Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak IS to speak. Not to act IS to act. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer / We all must make a choice between what is right and what is easy. ~ Dumbledor
9/10/2009
BALTIMORE ACORN PROSTITUTION INVESTIGATION
HERE IS THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF ACORN WORKERS ASSISTING A MAN AND A WOMAN CLAIMING TO BE INVOLVED IN A PROSTITUTION RING, ENCOURAGIING THEM TO LIE TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AND PROVIDING GUIDANCE ON HOW TO CLAIM UNDERAGE GIRLS FROM SOUTH AMERICA, FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION, AS DEPENDENTS TO CLAIM CREDITS ON THEIR THE PIMP'S TAX RETURN...
ACORN HAS RECEIVED MILLIONS FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND IS SET TO RECEIVE BILLIONS FROM THE STIMULUS PACKAGE...YET THEY SEEM TO BE IN THE BUSINESS OF INSTRUCTING PEOPLE ON HOW TO RUN ILLEGAL BUSINESS...CHEAT ON THEIR TAX RETURNS....LAUNDER MONEY...UNDERREPORT INCOME...WITHOUT ONE CONCERN FOR THE CHILDREN THAT ARE GOING TO BE FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION...
DR
9/01/2009
DEAR LEADER TO INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN - TEACHERS GIVEN 'TO-DO' LIST
PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities:
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education September 8, 2009
Before the Speech:
Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions: Who is the President of the United States? What do you think it takes to be President? To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking? Why do you think he wants to speak to you? What do you think he will say to you?
Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.
Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the Speech:
As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following: What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do? What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.
After the Speech:
Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.
Students could discuss their responses to the following questions: What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us? What would you like to tell the President?
Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest.
On September 8th the Department will invite K-12 students to submit a 2
video no longer than 2 min, explaining why education is important and how their education will help them achieve their dreams. Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into an assignment. More details will be released via www.ed.gov
.
Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students
Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.
Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.
Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.
Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community.
Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.
Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.
Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.
Graph student progress toward goals.
H/T: DRUDGE REPORT
DR
AMERICAN CITIZEN "THIS USED TO BE AMERICA!"; POLICE OFFICER "IT AIN'T NO MORE, OKAY?"
THE AMERICAN CITIZEN COULD NOT GET AN EXPLANATION ABOUT WHY HIS POSTER WAS NOT GOING TO BE ALLOWED AT THE RALLY...AND FINALLY SAID "THIS USED TO BE AMERICA!"...THE POLICE OFFICER ACTUALLY SAID "IT AIN'T NO MORE, OKAY?"
AND NOW, HERE IS THE AMAZING VIDEO:
THANKS TO RIGHT KLIK
DR
8/27/2009
THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS 'RECOVERY'
There is something wrong with the entire recovery tale, which ignores the fact that excess plant is still at the highest level since the Great Depression (capacity use is 70pc in Europe, 68pc in the US, 65pc in Japan, and as low as 50pc in some countries, according to the World Bank’s Justin Lin). Companies will have to cut jobs and investment.
Soaring “confidence” indicators have decoupled from reality. The world economy is still prostrate. GDP has shrunk 4pc, 6pc, 8pc, even 12pc or more in a large group of countries. There it more or less sits, like a deflated soufflĂ©.
THIS IS SCARY STUFF...BUT EVEN MORE INTERESTING...AND TERRIFYING IS THIS:
Japan is the world’s second biggest economy. It lives on exports. It is also a key part of the supply chain for the Chinese economy. How can this hard data be reconciled with the extreme V-shaped recovery already priced in by the markets?
Is this just a glut of ships or is this telling us what the Shanghai market is also telling us, that credit tightening by the Chinese government is pulling the rug from underneath the latest commodity bubble?
THERE...THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S INVOLVEMENT IN ALL OF THIS...
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WARNING ABOUT BORROWING AT THE RATE WE HAVE AND THE EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS WE HAVE FROM NOT ONLY ONE OF OUR WORLD COMPETETITORS...CHINA IS REALLY NO FRIEND TO THE UNITED STATES...
SURE, THEY COME HERE AND BUY UP INVESTMENTS...BUT, REALLY, IS THAT A GOOD THING?
I AM NOT AFRAID TO ADMIT...I AM WORRIED...AND IF YOU AREN'T...YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION...
DR
SHOCKER: REAL US UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 16%
The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday.
"If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking -- so-called discouraged workers -- and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent, said Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart.
DR
8/26/2009
WEEP NO TEARS FOR TED KENNEDY'S PASSING...HOW OLD WOULD MARY JO KOPECHNE BE TODAY?

Sometime around midnight, on July 18, 1969 Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile 88 off of a small bridge on Chappaquiddick island, into eight feet of chilly water. The vehicle landed upside-down. While Kennedy managed to free himself from the wreck and swim to safety, his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne was left in the car to drown.
I WEEP NO TEARS FOR TED KENNEDY'S PASSING...
Once he reached shore, Kennedy claims to have made seven or eight attempts to rescue Kopechne, but could not free her.
Kennedy then walked back to the cottage where he and four other men, were partying with several young women known as the “Boiler Room Girls“ who had worked on Robert Kennedy‘s campaign. Though Kennedy passed by a fire station and a private home to return to the cottage, he never stopped to ask for help for the trapped Kopechne.
He returned to the party and according to Kennedy himself, informed his cousin and a friend of the situation. The two men, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham claim to have returned to the scene of the accident and made several unsuccessful attempts to free Kopechne.
Then Kennedy’s story takes an even stranger turn.
After the failed rescue attempts, Kennedy claims to have jumped back into the water and made the 500-foot swim across the channel back to Edgartown. He then walked back to his hotel and spent the night. He even took the time to change clothes and pay a visit to the front-desk, to complain about a noisy party--no doubt Kennedy's sloppy attempt at securing an alibi.
I'LL SAY AGAIN...I WEEP NO TEARS FOR TED KENNEDY'S PASSING...HE LEFT THAT POOR GIRL TO DROWN...
The next morning, Gargan and Markham around 8:00 a.m., and were supposedly shocked to discover that Kennedy never reported the accident to police. According to Kennedy‘s own testimony, he told them: "about my own thoughts and feelings as I swam across that channel ... that somehow when they arrived in the morning that they were going to say that Mary Jo was still alive"
The two men along with Kennedy went back to Chappaquiddick, where Kennedy spent some time making phone calls, seeking advice from various individuals as to how to proceed.
Meanwhile, two fisherman had discovered the submerged car and notified police. At 8:45a.m. a diver recovered the lifeless body of Mary Jo Kopechne.
It was not until 10a.m., over nine hours after driving-off of the bridge that Ted Kennedy went to the police station in Edgarton to report the accident.
Kennedy then gave the following prepared statement to police: “On July 18, 1969, at approximately 11:15 p.m. in Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, I was driving my car on Main Street on my way to get the ferry back to Edgartown. I was unfamiliar with the road and turned right onto Dike Road, instead of bearing hard left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately one-half mile on Dike Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge.
The car went off the side of the bridge. There was one passenger with me, one Miss Mary [Kopechne], a former secretary of my brother Sen. Robert Kennedy. The car turned over and sank into the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom. I attempted to open the door and the window of the car but have no recollection of how I got out of the car. I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt. I was exhausted and in a state of shock.
I recall walking back to where my friends were eating. There was a car parked in front of the cottage and I climbed into the backseat. I then asked for someone to bring me back to Edgartown. I remember walking around for a period and then going back to my hotel room. When I fully realized what had happened this morning, I immediately contacted the police”
In a move which must have been rather tortuous for her parents, Kennedy attended Mary Jo's funeral, wearing a neck brace (which he reportedly never wore again) and looking rather pathetic.
The diver who recovered Kopechne’s body, John Farrar testified at the official inquest that her body was found where the air pocket would have formed. He said: “Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.”
A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended two-month sentence. Kennedy then went on national television to repeat his rather implausible story, and to ask for the public’s “prayers.”
The ensuing scandal and questionable details given by all of those involved is now left to speculation. It was obvious to most people that Kennedy had allowed a young girl to drown, in a desperate and self-serving attempt to protect his political career.
FLOWERY WORDS ARE BEING SPOKEN AT THE PASSING OF TED KENNEDY...BUT THOSE WORDS ARE MEANINGLESS...THIS MAN WAS A MURDERER...
DR
8/25/2009
LONDON AND EUROPE WITHIN IRAN MISSILE RANGE IN 3-4 YEARS
As I reported after the Sejjil-2's unexpected success in May, over 20 European capitals are already within range. As Rubin correctly observes, they've achieved the breakthrough (solid fuel & staging) --- now it's just a matter of perfecting it in order to reach the rest of Europe.
With Iranian missile technology advancing by leaps and bounds, an intransigent Russia, and a pusillanimous Administration, what a great time to be going back to the drawing board on European missile defense...

If correct, the timeline cited by Uzi Rubin, a leading authority on Iran's program, puts a fresh note of urgency into a diplomatically thorny debate over building a multibillion-dollar anti-missile shield in Europe.
WELL EVERYONE IS ON PAUSE EXCEPT THE IRANIANS...SOMEONE HAD BETTER TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY...
8/24/2009
8/22/2009
LIMBAUGH'S "BARNEY FRANK HAS BEEN LIVING AROUND URANUS" COMMENT REINFORCES THIS: LIBERALS CAN DISH IT OUT BUT THEY CAN'T TAKE IT
JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO DAVID LETTERMAN INSULTED THEN GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN'S TEENAGE DAUGHTER:
"One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game," Letterman said, "during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
THE REACTION FROM THE LEFT??? SARAH PALIN HAS "THIN SKIN"...
THAT ATTACK ON PALIN'S 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER CAME AFTER LETTERMAN REFERRED TO PALIN AS HAVING THE STYLE OF A "SLUTTY FLIGHT ATTENDANT"
ALL DURING THE ELECTION PROCESS ATTACKS FROM THE LEFT WERE NOT ONLY ON GOVERNOR PALIN, HER FAMILY WAS FREE-GAME AS WELL ACCORDING TO LIBERAL STANDARDS...INCLUDING HER INFANT SON, TRIGG...
THE ATTACKS WERE DISGUSTING AND LOW-LIFE...BUT LIBERALS MAINTAINED THAT WHAT THEY WERE DOING WAS JUST FINE AND PALIN HAD BETTER DELELOP THICK SKIN IF SHE WANTED TO BE IN POLITICS...
BUT ANY CRITICISM OF LIBERALS FROM ANYONE AND THE HATRED AND COUNTER-ATTACKS BEGIN...CRITICIZE OBAMA...YOU ARE A RACIST...CRITICIZE AN OPENLY GAY MAN OR MAKE FUN OF HIM AFTER HE TAKES THE FIRST SHOT...AND YOU ARE EVIL AND DISCRIMINATING...
LIKE I SAID IN AN EARLIER POST...GET OVER YOURSELVES MORONIC LEFT...IF YOU WANT TO BE IN THIS GAME YOU HAD BETTER DEVELOP THICK SKIN...
IF YOU CAN DISH IT OUT...YOU'D BETTER BE PREPARED TO TAKE IT...WHEREVER IT LANDS...
DR
8/21/2009
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA FIRST MUSLIM AMERICAN PRESIDENT
Father: Muslim
Step Father: Muslim
Half his family: Muslim
X room mates: Muslims
Travel to Pakistan
Former Preacher, Rev.Wright: X Muslim
Ties to Farrakhan
Ties to Nation of Islam
Kissing up to Muslims since elected
How many dots did you need?
H/T: comments section Gateway Pundit
AMERICA'S MUSLIM PRESIDENT, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, SENDS 5 MINUTE RAMADAN BLESSING AFTER IGNORING NATIONAL PRAYER DAY
CANDIDATE OBAMA OBJECTED...OBJECTED LOUDLY...DURING THE CAMPAIGN TO ANY SUGGESTION THAT HE MAY BE MUSLIM...
REMEMBER NATIONAL PRAYER DAY? OBAMA WAS A NO-SHOW...COMPLETELY IGNORED IT...AND NOW THIS...
GATEWAY PUNDIT HAS THE STORY...
HERE'S THE VIDEO...
I HOPE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU THAT VOTED FOR AND ARE STILL DEFENDING THIS MAN...THIS...THIS...CHARLATON...THIS DISGUSTING, PHONY, INSINCERE, CAN'T-EVEN-BE-WHO-HE-REALLY-IS-UNTIL-HE-GETS-YOUR-VOTE LIAR...
I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!
DR
8/20/2009
RUSH: BARNEY FRANK HAS BEEN LIVING AROUND URANUS
IN FACT, THE AP'S REPORT WAS TOTALLY IN THE TANK FOR BARNEY FRANK:
Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache during a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform.
"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked the woman, who had stepped up to the podium at a southeastern Massachusetts senior center to ask why Frank supports what she called a Nazi policy.
"Ma’am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it," Frank replied.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, WHEN NOTING THE ATTACK FRANK MADE ON HIS CONSTITUENT, ALSO NOTED: "Isn't it an established fact that Barney Frank himself spends most of his time living around Uranus?"
PERSONALLY, I THINK LIMBAUGH'S REMARK IS HILARIOUS...ALL OF YOU PANSIES THAT ARE CRYING "FOUL" CAN JUST GET OVER YOURSELVES...
LIMBAUGH'S COMMENT WAS A RESULT OF BARNEY FRANK'S INSULT TO ONE OF HIS CONSTITUENT'S SIGNS COMPARING OBAMA TO HITLER...FEIGNED OUTRAGE OVER THE HITLER COMPARISON HOLDS NO WATER EITHER...
AS SWEETNESS & LIGHT POINTS OUT, TOP DEMS POST OVER AT DAILY KOS...HILLARY EVEN SPOKE AT THEIR 2007 CONVENTION...AND A GOOGLE SEARCH OF DAILY KOS AND REFERENCES TO HITLER GLEANED OVER 16 MILLION HITS JUST ON DAILY KOS ALONE...

SO, BARNEY FRANK AND ALL YOU MINDLESS ZOMBIE-TYPES...THE REFERENCES TO HITLER WERE BORN ON THE LEFT...IT'S ONLY "UNFAIR" IF THE REFERENCE IS MADE TO ONE OF YOUR OWN???
GET OUT OF MY FACE...STOP BREATHING MY AIR...
IN OTHER WORDS...STFU!
DR
8/17/2009
LIB "FASHION EXPERT" ROBIN GIVHAN DISSES TOWN HALL ATTENDEES
What does one wear to a town hall meeting on health care when the sole reason for attending is to shout down one's congressman like a peevish teenager in the midst of a hormonal rage?
By and large, the shouters are dressed in a way that underscores their Average Guy -- or Gal -- bona fides. They are wearing T-shirts, baseball caps, promotional polo shirts and sundresses with bra straps sliding down their arm. They wear fuchsia bandannas and American-flag hankies wrapped around their skulls like sweatbands. A lot of them look as though they could be attending a sporting event and, as it turns out, the congressman is the opposing player they have decided to heckle. If not for the prohibition on signs and banners inside these meetings, one could well expect to see some of these volatile worker bees wearing face paint and foam fingers, albeit the highlighted digit would be one expressing foul displeasure rather than competitive rank or skill level.
OHHHH...I GET IT...THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE EXPECTING???:
OR THIS???...THESE ARE SUPPORTERS OF NOBAMA'S GOVERNMENT-TAKEOVER-OF-HEALTHCARE...BUT NARY A WORD FROM GIVHAN ON WHAT THEY ARE WEARING:

ROBIN GIVHAN HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN A WRINKLED DRESS, SHE EVEN POSED FOR THE CAMERA...AND EVERYONE RAVED OVER HER "STYLE"

BUT THIS IS RICH: ROBIN GIVHAN ATTENDED AN "UNDERWEAR PARTY"...
OOOH, LALA...BUT THAT IS FASHION BOYS AND GIRLS...THAT IS WHAT THE ULTRA-COOL PEOPLE DO...NEVER YOU MIND ABOUT WHAT ROBIN GIVHAN IS DOING...SHE IS THE FASHION EXPERT...AND YOU ARE THE DIRTY MASSESH/T: NEWSBUSTERS
DR
8/13/2009
WHAT REALLY CAUSED THE CRISIS ON WALL STREET?
I AM REPUBLISHING THIS VIDEO SO THAT YOU DO NOT FORGET WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:
IN THEIR OWN WORDS...
DR
8/12/2009
ARLEN SPECTER IS UNDAUNTED BY HIS CONSTITUENTS CONCERNS
A LOT HAS BEEN MADE OVER KATY ABRAM'S COMMENTS TO ARLEN SPECTER YESTERDAY, AND RIGHTFULLY SO...BUT I HOPE YOU WATCH THIS ENTIRE VIDEO...INCLUDING THE FIRST MAN SPEAKING AND SPECTER'S RESPONSE...
WHEN THE MAN LEFT, SPECTER ACTUALLY LAUGHED...
THEN SPECTER DEFENDED THE ACCUSATIONS OF SPECTER TRAMPLING ON OUR RIGHTS...AND EVEN SAID THAT HE, SPECTER, IS A DEFENDER OF AMERICAN RIGHTS...
THIS WHOLE SCENE THAT IS UNFOLDING BEFORE OUR EYES IS UNBELIEVABLE...
THE PEOPLE THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN CONGRESS ARE UNWILLING TO LISTEN TO OUR CONCERNS...WE SAW IN AN EARLIER POST SHEILAH JACKSON TALKING ON THE PHONE WHEN A CONSTITUENT IS ASKING HER A QUESTION...WE SEE SPECTER HERE CROSSING HIS ARMS WHEN A MAN TELLS HIM THAT THE HEALTHCARE BILL NEEDS TO BE THROWN AWAY...
SPECTER AND THE REST OF THESE LIBERALS HAVE NO INTENTION OF DOING ANYTHING IN RESPONSE TO OUR CONCERNS...
THEY ARE HAVING THESE "TOWNHALL MEETINGS" BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO...BUT THEIR MINDS ARE MADE UP...
THEY ARE GOING TO PASS THE BILL WHETHER WE WANT IT OR NOT...
WHEREVER YOU ARE...PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR AND LET THEM KNOW YOU DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM...
AND IF THEY DON'T LISTEN...WE ARE GOING TO WORK TO GET THEM OUT OF OFFICE...
IT IS TIME TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THESE THUGS!
DR
SHEILA JACKSON LEE TALKS ON PHONE AND IGNORES CONSTITUENT ASKING QUESTION DURING "TOWNHALL MEETING"
HERE IS REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE - ON THE PHONE AND WON'T HANG UP! - WHEN A WOMAN, A CANCER SURVIVOR IS ASKING HER A QUESTION...
THIS IS REALLY OUTRAGEOUS! EVEN WHEN PEOPLE ARE MAKING COMMENTS ABOUT HOW THEY CAN'T BELIEVE THAT JACKSON IS ON THE PHONE, SHE CONTINUES THE CONVERSATION, COMPLETELY IGNORING THE PEOPLE THAT TRAVELED TO MEET WITH HER
SEND THEM ALL PACKING!
CONGRESS HAS FORGOTTEN THAT THEY WERE SENT TO DO THE JOB OF REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE! THEY WORK FOR US, AND THEY ARE IGNORING OUR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS AND DEMANDS!
DR
8/11/2009
OBAMA: SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE PLAN? YES!...NO!...YES!...I DIDN'T SAY THAT!...YES!...MAYBE...DON'T GO PUTTING WORDS IN MAH MOUTH!
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Braced for a fight he never got, President Barack Obama went on the offensive in support of his health care plan Tuesday, urging a town hall audience not to listen to those who seek to "scare and mislead the American people."
Obama sought to dispel talk that his ultimate goal is a single-payer federal health care system, like that in countries such as Canada.
He also disputed the notion that adding a government-run insurance plan into a menu of options from which people could pick would drive private insurers out of business, in effect making the system single-payer by default
OBAMA IS LYING TO US AGAIN...HERE IT IS IN HIS OWN WORDS
DR
TAXPAYER MARCH ON DC 9-12-09

The 09-12-09 Protest
It’s time to take the tea party movement directly to Washington, D.C. Please join thousands of local organizers and grassroots Americans from across the country as we gather in our nation’s capital to deliver a message to the politicians: Enough!
We’ve had enough of the out of control spending, the bailouts, the growth of big government and the soaring deficits. And we reject the future tax increases to pay for all of this spending and debt down the road. We are gathering on 9-12-2009 to deliver our message in person that we’ve had enough!
Agenda
(tentative - last updated 08/07/09)
We will be putting together the details of the week’s events soon. For now, this is our tentative agenda for 9-10 through 9-12. This is the most up to date, and accurate place for information on the web.
Thursday, 9-10
9:00am to 12:00pm Liberty Summit at DC Armory (REGISTER NOW!)
1:00pm: Press Conference on Capitol Hill (REGISTER NOW!)
1:30pm to 5:30pm: Grassroots lobbying visits on Capitol Hill
Evening: Free time to tour Washington
Friday, 9-11
Morning: September 11th Never Forget Memorial
9:00am Leadership Institute: Internet Activist Workshop (Agenda and Registration) (Complete Leadership Institute Workshop Schedule here.)
1:00pm Leadership Institute: Grassroots On the Ground Workshop (Agenda and Registration)
1:00pm Doctors Rally Against Socialized Medicine (REGISTER NOW!)
2:00pm to 5:30pm Grassroots lobbying visits on Capitol Hill
4:00pm Bureaucrash Happy Hour at Bullfeathers
5:00 pm Leadership Institute: Grassroots on the Hill Workshop (Agenda and Registration)
Saturday, 9-12
8:00am Set up for stages and volunteers; crowd gathers at Freedom Plaza
10:00am March on the Capitol Begins down Pennsylvania Ave. (See Map)
1:00pm March ends and Protest Begins at West Front of the U.S. Capitol
Click here to register for the March on Washington!
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS FOR SATURDAY’S RALLY:
Dick Armey - FreedomWorks
Matt Kibbe - FreedomWorks
Mason Weaver, San Diego, CA
John Tate, Campaign for Liberty
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN)
Apostle Claver T. Kamau-Imani, Houston, TX
Jenny Beth Martin, Tea Party Patriots
Darla Dawald, Resistnet.com
Brendan Steinhauser, FreedomWorks
Steve Elliot, Grassfire
Kellen Giuda, New York City
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS FOR FRIDAY’S DOCTORS RALLY:
Rep. Phil Gingrey (GA)
Rep. Tom Price (GA)
WHY ARE WE SO ANGRY? OBAMA IS HOLDING SECRET MEETINGS...OBAMA'S BROKEN PROMISES...THERE IS NO TRANSPARENCY
•He said it at Google –November 14, 2007
•He said it at the CNN Democrat Presidential Debate — January 31, 2008
•He said it during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle — January 17, 2008 [the same interview during which Obama said his cap and trade plan would bankrupt anyone who builds a coal-powered plant and electricity rates will skyrocket.]
•He said it at an Ohio Town Hall — March 2008
•He said it during an interview with the St. Petersburg Times — May 2008
Watch the following video to see Obama’s now broken promises for transparent healthcare negotiations:
WHY ARE WE SO ANGRY? I'LL TELL YOU WHY...OBAMA PROMISED TO HAVE TRANSPARENCY...OBAMA PROMISED TO INCLUDE THE PUBLIC IN THE DISCUSSIONS...OBAMA PROMISED TO HOLD THESE DISCUSSIONS ON CSPAN...
NONE OF THAT HAS HAPPENED...AND NOW OBAMA TELLS US TO SHUT UP??!!
H/T: REDSTATE
DR
8/10/2009
Astroturf For Healthcare – $10-$15 Hr!
From one of the dozens of current ads on Craigslist:

ORGANIZE TO PASS HEALTHCARE REFORM!!! EARN $10-$15/HR!!! (Los Angeles)
Date: 2009-07-27
Now is our chance to make health care work.
America’s health care system is broken. Health care costs are spiraling out of control, throwing families, businesses and government into financial crisis. Families are worried their health coverage won’t be there when they need it. Our country can’t afford to wait for health reform that keeps costs down and protects consumers.
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You can work for change this summer.
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To apply for a job, visit our website—http://www.jobsthatmatter.org/—or call Chris at [213-251-8630.]

•Location: Los Angeles
•This is at a non-profit organization.
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•Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
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From the website of the Fund For The Public Interest:
Canvassing: Winning campaigns and building organizations one person at a time
If you ask anyone who’s canvassed for the Fund in the last 25 years, they’ll probably give you a thoughtful dissertation on the value of canvassing. Any of our more than 50 partner organizations will too, as will leaders throughout the progressive movement. Boiling it down, there are at least five good reasons to canvass:
•Raise money to fund campaigns and build an organization
•Sign up members for an organization
•Educate the public about serious problems and real solutions
•Build name recognition for an organization and campaign
•Influence decision-makers
And then there’s the profound, positive impact of canvassing on the people we canvass and the canvassers themselves. These impacts aren’t easily measured, but they undoubtedly help lay the groundwork for a healthier, more vibrant democracy.
Over 25 years, the Fund has helped over 50 organizations win their campaigns & build their resources. We can help your organization, too.
MORE INFORMATION
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From their ‘About Us’ page:
Fund For The Public Interest
Fund For The Public Interest is a national nonprofit organization working to increase the visibility, membership and political power of the nation’s leading environmental and progressive groups.
The Fund was launched in 1982 to develop campaigns and technologies to engage Americans in public interest advocacy efforts. Through our fundraising and non-fundraising canvasses, we’ve gathered over 20 million petition signatures over the past 25 years and raised over $20 million for our partner organizations in the last year alone.
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COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF...
DR
8/08/2009
PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN IRAN

ACORN TOPS THE LIST OF "HEALTHCARE FOR AMERICAN NOW"
From their website:
What is Health Care for America Now (HCAN)?
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care we all can count on in 2009. Our organization and principles are supported by President Obama, Vice President Biden, and more than 190 Members of Congress.
We are building a national movement to win comprehensive health care reform by helping mobilize people in their communities to lobby their U.S. Senators and Representatives in Congress to stand up to the insurance companies and other special interest groups to achieve quality, affordable health care in 2009.
Who supports HCAN?
Health Care for America Now and its principles for reform are supported by President Obama, Vice President Biden, and more than 190 Members of Congress. HCAN has more than 1,000 member organizations in 46 states. We are doctors, nurses, community organizations, labor unions, small business owners, faith-based groups, people of color, seniors, and children’s and women’s rights groups.
For the complete list of HCAN members, view our membership list. (More than a few names will jump out at you)
Our Steering Committee includes: ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Campaign for Community Change, Children’s Defense Fund Action Council, Communications Workers of America, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), MoveOn.org, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, National Women’s Law Center, SEIU, UFCW, USAction, Women's Voices, Women's Vote and Working America.
H/T: ATLAS SHRUGS
DR
WHITE HOUSE THUG TACTICS TO SILENCE AMERICANS
This is how Thug Politics are played-- Chicago-style:
Obama: "They Bring a Knife...We Bring a Gun"
Obama to His Followers: "Get in Their Faces!"
Obama on ACORN Mobs: "I don't want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I'm angry!"
Obama To His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
Conservative radio host and best selling author Mark Levin told Sean Hannity tonight that if something happens to one of these tea party protesters at a rally then the White House is partly responsible.
On Thursday August 6 a black conservative was beaten by a mob of Obama supporters outside an Obamacare town hall meeting in St. Louis.
H/T: GATEWAY PUNDIT
DR
NANCY AND THE ASTROTURFERS


ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA - OBAMA'S TOOL - APPARENTLY ALSO CALLED THESE PEOPLE OUT, AND IT EVEN LOOKS LIKE THEY MANUFACTURED THE SIGNS FOR THEM...AND THE REALLY INTERESTING THING IS...THE ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA WEBSITE'S ADDRESS IS barackobama.com HMMMM, IMAGINE THAT!
BUT I DIGRESS...
8/07/2009
OBAMA: "I WANT THE FOLKS WHO CREATED THIS MESS TO SHUT UP"
"But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."
Um, excuse me...Nobama...YOU were in Congress and VOTED FOR THIS BULLSHIT!!!
I'M THINKING THAT THE PEOPLE THAT DID VOTE FOR YOU EXPECTED YOU TO BE A LEADER, NOT A WHINER...QUIT BELLYACHING AND GET TO WORK YOU MORON
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!
DR
THE BIG SNITCH: OBAMA ASKING PEOPLE TO TURN IN THEIR NEIGHBORS

The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see "fishy" information about the health care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say.
"The White House is in bit of a conundrum because of this privacy statute that prohibits the White House from collecting data and storing it on people who disagree with it," Judge Andrew Napolitano, a FOX News analyst, said Friday.
"There's also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives. It can't try to rewrite history by pretending it didn't receive anything," he said.
"If the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it violates another statute."
8/04/2009
ISSA TO RAHM: THIS ISN'T CHICAGO
NOW CERTAIN MEMBERS IN CONGRESS ARE FINDING THEIR BACKBONE AND STARTING TO PUSH BACK:
WASHINGTON. D.C. – Following reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been orchestrating an effort to intimidate members of Congress and Governors who raise legitimate concerns regarding the effectiveness of the stimulus, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Emanuel saying “While this type of scare tactic may work In Chicago, it will not work to intimidate me or other Members of the United States Congress.”
KEEP UP THE NOISE, PEOPLE...TURN THE HEAT UP...LET THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE AREN'T HAPPY!
IT REINFORCES THE MESSAGE NOT ONLY TO THE LIBERALS, BUT GIVES THE CONSERVATIVES A REASON TO FINALLY FIND THEIR VOICE...
DR
OBAMA IS A JOKER...AND WORSE

ATLAS SHRUGS HAS A GREAT POST WITH JUST SOME OF THE HATEFUL DEPICTIONS OF PRESIDENT BUSH THAT LIBERALS WERE GLEEFULLY POSTING AND PASSING AROUND...
WITH BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, EVERYTHING THAT ANYBODY SAYS IN CRITICISM OF THIS SOCIALIST IS TAGGED AS 'RACIST'...I SAY THAT'S BULLSHIT!
BESIDES, AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF VITRIOL, HATRED AND DEMENTED RANTS FROM ANGRY LIBS TOWARDS GEORGE W. BUSH, THIS IS REALLY MILD IN COMPARISON...
8/03/2009
UNCOVERED VIDEO: OBAMA EXPLAINS HOW HIS PLAN WILL 'ELIMINATE' PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES
"I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process..."
OBAMA...LIAR-IN-CHIEF
DR
8/02/2009
CLINTON'S POOP RUINS MICHELLE O'S GARDEN
Michelle’s organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team had used sewage sludge (ie: Clinton shit) for fertilizer.
This is a fairly common practice with one huge problem.
Actually, I don't know ANYONE that uses sewage to water a garden!
DR
7/30/2009
DEMS BLAME MEDIA FOR AUGUST DEADLINE BUT OBAMA WAS DEFENDING THE AUGUST DEADLINE JUST ONE WEEK AGO!
Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday blamed Capitol Hill media for setting an August deadline for health reform and Republicans for blocking the bill's progress....
Reid said reporters created a fictitious deadline of a successful vote by the August recess...
OH REALLY?
ERICA WERNER, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WROTE JUST ONE WEEK AGO THAT IT IS OBAMA THAT WANTS THE AUGUST DEADLINE AND OBAMA WAS DEFENDING IT:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is defending his relentless campaign for a health care bill before Congress's August recess, saying "the default in Washington is inaction and inertia." The Republican Party chairman assailed it as an "excessive push."
SO WHAT IS THE TRUTH?? WHATEVER IS CONVENIENT FOR LIBERALS TO FIT THEIR AGENDA??
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE BULLSHITTING IDIOTS THAT ARE RUNNING AND RUINING THIS COUNTRY!
TIME TO KICK ALL OF THEIR ASSES OUT AND TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!
DR
7/29/2009
WAXMAN'S TWIN?

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7/28/2009
JOHN CONYERS: WHY READ THE BILL IF WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT??
JOHN CONYERS, HOUSE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN...CHAIRMAN!!...
CNS REPORTS: During his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill.
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers.
“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”
UMM...BECAUSE THAT'S YOUR JOB???!!!!
WTF ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING IN WASHINGTON DC, SUPPOSEDLY REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE, IF THEY HAVE ATTITUDES LIKE THIS??
THIS IS HOW WE GOT THE "STIMULUS BILL"...THIS IS HOW WE GOT "TARP"...THIS IS HOW THESE MORONS ARE BANKRUPTING OUR COUNTRY!!
WTF!!
DR
7/24/2009
CAMBRIDGE POLICE: OBAMA SHOULD APOLOGIZE
"I think the President should make an apology to all law enforcement personnel throughout the entire country that took offense to this," Steve Killian, president of the Cambridge Police Patrol Officer's Association, said Friday.
I DON'T THINK IT IS A COINCIDENCE THAT OBAMA MADE SUCH DIVISIVE REMARKS JUST AS HIS NUMBERS ARE TANKING...ALWAYS RESORT TO THE RACIST ISSUE WHEN TRYING TO STIR THINGS UP, EH?
DR
7/22/2009
SO JUST WHO IS IN OBAMA'S SHADOW GOVERNMENT??

7/21/2009
THE 535 BUFFOONS IN CONGRESS
535 buffoons cannot force us to give up our health care and go on a government program…a government program that THEY REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN…unless we don’t fight back
535 buffoons cannot force us to PAY HIGHER TAXES…unless we don’t fight back
535 buffoons cannot force us to give them OUR MONEY so that they can give OUR MONEY to people that refuse to work…unless we don’t fight back
535 buffoons cannot force us to accept a complete lack of transparency from the “One” that promised COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY…unless we don’t fight back
535 buffoons cannot force us to accept OUR MONEY taken to pay off THEIR DEBT to THEIR CONTRIBUTORS…unless we don’t fight back
535 buffoons cannot force us to believe that the CIA LIED TO CONGRESS…unless we don’t fight back
535 buffoons cannot force us to practice RACIAL DISCRIMINATION…unless we don’t fight back
535 buffoons cannot force us to accept TARP…but we didn’t fight back hard enough
This list could be 30 pages long…or longer…but the point is…these 535 BUFFOONS IN CONGRESS NEED TO REMEMBER WHO THEIR BOSS IS…
WHO SENT THESE 535 BUFFOONS TO WASHINGTON, DC IN THE FIRST PLACE?? WE DID!!
IT'S TIME THESE 535 BUFFOONS START WORKING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAD BETTER WAKE UP AND TAKE CONTROL OF THIS RUDDERLESS SHIP BEFORE WE SINK
DR
7/14/2009
DEMOCRATS INVESTIGATE "SECRET PROGRAM" REPORTED BY NYT IN 2002
THANKS TO KARL AT HOT AIR:
With their Speaker behind them, House Democrats are pushing ahead with plans to hold a series of hearings investigating instances in which intelligence officials may have misled members of Congress.
Senior Democratic aides said that a major announcement could come by the end of week, but it was already clear on Monday that House Democrats are seizing on weekend news reports that former Vice President Dick Cheney hid information from Congress.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that the CIA, under the direction of Cheney, developed a secret counterterrorism program and then was directed by the vice president to conceal it from Congress.
The Wall Street Journal first reported that the program was a classified initiative to kill or capture al Qaeda operatives.
BUT....BUT!!! THIS WAS ALL REPORTED SIX YEARS AGO BY THE SAME NEW YORK TIMES:
Unfortunately for Democratic witch-hunters, their pals at the national security-defying New York Times apparently blew this secret back in December 2002:
The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the Central Intelligence Agency is authorized to kill, if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officials said.
The previously undisclosed C.I.A. list includes key Qaeda leaders like Osama bin Laden and his chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, as well as other principal figures from Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups, the officials said. The names of about two dozen terrorist leaders have recently been on the lethal-force list, officials said. “It’s the worst of the worst,” an official said.
President Bush has provided written legal authority to the C.I.A. to hunt down and kill the terrorists without seeking further approval each time the agency is about to stage an operation. Some officials said the terrorist list was known as the “high-value target list.” A spokesman for the White House declined to discuss the list or issues involving the use of lethal force against terrorists. A spokesman for the C.I.A. also declined to comment on the list.
Despite the authority given to the agency, Mr. Bush has not waived the executive order banning assassinations, officials said. The presidential authority to kill terrorists defines operatives of Al Qaeda as enemy combatants and thus legitimate targets for lethal force.
Could it be that CIA Director Panetta does not have a good grip on the history of his agency’s post-9/11 efforts? Could it be that his Democratic colleagues have such a knee-jerk hostility to the CIA that they would jump on bad info to attack the CIA and Fmr. Vice-Pres. Cheney as a modified limited defense of Speaker Pelosi’s prior bogus attacks on the CIA regarding briefings on interrogation tactics? Could it be that the geniuses of the NYT forgot they already blew the program?
(Hint: Yes, Yes and Yes.)
LIKE I SAID...THEY "FORGOT" ABOUT IT? IT'S MORE LIKELY THEY THINK WE FORGOT ABOUT IT AND CONVENIENTLY PULLED THIS RABBIT OUT OF THE HAT TO MAKE US LOOK THE OTHER WAY JUST AS OBAMA'S RATINGS ARE PLUMMETING...
DR
7/09/2009
Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in '08
Counties that supported Obama last year have reaped twice as much money per person from the administration's $787 billion economic stimulus package as those that voted for his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain
CAN ROBERT GIBBS SAY ANYTHING THAT IS TRUTHFUL??
"There's no politics at work when it comes to spending for the recovery," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says.
SO, IT'S CHICAGO CRONYISM...DIRTY POLITICS...NO STIMULUS AT ALL, BUT A PAYBACK FOR THEM THAT GOT NOBAMA INTO OFFICE...
WHILE THE "REST OF US" WAIT FOR ANYTHING REMOTELY CLOSE TO "STIMULUS" TO REACH US...NOBAMA'S CRONIES REAP THE BENEFITS...
THIS IS NOT ONLY DISGUSTING, IT IS CRIMINAL!!
DR
HONDURAS TO THE WORLD: WE HAVE BALLS

It’s a picture of a Honduran protester with a fearless message for the world.
His sign reads: “We don’t have oil. We don’t have dollars. But we have balls!”
(hat tip: Monica S.)
We could use more huevos stateside.
FIND YOUR VOICE AMERICA!
DR
BLACK MOB: THIS IS OUR WORLD! THIS IS A BLACK WORLD!
Akron police say they aren't ready to call it a hate crime or a gang initiation.
WHAT!!!????
It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend's home in South Akron.
Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.
The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black.
SO WHAT THE HELL IS OUR COUNTRY COMING TO?
A GANG OF 50 BLACK TEENS ATTACK A WHITE FAMILY STANDING IN THEIR YARD AND THE POLICE ARE RELUCTANT TO CALL IT WHAT IT IS??
HATE CRIMES CAN BE PERPETRATED ON ANY RACE, EVEN WHITE!!!
''We don't know if it's a known gang, or just a group of kids,'' police Lt. Rick Edwards said.
GUESS WHAT? IT DOESN'T MATTER!!! THESE BLACK "KIDS" ATTACKED A WHITE FAMILY STANDING AROUND MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS!!
DR
7/08/2009
CRAZY ASS ALEC BALDWIN WANTS TO RUN FOR CONGRESS AFTER ISSUING A DEATH THREAT FOR HENRY HYDE...
THANKS TO RANTRAVE.COM I AM REPRINTING THIS LITTLE GEM FROM THE ARCHIVES OF ALEC BALDWIN RANTS ON CONAN O'BRIEN DURING THE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS:
"They voted on one article of impeachment already. And I come back from Africa to stained dresses and cigars and this and impeachment. I am thinking to myself, in other countries they are laughing at us 24 hours a day and I’m thinking to myself, if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families. [stands up, yelling] What is happening in this country? What is happening? UGHHH!"
KILL A SITTING CONGRESSMAN??? KILL THEIR WIVES AND FAMILIES???
HAVING A SENATOR THAT ONCE POSED IN A DIAPER...WHEN HE WAS AN ADULT...IS BAD ENOUGH...BUT THE THOUGHT OF HAVING SOMEONE AS UNSTABLE AS ALEC BALDWIN EVEN CONSIDER APPLYING FOR THE JOB IS REALLY DISTURBING...
BALDWIN REALLY CAN'T BE SERIOUS ABOUT RUNNING FOR CONGRESS...IF HE IS, HE'S MORE CRAZY THAN YOU OR I THOUGHT...
DR
7/07/2009
CRAZY LIKE A(N ARCTIC) FOX...DON'T UNDERESTIMATE SARAH PALIN
Crazy like a(n arctic) fox
Robert Zafft
Here's the calculus on Sarah Palin's decision to resign -- and it's elementary:
1. Don't resign
a. Bankrupt family defending self from bogus ethics allegations
b. Accomplish nothing as governor since Democrats have vested interest in blocking any progress
c. Remain butt of every liberal pundit/comic/feminist with constraints of public services preventiving effective means to fight back
d. Fail to influence national policy at a critical time due to pressures of office and Alaska's geographical remoteness
e. Be in poor position for 2012/2016 Presidential race because of the above
2. Resign
a. Give Lt Governor chance to use incumbency for 2010 election
b. Let Alaska move forward by removing Democrat incentive to block progress
c. Make family financially secure through speaking fees, books and punditry
d. Use media platform to advance policies that matter personally, develop reputation for deep understanding of national-level issues (economic, foreign policy), and use media platform to go on the offensive against opponents and enemies
e. Play 2012 kingmaker role by consolidating and delivering GOP base, speaking and raising money for candidates ("Mitt, let's make a deal.")
f. Use kingmaker role in 2012/2016/2020 to win prominent, substantive national role (VP, Energy Secretary), establishing a national-level track record and creating an option for Presidential run in 2016/2020/2024 while still in political prime
g. If (f) doesn't work out, enjoy being the next Rush Limbaugh -- after all, living well is the best revenge.
For most, candidates, public office is the logistical base from which they operate.
By giving up the Alaska governorship, Palin has no public office base for her opponents/enemies to attack.
Many might deride Palin, but no one should underestimate her.
Couldn't have said it better...
DR
7/04/2009
DNC QUICK TO SMEAR SARAH PALIN OVER STEPPING DOWN
BUT HERE IS WHAT THE DNC HAD TO SAY, ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER GOVERNOR PALIN'S PRESS CONFERENCE:
Brad Woodhouse, communications director of the Democratic National Committee, issued these remarks:
Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can’t handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down. Either way - her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today.
"BIZARRE BEHAVIOR"??!!
BIZARRE BEHAVIOR IS THE DNC'S REACTION SECONDS AFTER GOVERNOR PALIN STOPPED SPEAKING...
BIZARRE BEHAVIOR IS ACCUSING GOVERNOR PALIN OF "LEAVING THE PEOPLE OF ALASKA HIGH AND DRY" WHEN THEY KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT THE LT. GOV OF ALASKA IS BEING SWORN IN AND GOVERNOR PALIN IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH HIM ON THE TRANSITION...
WHAT IS IT ABOUT GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN THAT TERRIFIES LIBERALS SO MUCH?
IF YOU FOLLOW YOUR GUT REACTION TO IT...YOU WILL REALIZE THAT LIBERALS SEE WHO GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN REALLY IS...SHE DOESN'T HIDE IT...
SHE IS A CONSERVATIVE...AND SHE CONNECTS WITH THE PEOPLE...REALLY CONNECTS BECAUSE SHE IS REAL...
MY MONEY IS ON GOVERNOR PALIN NO MATTER WHAT SHE DOES...I'M NOT GOING TO TRY TO GUESS...BUT I AM SURE SHE HAS PLENTY MORE SURPRISES UP HER SLEEVE AND I CAN'T WAIT TO BE SURPRISED...
DR
7/02/2009
HELEN THOMAS: NOT EVEN NIXON TRIED TO CONTROL THE MEDIA LIKE OBAMA
“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”
Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to President Obama’s press conference last week on the understanding that he would ask Obama a question about Iran from among questions that had been sent to him by people in Iran.
“When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said.
“I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well--for the town halls, for the press conferences,” she said. “It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”
I doubt we will see any heads "hanging in shame" any time soon, but to finally hear the state-controlled-media FINALLY asking questions is heartening...
DR
ROBERT GIBBS' SMART-ASS ATTITUDE = FAIL!
I HAVE TO ADMIT IT IS RATHER FUNNY TO SEE THE STATE-CONTROLLED-MEDIA WITH THEIR PANTIES IN A WAD, APPARENTLY BECAUSE OF THE RECENT HACKS FROM THE LIKES OF HUFFINGTON POST BROUGHT INTO PRESS BRIEFINGS...BUT, HOPEFULLY THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE...
ROBERT GIBBS' SMART-ASS RESPONSE, MOST OF IT ASSININE GIGGLING, AND HIS FINGER JESTURE TO CHIP REID...UNBELIEVABLE...
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