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6-14-2011 Happy Flag Day!
Fly your flag, and I'll fly mine: "DON'T TREAD ON ME; LIVE FREE OR DIE"!
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On June 14th, 1777, our flag was adopted as the official flag of the United States of America. On that same day our Congress adopted the “American Continental Army,” making today the 236th birthday of our American army.
We at the Liberty News Network and Patriot Action Network proudly honor and show great respect for our flag today, and we wish our fellow American’s serving in the Army a safe future as they continue their oath to protect our nation.
Our American Flag
by Ellen Bailey
Our flag is one with colors every so bright
A symbol of goodwill and all that’s right
It is a beacon for those who are oppressed
Who pine to live in the land of the blessed
It represents a dream to those from afar
That things can be much better than they are
They look upon our flag as an emblem of hope
When from their oppression they wish to elope
Our flag stands for freedom and basic human rights
It serve as a rally when against tyranny we must fight
It was conceived in battle when our country was young
And many have defended it since our liberty was won
It represents a place where dreams can come true
Where men and women can live the life they chose
Without fear from some maniacal regime
Standing ready to crush their dreams
Our flag stands for liberty and justice for all
It stands for a country ruled by law
And when in a parade I see it passing by
I cannot hide my patriotic pride
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Cholorecords Aja I shall not so much as stand to live under the oppression of drugs or alcohol in as much as I will not live under the tyranny of Obama and our government !!!
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Observations on the NH GOP debate, updates in Islam madness and more!
Posted by Eric Odom - Interactive Media on June 14, 2011 at 11:17am
Fellow Patriots,
On this day in 1777, the flag we all know, pledge to, respect and honor was made the official flag of the United States of America. Please take a moment today and consider the sacrifice made for our flag and the nation it represents.
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @crnc Obama needs to plan on exiting the stage gracefully now that he lied to America about everything especially his citizenship, or he'll
@crnc spend the rest of his living days paying back the deficit alone, he has committed serious and egregious defrauding of the Office.
Townhall Columnists John Stossel
John Stossel - The Money Hole 6/15/2011 | Email John Stossel | Columnist's Archive
America is falling deeper into debt. We're long past the point where drastic action is needed. We're near Greek levels of debt. What's going to happen?
Maybe riots -- like we've seen in Greece?
We need to make cuts now.
Some governors have shown the way. You know about Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Rick Scott, John Kasich, etc. But you probably don't know about Luis Fortuno.
Fortuno is governor of Puerto Rico. Two years ago, he fired 17,000 government workers. No state governor did anything like that. He cut spending much more than Walker did in Wisconsin. In return, thousands of union members demonstrated against Fortuno for days. They clashed with police. They called him a fascist
Fortuno said he had to make the cuts because Puerto Rico's economy was a mess.
"Not just a mess. We didn't have enough money to meet our first payroll."
Fortuno's predecessors had grown Puerto Rico's government to the point that the state employed one out of every three workers. By the time he was elected, Puerto Rico was broke. So the new conservative majority, the first in Puerto Rico in 40 years, shrank the government.
What was cut?
"Everything. I started with my own salary."
The protesters said he should raise taxes instead of cutting spending.
"Our taxes were as high as they could be, actually much higher than most of the country. So what we've done is the opposite." Fortuno reduced corporate taxes from 35 percent to 25 percent. He reduced individual income taxes. He privatized entire government agencies.
"Bring in the private sector," Fortuno said. "They will do a better job. They will do it cheaper."
Fortuno's advice for leaders who want to shrink the state: "Do what you need to do quickly, swiftly, like when you take off a Band-Aid. Just do it. And move on to better things."
Canada did that years ago.
When I think Canada, I think big government. I'm embarrassed that I didn't know that in the mid-'90s, Canada shrank its government. It had to. Its debt level was as bad as ours is today, almost 70 percent of the economy. Canada's finance minister said: "We are in debt up to our eyeballs. That can't be sustained." Economist David Henderson, a Canadian who left Canada for the United States, remembers when The Wall Street Journal called the Canadian dollar "the peso of the north." It was worth just 72 American cents. "Moody's put the Canadian federal debt on a credit watch," Henderson said.
The problem, he added, was that Canada had a government safety net that was more like a hammock.
"When I was growing up in Canada, people who went on unemployment insurance were said to go in the 'pogie.' You could work as little as eight weeks, taking the rest of the year off." So in 1995 Canadian leaders cut unemployment benefits and other programs. It happened quietly because it was a liberal government, and liberals didn't want to criticize their own. The result was that Canada's debt stopped increasing. As the government ran budget surpluses, the debt went down.
"The economy boomed," Henderson said. "Think about what government does. Government wastes most of what it spends, and so just cutting government and having that money in the hands of people means it's going to be used more valuably."
Canada fired government workers, but unemployment didn't increase. In fact, it fell from 12 percent to 6 percent. Canadian unemployment is still well below ours. And the Canadian dollar rose from just 72 American cents to $1.02 today. Canada also raised some taxes. But the spending cuts were much bigger, six to one: agriculture was cut 22 percent; fisheries, 27 percent; natural resources, almost 50 percent.
"We should learn from Canada's experience that you can cut government substantially," Henderson said. "It is so wasteful. There's so much to cut, without causing much real pain -- not causing pain, but helping your economy grow, helping people become better off." Henderson added, "We need to move more quickly than the Canadians did. Unfortunately, we're moving more slowly than the Canadians did." If we're moving at all.While Canada thrives, we pour more money down the hole
Tags: Budget and Government , Government Spending , Canada
LIFESTYLES OF THE SEEMINGLY UNTOUCHABLE RICH AND THE CRACKTASTIC CHICAGO-KENYAN KINGPEN’S CONNECTIONS TO MONEY-PEOPLE “BILDERBERG”:(THIS NEXT SEGMENT ON CORRUPTION COMES TO YOU COURTESY OF CANDACE AND SHEILA CONE, SYNTHESIS READERS, BUT WHO ASKED ME AWHILE BACK TO INVESTIGATE AND FOLLOW-UP ON BILDERBERG AND OBAMA’S GAY CHOIR DIRECTOR BEING KILLED, AND THE RUMORS THAT ARE INDEED TRUE, THAT OBAMA GAVE GAY CALL BOYS LIMO RIDES WHO MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED AND WERE FOUND DEAD):
(ABC NEWS REPORTS ALL OF OBAMA’S DONORS WHO BUNDLED $500,000 FOR HIM GOT A GOVERNMENT JOB OR PRESTIGIOUS POSITION: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/obama-gave-special-treatment-donors-13850782) AND THEY HAVE THE BUSH JR. - OBAMA BILDERGBERG CONNECTIONS TO QUASI NEW WORLD ORDER BANKING !!
Full Bilderberg 2011 Attendee List
http://youtu.be/OyLMhOnVFDI
8-2-2011 OBAMA’S NEW ECONOMIC JUDGEMENT DAY DISASTER:
LESS THAN 3 MONTHS TO TOTAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, ABC REPORTS THAT WE CAN NOT BORROW ANY MORE MONEY, WITHOUT CUTTING FROM OBAMA’S BUDGET, TO RECTIFY THE DEFICIT OR U.S. BOND MAKERS WILL BE UNABLE TO SELL OUR DEBT WITHOUT SOLVENCY !!
OBAMA REFUSES TO BUDGE, DIGS IN THE DONKEY HOOVES, LIKE LAST YEAR SAYING: “WHEN HEALTH CARE PASSES, THE SKY ISN’T GOING TO FALL, THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO END”: SO ON 8-2-2011, HE WILL WISH HE CONSIDERED OUR REPEAL LEGISLATION DRAFTED AND SUBMITTED LAST SUMMER !!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US
Judgment Day For Obama?
June 14, 2011 by Robert Ringer
In a recent Allstate/National Journal poll, 47 percent of Americans said they “would definitely or probably” not vote for Barack Obama.
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows 48 percent of Americans believe the U.S. economy is headed for another depression within a year. This is great news, because it means nearly half of all Americans are starting to awaken from their slumber and realize President Barack Obama and his media allies have been lying about the existence of a nonexistent recovery.
I say “starting,” because I have no way of knowing how many of these people truly understand the underlying causes of the depression they believe is on the way. (I hasten to add that, in truth, we have long been in an invisible depression — a depression shielded from the public by easy credit and excessive money creation. But that’s a story for another day.)
There’s another piece of good news to go with CNN’s 48 percent figure. In a recent Allstate/National Journal poll, 47 percent of Americans said they “would definitely or probably” not vote for Obama. The 48 and 47 percent figures sound like a winning combination — or, put another way, a losing combination for Obama.
The bad news is Mitt Romney is the early front-runner for the Republican nomination, with the Tea Party candidates stuck at the back of the pack. Nevertheless, if Romney does end up winning the nomination, I believe he will make Obama look and sound like a fumbling, stumbling high school kid in head-to-head debates.
So what’s the problem? If Romney becomes President, probably the best we can hope for is that he will be another George W. Bush. Yes, I’m talking about the same George W. Bush who, just as Herbert Hoover did for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gave Obama the Presidency with his big-spending policies. And the worst that might happen to the United States, courtesy of the guy who created the model for Obamacare, is too bad to even contemplate.
Another piece of bad news offsets the 48 and 47 percent anti-Obama figures. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll also shows 75 percent of Americans approve of Obama “personally.” Huh? What planet do these folks live on? They obviously know little or nothing about Obama’s upbringing, his past and current associations, his debt and spending policies, and his endless, ongoing lies that everyone can easily witness on television and the Internet on a daily basis.
Obama will obfuscate, lie and spin the truth thousands of times over the next 17 months. He will unmercifully smear whoever his opponent may be. That’s the problem. It isn’t hard to imagine Obama swinging enough voters over to his side to dramatically reduce the 47 percent figure (people who say they won’t vote for him) and, in the process, win re-election.
Once he is out of campaign mode, you can be sure Obama will go right back to putting the redistribution-of-wealth throttle on full thrust in an attempt to finish the job he was taught to do by his radical mother, his proud-to-be-a-communist father (his mother’s words), his ideological mentor Frank Marshall Davis, his spiritual mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, community-organizing guru Saul Alinsky, American-hating terrorist Bill Ayers, Frances Fox Piven (of “overwhelming the system” fame), etc. The list is endless, ugly, Marxist and lethal.
Clearly, the Republicans need a Presidential nominee who is willing to be bold and aggressive in exposing the truth about Obama, his background, his allies, his ideology, his policies and his vision of America as a model collectivist state. What will not work is the make-nice stuff like Jon Huntsman’s self-righteous statement, “I believe we ought to have a civil discourse in this country.”
The Republican Party needs to nominate a Tea Party type.
Unfortunately, another poll — this one by Rasmussen Reports — makes it clear the Tea Party folks are going to have a huge hill to climb to get one of their own nominated. The poll found only “16 percent of all voters now consider themselves members of the Tea Party movement, down from 21 percent at the end of last year.” That is not good news.
So the big problem Republicans now face is how to find and nominate a candidate who believes, deep down in his or her heart, in Ayn Rand’s tenet: “Judge and prepare to be judged.”
The Master of Misdirection has had nearly 2½ years to show us what he meant by “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Now it’s time for him to be judged — candidly and harshly — for bringing America to its moral and financial knees. It’s time for his free pass to come to an end.
But if Romney is the guy who ends it, don’t get your hopes up that we will see smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation and more freedom. I could be wrong, but … in any event, stay tuned. Things are likely to change every week. Let’s just hope the changes are for the better. We have already found out the hard way that change can also result in our worst nightmare.
(On that note, please keep in mind that this article was submitted Monday morning, prior to the CNN Republican Presidential debate Monday evening.)
–Robert Ringer
(ABC NEWS REPORTS ALL OF OBAMA’S DONORS WHO BUNDLED $500,000 FOR HIM GOT A GOVERNMENT JOB OR PRESTIGIOUS POSITION: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/obama-gave-special-treatment-donors-13850782) AND THEY HAVE THE BUSH JR. - OBAMA BILDERGBERG CONNECTIONS TO QUASI NEW WORLD ORDER BANKING !!
Full Bilderberg 2011 Attendee List
http://youtu.be/OyLMhOnVFDI
Fri Jun 10 2011 16:22
Infowars
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thanks to the fantastic work of Bilderberg activists, journalists and the Swiss media, we have now been able to obtain the full official list of 2011 Bilderberg attendees. Routinely, some members request that their names be kept off the roster so there will be additional Bilderbergers in attendance.
Infowars will be on the scene identifying other attendees not on the list.
Belgium
- Coene, Luc, Governor, National Bank of Belgium
- Davignon, Etienne, Minister of State
- Leysen, Thomas, Chairman, Umicore
China
- Fu, Ying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Huang, Yiping, Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
Denmark
- Eldrup, Anders, CEO, DONG Energy
- Federspiel, Ulrik, Vice President, Global Affairs, Haldor Topsøe A/S
- Schütze, Peter, Member of the Executive Management, Nordea Bank AB
Germany
- Ackermann, Josef, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank
- Enders, Thomas, CEO, Airbus SAS
- Löscher, Peter, President and CEO, Siemens AG
- Nass, Matthias, Chief International Correspondent, Die Zeit
- Steinbrück, Peer, Member of the Bundestag; Former Minister of Finance
Finland
- Apunen, Matti, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
- Johansson, Ole, Chairman, Confederation of the Finnish Industries EK
- Ollila, Jorma, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
- Pentikäinen, Mikael, Publisher and Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat
France
- Baverez, Nicolas, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Bazire, Nicolas, Managing Director, Groupe Arnault /LVMH
- Castries, Henri de, Chairman and CEO, AXA
- Lévy, Maurice, Chairman and CEO, Publicis Groupe S.A.
- Montbrial, Thierry de, President, French Institute for International Relations
- Roy, Olivier, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute
Great Britain
- Agius, Marcus, Chairman, Barclays PLC
- Flint, Douglas J., Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings
- Kerr, John, Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
- Lambert, Richard, Independent Non-Executive Director, Ernst & Young
- Mandelson, Peter, Member, House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel
- Micklethwait, John, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
- Osborne, George, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Stewart, Rory, Member of Parliament
- Taylor, J. Martin, Chairman, Syngenta International AG
Greece
- David, George A., Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.
- Hardouvelis, Gikas A., Chief Economist and Head of Research, Eurobank EFG
- Papaconstantinou, George, Minister of Finance
- Tsoukalis, Loukas, President, ELIAMEP Grisons
International Organizations
- Almunia, Joaquín, Vice President, European Commission
- Daele, Frans van, Chief of Staff to the President of the European Council
- Kroes, Neelie, Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Digital Agenda
- Lamy, Pascal, Director General, World Trade Organization
- Rompuy, Herman van, President, European Council
- Sheeran, Josette, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
- Solana Madariaga, Javier, President, ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
- Trichet, Jean-Claude, President, European Central Bank
- Zoellick, Robert B., President, The World Bank Group
Ireland
- Gallagher, Paul, Senior Counsel; Former Attorney General
- McDowell, Michael, Senior Counsel, Law Library; Former Deputy Prime Minister
- Sutherland, Peter D., Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Italy
- Bernabè, Franco, CEO, Telecom Italia SpA
- Elkann, John, Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
- Monti, Mario, President, Univers Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
- Scaroni, Paolo, CEO, Eni S.p.A.
- Tremonti, Giulio, Minister of Economy and Finance
Canada
- Carney, Mark J., Governor, Bank of Canada
- Clark, Edmund, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
- McKenna, Frank, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group
- Orbinksi, James, Professor of Medicine and Political Science, University of Toronto
- Prichard, J. Robert S., Chair, Torys LLP
- Reisman, Heather, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. Center, Brookings Institution
Netherlands
- Bolland, Marc J., Chief Executive, Marks and Spencer Group plc
- Chavannes, Marc E., Political Columnist, NRC Handelsblad; Professor of Journalism
- Halberstadt, Victor, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
- H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands
- Rosenthal, Uri, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Winter, Jaap W., Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Norway
- Myklebust, Egil, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, sk Hydro ASA
- H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway
- Ottersen, Ole Petter, Rector, University of Oslo
- Solberg, Erna, Leader of the Conservative Party
Austria
- Bronner, Oscar, CEO and Publisher, Standard Medien AG
- Faymann, Werner, Federal Chancellor
- Rothensteiner, Walter, Chairman of the Board, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG
- Scholten, Rudolf, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Portugal
- Balsemão, Francisco Pinto, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister
- Ferreira Alves, Clara, CEO, Claref LDA; writer
- Nogueira Leite, António, Member of the Board, José de Mello Investimentos, SGPS, SA
Sweden
- Mordashov, Alexey A., CEO, Severstal
- Schweden
- Bildt, Carl, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Björling, Ewa, Minister for Trade
- Wallenberg, Jacob, Chairman, Investor AB
Switzerland
- Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter, Chairman, Nestlé S.A.
- Groth, Hans, Senior Director, Healthcare Policy & Market Access, Oncology Business Unit, Pfizer Europe
- Janom Steiner, Barbara, Head of the Department of Justice, Security and Health, Canton
- Kudelski, André, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group SA
- Leuthard, Doris, Federal Councillor
- Schmid, Martin, President, Government of the Canton Grisons
- Schweiger, Rolf, Ständerat
- Soiron, Rolf, Chairman of the Board, Holcim Ltd., Lonza Ltd.
- Vasella, Daniel L., Chairman, Novartis AG
- Witmer, Jürg, Chairman, Givaudan SA and Clariant AG
Spain
- Cebrián, Juan Luis, CEO, PRISA
- Cospedal, María Dolores de, Secretary General, Partido Popular
- León Gross, Bernardino, Secretary General of the Spanish Presidency
- Nin Génova, Juan María, President and CEO, La Caixa
- H.M. Queen Sofia of Spain
Turkey
- Ciliv, Süreyya, CEO, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.
- Gülek Domac, Tayyibe, Former Minister of State
- Koç, Mustafa V., Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
- Pekin, Sefika, Founding Partner, Pekin & Bayar Law Firm
USA
- Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency
- Altman, Roger C., Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
- Bezos, Jeff, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
- Collins, Timothy C., CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
- Feldstein, Martin S., George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- Hoffman, Reid, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
- Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook
- Jacobs, Kenneth M., Chairman & CEO, Lazard
- Johnson, James A., Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
- Jordan, Jr., Vernon E., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
- Keane, John M., Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired
- Kissinger, Henry A., Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
- Kleinfeld, Klaus, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
- Kravis, Henry R., Co-Chairman and co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co.
- Kravis, Marie-Josée, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
- Li, Cheng, Senior Fellow and Director of Research, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
- Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
- Orszag, Peter R., Vice Chairman, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
- Perle, Richard N., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Rockefeller, David, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
- Rose, Charlie, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
- Rubin, Robert E., Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
- Schmidt, Eric, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
- Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State
- Thiel, Peter A., President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
- Varney, Christine A., Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust
- Vaupel, James W., Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Warsh, Kevin, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board
- Wolfensohn, James D., Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC
Read more at Intel Hub
8-2-2011 OBAMA’S NEW ECONOMIC JUDGEMENT DAY DISASTER:
LESS THAN 3 MONTHS TO TOTAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, ABC REPORTS THAT WE CAN NOT BORROW ANY MORE MONEY, WITHOUT CUTTING FROM OBAMA’S BUDGET, TO RECTIFY THE DEFICIT OR U.S. BOND MAKERS WILL BE UNABLE TO SELL OUR DEBT WITHOUT SOLVENCY !!
OBAMA REFUSES TO BUDGE, DIGS IN THE DONKEY HOOVES, LIKE LAST YEAR SAYING: “WHEN HEALTH CARE PASSES, THE SKY ISN’T GOING TO FALL, THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO END”: SO ON 8-2-2011, HE WILL WISH HE CONSIDERED OUR REPEAL LEGISLATION DRAFTED AND SUBMITTED LAST SUMMER !!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US
Judgment Day For Obama?
June 14, 2011 by Robert Ringer
In a recent Allstate/National Journal poll, 47 percent of Americans said they “would definitely or probably” not vote for Barack Obama.
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows 48 percent of Americans believe the U.S. economy is headed for another depression within a year. This is great news, because it means nearly half of all Americans are starting to awaken from their slumber and realize President Barack Obama and his media allies have been lying about the existence of a nonexistent recovery.
I say “starting,” because I have no way of knowing how many of these people truly understand the underlying causes of the depression they believe is on the way. (I hasten to add that, in truth, we have long been in an invisible depression — a depression shielded from the public by easy credit and excessive money creation. But that’s a story for another day.)
There’s another piece of good news to go with CNN’s 48 percent figure. In a recent Allstate/National Journal poll, 47 percent of Americans said they “would definitely or probably” not vote for Obama. The 48 and 47 percent figures sound like a winning combination — or, put another way, a losing combination for Obama.
The bad news is Mitt Romney is the early front-runner for the Republican nomination, with the Tea Party candidates stuck at the back of the pack. Nevertheless, if Romney does end up winning the nomination, I believe he will make Obama look and sound like a fumbling, stumbling high school kid in head-to-head debates.
So what’s the problem? If Romney becomes President, probably the best we can hope for is that he will be another George W. Bush. Yes, I’m talking about the same George W. Bush who, just as Herbert Hoover did for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gave Obama the Presidency with his big-spending policies. And the worst that might happen to the United States, courtesy of the guy who created the model for Obamacare, is too bad to even contemplate.
Another piece of bad news offsets the 48 and 47 percent anti-Obama figures. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll also shows 75 percent of Americans approve of Obama “personally.” Huh? What planet do these folks live on? They obviously know little or nothing about Obama’s upbringing, his past and current associations, his debt and spending policies, and his endless, ongoing lies that everyone can easily witness on television and the Internet on a daily basis.
Obama will obfuscate, lie and spin the truth thousands of times over the next 17 months. He will unmercifully smear whoever his opponent may be. That’s the problem. It isn’t hard to imagine Obama swinging enough voters over to his side to dramatically reduce the 47 percent figure (people who say they won’t vote for him) and, in the process, win re-election.
Once he is out of campaign mode, you can be sure Obama will go right back to putting the redistribution-of-wealth throttle on full thrust in an attempt to finish the job he was taught to do by his radical mother, his proud-to-be-a-communist father (his mother’s words), his ideological mentor Frank Marshall Davis, his spiritual mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, community-organizing guru Saul Alinsky, American-hating terrorist Bill Ayers, Frances Fox Piven (of “overwhelming the system” fame), etc. The list is endless, ugly, Marxist and lethal.
Clearly, the Republicans need a Presidential nominee who is willing to be bold and aggressive in exposing the truth about Obama, his background, his allies, his ideology, his policies and his vision of America as a model collectivist state. What will not work is the make-nice stuff like Jon Huntsman’s self-righteous statement, “I believe we ought to have a civil discourse in this country.”
The Republican Party needs to nominate a Tea Party type.
Unfortunately, another poll — this one by Rasmussen Reports — makes it clear the Tea Party folks are going to have a huge hill to climb to get one of their own nominated. The poll found only “16 percent of all voters now consider themselves members of the Tea Party movement, down from 21 percent at the end of last year.” That is not good news.
So the big problem Republicans now face is how to find and nominate a candidate who believes, deep down in his or her heart, in Ayn Rand’s tenet: “Judge and prepare to be judged.”
The Master of Misdirection has had nearly 2½ years to show us what he meant by “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Now it’s time for him to be judged — candidly and harshly — for bringing America to its moral and financial knees. It’s time for his free pass to come to an end.
But if Romney is the guy who ends it, don’t get your hopes up that we will see smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation and more freedom. I could be wrong, but … in any event, stay tuned. Things are likely to change every week. Let’s just hope the changes are for the better. We have already found out the hard way that change can also result in our worst nightmare.
(On that note, please keep in mind that this article was submitted Monday morning, prior to the CNN Republican Presidential debate Monday evening.)
–Robert Ringer
OBAMA’S “PRIZED WEINER” AND THE MUSLIM CONNECTIONS:
by Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack, FloydReports.com
http://youtu.be/JDnKGTDBEGc
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Donald Trump Calls Anthony Weiner a 'Cancer on the Congress' and 'Wacko'
by Jason Mattera
06/15/2011
But that’s not all.
He also told HUMAN EVENTS the lecherous congressman has always been a deplorable individual. “He’s a bad guy. I’ve known him for a long time. He’s a bad person.”
Trump continued:
“It’s so disgusting and disgraceful what [Weiner] did, having a United States congressman sending pictures like that. And he had a death wish. You talk about the Republican Party having a death wish, [but] the fact is, Anthony had a death wish. Because any congressman, and especially a fairly well-known congressman, who would send pictures of his—not only his nude body—but his nude body with his face on it, that’s got to be some form of a death wish. That’s got to be a psychological problem.”
Fortuitously, The Donald had a recent spat with Weiner on a CNN show before the congressman’s nude photos surfaced in which he alleges to have given the randy rep a prescient warning about his political career going up in smoke.
“I said, ‘Anthony, you’ll never be the mayor of New York,’ ” and he said, ‘Oh yes I will.’ And I said, ‘You will never be,’ ” Trump recalled.
“I turned out to be right for all the wrong reasons.”
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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann announced this evening she's officially running for president of the United States, joining businessman Herman Cain as the second Republican contender to have virtually announced their candidacies previously in WND.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
"We're gonna win. I'm announcing it tonight. President Obama is a one-term president," the tea-party favorite from Minnesota said to cheers during a debate with six other GOP candidates in Manchester, N.H.
Bachmann indicated she filed her election papers today, and said during the debate one of her top priorities was to eliminate Obama's new health-care mandates.
"I will not rest until I repeal Obamacare," Bachmann said.
She also discussed financial matters, explaining, "This election will be about economics. It will be about how will we create jobs. ... President Obama can't tell that story. His report card has a big failing grade on it right now."
On a lighter note, when asked by CNN's John King if she prefers Elvis or Johnny Cash, she responded it was a tough choice and said, "Both. I've got 'Christmas with Elvis' on my iPod."
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In an interview with WND in August 2009, Bachmann hinted she was interested in the presidency.
"If I felt that's what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it," she answered. "When I have sensed that the Lord is calling me to do something, I've said yes to it. But I will not seek a higher office if God is not calling me to do it. That's really my standard."
Talk-radio host and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain also made his virtual announcement for president in WND on May 19 of this year, saying, "I feel God's hand in this decision that I'm going to announce on Saturday, May 21, in Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park at high noon."
Cain explained, "Americans will do a double take when they hear me talk about my common-sense solutions – they are going to say what thousands of people have said over the past several months: He makes sense. He makes it clear. He gives solutions, and he's not afraid to lead. That's what people want to see."
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We can’t repeal that bad policy yet, but in Mississippi we’ll continue our state policies that generate higher skilled, better paying jobs while making us an energy-reliable state.
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@cnnbrk @newtgingrich at least you're backing up Cain on immigration, but understand that Obama tried Omnibus b.s. bills & failed miserably
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#cnndebate Herman Cain & Newt Gingrich have exchanged the most courtesies between each other among the all candidates.
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Weiner’s In-Laws and the Secret Muslim
Brotherhood Connections Revealed
Posted on June 15, 2011 by Ben Johnson
by Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack, FloydReports.com
Was Huma Abedin, the wife of Anthony Weiner and the Deputy Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton, unaware that her mother was reported as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood? Is it possible she does not know that her brother is tied to the Brotherhood’s radical leadership? Did Western media miss what has been revealed in several Arab newspapers, which has remained secret in American government circles?
Al-Liwa Al-Arabi (translated here) claims to have leaked an extensive list of members of the Brotherhood’s secret women’s division, which is known alternately as the Muslim Sisterhood or the International Women’s Organization (IWO). This detailed list was partially published by Al Jazeera and several other major Arab newspapers. And it included Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin.
Egypt’s Al-Dostor revealed that the Sisterhood included 63 International members that span 16 different countries; it’s also confirmed by the Arab Centre for Research and Studies, headed by researcher Abdul Rahim Ali.
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Neither Huma nor any major Western media outlet even mention what is common knowledge in the Arab world. Yet, Arab sources have confirmed that Huma Abedin has a brother named Hassan Abedin who works at Oxford University. Oxford University, which has long been infiltrated by Islamists who founded the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), lists Huma’s brother as a fellow and partners with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members on the Board, including al-Qaeda associate Omar Naseef and the notorious Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi; both have been listed as OCIS Trustees. Naseef continues to serve asBoard Chairman.
In 2009, Qaradawi’s role within Oxford and the Muslim Brotherhood was championed by the notorious Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi of Al-Nahda – a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate now active in Tunisia. OCIS has even presented an award for great scholarly achievement to Brotherhood member Shaykh Abd Al-Fattah Abu Gudda, whose personal history goes back to the Brotherhood’s founder, Hasan al-Banna.
Even the Sunday Times acknowledges that the cradle of Islamic Jihad – Al-Azhar University – actively attempts to establish links with OCIS, where Huma’s brother serves.
Was Huma unaware of all this as she accompanied Hillary Clinton to the Dar El-Hekma women’s college in Saudi Arabia? Huma’s mother is the co-founder and a Vice Dean at the college and an active missionary on issues regarding Muslim women. The “Women’s Division” can be found at the Muslim Brotherhood’s official website; an excerpt from its goal, translated from Arabic, states:
The Womens Organization’s goal in accordance with the Muslim Brotherhood rules, is to gain and acquire a unified global perception in every nation in the world regarding the position of women, and the necessity of advocacy work at all levels in accordance with the message of the Brotherhood as written in Women in Muslim Society, and the rearing of women throughout the different stages of life.
True to this cause, another member listed as belonging to the Sisterhood mentioned by Al Jazeera is Suheir Qureshi. She spoke alongside Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was brought in due to her connection with Huma. All three women spoke on issues of women in Muslim society. An Arabic news report of what happened during Hillary’s visit stated:
Suheir Qureshi spoke of how elated she was of Hillary’s historic visit…Saleha Abedin spoke after Suheir Qureshi and beamed in the presence of Secretary Clinton. Saleha’s speech preceded the former First Lady’s. Then Hillary stood. She donned a broad smile as she approached the podium… Clinton started with a strong word and she spent a long time complimenting Dr. Saleha Abedin regarding her daughter. Hillary explained that Huma holds an important and sensitive position in her office. She ended her speech by speaking of Saleha Abedin’s daughter (Huma), that a person must be happy if mentioned in a positive light but there is no happiness that equals the compliment given to children in front of a parent.
It is sacrilege in Islam for Huma’s mother to accept the reality that her daughter is married to a Jew. Yet, neither Saleha nor Huma’s brother Hassan have denounced her marriage to Weiner, although it is considered null and void by some of the highest authorities on Islamic Shari’arulings.
Huma’s brother has been key in furthering the Islamic agenda and has worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on a program of “spreading Islam to the West.” A detailed report from 2007 shows that Naseef was identified as the likely force behind the Abedin family’s departure from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia circa 1977 – the same year that the Muslim Sisterhood was established.
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In 2008, Dr. Mumen Muhammad wrote about why Huma vowed to stay with Hillary even if the latter were to lose the presidential nomination to Obama:
Abedin assures in press releases of her continuance on the path with Hillary Clinton, even if Clinton failed as a candidate. The candidate’s aids and other influential figures in the Democratic Party assure that they do not disregard Abedin running for election or taking her position in the political arena with the help in successive political administrations of the Clinton family itself.
Indeed, the “Clinton family” played a key role in promoting the extremely powerful Turkish imam and notorious Islamist conspirator Fethullah Gülen, as he fled Turkey for the United States after being accused of attempting to overthrow Turkey’s secular government, a charge over which he was indicted in 2000. (The charges were later dismissed.) In 2008, the former president heaped praise on Gülen, giving him a clean slate. Gülen is given refuge and has even had his sermons aired on Turkish television, during which he explained to his followers how to best seize power from the Turkish government:
You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers… until the conditions are ripe… Until that time, any step taken would be too early – like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside.
Gülen expressed this sentiment differently in another sermon:
The philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web; and we teach those who do.
Serving with Huma’s brother as an Oxford Centre Trustee is Turkey’s president – Abdullah Gül.He considers himself a follower of Fethullah Gülen (Gülenist) according to Wikileaks.
Islamic Radicals: They’re Comin’ to America
Strangely, Hillary Clinton signed a document less than one month prior to her trip to Saudi Arabia with Huma that lifted the ban on Tariq Ramadan, allowing him entry into the United States. Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Bannaand has ties to Islamic terrorist groups.
Huma Abedin’s charm, family connections and access to highly sensitive state secrets (as Hillary has admitted), can have significant consequences. What absolutely must be known is if our distinguished public servants were made aware of all these ties to potential enemies of the State.
Walid Shoebat is the Author of God’s War on Terror. He has accurately translated and exposed much of the doublespeak by Islamists and was key in exposing the Ground Zero Mosque Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf by translating what the Imam truly believed as stated in the Arabic language. Shoebat.com
Ben Barrack is a talk show host on KTEM 1400 in Texas. He maintains a website at BenBarrack.com
WEINERGATE 2011:@foxnation I got the article, keep us posted, time to face the music Weiner: your porn star is dishing you worse than Sheen's !!!!!
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Donald Trump Calls Anthony Weiner a 'Cancer on the Congress' and 'Wacko'
by Jason Mattera
06/15/2011
But that’s not all.
He also told HUMAN EVENTS the lecherous congressman has always been a deplorable individual. “He’s a bad guy. I’ve known him for a long time. He’s a bad person.”
Trump continued:
“It’s so disgusting and disgraceful what [Weiner] did, having a United States congressman sending pictures like that. And he had a death wish. You talk about the Republican Party having a death wish, [but] the fact is, Anthony had a death wish. Because any congressman, and especially a fairly well-known congressman, who would send pictures of his—not only his nude body—but his nude body with his face on it, that’s got to be some form of a death wish. That’s got to be a psychological problem.”
Fortuitously, The Donald had a recent spat with Weiner on a CNN show before the congressman’s nude photos surfaced in which he alleges to have given the randy rep a prescient warning about his political career going up in smoke.
“I said, ‘Anthony, you’ll never be the mayor of New York,’ ” and he said, ‘Oh yes I will.’ And I said, ‘You will never be,’ ” Trump recalled.
“I turned out to be right for all the wrong reasons.”
Porn actress: Weiner asked me to lie about talks
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NEW YORK – A former porn actress who said she exchanged emails and messages over Twitter with New York Rep. Anthony Weiner said Wednesday that he asked her to lie about their online communications.
Ginger Lee said she and Weiner exchanged about 100 emails between March and June, beginning after Lee posted a supportive statement about the congressman on her blog. She said they mostly discussed politics, but he would often turn the conversation to sex.
"'I have wardrobe demands too. I need to highlight my package,'" Weiner wrote Lee, in an email read aloud at the news conference by Lee's attorney, Gloria Allred.
Weiner acknowledged last week that he had sent lewd photos and texts to women after a photo of his crotch was posted on Twitter. In an interview two weeks ago, he acknowledged that he had exchanged messages with Lee but didn't elaborate.
Lee said she did not send sexually suggestive messages to Weiner.
"Anytime that he would take our communications in a sexual direction, I did not reciprocate," she said.
Weiner sent Lee an email after the photo of his crotch was sent out on his Twitter account, and "he asked me to lie" about their contact, she said.
Lee said she put out a three-sentence statement on the matter at his request. She said she then went into hiding and on June 2, he called her and told her to avoid press.
She said she was coming forward now to tell the truth and to deny reports that she was in an online sexual relationship with him.
Allred is a Los Angeles attorney who has represented figures in high-profile sex scandals, including a woman who said she was a girlfriend of Tiger Woods and a former child actress who said she had an affair with former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A Weiner spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment. Weiner has taken a two-week leave from the House, in treatment for an undisclosed disorder at an undisclosed location.
House Democratic colleagues are looking for him to step down this week amid a growing chorus for him to resign. Even President Barack Obama has suggested he should leave.
Adding to the drama, Weiner's pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, returned Wednesday from a trip to Africa with her boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
A fellow member of Weiner's New York Democratic delegation, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, said she's heard from Weiner's friends that the congressman was waiting for his wife to come home before making any decisions about his political future. McCarthy also cited talk among Weiner's friends about the possibility he could resign this week.
House Democrats huddled behind closed doors Tuesday for their regular party meeting, but they decided against taking action against Weiner in hopes that he'll resign soon.
The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, reiterated her call for Weiner to quit, saying after the meeting that she wanted to make sure nobody missed her earlier resignation call while members were on a weeklong recess.
Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., said: "I think we should send a strong message to him that he should resign, and let's see what happens. The more of us who say it, the more telling it will be."
House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, had been content to let Democrats wrestle with the embarrassing scandal, but when asked Tuesday whether Weiner should resign, he responded, "Yes."
The furor over sexually suggestive photos and other revelations about the 46-year-old congressman has been a distraction for Democrats seeking momentum as they gear up for the 2012 elections. Besides Pelosi, several other Democrats have called for Weiner to quit, including the party chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
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In the 18th century, for example, Edmund Burke composed a long, famous passage defining the standards of political excellence:
“... To be taught to respect one’s self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; ... to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse; to be enabled to draw the court and attention of the wise and learned, wherever they are to be found; to be habituated in armies to command and to obey; ... to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from a sense that you are considered as an instructor of your fellow citizens in their highest concerns, and that you act as a reconciler between God and man. ...”
In the 19th century, Anthony Trollope wrote a series of popular novels fussing over what it means to behave well in political life. Trollope’s view was different than ours. Many Americans today assume that people are born with a good Inner Self but get corrupted by politics. American voters are always looking for the Innocent Outsider who can come in and bring sweeping change.
Trollope admired Prudent Insiders, not Innocent Outsiders. His most admirable characters have been educated by long experience. They have grown mature by exercising responsibility. They have been ennobled by custom and civilization. In his books, powerless outsiders often behave self-indulgently and irresponsibly. Those who are in government have to grapple with the world as it really is.
The central tension in Trollope’s novel “Phineas Finn” is between independence and service. The title character is an Irish outsider who comes into Parliament vowing to be true to his individual conscience. “Let me assure you I wouldn’t change my views in politics either for you or for the Earl,” Finn tells a party leader early on.
But he enters a Legislature filled with insiders, some of whom are virtuous and some of whom are not. Finn has to either chart his own course or allow himself to be put in harness for the good of the common effort.
Trollope seems to have a passing admiration for Finn’s independence. Finn is a charming, good-natured man. But he is never really tested by power. He grades himself on a curve, never really facing up to his weaknesses. Being an amateur in life, he can afford to be unsteady in his affections, and rely on good looks instead of strength of character.
Trollope’s ideal politicians — who have names like Plantagenet Palliser, Joshua Monk and the Duke of St. Bungay — put service before independence. Their party and their country have asked them to accept certain duties and face certain problems, and they just get on with it. They are more weighty, but also more boring.
Trollope’s ideal politicians share certain traits. They are reserved, prudent and scrupulous. They immerse themselves in dull practical questions like, say, converting the currency system.
They are not sweeping thinkers, but they make sensitive discriminations about the people and the circumstances around them. They learn to operate within the constraints imposed by their idiom, and they don’t whine or complain about those constraints. They develop delicate understandings of what is required in a given place in time.
Trollope’s ideal leaders are not glamorous celebrities of the sort we have come to long for since J.F.K. They are more like seamen or carpenters. They are judged by their professional craftsmanship.
They are thin-skinned about any moral transgression they might commit and rigorously honest when judging themselves. They try to make things better but are acutely aware that everything they do might make things worse. As Shirley Robin Letwin wrote in her book “The Gentleman in Trollope,” the Duke of St. Bungay had “modest expectations of his fellow men,” but he was never cynical. Trollope’s leaders don’t embrace change quickly but have to be dragged into embracing it after much interrogation, and the change they prefer is incremental.
Trollope praises one of his prime ministers, Plantagenet Palliser, for “that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is [his country’s] present strength and her best security for the future.”
Trollope’s readers would have come away from his books with a certain model for how practical people should behave, which they could either copy or argue with. I’m not sure his exemplars could thrive amid the TV politics of today, which calls for grand promises and bold colors. But there are prudent, reserved people in government even now. And if more people spent their evenings at least thinking about what exemplary behavior means, they might be less likely to find themselves sending out emotionally stunted tweets late at night.
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on June 10, 2011, on page A35 of the New York edition with the headline: Politicians Behaving Well.
Jury in Va. convicts Texas man in $100M fraud case
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By LARRY O'DELL
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Updated: 5:41 p.m. Friday, June 10, 2011
Published: 2:36 a.m. Friday, June 10, 2011
RICHMOND, VA. — A federal jury deliberated less than three hours Friday before convicting a Texas businessman of 15 counts in a $100 million life insurance fraud scheme that prosecutors say claimed hundreds of victims in about three dozen states and Canada.
Adley Abdulwahab, 35, of Spring, Texas, was found guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. The offenses are punishable by up to 255 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne and lawyers in the case will decide on a sentencing date in a conference call Monday.
"Today's quick verdict found Mr. Abdulwahab guilty of a $100 million fraud and stealing the life savings of elderly retirees and hundreds of others who have seen everything they worked years for disappear," U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said in a written statement. "This case, involving victims in dozens of states, clearly demonstrates that a national fraud case can have real implications to everyday people."
Defense attorney Murray Janus said no decision has been made on whether to appeal.
"We're very disappointed with the verdict," he said, adding that he had expected the jurors to take more time with the complex case.
"There were 15 counts, and the jury couldn't have had time to even read all of them, but it was Friday afternoon before the weekend," Janus said.
Abdulwahab was one of the principals in Houston-based companies known collectively as A&O that used investor funds to buy life insurance policies from insured people at less than face value and promised to pay investors after the benefits were distributed. Prosecutors alleged company officials misrepresented various aspects of A&O, including its size, its record of success and how it handled investors' money.
Jessica Brumberg, an assistant U.S. attorney, said in closing arguments Friday morning that the case was about "lies that enabled the defendant to take millions of dollars from investors and use it to finance his lavish lifestyle." Prosecutors showed the jury photographs of Abdulwahab's huge home and expensive cars, including a Ferrari, a BMW sport utility vehicle and a customized Jeep.
Janus, however, argued that the only people lying were former Abdulwahab associates who testified for the prosecution as part of plea agreements. Janus told the jury that those witnesses admitted lying to investigators and should not be believed.
The company was founded by Christian Allmendinger and Brent Oncale, who brought Abdulwahab on as a partner after he had tremendous success selling A&O's "life settlement" contracts.
Allmendinger was convicted by a jury in March on seven fraud and money laundering counts, and Oncale — one of the former associates who testified against Abdulwahab — pleaded guilty.
Four others also have pleaded guilty for their roles in the scheme, including a Richmond sales agent whose involvement was one of the reasons the case was brought in Virginia. Some of the approximately 800 victims also live in the area.
In her closing, Brumberg said Abdulwahab lied not only to investors, but also to sales agents, lawyers and state regulators — all to keep the money rolling in.
Prosecutors claimed Abdulwahab conducted business under the name "Wahab" so anyone conducting a background check would not see he had pleaded guilty to forgery of a commercial instrument in 2003, before he joined A&O. They also introduced evidence that when Abdulwahab later filled out an application to manage a hedge fund, he checked the "no" box next to a question about whether he had ever pleaded guilty to a felony.
According to Abdulwahab, he shortened his name because people found his real name difficult to spell and pronounce, and his forgery case was designated for "deferred adjudication," meaning it would be dropped if he successfully completed a probationary period.
Janus said prosecutors were trying to create the impression that the life settlement business is illegal, that Abdulwahab had been convicted of forgery and that he changed his name to try to hide something — none of which was true, he said.
"If that's the best they can do, so be it — but it's not proof of a fraud," Janus said.
But Brumberg and another prosecutor, Michael Steven Dry, went over the alleged lies one by one, pointing to discrepancies in the testimony of Abdulwahab and other witnesses.
"Some of the strongest evidence in the government's case was when he was on the stand because you judged his credibility," Dry said of the defendant.
In dealing with a motion earlier in the day outside the jury's presence, Payne said this was one of those rare cases in which a defendant's testimony "was so fundamentally at odds with the rest of the credible evidence" that it reinforced the government's case.
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Michele Bachmann: Yes, I'm running for president
Congresswoman joins Herman Cain as 2nd candidate who virtually announced in WND.
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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann announced this evening she's officially running for president of the United States, joining businessman Herman Cain as the second Republican contender to have virtually announced their candidacies previously in WND.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
"We're gonna win. I'm announcing it tonight. President Obama is a one-term president," the tea-party favorite from Minnesota said to cheers during a debate with six other GOP candidates in Manchester, N.H.
Bachmann indicated she filed her election papers today, and said during the debate one of her top priorities was to eliminate Obama's new health-care mandates.
"I will not rest until I repeal Obamacare," Bachmann said.
She also discussed financial matters, explaining, "This election will be about economics. It will be about how will we create jobs. ... President Obama can't tell that story. His report card has a big failing grade on it right now."
On a lighter note, when asked by CNN's John King if she prefers Elvis or Johnny Cash, she responded it was a tough choice and said, "Both. I've got 'Christmas with Elvis' on my iPod."
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In an interview with WND in August 2009, Bachmann hinted she was interested in the presidency.
"If I felt that's what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it," she answered. "When I have sensed that the Lord is calling me to do something, I've said yes to it. But I will not seek a higher office if God is not calling me to do it. That's really my standard."
Talk-radio host and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain also made his virtual announcement for president in WND on May 19 of this year, saying, "I feel God's hand in this decision that I'm going to announce on Saturday, May 21, in Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park at high noon."
Cain explained, "Americans will do a double take when they hear me talk about my common-sense solutions – they are going to say what thousands of people have said over the past several months: He makes sense. He makes it clear. He gives solutions, and he's not afraid to lead. That's what people want to see."
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This was Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's eighth and final State of the State address.
So he devotes it to two main themes: recounting what the state has accomplished in recent years, not least of which was its rapid economic growth and determined recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. And, second, to warn legislators against blowing up the surpluses and rainy day fund they have constructed.
He also touted his state's major revision of tort laws seven years ago that has been the most successful in the nation.
Barbour's biography is here. His list of major policies and achievements is here.
The 63-year-old Republican's success in creating jobs and not raising taxes while leading a successful disaster-relief operation during a recession has attracted considerable political attention. In these remarks below Barbour does not hold back on his criticism of numerous Obama administration policies, on energy, spending and taxes.
This has given rise to mounting speculation that the former chairman of the Republican National Committee is developing political plans to be active next year in GOP primaries and caucuses. Asked recently if he thought his Mississippi accent might be a drawback in a national political campaign, Barbour shrugged and said it's the only one he has.
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Gov. Haley Barbour State of the State Address, as provided by his office
Thank you Speaker McCoy and Governor Bryant, and thanks to you in the Legislature for your warm welcome.
General Freeman is with us tonight. While we don’t have as many of our National Guard in....
...harm’s way as we have in past years, we should never forget to be thankful for their sacrifice and the sacrifice of others in uniform – law enforcement, fire fighters, corrections and conservation officers, EMTs. Please join me in a moment of silent prayer for those men and women and their safety and success.
This is the eighth and final time Marsha and I will appear on this podium for me to deliver my State of the State address.
When Marsha and I married, 39 years ago, I knew I had outmarried myself. Over the last seven years you and the people of Mississippi have recognized that fact, too. She not only has joined me at each of these occasions, she also has been part of the work I have tried to do for our state, especially in the grueling weeks and months after Katrina.
As I composed this last State of the State address I couldn’t help but think how much has changed in these seven years. To start with, I did the speech on my new iPad. In 2004, iPad is what Marsha called what I did to my weight during Christmas.
Reflecting back, it was essential that state government make a number of significant changes when I stood up here the first time in January 2004.
The state budget was in awful shape with an enormous shortfall, and we had about $3 million of unallocated monies in our Rainy Day Fund; lawsuit abuse had created a health care crisis in our state, and every small business in Mississippi was one lawsuit away from bankruptcy; despite a surging drug epidemic, the drug enforcement budget had been cut by almost 40 percent; and though the national recession had been over for more than two years, the need for job creation was first on the minds of nearly every voter.
Mr. Speaker, I vividly remember the first time we ever visited. You told me that campaigning for reelection in 2003 you had gone down a country road and, at each of three houses in a row, someone had lost his job that year.
Legislators, I applaud you and your predecessors on the actions you took to deal with these and other problems. It wasn’t easy or always pretty. Sometimes we battled, but we accomplished a lot, together. While it took two-plus years, we got our budget back to where the state spent no more than it received in annual revenue, and we quit raiding balances in special funds.
We replenished the Rainy Day Fund to its statutory limit of $375 million and created other reserves to cover potential federal liability. And we did it without raising anybody’s taxes.
Despite the worst recession in generations and a steep drop in revenue, we’ve kept our budget balanced by cutting spending and without depleting all our reserves. If you adopt my budget recommendation for next year, FY 12, the new governor and legislature who follow us will have some $200 million left in reserves for FY 13, plus our school districts have more than $450 million in their reserve funds.
I realize this is an election year, and every penny of appropriated spending has a constituency. You will get pressure to spend more for this and spend more for that.
As Governor, I have cut the budget by a total of about $700 million in just the last two years. Just as our constituents have cut back, they expect state government to cut back. They know the alternative is raising taxes, because government has no money except what it takes from taxpayers. The people of Mississippi deserve to keep more of what they earn, and we owe it to the people of Mississippi not to raise taxes and to control spending.
Not only do I urge you not to consider tax increases this year, I implore you to keep spending at a level this year that protects more of our reserves for next year. That is the way to stop any tax increases in 2012.
Remember, what we have accomplished in controlling spending over seven years can be lost in only one year. Our first year you passed and I signed the most comprehensive tort reform law in the country, and it worked. Medical liability premiums have declined by 61 percent, and the number of medical liability cases filed against Mississippi physicians fell 90 percent within one year of the law’s going into effect.
Tort reform also has been a major factor in economic growth and job creation. Starting that first year, we implemented significant, successful changes to spur the creation of more, higher paying jobs for our people. We reorganized the Development Authority, gave it outstanding new leadership and began our Momentum Mississippi campaign.
MDA’s results are striking. This team has supported businesses that created 64,666 jobs in this state. We created our new Department of Employment Security and expanded it to take over workforce development and job training. The State Workforce Investment Board was established, and the Workforce Enhancement Training or WET Fund came into existence through a diversion of the unemployment insurance tax, a tax you also cut by 25 percent that same year.
Now, every year, the WET fund puts about $20 million into workforce development and skills training at our 15 community colleges, which do a great job. A study of graduates of WET fund financed programs show they make $4,300 more per year than before that training, and our improved, skilled workforce has been a reason companies like Toyota, GE Aviation, PACCAR, Severstal and a long list of very high-tech energy companies have come to Mississippi.
Coupled with workforce quality, the State has focused on attracting advanced manufacturing with advanced materials. We’ve targeted aerospace, automotive and energy, as well as service sectors. We’ve also beefed up our efforts to help existing businesses.
The results include a 27 percent increase in personal per capita income despite the recession. This is the 15th highest increase in the country over this six-year period.
While we’re not immune to the effects of the national recession, we’ve fared better in other measurements, too. For instance, while our unemployment percentage has increased, it has done so at a rate about half as great as the nation as a whole.
In law enforcement, we have fought the scourge of illegal narcotics with a vengeance. In 2005 you passed laws to reduce the production and use of crystal methamphetamine. When the criminals learned how to get around those laws, you made the necessary changes, and they are working. In the first six months of this fiscal year – July 1 to December 31, 2010 – 68 percent fewer meth labs have been reported; meth arrests are down 62 percent; the number of drug-endangered children has fallen 76 percent.
Congratulations to the Bureau of Narcotics, the Department of Public Safety, and to you for making the needed legislative changes.
To keep law enforcement where we want it, I’m announcing tonight that I will dedicate $7.3 million of the governor’s discretionary funds to hold a troopers’ school this calendar year.
If you will join me in moving motor carrier enforcement from MDOT to the Department of Public Safety, freeing up 40 current highway patrolmen, that would mean nearly 100 more state troopers on the road.
Finally, I am proud that Mississippi cast the highest percentage of its vote of any state in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman; and that in 2004, my first year, after we worked together to enact comprehensive prolife legislation, Americans United for Life, a national right-to-life organization, named Mississippi “the safest state in America for an unborn child.”
Yes, you have accomplished a lot. Positive change has been the norm, and Mississippi, despite the global recession, is a better place in so many ways than it was seven years ago.
Even with this progress, we all know there’s more to be done. While state government can’t eliminate many effects of the national recession, we can improve the way we do things, and, in turn, improve the lives of our citizens, the education of our children and the prospects for our employers and employees.
Last week I announced the Division of Medicaid appears to be on track to run a surplus of $405 million this fiscal year, probably because of less utilization than projected. Congratulations to the Division of Medicaid for an outstanding job of managing this enormous program and controlling its mammoth costs.
Let me remind you what a change that represents. When I became Governor, Medicaid costs were skyrocketing. System controls were so weak, that the last year before I entered office, Medicaid spent $79 million of state funds and didn’t even enter the cost on its books. Many of you will remember the Special Session we held to clean up that mess.
I’m pleased to tell you and the people of Mississippi that today our state Medicaid program is run with compassion and efficiency for its beneficiaries and their providers and for the people who pay for it: the taxpayers. The federal authorities reported last year that Mississippi’s Medicaid error rate is 3.47 percent, the fourth lowest in the country. The national error rate is more than twice as high.
Because of this surplus I have instructed the Division of Medicaid to exercise its authority under state law to use a portion of this FY11 surplus to create 7,800 additional slots for eligible Medicaid beneficiaries to receive home-and community-based care. Currently we have a waiting list of 6,100 beneficiaries who are waiting to be provided care in their homes and their communities. I expect the entire 7,800 allocation to be filled this fiscal year.
Both Senator Hob Bryan and Representative Steve Holland, who chair the Senate and House Public Health Committees, respectively, are outspoken proponents of increased home and community-based care for people on Medicaid. Both are Democrats, but I appreciate our agreement and our ability to work together for this purpose.
The increase in the number of home and community care slots will lead to a broader, stronger infrastructure to deliver such services across the state that, in the long run, will provide better healthcare at lower cost. This will be a blessing to both the beneficiaries who want to, can and should be receiving care and services at home and in their communities . . . and to the taxpayers.
Last week you started this session by funding a loan for Stion, a cutting edge, low-cost manufacturer of thin film solar panels, which will build these panels in Hattiesburg, investing $500 million and employing 1,000 people within six years. I applaud committee chairs Senator Dean Kirby and Representative Percy Watson on that. We all know a big job creation project is a great way to start a session.
The national recession notwithstanding, job creation will pick up in our state this year. As evidence of that, in the first three quarters of 2010, Mississippi saw more new jobs and investment than were announced in all of 2009. Toyota and its suppliers have stepped up hiring. GE Aviation, EADS and PACCAR are adding employees, while new companies like Twin Creek Technologies in Southaven and Schulz in Tunica will be operational this year. Nissan, which had an outstanding year in 2010, is also ramping up, including introduction of its new light commercial vehicle.
Agriculture had a tremendous year last year. Because farming does not directly employ that many people, some lose sight of how large and important a part it plays in our economy.
In 2010 total value of our crops, including poultry and timber, was nearly $7 billion, a record. And commodity prices are promising for this year. We can’t forget how important agriculture and forest products are to our State and communities.
I mention these things because our goal has to be to grow our economy faster than the nation as a whole, and we can do it. We have to focus on our advantages: low taxes, a friendly business climate, rational regulation, abundant natural resources and especially a first rate, affordable work force. And we’re committed to continuous improvement of that great workforce.
Our four research universities have become more effective engines of economic growth. All four have a lot to offer. Mississippi State’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Studies and Raspet Flight Center; the ECenter at Jackson State; the Polymer Institute at USM; and the Center for Manufacturing Excellence at Ole Miss are obvious resources that major and small employers find terrifically useful. And companies like SemiSouth in Starkville, FNC in Oxford and WarmKraft in Taylorsville spun off from our research universities.
Further, our community colleges have been and remain critical in the enormous and continuing improvement of skills in our workforce. Toyota said the main reason it chose Mississippi for its newest assembly plant, the most sought after economic development project in the country that year, was the quality of our workforce.
And I remember well when the Vice Chairman of General Electric, one of the biggest manufacturers in the world, announced GE Aviation would locate a facility to make composite jet engine fan blades and assembles in Batesville. He said, “This is the most sophisticated manufacturing General Electric does anywhere in the world, and we’re going to do it in North Mississippi.” What a tribute to our workforce!
Eighty-nine percent of our state’s kids go to public schools. To have the kind of workforce to succeed in the 21st century, we start in K-12.
Our schools are getting better. Our last NAEP scores were up more than the national average, and the dropout rate is going down. But that improvement is not enough.
We need to make dual enrollment easier and more common. The students can learn more, and their parents will save money as college credits are earned while in high school.
In constrained budget times we must put more resources into the classroom and reduce what is spent on administration. We must continue to focus on improving the quality of teachers coming out of our colleges of education, while simultaneously using technology more in teaching our kids.
Finally, because competition is good in every sphere, I urge you to reform Charter School law so more children can benefit. With excellence in education we will keep pushing for job creation. Hopefully, the federal government will start making it easier for us, instead of harder.
Congress’ passage in the lameduck session of an extension of the Bush tax cuts removes a critical obstacle to economic growth. For two years the threat that the President and the Majority in Congress would let the largest tax increase in history go into effect this month was an enormous cloud that retarded investment and job creation. Now it’s gone.
We still have federal policies that stifle economic growth: If the Obama Administration’s health care mandates actually go into effect, employers don’t know what their costs and responsibilities will be, so it impedes hiring; uncertainty about the Dodd-Frank financial services law and its implementation stymies investment; and the gigantic deficits and resulting purchases of trillions in US treasuries by the Fed mean all that money can’t go into financing private sector projects.
More obvious every day, the Obama Administration’s energy policies are driving up the cost of energy. Gasoline costs more than three dollars a gallon because the administration’s energy policy can be stated in one sentence: Increase the cost of energy so people will use less of it.
Don’t take my word for it. Remember the President said in 2008 that his cap-and-trade plan would necessarily cause electricity prices to skyrocket, and Energy Secretary Chu said the country needed for our gasoline prices to increase to what they are in Europe. That’s six to nine dollars a gallon! Sunday’s Clarion Ledger includes a column by Dr. Shughart at Ole Miss that catalogues example after example of the Environmental Protection Agency’s anti-energy efforts, all of which drive up energy costs.
Well, we don’t need higher fuel prices in Mississippi; but other than litigation and encouraging our Congressional delegation, we can’t change federal energy policy; even when it closes down oil and gas production in the Gulf and costs thousands of jobs in the Gulf states.
But we can continue to make Mississippi an energy-reliable state. We have an energy policy, and it’s “more American energy.” We promote all forms of energy that can compete in the market place successfully; all of the above plus conservation and efficiency.
More American energy means more energy security and less of our money going for foreign oil, often sold by countries that don’t like us. Abundant, affordable energy will help American business, especially manufacturing, stay competitive in the global marketplace. And, of course, that means more jobs and a better quality of life for Americans.
The current federal policy of more expensive energy so people use less energy is not an energy policy. It is an environmental policy; one that hurts the economy, blocks job creation and ultimately reduces standards of living in America.
We can’t repeal that bad policy yet, but in Mississippi we’ll continue our state policies that generate higher skilled, better paying jobs while making us an energy-reliable state.
Your support in that has been and remains indispensable. It contributed to Mississippi Power’s new $2.5 billion coalfired
plant in Kemper County; Entergy’s $500 million investment to increase output at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station by 13 percent, and SMEPA’s $500 million in upgrades.
Chevron continues to invest hundreds of millions at Pascagoula, its largest refinery in the U.S.; next door to Chevron, Gulf LNG is half way finished with its $1-billion-plus liquefied natural gas terminal.
Denbury’s tertiary recovery projects have helped increase the state’s oil production. Bluefire has begun construction of a cellulosic ethanol plant in Fulton, and Enerkem has plans to build a waste-to-liquid transportation fuels facility in Pontotoc. Ergon and Bunge’s $100 million ethanol plant in Vicksburg is fully operational.
This quarter Twin Creeks’ facility in Senatobia will begin manufacturing solar panels. Stion’s operations will begin this year, and Soladigm’s ultra-high-tech dynamic window plant in Olive Branch will be in production this year as well.
Finally, we’re optimistic that Kior soon will be breaking ground in Columbus for its first bio-crude refinery, and Rentech has purchased a site for its coal to liquid motor fuels facility in Natchez.
These projects are generating more than $10 billion in capital investments in our state and creating thousands of jobs. Many of these projects will result in new markets and higher prices for Mississippi farm and timber products and our lignite coal.
Critically, many will reduce energy use or reduce emissions. In fact, the Mississippi Power Kemper County plant is the first commercial scale coal-fired power plant in the U.S. with carbon capture and sequestration. Its emissions will be the equivalent of a natural gas-fired facility.
Tourism is and will remain a large employer in Mississippi and a big piece of our economy. Further, tourism helps our image. While Mississippi has suffered from a negative image all my life, people who actually visit here almost always go home with a better impression and a positive experience.
In 2007 I recommended to you that we build a Civil Rights Museum in our state. The Civil Rights struggle is an important part of our history, and millions of people are interested in learning more about it. People from around the world would flock to see the museum and learn about the movement.
A commission headed by former Supreme Court Justice Reuben Anderson and former federal judge Charles Pickering developed a design and a plan. The proposal went sideways because of a disagreement about where the museum should be located.
Recently I’ve talked with Justice Anderson and former Governor William Winter, and they have recommended a solution to me. I’m presenting it tonight because this is the year to get this museum going. It is the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Riders and the 150th Anniversary of the start of the Civil War.
Governor Winter and Justice Anderson recommended we build the Civil Rights Museum adjacent to the proposed Mississippi History Museum at the existing site in downtown Jackson.
I urge you to move this museum forward as an appropriate way to do justice to the Civil Rights Movement and to stand as a monument of remembrance and reconciliation.
As I close I want to return to Mississippi’s leading the nation out of the recession. We are well prepared to make a major leap forward. We saw it in the surge that was cut off by the national recession in 2008. This period was marked by increasing employment, rising incomes, replacing lowskill, low-paying jobs with higher-skilled, better paying jobs.
We can get back on that roll. We have advantages over other states, but what we need most is attitude. And we showed that “can do” attitude after Katrina.
When the Coast got obliterated by the worst natural disaster in American history and hurricane force winds extended 240 miles north up to West Point, our people didn’t whine or mope. They weren’t looking for somebody to blame.
No, Mississippians proved themselves to be strong, resilient, self-reliant people. They got knocked flat, but got right back up and went to work; went to work helping their neighbors as well as themselves.
And the country and the world noticed. I can’t tell you how many times after the storm other governors, or senators, or CEOs told me, “Haley, you’ve got to be proud of your people.” And, of course, I was.
You know, it is true that the Lord works in mysterious ways. Today I realize the response of our people to Katrina and its devastation has done more to help the image of Mississippi than anything else that’s happened in my lifetime.
People saw our state and our people in a new light. They gave us a chance to compete for their business, their vacations, their expansions. That got us on a roll.
Now we’ve got to get back on that roll. The country and world have a new image of our state. They’re prepared to give us a chance, to let us compete.
So it is up to us to meet the challenge; no, the opportunity. If we grasp this opportunity, it will propel Mississippi to our rightful place as a leading, thriving state in the fastest growing section of the country.
It was once said, “Mississippi is the most under-estimated place in the country, and Mississippians are the most under-estimated people.”
Well, today, after Katrina, we’ve learned to quit under-estimating ourselves. We’ve proven to the world what Mississippians are made of. And the world likes what it saw … and sees.
Now it is up to us to seize this moment.
The stakes are simple but huge: In this decade Mississippi mothers and grandmothers can see their children and grandchildren choosing to stay in Mississippi because Mississippi is the best place to build a successful career, to have the most opportunities and to enjoy this sweet land’s quality of life. That’s the dream of every mother and grandmother, and with the right attitude and hard work, we can make it reality.
Thank you for all you have done to change our state for the better. Let’s keep moving forward together. God bless you and God bless America. ####
Related State of the State addresses:
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval: 'The cure is not more government spending'
New Mexico's Susana Martinez: We 'are not under-taxed; our government has simply over-spent'
Alaska's Sean Parnell: 'Our state is on sound footing'
Washington's Christine Gregoire: 'We are down but not out'
South Carolina's Nikki Haley: 'When I survey this troubled landscape, I am not discouraged'
New York's Andrew Cuomo: 'We must transform our state government'
Indiana's Mitch Daniels: 'Doing the people's business while living within the people's means'
New Jersey's Chris Christie: 'New Jersey's comeback has begun'
Photos: Rogelio V. Solis / Associated Press (Barbour at State of the State Jan. 11, 2011; Marsha Barbour in background at top).
NLRB complaint against Boeing needs critical look
A National Labor Relations Board judge is in Seattle Tuesday for hearing about Boeing setting up a 787 line in South Carolina. The judge should understand how damaging and wrong it would be to force Boeing to relocate that work back to Puget Sound.
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PRESIDENT Obama has been talking for two and a half years about creating jobs, particularly family-wage manufacturing jobs. Really a president does not create manufacturing jobs. He creates policies that may encourage companies to create jobs — companies like Boeing, which has now had the creation of 1,000 jobs in South Carolina second-guessed by Obama's National Labor Relations Board.
An NLRB judge is in Seattle Tuesday for a hearing on this matter. We hope the judge looks critically at the complaint filed by the board's general counsel.
In its complaint, the NLRB is attempting to reverse a U.S. investment by the nation's No. 1 exporter 17 months after the company decided to make it — afterthe money has been spent, after the equipment is set up and after 1,000 workers have been hired. In South Carolina, assembly of the first 787 is scheduled to begin this summer. For the government to demand now that the company move everything to another state shows no sense of practical reality.
The "other state" is, of course, our own. This newspaper favored the company building the second 787 line here. We want Boeing to build its next commercial jetliner here and all its commercial jetliners here. But that is Boeing's decision to make, not the government's.
The NLRB's complaint takes the weird position that Boeing has a right to put a plant in South Carolina if it keeps its mouth shut, but that if it complains about the history of strikes in Washington, it is being "punitive" and is breaking the law.
But recall what the company was doing in the fall of 2008. It was offering to put the second 787 line here if Aerospace Machinists would agree to a 10-year no-strike contract. Boeing did not have to make that offer, but it did. The union did not agree to it, and that was its right; but there is nothing illegal in Boeing making it. Under the NLRB's complaint, however, the company would have been better off deciding for South Carolina and saying nothing.
The law the Labor Board says Boeing violated, Section 8 (a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act, is about protecting union activists from being penalized. It is not about protecting an entire union local from the economic consequences of what it does.
We are for jobs, and for the investment that creates them. But companies cannot be dragged to Washington and forced to invest here. They have to want to invest here.
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GOP Talks Jobs with Families & Small Businesses
Posted by Katie Boyd on June 10, 2011
Earlier this week, one of President Obama’s top advisors, David Axelrod, claimed that addressing Americans’ concerns about the dismal jobs report released last week was a “meaningless discussion.” President Obama is clearly taking his advice, and “has tried…to talk about everything but the economic results of his policies,” according to The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin. Republicans believe the American people are owed more, and this week continued the dialogue about jobs and the policies that are needed to get the economy going again, which they recently laid out in A Plan for America’s Job Creators. Here’s a sample of the job-creating ideas Republicans have been sharing with Americans across the country:
- Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) Discussed A Plan for America’s Job Creators. “The ‘Plan for America’s Job Creators’ will roll back regulations affecting jobs in America, empower small businesses, fix the tax code, increase competitiveness for American manufacturers, encourage entrepreneurship, maximize American energy productions and pay down America’s debt, he [Rep. Brady] said. ‘Right now, what Washington is doing doesn’t work,’ Brady said. ‘… We have fewer workers today working than when we started (the stimulus).’ ‘I really think Washington is getting in the way of this recovery.’” (Your Houston News, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Diane Black (R-TN): America’s $14.3 Trillion National Debt Threatens Jobs. “America's $14.3 trillion national debt threatens the nation’s jobs, security and sovereignty and its children, U.S. Rep. Diane Black said Monday at her first town hall in Murfreesboro. … She and House Republicans passed an April budget plan designed to cut the nation’s budget deficit by $5.8 trillion in 10 years.” (The Daily News Journal, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK): “Spending Cuts Are Vital to Getting the Economy Moving Again.” “The unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 28 straight months now, yet the president still does not seem to understand that spending cuts are vital to getting the economy moving again. … The proverbial writing is on the wall. If Congress does not get the national debt under control soon, the unemployment rate will remain high, and we will lose our status as the world’s most reliable and stable country for investment.” (Rep. Tom Cole, op-ed, “No Debt Ceiling Increase Without Spending Cuts,” The Edmond Sun, 6/7/11)
- Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL): Creating a Better Environment for Small Businesses Key to Economic Growth. “According to the North Shore Congressman, solving America’s fiscal crisis is not just a matter of getting the budget under control, but also of creating an environment conducive for business and the economy to grow again. Rather than focus on big-government solutions like President Obama’s stimulus package or subsidizing so-called green energy initiatives, Republicans in Washington should instead be looking out for the interests of America’s 29 million small businesses.’” (Chicago Examiner, 6/9/11)
- Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI): Relying on ‘Stimulus’ Spending to Create Jobs “Doesn’t Work.” “Duffy said to get the nation’s economy back on track, it’s going to require cuts in federal spending that threaten the nation’s economy and less onerous rules and regulations that impede innovation and job creation. ‘It’s easy to say ‘I’m going to spend $1 trillion and we’re going to create jobs,’ Duffy said. ‘It sounds great because you can say it in a sentence — you can put it on a bumper sticker. That doesn’t work.’” (Superior Telegram, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Robert Hurt (R-VA) Stressed the Need for Spending Cuts & Job Creation. “He [Rep. Hurt] stopped in Charlottesville Thursday to talk business, stressing spending cuts and job creation are what central Virginia voters need from Washington. … Hurt stated, ‘I think this new Congress that’s in place now is laser focused on the spending side, but also on trying to reduce the number of unnecessary regulations.’” (NBC29, 6/9/11)
- Rep. Ben Quayle (R-AZ): House GOP Has Plan to Harness American Energy to Create Jobs. “He [Rep. Quayle] said the House has been working toward a pro-growth agenda, with policies and initiatives so job creators will take risks. … Quayle said they’ve been working on initiatives to make our country more competitive and initiatives that will allow us to harness our own natural resources, which will bring good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced.” (Sonoran News, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY): End Economic Uncertainty to Get Job Creators Off the Sideline.“‘Stabilizing the debt will bring certainty and confidence back to the American market’ said Reed. ‘The private sector will invest the trillions of dollars sitting on the sideline.’ Implementing a domestic energy plan would also lessen the burden on businesses battling excessive utilities costs, he added.” (The Evening Tribune, 6/7/11)
- Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL): Out-of-Control Spending “Could Choke Out Job Growth by Forcing Massive Tax Hikes.” “The massive $14 trillion debt is growing rapidly, and in a few short years will become unsustainable. It could choke out job growth by forcing massive tax hikes, higher interest rates and lower consumer confidence.” (Rep. Mike Rogers, op-ed, “Debt Increase Must Come with Spending Cuts,” Opelika Auburn News, 6/5/11)
- Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) Asked Businesses for Input on Burdensome Regulations Making It Harder to Create Jobs. “Indiana 4th Congressional District Representative Republican Todd Rokita said one of his top priorities is to bring down the country's deficit and add jobs. … Business leaders in this community help me by pointing out those federal regulations and those federal laws that are hampering the free market that are prohibiting them and hindering them from hiring more people,’ Rokita said while visiting Greater Lafayette Wednesday.” (WFLI-TV 18, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) Argued for More American Energy Production to Create Jobs. “Scott criticized the Obama administration for making the job market worse by not allowing offshore drilling and other energy initiatives, which he estimated would create around one million new positions.” (The Sun News, 6/9/11)
- Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX): Reduce Regulatory Burdens, Keep Taxes Low to Help Create Private-Sector Jobs. “Smith also said that private sector jobs were suffering from high regulations and high taxes, curtailing innovations, which is preventing a rebound in the economy. ‘The way to create jobs is through the private sector, and that means reducing the burdens of regulations,’ Smith, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman said. ‘That means keeping taxes low, and it means restricting ourselves when it comes to deficit spending.’” (KSAT 12, 6/6/11)
The Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators builds on the Pledge to America and focuses on removing government barriers to job growth – barriers like the threat of tax hikes, our spending-driven debt crisis, and the mountains of red tape created by unelected bureaucrats – and calls for more American energy production to create jobs. Learn more here.
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- D Tufariello commented on 6/10/2011
- How about a Flat tax that will free up all the IRS agents which by the way number more than the Coast Guard and use them to fight fraud in the Medicare System. Stop the aid to countries that hate us! Help Americans at home. Oh and the dreaded word provide a plan and a stimulus for JOBS.
- Maureen Turgeon commented on 6/13/2011
- We have 3 small businesses in our family. The issues we deal with are: 1. health care costs; 2. lack of demand, 3. high fuel costs. There are no regulations that I know of that are stopping our hiring. There are no specific taxes that apply to us that are stopping our hiring. We hire to satisfy customer demand. Period. What you are talking about applies only to very large corporations, not small business. What does scare the heck out of us is the possibility of Medicare or Social Security not being there when we retire. We need those guarantees so that we can take the risk of being a small business instead of seeking a job that is more secure, like the post office, or nurse. If you take away the security of our retirement we can not stay in business. It's far too risky.
- Barbara Gooch commented on 6/13/2011
- Sure, we need to focus on the economy, jobs and all the other things that the Dem. don't seem to care about, they just wan't to fill there own pockets. The American people doesn't mean a thing to the Obama administration.
Some Senate Dems demur on Medicaid
Sen. Rockefeller's Medicaid letter to the White House lacks rock-solid support. | Jay Westcott/POLITICOClose
By JASON MILLMAN & JENNIFER HABERKORN | 6/13/11 10:29 PM EDT
There may be more to read from what wasn’t included in Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s letter to the White House last week than what was in it.
Multiple letters released June 9 — designed to show that Senate Democrats won’t support efforts to dismantle Medicaid — didn’t mention the Republican proposals to repeal the program’s maintenance of effort provisions. And they didn’t include 12 Democratic senators who some worry may be persuaded to join Republican efforts to chip away at the program.
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Although advocates publicly hailed the new show of support for Medicaid, there are still lingering fears about future funding for the federal-state health care program.
They may have reason to worry. Some of the Democrats who didn’t sign a letter aren’t exactly voicing rock-solid opposition to Medicaid block grants, and at least one — Joe Manchin of West Virginia — is suggesting he could support them.
“The good news is that there are 41 people” who signed the letters, one Medicaid advocate told POLITICO. “The bad news is it took them a long time to get there, and it took a lot of effort to get them there.”
The letters were designed to show how strongly Democrats support Medicaid, which Republicans have proposed overhauling and cutting by more than $750 billion over 10 years in their budget proposal.
The House budget proposal would convert Medicaid into a block grant program, sending federal money to states with fewer restrictions on its use.
Republicans argue block grants would give states flexibility to alter the program based on their unique needs, but Democrats worry states would slash the program’s benefits.
“Since 1965, the federal government has helped states pay for the basic health care and long-term services low-income Americans need,” Rockefeller’s letter to President Barack Obama reads. “A cap on federal funding or block grant would undermine this federal commitment. We are unwilling to allow the federal government to walk away from Medicaid’s 68 million beneficiaries, the providers that serve them and the urban and rural communities in which they live.”
Four other Democrats sent similar letters to the president.
While Democrats have pounced on the GOP’s Medicare plan through countless press conferences, news releases and advertisements, they’ve been slower to mount a Medicaid defense.
The filibuster-proof 41 signatures prove that a large-scale Medicaid overhaul is not likely to pass. But a close look at the letters shows the program is vulnerable to other changes.
The letter doesn’t mention Republican attempts to repeal Medicaid’s maintenance of effort provisions, which bar states from paring back Medicaid eligibility standards. If such a vote were to come up in the Senate — or in budget talks — it may be a difficult proposal for some moderate Democrats from budget-strapped states who are up for reelection in 2012.
“It’s definitely noteworthy,” the Medicaid advocate said. “MOE is a little more controversial. … I think they didn’t put it on there for a reason. It would have been harder to get 41 signatures.”
Rockefeller explained the maintenance of effort absence by saying it is merely a part of Medicaid, which the letter clearly addresses.
“The maintenance of effort is huge because if that is taken out, it means the governors don’t have to meet any of their rules or disciplines from the federal government, which are put there for a very good reason,” Rockefeller said.
The absence of 11 Senate Democrats and Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman from the letters is another noteworthy omission.
The list of Democratic senators who didn’t sign onto the Medicaid letters includes a few heavyweights, such as Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana and Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota. Spokesmen for their offices did not return requests for comment, but advocates believe the top senators stayed out of the Medicaid fray because of their involvement with budget negotiations.
Like Conrad, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia is a Gang of Six member who didn’t sign onto any of the Medicaid letters. The third Democratic member of the Gang, Dick Durbin of Illinois, joined the Rockefeller letter.
Other Democratic senators who didn’t sign the letters include Manchin, Tom Carper of Delaware, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Jim Webb of Virginia.
Manchin, one of the Democratic senators expected to face a tough reelection fight next November, has separated himself from other Democrats by expressing support for Medicaid block grants.
“I do not believe that the federal government should mandate that any state should have to take care of a healthy poor person the way those states have the moral obligation to take care of a sick poor person,” Manchin said in a statement to POLITICO.
McCaskill’s office directed POLITICO to constituent communications that call the GOP Medicaid proposals “unacceptable.” When asked why McCaskill didn’t sign the letters, an aide said only that “her record is clear on her opposition to block-granting Medicaid.”
With pressure on budget negotiators to tackle entitlements, Medicaid advocates have been fearful that Democrats are more willing to accept Medicaid cuts in those negotiations, especially now that Democrats believe they have found a winning message as Medicare defenders.
In a sign of Medicare and Medicaid’s distinctly different politics, McCaskill and Nelson — who are both digging in for 2012 election battles — earlier in the week signed a letter calling on Vice President Joe Biden to oppose the GOP Medicare plan in debt-limit negotiations. In fact, all five Democratic senators on the Medicare letter — which also included Ben Cardin of Maryland, Bill Nelson of Florida and Jon Tester of Montana — are facing reelection.
An aide for Lieberman, who on Friday said he’s pitching his own recommendation for reforming Medicare, declined to comment.
Some other Democrats who didn’t sign the Medicaid letters expressed concerns about block grants, but they did not condemn them outright.
“Sen. Carper has serious concerns about the proposal to block-grant Medicaid: That’s one of the reasons why he voted against the House Republican budget last month when it came up for a vote,” Carper spokeswoman Emily Spain said in a statement. “He continues to look for ways to protect and improve our Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
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EVERYONE REMEMBER THE OBAMA B.S. ROAD TO RECOVERY 2010, WHICH WAS PAVED TO THE ECONOMIC FLUBBERY OF 2011?? http://youtu.be/tNiC10yt2xk
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Obama economy guru: Fiscal imbalance 'not materially worse'
By Erik Wasson - 06/10/11 02:33 PM ET
The nation's overall fiscal imbalance “has not gotten materially worse in the last two years," President Obama's outgoing economic adviser said Friday.
Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee, who announced this week he was leaving the White House, defended the Obama administration’s fiscal record in comments at the National Press Club.
The national debt has increased from $10.4 trillion to $14.3 trillion since Obama took office in 2009.
He said the biggest drivers of the debt have been known for a long time and did not change during Obama's years in office.
He identified healthcare costs, the aging population and the Bush-era tax cuts, which Obama agreed to extend at the end of last year in a deal with congressional Republicans. 
Goolsbee said the problem needs to be dealt with but that spending cuts should not impair investments in education, training and infrastructure.
Goolsbee argued that preserving such investments are more important than addressing the fiscal imbalance.
"Those issues are long-standing and we should and must address them. But let us not forget, that that is not the No. 1 issue facing this country, we must deal with that issue, we must live within our means, but the No. 1 issue facing this country is that we grow,” he said.
Even as he argued against excessive cutting, Goolsbee in the same speech argued that at this stage in the recovery, it is not the time for massive new increases in government spending such as the 2009 stimulus bill.
Goolsbee announced this month that he is leaving the White House to return to teaching at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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if this was't so serious i would be laughing
ghoulsby is a joke,i guess that is why obbuthead got rid of him.if this guy is qualified to be president i may run and i have had two strokes resulting in a broken brain,but could do at least as good a job at fooling people as obama.BY BOB on 06/10/2011 at 15:00
Whew! I feel much better now that I know we aren't 'really' in a depression. Our inflated currency, high gas prices, a stock market about to dip under 12,000 and 9.1% unemployment is not to worry about. Goolsbee might do better as a comedy writer on SNL than as a teacher.BY TAR BALL on 06/10/2011 at 15:23
Unemployment up, forecloses up, deficits way up, price of gas up, price of food up, manufacturing down, consumer confidence down. Yes everything looks good in Obamas economy. One big failure is the only way to describe the Obama recovery.BY SWAMPER on 06/10/2011 at 15:32
So when the WH said that the "stimulus" would bring unemployment down to 8% like 1 year and 6 months ago and now down to 7%…where they…
a) Lying
B) Incompetent
Obama is a thug and does not care and his WH is full of thugs and incompetent idiots.
We need to get that thug out of the WH.
I would vote for Alfred E Newman. I don't care who is the other guy/gal.
Anybody but Obama.BY SGTROCK on 06/10/2011 at 15:53
Goolsbee must be going back to academia out of shame of having to issue ridiculous statements such as this. A nearly 40% increase in our national debt in just 2 !/2 years is not a material change? Anyone not utterly stupid recognizes how absurd this man is.BY RON A on 06/10/2011 at 15:54
Not "materially" worse? And this coming from the guy who's slithering away from his obviously failed economic policies to teach economics to college kids?
Just how much "worse" does the economy have to get for it to qualify as "materially" worse, Austan? Totally bankrupted and destroyed? You get a "F" for Failure.BY ALL FED UP on 06/10/2011 at 15:56
If his point is that things could be worse. Well what kind of BS is that. We wait daily for someone to talk about a plan to get things moving and get people back to work. Who wants this crap, things could be worse as if that should comfort everone. Why say anything???BY SIDNEY on 06/10/2011 at 15:58
The question is; did Obama knowingly surround himself with idiots?BY VIRGINIAN on 06/10/2011 at 16:06
So why is he leaving his job if things are so wonderful according to Goolsbee?May be because he's another
incompetent who sees the writing on the wall and doesn't want to go down with the Obama Titanic. I don't know what crystal ball this moran is looking through, but the rest of us are dealing in reality and he and his soon to be
ex-boss are living in fantasyland. Out with Goolsbee, but
important out with the DISASTER IN THE WHITE HOUSE-CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH!!!BY ELC on 06/10/2011 at 16:07
For future voters and political leaders alike: Please do not vote nor appoint anyone who has no experience in putting bookish theories into practice. Academicians' education is not fully complete until that knowledge is successfully applied into practice outside the bubble of Academia's fortress.
A combination of a president, who has no real management experience who in turn appoint bureaucrats who specialize on theories, and not much else, is a lethal economic combination. Well if you have patience enough, another four year term in office might give them passable training and experience which they obviously lack…hopefull y at the end of it, US as we know it will survive from their rough handling.BY FLABBERGASTED on 06/10/2011 at 16:31
HERE’S A REFRESHER FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO SEE OBAMA EAT CROW (WATCH VIDEO ON LINK BELOW):
June 13, 2011
Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: 'Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected'
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President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met today in Durham, NC at Cree Inc., a company that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting. One of the Council's recommendations to President Obama was to streamline the federal permit process for construction and infrastructure projects. It was explained to Obama that the permitting process can delay projects for "months to years ... and in many cases even cause projects to be abandoned ... I'm sure that when you implemented the Recovery Act your staff briefed you on many of these challenges." At this point, Obama smiled and interjected, "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." The Council, led by GE's Jeffrey Immelt, erupted in laughter.
The Obama administration promised the Recovery Act ("the stimulus") would prevent the jobless rate from going over 8%. It now stands at 9.1%.
New legislative map forces early elections for senators
By LISA DEMER-ldemer@adn.com Published: June 13th, 2011 01:44 PM
Last Modified: June 13th, 2011 07:01 PM
All Alaska state senators except one will have to run for re-election in 2012 even if their terms aren't supposed to be up until 2014.
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That's because their district boundaries are changing substantially under a new legislative map drawn by the Alaska Redistricting Board.
The board approved an election schedule for senators this morning and plans to give final approval to the new district lines this afternoon. Members had thought the deadline was Tuesday, but had not taken into account the fact that May has 31 days. The deadline is actually today, board Chairman John Torgerson said.
The only senator who won't have to run next year is Dennis Egan, a Democrat from Juneau. His district includes almost 87 percent of the same population as in 2010, board attorney Michael White told members.
Districts for the remaining nine senators whose terms weren't up until 2014 included at most 55 percent of the original population, he said.
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The four-year terms of Alaska senators are staggered, with half the Senate running every two years, under the state Constitution.
To keep that schedule, nine of the 19 on the ballot in 2012 will run for two-year terms, and the remaining 10 will run for four-year terms. Egan, though getting to serve out the remainder of his four-year term, will also be on the ballot again in 2014.
Reach Lisa Demer at ldemer@adn.com or 257-4390.
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The time for fonnie tough talk is over ( The Safe Way To Do A Citizens Arrest On Obama For Treason ) http://youtu.be/PYQjDppTU0g
We are gaining support, many people are tired of seeing their rights taken away. Due To President Obama's Plans Regarding -"Ready Reserve Corps", Alliance Regarding - "New World Order" And Intent Regarding -... "The Federal Reserve Bank". I believe, a declaration needs to be written and hearing for presidential impeachment needs to be commenced. I am sad to see Americans has a Benedict Arnold in the White House. President Obama has clearly shown his intention as a fascist tyrant and we all know it. This agenda of Obama's is treason against the “Constitution: and our “Nations Basic Principles” in many ways. This is simple matter of assembling in a Constitutional way to stand up for Constitutional Law. There is only one copy of a document required “The Constitution”. I weep that our Nations People can't see a basic orderly assembly with a copy of the constitution and some citizens arrests are all we need to retain our Constitutional rights. Senators, Congressman, and that Pied Piper President only have power over us if we fail to remember we are the United States Of America. We the people under the Constitution and powers of Citizens Arrest have the right to “Support” from Troops and Police in the matter of Obama's Treason and Fascist Insurrection.
Notice To: USA MILITIA
To USA Militia - US Citizen Arrest Warrant
Filed Against:
"All Personnel" - Ready Reserve Corps.
"Former Chief Of Staff" Rahm Emanuel - Ready Reserve Corps.
"Commander And Chief" Barack Obama - Ready Reserve Corps.
Charges: Treason & Fascist Inserection
Date: 06/11/2011
Ready Reserve Corps "Chief Of Staff": Rahm Emanuel
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Obamas NEW ARMY! "Brown Shirts" Ready Reserve Corps. This monsterous socialized medicine bill that recently passed is full of hidden nightmares and none of it pertains to BETTER health! SEC. 5210. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted March 23, 2010, created the Ready Reserve Corps, a new component of the USPHS Commissioned Corps.
The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the other uniformed services' reserve programs) to assist full time Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.
(Ready Reserve Corps) "Active duty PHS officers" may call 877-463–6327 for general inquiries or visit us at 1101 Wootton Parkway, Plaza Level, Rockville, MD 20852.
Ready Reserve Corps Office Address: 1101 Wootton Parkway, Plaza Level, Rockville, MD 20852
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I believe, a declaration needs to be written and hearing for presidential impeachment needs to be commenced. This should happen before great harm and loss of life comes to our country at the hands of a tyrant with documented ill intent. Also Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel should be made to resign A.S.A.P. I believe everyone should make all Senators and Congressman aware that we are tired of our Constitution and Bill Of Right being coveted by a power hungry president with clearly documented fascist views. This should be conveyed A.S.A.P.
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President Obama, Ready Reserve Corps. Personnel and "Chief Of Staff": Rahm Emanuel - Regarding Foren Alliance, Treason & Fascist Inserection .
Middle Eastern Philosophy Of Draining Money: http://youtu.be/4It9_m9ftb4
Food Prices Do To Printing Money: http://youtu.be/Ee_VFGMnpKo
Intentional Economic Decline For"The New World Order":http://youtu.be/rifAszTEkes
Prof of Obama's Plan, Alliance, Prep And Intent: http://youtu.be/_vxJD3az3nk
Fema Camps - http://youtu.be/xobiAmUX3XQ
(US Citizen Arrest Warrant To Be Executed With Any Force Necessary.)
How To Arrest For Treason ( The Safe Way To Do A Citizens Arrest On Obama For Treason ) http://youtu.be/PYQjDppTU0g
Legally a police officer can be arrested for not arresting the person arrested for treason and fascist inserection. Since people have deep fear and a loud violent nature. I think a small group of people with a more stout and grounded nature should be invalve with this process.
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Earlier this week, one of President Obama’s top advisors, David Axelrod, claimed that addressing Americans’ concerns about the dismal jobs report released last week was a “meaningless discussion.” President Obama is clearly taking his advice, and “has tried…to talk about everything but the economic results of his policies,” according to The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin. Republicans believe the American people are owed more, and this week continued the dialogue about jobs and the policies that are needed to get the economy going again, which they recently laid out in A Plan for America’s Job Creators. Here’s a sample of the job-creating ideas Republicans have been sharing with Americans across the country:
- Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) Discussed A Plan for America’s Job Creators. “The ‘Plan for America’s Job Creators’ will roll back regulations affecting jobs in America, empower small businesses, fix the tax code, increase competitiveness for American manufacturers, encourage entrepreneurship, maximize American energy productions and pay down America’s debt, he [Rep. Brady] said. ‘Right now, what Washington is doing doesn’t work,’ Brady said. ‘… We have fewer workers today working than when we started (the stimulus).’ ‘I really think Washington is getting in the way of this recovery.’” (Your Houston News, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Diane Black (R-TN): America’s $14.3 Trillion National Debt Threatens Jobs. “America's $14.3 trillion national debt threatens the nation’s jobs, security and sovereignty and its children, U.S. Rep. Diane Black said Monday at her first town hall in Murfreesboro. … She and House Republicans passed an April budget plan designed to cut the nation’s budget deficit by $5.8 trillion in 10 years.” (The Daily News Journal, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK): “Spending Cuts Are Vital to Getting the Economy Moving Again.” “The unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for 28 straight months now, yet the president still does not seem to understand that spending cuts are vital to getting the economy moving again. … The proverbial writing is on the wall. If Congress does not get the national debt under control soon, the unemployment rate will remain high, and we will lose our status as the world’s most reliable and stable country for investment.” (Rep. Tom Cole, op-ed, “No Debt Ceiling Increase Without Spending Cuts,” The Edmond Sun, 6/7/11)
- Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL): Creating a Better Environment for Small Businesses Key to Economic Growth. “According to the North Shore Congressman, solving America’s fiscal crisis is not just a matter of getting the budget under control, but also of creating an environment conducive for business and the economy to grow again. Rather than focus on big-government solutions like President Obama’s stimulus package or subsidizing so-called green energy initiatives, Republicans in Washington should instead be looking out for the interests of America’s 29 million small businesses.’” (Chicago Examiner, 6/9/11)
- Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI): Relying on ‘Stimulus’ Spending to Create Jobs “Doesn’t Work.” “Duffy said to get the nation’s economy back on track, it’s going to require cuts in federal spending that threaten the nation’s economy and less onerous rules and regulations that impede innovation and job creation. ‘It’s easy to say ‘I’m going to spend $1 trillion and we’re going to create jobs,’ Duffy said. ‘It sounds great because you can say it in a sentence — you can put it on a bumper sticker. That doesn’t work.’” (Superior Telegram, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Robert Hurt (R-VA) Stressed the Need for Spending Cuts & Job Creation. “He [Rep. Hurt] stopped in Charlottesville Thursday to talk business, stressing spending cuts and job creation are what central Virginia voters need from Washington. … Hurt stated, ‘I think this new Congress that’s in place now is laser focused on the spending side, but also on trying to reduce the number of unnecessary regulations.’” (NBC29, 6/9/11)
- Rep. Ben Quayle (R-AZ): House GOP Has Plan to Harness American Energy to Create Jobs. “He [Rep. Quayle] said the House has been working toward a pro-growth agenda, with policies and initiatives so job creators will take risks. … Quayle said they’ve been working on initiatives to make our country more competitive and initiatives that will allow us to harness our own natural resources, which will bring good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced.” (Sonoran News, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY): End Economic Uncertainty to Get Job Creators Off the Sideline.“‘Stabilizing the debt will bring certainty and confidence back to the American market’ said Reed. ‘The private sector will invest the trillions of dollars sitting on the sideline.’ Implementing a domestic energy plan would also lessen the burden on businesses battling excessive utilities costs, he added.” (The Evening Tribune, 6/7/11)
- Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL): Out-of-Control Spending “Could Choke Out Job Growth by Forcing Massive Tax Hikes.” “The massive $14 trillion debt is growing rapidly, and in a few short years will become unsustainable. It could choke out job growth by forcing massive tax hikes, higher interest rates and lower consumer confidence.” (Rep. Mike Rogers, op-ed, “Debt Increase Must Come with Spending Cuts,” Opelika Auburn News, 6/5/11)
- Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) Asked Businesses for Input on Burdensome Regulations Making It Harder to Create Jobs. “Indiana 4th Congressional District Representative Republican Todd Rokita said one of his top priorities is to bring down the country's deficit and add jobs. … Business leaders in this community help me by pointing out those federal regulations and those federal laws that are hampering the free market that are prohibiting them and hindering them from hiring more people,’ Rokita said while visiting Greater Lafayette Wednesday.” (WFLI-TV 18, 6/8/11)
- Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) Argued for More American Energy Production to Create Jobs. “Scott criticized the Obama administration for making the job market worse by not allowing offshore drilling and other energy initiatives, which he estimated would create around one million new positions.” (The Sun News, 6/9/11)
- Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX): Reduce Regulatory Burdens, Keep Taxes Low to Help Create Private-Sector Jobs. “Smith also said that private sector jobs were suffering from high regulations and high taxes, curtailing innovations, which is preventing a rebound in the economy. ‘The way to create jobs is through the private sector, and that means reducing the burdens of regulations,’ Smith, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman said. ‘That means keeping taxes low, and it means restricting ourselves when it comes to deficit spending.’” (KSAT 12, 6/6/11)
The Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators builds on the Pledge to America and focuses on removing government barriers to job growth – barriers like the threat of tax hikes, our spending-driven debt crisis, and the mountains of red tape created by unelected bureaucrats – and calls for more American energy production to create jobs. Learn more here.
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- D Tufariello commented on 6/10/2011
- How about a Flat tax that will free up all the IRS agents which by the way number more than the Coast Guard and use them to fight fraud in the Medicare System. Stop the aid to countries that hate us! Help Americans at home. Oh and the dreaded word provide a plan and a stimulus for JOBS.
- Maureen Turgeon commented on 6/13/2011
- We have 3 small businesses in our family. The issues we deal with are: 1. health care costs; 2. lack of demand, 3. high fuel costs. There are no regulations that I know of that are stopping our hiring. There are no specific taxes that apply to us that are stopping our hiring. We hire to satisfy customer demand. Period. What you are talking about applies only to very large corporations, not small business. What does scare the heck out of us is the possibility of Medicare or Social Security not being there when we retire. We need those guarantees so that we can take the risk of being a small business instead of seeking a job that is more secure, like the post office, or nurse. If you take away the security of our retirement we can not stay in business. It's far too risky.
- Barbara Gooch commented on 6/13/2011
- Sure, we need to focus on the economy, jobs and all the other things that the Dem. don't seem to care about, they just wan't to fill there own pockets. The American people doesn't mean a thing to the Obama administration.
Some Senate Dems demur on Medicaid
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There may be more to read from what wasn’t included in Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s letter to the White House last week than what was in it.
Multiple letters released June 9 — designed to show that Senate Democrats won’t support efforts to dismantle Medicaid — didn’t mention the Republican proposals to repeal the program’s maintenance of effort provisions. And they didn’t include 12 Democratic senators who some worry may be persuaded to join Republican efforts to chip away at the program.
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Although advocates publicly hailed the new show of support for Medicaid, there are still lingering fears about future funding for the federal-state health care program.
They may have reason to worry. Some of the Democrats who didn’t sign a letter aren’t exactly voicing rock-solid opposition to Medicaid block grants, and at least one — Joe Manchin of West Virginia — is suggesting he could support them.
“The good news is that there are 41 people” who signed the letters, one Medicaid advocate told POLITICO. “The bad news is it took them a long time to get there, and it took a lot of effort to get them there.”
The letters were designed to show how strongly Democrats support Medicaid, which Republicans have proposed overhauling and cutting by more than $750 billion over 10 years in their budget proposal.
The House budget proposal would convert Medicaid into a block grant program, sending federal money to states with fewer restrictions on its use.
Republicans argue block grants would give states flexibility to alter the program based on their unique needs, but Democrats worry states would slash the program’s benefits.
“Since 1965, the federal government has helped states pay for the basic health care and long-term services low-income Americans need,” Rockefeller’s letter to President Barack Obama reads. “A cap on federal funding or block grant would undermine this federal commitment. We are unwilling to allow the federal government to walk away from Medicaid’s 68 million beneficiaries, the providers that serve them and the urban and rural communities in which they live.”
Four other Democrats sent similar letters to the president.
While Democrats have pounced on the GOP’s Medicare plan through countless press conferences, news releases and advertisements, they’ve been slower to mount a Medicaid defense.
The filibuster-proof 41 signatures prove that a large-scale Medicaid overhaul is not likely to pass. But a close look at the letters shows the program is vulnerable to other changes.
The letter doesn’t mention Republican attempts to repeal Medicaid’s maintenance of effort provisions, which bar states from paring back Medicaid eligibility standards. If such a vote were to come up in the Senate — or in budget talks — it may be a difficult proposal for some moderate Democrats from budget-strapped states who are up for reelection in 2012.
“It’s definitely noteworthy,” the Medicaid advocate said. “MOE is a little more controversial. … I think they didn’t put it on there for a reason. It would have been harder to get 41 signatures.”
Rockefeller explained the maintenance of effort absence by saying it is merely a part of Medicaid, which the letter clearly addresses.
“The maintenance of effort is huge because if that is taken out, it means the governors don’t have to meet any of their rules or disciplines from the federal government, which are put there for a very good reason,” Rockefeller said.
The absence of 11 Senate Democrats and Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman from the letters is another noteworthy omission.
The list of Democratic senators who didn’t sign onto the Medicaid letters includes a few heavyweights, such as Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana and Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota. Spokesmen for their offices did not return requests for comment, but advocates believe the top senators stayed out of the Medicaid fray because of their involvement with budget negotiations.
Like Conrad, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia is a Gang of Six member who didn’t sign onto any of the Medicaid letters. The third Democratic member of the Gang, Dick Durbin of Illinois, joined the Rockefeller letter.
Other Democratic senators who didn’t sign the letters include Manchin, Tom Carper of Delaware, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Jim Webb of Virginia.
Manchin, one of the Democratic senators expected to face a tough reelection fight next November, has separated himself from other Democrats by expressing support for Medicaid block grants.
“I do not believe that the federal government should mandate that any state should have to take care of a healthy poor person the way those states have the moral obligation to take care of a sick poor person,” Manchin said in a statement to POLITICO.
McCaskill’s office directed POLITICO to constituent communications that call the GOP Medicaid proposals “unacceptable.” When asked why McCaskill didn’t sign the letters, an aide said only that “her record is clear on her opposition to block-granting Medicaid.”
With pressure on budget negotiators to tackle entitlements, Medicaid advocates have been fearful that Democrats are more willing to accept Medicaid cuts in those negotiations, especially now that Democrats believe they have found a winning message as Medicare defenders.
In a sign of Medicare and Medicaid’s distinctly different politics, McCaskill and Nelson — who are both digging in for 2012 election battles — earlier in the week signed a letter calling on Vice President Joe Biden to oppose the GOP Medicare plan in debt-limit negotiations. In fact, all five Democratic senators on the Medicare letter — which also included Ben Cardin of Maryland, Bill Nelson of Florida and Jon Tester of Montana — are facing reelection.
An aide for Lieberman, who on Friday said he’s pitching his own recommendation for reforming Medicare, declined to comment.
Some other Democrats who didn’t sign the Medicaid letters expressed concerns about block grants, but they did not condemn them outright.
“Sen. Carper has serious concerns about the proposal to block-grant Medicaid: That’s one of the reasons why he voted against the House Republican budget last month when it came up for a vote,” Carper spokeswoman Emily Spain said in a statement. “He continues to look for ways to protect and improve our Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
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He identified healthcare costs, the aging population and the Bush-era tax cuts, which Obama agreed to extend at the end of last year in a deal with congressional Republicans.
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By Erik Wasson - 06/10/11 02:33 PM ET
The nation's overall fiscal imbalance “has not gotten materially worse in the last two years," President Obama's outgoing economic adviser said Friday.
Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee, who announced this week he was leaving the White House, defended the Obama administration’s fiscal record in comments at the National Press Club.
The national debt has increased from $10.4 trillion to $14.3 trillion since Obama took office in 2009.
He said the biggest drivers of the debt have been known for a long time and did not change during Obama's years in office.
He identified healthcare costs, the aging population and the Bush-era tax cuts, which Obama agreed to extend at the end of last year in a deal with congressional Republicans. Goolsbee said the problem needs to be dealt with but that spending cuts should not impair investments in education, training and infrastructure.
Goolsbee argued that preserving such investments are more important than addressing the fiscal imbalance.
"Those issues are long-standing and we should and must address them. But let us not forget, that that is not the No. 1 issue facing this country, we must deal with that issue, we must live within our means, but the No. 1 issue facing this country is that we grow,” he said.
Even as he argued against excessive cutting, Goolsbee in the same speech argued that at this stage in the recovery, it is not the time for massive new increases in government spending such as the 2009 stimulus bill.
Goolsbee announced this month that he is leaving the White House to return to teaching at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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if this was't so serious i would be laughing
ghoulsby is a joke,i guess that is why obbuthead got rid of him.if this guy is qualified to be president i may run and i have had two strokes resulting in a broken brain,but could do at least as good a job at fooling people as obama.BY BOB on 06/10/2011 at 15:00
Whew! I feel much better now that I know we aren't 'really' in a depression. Our inflated currency, high gas prices, a stock market about to dip under 12,000 and 9.1% unemployment is not to worry about. Goolsbee might do better as a comedy writer on SNL than as a teacher.BY TAR BALL on 06/10/2011 at 15:23
Unemployment up, forecloses up, deficits way up, price of gas up, price of food up, manufacturing down, consumer confidence down. Yes everything looks good in Obamas economy. One big failure is the only way to describe the Obama recovery.BY SWAMPER on 06/10/2011 at 15:32
So when the WH said that the "stimulus" would bring unemployment down to 8% like 1 year and 6 months ago and now down to 7%…where they…
a) Lying
B) Incompetent
Obama is a thug and does not care and his WH is full of thugs and incompetent idiots.
We need to get that thug out of the WH.
I would vote for Alfred E Newman. I don't care who is the other guy/gal.
Anybody but Obama.BY SGTROCK on 06/10/2011 at 15:53
Goolsbee must be going back to academia out of shame of having to issue ridiculous statements such as this. A nearly 40% increase in our national debt in just 2 !/2 years is not a material change? Anyone not utterly stupid recognizes how absurd this man is.BY RON A on 06/10/2011 at 15:54
Not "materially" worse? And this coming from the guy who's slithering away from his obviously failed economic policies to teach economics to college kids?
Just how much "worse" does the economy have to get for it to qualify as "materially" worse, Austan? Totally bankrupted and destroyed? You get a "F" for Failure.BY ALL FED UP on 06/10/2011 at 15:56
If his point is that things could be worse. Well what kind of BS is that. We wait daily for someone to talk about a plan to get things moving and get people back to work. Who wants this crap, things could be worse as if that should comfort everone. Why say anything???BY SIDNEY on 06/10/2011 at 15:58
The question is; did Obama knowingly surround himself with idiots?BY VIRGINIAN on 06/10/2011 at 16:06
So why is he leaving his job if things are so wonderful according to Goolsbee?May be because he's another
incompetent who sees the writing on the wall and doesn't want to go down with the Obama Titanic. I don't know what crystal ball this moran is looking through, but the rest of us are dealing in reality and he and his soon to be
ex-boss are living in fantasyland. Out with Goolsbee, but
important out with the DISASTER IN THE WHITE HOUSE-CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH!!!BY ELC on 06/10/2011 at 16:07
For future voters and political leaders alike: Please do not vote nor appoint anyone who has no experience in putting bookish theories into practice. Academicians' education is not fully complete until that knowledge is successfully applied into practice outside the bubble of Academia's fortress.
A combination of a president, who has no real management experience who in turn appoint bureaucrats who specialize on theories, and not much else, is a lethal economic combination. Well if you have patience enough, another four year term in office might give them passable training and experience which they obviously lack…hopefull y at the end of it, US as we know it will survive from their rough handling.BY FLABBERGASTED on 06/10/2011 at 16:31
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Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: 'Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected'
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President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met today in Durham, NC at Cree Inc., a company that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting. One of the Council's recommendations to President Obama was to streamline the federal permit process for construction and infrastructure projects. It was explained to Obama that the permitting process can delay projects for "months to years ... and in many cases even cause projects to be abandoned ... I'm sure that when you implemented the Recovery Act your staff briefed you on many of these challenges." At this point, Obama smiled and interjected, "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." The Council, led by GE's Jeffrey Immelt, erupted in laughter.
The Obama administration promised the Recovery Act ("the stimulus") would prevent the jobless rate from going over 8%. It now stands at 9.1%.
New legislative map forces early elections for senators
By LISA DEMER-ldemer@adn.com Published: June 13th, 2011 01:44 PM
Last Modified: June 13th, 2011 07:01 PM
All Alaska state senators except one will have to run for re-election in 2012 even if their terms aren't supposed to be up until 2014.
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That's because their district boundaries are changing substantially under a new legislative map drawn by the Alaska Redistricting Board.
The board approved an election schedule for senators this morning and plans to give final approval to the new district lines this afternoon. Members had thought the deadline was Tuesday, but had not taken into account the fact that May has 31 days. The deadline is actually today, board Chairman John Torgerson said.
The only senator who won't have to run next year is Dennis Egan, a Democrat from Juneau. His district includes almost 87 percent of the same population as in 2010, board attorney Michael White told members.
Districts for the remaining nine senators whose terms weren't up until 2014 included at most 55 percent of the original population, he said.
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The four-year terms of Alaska senators are staggered, with half the Senate running every two years, under the state Constitution.
To keep that schedule, nine of the 19 on the ballot in 2012 will run for two-year terms, and the remaining 10 will run for four-year terms. Egan, though getting to serve out the remainder of his four-year term, will also be on the ballot again in 2014.
Reach Lisa Demer at ldemer@adn.com or 257-4390.
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[Under Obama] Our enemies no longer respect us and our allies no longer trust us #CNNDebate #fb #tcot
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@cnnbrk what is Obama's personal interest in sticking it to Gaddafi? Is he competing against him for New World Dictator or some sh-t??
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Pawlenty is strong on the response over Yemen
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That sound you hear is millions of jaws hitting the ground by Bachmann's stellar answer on Libya. She just did very well with that.
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The time for fonnie tough talk is over ( The Safe Way To Do A Citizens Arrest On Obama For Treason ) http://youtu.be/PYQjDppTU0g
We are gaining support, many people are tired of seeing their rights taken away. Due To President Obama's Plans Regarding -"Ready Reserve Corps", Alliance Regarding - "New World Order" And Intent Regarding -... "The Federal Reserve Bank". I believe, a declaration needs to be written and hearing for presidential impeachment needs to be commenced. I am sad to see Americans has a Benedict Arnold in the White House. President Obama has clearly shown his intention as a fascist tyrant and we all know it. This agenda of Obama's is treason against the “Constitution: and our “Nations Basic Principles” in many ways. This is simple matter of assembling in a Constitutional way to stand up for Constitutional Law. There is only one copy of a document required “The Constitution”. I weep that our Nations People can't see a basic orderly assembly with a copy of the constitution and some citizens arrests are all we need to retain our Constitutional rights. Senators, Congressman, and that Pied Piper President only have power over us if we fail to remember we are the United States Of America. We the people under the Constitution and powers of Citizens Arrest have the right to “Support” from Troops and Police in the matter of Obama's Treason and Fascist Insurrection.
Notice To: USA MILITIA
To USA Militia - US Citizen Arrest Warrant
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"All Personnel" - Ready Reserve Corps.
"Former Chief Of Staff" Rahm Emanuel - Ready Reserve Corps.
"Commander And Chief" Barack Obama - Ready Reserve Corps.
Charges: Treason & Fascist Inserection
Date: 06/11/2011
Ready Reserve Corps "Chief Of Staff": Rahm Emanuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
Obamas NEW ARMY! "Brown Shirts" Ready Reserve Corps. This monsterous socialized medicine bill that recently passed is full of hidden nightmares and none of it pertains to BETTER health! SEC. 5210. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted March 23, 2010, created the Ready Reserve Corps, a new component of the USPHS Commissioned Corps.
The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the other uniformed services' reserve programs) to assist full time Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.
(Ready Reserve Corps) "Active duty PHS officers" may call 877-463–6327 for general inquiries or visit us at 1101 Wootton Parkway, Plaza Level, Rockville, MD 20852.
Ready Reserve Corps Office Address: 1101 Wootton Parkway, Plaza Level, Rockville, MD 20852
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I believe, a declaration needs to be written and hearing for presidential impeachment needs to be commenced. This should happen before great harm and loss of life comes to our country at the hands of a tyrant with documented ill intent. Also Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel should be made to resign A.S.A.P. I believe everyone should make all Senators and Congressman aware that we are tired of our Constitution and Bill Of Right being coveted by a power hungry president with clearly documented fascist views. This should be conveyed A.S.A.P.
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President Obama, Ready Reserve Corps. Personnel and "Chief Of Staff": Rahm Emanuel - Regarding Foren Alliance, Treason & Fascist Inserection .
Middle Eastern Philosophy Of Draining Money: http://youtu.be/4It9_m9ftb4
Food Prices Do To Printing Money: http://youtu.be/Ee_VFGMnpKo
Intentional Economic Decline For"The New World Order":http://youtu.be/rifAszTEkes
Prof of Obama's Plan, Alliance, Prep And Intent: http://youtu.be/_vxJD3az3nk
Fema Camps - http://youtu.be/xobiAmUX3XQ
(US Citizen Arrest Warrant To Be Executed With Any Force Necessary.)
How To Arrest For Treason ( The Safe Way To Do A Citizens Arrest On Obama For Treason ) http://youtu.be/PYQjDppTU0g
Legally a police officer can be arrested for not arresting the person arrested for treason and fascist inserection. Since people have deep fear and a loud violent nature. I think a small group of people with a more stout and grounded nature should be invalve with this process.
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@cnnbrk @newtgingrich at least you're backing up Cain on immigration, but understand that Obama tried Omnibus b.s. bills & failed miserably
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#cnndebate Herman Cain & Newt Gingrich have exchanged the most courtesies between each other among the all candidates.
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Half an hour left and I don't see a strong winner, which I think means Romney largely wins. Bachman though has a good first performance.
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Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @ @ron_fournier Romney did not answer well, but he meant legislative circus of DADT not to distract from the mission.... clear?22 seconds ago »2 hours ago · Like
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Aja Brooks Don't Ask Don't Tell (don't ask if anyone is gay, don't tell anyone that you are gay, your primary order of military service is the mission, above all else, even your own sexuality or preference)2 hours ago · Like
Sharon Linhart That is the way it should have stayed. Why bring our sexuality into the military.Aja Brooks it does not matter if you're hetero or homo, the cohesiveness of the mission makes no exception, when you put that uniform on, you aren't PURPLE, YOU'RE GREEN !!!!2 hours ago · Like
Sharon Linhart I agree. But why force the issue.2 hours ago · Like
Aja Brooks A policy was created to prevent discrimination, which homosexuals now claim is discriminatory.2 hours ago · Like
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Aja Brooks they feel their sexuality is more important than the mission, so they need to GTFO2 hours ago · Like
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#cnndebate Gingrich & Cain showed doubts about appointing a Muslim to a U.S. government but Romeny said all faiths should be treated equally
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Like this itemAja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @ @EuropeanCourier Romney thinks that the Constitution gives us immunity to Shariah Law which is not true/he did not say that2 hours ago · Like
Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @EWErickson @TheHermanCain NAH --- the moderates are funding radicals, and they're doing it through CAIR AND MOSQUES, SO NO whatsoever
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EWErickson Erick Erickson
by 2011teaparty
I don't think this line of questioning hurts @TheHermanCain in a GOP Primary. #cnndebate
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk Romney forgets how Obama's interpretation pollutes America so preserving the Constitution is a concern against permeation of Shariah
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Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk Cain explains himself regarding violent Muslims and American law
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk GOP nominees excel at understanding the proper Constitutional protections and practice of free religious expression
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@EuropeanCourier Pawltney did well on his CSPAN presentation, and he has done well to hold his temper against Romney's b.s.
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Aja Brooks
CBSNewsHotSheet CBS News Hotsheet
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Bachmann quotes then-Senator Obama's comments against raising the debt ceiling in 2006
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Pawltney nails the separation of church and state question
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Aja Brooks
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Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk @MicheleBachmann 35% we've increased the very debt that Obama voted against as a Senator, with a serious failure of leadership!!!!2 hours ago · Like
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @politico I don't gather that from what he said that you're quoting...
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk we've already hit our head Romney, WE NEED TO CUT NOW !!!!!
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Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Herman Cain wants to privatize SS, personal acct. option
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@RickSantorum Herman Cain said this
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk now this is where Herman Cain grabs me on Social Security reform to stop using it in the economic shell game, I get this.
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Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk Herman Cain fully backs Paul Ryan Path to Prosperity to prevent Obamacare death panels and Medicare rationing/Mediscare tactics.
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Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk MEDICARE has to be reformed to save the program, starting with PART D in overmedicating our seniors as cash cows for Pharmaceuticals
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Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk @newtgingrich "right-wing social engineering" is not what the Ryan plan is, over 5,000 voted on it on Facebook and agreed to cuts. 20 seconds ago Favorite Reply Delete
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Jesus the moderator is getting on my nerves
1 minute ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @davidgregory they all agree the government is interfering, controlling, funding, and then bankrupting America
9 minutes ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@davidgregory you didn't listen: Pawlteny thinks that housing was a govt. created crisis
10 minutes ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@EuropeanCourier not really Pawlteny is on it and Newt thinks it is simply Presidential discretion on NASA
10 minutes ago
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Chris Umscheid Sr.
Herman Cain
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Kevin Granberry
Yes, with all the summer re-runs I thought there were no good comedies on TV.
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Kenneth Darryl Brown
Yes!
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Mary Grabar
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle!
Mary Grabar
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle!
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Suzanne Owen Holzhausen Yes, of course - how else do you become an informed voter? 3 hours ago · Like ·
Like this itemDoris B. Secka Not wasting my time!
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Aja Brooks food stamps and welfare must be good.... it's bankrupted our country along with abortion to $14 trillion. Sorry but the country is being weaned... you didn't know??3 hours ago · Like
Anna Foote
Not any longer
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Suzanne Rayfield Crossan Why are they not 1)answering the question? 2) asking Herman Cain many questions?3 hours ago · Like
Robert Pendley
yes
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TO READ THE REST OF THIS BLOG IN ENTIRETY:
DADT?
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@cnnbrk Obama Admin. can't undo DOMA without Congressional order, so DADT magic wand waving is just more Obama b.s., the law is what it is.
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EWErickson Erick Erickson
by 2011teaparty
Good answer from Michelle Bachmann on states rights regarding same sex marriage. #cnndebate
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Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
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@ron_fournier Romney did not answer well, but he meant legislative circus of DADT not to distract from the mission.... clear?
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Sharon Linhart I do not mean to be ignorant, but what is DADT?
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Aja Brooks Don't Ask Don't Tell (don't ask if anyone is gay, don't tell anyone that you are gay, your primary order of military service is the mission, above all else, even your own sexuality or preference)
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Sharon Linhart That is the way it should have stayed. Why bring our sexuality into the military.
Aja Brooks it does not matter if you're hetero or homo, the cohesiveness of the mission makes no exception, when you put that uniform on, you aren't PURPLE, YOU'RE GREEN !!!!
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Sharon Linhart I agree. But why force the issue.
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Aja Brooks A policy was created to prevent discrimination, which homosexuals now claim is discriminatory.
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Sharon Linhart Yes so why do it. Is it just to cause waives?
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Aja Brooks they feel their sexuality is more important than the mission, so they need to GTFO
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Sharon Linhart That is naive. That is a good way to get themselves shot.
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Aja Brooks well there is court, but this is all Obama spectacle and distraction
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Marriage?
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk believes that same-sex marriage is a state issue, not a federal one, on that I agree.
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EuropeanCourier The European Courier
#cnndebate Bachman: "I believe that marriage can be only between a man and a woman but I'd not interfere in what States are doing about it"
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk Bachmann touts 10th amendment, DOMA, and does not support broken family or same-sex marriages
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Aja Brooks
EuropeanCourier The European Courier
#cnndebate Gingrich & Cain showed doubts about appointing a Muslim to a U.S. government but Romeny said all faiths should be treated equally
2 hours ago · Like ·
Like this item
Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@
@EuropeanCourier Romney thinks that the Constitution gives us immunity to Shariah Law which is not true/he did not say that
2 hours ago · Like
Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @EWErickson @TheHermanCain NAH --- the moderates are funding radicals, and they're doing it through CAIR AND MOSQUES, SO NO whatsoever
30 seconds ago Favorite Reply Delete
EWErickson Erick Erickson
by 2011teaparty
I don't think this line of questioning hurts @TheHermanCain in a GOP Primary. #cnndebate
1 minute ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk Romney forgets how Obama's interpretation pollutes America so preserving the Constitution is a concern against permeation of Shariah
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk Cain explains himself regarding violent Muslims and American law
24 seconds ago Favorite Reply Delete
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk GOP nominees excel at understanding the proper Constitutional protections and practice of free religious expression
51 seconds ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@EuropeanCourier Pawltney did well on his CSPAN presentation, and he has done well to hold his temper against Romney's b.s.
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
CBSNewsHotSheet CBS News Hotsheet
by 2011teaparty
Bachmann quotes then-Senator Obama's comments against raising the debt ceiling in 2006
2 minutes ago Unfavorite Undo Retweet Reply
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Pawltney nails the separation of church and state question
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
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Aja Brooks 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk @MicheleBachmann 35% we've increased the very debt that Obama voted against as a Senator, with a serious failure of leadership!!!!
2 hours ago · Like
Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @politico I don't gather that from what he said that you're quoting...
48 seconds ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk we've already hit our head Romney, WE NEED TO CUT NOW !!!!!
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Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Herman Cain wants to privatize SS, personal acct. option
34 seconds ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@RickSantorum Herman Cain said this
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2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk now this is where Herman Cain grabs me on Social Security reform to stop using it in the economic shell game, I get this.
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk Herman Cain fully backs Paul Ryan Path to Prosperity to prevent Obamacare death panels and Medicare rationing/Mediscare tactics.
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk MEDICARE has to be reformed to save the program, starting with PART D in overmedicating our seniors as cash cows for Pharmaceuticals
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk @newtgingrich "right-wing social engineering" is not what the Ryan plan is, over 5,000 voted on it on Facebook and agreed to cuts. 20 seconds ago Favorite Reply Delete
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Jesus the moderator is getting on my nerves
1 minute ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @davidgregory they all agree the government is interfering, controlling, funding, and then bankrupting America
9 minutes ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@davidgregory you didn't listen: Pawlteny thinks that housing was a govt. created crisis
10 minutes ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@EuropeanCourier not really Pawlteny is on it and Newt thinks it is simply Presidential discretion on NASA
10 minutes ago
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Chris Umscheid Sr.
Herman Cain
3 hours ago · Like ·
Kevin Granberry
Yes, with all the summer re-runs I thought there were no good comedies on TV.
3 hours ago · Like ·
Kenneth Darryl Brown
Yes!
3 hours ago · Like ·
Mary Grabar
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle!
Mary Grabar
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle!
3 hours ago · Like ·
Suzanne Owen Holzhausen Yes, of course - how else do you become an informed voter? 3 hours ago · Like ·
Like this itemDoris B. Secka Not wasting my time!
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Aja Brooks food stamps and welfare must be good.... it's bankrupted our country along with abortion to $14 trillion. Sorry but the country is being weaned... you didn't know??3 hours ago · LikeAnna Foote
Not any longer
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Suzanne Rayfield Crossan Why are they not 1)answering the question? 2) asking Herman Cain many questions?3 hours ago · LikeRobert Pendley
yes
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Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Herman Cain wants to privatize SS, personal acct. option
34 seconds ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@RickSantorum Herman Cain said this
1 minute ago Favorite Reply Delete
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk now this is where Herman Cain grabs me on Social Security reform to stop using it in the economic shell game, I get this.
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk Herman Cain fully backs Paul Ryan Path to Prosperity to prevent Obamacare death panels and Medicare rationing/Mediscare tactics.
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk MEDICARE has to be reformed to save the program, starting with PART D in overmedicating our seniors as cash cows for Pharmaceuticals
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk @newtgingrich "right-wing social engineering" is not what the Ryan plan is, over 5,000 voted on it on Facebook and agreed to cuts. 20 seconds ago Favorite Reply Delete
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Jesus the moderator is getting on my nerves
1 minute ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @davidgregory they all agree the government is interfering, controlling, funding, and then bankrupting America
9 minutes ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@davidgregory you didn't listen: Pawlteny thinks that housing was a govt. created crisis
10 minutes ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@EuropeanCourier not really Pawlteny is on it and Newt thinks it is simply Presidential discretion on NASA
10 minutes ago
2 hours ago · Like ·
Chris Umscheid Sr.
Herman Cain
3 hours ago · Like ·
Kevin Granberry
Yes, with all the summer re-runs I thought there were no good comedies on TV.
3 hours ago · Like ·
Kenneth Darryl Brown
Yes!
3 hours ago · Like ·
Mary Grabar
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle!
Mary Grabar
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle!
3 hours ago · Like ·
Suzanne Owen Holzhausen Yes, of course - how else do you become an informed voter? 3 hours ago · Like ·
Like this itemDoris B. Secka Not wasting my time!
3 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks food stamps and welfare must be good.... it's bankrupted our country along with abortion to $14 trillion. Sorry but the country is being weaned... you didn't know??3 hours ago · LikeAnna Foote
Not any longer
3 hours ago · Like ·
Suzanne Rayfield Crossan Why are they not 1)answering the question? 2) asking Herman Cain many questions?3 hours ago · LikeRobert Pendley
yes
3 hours ago · Like ·
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk MEDICARE has to be reformed to save the program, starting with PART D in overmedicating our seniors as cash cows for Pharmaceuticals
2 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@cnnbrk @newtgingrich "right-wing social engineering" is not what the Ryan plan is, over 5,000 voted on it on Facebook and agreed to cuts. 20 seconds ago Favorite Reply Delete
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @cnnbrk Jesus the moderator is getting on my nerves
1 minute ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @davidgregory they all agree the government is interfering, controlling, funding, and then bankrupting America
9 minutes ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@davidgregory you didn't listen: Pawlteny thinks that housing was a govt. created crisis
10 minutes ago
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@EuropeanCourier not really Pawlteny is on it and Newt thinks it is simply Presidential discretion on NASA
10 minutes ago
2 hours ago · Like ·
Chris Umscheid Sr.
Herman Cain
3 hours ago · Like ·
Kevin Granberry
Yes, with all the summer re-runs I thought there were no good comedies on TV.
3 hours ago · Like ·
Kenneth Darryl Brown
Yes!
3 hours ago · Like ·
Mary Grabar
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle!
Mary Grabar
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle!
3 hours ago · Like ·
Suzanne Owen Holzhausen Yes, of course - how else do you become an informed voter? 3 hours ago · Like ·
Like this item
Doris B. Secka Not wasting my time!
3 hours ago · Like ·
Aja Brooks food stamps and welfare must be good.... it's bankrupted our country along with abortion to $14 trillion. Sorry but the country is being weaned... you didn't know??
3 hours ago · Like
Anna Foote
Not any longer
3 hours ago · Like ·
Suzanne Rayfield Crossan Why are they not 1)answering the question? 2) asking Herman Cain many questions?
3 hours ago · Like
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