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Obama’s Response to 2% Cut: Let Criminals Free, End Food
Safety Inspections
Here’s the 3 by 5
index card version of what the GOP’s message on sequestration ought to be: Our current level of spending is
unsustainable. Spending must go down. Period.
This is a 2 percent cut.
Sure, if we in the
Republican Party had complete control of the government, we would be
implementing the cuts differently. But we don’t. Congress can only appropriate
funds; it doesn’t run the departments and agencies that spend the money. That’s
the power and responsibility of the executive branch. If the Obama
administration’s response to a 2 percent cut is really to let all the criminals
out of the jails and end food safety inspections, then it is no longer
disputable that he’s a Stuttering Cluster-you-know-what of a Miserable Failure.
I’m not exaggerating on Obama’s doomsday talk:
President Obama on Tuesday painted a
dire picture of federal government operations across the United States should
automatic budget cuts hit on March 1: F.B.I. agents furloughed, criminals
released, flights delayed, teachers and police officers laid off and parents
frantic to find a place for children locked out of day care centers. “Federal
prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go,” Mr. Obama said, flanked
by law enforcement officers at the White House. “Tens of thousands of parents
will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.”
While the effects
may ultimately be significant, many are unlikely to be felt immediately,
officials said Tuesday after the
president’s remarks. Rather, they will ripple gradually across the federal
government as agencies come to grips in the months ahead with across-the-board
cuts to all their programs. …But officials conceded that day care centers are almost
certainly not going to be padlocked on March 1. Border patrols will be staffed throughout
that day and the days to come. Federal agents will continue to conduct
investigations, and criminals will not immediately be “let go,” as Mr. Obama
suggested. Ask yourself; "Why would the
President lie to Americans?"
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State Dept. Erases ‘Muslim,’ ‘Islam’ From 2,000 Page
Terror Memo
A State Department
“worldwide caution” updating U.S. citizens about potential terror threats has
little to say about the fact that most of the terrorist groups targeting
Americans profess themselves to be inspired by Islam. The 2,000-plus word memo released this week does not use the word
“Muslim” at all. “Islam” is used only where it appears in the actual name of a
militant group (such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan), and in reference
to “anti-Islamic videos and cartoons,” which the department says were
linked to some anti-Western violence last September. The memo uses the term
“Islamist” only once – to describe extremist groups such as Lashkar-e-Toiba
that are active in South Asia. Elsewhere the advisory is silent on the
religious/ideological motivation driving the majority of anti-Western terrorist
groups. Propaganda
or what???
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Obama On High Gas
Prices: ‘Use Less Oil’
President Barack
Obama touched on a number of topics relating to South Carolina on Wednesday in
a special one-on-one interview with Live 5 News anchor Debi Chard. Chard was
selected as one of eight local news reporters around the United States to
interview the president in the White House on Wednesday. During the interview,
Chard spoke with President Obama on issues relating to residents of South
Carolina. Chard also
spoke with President Obama about rising gas prices in Charleston. "Gas
prices continue to be an ongoing problem," said Obama. "I'm proud of
the fact that under my administration, oil production is higher than it has
been in a decade or more. We have seen a doubling of fuel efficiency standards
on cars over the next several years, so that is saving people money at the
pump." The president said one of the things that must happen in order to lower
gas prices is to make the "overall economy use less oil." "Unfortunately
because of world-wide demand, oil prices are going to keep going up and down
until we put in place some of the energy saving proposals I talked about in the
State of the Union," Obama said. He is lying again. He knows because his own department of energy has forecasted
that alternative fuels in a best case scenario will only achieve 13% of energy
consumption in 40 years. The balance
will fall on fossil fuels.
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Ability to Shift Money From One Account to Another Could
Minimize Sequester Pain By Susan Jones
Conservative pundit
Charles Krauthammer says President Obama could easily reduce the fear and panic
engendered by the looming sequester if he would simply push Congress to pass a
bill allowing a transfer of funds from less important federal accounts to more
important federal accounts. "And
the president is the one who ought to propose it," Krauthammer told Fox
News on Wednesday. "He won't, of course, because he is looking for a
fight, and not a solution." Here is
the proof - White House spokesman Jay Carney, echoing his boss, said on
Wednesday that "the effect of the sequester would be severe, and it would
go right to American families." Carney bluntly blamed Republicans, as
Obama has done: "Americans will lose their jobs because Republicans made a
choice for that to happen," Carney said. Who is responsible for the Sequester? The
bottom line, concludes FactCheck.org,
is that it doesn’t matter. Both parties are responsible for this puppy, the
fact-checking site’s report says, because they both voted for it. “The
reality is that the pending cuts would not be possible had both Democrats and
Republicans not supported the legislation that included them,” FactCheck
says. The sequester was part of the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011, which
passed the House with 269 “yea” votes – 174 Republicans and 95 Democrats. In
the 100-seat Senate, Democrats made up most of the 74 "yea" votes,
but there were 28 Republicans in that majority, as well.
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DOD: No Civilian
Furloughs Until Late April By
Susan Jones
Robert F. Hale, the
Defense Department's comptroller and chief financial officer, and Jessica L.
Wright, acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, brief
reporters at the Pentagon, Feb. 20, 2013. If the sequester happens as scheduled
on March 1, the Defense Department plans to furlough civilian employees, but
those furloughs would not start until late April at the earliest.
Undersecretary of
Defense (Comptroller) Robert F. Hale explained the procedure at a news
conference on Wednesday:
"First,
there's a whole series of notifications," Hale said. "We started the
first one today, with the notification to Congress, along with a message by the
secretary of defense to our civilian employees. That starts a 45-day clock
ticking. Until that clock has run out, we cannot proceed with furloughs."
So much for the Obama fear tactics of
immediate furloughs and thousands losing their jobs. Another lie?
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Graham: Obama Knew of Benghazi Threat, Acted 'After
Everybody Was Dead' By Sandy Fitzgerald
President Barack
Obama was aware of two IED attacks on the Benghazi consulate in Libya in the
months leading up the the Sept. 11 attack that killed U. S. Ambassador J.
Christopher Stevens and three others, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham claims. The
South Carolina Republican said James Clapper, the Director of National
Intelligence, told him the president was informed of attacks in April and June.
The June attack blew a hole in the perimeter wall of the Benghazi compound, and
the two strikes were reportedly part of dozens of incidents in the region that
are considered warning signs of the deadly attacks in September. Graham
criticized Obama for a White House statement saying the president did not talk
to Libya's leader until the evening of Sept. 12, a day after the embassy was
attacked. “(He talked) after everybody
was dead,” said Graham, suggesting Obama could have made a difference if he'd
been involved earlier, but “you got a commander in chief who is absolutely
disengaged. You got the secretary of State never talking to the secretary of
Defense."
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USDA preaches Pilgrims were illegal aliens
Washington watchdog
Judicial Watch has obtained videos of seminars for U.S. Department of Agriculture employees with an instructor explaining
that the “Pilgrims were illegal aliens.”
Now JW president Tom Fitton is wondering who can “explain
how any of this helps USDA employees better serve the American taxpayer?” “This
video further confirms that politically correct diversity training programs are
both offensive and waste of taxpayer money,” he said. “No wonder it took over
half a year to obtain this video from the Obama administration.”
Judicial Watch officials said they had gotten a tip from someone subjected to
the training, and filed a Freedom of Information
Act request for the video. The organization said the
“Cultural Sensitivity Training” demanded USDA employees bang on tables, chant
“The pilgrims were illegal aliens” and were instructed no longer to use the
word “minorities.” Indoctrination at taxpayer expense! Can we not trust this administration on
anything?
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Climate
contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards By
SETH BORENSTEIN
WASHINGTON (AP) --
With scant snowfall and barren ski
slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some
scientists have pointed to global
warming as the culprit. Then, when a
whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow in
some places earlier this month, some of the same people again blamed global
warming. How can that be? It's been a joke among skeptics, pointing to what
seems to be a brazen contradiction. But the answer lies in atmospheric physics.
A warmer atmosphere can hold, and dump, more moisture, snow experts say. And
two soon-to-be-published studies demonstrate how there can be more giant
blizzards yet less snow overall each year. Projections are that that's likely to
continue with manmade global warming.
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Massive Cover-Up By Obama Administration
“Of the information concerning the deaths of
four brave Americans. The information has not been forthcoming. You can
obviously believe that it has. I know that it hasn’t, and I will be glad to
send you a list of the questions that have not been answered, including what
did the president do and who did he talk to the night of the attack on Benghazi
and why was it, why was it that we — that the people who were evacuated from
the — from the consulate the next day were not interviewed the next day and
then they would have known that it was not a spontaneous demonstration. Why did
the president, for two weeks, for two weeks during the heat of the campaign,
continue to say he didn’t know whether it was a terrorist attack or not? Is it
because it interfered with the line of al Qaeda is decimated and everything’s
fine in that part of the world? Maybe. We don’t know. But we need the answers.
Then we will reach conclusions, but we have not received the answers and that’s
a fact.”
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Last Friday I wrote about how the White House had sent a letter to
Congress that said that Barack Obama didn’t make one single phone call on the
night of September 11, 2012 as the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi
were taking place. Well just how the narrative on Benghazi has changed over and
over with this administration, they have changed their story again. Now, White
House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that Obama Called then Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton at approximately 10pm EST on the night of the Benghazi attacks.
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Mark Levin exposes a WASTELAND of govt overspending while
Obama LIES to your face saying we can’t cut spending
Mark Levin
completely obliterated Obama lies today that we can’t cut spending or else the
country will fall apart. And he does it systematically by exposing a whole
wasteland of government documented overspending and mismanagement that Obama
refuses to fix. And it’s his government! This is a fantastic segment and one I
would deem a MUST
LISTEN
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Obama Admits: ‘Energy Is Going to Be a Little More
Expensive’
During a Friday
Google+ hangout session, President
Barack Obama conceded that his policies to address climate change will raise
energy costs, a fact that could prove uncomfortable for Democrats in areas
reliant on fossil fuel power plants:
I
have to tell you that there are some Democrats, for example, who represent
states or districts that are heavily reliant on old power plants and are more
heavily manufacturing based. And the truth is that if you produce power using
old power plants, you’re going to be emitting more carbon, but, to upgrade those
plants means energy is going to be a little more expensive, at least on the
front end.
This is not the
first time Obama has admitted to supporting price-raising energy policies. In 2008, then-candidate Obama said he was
fine with soaring energy prices so long as they helped curb green house gas
emissions. “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would
necessarily skyrocket,” he said. And we
elected this nut!
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"Keep your so-called workers," U.S. boss tells
France
(Reuters) - The CEO of a U.S. tire company has
delivered a crushing summary of how some outsiders view France's work ethic in
a letter saying he would have to be stupid to take over a factory whose staff
only put in three hours work a day. Titan International's Maurice
"Morry" Taylor, who goes by "The Grizz" for his bear-like
no-nonsense style, told France's left-wing industry minister in a letter
published by Paris media that he had no interest in buying a doomed plant. "The French workforce gets paid high wages
but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for
three and work for three," Taylor wrote on February 8 in the letter in
English addressed to the minister, Arnaud Montebourg. "I told this to
the French union workers to their faces. They told me that's the French way!"
Taylor added in the letter, which was posted by business daily Les Echos on its
website on Wednesday and which the ministry confirmed was genuine. "How stupid do you think we are?" he
asked at one point.
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Obama Reaches Out To A Culture Strangling A Free America
by John DeMayo
Obama’s America has
gradually developed an irresistible tolerance for the dangerous and immoral
culture of Islam. Islam’s whispers have
now turned to shouts as this manufactured religion continues its assault on our
freedoms and American ideals. American society’s distorted views of Islam
as a legitimate religion, guaranteed a place in our free society, are fueling
the conquest of our nation and the future subjugation of our free people. For those broadminded Americans who have
grown to accept Islam’s dynamic assimilation into U.S society, be warned. Islam
is not a religion it is a culture. As hard as academics try, Islam cannot be defined as a belief system
founded on personal choice as it is with Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, or
Hinduism rather it is an ideological scheme defining all life’s choices, social
order and laws. More importantly, the Muslim
belief system is grounded firmly in the conquest of its enemies and
subordination of any conflicting faith or social order. Islam is not a faith
respecting free will and a search for God. It is wholly materialistic,
demanding adherence to its social precepts under penalty of death or
enslavement. Religious observance and loyalty is a quest for
goodness and truth. All true religions
inspire their followers to seek out God and experience God’s love. This is not
the case with Islam. True Islam mandates conformity to a strict social construct that places Arab culture and
its Islamic traditions above all things. To a genuine Muslim there is no
higher truth than found in the Koran. God’s gift of free will is a falsehood
and all things happen through the will of Allah. Islam is the antithesis of religion and spirituality. It does not exist to lead men to God only
to perpetuate the growth and dominance of its culture. Islam
is a fabricated religion designed by a man committed to world conquest.
Unlike Christianity, there is no social benefit or charity for non-believers,
Islam exists for the benefit of Muslims and Islam only.
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Obama Is Not A Keynesian, He’s An American!
After hundreds of
thousands of conservatives gathered for a rally in Washington, DC in August
2010, there was a ‘counter rally’ for liberals a few days later. A reporter was
on scene holding up his own sign “OBAMA = KEYNESIAN?” so that attending libs
would approach him. No doubt he was hoping for some good video clips. This one
is absolutely classic, with excerpts highlighting these low information voters.
It’s under two minutes and worth watching. (Look for the Hitler costumes and
animal masks – hilarious.) So what is
a Keynesian anyway? I know that none of you thought the term referred to
someone who was born in Kenya, but still might know what one is. John Maynard
Keynes was a British economist of some note and founded a school of economic
thought called Keynesian economics.
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48% Think Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants Will
Encourage More to Come
Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress last week that the U.S.-Mexico border
is more secure than ever and that immigration reform legislation should focus
its attention elsewhere. But most voters think more border security is needed,
and half believe offering citizenship to illegal immigrants already here will
just encourage more to come. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone
survey finds that just 25% of Likely U.S. Voters agree with Napolitano that the
U.S. border is now more secure than it has ever been. Forty-seven percent (47%)
disagree with her assessment, while 28% more are not sure.
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73% Oppose Taxing Health Care Benefits Provided by
Employers
Americans
overwhelmingly oppose the idea of taxing the health insurance benefits provided
by their employers but are less adamant when it comes to workers who earn more
than $150,000 a year.
Proposals have been made to include the amount employers
pay toward a worker’s health insurance as part of his or her overall taxable
income, but just 13% of American Adults think that’s a good idea.
A new Rasmussen Reports national
telephone survey finds that 73% oppose taxing health insurance benefits
provided by employers. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.
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