Suspect in vandalism leftist, not Republican

A suspect in a case of vandalism at the Colorado Democratic headquarters was once a paid campaign worker for a Democratic candidate for the legislature, despite the state party chief having blamed hate-fomented opposition to Democratic health care plans. Maurice Schwenkler, 24, was arrested in Denver on Tuesday on a charge of criminal mischief after windows were smashed at the Democratic offices. Many of the windows displayed posters supporting health care reform. “We ought to be having a serious, conscientious debate about what’s best for the country,” state Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak said Tuesday. “Clearly, there’s been an effort on the other side to stir up hate. I think this is the consequence of it.” [I smelled a ‘RAT right off the bat when I first heard about this incident and you know the lamestream media, after initially reporting the vandalism, will not perform any kind of follow up…ed]

Students’ take-home assignment: Census kits

Anyone tempted to ignore the 2010 Census will have a tough time doing it — especially if they have kids in school. The government has launched Census in Schools, an all-out campaign targeting superintendents, principals, teachers, students and, indirectly, parents, as schools open across the nation this month and next. The message: The Census is coming and here’s why everyone should care. [Around my house the adults have always been in charge, not the kids. But then again we do have a lot of “linguistically isolated” (read illegal aliens) people living in this country that the Democrats are desperate to include in the upcoming census…ed]

Obama’s 09 deficit exceeds all eight years of Bush red ink

How much is President Obama boosting federal spending? The Heritage Foundation’s Brian Riedl puts a little perspective on the numbers made public today:

· This year, Washington will spend $30,958 per household, tax $17,576 per household, and borrow $13,392 per household. This spending is not just temporary: President Obama would permanently keep annual spending between $5,000 and $8,000 per household higher than it had been under President Bush. [Yet the idiots on the left keep bawling their eyes out over the focus group developed term “failed economic policies of the Bush administration.” At least true conservatives hammered Bush over his out of control spending, something the liberals will obviously never do with Obama…ed]

Brace yourself: Beer prices are going up

Beer drinkers beware: The cost of a cold one is going up. Brewers across the globe are hiking prices to compensate for lower sales volumes and higher commodity costs. Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer and maker of Budweiser, announced plans to raise prices Tuesday. “We plan on taking price increases on a majority of volume and in a majority of markets this fall,” Anheuser-Busch InBev said in a statement. “The increase helps cover some input costs.” [Sales tank so the industry raises prices?…ed]

California state garage sale: Many things must go

Well, the countdown is continuing for the Great California Garage Sale this Friday and Saturday. The Golden State is in so much financial distress that it lost its lease and everything must go. Not really, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to mark the end of soft news summer days with a sale of surplus, unused or wasteful state property. To enhance interest and bidding, the ex-movie star even autographed the sun visors of some vehicles for sale. [Not a bad idea but won’t raise enough money to pay the cost for half the illegal aliens in prison for a lousy month. Maybe California could just impose a big and permanent wealth tax on all of the uber rich left wing movie stars and entertainers living in the state?…ed]

Obama’s Carousel of Incompetence

According to the Gallup Poll, the Prophet Obama’s job approval is now at its lowest since his coronation. It began at 70 percent. Now it is at 51 percent. Equally glum, his disapproval rating has climbed from 11 percent to 42 percent. (SNIP) My belief, based on reports in the news and from my private network of seasoned agents and provocateurs, is that this White House is a carousel of incompetence. How else do we explain the ravening push on all fronts — health care, the environment, fiscal reform, intelligence reform and a foreign policy of humility and apology? Unsurprisingly, on every front, the president is in trouble. [The 2010 election will be a monumentally important event in which we have what may be our last chance to save this country as we know it and Obama/Congress know it. Let’s hope elections are still part of the American way of life come next year…ed]

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Senator Edward Kennedy dies at age 77

U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America’s most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, died at age 77, his family said. “Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts),” the Kennedy family said in a statement early on Wednesday. [I’ll skip all of the “Johnny Walker stock drops like a rock on this news” stuff. This man carried around his neck the death of Mary Jo for 40 years and that had to be one of the last things on his mind when he drifted off to wherever he is going now…ed]

Rangel’s Wealth Jumps After Disclosure

House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel , already beset by a series of ethics investigations, has disclosed more than $500,000 in previously unreported assets. Among the new items on Rangel’s amended 2007 financial disclosure report were an account at the Congressional Federal Credit Union worth at least $250,000, an investment account with at least $250,000, land in southern New Jersey and stock in PepsiCo and fast food conglomerate Yum! Brands. None of those investments appeared on the original report, which was filled out by hand and filed in May 2008. [Maybe this is something Attorney General Eric Holder can spend some of his time looking into?…ed]

Stimulus Checks Mistakenly Sent to 1,700 Inmates, Federal Agency Says

The federal government mistakenly sent out stimulus checks to 1,700 inmates, the Social Security Administration said Tuesday — a $425,000 error. Social Security spokesman Dan Moraski told FOXNews.com in a written statement that the money went out because official records “did not accurately reflect that they were in prison.” The inspector general’s office for the Social Security Administration is now looking into the problem as part of its broader audit on stimulus spending. [What? You haven’t heard about the new federal government Cash for Felons program?…ed]

House Dem won’t vote for Pelosi as Speaker

A freshman House Democrat from Alabama said Tuesday he would not vote for Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as Speaker again because of her “divisive and polarizing” image. “I would not vote for her,” Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) told a constituent at a town hall meeting when asked if he’d support Pelosi. “Someone that divisive and that polarizing cannot bring us together.” [This guy had better be walking backwards out of the House chamber after each session from now on because Pelosi is well know for figuratively plunging knives into the backs of anyone who crosses her…ed]

Support for Congressional Health Care Reform Falls to New Low

Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago. (SNIP) More significantly, 44% of voters strongly oppose the health care reform effort versus 26% who strongly favor it. Intensity has been stronger among opponents of the plan since the debate began. [Like Obama and Congress give a rip how American citizens feel about this issue…ed]

HBO’s Maher: Americans too ‘Stupid’ so President Should Force ObamaCare into Law

If smugness were a crime, they would put HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher under the jail. On NBC’s Aug. 24 “Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien,” Maher expressed his frustration with President Barack Obama’s inability to get health care/health insurance reformed and passed into law. “I think right now for example, this health care debate looks like it’s – we could lose it because I don’t think [Obama] he has been tough enough,” Maher said. “You know, he used to say in the campaign, ‘It’s your time.’ This is his time. He should get mad, stop [expletive] around.” [I would love to bump into this greasy haired scrawny ass maggot on the street and see if he has the balls to call me a stupid American to my face…ed]

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Obama Weekly Approval Average Now 52%, a New Low

President Barack Obama’s most recent weekly job approval rating is 52% for the seven-day period ending on Sunday, similar to the 54% reading from the previous week but down significantly from 59% a month ago. His average disapproval rating during the past week is 41%. In June, Obama maintained approval ratings in the 60% range, roughly twice his disapproval rating. Obama still enjoys a double-digit gap between his average approval and average disapproval scores — 11 percentage points for the week of Aug. 17-23. However, that buffer has shrunk considerably since mid-July, due to diminished support across the board. [Huge drop in numbers coming from the young crowd and the most prolific voting group in the country…senior citizens…ed]

Obama Allies Find Words Fail Them

In the rhetorical battle over health care, the forces backing President Barack Obama’s overhaul have spent years polling and using focus groups to find the precise language that would win over voters — an effort that doesn’t at the moment appear to be working. When Mr. Obama told grass-roots organizers last week that the mandatory purchase of health insurance would “be affordable, based on a sliding scale,” the phrasing precisely mirrored language that had been poll-tested and put before batteries of focus groups by Democratic consultants over the past few years. [Rhetoric in this case clearly means lying. It’s as simple as that and these leftists continue to forget that the American people are a hell of a lot smarter than they think…ed]

Air Space Restrictions Disrupt Angel Flights Service After All

Angel Flights, the nonprofit organization which flies people who are critically ill to off-Island medical appointments, has shut down Martha’s Vineyard operations this week, apparently in reaction to flight restrictions in place for the duration of the presidential vacation visit to the Island. The move came despite assurances that special dispensation was made for the mercy flight operators during temporary flight restriction (TFR) orders to protect air space over Martha’s Vineyard from August 23 to 30. Paula Strasser said that the eight to 10 flights scheduled for this week have now been cancelled. [Bad time to get really sick over on Marxist Vineyard…ed]

Letalvis Cobbins found guilty in Christian – Newsom murders

The jury has found Letalvis D. Cobbins guilty of the murders of Channon Christian and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, in 2007. Cobbins faces the possibility of the death penalty because he was convicted of facilitation of first degree felony murder in 32 counts. The jury found Cobbins not guilty of five counts including the murder of Newsom during his rape, the murder of Christian during Newsom’s rape and three counts of aggravated rape of Newsom. [Four black men brutally rape and murder white couple. No hate crimes charges. Mainstream media has completely ignored this case…ed]

HUMMER Dealer Starts Selling Guns to Make Ends Meet

With Hummer sales down more than 60 percent in 2009, and General Motors trying to sell the entire company due to its lackluster performance, one dealer is literally pulling out the big guns to make a buck. The Belleville-News Democrat reports that Jim Lynch Hummer in Chesterfield, Illinois has started selling firearms and ammunition from his showroom to battle the slow economy. [This has GOT to be enough to make the left wingers heads explode. I love it!…ed]

Insulter-In-Chief

“He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing.” If Goethe was right, I guess we can give up on President Obama exerting a useful influence. By now he’s insulted just about everything and everyone. I list some of his insults below, in alphabetical order by insultee. Let the healing begin. [Obama’s an arrogant marxist hack. This is normal behavior for these types of jerks…ed]

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Millions face shrinking Social Security payments

Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won’t be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That hasn’t happened since automatic increases were adopted in 1975. [This announcement should make the largest voting block in the country happy to hear. Screw with their healthcare and now their social security, boy that’s one way to really piss them off…ed]

2010 SENATE CAMPAIGN: Polls show potential GOP challengers would beat Harry Reid

It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters. The results suggest the Democratic Senate majority leader will have to punch hard and often in order to retain his position as the most accomplished politician in state history, in terms of job status. Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll. [Dingy Harry is feeling the heat in Nevada. The only thing this moron was good for was his moderate support of the Second Amendment…ed]

Health care and the ailing Constitution

Here’s the question I didn’t get a chance to ask President Obama when he stopped by Montana recently. So far as I know, no one else has asked it of him either: “If the federal role in health care is not enumerated in the Constitution, and it isn’t, then shouldn’t it be reserved to the states or the people as guaranteed by the 10th Amendment?” The 10th Amendment, for those of you who don’t already know, says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Pretty powerful stuff, if anyone followed it — but they don’t. [Amen…ed]

Paterson whines: ‘RACISM!’

Gov. Paterson has played the race card. The state’s first black governor yesterday blamed his political woes — and those of President Obama — on a white-dominated media that he accused of taking part in an “orchestrated” attack campaign. “We’re not in the post-racial period,” Paterson said in a freewheeling interview on the liberal talk-radio station WWRL. “My feeling is it’s being orchestrated, it’s a game, and people who pay attention know that.” [Turns out Obama wasn’t too pleased with this little race card outburst by the utter failure of a governor…ed]

Peeved Obama trumps Paterson’s race card

President Obama’s aides were so furious that Gov. Paterson dragged him into a rant about racism that they sent a message sharply criticizing the governor’s comments just hours after he made them, The Post has learned. Aides to Obama were angered by Paterson’s tirade on liberal talk-radio station WWRL on Friday, sources said. [I’d say most of this country has grown beyond weary with these black politicians who’s performance in office sucks, blaming racism on their problems. It isn’t your race Paterson, it’s your incompetence that has the people ready to throw your ass out of the office you were never elected to in the first place…ed]

‘Clunkers’ Program Benefits Foreign Automakers More, Data Shows

The Obama administration has declared the wildly popular ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program a success, saying it has revived the country’s ailing auto industry and taken polluting vehicles off the road. But the data shows that the program, which ends Monday, has apparently benefited foreign automakers more than their U.S. counterparts. Smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles like the Toyota Corolla are top sellers, while buyers are trading in SUV’s like the Ford Explorer to be scrapped, turning the already dwindling number of American car owners into the growing ranks of foreign car drivers. [The community organizer in chief spreadin’ the wealth around the world…ed]

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A Deck Stacked With Race Cards

What if America transcended race, and Barack Obama wasn’t invited? The question comes to mind as cries of racism grow ever louder from Obama’s supporters. No one should be surprised. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, liberal Democrats have to accuse their opponents of racism. Indeed, somewhat to their credit, fighting racism — alas, even where it doesn’t exist — is one of the reasons they became liberal Democrats in the first place. [Hey all you guilt trippin’ left wing crackers, how’s all that racial hopey changy BS workin’ for ya these days?…ed]

The Death Book for Veterans

If President Obama wants to better understand why America’s discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that can start with cost containment but quickly become a systematic denial of care. Last year, bureaucrats at the VA’s National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, “Your Life, Your Choices.” [Brought about by Clinton, killed by Bush, brought back by Obama. What’s that tell ya? Read it here…ed]

As Vets Suffer, VA Staff Get $24M Bonuses

Outside the Veterans Affairs Department, severely wounded veterans have faced financial hardship waiting for their first disability payment. Inside, money has been flowing in the form of $24 million in bonuses. In scathing reports this week, the VA’s inspector general said thousands of technology office employees at the VA received the bonuses over a two-year period, some under questionable circumstances. It also detailed abuses ranging from nepotism to an inappropriate relationship between two VA employees. [Government run healthcare at it’s finest…ed]

Family told by NHS: Alzheimer’s is not a ‘health condition’

NHS Worcestershire ruled that Judith Roe, 74, did not qualify for NHS funding because her condition was a “social” rather than “health” problem, even though she was so ill she could not make a cup of tea and regularly left the stove on. She was forced to sell her £200,000 home to pay her £600-a-week nursing home fees, which would have been funded if she had been categorised correctly. Mrs Roe’s family appealed to the Health Service Ombudsman, which ruled that Mrs Roe’s assessment had been incorrect and her treatment should have been funded by the NHS. NHS Worcestershire has now reimbursed them for six years of care. [Alzheimer’s disease was the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2008. Sounds like a health condition to me…ed]

California’s unemployment rate hits record high

California’s unemployment rate took an unexpected leap in July, reaching a new high of 11.9% and bucking a trend that saw the national rate drop over the same period. The state lost a net 35,800 jobs last month, shedding more jobs than any other state, the U.S. Labor Department said today. It has lost 760,000 jobs over the last year. [Last one out hit the light switch…ed]

California Senate OKs plan to reduce prison population

After an impassioned debate over the cost and benefit of California’s massive prison system, the state Senate on Thursday narrowly approved a controversial bill to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in spending on state lockups by reducing the time lower-level inmates would spend behind bars and on parole. (SNIP) The discord came as the state faces a looming deadline from three federal judges to produce a plan to reduce overcrowding by taking about 40,000 inmates out of a system that now holds nearly 170,000. [No wonder people are fleeing the state by the thousands. All hell is gonna break loose with another 40,000 convicted criminals back on the street knowing the state doesn’t have the funds to deal with their illegal behavior…ed]

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