Scott Brown's Financial Regulation Failure

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion "But Scott Brown failed to see the forest for the trees on financial reform. Whatever good the financial legislation accomplishes could have been accomplished without another impenetrable behemoth, sprinkled with lobbyist-induced goodies, which expands government for the sake of expanding government, and which constitutes a cure which is worse than the disease."

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White House Linked to Fraudulent Racist Tea Party Video

Gateway Pundit "Both the NAACP and CAP are part of a new coalition of left side groups. Their new effort to replace the Coffee Party is called ‘One Nation’ and is a mash up of over 170 member groups that reads like a who’s who on the left.
"The NAACP racist claim and now this effort are all part of the game plan this new group is going to bring forward.
"Pure Alinsky tactics of trying to isolate and name call somebody into a defensive mode to give them a leg up to push their own agenda."

Terrorist Abetting Lawyer Gets 10 Years

Sweetness and Light "Judge Koeltl, who praised the work Ms. Stewart had done throughout her career and said he had received an unprecedented 400 letters supporting her, ruled that she had lied and abused her position.
But what seemed to weigh heavily on the judge’s decision were statements Ms. Stewart made to the press after her first sentencing that she could do 28 months “standing on my head” and that she would do it all again. Those comments, the judge said, indicated “a lack of remorse” and that “the original sentence was not sufficient.”
"How wonderfully fitting. Ms. Steward was hoisted on her own petard IED."

Hezbollah at the Border

Human Events  "State Department documents examined by Human Events raise concerns that Hezbollah has already used these long-established narco-terror relationships to establish terror cells in the United States."  Connie Hair

Country Reports on Terrorism 2008  "Of particular concern was evidence of Hezbollah influence in Mexico, which is the gateway into the United States for drug cartels. Myrick’s letter warns that tattoos have been found on drug gangs in U.S. prisons showing the influence of Iranian-directed Hezbollah terrorists."

Our post-racial president and his administration

There Really Is a Racist Scandal at the Justice Department
"The Los Angeles Times is wrong that the case hasn’t been made. Adams’s testimony is both credible and shocking, but more importantly, it has not been refuted at all by the Justice Department. DOJ has told the press that it is only “conservatives” who are concerned over this matter, which is beside the point, and not true in any case." J. Christian Adams

Condemn the NAACP: It Is Lost "Local NAACP leaders, along with a national board member, defended men charged in 2009 with beating up a black man who was apparently beaten for no other reason than because he was supporting the tea party movement. It was a press conference in which the victim was derisively referred to as a “Negro” and an “UncleTom.”"   
Bishop Council Nedd II

Michelle Obama’s Fake Black Obesity Concerns "Interestingly Michelle Obama didn’t say any of those things in the childhood obesity portion of the speech. Then what did her speech accomplish? For one thing it gave the media a first lady project to write about, even though Mrs. Obama offered up no solutions. More importantly it allowed Michelle to give a nod of support and words of encouragement to the NAACP, a group that has successfully transformed itself from being a legitimate civil rights organization to this administration’s willing workers; and who along with 170 other groups, including labor unions are planning to build strong momentum against patriotic Americans with the simple desire to have a reduced national debt, individual liberty, and freedom to voice their concerns about how Barack Obama’s policies are affecting their lives and the lives of their children…In other words, the Tea Party movement." Sonja Schmidt

Breitbart to NAACP Chief: ‘Go to Hell!’ “Let me say something a tad newsworthy to the president of the NAACP. You can go to hell. ... I have tapes…tape of racism and it’s an NAACP dinner. You want to play with fire? I have evidence of racism and it’s coming from the NAACP."

Financial Reform: The Lawyers and Lobbyists Full Employment Act

Heritage "Washington looks increasingly like a public-works jobs program for lawyers and lobbyists, a profit center for professionals who are in business for themselves.” The Dodd-Frank bill is the perfect extension of Washington as “a public-works jobs program for lawyers and lobbyists.” Instead of encouraging the U.S. economy to invest in engineers, technology and new products, it requires firms to invest in lawyers and lobbyists just to stay alive. It will do nothing to help create new wealth or new net jobs in the economy, but will transfer more wealth to lobbying and law firms in Washington, D.C."

Dodd-Frank may backfire on Democrats. "That's because, like stimulus and health care, Democrats turned the financial regulation bill into a monstrosity. What started as a promise to streamline and modernize the financial system turned into 2,300 pages of new agencies and new powers for the very authorities that fomented the financial crisis. The bill is laden with uncertainty and brimming with costly regulations on small businesses. Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank made it easy for Republicans to pronounce their bill more Obama Big Government—a "Main Street takeover"—and to justify their votes against it." KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

7 Reasons to Be Skeptical About Financial Reform "Democrats will no doubt hail the bill as a major accomplishment before the midterm elections. After all, it is perhaps the most significant piece of progressive financial legislation since the Great Depression. But the Atlantic has also spent considerable time pointing out all the ways financial reform could fail to curb risk appetite, strengthen the most dangerous banks and hurt ultimately taxpayers. Here* are seven reasons to be skeptical about financial reform:"...Derek Thompson is a staff editor at TheAtlantic.com, where he writes about economics, business, and technology.

Business Knows More than Obama "But all business is asking for is some clarity and certainty regarding government intentions, especially on taxes and regulation. Take, for example, the new 2,300-page bank-regulation bill, which spreads 243 new regulatory provisions across ten agencies. No one really knows what’s in this document, or what the unintended consequences will be. Until people figure this out, it could freeze bank lending for years."

All the above shows what happens when we let celebrities and academics choose our president.

The NAACP’s Descent

Mona Charen "The NAACP’s role in fighting racism was a noble one. The organization was the moving force behind anti-lynching laws. Thurgood Marshall, of the Legal Defense Fund, argued and won the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, marking a new legal era in the United States.
"But the glory days are long gone. In recent decades, the NAACP has transformed itself into just another liberal advocacy group, absurdly dragging “racial justice” into nearly every public-policy argument. In 1994, the NAACP filed suit against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority claiming that a proposed fare increase would discriminate against minorities. That same year, an NAACP spokesman suggested that raising the retirement age for Social Security could “exacerbate racial divisions” because blacks tend to have shorter life expectancies."
NAACP Hurls False Racism Charge at the Tea-Party Movement “In March, respected members of the Congressional Black Caucus reported that racial epithets were hurled at them as they passed by a Washington, DC health care protest,” the NAACP’s website states. “Civil rights legend John Lewis was called the ‘n-word’ in the incident.”
"Americans still await video footage and/or audiotape that proves these oft-repeated accusations. Reps. Lewis (D., Ga.) and Andre Carson (D., Ind.) were encircled by TV cameras, radio-news gear, cellphone cameras, and other recording devices. To date, none of them has yielded any sound or image of anybody lobbing racial insults. If such comments actually were uttered, the NAACP and its leftist allies would have played them over and over and over to embarrass and humiliate Republicans, conservatives, and the allegedly racist tea-party movement. In fact, no one has claimed conservative activist Andrew Breitbart’s $100,000 bounty for any documentary proof that these supposed race bombs ever were tossed at their targets."
NAACP Resolution Calls on Tea Party to Repudiate 'Racist Elements' in Movement "The NAACP was once a vital weapon in the war against segregation and oppression. All that's left is a bigoted and malicious shell that does far more harm than good for people who need a break," he wrote.Fellow St. Louis Tea Party organizer Dana Loesch accused the NAACP of morphing into a political organization.
""They no longer prioritize civil rights," she told Fox News."

Hey NAACP, the Truth Shall Set Us Free "It is my fear that the honorable mission of the NAACP may have lost it’s way, but I am confident that it will find it’s course. In the meantime, unprovoked attacks on your brothers and sisters in the Tea Party will be met with tough love. This is not a game and the collective stakes are high for all Americans."

Obama’s Second Act; If he wins another term, he’ll only get worse.

Charles Krauthammer " In the political marketplace, there’s now a run on Obama shares. The Left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the Right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November, when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House. "I have a warning for Republicans: Don’t underestimate Barack Obama."

George W. Bush Book 'Decision Points' out Nov. 9

ABC News "According to Crown Publishers, "Decision Points" will offer "gripping, never-before-heard detail" on such historic events as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the 2000 presidential election along with Bush's decision to quit drinking, his relationship with his family and other personal details."

The Return of the Jeffersonian Vision and the Rejection of Progressivism

Michael Barone "The Progressives explicitly repudiated the Founders’ vision of limited government. They argued that government needed to redistribute property, to take money from one group of citizens to help others, and to regulate economic activity in ways previously considered unconstitutional. The Constitution, they said, was a “horse and buggy” document, suited perhaps to the simpler society of the 18th century, but dangerously out of date in a complex industrial society which could not expect ordinary citizens to make their way without government guidance and assistance. They were acting, they said, in the interests of the people. Their critics said they were acting out of hunger for power.
"I want to advance another thesis: That they actually acted more out of fear than of benevolence. They feared revolution." Emphasis added.