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(Politico) — President Barack Obama has kept mum on the fate of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) for days — but he tells CBS News that it’s time for the embattled 80-year-old former Ways and Means Chairman to end his career “with dignity.”
“I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served– his constituents very well. But these– allegations are very troubling,” Obama told Harry Smith in an interview to be aired on the “Early Show.” and first broadcast on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
“And he’ll– he’s somebody who’s at the end of his career. Eighty years old. I’m sure that– what he wants is to be able to– end his career with dignity. And my hope is that– it happens. “
Update:
(Politico) — Frankly, President Obama, Charlie doesn’t give a damn.
From my story on the Obama-Rangel drama:
[A] person close to the Rangel tells POLITICO the embattled Democrat “doesn’t give a damn about what the president thinks about this” and won’t step down.
“[Obama’s] statement comes as no surprise to us,” said a person close to Rangel, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly for the congressman. “We’re not surprised by this, we’ve known the people in the White House have felt this way for a while, but this doesn’t change anything for us.”
WHAT part of “JUST PASS THE BILL” you Dimocrat idiot. I agree, Peter King agrees and Sean Hannity agrees it’s a good bill and it needs PASSING!! Sean and Peter are right, all you want to do is slam the Republicans who didn’t vote for it to pass. You had the votes, but that wasn’t good enough for you. You made a complete fool out of yourself on the floor and exposed how Dimocrats think. I didn’t agree with the Republicans who didn’t want this bill passed, but I also knew you had enough votes so why the hell bring up anything else you CRAZY LIBERAL IDIOT!!……Papa Mike
Via The Right Scoop
Too bad the fans didn’t get the chance to give them a beat down…
NEW YORK (AP) – Two men carrying Mexican flags in protest of Arizona’s immigration law ran into the outfield during the seventh inning of the New York Mets’ game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night at Citi Field.
The men were apprehended by security fairly quickly without much incident.
Prior to the game, about 40 people across the street from the ballpark chanted “Oppose racism!” and “Boycott Arizona!”
More News From “The Religion Of Peace Muslims”
On the flip side, if someone so much as looks cross-eyed at a Muslim in America, CAIR goes ape-shit releasing press releases accusing everyone of being an Islamophobe…
UKKUR, Pakistan, July 29 (CDN) – A dozen masked men shot five Christians to death as they came out of their church building here on July 15, two months after a banned Islamic extremist group sent church leaders a threatening letter, relatives said.
Pastor Aaron John and church members Rohail Bhatti, Salman John, Abid Gill and Shamin Mall of Full Gospel Church were leaving the church building after meeting to discuss security in light of the threats they had received, said the pastor’s son, Shahid John.
“As we came out of the church, a group of a dozen armed gunmen came and opened fire at us,” said Shahid John, who survived a bullet in his arm. “Fear struck the area. The police arrived 45 minutes after the incident, and we waited for over 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive.”
Besides Shahid John, five others were wounded in the attack.
In May church leaders received a letter from Islamic extremist group Sip-e-Sahaba (formerly Sipah-e-Sahaba until it was banned) warning the Christians to leave the area, said Kiran Rohail, wife of the slain Rohail Bhatti.
“It said to vacate the land, Christians are not welcomed here, they are polluting our land,” Kiran Rohail said.
The Sip-e-Sahaba and Sunni Tehrik extremist groups are both linked with an area madrassa (Islamic school) whose students had been threatening the church since 2008, Christian sources said.
Yep, this Helen Thomas.
Thomas, a former White House correspondent and native Detroiter born to Lebanese immigrants, was forced to quit her job at Hearst Newspapers last month after saying Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine.” She apologized.
On Tuesday, the museum started a 45-day campaign to raise the remaining $10,000 for the roughly $30,000 statue. Some in the Jewish community are wary of honoring Thomas.
“I just hope that the support for this memorial is there despite her anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views and not because of them,” said Richard Nodel, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Maybe they can carve Thomas’ own words at the base of the statue?
Let’s go back to those hopey-changie days of the Obama campaign for president when he railed constantly against all those “special interests” and eeeevil lobbyists that he claimed were ruining the political process. Let us recall that once elected he claimed he’d have the “strictest ethics rules” of any president ever.
Obama has made sure that his message has been anti-special interests, anti-lobbyists, anti-business-as-usual… heck just plain anti-business, for that matter. It’s all been quite a show. Unfortunately for all the talk his actions speak to the opposite of his spin — more on that in a moment. But even if President Obama was serious about his anti-lobbyist rhetoric his party has utterly ignored him on the issue.
A recent Bloomberg report reveals that lobbyists have raised $1.5 million for Democrat campaign funds during the first six months of the Obama regime quite despite Obama’s constant anti-lobbyist refrain. That is far more than the GOP has been able to raise.
As much as Obama rails against the influence held by lobbyists in Washington, candidates rely on them to help fund increasingly expensive campaigns. Reports released today show lobbyists also personally contributed to Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
more on this article…. HERE
.…and good for you sheriff Joe. These people are here illegally and they MUST be stopped!! Also if these Mexicans, or any other people want to protest and fly their country flag in OUR country while protesting our laws then they should be either told to remove their Mexican flag or you be arrested. This is the United States and the only flag you will fly here while protesting your so called rights to live here illegally is the U.S. flag…I have NO problem if you are a documented American citizen and your proud of where your from and you want to fly or display your country’s flag, but being ILLEGAL and doing it should NEVER be allowed!!………..Papa Mik
PHOENIX – The showdown over Arizona’s immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix’s sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to “live in fear.” Dozens were arrested.
A federal judge’s decision a day earlier to block the strict law’s most controversial elements didn’t dampen the raging immigration debate.
The judge has been threatened. Protesters rallied in cities from Los Angeles to New York. The sheriff of the state’s most populous county vowed to continue targeting illegal immigrants. Lawmakers or candidates in as many as 18 states say they still want to push similar measures.
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, life continued as before, with officials sending back people who were captured while attempting to cross.
In Phoenix, hundreds of the law’s opponents massed at a downtown jail, beating on the metal door and forcing sheriff’s deputies to call for backup. Officers arrested at least 32 people, and dozens more were detained elsewhere throughout the day.
Activists focused their rage at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the 78-year-old ex-federal drug agent known for his immigration sweeps.
Outside his downtown office, marchers chanted “Sheriff Joe, we are here. We will not live in fear.” One was dressed in a papier-mache “Sheriff Joe” head and prison garb. Arpaio said he’d continue with a Thursday sweep.
Picture by Papa Mike
The nascent US economic recovery would be halted in 2011 if Congress fails to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, analysts at Deutsche Bank said.
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The cuts were enacted in 2001 and 2003 under President George W. Bush and in part covered those earning more than $250,000,but they are set to expire at the end of this year. Tax decreases for lower-earning people likely will be continued, but the ones for the top end of the income scale are in danger of going away.
Deutsche said the drag on gross domestic product should they lapse could be as much as 1.5 percent, with the more likely impact at 1.1 percent.
The impact would be worse, the analysts said, if Congress fails to fix theAlternative Minimum Tax, which was enacted in 1969 to make sure rich people pay taxes but was never indexed for inflation, and thus is now hitting middle-income workers.
“In a worst-case scenario, allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire and failing to fix the AMT could result in (1.5 percent) of fiscal drag in 2011 on top of the 1 percent fiscal drag we expect to occur as the Obama fiscal stimulus package unwinds,” Deutsche said in a note to clients. “If the recovery remains soft/tentative through early next year, this additional drag could be enough to push the economy to a stalling point.”
more on this article…….. HERE
This is the craziest app I’ve ever seen…..! It actually pops popcorn!
NOTHING explains Liberalism better than these 5 sentences!
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Papa Mike
SO THAT YOU KNOW
Yes, “Satan in a Sunday hat” was actually a quote by Judge Napolitano out of the video below. He didn’t say Obama was Satan. But I will.
Remember this, where the Jug-Earred Jackass promised the most open and transparent government?
Based on this story from Fox how does Obama’s promise square with the SEC saying they no longer has to honor FOIA requests? (2:00 mark)
This is what we get when we listen to Nazi Pelosi as she tells us that we need to pass a bill in order to see what’s in it.
Hang on for the ride DOWN while we keep circling the drain:
Hats off to Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY). It isn’t easy to be skeevy, arrogant, hypocritical, and corrupt even by Democrat standards.
The Manchurian Moonbat does more in his memoirs Dreams From My Father than spew about his hatred for Caucasians. He also brags like an adolescent about his habitual use of illegal drugs:
I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. … Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed…
Even if he hasn’t outgrown his racialist point of view, at least he’s put the illicit drug use behind him. Or has he?
Here is a video of Newt Gingrich calling on New York Attorney General and Democrat candidate for Governor – Andrew Cuomo – to demand to know where the group wanting to build a Mosque across from Ground Zero is getting their $100 Million for the project. Gingrich said he believes the Federal Government should step in and prevent the building of the Mosque across from the site where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed by Islamic Jihadists. The families and friends of the thousands that lost their lives that horific day at the hands of these murdering radical Muslims while their friens and fellow Muslims cheered when they saw the colapse of BOTH buildings at ‘Ground Zero’
While over 3,000 Americans Died These Muslim Barbarians Cheered The Actions Of fellow Muslims On 9/11....Papa Mike
There’s a reason Pakistan is an Islamist shithole. . .they like it that way…
It’s worth noting this poll was conducted by the throughly leftist Pew Research Center…
…More than four-in-ten Pakistanis see a struggle taking place between Islamic fundamentalists and groups that want to modernize the country; and the vast majority of those who do see a struggle identify with the modernizers.
Nonetheless, many Pakistanis endorse extreme views about law, religion and society. More than eight-in-ten support segregating men and women in the workplace, stoning adulterers, and whipping and cutting off the hands of thieves. Roughly three-in-four endorse the death penalty for those who leave The Relogion Of Peace…Papa Mike
I wish them all the best of luck but they’re not going to change anything, Islam is misogynic to its very core. Note: If they tried this in an Islamic country their life would be in danger…
(WSJ)- Muslim feminists call it the “penalty box.” It’s the area of a mosque where women, segregated from the men, pray. In Islam, prayer is required five times a day and Muslims often pray in congregation at mosques. During these prayers, women usually are partitioned off in a separate room or behind a curtain, “like naughty children,” one Muslim woman tells me, while men pray in a grand main hall.
One Muslim, Fatima Thompson, describes the penalty box at her mosque in Maryland as an overheated, dark back room. Another Muslim woman, Asra Nomani, tells me that at a major Washington D.C. mosque, the female section was in a trailer, where the voice of the imam (the prayer leader) came from a crackling speaker. “It was so humiliating I never went back,” says Ms. Nomani, a former reporter for the Journal.
Now these Muslim feminists have had enough. Hoping to reform Islam by making it more women-friendly, Ms. Thompson—an American convert to Islam—has organized several “pray-ins” at mosques in the D.C. area. These include the Islamic Center of Washington and the Dar Al-Hijra Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., a mosque attended by several of the 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood mass killer Maj. Nidal Hasan. Ms. Thompson’s next pray-in target is a mosque in Washington.
Like the civil rights activists of the 1960s, whose “sit-ins” were part of a movement that ended racial segregation, Ms. Thompson hopes her peaceful pray-ins will help initiate a movement that ends overt sexism in Islam, despite the conventional wisdom that regards Islam and feminism as anathema. Her efforts come at a time when, as of a 2001 study, 66% of American mosques segregate men from women during prayer, an increase of 14% from 1994.
During the pray-ins, Ms. Nomani, Ms. Thompson, and several other women walk through the front door of the mosque—many require women to enter through a side or back door—and into the main hall. They then seat themselves behind the rows of men to pray.
The Muslim men get rattled. Ms. Nomani remembers one bearded man who “furrow[ed] his brows and scream[ed]… ‘Sisters go over there!’”—indicating the dreaded penalty box. Ms. Nomani humorously refers to him as the mosque’s “bouncer.” At one pray-in, the women didn’t budge when they were asked to move, and the service began with them praying with the men.
Why So Afraid, Al?
Senator Al Franken, former Air America radio host and comedian.
He’s afraid of GOP oversight!
Al Franken”s Keynote Speech at Netroots Nation :
“Here’s more key evidence of how deeply top Democratic officials are tied to the neo-communist anti-Semitic hate-blog Daily Kos (and the rest of the progressive blogosphere, CAP, Media Mutters, etc.). Take your time and really listen to chief election thief Al Franken. This is today’s progressive movement, looking to crush “evil” corporations and “restore” free speech. It’s kinda chilling listening to Al Franken, but also funny in a macabre kinda way.”
He said this:
Which is laughable since that’s what happens when a party takes over the House. Since 1995, the practice of the oversight committee has been to have a two-to-one ratio of majority to minority staff. When Democrats took control after winning the House in 2006, they doubled their staff, while the losing Republicans cut theirs in half. If Republicans win in 2010, they will double their staff and Democrats will cut theirs in half. That’s the way it works.
(I guess Al missed that little tidbit during his orientation.)
As Ed Morrissey at HotAir says:
More on this article… HERE
Part of the Democrats strategy for trying to keep control of Congress is to link the Republican Party to the Tea Partiers. They are releasing what they say is the identical agenda of both the Tea Party and the Republicans and titled it, “Contract on America”.
The Democrats are saying that the Republicans and Tea Party will repeal all that the Dems have “Accomplished”.
I’m not sure about the Republicans, but speaking for myself as a Tea Partier, I would love to repeal Obama-care and everything else this administration has “Accomplished”. It would be the best thing for the future of this nation. That is unless you like bankruptcy…
Here is a Fox News Video Clip that includes an interview with Democrat Tim Kaine explaining their “Strategy”
Is this really a new Strategy? The Democrats have been trying to Link the Tea Party to the Republicans since the beginning.
This seems to be just more desperation from the Democrats because they know they are looking at Big losses come the next election.
They Just Don’t seem to Get it…
Missouri is the next battleground in the fight against Obamacare. Next Tuesday, August 3rd, Show Me State voters will head to the polls for the primary election. In addition to choosing candidates to represent each party in the November general election, each party ticket will also have Prop C on the ballot. Conservatives, led byMissourians for Health Care Freedom, are encouraging a “Yes” on Prop C.
Primary elections often have low turnout. We want to send a loud and clear message to the ruling class in DC, so we could use your help getting out the vote. If you would like to call Missouri voters and encourage them to vote “Yes” on Prop C, please contact Rush James of the Missouri GOP. Email him at rush@mogop.org with your name and phone number. He will contact you with more information about calling Missouri voters to encourage a “Yes” on Prop C next Tuesday.
Fight on for Freedom!
The video above was produced by ConservativeTVOnline.com.
Keith Olbermann, host of “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC and Cornell Ag Graduate, is “The Worst Person In The World” according to Townhall Magazine. Which is rather amusing since Keith devotes a segment of his show each night to naming his “Worst Person In The World”. I suppose we shouldn’t be laughing since Taxpayers Are Financing Keith Olbermann’s Salary. To add insult to injury his ratings continue to slide.
Even the Journolist Members Trash Keith Olbermann as Misogynist, Pompous. And these are his ideological friends.
Poor Keith. After Tucker Carlson at The Daily Caller announced that they had acquired the domain name keitholbermann.com and that Carlson is going to start using a new e-mail address: Keith@KeithOlbermann.com, Olbermann decided to take a two week vacation.
You would think it couldn’t get any worse.
Think again!
Word is his production staff is jumping ship.
To work for Lawrence O’Donnell’s new program.
So, what is Keith doing on his vacation?
Talking to his fans on Twitter. A lot!
I’m shocked! Well, maybe not…
(AmSpec)- A new report by the Congressional Research Service reveals that the national health care law allows for federally-funded abortions, despite Democrats’ claims to the contrary.
Under one of the provisions of ObamaCare, before the new health insurance exchanges are set up in 2014, the federal government is funding state-based high risk pools to help cover those with pre-existing conditions.
But according to the CRS, the abortion restrictions contained in the new law “would not appear to apply specifically to the funds made available for high risk pools by section 1101.”
The report says that President Obama’s executive order on abortion “does not specifically address high risk pools and the funds provided under section 1101 of (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act).”
The Department of Health and Human Services sets the guidelines for the operation of the high-risk pools, but according to CRS, those guidelines “neither explicitly provide the authority to cover elective abortions with federal funds, nor do they specifically prohibit the use of federal funds.”
NJ Gov. Chris Christie…
Goldman Sachs received a $12.9 billion payout from the government’s bailout of AIG, which was at one time the world’s largest insurance company.
Why did the money go to Goldman Sachs? Because there is a highly lucrative revolving door between GS and the White House.
From there much of the loot went abroad:
Goldman Sachs sent $4.3 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions, according to information made public Friday night.
This Scumbag Obama Ass-Kisser Belongs In Prison...Papa Mike
At his “discretion,” this tax cheat stole $85 billion of our money and passed it out among his friends both here and abroad.
Our country is ruled by criminals ( U.S. treasury secretary Timothy Geithner ) who are systematically looting it into bankruptcy. When the economy inevitably collapses, their cronies in the media will blame it all on the capitalist system that made America rich, but that progressives have corrupted beyond recognition.
Unbelievable. Barney Frank, a corrupt degenerate who has played a major role in looting the next several generations of Americans to the brink of bankruptcy, throws a tantrum over a $1 senior discount on his way to wallow in a cesspool of perversion:
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island’s popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn’t have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, “Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.” Frank made news last year when he was spotted looking uncomfortable around a bevy of topless, well-built men at the Pines Annual Ascension Beach Party.
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island’s popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn’t have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, “Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.” Frank made news last year when he was spotted looking uncomfortable around a bevy of topless, well-built men at the Pines Annual Ascension Beach Party.
Time to revise the old joke:
Q: How was the Grand Canyon formed?
A: A certain homosexual left-wing kleptocrat dropped a nickel down a gopher hole.
It is truly appalling that millions lack the self-respect not to identify with the party personified by Bawney Fwank.
Give him his senior discount or he'll get angwy.
Can you believe this liberal judge? 70% of the people WANT this Arizona law… and the liberal judge blocks it…
70% of the people were AGAINST the Health Care Bill… and Obama and the liberal Congress went around the people and passed it anyway…
Let’s just hope 70% of the people vote out all these liberal democrats in November!!!!…..Denise
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: “People say, why are you doing it on the day that the law may be put in effect? Well, should I wait? We’ve been enforcing the other state immigration laws and we’re still the only ones doing it. We’re going to continue doing our job.”
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial top cop in Maricopa County, Ariz., tells Newsmax he will jail any protesters who attempt to block his jail on Thursday when provisions of his state’s tough new immigration law take effect.
Arpaio also says it’s “great” if undocumented aliens react to the new law and his strict anti-illegal immigration agenda by moving back to Mexico or to the “sanctuary state” of California, and challenges President Barack Obama to invite him to the White House for a “wine summit” to discuss illegal immigration.
Arpaio, whose county includes most of the Phoenix metropolitan area, promotes himself as “America’s toughest sheriff.” He has limited county inmates to two meals a day, banned “sexually explicit material” in prison, reinstituted chain gangs, and set up a “tent city” as an extension of the Maricopa County Jail.
On Wednesday a judge blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona’s new law and put them on hold. The law will still take effect on Thursday, but without some of the provisions that angered opponents — including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.
Nevertheless there are reports that opponents of the new law plan to block Arpaio’s jail on Thursday in an act of civil disobedience.
“There’s a rumor that they’re going to block our jails down the street,” Arpaio says in an exclusive Newsmax interview.
“You know what? They’re not going to block our jails. They’re going into the jail if they block our jail. I’m not going to succumb to these demonstrators keeping law enforcement from booking people in our jail. So we may have to take some action.”
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