Monday, June 6, 2011
Weiner Sexting Partner Reveals Her Identity, Says: ‘He Called Me On Congress Phone!’ | Radar Online
Weiner Sexting Partner Reveals Her Identity, Says: ‘He Called Me On Congress Phone!’ | Radar Online: "Weiner Sexting Partner Reveals Her Identity, Says: ‘He Called Me On Congress Phone!’"
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Debt Is Not a Game, Mr. President | The Foundry
The Debt Is Not a Game, Mr. President | The Foundry
Morning Bell: The Debt Is Not a Game, Mr. President
Posted June 1st, 2011 at 9:31am in Entitlements 6 
Well, President Obama asked for it. And last night he got it in grand fashion—a “clean vote” on raising the nation’s debt limit, free of any of the desperately needed spending cuts that Americans are demanding, conservatives support, but liberals abhor. And by a 318–97 margin, the House of Representatives shot down the President’s effort to authorize $2.4 trillion in additional borrowing by the federal government without condition.
The vote was introduced by the House Republican majority to send a message to the President in advance of their meeting today at the White House: There cannot be more borrowing and spending without significant spending cuts and reforms. But when asked yesterday about the vote, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney merely said, “It’s fine. It’s fine,” and assured reporters that President Obama will “definitely” win the debt limit fight. Meanwhile, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) decried the vote, calling it a “political charade” and a “30-second ad attack.” Rep. Hoyer and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) then joined Republicans and voted against President Obama’s wishes.
Unfortunately, all is not fine, this is not a game, and what the White House and congressional Democrats view as nettlesome roadblocks to the continued growth of government is a movement to at long last restore sanity to the federal government amid a fiscal crisis. And that movement is occurring in the utter vacuum of leadership centered at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
That failure to lead can be traced back to 2010, when the Democrat-controlled Congress did not pass a budget for the first time since current budget rules were put into place in 1974. And from there, a straight line can be drawn to last week, when the Senate voted 97–0 against President Obama’s fiscal year 2011 budget proposal. It is in this empty garden, left untended by leadership from the White House, that our federal government has been allowed to grow unchecked.
The federal government is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends. The accumulated national debt stands at nearly 70 percent of the country’s annual economic output, set to climb to 100 percent by the end of this decade. And according to some comparisons, the U.S. economy is already in worse shape than the stumbling economies of most European nations. But never fear: The President is holding a meeting with congressional Republicans today to “hear and listen to their ideas, their concerns.”
Mr. President, it’s not enough to simply “hear and listen.” Now is the time for you to lead the way in cutting spending and reforming government. Take the advice of more than 150 economists who authored a letter warning about the consequences of increasing spending without changes in the way government does business:
An increase in the national debt limit that is not accompanied by significant spending cuts and budget reforms would harm private-sector job growth and represent a tremendous setback in the effort to deal with our national debt.
And with yesterday’s vote, it’s clear that raising the debt limit without reforms is not an available option. The path forward should instead be one marked by substantial spending cuts designed to target our nation’s fiscal problems. Those cuts should be followed by crucial changes such as hard spending caps and entitlement reforms that would return the nation to fiscal sanity and keep it there. David S. Addington, Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy at The Heritage Foundation, writes:
[T]the least acceptable outcome is for Congress to continue to raise the debt ceiling over and over, doing nothing to drive down federal spending and borrowing, and to pile trillions of dollars in debt upon the shoulders of America’s children and the generations to follow.”
While the White House warns that not raising the debt limit would be “calamitous,” “disastrous” and “catastrophic,” their end-of-days rhetoric is equally applicable to the present state of the nation’s fiscal course. In the absence of leadership from the President, conservatives in Congress have attempted to right the ship. It’s about time that the President get on board.
Quick Hits:
- U.S. stocks are set for a weak open today, and the market’s performance in May was the worst since August 2010. Investors are awaiting reports this week on the labor market and manufacturing.
- There was a rise in Asian markets today as Chinese manufacturing continued to ease in May. One economist says the news signals “just a moderation rather than a meltdown in growth.”
- President Barack Obama yesterday nominated John Bryson, co-founder of the leftist Natural Resources Defense Council, to serve as secretary of the Department of Commerce.
- The space shuttle Endeavour flew 122 million miles during 25 spaceflights, and early Wednesday morning it landed for the final time in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- VIDEO: The U.S. government’s duty to defend America is set forth in the Constitution, yet some in Congress are looking to balance the budget on the military’s back. Learn about it in our latest video.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Conservative Bloggers Beware, Agent Smith is Here! | Village of the Banned
Conservative Bloggers Beware, Agent Smith is Here! | Village of the Banned: "
As America Inches towards Martial Law, meet Obama’s Newest Agent Smith?"
Agent Smith?
As America Inches towards Martial Law, meet Obama’s Newest Agent Smith?"
Agent Smith?
The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. According to The Huffington Post, Lee will essentially be responsible for building up Obama’s online presence as he prepares for his reelection bid, and squashing any negative stories:
The post is a new one for this White House. Rapid response has usually been outsourced to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), if not done on an ad-hoc basis by administration officials. And it signals that the White House will be adopting a more aggressive defense of the president and his policies as his re-election campaign gears up. Read the rest of this story at the link below:
ModernConservative
ModernConservative
 | What's The Difference Believing In Liberalism Over Rapture? Jared McAndersen May 24, 2011 Culture |
| I know there was a lot of mocking and hoopla about the rapture last weekend. Well, I want to say the world mocked this guy, but the news reports and constant chatter about it revealed an uneasy sense of "what if." Like many, I knew that it was nothing to worry about. So I paid no attention to this quack, Harold Camping, who now is saying he was off by a few months. Oh...no kidding....this guy should give up "preaching" and become a politician. All serious Christians knew this guy was full of it...
And if the words of Jesus aren't enough, consider that Family Radio, at least in 2009, has assets valued over $100 million in total. Nothing says the end is near better than hoarding paper, right? In the end kooks like this are ignored by all but a few unlucky dupes, but too many of us who ignore Harold Camping aren't any more enlightened for it. How many broken promises of utopia do we have to hear from liberals before we start treating Washington DC with the same disbelief that we give greedy apocalypse-mongers? They're essentially doing the same thing. If we don't take (fill in the taxpayer funder boondoggle here) then the sun wont shine again, rainbows will go on strike, Nancy Pelosi will age "gracefully" and Barney Frank may give women a try. It would get THAT bad. When we see how much of a drain the government becomes to our way of life, and someone like Paul Ryan comes along to address that problem, those same liberals might as well put on a Harold Camping mask when they "argue" it's defense. How much bigger does government need to grow? How much more debt do we have to incur? How much more money needs to be wasted on bureaucracy? How many times does the welfare state need to be discredited before the nation realizes that the Democratic party should change it's mascot from a donkey to a lemon? Liberalism has had Harold Camping's track record for 70 years and counting. President Obama has a nasty habit of going on "trips" and vacations during massive natural disasters. Maybe he should finally take a vacation from his ideology.
This post appeared originally at The Looking Spoon (www.thelookingspoon.com). | |
Thursday, May 26, 2011
DC Liberals Sign Petition to Ban Conservative Websites | MRC TV
An Owrwellian Drama
DC Liberals Sign Petition to Ban Conservative Websites | MRC TV
http://t.co/dNmRcfu
DC Liberals Sign Petition to Ban Conservative Websites | MRC TV
DC Liberals Sign Petition to Ban Conservative Websites
Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 1:59pm
http://t.co/dNmRcfu
After hearing news the other day that the Obama administration had appointed a new position to monitor and push back against negative online press we thought some liberals in DC might think it wasn't enough. So we sent Joe Schoffstall out to see just how far liberals would go to silence conservative speech. Joe went around Georgetown in DC with a petition to "Ban Conservative Hate Sites" that said this:
"The undersigned hereby adamantly demand that the United States government shut down right wing hate sites. The hate speech propagated by sites like the Drudge Report, Hot Air, Instapundit, Big Government, and others must not be allowed to corrupt our political discourse any longer. These sites are dangerous not only to truth and freedom but also to our society as a whole. BAN THEM NOW!"
That is pretty radical rhetoric that no reasonable, freedom-loving, red-blooded American could possibly agree with, right? Well, see for yourself:
It's shocking isn't it? Then again, perhaps it shouldn't be.
After all Exposing Leftists, um, exposed that liberal college student in California were willing to ban conservatives from talk radio.
Plus the fairness doctrine, which essentially bans conservatives from radio, has been a sweetheart of the left for decades.
http://mrctv.org/blog/dc-liberals-sign-petition-ban-conservative-websites
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