Audio: Breitbart on Mark Levin (Plus My Review Of Righteous Indignation)

Andrew Breitbart, on his book tour to promote his new book, Righteous Indignation, has been making stops all over the media, talking about his favorite topic, the Democrat media Complex. Here he is on The Mark Levin Show, last night:

video via Breitbart TV

I received my copy, yesterday, and am already half through because  Breitbart writes like he talks, making his book an eminently entertaining and easy read. I’m finding that his interest in politics very closely parallels my own; we both started paying close attention during the Clarence Thomas hearings, and were appalled by what we saw. I had already discovered Rush Limbaugh by that time – he was soon to. While Breitbart was making the transformation from “default liberal” to conservative, I had always been fairly conservative in my thinking, but was in the process of understanding the arguments for my conservatism, better. I remember how thrilling it felt that somebody was finally willing to go on the air and espouse  what the silent majority believed, but was too intimidated to say out loud on politically incorrect topics such as entitlements and  feminism.

Breitbart grew up in a stable, two parent home, and had been raised to  know the difference between right and wrong – a key factor, I think , in his transformation to conservatism. Even as a liberal Democrat who had marinated in leftist thinking his whole life, he could see that the Thomas hearings were nothing but, (as Thomas himself called them) a high tech lynching, orchestrated to protect the holiest of holies to the left: abortion rights.

His hunger for news, and his ADHD fueled his first forays into the brand new internet, which he taught himself how to use, back when it was a much more complicated endeavor to get online. He’s about a decade ahead of me, there. I spent the nineties as a young wife and mother, dedicated to being the best homemaker I could be for my family. It wasn’t until 2004 that I started using the computer on any kind of regular basis.

But the stories in the news that incensed Andrew were the same ones that incensed me. The 1998 slimefest  directed toward Republicans that ensued as the Democrat Media Complex circled the wagons around their man in the White House, BJ Clinton, still enrages me to this day. I saw shades of 1998 when Wisconsin Dems recently slimed  Supreme Court Justice, David Prosser in Wisconsin because he  represents an end to the powerful and corrupt Dem/union partnership that has been bankrupting the state budget.

As much as I despise Al Gore for his global warming idiocy, nothing can compare the contempt I have for the man for the desperate, pathetic, and graceless manner in which he attempted to steal the close 2000 election, (trying to recount the votes until he could find enough to put him on top). His  refusal to  gracefully cede the election to the winner had disastrous ramifications for Bush, poisoning the political atmosphere for him for his entire term of office.

Breitbart vividly recounts the battles of 1998, 2000, and post 9/11 in his book, which I highly recommend.

(I’ll review part two after I finish reading it).

Reactions To Obama’s Town Hall, Today

It’s hard to decide what the most absurd thing Obama said in his town hall speech was,  today.

People took away different portions to lambaste:

Greg Hengler noted: Obama Logic: Raising Taxes On Rich Will Encourage Rich To Keep Their Businesses In America

According to Obama (seen here in Annandale, MD), decreasing potholes, improving roads and bridges, and building high-speed light rail by taxing the job creators, will incentivize those same job creators to keep their businesses here.

Ed Morrissey focused on Obama’s bridge collapse lie: Video: Obama uses false bridge-collapse argument to argue for more taxes

Remember when that bridge in Minnesota collapsed with all those people on it? And there was a big hue and cry, “How can this happen in America?” Well, the National Society of Engineers — they looked around and they give us a D when it comes to infrastructure.

The bridge collapse occurred because of a design defect, a conclusion reached by the National Transportation Safety Board. The bridge was designed and built in an era when engineers thought that redundant systems were both unnecessary and inefficient.  Gusset plates installed at the time of the bridge’s building were too thin, and without any redundancy to account for a major failure on a single point, it was a tragedy waiting to happen from day 1.  It had nothing to do with any lack of maintenance, and in fact collapsed because of scheduled maintenance to the deck that inadvertently destabilized it to the point of collapse.

It’s dishonest in the extreme to use this tragedy as an argument that we neglected our infrastructure, and ghoulish to use the dead for a false political point.  Obama should be ashamed of himself.

The Lonely Conservative was offended by his  dishonest demagoguery aimed at students:

…he told students that Republicans are trying to balance the budget on their backs. This man really knows no shame. It’s the younger generations who will be hit the hardest by his disastrous policies.

“I can’t afford to have all of you as bystanders,” Obama told a town-hall meeting at Northern Virginia Community College. “There are powerful voices in Washington; there are powerful lobbies and special interests in Washington. And they’re going to want to reduce the deficit on your backs. And if you are not heard, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.” …

The president got applause when he called for $400 billion in new cuts to the Pentagon and for taxing the wealthy.
“We are going to have to ask everyone to sacrifice, and if we are going to ask community colleges to sacrifice…then we can ask millionaires and billionaires to make a little sacrifice,” he said.

If he has his way, the economy will tank even further, reducing revenue to the government, thereby making the deficit and debt worse, not better.

Today on his show, Rush hammered this point: “Obama Says We Can’t Spend More Than We Take In”:

Now, Obama’s out there speaking to these skulls full of mush today, and he said, “We can’t spend more than we take in.”  Now, there’s a possible second meaning to this.  We’re sitting here and we are incredulous that he be such a goofball.  He’s the architect of spending more than we take in.  So it could well be — remember, now, my theorem is that what Obama’s doing here is simply providing the national media some sound bites.  This audience is just a bunch of props.  He’s providing the national media with a bunch of sound bites to use uncritically in his campaign.  Now, if you’re Obama, and this is a likelihood, if you’re Obama and you say, “We can’t keep spending more than we take in,” it could be a prelude to, “So I’m going to raise taxes.  We have to raise taxes.”  You know, we must consider that as the way he’s thinking.  The most profligate spender in the history of spenders, we hear him say, “We can’t spend more than we take in,” and we think, how can somebody be so stupid to say this?  How can he continue to say these things when he is the architect of it?

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So here’s my idea, and knowing full well it will never happen, but I still nevertheless propose it as one who cares deeply and loves amazingly this country.  Republicans propose a budget to Obama tomorrow.  We call it the “we can’t spend more than we take in budget.”  We cut spending to revenue.  We totally head him off at the pass on tax increases.  We present a budget that cuts spending to revenue and we call it the “Obama Says We Can’t Spend More Than We Take In” bill.  And we give him credit for it.  We give him the credit for inspiring the legislation.  We say that we saw him make the speech to the students at the junior college in Virginia and a light went off, a great idea.  We wish we had thought of it in such simple terms.  You can’t spend more than you take in.  So we propose the “Obama Says We Can’t Spend More Than We Take In” bill.  Pass it.  Republicans in the House propose it and pass it.  Call his leftist bluff, head him off at the pass on tax increases.  He’s using poll tested language in lieu of actually running the executive branch.  So wrap him up in his own words.  Everything he’s doing is poll tested.  When’s the last time you heard Obama say, “We can’t continue to spend more than we take in.”  That’s focus group research.  Call his bluff.

My reaction to any Obama speech is always the same. Disgust with him for the lies. Disgust with his audience for believing them.

Linked by Michelle Malkin, in Buzzworthy, and Doug Ross,  thanks!

New Black Panthers Plan Protest and Boycott Of Non Black Businesses

After all, y’all, they didn’t come to pin the tail on the donkey, they came to pin the tail on the honky!:

The Daily Caller reports:

The New Black Panther Party – an organization known largely for their intimidation of voters outside a Philadelphia precinct- has announced plans for a “National Day of Action and Unity,” – ironically urging followers (on their day of unity) to boycott all “non-black business” on April 23.

The New Black Panthers plan to protest non-black establishments and entities via “rallies, marches, demonstrations, programs, and confrontations” in over 60 cities.

“Because blacks worldwide are dissatisfied at their current condition,” the Panther’s announcement explains.

They plan on protesting non blacks on Holy Saturday, “with or without a permit.”

A serious showdown looming for Saturday April 23rd as  corrupt politicians try to deny day of action marchers tight to rally and march in front Adam Clayton Powell Harlem state office buildings

Black Marchers, New Black Panther Party, vow to Rally in front of the Adam Clayton Powell building  with or without a permit in solidarity with 60 cities and states on Saturday, April 23rd   for the “National and International Day Of Action and Unity”

Like in Tahir square in Egypt we will establish this historic location for our revolution and our demands.  Over 1,000 are expected in this historic outdoor political rally.

As in other revolutions, protests and uprisings going on around the earth, a showdown is looming for Saturday April 23rd as marchers with the ”National International Day of Action and Unity” are furious and frustrated with New York officials blatant discrimination and denial of their constitutional and human right to rally and march.  Marchers are marching and rallying in 60 cities around America and in London and Africa to demand justice for Black People and improvement in our conditions.

On 4-23 We will be Rallying at the Adam Clayton Powell building and Marching Down 125th street.  On April 23rd, whether we have to do it with or without a permit, face jail or take whatever action is necessary to relieve oppressive conditions against Blacks in New York and around the planet.

This news conference will be attended by Brooklyn City Councilman Charles Barron, March co-organizer, New Black Panther Leader, Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, community supporters and leaders and of course members of the New Black Panther Party, who have been the subject of major national controversy surrounding the Dismissal of Voter Intimidation Charges by the United States Department of Justice

Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, who co –organized all 70 cities U.S. and Worldwide says, “just like when we organized the Million Youth March under the call from Dr. Khallid Muhammad on September 5th 1998 there is blatant attempt to quash our first amendment rights and to suppress the  voice of Black Power and outrage in Harlem.   This cannot be tolerated.  We have to Stand up.“

I think a lot of people will be too busy getting ready for Easter to notice.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers.

Linked by WyBlog, thanks!

Video: Obama Gets Snippy With Texas Interviewer

Obama clearly didn’t appreciate being corrected when caught fudging the facts, and let his displeasure be known at the end of the interview:

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VDH: Patient Obama

 The president is cynical and says whatever he wishes without worry of consequences, because based on the past abyss between laurels and achievement (Harvard Law Review, offer of Chicago Law School tenure, record in the Senate, Nobel Prize, etc.), he feels exempt from scrutiny and audit. Indeed, he expects that he can always “hope and change” or “millions of green jobs” his way out of any rare, nit-picking journalistic follow-up. (A journalist will always declare him a “god” even if speech A nullifies speech B a day later).

The president says, like most, what he must to be elected and now reelected; Guantanamo, renditions, Iraq, tribunals, Predators, preventative detention, public campaign financing, revolving door politics, earmarks, lobbyists, etc. — these are all just “constructs” without real absolute truth. They are bad or good, depending on the political calculus at any given time — a consideration that changes sometimes hourly. So Obama seems to have discovered that what he said to get elected, or even said two weeks ago, he need not say today again or tomorrow. Polls change, so do talking points. (He also knows that 50% of the citizenry receive some sort of government money; almost 50% pay no income tax; and in February more money was redistributed than collected by the Treasury. Therefore most Americans will stick by him whatever he says — as long as he keeps the money flowing.)

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

Linked by Legal Insurrection, thanks!

Krauthammer: S and P Negative Outlook is a Review of Obama’s Budget Speech

Krauthammer dropped the hammer on Obama again this evening, saying  that S&P’s negative outlook was a review of Obama’s dismal budget speech from last week, which he characterized as a “kick in the teeth at Republicans, (with incidentally, the House leadership and Ryan sitting in front of him”).

He continued, “it was not an invitation to any negotiation. It was a way of saying, you walked into my trap, I’m going to attack you from now until election day.”

video via Newsbusters

Whoa.

I’m getting the feeling that Charles Krauthammer is not at all inclined to like this fellow with the well creased pants.

See also:

Ace of Spades was hammering Obama pretty hard, today, too:

 Identity Theft: American Credit Rating To Fall Due To Reckless Spending Spree By Imposter

Obama’s dishonest slight of hand on his budget:

Keith Hennessey: Yes, Obama Picked His 12 Year Deficit Window So He Could Claim To Match Ryan’s 4.4 Trillion Savings (In Ten Years)

A plea for Republicans to go negative:

How To Get Obama On His Lies

More Obama duplicity:

Obama Spokesman: Obama Never Promised Not To Use Signing Statements
Candidate Obama: I Promise I Will Not Use Signing Statements

CBS News Fudges Madison Tea Party Counter Protest Coverage

Freeper, comps4spice, caught this CBS slight of hand in its  coverage of the Madison tea party, Saturday.

See what they did there? Whether or not there were more counter protesters than Tea Partiers at the Madison rally, is it honest and fair to show a shot from an earlier pro- union protest in a piece  about the Madison rally?

… something caught my eye during the report, specifically when they did a pan of the “liberal crowd”…but they pulled a Dan Rather by using video footage from some liberal rally prior to the April 5th Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

How do I know this? Well, if you go have a look at the video in the link above, pay close attention at the 18 second mark. There is a campaign sign being held by a liberal saying to “Vote Kloppenburg on April 5th”.

Watch:

Full CBS video, here.

There was a large crowd of tea partiers at the Madison rally considering the inclement weather:

More pictures from the tea party, here. It’s true that they were surrounded by counter-protesters, but why didn’t the CBS reporter cover their thuggish attempts to drown out the tea party speakers? Did anyone in the MSM cover the abominable behavior of the counter protesters?

MORE:

A comparison of the crowds according to Channel 3000:

A view of the tea party rally, Madison, Wis., 4/16/2011

A view of the counter-rally

There were union counter protesters surrounding the tea party in the first picture. It’s not clear where the tea party crowd ends and the counter protest begins. Barbaric thoughts reports that the pro union counter protesters were  “walking around the sidewalk on the periphery of our rally.”

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John at Powerline also picked up on some not-so subtle media bias:

AFP didn’t try to hide what it thinks of the movement in the caption that accompanied a video taken in Massachusetts:

April 15 was tax day in the United States, and Tea Party radicals used it to stage demonstrations across the country, including near the site of the original Boston Tea Party revolt of the colonial era.

Because objecting to unsound fiscal policies that are leading us to bankruptcy is just  oh-so radical.

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Ace discusses the media double standard and wonders whether it’s worth our time to constantly point it out:

Watching the media strain to find weirdness and ugliness in the Tea Party highlighted this as clearly as anything else before: Are their no weird, ugly, stupid or hateful people in the left’s various rabbles? Of course there are, but oddly enough the media always focuses like a laser-beam on the more physically attractive, “straighter” (i.e., has normal stuff like family and full-time job), and so on.

They can’t point their cameras at the left-wing rabble-rousers because it contradicts their comfy narrative, and the left knows they can act as brutishly as the want, and the MSM will give them a free pass. It’s a nice little deal they’ve got going, there.

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, thanks!

FEC Audit of Obama’s 2008 Campaign Underway

RollCall reports:

The Federal Election Commission has launched an audit into President Barack Obama’s record-breaking 2008 campaign.

Individuals familiar with the campaign told Roll Call Friday that the FEC has been investigating the financial records of Obama’s previous campaign. The scope of the probe, which began approximately two years ago, is unknown. Presidential audits typically take years to complete and can cost millions of dollars.

The newly formed 2012 Obama campaign did not deny there was an audit, but a spokeswoman called it a “review.”

“The FEC is conducting a routine review — as is true with the McCain Campaign, the Romney Campaign and many others — to determine if they have any questions with the information reported,” said Katie Hogan, deputy press secretary for the campaign. “Given that there was an historic number of contributors and contributions — nearly four million and over nine million respectively — this takes time.”

Nice spin. The FEC was required by law to audit the McCain campaign because McCain opted to receive public financing. Obama had originally vowed to do the same, but reneged, therefore, the FEC is not required to audit his campaign.

Yet they are.

FEC spokespeople would not confirm the audit of Obama’s 2008 bid or say why the agency used its discretion to launch its investigation. But the decision came in the wake of Republican allegations of illegal contributions, as well as dozens of letters from the agency questioning transactions that appeared out of compliance with campaign finance laws.

The FEC’s decision to audit the campaign is not surprising, given that it was the largest federal campaign in history, raising more than $750 million in receipts. If Obama’s campaign were not audited, it would have been the first presidential nominee’s campaign to escape such scrutiny since the public financing system was created in 1976.

The potential for the FEC’s audit became increasingly more likely as the FEC questioned some of Obama campaign filings. In all, the FEC wrote 26 letters to Obama for America warning the campaign that if it did not adequately respond to the agency’s questions that it “could result in an audit or enforcement action.”

These letters totaled more than 1,500 pages of questions and data that outlined compliance concerns — including the longest one ever sent to a presidential candidate.

Keep reading.

Hat tip: Brian B.

When You’re losing, “Shut Up” Is All You Have Left

Via The MacIver Institute:

From using Nazi references to adorning the American Flag with political bumper stickers and using it as a poncho, the full extremism of the left was on display in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend.

Rejecting any attempts at conveying a ‘New Tone,’ pro-labor union activists attempt to drown out speakers at the tea party rally at the State Capitol on April 16, 2011.

Rally speakers included John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, conservative media maven Andrew Breitbart and former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. However, the protesters did their best to prevent those in attendance from hearing any of them.

Last weekend, we saw the left out in full force – not only in Madison, but Portland, Phoenix, Boston, and elsewhere, trying to drown out the tea party. Not content to respectfully counter protest by displaying their own messages, they aimed to disrupt, and shut down stronger voices.

After losing big in November, and in union reform budget battles  all across the nation, their desperation is clearly showing. Their clanging cowbells sound like a death rattle to me.

See Left-Wing Institute For Civil Discourse for more on the counter protests, last weekend. Start at the top and scroll down.

Picture Of The Day

MADISON, WI – APRIL 16: A weary teapartier rests her head on a shoulder as she waits for Sarah Palin’s speech at the Tax Day Tea Party in Madison, Wis, on Saturday:

Sign-o-the day, here.

Hat tip: Supermama

Your Sunday Hymn: All Glory Laud And Honor

For your Palm Sunday:

All Glory, Laud and Honor” is based on verses written in the early Middle Ages. The Latin original, “Gloria, laus et honor tibi sit, rex Christe redemptor” was 78 lines long. It was written as a processional hymn. In the Middle Ages, it was the custom for the clergy and choir to process within the church as well as in the church square and town.

St. Theodulph of Orleans wrote “All Glory, Laud and Honor” while he was in prison, under suspicion of plotting against Emperor Louis I. Legend has it that King Louis passed the prison during the Palm Sunday procession while Theodulph sang this hymn from his window, which so delighted the king that he was immediately liberated. However, the unfortunate truth is that he probably remained imprisoned until his death in 821, possibly of poisoning.

Lyrics:

Video: Andrew Breitbart’s Speech In Madison: “America Will Be Community Organized No More!”

Thousands of Wisconsinites came out on a cold snowy day to attend a Tax Day Tea Party featuring Sarah Palin and Andrew Breitbart.  Palin’s speech can be heard, here.

Photo via Fav Stocks

Some lefties in attendance offered some thoughtful counterpoints to Andrews arguments:

Video: Sarah Palin Takes Madison By Storm (Updated with Lefty Boo Video)

“You ignored us in 2010 but you can’t ignore us in 2012!”

(AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Today, Sarah Palin braved a snowstorm in Madison to give what some are saying is her greatest speech since her 2008 convention speech to thousands of tea partiers.  She put on her mama grizzly fangs and tore into union thugs, wimpy establishment Republicans and most of all, the president. Holy cow, she was on fire.

My favorite part is when she  triumphantly proclaimed, “Mr Obama! You and your cohorts threw all the hatred and all the  violence you could at these good folks here in Madison, Wisconsin, but you lost, here!”

Take a listen!

John Nolte at Big Government writes:

You see what else she did there? Exactly what she did as a reform-minded governor in Alaska. She called the GOP Establishment out for everything they’re doing wrong, appealed to reasonable rank-and-file union members disgusted by their leadership, and reaffirmed her own proud union credentials. Better yet, she also launched the kind of tight, sharp, and articulate attack on President Obama’s failed presidency that likely has the White House — and their media allies — loosening their ties, clearing their throats, and looking for any word she might have mispronounced as an excuse to drown out her appealing message with the furtherance of a cruel “stupid” narrative they’ve been failing at for two-plus years.

I’ll ask again: How can someone so “dumb” be so right about everything?

Update:

Here’s the unpleasant sound of left-wing thugs trying to disrupt Sarah Palin’s speech.

“Gee, Sarah Palin seems to have a problem with winning over a crowd”, the poster (main booer) writes.

And people wonder why we call them thugs.

UPDATE II:

Dan Riehl has it exactly right:

It’s ironic to watch so many so called establishment Republicans who seem to want to be leader of the free world dance their way around the more serious political battles of our time. They criticize, they pontificate, or editorialize, yet from ObamaCare to a budget deal, they’re also careful to not too directly engage. The same can be said of them for what has played out in Madison, Wisconsin over the past month.

Whether it’s talking about death panels, or blood libel, to now showing up in Madison – that’s not former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. As I said to a friend and colleague tonight, wherever the current battle is, that’s very often where you can find Palin. One of the first requirements for leadership is to show up out front. No one will ever accuse Palin of not doing that. Doing so also has an interesting side benefit for any would be leader. When you lead, people tend to follow and support you, even if not at first.

UPDATE III:

James Pethokoukis, Reuters: Palin in Madison: Veni, Vidi, Vici:

Sarah Palin rides to the sound of the guns. It was a chilly, wet and blustery afternoon in Madison, Wisconsin — one more appropriate for a late-season Packers game than a springtime political rally. The stirring NFL Films theme,  “The Classic Battle,” would’ve been a more apt musical choice than Van Halen’s “Right Now” to accompany Palin as she entered the stage outside the state capital building to address thousands of Tea Party members, along with a good number of extremely hostile, expletive-hurling government union rowdies.

In the last few months, political professionals and insiders have been writing off the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate, convinced she won’t run for the GOP nomination in 2012 or ever. Then again, even those GOPers who are running can hardly compete with the MSM’s weird, all-consuming fascination with The Donald.

But all it took was one powerful, pugnacious and presidential speech — just 15 minutes long — for Palin to again make herself completely relevant to the current political and policy battles raging across America.

Lots of great pix of Palin at the Tea Party, here.

Text of Obama portion of speech:

Video: The Patriot Guard Ride To The Rescue

The Westboro Baptist freaks target military families when they’re in the midst of horrible suffering  and when they are most vulnerable. Enter the Patriot Guard Riders. This particular group of riders is just one of several spotlighted on NRALifeofDuty.TV.

Take  a few moments and watch this whole thing.

The Patriot Guard Riders consist of motorcycle riders from across the nation who come together and work to ensure that the funerals for America’s fallen heroes are shielded from interruptions by protesters. This group is one of several Patriot Profiles spotlighted on NRALifeofDuty.TV, a network that serves and supports those who go to work each day to protect, defend and fight for the safety of the American people. In light of the Supreme Court 8-1 decision that members of the renegade Westboro Baptist Church have a constitutionally protected right to protest military funerals, please take a moment to watch this video in honor of our heroes, those warriors like Brennan Gibson and Matthew Snyder.

Hat tip: Breitbart TV

Obama Tells Congress, “Sorry, I’m Keeping The Czars”

The budget bill that passed Congress Thursday included a provision to defund a number of White House czars including the “Health Care Czar,” the “Climate Change Czar,” the “Car Czar,” and the “Urban Affairs Czar.”

Ed Morrissey noted, earlier this week:

This list includes three of the most offensive “czars” in the Romanov wing of the Obama administration.  Obama has an HHS Secretary in Kathleen Sebelius, so he doesn’t need a “czar” on health care.  Likewise, his Cabinet includes a Secretary of Energy (Stephen Chu) and Interior (Ken Salazar), so why does the administration need a “climate change czar”?  The government shouldn’t even be in the car business, so the car czar has to go.  And while the “Urban Affairs Czar” hasn’t gotten much press, shouldn’t Shaun Donovan’s role as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development cover, er, urban affairs?

This evening HuffPo reports that ‘Obama had a message for Congress Friday: his so-called “czars” aren’t going anywhere.’

…on Friday night, Obama declared that he intends to ignore that part of the budget legislation, issuing a relatively rare “signing statement” after he inked the budget deal in which he argued that the legislative effort to eliminate those positions was an unconstitutional infringement on the executive branch.

“The President has well-established authority to supervise and oversee the executive branch, and to obtain advice in furtherance of this supervisory authority,” Obama wrote in a message to Congress. “The President also has the prerogative to obtain advice that will assist him in carrying out his constitutional responsibilities, and do so not only from executive branch officials and employees outside the White House, but also from advisers within it.

“Legislative efforts that significantly impede the President’s ability to exercise his supervisory and coordinating authorities or to obtain the views of the appropriate senior advisers violate the separation of powers,” he added. “Therefore, the executive branch will construe [the law as to] not to abrogate these Presidential prerogatives.”

Republicans were not impressed.

“It’s not surprising that the White House, having bypassed Congress to empower these ‘Czars’ is objecting to eliminating them,” said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Not surprisingly, the comments at HuffPo run along the lines of: “Good for you Mr. President !”

Does “executive authority” allow you to flout a law you just signed?

MORE:

Obama issued two “signing statements”, Friday, the one on the czars and a statement strongly objecting to provisions in the legislation intended to bar the transfer of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the U.S., but did not go so far as to outright disregard the provisions. Rather, Obama said he wouldn’t accept any expansion of those restrictions, and would seek the repeal of the ones included in the legislation.

This, of course, represents another egregious flip flop of something he hammered Bush on, and campaigned against.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: When Congress offers you a bill, do you promise not to use presidential signings to get your way?OBAMA: “Yes… This is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he is going along. i disagree with that. i taught the Constitution for 10 years. i believe in the Constitution and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. We are not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress. All right?”

Hat tip Pundit League.

As Palin Heads To Madison For Tea Party, Lefties In High Gear, Planning Disruptions and “Joking” About Violence

As I reported yesterday,Sarah Palin has made the courageous decision to travel to Wisconsin, ground zero in the ongoing union battles going on across the country, to rally with the tea party, and face down union thugs, who hate her with a burning white hot passion.

Some of the antics that are being planned:

lefties at Dumocratic Underground are planning a counter rally:

Stop Typing and Join us this Saturday, April 16 at the Capitol in Madison!

Help us welcome (and drown out) the Tea Baggers…

On Saturday, April 16th, tea party patriots from throughout Wisconsin will gather at the state Capitol in Madison for a rally to celebrate past victories and rally for Wisconsin’s future. The event will be emceed by talk show host James T. Harris and will feature John Fund columnist for The Wall Street Journal.

I found this on that “other site”
“Tell everybody to bring vuvuzelas… and blow the horns for 30 seconds at 1:00, then scream; “CAN YOU HEAR US NOW”

TEA Party Rally April 16th ~ AFP & other WI Patriot Groups (Madison WI, Capitol, Noon)
Time Saturday, April 16 · 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Location- WI State Capitol in Madistan, WI
Speakers include Vicki Mckenna and Tony Katz. Mark Belling may also be there.

“Americans for Prosperity” (Koch Brothers) are bussing them in from 10 cities around the state …

Gateway Pundit reports: Firefighters Union Threatens to Disrupt Palin-Breitbart Tea Party Tomorrow in Wisconsin

Here’s the announcement:

Saturday, April 16
State Capitol
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Leave Station #1 at 11 a.m.
(Call J.R. for more info at 216-****)

Come one, come all, hear the call to . . .DUMP TEA! DUMP PALIN!

Please share widely. The puppets are coming, the puppets are coming! Corporate puppets Sarah Palin and “Americans” for “Prosperity” are rallying at our Wisconsin State Capitol on 4/16.

BRING PUPPETS — sock puppets, hand puppets, marionettes, shadow puppets, finger puppets and muppets!

BRING LIBERTY BELLS — that means cowbells, dinner bells, doorbells, jingle bells, you name it, and let’s ring in Wisconsin’s independence from corporate rule!

Let’s show ‘em how we really feel about big corporations passing the tax burden on to the rest of us!

Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has been watching Twitter:

Via John Nolte at Big Government:

Yesterday, upon hearing of Palin’s decision,, I immediately tweeted something to the effect of, “If there’s violence, Palin will get the blame from the MSM. She had it coming for showing up.” That wasn’t a joke, either. Fact 1: We’ve already seen a campaign of violence in Wisconsin at the hands of pro-union types. Fact 2: We’ve already seen the corrupt MSM blame Palin for Tucson.

This morning, predictably, I woke up to this…

Sarah Palin To Be Pelted With Cheese Curds In Wisconsin Saturday

The Koch Brothers think it’s hilarious when their dumb puppets have to go face huge, angry crowds of political opponents. Remember the movie Trading Places? It’s the same idea: Incredibly rich old white creeps just torture their own lackeys whenever it gets dull oppressing the faceless poor and destroying the Earth to make Dixie Cups and Brawny paper douche towels. So the Koch Brothers are bringing Sarah Palin to Madison, right there at the State Capitol, for an “Americans For Prosperity” rally. Haha the union people and college kids are going to pelt her with a million pounds of Wisconsin’s famous Fried Cheese Turds. Or curds, whatever. Curdle Rain. Poor snowbilly grifter! …

It’s a shame this country has turned into such an evil socialist toilet that midwesterners would stoop so low as to stoop down and get a handful of cheese curds and hurl them at Sarah Palin, the Koch Brothers’ latest human prank on Wisconsin.

The entire piece is a smugger-than-thou and an openly hostile laugh riot, laughing at the idea of  a riot.

Sure, it’s easy to dismiss the source; snarky Wonkette being snarky Wonkette, until you realize that Ana Marie Cox, the founder of Wonkette, is now deeply embedded in the MSM. Truth be told, the only difference between the mainstream media and the Wonkette-types out there is the latter’s willingness to be more open about their hate and contempt.

Lefties are so full of self-delusion, they never see how unhinged they look, or how much projecting they do, (as with the Koch puppets).

That’s why it’s important to record what you see, and counter their Koch projection with puppets of your own:

Like this one I made a week or so ago. Confirmed: Emails Prove Wis. Fleebaggers Parroted Union Talking Points

Senate Minority Puppet Mark Miller.

Fran at Eternity Road has a word of caution for teapartiers:

Could it be any clearer that the Left’s agenda is to provoke a violent confrontation with the Right — most particularly with TEA Party attendees, the most energized and visible component of the small-government / Constitutional revival movement in our day?

All that remains of our original Constitutional guarantees of rights are freedom of expression and the vote. Yet these, too, are under attack — and once they’re gone, political disagreements will no longer be resolved by debates and elections. Violence will be the sole instrument for determining transitions in public authority, as it was before democratic mechanisms displaced bullets with ballots.

Do not be deceived: In attempting to prevent us from being heard, the Left’s intention is to remove all non-violent modes of disagreement from the public sphere. Indeed, it’s already resorted to violence and vandalism on several occasions, in the hope that favorable coverage of its shenanigans would focus the blame on the Right. Though your Curmudgeon has written that “whichever side first reaches for violence will lose,” in fact the matter is closer to “whichever side is portrayed as having first reached for violence will lose” — and the Old Media have been reliable friends to the enemies of freedom.

TEA Partiers in Madison tomorrow: Watch yourselves. If possible, form some sort of barrier against the Leftists that they cannot physically cross, and stay within it. Enlist the aid of the authorities to whatever extent you can. If you see a purple SEIU shirt, point it out to those around you, and counsel them to deny the wearer their attention. If blows should be struck, do your best to defend against them without reciprocating them. This is a time for Gandhi’s tactics, not HAMAS’s.

Hat tip: Charles B.

Cross-posted at Left-Wing Institute For Civil Discourse.