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By The Prowler on 3.25.11 @ 6:09AM

How Obama took control over the Internet. Bachmann makes Boehner-Cantor’s day.

INTERNET GRABBERS
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa continues to demand answers from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski over why the head of a supposedly independent federal agency visited the White House 81 times between January 2009 and November 2010. It was during this time that Genachowski and his staff were developing a regulatory scheme that would ultimately place control of the Internet in the hands of the FCC.

Of special interest to Issa is a meeting held September 17, 2009, which took place four days before Genachowski made a speech at the Brookings Institute laying out the broad framework for the FCC’s Internet regulations. On September 17, White House records indicate, Genachowski and his chief of staff, Edward “Eddie” Lazarus, met with Larry Summers, the then-director of the National Economic Council. White House and Treasury Department sources say that Genachowski provided Summers with a draft of his Brookings remarks. On September 21, within an hour of Genachowski’s speech at Brookings, President Obama made a speech in Troy, N.Y., laying out Genachowski’s proposal in detail.

“It was understood that the White House wanted to see the speech so that the President could tout the announcement in his own speech,” says a White House source. “We also wanted to have the ability to have Valerie Jarrett’s team to reach out to some of our outside supporters to let them know that we were moving on an issue that was important to them, so we needed to have a copy of the speech with the details.”

In fact, the White House reached out to several left-wing organizations that had been pressing for government regulation of the Internet: Free Press, Public Knowledge, the Center for American Progress, for example, and gave them details of the Genachowski and Obama remarks the night before either man made his speech.

According to the Treasury source, Summers made clear to both FCC officials that their plan was going to create problems for the Administration in the business community. “Larry was just about the only guy in this administration that business people could talk to, so Larry really took the brunt of the anger and frustration that was focused on the administration,” says the Treasury source. “So Larry was really the only guy who could give Julius the download from the business community.”

HOW DO YOU SPELL RELIEF?
Staffers for House Republican leadership are saying their bosses are breathing sighs of relief with word leaking out that Rep. Michele Bachmann is mulling a presidential exploratory committee.

”[John Boehner and Eric Cantor] were nervous about what she might be up to, and as long as it isn’t about making their lives miserable, they’re more than happy to encourage her outside activities,” says a senior aide to the Republican Conference Committee, who has ties to both the Speaker’s office and the majority leader.

Bachmann has privately told supporters and outside consultants who work for her that her focus is on generating enough support so that she can influence any number of House races in the 2012 cycle and get true conservatives elected. “She’s using the DeMint model,” says an adviser.

But an exploratory committee might cut into ambitious plans she has for her leadership PAC, as well as her re-election fund. “I wouldn’t sell her short,” says the adviser. “We’re talking about a woman who raised more money than anyone else in the House last cycle. We will raise what we need to ensure she is in a strong position to accomplish whatever goals she has.”

According to House leadership sources, there was real concern that Bachmann planned to lead a “back bench” revolt against GOP leadership in the late spring and summer as budget and appropriations issues continued to fester.

“The way things are playing out, we aren’t going to be able to accomplish more than the most basic kinds of cuts or reform; nothing nearly as aggressive as what we talked about on the campaign trail,” says a Cantor aide, who on Thursday was attending Cantor’s two-day fundraising event for Washington lobbyists and donors. “We know we’re going to lose some of the Tea Party types, and we were looking at a Bachmann back bench of about 50 members who really would have made our work more difficult. If she’s out in Iowa and elsewhere fundraising and speaking and building her base, those are days she won’t be able to focus on us, and that’s a good thing.”

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.25.11 @ 6:24AM

Someone should plan a revolt against the Republican leadership. They are living jelly. No backbones, no spine, just steeped in the Washington practices of deception.

RustyG| 3.25.11 @ 7:56AM

Billy, Billy, Billy..... The authors at AmSpec have told you time and time again. Remember...INCREMENTAL. Slow and steady. Their playing 3-D chess and your playing checkers. It just appears they're spineless and gelatine-like, it's all part of the plan. Any day now they will burst from the phone booth and save the republic from the doom we all know is coming......right?

Mike D.| 3.25.11 @ 8:17AM

The first rule of the game in washington is never to threaten the existence of the game. Republican is the long version word for cowards. The gutting of this party needs to continue full speed ahead and weed out this gutless bilge. Long way to go. Bachmann is rocking the big fat DC career love boat and the Captain crybaby is wetting his pants.
RINO party needs a few more "night of the long knives" culling of the herd.

mames| 3.25.11 @ 9:48AM

What? A woman can't multi task? I would suggest that Boehner and Cantor continue to worry even as the Tea Party marshalls its forces against these two cowards. Michelle is perfectly capable of running for office while still holding the leadership's feet to the fire. Time to cry Mr Boehner and this time for good reason your ass is on the line.

Periwinkel| 3.25.11 @ 7:09PM

I was never a big fan of John Boehner. He was always kissing up to whoever was in power and is just too steeped in the DC culture of slip and slide corruption. I will be glad when he is gone. Michele, please keep them on their toes! We luvya out here.

niteowl| 3.26.11 @ 12:32AM

Mike, you got it exactly right. The RINOs need to find some wizards and get a spine. Don't tell Boehner I don't want to see the crybaby cry.

darcy| 3.26.11 @ 6:59PM

The problem, -- imo -- niteowl, is not lack of spine; they have plenty of that for their Washington agenda. The problem is that we're dealing here with inveterate enablers: people who know how to tweak the message for Greta's audience, but whose heart is with the statist agenda. This is why they want Bachmann diffused, so to speak. Everyday her presence reminds them that patriotic Americans are not buying what these two stooges are selling; she puts obstacles in their way, by the mere power of her ability to show them for the miscreants they are. Miscreants who are quite satisfied to let the status quo flow along -- and lie to the people as they conspire against us -- since it perpetuates their power: The only thing they care about.

Sam Vaughn| 3.25.11 @ 9:24AM

RustyG the siren sound of your refrain has been our rallying cry for years. Look where it go us,, bowled over by a tsunami of violence against our freedom, liberty and the very core of being an American..... I have not desire to wake up one day in Europe, a land my ancestors left and never went back.......you're too smart by half,,,, 3d Chess,,,,,,,

Habu| 3.25.11 @ 9:26AM

RustyG| 3.25.11 @ 7:56AM
I've been a registered Republican since 1966. Never voted for any other party , have been President of my counties Republicans Mens Club which at the time included the Florida Speaker of the House and the Republican Party Chairman. I was on the Repulican Executive Committee for the county and one of two delegates sent to the Presidential Conference III so I have some practical experience in politics as well as a BA and a Masters in Political Science.
But Rusty, I have to tell ya that the greater part of the Republican leadership have the backbones of chocolate eclairs. This "incrementalism" you and TAS speak of is so glacial in speed as to have no practical effect.
My hero, Ronald Reagan promised to do away with several Departments, Education etc and couldn't do it because of the lack of over all guts of the Congressional Reps.
When was the last time you heard a Rep affiliated group called thugs that had the true meaning of the word. It wouldn't be a totally bad concept to have such a group just to even the playing field but there just are not enough "bust some head" Republican leaders to give impetus to such a movement...and in my opinion when the Dems howl about their "thugs" gonna do this and that I say "bring it on" ...but very few are behind me...the Reps like to play softball in a hardball league.
So you end up with the Dems with the Black Panthers ,SEIU, and other unions who will bust heads as we go crying back to mother.
I'm a former Marine and CIA operative and I say it's time to bust heads or just give the country to the obama-commies.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.25.11 @ 9:52AM

I think RustyG was indulging in irony and humor, i.e. we don't have leadership in Washington, we have leadersheep.

irish19| 3.25.11 @ 12:14PM

Leadersheep-I like it. Perfectly describes the gutless wonders leading the Republican party as well as the RNC.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.25.11 @ 2:38PM

Habu
I truly hope you are who you say you are. You have placed some solid comments here, time and time again.
You are going to orgasm on my newest bestseller;
"America Alone Said NO!" (to sharia law)
Hopefully it will be available online next week.

Habu| 3.26.11 @ 5:38PM

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.25.11 @ 2:38PM

I guarantee you I'm the real deal. I'll look for your publication. Thanks for the nice comments.
Best,
Habu

Walking Horse| 3.25.11 @ 9:52AM

Or maybe it's the case that they are heads-down playing a 3-D chess game of their own design while the other guys think they are in a knife fight.

That incremental model works really well when one has the luxury of time. In case you didn't notice, the margin has been squeezed out of the system and the job of bleeding it dry is well advanced. Once systems get into such states, they don't respond well to the inevitable surprises, upsets, and natural events that cost money and lives. Such systems often crumble or morph into something else, and here we stand, dithering, not unlike the POTUS in the Libyan adventure.

All American American| 3.25.11 @ 6:36AM

Seriously, is Boner, I mean Boehner stupid? Holy cow man why is it the only ones in the R party who seem to have any cajones are the WOMEN?

Take a hard line against this nonsense spending! We will support you!!!

Grzmlyk| 3.25.11 @ 9:03AM

Oh yeah. Boehner is stupid. And feckless. And go-along-to-get-along.

And (sniff, sniff), he's also just so (sniff, sniff) overwhelmed that (sniff, sniff) as one of 11 children (sniff, sniff) of a humble Ohio tavern owner (sniff, sniff), he's really (sniff, sniff) arrived at the top of the (sniff, sniff) heap.

To take a page from Sally Field's Oscar acceptance speech, "I want liberals to like me (bawl, bawl)! I REALLY want liberals to like me (blubber, blubber)!"

The gang that couldn't even put its friggin' pants on, let alone shoot straight.

BackToBasics| 3.26.11 @ 1:46PM

I said on AS a few days ago that I think I misread Boehner. I thought the crying was, as you say, to show the liberals they could like him because he was a compassioante "conservative."

I now am beginning to think that it was an act to pull the heart strings of Tea Party / Evangelicals / Conservatives; especially the evangelicals. The reason for it of course is to disarm the increased hard-edge the right has gotten the last couple eyars. And the second reason is that he khew instinctively that he wasn't going to confront the Dems so he tried, unsuccessfully I might add, to assuage the right beforehand. Finally many on the right are now onto this.

And as an aside, I hope the folks on the right for whom this heart-string stuff still works will wake up and see the same mushy qualities, even worse, in awww-shucks-I'm-so-likeable, heart-string-puller Mike Huckabee. He leads in the polls now. I hope he's peaking early and will drop down inthe polls.

Amjean| 3.28.11 @ 8:50AM

Boehner cried because he was overcome with emotion because HE achieved this high position.
It was about the position, not his service to the
country.

Why isn't he crying about the debt and the
ruination of our country by Obama and his merry band of thugs? He could also cry about the lack of leadership with the repubs, however, he probably hasn't clued into that yet.

Clint| 3.25.11 @ 6:41AM

If The GOP Ruling Elite Fops Want War with We Tea Party Patriots, Let It Be Here & Now.

The Second Wave of Tea Party Candidates are being vetted for The 2012 GOP Primary Elections.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Rise Up.

Cris Worth| 3.25.11 @ 6:49AM

I've noticed a disturbing trend in Congressional GOP leadership positions since 1980. Baker, Dole, then Dole again, Lott and Frist in the Senate. Gingrich, Hastert, Boehner/Cantor in the House. These so-called leaders are sell outs playing a cynical game looking to cut deals with Democrats much to the detriment of the country. The denouement comes with the upcoming debt ceiling vote. If the Republican House allows the debt ceiling to rise, game over.

darcy| 3.26.11 @ 7:12PM

That will indeed put the nail in Boehner's and his band of merry miscreants' coffins -- at least for those who haven't been paying attention.

I wrote Boehner off when his tears were for his poor upbringing and "look at what the American dream has done for me" mush.

His tears should have been for the hollow shell that remains of America's Founding, of our Constitutional protections, withering under the relentless onslaught of EVIL Marxists and their RINO statist allies.

His tears were symbolic of his failure to grasp reality; he's either in denial or himself complicit and not objective enough to see his culpability.

Really, people. This man saved us $6 Billion dollars just last week, while the national debt soared another $72 Billion. What an absolute crock.

Lawrence Boccardi| 3.25.11 @ 7:09AM

I'm gonna repeat a comment I made a week ago, with deference to the one by All American American, above. The only two repubs with onions, are both women!

loulou| 3.25.11 @ 11:08AM

What about Jim DeMint and Steve King?? Otherwise you're right but add to the two Marsha Blackburn and Sue Myrick.

Pelligrino| 3.25.11 @ 3:30PM

What about Mike Pence of Indiana? Not sure in these last 2.5 months on him....or? Surely he has to know that the Boehner-Cantor way is poison and complete betrayal to the people who placed them there AND the WHOLE NATION.

It's putsch time in the House. "Just do it!"

Die Fledermaus| 3.25.11 @ 6:34PM

loulou, lately we down here in the 7th district of TN have been thinking Marsha needs a chiropractor appointment.

darcy| 3.26.11 @ 7:15PM

What's up with Blackburn, Die Fledermaus?

Chalkdust| 3.27.11 @ 6:44AM

Allen West

Amjean| 3.28.11 @ 8:52AM

And only one is a leader.

Dee See| 3.25.11 @ 7:37AM

BTW ----putting aside that Google is entirely
a surveillance tool. ON RECORD

CHECK OUT the specs on those new mercury filled, RED Chinese manufactured, UN mandated
flourescent lightbulbs and sockets.

Seems the sockets are listening devices
and the flourescents use flicker rates for
mind control and interlock with rates from
HD television. ABSOLUTELY TRUE

Seriously. They can pick up bio-metric vibrations and thereby monitor conversations
etc. TRUE.

Check it out for yourself.
Then REFUSE to use them-------------

AGAIN

-----------HUAC meets NUREMBERG-------asap

Disbelief| 3.25.11 @ 7:39AM

It's like November never happened. They have learned nothing, they have forgotten nothing. .... and they believe in nothing.

TennesseeVolunteer| 3.25.11 @ 7:53AM

The goal of the Tea Party is to put the most Conservative person in each seat that has demonstrated personal integrity and strong Conservative beliefs and actions. If Cantor, or Boehner do not, they will be replaced by stronger Conservative voices. Just because a Republican is in office is no reason to think they will have a long term entitlement to that seat.
The Tea Party is not done, it has just begun! Their inability to understand that is at their own risk.

Maxwell| 3.25.11 @ 9:44AM

This Yankee sure hopes you are correct & RIGHT too

Redstateboy| 3.25.11 @ 3:22PM

I want to believe ya Bro but after we reelected Jimmy Duncan again and again and again here in E. TN - I don't know. I mean he's a good guy but he ain't no Tea Partier and now we've Lamar Alexander wanting to be reelected when what we need is a Marco Rubio

Die Fledermaus| 3.25.11 @ 6:40PM

Amen Redstateboy. Both Corker then Lamar need to be replaced.

I still do not understand why so many Tennesseans vote for the popular guy or the rich guy or the guy that's been there a lot like Lamar.

Of course, the voting history of TN residents does show this pattern.

Chalkdust| 3.27.11 @ 6:54AM

Where does Marco Rubio stand on border control? Illegal immigration? Amnesty? So far there is a deafening silence on these issues. Be careful what you wish for.

The Old Chief| 3.27.11 @ 12:41AM

I too was raised in the Tennessee Volunteer tradition even tho I now make my home in California. I sincerely hope and pray that your remarks about the Tea Party are accurate and prophetic. If we conservatives do not taake back all of the Congress and the White House in 2012 the magnificent and exceptional Nation I spent my entire adult life defending will be gone, possibly forever.

Parfumi | 12.24.11 @ 3:07PM

Tako, kot se morajo z našo osebnostjo skladati oblačila, ki jih nosimo, ter naša pričeska in ličila, moramo skrbno izbrati tudi sebi primeren parfum. Vsako leto se na trgu pojavi ogromno novih stekleničk opojnih vonjav, s televizije in plakatov pa nas zasipajo z oglasi zanje, zato je pri izbiranju parfuma potrebno razumeti različne vrste parfumov in not, ki jih v njih najdemo. Prevladujoče vrste parfumov so: lesena, zelena, cvetlična, sadna in orientalska, vsak izmed njih pa vsebuje različne note, ki vzbudijo različne občutke. Ugotovite, kateri najbolj ustreza vam! Parfumi, parfum, kozmetika

Mike Rogers| 3.25.11 @ 7:56AM

I have thought for several years that Cantor is useless - the gulf between his faux conservatism and Ryan's detailed cost cutting plans is huge.
Boehner needs to show us that he really gets the message, or we'll keep sending more conservatives until he gets with the program or is replaced

daboss| 3.25.11 @ 9:19AM

i have a funny feeling we will be very disappointed in the Ryan budget plan.

YeloStalyn| 3.25.11 @ 9:33AM

Why they hell should we keep sending more conservatives to DC until Boehner "gets the message"?

Why not just vote the useless lout out and be done with it? Seems a much simpler solution to me.

darcy| 3.26.11 @ 7:19PM

We don't have the money of a Soros, but if the entire Tea Party apparatus places priority number one on sending Boehner into retirement, WE CAN DO IT. Secondarily, it's time to unseat Cantor as well.

Louis Jenkins| 3.25.11 @ 8:22AM

"Staffers for House Republican leadership are saying their bosses are breathing sighs of relief with word leaking out that Rep. Michele Bachmann is mulling a presidential exploratory committee."

I bet they are.

Nightmare on Obama Street| 3.25.11 @ 9:16AM

The Republican Party reminds me of the saying about the Palistinians: They never pass up the opportunity to let a good opportuniy go to waste. Clearly the Republican Party is has outlived its usefulness. Time to go back to the drawing board.

irish19| 3.25.11 @ 12:23PM

Not exactly sure about that. However, the current leadership surely has outlived its usefulness.

Habu| 3.25.11 @ 9:29AM

I've been a registered Republican since 1966. Never voted for any other party , have been President of my counties Republicans Mens Club which at the time included the Florida Speaker of the House and the Republican Party Chairman. I was on the Repulican Executive Committee for the county and one of two delegates sent to the Presidential Conference III so I have some practical experience in politics as well as a BA and a Masters in Political Science.
But Rusty, I have to tell ya that the greater part of the Republican leadership have the backbones of chocolate eclairs. This "incrementalism" you and TAS speak of is so glacial in speed as to have no practical effect.
My hero, Ronald Reagan promised to do away with several Departments, Education etc and couldn't do it because of the lack of over all guts of the Congressional Reps.
When was the last time you heard a Rep affiliated group called thugs that had the true meaning of the word. It wouldn't be a totally bad concept to have such a group just to even the playing field but there just are not enough "bust some head" Republican leaders to give impetus to such a movement...and in my opinion when the Dems howl about their "thugs" gonna do this and that I say "bring it on" ...but very few are behind me...the Reps like to play softball in a hardball league.
So you end up with the Dems with the Black Panthers ,SEIU, and other unions who will bust heads as we go crying back to mother.
I'm a former Marine and CIA operative and I say it's time to bust heads or just give the country to the obama-commies.

Anthony| 3.25.11 @ 9:38AM

Truly disgusting. Boehner and Cantor apparently spend all day in their Washington bubble thinking more about how to maintain power and maintain low expectations, than doing what is right. Rome is burning and they fiddle on the edges of the budget, like the good little R losers that they are.
Here's hoping these two losers have underestimated the abililty of Bachmann to campaign and keep these whimps feet to the fire at the same time. Multi-tasking is not something Boehner is capable of doing, unless you consider crying and whimpering at the same time multi-tasking.
Boehner, you truly disgust me. RNC, save your money on your phony surveys; the response from us is Boehner is a weasel and so are you folks!!!
Michelle go for it girl, we need to rid Washington of RINOs as much as we need to rid it of Obozo and the left.

Sean| 3.25.11 @ 9:39AM

Time to remove Boehner and Cantor. You know Republicans are not serious when they put those two dummies into leadership positions.

russel| 3.25.11 @ 10:01AM

Agreed . I've had it with both and I doubt I'm alone . Bachman has been trying to get something acomplished , but if she's distracted by this foolishness of running , well , it's going to be bye bye time for the whole lot . This lollygagging in congress has gone on long enough .

Who Knows?| 3.25.11 @ 10:47AM

Boehner and Cantor aren’t the problem, meine Freunde.

We live in a representative democracy, and the way they attained their powerful positions atop the Republican House of Representatives pyramid was---a free vote, by their peers, who were also freely elected.

So, it ain’t the LEADERS---it’s the majority of representatives who chose them over the insurgents, those claiming to be for the Tea Party.

No, wait!

It’s not THEM---it’s the one-by-one majority of voters who voted for THEM.

See—that’s why elections MATTER.

I, myself, am still seriously “challenged”, i.e. handicapped, by that most basic human trait, hyper-analyzed by that bad old fascist, Heidegger---caring.

As a resident of the lost state of Oregon, the southern mostly conservative part, every time the goofy fools in the Portland area manage to vote another liberal into the governor’s office, it just sucks---and HURTS.

AND---soon enough, what the boys and girls do in Salem, when the voting dust has settled, ceases to concern me.

Of course, I’m all for the politicking that anyone chooses to do, in between elections.

But, let’s see---one day out of four years: that’s 1 out of 1,461 days. And, anyway, maybe I won’t even live to see the nest election day, so what else to DO, except live “my” life as consciously as possible, eh?

“Be Consciousness.

Contemplate Consciousness.

Transcend EVERYTHING in Consciousness.

This is the epitome of the Way of Truth.” Da Free John

Jack| 3.25.11 @ 1:59PM

I love this State of Oregon and I just woke up to the fact that the Socialists (Democrats) have taken it out of our hands. I mourn for the Oregonians that came before us that worked and died in the woods to bring prosperity to this State and donated generously to the communities. Now it is greed and power that move the state and it is like waking up in Kosovo. It is painful to watch.

Pelligrino| 3.25.11 @ 3:18PM

Our elections on November Tuesdays are indeed rigged. Fully & completely.

On those November Tuesdays do we ever really have more than two goons (one with D, one with R) to choose from.

That sucks for the populace.

Moreover, the key is the very corrupt primary process. You might think you get a say-so in the selection of your party's nominee; 85% of the time you don't.

The establishment always decides (that) for you.

Wayne | 3.25.11 @ 11:34AM

I am beginning to think the the best strategy for Bachmann to win the candidacy is to out-maneuver Boehner. First she Must demand that all 105.5 Billion allotted to ObamaCare be eliminated else no Tea Party candidate votes in the House for a budget or extension of the debt limit. This is her baby and she should run with it. What do she have to lose?

Pelligrino| 3.25.11 @ 3:23PM

Wayne, I agree. Now we all know why the GOP House leaders in December 2010 (while planning for the new Congress) did not permit Bachmann a leading role.

She can openly say that she's pushing Boehner aside. And announce to all of us the Tea Party candidate in Boehner's Ohio district that we are choosing to bump off Boehner in the Buckeye state's primary one year from now.

It is time to primary Boehner and make him go have to work a real job. He sucks.

gary siebel| 3.25.11 @ 12:34PM

well aint youse guys just a hoot. do you eat your young, too?
Name the last politician to go from Rep to President... if you can.
Tea Party will be a flash in the pan, more a problem for the Repubs than the Dems, for whom they will provide the salutary effect of turning out the Dem votes in droves. Tea Party to the country clubbers who control the Repub Party will become like John Birchers to Goldwater.

Old Soldier| 3.25.11 @ 12:59PM

Does it make you feel better to tell yourself that? I'm not going anywhere.

Occam's Tool| 3.25.11 @ 1:17PM

The Last Republican President to go from House of Representatives to the Presidency (albeit not directly), was Abraham "Spotty" Lincoln. I like Michelle.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.25.11 @ 1:29PM

Actually, I think it was Garfield, who had been recruited by Lincoln to run for the House. Garfield eventually became a dark horse candidate after nominating Sherman and went on to win.

Steve A| 3.25.11 @ 1:44PM

yeah gary, The tea Party was just a total disaster for Republicans in the most recent election last November. A few more disasters like that & Democrats will go the way of the Do Do Bird.

Stormzeye| 3.25.11 @ 5:35PM

I agree that the GOP has been in the hands of the country club crowd for too long but don't make the mistake of underestimating the power of Tea Partiers. We are nothing like John Birchers. You and the media can paint us with that brush all you want but we millions know who we are and we will succeed in wresting control of the GOP and the White House in spite of you.

OsamasPajamas| 3.26.11 @ 12:14AM

Gary, you silly goose. I doubt that there is even one John Birtcher left on the planet. You Democrats and RINOs have been name-calling the Tea Partiers so many nasty things and for so long that the good sense of the American people recognizes your hatchet jobs and character assassination jobs for what they are. Nowadays you're just whizzin' on your own shoes, but you're too frkn dumb to notice that.

Michael L. Hauschild| 3.25.11 @ 1:56PM

Shocked, shocked I tell you!!!!!

Habu| 3.25.11 @ 2:08PM

O/T..but it's our money
Over at the FED they are using the same accounting principle that Enron used, mark to market which means that the FED after buying up all the toxic Freddie and Fannie mortgage paper are now booking profits they have yet to earn.

As a result of these selfless rescue efforts, they came to hold a huge portfolio of securities; the Fannie and Freddie portion alone is worth $142 billion, say the papers. The Treasury has already sold its AIG and Citi paper – at a profit. And now, it is getting set to unload its hoard of Freddie and Fannie paper.

Can you believe it; its eggs haven’t been sold yet, but it’s already counting on profits between $15 and $20 billion. Are they investment geniuses at the Treasury, or what?
Enron went bust in 60 days after frauding the entire world...the FED is following the same path.

Habu| 3.25.11 @ 2:11PM

But hell, there's only the super rich and us rubes now in this country.The FED,obama,and Wall Street have picked the middle class carcass clean.

Habu| 3.25.11 @ 2:17PM

The above troika comrades have made our money useless.
If you took a quart of a fine single malt scotch and added twenty gallons of water to it would it still be worth the value of the original single malt scotch....hell no...well they've done the equivalent to our money.

martin j smith| 3.25.11 @ 2:23PM

I voted against Obama not for the Republican Party. I would love to see the Tea Party target some RINOS including Bob and Mitch.
Bachman is very well spoken and she can ignite things in the national debate. She cann0ot be everywhere or can she ?
I think the real test is goping to be the 2012 elections This is where voting is directly directed for or against Obama The Tea Party should be framing the debate in terms of " Failure of leadership and failure of policy and look at the economy. Its not Bush its Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.25.11 @ 2:46PM

I would like to see Palin President, and Michelle Speaker.......whoahhhhhhhh nellie!

Oldefarte| 3.25.11 @ 3:07PM

Beauty and tax-attorney brains, all in one ticket, the latter providing the fact of the $105 billion governmental spending contained within WELFARECARE. I don't care how many arenas she's involved in, as long as she stays active. Between her and Palin kicking up excrement, the truth will eventually be told!!!!!

Who Said This?| 3.25.11 @ 3:08PM

"The way things are playing out, we aren't going to be able to accomplish more than the most basic kinds of cuts or reform; nothing nearly as aggressive as what we talked about on the campaign trail," says a Cantor aide, who on Thursday was attending Cantor's two-day fundraising event for Washington lobbyists and donors.

Let's 'out' this aide and take him down. Letting Cantor know that if staffers are expendable, so is he. (right now he's toast)

It would be great of Rep. M. Bachmann and Mike Pence? overthrow Mr. Speaker. Monday would be just fine.

Gatorjoe| 3.25.11 @ 3:54PM

If Cantor's aide thinks that Michelle is going to be too busy to criticize Cantor and the Speaker during her fund raising activities, he's really guilty of wishful thinking! A real idiot!

Wayne | 3.25.11 @ 4:10PM

Yes, it looks like the Tea Party is already going after Cantor and Boehner. 2012 could be an interesting year.

PCP Smoker| 3.25.11 @ 9:14PM

Love how they use you to take their shots at the Tea Party. Hope you for your sake, they wore condoms.

Yosemeti Sam| 3.25.11 @ 11:07PM

What do all these rampant - DARK - visitations to the Resident in the Peoples' White House signify?

What - the Peoples' White House is now the meeting place for Boys in the Marxist Hood?

Osamas Pajamas| 3.26.11 @ 12:02AM

I wouldn't count on the Tea Partiers to hold their tongues --- and in any case it is in the best interests of the Republican party to throw the daily grenade for the major issues which turned the tide against the Democrats.

dadfly| 3.26.11 @ 12:12AM

the tea party (i.e., 10 million or more individual actors, generaled only by reasonable information culled from the internet, our trusted fellows like michele and our founding principles) is going to "lead" the "rebellion" against the rino-republican ruling class.

boehner, cantor and their lackeys have reached their moment of truth. it's do or die for them. if they don't come through in 2 weeks on the CR to defund obamacare, planned parenthood and really start cutting, it's over for them and possibly for the republican party as currently constituted.

Osamas Pajamas| 3.26.11 @ 12:17AM

I really don't think with my whizzer but I have noticed some really fine-looking Republicans babes fearlesslyh catfighting the bad guys. The professional Democrat women all look like they've been sxcking lemons all their lives, and the only Demo women worth looking at are Latinas who just need a hefty shot of capitalism to put them right.

Dennis Lukas| 3.26.11 @ 12:37AM

Its nice Cantor referes to "Tea Party Types" I guess that sums up his true feelings about Americans.

Dee See| 3.26.11 @ 3:51AM

"Beware MASS movements. Don't 'follow'
people. Keep your eye on the 'Big Boys'. Keep
your eye on truth."
-ALAN WATT

The Tea Party now all but co-opted by front-man
Arminian CON-artist Glenn Beck among others.

BTW ---catch Friday's show where Beck completely
soft soaps and co-opts the running abomination
that is the criminal, unconstitutional 'Federal'
Reserve.

See WHERE and HOW your genuine righteous indignation
over our last 4 decades of RED China sellout TREASON is being
short-circuited and neutralized. WHY nothing
is being addressed. WHY things are getting worse.

SEE------------------------------------------------------

thebardofmurdock | 3.26.11 @ 7:03AM

I Am the Very Model of a Democratic President
With apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan, authors of I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General

I am the very model of a Democratic president,
Who stumbled into office on a wave of massive discontent.
I’ve organized communities and burdened our state governments,
With help from union activists and other roguish elements.
I’ve found a way to give you unemployment at plus ten percent,
And rammed through legislation that the population does resent,
With stimulus and bailouts that our politicians should prevent,
Increasing sovereign debt to cover all the cash that I have spent.

I’ve made my mark with policies where spending transcends revenue,
And finding businesses that government can stick its mitts into.
In matters that ensure the currency is on a fast descent,
I am the very model of a Democratic president.

I’m very good at hiding in the White House from the fawning press,
Who might ask questions relative to budget or the HHS;
And lacking teleprompter it is darned hard for me to express,
Coherent ways to show our actions have resulted in success.
The Democratic Congress voters all came out to dispossess,
And left me with a GOP Tea Party out in battle dress.
Which puts me in an awkward situation that I must redress,
By threatening to shutter government to rescue PBS.

I’m at my best when making sure that Congress stifles all debate,
And passes measures in the night that guarantee a small growth rate.
In matters that ensure the very height of social discontent,
I am the very model of a Democratic president.

I’m having major problems working out my foreign policy:
My allies are unable to respect my clever repartee;
My country seems upset I bow to every potentate I see;
My enemies seem not content with my constant apology.
I dither and I hesitate for everything’s a quandary,
Until I get pushed in a corner by my dear friend Hillary,
Who teamed up with a rabid Bonaparte with surname Sarkozy,
And forced me to engage in war with Muammar al-Gaddafi.

By knowing absolutely nothing in relation to defense,
I gather coalitions of unwilling states when wars commence;
In matters that determine where our military men are sent,
I am the very model of a Democratic president.

thebardofmurdock.blogspot.com

335blues| 3.26.11 @ 11:10AM

The American people changed the federal government for the better in the 2010 election. Our work is far from done. There is ONLY ONE THING that will convince boehner, cantor, and mccarthy that they are representatives of the people and are to accomplish the people's will- maintaing a high probability that they can be voted out of office. They will answer only to this threat. If they feel there is no threat of them losing in the next election, they will thumb their nose at the people like they are now. Therefore, conservatives all over the country must ensure that boehner, cantor and mccarthy experience a vigorous primary challenge from true conservative candidates in 2012. I am ready to donate to conservative challengers to these rinos.

Habu| 3.26.11 @ 12:39PM

Youtube slam on obama too awesome ..

http://tinyurl.com/4zsewl7

Jack in Wi.| 3.26.11 @ 4:35PM

Good to see so many against Boehner and Cantor. They belong on the ashheap of history not running the Republican party. The top of the party has been braindead for decades.

Clint Lovell| 3.26.11 @ 6:35PM

It is time the Tea Party caucus becomes its own party. The Republicans have betrayed us (again!) and now they are admitting they weren't really serious about budget cutting and repealing Obamacare. You know why? Because they can raise campaign contributions and get PAC money as long as the issue is alive. They want to solve NOTHING. As long as everything is in play they make money and this will only end when their power ends and their power ends when the Tea Parties walk out the door.

Put on your walkin' shoes, boys and girls.

Habu| 3.26.11 @ 10:17PM

No doubt this will be argued again: WMD's what the DEMs said at the time.

"The intelligence agencies of Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, and France all agreed with this judgment. Even Hans Blix —who headed the UN team of inspectors trying to determine whether Saddam had complied with the demands of the Security Council that he dispose of the WMD he was known to have had in the past—lent further credibility to the case in a report he issued only a few months before the invasion:

"The discovery of a number of ... chemical rocket warheads in a bunker at a storage depot 170 km southwest of Baghdad was much publicized. This was a relatively new bunker, and therefore the rockets must have been moved there in the past few years, at a time when Iraq should not have had such munitions.... They could also be the tip of a submerged iceberg. The discovery … points to the issue of several thousands of chemical rockets that are unaccounted for."
The consensus on which President Bush relied was first fully formed in the Clinton administration, as these statements indicate:

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s [WMD] program." – Bill Clinton, 1998,

"Iraq is a long way from [America], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risk that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." – Secretary of State Madeline Albright, 1998
"[Saddam] will use those [WMD] again, as he has ten times since 1983." – Sandy Berger, Clinton’s National Security Adviser, 1998

more of what the Dems were saying as they beat the WMD war drum http://tinyurl.com/4sckl6y

Tom2121| 3.27.11 @ 2:23AM

Sixteen years ago a political leader named Gingrich – a leader possessed of more insight, foresight, common sense, wisdom and courage than the entire lot of currently sitting Republican members of the Congress - designed and led what was called the "Republican Revolution". It was a "revolution" which put the nation on a solid course directed at a return to embracing the concepts of governance clearly envisioned by the Founders.

Sadly, a retrospective from any point on a prism of analysis indicates clearly that over the past ten plus years, the dreams, goals and objectives of a formerly great political party have been so egregiously contorted and misdirected as to blur, beyond recognition, any formerly clear distinctions between the current GOP and its left-wing, socialist, counterparts in the tax-and-spend, "everything for everybody" and "aren't free lunches wonderful", democrat party membership. The handling of the stimulus bill is merely another one of the exemplifications and validations of such analysis.

Those of us who pulled the levers, or marked the X's, on election day ten years ago sent the GOP to Washington to do the right things for the American people; "right things" meaning nothing less than: cleaning up the social security mess . . . cutting spending . . . eliminating earmarks . . . reversing McCain-Feingold and, thereby, revitalizing the precepts of the First Amendment . . . processing judicial nominees in a timely fashion . . . eliminating the estate tax . . . reducing the size of government at all levels . . . cutting agriculture subsidies . . . eliminating the Departments of Education and Agriculture. . . opening drilling for oil in ANWR and the offshore areas . . . closing the boarders with hermetically-sealed precision and vigorously prosecuting all employers who defy the ban on the hiring of illegal aliens . . . authorizing MSA's . . . adopting zero-based budgeting . . . raising military pay . . . trimming social welfare programs in truly meaningful fashion . . . killing such give-away programs and earmarks . . . enacting meaningful medical malpractice reform after eliminating Obamacare. . . capping all congressional salaries until the budget is balanced . . . giving the President the line item veto . . . etc. . . . etc. . . . etc.

Sometimes in this life – invariably in the next – reality must be squarely acknowledged and addressed straight up. The great unwashed will only be "snowed" so long before they call a "time out".

The GOP has gone at least as far left as the Democrats, and if it doesn't get back to being legitimately conservative and not just a mouthy, preening, terminally narcissistic cabal of RINO's, (HELLO! Snowe, Collins, et al.) the Dems with their new-found neo-Marxist leader are going to really clean its members' clocks again in an emphatically royal fashion in ’12, ‘16 and for decades to come.

Whether or not the old-line establishment current GOP leadership cares to acknowledge it, and as tough as it is to have to articulate, most all of us see the GOP for what it has truly become – an assemblage of bodacious blowhards who exemplify nothing less than the pathetically flawed character of Macbeth who, in an eloquent rush of despair at the news of the death of Lady Macbeth, so memorably observed that "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing."

It is suggested that as the "poor player" in the political arena that has, over these past years of strutting and fretting "its hour" upon the political stage, the GOP has dissipated innumerable opportunities to truly change the course of the nation for the better, the GOP may "be heard no more" but will long be remembered not as the author of a "revolution" but, rather, as the author of "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing”.

Regrettably, it is acknowledged that there is no semblance of deference or polite decorum in the foregoing comments. Quite frankly, such are missing - simply and exclusively - because they have not been earned. Only the likes of Michele Bachmann & Co. can change that by returning immediately to the core values of the legitimate GOP or stepping aside in favor of those who will get the job done? Now, let’s get on with the vitally serious business at hand.

Geodetske storitve | 3.27.11 @ 8:05AM

"The first rule of the game in washington is never to threaten the existence of the game". I agree with this comment.

Dee See| 3.27.11 @ 10:49PM

---AS the 'Big Boys' massively cover-up
the awesome Fukushima disaster

---AS GE's Jeff I-Melt-down basks in Brazil
with the Obamas

---AS not a single question has been raised
about the known capabilities of HAARP technology viz a viz the RED China build-up
project

---AS cadmium and barium CHEM-trails
saturate the world's skies

---AS the capstone foundations are now, ON RECORD, behind most of what's hideous in the
last century via funding, set-ups, engineering,
assistance, design and intrigue

ONCE AGAIN time for:

Retroactive IMPEACHMENT of our past
4 Globalist front op administrations

Massive sustained and unflinching auditing
and investigation of our TAX FREE 'benny-violent' 'chair-irritable' capstone foundations,
NGO's and proxies ---with forthright prosecution
of those 'in the know'

Forthright auditing and exposure ofthe antics
of the illegal 'Federal Reserve'. Prosecution
of the responsible. Dismantling of the FED.

Unflinching and sustained exposure of our 'fave' second and third generation EUGENIST cultural
and business 'leaders' and their rampant involvement, indeed, direction of EUGENICS
within RED China ---and elsewhere

HUAC meets NUREMBERG ----accept NO substtitutes!

NJK| 3.28.11 @ 8:28PM

So Cantor said he is going to lose "Some Tea Party types?" When will they realize these types are the ones who gave them their leadership positions. I'd be glad if we can lose Cantor and Boehner. Michelle Bachman shows leadership. These two are leaders of the Waffle House, not the House of Representatives. Two cowards.

wholesale beads | 3.29.11 @ 3:54AM

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Geodetske Storitve | 4.4.11 @ 7:56PM

Truly disgusting. Boehner and Cantor apparently spend all day in their Washington bubble thinking more about how to maintain power and maintain low expectations, than doing what is right.

Great | 4.4.11 @ 7:57PM

No good:(

Great | 4.23.11 @ 3:07AM

That not good!

Great | 4.23.11 @ 3:09AM

Realy net

Great | 4.23.11 @ 3:10AM

Unflinching and sustained exposure of our 'fave' second and third generation EUGENIST cultural

Creative Recreation | 8.10.11 @ 11:23PM

is good

Parfumi | 12.24.11 @ 3:09PM

Parfumi | 12.24.11 @ 3:10PM

Parfumi imajo velik vpliv na naše počutje, saj lahko vzbudijo nostalgijo, udobje, srečo in podobne občutke. Gre za povezavo z aromaterapijo, ki po raziskavah sodeč vpliva na našo voljo. Če te zanima malo več o tem, zakaj je tako in kateri vonji bodo ustvarili točno določene občutke, si prišla na pravo mesto.

Gradbeno dovoljenje | 12.24.11 @ 3:12PM

Gradbeno dovoljenje je odločba, s katero pristojni upravni organ po ugotovitvi, da je nameravana gradnja v skladu z izvedbenim prostorskim aktom, da bo zgrajeni ali rekonstruirani objekt izpolnjeval bistvene zahteve in da z nameravano gradnjo ne bodo prizadete pravice tretjih in javna korist, dovoli takšno gradnjo in s katero predpiše konkretne pogoje, ki jih je treba pri gradnji upoštevati. Pridobitev gradbenega dovoljenja, svetovalec, arhitekti, projektiranje, gradbeniki, legalizacija objektov, geodeti

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