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Biden for President! (I am not making this up!)
LA Times

Aides said he might go for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. He would be 74 upon taking office, but his staff insists that's not too old.

"He's incredibly fit, vigorous man of his age, and it's impossible for me to imagine that he won't be in public service in 2017 in some form," a Biden aide said.
Posted by: Mike || 08/19/2009 06:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "He's incredibly fit, vigorous man of his age, and it's impossible for me to imagine that he won't be in public service in 2017 in some form," a Biden aide said.

As a doorstop in VP Boxer's office.
Posted by: Flalet the Kid3991 || 08/19/2009 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  VP Boxer????

Bite your tongue!
Posted by: Steve White || 08/19/2009 11:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Joes always good for a laugh.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 08/19/2009 12:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Haven't heard from Joe lately. Wonder if they finally locked him in the Vice Presidential attic.
Posted by: DoDo || 08/19/2009 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  He forgot to take one foot out of his mouth before he inserted the other. Doctors at the Mayo clinic are still trying to figure how to fix him.
Posted by: gorb || 08/19/2009 12:12 Comments || Top||

#6  "He would be 74 upon taking office, but his staff insists that's not too old".

Weren't these some of the same people who said McCain was too old to be president just last year?
Posted by: WolfDog || 08/19/2009 13:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Why 2016? Hillary! got D dibs on 2012?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/19/2009 15:04 Comments || Top||


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Arlen Specter's primary concern is getting re-elected, not making economic sense.
The wildly turning political weather vane of U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-If You Don't Like It Just Wait 15 Minutes, has spun again, putting him -- at least until further notice -- again on the wrong side of the Employee Free Choice Act.

He told liberal bloggers' Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh over the weekend that he'd support limiting Senate debate on the bill so it can proceed to an up-or-down vote. This, after vowing in April -- as he announced his defection from the GOP -- that he wouldn't vote for cloture regarding the same bill.

And though the bill no longer includes allowing union formation via "card check" rather than secret ballots, it still calls for binding arbitration when a union and employer can't agree on their first contract. Letting government set wages is an idea only an economic ignoramus could support -- or an opportunistic pol.

Arlen Specter's primary concern is getting re-elected, not making economic sense. However wildly his political weather vane spins, it always points to what he thinks is best politically for him -- and never mind the people of Pennsylvania or the nation.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/19/2009 13:45 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's a politician, not a thinker.

That's probably what's wrong with today's politicians, but blame the voters??
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/19/2009 19:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ...sort of. However, they dare not give the voting public an option of 'None of the Above' because it might get the majority of votes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/19/2009 19:32 Comments || Top||

#3  "they dare not give the voting public an option of 'None of the Above' because it might would get the majority of votes"

Fixed that for ya', P2k.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/19/2009 19:49 Comments || Top||

#4  His primary concern is winning the donk nomination. Adm. Sestak, USN (Ret.) will slaughter him.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 08/19/2009 20:27 Comments || Top||


Outbursts at Bwarney Fwank's Town Hall
h/t drudge
Me thinks Bwarney is overdue for a refresher course on Dale Carnegie's "How to Make Friends and Influence People".
Posted by: eltoroverde || 08/19/2009 13:29 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe he figures insulting his constituents worked for Murtha so it can work for him too.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/19/2009 17:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Franks is an idiot, but this whole thing is wrong. The woman called him a Nazi and Franks comments were deserving.

I tell my kids, when other kids do stupid things, not sink to their level. I always watched in anger when some left wing nut job tried to shout down Bush or anyone else. Shouting down a meeting is not democracy, it is anarchy, third world antics and beneath us. The left gained the names "nut job", "moonbats" and others because they lacked the skills to debate and resorted to shouting down a conversation. We on the right, and everyone that is against this health care reform bill should be very vocal, we should be very active, and tenacious about defeating this bill. But we should NEVER reduce ourselves to the tactics of anarchy that the left used during the Bush admin. We always claimed we were better than they were, more civil. We need to put away the Obama/Hitler crap, we are better and more mature than that! Our arguements and voices stand alone in truth and will defeat this bill without tarnishing our honor and integrity.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/19/2009 18:08 Comments || Top||

#3  The woman called him a Nazi and Franks comments were deserving.

Paying Franks a compliment I'd say.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/19/2009 18:23 Comments || Top||

#4  I feel the gift of prophecy upon me: All will be forgotten next year and Barney will be reelected.

He talks to his contituents like they're stoopid because they're actually stoopid.
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2009 19:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Technically speaking I don't think Franks is German, otherwise the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Social ist German Workers' Party which initiated Big Government and Big Business alliance to run the nation and economy would fit rather tightly to the man's demonstrated political behavior. Then again there's that same little proclivity of Ernst Rohm as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/19/2009 19:29 Comments || Top||

#6  He talks to his contituents like they're stoopid because they're actually stoopid.

After all, they voted for him. That woman is, indeed, dumb as a piece of furniture. So obviously she wasn't bussed in.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 08/19/2009 20:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Word on the street is that she was a Lyndon Larouche nutjob.
Posted by: eltoroverde || 08/19/2009 22:29 Comments || Top||


MI Congresscritter Wants Pet Owners to Get "HAPPY"
Think of this as "Cash for Kitties".
A measure introduced by U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich) aims to make pet care expenses tax-deductible, The Michigan Messenger reports.

Introduced on July 31, HR 3501, commonly referred to as the Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years or HAPPY Act, would amend the IRS code to allow an individual to deduct up to $3500 in a taxable year for qualified pet care expenses. The bill defines qualified as "amounts paid in connection with providing care (including veterinary care) for a qualified pet expense other than any expense in connection with the acquisition of the qualified pet."

The bill further defines a qualified pet as a "legally owned, domesticated, live animal" and does not include animals used for research or owned or used in conjunction with trade or business.

The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. It has the support of the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), a trade association representing the pet industry, which states in its Pet Alert issued on August 5

"Providing pet owners the opportunity to deduct pet care expenses is an important step towards ensuring that pet owners provide adequate veterinary and other necessary pet care. It encourages responsible pet ownership and will hopefully reduce the abandonment of pets by people struggling as a result of the economic downturn."
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 08/19/2009 05:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WOW! Ace could be a dependant! Lets, see, 3 horses, 3 cats, 3 dogs, we're talkin real money!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/19/2009 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I'll give him this much: my dog Cookie is at least as deserving of public subsidies as Chrysler. Probably more so. (Cookie is more durable than the average Chrysler these days.)
Posted by: Mike || 08/19/2009 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  President Edwards would have had Universal Haircare.
Posted by: Grenter, Protector of the Geats || 08/19/2009 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  On the down side, you and Ace will have to get married a civil union.
Posted by: ed || 08/19/2009 9:04 Comments || Top||

#5  If this passes I'm getting a pair of guppies ...
Posted by: Steve White || 08/19/2009 9:08 Comments || Top||

#6  ed, he's only 18. I'm way too old for him.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/19/2009 12:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Sure why not. When ObamaCare passes, dogs and cats will be the only ones in this country getting quality medical care. Oh yeah, and Congress ...
Posted by: DMFD || 08/19/2009 19:31 Comments || Top||

#8  In Canada, I have to wait up to six months for an MRI. My dog, tomorrow. Same machine, same hospital.

The government RATIONS the number of patients it will cover. Paying the hospital directly is illegal.

The hospital meanwhile, has to cover its budget. Dogs and cats help.
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5*** || 08/19/2009 22:33 Comments || Top||


"We Have a Tire Track On Our Chest":
The president's liberal allies on health care reform have a message for the president: Don't think you can drop the public option without a fight.

"If the president thinks we're gonna get the votes without the public option, he's got another think coming," Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, told ABC News. "That won't pass the House."

Over the weekend, the President seemed to change his tone on whether a final health care reform bill had to include a public option -- something that just two months ago, he indicated was a deal-breaker.

"Any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange...including a public option to increase competition and keep insurance companies honest," President Obama said on June 23.

But over the weekend, Obama seemed to downplay the importance of the inclusion of the plan in health care reform legislation.

"The public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. This is just one sliver of it," he said in Grand Junction, Colo.

Weiner said while the White House may be able to pick up one or two senators by forgoing the public option, it will lose 100 Democratic votes in the House

"I think that we have a majority of the votes in the house and Senate for a public plan," Weiner said. "It won't be easy but I think they're there. But they're certainly not gonna be there if every time we turn around there's another White House official walking away from it."
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The suckers beginning to grasp that it's power, not ideology, with the One.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/19/2009 4:31 Comments || Top||

#2  While not publicized in any of the media, the fight from the "far left" which they are referring to is from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF). In thier view it is all about social justice, ie, "developing effective programs and research to address social, economic and health disparities." Taken directly from their website.

The CBCF thought they had just the man to accomplish it all. We shall see.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/19/2009 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  "We Have a Tire Track On Our Chest"

So don't stand in front of the bus next time.
Posted by: gorb || 08/19/2009 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't you just love watching the Democratic party implode?
Posted by: WolfDog || 08/19/2009 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Nelson Muntz: "HA! HA!"
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 08/19/2009 13:20 Comments || Top||


Gibbs: Obama not backing off public option
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insists the Obama administration has not shifted its goals on health care reform or distanced itself from a government-run public insurance option.

He said in a meeting with reporters Tuesday morning that news stories suggesting that the administration was ready to abandon the public option as it battles to push health care reform through were overblown. The rash of reports began after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appeared to signal the president was open to health care cooperatives as an alternative.

Gibbs said there was no intention to indicate a change in policy. He said, "If it was a signal, it was a dog whistle we started blowing weeks ago."
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good! Please continue the digging.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/19/2009 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  “…it was a dog whistle we started blowing weeks ago."

Translation:
For weeks we’ve been trying to light a fire under the asses of our Progressive base to squelch the noise comming from those un-American Mobs.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 08/19/2009 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  But...but...but...what about this quote from the article above?

But over the weekend, Obama seemed to downplay the importance of the inclusion of the plan in health care reform legislation.

"The public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. This is just one sliver of it," he said in Grand Junction, Colo.

Is somebody talking from both sides of his mouth or does he just have a forked tongue?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/19/2009 12:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I honestly cannot figure out why many in Congress want to carry water for the Executive. The Executive Branch has been marginalizing the powers the Congress critters hold; don't they know that if a final bill is accepted it will have some sort of provision where a supermajority will be required to repeal any of these bills so that even if the Republicans gain a bushel of seats it won't be enough to repeal, and the they will be under the bus come election time? Some are fellow travelers I understand, but 60 dedicated is what, only 15% of the House and IIUC some of them are going against their constituants. How many in Congress are willing to blow their entire life's work so that a future former president will have a feather in the cap - and their sacrifice goes for no mention.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/19/2009 15:02 Comments || Top||


Specter eyes compromise on Employee Free Choice Act
A spokesperson for Sen. Arlen Specter confirmed that he is going to join with other Democrats in voting for cloture on the Employee Free Choice Act. When asked what Specter's final position would be on the bill, the spokesperson said he was continuing to pursue a compromise that involves the highly contentious Card Check and binding arbitration provisions and referred The Examiner to his March floor speech.

While addressing the Netroots Nation conference held in Pittsburgh, Pa. this past weekend, Specter announced that he would vote for cloture on the bill, which would cut off debate.

"I expect the cloture vote to occur on a modified version of the Employee's Free Choice legislation," Specter said on Friday. "And I will support that cloture vote."

Just a few weeks prior to switching parties from Republican to Democrat on April 28, Specter spelled out his reasons for opposing The Employee Free Choice Act in the Senate floor speech and said he could not support cloture.

"I am announcing my decision now because I have consulted with a very large number of interested parties on both sides and I have made up my mind," he said. "Knowing that I will not support cloture on this bill, Senators may choose to move on and amend the NRLA as I have suggested or otherwise. This announcement should end the rumor mill that I have made some deal for my political advantage. I have not traded my vote in the past and I would not do so now."

Specter expressed misgivings over both the Card Check and binding arbitration components of the bill in his speech and said they should not be enacted in a recessionary climate that has already impacted business.
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's so orwellian. "Free Choice" means no choice.
Posted by: newc || 08/19/2009 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Freedom means Slavery.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/19/2009 9:51 Comments || Top||


Top Senate Republican Fears FCC's 'Diversity' Chief May Use 'Back Door' to Regulate Talk Radio
(CNSNews.com) -- In a letter sent last week to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Sen. Charles Grassley (R.-Iowa) said he is concerned that the FCC's new "diversity" director, Mark Lloyd, may seek to regulate talk radio through the "back door."

Grassley, who expressed his concerns in a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Friday, said he was concerned that the new diversity chief would implement a back-door return of the "Fairness Doctrine," a now-defunct policy which mandated that broadcasters devote equal airtime to both sides of controversial issues. A return to the Fairness Doctrine would spell the end of opinionated talk radio.

"Taken together, these statements represent a view that the FCC needs to expand its regulatory arm further into the commercial radio market," Grassley wrote. "I am concerned that despite his statements that the Fairness Doctrine is unnecessary, Mr. Lloyd supports a backdoor method of furthering the goals of the Fairness Doctrine by other means."

Grassley said he "strongly disagreed" that government needs to regulate radio any further, saying that greater government involvement would not provide for a greater diversity of views on the airwaves.

"Simply put, I strongly disagree with Mr. Lloyd," said Grassley. "I do not believe that more regulation, more taxes or fines, or increased government intervention in the commercial radio market will serve the public interest or further the goals of diversifying the marketplace."

Grassley's concerns arise from an paper Lloyd co-authored for the liberal Center for American Progress entitled, "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio."

In this paper, Lloyd and his fellow co-authors laid out what they say are the "structural problems" of the nation's radio regulatory system that they believe explains the success of conservative talk radio. The authors said these problems should remedied by increased government involvement.

"Our conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system," the report said, "particularly the complete breakdown of the public trustee concept of broadcast, the elimination of clear public interest requirements for broadcasting, and the relaxation of ownership rules, including the requirement of local participation in management."
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why cant these idiots just leave us alone?
Posted by: newc || 08/19/2009 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The success of conservative AM talk radio is that there was NO OTHER OUTLET for the majority of Americans to hear views like their own. So, the conservatives took over a long-abandoned, moribund medium, AM radio (are you kidding me? AM radio?!?) and made into something that people would want to listen to. This rightly outrages liberals, who never compete in the marketplace of ideas when they can outlaw competing thought. I mean, does anyone really think that AM radio is out of control? I'm talking about A M freaking RADIO!
Posted by: gromky || 08/19/2009 9:58 Comments || Top||

#3  But the libs did compete in the marketplace of AM radio. Their problem was that they were thoroughly trounced.
Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2009 10:14 Comments || Top||

#4  I was listening to some liberal talk show where the anchor (or whatever you call them) was talking about how everyone had to give up all their irrational fears over the proposed healthcare system.

If that's the best they have to offer, then they're going to continue to get trounced until they outlaw the medium, which will make them right in their minds.
Posted by: gorb || 08/19/2009 12:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Why cant these idiots just leave us alone?

You have to give up all your irrational fears of big government, newc. Just sit back and let them take care of you. You'll be fine. Honest. /sarc

BTW, government studies have shown that listening to NPR will put you to sleep and Air American would cause you to either change the station or to just turn off the radio. But the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin will raise your blood pressure. Therefore, under provisions of the new health care reform bill, the Department of Health and Human Services has decreed that these angry and conservative talk radio hosts will be banned from the airwaves.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/19/2009 12:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Why cant these idiots just leave us alone?

"Barack Obama will require you to work ... Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." -- Michelle Obama

Citizen, you are now now the government's bitch. Now shut your piehole and do as you're told.
Posted by: Thor Ebbomble1687 || 08/19/2009 19:16 Comments || Top||

#7  “Think of the press [media] as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

Joseph Goebbels

And so in the end the so-called "diversity chief" title is not about diversity at all but about tyranny and the scrapping of the Bill of Rights.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/19/2009 21:59 Comments || Top||


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Color of Change lies about Beck advertisers
Note: I might suggest that Rantburgers might want to take notice of the intent of this site. If someone else brought this up previously, my apologies for missing it. Also, I'm placing this under 'seedy politicians due to the stink wafting around Van Jones, Bama's 'green' czar. I'll post about that later after searching to ensure it hasn't been posted already
Color of Lies: Best Buy Denies Pulling Ads Off Beck

Yet another of the Astroturfing Activists' Claims Turn to Dust Under Scruitiny. Hate to say it, but we told you so.

Even though our community of Glenn Beck fans have contacted Best Buy to protest their well-hyped supposed boycott of Beck's #2-rated show at Fox News Channel, we demurred from adding ANY of these new advertisers to our "turncoat" list. Simply because we can't believe anything Color of Change prints.

Whether it is their petitions, which always suspiciously seem to have "75,000 signatures" (#1) (#2), or whether it is company after company we actually SPEAK to who deny their claims and then continue to place ads with Beck, such as Roche's AccuChek, placing ads on Beck on every show since their supposed "boycott", and denying it to us as well by email.

Even though thousands of emails were likely being sent to them today, we took the time to clear all this with Best Buy before adding them to the boycotting list. At last, around 3:00, they got back to us...

from: Hawks, Lisa
to: info@defendglenn.com
date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:05 PM
subject: Best Buy

Good afternoon-

I noticed on your web site that you have incorrect information about
Best Buy and advertising related to the Glenn Beck show. Like some other
retailers, we have never been sponsors of the show. We have not
advertised in or around the show. We do advertise on FOX, but only
during an early morning timeframe. We have not changed our advertising
strategy on FOX. It would be helpful if you could relay this information
to your viewers so they are aware.

I am in the office this afternoon if there is someone that would like to
connect directly.

Regards, Lisa

Lisa Svac Hawks
Director, Public Relations
Best Buy
7601 Penn Avenue South
Richfield, MN 55423

So there you have it folks, from the horse's mouth. Best Buy is NOT pulling its ads from Glenn Beck's show on FoxNews Channel. You can go ahead and take that price on the LCD you wanted. And let's hope the media and bloggers take note of this example--it worked for Reagan with a different Communist entity, it can work for you with Color of Change: "trust but verify".

UPDATE: We spoke with Ms. Hawks to confirm her email, and she adamantly refuted Color of Change's claims in their press release. She won't be the last. The lie about Best Buy applies also to WalMart, which has NEVER sponsored the Glenn Beck Show. Therefore the latest press release from Color of Change is basically meaningless.
Posted by: logi_cal || 08/19/2009 07:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks like this web site is trying to verify info they put forth. Something that the MSM could attempt, I think they used to call it "journalism"?
Posted by: tipover || 08/19/2009 11:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Beck answers back in the only way that counts:
"The Glenn Beck Program", which airs out of primetime at 5pmET, had its highest rated week ever among Households (1,907,000) and Total Viewers (2,409,000), and second best week in the A25-54 demo (682,000).
Posted by: tipper || 08/19/2009 15:47 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2009-08-19
  Khatami, Karroubi join Mousavi's Green movement
Tue 2009-08-18
  Maulvi Omar nabbed
Mon 2009-08-17
  Maulvi Nazir one with the ages
Sun 2009-08-16
  Iran chooses hardliner to head judiciary. Wotta surprise.
Sat 2009-08-15
  Eight killed, 80 injured in Hamas, radicals clashes
Fri 2009-08-14
  Missing cargo ship found near Cape Verde
Thu 2009-08-13
  Seven Pak preachers gunned down in Puntland mosque
Wed 2009-08-12
  Georgia Man Guilty In Terrorism Trial
Tue 2009-08-11
  Kuwait arrests al-Qaida linked group
Mon 2009-08-10
  Tests say Noordin Mohammad Top's not the dead guy
Sun 2009-08-09
  Surprise! Abbas reelected Fatah chief
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