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Friday, April 30, 2010
Racist Victory Day - May 18th
John Murtha, the unindicted co-conspirator in the ABSCAM sting that engulfed 5 Democrats and one John McCain has done so much damage in his tenure in the Senate. He called our brave troops "murderers" and his own constituents Racist Rednecks. Well, the bloated and corrupt Democrat passed away without a single indictment for his crimes, but on May 18th his "Racist Redneck" district has their chance for their "final word" or an indictment of their own sort -- voting out the socialists that want to grab his seat.
This is the man that will probably do it! Do it for America! Do it to clear your good names in the court of public opinion!
Pro-illegal immigrant decry racism over ID requirements
Answer me this
The MSM and pro-illegal people are crying foul, racism and Nazi-like oppression over the AZ law that will require those who get stopped to have to prove their citizenship, if the situation in the law enforcement view, suspects the status of the individual is not in this country illegally.
My question to that piped up controversy is this. How many Americans leave home everyday with the "conscious effort" to ensure they have their own wallets on their person?
How many times in a rush have we left home without our wallets, got into our vehicles to go to work and then remembered we forgot to grab it? What was the first thing that comes to mind in those situations? Mine is "oh my God, I'm driving without my drivers license and hope I do not get pulled over and cannot produce it up request."
How many Americans intentionally and consciously leave home everyday saying to themselves "Screw it, I refuse to carry my ID (save Al Sharpton)?"
Why?
Answer -- because everything we do in our lives is tied to the need to produce our identification. Is it racist? Are we all acting and producing our ID's feeling that we are being profiled by having to produce it? No, we're not!
How is it any different?
The MSM and pro-illegal people are crying foul, racism and Nazi-like oppression over the AZ law that will require those who get stopped to have to prove their citizenship, if the situation in the law enforcement view, suspects the status of the individual is not in this country illegally.
My question to that piped up controversy is this. How many Americans leave home everyday with the "conscious effort" to ensure they have their own wallets on their person?
How many times in a rush have we left home without our wallets, got into our vehicles to go to work and then remembered we forgot to grab it? What was the first thing that comes to mind in those situations? Mine is "oh my God, I'm driving without my drivers license and hope I do not get pulled over and cannot produce it up request."
How many Americans intentionally and consciously leave home everyday saying to themselves "Screw it, I refuse to carry my ID (save Al Sharpton)?"
Why?
Answer -- because everything we do in our lives is tied to the need to produce our identification. Is it racist? Are we all acting and producing our ID's feeling that we are being profiled by having to produce it? No, we're not!
How is it any different?
Thursday, April 29, 2010
S.W.A.T. deployed in Quincy, IL to protect Obama from Tea Party Protesters!
The fabricated town hall event that Obama just held in Quincy where, on camera, a audience member is clearly shown wearing his "community organizer" shirt, prompted Obama to have local police "ring" the convention center with S.W.A.T. teams for his protection against any violence.
I must point out again that every instance of violence that has occurred at tea party protests were carried out by Obama supporters who phyiscally assaulted the peaceful anti-Obama protesters. The picture shown here is a cliche as "a picture is worth a thousand words". If this world was right and not upside down in reality, those S.W.A.T. team members should have been facing in the opposite direction and protecting the protesters from Obama supporters!
My, don't these racist, white supremist-like agitators look dangerous? Those S.W.A.T. team members must have been nervous standing there in the presence of such imminent danger!
I must point out again that every instance of violence that has occurred at tea party protests were carried out by Obama supporters who phyiscally assaulted the peaceful anti-Obama protesters. The picture shown here is a cliche as "a picture is worth a thousand words". If this world was right and not upside down in reality, those S.W.A.T. team members should have been facing in the opposite direction and protecting the protesters from Obama supporters!
My, don't these racist, white supremist-like agitators look dangerous? Those S.W.A.T. team members must have been nervous standing there in the presence of such imminent danger!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Remember the “Minutemen” of Arizona?
ACLU, MSM and Politicians branded them as white, racist “vigilantes”
I know that you know the leftist politicians, community organizing groups of the left and the groups that align themselves with the socialist agenda have brandished that “race” card each and every time when the populist anger is in direct opposition to their agenda. They are the “little boy that cried wolf” and in spite of the overuse of this ploy, it has been openly rejected (remember we did elect an African American as president) yet they still use it to try to lather crowds into their fold. Since the Minutemen's inception in 2004 and despite the onslaught of racist charges being hurled at them as well as the Federal Government (all the way up to a Republican President Bush) not once has any of those incendiary accusations panned out.
Minutemen
In an article posted at “Warriors for Truth”, the documented war against those who want our borders protected reared its head from the normal leftist side of the spectrum. The ACLU, in response to the “grassroots” movement that was first to rise in the wake of the Federal Governments failure to protect our southern border, mobilized their army of litigators to follow the Minutemen with cameras and steno pads at the ready to document what they said would be the inevitability of this racist group – violence and the trampling of constitutional rights of illegals?
According to the article, the ACLU Arizona spokesman (Ray Ybarra) insisted that “the mere presence of the Minutemen at the border constitutes “unlawful imprisonment” of illegal aliens.”
The ACLU representative acting in normal intimidation mode warned that the Minutemen could come to our state as “vigilantes” and leave as “defendants” as they have their attorneys at the ready to file civil lawsuits.
The ACLU sent their army down to Arizona in 2004 using this “tired retread of racism” as their rally cry with the intent of intimidating the racist back to their barko-loungers by showing the world that “a bunch of angry white men with guns” were acting dangerously. Guess what happened, nothing, nada, and zilch? The ACLU could not document a single instance of vigilantism against this rag-tag group of racists.
The first thing that we heard in the MSM and leftist “echo chambers” when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the new “illegal immigrant legislation into law” was the calls of racism and racial profiling and anti-Hispanic rhetoric. We saw the “refried bean swastika” smeared onto the windows. We saw rioters, not protestors hurling water bottles at police presence. We even saw the sign that said AZ puts the AZ in nAZi!
The minuteman project was founded in 2004 as a monumental push from the politicians in Washington, DC to formulate another “amnesty” program (from a Republican Administration and Republican controlled Congress). The people, rose up in vocal opposition to the Republican effort in the first massive grass root movement that I believe was the pre-curser to the tea parties. The Amnesty bill at the time was co-sponsored by John McCain (R-AZ) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA). President Bush was supportive of the measure, but, the American populace was not.
In a follow-up to the Minuteman movement and the racists and Federal Government push back (remember it was George Bush who first coined them as “vigilante” in March 2004).
Joe Arpaio
Arizona was again in the sights of the Feds and the lefty organizations with their tired “racial” rhetoric when Sheriff Joe Arpaio began to enforce the law. There was a new Sheriff in town and he dubbed himself “America’s toughest Sheriff”.
“Sheriff Arpaio has spent the last two years testing different methods of cracking down on illegal immigration and his deputies and volunteers have detained more than 1,000 illegal immigrants, a good number of which were stopped for minor infractions and then asked about their immigration status.
This has critics accusing him and his officers of racial profiling.
Despite that, state legislators this month moved toward passing a law requiring all local police departments to start fighting illegal immigration.
Arizona has broken new ground in the fight against illegal immigration and in the last few years it has barred illegal immigrants from receiving government services, it has prevented illegal immigrants from winning punitive damages in lawsuits, it has stopped illegal immigrants from being able to post bail for serious crimes and the very fact that Maricopa county, since July is the fastest growing county in the whole nation, shows that the massive crackdowns that Arpaio is implementing is having the desire effect.” – Digital Journal
Americans distrust their Government
An article in the “Huffington Post” titled “Trust in Government Poll” shows that 80% of the country does not trust the US Government. Let’s look at one of the reasons:
"The government's been lying to people for years. Politicians make promises to get elected, and when they get elected, they don't follow through," says Cindy Wanto, 57, a registered Democrat from Nemacolin, Pa., who joined several thousand for a rally in Washington on April 15 – the tax filing deadline. "There's too much government in my business. It was a problem before Obama, but he's certainly not helping fix it."
Republicans in 2004 were pushing for Amnesty. The backlash of the American public against it was profound, so profound that the message from the people to Washington was clear. No Amnesty or “immigration reform” until those in Government who’s constitutional duties are clear (protect its citizens) and address the porous borders and erect barriers first. The Amnesty bill was dropped, due to the outcry and in 2006 the Legislature passed the “Secure Fence Act”. Many in the country believed and rightly so, that this was just more “smoke and mirrors” and that the Feds have no intention on following their own new laws.
In early 2010, Obama scrapped the fence.
In 2010 this is apparent as only 5% of the fence has been built. In fact, one of the first things the Obama Administration has done is to “scrap the fence”. The other thing his administration has done, within months of taking office, was to sic the DOJ on to Sheriff Arpaio for his “reign of terror and civil rights abuses”.
“The DOJ informed Sheriff Arpaio, who touts himself as “America’s toughest Sheriff”, that he will be investigated in a letter delivered to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office yesterday. Under a banner reading "Americans United to Defend Civil Rights," the leaders presented over 38,000 petition signatures that have been gathered to date in support of the investigation. Signatures were gathered by many organizations including: Sojourners, MomsRising, ACORN, United Farm Workers and America's Voice.”
Let’s take a look at the “organizations” that submitted the petition to DOJ:
Please keep in mind that the DOJ/Obama Administration finds it important enough to act on a 38,000 signature petition but ignores every day American tea party concerns.
MomsRising – Affiliated Organizations include:
ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, MoveOn.Org, NOW, Planned Parenthood, SEIU and every other leftist community organization under the sun. In fact, you can view the list here and see what the supporting affiliates view is on “changing America into a socialist progressive country”, or as Glen Beck puts it “The Social Justice crowd”.
Sojourners –
“Sojourners ministries grew out of the Sojourners Community, located in Southern Columbia Heights, an inner-city neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The community began at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, in the early 1970s when a handful of students began meeting to discuss the relationship between their faith and political issues, particularly the Vietnam War. In 1971, the group decided to create a publication that would express their convictions and test whether other people of faith had similar beliefs. What emerged was a publication committed to social justice and peace: The Post-American.”
The single most important person we must focus on in this organization is Barrack Obama’s new “spiritual advisor” Jim Wallis. Jim Wallis is the found of Sojourners!
“Who is Jim Wallis? According to the New York Times, Wallis “leans left on some issues” but overall is a “centrist, social justice” kind of guy. But a closer look at Wallis’s background reveals him to be nearly as radical, if better at disguising the fact, as Jeremiah Wright.
As a teenager in the 1960s, Wallis joined the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. His participation in peace protests nearly resulted in his expulsion from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, a Christian seminary where he was then enrolled. While at Trinity, Wallis founded an anti-capitalism magazine called the Post-American, which identified wealth redistribution and government-managed economies as the keys to achieving “social justice”—a term that, as educator/journalist Barry Loberfeld has pointed out, is essentially “code for communism.”
In 1971, the 23-year-old Wallis and his Post-American colleagues changed the name of their publication to Sojourners, and in the mid-1970s they moved their base of operation from Chicago to Washington, DC, where Wallis has served as Sojourners’ editor (and leader of the eponymous organization) ever since.
Advocating America’s transformation into a socialist nation, Sojourners’ “statement of faith” exhorted people to “refuse to accept [capitalist] structures and assumptions that normalize poverty and segregate the world by class.” According to Sojourners, “gospel faith transforms our economics, gives us the power to share our bread and resources, welcomes all to the table of God’s provision, and provides a vision for social revolution.”
Finally, Democrats are now insisting that the new “immigration reform” bill that will be coming soon, must include border security first before Amnesty. Where have we heard that before and more importantly, do you trust it?
“WASHINGTON – An emerging immigration proposal by three Democratic senators’ calls for more federal enforcement agents and other border security-tightening benchmarks before illegal immigrants could become legal U.S. residents.
Those goals "must be met before action can be taken to adjust the status of people already in the United States illegally," according to a copy of the draft legislation, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, that Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada, Charles Schumer of New York and Robert Menendez are developing.
The benchmarks include additional Border Patrol officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to combat smuggling; more ICE inspectors at work sites; an increased number of ICE officers assigned to detect fraudulent documents, and better ways to determine fakes; more personnel to check for contraband at ports of entry; additional resources to prosecute drug and human smugglers and illegal border crossers, and for deportations.
An outline of the proposal does not specify the additional agents or resources required to meet the benchmarks. It does suggest a two-phase system for legalizing people who are in the U.S. illegally.”
The bottom line is this, the Minutemen; Sheriff Arpaio and now Jan Brewer have been labeled “racist and inciting violence” in their personal duties to do what the Federal Government has failed to do (protect their citizens). There have absolutely zero incidents of racial profiling in any of these organization under attack or any constitutional rights being trampled on since their inception in the early to mid 2000’s. Instead, we have seen our Federal Government personally attack individuals for their efforts instead of protecting us from the consequences of their inactions…..
I know that you know the leftist politicians, community organizing groups of the left and the groups that align themselves with the socialist agenda have brandished that “race” card each and every time when the populist anger is in direct opposition to their agenda. They are the “little boy that cried wolf” and in spite of the overuse of this ploy, it has been openly rejected (remember we did elect an African American as president) yet they still use it to try to lather crowds into their fold. Since the Minutemen's inception in 2004 and despite the onslaught of racist charges being hurled at them as well as the Federal Government (all the way up to a Republican President Bush) not once has any of those incendiary accusations panned out.
Minutemen
In an article posted at “Warriors for Truth”, the documented war against those who want our borders protected reared its head from the normal leftist side of the spectrum. The ACLU, in response to the “grassroots” movement that was first to rise in the wake of the Federal Governments failure to protect our southern border, mobilized their army of litigators to follow the Minutemen with cameras and steno pads at the ready to document what they said would be the inevitability of this racist group – violence and the trampling of constitutional rights of illegals?
According to the article, the ACLU Arizona spokesman (Ray Ybarra) insisted that “the mere presence of the Minutemen at the border constitutes “unlawful imprisonment” of illegal aliens.”
The ACLU representative acting in normal intimidation mode warned that the Minutemen could come to our state as “vigilantes” and leave as “defendants” as they have their attorneys at the ready to file civil lawsuits.
The ACLU sent their army down to Arizona in 2004 using this “tired retread of racism” as their rally cry with the intent of intimidating the racist back to their barko-loungers by showing the world that “a bunch of angry white men with guns” were acting dangerously. Guess what happened, nothing, nada, and zilch? The ACLU could not document a single instance of vigilantism against this rag-tag group of racists.
The first thing that we heard in the MSM and leftist “echo chambers” when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the new “illegal immigrant legislation into law” was the calls of racism and racial profiling and anti-Hispanic rhetoric. We saw the “refried bean swastika” smeared onto the windows. We saw rioters, not protestors hurling water bottles at police presence. We even saw the sign that said AZ puts the AZ in nAZi!
The minuteman project was founded in 2004 as a monumental push from the politicians in Washington, DC to formulate another “amnesty” program (from a Republican Administration and Republican controlled Congress). The people, rose up in vocal opposition to the Republican effort in the first massive grass root movement that I believe was the pre-curser to the tea parties. The Amnesty bill at the time was co-sponsored by John McCain (R-AZ) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA). President Bush was supportive of the measure, but, the American populace was not.
In a follow-up to the Minuteman movement and the racists and Federal Government push back (remember it was George Bush who first coined them as “vigilante” in March 2004).
Joe Arpaio
Arizona was again in the sights of the Feds and the lefty organizations with their tired “racial” rhetoric when Sheriff Joe Arpaio began to enforce the law. There was a new Sheriff in town and he dubbed himself “America’s toughest Sheriff”.
“Sheriff Arpaio has spent the last two years testing different methods of cracking down on illegal immigration and his deputies and volunteers have detained more than 1,000 illegal immigrants, a good number of which were stopped for minor infractions and then asked about their immigration status.
This has critics accusing him and his officers of racial profiling.
Despite that, state legislators this month moved toward passing a law requiring all local police departments to start fighting illegal immigration.
Arizona has broken new ground in the fight against illegal immigration and in the last few years it has barred illegal immigrants from receiving government services, it has prevented illegal immigrants from winning punitive damages in lawsuits, it has stopped illegal immigrants from being able to post bail for serious crimes and the very fact that Maricopa county, since July is the fastest growing county in the whole nation, shows that the massive crackdowns that Arpaio is implementing is having the desire effect.” – Digital Journal
Americans distrust their Government
An article in the “Huffington Post” titled “Trust in Government Poll” shows that 80% of the country does not trust the US Government. Let’s look at one of the reasons:
"The government's been lying to people for years. Politicians make promises to get elected, and when they get elected, they don't follow through," says Cindy Wanto, 57, a registered Democrat from Nemacolin, Pa., who joined several thousand for a rally in Washington on April 15 – the tax filing deadline. "There's too much government in my business. It was a problem before Obama, but he's certainly not helping fix it."
Republicans in 2004 were pushing for Amnesty. The backlash of the American public against it was profound, so profound that the message from the people to Washington was clear. No Amnesty or “immigration reform” until those in Government who’s constitutional duties are clear (protect its citizens) and address the porous borders and erect barriers first. The Amnesty bill was dropped, due to the outcry and in 2006 the Legislature passed the “Secure Fence Act”. Many in the country believed and rightly so, that this was just more “smoke and mirrors” and that the Feds have no intention on following their own new laws.
In early 2010, Obama scrapped the fence.
In 2010 this is apparent as only 5% of the fence has been built. In fact, one of the first things the Obama Administration has done is to “scrap the fence”. The other thing his administration has done, within months of taking office, was to sic the DOJ on to Sheriff Arpaio for his “reign of terror and civil rights abuses”.
“The DOJ informed Sheriff Arpaio, who touts himself as “America’s toughest Sheriff”, that he will be investigated in a letter delivered to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office yesterday. Under a banner reading "Americans United to Defend Civil Rights," the leaders presented over 38,000 petition signatures that have been gathered to date in support of the investigation. Signatures were gathered by many organizations including: Sojourners, MomsRising, ACORN, United Farm Workers and America's Voice.”
Let’s take a look at the “organizations” that submitted the petition to DOJ:
Please keep in mind that the DOJ/Obama Administration finds it important enough to act on a 38,000 signature petition but ignores every day American tea party concerns.
MomsRising – Affiliated Organizations include:
ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, MoveOn.Org, NOW, Planned Parenthood, SEIU and every other leftist community organization under the sun. In fact, you can view the list here and see what the supporting affiliates view is on “changing America into a socialist progressive country”, or as Glen Beck puts it “The Social Justice crowd”.
Sojourners –
“Sojourners ministries grew out of the Sojourners Community, located in Southern Columbia Heights, an inner-city neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The community began at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, in the early 1970s when a handful of students began meeting to discuss the relationship between their faith and political issues, particularly the Vietnam War. In 1971, the group decided to create a publication that would express their convictions and test whether other people of faith had similar beliefs. What emerged was a publication committed to social justice and peace: The Post-American.”
The single most important person we must focus on in this organization is Barrack Obama’s new “spiritual advisor” Jim Wallis. Jim Wallis is the found of Sojourners!
“Who is Jim Wallis? According to the New York Times, Wallis “leans left on some issues” but overall is a “centrist, social justice” kind of guy. But a closer look at Wallis’s background reveals him to be nearly as radical, if better at disguising the fact, as Jeremiah Wright.
As a teenager in the 1960s, Wallis joined the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. His participation in peace protests nearly resulted in his expulsion from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, a Christian seminary where he was then enrolled. While at Trinity, Wallis founded an anti-capitalism magazine called the Post-American, which identified wealth redistribution and government-managed economies as the keys to achieving “social justice”—a term that, as educator/journalist Barry Loberfeld has pointed out, is essentially “code for communism.”
In 1971, the 23-year-old Wallis and his Post-American colleagues changed the name of their publication to Sojourners, and in the mid-1970s they moved their base of operation from Chicago to Washington, DC, where Wallis has served as Sojourners’ editor (and leader of the eponymous organization) ever since.
Advocating America’s transformation into a socialist nation, Sojourners’ “statement of faith” exhorted people to “refuse to accept [capitalist] structures and assumptions that normalize poverty and segregate the world by class.” According to Sojourners, “gospel faith transforms our economics, gives us the power to share our bread and resources, welcomes all to the table of God’s provision, and provides a vision for social revolution.”
Finally, Democrats are now insisting that the new “immigration reform” bill that will be coming soon, must include border security first before Amnesty. Where have we heard that before and more importantly, do you trust it?
“WASHINGTON – An emerging immigration proposal by three Democratic senators’ calls for more federal enforcement agents and other border security-tightening benchmarks before illegal immigrants could become legal U.S. residents.
Those goals "must be met before action can be taken to adjust the status of people already in the United States illegally," according to a copy of the draft legislation, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, that Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada, Charles Schumer of New York and Robert Menendez are developing.
The benchmarks include additional Border Patrol officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to combat smuggling; more ICE inspectors at work sites; an increased number of ICE officers assigned to detect fraudulent documents, and better ways to determine fakes; more personnel to check for contraband at ports of entry; additional resources to prosecute drug and human smugglers and illegal border crossers, and for deportations.
An outline of the proposal does not specify the additional agents or resources required to meet the benchmarks. It does suggest a two-phase system for legalizing people who are in the U.S. illegally.”
The bottom line is this, the Minutemen; Sheriff Arpaio and now Jan Brewer have been labeled “racist and inciting violence” in their personal duties to do what the Federal Government has failed to do (protect their citizens). There have absolutely zero incidents of racial profiling in any of these organization under attack or any constitutional rights being trampled on since their inception in the early to mid 2000’s. Instead, we have seen our Federal Government personally attack individuals for their efforts instead of protecting us from the consequences of their inactions…..
Obama’s White House tied to Cuban Spies!
Two names surface connected to accused Cuban husband and wife spy team!
Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71 have been accused of spying for Cuba for the past 30 years. The Justice Department announced that Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers would be charged with conspiracy to act as illegal agents, and with communicating classified US government information to Cuba, among other charges. Walter Kendall Myers is a former US State Department official and the alleged spying occurred over a 30 year period.
The two spymasters and enemies of the State have two rather intriguing connections to persons of prominence. These connections go back as far as the charges themselves, in the 1970’s.
One of the individuals was an Obama Cabinet level appointee that had to pull his name from considerations because of his failure to pay “taxes”!
The other individual has been a Main Stream Media icon for a very long time on NBC!
Both individuals were appointed to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships on June 17, 2009. The Myerses were charged on June 6, 2009 and pleaded guilty on November 20, 2009.
The two prominent individuals are Tom Daschle and Tom Brokaw.
On April 13, 2009 Obama lifts Cuba travel and money transfer bans that had been in place for over 50 years.
Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71 have been accused of spying for Cuba for the past 30 years. The Justice Department announced that Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers would be charged with conspiracy to act as illegal agents, and with communicating classified US government information to Cuba, among other charges. Walter Kendall Myers is a former US State Department official and the alleged spying occurred over a 30 year period.
The two spymasters and enemies of the State have two rather intriguing connections to persons of prominence. These connections go back as far as the charges themselves, in the 1970’s.
One of the individuals was an Obama Cabinet level appointee that had to pull his name from considerations because of his failure to pay “taxes”!
The other individual has been a Main Stream Media icon for a very long time on NBC!
Both individuals were appointed to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships on June 17, 2009. The Myerses were charged on June 6, 2009 and pleaded guilty on November 20, 2009.
The two prominent individuals are Tom Daschle and Tom Brokaw.
On April 13, 2009 Obama lifts Cuba travel and money transfer bans that had been in place for over 50 years.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Send Jan Brewer a note of thanks for her courage!
I have placed the link to the Governor of Arizona so those of you who wish to thank her for her stance against illegal immigration and show her support that she will need in the coming days, weeks and months. We know that those on the left will try everything in their "bag of dirty tricks" to try to stop this legislation.
http://www.azgovernor.gov/Contact.asp
http://www.azgovernor.gov/Contact.asp
Obama calls the new Arizona immigration law “irresponsible”!
What do Arizona and Cambridge have in common?
The first time we heard Obama come to the podium and declare “something” irresponsible it led to a beer summit. The “irresponsible” President, before having any facts to substantiate his comments on the “incident”, called out the Cambridge Police as racists.
This was Obama’s response to law enforcement in Cambridge doing their duty:
“I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three -- what I think we know separate and apart from this incident -- is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."
GATES: 'NOT ABOUT ME'
Gates has said he was "outraged" by the arrest.
He said the white officer walked into his home without his permission and only arrested him as the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment.
"This isn't about me; this is about the vulnerability of black men in America," Gates said.
He said the incident made him realize how vulnerable poor people and minorities are "to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman."
The facts:
“Sgt. James Crowley, who is a police academy expert on racial profiling, responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused and accused the officer of racism.”
The police officer was responding to a “burglary call” and once on the scene asked the Professor to produce identification. This is exactly the type of situation that the Arizona law supports where a “probable cause” scenario arises in an incident that gives the officers reasonable cause to ask for identification. There was no “racial profiling” just an officer investigating a “possible crime” in progress.
Obama’s Arizona comments:
“Speaking at a naturalization ceremony for servicemen and -women in the White House Rose Garden, Obama said he has instructed his administration to "closely monitor the situation" in Arizona and to "examine the civil rights and other implications of this legislation."
"The recent efforts in Arizona ... threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans as well as the trust in police and their communities that are so crucial to keeping us safe," Obama said.”
Here again, Obama is dividing people along racial lines, once again putting the onus on law enforcement in the “trust arena” as he did with the Cambridge Police.
To prove this point of racially divisive remarks, it has led to Sharpton claims that he will descend on Phoenix to “march in the streets without identification in his pockets”.
Let’s take a look at what Arizona law enforcement is up against, crime wise, with illegal immigrants:
Illegal immigrants accounted for:
• 16.5% of those sentenced for violent crimes.
• 18.5% of those sentenced for property crimes.
• 33.5% of those sentenced for the manufacture, sale or transport of drugs.
• 50% of those sentenced for crimes related to “chop shops.”
• 35.8% of those sentenced for kidnapping.
• 20.3% of those sentenced for felony DUI
The high cost of illegal immigrant crimes are not just in Arizona. 80% of all illegal immigrant arrests occurred in just three states: California, Texas and Arizona
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) did a study in 2005 and sampled 55,000 illegal immigrants and found that these 55,000 alone had been arrested 459,614 times (13 arrests per illegal) but the devil is in their details:
12% were for violent crimes (Robbery, Assault and Sex Related Crimes).
15% were for property related crimes (Burglary, Auto theft, Larceny and Property Damage).
45% were for drug or immigration related crimes and 28% were for other offenses (Weapons, Traffic, DUI and Obstruction of Justice)
This Federal study is startling because of the facts. The Federal Government since 2005 had these statistics and have drug their feet on the seriousness of the problem. The violence and mayhem that are imported from our southern border is largely ignored and now this same Government is calling Arizona’s act “irresponsible”!
The Secure Fence Act of 2006
The video imbedded at the top of this article shows the problems that Arizona has with not only illegal immigrants flooding into the state as a failure of the US Government to adhere to the lip service they gave to pass the Secure Fence Act in 2006 but also shows that Arizona is one of the main “drug routes” into the US.
For Obama and the Democrats misguided attempt to paint this legislation as racist and unfair is ludicrous. The escalation of the drug violence in Mexico and that Governments inability to tide the violence is even more reason to show that Arizona’s elected leaders guiding principles as just and in conformity with the populations wishes to enact this legislation. It is not just the population of Arizona but that of the nation. It was the population that rose up against Amnesty in 2005 when the Republicans, under the leadership of George Bush and bolstered by the Amnesty plan of John McCain and Ted Kennedy, to form the early roots of the tea party movement. It was this outcry and pressure from the people that stopped their efforts in mid stride and only fuel more anger as the Democrats, and yes Obama when they believe that they have a better chance at Amnesty now. The attempts by the MSM and this Democrat controlled Washington to demonize the Amnesty opposition as racist will fail just as much as their attempts to paint the tea party as such.
At a time that these forces as at work telling us that grandma is fomenting violence it is also worth noting the “violence” that erupted in the pro-illegal immigrant rally on the day Governor Jan Brewer signed the legislation into law. Where were the media about that violence? Answer, they were huddled in strategy session to further divide the country along racial lines at a time when Obama’s election victory was to transcend it.
The first time we heard Obama come to the podium and declare “something” irresponsible it led to a beer summit. The “irresponsible” President, before having any facts to substantiate his comments on the “incident”, called out the Cambridge Police as racists.
This was Obama’s response to law enforcement in Cambridge doing their duty:
“I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three -- what I think we know separate and apart from this incident -- is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."
GATES: 'NOT ABOUT ME'
Gates has said he was "outraged" by the arrest.
He said the white officer walked into his home without his permission and only arrested him as the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment.
"This isn't about me; this is about the vulnerability of black men in America," Gates said.
He said the incident made him realize how vulnerable poor people and minorities are "to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman."
The facts:
“Sgt. James Crowley, who is a police academy expert on racial profiling, responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused and accused the officer of racism.”
The police officer was responding to a “burglary call” and once on the scene asked the Professor to produce identification. This is exactly the type of situation that the Arizona law supports where a “probable cause” scenario arises in an incident that gives the officers reasonable cause to ask for identification. There was no “racial profiling” just an officer investigating a “possible crime” in progress.
Obama’s Arizona comments:
“Speaking at a naturalization ceremony for servicemen and -women in the White House Rose Garden, Obama said he has instructed his administration to "closely monitor the situation" in Arizona and to "examine the civil rights and other implications of this legislation."
"The recent efforts in Arizona ... threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans as well as the trust in police and their communities that are so crucial to keeping us safe," Obama said.”
Here again, Obama is dividing people along racial lines, once again putting the onus on law enforcement in the “trust arena” as he did with the Cambridge Police.
To prove this point of racially divisive remarks, it has led to Sharpton claims that he will descend on Phoenix to “march in the streets without identification in his pockets”.
Let’s take a look at what Arizona law enforcement is up against, crime wise, with illegal immigrants:
Illegal immigrants accounted for:
• 16.5% of those sentenced for violent crimes.
• 18.5% of those sentenced for property crimes.
• 33.5% of those sentenced for the manufacture, sale or transport of drugs.
• 50% of those sentenced for crimes related to “chop shops.”
• 35.8% of those sentenced for kidnapping.
• 20.3% of those sentenced for felony DUI
The high cost of illegal immigrant crimes are not just in Arizona. 80% of all illegal immigrant arrests occurred in just three states: California, Texas and Arizona
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) did a study in 2005 and sampled 55,000 illegal immigrants and found that these 55,000 alone had been arrested 459,614 times (13 arrests per illegal) but the devil is in their details:
12% were for violent crimes (Robbery, Assault and Sex Related Crimes).
15% were for property related crimes (Burglary, Auto theft, Larceny and Property Damage).
45% were for drug or immigration related crimes and 28% were for other offenses (Weapons, Traffic, DUI and Obstruction of Justice)
This Federal study is startling because of the facts. The Federal Government since 2005 had these statistics and have drug their feet on the seriousness of the problem. The violence and mayhem that are imported from our southern border is largely ignored and now this same Government is calling Arizona’s act “irresponsible”!
The Secure Fence Act of 2006
The video imbedded at the top of this article shows the problems that Arizona has with not only illegal immigrants flooding into the state as a failure of the US Government to adhere to the lip service they gave to pass the Secure Fence Act in 2006 but also shows that Arizona is one of the main “drug routes” into the US.
For Obama and the Democrats misguided attempt to paint this legislation as racist and unfair is ludicrous. The escalation of the drug violence in Mexico and that Governments inability to tide the violence is even more reason to show that Arizona’s elected leaders guiding principles as just and in conformity with the populations wishes to enact this legislation. It is not just the population of Arizona but that of the nation. It was the population that rose up against Amnesty in 2005 when the Republicans, under the leadership of George Bush and bolstered by the Amnesty plan of John McCain and Ted Kennedy, to form the early roots of the tea party movement. It was this outcry and pressure from the people that stopped their efforts in mid stride and only fuel more anger as the Democrats, and yes Obama when they believe that they have a better chance at Amnesty now. The attempts by the MSM and this Democrat controlled Washington to demonize the Amnesty opposition as racist will fail just as much as their attempts to paint the tea party as such.
At a time that these forces as at work telling us that grandma is fomenting violence it is also worth noting the “violence” that erupted in the pro-illegal immigrant rally on the day Governor Jan Brewer signed the legislation into law. Where were the media about that violence? Answer, they were huddled in strategy session to further divide the country along racial lines at a time when Obama’s election victory was to transcend it.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Obama places the Feds on war footing against Arizona!
Illegal immigration next on the agenda!
As if the Healthcare issue wasn’t an arduous and damaging hit the Democrat Statists absorbed for their dear leader now the illegal immigration issue is taking the stage, front and center.
In a press conference replete with all the propaganda props standing behind him, Obama blasts Arizona’s pending legislation (which at the time was sitting on the Governors desk unsigned) as misguided. He pointed to the individuals standing on stage with him as the people representing immigrants that were receiving their citizenship as somehow what Arizona and the Republicans are against. No, we are against those who sneak into the country without going through legal channels and applaud those, like the props Obama used, who served in the military to gain their status of Americans unlike the ones he is trying to bestow citizenship to without sacrifice.
I believe that there are deeper issues the Statist President has with the State of Arizona for which he is willing to disregard those constituents anger and marginalize. The issues I speak are the recent legislation that the State has enacted making it legal to open carry firearms (concealed) without a permit (SB 1108) and more importantly the recent legislation the enacted that anyone who runs for President (starting in 2012) needs to prove their citizenship (ala long form birth certificate) to be placed on the ballot there.
It is easy to see the disdain the Statists have for the citizens of Arizona as a bunch of Obama hating, gun toting rednecks out to shoot anyone who happens to have a little color in their cheeks.
Finally, Georgia is following Arizona’s lead and seeking to adopt the same type legislation to protect their citizens against this illegal immigration wave that is depleting their resources and fueling the crime.
Isn’t it ironic that Janet Napolitano had to vacate her Arizona Attorney General seat to take the Homeland Security post in order for that State to finally act where she couldn’t on the State level and certainly, now, on the Federal level……?
As if the Healthcare issue wasn’t an arduous and damaging hit the Democrat Statists absorbed for their dear leader now the illegal immigration issue is taking the stage, front and center.
In a press conference replete with all the propaganda props standing behind him, Obama blasts Arizona’s pending legislation (which at the time was sitting on the Governors desk unsigned) as misguided. He pointed to the individuals standing on stage with him as the people representing immigrants that were receiving their citizenship as somehow what Arizona and the Republicans are against. No, we are against those who sneak into the country without going through legal channels and applaud those, like the props Obama used, who served in the military to gain their status of Americans unlike the ones he is trying to bestow citizenship to without sacrifice.
I believe that there are deeper issues the Statist President has with the State of Arizona for which he is willing to disregard those constituents anger and marginalize. The issues I speak are the recent legislation that the State has enacted making it legal to open carry firearms (concealed) without a permit (SB 1108) and more importantly the recent legislation the enacted that anyone who runs for President (starting in 2012) needs to prove their citizenship (ala long form birth certificate) to be placed on the ballot there.
It is easy to see the disdain the Statists have for the citizens of Arizona as a bunch of Obama hating, gun toting rednecks out to shoot anyone who happens to have a little color in their cheeks.
Finally, Georgia is following Arizona’s lead and seeking to adopt the same type legislation to protect their citizens against this illegal immigration wave that is depleting their resources and fueling the crime.
Isn’t it ironic that Janet Napolitano had to vacate her Arizona Attorney General seat to take the Homeland Security post in order for that State to finally act where she couldn’t on the State level and certainly, now, on the Federal level……?
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Obama’s chronology of lies about Blagojevich
Selling a Senate Seat – Chicago style!
December 9, 2008 – abc news
Obama
"Obviously like the rest of the people of Illinois I am saddened and sobered by the news that came out of the US attorney's office today," said President-elect Obama this afternoon in Chicago, speaking of the criminal complaint against Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich for corruption. "But as this is an ongoing investigation involving the governor I don't think it would be appropriate for me to comment on the issue at this time."
Asked what contact he'd had with the governor's office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening."
Rewind to November 23, 2008 (two weeks earlier):
Axelrod
While insisting that the President-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a "kingmaker," Axelrod said, "I know he's talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them."
Oops, “Obama: Note to self: If I am going to lie, I need to make sure all our stories are straight.
But wait, there’s more:
Later that day (Dec 9, 2008) Since Obama had already, on camera, denied having ANY contact and then learned later that Axelrod said something different, earlier. Axelrod holds an impromptu press conference and issues a corrected statement saying:
"I was mistaken when I told an interviewer last month that the President-elect has spoken directly to Governor Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy. They did not then or at any time discuss the subject."
Now (According to the recent Defense Court Pleading re-dacted and released today)
Obama had a secret phone call with Blagojevich
Redacted portion: President-elect Obama also spoke to Governor Blagojevich on December 1, 2008 in Philadelphia. On Harris Cell Phone Call # 139, John Harris and Governor’s legal counsel discuss a conversation Blagojevich had with President-elect Obama. The government claims a conspiracy existed from October 22, 2008 continuing through December 9, 2008.6 That conversation is relevant to the defense of the government’s theory of an ongoing conspiracy. Only Rod Blagojevich and President Obama can testify to the contents of that conversation. The defense is allowed to present evidence that corroborates the defendant’s testimony.
Then
Riding to the rescue, White House Counsel (elect) Greg Craig (the same Greg Craig that resigned his post to land a job over at Goldman Sachs in time to provide for their defense against the recent SEC corruption charges that the Obama White House and Democrat lawmakers are using as the “poster child” for their latest Wall Street Banking legislation that Obama spoke in New York about today).
December 24, 2008, politico.com – Internal White House investigation over the Blagojevich/White Senate Seat Sale embarrassment described above:
“President-elect Barack Obama’s internal review found that Rahm Emanuel spoke several times to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his staff but did nothing wrong — pitching a number of Obama-backed candidates for his Senate seat but engaging in no improper deal-making.
The report does not say so, but an Obama adviser disclosed that at least one of Emanuel's calls was taped as part of a federal investigation into corruption in the governor's office.
Obama himself was interviewed by the U.S. Attorney’s office on Dec. 18 as part of the investigation, as was Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett on Dec. 19 and Emanuel on Dec. 20, the report said.
The internal inquiry by Greg Craig, the incoming White House counsel, found that Emanuel was the only Obama aide who talked to the governor or his staff about filling Obama's Senate seat – and had been personally authorized by Obama to suggest a half-dozen possible replacements to the governor’s office.
Emanuel spoke “one or two” times with Blagojevich, and also had "about four telephone conversations" with Blagojevich's former chief of staff John Harris, who recently resigned.
“My inquiry determined that there was nothing at all inappropriate about those conversations,” Craig told reporters on a conference call about the review. “Only one person associated with the transition that had any such contact with the governor or his staff, and those contacts were totally appropriate and acceptable."
The review backed up Obama’s prior statements that he personally had no contact with Blagojevich, and that his transition staff had acted properly.”
Rewind again…….
November 3, 2008 – Obama calls SIEU to contact Blagojevich
Again, according to the recent Blagojevich court filing today:
Obama may have overtly recommended Valerie Jarret for his Senate seat
Blagojevich's defense team basically alleges that Obama told a certain labor union official that he (Obama) would support Valerie Jarrett's candidacy for the Senate seat. Jarrett, referred to as "Senate Candidate B", is now a senior advisor to the president.
Redacted portion: Yet, despite President Obama stating that no representatives of his had any part of any deals, labor union president (see Politico article excerpt below referring to Andy Stern, SIEU President) told the FBI and the United States Attorneys that he spoke to labor union official (Tom Balanoff – see below) on November 3, 2008 who received a phone message from Obama that evening. After labor union official (Balanoff) listened to the message labor union official (Balanoff) told labor union president (Andy Stern) “I’m the one”. Labor union president took that to mean that labor union official was to be the one to deliver the message on behalf of Obama that Senate Candidate B (Valerie Jarrett) was his pick. (Labor union president 302, February 2, 2009, p. 7).
Labor union official (Balanoff) told the FBI and the United States Attorneys “Obama expressed his belief that [Senate Candidate B] would be a good Senator for the people of Illinois and would be a candidate who could win re-election. [Labor union official] advised Obama that [labor union official] would reach out to Governor Blagojevich and advocate for [Senate Candidate B] ... [Labor union official] called [labor union president] and told [labor union president] that Obama was aware that [labor union official] would be reaching out to Blagojevich.” (Labor union official 302, February 3, 2009 p. 3).
According to the politico.com article concerning the Craig Investigation Report dated 12/24/08– “The report only lists one person in Obama’s inner circle who heard of Blagojevich’s interest in a Cabinet post — Jarrett, herself once a contender for the Senate seat.
A top Illinois official from the Service Employees International Union, Tom Balanoff, told Jarrett that he had spoken to Blagojevich about possibly picking Jarrett for the Senate seat. He also told Jarrett that the governor had raised the question of whether he might be picked for a Cabinet post.
Again, inconsistencies in the Obama circle and Craig’s report exonerating the Administration. The following except from Craig report states (on 12/24/08) “Emanuel spoke “one or two” times with Blagojevich, and also had "about four telephone conversations" with Blagojevich's former chief of staff John Harris, who recently resigned.”
Rewind to December 15th, 2008 (two week prior to report). Excerpt taken from an article in the Wall Street Journal:
“Barack Obama had begun thinking about his Senate successor even before the presidential election, and dispatched Rahm Emanuel days after the vote to contact aides of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to begin talking up Mr. Obama's preferred candidates, associates of Mr. Emanuel said this weekend.
Mr. Emanuel, a congressman from Chicago, had been approached about being Mr. Obama's White House chief of staff the week before the election, though he hadn't yet officially decided to take the post. Nonetheless, the issue of Mr. Obama's Senate replacement was sensitive enough that senior Obama aides wanted to keep the matter within the circle of Illinois political figures, according to people familiar with campaign deliberations at the time.
Among those in Mr. Obama's inner circle, Mr. Emanuel had one of the closest relationships to Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat. He had succeeded Mr. Blagojevich in 2002 to the House seat that covered Chicago's near north side.
Rahm Emanuel, left, a former Illinois congressman, worked in 2004 with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to promote cheaper prescriptions.
Mr. Emanuel didn't talk to Mr. Blagojevich directly about the matter, by phone or in person, according to people familiar with the matter. He spoke by phone with aides to the governor, those people say.
So, as you can see the statements coming from the Obama camp have been contradictory at best and criminal at worst. I find it hard to believe the former over the latter. When you put the Obama SEIU/ACORN relationship together, apart from the Blagojevich Senate Seat sale and expand the whole picture regarding the Union and ACORN controversies that surround things such as “illegal campaign contributions and fraud”. The SEIU beatings of tea party protesters and all of those visits by Andy Stern to the White House are all things to consider when putting together a picture of an Administration tied to the hip and knee deep in a legal abyss on multiple fronts.
One thing for sure is that the only consistent thing coming from the Obama administration over this Blagojevich criminal case is, well, inconsistency.
December 9, 2008 – abc news
Obama
"Obviously like the rest of the people of Illinois I am saddened and sobered by the news that came out of the US attorney's office today," said President-elect Obama this afternoon in Chicago, speaking of the criminal complaint against Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich for corruption. "But as this is an ongoing investigation involving the governor I don't think it would be appropriate for me to comment on the issue at this time."
Asked what contact he'd had with the governor's office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening."
Rewind to November 23, 2008 (two weeks earlier):
Axelrod
While insisting that the President-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a "kingmaker," Axelrod said, "I know he's talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them."
Oops, “Obama: Note to self: If I am going to lie, I need to make sure all our stories are straight.
But wait, there’s more:
Later that day (Dec 9, 2008) Since Obama had already, on camera, denied having ANY contact and then learned later that Axelrod said something different, earlier. Axelrod holds an impromptu press conference and issues a corrected statement saying:
"I was mistaken when I told an interviewer last month that the President-elect has spoken directly to Governor Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy. They did not then or at any time discuss the subject."
Now (According to the recent Defense Court Pleading re-dacted and released today)
Obama had a secret phone call with Blagojevich
Redacted portion: President-elect Obama also spoke to Governor Blagojevich on December 1, 2008 in Philadelphia. On Harris Cell Phone Call # 139, John Harris and Governor’s legal counsel discuss a conversation Blagojevich had with President-elect Obama. The government claims a conspiracy existed from October 22, 2008 continuing through December 9, 2008.6 That conversation is relevant to the defense of the government’s theory of an ongoing conspiracy. Only Rod Blagojevich and President Obama can testify to the contents of that conversation. The defense is allowed to present evidence that corroborates the defendant’s testimony.
Then
Riding to the rescue, White House Counsel (elect) Greg Craig (the same Greg Craig that resigned his post to land a job over at Goldman Sachs in time to provide for their defense against the recent SEC corruption charges that the Obama White House and Democrat lawmakers are using as the “poster child” for their latest Wall Street Banking legislation that Obama spoke in New York about today).
December 24, 2008, politico.com – Internal White House investigation over the Blagojevich/White Senate Seat Sale embarrassment described above:
“President-elect Barack Obama’s internal review found that Rahm Emanuel spoke several times to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his staff but did nothing wrong — pitching a number of Obama-backed candidates for his Senate seat but engaging in no improper deal-making.
The report does not say so, but an Obama adviser disclosed that at least one of Emanuel's calls was taped as part of a federal investigation into corruption in the governor's office.
Obama himself was interviewed by the U.S. Attorney’s office on Dec. 18 as part of the investigation, as was Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett on Dec. 19 and Emanuel on Dec. 20, the report said.
The internal inquiry by Greg Craig, the incoming White House counsel, found that Emanuel was the only Obama aide who talked to the governor or his staff about filling Obama's Senate seat – and had been personally authorized by Obama to suggest a half-dozen possible replacements to the governor’s office.
Emanuel spoke “one or two” times with Blagojevich, and also had "about four telephone conversations" with Blagojevich's former chief of staff John Harris, who recently resigned.
“My inquiry determined that there was nothing at all inappropriate about those conversations,” Craig told reporters on a conference call about the review. “Only one person associated with the transition that had any such contact with the governor or his staff, and those contacts were totally appropriate and acceptable."
The review backed up Obama’s prior statements that he personally had no contact with Blagojevich, and that his transition staff had acted properly.”
Rewind again…….
November 3, 2008 – Obama calls SIEU to contact Blagojevich
Again, according to the recent Blagojevich court filing today:
Obama may have overtly recommended Valerie Jarret for his Senate seat
Blagojevich's defense team basically alleges that Obama told a certain labor union official that he (Obama) would support Valerie Jarrett's candidacy for the Senate seat. Jarrett, referred to as "Senate Candidate B", is now a senior advisor to the president.
Redacted portion: Yet, despite President Obama stating that no representatives of his had any part of any deals, labor union president (see Politico article excerpt below referring to Andy Stern, SIEU President) told the FBI and the United States Attorneys that he spoke to labor union official (Tom Balanoff – see below) on November 3, 2008 who received a phone message from Obama that evening. After labor union official (Balanoff) listened to the message labor union official (Balanoff) told labor union president (Andy Stern) “I’m the one”. Labor union president took that to mean that labor union official was to be the one to deliver the message on behalf of Obama that Senate Candidate B (Valerie Jarrett) was his pick. (Labor union president 302, February 2, 2009, p. 7).
Labor union official (Balanoff) told the FBI and the United States Attorneys “Obama expressed his belief that [Senate Candidate B] would be a good Senator for the people of Illinois and would be a candidate who could win re-election. [Labor union official] advised Obama that [labor union official] would reach out to Governor Blagojevich and advocate for [Senate Candidate B] ... [Labor union official] called [labor union president] and told [labor union president] that Obama was aware that [labor union official] would be reaching out to Blagojevich.” (Labor union official 302, February 3, 2009 p. 3).
According to the politico.com article concerning the Craig Investigation Report dated 12/24/08– “The report only lists one person in Obama’s inner circle who heard of Blagojevich’s interest in a Cabinet post — Jarrett, herself once a contender for the Senate seat.
A top Illinois official from the Service Employees International Union, Tom Balanoff, told Jarrett that he had spoken to Blagojevich about possibly picking Jarrett for the Senate seat. He also told Jarrett that the governor had raised the question of whether he might be picked for a Cabinet post.
Again, inconsistencies in the Obama circle and Craig’s report exonerating the Administration. The following except from Craig report states (on 12/24/08) “Emanuel spoke “one or two” times with Blagojevich, and also had "about four telephone conversations" with Blagojevich's former chief of staff John Harris, who recently resigned.”
Rewind to December 15th, 2008 (two week prior to report). Excerpt taken from an article in the Wall Street Journal:
“Barack Obama had begun thinking about his Senate successor even before the presidential election, and dispatched Rahm Emanuel days after the vote to contact aides of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to begin talking up Mr. Obama's preferred candidates, associates of Mr. Emanuel said this weekend.
Mr. Emanuel, a congressman from Chicago, had been approached about being Mr. Obama's White House chief of staff the week before the election, though he hadn't yet officially decided to take the post. Nonetheless, the issue of Mr. Obama's Senate replacement was sensitive enough that senior Obama aides wanted to keep the matter within the circle of Illinois political figures, according to people familiar with campaign deliberations at the time.
Among those in Mr. Obama's inner circle, Mr. Emanuel had one of the closest relationships to Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat. He had succeeded Mr. Blagojevich in 2002 to the House seat that covered Chicago's near north side.
Rahm Emanuel, left, a former Illinois congressman, worked in 2004 with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to promote cheaper prescriptions.
Mr. Emanuel didn't talk to Mr. Blagojevich directly about the matter, by phone or in person, according to people familiar with the matter. He spoke by phone with aides to the governor, those people say.
So, as you can see the statements coming from the Obama camp have been contradictory at best and criminal at worst. I find it hard to believe the former over the latter. When you put the Obama SEIU/ACORN relationship together, apart from the Blagojevich Senate Seat sale and expand the whole picture regarding the Union and ACORN controversies that surround things such as “illegal campaign contributions and fraud”. The SEIU beatings of tea party protesters and all of those visits by Andy Stern to the White House are all things to consider when putting together a picture of an Administration tied to the hip and knee deep in a legal abyss on multiple fronts.
One thing for sure is that the only consistent thing coming from the Obama administration over this Blagojevich criminal case is, well, inconsistency.
From “Birther” cases to Blagojevich impending trial!
Obama’s Watergate and then some. The legal noose is tightening on multiple fronts!
Richard Nixon had only one burglary cover-up in which to manage and in the end his Presidency came crashing down around him in disgrace. Lucky for Nixon, he had a friend to pardon his crimes after the ex-President resigned his office, Obama may not be so lucky.
There is a criminal court case that has been brewing in the background that provided the first major embarrassment for the new President just days after he took office. I need not mention that it involves some of the most corrupt Illinois politicians we have seen. It involves a triangle of sorts between Rod Blagojevich, Barrack Obama and Tony Rezko.
You remember Rezko as the man who sold the land adjacent to the Obama family home in Hyde Park. To make matters worse the Democrats current frontrunner for the seat vacated by Obama and led to this current case against Blagojevich is Alex Giannoulias. Alex Giannoulias owns the bank in which financed Obama’s first townhome when he came to Chicago. The Broadway bank has mob ties and is making much negative publicity for Democrats and Alex Giannoulias in securing the Senate seat. That connection is for another day.
In order to set your mind straight, because of all of the players involved in the Chicago political scene who are involved and those who have been convicted you need to first read my article posted here in March 2009. Those names and organizations are:
1) Tony Rezko
2) Rahm Emmanuel
3) David Axelrod
4) Valerie Jarrett
5) Rod Blagojevich
6) Alex Giannoulias
7) Allison Davis
8) Ali Atta
All of these individuals who are tied to (some by name and some by complicity) multiple on-going criminal conspiracies and cases that have been successfully prosecuted all have one name in common:
Barrack Hussein Obama
Breaking news - US v. Blagojevich
obama -
The shot across the Government’s bow has just taken place. It is ironic that the accused ex-Governor is relying on testimony of Obama to impeach the Government’s star witnesses against him.
Controversies abound:
Presidential Candidates State Department Passport files were breached on 3/20/08 by four State Department contractors working for two separate companies. Stanley, Inc had terminated their two employees on the day the Breach occurred which prevented investigators ability to question due to 5th amendment protections. The other company, “The Analysis Corp” acquiesced to the Justice Departments request and did not fire their employee.
The Breach that took place involved at least four individuals and the article lists 2 fired Stanley employees and 1 retained Analysis Corp employee. The article does not mention who the fourth one was or the company that this individual was tied to. What we do know is that there was one individual who was actively cooperating as the “key witness” with investigators who was involved, but on April 19, 2009 (less than 30 days after the breach) he was mysteriously murdered in Washington, DC.
According to the Washington Times:
"A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.
Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department's Criminal Investigations Division.
Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car. City police said they do not know whether his death was a direct result of his cooperation with federal investigators.
"We don't have any information right now that connects his murder to that case," Cmdr. Anzallo said."
The Obama pattern of “keep your enemies closer”:
John Brennan
We saw it when John Brennan was appointed as White House Deputy of Homeland Security (you know the man responsible for the internal investigation of the Ft. Hood terror attack). John Brennan is the owner and CEO of “The Analysis Corp” (the company that had an employee that breached Barrack Obama’s Passport files over at the State Department. The man who employed another who “peeked” into Obama’s file would have seen:
His Birthday, Birth Place and travel records to foreign countries that would have established what citizenship he declared in his early days to travel abroad to those Islamic countries during the early 1980’s.
Greg Craig
We are now seeing it when Obama appointed him to the White House Counsel position who then, later resigned to become part of the Goldman Sachs legal team defending against the current “fraud charges”. Craig has the White House ties and now ties to Goldman and will have the ability to effectively cover both sides of the fence in the defense.
Bob Bauer
We are now seeing it when Obama appointed him to the White House Counsel position replacing Craig above. Bob Bauer has spent a good deal of his career in fighting for and protecting, legally, ACORN. His appointment, like Craig’s at Goldman has that WH tie and the tie to the embattled corrupt organization that once again shields Obama and ACORN effectively. There is also that little “fact” that Bauer is married to another Obama White House insider “Anita Dunn” (you remember her, her two most favorite philosophers she looks to most – Mother Theresa and Mao). Finally, Bauer comes to the White House post from the legal firm Perkins, Coi (which is the legal team protecting him against all of those pesky “birther” claims and also his legal problems stemming from the ongoing criminal trial of Blagojevich mentioned above).
Obama and his minions have so many links to corruption, scandals, crimes and conspiracies that are about to take its toll both legally and politically. Like I said, it took one burglary to bring down Nixon and the sheer number of Obama’s nefarious connections will turn just about anyone’s hair white with fright in keeping all the details of their lies and deceptions straight.
Richard Nixon had only one burglary cover-up in which to manage and in the end his Presidency came crashing down around him in disgrace. Lucky for Nixon, he had a friend to pardon his crimes after the ex-President resigned his office, Obama may not be so lucky.
There is a criminal court case that has been brewing in the background that provided the first major embarrassment for the new President just days after he took office. I need not mention that it involves some of the most corrupt Illinois politicians we have seen. It involves a triangle of sorts between Rod Blagojevich, Barrack Obama and Tony Rezko.
You remember Rezko as the man who sold the land adjacent to the Obama family home in Hyde Park. To make matters worse the Democrats current frontrunner for the seat vacated by Obama and led to this current case against Blagojevich is Alex Giannoulias. Alex Giannoulias owns the bank in which financed Obama’s first townhome when he came to Chicago. The Broadway bank has mob ties and is making much negative publicity for Democrats and Alex Giannoulias in securing the Senate seat. That connection is for another day.
In order to set your mind straight, because of all of the players involved in the Chicago political scene who are involved and those who have been convicted you need to first read my article posted here in March 2009. Those names and organizations are:
1) Tony Rezko
2) Rahm Emmanuel
3) David Axelrod
4) Valerie Jarrett
5) Rod Blagojevich
6) Alex Giannoulias
7) Allison Davis
8) Ali Atta
All of these individuals who are tied to (some by name and some by complicity) multiple on-going criminal conspiracies and cases that have been successfully prosecuted all have one name in common:
Barrack Hussein Obama
Breaking news - US v. Blagojevich
obama -
The shot across the Government’s bow has just taken place. It is ironic that the accused ex-Governor is relying on testimony of Obama to impeach the Government’s star witnesses against him.
Controversies abound:
Presidential Candidates State Department Passport files were breached on 3/20/08 by four State Department contractors working for two separate companies. Stanley, Inc had terminated their two employees on the day the Breach occurred which prevented investigators ability to question due to 5th amendment protections. The other company, “The Analysis Corp” acquiesced to the Justice Departments request and did not fire their employee.
The Breach that took place involved at least four individuals and the article lists 2 fired Stanley employees and 1 retained Analysis Corp employee. The article does not mention who the fourth one was or the company that this individual was tied to. What we do know is that there was one individual who was actively cooperating as the “key witness” with investigators who was involved, but on April 19, 2009 (less than 30 days after the breach) he was mysteriously murdered in Washington, DC.
According to the Washington Times:
"A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.
Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department's Criminal Investigations Division.
Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car. City police said they do not know whether his death was a direct result of his cooperation with federal investigators.
"We don't have any information right now that connects his murder to that case," Cmdr. Anzallo said."
The Obama pattern of “keep your enemies closer”:
John Brennan
We saw it when John Brennan was appointed as White House Deputy of Homeland Security (you know the man responsible for the internal investigation of the Ft. Hood terror attack). John Brennan is the owner and CEO of “The Analysis Corp” (the company that had an employee that breached Barrack Obama’s Passport files over at the State Department. The man who employed another who “peeked” into Obama’s file would have seen:
His Birthday, Birth Place and travel records to foreign countries that would have established what citizenship he declared in his early days to travel abroad to those Islamic countries during the early 1980’s.
Greg Craig
We are now seeing it when Obama appointed him to the White House Counsel position who then, later resigned to become part of the Goldman Sachs legal team defending against the current “fraud charges”. Craig has the White House ties and now ties to Goldman and will have the ability to effectively cover both sides of the fence in the defense.
Bob Bauer
We are now seeing it when Obama appointed him to the White House Counsel position replacing Craig above. Bob Bauer has spent a good deal of his career in fighting for and protecting, legally, ACORN. His appointment, like Craig’s at Goldman has that WH tie and the tie to the embattled corrupt organization that once again shields Obama and ACORN effectively. There is also that little “fact” that Bauer is married to another Obama White House insider “Anita Dunn” (you remember her, her two most favorite philosophers she looks to most – Mother Theresa and Mao). Finally, Bauer comes to the White House post from the legal firm Perkins, Coi (which is the legal team protecting him against all of those pesky “birther” claims and also his legal problems stemming from the ongoing criminal trial of Blagojevich mentioned above).
Obama and his minions have so many links to corruption, scandals, crimes and conspiracies that are about to take its toll both legally and politically. Like I said, it took one burglary to bring down Nixon and the sheer number of Obama’s nefarious connections will turn just about anyone’s hair white with fright in keeping all the details of their lies and deceptions straight.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
SEIU thugs enter a “not guilty” plea!
After conviction, Gladney should pursue a multi-million dollar lawsuit
A hefty civil suit should follow a verdict in the criminal trial. Gladney should go “Goldman” on SEIU and force the Union to endure a lengthy civil rights violation trial directed at Obama (for his “if we get punched, punch back twice as hard” position) and also Andy Stern (for his “we will use the power of persuasion and if that doesn’t work then we will use the persuasion of power” position).
If convictions are netted against the thugs from the “Purple People Beaters” look for the Justice Department, Eric Holder, throw out the verdict like he did with the “New Black Panther” voter intimidation case that the Justice Department had won, then walked away from.
I also wonder where Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP is? Oh, that’s right, Gladney doesn’t fit the mold of how a black man should be acting. They believe he should have been on welfare and protesting in front of Bank of America with the ACORN crowd and not that “All White, racist right wing crowd”. Oh, yeah I forgot, isn’t he black?
A hefty civil suit should follow a verdict in the criminal trial. Gladney should go “Goldman” on SEIU and force the Union to endure a lengthy civil rights violation trial directed at Obama (for his “if we get punched, punch back twice as hard” position) and also Andy Stern (for his “we will use the power of persuasion and if that doesn’t work then we will use the persuasion of power” position).
If convictions are netted against the thugs from the “Purple People Beaters” look for the Justice Department, Eric Holder, throw out the verdict like he did with the “New Black Panther” voter intimidation case that the Justice Department had won, then walked away from.
I also wonder where Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP is? Oh, that’s right, Gladney doesn’t fit the mold of how a black man should be acting. They believe he should have been on welfare and protesting in front of Bank of America with the ACORN crowd and not that “All White, racist right wing crowd”. Oh, yeah I forgot, isn’t he black?
Con Air
Look who travels on the billionaire mile high sex club aircraft!
The convicted billionaire and those who travel aboard his personal jets has just been released through a civil suit (subpoenas) that his victims have brought against him to bolster their contention he used his aircraft to further his sexual deviancy.
The released logs of his Boeing 727 and both of his Gulfstream jets have read like Heidi Fleiss little black book.
The notables that have hitched rides on his planes are Bill Clinton (what a shock! Do the in-flight attendants wear blue dresses?); Naomi Campbell (I wonder if she contained her anger flying private planes because she surely can’t when she flies commercially); Sandy Berger (He was probably found stuffing crab cakes in his underwear and socks in-flight) and the current White House economic advisor Larry Summers (no wonder Obama’s economic team can’t think straight, they have other things on their minds).
The convicted billionaire and those who travel aboard his personal jets has just been released through a civil suit (subpoenas) that his victims have brought against him to bolster their contention he used his aircraft to further his sexual deviancy.
The released logs of his Boeing 727 and both of his Gulfstream jets have read like Heidi Fleiss little black book.
The notables that have hitched rides on his planes are Bill Clinton (what a shock! Do the in-flight attendants wear blue dresses?); Naomi Campbell (I wonder if she contained her anger flying private planes because she surely can’t when she flies commercially); Sandy Berger (He was probably found stuffing crab cakes in his underwear and socks in-flight) and the current White House economic advisor Larry Summers (no wonder Obama’s economic team can’t think straight, they have other things on their minds).
Obama deception on Goldman Sachs
We are looking in the wrong direction and asking the wrong questions
Everyone in the media is asking the typical questions and feeding the public with a masterful deception of ignorance or of an orchestrated sleigh of hand.
The media question on the timing of the SEC crackdown:
Did the White House know of the impending crackdown ahead of the story and if so use the information to further their legislative goal of taking over Wall Street banks in the guise of outrage and need to regulate?
There were also a couple of news items that have generated from this question and subsequent follow up to the original question, like:
1) The campaign contributions that Goldman Sachs gave to Obama totaling $994,000.
2) Greg Craig (former White House Counsel for Obama) landing at Goldman Sachs and his upcoming role in Goldman’s defense to the corruption charges.
3) Obama’s broken campaign promises of not allowing anyone who works in the Administration from working for firms for 2 years after they leave, which is exactly what Greg Craig has done by going to Goldman Sachs.
Before I divulge the question that we should be focusing on a little history lesson is needed on another recent “financial sector” crisis that has costs us taxpayers so much money and against our collective outcry’s. I am talking about the AIG bailout. Again, during that crisis we were quickly herded like cattle, by the media by the wrong questions being asked when the Obama Administration told us we need to act NOW. Once the billions flooded into their coffers (AIG) the media was focusing our attention on two distinct news items/questions that ensued:
1) How much of the bailout money that went to AIG was going to foreign banks?
2) How much of the bailout money was earmarked for executive bonuses?
Both of these questions fueled the further rage against big business that the Obama Administration was telling us were too big to fail and as such, confiscated them - took them over like they did with GM.
Not one media outlet was concerned about how much of the bailout was being funneled from AIG into domestic banks. Not one media outlet was concerned about one of these domestic banks that was called “Goldman Sachs”. Goldman Sachs received the most money from the bailout funds to AIG, from AIG.
This AIG bailout looks like a backdoor payment to Goldman Sachs.
The questions we should be asking is this:
1) Did the Obama Administration tip off Goldman Sachs that a crackdown was coming and if so, when?
2) Did the Obama Administration ensure that Goldman Sachs receive a hefty payment (disguised as an AIG payment) to absorb the oncoming criticism to allow the Administration the political ammunition needed to take Wall Street banks over?
3) Did Greg Craig leave the White House early in order to land at Goldman in order to protect their backsides (both White House and Goldman’s) against any possible connections linking the two together?
There have been calls to investigate Goldman Sachs and I for one am all for that. Let’s pick them apart for details. I am not talking about the details of the misdirected questions coming from the media and the fluffy misdirection coming out of the White House, but serious questions that take forensic accountants through the “looking glass” at every transaction, phone call, email and political contribution that got us here. I know this sounds cliché, but, follow the money.
I like many other conservatives are outraged against the largess, greed and corruption of Wall Street but in all this anger being hurled in their direction there is anger that should be directed at Government. You can take every single instance of corporate rip offs and corruption (i.e., Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Jack Abramoff, Stanford etc) and combine the money stolen and defrauded against shareholders and it would pale in comparison to that which our own Government is stealing from us to cover up their “gross and negligent” oversight failures. They (lawmakers) look to write new legislation to appease the masses that they are acting on this outrage of Wall Street when in fact all they need to do is enforce current legislative oversight without the creation of new government oversight agencies with fancy new names.
Everyone in the media is asking the typical questions and feeding the public with a masterful deception of ignorance or of an orchestrated sleigh of hand.
The media question on the timing of the SEC crackdown:
Did the White House know of the impending crackdown ahead of the story and if so use the information to further their legislative goal of taking over Wall Street banks in the guise of outrage and need to regulate?
There were also a couple of news items that have generated from this question and subsequent follow up to the original question, like:
1) The campaign contributions that Goldman Sachs gave to Obama totaling $994,000.
2) Greg Craig (former White House Counsel for Obama) landing at Goldman Sachs and his upcoming role in Goldman’s defense to the corruption charges.
3) Obama’s broken campaign promises of not allowing anyone who works in the Administration from working for firms for 2 years after they leave, which is exactly what Greg Craig has done by going to Goldman Sachs.
Before I divulge the question that we should be focusing on a little history lesson is needed on another recent “financial sector” crisis that has costs us taxpayers so much money and against our collective outcry’s. I am talking about the AIG bailout. Again, during that crisis we were quickly herded like cattle, by the media by the wrong questions being asked when the Obama Administration told us we need to act NOW. Once the billions flooded into their coffers (AIG) the media was focusing our attention on two distinct news items/questions that ensued:
1) How much of the bailout money that went to AIG was going to foreign banks?
2) How much of the bailout money was earmarked for executive bonuses?
Both of these questions fueled the further rage against big business that the Obama Administration was telling us were too big to fail and as such, confiscated them - took them over like they did with GM.
Not one media outlet was concerned about how much of the bailout was being funneled from AIG into domestic banks. Not one media outlet was concerned about one of these domestic banks that was called “Goldman Sachs”. Goldman Sachs received the most money from the bailout funds to AIG, from AIG.
This AIG bailout looks like a backdoor payment to Goldman Sachs.
The questions we should be asking is this:
1) Did the Obama Administration tip off Goldman Sachs that a crackdown was coming and if so, when?
2) Did the Obama Administration ensure that Goldman Sachs receive a hefty payment (disguised as an AIG payment) to absorb the oncoming criticism to allow the Administration the political ammunition needed to take Wall Street banks over?
3) Did Greg Craig leave the White House early in order to land at Goldman in order to protect their backsides (both White House and Goldman’s) against any possible connections linking the two together?
There have been calls to investigate Goldman Sachs and I for one am all for that. Let’s pick them apart for details. I am not talking about the details of the misdirected questions coming from the media and the fluffy misdirection coming out of the White House, but serious questions that take forensic accountants through the “looking glass” at every transaction, phone call, email and political contribution that got us here. I know this sounds cliché, but, follow the money.
I like many other conservatives are outraged against the largess, greed and corruption of Wall Street but in all this anger being hurled in their direction there is anger that should be directed at Government. You can take every single instance of corporate rip offs and corruption (i.e., Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Jack Abramoff, Stanford etc) and combine the money stolen and defrauded against shareholders and it would pale in comparison to that which our own Government is stealing from us to cover up their “gross and negligent” oversight failures. They (lawmakers) look to write new legislation to appease the masses that they are acting on this outrage of Wall Street when in fact all they need to do is enforce current legislative oversight without the creation of new government oversight agencies with fancy new names.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Through the looking glass – America
Up is down and wrong is right
Democrats recent pet project – the push for financial reform and the coincidental media blitz of the Goldman Sachs fraud publicity has everyone wondering about the rush! When 4 out 5 American distrust the Federal Government what are we to make about this sudden and recent development?
In a magical utopian society, you know the one that Obama and his Socialist Democrats are busy scurrying to create, we can only sit back and watch with “Alice in Wonderland-like” fascination.
In a land (America) where a tax cheat becomes the Treasury Secretary who tells us the economy is OK while stuffing billions into his buddy’s pockets over at Goldman Sachs.
In a land where another tax cheat (who finally resigned his post) sat as Chairman of the Ways and Means committee telling us it is patriotic to pay taxes when he himself found ways to avoid his.
In a land where the President demands Wall Street is evil, yet took $1 million dollars from them to become President.
In a land where the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee feels compelled, now, to introduce sweeping legislation to overhaul the financial industry. This after taking in more campaign contributions than any other politician from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and entering into sweetheart, below market value loans from Countrywide Financial. Yes, the same countrywide financial that is currently under criminal investigations which led to a grand jury hearing just reported.
In a land where the White House Deputy of Homeland Security is placed in charge of the Ft. Hood Investigation when in 2008 was the CEO of a private consulting firm that saw its employees caught breaching the State Departments passport files on then Presidential candidates Clinton, McCain and Obama. The only cooperating witness in that case was murdered in Washington, DC and the case remains unsolved.
Since his appointment as Homeland Security Chief we have seen the Ft. Hood terror attack and the Christmas Day attempted bombing of an inbound US flight into Michigan.
Finally, back to Goldman Sachs –
In a land where the Socialists are attacking Wall Street as the latest in a series of “evil capitalist corporations” in order to advance the latest legislation aimed at stealing their profits in the name of “Social and Financial Justice” we now learn that the man who will be spearheading Sachs defense against this oncoming onslaught is the recent former White House Counsel to Barack Obama.
Remember, he resigned that position because he thought that Obama was too centrist.
Before I get into that claim, which on its face has merit considering the radical background that Craig came from before becoming the White House Counsel, I must remind readers that the Counsel that replaced him came from ACORN ranks.
Robert Bauer (no relations to superhero Jack Bauer) came to the new White House post fresh from his defense of ACORN and their political fraud and corruption issues. Bauer coincidently is married to Anita Dunn (of Chairman Mao and Mother Teresa are my two favorite philosophers speech) the former Communications director for the White House who resigned, but not before her open attack against Fox News for being the “arm of the Republican Party” comments. Bauer came to the White House post one week after ACORN offices were raided in Louisiana.
I feel compelled to remind the readers that the new WH Counsel’s client ACORN was founded by former Weather Underground radicals who ran in the direct circles of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (whom started Obama’s political career in their home in the Chicago neighborhood where Obama bought his mansion). I am speaking of the co-founder of ACORN and the SIEU, Wade Rathke. See the circle of friendship thingy with Obama, ACORN, Weather Underground connections? It was speculated that Bauer’s ACORN work was also the perfect qualifications to distance Obama from his ACORN roots after the video undercover sting accelerated ACORNs downfall.
Now, back to Greg Craig the newest member of Goldman Sachs crack legal team and his qualifications:
Craig and the young Clintons:
Craig was instrumental in organizing the student opposition to the Vietnam War while at Harvard. He went on to Yale Law School and for the first time met Bill and Hillary Clinton who too were active in their support for the Students for a Democratic Society (the organization that Ayers found too passive and formed the Weather Underground).
Craig and President Clinton:
Craig, while in the Clinton White House spearheaded the defense against the Impeachment proceedings. Helping the “Liar in Chief” to utter the famous word under oath “that depends on what the definition of “is”, is? This utterance under oath is just as famous as “if the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit” by Johnny Cochran about OJ Simpson.
Finally Craig former “notable” legal accomplishments prior to the Obama White House job:
1997:
In 1977, he represented the first FBI Agent ever to be indicted, who was accused of illegal wiretapping, breaking and entering, and mail opening in connection with the FBI investigation of the Weather Underground.
Now how was it that noted Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill Ayers was never imprisoned for his crimes? From Fox News:
Charges against Ayers were dropped because of government misconduct, which included FBI break-ins, wiretaps and opening of mail.
So, it's possible he defended the FBI agent who botched the Weather Underground case, thus allowing Bill Ayers to walk among us today, teaching at UIC and influencing young minds.
1982:
Craig was counsel for John Hinckley, Jr. (man accused of attempting to assassinate Ronald Reagan) and was successful in his acquittal on the grounds he was insane.
2000 –
Craig was the lawyer that represented the father of Elian Gonzalez (in effect he was the American attorney that represented Fidel Castro). The success of Craig paved the way for Janet Reno to storm that house in Miami with an army of heavily armed men and took the child at gunpoint.
2004
In 2004 Craig was counsel for then-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during investigations into the scandalous UN Oil-for-Food Program, which had allowed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to skim more than $21 billion from its coffers.
So we need to ask serious questions, again, about the motivations of the Democrats against Wall Street. How can a lefty lawyer with such a radical background end up at the first Wall Street firm the Democrats are hailing as the poster child for Wall Street greed and corruption? Seems rather suspicious and convenient dost think!
Democrats recent pet project – the push for financial reform and the coincidental media blitz of the Goldman Sachs fraud publicity has everyone wondering about the rush! When 4 out 5 American distrust the Federal Government what are we to make about this sudden and recent development?
In a magical utopian society, you know the one that Obama and his Socialist Democrats are busy scurrying to create, we can only sit back and watch with “Alice in Wonderland-like” fascination.
In a land (America) where a tax cheat becomes the Treasury Secretary who tells us the economy is OK while stuffing billions into his buddy’s pockets over at Goldman Sachs.
In a land where another tax cheat (who finally resigned his post) sat as Chairman of the Ways and Means committee telling us it is patriotic to pay taxes when he himself found ways to avoid his.
In a land where the President demands Wall Street is evil, yet took $1 million dollars from them to become President.
In a land where the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee feels compelled, now, to introduce sweeping legislation to overhaul the financial industry. This after taking in more campaign contributions than any other politician from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and entering into sweetheart, below market value loans from Countrywide Financial. Yes, the same countrywide financial that is currently under criminal investigations which led to a grand jury hearing just reported.
In a land where the White House Deputy of Homeland Security is placed in charge of the Ft. Hood Investigation when in 2008 was the CEO of a private consulting firm that saw its employees caught breaching the State Departments passport files on then Presidential candidates Clinton, McCain and Obama. The only cooperating witness in that case was murdered in Washington, DC and the case remains unsolved.
Since his appointment as Homeland Security Chief we have seen the Ft. Hood terror attack and the Christmas Day attempted bombing of an inbound US flight into Michigan.
Finally, back to Goldman Sachs –
In a land where the Socialists are attacking Wall Street as the latest in a series of “evil capitalist corporations” in order to advance the latest legislation aimed at stealing their profits in the name of “Social and Financial Justice” we now learn that the man who will be spearheading Sachs defense against this oncoming onslaught is the recent former White House Counsel to Barack Obama.
Remember, he resigned that position because he thought that Obama was too centrist.
Before I get into that claim, which on its face has merit considering the radical background that Craig came from before becoming the White House Counsel, I must remind readers that the Counsel that replaced him came from ACORN ranks.
Robert Bauer (no relations to superhero Jack Bauer) came to the new White House post fresh from his defense of ACORN and their political fraud and corruption issues. Bauer coincidently is married to Anita Dunn (of Chairman Mao and Mother Teresa are my two favorite philosophers speech) the former Communications director for the White House who resigned, but not before her open attack against Fox News for being the “arm of the Republican Party” comments. Bauer came to the White House post one week after ACORN offices were raided in Louisiana.
I feel compelled to remind the readers that the new WH Counsel’s client ACORN was founded by former Weather Underground radicals who ran in the direct circles of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (whom started Obama’s political career in their home in the Chicago neighborhood where Obama bought his mansion). I am speaking of the co-founder of ACORN and the SIEU, Wade Rathke. See the circle of friendship thingy with Obama, ACORN, Weather Underground connections? It was speculated that Bauer’s ACORN work was also the perfect qualifications to distance Obama from his ACORN roots after the video undercover sting accelerated ACORNs downfall.
Now, back to Greg Craig the newest member of Goldman Sachs crack legal team and his qualifications:
Craig and the young Clintons:
Craig was instrumental in organizing the student opposition to the Vietnam War while at Harvard. He went on to Yale Law School and for the first time met Bill and Hillary Clinton who too were active in their support for the Students for a Democratic Society (the organization that Ayers found too passive and formed the Weather Underground).
Craig and President Clinton:
Craig, while in the Clinton White House spearheaded the defense against the Impeachment proceedings. Helping the “Liar in Chief” to utter the famous word under oath “that depends on what the definition of “is”, is? This utterance under oath is just as famous as “if the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit” by Johnny Cochran about OJ Simpson.
Finally Craig former “notable” legal accomplishments prior to the Obama White House job:
1997:
In 1977, he represented the first FBI Agent ever to be indicted, who was accused of illegal wiretapping, breaking and entering, and mail opening in connection with the FBI investigation of the Weather Underground.
Now how was it that noted Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill Ayers was never imprisoned for his crimes? From Fox News:
Charges against Ayers were dropped because of government misconduct, which included FBI break-ins, wiretaps and opening of mail.
So, it's possible he defended the FBI agent who botched the Weather Underground case, thus allowing Bill Ayers to walk among us today, teaching at UIC and influencing young minds.
1982:
Craig was counsel for John Hinckley, Jr. (man accused of attempting to assassinate Ronald Reagan) and was successful in his acquittal on the grounds he was insane.
2000 –
Craig was the lawyer that represented the father of Elian Gonzalez (in effect he was the American attorney that represented Fidel Castro). The success of Craig paved the way for Janet Reno to storm that house in Miami with an army of heavily armed men and took the child at gunpoint.
2004
In 2004 Craig was counsel for then-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during investigations into the scandalous UN Oil-for-Food Program, which had allowed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to skim more than $21 billion from its coffers.
So we need to ask serious questions, again, about the motivations of the Democrats against Wall Street. How can a lefty lawyer with such a radical background end up at the first Wall Street firm the Democrats are hailing as the poster child for Wall Street greed and corruption? Seems rather suspicious and convenient dost think!
Monday, April 19, 2010
The World watches democracy unfold!
America is a sight to behold!
The World, especially Europe cheered at the historic event of America’s first black President and a socialist one to boot!
I won’t mince words here because socialist countries recognized what this man had in store when his political platform was divulged. They knew what “hope and change was” and they were amazed the American populace would ever deviate from a “Conservative” strongman in the Oval office.
It did not take long for those living under socialist governments to start to ask how could America dismantle the greatest country in the world and adopt their form of oppressive government.
Take the UK for an example. The tea party experience has already landed on their soil and established a “beach head”. The political turmoil is not dissimilar to the anger here in America against the expanding Government yoke of the Obama and the Democrats.
Gordon Brown was forced to call for elections on May 3rd and the first televised debates have occurred. The spin is already in, as the American media and outlets like Huffington Post are rallying around Clegg (Liberal Democrat) as the clear winner in the event. The polling that the article held up showed Clegg winning by a margin of 43% to the 26% Conservative Party (Cameron). The article even went as far as quoting an audience member describing Clegg as “Barack Obama of British Politics”.
Halfway through the article the meat (truth) is divulged in this clip – “The British prime ministerial debate – the first of three – was more subdued than US presidential debates or even the vicious exchanges often seen in Parliament. An estimated 20 million tuned in to see the candidates inside a Manchester studio.
Swing votes will be crucial in this election. A Populus poll for the Times newspaper showed the Labour Party closing in on the Conservatives. The poll gave the Conservatives 36 percent – a drop of 3 percentage points – to Labour's 33 percent. The Liberal Democrats had 21 percent. The margin of error was 2.5 percentage points.”
This appears to be another case of socialist liberal media bias me thinks!
The Conservatives have a 36% to 21% lead over the Liberal Democrat Clegg which the media is all fawning over as Barack-lite (no pun or racial stereotype intended).
It appears that the UK has a touch of “Conservititis” and it appears that the American tea party movement has a lot to do with it. After all, the British know what is in store for America with bloated government and the “European style healthcare” horrors because they have lived with it for a very long time now. But something seems to be changing when they have been watching Obama’s and the Democrats attempt at dismantling our freedom. That something is “power of the people of an open democracy” in spite of the majorities in the House, Senate and White House. They sit transfixed at this phenomena and are seeing first hand what the power of the people have in spite of the majority in power over them.
Here is what the audience members asked the debate participants:
“Audience members in Thursday's debate asked questions about immigration, health care, pensioners, the economy and the armed forces.
But the question that seemed to resonate most with the audience and the candidates was over the expense scandal last year that exposed lawmakers of all three main political parties for submitting claims for everything from pornography to country estate chandeliers.
Many voters have said they have been disgusted by politics since the expense scandal that began unraveling as Britain sunk deeper into economic turmoil.”
Sound familiar? Kind of sounds like American concerns, doesn’t it?
For now the British tea party spirit is slowly building as more and more individuals rouse out of their cradle to grave slumber to witness America at its finest moment. They watch with fascinated interest and they begin to ask themselves “can we achieve this here”. Some of the British are amused at the symbolism of tea as they take their beverage quite seriously. They also know that it is exactly this symbolism that pushed America away from their British overlords in their initial quest for freedom and found out quite handily that Americans were prepared to lay their lives on the line to achieve it.
They are acutely aware that you should never count lady liberty down for the count because the lamp of freedom burns fiercely in our souls and want no part of socialism, collectivism or any ism that places this freedom in jeopardy!
The World, especially Europe cheered at the historic event of America’s first black President and a socialist one to boot!
I won’t mince words here because socialist countries recognized what this man had in store when his political platform was divulged. They knew what “hope and change was” and they were amazed the American populace would ever deviate from a “Conservative” strongman in the Oval office.
It did not take long for those living under socialist governments to start to ask how could America dismantle the greatest country in the world and adopt their form of oppressive government.
Take the UK for an example. The tea party experience has already landed on their soil and established a “beach head”. The political turmoil is not dissimilar to the anger here in America against the expanding Government yoke of the Obama and the Democrats.
Gordon Brown was forced to call for elections on May 3rd and the first televised debates have occurred. The spin is already in, as the American media and outlets like Huffington Post are rallying around Clegg (Liberal Democrat) as the clear winner in the event. The polling that the article held up showed Clegg winning by a margin of 43% to the 26% Conservative Party (Cameron). The article even went as far as quoting an audience member describing Clegg as “Barack Obama of British Politics”.
Halfway through the article the meat (truth) is divulged in this clip – “The British prime ministerial debate – the first of three – was more subdued than US presidential debates or even the vicious exchanges often seen in Parliament. An estimated 20 million tuned in to see the candidates inside a Manchester studio.
Swing votes will be crucial in this election. A Populus poll for the Times newspaper showed the Labour Party closing in on the Conservatives. The poll gave the Conservatives 36 percent – a drop of 3 percentage points – to Labour's 33 percent. The Liberal Democrats had 21 percent. The margin of error was 2.5 percentage points.”
This appears to be another case of socialist liberal media bias me thinks!
The Conservatives have a 36% to 21% lead over the Liberal Democrat Clegg which the media is all fawning over as Barack-lite (no pun or racial stereotype intended).
It appears that the UK has a touch of “Conservititis” and it appears that the American tea party movement has a lot to do with it. After all, the British know what is in store for America with bloated government and the “European style healthcare” horrors because they have lived with it for a very long time now. But something seems to be changing when they have been watching Obama’s and the Democrats attempt at dismantling our freedom. That something is “power of the people of an open democracy” in spite of the majorities in the House, Senate and White House. They sit transfixed at this phenomena and are seeing first hand what the power of the people have in spite of the majority in power over them.
Here is what the audience members asked the debate participants:
“Audience members in Thursday's debate asked questions about immigration, health care, pensioners, the economy and the armed forces.
But the question that seemed to resonate most with the audience and the candidates was over the expense scandal last year that exposed lawmakers of all three main political parties for submitting claims for everything from pornography to country estate chandeliers.
Many voters have said they have been disgusted by politics since the expense scandal that began unraveling as Britain sunk deeper into economic turmoil.”
Sound familiar? Kind of sounds like American concerns, doesn’t it?
For now the British tea party spirit is slowly building as more and more individuals rouse out of their cradle to grave slumber to witness America at its finest moment. They watch with fascinated interest and they begin to ask themselves “can we achieve this here”. Some of the British are amused at the symbolism of tea as they take their beverage quite seriously. They also know that it is exactly this symbolism that pushed America away from their British overlords in their initial quest for freedom and found out quite handily that Americans were prepared to lay their lives on the line to achieve it.
They are acutely aware that you should never count lady liberty down for the count because the lamp of freedom burns fiercely in our souls and want no part of socialism, collectivism or any ism that places this freedom in jeopardy!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Face of Evil - obsession!
Is it a sign that people are drawn to?
Less than 24 hours ago (4/17/10 @ 3:55pm PDT) I found a photograph that was embedded in an article posted on the site Dailymail.co.UK which was shot from an Icelandic Coast Guard plane (though I initially reported it was shot from space) directly over the volcano, showing a unique pattern that the ash cloud manifested. The photo had an eerie resemblance of a distorted “human-like” face twisted in evil agony.
The article also embedded next to the image a famous artist (Edvard Munch) painting that, when the images were side by side, looked alike. The painting, in which he titled, “the scream” was thought to be inspired by another volcano eruption (Krakatoa) in 1883.
When I padded to my computer to view my website stats I was startled by the volume of hits this article generated. In less than 24 hours I had received a volume that I normally see over a two week period. What was more interesting was where the views were predominantly coming from – Poland (60%) along with US (26%), UK (4%) and 9 other countries (10%). This statistic jumped out at me. Why are so many from Poland interested in the “face of evil”?
Poland is no stranger to the face of evil!
Poland felt the full brunt of two colliding evil forces in the Second World War. Nazi Germany invaded the country and the resulting slaughter of 3,000,000 Jews decimated their population (after the war only 300,000 survived the murderous rampage against them).
In fact, in all of those who perished around the world during the Nazi expansion, Poland had the highest percentage of its population decimated (over 6 million).
On the other side of Poland were the Soviets who also killed Poles by the scores along with that of Nazi Germany. The most famous of these massacres of Poles was “The Katyn Forest massacre”.
During Hitler’s occupation of Poland many of the famous death camps that history recorded were on their soil. The infamous “death camps” in Poland were:
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Belzec
Kulmhof
Majdanek
Sobibor
Treblinka
The Polish people are no stranger to the face of evil!
It dawned on me that the uptick in views of this article probably has a lot to do with the recent deaths of that country’s President and much of their government leaders in Russia. The sobering reality about that incident, which many Poles blame the Russian Government for, is the delegation of politicians that perished were enroute to commemorate “The Katyn Massacre” at the hands of the Soviets during WWII.
Yes, the Polish people have seen the face of evil that has touched nearly every family that survived WWII and then the ensuing Russian occupation. They are wary of the communist old ways of the Soviet Union that is manifesting itself in modern day Russia.
Less than 24 hours ago (4/17/10 @ 3:55pm PDT) I found a photograph that was embedded in an article posted on the site Dailymail.co.UK which was shot from an Icelandic Coast Guard plane (though I initially reported it was shot from space) directly over the volcano, showing a unique pattern that the ash cloud manifested. The photo had an eerie resemblance of a distorted “human-like” face twisted in evil agony.
The article also embedded next to the image a famous artist (Edvard Munch) painting that, when the images were side by side, looked alike. The painting, in which he titled, “the scream” was thought to be inspired by another volcano eruption (Krakatoa) in 1883.
When I padded to my computer to view my website stats I was startled by the volume of hits this article generated. In less than 24 hours I had received a volume that I normally see over a two week period. What was more interesting was where the views were predominantly coming from – Poland (60%) along with US (26%), UK (4%) and 9 other countries (10%). This statistic jumped out at me. Why are so many from Poland interested in the “face of evil”?
Poland is no stranger to the face of evil!
Poland felt the full brunt of two colliding evil forces in the Second World War. Nazi Germany invaded the country and the resulting slaughter of 3,000,000 Jews decimated their population (after the war only 300,000 survived the murderous rampage against them).
In fact, in all of those who perished around the world during the Nazi expansion, Poland had the highest percentage of its population decimated (over 6 million).
On the other side of Poland were the Soviets who also killed Poles by the scores along with that of Nazi Germany. The most famous of these massacres of Poles was “The Katyn Forest massacre”.
During Hitler’s occupation of Poland many of the famous death camps that history recorded were on their soil. The infamous “death camps” in Poland were:
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Belzec
Kulmhof
Majdanek
Sobibor
Treblinka
The Polish people are no stranger to the face of evil!
It dawned on me that the uptick in views of this article probably has a lot to do with the recent deaths of that country’s President and much of their government leaders in Russia. The sobering reality about that incident, which many Poles blame the Russian Government for, is the delegation of politicians that perished were enroute to commemorate “The Katyn Massacre” at the hands of the Soviets during WWII.
Yes, the Polish people have seen the face of evil that has touched nearly every family that survived WWII and then the ensuing Russian occupation. They are wary of the communist old ways of the Soviet Union that is manifesting itself in modern day Russia.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
The unhinged left tells us that Grandma is a violent racist!
Yet, the tea party is a peaceful non-violent, grassroots movement!
Do you recall the powerful image during the Tiananmen Square crackdown where a lone man stood in the path of a column of Chinese tanks? This is what it feels like to be a tea party protestor today. The individual represents us and our non-violent civil discourse and the tanks represent the US Government aggressive growth barreling towards us on a menacing and dangerous path.
The left doesn’t quite know how to react to a movement taken out of their playbook of the 1960’s and that of ACORN with one big exception – zero violence attributed to it.
August 2009 – Obama declares his intention to counter tea party town hall protests by declaring “If you get hit, we punch back twice as hard”! Of course Obama was referring to the disruptions of his propaganda message at the town halls and not inciting a call to violence. The statement, the words chosen to cite though are full of violent imagery that can have an effect towards violence in the mind of the unhinged.
On August 10th, directly after the Obama Administration declared it would “punch back twice as hard” Kenneth Gladney, a tea party participant was innocently selling flags when he was beaten brutally by SIEU thugs in purple shirts who were “using the persuasion of power”. Through out the beating (which was black on black) the SIEU thugs spewed black racial epithets against him.
It is important to remember that some of the most violent attacks against tea party protesters have come at the hands of the thugs in the SIEU which is closely and intimately tied to the Obama Administration and Andy Stern (the man who has visited the White House more than any other). It was Stern who boldly proclaimed that “If we can’t use the power of persuasion then we will use the persuasion of power”:
Later, in the week of August 25th, 2009 the Democratic Party Offices in Denver were struck by vandalism. The Huffington Post reported that Democrat Party Officials in Denver declared “The Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver was vandalized this past week in what party officials say was a protest against President Obama's health care agenda.
Twenty-four-year-old Maurice Schwenkler was arrested on Tuesday morning on suspicion of smashing eleven windows at the party's Denver office. The state party chair, Pat Waak, told local press that the vandalism seemed tied to the ongoing health care debate. Windows that were shattered contained posters that praised Obama's efforts to push through health care.
The following day, after the dust settled and the background of the man arrested Huffington Post printed an “Update” – “UPDATE: Newsradio 850 in Denver reports that alleged Colorado Democratic Party headquarters vandal Maurice Schwenkler had done work for Democrats in the past. Schwenkler was paid $500 last November to knock on doors for the Colorado Citizens Coalition, a 527 that supported mostly Democratic candidates in Colorado. The Denver Post also reports that Schwenkler was charged with misdemeanor unlawful assembly on the final day of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Upon hearing this, Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak backed off of a statement made yesterday that the vandalism was part of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate." In a statement to the Denver Post on Tuesday, Waak clarified: "What I've been saying is there is a lot of rhetoric out there from both sides of the spectrum."
So the Democrats blamed the Republicans for the act, then when it is found that it was “one of their own” they could not resist continuing the charade by blaming rhetoric of Tea Party Protestors anyway.
September 2009 - In a knee jerk response we were shown a tearful and weeping Speaker of the House who lamented that she has seen this type of violent rhetoric (from the tea parties) in San Francisco in the 1970’s.
Problem with Pelosi and her alligator tears and fears about tea party violence is the violence she reminisces about was perpetrated by Gay activists on the left against the city of San Francisco, violence that culminated with the murder of the openly gay Mayor of San Francisco (Harvey Milk) by a disgruntled leftist politician.
Since the inception and growth of this coalition of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Black, White, Hispanic, Atheists, God Fearing, Elderly, Young, Men, Women and all stripes I cannot begin to list not one incident of violence has been attributed to this grassroots movement. Zero, Zip, Nada!
On the other hand there have been many documented incidents of violence perpetrated against tea party members by the left, mostly Union affiliated members.
October 2009 – “Code Pink found Jodie Evans had publicly referenced their organizations desire to kidnap Karl Rove”
In 2010 she attempted to enact a citizens arrest of Chaney by handcuffing him at a "book signing" and was arrested.
November 2009 – Ft. Lauderdale tea party protesters assaulted by pro illegal alien amnesty supporters:
January 2010 – Martha Coakley staffer assaults Weekly Standard reporter.
February 2010 – Once again SIEU uses their “persuasion of power” when a woman union member attacked a “union supporter”, that right, one of their own, in a hospital cafeteria.
March 2010 – “65y/o anti-Obamacare protester had his finger bitten off by a MoveOn.org supporter in California”
Finally, Bill Clinton just had to chime in with his absurd attempt to tie the tea party movement to the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1994. Yes, there were a lot of angry “right wing extremists” that were agitating dissent in those day, but you have to remember that McVey was angry at the Clinton Administrations unlawful use of military assets from Ft. Hood that Janet Reno and then future Democrat presidential hopeful, General Wesley Clark to attack the Branch Dravidian compound in Waco, Texas and the use of force in the Ruby Ridge siege.
It is easy for Clinton to tie grandma to Timothy McVey because it was 1994 that the Democrats were swept out of power in the House of Representatives by the Conservatives and their “Contract with America”. Clinton sees history repeating itself here and instead of the “Christian right” rising up to throw the bums out, it is a bi-partisan diverse group of Americans.
The thing to remember here is that no matter how much the left and their media lackeys try to paint this movement into oblivion by deflecting and distorting the things they are known for - back onto grandma we are all like the “tank man of Tiananmen Square” passively and actively protesting the might and inertia of an oppressive government aiming at silencing our dissent with the persuasion of power.
The level of commitment that the radical leftist exhibit to fighting against America’s freedom and exceptionalism can be highlighted by the Census worker that was found hanged and was blamed on anti-Obama protesters but was later found to have committed suicide in a staged attempt to get that message across. Killing oneself for the cause is no different that Islamic jihadists seeking their 21 virgins.
Do you recall the powerful image during the Tiananmen Square crackdown where a lone man stood in the path of a column of Chinese tanks? This is what it feels like to be a tea party protestor today. The individual represents us and our non-violent civil discourse and the tanks represent the US Government aggressive growth barreling towards us on a menacing and dangerous path.
The left doesn’t quite know how to react to a movement taken out of their playbook of the 1960’s and that of ACORN with one big exception – zero violence attributed to it.
August 2009 – Obama declares his intention to counter tea party town hall protests by declaring “If you get hit, we punch back twice as hard”! Of course Obama was referring to the disruptions of his propaganda message at the town halls and not inciting a call to violence. The statement, the words chosen to cite though are full of violent imagery that can have an effect towards violence in the mind of the unhinged.
On August 10th, directly after the Obama Administration declared it would “punch back twice as hard” Kenneth Gladney, a tea party participant was innocently selling flags when he was beaten brutally by SIEU thugs in purple shirts who were “using the persuasion of power”. Through out the beating (which was black on black) the SIEU thugs spewed black racial epithets against him.
It is important to remember that some of the most violent attacks against tea party protesters have come at the hands of the thugs in the SIEU which is closely and intimately tied to the Obama Administration and Andy Stern (the man who has visited the White House more than any other). It was Stern who boldly proclaimed that “If we can’t use the power of persuasion then we will use the persuasion of power”:
Later, in the week of August 25th, 2009 the Democratic Party Offices in Denver were struck by vandalism. The Huffington Post reported that Democrat Party Officials in Denver declared “The Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver was vandalized this past week in what party officials say was a protest against President Obama's health care agenda.
Twenty-four-year-old Maurice Schwenkler was arrested on Tuesday morning on suspicion of smashing eleven windows at the party's Denver office. The state party chair, Pat Waak, told local press that the vandalism seemed tied to the ongoing health care debate. Windows that were shattered contained posters that praised Obama's efforts to push through health care.
The following day, after the dust settled and the background of the man arrested Huffington Post printed an “Update” – “UPDATE: Newsradio 850 in Denver reports that alleged Colorado Democratic Party headquarters vandal Maurice Schwenkler had done work for Democrats in the past. Schwenkler was paid $500 last November to knock on doors for the Colorado Citizens Coalition, a 527 that supported mostly Democratic candidates in Colorado. The Denver Post also reports that Schwenkler was charged with misdemeanor unlawful assembly on the final day of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Upon hearing this, Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak backed off of a statement made yesterday that the vandalism was part of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate." In a statement to the Denver Post on Tuesday, Waak clarified: "What I've been saying is there is a lot of rhetoric out there from both sides of the spectrum."
So the Democrats blamed the Republicans for the act, then when it is found that it was “one of their own” they could not resist continuing the charade by blaming rhetoric of Tea Party Protestors anyway.
September 2009 - In a knee jerk response we were shown a tearful and weeping Speaker of the House who lamented that she has seen this type of violent rhetoric (from the tea parties) in San Francisco in the 1970’s.
Problem with Pelosi and her alligator tears and fears about tea party violence is the violence she reminisces about was perpetrated by Gay activists on the left against the city of San Francisco, violence that culminated with the murder of the openly gay Mayor of San Francisco (Harvey Milk) by a disgruntled leftist politician.
Since the inception and growth of this coalition of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Black, White, Hispanic, Atheists, God Fearing, Elderly, Young, Men, Women and all stripes I cannot begin to list not one incident of violence has been attributed to this grassroots movement. Zero, Zip, Nada!
On the other hand there have been many documented incidents of violence perpetrated against tea party members by the left, mostly Union affiliated members.
October 2009 – “Code Pink found Jodie Evans had publicly referenced their organizations desire to kidnap Karl Rove”
In 2010 she attempted to enact a citizens arrest of Chaney by handcuffing him at a "book signing" and was arrested.
November 2009 – Ft. Lauderdale tea party protesters assaulted by pro illegal alien amnesty supporters:
January 2010 – Martha Coakley staffer assaults Weekly Standard reporter.
February 2010 – Once again SIEU uses their “persuasion of power” when a woman union member attacked a “union supporter”, that right, one of their own, in a hospital cafeteria.
March 2010 – “65y/o anti-Obamacare protester had his finger bitten off by a MoveOn.org supporter in California”
Finally, Bill Clinton just had to chime in with his absurd attempt to tie the tea party movement to the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1994. Yes, there were a lot of angry “right wing extremists” that were agitating dissent in those day, but you have to remember that McVey was angry at the Clinton Administrations unlawful use of military assets from Ft. Hood that Janet Reno and then future Democrat presidential hopeful, General Wesley Clark to attack the Branch Dravidian compound in Waco, Texas and the use of force in the Ruby Ridge siege.
It is easy for Clinton to tie grandma to Timothy McVey because it was 1994 that the Democrats were swept out of power in the House of Representatives by the Conservatives and their “Contract with America”. Clinton sees history repeating itself here and instead of the “Christian right” rising up to throw the bums out, it is a bi-partisan diverse group of Americans.
The thing to remember here is that no matter how much the left and their media lackeys try to paint this movement into oblivion by deflecting and distorting the things they are known for - back onto grandma we are all like the “tank man of Tiananmen Square” passively and actively protesting the might and inertia of an oppressive government aiming at silencing our dissent with the persuasion of power.
The level of commitment that the radical leftist exhibit to fighting against America’s freedom and exceptionalism can be highlighted by the Census worker that was found hanged and was blamed on anti-Obama protesters but was later found to have committed suicide in a staged attempt to get that message across. Killing oneself for the cause is no different that Islamic jihadists seeking their 21 virgins.
The face of evil? - space photo of Iceland volcano eruption!
Photo from "Dailymail.co.uk"
I am waiting for the eruption to be blamed on Bush or Global warming. Though I have to admit a curious likeness to H. Ross Perot.
I am waiting for the eruption to be blamed on Bush or Global warming. Though I have to admit a curious likeness to H. Ross Perot.
Want to know why Government run Healthcare is sick?
Just wait for the Blagojevich trial to see!
Photo showing "photo-op" at the Whitehouse. Handing out white lab coats to physicians in attendance.
How many times do we hear the words “it’s for the kids” or “we need to do it for the kids” coming from a Democrat politician when trying to coerce a bill or policy down our collective throats?
Now that “Obamacare” is law and the Federal Government is poised to make all the vital decisions about everything related to the healthcare system that every American, including the kids, rely upon for quality care there seems to be anger and distrust of politicians pulling those strings.
Obama and the Democrats are incredulously saying that they are astounded by the anger and uprising against this law and believe that we should be thanking them for saving us from those evil doers in the Insurance industry. They think that we are ill-informed and downright ignorant about the subject matter and their arrogance is on display front and center over the matter.
A lot of the anger and distrust directly stems from the “credibility” factor of the Obama and Democrats over the secretive and dishonest way they have handled the bill through lies, distortions, bribes and corruption of the entire process. The complete partisan tactics on the Democrats part were disgusting. The behavior of the Democrats is childlike. It looked like tantrums on a school recess playground where the bullies stole the ball in order to directly affect the outcome of the game. Time after time they were caught in lies and distortions and changed their stories to fit their reality. They complained that Republicans did not have any viable ideas that countered their efforts while at the same time they locked out opposition lawmakers from discussions on the bill. In fact, they went as far as “changing the locks when the act of locking an existing meeting room failed to keep them out”. Yes, childlike indeed!
One of the tactics that the Democrats were caught in was the bribes to the AMA over Medicare reimbursement allotments to physicians while increasing Medicaid rates paid to physicians for care (aka - “Doctor Fix”).
Medicaid Slush Fund for campaign contributions
We know that Obama and a great number of his “inner circle” hail from the “Chicago political machine”. The tactics of corruption of this particular political machine is well known in certain circles but will come into full view in the coming months when Rod Blagojevich goes on trial. One of the numerous charges against him is the attempted extortion of “Childrens Hospital” CEO to contribute to the “Friends of Blagojevich” re-election campaign fund in exchange for $8 million in direct Medicaid reimbursements to the doctors at the Hospital.
Once again, remember the Democrats favorite fallback position of “do it for the kids”!
Once again, remember that Obama and the Democrats want complete control of the Healthcare infrastructure. The Blagojevich trial will spotlight just how they use it for their own political and personal piggybanks.
In recent court filings, the ex-Governor’s brother is seeking to separate himself from the trial, where he is a co-defendant, because he is fearful he will get “sucked down the drain” with his brother. This is at the same time the ex-governor is proclaiming his innocence of the “trumped up charges”.
Here is a description of the conversations surrounding the event that were caught on FBI tape and reported by the Chicago Tribune on April 14:
Note: Robert Blagojevich is the brother of Rod Blagojevich.
“On October 8, 2008, Blagojevich met with Lobbyist A, who was a lobbyist for Children’s Memorial, Robert Blagojevich, and Monk at the FOB Offices. At one point in the meeting, during a discussion of Children’s Memorial, Blagojevich said to Lobbyist A words to the effect of, “[the baseball manager] called me. I’m going to do $8 million for them, I want to get [Children’s CEO] for 50.”
Lobbyist A understood Blagojevich to be making a reference to the efforts of Children’s Memorial to increase the pay for its physicians and to be saying that Blagojevich wanted to approach Children’s CEO for a $50,000 contribution to FOB.
In response, Lobbyist A said that Children’s Memorial was a non-profit organization, $50,000 was a very hard number, and now was not the time.
Lobbyist A thought that it would be appropriate to wait for a year or more to solicit any contribution, and that it would be wrong to ask Children’s Memorial for money while they were awaiting funding for their doctors. Lobbyist A suggested giving Children’s CEO more time before soliciting any donation.
In response, Blagojevich said words to the effect, “how much time do you mean, ten days?”
Either later that day after Lobbyist A left or at another meeting between Blagojevich, Robert Blagojevich, and Monk, the topic of getting a contribution from Children’s Memorial was raised again.
Blagojevich asked Monk to seek a contribution from Children’s Memorial.
Monk said that it did not make any sense for him to do that because he did not have any contacts at the hospital, and eventually it was decided that Robert Blagojevich would follow up.
On October 9, 2008, Robert Blagojevich left a voicemail for Lobbyist A in which Robert Blagojevich indicated that he was “just kind of trying to clean up ah, loose ends from yesterday” and that “I know that you’re gonna be following up with Children’s Memorial and just wanted to know what the next steps are and what it is, kind of we’re looking to accomplish there.”
Robert Blagojevich indicated that he wanted to “ make sure I’m following up on you so you get it done.” and that “you know I’m jerking your chain but ah, I ah, I think they have a potential to do well by us.”
On or about October 17, 2008, Children’s CEO called Blagojevich after receiving a message that Blagojevich wanted to speak with him.
In that conversation, Blagojevich said he was supportive and that he had approved a $10 million increase in the Medicaid payments that would be made to pediatric doctors.
Blagojevich told Children’s CEO that the increase in payments would take effect on January 1, 2009, and asked Children’s CEO to work with Blagojevich’s staff prior to that date.
Blagojevich asked Children’s CEO to keep this quiet until the end of the year, which Children’s CEO understood to mean that he should not draw attention to the increase. Children’s CEO was very pleased to hear what Blagojevich said, and thought that it was quite significant that it was the governor himself, as opposed to someone on his staff, who was indicating that the increase would happen.
On or about October 22, 2008, Lobbyist A met again with Blagojevich and Robert Blagojevich at the FOB office. During that meeting, Blagojevich informed Lobbyist A that Blagojevich had called Children’s CEO and told Children’s CEO that he was moving forward with the money that Children’s Memorial had wanted.
Blagojevich said that he did not want to directly ask Children’s CEO for money because he wanted to maintain a line between government and fundraising. Blagojevich then asked whether Lobbyist A or Robert Blagojevich should be the person to ask Children’s CEO for the money.
Lobbyist A understood that Blagojevich was, in effect saying that Children’s Memorial had gotten the money they wanted and, therefore, were going to be asked to make a contribution to [the Friends of Blagojevich]
Robert Blagojevich agreed to make the call to Children’s CEO to ask for the money.
On or about October 22, 2008, Children’s CEO got a message that he should call Robert Blagojevich. Children’s CEO had met Robert Blagojevich many months earlier at a fundraising event and shook hands with him, but otherwise had not spoken with him.
When Children’s CEO returned the call, Robert Blagojevich said that he wanted Children’s CEO to arrange a fund raising event for Blagojevich.
Robert Blagojevich said words to the effect that “we would like for you to raise $25,000 for the governor.”
Robert Blagojevich was not specific about how Children’s CEO could arrange to raise the money, but suggested that Children’s CEO, his friends and associates, and Children’s Memorial board members could make contributions.
In response, Children’s CEO said that he knew that Blagojevich supported Children’s Memorial and many of the issues that were important to the hospital and that Children’s Memorial would like to be helpful, but did not know how they could.
Children’s CEO had no intention of raising funds for Blagojevich, but was afraid that if he said no directly Blagojevich might rescind his commitment to increase the pediatric Medicaid rates.
Robert Blagojevich pressed Children’s CEO on arranging the contribution, saying that a contribution would be most helpful if it were delivered by the end of the year.
Children’s CEO was upset after the call because of the pressure from Robert Blagojevich to arrange a contribution of $25,000 to Blagojevich.
As a result, Children’s CEO decided that he would not talk any further with Robert Blagojevich, and instructed his staff not to forward him any calls from Robert Blagojevich.
Robert Blagojevich made several more attempts to call Children’s CEO after October 22, 2008, but Children’s CEO did not answer or return those calls.
On November 12, 2008, at approximately 8:43 a.m., Blagojevich was intercepted speaking with Robert Blagojevich (Blagojevich Call #836).
In that call, Robert Blagojevich said that he had never heard back from Children’s CEO even though he had left three messages for Children’s CEO. Blagojevich indicated that he would call Children’s CEO.
On November 12, 2008, at approximately 2:14 p.m., Blagojevich was intercepted speaking with Deputy Governor A (Blagojevich Call #572). The call started with Blagojevich asking about the pediatric doctors reimbursement, which Deputy Governor A understood to be a reference to the Children’s Memorial reimbursement issue.
Deputy Governor A was not expecting the reimbursement issue to come up in this conversation.
Blagojevich asked Deputy Governor A if it had happened or was still on hold
Deputy Governor A responded that it was set for January 1st.
Blagojevich asked Deputy Governor A if they had discretion over the rate increase and Deputy Governor A confirmed that they did.
Blagojevich then asked Deputy Governor A if they could “pull it back if we needed to — budgetary concerns — right?”
Deputy Governor A told Blagojevich that they could pull it back.
Blagojevich stated that was “good to know.”
Based on Blagojevich’s statements, Deputy Governor A understood that Blagojevich either wanted the rate increase put on hold or killed. Deputy Governor A did not believe that Blagojevich wanted to hold or kill the rate increase for budgetary reasons. Blagojevich had never before cited to Deputy Governor A budgetary concerns as a reason to not do something and the amount of money being discussed for the rate increase was not nearly as significant as a number of other budget issues that were being addressed.
Further, Deputy Governor A had not talked to Blagojevich about the rate increase being a budget problem and, in fact, the proposed rate increases would not affect the budget because they were not to be paid for with new money.
Deputy Governor A understood that if he let the rate increase go through, Blagojevich would have been very angry.
After the phone call with Blagojevich, Deputy Governor A called the agency head and told him to put a hold on the rate increase. In turn, the agency head directed his staff to stop working on the rate increase.
In the Fall of 2008, Monk was at a meeting with Blagojevich and Robert Blagojevich. In that meeting, Blagojevich asked Robert Blagojevich about getting a contribution from Children’s Memorial.
Robert Blagojevich said the contact at Children’s Memorial had not returned a number of his calls and he was not going to call him anymore.
Blagojevich got upset and said words to the effect, “Screw these guys” or “Screw them.” Almost immediately, Blagojevich arranged for a phone call to Deputy Governor A about some funding that the State of Illinois was about to give to Children’s Memorial. While Monk did not participate in the phone conversation or hear Deputy Governor A’s statements, he heard Blagojevich said words to the effect, “Where are we on the money to Children’s Memorial Hospital?”
There was a pause, then Blagojevich said words to the effect, “Hold it up” or “Slow it down” or “Don’t do anything until I tell you.”
Monk understood that Blagojevich was instructing Deputy Governor A to hold up the money that was supposed to go to Children’s Memorial.
As of the date of Blagojevich’s arrest on December 9, 2008, he had not directed that any work on the Medicaid rate increase resume or go forward, and no further work had been done.
As you can see, the “Chicago Political Machine” has the Children best interest at heart. So much so that if the Childrens Hospital did not play ball their funding was cut.
According to the article at Politico (Andy Barr) – “In the end, he did it for the children. And the vulnerable senior citizens.
That was former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (D-Ill.) defense Thursday as he insisted the Illinois state Senate wanted to remove him from office because he provided health care for low-income families, lowered the price of prescription drugs for seniors and protected the lives of infants. And, he asserted, if that was an impeachable offense, then many other prominent politicians ought to be impeached as well.
The state Senate voted him out of office anyway, by a unanimous vote.
In his final address as the governor of Illinois, rather than defending himself against the allegations that he tried to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat, Blagojevich launched into an indictment of his state’s lawmakers who he said were intent on impeaching him as political retribution for health care spending.
“What did I do in this case but provide health care for low-income families?” the governor asked at one point during the nearly hour-long speech. “How is it an impeachable offense to protect low-income parents from losing their healthcare? How is it an impeachable offense to keep those families in a position to be able to see their doctors?”
At another point, Blagojevich asked “how can you throw a governor out of office who was acting to protect the lives of senior citizens and infants and trying to find ways to be able to help families?”
So we Americans must repeal this power grab of the massive funds available to the corrupt and secretive socialists who want this money as their personal and political piggybank. Most of all we MUST DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN!
Photo showing "photo-op" at the Whitehouse. Handing out white lab coats to physicians in attendance.
How many times do we hear the words “it’s for the kids” or “we need to do it for the kids” coming from a Democrat politician when trying to coerce a bill or policy down our collective throats?
Now that “Obamacare” is law and the Federal Government is poised to make all the vital decisions about everything related to the healthcare system that every American, including the kids, rely upon for quality care there seems to be anger and distrust of politicians pulling those strings.
Obama and the Democrats are incredulously saying that they are astounded by the anger and uprising against this law and believe that we should be thanking them for saving us from those evil doers in the Insurance industry. They think that we are ill-informed and downright ignorant about the subject matter and their arrogance is on display front and center over the matter.
A lot of the anger and distrust directly stems from the “credibility” factor of the Obama and Democrats over the secretive and dishonest way they have handled the bill through lies, distortions, bribes and corruption of the entire process. The complete partisan tactics on the Democrats part were disgusting. The behavior of the Democrats is childlike. It looked like tantrums on a school recess playground where the bullies stole the ball in order to directly affect the outcome of the game. Time after time they were caught in lies and distortions and changed their stories to fit their reality. They complained that Republicans did not have any viable ideas that countered their efforts while at the same time they locked out opposition lawmakers from discussions on the bill. In fact, they went as far as “changing the locks when the act of locking an existing meeting room failed to keep them out”. Yes, childlike indeed!
One of the tactics that the Democrats were caught in was the bribes to the AMA over Medicare reimbursement allotments to physicians while increasing Medicaid rates paid to physicians for care (aka - “Doctor Fix”).
Medicaid Slush Fund for campaign contributions
We know that Obama and a great number of his “inner circle” hail from the “Chicago political machine”. The tactics of corruption of this particular political machine is well known in certain circles but will come into full view in the coming months when Rod Blagojevich goes on trial. One of the numerous charges against him is the attempted extortion of “Childrens Hospital” CEO to contribute to the “Friends of Blagojevich” re-election campaign fund in exchange for $8 million in direct Medicaid reimbursements to the doctors at the Hospital.
Once again, remember the Democrats favorite fallback position of “do it for the kids”!
Once again, remember that Obama and the Democrats want complete control of the Healthcare infrastructure. The Blagojevich trial will spotlight just how they use it for their own political and personal piggybanks.
In recent court filings, the ex-Governor’s brother is seeking to separate himself from the trial, where he is a co-defendant, because he is fearful he will get “sucked down the drain” with his brother. This is at the same time the ex-governor is proclaiming his innocence of the “trumped up charges”.
Here is a description of the conversations surrounding the event that were caught on FBI tape and reported by the Chicago Tribune on April 14:
Note: Robert Blagojevich is the brother of Rod Blagojevich.
“On October 8, 2008, Blagojevich met with Lobbyist A, who was a lobbyist for Children’s Memorial, Robert Blagojevich, and Monk at the FOB Offices. At one point in the meeting, during a discussion of Children’s Memorial, Blagojevich said to Lobbyist A words to the effect of, “[the baseball manager] called me. I’m going to do $8 million for them, I want to get [Children’s CEO] for 50.”
Lobbyist A understood Blagojevich to be making a reference to the efforts of Children’s Memorial to increase the pay for its physicians and to be saying that Blagojevich wanted to approach Children’s CEO for a $50,000 contribution to FOB.
In response, Lobbyist A said that Children’s Memorial was a non-profit organization, $50,000 was a very hard number, and now was not the time.
Lobbyist A thought that it would be appropriate to wait for a year or more to solicit any contribution, and that it would be wrong to ask Children’s Memorial for money while they were awaiting funding for their doctors. Lobbyist A suggested giving Children’s CEO more time before soliciting any donation.
In response, Blagojevich said words to the effect, “how much time do you mean, ten days?”
Either later that day after Lobbyist A left or at another meeting between Blagojevich, Robert Blagojevich, and Monk, the topic of getting a contribution from Children’s Memorial was raised again.
Blagojevich asked Monk to seek a contribution from Children’s Memorial.
Monk said that it did not make any sense for him to do that because he did not have any contacts at the hospital, and eventually it was decided that Robert Blagojevich would follow up.
On October 9, 2008, Robert Blagojevich left a voicemail for Lobbyist A in which Robert Blagojevich indicated that he was “just kind of trying to clean up ah, loose ends from yesterday” and that “I know that you’re gonna be following up with Children’s Memorial and just wanted to know what the next steps are and what it is, kind of we’re looking to accomplish there.”
Robert Blagojevich indicated that he wanted to “ make sure I’m following up on you so you get it done.” and that “you know I’m jerking your chain but ah, I ah, I think they have a potential to do well by us.”
On or about October 17, 2008, Children’s CEO called Blagojevich after receiving a message that Blagojevich wanted to speak with him.
In that conversation, Blagojevich said he was supportive and that he had approved a $10 million increase in the Medicaid payments that would be made to pediatric doctors.
Blagojevich told Children’s CEO that the increase in payments would take effect on January 1, 2009, and asked Children’s CEO to work with Blagojevich’s staff prior to that date.
Blagojevich asked Children’s CEO to keep this quiet until the end of the year, which Children’s CEO understood to mean that he should not draw attention to the increase. Children’s CEO was very pleased to hear what Blagojevich said, and thought that it was quite significant that it was the governor himself, as opposed to someone on his staff, who was indicating that the increase would happen.
On or about October 22, 2008, Lobbyist A met again with Blagojevich and Robert Blagojevich at the FOB office. During that meeting, Blagojevich informed Lobbyist A that Blagojevich had called Children’s CEO and told Children’s CEO that he was moving forward with the money that Children’s Memorial had wanted.
Blagojevich said that he did not want to directly ask Children’s CEO for money because he wanted to maintain a line between government and fundraising. Blagojevich then asked whether Lobbyist A or Robert Blagojevich should be the person to ask Children’s CEO for the money.
Lobbyist A understood that Blagojevich was, in effect saying that Children’s Memorial had gotten the money they wanted and, therefore, were going to be asked to make a contribution to [the Friends of Blagojevich]
Robert Blagojevich agreed to make the call to Children’s CEO to ask for the money.
On or about October 22, 2008, Children’s CEO got a message that he should call Robert Blagojevich. Children’s CEO had met Robert Blagojevich many months earlier at a fundraising event and shook hands with him, but otherwise had not spoken with him.
When Children’s CEO returned the call, Robert Blagojevich said that he wanted Children’s CEO to arrange a fund raising event for Blagojevich.
Robert Blagojevich said words to the effect that “we would like for you to raise $25,000 for the governor.”
Robert Blagojevich was not specific about how Children’s CEO could arrange to raise the money, but suggested that Children’s CEO, his friends and associates, and Children’s Memorial board members could make contributions.
In response, Children’s CEO said that he knew that Blagojevich supported Children’s Memorial and many of the issues that were important to the hospital and that Children’s Memorial would like to be helpful, but did not know how they could.
Children’s CEO had no intention of raising funds for Blagojevich, but was afraid that if he said no directly Blagojevich might rescind his commitment to increase the pediatric Medicaid rates.
Robert Blagojevich pressed Children’s CEO on arranging the contribution, saying that a contribution would be most helpful if it were delivered by the end of the year.
Children’s CEO was upset after the call because of the pressure from Robert Blagojevich to arrange a contribution of $25,000 to Blagojevich.
As a result, Children’s CEO decided that he would not talk any further with Robert Blagojevich, and instructed his staff not to forward him any calls from Robert Blagojevich.
Robert Blagojevich made several more attempts to call Children’s CEO after October 22, 2008, but Children’s CEO did not answer or return those calls.
On November 12, 2008, at approximately 8:43 a.m., Blagojevich was intercepted speaking with Robert Blagojevich (Blagojevich Call #836).
In that call, Robert Blagojevich said that he had never heard back from Children’s CEO even though he had left three messages for Children’s CEO. Blagojevich indicated that he would call Children’s CEO.
On November 12, 2008, at approximately 2:14 p.m., Blagojevich was intercepted speaking with Deputy Governor A (Blagojevich Call #572). The call started with Blagojevich asking about the pediatric doctors reimbursement, which Deputy Governor A understood to be a reference to the Children’s Memorial reimbursement issue.
Deputy Governor A was not expecting the reimbursement issue to come up in this conversation.
Blagojevich asked Deputy Governor A if it had happened or was still on hold
Deputy Governor A responded that it was set for January 1st.
Blagojevich asked Deputy Governor A if they had discretion over the rate increase and Deputy Governor A confirmed that they did.
Blagojevich then asked Deputy Governor A if they could “pull it back if we needed to — budgetary concerns — right?”
Deputy Governor A told Blagojevich that they could pull it back.
Blagojevich stated that was “good to know.”
Based on Blagojevich’s statements, Deputy Governor A understood that Blagojevich either wanted the rate increase put on hold or killed. Deputy Governor A did not believe that Blagojevich wanted to hold or kill the rate increase for budgetary reasons. Blagojevich had never before cited to Deputy Governor A budgetary concerns as a reason to not do something and the amount of money being discussed for the rate increase was not nearly as significant as a number of other budget issues that were being addressed.
Further, Deputy Governor A had not talked to Blagojevich about the rate increase being a budget problem and, in fact, the proposed rate increases would not affect the budget because they were not to be paid for with new money.
Deputy Governor A understood that if he let the rate increase go through, Blagojevich would have been very angry.
After the phone call with Blagojevich, Deputy Governor A called the agency head and told him to put a hold on the rate increase. In turn, the agency head directed his staff to stop working on the rate increase.
In the Fall of 2008, Monk was at a meeting with Blagojevich and Robert Blagojevich. In that meeting, Blagojevich asked Robert Blagojevich about getting a contribution from Children’s Memorial.
Robert Blagojevich said the contact at Children’s Memorial had not returned a number of his calls and he was not going to call him anymore.
Blagojevich got upset and said words to the effect, “Screw these guys” or “Screw them.” Almost immediately, Blagojevich arranged for a phone call to Deputy Governor A about some funding that the State of Illinois was about to give to Children’s Memorial. While Monk did not participate in the phone conversation or hear Deputy Governor A’s statements, he heard Blagojevich said words to the effect, “Where are we on the money to Children’s Memorial Hospital?”
There was a pause, then Blagojevich said words to the effect, “Hold it up” or “Slow it down” or “Don’t do anything until I tell you.”
Monk understood that Blagojevich was instructing Deputy Governor A to hold up the money that was supposed to go to Children’s Memorial.
As of the date of Blagojevich’s arrest on December 9, 2008, he had not directed that any work on the Medicaid rate increase resume or go forward, and no further work had been done.
As you can see, the “Chicago Political Machine” has the Children best interest at heart. So much so that if the Childrens Hospital did not play ball their funding was cut.
According to the article at Politico (Andy Barr) – “In the end, he did it for the children. And the vulnerable senior citizens.
That was former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (D-Ill.) defense Thursday as he insisted the Illinois state Senate wanted to remove him from office because he provided health care for low-income families, lowered the price of prescription drugs for seniors and protected the lives of infants. And, he asserted, if that was an impeachable offense, then many other prominent politicians ought to be impeached as well.
The state Senate voted him out of office anyway, by a unanimous vote.
In his final address as the governor of Illinois, rather than defending himself against the allegations that he tried to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat, Blagojevich launched into an indictment of his state’s lawmakers who he said were intent on impeaching him as political retribution for health care spending.
“What did I do in this case but provide health care for low-income families?” the governor asked at one point during the nearly hour-long speech. “How is it an impeachable offense to protect low-income parents from losing their healthcare? How is it an impeachable offense to keep those families in a position to be able to see their doctors?”
At another point, Blagojevich asked “how can you throw a governor out of office who was acting to protect the lives of senior citizens and infants and trying to find ways to be able to help families?”
So we Americans must repeal this power grab of the massive funds available to the corrupt and secretive socialists who want this money as their personal and political piggybank. Most of all we MUST DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN!
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