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.

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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.

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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.

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Bob Yeager

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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 !

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.)

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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.

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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

THANK YOU FOX NEWS FOR THIS ARTICLE ..............



Published November 17, 2011
FoxNews.com

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

SPECIAL THANKS TO FOX NEWS

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Bob Yeager

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
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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

House Panel Votes to Subpoena White House for Solyndra Records

Can you say SolyndraGate...............

The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives can. They would like to see the records that the White House has concerning the $528 MILLION  loan granted to the now bankrupt solar panel company.

Of course Democrats tried to delay the vote, after The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the resolution 14-9. This sounds like one of those slippery slopes B.H.O. really doesn't need right now.

Republicans said a subpoena was necessary because the White House has denied or delayed requests for thousands of documents related to Solyndra. Democrats argued the resolution was too broad and gave Chairman Fred Upton too much power.

On Wednesday, the government released nearly 1,200 pages of documents that revealed the Obama administration considered a bailout of Solyndra days before it collapsed. The bailout that would have provided an infusion of cash and a new board of directors, including two directors appointed by the Energy Department.

With out going far and wide with this story, I'd say the Obama Administration has some explaining to do.And do it in a really fast manner.

The clock is ticking on this one.

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Bob Yeager