Anatomy of a White(House)Wash

Tony Katz  "Yes, the Bush administration did look at these loans, and wanted to make the loans.  And why wouldn’t they?  Back to my earlier statement, we all want these technologies to work (though a conversation should exist as to whether or not government should subsidize any business).  In the case of Solyndra, the company didn’t work.  The Bush Administration received numerous warnings and made the prudent decision to back off the loans. "

The above is counterpoint to this statement (below) made by Sally Kohn.  "Typical of a smear (where is our AttackWatch?) Kohn states:"

The Bush administration initiated loans to Solyndra – and tried to push them through before Obama was inaugurated.

Latest e-rumor: 1% tax on all bank transactions HR4646

"This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution - banks, credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a transfer within your account, will have a 1% tax charged.
"~If your paycheck or your social security or whatever is direct deposit, it will get a 1% tax charged for the transaction.'
Snopes has this:

From Peter DeFazio: Learn the Truth about H.R. 4646

Chakka Fattah

This is email is false. I do not support and have never supported this legislation. H.R. 4646 was introduced in 2010 by Rep. Chaka Fattah  (pictured at right) of Pennsylvania, and has no cosponsors. I oppose this bill because it wrongly taxes all financial transactions, rather than just focusing on the Wall Street speculators who got us into this current economic mess. Americans making normal day-to-day transfers of money should not be subject to a tax on those transactions.

From Wikipedia:  "On February 23, 2010, Fattah reincarnated the bill as the "Debt Free America Act," (H.R. 4646) which proposed to repeal the federal income tax and replace it with a 1 percent "transaction tax" on every financial transaction — whether paid by cash, credit card or any form of financial transfer, the only exception being transactions involving the purchase or sale of stock.[5] The latest bill places more focus on eliminating the federal debt. Fattah has also added a 1 percent tax credit designed to eliminate the impact of the measure on couples making less than $250,000 a year. As of Sept. 5, 2010, none of the House committees have scheduled any action on the latest bill."

The point of all this is that though this bill is a non-starter, it was still put forth by a liberal in Congress. With Democrats something like this will always be waiting in the wings and if they rule Congress for any length of time you can expect anything.
We all may look at what Democrats have done to California and learn from that, but leftists do not learn.
If they made the entire nation one big California, they would never acknowledge their failure; they would only look elsewhere to fix the blame.
For corroboration I refer you to the transcript of any Obama speech.

Hat tip to Joy  from Garibaldi, Oregon who keeps me up to date on the latest rumors.

Obama vs. Gibson Guitars

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/chipbok

The Left turns on Obama as if he were culpable for pushing through the Left’s own agenda.

Victor Davis Hanson  The Left turns on Obama as if he were culpable for pushing through the Left’s own agenda.

"In response, the Left needs a sacrificial lamb. So it has nonsensically turned with a fury on Obama as if he were culpable for pushing through the Left’s own agenda. If Democrats do not blame the public’s anger on their once-beloved messenger, then they are left only with their message itself. And that is something they simply cannot accept."

                                                                                    Photo: Jacksonville Observer

I take no comfort in the left turning on Obama. It would be great if they had learned from Obama's policies that socialism was a bankrupt philosophy, but they did not. Their anger at him is only because Obama was not far enough left to suit them. Leftist Democrats (pardon the redundancy) have not seen- cannot be made to see- that socialism is a failure, but that is in the socialist gene; the Soviets stuck with it for seven decades with no sign of repentance yet. TD

Lemonade Wars: The State Battles Entrepreneurialism

American Thinker  "Governments are targeting neighborhood lemonade stands throughout the land of the free. The reasons behind these "lemonade raids" are similar no matter their location. Young businessmen and businesswomen, like their mature counterparts, are running afoul of local codes and health ordinances, lacking required permits and licenses, or tripping over bureaucratic red tape. When even the childhood entrepreneur can't escape the overbearing and burdensome tentacles of government's regulatory octopus, what chance has the adult?"

"Actually, my name is Bobby. 'Jimmy's Lemonade' is an international franchise." "

franchising-consultants.com

A Nightmare That Could Be Worse than 9/11

Doug Ross Journal

The Foundry "An EMP is a high-intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles. Nuclear and non-nuclear weapons or geomagnetic storms can cause an EMP. An EMP would disrupt electronics, transmission distribution centers, fuses, and power lines, sending the United States back to the 19th century."....
"But an EMP could be inflicted without an organized group behind it. With the right equipment, a lone terrorist could cause a blackout of a city—with commercially available equipment."

There is in this article the obligatory "millions will die" statement that I don't know how to react to;  it sounds too progressive-ish, like what Al Gore, or what any liberal with a cause would say. Though perhaps chicken-little-like, I often think about how any country would function in this electronic age if the national power grid went down. The additional links should explain. TD

Iran and the EMP Threat  "We can avoid such catastrophes if we, as responsible citizens of the United States, take action. The SHIELD Act (H.R. 668), currently before the U.S. House, needs to be passed this year. If it isn’t, it could very well be too late to protect the national electric grid.
"The SHIELD Act would empower the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to work with industry and other government departments and agencies to protect the national electric grid from EMP threats. The act would ensure that the United States has enough extra-high-voltage transformers to survive and recover from an EMP event."  Read the SHIELD Act here.


Doug Ross Journal

 Rumsfeld Warns of Iran, N. Korea Electromagnetic Pulse Attack  "“When you have a country like Iran, really a fine country with a proud history, taken over by a very small clique of people who are ideological and radical, you have to worry,” he said. “And we in this country, and other people who value freedom and free nation states, have to recognize that that combination of radical ideology and weapons of mass destruction is a danger.” "

(Updated) Looks like curtains for Romney: Carter endorses him and Obama likes his health plan

Cartoon: Brother Jones

Mitt Romney Gets the Coveted Jimmy Carter Seal of Approval  "First Team Obama praised him endlessly for being the inspiration for Obamacare, then he got a shout-out from the Goracle, and now this:"

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"With Jewish voters starting to move away from Obama and to the GOP, this is the kind of hat-tip that will help reel them in… toward Rick Perry’s campaign."

GOP12.com: Obama on RomneyCare Video.

 Update: Alan Caruba;  Jimmy Carter Redux  "If Obama wasn’t a far-Left liberal, wasn’t getting some extraordinarily bad advice from those he brought into the White House, and wasn’t a raving egomaniac, he might pause and stop playing political games to blame Congress and Republicans for the present economic crisis. If in the name of “social justice” the federal government--Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--wasn’t in the mortgage business, there would not have been a crisis."

Comprehensive List of Obama Tax Hikes

Americans for Tax Reform   Try this for an example:  Obamacare Codification of the “economic substance doctrine” ... This provision allows the IRS to disallow completely-legal tax deductions and other legal tax-minimizing plans just because the IRS deems that the action lacks “substance” and is merely intended to reduce taxes owed. [Source].
Emphasis added; think of how this can be expanded tax-wide. If you hear the words "deem" and Democrats" in one sentence be prepared to bend over; here it comes again. TD

Late-night comedians discuss taxes
" "The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would tax Botox. When Botox users heard this, they were horrified. Well, I think they were horrified. It's difficult to tell." --Craig Ferguson"

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/taxes/ig/Tax-Cartoons/Confusing-Tax-Form.htm

"Too competent to make fun of"; Letterman Show writer

http://terrellaftermath.com/

From 2009:  Letterman writer: Obama 'too competent' to make jokes about  "With unemployment at 8.9%*, a stimulus bill that isn't stimulating anything, a foreign policy that is little more than an apologia, the politicization of national security, and a fumbling, bumbling speechmaker without a teleprompter, one wonders where Scheft is getting the idea that this president is competent in anything except pulling the wool over the eyes of ignorant, gullible liberals."

8.9%; known as the "good old days".

Democrat Civility: Liberal Protester Assaults GOP Lawmaker

AFL-CIO poster

Big Government   "[Madison, Wisconsin] The incidents of verbal harassment against Republican lawmakers in and around the State Capitol escalated on Wednesday when a well-known protester confronted three GOP representatives and drenched them with beer."

Here is another case of liberal tolerance of dissent

Ann Coulter: So A Comatose Guy Walks Into a Bar

Ann Coulter  "Why are the only two options always a behemoth government program or the guy dies?"
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"I would venture to guess that the only children in America who have ever suffered from ... distended bellies, were victims of child abuse -- at the hands of the sort of monsters Williams is so opposed to executing.
"People aren't buying the left's emotional appeals about imaginary victims anymore. The audience member's "Yes!" was a way of laughing in the moderators' faces for trying to pull that crap."

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