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Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that congressional opposition to the American Jobs Act is akin to the Confederate states in rebellion.
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Well, ya can't stick everybody at the post office any more. They're in deeper shit than just about anybody.
Maybe you can have your dad the "reverend" get them all Budweiser distributorships...
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Obama is my shepherd; I shall not work.
He keepth jobs out of the hands of the people,
Which leadeth the country to class warfare and polarization.
He encourageth sloth; he leadeth the government to new heights in deficit spending.
Yea, though I walk in the shadow of Economic collapse,
I shall fear no depression: for Obama is with me.
His handouts and monetary indiscretion supplement my income.
He maintainest spending increases in the presence of insurmountable debt;
He punisheth businesses with excessive regulations;
And giveth the hard-earned fruits of labor to the unproductive.
Surely, handouts and stimulus payments shall follow all the days of his administration;
And I will stay unemployed forever.
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Junior and his bros have beer distributorships courtesy of the 'muscle' Dad applied to the brewers. Perhaps Junior could hire a few guys to lift and tote?
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Just tax the rich. If they paid their fair share we could buy all the unicorns we want.
In August the Department of Justice raided Gibson Guitar facilities in Memphis and Nashville, alleging a violation of the so-called Lacey Act, a law which bans the importation of certain kinds of wildlife, plants and wood. Although two months have passed, Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz has taken an unusually aggressive posture against the DOJ. On Wednesday, he told The Daily Caller there could be casualties from the DOJ's actions, first of which he said may be higher guitar prices.
"It's a zero-sum game," he said. "You don't create money out of thin air. So a dollar goes to lawyers in Washington, D.C. is a dollar that comes out of our consumers' pockets, period."
But he also cautioned that American jobs could be lost and sent overseas.
"You know, there's a very real possibility we will have to move at least some processing [jobs] overseas," Juszkiewicz said. "I'm trying to avoid that. But you know, I have to do what the business requires, and that's a very realistic possibility."
As for the aggressive response, Juszkiewicz explained he chose that strategy, over one that would involve less media exposure and more lawyers, because he was forced to.
"We had no choice," Juszkiewicz said. "The things the Justice Department was doing was closing down our business and laying low was just not an option. Laying low would have meant really injuring our business significantly."
"Look at me! LOOK AT ME! LOOOOOK AAAATT MMEEEEEEEEE!"
[The Hill.com] Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore threw his support behind the Occupy Wall Street protests Wednesday night, arguing that the country's elected officials have failed the public on everything "from the economy to the climate crisis."
Gore, a vocal advocate of policies to address climate change, called the protests -- which have spread around the country -- a "true grassroots movement."
"From the economy to the climate crisis, our leaders have pursued solutions that are not solving our problems; instead they propose policies that accomplish little," Gore wrote on his blog Wednesday night.
"With democracy in crisis, a true grassroots movement pointing out the flaws in our system is the first step in the right direction. Count me among those supporting and cheering on the Occupy Wall Street movement."
Gore said a Sunday editorial in The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... "hit the nail on the head," noting that he has read about the protests "with both interest and admiration."
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The official stamp of "Useful Idiot" has been applied.
The Biblical Jonah needed the first ever submarine ride inside the gut of a shark, and a strong talking-to from God; but at least he finally got the concept.
The Goracle sold his birthright for a pot of message a long time ago.
I'm so old, I remember when Al Gore actually had a few principles.
[Geo TV] US President Barack B.O. Obama on Wednesday castigated Republicans for blocking his jobs bill, demanding the unpopular Congress do its own job and pass measures to put the unemployed back to work.
Hours after Senate Republicans halted passage of the $447 billion bill, the president said people who expected him to give up fighting for the plan were mistaken.
"Last night, even though a majority of senators voted in favor of the American Jobs Act, a Republican minority got together as a group and blocked this jobs bill from passing the Senate," Obama said.
"They said no to more jobs for teachers. No to more jobs for cops and firefighters. No to more jobs for construction workers and veterans."
Obama warned that a lot of media and political professionals in Washington would expect the procedural vote in the Senate to mark the end for his efforts to use the bill to cut 9.1 percent unemployment and spark growth.
"Not this time, not with so many Americans out of work... we will not take no for an answer," Obama said, speaking at an event at the Interior Department honoring the heritage of the US Hispanic community.
"We will keep organizing and we will keep pressuring and we will keep voting until this Congress finally meets its responsibilities and actually does something to put people back to work and improve the economy."
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....until this Congress finally meets its responsibilities and actually does something to put people back to work and improve the economy."
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I now know what BHO meant by having the most transparent administration in the history of the universe. He is always predictable in blaming someone else for his shortcomings--in this case the Republicans. It is so transparent.
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We will keep organizing and we will keep pressuring and we will keep voting
It's always worked for the Community Organizer before. Keep it up until you were them out, Chief!
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Spending bills start in the House. For several centuries, politicians would bargain and compromise on bills. O has not the charm and grace to schmooze the opposition, so he gets nothing.
Now he throws a tantrum. He is out of his league and he has used up his chips. Even dem members of congress know that he has become toxic. They want to distance themselves from him for their own self preservation.
Hell of a way to run a railroad.....
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Didn't the Jobs [destruction] bill die in the Senate - where the Donks have a majority?
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... left no room for doubt as to whether he will be President Barack B.O. Obama's 2012 running mate, saying Wednesday he "absolutely, positively" will be on the Democratic ticket.
Asked on NBC television's "Today Show" program whether he would be Obama's running mate again, Biden, 68, was emphatic.
"Absolutely, positively yes. There's never been any question about that," he said.
"The president's made that clear. Hardly anybody has raised that anymore," the veteran former US senator said, dismissing rumours that he might take a pass on a second grueling presidential campaign as little more than Washington "parlor game" talk.
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so Joe gave himself a "public vote of confidence"
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Sounds like Joe has "gone rogue."
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I find myself wanting to append, "In accordance with the prophecy."
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It's unlikely that President Barack Obama will be naming any tax proposals after George B. Kaiser. An investment by the Tulsa billionaire's family foundation in Solyndra, whose bankruptcy may leave taxpayers on the hook for $535 million in federal loans, has raised speculation that the administration acted in part to aid a financial supporter. But the impact on taxpayers of Kaiser's career goes far beyond the $535 million loss. Kaiser has built his fortune in part through shrewdly playing the Internal Revenue Code. In one six year period, during which he increased his net worth enough to land him on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, Kaiser reported taxable income to the Internal Revenue Service just once, totaling $11,699--equivalent to a full-time hourly wage of $5.62.
In addition to Solyndra, the George Kaiser Family Foundation has investments worth hundreds of millions in energy firms, most of them in the oil and gas industry. The Washington Post reported that, in 2005, Senate investigators focused on the tax implications of the foundation, whose assets at the end of 2009 had grown to nearly $4 billion. GKFF has averaged more than $194 million a year in income from those assets over the last five years and issued grants that averaged about $53 million a year--or just 1.7 percent of its net assets.
That wasn't the first time Kaiser caught the attention of government tax officials. In 1997, the Internal Revenue Service sent Kaiser and his companies tax bills for more than $72 million in back taxes, interest and penalties, covering individual and corporate returns filed from 1986 to 1992. Kaiser filed returns showing his personal income averaging negative $860,000 between 1986 and 1991; his holding company, GBK Corp., and its subsidiaries reported an aggregate loss from 1989 to 1992 of $507,000--some years it made money and paid taxes, others it claimed losses and paid none.
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
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