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Biden agrees that Tea Party is not racist

In an interview with ABC News over the weekend, VP Joe Biden said that he and the president did not believe that the Tea Party was a racist organization. He said he thought there might be some members who held racist views, but the organization as a whole was not.

Was Franken napping during Kagan hearing?

Nobody ever said that Supreme Court confirmation hearings were exciting, but it appears that the boredom may have gotten to Senator Al Franken. He was caught on camera "resting his eyes" during Elena Kagan's testimony on Monday.

Budget director Orszag: Mission accomplished!

White House budget director Peter Orszag is reportedly on his way out in July. He’ll depart from the Beltway with a beautiful ABC News reporter on his arm — and an ever-swelling ocean of debt at his feet.

Mission accomplished!

Mr. Orszag, an economist who previously spent nearly two years as director of the Congressional Budget Office, somewhat reluctantly accepted Mr. Obama’s invitation to join the Cabinet after the 2008 election and never planned to stay more than two years. Typically, budget directors do not.

While the president recently urged Mr. Orszag to remain, the calendar for drafting the next budget weighed in favor of Mr. Orszag leaving sooner. So did Mr. Orszag’s personal calendar: He is getting married in September.

By fall, as Congress is taking final action on the budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, the Office of Management and Budget is busy preparing the next year’s budget request to be released next February. Mr. Orszag argued inside the White House that his successor should be in place to put the next budget together from the start.
Orszag is headed to an unnamed think tank, says Bloomberg News. He’ll be able to share all his newly-acquired knowledge of the Chicago Way. Flashback July 2009:

Six months into the Obama administration, it should now be clear to all Americans: Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles.

Ask the Congressional Budget Office. Last week, President Obama spilled the beans on the Today Show that he had met with CBO director Douglas Elmendorf – just as the number-crunchers were casting ruinous doubt on White House cost-saving claims. Yes, question the timing. The CBO is supposed to be a neutral score-keeper – not a water boy for the White House. But when the meeting failed to stop the CBO from issuing more analysis undercutting the health care savings claims, Obama’s budget director Peter Orszag played the heavy.

Orszag warned the CBO in a public letter that it risked feeding the perception that it was “exaggerating costs and underestimating savings.” Message: Leave the number-fudging to the boss. Capiche?

President Obama issued an even more explicit order to unleash the hounds on Blue Dog Democrats during his health care press conference. “Keep up the heat” translated into Organizing for America/Democrat National Committee attack ads on moderate Democrats who have revolted against Obamacare’s high costs and expansive government powers over medical decisions.

Looks like there won’t be a health care beer summit any time soon.
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Who will take Orszag’s place? Here’s a depressing look at the Clinton-era retreads, left-wing think tankers, and Democrat cronies in the running.

Senator: Obama told me he won't secure the border until GOP agrees to immigration reform

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), speaking at a town hall meeting, revealed a surprising tidbit -- that the president told him there would be no sealing the border until Republicans agreed to work on comprehensive immigration reform. The White House immediately disputed Kyl's account, saying that the president had never said that.

Obama Porkway: Road Built With Stimulus Money Will Bear President’s Name

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I’m only guessing that, when it’s completed, Pres. Barack Obama Parkway in Orlando, Florida will lead straight to the Magic Kingdom:

Is it too soon to name a road after President Barack Obama? A new road being built through Orlando will have his name.

Roads in Orlando honor some of our greatest presidents, from Washington to Jefferson and now Obama.

On Friday, Orlando leaders made President Barack Obama Parkway the first road under construction in the nation named after our 44th president, and surely one of the few in history to be named after a sitting president in his first term.
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Two hundred jobs will be created to build the first $10.5 million phase of the road, which will connect with Metrowest Boulevard.
Most roads that are constructed are paid for with taxpayer dollars, but the fact that the first new road named after Barack Obama is being funded by his beloved “stimulus” is only appropriate.

If you’re in Orlando looking for this road, it’s just a mile west of the intersection of Hope and Change, and a half-mile east of the corner of Shovel and Ready. Why did local officials decide to name the stimulus road after the president? Because “A Blatant Attempt to Bankrupt America Boulevard” wouldn’t fit on the sign.

President Obama has a long way to go before surpassing Robert Byrd on the “stuff named after me that somebody else paid for” list, but if enough taxpayer money keeps being dumped into “shovel ready” projects, he’ll catch up in no time.

A photo of the Obamas, Joe Biden and Hillary taking their first drive down Pres. Barack Obama Parkway is here.

BP Chair: "We care about the small people"

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BP Chair: "We care about the small people" BP's Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, who is Swedish, may have been the victim of a language barrier on Wednesday when he said that his company cares about "the small people." He apparently meant "little people." Either way, many people affected by the oil spill ended up taking offense.

Quote of The Day

"...President Obama should be applauded for getting BP to pony up $20 billion. In fact, that's the best thing the president has done in the whole mess. A voluntary action on that scale by BP only helps the suffering people on the Gulf Coast. And that's the bottom line."

Carville blasts Obama's response to oil spill

Wednesday morning on ABC, Democratic strategist James Carville blasted Pres. Obama's response to the Gulf oil spill. "The political stupidity of this is just unbelievable...we're about to die down here!" Carville said.

McCartney Concert at White House: Good to Have a President That Knows What a Library Is

In any case, Paul McCartney played at the White House last night, and what with the oil gusher non-management, economy on the brink of ruin and getting worse by the day, debt continuing to mount, states going to economic war with one another, terror attacks dramatically rising and emboldened tin pot dictators spouting off, it was the perfect time to talk about how stupid George W. Bush is:

They shouldn’t cut a note from McCartney’s closing suite. “I hope the president will forgive me if I sing this song,” he quipped after Obama presented him with the Gershwin, and began crooning “Michelle.” During the I-love-you-I-love-you-I-lovvvve-you, the president leaned over to sing into the first lady’s ear.

When it was over, McCartney joked under his breath, “I’m gonna be the first guy to get punched out by a president.”

Then, “Eleanor Rigby,” “Let It Be” and “Hey Jude” — followed by what felt like endless applause.

A sweet moment, but McCartney topped it off with a bite. After thanking the Library of Congress one last time, he let it rip: “After the last eight years, it’s good to have a president that knows what a library is.”
I’d rather have a president who knows what a terrorist is and seems actively aware that the friggin’ Gulf of Mexico is about to be 10W-30 for the next decade, but hey, that’s just me. If you’re more comfortable with the genius who thinks there are 58 states, tried to enter the White House through a window and can’t go to the john without a teleprompter, that’s your right, Sir Paul.

Here’s Obama’s introduction of McCartney, where he justified having a soirée right now because music “gets us through the tough times.” Unless Sir Paul’s bass guitar can be used to plug the leak, I beg to differ:

As mentioned here, conspicuously absent from McCartney’s setlist were the tunes Taxman and Back in the USSR — and if anything, those should have been the encores.

As of this morning, Robert Gibbs has neither confirmed nor denied that Paul McCartney was ever contacted and offered a gig at the White House.

Napolitano hasn't read Arizona law?

Under questioning from John McCain on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted that she hasn't read the Arizona immigration law "in detail." This hasn't stopped her from denouncing the law as a "bad law enforcement law."

Arizona governor mocks critics who haven't read immigration bill

In this video, Arizona governor Jan Brewer mocks opponents of her state's immigration law using a frog puppet that looks and sounds a lot like Kermit the frog.

The Shady ShoreBank Bailout

“No more bailouts, no more greed, how many profits do you need?”

That’s been a signature chant of community organizers and Big Labor thugs who have stormed bank offices and financial executives’ private homes decrying corporate welfare over the past several months. But now that the federal government and a coalition of big banking interests are poised to bail out a crony Chicago bank with longtime ties to the Obama administration, Saul Alinsky’s avenging angels are nowhere to be found.

ShoreBank is a Windy City investment bank with all the right (or, rather, left) ties. Its stated progressive mission isn’t merely to make good lending decisions, but to engage in Barack Obama-esque social engineering to “create economic equity and a healthy environment.” The ShoreBank corporate slogan: “Let’s change the world.”

The company website features a video of Obama in Kenya championing ShoreBank microlending projects overseas. ShoreBank has also touted itself as a “green” bank from its founding days — promoting dubious carbon credit programs, subjecting new borrowers to eco-litmus tests (“we look at how you use water, how you recover water and clean it, how you use energy, if you produce clean energy, how you manage CO2, whether you are offsetting CO2 that your product produces, if you are using sustainably produced materials”) and encouraging customers to participate in “EcoDeposits” to “directly support the green agenda.”

Social and environmental justice may make for good Volvo bumper stickers. They do not, however, make for a good bottom line. While the bank was on do-gooder missions around the world, business at home was in trouble. As The Wall Street Journal reported, “Losses racked up during the recession have left the bank facing a demand to raise new capital or face likely closure by regulators.”

Enter the Chicago political friends and family of ShoreBank. The ties are long and deep, as the Central Illinois 9/12 Project has been chronicling for months:

– ShoreBank co-founder Jan Piercy was a Wellesley College roommate of Hillary Clinton’s, who has long supported the bank along with former president Bill Clinton.

– Former ShoreBank Vice Chairman Bob Nash worked for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential bid as deputy campaign manager. Board of Directors member Howard Stanback is a Hyde Park neighborhood pal of President Obama, who served with Stanback on the board of the radical Woods Fund (where Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers also sat).

– White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett served on the board of Chicago Metropolis 2020 with ShoreBank Director Adele Simmons, former president of the liberal MacArthur Foundation, where she focused on “climate change” and “global governance” issues.

– The bank and its employees donated some $12,000 to the Obama 2008 presidential campaign, and co-founder Mary Houghton reportedly gave advice to Obama’s late mother about small business lending issues.

In other words: ShoreBank is too politically connected to fail. And now you, the taxpayer, may be on the hook for helping its cronies engineer a special rescue. Fox Business News reported this week that a consortium of large lenders — including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and GE Capital — have partnered with the feds to pitch in a combined $200 million public-private bailout. (In addition, Illinois Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky has been crusading for a state-level bailout of the beleaguered bank.) The buzz on both Wall Street and Capitol Hill is that Goldman and perhaps others in the public-private partnership were pressured to lend a hand.

It wouldn’t be the first time that businesses have felt the Obama squeeze. And it wouldn’t be the first time that Democrats exploited the financial crisis to milk public money for their banking cronies.

The laggardly House Ethics Committee is still investigating Democrat California Rep. Maxine Waters, who had a personal and financial stake in Boston-based OneUnited, a minority bank that received $12 million in TARP bailout money under smelly circumstances. The bank’s executives donated $12,500 to her congressional campaigns. Her husband, Sidney Williams, was an investor in one of the banks that merged into OneUnited. Waters secured meetings between OneUnited execs and Treasury Department officials.

That probe has dragged on for nearly a year, which doesn’t bode well for fresh GOP demands for an investigation into the shady ShoreBank bailout. House Financial Services Committee ranking minority member Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., has demanded that the White House cough up documentation about any possible overt contact with Goldman about the deal.

Team Obama is smarter than that, of course. To quote Obama’s environmental czar Carol Browner, who pressured auto industry execs last year to cooperate on a fuel standards increase, they know “to put nothing in writing, ever.”

The fingerprints may be missing, but the stench of the Chicago Way is impossible to cover up.

The U.S. Department of Blame America First

Gird your loins, meanwhile, for the full State Department pander-fest scheduled for Thursday, when Arizona-bashing, U.S.-bashing Mexican President Felipe Calderon marches to Washington with one hand demanding more foreign aid while the other hand smacks America around for failing to grant more amnesty and other taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens from his misery-racked, violence-plagued country — which, I remind you again, has no qualms about enforcing its own southern border and sending illegals home in a heartbeat. Will anyone speak truth to open-borders power in the Beltway when Calderon comes calling? He has been granted the rare honor of speaking to a joint session of Congress.

Don’t forget what Calderon said in his first inaugural address in 2007:

President Felipe Calderon blasted U.S. immigration policies on Sunday and promised to fight harder to protect the rights of Mexicans in the U.S., saying “Mexico does not end at its borders.”

Back in 1984, when the late Jeane J. Kirkpatrick gave her famous “Blame America First” speech to the Republican National Convention, liberals at least waited for something bad to happen before blaming America.

Today, Obama Democrats have now mastered the treacherous art of the pre-emptive global apology. Foggy Bottom is crammed with so many “human rights” zealots embarrassed by the country they serve that the State Department mission statement should be replaced with a condolence card.

Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner is probably not the first Obama State Department official to badmouth America in front of foreign delegations. He was just dumb enough to get caught.

Last week, the former head agitator at the transnationalist outfit Human Rights First trashed our country’s human rights record to Chinese government officials.

Posner is an unrepentant open-borders radical who has long fought immigration enforcement and vociferously opposed post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism measures to detain enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay. He was active in supporting the establishment of the International Criminal Court, an American sovereignty-undermining tribunal that would trump U.S. judicial authority over war crimes and “crimes of humanity.”

And New Yorkers may recall that he joined with Human Rights First board member Tom Goldstein, far-left billionaire George Soros and other American self-loathers in the failed effort to turn the Sept. 11 Ground Zero Memorial into a national guilt complex to showcase how George W. Bush-era counterterrorism policies were curtailing civil liberties.

In short, Posner views our homeland security policies as unforgivable sins of discrimination. And he couldn’t wait to let China know it.

From Posner’s press briefing on Friday:

Q: Did the recently passed Arizona immigration law come up? And if so, did they bring it up? Or did you bring it up?

MR. POSNER: We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session and as a troubling trend in our society, and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination. And these are issues very much being debated in our own society.
The Arizona law is indeed being “debated in our own society” — mostly by a parade of willful ignoramuses from Homeland Security Department Secretary Janet Napolitano to Attorney General Eric Holder to State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, who have all gone on television to attack the Arizona law and then admit they have yet to read the legislation.

At least all the know-nothings in Washington who voted to cram the health care and stimulus bills down our throats without reading them had a semblance of an excuse. Those mammoth packages were thousands of pages long. The Arizona law is a mere 10 pages.

The betrayal of America’s interests by the Obama State Department cannot be understated. Posner proactively brought up the Arizona law “early and often” as an issue of “discrimination or potential discrimination” to smear his own countrymen in front of one of the world’s leading repressive regimes — so repressive, in fact, that Posner’s own boss, Hillary Clinton, once demanded that former President Bush boycott the ChiComs over their miserable human rights record. Posner had nothing publicly to say at the briefing about China’s own draconian immigration enforcement measures, let alone how it treats its own citizen political dissidents.

But this extreme moral equivalence is par for the course. Remember: The State Department’s legal adviser is former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, who believes that America is such a flagrant violator of international law that it belongs in an “axis of disobedience” with totalitarian regimes like North Korea and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq — and that U.S. Supreme Court rulings should “tip more decisively toward a transnationalist jurisprudence.”

And remember: One of President Obama’s closest foreign policy advisers is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Harvard law professor and State Department transition team leader Samantha Power, who pooh-poohs the threat of nuclear Iran and praises Obama’s commitment to “crossing boundaries” and “talk[ing] to dictators,” as the New Statesman reported.

Then there’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is busy coddling another government that has been bashing Arizona’s law while unapologetically policing its own southern border and kicking out illegal immigrants without a shred of due process: Mexico.

Instead of voicing concern about endangered American citizens, Clinton fretted about the political well-being of Mexican President Felipe Calderon: “We don’t want to make his life any harder,” Clinton said. I guarantee you he won’t show any of the same concern when he comes to Washington on Thursday to beg for more U.S. aid while attacking America as a racist, fascist country.

Foggy Bottom isn’t just stuck on stupid. It’s stuck on American self-sabotage.

“We strongly protest the unilateral measures taken by the U.S. Congress and government that have only persecuted and exacerbated the mistreatment of Mexican undocumented workers,” he said. “The insensitivity toward those who support the U.S. economy and society has only served as an impetus to reinforce the battle … for their rights.”

He also reached out to the millions of Mexicans living in the United States, many illegally, saying: “Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.”
I hope Joe Wilson is ready to call him out if and when needed. Here’s how to do it right.

Our busted deportation system strikes again

Wouldn’t it be grand if the Obama administration cared more about policing our borders than about policing our refrigerators? How about fixing our deportation system instead of fixing our junk-food diets?

First Lady Michelle Obama argued this week that obesity is a “national security” issue. But her husband allows far greater threats to go unabated. The FBI’s arrests of two Boston-area men tied to the Times Square bombing attempt — both held on immigration violations — underscore the continuing homeland security lapses.

FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents say two men of Pakistani descent were taken into custody during a series of New England-, New York- and New Jersey-based raids on Thursday. Federal officials believe the individuals may have provided cash to Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad. One was here on an expired visa. The other was on the loose while an immigration court adjudicated his deportation and removal order. He had reportedly been ordered deported in 2002, yet managed to embed himself in American society for more than seven years. But for the ability to detain potential illegal aliens on “administrative” charges, the men most likely would have remained free.

(How convenient that the White House can choose to enforce immigration laws in the interest of public safety and then threaten to sue Arizona for stepping in and doing the same when the feds refuse to enforce those laws consistently.)

Failure to crack down on visa overstayers and failure to stop the deportation revolving door are two key security vulnerabilities that lawmakers vowed to address after 9/11.

There are currently more than 2 million illegal alien visa overstayers in the country, along with an estimated 500,000 illegal alien absconders who have ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country. Voluntary departure policies — granting illegal aliens the privilege of deporting themselves on an honor system — have allowed countless law-breakers to remain in the country. There are federal laws mandating up to 20 years in jail for those who re-enter the U.S. illegally after being deported, but the provisions are enforced sporadically.

The endless immigration litigation system lets known deportation fugitives stay in the country pending endless appeals (just ask President Obama’s illegal alien absconder aunt Zeituni Onyango, whose 2002 asylum request was rejected and yet who remains here in taxpayer-subsidized public housing while awaiting the outcome of a second immigration hearing).

Just two months ago, the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner reported on lingering obstacles to enforcement and deportation of visa overstayers and absconders, including insufficient detention capacity; limitations of its immigration database; and insufficient staffing. “While most visitors leave by the time their visas expire, many thousands remain in the United States illegally,” Skinner testified before Congress. “Overstays perpetuate the illegal immigration problem by using the visa process to break the law to remain in the United States. Moreover, some overstays represent a very real national security risk to the nation.”

Indeed, they do. The Nationwide Visa Overstayers Club includes dozens of jihadists, including 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Hani Hanjour, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Satam al-Suqami; 1997 New York subway bomber Lafi Khalil; 1993 World Trade Center bombers Mahmud and Mohammed Abouhalima, Mohammed Salameh and Eyad Ismoil; and 1993 New York landmark bombing and conspirator Fadil Abdelgani.

Before 9/11, no comprehensive foreign visitor entry-exit tracking system existed. Open-borders lobbyists, the travel industry, civil rights absolutists and ethnic grievance groups have lobbied hard ever since to stall full implementation of coordinated databases.

The rallying cries of the May Day illegal alien marches this month implored President Obama to “Stop the raids!” and “Stop the deportations!” While their underlings launch select counterterrorism and immigration raids to track down the global network of “lone wolves,” Attorney General Eric Holder and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano have been all too happy to threaten punitive measures against local and state officials who understand that reckless immigration enforcement moratoriums carry grave domestic security consequences.

Last time I checked, the government’s fundamental duty “to provide for the common defense” did not include the qualifier “when it’s politically expedient.” Or “as long as special-interest feelings are not hurt.” Or “only after catastrophic security breaches force us to do so.” Which version of the U.S. Constitution is Team Obama reading?

SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaign

Remember: Big Government programs “for the children” are never about the children.

Behind every seemingly good deed in the Obama White House, there’s a deep-pocketed, left-wing special interest. Take First Lady Michelle Obama’s crusade against childhood obesity. Who really benefits from the ostensible push for improved nutrition in the schools? Think purple – as in the purple-shirted army of the Service Employees International Union. Big Labor bigwigs don’t care about slimming your kids’ waistlines. They care about beefing up their membership rolls and fattening their coffers.

Mrs. Obama earned a State of the Union Address shout-out from her hubby for taking on the weighty public policy issue of students’ physical fitness. The East Wing is now in full campaign mode – leaning on the nation’s mayors, traveling with the Surgeon General, and meeting with Congress and cabinet members to reauthorize the Lyndon Johnson-era Child Nutrition Act, which provides government-subsidized meals to more than 30 million children. It’s part of the Obama administration’s self-proclaimed “cradle-to-career” agenda for America’s youth.

For decades, this Great Society relic has been criticized by school administrators for outgrowing its initial conception. The program was originally created to use up post-World War II food surpluses. In the late 1970s, New York principal Lewis Lyman skewered it as a federal “boondoggle” in a seminal essay for the education journal, Phi Delta Kappan. But Democrats demagogued the GOP’s responsible attempts at financial reform during the Clinton years as “starving the children.” While spending on youth nutrition and wellness have ballooned, so have the kids. Nearly one-third of U.S. children are now overweight or obese. The feds spend $15 billion a year on nutrition in schools; the White House wants at least a $1 billion increase this coming fiscal year.

The well-intended program to feed poor kids has morphed into an untouchable universal entitlement with a powerful school lunch lobbying coalition of Department of Agriculture bureaucrats, food-service industry executives, and union bosses. Enter the SEIU. Headed up by the White House’s most frequent visitor, Andy Stern, the powerful labor organization representing government and private service employees has an insatiable appetite for power and growth. Working alongside the First Lady, the SEIU unveiled a major ad campaign this week demanding reauthorizing and funding increases in the Child Nutrition Act.

What’s in it for Big Labor? SEIU Executive Vice President Mitch Ackerman explains: “A more robust expansion of school lunch, breakfast, summer feeding, child care and WIC [the federal Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program] is critical to reducing hunger, ending childhood obesity, and providing fair wages and healthcare for front line food service workers (emphasis added).” There are 400,000 workers who prepare and serve lunch to American schoolchildren. SEIU represents tens of thousands of those workers and is trying to unionize many more. “More robust expansion” of the federal school lunch law means a mandate for higher wages, increased benefits, and government-guaranteed health insurance coverage (the more luxurious the better now that SEIU has negotiated its Cadillac Tax exemption from the Democrats’ health care takeover bill).

The SEIU’s front group, “Campaign for Quality Services,” is clamoring for “the right to sick days and training” for school food-services workers. Never ones to let a crisis go unexploited, SEIU sent its members to lobby in front of Chicago public schools last year and scare parents into supporting their labor agenda. They accused the school system of “putting our kids at risk” during flu season by resisting the SEIU’s sick day coverage demands. “Without sick days, I can’t take a day off, so I have to bring germs to school,” an SEIU janitor lamented.

Along the same lines, they are casting food-services workers as indispensable saviors. The union has rallied behind p.r. efforts casting them as superheroes “serving justice, and serving lunch.” Opposing the union means opposing children’s health. SEIU propaganda features New Jersey school cafeteria workers like Leslie Williams of Orange, N.J. lamenting: “I love my work, but it’s getting harder to prepare nutritious meals on the low budget we’re working with…It breaks my heart to see a child who’s hungry. As I see it, part of my job is to make sure the kids are well-fed.”

Actually, that’s the primary job of parents. Mom? Dad? Remember them? But the more responsibility we demand of parents, the less power and influence SEIU bosses are able to grab. Unionized school dietician and nutrition jobs are booming. And in addition to school breakfast and lunch, the SEIU is now pushing subsidized dinner plans and summer food service to create a “stronger nutrition safety net.” Translation: Perpetual employment for big government and its public employee union au pairs.

Cede the children, feed the state.

Here come Michelle Obama’s Food Marketing Police

Big Mommy Michelle Obama launched her childhood obesity campaign in February by dragging her daughters’ BMIs into the public spotlight and carrying water for the SEIU’s legislative agenda. What’s next? Aggressive government pressure on, and policing of, food advertisers. Here they come:
The review by the Task Force on Childhood Obesity says one out of every three children is overweight or obese. The task force is a key part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to solve the problem of obesity within a generation. President Obama ordered the comprehensive review of the issue.

The report includes familiar themes, emphasizing the importance of improved nutrition and physical activity. It also calls for some new and dramatic controls on the marketing of unhealthy foods.

The task force wants junk food makers and marketers to go on what amounts to an advertising diet. It says media characters that are often popular with kids should only be used to promote healthy products. If voluntary efforts fail to limit marketing of less healthy products to young viewers, the task force suggests the FCC should consider new rules on commercials in children’s programming. It also challenges food retailers to stop using in-store displays to sell unhealthy food items to children.

The advisory panel proposes better food content labeling on products and vending machines. Restaurants and vending machine companies are urged to display calorie counts. The experts say the FDA and USDA should cooperate with the food and beverage industries to develop a standard system of nutrition labeling on the front of packages. The study also suggests that restaurants should re-evaluate portion sizes, improve kids’ menus and list more healthy food choices.

The White House study says school systems should consider efforts to promote healthier food in cafeterias. One idea: “swap deep fryers for salad bars.”

In a proposal that’s sure to be popular with children, the panel says schools should promote recess for younger students and “physical activity breaks” for upper level grades.
Because, you know, parents, teachers and administrators in their local school districts are too stupid and too uncaring to have figured this out already.

Quote of The Day

"A lot of the critics of this law are wrong. There is no new basis to stop and detain somebody. You can't just stop them because they are a Latino. There has to be a lawful basis to stop somebody in the first place and question them. And it can't be simply their ethnicity or their race. That's specifically in the 16-page law."

Quote of The Day

"The president still has time to turn... things around, but we Americans are not a patient people. And there is anger in the air. Yes, there's been change. We now have record spending and a new tone of humility overseas, but those things might not be good things. Also, whenever you build up someone's hopes and don't come through, you become suspect. And the bigger the hope, the harder the fall. President Obama's charisma energized many Americans. And now they are disappointed--some of them--with reality."

Quote of The Day

"What is driving the Tea Party is fear that President Obama is changing traditional America--that the USA is becoming France, if you want to oversimplify it. ...Going forward, the Tea Party movement will face some challenges. Will it become a legitimate third party? Or will it stay as an anti-Obama protest group? Or will it expand its passion into other areas? There is no Tea Party leader. Sarah Palin comes closest, but she doesn't want the designation. So it will be interesting to see just how the Tea Party evolves..."

Obama annoyed by America's superpower status?

During Tuesday's nuclear summit, Obama said that the United States is a superpower "whether we like it or not," and that causes us to get drawn into international conflicts.

Leftists burn flag at rally - where's the media outrage?

Last month several thousand anti-war protesters converged on Washington DC. It was a kooky display with plenty of far left loons and even an American flag burning. But the media completely ignored the anti-American display.

Quote of The Day

"What the far left has not done is call the president a war criminal [for approving drone attacks], which it certainly did in the case of President Bush. No--even though President Obama, to his credit, is the power behind the missile attacks, the far left pulls its punches when the president's name comes up. But all Americans should know that there are... people who believe the USA is the evil force, and the terrorists are just responding to that. There's no better example of far-left nuttiness than this campaign against the drone attacks."

Fonda blames 'right wingers' for 'Hanoi Jane' nickname

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Speaking on Larry King's show Monday night, Jane Fonda complained that she had been unfairly saddled with the nickname Hanoi Jane after visiting North Vietnam in 1972. Fonda blamed "right wingers" for giving her the nickname.

Toyota faces $16M fine for auto defects

San Jose Mercury News: "Federal safety regulators said Monday that they intend to fine Toyota Motor $16.4 million - the largest ever penalty against an automaker - for failing to disclose problems with sticky accelerator pedals quickly enough. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Toyota knew in September that it had a problem with accelerator pedals that required fixing, but failed to recall 2.3 million vehicles until January - four months later. In taking the step, federal authorities are sending the strongest signal yet that they believe the automaker deliberately concealed safety information from them".

Quote of The Day

"Ever since the Tea Party protest began last summer, the left-wing media in America has been attacking the movement. At first, Tea Party folks were labeled stupid--too dumb to understand complicated issues. ...Finally, the media turned to ideology, saying that many Tea Party people are racist and far-right cranks... it's not the job of the media to engineer political thinking in this country. And that's what's happening in some quarters... That is corruption. And there is no doubt it is in play."

Palin denies that she's inciting violence

Speaking at a Tea Party rally over the weekend, Sarah Palin denied that anti-health care reform rhetoric was inspiring people to violence. For more on this, watch The Factor on Monday night.

Quote of The Day

"...given all the truly hateful rhetoric that has been spewed by the left, and continues to be spewed by the left, forgive me if I am unmoved by the Democrats' current pleas for their calls for civility and so forth, and their outrage over isolated incidents of vandalism. Criminality of any sort or inciting people to violence is reprehensible. And the GOP leadership has condemned this."

GOP leader slams Dems for playing politics over health care threats

After Democratic complaints that Republicans weren't doing enough to stem the rash of anti-Obamacare threats and vandalism, GOP House Minority Whip Eric Cantor slammed Democrats during a press conference Thursday. Cantor accused the Democrats of playing politics, and also revealed that his office had been targeted by a gunman.

Quote of The Day

"[Your humble correspondent] believes the freedom issue is crucial. In the New York Times' lead editorial today, that far-left paper celebrates Obama-care and urges the president to continue spending billions of dollars to protect individual Americans from just about everything... This is what many Americans fear—that the USA will become a top-down society. That is, the government will tell citizens and business what to do and when to do it."

Michael Moore: Democrats are 'wusses'

In an interview with a left wing website, Michael Moore sounded off on Democrats -- he thinks they're not liberal enough!

Boehner gives fiery speech against health care

Before the House voted on health care on Sunday, Minority leader Rep. John Boehner gave a fiery speech in opposition to the bill. Unfortunately for Boehner, the bill passed, handing Obama and the Democrats a huge victory.

Quote of The Day

"The bottom line: Americans are smarter than the Democrats give them credit for. If you think dealing with your insurance company now is a pain, then just wait until you have to lobby a member of Congress for changes to the health care monstrosity once it's passed. Simply put, this is the biggest con job that has ever been foisted on the American people."

Cheney's surprise CPAC visit

Former VP Dick Cheney made a surprise appearance at CPAC, the conservative conference now taking place in Washington DC. Cheney was greeted like a rock star by the crowd. He spoke briefly, and predicted that Obama would be a one-term president.

Senator compares climate change skeptics to Nazi deniers

Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Party Senator from Vermont, spoke about climate change science at a hearing on Tuesday, and compared critics of climate change to deniers of the Nazi threat in the 1930s.

Pinkcome Tax

DELIBERATE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EXPOSED

Beer Is a Rich Source of Silicon and May Help Prevent Osteoporosis

A new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. Researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California, Davis studied commercial beer production to determine the relationship between beer production methods and the resulting silicon content, concluding that beer is a rich source of dietary silicon.

Obama announces bipartisan health care meeting

Pres. Obama has apparently decided that bipartisanship is the way to go. In an interview before the Super Bowl, he announced that later this month Democrats and Republicans will meet to try to hash out their differences on the health care legislation.

Quote of The Day

"...overseas terrorists must be handled by the military if we are able to win the war on terror. In the end, this all comes down to leadership. President Obama has said he allowed Holder to make the final decision, but Holder works for the president. And Mr. Obama should be 'the decider,' as President Bush once said."

Comedian bashes NBC for offensive black history month menu

Comedian Wanda Sykes was on Jay Leno's show Thursday night. She lashed out at NBC for offering a Black History Month menu in their cafeteria that featured fried chicken, corn bread and collard greens.

Union leader says amnesty for illegals will lead to 8 million new Democrat voters

SEIU International Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina told a conference last year that passing an amnesty bill for 12 million illegal immigrants could lead to at least 8 million new votes for Democrats.

McCain slams Holder over terror trials

Today during a Senate hearing with Secretary of Defense Gates, Sen. John McCain slammed attorney general Eric Holder's decision to try some of the 9/11 plotters with civilian trials on U.S. soil

Quote of The Day

"Mr. Obama did a smart thing last week. He said he wants to work with the Republican Party for the good of the folks. He also said he's not an ideologue. Some people believe that, some people don't. My beef is not with Mr. Obama's posture towards the GOP. I think both parties play far too many play political games. No, my concern is the gulf between the president and you, the folks."

Climate Chief Knew Glacier Claims Were False Before Copenhagen

The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

Dr Pachauri, who played a leading role at the summit, corrected the error last week after coming under media pressure. He told The Times on January 22 that he had only known about the error for a few days. He said: “I became aware of this when it was reported in the media about ten days ago. Before that, it was really not made known. Nobody brought it to my attention. There were statements, but we never looked at this 2035 number.”

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Obama slams Supreme Court during SotU; Alito takes issue

During Wednesday night's State of the Union address, Pres. Obama slammed a recent ruling by the Supreme Court allowing corporations to give money to candidates. Obama warned that this could lead foreign corporations to try to influence U.S. elections. Justice Samuel Alito apparently took issue with this assertion, shaking his head and appearing to say "Not true." Legal experts are divided about what the ruling means for foreign corporations.

Obama: I'd rather be a good one-term president than a mediocre two-termer

Specter tells Bachmann to "Act like a lady"

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Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) got into a spat with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on a Philadelphia radio show this week. During the heated exchange, Specter tells her to "act like a lady." Did he cross the line?

Ron Paul “WE NEED TO TAKE OUT THE CIA”

America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians