Palin resigns

What does it mean?

Stagecraft and Journalistic Integrity

◼ The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.

All his groups, all pretending to be real people.

This is what Helen Thomas was talking about - and the Press is not going to continue to be used as propaganda tools - they have more pride than that, believe it or not.

Said Thomas: "What the hell do they think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.... When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you. I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well — for the town halls, for the press conferences. It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame."

Now we know it, she knows it. And if you watch YouTube or are into political blogs, YOU know it, but if the MAINSTREAM MEDIA, of which Thomas is a part, does not expose this sham with at least a small measure of hte zeal with which they went after Palin, the AVERAGE PERSON will never know about it.

For God's sake, do your jobs.

headlines screaming

◼ In possible signal to Iran, Israel sends subs through Suez Canal

Birds of a feather

◼ Michael Ramirez

President Barack Obama has pushed the nation’s marketable debt to an unprecedented $6.45 trillion.

◼ Treasury to Conduct Four Debt Auctions For First Time Next Week
h/t: R2

Congress is out of control

◼ Congress's Travel Tab Swells... WSJ
Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos

They have the majority and nothing else matters. They can spend as much as they like, divvy out political favors as much as they like, pass bills they haven't bothered to read, the drunken orgy is in full swing - there's feces ground into the carpet, the drapes are askew, there's pizza on the ceiling, and precious heirlooms lie broken on the floor.

While California goes down in flames

California legislators piddle away their time with SB250, a bill that will make you a criminal if you let your dog or cat have a litter of puppies or kittens.

Don't they have something better to do? Shouldn't EVERY SINGLE WAKING MINUTE OF THIER DAY BE SPENT ON SOLVING THE STATE'S BUDGET CRISIS?

Or is this an indicator of how they plan to do that?

The proponents of this legislation will insist that SB 250 is not mandatory spay/neuter, but we are going to set the record straight every time and call a spade a spade. SB 250 requires pet owners to spay/neuter their dogs/cats at 6 months of age or obtain an unaltered license. Under the bill as currently written, if their pet accidentally gets loose and is impounded even once -- regardless of the circumstances -- that pet must be sterilized. No other option is made available in SB 250, which is essentially a one-strike-and-you’re-out policy.

Owners of intact dogs and cats in California will soon be singled out as criminals if we don’t speak out now. SB 250, mandating spay/neuter for dogs and cats of owners who don't possess an unaltered license, was heard in the Assembly Committee on Business and Professions yesterday and narrowly passed out of that committee.

The bill now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee where it is likely to receive greater scrutiny because of its anticipated fiscal costs to state and local governments. We have been informed by the committee that the bill will be heard on Wednesday, July 15th.
If you have a minute - call these representatives: Tell them to quit playing Nanny and get to work on the budget crisis FOR REAL, without raising stupid taxes or setting up hidden fees and fines.
Kevin de Leon, Chair (D-45)
Jim Nielsen, Vice Chair (R-2)
Tom Ammiano (D-13)
Charles M. Calderon (D-58)
Joe Coto (D-23)
Mike Davis (D-48)
Michael D. Duvall (R-72)
Felipe Fuentes (D-39)
Isadore Hall III (D-52)
Diane L. Harkey (R-73)
Jeff Miller (R-71)
John A. Pérez (D-46)
Nancy Skinner (D-14)
Jose Solorio (D-69)
Audra Strickland (R-37)
Tom Torlakson (D-11)

Related:
◼ NAIA's letter to the Assembly Appropriations Committee OPPOSING this madness
◼ letter from the California Department of Finance opposing SB 250
◼ Take Action!

◼ States without budgets as key deadline passes



The Democrats and Progressive have failed you. Betrayed you, Bankrupted you. And now they want more power and control.

Say NO.

"Have you emailed your question today?" snark

You know things are bad when Helen Thomas says the White House is so far from open and transparent that it is shocking - that it is the PATTERN of staging the events with preselected people and questions that is the problem. Maybe Journalism is not dead after all - questions are starting to be asked, and truths are starting to be told.

The koolaid is wearing off - look at the faces of the OTHER reporters in that room, no one there is happy with what is going on.

Gibbs tries to wiggle out of it - saying how would we do that? and Thomas lays it out there for the world to see "By calling reporters the night before" like you do essentially.

Busted, baby.


h/t: ◼ WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS GRILL GIBBS OVER ‘PREPACKAGED’ QUESTIONS FOR OBAMA Breitbart bwo Drudge
◼ Video: Obama Team Smacked Down For Controlling the Press StopTheACLU
◼ Thomas, Gibbs and Lack of Transparency No Quarter

No Gitmo for you

◼ DAY 19 IRAN REVOLUTION: SUPPORTERS OF OPPOSITION HANGED

America was the shining light of freedom in the world. Yet now, when people are asking for freedom, we are nowhere to be found. Our heads have turned away. And the people of Iran are paying the price for their AUDACITY OF HOPE.

Our OfficeOfTheCommunityOrganizerInChief.gov doesn't know what do with REAL people protesting REAL life and death issues - things that didn't come out of some Democratic Think Tank somewhere....

◼ But is it torture?
◼ Arrested, beaten and raped: an Iran protester's tale
◼ "Nokia: Jailing People"- 5,000 Join Boycott
◼ WANTED: Moments of Silence for Iranian Students

“the nastiest election conference I’ve ever attended.”

◼ After a Coup d’Etat at NOW, the Future of “Feminism” No Quarter

What went down in Indy? Ahead of the election conference itself, a group of long-time feminists who were upset with the direction that NOW had taken decided to organize a resistance...

...Sure, we can look down our noses at the PTA moms and the softball dads who left along the way and insist that we don’t need them — but we do. We need unity. We need messages that will bring back the masses as the Next Wave begins. We need to focus on the issues that unite us, not divide us. We need national organizations that can excite and inspire. We need these national organizations to form alliances and fight for all of us....

Does NOW have ANY credibility left after what it allowed to happen to Sarah Palin? Without a peep. Any number of attacks on women, crickets from NOW if they are conservative.

Should NOW simply be disbanded?

“We've tried three different approaches in the past week to solve this budget crisis"

”Overheated rhetoric and finger pointing will not resolve this crisis,” Chesbro said. “We've tried three different approaches in the past week to solve this budget crisis and avoid IOUs. So far none of those approaches have succeeded. We need bipartisan solutions to this problem.”

◼ As budget deadline looms, Legislature standstill

With the deadline less than eight hours away, things in the Capitol were largely at a standstill, with a Senate floor session suspended as the Big Five -- a group comprising the governor and Senate and Assembly leaders -- met behind closed doors in an attempt to craft some kind of compromise budget plan that would be palatable for Democrats and Republicans alike....

...The Legislature's latest proposal is no different than what Sacramento has been doing for the past two decades -- kicking the can down the alley,” Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, said in a statement late Tuesday. “If the Legislature doesn't want to make the deep cuts necessary to balance the budget, the governor has proposed reforms that eliminate waste and still solve the entire deficit. The problem is the Legislature has refused the cuts, refused the reforms, and in doing so have made absolutely clear that they refuse to have state government live within its means.”

While pleading for unity and constructive solutions in one breath Tuesday, Chesbro couldn't contain his frustration with the governor in the next.

”He's not acting as though we are in a crisis, and that's very disturbing,” he said of Schwarzenegger. “The state controller, John Chiang, and the treasurer, Bill Lockyer, have both made it abundantly clear that we are in grave danger, not just of issuing IOUs but of gravely damaging the state's credit rating. And, the governor is acting like it's just another negotiation.”
...

Hysterical. Three WHOLE TIMES. Wow. And in the last week. So impressive.

The partisan hacks calling for unity. Code word for 'keep spending.'

Democratic legislature drives California to ruin

◼ Deficit forces California to issue IOUs...

“On Wednesday we start a fiscal year with a ­massively unbalanced spending plan and a cash shortfall not seen since the Great Depression,” said John Chiang, the state ­controller. “Unfortunately, the state’s inability to balance its chequebook will now mean short-changing taxpayers, local governments and small businesses.”

Oh, the headlines and the pundits will lay it at figurehead Shwarzenegger's door, and the articles will talk of recalcitrant Republicans who just wouldn't go along with the Democrats plans to take more money out of California taxpayer's pockets, but make no mistake, it is the Democrat Party that has been in power in California now for a decade or more - they are the ones who have driven the state to it's current condition.

Their answer is and always has been they just need more money from you - but the fact is they overspend no matter how much they get. If you give them 100% of all your earnings they will spend 120% and cry for more. They have no self-control, they are not working in your interest, and they ought to be jailed for what they have done.

They like to talk about 'holding people accountable' - it's time THEY were held accountable.

Instead, they are launching efforts to make it easier for them to raise taxes, so that they do not have to have a supermajority to do so.
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And, finally, there's this:

Mr Schwarzenegger said he would veto any bills that raised taxes without reforming the state’s government. “I will veto any majority vote tax increase bill that punishes taxpayers for Sacramento’s failure to live within its means,” he said. ”The legislature will have a difficult time explaining to Californians why they are running floor drills the day before our budget deadline. We do not have time for any more floor drills or partial solutions. It’s time for the legislature to send me a budget that solves our entire deficit without raising taxes.”

He'll take heat for that - and people will ignore or forget that we already have some of the highest state income taxes in the nation, highest sales taxes in the nation, highest vehicle registration fees in the nation... and more.

Headlines continue to scream -

Drudge:
◼ Consumer confidence suffers steep fall... Gloomy U.S. consumers clip housing recovery hopes

U.S. consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide in June, figures released on Tuesday showed, suggesting the 18-month-long recession had yet to loosen its grip on the economy.

A separate report on April house prices in major cities offered some encouraging signs that the worst of the housing slump may be over, but that was not enough to lift investors' spirits. Another crop of economic data showed business activity in New York City and the Midwest remained weak, while retail chains slogged through a rough June.

Billionaire investor George Soros added to the cautionary tone, saying that rising borrowing costs posed a threat to any eventual economic recovery.

Soros must be a happy camper then. He must chortle with glee at what he has wrought.
◼ 'Unexpected'... Stocks down on dip in consumer confidence

Stocks fell sharply in midday trading Tuesday after a private research group said consumer confidence unexpectedly fell in June.

Investors had been expecting the Conference Board's measure of consumer sentiment to hold steady following big jumps in April and May. Consumer confidence is closely watched because spending from consumers accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.

◼ Stocks Slump as Quarter Ends...
◼ Home prices post 18% annual drop...
◼ Rasmussen: Obama Approval Index Falls Below Zero...

FOX NEWS RECORDS UNPRECEDENTED TOP 10 OUT OF 10 PROGRAMS

IN CABLE NEWS FOR 2ND QUARTER... ON PACE TO BE NETWORK'S BEST YEAR EVER...

THE O'REILLY FACTOR 3,191,000
HANNITY 2,345,000
GLENN BECK 2,053,000
ON THE RECORD W/GRETA 1,950,000
SPECIAL REPORT W/BRET BAIER 1,889,000
FOX REPORT/SHEP SMITH 1,783,000
THE O'REILLY FACTOR (RPT) 1,579,000
AMERICA'S NEWSROOM BILL HEMMER & MEGYN KELLY 1,399,000
YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO 1,389,000
STUDIO B W/SHEP SMITH 1,169,000

from ◼ Drudge

Being searched by The Executive Office of The President Usa

Is it real or is it Memorex?

Or is it ACORN?



Tracking responses? Fingers in the wind? Want to tell 'em what you think? Weigh in.
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They CAME BACK:
29th June 2009 10:34:22 AM Page View www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=waxman markey 300 page amendment text&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
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They are searching blogs who mentioned the 300 page amendment to the Cap and Tax Disaster. People who mentioned that they haven't even read it and are voting on whole sections that haven't even been written yet.
◼ My related post isn't even and indepth analysis. But they are out there. And we need to make sure their message is spread, because the media either doesn't get it or doesn't care or is deliberately obscuring the abysmal failure of our legislators to act responsibly.

◼ Is Congress Illiterate?

At least she wasn't waterboarded

◼ ANOTHER GIRL SHOT IN TEHRAN! (Video)

Where are the outraged women's rights groups? Where are the "women in black'? Where are the Abu Ghraib groupies? Where are those who were wringing their hands over waterboarding? Where is CodePink? Where is Sean Penn? Mike Thompson, planning a trip to Iran?

Congrats to Wollf and Dragn ♥

◼ Yup......we did it......
◼ This one's not only going to work......... .It's going to be wonderful.........

What's in the 300 page Cap and Tax amendment?

The Green Gestapo, for starters
Once again, Barack Obama reads bald-face lies to the American people from his teleprompter


◼ What was in the Waxman-Markey 'Manager's Amendment'? Doug Ross
... President Obama gushed over the Democrat Energy Tax bill that passed the House and glossed over the economic impact of the legislation: "Don't believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth... It's just not true. ...We cannot be afraid of the future... And we must not be prisoners of the past... [the bill was] written carefully to address the concerns that many have expressed in the past."

He is a bald-faced liar.

A 300-page "Manager's Amendment to the 1,000-page Energy Tax bill" was delivered Friday at 3:00 in the morning. Not a single person had read the amendment when it was voted upon later that same evening.

So much for Obama's vaunted transparency and his promise of "five days" for Americans to review each bill. Just as they did with the outrageous "Stimulus" package, Obama, Pelosi and the rest of the corruption-riddled Democrat Party jammed the most intrusive and un-Constitutional piece of legislation since the New Deal down the throats of the American taxpayer.

The climate bill's passage was facilitated by a wild orgy that some called "an unrestrained exercise of raw political power, arm-twisting and intimidation."... H/t: R2

Read the whole thing and read the links - you can't read the whole text of the amendment because whole sections are blank. NO ONE knows what they are voting for.

◼ Cap-and-tax job loss chart of the day; Plus: A Senate reading assignment Michelle Malkin (click on the entire spreadsheet link)
◼ Waxman: Opposing cap and trade means “rooting against the country” or something HotAir
◼ Chavez ally ousted in Honduran coup The Blogmocracy