the archives of CBS News, back on November 21, 2011: Obama pledges to veto effort to undo automatic spending cutsBy Kevin Hechtkopf \| November 21, 2011 President Obama is promising to veto any effort to undo the automatic spending cuts that are set to take effect now that the congressional supercommittee has announced its failure to strike a deal to cut $1.2 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years. "Already some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No," Mr. Obama said from the White House briefing room Monday evening. "I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending." "There will be no easy off ramps on this one.," he added… Even though Head Start will be ended for 70,000 poor children and more than 373,000 mentally ill patients will be left untreated? But, granted, this isn’t quite as stark of a contradiction as it might sound at first. Obama was saying that he would veto any attempt to change the sequester if the Republicans did not agree to a tax increase. But they did agree to a tax increase. (The first time they have done so in more than twenty years.) And Obama still refuses to budge. In fact, Obama and the news media now pretend that the $600 billion dollar tax increase (which is half the sequester cuts) never happened. Some in Congress want to undo those cuts, particularly to defense spending, but Mr. Obama said he would not accept that. He called on Congress to come up with a deal in the next year to avoid that. "One way or another we will be trimming the deficit by a total of at least $2.2 trillion over the next 10 years," he said. "The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least 1.2 trillion dollars. That’s exactly what they need to do." In other words, Obama was only willing to undo the sequester if he could raise taxes. In fact, that is his sine qua non for practically everything. Mr. Obama called on Congress to come up with what he called a "balanced" plan that includes both spending cuts and tax increases, and he blamed Republicans for the supercommittee’s inability to strike a deal. "They continue to insist on protecting $100 billion worth of tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans, at any cost, even if it means reducing the deficit with deep cuts to things like education and medical research, even if it means deep cuts in Medicare," he said. "So at this point at least, they simply will not budge from that negotiating position. And so far, that refusal continues to be the main stumbling block that has prevented Congress from reaching an agreement to further reduce our deficit." Lest we forget, the Republicans have ‘budged’ and raised taxes on the so-called rich by at least $60 billion dollars a year. (The first tax increase they have signed on to for more than twenty years.) But Obama still refuses to compromise and allow any reductions in spending until taxes are raised still more. Meanwhile, Republicans blamed the president and Democrats for the failure of the supercommittee. "The Supercommittee’s failure is a direct result of President Obama’s negligence and Democrats’ intransigence," RNC chair Reince Priebus said in a statement. "Over the last four months, Republicans on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction worked around the clock to offer multiple proposals that would have broad bipartisan appeal. While Republicans were at the table negotiating in good faith, President Obama continued to prioritize campaigning over governing." Gee, that sounds familiar. Some things never change. By pledging to veto changes to the automatic cuts, Mr. Obama says he’s trying to pressure Congress to come up with a deal in the next year. "We need to keep the pressure up to compromise, not turn off the pressure," he said. "Although Congress has not come to an agreement yet, nothing prevents them from coming up with an agreement in the days ahead." Once again, the Republicans did compromise. Big time. And we see all the good it’s done them. Share on linkedin Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email More Sharing Services

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/21/2013 4:00:17 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

For the First Time in My Life, I Am Ashamed of My CountryFebruary 21, 2013 Windows Media BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, I'm sorry here. I can't help but think that we are all being played for a bunch of fools, a bunch of suckers on this sequester business. I don't know. Are you like me? Do you really think 800,000 people are gonna lose their jobs in the Pentagon because we cut $22 billion? Do you really think air traffic control's gonna shut down? Do you really think there aren't gonna be any meat inspectors? Do you really think that all of these horror stories are going to happen? I don't. I feel like I've been here. This is deja vu all over again. I remember the 1995 budget battle. That involved a legitimate government shut down. That wasn't just $22 billion we were not gonna spend. We're still gonna spend $3.5 trillion. We're just not gonna spend $22 billion, if it happens. Now, the government shutdown in 1995, yeah, we were gonna starve kids. That was the plan then. I'm just kidding. Snerdley I'm sorry, it's all ridiculous to me. Every bit of this. I've been doing this -- you get new perspective. I'm into my 25th year, and I think I mentioned to you last week and maybe the week before, I've been doing this long enough now to start seeing the repeat cycles on everything. I don't care whether it's the debt limit or the fiscal cliff or continuing resolution or the budget crisis of 2008 or TARP or the auto bailouts, and now the sequester, it's the same playbook. It is the same threats. It's the same danger. It's the same crisis. It's identical. There's nothing about it that changes, over and over. And everybody gets sucked into it. I try to escape, I try to get out of it, I try to leave it aside, I try to move on, but it just sucks me back in, too, until I realize that I have been sucked back in. And then there's a part of me that says, "Well, wait a minute now." You got not just Panetta, but now a uniformed military general, General Odierno, saying that he could lose 600,000 uniformed people, and the common sense of this doesn't add up. Now we've got a guy comparing this to the Oklahoma City bombing. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Everything gets repeated. The cycle, the claims, the threats, the crisis, Armageddon, it's the same. And we're talking $22 billion. It's not as though we're not gonna spend anything. If the sequester happens, the first year is $44 billion. Half of that's defense. We're still going to spend $3.5 trillion or $3.3 trillion, even if we don't spend the $22 billion. Then there's this guy who draws an analogy to the Oklahoma City bombing. Plus, we have our old buddy Ron Fournier. He used to be at AP, and is now at the National Journal. This is quite instructive, actually. Let me just read a portion of this to you. "You May Be Right, Mr. President, But This Is Crazy -- Your federal government is almost certain to blow past the March 1 deadline for averting $1.2 trillion in haphazard budget cuts that could cost 700,000 jobs." But see, it's not $1.2 trillion. [iframe width="585" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kj1y3q92sog" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 0px;"][/iframe] It is over ten years, but it's not this year and it's not next year. This year's portion of it is $22 billion. Besides, does anybody really think that, even if the sequester happens, it's not gonna get fixed for ten years? Anyway... "Don't worry. We know who to blame. President Obama makes a credible case that he has reached farther toward compromise than House Republicans." He has? Well, I guess he has, since the media says so. "President Obama makes a credible case that he has reached farther toward compromise..."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/21/2013 7:01:21 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

Adam Lanza diagnosed with sensory disorder at age 6 Newtown school shooter had condition affecting stimulation processing Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter By Cheryl K. Chumley The Washington Times Wednesday, February 20, 2013 washingtontimes.com Adam Lanza, the Newtown, Conn., teenager who shot and killed 20 Sandy Hook Elementary School students and six staffers — and then himself — in December, was diagnosed with a medical condition at age 6 that made it unbearable for him to be touched. With a sensory integration disorder, according to a PBS investigation that aired Tuesday evening and was subsequently reported by ABC, Lanza couldn’t deal with being touch or with chaotic situations, including loud, bustling school hallways and classrooms. As the years progressed, he became increasingly isolated, ABC reported. Those with the condition are sometimes even put off by the clothing they wear, ABC said. Sensory processing disorder patients are also unable to respond normally to pain and extreme temperatures and often find light — and some foods — unbearable, ABC said. “The most surprising thing for me was this sort of inwardness of Adam, a world view of someone that was afraid of the world,” said PBS Producer Frank Koughan, according to ABC, “He just reacted badly to the whole world and didn’t want to be part of it. He was not some violent monster, except on one particular day, when he was exceedingly monstrous.” Lanza’s Dec. 14 shooting spree began with the killing of his mother, whom he shot four times in her bed before heading to the school.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (153188)	2/22/2013 7:07:43 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224755

kenny...So is resident hussein gonna get America involved in another war? He is likely gonna spy on the French....alkida is sunni moslum ya know. US Will Set Up Drone Base in Niger By LUIS MARTINEZ (@LMartinezABC) Feb. 22, 2013 abcnews.go.com The U.S. is establishing a Predator drone base in Niger that will assist the French military operation in Northern Mali but could also mark the beginning of a longer term surveillance mission in Western Africa. President Obama notified senior Congressional leaders Friday that a force of approximately 100 American military personnel is now in Niger to set up the base. In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, Obama said the personnel had finished deploying to Niger on Tuesday with the consent of the government of Niger. "This deployment will provide support for intelligence collection and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region," said the letter. "I directed this deployment of U.S. forces in furtherance of U.S. national security interests, and pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive," said Obama, who noted he was making the notification to be consistent with the War Powers Resolution. U.S. officials told ABC News the deployment will establish a base in Niger so that unarmed Predator surveillance flights can be flown over Mali and other countries in the region. One of the officials said that in recent weeks the U.S. has begun flying Predators over Mali as had been requested by the French when they launched their military intervention against al Qaeda-linked Islamist separatists in January. The French also requested airlifts for some of their forces and refueling tanker operations for their aircraft. The official said the U.S. surveillance operation will be based in Niamey, Niger's capital, which will enable flight operations closer to Mali. U.S. Africa Command developed a plan a few weeks ago that proposed setting up a base in Niger to enable long term surveillance operations in western Africa. Niger officials have been receptive to the proposal, but a U.S. official said details still remain to be worked out. One of the officials said the new operation announced by the White House is focused on assisting the French and providing surveillance for other areas of western Africa. However, the official said it is also possible that it could morph into the separate concept proposed by Africa Command. Another official said the U.S. effort will consist of several unarmed Predator drones and the support teams required to maintain them. The French request for a military airlift was quickly approved by the U.S. and beginning on January 21, five C-17s flew 925 French military personnel and their equipment to Mali and Niger. An additional 50 Chadian soldiers were also transported from Chad to Niger. The request for refueling assistance was held up over American legal concerns that doing so might indicate the U.S. was a military participant in the intervention. Those concerns were eventually resolved and as of Thursday the U.S. had flown 35 refueling missions that have provided 1.4 million pounds of jet fuel for French fighters conducting operations over Northern Mali. Early on the United States met a French request to provide intelligence information, but France's specific request for Predator drone flights over Mali was not approved until recently.