Oh Joy: Two Major Soros Conferences In One Weekend

Beloved philanthropist, George Soros is so dedicated to improving American lives, he’s scheduled two major conferences in one weekend:

The emphasis of both conferences is a familiar one to American voters – change. Soros wants to begin changing the global economy in one event. In the other, his flunkies want to “Change the world. Change the media.”

Now that is change you can believe in. Sadly, those who actually report the news must believe in it because they sure as heck aren’t reporting on Soros or either event. And that’s even though staffers or even executives from Reuters, the Financial Times, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post and other major media outlets are speaking at one event or the other.

The first gathering in Bretton Woods, N.H., is an economic conference Soros once described as “a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order.” In October 2009, Soros committed $50 million to the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). A week later, the glib lefty investor wrote a column calling for a new Bretton Woods event, to recreate the one that helped design the post-WWII economy. Only he wants this one to knock America down a peg or three.

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The announced speakers include a lot of prominent lefties, globalists and economists on the board of the organization he has throwing the event – more than two-thirds of the overall total have ties to Soros. To underscore their connection to history, INET is hosting the conference at the Mount Washington Resort, the very same hotel that held the first gathering.

And if that wasn’t enough, a Soros-funded media conference will be held just three hours away in Boston.

Close to 350 left-wingers from a variety of organizations are gathering there for the National Conference for Media Reform.That “change the world” conference includes two commissioners from the FCC, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bernie Sanders, four Democratic representatives, the head of Columbia University, and assorted left-wing journalist types, from Salon’s Glenn Greenwald to disgraced former MSNBC host David Shuster, who now works for a Soros-funded investigative operation.

The rest of the list reads like a “Who’s Who” of left-wing organizations and talking heads, including the president of PBS, a senior vice president with American Public Media, an Al Jazeera English executive, the president of the Newspaper Guild – CWA and Washington Post columnist Rob Pegoraro. Many others have Soros connections, such as:

Common Cause, which has been going after conservative Supreme Court justices who have some connection to the Koch brothers. Common Cause seems immune to similar investigations of their own gravy train.

Columbia Journalism Review’s Dean Starkman. He is chief of the review’s “The Audit” section and a 2006 Katrina Media Fellow with the Open Society Institute, the primary Soros charitable foundation.

Free Press, which is holding the conference. Free Press has received more than $1 million from Soros since 2003 and has 18 presenters pushing for things like “strong public media” or an extremely expensive national broadband plan they quaintly describe as “universal access to communications.”

Think Progress’sKoch-hating Lee Fang. Think Progress is a project of Democrat John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, which was founded with Soros money. Fang is on the panel for: “Real Issues vs. Astroturf: Confronting the Koch Brothers,” and makes the laughable claim “this is not about liberals versus conservatives” when the entire goal of the left is to shut down the Kochs to defund the right.

Meanwhile, those evil Koch brothers have been engaging in one nefarious deed after another – “stealing our democracy”™

I remember hearing the account of how the Koch brothers amassed a $10 Billion position in the British pound and then sold it short causing “Black Wednesday.” The evil brothers made $1.1 Billion and set England on a course towards a recession which hurt millions of people as businesses failed and the housing market collapsed. They essentially bankrupted an entire country to make a profit. That’s pure evil.

The Kochs broke the Bank of England via  their enormous, largely unregulated, derivative based hedge funds which aren’t even headquartered in the US!! Lord knows how many taxes those evil rich guys have avoided over the decades of their funds’ existence. The Leftists are always telling us how shady it is to offshore an operations’ headquarters and the Koch brothers are a prime example. Crashing economies and undermining currencies. Making billions of dollars. And then they have the audacity to not even use that money to create jobs in the US?? PURE. EVIL.

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They’ve been convicted of insider trading. They fund organizations dedicated to silencing opposing view points (literally, they don’t just disagree, they want them shut down). They operate a network of organizations which fund, directly or indirectly, nearly every radical movement in the US and abroad. They have declared themselves the “world’s conscience” as if their history of pure evil doesn’t exist.— Keep reading here.

Those bastards!

Reports of Election Fraud In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

Where there’s smoke, there’s  often fire when it comes to voter/election fraud in hotly contested races in liberal strongholds. But normally, it takes months/years before an investigation proves that large numbers of illegal votes, (enough to sway the election) were cast, and by that time, of course, it’s too late to do anything about it.

The Daily Caller talked to Madison and Milwaukee conservative radio show host Vicki McKenna,  who  spent almost her entire two-hour show taking audience calls, in which listeners detailed what may be considered full-blown voter fraud.

One caller, McKenna said, talked about a “missing box of ballots,” a voter overheard poll workers talking about. On air, McKenna said the ballot box could have contained blank ballots or it could have been filled with Wisconsin voters’ completed ballot. Either possibility presents a dilemma, though, as blank ballots in the hands of the wrong people could be used to illegally influence counts after the election.

“There are reports of 17-year-olds voting because they didn’t need to show proof of their age or anything like that,” McKenna told TheDC. “There were folks allegedly using their husbands’ or relatives’ utility bills in voter registration, ballots weren’t being counted because they were using the wrong kind of pens. There’s an over-count of 10,000 votes in Dane County.”

Some more stories flying around out there:

Pundit Press:

For some reason one of the counties in the state is destroying ballots that ‘were not counted’ yesterday. Apparently this is a very bizarre and egregious move.

There is  a call for an injunction to preserve  ‘discarded’ ballots:

I have filed a Wisconsin Open records request with the City of Mequon demanding any ballot
submitted but not cast in yesterday’s election, including any remnant of a shredded ballot. We
have received reports Mequon poll workers destroyed submitted ballots before poll closing time, demanding a driver’s license number from the absentee voter. This request is unusual and the destruction of ballots is of grave concern, given the closeness of the state Supreme Court election. I will consider seeking an injuction to back up my request if Mequon officials are not copperative [sic].
Mark Belling,
April 6, 2011

Mark Belling is  a local radio host.

A word of caution from Ed Morrissey on the radio talk show stories:

Having been a radio show host for several years in the Twin City through four elections, I can attest that not every allegation made on the air is the absolute sterling truth.  That doesn’t mean they’re all false, either, and Wisconsin has a recent history of voter fraud that certainly serves to reduce the trust in the system there.  Talk radio can help focus a spotlight on fraud, but it can also provide a lot of red herrings, too.  Wisconsin voters should demand transparency, but also should not jump to conclusions before assuming the entire election was stolen.

Pundit Press:

Now we look at today, with the I Stand With Walker Facebook page reporting firsthand fraud:

I Stand with Scott Walker

BREAKING VOTER FRAUD: Poll workers conducting registration on election day, voting, then registering again to vote. High school students registering other high school students under 18. When complained, the poll worker said mind your own business.
It appears that this may have been heaviest in the liberal safehaven of Dane County, where Madison is located. Kloppenburg’s margin was over 100,000 more than Prosser. During the count last night the county ‘accidentally’ added 10,000 additional votes to her total before retracting them.

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And there is evidence of voter intimidation as well.

Village of Grafton Police were called to the Grafton Town Hall because election officials were concerned that protesters were too close to the polling place and were not following the rules established by Wisconsin’s Election Authority or Government Accountability Board (GAB). Two witnesses confirmed that a Police Officer who reported to address the incident apparently refused to deal with the protesters initially. Jessica Schmidt, Grafton Town Clerk, and another witness heard the officer say, “I used to be a conservative but I’m not anymore.” Apparently, this behavior was a result of the recent debate over union rights that has consumed Wisconsin. The officer then walked outside and without addressing the issues presented by the protesters and refused to do his job, allowing the intimidation to continue. The officer’s behavior was apparently upsetting enough that an elderly poll worker was shaking immediately following the incident and needed to be calmed down by a nurse that was present at the polling place.

And then there’s this via Gateway Pundit: Report: 500 Votes Found in Waukesha County Wisconsin …Update: It’s 500-600 Votes:

This comes from Josiah Cantrall in Wisconsin:

” A discrepancy was discovered in vote totals from a community in Waukesha county. More votes were cast for the school board race than the state supreme court one. Now local precinct workers are claiming they’ve found 500-600 ballots which would explain this discrepancy. This community voted 70% for Justice Prosser. Officials are confirming if these “lost” ballots are valid. These ballots could give Prosser a majority.

However, this all may be a technical error. The village and town both voted for the school board candidate and thus, votes may have simply been double counted.

Investigation is under way.”

Ann Althouse responds to a liberal attempt, (already?!) to discredit Republican concerns about election fraud:

So… because past claims of fraud have been “methodically debunked” — have they? — we should stop even looking for fraud? We’ll only suffer if we keep checking for cheaters? This sounds way too preemptive to me. I’ve spent the last 2 months in a vortex of political ugliness and saw it grafted onto the judicial election. I saw frantically impassioned protesters grasping at the symbolism of this election and building an intense shared feeling of entitlement to shift the politics of this state. I heard the phrase “by any means necessary” more than once.

In this context, Prosser proponents have every right to drag us through the search for fraud one more time. I hope they don’t find it, and Professor Hasen can add this new example to his next there-is-no-fraud column. But there’s a 204 vote margin in this crazy election. We need to feel confident that the outcome is correct.

I couldn’t agree more.

UPDATE!

BREAKING: PROSSER LEADS IN WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT RACE

Video: Chris Christie Calls NJ Teachers Union “Political Thugs”

This man doesn’t mince words. When Diane Sawyer brought up the resentment some teachers are feeling towards his rhetoric, Christie  responded by saying teachers in NJ “in the main are wonderful public servants”, then went on to describe their union leaders as “political thugs.”

Later on in the same interview, (you can watch the entire thing at Breitbart TV), Christie was asked, once again, about a possible presidential run in 2012, and he reiterated that he has no intention of running. I found his comments concerning his “very good friend”, Donald Trump,  intriguing. He doesn’t think “The Donald” is really interested in running?

What’s he up to then?

More Christie goodness at Eyeblast: Spending Money is No Excuse for the Failure of Our Education System

Glenn Beck To Transition Off Daily Fox Show

No one is quite  sure why, but Glenn Beck is giving up his highly successful daily program on Fox News, later this year.

The news of his departure was announced Wednesday in a joint statement from Fox news and Beck’s production company, Mercury Radio Arts. An end date for the program, Glenn Beck, was not specified.

Mercury Radio Arts will work with Fox News to “develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News’ digital properties,” according to the press release.

The news release, via The Blaze:

Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Glenn Beck’s production company, are proud to announce that they will work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News’ digital properties. Glenn intends to transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year.
Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of Fox News said, “Glenn Beck is a powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody’s standards.  I look forward to continuing to work with him.”

Glenn Beck said: “I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News. I cannot repay Roger for the lessons I’ve learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our partnership.”

Joel Cheatwood, SVP/Development at Fox News, will be joining Mercury Radio Arts effective April 24, 2011. Part of his role as EVP will be to manage the partnership and serve as a liaison with the Fox News Channel.

Roger Ailes said:  “Joel is a good friend and one of the most talented and creative executives in the business. Over the past four years I have consistently valued his input and advice and that will not stop as we work with him in his new role.”

“Glenn Beck” is consistently the third highest rated program on cable news. For the 27 months that “Glenn Beck” has aired on Fox News, the program has averaged more than 2.2 million total viewers and 563,000 viewers 25-54 years old, numbers normally associated with shows airing in primetime, not at 5pm. “Glenn Beck” has dominated all of its cable news competitors since launch.

Ace muses that this was largely Beck’s call.

Because that show must have been pretty exhausting to do.

Help Stop Obama

www.raisingred.com,  a new conservative fund-raising website, was launched yesterday with the  mission is to raise money in support the Republican nominee to defeat President Obama in the 2012 presidential election.

John Hawkins, from Right Wing News, who helped create the organization, is asking conservatives to  “chip in some money, pass around the web page, and do your part to help get this PAC going.”

Launched by the activist team of Charlie Smith, former College Republican National Committee President; Kellen Giuda, New York City Tea Party co-founder and former Tea Party Patriots Board of Directors member; and conservative Blogger John Hawkins, Raising Red PAC and Raising Red Action Fund were born from a need for an innovative and forward-thinking political operation focused on candidates that will solve the problems that have been passed on to the Millennial Generation by decades of irresponsible politicians.

Charlie Smith, founder of Raising Red and former College Republican National Committee President said, “Yesterday, President Obama launched his re-election campaign, we want him to know that the results of the 2010 election were no fluke. The American people are fed up with his big-government agenda, and we’re not going to just sit around and watch while he drives this country into insolvency.”

In a political environment dominated by social and online technology, vibrant citizen activism, and new changes in campaign finance law, Raising Red PAC is focused on empowering concerned Americans to support a Republican nominee that will defeat and replace President Obama in the 2012 election, one in which the president is expected to raise $1 billion for his re-election effort.

“Our generation, our entire country, cannot afford four more years of the Obama administration’s debt-ridden agenda,” said Kellen Giuda, NYC Tea Party co-founder. “After leading tea parties and tea party rallies across the country since 2009, it’s clear that the time has come to channel that energy and take our country back. Raising Red gives us the tool to do that.”

Times are tough, but they’re going to get a lot tougher if we don’t stop this Cloward/Piven-driven, economy crushing wrecking ball we currently have as President. Please give if you can.

Cross-posted at Potluck and The Minority Report.

Prosser/Kloppenburg Wis. Supreme Court Race Too Close To Call (Updated)

As of 1:23 am, CST, Prosser was holding a slim lead:

Supreme Court	REPORTING	99%
	David Prosser (inc)	733,074	50%
	Joanne Kloppenburg	732,489	50%

robertcostaNRO Robert Cost, reporting from Kloppenburg headquarters on Twitter:

Klopp: “we won’t know till tomorrow . . . It’s not over, we’re still hopeful” http://yfrog.com/h76vuenj

It looks likely that the vote will come down to a recount. And I hate to be a pessimist, but, recounts, somehow, always end up swinging in the Dems’ favor.

But this has to be a moral victory for Republicans. The unions rallied fiercely, spent a million dollars on this race, and threw everything but the kitchen sink at Prosser, and it looks like he may yet squeak out a (temporary) win.

The death of the  tea party has been greatly exaggerated.

UPDATE:

RESULTS as of Wednesday, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:12 am CDT Election Home  Supreme Court REPORTING 99% David Prosser (inc) 736,878 50% Joanne Kloppenburg 736,043 50%

UPDATE II:

Who could have predicted that the late, hand-counted votes would swing Kloppenburg’s way:

RESULTS as of Wednesday, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:47 am CDT
Election Home

	Supreme Court	REPORTING	99%
	Joanne Kloppenburg	739,574	50%
	David Prosser (inc)	739,350	50%

UPDATE III:

The latest update at Hot Air by Allahpundit:

As of 12:45 ET, 3629 of 3630 precincts are reporting — and Kloppenburg still leads by 224 votes. Two caveats, though. First, the vote totals didn’t change after the last two precincts came in, so the AP may still be in the process of updating the numbers. Keep an eye out here. And second, the one remaining precinct is in Jefferson Country, which has been leaning towards Prosser. He could still close the gap. Or maybe we’ll end in … a tie.

UPDATE IV:

The final tally has Klopps up 204 — let the recount begin:

Supreme Court	REPORTING	100%
	Joanne Kloppenburg	740,090	50%
	David Prosser (inc)	739,886	50%

See also:

Legal Insurrection: Lessons of Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

Confirmed: Emails Prove Wis. Fleebaggers Parroted Union Talking Points

Whoda thunkit? Wisconsin Dems are puppets of Big labor. I’m in shock, here.

JS Online reports:

Madison – The same day Senate Democrats left the state to boycott a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining bill, a union official from Washington, D.C., provided the Democrats’ leader with talking points.

Emails released by the office of Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D-Monona) show how Democratic senators sought to explain their unusual action to drive to Illinois to block a vote on Walker’s measure, which would end most collective bargaining by public employee unions. The measure ultimately passed the Legislature but is now facing legal challenges.

One of people offering suggestions to Senate Democrats was Blaine Rummel, a spokesperson from the national office of the public workers union AFSCME, also known as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Rummel sent an email marked “TPs,” for talking points, to Miller spokesman Mike Browne late in the evening of Feb. 17 after Senate Democrats had crossed the state line that morning.

Also that day, Rummel had helped coordinate AFSCME’s opposition to the bill in Wisconsin, speaking to media outlets like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Rummel sent the talking points to the personal email of Miller spokesman Mike Browne, but the email turned up in an open records request by the Journal Sentinel because it was forwarded on to Miller’s official email account.

“We’re on the job. The fact is, Wisconsin legislators are sworn to protect people’s rights, not take them away. And we are fulfilling our oath,” one of the talking points reads.

Note, these are the same people who paint Governor Walker as a “Koch puppet” because he accepted campaign donations from the big,  bad, nasty, greedy capitalists. If I remember right, when Walker took that hoax Koch call, he spent 20 minutes politely telling who he thought was a big donor, what he was up to. Not the other way around.

Can you say – P_R_O_J_E_C_T_I_O_N ?

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks.

Tax Day Rally At Mo Capitol, April 12

Via Email:

United for Missouri will be hosting a statewide Capitol Tax Day Rally on April 12, 2011.  The location will be on the south lawn of the state capitol and will begin at high noon and conclude by 1:00pm.  Our focus this year will be on tax reform and government spending!  Register for the event here: United for Missouri Capitol Tax Day Rally

We are pleased to announce that Herman Cain will be our keynote speaker for the event!  Herman Cain has a unique personality and multi-dimensional background in business, politics and life. Herman Cain is an accomplished speaker and writer on the subjects of leadership, motivation, national and economic policy, politics, and achieving one’s American Dream. Herman Cain understands that it’s not government that “grants” the American Dream – it is individuals who obtain it – despite government’s “help”!

We anticipate a large crowd to gather at the Capitol on that day.  Invite your friends, neighbors and family to attend this event.  I’m excited to hear what Herman Cain will be sharing with our group. Come prepared to hear the truth – not to have your ears tickled!

After the event is concluded, we encourage you to go inside YOUR state capitol and let your legislators know you are watching!  Register for the event here: United for Missouri Capitol Tax Day Rally

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To find the tax day tea party nearest you, use Freedomworks’ FreedomConnector.

There will also be a tax day rally in Washington DC at 6:00 pm behind the White House.

(That one appears to have been canceled.)

Americans For Prosperity has an event scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, Apr 6:

Where: Washington, DC at the Capitol (map)

DescriptionCut Spending Now Event at the Capitol We cannot continue to spend our way out of debt. We need to take the first step toward financial stability and Cut Spending Now. Hardworking taxpayers like you already feel the burden of “spend now, pay later” politics. It’s time that spend-crazed politicians in Washington feel the pressure too. Join us Wednesday, April 6th in Washington, DC to tell the Budget Committee to Cut Spending Now. They need to hear from you as they crunch numbers and grapple with this year’s budget. You’ve had to tighten your family budget in this struggling economy. They should have to tighten the national budget too. Confirmed Speakers: Michele Bachmann *food will be provided

Republicans Should Not Retreat In The Budget War

I  heard Dick Morris talking about shutting down the government on Hannity, last night. He says it’s a “stupid, false choice” to either accept the compromise in the Senate, or shut down the entire government. He says Republicans should only shut down the parts we don’t like:

…the Republicans should refuse to accept less than $61 billion in cuts and — if the Senate and Obama refuse — should target for shutdown a handful of specific and highly unpopular programs and agencies. Why shut down the entire government? Zero fund the State Department or Agency for International Development, thereby suspending all foreign aid. Zero fund the Bonds for America program where the feds pick up the local debt service payments for states and cities. Zero fund the Highway construction program. Any combination of some of these cuts can easily generate $61 billion in cuts (less the $10 billion already cut).

On the Laura Ingraham Show, today, Laura advocated a complete shutdown of non-essential services. She notes that would be a good way to find out which jobs should be cut. Those folks can find work in Obama’s “recovering” economy.

Doug Ross agrees that that’s the way to go:

The problem is two-fold for Democrats.

Most Americans, who realize the government has a disastrous spending problem, support a shutdown of non-essential services.

Second, the longer taxpayers realize a shutdown actually benefits them — and has no visible impact on their lives — the worse a public relations problem it becomes for the Pelosi Party.

It ain’t 1995, Mr. Speaker. In the spirit of bipartisanship, let the Democrats shut the government down.

Meanwhile, Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis reports:

Treasury Secretary Geithner is not happy the Republicans have held the debt ceiling hostage to budget negotiations. In response, Geithner has embarked on a fear mongering campaign via a Debt Limit Letter to Congress promising financial Armageddon if the debt ceiling is not raised.

Mish’s advice to Republicans?  Come up with a polite way of saying, “Go to hell”:

If Geithner really believes what he is spouting, Republican ought to take advantage. They can do so far more politely than I suggested.

A politically correct “polite” response would be along these lines:

Dear Treasury Secretary Geithner

In the vital interest of preserving the US dollar and to restore fiscal sanity to the United States of America, we intend to reduce the budget deficit within 10 years.

In the interim, we will not increase the debt limit unless and until the President and Congressional Democrats are willing to cooperate.

In return for raising the debt limit, Congress must pass and the the president must sign legislation that will…

1. Scrap Davis Bacon and all prevailing wage laws.
2. Pass national right-to-work laws
3. Reduce the budget deficit by $5 trillion in 8 years
4. Balance the budget in 10 years

Given the unmistakable sincerity in your assessment of the damages that may occur should Congress fail to increase the debt ceiling, we anticipate equal sincerity in your willingness to work with Republicans to balance the budget in 10 years so that Congress will not have to go through these maddening debt-ceiling exercises in years to come.

We await your reply and look forward to working with the Obama administration towards solving our budget crisis.

“Yes We Can” work together.

Here’s Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity”:

CBS News reports:

Ryan today is rolling out a polished presentation of his plan, which he calls the “Path to Prosperity.” (Read it below.) With explanations on opinion pages and on YouTube, the GOP is readying for the political attacks that will surely follow as they attempt to revamp popular and vast health care systems.

Ryan’s budget proposal aims to slash $6 trillion from the budget over the next 10 years. It would in part accomplish that by changing Medicaid — which serves low-income families — from a government-run insurance program to a system of block grants distributed to states.

Medicare, a government-run health care program for those over 65, would essentially turn into a “premium support” program — the government would essentially provide vouchers for health care, but the funds would go directly to the insurer rather than the consumer. The government would give private health insurers a set amount of money to cover senior citizens. The change to Medicare would go into effect in 2022 under the plan.

It’s a risky proposal politically, given Medicare’s overwhelming popularity, but Ryan and the GOP are prepared to argue the changes are necessary.

“This is a plan not only to pay off our debt over time, but to get the budget under control to keep the government going,” Ryan said on the CBS’ “The Early Show” today. Ryan said his Medicare plan is modeled after the government insurance program offered to congressmen.

 

GOP Budget FY2012

UPDATES:

Geoff at AoSHQ: Ryan’s Plan: Necessary But Not Sufficient:

Paul Ryan released his new deficit-cutting budget plan today, saving almost $6 trillion over the next 10 years, which is very nice. Really. The National Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform released a similar plan last December, saving almost $2 trillion by 2020, and it too was nice.

Really.

Despite my tone, I am a big fan of these plans, and earnestly hope that at least most of their features will be implemented. But lest we violate the guiding maxim of the estimable Winston Wolfe, let’s remind ourselves of exactly how bad things are, so that we understand just what these plans can and can’t do for us.

See Geoff’s chart and analysis  at link

Ace: Breaking: White House Calls Boehner To Reject CR

On FoxNews. The White House just called to say it was going to play the government shutdown card, despite an offer on the table to keep the government going for another week.

Of course, this newest one-week budget contained $12 billion in cuts (and would have funded Defense throughout the year, and defunded Planned Parenthood).

So, the Democrats are going to shut down the government.

I say shut her down and let the chips fall where they may.

The Blaze: Paul Ryan Explains $6.2 Trillion Budget Cuts to Glenn as Gov’t Shutdown Looms

Gateway Pundit: Speaker Boehner: No Deal at White House Meeting – Press Conference at 2:00 PM

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks.

Socialism: The Patriotic Party Of Your Grandparents

According to this video:

Interesting rewriting of history to say the least.

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New Zeal:Communists Understand They Are in a War for America – So Should You!

Communist Party USA leader Sam Webb lays out the consequences  of  the escalating  “civil war” for American public opinion,  in today’s Peoples World.
This is a moment of heightened class and democratic struggle. The signs are everywhere – not least in states in the nation’s heartland. It isn’t a time for the fainthearted.

The Republican right is squeezing labor and other sectors of the people’s movement at the federal, state and local level. Nothing like it has occurred in the post-World-War-II period. And we haven’t seen the worst of it.

Public workers are at the center of this attack to be sure, but it also reaches beyond them to the entire working class and people.

While right-wing Republicans are doing the dirty work, not far behind, pulling the strings where necessary, are major sections of the capitalist class.

The .. aim – and this is what makes this crisis response from the top layers of capital different – is to strategically undermine labor’s power in the political arena, much like it has done to labor in the field of collective bargaining.

If successful, it would leave the organized section of the working class, the main social force combating right-wing extremism, a badly weakened actor in U.S. politics and society.

Right wing extremists would be those who believe in God, traditional values, limited government, and free markets.

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Extreme Fail: Poll Shows 50% of Likely Voters Consider Democrat Party “Extreme”

Sorry Chuckie. Most Americans ain’t buying the spin.

Rasmussen reports:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 45% say it would be more accurate to describe the agenda of Republicans in Congress as mainstream, up five points from last month. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say it’s more accurate to describe that agenda as extreme, while 17% more are undecided.

But half of voters (50%) say the Democratic agenda in Congress is extreme, while 37% see it as mainstream, also up five points from a month ago. Another 14% are not sure.

Yes, Nice Deb is still distressed that 37-38% of Americans are as confused as they are – it’s not good for the Republic. But I do get a kick out of the fact that despite the Dem Socialists’ best “messaging” efforts,  more Americans think they are the  extreme ones.

Which, of course,  is what they are.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

Linked by Michelle Malkin, and Datechguy’s Blog thanks.

Video: David v.s. The Organized Left: Prosser Makes His Case

National Review’s Robert Costa traveled to Wisconsin to cover the final hours of the Supreme Court race. He caught up with Justice Prosser in Green Lake, where local Republicans gathered in a small hotel ballroom, Sunday afternoon for their annual Lincoln Day dinner.

Here’s Costa’s video of Prosser’s rousing speech, urging conservatives to support him on Tuesday, and calling the ugly turn the race has taken, “one of the most scurrilous, shameful, malicious, political campaigns in the entire history of this state.” :

“Seven weeks ago, this looked like a very sleepy campaign,” Prosser said. “This race is now the most significant judicial race in the country. It is full of symbolism.”

“What is capturing national attention is the fact that one candidate is trying to ride a wave to the Wisconsin supreme court on behalf of resentment against another political figure, and resentment against a piece of legislation that is likely to come before the court,” he continued. “This is the wrong way to determine who should serve on the supreme court for the next ten years.”

UPDATE:

Justice Prosser will be a guest on the Greta Van Susteren Show, tonight.

 

Hat tip: Charles B.

McCotter on Fox: Fannie & Freddie Bonuses Must End “These are entities that are too big AND failed”

While Obama’s “Pay Czar” targets the executive compensation of private sector entities, the government entities like the “too big, AND failed”, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac execs are allowed their lavish bonuses and compensation:

 

Humanitarian Crisis In Ivory Coast: Time For Military Intervention?

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Last Monday, the President gave a 28-minute speech on his decision to engage in military action in Libya. He cited preventing mass slaughter as a reason for engaging in humanitarian aid through military operations.

CNN tried to fashion an “Obama Doctrine” out of it:

The gist: The U.S. can intervene in conflicts overseas “when our safety is not directly threatened, but our interests and values are,” he said. Case in point: The potential slaughter of Libyans rebelling against Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

I think our values were threatened when 1000 people were massacred in the Ivory Coast:

When the pop of machine guns began on the morning of March 3, Moussa N’Diaye, a car washer in Ivory Coast’s main city of Abidjan, hurriedly pulled down the shutters on his roadside shop. He climbed atop a nearby wall and watched the unfolding scene with horror. “I wanted to get down from the wall, but I was just in shock,” he says, speaking in hushed tones. “An armored car approached, and from somewhere the noise of guns was still going on. Bodies fell.”

After a third week of running gun battles in Abidjan, the former pearl of West Africa looks to be sliding irretrievably toward a repeat of the 2002 civil war that divided the country into a government-controlled south and rebel-held north. On March 3, in the opposition stronghold Abobo district, a protest by several hundred women against President Laurent Gbagbo turned into a bloodbath when the army opened fire, mowing down the protesters and killing at least six women. “The armored car didn’t stop for the dead bodies,” says N’Diaye. “Some people had to run to pull them out of the way.”

The humanitarian crisis in the Ivory Coast, right now,  is worse than Libya’s. Will we soon be engaging in humanitarian aid through military operations to prevent more bloodshed?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Hat tip: Charles B.

The New Eugenics

Wanna take a stab at what the eugenics movement has shape-shifted into?

James Delingpole unabashedly spells it out in his latest post at The Telegraph:

As I note in my really-quite-soon-to-be-published book Watermelons, the values of the eugenics movement and of the modern green movement are closely connected.

Here, for example, is a popular 50s environmentalist called Harrison Brown in a book called The Challenge of Man’s Future (1954), discussing how to make the human species healthier:

“Thus we could sterilize or in other ways discourage the mating of the feeble-minded. We could go further and systematically attempt to prune from society, by prohibiting them from breeding, persons suffering from serious inheritable forms of physical defects, such as congenital deafness, dumbness, blindness, or absence of limbs.”

Brown, you’ll have gathered, was a keen eugenicist. Well, fine: so were lots of people back then, despite the setback their junk-science philosophy experienced with the end of Nazi Germany. But the point about Brown is that he was not just some ordinary bloke of no consequence: he was and is revered by many in the modern green movement as a key philosophical guru.

Among his biggest admirers is John Holdren, the green activist who is now President Obama’s Director of the White House Office of Science And Technology Policy, aka his Science Czar.

In 1986, Holdren edited and co-wrote an homage entitled Earth and the Human Future: Essays In Honor of Harrison Brown, in which he claimed:

“Thirty years after Harrison Brown elaborated these positions, it remains difficult to improve on them as a coherent depiction of the perils and challenges we face. Brown’s accomplishment in writing The Challenge of Man’s Future, of course, was not simply the construction of this sweeping schema for understanding the human predicament; more remarkable was (and is) the combination of logic, thoroughness, clarity, and force with which he marshalled data and argumentation on every element of the problem and on their interconnections. It is a book, in short, that should have reshaped permanently the perceptions of all serious analysts….”

As the author of this damning essay on the subject notes, as recently as 2007 Holdren was reiterating his admiration for Harrison Brown’s noxious views.

I’ve always thought it noteworthy, that so many of the same folks who were on   “the population bomb” bandwagon, are on board the global warming bandwagon, as well. I think they’re still motivated by their Malthusian outlook, but have decided to take a different tact to stem the human tide, using climate alarmism as their pretext.

Holdren, let it not be forgotten, is also the author of this chilling paragraph, from a book he wrote in 1973 with fellow neo-Malthusian doom-mongers Anne Ehrlich and Paul Ehrlich, called Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions:

“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States. . . . Resources and energy must be diverted from frivolous and wasteful uses in overdeveloped countries to filling the genuine needs of underdeveloped countries. This effort must be largely political”

I came to the same conclusion Delingpole did, after researching the powerful forces behind climate alarmism:

Noted Gazillionaire Calls For Global One Child Policy To Save Gaia

The Nefarious Left-wing Cabal Behind Climate Research (UPDATED)

The Club Of Rome:A Major Force Behind Global Warming Alarmism And its Push For A New World Order

Soros Behind Massive Eco-Redistribution Scheme in Copenhagen

Hat tip: Brian B.

Linked by Little Miss Attila, and Doug Ross, thanks!