Meet The Koffee Klatche Set

Or is that the copy cat set?

Tea'd off 'Coffee party' takes aim at tea party movement [video]
Will the so-called coffee party catch on? A liberal grassroots movement is frustrated with the health-care gridlock

Too funny! They are so discombobulated by real work-a-day Americans standing up to say enough they found the need to counter challenge us in such an original copycat way.

Go Koffee Klatche! I look forward to facing you on the street corner in competing protests - our 1000's to your 20 whimpy whiners.

Too bad you couldn't have been a bit more original....at least go with wine, that way we could've brought our cheese!

A Rebuttal to Liberal Lunacy In The Form of NYTimes Frank Rich

Since The Times refused to post my rebuttal to Frank Rich in his piece "The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged Violent invective, once largely confined to blogs and talk radio, is now spreading among Republicans in public office or aspiring to it.", I decided to post it here.

Frank, you’ve really no idea from where you speak, do you? That you would even place Stack in with Tea Partiers shows you are being a hack in order to ruffle feathers, rather than a serious reporter or opinion maker.

The majority of Tea Party activists are regular moms and dads who learned about the constitution and the true history of this country in school. I might add, we were the last generation to do so, from the last baby boomer through the oldest remaining.
We are teaching our kids. We are uniting in freedom. We don’t need a “leader”, we were born in freedom and we understand it innately. We don't like BIG government, as opposed to your accusation of any government at all.

We are staid, work a day, average Americans who are looking on with alarm at our:

• Shrinking (or non-existent) paychecks
• At the loss of our freedoms
• At the mass creation of fiat dollars
• At “jobless recoveries” (whatever the heck that means)
• At government owned everything
• At bank and company bailouts and
• At an uncontrolled, uncontrollable government and business symbiosis that will, if given the chance, catapult us into a 1930's style Germany where the likes of IG Farben and the government gained the position of ruling everything.

We fully understand that absolute power corrupts absolutely. We know and understand the sayings of our forefathers "A government big enough...", "When the people fear their government..." Look them up, they aren’t hard to find. They were warnings to the people of America that were and remain prophetic.

We don't want a nation where government workers outnumber private sector workers who make more money (off our backs) than the private sector employees (through free enterprise). We don't want a world where fake overprinted fiat dollars draws down the value of everything, where we are working three quarters of the year just to meet the hunger of BIG government while leaving our families wanting because of the pittance we are allowed to keep. We don't want, as Evan Thomas so proudly proclaimed, to all be socialists now, led by a sort of a god!

We are reasoned and reasonable middle class people who see our class, through the likes of Goldman Sachs (because of naked short selling, M2M, CDO’s, CDS’s and the removal of the uptick rule) who will literally steal $18 Trillion dollars worth of this nation’s personal wealth - the people’s wealth. Wealth we worked very hard to gain. We want to be responsible for our own families first, then reach out to others second, as it should be.

Our goal is not to feed the ever-hungry government who now has its eye on our personal healthcare and our retirement funds.

We will stand against a government who will take everything for the elite on Wall Street and the Soros’ of the world, who will allow "too big to fail" companies to make use of our future dollars to turn the biggest profit ever in a single quarter (immediately following the bailouts) and who now turn their greed on the likes of Greece as they short everything to steal what is left there. We didn’t create this mess. They did. Let them dig us out.

We aren't sheep. We aren't stupid. We aren't crazy. We simply see too many similarities to other points in history and we simply refuse to go there. We are making our voices heard. We are successful through peaceful means, as exampled in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts elections. There are more of those to come, Mr. Rich. Mark my words.

I was one of the tea party people to meet with Michael Steele. I will gladly meet with Tim Kaine. We don't believe in “no government” as you accuse, we understand the need for politics. We simply believe in balance, the rule of law, our constitution and personal responsibility.

In this country the elected are servants of the people. We are a REPUBLIC. We have successfully held off the healthcare disaster to date, Cap and Trade and many more. We will continue to do so because between those two bills and the bailouts, we are looking at nearly 30% of the GDP. A country like ours cannot sustain itself on that level of the GDP being government owned. We know that. The question remains,” Why don't you?”

We aren't the Stack’s of the world, but we are a force to be reckoned with. You can’t control us, no one does. We are independent minded successful people who have made it this far without government involvement and we plan to keep it that way. We are moms, dads, company owners, kids and grandparents who believe vociferously in the American Dream. We will not allow any bully pulpit, any president or one party rule situation take that away from our kids. They deserve the very same opportunities we had. No less.

So please. Learn from where you speak. Look at your man’s polls. We are the great people of this nation and no single man, president or not will take us down.

We are the people.
We have our rights god-given, not man given, therefore they can not be taken away.
We won’t allow that to happen.
Just watch us November 2, 2010 and again in 2012.
We, the giant are now awake and we are watching every single move this government is making. We do surround you, in size, in votes, in numbers.
We don’t need violence or crazy misled acts. We can do this all on our own, one vote at a time.

Fear THAT!

Meeting with Michael Steele and the Tea Party Groups

As many of you know, Cheryl, Terri and I went to the grassroots private meeting with Michael Steele last evening. We understand there is some controversy within the various conservative groups surrounding this meeting. Some are saying we shouldn’t be taking a seat before what could be considered a “part of the problem”. We felt strongly that without having a face to face with party leaders we would be effectively shutting down the most important part of the process: that of allowing our group’s voice to be heard to the powers that be.

Over the course of the next few days, we will be explaining what happened here in detail, but first we wanted to give an overview of the takeaways from this meeting and address the concerns and the news.

We believe that to be effective leaders for the group, one of our main responsibilities is to take advantage of any opportunity to be heard by the leaders of every political avenue available. We believe that to be fully aware of someone’s intentions, it is the best and fastest to simply ask them.

We were very direct as a group last night to ask the RNC Party Chairman if his intentions were to co-opt the various groups and if the GOP’s intention was to fold on Healthcare Reform. We were very pleased by his answers on these questions and many others.

Overall, this was a fantastic meeting. Not only because of what Michael Steele said to us, but more than that, how much he listened to what we had to say. I mean really listened. We were slated to be there for one hour, we were in that meeting for going on 3.5 hours. That was quite a telling statement to us. The RNC is getting that it is high time they sat and listened, took it on the chin and heard what the groups that were represented wanted from our various leaders. It is important to note – we were not there representing the “movement”, we were there representing our group.

Mr. Steele made three key points to us:

1. Maintain the energy in our groups, amp it up even. We are having an earth shattering effect on Washington in general and the DNC/Progressives and their state-run media in particular. In fact, he stated it was nothing short of the effect that the founders had in the first revolution.
2. Made the very strongly stated point that we are the answer to this country’s problems, not those in various offices or in party leadership. The RNC is looking to us for their marching orders, not the other way around. We are shattering the standards, we are the voters, but we are acting in a way that old established Washington has no idea how to handle, understands it is way bigger then they, and has a sense of fear they will lose this particular war. They don’t know how to poll it, play it, combat it, and they don’t know what to do with it. The old standards aren’t working anymore and we need to keep that up. We learned that Michael Steele originated from DC and is a grassroots based individual whose goal is to shake up party establishment and return to a bottom up organization.
3. Get out the vote and run them if you’ve got them.
   

He also taught us the roles of the parties versus the roles of the GOP, the DNC, the candidates, the elected, and the people. It was very interesting and will be the next topic we go over on Friday. This is something we did not understand and we don’t believe many people do understand.

We made many points to him, which we will go over in detail in the coming days. The main ones were:

1. We do not desire to be co-opted. He answered very clearly that is not a threat at all. What we are hearing is spin and word twisting from left based media and the democrats, not the RNC.
   
2. We do not feel he is stating his message clearly at all. He is confusing the issues by what he says versus what he states he feels personally, namely that he is one of us and not of “old party” which makes him the odd man out in Washington. I responded directly to that statement, then rid yourself of the “politi-speak” and make your messages very clear, direct, exact, because we aren’t getting your message.
   
3. Part two of that same question was that the ground game for conservatives is not there. We don’t hear the message as conservatives and if we aren’t hearing it, many voters not yet immersed in the movement aren’t hearing it or seeing it. He stated that this will change within the next few weeks. There is an entire bottom up program being finalized now that the RNC will run with to provide us with avenues to utilize.
   
4. We stated we are VERY concerned about the Blair House meeting and we want a definitive answer on what their response will be. They aren’t strategizing and we require a strategy. He wrote that down and stated he would talk to minority leaders to encourage them to consider their alternatives and game plans.
   
5. We don’t want “the party of no” label. We want “the party of HELL NO!” label.
   
6. We voiced quite a few concerns about local issues, and he directed us to involvement with our local RNC and our voice there. Additionally he was very encouraging about the precinct involvement and explained where his duties lie in the scheme of things.
   In addition there were many interesting points made, things we didn’t understand but better understand now. Those we will save for different editions.

What Mr. Steele meant by “Republican’s aren’t ready to win” among other key questions we have had were explained in depth and made great sense, however he did agree that he is not being clear enough.

The key issue I raised was grassroots doesn’t speak politispeak, he needs to be very clear when he makes these statements and he agreed that he was not clarifying his thoughts enough. This is going to hopefully be the beginning of an ongoing dialogue. We are very encouraged and excited by the outcomes last night.

The RNC from Mr. Steele’s perspective is that they don’t want to co-opt us. They are willing to do what we need them to do within the perimeters of their role in politics and the political process. They hear us, and they do fear us.

When we ended our after meeting dinner meeting the group leaders agreed that our motto is “Independent but Together”.

Next edition will cover the role of the NC’s in politics. What we can expect from them as the election moves forward and what is not within their charter to do.

Creeping Gradualism

I am so shocked by the following series of articles, yet I have heard barely a ripple of conversation, news reports or pundit discussion concerning its content.

It feels very much like a deep black hole in the information age.

The below articles provides the missing pieces to a very complex puzzle that causes one pause.

Presidential Assassinations of U.S. Citizens
Last week, Glen Greenwald of Salon.com wrote about a shocking revelation buried in a Washington Post article by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the Bush policy of targeting selected American citizens for assassination if they are deemed by the President to be "terrorists". As The Washington Times' Eli Lake reports, Adm. Dennis Blair was asked about this program at a Congressional hearing Tuesday and he acknowledged its existence:

The U.S. intelligence community policy on killing American citizens who have joined al Qaeda requires first obtaining high-level government approval, a senior official disclosed to Congress on Wednesday.

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said in each case a decision to use lethal force against a U.S. citizen must get special permission. . . .He also said there are criteria that must be met to authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen that include "whether that American is involved in a group that is trying to attack us, whether that American is a threat to other Americans. Those are the factors involved."

Where have we heard words like those before?

It is quite a dangerous situation the American people find themselves in, although as a whole, we just don’t know it yet. I am going to do my best attempt to explain why.

It's bringing the frog to a slow boil.

In 1930’s Austria they called it "Creeping Gradualism".

We used to be against tyranny in this country. We fought and won World Wars against it. We fought and won the Revolutionary War for the same reason.

We are a nation completely blind to what is to become of us, what danger awaits us, but I believe that before we know it we are all in danger of being deemed "a threat to other Americans" simply because we don't like the loss of our freedoms and we are organizing to push against this monolithic governmental empire they are creating.

Flashback: We were already identified as potential terrorists in the DHS directive last April. The (U//FOUO) Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment document clearly states " the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years. In addition, the historical election of an African American president and the prospect of policy changes are proving to be a driving force for rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalization."

My concerns run deep on this issue and although it has constantly nagged me for nearly a year, I just couldn’t put my finger on what was bothering me so deeply - besides the obvious, of course. I knew something was drastically wrong, but I didn’t have all the pieces.

Adding the revelation of presidential directive to the puzzle last week and this newest article today, “Obama Admin wants to track cellphones; 'Americans enjoy NO reasonable expectation of privacy', I feel a chill so deep that no Florida sun can penetrate. All the pieces have tumbled into place in my mind.

This President will try Abdulmutallab the pantibomber, KSM of USS Cole fame (whose tribunal he stopped after his admission of guilt at the military trial), and Hasan the infamous soldier slayer in US Civilian Courts.

Obama via Holder will afford them constitutional protection. He has mirandized them. They have just finished trying Pakistani Scientist Aafia Siddiqui and found her guilty of two counts of attempted murder of US Soldiers in Civilian Criminal Courts - yet he ORDERS assassinations on US Citizens without benefit of trial?

At least Bush was consistent in his directive (if that can be considered a plus at all) - but this president acts without the equality of the thing and orders the murder of Americans at the same time he fiercely protects terrorists. Not only that, but he calls it racism to do otherwise.

Do we at all understand what this means to those of us born and raised in America? To the everyday natural citizens of these United States?

Do we know what criteria they are using to determine these American citizens are "terrorists"?

Is it just the newly granted citizens, those who are now known to be terrorists but who somehow made it through citizenship without detection - or is it something far more insidious, something that we only got a whiff of in last April’s DHS missive?

What are the criteria Mr. President? List it out for us, please.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Is it simply okay to give admitted terrorists access to our Constitutional Rights, yet not afford our own citizens those same rights?

Apparently that is our brave new world of hope and change.

The Freedom Stealing Trifecta and One Party Rule

4 Patriot Act
4 Executive Decisions/Directives
4 Congressional Pseudo-Wars


The Patriot Act has effectively suspended the Writ of Habeus Corpus for American Citizens.

It allows them to search us at will and detain us indefinitely under "suspicion".

It affords us NO access to speedy trials or even an attorney on the "assumption" that we are a threat.

Apparently it also allows them to assassinate us.

Yet they afford admitted terrorists fair trials with our tax dollars even when they are caught trying to set off a bomb in their panties on a planeload of Christmas Vacationers! SCOTUS stripped us of our right to have an attorney present in May of last year, but this apparently doesn’t apply to terrorists.

The entire purpose of habeas is to say, “Look at me! I’m being detained/abused/disenfranchised contrary to law”. If there’s no writ available, the result is that the government can hold you “against the law”. Since the writ encompasses the full scope of our Constitutional rights, it’s a logical conclusion is to say that while it’s suspended, Americans currently have NO exercisable constitutional rights.

My heart is heavy and my mind is boggled by this as I witness and hear of case after case against our Constitutional and God given rights. Fathers denied their children, children on no fly lists who cannot find recourse to be removed, citizens who are subjected to unlawful search and seizures, and the list goes on and on.

Effectively, they are saying they have all power to do all things because Congress has given the powers of Military License and Force to "protect" citizens, while in reality they take away ALL our liberties in the Patriot Act.

The President, by saying “I can kill you at will because I am the President of the United States and I believe you to be a "terrorist" threat.”, literally means you have a "free for all" from the government’s perspective.

The door has slammed shut on your freedoms.

Creeping gradualism is no longer creeping, my friends, the serfdom has arrived.

What is considered our most basic liberty, our writ of habeas corpus, was finally and completely removed between the trifecta of the AUMF of 2001, the Executive Directive of assassination, and The Patriot Act. All of this because of the very terrorists we are mirandizing right now.

We The People vs The Machine

The Constitution of the United States very clearly states:

1) Congress has the power to declare war.

2) Constitutional provisions cannot be altered by statute.

Based on those 2 points, it is interesting to note that Congress has not actually declared war since Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania on June 5, 1942. They have however, declared many Military Engagements and AUMF's (Authorizations of Use of Military Force) as the functional equivalent of a declaration of war.

In Point 2, nothing in the Constitution can be reasonably construed to allow Congress to reallocate powers to themselves in a more palatable or politically expedient manner. Yet that is precisely the effect the War Powers Resolution, by which "AUMFs" are passed, has done.

It has given them all encompassing political power.

In a time such as this with One Party Rule, this use becomes especially apparent as it did in the late 70’s, the early 90’s, the early to mid 00’s and now again this past year. The problem is that without the checks and balances, soon you become a single party system as seen in the 30’s and 40’s Austria, Germany, China, and are witnessing in Venezuela today through Chavez and his "istas".

Additionally, that is exactly how those currently in Congress intend to continue to use it to order to remain in power with the recent (Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey and the rise of the TEA Party) threats to their One Party Rule status. See Will Obama Play the War Card?

The War Powers Resolution limits Presidential authority in the use of force without an official resolution or declaration of war by Congress.

The controversial question then becomes, "Where the provisions therein are consistent with the Constitution". According to Wikipedia, in an argument for the unconstitutionality of the War Powers Resolution by Philip Bobbitt, it states that


"The power to make war is not an enumerated power" and the notion that to declare" war is to "commence" war is a "contemporary textual preconception". The Framers of the Constitution believed that statutory authorization was the route by which the United States would be committed to war, and that 'declaration' was meant for only total wars, as shown by the history of the Quasi-War with France (1798–1800); in general, constitutional powers are not so much separated as "linked and sequenced"; Congress's control over the armed forces is "structured" by propriation, while the president commands; thus the act of declaring war should not be fetishized."
Bobbitt also argues that "A democracy cannot ... tolerate secret policies" because they undermine the legitimacy of governmental action.”

Based on the in depth analysis of this explanation, the Constitution authorizes Congress to declare war, but it does not authorize Congress to declare Military Force, License or pseudo-wars whether or not they are politically expedient. The “preconception” is actually a misconception and a severe one at that.

3) In light of points 1 and 2, regardless of what Congress may have done, purposed or purports to do in the way of authorizing force, the AUMF is constitutionally a “brick short” of a war declaration.

This leaves the question of whether we have a need to consider or obey the war-time powers of the President - as they have not actually been constitutionally activated.

Logic dictates that the Executive Decision of the President to Assassinate US Citizens is then simply a legal loophole to authorize sending out “hit men” on American Citizens because he (or any of the organizations that he may empower) arbitrarily deem them to be terrorists.

In light of the DHS directive, secret watch lists and any number of things the American public cannot possibly know about, this indeed is a very dangerous position to find ourselves in as average Americans.

4) The Due Process clause of the 5th Amendment states quite clearly that government shall not deprive any person of life without due process of law.

A secret, unilateral, unreviewable determination that an individual is a “terrorist” by the President doesn't in any way, shape or form constitute "due process".

The Door Slamming Shut

The problem we face with this directive doesn't lie with shooting an enemy combatant who is shooting at us, regardless of whether that person is a US Citizen, nor does it include fighting true terrorists. It certainly doesn't concern capturing them, imprisoning them, interrogating them, or killing them before they kill us as those are all "normal" war time activities.

No, the problem lies with effectively calling out a "hit" on an American Citizen whom they arbitrarily determine is a risk, without due process, without a jury of our peers, without known proof or warning, while at the same time securing those same constitutional rights to known enemy combatants and war criminals they have just denied the newly declared American citizen “terrorist”.

Here are two very specific stances of our most recent President's:

1) Targeting specific individual citizens whom they believe have ill intent and ordering them shot on sight, presumably “in other countries”, although Blair didn’t actually use those parameters in his description of the directive.

2) The fact is that they view the world as their battlefield in this AUMF, including hits on citizens of the US, sending drones, secret or pseudo secret actions in Yemen, Pakistan and any other country they damn well please, without concern to collateral damage or definitive proof.

There is war, then there is just playing dirty. I understand that sometimes during war, playing dirty is collateral - it's called strategy - but this is beyond that. This is simply playing dirty most of the time, more so on American Citizens than on the actual enemy. An enemy who consistently breaks the rules of engagement no less: who has no uniforms, no marching orders, just murderous intent regardless of the collateral damage it may cause. In fact, they delight in murdering innocent citizens on their way to work or home for the holidays.

In reality, what highlights an American Citizen as a "terrorist"? Do we know?

We have no idea their criteria, but we have hints to what it might be that constitutes a "terrorist".

4 We have the Terrorist Watch list. Many of us left-titled "right wing extremists" (who are actually just natural and patriotic citizens) are probably teetering on the brink of being on that one because this president doesn't like dissent for his policies. In fact the DHS report says as much.

We may very well reside there simply because we are either Veterans, don't believe in abortion, do believe in the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms, or we “cling” to our bibles. What of those who act as recruiters to community organizing conservatives, are bloggers, tea partiers, or any other ludicrous thing they can think of to include to marginalize and attack us?

4 We have the "No Fly List" (which houses untold natural US citizens), and

4 We have recent “questionable” citizenships they examine – unless, of course, they are Muslim – for that would be racist profiling.

4 Furthermore we have no access to any of the above lists, nor do we know if we, as an individual sit on either of the first two “lists”, and if we do, why we are there. We apparently can't find recourse to be removed from said list as recent revelations by those who find themselves on said list can attest.

This leads to the very real conclusion that anyone on a no fly list, a government deemed “right wing extremist” or virtually anyone the government targets could realistically be shot on sight or meet some other fatal event, even though he may have no prior knowledge of being on some list somewhere. The question that follows this conclusion then is: would that include his or her traveling companions as well? What if there are children around this big bad townhall attendee, veteran or tea partier?

Who’s to say since the world is the administrations battlefield, that regular people couldn’t meet with some “unfortunate accident” in their own backyard or driving to work one day? Who’s to say it couldn’t be one of us? Will we be shocked then?

The meaning of this executive directive is simply too broad, too secret, too arbitrary and far too outside the confines of the Constitutional boundaries under which our leaders rule. When considering we have 8 year olds who have been battling to be removed from the no fly list for 3 years, who are surely no danger to the US, it is highly likely there are other innocents who have been deemed dangerous to the US. I can easily extrapolate that list could include those of us who disagree with this president’s policies, whom he has already called out as “extremists”, and of which the DHS has further extrapolated the term to mean “terrorists” - or at the very least “terrorists in the making”.

The fact is that individual citizens have no chance to defend themselves against such a charge and it is a charge unbeknownst to them in most cases. They are a target and the President can simply say “just take them out”. That quickly. POOF! You are no more.

Combine those facts with the newly revealed adjacent "policy" that tells us the government has purposely allowed known terrorists into the US for Surveillance purposes. A policy which obviously has the potential to foment war upon the citizens of these United States, since such a one could escape surveillance easily enough in order to do the dirty deed they came here to do.

For good measure add in the loss of our economic freedoms that has been proven to have been brought upon us through a combination of congress, President’s (CFR and redistribution initiatives), cabinet appointees (deregulation of SEC trading rules), and the purposeful, proven “negligence” of the Federal Reserve. It becomes clear that we now have quite a dangerous stew of policies going on in this country today. Policies that should deeply disturb all of us.

We can’t fight it, we don't know exactly what it is. Even if we did, they won’t listen because it contains their belief in superiority, their political expediency to remain in control, and entitled elitism. Nor do we have the funds left to flee or to protect ourselves against it, which is exactly the definition of our "economic freedoms".

They are playing quite dangerously with the rights afforded us by our constitution: our safety, security, privacy, redress, petition, protest, due process, economic freedom, and our personhood rights - those of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They are manipulating with their pseudo-war time activities. They are playing in such a way as to endanger ALL US Citizens, not just those deemed “bad seed” - and they dare say we the people are the threat to this country?

Are we a threat to their policies through peaceful resistance? I certainly hope we are.

Are we a threat to their plans to stay in power through the web of campaign contributions, States of Emergencies and further pseudo-war actions they themselves have built? We had better be.

Are we a threat to their ever increasing credit lines and their license to makes us all serfs?

If we aren’t, we might as well hand over our property and simply lie down in the coffin now, for we can all be labeled “terrorist serfs” now.

Additional Recommended Reading: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. A study of the takeover of a people by Nazi Germany.

I'm Tired

Every single day... My job is to aggregate the news, for about 300,000 readers every day of the week.

It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck on the Obama Team to switching the channel to the three stooges on the Republican side.

Will they ever learn that we get it?

We get their lies and their half truths.

We know they are wagging the dog.

We see right through them.

I don’t think so. But does that really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Sarkozy’s turning right when we turn left. Russia’s fighting Putin’s last gasp for power, while Britain is sticking their finger up their nose, and the terrorists are keeping us in chains.

Enough.

Obama, either lead or get off the freaking pot.

Prime Minister Brown, you suck.

China, take your dreams of world domination, AND your money and go home.

I’m tired. I’m tired of the political posturing and the BS.

We all know that freedom reigns. So either you get it or you don’t, but leave us alone.

We don’t want your Sharia laws. We are more than you. You can’t win.

We don’t want your socialism. We are more than you. You can’t win.

We can fix the economy, if you will get out of our way.

We can fix the country when you get out of our way.

We don’t want your affirmative action.

We want to be citizens of the UNITED STATES. United. Not hearing that we are haters because we don’t want government run healthcare or the third freaking debt ceiling increase in as many months.

We are Americans.

We know how to industrialize.

We know how to capitalize and we know how to freaking grow the GDP.

So move on with your rhetoric, because WE ARE DONE.

You suck.

We don’t.

We are free people.

You can’t take that away. We won’t let you.

Go back and run for mayor of Chicago, BO, with your “retarded” totally non-PC buddy, faux Chief of Staff Rahmbo, you freaking bow-crazy, big-eared dumbo. It is the job you should’ve gotten. Not freaking Annihilator in Chief.

America is done.

We will not serve you, regardless of whether the loonies from bollywood do.
We will not serve you. Regardless of the amount of groveling you do.
We will not serve you.
We will not work for you to take our money and redistribute it to the world.
We will not serve you.
Need more be said?

America's Mop Up of the Underwear Bomber and the Ensuing Presidential Disaster

Mr. president? You are Fired!

I am going to start with this report:

Obama Report: We Knew Extremist Was On Detroit Flight “Administration officials initially had tried to downplay the incident. But in the past week, a litany of errors emerged that enabled a 23-year-old Nigerian with known terrorist inclinations, who paid for his ticket with cash and checked no luggage on an international flight, and who had an explosive device hidden in his underwear…..There is no indication, however, that U.S. officials attempted to alert the crew of Flight 253 that a potential security risk was abroad the aircraft.” [italics mine]

Well heck, if we didn’t have so many of our highly trained CIA agents stationed in the Arctic watching the Polar Ice Caps melt while we working citizens were being cataloged on the DHS Watch List for disagreeing that this president has ANY business being in office AT ALL, perhaps we could have had our sh!# together enough to catch him. He didn’t have a passport either by the way, Man aided terror suspect onto plane without passport. And BO’S POLLS AREN’T BEING AFFECTED? Really?

And these related: De Borchgrave: Obama's Weak Response to Airliner Attack Increases Threat to U.S. and
Administration Knew of Tactic Used in Airliner Attack Since October

FLASHBACK: For Immediate Release May 21, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON NATIONAL SECURITY “…my single most important responsibility as President is to keep the American people safe. It's the first thing that I think about when I wake up in the morning. It's the last thing that I think about when I go to sleep at night.
And this responsibility is only magnified in an era when an extremist ideology threatens our people, and technology gives a handful of terrorists the potential to do us great harm. We are less than eight years removed from the deadliest attack on American soil in our history. We know that al Qaeda is actively planning to attack us again. We know that this threat will be with us for a long time, and that we must use all elements of our power to defeat it.
Already, we've taken several steps to achieve that goal. For the first time since 2002 (blame Bush), we're providing the necessary resources and strategic direction to take the fight to the extremists who attacked us on 9/11 in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We're investing in the 21st century military and intelligence capabilities that will allow us to stay one step ahead of a nimble enemy. We have re-energized a global non-proliferation regime to deny the world's most dangerous people access to the world's deadliest weapons (really, is that what you call this?). And we've launched an effort to secure all loose nuclear materials within four years. We're better protecting our border, and increasing our preparedness for any future attack or natural disaster. We're building new partnerships around the world to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates. And we have renewed American diplomacy so that we once again have the strength and standing to truly lead the world.”

Oh, ok. Umm...I have a few questions Mr. Present ...er...a...Mr. president,

• Is that why you sent our CIA to watch polar ice melt because you were up day and night worried about our safety? CIA Resources Diverted to Climate Change



• Is that why you took 3 days to address the nation, An Absentee and Complacent President but you stopped your golf game right away for your friend’s hurt child? Terrible thing to have happen, a hurt child, but it’s not 300 people who are all probably suffering PSTD over what might have been their last Christmas Day on this earth!



• Is that why you aren’t demanding resignations yet because you are so concerned about our safety?

Here, let me help you. I’ll start the list and list the reasons for you…

1. Hillary Clinton – Besides the fact that Hillary Clinton's Agency Issued the Terrorist's Visa, she decides she wants to take more of our safety, not to mention our Constitutional Rights away by committing her intention to sign the UN Small Arms Treaty. Hillary Clinton Commits To UN Small Arms Treaty. She just needs to go. She doesn't do anything unless somebody asks her about her husband, only then do you see some emotion! Never though, I repeat NEVER does she show any strength when it comes to AMERICA'S safety! Rather, she runs around with Overcharge buttons!



2. Janet “The System Worked” Napolitano with her “what she says” BS….Napolitano: No indication of larger terror plot (which means our beliefs at this point in time must be exactly the opposite)! Especially considering this little gem ….Warning on Detroit suspect didn't rise above the 'noise' OH! And this, Homeland Security’s National Operations Center ‘Unable’ to Do Its Job, Inspector General Finds, who couldn’t manage to implement National Security (Secretary Napolitano Delays Implementation of Crucial National Security Law). Then this lovely statement, as if she finally figured out we aren’t all as stupid as she looks Napolitano Now Says Airline Security System Failed.



3. Souther’s - before he ever gets back in front of the Senate, simply because he is not ethical TSA Nominee Misled Congress; White House Defends: and he wants to unionize the biggest cluster#^@% ever to be formed (Caught: TSA pick boasts of 'joining' security with unions) which most of those genius’s in Congress wrote and approved.



4. Whoever is in charge of TSA currently – “Arrest em” Hawley (Traveller detained by TSA for calling head of TSA an idiot) or whoever is in acting head of that disaster continuing to happen (Attacks on screeners could endanger passengers, TSA workers say). Oh and by the way, while you are firing what's his name, don’t blame DeMint on your own failures as a president with-a-little-p because we know You Waited 8 Months To Appoint a New TSA Head. You weren't in too much of a hurry to do your duty…must not have had too many sleepless nights....



5. Eric Holder, because he is one of the biggest detriments (White House: Justice Dept. made decision to hold Detroit bomber in civilian justice system) to your performance as Trainee in Chief with his hell bent "read ‘em their Miranda rights" dictates. So much so that NYC Mayor Bloomberg Has to Say Security for KSM Terror Trial to Cost $216 Million of which charges I’m pretty sure will mean that besides completely offending the majority of Americans also will be deducted directly out of our paychecks. You remember we the people? The taxpaying citizenry, whom as you say, it is your most important job to protect, right? Meanwhile he tops that little gem off (by your direction) by ordering the arrest Navy Seals, Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted ...! Those guys are over there, WILLING TO DIE IN THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT US, and you are REALLY going to try them for slapping an enemy combatant? Really? And you dare call yourself presidential? Can I just say SIR, The Judiciary is No Place to Make National Security Decisions! Fire him! Otherwise we wonder exactly what you are trying to say here with this absolute nonsense of trying terrorists in American courts... I don’t know - are you trying to say that you are Muslims and you don’t want to sign the death decree should they be sentenced in war court because that will go against the Koran, perhaps? You can be like Herrod in the civilian courts, wash your hands of it, don't have to sign the decree...hmmm. I wonder...



6. Jim “shock a day” Jones – your National Security Advisor! Don’t “tweak” terrorism, confront it! What an obvious CYA yesterday's press conference was! Makes me sick!



7. Michael “gee, I think I’ll take a ski trip” Leiter, the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Who knew what under investigation, and his boss, John "It was my fault" Brennan - Man in Charge of Analyzing Terror-Threat Info Did Not Interrupt Ski Vacation After Attempted Airplane Bombing, Report Says



8. And Finally, YOU SIR! Mr. Barack Hussein Obama! You are A Constitutional National Security Crisis of Your Own Creation . You should resign effective immediately. As sad as it is, we would be safer with that Gaffmaestro you named as your Second-in-Command and whom you obviously now so despise. Your Knee Jerk reactions and your lies, dodging and weaving has left us wanting. EDITORIAL: Obama denies crotch bomber conspiracy. Oh, but there's many more reasons than that, here's just a few of the cream of the crop:

• You opened up Gitmo. Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight...



• The guys you released to Yemen are coming back to haunt us. Was the Fruit of the Loon Bomber Trained by Gitmo Honor Graduate? You can't tell us that you didn't know prior that the Yemen minister said "We have 300 al Qaeda militants planning attacks"... because if you do, then you weren't DOING YOUR JOB and that's still grounds for your resignation! Al Qaeda Leaders in Yemen Released by U.S. from Guantanamo 2 of the 4 released, SIR?



• And what about those guys in Bermuda? Where are they and what are they planning? Or the 8 Uighers? Hmmm? Many Ex-Detainees Return to Terror, Pentagon Says . Exactly how many is “many” SIR? Pentagon: One in five return to fight after leaving Gitmo Are you SURE about that? Are you absolutely POSITIVE that ART THERAPY works for the other 4?



• You gave Hamas (Obama Decrees: Massive Immigration of Hamas Refugees from Gaza ...) and Yemeni’s repatriation (State Department Using 'Diversity Visas' to Encourage Immigration to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen) to America, to be citizens of this country, living among us and your total aid to the Hamas now is nearly YET ANOTHER TRILLION of our “redistributed dollars”! US Gaza Aid To Top $900M: says US Official.



• You, SIR! I believe you WANT to see regular hard working Americans either dead or broke, whichever comes first. YOU care NOTHING for the hard working American Citizen’s of these United States. Nothing! You care only for your elite status, your big parties, celebrities fawning all over you, Soros's attention, flitting around everywhere as you please, in our jet, on our dime no less, BOWING to the head’s of state wherever you go! You care about NOTHING else except fundementally "changing" America into a third world, Sharia Lawed Socialist State. There is no OTHER REASONABLE EXPLANATION FOR YOUR ACTIONS! Are The Elite Inviting a Terror Attack in America in Order to Have A Crisis to Exploit? We wonder SIR, I guarantee you that!



• You transfer highly trained individuals from CIA to the other farce brought upon the American people, Global Warming? CIA Resources Diverted to Climate Change, like what are they gonna do, jujitsu to hold the ice caps back? The American people paid for their training so that we could be safe, so that they could gather evidence and thwart any attacks on our soil. And you DARE to send them off to war on Global WARMING? We are at WAR FOR OUR VERY EXSISTENCE!



• You open up State secrets (Obama Curbs Secrecy of Classified Documents - NYTimes.com), war prisoner secrets, Obama's State Secrets Overreach, thereby removing the ONLY veils of protection we have from these horrible, hateful jihadists while you abuse, belittle and terrorize your own citizens, Our Incompetent Civilization? BTW - That isn’t a hate crime to say that. What they try to do to us because we don’t believe the way they do, now THAT is a HATE CRIME! To Hell with Political Correctness!



• You spend a year going after law abiding American Citizens (Statement By Deputy Press Secretary Matt Chandler On DHS' Efforts To Enhance Driver's License Security) and Veterans, New DHS Domestic Terrorism Report Targets Millions of Americans, offering so lovingly to put WH cookies on our boxes when we visit your webpage 'Cookie' Anyone?: White House May Track Visitors to ... or your facebook, while you call us and the Veterans DOMESTIC TERRORISTS because we *gasp* disagree with your freaking politics (for obviously pretty damn good reasons)! Then, when you aren’t busy building enemies lists or attacking a right leaning commentator or Fox news (Lamar Alexander to Barack Obama: No 'enemies list') -of which I am pretty sure I already belong, you are either out of the country, golfing or on another FREAKING vacation! Whatever it is you are doing, it is anything BUT addressing the grave attacks in a timely and presidential manner and doing your main job, to protect the American Citizens from attack. No, instead you open up State secrets and open the door wide to our enemies, take over our freedom, rahm through Healthcare reform, bail out bankers, steal car dealerships from entreprenuers, and steal our and our children's childrens money! You lie, you steal, you cheat and you have some really truly sick friends. You know that the Terrorism Threat Demands Smarter Security, Not More Money yet you do nothing about that at all.



• You are freaking calling us racists at every turn (google it yourself, it’ll give you something to do besides pretend to protect Americans) or you have your Obamabot media tingle seekers do it for you rather than hunt down and kill people who would kill us! 'More Than One-third of All Terrorist Plots Since 9/11 Transpired in 2009' News flash SIR, your pigmentation is not my concern. My constitutional rights, my freedom, my liberty, my safety and that of my children, my healthcare choice, and my hard-earned paychecks, THOSE are my concerns. You want it all and yet all is not enough for you. So I don’t like you. Not one bit. Call me whatever you will, but know that I know the truth. Sticks and stones buddy. Where your problem is so ideologically, spiritually and realistically truly screwed up you may never find NORMAL…a NAMBLA fan for safe school czar? Really.



• You leave our soldiers and our CIA operatives open to attack in Afghanistan and 7 die, in large part because you dithered (Obama's Afghanistan policy isn't 'dithering.' It's 'reckless ...). 7 whose knowledge and wherewithal we will never get back.



• It took so long for you to put troops in there that the only thing you succeeded in doing was further endangering our troops (US casualties 'will rise to 500 a month')! Meanwhile the enemy was plugging away at recruiting and training for going on 200 days! When Obama is faced with a problem, what does he do? Review and NATO intelligence chief issues scathing critique of military intelligence in Afghanistan and Obama Will Spend More on Welfare in the Next Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War, Study Reveals



• You use a guy who is known to have problems (Fort Hood shooter asked about 'killing Americans in 2008'), who was used on your terrorism task force, who later BLEW AWAY 13 grown up soldiers like sardines in a can along with one unborn child, What was the most covered-up story of 2009? and you didn’t even mention that issue first in the speech you gave while it was still happening until the very end! President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of ...



• Beside putting the CIA on the all important ice cap watch, you decided to cut NCTC funding NCTC Was Slated For Deep Budget Cuts, you bury it all under emergency healthcare reform and you think we don’t know that this is your MO, A 40-Year Wish List - WSJ.com? You are an insensitive and incompetent SCHMUCK! Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting NBC Chicago and you do not deserve to be our president. You have proven that time and time again!



• It took you 3 days to address this nation on this latest attack while you were Dithering in Paradise



• It was 4 days and the WH website still had no mention of the underpants bomber on your site!!! White House Web Site Does Not Address Failed Terror Attack



• You say there was “No evidence of collusion with other individuals” NO EVIDENCE OF ACCOMPLICES..., until, of course, there was… FLASHBACK: Flight 253 passenger claimed Abdulmutallab accompanied by 'well dressed' man, helped him on plane without 'passport'... then you all lied about it....until you didn't anymore... Report of 2nd man cuffed from Flight 253 confirmed



• You lie - White House accuses Downing Street of making 'a mistake' over intelligence claim about what Britain told you, MI5 told US about Detroit bomber's terror links 'a year ago', and then you don't even mention that in your report yesterday. Own up dude, Man UP!



• YOU knew three days before and you gave NO WARNING or heightened security measures, EXCLUSIVE: Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to "Homeland"



• You STILL continue to make excuses for the haters, you tell us you are worried we will "profile" them, which by our very own justice dept is proven not true (The Myth of the Anti-Muslim Backlash), while Christians and Jews are put down at every turn Christian witnessing a no-no on campus. Did you know SIR that Hate Crimes last year were overwhelmingly for the Jewish people that you seem so much to put down? You cover for your cabinet members and for your failures.



• You STILL apologize to them when you should be apologizing to US! U.S. Terrorism Czar: Christmas Day Plot 'Not Like 9/11' even after they accuse US and Mossad colluding to order the attack! Washington DC IMAM "Attempted Christmas Day Plane Bombing is the Work of The U.S. Government, and Mossad" Flashback: U.S.: Panel Cites Lack Of Imagination In Failure To Prevent 9/11 Attacks



• You knew he was in the air and you didn’t CALL THE PILOT or at the very least have one of your lackluster appointees do it for you so you wouldn’t have to interrupt your VACATION (the 9th one in 11 months)? US learned intelligence on airline bomb suspect while he was en route



• And I haven't even mentioned the disasters waiting to happen with the Missile Shield or Iran! Your policies are going to get us all killed!

You are one lucky man for whatever reason there Barry, who Has Had A Very Lucky Escape With the Detroit Bomber, but you know what? Your luck has run out. The majority of Americans would dance in the street if you resign. We don’t want you in the Oval Office anymore. We want a REAL President. America Waits For Leadership. We want you out of the office and back to your community service where you belong, with the groups who all just think you are as sick minded as they are. MEET THE EVIL ANTI-AMERICAN...ANTI-CONSTITUTION...THE SHADOW PARTY...! DEEP, DARK AND PERVASIVELY EVIL...! We want you to live forever with your failures. We don’t want terrorists or enemy combatants tried in OUR courts, Nigerian Indicted in Terrorist Plot unless their names are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, James Jones, Michael Leiter, Ben Bernanke, Janet Napolitano and a whole bunch of bankers, congresspeople and senators.

We don’t want Gitmo closed, Mr. Obama, Those Are OUR Prisoners at Gitmo, Not Yours; Leave Them Where They Are.

We are DONE apologizing to people who hate us simply because we aren’t like them, Radicalization is alive and well in the U.S. we are non-muslims and for that they hate us so badly (Ex-CIA agent: Threat From Al Qaeda Greater Now Than on 9/11) that they would blow 300 people out of the air on Christmas day who are just trying to get to their homes to visit family, children, women, men, AMERICANS! What If the Bomb Had Gone Off?

What is wrong with you?! What PART of You is BROKEN? Why aren’t you OUTRAGED! Why the "review" instead of just the truth? Transparency indeed! You know the truth, you just can't HANDLE the TRUTH! Could this actually be the greatest and potentially the deadliest of your screw ups so far? You betcha! This is your nail buddy, the one that split wide open your little Alinsky-loving shriveled walnut of a soul. 'You Mr. Obama get an 'F' for protecting Americans'!

NO MORE! We've Got You Figured Out! You just want the news doled out piecemeal to us, find a way to say you did it better than Bush (The Politics of Incompetence) so we won’t freaking notice exactly how incompetent you are, or what bullshit you are cramming down our throats, but guess what SIR, for all your brains, you deeply underestimate the intelligence of the American people and our will to keep our borders safe and our country free.

Your job SIR is not to REVIEW, IT IS LIKE YOU SAID, FIRST AND FOREMOST PROTECT THE CITIZENS from our enemies! In other words, it is to know how to do it out the GATE! That little thing we like to call experience…. We want a Man in Charge, Dude. Don’t send your girlie men, your bullies, your joke of dog wagger or your new manly girls anymore because they provide No Comfort At All!

Go back to Chicago and run as Deputy Mayor with Rahmmy boy! Better yet, go back to Kenya and find a surrogate mom to re-read the constitution to you first thing every morning again because you obviously didn't understand it the first time around! Just get out of our WHITE HOUSE! We don't want a president who MAKES TOP 10 LIST OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS! FREAKING RESIGN ALREADY!!!!! Sort of a god, sir? More like shades of the devil himself. Resign!

Excuse Me While I Rant On Bernanke

Fed Debates New Role: Bubble Fighter (WSJ) “Not so long ago, Federal Reserve officials were confident they knew what to do when they saw bubbles building in prices of stocks, houses or other assets: Nothing. Now, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke faces a confirmation hearing Thursday on a second four-year term, he and others at the central bank are rethinking the hands-off approach they've followed over the past decade. On the heels of a burst housing-and-credit bubble, Mr. Bernanke now calls financial booms "perhaps the most difficult problem for monetary policy this decade."

Excuse me while I rant….

Um, dear, dear, dear Mr. Bernanke. Could it be that the deregulation of tried and true market methods like:

• Removing naked short selling rules, to remove the necessity of covering your shorts - along with other important market regulations which YOU removed in 2004 and 2007, and which allowed bear raiding of perfectly good companies, as well as a risky derivatives markets
• the Mark 2 Market accounting schemes,
• the government and banking industry sanction for the creation of new and risky loans for homes, and the creation of “no matter your credit!” as well as “just state your income – no proof required!” rules
• that were further complicated by new and risky derivatives that go BUST the minute something happens to even ONE of the units within the derivative (in this case ONE single mortgage housed inside a derivative comprised of 100 mortgages, goes belly up) which in turn causes said derivative to instantly become a junk bond due to those very same M2M accounting schemes,
• along with the creation of insurance products (CDS's) that aren’t called insurance products for the express purpose of avoiding insurance regulation rules of those VERY SAME INSURANCE PRODUCTS (that aren’t really insurance) that could maybe….. possibly….. perchance… be the problem?

While we are at it, MR. Bernanke, why not mention the facts that soon after you accepted the position of Fed Chairman:

• YOU stopped the rate increases that were designed to slow an expanding bubble.
• You also well understand that the repeal of Glass-Steagall opened the door to the financial bubble. (After all, you are a “Depression expert”, are you not?)
• That YOU know that the Commodity and Futures Modernization Act opened the door for commodity bubbles. AND THAT YOU DID NOTHING TO FIX ANY OF THOSE ISSUES, KNOWINGLY and COMPLICITLY?
• And at the risk of being repetitive you certainly ought to know that forcing banks to make sub-prime loans is not healthy, for the bank or for the home-buyer.
• If YOU are such an expert on the Depression, the mark-to-market rules have got to be ringing in your ears….as well as the dismantling of uptick rules, unless of course you are as adept at lying to yourself as you are to the American people, the president’s, the world and the Hill.
• YOU knew banks were selling CDS derivatives with a vengeance. YOU are well aware of the whole mess and YOU did nothing…except of course help your buddies at Goldman get their money out of AIG.

In other words dear Mr. Banker Bernanke sir, couldn’t it be YOU, along with all your redistributive (from our pocket to their own), tax stealing, loss publicizing, gain privatizing buddies at all the chop shops on Wall Street (all of whom are right there alongside you) that are the major problem? YOU who STOLE so very many trillions out of the pockets of unsuspecting citizens in the largest “transfer of wealth” event in the history of transfers of wealth? Yep. You betcha!

Honestly Mr. Bernanke - Do you truly believe that we the people are so stupid that we don’t understand what is going on? That we aren’t already about 99.9% certain that it is YOU and YOUR BUDDIES Geithner and your best bud Larry Summers (whom you so adeptly quote today and who is so wrapped up in Citibank it isn’t even funny, as well as the mess at Harvard, the muni bonds and so much else) who orchestrated this whole mess to begin with?

As you blithely sit before the Senate Committee, while all of you in this administration hold our feet to the fire, may God judge you severely for your complicit greed and avarice.

While you are leaving WE THE PEOPLE afraid to make a move in our companies and in our personal lives for what is sure to be coming down the pike tomorrow, in the forms of new banking regulations that are so far reaching as to be nothing but money guzzling big government; not to mention all the other ways we face uncertainty in our businesses and our lives, i.e. new taxes, fees, healthcare insurance, cap and trade or the signing of the Copenhagen treaty (whichever comes first) that we are facing because of your collective efforts to steal our wealth, I simply cannot understand how you live with yourself. Do you honestly believe that we can just freely go ahead and participate in the free market at this time? While you boss is out there doing a “JOBS Summit” with EXACTLY TWO CEO’s in attendance? Really? Do you think we can recover this economy and recapture our wealth in an environment as obviously greedy as this one?

NO! We can’t Because YOU WON’T LET US!

Stop messing with the system so that your buddies at Goldman Sachs can manipulate the markets and all will soon return to normal! LEAVE US ALONE TO FIX IT! The people can fix themselves if you and all your cronies will get the heck out of the way!

You sir, need to go. Not only do you need to go out of office, you need to go to STRAIGHT TO JAIL! Shame on YOU!

Bunning agrees with me….Bunning Statement on Bernanke: ‘You Are the Definition of a Moral Hazard’ A MUST Read/MUST Disseminate Article “It’s highly unusual for us to find a lawmaker’s statement at a hearing to be particularly informative, even rarer for it to be entertaining. At Senate Banking Committee hearings, Sen. Jim Bunning has at times proved the exception on the latter. The Kentucky Republican has firmly staked out his spot on the field as the primary attack dog against the Federal Reserve, its leadership and much of how it operates.
We’ll leave you to grade his statement for content at today’s confirmation hearing for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. But we’ll gladly give him an A for effort. He’s got zinger after zinger, a citation from prior hearings and even a reference to his baseball career (before he became a Hall of Famer). Some members of his party have tried to quietly nudge Sen. Bunning out of office — he won’t run for reelection next year — so this was his last opportunity to oppose a Fed chairman’s nomination. As a sort of parting gift to him, and to you, we offer his full statement from today’s hearing, as prepared for delivery. (Just remember that one of the leading candidates to replace him is Rand Paul, the son of Texas Republican Ron Paul, the House’s leading Fed hater.)”….

Text of the statements are included in this article.
Here is the opening salvo: “Four years ago when you came before the Senate for confirmation to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve, I was the only Senator to vote against you. In fact, I was the only Senator to even raise serious concerns about you. I opposed you because I knew you would continue the legacy of Alan Greenspan, and I was right. But I did not know how right I would be and could not begin to imagine how wrong you would be in the following four years.” It gets better from there! Read it, you will enjoy it!

SONG THAT SAYS EXACTLY THIS. Hat Tip Cheryl. It is perfect!

Everyone – CALL TODAY and SAY NO TO BERNANKE! 4 more years of him and we may as well throw in the towel.

Related - Exclusive: Republican To Place Additional Hold On Bernanke In Senate Banking Committee “As Ben Bernanke’s confirmation hearing begins in the Senate Banking Committee, a source tells FDL News that one Senate staffer and an outside source confirmed to him that at least one Republican on the committee will also place a hold on the Federal Reserve chairman, throwing the process into potential turmoil and giving Chris Dodd a difficult series of choices to make. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity because of his work behind the scenes on the Bernanke confirmation, told me that two separate sources assured him that the Republican hold would be made public after today’s hearing. One staffer said that two Republicans would place the hold, while the other said it would just be one. The source said that the trans-partisan nature of opposition to Bernanke, with a conservative Republican and a socialist independent uniting to block the appointment, shows the intensity of the feelings on the issue. “It’s great to see everyone come together – Democrats, Republicans, progressives and libertarians, against this Federal Reserve, which is not federal, and not a reserve, just a group printing money and giving it to their buddies,” the source said” Woo HOO!
Bernanke defends his Federal Reserve record Oh just gag me!

GRRRRR - Goldman Takes Offensive on Pay “Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc.—known for its outsize profits and unapologetically handsome pay packages to go with them—has begun meeting with major investors in an effort to ward off an investor backlash over its record compensation pool. The private discussions are a first for Goldman, several shareholders said, as the Wall Street firm finds its self on the defensive over its pay, where employees are on track to earn an average of more than $700,000 apiece this year. The meetings are expected to last several more weeks and come as shareholders are filing proposals aimed at restricting pay ..."