While average Americans are struggling to pay their bills and provide for their families, President Barack Hussein Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress tonight.

Per an AP story provided to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Obama is supposed to call for targeted spending in order to jumpstart his failed economic policies. At the same time, the president will also propose budget cuts.

Huh?

The address begins at 7:00 p.m. Central.

While tens of millions of Americans watch, Obama will bring his laser-like focus (since his party no longer controls the House of Representatives) to America’s job crisis. Tonight’s speech will concentrate on America’s economic mess, barely emphasizing Afghanistan and Iraq, terrorism and foreign affairs.

Obama will offer proposals on improving America’s educational system and infrastructure.  He will also encourage innovation (government-funded?) in order to improve America’s failing economy.  (Didn’t he propose all this stuff last year?)   At the same time he proposing massive spending, he will also propose budget cuts in order to reduce the government’s debt, which, thanks to the effects of his administration and a Democratically-controlled Congress, now exceeds $14 trillion.

The rallying cry from the Administration tonight will be “Win the Future!”

The president and his administration are trying to put forth proposals that will entice Moderate Republicans to reach across the aisle. Obama’s aides have announced that they hope that the SOTU Address will appeal to both workers and business executives and bind the political parties.

Funny, how the Midterm Elections on November 2nd, 2010 inspired the Administration and the Democrats to change their political rhetoric, isn’t it? It’s easier to call for an end to harsh rhetoric when you no longer have the political power to push though Congress whatever radical change that you want to.

The political parties are still miles apart in their philosophies.( Thank goodness.)  The State of the Union Address will be delivered just hours after the House votes on setting spending for the rest of the year at 2008 pre-recession levels. This mostly symbolic resolution puts House Republicans on the record as being in favor of a $100 billion budget cut from Obama’s budget for the current year as the party promised in last year’s campaign.

Sitting with Michelle (ma belle) Obama tonight will be several of the people involved with the tragic mass murder in Tucson, Arizona. Those attending include Daniel Hernandez, the intern who rushed to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ side and put pressure on her wounds until medical personnel arrived, and the family of 9-year-old victim Christina Taylor Green. Rep. Gabby Gifford’s — trauma surgeons Peter Rhee and Randall Friese, neurosurgeon Michael Lemole, and nurse Tracy Culbert will attend as well. Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, will not attend, choosing instead to stay close to his wife in Houston.

May God bless them and all the victims of the actions of the psychopath, Jared Lee Loughner.

Obama is expected to use the tragedy to call for civility, an apparent code word used to squelch political dissent, since the Democratic Party can no longer limit debate by the dictate of their former majority.

Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin will be giving the Republican response tonight. He is usually the party spokesman on budgetary issues because of his knowledge and focus on spending cuts. He is the chairman of the Budget Committee and severs as the point man for the GOP drive to reduce the national debt by slashing government spending.

Rep. Michelle Bachmann is scheduled to reply to the address also, representing the Tea Party Express. This will be available on the Internet, only.

Mr. President, sir, may I offer a humble suggestion? The majority of Americans don’t want Government interference in our lives. We simply want you to get out of the way and let us work. Don’t punish our American entrepreneurs. Get our of their way. Quit raising taxes on businesses. Drop the corporate tax rate to 10 % and you’ll have every corporation in the world begging to come to America to do business, not to mention freeing up our own American corporations to start creating jobs again and, possibly, quit outsourcing jobs to the Bay of Bengal.

It seems pretty simple to me. But, then again, I believe in America.

Say, didn’t President Barack Hussein Obama call for civility in American Politics at the Tucson Massacre Memorial Political Rally…err…I mean Service?

By the way did you get your TOGETHER WE THRIVE t-shirt yet?

What a noble sentiment.  especially, considering it was his political party and their minions in the Blood Libel Media who were accusing Sarah Palin and the rest of Conservatives in being duplicit in that horrendous tragedy.

Last Tuesday, debate began on the House floor over the pending vote on the repeal of Obamacare, which eventually passed in the House by a vote of 245 – 189.  That’s when Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat representing the 9th District of Tennessee, fired this salvo of civility toward the GOP:

Well, as you know, his remarks have set off a new round of political name calling.

This is the new civility?

HYPOCRISY ALERT!!!  The following statements are excerpts from an op ed that Cohen wrote for rollcall.com, posed 1/11/11:

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was the target of a gunman who shot 20 people, killing 6, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and critically injuring Giffords and many others in Tucson, Ariz. While the shooter’s motives for targeting the Arizona Democrat are not known, initial information reveals that the 22-year-old suspect deeply distrusted his government.

For some time, I have been troubled by the hateful and often patently untrue words that enter the American mind via the Internet, talk radio and even mainstream media and the effect that they have on our society at large and on the fringe element particularly.

…Outrageous claims and outright lies designed to increase ratings and generate revenue by instilling fear and distrust of government could incite those who believe them to act violently.

…The tragic events in Tucson are not the first time we have seen the awful results of unwarranted distrust of our government. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City because of his consuming hatred and distrust of the government, killing 168 people, including 19 children under age 6. Less than a year ago, a disgruntled citizen flew his plane into an IRS building in Texas.

It is the responsibility of all who have a public platform to speak the truth. Reputable journalists and broadcasters, as well as all elected officials, must rededicate themselves to speaking the truth and exposing lies.

Death panels, government takeover of health care, bald-faced lies about our president’s country of birth or religion — these are the kind of despicable falsehoods that permeate our culture. They serve no purpose other than to incite contempt for our government.

Reckless and hateful speech often has a terrible human cost. If the horrific events in Arizona are not enough to modulate our public discourse, it is likely there will be more violence, more deaths. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima Country, Ariz., summed it up best as he has repeatedly mentioned the effect of the vitriol spewed by many on talk radio and some on television: “It may be freedom of speech, but it has consequences.”

Consequences, huh?  You don’t seem too worried about the consequences of your incendiary comments, Rep. Cohen.

Cohen released a statement of Thursday about his remarks on the House Floor.  All the Lib pundits are claiming he apologized.  Here is what this schmuck said.  You decide if it is an apology:

Taken out of context, I can understand the confusion and concern. In speaking about the Republican message of “government takeover of health care” that has been drummed into the heads of Americans and the media for more than a year, I referenced the non-partisan, Pulitzer prize-winning Politfact.com judgment that named the Republican message as the “2010 Lie of the Year.”

While I regret that anything I said has created an opportunity to distract from the debate about health care for 32 million Americans, I want to be clear that I never called Republicans Nazis. Instead, the reference I made was to the greatest propaganda master of all time. Propaganda, which is called “messaging” today, can be true or false. In this case, the message is false.

I would certainly never do anything to diminish the horror of the Nazi Holocaust as I revere and respect the history of my people. I sponsored legislation which created one of the first state Holocaust Commissions in America and actively served as a Commission member for over 20 years. I regret that anyone in the Jewish Community, my Republican colleagues or anyone else was offended by the portrayal of my comments. My comments were not directed toward any group or people but at the false message and, specifically, the method by which is has been delivered.

It is disappointing that my comments have been used to distract from the health care reform debate. It is my hope that we can return our focus to the matter at hand-health care for 32 million Americans.

No surprise.  After all, this is the same white, Jewish bachelor who claimed that he votes like a 45-year-old black woman. 

And, he said this last April, as reported on foxnews.com:

Rep. Steve Cohen is the latest public official to suggest Tea Party supporters have a racist agenda, telling an Internet radio show last week that the activists have shown a “hardcore angry side” of the country, only “without robes and hoods.”

On a program called “The Young Turks” on Thursday, the Democratic Tennessee congressman said Tea Party groups show “opposition to African Americans, hostility toward gays, hostility to anybody who wasn’t just a clone of George Wallace’s fan club.” Wallace is the late former Alabama governor, and presidential candidate, well-known for opposing desegregation.

Gosh.   The New Civility sounds just like the Same Old Harsh Political Rhetoric…doesn’t it?

Did you ever think you would see the day when the President of the United States and the Communist Dictator of Red China would share an intimate dinner at our White House?

Well, last night, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and Chinese President Hu Jintao did exactly that. They were scheduled to talk about very important issues while walking the fine line of appeasement known as diplomacy.

I don’t know if there were candles and violins.

The dinner was held in the Old Family Dining Room in the White House residence. The topics to be discussed included China’s currency, trade and human rights policies, and a search for cooperation on national security. It will be followed tonight with a par-tay, a big blow-out in honor of Hu which illustrates very clearly the Smart Power philosophy of this administration.

Also at the intimate dinner last night were national security adviser Tom Donilon and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Hu was accompanied by two top Chinese officials.  According to the White House,there were no official note-takers at the dinner.  No transcriptions of the discussions were made available to the public.

Tonight’s gala will be a victory for Hu. The perception back home of the U.S. welcoming him in such a warm manner will strengthen his image at home.

The warm welcome started Tuesday afternoon at a wet Andrews Air Force Base, where, upon landing, Hu was greeted by Vice President Joe Biden and a military color guard.

Obama’s (Scooter’s) problem with playing nice with Hu is that he is under pressure from business leaders to human rights advocates to stand up to Beijing.

The White House on Tuesday said that Obama would not wimp out:

Baghdad Bob Gibbs said:

Whether we’re dealing with economic discussions, whether we’re dealing with those in the security realm, or whether we’re doing those with human rights, I think this is an argument that we have and we’ll continue to make to the Chinese and push them to do better.

Just last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded the release of jailed Chinese dissidents, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who was prevented from attending the Dec. 10 prize ceremony in the Norwegian capital.

Gibbs said yesterday:

That is a topic of some significance that the two leaders will talk about,” Gibbs said. We will continue to have difficult conversations that had to be had with China.

I’m sure.

A must-see moment will happen today as Obama and Hu hold a brief news conference. They will take four questions, two from U.S. journalists and two from Chinese reporters. this news conference is being held at the White House’s insistence.

When he appears in China, Hu is always very scripted.

This afternoon, Obama is going to try to arrange sweetheart deals for all his buddies in industry as he holds a meeting with Hu and U.S. and Chinese business leaders to promote increased U.S. exports to China and greater Chinese investment in the United States. Those lining up at the trough include are CEOs Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, Jeff Immelt of General Electric, Greg Brown of Motorola, Jim McNerney of Boeing and nine other U.S. executives.

And, at the rate things are going, all of the jobs will probably be outsourced.

And, in a completely unrelated story: 

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie intimated in an interview, released today, that the long-sought-after, long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health.

Speaking to the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the Governor said that he was searching within the Hawaii Department of Health to find definitive vital records that would prove Obama was born in Hawaii, because the continuing eligibility controversy could hurt the president’s chances of re-election in 2012.

Gee, you old Communist. Ya think?

The Honolulu newspaper also asked Abercrombie:

You stirred up quite a controversy with your comments regarding birthers and your plan to release more information regarding President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. How is that coming?

Abercrombie responded by admitting that the birth certificate issue will have “political implications” for the next presidential election “that we simply cannot have.”

No shinola, Sherlock.

Continuing to suggest that he was still going to produce more birth records on Obama from the Hawaii Department of Health vital records vault, Abercrombie told the newspaper there was a recording of the Obama birth in the state archives that he wants to make public.

Then, why hasn’t he?

There is no doubt that this president and his administration’s approach to Foreign Policy has been an epic failure which, like his domestic policies, has been shaped by his decidedly different upbringing.

Whether or not he was born elsewhere, this president was not raised  as an average American and his worldview was shaped accordingly.  And, as his failed economic policies have shown, that affects us all.

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives begins a civil (yeah, right) debate of passage of a mostly ceremonial bill repealing the National Healthcare Reform Act, more affectionately known as Obamacare.

In a report released last Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office claimed that repealing the law would increase the federal budget deficit by a total of $145 billion from 2012 to 2019, and by $230 billion from 2012 to 2021. The preliminary report said that repealing the law would mean 32 million fewer people would have health insurance in 2019, compared with current estimates under the law. The number of uninsured would then be 54 million, rather than 23 million, in 2019.

Republicans have argued against these figures, saying they are based on budget gimmicks written into the health care law by Democrats. According to Republicans,repealing Obamacare would actually save money.

A final vote in the House set for Wednesday.

To jog your memory as to what a monstrosity of governmental bureaucracy Obamacare is, here is a brief overview of the timeline for the implementation of Obamacare, from a pdf prepared by the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees on April 2, 2010.

2010

• Immediate Access to Insurance for Uninsured Individuals with a Pre-Existing Condition.
• Eliminating Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions for Children.
• Prohibiting Rescissions. Prohibits abusive practices whereby health plans rescind existing health insurance policies when a person gets sick as a way of avoiding covering the costs of enrollees’ health care needs.
• Covering Preventive Health Services. All new group health plans and plans in the individual market must provide first dollar coverage for preventive services.
• Extending Dependent Coverage. Requires all plans in the individual market and new employer plans that provide dependent coverage for children to continue to make that coverage available up to age 26
• Reducing the Cost of Covering Early Retirees. Creates a new temporary reinsurance program for health benefits for retirees age 55-64.
• New, Independent Appeals Process.
• Improving Consumer Assistance.
• Improving Consumer Information through the Web. Requires the Secretary of HHS to establish an Internet website through which residents of any State may identify affordable health insurance coverage options in that State.
• Cracking Down on Health Care Fraud. Requires enhanced screening procedures for health care providers to eliminate fraud and waste in the health care system.
• Rebates for the Part D “Donut Hole”. Provides a $250 rebate for all Part D enrollees who enter the donut hole.
• Improving Public Health Prevention Efforts. Creates an interagency council to promote healthy policies at the federal level.
• Strengthening the Quality Infrastructure.
• Extending Payment Protections for Rural Providers.
• Establishing a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Establishes a private, non-profit institute.
• Ensuring Medicaid Flexibility for States.
• Non-Profit Hospitals. Establishes new requirements applicable to nonprofit hospitals beginning in 2010, including periodic community needs assessments.
• Encouraging Investment in New Therapies.
• Tax Relief for Health Professionals with State Loan Repayment.
• Excluding from Income Health Benefits Provided by Indian Tribal Governments.
• Establishing a National Health Care Workforce Commission. Establishes an independent National Commission to provide comprehensive, nonbiased information and recommendations to Congress and the Administration for aligning federal health care workforce resources with national needs.
• Strengthening the Health Care Workforce. Expands and improves low-interest student loan programs, scholarships, and loan repayments for health students and professionals to increase and enhance the capacity of the workforce to meet patients’ health care needs.
• Special Deduction for Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS).
• Indoor Tanning Services Tax.  There are a lot of torqued-off women out there.
• Holding Insurance Companies Accountable for Unreasonable Rate Hikes.

2011

• Bringing Down the Cost of Health Care Coverage.
• Strengthening Community Health Centers and the Primary Care Workforce.
• Increasing Reimbursement for Primary Care.
• Increasing Training Support for Primary Care.
• Improving Health Care Quality and Efficiency. Establishes a new Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation to test innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce health care costs and enhance the quality of care provided to individuals.
• Improving Preventive Health Coverage.
• Improving Transitional Care for Medicare Beneficiaries.
• Expanding Primary Care, Nursing, and Public Health Workforce.
• Increasing Access to Home and Community Based Services.
• Reporting Health Coverage Costs on Form W-2: Requires employers to disclose the value of the benefit provided by the employer for each employee’s health insurance coverage on the employee’s annual Form W-2.
• Standardizing the Definition of Qualified Medical Expenses. Conforms the definition of qualified medical expenses for HSAs, FSAs, and HRAs to the definition used for the itemized deduction. An exception to this rule is included so that amounts paid for over-the-counter medicine with a prescription still qualify as medical expenses.
• Increased Additional Tax for Withdrawals from Health Savings Accounts and Archer Medical Savings Account Funds for Non-Qualified Medical Expenses.
• Cafeteria Plan Changes.

2012

• Encouraging Integrated Health Systems.
• Linking Payment to Quality Outcomes.
• Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions. Directs CMS to track hospital readmission rates for certain high-volume or high-cost conditions and uses new financial incentives to encourage hospitals to undertake reforms needed to reduce preventable readmissions, which will improve care for beneficiaries and rein in unnecessary health care spending.  Can you say “here come the Death Panels”?

2013

• Payments to Primary Care Physicians. Requires that Medicaid payment rates to primary care physicians for furnishing primary care services be no less than 100% of Medicare payment rates in 2013 and 2014.
• Administrative Simplification. Health plans must adopt and implement uniform standards and business rules for the electronic exchange of health information to reduce paperwork and administrative burdens and costs.
• Encouraging Provider Collaboration. Establishes a national pilot program on payment bundling
• Limiting Health Flexible Savings Account Contributions.
• Increased Threshold for Claiming Itemized Deduction for Medical Expenses.
• Medical device excise tax. Establishes a 2.3 percent excise tax on the sale of a medical device by a manufacturer or importer.
• Limiting Executive Compensation.
• Fee for patient-centered outcomes research.

2014

• Reforming Health Insurance Regulations.
• Eliminating Annual Limits.
• Ensuring Coverage for Individuals Participating in Clinical Trials.
• Establishing Health Insurance Exchanges. Opens health insurance Exchanges in each State to individuals and small employers. This new venue will enable people to comparison shop for standardized health packages.   Local hack politicians are lining up for jobs right now.
• Providing Health Care Tax Credits. E
• Ensuring Choice through Free Choice Vouchers.
• Promoting Individual Responsibility.
• Small Business Tax Credit.
• Quality Reporting for Certain Providers.
• Health Insurance Provider Fee. Imposes an annual, non-deductible fee on the health insurance sector allocated across the industry according to market share.

2015

• Continuing Innovation and Lower Health Costs. Establishes an Independent Payment Advisory Board to develop and submit proposals to Congress and the private sector aimed at extending the solvency of Medicare, lowering health care costs, improving health outcomes for patients, promoting quality and efficiency, and expanding access to evidence-based care.
• Paying Physicians Based on Value Not Volume. Creates a physician value-based payment program to promote increased quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries.

2018

• Excise tax on high cost employer-provided health plans becomes effective. Tax is on the cost of coverage in excess of $27,500 (family coverage) and $10,200 (single coverage), increased to $30,950 (family) and $11,850 (single) for retirees and employees in high risk professions.

From rasmussenreports.com:

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75% of Likely U.S. Voters want to change the law, while only 18% want it left alone. Those figures include 20% who want the law repealed and nothing done to replace it, 28% who want it repealed and then have its most popular provisions put into a new law and 27% who say leave the law in place but get rid of the unpopular provisions.

Per foxnews.com:

Prime Minister David Cameron says his government will make fundamental changes to Britain’s state-run health care system — but critics warn the reforms could undermine one of the country’s most vital institutions.

Cameron says he will save money and cut red tape by giving control over management to family practitioners rather than bureaucrats.

He said Monday that standards of care in Britain have fallen behind other European countries.

Some doctors welcome the changes, but the British Medical Association claimed the scale of the reforms could cause chaos.

The health service is Britain’s biggest employer, costs more than 100 billion pounds ($158 billion) a year — and is a political football, reformed and criticized by governments since it was established in 1948.

Of course, Dinghy Harry Reid  will not even allow repeal of Obamacare to be brought up on the Senate Floor and President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) would never sign it anyway. 

But, if the UK can tackle the problem of their failed national healthcare system, wouldn’t it make sense to repeal and replace this bureaucratic monstrosity of a bill, based on an obviously failed model, before it has the chance to ruin the greatest healthcare system in the world?

Did you hear? Focus on the Family, the nationally famous Christian Organization, has put a poster on their website in conjunction with an upcoming conference that they are holding to encourage Christians not to co-operate with the FBI!

JUST KIDDING!!!

In reality, though, a national religious organization has actually done this! The group in question in CAIR – The Council on American-Islamic Relations.

 The poster promotes an upcoming conference that encourages people not to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was designed in the late 1970s or early 1980s and has been used by various groups and activists since then to whine about supposed harassment by the FBI and to protest being called in front of grand juries.

According to Ibrahim Hooper, a CAIR spokesman often seen on Fox News:

I think it’s subject to misinterpretation. We decided out of extreme caution to take it down.

Yeah, right.

Hooper was forced to sheepishly admit that the poster “crosses the line,”. However, he still defended the artwork and complained that critics had created a manufactured controversy:

The entire American-Muslim community is under the microscope right now with a cottage industry of Muslim bashers. We’re used to this kind of attack by the Islamophobic hate machine and in this case there is some justification in terms of the possibility of misinterpretation of this poster.

You want some cheese with that whine, Bubba?

The California chapter of CAIR will be holding a conference on February 9th at the East Side Cultural Center in Oakland (As if the city is not racially divided enough). The title of the conference is “FBI Raids and Grand Jury Subpoenas: Know Your Rights and Defend Our Communities.” Their keynote speaker is Hatem Abudayyeh, who has been identified by CAIR as an activist and Palestinian community leader whose home was allegedly raided by federal agents in September.

Hate ’em? How…appropriate.

Who is this keynote speaker?

Per aaan.org:

Hatem Abudayyeh has been with the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) since 1999, and was appointed Executive Director in 2003. The son of Palestinian immigrants who themselves were leaders in Chicago’s Arab community, Hatem was born in Chicago and coached varsity basketball and baseball as an administrative assistant at Mather High School before joining AAAN. He was elected Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII) in 2006, is a founding Advisory Board member of the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), and sits on the National Coordinating Committee of the United States Palestine Community Network (USPCN).

His organization’s mission per their website:

The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, our strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education, providing social services, leadership development, cultural outreach and forging productive relationships with other communities.

Our vision is for a strong Arab American community whose members have the power to make decisions about actions and policies that affect their lives and have access to a range of social, political, cultural and economic opportunities in a context of equity and social justice.

According to discoverthenetworks.org, AAAN is:

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  • Chicago-based organization established to promote the interests of the city’s large Arab-American population
  • Supports expanded rights for illegal aliens
  • Founded by anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, former director of the PLO press agency and onetime moderator of PLO advisory committee

Rashid Khalidi…hey, that name sounds familiar.  Waitasecond.  Wasn’t he a friend of President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) while he was at Columbia University?

From an americanthinker.com article posted on May 23, 2008:

According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the university. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.

Sources at the University told WND that Khalidi and Obama lived in nearby faculty residential zones and that the two families dined together a number of times. The sources said the Obama’s even babysat the Khalidi children.

Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful fundraiser for Obama’s failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi, who spoke to WND in February.

But, I digress…

Per Hooper, CAIR is not the only organization sponsoring the event. He also said that had no idea who was responsible for the artwork. Hooper said he was unable to provide a list of the other co-sponsors.

Unwilling, not unable.

Hooper said if anything negative is said about the FBI in this upcoming conference, it won’t come from their group.

We have a consistent policy of positive and constructive engagement with law enforcement officials.

And I’m a 22 year old Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader named Buffy.

According to a FBI spokesperson, appearing on Fox News Radio, they were aware of the poster but would not comment.

Former FBI assistant director Bill Gavin told Fox News Radio the poster is sending the wrong message to the Muslim community.

It sends out a real negative attitude to the Islamic community of what the FBI is really all about. This is just a propaganda tool to try and thwart an active investigation into criminal acts by a would-be terrorist group.

Why wouldn’t you talk to the FBI? If, in fact, there is something being done to destroy the image of Islam in the United States, then it should be stopped. We should put a positive face on Islam — not Islamic extremists.

Why, indeed.

Like a lot of Americans and Conservative political pundits, I have been giving President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), the benefit of the doubt concerning his responsibility for the passing out of blue t-shirts with the slogan TOGETHER WE THRIVE at the memorial service in Tucson, Arizona Wednesday night.

Now, thanks to a poster at my favorite Conservative website, hotair.com, it turns out that this warm and fuzzy slogan actually originated during Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign:

This is an article posted on the president’s website, Organizing for America, by John Berry IV on February 11, 2008. It’s title: TOGETHER WE THRIVE:

For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side affect of a free market society. How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs. This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America. It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers. As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.

What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution. A chance for every group to participate and be heard; A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many. Together we can and will change the world and return America to the shining beacon of Hope and Prosperity that we were and that we can be again. Only when we work together do we accomplish feats that rival any ever accomplished in the history of mankind. Diversity is our strength, that is what this campaign brings us a promise of. For many this is a scary prospect and thought, getting to know someone different from myself. We all want the same basic things for example a safe place to live, health and a quality education for our kids.

In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation, I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied. Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!

Togetherness.  How…civil.  Together, how?  Together under the benevolent dictatorship of the Progressive movement and their Dear Leader? 

No thanks.

Speaking of civility, that seems to be the new buzzword du jour that has emerged in the aftermath of Saturday’s horrible tragedy in Tuscon.  Even though Scooter, in his well-written speech at the memorial service, admitted that harsh political rhetoric had nothing to do with the actions of the psychopath, Jared Lee Loughner, the Dems, the media, and their blogging sycophants in their Moms’ basements’ are using the word civility as a thinly veiled pseudonym for censorship. 

Translation from the Dems:  Harsh political rhetoric is acceptable, as long as we’re the ones dishing it out.  You ig’nant Conservatives just need to shut up and take it.

The arrogance, cluelessness, and hypocrisy being exhibited by the Democratic Leadership and their media minions is breath-taking.  Do they seriously expect Americans not to speak out as they attempt to radically change our country?  What do they think caused the results of the Midterm Elections?  A misunderstanding?  San Fran Nan thinks that she knows what caused the Midterm  Tsunami:

That was civil, huh?  Let’s look at a couple of other examples of the Democrats’ civility, shall we?

And then, of course, there’s Paul Krugman, who wrote these pleasantries in an op-ed posted on nytimes.com on January 9th after the mass murder in Tucson.  Check out this civility:

The point is that there’s room in a democracy for people who ridicule and denounce those who disagree with them; there isn’t any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary.

And it’s the saturation of our political discourse — and especially our airwaves — with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising tide of violence.

Where’s that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let’s not make a false pretense of balance: it’s coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It’s hard to imagine a Democratic member of Congress urging constituents to be “armed and dangerous” without being ostracized; but Representative Michele Bachmann, who did just that, is a rising star in the G.O.P.

And there’s a huge contrast in the media. Listen to Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann, and you’ll hear a lot of caustic remarks and mockery aimed at Republicans. But you won’t hear jokes about shooting government officials or beheading a journalist at The Washington Post. Listen to Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly, and you will.

Didn’t that just give you a warm, fuzzy feeling all over?  Don’t be fooled.  That’s nausea.

Through their disingenuous rhetoric and the classless, branded exhibition at the memorial service for the victims of psychopath Jared Lee Loughner, the Progressive Leadership of the Democratic Party has proven that their definition of civility is vastly different from that of the majority of Americans.  While  they claim to be issuing a call for reasoned political discourse, in reality, they wish to impose censored servitude.

And Americans aren’t buying what they’re selling.