Category: Politics

Coming Soon to Our Shores

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Imagine walking down the street in the heart of your city, and a car bomb suddenly explodes, or some idiot yelling “Allahu Akbar!” detonates the bomb that they have strapped to their waist, killing and wounding dozens of Americans.

Could it happen here?  Most assuredly.

 According to European intelligence officials, a group of Islamic Terrorists from the German city of Hamburg are believed to be at the heart of the recent al Qaeda plot to launch co-ordinated terrorist attacks against European cities,

The plan caused the U.S. State Department to issue a Europe-wide security advisory for Americans traveling in Europe.

Western intelligence officials learned about the plot when Ahmed Sidiqi, a German citizen of Afghan descent was arrested in Afghanistan in July and taken to the U.S. Airbase at Bagram for questioning. He has not been charged and  he is co-operating with intelligence sources in Germany.

In early 2009 Sidiqi and ten others left Hamburg for the tribal areas of Pakistan.  Most of them joined an Islamic Terrorist group fighting U.S. and coalition forces across the border in Afghanistan, according to German intelligence officials.

Sidiqi told American interrogators that at least one member of his travel group was to be a “foot-soldier” in the plot, with other members of the group helping to plan the attacks.

According to German officials, the Hamburg group were all recruited from the Taiba mosque in Hamburg. In the 1990s the same mosque — then called Al Quds – was attended by the lead hijacker in the 9/11 attacks, Mohammed Atta.

A friend of Atta from those days has emerged as a crucial figure in the new plot. Naamen Meziche, 40, a French citizen of Algerian descent, worked to persuade a number of young men praying at the Taiba mosque to fight Jihad. His whereabouts are unknown.  He is thought to be in the Afghan/Pakistan border area.

According to a European counter-terrorism official, Meziche had longstanding connections to al Qaeda dating back to the 1990s.  He used these connections once he arrived in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

The group got together late in 2008, and most of them had left for Pakistan before authorities had a chance to prevent them, despite constant surveillance of suspected terrorists at the Taiba mosque.

In November 2008, an assault on hotels and other “soft targets” in Mumbai by members of Lashkar e Tayyiba, a terror group based in Pakistan, killed more than 160 people.

The Imam of the Taiba mosque in Hamburg is Mamoun Darkazanli, a German businessman originally from Syria. The 9/11 Commission identified him as having links to al Qaeda financiers. In 2003 he was charged with membership of al Qaeda by Spanish authorities, but as a German citizen was not extradited. He faces no charges in Germany.

After the “success”of 9/11, the Taiba mosque became the place to go for al Qaeda sympathizers across Europe.

According to an official with German Intelligence:

They all wanted to come and pray where Mohammed Atta prayed. 

Hamburg authorities finally shut down the mosque a few weeks after Sidiqi was arrested.

Officials in Hamburg said that the decision to shut the mosque was a difficult one, because the presence in one place of so many militants made it easier to monitor their activities.  They had to close it because the mosque had become a recruiting center for jihadists across Europe.

Several militants now back in Germany who failed to make it to Pakistan’s tribal areas are of continuing concern to German intelligence services, who have kept them under observation.

According to another German Intelligence official:

Their greatest enemy is the United States.

Well, duh.

A recent report by Hamburg’s intelligence services stated that 45 Muslim Terrorists lived freely and openly in the city, from where they actively supported al Qaeda. High evidence thresholds under the German legal system have made it very difficult for authorities to make arrests.  In addition to those actively supporting al Qaeda. another 200 Islamists living in the city are described as having “violent tendencies.”

German intelligence officials say that like many European cities, Hamburg faces a challenge from Islamist extremists, but that some cities, like London, have even bigger problems. They say they are increasing resources to confront the problem of Muslim extremism. They say that radicalization is on the rise because of the growth of German-language extremist websites and the revolution in social media.

A senior German counter-terrorism source said that some 200 individuals have left the country since 9/11 to receive training with militant groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, and that dozens have returned. According to German intelligence officials, the increase in U.S. drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan has not staunched the enthusiasm of German Muslims wishing to travel there.

Meanwhile, in New York City, United States of America…

From the New York Times:

Visitors to the upper floors of the Muslim community center planned for near (NYT’s word) ground zero would walk through lofty spaces — for art exhibitions, for contemplation and prayer, for programs on interreligious dialogue, for a 9/11 memorial — as sunlight streams through irregularly shaped windows between white crisscrossing beams.

The planners have not begun to raise the $140 million needed for construction or hired an architect.

An image of the façade has been in circulation since early this year, but last week the planners revealed renderings of how some interior spaces might look and how the center’s many amenities — including a restaurant, theater, day care center, gym and pool — might be stacked in a building of up to 15 stories.

There would also be a 9/11 memorial and a space open to people of “all faiths and of no faith” for prayer, contemplation and meditation, Mr. Gamal said.

The space for Muslims would be in the basement. Technically, it would be a prayer hall known as a musalla, because its construction would not meet rules required to sanctify a mosque.

Muslims who worship in a musalla often refer to it as a mosque or masjid.

On February 27th,2007, speaking to Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, in an interview since deleted from their archives, Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

In fact, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:

“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet? ”

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This statement expresses a Muslim’s complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam. Obama chanted it with pride and finesse. 

And yet, this “Christian” falsely attributed a Biblical quote about “being his Brother’s Keeper” as spoken by Jesus Christ, when, in fact, it was spoken by Cain, the son of Adam, to God in Genesis 4:9:

Am I my brother’s keeper?

But, I digress.  If the Cordova Intiative/Park51/whatever they are calling themselves today comes up with the money to build the Ground Zero Mosque, the sounds of the Muslim Call to Prayer will be echoing, several times a day,  from the site of the worst Terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil, which killed 3,000 men, women, and children, that happened to be perpetrated by those who claimed to be devout Muslims.

Personally, I would rather hear this:

 

One Nation March: Epic Fail

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More than 400 progressive and civil rights groups gathered Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial in support of jobs, education and justice, in a poor, astroturfed attempt at imitating  the Tea Party movement.  An astroturfed event is one which is organized by the powers-that-be, is a desperate attempt to make it seem like a groundswell movement. 

Organizers, including the NAACP, La Raza and Code Pink, labelled it the most diverse march in history as they tried to rally their base around Democrats desperately trying  to keep their phony baloney jobs on Capitol Hill.

The Maytag Repairman of cable news, MSNBC host Ed Schultz, (nobody wants him around, either) said:

We are together. This march is about the power to the people.  It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?

So says the guy who works for one of the largest corporations in the world, General Electric.

In a bombastic speech that opened the “One Nation Working Together” rally on the National Mall, Schultz blamed those wascally Wepublicans for shipping jobs overseas and curtailing freedoms. He borrowed lines from conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck and Conservative Americans everywhere and vowed to “take back our country.”

The Far Left/Progressives are a small minority in America.  It ain’t your country, Skippy. 

Schultz told the bussed-in crowd of thousands, who at times seemed like they would rather be at home on the couch with Pookie:

This is a defining moment in America. Are you American?  This is no time to back down. This is time to fight for America.

It’s pretty sad if you have to ask, Ed.

Young singers perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as liberal activists gather in the nation's capital to participate in the "One Nation Working Together" rally to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Washington. (AP)

Young singers perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as liberal activists gather in the nation’s capital to participate in the “One Nation Working Together” rally to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Washington. (AP)

Does this picture scare you and remind you of a political ideology, or is it just me?

The NAACP’s Jamie Branch claimed that the march is not an alternative to the Tea Party but an antidote:

We’re all working for the same purpose, the same mission.  Everybody wants jobs. Everybody wants health care. It’s just a way of going about doing things and if we all come together like all these people are, it will benefit everybody.

No, ma’am.   Everybody wants Freedom.  You can keep your nanny-state government.  Americans want no part of it. 

With a month to go before a political re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand , the Far-Left organizers of yesterday’s event hoped that the four-hour program of speeches and entertainment would energize activists who are crucial if Democrats are to retain their majorities in the House and Senate. The national mood is definately against Obama, the Progressives, and their policies, and if Republicans don’t blow it, they will ride voter anger to gain control of the House and possibly the Senate.

As a casual observer, it appeared to me that most of the crowd had that “forced to be here” look and were more interested in talking to each other than in paying attention to the speakers.

Organizers insisted that this rally was not partisan.

You lie!  Heh.

Organizers said Saturday their message is about job creation, quality education and (social) justice.  

I am sure that it is just a coincidence that the largest organizations, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, always back Democratic candidates.

The speeches were hardly bi-partisan.

Schultz warned participants of Republicans:

They want to change this country.

More than 400 organizations, ranging from labor unions to faith, environmental and gay rights groups, co-ordinated the astroturfed event, which comes one month after Beck packed the same space with conservatives and tea party-style activists.

Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gathered near the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to urge a vast crowd to embrace traditional values.  The theme of the Rally was Restoring Honor.  It emphasized a return to America’s religious roots and honored Americans, including our military, who have made a difference .

One Nation organizers claimed that they began planning their event before learning about Beck’s rally, and said Saturday’s march is not in reaction to that.

Bwahahahahaha…I can’t breathe…hahahahahahahahaha…Sorry.

Obama didn’t make it.  He was spending the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.

I guess that was more important than energizing his Far-Left Base.

Allow me to summarize: 

 On 8/28, you had up to 750,000 Americans at an event of their own free will, praising their Creator and proud to be Americans.  They stayed there for the day-long event, enraptured by the powerful speakers and the beautiful music, including a stirring version of “Amazing Grace”, played on the bag pipes.  When the crowd left, they cleaned up after themselves, as if they had never been there.

On 10/2, you had a crowd of around 80,000, bussed-in, provided box lunches, and possibly paid union wages for their time.  Strident speakers attempted to convince the disinterested crowd that their publically-funded special interest group was more important than the previous speaker’s.  Lame musicians were backed up by a record-scratching DJ who would have seemed more appropriate at a Washington nightspot.  When they left, half of them leaving before the event was over, the sacred grounds of the Lincoln Memorial looked like a carnival had been there and the carnival gypsies pulled out in a hurry, with the law chasing them.

That’s the exact way that a lot of Democrat Candidates’ Campaign Headquarters will look like late in the evening of November 2nd.

Like a storm hit it.

Obama: Politics = Slavery…or Sumpin’

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Desperate to recapture the lightning in a bottle that propelled an unknown cipher to the White House, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) held a “yute” rally Thursday night, where the hand-picked crowd tried to shout down any talk of an “enthusiasm gap” among Democrats.

Obama led a pep rally/rap concert attended by 3,000 at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at DAR Constitution Hall.

Thursday’s event was organized for the DNC’s Gen44 group, which attempts to cultivate (i.e., indoctrinate) young leaders. It was expected to raise $750,000.

Beforehand, Obama spoke at a small fundraising dinner at the home of John Phillips and Linda Douglass, where guests paid $30,400 each to raise $1 million for the Democratic Party. Citing his big rally in Madison, Obama told the group that Democrats are “waking up.”

When he got to the “yute” rally, Scooter spoke to the  young minds full of mush, and said:

I’m back here today just in case you’ve forgotten what it feels like to change the country.  It was always going to be hard. Now is not the time to quit.

The DNC, in their infinite wisdom,  had enlisted hip hop artist B.o.B to perform, and the crowd also heard from Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, now set to be a White house “Insider” upon the departure of Rahmbo, on the importance of the youth vote to the November midterm elections, which are scheduled to be Political Massacre for the Democrats.

Never heard of B.o.B before?  Me, neither.  However, I did manage to get a hold of the words to the dignified little ditty that they sang for the President last night.  Why, it’s positively Shakespearean in nature:

Im that n**** that you heard about thru word of mouth,
they prolly said i change the music in the dirty south,
now that the word is out,
the timing is perfect now,
to take all these hypicritical rumors and burn em down.
if you observe the doubt you would see what they worried bout,
they say i sound like dre when im rappin bout virgins now,
honestly, i could give a f— wut you blurtin out.
point blank, im in the game..rockin my jerseys now.
so just accept me or dont pay me no mind,
either way you gonna be hearin me all the time,
wether on greg street, or 107.9,
or on yo favorite rap blog, on yo rap website,
and if that aint right, then show me straight to the judge.
just like bryan nichols i aint spittin, nuthin but slugs,
venomous blood in my vains,
chemicals up in my brain,
yes i resemble a criminal,
B.o. Bizzle, you aint f—’n wit mane!

[Whatever happened to “Hail to the Chief”?]

Inspired by the classy spirit of the evening, Obama spoke without a teleprompter again, and showed just how post-racial he truly is:

As at a massive rally earlier in the week in Madison, Wis., Obama accomplished the illusion of recapturing, at least for a few moments, some of the political magic of his 2008 presidential campaign. When he spoke of the “pundits” who were decreeing an “enthusiasm gap” the Liberal Collegiate crowd yelled uproariously, apparently wanting to prove there wasn’t one.  Or maybe it was just the Free Rock Concert at that event.

Scooter said at that event:

I need you to be fired up, I need you to stay fired up, all the way to Nov. 2. … Because Nov. 2 is going to say a lot about your future.

Even if Obama and Democrats go dig up and re-animate John Lennon, George Harrison, and Marvin Gaye, they will not be able  to create the excitement they need to avoid the re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand on November 2nd, 2010. The president met with Democratic congressional leaders at the White House earlier Thursday to feverishly try to figure out a strategy to keep their political power.  With one month to go, panic has definitely set in.

As I close, I wish to share something with you.  Something about this week’s festivities nagged at me.  Why has Obama always gone after America’s young people through events like this and his satellite-delivered speech at the beginning of each school year?  Perhaps, it has something to do with this quote from somebody I am positive that Obama is familiar with:

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. – Vladimir Illyich Lenin

Congresschickens Fly the Coop

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In an example of self-serving cowardice unseen since the tale of Chicken Little, Congress fled Washington last night, leaving behind a trail of stalled bills, including a major fight over taxes, two embarrassing ethics cases and its most basic job – approving a budget for the government year that begins on Friday.

One foot out the door, the House and Senate stopped in their flight  just long enough to vote on a “continuing resolution,” a stopgap measure to keep the government in operating funds for the next two months and avoid a pre-election federal shutdown.

The Senate late Wednesday approved the temporary spending bill 69-30. The House joined in several hours later with a 228-194 vote, sending it to Obama’s desk to be signed into law.  They abdicated their responsibility to the American people in order to hit the campaign trail for midterm elections that will determine whether Democrats hold onto power.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi summed up their electoral panic quite nicely:

Whatever the Senate passes – they’ll send it over and we’ll pass it.

As they go out among the American people, trying to prevent the Political Massacre scheduled for November 2nd, Congresschickens are facing more than four weeks of defending unpopular votes in favor of President Obama’s economic stimulus measure, health care law and uncompleted legislation for curbing global warming.

They also head home without passing what was supposed to be their closing argument of the campaign, an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families making less than $250,000.

Republicans and dozens of Democrats urged Congress to preserve the tax cuts for all Americans, even the wealthiest, in order to try to being to turn around Obama’s economic policy failure.  However, those brave Democratic leaders opted to avoid the risk of being branded tax hikers and punted the matter until after the elections.

House Minority Leader John Boehner began to guide the chickens’ heads toward the chopping blocks:.

If Democratic leaders leave town without stopping all of the tax hikes, they are turning their backs on the American people.

The Head Hen, San Fran Nan Pelosi,  has vowed that the middle class tax cuts will be passed this year.

Republicans also nailed Democrats for putting off  the embarrassing ethics trials of Reps. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., until after the Midterms. Both of the accused Congresschickens had said they wanted trials as soon as possible.

Before Republicans take control of Congress and they get fried in committee.

House leaders also ignored a vote on a Senate-passed school nutrition bill favored by first lady (and world traveller) Michelle Obama. The bill is opposed by liberals because it would cut food stamp benefits to find the money to pay for better school lunches. The Senate passed the $4.5 billion legislation in August, and many of the child nutrition programs it includes were set to expire on Thursday, the last day of the fiscal year.  The democrats will not face Michelle’s wrath now, thanks to passing the stopgap measure.

In the waning hours before adjournment, Democrats moved what smaller legislation they could.

The House was advancing to Obama’s desk a bill setting NASA policy and legislation aimed at strengthening congressional oversight of sensitive spy operations. But a House measure to provide free health care and additional compensation to World Trade Center workers sickened in the towers’ crumbled ruins was sure to stall in the Senate.

The stopgap spending measure was stripped of a host of add-ons sought by the Obama administration, including money for “Race to the Top” grants to better-performing schools and more than $4 billion to finance settlements of long-standing lawsuits by black farmers and American Indians against the government.

Negotiations continued, however, on a separate bill to provide $1.2 billion to remedy discrimination by the Agriculture Department against black farmers and $3.4 billion to settle claims that the Interior Department mismanaged Indian trust funds. Prospects were being helped by the addition of several measures — favored by western Republicans — to resolve Indian water claims.  Tom Coburn of Oklahoma was holding the line for the Republicans in this matter.

The stopgap bill is a reminder of the dismal performance by Congress in doing its most basic job — passing an annual budget and the spending bills for agency operations.

Only two of a dozen annual appropriations bills have passed the House this year and none has passed the Senate as Democratic leaders have opted against lengthy floor debates and politically difficult votes on spending.

The breakdown in the budget process includes a senator from Obama’s own party holding up the confirmation of a director to head the White House budget office, a critical post. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is blocking the nomination until the administration lifts or significantly modifies a Gulf oil well moratorium imposed after the BP spill.

The end-of session agenda included:

— A legislative blueprint for NASA’s future that would extend the life of the space shuttle program for a year while backing Obama’s intent to use commercial carriers to carry humans into space. Obama will sign the measure.

— The first intelligence authorization bill since 2004, with compromise language on demands by Congress for greater access to top-secret intelligence. The most secret briefings will still only be provided to top congressional leaders, but members of the intelligence panels will receive a general description of the programs. The House was clearing the measure for Obama.

The aforementioned child nutrition bill ran into trouble after House supporters abandoned their own $8 billion version and proposed passing the Senate version, which would be partially paid for by using future funding for food stamp programs. The bill now faces opposition from hunger groups, and some Democrats have said they will not support it if the food stamp money is used.

As we head into the home stretch, before the Midterm Elections, expect the campaign rhetoric of the Progressives to be very reminiscent of Chicken Little’s:

THE SKY IS FALLING! AND ONLY MASSIVE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMS DESIGNED BY OUR SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE CAN SAVE YOUR LIVES!

Well, okay.  Chicken Little did not say all of that, but you get the idea.  Massive Government Programs are not what this nation needs to rebound from Obama and the Democrats’ failed economic policies.  Obama and his minions need to get out of our way and allow American initiative and work ethic to get us out of this horrible economic mess that their Progressive Policies have created.  Since, they refuse to do that, on November 2nd, Americans will begin to reclaim our country.

Obama’s a Christian. Just…Err…PLEASE Ask Him.

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In a backyard in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday, President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) answered an obviously planted question by pontificating on the reasons he became a Christian as an adult, telling a group of hand-picked residents in attendance that he was a “Christian by choice” and that “the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead – being my brother and sister’s keeper.”

That’s why his brother lives in a hut in Kenya, making $12 a month, and his aunt’s living in Boston, illegally until recently, on welfare, while his mansion sits empty in Chicago.

Obama, who has been questioned about his claim to be a Christian, gave a lengthy dissertation on his “faith”:

I’m a Christian by choice. My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Being my brothers and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me, and I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we’re sinful and we’re flawed and we make mistakes and we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

Becoming a Christian isn’t like joining the Moose Club , Mr. President.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Yet, he said that as president, he also:

…deeply believes that part of the bedrock strength of this country is that it embraces people of many faiths and of no faith.

Is that why you slipped up and mentioned …”your Muslim faith” a couple of years ago, Mr. President?

For 20 years, Mr. President, you sat under the teachings of Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the Trinity United Church of Christ .  Let’s look at the background of Rev. Wright, shall we?

What most people do not know is that Reverend Jeremiah Wright was a Muslim  and a Black Nationalist before he became the founding pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, a Black Liberation Theology Church.

The rest, you already know.  To sum Rev. Jeremiah Wright up:

  • Longtime pastor and spiritual mentor of Barack Obama
  • Considers the U.S. to be a nation rife with racism and discrimination
  • Blames American racism for provoking the 9/11 attacks
  • “Islam and Christianity are a whole lot closer than you may realize,” he has written. “Islam comes out of Christianity.”
  • Embraces liberation theology and socialism
  • Strong supporter of Louis Farrakhan
  • Likens Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to South Africa’s treatment of blacks during the apartheid era

But, what is Black Liberation Theology? 

The chief architect of black liberation theology was James Cone, author of Black Theology and Black Power. One of the tasks of this movement, according to Cone, is to analyze the nature of the gospel of Jesus Christ in light of the experience of blacks who have long been victimized by white oppressors. According to black liberation theology, the inherent racism of white people precludes them from being able to recognize the humanity of nonwhites; moreover, their white supremacist orientation allegedly results in the establishment of a “white theology” that is irrevocably disconnected from the black experience. Consequently, liberation theologians contend that blacks need their own, race-specific theology to affirm their identity and their worth.

“What we need,” says Cone, “is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of Black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.” Observing that America was founded for white people, Cone calls for “the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world.” He advocates the use of Marxism as a tool of social analysis to help Christians to see “how things really are.”

Another prominent exponent of black liberation theology is the Ivy League professor Cornel West, who calls for “a serious dialogue between Black theologians and Marxist thinkers” — a dialogue that centers on the possibility of “mutually arrived-at political action.”

By the way, did you know that Senator Obama was opposed to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which would wind up passing unopposed in the U.S. Senate?

From Jill Stankek:

BAIPA sailed through the U.S. Senate by unanimous vote. Even Sens. Clinton, Kennedy and Kerry agreed a mother’s right to “choose” stopped at her baby’s delivery.

The bill also passed overwhelmingly in the House. NARAL went neutral on it. Abortion enthusiasts publicly agreed that fighting BAIPA would appear extreme. President Bush signed BAIPA into law in 2002.

But in Illinois, the state version of BAIPA repeatedly failed, thanks in large part to then-state Sen. Barack Obama. It only passed in 2005, after Obama left.

I testified in 2001 and 2002 before a committee of which Obama was a member.

Obama articulately worried that legislation protecting live aborted babies might infringe on women’s rights or abortionists’ rights. Obama’s clinical discourse, his lack of mercy, shocked me. I was naive back then. Obama voted against the measure, twice. It ultimately failed.

In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which BAIPA was sent, Obama stopped it from even getting a hearing, shelving it to die much like babies were still being shelved to die in Illinois hospitals and abortion clinics.

The preceding information about Senator Obama was courtesy of kindlingforcandles.com.

Matthew 23:25 (Whole Chapter)
[For Matthew 23:25-28, Matthew 15:11-20 ] “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For [Luke 11:39, 40 ] you clean the outside of [Mark 7:4 ] the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of [Luke 16:14; 20:47] greed and self-indulgence.

Hurry up, November 2nd!  I pray that Americans make this guy a lame duck for 2 years.

Mayor Rahmbo: The Chicago Way

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White House officials are preparing for Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to announce on Friday, as Congress leaves to go on the campaign trail, that he is leaving his post to run for mayor of Chicago.

Rahmbo’s likely exit is not a surprise.  His mayoral aspirations are no secret.

Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s announced earlier this month that he would not seek reelection.

The former Chicagoan is not exactly known for being shy.  Emanuel said in April to Charlie Rose:

One day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago. … That’s always been an aspiration of mine, even when I was in the House of Representatives

When Daley announced that he was leaving, Chicago Democrats quickly began angling to replace him, pestering Emanuel to make a decision on his White House position soon, including Barack Hussein Obama himself (mm mmm mmmm).

Obama graciously said that Emanuel would make an “excellent” and “terrific” mayor, but has not said whether he will endorse him yet.

Emanuel has to declare his intent to enter the race by Nov. 22, the filing deadline in Chicago. Candidates need to collect 12,500 signatures by that day to qualify for a Feb. 22, 2011 Democratic primary. Rahmbo showed up at the White House with a reputation and political identity built as a feisty four-term former congressman from Illinois, a veteran of the Clinton administration, and a close Obama political ally from the president’s early days in Chicago.

Emanuel brought the knowledge of where the bodies are buried up on Capitol Hill to the White House when he started in January 2009, as well as a sense of loyalty to the president, who had been in his inner circle for years.

Sources close to Emanuel say that the decision on whether to run for mayor has not been easy for him, because  uprooting his wife Amy and three children for the second time in as many years weighed heavily on him.

Emanuel put off his original decision to give up his seat in Congress and run the White House staff.   At the time, Emanuel wanted to be the first Jewish speaker of the House, an accomplishment that now seems more likely to be achieved by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.

After a lot of nudging by then President-elect Obama, Emanuel decided to join the administration, where he has remained for 21 months.

During his time in the West Wing, Emanuel helped guide the health care act through Congress, pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and pass financial regulation.

Gee, thanks, Rahmbo.

While others in the White House, like senior adviser David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, are full-speed ahead Progressives, Rahmbo was the one with the most realist view of Washington politics.   Many progressives and liberals remain angry with him for not pushing harder, or at all, for a public option in the health care legislation, or for criminal trials for Guantanamo defendants linked to the 9/11 attacks.

Rahmbo knew that Americans do not support those ideas.

Rahmbo’s Chicago-bred political style often clashed with that of the pointy-headed professional academicians that Obama has filled his administration with.

Well-known for his brash-to-the-point-of-being-a-jerk personality, Rahmbo begins each day before sunrise, often by swimming a mile, and is perhaps the hardest worker in the White House, where the rest of the administration, including Scooter, saunter in at 9:30 a.m.

Ryan Lizza described Rahmbo this way in an article for The New Yorker:

He is a political John McEnroe, known for both his mercurial temperament and his tactical brilliance. In the same conversation, he can be wonkish and thoughtful, blunt and profane. (When Emanuel was a teen-ager, he lost half of his right middle finger, after cutting it on a meat slicer—an accident, Obama once joked, that “rendered him practically mute.”) And, like McEnroe, Emanuel seems to employ his volcanic moments for effect, intimidating opponents and referees alike but never quite losing himself in the midst of battle. “I’ve seen Rahm scream at a candidate for office one moment and then quickly send him a cheesecake,” Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic representative from Maryland, and a friend of Emanuel’s, told me.
 
Do you know why Sean Hannity calls Rahmbo “Dead Fish”?  Lizza goes on to relate that story in his article:
 

More than any other story about Emanuel’s tactics—and there are lots of them—the tale of the “dead-fish race” came to define his public persona as a Democratic operative. He and Axelrod were working for David Swarts, a Democratic official from Erie County, New York, running an underfunded campaign for a congressional seat long held by Republicans. “We were rolling the dice on the race, just spending the money we had as it came in to try and get these numbers up,” Axelrod said. Their plan was to take a poll at the end of the contest which they hoped would show a competitive race and then use the results to help raise last-minute funds and overtake their opponent.

“The poll came back a week or two before the end, and it said we were down by seventeen,” Axelrod said. “And that was it.” According to Axelrod, Swarts’s campaign manager later studied the poll’s findings and concluded that the pollster had botched the analysis: the survey showed that Swarts was just five or six points behind. (The pollster says that the error was actually minor and quickly caught.) Axelrod added, “Had we gotten that correct poll then, we would have put our foot to the pedal. But it was too late. So Rahm, being as invested as he was in the thing, expressed himself as only Rahm can.” After the election, Emanuel and his colleagues hired a Massachusetts company called Enough Is Enough, which specialized in “creative revenge,” to send the pollster a box with a dead fish inside. Emanuel laughed mischievously when I asked him about the prank. “We had our choice of animals,” he said.

Classy.

White House press secretary “Baghdad Bob” Gibbs this month joked about one of Emanuel’s favorite phrases, summing up Rahmbo’s work ethic:

As Rahm sometimes jokes, if it’s Saturday, there’s just two more full workdays until Monday.

With just five weeks left for the White House  to make a difference leading up to the worst Midterm Political Massacre in American History, the most recent ABC/Washington Post poll from early September shows the president’s approval ratings at 46 percent, with a 52 percent disapproval rate.

Other Liberal polling services show Obama at 42 % Approval.

A new incoming chief of staff could bring in energy and fresh ideas, and help the White House retool operations, as the administration picks up the pieces of what is scheduled to be a disastrous election night for Democrats. However, Obama is known for his loyalty, maintaining a tight inner circle and will not allow outsiders into his administration.  That means that his next pick for chief of staff will probably come from someone with experience inside the administration and a personal relationship with him. Vice President Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain, Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina are all said to be on the list of candidates.

I wouldn’t put it past Scooter to name BFF and “fellow traveler” Valerie Jarrett to the position.

Obama, Farrakhan, and Ahmadinejad

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met secretly with Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party Tuesday at the Warwick Hotel on West 54th Street.

The meeting of these “brothers in Islam” took place in a banquet room, where the fiery leaders presumably exchanged theories on what’s wrong with the world.

I guess this means Obama and Ahmedinejad have mutual “friends”.

Farrakhan, after all, is the same guy who went around proclaiming Scooter is the “messiah”.

At a youth rally  in February 2008 in San Diego, Calypso Louie said:

You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.

Remember when Obama was hangin’ with his home boys at a barbecue during Memorial Day weekend?

An interesting stand-off happened while Scooter was partyin’ down, between followers of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on one side and members of the press and the U.S. Secret Service guarding the president on the other.

Not far from Obama’s home in the Kenwood/Hyde Park neighborhood, Obama’s long-time friend Marty Nesbitt lives across the street from the ornate yellow-gold home where “Calypso Louie” Farrakhan lives.

When Obama has brought his family over to Nesbitt’s home the last two years, the press pool bus parks near Farrakhan’s house. This usually does not cause a problem, but Saturday night, there was almost a throwdown on Woodlawn Avenue.

As a dozen reporters and photographers following Obama stood on the sidewalk in front of Farrakhan’s home, someone’s foot touched the publicly owned curbside grass.

Like a flash, a polite man in jeans and T-Shirt came out of the compound to ask the press to stay off the grass.   He began pacing and talking on his cell phone.  He went inside the mansion’s black wrought iron fence, crossed the well-landscaped yard, lifted a water bucket behind rose bushes and retrieved a walkie-talkie. The reporters heard him referring to “the CIA.”  Evidently, this paranoid genius did not realize that the Secret Service guards the president, not the CIA.

He then went to the secret service agent watching the press and asked him to move the van and its occupants.

“How is this a security breach?” the agent asked. He asked if the house was government property.  Since Obama ascended to the throne, err, presidency, neighbors all over Hyde Park and Kenwood have become accustomed to dealing with streets being blocked off and having to show ID to approach their own homes .

The Fruit of Islam member said something else and at that point the agent stuck out his hand to shake hands and introduced himself as Secret Service. He added, “Sir, I can assure you that we will do nothing to interfere with whatever is going on in there.”

The Farrakhan guard paced again and talked on his cell phone, walkie-talkie in the other hand.  Three more men in T-Shirts reading “Wide or Die!’’ joined the man from the Nation of Islam.  A reporter asked one of the men if this was Farrakhan’s house. The man just glared back.  Asked again, he said, “I don’t have no comment.”

Eventually, a dozen Fruit of Islam members made the scene.   As each casually dressed man arrived, he exchanged elaborate handshake/hug/double air-kisses with others. Two of them walked by a reporter, chanting “Islam.”

The men filmed and photographed the reporters, the van and its license plates with their cell phones.

One of the guards came and stood close to reporters and the secret service agent.  The secret service agent asked if he could help him.  The man did not answer the agent. He politely asked  him again.  The guard said, “No.”  The agent said, “Secret Service, please move away from this group of people.”

The Fruit of Islam member complied.

The Secret Service agent asked the reporters to go back into the press bus, and they did.

Before they did, some of them asked the Nation of Islam crowd if they could use the rest room in Farrakahn’s home.

They were met with silence.

A Baptist minister from Detroit named Rev. Gary Hunter, who writes and blogs for the Detroit Times, told reporter Jackie Calmes of the New York Times that he personally called Calypso Louie and his son and asked them to have their Private Army(the Fruit) stand down: “I told him you were good people . . . He said he didn’t know you all were just waiting for the president.’’

Yeah, right.  You had better believe Farrakhan knew exactly what was going on.

And, about those upstanding citizens from the New Black Panther Party…

AG Eric Holder  dismissed default judgments against the Philly NBPP thugs who menaced voters and poll workers on Election Day.

Who intervened? What parties inside and outside DOJ got involved? And why?

Despite warnings from the DOJ, last Friday federal prosecutor Christopher Coates testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, appearing, as Chairman Gerald Reynolds put it, “at great personal risk to himself.”

Coates’ testimony verified testimony given by fellow voting-rights prosecutor J. Christian Adams, backing up the charge that political appointees in the Obama administration intentionally made the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party go away.

The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged “race neutral” enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. Coates told the panel that the culture intensified in 2009 – and led to his demotion from leading the voting rights division – after President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office.

“They have not pursued the goal of equal protection of the law for all people,” he said.

As I explored in my 4 part series:  The Great Disconnect, President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) has quite and interesting past, and has a lot of connections, some of which have yet to see the light of day. 

Remember, when Obama said that he wanted to sit across the negotiations table from Ahmadinejad?  I wonder who suggested that?

 

Israel and the Smart Power Super Friends

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Israelis, Palestinians and U.S. mediators are scrambling to find a compromise that would allow the collapsing Mideast talks to continue after an Israeli settlement slowdown expires at midnight.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already stated that the 10-month-old moratorium on new settlement construction in the West Bank will not be extended, despite pleas from President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) to do so. The Palestinians have warned that if the slowdown ends, they will quit the talks.

If the sides fail to strike a compromise, the midnight end of the building restrictions will signal the end of the Mideast peace talks that began at the White House less than a month ago.

Israel’s president, Shimon Peres, and defense minister, Ehud Barak, were traveling from the U.S. to Israel this morning after attempting to reach a compromise with American and Palestinian representatives.

However, the chief negotiators, Saeb Erekat for the Palestinians and Yitzhak Molcho for the Israelis, stayed behind  in the U.S., keeping a slim hope alive for a last-minute agreement.

Israeli settlers and their supporters are pressuring Netanyahu to keep an explicit promise he made to resume construction in Israel’s West Bank settlements. Several thousand settlers are expected todayat a rally to count down the hours to the midnight deadline.

Faced with heavy pressure from the Palestinians and their allies, the Obama administration, to back down, Israel’s government was keeping its mouth shut as the deadline approached. Netanyahu told his Cabinet ministers not to speak to the media about the crisis Sunday, according to Israeli officials, and even the prime minister’s spokesman refused to comment.

In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that:

Israel must choose between peace and the continuation of settlement.

According to Abbas, the Palestinians and the Middle East are continuously pushed into “the corner of violence and conflict” as a result of Israel’s “mentality of expansion and domination.”

Uh Huh.  It’s never the Palestinians’ fault.  Just like it’s never Obama’s fault.  Hmmmm.

But, afraid of being blamed if the talks collapse, Abbas told a group of American Jewish leaders last week that he would not necessarily walk away from the negotiations even if settlement construction resumes. And senior Palestinian officials have said they are willing to show “some flexibility.”

Weasel.

Netanyahu, for his part, has said Israel would not necessarily resume construction in full.

The Palestinians oppose all Israeli construction in the West Bank, saying it cripples plans for a viable Palestinian state.  Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?

Israel rejects preconditions to negotiations, saying settlements should be discussed in the talks.

Abbas has problems back home.  He has to deal with his rivals from the Islamist Hamas group, which rules the Gaza Strip and rejects any recognition of Israel. Abbas “should withdraw immediately from the negotiations” and concentrate on unifying Palestinians to fight Israel, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told the AP in Gaza.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, faces heavy pressure within his pro-settler governing coalition to resume construction. Hardline elements could try to bring down the government if Netanyahu extends the settlement slowdown.

In reality, the slowdown has brought about only a slight drop of about 10 percent in ongoing construction in the settlements. On the other hand, it has significantly cut new housing starts — by about 50 percent, according to the dovish Israeli group Peace Now.

Israeli Cabinet minister Limor Livnat told Israel Radio on Saturday that around 2,000 homes can begin construction immediately once the slowdown ends.

Obama, Hillary, and the rest of the Smart Power Super Friends have 2 chances, at this point, of reaching a settlement between Israel and the ever-internally-squabbling Palestinians:  slim and none.

In their self-delusional quest to proclaim themselves the smartest American administration evah, they severely overestimated their foreign policy expertise.  Obama’s only prior experience with something even remotely resembling this situation would have been settling disputes between street gangs as a community organizer in Chicago.

Why is the government of the United States backing a bunch of barbarians that hate us and each other, and teaming up with them against one of our closest allies?  Israel is a nation which is pivotal in the faith of  over 75 % of Americans.  America was founded on a Judeo-Christian belief system.  This boneheaded foreign policy initiative is as naive as Obama’s wish to sit across the negotiating table from that barbarian, Ahmadinejad.  Didn’t Carter try something like this?  The only thing that came out of his Middle East Peace Initiative was the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

I still say that, evidently, Rev. Jeremiah Wright never discussed Genesis 12: 1 – 3 in his church.  If he did, Scooter slept through it:

 1Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

And he wonders why his presidency is failing…

Newsflash: Liberals Make Bad Decisions

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Yesterday, in the United States House of Representatives, the number of jokers usually there  increased by one.

Appearing in his role as a Comedy Central news commentator, Stephen Colbert was invited to the House hearing to share his “vast” knowledge, drawn from spending a single day on a New York farm as a guest of the United Farm Workers.

The union launched its “Take Our Jobs” campaign to back up its claim that few Americans would do the work of farm laborers, the vast majority of whom are in the U.S. illegally. Only seven people accepted the jobs, the union claims. 

Who did they ask?

Colbert actually was there at the invitation of subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.  And, after asking him to leave initially, Rep. John Conyers later gave him the go-ahead, apparently hoping that the so-called comedian’s performance would counter the testimony of a political science professor who said illegal immigrants were competing with black and Hispanic citizens for jobs.

Colbert performed his pretentious routine, demanding that lawmakers do something about the agriculture industry’s dependence on immigrant labor.

Lord, how I miss Red Skelton and Flip Wilson.

Colbert opined:

I’m not a fan of the government doing anything.  But I’ve got to ask, Why isn’t the government doing anything?

Colbert’s humor drew laughter from the audience and several Democrats on the subcommittee. But most of the Republicans were not entertained.

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa said:

Maybe we should be spending less time watching Comedy Central and more time considering all the real jobs that are out there.

 At the close of the hearing, Colbert dropped his TV persona and turned serious, claiming that he was using his celebrity to bring attention to farm labor because “these seem to be the least of my brothers.”

Colbert said:

Right now migrant workers suffer and have no rights.

It might be because they are in our country illegally, Colbert.

By the way, this lame comedy routine cost us American Taxpayers $125,000, due to the cost of holding a committee hearing.

While we’re on the subject of Liberals, television, and the American people, let’s talk about cable news.

Everyone knows who the leader in cable news is, it’s Fox.  Their overwhelming dominance of the industry can be contributed to the leadership of Roger Ailes.

Just as Ailes has succeeded, others have failed.  Yesterday, it was announced that the heads of CNN and MSNBC have been shown the door.

Jonathan Klein, the president of the rapidly tanking CNN/U.S. cable channel, is being replaced by Ken Jautz, the head of the tabloid-oriented sister channel HLN, the company said Friday.

The change is effective immediately.  Klein was fired earlier this week by his boss, Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide. According to Klein,  Walton “told me they wanted to restructure things this way, and thank you very much, and good luck.”

Klein was in charge of CNN for nearly six years.  During that time, he tried to convince the public that the Liberal-viewpoint that they were hearing from his news channel was actually a “Moderate” viewpoint and that CNN was actually the news channel that was “fair and balanced”. 

The American public did not believe it.

The timing of Klein’s firing shocked CNN employees because the channel, currently ranked third in the prime time ratings behind Fox News and MSNBC,  is about to undergo a reinvention that he organized. The commentators Eliot Spitzer  (Client 9) and Kathleen Parker (noted Faux Conservative pundit) are scheduled to replace a news program at 8 p.m. next month, and the talent show judge and journalist Piers Morgan will replace Larry King three months after that.

It’s brilliant programming decisions like those that caused Klein to be “future endeavored”.

Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, e-mailed the company’s employees on Friday morning that he would step down from his position upon the completion of the takeover of NBC by Comcast.

The fate of  Zucker, the longest-serving senior manager at NBC, had been the subject of a lot of rumors since Comcast agreed in December to purchase 51 percent of NBCU from its long-time corporate owner, General Electric. The deal is expected to close at the end of the year, following regulatory approval.

Zucker’s, who is 45, fate was sealed after a meeting two weeks ago with Steve Burke, Comcast’s chief operating officer.

According to Zucker:

We had both gotten to the same place.  He made it clear that they wanted to move on at the close of the deal and I was completely comfortable with that.

Uh Huh.

In his e-mail to the staff he spoke about the “ups and downs” the company had experienced. Zucker said he did not detect “any particular reason” beyond the broad desire for new leadership for Comcast’s inclination to make a change.

I dunno, Jeff.  How about the whole Leno/Conan fiasco? Or the unwatchable news channel known as MSNBC? Or (shudder) the Rosie O’Donnell Variety show?

In their zeal to demonstrate their intellectual superiority and indoctrinate the American people with their enlightened ideology, Liberal politicians and the sycophants in the Main Stream Media have grossly underestimated the discernment, patriotism, and moral fiber of the public.  As we head into the Midterm Elections, they are all beginning to reap what they sowed.

Klein and Zucker should go to California and become farm laborers.  They might actually be good at that.

Democrats Wimp Out

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On the cusp of the worst Midterm defeat in American History, Democrats abandoned plans to vote before Election Day on extending Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class while eliminating them for better-off Americans.

So, what happens now?  Do these idiots come back after the Midterms and try to ram through the largest tax increase evah during their lame duck session?

If they don’t pass legislation by Dec. 31, the expiration date of the cuts, tax rates would rise not only on income, but also on estates, capital gains and dividends. Important corporate tax credits and relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax also are up for renewal.

President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) and his Congressional sycophants have made their proposed middle-class tax breaks the focal point of their midterm campaign strategy.With the Democrats wimping out, Republicans can rightly charge that the oppostition party has failed to prevent taxes from rising for almost everyone.

Congressmen from both parties actually say that they want to extend the Bush Tax Cuts for at least a year or two.  Their problem is, Obama could still veto such a bill.

Democrat lawmakers put on a mask of sadness Thursday to hide their relief concerning the postponement.

Sen. Richard Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat said:

The reality is, we are not going to pass what needs to be passed to change this, either in the Senate or in the House, before the election.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said Thursday the House wouldn’t schedule a vote on taxes if the Senate didn’t. 

So, there!   Na, na, na, na.   

Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) said that the first part of next week would be taken up with debate over a bill seeking to limit the outsourcing of jobs. Then the Senate would turn to a bill to fund the government until after elections.

At this point, neither the House nor the Senate is expected to stay in session past next week.

Republicans said Democrats hadn’t yet written a tax bill on which lawmakers could vote, because of disagreement among Democratic members.

GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said:

This delay is irresponsible and reckless. It’s no wonder the American people are fed up with the leadership of Congress. Every family in America faces a major tax increase next year because the Senate majority leader has failed to take action to prevent it.

Democratic leaders, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Mr. Reid, came up with the strategy of voting on the permanent extension as a way of casting Democrats as the party of the middle class, in contrast with Republicans’ support for relief for the Americans who actually create businesses and hire other Americans.

The plan quickly ran into opposition from “Moderate” Democrats in the House and Senate, scared that they will wind up out on the street after the Midterms.

If you believe the Democrats are truly concerned about anything at this point but saving their phony baloney jobs, I’ll give you a free subscription to Obama’s new on-line self-help course:  How to Become U.S. President and Leave No Documented History.

For instance, on February 23, 2010, Representative Chaka Fattah (D – PA) referred HR 4646 to the House Appropriations Committee.  Here’s a summary of this gem of an idea:

Debt Free America Act – States as purposes of this Act the raising of sufficient revenue from a fee on transactions to eliminate the national debt within seven years and the phasing out of the individual income tax. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 1% fee, offset by a corresponding nonrefundable income tax credit, on transactions that use a payment instrument, including any check, cash, credit card, transfer of stock, bonds, or other financial instrument. Defines “transaction” to include retail and wholesale sales, purchases of intermediate goods, and financial and intangible transactions. Establishes in the legislative branch the Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action to review the fiscal imbalance of the federal government and make recommendations to improve such imbalance. Provides for expedited consideration by Congress of Task Force recommendations. Repeals after 2017 the individual income tax, refundable and nonrefundable personal tax credits, and the alternative minimum tax (AMT) on individuals. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) prioritize the repayment of the national debt to protect the fiscal stability of the United States; and (2) study and report to Congress on the implementation of this Act.
 
The problem is, knowing the way that Washington operates, this little proposal would wind up being an additional tax, not a replacement for Income Taxes.
 
Luckily, HR 4646 is not expected to make it out of committee.
 
Taking a step back and considering the damage that this unpopular bunch of congresscritters could do in the next week, Americans should pat themselves on the back and breathe a sigh of relief that the Democrats are too scared to get anything accomplished before Americans clean House on November 2nd.