New York Times: And Now, Climate Bill’s Supporters Try Counting to 60 in Senate
“The House acted; I think the Senate will come to the same conclusion,” David Axelrod, Obama’s top political adviser, said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The [House] bill that was crafted helped ameliorate some of the hard edge that people were worried about. I think that will carry the day in the Senate, as well.” Axelrod acknowledged that Democrats lack the 60 Senate votes they need to overcome a filibuster. But he insisted Obama would not let the House bill wither.

“The vote is not tomorrow,” Axelrod said. “The vote will come sometime in the fall. I think we will fashion an energy package that will move this country forward and carry the day.”

According to an E&E analysis of the Senate, 60 votes is within reach for a cap-and-trade climate bill, but many concessions must be made to get the measure across the goal line. To start, there are 45 senators in the “yes” or “probably yes” camp, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Maine Republicans Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. more…..

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hotair.com:Video: Energy Czar hasn’t read cap & tax, either
Barack Obama’s energy czar appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to discuss the cap-and-tax bill passed by the House last week on a razor-thin margin. Carol Browner got stumped by Fox’s Steve Doocy while questioning her ability to speak to the subject, which prompted her to declare Doocy “unfair” for blindsiding her.
[note from Conservative Nation - Doocy (who I like)  is a morning guy and not what I'd call hard-hitting. That he was able to 'blindside' our new energy czar with a simple question about a piece of legislation she should be intimately familiar with speaks volumes about the type of dim-witted and dishonest leftist politicians who are currently in control of the country] more…..

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The Hill: Boehner: Climate bill a ‘pile of s–t’
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday. When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of s–t.” Using his privilege as leader to speak for an unlimited time on the House floor, Boehner spent an hour reading from the 1200-plus page bill that was amended 20 hours before the lower chamber voted 219-212 to approve it. more…..

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Boehner and Waxman spar during Boehner’s filibuster of Cap and Trade:

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WSJ: Ruling Upends Race’s Role in Hiring
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court set a new standard for employers’ use of race in hiring decisions, ruling that New Haven, Conn., wrongly discriminated against a group of mostly white firefighters who lost out when a promotion exam was scrapped because no blacks scored well enough to advance.

Monday’s opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy said employers must show a “strong basis in evidence” before ignoring results of employment-related tests — even if they worry the outcome was unfair — so as not to frustrate other applicants. The 5-4 decision, on the final day of the court’s term, follows a series of Supreme Court rulings that limit the scope of policies intended to address racial bias.

The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, had been closely watched because the lower appeals court’s one-paragraph ruling came from a three-member panel that included Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee to succeed Justice David Souter. That now-defunct ruling is certain to feature heavily at her Senate confirmation hearings, scheduled to begin July 13. more…..

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Washington Times: Conyers abandons plan to probe ACORN
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea. …The chairman declined to elaborate, shrugging off questions about who told him how to run his committee and give the Democrat-allied group a pass. more….

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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama and the ‘Noble Lie’
I still cannot quite believe Obama thinks that chattel slavery in America was ended without violence. Or that Islam was responsible for unprecedented breakthroughs in advanced math, sophisticated medicine, and printing, let alone that it served as a catalyst for the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Instead, Obama seems to believe that fudging on facts is not fudging, but simply offers a competing narrative that gains validity by its good intentions. Most Americans, Obama further believes, are either too dense or too uneducated to discern his misinformation. But they will at some future date appreciate the global good will that results from his feel-good mytho-history. more…..

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IN THIS June 29th LEGISLATIVE WEEKLY…

• As E-Verify’s Use Grows, House Rules Committee Blocks Debate on E-Verify Amendments
• Amnesty Bill This Year? White House, Congress Send Mixed Messages
• California Soft on Criminal Illegal Aliens
• As Americans Struggle with College Costs, State Gives Discounted Tuition to Foreign Students

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As E-Verify’s Use Grows, House Rules Committee Blocks Debate on E-Verify Amendments

On Tuesday, June 23, the House Rules Committee met to determine which amendments would be considered when the full House of Representatives debated the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Homeland Security spending bill. The Committee voted to block the House from even debating and voting on five key amendments related to E-Verify the free, voluntary, electronically operated system that allows employers to quickly and easily check the work authorization status of their new hires.

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Amnesty Bill This Year? White House, Congress Send Mixed Messages

Several officials and policymakers last week issued conflicting statements about the timing for “comprehensive immigration reform” a euphemism for legislation that would grant amnesty to the approximately 12 million illegal aliens living in the United States. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama all offered statements indicating varying levels of confidence as to whether Congress will pass an amnesty bill at some point this year.

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California Soft on Criminal Illegal Aliens

Critics are concerned that Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal to release as many as 19,000 criminal illegal aliens in an effort to reduce the state budget deficit will make the people of California less safe. This proposal comes on the heels of the revelation that San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, a candidate for California Attorney General, is behind a program that helped illegal aliens stay out of jail.

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As Americans Struggle with College Costs, State Gives Discounted Tuition to Foreign Students

Under a new Washington State law, foreign guest workers and their families who are in the United States will be allowed to attend college by paying in-state tuition, even though the law does not extend that same benefit to American citizens who are from other states.

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The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Virginians

(June, 2009)

Amnesty and Joblessness (PDF)

(May, 2009)

Obama’s First 100 Days in Review (PDF)

(May, 2009)

Amnesty and the Economy

Myths, Lies, and Obfuscation (April, 2009)

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Un-f@&*ing believable……

Bloomberg: Bailout of U.S. Banks Gives British Rum a $2.7 Billion Benefit
In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based Diageo Plc billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island — Puerto Rico — to another, namely St. Croix.

DeJongh says he had no idea his deal would help make the world’s largest liquor distiller the most unlikely beneficiary of the emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program approved by Congress just four months later.

….Lawmakers rubber-stamped the package of arcane, if innocuous-sounding, tax items with one eye on the calendar. An election was only a few weeks away, and legislators were desperate to return home to campaign for their own re-election. A year later, lawmakers and the public are just now discovering some of the curious subsidies tucked into TARP and the government’s other massive intervention programs.  more…..

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Transnationalist Harold Koh Makes The Big Time

With healthcare, cap and trade, and the most important news item of all -  the death of Michael Jackson – dominating the news all week, this one quietly slipped by virtually unnoticed.

On Friday, Harold Koh was confirmed by the senate as Legal Adviser of the Department of State.

Harold Koh is a self-described ‘transnationalist’, which means he believe that the United Stated should apply international law here at home. Mr Koh has written “transnationalists believe that U.S. courts can and should use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system.”

In other words, Mr. Koh believes that United States sovereignty comes second to international law. In his new job as State Department Legal Advisor, he will be in perfect position to ensure that’s exactly what happens.

According to Fox News, “Obama nominated Koh on March 23 to become the State Department’s legal adviser — an appointment that, if confirmed by the Senate, will give Koh far-reaching influence over the extent to which international norms affect U.S. law.  “This is not a desk job. This guy will be the face of American international law around the world,” said Steven Gross, legal expert and fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation.”

Apparently, congress – along with the precedent -  has forgotten their oath of allegiance. It goes like this:

“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”

While the Republicans attempted a filibuster, Republican senators Snowe, Collins, Alexander, Hatch, Gregg, Lugar, Martinez, and Voinovich voted ‘Yes’ to cloture (ending the debate) on Wednesday 6/24. The cloture vote was:
YEAs 65
NAYs 31
Not Voting 3

Koh was confirmed on Thursday by a vote of 62-35:
YEAs 62
NAYs 35
Not Voting 2

The R.I.N.O.s who voted in favor of Koh’s confirmation were no big surprise: Snowe, Collins, Lugar, Martinez, and Voinovich.

Some background on Koh:
Ethics and Public Policy Center: Harold Koh’s Transnationalism: A Collection of Posts on the State Department Legal Adviser Nominee

G.O.A Video: Harold Koh, another anti-gun Obama nominee

Nokoh: Coalition To Preerve American Sovereignty

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Dealing With The “Aye” Votes

Today, I’m heading down to an impromptu protest at the office of Congressman Bob Etheridge here in Raleigh. Etheridge was one of North Carolina’s six Democrat ‘Aye’ votes on cap and trade; why his office is being singled out is unclear to me, but it doesn’t matter. Neither does the probability that nobody will be in the office, or that the turnout will be light. This is a rallying point for us, and that’s all that concerns me on this particular day.Every step, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction, and even if only a handful of us show up, that is a handful more saying to these sons of bitches that we will not take their total disregard for the wishes of their constituents for one more second.

I know the psychology here, and that is that they think we’ll eventually go away. Well, here’s a news flash for all the congressmen, senators, presidential staffers and even the precedent himself:

We aren’t going anywhere. You are.

All day yesterday and into today, stories were pouring in via talk radio, the internet and television about people calling their congressmen/women and not being able to get through because the lines were jammed, or of people whose congressmen/women told them point-blank (via staffers manning the phones) that although the calls they had been receiving were overwhelmingly against cap and trade, they were voting in favor of it anyway.

How’s that for representative government?

Make no mistake, a large, large number of our representatives have gone rogue and are no longer even pretending to represent the wishes and concerns of their constituents. It;s all about the deal and the payoff – what’s in it for them, who owes what to whom, and – this has been coming out over the last couple of days – who has their money invested in ‘renewable energy’.

From Glenn Beck:

Concentrate on things that are important, like those who are pushing this energy bill stand to gain the most from it:

• Nancy Pelosi has $50,000 to $100,000 in Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

• Rep. Edward Markey — hmm, why does that name sound familiar? — has investments between $51,000 and $115,000 in the Firsthand Technology Value Fund (which as three solar-energy manufacturers)

• Al Gore — Mr. “Inconvenient Truth” himself — his venture capital firm is heavily invested in a new software company that’s making software to help companies track their carbon footprint. He, and companies like his, will make a fortune.

Not only will this bill make politicians rich, it will increase their power as well.

This is a government out of control. This is government stealing from its people. This is a government that, unless stopped, will continue to attack our liberties, our freedoms, our free enterprise system, our very way of life until our American greatness and exceptionalism – you know, the two things that Obama has been traveling the world apologising for – are destroyed.

The future of our country is in our hands. We DO have the power to stop this – they haven’t taken that away from us yet – but we need to commit to action. If there’s a tea party event you can attend today, next weekend, whenever, then go. Stay informed and engaged. Cap and Trade goes to the Senate next, and it’s never too early to start letting your senators know where you stand and how you expect them to vote. Healthcare and immigration reform amnesty are next, and God only knows what else is coming down the pike. The point is, be ready.

Anyway, before I get off track, here are the North Carolina Democrats who voted against cap and trade. I’ve personally called both their offices and thanked them:

• Congressman Larry Kissell – (202) 225-3715
• Congressman Mike McIntyre – (202) 225-2731

Here is the complete roll call vote

Here’s Congressman Mark Kirk pretending to read the bill

Another couple of great posts at Michelle Malkin’s site today. Remember to let the 8 “Cap and Tax” republicans know what their vote meant to you.

Michelle Malkin: The 8 cap-and-tax Republicans…and the 44 Democrats who voted no

Michelle Malkin: Tea Party Watch: Protesting the cap-and-tax cramdown

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HR2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009, AKA the ‘cap and trade’ bill, passed the house this evening 219 to 212.

Once again, they didn’t even read it.

You would think that maybe, just maybe, with the new information regarding the suppression of an EPA report that cast serious doubt about the validity of government’s current views on ‘global warming’, that congress would at least delay the vote until this information could be looked into. However, that would mean putting their country ahead of their own agenda and self-interest, something that these lying, thieving scum that infest congress are completely incapable of.

8 Republicans sided with the liberal left against the American people to pass this bill by 7 votes. They are:

• Mary Bono Mack (CA): 202-225-5330
  Fax: 202-225-2961
• Mike Castle (DE): 202-225-4165
  Fax: 202-225.2291
• Steven Kirk (IL): 202-225-4385
  Fax: 202-225-0837
• John McHugh (NY): 202-225-4611
  Fax: 202-226-0621
• Leonard Lance (NJ): 202-225-5361
  Fax: 202-225-9460
• Frank LoBiondo (NJ): 202-225-6572
  Fax: 202-225-3318
• Dave Reichert (WA): 202-225-7761
  Fax: 202-225-4282
• Chris Smith (NJ): Phone: 202-225-3765
  Fax: 202-225-7768

I’ve added their contact info for those who might be inclined to voice their displeasure.

Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois actually had the balls to post a video of himself on YouTube ostensibly ‘reading’ the bill. Being a man of great courage though, he has disabled comments on the video. Luckily for us, someone actually re-posted the video with comments fully enabled. Please feel free to share your feelings about his vote: Mark Kirk video on YouTube

It’s important to point out that 44 Democrats voted against this stinking pile of crap. Regardless of our philosophical differences, on this particular day, these Democrats – along with the Republicans who stood their ground – are patriots.

Full roll call vote here.

Michelle Malkin was live-blogging this thing all day, and it looks to have been a real circus, with Waxman reportedly soliciting and cutting deals right on the House floor. There are simply no words to describe the lack of respect these lowlife creeps show for the people’s house.

Did you know they actually had a moment of silence for dead child-molester Michael Jackson? Shortly after, Rep. Tom Price asked for a moment of silence for all those who would lose their jobs under this bill. His request, of course, was denied.

Michelle Malkin’s liveblog links:

1. Cap and tax liveblog: Democrats limit debate, stampede toward national energy tax
2. Cap and tax liveblog, Pt II: Pay attention to House floor games; 14 undecideds; let’s play “Where’s the Bill?”
3. Cap and trade liveblog, part 3: (Mini)-Filibuster; Vote time; Final vote – passes 219-212

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Wall Street Journal: The Cap and Tax Fiction
Democrats off-loading economics to pass climate change bill.

“Americans should know that those Members who vote for this climate bill are voting for what is likely to be the biggest tax in American history. Even Democrats can’t repeal that reality.”

When the Heritage Foundation did its analysis of Waxman-Markey, it broadly compared the economy with and without the carbon tax. Under this more comprehensive scenario, it found Waxman-Markey would cost the economy $161 billion in 2020, which is $1,870 for a family of four. As the bill’s restrictions kick in, that number rises to $6,800 for a family of four by 2035.

Note also that the CBO analysis is an average for the country as a whole. It doesn’t take into account the fact that certain regions and populations will be more severely hit than others — manufacturing states more than service states; coal producing states more than states that rely on hydro or natural gas. Low-income Americans, who devote more of their disposable income to energy, have more to lose than high-income families.

Even as Democrats have promised that this cap-and-trade legislation won’t pinch wallets, behind the scenes they’ve acknowledged the energy price tsunami that is coming. During the brief few days in which the bill was debated in the House Energy Committee, Republicans offered three amendments: one to suspend the program if gas hit $5 a gallon; one to suspend the program if electricity prices rose 10% over 2009; and one to suspend the program if unemployment rates hit 15%. Democrats defeated all of them. more…..

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Human Events: Waxman’s Economy Killer
The House of Representatives will vote Friday on the so-called “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” — a.k.a the “Waxman-Markey” global warming bill. But whatever you want to call this legislative atrocity, if enacted into law, it will go down in history as the death knell of the American standard of living and way of life. If you hate America, this bill is for you. more…..

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Don’t Vote For New Energy Tax

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The House of Representatives will vote Friday on the so-called American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 — the Orwellian name the Democrats have attached to the “Waxman-Markey” global warming tax bill, or cap-and-trade. According to author Steven Milloy, this bill adds $9 trillion in costs to the production of energy between 2012 and 2050. That works out to almost $800 per American per year for the next 38 years (for more information, click here).

The bill will create a permanent energy crisis, phasing out coal-generated electricity (50% of our current supply) and failing to guarantee the construction of the only realistic substitute for coal: nuclear power. The legislation would also endanger thousands of jobs.

Several elected officials say their constituents’ electricity bills will double in ten years if Waxman Markey is passed.

Contact your representatives in Congress and tell them to vote no on H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. During a recession, Americans do not need more taxes and unemployment.

Click Here to Contact Your Representative NOW!

Barack Obama says he doesn’t want government-run healthcare. Barack Obama is lying. Government-run healthcare is exactly what he wants.

Why?

It all comes back to the Cloward-Piven strategy, which, in my opinion and as I’ve stated several times before, is the driving force behind practically every single major social and economic change Obama has made, is making or is proposing.

Picture this: The Obama administration achieves its goal of universal healthcare and then follows it up with amnesty for 20 million illegal aliens – which, by the way, is next on the agenda – what do you suppose will happen to our economy at that point?

On June 15th, the Congressional Budget Office released its projections of what just ONE section of the Kennedy healthcare proposal would cost: 1 TRILLION dollars from 2010 to 2019, and this is without the cost of a government-run insurance plan (the ‘public option’) figured.

From the CBO’s letter to Senator Kennedy (all emphasis mine):

The attached table summarizes our preliminary assessment of the proposal’s budgetary effects and its likely impact on insurance coverage. According to that assessment, enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion over the 2010–2019 period. Once the proposal was fully implemented, about 39 million individuals would obtain coverage through the new insurance exchanges. At the same time, the number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million.

So, according to the CBO;

• By 2019, 39 million people would be covered by the government plan
• In the same time frame, approximately 23 million people would lose their current insurance coverage from employer or other private sources
• When all is said and done, only 16 million people would have benefited from the new healthcare reform.

Total reform and overhaul of the world’s best healthcare system just to bring health insurance to 16 million people?

Doesn’t the fact that we’re getting another classic Obama “rush rush rush, we have to do this NOW or there’ll be no turning back om the certain destruction that awaits us!” raise any red flags with anybody?

Based on what’s been coming out of congress recently, the above CBO numbers are rosy at best, as they seem to assume that the private insurance industry would still be up and running, when it fact it would more than likely be completely decimated under any of the current health care proposals, – both official and unofficial – coming out of Washington. As the following videos will illustrate, total decimation of the private health insurance industry is, in fact, this administration’s end game.

For example, here is Rep Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee – the committe currently debating the healthcare bill. Pay very careful attention to what she has to say in this video:

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Next up is a video of Barack Obama, UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) all pushing the virtues of a single-payer universal healthcare system. Watch this one all the way to the end, as the closing comments by Obama himself will leave you with no illusions whatsoever about what his plans are.

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Let’s look at what else has been proposed to date:

• Make health insurance mandatory. You will be insured whether you want it or not.
  
• Require employers to provide a minimum level of insurance, which may actually be a higher level than the employer currently provides or can afford, causing the employer to stop providing insurance altogether
• Require employees with employer-provided health benefits to pay tax on those benefits (Union members will be exempt from this tax)
• Force private insurers to accept customers with preexisting conditions. This alone may be enough to put private insurers out of business. At the very least it will cause private insurance rates to skyrocket. Can you imaging crashing your car and then going out the next day and buying collision insurance from your auto insurance provider and then expecting them to cover your crash? How many times do you think they could do that before going broke?

From Fox News:

“Obama also said he’s changed his mind on the issue of whether individuals can purchase private health insurance — an idea he was resistant to during his presidential campaign.

“This is an area where people have made compelling arguments to me, that if we want to have system that drives down cost for everyone, we have to have healthy people not opt out of the system,” Obama told ABC.

Apparently, that does not include healthy union members. Under a proposal by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), union members and their families would be exempt from paying into the new system via taxes on their union health benefits, or any other way.

A rational person is, at this point, is probably asking his/herself what exactly is so wrong with the current healthcare system that a complete overhaul is required?

Is it cost?

No, because there are other simpler and much more direct ways to start controlling costs. At the top of the list is tort reform, which if implemented properly, would drastically reduce the cost of malpractice/liability insurance all across the healthcare industry, thereby driving down healthcare costs for all.

Is it because our president really wants what’s best for me and my family?

Don’t make me laugh.  Barack Obama has demonstrated – not necessarily through his words, but absolutely through his actions – that he couldn’t care less about non-union, non-minority working Americans beyond that we’re a source of funding for his ‘social justice’ programs.

This is about amassing power. Period. This is about expanding the welfare class – and make no mistake, universal healthcare paid for by the producers in our society will be the biggest expansion of the welfare class ever – and bringing about the final destruction of a free market economy, individual liberties and individual freedom. Yes, I know it sounds extreme, but just look at what’s happened to our country in only four short months.

Every last one of Obama’s past associates -  from the Wrights to the Ayers’ to the Dorns to his Alinsky-steeped ideology, to the corrupt Chicago political machine that spawned him  – all these have shaped and influenced who he is, and are manifesting themselves in his attack on the country he now leads. Obama is a radical, and the sooner the country comes to terms with this fact, the sooner we can shut his agenda down once and for all.

It is the Cloward-Piven strategy, all the way. There is simply no other rational explanation on God’s green earth for what he is doing.

God help us all.

-Cnation

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Update: Both Michelle Malkin and hotair.com have open threads on this evening’s Barack Obama healthcare infomercial on ABC

Two must-reads today, both from Michelle Malkin:

Michelle Malkin: Who’s funding the Obamacare Astroturf campaign?
My syndicated column today investigates the deep pockets behind the “grass-roots” campaign for Obamacare. Chicago crony/White House senior adviser David Axelrod is, of course, the master of astroturfing. So it certainly comes as no surprise that left-wing puppetmasters are behind the government health care takeover lobby. But an informed citizenry needs to know the nitty gritty details.

Will the ABC “All Barack Channel” News health care infomercial tell viewers about the cabal at 1825 K Street (a far Left office complex/headquarters that is the Washington DC analogue of the 1024 Elysian Fields ACORN headquarters in New Orleans, which I first reported on in August 2008)?

Will they tell viewers about the First Lady’s patient-dumping scheme?

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Michelle Malkin: Document drop: The story behind the “ACORN changed its name” story
There is some confusion over the story about ACORN “changing its name” that needs to be cleared up and given context. Getting it right is important.

I provided a link to the piece by Kevin Mooney at the Examiner on Monday in my post focusing on Project Vote/ACORN’s lawsuit against whistleblower Anita Moncrief.

The link was a sidebar to my main story, but I should have spelled out the facts on the name change more clearly, and so should everyone who has mischaracterized the story and glossed over the real reason for the name change: more…..

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