Cartoon of the Day: Racial Profiling for Dummies

Video: Leader of NAACP calls the New Black Panther Party a creation of Fox News

This video recently surfaced of Benjamin Jealous, the leader of the NAACP, calling the New Black Panthers a creation of Fox News “and like 20 folks.”

Wow. I guess Fox News sent their creations to the polls to intimidate voters with night sticks and advocate killing white babies? I just can’t believe the Mainstream Media isn’t on this story yet…

Harry Reid: Illegals Don’t Work Construction Jobs in Nevada

Looks like someone took a little journey from reality.

This is from the same people who say that the border in Arizona is the safest its ever been.

Barack Obama: Super Hero Falls to Earth

Barack Obama was feted by many as a messiah. His supporters compared him to Jesus.

He even equated himself to Superman, saying at a dinner that he had been “born on Krypton and sent here … to save the planet Earth.” The remark was presented as a joke, but the effect of Obama’s ego is no laughing matter.

Now, just over a year into his term, his legislative agenda lies in ruins. Despite poll after poll showing that Americans’ main priority is jobs, the president has focused on taking over the U.S. healthcare system.

Observing the wreckage, noted political pundit Charlie Cook candidly told Politico, “I think choosing to take a Captain Ahab-like approach to healthcare — I’m going to push for this even in the worst downturn since the Great Depression — is roughly comparable to Bush’s decision to go to war [in Iraq], It basically destroyed the first year of a presidency.”

What a fall, from “Super Hero” to obsessed Captain Ahab chasing his great white whale.

To save his whale, Obama and his legislative allies Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are resorting to bare knuckled politics. The aptly named “nuclear option,” a classic piece of legislative trickery involving the reconciliation fast-track, which he denounced while campaigning, has become his final option.

Rather than a white whale, we should call ObamaCare his white elephant. Even if it passes, most knowledgeable legal scholars believe it will be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Matt Patterson, in an analysis prepared for the National Center for Public Policy Research, says the bill is unconstitutional for multiple reasons: “Both the House and Senate versions of ObamaCare contain penalty taxes on Americans who do not have government-approved health insurance, the so-called ‘individual mandate.’ Such a tax would function as a direct, or capitation, tax, as opposed to a tax on activity, such as excise or income taxes, and would therefore fall outside Congress’ authority to tax income granted by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.”

The Constitution places strict restrictions on Congress’ power to lay capitation taxes under Article I, Sec. 9, which reads “No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.”

Exemptions for some people built into the Senate bill’s individual mandate tax would make it impossible for ObamaCare to meet this constitutional standard.

Patterson summarizes this way, “Some of the finest legal minds in the country have concluded that the enforcement provisions of ObamaCare’s individual mandate would violate the both spirit and the letter of the U.S. Constitution. Apparently, President Obama and members of Congress think they are smarter than these scholars — and smarter than the authors of the Constitution.”

The penalties for following Obama on his search for Moby Dick will be brutal for Democrats in Congress. With over 60 percent of Americans opposed to Obamacare the fall campaign could turn into a referendum on this unwise scheme. Senior citizens are understandably upset by the massive $400 Billion-plus cuts in Medicare mandated in the plan. Democrats are predicted to lose dozens of congressional seats, and they could even lose their Senate or House majorities.

Even if the Democrats don’t lose their majorities, and the new Congress doesn’t have the votes to repeal ObamaCare, the Supreme Court is likely to do the job. And they should; the bill isn’t just unconstitutional, full of new taxes, too big and unmanageable — it is un-American.

ObamaCare Coming Over America’s Objections

Open wide: ObamaCare is about to be shoved down your throat.

As the dust settles after the seven-hour Obama talk-a-thon called the health care summit, it is obvious that Obama never intended to actually listen, or consider compromise despite America’s desire for just that.

Americans don’t like ObamaCare for simple reasons. It doesn’t treat Americans equally. Because of the special deal for Louisiana, the $600 million hospital in Connecticut and the Medicare Advantage protections for some Florida seniors while it is cut for others is unequal treatment, and it is wrong.

America is broke and cannot afford another trillion dollars in new entitlement spending. It will destroy your freedom to determine your own health care and treatments.

Within minutes of the summit, Politico reported, “Democrats plan to begin making the case next week for a massive, Democrats-only health care plan…A Democratic official said the six-hour summit was expected to ‘give a face to gridlock, in the form of House and Senate Republicans.’ Democrats plan to begin hear, and perhaps legislative, steps toward the Democrats-only, or reconciliation, process early next week, the strategists said.”

Senators call reconciliation the nuclear option. Rush Limbaugh says it’s “a suicide pact.” The traditions of the United States Senate will end with this tyrannical manipulation of Senate rules un-witnessed previously in American history.

Why call it a “suicide pact?” Simply put, the American people have overwhelmingly said “no” to ObamaCare, and Democrats don’t care. They’re sneaking around behind closed doors, cutting deals, breaking the rules, threatening legislative trickery and making a mockery of our legislative process and traditions, and they don’t care.

And yes, the fix is already in. In the coming days, Nancy Pelosi will attempt to pass Harry Reid’s Senate version of ObamaCare in the House of Representatives and she’ll overcome liberal objections to the Senate version of ObamaCare by promising her fellow liberals that those objections will be resolved when the Senate amends ObamaCare through legislative reconciliation a process that will take a filibuster off the table.

ObamaCare being passed could end political careers and the Democrat party’s majority in Congress, and they still don’t care.

Why don’t they care? They don’t care because Obama, Pelosi and Reid are hard-core ideologues on a personal mission to transform the United States into a socialist country and they’re not going to let anything including the American people stand in their way.

Obama believes in the nanny-state. He actually believes that the United States would be a much better place if he simply had the power to tell you what to do, how much of your money you can keep, where you can live, where you can work, where your children can go to school. In short, he wants control over every aspect of your life.

And, as with his effective takeover of the banks and the auto industry and his plans to institute so-called Cap-and-Trade legislation, ObamaCare is a pivotal aspect of their plan to achieve that goal. If they can tell you and your family what kind of health care you are allowed to receive, whether you live or die, Obama, Pelosi and Reid have won a major battle in their quest to control you.

The Obama strategy is clear. The summit was, as Dick Morris told us, “designed to fail” … it was nothing more than a ruse and a stall.

Calling the summit gave Obama and Pelosi and Reid time to plot the resurrection of ObamaCare behind the scenes and it gave Obama a weak and pathetic excuse to paint Republicans as “obstructionists” and “justify” what was coming the whole time, an attempt to steam-roller Republican objections through legislative shenanigans and shove ObamaCare down our throats.

Naive Republicans fell for the trap. Desperate to avoid the accusation that they were “obstructionist,” they gave Barack Obama all the ammunition he needed to do just that. And to make matters worse, they are totally oblivious to the fact that the American people desperately want them to obstruct ObamaCare.

That’s why we can’t wait for our political leaders to draw a line in the sand. They’re so out of touch, they simply won’t do what needs to be done. That’s why it’s up to us, the American people, to win this battle. If the tide is to be turned, it will come as a result of unprecedented action by citizens demanding members of Congress listen.

ObamaCare stinks of corrupt politics, which Americans hate. The fix is in, but if America’s citizenry roars loud enough, the tide can be turned

Obama’s Healthcare Summit Scam

"The proposal to televise a February 25 health-care summit with Republicans grew out of a conclusion by top White House advisers that Obama had bested House GOP leaders during a 90-minute televised discussion in Baltimore last month,” according to the Washington Post.

We thought ObamaCare was pronounced dead with the election of Scott Brown, so why are Republicans even discussing it? The American people had won the victory against this key plank in the Obama socialist agenda. Now weak and unprincipled Republicans, as they have so many times before, may rush in to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Only after it had become abundantly clear that ObamaCare would never pass, after it was pronounced dead by the Massachusetts voters, Barack Obama asked for a do-over, a mulligan, in the form of this supposedly “bi-partisan” televised health care summit.

Bi-partisan? Poppycock. It does not require a MENSA IQ to figure out that Barack Obama did not call this meeting to listen to Republican ideas. As Rush Limbaugh said, it’s a "trap,” an attempt to paint Republicans as the "Party of No" and lay the groundwork to bring ObamaCare back from the dead.

That’s why the obvious response to Obama’s request for a televised health care summit should have received an immediate and firm "no," but it’s apparently not so obvious to some of our Republicans legislators because, they’re falling for the trap.

Someone needs to save these Republicans from themselves. The New York Times called this televised health care summit, "a high-profile gambit that will allow Americans to watch as Democrats and Republicans try to break their political impasse."

Political impasse? Give me a break. There is no impasse. The American people don’t want government-run health care and Barack Obama and the Democrats don’t have the votes to pass it. It should be dead.

So why are we going to continue the debate? And why are Republicans allowing it, enabling it. There is absolutely nothing Republicans can gain from this meeting.

Obama will use the occasion, with a little help from his spin-doctors at CBS, MSNBC, ABC and CNN, to make Republicans look bad and/or Republicans he will actually offer concessions and put ObamaCare back on the table. Both of those outcomes are losing propositions for the American people.

Here’s what Republicans should say: With all due respect Mr. President, the American people have already rendered their verdict on ObamaCare. Further discussion would be pointless, fruitless and an insult to the people who elected all of us to public office.

Furthermore Mr. President, we need not remind you that members of your party literally shut Republicans out of the process, wrote the House and Senate versions of ObamaCare during closed-door meetings with liberal special interests, and, in opposition to the will of the American people, pulled every legislative shenanigan in the book to shove ObamaCare down our throats. As such, your offer of bi-partisanship, after having lost, is laughable.

We will not be puppets for your little political theater. If you’re really serious about reforming the health care system, meet with members of your own party and tell them to start advancing some ideas that will actually make health care more affordable and more available to the American people such as tort reform and allowing companies to sell health insurance across state lines. We’ll support those measures.

If members of your party are unwilling to go down that road, you can still work with us to advance real health care reform. We’ll simply agree to wait until November, when Republicans have recaptured the majority, and place real health care reform legislation on your desk.

That’s what they should say. Will they have the courage? All indications look bad.

Greta Van Susteren of FoxNews asked House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) whether or not he was going to attend the Obama health care summit. Boehner tap-danced. He never answered the question.

And yet, he did acknowledge the idiocy of the entire exercise. At one point he acknowledged posing the question; "Why are we going to talk about a bill that can’t pass." He also expressed reservations that he might "walk into some trap."

Indeed, Congressman Boehner, this televised health care summit is a "trap" and a scam designed to make you and the rest of the Republicans look bad. Since you’re going into this trap to "talk about a bill that can’t pass,” why go?

Moreover, why take the risk that your efforts might actually give new life to ObamaCare and give Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid the opportunity to start the whole sordid process over again, the secret meetings, the back-room deals, the legislative shenanigans, the repeated attempts to shove ObamaCare down the throats of the American people.

Haven’t we all had enough?

Obama vs. Bush: The Red Ink Showdown

“By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade,” Obama said in his State of the Union speech.

“The Bush administration’s swing from surpluses to deficits added more debt in its eight years than all the previous administrations in the history of our republic combined,” David Axelrod, a senior strategist for Obama, wrote in The Washington Post.

The theme is clear. According to the Obama Administration deficits as far as the eye can see are the fault of one man: George W. Bush. They relentlessly push this message from the Obama White House. Let’s do a little fact checking.

First it is important to understand that an Administration only suggests a budget. Under our form of government, Congress is actually in charge of appropriating money. Hence, you have a mad scramble every two years, when committee assignments are passed out with Members of Congress elbowing each other to get a seat on the aptly named “Committee on Appropriations”.

So when Obama uses speeches to whine about the “fiscal disaster” he inherited from Bush, he should actually be complaining about the Democratic Congress run by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid that appropriated and adopted the budget during the later years of the Bush term.

As the party that controlled Congress since January 2007, it is the Democrats that have held all the cards in the budget debate. They essentially wrote the budgets for FY 2008, FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011. Oh, and if we need to remind him, Barack Obama served in these Democratic majorities, so he cannot feign ignorance of the process.

George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during those years were constantly in conflict with the appropriators over spending too much money.

In FY 2009, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid actually bypassed Bush entirely, passing only continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. Then once Obama was safely in office they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.

So what did the deficits look like during the time period Congress was controlled by the Democrats? In the FY 2007 budget, the last of the budgets written by Republicans the deficit was the lowest in the last five years, and it was the fourth straight decline in deficit spending.

Once Democrats in Congress took control, the budgets and deficits exploded.

The budget just unveiled by Obama’s team is so large and so out of control, he should be embarrassed to compare it to any of the Bush budgets.

In a nutshell, the deficit will surge to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion. This tops the last shocking $1.41 trillion in red ink. And as Karl Rove pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, when measured against economic output, Obama looks even worse. “Mr. Bush’s deficits ran an average of 3.2 percent of GDP, slightly above the post-World War Two average of 2.7 percent. Mr. Obama’s plan calls for deficits that will average 4.2 percent over the next decade,” Rove wrote.

The deficit will remain above $1 trillion, even in 2011 when Obama’s so-called “budget freeze” begins. This is because in an Obama freeze spending in a multitude of programs actually goes up.

So the next time you hear the Whiner-in-Chief complain about his predecessor, remember the Congress that appropriated the funds were the Congresses in which he served in the majority.

So who inherited what?

Questions about Impeaching Obama

We receive hundreds of questions a day here at impeachobamacampaign.com. Between me and the dedicated and talented Inga O’Connor, we try to answer them all. Because these questions are often times similar, I would like use today’s blog posting to answer some of these questions.

Cindy S writes:

“I would like to make a video to post on YouTube in order to let people know what to do to get Obama impeached if they so desire.  My question is:  Will you give me permission to use some of your written material in my video?  I believe this would be very successful in getting this accomplished.”

Dear Cindy,

You are always welcome to use any material you find on any of the websites I publish. I publish for the purpose of informing people, and by forwarding, quoting and otherwise spreading the message, you are helping the cause. The other websites that I publish are Westernjournalism.com, exposeobama.com, exposeharry.com, richguysclub.com, soundmoneyinstitute.com, thewhitehousewatch.com and floydbrown.com. I also post lots of photos at my flckr.com photo stream that you can use.

I would only request that you attribute the material to the original source. Some of the material I publish is owned by others and I always attribute the material to the original source and would appreciate you doing likewise.

Cajun writes:

So how many signatures are needed to impeach this sucker?  There doesn’t seem to be any type of register showing the number of signatures already in place. What about impeaching Pelosi & Reid and whoever else isn’t for Americans?

Dear Cajun,

Presidents are not impeached by signatures. The purpose of gathering the signatures is to demonstrate public support so we can make the case to Members of Congress to introduce Articles of Impeachment. I am currently working hard to find a Congressman or woman who will have the courage to file the articles that have been drafted by our legal team. None have agreed to do it yet.

Also, a successful campaign for impeachment will take at least a year because the makeup of Congress must change if we are going to have the necessary votes to impeach. Right now, we are building toward impeachment in 2011 after we elect a pro-impeachment majority in Congress.

As for the number of signatures collected, currently we have collected 150,000 validated signatures. We collect signatures both online and directly through the mail. 105,000 petitions have been collected online and 45,000 have been directly signed.

As for Pelosi and Reid, if we change Congress, they will be of greatly diminished importance. A bigger problem is Joseph Biden. He will become President if he is not impeached along with Barack Hussein Obama. But if we have commanding majorities in both houses of Congress, we can impeach them both and appoint a caretaker President like Gerald Ford was, until the next general elections.

Ruth M writes

“I have to say that “Warm Regards”, is certainly a strange concluding salutation for some of the frightening information you have recently emailed to us. I thank you immensely for all your work, but we are getting very scared. Something needs to be done. Very Soon. If you want it done by us, let us know what to do. Some will start going off the deep end very soon, I fear.”

Dear Ruth,

My salutation is not a reflection of my feeling about the material I present; it is a reflection of how I feel about the Patriots who have stood with us, calling for impeachment. I believe the people that I communicate with are the most informed, dedicated and American loving people on earth. I deeply respect and appreciate everyone who takes the time to sign our petition, pass a petition on to others, or even listens to our arguments in favor of impeachment.

We are making progress. I am very pleased that we are ahead of all the goals we set for the collection of petitions. I am traveling to Washington DC this month to meet with Members of Congress to request their support in person. We also have the impeachment truck preparing to tour the country.

With almost every passing day we have new reasons to remove this inexperienced, bumbling, leftist radical from the presidency. Barack Hussein Obama has become a collective embarrassment and the best way to handle this problem is using the tool given to us by the Founding Fathers. That tool is impeachment.

Let me leave you with a quote from America’s first president, George Washington:

The Power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period , to representatives of their own chusing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their Interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their Servants can, and undoubtedly will be recalled. (To Bushrod Washington, November 10, 1787)

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Senate and Obama ignore the Constitution to Socialize Healthcare

In an outrageous example of the abuse of near dictatorial power, the leader of the United States Senate, Harry Reid, forced a vote on nationalized health care. With total disregard for the will of the people and turning a blind eye to the United States Constitution, Reid sought passage for this bill by corrupting the legislative system.

"This process is not legislation. This process is corruption," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, referring to the last-minute blitz of dirty deal making that enabled Obama to lock in the 60 votes needed to pass the bill.

The final hold out was Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson. But he hit the jackpot when they bought his yes vote, scoring $45 million to completely cover Nebraska’s Medicaid bill every year into the indefinite future.

Clearly this deal violates Article 1 Section 9 part 6 of the Constitution which says: “No preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one state over another…” and Article 4 Section 2 which says: “The Citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the Privileges and Immunities of the Citizens in the several states.”

Citizens of Nebraska will now have state medical bills, other states must pay, funded courtesy of the United States government (meaning you and me.) Nebraskans are clearly receiving a special privilege. According to this monstrosity, they are more equal than other Americans.

Sitting on high, the President encouraged this corrupt, ugly spectacle. Not only that, he broke the vow he took to uphold the US Constitution as he raised his hand and recited his oath of office.

While we all sleep, the U.S. Senate is stripping us of our freedom. Clearly the time for impeachment is at hand. Reid and Pelosi deserve to be removed right along with Obama.

All these outrages only fuel our efforts. The citizenry is in full revolt.

I am proud that our campaign for impeachment is growing stronger by the hour. We have surpassed 100,000 signatures and are fast approaching 125,000 signatures. This movement cannot be stopped by the corrupt deals in Washington. We will succeed, and the socialist dreams of our president will end on the ash heap of history.

Thank you for continuing to post the links to the impeachment petition. Remember, most people will not sign until they have seen the link ten times or more, so we need to continue pushing. Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/ygz4wfe

We have also posted a special page which will provide the HTML code for banner ads. If you have a blog or website, please consider posting these ads. They have been very successful recruiting new people to our cause. Here is the special page:
http://www.c4strategies.com/ImpeachObama/affiliates.html

With gratitude in our hearts from our unprecedented success, we approach the celebration of our Saviors’ birth on Christmas day. The New Year brings us to the next mile-stone of this campaign. If we are to succeed, the 2010 elections must bring to office a pro-impeachment majority.

Every day Barack Hussein Obama occupies the White House, America is in grave danger.

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Obama and Pelosi Deaf to Voters

I am still feeling good about Tuesday. We have heard so much bad news out of Washington DC this year, it is important to savor the good news. It is clearer today that Obama and Pelosi are not listening. The only leader that even feigns concern is the corrupt leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, Harry Reid. Reid who is up for re-election this fall in Nevada went so far as to say he wouldn’t be “bound by timelines” concerning Obamacare. That’s a far cry from what president Obama said just last week. Specifically, that he was “absolutely confident” it would pass by the end of the year.

If there was any doubt that Obamacare is in trouble, the results of Tuesday’s election should have provided the knockout blow. Below is my nationally syndicated column about Tuesday’s results.

The Conservative Resurgence Begins

The American people have spoken, and a wave of change has begun. After last Tuesday’s election, Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi tried to claim victory. The leftwing media tried portraying the Republicans as a party at war. But the American people, specifically moderates and Independents, swung towards the Republicans in significant numbers. The electoral tides have shifted and if the Republican Party doesn’t waste this opportunity, they will ride the wave of economic discontent to major victories in 2010.

Specifically, the Republicans swept the two governorships up for election in 2010. Although the GOP lost a competitive House seat in NY, the loss was a result of a corrupt nominating process, not conservative ideas. As C. Edmund Wright puts it “The Democrats did not lose a 2-1 squeaker last night. They lost two huge races, saw an overall evaporation of 25 basis points of support — and lost by nearly 500,000 cumulative votes in the three high-profile elections.”

The best news of the day came from Virginia. Conservative candidate Bob McDonnell, an outspoken fiscal and social conservative, trounced Democrat Creigh Deeds by nearly 20%. The Republicans also defeated at least six incumbent democrats in the House of Delegates and won the important Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General’s races by comfortable margins. All three of the statewide candidates in Virginia, Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling for Lt. Governor, and Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General, were outspoken conservatives. The leftwing media tried downplaying Obama’s involvement in the Virginia rout, but Obama had personally campaigned for Deeds, and over the weekend Obama signed a personal letter urging 300,000 of his supporters to support the Democrat. Evidently his calls fell on deaf ears as Independents broke two to one in favor of the Republican candidate.

The news out of New Jersey was equally dismal for Democrats. Goldman Sachs millionaire John Corzine who had purchased his previous elections and outspent his opponent Chris Christie, by a three to one ratio, was rejected by the usually reliably Democratic electorate of New Jersey. This was a major setback for Obama as he had campaigned for Corzine multiple times including just a day before voters went to the polls. Just as in Virginia, voters in New Jersey threw out the incumbent and voted for a believer in limited government.

Of the three closely watched elections, the only loss for conservatives came in upstate New York. Doug Hoffman, a hero of the conservative tea party movement was defeated 49% to 45%. This race was a boondoggle for Republicans, as the party bosses nominated a liberal who ended up dropping out of the race and endorsing the Democrat. If Hoffman had been able to run as a Republican he probably would have won the election. If the party bosses had nominated a real Republican – rather than a Democrat in disguise – the Republican candidate would have been in a good position to winl.

The message from these results to the Republican Party and conservatives is that they need to stick together. The only way they lose in 2010 is if they sabotage themselves. Conservative candidates should compete in the primary system, and avoid launching third party bids for office. Senator John Cornyn states that the NRSC won’t interfere in competitive primaries, which is exactly what the party needs. If conservatives and moderates are both able to have a fair opportunity in the primary, and the loser agrees to support the winner, Republicans will emerge united and victorious.

The message to Democrats is crystal clear. Voters are sick and tired of what is happening in Washington. The White House announced that Barack Obama didn’t bother watching the election returns. Maybe this is because Rahm Emanuel and the sycophants that surround Obama don’t have the courage to tell him his leftist agenda is unpopular. Government run Health care is unpopular. Huge new energy taxes are unpopular. His dithering in Afghanistan is unpopular. His bailouts and America’s rampant joblessness is unpopular.

Barack Obama should be watching the election returns. If he was listening he would learn from Tuesday and take America down a less radical path.