Both Sides Hardening in Debt-Limit Imbroglio

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The gulf between President Obama and a divided Congress grows ever wider as the debt-limit crisis stumbles toward a potentially catastrophic deadline.

Tempers flared Wednesday at the high-level negotiating session, with Obama walking out of the meeting at one point, angrily warning House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, “Don’t call my bluff. You know I’m going to take this to the American people.”

But apparently the president, who thinks he can tax his way out of this mess, is unaware that Americans are strongly behind Cantor and the Republicans on the issue of tax increases versus spending cuts.

The Gallup Poll reported Thursday that when people are asked how Congress should deal with the mountain of deficits and debt that threaten to sandbag our economy, 50 percent “prefer spending cuts to tax hikes.”

The nationwide poll showed 20 percent saying the debt should be dealt with only through spending cuts, while another 30 percent said “mostly spending cuts.”

Read More at Townhall by Donald Lambro, Townall

Napolitano’s V.I.P.R. Vows to “Dominate,Intimidate and Control”the American People

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Since its inception in 2002,the Department of Homeland Security has grown increasingly contemptuous of the rights of the American people. Indeed,the Gestapo-like tactics of one of the Department’s better known masters of overreach–the TSA–are responsible for countless examples of the organizations daily assault on the Constitution.

But recently,another of Janet Napolitano’s handmaidens of harassment has begun to make news…albeit only on the web,of course. It is the TSA’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response task force–or VIPR. Organized into mobile swat teams,VIPR has executed some 8,000 highly public searches in the past 12 months.

And what meaningful operations they have been.

In a Georgia Amtrac station,VIPR personnel “patted down”all travelers,children and adults,both entering AND LEAVING the station.

In Santa Fe,New Mexico,teams of VIPR agents were assigned to conduct searches at a high school prom.

Read More at Coach is Right By Doug Book, Coach is Right

Iran moving nuke facility deep into mountain in mad dash to create atom bomb

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Iran moves nuclear enrichment programme to underground bunker

The Telegraph (by Damien McElroy ):  Iran has begun efforts to shift its nuclear enrichment programme to an underground bunker where experts warn it could stage a last dash for a nuclear weapon.

Installation of centrifuge and other manufacturing equipment was at a preparatory stage at Fowrdow, a facility deep inside a mountain near Qom, the country’s holiest city, intelligence reports said.

Tehran disclosed the existence of Fordow, which is designed to withstand air and missile strikes, after Western intelligence detected the covert nuclear plant.

“They are preparing (for the centrifuges to be installed) in Fordow,” a diplomat briefed on the latest intelligence said.

 

Read more here.

Ruling Class Birthday Bash . . . While Rome burns

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GOP Debt Ceiling Ace in the Hole: Obama’s Birthday Bash

By Keith Koffler

 

Oh boy, this is going to look bad.

 

The Republicans may not realize it, but they have an extra point of leverage in the debt ceiling talks: Barack Obama’s birthday.

 

It’s on Aug. 4. The president is turning 50. He’s decided to have a quiet celebration with family and a few close friends.

 

NOT.

 

Instead, the president is planning an extravagant fundraising bash Aug. 3 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, including a birthday concert teeming with celebrities and – for couples contributing $35,800 – a private dinner with the president. All this just one day after the government is scheduled to run out of cash!

 

Undoubtedly, the sight of so much money getting thrown around and dissolute stars crooning to Obama will make a stirring contrast with a federal government bankruptcy featuring unpaid government workers, seniors and soldiers wondering how they’ll afford the groceries, shuttered national parks, and angry investors trying to cash out their Treasury Bills.

 

Read more HERE.

Obama threatens to starve granny to keep socialism alive

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Washington gets $200 billion a month, Social Security costs $50 billion a month, and Obama is threatening to starve Grandma?

 

Washington Examiner (by Mark Tapscott):  President Obama told CBS News today that he “cannot guarantee that those [Social Security] checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”

 

But wait just a minute. If Washington receives about $200 billion in monthly revenues and sends out roughly $50 billion worth of Social Security checks and the same amount of Medicare payments, why is Obama claiming the checks may not go out?

 

Isn’t $200 billion minus $100 billion still $100 billion?

 

Because Obama is playing the demogogue, that’s why. Pure and simple. He is trying to scare seniors into making panicked calls to their congressmen begging them to do whatever Obama and the Democrats want in order to keep the checks coming.

 

Read more HERE.

Agenda 21 and the Movement Toward a One-World Gov’t

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The New American (by Raven Clabough) – In a report entitled “Your Hometown & the United Nations’ Agenda 21” published in The New American’s online edition for February 10,  journalist William F. Jasper warned:

 

The UN’s Agenda 21 is definitely comprehensive and global — breathtakingly so. Agenda 21 proposes a global regime that will monitor, oversee, and strictly regulate our planet’s oceans, lakes, streams, rivers, aquifers, sea beds, coastlands, wetlands, forests, jungles, grasslands, farmland, deserts, tundra, and mountains. It even has a whole section on regulating and “protecting” the atmosphere. It proposes plans for cities, towns, suburbs, villages, and rural areas. It envisions a global scheme for healthcare, education, nutrition, agriculture, labor, production, and consumption — in short, everything; there is nothing on, in, over, or under the Earth that doesn’t fall within the purview of some part of Agenda 21.

 

And things have not improved since. In case the American people do not have enough with which to concern themselves, The Blaze further draws our attention to Agenda 21, a Soros-sponsored plan for world government. Already two decades old, Agenda 21 is a United Nations plan for “sustainable development” that was backed by George H.W. Bush and 177 other world leaders. Despite its seemingly innocuous intentions, The Blaze notes that several items are at risk under the plan: private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately-owned farms.

 

Read more HERE.

Murcowski Demands that the Debt Ceiling be Raised

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Sen. Murkowski says it would be disastrous for nation if debt ceiling weren’t raised

JUNEAU, Alaska ( BECKY BOHRER  Associated Press) — Alaska’s senior senator said Wednesday that the focus of the debt ceiling debate needs to be on the future of the country — not on the political futures of the players.

 

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told The Associated Press that it would be disastrous for the U.S. if the debt ceiling weren’t raised. Murkowski said the country must live within its means, but failing to raise the debt limit won’t just prevent new spending. She said it will also prevent the government from honoring existing obligations to entitlement programs, like Medicare and Social Security.

 

It’s an “extraordinarily difficult time for our nation and its fiscal, financial stability,” she said. “We have a great deal of very difficult decisions that need to be made. Those decisions are real and substantive, and political cover will be viewed for just exactly that.

 

“We need to be solving the problem,” she said, “not trying to one-up the other side.”

 

Read more at:  https://www.therepublic.com/view/story/a408fc8ae1ce472183bc9e7393bddfcd/AK–Murkowski-Debt-Limit/

Labor Battle at Center of Virginia Senate Race

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The new Boeing Dreamliner plant in North Charleston, S.C., is a few hundred miles from George Allen’s campaign headquarters in Richmond, but if Allen and the Old Dominion’s GOP have their way, the bitter battle between the airline manufacturer and the National Labor Relations Board will help determine Virginia’s next U.S. senator.

That race, expected to be among the most expensive and competitive of 2012 U.S. Senate contests, most likely will pit Allen, a former Virginia governor and senator, against Tim Kaine, who also served a term as Virginia governor and who most recently chaired the Democratic National Committee. The two are vying for the seat held by Democrat Jim Webb, who chose not to seek re-election after just one term.

Five years ago, George Allen was a popular Republican senator often talked about in conservative circles as a potential presidential candidate. His near-certain path to re-election was compromised when he referred to a 20-year-old Democratic volunteer as “a macaca” at a political rally. The volunteer, then a University of Virginia student who worked for Webb’s campaign, is of Indian ancestry, and the previously unheard-of term was widely perceived as an ethnic slur.

Allen later apologized, but he paid for the gaffe with his Senate seat. (He repented again at a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference last month.) Now he is attempting a comeback based not on personality but on curbing spending, growing jobs and allowing businesses to be more competitive. Specifically the GOP candidate is invoking a specter that’s also been a feature of the presidential contest: Democrats’ close ties to Big Labor.

Allen’s campaign is seeking to capitalize on a lawsuit filed by the National Labor Relations Board against Boeing for opening new manufacturing plants in South Carolina instead of in Washington state, partly to avoid the labor trouble that has prompted recent strikes by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The machinists union sued Boeing, alleging that moving some of its manufacturing operations to a right-to-work state was a form of retaliation prohibited by federal law.

Read More at Real Clear Politics By Caitlin Huey-Burns, Real Clear Politics

Miller Disagrees with Legal Fees Ruling

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Miller says, first and foremost, the legal actions taken were about the rule of law prevailing.

Fairbanks, Alaska. June 24, 2011 — From spokesman Randy DeSoto:

“While Joe agrees with the court’s decision to deny Lisa Murkowski’s demand to pay her legal fees, he strongly disagrees with the court’s decision relating to his payment of the State’s fees.

“In his ruling, Judge Carey writes that Miller was motivated by the salary of the office of US Senator, not the integrity of the vote and the constitutional rights of the tens of thousands of Alaskans who voted for him last fall. However, Miller’s Complaint requested, first and foremost, a fair count of Alaska’s U.S. Senate votes. Despite the incontrovertible evidence that the candidates’ votes were counted differently (hand vs. unverified machine count) resulting in an unreliable final tally, the Alaska courts denied this relief.

“Joe also brought suit to clearly establish what legal standard would be used to count the write-in ballots. Judge Carey does not adequately take into account the federal district court’s order that halted the certification of the election until “serious State law issues” were finally and fully resolved. He also discounts the federal court’s ruling stating the Alaska law governing the counting of write-in ballots was unclear and in need of revision, and that the state legislature passed a bill seeking to clarify how write-in ballots would be counted in the future, which the Governor signed into law last month.

“In short, Judge Carey admits that Miller’s legal action raised substantial and complex legal issues. This admission is consistent with the federal district court’s initial decision. Nevertheless, Judge Carey mistakenly divines – without any evidence concerning this before him – that Joe Miller’s motivation was a U.S. Senator’s salary. Obviously, the Judge and many like him do not get it.”

Joe Miller stated, “The Tea Party revolution is not about salary, position, or prestige: it’s about bringing America back to its constitutional foundations, where the rule of the law rather than the ruling class prevails.”

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