Obama throws another under the bus: Bill Richardson
What is it with Obama and throwing people under the bus? His “white”" grandma, his racist preacher, Tony Rezko, and the list goes on add Bill Richardson to the list now. Team Obama has started leaking to the press that Richardson’s to blame for the embarrassing spectacle this afternoon of his withdrawal as a Cabinet nominee. Jake Tapper has the details:
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Que? Corrupt Bill Richardson says adios to being Commerce Secretary
For a man who claims to be the agent of “change” and “hope”, and who the media calls “uber-cool” and loves posting manboob pics about on a daily basis, Obama’s “transition” to the White House has been anything but uber-cool. Most notable has been the pay to play scandal involving Blago, and possibly Obama and/or Rahm Emanuel. Well add another crook to the of Obama’s pals. Some of you may remember last month the story about the federal investigtion regarding Bill Richardson’s connections to a consultancy already linked to a pay-for-play scandal in Alabama. Well it looks like the “pollos” of Bill Richardson’s pay-to-play scandal have come home to roost. More than likely the first of many ethics-tainted Obama nominations to go down in flames. Adios, Bill. Even the MSM can’t hide this one:
NBC reporting:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state.
“Let me say unequivocally that I and my Administration have acted properly in all matters and that this investigation will bear out that fact,” he said Sunday in a report by NBC News. “But I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process.”
Watch the following video, by our beloved Andrea Mitchell. Notice how glum she appears to be:
Jew hating San Francisco!
WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, ITS GONNA HAPPEN! Rememeber when SF Mayor Gavin Newsome was screaming this? Did he mean the liberal city that encourages drug use, has the largest gay population in the world, allows illegal immigrant murders to get off for nothing is now a Jew hating city? With the Israeli/Palestine conflict getting out of control, read these reports on genocidal Jew-hatred in oh-so-tolerant San Francisco from Zombie and The Back of the Hill.
Harry Reid a racist! Reid to Blago: You’d better not appoint Jesse Jackson Jr. or other blacks, but whites are ok!
Now lets see how the former black panther Bobby Rush or “others” who constantly cry racism, treat one of most liberal senators in congress, Harry Reid. it seems old Harry Reid told Blago he’d better not appoint Jesse Jackson Jr, Rep. Danny Davis or State Sen. Emil Jones but assured him that Tammy Duckworth and AG Lisa Madigan would be acceptable. Just for the record, Jackson, Davis and Jones are black, Duckworth and Madigan aren’t. Now that five total replacements. 3 of which are black, 2 of which are white. Harry Reid has problems with 3 of the replacements, all of them black, and is ok with the 2 white replacements?.
Sources say the Senate majority leader pushed against Jackson and Davis — both democratic congressmen from Illinois — and against Jones — the Illinois Senate president who is the political godfather of President-elect Barack Obama — because he did not believe the three men were electable. He feared losing the seat to a Republican in a future election…
Sources believe that at least portions of the phone conversations are on tape…
“Congressman Jackson was encouraged that two independent statewide polls confirmed that he was the most popular Democrat to succeed Barack,” Jackson spokesman Rick Bryant said. “The polls also showed he was in a strong position to win reelection in 2010, drawing strong support from virtually every demographic group.”
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Looks like that loony bin Franken may win Minnesota
Of course, who knows what will happen with the numerous lawsuits that are sure to follow.
Not surprising, but phenomenally discouraging.
Norm Coleman’s term as a U.S. Senator ended at noon Washington time today, and by evening his hopes of winning a second term had been dealt an expected but serious setback as state officials counted previously rejected absentee ballots in St. Paul.
Democrat Al Franken held an unofficial lead of 225 votes over Coleman, according to a newspaper tally of officials’ count of the absentee ballots. Franken had led unofficially by 49 votes going into the day and gained a net 176 votes from the new ballots…
The outcome Saturday was not a surprise, as the ballots counted came disproportionately from precincts where Franken did well on election day, according to a Star Tribune analysis. But a court challenge to the recount is almost certain to follow a certification from the canvassing board, as Coleman lawyers acknowledged this week.
Coleman will sue, of course, but his odds of winning are hanging by a thread. Exit question: What’s most depressing, the Caroline appointment, the Burris appointment, or this?
Bill Clinton: caretaker until 2010?
In the past few days, there have been rumors about NY Gov David Paterson appointing Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated senate seat. Now comes word Billy might be interested instead. CBS reports that Bill Clinton’s name has come up again as a “caretaker” appointment to fill out the rest of Hillary Clinton’s term in the Senate, more than a month after the former President publicly declared himself disinterested in the job:
Has hell frozen over?
A Democrat governor is calling for illegal alien criminals to be deported faster. Did I actually read this right? Has hell frozen over? Is there world peace? It’s true: Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire has proposed a partnership with the feds to finally expedite the illegal alien criminal deportation process through the 287(g) program, which I’ve reported on extensively. (See here for background.)
Strapped budgets have a way of helping cure open-borders blindness (via Seattle Times, hat tip - Orbusmax). Better late than never.
To save money, Gov. Chris Gregoire wants illegal aliens serving time in state prisons deported.
Her proposal estimates that deporting illegal aliens — who are serving or would serve time for drug or property crime convictions — will save the state more than $9 million in the next two-year budget.
The state faces a $5.7 billion budget deficit over the next 2 1/2 years, and Gregoire has proposed a no new-taxes budget proposal laden with cuts, including about $200 million from the Department of Corrections, the attorney general’s office, and other public safety programs.
The deportation proposal is modeled after a program in Arizona that has saved the state more than $18.5 million since 2005, said Eldon Vail, secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections.
“It’s not an ideal choice, if revenue was there, I’d say have them do their time,” Vail said. “Is justice better served? It’s a tough question to wrestle with when you don’t have resources.”
The proposal would call for the state to come to an agreement with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which would carry out the deportations. In Washington, there are about 350 prisoners who would be eligible to be transferred to ICE. On average, it costs the state $90 a day to imprison an inmate, Vail said.
It also includes allowing state workers to act as immigration agents in some instances, assisting ICE in processing illegal aliens under a version of the so-called 287(g) agreements, which are contentious among immigrant advocates.
Seperation of church and state? Not so much.
When churches say anything remotely positive about a Republican president, it’s an unconscionable violation of the separation of church and state. When churches extol a Democrat president, it’s “art:”
Inauguration-week sermons would be videotaped to highlight Barack Obama’s rise to power in an unprecedented quest by the Library of Congress to capture this transfer of power for future generations.
The folks at the library’s American Folklife Center are soliciting churches, synagogues, mosques and others for copies of sermons or passionate speeches that focus on the significance of the Jan. 20 inauguration of Obama as the country’s first black president.
The Folklife Center is looking for both video and audio clips, all to be preserved in a public collection that includes interviews after Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“If a historian asks ‘How did Americans react to Obama’s inauguration?’ we’ll have immediate responses to this powerful event,” said Dr. David A. Taylor, head of research and programs at the American Folklife Center.
The “Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project” marks the first time the library has gathered this sort of material from a U.S. presidential inauguration. Taylor says the project is especially timely — with the inauguration coming a day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday — and as it ties into King’s reputation as a great orator.
Nearly 70 percent of the 4,000 collections at the center involve the spoken word, whether it’s on paper, audio or video.
Michael Taft, head archivist at the Folklife Center, says it was decided to collect inauguration-themed sermons because that speech form is poetic, dramatic — and at some churches, “an important art form.”
Liberal Conspiracy to Frame and Defame TeamSarah website: Busted!
Saw this over at Michelle Malkin’s site. TeamSarah.org, an online community of over 63,000 who admire Sarah Palin and all she stands for, currently is experiencing an attempt at framing the whole community as guilty of unsavory racist behavior. This apparently is part of an overall attempt by the the worst elements of the progressive faction, conduct for which all liberals should be ashamed to be associated, even indirectly. This was started, for example at DemocracyUnderground (which brags that it intends to turn the word conservative “radioactive”) — well before that unfair and arguably defamatory piece was published in The Huffington Post, an extremist liberal website that evidently does not police its own content for accuracy. It is shocking that the HuffPo dropped any pretense of journalistic standards — like, for instance, simply calling TeamSarah and its proprietor, the Susan B. Anthony List, for a balanced picture, before running a recent attack on TeamSarah. Of course, with previous attempts by the liberals to still spread the Palin baby conspiracy theories, there is no low which the liberals will ever exceed. Oh, BTW. despite a slew of negative liberal press this through the campagne and beyond, an online gaming site *i will not mention the gambling site here* puts Palin’s odds at 3.5-1 to win the 2012 GOP nomination, the best among Republican hopefuls.
Why can’t I just eat my waffle? I answered EIGHT questions!
They compliment him. They send him flowers. They make time for the little things, like asking him how his day was. Most of all, they listen. But all he wants is his waffle. Behold the agony of the jilted admirer, lovestruck even in the teeth of rejection. Obama is UBER-COOL! Watch the video, and cry for poor Hussein:
Coming to America - Illegal Immigrants Eligible For Public Housing including Obama’s illegal aunt Zeituni Onyango
The bipartisan civility police told us we weren’t supposed to talk about illegal immigration during the 2008 presidential campaign because open discussion would “alienate” swing (ie: Hispanic) voters. Is it okay now or do we only get permission when the next major open-borders disaster strikes? Michelle Malkin’s syndicated column today surveys the state of the borders — particularly the bloody chaos to our south. On a related note, a new piece by the Associated Press (yes, a surprise) reports more extensively on illegal aliens in public housing. It was a problem highlighted by Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunti Zeituni Onyango:
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So thats why dictators love the US media!
Fidel Castro gives the American media two thumbs up for clueless coverage and wimpy whitewashing of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution.
Henry Louis Gomez at the indispensable Babalu blog (which was recently honored by the White House) provides a handy score card to help you grade the MSM’s Cuban revolution pieces.
The AP aces the propaganda test.
The NYTimes passes, too.
Dictators love the American media! I wonder why?
Sweet Caroline Kennedy close to being appointed according to the AP
Must be great to live off your daddy’s name in politics. At this rate, Chelsea Clinton could be senator of New York in 2010, and maybe the Obama daughters can become senators of Illinois by 2020.
Theres even been rumors about Bill Clinton taking over Billary’s senate seat, but I guess Patterson prefers a princess instead.
Officials say the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy will be the governor’s choice to fill the New York Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Two people close to Gov. David Paterson tell The Associated Press they believe Caroline Kennedy will be his choice, but the governor cautions he’s still looking.
She’s back to 87.4 on InTrade after having flirted with 50 earlier this week. God only knows what sort of arm-twisting’s going on to make this happen despite her awful rollout, but I’m darkly impressed by the fact that they got the speaker of the state assembly to flip from sneeringly anti-Caroline to pro-Caroline in less than a week. Camelot truly is a magical place.
Nine Muslims kicked off AirTran flight
AirTran may face a lawsuit after denying nine Muslims the chance to fly after an overhead remark from one forced the pilot to delay the flight and rescreen the passengers. The airline apparently refused to rebook the passengers even after being cleared by the FBI, at least according to one of the nine:
Nine Muslim passengers were kicked off a flight from Washington, D.C., to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security.
AirTran Airways spokesman Tad Hutcheson called the incident on the New Year’s Day flight from Reagan National Airport to Orlando, Fla., a misunderstanding, but defended the company’s response. He said the airline followed federal rules and did nothing wrong.
One of the Muslim passengers, Kashif Irfan, told The Washington Post the confusion began when his brother was talking about the safest place to sit on an airplane.
“My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security,” Irfan said. “The only thing my brother said was, ‘Wow, the jets are right next to my window.”‘
Irfan told the newspaper he thought he and the others were profiled because of their appearance. The men had beards and the women wore headscarves, traditional Muslim attire.
Hussein Obama and surrogates excuses for lack of comments on Israel/Gaza conflict - Obama’s not president yet
Liza Porteus Viana at AOL’s Political Machine produces a round-up of blogospheric and media reactions to the deafening silence coming from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Israel’s operations in Gaza. Obama has kept a low profile in Hawaii during the holidays, expect when posing for manboobs pictures, and gang banger poses with his Chicago WhiteSox cap backwards. And even when conducting business, has limited himself to discussing Cabinet appointments and refrained from most policy discussions, especially on foreign affairs. The fact that he’s not yet President has sunk in with Obama, but not the Obamaniacs around the world:
Connecticut newspaper bailouts next?
From banks, to the auto industry, to….. NEWSPAPERS?
Michelle Malkin launched the Newspaper Bailout Countdown Clock on Nov. 11, reported on Connecticut’s move to prop up ailing dead-tree dailies on Dec. 1, and followed up with a column on the coming government rescues for the MSM on Dec. 3. And now, here comes Reuters, heralding the new year with this: Government aid could save U.S. newspapers, spark debate.
Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press.
Nicastro represents Connecticut’s 79th assembly district, which includes Bristol, a city of about 61,000 people outside Hartford, the state capital. Its paper, The Bristol Press, may fold within days, along with The Herald in nearby New Britain.
That is because publisher Journal Register, in danger of being crushed under hundreds of millions of dollars of debt, says it cannot afford to keep them open anymore.
Nicastro and fellow legislators want the papers to survive, and petitioned the state government to do something about it. “The media is a vitally important part of America,” he said, particularly local papers that cover news ignored by big papers and television and radio stations.
To some experts, that sounds like a bailout, a word that resurfaced this year after the U.S. government agreed to give hundreds of billions of dollars to the automobile and financial sectors.
The last dubya Bush hating terrorist
Not quite a shoe-thrower, but much worse. A Bush-deranged bomber in Aspen, Colorado, killed himself in a botched bank robbery/mass murder attempt. The profanity-laced suicide note is here. Well, I hope its the last. Theres still almost 3 weeks to go before Hussein takes over. After he officially becomes president, what will happen to all those liberals who blame every last global problem and economic inequity on dubya, Rove, and Cheney? Once something happens after the 20th, is it still dubya’s fault? Via RMN:
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Bobby Rush - former black panther hypocrite!
It seems Bobby Rush is suddenly a fan of Blago. Bobby Rush, back for a bottom-feeding encore after yesterday’s bravura performance at the presser. Only a neo-segregationist would oppose the Senate’s only black member, says a guy who himself endorsed a white Democrat in the Senate primary four years ago over his old nemesis, Barack Obama. He called Blago’s actions “heinous” on December 9th, and agreed with Democratic consensus that he shouldn’t make the appointment before instantly reversing himself yesterday in the interests of racial solidarity. Obama has political capital to spare and multiple reasons here to spend it — tactically, to give Senate Democrats cover and burnish his credentials as the post-racial president, and personally, given his long rivalry with Rush. He should step up and lay this turd out. He’d have plenty of support based on early indications. Watch the video below:
Bobby Rush - From Blago being heinous, to “All these folks who are opposed to Governor Blagojevich, they need to take a chill pill.”
All Votes Are In: Cable News Claims Huge Victory in 2008 and guess who came out #1?
Those who claim Fox News is nothing more than some right wing conspiracy channel either need to stop watching the channel, or come to the realization that Fox News is simply the only network without a completely liberal biased “staff”. Fox News remained the undisputed news champ. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes’s network celebrated its seventh consecutive year as the cable-news rating leader in primetime and total day among viewers and the key 25-to-54 demographic. And 2008 was Fox News’s highest-rated year ever in both total day and primetime. The dominant all-news network saw its primetime average grow 41% from 2007 to 2.059 million viewers last year, almost as many as CNN and MSNBC combined. In terms of household primetime ratings in 2008, Fox News ranked No. 4 among all cable networks with a 1.7 average, up 31% from 2007, according to Disney ABC Television Group analysis of Nielsen data. Maybe if Sean Hannity or Bill Oreilly would have announced they get a tingling sensation up their legs in regard to John McCain or Sarah Palin, the ratings would have done better. Congrats Fox News! LOL @ the you CNN and MSNBC.
See-Dubya’s New Year’s Resolutions
Well not the real dubya. He’s too busy vacationing in Texas (when he is going to be perm vacation in less than 3 weeks), its actually see-dubya’s resolutions:
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