NEW YORK (AP) -- MSNBC says Keith Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, ending his suspension for violating NBC's rules against making political donations.
MSNBC's chief executive Phil Griffin said late Sunday that after several days of deliberation, he had determined that two days off the air was "an appropriate punishment for his violation of our policy." Like Breitbart said...I'll watch it just as much as I did before. Just keep him away from Sunday Night Football ...
The left-leaning cable network's most popular personality acknowledged donating $2,400 apiece to the campaigns of Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway and Arizona Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords. NBC News prohibits its employees from making political donations unless an exception is granted in advance by the network news president. In this case, Olbermann's bosses didn't know about them until being informed by a reporter. What these mouthpieces of the left do not realize is that through their lies and blatant partisanism they are directly contributing to the demise of the US. It's the unbiased, freedom of the press who hold all politicians and centers of power accountable that makes our society work. When one cannot trust the press where the press becomes blatantly partisan for any side, our republican form of government becomes endangered.
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I have to be honest: though I loathe Olbermann, suspending him for "making political donations" was simply bizarre. You'd have to live in a barren wilderness not to know where his political sympathies lie. He doesn't even pretend to be impartial.
Oh, wait: I DO live in a barren wilderness, and I still know that Olbermann is a partisan hack. So scratch that stipulation off too.
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I do not agree with KW's beliefs or his endless panderings to the liberal mouthbreathers amonst us, i do however think that the network has NO FREAKING BUSINESS in dictating to its employees what to do in an off duty endeavor. this applies to all private businesses. i guess that means i actually support kw ( yech!) keep you hands and mind control at home.
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I'd agree with you were it not for the fact that he accepted employment under terms that specifically forbade political donations. Both he and the network advertised that fact, which means he misled the public by broaching the policy.
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I'm glad he's back. He makes a good poster child for the left with child being the key word. His nightly temper tantrums, along with the junior high school antics of Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, and the other adolescents of the left serve to remind the rest of us how glad we are to have adults back in power.
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President Obama said a Republican proposal to preserve the full array of Bush administration tax cuts for two more years presents a basis for conversation that could lead to a compromise as lawmakers prepare to meet next week for a high-stakes showdown over taxes.
However, a senior House Republican on Sunday flatly rejected the option most favored by the White House: decoupling the Bush tax cuts that benefit the wealthy from the cuts that benefit the vast majority of Americans by extending each set of provisions for a different period of time.
No, I am not for decoupling the rates, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the No.2 Republican in the House, said on Fox News Sunday. He echoed the GOP argument that such a move virtually would guarantee the eventual expiration of tax breaks in the upper brackets, where some of the most successful small businesses pay taxes.
I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to the job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again, Cantor said. I am not for sending any signal to small businesses in this country that theyre going to have their tax rates go up.
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I saw a post about this on PJM's site. The blogger stated that, "We work for rich people and rich people buy things that middle class and lower class people make. Taxing them heavily will only effect the lower classed and middle class as the rich stop buying and hiring."
In the past, House Speakers have treated votes for raising the US debt limit like pirates legendarily treated their loot; they buried it by attaching it to other must-pass legislation. That allowed members to rail against the increase in national debt while explaining that they had no choice but to vote for the increased limits because of the other issues involved in the bill. In an attempt to reform the process and create accountability for national debt, new Speaker-to-be John Boehner will force Representatives to vote on a limit increase with no fig leaf at all:
For the first time in years, House lawmakers will soon have the chance to vote on a standalone measure to increase the federal debt limit next year under the new Republican majority -- a vote that's shaping up as the first early test of the GOP's commitment to spending restraint.
The House Republican leader, Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio, will give lawmakers a chance for a direct vote on raising the debt limit, spokesman Michael Steel told the Washington Times.
That would be a break with the recent tactic of burying the debt limit increase in parliamentary maneuvers -- a way to shield vulnerable lawmakers from having to take the unpopular vote -- and would instantly give leverage to those in Congress hoping to impose immediate spending cuts. So far, it sounds like the new Republicans get it. Continue to show us you mean business guys.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie irked NBC's David Gregory -- and probably won over more conservatives weary of the media in the process -- by suggesting on "Meet the Press" that the host was acting as an advocate for Democrats in the way he spoke about taxes.
Christie, a Republican known for his tell-it-like-it-is attitude, disagreed with Gregory's characterization of the looming battle in Congress over the Bush years tax rate as "tax cuts."
Christie, saying such word choice drives him "crazy," said: "This is maintaining the current tax policy in a weak economy, and what you're advocating through your question is..."
Gregory interrupted: "That's not fair. I'm not advocating. I'm questioning whether or not they have to be paid for." Gregory would have been on more solid ground if he had objected to being called a Journalist. "Who do you think I am, Keith Olbermann ... [pause] ... um, let me rephrase that ..."
Christie shot back saying the debate over taxes is not about whether to make cuts, but rather is about whether Congress wants to raise taxes during a bad economy.
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It's healthy to see someone point out that taxes have to be paid, not paid for.
Of course, it would be healthier if the discussion could start from the libertarian point that a stop sign is an unwarranted infringement on personal liberty.
FOX has obtained a letter being penned by defeated House Democrats that implores House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to step aside.
The letter is now circulating Capitol Hill and has not yet been sent to the Speaker. FOX has obtained draft language of the letter.
In the draft of the letter, the members say that they were "victimized by a national wave of resentment toward Democrats, a wave that ensnared you along with us."
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Victimized? Bwahahahaha! The closest things the Dems have to victims here might be those who bought their crap for the elections, and I really think naivete makes these folks victims. The real victims are the rest of us. Who actually got off our butts to vote.
As for the Dems: Enjoy your albatross. She is of your making.
Illinois Republican Mark Kirk won't be seated in the U.S. Senate in time for the start of the lame duck session of Congress this month - unlike two other newly elected Democrat senators.
The session begins Nov. 15. But state officials say the paperwork officially declaring Kirk the winner of the Senate race won't be delivered until Nov. 29. Because? Ohhhh...lessee. What party runs the Secretary of State in Illinois? Democrat Jesse White
That should still allow Kirk to participate in two weeks of the session in December. He argued strongly during the campaign that voters needed to send him to the Senate quickly so he could help block spending and tax increases. And the Dem Machine can't certify Kirk, because he's White, Republican, and embarrassed the machine by winning Zero's old seat.
Two Democrats are expected to be sworn in at the start of the lame duck session. Chris Coons of Delaware will fill the remainder of Vice President Joe Biden's term, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia replaces the late Robert Byrd. That's how THEY play the game. Without shame. Time to play it their way too. Redistricting by the majority of state legislatures, captured by the Republican sweep. Do it smartly and crush the democrats
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And the Dem Machine can't certify Kirk, because he's White, Republican, and embarrassed the machine by winning Zero's old seat.
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"...against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same..."
We don't pick our enemies, they declare themselves. It's well past time to start restoring our nation to the Constitution. If that means totally destroying the Democratic Party and all its constituent parts (especially PUBLIC UNIONS), then so be it.
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I saw a big yellow campaign sign on Fairfax Parkway Sunday. It read "Firefighters for... so and so political candidate" can't remember the name. Highly objectionable regardless of the party. We PAY the firefighter's wages to FIGHT FIRES, not campaign for their favorite pols.
[Emirates 24/7] Republicans flexed their new-found political muscle on Sunday by promising a string of investigations into Barack B.O. Obama's administration, as the president vowed to make some "corrections."
By seizing the House of Representatives in Tuesday's mid-term elections, Republicans gained the chairmanship of powerful House committees that can seek to embarrass the president by calling top aides to testify in public.
"I'm going to go after a lot of things and I'm going to do a lot of investigating," Representative Darrell Issa, who is set to take control of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told Fox News Sunday.
Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush faced epic showdowns with the House committees after crushing mid-term defeats in 1994 and 2006 respectively.
Issa said it was possible he would probe allegations that the White House offered to give Democratic Representative Joe Sestak an administration post if he stayed out of a Senate primary race.
Sestak won the primary against senator Arlen Specter, the White House's preferred candidate, and ended up narrowly losing to Republican nominee Pat Toomey.
Other targets of the committee probes could be Obama's health care reforms, the Justice Department's failure to probe alleged voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party, and the handling of the BP oil spill.
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I promised I'd never watch Obama on TV, however I'd break that promise and watch his impeachment.
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promising a string of investigations into Barack B.O. Obama's vacant periods in resume, trips to Pakistan, college transcripts, passport(s), etc, administration, as the president vowed to make some "corrections."
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Congress should just present Obama with a list of "czars", with instructions that they be fired, or they will be subpoenaed before congress.
And if they refuse to appear they will be cited for contempt of congress. And those citations will be forwarded to the US Atty for D.C., who *must*, in that circumstance, forward a request for an indictment to a grand jury.
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Congress holds the purse strings. Just refuse to futher fund those Czars.
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I hate to see the GOP waste two years investigating what is at worst bad management decisions. Refuse to fund the things they don't agree with, work on shrinking the government, and stop wasting the countries time and money.
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Cybersarge is exactly right. If the Repubs waste a lot of time on investigations the independents who voted them into the majority are going to leave in droves. Cut spending!!! All else is fluff.
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Just tell "President" O'Bumble that there will not be another penny spent on them until ALL his "Czars" appear before Congress for vetting, just as all other appointees must. These people make policy decisions; they need to be vetted by Congress.
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The only real investigation i want to see is them driving a stake into "global warming."
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is known for sparring with White House reporters, making for what often seems an antagonistic mood in the press briefing room.
But during President Obama's trip to India, Gibbs assumed the role of press advocate and threatened to pull Obama out of bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh because three U.S. reporters were blocked from covering the meeting.
Indian officials would let only five reporters into Hyderabad House in New Delhi instead of the agreed-upon eight. Seriously, this could have been resolved diplomatically and out of the public view. Now we have an American leadership that looks petty and arrogant, a important ally looking spurned and everyone wondering what the hell is going on with our political class. Team Bambi looks more and more amateurish every day.
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"At one point, Gibbs literally had his foot lodged in the closing front door, asking if the Indian security officials pushing hard to shut it were going to break his foot," Wilson continued. "More angry words ensued, and after Gibbs convinced them, through high volume and repetition, that he was serious" about pulling Obama, the press secretary had the security retinue's full attention.
Really, the Indians must be soooooooo impressed with these people.
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We should start calling the Obama administration "officials" Sons of Obama. The SOB's for short.
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I screwed it up It should be Sons of Barak, or SOB's for short. Dopey me.
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Sounds like a deleted scene from This is Spinal Tap: the band won't play unless there is a bowl of blue M&Ms backstage
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IIRC- Indians are sticklers about protocol rank. I can imagine a big misunderstanding about a 'mere' press secretary being able to pull the POTUS out of a meeting.
Of course, I myself still cannot understand why a beastly viper such as Mr. Gibbs is one of the President's most trusted advisors.
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Intersting that in this administration a flack thinks he has the power to pull the POTUS out of a meeting. Had no idea Beltway Bob had such authority.
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The Obama administration is in no position to be this rude to Indian security officials, considering that there was a major breach of security at Obama's reception for the Indian PM last November.
Muslim party crashers having direct physical access to the Indian PM. What could go wrong?
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At least he bowed to the whole bleedin' Indian Parliment.
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Personally, the entire O'bumble crowd, from the "President" on down, has about as much "class" as the most despicable Calcutta beggar, and should immediately self-exile themselves somewhere where sanitation is equivalent to their competence - if such a place still exists in the 21st century.
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The Indians should have called Gibb's bluff, then immediately escorted the lot to the airport had he followed through. Nothing like showing our ugly American hindparts at a foreign event. I doubt we've heard the last of this one.
heh...HT to AOSHQ, of course. Could you ask for a more clear example of our elitist betters driving cultural suicide. U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange is a Clinton appointee...whoda thunk it?
A federal judge Monday blocked an amendment to Oklahoma's state constitution that would bar the use of Islamic religious law in state courts after American Muslims challenged the proposal in court.
Oklahoma voters approved the amendment in last week's elections by a 7-3 ratio. But the Council on American-Islamic Relations challenged the measure as a violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued a temporary restraining order Monday morning that will keep state election officials from certifying that vote.
"What this amendment is going to do is officially disfavor and condemn the Muslim community as being a threat to Oklahoma," said Muneer Awad, executive director of CAIR's Oklahoma chapter and the lead plaintiff in the suit. In addition, he said, it would invalidate private documents, such as wills, that are written in compliance with Muslim law.
Miles-LaGrange set a November 22 date for further arguments on the issue. The amendment's leading sponsor, Republican state Rep. Rex Duncan, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. OK, I can point out several points of disingenuous bullshit in there. How many can you find?
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This is a great example of a case that should go right to the Second Court of the United States, so that 100 legislature appointed State judges could determine if this was a case of federal interest, or if it should be returned to the State of origin as not a federal matter.
Directly below the SCOTUS, but above the federal District Courts, the Second Court of the United States would not itself be a federal court, but a check on the runaway federal judiciary and bureaucracy.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, traveling in Hong Kong over the weekend, warned that the new crop of politicians elected to Congress last week could spark a trade war with China because their criticism of the Asian superpower is bred in ignorance.
"If you look at the U.S., you look at who we're electing to Congress, to the Senate -- they can't read," The Wall Street Journal quoted Bloomberg as saying. It is this type of liberal arrogance that just pisses me off and really makes me want to hurt somebody. Mayor Mike has more arrogance and hubris than he has money ...
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Homegrown version of Soros. What a pompous, elitist jerk. He must believe the guy with the most money is the smartest person--A legend in his own mind. I guess he can't read the election results can he?
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He needs a public label, such as "screwball". Such a label can be devastating to one's ambitions, like "meathead" ruined Senator Edmund Muskie's campaign.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
President Obama said a Republican proposal to preserve the full array of Bush administration tax cuts for two more years presents a basis for conversation that could lead to a compromise as lawmakers prepare to meet next week for a high-stakes showdown over taxes.
In the past, House Speakers have treated votes for raising the US debt limit like pirates legendarily treated their loot; they buried it by attaching it to other must-pass legislation. That allowed members to rail against the increase in national debt while explaining that they had no choice but to vote for the increased limits because of the other issues involved in the bill. In an attempt to reform the process and create accountability for national debt, new Speaker-to-be John Boehner will force Representatives to vote on a limit increase with no fig leaf at all:
FOX has obtained a letter being penned by defeated House Democrats that implores House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to step aside.
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is known for sparring with White House reporters, making for what often seems an antagonistic mood in the press briefing room.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, traveling in Hong Kong over the weekend, warned that the new crop of politicians elected to Congress last week could spark a trade war with China because their criticism of the Asian superpower is bred in ignorance.
