Judge Andrew Napolitano: If Officers at the Navy Yard Had Been Armed Casualties Would Be Much Lower

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9/17/13 - (Fox News) - Judge Andrew Napolitano stopped by Fox and Friends to discuss the Navy Yard shooting and attacker Aaron Alexis. Brian Kilmeade asked whether we can conclude that the government missed some clear warning signs after reports that Alexis suffered from serious mental health problems. The judge likened this situation to NSA leaker Edward Snowden in that it's another example of the government being unable to properly vet a vendor or employee who received a security clearance.

"Whatever you think of Edward Snowden and the constitutional wisdom of what he did, the government didn't know he was there. The government obviously didn't know this guy was there," said Napolitano, who then pointed out that Washington, D.C. has in place some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.

He said officers at the Navy Yard aren't legally able to carry a weapon once they leave the building. Napolitano questioned why officers on military bases are not armed following Fort Hood and now this latest attack.

"Candidly, we have a problem with the military. If you cannot trust military officers to carry weapons on a military base after Ford Hood and after this, then people don't believe in the Second Amendment at all," he said.

Napolitano said if there were armed military personnel at the Navy Yard yesterday, the casualty figures would have been much lower. Plus, he said the presence of armed officers could have dissuaded the gunman from attacking in the first place.

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Judge Napolitano: 'Defending Freedom In It's Maximum Hour Of Danger' - Video

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Is Obama Admin Fabricating Iranian Assassination Plot To Distract From Fast & Furious Investigation? Or to Add General Chaos?

Video:  Is Obama Admin Fabricating Iranian Assassination Plot To Distract From Fast & Furious Investigation?

Initial Reactions in Iran to Report on Foiling of Iranian Terror Operation in Washington

Yesterday the DOJ’s Eric Holder took credit for foiling an Iranian Terror Operation in Washington.  We commented then: “Sure is convenient for Holder though… takes the focus off the fact that he was supposed to have been served with a subpoena today for Fast and Furious - Gunwalker…  How convenient indeed?!?  Makes you wonder if this news was to cover for his other deeds; sad that you have to think that way!!”

He was finally served today~

Feds Foil Massive Iran-Linked Terror Plot on U.S.

And now it turns out that no one is buying this story.  Why would Iran leave any trace of their involvement? 
The timing (DOJ covers for deeds), the fact that Iran has left a trace of their involvement – sloppy…

Glenn Beck spent quite a lot of time on his show today talking about just this subject. Something about this story is just wrong!

Now it comes out that they have known about Operation Red Coalition for months; killing an Israeli and a Saudi on U.S soil.  So why report it now?  If you think about it in a traditional way (pre-9.11) Pros: This act would tie Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. together and if you can pull this off it would make us (all 3) look weak.  And if the U.S. does not respond we look weak to the world.  Con: The negative is that we could end up wiping Iran off the map… if we had any guts.

Post 9.11 thinking: How about just announcing this… even if this isn’t true because if opens the door for the globalists to move forward with their NWO plans and it would work for our administration as well as those organizing the Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring uprisings… all the same people anyway!  Wake-up America! Think about it, if you announce events without closure it adds to the chaos!

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More things to think about:

The progressive players are ramping up the propaganda machine - Joe Biden, Dick Durbin, and King from NY. 

Joe Biden
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mpoppel Michael van Poppel

REU: BIDEN SAYS U.S. RESPONSE COULD INVOLVE SANCTIONS BUT "NOTHING HAS BEEN TAKEN OFF THE TABLE"

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REU: BIDEN SAYS U.S. WORKING TO UNITE WORLD OPINION BEHIND POSSIBLE ACTIONS OVER "OUTRAGEOUS" IRANIAN BEHAVIOR

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REU: US VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS IRAN WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL SAUDI AMBASSADOR – ABC

US hopeful Hunstman wants preemptive Iran strike
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/203872.html
US Republican presidential contender Jon Huntsman says “American force” should be used to preemptively attack Iran and stop Tehran from developing its nuclear program.

“I cannot live with a nuclear-armed Iran. If you want an example of when I would use American force, it would be that,” AFP quoted Huntsman as saying on Monday, while outlining his foreign policy in an address at a university in New Hampshire.

Quick Mitt Map, seems very well connected
Romney’s Neocon Foreign Policy Plan

Cain:  Iran and Other Countries Challenge America Because They See Obama as a ‘Weak President’

http://nation.foxnews.com/herman-cain/2011/10/12/cain-iran-and-other-countries-challenge-america-because-they-see-obama-weak-president

And we need to know what the other GOP candidates think as well and hear directly from them on what they think about this incident.

Hillary Clinton
"The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador? Nobody could make that up, right?" Clinton said shortly after U.S. prosecutors accused two suspected Iranian agents of trying to murder Saudi envoy Adel Al-Jubeir. 

...sounds kind of suspicious, no?

Initial Reactions in Iran to Report on Foiling of Iranian Terror Operation in Washington

Hours after the October 11, 2011 release of a report in Washington on the foiling of intentions by two Iranian nationals to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. and to carry out an attack on the Saudi Embassy in Washington, Iranian regime representatives and the Iranian media denied the allegations.

In Iran, the affair is being referred to as an "evil plot" of the U.S. administration which has been damaged by the fall of the Middle East regimes identified with it. This plot, it is being claimed, was aimed at diverting the attention of the American public from the Occupy Wall Street protests, and also at distracting public attention in the Middle East from the Islamic awakening, at sowing severe discord between Tehran and its neighbors, and at extricating Israel from its isolation.

Regime officials' reactions reflected fear of a harsh response by Saudi Arabia, as Saudi-Iran relations are already tense following the Bahrain crisis, and also fear of a U.S. military response.

The following are several initial Iranian reactions to the report of the affair:

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman: It's a U.S.-Zionist Plot; Iran-Saudi Relations Are Based On Mutual Respect

In a hastily called October 11 press conference, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast vehemently denied Washington's allegations against Iran. He said that with this "prefabricated scenario" and "humorous act,"[1] the U.S. and Israel, who were behind it, aimed to "sow discord" among the Islamic countries and thus help extricate Israel from its isolation.

Mehmanparast added that the allegations against Iran reflect an attempt by the White House to extricate itself from the widespread protests within and outside the country against its policy. He said that Riyadh-Tehran relations were based on mutual respect, and that such a false claim would do them no harm and would have no effect on world public opinion.[2]

Iranian Ambassador In Letter To U.N. Secretary-General: This "Evil Plot" Will Have "Detrimental Effects On Peace and Security"

In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, to the president of the U.N. Security Council, and to the president of the U.N. General Assembly, Iranian Ambassador to the U.N. Mohammad Khazaee said that Iran "strongly and categorically" rejects the "fabricated and baseless allegations, based on the suspicious claims by an individual," "condemns this shameful allegation," and "deplores it as a well-thought evil plot in line with [the U.S.'s] anti-Iranian policy to divert attention from the current economic and social problems at home and the popular revolutions and protests against United States long supported dictatorial regimes abroad."

Noting that "The U.S. allegation is, obviously, a politically-motivated move and a showcase of its long-standing animosity towards the Iranian nation," he warned, "Any country could accuse other countries through fabrication of such stories. However, this would set dangerous precedents in the relations among States."

He added, "The Islamic Republic of Iran warns against the implications of this horrible scenario and submits that the continuation of such divide-and-rule policies could have detrimental effects on peace and security... [Iran aims] to maintain its friendly relations with all regional countries, particularly with its Muslim neighbors, and invites all to be vigilant against the vicious campaigns targeting stability and peace and friendly relations among States in our region."

He continued, "As the Secretary-General of the United Nations, you have an important responsibility in enlightening the international public opinion about the dangerous consequences of warmongering policies of the United States Government on international peace and security."^[3]

Iranian Majlis Speaker: The Americans Have Started a Children's Game To Divert Public Attention From Its Domestic and Middle East Problems

In an October 12 speech at the Majlis, answering criticism by the Majlis Supreme National Security Committee on the committee's lack of response to the allegations, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said that the Americans had made a "hasty and stupid" step aimed at diverting attention from its problems in the Middle East. He said that Washington's allegations regarding the foiling of an attack on the Saudi Embassy in Washington were aimed at marginalizing media coverage of its domestic problems.

He said: "U.S. Secretary of State [Hillary Clinton] was meant to issue a declaration in the final minutes of the night [of October 11, 2011] but the plan was cancelled. It transpires that they [the Americans] were politically paralyzed, and realized that they had started a children's game." He said that Tehran had normal relations with Saudi Arabia, and that there was no reason for Iran to plot such "childish operations."

Referring to Saudi Arabia, Larijani said, "We think that our neighbors have discerned that this is an American plot aimed at diverting public attention from its own problems in the region, but this plot has not managed to stop the Islamic awakening in the region." Turning to a member of the Supreme National Security Committee, he added, "I don't think that this issue is important enough for me to deal with."[4]

Majlis Supreme National Security Committee: This "Big Lie" Will Not Extricate the White House From the Wall Street Uprising

In an interview with the Iranian news agency Fars, Majlis Supreme National Security Committee chairman Ala Al-Din Boroujerdi said, "Without a doubt, this new American-Zionist plot was aimed at diverting public attention from the crisis in which [President] Obama has become entangled – [that is,] the Wall Street popular uprising." He assessed that the White House would not be successful in this attempt, and added, "Iran has never employed such a policy of assassinating individuals – on the contrary, it itself has been the victim of terrorism. Therefore, the claims by American officials are nothing more than a big lie." [5]

Entekhab: The Lack of a Determined, Effective Response Could Lead to a Military Attack Against Iran

In a reaction published immediately after the news of the affair broke, the Iranian website Entekhab, which is identified with critics of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called the American allegations against Iran "a dangerous and rare scenario." It warned that "if Iranian Foreign Ministry officials do not respond firmly, effectively, and wisely, and if they do not succeed in responding to these ridiculous and silly claims by America and the West, the general atmosphere in the world could pave the way to a limited military attack on Iran."

The website also complained about the Iranian Foreign Ministry's passivity in the affair, and warned that if it continued the country could face "almost dreadful risks."[6]

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[1] Fars (Iran), October 11, 2011.

[2] Mehr, Fars (Iran), October 11, 2011.

[3] Mehr, ISNA (Iran), October 12, 2011. 

[4] Mehr (Iran), October 12, 2011.

[5] Fars (Iran), October 11, 2011.

[6] Entekhab (Iran), October 11, 2011.

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BBC: US 'Iran attack plans' revealed

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The Bigger the Government, the Harder the Fall

Video:  The Bigger the Gov’t, the Harder the Fall

Wow… They Did It To Us Again!

I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry, to organize anew or to scream, or even to go on fighting or just to throw in the towel…  That is how I feel right now anyway.  By tomorrow I’ll be ready to regroup and charge forward, but today I’m a bit in shock!

Just as Vice President Biden, supposedly VP of all Americans, barely got the words ‘Teaparty Terrorists’ out, we are already being hit by the fallout of the hidden contents and proceedings being leaked and found in the “Grand Compromise” debt bill that President Obama just signed into law hours ago.  Another unread bill.

Only 18-months ago the Obama Administration and the Progressive Left duped, bullied and manipulated us all into ObamaCare, and we are still absorbing and fighting the ugly reality of what all was hidden in that bill. Yet with that memory still fresh, we allowed them to do it to us again.  Obama refused to put out a plan of his own, manipulated the situation, and used the Cloward and Piven Strategy along with the Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals to create another crisis, make the GOP (especially tea party supporters) look like the bad guys and got what he wanted… including a lot more power.  And the right satisfied themselves with the notion that they had won because the conversation in Washington changed, plus they were promised a committee to study a Balanced Budget Amendment.  Funny how they can run up soon to be $17Trillion in debt without a committee, but voting on a Balanced Budget Amendment requires one.

We were had again!!  And it is becoming more and more evident that the real terrorists are the people we elect, in both parties!  This entire debt crisis and debate over raising the debt ceiling was a Trojan Horse.

Since the bill was signed this afternoon we have already found out the following:

Before even signing the bill, Obama was already talking about tax increases and tax code reform for the wealthy and corporations.  I wonder if there will be waivers for those who support his re-election through fundraisers, similar to ObamaCare waivers, for supporters and attendees of events like Obama’s combo 5oth B-day party fundraiser?   The Business Insider who just wrote about this subject now warns that they were wrong and the biggest middle class tax increase in history will come in five months, and a tax increase for the top 2% of earners (the job creators) is coming as well, for Obama already said he would let the Bush tax cuts expire.  In fact the revenues from those tax cuts expiring is already factored into this final “Grand Compromise” bill.

Plus, Harry Reid has said the Super Committee will have up or down voting powers of far more than the debt issues and economics.  One of their first agendas is gun control!

Congressman and GOP Presidential Candidate Ron Paul warns that the all-powerful new “Super Congress” created by the vote on the debt ceiling will be used to fast-track tax increases while concentrating more power over the nation’s purse strings in the hands of the Washington elite.

The fact that the establishment of a body which threatens to completely re-write over 200 years worth of constitutionally-based legislative practice has sailed through with barely a whimper of debate from politicians or the mainstream media is a damning indictment of how the Obama administration’s penchant for executive autonomy has aggressively seized control of the political process.

This is appalling, but it shouldn't surprise anyone with the track record they have.  This bill is unconstitutional… so the question is, if  identified as such because of the Super Congress, can it be null and void?

Video: Unconstitutional Super Congress Slipped Into Debt Ceiling Deal - Judge Napolitano Explains

In this same document Illegals Get $20 Billion in Pell Grants (How did that happen?):

SEC. 501. FEDERAL PELL GRANTS.
Section 401(b)(7)(A)(iv) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(7)(A)(iv)) is amended--
(1) in subclause (II), by striking `$3,183,000,000' and inserting `$13,183,000,000'; and
(2) in subclause (III), by striking `$0' and inserting `$7,000,000,000'.
Little things mean a lot...$20 billion slipped in this bill just for Pell Grants... illegals get an early Christmas.

Ya just can't make this stuff up!

And I know there are those of you out there thinking… well, there are going to be 12 members of that Super Committee - 3 Republicans from the Senate and 3 Dems from the Senate as well as 3 Dems from the House and 3 Republicans from the House , so there will certainly be a balance of voices and opinions.  Well not so fast…

From the Daily Standard:

The debt ceiling deal will pass the Senate early this afternoon. No suspense there. But the vote will be worth watching for another reason: Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS that senators who vote against the deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “super-committee” for deficit reduction that the legislation creates.

While there’s certain logic to such a policy, it could be self-defeating. Excluding those who vote against the debt deal will ensure that some of the most fiscally conservative members of the Senate Republican caucus, including most of its freshmen, will be reading about the committee’s activities in the newspaper rather than guiding its decisions. Among those who have already declared their opposition to the deal: libertarian-leaning senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul (who appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show this week and talked about the CNN Ambush and the Weimar Republic coming here); Jim DeMint, the aggressive fiscal hawk from South Carolina; conservative reformers Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania; the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, Jeff Sessions; and Florida’s Marco Rubio, already one of the highest-profile conservatives in Congress.More worrisome for conservatives, however, is that private whip counts in the Senate found that some 20 Republicans expressed support for the proposals that came out of the Gang of Six. And while many of the components of that plan have merit as individual policy proposals, the package involves compromises on taxes anathema to most conservatives. Picking a Gang of Six member – or supporter – would further antagonize conservatives skeptical of the debt ceiling deal.

There’s the problem. If, say, a dozen of the strongest fiscal conservatives vote against the deal, the pool of Republicans that can be expected to hold the line on taxes shrinks very quickly. And if a key Republican objective for the committee is to block tax increases, the exclusion of these strong fiscal conservatives makes meeting that goal more difficult.

Mitch McConnell, who will make the selections, isn’t worried. He told Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto yesterday that the likelihood of tax hikes coming out of the committee is “pretty low.”

“What I can pretty certainly say to the American people, the chances of any kind of tax increase passing with this, with the appointees of John Boehner and I, are going to put in there are pretty low,” said McConnell. He added: “I’m comfortable we aren’t going to raise taxes coming out of this joint committee.”

UPDATE: McConnell spokesman Don Stewart says all senators will be considered. "No one is stronger in his opposition to tax hikes than Sen. McConnell. He will have serious discussions with all those who are interested in serving prior to making any appointments."  But we shall see if this really changes… I personally wouldn’t put my eggs in McConnell’s basket!

The only good thing we’ve heard today is the Fitch and Moodys have agreed to allow us to retain our AAA credit rating at least for now.  But they have put us on a kind of probationary status until after the “Super Committee” has been chosen and they see what type of action they take to resolve the debt crisis.  So let us be very clear… our AAA credit rating could very will still be downgraded!  S&P on the other hand has not yet announced and a downgrade seems almost baked in because of the stand they took on a minimum of $4Trillion in cuts needed in the compromise bill to avoid it.  A downgrade to AA+ is expected from S&P say most experts.  Maybe the members of Congress should have looked a bit harder at Senator Tom Coburn’s letter:  9,000,000,000,000 Ways to Balance the Budget.  (Seems our Federal Reserve Chief Bernanke had a bit to say about the U.S. Economy too!)

And lost in the endless drama of the debt-ceiling negotiations, but last week, the Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives launched an unprecedented attack on the U.S.'s environmental regulations. GOP Representatives added rider after rider to the 2012 spending bill for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, tacking on amendments that would essentially prevent those agencies — charged with protecting America's air, water and wildlife — from continuing their chokehold on energy production in the U.S..

Among the riders or last week were:

• A rider that would prevent the EPA from issuing any regulations on greenhouse-gas emissions over the next year — despite the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled the agency has the responsibility to regulate those emissions as a public-health threat under the Clean Air Act.

• A rider that would stop the EPA from carrying out tough new automobile-fuel-efficiency standards that were announced last week — standards that have the support of all the major automakers, however we are not sure how voluntary that support was.

• A rider that would prevent the EPA from labeling the toxic ash left over from coal combustion as hazardous waste — something that could alarm the people of Kingston, Tenn., buried by a coal-ash spill in 2008?

However, the Democrats are still in charge of the Senate, so we don’t know if any of these riders made it to the final EPA-Interior spending bill. The left feels that these demands were less about actual policy than about making a political point.  Guess we will have to see how much of their point remained in the bill to be made?!?  I wouldn’t look too hard to find them! (See The Time’s inside the Republican war on the EPA… or perhaps it could be called the Republican pro-American jobs and energy war?)

August 2, 1934

"With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler becomes absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Fuhrer, or "Leader." The German army took an oath of allegiance to its new commander-in-chief, and the last remnants of Germany's democratic government were dismantled to make way for Hitler's Third Reich. The Fuhrer assured his people that the Third Reich would last for a thousand years, but Nazi Germany collapsed just 11 years later."

Are we seeing the beginning of our Reich now?  Read more Here.  Remember, just like Obama told us and wrote about his plan to fundamentally transform America, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (Official Nazi Translation), explaining his plan… and nobody listened either.  But that is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about or take on.

Right after Obama was elected, Pat Buchanan wrote a piece called the Weimar Solution and people ridiculed him, as they did Glenn Beck when he warned us what was coming.  Somehow it doesn’t seem as funny now!

Lyndon LaRouche:  “Obama to Become ‘Fuhrer’ After Debt Ceiling Vote”  Is he right?

I am sure there will be a lot more to come and I will be doing updates… but wanted to get something out.  Nobody has an actual copy of the bill yet, that I know of.

I will hope and pray that what tea party “ideal” supporter Marco Rubio says and believes will be the ultimate outcome… continued honest debate:  Rubio:  “This Debate Will Continue” but I would advise you all to consider and prepare for Alex Jones and Lyndon LaRouche’s predictions.  As Glenn Beck has said many times, “I’d rather be prepared and be wrong… and would be glad to admit it than have been right and not prepared or shared my thoughts with others, so they could prepare!”

Since yesterday the reports of huge food orders by the government through FEMA, mass troop movements across the country and concern about the Super Committee being able to make decisions to vote up or down on without filibusters, amendments or even much debate on a full gamut of topics including gun control… or gun confiscation is frightening and has filled the blogosphere with comments by people in the know like Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senator Rand Paul, Congressman and GOP Candidate Ron Paul to name just a few… yet the mainstream media has been virtually silent… again.  There comes a time when we all must wonder, question and stand or we will be held accountable for the results of our inaction if we didn’t.

When I heard about the powerful Super Committee, a Super Congress, basically only accountable to Obama… the vision of the 2008 Obamessiah, as so many of his followers saw him, with 12-disciples flashed in my head.  Someone will surely come up with that visual once the 12 are chosen.  (Harry Reid, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi will each choose 3 members of the committee).

Prayers up my friends!

Ask Marion~ - Last updated on August 3, 2011 at 5:15p.m.ET  - h/t to Jean Stoner and Tolline Enger

Congress Sneaks a Bill that Would Monitor All Internet Info for a Year!!!

 

Video:  The “Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act”

Russia Today – Video:  Congress sneaks a bill that would monitor all internet for a year!!!

House Committee passes bill requiring your ISP to spy on every click and keystroke you make online

Every Move You Make, Every Click You Take, I’ll Be Watching You

House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill

This has nothing to do with child pornography and safety.  It has everything to do the federal government and the White House watching you!!

Benjamin Franklin:  He who trades liberty for security seldom gets or deserves either!!

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Important Alert… Especially for Parents and Grandparents!  -  Frightening!

Other worrisome items to think about:

Family Farms Are Under Attack - Agenda 21 Update

C-SPAN Censors Audio During Protest in the House

Review: The Debt Ceiling and Economic Crisis Debate Rages On

Obama Warns that the ‘World Is Watching’ As Boehner Says “No Blank Check”

Obama: 

Good evening. Tonight, I want to talk about the debate we've been having in Washington over the national debt - a debate that directly affects the lives of all Americans.

For the last decade, we have spent more money than we take in. In the year 2000, the government had a budget surplus. But instead of using it to pay off our debt, the money was spent on trillions of dollars in new tax cuts, while two wars and an expensive prescription drug program were simply added to our nation's credit card.

As a result, the deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office. To make matters worse, the recession meant that there was less money coming in, and it required us to spend even more - on tax cuts for middle-class families; on unemployment insurance; on aid to states so we could prevent more teachers and firefighters and police officers from being laid off. These emergency steps also added to the deficit.

Now, every family knows that a little credit card debt is manageable. But if we stay on the current path, our growing debt could cost us jobs and do serious damage to the economy. More of our tax dollars will go toward paying off the interest on our loans. Businesses will be less likely to open up shop and hire workers in a country that can't balance its books. (Yet it is Obama and his party who won’t support Cut Cap and Balance whose lynch pin is a balanced budget amendment… so go figure) Interest rates could climb for everyone who borrows money - the homeowner with a mortgage, the student with a college loan, the corner store that wants to expand. And we won't have enough money to make job-creating investments in things like education and infrastructure, or pay for vital programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Per Dick Morris, former Bill Clinton advisor, “No disrespect to the President (or the office) but Obama is lying!  There is enough money to pay the interest on our debt, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, the military and about 100 other things.  The things that wouldn’t get paid are things that most of us don’t care about… or is waste.” 

*BTW has anyone noticed that the FAA has been shut down for 4 days now? Has anyone noticed?  Planes are still flying.  Air traffic control and ground control are considered essential, as are safety inspectors.  The impasse has idled about 4000 government workers.  No one wants to see anyone lose their job but the funding for the FAA stopped but the world did not end.  And the world would not end if the TSA was cut back to using just those expensive machines we all paid for and some well-trained dogs and a few profilers.  (See and Hear Rest of Speech Below)

OBAMA SPEECH: TRANSCRIPT | VIDEO

We’d give you the Obama Plan Explained… like below by Rush, but Obama has offered no plan

The closest Obama got to a plan was a Speech suggesting the cutting of $4 Trillion over 10 years… no details and the CBO said they can’t score speeches (which Obama knew).

Boehner:

Good evening. I'm John Boehner. I serve as Speaker of the whole House -- of the members of both parties that you elect. These are difficult times in the life of our nation. Millions are looking for work, have been for some time, and the spending binge going on in Washington is a big part of the reason why.

Before I served in Congress, I ran a small business in Ohio. I was amazed at how different Washington DC operated than every business in America. Where most American business make the hard choices to pay their bills and live within their means, in Washington more spending and more debt is business as usual.

I've got news for Washington - those days are over. 

President Obama came to Congress in January and requested business as usual -- yet another routine increase in the national debt limit -- we in the House said 'not so fast.' Here was the president, asking for the largest debt increase in American history, on the heels of the largest spending binge in American history.  (See and Hear Rest of Speech Below)

BOEHNER  SPEECH: TRANSCRIPT | VIDEO

The Boehner Plan Explained
The Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Show Thread, Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The President, in his speech to the nation, urged a 'balanced approach' in the deal to raise the debt ceiling, while the House speaker responded that the GOP's negotiations have been been thwarted by the White House.

The President again delivered a campaign speech yesterday using words that his pollsters told him would appeal to Independents (which are abandoning in droves) and then he went on to his usual routine:  blame Bush, scare seniors and stir the class warfare pot.  Obama’s speech droned on with the usual themes for fifteen minutes and then he asked those uninformed Americans who were listening to his speech, but hadn’t been following the events or just in the MSM, to flood Congressional phones and tell them to find a compromise by Geithners artificially created and ever moving deadline that “He” could sign.

Boehner delivered a concise 5-minute speech that covered all his points, probably the best speech of his career.  He reiterated that the House of Representatives have already come up with 3-plans and passed Cut, Cap and Balance.  The Senate thanks to Harry Reid didn’t allow a debate or due consideration of that bill, but had no bill of their own, until now at the 11th hour.  And the President also had no bill and kept changing the demands on the so-called Grand Plan.  And the craziness that keeps getting thrown around by the Obama and the Democrats that the GOP is not willing to compromise is total insanity.  Raising the debt ceiling again is a huge compromise on the part of the GOP, especially tea party supported and elected freshman.  Boehner even agreed to tax increases as part of the Grand Plan deal between Boehner, Reid and Obama and then Obama kept demanding more, which ended those talks and the deal.

This writer watched, read and listened to everyone’s review and responses to these speeches for hours yesterday into the wee hours of the morning including AB Stoddard, Steve Hayes, Neil Cavuto, Charles Krauthammer, Dick Morris, Sean Hannity, Bob Beckel, Sam Youngman, Senator Tom Coburn, Congressman  Jason Chaffetz, Senator John Thune, Senator Jon Kyl, David Plouffe, Greta Van Susteren, Rick Klein, Senator Jim DeMint, Senator John Barrasso, Mary Katherine Hamm, Congressman Rob Andrews, Congressman Joe Walsh, Bill O’Reilly, Peter Barnes, Senator Lindsey Graham, GOP Candidate Gary Johnson and the list goes on… plus dozens of online sources.  The overall agreement by all is that we need to do something to stop the problem… our ‘spending addiction’.  Raising or not raising the debt ceiling really isn’t the issue.  It was also pretty much agreed that the only way to hold Washington accountable is to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment and although that will take years, we need to start the process now!  49 of the 50 states have a balanced budget amendment.

Senator Tom Coburn, who is part of the Gang of Six who have a proposal on the table, said that the best option out there is the Cut, Cap and Balance Bill that was passed last week by the House of Representatives in a bi-partisan vote, but Harry Reid killed it in the Senate, not allowing a debate.  And of the 3 deals on the table right now, Senator Colburn agrees that Speaker Boehner’s short term fix bill is the best but that they need to keep working on this between now and January 2012 and a Balanced Budget Amendment must be part of the final bill.  We also need tax reform and must attack the entitlement programs.

It was also sadly agreed by almost everyone that Obama has one focus and one focus only and that is the election in 2012 and that is why he wants the Reid deal, which will kick this issue down the road again until after Election 2012, after he hopes and plans to be re-elected.  Everyone else interviewed, Democrats and Republicans, said we need to deal with the issues now!  It was also pointed out that S&P and Moody’s threat to downgrade the U.S. credit must not really be as serious as it has been made out to be or the stock market would not have gone up Monday, internationally and in the U.S.  But if we don’t control our spending and get started on a Balanced Budget Amendment, the issue will explode in 2012; Obama hopes not until after the election.

As Speaker Boehner, Senator Tom Colburn, Senator Jim DeMint, Senator Joe Walsh, Senator Jon Kyl and Senator Thune and Barrasso and Congressman Jason Chavetz all said we must do what is right for the country, not the next election!  And it will be painful for everyone if done right, but not as painful as it will be if we do nothing or wait.  They all also admitted that no one person will get everything they want and that included President Obama.  Americans and especially the federal government, which let us face it is us, will have to tighten their belt and sacrifice even more than they already have to save America for our kids and grandkids. So, we have the right at this point to ask the tough questions (like: how many federal government employees are really needed? How many government agencies have a glut of positions and employees who are overlapping others or are unnecessary to running their agency.  How many whole programs and departments are unnecessary?  Why did everyone on the White House staff just raises?) get honest answers, and then be heard and listened to.

So when you hear craziness like below, your antenna should go up!! 

Obama: "It's Tempting to BYPASS Congress and CHANGE THE RULES ON MY OWN" (See Video) These words should make each of us shutter!!  Ever wonder where Obama gets these ideas from?  His socialistic globalist friends, that’s where from, including Bill Clinton: Use the 14th Amendment to raise debt ceiling and deal with the courts later says Democratic Senator who agrees with Clinton that Obama should Usurp Congress’ power and start a constitutional court battle.  See Video What needs to happen if Obama even thinks about this is the start of the impeachment process!!  “Use the 14th Amendment and Deal with the Courts Later” says this old bastard who agrees with Progressive globalist Bill Clinton.

On Monday before Obama and Boehner’s speeches Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Five talked about the fact that Obama or any president does not have the power to cover financial debt, raise the debt ceiling or the power to cover any financial issues or debt by using an Executive Order. Obama quotes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as his reference and justification for his threat to execute and sign an Executive Order (EO) to raise the debt ceiling if the Congress does not do what he wants. According to the Constitution under the wise concept of separation of powers, the House of Representatives holds the purse strings and the Congress must initiate and pass any and all bills regarding funding and finances. The President’s only power is negotiation and to veto the bills sent to him. The provisions in the 14th Amendment were written to deal with unique issues caused by the Civil War and the execution of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves. The left keeps distorting the facts and the Constitution and wrongly applies the provisions to allow them to do whatever they want… not what is legal, Constitutional or what the American People want!!

And let us also consider, with the facts at hand, that what we (Americans) want or what America needs is probably ‘not’ raising the debt ceiling.  Kicking the can down the road will only make the pain worse or the problem beyond fixing.  Sounds like a globalist plan to me, opening the door to a new economic world order!

Wake-up and Stand-up America, while you still can!

h/t to the Fox Nation

Related:

Eat My Peas

Super Congress:  Echoes of Tyranny Rising

The Tea Party, Right About Everything!

Steve King on default: Obama could be impeached

Gone 

The Super Congress Will Be – Like the Federal Reserve – a Non-Constitutional Committee: “The Super Congress Amounts To An Institutionalization Of The Gang Structure That Exists Informally …”

Video:  Your Government Gone Wild (Brother Can You Spare a Trillion?)

Please make sure you know the facts and then call your Congressman, Senator and the White House

Tell them all that we need Cut, Cap and Balance passed and signed by the President!

The Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121  - Washington Phone Lines Should Never Be Idle!

BTW… Speaker Boehner’s website went down after his speech from all the congratulations and positive response to his plan and speech

By Marion Algier

Glenn Beck Crash Course Review (2011)

In case you haven’t caught the Glenn Beck Show daily on Fox over the past 2.5 years or on radio here is a little review as Glenn moves to on, to a new adventure.  Glenn’s last show for Fox aired on 06.30.11, immediately followed by an interview and question & answer hour with Glenn on his new network GBTV… the Network of Tomorrow, Just a Day Early (their motto).

Immediately below, while Beck was on vacation in 2010; ending with an event in Anchorage on 9/11 with Sarah Palin, The Glenn Beck Show, hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano and guest Dr. Alveda King (on Friday) put together a review of the highlight information from the show through the Summer of 2010. The 5 five shows as well as the 8/28 event can be seen below, if you missed any part of them.  Enjoy~

Glenn with Military and the Mormon Tabernacle  Choir

Beck with his two youngest two children, Raphe and Cheyenne… a few years back now   -  Beck also has two older daughters, Mary… named for Beck’s mother, and Hannah from a previous marriage

(There are a few videos missing from the posts below but overall well worth checking out for the review!!  The 2 missing videos from part 2 below have pretty much been expunged from the Internet… Will replace them if I find them, and have done that 3-times already. )

GB Crash Course Review:  Progressive and Economic History with Judge Napolitano (Part 1 of 5)

GB:  Crash Course Review – The Radicals Who Influence the President (Past and Present) with Judge Napolitano (Part 2 of 5)

GB:  Crash Course Review – Re-Writing History with Judge Andrew Napolitano  (Part 3 of 5)

GB: Crash Course Review: Controlling the Message with Judge Andrew Napolitano (Part 4 of 5)

GB: Crash Course Review – Civil Rights and the Rights of Man With Dr. Alveda King and Judge Andrew Napolitano (part 5 0f 5), including Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech

Devine Destiny  -  Tonight (8.27)! America's Divine Destiny

8.28 Restore Honor Rally  

• Restoring Honor Rally… 8.28 – A God Inspired Dream
• Glenn's keynote speech HERE

Palin, Beck Recall 9/11 Attacks at Alaska Event (See Clip HERE) and amazingly the Huffington Post actually ran a blurb about Beck donating his speakers fee from the day and Palin speaking for free.

Glenn Beck on the Burning of Books and Flags

Pastor Defends Support for Glenn Beck (2,000 ministers attend rally)

Glenn Beck:  Who Is He?

Glenn is fairly quiet and very protective of his family, for good reason, and is always surrounded by a security detail.  Although he does kid about his wife, Tania who he credits with saving his life, a bit on air and on stage and proudly mentions his kids now and then.  Unfortunately in today’s world you can find out at least the basics on just about everybody, including Beck, even if they preferred that you couldn’t.  Beck loves his children dearly and they are obviously, at least in part, the inspiration for his passion.  But other than the protectiveness of his family, Beck is pretty much an open book.  (There is a great story that Bill Schultz from Fox’s Redeye tells about stepping off the elevator on the 18th Floor when Beck’s show was up there.  He has you rolling in the aisle in minutes as he explains how Beck’s security team questioned what he was doing up there…  If you know who Bill Schultz is, its probably even funnier!).

His Executive Summary lists him as a conservative TV and talk radio host.  His fans would call him a friend and describe him as quick-witted, well-informed, an independent thinker, a good Christian (raised Roman Catholic and now a Mormon or LDS) and someone who cares deeply. Glenn grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington, suffers from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), so his shows are always fast-paced.  And his staff will you that he is hard to keep up with.  His friend and Fox associate Bill O’Reilly has asked him more than once, on air, whether he ever sleeps.  Beck and O’Reilly did a series of successful live shows around the country together to mostly sold out houses.  Sarah Palin has called him "America's professor of common sense". He is a Mormon with self-described libertarian leanings, big on conservative politics and traditional family values.

Beck is a recovering alcoholic and drug user who still has back pain from an injury incurred when, intoxicated or high, he tumbled through a window.  This past year, or so, Glenn has suffered from eye problems and has been diagnosed with macular dystrophy, that he announced at his American Revival event.  He is a self-made man, who has hit rock bottom and picked himself up to reach sky, someone who most average people can relate to in one way or another.

So before moving on to the updated portion below, I guess my greatest question to put out there is: “Why?”  Why do so many people both fear and hate Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and a list of other conservatives without really knowing much about them, what they stand for or even why they think they don’t like them?!? 

The answer… the propaganda they have been fed by the mainstream media (MSM), Hollywood and the left in general. Most people, unless they subscribe to the far left ideology of the powers that be, both in our government and the media right now, they quickly find out if they do a little research and reading that what they’ve been told generally isn’t true and that they can actually relate to, agree with and even like Beck, Palin, the tea party, etc. and the principles they believe in to help save our Republic, freedom and our values.

Beck did his best to give us the Big Picture from his perspective, to inspire us (like with his trip to Wilmington Ohio) and then he encouraged us to educate ourselves and to question everything and everyone, including him.  So, what is there in that to makes people hate and attack someone… and their family… other than the fear that he was/is right?

Updated… 07.09.11 

Glenn Beck said goodbye to the Fox News Channel and his hit show on Thursday, airing his final show before going into business for himself. He told his fans that he was determined "to his last breath" to fix this country and fight for freedom. 

He followed that final Fox show with an immediate show for subscribers to his new Network: GBTV, where he will begin streaming a daily 2-hour show on the Internet on September 12, 2011.  Beck’s own two hour Internet show is only a small part of the overall GBTV plan, much of which is still to be announced.  Beck was interviewed by Raj Nair, out of San Diego, who he just hired the week before.

At the GBTV interview, Raj asked Beck a series of questions sent in by viewers.   He was then asked about GBTV and some of his other new ventures and how he can keep his ego in check. He said the purpose of all his new projects was to help others attain freedom and a positive world vision.  “I don’t want it to be about me,” he said. “That was the vehicle that got us where we are to be able to do the things that we have to do. I don’t want it to be about me.”

Beck urged his critics not to underestimate him as he moves forward. "You will pray for the time when I was only on the air for one hour a day," he said more than once.

Although the left and the MSM kept trying to feed everyone that Beck’s ratings were down, he continued to lead in his timeslot to the very end. Glenn Beck Averaged 2.175 Million in his Final Show  Cable News Ratings for Thursday, June 30, 2011  -  Glenn Beck averaged 2.175 million viewers (542,000 adults 25-54) in his final episode. While up from recent history, far off his highs when he cleared 3 million viewers. Still, Beck was second on Fox News to only The O’Reilly Factor for the night (2.54 million viewers, 559,000 A25-54).  As Beck said himself on that final show, “I'm the only host who is supposedly the most dangerous person in America because of my influence and the least influential person in America because my ratings are supposedly declining.”  During his peak, Beck’s show averaged 2.9 million viewers each day at 5 p.m. ET and 2 p.m. PT Many people watched Beck online, which couldn’t be counted in the ratings but increased as time went on and no doubt affected those ratings at least somewhat.

It was reported that Beck's relationship with Fox soured over control issues in the final months, and both sides seemed happy his show was ending.  What the real story was, we will probably never know. But Beck warmly thanked Fox News chief Roger Ailes during his last show, saying he was the smartest man he'll ever work with, a partnership put together on a handshake we are told.  Beck, his advertisers and Fox have been under attack by the left since Glenn has been on air.  And just 2 weeks after Beck left Fox, there has been a discovery that White House E-mails Show Anti-Fox Bias and the leftist (Soros group inspired) anti-Beck bias and campaigns have surfaced and been obvious to anyone paying attention!

Beck’s finale was vintage Beck, a continuous monologue while walking among his signature chalkboards and old props. He took some shots at critics, inspired and promised fealty to his fans, came close to tears but didn't succumb and even poked some fun at his image.

He chided frequent critic Jon Stewart of Comedy Central.  Beck showed a picture of Stewart's large writing staff and brought out his lone two writers as a comparison.

He threw in a causal told-you-so: "Two years ago we said there were going to be problems in Greece. Nobody paid attention."

"We tried to teach you things to help," he said. "I'm a dad, too. I want my country to be around. What we have been trying to tell you lately, over the last year, is that you are the answer. We must have faith, hope and charity in our hearts."

Beck said he was going to Israel this summer "in search of courage" and no doubt to inspire some. Beck stands strong In Defense of Israel

He and his family and part of the Mercury Radio Arts staff headed to Driggs, Idaho at Huntsman Springs (Jon Huntsman Sr. is Beck’s good friend and mentor) for a mini-4th of July vacation and event, after which he was headed to Poland and then to Israel.

Glenn was in Poland filming part of an upcoming documentary and has some incredibly moving — and horrific — pictures and stories to share including being inside a Nazi Germany picture.

His Israel event. Restoring Courage, is a follow-up to last year’s Restoring Honor event in D.C.  And beginning Monday 7.11.11 he is doing his radio show from there. (1st Hour: Here)

Glenn is also slated to speak at the Christians United for Israel summit in Washington, D.C.Tuesday night 07.19.11  (Added 7.20.11:  Beck’s keynote speech was amazing.  He boldly stated, If the world goes down the road of dehumanizing Jews again, “then count me a Jew and come for me first.”  See: ‘COUNT ME A JEW AND COME FOR ME FIRST’ VIDEO OF BECK’S MOVING KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL SUMMIT.  Beck has also had to change the location of one of his Israel Events because of security reasons.)

He tried to explain why he was leaving Fox after 29 months, and showed a picture of Jack Paar, who unexpectedly left NBC's "Tonight Show” after being on the air for six years. He said he wanted to be more than a commentator and that he was not running away from anything. "I'm running to something," Glenn said, “before I lose my soul!”

"This show has become a movement," he said. "It's not a TV show and that's why it does not belong on television anymore. It belongs in your heart. It belongs in your neighborhood."  It belongs in the heart of patriotic Americans will to link arms and stand together for the Republic.

Glenn’s focus is on doing good, saving the Republic… saving freedom… saving the world and helping people one person at a time, one town at a time, one state at a time, one country at a time.  GBTV is a platform for everyone to connect and connect their ideas.  He signed off with his signature phrase… Good Night, America!

Beck later told an Internet audience on GBTV that he had hired a "community organizer" on Thursday to help pull together citizens who agree with his point of view.

As Fox and Beck headed for their divorce, Beck set up his own diversified business. He makes speeches, writes books (both fiction and non-fiction and a children’s book), has a daily radio show and owns the website, the Blaze, along with GBTV , which is run by a former Fox executive. He has also started an non-profit venture called “Mercury One”. Beck will sell access to GBTV for $9.95 a month, or $4.95 for those who only want to see his nightly show. GBTV promises to be much more than a TV platform on the Internet, but rather ‘the network for the tomorrow, a day early’.

Beck sold his home in Connecticut and has just leased a home in the Westlake area of Dallas, owned by baseball player Jorge Piedra and Swarovski heiress Vanessa Piedra.  He also had to give up his apartment in New York, provided by Fox News.  But he is thought to still own an apartment in Manhattan, at least the one for his daughter.  He talked about helping his daughter look for a NYC apartment on one of his last shows.  Mercury Radio Arts, his production company, will remain in New York, at least for now, meaning he could be back and forth often.  Beck has also mentioned building a studio in Dallas and ‘perhaps’ other places.  What and where all Beck is up and off to is yet a mystery… perhaps in part even to himself.

Fox launched a summertime replacement series for the Glenn Beck Show, “The Five”, after a couple weeks of the ‘Best of Beck’ re-runs, which were preempted a couple of days by the Casey Anthony trial verdict and sentencing circus, a distraction that Beck would not have focused on.  The week after Beck left Fox, the news was also filled with scandal involving the Murdoch Empire and a phone hacking scandal in Britain while here at home Fox took on Media Matters, financed by Beck’s old nemeses George Soros.  “The Five” will include a rotating crew of Fox personalities like Andrew Napolitano, Andrea Tanteros, Geraldo Rivera, Juan Williams, Monica Crowley, Greg Gutfeld, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino and Kimberly Guilfoyle debating issues of the day. (I’ve watched the first few shows and they aren’t bad, but they aren’t Beck!) As his fans say, it will take 5 people to replace Beck and his show and it still certainly won’t be the same! Whether Fox realizes or admits it yet or not, they will grow to miss him and his ratings!

Beck said more than once in the last weeks and months of his show that he needed to get involved… hands on involved and he has!!

‘Your God Is My God’: Beck Delivers Speech Before Jewish Politicians, Knesset (Updated With Pictures and Video) on the same day that the U.N. to Discuss Seizing Jerusalem From Israel on July 11th (or 26th) and self-avowed Marxist Van Jones makes more idiotic comments about Glenn

Video:  Glenn Beck Visits Knesset

Beck Continues to Tour Israel… and Challenges Israelis to “Square Your Shoulders’ and since he’s been there, it seems that: Ships and Planes of Fools (anti-Israel extremists) Pick Wrong Target… and Fail but U.S. Embassy Releases Video Taking Tough Immigration Stance… on Jews! 

God Bless You Glenn!!

by Marion Algier – posted by Ask Marion

BREAKING NEWS - GOP Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) Demands Spending 'Cuts of $Trillions!'

Cartoon By Clayton Liotta @DickMorris.Com  - Obviously There Is No Inflation

It looks like John Boehner is finally listening to the Tea Party/9.12 Project movement that put him in the office of the Speaker of the House!

In a stunning turn of events, the Ohio Republican has publicly called for "actual cuts and program reforms, not broad deficit or debt targets that punt the tough questions to the future."

Boehner has been under fire from Tea Party & 9.12 Project groups ever since he chose to compromise with the passage of multiple continuing resolutions, then a feeble compromise that cut an effective amount of LESS THAN A BILLION DOLLARS.

Has the Speaker of the House actually heard the grass roots activists who wish to restore America to greatness, or is this just more political rhetoric? Have the new GOP Constitutionalists made themselves heard, or is something else afoot?

Here's the story from Roll Call:
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Boehner: Spending Cuts Should Be in Trillions

By John Stanton | May 9, 2011, 6:50 p.m. | Updated: 7:57 p.m.

Speaker John Boehner warned Monday that he won’t agree to raising the debt ceiling unless Democrats and the White House accept spending cuts that exceed the increase in the nation’s debt level.

“Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase. And the cuts should be greater than the accompanying increase in debt authority the president is given,” the Ohio Republican said in a speech at the Economic Club of New York.

“We should be talking about cuts of trillions, not just billions,” he said. “They should be actual cuts and program reforms, not broad deficit or debt targets that punt the tough questions to the future.”

Boehner’s demand for such large cuts marks a sharp escalation in his rhetorical war with Democrats in advance of talks to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner predicts that the nation will default in early August unless Congress acts.

Boehner also reiterated his opposition to increasing taxes to address the nation’s debt and remained adamant that entitlements stay on the table.

“With the exception of tax hikes, which will destroy jobs, everything is on the table,” Boehner said. “That includes honest conversations about how best to preserve Medicare, because we all know, with millions of baby boomers beginning to retire, the status quo is unsustainable.”

Boehner’s speech could help blunt growing concerns among fiscal conservatives that he will cut a deal with the White House that does not include significant cuts.

He also hammered Democrats’ other economic policies, including the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul law, which he called “all wrong.”

“There was a financial meltdown in our country, and millions of Americans were hit hard. But Washington’s response was all wrong. We got a banking system that is less competitive, pitting the small community banks like the ones in my district against giant banks that the federal government deems ‘too big to fail,’” Boehner said.

“We got a consolidated banking system with a small number of large firms operating as public utilities,” he added. “We got a lot of new rules that make job creation and investment more difficult. And the government mortgage companies that triggered the whole meltdown went untouched.”

Video: Judge Napolitano on Economy in for GB on 05.09.11

Judge Andrew Napolitano once again fills in for Glenn again, who took a surprise trip to Israel and should return this week. The President’s popularity has soared in the wake of the killing of Osama (or Usama) Bin Laden. Yet behind all of the celebrations, America’s economy is still sputtering. Unemployment has ticked up back north of 9%. The national debt is pushing past 14.3 trillion dollars and the Federal Reserve shows no sign of ending its century long war on the dollar. But that didn’t stop the President from taking a victory lap last week. Now, he plans to ask Congress to borrow another 2.7 trillion dollars.

Glenn decided late last week to make a surprise trip to Israel, and is off radio and TV today to visit the country. He plans to broadcast his radio show tomorrow.

Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street

Here Come the Judge: Judge Napolitano on the Debt, the President and You

Today after we heard President Obama’s Election 2012 kickoff speech while expecting to hear a speech on the budget… we heard from Judge Andrew Napolitano, sitting in for Glenn Beck as he is on the road for his Elegant Eliminations Tour, and guests.  the President said that the debt really does matter. For most of his tenure, he has been subscribing to a bogus economic philosophy that government spending can spur the economy - and that the government can spend as much as it wants in order to carry out this absurd idea. So, what if anything changed with today's speech?  Can someone say election spin??

Guests include Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Fox News Analyst Kirsten Powers, Nancy Skinner and CATO Institute's Mark Calabria.

Video:  The Debt, the President and You

 

Fox’s Neil Cavuto Conducts The Most Fiery Deficit Reduction Interview Ever? 

Election On:  ‘Spinmaster’ Obama Spins Budget Speech Into First Campaign Speech of the Season

Editorial:  Obama’s Honesty Deficit

Video:  Freshman Representatives First 100 Days On FOX Part I 

Video:  Freshman Representatives First 100 Days On Fox Part II

Video:  Obama vs. JFK on Taxes

Video:  Reagan on Taxes

The Budget Compromise Was a Big Fraud?!?

Heritage Foundation:  Pentagon Warns on Cost of Obama’s Plan to Slash Defense

Paul Ryan Discussing Obama’s Speech:   Ryan: Time to "act like adults".(SLAMS Man-Child Obama's Speech!)

Obama Goes in for the Kill

Budget Cuts and Holding the Spending Line…

SEE THE CHILLING PRESENTATION PAUL RYAN’S USING TO PUSH BUDGET CUTS:

Our friends over at Business Insider have uncovered the chilling presentation GOP Rep. Paul Ryan (chairman of the House Budget Committee) is using to push for budget cuts in Washington. The information, as presented in graphs, will probably upset you.

Here are a few slides from the presentation, “The Choice of Two Futures:”

See the rest at Business Insider.

Taxpayers on Hook as Obama Joins a New International Renewable Energy Agency   

(CNSNews.com) – At a time when congressional Republicans are looking for ways to reduce U.S. funding to the United Nations, the Obama administration has formalized its membership in a new international body – and American taxpayers will provide more than one-fifth of its budget. The administration on Friday deposited its instrument of acceptance to join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), State Department spokesman Philip Crowley announced. After joining in June 2009, the U.S. now becomes the 63rd fully ratified member of IRENA, a European-inspired initiative set up in 2009 to promote renewable forms of energy such as wind and solar... Read More HERE

h/t to Jean Stoner

Putting House GOP's $61 Billion Spending Cuts in Perspective Using 61 Billion Peanuts

This short video, produced by the Cato Institute, puts $61 Billion in spending cuts into alarming perspective, yet the Dems and Harry Reid think their cuts are outrageous and Reid is worried about saving Northern Nevada Poetry readings???

HOLDING THE SPENDING LINE

too many politicians on both sides have simply lost touch with reality when it comes to government spending. But there is always hope when you have a few braves souls in Congress willing to shut down the government if it will not act responsibly. Plus, you think gas is expensive now? What would prices look like if Mideast protests spread to Saudi Arabia? Tonight Judge Napolitano welcomes Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), Dr. Walid Phares, LTG (Ret) Jerry Boykin, PFG Best Analyst Phil Flynn, WI Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, Senator Pat Toomey, Zuhdi Jassar and Jacob Hornberger.

Video:  Judge Andrew Napolitano – Holding the Spending Line

Video:  At Your Beck and Call – The Dollar in Terms of Cupcakes

RED ALERT: Republican Betrayal Nears on Debt Vote. Stop Them NOW!

Dear Fellow Taxpayer: It didn't take long. The new Republican leadership appears ready to approve FULL FUNDING for the Obama Administration's insidious – yet resoundingly rejected – agenda for America. Your action is needed at once. You and I can – in fact, MUST – send the GOP leadership an unmistakable message right now, BEFORE the disease of Republican compromise infects Washington once again. If Republicans cave in and join with the Democrats to raise America's debt ceiling above the already staggering current limit of $14.3 trillion, Obamacare will be funded, the bailouts will continue, and out-of-control federal bureaucrats will stay fat and happy – feasting on another wave of taxpayer money while our nation's economy continues to sink. That's why I need your help today – RIGHT NOW! – in telling the Republican leadership: NO NEW DEBT FOR THE OBAMA AGENDA!! It's vital you fill out your petition below to Speaker John Boehner and other Republican leaders and submit it without delay. Please do so at once... because Boehner and others are already talking compromise on this bellwether fiscal issue, only months after the momentous election. Let me explain. As we point out in the current issue of my financial and self-reliance advisory Independent Living, the Federal Reserve is already publicly committed to print some $75 billion a month to service massive federal budget deficits and allow the federal establishment's unchecked expansion to continue. This massive subsidy to rampant federal spending was never voted upon by Congress or the American people – at least $600 billion in new money is being printed and given to the insolvent federal government – completely beyond the control of democratic processes that define a free America and further destroying the value of every dollar you earn, spend, save, or invest. The only way to put a stop to this insanity is for Congress to REFUSE to raise the debt limit. A congressional vote is scheduled in just a few days, which is why you must... Send Your Petition To Oppose More Government Borrowing NOW! Responsible Members of Congress who say they plan to vote "NO" on increasing the government's reckless plan of borrowing more money are already being derided by big-spenders and other statists as "The Shutdown Caucus" (a reference to the possibility that parts of the federal government could be shut down if the Treasury isn't given even more credit). Let's flood the Republican House and Senate leadership with a sea of grassroots petitions bearing the unmistakable message: STOP digging the debt hole deeper! Our national debt is already 90% of gross domestic product (GDP). By increasing the debt to 100% or more, America could join the ranks of banana republics which have destroyed their currencies and plunged their economies into chaos. Make your voice heard now – tell the new GOP leadership to do the right thing and vote to cut the national credit card in half – "Step One" to restraining our out-of-control federal government. No more federal debt on the backs of our children and grandchildren! It's urgent you sign your petition right now – and help send a message loud and clear. Yours in Freedom and Prosperity, Lee Bellinger, Publisher Independent Living P.S. Help me send the message to the incoming Republican leadership, before the Republican disease of compromise infects Washington once again: NO NEW DEBT FOR THE OBAMA AGENDA! Sign and submit your petition NOW!