Obama Says He Is "Proud" Of Hoffa After Union Leader's Remarks

Obama Says He Is "Proud" Of Hoffa After Union Leader's Remarks

For a president who called for a new era of civility, to praise Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa Jr. after his remarks about "taking these sons of bitches out" is the most cynical, disgusting kind of political pandering. The Teamsters have for decades embodied the dregs of union corruption, fat cat-ism and cronyism. That's not just my opinion, it's easy to research and see for yourself. But Obama is "proud" of him. Perhaps the same sort of pride as he felt in his anti-American and anti-Semitic pastor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright?

As of 2010, union employees accounted for fewer than 12% of the American work force, continuing a steady decline of union prestige, influence and power that has been underway for at least 30 years. Among other reasons, that's because private sector workers in particular don't want anything to do with unions and their rampant corruption. Interestingly, that's about the same length of decline of prestige, influence and power among American liberals.

Maybe now those same private sector workers (including the silent but real minority of union members who despise their unions) will decide they don't want anything to do with this failed president and his cynical pandering to unions. This guy is providing so much easy fodder for his opponents, it's their game to lose in 2012.

TX Schools Fail Under Newly Realistic Criteria

But wait, I thought all school teachers were not only selfless angels, but also great at their jobs?!?

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Reid: Raising Taxes on Jet Owners is the Solution

Seriously, what is the obsession these people have with billionaires and corporate jet owners? How many of these people are there in America - like 10,000? Even doubling their taxes wouldn't come close to solving our problems.

The real question is: why does Geithner still have a job?

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Big Sis is Watching You

Now they're teaching us to spy on one another... note the consistent themes of race-baiting, racial distrust and suspicion in this video produced by the Ministry of Love, AKA Homeland Security. Note the overwhelming effort to portray the vast majority of suspicious persons (e.g. terrorists) as caucasian. Note the disregard for 9/11 in the examples of terrorism shown. I especially like the scene where a woman calls the police to turn in a man (white of course) doing something highly suspicious.... that is, writing in a notebook and using his smartphone.

Why isn't someone shown reporting someone running across the border, a clear violation of the law which happens many thousands of time each year? Will the next video like this go even lower by encouraging people to turn in anyone who asks not to be patted down by a TSA officer? How about someone who doesn't have the right political ideas? Oh, wait, we're not in East Germany...yet.

I am totally against terrorism and in favor of fighting it. But pitting people against one another is a tactic used by every fascist regime for the past 100 years. This is disgusting and unworthy of our nation. Is this what "the land of the free" has degenerated into?

We have GOT to elect people in this country who believe in curtailing the encroachment of the federal government into our lives.

God Is Great

It is fascinating and scary that the US media dosen't seem to have picked up the full story here. However, other outlets in the UK and Canada have found it. It's chilling that our own press doesn't even fully cover an attempted terrorist attack.


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Chilling

Don't make the mistake of speaking out against TSA in Janet Napolitano's America. You might be visited by federal agents. Seriously, wouldn't they WANT this kind of input??!?!!

Does anyone else see this nation rapidly headed toward becoming a police state? Full body scans in order to use the only viable form of long distance transport suckled by the Federal Teat...Random bag searches starting on the D.C. metro...FCC giving itself permission to regulate the internet (what would Al Gore say??)...and yet these same politicians won't adequately deal with our southern border. I guess we know who the Feds see as a threat.  It's us.

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Our Contemptible Congress :: The Atlasphere

 A sobering look at politicians on both sides of the aisle who have no grasp on the Constitution they are elected and sworn to defend. Of course, it's easy to control the ignorant, right?


Our Contemptible Congress :: The Atlasphere

Wake Up, Washington

I'm watching the news and am utterly amazed by how tone deaf Washington is this week.

How does this health care debacle, which doesn't take effect until 2014, do anything to help the (conservative estimate) 10% of Americans who are out of work this Christmas?  Or the hundreds of thousands of Americans who will be foreclosed upon this month?   Nope - they're busy jetting off to Copenhagen, to a global warming conference that literally took place in a blizzard.  And, we're busy ramming through a health care overhaul that the American people don't want and can't afford.

Anyone with even the most basic understanding of economics has to know there is no way on earth that this can work.  It doesn't work on the demand side, because the dollars just aren't there without gigantic tax increases, cuts in Medicare, or worse.  It doesn't work on the supply side, because the managed care system (which is already about 50% paid by government dollars even today) has already created a shortage of Doctors and nurses.  How will it work when there are millions more insured patients demanding care in a system with the same number of providers?  This isn't rocket science, folks.   

Every single poll shows - at most- lukewarm support.   The latest RCP Composite Data of 9 different healthcare polls shows that 38% of Americans favor the Democrat healthcare plan, and 51% oppose it.

RCP also shows that President Obama's approval rating has now fallen below 50% for the first time.   You can easily research this on your own, (one good article is here) and see that this is very low for any president after only 1 year in office.  Obama won about 53% of the popular vote.  Hardly a mandate to dramatically increase government control over about 1/5 of the economy.

Did anyone even consider alternatives, like creating more incentives to buy insurance on the open market, with secondary insurance for things like pre-existing conditions?  Something?  Anything?  Other than this?  It doesn't seem like it, and it speaks to the true motivation here: power.  It's probably unconstitutional and definitely should be chilling to anyone who wants Uncle Sam to leave them the hell alone.

All of this leads me to believe there is a political day of reckoning coming in this country that will make the congressional upheaval of the early '90s look like amateur hour.