Monthly Archives: February 2010

Bipartisan, or Part of the Chicago ‘Combine’ — Ray LaHood, the Machine’s Man in the Obama Administration

Archy CaryBig JournalismFebruary 28, 2010 Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood represents the Illinois Combine in Obama’s Cabinet. His history in Illinois politics is that of a Republican chameleon. So it’s no surprise he gets high marks from MSM pundits.For example, as LaHood prepared to retire from the House, Mark Shields gushed over him, After 14 admirable [...]

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Tea Parties: The Good, the Mad, and the Untrustworthy: UPDATED

Mark PolegeKeyboard Militia The Tea PartyThe St.Louis Tea Party marked its one year anniversary where it all began, below the towering Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. Like the first 1500 who first braved the cold of last February, this Tea Party rally along the shores of the Mississippi River was populated with 1500 concerned [...]

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Unhappy Anniversary For Chicago’s Tea Party

Andrew MarcusBig GovernmentFebruary 27, 2010 Today is the one year anniversary of the Tea Party Movement inChicago. In some cities the one year mark is a cause for celebration,but in Chicago it’s just depressing, because there is no Tea Partymovement to speak of here at Obamamania ground zero.The internet is a pretty big place, so [...]

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‘The People United Will Never be Defeated’: Inside ACORN’s Community Organizing Model

Anita MonCriefBig GovernmentFebruary 26, 2010 As ACORN pretends to “dissolve” around the country, internally, there appears to be a mad dash to get out ahead of prosecution. Not surprisingly, ACORN has a history of shutting offices down when an investigation gets too close. For example, in 2004 ACORN’s affiliate Project Vote abruptly closed its national [...]

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Joe Biden: It’s Easy Being Vice President

Patrick GavinPoliticoFebruary 25, 2010 There have been some tense moments during today’s health care summit at the Blair House, but not for Vice President Joe Biden, it seems. Just moments before the afternoon session got underway, C-SPAN’s cameras picked up audio of Biden chatting casually with participants. “It’s easy being vice president — you don’t [...]

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Pelosi: US Health Overhaul Will Happen

BreitbartFebruary 26, 2010 Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that President Barack Obama’s historic health care drive was closer to passage after a high-stakes summit with Republicans opposed to the overhaul. As Democrats wrestled with how best to push the ambitious legislation forward, Pelosi said the unusual seven-hour talks on Thursday “made a difference, [...]

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Truth-Squading the Summit

 ARIN COGAN & JAMES HOHMANNPoliticoFebruary 26, 2010 Obama exaggerated. Boehner lied. Reid was incorrect. Ryan is wrong. An army of partisan fact checkers bombarded the media through seven hours of the health care summit with such deep thoughts — replete with cherry-picked data — confirming the adage that there’s lies, damn lies and statistics. Some [...]

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Rep. Ryan: Health Care Funding A "Ponzi Scheme"

Mark PolegeKeyboard Militia Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) says funding for the health care bill is a “Ponzi scheme” that would make “Bernie Madoff proud.” I think the dumbfounded look on Obama’s face is priceless.

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Health Care Summit – Exchange Between Rep. Eric Cantor and President Obama

Kaiser Health NewsFebruary 25, 2010 Rep. Eric Cantor helps President Obama in seeing the difference between health insurance in a ‘perfect’ world and health insurance in the ‘real’ world and the reality that the country cannot afford the Democrat’s bloated plan.

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Democrats Tried to Criminalize National Security Yesterday

Gregory of Yardale Moonbattery February 26, 2010 While the country… well, actually, just the media… were distracted by the spectacle of the spoiled, petulant president at the “Health Care Summit” sneering at any substantive criticism of his expensive health care takeover as “talking points,” Congressional Democrats were trying to make it effectively illegal to interrogate [...]

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(EXCLUSIVE VIDEO) Did Andrew Breitbart “Breakdown” At CPAC?

Andrew MarcusFounding Bloggers Several videos of Andrew Breitbart attending CPAC 2010 are making the rounds on the interwebs. Salon.com has posted an article entitled “Breitbart’s breakdown: A video tour”, based on four of the clips floating around. In these videos, a visibly angry Breitbart tears into Progressive writers Max Blumenthal, Mike Madden, and others, in [...]

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Sunshine Rejection From The Secretary Of State’s Office

24th StateFebruary 24, 2010 I forwarded a Sunshine request to Robin Carnahan’s office on February 1st concerning the number of Missouri voters registered and rejected through the Department of Social Services from August 2008-August 2009. I was trying to backtrack on data that I had from this Project Vote report.

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