Gingrich Leads in GOP Voter Preference

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By Dana Blanton

Published December 08, 2011
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Newt Gingrich is the clear front-runner for the 2012 Republican nomination -- and the biggest beneficiary of Herman Cain’s departure from the race. Mitt Romney, again, holds steady with about a quarter of GOP primary voters in his camp.A Fox News poll released Thursday shows Gingrich up 13 percentage points since mid-November. Cain suspended his campaign on December 3.

In the latest snapshot of the race, Gingrich receives the backing of 36 percent of GOP primary voters. That’s up from 23 percent last month -- and is three times the 12 percent he had in late October. It also represents the largest share of the vote that a candidate has received in six months of Fox News polling. The previous high was 26 percent for Romney over the summer.

That puts significant distance between the former House speaker and former front-runner Romney, who receives 23 percent in the new poll. Last month, 22 percent supported Romney and 15 percent Cain.

Romney has consistently polled in the low-to-mid 20s among GOP primary voters. In six months of Fox News polling, Romney’s highest backing came in July and August, with 26 percent. He hit a low of 20 percent in late October.

Ron Paul also picked up bit of support with Cain out of the race. Paul now receives 12 percent, up from 8 percent three weeks ago.

Rick Perry comes in at 8 percent. Last month, he had 7 percent.

Among voters who are part of the Tea Party movement, Gingrich receives 44 percent. That far outdistances Paul (15 percent) and Romney (11 percent).

Despite leading the GOP pack, there’s a lack of enthusiasm for both Gingrich and Romney.

Some 34 percent of GOP primary voters say, if Gingrich were the nominee, they would vote for him and support him “enthusiastically,” while nearly half (49 percent) would “just vote for him.” Another 13 percent would vote for someone else or not vote at all in the general election.

The results are similar if Romney were to become the nominee: 28 percent of GOP primary voters would support him “enthusiastically,” while about twice that number -- 55 percent -- would “just vote for him.” Twelve percent would back someone else or stay home.

The poll also asked Republican primary voters their second choice. Just over half of Gingrich backers -- 52 percent -- say Romney is their second choice. Under half of Romney supporters -- 48 percent -- pick Gingrich as their second choice.

Overall, slightly more voters would rather spend every day of the next year with Romney (36 percent) than Gingrich (32 percent) if they had to pick between the two. Some 24 percent would refuse to spend that much time with either Republican contender.

Republicans would choose to spend every day with Gingrich over Romney by 11 percentage points (46 percent-35 percent).

The Fox News poll is based on land line and cell phone interviews with 911 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from December 5 to December 7. For the total sample, it has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. For the subgroup of 356 GOP primary voters, it is plus or minus 5 percentage points.

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Why Washington Is Shocked, Shocked By Newt Gingrich's Rise Over Mitt Romney

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By Christian Whiton

Published December 09, 2011
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One of the more enjoyable spectacles out of Washington lately has been the horror of establishment Beltway Republicans that Newt Gingrich just might be their presidential nominee, having jumped ahead of Mitt Romney in recent polls. The cause of this is simple if often disguised: Newt is the opposite of everything they just know to be true.

Take for example Peggy Noonan, who pronounced Gingrich all but dead in May, noting “I have yet to meet a Gingrich 2012 supporter.”

But last week, without quite admitting her analytical shortcomings, she said “the entire Washington journo-political complex has been taken by surprise by something that not only wasn’t predicted but couldn’t have been.”

At least not from Washington or Manhattan.

Back in our capital city, Jennifer Rubin, the Republican at the Washington Post, congratulated herself noting “I suggested that Republicans ‘could pull a name out of a hat and find a more consistent and personally stable conservative’ than Newt Gingrich. Many smart conservatives seem to agree.” Maybe Ms. Rubin should start listening to people she thinks are dumb.

And then there is Karl Rove, the man George W. Bush called the “architect,” who echoed the growing refrain of establishment Republicans that “Mr. Gingrich has little or no campaign organization in Iowa and most other states.” Yet somehow Gingrich is ahead by 12% in the RealClearPolitics average of Iowa polls.

When not writing for the record, the voices of the establishment are even more incredulous. Newt is not only not their first choice—he is their last choice.

Why is this so? The answer lies in the nature of the Beltway Republican establishment. The problem is that most of what Gingrich proposes runs counter to what they have been conditioned to accept.

After all, this basically remains the Republican establishment that ran both of the federal government’s political branches for the better part of the last decade and managed to achieve essentially no conservative goals. The establishment Republicans didn’t merely acquiesce to big government implications of George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” – they insisted on it. More than a few Bush officials who visited Capitol Hill lamented that it was difficult to tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats on spending issues. While President Obama has normalized trillion-dollar deficits, establishment Republicans got us halfway there during the previous decade.

Do not suppose Beltway Republicans have found religion since. Recall Republican Speaker Boehner claiming earlier this year that he would cut $100 billion of government spending—a modest goal considering the federal budget now exceeds $3500 billion. That cut soon became $61 billion, then a mere $39 billion (and realistically nothing when gimmicks are excluded). And Republicans share with Democrats parenthood of the subsequent ‘Super Committee’ fiasco.

Now reenter Newt Gingrich, the man whom Republican Washington just knows failed as Speaker of the House, despite the welfare, capital gains tax and balanced budget reforms that bear his fingerprints.

On EPA replacement, for example, Gingrich says: “I don’t think you can train the current bureaucrats. I think their bias against capitalism, their bias against local government, their bias against economic rationality, is just amazing.”

Here, Gingrich is revealing his reverence for Andrew Jackson, who in his presidency succeeded in replacing fully one-fifth of the federal bureaucracy, seeing this as a requirement for radical change.

Most Washingtonian Republicans view desires like this as hopelessly naive. During their careers, they have seen modest changes, but nothing like the major shifts in Washington that have occurred at turning points in American history. Those with historical knowledge of them tend to know only of times the bureaucracy grew as opposed to those where it was actually tamed.

The idea of reversing federal growth is fine to keep on the wish list, but those who advocate it seriously are seen as rubes—either new arrivals in Washington who just fell off a turnip truck or unsophisticated congressmen from ‘flyover country.’ To be a true Beltway Republican is to have accepted the assumption that the scope of government cannot be radically altered. And they think it is politically foolish to try.

Thus the establishment just knows that you run a moderate like Mitt Romney for president. Conservatives have no place else to go and independents will be attracted—historical evidence to the contrary be damned.

Gingrich challenges this, believing 2012 may be one of those historical turning points where voters will be most attracted by a candidate who offers a radical divergence.

But even more damning, Gingrich has the audacity to imagine that Washington can be run without his own party’s establishment. Their assumption of dominating the next Republican administration is not safe if it is Gingrich. He is not proposing to replace the Democratic piano player at the brothel that is Washington with a slightly sterner-sounding Republican. Instead, he claims he will close the brothel. And the establishment of his own party just knows that can’t happen. In their lives, it never has. And where are they then to go for their pork and porking?

The establishment may still prevail. There are nearly infinite news cycles until the nomination is won by someone. Gingrich’s opponents are not close to giving up and serious Wall Street money is falling squarely behind Romney. But the champagne glasses will clink a little lighter on the Potomac this season—a little Christmas miracle of its own.

Christian Whiton is a former U.S. State Department senior adviser and is a principal at DC International Advisory. He writes frequently for Fox News Opinion. Follow him on Twitter @WhitonDCIA.



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Newt Leads GOP Out of Debate Wilderness

By Chris Stirewalt
Published December 16, 2011

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa – This was the debate that Republicans had been waiting for.

After more than seven months of acidic, divisive confrontations with answers that were long on bluster and sloganeering and short on substance, an ensemble cast of GOP presidential contenders turned in a performance that was thoughtful, humane and substantive.

That is Newt Gingrich’s doing. The old professor had been teaching a course on how to debate effectively, but his pupils didn’t catch on until the final class before exams.

The Gingrich method is to praise one’s fellow Republicans, use humor, speak substantively and save the really rough stuff for Barack Obama. With the exception of a couple testy exchanges, the candidates were respectful of each other and, by offering their most thoughtful answers yet, respectful of the audience.

Debates to this point have been dominated by gaffes, bickering among frontrunners, complaints about format and rigid adherence to talking points. But with the Iowa caucuses less than three weeks away and, having seen how Gingrich has benefited from employing his own techniques, the rest of the field was ready to step it up.

Instead of another evening in which Republicans had to watch a debate as if it were a slasher movie, peeking between splayed fingers and dreading the next stabbing, GOPers finally could feel like they had a field of which they could be proud.

Prior to the debate, the crowd has been jittery, murmuring like a courtroom gallery at a murder trial. But afterward, it was all smiles and excited chatter. They had finally seen in their would-be champions something presidential. Something bigger than the petty concerns of today’s polls or the latest opposition research dump.

While Power Play acknowledges its extreme bias on this point, much of the new tone also resulted from the decency and thoughtfulness of the questions posed by the moderator and panelists. But there was a new maturity among the contenders.

While the attack ads and junk mail saturation bombing will resume and the campaigns will return to sniping and bracketing, whispering and subtly smearing, the candidates themselves all rose to the moment and offered compelling closing arguments.

Iowans will now turn their focus to Christmas, family and football, but the Republicans all gave them something to mull over until the Jan. 3 caucuses.

Specifically:

Mitt Romney

“The spy drone being brought down, he says pretty please? A foreign policy based on pretty please? You have got to be kidding.”

-- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the FOX News/Republican Party of Iowa presidential debate.

Romney is Gingrich’s star pupil. On a night when everyone expected him to continue his relentless attacks on Gingrich, Romney amazed and stayed positive.

There was none of the whiff of desperation or meanness that had gathered around Romney since Gingrich’s rise to the top of the field. And in doing so, he managed to look perfectly presidential.

In previous debates, his attacks were often heavy-handed and his defenses too snappish and brusque. This was a man in command and the crowd liked it. If Romney is smart, he’ll drop the rough stuff and the fake laughter at his opponents’ attacks for good.

Newt Gingrich

“You know, Neil, I sometimes get accused of using language that's too strong, so I've been standing here editing… I'm very concerned about not appearing to be zany.”

-- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at the FOX News/Republican Party of Iowa presidential debate.

Gingrich made the audience in the hall and at home part of the show by winking at his own weaknesses. Would he keep his cool under fire? Could he resist pomposity as the frontrunner? Would he go overboard in his attacks?

Gingrich managed to succeed on all fronts, bringing the same method he has been employing for months to the fore. But Gingrich added something too: he sounded presidential.

He took some bad blows about his work as a Washington consultant, but he also soared when he talked about American exceptionalism and his views on entitlement reform, he managed to seem grand without being grandiose.

Gingrich’s performance may quell some of the anxieties over his constancy and temperament. The doubts may eventually do him in with conservatives, but it won’t be because he couldn’t answer the charge and shift the discussion when confronted.

Rick Perry

“Cut their pay in half. Cut their time in Washington in half. Cut their staff in half. Send them home. Let them get a job like everybody else back home has and live within the laws of which they passed.”

-- Texas Gov. Rick Perry Huntsman at the FOX News/Republican Party of Iowa presidential debate talking about his plan to overhaul Congress.

Seldom is a line so perfect for a candidate or a moment as Rick Perry’s embrace of Tim Tebow. It may have sounded corny, but it worked because it was so true.

They’re both evangelical Christians derided as rubes who can’t play on the next level. They’ve both become punch lines for late-night comics and earned the smirking derision of sophisticates.

But the conservative Christians who dominate the Republican Party love Tim Tebow and admire him all the more for winning when everyone said he couldn’t. The fact that Tebow is a pro-life hero for the ad he cut talking about his mother’s decision to reject medical advice for an abortion when she was carrying him doesn’t hurt either.



Perry was really on his game, and while he didn’t match up with the presidential poses of Romney and Gingrich, he certainly sounded plausible. And by making himself the lovable underdog, Perry may have bought himself another look from Republican voters who themselves often feel picked on and discounted by the establishment media.



Perry also was strong on selling his Washington overhaul plan and the claim of his status as an outsider, lines that got a lot of applause and a lot of head nods in the debate hall.

Ron Paul

“Well, he has a different definition of the private sector than I have.”

-- Texas Rep. Ron Paul at the FOX News/Republican Party of Iowa presidential debate on Newt Gingrich’s defense of $1.6 million or more in contracts with bailed out government-backed mortgage firm Freddie Mac

Paul really bit into Gingrich’s hide on Freddie Mac, reinforcing an argument many conservatives are starting to make: that the former speaker is too much a part of the Washington establishment to be able to uproot it.

But Paul also suffered a grave wound himself when he very clearly and very consistently explained his policy of rapprochement with Iran. It’s just too big a jump for a Republican electorate that sees Iran as a very real threat and sees nothing wrong with the U.S. spying on the Mullahs of Tehran.

Bret Baier gave Paul lots of time to explain his views. Unfortunately for his chances to win the Iowa caucuses, Paul fully availed himself of it.

Michele Bachmann

“I think I have never heard a more dangerous answer for American security than the one that we just heard from Ron Paul.”

-- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann at the FOX News/Republican Party of Iowa presidential debate talking about Paul’s Iran policy.

Bachmann revived herself from previously flat debate performances, rediscovering some of the passion that had made her appealing to Iowa conservatives once before.

She also impressed with her ability to talk extemporaneously about a host of topics and dropped some of the repetitive lines of previous debates that had become shopworn.

But Bachmann is Gingrich’s poorest pupil in the art of debating. Her attacks continue to be too harsh in and too Manichean in their orientation.

Republicans now know that they will have an imperfect nominee, as is inevitable to some degree for every party in every election. Bachmann’s absolutist arguments sound less relevant in that environment.

Jon Huntsman

“This nation has been downgraded. This nation is on the cusp of the third government shutdown. We have been kicked around as people. We are getting screwed as Americans.”

-- Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman at the FOX News/Republican Party of Iowa presidential debate.

Mitt Romney had better get back to New Hampshire in a hurry, because the Jon Huntsman who showed up on Thursday night could cause big trouble for him in the Granite State.

Huntsman, whose previous performances were uneven and unpleasantly bitter, sounded steady, intelligent and conservative. Rather than mocking the views of the very party he seeks to lead, Huntsman spoke as one of them.

And his line about “getting screwed” was topped only by Perry’s Tebowing as the sound bite of the night.

Rick Santorum

“We need someone who's strong in their political and personal life to go out and contrast themselves with the president and make him the issue in this campaign.”

-- Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum at the FOX News/Republican Party of Iowa presidential debate juxtaposing himself with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Republicans are in the market for a happy warrior this cycle, not an angry one, but they surely must admire Rick Santorum’s dedication and devotion.

Santorum is making some moves in Iowa – new commercials and a big door-to-door push -- and may find his way into the top four come caucus day. His debate performance was entirely about that effort as he spoke directly to his small, devoted group of supporters about the issues that matter to them in local terms--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chris Stirewalt is digital politics editor for Fox News, and his POWER PLAY column appears Monday-Friday on FoxNews.com


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More Than Half Say Obama Should Lose in 2012

WOW ! I didn't see this one coming, either alot of people are starting to watch the news, or alot of people are waking up at the same time.

According to a new Associated Press-GfK poll,  A majority of Americans think President Obama should be voted out of office next year.

Most of those polled said he does not deserve one.While Americans were evenly divided on whether they expect the president to earn a second term, most of those polled said he does not deserve one.


While 43 percent said he deserves another term,  For the first time, the poll found that a majority of adults, 52 percent, said Obama should be voted out of office

Obama's overall job approval stands at a new low: 44 percent approve while 54 percent disapprove. The president's standing among independents is worse: 38 percent approve while 59 percent disapprove.

Obama's overall poll numbers suggest he is in jeopardy of losing, even as the public's outlook on the economy appears to be improving. For the first time since spring, more said the economy got better in the past month than said it got worse.

But Obama's approval rating on his handling of the economy overall remains stagnant: 39 percent approve and 60 percent disapprove.

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Romney Starts Mudslinging, Testing Gingrich 's Pledge To Stay Positive

If history repeats itself, Mitt Romney could be in trouble down the road. Usually the mud slinging lives for a while, then when you you least expect it, Americans decides mudslinging is no  fun anymore. They down right reject it.

Hopefully Newt Gingrich stays true to his word, and stays on the high road. Hopefully Romney keeps slinging the mud, and all the  pieces will fall together.Americans get tired of mudslinging, problems is, you are not quite sure when they had enough. Mitt will know because his numbers will start climbing south.
Mitt
At that point, Mitt will be looking for a new war strategy and it will be too late.

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Tea Partiers Reject Beck's Claim. What Say You?........Glenn Beck.

First of all, Thank you FOX NEWS.COM

Second, I believe that Glenn Beck is a rock star!, and I mean that with all the respect and sincerity I have.

I started following Glenn back in 2002 on his radio show,  and when took his job on FOX NEWS,   

that was a no brainer, I was hooked.The majority of the time we agreed on politics. It would be impossible to agree on each and every issue.
he endorsed a
When it came to people and personalities I'd say wed were on the same page there too,most of the time.

I learned a Hell of a lot from Glenn Beck over the last decade. Probably the biggest thing I learned was what a Libertarian was and what a Progressive was.

Here is where the water starts to get somewhat muddy.

Recently Glenn was interviewed on Fox Business News and described Newt Gingrich as a Progressive. I'm not really sure where Glenn received his information, you can call Newt Gingrich many things, Progressive is not one of them.

Newt Gingrich has to be one of the most conservative people that has walked the earth. The only thing that could make Glenn think that is when Newt backed a very liberal Republican in upstate New York in 2010. I'm still scratching my head over that one.

Otherwise Newt Is as squeaky clean a republican as you can get.

What Say You, Glenn Beck

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B.H.O.'S "OCCUPY" IS NO TEA PARTY ! ! !

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TO DATE - 5,425 arrests...$21,273,499 in cost to taxpayers. ITS TIME FOR THE OCCUPIERS TO GO. They are a menace, and are wasting our precious resources while contributing nothing. Why should the American taxpayer foot the bill for Obama lackey's who feel they are entitled. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Average Americans are not getting arrested and costing their fellow citizens money. It is time they stop dem...anding and GET UP AND OCCUPY A JOB! Maybe if we stuck them with the bill for all the damage they have caused they would get the message.

Can Newt Gingrich Beat Obama?

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By: Martin Gould

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has surged ahead of the Republican pack of presidential contenders, but the big question remains: “Can Newt Gingrich beat Obama next November?”

Newt Gingrich is confident, already looking forward to presidential debates, getting in a little dig against the Commander-in-Chief.

“If he wants to use a teleprompter, that would be fine with me,” Gingrich said.

A slew of polls are now saying the same thing – the GOP nomination is Gingrich’s to lose.

His nearest rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney simply cannot excite the party’s base and, unless there is another huge upheaval once the primary season gets started, no other candidate comes close now that pizza mogul Herman Cain is out of the race.

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So Republicans now have to look forward to next November when the name Gingrich will likely be alongside Obama’s on presidential ballots.

And there is a good chance that Newt Gingrich can beat Obama, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Dec. 8.

poll – or actually three separate polls taken in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida –shows Gingrich has a good chance of beating President Obama.

He actually beats Obama by a single digit – 43 percent to 42 – in Ohio. In Florida he is just two points behind although the gap widens to eight points in Pennsylvania.

Even the Keystone State result is not as bad for Newt Gingrich as it might sound, says Peter Brown, the assistant director of the university’s polling institute as Obama carried Pennsylvania by double digits in 2008.

A Gallup poll showed that Obama has the lowest ratings for any president at this point in his first term, giving Gingrich even more hope that he can beat Obama and win the White House.

“Barack Obama is in the area where presidents who lose elections tend to be,” USA Today’s Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page pointed out in an online discussion with Gallup Editor-n-Chief Frank Newport.

She said Obama now has to get his ratings up “or make sure the Republican opponent’s approval rating is even lower.”

It may just be that Gingrich can beat Obama in 2012.

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Largest Corporations Spending More on Lobbying Than Taxes

THIS IS GOLDEN ! ! !..................wanna get in the holiday spirit, listen up !............CAREFULLY !

Did you Know the top 30 corporations paid $ 0 in federal taxes !  here is a breakdown :

1. $164 BILLION  in profit

2.) $11 BILLION  in Tax Rebates

3.) $706 MILLION  in  Executive Pay

4.)$ 0 In Federal Tax ( excluding FED XPRESS )

On the down side, the were wiling to make the Lobbyist RICH !, Take a look !

G.E., $ 84 MILLION Spent on Lobbying !

Verizon, $ 54 MILLION Spent on Lobbing !

Boeing, $ 52 MILLION Spent on Lobbing !

'TIS THE SEASON, ENJOY !

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Gingrich Assailed by Rivals, Fires Back at Romney

As the day go by and weeks go by, and if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, I see a two man horse race taking shape. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former Governor Mitt Romney seem to be making this a two person race.

I believe both men are capable of giving B.H.O. a good ol' fashion shellacking. Barring any last minute dirt
that might be bestowed upon us, I see a new President on the horizon. I know Newt Gingrich has some skeletons in his closet, who doesn't ?

America would take Newt and his skeletons over B.H.O. and his Socialism any day of the week. Mitt Romney has his hare of goodies tucked away in his closet also. Romneycare ring a bell ? Again, I believe Mitt could get over this.

So, if Newt or Mitt make it to the top of the ticket, who takes the VEEP spot ? Good question.............

I have my pics, tell me yours .

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Poll Shows Obama Disapproval Up

Are you ready for the worst kept secret in D.C. ? Yes my friends the only thing up inside the beltway are B.H.O.'S Disapproval ratings.

Now if that doesn't make a tingling feeling run up your leg, (Chris Matthews @ MSNBC'S words, not mine,) nothing will.

Over half the voters surveyed felt B.H.O.'S plan for the economy will do any good in the long run. That's not good for a guy that is one year out from trying to get elected for his second term of the Presidency.

44% approve of the job he is doing while 51% disapprove of the job he is doing..

An overwhelming 94 % think the economy think the economy is in bad shape, 66% think the economy is in poor shape. That is the highest “poor” rating ever measured by the Fox News poll.

For the record, Less than 1 percent of voters says the economy is in “excellent” shape and 5 percent say it is in “good condition."

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House on Collision Course With Obama Over Payroll Tax Cut, as Senate Bills Fail

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House Republicans are on a collision course with the White House and potentially the Senate over an emerging proposal to extend the payroll tax cut, teeing up a protracted debate that could keep lawmakers in Washington for the holidays as they try to avert a Jan. 1 tax increase.

The Senate on Thursday afternoon rejected rival Democratic and GOP plans for extending the cut. The failure was expected, cuing the House to step in with a new plan.

Details of that proposal, expected to be unveiled in full on Friday, suggest its Republican authors are preparing for a showdown with President Obama. The bill includes a controversial provision to move along the construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas -- the Obama administration recently put that project on hold until after the 2012 election, citing environmental and safety concerns.

The provision pertaining to the Keystone pipeline helped sweeten the deal for House conservatives skeptical of a payroll tax extension.

Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., told Fox News that a number of Republicans who were on the fence said they would vote for the bill if it includes the Keystone pipeline provision.

House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday he's confident Republicans are ready to move on the proposal.

But Obama explicitly has said he will reject any effort to tie the Keystone pipeline construction to the tax extension. His allies echoed that message Friday.

"It's a non-starter," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said.

Her top deputy, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., urged Republicans to "reconsider" the Keystone language.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney warned Republicans not to include "extraneous attachments" in the bill.

"Whatever happened to Republicans being for tax cuts?" Carney asked. "Is it because this one goes to 160 million Americans, middle-class working Americans, that they're ambivalent or they're willing to oppose it if they don't get some political scalp? Is it because President Obama supports it, or Democrats support it?"

At stake is a cut in the Social Security tax valued at about $1,000 a year for the average family.

The rate was lowered from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for 2011, but that expires at the end of the year without action by Congress. Obama has called for extending the cut, and increasing it by another percentage point. He also wants Congress to extend unemployment insurance.

But while Congress appeared to be heading once again toward gridlock, the House could be in a position to try to corner the Senate.

House leaders could be poised to hold a vote on the bill, as early as next week, and then send their members home for the holidays -- in turn forcing the Senate to decide between their bill and no bill. This would then force a confrontation between the Senate and the White House.

Terry said he thinks there's a "high" likelihood the House will try to stick the Senate with their version of the bill.

"Frankly, the fact that the president doesn't like it makes me like it even more," said Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a leader of House conservatives, who added he had supported an earlier version, as well.

According to sources, the House bill's price tag clocks in at between $175 billion and $180 billion.

its core, the emerging House bill would extend the existing Social Security payroll tax cut at the heart of Obama's jobs program, through 2012. It also would renew an expiring benefit program for the long-term unemployed the president also favors, although at a reduced level from current law.

In addition, Republicans are proposing to avert a 27 percent cut in payments to doctors serving Medicare patients, a provision that Democrats have said privately they are receptive to.

The emerging House bill also is expected to block implementation of a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation limiting toxic emissions from industrial incinerators, another potential area for dispute with the White House.

While there is general agreement among leaders of both parties that the legislation must be paid for to avoid raising deficits, there are differences over the details.

Democrats favor imposing a surtax on incomes over $1 million, hoping to depict Republicans -- nearly all of whom are opposed -- as protecting millionaires at the expense of the middle class.

House Republicans want to raise premium fees on the wealthy for Part B Medicare, a change that they note would fall on many of the same people the Democrats want to tax.

The House bill also would freeze pay for two additional years for federal retirees and increase their retirement costs.

Also in the measure is the repeal of nearly $43 billion already approved for the year-old health care law, which stands as Obama's signature domestic achievement.

There was no suspense in the Senate on Thursday, where blocking maneuvers left rival payroll tax plans short of the 60 votes needed to advance for the second consecutive week.

The vote on the Democrats' plan was 50-48, with Sen. Susan Collins of Maine the only Republican in favor. It would lower next year's payroll tax to 3.1 percent, financed mainly by the millionaire surtax.

The Republican measure was turned aside 22-76. A majority of Republicans opposed it, reflecting the party's internal divisions. That measure would leave next year's payroll tax at 4.2 percent, paid for largely by freezing salaries and cutting the size of the federal workforce.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Did Fake Signatures Get Obama on Indiana Ballot?

B.H.O. knows there is more  than one way to win an election. One way is to get forged signatures on a petition to get your name on the primary ballot.

I know that this will come as a complete surprise for B.H.O.,  Any illegal activity he has ever been involved in has been an complete surprise.

Charity Rorie, a mother of four, sat in her Mishawaka, Ind., kitchen, stunned that her name appeared on a 2008 Democratic presidential primary petition for then-candidate Barack Obama.

That's not my signature," she told Fox News, saying her signature is "absolutely" a fake. She also said she was troubled someone forged both her signature and that of her husband, Jeff, and listed personal details such as their address and birthdays.

Really ?

For three years I wondered how B.H.O.  was elected, now that answer is becoming crystal clear. Forgery is the magic word.

"It's scary," Rorie said. "It's shocking. It definitely is illegal. A lot of people have already lost faith in politics and the whole realm of politics, so that just solidifies all of our worries and concerns."

Robert Hunter Jr. said his name was faked, too.

"I did not sign for Barack Obama," he told Fox News, adding his signature supporting the then-Illinois senator's effort to get on the primary ballot was also a forgery.

Looks like Barack took a page right out of the Chicago/Elect J.F.K playbook. make-believe votes count too !

"I did not sign for Barack Obama," he told Fox News, adding his signature supporting the then-Illinois senator's effort to get on the primary ballot was also a forgery.

As he examined the Obama petition he held in his hands, Hunter pointed out that "I always put 'Junior' after my name, every time ... there's no 'Junior' there." He said the signature on the petition looks "very close" to his real one, but it clearly is not.

Really makes you wonder how many 'fake' votes he will get in 2012 .

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

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New York City Cafe May Shut Its Doors for Good Due to 'Occupy,' Owner Says

THANK YOU FOX NEWS.COM & PERRY CHIARAMONTE for contents of this article.

By Perry Chiaramonte

Published December 01, 2011
FoxNews.com

The owner of an eatery in New York City's Lower Manhattan who said he was forced to let go 25 percent of his staff last month due to the Occupy Wall Street protests now says he might have to close his doors for good come next week.

Marc Epstein, owner of the Milk Street Cafe, tells FoxNews.com that authorities have not taken down barricades around Zuccotti Park and along Wall Street despite the dwindling number of protesters since they were evicted from their encampment two weeks ago, keeping consumer foot traffic and his profits to a minimum.

“It’s like a siege mentality down here. It’s killing business for everyone down here,” said Epstein, who said he was forced to fire 21 employees after sales dropped 30 percent since the start of the Occupy Movement. “If we don’t get relief, I won’t be able to stay open past Tuesday.”

Epstein says that foot traffic has dropped despite the camp being removed from the area and that he’s losing vital business from tourists that have been avoiding the area.

Officials for the police department said there are no longer barriers at the Milk Street Cafe and haven’t been for some time. Barriers remain at the Stock Exchange, where they have existed long before the cafe opened.

But despite where the barricades are, Epstein says that the disruption around Wall Street has gone on for far too long.

“Now that the protesters have waned, let’s get life back to normal already,” Epstein said.

Requests for comment to City Hall were not immediately returned.

YOURS IN LIBERTY! ! !

Bob Yeager

NAACP Taking Complaints About U.S. Voter Laws to United Nations

I guess I am missing something here.

I know the Socialists in this country don't like it, but the United States of America Is a sovereign nation. Period.

WE (the United States, ) govern ourselves with the help of The Declaration of Independents, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

So why the NAACP is trotting off to the United Nations, with a problem that they think they have with the United States, Is way beyond me.

I'm not going to get into the belly of this story, what I will do is request the NAACP approach the government of this Country, the U.S.A.,.. to solve the issue you with our voting system.

Going to the United Nation to get this issue solved would be like taking you car to a jewelry store to get fixed.

It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

YOURS IN LIBERTY,

Bob Yeager

Report: Cain Set to Endorse Gingrich for the GOP Presidential Nomination

The possibilities are endless here.

If and when Herman Cain endorses Former Speaker Newt Gingrich for President, the whole playing field will change, and I believe for the better.

It would give Speaker Gingrich a possible strong running mate, or at the very least, some swing votes from voters who were backing Herman Cain.

I don't think that Speaker Gingrich could ask for anything more.

This would give the Speaker instant access to a person with tons of business knowledge, actually Newt Gingrich is a savvy businessman himself.

This would force the hand of the other contenders to come up with their own strong endorsement, with a business background, and someone who can tangle with the best of them.

YOURS IN LIBERTY,

Bob Yeager    

Under Pressure to Reduce Deficit, Congress Tees Up Year-End Spending Spree

Forget all about the $15 TRILLION the U.S. Government owes most of the world, now they have a full treasure trove of I.O.U.'S that they want to spend by the end of the year.

My favorite color is red, I believe it's safe to say that is the Government's favorite color too. They could spray paint D.C. with red paint and never run out of money.

Lawmakers are poised to spend $120 billion or so to renew a Social Security tax cut that averaged just under $1,000 per household this year. They're ready to commit up to $50 billion more to continue unemployment benefits to people out of work for more than half a year.

They just absolutely do not know when to stop, Democrats and Republicans.

The chairmen and senior minority members of the Senate and House agriculture committees tried to add a five-year farm bill onto a deficit panel package that never came together. They promised "reforms" that would end much-criticized direct subsidy payments to Southern rice and cotton growers whether they farm or not.

But instead of banking the nearly $50 billion in savings, farm-state lawmakers maneuvered to channel much of the money to a new subsidy for locking in four-decade-high revenues for corn and soybean growers in the Midwest.

Republicans insist that extending the Social Security tax cut and jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed must be paid for through cuts to other programs or finding other non-tax sources of money for them.But using any such arrangements means they're no longer available for cutting deficits.

The White House, after saying all fall that Obama's jobs agenda must be paid for with tax increases on high-income earners, appears willing to simply pad the nation's $15 trillion national debt instead of finding offsetting cuts.

I am thoroughly convinced that neither side of the isle wants to change the crash course type of spending that has become the norm .

Both Dems and the GOP are absolutely scared of a Third Party making a serious run in 2012. I hope someone steps up to bat to take these inside-the beltway mentality zombies a run for their money .

YOURS IN LIBERTY,

Bob Yeager





















 

Gingrich Surges to the Lead in Iowa Poll

 I'm  not going to tell you who I'm pulling for to run against B.H.O. on the GOP ticket. I'm just a small guy writing a blog on the Internent. I'm by no means famous, so my endorsement would not mean a whole lot.

What I will tell you is, I think it is very unprofessional for the press or another candidate to drag an opponent through the mud to rack up votes.

I have more respect for a person who goes out and tells the masses what he has to offer each American, that will make our country better. Than a canidate who is out slinging mud.

I know by the time the primaries are over, my choice for President, and anyone left standing, will be covered with mud. I, in a solem kind of way, feel bad for Herman Cain. He wasn't my first choice, but as the political theatre plays out, he could have made a good President or even a good VP. we will never know because the Lame Stream Media had a mudfest with him.

That's a true shame.

 In due time, I believe the cream will rise to the top, and a canidate will break through that will make B.H.O. a one term president. After all isn't that what elections are all about, getting rid of the people that shouldn't be in officein the first place.

YOURS IN LIBERTY,

Bob Yeager   

Committee Weighs Contempt Citation Against White House Over Solyndra

Another B.H.O. story that has grown legs and doesn't want to go away.

B.H.O.'S minion's promised the now defunct solar panel company, Solynda, $ 535 MILLION  of your hard earned tax dollars.

Now Congress is considering suing the White House to obtain document's related to the case.

For almost a year, the Commerce Committee has been looking int circumstances leading up to the bankruptcy and the loan and its subsequent restructuring, which subordinated taxpayers to private investors in the recovery of the company's assets. Solyndra's chief investor, billionaire George Kaiser, is a prominent Obama supporter whom records show visited the White House 17 times.

Sounds like the White House hayet one more hot potato on it's hands, doesn't it ?

Gingrich to Meet With Trump Monday

This meeting is nothing is short of unusual.

What could set it apart from other meetings is if Mr.Trump would give Newt a much sought after endorsement.

'The Donald' has had a visit by most of the GOP nominees.Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, and Michele Bachmann have all made stops at Donald Trump's door, looking for an endorsement from him. An endorsement from Donald Trump would be a nice reference on anyones resume'.

Newt Gingrich considers Donald an old friend, we'll see if that old friendship will culivate into an endorsement. the two have had numerous phone calls over the campaign season.     
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YOURS IN LIBERTY  ! ! !
Bob Yeager

Prosecutors: Hinckley Deceptive and Unstable, Lied About Whereabouts

John Hinckley Jr.,the person who tried to take President Reagans life in 1981, went  to to a book store recently to peruse books on President Reagan and books on people the people who tried to assassinate presidents.

Prosecutors want to make sure, Hinckley is not released from a mental hospital, tolda Federal Judge that Hinckly was deceptive and unstable.

Secret Service agents who tracked Hinckley during a visit to his mom's home followed Hinckley when he was supposed to be seeing a movie. Instead, he went to a bookstore across from the theater.

Hinckley "has a long history of deception," they said, and "does whatever he wants and thinks he can get away with it."

I think it would be best if Mr. Hinckley stays right whered he is.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeagerf






 

Police Move in to Clear 'Occupy L.A.'

Looks like B.H.O.'S electoral fan base took another 'shellacking.'

The 'OCCUPY L.A.'mob had their tents removed, were served eviction notices and were arrested on the spot if they didn't comply. They had been occupying the City Hall lawn.

Approximately 500 police officers stormed out of City Hall, rubber bullets a  blazing to take over the 'OCCUPY' mob.

Disgruntled and angry protesters were taunting police officers and chanting slogans as police officers tried to restore order to the chaotic seen.

The LAPD declared the Occupy L.A. site an unlawful assembly about 12:30 a.m. and gave demonstrators 10 minutes to clear the area or be arrested, LAPD Officer Karen Rayner of the Media Relations Section told MyFoxLA.com.

Police were also closing several area roadways and on and off ramps to keep the protesters contained.

Supervising officers briefed the officers on the eviction at Dodger Stadium, with one telling a group of officers they needed to be prepared for some protesters to fight back.Early Wednesday some 30 Metro buses carrying between 40 and 45 officers drove from Dodger Stadium to the LAPD's staging site downtown.

LAPD Lt. Andy Neiman said police were also prepared to remove protesters who had climbed into trees.Officers began the raid on the camp two days after a deadline passed for protesters to clear out.

 About half of some 500 tents remained in Los Angles after a Monday morning eviction deadline and the remaining protesters showed no sign of leaving their weeks-old encampment, which is one of the largest still remaining in the country.

If this is a part of B.H.O.'S  electoral fan base, heaven help him.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager


 






 








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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO READS MY BLOG.............

This blog has reached yet a few more milestones today. Here they are :

 9.17.2010 to PRESENT :       5,019  PAGE VIEWS *

 11.1.2011 to PRESENT            519  PAGE VIEWS IN ONE MONTH **

 9.17.2010 to PRESENT            343  BLOGS POSTED *

 9.17.2010 to PRESENT              45  COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

 9.17.2010 to PRESENT                    TOP FIVE COUNTRIES W/PAGE VIEWS

                                                           U.S.A.        4,017
                                                           RUSSIA        135
                                                           U.K.                83
                                                           GERMANY    76
                                                           SLOVENIA    75
                                                            * = VIEWS FROM 2009
                                                           **= MONTH NOT OVER

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Bob Yeager

Tea Party Alleges Double Standard by Occupy-Friendly Mayor in Virginia

Somebody needs to level the playing field here.

B.H.O.'S "OCCUPY" mob was able to invade Richmond and hold a rally and was not charged a cent for a permit.

The Richmond Tea Party on the other hand, was charged $10,000 to hold three rallies in the exact same spot,  in Kanawha Plaza .When The Richmond Tea Party cried foul, they were notified by the City of Richmond that they we going to be audited. The group said in a statement released Monday, In one of the most outrageous political double standards, the city of Richmond, Va.,

As the Occupy mob sprang up,  the City of Richmond allowed them the use of the park at no charge. Mayor Dwight Jones of Richmond is a liberal Democrat, who even visited the Occupy Mob, encouraging them.

According to Coleen Owens,a Tea Party Rep., The Tea Party help exempt status, yet they were charged a fee, unlike the Obama supporting 'OCCUPY' movement.

Does anyone else smell a rat here ?

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Bob Yeager







 

Back to the Beginning on Debt?

Help me out here, I thought this is what the Super Committee was supposedly created for, to come up with a plan to reduce the deficit and reduce the debt in the process.

Like Glenn Beck use to say, "Get out the duct tape out so I can wrap my head before it explodes!"

If we are going to go back to the beginning on debt (and for the record, it's past the $15 TRILLION mark,) let's work on capping the debt.

By capping the debt, we can take the steps necessary to downsize the Government and reduce the deficit.

Capping the debt is the only way to fix the deficit. D.C.is absolutely petrified of reducing the size of the Government, knowing full well they will have to elimate some of the obsolete Departments in the Government.

 I.E., the I.R.S., Dept.of Energy, The Federal Reserve, The Debt. of Energy, thes are just the beginning of shrinking the Debt and the Deficit.

Capitol Hill has to reverse the size of Government in order to elimate the debt and reduce the deficit.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

Anthony Weiner does Black Friday shopping in N.Y.C. with 'X-rated' moustache

What is the funniest part of this story, Former Congressman Anthony "The Weiner" Weiner sporting an "X-rated" moustache, or  Tony Weiner just trying to sport a moustache period.

With the millions of people living in N.Y.C., one would think Tony would not need the "stache" to go incognito. Personally the hat and sunglasses were enough, obviously I was wrong.

Tony felt a real need to add a moustache reminiscent of the one made infamous by adult-film legend John "Johnny Wadd" Holmes in the 1970s.

Which do you  prefer Porno Tony, or up tight, formerlly discraced Congressman, John (Johnny Wadd) Holmes, moustache touting, Black Friday shopping Tony "The Weiner" Weiner.

I can't deceide.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

P.S. : YOU CAN SEE A PICTURE AT  - http://www.nypost.com/

Mayor Says Occupy LA Must Leave City Hall Camp Monday.

OK, you know it's bad when Liberals kick Liberals out of their city.FOX NEWS .COM reports that

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told Occupy LA protesters on Friday that they must leave their encampment on the lawn of City Hall by 12:01 a.m. Monday.

That is really no way to treat B.H.O.'S supporters.Wait until this news gets from the left coast to the White House, First the Mayor of L.A. is praising the "OCCUPY L.A." rabble-rousers and the next thing you know, he is kicking them off his lawn.

That is no way to treat B.H.O.'S Tea Party. B.H.O is counting on  California to win re-elect him, and now the liberals are being mean to each other. I hope they get their differences worked out. If not the GOP will welcome the B.H.O. supporters with open arms.

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Bob Yeager














 

Injured Congresswoman Serves Thanksgiving Meal to Local Troops

Are you ready for the feel good story of the year?

Troops at  Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson had a special person serving them Thanksgiving dinner.

 Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford's (D) staff was contacted and asked if they could help serve Thanksgiving dinner to  airmen as well as military retirees and their families at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson.

But when staff informed Giffords about the event, she wanted to attend herself. She traveled to her home district of Tucson on Tuesday to spend the holiday with family and friends.

Giffords has been in Houston since January, undergoing therapy as part of her recovery from head wounds suffered during the shooting which wounded 11 others and killed six people during a meet-and-greet event for the congresswoman.

Giffords husband, Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain and former NASA astronaut accompanied her to the midday meal at the dining facility. Over four hundred people were expected to attend the traditional Thanksgiving meal which featured turkey as well as prime rib, ham, shrimp and assorted deserts.

Godspeed on your recovery Congresswoman Giffords !

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager














 

THANKSGIVING DAY 1795, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES – A PROCLAMATION

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE ! special thanks to the FOUNDER'S BLOG which is where I found this great piece of history !


When we review the calamities which afflict so many other nations, the present condition of the United States affords much matter of consolation and satisfaction. Our exemption hitherto from foreign war, an increasing prospect of the continuance of that exception, the great degree of internal tranquillity we have enjoyed, the recent confirmation of that tranquillity by the suppression of an insurrection which so wantonly threatened it, the happy course of our public affairs in general, the unexampled prosperity of all classes of our citizens, are circumstances which peculiarly mark our situation with indications of the Divine beneficence toward us. In such a state of things it is in an especial manner our duty as a people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God and to implore Him to continue and confirm the blessings we experience.

Deeply penetrated with this sentiment, I, George Washington, President of the United States, do recommend to all religious societies and denominations, and to all persons whomsoever, within the United States to set apart and observe Thursday, the 19th day of February next as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day to meet together and render their sincere and hearty thanks to the Great Ruler of Nations for the manifold and signal mercies which distinguish our lot as a nation, particularly for the possession of constitutions of government which united and by their union establish liberty with order; for the preservation of our peace, foreign and domestic; for the seasonable control which has been given to a spirit of disorder in the suppression of the late insurrection, and generally for the prosperous course of our affairs, public and private; and at the same time humbly and fervently to beseech the kind Author of these blessings graciously to prolong them to us; to imprint on our hearts a deep and solemn sense of our obligations to Him for them; to teach us rightly to estimate their immense value; to preserve us from the arrogance of prosperity, and from hazarding the advantages we enjoy by delusive pursuits; to dispose us to merit the continuance of His favors by not abusing them; by our gratitude for them, and by a correspondent conduct as citizens and men; to render this country more and more a safe and propitious asylum for the unfortunate of other countries; to extend among us true and useful knowledge; to diffuse and establish habits of sobriety, order, morality, and piety, and finally, to impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.

Done at the city of Philadelphia, the 1st day of January, 1795, and of the Independence of the United States of America the nineteenth.

By the President : GO. WASHINGTON.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

Obama Interrupted By Protesters During NH Jobs Speech

It wasn't supposed to be like this.

B.H.O. was in New Hampshire Tuesday, giving a speech on jobs ( a speech I would have avoided if I was him, ) when he got blasted by protesters.

Now you know that a major speech would be planted with members of the "OCCUPY" hooligans. and you know they can not be assembled without making their presence known.

Here's a sample :  "Mr. President," they chanted "Over 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested while 'banksters' continue to destroy the American economy..."

( THANK YOU FOX NEWS .COM FOR THE SOUND BITE.)

Here's my question, Why are  his supporters turning on him ? B.H.O.'S Tea party is turning on him. I guess that hope and change he promised never materialized.

The next year will be fun to watch if these groupies follow him from town to town.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

Your Paycheck's About to Shrink, If...

THANK YOU FOX NEWS.COM FOR THE HEADS UP ! ! !

Failure of the so-called 'Super Committee' to agree on a plan to cut the deficit means Congress now must decide whether to extend the current reduction in payroll taxes set to expire on Jan.1 — if they don't, your first paycheck of the New Year might feel a little light.


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Bob Yeager

Obama Should Step Aside In 2012 and Let Hillary Save Our Country

REALLY ?

Harry Truman did it. L.B.J. did it., should B.H.O. do it ?

I believe after all the experimenting that President Obama has done, with relatively no success whatsoever, I think this could be a great idea.

Hillary as President ? She couldn't be any worse than her boss, and she would have Bill as backup at her beck and call.

Call me crazy but while all this shuffling is going on, the GOP could nail down a winnable contender. I think this has all the makings of a fun 2012 election.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

Anyone on board with me on this one ?


 

Ford Looks Hypocritical In New Anti-Bailout Commercial

Thank You FORBES.COM  for this untold story........... 
 There’s an old saying: “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”

That goes for people who work in the Glass House, too — the local nickname for the headquarters of Ford Motor just outside Detroit.

That saying came to mind recently after watching a new installment in Ford’s current advertising campaign in which Ford customers are surprised to find themselves at the center of what appears to be a news conference. In the spot, which began airing this month, a pretend journalist asks “Chris,” apparently a real Ford pickup truck owner, “Was buying American important to you?” Chris’ answer couldn’t have been better scripted by Ford.

“I wasn’t going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government. I was going to buy from a manufacturer that’s standing on their own: win, lose, or draw. That’s what America is about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta pick yourself up and go back to work. Ford is that company for me.”

Take that, GM and Chrysler.

It’s the first direct blow delivered by Ford since the two companies emerged from government-managed bankruptcies in the summer of 2009. Until now, Ford had largely avoided any public criticism of its two rivals. In fact, Ford chief executive Alan Mulally sat shoulder to shoulder with GM and Chrysler when they asked Congress for government help so that a collapse of the companies and their suppliers wouldn’t take down the entire industry. Now the gloves are off.

But wait a minute. OK, Ford didn’t file bankruptcy or get bailed out by Uncle Sam, but didn’t it receive $5.9 billion in low-cost government loans in 2009 to overhaul its factories and bring out more fuel-efficient technology? What would have happened to Ford if Congress hadn’t authorized taxpayer money to fund that $25 billion Energy Department program during a moment of crisis for the industry?

It’s hard to say, of course, but the fact is, with the aid of that taxpayer loan and a well-timed bank loan of $23 billion, Ford managed to tiptoe past the graveyard and avoid bankruptcy. Since then, it has run its business well and reduced its debt from $33.6 billion to $12.2 billion.

So why is Ford taking a cheap shot at GM and Chrysler now, two years after its competitors emerged from bankruptcy?

Could it be that Ford’s starting to feel more pressure from a healthier GM and Chrysler? Or that it’s worried about a resurgent Toyota, Honda and Nissan, who were hobbled earlier this year by the effects of the Japanese earthquake but are restocking their dealerships in anticipation of a strong fourth quarter sales push?

Let’s face it: Ford has gotten a bit of a free pass for the last year or two. There’s no doubt it benefited from being the only U.S. carmaker that “didn’t take the money.” And while its two domestic rivals were down, Ford also picked up market share because Toyota Motor was fighting off complaints of unintended acceleration and other quality recalls in 2010. Then, in 2011, came the devastating natural disaster that all but crippled the Japanese automakers. Other than the Koreans, Ford was practically the only carmaker still standing.

But Ford’s momentum looks to be stalling out. In January, the company set a retail market share target (exluding fleet sales) of 14.1 percent or better. So far this year, it’s averaging 13.6 percent. While September looks stronger, perhaps because of Ford’s annual Truck Event promotion, the carmaker would have to average 15.3 percent retail share in each of the next four months in order to hit a 14.2 percent average for the year. But as the 2012 model year begins, all of Ford’s competitors are back on their feet with appealing new vehicles and aggressive sales strategies. They’ll all be scraping for every tenth of a point of market share.

Ford seems to think it can ride out that “we didn’t take the money” goodwill a little longer. I, for one, am getting weary of the company’s holier-than-thou attitude. Especially because Ford’s current lineup is really terrific.  Why doesn’t Ford just focus on touting the great features and technology in its vehicles? Let the products speak for themselves and forget the cheap shots.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

Congress May Try Blocking Cuts if Debt Panel Fails

OK, the Nation's Debt Clock has hit 15 TRILLION dollars. That's the bad news .

Now for the really bad news. Part of the debt increase a few months ago was for Congress to cut 1.2 TRILLION dollars from it's spending package this year. If they could not acheive that, automatic triggers would kick in.

Know that we have reached that point in time, Congress wants to block the cuts that would have kicked in automatically.

there is an old saying " The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Those are words you can take to the bank in D.C.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

Protesters Arrested After Occupying Vacant Building in Washington, D.C

UH-OH.................Parties over for B.H.O.'S in town guests.

11 of the FREE FRANKLIN party (part of B.H.O.'S OCCUPY WALL ST.) were arrested for overtaking a city-owned vacant building, that at one time was a homeless shelter.

Seems as though the Police had enough of these hornswaggling,rabblerousing vagrants.

The rest is self - explanatory.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager







 

Booklet With Details on Obama's Australian Visit Found in Street

Imagine explaning this one to the Boss. "Sir, I somehow lost your itinerary, you know, the one with top secret phone numbers and information in it".

Whoever lost this is in deep diddly. I think in his Boss's words he's in for schellacing. An Australian Journalist of The Age newspaper reported that he found the 120-page booklet on Thursday,100 yards from Parliament House in Canberra.

B.H.O. spent a good portion of his time at this location. Imagine Wikileaks getting a copy of this booklet. OUCH ! ! !

Australia's Attorney-General's Department said in a statement on Sunday it was investigating. I bet they are, along with the FBI, CIA, ATF, INTERPOL, NCIS (had to throw that one in there.) God help that poor soul the dropped that booklet !

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Bob Yeager







 

Protesters Occupy Vacant Building in Washington, D.C.

I'm telling you, this story is the gift that keeps on giving !

The Democratic version of the Tea Party, a.k.a."OCCUPY WALL ST." has broken new ground, or should I say, stolen another building.

Like I said, this story is growing more legs by the minute.

The group known as "FREE FRANKLIN" has decided to OCCUPY a former school and homeless shelter.This building is a city-owned structure located about two blocks from OCCUPY D.C.'S official encampment.

I think it's great that a few of B.H.O.'S supporters stopped by for the long term to visit The President. These people are not a good reflection of his fan base, but hey, you take what you can get (or better yet, take what is attracted to you.)

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

Fireproofing the U.S.Flag...........Let's make it an ammendment to the Constition

As many of you know, The American Flag is something I hold near and dear to my heart, burning it is wrong, unless it is done in a correct setting. We should leave that to the professionals, I.E. The American Legion. Burning it for the sake of protest is not freedom of speech, it's a crime. I think it should be a felony. I found an article that says it all. It might be a few years old, yet the message is timeless.

YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !

Bob Yeager

Mike Rosen: Fireproofing the flag

Rocky Mountain News column 
July 8th, 2005
Mike Rosen

Posted on Friday, July 08, 2005 7:20:20 AM by ajolympian2004

Rosen: Fireproofing the flag July 8, 2005

Linda Grist Cunningham is the executive editor of the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star, a Gannett newspaper owned by the publishers of USA Today. She's angry with members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans and Democrats, who voted in favor of House Resolution 10, which reads as follows: "The Congress shall have power to prohibit physical desecration of the flag of the United States." Cunningham pledged that, "If the U.S. Senate follows its silly siblings in the House of Representatives and votes for a ban on burning the American flag, I'm going to burn one."

That's her prerogative without risk of prosecution, for now. But if HR 10 is approved by a two-thirds vote of the Senate and ultimately ratified by three-quarters of the state legislatures, flag burning could be illegal again. In the meantime, her employer would be free to fire her for a crass and senseless act, or the paper's readers and advertisers could choose to take their business elsewhere.

But why would Cunningham burn the flag? What might she be rationally protesting? The democratic process? The fact that her viewpoint was outvoted by 286 members of the U.S. House, while only 130 voted her way? The prescribed procedure for amending the Constitution? As she sees it, "Just the idea that Congress has nothing better to do than spend time on this nutty issue makes me want to burn one." Congress considers and votes for lots of things I don't like, but I don't take my frustration out on the flag.

"I am assuming," declares Cunningham, "that if we ban burning, we'll also ban purses that look like flags, flags painted on cars, and flags tattooed on butts?" Now, it's becoming clear. Cunningham likes to make paranoid assumptions. I assume no such things. More likely, prosecutions for flag-burning would take place only under extreme circumstances when the intent of the desecrater would be blatant and clear. That was the case with Gregory "Joey" Johnson, a self-proclaimed communist revolutionary with an animus for America, who was convicted of flag desecration in Texas in the late 1980s. For 200 years before that, Congress and the states had the authority to make flag desecration an illegal act. The nation somehow survived that Dark Age.

Then, in 1989, reviewing the Johnson case, a narrow 5-4 Supreme Court majority suddenly declared such legislation unconstitutional.

Free speech has always had limitations for things like libel, national security, incitement to riot, fighting words, child pornography, etc. The First Amendment would, once again, survive laws outlawing flag desecration. Moreover, speech and physical expression are not synonymous. For example, mounting a soapbox in the park and advocating public nudity is legal; taking your clothes off during your speech isn't. The First Amendment might protect your verbalized hatred of America. It doesn't have to tolerate your burning of the flag.

I've heard assorted liberals and pacifists claim that American soldiers have fought and died for the right of others to burn our flag. Nonsense. Tell that to most vets and they'll laugh in your face. Burt Pines of the Heritage Foundation has spoken eloquently of the symbolism of the American flag:

It is only the flag that is entitled to a salute; only the flag to which men doff their hats and all citizens place their hands across their hearts. It is to the flag - not the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court, or even the Constitution - that Americans pledge their allegiance. It is the survival of the flag, of its broad stripes and bright stars, that is celebrated in the national anthem.

"It is the stirring image of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima that more than anything else has come to depict America's victory in war. It is the flag that flutters over countless graves of American soldiers, the flag that drapes their coffins, the flag that is lowered to half-mast when great citizens die, the flag that is affixed to foreign street posts when the president travels abroad. It is the sight of the flag that makes American hearts beat faster and chills their spines."

Can our traditionally tolerant nation also tolerate those who hate it? Sure. Can we tolerate the act of flag burning? Yes. Must we? No. Why? Because this act of desecrating a national symbol we cherish so deeply offends us that we simply won't permit it. This is our right as a society. And we can reclaim it from the errant opinion of five Supreme Court justices.

Mike Rosen's radio show airs daily from 9 a.m. to noon on 850 KOA.

Good for Business? D.C. Bucks Move to Crack Down on Protesters, Welcomes Occupy Crowd

Some days it's impossible to find a story to write about, other days the politicians give you a treasure trove
of items to write about.

Today is one of those days full of treasure.

A bunch of B.H.O. supporters, the " OCCUPY WALL ST. " militia, dropped by D.C. to pay their respects to their savior B.H.O.

Normally D.C. officials would take hornswaggling rabblerousers like this and show them the exit door of D.C. Not this bunch of loons, they are more than welcome in D.C. because that is where there savior resides (at least until 1.20.13 then things will start to get back to normal !)

not many people realize this but the "OCCUPY" crowd is code for B.H.O. supporters. OCCUPY is like B.H.O.'S own private tea party. He would never come right out and embrace these thugs because, well because they ate thugs.

All you have to do is ask any one of these tent dwelling, anti-capitalist ....thugs  who the voted or are going to vote for and they will proudly answer, B.H.O.

To the people, getting arrested in the name of B.H.O. is the highest of honors. I wonder who they will follow after 1.20.13 ?

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Bob Yeager

Lawmakers Prepare for Showdown Over Balanced-Budget Amendment

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Published November 17, 2011
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Conservatives are rallying in support of a balanced-budget amendment in the run-up to a Friday vote, warning fellow lawmakers that it's just about the only way to ensure Congress follows through on vows to cut spending.

The debate comes the same week the national debt crossed the $15 trillion mark. The milestone was a timely reminder of Washington's hard-to-break habit of spending way more than it takes in.

As a bipartisan committee remains stuck on how to cut $1.2 trillion from the 10-year deficit, lawmakers skeptical about the government's fiscal track record pushed Thursday for the amendment.

"We need a fiscal fix that will last for generations," Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said. "If we want to make lasting cuts to federal spending, a constitutional amendment is the only solution. It is our last line of defense against Congress's unending desire to overspend and overtax."

Republicans earlier this year took up the rallying cry of "cut, cap and balance," the nickname for their budget plan to cut spending, cap future spending levels and back a balanced-budget amendment.

Little progress has been made on those fronts. Congress voted over the summer to cut spending by $900 billion, in exchange for a much bigger debt-ceiling increase. The so-called Super Committee was then tasked with finding another $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion in savings, if not more. But with a Wednesday deadline approaching, the GOP and Democratic members are at odds over how to balance tax hikes and spending cuts in pursuit of that target.

Some are talking about changing the rules of the Super Committee altogether.

With the committee clash as a backdrop, supporters of a balanced-budget amendment say it's critical.

The amendment, requiring that spending not exceed revenues in any given fiscal year, is essentially the same as one proposed the last time Republicans regained control of the House, in 1995. At that time it passed, with 72 Democrats joining 228 Republicans in voting yes. The measure fell just one vote short of getting the needed two-thirds majority in the Senate.

This time there are 242 Republicans, 12 more than in 1995, and only 48 Democrats are needed to come up with a two-thirds margin, but the outcome of the vote on Friday is far from certain.

The Democratic leadership is actively urging its members to vote against the amendment, and the White House has come out strongly against it. Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, who voted for the measure in 1995, is leading the effort to defeat it this time.

Hoyer said that in 1995 he didn't "contemplate the irresponsibility that I have seen fiscally" during the George W. Bush administration and in more recent months when "Republicans took America to the brink of default" over raising the debt ceiling.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., wrote in a letter to fellow lawmakers that the GOP proposal would deprive Congress of the "flexibility" to address national emergencies. He described the plan as a ploy to "impose the Republican budget priorities of deep spending cuts."

Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., the chief sponsor of the measure, said Americans "understand what it means to live within their means and they expect nothing less from the federal government. A balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution is the only way to ensure that Congress curtails its spending on an annual basis."

To attract Democrats, Republicans opted for the Goodlatte version, which does not, as many conservatives wanted, set a tight cap on government spending or require a supermajority to raise taxes. It does require a three-fifths vote by both chambers to raise the debt ceiling and a three-fifths vote to approve a deficit in any one year. Congress can also waive the amendment in times of serious military conflict.

The amendment has the overall support of the so-called Blue Dogs, a 25-member group of fiscally conservative Democrats.

"I think this is long overdue," Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., told Fox News.

But other Democrats pointed to dire predictions of what could happen if a balanced-budget amendment were in effect. Some 275 labor and other mostly liberal groups wrote a letter to lawmakers saying that forced spending cuts or raised taxes needed to balance the budget when the economy is slow "would risk tipping a faltering economy into recession or worsening an ongoing downturn, costing large number of jobs."

Democrats also cited a report by the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimating that, if there is not an increase in revenues, the amendment could force Congress to cut all programs by an average of 17.3 percent by 2018. It said that would mean hundreds of billions in cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.

The amendment would not go into effect until 2017, or two years after it is ratified, whichever comes later, and supporters say that would give Congress time to avoid dramatic spending cuts.

A constitutional amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures.

Another issue of contention is how the amendment would be enforced. Neil Kinkopf, a law professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, said in a report he wrote for the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy that there could be "catastrophic consequences" if Congress fails to resolve disputes over how to reach balance.

"This would mean judges would be required to order either spending cuts or tax increases. This prospect is so troubling that it has justly alarmed commentators across the political spectrum."

But Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, argued that Washington can't be trusted to balance its books without new limits.

"Washington has shown that it cannot curb its unlimited appetite to spend money we simply do not have, opting instead to borrow billions from foreign countries that may not have our best interests at heart and to pass the buck to our children and grandchildren," he wrote Thursday in the Dallas Morning News.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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HERE'S ONE THAT SLIPPED UNDER THE RADAR ! ! !

Tea Party Patriots


‎"Democrats were silent on the $15 trillion debt milepost, though on the broader issue of deficits they say the economy is so weak that it needs more spending in the short term. Senate Democrats haven’t brought a budget to their chamber floor in more than two years."

"Mr. Obama is averaging a debt increase of more than $1.5 trillion a year during his term in office, compared with an average of $612.4 billion for Mr. Bush and $192.5 billion a year under President Clinton"

And Obama has only been in 3yr

I'M BACK ! ! !

After a brief sabbatical, I'm back writing my blog. Today, due to time constraints, I borrowed a piece from FOX NEWS...............the best news company on the planet.

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Bob Yeager 

On Debt, Dems Work to Narrow Discussion

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By Chris Stirewalt

Published November 16, 2011
FoxNews.com

On Debt, Dems Work to Narrow Discussion; Public-Private Partnerships in the Crosshairs; Cain versus Krauthammer

Dems Take Risk in Opposing Balanced Budget Amendment

“Unfortunately, I did not contemplate the irresponsibility that I have seen fiscally where Republicans took America to the brink of default and placed the confidence of the world in America’s fiscal judgment at question.”

-- House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer explaining to reporters why he now opposes a balanced budget amendment, a measure he voted for in 1995.

Whatever happened to the balanced budget amendment?

Like term limits and “virtual town halls,” the idea of a BBA faded from Washington when the electorate’s Perotist, independent fever finally broke more than a decade ago.

Republicans made the president’s $2.1 trillion debt-ceiling increase conditional on, among many other tripwires and blame-avoidance measures, a vote on a balanced budget amendment. But it’s mention seemed somehow anachronistic, like suddenly cueing up some Milli Vanilli.

But it makes sense that the BBA would matter to House Republicans, since it was the very same anti-establishment outrage that fueled the original movement that was eventually channeled into the 2010 remodeling of the GOP and subsequent midterm electoral wave.

Few have dared to say the words “term limits” yet, perhaps because that phrase may be one of the most potent in the political lexicon. Voters love the idea and politicians hate it with a white-hot passion. Remember that former House Speaker Tom Foley lost his Washington State seat in 1994 in large part because a led lawsuit to roll back a state constitutional amendment there imposing term limits on members of Congress. The Supreme Court eventually ruled that states could not impose federal term limits.

It’s hard to remember now, but term limits were a central part of the 1994 “Contract with America” and once had nearly unanimous Republican support. Many incumbent GOPers came to gradually oppose the idea on the grounds that it would deprive voters of the chance to elect the best, most qualified candidates, namely themselves.

But, like Texas Gov. Rick Perry proposing to make Congress a part-time body and slashing lawmakers’ pay, ideas for placing external constraints on the power and conduct of Congress continue to resonate.

There are arguments on the left and right against the idea of a balanced budget amendment, just as there are many kinds of measures that would meet that definition.

The most rigorous would cap federal spending at revenues and forbid borrowing without supermajority votes. The version that passed the House in 1995 and came one vote short in the Senate required 3/5ths majorities in both houses of Congress to spend more than the government took in.

This is the pure form of the concept – a cap on spending that sets obstacles to increasing the government’s income.

But there are liberal varieties, like the one backed by Democratic Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, which is a balanced budget amendment that would restrict tax decreases for top earners and shield entitlement programs. There are also conservative addendums, like provisions that make it harder to raise taxes stemming from fears that hard-pressed Congresses of the future would resort to tax increases to save pet projects.

The reasons for the ebbing of the idea of a balanced budget amendment, once one of the hottest tickets in politics and with substantial support from Democrats, are many.

The dawn of the era of al Qaeda squelched much of the Republican drive for small, austere government. How else to explain a party that could nearly push through a balanced budget amendment and a law providing free prescription drugs to old people in the span of eight years?

And the formerly wide streak of fiscal conservatism among Democrats has turned into a tiny vein as the party has moved dramatically to the left. Maryland Democrat Rep. Steny Hoyer is a great example. Hoyer, having once been a Blue Dog champion of the measure, now opposes it on the grounds that the economy is too fragile to not have massive deficit spending.

Hoyer also blames Republicans for his shift, saying their opposition to tax increases has exceeded his expectations and that it would put the credit of the nation at risk. The legislation Hoyer voted for in 1995 and the measure that House Republicans will offer up this week both have measures to allow borrowing to pay off existing debts.

Power Play submits that the Democratic shift toward hard Keynesian economics – the embrace of a subsidy and federal spending driven model – has more to do with it. Hoyer’s caucus is much more liberal than it was in the days of southern Blue Dogs and Clintonian triangulation.

The House GOP has settled on a softer version of the amendment to put forward this week, with checks on tax increases and only a two-thirds majority required to take on new debt. It is expected to have wide Republican support and near-universal Democratic opposition. President Obama opposes the measure on the grounds that he believes Congress should work together to give everyone everything they want without having arbitrary restrictions on how to obtain it.

Democrats are instead working to keep the focus on the small-bore, procedural battle over the debt-ceiling supercommittee as if the fate of the republic depended on the difference of a few hundred billion dollars of cuts to the increase in future deficit spending over a decade.

Obama is guaranteed his next debt ceiling increase of $1.2 trillion. How the out-year forecasts of deficit spending are jiggered to compensate of that borrowing today is a relatively small thing. These abstruse triggers and rule-making mumbo jumbo, which self-centered lawmakers believe will matter so much to voters are largely ignored. A government shutdown or default, yes. Which trigger triggers the trigger for 2022 tax revenue estimates, no.

The question for the Blue Team is how to avoid electoral anger on the big stuff, which includes the easy to understand balanced budget amendment. The angry independent streak is back in a big way and Republicans may make Democrats who oppose such measures pay a hefty price.
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Giuliani: "Obama Owns Occupy Wall Street"

I was starting to think I was crazy.............

I really believed the "OCCUPY" agenda belonged to B.H.O.

According to FOX NEWS, I was correct. Read on : Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says responsibility for the Occupy Wall Street movement rests squarely on the shoulders of President Obama.

According to Mayor Giuliani, "This is a very dangerous movement, and it's ironic it's happening under a president who promised to unify us," Giuliani said. "Barack Obama owns the Occupy Wall Street movement, it would not have happened but for his class warfare."

The 2008 Republican presidential candidate also predicted the movement will eventually lead to the end of Obama's presidency. "Barack Obama praised it, sympathizes with it," he said. "As it gets worse and worse, I believe this will be the millstone around Barack Obama's neck that will take his presidency down."

This silly bunch of political wannabes, started their movement right after B.H.O. called for a tax hike on the richest people in America.

In Oakland, California, more than 100 people were arrested and eight were seriously injured Thursday, with protesters leaving stores in flames, and streets littered with broken glass and debris. A week earlier a former Marine suffered a fractured skull in a confrontation with Oakland police.

Dear Mr. President, Please keep these people on your side, they seem to fit the liberal mold quite well.

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Bob Yeager

Press Should Occupy History Books Before Protest Coverage

OK, I'm disabled, I'm homeless, I'm unemployeed.

The only thing I'm interested in occupying is the homeless shelter I live in.

I came to the conclusion that I am just thick-headed when it comes to the new craze in the people that don't have anything better to to than"OCCUPY" crew.

First it was Wall st., then D.C., now they are occupying anything they can get their hands on !

Go back home and watch Jerry Springer you goof balls. His ratings have probablt tanked since this "OCCUPY" virus broke out. I thought the cold weather would send these clowns indoors, unfortunately their just moving to California.

Wasit a minute, that's a good place for them. They can set up little camps in Berckly, California and it will be just like the 60'S all over again.

I guess we will have to put up with these clowns until they find something better to do. I can't wait to see what they come up wil next.

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Bob Yeager