LEE RODGERSTAN-MAN
TRIUMPHANT …
THE NOT-SO-NEW CONGRESS …
DEPARDIEU'S DEPARTURE
THE NOT-SO-NEW CONGRESS …
DEPARDIEU'S DEPARTURE
John Boehner was re-elected Speaker of the House despite threats to unseat him made by the Tea Party contingent. The tea turned out to be too weak.
Yawn … Nobody's cared about who was – or is – the general on the losing side since Robert E. Lee.
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The sell-out by John Boehner and about a third of the House Republicans on the “fiscal cliff” farce again made glaringly clear the top priority of most politicians. It was evident in the recurring theme, “We'll be blamed if we don't go along with Obama.”
“Be blamed,” as in, “I might not get re-elected.” And what a tragedy for the nation that would be!
Reduced to one word: Gutlessness.
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The babbling liberal idiots who populate the media are joyous that the “awful” 112th Congress has concluded its term in office, as if the newly-inaugurated Congress will be different. Apparently nobody's told these fools that, with the exception of a relative handful of newly-elected members, the “new” Congress is virtually identical to the “old” Congress. All four respective party leaders in both the House and Senate continue in those roles.
No wonder the huge majority of Americans wallows in ignorance about their government's deeds and duties when they're being “informed” by media shills and ignoramuses.
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Speaking of the media prostitutes … why are they so upset that Kathy Griffin simulated oral sex on Anderson Cooper during the CNN New Year's Eve telecast? After all, they do the same thing for Obama every day.
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Another mile-post on the road to incompetence in government …
The House of Representatives got the “fiscal cliff” avoidance bill, all 154 pages of it, three minutes before voting on it.
This collection of buffoons has clearly accepted the oft-ridiculed Nancy Pelosi statement about the 2,000-plus pages of the Obamacare bill: “We have to pass it to see what's in it.”
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Deroy Murdock (National Review Online) evaluates the state of congressional Republicans …
“..., the party’s wobbly congressional leadership makes the Maginot Line look like the Great Wall of China. Senate GOP chief Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and House speaker John Boehner of Ohio are neither strategic, nor tactical, nor able to negotiate without losing their shirts — plus their shoes, pants, and underwear.”
And what about the giveaways Obama engineered?
“This law also contains $7 million in special tax favors for electric scooters, $59 million for biofuel-algae growers, $78 million for NASCAR, $222 million for Puerto Rican rum producers, and $248 million for the motion-picture industry.”
You mean the movie industry actually got a huge payback for all their Obama political contributions – plus the free propaganda they gave him? Why, we're stunned, shocked and amazed!
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If Barack Obama and his fellow Marxists were wise – I know; an absurd idea – they would learn something from French actor Gerard Depardieu. He makes a lot of money as one of Europe's biggest movie stars.
When Francois Hollande, another Marxist, was elected president of France by an electorate already showing signs of buyers' remorse over their choice, he announced that he hated the rich and revealed his plans to increase their taxes to 75% of income.
At that point, Monsieur Depardieu – and hundreds of other high-earners – promptly left the country, the actor moving to Belgium. Their earnings disappeared from France, along with (A) all the people who directly or indirectly benefited from their spending and investments, and (B) all that tax money the stupid left-wing president anticipated.
But communists ... or “progressives” or whatever name they hide behind ... are incapable of learning.
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It cost taxpayers around $4 million to fly Obama from Hawaii back to Washington, then right back to Hawaii. He didn't even bother to hang around and sign the bogus “fiscal cliff” avoidance bill. It'll be done with the auto-pen device that copies his signature.
Taxpayers should be asking, “What did he actually DO that he couldn't as easily have done by telephone from Hawaii?” After all, his contribution to the settlement consisted of telling Joe Biden, “Go meet with Boehner. He's ready to cave, anyway.”
During the presidential primary debates last year, the Republican candidates were asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer if they'd accept a deal involving ten dollars in government spending cuts for each single dollar of higher taxes. Turns out there were enough unprincipled Republican cowards in the House to help the Democrats pass a deal that gave in to $41 in taxes for each one dollar of spending cuts.
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The first announcements of Al Gore's sale of his pathetic cable-TV operation to Al-Jazeera indicated the deal had been concluded before the higher taxes on Al's profit would be applied. Later, it was stated that the deal had missed the deadline.
Either way, it's doubtful a benefit will need to be held for Mr. Global Warming, who made beaucoup bux; American dollars that first bought the Arab oil that produces all that atmospheric heat that Al warns us about.
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Timeless …
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian.” – Henry Ford
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson, 1824
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Worth circulating …
“Senator Dianne Feinstein:
“I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection, yet decry me having the same a crime.
“You, ma’am, have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet (herself) carries one, tell me I may not have one.
“I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.
“I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
“I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
“We, the people, deserve better than you.
“Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston, Corporal
United States Marine Corps”
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Today's significant statistic …
In 2011, there were 323 murders committed with a rifle ...496 murders committed with hammers and clubs. – Source: FBI crime statistics
Is it not reasonable to assume that most of the victims of murderers armed with hammers and clubs would have been happy to have a rifle handy?
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North Carolina State Senator R.C. Soles is a soul-mate of Di-Fi-the-demagogue. He's made a career of opposition to the right of law-abiding citizens to own a gun. This past Sunday afternoon, Sen. Soles shot an intruder in his home.
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Gun-grabbers would be horrified by the gun laws in Switzerland. Every adult male up to age 30 is REQUIRED to have a firearm at home. After age 30, they may choose to keep it.
Switzerland is one of the safest countries in the world.
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Jeff Jacoby (Townhall.com) reflects upon the school massacre, the focus on the weapon instead of the murderer – and the tragic truth about human nature …
“Peace, justice, and compassion are not the natural human condition. With rare exceptions, criminal violence can't be blamed on external culprits. Murder isn't caused by poverty or gory videogames or low self-esteem – or guns. Nor are wars caused by nuclear missiles, or al-Qaeda terrorism by box cutters. We fool ourselves if we imagine that by fixating on missiles and box cutters we can avoid reckoning with the cruel side of human nature.”
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Word is that former Vice-President Dick Cheney was in our neighborhood a few days ago. Came to visit a friend who's in the late stages of Alzheimer's Disease.
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Len the haiku master …
Barack Obama.
A Muslim name translated
"King of Kick-the-can".
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Scots, of course, have an admirable reputation for thrift. With that in mind, reader Sheila forwards this note from a kind-hearted but thrifty Scottish husband........
My wife and I walked past a swanky new restaurant last night.
“Did you smell that food?” she asked. "It smells incredible!"
Being the kind-hearted Scot that I am, I thought, "What the heck, I'll treat her."
So we walked past it again.
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."