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    • Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained new documents from the United States Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of United States Air Force aircraft in 2010. According to the documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Pelosi used Air Force aircraft for 43 flights from January 1 to October 1, 2010. According to documents previously uncovered by Judicial Watch, by comparison, Nancy Pelosi logged 47 flights in the prior nine-month period, April 1, 2009, to January 1, 2010.

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      It only gets worse.

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    • An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA’s financial disclosure report for the 2009-10 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed more than $13 million to a wide variety of advocacy groups and charities. The total was about half the amount disbursed in the previous year, though more than in 2007-08.

      The expenditures fall into broad categories of community outreach grants, charitable contributions, and payments for services rendered. In this list, EIA has deliberately omitted spending such as media buys, or payments to pollsters or consultants that have no obvious ideological component. The grants range from $2.125 million to a California ballot initiative campaign, down to smaller grants to organizations such as People for the American Way, Media Matters and Netroots Nation.

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      List includes the teacher's union in with Big Labor = the organized American Left

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    • Behind closed doors, California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez has proposed removing Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) until she recovers from injuries sustained after being shot in the head on Jan. 8 in Tucson, The Daily Caller has learned.

      The proposal sparked an outrage, according to those in the room — including from those in Sanchez’s own party.

      “It’s not appropriate,” Texas Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes told The Daily Caller, adding that there was outrage among some members in the room when Sanchez made the suggestion. “It’s bad for morale during her recovery period.”

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      Yeah, right.

      Good the Dems squelched this political opportunism by Loretta Sanchez

    • It’s clear that both parties have decided that a period of divided government twelve months before a presidential election is the wrong time to make big moves on entitlements and the deficit. Better to wait, jockey for position, and hope that the correlation of forces after 2012 will be more favorable to their preferred solutions. And it’s clear, too, that they’ve decided (with honorable exceptions) that it’s too risky to even begin building support for the unpopular cuts or tax increases ahead. The bet, on both sides, is that there’s still time to work with, and that the other party will blink, or at least give ground, before the real crunch arrives.

      Let’s hope they’re right.

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      Come on. The American people will demand specific policy direction coming into 2012.

      Obama will not receive a free pass nor will the GOP members of the House.

  • Dennis Kucinich,  Dentistry,  Nancy Pelosi

    Ohio Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich Sues U.S. House Cafeteria for Olive Pit in Sandwich

    Ohio Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich

    $150K for dental work – for an olive pit?

    Rep. Dennis Kucinich has sued a U.S. House of Representatives cafeteria for selling him a sandwich wrap that caused dental damage when he bit into a pitted olive, according to a Jan. 3 lawsuit filed in Superior Court for the District of Columbia.

    The Cleveland Democratic congressman’s lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages from companies that operate the Longworth House Office Building’s cafeteria.

    It says he bought the suspicious sandwich wrap “on or about April 17, 2008,” and eating it caused “permanent dental and oral injuries requiring multiple surgical and dental procedures.”

    “Said sandwich wrap was unwholesome and unfit for human consumption in that it was presented to contain pitted olives, yet unknown to plaintiff, contained an unpitted olive or olives which plaintiff did not reasonably expect to be in the food prepared for him, and could not visually detect prior to consumption,” the lawsuit said.

    I cannot fathom any dental work that would have to be completed that would cost so much for an olive pit trauma. Maybe an auto accident, but not one or two teeth broken from biting an olive pit. Oh wait, the attorney wants to be paid too and since it is the government, why not?

    Between this idiot and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Air Force flight expenditures is there any wonder why American voters threw the Democrats out of power in the House?

  • Charles Koch,  David Koch,  Saul Alinsky,  Tea Party

    The LEFT ala Saul Alinsky Protest Koch Brothers Conference

    Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries MIT-trained brothers turned family oil refining firm into America’s second largest private company. Koch Industries has stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, fibers and polymers, forest and consumer products, chemical technology. Sales in 2008: $110 billion. Brothers each own 42% of company. Employs 80,000 people and operates in 60 countries.

    Looks like the LEFT Counter-Movement has returned to Southern California to Saul Alinsky protest conservative/libertarian activists Charles and David Koch.

    A broad coalition of consumer, community, labor, environmental, student, civil liberties, and faith-based groups are sponsoring a rally in Rancho Mirage (near Palm Springs, California) next Sunday, January 30 to protest and draw attention to a secret meeting of right-wing billionaires and millionaires who are the key funders of the Tea Party, conservative think tanks like Cato Institute, and the extreme right wing of the Republican Party.

    The leaders of this group, the Koch brothers, oil billionaires, have invited like-minded big-money conservatives to a behind-closed-doors three-day summit at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage to plot their strategy for the 2012 elections. Their agenda is simple: Roll back consumer and workplace protections everywhere, including the environment, health care, credit cards, banks, occupational safety, workers’ rights, and more. Thousands of progressives are mobilizing to peacefully and creatively call them out.

    Yeah, the New York Times last Fall received a “leaked” invitation and the LEFT cannot resist getting down and Saul Alinsky dirty with the Kochs. Here is the  nefarious invitation:

    Real ominous, isn’t it?

    This is the eight time in the Palm Springs, California area that the confab will be held. But, this year, the LEFT WILL organize street protests – and for what? Raising money and discussing how to affect government policy which affect their businesses – oh and playing politics.

    Hello, isn’t this the American political system?

    But, it seems the LEFT, beaten badly in the November elections nationally wants to create a scene ala Saul Alinsky Crash the Tea Party “movement.”

    I’ll have more later on who is behind this protest.

    Hint: The usual LEFTY players

  • Elita Loresca,  Television

    Shocker: Sexy Television News Anchors Distract Male Viewers

    Elita Loresca from KNBC Los Angeles

    Well, this is understandable, no?

    Scholars, critics and viewers have noted that some TV newscasts can be momentarily mistaken for Victoria’s Secret specials. In an apparent attempt to capture channel-surfing male viewers, stations have hired attractive female anchors, often outfitting them in attire that emphasizes their sexuality.

    This strategy may boost the ratings, but in terms of the programs’ purported purpose — informing the public — recent research suggests it has a definite down side. Males may be drawn to those alluring anchors, but they may not remember what they were talking about.

    But, then again, sometimes who cares?

    Yeah, I know, another cheap attempt to boost traffic by posting photos of Elita Loresca.

  • Citizens United,  Day By Day

    Day By Day June 26, 2011 – Civility



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, President Obama did NOT propose in his SOTU speech last night to stop feeding the beast of Big Government. His proposal to veto bills with Earmarks was met with disdain from the Democrat Left and his willingness to ONLY freeze budget expenditures ridicule from the RIGHT.

    Now, the LEFT will go on the offensive to defend the Obama Presidency.

    President Obama today will travel to Wisconsin, a key Presidential battleground state, where multi-term Democrat Senator Russ Feingold was defeated for re-election last November. The GOP covets Wisconsin and sees a path to winning the Presidency there. I guess Obama can read the polls and electoral college vote maps.

    Also, there is every indication and I will write about this later in the day, that Big Labor and the Organized LEFT will return to using outside groups to Saul Alinsky the RIGHT and its business/corporate donors. President Obama and the Democrats will resort to using surrogates (like Karl Rove and American Crossroads did so successfully in November) as allowed under the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

    Following the money, particularly that from the George Soros LEFT will never be more fun.

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