Forbes "With anywhere between eighteen and two dozen Republicans in the House indicating that they are prepared to vote for a ‘clean’ continuing resolution that would re-open government without language doing harm to Obamacare, House Democrats have been scrambling to find a way to get to such a vote despite Speaker John Boehner’s unwillingness to let it happen.
"They may have done it."
R.I.P. G.O.P.-House Debt Ceiling Proposal Could Bring The Final Curtain Down On The Republican Party "The party may soon be over…that is the Republican Party.
"Looking to find a way out of the government shutdown box the House Republicans have built for themselves, a plan is emerging that would keep the government open in exchange for delaying the real showdown until the debt ceiling debate—or as I now like to call it, “D-Day”— takes center stage."
Washington Free Beacon "Al Qaeda is constructing its main regional base in areas of Syria where Bashar al-Assad’s regime has lost control, according to Mosaic magazine.
"The group will export terrorism and radical Islam throughout the region and then to the West, according to a report from an Israeli security research institute.
The report identified the Al Nusra Front as Al Qaeda’s official arm in Syria; they added that the organization is quickly entrenching itself in the north and east of Syria, where the Assad regime’s rule has collapsed. […]
Qaeda in Syria wants to dominate Iraq, Turkey border zones "Jihadists have even sought to justify the strategy on Internet forums by accusing Western-backed groups, including Ahfad al-Rasul and the Northern Storm brigade, of acting like the US-funded "Sahwa" who fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq."
When — not if — is the only mystery about an Iranian
nuclear bomb.
All the warning signs are there.
‘Game Changers’
"In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama on two occasions went out of his
way to warn the Iranians that the development of a nuclear weapon “would be a
game-changing situation, not just in the Middle East, but around the world.”
Obama later added, “It is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon; it
would be a game changer.”
"Strong language. And Obama twice this year again used “game changer” in
reference to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, warning him not to dare use chemical
weapons."
The conclusion that Hanson expects evil rulers of the world to draw from Obama and liberals running this nation:
...But what is new is the Syrian model, which has excited the Iranians as never
before. “Game changer” threats are now seen as empty. Posturing as a “moderate”
works. Sugary op-eds in American papers beguile the public. And Vladimir Putin
is always ready to come to the rescue.
UN Appoints Iran to Nuclear Disarmament Security Committee “Placing a patron state of Syria on this committee as the U.N. begins disarmament of Syria’s chemical weapons is a further blow to the credibility of the United Nations,” Rogers added.
Yes, the Constitution may have written our form of government in "letters of stone", but all that is trumped by the wisdom or ignorance of those who support our president and congress. That is why me must not only fear this president, but those who put people like him into office. May we never again hear the phrase, "I trust the wisdom of the American people". Fifty percent of the electorate is an irredeemable idiot . No, Krauthammer says, do NOT blame the TEA Party:
"The most ubiquitous conventional wisdom is that the ultimate cause of these troubles is out-of-control tea party anarchists.
"But is this really where the causal chain ends? The tea party was created by Obama’s first-term overreach, most specifically Obamacare. Today’s frantic fight against it is the echoing result of the way it was originally enacted."
Conservative Daily News "Hear Ye, Hear Ye! It is proclaimed, now and forever, that Barack Hussein Obama is…the King of the Whopper. Norvell Rose explains why there is absolutely no denying upon whose head the dubious crown sits."
Heritage "President Obama has made it clear he “will not negotiate” when it comes to ending the government shutdown.
"At last check, the nation’s capital wasn’t run by one branch of government, or even one political party. But President Obama is so intent on protecting his unpopular, unworkable, and unfair health care law that he’d prefer to keep the government closed.
"Mr. President, here’s a five-point plan to end the government shutdown—using some of your favorite phrases."....More.
The American people need a leader, not a lecturer.
Truth or Fiction "This is a forwarded email of an allege quotation by Barak Obama when he was serving in the U.S. Senate about raising the debt limit.
"The quote is:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
Andrew C. McCarthy;Senator Barack Obama Explaining his 2006 Vote Against Raising the Debt Limit "At the time, Senator Obama was urging Congress not to tolerate an increase that would bring the debt ceiling to $9 trillion. Under President Obama, the debt ceiling has been raised to $14.3 trillion. Even without counting most unfunded liabilities, the national debt is now calculated to be nearing $14.1 trillion. It increases about $4.22 billion per day (each citizen’s share stands at roughly $45K). Thus, Democrats will soon demand that the debt ceiling be raised, lest the sky fall. When they do, they will be asking for a significant boost in a ceiling that is already 60 percent higher than the one Barack Obama said was “a sign of leadership failure” five years ago."
"Inspired by the "Toy Gun" buyback program recently initiated by Hayward
California's Strobridge Elementary School principal Charles Hill, Vice President
Joe Biden is scheduled to announce today White House backing of a new "Imaginary
Gun" buyback program.
" 'We have been plagued by a recent rash of imaginary
gun incidents in our nation's schools," said Biden spokesman Aldous Orwell.
"Children live in terror because of rampant imagination."
"Step One of
the program would entail registration of imaginary weapons in a National
Imaginary Terror Weapon Information Tracking System (NITWITS). Educators will
help students fill out a form from NITWITS to see if their imaginations are
producing unacceptable thoughts involving a weapon of any kind."....
" 'Little boys shouldn't be imagining shooting a gun or fighting a dragon,"
explained Orwell. "A six-year-old should be examining his sexual orientation...."
Via Drudge;PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game "The games politicians play: Barack Obama is having a lot of fun using the government shutdown to squeeze the public in imaginative ways. The point of the shutdown game is to see who can squeeze hardest, make the most pious speech and listen for the applause."
....
“ 'It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”
"The Republicans, fighting with smaller-bore weaponry, keep trying to get some things reopened with carefully targeted legislation. The Senate, under the thumbs of Sen. Harry Reid and the White House, refuses to budge from the trivial and the petty." Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.
Thomas Sowell; Who Shut Down the Government?"There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going — except for Obamacare." Case in point:WWII Memorial Barricade Wired Shut
"But the barriers are still at the memorial, and they've been reinforced. This morning, I walked by the memorial and noticed that wires had been used to tie the fences together:"
"Segraves described the exchange as pleasant and respectful."
Comment posted by: spahrkl, 10/4/2013 4:13:05 PM Via Lucianne He closed down the Normandy Park! What a vicious individual Obama. To close this park is purely ugly. Now France and the world now see what a puny little man this Obama really is.
This Is All About a Petulant President "In the showdown over the shutdown of the U.S. government, the Obamaites tipped their hand yesterday as what their strategy is.
"Taking a page out of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals," the plan is to maximize the people's pain — to maximize the political damage to the enemy, the Republican Party." Patrick J. Buchanan
1. “Unhinged” Arsonists (Wasserman-Schultz) 2. Insane People Who “Have Lost their Minds” (Harry Reid) 3. “People with a Bomb Strapped to their Chest” (aka Terrorists)(Dan Pfeiffer) 4. Blatant Extortionists (Jay Carney) 5. “Legislative Arsonists” (Nancy Pelosi)
"No longer is it just the deeper reaches of the left-blogosphere, it’s the ranking Democratic members of the House and Senate, and the White House, trying to paint Republicans as criminals."....
The National Park Service, which has somehow become the unofficial goon squad of American liberalism, reversed course and let American World War II vets visit the WWII memorial in Washington, D.C. This is obviously good news. (I was waiting to see if Steven Spielberg would come out with a new Obama-friendly director’s cut of Saving Private Ryan in which the old guy at the end is dragged off in cuffs before he can reach Tom Hanks’s grave.)
‘Catholic’ College Profs Demand Abortion, but Advocate Dolphin ‘Personhood’ "Dolphins deserve “personhood” and human babies deserve subsidized killing. At many institutes of “higher learning,” such a position would hardly raise eyebrows. But at an ostensibly Catholic university?"
....
"Among the more than 150 total signatures on the demand is that of Professor Tom White, who has called for dolphins to be recognized as “persons.' ”
From one out-of-control pop star to anotherSinead O’Connor to Miley Cyrus: “I am extremely concerned for you that those around you have led you to believe, or encouraged you in your own belief, that it is in any way ‘cool’ to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos. It is in fact the case that you will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it’s the music business or yourself doing the pimping.” However: Rappers Rally for Miley Cyrus "Cyrus, who will host and perform on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" this week, has been the girl of the moment for months now."
10 Porniest Fall Flicks: Hollywood’s Sleazy Season Opens "So this fall, Hollywood’s given free reign to its chief obsession. Whether it’s dolled up as “art” like “Blue is the Warmest Color” or aiming for a cheap, feel-good laugh like “Don Jon,” Tinsel Town’s lack of creative imagination makes it seem like writers, producers and directors have no choice but to return to sex again and again. Luckily, audiences do have a choice."
"Obama's biggest failing has been his inability to build relationships and make deals on Capitol Hill."
National Journal Mr. President, We thought you were different, but you turned out to be like all the others. You promised hope and change, but we trust government even less than before. You offered a new brand of post-partisan governing, but the red states and blue states are farther apart than ever. Washington was a mess when you arrived in January of 2009, but by breaking your promises and, frankly, our hearts, you made it worse.You vowed to ban lobbyists from the White House only to sneak them in through loopholes. You barred corporate donations to the first inauguration but let the special interest money rain down the second time around. You even learned to love super PACs. How could you? Signed, Hopeless and Changed (for the worse)
"The Obama brand was presented to American public as a new and unifying force in American politics, but he's turned out to be an absolutely conventional politician," said Republican consultant Kevin Madden, who advised Mitt Romney's unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. "He's been very divisive."
"This week's government shutdown represents a new low in Washington, reinforcing how little gets done and everyone hates each other. And while polls show that Republicans in Congress still get more of the blame, Americans are increasingly pointing the finger at the Oval Office."
That has not been evident in a Fox News poll that gives more blame to the Republicans than it does to the vicious Harry Reid by a long shot. But then... ...."Obama's tendency to impugn Republican motives--instead of attributing conflict to a different view of the federal government's role or contrasting economic philosophy--has helped erode what little good will was left between the two parties when he took office."
R.I.P. G.O.P.-House Debt Ceiling Proposal Could Bring The Final Curtain Down On The Republican Party "The party may soon be over…that is the Republican Party.
